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Action brought on 7 March 2019 – European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(Case C-213/19)
Language of the case: English
Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, F. Clotuche-Duvieusart, Agents)
Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The applicant claims that the Court should:
declare that:
by failing to enter into the accounts the correct amounts of customs duties and to make available the correct amount of traditional own resources and VAT-based own resources in respect of certain imports of textiles and footwear from the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 2 and 8 of Council Decision 2014/3351 , Articles 2 and 8 of Council Decision 2007/4362 , Articles 2, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 13 of Council Regulation 609/20143 , Articles 2, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 17 of Council Regulation 1150/20004 , Article 2 of Council Regulation 1553/895 , as well as Article 105(3) of Council Regulation 952/20136 , and Article 220(1) of Council Regulation 2913/927 ;
as a consequence of its failure to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union, Articles 325 and 310(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Articles 3 and 46 of Regulation 952/2013, Article 13 of Council Regulation 2913/92, Article 248(1) of Commission Regulation 2454/938 , Article 244 of Commission Implementing Regulation 2015/24479 , and Articles 2(1)(b) and (d), 83, 85-87 and 143(1)(d) and (2) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC10 ;
The corresponding traditional own resources losses to be made available to the Union budget (minus collection costs) amount to:
EUR 496,025,324.30 in 2017 (until 11 October 2017 included);
EUR 646,809,443.80 in 2016;
EUR 535,290,329.16 in 2015;
EUR 480,098,912.45 in 2014;
EUR 325,230,822.55 in 2013;
EUR 173,404,943.81 in 2012;
EUR 22,777,312.79 in 2011.
by failing to provide full information required by the Commission services necessary for establishing the amount of TOR losses, and by not providing as requested the content of the legal assessment of HMRC's legal department or the motivation of the decision that led to the cancellation of the established customs debts, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union, and Articles 2(2) and (3)(d) of Council Regulation 608/201411 ; and
order the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
Pleas in law and main arguments
Despite repeated warnings about the risk of fraud by OLAF and the Commission, the United Kingdom failed to put in place risk-based approaches in customs control to prevent the release into free circulation of undervalued goods into the Union (specifically, footwear and textiles exported from the People's Republic of China) until 12 October 2017. As a result of that inaction in the face of repeated warnings, the United Kingdom failed to take the risk-based measures required under the Union's customs and own resources legislation. That failure to take appropriate action also affected the correct application of the Union's VAT rules. There have been exceptionally high losses to the Union budget caused by the United Kingdom's breach of Union law and the resulting levels of imports of undervalued goods to that Member State. Because the United Kingdom did not follow the Commission's recommendations, in contrast to other Member States, the United Kingdom attracted more undervalued trade. Those exceptionally high losses also affected drastically fair burden-sharing among Member States, as they had to be compensated by correspondingly higher GNI contributions by the other Member States to the Union.


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Diagnosing Cardio - Myopathy
Physical Exam
Your doctor will use a stethoscope to listen to your heart and lungs for sounds that may suggest cardiomyopathy. These sounds may even suggest a certain type of the disease.
For example, the loudness, timing, and location of a heart murmur may suggest obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A "crackling" sound in the lungs may be a sign of heart failure. (Heart failure often develops in the later stages of cardiomyopathy.)
Physical signs also help your doctor diagnose cardiomyopathy. Swelling of the ankles, feet, legs, abdomen, or veins in your neck suggests fluid buildup, a sign of heart failure.
Your doctor may notice signs and symptoms of cardiomyopathy during a routine exam. For example, he or she may hear a heart murmur, or you may have abnormal test results. Example Below...
Holter and Event Monitors
Holter and event monitors are small, portable devices. They record your heart's electrical activity while you do your normal daily activities. A Holter monitor records the heart's electrical activity for a full 24- or 48-hour period.
An event monitor records your heart's electrical activity only at certain times while you're wearing it. For many event monitors, you push a button to start the monitor when you feel symptoms. Other event monitors start automatically when they sense abnormal heart rhythms. Example Below...
Echocardiography (echo) is a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of your heart. The picture shows how well your heart is working and its size and shape.
There are several types of echo, including stress echo. This test is done as part of a stress test (see below). Stress echo can show whether you have decreased blood flow to your heart, a sign of coronary heart disease.
Another type of echo is transesophageal (tranz-ih-sof-uh-JEE-ul) echo, or TEE. TEE provides a view of the back of the heart.
For this test, a sound wave wand is put on the end of a special tube. The tube is gently passed down your throat and into your esophagus (the passage leading from your mouth to your stomach). Because this passage is right behind the heart, TEE can create detailed pictures of the heart's structures.
Before TEE, you're given medicine to help you relax, and your throat is sprayed with numbing medicine. Example Below...
Coronary Angiography
This procedure often is done with cardiac catheterization. During the procedure, dye that can be seen on an x ray is injected into your coronary arteries. The dye lets your doctor study blood flow through your heart and blood vessels.
Dye also may be injected into your heart chambers. This allows your doctor to study the pumping function of your heart. Example Below...
Genetic Testing
Some types of cardiomyopathy run in families. Thus, your doctor may suggest genetic testing to look for the disease in your parents, brothers and sisters, or other family members.
Genetic testing can show how the disease runs in families. It also can find out the chances of parents passing the genes for the disease on to their children.
Genetic testing also may be useful if your doctor thinks you have cardiomyopathy, but you don't yet have signs or symptoms. If the test shows you have the disease, your doctor can start treatment early, when it may work best. Example Below...
Specialists Involved
Often, a cardiologist or pediatric cardiologist diagnoses and treats cardiomyopathy. A cardiologist specializes in diagnosing and treating heart diseases. A pediatric cardiologist is a cardiologist who treats children.
Medical and Family Histories
Your doctor will want to learn about your medical history. He or she will want to know what signs and symptoms you have and how long you've had them.
Your doctor also will want to know whether anyone in your family has had cardiomyopathy, heart failure, or sudden cardiac arrest.
Diagnostic Tests
Your doctor may recommend one or more of the following tests to diagnose cardiomyopathy.
Blood Tests
During a blood test, a small amount of blood is taken from your body. It's often drawn from a vein in your arm using a needle. The procedure usually is quick and easy, although it may cause some short-term discomfort. Example Below...
EKG (Electrocardiogram)
An EKG is a simple test that records the heart's electrical activity. The test shows how fast the heart is beating and its rhythm (steady or irregular). An EKG also records the strength and timing of electrical signals as they pass through each part of the heart.
This test is used to detect and study many heart problems, such as heart attacks, arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), and heart failure. EKG results also can suggest other disorders that affect heart function.
A standard EKG only records the heartbeat for a few seconds. It won't detect problems that don't happen during the test.
To diagnose heart problems that come and go, your doctor may have you wear a portable EKG monitor. The two most common types of portable EKGs are Holter and event monitors. Example Below...
Stress Test
Some heart problems are easier to diagnose when your heart is working hard and beating fast. During stress testing, you exercise (or are given medicine if you're unable to exercise) to make your heart work hard and beat fast while heart tests are done.
These tests may include nuclear heart scanning, echo, and positron emission tomography (PET) scanning of the heart. Example Below...
Diagnostic Procedures
You may have one or more medical procedures to confirm a diagnosis or to prepare for surgery (if surgery is planned). These procedures may include cardiac catheterization (KATH-e-ter-i-ZA-shun), coronary angiography (an-jee-OG-ra-fee), or myocardial (mi-o-KAR-de-al) biopsy.
Cardiac Catheterization
This procedure checks the pressure and blood flow in your heart's chambers. The procedure also allows your doctor to collect blood samples and look at your heart's arteries using x-ray imaging.
During cardiac catheterization, a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter is put into a blood vessel in your arm, groin (upper thigh), or neck and threaded to your heart. This allows your doctor to study the inside of your arteries for blockages.
Myocardial Biopsy
For this procedure, your doctor removes a piece of your heart muscle. This can be done during cardiac catheterization. The heart muscle is studied under a microscope to see whether changes in cells have occurred. These changes may suggest cardiomyopathy. Myocardial biopsy is useful for diagnosing some types of cardiomyopathy. Example Below...


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So shall we share what we are all getting our loved ones for Christmas ( our miracle babies, they come first now don't they?)
Thought it would be nice to share?
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UMBC (8-6) advances to its second consecutive title game and will face top-seeded Albany, a 17-16 overtime winner over Stony Brook in the nightcap. The game will be played at 10:00 a.m. at Stony Brook's La Valle Stadium and air on ESPNU.
Gregoire, a senior, scored four goals and added three assists, while Maxwell, a freshman, recorded season-highs with four goals and six total points.
UMBC never trailed, but Binghamton shaved an 8-4 halftime deficit to 10-9 on a Mitchell Rick goal just 2:58 into the fourth quarter. But Poe, who won eight of nine fourth quarter draws, kept getting the ball back for the Retrievers. Gregoire, who was held off the board in the second and third quarters, finished a Nate Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) pass inside at the 4:17 mark to start a 4-0 Retriever run..
On UMBC's next possession, Gregoire made a great catch inside of a Jack Gannon (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Sachem North) and beat BU netminder Max Schefler to push the lead to 12-9 with 9:55 remaining.
Sophomore midfielder Pat Young (Ewing, N.J./Christchurch (Va.) School) scored a pair of goals in a 38-second span late in the quarter to help seal the victory.
""It was a good tough win for us today and I couldn't be more proud of our team," said head coach Don Zimmerman. "Getting out to a big lead certainly helped us, but give Binghamton credit, they are tough, well-coached and scrappy. In the fourth quarter, we needed to show more poise, and I am proud of…how we responded.in a clutch situation."
The Retrievers started brightly, opening up a 4-0 just 6:15 into the proceedings. Gregoire opened the scoring, taking advantage of a mismatch to dodge and score unassisted just 1:52 into the contest. Maxwell then scored his first of the game, converting an inside feed from Gregoire at the 3:01 mark. Binghamton was whistled for a foul after the play and Maxwell made the Bearcats pay, setting up Nate Lewnes on the doorstep to put UMBC ahead, 3-0, just 3:39 into the contest.
Senior midfielder Zach Linkous (Jarrettsville, Md./St. Paul's) scored UMBC's fourth goal at the 6:15 mark before Binghamton Michael Antinozzi scored on his side's first shot of the game 61 seconds later.
Gregoire and Maxwell ended the first 15 minutes with goals to give the Retrievers a 6-1 lead.
But Binghamton would outscore UMBC, 3-2, in the second quarter to cut their deficit to 8-4 at halftime.
Poe won 12 of 14 first half draws and collected eight ground balls as UMBC dominated time of possession in the first 30 minutes.
But the Bearcats outscored UMBC, 4-2, in the third quarter to close the gap to 10-8 after 45 minutes.
Young also tallied three goals for UMBC and Lewnes added two goals and one assist.
Antinozzi led the Bearcats with four goals.
UMBC outshot BU, 50-20, amassing its most shots in a game this season. The Retrievers also dominated the ground ball statistics, 41-13, including 16 ground balls for Poe.
"The best defense is offense and when Phil Poe is wins 24 face-offs, that's playing great defense for us,: Zimmerman said. "Matt Gregoire would not be denied today and stepped up and scored some huge goals for us."
Notes: Gregoire has 45 goals on the season, the second-most for any UMBC Division I men's lacrosse player… Jason Smith holds the record with 47 scores in 1992… Poe now has 339 ground balls for his career and is now in second place in that category… He also has 209 face-off wins, nine shy of his own school record, set a year ago… Gordon has set a UMBC freshman record for saves with 163… UMBC is now 5-0 versus Binghamton in America East Tournament games


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Tamatar Ki chutney is an Indian tomato chutney flavored with fresh curry leaves, mustard seeds and garlic. It's usually served with basmati rice or roti (an Indian wheat-basde flat bread). I love this chutney so much and we make it so often that I usually use the leftover chutney as the base for the tomato sauce in my pasta. I recently used that sauce for my vegetarian lasagna.
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New Xbox with Siri-like speech recognition?
Microsoft is rumoured to have greatly improved its speech recognition technology inside the next Xbox.
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And so to shoemaking. We have seen recently the rise of the fiddle waist in high end men's shoes, and of course we are not immune to it. Our recent Mayfair Collection features them, and rather beautiful they are too
But I have been wondering about the origin and purpose of them. The internet did not throw up very much useful information (maybe the old fiddle is too arcane), so I went to visit my old friends at John Lobb to see what they had to say on the subject.
There were a few disagreements about the finer points, but this is what I learned.
The essential elements seem to be a pulled in waist and the Y shaped ridge up the middle (some thought this was not essential, but the consensus was that it was).
Most seemed to think that the origin was on women's shoes with high heels where the waist becomes very important for the integrity of the shoe.
Most also thought that it was basically a decorative addition without much structural significance, but that the Y shaped ridge adds strength to the waist, because the higher the heel and the more pulled in it is, the more strength you need to support the weight of the wearer.
Most also thought that they were not generally used in men's shoes. However, if the main use is aesthetics, then they are permitted in any shoes, men's included.
One person said they thought they were used in equestrian boots and cowboy boots, but was not entirely sure.
Any feedback about this would be greatly appreciated.
As for the name, it is because the waist looks like a violin (fiddle), but, frankly, I don't see it. Ho hum.
And here's how you do it.
Start with a welted shoe with a shank and cork filler. Welt trimmed and ready to prepare the sole. You can do this with a square waist or a bevelled waist in this case.
I like to draw the line of the Y shaped ridge.
Usually you would make the fiddle with leather for strength and durability, but as these are sample shoes and will never be worn in anger, I did it with cork.
Cut out a piece of cork to cover the whole area and glue both surfaces (contact adhesive or rubber solution).
Let it dry and glue it in place.
Skive the edges down with your knife. I forgot to say that the cork/leather should extend back behind the heel mark so that the finished ridge disappears in to the heel.
Make another piece of cork but narrower this time to start building up the ridge. Glue both surfaces and let them dry.
Glue it in place.
Again, skive the edges to build up the ridge.
Repeat the process with a third piece of cork, but narrower again.
This is my final piece, but for a bigger, bolder ridge add a fourth piece of cork.
Start to rasp the cork into shape. If you use leather, use your knife to shape the ridge.
You should be aiming for a sharp pointed ridge all the way along which splits to form the Y shape.
At the joint, there will be a big raised platform of cork. You have to blend this into the fiddle waist with your knife.
Then rasp it into shape.
And then the fun bit starts. You have to make the other one and they have to look the same! I do each process on both shoes at the same time s that I can match each stage to make a pair.
This is how I would normally prepare my sole on a normal shoe.
But on a fiddle waist, you want the Y shape to be accentuated, so I always skive away right across the waist area like this. This thins the sole and when you glue it on, it is easier to get a nice ridge.
Once the sole is glued into place with rubber solution, you have to use your hammer to shape the waist. Gently tap the leather along the contours of the Y shaped ridge. Be gentle, tap it rather than bash it. This really helps define the shape because the leather is still mellow (a little wet) and is easy to shape with the hammer.
The results can be lovely. I like the fiddle waist a lot.
And that, as they say, is that. For this week at least. We wish you all a good week, especially our US friends who have a big holiday right now.
Until next week, happy shoemaking!


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Asheville, NC - They Might Be Giants at The Orange Peel on Sept. 28th;
Atlanta, GA - Adam Corolla at the Tabernacle on Sept. 30th;
Baton Rouge, LA - Brian Posehn at the Manship Theater on Sept. 26th and 27th;
Bloomington, IL - The Comedy Attic will feature Jackie Kashian and Maria Bamford on Sept. 22nd, 23rd and 24th and Doug Benson (taping an episode of Doug Loves Movies) on Sept. 26th;
Boston, MA - The Wilbur Theater will host Bill Burr on Sept. 23rd and 24th and Louis CK on Oct. 1st; Das Racist will be at the Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub on the 28th;
Canton, MA - The Hold Steady will appear at the Life Is Good Festival on Sept. 24th;
Chicago, IL - They Might Be Giants with Jonathan Coulton at The Vic Theater on Sept. 23rd;
Colorado Springs, CO - Doug Benson at The Black Sheep on Sept. 21st;
Des Moines, IA - Demitri Martin will appear at Hoyt Sherman Place on Sept. 23rd;
Detroit, MI - Chris Tucker will perform at the Fox Theater Detroit on October 1st;
Indianapolis, IN - They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton at The Vogue on the 22nd; Doug Benson at Crackers on Sept. 25th; Chris Tucker at the Murat Theater at Old National Center on Sept. 30th;
Louisville, KY - The Improv will host Marc Maron on Sept. 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th and Doug Benson on October 1st; Bob Edwards will be appearing to promote his new book, "A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio", at the Filson Historical Society on the 22nd;
Madison, WI - Dave Atell will at the Comedy Club on State on Sept. 23rd and 24th;
Miami Beach, FL - Chris Tucker will be at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater on Sept. 24th;
Nashville, TN - They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton at the Cannery Ballroom on Sept. 27th;
New Haven, CT - Das Racist will play at Toad's Place on Sept. 29th;
New Orleans, LA - Chris Tucker at the UNO Lakefront Arena on Sept. 23rd;
New York, NY: Colson Whitehead will be doing a book signing at McNally Jackson Books as part of the New Yorker Festival on October 2nd; He'll also be participating in a panel discussion about Alternative Realities at SVA Theatre on Sept. 30th;
Omaha, NE - Demitri Marin will be at the Omaha Music Hall on Sept. 24th;
Ottawa, ON - Greg Proops will be performing "Whose Live Anyway?" at the Centrepointe Theater in Ottawa, ON on Sept. 23rd;
Philadelphia, PA - The Hold Steady at the Popped Music Festival on Sept. 23rd; They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton at the Theater of the Living Arts on Sept. 30th.
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For years, cancer treatment-related infertility was an unfortunate and unpreventable consequence of the disease. Today, as a result of research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University, Massachusetts General Hospital and Battelle, many women may be able to beat cancer and still maintain fertility.
The research is published in the current online edition of the journal Fertility & Sterility and will appear in a future printed edition. Jonathan L. Tilly, Ph.D., director of the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital led the overall research project.
Mary Zelinski, Ph.D., at OHSU's Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) directed a portion of the research that is focused on protecting the ovaries during radiation treatments – a common therapy aimed at killing cancer cells. The research involved infusing the ovaries with a medication approved in 2010 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of multiple sclerosis – a compound called FTY720. In addition to significantly delaying the progression of MS, it was theorized that FTY720 had the ability shield ovarian tissue from damage caused by radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
In this study, a group of rhesus macaque monkeys from the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center received an infusion of the FTY720 directly into the ovaries. One week later, the animals received a dosage of radiation to the ovaries similar to radiation levels given to human cancer patients that results in permanent sterility. A special device designed by Battelle allowed only the ovaries to receive the radiation therapy dose while protecting the rest of the animal. Later, the treated monkeys were placed with mates, and the radiation-treated animals were able to conceive and deliver normal infants. Surprisingly, the FTY720 had prevented against radiation damage to the ovaries.
"While there are additional studies to be conducted, there is a strong likelihood that this intervention could protect human fertility because reproductive systems of nonhuman primate (monkeys) and human primate systems are so similar," said Zelinski, an associate scientist in the Division of Reproductive Science at ONPRC. "We also want to be sure that the medication is delivered in a way that protects only the ovaries but does not protect the cancer cells which are being targeted by the therapy.
The researches believe, based on prior studies in mice, it is also likely that this compound, or a similar medication, could shield some of the damage caused by chemotherapy drugs, which also harm the ovaries. This will have to be looked at in future studies.
The National Institutes of Health, Canada Research Chair Program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Vincent Memorial Research Funds funded this research.
About ONPRC
The ONPRC is a registered research institution, inspected regularly by the United States Department of Agriculture. It operates in compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and has an assurance of regulatory compliance on file with the National Institutes of Health. The ONPRC also participates in the voluntary accreditation program overseen by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC).
About Battelle
Battelle is the world's largest, independent research and development organization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle oversees 22,000 employees in more than 130 locations worldwide, including seven national laboratories which Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy including the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a nuclear energy lab in the United Kingdom.


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He has buck teeth and is always asking a particular question. Do you know this cartoon character?
Bugs Bunny was created in the 1930s. "What's up, Doc?" is the catchphrase with which he is most associated. He has been around for nearly 100 years, and his movies haven't stopped. Whenever you think of Looney Toons, you probably picture Bugs immediately.


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A few decades ago when faster and more compact microwaves were all the rage, a local service organization held a raffle for a beautiful new microwave. Every year the same sparkling microwave was dragged out of its box and put on display, but after year after year of seeing the same machine that no one ever won, it became a local joke.
The same could be said of President Obama's State of the Union Address. This year he asked for more money to rebuild 70 failing bridges, but we've heard that line before — trillions of dollars ago, in fact, beginning with his first stimulus request.
At some point in time those 70 structurally deficient bridges ought to be fixed, just like some lucky person ought to finally be declared the winner of that microwave.
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People don't just want Victoria Beckham's hair, waistline, and husband. Apparently, they covet her particular brand of peanut smuggling.
London's Harley Medical Group reports a 30-percent upswing in surgical nipple procedures since last year, says the Daily Mail. Ladies unhappy with their headlights will usually bring in photos of celebrities, ah, showing -- and more often than not, the photos are of one Posh Spice. (Grazia Daily suggests Jennifer Aniston and Heather Graham also sport enviably pert pairs.)
In one of the best quotes we've read this month, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Riccardo Frati told the Mail that "Until now celebrities didn't expose their nipples so they were no 'nipple role models'."
The surgery costs in the vicinity of $3300, the mail notes, and can apparently alter shape, size and color. Naturally, this surgery is readily available in L.A. -- but we wonder whether Hamptons-going dames will hop on the nipwagon.


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(10/P59) TRENTON -Some of the DEP's greenest places - its state parks - will become even greener when it comes to energy efficiency, Commissioner Bob Martin announced today.
A host of long-term, energy saving improvements that were identified in an audit of select high energy use buildings in 14 state parks will be implemented beginning this year, with a potential savings of hundreds of thousands of tax dollars annually, a cut in fuel use and reduction in polluting emissions.
"Our state parks are showcases of New Jersey's natural beauty and historical significance," Commissioner Martin said. "This further greening of our parks is an important step toward ensuring that they also are models of energy efficiency in the future. We aim to set an example for the entire state."
The audit recommends such measures as replacing inefficient windows and heating and cooling systems; upgrading thermostats; installing renewable energy power sources and solar photovoltaic systems; and retrofitting lighting.
These energy-saving improvements should lower the park system's energy bill by $257,000 each year. Also, they should greatly lower energy consumption, including a reduction of 661,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 83,000 gallons of fuel oil annually, while reducing CO2 emissions by 367 metric tons each year.
DEP has allocated $2 million to implement these recommendations, with construction planned to begin later this year. The long-term savings will far exceed construction costs, while improving the environment.
In a separate project, an already planned energy system upgrade at the Pequest and Hackettstown Fish Hatcheries in Warren County is expected to save more than $300,000 a year in energy costs.
"One of my priorities is to ensure that New Jersey's state parks remain open and accessible to our residents," said Commissioner Martin. "Energy efficiency is one way to achieve operational cost savings while providing an environmental benefit."
The energy audit specifically targeted energy consumption of park structures, including offices, maintenance facilities and interpretive buildings. It is the latest in a series of steps by the DEP to improve energy conservation at State Park Service facilities, which have faced utility price increases of about 20 percent in recent years.
Adhering to green design principles is a Department priority to create energy-efficient facilities and buildings, whether new or existing. Any new facilities, such as cabins, will be designed to use recycled water for toilets and solar panels will be installed for hot water.
Monmouth Battlefield State Park was one of the first to receive a geothermal heating and air-conditioning system, and other sites have followed suit, including historic Rockingham in Kingston and the Batsto Mansion and Visitors Center in Wharton State Forest.
Also, the Batsto Visitors Center was renovated using the Green Building Council's LEEDs principles, featuring the use of recycled materials in the construction of the expanded space; energy-saving controlled lighting; and reduced water consumption, energy efficient appliances.
At Island Beach State Park, restrooms at the southern end of the park are completely self-sustaining through the combined power of a windmill and solar energy, and solar panels are used at the main swimming pavilion to heat the water for the showers and sinks.
Energy conservation measures also are moving forward at the Pequest and Hackettstown Fish Hatcheries. A recent energy audit there recommended upgrades to heating, cooling and power systems, plus lighting and insulation improvements, which could save 745,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 16,000 gallons fuel oil each year.
State parks and forests included in the recent energy audit are Allaire State Park, Belleplain State Forest, Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Cheesequake State Park,
Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park, Fort Mott State Park, High Point State Park,
Island Beach State Park, Parvin State Park, Liberty State Park, Ringwood State Park, Washington Crossing State Park, Wharton State Forest and Worthington State Forest.
Future audits will be conducted on additional state parks and forests as the first phase of improvements are implemented.
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If we look at the world, we are all sharing it as the whole, the one, and, at present, there is no other.
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Digital era confounds the courts
The Founding Fathers weren't big on texting.
Courts have long struggled to deal with key questions at the intersection of individual privacy and ever-advancing technology with little guidance from the Constitution or from prior cases – now judges and experts are hoping that's about to change.
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The sense of urgency from the bench was shown recently when the First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear a key privacy case and Chief Judge Sandra Lynch took the unusual step of issuing a statement calling on the Supreme Court to get involved: "Only the Supreme Court can finally resolve these issues, and I hope it will."
( PHOTOS: Who's who on the Supreme Court)
Starting next week, the nation's top court is set to consider whether to take up three key related cases, including the one Lynch encouraged them to take. Here are the big tech issues that could finally get decided:
Cigarette anyone?
Is searching a cellphone like looking in a pack of smokes? That's the question that some courts are facing, relying on a 40-year-old case for precedent that experts say has been overtaken by modern technology.
Lower courts have been split on the authority of police to search your technology. Currently, court rulings have required warrants to search a cellphone in six states, while they are not required in 20 other states, according to a map put together by Forbes and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
One of the reasons the courts are divided, experts say, is that an important case on the subject was decided in 1973 and involved drugs found in a pack of cigarettes.
( Also on POLITICO: Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on contraceptive mandate)
"The question becomes, when the Supreme Court was talking about searching a container, it was talking about a cigarette pack. With the amount of information a cellphone can store, is that different from a cigarette pack?" said Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
And the questions only get tougher from there.
"Let's say," Fakhoury continued, "that the court says police can search the cellphone incident to an arrest: How far does that extend? …Massachusetts says it extends to a call log. Well what about an app? What if you have Dropbox? Does it extend to stuff stored only on the phone? Does it extend to the cloud?"
One of the cases the Supreme Court will decide soon whether to hear, U.S. v. Cotterman, deals with the border search of a man with a prior sex offense in which child pornography was found on his laptop. While officers are allowed to search individuals and their belongings at the border without a warrant, the suspect challenged whether that extends to files on devices they carry with them.
( Also on POLITICO: SCOTUS to weigh presidential visit protests)
"The present case illustrates this unique aspect of electronic data. … It is as if a search of a person's suitcase could reveal not only what the bag contained on the current trip, but everything it had ever carried," wrote 9th Circuit Justice M. Margaret McKeown , who authored the opinion in Cotterman. "With the ubiquity of cloud computing, the government's reach into private data becomes even more problematic."
On Dec. 6, the Supreme Court will also announce whether to grant a case, Wurie v. U.S.. involving police searching a suspect's call logs after an arrest, while another case that could come before the top court, Riley v. California, concerns a suspect's pictures and videos. The court could hear those two cases together.
What's your password?
In the age of encryption and passwords, law enforcement officials can obtain a warrant for a hard drive, but they may not be able to access the material on it. So can police compel someone to provide a password or to unlock an account or decrypt a file?
Courts have in some cases ruled that individuals can refuse to provide a password under their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves. In 2012, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said that a suspect could essentially plead the Fifth to avoid providing a password to police, because providing the password would be the same as testifying that the material on the hard drives belonged to him.
( Also on POLITICO: Justices turn down surveillance case)
In some cases, however, police get around that issue by showing they can prove in other ways that the individual had control and possession over the device in question, and in 2009 a U.S. district judge in Vermont ordered a suspect provide his password to decrypt files for police, which he eventually did, leading to his conviction on child porn charges.
The topic is currently before the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In that case, a lawyer was charged with mortgage fraud and police confiscated computer and devices from his home, but couldn't get into them because of his encryption. The government alleges there is evidence of his crime on the computers, but the defense argues there is no proof as to what the computers were used for, only that the lawyer had bought them.
Fakhoury said resolution of the issue is becoming even more important as device-locking technologies advance.
"We're getting new permutations of this issue because the iPhone came out, what, two months ago, and everyone's using fingerprints to lock their phone," he said. "The new technology is going to be unlocking the phone with your eyes, or who knows what. And again the courts are moving slow on this."


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Could PTSD be cured by sleep-based therapies?
October 19, 2012
Traumatic memories can be manipulated in sleeping mice to reduce their fearful responses during waking hours. The finding, announced by Stanford University researchers at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, suggests that sleep-based therapies could provide new options for treating conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Nature News Blog reports.
Currently, one of the most common treatments for PTSD requires the patient to recall the original trauma — an explosion, for example — in a psychiatrist's office. With repeated "safe" exposures to the memory, patients may learn new associations that reduce the power of loud noises and other cues to trigger flashbacks.
Some patients are daunted by the task of intentionally recalling their traumatic memories. And many patients who undergo the therapy eventually relapse, says lead author Asya Rolls, perhaps because the technique becomes strongly associated with the psychiatrist's office and does not generalize well to the outside world.
As an alternative to this approach, Rolls and her colleagues looked to emerging research that suggests sleep may be a unique new setting in which to manipulate memories.
In the study, they trained mice to fear the smell of jasmine by repeatedly pairing puffs of the chemical amyl acetate with weak electric shocks delivered to the mice's feet. After 24 hours, the mice would freeze — a classic fear response — upon smelling the chemical alone.
Some mice received conventional exposure therapy, experiencing repeated odor puffs without ensuing electric shocks. These mice overcame their fear responses a day later, but relapsed when placed in a new cage — one not associated with the therapy.
In other mice, Rolls administered a drug to block protein production in the basolateral amygdala — a brain area associated with storage of fearful memories — just before the animals went to sleep. The researchers then exposed the sleeping mice to repeated odor puffs alone. Upon waking, these animals showed reduced fear responses to amyl acetate that carried over even into new environments.
Rolls points out that the protein synthesis drug would not be safe for use in humans, but that existing anti-anxiety medications could potentially have similar effects when paired with sleep-based exposure therapy. Future tests will be needed to uncover the cellular mechanisms of the treatment, but Rolls calls the work a successful proof of concept.
"The idea that you can actually erase memories during sleep, that you can manipulate them," says Rolls. "It's exciting."


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One of Buckminster Fuller's earliest inventions was a car shaped like a blimp. The car had three wheels—two up front, one in the back—and a periscope instead of a rear window. Owing to its unusual design, it could be maneuvered into a parking space nose first and could execute a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn so tightly that it would end up practically where it had started, facing the opposite direction. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the car was introduced in the summer of 1933, it caused such a sensation that gridlock followed, and anxious drivers implored Fuller to keep it off the streets at rush hour.
Fuller called his invention the Dymaxion Vehicle. He believed that it would not just revolutionize automaking but help bring about a wholesale reordering of modern life. Soon, Fuller thought, people would be living in standardized, prefabricated dwellings, and this, in turn, would allow them to occupy regions previously considered uninhabitable—the Arctic, the Sahara, the tops of mountains. The Dymaxion Vehicle would carry them to their new homes; it would be capable of travelling on the roughest roads and—once the technology for the requisite engines had been worked out—it would also (somehow) be able to fly. Fuller envisioned the Dymaxion taking off almost vertically, like a duck.
Fuller's schemes often had the hallucinatory quality associated with science fiction (or mental hospitals). It concerned him not in the least that things had always been done a certain way in the past. In addition to flying cars, he imagined mass-produced bathrooms that could be installed like refrigerators; underwater settlements that would be restocked by submarine; and floating communities that, along with all their inhabitants, would hover among the clouds. Most famously, he dreamed up the geodesic dome. "If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top . . . that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver," Fuller once wrote. "But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings." Fuller may have spent his life inventing things, but he claimed that he was not particularly interested in inventions. He called himself a "comprehensive, anticipatory design scientist"—a "comprehensivist," for short—and believed that his task was to innovate in such a way as to benefit the greatest number of people using the least amount of resources. "My objective was humanity's comprehensive success in the universe" is how he once put it. "I could have ended up with a pair of flying slippers."
Fuller's career is the subject of a new exhibition, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," which opens later this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition traces the long, loopy arc of his career from early doodlings to plans he drew up shortly before his death, twenty-five years ago this summer. It will feature studies for several of his geodesic domes and the only surviving Dymaxion Vehicle. By staging the retrospective, the Whitney raises—or, really, one should say, re-raises—the question of Fuller's relevance. Was he an important cultural figure because he produced inventions of practical value or because he didn't?
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Jr.—Bucky, to his friends—was born on July 12, 1895, into one of New England's most venerable and, at the same time, most freethinking families. His great-great-grandfather, the Reverend Timothy Fuller, a Massachusetts delegate to the Federal Constitutional Assembly, was so outraged by the Constitution's sanctioning of slavery that he came out against ratification. His great-aunt Margaret Fuller, a friend of Emerson and Thoreau, edited the transcendentalist journal The Dial and later became America's first female foreign correspondent.
Growing up in Milton, Massachusetts, Bucky was a boisterous but hopelessly nearsighted child; until he was fitted with glasses, he refused to believe that the world was not blurry. Like all Fuller men, he was sent off to Harvard. Halfway through his freshman year, he withdrew his tuition money from the bank to entertain some chorus girls in Manhattan. He was expelled. The following fall, he was reinstated, only to be thrown out again. Fuller never did graduate from Harvard, or any other school. He took a job with a meatpacking firm, then joined the Navy, where he invented a winchlike device for rescuing pilots of the service's primitive airplanes. (The pilots often ended up head down, under water.)
During the First World War, Fuller married Anne Hewlett, the daughter of a prominent architect, and when the war was over he started a business with his father-in-law, manufacturing bricks out of wood shavings. Despite the general prosperity of the period, the company struggled and, in 1927, nearly bankrupt, it was bought out. At just about the same time, Anne gave birth to a daughter. With no job and a new baby to support, Fuller became depressed. One day, he was walking by Lake Michigan, thinking about, in his words, "Buckminster Fuller—life or death," when he found himself suspended several feet above the ground, surrounded by sparkling light. Time seemed to stand still, and a voice spoke to him. "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself," it said. "You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe." (In Fuller's idiosyncratic English, "universe"—capitalized—is never preceded by the definite article.) It was at this point, according to Fuller, that he decided to embark on his "lifelong experiment." The experiment's aim was nothing less than determining "what, if anything," an individual could do "on behalf of all humanity." For this study, Fuller would serve both as the researcher and as the object of inquiry. (He referred to himself as Guinea Pig B, the "B" apparently being for Bucky.) Fuller moved his wife and daughter into a tiny studio in a Chicago slum and, instead of finding a job, took to spending his days in the library, reading Gandhi and Leonardo. He began to record his own ideas, which soon filled two thousand pages. In 1928, he edited the manuscript down to fifty pages, and had it published in a booklet called "4D Time Lock," which he sent out to, among others, Vincent Astor, Bertrand Russell, and Henry Ford.
Like most of Fuller's writings, "4D Time Lock" is nearly impossible to read; its sentences, Slinky-like, stretch on and on and on. (One of his biographers observed of "4D Time Lock" that "worse prose is barely conceivable.") At its heart is a critique of the construction industry. Imagine, Fuller says, what would happen if a person, seeking to purchase an automobile, had to hire a designer, then send the plans out for bid, then show them to the bank, and then have them approved by the town council, all before work on the vehicle could begin. "Few would have the temerity to go through with it," he notes, and those who did would have to pay something like fifty thousand dollars—half a million in today's money—per car. Such a system, so obviously absurd for autos, persisted for houses, Fuller argued, because of retrograde thinking. (His own failure at peddling wood-composite bricks he cited as evidence of the construction industry's recalcitrance.) What was needed was a "New Era Home," which would be "erectable in one day, complete in every detail," and, on top of that, "drudgery-proof," with "every living appliance known to mankind, built-in."
Not coincidentally, Fuller was working to design just such a home. One plan, which never made it beyond the sketching stage, called for ultra-lightweight towers to be assembled at a central location, then transported to any spot in the world, via zeppelin. (Fuller envisioned the zeppelin crew excavating the site by dropping a small bomb.) A second, only slightly less fabulous proposal was for what Fuller came to call the Dymaxion House. The hexagonal-shaped, single-family home was to be stamped out of metal and suspended from a central mast that would contain all its wiring and plumbing. When a family moved, the Dymaxion House could be disassembled and taken along, like a bed or a table. Fuller constructed a scale model of the house, which was exhibited in 1929 at Marshall Field's as part of a display of modern furniture. But no full-size version could be produced, because many of the components, including what Fuller called a "radio-television receiver," did not yet exist. Fuller estimated that it would take a billion dollars to develop the necessary technologies. Not surprisingly, the money wasn't forthcoming.
Fuller was fond of neologisms. He coined the word "livingry," as the opposite of "weaponry"—which he called "killingry"—and popularized the term "spaceship earth." (He claimed to have invented "debunk," but probably did not.) Another one of his coinages was "ephemeralization," which meant, roughly speaking, "dematerialization." Fuller was a strong believer in the notion that "less is more," and not just in the aestheticized, Miesian sense of the phrase. He imagined that buildings would eventually be "ephemeralized" to such an extent that construction materials would be dispensed with altogether, and builders would instead rely on "electrical field and other utterly invisible environment controls."
Fuller's favorite neologism, "dymaxion," was concocted purely for public relations. When Marshall Field's displayed his model house, it wanted a catchy label, so it hired a consultant, who fashioned "dymaxion" out of bits of "dynamic," "maximum," and "ion." Fuller was so taken with the word, which had no known meaning, that he adopted it as a sort of brand name. The Dymaxion House led to the Dymaxion Vehicle, which led, in turn, to the Dymaxion Bathroom and the Dymaxion Deployment Unit, essentially a grain bin with windows. As a child, Fuller had assembled scrapbooks of letters and newspaper articles on subjects that interested him; when, later, he decided to keep a more systematic record of his life, including everything from his correspondence to his dry-cleaning bills, it became the Dymaxion Chronofile.
All the Dymaxion projects generated a great deal of hype, and that was clearly Fuller's desire. All of them also flopped. The first prototype of the Dymaxion Vehicle had been on the road for just three months when it crashed, near the entrance to the Chicago World's Fair; the driver was killed, and one of the passengers—a British aviation expert—was seriously injured. Eventually, it was revealed that another car was responsible for the accident, but only two more Dymaxion Vehicles were produced before production was halted, in 1934. Only thirteen models of the Dymaxion Bathroom—a single unit that came with a built-in tub, toilet, and sink—were constructed before the manufacturer pulled the plug on that project, in 1936. The Dymaxion Deployment Unit, which Fuller imagined being used as a mobile shelter, failed because after the United States entered the Second World War he could no longer obtain any steel. In 1945, Fuller attempted to mass-produce the Dymaxion House, entering into a joint effort with Beech Aircraft, which was based in Wichita. Two examples of the house were built before that project, too, collapsed. (The only surviving prototype, known as the Wichita House, looks like a cross between an onion dome and a flying saucer; it is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, Michigan.)
Following this string of disappointments, Fuller might have decided that his "experiment" had run its course. Instead, he kept right on going. Turning his attention to mathematics, he concluded that the Cartesian coördinate system had got things all wrong and invented his own system, which he called Synergetic Geometry. Synergetic Geometry was based on sixty-degree (rather than ninety-degree) angles, took the tetrahedron to be the basic building block of the universe, and avoided the use of pi, a number that Fuller found deeply distasteful. By 1948, Fuller's geometric investigations had led him to the idea of the geodesic dome—essentially, a series of struts that could support a covering skin. That summer, he was invited to teach at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where some of the other instructors included Josef Albers, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. ("I remember thinking it's Bucky Fuller and his magic show," Cunningham would later recall of Fuller's arrival.) Toward the end of his stay, Fuller and a team of students assembled a trial dome out of Venetian-blind slats. Immediately upon being completed, the dome sagged and fell in on itself. (Some of the observers referred to it as a "flopahedron.") Fuller insisted that this outcome had been intentional—he was, he said, trying to determine the critical point at which the dome would collapse—but no one seems to have believed this. The following year, Anne Fuller sold thirty thousand dollars' worth of I.B.M. stock to finance Bucky's continuing research, and in 1950 he succeeded in erecting a dome fifty feet in diameter.
The geodesic dome is a prime example of "ephemeralization"; it can enclose more space with less material than virtually any other structure. The first commercial use of Fuller's design came in 1953, when the Ford Motor Company decided to cover the central courtyard of its Rotunda building, in Dearborn. The walls of the building, which had been erected for a temporary exhibit, were not strong enough to support a conventional dome. Fuller designed a geodesic dome of aluminum struts fitted with fibreglass panes. The structure spanned ninety-three feet, yet weighed just eight and a half tons. It received a tremendous amount of press, almost all of it positive, with the result that geodesic domes soon became popular for all sorts of purposes. They seemed to spring up "like toadstools after a rain," as one commentator put it.
The geodesic dome transformed Fuller from an eccentric outsider into an eccentric insider. He was hired by the Pentagon to design protective housing for radar equipment along the Distant Early Warning, or DEW, line; the structure became known as a radome. He also developed a system for erecting temporary domes at trade fairs all around the world. (Nikita Khrushchev supposedly became so enamored of one such dome, built for a fair in Moscow, that he insisted that "Buckingham Fuller" come to Russia "and teach our engineers.") Fuller was offered an appointment at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, and he had a dome-home built near campus for himself and Anne. In 1965, he was commissioned by the United States Information Agency to design the U.S. Pavilion for the Montreal Expo. Though the exhibit inside was criticized as uninspiring, Fuller's dome, which looked as if it were about to float free of the earth, was a hit.
As the fame of the dome—and domes themselves—spread, Fuller was in near-constant demand as a speaker. "I travel between Southern and Northern hemispheres and around the world so frequently that I no longer have any so-called normal winter and summer, nor normal night and day," he wrote in "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth." "I wear three watches to tell me what time it is." Castro-like, Fuller could lecture for ten hours at a stretch. (A friend of mine who took an architecture course from Fuller at Yale recalls that classes lasted from nine o'clock in the morning until five in the evening, and that Fuller talked basically the entire time.) Audiences were enraptured and also, it seems, mystified. "It was great! What did he say?" became the standard joke. The first "Whole Earth Catalog," which was dedicated to Fuller, noted that his language "makes demands on your head like suddenly discovering an extra engine in your car."
In "Bucky," a biography-cum-meditation, published in 1973, the critic Hugh Kenner observed, "One of the ways I could arrange this book would make Fuller's talk seem systematic. I could also make it look like a string of platitudes, or like a set of notions never entertained before, or like a delirium." On the one hand, Fuller insisted that all the world's problems—from hunger and illiteracy to war—could be solved by technology. "You may . . . want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-accelerating dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas," he observed at one point. "I answer, it will be resolved by the computer." On the other hand, he rejected fundamental tenets of modern science, most notably evolution. "We arrived from elsewhere in Universe as complete human beings," he maintained. He further insisted that humans had spread not from Africa but from Polynesia, and that dolphins were descended from these early, seafaring earthlings.
Although he looked to nature as the exemplar of efficient design, he was not terribly interested in the natural world, and mocked those who warned about problems like resource depletion and overpopulation. "When world realization of its unlimited wealth has been established there as yet will be room for the whole of humanity to stand indoors in greater New York City, with more room for each human than at an average cocktail party," he wrote. He envisioned cutting people off from the elements entirely by building domed cities, which, he claimed, would offer free climate control, winter and summer. "A two-mile-diameter dome has been calculated to cover Mid-Manhattan Island, spanning west to east at 42nd Street," he observed. "The cost saving in ten years would pay for the dome. Domed cities are going to be essential to the occupation of the Arctic and the Antarctic." As an alternative, he developed a plan for a tetrahedral city, which was intended to house a million people and float in Tokyo Bay.
He also envisioned what he called Cloud Nines, communities that would dwell in extremely lightweight spheres, covered in a polyethylene skin. As the sun warmed the air inside, Fuller claimed, the sphere and all the buildings within it would rise into the air, like a balloon. "Many thousands of passengers could be housed aboard one-mile-diameter and larger cloud structures," he wrote. In the late seventies, Fuller took up with Werner Erhard, the controversial founder of the equally controversial est movement, and the pair set off on a speaking tour across America. Fuller championed, and for many years adhered to, a dietary regimen that consisted exclusively of prunes, tea, steak, and Jell-O.
The Dymaxion Vehicle, the Dymaxion House, "comprehensive, anticipatory design," Synergetic Geometry, floating cities, Jell-O—what does it all add up to? In conjunction with the Whitney retrospective, the exhibition's two curators, K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller, have put together a book of essays, articles, and photographs—"Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe." Several of the authors in the volume gamely, if inconclusively, grapple with Fuller's legacy. Antoine Picon, a professor of architecture at Harvard, notes that the detail with which Fuller's life was recorded—the Dymaxion Chronofile eventually grew to more than two hundred thousand pages—has had the paradoxical effect of obscuring its significance. Elizabeth A. T. Smith, the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, writes that Fuller's influence on "creative practice" has been "more wide-ranging than previously thought," but goes on to acknowledge that this influence is "difficult to pinpoint or define with certainty." In their introduction, Hays and Miller maintain that Fuller helped "us see the perils and possibilities" of the twentieth century. They stress his "continuing relevance as an aid to history," though exactly what they mean by this seems purposefully unclear.
The fact that so few of Fuller's ideas were ever realized certainly makes it hard to argue for his importance as an inventor. Even his most successful creation, the geodesic dome, proved to be a dud. In 1994, Stewart Brand, the founding editor of the "Whole Earth Catalog" and an early, self-described dome "propagandist," called geodesics a "massive, total failure":
Domes leaked, always. The angles between the facets could never be sealed successfully. If you gave up and tried to shingle the whole damn thing—dangerous process, ugly result—the nearly horizontal shingles on top still took in water. The inside was basically one big room, impossible to subdivide, with too much space wasted up high. The shape made it a whispering gallery that broadcast private sounds to everyone.
Among the domes that leaked were Fuller's own home, in Carbondale, and the structure atop the Ford Rotunda. (When workmen were sent to try to reseal the Rotunda's dome, they ended up burning down the entire building.)
Fuller's impact as a social theorist is equally ambiguous. He insisted that the future could be radically different from the past, that humanity was capable of finding solutions to the most intractable-seeming problems, and that the only thing standing in the way was the tendency to cling to old "piano tops." But Fuller was also deeply pessimistic about people's capacity for change, which was why, he said, he had become an inventor in the first place. "I made up my mind . . . that I would never try to reform man—that's much too difficult," he told an interviewer for this magazine in 1966. "What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions." Fuller's writings and speeches are filled with this sort of tension, or, if you prefer, contradiction. He was a material determinist who believed in radical autonomy, an individualist who extolled mass production, and an environmentalist who wanted to dome over the Arctic. In the end, Fuller's greatest accomplishment may consist not in any particular idea or artifact but in the whole unlikely experiment that was Guinea Pig B. Instead of destroying himself, Fuller listened to Universe. He spent the next fifty years in a headlong, ceaseless act of self-assertion, one that took so many forms that, twenty-five years after his death, we are still trying to sort it all out. ♦


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The peaks of the Teton Range, in Wyoming, regal and imposing as they stand nearly 7,000 feet above the valley floor, make one of the boldest geologic statements in the Rockies. Unencumbered by foothills, they rise through the steep coniferous forest into alpine meadows strewn with wildflowers, past blue and white glaciers to naked granite pinnacles. The Grand, Middle, and South Tetons form the heart of the range. But their neighbours, especially Mount Owen, Teewinot Mountain, and Mount Moran, are no less spectacular. A string of jewel-like lakes, fed by mountain streams, are set tightly against the steep foot of the mountains. Beyond them extends the broad valley called Jackson Hole, covered with sagebrush and punctuated by occasional forested buttes and groves of aspen trees—excellent habitats for pronghorn, deer, elk, and other animals. The Snake River, having begun its journey in southern Yellowstone National Park near the Teton Wilderness, winds leisurely past the Tetons on its way to Idaho. The braided sections of the river create wetlands that support moose, elk, deer, beavers, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, Canada geese, and all sorts of ducks. The Tetons are normal fault block mountains. About 13 million years ago, two blocks of Earth's crust began to shift along a fault line, one tilting down while the other lifted up. So far, the movement has measured some 30,000 vertical feet, most of it from the subsidence of Jackson Hole.
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Again, there dosen't need to be a LAW to stop others from indexing/referring the newspapers content. they can stop it from being even so much as looked at by simply using the robots.txt file.
However they know that doing that is cutting of their nose to spite their face.
This is NOT about protecting newspapers or journalism, it's about giving newspaper companies a way to take some of the money being made by Google regardless of the fact that Google is making their content more valuable and already giving them money by driving up ad revenues for them.
They see Google making money and are incensed that anyone BUT them is making money on the news.
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