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Last week, several containers of ammunition – part of a stockpile of 98 containers confiscated in 2009 from an Iranian ship heading for Syria – exploded at the navy base near a coastal town. Thirteen men were killed including twin brothers who were helping their commander and six firemen put out a fire that was threatening the containers. The naval base was destroyed, and the brand new power station right next door – responsible for delivering over 50% of Cyprus's electrical power – was so badly damaged that it will have to be rebuilt and this will take months. Nearby houses and villages were extensively damaged and sixty-two people were injured, one remains critical.
Despite numerous reports from the Base Commander and other senior officers stating that the containers were deteriorating and that urgent action needed to be taken, nothing was done. And a brush fire, so common during these hot summer days, triggered a catastrophe. Due to the integrity of the base commander, who ordered hundreds of conscripts packed into trucks and evacuated rather than sending them out to fight the fire, the early hour of the morning, leading to a nearly empty motorway rather than one packed with commuters, and that it was not a weekend, packed with people at the beach and local fish taverns, this tragedy is still not as bad as it could have been.
Everyone here is angry. This being such a small country, most people somehow know someone who was affected by this. Even if you weren't directly affected, the wipe out of the new power station means that the entire island is being rationed electricity because the two remaining power stations are old and cannot keep up. We have our electricity cut one to two times a day, for 2hour time periods each time. Some areas have cuts more frequently. For us this is just an inconvenience. These are the hottest months of the year, with temperatures easily reaching well over 100F, and obviously the power cuts occur at times where air-conditioning is most in demand. Business are also affected as the power cuts are unpredictable and half way through their day they are rendered useless, as so much of what we do is dependent on electricity. Not to mention what this is doing to the economy, which up until this point was doing relatively ok all things considered. For the families that lost loved ones or have had people injured, the power cuts are a reminder of what took place a week ago, and the stupidity of the people who placed these 98 containers right next to the biggest power station and the naval base, and left them unprotected in the smoldering heat for 3 years!
Every night there are protests at the presidential palace asking for the president and his ministers to resign. For the most part these are happening peacefully, but every now and again some asshole ruins it for the rest by throwing stones at police or setting trash cans on fire.
Here are some pictures of the area before the accident:
And after the accident...
The area marked with the white square is where most of the damage is. The charcoal colored mark in the left half of the square is where the containers were and now is a 160 foot deep crater.
For the meantime we are trying to stay cool without using airconditioning and are waiting it out to see what happens. Luckily we are going on vacation soon and will be out of this heat and in a place with electricity!


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SAN ANTONIO — In the grand scheme of this second-round Western Conference series, the Warriors are down 0-1 after Monday's loss to the host Spurs.
But a pivotal question now faces Golden State. Was the 129-127 double-overtime defeat, punctuated by San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili's devastating game-winning 3-pointer, evidence that the young Warriors can hang with the veteran Spurs, or was it a backbreaking missed opportunity from which they'll have a tough time recovering?
No doubt, coach Mark Jackson is leaning on the former.
"It was a great game for us, a hard-fought game," he said. "We're a young basketball team that will be better at the end of the day. … I saw a lot of good things."
But it's hard not to think the latter, that this one was too much to survive. The Warriors, who have now dropped 30 straight in San Antonio, were up by 16 points with 4:31 left before blowing what looked to be a comfortable Game 1 win. They squandered chances to win in both overtimes with poor execution on both ends. And all this happened with Spurs future Hall of Famer Tim Duncan, battling stomach flu, sitting out most of the final 14-plus minutes.
Conventional wisdom says the Spurs — who hadn't played in eight days — kick it into gear and breathe a sigh of relief, having survived the scare, and get back to business.
But the Warriors are trying to cling to the good things, instead of the 18-point lead they surrendered.
Point guard Stephen Curry was dominant, totaling 44 points and 11 assists in 58 minutes. The Warriors out-rebounded San Antonio by 10, getting 15 from center Andrew Bogut and 12 from rookie forward Harrison Barnes. They held San Antonio to 43.8 percent shooting.
Those successes are the mints they're hoping take the sour taste out of their mouths after managing just 14 points in the fourth quarter and leaving shooters open at absolutely the wrong times.
Plus, they have some experience with this situation before.
"We had a heartbreaker Game 1 of last series," Curry said, referring to the last-second layup by Denver guard Andre Miller in the first round. "So we've been here before. Obviously, you don't want to experience that again. But we know how to come back. We've been a resilient team all year. We know how to turn it back on."
The Warriors were in great position to win it in regulation. They had all the momentum after another ridiculous third quarter by Curry: 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting with three assists, reminiscent of his Game 4 performance against the Nuggets.
He scored 14 points during a three-minute stretch, including his fourth 3-pointer of the quarter with 35.7 seconds left, putting the Warriors up 90-72. Golden State led 92-80 entering the fourth quarter.
But the game changed drastically when guard Klay Thompson, who had 19 points and had held Spurs All-Star guard Tony Parker to 4- of-15 shooting, fouled out at the 3:57 mark. Parker, who finished with 28, immediately took over the game.
He drove the lane four straight times, leading to two free throws, two layups and a layup by Kawhi Leonard. The 8-0 Spurs run cut the Warriors' advantage 104-96 with 2:42 left.
Golden State went four minutes without scoring, more than five minutes without a field goal. Meanwhile, the Spurs just chipped away and with 59.8 seconds left, the Warriors' lead was down to 104-103.
Jarrett Jack finally ended the drought by drilling a pull-up jumper with 29 seconds left. But Spurs guard Danny Green tied the game with an open 3-pointer from the right wing, sending the game into overtime.
Golden State took quick control with a jumper by Jack and a 3-pointer from Barnes, who had 19 points on 8-of-14 shooting. The Spurs answered with a 7-0 run to take a 113-111 lead.
Jack tied the game at 115 on a pull-up jumper with 20.3 seconds left. Warriors rookie forward Draymond Green forced a second overtime by coaxing Ginobili into missing a 20-footer at the buzzer.
In the second overtime, Danny Green struck again, drilling his sixth 3-pointer to put the Warriors down five with 1:06 left. But Curry, who played all but four seconds, scored four straight, including a finger roll with 32.8 seconds left. After the Warriors got their third straight stop, Curry hit rookie Kent Bazemore for a reverse layup in transition. Just like that, Golden State was up 127-126 with 3.9 seconds left — one stop away from victory.
As was the case in Game 1 against Denver, they couldn't get it. After another defensive breakdown, Ginobili was open for 3. Ballgame.
"We put up a very valiant effort," Jack said. "No matter if you lose by 20 or one, it's still one game."
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UK diocesan crisis tests Church's mission to all, by Archpriest Leonid Kishkovsky
Immediately after the Orthodox celebration of the Resurrection of Christ in April 2006, a new crisis confronted the Orthodox Church. Bishop Basil (Osborne) of Sergievo, the Administrator of the Russian Orthodox Diocese in the United Kingdom, wrote to Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow to request a canonical release and subsequently to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of to request acceptance into the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The story of the emergence of this crisis (which is known and can be described), as well as the story of the response to the crisis (which cannot yet be fully known) yet again reveal fundamental questions of ecclesiology and mission which are in urgent need of common Orthodox reflection and action.
During the second half of the 20th century Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) made the presence of the Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom a dynamic reality. His ministry encompassed English-speaking seekers who found their spiritual home in the Orthodox Church as well as people of diverse national and cultural backgrounds who found their new home in Great Britain. Metropolitan Anthony's teaching and preaching found its way to the diverse Russian-speaking people in the Soviet Union, both in the course of his periodic visits to the USSR, and through radio broadcasts of BBC.
The persecution and humiliation of the Russian Orthodox Church by the communist regime strengthened the bonds of affection and solidarity which connected Metropolitan Anthony with the Russian Orthodox Church. He was made diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in the UK, and his diocese became known by the name of "Sourozh," an ancient episcopal missionary see in the Crimea whose title was given to him as archbishop and finally as metropolitan.
In the UK the distinct and dynamic witness of Orthodoxy was not a matter of numbers, but a matter of spiritual integrity, integrity manifested both in the voice of Orthodoxy to the society at large and in the internal life of the diocese led by Metropolitan Anthony. There was a period during which his views and words were sought out in the same way as the views and words of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Church of England) and the Archbishop of Westminster (Roman Catholic), although Metropolitan Anthony's flock, by comparison, was numerically a tiny one. In ordering the life of his diocese, Metropolitan Anthony was guided by the Church of Russia's Moscow Council of 1917-1918. In accordance with the vision and norms of this Council, clergy and laity were seen as collaborators of the bishop, and not as the bishop's "subjects."
When in the 1990s the communist regime in the USSR collapsed, the Russian Orthodox Church was liberated from oppression, a revival of religious life began, and Orthodoxy could be heard and seen in public life. At the same time, many Russians found their way to Western Europe, North America, and other regions. In the UK there are now many thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union, with estimates ranging from sixty or seventy thousand to two hundred fifty thousand.
Tensions between the ecclesial "orientation" and "style" of the Diocese of Sourozh and many new Russian immigrants were painfully evident long before the death of Metropolitan Anthony in 2003, and became progressively deeper and more acute. It was this trajectory of tension and mutual alienation which led to the letters of Bishop Basil to the Patriarch of Moscow and Constantinople. In addition to Bishop Basil's letters, the chronology of developments includes the following: Patriarch Aleksy wrote to Bishop Basil, calling on him to continue the ministry of Metropolitan Anthony, in the same unity with the Russian Orthodox Church which was maintained by the late Metropolitan; Bishop Basil wrote to the clergy of his diocese, freeing them to seek canonical protection outside the Diocese of Sourozh; by decision of Patriarch Aleksy, Bishop Basil was sent into retirement, and Archbishop Innokenty of Korsun (hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate residing in Paris and responsible for parishes in Western Europe) was appointed Temporary Administrator; the Patriarch of Moscow appointed a commission of inquiry composed of Archbishop Innokenty of Korsun, Archbishop Mark of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (residing in Germany), and two priests of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; approximately half of the clergy of the Diocese of Sourozh petitioned the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira (residing in London) for acceptance into his canonical jurisdiction and received favorable responses; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with Bishop Basil at Chambesy, Switzerland.
The present crisis offers a new opportunity to address an important challenge faced by contemporary Orthodoxy. There are, without any doubt, various Orthodox "diasporas" in many parts of the world. These are Greeks, Russians, Romanians, and others who now live outside their cultural homes and who are tied by bonds of affection and affinity and nostalgia to the countries and cultures from which they come. There are—equally without any doubt—Orthodox people and communities in such places as France and Great Britain, the United States and Canada who do not understand or feel themselves to be in diaspora. These are descendants of immigrants of many decades ago and these are converts to the Orthodox Faith and their descendants.
On the level of pastoral care the Orthodox Church bears responsibility for both dimensions of Orthodox life. The two dimensions require different pastoral approaches, different languages, different cultural sensitivities.
On the level of ecclesiology, however, there is one Orthodox Church, with one sacramental life, united in the one Orthodox Faith. The Orthodox Church is spacious enough to embrace all diasporas. No diaspora is spacious enough to encompass the Orthodox Church.
Today's Orthodox consciousness tends to be held captive by the needs and requirements of the Orthodox diasporas. Let it be clearly understood that the large and often growing Orthodox national and cultural diasporas of today are worthy of pastoral care and missionary work. This is not only a legitimate concern of the Orthodox Church—it is an inescapable responsibility. Yet it must also be well-understood and accepted that the Orthodox Christians of Western culture and Western languages are equally worthy of pastoral care. And if the "universality" or "catholicity" of the Orthodox Church is to be evident today, the ability of Orthodoxy to be more than an "immigrant" Church is critically important.
Sadly, when faced with serious questions and challenges of contemporary life and mission the Orthodox Church is either in a state of paralysis and immobility, or in a state of crisis and confrontation. Questions are not answered and solutions are not found at either one of these extremes, but in the middle ground of reflection and thoughtful common action. Will the answers to the current painful questions found within the very small Diocese of Sourozh and within the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow offer signs of impasse and stagnation, or signs of hope?
Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky


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Connecting the Dots
Today a friend asked me how my vacation was and all I could answer was that it was a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. Part of me felt guilty and selfish for not having been able to say "oh it was great", after all, not every one can afford to put their entire lives on pause and just go on hibernate mode, right? But, well, I guess I couldn't just say it was all great because it wasn't. But then today, I realized, as my friend pointed out, vacations aren't always 100% happy all the time anyway. More so, I realized that the reason why I couldn't say it was perfect was because by taking pause, removing myself from the daily grind and just being by myself to some degree, it was a period of self-discovery, reinvention and, I guess, moving forward, which, I suppose, is never really easy.
Let me back track a bit…for those who have been reading my blogs, I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that I had just let go of my preschool teaching job, one that I had done and loved oh so dearly for the past twelve years. In many ways, giving that up (although I was indeed looking forward to it because I was tired already) kind of made me lose a big chunk of who I have become. And so since I finished everything I needed to have done in the preschool on the 30th of April, and it was term break in the university I teach in, I decided to declare the first 15 days of May as my Eat, Pray, Love vacation. I may not be as lucky as Elizabeth Gilbert to have the chance to do it for a year, but heck, 15 straight days of no work should be good enough for the time being, right? And so on the eve of the first, I had posted on my Facebook page that for the next fifteen days, I was only to exist for yoga, for friends who matter and the occasional soup day (errr..which is code for, well, lets just say fun lunches or dinners harhar).
Anyway, I was lucky enough to get my break of started on track with an Eat, Pray, Love overnight adventure in Subic Bay with a fellow yogini friend of mine. We took an overnight trip and met up with another yogini friend who teaches a class at the Subic Yacht club where we joined in on the class and got to meet a whole lot of new people. It was so timely, I must say, that the night we got to join in was a night in which they were bidding farewell to one of their family members (I say family because their group is very much like family…it's more than a club, more than just friends, but more like family :)). They had a little ceremony that evening that brought tears to my eyes because as my personal friends would know, saying goodbye and having people move away is something very, very difficult for me. But as I watched them and allowed myself to be part of that ceremony, I realized that distance between friends is but physical space, but the heart, though ends up longing oh so dearly for the other, remains connected.
Although the trip was quite short, being under the golden sunshine, walking by the bay and feeling sand on my toes allowed me to touch base with my soul.
When I got back to Manila, I continued on my journey by really shutting myself out from most of the outside world. Very few people, save for my yoga teachers and classmates, got to see me or hear from me much, even through text messages (although FB still remained a constant haha…but a far less frequent one!). I barely spoke to anyone and except for when I was in yoga and the three or four lunches/dinners I had out with friends, I barely moved at all. I had planned to clean my room, paint, draw, and so on and so forth but noooo…nothing happened. My blogs have been mostly silent too, except for those posts of brilliant insights that happened from the mat 🙂
Being in the quiet for so long, however, started to take a bit of a toll on me because, well, because that's what silence does. It's confrontative. You're left with nothing else but yourself in a place that suddenly becomes so foreign and unfamiliar. As my favorite writer, Thomas Moore put it in his book Dark Nights of the Soul, Imagine you awoke one day to find yourself in a strange land. You remember who you were and what you have done, where you used to live, even your dreams and longings, but now it seems so far away. So out of reach it all seems in this strange land. Here it is as if nothing that once was familiar matters any longer, all that matters is that you find yourself where you are right now. You cannot return to what once was, neither do you know where to go from here. Now there are no distractions. You have to look closely at what has been revealed.
In that silent bubble I lived in for 15 day (granted there were moments of distractions…going to yoga class and the occasional meeting up with the few friends who really matter to me), I realized how different I was from the me I had gotten to know in the past year, year and a half. Without the distractions of work, and even television for that matter (because my TV's been broken haha!) and even the absence of family and friends, I was left to just let things unfold. Maybe it's also the weight loss, plus the career change, and even the discovery of yoga, but all these changes were like diamonds in the rough, waiting to be found and treasured. But for the longest time I wasn't seeing what was there because I was too busy and too ignorant of the signs. As I was telling another friend a few days ago, I guess I was making it a point to be too busy because I was afraid to admit to many things: feeling lost and confused about who I was, angry and hurt about what might have been, and yes, even displeased and dissatisfied because of things I want but don't have. Before I could admit that, however, I had to wrestle with the defeaning silence and the frustration of loneliness and solitude. Worst of all, I had to go head on with my harshest critic: the voices of insecurity and doubt in my head.
So there, it was indeed a roller coaster of ups and downs, right? There were moments of brilliant clarity and fulfillment of heart, but there were moments of darkness and feeling lost at sea, with no lifelines to hang on to. But now that I look back, all of those moments, from the loss of the familiar, feeling hurt because of it, opening myself up to new things and people, challenging myself in many, many ways… were little dots waiting to be connected to form a bigger picture.
Today marks the end of my two week hiatus from life. Tomorrow I must head back to reality and get back on track in all sense of the word. I think it is but fitting that I end it by having cut and colored my hair, gone for a body scrub, deleted messages on my phone and files in my computer, thrown away a lot of stuff I've been holding on to for so long. Kinda like a rebirth, yes?
I don't know if it is just coincidence, but I'd like to believe it is but one of those things I like calling random synchronicity, but just a few days before my break I had said that I have come to learn that many of the most difficult, most painful, most tiring and most excruciatingly frustrating things that come my way always, always pave the way for realizations that are significant, life-changing, and rewarding. Yes, it may not be something extremely drastic or devastating, but all of those moments have led up to something new, as long as I allowed myself to surrender and make some space for it. It's never fun or easy, mind you, nor pleasurable for that matter, but in the end, I can look back and say, so that's why it had to happen.
And so through this roller coaster of a ride I had just found myself in, I take with me, a renewed appreciation for what I have, a more grateful heart, a somewhat darkened self (literally and figuratively haha…As Moore put it, dark luminosity…a black sun at your core…that is less innocent and more interesting than naive sunshine), and perhaps, even a more hopeful spirit for what lies ahead.
As I end today, I found this lying in one of my piles of papers…it was a project I had done for one of my classes before, wherein I gave the students a coloring sheet and asked them to remember that the only road that mattered, no matter where they went, was the one paved with prayer and ended in believing that no matter what, you will find yourself exactly where you're supposed to be.


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AMERICUS - A pair of first half goals from Converse College midfielder Natalie Johnson would prove to be the difference as the Valkyries handed Georgia Southwestern a 3-1 defeat on Tuesday afternoon at Hurricane Field.
Johnson opened the scoring when she curled a free kick around the GSW wall in the 16th minute from 25 yards. Converse went up 2-0 when Johnson punched in her second score at the 39:41 mark.
The Valkyries extended their lead to 3-0 in the second half when Darby Boyd scored off an assist from Johnson in the 58th minute.
Mallory Hawkes put the Lady Hurricanes on the board when she punched in a loose ball from the middle of the penalty box at 83:58 for her first goal of the season.
Converse (5-2) finished with a 13-7 shots on goal advantage and 11-5 margin in corner kicks.
Elyse Gowan saved two in goal for GSW in the first half before making way for Kendal Baskin who stopped eight over the final 45 minutes. Converse rotated four keepers with starter Gabie Chamberland leading way with four saves in 54 minutes.
Southwestern (0-4) returns to the pitch on Thursday to host Coker College at 4 p.m.


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We are happy to announce that the papers of Iowa State's first president, Adonijah Strong Welch, are now available online! In addition to documenting his life here at Iowa State and the early history of our university, the papers also shed light on how our first president viewed and presented a new educational movement which was taking place in our country.
An early view of campus circa 1897. Old Main, the second building on campus after the Farm House, can be seen on the left. When it was built (1864) and for many years after, it held the entire college. Morrill Hall (built 1890) is located on the far right.
The 150th anniversary of the signing of the Morrill Act is today (Monday, July 2nd). The Morrill Act was signed by Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, on July 2nd, 1862. What is so important about the Morrill Act, you may ask? The Morrill Act established land-grant universities by granting states (if they accepted its terms) land and land script to fund higher education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. Iowa State, on September 11, 1862, was the first to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act. Although plans for the State Agricultural College and Model Farm (informally Iowa Agricultural College, now Iowa State University) had started earlier, the funding helped get the new agricultural college on its feet. Iowa Agricultural College had been founded on March 22, 1858 when Governor Ralph P. Lowe signed a bill to establish a State Agricultural College and Model Farm "which shall be connected with the entire agricultural interests of the state."
When the Morrill Act was signed, not only was the country in the middle of a civil war, but the industrial revolution was taking place. Change was occurring, and public education needed to catch up to the rapidly changing needs of the country and its citizens. Agriculture, technology, and the mechanic arts were all important players in the industrial revolution. The "industrial classes" needed an appropriate education, and this was the intent of the Morrill Act.
Adriance and Buckeye Harvesting Machinery catalog cover, 1896. As the cover's famous Daniel Webster quote states, "When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmer therefore is the founder of human civilization." Notice the industry in the background (from the Lawrence H. Skromme Agricultural Machinery Literature Collection, RS 21/7/227).
Each state which accepted the Morrill Act's provisions needed to use the funds:
"to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."
Adonijah Welch (Iowa State's first president) was often asked to address farmers' gatherings, horticultural meetings, and breeders' conventions. In many of these speeches Welch expresses his ideas on the "liberal and practical education" that the Morrill Act helped expand here in the United States. Reading through his speeches can be fascinating, and gives us an idea of how the first president of our university saw Iowa State's place in this land-grant movement.
Below are just a few examples from the Adonijah Strong Welch Papers (RS 2/1):
Inaugural address: "When the industry and commerce of many generations had produced comparative wealth and leisure, recognizing tardily their own intellectual necessities, planted, at last, the rude germs that have since, as the centuries revolved, grown into the great Universities of Europe. But modern science and art have wonderfully quickened…The railroad no longer follows, but leads civilizations…A magnificent structure devoted to industrial science, rising towards heaven with its noble towers, is finished, furnished, and peopled with students…The college and new orchard are planted side by side, and will ripen their fruits together…Learning and labor, leaping the gulf that lay between, have joined hands, each lending aid and dignity to the other…" [pages 1-2]
Old Main, the building Welch is probably referring to above in his inaugural address "rising towards heaven with its noble towers."
Problem of a Reasonable Education – in his conclusion of this speech, Welch states with no uncertainty the necessity for the education land-grant universities were to provide:
"Nevertheless, the need of a special training in the facts and principles that underlie each line of industry, is so urgent that it cannot be overstated. The vast annual losses to the country which spring from lack of industrial education, baffle all attempt at numerical statement. The values that go to waste from incompetent farming, the destruction of life in our cities from defective ventilation and drainage, the wholesale slaughter which follows defective rail road engineering, are mere trifles compared with the sum total of yearly loss in life and money born of technical incapacity. "
Read more of Adonijah Welch's speeches, correspondence, and other materials online. A biography and description of the Adonijah Strong Welch Papers can be found in the finding aid. Resources in the Special Collections Department which will provide more detail on the relationship of the Morrill Act, the land-grant movement, and Iowa State can found in our Morrill Act Subject Guide. Some of the resources in the library's General Collection are listed here and online resources here (includes more on the Morrill Act). Also check out the display on the first floor of Parks Library (as you enter, head towards Bookends), and the University Museums exhibit "The People's College: the Morrill Act and Iowa State," on the ground floor of Morrill Hall.
Finally, if you have time today at noon, pause and take note of the 150 tolls of the Campanile's bells in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Morill Act. And if you're not on campus or unable to make it outside, you can view it on the live webcast!


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Jolie & the Duchess: thin friends and shoe friends
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were spotted together at the Dorchester in London on Saturday. You know who used to stay at the Dorchester? Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It was one of their favourites. They'd have massive rows there and then wake everyone up all over again with their f-cking.
The Brange's visit was probably a lot less exciting, which is not to say they're not capable of it, they just keep restricting our Pitt Porn viewing these days, only doling out in small amounts at festivals and premieres.
Anyway, as you can see, Angelina's wedges, they're very similar to Princess Catherine's LK Bennett wedges. These days, as Kate continues to maintain a very, very, very slim frame, they could almost pass for each other in body shape. Sure, the Jolie has the memory of three babies around her belly, and may be more veiny, but I think they're nearly the same – both very, very controlled about their food, obviously.
Like, neither of them would indulge in even one fry from McDonald's. The Jolie leaves that up to the Chosen One who looked like she had to be restrained by her mother at one point because she was about to make a break for trouble. Here she is, with three of her siblings today in London getting shuffled back to the car after a visit to the aquarium before heading for the golden arches. Gwyneth Paltrow does not appove. G must think Angie is a terrible mother.
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The Engineers swept through doubles play winning all three matches in relatively easy fashion including an 8-2 win over Gaby Suriano (San Salvador, El Salvador) and Sarah Sachs (Branford, Conn.) at No. 1.
Lauren Quisenberry also handed Suriano her first-ever loss in singles action with a straight set win at No. 1 with a 6-4, 6-2 win.
Clark's lone victory came at No. 3 singles with Maggie Swann (Portland, Maine) taking a 7-6 (14-12), 6-1 win over Melissa Diskin.
The Cougars had at chance at No. 5 singles as well with Olivia Levine (Brooklyn, N.Y.) taking the first set 6-1 before dropping the second set 6-3. The third set was a marathon with MIT's Hillary Jenny eventually outlasting Levine 13-11.
At 3-3 overall Clark returns to the court on Tuesday when they host Springfield College, while the Engineers visit Babson on Tuesday as well.


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Barcelona's Lionel Messi got a yellow card during yesterday's draw with Real Sociedad. He started the game on the bench, having just returned from India, where he'd been serving international duty for Argentina.
Real Sociedad drew even so, upon entering the match, Messi tried to draw a PK via jumpy/fally theatrics, thus inspiring ever-whining Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho to take a veiled shot, and other haters to jerk their "this is why Americans hate soccer" knees.
Embarrassing, sure. But here's what really hurts Barcelona: newly signed forward Alexis Sanchez tore a thigh muscle in the match and will be out 6-to-8 weeks. They'll host AC Milan in their opening UEFA Champions League match on Tuesday.
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Montenegrin King Nicholas monument in Podgorica
September 2007
What language do most Montenegrins speak?
Until 1991, this was an easy question to answer: the language most people in Montenegro spoke was called Serbo-Croatian. In 1991, the new constitution defined the official language as "Serbian in the ijekavian version". Following independence, many prominent Montenegrins argue that this, too, is inadequate. "If the Serbs call it Serbian, the Croats Croatian, the Bosnians Bosnian, why shouldn't we call it Montenegrin?" Montenegro's ruling DPS-SDP coalition is trying to declare Montenegrin the official language of the state.
In the 2003 census, 62.9 percent of the citizens said that they spoke Serbian, which was declared the republic's official language under its 1992 constitution, while only 25 percent said the language they spoke was Montenegrin. However, this may all have changed since independence. Research by the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM) in June 2007 revealed that roughly a third of citizens say they speak Montenegrin, another third opt for Serbian, and the balance are undecided.
The Serbian List insists that the language in the Constitution must be Serbian, considering, as they claim, that Montenegrins are in fact Serbs, or at least of Serbian roots. The Socialists People's Party, the People's Party and the Democratic Serbian Party are also in favour of Serbian as the official language. The DPS and its allies prefer that the language be known as Montenegrin. A compromise position will have to be found, in order to ensure the two-thirds majority in parliament required to adopt a new constitution (otherwise a referendum on the constitution will have to be called).
Dragan Koprivica, a writer and official of the Socialist People's Party, says that "as far as the history and literature of the Serbian and Montenegrin peoples go, it is clear that our ancestors and our greatest poets and writers were proud of speaking Serbian language":
"In Serbia and Bosnia, those who speak a very similar language obeyed the will of the majority of their people and called the language Serbian or Bosnian. In Montenegro, the majority of the people claims to speak Serbian. The argument of the government that the language should be named after the state is therefore flawed."
The Movement for Changes proposed a compromise solution: "The official language is a single language that may be referred to as Montenegrin, Serbian". Branko Radulovic, vice president of the Movement for Changes, told ESI:
"Linguistically speaking, it is obviously the same language, but seen through the lens of the nation and the state, different people can call it Serbian, Bosnian, or Croatian. Four years ago, the census showed 60 percent in favour of the Serbian language, but if you repeat the questioner now, you would probably get some 60 to 70% in favour of Montenegrin".
In August 2007 a representative of the ruling DPS, Miodrag Vukovic offered a similar solution:
"The official language in Montenegro is Montenegrin, but it may be referred to as Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian".
Vaselj Sinistaj, official of the Albanian Alternative, prefers the language to be called Montenegrin, after the state:
"In the municipalities where minorities are represented in great numbers, their mother tongue should also be used in official communication. Next to the state-official language, on the local level the same status should be given to minority languages. This should, concretely, be the case with Albanian in Ulcinj and Tuzi."
The Bosnian Party argues that Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian, and even Croatian, should all be listed as official languages. In the conflict between Serbian and Montenegrin, Bosnian may also sneak in as a political compromise.
"We all speak a single language, we are within the same linguistic system, but the people call it Serbian or Montenegrin. If Bosnian is added, we would support this proposal."
Beyond the political battlefield, there is the clash of linguists of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic. The followers of the recently passed away Vojislav Nikcevic, a linguist who wrote a grammar of the Montenegrin language, point out the fine differences between Serbian and Montenegrin.
Adnan Cirgic, executive director of the institute for Montenegrin language, told ESI that the Montenegrin language has had more than a thousand years of tradition, and that it developed alongside the Montenegrin nation in a particular geographic and historical environment.
"While until mid-19th century the Serbian writers wrote in a language foreign and incomprehensible to their people, Montenegrin language had a local base long before the birth of Vuk Karadzic, and it gave birth already then to some of the most famous works of Montenegrin literature. In that sense, Montenegro had little use for the Vuk's language reform (19th century), except with regard to orthography, because there was very little to reform. As a confirmation of wide differences, I would cite one characteristic example: Njegos's Mountain Wrath has been abridged and translated into Serbian language as a short story, for the benefit of the Serbian readers. If it were the same language, there would have been no need to translate it."
According to him, the most important difference is the dialectical usage of long e (e in Serbian, je, ije in Montenegrin).
"In addition to the 30 letters in Serbian, Montenegrin has three more distinct sounds, of which two are widely used all across the Montenegrin linguistic space. This has also been acknowledged by Serbian linguists. These consonants should therefore find their way into our standard language. Besides, Montenegrin has a handful of other sounds produced by the conversion of the long e which are unknown to Serbian… I am currently working on the differences between Serbian and Montenegrin language. The number of such differences is more than obvious and sufficient to speak about a separate Montenegrin standard."
He adds that Montenegrin is not officially standardised nor can be until the state adopts it under that name.
"This does not mean that textbooks are missing. Academic Vojislav Nikcevic already systematised the language: he wrote the grammar, orthographic rules, as well as a two-volume history of the language. We have started together the Dialectology of the Montenegrin language, and the Institute for Montenegrin language, founded by him, began working on the project of a Dictionary of Montenegrin Language. His textbooks are used in the programmes of Slavic Studies around the world. A month ago, a Polish linguist Przemislav Brom defended a PhD dissertation on Montenegrin language."
Montenegrin writer Balsa Brkovic, also argues for the adoption of Montenegrin, albeit not based on its differences with Serbian:
"Seeing that, out of four nations using the same language, which linguistically is undoubtedly the same, three (Serbs, Croats, Bosnians) call it by the name of their state or nation, the right of Montenegrins to do the same is indisputable. On the other hand, in reaction to this a number of Serbian linguists jump to claim that it is not the same language, but if Serbian and Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian, or Bosnian and Croatian are all different languages, then Montenegrin is just as different."
Commenting on the fact that most of South America speaks Spanish and the North English, Brkovic explains that in their cases the language came as the language of a colonial power and an imposed culture which ate up the native ones.
"Our case is very different. This language did not come to Montenegro from Serbia so that we should call it Serbian. There is another unusual reason for Montenegrins to call their language Montenegrin. All the ancient Croatian texts before the Vuk and Danicic 19th century reform can barely be understood nowadays. Even the Serbian texts from the same period can only be read if translated from the Church Slavonic, Slavo-Serbian etc. to the contemporary language. In Montenegro, however, if you take the texts written by Peter I, who lived long before the Vuk's reform, or even older texts, you will be surprised, for you do not need a translator. Why? Vuk, the creator of the reform was from Montenegro and he used this reform to impose the Montenegrin standard as a basis for the literary standard of all south Slavs. It is an undeniable proof: not only should Montenegrins not hesitate to call it their own name, but, and I do not like saying it like this, but they have at least as much right as others to call it as they wish."
However, professors advocating for the language to be called Serbian also claim that science is on their side. Jelica Stojanovic, linguist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic defends this position to ESI:
"Speaking of dialects, the territory of today's Montenegro fits perfectly (and always did!) into the wider continuum of the Serbian language, as its inalienable part – no speech, no dialect nor a single linguistic specificity or a trait ends on the borders of Montenegro, none of it is "only Montenegrin", nor "generally Montenegrin", as the non-scientific circles attempt to portray it. As for the traditional and cultural identification and name-giving, the language in Montenegro, ever since it has a name, has been only Serbian."
According to Stojanovic, neither the literary (standard) expression nor the local language spoken in Montenegro contain any linguistic elements to set it aside from the wider Serbian language.
"Now, if on account of this story you publish and interview with two people of different opinions, it does not mean that the scientific community of linguists is divided on the question. The best representation of the attitude of science and profession towards this "problem" is the recently held conference in Podgorica (organized by the Montenegrin academy of arts and sciences and the Institute for South East European Languages in Oslo). Of some forty participants, only one (R. Glusica) argued in favour of "standardisation" of the Montenegrin language. The non-scientific basis of his presentation has been clearly exposed in the subsequent discussion."
She gives the example of English, which is the only official language, or one of the languages, in some 45 countries of the world: "What would happen if they too applied our "golden rule" to "give" English each their local or national title?!"
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I thought this was a well-done interview by Henry Kingman of Linux.com, welcoming new Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith.
I've been fortunate to serve on the Fedora Project Board since 2006, and to have the opportunity to work with several FPLs (Max and Paul directly, and their predecessors Michael, Christian, and Greg in various capacities), and I look forward to working with Jared even more now. He brings a wealth of experience, talent, and enthusiasm that's contagious.
I'm also quite pleased with the way the transitions between FPLs have been handled. Both Max and Paul knew for themselves when they were ready for new challenges – not that they were "burned out" (e.g. CATB lesson #5), or that they were no longer being effective, but realized that they could apply their talents towards Fedora in new ways, while opening new opportunities for another talented and respected contributor. That's a big part of building a healthy community.


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Time To Defend CFPB as Senate Banking Committee Aims Sights at It
written statement) last Thursday was the Bureau's 61st (not mere 59th) testimony before Congress. Also, ranking member Sherrod Brown (OH) has posted a release "ICYMI: Public Interest Advocates Praise CFPB's Success in Protecting Consumers" which excerpts from and links to each of 12 statements for the record from Americans for Financial Reform and its member groups, including ours. The hearing went well as the director explained the various enforcement, educational, rulemaking and other successes that the bureau has had had in just four-and-one-half years.
Notably, a number of citizen CFPB supporters, dressed in CFPB green T-shirts emblazoned "Stand up for the CFPB," attended the hearing. I had a CFPB green tie, so we all contrasted with the phalanx of paid lobbyists forced to sit behind us (we got there early). A "payday loan shark" also attended to promote the welcome new protectconsumersfromprotectconsumers.com web site, which targets one of the deceptive, dark-money (no disclosure), astroturf (no grassroots) anti-CFPB sites I had mentioned below.
ORIGINAL POST: While the House Financial Services Committee has held numerous hearings and voted out numerous bills attacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and consumer protection generally in this Congress, the Senate Banking Committee had largely been on hiatus for months while its chairman Richard Shelby (AL) campaigned to win his March primary. Now, he's back, and aiming his sights at the CFPB, too.
The Senate Banking Committee held a stacked hearing on "Assessing Consumer Regulations" yesterday (April 4) and will hear the "Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)" tomorrow morning (April 6). (Hearings are live on video; post-hearing video archives and written testimony of in-person witnesses are available at those links.) We submitted a statement to be entered into the hearing records, as did other Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) coalition members.
Yesterday, although the hearing witnesses were stacked 3-1 against the CFPB, our one pro-consumer witness, the Reverend Willie Gable, and pro-CFPB Senators led by Elizabeth Warren (MA), ranking member Sherrod Brown (OH) and Jeff Merkley (OR) defended consumer protection ably. Meanwhile, three industry-backed witnesses and their supporters on the committee had a great deal of trouble proving their case that the CFPB or any consumer regulations should be dismantled.
In an electrifying exchange, Senator Warren (Youtube video) challenged an industry lawyer's views and suitability as a witness because he'd been a longtime Federal Reserve official both before and during the Fed's failure to identify or respond to many warnings of market conditions and mortgage industry practices that led to the 2008 financial meltdown and subsequent recession.
Senator Merkley emphasized the problems with the payday loan business model, which creates an unsustainable "cycle of debt" as his chart at right shows."What Is Payday Lending?" has more. Payday lenders are among the shrillest opponents of the CFPB, and are seeking to kill its proposed regulation to regulate predatory high-cost short-term lending. Their campaign goes so far as to run ads in my own personal Facebook feed and probably in yours. too. CFPB opponents including the payday lenders, credit bureaus, the American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers Association and U.S. Chamber of Commerce (which also had a witness yesterday) are also joined by a number of dark-money (no disclosure) fake consumer groups running Astroturf (no grassroots) campaigns on the Internet.
For his part, Senator Brown engaged hostile witnesses on a variety of subjects, including defense of the CFPB's Public Consumer Complaint Database, which was also the core subject of our statement to the committee (see below). He also explained the history of the financial collapse, and warned the committee not to engage in "collective amnesia" by repealing the protections enacted to prevent a repeat of the 2008 collapse.
A frequent critique of the CFPB is that it lacks oversight. Tomorrow morning, CFPB Director Richard Cordray will present the statutory "Semi-Annual Report of the CFPB" to the committee. The notion that the CFPB lacks oversight or is out-of-control is rebutted by the simple fact that Director Cordray's appearance tomorrow will be approximately the 59th testimony by him or other senior bureau officials before Congress since the agency was "stood up" on July 21, 2011 as the nation's first regulator with just one job, protecting consumers.
He has presented the report already in the House, so it is available (most recent, Fall 2015, is subject of these hearings). It is a formidable and encyclopedic report (summary of most recent report in Director Cordray's House testimony in March) yet it is by no means the only oversight document of the CFPB. For example, here are a few other recent oversight documents:
- (Latest) Monthly Consumer Complaint Snapshot (March 2016)
- Annual Report of the CFPB Office of Servicemember Affairs (March 2016)
- Supervisory Highlights (March 2016)
- Annual Report To Appropriations Committees (January 2016)
Our statement for the record focuses on three issues (with excerpts below):
- Defend the CFPB, It Works: PIRG stands in strong support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including support for its single-director structure, its independent funding insulating it from special interest chicanery and its broad authority and tools to make all financial markets work. Without any doubt, establishment of the CFPB is the most important consumer financial protection action by the Congress since the establishment of deposit insurance in the 1930s. And, independent funding is neither a controversial nor new idea; it's been the law since 1864 for all bank regulators.
- Defend the CFPB's Public Consumer Complaint Database, It Works: The CFPB's public Consumer Complaint Database is a critical mechanism to both aid CFPB enforcement and select its rulemaking priorities but also to help it avoid the calcification, or worse, regulatory capture typified by its predecessor consumer regulators. In just four and one-half years, the CFPB now has the largest public consumer complaint database of any federal agency, with over 834,000 complaints collected as of 1 March 2016. Over 540,000 of the 834,000 complaints to the CFPB have been posted in the Public Consumer Complaint Database (others are still being processed or have been referred to other agencies). It is important to point out, however, that transparent public consumer complaint databases are now the rule, not the exception. Other examples include the Consumer Product Safety Commission (saferproducts.gov) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (safercar.gov). U.S. PIRG maintains an appendix of these and several other searchable government consumer complaint databases in each of its six (so far) CFPB Consumer Complaint Database reports, based on drilling down into the CFPB database. Note that the CFPB, NHTSA and CPSC databases all allow consumers to post their own complaints, despite identical blathering from regulated firms that only some sort of "approved by them" complaints should be posted. The CFPB's recent (April 1) and extremely comprehensive Consumer Response 2015 Annual Report to Congress explains that complaints are in fact vetted and that companies all have a right to explain their side, although many choose not to do so. The report also explains the reason for a signifincant improvement in 2015, adding consumer stories: "A consumer who chooses to make her experience public enables more people to exert their power to improve the financial marketplace."
- The "Durbin Amendment" Works to Improve a Broken Payment Card Marketplace While Benefiting Small Banks and Credit Unions: The Durbin amendment is not part of the CFPB. It was enacted at the same time in response to anti-competitive practives of credit card networks and big banks. All consumers pay more at the store and more at the pump due to "market power" exerted by the Visa/Mastercard card network duopoly, which allows banks to impose excessive "swipe fees" on merchants. The "Durbin amendment" limiting the duopoly's power to allow big banks to collect these excess rents has worked. Contrary to testimony that may be provided to the committee, there is strong evidence that the Durbin amendment has helped small banks and credit unions, which continue to offer both free checking and debit rewards programs.
Our full statement to be entered into the hearing records explains each of these points in much greater detail.
Conversely, Senator Shelby's opening remarks simply repeated many old themes of House attacks on the CFPB. So did questions from other Senators from his party. The notion that we don't need a consumer regulator or consumer regulations is also rebutted, of course, by the Senator Warren Youtube excerpt from yesterday.
We agree with detailed comments of over a dozen statements submitted for the record from other Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) coalition members. Each of our AFR statements provides detail on 1-2 important consumer regulations, from credit reporting to mortgage regulations; all statements also point out, in their own words, that "the idea of the CFPB needs no defense, only more defenders."
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – After the UW-Eau Claire football team led much of the first half, Saint John's University (Minn.) scored 21 unanswered points between the second and third quarters and was able to hold on for a 31-28 win over the Blugolds today at Carson Park.
Joel Sweeney (Jr.-Tomah, Wis.) scored three rushing touchdowns for the Blugolds and finished the day with 182 yards, the second largest total he has reached in his career. Sweeney scored the game's opening touchdown and had another in the second quarter. His final touchdown came in the fourth quarter, which helped put the Blugolds within seven (28-21) with less than 12 minutes to play.
While Eau Claire and Saint John's played close in the beginning and found themselves tied at 14 at halftime, the Johnnies scored two touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 28-14 lead. In the fourth, while Sweeney scored early, Saint John's answered with a field goal with 2:11 remaining on the clock. The field goal came following a 46-minute lightning delay.
Despite being down by 10 points with just over two minutes to play, the Blugolds didn't give up. Quarterback Austin Neu (Sr.-Iron Ridge, Wis./Hustisford) led the Blugolds down the field in just one minute, going 73 yards in eight plays to the end zone and Eau Claire was down by just three (31-28). Cody Gerver (So.-Mahtomedi, Minn.) caught the 10-yard touchdown pass from Neu to complete the drive.
The Blugolds then tried an onside kick but the Johnnies recovered and were able to run out the clock.
The teams were nearly even in total offensive yards, 397 yards for Eau Claire and 362 for Saint John's.
The Blugolds did a better job this week with fumbles and penalties, finishing with no fumbles and just four penalties. A week ago, the Blugolds fumbled four times and had eight penalties. Neu also threw two interceptions last week – this week he had none.
On defense, Sean Graham (Jr.-Hales Corners, Wis./Whitnall) had seven tackles (six solo, one assist) to lead Eau Claire. Pat Hendricks (Sr.-Clintonville, Wis.) recorded one sack for a loss of two yards.
Eau Claire falls to 0-2 overall while Saint John's improves to 2-0. In the all-time series, the Johnnies lead 8-6 but today was their first win over the Blugolds since 2009.
The Blugolds will take next weekend off before a non-conference contest at UW-Platteville on Thursday, September 20. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m.
Photos by Chico LaBarbera - http://chico.zenfolio.com/p813518493


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Emmy(R) Nominee Berg Directs And Executive Produces; Jim Lampley, Sarah Aubrey And Michael Price Also Executive Produce
HBO and filmmaker Peter Berg will team up for the innovative new primetime series ON FREDDIE ROACH, directed and executive produced by Emmy(R) nominee Berg ("Friday Night Lights"). Presented by HBO and a co-production of Film 44 and Atticus Entertainment, the cinéma-vérité series focuses on Freddie Roach, the world-famous boxing trainer who owns and operates the famed Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, where he has produced a host of world champions. This intensely personal look at Roach chronicles his life and career against the backdrop of Parkinson's disease, an ailment very likely linked to his own boxing past.
ON FREDDIE ROACH debuts FRIDAY, JAN. 20 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, with other new episodes debuting the subsequent five Fridays at the same time. All episodes will also be available on HBO On Demand(R) and HBO GO(R).
"We are truly excited to partner with Peter Berg on this exceptional production," says Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. "Freddie Roach is an extraordinary person and a fascinating personality."
"HBO's enthusiasm in supporting a less-conventional, vérité style of storytelling is why they continue to create original and truly innovative programming," says Peter Berg. "It's why they are the best and we are very excited to be working with them."
A native of Dedham, Mass., Freddie Roach has an extensive amateur boxing background. He fought as a professional under the tutelage of legendary Hall of Fame trainer Eddie Futch, ending his professional boxing career in 1987 with a record of 41 wins and 13 losses. Upon retiring, Roach became Futch's apprentice. In 1992, Mickey Rourke financed his first gym, the Outlaw Boxing Club. Roach has trained more than 20 world champions, including Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan, Oscar de la Hoya and Mike Tyson. He has been honored five times as Trainer of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America and has been inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced a unique partnership with Roach in an effort to ensure that America's top amateur fighters have access to the finest training in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. This partnership will create a program allowing up to ten Olympic hopefuls to train at the Wild Card Gym, which has become synonymous with world-class performance.
The 51-year-old bachelor lives next door to his mother, just a few miles from Wild Card.
ON FREDDIE ROACH is directed and executive produced by Peter Berg; executive produced by Jim Lampley, Sarah Aubrey and Michael Price.


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Let S and T be two countably infinite sets. Suppose S is not a subset of T and vice-versa. Is the intersection of S and T a finite set? If not, please provide counterexamples.
I originally asked this question because it occurred to me when trying to prove that the union of two countably infinite sets is countable. I recently picked up Ralph Boas' Primer of Real Functions and have been trying to do the exercises. However, in the book, Boas doesn't introduce the notion of countability using injective functions and I have been trying to come up with a proof that doesn't involve injections. I fooled myself with a 'proof' but now I'm just stuck. Any hints to help me along the way? I'm very new to real analysis. So please bear with me. Also, what proportion of exercises should I be able to do if I really understand the material? I guess what I'm asking is that how do the exercises serve as a barometer for my mathematical skill?


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According to David B. Smith, product general manager for lighting systems at GE Consumer and Industrial Lighting in Hendersonville, N.C., growth in the transportation lighting market is steady. This can be attributed to increased populations, security concerns, and the continued growth and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure.
"In addition, the federal government is pumping money into the public transportation sector, increasing the lighting at bus and train stations to increase safety and security and promote the use of public transportation," said Ed Morel, tunnel transit specialist for Lumec-Schreder, Chicago. Other factors that contribute to the continued growth of the transportation lighting market include low interest rates, high material prices, the shift to metal halide lamp technology, a growing demand for full cutoff-rated lighting solutions and an increased national sensitivity to good security lighting on roads, bridges, at airports and on military installations.
Technological and market trends
"There has been a definite shift away from high-pressure sodium lamps to metal halide for the whiter color, more stable performance, and higher output," said Barry Howell, manager, market development for American Electric Lighting, sister company of Lithonia Lighting and part of the Acuity Lighting Group Inc., Atlanta.
In addition, pulse-start metal halide lamps offer transportation lighting projects increased efficiency, longer life and better color rendition. According to Wayne Compton, vice president and general manager at Hubbell Lighting's Architectural Outdoor Lighting Group, demand for metal halide has grown from 40 percent of sales to 80 percent.
"It's not just that metal halide offers more efficiency, but end-users and the public just don't care anymore for the yellow light of high-pressure sodium sources," Compton said.
Induction lamp lighting for use in signs on roads, bridges and in tunnels has been gaining popularity.
"Induction lamps have up to 100,000 hours of life, compared to the 25,000 hours offered by high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp sources," said Smith.
Mercury HID sign lighting typically has input watts of 205, while an induction lamp's input wattage is 85, creating a savings of 120 watts.
Induction lamps, according to Morel, are best suited where the control of light is not important, such as tunnel interiors, or where maintenance is difficult and needs to be kept to a minimum.
"A selection of high-wattage electronic HID ballast systems are nearing commercial introduction in 2005," said Patrick Walker, marketing manager for commercial outdoor and roadway products at Cooper Lighting, Peachtree City, Ga.
These systems promise significant energy savings over traditional magnetic ballast technology, while increasing lamp life by as much as 50 percent.
"Another exciting technology on the horizon is PC-based site monitoring software that will allow real-time visibility of individual road, bridge and tunnel luminaires' operating conditions across an entire site, providing valuable insight for planning future maintenance schedules," Walker said.
Lighting controls have made their own advancements, as well.
"The electronic photo control has taken over the transportation lighting market," said Howell.
Electronic photo controls are more reliable than mechanical controls and provide higher energy savings and less consumption. They also conserve energy by allowing programming of lighting levels based on time, usage and demand.
"The most exciting advancement of lighting controls for transportation projects is remote monitoring and controls capabilities," said Smith.
This ability allows the user to gather information about light usage, fixture or photocell malfunctions, and lamp cycles, which means less field diagnostics and maintenance. Web-enabled communications technology provides remote access to the information, downloaded directly through the Internet.
Higher-efficiency T8 and T5 fluorescent lamps have increased lumen output and, when tied in with electronic controls, provide the opportunity to design more compact luminaires. Tunnels and underpasses built in the late 1950s and early 1960s have lower clearances, which require slimmer replacement luminaires.
"These light sources fit well into those designs," Morel said.
The entire process of painting and finishing fixtures has improved with new surface preparation technologies and materials, promoting the protection of the luminaire from corrosion and increasing its longevity and aesthetic value.
Owners of transportation projects like to take advantage of modern luminaires so that their airports, bridges and train stations look modern and progressive.
"The trend away from traditional luminaires is being driven by the desire to equate transportation to something that's modern and constantly improving," said Compton.
The same demand for high-end, aesthetic and decorative luminaires is being seen in high-end residential neighborhood and in cities that are attempting to revitalize downtown areas. According to NEMA, the decorative outdoor lighting market grew 18 percent in 2004.
Star light, star bright
The International Dark-Sky Association was founded with the goals of stopping the adverse environmental impact on dark skies by increasing light pollution awareness.
Members want to educate everyone on the value and effectiveness of quality nighttime lighting and to allow astronomers to use earth-based telescopes more effectively.
The association has developed a model lighting ordinance that severely reduces the amount of allowable outdoor lighting, which it has made available to jurisdictions to use as a guideline. According to Smith, approximately 38 states now have some sort of Dark-Sky regulation requiring the use of full cutoff fixtures in outdoor, including transportation and lighting. Cutoff ratings are determined by the amount of light emitting from the fixture at high angles.
"Full cutoff fixtures have less light at high angles, which is perceived to limit the amount of up light," said Shannon Gaines, marketing manager for area, roadway, floodlighting and poles at Cooper Lighting.
One of the impacts of Dark-Sky ordinances on transportation lighting projects has been to make lighting for roads, bridges and airports more expensive. When cutoff or full cutoff fixtures are used rather than conventional semi-cutoff types, more of them are required to provide the same level of lighting because they do not cover as large an area.
"What the Dark-Sky ordinances do not take into account is that light fixtures are not always the culprit in increased light pollution. In some cases, reflection from the ground is what causes the problem," Howell said.
The ordinances also have an impact on safety and security.
"Light levels may be reduced so much that nighttime visibility is lessened to an unsafe level," said Compton. One study showed that people 55 or older need twice the light levels as an 18-year-old to see with the same acuity.
"As the U.S population ages, this could become a safety factor on the roads," said Compton.
In addition, the use of cutoff luminaires may lead the public to misperceive the actual light levels and to believe that the road, bridge or parking lot is actually not a well-lit or secure place to enter.
Research has shown that a well-designed luminaire that is classified as full- or semi-cutoff can be used in transportation lighting projects and not throw any light over 90 degrees.
"Dark-Sky ordinances around the country tend to focus on requiring the use of full cutoff luminaires rather than the use of the right fixture to reduce light pollution, while still maintaining safe levels of light," Morel said.
Opportunities for contractors
Transportation lighting projects offer the electrical contractor who already has the experience, equipment and understanding of customer requirements an opportunity to broaden his customer base.
"Transportation lighting projects are often state funded, requiring an extensive knowledge base of the jurisdictional regulations and paperwork requirements involved," said Howell.
The more an electrical contractor knows about the types of products used in transportation lighting projects, the more efficiently it can select and install those products.
"Contractors that want to succeed in this market must become educated on the options available. Much of this information comes directly from the individual manufacturers, which usually offer training in the technology and applications of the products offered," Howell said.
Electrical contractors can influence product selection in transportation lighting projects and drive new product development by actively sharing their daily experiences and preferences with those who specify and manufacture products.
"Strong voices are heard, and OEM fixture manufacturers are anxious to provide products that exceed the expectations of the specifier, the owner and the installer," Walker said.
Two emerging outdoor and roadway general illumination light sources that electrical contractors in the transportation lighting market must be aware of are white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and solar-powered fixtures. Both are more energy efficient than current sources, but their light output is not yet sufficient and LEDs generate a lot of heat.
"Once the technology has been improved in the next year or two, and these technologies generate more light, they will migrate into the outdoor market because of their long life, energy efficiency, and reduced maintenance costs," Smith said.
However, LEDs may never be used for 1,000W outdoor applications, such as airport aprons.
"Once the consistent color rendition and light output problems are solved in the next couple of years, white LEDs will be able to supply enough light for use in safety and security applications in smaller parking lots and perhaps smaller bridges or even tunnels, in addition to their traditional architectural applications," said Compton. EC
BREMER, a freelance writer based in Solomons, Md., contributes frequently to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. She can be reached at 410.394.6966 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Size: Approx. 26cm x 28.8cm x 112.3cm
Dust capacity: 0.8L
Wire length: 4.5m
Power: 600W
Voltage: 220V~50Hz
Noise: Less than 75dB
2in1 handheld vacuum cleaner
Easy to install
With 3 different brush head for different usage
Easy to clean the dust
Wide coverage area to suck the dust
Can be use as mist vacuum as well
HEPA dust filter
China pin
Friendly Reminder:
Please make sure the filter between the motor is always clean to avoid overheating. (Prevent the air flow blocked from dust).
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2. Combined shipping is allowed, with additional charges. Shipping fee is calculated base on the actual dimension or weight.
3. Customer will receive their item within 3~5 business days.
4. We not responsible for shipments which are delayed due to causes beyond the control of our carriers, including, but not limited to the following: Acts of God, riots, strikes or other labor disputes, air traffic control delays, disruptions in air or ground transportation networks due to events such as weather phenomena and natural disasters.
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Great Britain's former prime minister Margaret Thatcher aka The Iron Lady is alive and well. But Chumbawamba , one of my favorite bands, is always ahead of the curve: they just announced on their MySpace blog the completion of a commemorative EP, already recorded, pressed and ready to be shipped the day Thatcher dies:
Featuring several new songs commemorating the most viciously dismissive and destructive leader we've had since long before any of us were born, this CD has the peculiarity of not having a fixed release date. […] Pay your £5 now in the knowledge that, come the morning after the glorious day, you'll have this exclusive and unavailable-elsewhere CD dropping tombstone-like onto your doormat.
You can pre-order your copy here.