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The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 185960
Lecture IV.Chemical AffinityHeat
Michael Faraday
shall have to pay a little more attention to the forces existing in water before we can have a clear idea on the subject. Besides the attraction which there is between its particles to make it hold together as a liquid or a solid, there is also another force, different from the formerone which, yesterday, by means of the voltaic battery, we overcame, drawing from the water two different substances, which, when heated by means of the electric spark, attracted each other, and rushed into combination to reproduce water. Now I propose to-day to continue this subject, and trace the various phenomena of chemical affinity; and for this purpose, as we yesterday considered the character of oxygen, of which I have here two jars (oxygen being those particles derived from the water which enable other bodies to burn), we will now consider the other constituent of water, and, without embarrassing you too much with the way in which these things are made, I will proceed now to show you our common way of making
(I called it hydrogen yesterday: it is so called because it helps to generate water.)
I put into this retort some zinc, water, and oil of vitriol, and immediately an action takes place, which produces an abundant evolution of gas, now coming over into this jar, and bubbling up in appearance exactly like the oxygen we obtained yesterday (F
The processes, you see, are very different, though the result is the same, in so far as it gives us certain gaseous particles. Here, then, is the hydrogen. I showed you yesterday certain qualities of this gas; now let me exhibit you some other properties. Unlike oxygen, which is a supporter of combustion and will not burn, hydrogen itself is combustible. There is a jar full of it; and if I carry it along in this manner and put a light to it, I think you will see it take fire (F
27)not with a bright light; you will, at all events, hear it if you do not see it. Now that is a body entirely different from oxygen; it is extremely light; for, although yesterday you saw twice as much of this hydrogen produced on the one side as on the other by the voltaic battery, it was only one-eighth the weight of the oxygen. I carry this jar upside down. Why? Because I know that it is a very light body, and that it will continue in this jar upside down quite as effectually as the water will in that jar which is not upside down; and just as I can pour water from one vessel into another in the right position to receive it, so can I pour this gas from one jar into another when they are upside down. See what I am about to do. There is no hydrogen in this jar at present, but I will gently turn this jar of hydrogen up under this other jar (F
28), and then we will examine the two. We shall see, on applying a light, that the hydrogen has left the jar in which it was at first, and has poured upward into the other, and there we shall find it.
Fig. 27
Fig. 28
You now understand that we can have particles of very different kinds, and that they can have different bulks and weights; and there are two or three very interesting experiments which serve to illustrate this. For instance, if I blow soap bubbles with the breath from my mouth, you will see them fall, because I fill them with common air, and the water which forms the bubble carries it down. But now, if I inhale hydrogen gas into my lungs (it does no harm to the lungs, although it does no good to them), see what happens. [The lecturer inhaled some hydrogen, and, after one or two ineffectual attempts, succeeded in blowing a splendid bubble, which rose majestically and slowly to the ceiling of the theatre, where it burst.] That shows you very well how light a substance this is; for, notwithstanding all the heavy bad air from my lungs, and the weight of the bubble, you saw how it was carried up. I want you now to consider this phenomenon of weight as indicating how exceedingly different particles are one from the other; and I will take as illustrations these very common things, air, water, the heaviest body, platinum, and this gas, and observe how they differ in this respect; for if I take a piece of platinum of that size (F
29), it is equal to the weight of portions of water, air, and hydrogen of the bulks I have represented in these spheres; and this illustration gives you a very good idea of the extraordinary difference with regard to the gravity of the articles having this enormous difference in bulk. [The following tabular statement having reference to this illustration appeared on the diagram board.]
Fig. 29
Whenever oxygen and hydrogen unite together they produce water, and you have seen the extraordinary difference between the bulk and appearance of the water so produced and the particles of which it consists chemically. Now we have never yet been able to reduce either oxygen or hydrogen to the liquid state; and yet their first impulse, when chemically combined, is to take up first this liquid condition and then the solid condition. We never combine these different particles together without producing water; and it is curious to think how often you must have made the experiment of combining oxygen and hydrogen to form water without knowing it. Take a candle, for instance, and a clean silver spoon (or a piece of clean tin will do), and, if you hold it over the flame, you immediately cover it with dewnot a smokewhich presently evaporates. This, perhaps, will serve to show it better. Mr. Anderson will put a candle under that jar, and you will see how soon the water is produced (F
30). Look at that dimness on the sides of the glass, which will soon produce drops, and trickle down into the plate. Well, that dimness and these drops are
formed by the union of the oxygen of the air with the hydrogen existing in the wax of which that candle is formed.
Fig. 30
And now, having brought you, in the first place, to the consideration of chemical attraction, I must enlarge your ideas so as to include all substances which have this attraction for each other; for it changes the character of bodies, and alters them in this way and that way in the most extraordinary manner, and produces other phenomena wonderful the think about. Here is some chlorate of potash, and there some sulphuret of antimony (
). We will mix these two different sets of particles together and I want to show you, in a general sort of way, some of the phenomena which take place when we make different particles act together. Now I can make these bodies act upon each other in several ways. In this case I am going to apply that to the mixture; but if I were to give a blow with a hammer, the same result would follow. [A lighted match was brought to the mixture, which immediately exploded with sudden flash, evolving a dense white smoke.] There you see the result of the action of chemical affinity overcoming the attraction of cohesion of the particles. Again, here is a little sugar (
), quite a different substance from the black sulphuret of antimony, and you shall see what takes place when we put the two together. [The mixture was touched with sulphuric acid, when it took fire, and burnt gradually and with a brighter flame than in the former instance.] Observe this chemical affinity traveling about the mass, and setting it on fire, and throwing it into such wonderful agitation!
I must now come to a few circumstances which require careful consideration. We have already examined one of the effects of this chemical affinity, but, to make the matter more clear, we must point out some others. And here are two salts dissolved in water (
). They are both colorless solutions, and in these glasses you can not see any difference between them. But if I mix them, I shall have chemical attraction take place. I will pour the two together into this glass, and you will at once see, I have no doubt, a certain amount of change. Look, they are already becoming milky, but they are sluggish in their actionnot quick as the others werefor we have endless varieties of rapidity in chemical action. Now, if I mix them together, and stir them so as to bring them properly together, you will soon see what a different result is produced. As I mix them they get thicker and thicker, and you see the liquid is hardening and stiffening, and before long I shall have it quite hard; and before the end of the lecture it will be a solid stonea wet stone, no doubt, but more or less solidin consequence of the chemical affinity. Is not this changing two liquids into a solid body a wonderful manifestation of chemical affinity?
There is another remarkable circumstance in chemical affinity, which is, that it is capable of either waiting or acting at once. And this is very singular, because we know of nothing of the kind in the forces either of gravitation or cohesion. For instance: here are some oxygen particles, and here is a lump of carbon particles. I am going to put the carbon particles into the oxygen; they can act, but they
notthey are just like this unlighted candle. It stands here quietly on the table, waiting until we want to light it. But it is not so in this other case: here is a substance, gaseous like the oxygen, and if I put these particles of metal into it the two combine at once. The copper and the chlorine unite by their power of chemical affinity, and produce a body entirely unlike either of the substances used. And in this other case, it is not that there is any deficiency of affinity between the carbon and oxygen, for the moment I choose to put them in a condition to exert their affinity, you will see the difference. [The piece of charcoal was ignited, and introduced into the jar of oxygen, when the combustion proceeded with vivid scintillations.]
Now this chemical action is set going exactly as it would be it I had lighted the candle, or as it is when the servant puts coals on and lights the fire: the substances wait until we do something which is able to start the action. Can any thing be more beautiful than this combustion of charcoal in oxygen? You must understand that each of these little sparks is a portion of the charcoal, or the bark of the charcoal thrown off white hot into the oxygen, and burning in it most brilliantly, as you see. And now let me tell you another thing, or you will go away with a very imperfect notion of the powers and effects of this affinity. There you see some charcoal burning in oxygen. Well, a piece of lead will burn in oxygen just as well as the charcoal does, or indeed better, for absolutely that piece of lead will act at once upon the oxygen as the copper did in the other vessel with regard to the chlorine. And here, also, a piece of ironif I light it and put it into the oxygen, it will burn away just as the carbon did. And I will take some lead, and show you that it will burn in the common atmospheric oxygen at the ordinary temperature. These are the lumps of lead which you remember we had the other daythe two pieces which clung together. Now these pieces, if I take them to-day and press them together, will not stick, and the reason is that they have attracted from the atmosphere a part of the oxygen there present, and have become coated as with a varnish by the oxide of lead, which is formed on the surface by a real process of combustion or combination. There you see the iron burning very well in oxygen, and I will tell you the reason why those scissors and that lead do not take fire while they are lying on the table. Here the lead is in a lump, and the coating of oxide remains on its surface, while there you see the melted oxide is clearing itself off from the iron, and allowing more and more to go on burning. In this case, however, [holding up a small glass tube containing lead pyrophorus (
)], the lead has been very carefully produced in fine powder, and put into a glass tube, and hermetically sealed so as to preserve it, and I expect you will see it take fire at once. This has been made about a month ago, and has thus had time to sink down to its normal temperature; what you see, therefore, is the result of chemical affinity alone. [The tube was broken at the end, and the lead poured out on to a piece of paper, whereupon it immediately took fire.] Look! look at the lead burning! Why, it has set fire to the paper! Now that is nothing more than the common affinity always existing between very clean lead and the atmospheric oxygen; and the reason why this iron does not burn until it is made red hot is because it has got a coating of oxide about it, which stops the action of the oxygenputting a varnish, as it were, upon its surface, as we varnish a pictureabsolutely forming a substance which prevents the natural chemical affinity between the bodies from acting.
I must now take you a little farther in this kind of illustration, or consideration I would rather call it, of chemical affinity. This attraction between different particles exists also most curiously in cases where they are previously combined with other substances. Here is a little chlorate of potash containing the oxygen which we found yesterday could be procured from it; it contains the oxygen there combined and held down by its chemical affinity with other things, but still it can combine with sugar, as you saw. This affinity can thus act
substances, and I want you to see how curiously what we call combustion acts with respect to this force of chemical affinity. If I take a piece of phosphorus and set fire to it, and then place a jar of air over the phosphorus, you see the combustion which we are having there on account of chemical affinity (combustion being in all cases the result of chemical affinity). The phosphorus is escaping in that vapor, which will condense into a snowlike mass at the close of the lecture. But suppose I limit the atmosphere, what then? why, even the phosphorus will go out. Here is a piece of camphor, which will burn very well in the atmosphere, and even on water it will float about and burn, by reason of some of its particles gaining access to the air. But if I limit the quantity of air by placing a jar over it, as I am now doing, you will soon find the camphor will go out. Well, why does it go out? not for want of air, for there is plenty of air remaining in the jar. Perhaps you will be shrewd enough to say for want of oxygen.
This, therefore, leads us to the inquiry as to whether oxygen can do more than a certain amount of work. The oxygen there (F
30) can not go on burning an unlimited quantity of candle, for that has gone out, as you see; and its amount of chemical attraction or affinity is just as strikingly limited: it can no more be fallen short of or exceeded than can the attraction of gravitation. You might as soon attempt to destroy gravitation, or weight, or all things that exist, as to destroy the exact amount of force exerted by this oxygen. And when I pointed out to you that eight by weight of oxygen to one by weight of hydrogen went to form water, I meant this, that neither of them would combine in different proportions with the other, for you can not get ten of hydrogen to combine with six of oxygen, or ten of oxygen to combine with six of hydrogen; it must be eight of oxygen and one of hydrogen. Now suppose I limit the action in this way: this piece of cotton wool burns, as you see, very well in the atmosphere; and I have known of cases of cotton-mills being fired as if with gunpowder through the very finely divided particles of cotton being diffused through the atmosphere in the mill, when it has sometimes happened that a flame has caught these raised particles, and it has run from one end of the mill to the other and blown it up. That, then, is on account of the affinity which the cotton has for the oxygen; but suppose I set fire to this piece of cotton which is rolled up tightly; it does not go on burning, because I have limited the supply of oxygen, and the inside is prevented from having access to the oxygen, just as it was in the case of the lead by the oxide. But here is some cotton which has been imbued with oxygen in a certain manner. I need not trouble you now with the way it is prepared; it is called guncotton (
). See how that burns [setting fire to a piece]; it is very different from the other, because the oxygen which must be present in its proper amount is put there beforehand. And I have here some pieces of paper which are prepared like the guncotton (
), and imbued with bodies containing oxygen. Here is some which has been soaked in nitrate of strontia: you will see the beautiful red color of its flame; and here is another which I think contains baryta, which gives that fine green light; and I have here some more which has been soaked in nitrate of copper: it does not burn quite so brightly, but still very beautifully. In all these cases the combustion goes on independent of the oxygen of the atmosphere. And here we have some gunpowder put into a case, in order to show that it is capable of burning under water. You know that we put it into a gun, shutting off the atmosphere with shot, and yet the oxygen which it contains supplies the particles with that without which chemical action could not proceed. Now I have a vessel of water here, and am going to make the experiment of putting this fuse under the water, and you will see whether that water can extinguish it; here it is burning out of the water, and there it is burning under the water; and so it will continue until exhausted, and all by reason of the requisite amount of oxygen being contained within the substance. It is by this kind of attraction of the different particles one to the other that we are enabled to trace the laws of chemical affinity, and the wonderful variety of the exertions of these laws.
Now I want you to observe that one great exertion of this power which is known as
chemical affinity
is to produce HEAT and light; you know, as a matter of fact, no doubt, that when bodies burn they give out heat, but it is a curious thing that this heat does not continue; the heat goes away as soon as the action stops, and you see, thereby, that it depends upon the action
during the time
it is going on. It is not so with gravitation; this force is continuous, and is just as effective in making that lead press on the table as it was when it first fell there. Nothing occurs there which disappears when the action of falling is over; the pressure is upon the table, and will remain there until the lead is removed; whereas, in the action of chemical affinity to give light and heat, they go away immediately the action is over. This lamp
to evolve heat and light continuously, but it is owing to a constant stream of air coming into it on all sides, and this work of producing light and heat by chemical affinity will subside as soon as the stream of air is interrupted. What, then, is this curious condition of heat? Why, it is the evolution of another power of matterof a power new to us, and which we must consider as if it were now for the very first time brought under our notice. What is heat? We recognize heat by its power of liquefying solid bodies and vaporizing liquid bodies; by its power of setting in action, and very often overcoming, chemical affinity. Then how do we obtain heat? We obtain it in various ways; most abundantly by means of the chemical affinity we have just before been speaking about, but we can also obtain it in many other ways. Friction will produce heat. The Indians rub pieces of wood together until they make them hot enough to take fire; and such things have been known as two branches of a tree rubbing together so hard as to set the tree on fire. I do not suppose I shall set these two pieces of wood on fire by friction, but I can readily produce heat enough to ignite some phosphorus. [The lecturer here rubbed two pieces of cedar wood strongly against each other for a minute, and then placed on them a piece of phosphorus, which immediately took fire.] And if you take a smooth metal button stuck on a cork, and rub it on a piece of soft deal wood, you will make it so hot as to scorch wood and paper, and burn a match.
I am now going to show you that we can obtain heat, not by chemical affinity alone, but by the pressure of air. Suppose I take a pellet of cotton and moisten it with a little ether, and put it into a glass tube (F
31), and then take a piston and press it down suddenly, I expect I shall be able to burn a little of that ether in the vessel. It wants a suddenness of pressure, or we shall not do what we require. [The piston was forcibly pressed down, when a flame, due to the combustion of the ether, was visible in the lower part of the syringe.] All we want is to get a little ether in vapor, and give fresh air each time, and so we may go on again and again, getting heat enough by the compression of air to fire the ether-vapor.
This, then, I think, will be sufficient, accompanied with all you have previously seen, to show you how we procure heat. And now for the effects of this power. We need not consider many of them on the present occasion, because when you have seen its power of changing ice into water and water into steam, you have seen the two principal results of the application of heat. I want you now to see how it expands all bodiesall bodies but one, and that under limited circumstances. Mr. Anderson will hold a lamp under that retort, and you will see, the moment he does so, that the air will issue abundantly from the neck which is under water, because the heat which he applies to the air causes it to expand. And here is a brass rod (F
32) which goes through that hole, and fits also accurately into this gauge; but if I make it warm with this spirit lamp, it will only go in the gauge or through the hole with difficulty; and if I were to put it into boiling water it would not go through at all. Again, as soon as the heat escapes from bodies, they collapse: see how the air is contracting in the vessel now that Mr. Anderson has taken away his lamp; the stem of it is filling with water. Notice too, now, that although I cannot get the tube through this hole or into the gauge, the moment I cool it, by dipping it into water, it goes through with perfect facility, so that we have a perfect proof of this power of heat to contract and expand bodies.
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Note 1.
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Note 2.
Chlorate of potash and sulphuret of antimony.
Great care must be taken in mixing these substances, as the mixture is dangerously explosive. They must be powdered separately and mixed together with a feather on a sheet of paper, or by passing them, several times through a small sieve. [
Note 3.
The mixture of chlorate of potash and sugar does not require the same precautions. They may be rubbed together in a pestle and mortar without fear. One part of chlorate of potash and three parts of sugar will answer. The mixture need only be touched with a glass rod dipped in oil of vitriol. [
Note 4.
Two salts dissolved in water.
Sulphate of soda and chloride of calcium. The solutions must be saturated for the experiment to succeed well. [
Note 5.
Lead pyrophorus.
This is tartrate of lead which has been heated in a glass tube to dull redness as long as vapors are emitted. As soon as they cease to be evolved the end of the tube is sealed, and it is allowed to cool. [
Note 6.
is made by immersing cotton wool in a mixture of sulphuric acid and the strongest nitric acid or of sulphuric acid and nitrate of potash. [
Note 7.
Paper prepared like guncotton.
It should be bibulous paper, and must be soaked for ten minutes in a mixture of ten parts, by measure, of oil of vitriol with five parts of strong fuming nitric acid. The paper must afterward be thoroughly washed with warm distilled water, and then carefully dried at a gentle heat. The paper is then saturated with chlorate of strontia, or chlorate of baryta, or nitrate of copper, by immersion in a warm solution of these salts (See Chemical News, vol. i., p. 36.) [
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More men are looking for housing to share, while more women are seeking housemates, according to a nationwide analysis.
Some 44% of people trying to put their empty rooms to use at the rental website Easyroommate.com are women, 38% are men and the rest are couples.
"Even though we usually have a significantly higher number of men registered on the site, the number of women looking to cash in on their spare rooms is growing exponentially," said Sebastiaan Ram, who manages Easyroommate.com. Since September, the site has experienced a 50% increase in women registering to rent out rooms as compared with a 40% increase in men.
The average age of women listing rooms on the website is four years younger than that of men.
Of the cities studied, Los Angeles has the largest number of women profiting from their spare rooms, followed by New York and Atlanta. Los Angeles also has some of the youngest female users, with an average age of 31.

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata took to the good ol' internet to announce a special treat for New Super Mario Bros. 2 players. For a limited time, you can snag a free download of a retro-inspired Coin Rush pack.
The Gold Classics Pack features stages inspired by the NES era classics Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3. It's a nice little nostalgic treat for folks who are still trying to get mileage out of this 3DS title.
The DLC is free to download until January 31, at which point Nintendo plans to charge $2.50 for the add-on. So if you've got a copy of New Super Mario Bros. 2, I'd suggest downloading the Gold Classics Pack.
I played through the Coin Rush pack, and while I certainly thought it was an interesting and entertaining diversion, I doubt I'll be touching it again soon (or ever). But hey, the price is certainly right.
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Future interim president meets with ruling junta
Latest update : 2012-04-09
Dioncounda Traoré (right), the speaker of Mali's parliament and the man tipped to become interim president under a power transfer deal with the ruling junta, met for talks Monday with the army captain who led the March 22 coup.
AFP - Mali's coup leader held talks on Monday on when he would hand over power to allow the return of democratic rule in the troubled west African nation, now half controlled by Islamists and rebels.
Army Captain Amadou Sanogo, who seized power with other soldiers on March 22, met with the man set to be sworn in as Mali's interim president to oversee the transition back to constitutional rule.
Dioncounda Traore, who is currently Mali's speaker of parliament, met Sanogo in the presence of international mediators for about an hour at a military camp near the capital Bamako.
The March coup set off a sequence of events that saw the northern desert half of the vast and deeply impoverished nation fall to Tuareg rebels and their Islamist allies, triggering a major humanitarian crisis.
Sanogo told reporters the encounter "went well", adding that more information would be released soon.
"We established a framework" of focus points, said Ivory Coast African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo who, along with Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole, is acting as mediator.
"No-one lost anything and no-one won anything," he added.
The meeting came the day after Amadou Toumani Toure, who was ousted in the coup, formally resigned Mali's presidency under the deal which also saw the lifting of sanctions that had been imposed by west African states.
Under the transition deal, Toure's departure means Sanogo must prepare to step down and allow for Traore to be sworn in as interim president, but it was not immediately clear exactly when that would happen.
Traore will be tasked with organising elections, if possible within 40 days.
Transitional authorities must address the situation in the north, which since the coup has been overrun by Tuareg rebels, outlaws and Islamic extremists who exploited the political and military disarray in Bamako.
An interim prime minister will also be appointed to head "a government of national unity", according to the terms of the deal which the West African ECOWAS bloc forced on Mali's military rulers in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
A Burkina Faso official said it was hoped the first cabinet meeting could be held before Friday.
Meanwhile the humanitarian crisis in the north, cut off from the rest of the world, was growing worse, witnesses and non-governmental organisations warned.
"The situation in the three northern region is dramatic. There are no more hospitals and hunger is growing... The international community must intervene," member of parliament Abdou Sidibe told AFP.
On the military front, ECOWAS is threatening to intervene to put down the northern rebellion by the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA), which is said to comprise some 500 fighters, nearly all of them Arabs from the Timbuktu region.
The MNLA led by Tuareg rebels last week proclaimed the independence of the northern region they call Azawad, a move rejected by the international community as well as by the Islamist Ansar Dine, which controls some towns.
And an Al-Qaeda dissident group on Sunday claimed it was behind the kidnap of seven Algerian diplomats Thursday in the northern town of Gao.
The Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) said it had seized the diplomats after rebels overran Gao, along with Kidal and and the legendary city of Timbuktu.
MUJAO in December also claimed the kidnap in October in Algeria of two Spaniards and one Italian aid workers.
MUJAO is said to have broken off from the main group, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), in order to spread jihad to west Africa rather than confine themselves just to the Maghreb or Sahel regions.
The only French national present in Gao when it fell told Monday's edition of Le Figaro newspaper how she managed, with the help of local residents, to escape across the desert to Algeria.
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TĂ©a Leoni is in talks to replace Cameron Diaz and star opposite Jim Carrey in Columbia Pictures' Fun With Dick and Jane, which begins shooting later this summer. Dean Parisot is directing the remake of the 1977 comedy, with Brian Grazer producing. Diaz dropped out due to a scheduling conflict from a change of shooting dates.
George Segal and Jane Fonda starred in the original as a down-on-their-luck couple who turn to robbery to maintain their lifestyle. The remake has been updated with Carrey playing an Enron-like executive who finds himself an umemployed pariah.
Judd Apatow and Nick Stoller wrote the film's script. Leoni next stars with Adam Sandler in the James L. Brooks comedy Spanglish, also at Colubmia.
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The Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC) has taken it upon itself to establish a new standard on how to gauge the range of electric motorcycles. Since their entry into the market, we've seen some interesting performance claims from electric motorcycle manufacturers — some more misleading than others. Doing a little self-policing, the MIC has stepped in and established a universal standard that will attempt to quantify the real-world range of electric two-wheelers.
This news is important for two reasons, with the first being the obvious need of some sort of apples-to-apples comparison between the electric motorcycle brands, and the MIC's desire to intervene on the nonsense occurring in this space before things get really out of hand.
The other major takeaway from this news is perhaps more subtle, as the MIC's interest in regulating electrics is incredibly telling of what's coming down the pipe from the major OEMs. A group comprised of executives from the largest US motorcycle brands, one has to wonder why this organization would be interested in regulating this budding segment in the motorcycle industry, that is unless it was setting the groundwork for OEM involvement in the E2V space…and boom goes the dynamite.


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Cantor loss squashes hope for immigration bill
There is no way to know whether Rep. Eric Cantor's support of immigration legislation directly led to his defeat in the Virginia Republican primaries Tuesday night. But judging from the reaction Wednesday to that loss, it's getting a lot easier to declare that Congress isn't going to pass an immigration bill.
Nearly two-thirds of voters in Cantor's primary (72%) expressed support for an immigration bill similar to the one passed by the Senate last June that would allow most of the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants eventually to become U.S. citizens, according to a poll by the liberal Public Policy Polling firm.
Despite the claims of Cantor's opponent, Dave Brat, that Cantor was a full-throated supporter of "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants, Cantor never filed an immigration bill, and the House of Representatives had done nothing on the issue since it passed a handful of smaller bills through committee 12 months ago.
"Every time I talked to Republican members, business leaders, growers and faith leaders about immigration reform in the last several months, I consistently heard that the House leadership wanted to move forward, but they did not have Cantor's support," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "Cantor was the choke point for immigration reform for these past few months."
Whatever ultimately led to his defeat, even the most ardent immigration activists struggled to refute the idea that Cantor's loss makes it nearly impossible to squeeze an immigration bill through the Republican-led chamber.
"It makes it tougher, there's no denying that," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a group that helped corral the support of conservative business, law enforcement and religious leaders to help sway Republicans in Congress.
Eliseo Medina, the chairman of the immigration campaign for the Service Employees International Union, who went on a 22-day hunger strike last year to push for an immigration bill, said many Republicans who were possible "yes" votes on an immigration bill are running away from the issue.
"Unfortunately, the House has never been a profile-in-courage institution, so any little bump or burp scares them to death," he said.
Frank Sharry, the executive director of America's Voice who has been fighting for an immigration overhaul since he came to Washington in 1990, said Cantor's loss blows up a last-minute attempt by Republicans to organize support for an immigration bill.
"All of the game-planning, as I understood, was, 'After Cantor's primary win, we'll sit down with leadership and discuss how to move forward,' " he said. "This definitely kicks that leg out of the stool."
Even the timing is damaged by Tuesday's results. Cantor announced that he will step down as majority leader at the end of July. Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza, the country's largest Hispanic advocacy organization, said the days spent reorganizing Republican leadership will cut into the already-dwindling window to get a bill through the House.
"That takes away some days, and the calendar between now and the August recess is short," she said.
Supporters of immigration changes tried to point to the few remaining reasons for optimism.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the co-sponsors of the Senate's immigration bill who pushed for the House to follow that lead, won an easy primary victory in conservative South Carolina. Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers won in the North Carolina Republican primary in March after she openly supported legalizing the nation's undocumented immigrants. Cantor's race featured fewer than 70,000 people, far from a national referendum on immigration.
Hope also remains in a rather unlikely place: Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The speaker rejected the Senate's immigration bill soon after it was passed, saying the House would not even consider it. But he called immigration legislation a "priority" for his chamber. In January, he released a set of principles that would guide House efforts to pass an immigration bill and has encouraged members to press the issue among Republicans.
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., one of the Republicans who has supported an immigration bill, said, "Immigration reform is not dead. Congress should remain focused on fixing problems, including immigration reform, regardless of the results of a primary election in Northern Virginia."
That won't be easy. "It'll take Boehner putting his career on the line to give us a shot," Sharry said. "It is possible? Yes. Is it likely? No."


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Six of the best… baritones
Helen Wallace picks out the greatest baritones that are making an impact on the world stage
Simon Keenlyside
British b. 1959
Keenlyside became as famous at one time for his gleaming torso – naked or clad in black leather – on an opera house ad campaign as for his intensely realised stage roles. The one-time choir boy is an ideal Papageno, a searing Billy Budd, a formidable Posa, and 'one of the most inspired Wozzecks ever' for some. He won awards for creating the role of Prospero in Thomas Ades's The Tempest. A passionately committed singer who has taken his career slowly but surely, admired for the fire and virility in his warm, clear baritone.
Listen to: Tales from the Opera/Sony 82876884822
Schumann: Dichterliebe/Brahms recital disc/Sony 88697566892
Gerald Finley
Canadian b. 1960
Finley is the baritone of choice for many composers: he's created indelible roles in Mark Anthony Turnage's The Silver Tassie, the love-lorn Jaufré in Saariaho's L'amour de loin and made a tour de force of John Adams's Dr Atomic with his tortured Robert Oppenheimer. He's equally good in recital, as his fine collection of song discs on Hyperion shows; one is always aware of a penetrating intelligence at work; a singer for whom the text is pre-eminent. 'Gerald Finley's Oppenheimer – ruthless in attack, pellucid in delivery – remains one of the truly great opera-house performances of the past decade'. Opera News
Listen to: Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Ives/Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0025
John Adams: Dr Atomic/Opus Arte OA0998D (DVD)
Matthias Goerne
German b. 1967
Goerne was a member of Dresden Opera and has played a memorable Wozzeck, but is mainly revered for his peerless Lieder singing. A pupil of the great Fischer-Dieskau, he has a uniquely rich and dark-hued voice and has brought new depths to Schwanegesang and Winterreise. 'Few male singers, even Fischer-Dieskau, have such a rich palette of colours as Goerne does.' Sunday Times
Listen to: Schubert: Schwanegesang with Alfred Brendel/Decca 475 6011
Schubert: Winterreise with Alfred Brendel/Decca 467 0922
Christian Gerhaher
German b. 1969
Another outstanding recitalist, Gerhaher's Schumann disc Melancholie won the BBC Music Magazine's Vocal Award in 2008. Exquisite diction and sheer beauty of sound, along with a dizzying range of articulation mark Gerhaher out. He was a 'sensation' as Papageno at Würzburg Opera and in the title role of Monteverdi's Orfeo at Frankfurt. He shines in Harnoncourt's recent recording of Haydn's The Seasons. Expect to hear more from this modest Munich-based musician.
Listen to: Schumann: Melancholie/RCA 88697168172
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte/Vienna PO/Muti/Decca 073 4221 (part of 33 disc-set of operas)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Russian b. 1962
The glamorous, silver-haired Siberian was launched as a heart-throb following his 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World win. Years later, the Financial Times critic was warning women not to sit in the front row 'in case they get their ears singed.' In fact, Hvorostovsky is best in the brooding roles, an ideal Eugene Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Giorgio Germont in La traviata and Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades. His upper register has a tenor-like ring, his tone beautifully rounded and his breath control renowned. He regularly tours Russia to stadium-size audiences.
Listen to: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin/Phillips 475 7017 (2 discs)
Heroes & Villains/Delos DE3365
Bryn Terfel
Welsh b. 1965
Terfel needs no introduction. He arrived with the Lieder prize in the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World, and has won hearts with Welsh hymns, Broadway, Vaughan Williams, as a chilling Jochanaan in Salome, an ideal Flying Dutchman, and a deeply moving and uproarious Falstaff. But he can also do the really big stuff. Following John Tomlinson's long and distinguished reign, Terfel is the new British Wotan. 'One of the most important and charismatic singers performing today.' Opera Magazine
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Wagner: excerpts from Die Fliegande Hollander & Die Meistersinger etc/Deutsche Grammophon DG 471 3482
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon/Deutsche Grammophon DG 477 5336
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I don't think the style matters, personally. Its the same people.
I was wondering if there would be any objections in the EO Church for an EO Christian using Oriental Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.I think the Oriental look is just more appealing than the Byzantine style. Of course, I already have icons, so I'm not going to rush out and buy new ones, but I am wondering.
The only problem I can see is that icons should traditionally be painted by faithful members from within the Church. Therefore one could argue that its not appropriate to use icons painted by schismatics; even if they're stylistically identical to the icons produced by those within the Church, as would be true in the case of Uniate Catholics for example.
So, if icons written by schismatic Catholics are taboo, would not the same be for icons written by OO Christians, despite the work and finding of the joint commission?
Monastery Icons are not an Eastern Catholic Group but a vagante group using the name Light of Christ Monastery and formerly Holy Protection Gnostic Orthodox Monastery. Fr. Deacon Lance
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Like some have said before. If certain "fathers" do not follow an agreed upon concept of Holy Tradition (etc.) then they are not "accepted" as saints.
We have inherited from our fathers in Christ the one apostolic faith and tradition, though as Churches we have been separated from each.
In light of our Agreed Statement on Christology as well as of the above common affirmations, we have now clearly understood that both families have always loyally maintained the same authentic Orthodox Christological faith, and the unbroken continuity of the apostolic tradition.
We affirm the total and mutual respect of the spirituality, heritage and Holy Fathers of both Churches.
The heritage of the Fathers in both Churches and their traditions as a whole should be integrated into Christian education curricula and theological studies.
QuoteIn light of our Agreed Statement on Christology as well as of the above common affirmations, we have now clearly understood that both families have always loyally maintained the same authentic Orthodox Christological faith, and the unbroken continuity of the apostolic tradition.Again there is this tacit affirmation of the Orthodoxy of our Fathers of the past in the clear affirmation that the agreed upon mutual sharing of the "same authentic Orthodox Christological faith, and the unbroken continuity of the apostolic tradition", is something our Church's have "always loyally maintained"--it is one that was loyally maintained in the age of our very Fathers, even those who are at the heart of the controversey.
The Chalcedonian Orthodox Church of Antioch goes even further in its 1991 statement regarding its relationship with the Non-Chalcedonian Orthodox Church of Antioch, stating:QuoteWe affirm the total and mutual respect of the spirituality, heritage and Holy Fathers of both Churches.The next point affirms the practical step to be taken in response to the above, at least until full re-intercommunion can be established:
In the end, our Saints will not formally be recognised as your Saints, nor your Saints formally recognised as our Saints until full re-inter-Communion is established. Nevertheless, when, and if (and that's a massive if) full inter-Communion is to be restored, the reality of the matter is that that point of re-inter-Communion will not be the point of officially deeming your Saints to be true Saints and vice versa as if they were not beforehand, but rather it will be the point of officially recognising that your Saints have been Saints all along, and vice versa.
The fact of the matter is that re-inter-Communion will never happen any other way; the OO Church's celebration and defence of Her Fathers--even those central to the Christological contoversies of the early centuries, has not watered down or diminished an iota.
Thanks for the response!
I would like to start off by saying that I really appreciated you using the Joint Commission as your quotes. It really irkes me when people have no idea that our 2 churches have even spoken!
My guess is that this type of statement was passed in order to take a more clear look at Nestorius and his followers?
Just because we RESPECT your spirituality and HERITAGE of the Holy Fathers of your church, doesn't make them a non-problem.
I think a specific example will help here: (st.) Evagrius of Pontus is a saint in your church. Whereas he is an origenist in the EO church. Now here is a guy who will probobly NEVER end up in the EO church as a saint. Not saying that he doesn't deserve it, just too polemical. What are your thoughts on this as an example for our discussion?
Can we really affirm that YOUR saints (OO) have been saints all along, especially if we have realized that some of your saints are heretics?
I honestly don't see the Christological controversy "saints" as a problem. Our two churches have had SOO many dialogues about these controversies that to go over it again would be totally redundant.
If our respective Churches of Antioch (i.e. "Antiochian" and "Syrian") thought that each other's respective Fathers were heretics, then how could they agree to mutually respect heresy? What "spirituality†in heresy is there to respect? What is it about the "heritage†of an heretical position that our Churches feel compelled to mutually agree to respect?If you're under the impression that the verb respect here is being used in the sense that one should, for example, respect a Buddhist's heritage i.e. in the sense of tolerating their freedom and right to adopt and practice a faith one may believe to be an outright lie/heresy/blasphemy, I think you are not taking the surrounding context seriously enough as a tool of clarification as to what is precisely meant.
I don't know enough about (St?) Evagrius or Origenism, let alone St. Evagrius and Origenism, to make any substantial comments in this regard; I can only observe the following facts:1) The only Coptic Orthodox work I am aware of that attempts to comprehensively deal with Origenism is Fr. T. Malaty's The School of Alexandria. In his chapter Origen and Origenism, he undoubtedly treats Origenism as heresy.2) St. Evagrius is quoted or referred to quite a few times in the works of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, but on each occasion he is quoted or referred to with regard to basic, practical and non-controversial spiritual matters.For example, His Holiness quotes St. Evagrius to support the idea that we must fight sin using the commandments as our weapon, or that we must counter evil thoughts with verses from the Scripture, or that we must be prepared and alert at the beginning of prayer to what may befall usâ€â€temptations, wandering thoughts, laziness, fatigue etc. I think, in spite of his official condemnation by your Church, St. Evagrius continues to be quoted in like manner i.e. with regard to basic spiritual matters? I mean I personally only became aware of St. Evagrius' maxim regarding the true theologian being one who prays through EO sources who quoted him to that effect.Quote
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Which of our Saints has your Church "realised†to be "hereticsâ€Â, and what do you mean by the term "realise†in any event? Your Councils as you would know, anathematised Dioscoros and Severos, yet the position encompassed by the Agreements of the Joint Commission recognises that such anathematisations are worthy of being lifted upon the recognition that Dioscoros and Severos are in fact Orthodox.
Now that I think about it, we may have a problem with the idea of Emperor Justinian being a Saint, particularly on account of the idea that he fell into (what is known within our Communion as) the heresy of Julianism late in his life.
I WAS thinking of respect in the way you mentioned earlier. Perhaps I should have been thinking outside of the box huh...
So, if your saints were heretics there would be a concession made to consider their spirituality, in order to keep dialogue going.
Part of the misunderstanding may be that the person who brought Evagrius' sainthood to my attention was Armenian Orthodox (who are in communion with Coptic church) and part of the whole OO church (unless i'm mistaken here). So if Evagrius is a saint for the Armenians then he is a saint for you as well (right?).
I was not aware of this issue. What is the Julianism heresy?
The natural tendency of human intellect is to keep within the confines of the box. It was my study of the theology of the three Ecumenical Councils (which for you would be the first three Ecumenical Councils) within the context of much prayer that has since re-configured my "truth radarâ€Â. If a certain position sounds very easy to accept on the basis that it satisfies the simplest level of human logicâ€â€i.e. it nicely (almost too nicely) fits within the box, then my "truth radar†is inclined to look elsewhere. As far as I'm concerned the root of all heresies was reductionismâ€â€the attempt to fit everything inside the box.
Well first of all, I hope you understand that as far as we are concerned, we are not leaving our Saints open to the option of being deemed heretics. From our perspective they are undeniably Orthodox Saints, and their acceptance as such is pre-requisite to any potential future re-inter-Communion. I'm sure your Church approaches us with the same condition regarding those Saints of yours who have been deemed heretics by our Church.Secondly, again, within the wider context of all the relevant quotations I brought forth from all the various Statements and Agreements, it is clearly not the case that either of our Churches are approaching the other Church's Saints with the sentiment of, "well they're heretics, but we'll let it slide for the sake of dialogueâ€Â. How would such a sentiment stand compatible with the agreement to integrate each Church's Fathers into the theological education of the other's Church? Or how would such a sentiment stand compatible with the agreement that both our Church's have always (which means in 5th century, as much as in the 6th, 7th etc. century and till this very day) remained loyal to the Apostolic Tradition?
Yes, I can think of no reason why he wouldn't. But since our Church is clearly opposed to Origenism, I would stress once again that his canonisation is either based upon a denial that he can truly be associated with Origenism in the first place, or the understanding that the significance of his spiritual works suffice in overshadowing any "origenistic†errors he may have adhered to.
I was not aware that your church also has "condemened" origenism. However, the Armenians aparantly have not, or at least their definition of Origenism is not the same as the EO's because Evagrius made the list.
Part of the misunderstanding may be that the person who brought Evagrius' sainthood to my attention was Armenian Orthodox (who are in communion with Coptic church) and part of the whole OO church (unless i'm mistaken here). So if Evagrius is a saint for the Armenians then he is a saint for you as well (right?).
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So that was the season that was…
The build-up to last Thursday's inaugural MLS playoff game had that familiar postseason buzz that 'Caps fans know all too well. What was also exciting to see was the amount of attention that Whitecaps FC drew from being in the playoffs.
Of course, the Blue and White filled a certain void (no NHL hockey) for Vancouver sports fans last week, and although it did not result in a win in LA, the performance of Martin Rennie's side left some good feelings.
The feedback from media and supporters after Thursday's game was one of pride, as most were aware of the tall task that faced the 'Caps against the star-studded Galaxy.
The contest required spirit and commitment from Vancouver, and that was seen in abundance at The Home Depot Center. By giving the defending MLS champions a severe test of their credentials, Whitecaps FC might have even played a key role in the destiny of this year's MLS Cup title.
Traditionally, playoff exits leave an empty feeling. In this case, however, there was an acknowledgement to the efforts made by Rennie's side in LA and indications by observers of how it offered a glimpse into a promising future.
Vancouver Sun sports columnist Iain MacIntyre was particularly struck by what he witnessed on Thursday, as he drew comparisons to where the club was in 1977 and how it built towards an NASL Soccer Bowl title by 1979.
There was also an intriguing - some might say prophetic - tweet from former 'Caps and Seattle Sounders FC head coach Alan Hinton (@alanhinton11): "Whitecaps FC will within two years be the number two franchise behind Seattle in MLS…I know, I have been there!"
As for yours truly, the 2012 season was one where every match offered an opportunity to Whitecaps FC. Building and growing as an MLS outfit were, in many ways, the club's objectives this season. In other words - 2011 was about establishment; 2012 was about strengthening.
Clubs that have shown steady growth in MLS are usually amongst the league's elite. While that challenge lies in front of Whitecaps FC, this second season suggests Vancouver are now following a similar path.
While it would have been nice for the playoff journey to continue, much was achieved this season. What is really exciting is how things can improve even more, starting in 2013.
Hunger and desire are bedrocks of successful sides, and it would not surprise this soccer scribe if those are the driving influences behind a memorable Whitecaps FC campaign in the New Year.
As we enter the quiet of this offseason, we take positive vibes from a season that gave strong glimpses of very bright days ahead.
Time to prepare for the next chapter of this great journey!
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Student reflection: Sustainability extends far beyond Earth Day
by Alex Mihm
Humankind's imprint on our surroundings is everywhere, commingled with the natural. I am typing this on my back deck. The moon, nearly full, casts stark silhouettes of the cedars before me. The wind's breath sighs through the boughs, and somewhere nearby a fussy crow is doing a poor job of keeping the location of its nest a secret. On a hillside across the Willamette, three towers flash red in a jerky rhythm. Straight overhead a commercial jet just narrowly avoids a collision with the Big Dipper. All of this is my — our — world, and it is important to remember that, no matter what we invent or build, nothing we can own will elevate us above it, for we are still natural beings born of the Earth. We need to understand how connected we are to this place, and then cultivate that relationship with both enthusiasm and respectful deference.


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I want to wear some of my spring sundresses, but it's still too cold outside! Ho
The idea that you can only wear spring pieces when it's warm out and fall pieces when it's cold is totally irrelevant. These days, it's all about the mix! The trick to getting the most wears out of your breezy or barely-there dresses is to simply add layers. Depending on the silhouette of the dress, you might be able to wear it over a lightweight long sleeve t-shirt or turtleneck. (Note: this works best if the dress has a collar or a crew neckline and is sleeveless.) If the undershirt trick doesn't work, just throw on a cardigan in either a chunky cotton knit or elegantly thin cashmere. To make sure the sweater doesn't overwhelm your shape, wear it unbuttoned and add a belt at your natural waist. Cynthia Rowley makes some amazing belt options this season; the bright colours are so cute! I'd also suggest adding tights to the equation, ideally an opaque or ribbed pair. If your dress is a lighter colour, you might want to try grey tights, but if your dress is a bright or bold colour, black matte tights are your best bet. As for your footwear, a closed-toe shoe is probably the easiest choice. For daytime, a textured oxford in a light hue would look amazing with black tights or you can add some edge with studded ankle boots. Otherwise you might want to consider something a little unexpected, like a chunky metallic sandal with a wooden heel. Simply wear all of the above with your favourite jacket-maybe the classic trench I mentioned last week as a must-have for every wardrobe-and you'll be set!


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Visitors to western North Carolina experience the awe-inspiring majesty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway cuts a nonintrusive path through the rocks, forming a portion of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Many opt to drive the route; the road is winding, but worth the effort. Travelers can take advantage of picturesque pull-offs and quaint picnic spots, which are especially picture-perfect in the autumn. And here, hikers access the Mountains-to-Sea Trail and traverse as far as the state's coastline.
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Electile Dysfunction
The GOP's incredible shrinking Boehner.
Read Slate's complete coverage of the 2010 midterm elections.
Sixteen years ago, in the wake of the election-night landslide that brought him to power, Newt Gingrich asserted a mandate for his Contract with America and a new leadership role for himself. "The Republican Whip in a minority role is a middle linebacker," he said of his previous job. "The Speaker of the House is a head coach."
Last night, in the wake of another landslide, incoming Speaker John Boehner sent a very different message: "While our new majority will serve as your voice in the people's House, we must remember it's the president who sets the agenda for our government."
The president? You've just been handed 60 House seats by voters disgusted with the president, and you're deferring to him?
This is the difference between Gingrich and Boehner. Gingrich set the agenda. He put forward a platform, treated the election as a referendum on it, and tried to implement it. He governed. He played quarterback, or at least head coach.
For this, Gingrich paid a steep price. Against his offense, President Clinton played middle linebacker. In 1995 and 1996, Clinton ran against Gingrich's agenda and beat it.
From this episode, Boehner seems to have learned a political lesson: Don't play offense. Stay in the role of middle linebacker. Let the president set the agenda. For two years, with an eye on the midterms, Boehner has followed this strategy, refusing to put forward a clear program that President Obama could attack. What's surprising is that Boehner is sticking with this defensive posture even after winning power. He has been thrust into leadership but doesn't want it.
On election night 1994, Gingrich told CBS News that the GOP's victory was a mandate for an agenda. "I would start with our Contract With America, which we put in TV Guide, which is very specific, which 330 House Republican candidates signed," he said. "The American people tonight seem to be accepting the contract." Gingrich called on his party to "accept the contract with the American people" and implement the "changes people voted for."
Gingrich acknowledged Clinton's authority but cast him as a responder to the new agenda. "At least half of our Contract With America are things that the president should be able to support," Gingrich argued. He added: "We are bound, to some extent, by the contract. But within that framework, we'd like to work with the president."
Boehner asserts no such mandate or central role. In his speech last night, he framed the referendum of 2010 in strictly negative terms: "Across the country right now, we're witnessing a repudiation of Washington, a repudiation of big government, and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the American people."
As to his own agenda, Boehner offered only the vaguest boilerplate: "cutting spending," "reducing the size of government," and "giving government back to the people." Instead of clarifying these terms, he repeatedly promised to "listen" to voters and do their bidding. "The people's priorities will be our priorities, and the people's agenda will be our agenda," he said. "We are humbled by the trust that the American people have placed in us. And we recognize that with this trust comes the responsibility to listen, and listen we will." He sounded like the wretched gelatinous boyfriend who promises to be whatever you want.
Nor did Boehner proclaim a new relationship between Congress and the public, as Gingrich did. On the contrary, Boehner emphasized the centrality of Obama's relationship with the public: "We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making changes that they are demanding. And to the extent that he's willing to do that, we're ready to work with him."
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Politically, Boehner's deference makes sense. Voters are angry. They want the economy fixed, but it's too messed up to be repaired before the next election. In these circumstances, the worst place to be, from an electoral standpoint, is in power. You want to be the linebacker, not the quarterback. You're better off with Boehner's vacuous Pledge to America than the substantial Contract With America.
But politics, too, has its price. Fear of electoral failure can make you impotent in office. You spend the years between elections ducking the risks of leadership. You wedgislate and hedgislate, but you never really legislate. For the sake of your career, you waste it.
That's what I admire about Gingrich and Obama. Obama may lose more seats in Congress than Clinton did. He may be thrown out after one term. But he'll have accomplished more than Clinton did, because he focused on doing the job, not keeping it.
The voters have spoken, Mr. Speaker. It's time to lead. Do it, and take the consequences.


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Claes & Melinda's Classy, Cozy Kitchen
This beautiful renovated kitchen in Phoenix owes itself entirely to the handiwork of its owners, Claes and Melinda, who did all the remodeling work themselves. The style has a distinct Scandinavian aesthetic, an ode to Claes' native Sweden, and every element was carefully chosen. As they told Apartment Therapy, "We don't spend a lot of money and most of the stuff we have, we've had for a long time. We just recover it and repaint it and patch it up. If I need something, I just make it."
Unlike a lot of remodels, this kitchen doesn't feel too fancy or austere. Rather, it feels completely accessible, effortless, functional, and cozy. Elements include a few splurges (like the Wolf cooktop) but also budget IKEA cabinetry, with detailing work done by Claes (who's a woodworker).
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Started photography under the study of Katsusuke Chiba in 1983. She went independent in 1999 and published her work through various magazine and calendar. Her main subjects are the seasons and flowers in the Northern Tohoku region of Japan. She also focuses on the lives of the people in the region as well. In 2008 to 2013, she exhibited her work at "Pukapukan" gallery. From 2010 to 2011, she exhibited her work in Sendai, Tokyo, Sapporo, Akita, and Nagano.
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FALCON HEIGHTS (AP) — Attendance at the 2013 Minnesota State Fair slipped below last year's total, despite two record-setting days at the end.
Fair officials say total attendance this year was 1,731,162. That's slightly less than last year's total of 1,788,512.
The all-time record for total fair attendance was set in 2009, when 1,790,497 people came through the gates.
This year's fair saw record crowds on its last two days, thanks to cool, dry weather.
On Labor Day, 164,277 people came to the fair on its last day, a record for 12th-day attendance. That follows Sunday's crowd of 236,197, which set a record not just for 11th-day attendance, but also for single-day attendance throughout the fair's history.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Horst Faas, who captured several iconic moments during the Vietnam War, died May 10. He was 79.
Haas was the chief of The Associated Press' Southeast Asia bureau from 1962 to 1974, where he covered the fighting and mentored dozens of young photographers who were sent out across Vietnam to capture images of the war's terror and inhumanity.
"There were no bad photographers around," Faas told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1997. "There was nobody who was [in a] second category. There's no room for mediocre talent in situations like this."
Faas' own images of wounded U.S. soldiers and a blindfolded Viet Cong suspect helped bring the war into American living rooms. He spent much of his time in Vietnam out in the field, following troops and Vietnamese civilians who were caught in the middle of the conflict.
"That means I would go out for five days and then stay in Saigon for five days and play the editor for the others, and then go out myself again and leave another photographer in at the editing desk," he said. "We took turns. So we all had our experiences there."
It was in Vietnam where Faas was severely wounded by a rocket fragment in 1967. A medic and a tank driver helped load him onto a helicopter, where he was dispatched to a medical facility.
"The only decision I made at that time was not to go to Honolulu or New York or anywhere, but to stay in Vietnam," he said. "One reason being that I had total trust in military surgeons who were dealing with these problems day in, day out. And secondly, I tried to avoid having my legs broken again at the New York head office and being made a photo editor at headquarters, 'cause that would have ended the great days of photography, eh?"
In 1997, Haas assembled some of the best photography from Vietnam in Requiem, a book about the photographers killed during the conflict. In 2005, he returned to the country for a press corps reunion party marking the 30th anniversary of the war's end.
"Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline," he said. "We — to put it frankly, we enjoyed ourselves much of the time."
We're going to listen back to an interview with the German combat photographer Horst Faas. He died Thursday at the age of 79. He covered the war in Vietnam for The Associated Press from 1962 to '73. He won a Pulitzer for his photos from Vietnam, and won a second Pulitzer for his photos of the conflict in Bangladesh.
I spoke with him in 1997, after he and fellow photojournalist, Tim Page, edited the book "Requiem," which collected pictures by many of the 135 photojournalists who died while covering wars in southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 70s. Faas was injured in Vietnam. When we spoke, he was working as an editor for The Associated Press.
David Halberstam wrote a piece in Vanity Fair, in which he talked about you, Horst Faas, and he described you as one of the first photographers in Vietnam to use a Leica, which enabled the photographer to look forward instead of down. Would you describe what that difference was and how that affected your safety and your photographs?
HORST FAAS: Well, I wasn't the first one to use Leica. Larry Burrows, I have to almost at the same time, had considerably more Leicas then I had because at the time AP was still working with large-format cameras and I carried one or two of my own Leicas in there. Well, a Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes, also backwards and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture. So it may be sports photography or maybe war photography, the Leica camera, at the time, appeared to me like a camera that made it possible that you were at all times aware of things happening around you.
The other wonderful things, the Leica was that you could actually take it apart like a rifle, clean it out, dry it out, put it together again with a set of little screwdrivers and it will work again - something that is impossible with today's electronic chip cameras.
GROSS: Drying it out when you're in the middle of the jungle, was probably a good thing to do.
FAAS: No, it happened very often that you fell into a water hole or in the river and you couldn't operate anymore, your whole being there was useless. And at that time the troops would take a little break, you'd take your cameras apart and put it on a black piece of plastic and hope the sun comes up and drives your cameras out. If not, they go back in a plastic bag and you wait for the next stop in then spread them out again. So sometimes it took a day or two or three to get the stuff working again, and then you are back in operation.
GROSS: Well, I can imagine how you must have felt, though, when your camera wasn't operating and you're caught in combat and wondering - or at least I'd be wondering, what am I doing here?
FAAS: That's right.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You spent most of your time, saying that anyway.
FAAS: I could, of course, become a world reporter that goes for nights. When you're out in the military situation you can't take pictures at night because flashlights. So at night and in bad weather and in dark weather the cameras went into the fish tackling box, which was waterproof, and I would just use my mind and try to keep quotes there and write down little stories. And many times I came back without photos but with a good memory of a good tale, and I would sit down at the typewriter and write my story for the AP.
GROSS: Were you ever in a position where you had assigned a photographer to go someplace to take pictures, and they were killed on that particular job?
FAAS: Well, all the... No assignment was an assignment where people were ordered to go to places. We generally assessed the day-to-day situation and photographers would go out according to their preferences. The Vietnamese would rather go out with Vietnamese troops, we had other Vietnamese photographers who loved the American Marines. If they did so, then let them go up there. They were all - almost all equally good. There were no bad photographers around. There was nobody who were second category. There's no room for mediocre talent in situations like this.
GROSS: Did you ever try to talk a AP photographer out of going to a certain place?
FAAS: Oh yes. Many times. I mean, I myself spent about 50 percent of my working life in Vietnam and in the fields. That means I would go out for five days and then stay inside around four or five days and play the editor for the others, and then go out myself again and leave another photographer at the editing desk. We took turns so we all had our experiences there. I being a little bit on the senior side, already, in these days I was 30 and older, so older than many of the young colleagues, and I tried to warn people. I tried to instill to them that they shouldn't go with bad troops. They should rather pull back and take care of themselves and look out in situations became dicey, and never ever be foolishly risking chances.
GROSS: What are bad troops?
FAAS: Bad troops are troops that don't take care of themselves, Marines that don't dig in, patrols that don't put out points, companies that go through the jungle in single file without having flanks out. Troops that handle their weapons sloppishly(ph), artillery observers that don't check out the terrain properly and so on.
GROSS: Horst Faas, you were wounded in Vietnam. What was your wound and what impact did that have on your life, your work, your commitment to war photojournalism?
FAAS: Well, I was wounded in December 1967 by a big rocket fragment that tore through my legs. And thanks to an American medic who somehow pulled me back, and thanks to a tank driver who moved forward and loaded me and brought me back to some clearing, and thanks to a helicopter pilot who came in and picked me out, together with some other wounded; and thanks to surgeons who decided not to cut off my leg as they intended to do first. I was aware that I was on the way to recovery four, five days later. And the only decision I made at that time was not to go to Honolulu or New York or anywhere, but to stay in Vietnam. One reason being that I have total trust in military surgeons who were dealing with these problems, day in and day out. And secondly, I try to avoid having my legs broken again at the New York at office and being made a photo editor at headquarters, because that would've ended the great days of photography, huh?
GROSS: Combat photographer and editor Horst Faas, recorded in 1997. He died last Thursday at the age of 79.
Coming up, David Bianculli reviews the new American Masters documentary, Johnny Carson King of late night. It airs tonight on public TV. This is FRESH AIR.
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Kenney wins GOP nomination, faces Cryans for Executive Council seatBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 21. 2014 11:33PM
Former state legislator Joe Kenney won the Republican primary Tuesday night for the Executive Council District 1 race.
Although vote tallies were still trickling in from the sprawling district's 108 towns and four cities, fellow candidate Christopher Boothby conceded the race to Kenney with a congratulatory phone call just before 9 p.m.
"It's been a short election cycle but a lot of work," Kenney said from his home. "We worked right up until the end."
Kenney, Boothby and Mark Aldrich were running for the GOP nomination for a March special election. Eighteen-term councilor Raymond Burton died in November after a battle with cancer.
"It's a very hard district to campaign in the middle of the winter," Kenney said. "A lot of nights we were just flat-out tired from working so hard."
Kenney, 53, faces Democratic candidate and longtime Grafton County Commissioner Michael Cryans of Hanover.
The final election will be held on March 11.
Kenney served in the New Hampshire House for four terms from 1994 to 2002, and in the state Senate for three terms from 2002 to 2008. A colonel with 30 years in the Marine Corps, Kenney is an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran. He unsuccessfully challenged then-Gov. John Lynch in the 2008 election.
Boothby congratulated Kenney and said he planned to follow through with his pledge to endorse the winner of the Republican primary.
"I wish him the best of luck in the general election," Boothby said. "In a short campaign, you get to know your fellow candidates real quickly."
Boothby, 47, of Meredith is a former Belknap County commissioner who served as an intern for Burton while in graduate school at the University of New Hampshire.
Kenney said he also received a call from Aldrich, who offered his congratulations.
Aldrich, 64, of Lebanon was the only one of the three who hadn't held elected state office, although he is a veteran within Granite State political circles. He was state director for both U.S. Sens. Gordon Humphrey and Bob Smith for a combined 20 years.


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It's not just those robot things. Today, Google announced its Art Project to bring the world's great museums to a computer screen near you:
They're taking Street View inside the Tate, the Met, MoMA, the National Gallery and the Museo Reina Sofia and the Palace of Versailles and many more. You can get your cultural fix and never leave your bedroom, or Starbucks, or wherever you happen to be online.
Here's a video showing what it's like in the Virtual Tate:
Okay, though, it's not really like the real thing. You can't get the real experience online. You don't really sense the textures, see the true color (or lack thereof), get a true sense of proportion.
Maybe someday, you'll get the whole virtual immersive museum experience, right down to the "suggested donation," the long queues at the really famous works, the hygenically-challenged art students taking notes in spiral notebooks, the family with the kids that won't stop whining, the guy who won't stop yammering on his cell phone, and the hallway that abruptly ends in a fire exit and leaves you wondering where you are. Although even the most mundane parts of museum life sometimes get captured in the Google web:
Peek-a-boo, ma'am. You can't hide from the Googleverse.
Visit the Google Art Project by clicking here.
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