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Griffin Museum's annual members juried exhibit offers photos from a range of artistic perspectives
Like a doorman at an exclusive nightclub, the juror of a museum exhibit decides who gets to join the party.
Who do you let in: glamorous swingers, edgy night crawlers, schlubs from the 'burbs, or maybe weirdos who make everyone nervous?
As sole gatekeeper for 18th annual Juried Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Paul Kopeikin invited the 58 most interesting applicants.
By a hard-to-define alchemy of taste and intuition, the California gallery owner has gathered together an improbable mix of photographers with little in common but the interesting images they make.
Some viewers might wonder what's the thematic glue holding the show together. Others will be happy just to look and be dazzled.
In a statement accompanying the show, Kopeikin explained he looked through work by more than 400 photographers – "one photographer at a time'' - who submitted five to eight images each, gradually culling them down to fewer and fewer "standout'' images until he had his show.
"It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what I am looking for when judging a competition if there is no criteria given. I am interested in all subject matter,'' he wrote. "It doesn't matter to me how the pictures are made or the intent of the photographer. I do not care if they are professionals or amateurs. I just want to be moved in some way.''
Ignoring self-consciousness artiness or trendy digital manipulation, Kopeikin chose images that moved him and will, very likely, move visitors, too.
Possibly that makes it a viewer's show rather than a survey for photographers. Simply put, it is wildly enjoyable.
On the gallery's fabulous back wall, Noah David Bau's large, powerful portrait of an orphaned teenage Thai kickboxer, "14, 86 lbs,'' captures a haunting mix of the toughness and vulnerability of a child gladiator. The Melrose photographer, who splits his time between Boston and Bangkok, won the $1,000 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award.
Hanging nearby, Poland born, Hawaii-based Rafal Maleszyk's 28-by-60-inch "Three Trees Duet'' captures in subtly nuanced black-and-white windblown plastic sheets waving like prayer flags from the trunks of trees along a Pacific beach.
Bookending those photos are Pembroke resident Lance Keimig's funky homage to Americana, "Boop Trailer,'' a ramshackle but obviously lived in home with saucy Betty on its side and pink plastic flamingos in the yard and Ellen Jantzen's haunting "The Maturing Season,'' of a ghostly figure like a pillar of light walking through a field toward a copse of twisted trees. The St. Louis, Mo., photographer earned the $500 Griffin Award for that shot from her "Losing Reality Series.''
A few feet away, Cameron MacMartin of Quincy is showing his 19-by-25-inch "Echo Bridge," which initially seems to depict fireflies or constellations above the horizon but, on closer observation, turns out to be the reflection of trees in rippling water.
Since the annual juried exhibit is restricted to museum members, Executive Director Paula Tognarelli said this year she asked Kopeikin to select just one image per photographer.
Some members grumbled last year when the sole juror selected groupings of two to five images for just 16 of 300 submitting photographers.
Tognarelli said she's "very happy with the end result'' of an exhibit that showcases a range of work by almost 60 photographers using varied approaches to shoot in a wide variety of styles.
"There's a playfulness in several photographers' works and that's not always something you see,'' she said.
Tognarelli said curators, who are frequently familiar with the broad state of photography, often select "edgy'' work that might seem inaccessible to everyday viewers.
"You might not find representatives of every genre of photography in this show. It might not be an indicator of national trends,'' she said. "But I think it reflects how people are feeling.''
Viewers might not see a revealing slice of an artist's work but, by seeing his or her outstanding photo, they should get a sense of whether they want to see more.
Many photographers make a strong impression with just a single shot.
A solitary woman in a white dress wanders across a haunted landscape in Framingham resident Claudia Gustafson's "Lady of Lachay 5.''
Wouldn't you like to know more about the elderly woman with the wistful look holding a photo of three young ladies, one of which might be her, in Watertown artist Stella Johnson's "Roula and Friends, Mytilene, Greece.''
Sandra Stark of Jamaica Plain has taken a weird and beautiful image of Darwinism at work titled "Nature vs. Not Sure – Rat.''
In "Vieques Dancers,'' Lora Brody of Waltham captures a moment of tender intimacy in a quiet yet strong image.
The museum is also showing two exceptionally strong smaller exhibits in its Atelier and Griffin galleries.
In a lovely, meditative show, "The Quiet'' in the Atelier Galleries, Alysia Maculay, of New York, is showing untitled images of sleeping children, their favorite toys and curtained windows that "explore the beauty, poignancy and loneliness of quiet.''
In the Griffin Galleries, several students from Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Buckingham Browne and Nichols, Winchester High School and Reading Memorial High School are showing striking and distinctive photos in the Joan Johnson Scholarship Exhibit which was jurored by Bruce Myren and Andrea Rosenthal.
18th Annual Juried Exhibition
WHEN: Through Sept. 2
WHERE: Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Road, Winchester
INFO: 781-729-1158; www.griffinmuseum.org

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J/97 Finishes 2nd in Round Island Race
The annual JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, organized by the Island Sailing Club, is one of the most popular fixtures on the Solent racing calendar. Competitors come from Europe and the USA, as well as all over the UK, to race the 50 mile course round the Isle of Wight. This year the event attracted 1779 entrants (and no that's not a typo!) with J/80, J/105 & J/109 classes and many larger J's. The team from J/UK brought out the new J/97 'Jenga' for her debut regatta in the 55 boat IRC Division 3A. By race end, the J/97 had finished second on elapsed and corrected time in class and was the top J/Boat overall on IRC corrected time. Paul Heys reports:
"We had a crew of 7: MC (Heys) on the tiller, myself, Emma on mainsheet, Kirsty the owner of the J109 J Dream on pit, (Kirsty's husband Dave was sailing J Dream with charter guests). Toby from the J Dream crew on jib, Lance one of our big boat owners on mast and Pietro on bow. Our sail wardrobe included 3 sails: Elvstrom, main, Code 2 jib on hanks with battens, and Code 2 spinnaker.
The forecast was 6-8 knots rising to 12-14 by the time we reached the halfway mark at St Catherines point on the South side of the island. We were in a class of 55 boats in a larger group of perhaps 300 boats all of whom started together. Whilst we were nearly the highest rated, there were quite a lot of longer older boats that could have blanketed us on the fetch if we did not manage to get clear air. From a tidal and shortest distance point of view the island (leeward) end is always favored, from a clear wind point of view with this wind direction, the pin was favored. We opted for the pin and with little difficulty we were able to nail the pin end start. We were initially fetching in 5-6 knots of wind and were pleased to slowly work away from the closest boat which was an MG 335 and all of the pack that had started well at our end. The leg from the start line to the Needles is about 11 miles and the tide was now building to 2 knots in the deep channel, as the tide built the wind backed and we became close hauled. We were comfortable with our speed and within 10 minutes of starting we were in the back of the previous class that had started 10 minutes earlier. On the way down to the Needles we did not see any of our fleet and were working our way through the earlier starters. Tactically we found the Solent difficult, as the breeze was localized, so twice we swapped sides which we normally don't like to do, however the extra pressure appeared to be worth the chase. We discovered that we had not made a perfect job of this, as when we arrived at the Needles, we found ourselves in the company of a Sigma 33 and a Hunter Impala, two slower boats that had started at the same time.
Rounding the Needles we hoisted the code 2 and immediately goosewinged to punch straight into the tide, which would now be against us for the full 25 miles of the run. The wind tends to follow the coast when in this direction so there was at no point, any bow up spinnaker reaching, instead we ran deep the whole way, we used a mixture of goose winging and normal 165 true sailing trying not to gybe out into the stronger foul tide and utilizing the inshore back eddies.
The breeze was between 10 and 18 knots. We passed many boats on the run and only a couple passed us. The Leeward mark at Bembridge was a massive park up of over 500 boats as two opposing winds cancelled each other out. We could see 122's and 133's in front of us and saw lots of boats we had passed piling in behind us, so it became a major restart. Exiting the ruck, we had no idea how we were placed as it was clear that massive losses and gains would have taken place. The old breeze prevailed and we started beating against the tide which had again changed against us, in 2-3 knots of wind. We held on to our position and slowly the breeze built and once it got over 6 knots we stepped away from a J 92 and caught and passed a few larger boats. The beat to the finish saw us in company with Prima 38, X 362, J 109's, J 105's but no smaller boats. Our speed and height was good and only the Prima and the X made small gains. We passed and moved away from the other boats.
As we approached the finish a boat that we had not previously seen, got a gun a few minutes before we got our gun, this was the Elan 333 that won our class. We think that they passed us at Bembridge, although they could have led us out of the Solent.
Upon arriving ashore we found that we had beaten all other J's on handicap. It was a small boat race with some parking lots, but the boat's performance when in contact with others was great!
To summarize:
- A code 1 jib and some softer rig settings will help optimize performance in under 6 knots and next time we will try moving crew weight a bit further forward.
- In over 6 knots we are very happy with speed and height of the boat.
- Running, very good in all conditions and we can get down to 180 with our Elvstrom kite.
- Spinnaker reaching we have not raced in this mode yet, but on demo sails the boat seems very manageable.
- Max downwind speed we recorded in the race was 10 knots.
We are excited by the speed of the new J/97 and her potential for racing IRC. In all, she is a versatile & comfortable boat and everyone on board enjoyed sailing her in this debut race!
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John R. Cramsie, of Halifax, passed away April 20, 2013, surrounded by his family. He was at the Veterans Memorial Nursing Home where the care given by all the staff was unsurpassed.
After serving in World War II, he pursued a career as chemist in both the textile and pulp and paper industries. He lived in Monroe, NY and Halifax, NS.
Known for his gentlemanly and kindly ways, his hearty laugh and sense of humor, he is greatly missed by all who knew him.
He leaves his wife, Marilyn; daughter, Lyn (Randy Vite); son, Alec (Gail Cramsie) and six grandchildren: Johnny, Randy-Marilyn, Brian, Eric, Ceilidh and Alexandra.
A private family service will take place at a later date.
Memorial donations may be made to the Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Gardens.
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Well, it's official. You can take your theories about when or whether Grey's Anatomy jumped the shark and toss them out the nearest window. After six years of weird diseases, musical chairs pair-ups, and sex with ghosts, Shonda Rhimes knocked it out of the park with her edge-of-your-seat, shocking, wrenching Season 6 finale.
If you fell asleep during any part of the two-hour finale, there's something seriously wrong with you. You should seek medical attention. Just don't go to Seattle Grace. They have a lot of mopping to do.
Part 1: "Sanctuary"
Meredith, however, is in a great mood. She tells us the hospital has always been her school, her church, her sanctuary. As a kid, she learned to read in the OR gallery, got to draw on old charts and played in the morgue. Played in the morgue? No fair. The closest I ever got to a corpse at my mother's job was the 100-year-old research librarian who smelled like wool.
Meredith now has one more reason to love the hospital: in one of its bathrooms, she finds out she's pregnant. The first person she tells isn't her baby's daddy. It's Cristina.
Articulate and warm as always, Cristina's first reaction is classic Yang: "No fricking way!" Way.
If it's a boy, it can be McWeenie. If it's born early, it can be McPreemie. If it's a little person, it can be McTeenie. And because I'm biased, I'm hoping for a future McSoftballteamie.
Today is one busy day at Seattle Grace Mercy West. Arizona's young patient, Ruby, needs her appendix taken out. Callie has patients, too, but she spends most of her time narrowing her eyes scornfully at Arizona and walking away whenever they happen to occupy the same nurse's station. Whatever temperature it may be outside, it's colder in the ER.
Teddy and Owen aren't talking either, but not for his lack of trying. Teddy isn't interested in rehashing how he told Derek to give her job away, what she does or doesn't mean to him, and how smooth Asian skin is. Instead, she takes on a road rage victim with a bullet wound. Owen's only use to her now is assisting in the OR. Cristina is even less useful, and is told to look after her post-op patients. Great. If she wanted to watch a bunch of bleeding people sleep, she could just go out to the waiting room.
Elsewhere, Bailey and Big Foot, a.k.a., Dr. Percy, deliver some bad news to a woman with a colostomy bag. Her surgery to remove it will be delayed until after she gets a blood transfusion. Sick of trying to match her shoes with her bag, she's understandably peeved and immediately sends her husband out for pizza. Bailey reminds her pizza now means bowel prep and enema later. I love pizza as much as the next person, but nothing is worth the words "bowel prep."


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America's strategic interests in Asia go hand in hand with democratic values. Not by accident, all of our formal security allies in Asia - Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand - are democracies. And events are trending further in this direction.
Taiwan recently conducted its fifth direct presidential election since 1996, further proof of democracy's hold there. While many Americans may squirm at the "pro-China" characterization given its now two-term president, Ma Ying-jeou, the process that returned him to office is in itself a strategic advantage. Taiwan has one of the most highly polarized electorates in the world. Yet the democratic process has produced a bottom line on the most contentious issue - Taiwan's relationship with the People's Republic of China.
Mr. Ma represents all Taiwanese - those who supported him and those who did not. His electoral mandate revolves around what he has called the "three no's": no unification, no independence and no use of force to resolve differences with China. This is not a formulation the Chinese, who remain fixated on unification, can live with for long. It is, however, the formulation preferred for years by Taiwan's citizenry, as expressed at the ballot box and in public polling.
In Burma, skepticism certainly remains in order. Yet evidence of real political liberalization is mounting. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, the Senate's conscience on Burma, have opened the door to a phased lifting of sanctions, hinging most prominently on the conduct of upcoming by-elections in which Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her party have registered to compete.
As long as Congress (the author and enforcer of America's Burma policy), the administration and Miss Suu Kyi remain coordinated on their response, a major realignment of influence could be under way not just in Burma, but in Southeast Asia broadly.
Half of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are already "free" or "partly free," according to Freedom House. Half are "not free." A democratic Burma will tip ASEAN in favor of liberty.
And Burma is not the only democratic story unfolding in Southeast Asia. The "partly free" are becoming more free. Singapore held what were, for it, remarkably competitive elections last year. And in a shocking turn of events, just weeks ago, the Kuala Lumpur High Court gave the Malaysian political opposition a boost by acquitting its leader, Anwar Ibrahim, of charges that could have prevented him from leading his coalition in national elections later this year.
A democracy-majority ASEAN will look at the world differently, increasingly live up to the commitment to democracy and human rights enshrined in its charter, and be better inclined toward the interests of the U.S. and other democracies in the region.
The United States and China are engaged in the early stages of a great geopolitical struggle for predominance in the Western Pacific. There may be areas of mutual tactical interest, global economic issues, maritime security and nonproliferation for instance, where we can work together. We certainly have an interest in avoiding armed conflict.
The horizons of U.S.-China relations, however, are severely limited by the contrast in their political systems.
Washington-based experts often dismiss consideration of "ideology" in Asia policy as unsophisticated. Yet as Princeton professor Aaron L. Friedberg lays out in his new book, "A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia," ideology is alive and well in U.S.-China relations. In fact, it drives the rivalry's defining feature - "mistrust and volatility"- largely because democracy constitutes an American strategic advantage.
The ideological trends at work in East Asia - and thus the geopolitical trends - favor America. Democratic peoples in East Asia will increasingly define their interests in sympathy with others who govern themselves. And they will demand their governments do the same. That change will increasingly press the "not free" of Asia, including China.
Walter Lohman is director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation
First appeared in The Washington Times


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Sophie Sartain, director of the Independent Lens documentary Mimi and Dona, which explores the trials of parenting and care through the story of her aunt and grandmother, brings us this short film about her relationship with her son Ben, who was diagnosed with autism. Unlike Dona, Ben is fortunate to live in a time where there is a better understanding of autism and Asperger's.
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Blue Jays Wildness = Twins Sweep
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota scored three straight runs on wild pitches by the Toronto Blue Jays' Sergio Santos in the eighth inning, when the Twins walked eight times off three relievers in rallying for a 9-5 victory and a sweep of Thursday's day-night doubleheader.
Kyle Gibson threw eight scoreless innings as Minnesota won the opener 7-0. The Twins trailed 5-1 in the fifth of the night game after another lackluster start by Mike Pelfrey.
Steve Delabar walked two batters starting the six-run eighth, setting up Santos (0-1) for trouble as manager John Gibbons called for his closer early. Santos walked all three batters he faces, loading the bases with one out when he put on pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe. The Twins cut the lead to 5-4 when Josmil Pinto came home on a wild pitch.
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Eighty-two year old Indian Yogi affectionately known as Mataji claims to have survived for approximately 70 years without consuming any food or water. A global collective of 30 physicians have spent 15 days performing a battery of tests, and have concluded that the health of the yogi is above par for most healthy men his age.
Mataji, or Prahlad Jani as he is formally named, credits a "special type of yoga" that he practices for allowing this miraculous feat. The study, conducted by the Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), was performed to understand how a human being could survive without sustenance or the naturally resulting elimination for long periods of time.
DIPAS Director G. Ilavezhagen told journalists "A scientific understanding of the mechanism of such survival may help in working out survival strategies under stressful and extreme conditions. This may have applications during natural calamities and disasters."
The yogi was under constant surveillance through closed-circuit camera in the hospital in Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad, during which time he took in no fluids or food. He did gargle occasionally and take baths. The only parameters Mataji set for the testing was to forgo any invasive tests that would require him to consume any fluids.
Mataji claims that when he was eight years old a divine form of the goddess appeared to him and touched his tongue, since then he has not felt the desire to eat or drink and has survived on "solar energy." The team did not observe any noticeable metabolic change indicative of fasting, and found that Mr. Jani's systems were all functioning at "normal levels." Dr. Ilavezhagen stated that it was still too early to draw conclusions about the "survival mechanism," but that several factors were worthy of closer examination.
Could this be true? That a human being could survive for seven decades without eating or drinking anything and not waste away due to malnutrition? It is so hard to fathom the severe austerities that some Indian yogis employ, though so many are easier to believe than this one. Sure, with the aid of a support, a sadhu can keep his arm raised above his head for twenty years, or never cut his fingernails, but no food or drink…that's a whole other level of extreme.
Though this account might seem improbable or even outlandish, many of the classical yogic text describe feats such as this and even more unbelievable as part of the natural course of a deepening practice. Patanjali, the author of the Yoga Sutras, dedicates the whole third chapter to the amazing Siddhis (Powers) that can be gained from intense and sustained practice. Things like levitation and omniscience are observed as a natural evolution from an intensely sustained practice.
In Chapter 30 of the great Parmahansa Yoganada's book Autobiography of a Yogi, he expounds on the "Law of Miracles" and the tendency for modern science to discount fantastic and bizarre tales such as these, but acknowledge without qualm all of the ways that "modern" science accepts basic physical principles that defy scientific logic as adequate and commonplace. Things like the dual nature of light (particle/wave) and electricity which is a "phenomenon of repulsion and attraction," are accepted without question, much the same way the illusion (maya) that the world was flat instead of round was ingrained in the minds of so many before a handful of brave explorers defied "logic."
I am not saying that I think this "starving" saint is bona fide, but I am also not saying that he is not. If the practice yoga teaches us one thing over and over again, it is to believe that the impossible is possible. In every moment, we are called to see the infinite possibility that sits quietly behind all of the distraction and deception of the monkey mind and the habituation of culture. Granted, in our Western experience, the examples of this might be much less extreme, but they even happen here. Though their shape and form might be different from the traditional Siddhis of Classical Yoga. So maybe we as a community of yogis can open our minds to the unbelievable, or at least try to fathom the unfathomable. But, maybe not.
What do you think about the claims made about Mataji?
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I'll be talking my fool head off at public events these coming two weeks.
Next week, I'll be in London, speaking to the Henry Jackson society on February 26 and at an event hosted by Policy Exchange on February 27. The HJS event is open to anyone who works in Westminster; the PX event is open to the public, but attendees need to register here:
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Dear President Johnson Sirleaf:
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by threats made against Liberian journalist Mae Azango, who has been in hiding since last week after she reported on the practice of female genital mutilation. We urge you, Madam President, as Africa's first and only female head of state and a champion of women's rights, to direct the Liberian authorities to ensure her safety and fully investigate the threats made against her.
Azango, a reporter for the daily FrontPage Africa and New Narratives, a project supporting independent media in Africa, published an article on March 8 entitled "Growing Pains: Sande Tradition of Genital Cutting Threatens Liberian Women's Health." The article described how tribes practice female genital mutilation on as many as two out of every three girls in the country. Although March 8 was International Women's Day, the publication of the article was followed by death threats against Azango. "They left messages and told people to tell me that they will catch me and cut me so that will make me shut up," she told CPJ. "I have not been sleeping in my house."
National Police Deputy Director Al Karley told CPJ today that he had made Azango's case a high priority. However, we believe your political leadership is required to ensure the government will take the necessary steps to ensure the safety and well-being of this journalist.
We ask you, Madam President, to use the moral authority of your office to speak out against the threats made against Azango, and to ensure that other journalists taking on this sensitive topic do not suffer the same fate.
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Oil industry chief warns Obama on Canada pipeline
WASHINGTON—The oil industry's top lobbyist warned the Obama administration Wednesday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline or face "huge political consequences" in an election year.
Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said it would be a "huge mistake" for President Barack Obama to reject the 1,700-mile, Canada-to-Texas pipeline. Obama faces a Feb. 21 deadline to decide whether the $7 billion pipeline is in the national interest.
"Clearly, the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest," Gerard said at the trade association's annual "State of American Energy" event. "A determination to decide anything less than that I believe will have huge political consequences."
Gerard said the oil group has teamed up with at least 15 unions to support the pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs.
"We will stand shoulder to shoulder" with labor unions that have backed the pipeline, including the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department, Gerard said.
"Over the next 60 days, they will not be silent," he said.
Gerard repeatedly referred to the Keystone pipeline at his annual speech assessing the energy industry, calling it the business group's top near-term priority.
While the pipeline has not been a focus of the GOP race for president, Gerard said the issue has the potential to become a major factor in the general election.
"It's already an election issue" in the presidential race and is likely to be a focus of several U.S. Senate races, Gerard said, calling the pipeline the largest `'shovel-ready" project in the country.
The pipeline, proposed by Calgary-based
TransCanada says the pipeline could create as many as 20,000 jobs over two years, a figure opponents say is inflated. A State Department report last summer said the pipeline would create up to 6,000 jobs during construction.
The pipeline proposal has forced the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies. Many unions back the project as a job creator in a down economy, while environmental groups fear it could lead to an oil spill disaster.
A payroll tax law signed by Obama just before Christmas includes a Republican-sponsored provision that sets a Feb. 21 deadline for Obama to decide on the pipeline. The administration is warning it would rather say no than rush a decision in an election year.
Environmental advocates, already disappointed with Obama's failure to achieve climate change legislation and his decision to delay new smog standards, have made it clear that approval of the pipeline would dampen their enthusiasm in his bid for re-election.
Some liberal donors even threatened to cut off funds to Obama's re-election campaign to protest the project, which opponents say would transport "dirty oil" that requires huge amounts of energy to extract.
If he rejects the pipeline, Obama risks losing support from organized labor, a key part of the Democratic base, for thwarting jobs.
Obama appeared to have skirted what some dubbed the "Keystone conundrum" in November when the State Department announced it was postponing a decision on the pipeline until after this year's election. Officials said they needed extra time to study routes that avoid an environmentally sensitive area of Nebraska that supplies water to eight states.
The affected area stretches just 65 miles through the Sandhills region of northern Nebraska, but the concerns were serious enough that the state's governor and senators opposed the project until the pipeline was moved.
Republican Gov. Dave Heineman, who opposed the initial route, says he supports efforts to accelerate the project, noting that provisions in the payroll tax bill allow the project developer to find a new route avoiding the Sandhills.
There was no immediate response from the White House.
Matthew Daly can be followed on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MatthewDalyWDC


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- FatUm said...
sorry about the death and the wedding. worst gatherings ever! waiting for your posts ;)
- 12:08 pm
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Hi Angry, nice to see you bloggin' again. But since haven't updated your blog in a while, let ME give you an update of your blog.
This is how it has always worked - You provide posts, normal followers feed on your post and post their comments, and trolls feed on their comments to make posts that annoy the followers. You, in turn, feed on the trolls to make a post with a reply that entertains and humiliates the troll. Then, normal followers are able to feed on this. The circle then repeats itself. 'Hakuna Matata, the Circle of Life'. You get how it works now?
Now say the blogger decides to sell his soul to Twitter. Can you guess what happens? Its alright for normal followers, cause they can just move over and watch the spectacle from the aforementioned soul-stealing website. But no, not trolls. You see, we have evolved and adapted to the niche that is your blog. We know what makes your blog followers tick. We know your blog posting style. We CANNOT move over to twitter, because we are not adapted to survive there. So what can we do? We stay here, picking on the bones of old blog posts while frantically hoping someone somewhere will respond to our increasingly desperate attempts. But this is not to be, so one by one, we perish.
This is what has happened to your blog since you left. Once, this blog used to be a troll Metropolis. Now, it is but a troll graveyard.
ImAFatBastardWhoAteMyKitten is now just a 'thin bastard'. Prickatron is now just a 'mildly-irritated-a-tron'. Comprende? So please, as a representative of the troll community, could you hurry on up with the posts?
- 2:45 pm
You should get your ESR checked. That throbbing in your temple could be early onset giant cell arteritis.
- 11:39 pm
Please tell me that Justin Bieber photo isn't the "thought provoking post" that was promised in the last post.
- 11:57 am
Carlisle's the doctor, Angry. Not Edward.
Also, I may have to shoulder the blame for part of your Twitter/Bufferapp addiction. XD
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hey,hope your good!
Love the blog :)
i think read nearly ever post lol.
sorry to hear about the death :( its very sad when you lose someone.
keep your chin up and cant wait to read you next post.
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- Jakub said...
greetings from Czech republic!
nice blog, friendly humour... I will come back really soon :-)
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In 1998, fascinated by artistic nudes, as they were so perfectly presented in the 1930's by photographic legends such as George Hoyningen-Huene or Horst P. Horst, Sylvie Blum started creating body fragments, photographic torsos that attain an almost sculptural impression in the artistic lighting and delicate gradation of gray tones. However, the sources of her inspiration are far more varied. Photographs from her bewitching photo series Nudes, which revealed the spectrum of her work, emerged out of Miami, Berlin, Los Angeles and Mallorca.
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1967 born in Austria since 1984 work as a model and muse with famous photographers like Guenter Blum, Luciene Glerque, Andreas Bitesnich, Conrad Godly, Jan Sudek, Jeanloup Sieff, Martin Pudenz, Abe Freyndlich and many more 1988 examination at grammar school, college of arts Mannheim 1990 college of arts Trier, Germany 1992 art director pr-agency Mannheim, Germany 1995 married with photographer Guenter Blum 1997 widowed 1998 curator of worlwide exhibitions and bookpublications by Guenter Blums work 1999 turned to photography 2001 different productions in Miami and Los Angeles, USA 2002 work for international magazines 2003 worked in South Africa and China 2004 worked in Australia and Thailand 2005 moved from Germany to USA works in lives in Los Angeles, USACollections
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Remarks Of The Grand Master Of Masons In West Virginia
West Virginia Masonic Heritage Day Celebration
Charleston, West Virginia
August 21, 1993
Thank you my brethren, and my fellow West Virginians. It is good to be with you on this beautiful day in Charleston, as we celebrate our Masonic heritage. I want to extend to each of you my personal welcome, as well as my appreciation that you have come to celebrate your Masonic heritage. You see before you the best of Freemasonry. I want to acknowledge the presence of illustrious brothers Kirk Bougher, Paul Carpenter and Drehl Westfall[,] potentates of the Ancient and Arabic Nobles, Order of the Mystic Shrine for West Virginia, the Beni Kedem Gold Band and the many Shrine units present. I also want to acknowledge the Right Eminent Grand Commander of Knights Templar of the State of West Virginia, Sir Knight John G. "Rick" Elam and the Knight Templar escort which he has provided. Of course you have already heard from illustrious Brother C. B. Hall, Sovereign Grand Inspector General for West Virginia for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. There are also a number of support staff and other Scottish Rite units present. And finally, Most Excellent H. Eugene Vitalie, The Most Excellent Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons for the State of West Virginia and members of the Royal Arch Chapter.
I also want to express my appreciation to our Governor, Gaston Caperton for taking time from his busy schedule to be with us to celebrate this very important occasion. We extend a warm welcome to him.
My brethren, we come together to celebrate our heritage as Freemasons, a heritage that is closely linked to that of the state itself. I cannot help observing the relationship of state government and Freemasonry here today. Of course you know that the Knight Templar escort, under the command of Sir Knight Poston Drake, is made up of Master Masons, but the State Police escort, under the command of Trooper Charlie Bidwell is also made up of Master Masons. The Governor and I had the privilege of being presented by Sam Cole, the ranking official of the State Treasurer's office. He is also a Master Mason, and later today, you will see the ultimate in public service and Freemasonry when the senior Senator from West Virginia, the Honorable Robert C. Byrd receives the "Legion of Honor" from the Order of Demolay.
My brethren, you know that West Virginia was born during the terrible period following the War Between the States. It was a difficult time. There were bitter feelings all around. Even among West Virginians there was not a clear agreement about how the state should look, or about the direction in which it should proceed. Fortunately, the state was blessed with leaders who could guide it through the difficult period of obtaining statehood. You remember them. Men like Governors Arthur Boreman of Wood County, Daniel Farnsworth of Upshire [sic] County, William Stevenson of Wood County, and John Jacob of Hampshire County.
At the same time my brethren, the Masonic Lodges of the new state had to sever their ties to the old, the Grand Lodge of Virginia. A new Grand Lodge had to be formed, also in the most difficult of times. As in the case of the state, the new Grand Lodge was blessed with leaders who could guide it through the difficult period. You remember them, men like Grand Masters Bates, Logan, White and Walker.
Today, we assemble as Freemasons to celebrate our heritage. We do so by honoring the memory of a Brother who took advantage of a most unique opportunity to play an active role in the development of our state, and in the development of our Grand Lodge. The Brother is our former Governor George Wesley Atkinson. Atkinson was born at a most propitious time, June 29, 1845, right here in Charleston. His whole life was devoted to public service and the development of this state and its people. He was involved in Freemasonry from its very beginning in West Virginia, and provided leadership to the craft during a difficult period in its development. Atkinson helped to lay a proper foundation so that Ancient Craft Masonry could assume a prominent role as a leading institution, even to this day, just as our state has assumed its rightful place of honor among the United States of America.
It is therefore, with great pleasure and pride, that I present to Freemasons everywhere, and to the people of West Virginia, through their Governor, the Honorable Gaston Caperton, this resolution honoring the memory of our Brother and former Governor, George Wesley Atkinson.
I now present it to you, Governor Caperton, with the thanks of all Freemasons in this Grand Jurisdiction for your assistance in making this day possible and for your service to the people of our state.
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Perhaps you've noticed something about photographing wildlife: It's really hard. The main problem, of course, is that animals will, almost without exception, fail to pose on cue. In fact, they refuse to take any direction from you at all. And if you thought it was hard to take a photo of a cat or a dog or a moose, just try to photograph birds. In the past, I've given some advice for shooting wildlife and pets, but this week let's zero in on tips for capturing our feathered buddies.
There are two common situations you'll encounter with your camera—sitting and waiting for a bird to land somewhere, and then shooting it while it's earthbound, or trying to catch a bird in flight as it zooms by overhead. Both are fun and can yield some rewarding photos, but it's a lot harder to snap a great photo of a bird in flight, because you need to pan the camera so you track the bird's motion in the viewfinder.
I suggest that you start by shooting birds when they come to our home turf—when they settle down in trees, on posts, or on some other stationary spot. You'll have to act fast, though, because they probably won't stay long. Here are four things to keep in mind:
Shoot with the fastest shutter speed possible. Let's face it: Birds are fast little buggers. Shooting with the fastest shutter speed is going to help your cause by freezing the action when they dart around unexpectedly. To do this, I suggest switching to shutter priority or aperture priority mode and dialing in the fastest shutter speed you can get. If it's any slower than 1/1000 second, you might want to increase the camera's ISO setting until you can coax the shutter speed into an acceptable range.
Help your lens focus. When a bird lands in your field of vision, you might only have a couple of seconds before they dart off again. One way to save some time is to pre-focus the lens. If you're very far away from the subject, you can probably set the lens to Infinity. Test this by focusing on the landing zone that you're observing. If the perch in question looks sharp with the lens set to Infinity, go ahead and switch your camera to manual focus mode and set the lens to infinity. When the bird eventually lands, your camera won't waste any time trying to focus. If the perch is far, but not all the way at Infinity, check to see if your lens has a Near/Far selector that limits the focusing range. If it does, set it to the "far" position so when the camera does focus, it'll happen faster. Or, if you're waiting for the bird to land on a very specific spot, such as a post on a pier, you can set the focus mode to manual and pre-focus for that exact location.
Shoot in uniform sunlight. I'm not a big fan of midday photos: Direct, overhead sunlight causes lots of harsh light and shadows. That said, I'd avoid contrasty lighting situations, such as when a bird is roosting in the shade, with bright beams of light cutting through the frame. You'll probably end up with ugly shadows on your bird or the surroundings.
Stay still and steady. Of course, I highly recommend using a tripod (that shouldn't be much of a surprise). Indeed, photographing birds is just the sort of thing for which tripods were invented. I suggest that you keep the tripod's head slightly loose, so you can swivel it around as needed to frame the bird when it lands.
If you're bored with earthbound bird photos and want to catch them in the air, you're going to have to develop a slightly different set of skills:
Pan for action. You'll need to pan the camera such that you smoothly track the bird in your viewfinder, and then gently squeeze the shutter without jerking the camera or losing track of the bird's motion. I've explained panning for action before; think of it like the follow-through you'd perform when swinging a bat or a golf club.
Keep it fast. Just like the earthbound photos, be sure to shoot with the fastest shutter speed you can reasonably achieve.
Keep the sun behind you. It's critically important to keep the sun behind you when you track and shoot birds in the air. If the sun is in front of you, you risk swinging the lens in line with the sun, which can hurt your eyes, of course. But even if you avoid that, you'll end up with a silhouetted or poorly exposed bird.
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This week's Hot Pic: "The Long and Short of It" by Mark Nixon, Rotherham, UK.
Mark writes: "This is a photo of Wentworth House in Rotherham which, at 185 meters, has the longest facade of any house in Europe. I shot it from Hoober Stand, another local monument a mile away. I used my Nikon D300S and then selectively blurred it to achieve a miniaturization effect."
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- For a moment, someone was actually paying attention to what was going on in Jermaine Wilson's north Tulsa neighborhood.
In the days after what authorities describe as racially motivated shootings that killed three people and wounded two more earlier this month, the national spotlight was on the crime-ridden neighborhood, where iron bars on windows belie the toys strewn in people's front yards. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the national president of the NAACP showed up. Local church and civic leaders pledged things would finally change for the better.
But after two men were arrested for the shootings and the furor finally died down, Wilson and others in Tulsa's predominantly black north side were left with more doubts than hopes the area would truly improve.
"Ain't nothing going to change around here," said Wilson, 30, who has lived on the north side all his life and inherited his tiny home from his grandmother. "It's like a little Vietnam here, everyone walking around with their AK-47s."
Marquis Harley notes he's still afraid, even though the suspects are behind bars.
"When night comes, I'm inside," the 21-year-old Harley said. "Around nine o'clock, all I hear is gunshots."
That's not to say the shooting rampage wasn't terrifying. The fear was palpable as police canvassed neighborhoods for a white shooter they said had targeted victims as they were walking near their homes. All of the victims were black.
After a tense two-day search, police arrested 19-year-old Jake England and 33-year-old Alvin Watts early Easter Sunday. Watts is white; England's attorney has said England is Cherokee Indian. They face charges of first-degree murder, shooting with intent to kill and malicious harassment.
Authorities believe England may have wanted to avenge his father's shooting death by a black man two years ago. However, England has said he has no ill-will toward black people.
The shootings happened not far from one of the nation's worst race riots more than 90 years ago, where as many as 300 blacks died. Today, beyond Tulsa's oil mansions and downtown bustle, some black residents still consider this northeastern Oklahoma city of 391,000 divided. The north side today is pocked with blight, vacant lots and its share of crime - what the past three decades or so didn't take here, the recession did.
Standing near a sometimes-basketball court overgrown with weeds and sprinkled with glass shards, Harley and 20-year-old Terance Brown describe what summer life is like in north Tulsa for young black men.
"All you see over there is a barber shop and a liquor store," Harley said, gesturing down the street. He mows lawns for extra money and says he wishes he could buy up some of the abandoned houses on his street - the ones with plywood covering windows and doors, spray-painted with the street addresses because the weeds are too tall to see the numbers on the curb - so more young people like him would move in.
"It's just crazy what they do out here," Brown said. "I've been shot before. ... And I'm just an innocent bystander getting out of the car."
Theophilus Ballard, an 84-year-old retired truck driver who was born in Tulsa and came back to live here in 1974, said the north side has always been worse off than the rest of the city, and he doesn't expect that to change now.
"I don't know. People just live better over there, I think, than they do over here. If you have a good job and plenty of money, you want to get away from here," he said.
Others, though, do have hope.
At the First Baptist Church North Tulsa where Jackson preached about redemption, senior pastor Anthony Scott said the black community is still riding the euphoria of the weekend, when talk turned to hope and revitalization.
"It's really incumbent on leaders like myself to bring that to fruition, to rebuild hope and trust and rebuild infrastructure," Scott said. "I do feel like the common citizen in north Tulsa feels like they've finally received genuine sympathy and concern from the Tulsa community, and they don't want that to go away.
"There might be a sense of, `here we go again,' but this expression of grief and concern from the entire city has certainly given them a feeling that there aren't two Tulsas, but one."
State Rep.-elect Kevin Matthews, a retired firefighter whose district encompasses north Tulsa, said the city needs to acknowledge the "blatant disparity" between north Tulsa and the rest of the city in terms of infrastructure, grocery stores and businesses with good-paying jobs.
"We have so many people leaving right now," Matthews said. "They want to go where they can drive two blocks to a franchise chain to eat. People are wanting to go to where schools are opening instead of closing. Therefore, what's left is those people that don't have that opportunity and they don't have a voice."
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday outlined new measures — including how many days are included in early voting — the Sunshine State will be exploring in order to better facilitate elections, in the wake of voting complications in November.
"There's three things," Scott said on CNN's "Starting Point." "One, the length of the ballot. Two, we've got to allow our supervisors more flexibility on the size of our polling locations. And three, the number of days we have. We've gotta go back and look at the number of days of early voting we have."
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There is a silent revolution slowly, but steadily, unfolding in Southeast Europe, as Romanians are getting out on the streets in a number sufficiently high to matter. For the past three months, it has become the norm for Romanians who turned into overnight activists to spend their Sunday evenings carrying witty banners, Roşia Montana flags and chanting slogans against the cyanide mining project at Roşia Montana (Red Mountain). The "Romanian Autumn" movement, as some call it, started on 1 September 2013, when approximately 1,000 people went into the main streets of Bucharest, the Romanian capital. It is a non-violent protest against the government's initiative of drafting a bill, which in case of Parliamentary approval would offer the mining company Gabriel Resources the right to forcefully expropriate the remaining few hundred residents in Roşia Montana to mine what is now considered the largest gold reserve left in Europe, holding a little over 300 tons of precious metal. Only two weeks later, 15,000 people showed up in the streets of Bucharest.
If this sounds to you like the classic tale of large corporations being backed up by ill-fitted governments in making huge profits at the expense of the environment and people's livelihoods, you might actually be right. In a nutshell, Roşia Montana (Red Mountain) represents a battle field where corporate interests, backed up by local politicians are opposed by the remaining few residents of Roşia Montana, supported by tens of thousands of citizens across the country and a few hundred more abroad. The stakes are high: the price of gold is debated on the streets – the real price, that is.
Rosia Montana represents a small commune of 16 villages in the Western part of Transylvania, along the Apuseni mountains, which belong to the Carpathian arc surrounding Eastern Europe. Mining activities are said to predate Roman times, and gold digging has been a perpetual activity until 2006, when the government put an end to mining operations in the wake of the country's integration in the European Union. The concession to dig for gold in Roşia Montana has been awarded to Gabriel Resources in 1995 through a state auction process many suspect of having been handled behind closed doors. Since 2010, the economic entity managing the project is represented by the Roşia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), owned to 80% by Gabriel Resources, the remaining share belonging to the Romanian government. Standing between its goals and the four-mountain gold ore is the Alburnus Maior Association, coordinated by locals resisting expropriation and activists across the country.
Despite its precious metal reserves, the locals of Roşia Montana have never been anywhere near rich, and the current situation of hundreds being jobless or with no income perspectives has divided the public opinion on the project. Most people supporting the project argue for the need of foreign investment to spur the economical development of the area, even at the cost of the environment, while many opponents protest against political corruption and the overall lack of transparency displayed by both the Romanian government and RMGC.
Activists concerned with RMGC's mining proposal have sounded the alarm for years on the prospect of cyanide use in the mining process, which is considered to be one of the cheapest and most effective solutions in dissolving metal ores. According to experts, cyanide is fatal to both human and environment ecosystems. Cyanide can infiltrate soil, poison water resources and contaminate the air, among others. Despite its gruesome effects on the environment, cyanide use has not been banned in Europe, partly due to strong corporate lobbying.
To counter such concerns, RMGC has created an aggressive PR campaign – Rosia Montana News, which states that cyanide occurs "naturally in the environment, in our food and in our bodies" and that "it is harmless unless we get a toxic dose at once" and therefore should be viewed and carefully handled the same way as, for example, household bleach. This can hardly reassure the concerned locals running small businesses such as picking wild berries for export that their produce will find demand given their vicinity to what is seen as the biggest cyanide lake in Europe. This is not to mention the real danger posed to human health given the short distance from the rest of the villages surrounding the Roşia Montana area. According to the company representatives' statements, blasting four mountains from the face of the earth will require approximately 13.000 tons of cyanide per year for the next 16 to 17 years of mining activity, which some activists warn is already exceeding the amounts tolerated by mining legislation.
Despite this evidence, the grim perspective of a major ecological disaster sometimes fades in the background of discussions about who should benefit the most out of this project. Many protesters got out on the streets in response to what they perceived as corrupt policies serving private interests, claiming the gold should be kept within country boundaries, while others have been advocating for a mining-free activity at Roşia and its preservation as a UNESCO World Heritage, which could shield the commune from any industrial intrusion. Both sides have joined forces on an ad-hoc basis, inspired by their common indignation at the puppet mastery being displayed for the past few months.
If the project gets through, as the Prime Minister Ponta seems to endorse for, the cyanide-based mining activities would eventually lead to the irreversible destruction of a gold-mining community and the loss of an invaluable biodiversity treasure. To gain more support, Gabriel Resources is promising that their mining project will create approximately 2,000 jobs in the process and 900 more in mining operational activities, enriching the national budget with an overall amount approximated at EUR 5 billion. This would be a desirable incentive, as long as those jobs could be occupied by the jobless locals at Roşia Montana. However, that is highly unlikely due to their lack of specialized skills in the matter of handling mining technology, or other skills pertaining to general administration of the mining facilities.
The "Save Roşia Montana" protest is ongoing, not only in Romania's largest cities, but also in other European cities, thanks to efforts by Romanian students or young Romanian professionals abroad who are coordinating solidarity protests in London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen and other major cities, though much smaller in scale e.g. 200 protesters chanting slogans in front of the Brandenburg Gate, or 40 people carrying Roşia Montana flags in front of the Romanian Embassy in Copenhagen.
Given the smaller numbers, it is increasingly hard to keep up the momentum during protests abroad, especially in the face of political immobility back home, but nevertheless, there are few participants who continue to show up and believe their efforts make a difference for the people back home. Adrian is a young professional working in the IT industry in Berlin, and a constant participant in the solidarity protests. As many of his friends or fellow Sunday activists, he is very much aware that large numbers make a difference in triggering political feedback, but he is not discouraged in his motivation: "We're not going to save the world, and probably not even Roşia Montana, but this will create a precedent for future generations, and probably then, they will manage to change the world for the better".
Tica Darie, a former student in Copenhagen in Multimedia Design, has made the news in supporting the Roşia Montana activist campaign, by covering 2377 km on his bike, from Copenhagen to Roşia Montana, crossing 7 countries on his route. He has relocated to Roşia Montana and he is dedicated to further invest his efforts in the Save Roşia Montana campaign. He is famous nation-wide as the living image of the environmental activism at Roşia Montana. Lavinia and Alex, the typical young family with little time to spare other than with their 14-month baby, have set up the first international news hub on Roşia Montana, in an effort to disseminate its story in Copenhagen, their current place of residence, and hopefully throughout Europe. Their aim is to inspire an international awareness campaign on the threats posed by cyanide mining. Joining the protests in Bucharest, Monica tells about the new-found contagious energy among Romanian youth in reclaiming their rights, both in the environmental and in the political sphere.
The controversial project at Roşia Montana has issued numerous articles in the international media, written by either foreign or Romanian journalists. While the biased tone has not escaped some of these chronicles, the facts remained unspoiled, and they are indicative of measures alternative to the mining project proposed at Roşia as a solution for economic development. The social and ecological risks are too high to be ignored, and possible costs in the future are likely to be higher than the benefits promised by RMGC.
Based on this argument comes my surprise about reading this article in The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog, which argues for a less sentimental, more reasonable perspective on ecological issues and mentioning the Rosia Montana movement as a case in point. The author rightfully asks that environmental activism be followed by accountability – if we shout in the streets we'd better know what we're shouting for, and usually doing your homework on the matter will help you deliberate on the proper way to go around these types of issues and actually add value to activism. Fair enough, Roşia Montana does stand for option within our reach for economic development in the wider, public debate. But let me express why I feel the anatomy of the Roşia Montana movement is beyond an "to get the investment money or not" question.
The last time history recorded a similar mass solidarity movement was in the freezing cold of December 1989, known as the Romanian revolution against the communist dictatorship of Ceausescu, a street protest which left behind numerous youth casualties and a fragile, new-born democracy. 25 years later, faced with economic depression, shifting cultural values and an overall sense of injustice, Romanians are out on the streets again, this time voicing general discontent as an end-product of a democracy gone haywire. For those tens of thousands of Romanians blocking major city boulevards shouting slogans for saving Roşia Montana, this mining project symbolizes much more than the 16-village commune, it symbolizes resistance against accumulated frustrations with corrupt governors and a corrupt economic system. For a significant part, it also symbolizes the fight that is owed to the true and only heritage we can still be proud of, the natural resources. They are not members of Greenpeace or other environmental NGOs, but merely concerned, educated citizens that are exercising their capacity to reflect on the long-term perspective of their country, and they equate this with the sustainable use of natural resources. Hence, preserving the natural beauty of Roşia Montana is more valuable in their eyes than the extraction of gold, and more worthy of a legacy to future generations.
So in response to liability for ecological activism, I would say the people on the streets are doing just that, they are taking responsibility where its agency, the government, has been failing it over and over again. Encouraging sustainable development is not about building a glamorous, glass house on top of nature's destruction; in this case, it is about encouraging a real, active dialogue to weigh in the best possible solution, and maybe, when the storm of voices gets quieter, to reflect on man's stewardship of nature, if at all.
It might be the case that the project goes through the Parliament vote, and weeks of protesting and marching in the streets might have been in vain. But there is one outcome that will continue to linger in the common conscience of Romanian society, and that is a newly-found civic sense, as opposed to the more common cynicism displayed by our parents', and their parents' generations.


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The UK Foreign Office is to transfer many overseas colonial administration files to the National Archives – from its website at
The Foreign Office will be making available to the public a large collection of files from former British territories, sometimes known as the "migrated archives". The files will be made available between April 2012 and November 2013.
The Foreign Secretary made a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament on 5 May about these colonial administration files held by the FCO and subsequently informed Parliament on 30 June that he had appointed Professor Badger from Cambridge University as the Independent Reviewer.
Professor Badger has approved a timetable for the transfer of the migrated archive files to The National Archives (TNA). The first batch of files, representing around 16% of the total collection, is expected to be available at TNA in April 2012.
The files are being transferred in alphabetical order of the colonial territory concerned with the exception of the prioritised release for Kenya, Cyprus, British India Ocean Territories (BIOT) and Malaya files where there has been particular interest.
The full timetable is available at the FCO website www.fco.gov.uk
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