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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON -- Ban Saadi Abdallatif still has trouble sleeping some nights, remembering her uncle and cousin, shot dead by the militia, or thinking about her brother's narrow escape from kidnappers. But it's nothing like the fear she lived with back in Diyala, where law and order broke down after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, and insurgents targeted her mixed Shiite-Sunni family.
"I feel relief to be in the United States," said the 31-year-old former teacher, who arrived in Laurel with her 9-year-old son in September. "I will not plan to go back to Iraq."
Abdallatif is one of the lucky few. Of the more than 2 million Iraqis who have fled the country since the 2003 invasion, fewer than 3,000 have been allowed to resettle in the United States.
The Bush administration has acknowledged a "moral obligation" to protect Iraqis displaced by the war but fell far short of the 7,000 admissions that officials pledged by the end of September - sparking criticism from refugee advocates.
"The numbers that the U.S. has taken in so far are just minuscule compared with the need," said Ralston H. Deffenbaugh Jr., president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a resettlement agency based in Baltimore. "I would think the overall number that would make a difference for the U.S. to take in would be more on the level of forty or fifty thousand a year."
Even as administration officials promise a significant increase in resettlements, Kristele Younes, an advocate for Refugees International, sees a "lack of political will."
"If we saw the highest level of this administration - President Bush, Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice - truly engaged on this issue, we would be seeing things happening much quicker, much more efficiently," said Younes, who travels between Washington and the Middle East. "Right now we have several departments of the U.S. government blaming each other. ... In our opinion, the U.S. should be showing the same leadership in response to the refugee crisis as it did in response to what it perceived as a security threat in Iraq."
The White House says the United States - the largest donor to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the recipient of the most resettled foreign nationals - is committed to assisting refugees from all over the world, including Iraqis.
"Recently, we've devoted more money and personnel to assist Iraqi refugees," spokesman Scott Stanzel said. "We recognize we also have an obligation to ensure American laws are upheld and the American people are protected."
U.S. officials say the numbers are about to grow rapidly. After months of setup work, they say, they are prepared to bring an average of 1,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States each month. They are pledging 12,000 resettlements over the next year.
U.S. efforts have been complicated by the violence in Iraq, where security concerns have prevented the processing of all but a few candidates for resettlement, and strained relations with some of its neighbors. Syria, for example, has accepted 1.2 million refugees but offers limited U.S. access to them.
The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, conducts checks on refugees seeking to come to the United States. Bureau agents have processed candidates in Jordan, Egypt and other Iraqi neighbors friendly to the United States.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says that the countries involved in the war should do more for the refugees, and the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs says that the United States should take in more. But a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the United States has shown leadership in addressing the crisis.
"The United States is taking more than anyone else at the moment," spokesman Tim Irwin said. "The United States has responded quickly and in a substantial way. ... We need other countries to get involved."
The United States gave nearly $200 million to the United Nations refugee agency and other organizations that work with Iraqi refugees in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to the State Department. And it resettled 1,608 Iraqis during the fiscal year, including six who were placed in Maryland.
Abdallatif tells her story while sitting in a booth at Gourmet Shish Kebab, her uncle's restaurant in Laurel. She lived in the United States as a child, spending a year here when her father was a cultural attache in the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, before the first Iraq war.
Back in Iraq, life was "normal" before the 2003 invasion. The U.N. embargo had created financial difficulties, "but at least there was security." She described her hometown northeast of Baghdad as a community of Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Turkmen and Christians, living in peace.
"After the invasion, there was no government," she said. "Then the militia started coming in from outside. There was kidnapping and killing."
Her parents, brother, sister, aunts, uncles and cousins fled to Syria in August 2006. All registered with the U.N. as refugees; Abdallatif and her son - she is divorced from his father - were the first to be referred for resettlement. Now she is living with her uncle and waiting for a Social Security number so she can begin working. Her son has entered school in Laurel.
She is hopeful that her family will be allowed to join her here.
As U.S. officials accelerate resettlements, they say they have cut the processing time to as little as four months.
"There are people who have been waiting for 10 years in camps in Thailand," said Paul Rosenzweig, deputy assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy. "We went from zero to 60 in six months."
Not all Iraqi refugees are candidates for resettlement. The goal that international officials hold for the great majority is that they may return to a stable Iraq, or settle safely where they are now. But a small percentage, found to meet one of several criteria for vulnerability, will be recommended by the U.N. High Commissioner for removal from the region.
Through Oct. 5, the agency had referred 16,327 Iraqis this year for resettlement, Irwin said. Of those, 11,911 were referred to the United States.
Through Sept. 30, the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Citizenship Services had interviewed 4,550 Iraqi refugees, approving 3,164 for admission to the United States and rejecting 833. The rest remained under consideration.
Basil T. Majdi is one Iraqi hoping for resettlement.
A member of the minority Mandaean Sabian sect - adherents of John the Baptist - Majdi was working as a security assistant for the United Nations in Baghdad when the U.S. invaded in 2003 and later managed a trucking company that worked with the coalition forces.
Majdi, 33, says he received threats from Sunni insurgents and the Shiite Mahdi Army for both his religion and his association with the United States. When his father's Baghdad office was bombed, he fled for Syria.
Now Majdi and his parents are living on savings in a suburb of Damascus. He expects the cash to run out early next year.
"You feel that you are really, really homeless, with all the meanings that this word might catch," he said from Syria. "We don't have any tribes to protect us."
When he reached Damascus in January, he says, he took an armload of recommendations, from Americans with whom he'd worked in Iraq, to the U.S. Embassy. Officials there sent him to a United Nations outpost, he says, where he was issued a refugee identification and put on a list.
Now he is waiting to hear whether he has been referred to a country that is taking Iraqis.
"Maybe my story, my threats are not important to them, because maybe there are other people who have stories that are bigger and harder than mine," he said. "But still it's my own story, the life that I've been living for the last three years. So it's the biggest thing in my life."
Sun reporter David Nitkin contributed to this article.


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6526 ft (1989 m) — 2800 ft gain
It took me awhile to escape Fallon, Nevada, where I attended a conference hosted by the Nevada Archaeological Association, congratulating a colleague on receiving the Silver Trowel, recognition of a career devoted to archaeology in Nevada. From the confines of the meeting rooms, I retreated, none too soon, to the splendid loneliness of a nighttime highway into the Black Rock Desert. I drove for maybe two hours.
At the ‘high road’, our colloquial name for the washboard dirt highway connecting, sort of, Gerlach and Winnemucca, I traverse the southern margin of the Black Rock playa in the dark. I am headed toward the Pahsupp Mountains, where a prominent block rises above Trego Hot Springs at the playa margin, but the range’s high point is stretched out to the south as Dry Mountain (6,526’). As I turn away from the playa, the usual landmarks having long faded into the night, my view is confined to flashy, narrow strips of rabbitbrush bright at the dusty road margins. A jackrabbit darts through the high beams on occasion; hard to tell, but I don’t think it’s the same one each time.
I had scouted on googleland earlier, marking a possible camp in my GPS. The waypoint appears my dashboard screen, finally, and I pull off the road. Not a camp you would write much about, just a wide spot where a two-track takes off from the main dirt. I will not see another car until I am back on the highway tomorrow, so once I climb into my tent, I can immediately forget that I am basically camped adjacent to an intersection. No traffic here.
There is a chill in the air, and wispy high clouds resolve as the white-gray of the morning sky shifts to blue. Dry Mountain leans back into the sun toward the eastern horizon. I have five miles to walk to the high point – up a long, generally smooth ramp of alluvial fans and beveled pediments to reach the rocky summit.
I first traverse a set of alluvial fans where pluvial Lake Lahontan built gravel berms and beaches about 15,000 years ago. The remnant strandlines show as subtle, rounded mounds of dusty gravel stretching perpendicular to the gradual slope of the mountain-front fans. The uppermost strand cuts into the slope formed by a Pleistocene-age fan (Qa1 – older than the lake stand at 15,000 years ago), its erosional scarp formed as waves cut into the gradual slope and arranged gravel in the mounds we walk across today – it is easy to see this berm and scarp tracing its way north and south on aerial imagery just above the road. As the lakes receded, they left stringers of other off-shore bars and recessional beaches, while new alluvial fans (Qa2 and Qa3) chased the receding lake basinward. Once the lake had faded – and during its long, current absence through the Holocene (since 12,200 years ago), young alluvium (Qa4) flows in drainages; it is sometimes dammed by the older berms, coalescing at gaps where storm floods formed cuts in the berms or, in other places, it buries the former beaches altogether.
I continue up the long ramp to gain the beveled slope of the granitic pediment that abuts craggy peaks nearer the summit – I’m about halfway through the gradual climb. I can look across the deeper canyons and see how the top of very old (millions of years), uplifted granite, with a fabric of nearly vertical structure, is cut and capped by a gently sloping veneer of alluvium. If I was walking across that alluvium, I might think I was on just another alluvial fan, but the sandy to cobbly veneer is thin (maybe a few meters) and the landform, as a whole, is bedrock – so we emphasize the big picture and call it a pediment, though as archaeologists we would want to be aware of the age of the alluvial veneer. Here, it is generally active and young – it is subject to common slopewash and shows very little soil development. The alluvium is Holocene; there is a lot of time missing from this generally erosional surface. This is the landform that feeds the fans below.
I gain the steeper sections of ridges and eventually work my way past one false summit to the bouldery crags that form the steep outcrop of the Dry Mountain high point. The views in every direction are Basin and Range at its best. There is shallow lake moving across the Black Rock playa at the terminal end of the Quinn River. Dust is rising from the Smoke Creek Desert to the west, and I can sense a change in the freshening breeze; it will be gusty soon. It is time to settle into the long walk down to camp.
Although I cannot help delving into the pattern of landforms as I wander to any high point, I always hope to show the hard, subtle beauty of the Great Basin Desert in a series of landscape photos that go beyond the mapping of geology and geomorphology. To me, these things are inseparable. But bringing the desert to life under blue-sky, dry days is difficult, especially when a long walk means I don’t have time to look for smaller scenes – before each walk, I fantasize that some drama will unfold in front of me. On most days, however, a quiet, desert walk misses the drama of a gathering storm or the bursting gallop of a pronghorn herd – or hassled traffic and the workaday office, and I disappear into the fabric of the landforms that spread from the mountains where I wander. Portfolio pictures may come another time.

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Graphis New Talent Annual 2014 Merit Award.
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The assignment was to create a book which the viewer would be intrigued enough to look at every page.
My solution was a combination of grotesqueness, voyeurism, and raw expression of emotions.
The first inspiration was my sympathy towards run-over pigeons that I happened to see a lot in New York.
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2 National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100081, China;
3 State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
The South China Sea (SCS), which is the largest semi-enclosed marginal sea in the North Pacific Ocean, is connected to the Pacific Ocean via the Luzon Strait. Although the general upper-ocean circulation of the SCS, which is driven mainly by monsoon winds, exhibits a basin-scale cyclonic gyre in winter, it splits into a weakened cyclonic gyre and a strong anticyclonic gyre north and south of 12°N, respectively, in summer (Hwang and Chen, 2000; Wang et al., 2003; Su, 2004). Surface water of the Kuroshio Current, characterized by high temperature and salinity, intrudes into the SCS through the Luzon Strait throughout the year (Shaw, 1991; Qu, 2000; Qu et al., 2004; Hsin, 2015), which affects both the circulation and the characteristics of the water within the SCS.
The SCS has high mesoscale eddy activity, which plays an important role in the transport of both heat and salt (Li et al., 1998; Wang et al., 2003; Yuan et al., 2007; Chen et al., 2011a; Nan et al., 2011; Zu et al., 2013). Previous studies using hydrographic and satellite altimeter data have reported observing an anticyclonic eddy in the northern SCS (NSCS) (Li et al., 1998; Jia and Liu, 2004; Yuan et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2008a). Following two conductivitytemperature-depth (CTD) surveys in 1992 and 1994, Li et al. (1998) suggested the eddy was probably shed from the Kuroshio loop current. Following analysis of satellite altimeter data, Yuan et al. (2007) argued the anticyclonic eddy was generated to the northwest of Luzon, rather than being shed from the Kuroshio. Jia and Liu (2004) statistically analyzed the occurrence of eddy shedding from the Kuroshio bend in the Luzon Strait based on satellite altimeter data and numerical model output, and they found that the Kuroshio bend varied temporally and that it shed anticyclonic eddies periodically. Based on 17 years' altimeter data, Chen et al. (2011a) also found that most anticyclonic eddies in the NSCS were generated to the northwest of Luzon, whereas most cyclonic eddies originated to the west of Luzon. The mechanisms of eddy formation in the NSCS have also been discussed in previous studies. Eddies shed from the Kuroshio loop current are caused by frontal instability of the Kuroshio intrusion flow (Metzger and Hurlburt, 2001; Jia et al., 2005; Yuan et al., 2006; Wang et al., 2008b; Chen et al., 2011b), while eddies that originate locally are caused primarily by enhanced wind stress curl (Yuan et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2008b). In addition, some eddies propagate directly from the western Pacific Ocean through the Luzon Strait as Rossby waves (Sheu et al., 2010; Zheng et al., 2011). Eddies in the NSCS often propagate southwestward along the continental slope with translation speed of 5.0–9.0 cm/s, and their interaction with ambient waters results in a considerable change in the thermohaline structure (Chen et al., 2011a; Nan et al., 2011).
Although many studies have presented evidence of the activities of anticyclonic eddies in the NSCS, most have been based on satellite retrievals and incidental observations from drifters, moorings, autonomous profilers, and shipboard surveys. Consequently, the lack of high-resolution observations from within anticyclonic eddies has limited our understanding of their vertical structure.
In this study, high-resolution observations from underwater gliders were used to elucidate the vertical characteristics of an anticyclonic eddy that originated to the southwest of Taiwan, China in February 2015. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Detailed descriptions of the data used and the methodology adopted in the study are presented in Section 2. Analysis of the results based on the glider observations and satellite altimeter data is offered in Section 3. In Sections 4 and 5, a discussion and the conclusions are presented.2 DATA AND METHODOLOGY 2.1 Sea-Wing underwater glider data
This study obtained high-resolution temperature and salinity (T/S) data using Sea-Wing underwater gliders. The Sea-Wing underwater glider is developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Yu et al., 2011). It is autonomous, buoyancy-driven, and equipped with a CTD sensor. Each sampling cycle usually includes a diving and climbing profile that takes approximately 4 h and reaches a maximum profiling depth of 1 000 m (Shu et al., 2016, 2019). At the sea surface, the SeaWing glider acquires GPS position fixes and communicates with a base station via the Iridium satellite system. The observation path of Sea-Wing underwater glider is pre-set for observation task. When the underwater glider is on the sea surface, it calculates the moving direction of the next gliding cycle by comparing the deviation between the current position and the expected path. The underwater glider controls its gliding direction through the tail rudder device during the gliding movement and then realizes the tracking control of the observation path. During 4 April–1 June 2015, three Sea-Wing underwater gliders were deployed to the southwest of Taiwan, China in the NSCS (at around 21.35°N, 118.45°E) (Fig. 1). One glider (No. 1000J003) was deployed on 28 April and it completed 205 cycles by 1 June, which resulted in 410 high-resolution CTD profiles. Glider No. 1000J005 collected 276 profiles from 18 April–7 May. Glider No. 1000J006 was deployed at the same time and location as glider No. 1000J003, although it collected only 288 T/S profiles by 21 May.2.2 Satellite data
The Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic, multiple satellite-merged Sea Level Anomaly (SLA) data (http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com) were used to identify and track eddies in the SCS. The product merges observations from several satellite altimeters to obtain a product with 1/4°×1/4° spatial resolution and 1-d temporal resolution. The SLA is determined relative to the 20- year mean from January 1993–December 2012. The geostrophic currents are calculated from the absolute dynamic topography, which consists of the mean dynamic topography and the anomalies of the altimeter-derived sea level.2.3 Argo data
Argo profile data were used to demonstrate a climatological T/S view of the NSCS and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The global Argo program was initiated in 1998 and implemented from 2000 to collect T/S profiles over the global oceans (Riser et al., 2016). In the SCS, the first Argo deployment was in 2006. Overall, 1596 T/S profiles in the region 18.0°–21.5°N, 114°–120°E and 151 profiles in the region 18.0°–21.5°N, 121°–123°E, obtained from January 2006–June 2015, were selected to produce the T/S climatology of the NSCS and northwestern Pacific Ocean, respectively (Fig. 1). All Argo profiles are post-quality controlled by the China Argo Realtime Data Center (http://www.argo.org.cn/) before being made available to users.2.4 Processing and quality control of glider data
Currently, a Sea-Wing underwater glider applies a discrete CTD sampling scheme (sampling resolution: ~6 s) in both diving and climbing profiles. The salinity measurements often exhibit many hooks below the halocline, which probably reflect the sampling scheme (Fig. 2). To reduce the influence of these salinity hooks, bin-average smoothing was applied to all the T/S measurements. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the smoothing removed the hooks while retaining the salinity characteristics of the entire water column. Similar to Argo profiling float data, only the climbing profiles from the gliders were utilized in our analysis. Another reason for using only the ascending part of the cycle is that the ascent velocity of a glider usually varies less with depth than the descent velocity, which results in better vertical resolution of a climbing profile, especially at shallow depths. Salinities observed from a diving profile are larger than that from its sequent climbing profile in most cases, especially around the subsurface salinity maximum. The reason is not so clear but could be related to the mismatch between the temperature probe and conductivity cell response time (called "thermal lag effect", Morison et al., 1994) or relatively high variability of the seawater observed by the glider even if the distance between two sequent diving is approximately 3–5 km.
To verify the data quality, each T/S profile was compared against the WOA13 climatology and the historical nearby Argo dataset. The outliers and obviously erroneous profiles were removed. Consequently, 481 climbing T/S profiles collected by the three Sea-Wing underwater gliders were considered suitable for use in this study. Table 1 shows the standard deviations and root mean square errors of all the salinities at 900 m observed by the three gliders against the WOA13 climatology and the historical Argo profiles. It is clear that salinities at intermediate depth obtained from either diving profile or climbing profile are in good agreement with the WOA13 climatology and historical Argo, with the standard deviation of salinity difference about 0.008– 0.011, which almost equals the Argo's target salinity accuracy of 0.01 (Riser et al., 2016).
To remove high-frequency signals (e.g., internal waves and tides) and noise, a locally weighted quadratic regression, known as a loess filter (Cleveland and Devlin, 1988), was employed to produce maps of the vertical thermohaline structure.3 RESULT 3.1 Evolution of the anticyclonic eddy
Figure 3 shows the time evolutions of the SLA and sea surface geostrophic velocity during February–May 2015. When glider 1000J005 was deployed on 18 April at 21.22°N, 118.44°E, there was an anticyclonic eddy just west of the deployment, with a diameter of about 178 km and mean surface geostrophic velocity of ~0.24 m/s (Fig. 3d). This anticyclonic eddy originated off the southwest of Taiwan, China at the end of February 2015, where a loop current formed following the strengthening of the Kuroshio intrusion (Shu et al., 2016). The Kuroshio intrusion had weakened and the loop current had disappeared by 25 March, which led to the shedding of the anticyclonic eddy from the Kuroshio (Fig. 3c). The eddy then moved southwestward and it reached a position around 21.125°N, 117.875°E on 18 April. After 18 April, the anticyclonic eddy expanded and its diameter increased to 213 km by 28 April when gliders 1000J003 and 1000J006 were deployed. The eddy continued to travel southwestward, and its intensity and diameter both increased gradually. Its diameter was about 434 km on 1 June when the mission of glider 1000J003 was ended and the instrument was recovered.3.2 Vertical thermohaline structures observed by gliders 3.2.1 Glider 1000J005
Glider 1000J005 was deployed at the eastern periphery of the anticyclonic eddy on 18 April, and it traveled 685 km until 7 May. Its path differed from the other two gliders (Fig. 1), and it did not enter the core of the eddy during the entire deployment. Figure 4 shows the vertical section of temperature and salinity obtained by glider 1000J005. The monthly climatology (1980–2010) derived from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre EN4.2.1 objective analyses (Good et al., 2013) were used to remove the seasonal signal from the glider observations. A negative temperature anomaly is clearly visible below the mixed layer during 21–28 April with a maximum value exceeding 4℃ at around 60 dbar. Both the thermohaline and the density distributions indicate upwelling below the thermocline during this period attributable to cyclonic eddies east of the anticyclonic eddy, meanwhile, the impact of the eddy could reach to as deep as 500 dbar. The upwelling and the uplift of the isopycnal were invisible when the glider moved out of the cyclonic eddy after 28 April (Fig. 3e).
Around 18 April, when glider 1000J005 was deployed, a small area of higher salinity water (>34.7) was found at depths of 115–175 dbar (Fig. 4b). This higher salinity water could not be found along the glider path after 19 April, i.e., this higher salinity water was observed only by glider 1000J005 at the eastern periphery of the anticyclonic eddy (Fig. 3d).3.2.2 Gliders 1000J003 and 1000J006
Glider 1000J003 was deployed in a cyclonic eddy on 28 April and it entered the anticyclonic eddy from 12 May. It traveled 804 km between 28 April and 1 June. It can be seen in Fig. 5a that two extreme temperature anomalies were observed below the mixed layer. One was a negative temperature anomaly (in comparison with EN4.2.1 climatology) of as much as 4.2℃, which was observed during 28 April–13 May when the glider was located in a cyclonic eddy to the east of the anticyclonic eddy. The other was a positive temperature anomaly observed during 14–22 May with a maximum value of about 3.9℃ at the depth of ~100 dbar. This positive temperature anomaly spanned about 200 km. Below the mixed layer, the temperature contours indicate upwelling in the cyclonic eddy and downwelling in the anticyclonic eddy, and the impacts of these eddies could reach to the depth of at least 500 dbar. The vertical structure of the anticyclonic eddy is reflected well by its density contours, i.e., the isopycnal in the mixed layer exhibits a convex upward shape, whereas that below the top of the thermocline shows a concave downward shape (Fig. 5b). Within the anticyclonic eddy, the thermocline was less stratified below the mixed layer than that in the cyclonic eddy. A significant positive salinity anomaly was found in the anticyclonic eddy above 200 dbar, with a maximum anomaly of 0.58 in the mixed layer (Fig. 5b). This maximum salinity anomaly was larger than that reported by Shu et al. (2016) in the same eddy (>0.3), which was probably due to the usage of a monthly climatology rather than a mean value along the glider path while calculating salinity anomaly. In other words, the salinity anomaly given by this study may have included a long-term variation signal modulated by El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) (Tsui and Wu, 2012; Nan et al., 2013, 2015; Shu et al., 2018). An anticyclonic eddy is usually associated with a thicker mixed layer, which could constrain the vertical mixing in the upper layer. Thus, the remarkable positive salinity anomaly was not induced by entrainment of higher salinity water from the subsurface into the mixed layer, but instead probably persisted within the anticyclonic eddy that originated from the Kuroshio intrusion. The higher salinity water (>34.7) was observed at depths of 50–175 dbar, which was rarely observed outside this anticyclonic eddy, except at the depths of 50–100 dbar during 28 April–2 May when glider 1000J003 was located in a cyclonic eddy (Fig. 5b).
To verify that the higher salinity water found in the anticyclonic eddy did not originate within the NSCS, T/S diagrams were plotted using historical Argo data from within the two boxes shown in Fig. 1 and profile data obtained by glider 1000J003 during 28 April–13 May, 14–22 May, and 23 May–1 June (Fig. 6). Obviously, salinities in the upper layer (potential density:<25 σθ) observed by glider 1000J003 are all higher than the climatology derived from the Argo floats in the NSCS, whereas they are smaller than the Argo salinities in the area to the east of the Luzon Strait. The high salinity anomaly relative to the NSCS climatology is more significant in the anticyclonic eddy (14–22 May), indicating the higher salinity water did not originate within the NSCS but instead was brought from the Kuroshio loop current by the anticyclonic eddy. It is worth noting that the SCS experienced significant salinification of the nearsurface waters from late 2012 to 2017 (Zeng et al., 2018), which could explain why the salinities observed outside the anticyclonic eddy are also larger than the Argo NSCS climatology. Two Argo floats (WMO numbers: 5902165 and 5904563) were occasionally operating near the path of glider 1000J003 but outside the anticyclonic eddy (Fig. 7a). It is clear from Fig. 7b that the T/S relationship observed by the glider on 18 May, when it was operating within the anticyclonic eddy, is quite different from that of the Argo floats and the glider observations outside the eddy. The salinities of glider 1000J003 on 18 May were found much higher from the sea surface to the 24.5 σθ isopycnal. In other words, the high salinity water from the Kuroshio intrusion was well preserved by association with the moving anticyclonic eddy. On 14 June, when the anticyclonic eddy moved to around 18.9°N, 115.4°E, a CTD cast was conducted in this eddy (Fig. 7a). The CTD salinity shows a freshening trend above the 24.5 σθ isopycnal compared with that of the glider on 18 May (Fig. 7b). However, the CTD salinities are still higher than found in the surrounding water, which might provide further evidence that the high salinity water found within the anticyclonic eddy was not of local origin but derived from the Kuroshio intrusion.
Although glider 1000J006 was deployed on the same day and had a similar path as glider 1000J003, it moved much slower and it traveled only 481 km before its mission ended on 21 May at 19.4°N, 116.3°E. In other words, unlike glider 1000J003 that traversed the entire eddy, glider 1000J006 observed only a portion of the anticyclonic eddy (Fig. 3d). It also observed a negative temperature anomaly from the mixed layer to at least 500 dbar before 18 May when it was located within a cyclonic eddy (Fig. 8a). The isopycnal distribution within this cyclonic eddy indicates a reversal of the shape found in the anticyclonic eddy observed by glider 1000J003 (Fig. 8b). However, glider 1000J006 only observed a portion of the warm anomaly after it entered the anticyclonic eddy on 18 May. The positive salinity anomaly found by glider 1000J003 was also observed either in the cyclonic eddy or in the anticyclonic eddy (Fig. 8b). The high salinity water (>34.7) was found only in the cyclonic eddy, probably because glider 1000J006 did not cross the entire anticyclonic eddy during its mission. In Fig. 9, the averaged T/S observations from the three gliders on a centered position (19.426°N, 116.29°E) were selected where glider 1000J006 ended its mission and the other two gliders passed its ambient waters on different dates. The higher salinity water above the 24.5 σθ isopycnal was observed by glider 1000J003 and 1000J006 on 16–18 May and 20–21 May, respectively when they were located within the anticyclonic eddy. While glider 1000J005 did not observe this higher salinity water on 1 May when the anticyclonic eddy was still located to the north this centered position, therefore, the higher salinity signal at this place was brought from the anticyclonic eddy.4 DISCUSSION
Salinity is usually used to trace ocean water masses. It has been reported that decadal freshening has occurred within the NSCS or even the entire SCS from the 1990s to the 2000s (Nan et al., 2013, 2016; Zeng et al., 2016), which is considered closely related to the weakening of the Kuroshio intrusion. Recently, Zeng et al. (2018) reported a trend of salinification in the upper layer of the SCS from late 2012 when the phase of the PDO switched from negative to positive. They also reported widening and strengthening of the intrusion of Kuroshio water into the SCS in 2015 in comparison with 2012. Therefore, the positive salinity anomalies observed by the gliders in this study might be partly ascribable to this trend of salinification either inside or outside the anticyclonic eddy. However, we believe the positive signal in the anticyclonic eddy is attributable to Kuroshio water that has traveled with the eddy.
Shu et al. (2016) have reported the same anticyclonic eddy shedding from the Kuroshio based on the observations from glider 1000J003. Our analysis could serve as a further investigation of their results. The concurrent observations from the other gliders, shipboard CTD and Argo profiling floats were also adopted to verify our finding. The T/S anomaly from the glider was calculated by subtracting a monthly climatology rather than subtracting the average values along the glider path, which allowed us to obtain a long-term salinification signal in the upper layer of the SCS that have been revealed by Zeng et al. (2018).
It is worth noting that a glider may observe quite different sea water temperature and salinity during its diving and sequent climbing profiles when it enters a region with high variable water property even if it moves a not so far distance between two sequent cycles. As a result, it could be not suitable to make use of both diving and climbing profiles while analyzing the vertical thermohaline structure along a glider path. Furthermore, careful screening and comparison with climatology or high quality historical hydrographic dataset (e.g. GO-SHIP and Argo) are also necessary. It is recommended that an Argo equivalent salinity target accuracy of 0.01 should be applied to those underwater gliders who are operating in open oceans.5 CONCLUSION
Based on high-resolution T/S profiles observed by three Sea-Wing gliders in the NSCS, the temperature and salinity variations within an anticyclonic eddy and in the ambient water were investigated. The anticyclonic eddy originated in the Kuroshio loop current southwest of Taiwan, China in February 2015, following which it traveled southwestward. The three gliders were deployed at the eastern periphery of the anticyclonic eddy or within a nearby cyclonic eddy. Glider 1000J003 observed a vertical T/S section across the anticyclonic eddy over a 9-d period, which provided details of the vertical structure of the eddy. In the anticyclonic eddy, downwelling from the base of the mixed layer to at least 500 m was evident from the temperature distribution. An area of high salinity water (>34.7) was found between 50 and 175 dbar, while a positive salinity anomaly relative to the local climatology (EN4.2.1) occupied the entire water column above 200 dbar with the maximum anomaly located within the mixed layer. An anticyclonic eddy is usually favorable for the preservation of water properties because of constrained vertical mixing; thus, this positive anomaly within the anticyclonic eddy probably originated from the Kuroshio intrusion via a loop current. Comparison of T/S diagrams based on historical Argo profiles, shipboard CTD cast, and in situ glider observations verified our findings. Unfortunately, gliders 1000J005 and 1000J006 either missed capturing or captured just a portion of the anticyclonic eddy.6 DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
This work benefited from numerous feely available datasets. The Sea-Wing underwater glider data were provided by the State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; The Argo data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu, http://argo.jcommops.org). The Argo Program is part of the Global Ocean Observing System (http://doi.org/10.17882/42182). All the Argo T/S profiles have been post-quality controlled by the China Argo Real-time Data Center (http://www.argo.org.cn); The EN4.2.1 monthly datasets, produced by the UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change, are freely available at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/en4/; The shipboard CTD cast data used in our analysis are obtained by the R/V Nan Feng Hao on 14 June 2015.
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This integrated reading and science lesson is packed with content on ecosystems. Your students will use the reading strategy of synthesizing while comparing and contrasting information from various sources.
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Bring theme to life with Chris Van Allsburg's *The Sweetest Fig*, a story with a great message for young readers to discover. This lesson pairs a wonderful read-aloud with activities and fun videos to keep your students engaged.
What are the effects of weather events? In this integrated science and language arts lesson, students will explore causes and multiple effect in the context of reading and learning about various weather events and natural disasters.
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The sight of thousands of people demonstrating for clean elections and an end to corrupt postcommunist regimes led many observers to declare that the so-called color revolutions had finally brought democracy to Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. But how successful have these electoral revolutions actually been? The authors analyze all cases of electoral revolutions worldwide since 1991, distinguishing between failed and successful electoral revolutions, to conclude that even successful electoral revolutions have shown insignificant or no democratic progress in their wake. Electoral revolutions are ineffective at advancing democratization because they place too great an emphasis on elections and do not address other fundamental obstacles to democratization in hybrid and authoritarian regimes. International influences have proven more successful in promoting democratization in countries of postcommunist Europe.
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Writingplace is literally a place where people, ideas and experiments converge around the idea that literature – be it fiction, poetry or theory – and literary approaches can make architecture richer, and vice versa. Writingplace provides architects, writers, students, teachers, academics, poets and anyone else with an interest in (or thinking about) the connection between architecture and literature, with an open field of experimentation for exchange and discussion. We try not to be an institute, but a place; present in different locations at different times, but always at our site in the internet.
As a laboratory, we do not restrain initiatives or fixate processes. Instead we let different angles and new perspectives determine our experiments. Writingplace follows these premises piecemeal. By allowing close-to-total freedom regarding contributions, we hope to foster and inspire creativity and new ideas. However, in order to structure our activities we base our discussions upon four fundamental pillars; research, debate, publication and the construction of a network of common interests. Together, these four pillars form the identity of Writingplace.
Our main focus is placed on experimentation and research on the subject of architecture and literature. Through workshops, essays, projects, creative writing, poems, fiction, and other such formats, we study the two disciplines and their points of convergence as valid methods of communication and representation. Most importantly, we like to share our findings. Writingplace combines extremely different and diverse perspectives and angles on these subjects, and provides a database for investigators, scholars, students and the broader public, as long as they share interests akin to ours.
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Jammu: Jammu airport’s upgraded and newly expanded state-of-the-art terminal building is all set to be inaugurated on Thursday. This airport will offer a world-class experience to passengers with an expanded and modernised terminal, Jammu Divisional Commissioner M K Bhandari said.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Union Minister for Civil Aviation P Ashok Gajapathi Raju will inaugurate the new building.
Bhandari said all arrangements pertaining to security, traffic management, including alternative traffic routes, and other logistics have been taken care of. All the officers of civil and police administration have been directed to maintain highest levels of coordination.
Director Airports Authority of India (AAI) D K Gautam said it was a “major achievement” for AAI that the expansion work in an airport considered “hypersensitive” because of security restrictions and faced with space constraints was carried out with any flight disruptions and with the minimum inconvenience to passengers.
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Bitter cold to grip Metro Detroit all week
Bundle up, hunker down and settle in, Metro Detroit: It's going to be a long, cold week.
We'll shiver with single-digit or subzero lows every day through Friday, and the mercury won't break 20 degrees until Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
That follows a bitter start to the week that saw back-to-back lows of minus-9 degrees at Detroit Metro Airport, tying the record lows for Feb. 15 and 16. Monday's high was just 8 degrees.
And after the mercury rises to a relatively toasty 19 degrees Tuesday, another shot of arctic air will plunge temperatures to as low as 10-below on Thursday, the weather service said.
Commuters, outdoor workers and others are steeling themselves against the season's chilliest temperatures.
"It's awful," said Michael Kowalski, 64, of Hamtramck. "I hate cold weather, but you do what you have to do."
The harsh cold is keeping auto repair shops hopping with calls from stranded motorists, and homeless shelters full of the less fortunate, seeking refuge from the dangerous conditions.
At Michigan Auto Repair Center on Wyoming in Detroit, manager George Massad said the deep freeze has been a bonanza for business.
"The colder it is the better," he said. "We're super busy."
Massad said he's seen a lot of "no starts, hard starts," with an average of five to 10 cars a day being towed to the garage.
Motorists aren't only having trouble with vehicles that won't start. Some have damaged their cars by running over objects covered by snow, he said.
"They'll run into a parking block," Massad said. "One guy ran over a bicycle."
Susan Hiltz, a spokeswoman for AAA Michigan, said the number of calls to the auto club for roadside assistance Monday was up more than 150 percent from the same day last week.
"Over 50 percent are for battery charge service," she said.
Normally in mid-February, high temperatures average 35, and the typical low is 20.
Yet NWS meteorologist Mike Richter said the current, prolonged deep freeze isn't unusual for Michigan this time of year.
"It's an environment we don't see very often, but we typically see one or two surges of arctic air come in throughout the winter," he said. "It's no different this year. We're just currently set up in a pattern that keeps bringing air from the Arctic down into the continental 48."
Some parts of Michigan had it even worse than the Detroit area. Temperatures bottomed out Monday morning at 26 below zero in Port Huron, 25 below in Lapeer and 24 below in the Tuscola County community of Caro, the weather service said.
Ice also has formed over close to 94 percent of Lake Erie, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
Agencies that help the homeless were working Monday to keep people safe in the dangerously frigid temperatures. The Salvation Army extended hours at some of its 15 Detroit warming centers Monday evening.
"Of course we've been through weather like this before, but anytime it gets cold like this or snows, we get more concerned about people's safety," said Bill Goodwill, director of the Salvation Army's Denby Center for Children & Family Services in Detroit, a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week shelter for women and children.
Monday evening, 50 residents ate a warm meal inside the facility's cafeteria and expressed relief to be out of the cold.
Cheryl Singleterry, 55, gave thanks for shelter against the elements as she enjoyed a supper of baked chicken and potatoes.
"It's good we're not outside," she said. "It's hard to keep warm."
Her tablemate, Brenda Pace, knew what it was like to fend for herself on a day like Monday.
Once stuck outside during a freezing spell, she sought solace inside a McDonald's. When workers eventually kicked her out, she begged strangers for money to allow her to buy something, allowing her to return to the fast-food restaurant.
"It's too cold out," said Pace, 54. "It's not good to be out there."
Several tables away, two youngsters dug into some Jell-O — but they couldn't decide whether it was cherry or strawberry.
Damesha Eiland, 10, said she took advantage of the time indoors to paint her fingernails.
"It's too cold," she said. "A little kid can get sick."
Her brother, Dernard, 8, was bashful, saying little, but wrapping his jacket around his head.
Besides providing shelter, the Salvation Army's Coats for Kids program is trying to make sure anyone who needs a coat, hat and gloves has them, Goodwill said. Also, its Bed and Bread trucks continue to travel across the area to take food and blankets to the homeless.
In Taylor, city officials opened a warming center at the Taylor Recreation Center, 22805 Goddard near Pardee, after as many as 1,500 homes and businesses lost power Monday.
Randi Berris, a spokeswoman for the energy company, said the power outage didn't appear to have been weather-related and was resolved by mid-afternoon.
Berris said the energy company is reminding its employees who are working outdoors to repair electric or gas lines to take precautions against the cold.
"They're told they should warm up in their trucks whenever they feel the need," she said.
Managers also are making sure employees working outdoors at power plants are rotating to have the opportunity to warm up indoors, she said.
Area hospitals are urging anyone going outside to protect against frostbite and hypothermia.
Sarah Collica, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Medical Center, said its hospitals treated at least three cases of frostbite and one case of hypothermia over the weekend. She also said the hospitals have seen a number of slip-and-fall injuries.
Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. It usually appears on the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin — skin that's exposed to cold, windy weather.
Hypothermia is a condition that happens when a human body loses heat faster than it can make it. It's usually caused by exposure to cold weather or immersion in cold water.
Shawn D. Lewis, Tom Greenwood and the Associated Press contributed.
Tuesday: Scattered light snow showers after 11 a.m. Highs of 17 to 21. Wind chills of minus-6.
Tuesday night: Partly cloudy with lows of 4 to 8.
Wednesday: Cloudy with highs of 12 to 16. Chance of light snow 40 percent. Wind chills of minus-6.
Wednesday night: Cloudy with a low of minus-6.
Thursday: Partly cloudy highs of 7 to 11.
Thursday night: Clear with lows of minus-8 to minus-14 degrees.
Friday: Mostly sunny with a high of 9 to 13.
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Seduced By Shadows
Read Jessa Slade's posts on the Penguin Blog. When Sera Littlejohn meets a violet-eyed stranger, he reveals a supernatural battle veiled in the shadows, and Sera is tempted to the edge of madness by a dangerous desire. Ferris Archer takes Sera under his wing, now that she is a ... show more
Read Jessa Slade's posts on the Penguin Blog. When Sera Littlejohn meets a violet-eyed stranger, he reveals a supernatural battle veiled in the shadows, and Sera is tempted to the edge of madness by a dangerous desire. Ferris Archer takes Sera under his wing, now that she is a talyan—possessed by a repentant demon with hellish powers. Archer’s league of warriors have never fought beside a female before, and never in all his centuries has Archer found a woman who captivates him like Sera. With the balance shifting between good and evil, passion and possession, Sera and Archer must defy the darkness and dare to embrace a love that will mark them forever.
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Publish date: October 6th 2009
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Edition language: English
Series: Marked Souls (#1)
Stars: 3.5. I found the story engaging and the characters interesting. Sera didn't draw me in as much as I hoped, but I did find her pain believable. Archer's issues also felt real. I like the side characters of Bookie and Nanette. The plot flows well. Although, I would liked to have seen Sera resis...
This is the first book in the Marked Souls series and a début by author Jessa Slade. It follows a similar pattern to that of many other Paranormal Romance series: A group of immortal men, one of whom is featured in each book, and meets his destined female and they all live happily ever after. For re...
Writing style certainly was different for a PNR/UF series, very heady stuff. But ultimately I had a hard time just falling into the story because of it. Some great humor, fairly interesting plot, but sometimes I almost felt like I was reading it in another language trying to piece it all together.
I wanted to give it 3 stars, but I just couldn't. While I like the storyline idea, the 'religious' portions were just too technical and 'too' much. I really don't think I can explain myself adequately, but I felt like the author was trying too hard to make her world metaphysical, and it just becam...
Ferris Archer knows Sera Littlejohn is about to get possessed by a demon. Unfortunately, the woman doesn't believe him, also because she would be the first female to be possessed in a very, very, very long time.Well, since this is Romancelandia we're talking about and the heroes always stick around ...
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School district embarks on energy saving improvement project
School building management systems are but a few of the energy efficiency improvement measures planned by the South Brunswick School District (SBSD) from New Jersey in the United States.
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The project includes 102 measures, encompassing various upgrades to the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in all district buildings. The measures were identified by an audit that determined the current energy use and the energy conservation measures that can be implemented to produce energy savings.
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I don’t know about you guys, but when Diane Sawyer or Peter Jennings cover consumer problems in Boise, Idaho to fill the 30 minutes of “National” news; is it really worth your time to sit through 10-12 minutes of commercials to watch the few minutes of real news? Two weeks ago I gave up watching live TV. Yep. The homemediaguy gave up live/streaming TV. I tried recording the shows I wanted to watch because I was too busy or they were on too late at night and I still couldn’t catch up on the weekend, because I was too busy or tired or whatever.
Here is what I am getting at. We have become so accustomed and conditioned by the cable companies to put aside our lives and focus on their content. We don’t go out and talk to our neighbors, or do our hobby, or even play video games, because “our show is on tonight”. I took charge of my life.
I have my Roku boxes connected to all my TV’s and subscribe to the Free HULU channel on my Roku for my TV show watching. I have 6 Free movie channels including SnagFilms, Kino Lorber, Directors Chair, Café’ Noir, Film Movement and OV Guide. I use the Redbox channel for rented movies and Crackle for my Jerry Seinfeld fix called “Coffee with Comedians”.
I have other Roku channels that also provide free classic TV shows along with PBS and news channels that show only real news segments without the fluff.
Let me summarize. Except for the occasional Redbox purchase, all my other programming is FREE. Actually having my 50” Samsung TV shut off as the default instead of on with mindless noise, I actually enjoy watching what I want, when I want and have taken charge of my daily life and schedule.
Oh for you news junkies, I get 99% of my news from the web with no commercials and it takes 10-15 minutes on my tablet or laptop. Freedom is wonderful. Try it and let me know how it works for you.


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A move away from a negative overnight rate would ease a squeeze on Japanese bank profits.
The Bank of Japan may be leaning towards taking its overnight rate out of negative territory rather than raising the upper limit of its yield control range in response to rising inflation and to ease speculative pressure as other major central banks tighten policy, MNI understands.
While some investors are betting that the BOJ will have to increase the 0.25% ceiling for its 10-year bond yield target range in order to stem depreciation of the yen, and as government officials call for action against inflation, officials fear that modifying the yield curve framework would be too drastic a tightening for a still-weak recovery to withstand.
Raising the overnight rate from -0.1%, perhaps to 0%, would improve banks’ low interest rate margins – something else for which lawmakers have called – but with little tightening effect on the economy at large. The BOJ is also under political pressure to take action in line with government efforts to alleviate the effects of rising prices on household budgets.
A MNI has reported, the BOJ could consider adjusting its easy monetary policy around the autumn if the yen stabilises at a lower level around 140 to the dollar, sending inflation to temporary peaks near 3% and driving wage hikes into 2023. (See MNI INSIGHT: Govt Pressures Add To Weak Yen As BOJ Eyes Change)
But bank officials remain very wary of any move that would be interpreted as a move towards unwinding easy policy, and the BOJ would continue to pledge to maintain low interest rates for as long as necessary to achieve the 2% price target.
While some former officials have called for the BOJ to raise or even drop its ceiling on bond yields, the central bank judges that such a move would only prompt foreign investors to redouble their bets on further concessions.
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Shinichi Uchida, the executive director in charge of monetary policy, have said that raising the upper end of the curve would be equivalent to policy tightening.
But the BOJ is nonetheless facing calls to do something as inflation erodes purchasing power, with signs that success in upper house elections later this month could prompt Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to bring forward the search for a replacement for Kuroda, whose second term expires in April.
While BOJ officials remain doubtful over the longer-term health of the economy, the central bank’s Tankan survey provided some positive signs on Friday, with both short- and medium-term inflation expectations at firms rising in the three months to June. Capital investment plans remained solid and the data will have endorsed the BOJ’s view that business is more positive about raising retail prices in line with higher international commodity prices and a weaker yen.
The diffusion index measuring the difference between manufacturers reporting a rise rather than a fall in output prices stood at +34 in June, while the equivalent measure for input prices was +77, both the highest levels since May 1980.
But businesses have not yet fully transferred cost increases to consumers, and the BOJ will be looking to see whether household demand withstands higher prices as wage increases are outpaced by inflation.
The Tankan also showed that the financial environment remained accommodative, making it less likely that the BOJ will extend a special programme to support smaller firms’ financing.


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Kawalees: Part II (Microtonal Piano Solo)
Ⓒ Udo Siegfriedt/CTM 2019
Developing modernist, contemporary and avant-garde approaches to the oud and the Arabic maqam system (the modes of Arabic music), Kawalees is Allami’s latest multi-part solo project. Part I explores the exaggeration of micro-sounds and gestures associated with the oud and its performance techniques, magnifying them with an electroacoustic instrument and manipulating them with live digital processing.
Allami fragments and distorts traditional approaches to the Arabic maqam system through unconventional melodic improvisation, yielding a familiar yet abstract language that is expressive of the current age while maintaining its characteristic identity.
Premiered 31 Jan 2019 at CTM Festival, Berlin, DE
Kawalees parts I & II were created with the support of a production grant from AFAC- Arabic Fund for Arts and Culture.


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If 2017 was represented by bitter anger and shocking sadness, 2018 was the awareness and action that follows. It was a year filled with celebrations of different cultures, the power and wisdom of women, and the acknowledgement of mental health issues. As usual, the world of music was a direct reflection of these mile markers.
We saw a woman dominate country music, a hip-hop poet write one of the best soundtracks ever made (to a groundbreaking cultural film), and emo music surge into another wave. 2017 sucked but 2018 was a glimpse of hope.
It was a reminder that we are powerful. Each of of us is powerful.


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The earnest young man photographed in downtown Chicago during the May Day parade has something important to say. I thought I would share it with you, although I admit that I am a little puzzled by what he is trying to tell us. To his credit, he has his own message rather than one of those preprinted signs, and it's in English. He gets extra points, too, for holding the American flag
just a tad higher than the Mexican one. While the mainstream media is now noticing that radical groups are taking control of the immigrant movement,
his serious demeanor reminds us that there are plenty of undocumented immigrants who just want us to understand.
While you would never know it from the photo above, from all accounts the march and rally in Chicago was quite a party. This march seemed to have more to do with celebrating freedom of speech and Chicago's love of parades, however, than rebuilding Anahuac.
Sort of like a St. Patrick's Day parade
Everyone was there, not only Hispanics. The American Indians came sporting feathers. Spokesmen for the undocumented Irish expressed their concerns. Former residents of several African countries could be seen with their flags, as well as a number of well-covered young ladies speaking out for Muslim rights. Plenty of politicians showed up to give speeches at the rally, as well as the Catholic bishop. Perhaps the somewhat Dadaesque
flavor of it all was best summed up in the words of one of the rally speakers I heard on live Internet coverage, "Viva Mexico!"
On a troubling note, there was no shortage of signs which read: "Today we March, Tomorrow we Vote." Kind of gives you a new perspective
on these--ahem!--"illegal aliens," doesn't it? With all the talk of fake documents, do you think plenty have registered to vote already?
Hey, it's Chicago, remember?
Mayor Daley was unable to attend. Clever planning to be on a trip to the Middle East! Protesters in parks and Mayors named Daley don't have a happy history in Chicago. With many of the parade organizers the very same people
who gave the current Mayor's father such a terribly hard time during the Days of Rage
it was smart for the no-longer Young Mayor Daley
to just get out of town.
For some, however, the march might have been labeled as "a day without school." Almost the entire student body from two high schools with principally Hispanic students might
have been there--most went missing from classrooms without explanation.Photo Credit: Araceli Arroyo
who posted a number of photos from the march on Flicker under the name of Celikins. Those photos are available under Creative Commons license. Some of those photos are also on her blog
where her readers are warned "This work is protected under international copyright laws. Copying, reproducing or distributing this work or any portion thereof constitutes copyright infringement and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment." Ms. Arroyo also has an pictures from the earlier Immigrant's Rights march in Chicago. With photos from Iceland, Paris and Rome, among others, it is unlikely she is an undocumented worker.

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Stacks (CRYPTO: STX) traded 22.78% higher over 24 hours at $2.41 in the early hours of Wednesday.
What Happened: The token of a project focussed on adding smart contract and decentralized application (DApp) functionality to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).
Over a seven-day trailing period, STX has risen 71.4%. Against the apex coin, STX rose 23.84% against Bitcoin and 22.55% against Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH).
STX traded 17.73% below its all-time high of $2.82 it touched in April this year.
See Also: How To Buy Stacks (STX)
Why It Matters: The recent rise of Stacks comes amid positive news related to non fungible tokens or NFTs.
Stacks noted in a recent newsletter that Bitcoin NFTs are “thriving,” thanks to creators.
“Earlier this week, Bitcoin Birds were gone within an hour, joining the likes of Stacks Pops, Punks, Monks, and more as freshly minted out menageries.”
The project noted that Satoshibles were moving from ETH to STX “where they truly belong.”
“Boomboxes crossed over $1M in TVL, pushing the unique magic of yield generating NFTs forward in the name of Bitcoin DeFi,” wrote Stacks.
Bitcoin is a one-trick-pony?
Stacks: Hold my beer
— stacks.btc (@Stacks) October 12, 2021
In an exclusive with Benzinga this year, Mitchell Cuevas, Head of Growth at the Stacks Foundation said that “Stacks turns Bitcoin from being a passive asset into an active asset that is programmable and available to all.”
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By Josh Korr
St. Petersburg Times
October 19, 2007
There are two great things about Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows: the presence of actual guitars, and the price tag (or lack thereof).
There’s one not-as-great thing about it: the music.
If that’s the tradeoff for coaxing one of the world’s greatest bands partway back to the land of humans, so be it. Any blockbuster group that recognizes the ridiculousness of charging $15 for a CD and lets you pay what you wish, as Radiohead has done in a grand online experiment with In Rainbows, is okay by me.
But the same follow-their-muse impulse that led them to buck the pricing system is what has made Radiohead so frustratingly obtuse for too long.
The five Oxford chums were just another early ’90s band when a couple stabs of muted distortion turned their single “Creep” into an angsty global smash. Their next two albums, the gloriously rocking The Bends and chillier but magnificent OK Computer, turned Radiohead into rock’s great hope.
The band’s complex pop — a near-orchestral, three-guitar attack; twitchy time signatures; Thom Yorke’s soaring-yet-mumbly tenor — provided an alternative to the dominant models of the day: Guns N’ Roses’ and Pearl Jam’s blues-based riffing, punk’s three-chord pop, indie rock’s structure-agnostic noise. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood and bassist brother Colin “play octatonic scales that sprawl over four octaves,” the New Yorker‘s Alex Ross wrote of one Radiohead song — but you don’t have to understand music theory to know that Just, from The Bends, is as crazily difficult as it is catchy.
Looking to the Past
Overwhelmed by the same dilemma that tortured Nirvana and Pearl Jam — can mass success and artistic ideals co-exist — they packed up the guitars, picked up obscure electronic instruments, and leached much of the humanity out of their music. In the video for No Surprises, Yorke’s head is submerged in a fishbowl. Over the course of two albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, Radiohead invited us into that submerged claustrophobia. It wasn’t a particularly pleasant place to visit.
In Rainbows is a second step back from that insular wasteland, following 2003’s Hail to the Thief. There are many signs of life: gentle finger-picking and plaintive cello on Faust Arp; a Betty and Veronica tambourine on Reckoner; the crunchy guitar strum on House of Cards. Yorke admits to some romanticism (or caddishness) on House of Cards as he croons “I don’t want to be your friend. I just want to be your lover.” Occasionally he shucks off the vocal effects, as when he drops into a reedy baritone on Jigsaw Falling Into Place.
On the surface, the band has found a balance between the earlier guitar-heavy work and the more experimental stuff. But the reclaimed instruments can’t hide the fact that Radiohead no longer plays pop songs as such. Instead of being propelled by chord progressions, structure and melodic movement, the songs now float along on repeated or droned musical phrases, layers of atmospheric effects, and Bjork-like background chanting.
15 Step starts off with drummer Phil Selway and a computer sharing a trip-hop beat, then adds a casual sliding guitar line that repeats a bunch of times; some children’s cries and a ghostly synth moan provide the bridge. A dirty riff ignites Bodysnatcher off like a classic Radiohead rocker, and there’s a head-snapping freakout at the end. But afterward, it’s hard to recall what happened in the middle.
Like much electronic music, there’s not a lot to grab onto. A fiendish guitar figure repeated 50 times doesn’t hit the brain the way an absurd solo or thrilling chorus does. Yorke’s sing-chanting on Jigsaw Falling Into Place is reminiscent of latter-day Bob Dylan: interesting, but not as compelling as straight-up tunes.
Good for resident genius Jonny Greenwood to subvert verse-chorus-verse structures if that’s what grabs him, but he should realize there was nothing embarrassing about his once-spellbinding guitar work. Good for the band, too, to challenge the industry’s outdated pricing practices. It’s hard to get frustrated when their hearts are so clearly in the right place artistically and commercially.
Though I respect and appreciate Radiohead’s approach, what I really want to hear is more of those octatonic solos.


By Jalyn Bolyard, Online Editor West Liberty University’s volleyball team will head down the hill to Wheeling Jesuit University’s McDonough Center today, Thursday, Nov. 8, to play in the Mountain East Conference Volleyball Tournament, starting play at 5 p.m.
By Daniel Morgan, Contributing Writer “We really did not want to go to the same school,” said senior Stephanie Leonard about her and her twin sister Amanda’s recruitment at West Liberty University. The sisters joined the volleyball team together in 2015, after playing on the same team since middle school. They initially wanted some separation after living and…
By Jalyn Bolyard, Online Editor West Liberty University’s volleyball team will be looking to finish the last stretch of its regular season play this weekend on a high note with two inner conference match-ups.
By Daniel Morgan, Contributing Writer The Lady Hilltoppers will travel downstate this weekend in hopes of adding two more victories to their 2018 season. The Lady Toppers are off to an impressive start to the season and with a 17-5 overall record and a 6-1 record in conference as of Oct. 11.
By Cody Shook, Sports Editor The Lady Toppers head into the weekend with a 9-3 record, and they are beginning conference play today and tomorrow against Fairmont State University and Shepherd University.
By Jalyn Bolyard, Online Editor Tomorrow night, Sept. 7, the West Liberty Hilltopper volleyball team will be hosting the MEC/PSAC Crossover event. The Hilltoppers will be heading into the tournament sporting a six-win streak, with an overall 7-1 record. All games will be hosted in the Academic Sports and Recreation Complex (ASRC).
By Chad Richards, Contributing Writer “We can expect another history making season from the Lady Toppers next year.” These were the words that closed the Trumpet’s recap for the West Liberty women’s volleyball team after 2016’s 23-win season and MEC Tournament semifinal appearance. After this season’s 20-14, 9-7 MEC season, and an MEC Tournament Finals appearance, and near victory…


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The Herb Society of America Blog
By Jen Munson, HSA Education Chair
‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies. that’s for thoughts.’ (Hamlet 4.5.248)
William Shakespeare’s poetic plays are filled with dramatic imagery and references to plants, herbs, trees, vegetables, and other botanicals. Shakespeare’s awareness of the botanical world was near the level of herbalists of that period, and the use of plants throughout his plays is done with unparalleled sophistication. They are used to enhance ideas and describe characters, as well as for metaphors. For example, Hamlet describes the state of Denmark as “…an unweeded garden / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature” (Hamlet 1.22.134-136).
Plants are used for evil doings and central plot development. They are transformed into potions that are lust invoking, (Viola tricolor in Midsummer Nights Dream), sleep inducing (Atropa belladonna in Romeo and Juliet), and as poisons…
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BHOPAL: Even as the second round of talks between interlocutors was set to begin at Raipur
, outlawed Communist Party
of India (Maoist) circulated a three page note early on Friday morning, listing in detail their perception about the problems being faced by the tribals and incidents of alleged atrocities by the security forces in tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
A three page note “why we detained the collector”, issued by CPI (Maoist) South Bastar regional committee secretary Ganesh Uike said they were forced to issue such a statement to set the record
straight after a group of so-called intellectuals, supported by vested interests, unleashed a propaganda to whip up sympathy in favour of the Sukma collector.
“These people need to understand the reality on the ground and the manner in which the people are suffering state’s repression and the role of district collector in it”, Uike claimed alleging that it was during the tenure of Alex Paul Menon that a tribal youth Podium Mada was first tortured in police custody and later murdered. Later, this murder was passed off as a suicide in police custody, he alleged.
According to the Maoist release, another youth Podyam Sanna was picked up from his house at Pollampalli on February 11. Before the formation of Sukma district, police in erstwhile Dantewada district picked up a woman Soni Sodi from village Jabeli and subjected to third degree methods. But the district collector Alex Paul Menon did not utter a word when the then superintendent of police of Ankit Garg was bestowed with the President’s police medal on Republic Day, it alleged.
Describing Chhattisgarh government’s on-going “gram Suraj’—a village outreach programme-- as a farce, the Maoist leader alleged that such a campaign was being carried out at the behest of the World Bank. He said the CPI (Maoist) had earlier given a call for boycott of gram Suraj campaign. He also alleged that the government machinery, which also includes the district collector, were in fact trying to extend benefits to corporate houses by trying to hand over Bastar’s rich natural resources to them.
Alleging that nearly 2000 villagers were languishing in jails of Dantewada, Jagdalpur, Raipur, and Rajnandgaon, Uike said 700 people were stuffed inside the Dantewada prison, which has a capacity to accommodate only 150 inmates. Besides, the rebels also alleged that the police had slapped false cases against a large number of people and the security were continuously violating human rights in the tribal areas.
Uike alleged that the security forces had launched an operation code named as “Operation Vijay “ in Abujmarh in March this year and attacked the houses of villagers and destroyed their houses. He said the so-called intellectuals and others, demanding release of collector Menon, should first study whether the report submitted by the district collector at the meeting of “left wing extremism affected districts”, organised by the Centre, was in the interest of the poor tribals of the region.

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Mini has confirmed that it will be launching an all new electric convertible version of the Mini this decade, specifically in 2025. Currently the company only offers the Mini in electric form on one model, the three door hatchback so it is good that the drivetrain will make it to more models.
It is likely that the Mini E Convertible will share the same drivetrain and battery set up from the current Mini E hatch, which in turn shares its bits with the BMW i3S. The final Mini with a combustion engine will be launched in 2025, so the transition to pure EV will be timely.
The current Mini E has a 32.6kWh battery, with a range of 144 miles.
“The Mini Convertible has a large and particularly loyal fan base. This is also shown by the great demand for the latest, freshly updated model. We are therefore firmly convinced of the success of this vehicle concept for the future.”
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.💥💥
In life, you prove your worth through your actions, not your words.💥💥💥
No one is born with Positive Passion. This Power is ignited by Inspiration!🦋
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
YOUTH IS LOVING WORK: Like what you do. Do what makes you and others happy. Enter your daily work with joy. Adjust it until you do like it. Learn to love work for the happiness it brings. Put joy into your work in the morning and you will find it multiplied into happiness at night. […]
Smiling makes you look Beautiful 😁
When we’re walking through a difficulty, we have a choice to consider it joy or consider hardship. If we consider it a hardship, we begin to complain and lose any joy we have. But when we consider that our Almighty God has allowed us to face the trial, we know that He can use it […]
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it…
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt just absolute confidence in yourself.
If you aren’t a naturally happy person, take time each day to cultivate that which brings you happiness.It can be so easy to get caught up in the rigours of modern life that we tend to forget that happiness need not come with stipulations. Happiness becomes something we must schedule and strive for a hard-won […]

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