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POPSViktor Schreckengost Vicktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) died on January 26, 2008 at age 101. Schreckengost taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) for more than 50 years, and was a professor emeritus at CIA until his death. He was also the youngest faculty member ever at CIA (then known as the Cleveland School of the Arts). He founded CIA's school of industrial design, the first of its kind in the country. He also enlisted in the Navy at age 37 to help the Allies in World War II. He was flown on secret missions to Europe where he used his modeling knowledge to help improve the radar used in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he helped design prosthetics for wounded soldiers. He retired from the Naval Reserves as a Captain. Schreckengost was also good friends with Cleveland's famed safety director Eliot Ness.
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POPSMarcus Garvey In 1922 Garvey was arrested for mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in the Black Star Line, which had now failed. Although there were irregularities connected to the business, the prosecution was probably politically motivated, as Garvey's activities had attracted considerable government attention. Garvey was sent to prison and later deported to Jamaica. In 1935, he moved permanently to London where he died on 10 June 1940. In 1964, his body was returned to Jamaica where he was declared the country's first national hero.
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POPSWhen is a shrew not a shrew? "Elephant shrews are only found in Africa. They were originally described as shrews because they superficially resembled shrews in Europe and in America."
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POPSPeace in eastern DRC?
The deal offers an amnesty to Gen Nkunda and his forces but the rebels say its full implementation will be dependent on the disarming of an ethnic Hutu militia. Talks involving the government and more than 20 rebel groups lasted more than two weeks and were sponsored by the United States, the European Union and the African Union. Anneke van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch said the historic agreement should allow thousands of people displaced from their villages in the last year to return home. But Africa analyst Muzong Kodi was more pessimistic. "The underlying problem is the resource war and if any of the groups disband other groups are going to replace them.'' He added that the second problem was impunity. "The warlords are going to be integrated into the army... this is going to lead to other people finding their ways into the bush and shooting at people with the hope of being called to the negotiating table and also being given high positions in the army." (BBC)
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POPSImages of Africa Never take photos of Masai warriors. They believe the camera steals their souls. So I'm told.
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POPSAfrika! Afrika! The shows is in London until April, when it moves to Birmingham, Manchester and Dublin
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POPSLies, damn lies and twaddle In recent years, thousands of bizarre conjectures have been endorsed by leading publishers, taught in universities, plugged in newspapers, quoted by politicians and circulated in cyberspace. This is counterknowledge: misinformation packaged to look like fact. We are facing a pandemic of credulous thinking. Ideas that once flourished only on the fringes are now taken seriously by educated people in the West, and are wreaking havoc in the developing world.
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POPSChina bans free plastic bags Bangladesh, France, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Taiwan, together with San Francisco and 30 remote Alaskan villages have all taken steps to abolish, reduce or restrict the use of plastic bags.
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