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September 1, 2018 by asc2018
The value of social media for scientists: what do students think?
When: Tuesday 13th November, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Where: Theatre, Level 2 down the stairs to the right of the registration/foyer area
Hashtag: #T12
Twitter is widely considered a useful and effective communication tool among scientists. I explored the perceptions of 472 research-active science students regarding the potential role that social media in general, and specifically Twitter, could play in scientists’ professional lives.
I initially asked students (pre-survey) whether they currently used Twitter and asked for their responses to statements including: ‘Social media plays an important role in the professional life of a scientist’, ‘Social media is a valid way to communicate about science with other scientists’ and ‘Having a professional presence on social media can help my science career’. A month after a class focused on the value of Twitter and other social media to scientists, I asked students to respond to the same statements (post-survey) and also established how many of them had begun using Twitter.
All results were similar across all years (2014 – 2018). Initially, most students used social media personally, but not professionally, and less than a third were Twitter users. Most students perceived social media to be a valid way of communicating about science with lay audiences; few believed this to be true for communicating among scientists.
At the time of the post-survey, half the class used social media both professionally and personally and roughly 80% answered that they were Twitter users. The proportion of students who believed that social media was a valid way to communicate about science with scientific audiences had also increased. Students were also more inclined to agree with the statement that social media plays an important role in the professional life of a scientist.
A one-hour session outlining the value of Twitter to scientists was sufficient to encourage many students to start using Twitter and appeared to contribute to more students seeing a role for social media in the professional life of a scientist.
Evidence-based scicom: Research exploring new and social media
Jen Martin, Educator and radio personality, The University of Melbourne
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Analysing web and social media data, Behavioural insights, Case Studies, Day 3, Evaluations, Media landscape matters, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Research, Science communication international Tagged With: Social media, Student perceptions, Twitter
Evidence-based scicom: Research exploring knowledge, beliefs and perceptions
Hashtag: #T8
When we look around, science communication is everywhere. You see it in museums, in television documentaries, in newspapers, on the radio, in science magazines, social media and the growth in citizen science. But how do we know whether any given effort in communicating science among public audiences is effective? And by which aims and objectives are those efforts measured?
This session will feature research case studies exploring knowledge, beliefs and perceptions and provide insights to improve science communication practice and impact evaluation.
The session is structured into five 15-minute talks and will wrap-up with a 15-minute Q&A for delegates questions and comments.
The session will include the following talks:
I’ll see it when I believe it: motivated numeracy in Australians’ perceptions of climate change risk – Matt Nurse and Will Grant
Unlocking curious minds: Promoting climate change knowledge and efficacy beliefs among students from lower decile schools – Jagadish Thaker and Daniel Rimmer
Community Perceptions of Coastal Hazards in New South Wales – Anna Attard and Robert Brander
A sea of deficit: The science communication landscape in Australia – Isabelle Kingsley and Dr Carol Oliver
Comparing science communication models with a long-term participatory case study: The Climate Champion Program – Jenni Metcalfe
Session Producer
Isabelle Kingsley, PhD candidate, Science Communication, University of New South Wales
Dr Carol Oliver, Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Behavioural insights, Case Studies, Day 3, Developing communication strategies, Evaluations, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Participatory science communication, Research, Science communication international
Conference Evening Networking Event
Where: Turbine Hall, Level 1 next to the Experimentations exhibit
Filed Under: Day 3, Networking - Unstructured
Unlocking curious minds: Promoting climate change knowledge and efficacy beliefs among students from lower decile schools
Currently, we know little if youth are aware of climate change, understand its scientific causes or consequences, and potential solutions. In addition, science teachers’ needs assessment is largely lacking in developing science communication efforts. Based on a collaboration with head of science teachers in five lower decile schools, short and simple animations were developed based on best science communication practises. In particular, social cognitive theory (e.g., Bandura, 1995, 2000) was applied, to focus not only on climate impacts but also to increase self- and collective efficacy beliefs of students that they can individually and collectively act to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The five short videos featured animations on (1) how do we know climate change is happening, (2) how do we determine the impacts of climate change locally, and (3) what solutions will best help mitigate and adapt to climate change. Further, two local climate scientists were featured in separate videos as they are considered the most trusted source of information for the public, aligning with deference to authority theory (e.g., Brossard & Nisbet, 2007; Brossard, 2013). These videos were developed as a resource to local science teachers to adapt in various classes. Based on pre-post survey of 150 high school students following exposure to the videos, we found that the intervention increased students’ knowledge about anthropogenic climate change, belief in scientific consensus, and in particular, their individual and collective efficacies to come together and act on climate change. The science teachers also mentioned using the videos in other classes. The intervention indicates the potential for a collaborative effort between science communication experts, climate scientists, and local science teachers to be able to engage and elevate students’ knowledge and efficacy beliefs about climate change. This research also found the dwindling resources for science teachers needs to be met such local interventions to help teachers better address current science issues. The success of the intervention indicates the effectiveness of localised campaigns in affecting change.
Jagadish Thaker, Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University
Daniel Rimmer
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Behavioural insights, Case Studies, Day 3, Developing communication strategies, Evaluations, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Participatory science communication, Research, Science communication international Tagged With: capacity building, climate change knowledge, experiment, science communication intervention, self-efficacy and collective efficacy
Where: Theatrette, Level 2 behind the registration/foyer area
We’ve all seen that news report, facebook post, heard a podcast, etc. that just doesn’t quite get the science right. This is endemic throughout communicating science and needs to be addressed. So how do we combat the miscommunication of science?
This session shows you how to make a difference in how you accurately communicate science. Each of the speakers in this session will give you their unique ways to combat this vital issue in our community.
The session is structured into four 15-minute talks and will wrap-up with a 30-minute Q&A for delegates questions and comments.
The making of AMOSS – a living science style resource – Julie Irish
Scientists, Journalists and Science Communicators: a three-way partnership to build a social heavyweight – Dr Tom Carruthers
Scicomm in a not-for-profit: a two-way street – Alison Gould
A small mouse study? Or, the most important discovery for pregnant women since folate? – Georgia Dempster
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Case Studies, Day 3
Science communication has evolved with the prevalence of new media, bringing opportunities for scientists and communicators to interact with their audiences in new ways. But what is the value of investing time, money and effort into these new and innovative ways of communicating science? What are the impacts and what works best?
This session will feature research exploring new media and social media and provide insights to improve science communication practice and impact evaluation.
Inquiring science minds want to know: A visual-material approach to understanding the applied practice of interactive science reporting and audience engagement – Susan Rauch
How should we communicate science on social media? A machine learning approach to science communication research – Yi-Ling Hwong and Carol Oliver
New Role for Science in Science Communication – Lessons to learn from analyzing CCS media coverage in Germany – Simon Schneider
The value of social media for scientists: what do students think? – Jen Martin
Mapping the science writing and communication landscape in Canada using new media and traditional survey research tool – Michelle Riedlinger
Session Producer, Session Chair
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Analysing web and social media data, Behavioural insights, Case Studies, Day 3, Evaluations, Media landscape matters, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Research, Science communication international
How should we communicate science on social media? A machine learning approach to science communication research.
There is concern that a crisis of trust may be looming between society and scientists, as evidenced by the display of considerable public distrust in important issues such as climate change and childhood vaccinations. This perceived erosion of public confidence in science is one of the impetuses behind the public engagement with science movement, whereby scientists are called upon to engage in dialogues with the public to help improve public trust in science and scientists. Thanks to their built-in architecture for participation, social media have been hailed as useful tools that scientists can use to engage directly with the public. Despite the growing interest in social media to communicate science, evidence for the effectiveness of social media in influencing public attitudes towards science is scant. This study addresses two overarching research questions: (1) does communicating with scientists on social media have any effects on public trust in science and scientists? and (2) what are the factors that affect audience engagement and trust in science?
More than 500,000 space science-related social media messages were collected. The main method used is machine learning, demonstrating the feasibility of automated methods in science communication research. Results indicate that communicating with space scientists on social media causes a boost in trust in science and scientists. Further, results also suggest that the factors associated with audience engagement (e.g., retweets, likes) and trust in science are very different: visual elements stimulate audience engagement, while similarity is the biggest determinant of trust. Authenticity is the only feature that impacts both engagement and trust. This suggests that science audiences like and trust messages that are personal, honest, and genuine. The world increasingly needs scientists to also be advocates of science. The findings of this study represent concrete evidence that could help guide social media science communication efforts.
Yi-Ling Hwong, Post-doctoral research associate, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Analysing web and social media data, Behavioural insights, Case Studies, Day 3, Evaluations, Media landscape matters, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Research, Science communication international Tagged With: facebook, machine learning, reddit, science communication, Social media, Twitter
The art of science communication
When: All conference
Where: Foyer, Level 2, the conference registration/foyer area
Turbine Hall, Level 1 next to the Experimentations exhibit (Tuesday 13th November, 6:00pm – 9:00pm only)
Hashtag: #SciArt
Science communicators often turn to the creative arts in their visual science communication projects. Whether many of these works would be called art is highly contested. On the other hand, many could easily be called works of design. So how do these different fields interact in their science-related visual displays? This exhibition explores works that range across visual communication, design, and art, teasing at the boundaries of these fields and considering how they play into the field of science communication.
To be mounted in the public space throughout the ASC 2018 conference, the exhibition will invite inspection, reflection, and comparison of works that are aesthetically interesting and intellectually challenging. Static visual works will be shown as physical prints in the conference foyer while video and screen based works will show in the Turbine Hall during the main evening event.
David Harris, Lecturer (sessional), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Filed Under: Animation, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Exhibition, Image making, Infographics, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Performance and arts, Video production, Visualising Science
What’s next: Taking your sci com career to the next level
Where: L2, Level 2 to the left of the registration/foyer area, down the hallway and through the doors on the right
So you’ve been in science communication for a while, and wondering what to do next. This session is a group brainstorm of career directions, opportunities and inspirations.
Where are the influential jobs? What are the big challenges developing for sci com? Should I go freelance? Can I make enough money from sci comm to have a secure future!?
Everyone’s answers will be different, but hopefully you will make connections and get inspiration to get you on the right path for you.
Session Producer, Workshop Facilitator
Dr Phil Dooley, Galactic Commander, Phil Up On Science and ASC National co-vice-president
Anna Attard, Research Assistant and Masters Student, University of New South Wales
Anne-Sophie Dielen, The Australian National University
Dr Astha Singh, Vice President | ASC NSW, ASC
Bobby Cerini, Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre
Broderick Matthews, A/g National Programs Manager, Questacon
Caleb McElrea, University of Melbourne
Catharina Vendl, University of New South Wales
Dr Catherine Dorey, Consultant, Fish & Fisheries | Science Communication | Campaign Strategy
Catherine Healy, Science Communication Advisor, Environment Protection Authority Victoria
Catherine Somerville, Doherty Institute
Emma Saville, EPA Victoria
Errol Hunt, FLEET: ARC Centre of Excellence
Jane Ilsley, Econnect Communication
Jasmine Fellows, CSIRO
Jessica Heinemann, Centre for Biopharmaceutical Innovation – UQ
Jun-Ting Yeung, University of Melbourne
Kimberly Cullen, Managing Director, Crafting Astronomy Communication
Laura McCaughey, UTS
Lee Byrne, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Matt Nurse, Masters degree candidate, CPAS, Australian National University
Meagan Vella, NPWS
Melina Gillespie, Communication Advisor, CSIRO Energy
Micaela Jemison, Science Communicator, Smithsonian Institution
Michael Helman, Communicatrium
Michelle Neil, Australian Citizen Science Association
Michelle Riedlinger, Associate Professor, University of Fraser Valley, Canada
Naomi Koh Belic, University of Technology Sydney
Nicole Fetchet, Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre
Rachel Rayner, Science Communicator, Australian Volunteers Program
Rebecca Blackburn
Richard Chi, Sydney Observatory – MAAS
Ruth Redfern, CRDC
Sally Grosvenor, CDPC, University of Sydney
Sarah Buchan, The Mullion Group
Sheryn Pitman, Programme Manager Inspiring South Australia, South Australian Museum
Susan Rauch, Lecturer, professional writing (science and technology), Massey University, School of English and Media Studies
Tom Rayner, Griffith University
Taryn Laubenstein, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
Dr Tsuey Cham, Communication & Stakeholder Manager, CSIRO GISERA
Tyrone Anderson, ASPIRE – UNSW
Vanessa Fuchs, The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Filed Under: 21st Century Comms, 90 minutes, Advanced, Asking good questions, Brainstorming, Career building advice, Career progression, Case Studies, Crowd-sourced interactive, Day 3, Intermediate, Mentoring, Moving out of your comfort zone, Problem Solving, Professional Development/Skills, Science communication for gurus, The business of running your own business
Scicomm in a not-for-profit: a two-way street
Dr Alison Gould1, Jemma Falkenmire1 and Jessica Van Coppenhagen2
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
1 Sydney Processing Centre, 17 O’Riordan St Alexandria NSW 2015
2 National Office, Level 3, 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004
From “too sciencey” to “give us more”, this presentation will showcase how science communication can contribute to the strategic goals of a healthcare organisation, using the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (Blood Service) as an example.
The Blood Service provides life-changing products and services to patients and health-care providers throughout Australia. Our work is supported by a multidisciplinary team of research scientists embedded within an organisation of some 3500 staff, many of whom are not scientifically trained.
Scientific Communications was introduced as a dedicated role in our R&D team four years ago. Since then, it has contributed significantly to growing the organisation’s social media following, choosing research directions and translating research outcomes into practice at the Blood Service and beyond.
We showed that our audience has a strong appetite for science when we achieved viral success with a video describing some of our research. Our presentation will describe the anatomy of this success, and how it contributed to our organisation’s overall goals.
Since then, we have found that linking the world of research, media and social media through close collaboration has provided benefits for all of these groups.
Demand for science content, which was initially met with scepticism, has increased to the point where “too much science is barely enough”. From the perspective of our media team, provision of science builds solid relationships with journalists, which in the long-term can facilitate media call outs when we need to call for additional donations.
We will provide specific examples of our collaborative practices and the benefits delivered across our teams, including the ability to capture the attention of mainstream journalists, provide growth for our social media platforms, increase the reach of our research communications, conduct strategically aligned research and attract new collaborators for our researchers.
Dr Alison Gould, Scientific Communications Specialist, Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Filed Under: 90 minutes, Advanced, Beginner, Case Study, Crossing Borders, Day 3, Intermediate, Knowledge transfer and mobilisation, More about why, Presentation, Working with constraints
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AngellPark Add-Ons
Chandra is regularly asked to provide specialist advice about technical evidence to assist trial Counsel and solicitors in cases he is not instructed in, especially on instructions to experts and finding the right expert (formally or informally depending on the case). Chandra frequently uses the computer analytical tools he has developped himself (audio, visual, financial, etc) to challenge prosecution/Respondent experts and to instruct his own experts on specific issues. Based on his academic background in science and scientific methodology, Chandra particularly specialises in:
DNA evidence and its interaction with other evidence (such as blood, other forensics, scientific procedures, etc) and has won cases directly challenging billion to one identification matches;
Straight scientific evidence (such as MSA drug contamination evidence on banknotes or other items - see article published in Archbold News);
Evidence from computers or computer records (such as identifying vulnerabilities in material recovered from computers);
Financial and record-keeping evidence – capitalising on my previous experience as a bookkeeper in plcs and limited companies and including analysis of very large amounts of financial data and bank statements;
Challenges to methodologies used by experts by comparison with “proper” scientific methodology and the interface between this and current legal tests (e.g. the Daubert/R v T probability matching debate, etc).
Below are examples of specific expertise I have used in cases or developped over the years.
R v O – detailed analysis of CCTV and bank security evidence using methods devised by Counsel using video editing software (showing errors in timing and recording) and bank computer records and system (demonstrating potential flaws in transaction records) including cross-examination of expert witnesses and bank staff about flaws in the banks computer and security system.
R v R – detailed analysis of expert evidence relating to credit card fraud and recovery of computer records. Submissions on failures in methodology such that the expert was not an expert failed but several years later the partnership the expert came from was exposed by the CPS as having serious failings in methodology (Soham Child pornography case).
R v S – detailed analysis of expert evidence of drug contamination of banknotes resulting in its exclusion, an article in Archbold News and nationwide requests for assistance in cases where this evidence was relied on by the Crown. Subsequently this evidence was evaluated by the Government's Forensic Science Regulator whose concerns and caveats very much matched those of Chandra's article and whose report is essential reading for any cases involving this evidence.
R v M – briefed to provide specialist advice in terrorism case on how to challenge evidence recovered from computers (including standard software flaws).
R v U – s.41 Restriction Order case where the relevance of the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) test score was challenged in assessing “risk of serious harm” (or dangerousness) including detailed cross-examination of Rampton psychiatrist.
R v B - Analysis of witness testimony of alleged rape victim with unrelated incident of repressed memory syndrome.
W v R – employment case where Counsel with IT expert devised method of converting printouts of very large amount of email threads (5000+ over 5 years) into Excel such that they could be ordered by date, receipt, subject, sender, receiver or person copied to, and could be re-converted to Word in chronological order. Material was also put in a form that could be easily computer searched during the trial.
10 years of experience prior to being called, and while a barrister, of preparation and analysis of accounts for limited companies, plcs and various organisations (charities and unincorporated associations).
20 years of experience of all aspects of software (and some hardware) including programming (on a limited basis) in Excel, Visual Basic, BASIC, Access and SQL, project management for software programmes, running a software company and many other related aspects.
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We are all active investors now
By: Larry Hatheway
Investors have long debated whether their portfolios should be actively managed or passively track a market index. But that discussion is becoming a sideshow. Encouragingly, attention is shifting to what matters most: the active decisions about strategic asset allocation that largely determine subsequent investment returns. To paraphrase Milton Friedman in the 1960s, we are all active now.
True, passive global exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have experienced explosive growth – from just over $200 billion in assets in 2003 to more than $4.6 trillion last year – which has enabled them to gain market share from more expensive actively managed funds. And investors should always take the lower-cost option if paying higher fees for an active fund brings little additional value (especially during bull markets, when simply being in the game can yield outsize returns). Yet the rapid rise of low-cost ETFs has had two other important effects on investment management.
First, active management fees have come under pressure, particularly for weaker-performing funds. For example, the proportion of hedge-fund managers charging “two and twenty” fees –a 2 per cent management fee plus 20 per cent of any profits earned – has fallen below one-third. Given mediocre hedge-fund performance over the past decade and the emergence of liquid alternatives, it’s surprising that fees haven’t fallen further. Moreover, average fees for active funds across all investment strategies fell from about 1per cent in 2000 to 0.72 per cent in 2017, a downward trend that shows no signs of abating.
Second, the proliferation of ETFs has blurred the distinction between passive and low-cost investing. Strictly speaking, a passive strategy is one that continuously rebalances a portfolio to track a market-capitalisation-weighted index. Yet many ETFs go well beyond this textbook definition by offering investors exposure to particular regions, sectors, factors, or types of credit, as well as a multitude of other “sub-market” criteria. These funds are not passive, but rather instruments for expressing active investment views inexpensively.
But now ETFs themselves face challenges. Several decades ago, the advent of cheaper investment vehicles, including ETFs, boosted investors’ net returns. Between 1979 and 1992, for example, the average weighted retail mutual-fund expense ratio was about 1.5 per cent (including sales load fee). But with the average fee on actively managed funds now below 75 basis points, versus about 44 basis points for ETFs, the “excess return” to ETFs is falling.
What’s more, the rapid expansion of ETFs coincided with bull markets. Index performance largely dictated security selection, and asset allocation meant little more than piling into stocks, bonds, and credit. But those days are probably over. Further sustained market advances are unlikely, given stretched stock and bond valuations, slowing economic and earnings growth, and heightened political and policy uncertainty. Broad market returns are likely to be lower, with episodes of volatility probably more frequent.
In a world of lower returns and a narrowing fee gap between active and passive investment vehicles, investors must shift their emphasis from cheap market access to proper portfolio construction. After all, the choice of which asset-allocation strategy to pursue determines most of an investment portfolio’s return. Other factors, such as tactical asset allocation or the choice of instrument, are of secondary importance and may account for less than 10 per cent of portfolio variance.
The biggest mistake investors could make in today’s environment is to seek a safe haven in “balanced” portfolios of stocks and bonds. Both asset classes suffer from unattractive valuations and deteriorating fundamentals. It beggars belief to think that holding a roughly equal proportion of each will deliver satisfactory results.
Instead, investors must recognize that lower risk-adjusted returns – as reflected in falling Sharpe ratios – and shifting market correlations place a premium on genuine diversification and loss avoidance. Diversification requires investors to pay attention to market, factor, and non-directional sources of return, and also to focus on volatility and correlation. Avoiding losses calls for flexible decision-making to cut exposures when necessary.
Some of the instruments that investors need to diversify and avoid losses may well be low-cost. But many of them, including long/short or alternative risk-premium strategies, are unlikely to be found in the ETF universe. A blended approach is therefore likely to provide the greatest diversification benefits.
Rather than worrying about whether their portfolios are actively or passively managed, investors should focus on the crucial decision of strategic asset allocation. The tired active-passive investment debate has run its course. We truly are all active investors now.
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blogs > Here are three things we can learn from public opinion data about Liberia's upcoming election
Here are three things we can learn from public opinion data about Liberia's upcoming election
Originally posted on Monkey Cage blog.
Kim Yi Dionne is Five College Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College. She studies identity, public opinion, political behavior, and policy aimed at improving the human condition, with a focus on African countries.
This post is part of our Friday Afrobarometer series, which highlights findings from the Pan-African, nonpartisan research network that conducts public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions and related issues in more than 35 countries in Africa.
Liberians go to the polls Tuesday, Oct. 10, to elect a new president and members of the House of Representatives. Having already served two terms, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and incumbent president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is constitutionally bound to leave office.
Analysts say there is no obvious front-runner among the 20 candidates to replace her as president, but public dissatisfaction with the status quo suggests potential for a significant change on the horizon. Drawing from the May 2015 Afrobarometer survey of 1,200 adult Liberians, here is what we know:
1. Liberians are more pessimistic about the economy now than when Sirleaf took office.
Under Sirleaf, Liberian satisfaction with the country’s economic conditions and optimism about the future declined. An Afrobarometer dispatch released earlier this year shows positive attitudes about economic conditions have not just declined since 2012, but are lower than in 2008.
Afrobarometer respondents in Liberia were asked: (1) In general, how would you describe the present economic condition of this country? and (2) Would you say that the country is going in the wrong direction or going in the right direction?
One of the top three priorities for government named by Liberians in the 2015 survey was management of the economy — and citizens’ evaluations of government’s performance in managing the economy has also declined. In 2008 and 2012, about 40 percent of Liberians said the government was performing “fairly well” or “very well” in managing the economy; in 2015, only 22 percent had positive evaluations.
Liberian attitudes toward Sirleaf soured during her second term. Only a third of adults surveyed in 2015 approved of her performance, whereas her approval ratings in 2012 were nearly twice that.
2. Public approval for all politicians has declined
Sirleaf wasn’t the only politician with declining public approval, however. Fewer Afrobarometer respondents approved of the performance of their representatives and local government councillors in 2015 than in 2012; approval in 2015 even fell below 2008 levels.
Afrobarometer respondents in Liberia were asked: Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the following people have performed their jobs over the past 12 months, or haven’t you heard enough about them to say: Your member of Parliament? Your local government councillor?
While the media has focused on the crowded and unpredictable presidential contest, low approval ratings of legislators suggest there could be significant turnover among them as well.
3. A pro-poor candidate could do well.
The 2015 Afrobarometer survey does not have useful information about candidate support. While many could guess that George Weah would run for president again, and that Sirleaf’s vice president, Joseph Boakai, would run, the field of candidates was not finalized until this year. Other polls conducted since 2015 have found “huge numbers of undecided voters.”
Still, looking at Afrobarometer data by sociodemographic groups offers some relevant insights. For example, there are significant class divisions in government support.
Experience with poverty sharply divides Liberians in their optimism about Liberia’s economic conditions and the direction in which the country is headed. To measure experience with lived poverty, Afrobarometer asks survey participants how frequently they or their families went without enough food, clean water, medicine or medical care, fuel for cooking, and cash in the previous year. While Afrobarometer has shown levels of lived poverty have declined in most of the African countries where it conducts surveys, in Liberia lived poverty increased steeply.
Only 16 percent of Liberians scoring high on the lived poverty index thought the country was headed in the right direction — compared to 62 percent of Liberians who reported no experience with lived poverty in the year prior to the survey.
Likewise, only 20 percent of Liberians high on the lived poverty index expected the country’s economic conditions to improve over the year following the survey, compared to 72 percent of Liberians with no lived poverty.
Liberians with high lived poverty voted at the same rates as Liberians with no lived poverty in the previous election (among both groups, 70 percent reported voting in the last election). However, Liberians with high lived poverty significantly outnumber those with no lived poverty, making up 35 percent and 9 percent of the population, respectively. Given their greater proportion in the population, a convincing pro-poor platform could be what it takes to make it to the runoff election.
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New EP from The Knife
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Phil Kieran has released an EP at NovaMute record label
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Byron K. Hammond
Disability Trusts
(Medicaid Payback Trusts)
Estate Planning to Protect Pets
Disposition of Last Remains
Whether you are single, married, or in a domestic partnership, LGBT estate planning requires an understanding of the unique legal issues that impact the LGBT community.
Without estate planning, unmarried couples may have no legal rights if one partner becomes disabled, incapacitated, or passes away. Medical and financial decisions can be taken over by blood-relatives, and a deceased partner’s assets may pass to unintended family members instead of the surviving partner. Having the correct legal documents in place give unmarried couples many of the same rights that married couples have.
In 2015, I had the privilege of co-chairing Colorado’s first LGBT Law Institute, a two-day seminar for attorneys whose practices include LGBT issues. Some of the topics covered were the fall of DOMA, the groundbreaking Edie Windsor case, employment discrimination, estate planning, and immigration issues unique to the LGBT community.
Obergefell v. Hodges
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that same-sex married couples are entitled to equal protection under the laws, and that their marriages must be recognized nationwide.
All state laws banning same-sex marriage were effectively nullified by this ruling. Same-sex spouses can now enjoy all state tax benefits and other spousal benefits that other married couples enjoy. (Including marriage, divorce, adoption & child custody, separation agreements, marital property, spousal death benefits, inheriting through intestacy, priority rights in guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, contract rights, etc.).
After the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, same-sex couples are afforded the same spousal rights that other couples enjoy. Some of these occur independent of preemptive planning. For example:
Adoption or child custody proceedings
Spousal priority in matters concerning an incapacitated spouse’s care, or recognition in the event guardianship or conservatorship proceedings are necessary
Spousal survivorship rights under state pension or other retirement benefits, even in states that previously did not recognize same-sex marriage
Spousal inheritance through intestacy (when a spouse dies without a valid Will or Trust)
Spousal priority in the event a will or trust proceeding is contested after death
The ability to file taxes jointly as a married couple
Any other spousal contract right where the contract is construed under the laws of a state that did not recognize the marriage.
Couples Should Still Be Proactive
Simply because states must now recognize marriage does not mean couples do not have to take control of their death and incapacity planning, and clearly state their wishes in enforceable legal documents. All the reasons for proactive estate planning apply just as much to unmarried couples and same-sex married couples as they do to opposite-sex married couples:
Expressing their wishes concerning their medical care during periods of incapacity (through durable powers of attorney);
Structuring the distribution of their property, possibly in certain protective Trusts, for the benefit of their surviving spouse and children after death;
Establishing Trusts to preserve privacy, and to avoid the delay and expense of guardianship or probate proceedings during incapacity and after death;
Providing clarity and discretion to a trustee to make strategic tax decisions through Trust administration after death (through various investment powers, and accounting and tax provisions);
Providing for family members other than a spouse or child through their estate plans;
Making gifts to religious or other charitable organizations through their estates; and
Allowing orderly operation and transition of businesses or professional practices through incapacity or death.
Obergefell v. Hodges likely represents the last word on same-sex marriage, elevating these relationships to equal stature with other marriages. While same-sex married couples are now entitled to equal protection under the laws of every state, the efficacy of those laws in ensuring dignity in disability and death, and orderly and structured distribution of property after death is very limited for all couples. Families should always take control of their planning and leave as little to state law interpretation as possible. That is best done through careful estate planning with an attorney who is familiar and comfortable with LGBT estate planning.
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Alan Wake credits
Yesterday I finished Alan Wake. Yes I play games instead of writing bad articles for this blog :)
The ending is a bit tame but I don't want to spoil anything. The thing that I found really amazing tough was listening to the ending music during the credits screen. It really, really surprised me, Alan Wake's soundtrack is excellent all around, but David Bowie? It really didn't feel like a game's ending! Also with some decent speakers it really sounded incredible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFwpBB7xXI
Rendering-wise Alan Wake is a bit of a mixed bag... It's not groundbreaking (anymore), I didn't really play looking at the rendering too much (i.e. trying to reverse engineer things) because the bad AA and the sub-hd framebuffer were really annoying to me. I guess most people don't notice too much the sub-hd rendering but I play all console games on a fairly big projector screen that makes those defects really evident and annoying.
So please, don't cheat! Do as we do, real 720p, 60hz, 4xAA games ;)
I hope that MLAA (and similar techniques) will really save us... Many games are going that way, especially as there's really no good way of doing hardware AA with deferred rendering on current-gen consoles. I still didn't have much time to look into this unfortunately, I hope I will in the future.
p.s. some people are having troubles reaching the original MLAA paper (many links are broken and the one in the Intel's visual computing research homepage is misspelled) so I'll include it here.
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Things We COULD Have Done with $700,000,000,000.00
So the bail-out bill passed without golden parachutes and with new tax breaks for people "researching and developing" clean fuel and a greater FDIC burden and oversight that might be as thorough as it was just 8 short years ago. So the argument will now be "shoulda-woulda." Let's start it off with a "coulda" list! Here are some things we could have done with 700 billion smackers.
Build enough solar panels and windmills in the desert to power the western seaboard. We could wire them to all the major cities and efficiently power the west from places where no people and very few animals live. The federal government charges the states or individuals, and in the long run makes money, dramatically shrinks our eco-footprint, and becomes the shining star of the world. Every one would want to be like us.
Put every American family into a house or apartment rent-free for a year. There are a lot of houses out there owned by the very banks we're bailing out. Those banks who are having men with guns usher financially destitute families into the streets. We could have just taken the homes and given them away. It's on the Feds for a year folks! Then you have to pay fair market. Homelessness solved, and the gov makes some cash once the market bounces.
Build a trans-continental high-speed rail system. People are afraid of flying these days, and trains can't be crashed into buildings. Plus, they're a lot cleaner. A mobile workforce helps the economy and is "pro-business." Trains are also easier to maintain. The traffic would reinvigorate the middle of the country. If it turns a profit, great. If not, it provides jobs and commerce across the whole nation. Choo-Choo; All aboard!
Free Pizza and Beer Day for the entire planet! Everyone will love us and next time we mess up will say, "Yeah, but remember when the Americans bought us pizza and beer that one time?" It will also serve as a guilt trip token. "Please get rid of your nukes; remember that time we bought you pizza and asked nothing in return?" Vegan options and non-alcoholic beverages will be made available upon request. You also get a Hershey bar and a pack of bubblegum. Suh-WEET!
Space tourism. We could build a space shuttle that actually works and also the pimpest space station imaginable. Then charge people crazy amounts to get to it. How cool would that be. Then, we could have the state lotteries offer going to space as a prize. Every month, we could fly 50 peeps to space, suckah! And we keep the lottery ticket money! Maybe then all those lottery winners will stop killing themselves in a rut of depression and achieve some kind of "perspective" having seen the planet "from a distance" like that Bette Midler song!
Seriously, though, I wish they had worked in a way to forgive student debt. If I didn't have to pay my student loans back, I could pay my rent this month and eat like a king and pay for health care. I would probably buy something expensive like a Harley Davidson or something. How's that for churning the economy? There are millions of people paying off student debt. Most of the money we owe is to the federal government, especially now that Fannie Mae is under that umbrella. Now they want more from us in the form of taxes to give to the other bastards making money off of us and to federally insure the people who have $250,000 sitting with said bastards. It's starting to seem like the financial industry and the US Gov has some kind of deal to fleece the likes of me. Hmm.
Labels: politics, the way things ought to be.
CLAY BANES said...
I should turn on the tab in my kitchen and beer should come out. When I flush my toilet, it fills with pretzels.
You got it! I would rather cover your shit with pretzels than give the evilest of our society a penny.
A lot of people are saying that's naive, but that's what they always say when anyone wants to stick to their principles. People are always calling me naive.
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1 Title: Rays of light from all lands: the bibles and beliefs of mankind. Scriptures, faiths and systems of every age, race and nation, a complete story of all churches and communions; notable utterances by foremost representatives of all faiths
Creator: Towne, E. C. (Edward Cornelius), 1834-1911
Canfield, A. J.
Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
World's parliament of religions, Chicago
Publication: Gay brothers & company, New York,[c1895]
Notes: On cover: The beliefs of mankind.
Call #: B 4074
Extent: xxx, 7-866 p. front., plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm.
Subjects: Religions | Religion
2 Title: Religious denominations: their origin and doctrine: a lecture
Creator: Kirk, A.G.
Publication: J.A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia, PA,1880.
Notes: "The Author is indebted to the following for much of the Lecture, viz: Encyclopedia, by Rev. B.B. Edwards; Religious Denominations, by Vincent L. Milner; The Reformation, Volume I, by D'Aubigne; Churches and Sects, by Rev. P.D. Gorrie; Chronological Chart, by Rev. C.W. Rees; Articles of Faith, as circulated by Denominatus; Writings of Prominent Authors; Baptist Martyrs, and Progress of Baptist Principles, by T.F. Curtis." LA2518-206 "Jas. A. Garfield, Mentor Ohio." Location: Room 206.
Call #: LA2518-206
Subjects: Religions
3 Title: Radical problems
Creator: Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900
Publication: Roberts Brothers, Boston,1872.
Call #: BL27 B292R
Extent: 407 p. 18 cm.
Subjects: Religion
4 Title: The progress of religious ideas: through successive ages. In three volumes
Creator: Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
Publication: C. S. Francis & co, S. Low, Son & co, New York, London,1855.
Call #: BL80 C536P
Extent: 3 v. 20.4 cm.
5 Title: Religious denominations of the world: comprising a general view of the origin, history, and condition of the various sects of Christians, the Jews, and Mahometans, as well as the pagan forms of religion existing in the different countries of the earth, with sketches of the founders of various religious sects, from the best authorities
Creator: Milner, Vincent L.
Adams, Hannah, 1755-1831
Brown, J. Newton (John Newton), 1803-1868
Publication: William Garretson & Co, Philadelphia,1871.
Notes: The introduction is from Hannah Adams' View of Religion.
Call #: BL80 M659 1873
Extent: xxiii, 622 p. front., ports. 21 cm.
6 Title: A view of religions in two parts: Pt.I. Containing an alphabetical compendium of the various religious denominations, which have appeared in the world, from the beginning of the Christian era to the present day. Pt.II. Containing a brief account of the different schemes of religion now embraced among mankind. The whole collected from the best authors, ancient and modern
Creator: Adams, Hannah, 1755-1831
Publication: Printed by and for Manning & Loring, proprietors, No.2, Cornhill, Boston, Boston,October, 1801.
Notes: First ed. pub. under title: An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian ara to the present day.
Call #: BL80 A213
Extent: xxxv, 504 p. 22 cm.
7 Title: A history of all religions: as divided into paganism, Mahometanism, Judaism and Christianity, with an account of literary and theological institutions, and missionary, Bible, tract and Sunday school societies; with a general list of religious publications; accompanied with a frontispiece of six heads
Creator: Benedict, David, 1779-1874
Publication: J. Miller, printer, Providence,1824.
Call #: BL80 B463
8 Title: Religious ceremonies and customs: or, The forms of worship practised by the several nations of the known world, from the earliest records to the present time; on the basis of the ... work of Bernard Picart. To which is added, a brief view of minor sects which exist at the present day
Creator: Burder, William.
Picart, Bernard, 1663-1733
Publication: T. Tegg, London,[etc., etc.] 1841.
Notes: Based on "Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde". cf. Pref.
Extent: x, 581 p. incl. front. plates. 22 1/2 cm.
9 Title: Comparative religion
Creator: Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927
Publication: H. Holt and company, New York,[etc., etc., 1913?]
Call #: BL82 C29
Extent: v, 7-256 p. 17 cm.
10 Title: History of all Christian sects and denominations: their origin, pecular tenets, and present condition : with an introductory account of atheists, deists, Jews, Mahometans, pagans, &c
Creator: Evans, John, 1767-1827
Publication: G. Vale, New York,1853.
Call #: BL80 E92 1853
Extent: 284 p. ; 20 cm.
11 Title: History of all Christian sects and denominations: their origin, peculiar tenets, and present condition, with an introductory account of atheists, deists, Jews, Mahometans, pagans, etc
Publication: J.P. Mendum, Boston,1875, c1844.
Extent: x, 284 p. ; 20 cm.
12 Title: The western sketch-book
Creator: Gallaher, James, 1792-1853
Publication: Crocker and Brewster, M. W. Dodd, Boston, New York,1850.
Notes: "The articles... are mostly on religious subjects."--Pref.
Call #: PS1729 G162
Extent: iv, [5]-408 p. 20 cm.
13 Title: The World's Congress of religions: The addresses and papers delivered before the Parliament and an abstract of the congresses held in the Art Institute. Chicago, Ill., August 25 to October 15, 1893
Creator: Hanson, J. W. (John Wesley), 1823-1901
Publication: Charles Webb & Co, Chicago,1894.
Call #: BL21 W8H3
Extent: 1196 p. illus., front.
14 Title: The book of religions: comprising the views, creeds, sentiments, or opinions, of all the principal religious sects in the world, particularly of all Christian denominations in Europe and America ; to which are added church and missionary statistics, together with biographical sketches
Creator: Hayward, John, 1781-1862
Publication: Albert Colby & company, Portland [Or.],1873, c1871.
Call #: BL80 H427
Extent: 438, 30, 46, 6 p. ; 20 cm.
15 Title: Ancient faiths and modern: a dissertation upon worships, legends and divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, before the Christian era. Showing their relations to religious customs as they now exist
Creator: Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876
Publication: J.W. Bouton, Trèubner & co, New York, London,1876.
Notes: Printed in Great Britain.
Call #: BL85 I57
Extent: xx, 478, xlv p. illus. 23 cm.
16 Title: The faith of Abraham Lincoln: an address before the Presbyterian social union of Philadelphia, February 22, 1909
Creator: Lambert, William H. (William Harrison), 1842-1912
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publication: The Sunday school times company, Philadelphia,[c1911]
Call #: E457.2 L222
Extent: 1 p. l., 32 p. 19 cm.
17 Title: History of religion: a sketch of primitive religious beliefs and practices, and of the origin and character of the great systems
Creator: Menzies, Allan, 1845-1916
Publication: C. Scribner's sons, New York,[c1911]
Call #: BL80 M55 1911
Extent: xvii, 440 p. 18 cm.
18 Title: "Ember Days" and other papers
Creator: Worthington, Edward William, 1854-1906
Publication: Young Churchman Co, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,c1897.
Extent: 100 p.
19 Title: A history of all religions: containing a statement of the origin, development, doctrines and government of the religious denominations in the United States and Europe, with biographical notices of eminent divines
Creator: Smucker, Samuel M. (Samuel Mosheim), 1823-1863
Publication: Duane Rulison, Quaker City Publishing House, SPhiladelphia,1860 [c1859]
Call #: BL80 S356 1860
20 Title: A view of all religions: and the religious ceremonies of all nations at the present day. In four parts...including an abridgement of "The idolatry of the Hindoos...by William Ward..." with the religion and ceremonies of other pagan nations
Creator: Robbins, Thomas, 1777-1856
Ward, William, 1769-1823
Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Publication: s.n.], Hartford, Conn,1826.
Notes: Includes woodcuts by John Warner Barber.
Call #: BL80 R636 1826
Extent: xii, [13]-247, 191 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Pinoy devotees in California mark feast of the Assumption
By Eileen Nazareno-Ballesteros
VALLEJO, California— Leyteños from across Northern California gathered here recently to celebrate the feast of their hometown’s patron.
In a belated celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Assumption, the event gathered Tanauan natives and other Filipinos at the St. Basil Church on Aug. 24.
The Mass was presided over by Filipino-American Fr. Jeremy Santos, the church’s parochial vicar under the Diocese of Sacramento.
The feast, celebrated on Aug. 15, is the oldest of all festivals of Mary.
Albeit a week late this year, the celebration has been year yearly tradition organized by the Tanuan Leyte Assumption Society (TLAS) and its spin-off outreach arm Tanuan Leyte Assumption Foundation.
Elizabeth Buban-Ortiz, a native of Tanauan but has long been a US citizen, recalled how she got involved into the devotion and the yearly tradition.
She said that since her arrival in the US in 1976, her mother would bring her to prayer gatherings and meetings with other Filipinos.
Among those which she could fondly recall was the Santa Cruzan where among the participants was the TLAS.
During August, they always celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Assumption, the patron saint of her mother’s hometown Leyte.
She said that the nine months prior to the feast, they usually hold a monthly Novena in her honor.
Having to drive for her mother Josefa, now deceased, she became actively involved and developed the devotion to Our Lady of the Assumption.
In the local tradition, which they follow in Northern California, an image of Our Lady of Assumption goes to the house of the hermana where the monthly prayer devotion is said.
Buban-Ortiz recalled that when her family, along with few relatives, were the main sponsors, they said the novena prayer in their Waray language.
“Every time the image of Our Lady of Assumption was in the house, I feel the love, joy and happiness and feel so specially blessed,” she said.
“And every time I asked for help my petition was always granted. Every time there were obstacles in my life, I asked the Lady in Blue and her eyes will look at me as if she is talking back to me,” the devotee added.
The TLAS and TLAF members who are devotees of Our Lady of Assumption do not confine their fervor in church-related events.
The officers and members and families get involved as well in humanitarian outreach activities like donating goods to the needy in Tanauan and sending poor students to school. CBCPNEWS
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Keepers of Tradition
Folk Art and Heritage in Massachusetts
Category: Sacred expressions
Guest post from Traditional Artist Sunanda Sahay
In the Fall of 2016, we wrote about the Hindu festival of Diwali going mainstream. We wondered what it means when ancient holidays, grounded in ethnic identity and religious belief and celebrated by cultural insiders for centuries, are brought to mainstream, high profile venues to be shared, celebrated, and interpreted?
Two years later, we hear from Sunanda Sahay, a traditional artist who practices the North Indian art of Madhubani (also known as Mithila). She describes her 10th year of sharing her art at the Museum of Fine arts. Here is her guest blog post.
For several years now, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has been celebrating the joyous Indian festival of Diwali in early November. I am fortunate to have taken an active role by conducting folk art workshops/exhibits. This year, the event took place on Wednesday November 7th which coincided with the day of Diwali, making me wonder if that would drop attendance.
Lo and behold! The visitors swelled as the evening rolled in. Since I have been organizing the workshops at the museum for many years, I thought I was prepared to handle the crowds. But the unprecedented crowd and long lines at the museum caught me totally off guard! While some of the visitors managed to find seats to sit down and draw, the others looked around at the paintings or rotated through the room. Thanks to the immense support and patience of the museums staffs and volunteers, many were able to sit down and create their own artwork they could carry home.
For the first time, more than a dozen of my students ranging between 7 years to 47 years of age exhibited their art and assisted with the workshop. They reveled in the glory of being a part of one of the best museums in the world! They excitedly helped the attendees, answered various questions, and proudly shared the stories behind their creations. It seemed that the room had turned into a village celebrating its own version of Diwali – strangers sat together and talked, encouraged each other, suggested and commented on the art pieces, and just enjoyed the atmosphere of shared creativity. Some of them sat down hesitatingly, but then quickly surprised themselves with the brightly hued wonderful forms they created with the simple motifs. This is what I love about my art!
Folk arts have this special ability to form communities. In my home town where Madhubani/Mithila art has been practiced for centuries, women get together and paint murals on their homes to depict scenes from traditional epics, festivals, and village activities. Art is essential to the living cultures. The process of creating visual stories forms social bonds not only between the women creating the art, but also between other adults and children who inevitably become part of the stories.
When I held the first MFA workshop in 2009, I could have scarcely imagined that the event would recreate social ambiance similar to the native villages. Initially, it was a personal and a creative challenge, and I endeavored to create something new and unusual each year. In addition to the Madhubani art, I also introduced other folk art forms such as Warli to the visitors. I made sure they understood the art’s historical background as well as its continued survival through cataclysmic changes and growth. And I encouraged the visitors to not only paint the traditional themes but also push the boundaries, and use their imagination to tell modern stories through an ancient medium. My students certainly heed my advice; one of my apprentices created a Disney story in Madhubani and everyone loved it.
I regularly run into people who know about this annual workshop and look forward to the event. More and more Bostonians are becoming familiar and appreciative of the folk arts of India and I am hopeful that at least this folk art will not die under the constant onslaught of digital intervention and lack of support.
Guest blog by Sunanda Sahay of Acton, Massachusetts
Author Heritage8Posted on November 16, 2018 Categories Annual celebrations, Craft, Issues, Religious customs, Sacred expressionsTags Diwali, Hindu festival, Madhubani, MFA, Mithila arts, Museum of Fine ArtsLeave a comment on Guest post from Traditional Artist Sunanda Sahay
The power of a custom-made religious garment
Detail of embroidered attarah saying, “Hear our voices” on tallit by Amy Lassman
I first met Amy Lassman in November 2017 at a craft fair held at the Hyde Center in Newton Highlands. The artistic craftsmanship and depth of meaning in her work stood out from the rows of vendors offering beaded jewelry, crocheted blankets, and felted critters. Amy’s table displayed a combination of Judaica (Jewish ceremonial art) including tallises (prayer shawls), yarmulkes and kippot (head coverings), coverings for challah (braided bread), and afikomen bags used to hold matzoh during the Passover Seder, as well as secular handbags and scarves. It was only when I visited with Amy at her Needham home and studio that I learned she recently decided to focus strictly on the Judaica.
Amy’s Judaica work involves custom design, selection of fine fabrics and notions, sewing, embroidery, lettering, and knot tying — all of Amy’s work is deeply informed by her practice of Judaism, familiarity with the sacred sartorial objects of religious ritual, and her educational background in psychology and family dynamics.
In addition to my recording gear, I had brought my late father’s tallit, tefillin, and yamulke as a way of reconnecting with these religious objects and to learn something of how tallises dating back to the mid-1930s differ from ones custom made today.
Tallis, tefillin, and velvet bag belonging to Maggie’s father
For a folklorist, I am remarkably uninformed about my own heritage. Unlike Amy, who attended Jewish Day school and high school, worships at a local synagogue, and is very involved in the Jewish community, I was raised without formal religious education and self-identify as a “secular Jew.” Although I have fond memories of attending Passover Seders with extended family and friends, I have never stayed home from school or work on Jewish holidays. And although my father’s family attended a conservative temple, the rabbi there was a socialist. My mother’s father was anti-organized religion and felt more affinity with socialism and unionism than Zionism. So it was especially meaningful to get tutored in the meaning of the contents of my father’s velvet tallis bag.
Green velvet bag to hold tefillin
Amy looks at my father’s tallis with care. She says that it is typical of the early 20th century and most likely commercially made, noting that the edges are beautifully knotted. “The tassels mean nothing,” she explains “they’re just pretty. The only [tassels] that count are tied into the four corners of the garment and are called tzitzit.”
Corner of tallit belonging to Maggie’s father, showing tzitzit .
She goes on to explain that although Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews have different ways of tying tzitzit, the combination of the number of strings, knots, and twists must equal 613. The sum represents the original number of mitvot (commandments) in the Torah (Jewish written law). “Honestly, nobody really can fulfill all 613; that’s the ideal. That’s perfection. It includes the number of times you pray each day. It includes kashrut (keeping kosher). It includes the way you treat your fellow man. It’s not just good deeds, it’s intentions – who you are as a person and how you relate to the world around you, and what your connection is to God.”
Amy Lassman holding up the corner of a tallis with tzitzit
Once Amy finishes a tallis and the client returns to pick it up, she purposely leaves two of the four corners untied. “I will teach them how to tie and I will talk to them about the meaning of tying. And they will tie them themselves. So, it’s not just the design piece; the concept of it, it’s actually physically creating the garment . . . And so many times, when it’s a parent of a grandparent, and a Bar Mitzvah, then they’re all tying together. So that ’s going to be part of that memory as well.”
(Youtube provides an instructional video on YouTube for how to tie tzitzit.)
Amy holding up afikomen bag embroidered with Hebrew letters for Pesach.
Having sewn all of her life, it was just a few years ago that Amy began making challah covers and afikomen bags.
Soon after, people started asking Amy to make a prayer shawl or head cover. She admits it was intimidating at first. I ask why and she responds, “Because it’s a lot of responsibility. A tallit is something that once you have you’re going to wear for the rest of your life. It represents your foray into Jewish adulthood. . . So now, I have this responsibility of bringing all of this to a piece of fabric. And because of this, it’s a daunting task.”
It is a task Amy Lassman is undeniably up to.
Through the many stories Amy told of working with clients, the most moving were those recounting her work with individual families with children who are preparing for a Bar or Batmitzvah, and adults who missed out on the experience. The process of making custom tallises reveals the power they hold as personal and ritual objects. Amy tells me of working with a family over the creation of the young man’s tallit. His favorite color is red, but his father preferred the more conservative and typical white and blue. The story is also recounted on her website:
“A family arrived in my studio to create a tallit for the upcoming Bar Mitzvah of a very bright young man. Before our appointment, he let me know that his favorite color is red. Armed with that fact, I shopped for silks that had red tones for him to use in the creative process. Meeting the expectations of mother, father and son can be a challenge. Combining the tradition of simple blue and white prayer shawls with a more contemporary vision that includes a variety of colors, Hebrew embroidery and symbols, we came up with a design that everyone loves. The attarah (neckband) is embroidered with the Priestly Blessing, the red silk is a subtle highlight on a finely woven cream woolen shawl and in the inside corner, his Hebrew name is embroidered in gold thread. When this young man came to pick up his tallit, I taught him how to tie the tzitzit (woolen strings) at the corners of his garment. When he wears his tallit, hopefully for many years of good health and happy occasions, he will always remember that he inspired the design, that his parents worked with him to create something meaningful and he is wrapped in his families’ love.”
Amy described how clients often come in with an old tallit, saying they would really like their son or my daughter to wear something that had belonged to somebody in the family. “So, we will take something – we may just take the attarah, the neckband, and create an entirely new garment and just use that. We may only take the corner fabric.”
At Amy’s workbench
Amy prefers the word “integrate” rather than “recycle” or “re-purpose” to describe this use of a relative’s old clothing, wedding dress or veil in a chuppah (wedding canopy), or the embroidered attarah of one’s grandfather’s tallit. Stressing the importance of creating something new, she says, “I want [the old piece] to have a new life. And I want the person who is using it to feel connected to it, not just because it was in their past.”
Amy continues, “In some traditions, a person will be buried with a tallit . . . what some people will do is they will actually cut one corner, they will cut one of the tzitzit out. And that will be something that the person closest to them will keep as a memory. I have had the honor of creating a tallit from this cherished string. I’ll actually stitch a little pocket underneath the attarah and put the tzitzit inside. Whenever the tallit is worn, you’re actually carrying your loved one with you.”
Tallit created by Amy Lassman for a Cantor in New York. The text reads “Right by the side is the Eternal to all who call out, seeking truth for all who desire it”
Maggie Holtzberg is Folk Arts & Heritage Manager at Mass Cultural Council.
Author Heritage8Posted on March 20, 2018 April 25, 2018 Categories Annual celebrations, Craft, Religious customs, Sacred expressionsTags chuppah, Jewish customs, Jewish sartorial customs, Judaica, kippah, kippot, tallis, tallitLeave a comment on The power of a custom-made religious garment
Diwali goes Mainstream
What does it mean when ancient holdidays, grounded in ethnic identity and religious belief and celebrated by cultural insiders for centuries, are brought to mainstream, high profile venues to be shared, celebrated, and interpreted? Who benefits? What is gained and what is lost when a festival moves from private space (a temple, a home) to a public space (a state house, city hall, or museum)? How is cultural meaning negotiated?
For the last five years, Amit Dixit, the leading light behind the South Asian Arts and Cultural Council, has organized an annual Diwali lighting ceremony at the Massachusetts State House.
The invitation to attend describes Diwali, popularly known as The Festival of Lights, as “. . . the most sacred of Indian holidays celebrated by Hindu communities throughout the world, including those in the Indian diaspora together with worshipers of Hinduism in Nepal, Singapore, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. The holiday is the embodiment of the supremacy of divine light over spiritual darkness, of knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. Diwali is associated with great optimism, generosity and, most importantly, new hopes for the future.”
Those attending the State House event on October 29, 2016 were a mixture of cultural insiders, government employees, and members of the general public.
An official from The United States Postal Service was present to help unveil the Diwali forever stamp.
Diwali is celebrated for seven days every autumn. This year Diwali officially began on Sunday, October 30 and ran through Saturday November 5. Mid-way through, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston held its own celebration of the Festival of Lights. On offer was a splendid variety of South Asian expressive traditions including music, dance, Madhubani and Mithila art making, and a moderated discussion about Diwali in Boston and around the world.
Having the MFA celebrate Diwali helps legitimize the expressive traditions of lesser known cultural communities. As Saraswathi Jones (second from left), who grew up in one of the only Bengali families in Grand Rapids, Michigan put it, “It’s meaningful. It’s validating.”
In writing about Washington DC’s Latino Festival (1991), Olivia Cadaval says, “The festival transforms physical space into a means to cultural identity. As a temporary center of power, the festival brings together large numbers of Latinos, unifies space, and generates action, during which symbols and traditions are manipulated, cultural forms are given expression, relationships are negotiated, and new social identities are forged.”
Although it’s a vastly different culture and a different time, I believe Cavadal’s observations still hold true. In addition to introducing cultural outsiders to Diwali, the public acknowledgement of an ancient holiday rooted in Sanskrit and prayer trumps linguistic, regional, and national differences, creating solidarity among South Asians who make Massachusetts home.
Things work best when ethnic self-representation and institutionally curated presentations are done collaboratively. It’s a win win.The MFA’s event planners are to be commended for working with cultural insiders to interpret and present expressive traditions that might otherwise be little understood by cultural outsiders.
Author Heritage8Posted on November 4, 2016 Categories Annual celebrations, Festivals, Public program, Sacred expressionsTags Diwali, Kathak, Mithila arts, Museum programming, Odissi danceLeave a comment on Diwali goes Mainstream
Snapshots from a Festival: Folk Craft & Foodways Celebrate 30 Years
It’s not every year that you see a festival’s logo carved into a watermelon. Indeed, this was a very special year for the Lowell Folk Festival. We celebrated 30 years of presenting the best in traditional music, craft, and foodways. Here are some images from the Folk Craft & Foodways area which featured a sampler of traditions.
Fruit carver Ruben Arroco of Lowell, was a generous presence, creating stunning carvings in melons and continuously handing out refreshing watermelon slices to parched festival goers.
The craft area featured a few other ephemeral arts, including the daily ritual of kolam that adorns the thresholds of homes, temples, and streets throughout India. The practice is carried on here in New England by members of Tamil Makkal Mandram, Inc.
In addition to demonstrating kolam using colored stone dust, the artists provided an opportunity for visitors to try their hands at it.
Traditions of folk beauty from around the globe were on display. Festival goers could get their hair braided in cornrows or have their skin temporarily tattooed with henna. Sellou Coly, a native of Senegal, and her niece Aissatou-Ba Dieme, and Margy Green, and her niece KK braided hair. Lujuana Hood of the Pan African Historical Museum in Springfield, shared her wisdom about hair culture from Africa to America.
Late morning on Sunday, two young Inuit girls from Ottawa sat down to have their hair braided. They were due to perform Inuit throat singing at St. Anne’s stage at noon. Their aunt explained traditions of Inuit hair braiding, while Lujuana regaled us with stories and folklore about African American hair culture dating back to the time of slavery in this country. As a way of thanks, the girls gave a private performance of throat singing for the hair braiders and then they all posed together for a picture.
Noureen Sultana and her 13-year old son Danish Khan shared their skills in applying mehndi, also known as henna. This ephemeral art form is customary for brides in India, Pakistan, and parts of the Arab world. When applied, the henna is 3-dimensional. After a few hours, it flecks off, leaving a rust colored stain which lasts for up to two weeks. Danish’s younger brother also pitched in. The line of people waiting to be adorned never let up. In fact, late on Sunday, when Noureen and her family was packing up, a father came by with his four-year son in his arms. The boy’s mother and sister had gotten henna tattoos earlier in the day. It was well after 5:00 p.m. Noureen and her sons, who must have created over 200 henna designs, had pretty much packed up their tools and supplies. The father told his son it was too late to get henna and he broke into tears. Noureen, a mother and dedicated artist, kindly made an exception, giving the boy a floral henna design on his tiny hand.
In the realm of more permanent art forms, stone carver and letterpress printer Jesse Marsolais demonstrated the age-old craft of carving letterforms in stone.
Stephen Earp, a redware potter from Shelburne Falls, demonstrated turning plates, vases, and bowls on his hand built treadle wheel. In addition to working at the wheel, he shared his vast knowledge of the history of pottery production in New England.
The musical instrument maker’s tent featured the work of luthiers William Cumpiano and Chris Pantazelos. They displayed cuatros, guitars, requintos, ouds, and bouzuokis in the making, as well as finished instruments. An added treat was having musicians Kacho Montaluo, Brian Ausbigian, and Kinan Adnawi playing music in the back of the tent. Throughout the weekend, a few musicians from the audience joined in the informal jam session.
With any luck, the next generation will be inspired to play.
With exception of redware vase, all photos by Maggie Holtzberg, 2016
Author Heritage8Posted on August 5, 2016 Categories Annual celebrations, Craft, Music, Sacred expressions, world music1 Comment on Snapshots from a Festival: Folk Craft & Foodways Celebrate 30 Years
Today’s Native American Art in New England
Guest blog by Dawn Spears,Program Manager, Native Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
The Native Arts program at NEFA has partnered with the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center(MPMRC) on Native New England Now, an exhibit featuring many of New England’s Native American artists who have been supported through NEFA’s Native Arts program. The exhibit is up through January 4, 2014.
This is a rare opportunity for an organization to be able to showcase the work it supports, and we are grateful for the partnership and expertise of MPMRC. It allows the visitor a quick immersion into our world, to showcase our artists and the work that is happening now. The work here and the work supported in our program represent our master artists, our elders, our youth, our emerging artists, and those in between.
The exhibit of NEFA-supported work, which has been a goal of mine for a while, was the result of a conversation with MPMRC. Fast forward through a lot of work by the museum and NEFA staff together: contacting grantees, other museums, working on image collection and object curation, and collecting the artist statements. It’s been a true community effort that would not have happened without the support of our artists, the museum, and those who have loaned from their collections (the Abbe Museum, the Hood Museum), or their own private collection. It was an intense and exciting period, but with an amazing team and eyes focused on the opening, I could not be more proud of the result.
Personally, I can’t say enough about the art that is happening in New England. It’s our home, and what you see in this exhibit really represents the love of our land and its gifts. The work that is happening represents this connection to our land, our resources, our cultures and heritage, and, in reality, to our future.
It was such an honor that so many of the exhibited artists attended the opening reception , along with program advisors, funders, museum officials, NEFA board members, and my own NEFA colleagues. I’m hopeful that we will have similar participation at the artist panel discussion on November 16 and the holiday artisan market on November 30!
This exhibit shows the work of 28 of the over 80 artists and organizations – representing over 35 tribes – that have received grants from NEFA’s Native Arts program. You can learn more about the artists in the companion book we published, but the best way for you to really understand the work that has come from this love – and really see the talent and creativity of our amazing artists – is to see it in person.
NEFA’s Native Arts program supports projects that nurture artistic exchange, community development, youth engagement, environmental resource research and preservation, cultural preservation, and artistic innovation. Special thanks to the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the six New England state arts agencies, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and other Native Arts program funders.
Author Heritage8Posted on November 6, 2013 November 13, 2013 Categories Craft, Exhibitions, Sacred expressionsLeave a comment on Today’s Native American Art in New England
Blessing ceremony for kiln building
A blessing ceremony for the new Cambodian wood fire kiln took place in Lowell on June 28. In order to ensure a successful project, the potters Yary Livan and Proeung Kang made offerings and prayed to the designer of Angkor Wat, King Suryavarman II, whom Yary calls “the hero of construction.” Proeung just arrived from Cambodia where he teaches at the Secondary School of Fine Arts. He and Yary both grew up in the same village along the Mekong Delta and have known each other since childhood.
Two Buddhist monks in bright orange robes from the Wat Khmer Temple in Lowell came for the occasion. On the altar, Yary prepared offering of grapes, apples, cherries, and a whole roasted chicken (complete with dipping sauces!), next to a vase of freshly picked flowers.
Marge Rack, professor of art at Middlesex Community College (MCC), gave a welcoming address, translated by Tooch Van, International Student Advisor at MCC, to the approximately fifteen people attending. She said that this project was “a dream come true,” and it was her vision to build a ceramics community that not only included Lowell but Cambodia as well.
Celeste Bernardo, the new Superintendent of Lowell National Historical Park, said that “heritage is made strong by the many cultures in our community,” and that the Lowell community helps spread and continue traditions of the Cambodian people.
A clergyman, or achar, lit three tall white candles placed on an orange brick, and gave an introduction in both Sanskrit and Pali, the liturgical language of Buddhism. The two monks chanted the Dhamma in Sanskrit while dipping flowers into pottery bowls of water and sprinkling water over the kiln’s foundation.
At the altar, Yary lit a candle,while Proeung poured pinot grigio over the chicken. Holding a bundle of incense sticks, Yary prayed and chanted over the offerings, then placed one burning incense stick each into an apple, a grape, a cherry, and the chicken.
Cambodian customs are a mix of animism, Hinduism, Buddhism. The altar incorporated the symbolically important Hindu number of seven. Yary said traditionally the altar holds seven different kinds of food and seven kinds of fruit, what he called “seven times seven.”
The art department of MCC had generously presented Yary and Proeung with a hand truck so they wouldn’t hurt their backs! They will be helped by Samnang Khoeun, an architect and Yary’s former apprentice, and Vanny Hang, a sculptor from Lawrence who is a specialist in Khmer ornamentation. The artisans collaborate together in their studio in the Western Studios building in Lowell. To follow progress on the kiln project, click here.
Photos by Maggie Holtzberg. Group shot by Samnang Khoeun.
Author Heritage8Posted on June 29, 2012 July 2, 2012 Categories Craft, Foodways, Sacred expressionsTags Cambodian blessing ceremony, kilnLeave a comment on Blessing ceremony for kiln building
Lithuanian Summer Solstice
I’m delighted to be working with state folklorist Maggie Holtzberg in Lowell this summer. On the summer solstice, Maggie and I went to visit Jonas Stundzia at his home in Lawrence to learn about Rasos Svente, the Dew Festival, and the ways Lithuanians celebrate the longest day of the year. He will be demonstrating how to make floral head garlands at this year’s Lowell Folk Festival. Garlands, or wreaths, are an important part of this solstice festival, also known as the festival of Saint John.
Jonas is a wealth of folklore. When we got to his house, he welcomed us with a traditional Lithuanian greeting. From a decorative ceramic pitcher, he poured water over our hands, and held out a woven Lithuanian cloth to dry them. He then offered us cucumbers dipped in honey and small cups of samagonas (rye moonshine). He said that cucumbers dipped in honey are eaten as a summer treat only in the northeast area of Lithuania.
Jonas showed us his garden blooming with plants native to Lithuania, including wild sorrel, used in making soup; ruta (rue), the national flower; wild onions; and lavender. His garden also had winter rye, used for Christmas decorations; parsley; mint; wild straw; and wild dahlia. He showed us a large oak garland he had made. Oak is considered a male tree and oak garlands are usually reserved for men. We tried it on anyway, and it was heavy! In Lithuania, garlands made of wild flowers, healing herbs, and grasses are used in the solstice festival to adorn the head, decorate the homestead, float candles on the water, and burn in the bonfire.
Jonas had made another large circular garland with linden and yellow flowers which symbolize the sun. Lithuanians consider linden a female plant; this wreath could be worn by a woman, or decorated with lit candles to be floated on the water on the evening of the Rasos Svente festival. The points of light guide the sun back home to earth. Wreaths symbolize the circle of life. Circles and wheels are important in Lithuanian mythology. In one pre-Bronze age myth the sun travels across the sky pulled by a goat. Jonas told us that Lithuanian rituals and language go back to proto Indo-European times. They still survive today because Lithuania was geographically isolated far up north on swampy land that nobody else wanted. Lithuanian is an ancient language, but still living, unlike Sanskrit or Latin.
On the summer solstice, Lithuanians give kupole staffs to friends and neighbors to protect and bless their homes. Jonas showed us a kupole staff he had made with healing herbs: nettle (good for healing arthritis and a relaxation); wormwood (good for the nerves); southern wort (a nerve relaxant used to make absinthe liquor); mountain ash (considered a male plant, used in the celebration of St. John); and belladonna (a medicinal nightshade).
Next, he showed us decorative iron saule, which means “sun.” One had a circle, which represents the sun; branches which represent the tree of life; jagged thunderbolts; curved snakes; and roots representing the earth. In Lithuania, snakes are symbols of life. Gyvate means snake; gyvas means life. The first animals to appear from Mother Earth in the spring are the toad and the snake. Thunderbolts allude to the god of thunder who creates rain, and therefore gives life.
Other saule he showed us had Christian crosses. He said that Roman Catholics had adopted and reinterpreted the form of the saule and used them in cemeteries to decorate gravestones. In the same way, the pre-Christian kupole staff transformed into a similar, but smaller and more compact staff used on Palm Sunday. The rituals of the Rasos Svente festival also were adopted into Saint John’s Day celebrations. We look forward to hearing more of his stories at his demonstration tent at the folk festival in July.
All photos by Maggie Holtzberg.
Author Heritage8Posted on June 22, 2012 Categories Agricultural, Annual celebrations, Craft, Festivals, Foodways, Public program, Sacred expressionsTags Lithuanian folklife, summer solstice2 Comments on Lithuanian Summer Solstice
In search of a hat maker: notes from the field
Back in March, I had attended “Crowning Glories: Hat Show and Contest” in Roxbury. I was hoping to see some fancy hats, the kind traditionally worn to church by African American women. The event was hosted by the Friends of Dudley Street Branch Library and it was the first hat show they had organized. It appeared to be modeled on traditional African American hat shows and contests. Nearly all of the 30 or so women who attended came wearing a hat. Some were crocheted, others were adorned with brooches or feathers, but all in all, they were rather modest. As for seeing more elaborate hats, several folks suggested observing what women wear on Easter Sunday. “Try New Hope Baptist Church in Boston’s South End.” Folklorist friend Kate Kruckemeyer, who grew up in the South End, also suggested United Methodist on Columbus Avenue. “It’s the home church for many. There are so many cars that the police let people double-park in the middle of Columbus Avenue.”
The website of Union United Methodist indicated that Easter Sunday services would let out at 12:30. So I made my way there, arriving at 12:30 p.m. on Easter Sunday. Everyone appeared to still be inside.
There was a temporary wooden crucifix draped with a long narrow white cloth, whipping around on this windy day. The faint sound of organ music indicated that the service had not ended. A young girl entered the building so I decided to follow her inside. People were shaking each other’s hands, giving hugs, carrying Easter lilies, and generally making their way out of the sanctuary. I looked around to see a mostly black congregation, but there were some white folks too. Amidst the crowd, I spotted only one woman wearing a fancy hat. I slowly wound through the crowd and left to stand on the sidewalk outside.
About ten minutes later, the doors opened and parishioners began to trickle out. First to leave was a woman and a young boy, talking about how much they had enjoyed the service.
A few others emerged, and then the woman with the large white hat exited. I admired her outfit and asked her if I could take her picture. She smiled and agreed. Though she’d bought her hat in Baltimore, she did recall there being several hat shops in Roxbury, near Dudley station.
The lack of headwear at Union United Methodist was a bit of a disappointment. I thought I’d try to find New Hope Baptist Chruch, even though I didn’t know their Easter Sunday schedule. Got a little lost driving around the South End. Finally, as I circled around back toward Tremont, I saw a woman on her way to a large granite stone chuch, which turned out to be New Hope Baptist.
Several women were exiting the church and they were wearing large, fanciful hats. So I risked double-parking on a side street and made my way to the door. A man was about to enter and he motioned for me to go first. In the foyer were an older seated couple and an older woman on her way out. Both women were wearing hats, so I began a conversation with them, letting them know I was looking to find anyone who might make hats locally. The gentleman knew of someone names Sykes. He offered to bring me inside to try to find her. More women came out of the sanctuary wearing hats and I asked them where they got them. One answered, “Oh honey, I got this online.” As she was leaving she offered the name of several websites that sold hats. The older gentleman spoke up, with a touch of impatience in his voice saying, “No, she’s looking for a local maker.”
I was delighted to see he had taken interest in my quest. We walked into the hallway that separates the sanctuary from the function hall. The service, led by Rev. Willie Dubose, Jr., was still ongoing – I think I came in during the offertory prayer/doxology. The band consisted of a guitar, bass, keyboard and drums and they were rocking.
The service ended and people slowly began to make their way out. White was the predominant dress and hat color. No one seemed to mind my presence. Many seemed eager to pose for photographs.
I left after most others had gone outside. It was chilly for April and people didn’t linger. Several older women were boarding a van. Others walked. I took a few more photos.
Just as I was starting to leave, I noticed a lovely outfit on a woman who was about to get into her car. After commenting on her outfit, I asked to take her photograph.
I was fully expecting her to tell me she had bought her hat online, but asked anyway, “Do you happen to know who made your hat?” “Yes,” she answered. “I did.” Turns out, she is Ms. Sykes, the woman who several people had mentioned. I told her I’d been looking to find a local hat maker and asked for her email.
A few days later I sent her an email telling her about my interest in African American hats, my wish to learn more, and the “Head to Toe” theme of this summer’s folk craft area of the Lowell Folk Festival. I attached the photo I’d taken of her, which showed off her lovely pink hat and matching blouse.
Dear Ethel: It was a pleasure meeting you (ever so briefly) on Easter Sunday. I had admired your hat and asked you about it. Attached is the photo I took. I’d come by New Hope Baptist Church at the suggestion of several women who had organized the hat show at the Dudley Street Branch Library on March 17th. I’ve been wanting to learn more about the African American tradition of wearing fancy hats to church — and was delighted to see so many beautiful hats this past Easter Sunday at New Hope Baptist Church. Many of the women I spoke to told me they had bought their hats online or in a shop. So I am thrilled to meet you and hear you say you had made your hat yourself!
I curate the Folk Craft area of the Lowell Folk Festival ( www.LowellFolkFestival.org). This year our theme is “Head to Toe” and I am in the process of identifying traditional artists who craft a variety of head gear (hats, Caribbean carnival headdresses, crowns, head wraps, etc.) and foot wear (handmade shoes of all kinds).
I’d like to be able to learn more about your hatmaking and perhaps see if you might consider participating as a craft demonstrator at the festival. If you think you might be interested, let me know how and when I can reach you be telephone.
Ethel wrote back right away.
Dear Maggie:
You are very good at what you do. I will be looking forward to talking with you.
In all my years of doing folklore field research, I’ve never had anyone tell me that.
I phoned Ethel at work on 4/12/12. She’d be happy to meet with me in her home studio, as long as I can come by on a weekend. Ethel makes hats for herself, as well as for others, and still has a few hats on hand which she made for a hat show for the Shriners. She mentioned that she would be traveling to Tennessee for a school reunion, after that would be fine.
Author Heritage8Posted on May 7, 2012 Categories Annual celebrations, Folk beauty, Sacred expressionsTags African American fancy church hats, doing fieldwork, Easter Sunday hatsLeave a comment on In search of a hat maker: notes from the field
Gateway Cities: When Neighborhoods Change
Many of Massachusetts’ de-industrialized mill and manufacturing towns are known as “gateway cities.” Home to close-knit communities of immigrants who initially came seeking work in the state’s once thriving mill and manufacturing sectors, gateway cities have been hit hard by job loss and poverty. Average household incomes remain below the state average as do educational attainment rates.
Gateway cities are often the starting place for new immigrants, who are drawn by the affordable housing and competitive business opportunities. In cities like Lawrence, Lowell, Springfield, and Brockton, and Fall River, it is not uncommon for aging Irish, French-Canadian, Greek, and Polish populations to live alongside a new generation of newcomers, emigrating from places like Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
When it comes to the practice of faith, this globalization means that once mono-cultural parishes are now multi-cultural, with multi-lingual masses. The 2009 documentary film Scenes from a Parish, is a window into this world.
The Lowell Folklife Series invites you to a screening of this powerful film, with special guest James Rutenbeck, the film’s director. Shot over four years in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the film sensitively captures the ethnic working class tensions of a multi-cultural Catholic parish in a hard-pressed former mill town.
Come see this award-winning documentary and join the discussion about how communities adjust as neighborhoods change. Free and open to the public.
Date: April 11, 2012 at 7:30
Place: Visitor Center Theater, Lowell National Historical Park, 246 Market Street, Lowell, MA
Author Heritage8Posted on April 5, 2012 April 5, 2012 Categories Issues, Public program, Sacred expressionsTags gateway cities, Lowell Folklife Series, Scenes from a ParishLeave a comment on Gateway Cities: When Neighborhoods Change
Native American Woodlands Folklife Talk by Dana Benner
Curious about the Native peoples who once lived along the banks of the Merrimack River? The Lowell Folklife Series invites you to a talk by Dana Benner on Saturday, November 5 at the Event Center of the Boott Mills Museum. When most people think of Native peoples at or around the time of contact with Europeans, they think either of Thanksgiving or fierce warfare. Many people are unaware of the extensive social traditions, trade relations, and industrious nature of the Native nations. The area along the Merrimack River that we define as Lowell was home to the Pennacook people. Just to the south were the Massachusett, who were direct trading partners with the Pennacook. Mr. Dana Benner will explore the rich traditions of the Pennacook nation, leaving the audience with a greater appreciation of the people who once called this area home.
Dana Benner is of Micmac/Penobscot/Piqwacket descent and is a member of the Inter-Tribal Council of New Hampshire. He has been studying Native history and culture his entire life and has been writing about it for over 25 years. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in U.S. History and Native Culture from Granite State College and he is working on his M.Ed in Heritage Studies with a concentration in Native History and Culture from Plymouth State University.
This talk is free and open to the public.
2:00 p.m @ 2nd Floor Event Center, Boott Mills Museum
110 John Street, Lowell, MA
For more information: 978-275-1719
Event sponsored by the Lowell National Historical Park and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Author Heritage8Posted on October 25, 2011 Categories Craft, Cultural Documentation, Foodways, Music, Public program, Sacred expressions, Verbal artsTags Boott Mills Museum, Dana Benner, Lowell, Lowell Folklife Series, Massachusetts, Merrimack River, Native Americans, Pennacook NationLeave a comment on Native American Woodlands Folklife Talk by Dana Benner
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Nick Quarm Industrial Metal, Harsh EBM With all the 'We demand Better' arguments circulating around, and Neon/Cyber elements receiving seriously critical feedback across the internet, California's N.P.M.N ( Neco Praeoccupor Morte Nex) have arrived at a seriously bad time. Especially with the title of this release.
That being said, their transition into metal/trance/aggrotech isn't one that's attempted too often, and their clever (although somewhat clichéd) use of latin at least nullifies the 'no brain, no talent' argument. Is this enough to silent the critics and make a delightful demo?
"Eternal Miseries" starts with a C-Lekktor style progression, dwelling in the trance-inspired distorted areas that we come to expect from this trope. It's instrumental however, and at just short of three minutes takes a calculated gamble.
"Fucking666" won't win over people who are still looking for excuses to slam the traditional, but it has some merit. It starts off slowly and actually sounds brooding and unique. I can't talk about presets or composition, as I'm not a composer and have never touched a VST/DAW/etc, but it doesn't sound too familiar. It's eight minutes long, and the vocals are really low in the mix, which for me is a point that needs to be worked on. It doesn't kill the demo for me, but it raises a deep concern.
This release actually has a clear identity. It's 7 tracks and 50 minutes. Most tracks are at least 7:00 or longer. NPMN's music is not amazing, but it's playable in clubs, and the duo have some semblance of ability. With a much-needed mastering, this release could be picked up - as for silencing the naysayers? It won't happen, but at least the usual moot points don't apply.
I'll look for future material. I'm not convinced by this, but I've reviewed worse and gone on to become a fan. I suggest that the duo focus on "Ecomog" as a track to push - it's seriously bouncy.
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The Sarasota Chapter was founded by a Boston Irishman named John Whelan who came to watch the Boston Red Sox play at Payne Park behind the courthouse. He called choir directors, visited service clubs, met with newspaper publishers and spread the word. He put an ad in the paper announcing that those interested in singing in a barbershop chorus and quartets should meet in the Orange Blossom hotel mezzanine at a set time and date. Much to his surprise sixty men showed up ready to sing. With no printed music but love for the four-part harmony and wild enthusiasm, they sang and sang. They then decided to join the mysterious group called the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA).
Officers were elected, dues collected, and with sponsorship from the Tampa Chapter (The Heralds of Harmony Chorus), a charter was received in May, 1949 from the SPEBSQSA headquarters and the Sarasota Chapter (Sarasota Chorus of the Keys Chorus) was official. Since that time the SPEBSQSA is now more commonly referred to as the Barbershop Harmony Society and the Sarasota Chapter has grown to an organization of 100 members. At full strength, with the return of the Snowbirds during the winter, the singing unit of the chorus grows to 40 -60 men.
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1. Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Author: Norbert Scholz
Content Type: Journal Article
Journal: Journal of Palestine Studies
Institution: Institute for Palestine Studies
Abstract: This section lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Entries are classified under the following headings: Reference and General; History (through 1948) and Geography; Palestinian Politics and Society; Jerusalem; Israeli Politics, Society, and Zionism; Arab and Middle Eastern Politics; International Relations; Law; Military; Economy, Society, and Education; Literature, Arts, and Culture; Book Reviews; and Reports Received.
Topic: International Relations, Politics, Law
Political Geography: Middle East, Israel, Arabia
2. Counter-State Zionism and Political Zionism
Author: Ephraim Nimni
Abstract: Zionism: One or many? Obsolete? Irreconcilably divided? Ethnocentric? Is there a Zionism compatible with nondiscrimination of Palestinians? These two books, Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism by Yoav Gelber and Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn by Noam Pianko, present opposite points of view, one backward looking and abortive, the other forward looking, expressing hope for change. Both are grounded in historical discussions with considerable relevance to the present. Both draw legitimacy by adhering to a Zionist dream. The two opposing dreams, however, negate each other.
Topic: Security, Politics
Political Geography: United States, Israel, Soviet Union, Palestine, Arabia
3. Israel, the Palestinians, and the 2012 Republican Primaries: Fantasy Politics on Display
Author: Lawrence Davidson
Abstract: This essay looks at the 2012 Republican primaries through the lens of "localism" and how candidates and lobbies manipulate for their own purposes the ignorance of their voting constituencies on issues not relevant to their everyday lives. After a discussion of the wider process, the piece focuses on the eight leading candidates in the presidential primary race with regard to Israel and Palestine, with an overview of their positions and advisers. It ends with some reflections on the consequences of the peculiarly American mix of localism, national politics, and special interest groups.
Topic: Politics
Political Geography: America, Israel, Palestine
4. Contemporary Israeli Politics
Author: Elik Elhanan
Abstract: Reviewed work(s): The Political Right in Israel: Different Faces of Jewish Populism, by Dani Filc. London New York: Routledge Studies in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2010. vii + 143 pages. Notes to p. 151. Bibliography to p. 160. Index to p. 168. $120.00 cloth.
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Topic: Politics, Law
Political Geography: Israel, Palestine, Arabia
Topic: Environment, Politics, Culture
7. Assessing Holocaust Denial in Western and Arab Contexts
Author: Gilbert Achcar
Abstract: The specificity of the type of Holocaust denial on the rise in Arab countries since the 1980s is explored in contradistinction to Western Holocaust denial. The latter, rooted in anti-Semitism, is a substitute for open hatred of the Jews in countries where this hatred has not been tolerated since World War II. Holocaust denial in Arab countries, on the other hand, finds its roots in Israel's exploitation of the Holocaust for political purposes. It also serves as a simplistic explanation for Western support of the Zionist state and as an outlet for frustrations created by Israel's oppressive supremacy.
Political Geography: Israel, Arabia
8. Hallowed Heritage
Author: Musa Budeiri
Abstract: The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967 , by Hillel Cohen. New York and London: Routledge, 2011. vii + 136 pages. Notes to p. 148. Sources and Bibliography to p. 152. Index to p. 162. $124.00 cloth, $45.95 paper. Reviewed by Musa Budeiri In addition to a heavenly Jerusalem, there is an earthly one, also invented, yet very much a work in progress. Jerusalem and Jerusalemites are not one and the same thing. Israeli control of the city's physical space and its inhabitants serves only to highlight this distinction. As in other settler enterprises, the native population is of interest only as an obstacle to be overcome. In this particular case, its disappearance constitutes an essential part of Israel's imagined Jerusalem. This is the terrain of Hillel Cohen's text. His primary preoccupation is with attacks on Israeli sovereignty manifested in Hamas's attempt to establish a “balance of terror,” challenging as it does the legitimacy of Israel's annexation of the Arab part of the city conquered in June 1967. On 28 June 1967, Israeli law was extended to a new enclave carved out of the occupied West Bank, which became part of “municipal Jerusalem.” Settlements were built encircling it from east, north, and south; now that this has been accomplished, the establishment of Jewish enclaves within its historically Arab neighborhoods is on the agenda, primarily in Silwan, Ras al-Amud, al-Tur and Shaykh Jarrah.
Political Geography: Israel, Palestine, Arabia, Jerusalem
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Political Geography: Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem
10. Bibliography of Periodical Literature : Spring 2010
Abstract: This section lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Entries are classified under the following headings: Reference and General; History (through 1948) and Geography; Palestinian Politics and Society; Jerusalem; Israeli Politics, Society, and Zionism; Arab and Middle Eastern Politics; International Relations; Law; Military; Economy, Society, and Education; Literature, Arts, and Culture; Book Reviews; and Reports Received. Reference and General `Abd al-Hay, Hana S. “Parliamentary Quotas for Women: Between International Support and Contradictory Arab Positions” [in Arabic]. MAUS, no. 23 (Sum. 09): 47–70. Abraham, Ibrahim, and Roland Boer. “'God Doesn't Care': The Contradictions of Christian Zionism.” Religion and Theology 16, nos. 1–2 (09): 90–110. Davis, Nancy J., and Robert V. Robinson. “Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religious Orthodoxy: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy and the Salvation Army in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 114, no. 5 (Mar. 09): 1302–49. Hassan, Riaz. “Interrupting a History of Tolerance: Anti-Semitism and the Arabs.” Asian Journal of Social Science 37, no. 3 (09): 453–62. Ouardani, Mohamed. “La religion peut-elle tout expliquer? L'islam comme modèle explicatif des sociétés musulmanes.” CM, no. 70 (Sum. 09): 147–64. Salem, Salah. “The Renovation of Arab Socialist Thought” [in Arabic]. ShA, no. 140 (Win. 09): 118–32. Al-Sayyadi, Mokhles. “Contemporary Islamic Movements” [in Arabic]. MA 32, no. 369 (Nov. 09): 7–27. History (through 1948) and Geography Abisaab, Malek. “Shiite Peasants and a New Nation in Colonial Lebanon: The Intifada of Bint Jubayl, 1936.” CSSAME 29, no. 3 (09): 483–501. Avci, Yasemin. “The Application of Tanzimat in the Desert: The Bedouins and the Creation of a New Town in Southern Palestine (1860–1914).” MES 45, no. 6 (Nov. 09): 969–83. Chazan, Meir. “Mapai and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1936–1939.” ISF 24, no. 2 (Win. 09): 28–51. Hirsch, Dafna. “'We are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves': Zionist Occidentalism and The Discourse of Hygiene in Mandate Palestine.” IJMES 41, no. 4 (Nov. 09): 577–94. Holmila, Antero. “The Holocaust and the Birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish Press Discourse, 1947–1948.” European Review of History 16, no. 2 (Apr. 09): 183–200. Hughes, Matthew. “From Law and Order to Pacification: Britain's Suppression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39.” JPS 39, no. 2 (Win. 2010): 6–22. Kabalo, Paula. “Challenging Disempowerment in 1948: The Role of the Jewish Third Sector during the Israeli War of Independence.” ISF 24, no. 2 (Win. 09): 3–27. ———. “The Historical Dimension: Jewish Associations in Palestine and Israel 1880s–1950s.” Journal of Civil Society 5, no. 1 (Jun. 09): 1–19. Kushner, David. “Mussaver Çöl: An Ottoman Magazine in Beersheba toward the End of World War I” [in Hebrew]. Cathedra, no. 132 (Jun. 09): 131–48. Nashif, Taysir. “Educational Background and Elite Composition: Jewish Political Leadership during the British Mandate.” ISF 24, no. 2 (Win. 09): 67–81. Sheffy, Yigal. “Chemical Warfare and the Palestine Campaign, 1916–1918.” Journal of Military History 73, no. 3 (Jul. 09): 803–44. ———. “The Jaffa–Jerusalem Railway Line, the Sejed Station, and British Military Intelligence” [in Hebrew]. Cathedra, no. 131 (Mar. 09): 163–69. Sinanoglu, Penny. “British Plans for the Partition of Palestine, 1929–1938.” Historical Journal 52, no. 1 (Mar. 09): 131–52. Palestinian Politics and Society Abdallah, Hmaidi. “The Prospect of the Intra-Palestinian Dialogue in Egypt” [in Arabic]. Dirasat Bahith 7, no. 27 (Sum. 09): 113–26. Abdallah, Taisir. “Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout among Palestinian Social Workers.” International Social Work 52, no. 2 (Mar. 09): 223–33. Abu Fakhr, Sakr, ed. “Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization” [in Arabic]. MDF, no. 79 (Sum. 09): 100–7. Aruri, Naseer, and Hani Fares, eds. “The Boston Declaration on the One State” [in Arabic]. MDF, no. 79 (Sum. 09): 124–26. Boulby, Marion. “On Shifting Boundaries: Islamist Women in Palestinian Politics.” BCBRL 4, no. 1 (Nov. 09): 31–32. Braverman, Irus. “Uprooting Identities: The Regulation of Olive Trees in the Occupied West Bank.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32, no. 2 (Nov. 09): 237–54. Brom, Shlomo, Giora Eiland, and Oded Eran. “Partial Agreements with the Palestinians.” Strategic Assessment 12, no. 3 (Nov. 09): 67–86. Clarno, Andy. “Or Does It Explode? Collecting Shells in Gaza.” Social Psychology 72, no. 2 (Jun. 09): 95–98. Dana, Seif. “Islamic Resistance in Palestine: Hamas, the Gaza War and the Future of Political Islam.” HLS 8, no. 2 (Nov. 09): 211–28. Fayyad, Salam (interview). “Salam Fayyad Presents his Project of State-Building” [in Arabic]. MDF, no. 79 (Sum. 09): 5–20. Harker, Christopher. “Spacing Palestine through the Home.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34, no. 3 (Jul. 09): 320–32. Hawatmeh, Nayef (interview). “Nayef Hawatmeh: A Comprehensive Interview” [in Arabic]. Dirasat Bahith 7, no. 27 (Sum. 09): 9–32. Ishtiya, Imad, Husni Awad, and Fakhri Dwaykat. “The Reasons behind Fatah's Decline: A Field Study” [in Arabic]. MDF, no. 79 (Sum. 09): 27–38. Jokman, Georges. “The Future of Fatah and the Two-State Solution: Power or Resistance” [in Arabic]. MDF, no. 79 (Sum. 09): 21–26. Kayyali, Majed. “The Impasse of Efforts for an Internal Palestinian Reconciliation” [in Arabic]. ShA, no. 39 (Fall 09): 14–24. Klein, Menachem. “Against the Consensus: Oppositionist Voices in Hamas.” MES 45, no. 6 (Nov. 09): 881–92. Kuruvilla, Samuel. “The Invention of History: A Century of Interplay between Theology and Politics in Palestine, Report on the International Centre of Bethlehem Conference, 23–29 August 2009.” HLS 8, no. 2 (Nov. 09): 235–38. Kurz, Anat. “The Sixth Fatah Convention: Formal Changes Only.” Strategic Assessment 12, no. 3 (Nov. 09): 51–65. Legrain, Jean-François. “Hamas et Fatah dans leur rivalité médiatique.” CM, no. 69 (Spr. 09): 75–86. Merari, Ariel, Jonathan Fighel, Boaz Ganor, et al. “Making Palestinian 'Martyrdom Operations'/'Suicide Attacks': Interviews with Would-Be Perpetrators and Organizers.” TPV 22, no. 1 (Jan. 10): 102–19. 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The westbound highway didn’t reopen until early Monday morning after the crash which the OPP estimated involved 30 to 40 vehicles which collided between the Montreal Street and Highway 15 exits.
Matthew Robert Jamieson died at the scene, Frontenac OPP said.
The westbound lanes reopened shortly after 4:30 a.m. Monday after the Ministry of Transportation checked the road and barriers were intact and the roads were cleared of snow, police said.
The crash happened at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday during a snowstorm that caused poor visibility and road conditions across the Kingston area.
Frontenac paramedics took 16 injured people to hospital, three of them with life-threatening injuries. They also treated one patient and released them at the scene.
Stranded motorists whose vehicles were trapped behind the pileup were transported off the highway on Kingston city buses, leaving their vehicles until the investigation at the collision scene is concluded, OPP Const. Curtis Dick told the Kingston Whig-Standard on Sunday shortly before 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
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About 25 people were taken from their vehicles on the highway by bus to the Rideau Heights Community Centre, where those who didn’t have local accommodations were connected with places to stay, according to staff at the centre.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation, the OPP said.
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Decca Records announce Decca Supreme Pale Ale
DECCA RECORDS COLLABORATES WITH PORTOBELLO BREWING COMPANY FOR DECCA SUPREME PALE ALE AS PART OF THE LABEL’S ONGOING 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
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Decca Records, the UK’s longest running record label, and prestigious London craft beer company, Portobello Brewing Company, have today launched their collaborative beer – the Decca Supreme Ale.
Like Decca, which has worked with a staggering array of legendary and world-class artists and released countless landmark records – the Session Ale offers an equally well-rounded and meticulously crafted finish.
Decca 90 curator Daryl Easlea commented, “To mark the final phase of Decca’s 90th anniversary, we are absolutely delighted to celebrate with this fine session ale brewed by our friends at the Portobello Brewery.”
There are also plenty more exciting events to come as part of Decca’s 90th anniversary plans:
October 8th – The Classic FM Live Decca 90 Gala: Decca is set to join forces with Classic FM for a special concert at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London, featuring label signees Gareth Malone and chart-topping classical pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plus a very special guest.
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This year sees one of the most iconic record labels in the world, Decca Records, turn 90 years old. Since its formation in 1929, Decca has burgeoned from a prosperous British company to a fully-fledged international powerhouse – quickly earning the title as ‘The Supreme Record Company’ – a statement that resonates stronger than ever today.
Decca has been the home to countless legendary musicians from Luciano Pavarotti to David Bowie, Dame Vera Lynn to Bing Crosby, Tom Jones to Billie Holiday, and is now providing the platform for a new generation of ambitious artists at the forefront of their scenes – names such as Andrea Bocelli, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Gregory Porter, who continue to represent the label’s cultural legacy.
Throughout 2019, Decca has been celebrating its nine decades of excellence, marking the occasion with: the release of The Supreme Record Company: The Story Of Decca Records 1929-2019 book, the critically-acclaimed Ron Howard-directed Pavarotti feature film, a packed out event at London’s prestigious V&A Museum, a unique series of concerts in London, Berlin and Paris, 90 reissues and releases, podcasts, radio shows and much more.
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Particulate thallium fluxes in the northeast pacific,
Particulate fluxes of thallium in the northeast Pacific exhibit pronounced spatial gradients, which range over four orders of magnitude (3 X 10-1 to 5.4 X 103 nmol m-2a-1) and show scavenging by both organic and inorganic processes. They are highly correlated (R=0.96) with POC fluxes, have have elevated rates in coastal upwelling waters, and decrease exponentially with depth. They also appear to be correlated with lateral fluxes of manganese (hydro)oxides off the continental shelf. These findings substantiate recent seawater measurements which indicate that metastable species of monovalent thallium are cycled through the marine biosphere as a potassium analogue, whereas thermodynamically stable trivalent thallium (TI (OH)3) is scavenged by ferromanganese (hydro)oxides. © 1989., Cited By (since 1996):11, CODEN: MRCHB, ,
Flegal, Sanudo-Wilhelmy, Fitzwater
Vertex: Phytoplankton/iron studies in the Gulf of Alaska,
VERTEX studies were performed in the Gulf of Alaska in order to test the hypothesis that iron deficiency was responsible for the phytoplankton's failure to remove major plant nutrients from these waters. In view of the observed Fe distributions and the results of phytoplankton Fe enrichment experiments, it was concluded that Gulf of Alaska atmospheric Fe input rates are sufficient to support moderately high rates of primary productivity; however, not enough Fe is available to support the high growth rates that would lead to normal major nutrient depletion. Enhanced Fe input does occur along the Alaska continental margin, where normal NO 3 surface depletion is observed. Coccolithophorids appear to be best able to cope with low Fe conditions; however, they cannot compete with diatoms when Fe is readily available. Iron may be more important than available N in determining global rates of phytoplankton new production. Offshore Pacific Ocean water, replete with major nutrients, appears to be infertile without supplemental iron from the atmosphere or continental margin. © 1989., Cited By (since 1996):399, ,
Martin, Gordon, Fitzwater, Broenkow
A rosette system for the collection of trace metal clean seawater,
We designed a large-volume rosette sampler for collecting seawater with minimal trace metal contamination. The system uses eight modified 30-liter Go-Flo bottles secured to a Nylon II-coated stainless steel frame. The instrument is deployed with a dedicated winch with polyurethane-coated, three-conductor Kevlar hydroline. A prototype was used as part of the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific sampling program during spring and fall 1992. A redesigned model was used during the 1993 IronEx experiments and is currently being deployed in the Arabian Sea. The results of trace metal analyses collected on these cruises indicate that samples recovered are comparable to current single Go-Flo casts., Cited By (since 1996):28, CODEN: LIOCA, , , Oceanography, Downloaded from: www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_41/issue_6/1367.pdf (23 June 2014).
Hunter, Gordon, Fitzwater, Coale
Iron, primary production and carbon-nitrogen flux studies during the JGOFS North Atlantic bloom experiment,
Primary production was measured every other day towards the end (18-31 May) of the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom. Rates varied with light and averaged 90.4 mmol C m -2 day -1 at the 47°N, 20°W station. Productivities measured south of Iceland (59°30′N, 20°45′W) were somewhat lower, averaging 83.6 mmol C m -2 day -1. Carbon and nitrogen fluxes were estimated using free-floating, VERTEX type particle trap arrays. To obtain mean rates representative of the North Atlantic spring bloom, flux data from three trap deployments were combined and fitted to normalized power functions:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 14.35 (z/100) -0.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 2.34(z/100) -1.02, with depth z in meters. Regeneration rates were:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 0.136(z/100) -1.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 0.0239(z/100) -2.02. The carbon export rate from the upper 35 m for the entire NABE study period (24 April to 1 June) was 39 mmol m -2 day -1. This value divided by the averaged productivity for the entire study (86 mmol N m -2 day -1) gave an F-ratio of 0.45. Concentrations of Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in water samples provided by JGOFS NABE scientists involved with primary productivity measurements. Although little contamination was observed for Cu, Ni and Pb, relatively large amounts of Zn (10 nmol kg -1) were found in some cases. In subsequent studies it was learned that this quantity of Zn can depress productivity rates by 25%. North Atlantic dissolved Fe concentrations were similar to those occurring in the Pacific (surface = 0.07; deep = 0.5-0.6 nmol kg -1). Although no evidence of Fe deficiency was found in enrichment experiments, the addition of nmol amounts of Fe did increase CO 2 uptake and POC formation by factors of 1.3-1.7. In this region, most of the phytoplankton's Fe requirement is probably met via the lateral transport of Fe from distant continental margins., Cited By (since 1996):170, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Martin, Fitzwater, Michael Gordon, Hunter, Tanner
Notes on the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment-dissolved organic carbon intercomparison,
Using high temperature catalytic oxidation (HTCO), personnel from four laboratories analyzed water samples collected during the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom study for their dissolved organic carbon (DOC) content. In general, good agreement was obtained. Values obtained on samples filtered and frozen compared well with those analyzed immediately after collection. DON analyses of the same frozen samples did not co-vary with DOC; thus far, DON results have only been reported by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. © 1993., Cited By (since 1996):7, CODEN: MRCHB, ,
Fitzwater, Martin
Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in Antarctic waters,
Enrichment experiments were performed in the Ross Sea to test the hypothesis that iron deficiency is responsible for the phytoplankton's failure to use up the luxuriant major nutrient supplies found in these and all other offshore Antarctic ocean waters. The results suggest that Fe deficiency is the primary reason that the present-day southern ocean biological pump is shut off. In contrast, iron was 50 times more abundant during the last glacial maximum; greater Fe availability may have stimulated the biological pump and contributed to the ice age drawdown of atmospheric CO 2. These results also imply that large-scale southern ocean Fe fertilization is feasible, at least in terms of the total amounts of Fe required; i.e., 100 000 to 500 000 tons yr -1., Cited By (since 1996):277, , , Downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/GB004i001p00005/pdf (9 June 2014).
Martin, Fitzwater, Gordon
The case for iron,
Excess major nutrients occur in offshore areas ranging from the tropical equatorial Pacific to the polar Antarctic. In spite of the great ecological differences in these environments, they share a common trait: iron deficiency. All of these areas are far from Fe-rich terrestrial sources and atmospheric dust loads in these regions are amongst the lowest in the world. Experiments were performed in three nutrient-rich areas: The Gulf of Alaska, the Ross Sea, and the equatorial Pacific. In general, populations without added Fe doubled at rates 11-40% of the expected maxima at various temperatures. The addition of nanomole quantities of Fe increased these doubling rates by factors of 2-3. In spite of the lack of Fe, tightly coupled phytoplankton/zooplankton communities seem to inhabit these major nutrient-rich areas. -from Authors, Cited By (since 1996):341, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_36/issue_8/1793.pdf (16 June 2014).
Martin, Gordon, Fitzwater
Iron deficiency and phytoplankton growth in the equatorial Pacific,
Several experiments were conducted in the equatorial Pacific at 140°W during the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, equatorial Pacific, 1992 Time-series I (TS-I, 23 March-9 April). Time-series II (TS-II, 2-20 October) and FeLINE II cruises (10 March-14 April), to investigate the effects of added Fe on phytoplankton communities. Seven series of deckboard iron-enrichment experiments were performed, with levels of added Fe ranging from 0.13 to 1000 nM. Time-course measurements included nutrients, chlorophyll a and HPLC pigments. Results of these experiments showed that subnanomolar (sub-nM) additions of Fe increased net community specific growth rates, with resultant chlorophyll a increases and nutrient decreases. Community growth rates followed Michaelis Menten type kinetics resulting in maximum rates of 0.99 doublings per day and a half-saturation constant of 0.12 nM iron. The dominant group responding to iron enrichment was diatoms., Cited By (since 1996):62, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Fitzwater, Coale, Gordon, Johnson, Ondrusek
Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north-east Pacific subarctic,
An interesting oceanographic problem concerns the excess major plant nutrients (PO 4, NO 3, SiO 3) occurring in offshore surface waters of the Antarctic 1-3 and north-east Pacific subarctic Oceans 4. In a previous study 5, we presented indirect evidence suggesting that inadequate Fe input was responsible for this limitation of growth; recently we had the opportunity to seek direct evidence for this hypothesis in the north-east Pacific subarctic. We report here that the addition of nmol amounts of dissolved iron resulted in the nearly complete utilization of excess NO 3, whereas in the controls-without added Fe-only 25% of the available NO 3 was used. We also observed that the amounts of chlorophyll in the phytoplankton increased in proportion to the Fe added. We conclude that Fe deficiency is limiting phytoplankton growth in these major-nutrient-rich waters., Cited By (since 1996):854, ,
Martin, Fitzwater
Iron, nutrient and phytoplankton biomass relationships in upwelled waters of the California coastal system,
We report measurements of dissolvable and particulate iron, particulate Al, nutrients and phytoplankton biomass in surface waters during the termination of one upwelling event and the initiation of a second event in August 2000. These events occurred in the area of the Año Nuevo upwelling center off the coast of central California. The first event was observed after ∼8 days of continuous upwelling favorable winds, while the second event was observed through the onset of upwelling favorable winds to wind reversals ∼3 days later. Coincident with the upwelling signatures of low temperature and high salinity were significantly elevated concentrations of nitrate and silicate with average concentrations greater than 15 and 20 μM, respectively, during both upwelling events. Dissolvable Fe concentrations (TD-Fe) were significantly higher in the second event, 6.5 versus 1.2 nM Fe found in the first event. Nitrate was reduced by ∼5 μM day-1 within this second upwelled plume as compared to a drawdown of ∼2 μM day-1 within the first plume. Silicate was reduced in a ratio of 1.2 mol Si:mol NO3 in the high Fe waters of the second plume as compared to a ratio of 2.2 in the lower Fe waters of the first plume. The observed differences in nutrient utilization are consistent with some degree of iron limitation. The area of increased dissolvable Fe in the second upwelling event was coincident with elevated particulate Fe concentrations, indicating the particulate pool as a possible source of the observed increase in TD-Fe. The elevated particulate Fe in surface waters was a result of resuspended sediments in the bottom boundary layer (BBL) of the shallow shelf being transported to the surface during upwelling. Particulate (and dissolvable) iron concentrations were significantly reduced as upwelling continued. This was most probably due to a decoupling of the BBL from upwelled source waters as the upwelling front moved offshore and/or reduced turbulence in the BBL as upwelling continued. The observed reduction in both particulate and dissolvable Fe, as upwelling continued to deliver macronutrients to surface waters, may result in varying levels of Fe limitation., Cited By (since 1996):35, CODEN: CSHRD, ,
Fitzwater, Johnson, Elrod, Ryan, Coletti, Tanner, Gordon, Chavez
IronEx-I, an in situ iron-enrichment experiment,
An in situ iron-enrichment experiment near the Galapagos Islands was performed in October 1993. Here we report the theoretical and practical considerations of creating such a patch of iron-enriched surface water, as well as the strategies employed for the detection of the patch and the biological and chemical signals which developed, in an area dominated by advective processes. Physical and chemical models were used to predict the speciation, solubility, and the final concentration of iron in surface waters injected with acidic iron sulfate. A trial injection off the California coast in which 800 L of a 0.5 M FeSO4 were introduced into the ship's wake over a 1.5 km2 area, was used to test these predictions. Iron concentrations were determined continually onboard during the initial experiment as the ship steamed in transects through the enriched patch. The results indicate excellent spatial agreement with model predictions and final concentrations that were consistent with the chemical model. However, the use of a Cartesian coordinate system during rejection resulted in an extremely compressed, heterogeneous patch. Results from this preliminary experiment were then applied towards the development and implementation of the first open ocean iron enrichment experiment (IronEx I) near the Galapagos Islands in October 1993. The development and results of these methodologies are presented. In the IronEx I equatorial experiment, a Lagrangian coordinate system was established using a drogued buoy (equipped with GPS and packet radio) and the iron-enriched area (64 km2 containing 443 kg of Fe) was tagged with the inert chemical tracer sulfurhexafluoride (SF6). This strategy resulted in a fairly rectangular, homogeneous enriched patch initially detectable by both Fe and SF6 determination. Shipboard analysis and airborne observations confirmed good spatial agreement between the Lagrangian drifter and the biological and chemical signatures in the patch. Biological and chemical sampling of the enriched area showed an increase in chlorophyll, primary production, biomass and photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency relative to waters outside the patch, supporting the hypothesis that iron limits phytoplankton growth and biomass in a 'bottom up' manner in this area. The ability to create a coherent patch and track it over time led to this first open-ocean test of the iron hypothesis., Cited By (since 1996):42, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Coale, Johnson, Fitzwater, Blain, Stanton, Coley
Developing standards for dissolved iron in seawater
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Johnson, Boyle, Bruland, Coale, Measures, Moffett, Aguilar-Islas, Barbeau, Bergquist, Bowie, Buck, Cai, Chase, Cullen, Doi, Elrod, Fitzwater, Gordon, King, Laan, Laglera-Baquer, Landing, Lohan, Mendez, Milne, Obata, Ossiander, Plant, Sarthou, Sedwick, Smith, Sohst, Tanner, Van den Berg, Wu
Iron in Antarctic waters,
WE are testing the hypothesis that Antarctic phytoplankton suffer from iron deficiency 1-3 which prevents them from blooming and using up the luxuriant supplies of major nutrients found in vast areas of the southern ocean. Here we report that highly productive 4 (∼3 g Cm -2 day -1), neritic Gerlache Strait waters have an abundance of Fe (7.4 nmol kg -1) which facilitates phytoplankton blooming and major nutrient removal, while in low-productivity 4 (∼0.1 g Cm -2 day -1), offshore Drake Passage waters, the dissolved Fe levels are so low (0.16 nmol kg -1) that the phytoplankton are able to use less than 10% of the major nutrients available to them. The verification of present-day Fe deficiency is of interest as iron-stimulated phytoplankton growth may have contributed to the drawing down of atmospheric CO 2 during glacial maxima 2,3; it is also important because oceanic iron fertilization aimed at the enhancement of phytoplankton production may turn out to be the most feasible method of stimulating the active removal of greenhouse gas CO 2 from the atmosphere, if the need arises (J.H.M., manuscript in preparation)., Cited By (since 1996):449, CODEN: NATUA, ,
Primary productivity and trace-metal contamination measurements from a clean rosette system versus ultra-clean Go-Flo bottles,
Primary productivity rates, measured during the 1992 United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) process study with a new Trace-Metal clean rosette system (TM rosette) designed to be trace-metal clean, agreed within 5% with those determined using ultra-clean procedures that were previously shown to be trace-metal clean. The TM rosette system did not inhibit phytoplankton primary productivity rates. Using the TM rosette system, there was no contamination of Co, Ni, Cu, Cd or Pb, and only slight contamination of Fe and Zn, relative to ultra-clean collection. However, the slight contaminations were below levels that affect primary productivity rates. Therefore, systematic phytoplankton inhibition by trace-metal contamination appears to have been successfully eliminated with water collected using the TM rosette system. © 1995., Cited By (since 1996):16, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Sanderson, Hunter, Fitzwater, Gordon, Barber
Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean,
The idea that iron might limit phytoplankton growth in large regions of the ocean has been tested by enriching an area of 64 km 2 in the open equatorial Pacific Ocean with iron. This resulted in a doubling of plant biomass, a threefold increase in chlorophyll and a fourfold increase in plant production. Similar increases were found in a chlorophyll-rich plume down-stream of the Galapagos Islands, which was naturaly enriched in iron. These findings indicate that iron limitation can control rates of phytoplankton productivity and biomass in the ocean., Cited By (since 1996):749, Oceanography, CODEN: NATUA, ,
Martin, Coale, Johnson, Fitzwater, Gordon, Tanner, Hunter, Elrod, Nowicki, Coley, Barber, Lindley, Watson, Van Scoy, Law, Liddicoat, Ling, Stanton, Stockel, Collins, Anderson, Bidigare, Ondrusek, Latasa, Millero, Lee, Yao, Zhang, Friederich, Sakamoto, Chavez, Buck, Kolber, Greene, Falkowski, Chisholm, Hoge, Swift, Yungel, Turner, Nightingale, Hatton, Liss, Tindale
Effect of iron limitation on the cadmium to phosphorus ratio of natural phytoplankton assemblages from the Southern Ocean,
There is considerable interest in the biogeochemical cycling of cadmium (Cd) and phosphate (PO 4) in surface waters, driven in part by the ongoing development of a paleonutrient proxy that utilizes Cd preserved in fossil planktonic foraminifera to determine past PO 4 utilization efficiencies in ocean surface waters. The present article reports the results of a field study into the effects of Fe limitation on the Cd:P composition of natural assemblages of marine phytoplankton in the Antarctic Zone of the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. Iron enrichment to shipboard incubation bottles led to increases in community growth rate and final biomass. After 10.7 d of incubation, the climax community was dominated by large diatoms of the genus Fragillariopsis, Pseudonitzschia, and Nitzschia. Direct measurements of phytoplankton metal : P ratios from controlled shipboard experiments indicate that Cd:P, Co:P, and Zn:P ratios decreased from control values with increasing initial dissolved Fe concentrations in the incubation bottles, by factors of ∼2-10 at highest Fe additions. We suggest that the effect of Fe limitation on resident diatoms is to decrease growth rate, leading to elevated cellular Cd content. The dissolved Cd:P ratio in iron-limited surface waters of the Southern Ocean may, therefore, respond to the supply of Fe to the resident phytoplankton community, which has implications for the developing paleonutrient proxy. We suggest that the biological uptake of Cd and P is independent of the dissolved Cd:PO 4 ratio. As a consequence, the results argue against the use of empirical Rayleigh fractionation models or models with fixed phytoplankton uptake ratios to account for regional variability in surface water dissolved Cd:PO 4., Cited By (since 1996):33, Oceanography, CODEN: LIOCA, ,
Cullen, Chase, Coale, Fitzwater, Sherrell
Surface ocean-lower atmosphere interactions in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Gyre: Aerosols, iron, and the ecosystem response,
Here we report measurements of iron and aluminum in surface and subsurface waters during late March and late May of 2001 on transects between central California and Hawaii. A large cloud of Asian dust was detected during April 2001, and there was a clear signal in surface water iron due to aerosol deposition on the May transect. Iron and aluminum concentrations increased synchronously by 0.5 and 2 nM along the southern portion of the transect, which includes the Hawaii Ocean Time series (HOT) station, from background values in March (0.1 to 0.2 nM Fe). These changes occured in a ratio that is close to the crustal abundance ratio of the metals, which indicates a soil aerosol source. A vertical profile of dissolved iron was also measured at the HOT station in late April and this profile also shows a large increase near the surface. Direct observations of aerosol iron concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii indicate that aerosol concentrations were significantly lower than climatological values during this period. Soil aerosol concentrations along the transect were estimated using the real-time Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS). The NAAPS results show a large meridional gradient with maximum concentrations in the boundary layer north of 30°N. However, the deposition of iron and aluminum to surface waters was highest south of 25°N, near Hawaii. There were only weak signals in the ecosystem response to the aerosol deposition., Cited By (since 1996):64, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002GB002004/pdf (16 June 2014).
Johnson, Elrod, Fitzwater, Plant, Chavez, Tanner, Gordon, Westphal, Perry, Wu, Karl
Control of community growth and export production by upwelled iron in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
The iron hypothesis states that phytoplankton growth and biomass are limited by low concentrations of available iron in large regions of the world's oceans where other plant nutrients are abundant. Such limitation has been demonstrated by experiments in which iron has been added to both enclosed and in situ (un-enclosed) phytoplankton populations. A corollary of the iron hypothesis is that most 'new' iron is supplied by atmospheric deposition, and it has been suggested that changes in the deposition rates of iron-bearing dust have led to changes in biological productivity and, consequently, global climate. Here we report surface-water measurements in the equatorial Pacific Ocean which show that the main iron source to equatorial waters at 140°W is from upwelling waters. Shipboard in vitro experiments indicate that sub-nanomolar increases in iron concentrations can cause substantial increases in carbon export to deeper waters in this region. These findings demonstrate that equatorial biological production is controlled not solely by atmospheric iron deposition, but also by processes which influence the rate of upwelling and the iron concentration in upwelled water., Cited By (since 1996):221 Seaweeds, CODEN: NATUA
Coale, Fitzwater, Gordon, Johnson, Barber
Iron-enrichment bottle experiments in the equatorial Pacific: Responses of individual phytoplankton cells,
Iron-enrichment bottle experiments were monitored using flow cytometry to investigate the hypothesis that phytoplankton in the equatorial Pacific are iron-limited. Iron-enriched Synechococcus, ultraphytoplankton, nanophytoplankton, pennate diatoms, and coccolithophorids had higher fluorescence and/or forward light scatter per cell than control cells; for Prochlorococcus the trends were the same although the differences were not significant. This suggests that most phytoplankton cells were physiologically affected by the low iron concentrations in this region. However, only pennate diatoms showed significant increases in cell concentrations due to iron enrichment. The sum of chlorophyll fluorescences of individual cells measured by flow cytometry yielded patterns similar to those of extracted bulk chlorophyll, with increases of up to 10-fold in iron-enriched bottles but at most 3-fold in control bottles; pennate diatoms accounted for most of the increase in chlorophyll in iron-enriched bottles., Cited By (since 1996):39, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Zettler, Olson, Binder, Chisholm, Fitzwater, Gordon
Dissolved organic carbon in the Atlantic, Southern and Pacific oceans,
The amount of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in sea water is controversial 1,2. Using a high-temperature catalytic oxidation (HTCO) technique, Sugimura and Suzuki 3 reported that surface waters contained 2-4 times as much DOC as that measured previously using wet chemistry and ultraviolet oxidation techniques 4,5. They also observed a relationship between DOC content and apparent oxygen utilization suggesting that the consumption of DOC is responsible for oxygen depletion in the deep sea. How to reconcile the apparent differences between these techniques has not been clear. Here we provide independent confirmation of the findings of Sugimura and Suzuki. We collected surface and deep waters from the equatorial Pacific Ocean, the Drake passage and the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland, and analysed their DOC content using the HTCO methodology 3. We found DOC concentrations 2-3 times higher than those measured previously. These results imply that the carbon content of the oceans has previously been underestimated by 10 12 (1,000 billion) tonnes, and that the new estimated total of 1,800 billion tonnes represents one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth 6. We found no evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between DOC and apparent oxygen utilization., Cited By (since 1996):35, Oceanography, CODEN: NATUA, ,
Nitrate utilization in surface waters of the Iceland Basin during spring and summer of 1989,
Oceanographic sampling at 59.5°N, 21°W over the spring and summer months of 1989 provided the basis to quantify the amount of new (nitrate) production and to evaluate the effect of selected environmental factors on new production. Surface water nitrate decreased linearly from 14μM in early April to ∼2.5 μM in August, and suggested that new production averaged 5.4 mmol NO 3 m -2 day -1, almost double the rate suggested by a similar analysis at Ocean Weather Sta. P. Equivalent carbon export in the northern Iceland Basin would be 63 g C m -2 over this period. During a week in early July, it appeared that regenerated production compensated for a sharp decrease in new production to maintain carbon productivity at a fairly consistent level despite a decrease in F-ratio from 0.46 to 0.20. New production was predominantly associated with particles over 5 μm, although a subsurface (35m) peak in 15NO 3 uptake may have been due to bacterial uptake. We suggest that light was the single-most dominant factor regulating nitrate uptake during this time. However the relationship between new production and light was non-linear in that the light efficiency of nitrate uptake varied significantly between stations in addition to variations in available light. © 1992., Cited By (since 1996):21, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Sambrotto, Martin, Broenkow, Carlson, Fitzwater
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