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Food Blogging and Food-related Media Convergence

Food Blogging and Food-related Media Convergence

Diane Ravitch Revised?

Long associated with conservative views on education, Diane Ravitch recently has won wide acclaim from educators and others who do not identify with conservatism. The publication of The Death and Life of the Great American School System has been central to her newfound popularity because it is an effective critique of the market-based reforms she previously championed and because it defends both public schools and their teachers. As attractive as these stances are to defenders of public education, Ravitch’s book offers little evidence that she has backed away from an underlying conservatism that is complacent about inequalities inside and outside of public schools.

Phytomedicine: An ancient approach turning into future potential source of therapeutics

Phytomedicine obtained from herbal sources are in great demand in the developed world as they are able to cure many infectious diseases. These plant based drugs provide outstanding contribution to modern therapeutics. The natural medicine are attracting renewed attention from both practical and scientific view points, but the mode of action of folk herbal medicines and related products from nature is even more complex than mechanistic clarification of a single bioactive factor. They have proved their efficacy for primary health care because of their safety and lesser side effects. They also offer therapeutics for age-related disorders like memory loss, osteoporosis, immune disorders, etc. The new-found popularity is due to their almost miraculous success with cases which were given up as hopeless by the allopathic doctors as their side-effect free treatment. The integration of phytomedicine into the health system should be developed in such a way to bring harmony between the traditional and modern system of health care with minimum threat to each other. The present review deals with impact and present scenario of phytomedicine in the society. Key words: Phytomedicine, herbal medicine, medicinal plant, metabolomics.

The Return of the <em>Battle of Algiers</em> in Mediterranean Shadows: Race, Resistance and Victimization

Author(s): O'Riley, Michael | Abstract: In late summer 2003, when resistance to the American occupation in Iraq acquired the profile of a war of guerilla insurgency through increased bombings and acts of sabotage, the office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict at the Pentagon designed and distributed e-mail flyers for those involved in “wot,” or the war on terror. The email with the cautionary heading, “How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas,” was an invitation to a special screening of the 1966 masterpiece film, The Battle of Algiers, by the Italian Marxist director, Gillo Pontecorvo. The U.S. government was not the only party interested in Pontecorvo’s classic, although it undoubtedly contributed in great measure to popular interest. The understandable paradox of such identifications remains that the film is largely known as a leftist film, particularly as a new-leftist film of the 1960s and that decade of anti-colonial struggle. Associated with Algeria’s independence, the Cuban revolution, Vietnam, the Black Panthers’ resistance movement, and, more recently, with the training of troops in Northern Ireland in their struggle with the British, Pontecorvo’s film has become the emblem of anti-colonial struggle and leftist leaning politics. Viewed as a pedagogical tool for understanding analogous conflicts in Iraq after September 11th, the film broadened its earlier spectator base to include those political groups not readily identified with either leftist or anti-colonial sentiment. This article explores the nature of those cinematic identifications. It examines how, specifically, in reportage surrounding the new release of the film, the turn to discourses of racial identification as a tactic of recognizance and surveillance was popular. Many of the critical commentaries published after September 11th in the wake of the film’s newfound popularity, even when critical of the Pentagon’s use of the film in its war on Iraq, evoked discourses rooted in an Orientalist tradition, referencing notions of a history of pan-Arab terrorism in opposition to the West and conjuring “Arabness” as a quasi racial category.

A New-found Popularity for Transit-oriented Developments? Lessons from Southern California

In the late 1980s and early 1990s a number of academics and planners enthusiastically espoused the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD), but actual construction and implementation of TOD projects was slow to follow. Empirical studies of the time showed that new transit lines had a rather timid effect in triggering new development along their corridors. This seems to have changed in recent years, and many more TOD projects have started appearing along new railway corridors. The study uses two light rail lines in Los Angeles County to explain the new-found popularity of TODs. Drawing from interviews with architects, planners and developers, the study outlines the new opportunities but also challenges faced by transit-oriented development today.

Emotion Education without Ontological Commitment?

Emotion education is enjoying new-found popularity. This paper explores the ‘cosy consensus’ that seems to have developed in education circles, according to which approaches to emotion education are immune from metaethical considerations such as contrasting rationalist and sentimentalist views about the moral ontology of emotions. I spell out five common assumptions of recent approaches to emotion education and explore their potential compatibility with four paradigmatic moral ontologies. I argue that three of these ontologies fail to harmonise with the common assumptions. Either those three must therefore be rejected or, if we want to retain one or more of them (for instance, Jesse Prinz’s recent rebranding of hard sentimentalism that I explore in detail), we need to revise our assumptions about the practice of emotion education in ways that are both radical and, I argue, ultimately unacceptable.

Differences between Poker Players and Non-Poker-Playing Gamblers

Since approximately 2003, the popularity of poker has quickly risen to unprecedented heights. This study examined poker play among university students who gamble on a regular basis. A total of 513 undergraduate students (females = 344, males = 170; mean age = 22.1) who gamble in some form at least two times per month completed an online questionnaire; 62.2 per cent (n = 319) of the respondents reported playing poker for money in the past year. A logistic regression analysis showed that poker players were more likely to be male, younger, have higher scores on an index of alcohol abuse, spend more time gambling and gamble more frequently compared to non-poker players. A second logistic regression showed that online/casino poker players were more likely to be male, have higher scores on an index of problem gambling, spend more time and money gambling, and gamble more often compared to social/non-poker players. These results are discussed in terms of the potential of poker's newfound popularity to lead to an increase in addictive behaviours, particularly among adolescents and young males.

Photography after the Incidents: We’re Not Afraid!

Photography after the Incidents: We’re Not Afraid!

Photography after the Incidents

Photography after the Incidents

Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (review)

Reviewed by: Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen Tamsen Wolff Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 264. $29.95 (Hb). In her lively new book, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr examines the intersection of theatre and science, offering the first sustained analysis of “science plays,” or drama that incorporates science thematically. After sketching the history of science on the stage, Shepherd-Barr analyses representative plays and theatrical events according to scientific fields, with chapters devoted to dramatic works that rely on physics, mathematics and thermodynamics, the natural sciences, and medicine. Her professed focus is on theatricality, and she contends that the best of the growing genre of science plays have expanded formal dramatic innovation. In making this case, the book touches on wide-ranging concerns, including the ethics, history, and cultural place of science, as well as audience reception, performativity, and speech-act theory. If this sounds like an ambitious project, it is. Science on Stage is reminiscent of an exuberantly overstuffed inaugural survey course, crowded with provocative but sometimes still embryonic ideas. Take the book’s premise that plays with scientific content have a long tradition and are now seeing an unprecedented surge in popularity. First, although the book maintains that science has been staged from the Renaissance to present, fewer than ten plays provide evidence for the first three centuries. Proof of the contemporary boom, however, is supported by the appendix, which lists over sixty science plays, musicals, and theatrical events that have sprung up since the 1998 opening of Michael Frayn’s highly successful Copenhagen. Yet on closer inspection, a good number of these [End Page 647] plays have neither been published nor produced, which weakens the case for a visible “explosion” of this work (2). Moreover, many of the plays are only marginally concerned with science. For instance, while Shepherd-Barr admits (along with the playwright) that David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prizewinning Proof has nothing to do with mathematics and everything to do with a father-daughter relationship, she nonetheless provides a reading of the play. There are several curious choices in the appendix as well: listing Angels in America because it deals “in depth with the science and medical treatment of AIDS” is one notable stretch (226). The plays under discussion naturally have varying degrees of scientific content, but it is unclear exactly what factors determine inclusion in the book. Is it the accuracy or number of scientific facts or figures? Commercial or critical success? Audience reception? Theatrical viability or innovation? Plainly much new writing is happening in this field, but in the effort to establish a “true phenomenon” of science plays, Shepherd-Barr sometimes seems ready to embrace all comers (1). Shepherd-Barr also expresses an extraordinary optimism about this newfound popularity, which is at once appealing and perplexing. (Would that it were true that the science plays of the past decade had “restored to the stage much of its former status as an influential art form”! [10].) This enthusiasm reaches its highest peak with the chapter devoted to a thorough and insightful analysis of Frayn’s Copenhagen. I’m not sure that it’s entirely fair to assert that a play written less than ten years ago – whether or not it is “the masterpiece of all science plays” (61) – has “shown itself to be a remarkably enduring piece of theater” (90). However, the example of Copenhagen helps illuminate perhaps the book’s most exciting goal: to explain “why drama lends itself particularly well to the staging of science” (9). Shepherd-Barr begins by arguing that Copenhagen demonstrates an integration of form and content that distinguishes the best contemporary science plays. For Frayn, this means enlisting complex theories of the uncertainty principle and quantum mechanics while presenting three possible versions of the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg during World War II. Despite the play’s fairly conventional dramaturgy, Shepherd-Barr persuasively makes the point that the play attempts to enact scientific ideas rather than simply to describe them. However, this argument is not consistently reinforced by other contemporary examples, coming up short for plays ranging from Margaret Edson’s Wit...

Arabesk Music in Turkey in the 1990s and Changes in National Demography, Politics, and Identity

This article examines the history of arabesk (in English spelled “arabesque”) music in Turkey. In the formative years of the Turkish Republic and beyond, arabesk music was an object of disapproval for the country’s Westernized, secularist, and urban mainstream because of its connections to Eastern and Arab culture. Today arabesk is one of the most popular music forms in the country. This article argues that the genre’s newfound popularity has resulted from demographic and political changes, such as the integration of rural migrants into urban society and the country’s struggle to gain acceptance in the European Union.

Executive Power Essentialism and Foreign Affairs

The so-called Vesting Clause of Article II of the Constitution, which provides that The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America, stands in apparent contrast with the Article I Vesting Clause, which provides that All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. . . . . This textual difference, usually bolstered with historical materials, has long undergirded the claim that the Article II Vesting Clause implicitly grants the President an array of residual powers, especially foreign affairs powers, that are not specified in the remainder of Article II. This argument, which we call the Vesting Clause Thesis, was famously advanced by Alexander Hamilton in his first Pacificus essay defending President Washington's 1793 Neutrality Proclamation. In recent years, the Vesting Clause Thesis has gained newfound popularity. White House officials were apparently prepared to deploy the argument in support of the Bush Administration's authority to use military force against Iraq had Congress not expressly granted such authority. Professors Saikrishna Prakash and Michael Ramsey recently defended the Vesting Clause Thesis at length in an important article in the Yale Law Journal. Professor John Yoo has invoked the Thesis in a number of recent articles as support for a variety of alleged presidential foreign affairs powers. The Thesis also has received recent support from Professor Phillip Trimble, and its historical account of executive foreign affairs authority is similar to the account developed in a thoughtful recent book by Professor H. Jefferson Powell. This Article critiques the Vesting Clause Thesis on both textual and historical grounds. As for text, the difference in wording between the Article I and Article II Vesting Clauses can be explained on a number of other plausible grounds and need not be read as distinguishing between a limited grant of legislative powers and a plenary grant of executive power. As for history, the narrative that is offered by proponents of the Vesting Clause Thesis has two central features. First, it is a story of continuity, whereby European political theory is carried forward, relatively unblemished, into American constitutional design and practice. Second, the narrative relies on what could be called executive power essentialism - the proposition that the Founders had in mind, and intended the Constitution to reflect, a conception of what is naturally or essentially within executive power. We argue that this historical narrative is wrong on both counts. Among other things, the narrative fails to take account of complexity within eighteenth century political theory, the experience of state constitutionalism before 1787, and the self-conscious rejection by the Founders of the British model of government. The narrative also understates the degree to which the constitutional Founders were functionalists, willing to deviate from pure political theory and essentialist categories in order to design an effective government.

The Rise of the Shadow Warriors

THE RECENT WAR in Iraq was, among other things, a powerful advertisement for the effectiveness of the United States' storied special operations forces. Americans are just now learning what role these commandos played in the conflict, but already it has emerged that, during the early days of the fighting, they managed to secure crucial airfields in western Iraq, protect the country's oil fields from saboteurs (fewer than lo Iraqi oil fields were ignited, compared to the more than 700 Kuwaiti fields that were set ablaze in 1991), and, most famously, rescue Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital. Yet these achievements, although impressive, do not fully explain the unprecedented prominence currently enjoyed by special operations forces within the U.S. military. True, such troops may have been well suited to the kind of missions they were given in Iraq. But they also happen to fit precisely into the model of a leaner, more flexible military that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is fighting to create at the Pentagon. And Rumsfeld has made no secret of his plans to thrust special forces into the lead role in the war on terrorism, by using them for covert operations around the globe. The special forces' success in Iraq has also obscured a more ominous consequence of their newfound popularity: that expanding their role in the way Rumsfeld intends could be very dangerous for U.S. foreign policy. Thanks to the vagueness of U.S. law governing covert action,

Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects

Ashot on goal does not ensure victory*.Likewise, insemination does not guaranteepaternity. When females store sperm fromseveral males, each male’s fitness dependson his ability to tilt the ensuing fertilizationcontest (sperm competition) in his favour.How males achieve this goal was the mainfocus of study for 30 years. Recently,however, there have been more questionsabout how females influence spermcompetition (cryptic female choice). Toanswer them, we need to know why femalesmate multiply. What are the fitness benefitsand consequent selection on femalemorphology, physiology and behaviour? In spite of the newfound popularity ofcryptic female choice, driven largely byBillEberhard’s book [1] and more recentwork on sexual conflict, the available dataare still limited. It is testimony to Simmons’hard-nosed empiricism that he pays moreattention to questions from the traditional‘male perspective’.The best chapter in the 1998 collection

How green is the nurse?

Green issues are top of every- one’s agenda, it seems. Yet I only a few years ago caring for the environment we live in was relegated to the commited minority. Now the Royal family and even the Prime Minister have joined the growing army of environmentalists. Pressure groups like Friends of the Earth are enjoying a new-found popularity and being ‘Green’ is not only socially acceptable it is a positive advantage.

Blitzkrieg Ethnography: On the Transformation of a Method into a Movement

In retrospect, it seems rather inevitable. What had been a quiet and perhaps peripheral aspect of educational research has moved rapidly to center stage. Ethnographic research on American education has heretofore been the activity of a small band of researchers, overwhelmingly trained in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. But at present, it is finding widespread application among researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. And with this newfound popularity has come the mutation of both its epistemological underpinnings and its methodological applications.

France, Africa, and the First World War

World War I marked the final phase of French colonial expansion. France's African war aims were determined not by the cabinet but by the leaders of the colonialist movement and by a handful of African enthusiasts in the colonial and foreign ministries. Most of these men harboured the unrealistic aim of acquiring not merely German territory but also other foreign ‘enclaves’ in A.O.F. At the peace conference, however, France's African gains were limited to mandates over the greater part of German West Africa.Before August 1914 no government had given serious thought to the potential contribution of French Africa, either in men or raw materials, to a war in Europe. The enormous losses on the Western Front led to the recruitment of French Africa's first great conscript army. By the end of the War French Africa had sent 450,000 soldiers and 135,000 factory workers to Europe. The crisis of French food supply also led in 1917–18 to the first concerted campaign, mounted jointly by the colonialists and the colonial ministry, for the mise en valeur of the Empire. But France's shipping losses made it impossible to increase her African imports.In the aftermath of victory French Africa appeared genuinely popular in France for the first time. The main reason for that popularity was the naïve belief that the resources of the Empire would free France from dependence on foreign suppliers and speed her post-war recovery. When the resources of the Empire proved even slower to arrive than reparations, the Empire quickly lost its newfound popularity. The War nonetheless left behind it the myth of the Empire as a limitless reservoir of men and raw materials: a myth which, though dormant for most of the inter-war years, was to be revived by the coming of World War II.

Local heroes – memory in action in the late renaissance garden

Hero of Alexandria was a prolific inventor who lived in the 1st century CE and whose writings enjoyed a marked resurgence of popularity in Renaissance Europe. The Greek original of Hero’s most influential text, the Mechanics, was lost early, and was only transmitted to the West in Arabic. The Greek text of his less important – and possibly unfinished – work on Pneumatics, however, found its way to Europe after the fall of Constantinople, where it had been preserved in what Will Noel calls ‘the Ark for ancient literature’. Texts often precede performance, but are equally often the consequence of a tradi- tion of ‘situated’ or maker’s knowledge. This paper looks at the ways in which knowledge became ‘resituated’ in the practice of Renaissance engineers, artists and garden architects through the rediscovery and diffusion of Hero’s Pneumatics. It explores why Hero’s Pneumatics enjoyed such new-found popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries, how Hero’s texts were transmitted and interpreted, and to whom. The paper will argue that this revival in interest was due in part to the near-contemporary recovery of other classical texts, such as those by Archimedes, Vitruvius and Hermes Trismegistus. Finally, the paper will argue that the Renaissance memory of Hero’s Pneumatics is best understood through built works rather than texts, and that these works played an important cultural and ideological role in the revival of neo-Platonism and neo-Pythagorean thought in post-Reformation Europe, losing their potency only with the end of the Thirty Years War.