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China Moves on Arctic Resource Potential
by Ned Pagliarulo	,	September 30, 2013
China hopes to utilize its growing economic clout and new Arctic council observer status to push for greater polar influence.
This year, the Arctic Council admitted six new nations as observers: China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Italy. The Council has become more important as warmer waters open the potential for trade and resource extraction around the North Pole. Climate change has highlighted the complex dynamic of economic competition and tangled sovereignty within the region. Currently, the United States, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Iceland and Finland are full member states of the Arctic Council.
Explorers were long captivated by the promise of a Northwest Passage connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic through Canadian waters. Now, due to a receding ice cap during the summer months, such a passage has become possible and, with it, potentially large trade opportunities.
Across the Arctic Ocean, the Northern Sea Route hugs the coast of Russia and connects Asia to Europe. Rather than looping down past India through the Suez Canal, the Northern Sea Route is estimated to be 40 percent shorter for ships transiting between Japan and the Netherlands. Last year 46 ships were able to make the passage, up from four in 2010. With Asia increasingly a driver of global commerce, these routes could be potentially lucrative. Unsurprisingly, the newly admitted nations to the council were mostly strong trading Asian nations.
In addition to the potential for time saving trade routes, the Arctic ice caps have concealed large reserves of natural resources. A 2008 U.S. Geological Survey assessment estimated that the Arctic circle region contained 90 billion barrels of oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas yet undiscovered. This would represent 13 percent of the world's undiscovered but recoverable oil and 30 percent of natural gas. Having exclusive access to these resources or controlling the means to extract them means higher energy security, more economic clout and better geopolitical positioning in a changing world.
However, rising powers like China will not sit idly while the northernmost countries claim their prize. By becoming observer nations, the six countries enhance their ability to influence the principal multilateral governing body in the region – but at a cost. Accepting membership entailed also accepting the current members' position of sovereignty under international law. The UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (when followed) stipulates that a nation has exclusive economic rights within a 200 mile radius of its shores.
While China has ignored this in claiming islands in the South and East China Sea, it seems that it plans on utilizing other means to wield influence in the Arctic. Analysts have detailed the number of large deals China has struck with Russian and Icelandic energy firms to explore the region for natural resources. By lending money to European firms that may no longer be as strong as they once were – thanks to lingering aftereffects of the financial crisis – China can wield political power through economic leverage.
Investments in oil and gas exploration and subsequent extraction are both pricey and lengthy. Building pipelines or receiving terminals in ports for oil and gas are capital-intensive as well. With such long lead times, understanding which countries plan on fighting the strongest for applying the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea matters, as does whether a nation's indebtedness might force it to outsource exploration and production capabilities to a country like China.
Further input by Asian countries makes sense given the number of consumers and energy demands of that region but it also brings into play the competitions and political alliances with those nations. Trusting in a multilateral council to ensure international law applies uniformly might be risky if political pressure or poor finances pressure other Arctic countries to cut deals. A firm might find itself boxed out after having planned a large investment. Accounting for this risk and advocating for accepted access rules would be a sound strategy.
Categories:	International, Natural resources and energy
Tags:	Arctic, Arctic Council, China, Northern Sea Route, political risk, Russia, Suez Canal, UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, United States
Ned Pagliarulo
Ned Pagliarulo works for a Japanese press company, reporting on economics and government statistics. Ned received a BA in History with a minor in Japanese from Georgetown University in 2012.
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Council Candidate Receives Endorsement, or Does She?
Deborah Keeling-Geddis is featured in an article published on Bergen Dispatch for having received the endorsement of the Hackensack Education Association. In the article, a quote is presented from HEA President Chris Ryan. Ryan says, "The HEA is proud of Deborah Keeling Geddis' commitment to our community both in school and now with her candidacy to serve the entire Hackensack population. Few step up to such challenges, and we are happy to see one of our own offer herself as willing to take on the challenge of elected public office. We commend Debbie and wish her all the luck in her campaign."
The quote reads more like a non-committal kind word than an endorsement. Of the "endorsement," Chris Ryan, the HEA President said: "The HEA has a policy of not endorsing candidates for city office. Since Debbie is one of our members, we offered the statement applauding her efforts, expressing our pride that a member would want to be involved in serving the city, and encouraging any of our other members to serve if they hear the call. But that pride and that praise should not be considered an endorsement. However, we continue to be happy for Debbie, and we continue to applaud her efforts, as we do many others who are running for city office. It is true that that I made that statement for her, and I have made positive comments about Jason Nunnamaker as well. And I'm sure if I knew the other candidates well I would be complementing them too. But praise, while sometimes noteworthy, is not an endorsement."
A request for comment from Keeling-Geddis also went un answered. A link to the article has been removed from Keeling-Geddis' Facebook page and replaced with "I'm proud to have the support of my union, the Hackensack Education Association, behind me." I am still not seeing the statement of support, but maybe Keeling-Geddis does. Well I commend all four candidates for getting involved in the political process and I wish them all the best of luck on Tuesday. Did I just endorse everyone?
This wouldn't be the first time that Keeling-Geddis misunderstood or misrepresented facts. Remember when she went to Trenton to try to stop the Finance Board from approving a bond ordinance and misrepresented facts about the police contract negotiations?
While the article that I believe misrepresents the HEA's statement has been removed from Keeling-Geddis' Facebook page, a poster "Sachem Oratam" has taken to Keeling-Geddis' page with their comments. Sachem Oratam contends that the HEA does not issue endorsements and chastises Keeling-Geddis for misrepresenting the HEA's statement. Sachem Oratam goes on to criticize Keeling-Geddis' affiliation with ousted members of the administration and questions her motives for running for office which Sachem feels are to further her agenda of politics, favors, and patronage jobs. Needless to say these comments were removed from Facebook, but Hackensack Scoop has provided them below. For more on Keeling-Geddis' past attempts at patronage jobs and how this bid is nothing more than a sour grapes attempt to regain a seat at the round table after being turned away by the Citizens for Change, click here.
A Hackensack resident who has requested to remain anonymous has filed a confidential request for an investigation with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC).
Jason Some, a candidate for the Hackensack City Council, has published campaign literature that according to the confidential report filed with the Commission violates NJSA 19:44A-22.3 which requires that all campaign literature clearly identifies the person or committe financing the campaign materials and literature. While the offense carries a penalty of up to $6,000, a review of NJ ELEC final decisions shows that similar infractions have carried fines of a few hundred dollars.
Of the omission, Some states it was an "error" in the printing process. Some contends that proofs of the material had the disclosure but the printed material did not. It seems like a pass the buck excuse, so I can't help but say that Some's literature also lacks a Union Bug. This is notable as Some is backed by the Citizens for Change (current administration) who have appointed Anthony Rottino and David Troast to the position of City Manager. Both Rottino and Troast have taken a hard line stance in negotiating with our Collective Bargaining Units. Perhaps Some, the Citizens for Change, and Troast will all take this campaign literature snafu as a lesson in the benefits of supporting union labor.
At a recent debate Some was critiqued for calling the Anderson Street area "blighted." Some fired back stating that he never referred to the area as "blighted." The piece of literature, which Some has admitted to Hackensack Scoop lacks the required disclosures, calls for aggressive "development to other blighted areas in the City such as Anderson and Hudson streets." Despite being superficially offended by being "accused" of calling areas of Hackensack blighted, in an email Some says "I did in fact use that term" and went on that "it is a common term used when discussing redevelopment."
This evening, a debate was hosted at Temple Beth El for the four candidates for a one unexpired term on the City Council. The council seat was made available by Rose Greenman's resignation. Candidate Jason Some was appointed to that seat in April of this year. The candidates had the opportunity to share their platform and discuss issues facing the City of Hackensack.
Richard Cerbo, a life-long resident of the City of Hackensack and non-profit fundraiser.
Debra Keeling-Geddis, a paraprofessional in the Hackensack Public Schools. Debra Keeling-Geddis declined the invitation to the event electing not to attend and share her platform or position with voters.
Jason Nunnermacker, a life-long resident of Hackensack, an attorney, and current President of the Board of Education.
Jason Some, a life-long resident of the City of Hackensack, sales director of the local Some's Uniforms, and current appointed member of the City Council.
Candidates were presented questions from the audience through the moderator, Larry Eisen.
The topics discussed ranged from the candidates' qualifications, redevelopment, the controversial settlement agreement with the Hackensack University Medical Center, and relations between the City Council and Board of Education.
Richard Cerbo admits that he has no qualification to review, analyze, or approve a budget in excess of $100,000,000. He believes that it would be his place to entrust qualified professionals to advise the Council and explain the budgeting needs of the City to him. Jason Some relies on his experience in small business and agreed that qualified professionals are needed. Jason Nunnermacker is the only candidate who has experience managing a comparable budget as a member of the Board of Education. Nunnermacker prides himself on the Board's ability to consistently pass budgets that were zero-based and within the State-mandated caps, unlike the current council.
Richard Cerbo took the position that the City should take a firmer stance with the Collective Bargaining Units and negotiate harder. Given the give backs and concessions on health insurance and modest 1.5% annual raises under the current police contract, and modest raises in the fire department contract, and the controversy around the police negotiations, this may be a difficult pill for many to swallow--and frankly an unrealistic position. Jason Nunnermacker was the only candidate with experience in Collective Bargaining Agreements and negotiations having sat on the Board of Education. Nunnermacker and the Board of Education negotiates with four separate Collective Bargaining Units and handles employment issues with each of those unions every day.
Richard Cerbo sees tax abatements for redevelopment projects as the biggest issue plaguing the City. Cerbo sees the value of tax abatements to attract developers to revitalize Main Street and surrounding areas, but believes that the lavish twenty and thirty year tax abatements being handed out are shifting the burden of future tax increases to home owners.
Jason Some sees tax abatements as absolutely necessary to attract developers and says that every hammer banging on a project on Main Street is a dollar sign of tax revenues.
Jason Nunnermacker is a supporter of the redevelopment efforts. Nunnermacker believes that the redevelopment should be expanded to areas like Anderson Street which is anchored by the NJ Transit train station. Nunnermacker, however, is the only candidate who understands and articulates the long term effect on the City, and schools, of the tax abatements being offered to developers today. As the City continues to attract development we create residents, children, and a greater demand for city services and seats in our overcrowded schools. Where Nunnermacker faults the current council is with their lack of consideration of the mid and long term needs of the City that are created by development projects when granting extended tax abatements.
A resident posed a question regarding the proposed plan of a senior care facility on Prospect Avenue to neutralize medical waste on site. Cerbo was unaware of the plan while Nunnermacker opposed the plan. Some was well aware of the plan and cited his communication with the Freeholder John Felice to support the opposition of the facility and protect residents' interests.
Richard Cerbo wants to increase the use of crisis and help hotlines to address drug abuse and help those in need. Jason Some cites his families mentoring and tutoring program helping the homeless to find and maintain employment as his commitment to the disadvantaged. Some encouraged soliciting corporate support of the recreation programs to fund additional youth activities to keep the youth off the street. Some also encouraged more police presence in youth programs to create a culture of trust and support between the police and children of the community. Nunnermacker cited his charitable work and commitment to doing what he can for those in need while seeking to work with the County to enhance programs that are available.
This year, the City Council entered into a controversial settlement agreement with the Hackensack University Medical Center where the City surrendered long term revenues, the cost of ambulance services were passed on to residents, and several tax appeals were settled in favor of the hospital, in exchange for a short term cash infusion into the City. Emails made public reportedly show that the Council had not reviewed and understood critical parts of the agreement and when asked at a public meeting nobody on the council could identify the legal counsel who drafted or negotiated the multimillion dollar contract. Some declined to comment on the process but supports cash payments to the City. Cerbo read about the agreement but did not know enough to comment on whether the deal was good for the City. Nunnermacker has been a vocal opponent of the deal and believes that the City residents were sold short by a Council who was stampeded by the hospital.
Redevelopment projects undoubtedly put strain on our services and already over crowded schools. The Board of Education has already entered into a $1,000,000 per year contract to rent the Padre Pio School due to overcrowding in the Hackensack Public Schools. Tax abatements and redevelopment projects need input and consideration of not only the City but also the Board of Education. Cerbo and Some both supported increased communication, while Nunnermacker demonstrated experience working with the City Council as a Board of Education member to bring about change and progress for the residents of the City. Nunnermacker cited his work with Mayor John LaBrosse to bring recreational swim at the high school to residents, have city grounds used as playgrounds for special needs students, and bringing a youth police academy to Nellie K. Parker school.
The Hackensack Elks have done extensive work in supporting both our active duty servicemen and women and our veterans. See: Elks Adopt Fort Drum Platoon, Elks and Rotary Team Up to Feed Veteran Families, and Elks Support Veterans (NorthJersey.com).
The Elks have shared a great partnership with the Adopt a Soldier Platoon (AASP). AASP is a local non-profit organization committed to supporting and improving the morale of our active duty servicemen and women around the globe. On September 19, the Elks will be hosting a beefsteak fundraiser with all proceeds to benefit the Adopt a Soldier Platoon and their projects in support of our veterans. In addition to the beefsteak dinner, your $45 ticket includes tap beer, soda, dessert, and a live band "The Doghouse."
For tickets, please call the Lodge at 201-487-0658 or Joe Gentile at 201-914-4612!
Ever have a craving for good Mexican food? Go beyond a plate of nachos or bowl of guacamole and enjoy true authentic, and delicious, Mexican fare at Guajillo Restaurant at 10 Sussex Street in Hackensack!
With generous serving sizes, and the most reasonable of prices, you can enjoy quite the feast! Check out what we shared on our first visit, all for under $50!
We started out with Al Pastor (seasoned pork) and Fish tacos and an order of homemade Salsa, Guacamole, and chips. Delicious and fresh are the only words to describe what was delivered to our table.
We went on to enjoy the "Fajitas Mix" which was a "sampler" and the Pollo Mole. The Pollo Mole was a chicken cooked in Guajillo's signature "mole" sauce which is a combination of cloves, sesame, nutmeg. The "Fajita Mix" included steak, chicken, shrimp, rice and beans, and a fried egg served over chips and salsa verde.
We finished with an order of bread pudding which was prepared at the time of ordering, served hot, and complete with a sweet syrup and candied pecans. I generally don't like sweets, but I will order this time and time again!
We have been back twice since and the food has consistently been fresh and delicious.
Exclusive through HACKENSACK SCOOP, enjoy this 15% off coupon on your first visit for dinner to Guajillo Mexican Restaurant! Just print this coupon, put your name on it, and present it at the time of order!
In 2008, the City Council, under advice of special counsel Richard Salkin, Esq., entered into an agreement with the Hackensack University Medical Center regarding the development of certain properties owned by the hospital. Under the agreement, HUMC paid $400,000 per year in rent, scheduled to rise to nearly $1,000,000 per year for a 50-year air right for a walk way constructed over Atlantic Street.
According to Richard Salkin, who largely crafted the agreement, the formula for the annual rent was negotiated by HUMC and tied to the City's tax rate, which has increased since 2008. HUMC has seen larger than expected increases to their annual rent for these air rights, and came back to the city to renegotiate. Using several tax appeals as leverage, HUMC (according to Salkin) "bullied" and "stampeded" the Council into renegotiating the deal out of fear.
Under the new agreement with HUMC, the hospital will pay the City $4.5 million, they will drop their $3 million in tax appeals, their annual air space rent will be reduced to $200,000 for the remainder of the lease (with no annual increases), and the City will stop being billed for ambulance services (more on that below).
A key, and very controversial, aspect of the 2008 agreement included the disbanding of Hackensack's paid-EMS services. Under the 2008 agreement, HUMC provides ambulance services to the City of Hackensack and bills the City for any fees above and beyond $140,000 (done at gratis) for service billings not collected from patients' insurance companies. In the past 8 years, this billings averaged between $15,000 and $20,000 per year.
Under the new agreement, the City will not be billed for any services, instead all residents will be billed directly. This represents an additional at least $160,000 in billings for the hospital on the backs of tax payers, all so that the City can save about $20,000 per year. Despite the agreement being signed, and a resolution adopting it having been passed, the City Manager David Troast (presumably in a lame attempt at defending this terrible BLUNDER) has continued to assert the billing for services is still under negotiation. Outraged residents countered the Council's assertion the ambulance services were not openly discussed by pointing to emails circulated in November where HUMC clearly wrote of the ambulance service billing being done direct to residents.
Today, Richard Salkin filed a complaint in lieu of prerogative writ seeking to have the new agreement thrown out by a judge. Salkin asserts that there are conflicts of interest abound, and charges Mayor Labrosse with a history of flagrant disregard for ethics laws in his serving as Mayor of Hackensack.
Labrosse, who works for HUMC (and was promoted from a Janitorial position to a white collar title "Safety Inspector" after obtaining the seat of Mayor), and whose wife is a Board of Education employee, has voted on at least two occasions on matters before the Council pertaining to the hospital and voted to approve an $800,000 settlement agreement with the Board of Education last year. Salkin contends that Labrosse continues to disregard his ethical obligations in this deal with HUMC. Labrosse was present for closed door negotiation discussions pertaining to the renegotiated deal, and according to the suit was "kept in the loop" on email exchanges post-deal as the Council scrambled to craft talking points around the deal when questioned on the blunders and give-aways to the hospital.
According to Salkin, this renegotiated deal is a $16,000,000 windfall for the medical center. Salkin is seeking to have the renegotiated deal overturned by a judge for two reasons. First, Mayor Labrosse's involvement in confidential negotiation discussions, despite his employment with HUMC. Second, the technicality that the council has sought to revise an ordinance passed in 2009 (the 2008 agreement) through a resolution, which he asserts is not proper under the law. Salkin contends that this deal was so hastily negotiated and settled that the city attorney (who has no problem billing the City) only spent 24 minutes reviewing the contract.
When asked by Editor-in-Chief Steve Gelber of HACKENSACK SCOOP, no member of the council, City Attorney Tom Scrivo, and Chief Financial Officer Jim Mangin could not identify who represented the City's interests as an attorney in the negotiation of this deal. They pointed the finger at City Tax Assessor Art Karlsson. When asked if any more than 24 minutes to review the final contract billed by Tom Scrivo was expended by attorneys assisting the City in negotiating this mammoth contract, there was absolute silence. When Gelber elaborated asking if the City relied solely on our Tax Assessor to review legally binding documents and contracts, the silence continued.
Former Councilwoman Rose Greenman has filed a civil suit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Greeman is suing the City of Hackensack, Mayor John Labrosse, Deputy Mayor Kathleen Canestrino, Richard Salkin, Art Koster, and Al Borelli in their individual and professional capacities.
In her complaint, Greenman alleges that she was discriminated against based upon her national origin, ethnicity, and Jewish faith, which led to her resignation from the council last month.
Despite Labrosse having led the ticket for the slate of candidates that swept into office in May of 2013, Greenman alleges that shortly after the election Labrosse told Greenman that he was "going to make [Plaintiff's] life a living hell," because she was "not a real Hackensackian, not a real American." The claim is actually comical considering that Labrosse ran on the same slate as Greenman, in fact he led the ticket, just a few short months before the alleged comments were made.
Greenman goes on to state that Labrosse refused to allow a rabbi to be present at the swearing in ceremony because a rabbi would make the event "boring." Greenman alleges that Labrosse has a dislike for members of the Jewish faith because he owned a fish market in Teaneck that failed as it was not kosher certified and the large Jewish population of Teaneck would therefore not shop at his establishment.
Greenman accuses Canestrino and Labrosse of blocking Councilman David Sims (the second highest vote getter) from being Deputy Mayor due largely to his color. Greenman states that the pair repeatedly referred to Sims as "dumb" and "stupid" and stated they would rather have constituents (which she alleges they called "Niggers") riot than name Sims the Deputy Mayor.
In August of 2014 the City Council passed a resolution ending the payment of health insurance benefits for council members and part-time workers. Greenman alleges that this was a retaliatory act for her attendance and vocal opposition of a bond ordinance (and bashing of the PBA) at a Department of Consumer Affairs hearing in Trenton. Greenman alleges that this was done to target her as she was the only member of the council affected by the decision as all other members of the council received tax payer funded insurance through their own employment, or their spouses' employment at the city or board of education.
Greenman goes on to accuse Al Borelli of intimidation and improper use of city zoning laws to harass and intimidate her regarding her allegedly improper use of her apartment as a registered place of business. A violation cited by residents Richard Salkin and Jason Nunnermacker.
Requests for comment from Labrosse and Canestrino were unanswered.


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reset(sysobj) resets the internal states of System object™, sysobj to their initial values. The initial filter state values correspond to the initial conditions for the difference equation defining the filter. After the step method applies the filter to nonzero input data, the states might be nonzero. Invoking the step method again without first invoking the reset method might produce different outputs for an identical input. System objects with no states are unaffected by reset.
Create a two-channel random signal. Apply the step method twice on the signal.
The output is different because the internal states of LPF have changed. Use reset to reset the lowpass filter and apply step again. Verify that the output is unchanged.


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GM considers brand cull
By Marketing Week	 27 Nov 2008 5:01 pm
General Motors is understood to be considering axing Saab in a bid to cut costs and win $12bn (£7.8bn) in Government loans. It is also looking to drop Saturn, Pontiac and Hummer.
The US carmaker has already warned it could run out of money before the end of the year and is cutting costs wherever possible to avoid filing for bankruptcy.
A GM spokesman says the company could not comment on speculation.
GM is currently under pressure to come up with a detailed survival plan, alongside Ford and Chrysler. The companies have been set a deadline of December 2 to show Congress how they plan to repay federal aid.
Congress has scheduled a December 5 hearing on the $25bn (£16bn) auto-industry rescue and may vote the week of December 8.
The speculation comes just days after GM's decision to end its nine-year sponsorship deal with golfer Tiger Woods a year early.
GM has also delayed incentive payments to dealers, extended holiday shutdowns and announced plans to cut about 3,600 jobs early next year as production slows.
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The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance reached out to us yesterday to correct a misunderstanding about sandbags and Cedar Rapids businesses. Contrary to early information, businesses that still have sandbags in front of their stores will NOT face any fines from the city.
The city also clarified that only 2 sandbag drop off locations are still open, not 4 as previously reported.


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Sebastian Meissner, (* 27. September 1969 in Częstochowa, Polen) ist ein deutscher Electronica-Musiker, Musikmanager, Journalist und Radio-Produzent.

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Sebastian Meissner studierte Pädagogik, Soziologie, Psychologie und Amerikanistik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und trat um die Jahrhundertwende 1999/2000 mit Achim Szepanski, dem Begründer des Techno-Labels Force Inc. Music Works (FIM), erstmals mit der elektronischen Musik auf. Im Jahr 1999 debütierte er mit Ekkehard Ehlers unter dem gemeinsamen Projektnamen Autopoieses mit dem Album La Vie à Noir. Seine Solo-Arbeiten sind unter Pseudonymen wie Bizz Circuits, Klimek, Random Inc und Random Industries auf Musiklabels wie Mille Plateaux, Kompakt, Raster-Noton, Sub Rosa und Anticipate Recordings erschienen. Meissner arbeitet mit Klang-, Musik-, Photo- und Video-Material sowie partizipativen und ortsspezifischen Elementen.

Für das Label Mille Plateaux betreute er zwischen 2001 und 2004 Künstler, Veröffentlichungskonzeptionen und seine visuellen Auftritte. Er gründete das Netzwerk Intifada Offspring, das nach neuen Perspektiven im Nahen- und Mittleren Osten suchte.

Am 6. September 2004 erschien die Extended Play (EP) Solo Swim, ein gemeinsames Werk von The Notwist, Console und Klimek. In den Jahren 2008–2009 übernahm er die Konzeption der Filmmusik für die Filme Die Lichtung, Vietato soguare, Forbidden Childhood und Moon Lake.

Er realisierte Produktionen, Performances und Präsentationen für Forsythe Ballet, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Rai Cinema, Sónar, Mutek, Unsound Festival, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, Kunsthaus Graz, Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich in Linz, Jüdisches Kulturfestival in Krakau, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla und Hazira Performance Center Jerusalem.

Als Gastdozent leitete Sebastian Meissner Seminare und Workshops u. a. an der International School of New Media in Lübeck, an der DJ-School of Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, im Rahmen des Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes und an der Musrara School of Art and Society in Jerusalem.

Auf Einladung des ORF musikprotokolls im Steirischen Herbst gestaltete Meissner gemeinsam mit dem Soziologen und Aktivisten Serhat Karakayali die Projekte Lost Spaces und Not By Note. Beide Projekte setzten sich mit Themengebieten Macht, Religion und Identität am Beispiel des Nahen Ostens und des ehemaligen Jugoslawien künstlerisch auseinander. An Not By Note nahmen auch die Musiker Boikutt (Palästina), Dror Feiler (Schweden), Manja Ristić (Serbien) und Cynthia Zaven (Libanon) teil. Das Projekt erhielt bei dem Prix Ars Electronica 2011 eine Honorary Mention in der Kategorie Digital Musics and Sound Art.

Diskografie (Auswahl)

Als Bizz Circuits
 2004: Bizz Circuits play Intifada Offspring Vol.1 (CD+DVD – Mille Plateaux Media)
 2002: The very best of Bizz Circuits (CD – Deluxe)

Als Klimek
 2015: Songs of Love & Fear Vol.1 & 2 (LP+LP – Goulden)
 2015: Excitement & War (LP – Goulden)
 2015: American Darkness (LP – Goulden)
 2015: Live at Berghain (LP – Goulden)
 2009: Movies is Magic (CD+LP – Anticipate Recordings)
 2007: Dedications (CD+EP – Anticipate Recordings)
 2006: Music to fall asleep (CD – Kompakt)
 2004: Milk & Honey (CD/LP – Kompakt)

Als Random Inc
 2002: Walking in Jerusalem (CD & 2xLP – Mille Plateaux)
 2001: Jerusalem: Tales Outside The Framework Of Orthodoxy (CD – Ritornell)

Als Random Industries
 2000: Selected Random Works (CD – Ritornell)

Radio-Features (Auswahl)
 2017: Vodou-Ikone – Die schwarze Madonna von Częstochowa zwischen Polen und Haiti (Feature – DLF Kultur, WDR3)
 2017: L.A. Sounds – (Studio Elektronische Musik – Szene #52 – WDR3)
 2016: Vietnam in Berlin (Feature – rbb)
 2016: Wem gehört Mauna Kea? – Hawaiianische Konflikte – (Feature – DLF)
 2016: Surf-Resistance Hawaii – (Feature – DLF Kultur)
 2016: Voodoo Queens – (Feature – WDR3)
 2015: Thats why I still sing the blues – Alte Worksongs und neue Arbeitskämpfe in den Südstaaten – (Feature – DLF)
 2015: All the pretty little horses – Von Beziehungen und Bipolarität – (Feature – DLF Kultur)
 2014: Detroit Enterprise – (Feature – WDR3)
 2014: Mille Plateaux – (Studio Elektronische Musik – WDR3)
 2014: Golfen auf Kohlegruben – Über das neue Selbstbewusstsein Oberschlesiens – (Feature – DLF)
 2013: Palästina Underground – (Feature – WDR3)
 2012: Himmel über Gaza – Palästinensische Träume vom Fliegen – (Feature – DLF)
 2011: Granularsynthese – (Studio Elektronische Musik – WDR3)
 2011: Messerschleifen – (Feature – WDR3)
 2011: Kunst des Schächtens – Von jüdischen und islamischen Schlachtriten in Deutschland (Feature – DLF)
 2010: Der Krieg, der Mob und das Gotteshaus – Die Ferhadija-Moschee in Banja Luka (Feature – DLF)
 2019: Die Vermessung der Psyche – ARD-Radio-Feature

Weblinks
 Webpräsenz von Sebastian Meissner.

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 Sebastian Meissner bei Laut.de
 Sebastian Meissner bei Flickr

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Sarangi's Poetic Collection 'Silent Days'
by Sourav Sangiri
Silent Days, Jaydeep Sarangi, Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, Pp 68, Rs.200/-,ISBN 978-81-8253-396-7
Silent Days is bilingual poet-academic Jaydeep Sarangi's collection of self-contained poems in English along with a foreword by Lakshmi Kannan that deal with personal within, native links and daily living totality.
Most of the poems included in this collection are short lyrics like rain drops from the black monsoon cloud. The poems are marked by simple and lucid expressions and easy flow of free thought. Spontaneity,economy of expression and brevity are at the core of Sarangi's poems. His poems are coloured with his thoughts on the
Race, milieu and the context in which poems are located.
In the first poem of this collection 'Stop Here,Please!' we find the socio-economic consciousness of the poet:
"Believe me,you are a slave in our semi-urban
Consort in a metro suburb."
Jaydeep Sarangi's poems engages the readers with it's touching simplicity and an easy run of thought. Most of the poems included in this collection are short lyrics in free verse written in deceptively simple style which is highly conversational.
The poem 'In a Home away from Home' deals with the marginalised people who live far from the madding crowd.The poem is full of beautiful and thought provoking expressions:
"People call you 'aborigines'
We call you the saviours of history."
Jaydeep Sarangi's poems are replete with his experiences in his native land--a land of red soil in West Medinipur.The poem 'The Red Soil Allure' deals with the poet's longing to be in the land of the 'tribal children':
"I know I'm enrolled among the hunting-freak tribal children."
In his earlier collection entitled 'From Dulong to Beas' he comes back again and again to the land of red soil:
"Somewhere among the trees
Some rare species of monkeys
Jump from one tree to another
Like a busy man's schedule in a metro city." (Kanakdurga Temple)
'For Titas' is about his daughter's coming to a new world-full of noises:
"With small steps
You discover
Newer lands".
The poem deals with her likings and longings:
"Nonte and Fonte are as if two characters of your neighbourhood."
The untitled poem number 19 captures the texture of a dream:
"My shadow follows me
As I walk down my dreams."
The feeling of being uprooted is strongly felt in the poem 'Refugee':
"...Became a home-bound refugee in all stations
Like a flying fish
Between home and away."
In the poem 'Cricket Australia' the context is shifted from the land of red soil to the land of cricket:
"History of my land faithfully paints
Rich mythology of cricket who play
And who watch the game close."
In 'My Family Tree' he again comes back to his native land:
"My forefathers settled near the temple of Kanakdurga"
History speaks through the temple of Kanakdurga:
"Where I sit and whisper in history forgotten."
The deep rootedness in the red soil and the small rivulets in Midnapur,Purulia and Bankura districts occupy the seminal part of Sarangi's poetic consciousness.
'The Baul Call' which is a translated version of his Bengali book of poems,.Lal Palsher Renu,takes us back to the countryside,far away from the numb urban setup.
While talking about his dreams, Jaydeep Sarangi in his poem 'My Dream' speaks,
"It's my dream
My hungry heart can swallow
The whole world
Of poems and rhymes."
Sarangi rightly refers to dreams; an avenue for survival in modern busy numbness. This indomitable passion for finer sensibilities of life leads him to portray the varied experiences of life's daily acts in this collection. It is like a flowing stream where ideas and images come one after another. The title poem in this collection represents Sarangi's mature poetic skills and his vast familiarity with poetic tradition in different continents.
There are guiding as well as sparkling comments by some leading writers in the back cover jacket of the book which give a new dimension to the book. Keki Daruwalla, one of the leading Indian writers in English and the recipient of the Sahitya Academy Award rightly comments, "His poems are a rewarding read, with the scent of herbs coming through the pages."Bibhu Padhi,one of the major Indian English poets from eastern India comments, "These short,numbered,self-contained lyrics show a more powerful Sarangi."
This new collection, Silent Days is a welcome addition to poetry in English by Indian writers and an worthy entry to the bookshelf.
More by : Sourav Sangiri
Well said! It is a good one!
Jaydeep Sarangi


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A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.

There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land, but only that it must be a body of solid phase matter in the polar region. This causes the term "polar ice cap" to be something of a misnomer, as the term ice cap itself is applied more narrowly to bodies that are over land, and cover less than 50,000 km2: larger bodies are referred to as ice sheets.

The composition of the ice will vary. For example, Earth's polar caps are mainly water ice, whereas Mars's polar ice caps are a mixture of solid carbon dioxide and water ice.

Polar ice caps form because high-latitude regions receive less energy in the form of solar radiation from the Sun than equatorial regions, resulting in lower surface temperatures.

Earth's polar caps have changed dramatically over the last 12,000 years. Seasonal variations of the ice caps takes place due to varied solar energy absorption as the planet or moon revolves around the Sun. Additionally, in geologic time scales, the ice caps may grow or shrink due to climate change.

Earth

North Polar ice cap melting

Earth's North Pole is covered by floating pack ice (sea ice) over the Arctic Ocean. Portions of the ice that do not melt seasonally can get very thick, up to 3–4 meters thick over large areas, with ridges up to 20 meters thick.  One-year ice is usually about 1 meter thick.  The area covered by sea ice ranges between 9 and 12 million km2. In addition, the Greenland ice sheet covers about 1.71 million km2 and contains about 2.6 million km3 of ice. When the ice breaks off (calves) it forms icebergs scattered around the northern Atlantic.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, "since 1979, winter Arctic ice extent has decreased about 4.2 percent per decade". Both 2008 and 2009 had a minimum Arctic sea ice extent somewhat above that of 2007. At other times of the year the ice extent is still sometimes near the 1979–2000 average, as in April 2010, by the data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.  Still, between these same years, the overall average ice coverage appears to have declined from 8 million km2 to 5 million km2.

South Pole

Earth's south polar land mass, Antarctica, is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet.  It covers an area of about 14.6 million km2 and contains between 25 and 30 million km3 of ice. Around 70% of the fresh water on Earth is contained in this ice sheet.

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that the sea ice coverage of Antarctica has a slightly positive trend over the last three decades (1979–2009).

Historical cases
Over the past several decades, Earth's polar ice caps have gained significant attention because of the alarming decrease in land and sea ice. NASA reports that since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost an average of 20,800 square miles (53,900 square kilometres) of sea ice per year while the Antarctic has gained an average of 7,300 square miles (18,900 km2) of sea ice per year. At the same time, the Arctic has been losing around 50 cubic kilometres (gigatons) of land ice per year, almost entirely from Greenland's 2.6 million gigaton sheet. On 19 September 2014, for the first time since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million square miles (20 million square kilometres), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The ice extent stayed above this benchmark extent for several days. The average maximum extent between 1981 and 2010 was 7.23 million square miles (18.72 million square kilometres). The single-day maximum extent in 2014 was reached on 20 Sep, according to NSIDC data, when the sea ice covered  7.78 million square miles (20.14 million square kilometres). The 2014 five-day average maximum was reached on 22 Sep, when sea ice covered 7.76 million square miles (20.11 million square kilometres), according to NSIDC. This increase could be due to the reduction in the salinity of the Antarctic Ocean as a result of the previous melting of the ice sheet, by increasing the freezing point of the seawater.

The current rate of decline of the ice caps has caused many investigations and discoveries on glacier dynamics and their influence on the world's climate. In the early 1950s, scientists and engineers from the US Army began drilling into polar ice caps for geological insight. These studies resulted in "nearly forty years of research experience and achievements in deep polar ice core drillings... and established the fundamental drilling technology for retrieving deep ice cores for climatologic archives." Polar ice caps have been used to track current climate patterns but also patterns over the past several thousands years from the traces of  and  found trapped in the ice. In the past decade, polar ice caps have shown their most rapid decline in size with no true sign of recovery. Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist at NASA, found that the "rate of warming in the Arctic over the last 20 years is eight times the rate of warming over the last 100 years." In September 2012, sea ice reached its smallest size ever. Journalist John Vidal stated that sea ice is "700,000 sq km below the previous minimum of 4.17m sq km set in 2007". In August 2013, Arctic sea ice extent averaged 6.09m km2, which represents 1.13 million km2 below the 1981–2010 average for that month.

Mars

In addition to Earth, the planet Mars also has polar ice caps.  They consist of primarily water-ice with a few percent dust.  Frozen carbon dioxide makes up a small permanent portion of the Planum Australe or the South Polar Layered Deposits.  In both hemispheres a seasonal carbon dioxide frost deposits in the winter and sublimates during the spring.

Data collected in 2001 from NASA missions to Mars show that the southern residual ice cap undergoes sublimation inter-annually.  The most widely accepted explanation is that fluctuations in the planet's orbit are causing the changes.

Pluto
On 29 April 2015, NASA stated that its New Horizons missions had discovered a feature thought to be a polar ice cap on the dwarf planet Pluto. The probe's flyby of Pluto in July 2015 allowed the Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer to confirm that the feature was in fact an ice cap composed of methane and nitrogen ices.

See also
 Cryosphere
 Ice age
 Polar climate

References

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Geography of the Arctic
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Polar regions


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P.O.P.S. the Club with Tim Allen October 16
By Amy Friedman
P.O.P.S. the Club
In January 2013, in a dingy classroom at Venice High School, Dennis Danziger, a high school English teacher, and his wife, Amy Friedman, started a new high school club. The club was just a fledgling idea, with only two elements—first, the motto would be "First We Eat," and lunch would be served; second, this was a club for any student (and faculty members) whose life had been touched by prison.
One in 28 kids in the United States has a parent in prison. That number explodes when you add siblings, friends, aunts, uncles and friends, to the mix. Amy and Dennis knew these kids needed to know they weren't alone. They understood that these were kids who too often kept this salient fact of their life a secret for fear of what others would say or think about them.
Friedman was already deeply involved with prison politics. Before she married Dennis in 2002, she had married a man who was in prison. She had helped to raise his daughters and knew firsthand the shaming that came with loving someone in prison. Her girls always kept their father's whereabouts a secret, and that secret weighed on them—leading to isolation, difficulty in school, depression. As Dennis came to know and love Amy's stepdaughters, his sensitivity to this particular secret grew, and he began to recognize how many of his own students—across all ethnicities and socio-economic levels –were affected by this same struggle. Amy and Dennis had for years talked about doing something to help these kids. And one day they decided they would start a club.
Serving lunch was important, they decided, because nothing breaks down barriers like sharing a meal. They also knew they would help the kids learn to tell their stories—out loud and in writing. They invited guest speakers—among them Elizabeth Calvin of Human Rights Watch, Bruce Lisker, a wrongfully convicted man who served 17 years for a crime he did not commit; Scott Budnick, creator of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition; Kelley Whitis of Linda's Voice, and many more. They also created a website featuring their students' writings and artwork.
Since that first meeting a little less than 2 years ago, the club has adopted a name: P.O.P.s (Pain of the Prison System), the club. They've expanded to more than 60 members in just that single Venice High club, and new clubs will soon be opening in schools across the country. The POPS website (www.popstheclub) has expanded, and beginning in early September, The Good Men Project began featuring, each Sunday, stories and poems by the POPS kids. POPS the club has published a (first annual) anthology of the students' work, and stories have been featured in the San Quentin News, on Zocalo Public Square, on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on NPR, and in November in the California Teachers' Association Magazine.
Thanks to POPS co-founder Anastasia Stanecki, On Thursday evening, October 16, Tim Allen is offering his talents to POPStheclub.com, Inc., a 501 c (3), as he headlines the first POPS Fundraiser at The Laugh Factory. Everyone over 18 is welcome. Also appearing will be comedian Lowell Sanders, and host Frazer Smith of KLOS Radio.
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Amy is an author and creative writing teacher whose books include Desperado's Wife: A Memoir, Kick the Dog and Shoot the Cat, and Nothing Sacred: A Conversation with Feminism. She also works as a ghostwriter and editor, and her articles, essays and stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers and numerous anthologies. Since 1992 Amy has written the internationally syndicated newspaper feature Tell Me A Story for Universal UClick, a column that has spawned two book collections and three audiobooks. Amy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the teacher and writer Dennis Danziger.


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U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to visit Indiana this fall
Quantum Leap Poetry Tour will include stops in Greencastle, Hanover, Indianapolis and Shelbyville from Nov. 27 to Nov. 29
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith will travel to Indiana for a poetry tour from Nov. 27 to Nov. 29. Indiana Humanities, in partnership with Brick Street Poetry and the Indianapolis Public Library, will fund and organize the events in Greencastle, Hanover, Indianapolis and Shelbyville. The tour will serve as the closing program for Indiana Humanities' two-year thematic initiative called Quantum Leap which explores the spirit of possibility and problem solving that happens when we bridge the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields with the humanities (poetry, literature, history, philosophy, religion, world languages and culture, etc.).
Smith, whose book of poetry "Life on Mars" won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2011, was in part inspired by her father's work as an engineer for the Hubble Space Telescope and includes science fiction and cosmic themes.
At each location, Smith will be paired with a local moderator for a special INconversation and take questions from the audience. All events will be free and open to the public. In Indianapolis Smith will be joined by Indiana Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka on Nov. 29. Matejka, who grew up in Indianapolis and now teaches at Indiana University, has also written about space themes in his critically acclaimed book of poetry "Map to the Stars." Smith will visit Hanover on Nov. 27 and Greencastle and Shelbyville on Nov. 28; moderators for those locations will be announced soon.
"We're thrilled to welcome Tracy to Indiana and help Hoosiers discover new poems that are relatable and fun as well as serious and important," said Keira Amstutz, president and CEO of Indiana Humanities. "We are inspired by her passion and mission to help spread the word that poetry is for everyone."
Tickets will be limited and available on July 1 at IndianaHumanities.org/PoetryTour.
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