and enter into long-term electricity
contracts.
"I can't think of a bigger challenge than coming back to California and
helping San Francisco get through this summer, encourage conservation and
then put together a long-term plan so San Francisco becomes invulnerable in
its power supply," said Smeloff, who now lives in New York. He will start
work on June 4 as the city PUC's assistant general manager for power policy,
planning and resource development.
Smeloff, whose hiring will be announced today, was an elected board member at
Sacramento's public utility from 1987 to 1997. The utility, which almost went
bust in the 1980s because of problems with its Rancho Seco nuclear power
plant, hired Freeman as its general manager in 1990.
Freeman later went on to head the LosAngeles Department of Water and Power
and now is the state's chief power buyer.
After leaving Sacramento, Smeloff moved to New York, where he is executive
director of the Pace University Law School energy project.
Brown's hiring of Smeloff still leaves open the top job at the San Francisco
PUC. The agency has been headed by temporary general managers since Anson
Moran retired in January 2000 and Brown and the PUC continue to look at
candidates.
There has been grumbling at City Hall that Brown's inability to find a new
PUC boss has undercut his own goal of raising public power production.
Mayoral spokesman P. J. Johnston said the mayor considers "Smeloff's hiring a
big step toward improving San Francisco's position in regards to public
power."
Smeloff's appointment


comes while the city's electricity future is in flux.
Hammered by the state power crisis, voters in November could face as many as
three electricity-related ballot measures.
One measure, proposed by longtime public power advocates, would create a
municipal utilities district in the city with an elected board, much like the
one in Sacramento. A second, pushed by Supervisors Gavin Newsom and Tony
Hall, would create a city power authority. A third, backed by Supervisor Mark
Leno, calls for selling as much as $125 million in bonds to install
solar-generating facilities on city property.
Smeloff said the existing PUC, which generates power through the Hetch Hetchy
hydroelectric dams, is going in the right direction by pursuing an agreement
with Palo Alto and the city of Santa Clara toquicker reviews for California
earlier this year. The other specific California proposal would direct the
secretary of energy to look into helping the state improve the current
transmission bottleneck between Northern and Southern California.
``Unfortunately, there are no short-term solutions to long-term neglect,''
the Bush plan says of California's crisis.
More broadly, the White House believes the proposals to increase supply and
improve electricity and natural-gas distribution are the keys to helping
California and the rest of the country deal with energy problems. The
163-page proposal says the United States is facing ``the most serious energy
shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s.''
Bush on Wednesday directed two federal regulatory agencies to monitor
electricity prices in the state and elsewhere and ``make sure that nobody in
America


energy supplies.
That stance, backed by most Republicans and the energy industry that Bush and
Cheney both once worked for, puts the administration at odds with most
Democrats and the environmental movement. The plan's release officially
ignites one of the largest political battles in years.
``It provides over 100 proposals to diversify and increase the supply of
energy, innovative proposals to encourage conservation and ways to make sure
that we get energy from producer to consumer,'' Bush said Wednesday after
receiving the plan from the high-level administration task force headed by
Cheney that drafted it over the past three months.
But Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, said the
administration's conservation proposals don't change the fact that the White
House plan overall is bad for thewe haven't had an energy policy. Interestingly
enough, this is the first comprehensive energy policy probably ever,
certainly in a long time.''
Former President Jimmy Carter had the last major energy program during his
administration in the midst of the energy crisis of the late 1970s. But
unlike Carter's proposals, which in part sought government mandates to
increase supply and urged Americans to conserve, Bush emphasizes free-market
solutions.
No lifestyle changes
The plan's message for Americans is that high-tech advances in energy
efficiency, coupled with increased energy supplies, will allow them to avoid
sacrificing their way of life to solve the energy problem.
The plan's conservation proposals come after Cheney infuriated
environmentalists when he belittled conservation in a major energy speech
last month. ``Conservation may be a sign


the city's downtown heating-and-cooling plant, which soon will be making
electricity, too.
Two-thirds of the potential energy in the coal, oil or natural gas burned in
conventional electric power plants escapes as waste heat or pollution. In a
cogeneration plant, the waste heat is used to warm buildings or run air
conditioners.
``We use two fires when we could use one,'' said Tom Casten, president of
Private Power LLC, a Chicago-area combined heat company, and the chair of the
International Cogeneration Alliance, based in Brussels, Belgium.
U.S. cogeneration has been growing in recent years, but it isn't as popular
as it is in Europe, Casten said. The United States gets 7 to 9 percent of its
power from cogeneration plants, he said. Mainly, heavy industries, college
campuses andat the Orange
County Fair in July.
Photo: Chas Metivier / The Register
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Orange County Fair organizers have bought 10,000 glow sticks to make rolling
blackouts more festive, reserved an extra generator and acquired 15 tower
lights for parking lots.
Officials at Edison International Field in Anaheim are conferring with Major
League Baseball and umpires about what to do if the lights go out during a
game.
And several cities are lining up generators for sewer and water pumps and
installing pricey battery backups for traffic signals to prevent a rash of
accidents.
People all over Orange County are readying for a summer of rolling blackouts,
preparations that intensified after outages this month. Some experts have
estimated that the state could be facing 15 hours of darkness a week when


spokeswoman Suzanne McCoy.
The Laguna Hills Holiday Inn has quadrupled its supply of flashlights and
plans to have employees stationed on each floor during a blackout. At the
Laguna Hills Mall, diesel generators can light common areas of the center for
eight hours, but independent boutiques must close during outages, said Lisa
Emerzian, marketing director.
Randy Schlotthauer, vice president of Slotsy Tours and Travel in Fullerton,
learned how power-dependent his business was last year when a car took out a
nearby telephone pole. His high-tech phone system, which rings through 200 to
300 calls a day, was useless, as were his computers, which connect to airline
reservation systems.
That day, he bought a $600 generator.
"I always prepare for the worst and hope for the best," he said.
Orange County Fair plans to ride it out
Oakley Inc. in Foothill Ranch decided to prepare for the worst in December
when it bought a temporary generator that could keep the 540,000-square-foot
plant manufacturing sunglasses, clothing, shoes and watches during blackouts.
The company is currently negotiating to buy a permanent generator that would
automatically switch on when the power goes out, said Al Krueger, a company
manager.
Venues that draw large crowds, such as the Orange County Fair, have been
preparing for blackouts for months. Some attractions, such as the two
carnivals, always run on generators. This year, nine machines will power the
rides at the fair, which runs from July 13-29.
The Arlington Theatre also has a backup generator, and another unit to light
the main mall,


authority to take over San Diego Gas &
Electric's existing plants and transmission lines.
Assemblywoman Pat Bates, D-Laguna Niguel, is also supporting the bill.
The bill, AB206, applies only in San Diego County. The 100,000 south Orange
County residents served by San Diego Gas & Electric would remain with the
utility.
A Sempra spokesman would not comment on how Orange County residents would be
affected if a public San Diego utility seized a number of the company's
generating and transmission facilities.
Governor signs measure for state power authority
SACRAMENTO California will no longer be held captive by energy suppliers
charging high prices for power, Gov. Gray Davis said Wednesday as he
officially put California into the electricity wholesale business.
By signing a bill by Senate Leader John Burton,volatile energy market.

The power authority is modeled after one in New York, which has
10 power plants, 1,400 miles of transmission lines and produces
about 25 percent of the state's power. Nebraska also has a power
authority, which created a market in which residents pay 22 percent
less than the national average.

An increase in power plants down for repairs this year ``is
strong evidence that people are manipulating the market by
withholding power to drive up prices,'' Davis said.

``The only way we can fight back against this type of price
gouging and manipulation is to build more plants,'' he said.

Having a public power authority will ``supplement not supplant''
private energy sources, Davis said.

``In a deregulated world, the only way you can guarantee
reliable affordable power is to build it yourself if private
companies won't do it,'' he said.

Few


would pay for power this summer, creating a ``buyers'
cartel.''

The states would refuse to pay more than a predetermined price
that would give electricity generators a ``reasonable'' profit
under a resolution sponsored by nine Assembly Democrats.

If generators refused to lower their prices, that would mean
almost certain blackouts in California this summer, said
Assemblyman Paul Koretz, the measure's author.

But those will happen anyway, by all accounts, and the price cap
would let the state better predict and manage the outages, he said.

The resolution proposes that caps be installed for two years,
until enough power plants can be built to allow the market to
function naturally.

The state has been buying power for the customers of three major
utilities since mid-January. The utilities' credit was cut off
after they amassed debts of more than $14 billion dollars due to
high wholesale-

California Energy Commission Grants Approval to Three Mountain

Power Facility

Covanta Energy Corporation (NYSE: COV) announced that the
California Energy Commission (CEC) today unanimously approved the
Company's "Application for Certification" for its proposed
500-megawatt Three Mountain Power project. The decision, which was
announced at a CEC business meeting in Sacramento, California, grants
Covanta a license to construct and operate the natural gas-fired,
combined cycle facility to be located in Burney, approximately 45
miles northeast of Redding, California. Project construction is
expected to begin in the fall of 2001, with commercial operations
expected to commence in late 2003 or early 2004.

"Three Mountain Power will be a vital addition to California's
energy supply, adding 500 megawatts of environmentally friendly,
dependable power to the grid," said Scott Mackin, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Covanta Energy. "Given the urgent need for power,
we're pleased that CEC


country.

Power plant developers in the Northeast did what experts expected them to do
when markets first opened to competition: They flocked to the region.

In fact, so much new construction is underway that observers now fret over
possible overbuilding and depressed power prices. But as new power plant
construction continues apace, some owners of existing plants worry that
strict new local environmental rules favor natural gas so much the region may
end up at risk due to the fuel's price volatility.

"The new regulations tend to favor combined-cycle natural gas facilities,"
said Bryan Riley, Eastern regional vice president with NRG Energy. "We
advocate that fuel diversity is essential in electric supply going forward."

Not a surprising position, perhaps, given that Minneapolis-based NRG Energy
owns the 117-MW Somerset station,one of what Massachusetts officials call
the "filthy five" (actually six, but the alliteration is better) power plants
targeted for scrubbing, fuel switching or shutdown.

"The standard in Massachusetts for CO2 (carbon dioxide) is, at least with
current technology, impossible to meet with a coal-fired facility," Riley
said. "We can't afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it
up to standards."

The Providence, R.I., Journal-Bulletin quoted Massachusetts officials as
saying the plants targeted under the plan produce 40% of the state's
electricity. Even so, enough energy would be available to meet the state's
needs if all six shut down, the officials said, noting 14 new plants should
come into operation by 2005.

Indeed, according to Boulder, Colo.-based RDI's NEWGen database, more than
15,000 MW of


limited ability to bring in power from outside
the immediate area to meet electric demand. At the same time, local siting
issues make it tough to build new power plants. As a result, high consumer
demand has meant that some older, dirtier and less efficient plants are still
in service, giving policy makers a target for stricter air quality controls.

Some of the oldest, least efficient and most expensive plants are in
southeastern New York state and New York City, said Doug Logan, principal
with RDI Consulting. But high demand for power means this capacity is
unlikely to leave service anytime soon. Consolidated Edison, New York City's
utility, said in early May it planned to restart its 50-year-old Hudson
Avenue generating station. Environmentalists objected, telling the New York
Times the plant would create more pollution per pound of fuel consumed than
any other in the city.

Worm in the Big Apple
But those responsible for regulating the state's power supplies point to a
dilemma facing New York City.

In testimony before a state oversight panel in March, Public Utility
Commission Chair Maureen O. Helmer said at least 80% of New York City's
projected peak load must be met by generation located within the city. She
said the New York Independent System Operator (ISO) projected peak load for
the city of 10,535 MW, meaning roughly 8,428 MW would have to be generated in
the city, due to its import constraints.

But the same ISO report found only 8,031 MW of in-city generating capacity as
of Feb. 15. If


correct, that adds up to a 397-MW shortfall, under normal
weather conditions. Under extreme weather conditions, New York City's peak
load could reach 11,125 MW, the ISO said. That would raise the corresponding
in-city capacity requirement to 8,900 MW.

"Thus," Helmer said, "the in-city generating deficiency would increase to 869
MW rather than 397 MW." Given the transmission constraints and the
possibility of much hotter than normal weather, "397 MW must be viewed as a
floor, not a ceiling," she said.

Bottom line: Approve new capacity and install it quickly. The New York Power
Authority plans to add 450 MW of capacity within New York City before the
start of the summer peak demand season. Helmer said this amount would meet
minimum requirements and would help avoid callingon older, dirtier
generating plants.

Tougher rules
Policy makers in Massachusetts and Connecticut are waging an environmental
war of their own by imposing highly restrictive rules.

The Connecticut rules*described by one source as the "toughest air emission
regulations in the country"* were adopted in December and follow an executive
order from Gov. John G. Rowland to reduce SO2 emissions by over 40,000 tons a
year (a 50% reduction) and NOx emissions by nearly 3,500 tons a year (a
20%-30% reduction) from 61 large emission units statewide, including power
plants.

In April, Massachusetts imposed new rules of its own, targeting power plant
emissions of NOx, SO2, mercury and*for the first time*carbon dioxide, the
same stuff we exhale with every breath.

The Massachusetts rules are aimed squarely at six power plants


(the so-called
"filthy five") and will force them by 2004 to cut their NOx emissions to
about half what federal law allows. By 2006, the plants would have to cut SO2
emissions by 53%-74%. Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10%, and
airborne mercury emissions would also fall, by an amount to be set next year.

As an alternative, state officials gave power plant owners until 2008 to
switch to natural gas.

"We would utilize the rules under the second strategy and re-permit the
plant," said NRG Energy's Riley, speaking of his company's Somerset station.

Another source at a generating company in the area, who asked to remain
anonymous, said his company is still trying to figure out the regulations and
where air quality standards are going overall.being
built by Hydro-Quebec. The Sainte-Marguerite station is due to enter service
this spring.

The single largest capacity addition currently planned in the Northeast would
be PG&E National Energy Group's 1,080-MW Athens station. Though the plant was
proposed in April 1997, it may not be available until 2004 at the earliest,
due to skirmishes over local siting issues, state siting authority and
federal project reviews.

When Athens was first proposed, three-quarters of the state's fossil-fired
plants were at least 35 years old. Many of these plants were oil-fired and
built before passage of the federal Clean Air Act. Athens was conceived to
displace these older assets and serve the New York City market, said Dan
Whyte, director of permitting for PG&E National Energy Group.

But the power plant


ran afoul of local preservation groups, which objected to
the developer's choice of a site within view of the estate of a 19th century
leader of the Hudson River school of landscape painting.

Court cases followed, including a challenge to New York's Article X and the
siting board's authority to waive local zoning rules to approve a plant
proposal. In April, a state appellate court upheld the siting board's
authority and said private applicants like PG&E National Energy Group have no
duty to look at alternate locations.

The action isn't finished, however. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers*one of a
handful of federal agencies reviewing the plans*has yet to issue a project
permit. Reports say the corps is also considering the "landscape view" issue
and could, under federallaw, require the developer to consider alternative
sites.

Also worth watching is the expected return*between December 2001 and December
2005*of several nuclear units operated by Ontario Power Generation, adding
3,600 MW of capacity to the market.

Their return would mean a "flood of power coming into the market,"
potentially driving prices lower on already low-cost portions of New York
state's grid, said RDI's Logan. "Any one of the units could have a
substantial impact on the market, at least in western New York state and
perhaps even in the East Central Area Reliability Council region," which
includes parts of the industrial Midwest.

Gas Pain:
Nation Wants Energy,
And Drillers Find It
In People's Back Yards
---
Owners Have Little Recourse
When They Learn They
Don't Own Mineral Rights
---
A Clash in La Plata County
By Chip


pump jack just a stone's throw from the
couple's back porch.
The head of another Huber pump jack already creaks slowly up and down on a
cleared lot across the road from the entrance to the Homestead Ranches
subdivision where the couple live. "Look where they want to put it," says Ms.
Nash. "It's right in the middle of a suburb."
Environmentalists and politicians are girding for a fight with the Bush
administration over plans, expected to be announced today, to open more
federal land in Alaska and the West to drilling. But here and in many other
parts of the country, property owners are already engaged in -- and losing --
a battle over drilling on private land.
Natural-gas drilling has exploded as companies pour record profitsfrom high
prices back into exploration and development. Baker Hughes Inc., a drilling
contractor, says 994 rigs are drilling for natural gas in the U.S. these
days, up 57% from this time last year and the highest number since it started
counting them in 1987. Some states have loosened restrictions in gas-rich
areas on how far apart wells need to be.
At the same time, once-rural communities where much of the drilling takes
place have seen surges in new residents fleeing the cities, putting the two
sides on a collision course. Now, "a lot of our production is out in the
areas where people live," says Adam Keller, a planner for Durango's La Plata
County.
More drilling adds welcome tax revenue and jobs. But in many cases, the


are battling oil companies over well placements.
Oklahoma's Conservation Commission has put out a brochure telling landowners
how to deal with geologists conducting seismic studies with explosives on
their land. Farmers and new homeowners in western New York and parts of West
Virginia are complaining of noise and traffic related to drilling.
The clash has been fierce in the West, in places like southwestern Colorado's
La Plata County, an expanse of mesa and wooded foothills that draws mountain
bikers and rafters in the summer and the ski and snowboard set in winter. The
population here has been growing about 3% a year, and annual building permits
now run double those of a decade ago.
La Plata County also sits above the San Juan Basin, by some estimates holdingof the county, twice the
previous density. That move gave the county some 600 new drilling sites --
parcels of a couple of dozen acres that are known as "windows." It also
ignited outcries from residents. "This isn't West Texas," says Josh Joswick,
a county commissioner. "I don't think people want this to turn into the gas
patch."
Mr. Brown, a 47-year-old supervisor for United Parcel Service, and his wife,
Ms. Nash, 52, moved here two years ago. Ms. Nash, a native of rural Georgia
who doesn't much care for noise or neighbors, was put off by all the drilling
activity. Along a 10-mile stretch of curving county road on the way to the
couple's home, farms give way to modest homes, many with horses in the
backyard.


Driveways alternate with gated roads leading to well sites, most
with a pump jack, a compressor and an assortment of storage tanks. "All I
could think about was `Dallas,' " the television show, says Ms. Nash, a tall
woman with a mane of wild blond hair. "I didn't even want to be close to
anything like that."
They settled on a one-story, 1,200-square-foot home on 10 acres of wooded
hillside in the Homestead Ranches subdivision. Ms. Nash says she made clear
to her real-estate agent that she didn't want to be near drilling but adds
that she didn't know about the separate ownership of mineral rights, and it
never was discussed.
She soon found out. While Ms. Nash was unpacking, a neighbor dropped by to
say hello. "Youas by
building a subdivision on it.
That could be difficult where mineral rights have been scattered among heirs.
Ms. Cooper says a title commitment on a property that crossed her desk
recently listed 17 mineral-rights owners, including one who had an interest
of 127/552 dating from 1956. "It's worse than your family tree," she says.
The drilling boom even baffles some homeowners and developers who are savvy
about mineral rights. Allen Arnold ran an oil company for 10 years before
investing two years ago in 187 acres near the flyspeck town of Rhome in Wise
County, Texas. The county is growing quickly, absorbing spillover from Fort
Worth and Dallas to the south. A new regional airport and auto racetrack
nearby have added to growth.
But Mitchell Energy


at the
nearby Ponder Steakhouse.
Mr. Mitchell pulls his truck under the stone archway of another subdivision
to meet with a developer. Lifesize statues of a cowboy and a small herd of
longhorns greet visitors, though the development has only a few homes. As Mr.
Mitchell and the developer prepare to discuss some wells near the land, the
man complains that Mitchell and other oil and gas companies ought to pay
market value for the lots they drill on, with gas prices so high.
Mr. Mitchell isn't biting. "My rebuttal to him," he says later, "is, `Hey, no
doubt, I can read a tax roll as well as anyone. But why should I pay again
for rights I've paid for already?' "

National Desk; Section A
IN ENERGYwill include other places in Alaska, the Rocky
Mountains and along the Gulf Coast.
The report also urges the revision or reinterpretation of a major clause of
the Clean Air Act that requires long government review of any modifications
of power plants that affect their emissions.
The senior government official, who was deeply involved in the development of
the plan, argued tonight that the ''new source reviews'' by the Environmental
Protection Agency are a ''time-consuming process'' that often ''discourage
fuel efficiency.''
The Justice Department will also be ordered to review several
multi-million-dollar lawsuits brought by the Clinton administration against
utilities accused of ignoring the law.
One official of an environmental group said the report was about what he had
expected, and he predicted that conservation organizations would be


is expected to conclude with a jail free card for Shahrukh, as it was reported that the victim’s family had pardoned Shahrukh along three other convicts. Behind the scene stories were death threats and pressure from many other influential personalities in the country. In addition to that, victim’s family has migrated to Australia, concerned for their safety.

Five years ago in June 2013, Anti-Terrorism Court announced a death sentence to key accused Shahrukh Jatoi and his friend Siraj for killing Shahzeb Khan. Two others accused were, Sajjad and Lashari, who were given life imprisonment. This was the result of public outcry and it eventually forced Supreme Court to take notice.

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the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also
invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth.


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CLAREMONT, Calif., April 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher found animals release the "love hormone" oxytocin when they interact with each other and with humans.

Paul J. Zak, a professor at Claremont Graduate University, whose lab showed the brain produces the chemical oxytocin when someone treats a person with kindness, wrote in The Atlantic that oxytocin was first found to be released when a new mother interacted with her baby and later between lovers during sexual intercourse.

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Mount Saint Mary Academy has been named one of the top 100 high schools in the country for teaching personal finance by Working in Support of Education (W!SE). The announcement was made during a ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange on April 7. The Mount is the only all-girls school and the only Catholic school on the list.

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The campaigning singer Pete Seeger, composer of classic American folk tunes including If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, was spied on by FBI agents for more than two decades because he wrote a protest letter as a young man concerned about plans to deport tens of thousands of Japanese American citizens at the end of the second world war.

A vast file on Seeger was released to the independent American news website Mother Jones in response to a request under the freedom of information act. It reveals that the bureau’s spies first took an interest in the singer in 1943. Seeger, a 23-year-old army private at the time, had written denouncing a plan for mass deportation drafted by the California chapter of theelaborate efforts made by government agents to document Seeger’s activities, even back to his school days.

An agent sent out to his Connecticut high school found evidence that he had worn “bohemian” clothes. Another was sent to Harvard, where the singer had spent a year studying, and was told the student’s grades had been “fair” and that he had been secretary of the student union. Mililtary intelligence also contacted the performer Woody Guthrie, who had played with Seeger in a leftwing group called the Almanac Singers.

Seeger, who was later to become one of the earliest backers of Bob Dylan, inviting him to perform at the Newport Folk Festival, had been drafted into the army in 1942 and was trained as an aviation mechanic in Mississippi. His early letter of


protest was quickly sent on to the FBI in San Francisco and within weeks military intelligence was investigating him and updating the bureau.

As a result, the young mechanic was not sent into action and became increasingly frustrated. He wondered if his engagement to a Japanese-American woman, Toshi Ohta, was a problem. At the time Seeger wrote to his grandmother: “It is possible that I am being held here because of my former connections with the Almanac Singers and because of my engagement to a Japanese-American, but I doubt it. I have never tried to hide either fact.”

Military intelligence also investigated Ohta herself and Seeger’s father, Charles, a noted musicologist. After setting up a fake pretext for an interview with his father, the agent was told the musician hadthe agent.

After the probe into Seeger’s background, a report judged that Seeger was “potentially subversive” and “an idealist whose devotion to radical ideologies is such as to make his loyalty to the US under all circumstances questionable”. The document was sent to J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI.

The musician eventually joined the army division that entertained the troops. Yet he remained an FBI target after the war. Throughout the 1950s, when Seeger was part of the Weavers folk group, the bureau commissioned hundreds of reports on him, many tracking his musical performances. As the Weavers scored chart hits, Seeger was blacklisted for his suspected Communist party links.

In 1955 he was called before the House Committee on un-American Activities and asked if he was a communist. “I am


life Seeger became an environmental crusader who cruised the Hudson river in his sailing boat, Clearwater. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, he was awarded a national medal of arts by President Clinton in 1994 and sang on the steps of the Lincoln memorial at one of President Obama’s inaugural concerts.

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SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is preparing to increase patrols and surveillance in its newly established air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as part of follow-up measures to cover the area expanded southward, military officials said Monday.

The move follows Seoul's announcement of its new air defense zone on Sunday to counter China's unilateral decision to expand its own to cover a reef and other islands off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula.

The new Korean air defense identification zone (KADIZ) is designed to have its southern boundary match the country's broader flight information region (FIR), and includes airspace over the Seoul-controlled reef of Ieodo and the other southern islands of Marado and Hongdo.

A South Korean warship patrols near


the underwater reef of Ieodo in south of the Korean Peninsula, where a maritime science research station is located. It is included in the air defense identification zone of South Korea, China and Japan. (Yonhap file photo)

As KADIZ is set to take effect beginning Dec. 15, the defense ministry said it plans to increase routine patrols around the region and consult with China and Japan over the implementation of the new rule.

The ministry will also hold a meeting with the presidential office, the Prime Minister's office and the foreign affairs and transport and maritime ministries on Tuesday to jointly draw up follow-up measures and consult with neighboring nations. The meeting is also aimed at strengthening patrols and setting rules for commercial airlines, its spokesman said.

"After related ministries shareopinions on the matter, the government will coordinate follow-up measures for the new ADIZ," defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in a briefing.

Seoul is also seeking to have a trilateral meeting with China and Japan to handle KADIZ, which overlaps with the neighboring nations, including the South Korea-controlled underwater reef of Ieodo, Kim said.

An ADIZ is not a part of a country's territorial airspace and it is designed to identify foreign aircraft in advance to protect the air defense, Kim said, noting that its purpose is for identification and early warning.

"An ADIZ is based on the concept of national security. Although it is not regulated by international laws, each country can proclaim its own ADIZ," Kim said, adding South Korea announced its own zone in line with that


practice. "We will further communicate with neighboring nations before the new zone takes effect on Dec. 15."

As the new rule covers a wider area in southern waters of the Korean Peninsula, the Navy is considering stepping up maritime patrols near the region.

South Korean warships have regularly patrolled near Ieodo two or three times a week, but they have increased surveillance near the area since China's Nov. 23 announcement of its ADIZ that covers the South-controlled Ieodo.

The Air Force is also preparing verification measures for foreign aircraft that enter KADIZ, while placing fighter jets on alert for potential clashes.

Any foreign aircraft passing through the zone will be required to identify themselves 15-30 minutes in advance, maintain communication and file flight plans after the rule takes effect on Dec. 15,according to officials.

While the ADIZ rule is under authority of the defense minister, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman is entrusted with implementing the rule.

As part of efforts to promptly send South Korean fighter jets to the southern region, Seoul plans to acquire four aerial refueling tankers to extend operational capabilities.

Currently, a KF-16 can conduct missions only for 20 minutes above Ieodo, which can be extended up to 80 minutes above the area.

It is the first change in more than six decades to KADIZ, which was drawn in 1951 by the U.S. Air Force during the 1950-53 Korean War.


the end of longer stems, giving the appearance a star that’s exploded. Star of Persia (Allium christophii) and the tumbleweed onion (Allium schubertii)fall into this category.

Alliums are cold-hardy even in the northern-most states, returning year after year before going dormant by mid-summer.

Black elephant ears

Colocasia is another plant that grows from bulbous structures (actually tubers). These are famous for their gigantic leaves that are shaped – and sized – like elephant ears. They are known as “taro” in the tropics, where their tubers are smashed and eaten as a staple food. Elephant ears are mostly grown as annual ornamentals in colder climates (Zone 6 and lower), either in the ground or in large pots. The varieties with glossy and nearly jet black leaves are particularly showy and most popular.NEW ORLEANS -- The NFL's new ban on goalpost dunks hasn't stopped Jimmy Graham yet.

But a sideline scolding from New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton might do the trick.

Graham scored his first two touchdowns of the preseason in Friday night's 31-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome -- then promptly drew his first two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for dunking over the goalposts.

After the second one, Payton chased Graham down on the sideline to chew him out -- which led to a brief but emotional exchange between the two.

Payton, who was furious about the Saints' overall tally of a stunning 22 penalties on Friday night, was asked after the game if he was "particularly upset" by Graham's.

"Well, would that make sense? Would you be upset?" Payton


asked. "Yeah, I was. Particularly."

Payton declined comment when asked if he had previously talked to Graham about whether the dunks would be acceptable in the preseason. Graham declined to be interviewed, leaving the postgame locker room as reporters entered.

Jimmy Graham's dunk after a first-quarter TD catch Friday night resulted in a 15-yard penalty. AP Photo/Rogelio Solis

Graham's familiar touchdown celebration was outlawed by the NFL this offseason, lumped in with other taunting penalties in which the ball is used as a "prop." It has often been referred to as "The Jimmy Graham rule" since it was inspired in part by the star tight end knocking goalposts ajar on two different occasions in the past.

Offensive tackle and captain Zach Strief, who appeared to try and calm Graham down during theentertainment to the game. And the league doesn't like it, and that's fine. I think Jimmy knows in a real game, he wouldn't put the team in that situation."

Graham said the same thing earlier this offseason, insisting that he'll be smart and will find another way to celebrate. But the former college basketball player hasn't been ready to give up on his go-to celebration of choice just yet.

Graham did the same thing two weeks ago in a Saints scrimmage, which was being officiated by visiting NFL officials in town to explain this season's new rule changes. And afterward, he took to Twitter to have a little fun with his protest.

Perhaps Graham's antics would have been tolerated if Payton wasn't already fuming over the Saints' preseason penalty epidemic.

Last week,


we're up seven. Let me say that again, five takeaways, we're at the nine-minute mark in the fourth quarter, up seven.

"We'll say, 'Hey, when we get to the regular season, it'll clean itself up.' That's silliness."

The Saints were without Drew Brees, who again sat out with an oblique strain he suffered in practice Aug. 1. Brees is expected to be healthy in plenty of time for the regular season, though. He threw passes with receiver Kenny Stills and ran sprints on the field before Friday's game, among other conditioning work.

Saints receiver Marques Colston was a surprise scratch. He watched from the sideline for an undisclosed reason.It’s official: the New York Rangers will face the Ottawa Senators in the second round. Which team has the offensive advantage?

The New York Rangers organization was able to win their series in six games Saturday night against the Montreal Canadiens . The team was given Sunday off to relax, gather their thoughts and spend time with their families.

It’s pretty much a guarantee that every Rangers player was watching game six of the Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators Sunday afternoon to evaluate their next potential opponent. When it comes to the New York Rangers coaching staff, there are no days off. Every day is an opportunity to gain an advantage over another team.

Rangers coaches are not playing games this postseason. Just ask assistant coach Scott Arniel, who was at


the rink in Boston. Absolute Savage.

No rest for the weary. NYR Assistant Scott Arniel in Boston for G6 of the Senators-Bruins. #StanleyCup — John Shannon (@JSportsnet) April 23, 2017

The Ottawa Senators were able to tame the Boston Bruins on Sunday afternoon and hold on to win the series in six games. That series, much to the delight of New York Rangers fans, was a battle between two sub-par teams.

Of the six games played, four went into extra time with game five going into double OT. Needless to say, the Ottawa players are exhausted, which could have grave implications for them in the upcoming second round. Erik Karlsson, the Senators most dynamic player and captain averaged over 30 minutes of ice time per game and was on the icethe New York Rangers prepare for the Ottawa Senators, who has the advantage in all aspects of the game? What should the New York Rangers be on the lookout for?

Offense

Alain Vigneault decided to switch things up in the Montreal series by substituting hard-nosed Tanner Glass with the highly skilled Pavel Buchnevich. The move added another offensive threat to the lineup while also deepening the Rangers offensive lines. Let’s take a look at the New York Rangers forward lines.

Deploying four lines that can contribute offensively is the definition of forward depth. These New York Rangers are a prime example of forward depth.

Take in this statistic in for a second. Every New York Rangers players except two (Marc Staal and Pavel Buchnevich) has a point in the playoffs. Wow, now


Hayes made the incredible pass to Zucccarello and looked to gain confidence from there. Kreider was also not himself against Montreal, but improved throughout the series. His broken Russian (“da”) will help Buchnevich on the ice. Nonetheless, this combination was effective and Zibanejad looks to be turning the corner.

The Ottawa Senators also possess some offense depth but nothing to the same caliber as the New York Rangers. Below are the lines the Senators used in game six against the Bruins on Sunday.

Ottawa’s second line has been their most dynamic in the playoffs. Derick Brassard leads the team in the playoffs with eight points (two goals and six assists) while Bobby Ryan on the wing has a team leading four goals along with three assists.

Clark MacArthur is also afocused on creating offense, rather than physicality, against the Ottawa Senators.

Overall, this series possesses less of an offensive threat to Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan McDonagh, and the New York Rangers. That being said, Hank and the defense need to stay strong on their game and shut down the Sens from the start.

An interesting side note: both Derick Brassard and Mika Zibanejad led their teams in points in the playoffs, respectively. Now there’s a storyline if I’ve ever seen one. Who will keep it up for their respective teams? We will soon find out.

Overall Offensive Advantage: New York Rangers

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Christoph Koettl is a Senior Analyst with Amnesty International's global Crisis Response Program, and is based in Washington, DC. He specializes in the use of geospatial technologies and open source resarch, and is the founder and editor of Amnesty International’s Citizen Evidence Lab, the first dedicated resource on social media verfication for human rights researchers.
He previously worked and studied in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy, and holds an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).He feels passionate about crisismapping, digital storytelling and photography.
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Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the city of Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state. This Digital Globe satellite image from October 25th captures the aftermath. (c) DigitalGlobe 2012

In the Rakhine state (also called“Arakan” by some) of Myanmar, the unfortunate evolution of discrimination, unequal application of the law, and forced displacement into violence and humanitarian crisis has come to bear. Since June, fits of violence between Buddhist and Muslim Rakhine, and Muslim Rohingya communities have likely left tens of thousands displaced and scores dead.

In the most recent incident of ethnic clashes, thousands of Rohingya muslim, but also Rakhine Buddhist, homes have reportedly been burned down. Part of the destruction was captured by a satellite image (courtesy of Digital Globe): The image of Kyaukphyu from October 25 shows a cindery scar on the face of the earth where hundreds of homes used to be (see the area before the destruction here). SEE THE REST OF THIS POST

Civilians keep bearing the brunt of


the current conflict: Amputations and other corporal punishments, sexual violence, daily harassment with the aim of imposing new moral codes, child soldiers, extra-judicial executions are ongoing violations against civilians.

Newly released satellite images of Aleppo show a highly militarized city, with dozens of roadblocks throughout the city and military vehicles operating in its streets. We used satellite images a couple of months ago to ring the alarm over the increased risk of turning a highly populated area, such as Aleppo, into a battlefield. Our warning turned out to be justified. The weeks that followed saw indiscriminate attacks that have killed and injured scores of civilians in Aleppo and elsewhere in northern Syria.

Today’s analysis, released by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and based on imagery from Augustwidely underreported.

Much of the Syrian government’s strategy relies on us simply forgetting about political detainees. In the case of enforced disappearances, this strategy is taken to next level: putting political opponents and activists completely outside the law, and very literally, outside of our memories. Victims are disappeared without a trace – with governments careful not to leave behind any trail of official records or information, deepening families’ despair and banking on to us forget. Well, I refuse to play by their rules.

Ahmad Kayali was killed along with this mother, two sisters, uncle and cousin when his home in Aleppo was destroyed by an airstrike by the Syrian army.

“When I went to work, I never thought that it was the last time I would see my family. I lost


Sierra Leone in late April.

Milestone verdict on child soldiers and the ICC’s first verdict: Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese warlord, was found guilty in March of the war crime of using children in armed conflict.

The Mladic trial: 17 years after Srebrenica―infamously known as “Europe’s worst massacre since World War II”―Ratko Mladic had his first day in court on May 16. He faces genocide charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Mladic allegedly orchestrated the killing of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995. The completion of his trial could mark a milestone for the survivors, who did not see a verdict against Slobodan Milošević (who passed away while on trial in 2006).

The unanimous referral by the UN Security Council ofthe situation in Libya to the ICC. The vote in February 2011 showed a surprising shift in positions when all 15 members―including non-state parties to the ICC such as the United States and Russia―voted in favor of a referral.

I am sure that many of you have recently heard or read about the armed conflicts and humanitarian crises in Syria and the Sudan (the latter thanks to some serious attention from celebrity actors and journalists). Less attention is being given to a country that is facing its worst human rights crisis in half a century: Mali.

The regional organization ECOWAS has been very invested in mitigating the crisis and is even preparing to send in troops. While these regional efforts are backed by the United States and other international actors,


... Linda does not appeal. ¶ 2 We restate the issues as
follows: ¶ 3 1. Did the District Court err in denying probate of a holographic will? ...

... The order dismissed Bruce's objection to admit Thomas Glennie's (Thomas) September 2009
will to probate, and to set aside the Cattle Sale and Options Agreement and Lease-Cattle
Agreement (collectively "Agreements"). ... Bruce filed an objection to probate Thomas's will. ...

... DP 98-40. Audrey, Clifford's surviving spouse, served as the personal representative of the
estate during probate, and then was appointed as trustee of the Haugen Trusts upon the closing
of Clifford's estate. Linda and Marilyn are both daughters of Clifford. ...

... We affirm. ¶ 3 Lucille Anderson died on March 8, 2008 at the age of 101 years. On March 13,
2008, Wilder filed anUber received 235 reports of a rape occurring during a ride in the United States last year — an average of four a week, according to a company review released Thursday.

The ride-hailing company has come under increasing scrutiny amid a flood of lawsuits from riders alleging they were sexually assaulted by drivers.

In an extensive new report, Uber details for the first time the number of sexual abuse complaints made to the company in 2017 and 2018.

The 84-page report reveals several startling statistics:

235 reports of rape in 2018, up from 229 in 2017.

280 reports of attempted rape in 2018, down from 307 in 2017.

1,560 reports of groping in 2018, up from 1,440 in 2017.

376 reports of unwanted kissing to the breast, buttocks or mouth in 2018, down from 390


Lyft, have faced similar allegations.

Four alleged victims of predatory Uber drivers recounted their stories to NBC News in May 2018.

One of the women, Addison Hoover, said she hailed an Uber for what should have been a 13-minute ride from her boyfriend’s house to her sister’s apartment in Los Angeles in March 2018. But the driver instead took her to his home, forced her inside and raped her.

Addison Hoover on "Today" on May 1, 2018. Zach Pagano / TODAY

"I was so humiliated and felt like that I was in the wrong," Hoover said. "And then a few hours later, I tried to take my own life over this because I was so disgusted."

Stephanie Nam, of Brooklyn, N.Y., said at the end of a ride in July 2017 her Uberdriver opened her door and jumped into the back seat with her. "He said, ‘I just need two minutes with you, baby,’" Nam said.

She escaped the car and made it home safely. But Nam said when she opened the app six months later, she noticed that her attacker was still driving for Uber.

"He just changed his picture to make him look like someone else, but it was the same guy," Nam said.

Uber declined to comment on the accounts from Nam and Hoover.

The company has ramped up its background checks and rolled out a fleet of new features intended to keep riders safe, including an emergency button that allows users to call 911 through the app.

The report says more than a million prospective drivers failed to make it through


       I.

       Stampone is a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and the New

York City District Council of Carpenters, and he has participated in their pension benefit

plans. He also has been a Certified Carpenter Steward. Stampone brought this civil

action and ultimately filed a Third Amended Complaint against two groups of

defendants, which we will refer to as the Pension Defendants and the Union Defendants. 1

Stampone asserted numerous claims, but they are based on two underlying allegations.

       First, Stampone claims that the Pension Defendants have miscalculated his

pension benefits. Stampone initially claimed that the Pension Defendants wrongfully

advised him that he was ineligible for benefits because they had not vested. During this

litigation, however,the Pension Defendants acknowledged that such advice resulted from

an administrative error. They also advised Stampone of the pension payments he could

expect and provided him with application forms to begin receiving them. Stampone,

however, claims that the Pension Defendants have miscalculated his benefits and that he

1
 The Pension Defendants are the Northeast Carpenters Funds, its manager George
Laufenberg, and the New York City District Council of Carpenters Benefits Funds. The
Union Defendants are the New York City District Council of Carpenters and its Director
of Operations, Matthew Walker. We refer to these two groups of defendants collectively
for ease of reference and without suggesting that any particular defendant is responsible
for any of the particular conduct alleged.


steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D.I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915. While Fokker would pursue steel tube fuselages with wooden wings until the late 1930s, and Junkers would focus on corrugated sheet metal, Dornier was the first to build a fighter (The Dornier-Zeppelin D.I) made with pre-stressed sheet aluminum and having cantilevered wings, a form that would replace all others in the 1930s.

As collective combat experience grew, the more successful pilots such as Oswald Boelcke, Max Immelmann, and Edward Mannock developed innovative tactical formations and maneuvers to enhance their air units' combat effectiveness.

Allied and – before 1918 – German pilots of World War I were not equipped with parachutes,as Germany's Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Britain's Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest, and America's P-40, Corsair, P-47 and P-38 all excelled as fighter-bombers, and since the Second World War ground attack has been an important secondary capability of many fighters.

World War II also saw the first use of airborne radar on fighters.  The primary purpose of these radars was to help night fighters locate enemy bombers and fighters.  Because of the bulkiness of these radar sets, they could not be carried on conventional single-engined fighters and instead were typically retrofitted to larger heavy fighters or light bombers such as Germany's Messerschmitt Bf 110 and Junkers Ju 88, Britain's Mosquito and Beaufighter, and America's A-20, which then served as night fighters.  The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a


to mid-1950s, even in the air forces of the major powers (though the types retained were the best of the World War II designs). Innovations including ejection seats, air brakes and all-moving tailplanes became widespread in this period.

The Americans began using jet fighters operationally after World War II, the wartime Bell P-59 having proven a failure. The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star (soon re-designated F-80) was less elegant than the swept-wing Me 262, but had a cruise speed () as high as the maximum speed attainable by many piston-engined fighters. The British designed several new jets, including the distinctive single-engined twin boom de Havilland Vampire which Britain sold to the air forces of many nations.

The British transferred the technology of the Rolls-Royce Nene jet-engine to the Soviets, who soonglass cockpits, helmet-mounted sights (not currently on F-22), and improved secure, jamming-resistant LPI datalinks are highly integrated to provide multi-platform, multi-sensor data fusion for vastly improved situational awareness while easing the pilot's workload. Avionics suites rely on extensive use of very high-speed integrated circuit (VHSIC) technology, common modules, and high-speed data buses. Overall, the integration of all these elements is claimed to provide fifth-generation fighters with a "first-look, first-shot, first-kill capability".

A key attribute of fifth-generation fighters is a small radar cross-section. Great care has been taken in designing its layout and internal structure to minimize RCS over a broad bandwidth of detection and tracking radar frequencies; furthermore, to maintain its VLO signature during combat operations, primary weapons are carried in internal weapon bays that are only briefly opened


to permit weapon launch. Furthermore, stealth technology has advanced to the point where it can be employed without a tradeoff with aerodynamics performance, in contrast to previous stealth efforts. Some attention has also been paid to reducing IR signatures, especially on the F-22. Detailed information on these signature-reduction techniques is classified, but in general includes special shaping approaches, thermoset and thermoplastic materials, extensive structural use of advanced composites, conformal sensors, heat-resistant coatings, low-observable wire meshes to cover intake and cooling vents, heat ablating tiles on the exhaust troughs (seen on the Northrop YF-23), and coating internal and external metal areas with radar-absorbent materials and paint (RAM/RAP).

The AESA radar offers unique capabilities for fighters (and it is also quickly becoming essential for Generation 4.5 aircraft designs, as well aslanding (STOVL) fighter, and a Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR) fighter, each of which has a different unit price and slightly varying specifications in terms of fuel capacity (and therefore range), size and payload.

Other countries have initiated fifth-generation fighter development projects, with Russia's Sukhoi Su-57 and Mikoyan LMFS. In December 2010, it was discovered that China is developing the 5th generation fighter Chengdu J-20. The J-20 took its maiden flight in January 2011. The Shenyang J-31 took its maiden flight on 31 October 2012. Japan is exploring its technical feasibility to produce fifth-generation fighters. India is developing the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), a medium weight stealth fighter jet designated to enter into serial production by late 2030s. India also had initiated a joint fifth


−19s, and −21s, with new cost of $0.3 million to $3 million each. Thus, the radar missile investment over that period far exceeded the value of enemy aircraft destroyed, and furthermore had very little of the intended BVR effectiveness.

However, continuing heavy development investment and rapidly advancing electronic technology led to significant improvement in radar missile reliabilities from the late 1970s onward. Radar guided missiles achieved 75% Pk (9 kills out of 12 shots) in operations in the Gulf War in 1991. The percentage of kills achieved by radar guided missiles also surpassed 50% of total kills for the first time by 1991. Since 1991, 20 of 61 kills worldwide have been beyond-visual-range using radar missiles. Discounting an accidental friendly fire kill, in operational use the AIM-120D (the current main AmericanThe week in the war, on 31 October 1941, the American destroyer USS Reuben James (DD-245) was sunk by a German U-boat. The Reuben James was the first American ship to be sunk during World War II as a result of hostile action—and the United States of American had not yet entered the war.

The Reuben James was one of the many four-funnel Clemson-class destroyers built during or soon after WWI (she was launched in 1919) and many of her sister ships had been given to Britain’s Royal Navy in the ‘destroyers in exchange for bases’ deal of September 1940.

The Reuben James was part of the destroyer escort for an eastbound convoy out of Newfoundland and she was torpedoed and sunk when close to Iceland. Of her crew, 115


However, it does highlight in a rather direct way the tendency of the narrative to lean towards a black and white delineation between good and evil. You have the beneficent creatures such as the peryton and the good Animare and Guardians – Brother Renard, the Abbot, Grandpa Renard, and Simon to name a few – and the evil creatures, such as the Grendel, the black peryton, and the hell hounds and the evil-intentioned Animare and Guardians, such as the twins’ father, several of the members of the Council of Guardians, some of the medieval monks and Mara. There are only a few grey characters in the story, even if those include our protagonists, especially Matt.

As in Hollow Earth, my main frustration was that the twins, mainly Matt, make            PROCEDURAL HISTORY
        A complaint filed on August 19, 2013, charged defendant with grand theft (Pen.
Code, § 487, subd. (a))1 committed between January 28, 2011, and January 28, 2012.
The Sutter County Sheriff’s Office arrested defendant on September 22, 2013. The next
day, defendant waived formal arraignment and the trial court released him on his own
recognizance.
        On April 17, 2014, the People moved to amend the complaint, and the trial court
granted the motion without objection. The People filed the amended complaint on
June 4, 2014. The amended complaint charged defendant with grand theft, committed
between January 28, 2011, and January 28, 2012 (§ 487, subd. (a)), two


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One of our frequently asked questions is 'who was Kate Sharpley?' Many of our readers will know of her as 'One of the countless "unknown" members of our movement ignored by the official historians of anarchism.' We hope this tribute, written by Albert Meltzer in 1978 will help to fill that statement out a little. There are more details in Albert's autobiography I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels.

Kate's Tinwear

Sixty-five years ago Queen Mary was handing out medals in Greenwich, most of them for fallen heroes being presented to their womenfolk. One 22-year old girl, said by the local press to be under the influence of anarchist propaganda, having collected medals for her dead father, brother and boyfriend, then threw them in the Queen's face, saying, 'If you


think so much of them, you can keep them.' The Queen's face was scratched and so was that of one of her attendant ladies. The police, not a little under the influence of patriotic propaganda, then grabbed the girl and beat her up. When she was released from the police station a few days later, no charges being brought, she was scarcely recognisable.

The girl was Kate Sharpley, who had been active in the Woolwich anarchist group and helped keep it going through the difficult years of World War 1. After her clash with the police she was sacked from her job 'on suspicion of dishonesty' (there was nothing missing but a policeman had called checking up on her…) and, selling libertarian pamphlets in the street, she was recognisedby the police and warned that if she appeared there again she would be charged with 'soliciting as a prostitute' (which in those days would have been a calamity, and even today a disaster, if once convicted). Isolated from her family, and with the group broken up, she moved out of activity, away from the neighbourhood, and married.

I met her, by chance, last year in Lewisham. Twice widowed, she remembered the anarchist movement with nostalgia, and gave me a fascinating account of the local group in the years before World War 1. Unfortunately, she was already very ill, and a few weeks ago, she died, I was told by one of her neighbours.

I had, though, asked her for a message to the Anarchist movement today. Her answer: 'Tell


Amalia Ulman’s spoof selfies tricked thousands – and made her the toast of the art world. She talks to Alastair Sooke

In April 2014, a young Argentinian-born artist called Amalia Ulman uploaded an image on her Instagram feed. It consisted of the phrase “Part I”, in black letters against white, accompanied by an enigmatic caption that read “Excellences & Perfections”.

Although 28 of Ulman’s followers quickly “liked” the post, few of them realised that it signalled the beginning of one of the most original and outstanding artworks of the digital era.

Before long Ulman was uploading a series of images – mostly preening selfies taken on her iPhone – that seemed to document her attempt to make it as an “It girl” in Los Angeles.

In some of them she posed inlingerie on rumpled bed sheets in boutique hotel rooms. In others she offered cutesy close-ups of kittens, rose petals, and strawberries and pancakes captioned “brunch”.

So far, so banal: Ulman, who studied fine art at Central Saint Martins in London from 2008 to 2011, had apparently succumbed to the narcissism of social media.

She was mindlessly bragging about her supposedly enviable lifestyle in LA, as she attended pole-dancing classes and underwent breast-enlargement surgery.


German cheese thief nabbed in cement mixer getaway

BERLIN, Oct 19 (Reuters) A thief caught shoplifting a packet of cheese from a supermarket in Germany tried to make his getaway in a cement mixer, but he was quickly nabbed by police.

''He was out on the job and suddenly got hungry, as honest workers sometimes do,'' said police spokesman in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

When a shop detective in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna caught the man stealing a 3.98 dollars packet of processed cheese, the 55-year-old broke free and leapt into his cement mixing truck outside, police said, yesterday.

The shop alerted police, who arrested the man when he stopped his getaway vehicle at a red light a few hundred meters away.2010: Played in nine games...recorded a tackle, a solo at UAB and USF...had a season-high two at Middle Tennessee and added an assist versus North Texas for a season total of five.

2009: Saw action in 11 games and drew starts in the first two games versus Nebraska and South Carolina...recorded his first collegiate tackles versus Nebraska, a total of three...also broke up a pass...recorded five the following week along with a quarterback hurry at South Carolina...ended the year with 15 total tackles.

2008: Used the year to redshirt and to move from wide receiver to defensive back.


The issue of failing concrete foundations is under investigation by the state. To date, 231 homeowners in 19 towns have filed complaints with the state Department of Consumer Protection, alleging that their foundations are failing. A recent report from the state blames the problem, in part, on a chemical reaction caused by mineral pyrrhotite found in the concrete aggregate used in the area by the J.J. Mottes Co. Mottes has repeatedly denied it is at fault. In April, it leased its facilities and equipment to Connecticut Ready Mix LLC of Farmington, citing bad publicity that brought hard times to the family-owned company.The last non-conference game may be a cupcake for some teams (see Big Ten conference, in general, this week), but for Oklahoma, their last test before Texas was a tough one. Their first roadtrip from Norman found them in Cincinnati playing a Bearcat team with their backs against the wall after a 1-2 start. The Bearcats were struggling on defense, but you could feel in the air that the Bearcats believed this was the game where they turned it all around. For most of the game, the Bearcats outplayed the Sooners, although both put up a ton of offense throughout the game. Every time Cincinnati desperately needed a stop, they got one. Despite two costly turnovers in the Sooners' end zone, Cincinnati stood late in the game with


a chance to drive down a very short field and kick a winning field goal. But the anatomy of an upset is never so simple...

The pregame festivities were interesting as a lot of Oklahoma fans made the trip north to Ohio, while Cincinnati fans were also displaced from campus in the downtown area for the game. While there's nothing like a college campus on gameday, the tailgating was plentiful in the lots around the "Banks" development area between the two pro stadiums on the riverfront. Having seen the season opening game between Miami of Ohio and Kentucky here a year ago, this year was much different as Cincinnati brought a lot of fans in their own hometown in comparison to the Wildcats and Redhawks. Cincinnati fans seemed cautiouslyoptimistic that they would make some strides today before starting conference play, while Oklahoma fans were slightly worried about the road game conditions but still were confident. Texas is clearly on Sooner fans' minds, but there's a task at hand first. As the teams warmed up, Landry Jones looked crisp, but it is sometimes hard to tell whether that will translate into a fast start in the game. Bearcat fans were loud and proud and filled the stadium, hoping to see a major upset.

FIRST QUARTER

Oklahoma won the toss and chose to receive the opening kickoff. Coming out of the gate, OU picked up a quick first down but then stalled out and gave up a big punt return punctuated by a late hit personal foul that set up


the Bearcats at the Oklahoma 32 on their first drive. A big 24 yard pass to Anthony McClung on third down surprised the Sooners, but McClung could not catch the touchdown pass on the next third down and Cincinnati settled for a field goal. Still, a perfect start for the struggling Bearcats. Then Oklahoma stormed down the field on the legs of DeMarco Murray and some well-time hurry-up passes by Landry Jones. Twelve plays later, Murray plunged through for a one-yard touchdown to put the Sooners ahead 7-3. Cincinnati took their second possession nowhere with a couple of incomplete passes, and punted the ball back to Oklahoma. Jones kept up his hot streak of completions on the ensuing drive, running his streak to 13 straight completions on a7 yard touchdown pass to Ryan Broles for a 14-3 advantage late in the first quarter. A block in the back on the kickoff pushed Cincinnati back but the Bearcats powered down with two big runs and a 55 yard pass to D.J. Woods. Cincinnati ended the quarter within the five yard line and looking to make it interesting.

SECOND QUARTER

The second quarter started with a play where Zach Collaros ran almost to the right sideline and then all the way across the field to the left sideline where he found John Goebels for the touchdown on third down. the extra point was missed and it was 14-9. On the ensuing drive a big play down the field was called back by an illegal shift, and Cincinnati took the


ball over with a chance to take the lead. On the first play from scrimmage, a 75 yard run on a pass ended in disaster as D.J. Woods fumbled into the endzone for an Oklahoma touchback. Despite the Bearcat defense giving up 50 yards on the next possession, they held firm around the 30 yard line and Stevens missed the field goal that would have put the lead at 8. Cincinnati keeps dodging bullets in this game, and after seeing UCLA blow away Texas earlier today, this one is not in the bag until the Sooners put it away. The teams exchanged 3-and-out possessions and Cincinnati ended up with good field position near midfield. Pead worked on the Oklahoma defense at the edges with swing passes and wideruns but the drive ended on a Collaros interception in the end zone for another touchback and another dodged bullet for the Sooners. On the next drive Oklahoma moved the ball down to their own 25 but Jones overthrew a wide open receiver on third down in the end zone and the drive ended with a 42 yard field goal. Oklahoma takes a 17-9 lead. Cincinnati went three-and-out to end the half with only a 8-point deficit.

HALFTIME THOUGHTS

Surprisingly, this game has not turned out to be a track meet, even though both teams are moving the ball well thus far. Isaiah Pead is really keeping Cincinnati in the game with some power running, but the major story to this point is the Cincinnati mistakes. One interception in the


ball moving past downfield with good runs which led to a 42 yard field goal, cutting the Oklahoma lead to 24-12. A huge defensive stand must come soon for the Bearcats to energize the crowd and keep them in the game. However, Oklahoma passed a couple of big plays with Broyles and approached the red zone in a few plays. However, the drive fell short after an important sack near the 40 yard line. Cincinnati and Oklahoma exchanged three and outs near the end of the quarter. Cincinnati benefitted from a late hit out of bounds after a 35 yard Pead run and that put them in the red zone to start the final quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER

However, as the fourth quarter started, Collaros was sacked back at the 26a muffed punt return that Oklahoma recovered on Cincinnati's 8 yard line. Oklahoma put it in on a Landy Jones touchdown pass two plays later to put the game out of reach at 31-22. The crucial mistakes did in Cincinnati once again, as their third turnover was the most costly. Cincinnati and Oklahoma traded three-and-outs, and then with a minute and a half left, Cincinnati drove down the field with lots of out passes. The drive was capped with 30 seconds left on a 25 yard touchdown pass, which cut the deficit to 2. Cincinnati could not come up with the miracle on the onside kick though, and the Sooners ran out the clock for the victory.

When Oklahoma needed to make big plays, they did to hold onto


different offense. The good news is while Texas will be mighty angry after their loss last week, the Longhorns run a similar style of offense as Cincinnati, and thus Oklahoma will not have to throw the entire playbook out again this week. The Sooners are certainly in a better state than when the close games on the road kept turning into losses a season ago.

For Cincinnati, the defense really stepped up when they needed to. If it were not for the four turnovers, this game may go a lot differently for the Bearcats. However, you cannot afford those mistakes in big games and Cincinnati will have a couple very big games in conference play. The Bearcat offensive line did not struggle nearly as much as they did inthe punch needed for the long straights on the superfast gravel tests.

Karl Kruuda is seventh having bemoaned a lack of performance from his Peugeot 208T16 for much of the day. Siim Plangi is eighth in a similar car – which he’s using in competition for the first time – after a right-rear puncture on the opening test cost him precious seconds. Roland Murakas is ninth with Sébastien Chardonnet currently in 10th spot. However, the rising French star, who is using his ERC debut to sample alternative set-ups on his Citroën DS3 R5, is set to be penalised for starting the Tartu City stage out of order when he was delayed changing a puncture.

Kristian Sohlberg is 12th overnight with Jaromír Tarabus currently in 14th having spent leg one opening


the road for his rivals. Robert Consani was in a battle with the Czech when he retired after a jump on stage eight. Martin Kangur, Thursday’s Qualifying Stage winner, was in second when he crashed heavily on stage two.

Sander Pärn holds an advantage of more than one minute in the ERC 2WD classification with Quentin Giordano second and Australian champion Eli Evans a strong third in his Honda Civic Type R.

Simone Tempestini is fourth, Fabio Andolfi sixth on a break from his ERC Junior campaign with defending champion Zoltán Bessenyey in seventh. Max Vatanen, the son of 1981 world champion and Estonian Automobile Union president Ari Vatanen, is 11th in class.

What’s next?

Saturday’s route consists of six all-gravel stages over a competitive distance of 107.88 kilometres. The action beginsThis rhythm game, a la Guitar Hero, puts you behind the reins of the sleigh, and you have only one hope to bring cheer to all the head-banging girls and boys: pick that ax like Christmas depends on it.

Dear Android game developers: always use the Play Store for those massive extra downloads. Rockstar has got the message. They've returned the open-world classic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to the Play Store after a few initial hiccups, and now there's no pokey downloads from outside sources. They've also fixed various bugs found in the original release, so fell free to shell out five bucks for a trip back to the 80s.

At the end of October, Rockstar Studios announced that the mobile version of its smash-hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice


The SABC stated on Twitter that its camera equipment was stolen at the state capture enquiry.

According to reports on Twitter, the equipment was stolen while the commission was on a break, with an SABC journalist tweeting an image of the alleged thief.

A video was also tweeted, and retweeted by the SABC, which shows the alleged thief leaving the commission and entering a taxi.

This is not the first time the SABC has been a victim of crime while covering the news.

Four years ago, an SABC cameraman was mugged on live TV outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.was built in 1871. The most recent courthouse has a clocktower with a model of the Liberty Bell dating from 1855.

Searcy was a stop on the defunct Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which provided passenger and freight service from 1906 to 1946 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena in Phillips County in eastern Arkansas.

On August 9, 1965, 53 contract workers were killed in a fire in a LGM-25C Titan II missile silo outside Searcy. It was one of the largest industrial accidents in American history.

Despite having lost many factory jobs in the late 20th century, Searcy experienced a brief economic revitalization in the past decade from the leasing of mineral rights to natural gas companies. Almost all drilling in the Fayetteville Shale area has since ceased. Some residents express


within a building, Dr Sabesan and Dr Michael Crisp, along with Professors Richard Penty and Ian White, were able achieve a massive increase in RFID range and accuracy.

By multicasting the RFID signals over a number of transmitting antennas, the researchers were able to dynamically move the dead spots to achieve an effectively error-free system. Using four transmitting and receiving antenna pairs, the team were able to reduce the number of dead spots in the system from nearly 50 per cent to zero per cent over a 20 by 15 metre area.

In addition, the new system requires fewer antennas than current technologies. In most of the RFID systems currently in use, the best way to ensure an accurate reading of the tags is to shorten the distance between theraked brown and white lines diminishing into the wintry mist.

Snowy Gengcun Village!

The car pulled into the town weaving around snow piles and dodged mud holes, and slurries of ice and dirt through the sleepy village of Gengcun. An occasional motorcyclist, an elderly man, propane vendor on a three-wheeler would come by puffing of frost and curiosity as Nancy and I peeked and waved at the locals. Red drums welcomed us – four ladies dressed in their red jackets as we walked down the street.

Drums & gongs greeting

Yang Zai Liu, a wonderful translator

Winter in the village casts an odd spell over the Gengcun, especially with the juxtapositions of decaying walls and new constructions, shabby one room brick huts next to walled two-story mansions… all with a powdering of snow.


Local villagers in spanky new, bright plastic winter coats and boots, tip-toeing across muddy slushy streets… dodging snow and mud. A old makeshift cart, a brand new Toyota land cruiser, a huge diesel earthmover and an old tractor laden with bricks from the brick factory- all roll by, foretelling of the village’s slowly changing, but ever-changing evolution. The barking dogs seem to be the only time-held constancy here.

When we arrived in Gengcun, we were introduced to our translator. Luckily he was a most wonderful translator, a student with an English major from a nearby university and thus could understand the dialect of Gengcun: Yang Zai Liu (Frank was his western name). He was most soulful and so appreciated the storytellers and the elders. He said to us: ‘Thedate of Monday the 5th of December had been chosen and so food preparations, decorations, special bedrooms filled with nine (good luck number) brand new quilts for the newly wed had to be finished. Posters of Chinese babies face the bed with hopes for a son soon!

Wedding decor

What was so lovely, was that both sides of the family come together to make the preparations – and of course their friends. The cooking is all done outside over kangs with huge pots, the tips of long tree branches burning to provide the heat. As the tip of the branches burn away, they are pushed in further, keeping a nice hot fire going. There are several in the yard as well as outside in the street. All the prepared vegetables,


grease, insects and rust. Contaminants in the wheel/rail interface reduce the maximum adhesion available, even at the optimal creep setpoint.
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2003-02-06Ann Arbor, Mich.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]2003ICPSR3440NumericTitle from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-03-03.AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.Also available as downloadable files.
The Afrobarometer project assesses attitudes toward
democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan African
nations. This survey of Nigeria recorded Nigerian citizens' opinions
about social issues and about recent political and economic changes
within their country. Respondents were asked to rate how satisfied
they felt with their lives presently and to give their overall
assessment of the performance of the current government. They also
rated how well the current government was handling problems such as
creating jobs, keeping prices low, narrowing the income gap between
rich and poor, and fighting government corruption. Respondents were
also queried about their interest in politics, how often they
discussed politics with other people,


and whether they could name
various government officials. Respondents were asked to rate the
importance of certain aspects of a democracy such as majority rule,
freedom to criticize the government, and regular
elections. Respondents also rated how much they trusted fellow
citizens such as relatives, neighbors, members of their tribe, members
of other tribes, and Nigerian President Obassanjo, as well as how much
they trusted institutions such as traditional rulers, local government
authorities, the police, the courts, and others. They were also asked
to rate how much they trusted social institutions such as churches,
mosques, trade unions, banks, and businesses. Opinions were elicited
on how often Nigerians broke the law by engaging in such acts as
throwing rubbish in public places, disregarding traffic signs and
lights, selling goods without a trader's license, evading income
taxes, not paying for services like piped water,A BIRTH COHORT studies
conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 7729 and ICPSR 9293).
The focus of the study is a cohort of all persons born in 1973 in the
Wuchang District of the city of Wuhan. This district was selected
because it was a populous commercial and residential area. The cohort
birth year was chosen to reflect the impact of major economic and
social changes in China. Data include interviews with all known
criminal offenders as of 1990 and with a matched comparison
sample. Additional residential, demographic, and updated criminal
history data as of 2000 were collected on all persons born in the
1973 Wuchang District cohort.
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crimeicpsrdelinquent behavioricpsreconomic changeicpsroffendersicpsrsocial changeicpsrNACJD VII. Crime and DelinquencyICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice SystemFriday, Paul C.Ren, XinWeitekamp, ElmarInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.ICPSR (Series)3751Access restricted


and for people's orientation
to the larger social system. The focus is on the mutual interdependence
of people and the economy. Consideration is given to both the problem
of how people influence the economy and the impact of economic changes
on people's well-being, their sense of equity and fairness, and their
orientation toward societal institutions and the political system.
Part 1 data are comprised of data collected in April-May 1971, from a
relatively homogeneous sample of young families in Detroit and Baltimore,
Part 2 data are from the Survey Research Center's Omnibus Survey, Spring
1972, Part 3 data are from the Omnibus Survey, Fall 1973, and Part 4
data are from the Omnibus Survey, Fall 1974. Respondents were asked
about their expectations concerning changes in their income, their
feelings about the equity of their income renumeration in comparison
with that ofConstitution, what sources they trusted to obtain
information about the Constitution, whether they would exercise the
"citizens right of initiative" described in the draft of the
Constitution, and likelihood they would vote in a referendum to ratify
text of the European Constitution. For the second topic, the Lisbon
Agenda, the survey solicited respondents' opinions with respect to the
current and future state of the European economy, and the situation of
the respondent's nation's economy, employment, environment, social
welfare, and quality of life. In addition, respondents were also asked
to assess their personal quality of life, financial situation, and
employment status, and compare Europe's quality of life and economy
with other countries. For the third topic, the survey queried about
the respondents' experiences with vocational training such as the
extent and nature of information and communication technology training
received, sources of funding for


such training, recent and future
participation in vocational training, and what sorts of training the
respondents believed would help them to advance in their careers. In
regard to the fourth topic, respondents were asked to identify
particular environmental issues that were of concern to them, and
whether policy makers' should consider the environment in making
decisions about social and economic policies, and employment. In
addition, the survey asked respondents to describe personal efforts
made in taking care of the environment, and identify the level of
government most effective in taking decisions about the environment.
The survey also asked several questions pertaining to the fifth topic,
information and communication technologies. Respondents were asked to
identify the most important technological devices in their daily (both
professional and personal) lives, to what extent they made use of
computers and the Internet, whether or not theyof children in rural areas. Recent
empirical studies give evidence of growing disparities in educational
opportunities between urban and rural areas and socio-economic and geographic
inequities in basic-level educational participation within rural areas. These
studies also point to a persisting gender gap in enrollment and to the
disproportionate impact of poverty on girls' educational participation (Hannum
1998b; Zhang 1998).
This study focused on the influence of poverty on the schooling of 11
to 14 year-old children in rural Gansu, an interior province in Northwest China
characterized by high rates of rural poverty and a substantial dropout problem.
Substantively, this study was innovative in adopting an integrated
approach: it focused on the community, family, and school contexts in which
children are educated. Methodologically, the study combined
information on children's academic performance and school characteristics, with a
household-based sample that allowed examination of the


at the establishment, and whether they used the Internet to
buy, sell, or support products or services. A second topic was the globalization
of the firm and the globalization of markets and sourcing. For this section,
respondents were asked whether any of their establishments or their headquarters
were located outside of their country. In addition, respondents identified the
total number of employees in all branches of the organization, the percentage of
total sales and total procurement spending from outside of their country, and
how much they were affected by competitors in the local area, or inside or
outside the country. A third topic was the use of E-commerce technologies. This
section queried respondents about their use of computers and email, whether
they had a publicly accessible Web site, and if they utilized an intra-net,
extra-net, electronic data interchange (EDI),European Union. It is conducted within the scope of the Sixth Framework Programme and is coordinated by the University of Siena. The project involves 29 European institutions and over 100 scholars across Eastern and Western Europe. In 2007, the first wave of the mass survey was conducted in 16 European Union Member States and 2 non-European Union Member States. European Union Member States included Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia Republic, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom; non-European Union Member States included Serbia and Turkey. IntUne aims to study changes in the scope, nature, and characteristics of citizenship that result from the process of the deepening and enlargement of the European Union. IntUne focuses on how integration and disintegration processes, at


both the national and European level, affect three major dimensions of citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of good governance. Respondents were polled on their level of interest and involvement in politics, their assessment of the general economic situation in their country, and whether they are satisfied with the democratic processes in their country. Survey participants were also asked to rate their degree of trust in government at the regional, national and European Union level. Opinions were gathered concerning the advantages of European Union membership, whether citizens currently living in the European Union would benefit from the accession of Serbia and Turkey, and whether Serbia and Turkey would benefit from becoming European Union Member States. Demographic information includes age, sex, country of birth, education level, employment status, marital status,This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.Also available as downloadable files.
IntUne is an integrated project on the theme of European citizenship financed by the European Union, within the scope of the Sixth Framework Programme and is coordinated by the University of Siena. It involves 29 European Institutions and over 100 scholars across Eastern and Western Europe. The mass survey was conducted in 2009 in 16 European Union Member States; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia Republic, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as 1 non-European Union Member State, Serbia. It aims at studying the changes in the scope, nature, and characteristics of citizenship that result from the process of the deepening and enlargement of the European Union.


to ICPSR member institutions.Also available as downloadable files.
This data collection stems from anthropological field work
on politico-religious organization and economic change in Zinacantan,
Mexico. Major areas of investigation include local economics, economic
stratification, and political and religious organization. Men of
Zinacantan, Mexico, held year-long religious posts called "cargos,"
and waiting lists were kept to record the names of men who wished to
serve in the future. The cargo data presented in this collection
include information on cargo waiting lists such as the year in which
the lists were used, the cargo requested, and the hamlet of residence
of the requester. The census data for the hamlet Nachig for the years
1967, 1983, and 1987 include information such as age, residence,
tax-paying status, land holdings, wealth, economic activity, economic
status, political affiliation, and religious and civil offices held.
The unit of analysisasked about changes
in social services, including medical services, the quality of life in
the village, including relations with others, attendance at local
festivals, satisfaction with job, income, health, family, marriage,
and village life, and the situation in the country at
large. Respondents were also asked to provide self-evaluations of
their emotional and psychological well-being, to identify any recent
important or traumatic event, and to note any recent signs of
depression. Other areas of inquiry included religious affiliation and
practice, sources of news and information, past political repression
of family members, and where respondents bought consumer
goods. Finally, respondents were questioned in detail regarding their
existing social relationships, including from whom they would borrow
money, with whom they traded goods and services, to whom they would
entrust the care and safety of their household, and whom they would
ask to help with the


Since the 1940s, these surveys have been produced quarterly through 1977 and monthly thereafter.
The surveys conducted in 2004 focused on topics such as evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, price changes, and the national business situation. Opinions were collected regarding respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses, automobiles, computers, and other durables. Also explored in this survey, were respondents' types of savings and financial investments, loan use, family income, and retirement planning. The August 2004 survey has a section exploring how informed respondents perceive themselves to be about certain science and policy issues as well as questions about science and research.
Other topics in this series typically include ownership, lease, and use of automobiles, respondents' use of personal computers at home and in the office, andbehavior. Since the late 1940s, these surveys have been produced quarterly through 1977 and monthly thereafter. The surveys conducted in 1999 focused on topics such as evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, price changes, and the national business situation. Additional questions inquired about buying intentions for automobiles and computers, and the respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses, automobiles, computers, and other durables. Also explored in this survey were respondents' types of savings and financial investments, loan use, family income and sources of income, and respondents' ownership, lease, and use of automobiles. Other topics typically include respondents' use of personal computers at home and in the office, respondents' familiarity with and use of the Internet, electronic banking, and information on informed consent and confidentiality regarding