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Unheralded, apart from the odd sneaky web rumour, Apple last week announced upgraded iBooks: three models as before, with faster processors and, praise be to the gods of computing, with Airport Extreme cards fitted as standard and included in the unchanged prices.
So, iBook akimbo, let us head for the nearest wi-fi coffee shop, log in and surf while we suck on cafe latte.
Get on to, say, the ABC Classic FM website and tune in to Clive Alexander Robertson grumbling about life and Vivaldi. Then, with the volume up, lift your iBook and, music and words still playing, amaze the denizens by moving wirelessly around the cafe.
The really cool might even have an iSight camera perched on the screen and be talking, via iChatAV, with someone in, say, London, as they table-hop. Or you could try a Skype internet phone call. Getting rid of the wires is a liberating experience, akin, my Great Aunt Maude assures me, to release from one's corsetry after a long day at the shops.
Would that I could also recommend that you improve the cafe experience by logging into the Australian iTunes Music Store. It has yet to materialise, although the long-standing rumours are growing louder that it will open "within the next few weeks".
Lately, experts in the online music business have been assuring me that Australia is soon to enter a final agreement on the FairPlay digital rights management software that Apple uses in iTunes Music Store. That, they say, has been the impediment.
We will be iPod-dancing in the streets before Christmas, they say. It rings true but it is still a rumour.
Meanwhile, several independent Australian musicians are now selling their songs in the US and Europe through iTunes Music Store.
Melbourne Afro-jazz duo Leo Dale and Valanga Khoza have one album, Driving Music, on iTMS and another in the wings.
They also operate through a website, thezebracrossing.com and sell albums through CDBaby, purported to be the largest CD shop on the internet.
The concept is intriguing. It is another step by individual musicians and small companies towards selling directly through the internet.
For example, Petrol Records, a small Sydney outfit that produces compilations, recently got on to the iTunes Music Store list. Bigger Australian names such as Midnight Oil are there too, but mainly because the big labels distribute them.
So, iTunes and iPod have wrought significant things, even beyond computing.
The automotive industry, for instance, is fascinated by the potential; sensible, given that much music is listened to in cars.
A little later in this epistle I shall reveal how, courtesy of a car company, you can download good music from the web, legally and free.
Meantime, back to the iBooks. The new machines are already available. Specs are higher but prices are unchanged, starting at $1695 for the 12-inch model. It now has the faster 1.2GHz G4 processor that was previously in the 14-inch machines, a Combo optical drive (CD-R/RW-DVD-ROM) and a 30GB hard drive, plus 54Mbps Airport Extreme.
The processors in the two 14-inch models now run at 1.33GHz, and the top-of-the-line machine has a DVD-burning SuperDrive. All have 60GB hard drives and come with the usual bag of software.
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Now, for the free stuff. Point your browser to mercedes-benz.com/mixedtape.
No record industry gumshoes, nothing going thump in the night - gratis, legal downloads of good music and video. On the Mercedes site last week Bryan Ferry was singing Fool for Love , from The Porter, a 30-minute movie starring one of the latest Benzes, Ferry and Gabriella Anders. The Mac automatically hauled the songs into iTunes and began to play them, putting MP3 file icons on the desktop to be dragged off for burning to CD.
Daimler-Benz invites budding chart-busters to send demo discs for possible use in a mixed tape. They will not be paid, but will have exposure. Details are on the website.
Mac's big week
Once there were ones, then only twos, but now the ones have returned. We speak, of course, of G5 Power Macs.
Apple has reintroduced the single processor tower, this time with a 1.8GHz PowerPC processor, but otherwise all of the goodies that are available on the dual-processor 1.8 GHz, 2.0GHz and 2.5GHz models.
The single-chip Mac retails for $2699 and is likely to attract users with Cinema Displays who want to upgrade to 64-bit processing on a G5 but don't need the power of the dual-chip machines.
It is $200 dearer than the 17-inch 1.8GHz G5 iMac (which has a screen, which the Power Mac does not) but, having three PCI slots, is expandable, which the iMac is not.
It was a busy week for Apple. As well as releasing speed-bumped and wireless-ready iBooks and the "cyclops" Power Mac, it delivered new Xserve RAID storage systems.
The prices are higher but the per-terabyte price is lower - down to $4.11 per gigabyte, or about 20 per cent less than in the previous models, and apparently dirt-cheap for this level of professional gear.
Models are available with 1, 2.8 and 5.6 terabytes of storage, priced from $10,495.
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Bea has over 20 years experience in civil rights and EEO law. As an attorney with the VA, she represented management officials before EEOC administrative judges and in civil litigation. She provided training in all aspects of EEO law to civil rights staff, managers and supervisors, as well as employees in general. As senior attorney advisor, Equal Opportunity Office, National Labor Relations Board, Bea was responsible for all aspects of complaints processing, from ensuring counseling was provided, to conducting and reviewing investigations, drafting and reviewing final agency EEO decisions, and training supervisors and managers.
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I love OPBs (Other People's Babies)..I really do! But sometimes it's nice to connect with women, like me, who have gone through the younger years and are now dealing with those monsters called Teenagers!!
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It's so great to see there are moms out there with teens like me who would love to share parenthood from this vantage point!!!
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We have 5 teens right now, 2 tweens, and a little one. I have to say our teens are testing us in many ways, each with their own personal little twist on it! From wearing inappropriate clothes (the 19 yr old girl/college student), to the smart mouth (14 yr old girl/ 14 yr old boy, 15 yr old boy!)....it makes my head spin!!
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Im a mom (and step mom) of multiple teenagers - we've got a 19, 16, 15, 14, 13 and then some non-teens 11, 11, and 5. Yep my life is crazy and Im really not thrilled with the whole teenage thing right now. I hope somebody (anybody!) can tell me it gets better! My blog is about my life, parenting/step parenting, organization, my projects, and anything else - anything goes. Come check it out. :) Looking forward to connect with the some other superpatient saints (AKA moms of teens!). :)


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Communicating shark conservation to Chinese communities around the Coral Triangle
The report, which was jointly produced by WWF and TRAFFIC and launched in English in late 2012, examines the catch, trade, and management of sharks in waters of the five Coral Triangle countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Solomon Islands, plus the neighbouring countries of Vietnam and Fiji.
The report shows the need for a more concerted effort in managing shark fisheries in the Coral Triangle, to help conserve dwindling populations of these threatened species.
Top predators in perilAs many as 100 million sharks are killed each year. Global shark populations are declining at an alarming rate. This precipitous drop has largely been driven by the highly lucrative shark fin trade, feeding the demand for shark fin in Hong Kong, mainland China and beyond.
In spite of its small size and population, Hong Kong accounts for a staggering 50 percent of the global shark fin trade. Since 2007, WWF-Hong Kong has been running several local shark conservation programmes to engage primary stakeholders in the supply chain, including corporations, caterers, and consumers. WWF has been striving to present a realistic and comprehensive picture of the shark fin industry and its consequences to the Hong Kong community.
This is not easy, as the picture is very complicated. Hong Kong is a complex entrepôt for shark fin: a mix of processed and unprocessed shark fins, harvested from legal and illegal sources. Despite these intricacies, the principal aim of WWF's campaign in Hong Kong is to facilitate the reduction of demand at every level.
After years of hard work, this local campaign is now gaining real traction, particularly in terms of consumption and trade levels.
Gaining political tractionIn July 2012, the Central Chinese government committed to not serving shark fin at any official function in three years' time. Shortly afterwards, in September 2012, Hong Kong-based airlines Cathay Pacific and Dragonair announced a ban on carrying unsustainable shark fin as cargo. This bold move has since inspired more airlines to follow suit.
In March 2013, the oceanic whitetip shark, hammerhead sharks (including scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, and smooth hammerhead) and porbeagle sharks were all successfully added to Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This means that these species and their derivative products (i.e., shark fins) can be commercially traded internationally, but within strict regulations to ensure their sustainability.
Creating awareness in the Chinese communityIn Hong Kong and mainland China, the younger generation is increasingly becoming environmentally-conscious. They are hungry for knowledge and are eager to obtain the latest conservation information.
Thanks to its history and geographical placement, Hong Kong is an important hub for Chinese-language information sharing. WWF-Hong Kong regularly receives news and information from the WWF global network; this information forms the building blocks of content disseminated to local stakeholders and the wider Chinese community, mostly online and other communication channels.
A good example is the report "An Overview of Shark Utilization in the Coral Triangle Region." Thanks to funding provided by our passionate supporters, WWF-Hong Kong has translated this report into simplified Chinese, allowing WWF to share the report with members of the Chinese community. This is a vital step in beginning the process of starting a dialogue on solutions to the problem.
A growing problemAccording to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), countries in the Coral Triangle region, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, are among the world's primary shark catchers. By distributing this report, it is hoped that the fishery management loopholes in these countries will be duly reviewed, and that eventually this will help countries on the demand side – including Hong Kong, mainland China, and Singapore – begin to reshape their shark conservation strategies and related legal issues.
Reducing unsustainable shark fin consumption is only part of the global shark conservation picture. Fishery management and the creation of shark sanctuaries are also necessary to help prevent the population crash of this top marine predator.
By making this information available in a language shared by more than 1.3 billion people, WWF can build rapport with Chinese communities all over the world. Publications like the shark utilization report will bring new insight to the Chinese community on shark conservation issues.
Continuing the fightThe Chinese government has shown strong leadership in saying "no" to shark fin and more and more companies and individuals are doing the same thing.
Shark conservation messages are undoubtedly beginning to spread across Hong Kong, mainland China, and other Chinese communities in Asia.
As encouraging as this may be, the bulk of work to reverse declines in shark populations still lies ahead of us. Through effective communication, this work may no longer be an uphill battle.
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Hendrik de Lang, an OSA Fellow Emeritus and a member of the Society since 1962, died on 7 October 2010, three days after suffering a mild heart attack, in a hospital in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He was 90 years old.
Hendrik de Lang was born in 1920 in Groningen, The Netherlands, and studied physics at Groningen University. Before he received his physics degree, his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. Forced by the occupying forces to work for them in Berlin, Germany, de Lang and his friend, Roel Flik, decided to flee back to The Netherlands, where de Lang had to stay in hiding until the end of the war. During this period he met his future wife, Sientje Danes, while ice skating in the open air.
After finishing his studies at the Groningen University, de Lang continued his activities there, working in Frits Zernike's group. In 1955, he joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. His research interests were in optical design and coherent optics. In 1962, he became the group leader of the optics group at Philips and he conducted early research on the polarization properties of helium-neon lasers. Among his many accomplishments was the Plumbicon color-separating prism system (with G. Bouwhuis, 1965).
In 1966, de Lang obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) from Utrecht University. In the later years of his life, he was proud that in his dissertation he was the first to propose how ring lasers might be used as a gyroscope.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Nick Johnson and Gabe York scored 14 points apiece to lead five Arizona players in double figures as the Wildcats defeated Augustana, 84-52, on Monday in exhibition action.
UA shot 50.9 percent from the floor as a team, while committing only five turnovers on the night. T.J. McConnell, in his first competitive action for Arizona after sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, posted 12 points and eight assists without turning the ball over. Center Kaleb Tarczewski chipped in with 12 points and a team-high seven rebounds, while freshman Rondae Hollis-Jefferson scored 10 points in his collegiate debut.
As proficient as Arizona's offensive effort was on Monday, its defensive prowess was also on display for the 13,340 in attendance for the Wildcats' lone exhibition game at McKale Center. UA forced Augustana into 16 turnovers, capitalizing for 23 points off those miscues, and raced out to a 20-0 advantage in fast break points.
Hollis-Jefferson, McConnell and Jordin Mayes each had three steals to make up the bulk of Arizona's 12 thefts on the night. Brandon Ashley and Matt Korcheck had three blocks apiece on Monday as the Wildcats piled up eight for the game.
In addition to Tarczewski's team-leading seven boards, Ashley and freshmen Aaron Gordon and Elliott Pitts each contributed five rebounds as the Wildcats finished even with Augustana on the glass at 39-39.
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Anne Rakowitz, 93, of Middletown died Thursday, March 7, 2013 at home.
Anne was born August 3, 1919 in Paterson, NJ, the daughter of Morris and Sophie (Krohn) Berman. She was the widow of Rubin Rakowitz.
She was a member of the Women's American ORT Organization for Rehabilitation through Training.
She is survived by her daughters, Sherry Lottero and husband, Dennis of Fort Lee, NJ and Roslyn Cuffee and husband, Jerry of Rome, NY; grandchildren: Lesley Witkowski and husband, Peter, Stacy Morace and husband, Todd, Barrie Sultan and husband, A.J. and Robert Schwartz; three great grandchildren: Samantha and Andrea Witkowski and Amanda Morace as well as many nieces and nephews.
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) announced today that he is appointing Reps. Keith Ellison, Ben Ray Lujan, and Terri Sewell to serve as Chief Deputy Whips for the 113th Congress. They join current Senior Chief Deputy Whip Rep. John Lewis and Chief Deputy Whips Reps. G.K. Butterfield, Diana DeGette, Jim Matheson, Jan Schakowsky, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Peter Welch. Hoyer also announced that he is appointing Rep. Jared Polis to serve as the whip organization's Parliamentarian.
"In the 113th Congress, we will continue to have an outstanding Whip team that, thanks to these new members, is more diverse than ever before," stated Democratic Whip Hoyer. "They reflect the diversity of our Caucus, bringing a wide range of views and perspectives to the table. Over the past two years, our Whip team has helped maintain unity in our Caucus on a number of votes important to protecting our middle class and creating opportunities that lead to good jobs and a higher quality of life for all Americans. I look forward to working closely with the new and returning Chief Deputy Whips to bring Democrats from different segments of our Caucus together as we pursue our shared goal of helping grow America's middle class and moving our country forward."
Congressman Keith Ellison, Chief Deputy Whip: "I am excited to work with Whip Hoyer and the rest of the Whip team to continue the fight for good jobs for working families. It is more important than ever that we work together to protect the benefits middle class families rely on."
Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, Chief Deputy Whip: "I look forward to this new opportunity to work with Whip Hoyer and assist in House Democrats' efforts to promote an agenda that creates jobs and opportunities for the American people. Whip Hoyer's efforts have led to a unified and strong Democratic Caucus, and I am excited to work closely with my colleagues to build a united front on policies that will lead to a stronger economy and a brighter future for all Americans."
Congresswoman Terri Sewell, Chief Deputy Whip: "I am honored to be selected by Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer to serve as one of his Chief Deputy Whips for the 113th Congress," said Rep. Sewell. "I look forward to working with our outstanding Democratic Leadership team in the House to advance the people's agenda and mobilize my colleagues on important legislation. More importantly, my selection by Mr. Hoyer to be one of his Chief Deputy Whips will help me further the Democratic agenda that includes strengthening the middle class, improving our nation's infrastructure, and putting all Americans back to work."
Congressman Jared Polis, Parlimentarian: "It's a tremendous honor to be selected to serve the caucus, Mr. Hoyer and the whip operation as parliamentarian for the new Congress. I look forward to ensuring that Republicans do not exploit the rules of the House and that they follow proper procedure. Accountability and transparency are cornerstones of the legislative process. In my new role I hope to safeguard the public interest."


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The charged-up crowd of baby-faced 20-somethings, gray-haired activists and a few parents comes marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles and into the tree-lined plaza next to City Hall on a bright Sunday afternoon. Drums banging, fists flying, people chant, "No on 23!" Actress Ellen Page (Juno) even shows up to throw in her two cents on why Proposition 23 should be defeated, standing solemnly at a podium and telling people that it's "absolutely illogical to not have a sustainable future, and the politicians know that."
Gabe Elsner, a 23-year-old activist who gets little pay and only five or six hours of sleep each night as he works seven days a week to defeat the November ballot measure, smiles at the turnout. Liza Heavener, his 24-year-old girlfriend, who once worked for a U.S. senator, is a little more skeptical.
"It's great to bring people into this rally," she says, "but I wonder how it translates to getting change done. We've seen how isolated lawmakers are, and what I see that speaks is money."
Elsner, the intense, good-natured campaign director for the California Student Sustainability Coalition, suddenly gets serious. "If it gets big enough and loud enough," he says of the effort to stop the measure, which would place a years-long hold on California's greenhouse gas–reduction law, "then [we] can trump the money."
In fact, that's something he's betting on.
Through social media, face-to-face networking and pavement pounding, Elsner leads a key grassroots effort to reach California's nearly 3 million college students and persuade as many as possible to vote against Proposition 23 on Nov. 2.
Largely funded by major oil corporations such as Tesoro, Valero and the agricultural-energy giant Koch Industries, Proposition 23 would suspend California's strict greenhouse gas–reduction standards until the state's unemployment rate falls to 5.5 percent or lower for four straight quarters. Unemployment now stands at 12.4 percent and, since 1980, it has rarely stayed below 5.5 percent for a full year.
Organized opponents of Proposition 23, including environmentalists, labor unions and "clean tech" companies, say the measure would deal a big setback to anti-warming efforts and the state's burgeoning but still tiny "clean energy" economy: 500,000 future green jobs jeopardized and per-person energy costs boosted by $650 a year, thanks to our addiction to oil.
"I hate them," Elsner says of Charles and David Koch, the outspoken libertarian brothers who run Kansas-based Koch Industries. The Kochs, who are worth about $35 billion, have helped fund the Tea Party and have given $1 million in support of Proposition 23. "They do not care about my generation. They do not care about the environment. They're only about themselves. They fire me up. They get me angry."
In a war over statistics, however, the "Yes on 23" campaign counters that 1.1 million jobs will be wiped out by the restrictions approved under Assembly Bill 32, the state's climate-change law, further damaging California's wounded economy. And, the campaign charges, Californians will endure years of higher electricity rates and gas prices.
But Big Green has poured huge sums into defeating Big Oil, with environmental groups and their friends surprising many by outspending the Kochs, Valero and the rest.
Maplight.org, a political-contribution tracking site, reports that Big Green is outspending Big Oil by a staggering 3-to-1, and even traditional utility PG&E gave $500,000 to "No on 23," positioning itself on the side with the momentum. Ultra-rich asset manager Thomas Steyer, who funded the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford University, poured in more than $5 million, making the $2.1 million given by legendary Silicon Valley couple John and Ann Doerr seem modest. A key nonpartisan poll shows the measure now badly trailing, 48 percent to 37 percent, with a large bloc of voters on the fence.
The question comes down to something startlingly simple: What do worried California voters, fearful over a sagging economy, see as best for their personal futures: traditional industry, or clean-energy firms?
"Proposition 23 will pass only if voters believe that [the greenhouse gas–reduction] law will hurt job growth," says Tony Quinn, a Sacramento political consultant whose California Target Book closely tracks the state's races. "Voters generally ask of themselves with these kinds of ballot measures, 'What's in it for me?' "
Into this war between monied adults — also on the "No" side, Bill Gates gave $700,000, James Cameron gave $1 million, and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla gave $1.04 million — steps the most under-employed, and unemployed, generation of young Californians in decades. They were widely praised — and highly criticized in some circles — for surging to the polls to help put Barack Obama in the White House.
Proposition 23 is a high-profile test of whether they will continue what they started — prodded by young leaders like Elsner and a single ballot measure affecting jobs, environmental issues and Big Oil.
Helped by a surge in interest thanks to Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, the California Student Sustainability Coalition and the group Student Vote have set Elsner's goal at registering 60,000 college students in California. Together, they plan to make 160,000 student-voter contacts before Election Day.
Naomi Seligman, a 30-ish Santa Monica– based media consultant for progressive causes, says her pre-Obama college-era movement "was sort of unicorns and rainbows" — taking hours, for example, to write, rewrite and send out a simple press release — and they just "didn't have a disciplined way to organize their base."
But now, "They do with these kids. They know how to get things done."
So Elsner, phone glued to ear, spends his days overseeing dozens of student leaders on 50 California college campuses as the movement makes face-to-face contact with thousands of previously uninvolved college kids, funneling the energy of a technologically savvy generation to fight Proposition 23.
They've reached deep into the Web Generation, organizing high school students in Wilmington one day, environmental-science majors at UCLA another, and cultural-anthropology and psychology students at Los Angeles City College another. If it all comes together, they'll have created a grassroots network of progressive-minded student leaders with the organizational breadth to tackle a few other messes created by the generations who came before.
With Election Day around the corner, Elsner sits in the green family room of his parents' home near Century City, multitasking. As he talks campaign logistics on his HTC Hero smart phone, Elsner, a wiry, good-looking guy with curly black hair, barefoot in khaki shorts and a blue-and-yellow-striped polo shirt, reads e-mails on a MacBook. An espresso machine, which he relies upon, is nearby in the kitchen.
"I've tried to get them to come with us on the mobile app," says Elsner to somebody on the phone, "but they're sticking with paper."
The mobile-phone application Elsner is pushing, which appears on the website PowerVote.ca, gets students to pledge to vote and allows the California Student Sustainability Coalition to text-message those who sign up for it, sending them campaign updates and reminding them to vote on Election Day. It's one more tool for mobilizing voters more quickly and effectively than before.
One coalition partner — run by veteran nonprofit organizers over the age of 30 — simply refuses to use the app. Yet their local organization reaches out to students statewide — kids who live and die by smart phones.
The old-school decision to rely on paperwork frustrates Elsner. "The technology is not perfect yet," he says later, "but it's the future. We can access young people who are always on their smart phones, and we don't have to hold on to a piece of paper and then input their information into a database. They're inputted directly when they sign up for the mobile app. It's an efficiency thing, really."
Elsner lived and worked in Washington, D.C., until recently, leaving behind girlfriend Heavener and his job at Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs), before moving home in August.
Elsner is the only paid staffer for the California Student Sustainability Coalition's "No on 23" campaign. (CSSC is a statewide student-organizing group that promotes, among other things, sustainable-energy use on California's college campuses.) His operating budget of less than $10,000 is paid by the Energy Action Coalition, a Washington, D.C.–based, youth-led environmental- and social-justice group.
Since then, the work has been unrelenting: He gives tactical advice and support to student leaders, including those at UCLA and LACC. He starts reading and responding to an endless stream of e-mails, phone calls and text messages at 6 a.m. He trains student leaders at UCLA and LACC to sign up college students to vote, in many cases for the first time.
His days, spent in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and other college towns and cities — but especially in Los Angeles — have turned into something of a blur as he picks up campaign posters at UCLA, goes over voter-registration numbers with student activists at LACC, nails down details for a series of hip-hop concerts called the Clean Energy Tour, and prepares for a student march in Wilmington, while dealing with the leaders of coalition-partner groups, like the one who won't use apps.
"The quantity of e-mails is overwhelming," says Elsner, who prefers text-messaging, like almost everyone he knows. "You can plan your day, but then you get one call from a coalition partner and everything changes."
Since he graduated from Berkeley in 2009, where he was a political-science major with a focus on energy policies who helped run student campaigns, Elsner's passion has been organizing students for environmental causes.
"My parents are social workers," he says, "and they always taught me that if I want to make a difference, I should do it. I was very much brought up with the idea of fixing things by the little actions that we do, and [that] will make people's lives better."
This fall, not long after Elsner settled into his boyhood bedroom, where one wall is taken up by a bookcase filled with mostly nonfiction books on subjects such as China, race relations and war, his father, Nick, a Vietnam War veteran, put a question to him. "My dad read a newspaper article that mentioned how baby boomers were going to turn out and vote this year," Elsner recalls. "So he challenged me. 'What are you and your generation going to do?' "
Historically, says Democratic consultant Bill Carrick, young voters show up for presidential races but not nearly as much for midterm elections. On the other hand, Carrick says, young voters usually are more turned on by issues than by candidates, and Proposition 23 is right up their alley.
At the same time, in the eyes of grassroots organizers, Proposition 23 is hobbled by its real-life cast of "greedy" villains, notably super-rich oil companies whose image took a horrible hit when the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominated global headlines for months.
Just before dawn on a cool weekday morning, Elsner drives his cobalt-blue 1984 BMW to UCLA, where Hayley Moller, a blond, upbeat environmental-science major who leads the "No on 23" effort at UCLA, stands with three other students in Bruin Square near the Bruin Bear, a hulking bronze statue.
Unlike a big digital blitz Elsner is organizing with other student leaders across the state, Moller and crew aren't going to attempt a mass text-messaging or an early-morning coordinated Facebook message send. Instead, they plan to hit the pavement and do some "chalking," mostly involving wash-away markers.
That day, the Daily Bruin has reported that UCLA received about $6 million from the feds to help construct a $30 million "green building," where students and researchers will study "energy conservation technologies." Moller, a senior from Marin County, won't be around when the building is finished, but she wants to work in California's clean-tech industry after she graduates in the spring.
"If Proposition 23 happens," Moller says, "it's going to cause huge problems for me. I want to go into a green-energy job, and AB 32 [California's law cracking down on greenhouse-gas emissions] is important for creating and maintaining a clean-energy economy. There's a huge potential for California to fall off the bandwagon and lose opportunities for students."
Now, on the darkened campus, while most UCLA students are asleep, Moller guides Elsner and another environmental-science major, Cassie Trickett, through the hallways and into the gloom of empty, dark classrooms in several buildings.
They quickly begin writing on classroom whiteboards with blue or black washable markers. No security guards are around, but they're not doing anything illegal — chalking is not forbidden on the UCLA campus.
Trickett, a second-year student from Sacramento, has never participated in any political action before. But she wants a clean-energy job, which got her working with Moller. Tall, with long brown hair, wearing shorts and a sweatshirt — she could be a volleyball player — Trickett walks into a classroom cautiously, trying to find the light switch. Moller, who has just flown back into town from Wisconsin, follows close behind, wired with energy. She gives Trickett some pointers.
"Write it big so everyone can read it," Moller says. She trots out some useful student psychology: "Sometimes when you're really tired and don't want to take any more notes, you just start looking around the room. We want them to see that message."
"No on Prop. 23 Rally," the handwritten note left for the class reads, in part. "Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition."
Before daybreak, every morning for a week, Moller and other student volunteers wrote similar notes in some 50 classrooms.
Elsner estimates that several thousand UCLA students have now learned a little something about Proposition 23, and he hopes they'll care enough to vote.
He had set a goal to register 3,000 Bruins as voters before the state deadline of Oct. 18. Moller believes they hit that number due to high interest in Proposition 19.
But in the era of The Social Network, when organizing people through Facebook and texting is portrayed as a staggeringly powerful tool, Elsner finds it can go only so far. "We have to get people off Facebook and get them to vote," he says.
His solution has been to emphasize old-fashioned legwork ripped from the political-organizing pamphlets of a past generation: scrawled messages on walls, face-to-face voter registration, concerts to get people warmed up about voting down Proposition 23.
"It's a big danger to the Republicans," says Democratic consultant Carrick, when "young voters get mobilized for Obama in 2008 and overwhelmingly support marriage equality and protecting the environment, which all tends to fall on the side of the Democratic argument. This generation will be a big voting bloc, and all indications show they are going to be very involved."
For that reason, Elsner is not solely focused on turning out the vote at prestigious universities like UCLA. He's looking east and south, and drumming up support among low-income and minority students — or trying to, as he will soon find out the day he heads east of Hollywood.
The strategy of bringing in working-class and brown and black students, particularly from community colleges, has long been ignored by grassroots activists and student leaders during California campaign seasons, some consultants say.
Yet about 1.7 million students in total attend community colleges in California.
"What California Student Sustainability Coalition is doing is innovative," says Becky Bond, political director for CREDO Action, a grassroots organizing group fighting Proposition 23. "They're picking a gap and working on it."
So, on a hot, sunny morning, Elsner talks into his cell-phone headset as he drives Lili Molina, 31, the environmental-justice director at the Energy Action Coalition, to the LACC campus in East Hollywood.
The old BMW has no air-conditioning, and the windows are rolled down.
Elsner goes over the list of concert dates for the Clean Energy Tour, which features hip-hop artists Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth as well as KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad. Hitting college campuses in Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, the anti–Proposition 23 tour is one way to attract young voters, particularly minority students.
"The environmental-justice movement has been reaching out to young people of color," says Molina, who began as a gang interventionist in Chicago, "but the broader environmental movement, which is largely white and male, has framed the cause in a way that hasn't resonated with [minority] communities. We've felt our communities have been left at the altar."
By the time she and Elsner arrive at LACC, on Vermont Avenue, student activists are setting up tables for a voter-registration drive in the main quad, which is surrounded by plain, beige and red-brick buildings.
Molina, a pretty woman with frizzy black hair, enthusiastically surveys the scene from behind a pair of sleek glasses. There are far more black and Latino students strolling by than at heavily Asian and white UCLA. And there's another big difference at this Eastside college surrounded by old, run-down neighborhoods: Over the next hour, there's little talk of "green jobs" and Proposition 23.
Instead, students complain about school budget cuts and having their four-semester academic year scaled back to two semesters, which has badly disrupted their lives, delaying their long-planned transfers to four-year colleges.
"It's really hurting the student transfer rates," says Gesselly Marroquin, a 21-year-old psychology student from East Hollywood, who sports tight black jeans, a black tank top and a leopard-print tattoo on her left arm. She wants to go to UC Santa Barbara, and says her friends are more interested in teaching than in working for a clean-tech company.
As Bob Marley plays over a sound system, Elsner and Molina join Marroquin and Scott Clapson, a 36-year-old cultural-anthropology student who's involved in student government, as they try to register students to vote.
It's not easy. Many students are undocumented immigrants who can't vote. Clapson, in fact, estimates that one-third of the LACC student body is here illegally. Others are not inclined to get involved in politics.
"We've felt disenfranchised from the political system," Molina says. "Some of our family members have gone to prison and can't vote. Some of our parents and brothers and sisters are undocumented and can't vote. You come up in a culture where there's not much emphasis on the importance of voting."
The idea of a fight against Big Oil over the future of clean-energy jobs barely registers with LACC students.
"It doesn't mean that much to me," says Marroquin, a punk-rock fan who digs hard-edged songs with social commentary in the lyrics. "The mainstream is involved in frivolities more than important issues."
Molina understands where Marroquin's coming from. "If you talked to me [years ago] about saving the environment, I would have laughed in your face," says the activist. "You think of saving trees and whales, but we don't have whales in Chicago."
To persuade students to think in different terms, Molina focuses on how pollution from local industries makes human beings — not trees or whales — sick. "I'm passionate about the health impacts on our communities," she says.
But that emphasis on environmental justice for the low-income areas, and protection from industrial filth in inner-city neighborhoods, has been ignored by traditional clean-air, clean-water environmental groups. As the Weekly reported in its July 1, 2009, cover story "Envirowimps," it's a bone of contention between the big, monied green groups and the often smaller grassroots justice groups.
California Student Sustainability Coalition and Elsner are trying to change things. Several months ago at a retreat, Clapson told the coalition's leaders they had to diversify their ranks, which were mostly white. Clapson says Elsner and the coalition responded, seeking out lower-income and minority students — especially at community colleges in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. "I was challenging them," Clapson says, "and they listened."
Elsner says that without black and brown students in the fold, the youth vote won't become the political force it should. "My generation has the potential to be the largest voting bloc," he says. "So are we mobilizing that vote, or are we going to allow the older generation to be powerful? When we look at the youth movement, we're not big enough yet."
It's going to be a long haul if their experience at LACC is any guide. Out of the 16,000 to 18,000 students enrolled there, Clapson and crew collected just under 50 voter registrations during the afternoon. That makes a little over 400 since the coalition's campaign began.
After the registration drive at LACC, Elsner and Molina head to Wilmington, near the Port of Los Angeles, where teenagers from nearby Banning High School will lead a weekday after-school march to the nearby Tesoro oil refinery on Pacific Coast Highway.
Molina flew into Los Angeles a few days earlier and immediately started working with the young students, who helped her organize the event along with Communities United Against Prop. 23, a grassroots group.
"A lot of high school students are driving this action," she tells Elsner.
He nods knowingly. "I don't know what it is," he says. "A lot of my generation gets it. They're able to see the local impacts and connect it with the larger picture."
Cruising southbound in the commuter lane on the Harbor Freeway, Elsner is worrying that the Koch brothers will suddenly drop several million dollars for pro–Proposition 23 TV ads and change the momentum of the campaign. "The only grassroots groups that support Proposition 23 are the Tea Party groups," Elsner says, "and the Koch brothers spent a lot of money to create the Tea Party movement."
The day before, Elsner and two colleagues held a clandestine meeting with a high-powered media expert in the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. For 45 minutes, at a posh bar, they talked strategy. The consultant gave them free advice on how to handle the press and the Koch brothers, but didn't offer to pay for drinks. The young activists, who are operating on a shoestring budget, drank water.
When Elsner and Molina arrive at East Wilmington Greenbelt Park, in one of Southern California's many tattered neighborhoods, Elsner can't stop talking about the toxic smell coming from the nearby refinery.
Suddenly they find themselves in the company of pumped-up students from Banning High School who went through a lockdown the previous day, after a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head near their campus.
The 30 or so teenagers are decked out in tight punk-rock clothes that would fit comfortably in 1970s New York City: black T-shirts, black jeans, black sneakers. It's not just a fashion statement.
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Joined by older activists and students from other parts of the South Bay, the rockeros march through their working-class neighborhood, holding up placards, chanting and thrusting their arms in the air. One girl with pink hair yells, "Our lungs are not for sale! Prop. 23 will fail!" The chant is spontaneous, and everyone joins in. "Our lungs are not for sale! Prop. 23 will fail!"
Minutes later, Elsner, who marches with them, is looking pleased. "They may not be able to vote," he says, grinning, "but they may be our next student leaders in a few years." If they end up in college, the rockeros might say that a "No on 23" march near some oil tanks in the fall of 2010 was the day they became part of the big, green brawn that beat down Big Oil.
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I'm not matching expectations yes we're going to gasp of its free in altogether nine using the economy is can a pro at about three percent in the second offer to set me up a lot faster than we've seen of the last couple years based on walks ... really ... is its housing on the severed we continue to see gains and more recently it sits as the housing gains in the price increases ... it brings a lot more confidence to the household sector and I think that the ... interest in this spill over into law to consumer expenditures of all the pent-up demand in this economy is very slowly ... are ... causing consumer spending to rise and consumption to rise ... and now that housing is really kicking and we're seeing good sales numbers ... and price increases that makes people feel better about their own personal financial situation ... workers can see and and of a bigger takeoff and in a more sustainable takeoff and some of the consumer activity at all we know that when people buy houses but of the new house for a ... previously our house that buy stuff ... but oh my goodness you know that the first Western ally ... and we'll do it is my duty feel a duty albeit Richard what now almost looks Ron's aam which seem stocks get to ... record highs repeatedly over the past few weeks of a team of today ... what about buying opportunities to move a costly told wait for stocks to go down forty five while all this likeness of high ... demand pretty hard in this market is actually pretty interesting to see the market ... and retrace some of its losses from the ... from this morning we are now well over a hundred points on the Dow announced over the closing of minus forty one on the day ... you know there some resiliency there people are are ... are are are ... looking at the pullbacks as miners they are ... buying opportunities ... we leave so that this nervousness in the market and I and I don't think are very short term growth ... forecast is a strong is the second half three percent that you mention ... second-quarter looks like it's in need ... roughly about one a half percent we are seeing a little bit of a ... slowdown in queue to versus what we saw the very beginning of the year ... and it may be the tax effects and then maybe the sequestration from the fiscal side of the government ... has to be very tempering though ... I think this is during the summer isn't a needed to analyze news coming of the year of the of ... the fiscal policies in Europe the ... various governments are taking him to keep the euro ... the euro zone together ... thank all those are going to the headline events are headline risk events for the markets ... throughout the next couple of months ... I think he got more attractive or better buying opportunities for me ... as you ... shut down one's European governments for the summer you know privately highly July so that becomes funnier most attractive ... points to re entry into the market ... thank you get on the reactor will for the second of four is the second half alone will hit the nine mile math and when that happens would love to have you back thank you Brian much in doubt just society Generale I make is that the home of the


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I think it's safe to say that we all love printables. They are great for last minute projects and they just feel more personable, especially printable cards. I don't remember the last time I bought a store-bought card because they just don't feel special. Canon offers a plethora of cute and clever printables. Their gift and card section can prove to be especially useful when you're in a pinch for that last minute gift or card.
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To most Americans, even the most traveled, Antarctica looms as a misty concept - dark, cold, a vast emptiness dotted with scattered scientific stations.
So it is. But, says Deborah Shapley, the continent is unique - a place where nations of the world, including the United States and the Soviet Union, have outlawed weapons and war.
Ms. Shapley, guest scholar at Resources for the Future in Washington, says she hopes the huge ice-bound continent can become a laboratory for cooperation between rich countries and poor in the sharing of resources as yet untapped.
In an interview Ms. Shapley, author of a forthcoming book, ''The Seventh Continent: Antarctica in a Resource Age,'' speaks of an unfolding drama, as nations large and small press to join the ''Antarctic club.''
Her study was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Excerpts from the interview follow:
What is Antarctica like? What makes this continent unique?
It is an entire continent virtually unknown to man, even 163 years after its discovery by sealers in the early 19th century. Antarctica is as large as the United States and Mexico combined. Ninety-eight percent of it lies under a gigantic icecap. This continent is unique in that its resources are almost untapped. These include minerals that may lie underneath the icecap in the continent itself, plus the possibility of offshore oil, and the very abundant protein-rich krill that swarm in offshore waters. One of the unique features of Antarctica is its peacefulness. It has been governed now in a peaceful fashion for many years, and we hope that current political developments won't disrupt that peace in the future.
What formal administrative entity governs Antarctica?
The continent went through a period of competing national activities in the 1920s, 1930s, and to some extent in the 1940s. Most governments which sponsored expeditions to Antarctica finally decided it would be far too expensive to fight in the cold and dark and in the stormy seas - a very hostile area to get involved in militarily. This peace, which had become a de facto situation, became formalized in 1959 with the conclusion of the Antarctic Treaty - a rather brief document, concluded by 12 nations which had all been there for the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. They discovered during the IGY how to function down there on a cooperative basis, defining science as the chief national and international goal.
What are the main provisions of the treaty?
The treaty lasts in perpetuity though it is due for a review in 1991. The treaty demilitarizes the continent. Military forces can be sent only in support of scientific expeditions. Military maneuvers are forbidden, along with detonation of atomic weapons and storage of radioactive wastes. The treaty also contains a provision for unilateral on-site inspection, the only arms control treaty we have with such a provision.
Scientific expeditions may go anywhere on the continent, so that even though there are vestigial territorial claims - still unresolved, even under the treaty - no one is barred from visiting any part of the continent or the offshore waters.
Are only the signatory powers allowed to operate scientific stations and expeditions?
In theory anyone can do so. But it is very expensive. To be a voting member - or what is called a consultative party under the treaty - a nation has to show substantial scientific interest in the region. The only way the original club of 12 Antarctic Treaty consultative parties can be expanded, is if a nation engages in substantial scientific activity. Since 1961, when the treaty entered into force, there have been four new voting parties. First came Poland in 1977, then West Germany in 1981, and in September 1983 two prominent developing countries - India and Brazil - were admitted.
Which major powers were among the original signers?
The United States and the Soviet Union, both of which have potentially large claims in Antarctica. Several European powers - Britain, France, Belgium, and Norway - are among the original 12. Japan is there, as well as the countries you would logically expect in the Southern Hemisphere - Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Is a political drama shaping up, as nations that so far have not been part of the process press to participate?
That is exactly what's happening. Antarctica's mineral resources are all extremely iffy. Nonetheless, the fact that it is unclear who owns them, the fact that the claims issue was never resolved and probably never will be, and the fact that in many minds these must be international resources, has raised world interest in them.
Even though we may never develop Antarctic minerals - or certainly maybe not until the next century - and even though any offshore oil development is at least 10 years away, both the Antarctic Treaty nations and the outside world are becoming deeply interested in the disposition of these minerals. This interest is strong among developing nations, which previously have played no role in Antarctica.
Currently the treaty parties are negotiating to agree on a regime which would help to decide whether Antarctic minerals are ever to be developed, and if so, what environmental, legal, and financial arrangements should be put in place.
What is the US position in these negotiations?
Main goal of the United States is to keep Antarctica peaceful. It therefore favors upholding the Antarctic Treaty even past 1991, when it may be reviewed. Anticipating that the subject of Antarctic resources might become extremely controversial, either in the United Nations or within the treaty group itself, the US has pressed to get resource regimes negotiated.
What is the forum of the negotiations?
So far, the United Nations has played no direct role in Antarctic affairs. Over the years, in fact, the treaty powers have discouraged such UN activity. Treaty members feel they have an excellent system of administration to deal with expeditions, science, environmental protection, and now to negotiate the very delicate question of resources.
In September 1983, however, Malaysia - claiming to speak on behalf of the developing world - moved to put the subject of Antarctica on the United Nations agenda. It has now been inscribed, but will not be discussed by the General Assembly as a whole. It was referred to the committee on disarmament.
Is the continent being drawn into the so-called North-South dialogue, between rich and developing nations?
That is the $64,000 question in Antarctic politics today. Several years ago many observers believed that Antarctica would become a football in the confrontation between the South, or developing world, and the rich industrial nations. Now, however, something very interesting has started to evolve. Several major developing countries - some in the Latin bloc, plus India and China - have expressed interest in joining the Antarctic Treaty. Several Latin nations have very recently joined as ''acceding powers'' to the treaty. They agree to abide by its terms, but cannot vote, because they don't have scientific activities in Antarctica. So these developing countries are inside the tent, instead of standing outside and throwing stones at it. In September, as I have said, two leading developing nations - India and Brazil - became voting members. China is not yet an acceding party, but has expressed interest in doing scientific research in Antarctica and cooperating with the nations that are there.
So now, you see, there is a wholly different pattern taking shape, with some developing countries being part of the Antarctic Treaty club and others outside it. It will be very interesting to see how all of this plays, both within the treaty group and at the UN.
Is there a Reagan administration policy on this, or are the negotiations so long-range that one speaks of US interests?
US interests and US policy for the region have been remarkably consistent. There wasn't much change from the Carter administration to the Reagan administration.
So at least there is a chance, based on recent developments, that we will not get into the sterility that has marked the overall North-South dialogue?
If negotiations within the treaty group on minerals, and if discussion in the UN, proceed in a constructive manner, it is possible that the Antarctic forum would result in a mutual arrangement of interests between North and South. The Antarctic case makes clear that developing countries are not all birds of one feather. Some are rather rich and scientifically advanced. Others simply are not in a position to mount Antarctic scientific programs.
Let's turn to the question of resources. I'd like to start with fresh water.
Antarctica contains 90 percent of the world's ice. It's one big ice cube, or rather several ice cubes stuck together. Off this giant ice cube, several little ice cubes drop. This is called calving. These large Antarctic icebergs drift northward with the prevailing current. People over the years have suggested lassoing one of these big bergs and towing it, say, to Baja California, to supply the fresh-water needs of southern California for some time. The papers that I have read on this make it sound rather speculative. If you were actually to tow a berg, you would cross the oceanic boundary that defines the Antarctic region. This barrier is not only turbulent, but marks the transition between cold water around Antarctica and warmer waters. Then the famous bottom of the iceberg starts to melt and becomes irregular in shape. I gather that the structure of the iceberg would then become unstable and start to roll, because the bottom part would be eaten away.
What about oil?
Antarctic oil on the continent would probably be extremely hard to explore for, because this ice sheet is many thousands of feet thick and no one has a practical way to punch through it and work underneath.
But Antarctica does have several enormous continental shelves, some of them larger than parts of Europe. These shelves have been surveyed in a very minimal fashion, but enough to show that there are several kilometers of sedimentary rock on them. Several countries - Japan, Norway, West Germany, and the Soviet Union - have taken some seismic surveys to try to determine the depth of that sedimentary rock and what its oil potential is. The potential is not known at this time and the engineering for extracting the oil in ice-clogged waters is probably several years away.
What about other minerals?
Antarctica was long known to have large reserves of coal. But the coal is low grade and not of sufficient value to mine and transport far across oceans. If coal is ever mined in Antarctica, it will probably be to fuel local power plants. Other minerals are of possible interest. There is a geologic formation called the layered intrusion which has not yet been drilled. But comparable layered intrusions elsewhere in the world, notably in the veldt of South Africa and in Sudbury, Ontario, have extremely rich layers of metals - platinum, gold, and the like. If the Antarctic complex of this kind is found to have very rich deposits, then conceivably in the future mining it could be economical.
Is there a striking difference between the difficulty of getting mineral resources out of Antarctica and exploiting the living, or animal, resources of the continent?
Yes. Already Antarctica's most immediate resource is being exploited and has been for some time. This is a species of crustacean called the Antarctic krill, which swarm near the surface in offshore waters and are extremely easy to catch. Any ordinary distant water trawler with large nets can go to the Antarctic and scoop up tons of these protein-rich crustaceans. The West Germans have hauled many tons in a matter of minutes.
Krill is a principal food for baleen whales. If there is increasing exploitation of the krill, will this pose a danger to already depleted whale populations?
This has been a deep concern of Antarctic scientists for many years. The whale populations were decimated during the era of Antarctic whaling and are only now starting to recover. If you start taking way the whales' principal food , particularly from the areas which are most rich in the food - that is, the feeding grounds on which the whales depend - you might retard the recovery of the whales.
The Antarctic treaty powers, having been apprised of this by their scientists many years ago, negotiated a separate treaty governing krill fishing. This has just entered into force.
The International Whaling Commission has a great deal of difficulty in enforcing its decisions on the limitation of whaling. What hope do we have that the krill treaty will fare better?
The difficulty is going to be in measuring the krill populations, because these creatures are highly mobile and are found all around the Antarctic continent, with concentrations in certain areas. . . . Remember that the ocean around Antarctica contains no less than one-fifth of the world's ocean water by volume.
The new treaty is different from most previous fishing agreements, as well as from the whaling agreement, in that the participants agree to protect the entire Antarctic marine ecosystem. The agreement is not limited to dealing with one species. This means that in order to detect harm to the whales, scientists will have to know that the reason whale stocks are at the level they are is because krill are at the level they are. They must further try to determine that any shifts in population levels are the result of man's fishing.
Seals, penguins and other birds, and many marine species such as squid, also depend on these krill. Nobody, for example, has even been able to measure the extent of the squid population. So there is a big scientific challenge.
Is krill used as human food?
The Russians have made it into a paste. They mix it with other ingredients, such as mayonnaise. There are other kinds of krill products, in which the krill are processed much as one might process shrimp. In Japan, where raw fish is popular, krill has been marketed with some success. Krill might become very important if it were simply ground up and used as a protein-rich meal for animals.
Do we draw any lessons from the Falklands war, so far as Antarctica is concerned?
I think the main lesson of the Falklands war was that the Antarctic Treaty is remarkably strong. Argentina was willing to take on Britain, but unwilling to trespass with its warships in the demilitarized Antarctic Treaty area. . . . Demilitarization of that part of the planet is probably the most important contribution that Antarctic diplomacy can make.


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UH Anthropology Professor to Give Plenary Talk on Medicinal Plants at China Biodiversity Conservation ConferenceUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Acting Chair
Dr.Nina Etkin, Department of Anthropology professor and chair at UH Mānoa, has been invited to present a plenary keynote address at the 2002 China International High-Tech Industries Week/Third International Conference on Science and Technology in Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in Beijing, May 22-24. The main topic of the conference this year is "Conservation of Medicinal Plant Diversity and its Sustainable Utilization."Dr. Etkin, an internationally recognized leader in ethnopharmacology and medical anthropology, will present a talk on the "Contributions of Traditional Knowledge and Practices to the Conservation of Biodiversity." This presentation, drawing on Dr. Etkin's field research among the Hausa of Nigeria, will show how carefully conceived conservation efforts involving indigenous knowledge and the participation of local populations, can contribute to sustainable use of traditional plants as medicines, foods and for other uses.
Dr. Etkin is the former president of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and a fellow of the Linnean Society. She is a past recipient of the University of Hawaiʻi's Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research, has published widely on medical anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and received a number of grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Etkin's work juxtaposes pharmacologic assessments of indigenous plant medicines to ethnographic data on the cultural constructions of illness and health, and she has studied human biological variability with a focus on the pathophysiology of inherited red blood cell disorders and their protection against malaria infection. Her research ranges from West Africa, to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia, and to urban Honolulu.
For more information, visit: http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/faculty/etkin/etkin.htm


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Looks like Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon have parted ways on Rocketboom. I'm sure many subscribers will tune over to Amanda's 'Unboomed' feed – if that happens. And I can't see her having a problem finding someone to point a camera her way. To many people, Amanda was RocketBoom and no doubt is responsible for so many viewers. It will be interesting to see what Andrew does with the RocketBoom brand. Maybe that's where the disagreement laid.
I would hazard a guess that Amanda has had a big offer she can't refuse.
Podtech maybe?
UPDATE: It turns out that Andrew found out about it the same way we all did. Ouch.