"Goethe says
somewhere that there is no such thing as a liberal idea, that there
are only liberal sentiments. This is true."--Lionel Trilling
In 2011 the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a tsunami that had been triggered by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The following day, 12 March, substantial amounts of radioactive material began to be released. A previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—reached the United States. Researchers surmise the sulfur was produced when emergency workers at Fukushima flooded the nuclear plant’s runaway reactors with seawater to cool the melting fuel rods. Neutrons emitted by the fuel rods struck chlorine atoms in the water, forming sulfur-35 that escaped from the plant in the form of steam. Sulfur-35 has a half-life of 87.5 days outside of the body, but a biological half-life of 623 days, according to Michigan State University’s Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety.
Who is ....Jean Harris?
In 2011 the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a tsunami that had been triggered by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The following day, 12 March, substantial amounts of radioactive material began to be released. A previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—reached the United States. Researchers surmise the sulfur was produced when emergency workers at Fukushima flooded the nuclear plant’s runaway reactors with seawater to cool the melting fuel rods. Neutrons emitted by the fuel rods struck chlorine atoms in the water, forming sulfur-35 that escaped from the plant in the form of steam. Sulfur-35 has a half-life of 87.5 days outside of the body, but a biological half-life of 623 days, according to Michigan State University’s Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety.
- Matthew Carney, ABC North Asia correspondent: “Sorting out Reactor No. 4 will be the easy part. Fixing Reactors No. 1, 2, and 3 will be much more difficult. They’re full of molten nuclear fuel. Humans can’t enter, it would result in instant death. And robots have yet to be invented that can withstand the massive radiation levels near the melted cores. TEPCO admits it doesn’t know the exact location and extent of the meltdowns. They claim it will take 40 years to fix, but others say centuries.”
- Kenichiro Matsui, TEPCO public affairs department: “We don’t know the exact situation in detail. Fuel has been melted down, but nobody has seen it. We need to develop technology with help from around the world to know the real situation.”
Who is ....Jean Harris?
Hart
Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio; his father invented Life Saver
candy. Harold Bloom says that his poem "The Bridge" is 'uneven certainly
but beyond "The Waste Land" in aspiration and in accomplishment.' "Voyages,"
a poetic sequence in praise of love was described as "a celebration of
the transforming power of love," the work's "metaphor is the sea, and
its movement is from the lover's dedication to a human and therefore
changeable lover to a beloved beyond time and change." Here the sea
represents love in all its shifting complexity from calm to storm, and
love, in turn, serves as the salvation of us all. (Quinn) R. W. B. Lewis
wrote in The Poetry of Hart Crane that the poem was Crane's "lyrical masterpiece."
He was a tortured man. His last drunken hours before jumping from the stern of an Atlantic steamer were spent fighting with the woman he thought to marry and with the sailors he tried to seduce.
He was a tortured man. His last drunken hours before jumping from the stern of an Atlantic steamer were spent fighting with the woman he thought to marry and with the sailors he tried to seduce.
Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling; born 28 April 1988 in Santiago) is the representative of La Florida, Santiago in the Chilean House of Deputies and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth of Chile. Vallejo has been labeled by the media as the most important and influential Communist personality of the 21st century in Chile, and also as the symbolic successor of Gladys Marín. (an older Chilean Communist)
| Camila Vallejo as Deputy (Wiki) |
She doesn't look bloodthirsty.
It was revealed by FCC commissioner Ajit Pai that the proposed Net Neutrality plan the FCC is considering is 332 pages long. It will not be released to the public until after the FCC has voted. Pai claims this regulation will give “the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works.” We need to pass it so we can see what's in it. Legislation through regulation.
An
element in current politics is the absence of decision-making. FOX has a
uniformity from show to show, as does MSNBC. But the end-stage of the
Left and the Right usually has fierce conflict and the points of
contention are usually who will lead. So there is a safety in the early
phase where there is a slave-like subservience to ideology that ends in
ambition-led conflict.
Golden oldie:
The Stamp Act was introduced in 1765 as a means of raising revenue in the American colonies. It required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax stamp. Colonial businessmen agreed to stop importing British goods until the act was repealed, and trade was substantially diminished. Refusal to use the stamps on business papers became common, and the courts would not enforce their use on legal documents. The act was repealed by the British Parliament in 1766, after the members of the House of Commons heard the arguments of Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania's representative in London. Repeal was accompanied by the Declaratory Act, which affirmed the right of the British government to pass acts legally binding on the colonists. The conflict over the Stamp Act contributed substantially to the rise of American nationalist sentiment and is often considered one of the chief immediate causes of the American Revolution.
Wolves do not make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them.
Nikolai Gogol died at the age of forty-two. His unique style -- most famously in stories "The Nose" and "The Overcoat," the play The Inspector General; and the novel Dead Souls -- is a comic-tragic-absurd hybrid. Gogol had always been deeply religious, but his priest convinced him that he should cleanse himself by not merely fasting, praying and reading the lives of the saints but renouncing his writing as vainglorious and unholy. In his zeal, Gogol burned all his writing, including the manuscripts of his sequels to Dead Souls, the labor of years. His doctors' last-hour attempts to save him included not just trying to hypnotize him into eating or applying blisters to his extremities but giving him hot baths while pouring ice-water on his head, or giving him ice-baths and then putting him to bed among warm loaves of bread.
Hours before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, people reported seeing elephants and flamingos heading for higher ground. Dogs and zoo animals refused to leave their shelters. After the tsunami, very few dead animals were found.
Scott Walker was questioned at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington on Saturday. He said he didn't know whether President Barack Obama was a Christian (“I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that”)—then turned the attention back on his questioners.
“To me, this is a classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “The things they care about don’t even remotely come close to what you’re asking about.”
Economists Jonathan Meer (of Texas A&M) and Jeremy West (of M.I.T.) wrote just last month, “[t]he voluminous literature on minimum wages offers little consensus on the extent to which a wage floor impacts employment.” Profs. Meer and West, justly critical of the shortness of the time spans examined by ‘pro’-minimum-wage studies, then present powerful evidence that minimum wages do in fact over several years slow job growth for low-skilled workers. So there is some debate? People raising questions are not just nuts?
Grote Mandrenke is a Low German word. It means "Great Drowning of Men." In January of 1362, a storm driven by intensely high winds hit Ireland. What coastal houses the waves didn't get were blown down. As the storm moved down the coast of Europe, it coincided with an extremely high tide. The medieval town of Dunwich in England, now lies under the sea because of the Grote Mandrenke. Sixty parishes in Slesvig, Denmark disappeared. And in Holland, twenty-five thousand more people died.
Hortatory: adjective: Strongly urging. From Latin hortari (to urge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to like or want), which also gave us yearn, charisma, greedy, and exhort. Earliest documented use: 1586.
"Plumes" have been found in the atmosphere of Mars--by amateur astronomers originally in March 2012. Possibly similar plumes have now been found on archived images as far back as 1997. Since the plumes reach 200 kilometers up, they seem too high to be related to wind-blown surface dust. Since one plume lasted for eleven days, it seemed too long lasting to be related to aurora. More of the amazing contributions of those pursuing avocations.
Golden oldie:
The Stamp Act was introduced in 1765 as a means of raising revenue in the American colonies. It required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax stamp. Colonial businessmen agreed to stop importing British goods until the act was repealed, and trade was substantially diminished. Refusal to use the stamps on business papers became common, and the courts would not enforce their use on legal documents. The act was repealed by the British Parliament in 1766, after the members of the House of Commons heard the arguments of Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania's representative in London. Repeal was accompanied by the Declaratory Act, which affirmed the right of the British government to pass acts legally binding on the colonists. The conflict over the Stamp Act contributed substantially to the rise of American nationalist sentiment and is often considered one of the chief immediate causes of the American Revolution.
Wolves do not make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them.
Nikolai Gogol died at the age of forty-two. His unique style -- most famously in stories "The Nose" and "The Overcoat," the play The Inspector General; and the novel Dead Souls -- is a comic-tragic-absurd hybrid. Gogol had always been deeply religious, but his priest convinced him that he should cleanse himself by not merely fasting, praying and reading the lives of the saints but renouncing his writing as vainglorious and unholy. In his zeal, Gogol burned all his writing, including the manuscripts of his sequels to Dead Souls, the labor of years. His doctors' last-hour attempts to save him included not just trying to hypnotize him into eating or applying blisters to his extremities but giving him hot baths while pouring ice-water on his head, or giving him ice-baths and then putting him to bed among warm loaves of bread.
Hours before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, people reported seeing elephants and flamingos heading for higher ground. Dogs and zoo animals refused to leave their shelters. After the tsunami, very few dead animals were found.
Scott Walker was questioned at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington on Saturday. He said he didn't know whether President Barack Obama was a Christian (“I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that”)—then turned the attention back on his questioners.
“To me, this is a classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “The things they care about don’t even remotely come close to what you’re asking about.”
Economists Jonathan Meer (of Texas A&M) and Jeremy West (of M.I.T.) wrote just last month, “[t]he voluminous literature on minimum wages offers little consensus on the extent to which a wage floor impacts employment.” Profs. Meer and West, justly critical of the shortness of the time spans examined by ‘pro’-minimum-wage studies, then present powerful evidence that minimum wages do in fact over several years slow job growth for low-skilled workers. So there is some debate? People raising questions are not just nuts?
Grote Mandrenke is a Low German word. It means "Great Drowning of Men." In January of 1362, a storm driven by intensely high winds hit Ireland. What coastal houses the waves didn't get were blown down. As the storm moved down the coast of Europe, it coincided with an extremely high tide. The medieval town of Dunwich in England, now lies under the sea because of the Grote Mandrenke. Sixty parishes in Slesvig, Denmark disappeared. And in Holland, twenty-five thousand more people died.
Hortatory: adjective: Strongly urging. From Latin hortari (to urge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to like or want), which also gave us yearn, charisma, greedy, and exhort. Earliest documented use: 1586.
"Plumes" have been found in the atmosphere of Mars--by amateur astronomers originally in March 2012. Possibly similar plumes have now been found on archived images as far back as 1997. Since the plumes reach 200 kilometers up, they seem too high to be related to wind-blown surface dust. Since one plume lasted for eleven days, it seemed too long lasting to be related to aurora. More of the amazing contributions of those pursuing avocations.
When
the Dury Lane Theater, which Richard Sheridan co-owned, burned to the
ground in 1809, Sheridan was fifty-seven years old, decades past the
days when his School for Scandal was the talk of the town, and
made him a fortune -- upwards of a million dollars in today's money,
some historians calculate. The fire started his decline. He started to
drink, was imprisoned several times for debt, and died destroyed. The
best of Sheridan's glory days came from his Parliamentary career rather
than Drury Lane. This was his "Begums speech" in 1787, advocating the
impeachment of Warren Hastings, governor-general of India. Sheridan
spoke without notes for five and a half hours, with such skill and
feeling that both sides of the House, reportedly for the first time in
its history, jumped to their feet with cheering and applause.
AAAAAaaaannnnnndddddd.......a graph:
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