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News | 04/12/2018
Liebherr achieves the highest turnover in the Group's history
In 2017, the Liebherr Group achieved the highest turnover in the Group's history, with total sales of € 9,845 million. Compared to the previous year, the family-run company increased its revenue by 9.3%. The Group is expecting further sales growth for 2018.Find out more
News | 01/23/2018
Liebherr unveils new 50 M5 XXT truck mounted concrete pump at the 2018 World of Concrete trade show
Liebherr USA, Co. Concrete Technology division unveils the new 50 M5 XXT truck mounted concrete pump to the general public for the first time at World of Concrete 2018. The 50 M5 XXT development focused on integrating new technologies and capabilities, lowering the overall weight and optimizing product dimensions.
News | 09/28/2017
Liebherr expands U.S. footprint with the opening of a new facility in Lodi, California
Liebherr USA, Co. continues its expansion in the U.S., with the opening of its newest location in Lodi, California to better service customers in the western region. The Lodi facility operations will include sales, service and repair of new and used mobile, duty cycle and lift version crawler cranes, as well as piling and drilling rigs.
News | 04/26/2017
The Liebherr Group achieved €9,009 million turnover in business year 2016
In 2016, in a difficult market environment Liebherr achieved the third-highest turnover in the Group's history, with total sales of €9,009 million. Compared to the record year of 2015, this represents a decrease of €228 million or 2.5%.
News | 07.07.2016
Liebherr announces the formation of a mixed sales company, Liebherr USA, Co.
The Liebherr Group leverages its capabilities in the USA and announces the formation of Liebherr USA, Co., comprising the sales and service of eight Liebherr divisions.
News | 15.06.2016
Liebherr Group's turnover in the 2015 business year reaches a total of 9,237 million €
Liebherr's total turnover in 2015 was 9,237 million €, the highest figure in the Group's history and an increase of 414 million € or 4.7 % compared with the previous year.
News | 03.06.2015
More Liebherr cranes for Imperial Crane Services
US crane rental company Imperial Crane Services, Inc. purchased Liebherr cranes from Nenzing and Ehingen at this year's Bauma.


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The flotilla crisis seen from Cairo
It's impressive to see such a forceful international reaction to this morning's deadly raid on the flotilla of boats bringing aid to Gaza. Thousands have protested in New York, Istanbul, Ankara, Stockholm, Paris and many other places, in one of the biggest mobilizations on behalf of the Palestinian cause in years.
Even in Cairo, where pro-Palestinian demos have been very, very tightly restricted since the Gaza war — since the regime doesn't want any reminders of its role in the Gaza blockade — today was a surprise. At first, the protest outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seemed disappointed, with only a few dozen participants. But this evening, thousands gathered at the al-Fath mosque on Ramses Square and staged an impressive protest, even if they were penned in by several hundred uniformed riot control troops and police officers, as well as tons of plainclothes security people and a bunch of baltiguiya (street toughs hired to intimidate, and need be, beat up protesters).
I didn't get to come close to the mosque, because police people were everywhere (mostly plainclothes, which always leads me to say the equivalent of, 'who the fuck are you? where's your uniform? show me some ID if you're a cop' and that gets tiresome, especially since I probably only get away with it because I'm a khawaga) getting people to move off. But from what I could tell — confirmed by my colleagues Sarah Carr and Jon Jensen who were closer and there longer — it was a tightly organized affair, if not led by the Muslim Brothers then definitely Islamist-dominated. They even had a brief moment of shouting slogans against Mubarak, although that was quickly shushed down (my guess would be this is the old Labor Party Islamists vs. MB argument).
It's important to note that this is the biggest protest about Palestine since the Gaza war, in an atmosphere in which such protests have not been tolerated. We might see more in the next few days, including on Friday after prayers. This may revive local activism on Gaza as well as linkages made between the situation there and the situation in Egypt — notably the Mubarak regime's collaboration with Israel on the blockade. Expect a fierce fight in the media over this in the next few days, and more opportunities to express all sorts of grievances. But when Turkey expels its ambassador and Egypt is seen to be doing nothing, it looks very, very bad for Cairo.
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Put aside, for the moment, the long postwar argument between the rival claims of realistic and anti-realistic fiction—the seasoned triumphs of the traditional American novel on one side, and the necessary innovations of postmodern fiction on the other. It was never very edifying anyway, each camp busily caricaturing the other. And don't bother with the newest "debate," about the properly desirable amount of "reality" that American fiction should currently possess. (Twenty grams, twenty-five grams?) Some novelists, neither obviously traditional nor obviously experimental, neither flagrantly autobiographical nor airily fantastical, blast through such phantom barricades. Often, this is because they have a natural, vivacious talent for telling stories; and these stories—the paradox is important—seem fictively real, cunningly alive. Novelistic vivacity, the great unteachable, the unschooled enigma, has a way of making questions of form appear scholastic.
Rachel Kushner's second novel, "The Flamethrowers" (Scribner), is scintillatingly alive, and also alive to artifice. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story. It is nominally a historical novel (it's set in the mid-seventies), and, I suppose, also a realist one (it works within the traditional grammar of verisimilitude). But it manifests itself as a pure explosion of now: it catches us in its mobile, flashing present, which is the living reality it conjures on the page at the moment we are reading. Consider Kushner's vivid descriptions, near the start of the book, of racing and motorcycling. The novel's narrator, an artist in her early twenties nicknamed Reno (it's where she's from), is obsessed with speed, machines, and land-speed records. (Art seems to be a subsidiary concern.) When we first see her, she is riding her Moto Valera motorbike from Nevada to Utah, to take part in the land-speed trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats. In a cool, hospitable, ingenuous tone, she tells us about herself. Her mother was a switchboard operator, "and if her past included something akin to noir, it was only the gritty part, the part about being female, poor, and alone, which in a film was enough of a circumstance to bring in the intrigue, but in her life it attracted only my father." As she approaches the salt flats, the prose begins to glimmer:
On the short drive from town out to the salt flats, the high desert gleamed under the morning sun. White, sand, rose, and mauve—those were the colors here, sand edging to green in places, with sporadic bursts of powdery yellow, weedy sunflowers blooming three-on-the-tree. . . . Pure white stretching so far into the distance that its horizon revealed a faint curve of the Earth. I heard the sonic rip of a military jet, like a giant trowel being dragged through wet concrete, but saw only blue above, a raw and saturated blue that seemed cut from an inner wedge of sky.
It is easy enough for a good writer (and this is very good prose—that "inner wedge of sky" perfectly capturing the living blueness of atmosphere) to do something verbally fine with the extremities of desert. What is impressive about these early pages is how easily Kushner also begins to tell stories of the desert. Reno informs us that, as a young girl, she loved the celebrated land-speed-record holder, Flip Farmer. "I had a poster above my bed of Flip and his winning car, the Victory of Samothrace. Flip with his breakfast cereal smile, in his zip-up land speed suit, made of a silvery-blue ripstop cloth that refracted to lavender at angles and folds, and lace-up racing boots that were the color of vanilla ice cream." She got Flip's autograph when she was twelve, the year that he almost died, after crashing at five hundred and twenty-two miles per hour. Two superb pages recount the agonizing, slow-motion last minutes of that accident—how the car shot up a ten-foot-high salt dike, and how Flip Farmer's world then went vertical:
A quadrangle of plain, cloudless sky. A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death. If there had been just one puffy trawler, a little tugboat of a cloud, even so much as a cotton ball of vapor against the blue, he would have hoped. There was only blue. He was headed for the drainage ditch on the other side of the dike. It was filled with rainwater. The Victory slammed into it. As it sank, nose first, Flip desperately popped the canopy. There was no way he'd get the canopy open once the car was underwater. He tore off his oxygen mask and tried to unfold himself from the driver's seat.
Flip Farmer did not die but "recaptured the world record the season after the Watts riots and kept it until last year, 1975, when an Italian stole it away in a rocket-fueled vehicle and Flip officially retired."
Reno arrives, parks her bike on the flats. "Pink gasoline and synthetic red engine oil soaked into the salt like butcher shop residue. The salt itself, up close, was the color of unbleached sugar, but the sunlight used it as if it were the brightest white. . . . I heard the silky glide of toolbox drawers, the tink of wrenches dropped on the hard salt. Tanned little boys darted past me on bicycles, wearing mesh baseball caps propped high on their heads, in mimicry of the fathers and uncles who crowded around workbenches, bent over vehicles, their belts buckled off center to avoid scratching the paint." And so it continues, the novel's reality level as high and blindingly brilliant as the Utah sunlight. Later, we will meet the Italian who stole Flip's record—Didi Bombonato, with his "pocked, sunken cheeks, thin bluish lips, and eyes like raisins, which made him seem angry and also a little dimwitted," his lustrous hair "feathered into elaborate croissant layers." And Reno will briefly hold the record as the fastest woman in the world, at 308.506 m.p.h., achieved in Didi's special streamlined Valera car, the Spirit of Italy.
But, if Kushner's reality level is high, so is her fiction level. Seduced by the confident storytelling, lulled by the dazzle of its disclosures ("They dragged him to safety just before the hydrazine ignited, sending a boom, and then a far bigger boom, followed by a violent bubbling, as the Victory of Samothrace exploded underwater like fuel rods in a reactor pool"), I had lazily assumed that, even if the Moto Valera was a fictional brand of motorbike, then Flip Farmer was probably an actual American racer. But he is as fictional as the novel's narrator (though perhaps based on Craig Breedlove, an actual five-time land-speed-record holder). Flip and his accident, Didi Bombonato and his croissant hair, the Valera mechanics, the whole Valera company, the tanned boys on their bicycles—they are all magnificently made up, brief blooms of the Utah desert.
Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical. Her first novel, "Telex from Cuba" (2008), did something similar with the Cuba of the nineteen-fifties, whereby parts of the history of the United Fruit Company were mixed with her inventions, and a dense political and human portrait emerged. Likewise, "The Flamethrowers" offers an extended and convincing biography of the enormous Valera company: we hear about T. P. Valera, the company's founder, who fought in the First World War in the Arditi (the Italian assault brigade); his dabbling with young Italian Futurists; his membership in the Fascist Party; how the company expanded, in 1942, to manufacture tires, and its racist and punitive treatment of the Brazilian Indian workers who produced the rubber for the tires; how the company helped to build Italy's modern road system, in the fifties; and how it became disastrously involved in the strikes and revolutionary guerrilla actions of the seventies.
Most American novelists, with this amount of information to impart, would be unable to resist flourishing the labor of their research: we are all supposed to revere writers who know things about the world (seventies funk! Big Coal!), notwithstanding the non-mysterious and equalizing interventions of Google. But Kushner's Italian company is invented (albeit with dashes of Pirelli, Fiat, Moto Guzzi), and is thus both solid and curiously spectral; and, besides, she calmly subdues her material, inhabits it as a true novelist should, so that the Valera story emerges as worked narrative, not as labored data.
Kushner's narrator is riding a Moto Valera in Utah because her well-connected boyfriend supplied it. A year earlier, Reno had landed in New York, a tall, attractive twenty-one-year-old, and quickly met Sandro Valera, T. P. Valera's younger son. Sandro, unlike his elder and much more conservative brother, Roberto, who now runs the Italian company, has forsworn business for art. He makes minimalist aluminum boxes, and shows at the (fictional) Erwin Frame Gallery, where a woman behind the counter nods severely at Reno when she enters, "glancing up through eyeglass frames that were black and round like little handcuffs." Sandro is fourteen years older than Reno, wealthy, self-assured, good-looking; Reno is attracted to him, and seems happy anyway to be a picaro of the Manhattan art world. She goes to all the parties and hears the stories, and reports on the egotists, storytellers, and fabricators (in both senses) she encounters there: "I had always admired people who had a palpable sense of their own future, who constructed plans and then followed them." This is not Reno's aimless approach: "Chance, to me, had a kind of absolute logic to it." Most of her adventures in this novel—from Utah to the Village to her later involvements with violent leftists in Rome—occur because she just gets in the way of them.
But, if Reno is wide-eyed and even dangerously porous, Kushner watches the New York art world of the late seventies with sardonic precision and lancing humor, using Reno's reportorial hospitality to fill her pages with lively portraits and outrageous cameos. Kushner's New York is full of performers, boasters, wastrels, aesthetic activists. Most of the artists are great storytellers; many of them are committed fantasists. One of the most poignant is Reno's friend Giddle, who works at a coffee shop, the Trust E, on Lafayette Street. At one time, she hung around Warhol's Factory and had inchoate artistic ambitions. She plans to go to mortuary school, and covers her failures with bitter self-defense: "Anyone can be a success. . . . It's so much more interesting to not want that."
There is a local figure, famous for carrying a long pole over his shoulder, painted with barber stripes. Giddle tells Reno, "It's his thing, that pole. No sellable works, just disruption. Goes to gallery openings, bonks people on the head by accident." There is Stanley Kastle, of whose art Sandro has this to say to Reno: "All Stanley had to do, at this point, to keep his art career going, was order neon tubes in various colors from a manufacturer, and his assistants arranged the tubes according to an algorithm he'd invented long ago, as if to subtract himself from the production of his own art." When not organizing this operation, Stanley records monologues on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Kushner reproduces one of these recordings, over four and a half long pages; it's meandering, pretentious, oddly likable, banal. Even Stanley concedes that he doesn't make a lot of sense, and that the main problem may just be that "men over fifty can't stop talking."
The novel's greatest talker is Sandro's best friend, Ronnie Fontaine, whose photographs (such as we hear about them) seem nugatory, but whose stories are captivating. Ronnie once made a "blithe declaration" that he wanted to "photograph every living person. Sandro said it was Ronnie's best work and something on the level of a poem: a gesture with no possible rebuttal. It didn't matter that it was never made." But perhaps his stories are his best works. We soon understand that nothing Ronnie says can be trusted. Yet he has all of Kushner's uncanny novelistic confidence. He has probably never been in prison, for instance (it emerges that he has channelled the experience of his criminal brother), but, when he talks about his time inside, you believe in it:
I know about confinement and boredom and midnight fire drills. Amplified orders banging around the prison yard like the evening prayer call from the mosques along Atlantic Avenue. I know pimento loaf. Powdered eggs. Riots. The experience of being hosed down with bleach and disinfectant like a garbage can. I know about an erotics of necessity.
Notice how Kushner gently tweaks the tail of that tale, and makes the slightly Sontagian proclamation sound, in Ronnie's telling, authentically silly: "I know about an erotics of necessity." Kushner has become a sharp comic writer (her new novel is much funnier than her first), and has had the advantage of having spent several years watching the contemporary Manhattan literary and art scene, as an editor at Grand Street and Bomb. She is funny not at the expense of contemporary art but at the expense of the people who make that art, seeing with clear eyes their bluster and pantomime. She scours her chosen period for its extravagance and histrionics; the parallel with today's ambition market is obvious. Small worlds resemble each other first.
Kushner is also a diligent historical novelist, which involves seeing differences. In "The Flamethrowers," she focusses on the highly politicized world of post-Nixon nineteen-seventies America. One of her characters is the somewhat sinister Burdmoore Model, apparently a terrible artist (he talks about art "parting her labia"), better known as the leader of a radical group called the Motherfuckers, who went quickly from anarchism to violence in the late sixties, and ended up stabbing a landlord. Reno asks Model why his group was called the Motherfuckers, and receives this reply: "Because we hated women. . . . You think I'm joking. Women had no place in the movement unless they wanted to cook us a meal or clean the floor or strip down. There are people who've tried to renovate our ideas, claim we weren't chauvinists. Don't believe it. We had some heavy shit to work out. But we were idealists, too. We saw a future of people singing and dancing, making love and masturbating in the streets."
The scene that Reno moves through is more casually sexist than Model's outright misogyny. The chauvinism seems bound up with the arrogance and attitudinizing, the sheer performative relentlessness of the men (and occasional women) who pass in and out of Reno's life. Sandro tells Reno, "Sex is not about exchange values. . . . It's a gift economy." But Reno seems to be doing most of the gifting, and, when the time comes and another woman makes herself available, Sandro will throw Reno over with practiced ease.
"The Flamethrowers" can be seen as a contemporary rewriting of Flaubert's novel of 1869, "Sentimental Education." Reno, like Frédéric Moreau, is a frustratingly malleable figure, a hero almost vacuous except for the exactitude of her noticing. Both protagonists are infatuated with older love objects. Both books offer dense pictures of cities riven by political protest—Paris in Flaubert's case, New York and Rome in Kushner's. Both move smoothly from portraits of bohemians to sketches of aristocrats, and the minor characters are in danger of possessing more vitality than the drifting protagonists. Kushner seems most Flaubertian when Reno travels to Italy with Sandro, and spends several miserable weeks in the Valera family's villa above Lake Como. At the villa, there are nicely barbarous walk-ons, such as the Count of Bolzano, "a little man whose round belly pressed against his mint-green shirt, which was monogrammed on the lower left, over his spleen." Or Sandro's grand, snobbish mother, who was once beautiful but now has a complexion "like wet flour, clammy and pale, with the exception of her nose, which had a curiously dark cast to it, a shadow of black under the thin tarp of skin, as if her nose had trapped the toxins from a lifetime of rich food and heavy wines." Or Sandro's objectionable elder brother, Roberto, the stern capitalist, who has this to say about the activists and bolshie university students who are thronging Rome: "With long, ratty hair and stupefied expressions, like they've figured out how to empty their minds of thought. They have nothing to communicate but the cretinous message anyone can see: I have long hair."
A little conveniently, Kushner needs to have Reno in Italy in order for her novel to play out its dark history. In Italy, Reno is abandoned by Sandro. She runs off in anger to Rome, where she falls in with welcoming radicals. She witnesses a violent demonstration and is teargassed. The political menace that has been seething throughout the novel finally explodes. The Valera factories have been subject to labor action, strikes, guerrilla sorties. Finally, Roberto gets his comeuppance and is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; Reno may be unwittingly complicit in this act. The novel gets more exciting, perhaps, but at some cost to the coherence and depth of the writing. Toward the end of the book, Kushner offers up the secret of her vivid title. The Arditi, the assault regiment in which T. P. Valera fought, was known as the Black Flames. When Sandro was small, he had a set of paper dolls of the Arditi. He especially loved the flamethrowers, "with their twin tanks and their gas mask. . . . The flamethrower was never, ever defensive. He was pure offense, overrunning enemy lines."
Kushner's title seems to suggest that her characters are all "flamethrowers," that the anarchists and the radical artists of New York, the Red Brigades with their Molotov cocktails, and the proto-Fascistic Arditi were all committed in their different ways to "pure offense." Or perhaps she means that the original flamethrowers of the early decades of the twentieth century invited the warring replies of the later flamethrowers. This may be figuratively true, but it belies the painstaking political storytelling of her novel, which is highly attentive to ideological distinctions. Kushner's invented history makes much of the violence of the Valera company's origins, of its connections to Fascism, to Italian Futurism, to Mussolini, and to capitalist exploitation in the jungles of Brazil. It is true that the Arditi had a historical relation to Futurism—Marinetti revered them, and D'Annunzio used them, and many Arditi did become Fascists. But the implied connection between early-twentieth-century radical right-wing art and later twentieth-century radical left-wing art, and between right-wing political activism and left-wing political activism, seems like an overloading of the novel's thematic circuits, a wrongheaded desire to make everything signify. Kushner's title implies the kind of political equivalence that might amount to a Flaubertian ironic nullification, a nihilistic cynicism beyond politics—decades of similar rapacity, playacting, art-making, and anarchistic "offense," all of it subsumed within the titular "flamethrowing." Kushner, though, is anything but politically cynical, and her novel is an achievement precisely because it resists either paranoid connectedness or knowing universalism. On the contrary, it succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive. ♦


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The Lost Lamb
If I thy lamb be lost and lonely,
shiv'ring, weary—wouldst thou come to find me Lord?
Surely thou wouldst come.
If the night be cold and cruel,
threat'ning wind should hold the way before thee Lord,
wouldst thou wait till dawn to search?
Though thy search may cold and cruel be,
I know thy lambs are priceless in thy sight.
O, my Shepherd, Lord most loving, thou hast found me,
and kept me near to thee,
and thou hast whispered that I should find thy lambs who stray.
I must go to find thy lambs who stray.
Text: Dan Carter
Music: Dan Carter
Artist: Carter
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1980-04-01
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Day #1: Park with the neighbor kids for 3 hours. Not the RIGHT pictures, but fun ones all the same.
Day #2: Riding the ding-dong* downtown and back for no good reason at all. (I edited each of these with a different tool in Picnik.com, because I have a million other things to do and I don't feel like doing any of them right now, that's why.)
This one is using Focal Soften.
This one uses Boost and 1960's.
Lunch break. Or: Take out your dentures....
This one uses CinemaScope and then Sepia at about 50% strength.
This little piggie got none. Nothing. I loved it just the way it was.
This one uses Lomo-ish, also at about half-strength, give or take.
This one uses Boost at around 25% and then Black and White effect painting in reverse.
And that's it for me. See all of Lotus' Weekly Winners here, and join me next week for Basketball Jones, or White Men Really Can't Jump So Much After All.
*The ding-dong is the bus or the SkyTrain, which is like the el through the city, if the el had magic powers that transformed it into a subway at certain key points along its route. Anyway, I think ding-dong is a much better word for them anyway; it's what they say and all. Kind of like fluflubee, but that's another story.**
**Anybody else suddenly have the urge to watch the Neverending Story?


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Opacity is the state of being impenetrable to light. An opaque object is neither transparent (allowing all light to pass through) nor translucent (allowing some light to pass through).
When light strikes an interface between two substances, some of the light is reflected, some is absorbed, and the rest is transmitted (also see refraction). An opaque substance transmits very little light, and therefore reflects or absorbs most of it. Both mirrors and jet are opaque. Opacity depends on the frequency of the light being considered. For instance, some kinds of glass, while completely transparent in the visual range, are largely opaque to ultraviolet light. More extreme frequency-dependence is visible in the absorption lines of cold gases. In general, a material tends to emit light in the same proportions as it absorbs it; this is the reason for the equivalence of absorption and emission lines.
Numerical definition[edit]
While many materials are so opaque (steel in visible light having near-infinite opacity), and others so transparent (air in visible light having near-zero opacity), that opacity often seems to be a boolean property, others are "somewhat" opaque. Opacity is then in general a static variable: , where the indicates the continuum in question. It has units of reverse length, and is also called the absorption coefficient (see also the opposite extinction coefficient). It gives the proportional rate of absorption (or extinction or how much light intensity is lost for each metre) along a ray of light: . The mean free path is then . The notation is also used to discuss the physically equivalent description of opacity as a function of wavelength. The opacity of a material, and of a gas in particular, often depends on its temperature and density.
In astronomy and planetary imaging fields, tau, the optical depth, defines the opacity: zero indicates transparent and higher numbers indicate more and more opaque in an inverse exponential fashion, for example a tau of 1 indicates 36 percent of the light passes (e-1 = 0.36), and a Tau of 5 indicates less than 1 percent passes (e -5 = 0.0067).[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much][1]
Opaque Content[edit]
An opaque context is a linguistic context in which it is not possible to substitute co-referential terms while guaranteeing the preservation of semantic values.
The term is used in philosophical theories of reference, and is to be contrasted with "transparent context". For example:
Opacity: "Mary knows that Cicero is a great orator" is referentially opaque; although Cicero was also called Tully, we can't simply substitute "Tully" for "Cicero" in this context ("Mary knows that Tully is a great orator"), for Mary might not know that the names 'Tully' and 'Cicero' refer to one and the same thing. Of course, if Mary does know that Cicero is a great orator, then there is a sense in which Mary knows that Tully is a great orator, even if she does not know that 'Tully' and 'Cicero' corefer. It is the sense forced on us by direct theories of reference of proper names, i.e., those that maintain that the meaning of proper names just are their referents.
Transparency: "Cicero was a Roman orator" is referentially transparent; there is no problem substituting "Tully" here: "Tully was a Roman orator". Well, this is an oversimplified account as it may not hold in all circumstances, e.g., when, even though 'Tully' and 'Cicero' are grammatically proper names, their meanings are in part dependent on something other than their referents. This occurs, e.g., when someone has two separate personae that are referred to separately by two distinct proper names, and that, although referring to the same person, do so in significantly different ways that their substitutions into what are usually taken to be transparent contexts results in sentences with different truth values. For example, 'Clark Kent wooed the ladies', or 'Clark Kent was a great hero' are generally taken to be false even though they are true when 'Superman' is substituted for 'Clark Kent' in each.
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Mhaille needs to add one!
- ↑ Are The Mars Rovers Doomed? 'A tau of five means that less than one percent of direct sunlight is reaching the Mars surface'


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Disseminated Research
Disseminated research occurs whenever information is formally presented ( e.g. poster, oral or
written) to any audience beyond the course. It also includes Graduate theses and Honors
theses. Disseminated research must be reviewed under University Policy 3990.
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If the student research is categorized as a course assignment it falls under the policy described
in University Policy 3991. The data collection and interpretation is for pedagogical purposes only
and is contained wholly within the course environment. Such data is gathered without the
intention of disseminating it beyond the instructor and students of the course.
All research course assignments must still be planned and carried out with a due consideration
of the University's ethical and legal responsibility to protect individuals involved as the subjects of
these activities, especially when exposed to more than a minimal risk. Student research which
involves specialized populations as subjects (for example: pregnant women, fetuses, abortuses,
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(Minimal risk is defined as "the risks, anticipated in the proposed activity, are not greater than
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There are those who believe that somewhere in the vast blackness of space, about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space. His body, perfectly preserved, is frozen at -270 degrees C (-454 °F); his tiny capsule has been silently sailing away from the Earth at 18,000 mph (29,000km/h) for the last 45 years. He is the original lost cosmonaut, whose rocket went up and, instead of coming back down, just kept on going.
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Camp Misty Mount's layout reflected how it served groups. It featured a central collection of buildings shared by all campers, including a dining hall, infirmary, and craft lodge. Beyond this hub were individual unit camps made up of several camper cabins, a lodge, a latrine, and perhaps a leader's cabin. A network of hiking trails linked the buildings to miscellaneous sites, such as campfire rings, playing fields, and a swimming pool. These facilities and their arrangements were common to all organized camps built by the government.
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The rustic exteriors called for in this guide perfectly fit the resources of the area. Fallen chestnut trees and other trees approved by the state forester for harvest provided wood for the log cabins. Some picturesque snags, or damaged trees, remained in place for aesthetic purposes and wildlife consideration. Since only 40 percent of the lumber was suited for planing into boards, designers used most fallen and cut logs in their entirety to build log cabins. Logs were pinned with poles from locust trees, and 4- to 8-inch by 26-inch roof shingles were made out of local red oak. Oak formed the interior tongue-in-groove floors, and chestnut, oak, or hemlock, and interior trim.
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1. For whom was Camp Misty Mount primarily designed? Why do you think the government wanted to give those people the opportunity to spend time in natural surroundings?
2. What measures were taken to protect the trees that were growing in the project area? Why were horses used to harvest the timber?
3. What are the principles of rustic architecture? How did the buildings at Camp Misty Mount meet these guidelines?
4. Since all the lumber used for the project was harvested locally, what can you determine about the variety of types of trees that were growing in the forest? Name two species that were harvested.
5. Why was the use of logs as opposed to sawn lumber a sound economic practice? How did the use of logs contribute to the efficiency of the operation? How do you think the removal of standing dead trees for logs might speed the regrowth of the forest?
Adapted from Sara Amy Leach, "Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Architecture at Catoctin Mountain Park" (Frederick County, Maryland) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1988; Sara Amy Leach, "Camp Misty Mount Historic District" (Frederick County, Maryland) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1988; and documents from park files.


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You may remember that a couple weeks ago I made a Hibiscus Milk Punch based on a recipe I read on another blog.
The whole thing was a bit of a leap of faith, given I'd never made anything similar or even tried it.
However, it turned out so well, I thought I should turn back the clock a bit further and investigate an older recipe for Milk Punch. So when Daniel Hyatt suggested we make some punches for one of our Savoy Cocktail Book night at Alembic, I thought I would make Savoy Milk Punch No. 1. Upon investigation, it turns out it is based on a recipe from the 1862 version of Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide.
The recipe from Mr. Thomas is as follows.
California Milk Punch.
(For Bottling.)
Take the juice of four lemons.
The rind of two lemons.
½ pound of white sugar, dissolved in sufficient hot water.
1 pineapple, peeled, sliced and pounded.
6 cloves.
20 coriander seeds.
1 small stick of cinnamon.
1 pint of brandy.
1 pint of Jamaica rum.
1 gill of Batavia Arrack.
1 cup of strong green tea.
1 quart of boiling water.
1 quart of hot milk.
Put all the materials in a clean demijohn, the boiling water to be added last; cork this down to prevent evaporation, and allow the ingredients to steep for at least six hours; then add the hot milk and the juice of two more lemons; mix, and filter through a jelly-bag; and when the punch has passed bright, put it away in tight-corked bottles.
This punch is intended to be iced for drinking. If intended for present use filtering is not necessary.
Using Mr. Thomas recipe as a starting point:
Bernal Heights Milk Punch
1 qt Osocalis Brandy.
1 pt Appleton V/X.
1 pt Coruba.
1 pt Batavia Arrack von Osten.
Peel 4 lemons.
Juice 6 lemons, strained
1/2 pineapple, chopped and crushed.
6 cloves.
1 cinnamon stick (cassia).
5 Green Cardamom Pods, Crushed.
4 teaspoons Lung Ching Dragonwell Tea.
16 oz Water
1/2 # Florida Crystals.
1 quart Straus Family Creamery Whole Milk.
Peel lemons and add to Brandy. Juice 4 lemons and crush pineapple. Add to rums (including Arrack). Allow both to infuse for 48 hours.
Heat water and add spices and tea. After it has steeped for 10 minutes, strain. Add sugar, stir to combine, and cool.
Juice other two lemons and add to pineapple, lemon, and rum mixture. Heat milk to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Add to Rum, lemon, and pineapple mixture. Allow to stand for 30 minutes and filter through cheesecloth. Strain brandy mixture off peels. Combine Rum mixture, brandy mixture, and syrup. Cool, bottle in clean containers, and chill over night. Filter again through coffee filters, leaving any sediment which has collected in the bottom of the containers behind. Makes about 3 quarts.
Perhaps not so oddly, I misremembered the recipe and used Cardamom instead of Coriander. But I really like the clove/cardamom nexus, so not a bad thing. I needed some pineapple and pineapple juice for another cocktail this week, so only used half for the punch. More pineapple wouldn't hurt. The initial division of the infusions was just a result of the size of my containers, but actually seemed to help with getting a firmer curd from the milk solids. If I had to do it again, I'd do it the same way.
The water amounts didn't really make sense to me for starting with 80 proof booze. My guess is Thomas was working with cask strength liquors, to require that much dilution. So I adjusted a bit. Perhaps a bit too much, as according to Mrs. Flannestad, this ended up a bit strong and boozy. Depending on your perspective, that may be bad or good.
Very good response to the punch at Alembic's Savoy Cocktail Book night last Sunday, so if you're feeling adventurous give it a try. I don't think you'll regret it. We just served it over ice with a splash of soda. It would make a fantastic highball!
Even though I can now cross this off the list of Savoy punches I need to make, I have a feeling I'll be making this Milk Punch again some time soon.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Troubled actor Shia Labeouf has been caught on tape giving a rambling apology following an alleged pub bust-up in London on Thursday night.
The Transformers star allegedly headbutted another patron during a night out at the Hobgoblin in south London, and now video footage which shows him talking about the incident has emerged online.
In the film, which was published on TMZ.com, LaBeouf is seen sitting around a table outside the pub chatting to a group of young British women about the bust-up.
He says, "I'm not trying to have any more problems. You know what I'm saying… I'm really just trying to make peace… I mean, I'm a normal human being… I accept what I gotta get into to do what I love… And I'm not trying to s**t on nobody. I am a human being. I'm super normal, I am super normal. More normal than most… When people get hostile. They s**t on my girl's mom. They say things that are out of turn… And I'm sorry about that. I had no control over that. I just want peace you know what I mean… I got nothing wrong with him."
The alleged fight was reportedly sparked when another reveller made a rude comment about LaBeouf's girlfriend's mother, and one of the girls in the video can be heard saying, "He shoved you first" while talking to the actor about the incident. She added, "I think also everyone's drunk and things are said… things got misconstrued."
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Since the establishment of linear time, scholars and wise men have sought ways to measure it. During the bleak era that followed the usurpation, time was measured by the simple passage of the seasons, people accounted their ages by the number of winters that they had survived.
There have been a number of methods devised for the counting of time. According to the eldest of the records of the Elves and Fomorians, they arrived in this world under the light of the Silver moon. Thus the Elves have devised a 13 month calendar based on the movement of the moon. It is the oldest of the Calendars in use, and remains the standard of the Half-Elves, and of the ancient Kingdoms of Lomar and Stratia. (Neither Kingdom survives in the modern setting)
Humans, and Orcs count time by usage of a Solar calendar based on the movement of the sun and the recognition of the solstices and equinoxes. (is that a word?) The Solar calendar is 12 months long and there is a 3 to 7 day period of calibration each year due to the current inaccuracy of observing the Solar year. This is the standard calendar of the majority of the Aterrizaran Kingdoms, the most widely recognized and used across the continent.
Nearly 500 years ago, by Solar reconing, the Sidereal Calendar was devised by the Astrologers of the Imperial Wizardy. The calendar was based on the rotation of the celestial sphere itself rather than on the irregular and imperfect movements of celestial bodies within the sphere. The Calendar ascertains that there is a Celestial North, or a fixed point on the Celestial sphere that does not rotate, an axis point. By observing the movement of the 16 major constellations with an astrolabe, the Astrologers were able to determine that one sidereal year is exactly 360 solar years in length. Each of the 16 Sidereal Months lasts 22.5 years.
1. The Celestial Month of the Storm
2. The Celestial Month of the Dragon
3. The Celestial Month of the Tree
4. The Celestial Month of the Ox
5. The Celestial Month of the Silver Mother
6. The Celestial Month of the Pillars
7. The Celestial Month of the Tower
8. The Celestial Month of the Elf Maid
9. The Celestial Month of the Mage
10. The Celestial Month of the Sword
11. The Celestial Month of the Throne
12. The Celestial Month of the Lantern
13. The Celestial Month of the Ship
14. The Celestial Month of the Manacles
15. The Celestial Month of the Mirror
16. The Celestial Month of the Phoenix
On a side note, the information provided in the weather and gardening sections of each sidereal month is a thematic entry, rather than defining. There can be famines during the month of the Tree, and surplusses of food during the month of the Lantern, but these are odd events, the exception to the general rule.
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Under the contellation of Dunsturmas, this is a tempestuous sidereal month that is known for its violent and unpredictable weather.
Astronomy - Dunsturmas is a small constellation of five stars that form a rough zig-zag that is often interprited as a lightning bolt. The stars are associated with the Sisters of Tormenas, figures from Zehini folk lore that wove storms with needles made of lightning bolts.
Weather - As previously mentioned, Dunsturmas is characterized by violent weather. Storms and heavy rainfall are very common during this sidereal month. As a result natural bodies of water have elevated levels and mudslides and landslides are more common than usual.
Gardening - Crops fare poorly during this month, most grains suffer from the beating storms and other crops are waterlogged to the point that they start rotting on the stem. Wet crops such as rice do well, but since rice cultivation is localized around Suisiadh and westward, it is a general time of hunger in Falhath.
Adventuring - Getting lost is easy as rivers swell and cut bridges and landmarks are lost in sudden squals. Travel on the seas are very dangerous and archery becomes automatically more difficult due to constant winds. (+1 diff)
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Under the constellation of Thyr, the second sidereal month is a dynamic time of upheaval and change following the relentless storms of Dunsturmas.
Astronomy - Thyr is a large and easily recognized constellation. It is composed of three parts, the Dragon Knight Thyr, his dragon mount Aurixia, and his sword. The point of the sword holds the brightest star while the stars of the dragon tend to be fainter.
Weather - Storms are still magnificent and large, they are less common. this is counterbalanced by other natural forces becoming more active. Volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes, and tidal waves are more likely to occur during this sidereal time than any other.
Gardening - While crops fare better in this month, it is livestock that fares the best. Animals grow larger and more healthy, though this applies to all animals, from dogs to wolves to ravenous wyverns.
Adventuring - Generally more dangerous during this month as monsters gain slight advantages, plus chances of encountering Giants, and giant variants of monsters is more likely. Spells of enlargement are easier, while reduction is much more difficult.
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Urfplanze is the name given to the god of the Dryads and the ents, they call him the All Green, and the Root Sire.
Astronomy - The constellation of Urfplanze is considered the easiest to pick out of the night sky, it is three bright stars that form a vertical line in the heavens with four smaller stars making a crown at the top. This constellation is associated with the Dryad deity Urfplanze, the god of wood and plants, also considered one of the Primerian dieties, but this is hotly disputed.
Weather - The sidereal month of the Tree is noted for its greatly calmed weather and stability. during this time the sun shines brightly and conditions are considered the best for crops. This is generally a saving grace following the violent weather of the previous sidereal months.
Gardening - Plants grow the best during this month with some forests expanding by miles a year. In remote locales, forests can swallow entire valleys in the span of a decade. Fruit bearing trees and vines grow the best with grains doing suitably well but overshadowed by larger plants.
Adventuring - This is a time of arboreal might, and magics that benefit plants are easier to accomplish, though binding plant spirits such as dryads is more difficult. (+1/3 diff)
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In folk tales, Ankar yoked the wild ox Geidiboros and used the semi-divine beast to plow furrows into the harsh stone of Ankara to feed his people.
Astronomy - The constellation of Geidiboros is a rough trapezoid of four bright stars with a fifth bright red star known as the Bull's Eye. This is considered a holy time in Ankara as the Ox or Bull is a sacred animal that is intimately tied to their heritage.
Weather - Relatively stable, but still rainfall remains substancial and watering holes are seldom if ever dry. This bounty provied s good deal of forage for wild animals and thus more prey for predatory animals.
Gardening - Crops grow well, but livestock fare excellently. Few births are complicated and lameness is rare. Akin to the Month of Dragons, Animals grow large and more healthy. Wild animals gain a health level or equivalent, or a point of strength.
Adventuring - Summoning spells work very well, but considering the increased size and vitality of random monsters, this is balanced out. divorced from their animal nature, humans and humanoids do not gain this celestial bonus.
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Some think this reference to Ixia, but the Silver Mother is actually a Nysertan folk figure who is the guardian of the Hallowed Lands, a place of the dead.
Astronomy - The constellation of the Silver Mother is a cross shaped collection of stars with the center star being the brightest and the lowest star being the second brightest and red in color.
Weather - The weather is calm during this sidereal month, with thunderstorms being very uncommon. Rain slackens a bit, but drought is not much of a concern. Most consider this to be the most ideal of the Sidereal months.
Gardening - Plants and animals fare well during this period, though predators seem less aggressive and mating rituals much less violent.
Adventuring - Not such a good time to be a hero, as it is a time of peace, few wars have ever started during this month, and some have even been oddly ended by its arrival. Random Encounters with animals and people are rolled as if the PCs had Charisma 1 point higher.
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In the Old Faith of Falhath, two pillars, Elim and Manil held up the heavens until they were cast down by Atma the Demon of the World.
Astronomy - The Twin constellations of Elim and Manil resemble blocky caricatures of a woman bearing a jug of water and a man with bull's horns. Together, thay are known as the Pillars.
Weather - Marked divisions are common events in weather, with storms being strong, or not at all. While not unbearable, or even unpleasant, the temperature is hot or cold, never warm or cool.
Gardening - The most important thing in their era is to diversify crops, as regions that subsist on a single crop may find themselves in a famine from the weather's whim. This is echoed in the civilized aspect by the polarization of the haves and the have-nots.
Adventuring - divisions, splinterings, schisms and the like become common, though the majority remain peaceful. Though this birth of duality creates a strong realm of competition as well as cold wars between various powers.
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Raised during the elder days, the Tower of Amaris was a monument to the greatest of the Elves, and to ascend to its peak was to see the face of divinity. Sadly, by hubris the tower was broken, though its memory remained.
Astrology - The Constellation of Amaris is marked by seven stars in a rough rectangular form, with an eighth bright star near the 'bottom' of the constellation. This is referred to as the Usurper, the figure who challenged the gods and broke the tower.
Weather - The weather more in rather predictable patterns, and storms and such may become strong, they are seldom exceedingly violent, and the sun rarely causes drought.
Gardening - Fruiting trees, especially apples grow well in this time, and wines are considered to be the 'best years' during this celestial month. Animals are healthy and illness of the herd is rare.
Adventuring - The Light shines within, and the swords of the righteous burn. The Religious faith gains power, often because of previous rifts caused by the passage of the Pillars. Conflicts take on a decided good surmounting evil perspective, and corruption is rare.
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In the tales of Nahar and the founding of the first Empire, Nahar's first son took for a wife Wynress, daughter of the Elven King of Himloth. From this union was born the peace between man and elf, and the lineages of the High Houses of Men.
Astrology - The constellation of Wynress is a small collection of six stars that are constantly visible. They are frequently involved in divinations over political marriages, engagements, and even estranged lovers.
Weather - The Weather remains predicable, though it will be either hot or cold, and seldom ever a medium between the two. Dawn and dusk tend to be shorter than usual.
Gardening - With the weather stable, most crops grow well, especially berries and ornamental flowers. Horses breed exceptionally well during this time, with many fine horses being found compared to the number of average horses.
Adventuring - In a celestial month strong with magic, non-necromantic magics are at -1 difficulty. Elven magics are at -2 difficulty, and creatures of the faerie are more common than usual.
According to the ancient tales, it was the elder god Aisling Boccob who brought the secret of magic to the mortal races, and for his transgression, he was imprisoned within Aura, the golden Moon.
Astrology - The constellation of the Mage is drawn as a magic circle in the heavens, six stars picking out the cardinal points of the elemental star, with the Eye of Aisling being the brightest star directly in the center.
Weather - Predicting the weather is easy, and even the most common low sorcerer is able to do it. Altering the weather with magic is at -1 difficulty. day and night are almost constantly the same length, making many natural forms of time counting difficult, but magical ones more precise.
Gardening - Plants grow in almost symetrical rows without much tending, and even weeds form into lines. Produce is very uniform in quality. Livestock is much the same, with color patterns becoming very set for the duration of the celestial month.
Adventuring - Law, abjurations, wards and similar magics of order and control are at -2 difficulty, including summoning magics. Chaos based powers are at +2 difficulty and chaos aligned creatures suffer similar penalties.
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Alcadema was the mythical sword of Armas, the herculian warrior-king who waged the great war war between the free humans, and the elven lords of Aohd and the Ivy Throne.
Astrology - The constellation of the Panoply of Alcadema consists of three minor constellations, the first and brightest being the five stars of the Sword. There is also the Shield, six stars, and the Helm of Armas, three stars. These stars are consulted for military matters, and protection from faerie magic.
Weather - Bleak weather becomes more common, with rains becoming longer in duration, if slightly less in force. When the sun shines, it dries the earth until it cracks, and in some places, famines begin.
Gardening - The garden becomes a battleground of its own, with the invaders being pest insects, grazing animals, and even hordes of weeds. Conditions remain good, but competition for said resources becomes fierce.
Adventuring - Some consider this to be the best celestial month for heroes. Magics pertaining to war are at reduced difficulty, tempers run hot, and more wars are started under the pale light of Alcadema.
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The White Throne served as the visible seat of power for the ancient Fomorian empire of Lomar. Law, and oppression went hand in hand in that grim time, something that has not been forgotten.
Astrology - The White Throne, alson known as the Corpse is a large and bright constellation of 13 stars. It is the sign of judges, tyrants, and petty overlords, and is used in divinations of leadership and success at any cost.
Weather - Under the Throne, the weather becomes oppressive, with clouds becoming almost constant, and storms turning the sky to lead for days on end. When the sun shines, it is the Eye of Judgement, and it always finds the world wanting.
Gardening - With the weather as it is, farming becomes difficult, and food shortages become increasingly common. Few plants grow well, and even livestock becomes more lean.
Adventuring - Adventurers on the whole are eyed as a growing threat, as dissidents and dangers to the current regime. Magics of domination and subjugation are at -1 difficulty, and summoning magics have a single automatic success, or -2 difficulty.
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Many assume that the power of light is always beneficial, but during the month of the Lantern light burns away all things, scars, and eventually leaves behind a cold and frozen corpse. such is the light that comes from Atma's Lantern, the light of the underworld.
Astrology - The constellation of the Lantern consists of onlt four stars, but each is very bright, and a comet passes through this constellation every other rotation, usually as a herald of great violence. The lantern is associated with inquisitors, and detectives.
Weather - During this sidereal month, drought is widespread. Even normally sodden areas feel the drying heat of the Eye of Judgement, the sun. rivers recede, swamps crack and dry, and forests wither and brown.
Gardening - only the hardiest of crops endure, with things like soft skinned fruits and melons all but vanishing for the duration. Livestock also becomes lean and hardy, with goods like milk and butter becoming less available and more expensive.
Adventuring - Few times are more heroes more vital than in this harsh sidereal month. There is little hope, and the people are hungry for more than just food. Destructive magics are at -1 difficulty, and summoning and conjuration are at +2 difficulty.
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Oinos is the name of the black hulled ship of the dead that silently plies the waters between the harbors and floating cities of the seafolk, and the lands of the dead.
Astrology - The Black Ship, Oinos, consists of seven stars that form a rough horizontal line, with six stars above that create the mast and sail. The passage of the Black ship is seen as a portent of despair and death, and few touch upon it in divinations.
Weather - The weather remains constant, skies are heavy and grey, but the rain never seems to come. when it rains, it never seems to stop, even when the ground is reduced to ankle deep mud. People look up and despair.
Gardening - Few plants poke their heads up during this time, save those that are poisonous or cause illness, blindness or madness.
Adventuring - Heroes are few and far between, with most figures being oppressors, destroyers, or avatars of false hope, lies, and promises that turn into ash in the mouth. All magics other than necromancy are at +1 difficulty, illusion magics are at +3 difficulty.
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The demon prince Troublante once claimed the crowns of Sargantas and Hyloidia through infernal machination. It was then that Ixia, the Silver Forge took the two crowns of those kingdoms and made them into a pair a manacles and used them to bind Troublante and end his reign of evil.
Astrology - The constellation of the manacles consists of two rings or stars, one containing six stars, the other four. The constellation is consulted in divinations dealing with criminals, bondage, or revolutionary activities.
Weather - Where the weather was once oppressive, it now seems to be chained, storms seem to dry out early, and the sun fails to shine at full force. The temperature cools a considerable amount and winters become longer and more pronounced.
Gardening - Though colder, the climate is more stable, allowing hardy crops to flourish, rather than just survive. Livestock is still lean, but becomes more aggressive, and many fences are broken.
Adventuring - The Sign of the Manacles is a time of upheval and unrest. The bastions of the last 80 to 100 years face new challenges from criminals, dissidents and rebels. Many heroes find place among the commoners, fighting against the oppressors.
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In the epics, Alonwe the Bright Princess had a magic mirror that she used to see into people, yet that mirror was broken by misuse, and would only show the worst of what was within.
Astrology - The Mirror is a large rectangular constellation consisting of 8 stars. the four brightest pick out the majot corners, with the four minor stars marking the centerpoint of each side. The mirror is considered an ill omen, only rivaled by the appearance of the black Ship for fortune telling.
Weather - Stuttering and violent is the best description as storms start and stop, alternating gale force winds and gentle showers. Temperatures fluctuate greatly between the seasons, and some seasons drag on pas their appointed times, and others are cut dramatically short.
Gardening - Nothing will stay in orderly rows, plants grow in irregular fashion, and fences will not stay mended long enough to keep the likestock from eating the grain in the field.
Adventuring - The powers of chaos swell bloated in celestial power, blowing away the old institutions of man as the forest fire burns away the old growth and debris of the forest. Chaotic or random magics work much better (-2 diff) while lawful magics are +2 diffculty for the duration. Crime is endemic, revolutions the order of the day, and anarchy the flavor of the month.
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In Falhathian lore, the Phoenix was a large raptor that had a peacock's tale and trailed flame, carnage, and renewal in its path, and was a friend to mothers in labor.
Astrology - The Phoenix is a large constellation of 21 stars, though only astrologers can pick all of them out. It is commonly located by the 7 cardinal stars that pick out the wingtips, beak, eye and the fan of the tail. It is consulted in fortunes involving children, disasters, and for good luck in the face of adversity.
Weather - The Phoenix is the herald of storms, and the weather answers with rain and wind, hail and lightning. Fires ignite from lightning, and it is a time of burning as well. Yet the soil is renewed, cities crawling with disease are burnt and rebuilt, from the ashes.
Gardening - The green shoots burst from the earth that has been tormented by oppressive and destructive weather. Livestock fattens for the first time, yet many are felled by lightning strikes. The cycle of life and death becomes almost frantic as the sidereal year comes to a close and the old is removed.
Adventuring - As the old forms and methods are destroyed, the seeds of the next cycle are planted in the soil, their deep roots to be watered by the storms of the coming Sidereal Year. Heroes of the old year become the legends of the next, and it is a time for the vanquishing of mighty and old evils, and the establishing of new and virile dynasties.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2009--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has resumed the removal of Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infested trees found within the Massachusetts regulated area.
APHIS will remove approximately 1,655 infested trees in the City of Worcester and the Town of West Boylston. Public and private trees will be marked for removal, with public trees featuring an additional mounted placard at least seven days before the removal takes place. APHIS will remove ALB-infested trees throughout the year as they are detected.
High-risk host trees will be removed in areas where the ALB-eradication program deems it critical in order to suppress the beetle's population. At this time, the following locations within the core of the infested area have been identified for high-risk host removal: The Greater Worcester Land Trust's Bovenzi Park, National Grid's parcel in Greendale and wooded areas along Mass Highway I-190 between Ararat Street and New Bond Street in Worcester.
APHIS will begin chemical treatments for eradication in the spring of 2010 via trunk injections within a two-square mile core infestation area centered in the Greendale and Burncoat neighborhoods of Worcester. Program officials will contact property owners for permission to treat private host trees, and treatments may be adjusted as resources dictate. The treatment pilot study, which included the treatment of 131 host trees this fall and 41 host trees next spring, will enable APHIS to determine whether or not treatments in Massachusetts can be effective if applied in months other than April, May and June. The pilot study will be completed in the winter of 2010.
APHIS and its partners will continue survey efforts within the Massachusetts-infested area this winter. Survey crews inspect ALB-host tree species for signs of the beetle using a combination of ground work, specially trained tree climbers and bucket trucks. Since Oct. 1, 2008, the Massachusetts ALB eradication program has surveyed more than 212,000 trees.
Federal and state regulations stopping the intrastate and interstate movement of wood, woody debris, logs, lumber and nursery stock remain in effect. Currently, the Massachusetts eradication program holds compliance agreements with 786 contractors working within the regulated area.
These efforts are designed to limit the spread of the invasive ALB and facilitate its eradication within Massachusetts, as well as to prevent the spread of ALB to other states. This is critical because the ALB is potentially one of the most destructive and costly invasive species to enter the United States.
The Massachusetts ALB cooperative eradication program is comprised of APHIS, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the City of Worcester, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service and the Towns of Holden, Boylston, West Boylston and Shrewsbury.
For information about the beetle and program activities, please contact the Massachusetts ALB program at 1-866-702-9938. Log on to www.aphis.usda.gov or http://massnrc.org/pests/alb or visit www.beetlebusters.info for more information about ALB, including pictures and where to report a suspected beetle.
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Free Guide Offers Information for Health Care Professionals to Create Safety Culture
OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - The Joint Commission today released a free monograph, "Improving Patient and Worker Safety: Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation," to draw attention to the need to create a culture that focuses on both the safety of patients and the health care workers who care for them.
The monograph contends that high rates of injuries and illnesses among health care workers serve as a warning that the health care environment as a whole must be transformed in order to improve safety. The monograph highlights examples of health care organization practices that address patient and worker safety simultaneously and the benefits and potential cost savings attained through collaboration between employee and patient safety departments. The monograph also identifies functional management systems and processes, strategies and tools that have been used to successfully integrate health and safety activities.
"In health care, the primary ethical imperative is 'First, do no harm.' Although we have traditionally applied this obligation to our patients, this monograph helps to establish it also as our obligation to those with whom we work -- and to all within the health care setting," writes Paul M. Schyve, M.D., senior advisor, Healthcare Improvement, The Joint Commission, in a foreword to the book.
The monograph explores high reliability in health care organizations and the benefits to improving safety for both patients and workers. It describes barriers to recognizing and addressing patient and worker safety issues and suggests strategies to overcome them and make safety a priority. In addition, the monograph recommends action steps that health care organizations can take to improve safety for both patients and workers, as well as topics for future research. Work on the monograph, which was supported in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector Council, began with a national call soliciting effective or innovative safety practices from a wide range of settings that address both patients and workers. These practices were related to topics such as worker and patient safety culture, worker and patient satisfaction, injury prevention, infection prevention, performance improvement and individual engagement in safety activities.
Examples of case studies on patient and worker safety that are included in the monograph are:
"The breakdowns that put both patients and workers at risk are often the same. In order to truly improve health care, organizations must implement a system-wide culture of safety," says Jerod M. Loeb, Ph.D., executive vice president, Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission. "By identifying the causes of breakdowns and near misses, we can learn how to make a real difference."
"Ensuring a strong and healthy workforce is critical to the nation's health and the health of patients in health care settings," says John Howard, M.D., director, NIOSH. "NIOSH believes that a workplace where management is fully engaged in the wellbeing of staff, minimizing hazards to workers, benefits everyone involved: employers, workers, and patients."
Copies of "Improving Patient and Worker Safety: Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration" and Innovation can be downloaded (Adobe PDF Reader is required) at http://www.jointcommission.org/improving_Patient_Worker_Safety/.
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including more than 10,300 hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 6,500 other health care organizations that provide long term care, behavioral health care, laboratory and ambulatory care services. The Joint Commission currently certifies more than 2,000 disease-specific care programs, focused on the care of patients with chronic illnesses such as stroke, joint replacement, stroke rehabilitation, heart failure and many others. The Joint Commission also provides health care staffing services certification for more than 750 staffing offices. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Learn more about The Joint Commission at www.jointcommission.org.
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What's this? An Ovi app on Gizmodo? Finally, we've found one worth talking about - though admittedly this technology isn't exactly new, having been kicking around desktops for a few years. BlogRadio is just for Nokia phones.
There are two options for voices (your new best friends, Mike and Crystal), which can speak for different blogs you subscribe to, depending on your choice. Mike for business, Crystal for pleasure, for example.
It works in conjunction with a desktop application (never a good idea, in my books, but we won't put that against this nifty app), where you pull RSS feeds in for translating to audio podcasts. On sale for £1 in the Ovi Store now. [BlogRadio via Nokia Conversations via MobileEnt]


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Moves, Adds, and Changes (MACs) continue to be a leading headache for network professionals, according to a recent survey by Cablesoft, Tempe, Ariz.
Conducted by an enterprise and infrastructure management specialist, the researcher asked the opinions of 67 network managers on the main causes behind frustration and added stress on the job. According to respondents, lack of information about network changes topped their list of concerns. In fact, 82% of administrators said unauthorized and/or undocumented equipment changes (both hardware and software) led to longer hours and intolerable working conditions. In addition, participants said lack of accurate network documentation forces them to spend hours manually searching through patch panels and data points to find where equipment is located.
Unnecessary questions and lack of corporate communication also scored highly on the frustration scale. For example, 54% of respondents claimed basic questions (from opening Word and e-mail applications to locating hardware on the network) placed a heavy burden on their schedule; 42% said lack of information on future expansions by corporate offices also placed unnecessary stress during mergers and acquisitions.


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