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National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
WHAT: President Obama?s Fatherhood Initiative?s Fatherhood Buzz ? a pilot outreach initiative designed to disseminate information about responsible fatherhood and parenting.
Select barbershops in eight cities:
Albany, NY
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee, WI
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Washington, DC
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 9:00 a.m. ? 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: See listing of local shops on next page.
WHY: Historically, neighborhood barbershops have served as hubs where men go to discuss issues in the community (family, politics, and health, money and life issues). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services? Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse believes that peer education among men is critical in disseminating healthy information about fatherhood and the role of fathers in society. In addition to the select barbershops within this inaugural initiative, community partners and supporters include [see listing of Community Partners below].
For more information about Fatherhood Buzz, call 877-4DAD-411 or visit www.fatherhood.gov.
Community Partners and Barbershops:
Albany, NY
Barbershops:
* Bricks Barber Shop
* Heads Up Barber Shop
* Tru? Images Barbershop
Community Partners:
* Capital Region Mentoring Partnership (Lead)
* Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (Lead)
* National Black Child Development (Lead)
* Center for Elimination of Minority Health Disparities
Atlanta, GA
Barbershops:
* Custom Cuts Barber Shop
* menXchange Barber Shop
* Vintage Hair Gallery
Community Partners:
* Rehab Re-Ed Center, Inc. (Lead)
* 100 Black Men
* 100 Black Men Liaison/World Changes
Chicago, IL
Barbershops:
* At Da Barber Shop
* His and Hers Barber School
* Hyde Park Hair Salon
Community Partners:
* Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Lead)
* The Blackstar Project (Lead)
* Fathers Who Care (Lead)
* Fatherhood Educational Institute
* 100 Black Men
* Real Men Cook
* Trinity United Church
Los Angeles, CA
Barbershops:
* Awesome Hair Salon
* Chuck Taylor Barber & Hair
* New Millennium Beauty & Barber
* The New Millennium
Community Partners:
* Children?s Institute (Lead)
* Housing Authority of Los Angeles (Lead)
* Los Angeles Urban League (Lead)
* Challengers Boys & Girls Club
* 100 Black Men
Milwaukee, WI
Barbershops:
* Gee?s Clippers
* Taso?s Hair Studio
* The Original Hair King Barber Shop
Community Partners:
* Social Development Commission (Lead)
* Center for Self Sufficiency
* Compel
* Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club
* Milwaukee County Department of Child Support Enforcement
* Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative
New York, NY
Barbershops:
* BBraxton
* Denny Moe?s Superstar Barbershop
* Mr. Rooney?s Barbershop
Community Partners:
* Forestdale (Lead)
* NYC Dads (Lead)
* Osborne Association (Lead)
* St. Nicks Alliance (Lead)
* Strive International (Lead)
* Real Dads Network
* Region II ACF
Philadelphia, PA
Barbershops:
* Mecca Unisex Salon
* N-Motion Barber Shop
* Pretty Boyz Original Barber Shop
Community Partners:
* Black Male Development Symposium (Lead)
* Fathers Day Rally Committee (Lead)
Washington, DC
Barbershops:
* Carl?s Barbershop
* Cuttin? Up
* Dice?s Barber Shop
* Mason?s Barber Shop
Community Partners:
* 100 Fathers, Inc. (Lead)
* Concerned Black Men
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In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network ENN, anti-Syrian regime citizens look at a Syrian military tank with Arabic that reads, "Assads' dogs," that was damaged during clashes between rebels and Syrian government forces, at the northern town of Ariha, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, June 4, 2012. European leaders are expected to press the contentious issue of Syria at a European Union-Russian summit Monday in St. Petersburg, but few believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to ramp up pressure on the Syrian government. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO
In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network ENN, anti-Syrian regime citizens look at a Syrian military tank with Arabic that reads, "Assads' dogs," that was damaged during clashes between rebels and Syrian government forces, at the northern town of Ariha, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, June 4, 2012. European leaders are expected to press the contentious issue of Syria at a European Union-Russian summit Monday in St. Petersburg, but few believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to ramp up pressure on the Syrian government. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian activists reported a surge of bloodshed in the central Hama province late Wednesday, with at least 23 people killed ? and possibly many more.
The reported mass killings are likely to ignite more anger nearly two weeks after the massacre of more than 100 people elsewhere in Syria as an international peace plan unravels and the country spirals toward civil war.
The exact circumstances of the violence in Hama were impossible to independently confirm.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said he had gathered the names of 23 people killed in shelling and other attacks. But the Local Coordination Committees, an activist group, said at least 86 were dead.
Abdul-Rahman called on U.N. observers to visit the area immediately.
"Do not wait until tomorrow in order to investigate this latest massacre," he said.
Hama was the site of a notorious massacre in 1982, when Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez, ordered the military to quell a Sunni rebellion. Amnesty International has estimated that between 10,000 and 25,000 people were killed in the siege, though conflicting figures exist and the Syrian government has never made an official estimate.
Activists say as many as 13,000 people have been killed in Assad's crackdown against the anti-government uprising that began in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests but morphed into an armed insurgency amid a violent regime crackdown.
The violence in Syria has grown increasingly chaotic in recent months, and it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed. The government restricts journalists from moving freely, making it nearly impossible to independently verify accounts from either side.
Wednesday's reports of violence in Hama came on the heels of a horrific massacre on May 25 and 26 in Houla, a cluster of villages in the central Homs province. Although Syria has seen relentless violence for more than a year, the Houla massacre stands out for its sheer brutality. Many of the dead were women and children who were gunned down in their homes.
U.N. investigators have blamed pro-government gunmen for at least some of the killings. The Syrian regime has denied responsibility and blamed rebels for the attacks.
The international community has condemned Assad over the crackdown, but the U.S. and its allies have little leverage in Syria.
Western leaders have pinned their hopes on diplomatic pressure by special envoy Kofi Annan, with the U.S. and others unwilling to get deeply involved in another Arab nation in turmoil ? particularly one as unpredictable as Syria.
The conflict is among the most explosive of the Arab Spring, in part because of Syria's web of allegiances to powerful forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran.
Russia and China had blocked strong action by the U.N. Security Council, giving Assad a significant layer of protection as his crackdown continues. Both countries are adamant that no international military intervention occur in Syria.
Still, the Obama administration is warning Syria that U.N. sanctions may be near, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads Wednesday to Turkey to talk strategy with America's allies and look for a way to win Russia's support for a transition plan ending the Assad regime.
Russia and China, however, issued a joint statement reiterating their opposition to any imposing of "regime change" in the violence-wracked country.
The warning was delivered by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who called for the world to exert "maximum financial pressure" on Assad's government. He argued that "strong sanctions can help hasten the day the Assad regime relinquishes power," but acknowledged that financial and diplomatic penalties alone cannot bring the needed political change.
Assad says he is fighting a conspiracy to destroy the country, carried out by terrorists and foreign extremists.
Al-Qaida-style suicide bombings have become increasingly common in Syria, and Western officials say there is little doubt that Islamist extremists, some associated with the terror network, have made inroads in Syria as instability has spread.
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In the ruins of a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan, archaeologists have uncovered a stone statue that seems to depict the prince Siddhartha before he founded Buddhism.
The stone statue, or stele, was discovered at the Mes Aynak site in a ruined monastery in 2010, but it wasn't analyzed and described until now. Gerard Fussman, a professor at the College de France in Paris, details his study in "The Early Iconography of Avalokitesvara" (College de France, 2012).
Standing 11 inches (28 centimeters) high and carved from schist ? a stone not found in the area ? the stele depicts a prince alongside a monk. Based on a bronze coin found nearby, Fussman estimates the statue dates back at least 1,600 years. Siddhartha lived 25 centuries ago.
The prince is shown sitting on a round wicker stool, his eyes looking down and ?with his right foot against his left knee. He is "clad in a dhoti (a garment), with a turban, wearing necklaces, earrings and bracelets, sitting under a pipal tree foliage. On the back of the turban, two large rubans (are) flowing from the head to the shoulders," writes Fussman in his new book. "The turban is decorated by a rich front-ornament, without any human figure in it." [ Photos of the statue and ancient Buddhist monastery ]
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The monk stands at the prince's right side, his right forearm shown upright. In his right hand the monk holds a lotus flower or palm (now broken), and in his left is a round object of some kind.?
Based on the iconography of the stele, particularly the pipal leaves, Fussman believes the prince is Gautama Siddhartha Sakyamuni, who is said to have achieved enlightenment, become a Buddha ? someone of divine wisdom and virtue ? and founded the religion of Buddhism. This stele shows him at an early moment in his life, when he has yet to start his fateful journey of enlightenment.
Siddhartha's story
According to the story, Siddhartha's father wanted him to follow a worldly path and tried to keep his son cloistered in a palace.
"Lotus pools were made for me at my father's house solely for my use; in one, blue lotuses flowered, in another white, and in another red," says Siddharthain ancient writings attributed to him. "A white sunshade was held over me day and night so that I would not be troubled by cold or heat, dust or grit or dew." (This translation is from Rupert Gethin's "The Foundations of Buddhism," Oxford University Press, 1998.)
The prince's life would change when he ventured outside the palace and saw the real world. "As soon as he left the palace he became pessimistic," Fussman told LiveScience, "because by meeting these people, he knew that everybody is to work, everybody may become ill, everybody is to die."
He grew disenchanted with palace life and left, becoming a poor ascetic.
Tibetan clues
Fussman said that this stele supports the idea that there was a monastic cult, in antiquity, dedicated to ?Siddhartha's pre-enlightenment life. This idea was first proposed in a 2005 article in the journal East and West by UCLA professor Gregory Schopen. Schopen found evidence for the cult when studying the Tibetan version of the monastic code, Mulasarvastivada vinaya. [ Religious Worship: Top 10 Cults ]
It's a "cult focused on his image that involved taking it in procession through the region and into town," Schopen wrote. "A cult tied to a cycle of festivals celebrating four moments, not in the biography of the Buddha but in the pre-enlightenment period of the life of Siddhartha."
One section of the code authorizes carrying the image of Siddhartha (referred to as a Bodhisattva) on a wagon.
Whether or not the newly discovered stele went on a wagon ride, Fussman said the depiction of Gautama Siddhartha Sakyamuni before he became a Buddha provides further evidence of the existence of this cult. "Here also you have an instance of it," he said in the interview, "the Buddha before he became a Buddha."
Excavations continue at the Mes Aynak site as scientists explore the complex in an effort to save the artifacts before the area is disturbed by copper mining.
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ScienceDaily (June 5, 2012) ? Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive detector of infrared light, that can be used in a huge range of applications from detection of chemical and biochemical weapons from a distance and use in security imaging technologies such as airport body scanners, to chemical analysis in the laboratory and studying the structure of the universe through improved telescopes.
The UMD researchers, led by Research Associate Jun Yan and Professors Michael Fuhrer and Dennis Drew, developed the bolometer using bilayer graphene--two atomic-thickness sheets of carbon. Due to graphenes unique properties, the bolometer is expected to be sensitive to a very broad range of light energies, ranging from terahertz frequencies or submillimeter waves through the infrared to visible light.
The graphene hot electron bolometer is particularly promising as a fast, sensitive, and low-noise detector of submillimeter waves, which are particularly difficult to detect. Because these photons are emitted by relatively cool interstellar molecules, submillimeter astronomy studies the early stages of formation of stars and galaxies by observing these interstellar clouds of molecules. Sensitive detectors of submillimeter waves are being sought for new observatories that will determine the redshifts and masses of very distant young galaxies and enable studies of dark energy and the development of structure in the universe.
The Maryland teams findings are published in the June 3 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
Most photon detectors are based on semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials which have a range of energies that their electrons are forbidden to occupy, called a band gap. The electrons in a semiconductor can absorb photons of light having energies greater than the band gap energy, and this property forms the basis of devices such as photovoltaic cells.
Graphene, a single atom-thick plane of graphite, is unique in that is has a bandgap of exactly zero energy; graphene can therefore absorb photons of any energy. This property makes graphene particularly attractive for absorbing very low energy photons (terahertz and infrared) which pass through most semiconductors. Graphene has another attractive property as a photon absorber: the electrons which absorb the energy are able to retain it efficiently, rather than losing energy to vibrations of the atoms of the material. This same property also leads to extremely low electrical resistance in graphene.
University of Maryland researchers exploited these two properties to devise the hot electron bolometer. It works by measuring the change in the resistance that results from the heating of the electrons as they absorb light.
Normally, graphenes resistance is almost independent of temperature, unsuitable for a bolometer. So the Maryland researchers used a special trick: when bilayer graphene is exposed to an electric field it has a small band gap, large enough that its resistance becomes strongly temperature dependent, but small enough to maintain its ability to absorb low energy infrared photons.
The researchers found that their bilayer graphene hot electron bolometer operating at a temperature of 5 Kelvin had comparable sensitivity to existing bolometers operating at similar temperatures, but was more than a thousand times faster. They extrapolated the performance of the graphene bolometer to lower temperature and found that it may beat all existing technologies.
Some challenges remain. The bilayer graphene bolometer has a higher electrical resistance than similar devices using other materials which may make it difficult to use at high frequencies. Additionally, bilayer graphene absorbs only a few percent of incident light. But the Maryland researchers are working on ways to get around these difficulties with new device designs, and are confident that a graphene has a bright future as a photodetecting material.
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