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Take the tour with Hermes the messenger god,

through a magical place filled with awesome gods, daring heroes and fabulous monsters.

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Construction workers and organizers in Shanghai, China are busily completing tasks ahead of the planned opening of the 2010 World Expo on May 1st – planned to be the largest World Expo in history. The theme of the Expo is "Better City, Better Life", and is scheduled to run until October 31, 2010. In recent months, large construction and renovation projects have dominated much of Shanghai, in preparation for becoming the World's stage on May 1st. Up to 800,000 visitors are expected each day – a total of 70 million visitors in all visiting exhibitions from nearly 200 participants around the world. Collected here are several recent photos from Shanghai as construction nears completion for the Expo 2010. (31 photos total)

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In today’s Science Times, Personal Health columnist Jane Brody writes about her husband’s final days with Stage 4 lung cancer. She begins:

This is a very personal story of living gracefully with a fatal diagnosis. When I wrote “Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond,” I had no idea that I’d be putting its precepts into practice in my immediate family within a year of publication. But as I said in the book, “You never know.”

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Recently released documents

15. Mar. 2010: U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks, 18 Mar 2008

This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses “trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends “The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''. [As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective]. As an odd justificaton for the plan, the report claims that “Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website''. The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks—U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable U.S. violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.

via WikiLeaks.

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Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
by Gene M. Heyman

Harvard University Press, 200 pp., $26.95

In 1970, high-grade heroin and opium flooded Southeast Asia. Military physicians in Vietnam estimated that between 10 percent and 25 percent of enlisted Army men were addicted to narcotics. Deaths from overdosing soared. In May 1971, the crisis exploded on the front page of The New York Times: “G.I. Heroin Addiction Epidemic in Vietnam.” Spurred by fears that newly discharged veterans would ignite an outbreak of heroin use in American cities, President Richard Nixon commanded the military to begin drug testing. In June, the White House announced that no soldier would be allowed to board the plane home unless he passed a urine test. Those who failed could go to an Army-sponsored detoxification program before they were re-tested.

The plan worked.

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vintagephoto: Edward Steichen, “The Little Round Mirror”, 1901..

On this day in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was published. Hawthorne's claim of having discovered a red letter 'A' in the Salem Custom-House was a literary device, but two ancestors had been forced to wear forehead bands identifying their incestuous conduct, another had been a judge at the witch trials, and Salem itself, in his experience, was a punishment.

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Once you get beyond the bad joking around (typical country stuff), a great song, later done by Willie Nelson

Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Gahan wilson.

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HOW TO PREVENT THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

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NOTE: THESE PHOTOS SHOW THE MOST RECENT SCUFFLE BETWEEN PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS. I MAKE NO ATTEMPT IN THIS SET TO EDITORIALIZE ON THE LONG-TIME CONFLICT.

LEFT WING ISRAELI AND ISRAELI POLICE

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What are some famous examples of stubborn scientists or natural philosophers? People that held onto a theory even after there was mounting evidence that they were wrong. Bonus points if they went out of their way to smear other scientists.

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a West died at the age of ninety. Cicily Fairfield took her pseudonym from the passionate, outspoken heroine of Ibsen's Rosmersholm; from her early days writing about suffragettes to her last days writing about Watergate and Marshall McLuhan — a seventy-year career of novels, essays, journalism, literary criticism, and non-fiction books on a range of topics – she lived up to it.

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HITLER PRACTICES A SPEECH

Adolf Hitler, in these photos taken by his personal photographer, rehearses gestures intended to look spontaneous while listening to a recording of one his speeches. In 1927, when Heinrich Hoffman took these action shots, Adolf Hitler has already restored the Nazi party to the political significance (just one year after becoming its Führer). The 38-year old was also already a millionaire, thanks to his book Mein Kampf*.

The impoverish failed artist has already come a long way, but he has his sights on a bigger price. He carefully cultivated his image as the party leader using the propagandistic value of photographs. Hoffman, Hitler’s good friend and exclusive photographer, captioned it:”Adolf Hitler rehearses supposedly spontaneous gestures while listening to a recording of one of his previous speeches”. The photos undermined the myth of Hitler’s apparently natural oratorial skill and Hitler ordered Hoffman to destroy the negatives; Hoffman didn’t.

[*In fact, people were tricked into buying the book: they thought it was a revealing autobiography or an account of the Beer Hall Putsch. From the royalties, Hitler was able to afford a Mercedes while still in prison. He spent years evading taxes, and waived his taxes himself when he became the dictator.

After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, millions of copies were sold (ten million by the end of the war), but mostly to the German government, which purchased six million copies as a gift at weddings, graduations and birthdays. Before 1939, all the royalties abroad went to Hitler too. In addition to not paying the taxes, Hitler also charged the German government for the right to reproduce his likeness on the stamps, postcards and posters. Following Hoffmann's suggestion, both he and Hitler received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, which made the photographer also rich.]Adolf Hitler, in these photos taken by his personal photographer, rehearses gestures intended to look spontaneous while listening to a recording of one his speeches. In 1927, when Heinrich Hoffman took these action shots, Adolf Hitler has already restored the Nazi party to the political significance (just one year after becoming its Führer). The 38-year old was also already a millionaire, thanks to his book Mein Kampf*.

The impoverish failed artist has already come a long way, but he has his sights on a bigger price. He carefully cultivated his image as the party leader using the propagandistic value of photographs. Hoffman, Hitler’s good friend and exclusive photographer, captioned it:”Adolf Hitler rehearses supposedly spontaneous gestures while listening to a recording of one of his previous speeches”. The photos undermined the myth of Hitler’s apparently natural oratorial skill and Hitler ordered Hoffman to destroy the negatives; Hoffman didn’t.

[*In fact, people were tricked into buying the book: they thought it was a revealing autobiography or an account of the Beer Hall Putsch. From the royalties, Hitler was able to afford a Mercedes while still in prison. He spent years evading taxes, and waived his taxes himself when he became the dictator.

After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, millions of copies were sold (ten million by the end of the war), but mostly to the German government, which purchased six million copies as a gift at weddings, graduations and birthdays. Before 1939, all the royalties abroad went to Hitler too. In addition to not paying the taxes, Hitler also charged the German government for the right to reproduce his likeness on the stamps, postcards and posters. Following Hoffmann's suggestion, both he and Hitler received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, which made the photographer also rich.]“>

Adolf Hitler, in these photos taken by his personal photographer, rehearses gestures intended to look spontaneous while listening to a recording of one his speeches. In 1927, when Heinrich Hoffman took these action shots, Adolf Hitler has already restored the Nazi party to the political significance (just one year after becoming its Führer). The 38-year old was also already a millionaire, thanks to his book Mein Kampf*.

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A New Blog Begun Today written and posted by Alexander Kulscar

THIS BLOG RETRACES THE STEPS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT STRIKE, THE LONGEST STRIKE AT A UNIVERSITY BY ITS FACULTY. I WAS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN THIS STRIKE AND SUBSEQUENTLY LOST MY JOB, A SORE LOSS FOR ME EMOTIONALLY. THIS BLOG TO BE UPDATED DAILY. Whether you are liberal or conservative in your view of things, a close reading will help you better understand how this drama played out, what were its causes, interests, costs, and significance . The drama really begins when the schools’ administration issues an order to large percentage of its faculty who went on strike: return to teaching or be replaced. Some faculty returned, as warned; others refused, and thus faculty were pitted against fellow faculty for a very long time. Here now, it begins:

March 12, 1990. The first day after Spring Break. UB-AAUP President Alfred Gerteiny receives a call at 7:30 am from the Provost’s office, summoning him to a meeting at Bryant Hall. He is told to bring the union executive committee with him. The officers of Faculty Council are also summoned. No agenda stated.

via UB Faculty Strike.

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Folk music has a long relationship with labor struggles, and particularly labor unions. From the Baptist hymns adapted by Joe Hill, to the IWW song handbook, to the protest tunes of Billy Bragg, here's a peek at some of the most notable, most fun, and most poignant labor tunes in Folk history.

Top Ten Best Labor Songs in American Folk Music .