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The late Katharine Graham was often called one of the most powerful women in the world.
You can see why. She controlled The Washington Post, Newsweek, television stations and was Washington's preeminent hostess, gathering the influential or the merely interesting in her Georgetown home.
Yet she knew her power was severely limited. On a given day, she wouldn't even dare stop her own newspaper from savaging one of her friends.
What brings this to mind is "The End of Power," a remarkable new book by the remarkable Moises Naim, the former editor of Foreign Policy. It was recommended to me by former President Bill Clinton during a brief conversation on the situation in Egypt. There, as we all know, the United States huffed and puffed but could not stop the military from riding roughshod over the Muslim Brotherhood.
Naim wrote his book before Egypt descended into chaos. But there could be no more pertinent example of his thesis.
The Middle East, after all, is substantially the creation of the Great Powers, who out of whim and obligation created Jordan and Iraq with little more than cartographers' ink and the chutzpah of Winston Churchill. Britain put a Hashemite on the throne of Iraq and another on the throne of Jordan .
Now, the Great Powers can't do much of anything. Syria's Bashar Assad tweaks President Obama's nose and ominously drops the threat of another "Vietnam" — a painful example of power's limits.
"Power is decaying," Naim writes . Companies that once ruled the world (sort of) suddenly disappear. CEOs come and go at a dizzying pace — about 80% of the leaders of major companies are forced out before their terms are up, gridlocking golf courses all over America.
Belgium veers to the ungovernable; the United Kingdom may not be united for long, the Northern League wants out of Italy and, in this increasingly fractured world, South Sudan in 2011 became the world's 193rd nation, up from 51 in the 1940s.
The most depressing example of the erosion of power is that inchoate body, the U.S. Congress. Some of the more criminally insane members of the Republican caucus talk about shutting down the government and in their free time repealing Obamacare. For a variety of reasons — the way districts are gerrymandered, the way money is raised, the pernicious effect of talk radio — the leadership lacks sufficient power, not to mention political courage, to put the recalcitrants in their place.
No doubt, the man who best appreciates how power has lost its power is Obama. Until recently, he wasn't even able to appoint certain ambassadors.
Naim, a habitue of international conferences as a former Venezuelan minister of industry and trade, relates how Davos Man is forever lamenting an inability to just get things done. Orders are given, subordinates salute — and then nothing happens.
Why is this happening? For one, there is more of everything — people, for sure, but also weapons and nations and billionaires and blogs and even chess grandmasters — 88 in 1972, more than 1,200 today. Mentalities have changed. Women all over the world are walking away from abusive marriages, and people are more mobile.
"Barriers to power have weakened," Naim writes. The world is awash in democracies.
I, too, am a victim of the loss of power. I compete — for attention, for recognition, for a few measly bucks — with blogs, tweets and Internet organizations (Politico, for example) that did not exist when I bought my last car. My once-grand newspaper is, well, less grand than it used to be, and it has been sold to someone who lives in the other Washington. (He will soon learn the limits of power.)
But maybe the most poignant loss of power is the product of what Naim calls a change in mentality. Once parental power was absolute and the phrase "because I say so" had maximum authority. Now it's an anachronism, a laugh line — and the joke is on parents everywhere.


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This map shows Odysseus' journey after he left Troy. While his encounters were fictional — there were no Lotus Eaters, Sirens, or Cyclopes in the ancient Mediterranean — his ports of call were real. As you can see from the names of the modern nations, the bards who sang of Odysseus sent him to very real places in the Greek world. At a time when little of the world was fully mapped, it was not so far-fetched to believe that in some unknown corner of Italy or Tunisia there might be wonderful and terrible creatures waiting to catch the unwary traveler.
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|1100s-700s BCE
|The "Dark Age" of Greece, about which we know very little.
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|The Odyssey is copied and preserved by scholars of the Byzantine Empire.
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|The Odyssey is translated into English.
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Jih Sun Futures is the brokerage arm of Taiwan-based Jih Sun Financial Holdings Co. Ltd. Through its subsidiaries, Jih Sun provides securities brokerage and trading, banking and underwriting services.
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It's not a very new concept in the world because many parts of the world are already using it and after getting success they are also implementing it in other sectors also. For instance, in India Mr. Modi is taking the same initiative as smart city initiative. Here, everything is likely to connect through sensors and internet and those sensors are likely to send the info to the main machine and after that the technician can decide whether the parts need to be replaced or maintained.


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What started as a small gathering on a football field has turned into the which is one of the biggest traditional rod shows in the US: the 11th Annual Lone Star Round Up Rod and Kustom show in Austin, Texas. Held at the Travis County Expo Center, the show brings together driven hot rods, live music, food, pinstriping, artists, shopping - it's a carnival of hot rods. Shooter Travis Scanlan, with Roy Boy Productions (RoyBoyProductions.com), snapped hundreds of photos at the event. Below is a selection, but if you want to see more visit his site: http://royboyproductions.smugmug.com/Cars/2012/2012LonestarRoundup/22401738_9RK6Qd. The next Round Up will be April 5 and 6, 2013.


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Dalit Solidarity, Inc. was established as a 501(3)© charitable and tax-exempt organization in 2000 to promote equality and justice for Dalits who have been marginalised and segregated for centuries under the shadow of Caste oppression in the sub-continent of India. Even today, at the dawn of twenty first century when India has become a super power, the pain of untouchablity is strongly felt as ever before by more than three hundred million dalits. Although some dalits have achieved success in getting political, economical and social status, still majority of dalits live in extreme poverty and continue to go through severe discrimination in all walks of life. According to the latest estimates of the Planning Commission Report of 2010, 323 million people live below poverty line in India. This indicates that 37.2 percent of the Indian population is living below poverty line. It can be certain that a huge majority of this population are dalits who suffer not only economical disparity but also painfully the social discrimination. Despite the existence of different schemes and programs to improve the socioeconomic conditions of the poor and marginalized, the plight of the Dalits still remains largely unchanged. It is reported that 80 percent of Dalits live in rural areas, 86 percent are landless, 60 percent are dependent on occasional employment and only 30 percent are literate. No other race in the world has ever suffered like the Dalits who continue live through the stigma of Untouchablity under the pretext of religion.
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ICC U19 World Cup 2016 will start on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 and ends on Sunday, February 14, 2016 with the final match. Total 16 Under19 national teams is participating in this youth world cup 2016. Fans are eagerly waiting to watch the future cricket stars. Many TV channels came forward to broadcast the ICC U19 World Cup 2016 for the cricket fans around the world.
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Lawyers for two key figures in the George Washington Bridge scandal sought Tuesday to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter.
Bridget Kelly, an ex-aide to Gov. Chris Christie, and the governor's two-time campaign manager Bill Stepien say complying with the subpoenas carries the risk of self-incrimination.
After about three hours of arguments from both sides, the judge did not issue a decision and did not give a timeline for when she might.
The subpoenas seek documents involving the intentional blocking of traffic near the George Washington Bridge in September, which created hourslong backups in nearby Fort Lee, apparently to punish the town's Democratic mayor.
Kelly did not speak to the reporters who surrounded her when she arrived at the courthouse, and did not speak in court. Stepien was not in attendance.
A parallel criminal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office seeks to uncover whether federal laws were broken. The legislative panel wants to find out how high up Christie's chain of command the lane-closing scheme went and why it was hatched.
Christie, whose viability as a 2016 Republican presidential candidate has been called into question since the scandal erupted, has said he knew nothing of the plot's planning or execution. He said in December that no one on his staff was involved, a statement he was forced to retract in January when private emails showed otherwise. An email from Kelly saying "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" appeared to set the scheme in motion.
The reply, "got it," from a Christie loyalist at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the bridge, implies a prior conversation about the lane closings occurred.
After the emails emerged, Christie dismissed Kelly and cut ties with Stepien, who was a consultant for the Republican Governors Association and was set to become the state GOP chairman. In all, five people close to Christie have been fired or resigned. Some 32 people or organizations close to the governor, including his re-election campaign and Republican State Committee, have been subpoenaed. All but Kelly and Stepien have complied or are in the process of producing documents.
Kelly and Stepien are attempting to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. They argue that the subpoenas are overly broad and require them to make judgments about which documents involve the lane closings.
Lawyers for the legislative panel say the two are not entitled to blanket protection from the subpoenas and have not produced sufficient evidence to back up their fear of prosecution claim.
Stepien's lawyer said FBI agents visited his client's apartment and inquired whether he paid the rent on time; Kelly's lawyer said agents sought to interview his client and her parents, but that no one was willing to talk.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's ice hockey team, which was ranked among the nation's top five teams in both major college hockey polls this week, opened its final 10-game stretch of the regular-season in impressive fashion as the Bulldogs rolled to a 7-1 victory over Northern Michigan on Friday (Feb. 7) night inside the Ewigleben Ice Arena.
The Bulldogs returned from a two-week hiatus after being idle last weekend, but showed little rust in a dominating performance on home ice before a near sellout crowd of 2,297 fans in Big Rapids. The win lifted the Bulldogs to 19-6-3 overall along with 14-3-2 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA).
Ferris State struck first at 11:13 of the opening period when sophomore forward Kenny Babinski notched his seventh goal of the campaign on a Bulldog power play to give FSU the early edge. His goal was assisted by junior defenseman Jason Binkley, who posted his 15th helper of the year, along with senior forward Andy Huff.
The Wildcats, who were meeting FSU for the third time this season but making their first trip to Big Rapids since the 2009-10 campaign, answered soon after when Erik Higby found the back of the net in an extra skater situation to tie up the contest at a goal apiece. Reed Seckel picked up his eighth assist of the season on Higby's eighth goal.
The two teams went to the dressing room still tied after the opening 20 minutes of action, but the Bulldogs came up big in the second frame to seize control.
FSU scored its second goal of the night only 5:46 into the period as sophomore wing Matt Robertson tallied his 11th goal of the year on yet another power-play to hand the Bulldogs a 2-1 lead. Both freshman Kyle Schempp and junior Justin Buzzeo received assists on the go-ahead goal, which proved to be the eventual game winner.
Senior Garrett Thompson then pushed the advantage to two goals less than two minutes later as he scored his 12th lamplighter of the year on a breakaway off a feed from freshman defenseman Ryan Lowney in addition to Huff.
The Bulldog lead grew to 4-1 with just over a minute left in the second stanza off the stick of freshman Chad McDonald, who recorded his seventh goal this year on a short-handed shot assisted by Huff, who registered his third assist of the night.
Ferris State started off the third and final period right where it left off as the Bulldogs salted the game away. Sophomore Brandon Anselmini put the puck past Northern Michigan goaltender Mathias Dahlstrom only 4:05 into the final period to give FSU a 5-1 advantage. Anselmini came in from the point and fired home the rolling puck with help from freshman forward Jared VanWormer, who tallied his first career assist and second point in his last two games, along with Schempp as the two rookies combined for the assists.
Senior Cory Kane got into the scoring act at 11:29 of the third on a pretty highlight-reel goal for his sixth marker this season. Anselmini was given his fifth assist of the year while Bulldog junior goaltender CJ Motte received his second assist of the season by helping aid the third-period goal.
Ferris State then closed the door on the Wildcats as Thompson posted his 13th goal on a shot at 14:21 assisted by Binkley. Both received their second points of the night on the final goal.
Motte returned to form in net as he made 29 saves on 30 total Northern Michigan shots. He had nine saves in the first period along with 10 in both the second and third frames in addition to his assist. The standout goaltender also was called for one of the Bulldogs' eight penalties in the game totaling 16 minutes.
The Bulldogs held a 31-30 edge in total shots for the night and had a game-high 13 in the opening stanza before posting nine apiece in each of the final two frames.
NMU's Dahlstrom earned the start in net for the Wildcats and made 21 saves in 44:05 of action before being relieved by Derek Dun for the final 15:55 of the night. Dahlstrom allowed five goals while Dun gave up two and made three saves in relief.
Overall, the Bulldogs finished two-of-five with the man-advantage on the power play with the Bulldogs' penalty kill unit holding the Wildcats to a single goal in five tries with the extra skater. NMU was whistled for nine penalties covering 29 minutes in the box.
Huff picked up the first star of night by virute of his three assists, Anselmini was the second star on the strength of both a goal along with an assist and finally Motte received the third and final star with his performance in net combined with his assist.
With the win, Ferris State improved to 4-1-2 in the last seven outings against Northern Michigan and it marked the Bulldogs' ninth win at home this season.
The 7-1 triumph was the Bulldogs' most decisive victory since posting an 8-1 home win over Ohio State on Nov. 20, 2009, and it marked the second time in which FSU has scored seven goals this season as the Bulldogs opened the year with a 7-4 win at Colgate on Oct. 5.
Northern Michigan fell to 11-14-2 overall and 9-9-1 in league action this year. The Wildcats had battled Ferris State to a 1-1 overtime deadlock in the last meeting between the two teams this season on Nov. 30 in Marquette.
Ferris State held onto a two-point lead over second place Minnesota State in the WCHA standings with the victory combined with a win by the Mavericks. However, FSU still owns two games in hand with nine contests left on its regular-season schedule.
The two teams will meet again in the series' finale on Saturday (Feb. 8) evening inside the Ewigleben Ice Arena with faceoff set for 7:07 p.m. (ET). It will wrap-up a rare tripleheader between FSU and NMU as the Bulldog men's and women's basketball teams also host the Wildcats in afternoon action across the concourse at Jim Wink Arena prior to the contest on the ice.
Saturday's series' finale is already sold out and will mark FSU's third sellout in the last four home games. The "Dawg Pound" student section is also sold out in what will represent its 45th consecutive sellout for one of college hockey's most vocal student groups.


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Waves Through Earth: Interactive Online Mac and PC
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Reviewed Teaching Collection
This activity has received positive reviews in a peer review process involving five review categories. The five categories included in the process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
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This page first made public: Sep 18, 2006
This material was originally created for Starting Point:Introductory Geology
and is replicated here as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service.
- P and S rays superimposed on the four-region model;
- Table of data for P and S wave velocities;
- Graph of "data" and Model for P and S waves;
- Help and instructions.
Learning Goals
- Difference in P and S wave velocity;
- P wave and S wave shadows;
- Refraction;
- That S wave velocity must be zero for outer core to match observations;
- How to adjust model parameters to match observations.
Context for Use
Description and Teaching Materials
Teaching Notes and Tips
Completion of the activity can easily be assessed by having students fill out the table provided here (taken from model tab of Applet) once they get their best fit. [click image to enlarge]
Examples of other appropriate questions are:
- What is the angular extent of the P wave shadow after wave speeds have been adjusted for best fit to data?
- Describe in your own words how wave speed changes with increasing depth towards Earth's center.
- Which waves travel faster, P or S waves?
- Perform a Google search (http://www.google.com) of P-wave and S-waves and in your own words describe what they are.
References and Resources
The Virtual Physics Laboratory of The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University has a good animation of P (longitudinal) and S (transverse)waves.


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Several US politicians expressed their support for Taiwan after meeting with President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on Monday in New York, where he is making a stopover enroute to Paraguay and the Carribean.
Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, a senior member of the US House of Reprentatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, said after his meeting at the hotel where Ma was staying that there is a strong feeling of support for Taiwan and the people of Taiwan in the US Congress.
"I think what's very important about it: it's bipartisan supported by the US Congress. It's a bipartisan feeling. I know [US] President [Barack] Obama feels that way too. We will make sure that will continue," Engel said.
The congressman also said he told Ma that the committee approved the Taiwan Policy Act at the beginning of this month, a bill that will help strengthen the strong ties between Taiwan and the US if it becomes law, Engel said.
US Representative Gregory Meeks, another Democrat who met with Ma at a dinner party hosted by the president at his hotel, said he had thanked Ma for his administration's donation of US$500,000 to New York after the city was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy last year.
He said Ma and his guests talked about Taiwan's visa-waiver privilege from the US and its bid for access to the International Civil Aviation Organization, and they agreed to promote further trade and economic exchanges between the two countries.
Ma also met on Monday with former US secretary of labor Elaine Chao (趙小蘭), along with her father, who was a classmate of Ma's father-in-law, and her two sisters, who are friends of Ma's two daughters.
Earlier in the day, Ma, who earned his master of laws degree from New York University (NYU) in 1976, visited the school, reminiscing about his romance with Chow Mei-ching (周美青), who is now his wife.
NYU president John Sexton greeted Ma and presented him with two NYU baseball caps, commemorative pens and his new books as gifts for Ma and his wife.
While at the university, Ma visited his old classrooms, a small basement office he used and the dormitory he lived in across the street from the office.
He also visited the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New York in China Town to express his appreciation to the association for its loyalty to the Republic of China (ROC).
The association, which was founded in 1883, represents Chinese-Americans living in the Greater New York metropolitan area. Ma is the first ROC president to visit the association.
Besides a welcoming crowd who waved ROC national flags, there were also a score of protesters, many of whom were Taiwanese students.
They held up banners similar to some seen when Ma arrived at his hotel on Sunday, such as "[You] knock down houses in Dapu today; [we] tear down the government tomorrow," "Selling out Taiwan with black-hearted service trade pact" and "Do you hear the people's voice?" and shouted: "President Ma, did you get a good sleep?"
According to local Chinese-Americans, there are very few Taiwanese living in or around New York's Chinatown; most of the ethnic Chinese come from China's Guangdong Province.
When asked whether they felt they were stepping on other people's turf by staging a protest in a place that rarely has contact with Taiwanesee, the students said they were not scared, adding: "It feels less safe [if we protest] in Taiwan."


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Since being awarded accredited status by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) in 1993 and reaccredited status in 1998, 2001 and 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013, the Union Township Police Department continues to be committed to the accreditation process. The department adheres to international standards for law enforcement agencies, with proof of compliance maintained by the accreditation manager.
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