A Month of "Vertigo," The Final Chapter

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by The Lady Eve</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6XJQvDzJ_mQUq1AaToFJNSqPGXggVIXddj4xIgJSDv6M2GxhlEXqkEO1Hf0SqeZRkru1hPGKOdZjzz6Vn58KbF5jmKAPVDfqoX6nNy1iSjlXPRmwcDl7Uc3IP66pmwzu4v-VP96YqvR1/s1600/rooftop+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6XJQvDzJ_mQUq1AaToFJNSqPGXggVIXddj4xIgJSDv6M2GxhlEXqkEO1Hf0SqeZRkru1hPGKOdZjzz6Vn58KbF5jmKAPVDfqoX6nNy1iSjlXPRmwcDl7Uc3IP66pmwzu4v-VP96YqvR1/s1600/rooftop+4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">It was 1948<i> </i>in post-war France<i> </i>when mystery writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac met for the first time at an awards ceremony for the <i>Prix du Roman d'Aventures</i>, a literary award for crime fiction. Narcejac received the prize that year and Boileau had taken the honor ten years earlier; in another two years they would become writing partners. Together the pair forged their own approach to the French mystery novel, placing new emphasis on character and suspense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today their work is considered a hybrid of two genres: the traditional whodunit and <i>le roman noir</i> (thriller). <i>Le roman noir </i>of that era was influenced by crime writers like Hammett and novelists of the naturalist school like Emile Zola<i>, </i>but Boileau and Narcejac were more inspired by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe. </span><span style="font-size: small;">What most post-war French crime fiction did have in common was a dark vein of fatalism and, according to Michel Lebrun, another genre writer, Boileau-Narcejac’s work was marked by such persistent gloom that “...the hero, for them, should never wake up from his nightmare.”</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyyY5jQZia52HQnhPGb_HDu-rohFoK7RABqT1iz-rLw4BMUd8Chy2nwCAZw0x146hajGylYBoZ88ghOxvTPE82RV4S6OCpocBTCGI1rnmTQsnzihxAHf4gFqoLbxPGMMYiERYfrZpGo0j/s1600/les+diaboliques+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyyY5jQZia52HQnhPGb_HDu-rohFoK7RABqT1iz-rLw4BMUd8Chy2nwCAZw0x146hajGylYBoZ88ghOxvTPE82RV4S6OCpocBTCGI1rnmTQsnzihxAHf4gFqoLbxPGMMYiERYfrZpGo0j/s320/les+diaboliques+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Les Diaboliques</i> (1955)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Their first novel was not immediately published, but their second, <i>Celle qui n'était plus</i>, was adapted to film by director Henri-Georges Clouzot. Re-titled <i>Les Diaboliques</i> and released in 1955, it became a suspense classic. The writing duo’s next book, <i>D’entre les morts</i> (<i>From Among the Dead</i>), appeared the same year. A moody psychological thriller, it tells the story of former police detective Roger Flavieres who agrees to help shipping magnate Paul Gevigne, a one-time college friend, by keeping an eye on the man's unstable wife Madeleine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flavieres is a disaffected loner living in Paris at the outset of World War II. He broods endlessly, roams empty streets at night and listens to war reports on the wireless. He loathes Gevigne, envies him, and soon covets his elegant, morose wife to the point of fixation. Flavieres first meets Madeleine when he rescues her from a leap into the Seine. They form an off-balance alliance; he is bewitched by her and she calls him “my poor friend.” When one day she takes him to a remote church with a high tower and disappears up into the belfry, Flavieres is unable to follow. His detested lifelong acrophobia has paralyzed him on the steps. And then, through a window, he sees Madeleine’s body plummet to the ground. Before he flees the scene he laments, “Poor little Eurydice! She would never come back from the nothingness into which she had plunged.” Flavieres will next vanish into the war and out of the country, telling no one, not even Gevigne, what he has witnessed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This scenario would be re-envisioned and brought to life on film a few years later:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GnpZN2HQ3OQ" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Paramount Pictures bought the rights to <i>D'entre les morts</i> for Alfred Hitchcock not long after it was published. The film went into production in 1957, a significant point in the director's career.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pWZxGpyw4_uZ0mI956sHNyjELjLyS47ju7nCb-slcWb5JaJ45AMwi0T81bnVxOCoENXqgecpU3ybkuKC5UHIG9AvjGvFC8GrjzFTcrrrvCEN0DkNJoYvB7ygkBjm6wNNr7TQ9FQBib7Q/s1600/Dial+M+For+Murder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pWZxGpyw4_uZ0mI956sHNyjELjLyS47ju7nCb-slcWb5JaJ45AMwi0T81bnVxOCoENXqgecpU3ybkuKC5UHIG9AvjGvFC8GrjzFTcrrrvCEN0DkNJoYvB7ygkBjm6wNNr7TQ9FQBib7Q/s320/Dial+M+For+Murder.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dial M for Murder </i>(1953)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Though<i> </i>Hitchcock's last three films of the 1940s had failed to attract audiences, he began the 1950s with a series of box office successes for Warner Bros. that reestablished his reputation.</span><i> Stage Fright</i> (1950) was respectably popular, <i>Strangers on a Train</i> (1951) was a rousing hit and <i>I Confess</i> (1952) achieved modest success. In 1953, Hitchcock unearthed his muse Grace Kelly and cast her for the first time - in <i>Dial M for Murder</i> (and 3-D). It was very popular. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1954 Lew Wasserman brokered a deal between Hitchcock and Paramount that virtually opened the skies<b> </b>for the director. He would be able to work independently, be granted production budgets far more robust than he'd known at Warners, and would own those films he both produced and directed. The films Hitchcock made for Paramount during the '50s comprise an oeuvre within his oeuvre: <i>Rear Window </i>(1954), <i>To Catch a Thief</i> (1955), <i>The Trouble with Harry</i> (1955), <i>The Man Who Knew Too Much</i> (1956) and <i>Vertigo</i> (1958). <i>North by Northwest</i> (1959) is also part of this collection though it was made for MGM.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAl7QHrcT5-pZCPJxoWZRnk85UVp3YxKvIb75Gi_nZ_W29R7XBsKSpjBIeMlRX1F6srwQOHcx5oz8NXbGw-D-rX3MNCAXYTew0Xt-b5k0o7v6hugchpZM51YKXabW_l-0A4WS9X2XoZ5x/s1600/the+man+who+knew+too+much.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAl7QHrcT5-pZCPJxoWZRnk85UVp3YxKvIb75Gi_nZ_W29R7XBsKSpjBIeMlRX1F6srwQOHcx5oz8NXbGw-D-rX3MNCAXYTew0Xt-b5k0o7v6hugchpZM51YKXabW_l-0A4WS9X2XoZ5x/s320/the+man+who+knew+too+much.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Man Who Knew Too Much </i>(1956)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Granted free rein and big budgets, Hitchcock was able to operate both autonomously and lavishly. He was able to attract top stars as well as handpick his creative and technical team. Involved in most or all of these films were cinematographer Robert Burks, film editor George Tomasini, associate producer Herbert Coleman, </span><span style="font-size: small;">composer Bernard Herrmann</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><span style="font-size: small;">costume designer Edith Head. </span><span style="font-size: small;">On <i>Vertigo</i>, legendary title sequence designer Saul Bass began the first of three collaborations with Hitchcock. </span><span style="font-size: small;">All of the Paramount films were shot in Technicolor and, beginning with <i>To Catch a Thief</i>, all were filmed in the VistaVision wide-screen format. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqk0Kd1rwOMQeTnwy17L8sHqgLI1Ql2yS5bti5s-t1ZZvDiI529pp2F8Kw9zvKLpz0TnJFB2Ew9aLk_ArUeMy6QZvjx2Ob0KYXhcx_hX9opEKKpScPjoxe_MYTPdZ7XqHntKMX6F_vofS/s1600/hitchcock+with+truffaut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqk0Kd1rwOMQeTnwy17L8sHqgLI1Ql2yS5bti5s-t1ZZvDiI529pp2F8Kw9zvKLpz0TnJFB2Ew9aLk_ArUeMy6QZvjx2Ob0KYXhcx_hX9opEKKpScPjoxe_MYTPdZ7XqHntKMX6F_vofS/s320/hitchcock+with+truffaut.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">There was more. In 1955 <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents </i>debuted on American television. Hitchcock became a popular TV personality as the series host who opened and closed each episode with dry wit and macabre humor. The series would run until 1962 and help to make him a wealthy man.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> At the same time, Hitchcock’s reputation as a serious filmmaker was gaining momentum. In the summer of 1956 a month-long Hitchcock retrospective was held at the esteemed <i>Cinemath</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">èque Fran</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ç</span><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">aise</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> in Paris, and in September the influential French film journal <i>Cahiers du Cin</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">éma</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> devoted an entire issue to his work. In France during the 1950s, the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock became a subject of deep and lengthy discussion. Eventually, the French view would make its way around the world.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And so it was that Alfred Hitchcock embarked on the film adaptation of <i>D'entre les morts </i>just as he arrived at the pinnacle of his career.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1940 Hitchcock had battled producer David O. Selznick for creative control on the 'picturization' of <i>Rebecca</i>. When he adapted Patricia Highsmith's <i>Strangers on a Train</i> to the screen in 1951 it was under a tight Warner Bros. budget. Regardless of power struggles and financial constraints both films became classics on the strength of Hitchcock's mastery of his medium. By the time he began the film he would christen <i>Vertigo</i>, Hitchcock had reached full maturity as an artist and possessed the resources and the control to conjure a wide-screen Technicolor dreamscape; a very personal expression of timeless themes.</span> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Familiar motifs surface in <i>Vertigo</i> - voyeurism, the lure of an exquisite blonde, a man wrongly accused. And though its plot is set in motion by a mystery and laced with tension, <i>Vertigo </i>was never intended to be a thriller or tale of suspense. Instead, Hitchcock conceived a meditation on desire and illusion, obsession and loss. Rather than "putting the audience through" nerve-jangling terror, he sweeps the viewer into an emotional tailspin.</span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ko9QYkIFezs" width="560"></iframe></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boileau-Narcejac's well-honed "suspense narrative" would provide the springboard for Hitchcock's imagination...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52uVuchgoSD1-DF3AoY095lx65sfahAf8_ijIZ97HKskFhUJLOwMpwF45DRHLsVb-8yUaz40s1Oo8_kqr9ogQWmN_yGlulx9097norqtHDW0yBzd2agEej9blJYI6UoVDH6affVOh5NP-/s1600/Narcejac+Hitch+and+Boileau+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52uVuchgoSD1-DF3AoY095lx65sfahAf8_ijIZ97HKskFhUJLOwMpwF45DRHLsVb-8yUaz40s1Oo8_kqr9ogQWmN_yGlulx9097norqtHDW0yBzd2agEej9blJYI6UoVDH6affVOh5NP-/s320/Narcejac+Hitch+and+Boileau+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Narcejac, Alfred Hitchcock and Pierre Boileau</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Roger Flavieres returned to Paris after the war, he found that Gevigne had been killed in an air raid as he fled the police scrutiny that followed his wife's death. Even Madeleine's grave was blitzkrieged into oblivion. Despondent, Flavieres muses that when Madeleine plunged to her death, he died with her.  Then one day in a movie house he spies a woman in a newsreel who closely resembles her. He manages to locate this woman - Renee Solange, the mistress of a Marseille black marketeer. Flavieres, who has begun drinking steadily and is slowly losing his grip, pursues the woman and despite her denials, tries to bully her into admitting she is Madeleine. He manages to lure Renee away from her lover and then begins making her over in the image of Madeleine. Finally, distraught by Flavieres' incessant badgering, Renee breaks down. She insists she is not Madeleine but confesses she did impersonate her as part of a plot by her lover, Gevigne, to kill his wife for her money. Gevigne had relied on his old friend's well-known acrophobia when he chose Flavieres to be the dupe. But Flavieres had failed to play his part as witness to suicide and the scheme was ruined. Unhinged by her revelation and filled with rage as well as liquor, Flavieres strangles Renee to death. As the police are about to lead him away in handcuffs, he kisses Renee's forehead and whispers that he will wait for her.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span> <br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span id="goog_254110101"></span><span id="goog_254110102"></span><span id="goog_254110104"></span><span id="goog_254110105"></span>Keeping the novel's essential elements, its basic structure and plot, themes of obsession and destruction, the vague outlines of its principal characters, Hitchcock would re-imagine <i>D'entre les morts</i>. He would shape from it an allegory of aesthetically and technically meticulous images and sounds and with allusions to ancient myth, Medieval legend, 19th century philosophy and modern psychology. And he would endow Boileau-Narcejac's desolate tale with a romantic heart and an eternal soul.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In transforming a genre piece into an enduring masterpiece, Hitchcock would also create a fascinating portrait of his own inner landscape; a work of art will always reveal the artist.  At the same time, much of <i>Vertigo</i>'s allure stems from its looking-glass effect upon the viewer. French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, one of Hitchcock's great champions at </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Cahiers du Cin</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">éma</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, could have been contemplating <i>Vertigo</i> when he observed, "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9e-Vjttcjz0u3clrMOAFRB_6trWax0atNXziYOeipMDV0zpxgvd5Z8RnpGZ8mApfS4EP2zb-ptOqTMFaMIFW4u6qbJwXGr-389cl7krU0wM7YwfeiTdrMhd-b0dL-0tYg4bjy8VzWnFl/s1600/the+end+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9e-Vjttcjz0u3clrMOAFRB_6trWax0atNXziYOeipMDV0zpxgvd5Z8RnpGZ8mApfS4EP2zb-ptOqTMFaMIFW4u6qbJwXGr-389cl7krU0wM7YwfeiTdrMhd-b0dL-0tYg4bjy8VzWnFl/s1600/the+end+2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">  </span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">~</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Month of VERTIGO</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> began on January 1 and, over the last month (plus), has featured a series of posts by 12 diverse and talented guest contributors - and me - on the subject of </span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vertigo</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. Individually, we have scrutinized Alfred Hitchcock's great masterwork from nearly every conceivable angle. For a complete list of posts, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/month-of-vertigo-schedule-of-bloggers.html" style="color: #990000;">click here</a>.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Month of VERTIGO</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> has been a success far beyond anything I imagined when the idea first took hold. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My deepest gratitude goes out to all who have made it so - from guest bloggers and vloggers to commenters, tweeters, re-tweeters, Facebook friends and those who simply thought it was an interesting concept. A special nod to Dan Auiler whose very fine book, </span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, inspired me to read the English language edition of Boileau-Narcejac's novel (now simply called </span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vertigo)</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> - which led to this blog event.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>TLE</i></span></span></div>

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Reference Librarian - Avon Public Library

<strong>Reference Librarian</strong> - The <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Avon Public Library</strong></span> is seeking a friendly, knowledgeable, tech-savvy professional to join our Reference team. This is full time position with a wide range of responsibilities. We are in the final phase of completing our major building renovation. The Reference Department will now include a new Computer Center, a new Local History room showcasing our collection, along with more space and resources for the community. The Ideal candidate will have a sense of humor, a dynamic personality that enjoys interacting with the public, a love of reading, an ease with technology and a commitment to connecting the library to the community. Responsibilities include reference assistance, collection development, readership promotion, technology instruction and troubleshooting, program planning and community outreach. Minimum requirements for the position are a Master’s Degree in Library Science and two years of progressively responsible experience in library work. The salary for the position is $47,910 ($24.5692/hour) with all applicable benefits, based on 37.5 hours a week, including nights and weekends. The Town of Avon’s Application for Employment (<a href="http://www.town.avon.ct.us/" target="_blank">www.town.avon.ct.us</a> under job opportunities) must be completed and submitted before 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, <span style="color: red;">February 22, 2012</span>. Please send completed application to: William F. Vernile, Director of Human Resources, 60 West Main Street, Avon, CT 06001; <a href="mailto:wvernile@town.avon.ct.us">wvernile@town.avon.ct.us</a>; (860) 409-4366 fax.

Reference Librarian - Avon Public Library

Reference Librarian - The Avon Public Library is seeking a friendly, knowledgeable, tech-savvy professional to join our Reference team. ...

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Reference/Instruction Librarian - U.S. Coast Guard Academy

<strong>Reference/Instruction Librarian</strong> - (Position reopened – previous applicants must reapply) Position Summary: This position is located in the Library of the <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>U.S. Coast Guard Academy</strong></span>, New London, Connecticut, a four year, accredited, degree granting institution and center of leadership development for the Coast Guard. The incumbent is responsible for delivering quality reference and instruction services required to support the education and training outcomes of the Academy, including Leadership Development Center personnel. The incumbent may be the primary contact for reference questions/research consultation on the weekend and at night during the semester. The incumbent is expected to advise the Head of the Reference and Instruction section on issues and new developments in the areas of reference and instruction services as provided in an undergraduate institution. Major Duties and Responsibilities: 1) Acts as a provider of reference services for nights and weekends. Extensively participates in the instruction program. Participates in other teams to ensure adequate service in these areas. 2) Provides comprehensive reference, research, advisory, evaluative and instructional services at night and on weekends. The incumbent may be the primary contact with library clientele for reference service at these times. 3) Authors electronic research guides, electronic tutorials, electronic workbooks and other aids, both print and electronic as required by the Head of Reference and Instruction or the Director. 4) Recommends materials for the collection based on needs of clientele as discovered through reference work and the writing of research guides. 5) Trains and supervises staff assigned to the reference and instruction section, including students. Acts as the team leader for the weekend and night staff and is responsible for training the night circulation technician to handle simple reference questions. 6) Prepares administrative reports, maintains statistics and provides other administrative assistance to the Head of the Reference and Instruction as required. 7) Assists the Head of Reference and Instruction in establishing reference, bibliographic instruction policy and procedures. 8) Keeps the Head of Reference and instruction informed of all projects, current and pending, and requests assistance in prioritizing work as needed or requested by the Head of Reference and Instruction Services or the Director. 9) Provides instruction in research techniques to all faculty, staff and students at the Academy and LDC, as one of the Academic Division’s proponents for Information Literacy. Provides instruction to faculty in the value and utilization of information retrieval and evaluation skills in the life-long learning process and provides instruction to them in the best ways of integrating this outcome into their course work. 10) Serves on Library and Academy committees as appropriate. 11) Participates actively on any assigned teams performing tasks as requested. Assignments may include professional or clerical work tasks. 12) Maintains a level of competence in the profession in such areas as information literacy, usability testing, e-metrics, knowledge management and online teaching and learning. This is expected as a member of the professional staff. 13) Performs other duties as requested by the Director or the Head of Reference and Instruction. Key Requirements: U.S. Citizenship is required. This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI). Requires night and weekend work. This is a federal civil service position with a salary range at the GS-9 level ($52,295 -$67,978). The federal government provides an excellent benefits package. For a complete vacancy announcement and to apply for the position, please visit <a href="http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/309018700" target="_blank">http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/309018700</a>. Applications must be submitted through USAJOBS.gov by <span style="color: red;">March 8, 2012</span> but early submittals are encouraged. The U. S. Coast Guard is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

Reference/Instruction Librarian - U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Reference/Instruction Librarian - (Position reopened – previous applicants must reapply) Position Summary: This position is located in the ...

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Director of Library Services - Asnuntuck Community College

<strong>Director of Library Services</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Asnuntuck Community College</strong></span>. (12 Month, PL 20) ANTICIPATED STARTING DATE: May 1, 2012. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Masters Degree in Library Science from an American Library Association accredited institution. 3-6 years related experience. 1 to 3 years of supervisory experience in a higher education environment. Demonstrated ability to perform and supervise full range of library services in a higher education environment. Command of current best practices in information literacy education and of traditional and emerging information resources. Demonstrated ability to train, supervise, and mentor staff. Ability to interact with and serve a diverse community of students, faculty, and community members. Excellent organizational, time management, written and oral communication skills. Commitment to the community college mission. Applicants who do not meet the minimum qualifications as stated are encouraged to put in writing precisely how their background and experience have prepared them for the responsibilities of this position and by providing appropriate references. Exceptions to the degree requirements may be made for compelling reasons. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Community college library experience. Knowledge of Media Services is a plus. Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with faculty regarding acquisitions and information literacy education. Ability to collaborate and function productively in a team atmosphere. Experience as a budget manager. Interest in internal marketing of library services and in seeking small grants to enhance those services. RESPONSIBILITIES: The Director of Library Services is accountable for assuring effective and cost efficient library and media services to the academic, student and public groups served by the College. The Director advances the College’s learning mission through effective performance in these essential areas: Effective delivery of library and media services; Development and organization of the library’s resources; Evaluation, training, development and direction of library staff; Budget, fiscal and facilities management; Library assessment and evaluation. The Director of Media Services, who also serves as Director of the college radio station (WACC), reports to the Director of Library Services. MINIMUM SALARY: $62,218 approximate annual, plus excellent State benefits package. TO APPLY: Submit a letter of application, detailed resume and Board Application to: Human Resources – JOB CODE: LRC, Asnuntuck Community College, 170 Elm Street, Enfield, CT 06082; or E-mail to: <a href="mailto:AS-Humanresources@acc.commnet.edu">AS-Humanresources@acc.commnet.edu</a>. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Application must be received on or before <span style="color: red;">March 2, 2012</span>. A short oral presentation and writing sample will be required of finalists. AA/EOE, M/F.

Director of Library Services - Asnuntuck Community College

Director of Library Services - Asnuntuck Community College . (12 Month, PL 20) ANTICIPATED STARTING DATE: May 1, 2012. MINIMUM QUALIFICAT...

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Program Librarian - Beacon Falls Public Library

<strong>Program Librarian</strong> - The <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Beacon Falls Public Library</strong></span> is seeking an ambitious, well-organized and creative individual with a dynamic personality to fill our full-time (30-hr.) Program Librarian position. Responsibilities include planning, organizing, presenting and/or supervising a broad range of library programs for preschool, elementary and young adult users, researching and scheduling programs of interest for adults, families and the community, collaborating events with the Region 16 school district, other Town Depts. and organizations and a full range of shared circulation desk duties. In addition to having a warm, welcoming and service-oriented demeanor, candidates must possess strong computer skills, an aptitude for technology and an above-average knowledge and interest in Web 2.0 technologies and software. Experience with Drupal and Evergreen ILS a plus. Regular hours include one evening per week until 8 P.M. and 1-2 Saturdays per month. Some flexibility in scheduling will be necessary. Starting salary is $18.97 / hr. Generous benefit package applies. MLS degree preferred, but not required. Submit resume, cover letter, two professional and one personal letter of reference by email attachment in word or pdf format please to Marsha Durley at <a href="mailto:director@mybflib.org">director@mybflib.org</a>. Application deadline is <span style="color: red;">Feb. 25, 2012</span>. The projected start date is mid-March 2012. EOE.

Program Librarian - Beacon Falls Public Library

Program Librarian - The Beacon Falls Public Library is seeking an ambitious, well-organized and creative individual with a dynamic person...

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Shift in tactics?

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-8hA78KEI3D-1sSdw7185-7ECqITE33fzwASWK-fHn3d4Jb7ilbmcQV3Ii7tgJtucOswEfsDPdk7Vnq5iTJKWt9N9txvlb3tV2_WYZw3A8MM_-_sk-f9H7RaNVzL-NznvMtFT_e3MKsB/s1600/wisdom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-8hA78KEI3D-1sSdw7185-7ECqITE33fzwASWK-fHn3d4Jb7ilbmcQV3Ii7tgJtucOswEfsDPdk7Vnq5iTJKWt9N9txvlb3tV2_WYZw3A8MM_-_sk-f9H7RaNVzL-NznvMtFT_e3MKsB/s400/wisdom.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ASSAD WINS OUT AGAINST OPPOSITION AS RUSSIA AND IRAN STRENGTHEN TIES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Via <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">DEBKA<i>file</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Western intelligence sources reporting in real time found Saturday night, Feb. 11, that Bashar Assad's loyal military and security forces had by and large managed to subdue the rebellion against the regime. They are now purging the last pockets of resistance, especially in Syria's third largest city, Homs. Still to come are possible flare-ups here and there and inevitably more horror stories of atrocities, but to all intents and purposes Syria's eleven-month uprising is all but over.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBu9b5ehLOIfA8mQz3pnP8u-CnIi6zbXssu8O-7_sC0tsT_OlAB-l9SsdJcBF-1Acl5e8FdOHeQqTMTmsjzMHa94Zq9JrWSQ6j-2pX4fbC3_iZY6FMPj-buswmRYt680OZAV0tHSmnsbQ/s1600/Damascus-the-capital-of-S-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBu9b5ehLOIfA8mQz3pnP8u-CnIi6zbXssu8O-7_sC0tsT_OlAB-l9SsdJcBF-1Acl5e8FdOHeQqTMTmsjzMHa94Zq9JrWSQ6j-2pX4fbC3_iZY6FMPj-buswmRYt680OZAV0tHSmnsbQ/s400/Damascus-the-capital-of-S-007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In recent days, mass demonstrations and battles with armed rebels have virtually disappeared from the streets of the main protest centers of Daraa, Hama, Deir al-Zour, Abu Kemal, Zabadan and the restive outskirts of Damascus, which armed rebels briefly captured last month.<br />In Homs, soldiers of the 40^th and 90^th mechanized brigades are hunting down rebels hiding in the town and shooting them on sight.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />A new name joined the gallery of Syrian mass murderers this week: Gen. Zuhair al-Assad, commander of the brutal six-day tank-backed assault and siege of Homs. This kinsman of the president had no qualms about gunning down hundreds of civilians in order to liquidate a small armed rebel group.<br />debkafile's military sources report that without outside armed intervention to halt the bloodbath – and there is no sign of any repetition of the NATO action which cut short Muammar Qaddafi's long reign – Bashar Assad will soon finish crushing the popular and armed resistance against him, helped by arms and military backing from Russia, Iran and Hizballah<b>. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Military intervention is not on the cards for the United States - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu was told Friday, Feb. 9 when he arrived in Washington to request US participation in organizing a Turkish-Arab operation in Syria or, at least, the supply of Western and Arab arms to the Syrian rebels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of the six revolts against Arab autocracies in the past year, two were crushed. The King of Bahrain was saved by Saudi and Gulf military support and now Assad looks like being the second survivor. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The difference between them is that the Al-Khalifa House of Bahrain was rescued by Arab forces while the Syrian president is stamping out the uprising against him with the help of non-Arab powers, Iran and Russia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both powers sent important officials to Damascus last week: Iran's al Qods Brigades commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani was there Sunday and Monday (5-6 Feb.) at the head of a large military-intelligence delegation. No sooner was it gone when Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and SVR intelligence chief Mikhail Fradkov were deposited at the door of Assad's presidential palace.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />According to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, both were on missions to finalize Russian-Iranian-Syrian collaboration in Syria and the Middle East after the regime finally suppresses the revolt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Saturday night, Moscow pledged to continue to shield the Assad regime at the United Nations<br />Although fighting continues in some places, Bashar Assad is at the threshold of a major success. His victory may be short-lived but it is significant all the same, offering kudos for the Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah alliance and a contretemps for the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Shift in tactics?

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Webinar of past winners shows the creative ideas teachers come up with to enter Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Forum

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the moment we are having a series of nine webinars featuring past finalists and winners in Microst’s Partners in Learning Forum (formerly called the Innovative Teacher competition)  I have thoroughly enjoyed hosting and listening to these twice a week as it shows me that we have some very creative teachers in our midst. I have also had the tasks of converting these webinars to YouTube videos and podcasts which makes for easier viewing </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today I am going to feature the webinar presented by Helen Robertson, Wessel Theron, Ryan Galving and Sarietjie Musgrave . After the little write ups about the projects I will add the vdieos and podcasts. If you are a South African teacher please considering entering this great competition. Some of these presenters travelled up to Joburg for the South African Finals, then went off to Jordan for the African and Middle east finals. Some even got to the World Finals in Washington DC. What a year of travel in 2011!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Helen Robertson who was teaching at Cornwall Hill College in Pretoria at the time</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Helen’s project was called Functions for Technologically Functioning Teens. In the webinar she renamed it ‘It all started with a cell phone’. Getting learners to plot and analyse functions is a tricky part of the grade 10 Mathematics curriculum. To address this, learners used a cell phone app to plot the functions whilst they focused on the more important skill of analysing the effects of changing the variables. Support structures, including contacting their teacher using Whatsapp and asking questions of the “Functions for Technologically Functioning Teens” Facebook group, encouraged independent learning. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGIg2m1EpdkQpBYkHWhQoWv1aruLv0lWH5g1NwdN22Tkuv_wEyW5OwUZqS2avPcw9BvP3-YkT6Xl68j15OVQjNAcZIKmHC9DIRay3usP-f_Go2gFBjLQjai-ZhswofwjwG5poa5OAOgRE/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHoylpx06Q-XbVodjgDwSKFZrghZlRlmbOCPum279hcEQtMs05i1jqz62mrSjXDrF6Gi22YllcXO8u1iymJf1LPyhhDMwlQXXkzJ1l-ccROrVAWc5rotHS8ryL0JzNrBifMaktX48yxU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">^{<b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wessel Theron from Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town</span></b>}</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">^{<b><br /></b>}</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Wessel called his project ‘School of Rock’. To create interest and excitement in additional language lessons, this project involved learners searching for their own Afrikaans song and then creating a music video for it that is shared on YouTube. Grade 8s had to work in pairs to match images to the lyrics of the song. They also had the option of translating a song and singing it themselves. This was a perfect opportunity to be creative using ICTs, improve Afrikaans comprehension and vocabulary, and be entertained while learning. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3SGH1kvzxrVolEYAHDq6ZdPuBkflffa8htwHUbpVsvWsdbpPhk938oRGLj2S2O-UrkvYIB4Ad1XgRpFzXPu41YyoPPB5C2BkZxu8MwLZMPGuqp2NMqb0IC5G9Niy1jaXyIptgXCHRv3c/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTvxrP6tKYaou4Rrju-0duDA8L4NuBoIiOBPZnRvkkOjCrIZJQkQowq82OttjKnqqeFAG8BxvMNkWuRlwoMv9P-JMPMdojiAuwUUFsH2zXa3DMXl7Fnh-T8_CO7DHmsZUlCfhbhEtkNc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ryan Galvin from St Nicholas in Pietermaritzburg</b></span><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ryan called his project R and J in R and B which is short for Romeo and Juliet in Rhythm and Blues. In an attempt to persuade his grade ten class that the story of Romeo and Juliet is relevant to any time, this teacher offered learners the opportunity to re-tell the story and revise the play. Learners made use of MP3s on their cellphones, iPods, YouTube, Twitter, digital cameras and videos. The final task was creating a MovieMaker slideshow, using the music, tweets and photos they had gathered.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlf97MIIvjG4PgQxt4kr-VStC9mFOTEsudZ8MNqRdxS4Ep6FPSkrXDCREhroGPb1id1UgVTQpgMnPEu2azq1W_uXKmWbsxa2ucIRLtn-64SyigVWFjYMyhvpOFHgxLk25bVdmC2T5tHo/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvY0ChNmE3OUZ5iu5bBWv4vdsdQ7EinmyidHEiHhyphenhyphen8zAEa6BPYktepWIMs5IO73TbigqobouPT4zH052iUKHzUVIkX5VlixYEBgTiV1IlRP8hIJr-2Y0hBYOt-ZZCuhu9GNC3y-4_Eeto/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">^{<b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarietjie Musgrave who was teaching at Eunice High School in Bloemfontein at the time.</span></b>}</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">^<b> </b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">She did a hugely successful project called ‘Spread the sunshine’ and did South Africa proud by achieving a second place in the world finals with this project! Her students each found students with disabilities in the community to link with and created ICT programmes to help them.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">^{<b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"></span>}</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ZRhuSxAA89X_1zfOGWDDgvLoS8LJmMVVqyS8rXc90mmkC7cVJdFGaeHgLiivV9_T2nStG627rlzpGY9WuJ6UEQB2uvg4aaO0M4rFyexrWBxSr7PVbwCXFSVt0acdNPgkjnxiLTh1XgY/s1600-h/image%25255B19%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLAZX9-so7Ln-oHM2Oh3aK7nnR7e93QWmCxJjX4W2lkEjGATzLwYIwdXS52gJ4dJj9vKmLW2wIV_rQiXoKf7Duwcoh5f6qxNEmExML7ptxxYK70NSyV0uElhDwDJxjWxpzGaBzo85_u8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are their YouTube presentations neatly tucked into this Slideshare presentation. Their podcasts will appear below.</span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div id="__ss_11546254" style="font-family: inherit; width: 425px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0pt 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/past-pil-winners-in-south-africa-part-3-webinars" target="_blank" title="Past PIL winners in South Africa Part 3 - webinars">Past PIL winners in South Africa Part 3 - webinars</a></b> <iframe frameborder="0" height="355" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11546254" width="425"></iframe></span> <br /><div style="padding: 5px 0pt 12px;"><span style="font-size: small;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint" target="_blank">PowerPoint</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">fionabeal</a></span> </div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><object data="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" height="129" id="boo_embed_665054" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="bgColor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="FlashVars" value="mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665054-helen-robertson-it-all-started-with-a-cell-phone.mp3%3Fkeyed%3Dtrue%26source%3Dembed&mp3Title=Helen+Robertson+-+It+all+started+with+a+cell+phone&mp3Time=08.41pm+12+Feb+2012&mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665054-helen-robertson-it-all-started-with-a-cell-phone&rootID=boo_embed_665054" /><a href="http://audioboo.fm/boos/665054-helen-robertson-it-all-started-with-a-cell-phone.mp3?keyed=true&source=embed">Helen Robertson - 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School of Rock (mp3)</a></object></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><object data="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" height="129" id="boo_embed_665063" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="bgColor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="FlashVars" value="mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665063-ryan-galvin-r-j-in-r-b.mp3%3Fkeyed%3Dtrue%26source%3Dembed&mp3Title=Ryan+Galvin+-+R%26J+in+R%26B&mp3Time=08.47pm+12+Feb+2012&mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665063-ryan-galvin-r-j-in-r-b&rootID=boo_embed_665063" /><a href="http://audioboo.fm/boos/665063-ryan-galvin-r-j-in-r-b.mp3?keyed=true&source=embed">Ryan Galvin - R&J in R&B (mp3)</a></object></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><object data="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" height="129" id="boo_embed_665076" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://abfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/swf/fullsize_player.swf" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="bgColor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="FlashVars" value="mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665076-sarietjie-musgrave-spread-the-sunshine.mp3%3Fkeyed%3Dtrue%26source%3Dembed&mp3Title=Sarietjie+Musgrave+-+Spread+the+Sunshine&mp3Time=08.59pm+12+Feb+2012&mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F665076-sarietjie-musgrave-spread-the-sunshine&rootID=boo_embed_665076" /><a href="http://audioboo.fm/boos/665076-sarietjie-musgrave-spread-the-sunshine.mp3?keyed=true&source=embed">Sarietjie Musgrave - 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Microsoft podcasts Project-based learning Slideshare videos webinars Webinar of past winners shows the creative ideas teachers come up with to enter Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Forum

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Where are you headed?

<p><font size="3">I haven’t posted in a while. This was done on purpose. I took some time to sit back and ponder on what my purpose is on this journey. I looked through old posts and thought about what I want to achieve. <img alt="Pinned Image" height="601" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/37365871877869352_nysGMtpi_c.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" width="400"></font></p> <p align="right"><font size="1">(source: </font><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/37365871877869352/"><font size="1">pinterest</font></a><font size="1">)</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3">I’ve decided it will be to my benefit to get back to setting monthly goals to meet my overall goals. </font></p> <p><font size="3">Even though we are well into February I’m still going to set February goals. So without further ado checkout what I’ve aimed for this month!</font></p> <ol> <li><font size="3">workout 4 days/week</font></li> <li><font size="3">attend every WW meeting </font><font size="1">(no excuses)</font></li> <li><font size="3">track daily </font></li> <li><font size="3">limit TV time to 1 hr/day</font></li> <li><font size="3">weigh 174 by 2.29.12 {lose 4lbs}</font></li></ol> <p><font size="3">Tracking is something I struggle with all the time. I’m good for breakfast & lunch (during the work week) and then that’s where it ends. And don’t even talk about the weekends. Zilch for tracking. </font></p> <p><font size="3">Does 1 hour/day for TV seem like a lot? We always watch the news, but besides that I feel like I waste a lot of time sitting on the couch. I want to fill the time with more productive things. ie working out, organizing, house projects, etc</font></p> <p><font size="3">I think my other 2 goals are fairly self explanatory! <font size="3">So those are some pretty big goals, but I have the confidence that I can achieve them! </font></font></p> <p><img height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9O3TWpGDWvHamC8y2Y84vpLqWf6MpURk7Jzzdeu4gFUZIHwBSNGlo7iHYzDeksi_8aE39vLxB5SQyHVNd8jw7J6uSIeJj9sO8NN43OdDveEWpQAFsA61aeamaGRRdNKIkPBE1w2uRaU18/s1600/im-possible-audrey-hepburn-quote-in-gray-and-pink.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" width="393"></p> <p align="right"><font size="1">(<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1536&bih=697&tbm=isch&tbnid=LQCKzVVzwXIyzM:&imgrefurl=http://shannonkodonnell.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-can-do-anything.html&docid=Di4_A-kUanazTM&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9O3TWpGDWvHamC8y2Y84vpLqWf6MpURk7Jzzdeu4gFUZIHwBSNGlo7iHYzDeksi_8aE39vLxB5SQyHVNd8jw7J6uSIeJj9sO8NN43OdDveEWpQAFsA61aeamaGRRdNKIkPBE1w2uRaU18/s1600/im-possible-audrey-hepburn-quote-in-gray-and-pink.jpg&w=393&h=500&ei=XIo4T53NJbCrsAK1tJ2BAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1295&vpy=310&dur=880&hovh=253&hovw=199&tx=111&ty=212&sig=111155294236529678024&page=3&tbnh=153&tbnw=138&start=48&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:28,s:48">source</a>)</font></p> <p><font size="3"><strong><em>What goals do you have for this week/month/year?</em></strong></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p>

Where are you headed?

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Britain and Argentina

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMKvSBSHN7NYdRrUo_FPECSjt8cK0JVVPNXS8fnpNelCnqmMbpn_6SRpyatrFKB_iqqwxb35v_werk-2S_eQcejTZnG_432rGpWtbncCjW4KN3BjY7yUG45TdQypvUquKSeNtTJvWiJZS/s1600/fisheries_boat_banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMKvSBSHN7NYdRrUo_FPECSjt8cK0JVVPNXS8fnpNelCnqmMbpn_6SRpyatrFKB_iqqwxb35v_werk-2S_eQcejTZnG_432rGpWtbncCjW4KN3BjY7yUG45TdQypvUquKSeNtTJvWiJZS/s400/fisheries_boat_banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">SO TELL ME, PART OF MALVINAS – FALKLAND SABER RATTLING BY THE BRITISH IS NOT ABOUT PROTECTING THE UK</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">’S</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> FISHING INDUSTRY </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Falkland Islands have a GDP of $105 million, and a per capita GDP of $35,400 (2002 estimate) placing the islands on a par with the United Kingdom (GDP per capita of $35,200 – 2009 estimate). The contributors to the GDP by sector are: </span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fisheries – 52.5%</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Government (including health and education) – 14.0%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Communications, Finance and Business services – 11.4%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hospitality & Transport – 7.7%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Construction – 6.6%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Housing and other services – 3.2%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mining. Quarrying & Manufacturing – 2.1%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Agriculture – 1.6%</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Utilities – 0.9% </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">BRITISH MEDIA OFFENSIVE</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British newspaper The Telegraph writes in its Monday the 13^th of February online edition:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Via <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Telegraph</i><b>:</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Argentina starts 'squid war' against Falkland Islands </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuZy74lLpFvt7hmzqkceUiSKzHnJ3ilbg90pHKkod6rpA6ht-2M9wNEWbCPPgQrpe12G6YX-24QEUeIzmMXRYMD4divrauCydGXobNUiBWTp1iyaU0ysXHafGDwK7dYwm16KGn4Ifjyhi/s1600/article-0-0F6855BD00000578-499_468x286.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuZy74lLpFvt7hmzqkceUiSKzHnJ3ilbg90pHKkod6rpA6ht-2M9wNEWbCPPgQrpe12G6YX-24QEUeIzmMXRYMD4divrauCydGXobNUiBWTp1iyaU0ysXHafGDwK7dYwm16KGn4Ifjyhi/s320/article-0-0F6855BD00000578-499_468x286.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Argentina has reportedly started a "squid war" against the Falkland Islands, telling fishermen to catch the creatures before they reach the waters around the British territory. </span></b></div>Argentina reportedly hopes the orders will deal a blow to the Falkland Islands' fishing industry, which is worth up to £45 million a year – half of which comes from catches of Illex squid <br />Illex squid start their one-year lives off the River Plate, which marks the border of Argentina and Uruguay, in September and move southwards as they grow. <br />Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned South American nations not to collude with Argentina's ban on allowing ships from the Falkland Islands to dock in their ports. <br />Britain has ruled the Falklands, 290 miles (460 kilometres) east of Argentina's coast, for more than 180 years. However, Argentina also claims sovereignty, losing a brief war over the islands in 1982. Offshore oil exploration in the area has encouraged new waves of nationalism on both sides. <br />Last month, Argentina persuaded Brazil, Uruguay and Chile to join a Mercosur trade group resolution to turn away any ship flying the Falklands' flag, which shows a sheep and a ship along with the United Kingdom's red, white and blue Union Jack. <br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>MEDIA INSULT</b></span></div><div style="color: blue;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">British media offensive against Argentina last week reached its climax when the Falkland Island Newspaper “The Penguin News” referred to the Argentine President as a “Bitch”.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrIy5ww0OmauwegN-WF2zMoAObHyQSmLV5LhnxrQ2wOyIewy_PJVUgrLy7kUUOuLY6qGokMI-XhfvWgOBid17580TC42fLFtO2fvdrWTNJ9oPuXIM4e-JN2XcyZu64kH37trjZQ6KcFy3/s1600/penguin-news.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrIy5ww0OmauwegN-WF2zMoAObHyQSmLV5LhnxrQ2wOyIewy_PJVUgrLy7kUUOuLY6qGokMI-XhfvWgOBid17580TC42fLFtO2fvdrWTNJ9oPuXIM4e-JN2XcyZu64kH37trjZQ6KcFy3/s640/penguin-news.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><b><i>The Guardian</i></b> online edition wrote:<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Falkland Islands newspaper calls Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a bitch</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thousands of complaints after insult that followed Fernández accusing Britain of militarising south Atlantic islands</span></div>The Falkland Island newspaper the Penguin News has triggered uproar on Argentinian social networks by calling President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a bitch.<br /><br />The newspaper's website uploaded a photo of Fernández briefly using the insult as a file name on Wednesday, a day after she accused Britain of militarizing the south Atlantic islands.<br /><br />The word triggered an immediate avalanche of complaints and abuse from Argentinians, reflecting heightened sensitivity towards the archipelago in the runup to the 30th anniversary of the war with Britain. <br />The Buenos Aires daily La Nacion said the word, "perra" in Spanish, was a strong "anglo-saxon term ... signifying disrespect". Within hours more than 2,000 readers responded with comments, many vitriolic. <br />The Penguin News, which is printed weekly and online updated daily, usually has a tiny readership – the islands have a population of 3,000 – but the escalating diplomatic row between London and Buenos Aires has in recent weeks attracted many readers in Argentina which calls the islands Las Malvinas and asserts ownership.<br /><br />To illustrate a story about Fernández's speech on Tuesday it uploaded a photograph of the president with the offending word. Those who saved the image found that the default file name was "bitch". <br />Challenged by an Argentinian on her Twitter feed the editor, Lisa Watson, replied: "emmm oops – not now you'll find." The word was removed. Watson referred to colleagues' "dry humour". By then however the page had been saved and posted on multiple websites, prompting online fury. <br />The editor's Twitter feed reflected angry and often vicious hate messages. Penguin staff did not reply to emails or phone calls last night but last week, before the controversy, Watson told the Guardian she had been receiving abusive messages for weeks.<br /><br />"I receive threats and insults via our work email address and on Twitter. The threats I try not to take seriously, particularly as the individuals tend to sign their name and even offer 'besos' (kisses) after claiming they are coming to the Falklands and their first task will be to kill me. Mainly I am referred to as a prostitute, liar, thief and pirate, other words I really wouldn't like to mention." <br />She did not keep such emails, she said. "I read and delete immediately because it's not something you want to keep as a souvenir, but one said 'Die you decadence whore', others say things like 'I am coming to the Malvinas so walk softly because I will find you.'"<br /><br />She did not take them seriously. "I assume it is simply people momentarily angry because they have read something in their newspaper about the islands – I suppose we all feel like that sometimes but threatening to kill me seems a little extreme." <br />Watson said she was more upset about random calls to islanders. "It's intimidating to be woken in the night to someone shouting at you in Spanish."<br /><br />Nevertheless she said it was important to have dialogue. "I have no objection to chatting and debating with Argentines. My reason for doing so is in the hope they will see us as a people with our own culture and our own thoughts. I live in hope that they will understand we are not 'British imperialists' but a population that has struggled to develop this little country and deserve to be allowed to live in peace. <br />"I should say that I also receive many messages of support from Argentines or messages from people who do not agree with my point of view but want to offer kind thoughts anyway."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuqZSNsu1Dxp3lpfUM_899ZwSNzxcqP8xajNQOaG_JbJOiYZju13cZIDUPPJVYFkIVjAeIlJ7I9bIv6ldO1tg0TV4BURJOZiXQKM1Q4LO35SshqjKkLqcSNyMU7ed4gqzH_-rhsLiFC3c/s1600/falkland-islands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuqZSNsu1Dxp3lpfUM_899ZwSNzxcqP8xajNQOaG_JbJOiYZju13cZIDUPPJVYFkIVjAeIlJ7I9bIv6ldO1tg0TV4BURJOZiXQKM1Q4LO35SshqjKkLqcSNyMU7ed4gqzH_-rhsLiFC3c/s320/falkland-islands.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGaJ9OCdlX4I31fZzIpN-XRNpobhvszsyy3s6fpOvpVvmyXjERnIu-5pvCKFTQWFUFZX3s65ZqjKtKOJ-yywACuTr8eC77IH9q2SCjrjadCUy6WFY_-qfghh7f6gk7V9-MqXki4RfUjehm/s1600/IMG_3081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGaJ9OCdlX4I31fZzIpN-XRNpobhvszsyy3s6fpOvpVvmyXjERnIu-5pvCKFTQWFUFZX3s65ZqjKtKOJ-yywACuTr8eC77IH9q2SCjrjadCUy6WFY_-qfghh7f6gk7V9-MqXki4RfUjehm/s320/IMG_3081.JPG" width="320" /></a> <br /><br />

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<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjQZWbanWvb-VchcIZlgOkPUZcB3P9Z5lhdut14EGy21uHR-rW8pVqWz4mXfvHY80OKB0Ma6gXz4eWpRZAUQkN6eS2eGHD_1y1JxvJeRUIKvan8SNmdflE1-4aQgSSX8rjyrqBn9jOCwSv/s1600/NSF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjQZWbanWvb-VchcIZlgOkPUZcB3P9Z5lhdut14EGy21uHR-rW8pVqWz4mXfvHY80OKB0Ma6gXz4eWpRZAUQkN6eS2eGHD_1y1JxvJeRUIKvan8SNmdflE1-4aQgSSX8rjyrqBn9jOCwSv/s400/NSF.jpg" width="390" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Antarctica</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">BRITISH INCREASED PRESENCE ON THE MALVINAS – FALKLAND ISLANDS IS PRIMARILY ABOUT FAST ACCESS TO THE ANTARCTICA, OIL EXTRACTION AND FISHERY INDUSTRY INTERESTS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">IT’S ABOUT  ANTARCTICA</span> </span></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hps">Se trata de la</span><span class="shorttext"> </span><span class="hps">ANTÁRTIDA</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hps">Recientes</span> actitudes belicistas alrededor de <span class="hps"><span> </span>las Islas Malvinas</span><span>  </span><span class="hps">entre Gran Bretaña</span> <span class="hps">y ARGENTINA</span>, en vísperas <span class="hps">del 30 aniversario</span><span class="hps">de la guerra</span> <span class="hps">de Malvinas</span>, no <span class="hps">tienen que ver con</span> <span class="hps">la defensa</span> <span class="hps">de los isleños</span> <span class="hps">y el</span> <span class="hps">resto de la</span> <span class="hps">retórica de Gran Bretaña</span> <span class="hps">de confrontación</span> que <span class="hps">utiliza</span> <span class="hps">para justificar sus acciones</span> <span class="hps">recientes. Se trata de </span><span> </span><span class="hps">los descubrimientos de petróleo</span>, los intereses <span class="hps">de la industria pesquera</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">para asegurar un</span> <span class="hps">fuerte militar</span> <span class="hps">en el Cono Sur</span> <span class="hps">con el fin de</span> <span class="hps">tener acceso rápido a</span> <span class="hps">la Antártida</span> <span class="hps">el momento que el</span> <span class="hps">Tratado Antártico</span> <span class="hps">se convertirá en nulo</span> <span class="hps">y una carrera</span> <span class="hps">para la explotación</span> <span class="hps">de los recursos naturales</span> <span class="hps">y la extracción</span> <span class="hps">resultará en</span> <span class="hps">guerra </span><span> </span><span class="hps">"entre los países</span> <span class="hps">que reclaman</span> <span class="hps">el territorio</span> <span class="hps">en el continente.</span><span class="shorttext"> </span><span class="hps">Esto conducirá</span> <span class="hps">muy probablemente a</span> <span class="hps">los enfrentamientos armados</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">por lo tanto,</span> <span class="hps">Gran Bretaña, con</span> <span class="hps">sus</span> <span> </span><span class="hps">bases en <span> </span>MALVINAS</span> <span> </span><span class="hps">tendrá una ventaja</span> <span class="hps">militar para proteger a</span> <span class="hps">la fuerza</span> <span class="hps">sus intereses nacionales.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmurySGPn9_Qe6ZXxK5z6cDEWYge9GJdh0hbwZRfCVHSp0qPqOaaLM2VXTfpmGgDHmScgk5Ur1ziVF1s6FV-nxmV1btZVbgJSNvt5-PRmutupIovWK1uAzdIF0PQ3KT927alh_6iMP_xUS/s1600/IMG_3081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmurySGPn9_Qe6ZXxK5z6cDEWYge9GJdh0hbwZRfCVHSp0qPqOaaLM2VXTfpmGgDHmScgk5Ur1ziVF1s6FV-nxmV1btZVbgJSNvt5-PRmutupIovWK1uAzdIF0PQ3KT927alh_6iMP_xUS/s200/IMG_3081.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Recent warmongering over the MALVINAS - FALKLAND Islands between BRITAIN and ARGENTINA on the eve of the 30^th anniversary of the FALKLAND –MALVINAS war are not about the defense of the Islanders and the rest of confrontational rhetoric’s BRITAIN uses to justify its recent actions. They are  about latest oil discoveries, fishing industry interests and to ensure a military stronghold on the SOUTHERN CONE in order to have quick access to the ANTARCTICA the minute the ANTARCTIC TREATY becomes void and a run for natural resource exploitation and extraction will result in quarrels’ between countries claiming territory on the continent. This will most likely lead to armed confrontations and thus BRITAIN, with its MALVINAS – FALKLAND base will have a military advantage to forcefully protect its national interests. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> 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style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span><br /><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARE ANTARCTICA NATURAL RESOURCES WORTH THE QUARREL?</span></b></span></div><div style="color: red;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">SON</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">LOS RECURSOS</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">NATURALES</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> ANTARTICOS LO SUFICIENTEMENTE VALIOSOS PARA LA GUERRA?</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Antártida contiene</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">el <b>75%</b></span><b> <span class="hps">del agua dulce del</span> <span class="hps">mundo</span></b>. <span class="hps">Se encuentra</span> <span class="hps">libre de contaminación</span>. <span class="hps">También cuenta con</span> <span class="hps">gran cantidad de</span><span class="hps">recursos naturales como </span>la flora <span class="hps">y la fauna</span>, <b>minerales, petróleo, carbón, etc.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>Se cree que el continente antártico tiene grandes depósitos de minerales, combustibles (aproximadamente 45.000 millones de barriles y ~ 115 billones de pies cúbicos de gas) y carbón (~ 11% del total mundial).</b> Esto se puede comprobar mediante el uso de la técnica moderna y sofisticada para la evaluación de los recursos. A partir de ahora, la minería está prohibida en la Antártida. Los países miembros del Tratado Antártico (1959) han firmado el tratado para la no explotación de los recursos antárticos, y ayuda a mantener el continente libre de conflictos.</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sin embargo,</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">debido a la creciente</span> <span class="hps">población humana y</span> <span class="hps">la necesidad de recursos</span> <span class="hps">en el futuro</span>, es obvio <span class="hps">que para el año</span> <span class="hps">2040,</span> <span class="hps">la Antártida se</span> <span class="hps">convierte en el objetivo</span><span class="hps">final para la</span> <span class="hps">explotación</span> <span class="hps">de recursos</span> <span class="hps">diversos</span>.</span></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ANTARCTICA holds <b>75% of the world’s fresh water</b>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(See <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1639185052">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/water-golden-commodity-of-future.html</a><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/water-golden-commodity-of-future.html%29">)</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is free from pollution. It also has enormous amount of natural resources such as fresh water, flora and fauna, minerals, oil, coal etc. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is believed that ANTARCTIC continent have large deposits of <b style="color: red;">minerals, oils (~45,000 million barrels and ~115 trillion cubic feet of gas) and coal (~11% of the world’s total).</b> This can be ascertained by using sophisticated modern technique for resource assessment. As of now, mining is banned in ANTARCTICA. The member nations of ANTARCTIC TREATY (1959) have signed the treaty for non-exploitation of ANTARCTIC resources and helps in keeping the continent <b>free of conflicts</b>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">However, due to increasing human population and the need for resources in future, it is obvious that by the</span> <span style="color: blue;">year 2040,</span> <b><span style="color: red;">ANTARCTICA will become the final target for various resources exploitations</span></b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">BACKGROUND:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ARGENTINA’S foreign minister has accused the UK of deploying nuclear weapons near the disputed MALVINAS - FALKLAND Islands, militarizing the South Atlantic. Hector Timerman voiced the accusations as he lodged a formal protest with the UN. He said ARGENTINA had intelligence that BRITAIN had deployed a Vanguard class submarine in the area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Thus far the UK refuses to say whether it is true or not,”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> he told a journalists in New York. <i>“Are there nuclear weapons or are there not? The information ARGENTINA has is that there are these nuclear weapons.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFw3zOs-mdBSUvNQ3Dna6E-r8Ilb4aGSYBK95jnWplWrZZU-eRB6TaIgsVjXJz0nDyCjTMYO6r41Jxtjg_xCzls8MpXsRF98MAPVXkG53ChbzjAWZGFpt7MPRG6kQd9nbcMRRzSMTMiSrf/s1600/5326CEEF97B1684660524BAD44352D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFw3zOs-mdBSUvNQ3Dna6E-r8Ilb4aGSYBK95jnWplWrZZU-eRB6TaIgsVjXJz0nDyCjTMYO6r41Jxtjg_xCzls8MpXsRF98MAPVXkG53ChbzjAWZGFpt7MPRG6kQd9nbcMRRzSMTMiSrf/s320/5326CEEF97B1684660524BAD44352D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Britain’s ambassador to the UN would not officially comment on disposition of BRITISH submarines, but called ARGENTINEAN allegations of UK’s militarization <i>“manifestly absurd.”</i> UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he was concerned with the escalating row between ARGENTINA and BRITAIN over the MALVINAS - FALKLAND Islands. Earlier the BRITISH media reported that UK had deployed a Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarine armed only with conventional weapons to the region.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The tension between the two countries has surged in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the MALVINAS - FALKLANDS War. Back in April 1982, ARGENTINA tried to take control of the islands, and claims as its rightful territory. BRITAIN repelled the attack with military force. More than 900 people were killed in the hostilities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The current row has been brewing since at least 2010, when BRITISH companies started drilling for oil in the region. Argentina has put diplomatic and commercial pressure on the islands’ administration. Buenos Aires recently convinced LATIN AMERICAN countries no ban ships bearing the MALVINAS -FALKLAND Islands flag from their ports, troubling their supply logistics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands</span></a></div><div class="style7" style="color: red;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP5wg_7mQj2eWxZugKWnDK5s9_lb4eT1J1w75WL1LCphctsVSiLH7ViRY8C3Bp4oYyFtLWzjUenUYkQhUtC5U3iXl0ZYMoPEtyOSwZbhFOadU3ik03L09T6b1JNwCD_Fg53Gp-SrEeE9h/s1600/cl_20071218_antarctica07_mcmurdo_004_65147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP5wg_7mQj2eWxZugKWnDK5s9_lb4eT1J1w75WL1LCphctsVSiLH7ViRY8C3Bp4oYyFtLWzjUenUYkQhUtC5U3iXl0ZYMoPEtyOSwZbhFOadU3ik03L09T6b1JNwCD_Fg53Gp-SrEeE9h/s320/cl_20071218_antarctica07_mcmurdo_004_65147.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="style7" style="color: red;"><br /></div><div class="style7" style="color: red;"><br /></div><div class="style7" style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TESTS OF THE ANTARCTIC TREATY </b></span></div><div class="style7"><br /></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">The ANTARCTIC TREATY set the base line for peace and security. But the treaty was necessary for a reason. Furthermore, the Treaty has undergone revision in order to maintain peace in an ever-evolving international environment. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">The initial reason for an Antarctic Treaty was the overlapping claims of seven nations, BRITAIN, FRANCE, DENMARK, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CHILE and ARGENTINA to ANTARCTICA. War was inevitable when three countries claimed the same slice of the continent. The unknown value of the territory made the grab for territory even more contentious. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span class="style8"><span style="color: red;"></span></span><span style="color: red;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">The ANTARCTIC TREATY rectified this situation by refuting all territorial claims to ANTARCTICA. However, this possibility still remains. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The seven nations, although all original signatories of the Treaty, still nominally claim their sovereign territories</b>. Furthermore, the UNITED STATES and RUSSIA, should the treaty structure fail, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">reserve the right to acquire territory</b>. Hence, the infrastructure that supports the Treaty, and the additions and allow it to remain flexible become even more important. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">The next test for ANTARCTIC came in 1988, when an addition to the Treaty was proposed to regulate mining in ANTARCTICA. It was believed that oil reserves, as well as natural gas may be trapped underneath the eternal tundra and ice that covers the continent. Plans were made to enforce "safe" mining techniques, and study the environmental impacts mining had on the rare ecosystem. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">International outrage over the proposal was so strong, that many governments began to change their minds over the initiative. FRANCE and AUSTRALIA began to echo calls from other nations to make ANTARCTIC a global park. Nations in the UN argued that the environmental problems that ANTARCTIC would face would eventually face the world. When the initiative came to a vote, it was defeated. Instead, the consultative nations of the ANTARCTIC TREATY decided on the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the ANTARCTIC TREATY, commonly known as the MADRID PROTOCOL, in 1990. The Protocol first and foremost establishes ANTARCTICA as a natural reserve. Furthermore, it prohibits mining, and establishes a system for getting new scientific research approved by the Secretariat for international approval. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;">One perpetual problem the Treaty faces is exclusivity. The Treaty precludes from consultative status (or voting status) any nations that do not have an on-going scientific program in ANTARCTICA. Repeated calls in the General Assembly have yet to lead to an opening up of the treaty. Despite the allowance of the UNEP to observe, poorer nations are being secluded from decision making on ANTARCTIC based on their poverty. ANTARCTIC cannot become a "global park" unless the entire globe is allowed to participate. In short, since what happens in ANTARCTICA does not stay in ANTARCTICA, these nations feel it is imperative that they should be allowed a say in the decisions that ultimately affect everyone. It is this dispute that puts the most pressure on the framework of Antarctica, and prevents other areas from being designated as an international territory. </div><div class="style3" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVel-abHZvv2VD6ftLob0QvSI38sOqlKOuhyNUDrWtMYmw0IUPai1jSwBWMaBjoVGg397KSgXd4iwtfdBaNScZpj4YA9nvIvnpmcFnDSstDm3PYm9rYCELnf5Zp7sKo8WwF_zKLvC8KyX/s1600/208377732_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVel-abHZvv2VD6ftLob0QvSI38sOqlKOuhyNUDrWtMYmw0IUPai1jSwBWMaBjoVGg397KSgXd4iwtfdBaNScZpj4YA9nvIvnpmcFnDSstDm3PYm9rYCELnf5Zp7sKo8WwF_zKLvC8KyX/s400/208377732_640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="style3" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

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