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Review Design Document Template for insight of needed content.
Design Documents are to describe aspects of the given model. Terminology that is out of scope to describe a specific aspect of the given model belongs in the Glossary and does not need its own design document. Rationale: the design documents under this category are specific to the given model. If the title of a design document has the same name of a term that confuses the view, it is best to find a new name for the title of the design document; however, the previous model and the given model both already provide names for aspects of that model, which are commonly used by default for design titles and may confuse the view more if changed. Icons also help to avoid confusion such the icon plus a title can be recognized distinctly from general terminology.
Title each page with "AWG NAMEOFDOC" where NAMEOFDOC is the actual name. If possible, upper case only the first letter of each word in NAMEOFDOC, as it is typically done for a title, like "AWG Document Title." The first four characters "AWG " are significant to the macros.
Start each page with {{:AWG/PageHeader}} in order to transclude the header layout (as shown above) and its macros.
Avoid generalizations in the Description field. As much as possible, write statements in terms of the now, which means there is an actual model to describe. Also, the use of grammatic infinitives is a bold indication of a generalization (some usage in nouns is unavoidable). Remember, any generalization in design is a bottleneck in implementation.
Keep the Description field concise but mappable. Use {{AWG|NAMEOFDOC}} to map to other AWG design documents. Any specifics beyond basic purpose, terminology, or mappable usage goes in another section (and refer to Design Document Template for possible sections). The description being mappable to other design documents is a power of the wiki -- use it! (especially to map back to the article itself, for example "A {{AWG|NAMEOFDOC}} is ...")
Upload an icon for the page under the name AWG_NAMEOFDOC.png where NAMEOFDOC must have underlines instead of spaces. A macro in the pageheader detects the image and inserts it automatically. For now, the icons are sized to 100x100px. Icons are a good means to graphically map the model or indicate states of the model, so it is good to keep them distinct from each other (or redo them to make them more distinct). Don't make icons too complex where it cannot be easily drawn by hand as a conversation piece.
Use regular wiki sections below the pageheader. For example if there are specifications to list, create a "Specification" section for them.
Any talk in the main article is subject to be rewritten to make a formal statement about the design or can be moved to a more appropriate (discussion) page.
The goal of these AWG Design Documents are to use the abilities of the wiki to create a concise description of interest, with such wikification, in order to express, discuss, and verify a given model being designed. Each article is given workspace for views and viewpoints. The description of interest, being wikified, is navigatible, by its wikicode, to other related design elements. The specifics of each link is tied a each design document in order to augment to consistency of the descriptions with other design documents. Thus, it is possible to verify the given model, and potential any new model, before any implementation because the links avoid generalizations and gives precise directions. Nevertheless, this does not automate the process nor mandates how to write the descriptions, it is provided only to be helpful to both those that design and those that implement the model.
A secondary goal is to help prevent discussion sprawl. Wikis allow the freedom for discussion to take place on multiple pages, and the intention of the navigational links is to help direct the flow of conversation to the given model. This has already proven to work, but the approach needs refinement to encourage the pull of interest to be less disjoint.
Also, these design documents provide constructive methods that are useful to visual people, which is positive in accessibility issues.
The guidelines above explain the technique used to make the best of this template. The use of transcluded Description page allows the wikified text (of the description) to be transcluded in other areas of the wiki, which then serves as an informational and navigational instrument.
Interface Requirements
Besides the normal use of a wiki and the guidelines above being followed, the user only has to include the wikicode code transclude the description if that is the only text desired from the design document and its workspace. One example of wikicode to include the above description in the header: {{:AWG/AWG_Design_Document_Template}}
Specifics of load on the wiki are not known. In general, transcluded pages are updated in the cache as one page, but it still requires extra access to generate the complete page than a single page with no such inclusions. However, the pull of interest is a factor to consider on the span of documents being edited without any helpful navigation. If these templates are found useful, as useful as the wiki itself is as a template, then the growth of articles is expected to be the same, but that is with the assumption a core of documents with these templates are already done to describe the model.
Security Impact
The description of interest becomes more accessible, and its nature to be transcluded allows for one change to make a wider impact. If abused, a request for augmented security might be needed. However, Wikipedia has shown high tolerance before such preventive measures are of need. If a model becomes final and implemented, it may be reasonable to lock the description pages of the that model and start with fresh new design documents for the next model.
Community Concerns
As the design progresses, parts of the model not yet described may appear broken.
Support is limited to the communication channels available. I've found it costly, so far, but I also have learned how to continue to make progress in the design, which is priceless.
The in-line DISPLAYTITLE function of the wiki either is not available or not well documented. There is a special:displaytitle page, but there also exists hints of a wiki magic-word that can be inserted in each page in order to make the title display differently from its URL scheme. I have a hint that such feature may not be fully implemented as of yet due to RESTful desires to keep the title and URL scheme very similar. For now, the URL scheme and display title are similar by such limitation.
The use of wikicode with HTML works, but wiki users still are in disagreement if HTML is a feature of a wiki. There is HTML in the template in order to use the CSS styles. The transcluded page and the macros of the template have already replaced much HTML code that have been used in the past in like style.
The approach of these design documents have been a way to test the test. Besides the progressive design and the appearance of being broken when not fully described, it basically passes that test. =) The subsequent test then becomes a need to continue the design and verify the model. The current progress has already found a flaw in the given model in the same way this may appear broken.
Besides a fresh start, continue design of the model here with these design documents!
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Andrey Borodin
History of Bank of Moscow
Role in the Russian Economy
Borodin’s Statements
Legal Team Statements
Your Letters and Feedback
Borodin’s Views
Former Head of the Bank of Moscow Andrey Borodin: I do not want to spend the rest of my life in litigations in London
TV Rain
In an interview with the television channel Rain, Andrey Borodin for the first time referred to details of his getting political asylum in the United Kingdom and spoke about why he will not challenge the 2011 transaction of the sale of his share in the bank.
Zhelnov: Mr Borodin, how many criminal cases are currently open against you? One can get confused. The principal and the most notorious case is the misuse of powers in the issuance of a loan to the Premier Estate Closed Joint-Stock Company, in which Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, was a witness. Now there is a new case about fraud, and there has also been a case of misappropriation of more than 600 million roubles. How many cases are there?
Borodin: There are five of them according to our count, although one cannot rule out that the investigators may have cases that they keep secret from us.
Zhelnov: Did you appeal the case related to Premier Estate after the investigators had concluded their job?
Borodin: The investigators have not concluded their job. The case is still being investigated; thus, it would be too early to say that the investigators are done with it.
Zhelnov: What is the time frame for the consideration of this case? Two years ago, the deadline for the investigators was July of 2012. Does this mean that the deadline is being constantly pushed back?
Borodin: Yes, the term of the investigation is being extended because none of the defendants is in custody and therefore the investigators can extend it almost indefinitely.
Zhelnov: Why is this being done? To drag out the case? It looks to me like everything has had to be investigated by now: the story with Premier Estate and the loan of 12.5 billion roubles is three years old. What in your opinion is the purpose of such a long consideration of the case?
Borodin: In my view, the investigators understand that the case stands very few chances even in a Russian court. My colleagues and I are charged with misappropriating a little over 11 billion roubles from the bank; the investigators have established that the money has gone to accounts of Yelena Baturina and two other former shareholders of the Inteko Company; the investigators have no questions to ask of those people or charges to bring against them.
As far as we know, the money has not been frozen and the police took no measures to arrest the funds until all the details have been clarified. Thus, it results that we have stolen the money, have given it to other people, these other people are feeling fine and we end up to be criminals. The situation is downright absurd. The case is fabricated and stands no chance in court in my view.
Zhelnov: When you refer to ‘other people’ to whom you have given the money, do you mean Yelena Baturina?
Borodin: Yes, I mean former shareholders of the Inteko Company.
Zhelnov: You said that these ‘other people’ are feeling fine. What do you mean: the fact that the investigators have left them in peace and Baturina together with Luzhkov do not even figure as witnesses in the Bank of Moscow case?
Borodin: I am unaware of the status of Baturina, but the available information shows that no charges have been brought against those people and their money is beyond reproach. If the investigators have no questions to ask of those in whose favour the money was stolen, it is clear that the case itself is fabricated and no logical full stop is possible. A logical full stop would be to dismiss the case, but the investigators cannot do that of course.
If an investigation goes on during four years and then it turns out that all this has been illegal, that it all was someone’s invention, I think that many people will be asked questions by their superiors about why money and the investigators’, the prosecutors’ and the experts’ time were being wasted for such a long time. I think that the investigators are in a very complicated situation and do not know what to do, and that is why these extensions are happening.
Zhelnov: The fact that the Investigation Department no longer has any questions to ask of Baturina (she paid a visit to Moscow once and at that time it was stated that she would not be figuring in the case, not even as a witness, let alone any change of status), as I understand from what you say, has in no way affected you and the case in general?
Borodin: It had to but it has not, due to what I have just said.
Zhelnov: You have said repeatedly that everything happening with respect to you and your partners is political persecution. If this is politics, what is the Russian side after, given the fact that you are already officially a political refugee and, understandably, the UK as a rule does not extradite those to whom it grants the status? What then are they after?
Borodin: I think that the system, once in motion, I mean the law-enforcement system, it, regrettably, must go full circle, as established as far back as in Stalin’s time. On the other hand, the fact that the UK has recognized our case to be a political one means nothing to the Russian authorities. Therefore, they continue their work without losing the hope to request extradition again one day.
I think that the investigators are under serious pressure from those who took part in the takeover of the Bank of Moscow, those whose role I later described in full. I am talking about former Russian president Medvedev, his advisor Yusufov, VTB bank chairman Kostin, Moscow mayor Sobyanin and several other people. I think that all these people are trying to exert pressure on the investigators in order to achieve the desired result.
Also, let us not forget about yet another fact: as is known, the state allocated huge amounts of money to achieve financial health of the Bank of Moscow. I have said repeatedly that the Bank of Moscow did not need any reorganization for financial-health reasons when I headed it, in the period when the bank was being taken over. Consequently, if the cases that are currently under way against us are closed, a question will inevitably arise about why and on what grounds the state allocated huge amounts of money and in whose interests was the money allocated. I think that many people have reasons to fear such a turn of events.
Zhelnov: You have repeatedly named former president Medvedev and former energy minister Igor Yusufov as well as VTB head Andrei Kostin in the context of the Bank of Moscow takeover and their being interested in such a takeover. Did the listing of those well-known names serve as grounds for the UK to grant you political asylum in 2013?
Borodin: I am not prepared to tell you how the British interior system works, because I have no idea of what is happening inside it. An individual who requests political asylum must file an application and attach to it all the documents that will prove that the story told did take place. It is then that appropriate services within the ministry decide whether or not that is true, whether or not they need to believe it. I think that by simply giving the names of high-level officials you do not guarantee a positive decision, but this is such a black box that a simple man is in no position to look inside it.
Zhelnov: What proofs do you have of that the persons you list are involved in your case? Apart from meetings with them and talks with Kostin, then still voluntary talks about VTB obtaining a share in the capital of the Bank of Moscow, what other evidence of involvement do you have, particularly, that of Medvedev?
Borodin: I would not like to describe in detail all the evidence that we handed over to the British authorities at this point, but I think that the fact that the government of the United Kingdom has made such a decision shows that we had good grounds to talk about involvement of those particular individuals in the takeover of the Bank of Moscow.
Zhelnov: Do I understand it correctly that the listing of those particular individuals became a weighty argument for the British side to grant you political asylum? Otherwise, where else is politics present then?
Borodin: The listing of those individuals together with available documentary evidence of their participation.
Zhelnov: What kind of evidence is that, if you could just name them, like audio recordings, videos? As I understand, you have never met or contacted with Medvedev at that period.
Borodin: I would not like to go into such details as the case is not closed yet and this can be used again.
Zhelnov: Used by whom – the British side or the Russian side?
Borodin: I may need that for certain litigations.
Zhelnov: After Vladimir Putin became president, did you try to seek a reconsideration of your cases, say through courts or through confidential conversations? For example, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, your colleague also residing in the UK, has said that Dmitry Medvedev has helped him in closing the criminal cases that were once opened against Yevroset. In your case, under president Putin, have you tried to take advantage of the fact that there is a new president now and somehow negotiate a settlement if you believe the case to be politically motivated?
Borodin: Do not forget that in addition to Medvedev there were also other people taking part, and those people are close to the current Russian president. Therefore, it would be rather senseless for me to address president Putin seeking reconciliation, all the more so since I do not consider myself to be guilty in any of the existing criminal cases. I think that I have made clear what side of the barricade I stand on.
Let us not forget that it was president Putin who at one time nominated Medvedev for the post. Therefore, everything happening takes place with the participation of certain figures, backed by a system. And the system has been built around president Medvedev or around president Putin or premier Putin. The system is honed to take away businesses and destroy people who disagree with some or other decisions concerning their businesses. You know that I have a system working against me, a system personified by certain figures. But I will repeat again: the system was put in place under a different person, not under Medvedev.
Zhelnov: I see. You are talking about your innocence, but everyone does that; not one person who has left for the UK talks about his being guilty, for understandable reasons. Nonetheless, your colleagues – the same Chichvarkin and the late Berezovsky – have claimed innocence and at the same time have tried to contact with the Russian leaders and fight for a chance to go back, either as a result of case closure or by writing letters, as in the case with Berezovsky. As I understand from what you are saying now, you dismiss all chances of returning to Russia.
Borodin: While the current regime is in power, I have no illusions about my going back to my country.
Zhelnov: Do you connect your case, the case of the Bank of Moscow, now that time has passed, with Luzhkov’s dismissal and the fact that Baturina and Luzhkov have in fact left the country, with Luzhkov being present now much more in London or Kaliningrad than in Moscow?
Borodin: No doubt, Luzhkov’s dismissal kicked off the attack on the Bank of Moscow as well as on other Moscow-based businesses. I think that the way Luzhkov was removed, with a big scandal, largely stimulated the attack on the Bank of Moscow. A man who during many years had been in high esteem, with a reputation, who had received numerous government awards, was thrown out in the matter of half an hour as one who had “lost trust and confidence.”
No doubt, that was an affront for the Kremlin. And, of course, such an affront had to be punished and punished not only with respect to the former Moscow mayor himself but also with respect to those people, those businesses that in the opinion of the Kremlin could later give Luzhkov political or financial support.
Zhelnov: Nonetheless, as we understand now, the investigators are not bringing any charges against either Luzhkov or Baturina and do bring them against you, rather specific charges.
Borodin: I can only guess why Yuri Luzhkov—
Zhelnov: Why? Tell us, it is very interesting.
Borodin: To my mind, the key to the solution of this could be found in the story with the sale of Inteko.
Zhelnov: Which is voluntary sale at a good price, as I understand from what you say. And what happens?
Borodin: The same was offered at the initial stage to me, when Yusufov on behalf of Medvedev said, “Sell this stake to me”—
Zhelnov: But you did want to sell your 20 per cent, you were voluntarily participating in the operation of the sale of your stake.
Borodin: Allow me to finish. I think that the recipe is always the same: you must do it, do it unquestioningly, sell at a price you are told, as a result of which you will be free from criminal prosecution. In my situation, everything was somewhat more complicated, because Yusufov at a certain stage probably started competing with VTB for the stake and that is why such circumstances came about. Maybe I am still unaware of certain things.
Replying to your question of why no charges have been brought against the former Moscow mayor, I believe that the answer could be found precisely in the sale of Inteko. And, probably, a second consideration is that the regime cannot allow itself that a man who during two decades has headed Moscow will suddenly become the subject of a criminal case, all the more so of a case that has no grounds under it.
Zhelnov: For how much were you selling your stake to Yusufov? At that time you did not comment that in any way in your interview with Vedomosti or the interview with Forbes. What was the price of the deal at that time in 2011 or in late 2010 when you sold, voluntarily by the way, your 20-per cent stake?
Borodin: I would not say that this happened voluntarily. Those structures in which my partners and I were beneficiaries sold their stake to Yusufov for a little less than $800 million.
Zhelnov: Are you intending, like the late Boris Berezovsky again or other businessmen, to go to court and call the transaction a non-market one, I mean sue Mr Yusufov, Vitaly Yusufov? Dou you think that you have been treated the way things are done in the market, at least in the acquisition of this stake?
Borodin: I think that it was a non-market treatment, no doubt, given the fact that I had no intention of selling the stake and abandoning the business at all. I think that talk about my free will in this matter is out of the question. But I would not like to spend the rest of my life in litigations in London, unless my opponents force me to do that.
Zhelnov: And why not? If justice must triumph and you consider the price of 800 to be a non-market one or believe other actions after the sale to be unlawful, why are you not trying to contest that?
Borodin: I say it again: such a trial will take no less than five years and maybe even 10. I do not want to waste those years of life in litigations for money. I have more pleasant and interesting thing to devote those years to.
Zhelnov: Do you interact with any representatives of the Russian leadership when they visit London or those of the Russian big business? Do you stay in touch or have severed all ties with Russia?
Borodin: It is understandable that no representatives of the ruling regime will meet with me now, because this is fraught with consequences for them, I believe. I am in touch with some of my friends with whom we were interacting in Moscow. Yet, no doubt, the circle has become narrower for understandable reasons; many people act like the scalded cat that fears cold water.
Zhelnov: Your other colleagues charged in this new case, about which we learned last week, concerning fraud, currency exchange rates, sale and re-sale, your deputy Dmitry Akulinin, former vice president of the bank Alexei Sytnikov, a trader and the chief of one of the bank’s basic offices. Do I understand correctly that all these people now, like the former top management of YUKOS, are also finding themselves in London and you are interacting with them?
Borodin: You know— I would not like to speak on behalf of these people about their whereabouts or about what they are doing now. I think that it would be the wrong thing for me to do. Therefore, I prefer to keep silent.
Zhelnov: But the Russian Interior Ministry cited the fact that Akulinin also obtained the status of political refugee one year ago, just like you. Can you confirm that?
Borodin: Again, I am prepared to talk only about myself.
Zhelnov: I want to ask again about the property arrest two years ago, rather the arrest of assets worth $400 million, on your bank accounts. What has happened with those assets? Was any of your immovable property arrested in Russia or abroad?
Borodin: Nothing has happened with those assets. The Swiss authorities are continuing their investigation. I hope that the lawyers that represent my interests in Switzerland will manage to convince them that the cases in Russia based on which Switzerland is conducting the investigation are fabricated and politically motivated. I am viewing the situation in Switzerland with much optimism.
As for property arrests, law-enforcement agencies have arrested my house near Moscow, but I do not regret that very much, because I would be unable to use it in the years to come.
Zhelnov: Now this money, the 400 million, as I understood, your lawyers are in touch with the Swiss representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the money is unfrozen, is it accessible to you?
Borodin: No, it is not unfrozen. It is working, but it is not unfrozen.
Zhelnov: If we refer to your current assets, a hundredth share of one per cent was remaining in the Bank of Moscow. Do you have anything else, a business in Britain or other countries? Are any assets left in Russia?
Borodin: I am not in business now. All that could be arrested in Russia has been arrested by our valiant organs. As for other countries, I would not like to touch that topic for clear reasons.
Zhelnov: Your house near Moscow has been arrested. Elsewhere in the world, in Europe, in London, has any of your property been arrested?
Borodin: I do not have any property in London; therefore, there is nothing to arrest.
Zhelnov: You do not? And that big house where you prefer to be interviewed when in Britain?
Borodin: I do not prefer to be interviewed where I live. On the other hand, I would not trust newspaper reports concerning title to the estate where I do live with my family.
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Contents The Gallery Boxing
Was boxing ever an organised activity at the College? The only evidence of the sport to come to light is shown below.
Patrick 'Paddy' Hodgson (1959-66) sent this photo of an 'organised punch-up' between Stephen Dobbin and Richard Gilead of Canterbury House in July 1966. Spectators (L to R) are: NK, Malcolm 'Bish' Barnham, David Bowerin (later Head Boy 1969-70), ------- Bennett, NK, NK, Tony Cronin, NK.
Stephen Dobbin gives us the full story:
Mr Norton had purchased two pairs of boxing gloves with the rather public school idea that any boys caught fighting would be made to put on the gloves and do it properly. No one took up the offer, but the sixth form common room were very keen that someone should try. I was chosen as suitable nerd and victim, and I can't remember whether Richard Gilead conspired with me willingly or was equally pressured into it. Anyway, the 'reason' for the challenge was totally spurious (and totally forgotten). By the time we'd actually got into our games kit I don't think either of us particularly wanted to do it. It was stopped after two rounds (Mr Norton refereed) without injury to either of us, and declared a draw. The sixth formers returned to their room satisfied and I don't think the gloves were ever used again.
Richard Gilead was one of those elite egged on by Mr Metcalfe to do 'double maths, physics.' There was a joke at the time (imitate Muz's voice and breathy, rise-and-fall-inflection): "Now, Smith, for your 'O' levels you got a 3 in English, a 4 in Art and a 2 in Music. Why don't you take .... I know ... double maths, physics?" Richard was into computers while they were still the size of small office blocks, and I have no doubt he got into IT on the ground floor and made a good career from it. But that's a guess.
Wymondham College Remembered
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One of Bradford's most famous landmarks is being featured in a special programme on Look North called 'If only walls could speak' on Wednesday 12th March at 6.30pm on BBC 1.
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Manningham Mills also known as Lister's Mill was a sign in Bradford's skyline of wealth and prosperity. However it is also known for a bitter feud and a long campaign for better workers' rights leading to the formation of the Labour party.
Samuel Lister founded the original Lister's Mill in 1838 but it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1871. The replacement was the biggest textile building in the north of England, a building making Bradfordians proud of their city and their prosperity.
The industrial revolution with the growth of textiles had seen Bradford transformed into a rich and famous city. Jobs were plentiful but housing and sanitary conditions were poor.
Samuel Lister
Most people were underpaid and overworked. Disease, overcrowding, open sewers, poor drinking water meant there were many early deaths. It is claimed that in the middle of the nineteenth century life expectancy in Bradford was just 18 years of age.
The local authorities in Bradford has to respond quickly to the crisis. A new council took control of the running of the city, providing clean drinking water, public baths, sewers and street lights. By the time Bradford was made a city in the late 1800s living and working conditions had improved dramatically.
In the Mill
However there were other problems afoot in Bradford. In 1890 Samuel Lister's mill was facing problems. His export markets had been slashed by new US tariffs and his profit margins were getting low. Lister insisted that the workers should accept a wage reduction of up to 30 percent.
The workers protested with a strike and lock out which began shortly before Christmas 1890. Thousands of workers came out, many in sympathy for their colleagues. A strike committee formed providing soup kitchens with money collected from trade unions in the north of England.
The strike progressed throughout the spring. The Bradford authorities tried to stop hundreds of people listening to the mass meetings in Bradford's squares and halls. Then on 23th April the Durham Light Infantry were sent into the city resulting in a riot. Several people were seriously injured.
Meanwhile Lister wasn't listening and the strike fund ran out. Workers could no longer be supported and they were forced back to work.
Many were angry and the Bradford Labour Union was formed, to try and seek a political solution to the problems of low pay and poor conditions for working men and women. This union helped form the start of the Labour party.
Find out more about Lister's Mill with a special history slot in Look North called 'If only walls could speak' on Wednesday 12th March at 6.30pm on BBC 1.
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Kirsty Young talks to author and illustrator Mairi Hedderwick.
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author and illustrator Mairi Hedderwick.
Her most famous creation is a little red-haired character called Katie Morag who - in wellies and a kilt - has skipped her way through fourteen books and a 26-part TV series. Katie lives on the imaginary Isle of Struay with her parents, siblings, cousins, granny and prize-winning sheep Alecina. Like her creator she relishes the rhythms and freedoms particular to life on a wee Scottish island. But that's where the similarities end - the author was born and brought up an only child on the mainland of the lowlands. She lost her father when she was just twelve and says she was never part of a close-knit family.
As a grown-up, all she wanted was to quit the rat race and be an island crofter, but after a decade she left her dream behind in favour of a more stable income and a secondary school for her children.
She says, "I have a notion that children's writers explore unresolved questions in their own childhoods. I certainly do."
Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.
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Love Over Gold.
Vertigo.
Mambo de la Luna
Tropical Brainstorm.
Big Cat.
Sergey Rachmaninov
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Rachmaninov: Orchestral Works.
Deutsche Grammophon.
Castaway's Favourite
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra)
Performer: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Robin Ticciati.
Music of Rautavaara.
Catalyst.
A book containing all the Ordnance Survey maps of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Luxury Choice
A wonderful bath that comes down from the skies
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The National Capital Asthma Coalition (NCAC) developed a policy enacted into law by the DC Council as the “Student Access to Treatment Act of 2007" (A17-0226). This DC law permits public, charter, private, and parochial school students with a valid action plan to possess and self-administer lifesaving asthma or anaphylaxis medications at school, among other key provisions.
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Hello fellow Avilones. I begin this month's column with a "tip of the hat" to Avila Beach resident Shirley Goetz, who some of you know is responsible for the successful campaign to have Avila Beach designated as an official bird sanctuary. Not satisfied to stop at that, Shirley organized a really cool event on Saturday, February 21st, titled "The First Annual Avila Beach Bird Sanctuary Day." The one-hour plus program featured live bird presentations by Pacific Wildlife Care. The 50 or so people who attended the event were introduced to three beautiful PWC rescued birds (called Ambassadors) now living in captivity due to prior injury or debilitation preventing them from returning to the wild. First up was "Morro," a charming and engaging brown pelican. Posing regally in his octagonal pen and surrounded by curious humans, "Morro" was constantly turning to check us out as if we were on display rather than he. Next up was a spectacular Red Tail Hawk (I didn't get the name) that was perched on the arm of a PWC volunteer. Mr. Hawk was a bit fidgety due to - we were told - the mating season now in progress. The third "Ambassador" was a real crowd pleaser named "Missy," who is a Russian Screech Owl. Cute as a bug and about half the size of the typical owl we see in the area, "Missy," and her dish-shaped face and big eyes, wooed us all.
While getting to meet these beautiful creatures was a heavenly treat, Shirley brought the audience back to earth with her educational demonstration about the hazards of discarded plastics to the environment. We were told about and shown examples of everyday items and packaging products that threaten and often kill birds of various feathers residing in abundance around our waters. Shirley placed on the demonstration table two boxes of littered plastics she and a friend personally picked up on and around Avila Beach just days before, while explaining the perils they pose. Those that do not decompose tend to present tangling dangers, and others that break apart often become confused as fish food, said Shirley, who showed us striking examples of each - including the clever opening of a blue berry muffin to prove that what we see on the outside isn't necessarily what appears on the inside. Great job all around, Shirley!
Next I write about an unexpected discovery that also occurred just last month. While spending hours in the waiting room at Sierra Vista Hospital as my wife was undergoing knee replacement surgery, I wiled the time away reading an autobiography written by longtime SLO County and Avila Beach resident Cliff Branch. Titled "American Made - a Boomer's Reflections" was loaned to me by Amy at the Avila Bay Club after I renewed my membership there following an eight-year hiatus from tennis. I don't know why Amy thought I would be interested in reading the book, but it turned out to be a fortuitous gesture after all. So, there I was in the waiting room, thinking maybe I'd kill a half-hour or so skimming through the pages. Shortly into it, the combination of casually knowing Cliff as prior owner of the Avila Bay Club (along with wife Lynette who I know a bit better) and my interest in "boomer" history began to capture my attention. While I had been somewhat aware of Cliff being a successful entrepreneur, I had no idea of the depth and range of his experiences and skills. Born into a family of both renown and accomplishment, Cliff was exposed to things most of us only see in the movies. To his credit, I believe, Cliff did not rest on the accomplishments of those before him. Rather, he creatively sought his own passions and paved his own paths to success. The book's first chapter, The Early Years-Stories from My Youth, begin with "when I started school in the mid-1950s, educators labeled a kid like me a "problem child." "Throughout my early years the school authorities said I was hyperactive, incessantly inquisitive, yet easily bored." Sound familiar? Cliff goes on to weave an entertaining tapestry of his life, coupled with some great old time photos and references to things anyone who grew up in that era will relate to. Cliff also shares his philosophical and political views, and comes off to me as someone who is pretty well grounded and concerned for the welfare of others. Many of his anecdotal stories are amusing and interestingly dotted with the familiar names of friends and business partners who are prominent in SLO County lore. I am far from being a book critic, but felt it would be okay to promote the reading of this fun autobiography written by one of Avila's own. Now undergoing its second publishing, I am told those interested in acquiring the book can email: cliff@ambook.com.
I truly enjoy sharing with you fellow Avilones stories about the people in our neighborhoods when they come to my attention. Do you know any Avilones we can feature in future issues of the Avila Community News? If so, please let me know. One final note - we bid a fond farewell to longtime Avila Community Services District employee/icon Kathy Richardson. After 29 years as the face of CSD, Kathy will be sorely missed by those who counted on her friendship and professionalism. Happy retirement, Kathy - don't be a stranger. That's it for now. See you at the beach!
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PAGE 108 – January 2012
January 10, 2012 by Carl Arendt
This update’s layouts run the gamut from a micro that got just a little bit bigger to a “frozen” pizza. Thanks to all who have submitted updates!
FROM MICRO TO MAJOR
Max Sarazin‘s first version of his current layout was a small N scale at 2′ x 4’, built over 40 years ago. Well, when Max, who hails from Eastham, MA, USA, decided to rebuild in 2011, he did so in G scale, taking the layout a bit out of the micro category! His Weona Railroad (We-Own-a-Railroad), now at 12′ x 24′, has gone thru various interations, to the current plan you see pictured here. Max hopes to send some photos soon!
ANOTHER SMALL SWITCHING MICRO
When Dwight Sedgwick of North Ft. Myers, FL, USA, saw Gary Miller’s combination Inglenook/Time Saver layout in our November 2011 update, he wanted to share what his club, Scale Rails of Southwest Florida ( www.scalerails.org ), built. In Dwight’s words: “It is a similar layout and we incorporated it into our N-Trak layout. Since we use DCC, we are able to operate both puzzles at the same time.
“Looking from the top the Inglenook uses the top three tracks on the right, the two top tracks on the left are for locomotive storage, the Time Saver uses the bottom section and there is a connector track to our N-Trak modules on the middle left.
“The photo at top right shows the Time Saver on the left using the four industries plus the freight station as car locations. We chose industries that could all utilize a box car so they all made sense in receiving a shipment. On the right, the Inglenook utilizes the three tracks plus the lead that dead ends. The two tracks to the back right are for locomotive service, the middle track leaving the module connects to our N-Trak layout, and we added a rooming house, tower, general store, and yard office for scenery.
“The final photo shows how the module is incorporated into our N-Trak layout.”
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MICRO LAYOUT
Michael Buehrer from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, sends us information on a micro he built as a christmas gift for his twin-girls “(and also for me…)”, he says. Michael writes, “I built a foldable N-scale Timesaver for playing with trains and to wake an interest for model trains.
“The Timesaver measures 95cm x 23cm (37.5” x 9”). On the underside of one end there is a cover plate which is removable holding a space for the controller and the rolling stock. At the underside of the second half of the layout there is a rechargable battery from a RC-Shop, a On-Off switch and a connector to the throttle. On the trottle there is only a 2-pole wwitch On-Off-On to change direction and to stop the locomotive.
“Motive power is a Southern Pacific GP40-2, the rolling stock is a couple of 50′ cars for switching.
“The layout has a bit of scenery. The paved areas make the layout more interested and as major point for setting out cars, and it helps the kids to put the rolling stock on the rails!”
A U.S. INSPIRED MICRO FROM THE U.K.
Jordan Foster, from Cradley Heath, West Midlands, UK, sent some photos of his micro called Schiller Point. According to Jordan, “Schiller Point is an fictitious loco stabling point, but imagined to be located in a real area between the tracks and Interstate 294 just north of the real Schiller Park Yard, which was once the Soo Line’s main classification yard in Chicago, IL.
“The layout is four feet wide at the ‘viewing’ end, and four feet deep, but narrows to one foot wide at the rear, with two simple hidden sidings beyond the overpass (Interstate 294). This is a bit larger than a ‘true’ micro layout, but it is still a rather small space for standard gauge O Scale—US outline at that!!
“The ‘head-on’ viewing angle is something a bit different from the normal view of model railway layouts, and was inspired by a small UK-outline 4mm scale layout called Villiers Street that had a similar arrangement. Operations consist mainly of loco movements to and from the stabling sidings. On the short ‘main line’ to the right, various moves can be made, such as a switcher and freight cars shuffling up and down, as if a train is being marshalled ‘beyond the bridge’.
Jordan recently exhibited Schiller Point at the 2nd annual Trent Valley North American Modellers Show in the West Midlands, UK in June 201, and notes that it was very well received!
IN HONOR OF CARL
Frank Combe of Paris, France, emailed about a small locomotive project he built and named in honor of Carl. The small engine, built before Carl passed, is, of course, named “Carl”, and serves on Frank’s Vulcan Iron Works layout, among a plethora of unique motive power. To see more of Frank’s work, click here.
A TRIBUTE OF SORTS… ON TOUR!
Gavin Sowry, from Wellington, NZ, alerted us to developing story about a Gn15 wagon Carl built might be doing a world tour. Word has it that Gavin and his friend Ben Calcott are working on a plan to have the wagon— featured here on Paul Napier’s Silver Pine Tramway (now owned by Gavin)—photographed on as many Gn15 layouts as possible. The tour photos, when completed, will be collected into one album. If you are interested in participating, or just want to see how things progress, head over to the Gnatterbox forum thread here.
WINTER WEATHER BLUES? NOT FOR THIS MODELER!
James Willmus of Hot Springs, SD, USA, takes inspiration from the cold weather for the creation of his new micro layout. From James: “When winter comes, many modelers go into their basements or attics to run summertime layouts. Maybe it gives them a warm feeling to think about summer, but not me. When winter comes, I welcome it, and my layouts reflect that. For winter and the upcoming holidays, I thought it would be fun to create a micro layout. I call it, the Holly Jolly Lumber Co, or HJL.
“The layout is Gn15, with a winter time logging theme. I don’t know of any 15-inch gauge logging railroads, but hey, it still looks cool! The great part about the design is 1). I can take the layout in the car and it only takes up ⅔ of the back seat. And 2). The layout can be operated two different ways: as a point-to-point system, or as two separate tuning fork layouts.
“The inspiration of the design was from several layouts on this site, most notably Foldingham by Giles Barnabe (found here). The main differences in design is that there are only two switches instead of four, and the layout doesn’t fold, it just separates in to two pieces. Overall, the layout is 5.5” by 60”, making it only about 2.3 square feet!
“The layout operates by a backstage section in the middle that operates like a fiddle yard and run-a-round. This allows the train to pull a train from one end, and drop it off on the other end without being pinned behind the cars. Also, on one end, there is a place to expand. And the whole thing is powered by an antique 5 volt Gilbert erector set transformer. And on top of that, it cost me a total of about $10 to build!”
FRENCH MULTI-GAUGE LAYOUT GOES FROM 3 TO 4!
Geoffrey Nickson from Garches, France, sent in an update on his SONOCAL layout. His last update was in Scrapbook #90. Geoffrey writes:
“The first photo shows the new siding, added as an afterthought to enhance shunting possibilities. Brick archways next to wagons to be opened up. Also shows the gantry crane under construction to enable transfer of supplies from the standard gauge to the upper-level narrow gauge leading to the mine.
“The close up of new siding showing how the two brick arches have been opened up for delivery of supplies (liquid, to the left, solid to the right) to the factory. Note the 6mm gauge track embedded in platform for moving heavy equipment, making the layout into a four-gauge one (H0, H0m, H0e, H0n).
TWO LAYOUTS IN ONE
As many will attest, getting the most out of our small space layouts is priority one. Bill Chestnut, who lives in Brisgeton, NJ, USA, presents one idea he created to keep his grandkids amuzed after the Christmas tree came down. Comments Bill:
“I call it Town & Country, a dual-sided backdrop with Jersey City on one side, and Franklin Mine on the other. Both names are found in the Garden State of New Jersey where we reside.
“It is made of corrugated plastic board (available in sign making shops) with pictures from the Internet pasted on it. The folding sides are held on with plastic mailing tape. The painting of the mountains were done thanks to watching clips on YouTube of that guy with the big bushy hair who teaches how to paint. He was frequently seen on PBS, as you may recall.
“Carl was a strong believer in adapting theater stage tricks to models, and this is a variation of that theme. There are commercially made backgrounds based on this idea, but I’m not sure if any are made with dual sides. Actually, it can be adapted to any locale or theme. In any event, this was a lot cheaper.”
A FROZEN PIZZA
This small H0e layout, submitted by Ole Palerud of Knarrevik, Norway, is called Frozen Pizza and is a father’s contribution to a Christmas decoration. From Ole: “The picture is taken in what we in Norway call “the blue hour” just before the sunset.
“The diameter of the pizza is 60cm (23.5″) and it is a Roco H0e. I have seen different pizza layouts on this website and I like this kind of small layouts. You can make a lot of details in a small space.”
Ole says the layout was built to fill a need for more layouts for an upcoming model railway exhibition in Bergen, Norway that he heads up. Hopefully this won’t be the last one we see from Ole!
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The conference is intended for researchers and practitioners in the South-East Asia region who are working in the area of disasters and risks. This conference will take place in Ha Noi, Vietnam from the 30th October to November 1st at the Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI).
##Description
The aim of this 3 day conference is to bring together both researchers and practitioners in the South-East Asian region that are working on state-of-the-art crisis information systems. The conference will be a unique opportunity to exchange information and knowledge, and provide a forum for discussion of new research results, best practices and case studies. The first day of the conference is dedicated to tutorials, this will be followed by 2 days of scientific presentations
ISCRAM Vietnam 2013 is part of the ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) (http://www.iscram.org/) conference series. The ISCRAM Association's primary mission is to foster a community dedicated to promoting research and development, exchange of knowledge and deployment of information systems for crisis management, including the social, technical and practical aspects of all information and communication systems used or to be used in all phases of management of emergencies, disasters and crises. Whilst there are several ISCRAM events organized within Europe and North America, the goal of the ISCRAM Vietnam conference is to bring together the large number of researchers and practitioners concerned with information systems for crisis management in the South East Asia region.
##Conference topics Topics include, but are not limited to:
Human Experiences in the Design of Crisis Response and Management Services and Systems
Command and Control Studies
Planning, Foresight and/or Risk Analysis
Social Media and Collaborative Systems
Humanitarian actions
Search & Rescue Robotics
Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T) for Crisis Response and Management
Healthcare Crisis Management Systems
Humanitarian Challenges
Decision Support Methods for Complex Crises
Wireless Connectivity Management
Inter-Organizational Exercises and Operations
Wireless Sensor Networks for Emergency Response
Early Warning and Expert Systems for Disaster Management
Serious Games for Crisis Management
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least three reviews for each paper will be conducted. We are looking for submission of full research papers or reports on field studies (up to 8 pages).
Please note that practitioners papers are most welcome (up to 3 pages). All track papers should be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format through the Easychair website https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iscramvn2013 and should use the IEEE US letter format. Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee. An ISBN number for the proceedings will be available and the papers available as arxiv proceedings.
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##Registration fees
These fees cover coffee breaks, lunches and conference proceeding.
Regular registration: 400 USD (300 euros)
Regular registration (attendees from ASEAN countries): 133 USD (100 euros)
Students (only non-authors participant): 0 USD (0 euros)
NGOs & practionners registration: 50 USD (proceedigns, lunches/coffee without the dinner)
Register for the conference here.
If you need some help for registration and visas issues, you can also send us an email at: iscramvn2013@gmail.com
##Conference Venue
The conference (and the SahanaCamp) will be located at IFI (Institut pour la Francophonie pour l'Informatique), 42 Ta Quang Buu, Hanoi (Viện Tin học Pháp ngữ (IFI) Nhà D, ngõ 42 Tạ Quang Bửu).
##Colocated Workshop and Tutorial
Following on from prevously succesful SahanaCamps including at previous ISCRAM events, the Sahana Software Foundation is holding a SahanaCamp the day before ISCRAM Vietnam 2013 (October 29th 2013).
A tutorial on Wireless Sensors for Environmental Surveillance (November 1st 2013). Practical work with various sensors and Arduino boards. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
##ISCRAM-VN 2013 Proceedings
Proceedings will be available on arxiv. Temporary proceedings
Long papers
Nguyen Hong Phuong, Vu Ha Phuong and Pham The Truyen. Assessment of Tsunami Hazards from Manila Trench to Vietnam Using a Worst Case Scenario
Le Nguyen Tuan Thanh, Chihab Hanachi, Serge Stinckwich and Ho Tuong Vinh. Representing, Simulating and Analysing Ho Chi Minh City Tsunami Plan by Means of Process Models
Lutz Frommberger and Falko Schmid. Crowdsourced Bi-directional Disaster Reporting and Alerting on Smartphones in Lao PDR
Hong Van Truong, Elise Beck, Julie Dugdale and Carole Adam. Developing a Model of Evacuation After an Earthquake in Lebanon
Hoai Bao Lam, Tan Tai Phan, Huynh Long Vuong, Xuan Hiep Huynh and Bernard Pottier. Designing a Brown Plant Hoppers (BPH) Surveillance Network based on Wireless Sensor Network Approach
Ho Son and Richard Baker. Putting a Resilience Lens on Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study in the Northern Vietnam
Van-Minh Le, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Tuong Vinh Ho and Yann Chevaleyre. Impact of Tsunami Arrival Moment and Population Distribution on Optimization of Sign Deployment for Tsunami Evacuation
Kwang Deok Kim and Liaquat Hossain. Towards Coordinated Disaster Response with Network Approach
Lam Thu Bui and Van Vien Mac. Toward an Agent Based Distillation Approach for Protesting Crowd Simulation
Chien Huynh and Phuong Huynh, Student-based Collaborative Network for Delivering Information of Natural Disasters and Climate Adaptation
##Keynotes The conference will have two invited speakers: Julie Dugdale and Raffy Seldana.
###Julie Dugdale
ISCRAM community
Abstract The presentation tries to answer 2 main questions: who and what is ISCRAM, and what are the future challenges for Information systems for crisis management. Concerning the first aspect, the talk will explain the reason why ISCRAM is needed and what are its goals. Moving from theory to practice we will analyse what makes crisis management situations so unique, and from this, detail the implications for Information Systems design. The explosion in the use of new ICTs has changed how emergency and crisis information systems operate. drawing upon recent events, the talk will explore the implications of this new wave of IS.
About the speaker Julie Dugdale is the leader of the MAGMA, Multi-agents research team at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory in France. She is also an associate professor at the University of Grenoble 2 and an adjunct full professor at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research concerns agent based social simulation and focuses on modelling aspects of human behaviour - this is applied mostly to crisis management situations. Her work is strongly multidisciplinary, drawing together the domains of artificial intelligence, cognitive science and the social sciences. She has been involved in the ISCRAM community since 2004, having organised or co-organised several tracks (notably the intelligent systems track). She co-organised the ISCRAM PhD Doctoral Colloquium for 4 years and in 2010 she was very proud and happy to receive the ISCRAM Distinguished Service Award. Also in 2010 she was an invited keynote speaker at ISCRAM-CHINA, and in 2011 she was the Program Co-Chair for the main ISCRAM 2011 Conference in Lisbon. She is currently Vice President of ISCRAM.
###Raffy Seldana
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Initiatives in the Philippines
Abstract Located in the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” the Philippines is a hotbed of natural disasters. Every year, the country experiences a series of calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and other disasters that result to loss of precious lives and valuable properties. Records of the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) showed that the Philippines topped the list of countries with the highest mortality rate due to natural disasters in 2012.
This talk will focus on major projects in the Philippines in the area of information systems for crisis response and management with emphasis on disasters. These projects include government and non-government initiatives such as (1) Project NOAH (Rainfall Monitoring and Flood Mapping Online), (2) Hazard Mapping in Metro Manila and other parts of the Philippines, and (3) Project "Agos" (Use of Social Media in Disaster Response and Management). Relevant experiences on how information and communications technologies help in disaster prevention and mitigation will be discussed. Possible areas of research collaboration will also be tackled.
About the speaker Dr. Rafael P. Saldana is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computing at the Department of Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from Monash Univesity, Australia in 1998. He is also a member of the Technical Panel on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), Department of Science and Technology, Republic of the Philippines. He is a former president of the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), founding editor-in-chief of the Philippine Information Technology Journal (PITJ), former director of the Environmental Research Center of De La Salle University-Manila, and former consultant of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has undergone special training on supercomputing and high-performance computing. His research interests include mathematical modeling and computer simulation of complex systems, including natural and man-made disasters.
##Program
Tuesday October 29th
8:30-18:00 SahanaCamp
Wednesday October 30th
8:30-9:00 Conference registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:30 Keynote : ISCRAM commmunity, Julie Dugdale, ISCRAM Vice-President
Track: Tsunami and Earthquake models and simulation
11:00-11:30 Le Nguyen Tuan Thanh, Chihab Hanachi, Serge Stinckwich and Ho Tuong Vinh. Representing, Simulating and Analysing Ho Chi Minh City Tsunami Plan by Means of Process Models (Long Paper)
11:30-12:00 Van-Minh Le, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Tuong Vinh Ho and Yann Chevaleyre. Impact of Tsunami Arrival Moment and Population Distribution on Optimization of Sign Deployment for Tsunami Evacuation (Long Paper)
Track: Reporting and Surveillance Systems
14:00-14:30 Lutz Frommberger and Falko Schmid. Crowdsourced Bi-directional Disaster Reporting and Alerting on Smartphones in Lao PDR (Long Paper)
14:30-15:00 Hoai Bao Lam, Tan Tai Phan, Huynh Long Vuong, Xuan Hiep Huynh and Bernard Pottier. Designing a Brown Plant Hoppers (BPH) Surveillance Network based on Wireless Sensor Network Approach (Long Paper)
Case study: Resilience
15:30-16:00 Ho Son and Richard Baker. Putting a Resilience Lens on Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study in the Northern Vietnam (Long Paper)
Thursday October 31th
9:15-10:30 Keynote: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Initiatives in the Philippines, Raphael Saldana (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
Case study: Coordination networks
11:00-11:30 Kwang Deok Kim and Liaquat Hossain. Towards Coordinated Disaster Response with Network Approach (Long paper)
11.30–11.45 Chien Huynh and Phuong Huynh, Student-based Collaborative Network for Delivering Information of Natural Disasters and Climate Adaptation (Short paper)
12:00-14 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Hong Van Truong, Elise Beck, Julie Dugdale and Carole Adam. Developing a Model of Evacuation After an Earthquake in Lebanon (Long Paper)
14:30-15:00 Nguyen Hong Phuong, Vu Ha Phuong and Pham The Truyen. Assessment of Tsunami Hazards from Manila Trench to Vietnam Using a Worst Case Scenario (Long Paper)
15:00-15:30 Lam Thu Bui and Van Vien Mac. Toward an Agent Based Distillation Approach for Protesting Crowd Simulation (Short Paper)
18:00-21:00 Dinner
Friday November 1st
9:00-12:00 Tutorial : Wireless Sensors for Environmental Surveillance (Bernard Pottier, UBS, Serge Stinckwich, IRD/UPMC) Practical work with various sensors and Arduino boards. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
##Important dates
Sept 9, 2013(Aug 30th)
Due date for papers submission
Sept 21st, 2013
Final acceptance
Camera-ready paper due
Oct 30th-Nov 1st, 2013
ISCRAM Vietnam 2013 conference
Julie Dugdale, Université Pierre Mendès France, France
Ho Tuong Vinh, MSI/IFI/Vietnam National University, Vietnam
Nguyen Hong Phuong, Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Serge Stinckwich Serge Stinckwich, UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France
Carole Adam, Université Joseph Fourier, France
Tung Bui, University of Hawaii, USA
Luong Chi Mai, IOIT, Vietnam
Alexis Drogoul, UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France
Raphael Duboz, CSIM, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Lutz Frommberger, Universität Bremen, Germany
Chihab Hanachi, Toulouse University, France
David Crookall, Nice University, France
Benoit Gaudou, Toulouse University, France
Nicolas Marilleau, UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France
Tony Norris, Massey University, New Zealand
Cong Duc Pham, Université de Pau, France
Bernard Pottier, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Serge Stinckwich, UCBN & UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France
Murray Turroff, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Song Yan, Harbin University, Peoples Republic of China
Please contact Serge Stinckwich (Serge DOT Stinckwich AT gmail DOT com) for further enquiries about the conference.
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The Roaring Twenties ... again
By Robert Lee Long
As the world awaits the arrival of 2020, it’s appropriate to look back at the real “Roaring Twenties” of the previous century.
The Time Traveler this week set the dial of the time machine to December of 1928, just as the old year was winding down and the new year 1929 lay ahead.
Herbert Hoover was elected President of the United States in November of that year, after defeating Al Smith, known as the “Happy Warrior.” Hoover would succeed Calvin Coolidge, known as “Silent Cal” because of his quiet nature. The “Roaring Twenties,” as they were known, were fast coming to a close.
In that year, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. A home pregnancy test was first introduced. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which would cure millions from life-threatening illnesses. The cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his appearance in the short animated film, “Steamboat Willie.”
Flappers and jazz were in full swing. Celebrated film star Shirley Temple was born.
While the long-heralded birth of our Lord was being celebrated around the world during Christmastime of 1928, some newborn babies in DeSoto County were helping to ring in the New Year.
The DeSoto Times newspaper of Dec. 13, 1928 listed some recent births of that year, including Richard N. Gore, W.E. Shackleford, R.N. Savage, Joe B. Ray, Edgar O. Flinn, C. Melvin Ross, Edward L. Bass, Leonard Taylor, C.L. McElhaney and T.H. Thompson.
Laws enacted in the Mississippi Legislature that year made the proper recording of births a priority.
“It is the duty of the attendant to fill out the birth record and to return the same to the local registrar within 10 days,” the newspaper quoted the law as stating. “All local registrars in the state must mail these records once a month to the U.S. Bureau of Vital Statistics, where they are to be kept for at least 100 years.”
In the year 2028, that obligation will be met. It is interesting to note that in 2019, and soon to be 2020, there are more centenarians living to the ripe old age of 100 than ever before.
Other important things that were being recorded in December of 1928 were the grades of DeSoto County school students. The following students made the honor roll that month, including Frances Harvey, ninth grade; Margaret Myers, Sara Kathrine Langston, Margaret Langston, and Mary Myers, 10th grade; Janice Cochran and Maury Haraway, 11th grade; Barbara Massey, Eugenia Clayton, Grace Henry, Esther Grady, John Gilliland and Carl Henry, 12th grade.
The following boys received their varsity “D” in football for the season of 1928: Frank Brigance, Guy Langston, Maury Haraway, Ishmael Ross (manager), Odell Sanders, Curtis Clark, Robert Harvey, Henry Winders, Morgan Loftin, Boyce Clayton, Lamar Massey, John Gilliland, Raymond Noel, Russell Treadway, Cecil Hatten, John Shivler and Wayne Summers.
In DeSoto County, the “Roaring Twenties” was a time of great expansion as the county had begun its transformation from largely agricultural to industrial and commercial, a period in which the state’s leaders sought to balance agriculture with industry.
Just as “Father Time” made one of his last appearances to walk off the world stage in December of 1928, DeSoto County lost many leading citizens that decade.
Longtime resident Absalom G. Perry, a Confederate soldier, passed away at the age of 90 years and 10 days. He had been a prisoner of war during the War Between the States and was a beloved member of the community.
If the Roaring Twenties of the last century is any indication, rapid change will come to Mississippi’s fastest-growing county this coming decade. Let 2020 and beyond be the Roaring Twenties again.
Let’s embrace the future together, fellow time travelers.
ROBERT LEE LONG is Curator of the DeSoto County Museum.
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Fans Event & AGM
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Moderators: pedro52, chappo, Ron, Loops
The Edinburgh Rugby Supporters Club is run by fans for fans. Please keep your comments on topic and treat other posters with respect.
by Cammo Gunner on Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:00 am
ERSC & ER will be holding the rescheduled 'Fans Event' on Monday the 2nd of May from 7pm in the Smith & Wallace Suite at Murrayfiled.
There will be a 'show & tell' from the fitness & video analysis team. There will also be an opportunity to ask the coaches questions too.
There will then be a short interval for tea & coffee.
We will then move on to the Edinburgh Rugby Supporters Club Annual General Meeting.
It is critical for the survival of ERSC that as many members attend as possible.
There are a number of offices up for election this year including Chairman.
Also ERSC are looking for members to take on a couple of non-office roles within the commitee - Organising televised away fixture venues & administrating/moderating the forum & main website pages.
As we all volunteer to help run the Supporters club, any help is greatly appreciated.
ERSC - Run by Supporters for Supporters
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Re: Fans Event & AGM
by Cammo Gunner on Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:28 pm
skovdahl79 wrote: Who are the member of ERSC?
Any/All Edinburgh supporters who have either signed up to use main Website pages &/or the forum (It is possible for a non-Edinburgh fan to be a member - within the restrictions of the constitution) are deemed to be members of ERSC.
I'll be posting a copy of the constitution shortly for all to read.
by Jints on Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:16 pm
I'm hoping to get along to this, but I don't know Murrayfield that well; can someone describe where this particular suite is so that I know where I'll be going? I don't want to miss any of it! Thanks!
Jints
Embra Debut
by Loops on Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:47 pm
skovdahl, I'm not on the committee any more, but I'll try to respond to your question.
In the past, all Season Ticket holders were eligible to be ERSC members, but they had to fill out a separate form with their details (name and e-mail address / postal address). Anyone else was welcome to pick up a form at the Supporters' Club table in the main supporters area, or they could apply on-line, and Membership entitled people to buy tickets for events organised by ERSC, gave them first refusal for booking seats on any buses to away matches, and they could buy tickets for any events arranged, such as the Forum, Cheese and Wine/Quiz Night, Ceilidh, End-of-Season do, etc., and a monthly E-Zine.
There was no need to opt-out, as it was something that you chose to opt into.
'I detest your opinion but I will defend to the death your right to express it.' Voltaire.
Spectating is a participatory sport.
'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.' Eleanor Roosevelt.
by Loops on Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:57 am
Skovdhal, is there something that worries you about being a member?
by Loops on Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:19 pm
ronan wrote: Just to expand a little on what "oops said. We no longer require people to fill in forms. At the supporters club table to become a member. Simply by signing up to the website and to use this forum you area member of edinburgh rugby supporters club. Should you wish to opt out of being a member and using the website please let one of us on the committee know and we will remove your name from the list
ronan, was the change in signing up made for a specific reason, like lack of people to administer it? The reason I ask is in the past the vast majority of supporters, both ST and non-ST, did not use the website, and it means that we are losing contact with a big number of people at a time ER needs all the supporters it can get. Getting peoples' e-mail addresses meant it was easy (and cheap) to keep them up to date with what is happening. In fact, ERSC had a much better mailing list than ER did at the time I was on the committee, and we'd contacted as many people as possible to request their permission to pass those details on to Nic and ER.
Thanks anyway ronan.
by Loops on Tue May 03, 2011 2:41 pm
I'd like to say thanks to the people who organised last night's Event. The 3 guys talking about the physio and conditioning of the players, and the stats analysis were very interesting - it's just a shame there were so few supporters there. ( Really enjoyed the sandwiches too!)
I find it strange though that so few supporters turned up. My own feeling is that the only way we can influence what happens in Scottish Rugby in the future is to show a united front.
by chappo on Mon May 09, 2011 1:15 pm
I'd have been there Loops had I not been taking in the views of Venice! Am I too late to get stuck in!?
"La claque est immense!"
by Loops on Mon May 09, 2011 11:07 pm
chappo wrote: I'd have been there Loops had I not been taking in the views of Venice! Am I too late to get stuck in!?
Just back from Venice myself! If you wanted to volunteer for the Committee, Ronan's the Chairman now, and I'm sure he'd welcome more hands to the pump!
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by The Daily SeniJune 15, 2015
Playwright and PhD student in Southeast Asian Studies, Ann Lee, reviews W!ld Rice‘s Another Country in an essay for The Daily Seni.
Whenever art as industry is harnessed to national objectives – such as helping to rebuild a people’s faith and confidence (consider the Edinburgh Festival after WWII) or restoring values besides financial stability (consider the Singapore Arts Festival after the country’s image as ‘the Geneva of Asia’ loomed large and boring) – what happens to art in terms of truth, beauty, healing, change, or just plain human expression at least as old as the 40, 000 year old world’s earliest cave hand prints?
Well, they can still all come together in a manifestly artful production that moves the human spirit.
Consider Another Country, commissioned by Singaporean theatre group W!ld Rice for the 50th anniversary of Singapore, featuring Singaporeans and Malaysians respectively interpreting written texts from literary, archival and media sources.
The texts curated by both playwrights can be quite wondrous and amusing, as evident in Isabella Bird’s ‘The Golden Chersonese’.
Texts are ‘curated’ by playwrights Alfian Sa’at and Leow Puay Tin and interpreted by directors Ivan Heng (Artistic Director of W!ld Rice) and Jo Kukathas (Artistic Director of Instant Café Theatre) using their cast of Singaporean (Sharda Harrison, Gani Karim, Janice Koh, Lim Yu-Beng, and Siti Khalijah Zainal) and Malaysian (Ghafir Akbar, Sharifah Amani, Anne James, Alfred Loh, and Iedil Putra) actors.
What of audiences that have seen the show during the Malaysian run at the Damansara Performing Arts Centre? It seems the answer is simple enough. Night after night, they have given standing ovations.
But just what is it that has moved hearts and minds so?
First, it’s worth noting that W!ld Rice is probably the ‘rebel gentleman’ of all state-supported theatre companies in Singapore – the team is known for going against the norm but through commercially savvy, dashingly cut productions.
Artistic director Ivan Heng’s sensibility doesn’t so much punish with ‘show and tell’, but cucuk with show and play. Trivial without trivializing, it’s a main-main type of affair– he flirts, we’re flattered, there’s a coming together. He bares his soul, and once, even his ass for a production of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
This is the same accomplished actor, director, producer and writer recently awarded the Cultural Medallion, Singapore’s highest accolade for excellence in the arts, which might be a paradox for some (‘schoolmarmish Singapore’, etc). But Another Country harbours a number of paradoxes that nevertheless hold true.
To state in the program that Another Country is part of Wild Rice’s ImagiNATION series that ‘celebrates Singapore’s golden jubilee’ is to suggest that Another Country also ‘celebrates’ the separation of Singapore and Malaysia. After all, one country has not become so except without the other (and it’s thanks to Sabah and Sarawak that Malaysia exists).
Sharifah Amani plays multiple roles in the first half of Another Country.
The ‘celebration’, however, is obviously ironic given that the separation was a largely traumatic one, judging from footage of ‘strongman’ Lee Kuan Yew‘s tearful announcement.
For Ivan Heng to say he took the ‘peace’ between Malaysia and Singapore as the main idea in developing Another Country, he might well be labelled naïve, if not mawkishly sentimental. Let’s face it: there have been bitter fights and tit for tats between both countries.
Many nation states have seen much worse ethnic and political division in the name of keeping peace (consider the fate of the tutsi in Rwanda and communists in Indonesia). As experienced by many, ‘peace’ comes at a very high cost in the calm of self-censorship and the disquiet of detention without trial.
Again, Malaysian audiences gave standing ovations night after night. What gives?
If it’s because the show markedly sets out to explore a ‘reunited’ Singapore and Malaysia – an imaginary universe, with humour emphasized in its pre-publicity videos – then this show might be a sweet and gentle departure from the harsh civil war of words going on in real Malaysian life about, say, ethnic chauvinism, religious tussle, and the fate of a national airline (just what Tunku Abdul Rahman and Lee Kuan Yew were concerned about). If so, then here we have theatre as healing, or at the very least, relief and distraction.
But are the chosen texts only sweet and gentle ones concerning peace? Since none of the playwrights, directors and performers are old enough to have witnessed the great separation of yore, we now enter the interesting realm of what historian Jay Winter, among others, has called ‘the rhetoric of remembrance’ and the distinction between history and memory.
The performative act of remembrance, says Winter, is an ‘essential’ way in which collective identities are formed. When individuals and groups ‘express or interpret or repeat’ a script about the past, they ‘galvanise the ties that bind’ the group together and ‘deposit additional memory traces’ about the past that each of us carries with us.
But if so, then what texts do the playwrights choose to speak to us, and how would the directors and performers have our individual and group memories ‘relived, revived and refashioned’? [1]
Part One – Sayang Singapura
Without giving the whole game away, ‘Sayang Singapura’ comprises 35 mostly literary text excerpts from the 16th century to present day, chosen by W!ld Rice resident playwright Alfian Sa’at and performed by the Malaysian cast.
The oldest excerpt is from Sejarah Melayu/The Malay Annals, the genealogy of Malay rulers and account of the rise of Melaka that Malaysian or Singaporean schoolchildren don’t necessarily know much of. Unsurprisingly, Leow Puay Tin uses the same reference in her compilation that is performed by the Singaporean cast in the latter half of the show.
Both playwrights’ choices neatly serve to remind that while Malaysia and Singapore lasted for two years as a single country, they share a very long, pre-colonial history – long before Stamford Raffles even! [2] While Singapore celebrates turning 50 this year, Jakarta celebrates its 488th anniversary. Each to her own history.
Sa’at’s choices, ranging from the mournful to the transcendent, were performed in strictly chronological order, with titles, dates and images projected on a large screen behind the actors.
As director, Jo Kukathas is arguably the most experienced and innovative, award-winning director of the Malaysian contemporary stage, and certainly the most experienced female one. Her directorial characteristics include a generosity of spirit, concern for accessibility, nurture of young talent, and an inventive, constant agitation of status quo.
Another Kukathas characteristic, however, is a sometimes indulgent love of text that leaves her vulnerable when it comes to duration – Kukathas-directed plays can occasionally go on for too long. This ‘achilles heel’ is born perhaps of a remarkable stamina and love for theatre that few can match. Still, the most important distinction of this section was the assured choice of actors to play any role.
Her actors played characters irrespective of race, gender and religion, going against ‘segregated casting’ that sees only the Indian play an Indian role, or a man playing a man’s role. The resulting living, breathing, constant, contradicting state of the ensemble (like subatomic particles) is the most outstanding accomplishment of Kukathas and her cast. There was a fluent yet unpredictable expression of plural identity and difference – it might even be said that the ensemble hit the holy grail of a new aesthetic of modern Malaysian performance.
On the night I attended, one of many audience favourites included “Happy and Free”, an anthem commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Singapore, at the time of union between Singapore and Malaysia. For all the youthful exuberance of the Malaysian cast (including the young at heart, Anne James), it wasn’t possible to convey the anthem’s earnest optimism. As the cast beamed on, smiles and choreography fixed, singing in perfect unison, we heard the lyrics and could not but laugh at the innocence!
Happy and free? Separation came just two years after this anthem.
The cast of Another Country play characters irrespective of race, gender and religion.
Now, 50 years later, among the Malaysian audience at least, memory includes violence meted at the highest offices (consider the brutal black eye in custody or the murder of a Mongolian translator), so removing a citizen’s innocence forever, except in an imaginary sphere. Here again, was theatre as healing.
Lots of audience laughter also rang out in ‘The English Language Teacher’s Secret’ by novelist and poet Catherine Lim, with the cast as Form One students who come to the slow but beautiful realization that their paragon of virtue and discipline, their English language teacher (Anne James ‘on cruise’), was in love and just can’t hide it! Sweet innocence again, lost to a more adult awakening.
A personal favourite was the excerpt from the late Kuo Pao Kun’s Mama Looking for Her Cat not only because there was little English, but because it saw Alfred Loh’s old-soul face easily make for a grumpy old man speaking in Hokkien and Anne James as an agitated old woman speaking in Tamil. Both characters attempt to communicate with one another but with comedic misunderstanding. Not everyone had to be fluent in either Hokkien or Tamil to understand the scene as the communion of theatre and the universal language of mime were inclusive enough.
I confess ignorance of many of the Singaporean texts but these will surely strike more resonant chords with audiences during the show’s run in Singapore. Besides, being unfamiliar with the texts meant many new ‘finds’ within certain lines of the performance.
In Moonrat: Tikus Bulan, Siti Khalijah steals the scene with her comic timing.
The new words and garble of the newscasters (oh those easy targets, ha) in Tan Tarn How’s Fear of Writing were funny and original. The small and tender observations in Cyril Wong’s ‘crossing j.b. (for S)’ were touching. Watching the performance of LCS: In Memoriam written by the late Tan Jing Quee, it was possible to feel loss and a sense of mourning even without any understanding of Lim Chin Siong, the dominant figure in anti-colonial struggle and a political detainee of postwar Singapore.
The ride of emotions and thrill of new finds were brought to life by the performers, and individual highlights surely include Ghafir Akbar whose any-minute-now bursts of energy and stillness (and unlikely resemblance to actor John Turturro) make him very watchable.
In Lim Chor Pee’s Mimi Fan Sharifah Amani showed little complacency from being in the films of the late Yasmin Ahmad and held her own in both ensemble and individual roles. Although some moments, as in Elangovan’s Talaq, she might trust herself more deeply to do less, not more, with that gloriously malleable, beautiful face.
Charged and committed, with a voice of real grounding, Alfred Loh seemed to gather the most strength from audience reaction. An affectionate after-image remains of a half-dressed, hairy self with a somewhat hangdog expression, yet all his characters were alert and believable.
Iedil Putra in character as the loving boyfriend to his male partner in Cyril Wong’s ‘crossing j.d (for S)’ sealed the deal that he is a rare actor with a fine balance of daring and sensitivity. His portrayal withstood the audience’s initial giggles, apparently nervous laughter at seeing two gay men be romantic with each other.
Though tagged as a ‘veteran’ actress these days, it’s plain to see there’s a lot more energy, fun and conniving yet in Anne James, even if there were moments when she relied on voice range to take her where, previously, her body might have gone too. Her face in repose uniquely manages to be at once stunned and furious, still and in despair – perhaps a reflection of all that has come to pass, if only for audiences of a certain age.
Part One ended with a satisfied sense of the ride having come to a stop. The anticipation however quickly builds up as it’s time to go again!
Part Two – Tikam-tikam: Malaysia@ Random 2
Out came the Singaporean cast in light white casual tops and trousers, rolling in a neat white board of Leow Puay Tin’s selected text titles.
The break in proceedings allowed for more relaxation as Janice Koh led cast mates into the audience and charmed us to choose the order of texts they will perform. This ‘tikam-tikam’ style of choice has by chance been a part of Puay Tin’s method, at least since the Five Arts Centre’s production of ‘Family’ (1995). It’s a clever adaptation from a childhood game, and one that draws attention to ‘the performative’ as a whole where ‘text’ means anything we read in a play – from costume to sound – not just the script.
Leow’s range of texts was also overtly literary, with many excerpts from the canon of Malaysian short stories, novels and poetry by Usman Awang, Sri Delima, Lloyd Fernando, K. S. Maniam, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Contemporary works by Jit Murad, Adlin Aman Ramlie, Mark Teh and Beth Yahp were also included as were other interesting ‘finds’ from non-fiction sources, interviews and notes: we are talking Amir Muhammad’s ‘120 Malay Movies’, ‘Lu Siapa?’ by the late painter Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, and ‘The Myths that Cloak Our Theatre’ by the late Krishen Jit, mentor and supporter to many of the production’s protagonists.
Ivan Heng’s direction was deft, utilizing more light and sound to create a wide variety of intimate and wide spaces between floor and screen, as well as moods and character to support his actors. Generally older and more experienced than the Malaysian cast, the Singaporean cast had a different set of energies and pathos.
Experience came through in certain, sure portrayals of deep reflection. A personal favourite was Janice Koh’s superlative portrayal in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Among the white moon faces: memoirs of a nyonya feminist. Here was a breathtakingly nuanced performance of complex emotion to convey the duty of looking after a mother who does not love you.
Being more familiar with the Malaysian texts, it was often just a delight to see them off the page and on the stage. Respect and understanding underlined consistent touches of irreverence needed to get to the heart of each text and in so doing, reach the hearts of viewers too.
Janice Koh plays a toilet cleaner who really loves pork in Ang Tau Mui.
Crowd favourites from Part Two included Leow Puay Tin’s own Ang Tau Mui, the toilet cleaner whose first, if not only pleasure, is a delicious meal with pork. If we’re going by loudest laughs, then winners of the night would be Mark Teh’s Daulat: Long Live and Lim Boo Liat’s Moonrat: Tikus Bulan that tickled to the point of bellyache due in large part to Siti Khalijah Zainal’s exquisite comic timing and irresistible stage presence. She had the audience eating out of her hand.
Many of the solos were outstanding, but this was also due to the superbly focused ensemble core provided by all five actors. Their commitment and precision kept them wholly in the moment, perhaps best exemplified by the three Singaporean actresses showcasing circus agility to form a tembusu tree for Ee Tiang Hong’s same-named text.
Gani Karim played the Malay roles with aplomb and authority while Lim Yu-Beng’s onstage modesty and generosity belied a powerful presence even when he played ‘elephant’. For deepest silences, Sharda Harrison found memorable pathos and clarity to free her sex worker character in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid.
At the end of Part Two, the Malaysian cast came back on, smiling to greet their Singaporean friends and colleagues. It was a utopian moment of peace and harmony, coming just short of a Hollywood happy ending but by now, we had all travelled too far together not to be able to give grace to the performers, if not ourselves, for all given and received.
Eyes were refreshed, ears re-tuned, hands held and hearts healed by the show’s many points of inclusion that attendees could accept or reject, dream or weep about, or simply laugh away. There was also excellence in terms of stagecraft.
The show didn’t just criticize; Another Country dared to create. There was room to believe in the impossible, however naïve and romanticized it might be in this time of cynicism and schism.
Krishen Jit would surely have been pleased and proud of Heng and Kukathas for being so explorative with their ‘counter conduct’, while perhaps also being kinder to audiences.
Sharifah Amani was last seen on the stage in Asrama-Ra: All-Stars.
What strikes home is how so much history (of the Left) remains hidden and still off-limits after all this time. With no real peace of mind about what happened between the post-war and independence period, coupled with a lack of transparency regarding events in the present, it might well be said that peace in our time is possible only through selective amnesia if not willful naivete.
But there is hope.
As Winter writes, “it is moral to listen, because in doing so, we affirm that moral thinking is not only possible but that it can survive even the most horrific crimes… Performances can bring us closer to those who have suffered, though it is unwise to suggest that their wounds are healed thereby.”
Judging from the standing ovations, viewers were moved enough to be taken to ‘Another Country’ and they will now live with memories ‘relived, revived and re-fashioned’ for another day.
Another Country will continue its run at the Drama Centre, Singapore from 25 June to 11 July, 2015.
[1] See Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree and Jay Winter (eds) Performing the past: memory, history and identiy in modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
[2] Sejarah Melayu was Stamford Raffles’ (among others) chosen title even though in the oldest existing copy of this text, known as Raffles Manuscript 18, the author (unknown) refers to the title as Sulalatus Salatin (in Arabic) and ‘Sala-silah peratoran segala Raja Raja (in Malay). Considered to be a 19th century copy of a 17th century text, this genealogy of rulers was a standard genre in early modern Southeast Asia to help establish the legitimacy of rulers – including it may be said of Raffles himself whose finding the text was an influence (though not sole) in his choice to claim or otherwise ‘rule’ Singapore and not elsewhere. Today, there are at least 32 versions of the Sejarah Melayu, identified by their copiers or by the collection in which they are deposited. See Ruzy Hashim (2000), ‘Bringing Tun Kudu out of the shadows: Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the female presence in the Sejarah Melayu’ in (ed.) Barbara Watson Andaya, Other pasts: women, gender and history in early modern Southeast Asia (University of Hawaii Press), p. 109
All pictures obtained from Another Country’s Facebook page and taken by Wong Horng Yih.
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Traditional Uses and Conservation of Timur ( Zanthoxylum armatum DC.) through Social Institutions in Uttaranchal Himalaya, India
Chandra Prakash Kala, Nehal A Farooquee, Uppeandra Dhar
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Commercialisation of Forests, Timber Extraction and Deforestation in Uttaranchal, 1815-1947
Dhirendra Datt Dangwal
This article discusses the process of deforestation during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Uttaranchal. Deforestation in this article is not only identified in terms of the declining vegetational cover but also as extracting more wood than the regenerative capacity of forests. Unsustainable extraction of forest resources does not directly lead to denudation, but to a slow degradation not likely to be apparent until a long time. Thus deforestation has also been linked to the production of wood - a connection which has not yet been carefully analysed by scholars. An analysis of wood production will not only help in historicising the process of deforestation but also in identifying various factors responsible for it. We have analysed in three phases, the extent of wood extraction, which intensified since the late nineteenth century. An attempt has been made to study the changing nature of demand for forest produce. We have discussed how new demands emerged and thereby increased the pressure on forests. Also discussed is the argument that the forest department's management of reserved forests was far from sustainable. The felling prescriptions of the Working Plans, based on questionable data, were frequently violated by foresters for economic exigencies. The result was degradation and denudation of timberlands.
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The Fire-Lantana Cycle Hypothesis in Indian Forests
Ankila J Hiremath, Bharath Sundaram
January-March 2005, 3(1):26-42
Anthropogenic fires in Indian forests probably date back to the arrival of the first hominids on the Indian subcontinent.However, with our continuing dependence on forests for a variety of resources, but with shrinking forested areas, forests are being subjected to more intensive use than before. As a result, fires are occurring more frequently today than at any time in the past. This altered fire regime is probably qualitatively different from historical fire regimes in its impact on forests at multiple spatial scales. Present-day fires have possibly led to forest degradation, increasing susceptibility to invasion by alien species such as lantana (Lantana camara). We hypothesise that there may be a positive feedback between present-day fires and invasion by lantana, leading to a firelantana cycle that can have deleterious compositional and functional consequences for forest ecosystems and the commodities and services that society derives from them. Despite the widespread nature of the problem, we lack good empirical information on the effects of varying fire frequency and severity in Indian dry forests. So also, we lack a sound understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of lantana's success and barriers to its control in Indian forests. Without such information we have little hope of a way out of the fire-lantana cycle.
Value of Ecological Services of Exotic Eucalyptus tereticornis and Native Dalbergia sissoo Tree Plantations of North-Western India
Kamaljit K Sangha, Rajesh K Jalota
January-March 2005, 3(1):92-109
Value assessment of exotic and native tree plantations based upon short-term gains from wood has suggested that exotic plantations are more profitable than native tree plantations. Such estimations have largely ignored the value of ecological services. This study estimates the ecological-economic value of forest floor vegetation, soil nutrients and return of nutrients from litter in exotic Eucalyptus tereticornis and native Dalbergia sissoo plantations in northwestern India. Two age groups of plantations, i.e. 6-8 years (young) and 19-21 years (old) were selected to compare net benefits as exotics deliver most of their benefits (especially wood) by eight years of age, while natives deliver benefits after 12-15 years of age. The diversity of plant species, nutrient content in soil and nutrient return through litter were greater in Dalbergia than in Eucalyptus plantations. A comparison of plantations at eight years suggested that the total monetary value of tangible (timber, fuel, fodder, eucalypt oil and ash) and ecological services (phytodiversity, soil nutrient content and nutrient return through litter) was 1.6 times greater in Eucalyptus than in Dalbergia plantations, chiefly because of timber. However, ecological benefits were 1.8 times greater in Dalbergia than in Eucalyptus plantations. At 19-21 years of age, Dalbergia supported 2.7 times more total benefits than Eucalyptus. Thus there seems to be a need to consider both tangible and intangible services over the long term and to carry out total value assessment of exotic and native tree plantations to design appropriate policy.
Institutionalising Biodiversity Conservation - The Case of Ethiopian Coffee Forests
Franz W Gatzweiler
The predominant notion on institutionalising biodiversity conservation is that as a result of the features and functions of biodiversity as well as the attributes of the actors, institutional diversity and multi-level governance are required. Institutional diversity per se, however, is not a panacea for successful biodiversity conservation and even less useful for identifying starting points for action. The Ethiopian case demonstrates what happens when-according to theory-the government "steps aside" and the "market works its wonders". After recognising the importance of institutional diversity, the challenge is to shape its context-specific patterns by identifying starting points for action. This requires guidance, mediation, and facilitation. The attempt to conserve Ethiopian coffee forests illustrates that the government, NGOs, local communities as well as private companies have their individual interests but also share a common vision to conserve forests. Well coordinated collective action is identified as a necessary consequence of institutional diversity.
Benign Capitalism by Another Name: Understanding Collapse
Rohan D'Souza
Comparative Spatial Analyses of Forest Conservation and Change in Honduras and Guatemala
Catherine M Tucker, Darla K Munroe, Harini Nagendra, Jane Southworth
The degradation of dry tropical forests proceeds more rapidly than that of most moist tropical forests, but despite their importance for human populations as a source of products and environmental services, dry tropical forests rarely become the focus of conservation efforts. This study explores processes of land cover change in study sites in eastern Guatemala and western Honduras, where dry tropical forests have been declining with the introduction and expansion of export market crops, especially coffee. Through analyses of remotely sensed images, landscape metrics, and spatially explicit econometric modelling, the transformations occurring across these landscapes are examined and compared for the period between 1987 and 1996. The results show that the Guatemala region presents greater forest fragmentation, well-developed transportation networks and immigration in a context of strong linkages to coffee export markets. Net forest regrowth occurs in the Honduran region, while net deforestation occurs in the Guatemalan region. Spatially explicit models indicate that market accessibility and topography alone explain about 60% of the total variation in Honduras, but only 51% of the variation in Guatemala. Integration of social data collected through fieldwork indicates that a higher degree of community organisation to protect forests in Honduras is an important factor in the lower rate of forest transformation, as compared to Guatemala for the same period. In both cases, there is a high degree of dynamism and apparent cyclical patterns in land cover change. These results suggest that attention to human and ecological cycles, as well as market, infrastructural and topographic factors, can contribute to the development of effective approaches for the conservation of tropical dry forests.
Claims on Natural Resources: Exploring the Role of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Rajasthan, India
The issue of claims over natural resources has been debated for a long time. With its growing powers, the state has increasingly claimed prior proprietary rights over natural resources. It is generally proposed that traditional societies were able to resolve the issue of claims over natural resources and state intervention was minimal. Early writings have sought to establish a 'golden age' approach to Indian environmental history. The interventionist attitude of the state has been attributed to the British. The state tried to control and manage the natural resources not for conservation but to enhance revenue collection. However, it might be incorrect to attribute interventionism only to colonial and post-colonial administrations. Medieval states were also very eager to ensure continuous and regular appropriation of revenue and were thus actively involved with the management and appropriation of natural resources. Here, an attempt is made to examine the necessity and extent of intervention in the management and appropriation of natural resources. The role of traditional rights and claims of the common man have also been examined.
Fire, Grazing and the Dynamics of Tall-Grass Savannas in the Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, South India
Mahesh Sankaran
January-March 2005, 3(1):4-25
Prescribed burning is often used to enhance forage availability for herbivores in rangelands worldwide. This study evaluated the utility of such prescribed burning as a management tool to improve herbivore habitat quality in the Mundanthurai plateau region of the Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), south India. Currently, large tracts of the plateau are dominated by the unpalatable tall-grass species Cymbopogon flexuosus, and populations of mammalian herbivores and predators in the region are low. Responses of C. flexuosus communities to experimentally-imposed fire and grazing regimes were studied, and the effectiveness of fire in suppressing this tall-grass species assessed. Two years following burning, C. flexuosus cover in burnt plots was indistinguishable from unburned sites, suggesting that C. flexuosus individuals are fairly stable against perturbations by fire. On the other hand, clipping experiments which simulated a scenario of high intensity grazing indicate that C. flexuosus fares poorly under sustained grazing, suggesting the potential for grazer-control of this species. However, C. flexuosus is typically avoided by grazers except for short periods following burning. Although grazing in these communities was higher post-burn responses of plots experiencing 'natural' levels of grazing indicate that grazer densities at KMTR are presently too low to prevent C. flexuosus from quickly re-attaining competitive dominance following burning. Under the current conditions of low herbivore densities, prescribed burning, by itself, is therefore unlikely to significantly improve herbivore habitat in KMTR. For burning to be effective, it must be coupled with other parallel management strategies aimed at augmenting grazer densities in the reserve.
Quantifying Changes in Vegetation in Shrinking Grazing Areas in Africa
Randall B Boone
Pastoralists around the globe are being sedentarised and livestock mobility is declining. Animals once able to move about landscapes to access ephemeral green forage are being confined to small areas with fewer forage choices. The ecosystem model SAVANNA was used to quantify the effects of land subdivision and sedentarisation on vegetation traits in South Africa and Kenya. In South Africa, significant declines in high palatability green leaf biomass, annual net primary productivity, and root biomass were recorded as a 300 km 2 block of land was subdivided into parcels of 10 km 2 . In contrast, low palatability biomass measures generally increased. Woody plant populations and slow decomposing soil organic matter increased significantly, whereas surface litter declined. In southern Kajiado District, Kenya, group ranches in which livestock populations declined under subdivision showed increases in herbaceous biomass, whereas the ranch where livestock populations did not change under subdivision had less herbaceous biomass. Livestock within small parcels were food stressed in the dry season and their populations declined so that vegetation increased beyond what could be eaten in the wet season. The vegetation changes modelled led to, or reflected, significant declines in livestock. The results suggest that stakeholders should retain open access to subdivided lands to reduce loss of vegetation productivity.
Rule Compliance in Participatory Watershed Management: Is it a Sufficient Guarantee of Sustainable Rural Livelihoods?
Mathew Kurian, T Dietz, KS Murali
In recent years, decentralised development approaches have been promoted to realise the goal of poverty reduction. In the agriculture sector, declining budgetary support and deteriorating quality of service provision by state parastatals the world over has prompted an interest in Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) and Joint Forest Management (JFM) policies. Donor-supported JFM and IMT projects have encouraged co-management between state parastatals and farmer groups or the private sector to undertake tasks of catchment protection, water allocation, collection of irrigation service fees (ISFs), and routine maintenance of irrigation infrastructure in a watershed context. Some evaluations of participatory watershed management projects assume that compliance with institutional rules would facilitate greater cost recovery, enhance agricultural productivity, and reduce dependence on government budgets, and may, therefore, be viewed as indicators of institutional success. But, based on an extensive survey and a detailed case study of participatory watershed management organisations in the Haryana Shiwaliks, we argue instead that institutional success may be evaluated on the basis of how much rule compliance has contributed towards an improvement in transparency of programme implementation, pro-poor benefit distribution, and condition of environmental resources. We also examine the prospects for participatory watershed management in the context of changes in the wider regional and macro economy.
Examining Institutional Change: Social Conflict in Nepal's Leasehold Forestry Programme
Harini Nagendra, Birendra Karna, Mukunda Karmacharya
Among developing countries, Nepal has been an enthusiastic leader in experimenting with participatory systems of forest governance. This article evaluates the state-initiated implementation of the leasehold forestry programme in Nepal, aimed at providing better livelihoods to the poorest sections of society by leasing patches of degraded forest land for a 40-year period. Using case studies in the middle hills, we studied the interaction between leasehold forestry users and forest dependent communities that were excluded from the programme. Our evaluation of local institutions and forest condition before and after implementation of the programme revealed that there is a high degree of social conflict between users and non-users, with an increase in forest degradation. Nevertheless, in some situations, user groups have developed innovative approaches to conflict resolution, leading to significant improvements in forest biodiversity and biomass levels. We conclude that it is not enough to simply change existing legislation and put a new institution in place. The degree to which such institutions can survive and succeed in achieving their objectives will depend crucially on how well they interface with existing institutions, and the manner in which this interface evolves over time in response to the needs and expectations of local communities.
Influenced by the Sea
Rauf Ali
Social History in Tigerland
K Ullas Karanth
Open Access and the Philosophy of Scientific Publishing
Kartik Shanker
January-March 2005, 3(1):1-3
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Manchester NH’s Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient: Lieut. Colonel John F. Coughlin (1837-1912)
Posted on 18 May, 2014 by Janice Brown
Lieut. Colonel General John F. Coughlin was not native to New Hampshire, but he helped to organize, and then served with Manchester’s Irish Regiment, 10th New Hampshire
Lieut. General John Coughlin of Manchester Irish Regiment, 10th NH Infantry
Infantry entering the service at Manchester, New Hampshire 5 September 1862. His regiment participated in several battles and skirmishes mostly in Virginia. On the 9 May 1864 at Swifts Creek, Virginia, he led his regiment to victory despite terrible odds, saving the guns.
He was promoted to brevet colonel and then to brevet brigadier general of the U.S. Volunteers on 9 April 1865. [A brevet was a warrant authorizing a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but usually without receiving the pay of that higher rank except when actually serving in that role. So if you see him being called Lieut. Colonel, that was the title he held during the Civil War. After the war he was entitled to use the Bvt. Brigadier General rank].
When his regiment mustered out on 21 June 1865 there had been 195 losses: 7 officers and 54 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 133 enlisted men who died of disease.
It was not until twenty-nine years after his service, on August 31, 1893, that the President
Portrait of John Coughlin. Manchester Historical Association Collection and 16 October 1910 edition of the Manchester Union newspaper.
of the United States [then Grover Cleveland] awarded then Lieut. Colonel John Coughlin the Medal of Honor as follows:
“The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel John Coughlin, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 9 May 1864, while serving with Irish Regiment, 10th New Hampshire Infantry, in action at Swift Creek, Virginia. During a sudden night attack upon Burnham’s Brigade, resulting in much confusion, Lieutenant Colonel Coughlin, without waiting for orders, led his regiment forward and interposed a line of battle between the advancing enemy and Hunt’s Battery, repulsing the attack and saving the guns.”
Arlington National Cemetery: grave of John Coughlin
Lieut. Colonel John Coughlin died on 20 May 1912 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. (Section 2, Lot 936, WS).
John F. Coughlin was born on 19 June 1837 in Williamstown, Orange County Vermont, into a large Irish family. Both of his parents, Daniel & Margaret (O’Neill) Coughlin had immigrated to the United States by 1834, settling in Williamstown Vermont area where his older brother Jeremiah was born. By 1850 the Coughlin family had moved to Manchester, New Hampshire. John probably attended at least a few years of school, as he was literate. By 1860 when he was 23 years old she is shown in Manchester’s City Directory as selling liquor at Emerald Block on Elm Street, and the same year census shows him living with his brother-in-law Michael Gillis who owned a grocery business.
1860 Manchester City Directory [page 66 and 83]
Coughlin John, liquors, clk 3 Emerald blk. Elm, n. Park, bds 17 Central.
Gillis, Michael, grocer, Elm, near Park, house do.
Even before the Civil War, John Coughlin was highly regarded as a competent, popular, leader–being elected by the City of Manchester’s 5th Ward as Alderman in 1861 , and as a member of the House of Representatives from Manchester in 1862. By the fall of that year, he and others had organized a mainly Irish regiment–the Tenth New Hampshire.
The Farmer’s Cabinet, a regional newspaper in Amherst NH announced the following:
“Previous to the departure of the Tenth New Hampshire Regiment from Manchester Monday for the seat of war, horses were presented to the field officers by their friends. Below is a roster of the regiment:
FIELD OFFICERS–Michael T. Donahue, Colonel; John Coughlin, Lieut. Colonel; Jesse F. Angell, Major.
STAFF OFFICERS–John Faxton, Adjutant; Thomas Sullivan, Quartermaster; John Ferguson, Surgeon; H.J. Harwood, John Haynes, Assistant Surgeons.
NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF–I.S> Bartlet, Sergeant Major; Richard H. Short, Commissary Sergeant; Timothy Cahill, Hospital Seward; M. McSweeney, Quartermaster Sergeant.
COMPANY OFFICERS.
A–John M. Caswell, Thomas C. Trumbull, A.L. Day
B–T.B. Crowly, Geo. Edgecomb, M. Moran
C–W. M. Kelly, Chas W. Johnson, Chas H. Gardner.
E–A.B. Cook, W.H. D. Cochrane, C.W. Woodbury
F–John L. O’Brien, Michael Corcoran, John L. Henan
G–Geo. W. Towle, Geo. E. Hodgman, Simon R. Marston
H–George H. Hubbard, Foster Kimball, John Hubbard
I–Darius G. Harriman, Richard Cody, Jas. Nott
K–James Madden, Patrick Doyle
RANK OF CAPTAINS. Caswell, Crowly, Harriman, O’Brien, Hubbard, Cook, Towle, Strain, Kelly, Madden.
RANK OF FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Trumbull, Cody, Edgecomb, Doyle, Hodgman, Cochran, Kimball, Welch, Corcoran, Johnson
RANK OF SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Moran, Day, Hubbard, Maguire, Nott, Henan, Woodbury, Marston, Gardner
[Source: Thursday, September 25, 1862 — The Farmer’s Cabinet (Amherst NH) Vol 61, Issue 9, Page 2: THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TENTH.]
Death certificate of Col. John F. Coughlin (side 1 only)
An extensive biography of John Coughlin was printed in 1910 in the Manchester Union newspaper and can be read here., so I will try to present only additional information not found there.
From the obituary printed in the Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth NH) 28 May 1912 we learn: “At the close of the war he settled in Washington where he engaged in the drug business for many years. He retired from business several years ago because of impaired health and during the last three years has spent much of his time among his old comrades in New Hampshire. His body will be given a military burial. His only near relative is his sister, Mrs. Cody. Of late years since his return from Washington, he has been a frequent visitor to this city [ie Portsmouth NH], being the guest of his old comrade, Capt. J. Albert Sanborn.”
John F. Coughlin died while staying at 219 Massabesic Street in Manchester, New Hampshire 27 May 1912, age 74 years 11 months and 8 days old. His body was removed to Arlington National Cemetery, to be buried with honors. He never married, and had no children, so my genealogy below will mention his parents and the descendants of his siblings.
======PARTIAL GENEALOGY of Lieut. Col. John F. Coughlin======
Daniel Coughlin, born abt 1795-1799 in Ireland; prob. died 1851 in Manchester NH;
Cryptic death record of Daniel Coughlin.
married Margaret O’Neill; She born about 1800 in Ireland and d. (prob) 12 Feb 1857 in Manchester NH. In 1856 Margaret is shown n the Manchester City Directory living at 4 Park Street, a widow. Daniel and Margaret and family probably moved to Manchester sometime between 1848-1950 [the Manchester City Directory of 1848 does not show anyone by the name of Coughlin living in the city, but they are in the census of 1850].
Editor’s Note: it was entirely odd to me that Daniel Coughlin seems to disappear from sight about 1851 and his death record includes some cryptic dates. His wife Margaret disappears in the same manner after 1856. I believe that I know what happened to both of them as follows. The 1856 Manchester City Directory shows Margaret Coughlin as a widow so we know that Daniel has to be dead by this time. Daniel Coughlin’s death certificate [see here] post dated 1906 shows 3 separate dates, i.e. June 3, July 7, 1849 and July 4, 1851. 1851 and the cause of death fracture of the brain. This seems to correspond with a newspaper notice about the death and possible murder of a “John” Coughlin by a Thomas Welch in Manchester, then a few months later about the indictment in court for killing a “David” Coughlin. I believe both refer to DANIEL, John’s father. By 1858 Margaret Coughlin has disappeared from the Manchester City Directory, and the newspaper carries a story about a Mrs. Coughlin who was seemingly murdered over accusations about stolen cheese, and that her husband had been killed a few years prior by a Thomas “Wells” [Welch in reality]–I believe this is Margaret. I am unable to find either in the (old) St. Joseph Cemetery where reportedly they are buried, perhaps near their daughter Johanna (Coughlin) Gillis.
Thursday, January 9, 1851 New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette (Concord NH) Vol 4, Issue 190 page 2
On Thursday last an Irishman named John Coughlin was murdered in his house in Manchester, by Thos. Welch, also an Irishman. Welch has been arrested. It appears from the evidence before the coroner’s jury that both had been drinking and the murder was the result of a quarrel between them.
Thursday April 24, 1851 Farmer’s Cabinet Amherst NH Vol 49, Issue 37 page 2
COURT PLEAS
Thomas Welch, indicted for man slaughter in killing David Coughlin; Daniel Clark and Franklin Pierce Esqrs, were assigned his counsel by the Court. After consulation he pleased guilty, and his counsel stated the circumstances in mitigation of punishment. The Attorney General was satisfied that it was a case that deserved the mildest punishment. It appears that Coughlin assaulted Welch first, and Welch struck him and knocked him down, and that in the fall Coughlin’s head struck either on some wood or on the stove, that cracked the skill on the back part of the head and death ensued. Sentenced to imprisonment 60 days in the common jail, and a fine of $25.00.
Thursday, February 12, 1857, Farmer’s Cabinet (Amherst NH) Vol 55, Issue 28, Page 3
Irish Woman Murdered. Last evening, Friday, about 6 o’clock, on the lower end of Chestnut street, a woman was found nearly lifeless, under circumstances that, according to what we have been able to gather, leaves no room to doubt that she was killed by another woman in a fit of passion. By the hushing up qualities so characteristic of the lower classes of the Irish, the matter was kept quite still till this morning, and then but few facts were elicited. The case has been handed over, by the City Marshall, to Coroner Rowell, who has appointed an inquest this afternoon, at 11-2 o’clock. The woman killed is Mrs. Coughlin, who resided in the large new block at the lower end of Chestnut Street. Her husband was killed six years ago in a affray with Thomas Wells, in this city. Mrs. C. had a dispute yesterday with her next door neighbors, Mrs. Hennessey, about a piece of cheese which she said she bought, and which she accused Mrs. H. of having. Mrs. H. was heard to say, during the day, that she would pound Mrs. C for saying so. About — o’clock Mrs. C was in Mrs. H’s tenement, both –, and it is supposed that they got into a quarrel about the cheese. No one heard it, but a little — that has been after a pail of water, saw a foot sticking through the kitchen door to the entry-way as she passed and heard a noise, and looked in and saw Mrs. C on the floor and called in —. A man near by run in and found Mrs. C on the floor, and Mrs. Hennessey on top, with both knees on Mrs. C’s stomach, and with a cloth over Mrs. C’s –. He jerked her off, and pulling the cloth –, found that she was breathing her last. That is a story. The Coroner’s Jury will have more — testimony. The cheese was found in Mrs. Hennessey’s house this morning, wrapped in paper with Mrs. Coughlin’s name on it. This act is becoming quite a sensation. [Mirror of Saturday. The Coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict, that deceased came to her death by a cause to them unknown]
1850 Manchester NH [SEE copy]
Daniel Coughlin 51 (born abt 1799) Male Ireland, cannot read or write
Margarete Coughlin 50 (born about 1800) F, Ireland cannot read or write
Timothy Coughlin 20 (born about 1830) Male Ireland Laborer
Mary Coughlin, 18 (born about 1832) F Ireland
Jerry Coughlin 16 (born abt 1834) M Laborer Ireland
John Coughlin, 13 (born abt 1837) M Ireland
William Coughlin, 10 (born abt 1840) M Ireland
Ellen Coughlin, 8 F Ireland (born abt 1842)
Winney Murray 16 F Ire
James Murray 14 M Ire
Francis Murray 12 F Ire
Bridget Murray 10 F Ire
[Note: Emerald Block is Elm, corner of Park Street // Park Street from Elm, north of S. Grammar School to Old Hall Road] [1870 Park, from Elm, east of Hanover]
Children of Daniel & Margaret (O’Neill) Coughlin:
1. +Johanna Coughlin, b. 1828 in Cork, Ireland; d. 7 March 1913 in Manchester NH [see continued below]
2. Timothy Coughlin, b. abt 1830 Ireland; died 15 March 1856 Manchester NH, of consumption. The 1856 City Directory shows Timothy living with his mother at 4 Park Street, occupation: Machine Shop
3. +Mary B. Coughlin, b abt 1832 Ireland; d. 7 Aug 1902 Amesbury MA, age 70; married Joseph Gillis. He was b abt 1835 in Ireland. In 1860 US Census living in Manchester NH, Ward 6 with wife and 3 yrs old son Joseph H. Gillis [b abt 1857].
4. Jeremiah “Jerry” Coughlin, b. abt 1834 Vermont; In 1856 the city directory shows him living with his mother at 4 Park Street, occupation: Laborer. Although another source states that he died in 1868 in Mississippi, to the contrary I find him in the 1871 directory of Manchester NH, and he is shown as an engineer house 257 Porter Street [another list for a Daniel G Coughlin, gilder boarding at his house]
Civil War veteran: Private, Res. Boston; 26; seaman; enl. and must. Aug 13, 1862; re-enlist. Dec. 29 1863; wounded March 25, 1865 at Hatcher’s Run, Va.; must. out July 27, 1865.
5. +John F. Coughlin, b. 19 June 1837 Williamstown VT [the subject of this blog story].
6. William Coughlin, b. abt 1840 VT; in 1860 living in Manchester NH with his sister and brother-in-law, Joseph & Mary (Coughlin) Gillis
7. +Ellen Coughlin b 12 March 1843 in Middlesex VT [see continued below]
Johanna Coughlin, daughter of Daniel & Margaret (O’Neill) Coughlin, b. 1828 in Cork, Ireland; d. 7 March 1913 in Manchester NH; m. Michael Gillis [not John as her death record states]. Michael Gillis, son of Peter and Ellen Gillis, was b abt 1827 in Ireland and died 10 November 1889 in Manchester NH. He was a long time grocer of Manchester NH.
1860 US Census > NH > Hillsborough > Manchester
Michael Gillis M 33 Ireland Grocer 2000
Johanna Gillis F 31 Ireland
Mary Gillis F 9 NH
Ellen Gillis F 7 NH
Maragret Gillis F 5 NH
Therna Gillis F 3 NH
Elizabeth Gillis F 1 NH
John Coughlin M 22 Vermont Grocer
1880 US Census > NH > Hillsborough > Manchester > 184 Amherst STreet
Michael Gillis M 53 Ireland laborer
Johanna Gillis wife F 50 Ireland
Maggie GIllis dau F 23 NH works in cotton mill
Joseph Gillis son M 11 NH cigar maker
Agnes Gillis granddau F 3 NH
Martha Gillis dau F 14 NH at school
John Gillis son M 16 NH at school
Thursday, November 21, 1889 NH Patriot and State Gazette, Concord NH, Page 5
MANCHESTER–Michael Gillis, a prominent man for many years in Ward 5, died a week ago last Sunday, after a sickness of less than one day. He was a near relative of Lieutnant Col. John Coughlin late of the 10th regiment.
Phamilla, Frank Head W M May 1855 45 married 30 yrs Belgium Belgium Belgium; imm 1894 6 yrs naturalized Cigar maker
Phamilla, Martha wife W F Oct 1865 34 married 30 yrs 1 ch 1 living NH Ire Ire
Phamilla, Esther dau W F April 1888 12 single NH NH NH
Gillis, Johanna Mother in law W F May 1830 70 widow Ire Ire Ire imm 1845 55
Children of Michael & Johanna (Coughlin) Gillis:
1. Mary F. Gillis, b abt 1851 NH; died 22 Nov 1877 in Manchester NH, of consumption
2. Ellen Gillis b abt 1853 NH; m. 8 November 1871 in Nashua NH to Charles A. Murray, son of Lourette/Garnett & Catherine/Katherine (Crawly) Murray. He was b abt 1850 in Goffstown NH (both of his parents born in Ireland).
3. Margaret “Maggie” Gillis b abt 1857 NH, and died 27 July 1908 in Manchester NH ; m. 15 December 1890 in Manchester NH to James Kane, son of Joseph & Mary Kane; He was a blacksmith, 2nd marriage for widowed groom, He b. 1849 Ireland, and died 17 May 1903 in Manchester NH. Resided 201 Lake Avenue, Manchester NH. They are buried in the old St. Joseph Cemetery, Manchester NH
4. Theresa “Clara” Gillis b abt 1857 NH, died 4 March 1881 in Manchester NH; m 5 Aug 1875 in Manchester NH to Revilo G. Houghton, son of Alvin & Esther R. Houghton. The 1880 census shows them living in at 288 Bridge Street with his mother. They have a child, Maud E. Houghton, age 4 [b abt 1876 NH]. Maud died 6 Sep 1910 in Gardner MA. She married 16 November 1898 in Gardner MA to Hiram W. Caswell, son of Isaac W. & Matilda (Reynolds) Caswell. He was born March 1869 in Canada.
5. Elizabeth Gillis b abt 1859 NH; died 4 Dec 1877 in Mancester NH, age 18 of consumption
6. Joseph Gillis, b abt 1860 NH, prob dy
7. Anne Gillis, b abt 1862 NH; died 1 February 1880 Manchester NH, of consumption.
8. +John F.A. Gillis, b Oct 1864; died 6 March 1897 Manchester NH, age 33 yrs 5 mo 24 days: married. Cigar maker; m. 20 December 1886 in Manchester NH to Mary A. McDermott, dau of John & Celia McDermott. [See descendants here].
9. Martha Gillis, b abt 1866 possibly Concord NH, died 28 August 1933 in Concord NH; m. 24 September 1900 Concord NH to Frank Phamilla [Vermulen] son of John & Mary (Lessard) Vermulen. Occupations cigar maker and dressmaker, he b. Belgium
10. Joseph H. Gillis, b. 1869; died 16 May 1885, age 16
Mary B. Coughlin, daughter of Daniel & Margaret (O’Neil) Coughlin, b July 1833 Ireland; d. 7 Aug 1902 Amesbury MA, age 70; married Joseph Gillis. He was b abt 1835 in Ireland. In 1860 US Census living in Manchester NH, Ward 6 with wife and 3 yrs old son Joseph H. Gillis [b abt 1857].
Gillis, Mary B W F 46 keeping House VT Ire Ire
Gillis, Joseph H. W M 22 son works woolen mill Mass Ire VT
Gillis Ellen M. W F 16 dau works wollen mill NH Ire VT
Gillis Daniel E W M 19 son works woolen mill NH Ire VT
Children of Joseph & Mary B. (Coughlin) Gillis:
1. Joseph H. Gillis, b abt 1858 MA
2. William F. Gillis, b abt 1861 in Concord NH; died 12 January 1876 in Manchester NH, age 15.
3. +Ellen M. “Nellie” Gillis, b abt 1864 Concord NH, died 21 August 1896 in Manchester NH; married 29 Jun 1891 in Manchester NH to Francois E. “Frank” Bourassa [SEE MORE BELOW]
3. Daniel Edward Gillis b abt 1871 NH; died 9 February 1889 in Brockton MA, age 22, painter, single.
Ellen Coughlin, daughter of Daniel & Margaret (O’Neil) Coughlin, b 12 March 1843 in Middlesex VT, died 18 Aug 1926 in Manchester NH; m. Walter Cody, son of Michael & Catharine (Fitzgerald) Cody. He was b. 24 December 1837 in Waterford, Ireland and d. 7 June 1904, age 67 years in Manchester NH. [219 Massabesic Street]. He served in and received a pension for service in the Civil War, 1st Lt, company C, 3rd NH Infantry. Pension 21 Feb 1863; Shoe dealer per son Walter’s birth rec. Her brother Lieut. Col. John Coughlin died at her residence during a visit wit her.
1880 US Census > NH > Hillsborough > Manchester > 312 Merrimack Street
Cody, Walter W M 42 Shoe dealer Ire Ire Ire Shoe Dealer
Cody, Ellen W F 37 wife keeps house VT
Cody, Genevieve C W F 10 dau at school NH
Cody, Walter F. W M 7 son NH
Cody, Ellen M. W F 5 dau NH
Cody, Michael D. W M 2 son NH
Cody, Mary G. W F July 10/12 daughter NH
1900 US Census > NH > Hillsborough > Manchester > Ward 6 > 219 Massabesic Street
Head Walter Cody M 63 Ireland W M Dec 1837 62 m 31 yrs Ire Ire Ire Retired Merchant
Wife Ellen Cody F 57 Vermont March 1843 m 31 yrs 5 children 3 living VT Ire Ire
Son Walter F. Cody M 28 New Hampshire Oct 1872 27 single NH Ire VT shoe cutter
Son Michael D. Cody M 22 New Hampshire Feb 1878 22 single NH Ire VT post office clerk
Daughter Mary G. Cody F 21 New Hampshire July 1879 20 single NH Ire VT
Children of Michael & Ellen (Coughlin) Cody:
1. Genevieve C. “Jennie C.” Cody, b. Nov 1869 Manchester NH; died 27 Feb 1881 Manchester NH of scarlet fever.
2. Michael D. Cody, b. 17 Feb 1878 in Manchester NH; d. 17 Oct 1911 at Shelburne, Coos NH, age 33; Post Office Clerk, Accidental Gun Shot Wound; In 1910 living with his mother in Manchester NH, single.
3. Walter Francis Cody, b 17 October 1872 Manchester NH; d. 19 Dec 1943 Manchester NH; Registered for WWI Draft in 1917: living at 219 Massabesic St., age 45 unmarried, shoe cutter at Kimball Shoe Co., NOK is mother Ellen Cody at same address.
4. Ellen M. Cody, b abt 1875 Manchester NH; died 2 March 1881, age 5
5. Mary G. Cody, b. July 1879; d. 25 Sep 1943 at Manchester, NH
Ellen M. “Nellie” Gillis, daughter of Joseph & Mary B. (Coughlin) Gillis, b abt 1864 Concord NH, died 21 August 1896 in Manchester NH; married 29 Jun 1891 in Manchester NH to Francois E. “Frank” Bourassa, son of Francois & Margaret Bourassa. He was born April 1855 in NH.
The 1900 US Census shows him living in Manchester NH, a widower, at 552 Lincoln Street, a patrol man. Living with him is his mother-in-law, Mary B. Gillis; and son, Frank G. aka Francois Xavier Bourassa
Child of Frank E. & Ellen M. (Gills) Bourassa:
1. Frank G. aka Francois Xavier Bourassa, born August 1893 NH, and who died 27 February 1941 in Manchester NH. He married 7 June 1921 in Manchester NH to Beatrice Fontaine, daughter of Frank & Jane (Rattigan) Fontaine. In the 1940 US Census they are living at 112 Bridge Street in Manchester NH with son +Francis J. age 15 , and daughter Mary T. age 10. Occupation insurance clerk.
Francis J. Bourassa, son of Frank G. & Beatrice (Fontaine) Bourassa, was born in Manchester, N.H., Oct. 28, 1924, and died at the age of 84, on June 11, 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended local schools and graduated from St. Anselm College in 1948 with degrees in chemistry and metallurgy. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He worked in the semiconductor industry prior to his retirement, and was a longtime resident of Newton, Mass., and Tequesta, Fla., prior to his move to Virginia.He was an active parishioner of St. Jude’s Church in Tequesta. His wife of 44 years, Charlotte Gauvin Bourassa, died in 1995. He was predeceased by two children, Michelle and Mark Bourassa. Family members include three sons, Glen, Neil and Craig; two daughters, Denise and Camille; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He also leaves a sister-in-law, Mrs. John (Bernice) King of Manchester. [Several public obituaries posted]
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NOTE: I would be deeply grateful if any relatives who have more information and/or additional photographs of John Coughlin and family would contact me through this blog.
[Editor’s Note: This article is one of several I have written at the request of Don Pinard, Department of Public Works, Chief of Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Division, City of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a volunteer project (on my part) to better record and share the stories of the men memorialized by the city’s “Military Squares.” All the information specifically within the body of this project is shared copyright free with the City of Manchester and its representatives, with the exception of photographs provided by family or friends who still retain whatever rights conveyed to them by law.]
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What are you listening to, right now................
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@Snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
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Being curious is a real curse. I'm not going to be able to unhear or unsee this am I.
Imagine an older Raelene Castle
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At least you won't want to buy lunch today
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Heads-up: I see that a reliable source has uploaded a pair of recordings by The La De Da’s (NZ 60s R&B) to TPB this week. Bunch o’ seeders, too. I’m downloading as I type, and will give a number of listens the next few weeks and see how it goes...
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@Salacious-Crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
What's TPB?
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@Crucial that's your only question?
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I'd also like to know how @Salacious-Crumb survived this to post here
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The late great Bobby Womack with one for the late night lurvin soundtrack...
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I enjoy this channel on Youtube. Two blokes who listen to requested songs that they haven't heard before and give their reactions and thoughts on the songs as they go through. Watching them you get a real sense of reliving that awesome first time feeling listening to great tracks of yesteryear. They're doing a classic rock and Grunge marathon currently, I forget how awesome Alice in Chains was.
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@Rembrandt I have seen a couple from these guys.
In general, reaction videos are a dime a dozen on YT now and many appear staged and contrived to me.
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@Bovidae Totally agree, this is the only channel I like, they don't mind saying when something sounds crap to them.
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@Tim What song/album?
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Spotify just gave me my year in review
I spent 69 hours listening to Guns n Roses
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How can you tell this? I just have my top songs in a playlist etc
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They sent it to me
My songs of the year playlist is fire
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@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I’m still on the hunt searching every tv appearance by Moby Grape. (Pre-Zep, they were Robert Plant’s fave band, that’s what he wanted to do. “Going to Califormia,” etc) Skip Spence is super-wired on this take.
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Loved that track for a decade at least, but had no idea that Zappa played the guitars on it. Very smooth for 1974.
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Ed Doyle: Prisoner Swap - Not The Best Exchange
Ed Doyle
The big story this week folks, is the so-called Prisoner swap of the TOP five Al-Qaeda terrorists for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. These weren’t your run of the mill Ali bin daba laba yayayaya bomb strapped to their gonads terrorists, but THE top five slime balls of the organization. White House Press Secretary and front side show barker Jay Carney on Monday defended the president's decision to green-light the controversial trade saying, and I quote, "It was the judgment of the team and the president that there was enough urgency here to ensure that Sergeant Bergdahl was safely recovered”.
Now wait a minute because I am REALLY pissed here as I am sure I can feel the blood boiling from across the country when I say WAIT ONE DAM MINUTE! "It was the judgment of the team and the president that there was enough urgency here to ensure that Sergeant Bergdahl was safely recovered."
AND IT WASN'T ENOUGH OF AN URGENCY TO SAVE FOUR AMERICAN LIVES IN Benghazi? This freaking stinks and everyone knows it! Our Dismantler in Chief BROKE THE LAW! Plain and simple!
Now they are going to try to put a spin on it and make it look like they did this because they cared about one army sergeant? THE SAME ARMY SERGEANT that went AWOL walking through the desert one night and got 6 of his team killed when they went looking for him?
Why didn't you just send in a team to rescue him? You keep telling us how great you were for finding Bin Laden but this was the only way you could get this man back? By releasing the top terrorists in the world BACK on the world?
YOU MARK MY WORDS PEOPLE! We are going to see an incredible act of terror again now with these pigs free and you will have nobody to blame for it except Barack Hussein Ali BABBA Obama himself,
And what will our heroes in congress and the senate do? NOTHING!
Obama clearly, no fringe gray area here, HE BROKE THE LAW and not a gosh darn thing will be done about it! I am sick to my stomach.
We have to take a break here folks to hear from our sponsors and give me the opportunity to vomit. We’ll be right back. Stay tuned in.
Now here is some more on why this stinks like week old garbage… A senior Pentagon official stated that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy. This weekend the president stood alongside Bergdahl's father in a press release to support him, even though the father's has a HISTORY of controversial statements, emails and online posts saying he would do everything in his power to free all of the Al Qaeda prisoners. PEOPLE ARE YOU BLIND!
Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter and I would not be one bit surprised if the investigation is allowed to proceed that we will find out that he was aiding the enemy! How many of you listening to me right now even ever HEARD the names of the men that were killed looking for him? Well we owe it to those soldiers to make it known! Those heroes were 2nd Lt. Daryn Andrews, Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen, Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss, Pfc. Matthew Martinek, Staff Sgt. Michael Murphy and Pfc. Morris Walker. And what does the administration say about them? Well let me read you the quote...
“it's impossible" to confirm right now whether anybody's death was directly linked to the hunt for Bergdahl, but the Pentagon will look further into the circumstances of the deaths being associated with the search, he said.” Well isn't that just peachy! Army officer, Nathan Bradley Bethea says he served in the same unit as Bergdahl -- the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment -- which lost the six soldiers in the roughly five-week search after he disappeared.
"For five years, soldiers have been forced to stay silent about the disappearance and search for Bergdahl," said Bethea, who said he participated in the searches. "Now we can tell our story."
Yes you can sir but the crying shame is that the government you served will do everything in their power to discredit and silence you. God Save the USA!
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Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones: Synthesis and 2D-NMR Characterization of New 8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline Ru(II)-complexes
Author(s): Isabella Rimoldi, Giorgio Facchetti, Edoardo Cesarotti, Michela Pellizzoni, Marco Fuse, Daniele Zerla. Universita degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Via Colombo 71, 20133 Milano, Italy., Italy
Journal Name: Current Organic Chemistry
Volume 16 , Issue 24 , 2012
Chiral (R)-(-) and (S)-(+)-8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline, hereafter defined (R)-CAMPY and (S)-CAMPY, have proved to be valuable chiral ligands in Ru(II) precatalysts for the reduction of prochiral ketones by asymmetric hydrogen transfer AHT. These ligands bear chiral information on an alkyl ring fused to a pyridine and therefore have a flat nature, characterized by a high conformational rigidity. It represent the first application in AHT of a member of a family of ancillary ligands already known as starting material for medicinal compouds. The reaction with [RuCl2PPh3] furnished the (OC-6-14)-[RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] which evolved to (OC-6-42-C)- [RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] in refluxing toluene. The absence of a suitable crystal for X-ray structure was easily overcame by a combination of routines 2D-NMR experiments based on an unprecedent 4-bond P-H coupling. The formation of (OC-6-42-C)- [RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] is totally stereoselective at the chiral metal center; the same behavior is followed when triphenyl phosphines are displaced by chelating diphosphines like Ph2P(CH2)4PPh2 (DPPB) and Ph2P(CH2)3PPh2 (DPPP). The flat and rigid nature of CAMPY alone gave catalyst able to reduce acetophenone with moderate e.e.; substitution of triphenylphosphines in the complex with an achiral chelating diphosphines produce Ru-catalysts witch gave enantioselectivities up to 96%.
Keywords: 8-amino-5, 6, 7, 8-tetrahydroquinoline, Asymmetric hydrogen transfer, Chiral diamine, Ru(II) complexes
Title:Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones: Synthesis and 2D-NMR Characterization of New 8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline Ru(II)-complexes
VOLUME: 16 ISSUE: 24
Author(s):Isabella Rimoldi, Giorgio Facchetti, Edoardo Cesarotti, Michela Pellizzoni, Marco Fuse and Daniele Zerla
Affiliation:Universita degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Via Colombo 71, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Keywords:8-amino-5, 6, 7, 8-tetrahydroquinoline, Asymmetric hydrogen transfer, Chiral diamine, Ru(II) complexes
Abstract:Chiral (R)-(-) and (S)-(+)-8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline, hereafter defined (R)-CAMPY and (S)-CAMPY, have proved to be valuable chiral ligands in Ru(II) precatalysts for the reduction of prochiral ketones by asymmetric hydrogen transfer AHT. These ligands bear chiral information on an alkyl ring fused to a pyridine and therefore have a flat nature, characterized by a high conformational rigidity. It represent the first application in AHT of a member of a family of ancillary ligands already known as starting material for medicinal compouds. The reaction with [RuCl2PPh3] furnished the (OC-6-14)-[RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] which evolved to (OC-6-42-C)- [RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] in refluxing toluene. The absence of a suitable crystal for X-ray structure was easily overcame by a combination of routines 2D-NMR experiments based on an unprecedent 4-bond P-H coupling. The formation of (OC-6-42-C)- [RuCl2(PPh3)2(CAMPY)] is totally stereoselective at the chiral metal center; the same behavior is followed when triphenyl phosphines are displaced by chelating diphosphines like Ph2P(CH2)4PPh2 (DPPB) and Ph2P(CH2)3PPh2 (DPPP). The flat and rigid nature of CAMPY alone gave catalyst able to reduce acetophenone with moderate e.e.; substitution of triphenylphosphines in the complex with an achiral chelating diphosphines produce Ru-catalysts witch gave enantioselectivities up to 96%.
Isabella Rimoldi, Giorgio Facchetti, Edoardo Cesarotti, Michela Pellizzoni, Marco Fuse and Daniele Zerla, “Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones: Synthesis and 2D-NMR Characterization of New 8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline Ru(II)-complexes”, Current Organic Chemistry (2012) 16: 2982. https://doi.org/10.2174/138527212804546714
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God, if you’re listening: Sexy hitchhikers vs. drivers
Pinterest and the fantasy hitchhiker
Grim reality for drivers.
I was miserable tired after spending the night in the Memphis Union Mission. A light April rain for hitchhikers is mucho bad mojo.
Yet I was surrounded by good mojo. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House were around the corner from my hitchhiking spot along Interstate 40. The Ronald McDonald House gives the sick kids a free room and St. Jude’s gives free treatment.
“No one has ever become poor by giving,” I kept thinking, the architecture around me was built by charity.
After a couple hours I thought of trying to look more needy. Then a young man in a grey Toyota Corolla pulled over and I ran down the highway shoulder with my packs dangling on my arm.
“Oh no, that’s too much to ask from God,” the driver said.
The driver told me that he wants to be an oil man working in the Middle East or an American police officer. His family is from Yemen and he’s the 10th son of a 10th son.
He admires me, he said, because I dropped everything and am hitchhiking and working hard in carnivals in pursuit of my dream.
“Sometimes you just have to go for it,” he said.
He is a serious man in his early twenties, Muslim, devout. I only mention his religion because he doesn’t mention God lightly.
He asked me what kind of people pick up hitchhikers these days and I essentially said ‘all kinds.’ On that hitchhike from California on my way to New Jersey, I’d already been picked up by an inventor, lawyer, two grandmothers, several unemployed men, a painter, a male nurse, a power station worker, hippies, a preacher, retirees and more.
“Do you know one type of person I haven’t been picked up by but I’m still waiting?” I said.
“A young, beautiful, blonde woman,” I said. “I’ve read about it happening (in Penthouse Forum) but I’ve never been picked up by a young, beautiful, woman.”
Then I acted angry.
Always serious, the driver looked over from his seat.
“Oh no, that’s too much to ask from God!”
Recently, someone posted my main photo art for Eyes Like Carnivals on Pinterest. So I decided to check out the site in general and hit ‘search’ for “hitchhiking.”
Pictures featured scantily clad, beautiful young women.
Fantasy hitchhikers, people you’d pick up in the April Memphis rain.
Ten months after getting that ride, being warned it is too much to ask of God, I realized I wasn’t the only one disappointed by the lack of highway hotties.
I’m not eye candy either but I got rides. On that rainy Memphis morning surrounded by monuments to good will, I got a lesson in charity.
Still, God, if you’re listening …
*The “giving” quote is from Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl.”
My year working in traveling carnivals and hitchhiking between spots ends this month but I’ll continue to file weekly until I finish the backlogged stories. I’ve hitchhiked from the Pacific to the Atlantic to Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. With 15,000 miles under my belt, I am the #1 hitchhiker in America for 2013-14.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2014 by admin.
Freak Show Interviews – Short E. Dangerously
The tall, successful-looking man next to me in the elevator was just making small talk when he asked why I carried so many books and notes with me.
I’m writing a book about traveling carnivals. I spent the year working and living in traveling carnivals and now it’s time to write a book. There was lots of hitchhiking involved too, I said.
“I used to work for the freak show every year at the Minnesota State Fair,” he said. “I used to pull the sword out of the sword swallower’s mouth.”
Writer Amy Tan says she wonders if the “universe” is sending her material for her books when she’s writing, because so much comes her way when writing that inspires her work (they are good novels).
It happens to me too but my subject is carnivals, carnies and the ephemeral locus of American communities. With a subject that broad, one is likely to run into people with connections to carnivals.
You never know what you’ll see in a freak show, or who those performers are in real life.
For my last day in my year in traveling carnivals, I asked King of the Sideshows Ward Hall if I could work in his freak show for a token amount and for just a day.
I saw the World of Wonders several times when I was working the billiards game for Adam West’s crew in at the Minnesota State Fair last summer.
The “World” was playing the Florida State Fair in Tampa and I wanted to get a toe into the freak show side of the industry. Hall agreed and I took tickets and was a gopher.
Twenty-two-inch tall Short E. Dangerously is the only classic “freak” in the show, called a “half man” because he was born without legs.
At the World of Wonders show in Florida, people ate fire, swallowed swords and performed magic, including a guillotine routine with a head thrown into the crowd. Illusions, Ward said, are most of the show these days.
Hall blames political correctness for the decline in “human oddities” wanting to perform in sideshows. Hall has worked in the sideshow business for 60 years and knows his freaks.
“I’ve worked with hundreds of human oddities,” he said. “Giants, midgets, alligator skin men, bearded ladies, the monkey girl, pinheads, midgets, dwarfs, the armless girls, the living half men, all worked for me in the past.”
Shorty started touring in sideshows just a couple years ago and now travels the world. He’s knocked out by the fame and travel. Before one performance, (performances run continuously almost all day), he looked back at fellow performer and beautiful assistant Sunshine and said, “I know, sometimes I can’t believe all this myself.”
It’s hard work as you’ll see in his interview.
I found his lack of neuroses compelling. He says he had a happy childhood. He loves music and women. He’s healthy. He makes money and travels the world. He’s a happy man.
Without a hint of self pity for the cards he was dealt, he proclaims himself a lucky half man and a rocker.
I’ve read experts who say otherwise, but I believe a man is happy if he thinks so. I also believe most of what we see, we should question.
You never know what you’ll see in a sideshow, on stage, behind the stage or in an elevator.
You never know the shape of a happy man.
Q & A with Short E. Dangerously
1 – Where did you grow up and what was it like?
“I was born a mile and a half from the Ohio- Michigan border. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio. But my mother’s side is completely from northern Michigan, I spent a lot of my life there with relatives. My childhood was fairly normal. My parents split up when I was 5. My mom raised me as a single mother.”
2 – Do you have medical problems that accompany your disability?
“I have no medical conditions related to my disability. I do have joint problems in my shoulders and arms. But I manage the pain thru over the counter medications and other herbal remedies.”
3 – How did you take your condition, were people cruel?
“I took my condition just fine and so did the people around me. If they didn’t then they didn’t need to be a part of my life.. Plain and simple. There were a few assholes along the way, but it was dealt with accordingly.”
4 – How did you decide to get into the entertainment business?
“My love of music is why I choose the entertainment business. I had a band in High School. I have always liked being on a stage. Things with the band didn’t work out. So while I was in college I knew a DJ and him and I talked a lot and realized that is what I wanted to do.”
5 – Being a DJ at a strip club? Were you a favorite of the dancers? Were there wild nights?
“I was a favorite of most of the dancers. The ones I wasn’t still respected me and didn’t give me any problems. There were plenty of wild nights! But I’m not going to go into details. I think you can figure it out.”
6 – How did make the transition to the carnival shows?
“I made the transition to the sideshow by a phone call form Tommy the manager of WOW. I was tired of DJing and was looking for something different to try. I was offered the chance to tour with them for the 2012 season. It changed my life and the rest as they say is history.”
7 – What is your act?
“The acts that I do are acrobatics, fire breathing, and I also throw knives.”
8 – Where in the world have you traveled with you act?
“I have been to New Zealand, Brazil, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, and Australia.”
9 – Do you feel like you are part of a bigger tradition, a time honored profession? What do you call yourself, “freak,” “carny,” showman, entertainer?
“I do feel like I am part of something. Its becoming a dying art and I only wish I discovered it sooner. I consider myself and entertainer first and foremost, but I’m also a showman. I just happen to be a freak.”
10 – How hard do you work?
“When I’m with WOW between 15-20 1/2 hour shows a day. Sometimes as many as 30. I know that I have done the bowling ball stunt at least 15-1800 times since I debuted it in Minnesota last year.”
11 – What makes you happy, in life?
“Being on the road good friends family. Being on Stage is an incredible rush.”
12 – What makes you happy when on the road?
“On the road is the performing, the fans, but most I love just going down the road to the next gig.”
13 – What’s the future for you. Wife and kids and grandkids? Buy a business and get off the road? Movies, books? More countries and more roads?
“Not so sure about wife, I will never get off the road. I would like to have my own show in the next 2-5 years or so. So yeah, more countries and more roads.”
14 – Are you a happy man?
“I am very happy right now with my life.”
15 – If you could do it all again, who would you be in the next life (Ward Hall told me he’d be a faith healer).
“If I had to pick I would be a rock star!”
16 – What kind of rock star. Any road stories? Any tricks gone wrong? Are you really Dangerously?
“Metal!,,, We were a cover band. Lots of Metallica covers. I was the front man. No nothing super funny on the road… No real problems. We are/were very close. Everyone pretty much got along. I have had knives bounce back at me before.. I was in LA filming a TV show and one bounced back and almost caught me in the chest… and the name is taken from an old wrestling promoter. His name is Paul Heyman but his ring name was Paul E. Dangerously. I took the name and made it Short E. so I could still keep Shorty in my professional name. My real name is Aaron.”
*Answers are in full and unedited.
This month marks the end of my year working and living in traveling carnivals around the USA. I lived on carnival wages so I also hitchhiked between jumps. I’ve traveled through 36 states, Canada and Mexico, for more than 20,000 miles. My 15,000 miles of hitchhiking makes me the #1 Hitchhiker in America. I worked carnivals in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia and Florida. I worked rides, games and one freak show.
My Last Carny Job at a Freak Show
First photo is of co-owner of the World of Wonders Chris Christ along with the carnival barker and clown.
Second photo is of Short E. Dangerously, the half man, who also throws knives, eats fire and tells jokes.
Third photo is the crew backstage in the trailer, which is also their sleeping quarters.
The Tattoo Lady also swallows fire and helps with other acts.
This was my last carnival job in my year in carnivals. Thank you to Sideshow King Ward Hall for hiring me as a ticket taker and gopher for the day.
If they only knew what a freak I am on the inside, I’d have been a star.
A full story will come sometime soon, maybe next week.
Elvis the Mark, Carny Kids & the Showtown Allstars
Elizabeth, 9, and her dad Original Tommy Arnold at the Showtown USA restaurant/bar in Gibsonton, Fl. seated at the Liar’s Table. She’s literally learning about the business at the knee of her father.
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
Elizabeth is a precocious third-grader on her dad’s lap at the Liar’s Table at Showtown USA, Gibsonton, Fl.
“Original Tommy” Arnold is in his 80s and a living legend in the traveling carnival world. O.T. is a carnival storyteller.
“Elvis won more than we let most people win, he kept throwing the prizes to the crowd,” he said.
In 1957, Elvis scored a hit with “Jailhouse Rock” but hadn’t yet been drafted into the Army.
At a Memphis carnival, he stopped to throw softballs at Original Tommy’s milk bottles game.
If Elvis wasn’t yet the king, he was the crown prince of the midway.
“The girls went crazy,” said the veteran carnival owner. “He drew a big crowd.”
What’s interesting about Original Tommy’s story is he remembers few details other than the line that makes his Elvis story a classic carny story.
“He spent maybe $200 on my game and that was a lot of money in those days.”
He took Elvis for a $200 and drew a crowd to boot.
Elvis may have been the crown prince of the midway but Original Tommy got him to lay out two C-notes.
There’s some irony in their table name because they also talk about the old “flat joints,” games where suckers cannot win. Alibi stores are games carnies must make excuses, “you crossed the line,” to foil a winner.
I didn’t ask how he “gaffed” the game but you can be sure Original Tommy let Elvis win just enough to keep playing and keep throwing toys to the excited fans.
In Original Tommy’s story, crown prince Elvis was just a mark.
Showtown sundown
The Liar’s Table at Showtown bar/restaurant is the liveliest breakfast table. During this month’s Super Trade Show Extravaganza in Gibsonton, old pros sat around the table like a secret hall of fame.
The carnival world is a subculture and the stars of its realm are found in hidden places like the faded Showtown USA.
Showtown is the creation of Bill Browning who painted elaborate stories on the walls of the restaurant, at countless carnivals and at the International Independent Showmen’s Association headquarters in town.
He used to yearly repaint and reframe the story on Showtown’s front facade.
All his art tells stories and often brings nature to the indoors with boardwalk and carnival scenes.
The carnival business inspires many artists, possibly because there is so much painting required.
Browning’s paintings at the IISA headquarters building cover the walls and easily make him the most famous carnival artist.
However, Browning isn’t actively painting these days and many of his Showtown stories are fading on the walls.
A food critic might suggest even the menu is old school. This morning it is chipped beef over toast, two eggs, $5.99.
I hear Showtown is still a vibrant place but the cigarette-smoke walls tell stories of bygone golden eras.
The Liar’s Table is its living time warp.
Dash of Flash
Flash said to me once, “If a carny doesn’t have a nickname, he isn’t interesting.”
Nick the Prick. Luke the Puke. Even Flash’s nickname has a back story.
“That’s what this business is based on, everything the sucker sees out there is flash,” he said.
Flash is cash, is the phrase I heard as a jointee, a game worker.
One morning the ballys started flying and I started taping as guys from different sides of the table urged the marks to buy.
The Mayor of the Liar’s Table is Freddy Vonderheim, 76, former circus and carnival owner (a special breed he calls showman transvestites).
Flash and the Mayor are retired from the business, but they can still bark them out.
When the Mayor pipes up, you know thousands have heard it on thousands of midways.
“I’m Donniker Dan (donniker is a carny toilet),
the candy man,
with circus straaawbery candy,
all you kids who want candy,
please hold up your hand!!!”
Flash came back with his own, ending in a carnival limerick, more than a bally.
Born under a ride
Original Tommy bounced Elizabeth on his knee and told me how she wants to be an artist someday too.
Maybe face painting, he said.
Elizabeth is in third grade, just like Grace so I show her my daughter’s picture.
She loves hugging and playing games with the old men and a few younger ones around the table. Some get big hugs around the necks.
“I like it,” she says of her life in carnivals. “I get to go on all the rides for free.”
During the season she lives with Original Tommy and plays with other kids her age, also traveling with the carnival.
Asked about the highlights of his carnival life, Tommy says she’s the highlight of his life.
She loves teasing her old single father.
“My dad burns eggs, burns muffins, he burns everything you want to eat except cake and cereal,” she said.
Later that evening I was editing tape in a room near the main bar at the IISA headquarters.
My favorite bartender came over, Anna May, she’s in her 50s or 60s. She’s proud she raised her kids in carnivals without ever being homeless.
They were raised in the trailer during the season and she’s proud of the job she did, while running games, rides and working the ticket booth.
Then she noticed a picture of Original Tommy and Elizabeth on my computer.
I thought she might say something about their age difference but she had something to say about her age difference.
“That’s my granddaughter and Tommy’s my son-in-law,” she said. “A lot of people in this business are related.”
Kids born in the carnival business are said to be “born under a ride.”
Elizabeth comes from a long line of carnival people and she wants to be an artist, maybe a carnival artist.
“Elizabeth the artist” would make people here at Showtown USA very proud and that’s what passes for the thrilling truth at the Liar’s Table.
My year working and living in traveling carnivals ends this week. My last carnival job was at a freak show owned by King of the Sideshows Ward Hall. I have numerous stories from the last two weeks and unreported stories during the year. So there’ll be more stories to come on hitchhiking and working American carnivals from Alaska to Florida, from California to New York.
Liar’s Table Showtown Showdown – Ballys!!!
Like any other subculture, you have to know where to find the legends. In the carnival business, they gather mornings at Showtown in Gibsonton, Florida.
This is during the “Super Trade Show Extravaganza” in Gibsonton, Florida. It’s called Showtown USA because so many carnival workers still come here for winters quarters, to work and to retire.
“Awesome Olympics” before going on road
I filmed this the weekend before going out on a year working in traveling carnivals and hitchhiking.
Missing one’s family is part of the experience for many. Others bring their families. Still, others hide from their families.
As a snowstorm fell today in Chicago, I came across videos from my last time with Grace in a suburban Chicago winter.
It has nothing to do with carnivals, except her next year would be haunted by thoughts of her absentee father working and living in traveling carnivals in places she only could look up on the map.
Freaks and Carnies: Sideshow King’s views will Amaze!!!
“If life isn’t seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.”
I’m currently homeless and had to edit this video in a packed carny bar, so please forgive the flaws.
This is my video of this week at the national carny gathering in Carnytown USA, narrated by the World’s Most Famous Carny and King of the Sideshows Ward Hall. The eighty-four-year-old talks about the freaks and oddities he employed and their search for meaning in their lives.
Hall says they often turn to works of charity and to religion, thus the presence of “carny priests” and “carny preachers.”
The video shows how homes, rides, games, trucks all share the same yards in Gibsonton, Fla.. The “Super” Trade Show “Extravaganza” is appropriately overhyped. The headline for this article is also written in that click fishing style.
This is nearly the end of my year in carnivals for EyesLikeCarnivals.com. Hall says he’ll hire me tomorrow for his World of Wonders freak show at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Fla. I think I’ll be paid in snacks but I’ll be adding another state fair to my year’s total and a freak show.
I now will have worked in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minneapolis, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia and Florida. I will have worked five state fairs with nine carnival companies.
I am the #1 hitchhiker in America in 2014, with nearly 15,000 miles and 26 states and Canada under my belt. In total, I traveled well in excess of 20,000 miles through 36 states.
I wrote www.EyesLikeCarnivals.com all the way. I wrote almost weekly for The Huffington Post’s blog section.
The Chicago Tribune Magazine wrote a full-page essay on me. Northwestern Magazine and the Northwestern University main Web site carried an essay by me on the year. Marquette University’ magazine has contracted for an upcoming 2,000 word essay.
Now the hard work begins, writing and publishing. I’m thinking of going to New York next month to visit with publishers.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that in the real dark soul of man it is always 3 a.m. It is also closing time at the carny bar, night folks!
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Fall of the Last City
The real time strategy board game played in the post apocalyptic future.
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Day 42: FotLC through the 113 lenses from The Art of Game Design
Day 42 - Lens 112: The Lens of The Ravin
To remember to only work on what is important, ask yourself this question:
Is making this game worth my time?
Yes. I don't answer this question lightly, and I don't think Fall of the Last City is the most important of meaningful game I will work on. It began as an exercise but it has evolved into a good innovative game. I early on started considering what the core mechanics of the game were saying. I didn't have an an answer right away. If I had never found meaning in those mechanics I would like to believe that I would have abandoned the game. But, as much through my own preoccupations as through inherent meaning, the mechanics of the game did suggest it's purpose to me. The game transformed from abstract conflict based strategy to a game that was trying to comment on both the futility of war and the inevitability of the overthrow of any hegemony, and the responsibility of revolutionaries to their future. That meaning is communicated in the setting and rules material, but if I have done my job well it also resonates through the mechanics and dynamics of its play.
For me at least that is enough to justify my time. But I also feel like this game is my Journeyman project. It's no longer a novice effort, but I am still learning so much from the process. I am eager to apply the things I am learning to my next projects, but for now it feels like seeing this through to completion is the most important work for me.
What people say about the game:
"I thought this was going to be Civilization but it's StreetFighter!"
"I can’t believe all that happened in one game!"
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Opportunity RFA-AR-09-002
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Opportunity RFA-AR-09-002: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) (http://www.niams.nih.gov/), National Institutes of Health, solicits applications that promote collaborations among groups of investigators who have not interacted traditionally but have a clear shared scientific area of interest and opportunity in specific NIAMS mission areas. Purpose. To promote interdisciplinary research, the NIAMS plans to provide up to 1 year of research revision support (formerly referred to as supplement) to active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60 (parent grants) to establish collaborations among groups of investigators with expertise in the specific areas listed below. The interdisciplinary collaboration should be basic and/or translational research with high innovation and potentially high impact in the specific NIAMS missionrelevant areas solicited in this FOA. It is understood that such an application may entail high risk. Teams developed under this award are expected to make significant advances beyond the progress expected from the individual researchers alone. Collaborations between scientific areas listed below are selected to pilot the NIAMS BIRT awards and specifically solicited in this FOA. Autoimmunity Gender and sex factors Autoimmunity Systems biology Developmental biology Systems biology Regenerative Medicine Immunology Soft tissue biology Imaging technologies Tissue engineering Developmental biology Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH revision to U01, U54, P01, P50, and P60 grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA (RFA-AR-09-001) of identical scientific scope that solicits applications under the R01 mechanism. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. The NIAMS plans to commit approximately $1M in direct costs in FY 2009 to fund up to 10 BIRT awards for both RFA-AR-09-001 and RFA-AR-09-002. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of meritorious applications. Budget and Project Period.The total project period for each revision application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed 1 year. To ensure sufficient time for full development of collaboration, the parent grant should not end earlier than January 31, 2011. Direct costs requested for the revision are limited to $100,000. No additional documented permission is required if the awarded amount puts the NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60 total direct cost above $500,000. Equipment costs will be awarded only in exceptional circumstances. Prior approval from Program Directors is required and the request for equipment costs must be submitted on the Letters of Intent Receipt Date of this FOA. Application Research Plan Component Length: Must not exceed 5 pages Eligible Institutions/Organizations. Institutions/organizations listed in Section III, 1.A. are eligible to apply. This FOA is a revision to encourage a principal investigator (PI) who has an active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60. to develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with independent investigators of other disciplines supported by the NIAMS, other NIH ICs, or other funding agencies. It is expected that the new collaboration will significantly expand the scope of their ongoing NIAMS research by adding expertise and approaches from another discipline. Subproject PIs of U54, P01, P50, or P60 can also develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with independent investigators of other disciplines. However, the application must be sent in as a multi-PI application with the parent grant PD/PI as the Contact PI. . Independent investigators with other awards are encouraged to apply in concert with NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60 grantees. Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs). Individuals with an existing active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50 or P60 and who have the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research are invited to work with their institution/organization to develop an application for support. Subproject PIs of U54, P01, P50, or P60 may also develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with independent investigators of other disciplines. However, the application must be sent in as a multi-PI application with the parent grant PD/PI as the Contact PI.Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. Number of PDs/PIs. More than one PD/PI (i.e., multiple PDs/PIs), may be designated on the application. Number of Applications. Applicants may submit more than one application, provided they are scientifically distinct. A BIRT application can be submitted for each active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60, and/or for each of their subprojects, i.e. more than one BIRT application can be submitted for each U54, P01, P50, or P60. If a revision is submitted by a subproject PD/PI in a multi-PI application with the parent PD/PI as the Contact PI,the PI of an NIAMS U54, P01, P50, or P60 grant must also write a letter of agreement stating that the revision support will be used for the requested collaboration. A BIRT application can not be requested to support collaborations among investigators who already have on-going, formal collaborations in the parent grant or other funded projects, with the exception that when subproject PIs of U54, P01, P50, or P60 develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with independent investigators of other disciplines, the subproject PI and the collaborator(s) must use multi-PI application and apply with the parent PD/PI as the Contact PI. Resubmissions.Resubmission applications are not permitted in response to this FOA. Renewals. No competing renewals are allowed
Federal Grant Title: Opportunity RFA-AR-09-002
Federal Agency Name: National Institutes of Health
Grant Categories: Health
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AR-09-002
Type of Funding: Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers: 93.846
CFDA Descriptions: Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research
Current Application Deadline: Feb 19, 2009
Original Application Deadline: Feb 19, 2009
Posted Date: Dec 03, 2008
Creation Date: Dec 03, 2008
Archive Date: Mar 22, 2009
Total Program Funding: $1,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards: 10
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Independent school districts - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities - Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) - Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education - For profit organizations other than small businesses - Small businesses - Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility
Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; This FOA is a limited competition opportunity that involves an active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60. Only current active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60 grantees are eligible to submit applications. Subproject PIs may also develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with independent investigators of other disciplines. However, the application must be sent in as a multi-PI application with the parent grant PD/PI as the Contact PI.Grantees with other equivalent awards are encouraged to apply with NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60 grantees.
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Will emigration lead us down economic vortex?
By Noreen Bowden | December 7, 2009
In Ireland, it’s probably most common to think of emigration as an economic release valve. It lowers the unemployment rate, cuts the costs of social welfare, and siphons off the kind of economic pressure that in other societies might result in popular revolt. Historically, emigration is seen as a result of our poor economic situation, not a major contributor to it.
Piaras Mac Einri, in an article on IrishCentral.com, noted that Irish authorities seem complacent about the current wave of emigration. If they are, it’s possibly because they subscribe to this rather benign view of emigration’s effects in Ireland.
But what other effects does emigration have? A new study produced by researchers in Michigan suggests that emigration is not just the result of economic downturn, but is also an agent in it. Michigan has faced a severe loss of population in the last decade, losing 16,000 jobs as 63 of its 83 counties faced a decline in the number of residents.
The Economic Impacts of County Population Changes in Michigan, from the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University, says that this emigration in itself poses serious economic challenges. It estimates it’s cost Michigan $2 billion of economic output, with $585 million lost in labour income, $346 million in property income, and $2.4 billion dollars in home equity value.
“When people leave town, so does their economic activity,” said Land Policy Institute Soji Adelaja, the lead author of the study. “This is especially true in a service economy, which depends upon people providing and needing services. The impact of these departures cuts deeper into the economy.”
“Such population loss can mean an economic vortex for a city like Detroit. Fewer people mean fewer tax revenues to provide city services. Fewer city services mean lower quality of life for people. So people are faced with tough decisions: Stick it out, or leave.”
Various sectors are particularly affected, including domestic trade, home construction, real estate rental, foreign trade, healthcare services, food services and drinking places, wholesale trade, insurance and financial services and entertainment activities, such as movie theatres. In a service-oriented economic in which people are more apt to move, these services are also more likely to move with them.
of jobs, people and income means that places that are economically vulnerable are even more exposed when they lose population. On the other hand, buoyant places have the benefit of being population attraction and destination points, and service jobs follow them. Indeed, the literature has shown that knowledge-jobs follow knowledge-workers who choose where they wish to live rather than just following jobs to places with little appeal (Florida, 2002).
Various sectors are particularly affected, including domestic trade, home construction, real estate rental, foreign trade, healthcare services, food services and drinking places, wholesale trade, insurance and financial services and entertainment activities, such as movie theatres. In a service-oriented economy in which people are more apt to move, these services are also more likely to move with them.
The study notes that “the loss of economic activity due to population loss is likely to be an increasingly important issue as the economy transitions further from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based one.”
It calls for the following strategies as a remedy for Michigan’s ills:
Population attraction strategies.
“Right-sizing” or “down-sizing” (aligning provision of services with population).
Policies targeted to enhance the stability of the service sector.
Tourism-attraction strategies.
Immigration-based strategies for economic development.
The pursuit of federal resources to salvage Michigan’s economy.
The study is well worth a read. How much of it is relevant to the Irish situation? Will emigration be a factor in extending our current downturn? How hard are we trying to make sure it won’t be?
Land Policy Institute Website: press release with links to study
Irish Times: Jobless figures for November unchanged at 12.5% – CSO
Irish Central: Emigration is back with a vengeance in Ireland
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2019| June | Volume 149 | Issue 6
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High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma: Predictors of long-term outcome
Lalit Kumar, Dev Ramavath, Babita Kataria, Akash Tiwari, Abhishek Raj, Santosh Kumar Chellapuram, Anjali Mookerjee, Ranjit Kumar Sahoo, Prabhat S Malik, Atul Sharma, Ritu Gupta, Om dutt Sharma, Ahitagni Biswas, Rakesh Kumar, Sanjay Thulkar, for AIIMS Myeloma Group
June 2019, 149(6):730-739
DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1593_18 PMID:31496525
Background & objectives: Survival of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) has improved in the past two decades following use of novel agents and autologous stem cell transplantation. To determine predictors of long-term outcome, data of MM patients who underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) at a tertiary care centre in north India were retrospectively analyzed. Methods: Between 1995 and 2016, 349 MM patients underwent ASCT. Patients' median age was 52 yr, ranging from 29 to 68 yr, 68.2 per cent were males. Thirty three per cent patients had international staging system (ISS) Stage III and 68.5 per cent had received novel agents-based induction. High-dose melphalan (200 mg/m2) was used for conditioning; patients with renal insufficiency (estimated glomerular filtration rate <40 ml/min) received melphalan 140-150 mg/m2. Results: Post-transplant, 317 of 349 (90.8%) patients responded; complete [complete response (CR)] −213 (61%)], very good partial response (VGPR) −62 (17.8%) and PR in 42 (12%)]. Induction with novel agents, pre-transplant chemosensitive disease, transplant in first remission and serum albumin (≥3.5 g/dl) were predictors of significant response. At a median follow up of 73 months, median overall survival (OS) was 90 months [95% confidence interval (CI) 70.8-109.2], and progression-free survival (PFS) was 41 months (95% CI 33.0-49.0). On multivariate analysis, achievement of CR post-transplant, transplant in first remission, ISS Stages I and II (vs. III), absence of extramedullary disease and serum albumin ≥3.5 g/dl were predictors of prolonged OS. For PFS, achievement of post-transplant CR and transplant in first remission were predictors of superior outcome. Interpretation & conclusions: Treatment with novel agents, achievement of complete remission post-transplant, ISS Stages I and II, absence of extramedullary disease and transplant in first remission were predictors of long-term survival for patients with MM.
Mortality due to scrub typhus – report of five cases
Rama Chaudhry, Chandan Kumar Thakur, Nitin Gupta, Tanu Sagar, Tej Bahadur, Naveet Wig, Rita Sood, Mahesh Chandra Misra
Scrub typhus is largely ignored in India particularly during outbreaks of viral fever. The disease course is often complicated leading to fatalities in the absence of treatment. However, if diagnosed early and a specific treatment is initiated, the cure rate is high. We report here five cases of scrub typhus to highlight the fact that high clinical suspicion for such a deadly disease is an absolute necessity.
Implementing precision medicine in best practices of chronic airway diseases
PA Mahesh
DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_608_19
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CLINICAL IMAGES
Fibrosing mediastinitis
Pankaj Jariwala, Satya Sridhar Kale
Left atrial ball thrombus
Naveen Garg, Jugal Sharma
Progress in multiple myeloma
Reinhold Munker, Gregory Monohan
DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_770_19 PMID:31496521
Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus: Emergence of G2447U & C2534U mutations at the domain V of 23S ribosomal RNA gene in a tertiary care hospital in India
Sanjana Kumari, Jyoti Rawre, Anjan Trikha, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Seema Sood, Arti Kapil, Benu Dhawan
Drug misuse in India: Where do we stand & where to go from here?
Ajit Avasthi, Abhishek Ghosh
Completeness of death registration in the Civil Registration System, India (2005 to 2015)
G. Anil Kumar, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona
Background & objectives: In many developing countries including India, the civil registration data are incomplete, inadequate and not timely, therefore, compromising the usefulness of these data. The completeness of registration of death (CoRD) in the Indian Civil Registration System (CRS) was assessed from 2005 to 2015 at State level to understand its current status and trends over time and also to identify gaps in data to improve CRS data quality. Methods: CoRD for each year for each State was calculated from the CRS reports for 2005-2015. Data were analyzed nationally by geographic region and individual State. The availability of CoRD by age group and sex was also reported. Results: About 40 per cent increase in CoRD was documented for India between 2005 and 2015, with CoRD of 76.6 per cent in 2015. CoRD was >90 per cent in the western and southern regions and the eastern, central and northeastern regions had CoRD lower than the Indian average in 2015. Among the 29 States, 16 (55.2%) State had CoRD >80 per cent and five (17.2%) <50 per cent and 10 States recorded 100 per cent CoRD. Despite the highest per cent increase during 2005-2015 (108.5%), CoRD in Uttar Pradesh was 44.2 per cent in 2015. Varying levels of progress in 2015 were seen between the State with similar CoRD estimates in 2015. Nagaland (−63.3%), Manipur (−33.1%) and Tripura (−30.3%) were the only States that documented a decrease in CoRD during 2005-2015. The age non-availability for India ranged from 37.0 per cent in 2009 to 37.9 per cent in 2015, an average of 41.5 per cent over the seven years and was an average of 35.6 and 36.6 per cent for males and females, respectively. Age was available for all registered deaths only in five (17.2%) of the 29 States in 2009 and four (13.8%) in 2015. Sex non-availability for the recorded deaths was much lower as compared with that for age. Interpretation & conclusions: Despite the significant progress made in CoRD in India, critical differences between the States within the CRS remain, with poor availability of reporting by age and sex. Concentrated efforts to assess the strengths and weaknesses at the State level of the CRS processes, quality of data and plausibility of information generated are needed in India.
Prescription pattern & adverse drug reactions of prokinetics
Mansij Biswas, Kritarth Naman Mithileshwar Singh, Yashashri C Shetty, Paresh G Koli, Sushrut Ingawale, Shobna J Bhatia
Background & objectives: Prokinetics are extensively prescribed leading to several adverse events (AEs). The aim of this study was to assess the prescription pattern in patients receiving prokinetics, and characteristics of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in an outpatient department set up in a tertiary care hospital in western India. Methods: Patients attending outpatient departments of a tertiary care hospital and who had received prokinetic agent for at least seven days over the last one month were enrolled. Causality assessment of AEs was done and assessed for severity, preventability, seriousness and predictability. Results: A total of 304 patients [161 males (52.96%); 143 females (47.04%)] were enrolled. Most prescriptions (299/304, 98%) included domperidone, most commonly prescribed as fixed-dose combination (FDC) with pantoprazole (274/304, 90%). Prokinetic dose was not mentioned in 251/304 (83%) prescriptions, and 18/304 (6%) did not mention frequency. Of the 378 AEs reported from 179 patients (47.35%), 306 (81%) were mild, all non-serious; 272 (72%) not preventable and 291 (77%) predictable in nature. Decreased appetite (n=31, 8.2%) and fatigue (n=27,7.14%) were most commonly reported. Causality assessment by the World Health Organization-Uppsala Monitoring Centre scale showed that 180 AEs were related to suspected drug (17 probable and 163 possible ADRs). Significant correlation was observed for AEs with increasing number of drugs per prescription (Spearman's R=+0.8, P =0.05) and with increasing therapy duration (Spearman's R=+1.00, P <0.001). Interpretation & conclusions: Our findings showed that prokinetics were often prescribed as FDCs, with incomplete prescriptions. Domperidone was found to be associated with multiple AEs. It is suggested that regular prescription monitoring should be done in hospitals to encourage rational use of drugs.
Evaluation of new non-invasive & conventional invasive methods of haemoglobin estimation in blood donors
Diptiranjan Rout, Suchet Sachdev, Neelam Marwaha
Background & objectives: The non-invasive method of haemoglobin (Hb) estimation has unique advantages of exemption of finger prick and associated pain, over invasive methods. This study was done to compare invasive and non-invasive methods of Hb estimation in blood donors keeping haematology analyzer (HA) as a reference method. Methods: The blood donors selected or deferred on the basis of CuSO4method (Hb ≥12.5 g/dl), were included in the study. Hb values of the donors were estimated by HemoCue and then by OrSense methods. An immediate post-donation venous sample was drawn for analysis on HA. Results: The mean Hb value was 13.98±1.27 g/dl on HA, 14.87±1.03 g/dl on OrSense and 15.03±1.31 g/dl on HemoCue. CuSO4, HemoCue and OrSense demonstrated sensitivities of 18.7, 18.7 and 13.1 per cent, positive predictive values (PPV) of 64.5, 83.3 and 60.9 per cent and specificities of 98.9, 99.6 and 99.1 per cent, respectively. The intra-class correlation coefficient for OrSense was 0.726 while that for HemoCue was 0.851. Bland-Altman plots demonstrated 2SD difference of >2.0 g/dl in Hb estimations between HA and HemoCue/OrSense. Interpretation & conclusions: The non-invasive modality may provide the near-ideal pre-donation Hb screening platform if an improvement can be done in the sensitivity and PPV of the non-invasive method keeping in view its unique advantages.
Association of endotoxaemia & gut permeability with complications of acute pancreatitis: Secondary analysis of data
Namrata Singh, Ujjwal Sonika, Praneeth Moka, Brij Sharma, Vikas Sachdev, Sushil Kumar Mishra, Ashish Datt Upadhyay, Anoop Saraya
Background & objectives: In acute pancreatitis (AP) gut barrier dysfunction is considered as an important predisposing factor leading to increased intestinal permeability (IP). In this study a pooled analysis of data published in our previous four studies on various aspects of gut permeability and endotoxaemia in patients with AP was attempted to find an association between increased IP and severity of disease and associated complications. Methods: This study was a pooled analysis of data of four previously published prospective studies on AP. Gut permeability, assessed by lactulose/mannitol excretion in urine and endotoxin core antibodies type IgG and IgM (EndoCab IgG and IgM) were measured on days zero and seven (D0 and D7) of admission. All patients received standard treatment of AP. We studied whether IgG and IgM anti-endotoxin titres and lactulose-mannitol ratio (LMR) at admission and D7 were associated with organ failure, infection and mortality. Results: The titres of anti-endotoxin IgG and IgM were lower in all patients of AP (n=204), both in mild AP (n=24) and severe AP (n=180) in the first week, compared to controls (n=15). There was no significant difference in serum IgG and IgM anti-endotoxin levels and LMR at baseline and at D7 among patients with organ failure, infection and mortality. Interpretation & conclusions: Our findings showed that serum IgG and IgM anti-endotoxin titres and LMR at admission and at day 7 were not associated with organ failure, infection, and death of patients with AP.
Differential susceptibility & replication potential of Vero E6, BHK-21, RD, A-549, C6/36 cells & Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to three strains of chikungunya virus
Anakkathil Balan Sudeep, Pratik B Vyas, Deepti Parashar, Pratip Shil
Background & objectives: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne arthritogenic virus causes infections ranging from febrile illness to debilitating polyarthralgia in humans. Re-emergence of the virus has affected millions of people in Africa and Asia since 2004. During the outbreak, a new lineage of the virus has evolved as an adaptation for enhanced replication and transmission by Aedes albopictus mosquito. A study was designed to compare the susceptibility of four vertebrate cell lines, namely Vero E6 (African green monkey kidney), BHK-21 (Baby hamster kidney), RD (human rhabdomyosarcoma), A-549 (human alveolar basal epithelial cell) and C6/36 (Ae. albopictus) to Asian genotype and two lineages of East, Central and South African (E1:A226 and E1:A226V) of CHIKV. Methods: One-step growth kinetics of different CHIKV strains was carried out in the above five cell lines to determine the growth kinetics and virus yield. Virus titre was determined by 50 per cent tissue culture infectious dose assay and titres were calculated by the Reed and Muench formula. Growth and virus yield of the three strains in Ae. aegypti mosquitoes was studied by intrathoracic inoculation and virus titration in Vero E6 cell line. Results: Virus titration showed Vero E6, C6/36 and BHK-21 cell lines are high virus yielding with all the three lineages while RD and A-549 yielded low virus titres. C6/36 cell line was the most sensitive and yielded the maximum titre. Ae. aegypti mosquitoes, when inoculated with high titre virus, yielded an almost equal growth with the three strains while rapid growth of E1:A226V and Asian strain was observed with 1 log virus. Interpretation & conclusions: C6/36 cell line was found to be the most sensitive and high yielding for CHIKV irrespective of lineages while Vero E6 and BHK-21 cell lines yielded high titres and may find application for vaccine/diagnostic development. Infection of Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with the three CHIKV strains gave almost identical pattern of growth.
High-altitude pulmonary oedema: Newer treatment modalities for an age-old problem
Uday Yanamandra, Manisha Sharma, Deeksha Katoch, Sushma Yanamandra, Srinivasa A Bhattachar, Amul Gupta, Sagarika Patyal, Rajan Grewal, Suman Kumar, Velu Nair
Background & objectives: High-altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) continues to challenge the healthcare providers at remote, resource-constrained settings. High-altitude terrain itself precludes convenience of resources. This study was conducted to evaluate the rise in peripheral capillary saturation of oxygen (SpO2) by the use of a partial rebreathing mask (PRM) in comparison to Hudson's mask among patients with HAPE. Methods: This was a single-centre, randomized crossover study to determine the efficiency of PRM in comparison to Hudson's mask. A total of 88 patients with HAPE referred to a secondary healthcare facility at an altitude of 11,500 feet from January to October 2013 were studied. A crossover after adequate wash-out on both modalities was conducted for first two days of hospital admission. All patients with HAPE were managed with bed rest and stand-alone oxygen supplementation with no adjuvant pharmacotherapy. Results: The mean SpO2on ambient air on arrival was 66.92±10.8 per cent for all patients with HAPE. Higher SpO2values were achieved with PRM in comparison to Hudson's mask on day one (86.08±5.15 vs. 77.23±9.09%) and day two (89.94±2.96 vs. 83.39±5.93%). The difference was more pronounced on day one as compared to day two. Interpretation & conclusions: Mean SpO2values were found to be significantly higher among HAPE patients using PRM compared to those on Hudson's mask. Further studies to understand the translation of this incremental response in SpO2to clinical benefits (recovery times, mortality rates and hospital stay) need to be undertaken.
Molecular characterization of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses circulating at various geographical locations in India, 2017
Varsha Potdar, Neetu Vijay, Nivedita Gupta, G Arunkumar, Bishwajyoti Borkakoty, Bharti Malhotra, Debajit Rabha, Dilip Hinge, Harmanmeet Kaur, Mandeep Chadha, for VRDL Team
Background & objectives: Influenza virological surveillance is an essential tool for the early detection of novel genetic variants of epidemiologic and clinical significance. This study was aimed to genetically characterize A(H1N1)pdm09 virus circulating in 2017 and to compare it with the global data. Methods: The regional/State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDLs) provided influenza diagnosis for referred clinical samples and shared influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 positives with the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV), Pune, India, for hemagglutinin (HA) gene phylogenetic analysis. Sites at Manipal, Jaipur and Dibrugarh performed the sequencing and shared the sequence data for analysis. The antiviral susceptibility of influenza viruses was assessed for known molecular marker H275Y at the ICMR-NIV, Pune. Results: All the eight VRDLs had well-established influenza diagnostic facilities and showed increased activity of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during 2017. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the viruses from the different regions of the country were similar to A/Michigan/45/2015 strain which was the 2017-2018 recommended vaccine strain and were clustered with the globally circulating clade 6B.1 with signature mutations S84N, S162N and I216T. The clade 6B.1 showed further subgrouping with additional mutations S74R, S164T and I295V; however, there was no significant association between the presence of these mutations and severity of disease due to influenza. All the study viruses were sensitive to oseltamivir. Interpretation & conclusions: During the study period, all the study sites reported globally circulating A/Michigan/45/2015 vaccine strain of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses and remained sensitive to oseltamivir. Further genetic and antigenic characterization of influenza viruses is recommended to address public health concerns.
Overnutrition: Current scenario & combat strategies
Prashant Mathur, Rakesh Pillai
Large population-based surveys by the Government of India and several other regional studies have reconfirmed the coexisting burden of over- and undernutrition. While time trends from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds of the National Family Health Survey show declining trends in the prevalence of the underweight, it also highlights increasing rates in the overweight/obesity. Dose-response relationships with different micro- and macronutrient consumption with overweight/obesity prevalence have been established. In this context, it was attempted to identify the specific diet pattern and socio-behavioural determinants of overnutrition along with its combat strategies. This review highlights that while the proportion of chronic energy deficiency is decreasing in India, the intake of micronutrients and food groups continues to be below the recommended dietary allowance set by the Indian Council of Medical Research. Distal factors that determine the nutritional imbalance among Indians are presented under (i) household contextual factors, (ii) peer and socio-cultural influencers, and (iii) business and neighbourhood environment. Accumulation of such factors increases the density of obesogenic environment around individuals. Further, the review offers action points at individual, society and policy levels, presented in a 'logframe matrix' for bringing convergence actions across sectors in consultation with programme managers from different ministries/departments.
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Anti-Wolbachia therapy for onchocerciasis & lymphatic filariasis: Current perspectives
Wan Aliaa Wan Sulaiman, Joseph Kamtchum-Tatuene, Mohd Hazmi Mohamed, Vasudevan Ramachandran, Siew Mooi Ching, Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim, Hasnur Zaman Hashim, Liyana Najwa Inche Mat, Fan Kee Hoo, Hamidon Basri
Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) are human filarial diseases belonging to the group of neglected tropical diseases, leading to permanent and long-term disability in infected individuals in the endemic countries such as Africa and India. Microfilaricidal drugs such as ivermectin and albendazole have been used as the standard therapy in filariasis, although their efficacy in eliminating the diseases is not fully established. Anti-Wolbachia therapy employs antibiotics and is a promising approach showing potent macrofilaricidal activity and also prevents embryogenesis. This has translated to clinical benefits resulting in successful eradication of microfilarial burden, thus averting the risk of adverse events from target species as well as those due to co-infection with loiasis. Doxycycline shows potential as an anti-Wolbachia treatment, leading to the death of adult parasitic worms. It is readily available, cheap and safe to use in adult non-pregnant patients. Besides doxycycline, several other potential antibiotics are also being investigated for the treatment of LF and onchocerciasis. This review aims to discuss and summarise recent developments in the use of anti-Wolbachia drugs to treat onchocerciasis and LF.
A systematic review of standard treatment guidelines in India
Paresh Girdharlal Koli, Nilima A Kshirsagar, Yashashri C Shetty, Dhvani Mehta, Yashaswini Mittal, Urwashi Parmar
Background & objectives: Standard treatment guidelines (STGs) are the cornerstone to therapeutics. Multiple agencies in India develop STGs. This systematic review was conducted to find out STGs available in India, evaluate if these were as per World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for STGs and compare these with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. Information on legal authority and responsibility for formulating STGs was also sought. Methods: PRISMA guidelines were followed. Publications from PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for STGs using terms 'Standard Treatment Guidelines AND India'. Data from STGs were compiled in excel as per the WHO and authors' criteria for STGs and compared with NICE guidelines. Results: PubMed and Google Scholar search provided 56 publications (out of 1695 search results) mentioning 27 STGs. Google search and replies from authors led us 36 STGs, totalling to 63 STGs. No STG mentioned any specific period of revision, eight STGs were not evidence-based, 55 had some Indian references, 48 STGs were for single disease and the remaining multi-disease, three STGs did not include diagnostic criteria, 16 STGs did not give prescribing information of recommended treatment and 16 STGs provide no referral criteria for patients. Fifty five STGs did not mention level of health care. While NICE is a single legal authority in England and guidelines are as per WHO recommendations for STGs, in India although Acts and rules do not vest authority, National Health Systems Resource Center is generally designated responsible for STGs. Interpretation & conclusions: In India, although there are multiple STGs developed by various authorities and professionals for the same conditions, these fulfil WHO recommendations only partially. Authority with statutory duty collaborating with professional organizations, a standard methodology for adopting international guidelines, Indian data for evidence base, attention to local needs will help in developing better STGs and their acceptance.
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TRARALGON COLLEGE TAKES OUT AWARD AT WAKAKIRRI FINALS NIGHT
Monday 16th September 2019
Students from Traralgon College wowed the crowd at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda last week, winning the Best Adapted Story Award for their performance Friends Unite.
Traralgon College was one of ten schools that made it through as a finalist in the Wakakirri Secondary School Challenge with their short theatrical performance about a group of young people struggling against bullies.
The awards night was the culmination of many months of hard work for the talented performers and crew.
Nineteen schools across Victoria competed in heats in Frankston, Moonee Ponds, Geelong and Bendigo to stake their place in the top ten.
Now in its sixth year, Wakakirri Secondary School Challenge is bigger and better than ever. In the past five years over 6,100 students from more than 50 schools have created performances reflecting their concerns and ideas.
Wakakirri develops young people’s creative talents – music, dance, drama and stagecraft. But it also teaches important skills that last for life like teamwork, leadership and communication.
The Andrews Labor Government is proud to be a major partner of the Wakakirri Secondary School Challenge, which connects young people to industry professionals and provides pathways to careers in the performing arts.
The Labor Government has committed to funding this unique and innovative program for another three years until December 2022.
To find out more about the Wakakirri Secondary School Challenge visit wakakirri.com. For more information on Andrews Labor Government programs for young people visit youthcentral.vic.gov.au/get-involved
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“What a wonderful achievement for everyone at Traralgon College who was involved in planning, developing and delivering its award-winning performance. This is another brilliant example of how the arts can empower, provoke and inspire us.”
“We are so proud to support Wakakirri and the opportunities it creates for young artists right across our state, and to see the confidence, skill and artistry that it nurtures.”
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Sunset Crater Volcano was born in a series powerful explosions sometime between 1040 and 1100 AD. These eruptions profoundly affected the lives of local people and forever changed the landscape and ecology of the area. The eruption destroyed all plants within a five-mile radius. A fountain of fire, 850 feet high, was visible for miles around. An ash cloud rose 2 1/2 miles into the sky and falling ash covered about 64,000 acres. Sunset Crater is the most recent in a six-million year history of volcanic activity in the Flagstaff, Arizona, area. The people living just northeast of what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, must have been warned by tremors before debris exploded from the ground and rained down on their homes. The lave flows and erupting cinders that followed forced these farmers to leave the rocky lands they had cultivated for over 400 years. This cinder cone reminds us of the powerful forces that shape the Earth - forces that have created more than 600 hills and mountains in the San Francisco volcanic field. These mountains have in turn affected the climate and habitat for all things living in this region. What is now a 1000-foot high volcano began to form when molten rock sprayed high into the air from a crack in the ground, solidified, then fell to Earth as large bombs or smaller cinders. As periodic eruptions continued, the heavier debris accumulated around the vent. The lightest, smallest particles were carried the farthest by wind, dusting 800 square miles of Arizona with ash. Perhaps as spectacular as the original eruption were two lava flows - the Kana-a and the Bonito. They destroyed every living thing in their paths. The entire event may have lasted six months to a year. In a final burst of activity, red and yellow oxidized cinders shot out of the vent and fell onto the rim. The colorful glow of these cinders reminded people of a sunset and led to the volcano's name. The lava flows and cinders still look as fresh and rugged today as the day they were formed.
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La Virreina
Holiday house in Altea, Costa Blanca, Spain
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Holiday house for 4 people in Altea
Holiday house with communal pool in Altea, on the Costa Blanca, Spain for 4 persons. The house is situated in a hilly and residential area.
The house has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 guest toilet, spread over 2 levels. The accommodation offers a garden with gravel and wonderful views of the bay, the sea, the valley and the mountains. Its comfort and the vicinity of the beach and sports activities make this a fine holiday house to celebrate your holidays with family or friends.
Interior of this holiday home
2 level holiday house
living room with television and hifi and air conditioing
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 guest toilet
satellite antenna (N/A)
kitchen with gas hob, electric oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, coffee machine, electric kettle and toaster
extra kitchen
Exterior of this holiday home
enclosed plot
garden with gravel
nearest town within 5 kilometers of the house
nearest beach: La Olla (within 5 kilometers of the house)
nearest airport: Aeropuerto Alicante (within 100 kilometers of the house)
public transport: bus within 5 kilometers and train within 5 kilometers of the house
Features and services included in the rental price of this holiday home
reception service, 24 hours surveillance service and 24 hours emergency service
central heating (electric) and air-conditioned (3 air conditioned units)
tennis (within 1000 meters of the house)
golf (within 5 kilometers of the house)
horse riding (within 10 kilometers of the house)
Cleaning during your stay
Weekly change of sheets and towels
Aministration fee € 33.00 per booking
energy costs all year € 11.79 per day
taxes 10.00% of the rental price
Arrival after opening hours € 55.00 per booking
Baby bed (Cot) € 3.93 per day
Breakfast € 20.00 per person per day
Dog € 55.00 per booking
Extra bed € 93.50 per week
high chair € 3.93 per day
Ventilator € 16.50 per week
Restaurant within the complex
24 hour surveillance
Golf course within 5 km.
Tenants reviews for Holiday House La Virreina 004
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Location of Altea
Situated in the Spanish Costa Blanca, in between Valencia and Alicante, lies Altea, the village of artists and fishermen. This town in Alicante, a province in the south-eastern region of Spain borders the Mediterranean Sea and lies approximately 50 kilometres northeast of the city of Alicante and 130 kilometres south of Valencia . Altea offers different residential areas where you can find luxurious Holiday rental Villas, Houses, Homes and Holiday rental Apartments.
General information about Altea
Altea, with its approximate 20.000 inhabitants, stretches a surface of 34.4 square kilometres and is built on a hill of the Costa Blanca. The fabulous basilica with its resplendent blue domes, graciously crowns the top of the mountain. Built onto the hillside, the old town centre with its many slim streets and alleys, has become home to many an artist and contains many cosy, characteristic restaurants and bistros. Tourism, having increased significantly on the Costa Blanca from the 1950´s onward through Altea s Mediterranean climate, child-friendly beaches, and characteristic downtown area, is a main means of livelihood for the town and its people.
History of Altea
Altea s history goes back many centuries and is characterised by the manifold civilisations which have passed Altea on their way along the course of time. Iberians, Fenicians, Muslims, Greeks, and Romans have all left their marks. It appears that the name Altea is also of Greek origin, as it is thought to have come from the Greek word Altahia, meaning `I heal´. Since the town is located at the mouth of the Algar river (meaning 'the river of health'), historians assume that in the old days Altea was a hamlet with strategic, medical, and beneficial value.
Landscape and surroundings of Altea
Situated along a bay, Altea is sealed in by the mountains and the sea. It offers a panoramic view of the picturesque blue domes of the Virgen del Consuelo church, also known as the Nuestra Señora del Consuelo church. This church is built on the hill and stretches high above the historical downtown area. Here you will also find a labyrinth of paved streets and flights of stairs well worth a visit. You are treated to special views looking down the scenic streets and coastline, and absorbing the interesting and beautiful spots of Altea.
Beaches in Altea
Cliffs and pebbled beaches vary each other along Altea s 6 kilometres long beach. Little bays and beaches follow in succession from the Barranco del Mascarat up to the pier marking the border with L'Alfás del Pi. Near the old town centre lies the Playa de la Roda beach, while the biggest beach, Cap Blanch, can be found a little further south, merging seamlessly with the Albir beach. Further north lies the Playa de Cap Negret beach, a pebble beach with at its end a small inlet with black rocks named Cala del Soio. Another beach favourite is L´Olla, situated right across from its namesake island. Altea's borders are marked by the mountain peak Mascarat and the Sierra de Bernia, where one will find inlets with small pebble beaches such as La Barreta, La Solsida, and La Galera.
Sights in Altea
Besides the previously mentioned church of Virgen del Consuelo with its magnificent blue domes, Altea offers a range of museums:
Museo étnico de la Musica (Ethnic museum of Music), with its collection of Carlos Blanco Fadol, is considered one of the world's most important in its field. A fabulous concert-hall offers a diverse range of drama -and musical performances for your enjoyment.
Museo Navarro Ramón.
Sala de Pinturas, the museum housing the art of painting.
Casa de Cultura, in which temporary collections are on display.
Additionally there are band competitions and festivals amongst which is the "Vila d Altea International Music Band Competition" taking place in November or December and bringing together over 500 musicians. A major fireworks display supported by a smashing show of sights and sounds takes place in the night of the second Saturday of August.
Things to do in Altea
Every visitor to Altea is invited to a journey of exploration on foot. The labyrinth of narrow alleys offering a gorgeous view over the Bay of Altea is what has given Altea its fame. On your way you will pass numerous small stores, boots, and galleries offering a wide range of hand-crafted goods. A stone's throw away from Altea lies Cactuslandia, hosting a collection of over a thousand species of cacti and parrots that will most surely amaze you. Multiple amusement parks are found in the direction of Benidorm, such as Terra Mítica, Spain's first Theme Park on The Costa Blanca. This Theme Park is divided into five areas representing five lost civilizations of bygone ages. Its attractions take you back to the myths and legends of these ancient cultures. Aqualandia is a very large Water Theme Park in which young and old alike can have an unforgettable experience in its many swimming pools with springboards, rapid currents, waterfalls, and a stunning range of waterslides. Gorgeous exotic animals and creatures of the sea await you at Safari Park Vergel or Zoopark Mundomar, both of which also host a variety of shows and attractions.
Sports and recreation in Altea
The beach at Marina Greenwich offers a variety of sporting facilities. One may scuba dive, fish, surf, attend the sailing school or rent a yacht. Similar activities are on offer over at the harbour and at the water sports club. Those who love a good game of golf will also feel welcome in Altea. Situated by Altea la Vieja, against the backdrop of the Mountains of Bernia, one discovers the Don Cayo Club de Golf, a nine-hole golf course with an amazing view.
Completed in 2005 between la Sierra Finestrat and the Mediterranean Sea, Club de Golf Real de Faula offers a spacious twin eighteen-hole golf course. The area also hosts two 5-star hotels, swimming pools, tennis lanes, a kids club, a fitness centre, restaurants and shopping facilities.
Gastronomy of Altea
The characteristic Spanish dishes are also richly represented in Altea. Most typical for the region, as for all of the Costa Blanca, is -undoubtedly- the rice, which is prepared in over 300 different ways. In the mountains, rice is used as one of the ingredients in the famous stew, and so are pork, sausage, pumpkin, turnip, beets, chick peas, and beans. Seaside restaurants always offer fish and shellfish on their menus. The countless (fish)restaurants in the harbour serve the most delicious local specialities on offer: Dorade, Lubina a la Sal (in a crust of salt) or grilled with a nip of olive oil, garlic, and lemon juice. Gastronomy in the Costa Blanca also includes honey-sweet deserts, such as nougat and ice cream from Xixona, grapes, raisins, dates, almond pie, pastry drenched in sweet syrup accompanied by coffee liqueur from Alcoy and herb liqueur from the Sierra Mariola. The premium red, light red, and rosé wines originate from the Alto Vinalopó and Marina Alta districts.
The locations of the holiday houses, holiday villas and holiday apartments
Altea, La Nucia, Polop and Alfaz del Pi:
The Houses, Villas and Apartments are located in and around Altea and in the adjoining villages La Nucia, Polop and Alfaz del Pi. The towns are situated amongst hilly terrain, surrounded by orchards but definitely not too far away from the coast. Distances: town centre approx. 3 4 kilometres; beach approx. 4 - 8 kilometres; supermarket and restaurants approx. 3 5 kilometres; tennis courts and golf courses approx. 3 8 kilometres from your villa.
Villajoyosa:
Cosy fisherman's village next to Altea, with a beautiful sandy beach. Distances: town centre and beach approx. 4 kilometres; supermarket and restaurants approx. 3 kilometres; tennis courts approx. 1 kilometre and golf courses approx. 10 kilometres from your villa.
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Honorable Roger Harmon
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Cleburne, Texas 76033
The Texas Constitution vests broad judicial and administrative powers in the position of county judge, who presides over a five-member commissioners court, which has budgetary and administrative authority over county government operations.
The county judge handles such widely varying matters as hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally retarded, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianship for special purposes. The judge is also responsible for calling elections, posting election notices and for receiving and canvassing the election returns. The county judge may perform marriages.
A county judge in Texas may have judicial responsibility for certain criminal, civil and probate matters - responsibility for these functions vary from county to county. In those counties in which the judge has judicial responsibilities, the judge has appellate jurisdiction over matters arising from the justice courts. The county judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief, county welfare and in counties under 225,000 population, the judge prepares the county budget along with the county auditor or county clerk.
County Judge Roger Harmon was born and raised in the County Seat of Johnson County. He attended Cleburne schools and also Hill and Tarrant Junior Colleges.
"I am very honored to have been married 45 years to the former Martha Hindman and am the Father of two grown children, Greg and Wendi. One of my greatest joys in life is my grandchildren, Trevor, Tessa, Hunter, Marissa and Mason. I also serve as a deacon and adult Sunday School Teacher at First Baptist Church of Godley. Prior to becoming County Judge in 1995, I successfully owned and operated my own insurance company in Cleburne for 20 years with a branch in Burleson."
Judge Harmon states "I am firmly committed to the principles of conservatism in matters concerning management of County business affairs." During the past seventeen years, Johnson County has experienced a population increase from 97,165 to 152,000 making our growth rate one of the highest in the State. This dramatic growth has presented a multitude of challenges, and opportunities for all County offices. "I am very pleased with the manner in which our offices have been able to respond and effectively deal with this rapidly changing environment while at the same time providing our citizens with quality services. I sincerely believe that through our sound planning and conservative management philosophies, Johnson County will continue to be successful in dealing with all future challenges."
Some of the accomplishments during my term as County Judge are:
Received Grant from the Texas Historical Preservation Program for $4 Million to Restore the Historical Courthouse
Guinn Justice Center completed in 2004 to be used as Justice Center
*Received Award from Texas Association of Counties for 2005 Best Practice Outstanding Achievement Award
*Received Award from Cleburne Chamber of Commerce for Community Improvement Award
Purchase of 4 parcels of property with buildings from Cleburne Independent School District for expansion and better service of County Departments.
Assembled a Johnson County Task force to develop an order to regulate sexually oriented business in the unincorporated areas of Johnson County
Worked with the Public Utility Commission in order to keep our 817 area code for most of our county
Instrumental in the Creation of a Personnel Department to represent all the employees of the county in a proactive way and to build a positive working environment for them
Worked with the Johnson County Economic Development Commission to create a stronger tax base with added new jobs for our citizens
Character First Program Implemented the planning and building of the Guinn Justice CenterCompleted Law Enforcement Expansion for overnighter and trustees
New expansion for the Law Enforcement Center which added 288 more beds
Worked with ISS to start our first Web site for the County
Completed work with TxDOT for the widening of Hwy 67
Working on plans with TxDOT for Hwy 121 – Chisholm Trail Parkway
Newly Constructed Adult Probation BuildingWorking on Plans to Construct a New Alvarado Sub-Courthouse
The future goals of our County are to complete plans on Hwy 121 and, continue working with the Economic Development Commission to attract new business to Johnson County.
The following is a list of my public involvement in Cleburne, Johnson County and the State of Texas:
President of the Texas Association of Counties, County Judges and Commissioners Association 2012-2013
Past President of the Texas Association of Counties, North & East County Judges and Commissioners Association
Member of the North Central Texas Regional Transportation Committee
Member of many Chambers of Commerce throughout Johnson County
Past Member Hill College Technical and Workforce Advisory Council
Member Ex-Officio of Cleburne Chamber of Commerce
Past Board Member of Operation Blessing
Past Board Member of the Pecan Valley Mental Health & Retardation Board
Member Ex-Officio of Johnson County Economic Development Board
Member Ex-Officio of Johnson County Committee on Aging
Executive Board Member of Texas Association of Counties
Executive Board Member of the Agricultural Extension for Johnson County
Board Member of the Workforce Development Board
Member of the Johnson County Juvenile Board
Past Member of the Conference of Urban Counties State Inter-Governmental Relations Committee
Past Chairman of the Johnson County Elected Officials Council
Past Chairman of the Industrial Division of the Johnson County United Way
Past Advisory Board Member of the Child Study Center, Fort Worth
Served as Vice President of the Cleburne YMCA
Served six years as member of the Cleburne I.S.D. Board of Trustees
"I pledge to keep an open dialogue between Johnson County and all the surrounding cities in order to continue moving forward with the growth of our County and to the employees to continue improving the working relationships within our offices."
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Resilience Breakfast Speech
Thank you for the opportunity to say a few words.
Just before being elected as Mayor of Christchurch I discovered that the Rockefeller Foundation had decided to celebrate their centenary by devoting $100M to building resilience – the first step was establishing a network of 100 Resilient Cities. The deadline for expressions of interest was before the local body elections. So I contacted Bob Parker and asked him if he would make that happen, and he readily gave me someone to work with. And after I was elected one of my first tasks was to sign the official application.
2016 Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress & New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors Annual Conference
E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga rau rangatira ma
tenei te mihi ki a koutou i runga i te kaupapa o te ra
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra tatou katoa
In welcoming members of the New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors and the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors to Christchurch, New Zealand, may I particularly acknowledge:
Jeremy Shearer, the President of the NZ Institute of Quantity Surveyors; Ian Duncan, the President of the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors and Phillippa Goodman-Jones the Convenor of this Congress
Thank you for choosing Christchurch as the host city for this year's Congress of the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors.
Rochester and Rutherford Hall Formal Dinner, 77 Ilam Road
Principal Stephen Killick - thank you for inviting me to address your first year students tonight.
I'm delighted to join you all and particularly pleased to be able to offer those of you from out of town a belated welcome to Christchurch.
My mother served on the Rochester Board so I am always happy to speak on these occasions. And of course I completed my studies here at the University of Canterbury many years ago.
Farewell for Professor Hong Hu, Deputy Director, Confucius Institute UC
It is my pleasure to join you here today.
We are gathered to honour the efforts of a wonderful colleague and friend.
Professor Hu has been at the helm of the Confucius Institute since it first opened its doors in 2010 - 6 years ago.
I understand that this is a record that has earned her some fame at home in China - usually Deputy Directors only serve for between 2-4 years!
The Christchurch Story - our response to the 2011 earthquake
I would like to begin by acknowledging Dr Chryssy Potsiou the President of FIG and Mr Mark Allen the President of the NZ Institute of Surveyors.
And also Margareta Wahlstrom, who I met in Christchurch 4 years ago, and who invited me to join the Parliamentarians Advisory Group to the UNISDR, which led me to a much deeper understanding of the role of Disaster Risk Reduction in building resilience to adversity, whatever the cause.
As Mayor of Christchurch, I would normally be asked to provide a welcome to such an important event as this and to encourage you to enjoy all the intriguing aspects of our ever-evolving city. But I am delighted to be asked to speak at the first plenary session – the Christchurch Story – our response to the 2011 earthquake.
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Maya ballplayer figurine, fired clay, Late Classic, A.D. 600-700, about 3 inches tall.
Photographed with the permission of the Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City.
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The blue color of this figurine is a rare pigment known as " Mayan Blue." Use any search engine to locate articles on the fascinating chemistry of this paint that was used a thousand years ago.
This figurine is hollow, since solid clay would fracture in the process of heating in the kiln and subsequent cooling. At the back of the figure you can see holes; at the bottom is a mouthpiece to blow on. Most of these figures are whistles or ocarinas
Figures of this class are best known from the sacred burial island of Jaina, Campeche, Mexico. Almost every museum in the world, and many art books on Maya archaeology, picture Jaina style figurines. This particular figure, however, is from Guatemala.
This individual wears a special outfit used in the favorite sport of the Classic Maya, the sacred rubber ballgame. Our Book Service has tons of books on the native games of pre-Hispanic cultures. Also, our institute offers colorful slide shows on this exciting sport.
This game was played using rubber from the rubber trees, which is a local species in the tropical rain forest. Rubber was also used in religious rituals, to make dolls, and to burn (sort of like incense). Hopefully native Maya rubber smelled somewhat better than old tires today. Of course their rubber was natural, not chemical, and not vulcanized.
Rubber was also made into figures, "dolls" that were burnt as offerings. Although pom, from the native Copal tree is the best known indigenous Maya incense, rubber was also used as an incense in pre-Columbian times.
The Pre-Columbian Ballgame of the Maya and Aztecs
Many different ballgames were played by the peoples of prehispanic Mesoamerica. The game played still today uses a relatively small ball. The Maya had one game with a small ball but their best known ballgame was with a very large ball. When you go to Chichen Itza, or read most popular books, you get a mish-mash of concepts that were not fully how the game was played. For example, most of the Classic Maya never used a yoke; the yoke was more popular in games associated with Veracruz. Yes, many Maya did use yokes (they are pictured on ballgame sculptures including at Copan, Honduras), but most Maya ballplayers wore a wooden ribbing higher on their chest. FLAAR has about a dozen publications on the prehispanic ballgames that explains all this, but its tough to compete with the explanations provided to tourists at Chichen Itza.
If you arrived here from an external link use these links to exit this page:
Media Page .. HOME .. Museo Popol Vuh
This page will take almost 5 minutes on a 28.8 modem. If you enjoy Mayan archaeology it will be worth the wait. If you are unable to open another browser window and will be staring at this page for the next five minutes you might want something to read. Or maybe you are wondering what is a QuickTime VR object and why should I wait for this huge file to download.? QuickTime VR is part of Apple Computers Media layer technology. This object was created from 36 photos (35mm) spaced 10 degrees apart. By clicking and holding down the mouse on the object you can rotate it through 360 degrees of horizontal motion. This allows anyone in the world to examine this rare and precious artifact simply by downloading this page. If you have put off upgrading your browser technology, or the QuickTime plug-in, this would be a good reason to do so. There are thousands of QuickTime files on the world wide web. If you cannot experience this object we have provided a link to a GIF animation(296.7K) of the object in motion. Most browsers can display GIF anims. You will not however be able to control or interact with the object in GIF format, only in QTVR. The entire animation will take 210 seconds to download with a 28.8 modem.
A larger version of this object is available. It is rather large (1.6M )
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Written by Imad Abdullah
Greetings Peter and welcome to our continuous friendships and healthy dialogues.
So far the economy has done better in Houston that many other parts and it has been reasonable. The main projects are by governmental entities and medical institutions, and the private sector is still awaiting the availability of lending. Texas on the overall has done quite well.
I sent a note earlier to Amin on the following as we witness the events in Egypt, which were moving quite fast and conditions were changing daily. There is clarity now after the departure of Mubarak for Egypt, and we're all naturally connected to its culture and history.
The reaction of an autocratic government to the uprising were typical: create pandemonium by removing the police to force the people to seek the government protection, try by force to disperse with tear gas, try to intimidate with camels and horses (this one gets an A+ for stupid inginuity), and then dig-in in hopes of outlasting the uprising.
Mubarak comes from the same school of General Franco, Mussolini, Stalin, and their period leaders, where around 1935 Spain lost 5 million during its revolution. One remembers vividly the early 1970's with the riots in Athens and Spain, and the 1968 student demonstrations in Paris.
Looking ahead, there seems to be a strong revival of "Arabism" which the imperial powers tried to dismantle over the years. The Arabic networks on TV spanning the Arab World built the common bond of Arab culture among all Arabs, and were quite instrumental in the success in Tunis and Egypt. The shared destiny is becoming a rallying point to get the Arabs more closer together.
In perspective, the concept of unleashing Democracy that president Bush touted may result in a retrenchment from the West and closer collaboration between Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Henry Kissinger may be scratching his head, and Israel is having to reassess how long it will withhold peace, and will be blaming Obama for the loss of what it considered was a friendly axis. We'll be watching the US elections of 2012 closely, and already the voices here are coming out.
The next few months will be quite interesting. We are fortunate to have lived and witnessed so much history in our region and to be connected to it through the similar times we lived growing in Damascus. Our lives have been quite enriched by all of it, and by having among us people like you who lived in the Middle East and understand the grand significance, and the historical moment that bonds a population together in such a momentous fashion.
The revolution in Egypt stayed peaceful till the end, and that is a phenomenal feat. I am sure Mahatma Ghandi is watching from high above and savoring the moment as we all are.
Imad F. Abdullah, AIA
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What rivers with rights mean for the Mekong
Tom Fawthrop
The legal precedent may not have come in time to put any curbs or restraints on the controversial Xayaburi and the Don Sahong dams now being built on the Mekong.
The Mekong (Photo: Flickr/Xavi)
Published 12 Apr 2017 09:05 0 Comments
In what should be welcome news for the many concerned about the future of the Mekong, an Indian court has recognised the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers as living entities. The decision means that polluting or damaging these rivers will be legally equivalent to harming a person.
When handing down their decision, the Indian judges cited the precedent-setting Whanganui River in New Zealand. This was the subject of a bill passed by New Zealand's parliament, also last month, that gives that river the rights of a living entity, rights the NZ government is obliged to protect.
The two decisions are a remarkable development in environmental law that could have implications for the Mekong, the longest river in Southeast Asia that supports millions of people and which - like the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Whanganui - has been revered by riparian communities down the ages.
However the legal precedent may not have come in time to put any curbs or restraints on the controversial Xayaburi and the Don Sahong dams now being built on the Mekong.
Many experts believe that the Mekong, already suffering from the impacts of six dams installed in China on the Upper Mekong, and with more dams to come downstream in Laos and possibly Cambodia, is in crisis.
Zeb Hogan an ecologist, photographer and researcher recently told National Geographic: 'The Mekong is now at a tipping point, where the choices made in the next 10 or 15 years could make or break the life it sustains'.
Similarily, the World-wide Fund for Nature has warned: 'Economic growth in the Greater Mekong region depends on the Mekong River, but unsustainable and uncoordinated development is pushing the river system to the brink'.
But the Mekong River Commission (MRC), the only international body with a mandate to protect the river, appears to be unconcerned about the declining health of the Mekong, and the loss of nutrient–rich sediment that increases with every new dam construction.
Speaking with Vietnamese journalists last month, MRC chief executive officer Pham Tuan Phan said that 'dams will cause certain impacts to the ecosystems throughout the basin'. But, he went on, 'the hydropower on the Great Mekong will not kill the river. I think we should understand this point clearly'.
In response, Dr Philip Hirsch, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney asked: 'How dead is dead? The overwhelming evidence shows that the full cascade of mainstream dams and many tributary projects will leave the Mekong severely disabled'.
Western countries that have funded the MRC have long expressed concern that it has not done enough to maintain the balance between development and environmental protection and have slashed funding. Denmark, the country that has poured the most money into the MRC, stopped its financial support altogether in 2015.
The director of the Mekong Research Centre at the University of Sydney Dr Philip Hirsch noted the the MRC’s fisheries programme has produced reports that advised against proceeding with Don Sahong dam. Yet the MRC leadership has not used this data to recommended against the dam.
'The Secretariat and its CEO have played an overly cautious game in which fear of offending governments has taken precedence over the MRC's duty of care for the river,' Dr Philip Hirsch told The Interpreter.
The perception that the MRC is relying on claims made by developers was reinforced when CEO Pham Tuan Phan said the Xayaburi dam has 'become a model for all Mekong mainstream dams, helping fish species to move upstream and downstream'.
Given the Xayaburi dam is not yet completed, it is surely highly premature to declare the developers fish mitigation schemes to be a success without any evidence of how many fish will survive.
At a time when the Mekong desperately needs wise and inspired leadership to protect its biodiversity, NGOs have accused the MRC chief of failing to respect the scientific reports on hydropower impacts.
International Rivers, a US-based NGO, has described the 'build first, study later' approach propagated by the Xayaburi Dam process as 'a dangerously irresponsible model for dam-building in the Mekong'. And the Mekong Delta Study conducted by Denmark’s DHI Consulting Group concluded it was likely 'that even the best available fish passage technologies' may not be able to handle either the massive volume of fish migrations, which during peak periods can reach up to three million fish per hour, or the diversity of migration strategies that characterise the hundreds of fish species in the basin.
Those striving to protect the Mekong from further damage could theoretically benefit from the 'rights of rivers' proclamations in India and New Zealand, but the international jurisdiction nature of the Mekong, that runs six nations, makes it a complicated case.
The only chance is probably within the framework of a UN agreement, and that could only take place if all four MRC countries (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) are persuaded to sign up to the UN Watercourses Convention. So far only Vietnam has ratified the convention that allows for a serious dispute resolution and water resource conflicts to be resolved by the International Court of Justice.
Meanwhile, experts predict that if all the scheduled dams go ahead, then Mekong fisheries, food security and nutrition will spiral downward over the next 20 years. This should be a major worry for such UN bodies as FA0, WFP, UNDP and UNEP
Given the seeming inability of the MRC to do what it was set up to do - i.e, responsibly manage one of the world's great rivers - it seems the time has come for UN agencies to get involved in asserting the rights of the Mekong.
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Bhubaneswar: President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday appointed veteran BJP leader and former minister from Odisha, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
Harichandan joined Bharatiya Jana Sangha in 1971 and became its National Executive Member and its State General Secretary till the formation of Janata Party in 1977.
He joined BJP and was its President for State from 1980 to 1988. He joined Janata Party in 1988 and became its Vice-President for the State. He again joined BJP on 4th April 1996.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated Biswabhusan Harichandan on his appointment as the New Governor of Andhra Pradesh and wished him all success in his new assignment.
In a related development, Sushri Anusuiya Uikey has been appointed as the Governor of Chhattisgarh.
The appointments will take effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices, said a press communique issued by Rashtrapati Bhawan.
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Role of media in Pakistan
By Asma Altaf -
In today’s fast moving era, media is playing a major role in creating awareness among the people, regarding every field of life. In other words, it has turned the whole world into a global village and no one can deny its role in making or breaking a society.
Media is not only a source of information, but it also educates and entertains the people. Is media in Pakistan fulfilling three of its major roles in a right manner? As far as transmission of information is concerned, no doubt, Pakistani media is playing an active role in informing people about each and every walk of life. It is giving coverage to all issues ranging from minor street controversy to terrorism at international level.
It has duly unveiled the working of contemporary government, to the people and has been paying much heed to major issues like load-shedding, terrorism, target killing in Karachi and Drone Attacks by American in South Waziristan. By giving proper coverage to all such issues, media holds each and every institute of the country accountable for their responsibilities.
Pakistan media is also playing a pivotal role in providing information regarding the prevalent issue of Denge Fever, which has left many people mourning at the deaths of their dear ones. Media has properly educated the people regarding precautionary measures, symptoms and possible cures, which is the best way to cope up with the problem.
Although, there is unlimited list of roles, the Pakistan media is playing in informing, guiding and entertaining the people, but at the same time it has increased the sensationalism, depression and disappointment in the society.
Perhaps, while creating the awareness among the 18 crore population of the country, media has exacerbated each and every issue. Whenever you switch on the TV, you can hardly find news, showing some development or positive aspect of the society. The most, annoying part is repetition of some bad news with little gap. Watching depressive news every time creates a feeling that everything is going wrong everywhere, which in-turns creates hype among the people.
On the other hand, media represents the culture, norms and values of country, but media in Pakistan has turned its attention away from this fact. Our Tv dramas and films are not representing our culture, the way they should be.
Media has great power, as it can play a significant role in setting the mindset of the people the way it wants; therefore, Pakistani media should focus on guiding and educating the people in a right way.
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nice job….one thing i want to add up here is the “indian song element” entering in our news rooms. everytime they play indian songs in the background, they actually promote indian industry. news can be heard without songs and playng songs at back is actually breaking laws of journalism …
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Ed's Brexit Round-up
21st Jul 2017 / By Ed Barker
The NPA's newest recruit, Ed Barker, summarises the key developments on Brexit in Westminster and beyond over the past week.
This week, Liam Fox MP Secretary of State for Dept of International Trade addressed the World Trade Organisation, talking up the role of export markets for the UK and trade outside of the EU. It would suggest a ‘hard Brexit’ stance, potentially leaving pig producers open to tariffs on exports (cull sows for example) but higher prices on imports.
Conversely, Michael Gove, Philip Hammond and Theresa May have outlined their intention to have an agreement with the EU that allows the UK to trade within a single market. It has also been suggested that areas of technical difficultly be extended beyond the 2 year window with Europe – so to avoid a ‘cliff edge’ scenario.
The UK has confirmed it will be contributing to some kind of Brexit payment settlement upon leaving the EU.
Michael Gove has made his first speech on CAP replacement in the UK, stating that any such payments have to be earned and that it will put the environment first.
The CLA and RSPCA have stated publically that any future support payments should include animal welfare.
Parliament is now in recess, which means it will not sit again until September. This means MPs will predominantly be in their constituencies, and is a good time for NPA members to engage with them. Any members who are looking to engage newly elected MPs or their MPs for the first team, the NPA is ready to help with any arrangements or briefings.
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CHICAGO - Another post about albums from the past.
Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Dinomutt Dog Wonder" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with former Ride singer and guitarist Andy Bell, 41 years old. The new reissue of Ride's shoegaze classic Nowhere recently earned our Best New Reissue designation. Since that band's breakup in 1996, Bell led Hurricane No. 1 and played bass with Oasis, and he's now a guitarist of Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis project Beady Eye.
age 5, The Beatles: "Tell Me Why"
I remember running around the school playground singing Beatles songs, especially "Tell Me Why". I had three of my dad's Beatles albums in the house: With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles for Sale, and that was my musical world. You can see why a generation grew up with them; if you were the right age, it mirrored your musical development exactly. "Tell Me Why" would just make me feel like a little superhero.
age 10, Blondie: Parallel Lines
This was the first album I bought. I remember hearing Blondie on the radio and just being mesmerized by Debbie Harry. I was too young to really fancy her, although I definitely fancied her when I got older. I used to subscribe to this kids' music magazine called Look-In, which had posters of Debbie Harry that I used to put all over my bedroom wall.
In a way, they were like the mop tops-- on the Parallel Lines cover, they stand there with black suits and white shirts and black ties. Clem Burke, especially, looks like a Beatle.
age 15, The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow
I first heard the Smiths around 13 and I was 17 when they broke up. So they bridged that gap in my teenage years when I felt really awkward. Morrissey's lyrics captured all that awkwardness. And then I was a keen guitar player, so Johnny Marr was my first teacher, really.
And Hatful of Hollow was an absolute classic for me. They nail some of the great songs they didn't get right on the first album, like "What Difference Does It Make?", and it's also got "Back to the Old House". One of the first concerts I'd seen was the Smiths during their Meat Is Murder tour.
The show was quite overwhelming. I saw them in about a 2000-capacity venue, the Oxford Apollo. This was the era when they used to come out and have gladioluses thrown at them.Morrissey had massive bunches of flowers in his back pockets, and he'd thrash around the room with them. It was very visual and also really loud. Johnny was really cool, wearing shades like the kind of guitar hero I wanted to be. That was the gig where I was like, "Right, this is what I'm going to do with my life."
age 20, The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
I have to pick two because I can't really choose between the Stone Roses' debut and My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything. It was a big year for music, and that's without factoring in the Ride debut, which I'm too modest to pick.
Stone Roses was another seismic shift in my musical taste. As soon as it came out, I was absolutely sold on them. I picked up the "Made of Stone" 7" from my local record store and then turned it over and really got into the B-side, "Going Down", a really cool littleByrds-y tune. They played in Oxford quite soon after that so I went to see them and then got to following them around the country to Reading and London.
My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything
Isn't Anything was the moment when My Bloody Valentine changed from being an indie band into some kind of a Sonic Youth-type thing. The noise part of them was not such a massive part of the sound until this album kicked it off.
Looking back, I would say that if you go somewhere down the middle between those two albums, you get what Ride was all about.
age 25, Oasis: Definitely Maybe
It was like an atom bomb-- in a good way-- in the social group that I was in. You had myself and Ride, Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, a lot of bands knocking around who were sort of mate-y. And then suddenly along comes Oasis, and the music was just everything that all of us had been waiting for. You can't really overstate their impact. We were all talking about this stuff, and then suddenly it came true: an amazing rock'n'roll band who could get to the top of the charts.
We thought it was going to be one of our bands. While Ride did have a definite progressive success over those couple of years before that, we weren't getting to that Beatles level. But there was a feeling that, if the right band came along, they could do it. And here's this really young, streetwise, good-looking, arrogant band with a load of the best songs of the last 20 or 30 years. You just can't plan that kind of thing. It's once in a lifetime.
I joined the band five years later, in '99, and it came out of the blue. My life changed a lot between 1995 and 2000. Ride broke up and then I started a new band called Hurricane No. 1 that did a couple of albums, but without much success, really. I got a bit disillusioned with the whole thing and ended up moving to Sweden. I had left the music business officially when I got a call from the guys in Oasis wondering if I would come and audition for the bass player role. I did it with mixed feelings, but as soon as I got in the room with them and played, I just thought, "This has got to be. This is it. This is amazing." It was a great moment.
age 30, The La's: The La's
Noel and Liam got me into this record just when I joined Oasis. We were all in a dressing room somewhere, and there was a compilation tape that Noel had brought along playing. The song "Looking Glass" came on, and I just couldn't believe it. It was one of those things where you discover something too late and you become even more excited by it. For Beady Eye, the La's are a massive influence on what we do.
Pitchfork: Do you talk about music a lot with the rest of the guys in Oasis and now Beady Eye?
Sure, we don't really talk about much else. We're always finding these old obscure classics. When I first met Noel and Liam, Ride had just done a cover of the Creation song "How Does It Feel to Feel?", and apparently, at the time, Oasis were working on a cover of it as well. They were rehearsing it, but when we brought out our version, they decided to shelve theirs.
age 35, Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
That was one of the most exciting albums I heard for years. I like both artists, but this was just so inventive and so exciting and just so fresh-- and so funny as well. The idea of it being basically a pun that The Black Albumand The White Album would make The Grey Album. It seems too good to be true, but, when he actually did it, it was just mind-blowing.
Pitchfork: You say you like Jay-Z. But Noel Gallagher infamously had some critical comments about Jay headlining the Glastonbury Festival in 2008. Did you ever have arguments with him about that?
No. I think Noel likes Jay-Z anyway. I don't know what he was talking about when he made that comment. That's his opinion; that's not my opinion at all. But, in terms of actually liking Jay-Z's music, I'm pretty certain that Noel was a fan as much as anyone else. Jay-Z's an undeniable artist.
age 40, Tame Impala: Innerspeaker
Everyone I knew was texting me about this band and they were sure that I'd like them. And I did. I must be pretty predictable. They're the most exciting new band I've heard in a while. In some ways, they reminds me of early Ride, there's a similar attitude to guitar playing, vocals, songwriting, and production. But, in other ways, it's also like really modern psychedelia. I could have picked MGMT, but I think Tame Impala is more my cup of tea.
Marco's 5-10-15-20-25-30 :) (more or less that age)
5) well 5 is very young, I was listening to 45s vinyls from Italian music contests with children singing ("Lo Zecchino d'Oro"), Italian "musica leggera" and cartoons music, then my parents music from previous decades (very influenced by The Beatles, that's why we still like Oasis).
10) Michael Jackson, Bad
I think this was my first real album. When I was about 7 years old I've become a huge music fan, following the charts, it was '80s stuff (quite commercial) so today it's funny to see what we were listening (Duran Duran and similar ones). There were also some songs by Michael Jackson with Paul McCartney, it's where I started to discover The Beatles.
15) The Queen, Innuendo
I'm glad I wasn't listening to rubbish as many teenagers around this age. It would have been different if I had been born some years later. Thanks to some girls, school friends of mine, discovering their whole discography at Freddie Mercury's death, and then the step from The Queen to Oasis in 1994 was short. I think it's thanks to The Queen that I've become an Oasis and England fan, we could only love The Queen. They were our first real rock'n'roll band, and I wonder why Oasis never talked about them, maybe they don't like them (but Oasis always talked about all the bands, especially about those ones they didn't like :) - almost the same about Led Zeppelin, the Gallaghers didn't insult them, strange :), I know both Noel & Liam were very excited to meet them, and Noel even used to wear Zeppelin t-shirts).
Of course I was listening to other good albums that I'm not touching now (but I could still like), as Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, etc.
20) at about this age I pick two as Andy:
Oasis, Be Here Now (already put Morning Glory on the other post) and The Verve, Urban Hymns.
25) Led Zeppelin, IV - four symbols (though my favourite album by them is Houses of the Holy, already picked before)
And many more, listening to a lot of good music and going to many gigs around these years, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Suede, Morricone, Ashcroft, Franz Ferdinand, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. (and discovering stuff from the past as The Smiths, The Style Council, The Kinks, etc.), then later well not as great as before but ok as Keane, Paolo Nutini, and so on.
30) Glasvegas and later now a band called Beady Eye.
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This Is What It’s Like To Date In Seven Different Countries
Eight women, from seven different countries, talk about love and relationships.
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Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
Gather a group of young and single foreigners who recently moved to New York City and at one moment or another, you’ll hear them talk about how weird the dating scene in the city is. Moving to a new place, anywhere in the world, means adjusting to new dating rules and standards. Different countries approach love and relationships differently, which often makes for bizarre culture shock but also fascinating conversations.
So, we decided to gather eight women who work at BuzzFeed and who live in and come from different countries to discuss cultural differences when it comes to love and relationships. Here they are:
Marie Telling: I’m an associate editor for BuzzFeed France, based in New York. I’m French and I grew up in Bordeaux, in the southwest of the country. I lived in Paris, in Sweden, and in Washington state for a while. I’ve been living in New York City for two and a half years.
Julia Pugachevsky: I’m a staff writer, live in New York, first-generation American from a Ukrainian family (so I was raised with some conflicting ideas as far as dating traditions go). I am single and only slightly ready to mingle.
Rossalyn Warren: My name is Roz, I’m a news reporter at BuzzFeed UK, I live in London, and I’m from Hertfordshire.
Tasneem Nashrulla: I’m a breaking news reporter for BuzzFeed News. I’m from Mumbai, and I’ve been living in the U.S. for the past two and a half years.
Juliane Leopold: I’m the founding editor of BuzzFeed Germany. I live in Berlin.
Jenna Guillaume: I’m a senior editor for BuzzFeed in Australia. I’ve lived in Sydney with my partner for the past six years, but I grew up in a coastal town near Wollongong, about 90 minutes south of Sydney. I’ve never lived in another country — YET. My other great love is the internet, and I spend too much time obsessing over fictional characters and their relationships.
Conz Preti: I’m the editor for BuzzFeed Español and Brasil, born in Argentina but raised between Colombia and Brazil, moved to New York in my late twenties for grad school and stayed here ever since. I’ve been seeing someone for some months now.
Julie Gerstein: I am BuzzFeed’s style editor. I live in Brooklyn with my boyfriend of three years.
Marie: How do people date? Is it OK to date several people at once? Is there an “exclusivity talk”? I don’t know if it’s an American thing or if this is just specific to New York, but the dating scene here often feels like an actual market where people try goods (several at once) and decide which one is best fitted to their needs and expectations. Then, they have a very reasonable talk to establish that they’re both interested in the other the same way. It’s like relationship shopping. Very pragmatic, very American. It feels way more organic and spontaneous in France, but that could also just be an illusion. What do you guys think? Is it the same where you’re from?
Julia: I feel like, in NYC specifically, you ALWAYS have to have the talk. You can find, theoretically, someone and get in the groove of things and just start dating naturally, but the talk still always happens — nothing is ever assumed.
Juliane: In Germany, it’s similar to France and different from the U.S. You tend to date one person at a time. The talk is done nevertheless but just to know if you should move on or not. But it’s definitely not OK to shop around.
Rossalyn: In the U.K., I think that it’s fine to date several people at once, provided it’s still at the early stages and you’re not taking the piss. I think if you’re dating someone for more than a few weeks, then maybe some clearer “erm, hey, are we making this a thing?” kinda chat is needed. British people are too awkward to have an “exclusivity talk” — I almost never hear my friends say they’ve had to have that talk. Having said that, I think British people do eventually try and figure out whether it’s exclusive or not, they just don’t outright say, “Are we exclusive?” — they just skirt around the issue until enough hints are dropped to be like, “oh, we’re a thing.”
Conz: In Argentina it depends on how long you’ve been “going out.” If it’s been over two months, the assumption from both sides is that there is no one else around and there is no real need for “the talk.” In my experience the sort of “oh, we are a couple now” moment was when either introduced the other to people as my BF/GF. I’ve never had the “so are you seeing someone else, are we exclusive?” chat. Ever.
Julie: I definitely feel like it’s a market-style thing in the U.S.
Jenna: In Australia it definitely seems more organic. I feel like people probably go on dates with different people around the same time, but if they like a particular person they don’t date anyone else. And “the talk” isn’t really something that happens in general, I think it tends to be a mutually understood thing after a certain period of time. This is very generally speaking, of course — some people probably do have the “exclusivity talk.” But Australians on the whole aren’t that blunt about these sort of things.
Rossalyn: When I lived in Brooklyn, the dating did feel like a market, but in a different way to the U.K: It felt more cutthroat and like “nope, not feeling this, next!”
Julie: Especially when it comes to online dating, which has very much mirrored itself after a transactional arrangement. You’re “shopping” for people you find attractive, you go on dates to check out the goods, you date to see if you’d like to make a more permanent arrangement. In a city like NYC, especially, where the male-to-female ratio is so incredibly off, it seems especially like men are alllllways keeping their dating options open.
Marie: I don’t even feel like we “date” in France. We just sleep with someone casually or we’re with someone. If you’re sleeping with someone and you’re hanging out with them socially one-on-one, then you’re a thing.
Jenna: I think dating has become more of a thing in Australia thanks to online dating. Now people go on dates with people they’ve met online, whereas in the past it was more just someone you met in a bar or at work or whatever who you started hanging out with.
Marie: Yes, I think that may be true for France too, Jenna.
Julie: In NYC, you can’t presume that you’re a thing. You’re better off assuming that the person you’re doing that with is doing that with a few people, unless you’ve expressly made it clear you’re not. I think that’s why it’s a safer bet to always date a few people at a time in the early stages.
Jenna: That sounds exhausting.
Conz: Yes. I don’t get it and it feels almost insulting in a way. Like…why spend time and open up and all that if the other side is doing the same with several others.
Rossalyn: It’s such a hassle.
Julia: I feel like I barely have time for ONE guy, let alone a couple.
Julie: Not necessarily sleep with, but at least date. DIVERSIFY YOUR BONDS.
Jenna: But that makes it sound so…clinical.
Marie: It is VERY clinical.
Jenna: Clinical and cynical.
Julie: I think of it as emotional insurance.
Julia: It’s like none of us have time to get our hearts broken so we have backups, which makes me sad.
Rossalyn: I think that is the same in a lot of major cities actually: bigger cities, more people, more dating, more options. In the countryside/suburbs, people are less hassled by dating more than one person at a time.
Tasneem: I think the concept of dating, the way it’s defined in the U.S., has taken root in India only in the last couple of years (that I’ve been away for). I was shocked to hear that friends in Bombay actually use Tinder. I thought that was such an American thing. Earlier, there were two ways to go about it: Either you’re “messing around” with someone, as in having a casual fling where you’re not necessarily exclusive and both know this is a casual, fun thing. Or second, you’re in a relationship. Dating, as in sleeping or making out with different people, is a little alien to me, but apparently common in Bombay now. (I feel old.)
Marie: I was actually wondering about dating apps. How do people use them in your countries? And which ones do they use?
Rossalyn: Tinder. LOL.
Marie: I was actually very surprised to learn that people have started using Tinder in France, too. It felt so pragmatic and un-French to me that I never thought it would take off. Mind you, I don’t actually know anyone who is really using it.
Julie: Tinder and OkCupid here (in New York), as we all know. And Hinge is becoming popular too.
Jenna: Tinder for sure.
Conz: Tinder blew up in Argentina this year.
Juliane: Tinder is still quite new to Germans.
Conz: I feel that the gamification of it compared to other dating apps is what it made it a thing. You are not ~really~ on a dating app, you are swiping photos.
Marie: I wonder if Tinder is used for the same thing everywhere? Do people use it for fun, for dating, or just hooking up?
Rossalyn: It’s mostly used by your friends who are in relationships to swipe through for fun. But for those who use it properly, they do meet people and date. But there is also a laziness to it — who has time to message strangers witty replies all the time?
Tasneem: My friends are not only ON Tinder (like, for the fun of it), they’re actually meeting and hooking up with people through it. I mean it’s not THAT common, but if I personally know someone who’s done that, then I’m sure its getting popular. But I should also note that the friend I’m referring to hooked up with a non-Indian on Tinder.
Julia: In New York, I feel like people find S.O.s on it, but otherwise, it’s mainly hooking up.
Jenna: I know people who have had a lot of dud dates through Tinder, but no one who has actually found a relationship.
Marie: Are there any other popular dating sites/apps?
Jenna: Rsvp.com.au is a pretty popular dating site in Australia.
Rossalyn: OkCupid was kind of big. So was Plenty of Fish, which is the worst name ever for a dating app. Guardian Soul Mates is used by middle-class liberals here.
Marie: LOL.
Julia: Match.com is for people who are very serious because you have to pay for it.
Tasneem: Shaadi.com is for marriages only. And A LOT of Indians use that to find suitable marriage partners.
Rossalyn: If we’re being honest, Match.com says it’s a dating site, but it’s for people who are looking for serious relationships/marriage, they just don’t explicitly say it.
Tasneem: Some NGOs in India conduct mass weddings for niche groups like differently abled people. They don’t even meet their partners before that. They’re just all married in this massive mass wedding.
Marie: How do you flirt? Do women ever make the first step? How is it perceived if they do?
Jenna: It’s more common for guys to make the first move, and it’s quite rare for women to do so.
Julia: Yeah, guys are supposed to make the first move. But me, I like to pounce.
Conz: I’ve openly asked dudes out and they are fine with it… But at a bar, usually men swarm women. It’s OK if I walk up to a dude and start talking, but usually they’ll be straight up talking you up immediately.
Marie: Yeah, in France, men are more forward, although it’s not unusual for women to flirt. When I was living in Sweden, though, men were always expecting women to make the first step. It was very confusing coming from France.
Juliane: In Germany, women are not really expected to make the first move. It can be perceived as slutty. In my last two relationships I have always made the first move and that freaked the guys out.
Tasneem: I don’t think (and things might have changed) that random men flirt with random women at bars in India. You usually flirt within your social circle or when you’re introduced by someone you know.
Julie: I “had a line” when I was single.
Jenna: What was it?
Julie: “Oh, good, you haven’t left yet. I wanted to talk to you.” It always worked.
Marie: I think guys like it when women make the first move in France. They may judge them a bit, but they also appreciate the change.
Julie: Guys, they’re just like us. NERVOUS.
Marie: My friends who were living in Sweden LOVED how forward women were.
Julie: They like it because they are lazy and scared and weird, so it takes the pressure off. And if they are the kind of guy you want to date, they will appreciate a strong, confident woman.
Marie: About “dating” — what is a typical date? And who pays?
Julie: Well, if you live in Philly, where I’m from, a date is getting a drink with a dude and then paying for it, and then he basically moves into your house and you pay his rent. Because there are a lot of hot, beardy dudes with marginal jobs there.
Julia: Typical date in New York: casual drinks, guy pays.
Juliane: Typical date in Germany: dinner or movie, maybe both. Both split the check.
Jenna: The “who pays” thing is such a personal thing, I think. There’s not a set social norm.
Conz: Go to a bar to get a drink, dude pays. But also, I never went out on a date while I lived in Argentina because it was more organic — I met a friend of a friend at a party and then we would see each other again in a social gathering and then maybe go out.
Rossalyn: My friends and I here in the U.K. had a big chat about this the other day. Most of them think that both sides of the date should offer to pay on a first date, but that usually the guy should pay. But they also said it’s not a big thing if the woman pays; it’s just a preferred thing. Then, after the meal, if the guy pays, the woman buys the drinks at the bar.
Julie: In NYC, I’ve found that dudes are cool with paying for dates, or whomever asks. I now have a serious live-in boyfriend and whoever asks is the one who pays.
Tasneem: Dinner and drinks (guy usually pays or you “go Dutch”).
Jenna: Traditionally I guess the guy pays, but I think more and more women prefer to split? Or maybe that’s just me. I much prefer to split the bill.
Rossalyn: Personally, I usually split the bill.
Julia: Yeah, I always offer to pay out of politeness and then the guy usually is like, “NO, I’m paying,” and I meekly pull away my wallet.
Julie: I like doing the one pays for dinner, one pays for drinks thing.
Marie: I always offer to pay, but I like when guys insist on paying for the first date, otherwise I’m always afraid they’re cheap. After that, I’d rather split the check (unless he earns significantly more and suggested an expensive place).
Conz: After the first date and when you are together, it is usually half-and-half. When I lived with my ex, I would do the groceries and he would pay the electricity, or something like that.
Julia: If I’m seeing them past a few dates, I feel more comfortable splitting — actually get annoyed if they don’t let me.
Jenna: Yeah, if a guy, especially beyond the first date, is like, “No, I’M paying,” I’d kind of question their attitudes toward women. Benevolent sexism.
Marie: While we’re on the topic, what about chivalry? Is chivalry still a thing where you come from? How does it express itself?
Jenna: Australian guys are not chivalrous.
Marie: Haha! Really?
Jenna: Well. SOME are.
Rossalyn: Yeah, British guys are not either. It’s all a bit cringe.
Tasneem: Indian guys NEVER LEAVE DOORS OPEN. I think holding doors in India is not even a thing. Like, no one does it. It’s just not in our societal DNA. But I used to get annoyed when boys exited a restaurant first and literally slammed the door on my face. (Not deliberately, of course — they were lovely guys. But they don’t hold doors.) I think that speaks more about just general public etiquette. Americans are excessively polite when it comes to doors and elevators and the like.
Rossalyn: Dream guys are the ones who slam doors in your face.
Jenna: I mean, a lot of chivalry is politeness. Australians on the whole don’t rate politeness as a top attribute. Not that we’re necessarily rude (although, well, sometimes we are), but we just don’t go out of our way to be extra polite.
Julie: I think I’m way more chivalrous than most American dudes.
Julia: See, it’s complicated for me because some guys open doors and some don’t and I don’t think I would care either way, but my parents, who are Ukrainian, are horrified when guys don’t do this.
Juliane: Politeness seems to be rather underrated in Germany. Older dudes will hold the door and stuff. Younger guys won’t.
Jenna: I feel like Americans on the whole are super super polite.
Julie: No way.
Rossalyn: British men are mostly polite, which I suppose falls under this area. They are mostly a nice bunch on dates.
Marie: In France politeness is not our major forte as a society, but guys tend to be pretty old-school, courteous, and do little things like opening the door, insisting on paying for things.
Jenna: I think holding doors, etc., should go both ways.
Marie: Yeah, I agree. It’s more about politeness than chivalry.
Rossalyn: Yeah, agree. “Don’t be a rude dick” = chivalry in 2014.
Conz: Argentines are SUPER old-school. They will open doors, and wait for you to get off the elevator, even open the door of the car for you to get in, etc.
Jenna: I haaaaate the car door thing. When I was younger I tried to force my boyfriend to do it because I was young and dumb and had romantic ideals about chivalry, but now I’m like, actually that’s bullshit.
Marie: On to something different. What’s the general position of PDA? I never noticed how much French people were into PDA until I moved abroad. I also had a Canadian friend who moved to Paris and was SHOCKED by the amount of PDA she witnessed. She couldn’t believe people were making out in supermarkets and in the middle of the street. To be clear, we’re not all climbing each other in public, but we’re mostly cool with kissing in public.
Jenna: I hate PDA. I think that is typical of Australians. Holding hands, quick pecks, that’s it. Oh, and maybe hugs. But anything more than that, most people feel uncomfortable.
Conz: In Argentina, you kiss, you hold hands, you hug, you sit on their lap. Everything is OK.
Julie: I think PDA is generally for the young and for the very old.
Juliane: In Germany, holding hands and kissing is OK, but that’s basically it.
Rossalyn: People in the U.K. are pretty meh about PDA — they don’t tend to do it too much, but they’re not fussed. Don’t ram your tongue down their throat while shopping or something, though.
Julie: I once wrote an open letter on The Frisky to a couple who would PDA at 9 in the morning in the subway station EVERY MORNING. Because I hated them so much.
Conz: I’m that person who kisses in subways at 9 a.m. If I wanna kiss you I will kiss you. No, we are not gonna make out and slob all over our faces in front of people but like…show some love!
Rossalyn: Yes to kissing. No to dog slobbering.
Jenna: I will give a peck in public. But no more than three seconds, and even that is pushing it.
Julia: I think it’s a person-to-person thing. I personally only do it when drunk and I side-eye people who make out in the middle of the street SOBER in the middle of the day.
Jenna: Oh, drunk is another story.
Rossalyn: Yeah, when I’m drunk it is different.
Marie: If I’m drunk I’ll climb you in public. No boundaries.
Jenna: LOL. I think that’s most people.
Julia: I’ve climbed poor boys like trees.
Rossalyn: When you’re drunk it’s like, Now is a perfectly acceptable time to climb on top of you thanks bye.
Tasneem: Kissing in public is unlawful in many parts of India. There was recently a huge “kiss of protest” all over India to demand our rights to kiss in public. (Unlawful not in the legal sense, but we have a lot of moral policing.) But in clubs and in other safe spaces where like-minded people hang out, PDA is pretty common.
Rossalyn: That protest looked amazing.
Tasneem: Yeah, it was awesome.
Jenna: What about holding hands and stuff? My school had a hands-off policy to try to discourage the ~sexual urges~. You weren’t allowed to hold hands or anything.
Julia: We definitely didn’t have that rule.
Tasneem: Well, I was in a girls school, so holding hands was totally OK. We held hands a LOT. A LOT. A LAAAWWT.
Marie: My school had a “please don’t have sex in a bathroom” policy, but that was pretty much it.
Rossalyn: OMG you had to have a policy to not tell students to fuck in a bathroom?!?!
Marie: Hahaha, it was a tacit rule. I don’t remember any actual rules we had.
Jenna: Most Australian schools have the hands-off rule. Usually it’s hands off or the meter rule or the balloon rule, like you couldn’t get so close you’d pop a ballon in between you. I got on after-school detention for hugging my boyfriend. We had to write lines: “I will be mature and keep my hands to myself.” (I am now married to him, lol.)
Julie: We had enough teen pregnancy at my school that obviously there were no proper policies in place.
Julia: We didn’t have any of these, and people openly made out in hallways. Once, a girl in my high school got away with giving a guy a BJ under the stairwell. Like, people SAW THEM and they didn’t get into trouble.
Conz: I had a boyfriend in high school in Brazil and we both almost got suspended because we gave each other a peck in the hallway in the morning.
Marie: Is marriage important where you’re from? Can you live together without being married?
Jenna: People usually live together for years before getting married, if they get married at all. The majority do but, it’s also totally OK not to. I think it’s important for people as in it’s like the most romantic, big thing you can do in a relationship. But in terms of morals or whatever, no one cares.
Conz: In Argentina and Brazil, it depends on religion. I’ve had friends get married at 19 and I have friends that are 40, have three kids, and are not planning on marrying. More and more, it’s getting common to live together before marrying. But it was a huge shock for my parents when I did. Same with my male cousin — our family was super against him moving in with his then-girlfriend. There’s a feeling of “if you move in together you are making things easier for the man” in older generations.
Tasneem: Marriage is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT (for parents), and moving in with your boyfriend is still very rare in India, though it’s getting common in certain niches. But I think neighbors would judge you if they knew you lived with your boyfriend.
Rossalyn: People can live together here without being married, definitely. Marriage is still something many women here would like, but it’s not crucial.
Julie: I think it’s still important here, though maybe becoming less so. People still put a lot of value on marriage, though people are ALSO getting married later and multiple times.
Rossalyn: Yeah, divorce is so commonplace here that it’s like, “Meh, who even wants to get married.”
Marie: I admit I wanted to talk about infidelity to debunk a very old cliché about the French: People think the French are totally cool with infidelity. That’s simply not true. Some couples may have tacit agreements, others may be in open relationships, but the vast majority of the people I know in France would not be OK with their partner cheating on them. I don’t think there is more infidelity in France than anywhere else. And I don’t think we’re more OK with it than other cultures. We’ve just made more movies about it, I guess.
Jenna: Cheating is the worst thing you can do for a lot of people. People do it, but it’s a deal breaker for most people: It’s unforgivable.
Juliane: Yes, cheating is absolutely off-limits in relationships.
Julia: I feel like I hear about cheating all the time and it’s a bad thing to do and people break up over it, but it still happens a lot.
Conz: Argentine men cheat. All. The. Time. Not all of them, but most of them. It’s like a fucking epidemic.
Marie: How do women react?
Conz: It depends — some don’t take it, but so many, because it happens over and over again, are like, What eyes can’t see won’t hurt my heart. Now, if the woman cheats, she is a slut.
Tasneem: I don’t think there are any particular cultural connotations when it comes to cheating. It’s universally frowned upon but many people do it.
Julia: Right, but I feel like there’s more shock/condemnation when it’s a woman.
Jenna: And the “other woman” gets vilified more than the man who did it.
Julia: Oh, absolutely.
Conz: There is so much of blaming the “other woman” and not the man. SO MUCH.
Tasneem: That’s true. I feel like men think they’re often justified but women aren’t.
Marie: OK, let’s talk about gross stuff to conclude. I have some foreign friends who are NOT OK with their partners farting in front of them. I’m totally cool with it, but I’m not sure I’m representative of French people on the topic.
Conz: I AM THAT FOREIGN FRIEND.
Marie: Yes, you are, Conz.
Conz: No farting. I brought up this with my Argentine friends on Sunday because I told them the dude I’m seeing told me to “pull his finger” and then proceeded to fart and they were all sooooo appalled they even questioned me on why I was still with him. Not kidding.
Jenna: OK, the “pull my finger” thing is gross. Otherwise, I think it’s FINE. And I think most people think it’s fine, but it is such an individual thing.
Juliane: Not OK with farting. But I guess it’s pretty personal.
Rossalyn: LOL, I kinda dont care? I think it’s a bit much at the start of a relationship, but who cares after.
Julia: I think it’s perceived as gross but also a weird form of intimacy. Cute intimacy.
Rosalyn: Yeah, in a weird way.
Tasneem: Farting is the gas that holds couples together, in my opinion.
Julia: It’s more romantic than the first kiss, IMHO.
Jenna: Yes. You can really kiss anyone. There are only a select few you can fart with. You only fart in front of people you care about. That’s love.
Marie: If you accept each other’s farts, that’s love.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/this-is-what-its-like-to-date-in-seven-different-countries
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He also wanted to make these watches in America. “So many big companies have sourcing infrastructures whose knee-jerk reaction is to head to China,” he said. He couldn’t compete with China at the low end of the market — nobody can. But he felt that the kind of watches he had in mind — priced between $450 and $600 at the low end, with a distinctive but classic design — could be made competitively in the United States. So he decided to put his new factory here in Detroit, a city once renowned for its manufacturing prowess that, in recent times, has needed all the help it can get.
That original idea turned into a company called Shinola. It has eight retail outlets and employs around 375 people, most of them in Detroit. Although those stylized watches are its biggest sellers — the company expects to sell between 150,000 and 180,000 this year — it also designs and makes bicycles, leather goods and other well-crafted, high-end products. Not only are those products built in Detroit, but Shinola also tries to buy the parts it needs from other American companies. Its leather, for instance, comes from the Horween Leather Company, a Chicago tannery more than a century old. Its bicycle frames are shipped from a company run by a fourth-generation Schwinn.
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Jazz Rock/Fusion
4.05 | 61 ratings | 6 reviews | 34% 5 stars
Excellent addition to any
prog rock music collection
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1. Beneath The Geyser (3:56)
2. South East Wind (6:10)
3. Across The Indian Ocean (5:36)
4. French Picadores (4:26)
5. Golden Idol (8:59)
6. Sentimental Lewdness (6:42)
7. Barbarian Serenade (5:14)
- Carlo Pennisi / guitar, mandolin
- Antonio Marangolo / keyboards, clarinet
- Elio Volpini / bass, double bass
- Agostino Marangolo / drums, percussion
Artwork: Francesco Pennisi
LP Catoca - CTL 1002 (1975, Italy)
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Review by Steve Hegede
Here is another underrated Italian prog band that will interest collectors of Italian progressive rock. ETNA's music falls somewhere between mid-70s prog-fusion and Italian soundtrack music(ala jazz-funk Ennio Morricone). I bought this CD many years ago around the same time that I was discovering major Italian jazz-fusion bands like AREA and ARTI E MISTIERI. At the time, I thought that ETNA were okay and good enough to keep, basically. Well, recently I gave them a few spins and absolutely loved what I heard. ETNA differs a bit from other fusion bands in that they weren't into playing at hyper-speeds. They were all gifted musicians, but they only used faster tempos as a release (building tension and releasing) rather than a basis for their careers. Many sections remind me of 70s Italian soundtrack music, yet the music is slightly more complicated. GOBLIN's "Roller" would be a perfect comparison. But ETNA's sound fits well with music that came out between 1973-74 (there is no year-of-release on the CD label). Overall, I really recommend this CD to fans of AREA, ARTI E MISTIERI, GOBLIN, and mid-seventies Ennio MORRICONE. Don't expect anything mind-blowing, but ETNA are well-worth discovering.
Posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 | Review this album | Report (Review #19005)
Review by Sean Trane
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As the psych-derived Flea On The Honey became Flea for their second excellent guitary album, the group changed again their name while keeping their line-up intact, and became the great jazz-rock Etna, whose sole album was released almost three years after Topi O Uomi and again on a different label, this time Catoca, who wrote their logo so big on the front & back cover artwork that one could think it would be the album's name.
The resulting jazz-rock is more in the line of the first Nova album than in the more Canterbury- ian/Nucleus-ian styles of Area or Perigeo to remain the Italian realm. But it's not to say that Etna doesn't get experimental or descriptive about their music as Across The Indian Ocean takes ac while to get on board, but the "dawn" part (intro) is very much early Vitous-era Weather Report, while the funkier middle section reminds of the Johnson-era WR. Overall the standard prog quartet tasks are better shared, even if the guitars still dominates the music, but not quite as authoritarian as when the group was still called Flea, as McL or Coryell would dominate their respective MO anf EH groups. Indeed Marangolo's electric piano is very present and he even pushes a bit of a clarinet in the second part of French picadors, once guitarist Pennisi went acoustic. The 9-mins Golden Idol is a highlight, constrasting with the smoother Lewdness or the closing Barbarian Serenade (both played on the acoustic piano), the latter sporting some Tarantella guitars.
Overall a pretty good (at times excellent) jazz-rock album that comes from the peninsula and it's a bit of shame that they never managed a second album as either Flea or Etna. Anyway, if their debut was a bit naïve and rough, Topi and this last shot are both much worth owning.
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #170586)
Review by Finnforest
Warm, vibrant '70s instrumental jazz-rock
Etna were a band from Sicily who began with the name Flea In The Honey before shortening to Flea, then finally changing to Etna. They released an album under each moniker and each is a very different animal. The first was influenced by British hard rock and not very original nor beloved by progressive music fans. The second album as the band Flea was a huge jump in quality and moved firmly into RPI territory while still paying homage to hard guitar rock. Its long jamming suite is quite a monster treat for guitar lovers. Their third release as Etna was a complete change in style and prove the musicians capable artistic chameleons able to go in two different yet believable directions.
"This time they recorded a powerful instrumental fusion album fronted by guitar and electric piano, resembling Mahavishnu Orchestra or the Spanish group Iceberg." [Scented Garden]
In many ways Etna is similar to other 70s stock jazz-rock and one can draw comparisons to Bella Band, Arti Mestieri, or Esagono. But just like many of these other groups, continued listening reveals depth and personality not obvious on the initial plays. All of the basics are top notch: fantastic drumming and bass guitar interplay, with occasionally fiery electric guitar solos in rock and jazz veins. There is great control and tightness but in this case it is not a dry, soulless ride. Moving away from jazz rock autopilot which many prog listeners become bored with, there is great warmth brought to Etna via interesting songs, acoustic piano, electric piano, clarinet, and even mandolin. There seems to be a conscious attempt to keep things interesting, to keep the sound from falling into predictable patterns and repetitions. "Across the Indian Ocean" is a great example with some seriously daring, spirited twists and turns in the groove. "French Picadores" is another great example of turning "jazz rock" on its head---it's a slow, dreamy wisp of clarinet melody over a finger-picked acoustic guitar. A bit of the old Flea guitar sound breaks through on "Sentimental Lewdness" but the growl is tempered here with uplifting piano runs. Beautiful piano and mandolin are meshed together in the closer "Barbarian Serenade," which sums up the album's attempt to present jazz rock in a more emotionally appealing package. Its lovely textures build into a hypnotic listening experience. While not a masterpiece and while there are some sections that lag a bit, Etna by and large have delivered an excellent set. It's really too bad they didn't didn't stay together, this was a good band.
Fans of instrumental jazz-rock need to make the effort to find this little-known gem of the genre---it is my feeling many of you will be pleasantly surprised by the quality and the fun level of Etna. The delivered on the 2nd Flea album and they do so again here in a completely different style.
Posted Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Review this album | Report (Review #249063)
Very unusual to see a band with the exact same lineup not only change their band name 3 times but also change the style of music with each album. This album is very much in the Jazz / Rock / Fusion style. I did think of ARTI E MISTIERI a lot mostly because of the drummer who is definitely the star of the show here in my opinion.This band (and drummer) aren't as dynamic though as ARTI E MISTIERI or MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA. My kind of music though with the electric piano, guitar, drums and bass all standing out.
"Beneath The Geyser" sounds so good when it kicks in around a minute after a mellow intro. The drumming is fantastic. This is an uptempo but intricate track. "South East Wind" opens with keys, drums and atmosphere then a rhythm kicks in with guitar. A relaxed and catchy song. It turns more intense after 4 1/2 minutes. "Across The Indian Ocean" has some great drum work once it kicks in as the guitar plays over top.
"French Picadores" is cool with the acoustic guitar and clarinet. Again the drums, bass and piano all sound really good. "Golden Idol" builds then settles back. The drumming is tasteful yet relentless. "Sentimental Lewdness" opens with a drum solo as the guitar joins in followed by piano and bass. It settles some. The guitar and piano sound great before 5 1/2 minutes. The drums are amazing as usual. "Barbarian Serenade" is led by piano early then acoustic guitar joins in followed by drums and bass 2 1/2 minutes in.
A really good album that fans of Jazz / Fusion will enjoy.
Posted Monday, June 21, 2010 | Review this album | Report (Review #287698)
A Italian Band of seventies that play Jazz Fusion with high quality. Beautifull fusion music with some good guitar improvisations and a very balanced keiboards made this special albun one of most nice made in Italy in this decade. Some calm parts (not psichedelic), with a Zen music context in So ... (read more)
Report this review (#625771) | Posted by João Paulo | Friday, February 3, 2012 | Review Permanlink
SHADOW ON THE WALL... ETNA IS NOT ONLY A VOLCANO! Etna is not proper a 3rd album of Flea On The Honey or 2nd album of Flea... But the first album of Etna... I.e.... The 3rd album of this band... Of this Sicilian band... And Etna is a Sicilian volcano... The house of Efesto, god on fire and m ... (read more)
Report this review (#241875) | Posted by 1967/ 1976 | Monday, September 28, 2009 | Review Permanlink
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An old man lived alone in Ireland. He wanted to dig his potato garden, but it was very hard work.
His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison for bank robbery.
The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament.
Shortly, he received this reply,
"For HEAVEN'S SAKE Dad, don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the Money!"
At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen policemen showed up and dug up the entire garden, without finding any money.
Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asking him what to do next.
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Three convicts were on the way to prison. They were each allowed to take one item with them to help them occupy their time while incarcerated.
On the bus, one turned to another and said, "So, what did you bring?"
The second convict pulled out a box of paints and stated that he intended to paint anything he could. He wanted to become the "Grandma Moses of Jail."
Then he asked the first, "What did you bring?"
The first convict pulled out a deck of cards and grinned and said, "I brought cards. I can play poker, solitaire, gin, and any number of games."
The third convict was sitting quietly aside, grinning to himself. The other two took notice and asked, "Why are you so smug? What did you bring?"
The guy pulled out a box of tampons and smiled. He said, "I brought these."
The other two were puzzled and asked, "What can you do with those?"
He grinned and pointed to the box and said, "Well according to the box, I can go horseback riding, swimming, roller-skating...."
An artist is talking to the art director at an art show. The artist asks, "Has my art been selling well?"
The director says, "Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that someone came in an asked if your art would be worth more once you died. I assured him it would, and he bought all of your artwork!"
"Great! Now what is the bad news?" asks the artist.
"Well, the bad news is that the buyer is your doctor."
TEACHER: Max, use "defeat", "defense", and "detail" in a sentence.
MAX: The rabbit cut across the field, and defeat went over defense before detail.
Watch this as well, I laughed so much when i saw this....:http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/850425/
Re: jokes....
Post by Taiga » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:54 am
Have any of you come across the 'marriage horse race' ringtone?
It's rather amusing to say the least.
All my jokes are inappropriate in some way or another =/
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From singing to DJing in major cities across the globe, Annie Sollange is the latest pop artist that everyone is talking about.
Kicking off her career in her hometown, Moscow, she held a residency at major venues such as PACHA, ICON & SOHO ROOMS. After hearing Annie Sollange’s releases on major radio stations, the producers of VICTORIA’S SECRET, BRASCHI and RUSSIAN FASHION WEEK requested her to play at their Fashion Shows broadcasted on live TV.
After winning critical acclaim in Russia, Annie moved to London to attend a music program for singers. DSTRKT, LUXX, CAVENDISH No. 5, and BLC, are just a few of the UK’s most exclusive clubs that she has performed at. Annie had also been invited to play at multiple events at MIAMI MUSIC WEEK and that’s when she decided to take a leap of faith and move to NYC to pursue her music career full time.
In The City of Dreams her eclectic style, angelic voice and dynamic vocal range graced the stages of many renown venues including TAO, LAVO, MARQUEE, PROVOCATEUR, WEBSTER HALL, PHD, 1 OAK, BEAUTIQUE and many more.
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Gertie and Doris • Marcy Dermansky
People Holding February 18, 2017 2 Comments
Gertie and Doris loved to smoke.
They were smart, crazy smart, and their professors at Brooklyn College told them to talk less during class. To ask fewer questions. To stop arguing their points.
“Please,” their existential philosophy professor begged them once in class. He begged them on his hands and knees, before asking them to leave his lecture. “Stop asking me questions I cannot answer.”
Nothing less than the meaning of life. That was what Doris wanted to know. Good versus evil. Explain the Holocaust, Gertie demanded. Explain it from one of these god-damned books.
There were no answers. Of this, they were sure. Gertie was going to be an English teacher after college. It was the only job that made sense. She had already gotten married, which made her parents ask why hadn’t she stopped going to college. Gertie did not drop out of college.
Doris made no promises. With her, all bets were off. She wanted to be a revolutionary. She wasn’t sure how, but she was confident she would find a way. Through Marxist theory perhaps. Or marijuana. Or a man, a man named Bob.
After class, Gertie and Dorie went to the drugstore to buy cigarettes. They would sit at the counter and drink ice cream sodas and smoke cigarettes. They wore short skirts that showed off their garter belts when they crossed their legs.
The consensus of their classmates was that Gertie was the prettier of the two. Doris, after all, wore glasses. “I hate my glasses,” Doris declared. Without them, however, she was blind as a bat. She had lost them once, after having sex with Bob in his Manhattan apartment, finding her way to the bathroom. She walked into a door, giving herself a very impressive black eye.
Gertie loved Doris’s glasses. Gertie loved Doris. She admitted this to no one. Not to herself. Not to Doris. Not to her philosophy professor or her psychiatrist or to her husband named Dick. That was really his name. And she really was married.
Gertie had gotten married when she was nineteen, when she found out she was pregnant. Then, after the wedding, she learned about a doctor who would give her an abortion, and she did that. She had never felt the same way about her husband since. Dick was a Beatnik poet. He dressed in black and he liked to snap. Gertie would laugh when he snapped. She laughed at him all the time.
“He writes poem after poem about my sweet pussy,” Gertie told Doris. “It has gotten so bad that I went out and got a cat.”
Doris laughed. She did not know what to say. She had had sex and yet she was not comfortable talking about sex. Especially to Gertie.
Gertie and Doris were beautiful and scary and seemingly impervious to the world. Only they didn’t know it at the time. There is a photo of them together, brash, smoking, looking at the camera straight on, like a dare to the world. A dare that they had lost.
Gertie got pregnant again after college and this time, she did not abort the child. “I am not a bad person,” she told Doris. Doris had never said that she was. Gertie had gotten a job teaching high school English, a job that she quit and never went back to. She also ended her friendship with Doris.
Doris was only slightly more successful in following her dreams. She did, in fact, join a revolutionary group. She moved upstate. She learned how to fire rifles. She was learning, from a book, how to make a bomb. But then, Doris was arrested, the police raiding the group house she had moved into before she had had the chance to commit an actual revolutionary crime. Doris was pushed down to the ground, handcuffed, her glasses, her only pair of glasses, stomped on. Broken.
Doris was terrified, flat down on the ground, pepper spray burning her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks. In an instant, she realized that she was not a revolutionary, because revolutionaries could not be as afraid as she been. She had testified against Bob, just like that, with pleasure, if truth be told. There had been another black eye, one that had not come from a door.
Doris had her eyes tested, and not long after, she married her ophthalmologist. A nice man from the temple she had belonged to as a child.
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie, Twins, and most recently The Red Car. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Salon, and the Paris Review.
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1
Publisher's Advertisement. Biographical sketch of Wendell Phillips . The murder of Lovejoy . Woman's rights. chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9chapter 10chapter 11chapter 12chapter 13chapter 14chapter 15chapter 16 Mobs and education. chapter 18chapter 19chapter 20chapter 21chapter 22 Letter to the Tribune . chapter 24chapter 25chapter 26
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The war for the Union.1
Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be impossible for me fitly to thank you for this welcome; you will allow me, therefore, not to attempt it, but to avail myself of your patience to speak to you, as I have been invited to do, upon the war.
I know, Ladies and Gentlemen, that actions-deeds, not words — are the fitting duty of the hour. Yet, still, cannon think in this day of ours, and it is only by putting thought behind arms that we render them worthy, in any degree, of the civilization of the nineteenth century. [Applause.] Besides, the government has two thirds of a million of soldiers, and it has ships sufficient for its purpose. The only question seems to be, what the government is to do with these forces,--in what path, and how far it shall tread. You and I come here to-night, not to criticise, not to find fault with the Cabinet. We come here to recognize the fact, that in moments like these the statesmanship of the Cabinet is but a pine shingle upon the rapids of Niagara, borne which way the great popular heart and the national purpose direct. It is in vain now, with these scenes about us, in this crisis, to endeavor to create public opinion; too late now to educate twenty millions of people. Our object now is to concentrate and to manifest, to make evident and to make intense, the matured purpose of the nation. We are to show the world, [416] if it be indeed so, that democratic institutions are strong enough for such an hour as this. Very terrible as is the conspiracy, momentous as is the peril, Democracy welcomes the struggle, confident that she stands like no delicately-poised throne in the Old World, but, like the Pyramid, on its broadest base, able to be patient with national evils,--generously patient with the long forbearance of three generations,--and strong enough when, after that they reveal themselves in their own inevitable and hideous proportions, to pronounce and execute the unanimous verdict,--Death!
Now, Gentlemen, it is in such a spirit, with such a purpose, that I come before you to-night to sustain this war. Whence came this war? You and I need not curiously investigate. While Mr. Everett on one side, and Mr. Sumner on the other, agree, you and I may take for granted the opinion of two such opposite statesmen,--the result of the common sense of this side of the water and the other,--that slavery is the root of this war. [Applause.] I know some men have loved to trace it to disappointed ambition, to the success of the Republican party, convincing three hundred thousand nobles at the South, who have hitherto furnished us the most of the presidents, generals, judges, and ambassadors we needed, that they would have leave to stay at home, and that twenty millions of Northerners would take their share in public affairs. I do not think that cause equal to the result. Other men before Jefferson Davis and Governor Wise have been disappointed of the Presidency. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Stephen A. Douglas were more than once disappointed, and yet who believes that either of these great men could have armed the North to avenge his wrongs? Why, then, should these pigmies of the South be able to do what the giants I have named could never achieve? Simply because there is a radical difference between the two seetions, [417] and that difference is slavery. A party victory may have been the occasion of this outbreak. So a tea-chest was the occasion of the Revolution, and it went to the bottom of Boston harbor on the night of the 16th of December, 1773; but that tea-chest was not the cause of the Revolution, neither is Jefferson Davis the cause of the rebellion. If you will look upon the map, and notice that every Slave State has joined or tried to join the rebellion, and no Free State has done so, I think you will not doubt substantially the origin of this convulsion.
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, you know me — those of you who know me at all — simply as an Abolitionist. I am proud and glad that you should have known me as such. In the twenty-five years that are gone,--I say it with no wish to offend any man before me,--but in the quarter of a century that has passed, I could find no place where an American could stand with decent self-respect, except in constant, uncontrollable, and loud protest against the sin of his native land. But, Ladies and Gentlemen, do not imagine that I come here to-night to speak simply and exclusively as an Abolitionist. My interest in this war, simply and exclusively as an Abolitionist, is about as much gone as yours in a novel where the hero has won the lady, and the marriage has been comfortably celebrated in the last chapter. I know the danger of political prophecy,--a kaleidoscope of which not even a Yankee can guess the next combination,--but for all that, I venture to offer my opinion, that on this continent the system of domestic slavery has received its death-blow. [Loud and long-continued applause.] Let me tell you why I think so. Leaving out of view war with England, which I do not expect, there are but three paths out of this war. One is, the North conquers; the other is, the South conquers; and the third is, a compromise. Now, if the North conquers, or there be a compromise, one or the other of two things [418] must come,--either the old Constitution or a new one. I believe that, so far as the slavery clauses of the Constitution of 1889 are concerned, it is dead. It seems to me impossible that the thrifty and painstaking North, after keeping six hundred thousand men idle for two or three years, at a cost of two million dollars a day; after that flag lowered at Sumter; after Baker and Lyon and Ellsworth and Winthrop and Putnam and Wesselhoeft have given their lives to quell the rebellion; after our Massachusetts boys, hurrying from ploughed field and workshop to save the capital, have been foully murdered on the pavements of Baltimore, -I cannot believe in a North so lost, so craven, as to put back slavery where it stood on the 4th of March last. [Cheers.] But if there be reconstruction without those slave clauses, then in a little while, longer or shorter, slavery dies,--indeed, on any other basis but the basis of 1889, she has nothing else now to do but to die. On the contrary, if the South--no, I cannot say conquers — my lips will not form that word — but if she balks us of victory, the only way she can do it is to write Emancipation on her own banner, and thus bribe the friends of liberty in Europe to allow its aristocrats and traders to divide the majestic republic whose growth and trade they fear and envy. Either way, the slave goes free. Unless England flings her fleets along the coast, the South can never spring into separate existence, except from the basis of negro freedom; and I for one cannot yet believe that the North will consent again to share his chains. Exclusively as an Abolitionist, therefore, I have little more interest in this war than the frontiersman's wife had in his struggle with the bear, when she did n't care which whipped. But before I leave the Abolitionists, let me say one word. Some men say we are the cause of this war. Gentlemen, you do us too much honor! If it be so, we have reason to be proud of it; for in my heart, as an American, I believe [419] this year the most glorious of the Republic since 1876. The North, craven and contented until now, like Mammon, saw nothing even in heaven but the golden pavement; to-day she throws off her chains. We have a North, as Daniel Webster said. This is no epoch for nations to blush at. England might blush in 1620, when Englishmen trembled at a fool's frown, and were silent when James forbade them to think; but not in 1649, when an outraged people cut off his son's head. Massachusetts might have blushed a year or two ago, when an insolent Virginian, standing on Bunker Hill, insulted the Commonwealth, and then dragged her citizens to Washington to tell what they knew about John Brown; but she has no reason to blush to-day, when she holds that same impudent Senator an acknowledged felon in her prison-fort. In my view, the bloodiest war ever waged is infinitely better than the happiest slavery which ever fattened men into obedience. And yet I love peace. But it is real peace; not peace such as we have had; not peace that meant lynch-law in the Carolinas and mob-law in New York; not peace that meant chains around Boston Court-House, a gag on the lips of statesmen, and the slave sobbing himself to sleep in curses. No more such peace for me; no peace that is not born of justice, and does not recognize the rights of every race and every man.
Some men say they would view this war as white men. I condescend to no such narrowness. I view it as an American citizen, proud to be the citizen of an empire that knows neither black nor white, neither Saxon nor Indian, but holds an equal sceptre over all. [Loud cheers.] If I am to love my country, it must be lovable; if I am to honor it, it must be worthy of respect. What is the function God gives us,--what is the breadth of responsibility he lays upon us? An empire, the home of [420] every race, every creed, every tongue, to whose citizens is committed, if not the only, then the grandest system of pure self-government. Tocqueville tells us that all nations and all ages tend with inevitable certainty to this result; but he points out, as history does, this land as the normal school of the nations, set by God to try the experiment of popular education and popular government, to remove the obstacles, point out the dangers, find the bes way, encourage the timid, and hasten the world's progress. Let us see to it, that with such a crisis and such a past, neither the ignorance, nor the heedlessness, nor the cowardice of Americans forfeits this high honor, won for us by the toils of two generations, given to us by the blessing of Providence. It is as a citizen of the leading State of this Western continent, vast in territory, and yet its territory nothing when compared with the grandeur of its past and the majesty of its future,--it is as such a citizen that I wish, for one, to find out my duty, express as an individual my opinion, and aid thereby the Cabinet in doing its duty under such responsibility. It does not lie in one man to ruin us, nor in one man to save us, nor in a dozen. It lies in the twenty millions, in the thirty millions, of thirty-four States.
Now how do we stand? In a war,--not only that, but a terrific war,--not a war sprung from the caprice of a woman, the spite of a priest, the flickering ambition of a prince, as wars usually have; but a war inevitable; in one sense, nobody's fault; the inevitable result of past training, the conflict of ideas, millions of people grappling each other's throats, every soldier in each camp certain that he is fighting for an idea which holds the salvation of the world,--every drop of his blood in earnest. Such a war finds no parallel nearer than that of the Catholic and the Huguenot of France, or that of Aristocrat and Republican in 1790, or of Cromwell and the Irish, when [421] victory meant extermination. Such is our war. I look upon it as the commencement of the great struggle between the disguised aristocracy and the democracy of America. You are to say to-day whether it shall last ten years or seventy, as it usually has done. It resembles closely that struggle between aristocrat and democrat which began in France in 1789, and continues still. While it lasts, it will have the same effect on the nation as that war between blind loyalty, represented by the Stuart family, and the free spirit of the English Constitution, which lasted from 1660 to 1760, and kept England a second-rate power almost all that century.
Such is the era on which you are entering. I will not speak of war in itself,--I have no time; I will not say, with Napoleon, that it is the practice of barbarians; I will not say that it is good. It is better than the past. A thing may be better, and yet not good. This war is better than the past, but there is not an element of good in it. I mean, there is nothing in it which we might not have gotten better, fuller, and more perfectly in other ways. And yet it is better than the craven past, infinitely better than a peace which had pride for its father and subserviency for its mother. Neither will I speak of the cost of war, although you know that we never shall get out of this one without a debt of at least two or three thousand millions of dollars. For if the prevalent theory prove correct, and the country comes together again on anything like the. old basis, we pay Jeff Davis's debts as well as our own. Neither will I remind you that debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine government and corrupt the people. The great debt of England has kept her back in civil progress at least a hundred years. Neither will I remind you that, when we go out of this war, we go out with an immense disbanded army, an intense military spirit embodied in two thirds of [422] a million of soldiers, the fruitful, that inevitable source of fresh debts and new wars. I pass by all that; yet lying within those causes are things enough to make the most sanguine friends of free institutions tremble for our future. I pass those by. But let me remind you of another tendency of the time. You know, for instance, that the writ of habeas corpus, by which government is bound to render a reason to the judiciary before it lays its hands upon a citizen, has been called the high-water mark of English liberty. Jefferson, in his calm moments, dreaded the power to suspend it in any emergency whatever, and wished to have it in “eternal and unremitting force.” The present Napoleon, in his treatise on the English Constitution, calls it the gem of English institutions. Lieber says that habeas corpus, free meetings like this, and a free press, are the three elements which distinguish liberty from despotism. All that Saxon blood has gained in the battles and toils of two hundred years are these three things. But to-day, Mr. Chairman, every one of them--habeas corpus, the right of free meeting, and a free press — is annihilated in every square mile of the Republic. We live to-day, every one of us, under martial law. The Secretary of State puts into his bastile, with a warrant as irresponsible as that of Louis, any man whom he pleases. And you know that neither press nor lips may venture to arraign the government without being silenced. At this moment one thousand men, at least, are “bastiled” by an authority as despotic as that of Louis,--three times as many as Eldon and George III. seized when they trembled for his throne. Mark me, I am not complaining. I do not say it is not necessary. It is necessary to do anything to save the ship. [Applause.] It is necessary to throw everything overboard in order that we may float. It is a mere question whether you prefer the despotism of Washington or that of Richmond. I prefer that of Washington. [Loud [423] applause.] But, nevertheless, I point out to you this tendency, because it is momentous in its significance. We are tending with rapid strides, you say inevitably,--I do not deny it; necessarily,--I do not question it; we are tending toward that strong government which frightened Jefferson; toward that unlimited debt, that endless army. We have already those alien and sedition laws which, in 1798, wrecked the Federal party, and summoned the Democratic into existence. For the first time on this continent we have passports, which even Louis Napoleon pronounces useless and odious. For the first time in our history government spies frequent our great cities. And this model of a strong government, if you reconstruct it on the old basis, is to be handed into the keeping of whom? If you compromise it by reconstruction, to whom are you to give these delicate and grave powers? To compromisers. Reconstruct this government, and for twenty years you can never elect a Republican. Presidents must be so wholly without character or principle, that two angry parties, each hopeless of success, contemptuously tolerate them as neutrals. Now I am not exaggerating the moment. I can parallel it entirely. It is the same position that England held in the times of Eldon and Fox, when Holcroft and Montgomery, the poet, Horne Tooke and Frost and Hardy, went into dungeons, under laws which Pitt executed and Burke praised,--times when Fox said he despaired of English liberty but for the power of insurrection,--times which Sidney Smith said he remembered, when no man was entitled to an opinion who had not £ 8,000 a year. Why! there is no right — do I exaggerate when I say that there is no single right?-which government is scrupulous and finds itself able to protect, except the pretended right of a man to his slaves! Every other right has fallen now before the necessities of the hour. [424]
Understand me, I do not complain of this state of things; but it is momentous. I only ask you, that out of this peril you be sure to get something worthy of the crisis through which you have passed. No government of free make could stand three such trials as this. I only paint you the picture, in order, lie Hotspur, to say: “Out of this. nettle, danger, be you right eminently sure that you pluck the flower, safety.” [Applause.] Standing in such a crisis, certainly it commands us that we should endeavor to find the root of the difficulty, and that now, once for all, we should put it beyond the possibility of troubling our peace again. We cannot afford, as Republicans, to run that risk. The vessel of state,--her timbers are strained beyond almost the possibility of surviving. The tempest is one which it demands the wariest pilot to outlive. We cannot afford, thus warned, to omit anything which can save this ship of state from a second danger of the kind.
What shall we do? The answer to that question comes partly from what we think has been the cause of this convulsion. Some men think-some of your editors think -many of ours, too — that this war is nothing but the disappointment of one or two thousand angered politicians, who have persuaded eight millions of Southerners, against their convictions, to take up arms and rush to the battlefield ;--no great compliment to Southern sense! [Laughter.] They think that, if the Federal army could only appear in the midst of this demented mass, the eight millions will find out for the first time in their lives that they have got souls of their own, tell us so, and then we shall all be piloted back, float back, drift back into the good old times of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. [Laughter.] There is a measure of truth in that. I believe that if, a year ago, when the thing first showed itself, Jefferson Davis and Toombs and Keitt and Wise, [425] and the rest, had been hung for traitors at Washington, and a couple of frigates anchored at Charleston, another couple in Savannah, and half a dozen in New Orleans, with orders to shell those cities on the first note of resistance, there never would have been this outbreak [applause], or it would have been postponed at least a dozen years; and if that interval had been used to get rid of slavery, we never should have heard of the convulsion. But you know we had nothing of the kind, and the consequence is, what? Why, the amazed North has been summoned by every defeat and every success, from its workshops and its factories, to gaze with wide-opened eyes at the lurid heavens, until at last, divided, bewildered, confounded, as this twenty millions were, we have all of us fused into one idea, that the Union meant justice,--shall mean justice,--owns down to the Gulf, and we will have it. [Applause.] What has taken place meanwhile at the South? Why, the same thing. The divided, bewildered South has been summoned also out of her divisions by every success and every defeat (and she has had more of the first than we have), and the consequence is, that she too is fused into a swelling sea of State pride, hate of the North,--
Unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit nor yield.
She is in earnest, every man, and she is as unanimous as the Colonies were in the Revolution. In fact, the South recognizes more intelligibly than we do the necessities of her position. I do not consider this a secession. It is no secession. I agree with Bishop-General Polk,--it is a conspiracy, not a secession. There is no wish, no intention to go peaceably and permanently off. It is a conspiracy to make the government do the will and accept the policy of the slaveholders. Its root is at the South. [426] but it has many a branch in Wall Street and in State Street. [Cheers.] It is a conspiracy, and on the one side is every man who still thinks that he that steals his brother is a gentleman, and he that makes his living is not. [Applause.] It is the aristocratic element which survived the Constitution, which our fathers thought could be safely left under it, and the South to-day is forced into this war by the natural growth of the antagonistic principle. You may pledge whatever submission and patience of Southern institutions you please, it is not enough. South Carolina said to Massachusetts in 1835, when Edward Everett was Governor, “Abolish free speech,--it is a nuisance.” She is right,--from her stand-point it is. [Laughter.] That is, it is not possible to preserve the quiet of South Carolina consistently with free speech; but you know the story Sir Walter Scott told of the Scotch laird, who said to his old butler, “Jock, you and I can't live under this roof.” “And where does your honor think of going?” So free speech says to South Carolina to-day. Now I say you may pledge, compromise, guarantee what you please. The South well knows that it is not your purpose,--it is your character she dreads. It is the nature of Northern institutions, the perilous freedom of discussion, the flavor of our ideas, the sight of our growth, the very neighborhood of such States, that constitutes the danger. It is like the two vases launched on the stormy sea. The iron said to the crockery, “I won't come near you.” “Thank you,” said the weaker vessel; “there is just as much danger in my coming near you.” This the South feels; hence her determination; hence, indeed, the imperious necessity that she should rule and shape our government, or of sailing out of it. I do not mean that she plans to take possession of the North, and choose our Northern Mayors; though she has done that in Boston for the last dozen years, and here till this fall. But she conspires and [427] aims to control just so much of our policy, trade, offices, presses, pulpits, cities, as is sufficient to insure the undisturbed existence of slavery. She conspires with the full intent so to mould this government as to keep it what it has been for thirty years, according to John Quincy Adams, --a plot for the extension and perpetuation of slavery. As the world advances, fresh guaranties are demanded. The nineteenth century requires sterner gags than the eighteenth. Often as the peace of Virginia is in danger, you must be willing that a Virginia Mason shall drag your citizens to Washington, and imprison them at his pleasure. So long as Carolina needs it, you must submit that your ships be searched for dangerous passengers, and every Northern man lynched. No more Kansas rebellions. It is a conflict between the two powers, Aristocracy and Democracy, which shall hold this belt of the continent. You may live here, New York men, but it must be in submission to such rules as the quiet of Carolina requires. That is the meaning of the oft-repeated threat to call the roll of one's slaves on Bunker Hill, and dictate peace in Faneuil Hall. Now, in that fight, I go for the North,--for the Union.
In order to make out this theory of “irrepressible conflict,” it is not necessary to suppose that every Southerner hates every Northerner (as the Atlantic Monthly urges) But this much is true: some three hundred thousand slaveholders at the South, holding two thousand millions of so-called property in their hands, controlling the blacks, and befooling the seven millions of poor whites into being their tools,--into believing that their interest is opposed to ours, -this order of nobles, this privileged class, has been able for forty years to keep the government in dread, dictate terms by threatening disunion, bring us to its verge at least twice, and now almost to break the Union in pieces. A power thus consolidated, which has existed seventy [428] years, setting up and pulling down parties, controlling the policy of the government, and changing our religion, and is emboldened by uniform success, will not burst like a bubble in an hour. For all practical purposes, it is safe to speak of it as the South; no other South exists, or will exist, till our policy develops it into being. This is what I mean. An aristocracy rooted in wealth, with its network spread over all social life, its poison penetrating every fibre of society, is the hardest possible evil to destroy. Its one influence, fashion, is often able to mock at Religion, Trade, Literature, and Politics combined. One half the reason why Washington has been and is in peril,--why every move is revealed and checkmated,--is that your President is unfashionable, and Mrs. Jefferson Davis is not. Unseen chains are sometimes stronger than those of iron, and heavier than those of gold.
It is not in the plots, it is in the inevitable character of the Northern States, that the South sees her danger. And the struggle is between these two ideas. Our fathers, as I said, thought they could safely be left, one to outgrow the other. They took gunpowder and a lighted match, forced them into a stalwart cannon, screwed down the muzzle, and thought they could secure peace. But it has resulted differently; their cannon has exploded, and we stand among fragments.
Now some Republicans and some Democrats — not Butler and Bryant and Cochrane and Cameron, not Boutwell and Bancroft and Dickinson, and others — but the old set -the old set say to the Republicans, t “Lay the pieces carefully together in their places; put the gunpowder and the match in again, say the Constitution backward instead of your prayers, and there will never be another rebellion!” I doubt it. It seems to me that like causes will produce like effects. If the reason of the war is because we are two nations, then the cure must he to make us one nation, [429] Lo remove that cause which divides us, to make our institutions homogeneous. If it were possible to subjugate the South, and leave slavery just as it is, where is the security that we should not have another war in ten years? Indeed, such a course invites another war, whenever demagogues please. I believe the policy of reconstruction is impossible. And if it were possible, it would be the greatest mistake that Northern men could commit. [Cheers.] I will not stop to remind you that, standing as we do today, with the full constitutional right to abolish slavery,--a right Southern treason has just given us,--a right, the use of which is enjoined by the sternest necessity,--if, after that, the North goes back to the Constitution of 1889, she assumes, a second time, afresh, unnecessarily, a criminal responsibility for slavery. Hereafter no old excuse will avail us. A second time, with open eyes, against our highest interest, we clasp bloody hands with tyrants to uphold an acknowledged sin, whose fell evil we have fully proved.
But that aside, peace with an unchanged Constitution would leave us to stand like Mexico. States married, not matched; chained together, not melted into one; foreign nations aware of our hostility, and interfering to embroil, rob, and control us. We should be what Greece was under the intrigues of Philip, and Germany when Louis XIV. was in fact her dictator. We may see our likeness in Austria, every fretful province an addition of weakness; in Italy, twenty years ago, a leash of angry hounds. A Union with unwilling and subjugated States, smarting with defeat, and yet holding the powerful and dangerous element of slavery in it, and an army disbanded into laborers, food for constant disturbance, would be a standing invitation to France and England to insult and dictate, to thwart our policy, demand changes in our laws, and trample on us continually, [430]
Reconstruction is but another name for the submission of the North. It is her subjection under a mask. It is nothing but the confession of defeat. Every merchant, in such a case, puts everything he has at the bidding of Wigfall and Toombs in every cross-road bar-room at the South. For, you see, never till now did anybody but a few Abolitionists believe that this nation could be marshalled one section against the other in arms. But the secret is out. The weak point is discovered. Why does the London press lecture us like a schoolmaster his seven-year-old boy? Why does England use a tone such as she has not used for half a century to any power? Because she knows us as she knows Mexico, as all Europe knows Austria,--that we have the cancer concealed in our very vitals. Slavery, left where it is, after having created such a war as this, would leave our commerce and all our foreign relations at the mercy of any Keitt, Wig fall, Wise, or Toombs. Any demagogue has only to stir up a proslavery crusade, point back to the safe experiment of 1861, and lash the passions of the aristocrats, to cover the sea with privateers, put in jeopardy the trade of twenty States, plunge the country into millions of debt, send our stocks down fifty per cent, and cost thousands of lives. Reconstruction is but making chronic what now is transient. What that is, this week shows. What that is, we learn from the tone England dares to assume toward this divided republic. I do not believe reconstruction possible. I do not believe the Cabinet intend it. True, I should care little if they did, since I believe the administration can no more resist the progress of events, than a spear of grass can retard the step of an avalanche. But if they do, allow me to say, for one, that every dollar spent in this war is worse than wasted, every life lost is a public murder, and that any statesman who leads these States back to reconstruction will be damned to an infamy [431] compared with which Arnold was a saint and James Buchanan a public benefactor. [Slight disturbance in the rear part of the hall; cries of “Put him out!” etc.] No, do not put him out; his is the very mind I wish to reach. I said reconstruction is not possible. I do not believe it is, for this reason; the moment these States begin to appear victorious, the moment our armies do anything that evinces final success, the wily statesmanship and unconquerable hate of the South will write “Emancipation” on her banner, and welcome the protectorate of a European power. And if you read the European papers of to-day, you need not doubt that she will have it. Intelligent men agree that the North stands better with Palmerston for minister, than she would with any minister likely to succeed him. And who is Palmerston? While he was Foreign Secretary, from 1848 to 1851, the British press ridiculed every effort of the French Republicans,--sneered at Cavaignac and Ledru Rollin, Lamartine and Hugo,--while they cheered Napoleon on to his usurpation; and Lord Normanby, then Minister at Paris, early in December, while Napoleon's hand was still wet with the best blood of France, congratulated the despot on his victory over the Reds, applying to the friends of Liberty the worst epithet that an Englishman knows. This last outrage lost Palmerston his place; but he rules to-day,--though rebuked, not changed.
The value of the English news this week is the indication of the nation's mind. No one doubts now, that, should the South emancipate, England would Rake haste to recognize and help her. In ordinary times, the government and aristocracy of England dread American example. They may well admire and envy the strength of our government, when, instead of England's impressment and pinched levies, patriotism marshals six hundred thousand volunteers in six months. The English merchant is jealous of our growth. [432] only the liberal middle classes really sympathize with a. When the two other classes are divided, this middle class rules. But now Herod and Pilate are agreed. The aristocrat, who usually despises a trader, whether of Manchester or Liverpool, as the South does a negro, now is Secessionist from sympathy, as the trader is from interest. Such a union no middle class can checkmate. The only danger of war with England is, that, as soon as England declared war with us, she would recognize the Southern Confederacy immediately, just as she stands, slavery and all, as a military measure. As such, in the heat of passion, in the smoke of war, the English people, all of them, would allow such a recognition even of a slaveholding empire. War with England insures disunion. When England declares war, she gives slavery a fresh lease of fifty years. Even if we have no war with England, let another eight or ten months be as little successful as the last, and Europe will acknowledge the Southern Confederacy, slavery and all, as a matter of course. Further, any approach toward victory on our part, without freeing the slave, gives him free to Davis. So far, the South is sure to succeed, either by victory or defeat, unless we anticipate her. Indeed, the only way, the only sure way, to break this Union, is to try to save it by protecting slavery. “Every moment lost,” as Napoleon said, “is an opportunity for misfortune.” Unless we emancipate the slave, we shall never conquer the South without her trying emancipation. Every Southerner, from Toombs up to Fremont, has acknowledged it. Do you suppose that Davis and Beauregard, and the rest, mean to be exiles, wandering contemned in every great city of Europe, in order that they may maintain slavery and the Constitution of 1889? They, like ourselves, will throw everything overboard before they will submit to defeat,--defeat from Yankees. I do not believe, therefore, that reconciliation is possible, nor do I believe the [433] Cabinet have any such hopes. Indeed, I do not know where you will find the evidence of any purpose in the administration at Washington. [Hisses, cheers, and laughter.] If we look to the West, if we look to the Potomac, what is the policy? If, on the Potomac, with the aid of twenty Governors, you assemble an army, and do nothing but return fugitive slaves, that proves you competent and efficient. If, on the banks of the Mississippi, unaided, the magic of your presence summons an army into existence, and you drive your enemy before you a hundred miles farther than your second in command thought it possible for you to advance, that proves you incompetent, and entitles your second in command to succeed you. [Tremendous applause, and three cheers for Fremont.]
Looking in another direction, you see the government announcing a policy in South Carolina. What is it? Well, Mr. Secretary Cameron says to the general in command there: “You are to welcome into your camp all comers; you are to organize them into squads and companies; use them any way you please ;--but there is to be no general arming.” That is a very significant exception. The hint is broad enough for the dullest brain. In one of Charles Reade's novels, the heroine flies away to hide from the hero, announcing that she never shall see him again. Her letter says: “I will never see you again, David. You, of course, won't come to see me at my old nurse's dear little cottage [laughter], between eleven in the morning and four in the afternoon, because I sha'n't see you.” [Laughter.] So Mr. Cameron says there is to be no general arming, but I suppose there is to be a very particular arming. [Laughter.] But he goes on to add: “This is no greater interference with the institutions of South Carolina than is necessary,--than the war will cure.” Does he mean he will give the slaves back when the war is over? I don't know. All I [434] know is, that the Port Royal expedition proved one thing, -it laid forever that ghost of an argument, that the blacks loved their masters,--it settled forever the question whether the blacks were with us or with the South. My opinion is, that the blacks are the key of our position. [A Voice, “That is it.” ] He that gets them wins, and he that loses them goes to the wall. [Applause.] Port Royal settled one thing,--the blacks are with us, and not with the South. At present they are the only Unionist. I know nothing more touching in history, nothing that art will immortalize and poetry dwell upon more fondly,--I know no tribute to the Stars and Stripes more impressive than that incident of the blacks coming to the water-side with their little bundles, in that simple faith which had endured through the long night of so many bitter years. They preferred to be shot rather than driven from the sight of that banner they had so long prayed to see. And if that was the result when nothing but General Sherman's equivocal Proclamation was landed on the Carolinas, what should we have seen if there had been eighteen thousand veterans with Fremont, the statesman-soldier of this war, at their head [loud applause], and over them the Stars and Stripes, gorgeous with the motto, l “Freedom for all! Freedom forever!” If that had gone before them, in my opinion they would have marched across the Carolinas, and joined Brownlow in East Tennessee. [Applause.] The bulwark on each side of them would have been one hundred thousand grateful blacks; they would have cut this rebellion in halves, and while our fleets fired salutes across New Orleans, Beauregard would have been ground to powder between the upper millstone of McClellan and the lower of a quarter-million of blacks rising to greet the Stars and Stripes. [Great cheering.] McClellan may drill a better army,--more perfect soldiers. He will never marshal a stronger force than those grateful thousands. [435] That is the way to save insurrection. He is an enemy to civil liberty, the worst enemy to his own land, who asks for such delay or perversion of government policy as is sure to result in insurrection. Our duty is to save these four millions of blacks from their own passions, from their own confusion, and eight millions of whites from the consequences of it. [ “Hear, hear!” ] And in order to do it, we nineteen millions of educated, Christian Americans are not to wait for the will or the wisdom of a single man,--we are not to wait for Fremont or McClellan: the government is our dictator. It might do for Rome, a herd of beggars and soldiers, kept quiet only by the weight of despotism,--it might do for Rome, in moments of danger, to hurl all responsibility into the hands of a dictator. But for us, educated, thoughtful men, with institutions modelled and matured by the experience of two hundred years,--it is not for us to evade responsibility by deferring to a single man. I demand of the government a policy. I demand of the government to show the doubting infidels of Europe that democracy is not only strong enough for the trial, but that she breeds men with brains large enough to comprehend the hour, and wills hot enough to fuse the purpose of nineteen millions of people into one decisive blow for safety and for Union. [Cheers.] You will ask me how it is to be done. I would have it done by Congress. We have the power.
When Congress declares war, says John Quincy Adams, Congress has all the powers incident to carrying on war.2 [436] It is not an unconstitutional power,--it is a power conferred by the Constitution; but the moment it comes into play it rises beyond the limit of constitutional checks. I know it is a grave power, this trusting the government with despotism. But what is the use of government, except just to help us in critical times? All the checks and ingenuity of our institutions are arranged to secure for us men wise and able enough to be trusted with grave powers,--bold enough to use them when the times require. Lancets and knives are dangerous instruments. The use of surgeons is, that, when lancets are needed, somebody may know how to use them, and save life. One great merit of democratic institutions is, that, resting as they must on educated masses, the government may safely be trusted, in a great emergency, with despotic power, without fear of harm, or of wrecking the state. No other form of government can venture such confidence without any [437] risk of national ruin. Doubtless the war power is a very grave power; so are some ordinary peace powers. I will not cite extreme cases,--Louisiana and Texas. We obtained the first by treaty, the second by joint resolutions; each case an exercise of power as grave and despotic as the abolition of slavery would be, and, unlike that, plainly unconstitutional,--one which nothing but stern necessity and subsequent acquiescence by the nation could make valid. Let me remind you that seventy years practice has incorporated it as a principle in our constitutional law, that what the necessity of the hour demands, and the continued assent of the people ratifies, is law. Slavery has established that rule. We might surely use it in the cause of justice. But I will cite an unquestionable precedent. It was a grave power, in 1807, in time of peace, when Congress abolished commerce; when, by the embargo of Jefferson, no ship could quit New York or Boston, and Congress set no limit to the prohibition. It annihilated commerce. New England asked, “Is it constitutional?” The Supreme Court said, “Yes.” New England sat down and starved. Her wharves were worthless, her ships rotted, her merchants beggared. She asked no compensation. The powers of Congress carried bankruptcy from New Haven to Portland; but the Supreme Court said, “It is legal,” and New England bowed her head. We commend the same cup to the Carolinas to-day. We say to them that, in order to save the government, there resides somewhere despotism. It is in the war powers of Congress. That despotism can change the social arrangements of the Southern States, and has a right to do it. Every man of you who speaks of the emancipation of the negroes allows it would be decisive if it were used. You allow that, when it is a military necessity, we may use it. What I claim is, in honor of our institutions, that we are not put to wait for the wisdom or the courage of a [438] general. Our fathers left us with no such miserable plan of government. They gave us a government with the power, in such times as these, of doing something that would save the helm of state in the hands of its citizens. [Cheers.] We could cede the Carolinas; I have sometimes wished we could shovel them into the Atlantic. [Applause and laughter.] We can cede a State. We can do anything for the time being; and no theory of government can deny its power to make the most unlimited change. The only alternative is this: Do you prefer the despotism of your own citizens or of foreigners? That is the only question in war. [Cheers.] In peace no man may be deprived of his life but “by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.” To touch life, you must have a grand jury to present, a petit jury to indict, a judge to condemn, and a sheriff to execute. That is constitutional, the necessary and invaluable bulwark of liberty, in peace. But in war the government bids Sigel shoot Lee, and the German is at once grand jury, petit jury, judge, and executioner. That, too, is constitutional, necessary, and invaluable, protecting a nation's rights and life.
Now this government, which abolishes my right of habeas copus,--which strikes down, because it is necessary, every Saxon bulwark of liberty,--which proclaims martial law, and holds every dollar and every man at the will of the Cabinet,--do you turn round and tell me that this same government has no rightful power to break the cobweb — it is but a cobweb — which binds a slave to his master,--to stretch its hands across the Potomac, and root up the evil which, for seventy years, has troubled its peace, and now culminates in rebellion? I maintain, therefore, the power of the government itself to inaugurate such a policy; and I say, in order to save the Union, to justice to the black. [Applause.]
I would claim of Congress-in the exact language of [439] Adams, of the “government” --a solemn act abolishing slavery throughout the Union, securing compensation to loyal slaveholders. As the Constitution forbids the States to make and allow nobles, I would now, by equal authority, forbid them to make slaves or allow slaveholders.
This has been the usual course at such times. Nations, convulsed and broken by too powerful elements or institutions, have used the first moment of assured power — the first moment that they clearly saw and fully appreciated the evil — to cut up the dangerous tree by the roots. So France expelled the Jesuits, and the Middle Ages the Templars. So England, in her great rebellion, abolished nobility and the Established Church; and the French Revolution did the same, and finally gave to each child an equal share in his deceased father's lands. For the same purpose, England, in 1745, abolished clanship in Scotland, the root of the Stuart faction; and we, in 1876, abolished nobles and all tenure of estates savoring of privileged classes. Such a measure supplies the South just what she needs,--capital. That sum which the North gives the loyal slaveholder, not as acknowledging his property in the slave, but a measure of conciliation,--perhaps an acknowledgment of its share of the guilt,--will call mills, ships, agriculture, into being. The free negro will redeem to use lands never touched, whose fertility laughs Illinois to scorn, and finds no rival but Egypt. And remember, besides, as Montesquieu says, “The yield of land depends less on its fertility than on the freedom of its inhabitants.” Such a measure binds the negro to us by the indissoluble tie of gratitude; the loyal slaveholder, by strong self-interest,--our bonds are all his property; the other whites, by prosperity,--they are lifted in the scale of civilization and activity, educated and enriched. Our institutions are then homogeneous. We grapple the Union together with hooks of steel,--make it as lasting as the granite which underlies the continent. [440]
People may say this is a strange language for me,?-Disunionist. Well, I was a Disunionist, sincerely, for twenty years. I did hate the Union, when Union meant lies in the pulpit and mobs in the street, when Union meant making white men hypocrites and black men slaves. [Cheers.] I did prefer purity to peace,--I acknowledge it. The child of six generations of Puritans, knowing well the value of union, I did prefer disunion to being the accomplice of tyrants. But now, when I see what the Union must mean in order to last, when I see that you cannot have union without meaning justice, and when I see twenty millions of people, with a current as swift and as inevitable as Niagara, determined that this Union shall mean justice, why should I object to it? I endeavored honestly, and am not ashamed of it, to take nineteen States out of this Union, and consecrate them to liberty, and twenty millions of people answer me back, “We like your motto, only we mean to keep thirty-four States under it.” Do you suppose I am not Yankee enough to buy union when I can have it at a fair price? I know the value of union; and the reason why I claim that Carolina has no right to secede is this: we are not a partner ship, we are a marriage, and we have done a great many things since we were married in 1789 which render it unjust for a State to exercise the right of revolution on any ground now alleged. I admit the right. I acknowledge the great principles of the Declaration of Independence, that a state exists for the liberty and happiness of the people, that these are the ends of government, and that, when government ceases to promote those ends, the people have a right to remodel their institutions. I acknowledge the right of revolution in South Carolina, out at the same time I acknowledge that right of revolution only when government has ceased to promote those ends. Now we have been married for seventy years [441] We have bought Florida. We rounded the Union to the Gulf. We bought the Mississippi for commercial purposes. We stole Texas for slave purposes. Great commercial interests, great interests of peace, have been subserved by rounding the Union into a perfect shape; and the money and sacrifices of two generations have been given for this purpose. To break up that Union now, is to defraud us of mutual advantages relating to peace, trade, national security, which cannot survive disunion. The right of revolution is not matter of caprice. “Governments long established,” says our Declaration of Independence, “are not to be changed for light and transient causes.” When so many important interests and benefits, in their nature indivisible and which disunion destroys, have been secured by common toils and cost, the South must vindicate her revolution by showing that our government has become destructive of its proper ends, else the right of revolution does not exist. Why did we steal Texas? Why have we helped the South to strengthen herself? Because she said that slavery within the girdle of the Constitution would die out through the influence of natural principles. She said: “We acknowledge it to be an evil; but at the same time it will end by the spread of free principles and the influence of free institutions.” And the North said: “Yes; we will give you privileges on that account, and we will return your slaves for you.” Every slave sent back from a Northern State is a fresh oath of the South that she would not secede. Our fathers trusted to the promise that this race should be left under the influence of the Union, until, in the maturity of time, the day should arrive when they would be lifted into the sunlight of God's equality. I claim it of South Carolina. By virtue of that pledge she took Boston and put a rope round her neck in that infamous compromise which consigned to slavery Anthony Burns. I demand the fulfilment on her part even of [442] that infamous pledge. Until South Carolina allows me a the influence that nineteen millions of Yankee lips, asking infinite questions, have upon the welfare of those four millions of bondsmen, I deny her right to secede. [Applause.] Seventy years has the Union postponed the negro. For seventy years has he been beguiled with the promise, as she erected one bulwark after another around slavery, that he should have the influence of our common institutions. I claim it to-day. Never, with my consent, while the North thinks that the Union can or shall mean justice, shall those four hundred thousand South Carolina slaves go beyond the influence of Boston ideas. That is my strong reason for clinging to the Union. This is also one main reason why, unless upon most imperative and manifest grounds of need and right, South Carolina has no right of revolution; none till she fulfils her promise in this respect.
I know how we stand to-day, with the frowning cannon of the English fleet ready to be thrust out of the port-holes against us. But I can answer England with a better answer than William H. Seward can write. I can answer her with a more statesmanlike paper than Simon Cameron can indite. I would answer her with the Stars and Stripes floating over Charleston and New Orleans, and the itinerant Cabinet of Richmond packing up archives and wearing-apparel to ride back to Montgomery. There is one thing, and only one, which John Bull respects, and that is success. It is not for us to give counsel to the government on points of diplomatic propriety; but I suppose we may express our opinion; and my opinion is, that, if I were the President of these thirty-four States, while I was, I should want Mason and Slidell to stay with me. I say, then, first, as a matter of justice to the slave, we owe it to him; the day of his deliverance has come. The long promise of seventy years is to be fulfilled. The South draws back [443] from the pledge. The North is bound, in honor of the memory of her fathers, to demand its exact fulfilment, and in order to save this Union, which now means justice and peace, to recognize the rights of four millions of its victims. This is the dictate of justice;--justice, which at this hour is craftier than Seward, more statesmanlike than Cameron; justice, which appeals from the cabinets of Europe to the people; justice, which abases the proud and lifts up the humble; justice, which disarms England, saves the slaves from insurrection, and sends home the Confederate army of the Potomac to guard its own hearths; justice, which gives us four millions of friends, spies, soldiers in the enemy's country, planted each one at their very hearth-sides; justice, which inscribes every cannon with “Holiness to the Lord!” and puts a Northern heart behind every musket; justice, which means victory now and peace forever. To all cry of demagogues asking for boldness, I respond with the cry of “Justice, immediate, absolute Justice!” And if I dared to descend to a lower level, I should say to the merchants of this metropolis, Demand of the government a speedy settlement of this question. Every hour of delay is big with risk. Remember, as Governor Boutwell suggests, that our present financial prosperity comes because we have corn to export in place of cotton; and that another year, should Europe have a good harvest and we an ordinary one, while an inflated currency tempts extravagance and large imports, general bankruptcy stares us in the face. Do you love the Union? Do you really think that on the other side of the Potomac are the natural brothers and customers of the manufacturing ingenuity of the North? I tell you, certain as fate, God has written the safety of that relation in the same scroll with justice to the negro. The hour strikes. You may win him to your side; you may anticipate the South; you may save twelve millions [444] of customers. Delay it, let God grant McClellan victory, let God grant the Stars and Stripes over New Orleans, and it is too late.
Jeff Davis will then summon that same element to his side, and twelve millions of customers are added to Lancashire and Lyons. Then commences a war of tariffs, embittered by that other war of angered nationalities, which are to hand this and the other Confederacy down for twenty-five or thirty years, divided, weakened, and bloody with intestine struggle. And what will be our character? I do not wholly agree with Edward Everett, in that very able and eloquent address which he delivered in Boston, in which, however, he said one thing preeminently true,--he, the compromiser,--that if, in 1830-31, nullification, under Jackson, had been hung instead of compromised, we never should have had Jeff Davis. [Loud applause.] I agree with him, and hope we shall make no second mistake of the kind. But I do not agree with him in the conclusion that these nineteen States, left alone, would be of necessity a second-rate power. No. I believe in brains; and I know these Northern men have more brains in their right hands than others have in their heads. [Laughter and cheers.] I know that we mix our soil with brains, and that, consequently, we are bound to conquer. Why, the waves of the ocean might as well rebel against our granite coast, or the wild bulls of the prairies against man, as either England or the South undertake to stop the march of the nineteen Free States of this continent. [Applause.]
It is not power that we should lose, but it is character. How should we stand when Jeff Davis had turned that corner upon us,--abolished slavery, won European sympathy, and established his Confederacy? Bankrupt in character,--outwitted in statesmanship. Our record would be, as we entered the sisterhood of nations,-- [445] “Longed and struggled and begged to be admitted into the partnership of tyrants, and they were kicked out!” And the South would spring into the same arena, bearing on her brow,--“She flung away what she thought gainful and honest, in order to gain her independence!” A record better than the gold of California or all the brains of the Yankee.
Righteousness is preservation. You who are not Abolitionists do not come to this question as I did,--from an interest in these four millions of black men. I came on this platform from sympathy with the negro. I acknowledge it. You come to this question from an idolatrous regard for the Constitution of 1889. But here we stand. On the other side of the ocean is England, holding out, not I think a threat of war,--I do not fear it,--but holding out to the South the intimation of a willingness, if she will but change her garments, and make herself decent, [laughter,] to take her in charge, and give her assistance and protection. There stands England, the most selfish and treacherous of modern governments. [Loud and long-continued cheers.] On the other side of the Potomac stands a statesmanship, urged by personal and selfish interests, which cannot be matched, and between them they have but one object,--it is in the end to divide the Union.
Hitherto the negro has been a hated question. The Union moved majestic on its path, and shut him out, eclipsing him from the sun of equality and happiness. He has changed his position to-day. He now stands between us and the sun of our safety and prosperity, and you and I are together on the same platform,--the same plank, -our object to save the institutions which our fathers planted. Save them in the service of justice, in the service of peace, in the service of liberty; and in that service demand of the government at Washington that they shall [446] mature and announce a purpose. That flag lowered at Sumter, that flight at Ball Run, will rankle in the heart of the republic for centuries. Nothing will ever medicine that wound but the government announcing to the world that it knows well whence came its trouble, and is determined to effect its cure, and, consecrating the banner to liberty, to plant it on the shores of the Gulf. [Applause.] I say in the service of the negro; but I do. not forget the white man, the eight millions of poor whites, thinking themselves our enemies, but who are really our friends. Their interests are identical with our own. An Alabama slaveholder, sitting with me a year or two ago, said:--
“ In our northern counties they are your friends. A man owns one slave or two slaves, and he eats with them, and sleeps in the same room (they have but one), as much as a hired man here eats with the farmer he serves. There is no difference. They are too poor to send their sons North for education. They have no newspapers, and they know nothing but what they are told by us. If you could get at them, they would be on your side, but we mean you never shall.”
In Paris there are one hundred thousand men whom caricature or epigram can at any time raise to barricade the streets. Whose fault is it that such men exist? The government's; and the government under which such a mass of ignorance exists deserves to be barricaded. The government under which eight millions of people exist, so ignorant that two thousand politicians and a hundred thousand aristocrats can pervert them into rebellion, deserves to be rebelled against. In the service of those men I mean, for one, to try to fulfil the pledge my fathers made when they said, “We will guarantee to every State a republican form of government.” [Applause.] A privileged class, grown strong by the help and forbearance of the North, plots the establishment of aristocratic government in form as well as essence,--conspires to rob the [447] non-slaveholders of their civil rights. This is just the danger our national pledge was meant to meet. Our fathers' honor, national good faith, the cause of free institutions, the peace of the continent, bid us fulfil this pledge,--insist on using the right it gives us to preserve the Union.
I mean to fulfil the pledge that free institutions shall be preserved in the several States, and I demand it of the government. I would have them, therefore, announce to the world what they have never yet done. I do not wonder at the want of sympathy on the part of England with us. The South says, “I am fighting for slavery.” The North says, “I am not fighting against it.” Why should England interfere? The people have nothing on which to hang their sympathy.
I would have government announce to the world that we understand the evil which has troubled our peace for seventy years, thwarting the natural tendency of our institutions, sending ruin along our wharves and through our workshops every ten years, poisoning the national conscience. We know well its character. But Democracy, unlike other governments, is strong enough to let evils work out their own death,--strong enough to face them when they reveal their proportions. It was in this sublime consciousness of strength, not of weakness, that our fathers submitted to the well-known evil of slavery, and tolerated it until the viper we thought we could safely tread on, at the touch of disappointment, starts up a fiend whose stature reaches the sky. But our cheeks do not blanch. Democracy accepts the struggle. After this forbearance of three generations, confident that she has yet power to execute her will, she sends her proclamation down to the Gulf,--Freedom to every man beneath the Stars, and death to every institution that disturbs ow peace or threatens the future of the republic.
1 lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December, 1861.
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Government and Media Health Concerns Rappoport Reports Social Issues & Politics
YouTube cartoon videos programming toddlers for trauma and destruction – by Jon Rappoport
November 13, 2017 Robert Scott Bell
November 13, 2017 NoMoreFakeNews.com
Play very close attention to this one. It’s boggling.
A reader recently sent me a note which alerted me to a form of programming I’d never heard of. The links he sent introduced me to what is a very widespread phenomenon on YouTube. The technology involved is beyond my limited understanding. Some of you will be able to clarify the “situation.”
While Google and YouTube are engaging in censorship of political content, they are allowing a packaging of cartoons for very small children. While Momma works around the house, her toddlers can sit, mesmerized, and watch long-form collections of cartoons.
But in these cartoons, there is disturbing content, to say the least. Ugliness, violence. All presented in a repetitive cheery tone.
Supposedly, some of this content is created by random algorithms. From what I’ve seen so far, I find that hard to believe.
Here is the reader’s note. Read, follow the links, and see what you think:
The article about Google’s “Youtube Kids” program is entitled “Something is wrong on the internet”. (note: Lot’s of good stuff in the article but then the author makes the conclusion that it is “all capitalism’s” fault.)
Example video: (Look at the number of views on this one video alone. They are making money off of the ads that Google inserts into the video. It could also be that not that many humans (children) watched the video. It could also be bots watching the video, too.)
Giant Lollipop Ice Cream Candy Johny Johny Yes Papa Nursery Rhymes Songs for Kids Children Toddlers
Note: the song — “5 finger nursery rhyme” — is in tens of thousands of videos — just the video portion is changed up. Note also that the title of the video is a “keyword salad” — based on someone or some software analyzing real-time search trends on YouTube. The videos are packaged as 30min, 60min — for the mother that needs a break.
Note: the original “5 finger nursery rhyme” nursery rhyme video was supposedly monetarily successful (the creator got a cut of the ad revenue)… so, others came in to knock it off. The Gamification Economy.
Cute Kitten Cat Colorful Learning Color Video For Kids Finger Family Nursery Rhyme Song
—end of reader’s note—
If you’re shocked, send out the links far and wide.
Jon Rappoport
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Chloroplast symbiosis
Here is a list of published work on animals, mainly sacoglossan opisthobranchs, which have evolved symbiotic relationships with chloroplasts they have removed from plant tissue. The papers cover all aspects of the symbiosis, from morphological changes in the animal to physiological chnages in the plastid. Any additional references are welcome.
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• Brandley, B (1984): Aspects of the ecology and physiology of Elysia cf. furvacauda (Mollusca: Sacoglossa). Bull. Mar. Sci. 34(2), 207-219.
• Clark, KB; Busacca, M (1978): Feeding specificity and chloroplast retention in four tropical ascoglossa, with a discussion of the extent of chloroplast symbiosis and the evolution of the order. J. Moll. Stud. 44, 272-282,Figs1-3.
• Clark, KB; Jensen, KR; Stirts, HM; Fermin, C (1981): Chloroplast symbiosis in a non-elysiid mollusc, Costasiella lilianae Marcus (Hermaeidae: Ascoglossa (=Sacoglossa)): Effects of temperature, light intensity, and starvation on carbon fixation rate. Biol. Bull. 160(1), 43-54.
• Clark, K.B., Jensen, K.R. & Stirts, H.M. (1990) Survey for functional kleptoplasty among west Atlantic Ascoglossa (=Sacoglossa) (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). The Veliger, 33: 339-345.
• Clark, K.B. 1992. Plant-like animals and animal-like plants: symbiotic coevolution of ascoglossan (=sacoglossan) molluscs, their algal prey, and algal plastids. pp. 515-530 [In] (W. Reisser, ed.) Algae and symbioses: plants, animals, fungi, viruses, interactions explored. Biopress Ltd., Bristol, U.K.
• Graves, DA; Gibson, MA; Bleakney, JS (1979): The digestive diverticula of Alderia modesta and Elysia chlorotica (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa). The Veliger 21(4), 415-422. (Figs 1-15)
• Green, B.J., Li, W-Y., Manhart, J.R., Fox, T.C., Summer, E.J., Kennedy, R.A., Pierce, S.K. & Rumpho, M.E. (2000) Mollusc-Algal Chloroplast Endosymbiosis. Photosynthesis, Thylakoid Protein Maintenance, and Chloroplast Gene Expression Continue for Many Months in the Absence of the Algal Nucleus. Plant Physiology, 124: 331-342.
• Hanten, J.J. and S.K. Pierce. (2001) Synthesis of several light-harvesting complex I polypeptides is blocked by cycloheximide in symbiotic chloroplasts in the sea slug, Elysia chlorotica (Gould): A case for horizontal gene transfer between alga and animal? Biological Bulletin, 201: 33-44.
• Hinde, R; Smith, DC (1974): `Chloroplast symbiosis' and the extent to which it occurs in Sacoglossa (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 6(4), 349-356.
• Hinde, R; Smith, DC (1975): The role of photosynthesis in the nutrition of the mollusc Elysia viridis. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 7, 161-171.
• Ireland, C; Scheuer, PJ (1979): Photosynthetic marine mollusks: In vivo Carbon 14 incorporation into metabolites of the sacoglossan Placobranchus ocellatus. Science 205(4409), 922-923.
• Jensen, KR (1985): Annotated checklist of Hong Kong Ascoglossa (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia), with descriptions of four new species. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 1983. (Eds: Morton,B; Dudgeon,D) Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 77-107.
• Kawaguti, S; Yamasu, T (1965): Electron microscopy on the symbiosis between an elysioid gastropod and chloroplasts of a green alga. Biol. J. Okayama Univ. 11(3-4), 57-65.
• Marin, A; Ros, JD (1988): The Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) of the South East Iberian peninsula. A Catalogue of species and presence of algal chloroplasts in them. Iberus 8(1), 25-49.
• Marin, A; Ros, JD (1992): Dynamics of a peculiar plant-herbivore relationship: the photosynthetic ascoglossan Elysia timida and the chlorophycean Acetabularia acetabulum. Marine Biology 112, 677-682,Figs1-10.
• Monselise, EB; Rahat, M (1980): Photobiology of Elysia timida (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia): observations in the sea. Isr. J. Zool. 29(1-3), 125-128.
• Mujer CV, Andrews DL, Manhart JR, Pierce SK, Rumpho ME (1996) Chloroplast genes are expressed during intracellular symbiotic association of Vaucheria litorea plastids with the sea slug Elysia chlorotica. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 93(22):12333-8
• Pierce S, Biron R, Rumpho M. (1996) Endosymbiotic chloroplasts in molluscan cells contain proteins synthesized after plastid capture. J Exp Biol, 199(10):2323-30
• Pierce, S. K., Maugel, T. K., Rumpho, M. E., Hanten, J. J., Mondy, W. L. (1999). Annual viral expression in a sea slug population: Life cycle control and symbiotic chloroplast maintenance. Biological Bulletin, 196: 197: 1-6.
• Pierce, S.K., Massey, S.E., Hanten, J.J. &. Curtis, N.E. (2003). Horizontal Transfer of Functional Nuclear Genes Between Multicellular Organisms. Biological Bulletin, 204: 237-240.
• Rahat, M; Ben-Izhak Monselise, E (1979): Photobiology of the chloroplast hosting mollusc Elysia timida (Opisthobranchia). J. Exp. Biol. 79, 225-233.
• Roller, RA; Bianchi, TS (1995): HPLC analysis of chloroplast pigments from the marine ascoglossan Tridachia crispata (Morch, 1863) (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). American Malacological Bulletin 11(2), 139-143.
• Ros, J; Rodriguez, J (1985): La simbiosis algal en Elysia timida Risso 1818. Primeros resultados. Anales de Biologia 4(Biologia Ambiental, 1), 37-47.
• Ros, J (1978): Distribucion en l'espai i en el temps dels opistobranquis Iberics, amb especial referencia als del litoral Catal…. Butllet¡ de la Institucio Catalana d'Historia Natural 42(Sec. Zool., 2), 23-32.
• Rumpho, M.E., Summer, E.J. & Manhart, J.R. (2000)
Solar-Powered Sea Slugs. Mollusc/Algal Chloroplast Symbiosis. Plant Physiology, 123: 29-38.
• Taylor, DL (1967): The occurrence and significance of endosymbiotic chloroplasts in the digestive glands of herbivorous opisthobranchs. Journal of Phycology, 3, 234-235.
• Taylor, DL (1971): Symbiosis between the chloroplasts of Griffithsia flosculosa and Hermaea bifida. Publicaziones della Stazione Zoologia Napoli 39, 116-120.
• Trench, ME; Trench, RK; Muscatine, L (1970): Utilization of photosynthetic products of symbiotic chloroplasts in mucus synthesis by Placobranchus ianthobapsus (Gould), Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 37, 113-117.
• Trench, RK; Smith, DC (1970): Synthesis of pigment in symbiotic chloroplasts. Nature 227, 196-197.
• Trench, RK; Boyle, JE; Smith, DC (1973): The association between chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the mollusc Elysia viridis. I. Characteristics of isolated Codium chloroplasts. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 184, 51-61.
• Trench, RK; Boyle, JE; Smith, DC (1973): The association between chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the mollusc Elysia viridis. II. Chloroplast ultrastructure and photosynthetic carbon fixation in E. viridis. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 184, 63-81.
• Trench, RK; Boyle, JE; Smith, DC (1974): The association between chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the mollusc Elysia viridis. III. Movement of photosynthetically fixed Carbon 14 in tissues of intact living E. viridis and in Tridachia crispata. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 185, 453-464.
• Waugh, GR; Clark, KB (1986): Seasonal and geographic variation in chlorophyll level of Elysia tuca (Ascoglossa: Opisthobranchia). Marine Biology 92, 483-487.
• Weaver, S; Clark, KB (1981): Light intensity and color preferences of five ascoglossan (=sacoglossan) Molluscs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia): a comparision of chloroplast-symbiotic and aposymbiotic species. Marine Behaviour and Physiology, 7, 297-306.
• Williams, S.I. & Walker, D.I. (1999) Mesoherbivore-macroalgal interactions: Feeding ecology of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) and their effects on their food algae. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review, 37: 87-128.
• Yonge, CM; Nicholas, HM (1940): Structure and function of the gut and symbiosis with zooxanthellae in Tridachia crispata (Oerst.) Bgh. Papers from Tortugas Laboratory 32(14 September), 289-301.
Rudman, W.B., 1998 (October 11) Chloroplast symbiosis . [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chloropl
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Re: Chloroplast symbiosis references
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Chloroplast retention in Elysia
From: Marc-André Selosse, August 25, 1999
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Is dangerous cycling a problem?
SafeSpeedv2
Post subject: Is dangerous cycling a problem?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 01:28
Location: Highlands
This article is a little old but most interesting given the recent debates ...
BBC News wrote:
By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine 13.4.11
MPs could introduce a new offence of causing death by dangerous cycling. But how much of a danger do these two-wheeled travellers really pose?
There is little that divides UK public opinion more sharply than cyclists.
To their supporters, Britain's bike-riders are clean, green, commuters-with-a-conscience, who relieve congestion on the nation's roads while keeping themselves fit.
But to certain newspapers, and indeed plenty of motorists, they are "lycra louts", jumping red lights, hurtling past pedestrians on pavements and denying the Highway Code applies to them.
Now this debate - regularly articulated, with the aid of Anglo-Saxon dialect, during rush-hour traffic - has found a forum in the House of Commons, where MP Andrea Leadsom has introduced a private members' bill to create new crimes of causing death or serious injury through dangerous or reckless cycling.
She cites the case of Rhiannon Bennett, who was 17 when she was killed by a speeding cyclist in 2007. The cyclist - who, the court heard, had shouted at Rhiannon to "move because I'm not stopping" - was fined £2,200 and avoided jail.
Pedestrian casualties 2001-09
Killed by cycles: 18
Seriously injured by cycles: 434
Killed by cars: 3,495
Seriously injured by cars: 46,245
Figures apply to Great Britain. Source: Department for Transport
The MP, herself a keen cyclist, insists she does not want to penalise Britons from getting on their bikes. Her intention is to ensure all road users take "equal responsibility" for their actions, as drivers are already subject to analogous legislation. The government has said it will consider supporting the bill.
But the discussion raises the question of how much of a danger bicycles actually pose on the nation's roads.
Cycling campaigners insist the popular perceptions of rampaging cyclists are not supported by statistical evidence. According to the Department for Transport (DfT), in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, no pedestrians were killed in Great Britain by cyclists, but 426 died in collisions with motor vehicles out of a total of 2,222 road fatalities.
Indeed, bike riders insist it is they who are vulnerable. Of the 13,272 collisions between cycles and cars in 2008, 52 cyclists died but no drivers were killed.
Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom urges MPs to back a change to the law
Alex Bailey of the Cyclists Touring Club (CTC), which lobbies on behalf of bike users, says valuable parliamentary time could and should be used more effectively to improve road safety. He says there is no need to change the law as twice in the past decade an 1861 act has been used to jail cyclists who killed pedestrians while riding on the pavement.
The notion of the marauding, aggressive cyclist causing rampage on the road, he insists, has little grounding in fact.
"It has a lot of currency in the media," he says. "But it's emotionally based, not rationally based. The problem is not about cyclists at all."
Certainly, few would argue that the boom in cycling has led to a transformation in the activity's public image.
Once it might have conjured up images like that of George Orwell's old maids "biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings".
Now, at least in built-up areas, one stereotype, rightly or wrongly, is of well-paid men in expensive leisurewear with a sense of entitlement and a refusal to conform to the same rules as everyone else.
Tony Armstrong, chief executive of Living Streets, which represents pedestrians, says that while most cyclists behave safely, it should not be ignored that "a significant minority cause concern and fear among pedestrians by their reckless and irresponsible behaviour".
He acknowledges deaths and serious injuries caused by cyclists are relatively rare, but adds that the impact of more mundane anti-social behaviour is more difficult to quantify.
"Although fatalities are recorded, there is no way of measuring how many people have been intimidated or left feeling vulnerable by irresponsible cycling," he says. "We know from our supporters that this is a major concern."
Great Britain cycle safety statistics
In 2008, pedal bikes made up 1.8% of urban, non-motorway traffic but were involved in just 0.25% of pedestrian deaths and below 1% of serious pedestrian injuries
During the same year, there were 13,272 recorded collisions between cars and bicycles, resulting in the deaths of 52 cyclists and no car drivers or passengers
A study of collisions between cyclists and other vehicles from 2005-07 found police allocated blame to drivers in 60% of cases, to the cyclist in 30% and to both parties in the remainder
Source: Department for Transport
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan's bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith from Keir Mill, Dumfriesshire, is credited by most historians with inventing the pedal bicycle in 1839
In 1842, a newspaper report describes "a gentleman from Dumfries-shire bestride a velocipede of ingenious design" who knocked over a little girl in Glasgow's Gorbals area and was fined five shillings
Many believe the offender must have been Macmillan himself. He died in 1878 without ever having patented his invention
More about Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Indeed, Professor Stephen Glaister, director of motorists' advocacy group the RAC Foundation, suggests much of the hostility on the roads stems from a lack of understanding and suggests levelling out the legislation would reassure drivers that the rules were being applied fairly.
"In some ways, road users are tribal in their nature; loyal to their fellow drivers or cyclists, and dismissive of - or antagonistic towards - those who choose to travel by another method," he says.
"Subjecting everyone who uses the public highway to the same laws might actually forge better relationships between us all and erode the idea held by many that those who travel by an alternative mode routinely make up rules of the road to suit themselves."
But some bike-users reject the idea that anecdote and mutual suspicion should drive policy.
In particular, Guardian columnist and cycling advocate Zoe Williams says she is exasperated by the references to red light-jumping whenever bikes are discussed.
She insists the practice largely stems from fear, not arrogance, due to the high number of cyclists killed each year by heavy goods vehicles turning left at junctions, and says ministers should concentrate on tackling such deaths if they really want to make the roads safer.
She adds: "Can you imagine if every time we talked about cars people complained about drivers doing 80mph on the motorway?
"Most cyclists are actually pretty timid. You're constantly living on your wits because you're vulnerable. Instead of drawing up laws like this we should be encouraging cycling and making it easier."
The discussion will continue at Westminster. But legislating away the antipathy between cyclists and drivers will surely be a momentous challenge for MPs.
Yes in many ways. Some seem unaware that their actions are dangerous and I think this is also part of the ongoing problem.
The need to remind riders, what IS good riding, is now required desperately.
As is pointed out in the article, being safe is down to acting in a way that makes one responsible for one's owns actions.
By acting responsibility one ensures your own safety.
Interestingly the article covers some of the psychological problems that men and women can face when cycling. Overcoming those issues have to provide some of the necessary answers to prevent those problems occurring in the first instance.
Safe Speed for Intelligent Road Safety through proper research, experience & guidance.
botach
Post subject: Re: Is dangerous cycling a problem?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 23:29
Location: Treacletown ( just north of M6 J3),A MILE OR TWO PAST BEDROCK
SafeSpeedv2 wrote:
1) Possibly the need to remind riders that good riding/driving is riding/driving with respect and consideration ( even under bad manners by other road users) to all road users.
2) Being safe, WITH RESPECT, is not down to just being responsible for one's own actions, but taking into consideration the actions of others and looking to educate to change those actions . If EVERY ROAD USER acted to ensure the safety of all, then road safety would be ensured .
Ideals, but then in an ideal world ,we'd all be looking for the safety of all .
lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on
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Information & News by the Editors
Major European XpressLink + Global Xpress Maritime Activation
Network Innovations and Intellian have announced the first major European Government XpressLink conversion and Global Xpress (GX) Maritime service activation.
Network Innovations is a leading Inmarsat VAR with extensive experience in field testing and transmitting on the GX network, and has spent months gaining insight into the organization’s communication requirements, where speed of service combined with global coverage presented a unique challenge existing satellite services could not fulfill. Its earlier leadership conducting successful in-field testing of the GX service on land and at sea for Government, Maritime and Enterprise clients proved to be pivotal as the teams created a customized solution.
Using an existing Intellian GX100 1m Ku-band and converting it to a GX terminal by using the Intellian upgrade kit, Network Innovations and Inmarsat were able to provide the organization with transmission speeds that far exceeded what was achieved on the previous service.
Roy Sielaff, Director, European Government Sales, Inmarsat, said, “This first GX conversion and activation for a major European customer marks another milestone for Network Innovations and Inmarsat as part of the Inmarsat Global Xpress launch.”
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Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2016 Report Released By World Teleport Association
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released their Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2016, a new research report.
This is the sixth report in WTA’s annual Satellite Operator Benchmarks series.
WTA conducted the report with Futuresource. Key findings from the report include:
• Teleport operators perceive the commercial performance of satellite operators improving
• The operational performance of satellite operators continues to strengthen, according to teleport operators
• Commercial flexibility and portability are improving
• Direct competition between teleport and satellite operators is declining and becoming somewhat more fair, as perceived by teleport executives
With the Satellite Operator Benchmarks series, WTA examines the crucial relationship between teleport operators and satellite operators.
WTA seeks to keep that relationship healthy and strong by informing teleport operators about how their peers view the principal satellite operators while at the same time providing objective feedback to those operators from an important customer group.
By objectively tracking, rating and comparing the operational and commercial performance of satellite operators, as experienced by teleport operators, WTA seeks to strengthen the industry by driving self-improvement across all companies.
“When we began the Benchmarks reports six years ago,” said WTA executive director Robert Bell, “we wanted to influence how satellite operators sell, service and partner with their teleport customers for the better. The latest results suggest that the unified voice of the teleport sector has been clearly heard.”
The full report is available at:
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Flat Panel Antenna For Maritime Market Debuts From Harris CapRock + Phasor
Phasor, Inc. has partnered with satellite and remote communications services provider Harris CapRock Communications to develop an electronically-steerable antenna (ESA) terminal.
Phasor’s ESAs are based on patented innovations in dynamic beam-forming technologies and system architecture.
The companies will co-develop a maritime terminal based on Phasor’s ESA technology that will support high throughput (HTS) Ku-band satellite communications to be included as part of Harris CapRock’s managed services offering.
This terminal will be ideal for high mobility and higher bandwidth applications, such as those found in the cruise market. Harris CapRock holds special distribution rights for the terminal in the cruise market.
The cruise-sector communications market is experiencing rapid growth and the ships of today have very unique connectivity requirements.
They combine multiple services such as passenger broadband-access, retail, banking and hospitality and this places big demands on their communications infrastructure.
The ability to offer a very high standard of connectivity to passengers on board is differentiating factor. Therefore, reliable and expandable broadband connectivity on board a vessel is imperative.
Phasor’s very low profile antenna provides high-bandwidth service in a more reliable, robust and failure-tolerant way.
The antenna is solid-state, with no moving parts, so satellite signals are tracked electronically. Its sleek look is ideal for cruise lines, eliminating the need for visually unappealing radomes spread around the vessel.
The terminal can match the performance of a 2.4m antenna dish, making it the ideal solution to meet the demanding communications requirements of cruise lines, while the antenna’s modular architecture allows the system to be scaled to any environment.
Tracey Haslam, President, Harris CapRock, said, “Phasor makes a smart partner for driving our momentum forward by developing and bringing the world’s first flat panel, phased array antenna communications solution for the cruise market.”
David Helfgott, CEO of Phasor, said, “Phasor’s game-changing, electronically steerable antenna (ESA) technology provides greater capability, flexibility and performance than existing systems today. Together we will leverage our strengths to provide a maritime terminal to ensure the delivery of reliable broadband communications to the cruise market.”
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First Launch Scheduled For Russia’s Vostochny Spaceport
Builders have started the final stage of work at the Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region—the site improvement, the press service of Dalspetsstroy (a branch of the Russian Federal Agency for Special Construction) reported in a news story published by the Russian news agency, TASS.
The construction of the Vostochny space launch center in the Amur region began in 2012. The total area of the cosmodrome is 700 square km. It is destined to become the first national facility for civilian space launches, ensuring Russia’s full-scale access to space and reducing the dependence of the Russian space industry on the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
The first liftoff from Vostochny was initially scheduled for late December last year, but was rescheduled for 2016. Now it is tentatively planned for late April. The Mikhailo Lomonosov and Aist-2D satellites, as well as the nanosatellite SamSat-218, will be the first to be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome with the help of Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket to transmit scientific experimental data to the Earth.
Plans are afoot to create a heavy-class space and rocket center for the launches of unmanned space vehicles and as part of a manned flight program. The cosmodrome is expected to be fully commissioned in 2020.
According to previous reports, the first launch from the Vostochny spaceport may occur on April 28-29, but the final date will be determined at a meeting of the state commission on April 4. The new cosmodrome’s launch facility successfully passed comprehensive tests on March 21-25.
SES Deploys Maritime VSATs On Friendship Floating Hospitals
SES S.A. and FRIENDSHIP, a non-governmental organization, along with the technical assistance of Square Informatix (Bangladesh) Ltd., have launched the first state-of-the-art Maritime VSATs on three of the FRIENDSHIP floating hospital ships—Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital, Emirates Friendship Hospital and Rongdhonu Friendship (formerly the Rainbow Warrior II) Hospital.
SATMED, the newly deployed satellite-based e-health platform, will enable FRIENDSHIP to establish communications with national and international doctors from remote areas, to provide medical counseling to marginalized communities through telemedicine and to exchange medical knowledge with local doctors.
SATMED is an IT enabled cloud infrastructure accessible around the globe that facilitates data exchanges between professionals and medical frameworks such as electronic medical records and teleradiology systems.
The platform is an open, flexible and affordable solution that perfectly fits SES’s range of satellite based e-activities. The project is funded by the Luxembourg Government and implemented in cooperation with SES Techcom Services and e-Medical Communication (eMC).
“The SATMED project is a great illustration of a true partnership between governments, the private sector and NGOs. Mutual trust and collaboration can enable innovative steps forward, and lead to deep benefits that impact directly on the beneficiaries,” said Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of FRIENDSHIP in Bangladesh. “SATMED gives us a tool by which we are able to bring in specialized services of e-learning, special doctors, specialized back office resources, decisions of problems and ethical decisions, all this can be centralized and the same message can be given organisation wide.”
“After implementing SATMED platform tools and services, the ship hospitals—via satellite connectivity—will be able to support and facilitate work in the areas of e-care, e-learning, esurveillance, e-health management, and digital imaging,” said Gerhard Bethscheider, Managing Director of SES Techcom Services.
“At the end of the inauguration ceremony, two European doctors consulted with patients from the remote island known as chars through teleconferencing directly from Europe,” said Marc Elvinger, Chairman, FRIENDSHIP Luxembourg. “Without FRIENDSHIP’s innovative healthcare model and the SATMED connectivity, such a facility would have been simply inconceivable to the poor marginalized people of this country.”
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Risk factors of in-hospital mortality among patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute myocardial infarction
Lingjie He1, Jianwei Zhang2, Shutian Zhang1
1 Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, China
2 Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Disease, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
Date of Web Publication 24-May-2018
Background/Aims: Patients with simultaneous upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have higher mortality than patients with either GIB or AMI. We aimed to assess the incidence and risk factors of in-hospital mortality in patients with UGIB and AMI.
Patients and Methods: A total of 243 patients with UGIB and AMI were enrolled during 2012–2017. Clinical and laboratory data were collected and analyzed for clinical characteristics and potential risk factors of in-hospital mortality.
Results: Among the 243 patients, 60 in-hospital deaths were observed (in-hospital mortality rate of 24.7%). Patients who died were older than the survivors (78.7 ± 6.6 vs. 72.6 ± 10.5 years, P < 0.001). Compared with survivors, patients who died showed increased peak white blood cell (WBC) count (9.74 ± 4.72 vs. 7.60 ± 2.91 × 109/L, P= 0.002), serum creatinine levels [134 (106, 190) vs. 97 (79, 125) mmol/L, P= 0.014], peak blood urine nitrogen levels (16.31 ± 8.48 mmol/L vs. 9.86 ± 6.33 mmol/L, P < 0.001), and peak brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) amounts [13,250 (6071, 30,000) vs. 3598 (728, 12,842) pg/mL, P < 0.001]. Meanwhile, patients who died also displayed lower minimum hemoglobin levels (78.3 ± 21.1 vs. 86.3 ± 22.3 g/L, P= 0.018) and minimum platelet counts (184.3 ± 79.1 vs. 214.6 ± 80.1 × 109/L, P= 0.013). In multivariable logistic analysis, age [OR (95% CI) =1.118 (1.053–1.186), P < 0.001], peak WBC count [OR (95% CI) =1.252 (1.113–1.407), P < 0.001], minimum platelet count [OR (95% CI) = 0.994 (0.989–1.000), P= 0.032], and peak BNP levels [OR (95% CI) =3.880 (1.761–8.550), P= 0.001] were independent predictors of in-hospital mortality.
Conclusions: Patients with UGIB and AMI had a high in-hospital mortality, which was independently associated with age, peak WBC count, minimum platelet count, and peak BNP levels.
Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction, in-hospital mortality, risk factors, upper gastrointestinal bleeding
He L, Zhang J, Zhang S. Risk factors of in-hospital mortality among patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute myocardial infarction. Saudi J Gastroenterol 2018;24:177-82
He L, Zhang J, Zhang S. Risk factors of in-hospital mortality among patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute myocardial infarction. Saudi J Gastroenterol [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 22];24:177-82. Available from: http://www.saudijgastro.com/text.asp?2018/24/3/177/229986
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are common but serious medical emergencies that cause synergistic sequelae.[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] Yavorski et al.[6] found a UGIB incidence of 36 per 100,000 people; the overall mortality of UGIB was 7–10%, and increased along with age in both males and females. Wilcox et al.[7] found that the 30-day mortality rates of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) and AMI were 2.5% and 4.4% in hospitalized patients, respectively.
According to AMI guidelines,[8],[9],[10],[11],[12] reperfusion followed by medical therapy (e.g., aspirin, clopidogrel, and statin) is the gold standard for AMI treatment, but while clopidogrel and aspirin in combination may reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, they increase the risk of hemorrhage.[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18] Myocardial infarction and acute GIB (upper and lower GIB, hereafter referred to as UGIB and LGIB, respectively) occurring simultaneously is well documented. In a multicenter, case-controlled study, 36 patients with combined GIB and AMI were assessed.[19] The study showed that patients with simultaneous UGIB and AMI had significantly greater mortality than either GIB or AMI controls. The incidence of AMI with UGIB has steadily increased following the recommendations for aggressive dual antiplatelet therapy.[20] Puymirat et al. demonstrated that hospitalized elderly AMI patients receiving low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) present decreased bleeding and higher survival compared with those using nonfractioned heparin (UFH).[21] In agreement, bleeding during hospitalization was shown to be correlated with a high 5-year mortality in patients with AMI.[22]
Age, a previous history of GIB (upper or lower) and/or anemia, chronic kidney disease, respiratory failure, severe heart failure, and gastrointestinal cancer are demonstrated risk factors for GIB among patients with AMI after PCI.[23] Nevertheless, no guidelines presently define the causes, risk factors, and treatment principles in UGIB with AMI. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the frequency of in-hospital mortality in patients with UGIB and AMI, and determine the potential risk factors for this condition.
This was a retrospective analysis of hospitalized patients with UGIB and AMI during the January 2012 to January 2017 period at the emergency department of a local Chinese hospital. The inclusion criterion was confirmed admission diagnosis of non-ST segment elevation AMI [24] with subsequent UGIB,[5],[25] treated with conservative treatments only and without percutaneous coronary intervention. Patients with a positive fecal occult blood test but no visible melena or without any other clinical evidence of UGIB were excluded. The patients did not undergo gastroscopy after UGIB, but they discontinued antiplatelet therapy and were given proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). This study was approved by the ethics committee of our institution.
Clinical history, medication, and laboratory data were collected. Laboratory data were recorded at admission and after 12, 24, and 48 h, and included peak values of white blood cell (WBC) count, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), glucose, serum creatinine (SCr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), creatine kinase (CK), and creatine kinase muscle B (CK-MB), and minimum values of red blood cell (RBC) count, hemoglobin, and platelets for all patients.[19]
Study endpoint
The main study endpoint was in-hospital mortality from all causes, including cardiac death, sudden death, stroke, and multiple organ failure. The various risk factors for mortality were assessed as well.
Categorical data were presented as frequencies (percentages) and compared using the Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test, as appropriate. Normally distributed continuous data were presented as mean ± standard deviation, and non-normally distributed parameters as median and interquartile range (IQR). The unpaired t-test and Mann–Whitney U-test were used for assessing normally and non-normally distributed parameters, respectively. Variables significantly associated with mortality in univariate analysis were entered into a multivariate logistical regression model to identify risk factors of in-hospital mortality. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 statistical software (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA), and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Based on both inclusion and exclusion criteria, 243 UGIB patients with AMI were included in the current study. Among them, 60 died (in-hospital mortality rate of 24.7%). As shown in [Table 1], the Patients who died were older than the survivors (78.7 ± 6.6 vs. 72.6 ± 10.5 years, P < 0.001). Compared with survivors, the Patients who died showed increased peak white blood cell (WBC) count (9.74 ± 4.72 vs. 7.60 ± 2.91 × 109/L, P= 0.002), serum creatinine levels [134 (106, 190) vs. 97 (79, 125) mmol/L, P= 0.014], peak blood urine nitrogen levels (16.31 ± 8.48 mmol/L vs. 9.86 ± 6.33 mmol/L, P < 0.001), and peak brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) amounts [13,250 (6071, 30,000) vs. 3598 (728, 12,842) pg/mL, P < 0.001]. Meanwhile, Patients who died also displayed lower minimum hemoglobin levels (78.3 ± 21.1 vs. 86.3 ± 22.3 g/L, P= 0.018) and minimum platelet counts (184.3 ± 79.1 vs. 214.6 ± 80.1 × 109/L, P= 0.013). The remaining parameters, including sex, red blood cell levels, transaminase levels, blood glucose amounts, history of medication, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, and blood transfusion treatment had similar values in both groups.
Table 1: Patient demographic and clinical characteristics
Risk factors of in-hospital mortality in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute myocardial infarction
Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent risk factors for in-hospital mortality. The variables showing statistically significant differences between the death and survivor groups were selected for analysis [Table 2]. The included variables were age, peak WBC, minimum hemoglobin, minimum platelet, peak Cr, peak BUN, and peak BNP (BNP levels were log-transformed before data analysis). Interestingly, age [OR (95% CI) =1.118 (1.053–1.186), P < 0.001], peak WBC count [OR (95% CI) =1.252 (1.113–1.407), P < 0.001], minimum platelet count [OR (95% CI) = 0.994 (0.989–1.000), P= 0.032], and peak BNP levels [OR (95% CI) =3.880 (1.761–8.550), P= 0.001] were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality.
Table 2: Logistic regression analysis of risk factors for mortality
This study strongly suggests that UGIB with AMI leads to high in-hospital mortality, with age, peak WBC count, minimum platelet count, and peak BNP amounts representing significant risk factors of mortality. These findings provide a basis for improving the clinical management of such patients.
In this retrospective study, the mortality of patients with UGIB and AMI was 24.7%. The ACUITY (Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage Strategy) trial demonstrated that GIB is strongly associated with 30-day all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR]: 4.87 [IQR 2.61 to 9.08], P < 0.0001), cardiac mortality (HR: 5.35 [IQR 2.71 to 10.59], P < 0.0001), and composite ischemia (HR: 1.94 [IQR 1.14 to 3.30], P= 0.014).[26] Shalev et al. demonstrated that UGIB in patients with ACS is associated with markedly increased overall mortality, with a 30-day mortality rate of 33%. Moreover, previous peptic disease and use of combined anti-platelet therapy, especially in conjunction with heparin, are strong risk factors for mortality.[2] In UGIB and MI, bleeding represents the main symptom, and hypotension, tachycardia, and hematemesis are commonly found; independent of other epidemiological parameters, the mortality rate of combined GIB and MI is higher than that of each individual condition.[19] Lee et al. showed that mortality of patients with AMI and nonvariceal UGIB was only 8.7%, much lower than in the present study,[27] but no gastroscopy was performed in the present study and we could not distinguish patients with nonvariceal UGIB from those with variceal UGIB.
As shown above, age, peak WBC count, minimum platelet count, and peak BNP were independent risk factors for in-hospital mortality in patients with UGIB and AMI. To our knowledge, this is the first study revealing the associations of peak WBC count, minimum platelet count, and peak BNP with in-hospital mortality in UGIB with AMI. Previous studies showed that MI occurs frequently in patients with GI hemorrhage and admitted to an ICU. Age above 65 years and two or more risk factors for coronary artery disease have been shown to identify the patients at greatest risk of MI.[28] Al-Mallah et al. showed that 3% (80/3045) of patients with ACS develop clinically significant GIB. In the latter study, the risk factors of GIB were found to be older age, female gender, smoking status, peak troponin I amounts, and a history of heart failure, diabetes, and/or hypertension; in-hospital mortality was significantly higher in ACS patients with GIB versus those without (36% vs. 5%, P < 0.001).[29] Wu et al. also found that women and patients below 65 show fewer comorbidities compared with older individuals or men.[30]
Several studies have indicated that proton pump inhibitors significantly reduce major bleeding incidence in patients treated with dual antiplatelet therapy, especially among those with additional risk factor(s) for bleeding.[17],[31],[32] Nevertheless, Gaspar et al. and Kim et al. found that PPI in addition to aspirin and clopidogrel after ACS is not associated with a better prognosis.[33],[34] In agreement, we found that the mortality rate in patients treated with aspirin, clopidogrel, and PPIs after ACS was not significantly different from that of patients without PPIs. Interestingly, a large Chinese trial demonstrated that AMI risk in patients with coronary artery disease increases by two-fold after UGIB.[30]
As shown above, multiple factors were associated with high mortality in patients with UGIB and AMI. It should be noted that UGIB and AMI are both clinical conditions and each has high mortality. In addition, treatment methods for UGIB and AMI are partially contradictory. Previous studies demonstrated that endoscopy is relatively safe for the diagnosis and management of UGIB in patients with AMI.[35],[36] Yachimski et al. also supported endoscopy prior to cardiac catheterization in patients with AMI and overt UGIB; this strategy resulted in fewer deaths and reduced complications.[37] Lin et al. concluded that, in patients with concomitant UGIB and AMI, urgent endoscopy is most beneficial in patients with UGIB as the initial event, as well as in those presenting with hematemesis and hemodynamic instability.[38] Nevertheless, to avoid medical tangles, doctors often choose a relatively conservative therapy. Finally, there are no definitive guidelines for the management of patients with such unique scenarios and most practitioners rely on empiric treatment.
A few limitations should be mentioned for this study. First, this was a retrospective analysis, with inherent shortcomings. Some risk factors of UGIB and AMI mortality could not be assessed; indeed, albumin [39],[40] and alcohol [41],[42] could not be analyzed in the present study. Moreover, the treatment and disease severity was not consistent in the study population, but the treatment principles were consistent. In addition, relatively few patients with AMI and UGIB were included, and very small amounts of data were available on endoscopy efficacy. Finally, these patients were usually treated with conservative therapy, so there were few coronary angiography and coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) data in the record. Bedside echocardiography generally could not be used as the clinical evaluation basis due to many factors such as availability and economical reasons. Hence, the heart conditions could only be estimated based on the levels of blood myocardial enzymes and BNP. Therefore, the present findings should be interpreted with caution.
The in-hospital mortality rate of patients with UGIB and AMI was very high. Age, peak WBC count, minimum platelet count, and peak BNP levels were shown to be independent risk factors of in-hospital mortality.
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Gardner-Edgerton's Jaylon Radel was able to catch
the above pass, after it was tipped by several Olathe
North defenders, and take it in for a late touchdown.
Photo KC Star.
Gardner-Edgerton 29, Olathe North 26
Olathe North established themselves on the opening drive of the game, capping it off with a 14-yard touchdown run from Venus Triplett to go up 7-0. A few drives later quarterback Cole Murphy scored on a seven-yard touchdown run to push the lead to 13-0. Gardner-Edgerton got on the board just before halftime on a 34-yard touchdown pass from Jared Hobby to Josh Lang to make things 13-7 at halftime. In the third quarter Olathe North scored first, once again, on an 18-yard touchdown run from Triplett to go up 19-7.
But Gardner-Edgerton wouldn't go away. The Trailblazers scored on a 58-yard touchdown pass from Hobby to Deontre Kendrick to make the game 19-14. Olathe North's Jesse Kendricks picked off a Hobby passed and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown to give Olathe North a comfortable 26-14 lead in the fourth quarter, but it wouldn't last. Traevohn Wrench took a screen pass 58 yards for a touchdown to cut into the lead, making the game 26-21. Late in the fourth quarter, with Gardner-Edgerton searching for anything, Hobby dropped back and found Jaylon Radel on 75-yard touchdown pass (which was tipped into his hands), which was just enough to come away with the victory.
SM East 27, SM West 0
The Lancers pushed their record to 7-1, claiming the Nut Cup and putting together perhaps their best all-around effort of the season. They opened the scoring with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Christian Blessen to Alec Dean in the first quarter to go up 6-0. A long drive capped by a two-yard touchdown run from Luke Taylor made things 13-0 at intermission. Taylor would add a seven-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, and Blessen notched a one-yard touchdown run to give SM East a 27-point shutout victory.
Lawrence Free State 25, Leavenworth 23
For awhile it looked like Leavenworth would punch their playoff ticket and score a major upset, but they couldn't hold a late lead as Free State went on to claim the victory and their second Sunflower League title in school history. Jason Randall opened the scoring when he broke loose a 67-yard touchdown run in the first quater. Free State matched the touchdown on their next possession, on a 14-yard run from Stan Skwarlo, then added a two point conversion to go up 8-7. Joe Dineen added a four-yard touchdown run at the end of the first quarter to go up 15-7. Free State added to their lead with a 37-yard field goal from Alex Trent to make the lead 18-7. Leavenworth responded with a 25-yard field goal from Jake Boyce to pull make things 18-10. The Pioneers would add another second quarter score, on a 31-yard pass from Landry Hodges to Isaiah Ross to make the game 18-16 at halftime. Randall opened scoring with an 83-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to give Leavenworth a 23-18 lead. Without Dineen in the game (he left in the second quarter after taking a shot to the ribs), Free State struggled to get much going, but they did manage a 30-yard touchdown pass from Bryce Torneden to Zach Bickling to get the lead back, which they were able to carry to the victory.
Blue Valley Northwest 31, Olathe East 21
After a 52-yard touchdown pass from Connor Leach to Branden Trinkle early in the first quarter, it looked like Olathe East might cruise to another victory, but they weren't able to keep the momentum going. BV Northwest answered with a 76-yard touchdown run from Miles Alexander, a one-yard run from Jake Rominger and then added a field goal to go up 17-7 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Huskies scored a third touchdown on an 80-yard pass from Rominger to Jaqwan Stone to make things 24-7. Leach capped a drive with a one-yard touchdown run to make things 24-14, but a 58-yard touchdown pass from Rominger to Stone made the game 31-14. Olathe East added a late touchdown on a 17-yard touchdown pass from Leach to Erae Johnson.
Olathe South 28, Olathe Northwest 7
Olathe South managed to stay in playoff contention, while Olathe Northwest was eliminated from making the playoffs with the loss. Jake Seurer opened the scoring with a 63-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to give the Falcons a 7-0 edge. In the second quarter Brian Carpenter added a three-yard touchdown run for Olathe South to make things 13-0. A one-yard touchdown run from Cole Dahlquist before halftime kept Olathe Northwest competitive, as they headed to the half trailing 13-7. Olathe South added the first score of the second half on a six-yard touchdown run from Kyhiem Matthews to go up 21-7. Dresden Wilbur found the endzone on a 21-yard pass from Seurer in the fourth quarter to give the Falcons the 21-point margin of victory.
Lawrence 81, Wyandotte 42
Lawrence's 81 points are believed the have been the most points ever scored in a single game by a Sunflower League team. That's saying something. Without going into too much detail, I'll simply list out Lawrence's scoring, to sort of paint the picture for how things went. First quarter: Kieren Severa, TD; JD Woods, TD; Woods, TD. Second quarter: Drew Green, TD; Severa, TD. Third quarter: Woods, TD; Alan Clothier, TD; Clothier, TD; J'Moni Bryant, TD. Fourth quarter: Nyle Anderson, TD; Woods, TD. All told, Lawrence kept their playoff hopes alive, and can make it to the postseason if they beat Free State by six points or more next week. This game had a combined 1,183 yards of total offense and 17 touchdowns.
SM South 41, Blue Valley North 13
SM South opened with four straight touchdowns, determined to stay in contention for the playoffs (which they did). Ra'Keim Abdul scored on a one-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, before Marshall Bland scored from four yards out. Next, Abdul added a 47-yard touchdown run and then Abdul found Nick Oliver on a 10-yard touchdown pass to put the Raiders up 27-0. BV North added a second quarter touchdown to make things 27-7 at halftime. In the third quarter Bland scored on a run of six yards, and Jawann Stennis scored on an 11-yard run in the fourth quarter. BV North was eliminated from playoff contention with the loss.
SM Northwest 56, SM North 28
SM Northwest made sure they didn't leave anything on the table against their rivals. The Cougars scored five first half touchdowns to SM North's one, setting the tone for the game. The SM Northwest touchdowns came on a 61-yard run from Jake Horner, a 29-yard run from LaPhonso McKinnis, a 42-yard run from Duron Lowe, a 62-yard pass from Horner to Lowe, and a 44-yard punt return by Horner. SM North's lone score came in the second quarter on a one-yard touchdown run from Jesse Patterson. Hoskins opened up scoring in the third quarter with a four-yard touchdown run, before Justin Moody found the endzone from 21 yards out, giving the Cougars a 49-7 lead. SM North scored three straight touchdowns after that -- on a 49-yard pass from Will Schneider to Nick Perez, a three-yard run from Patterson and a 13-yard pass from Perez to Patterson -- while SM Northwest added one more score on a three-yard run from Clay Droullard. With the loss, SM North was eliminated from playoff contention.
Posted by Eli Underwood at 11:42 PM
The Nut Cup is between SMN and SME,not SMW and SME Shake my head man
Viking Fan said...
Uh oh, somebody better tell SMW and SME that one Mr. Fischer. That dang brown cup with both SME and SMW painted on the shield might be an illusion.
Not sure how long it's been around but it's been a while. The tides have changed recently but it might have been forgotten about for a few years due to East never winning it.
Before you try to spout off at Eli maybe step back and learn. I guess I should now "Shake my head man"
Now it is a little strange that there are multiple "nut cup" games
Sunflower football news said...
Jared -
There are two (2) Nut-Cup games, and historically only between the three SMSD schools: E, N & W.
The original started between the Indians and Lancers during the '58 season when SME opened and a handful of transfers build a small Cup in the woods room. The schools Administration at the time believed this was a good thing to share competitively as a Trophy to share between the schools. The Lancers defeated the Indians 14-13 at the original SMN (Larry Taylor Field) in week 7 in their first of many meetings.
When SMW was opened in the Fall of '62, a second "Nut-Cup" game was established as well, with no significant ties to the SMN game on the schedule. These matches were both coached by Lancers Arch Unruh at the time, and also Ross Correll (1st HC in West History.) Bryan Speery (of SMN) was the first Indians Coach to face the Lancers when the schools split and the District itself began to get larger.
In recent time, yes the Lancers have crawled out of the Sunflower League cellar. That could not have been done during the horrific late 70s 80s & 90s teams SME put on the field, and the former Head Coaches. Had it not been for Chip Sherman and Dustin Delaney, the Lancers of old would still be fielding the usual 2-7, and 3-6 records of years past.
Hope that everyone has enjoyed this SFL History lesson!
I hope this clears up any and all misunderstandings.
SM-East 2000
SFL & EKL Historian
So yeah exactly,Nut cup is SMN VS. SME :)
Child please said...
So Kevin,
What is the history behind the Hula Bowl (N/NW)?
Are there other trophies like this in the SFL? Sounds kinda like the Big 10.
SMEaster1214 said...
Jared, you're just making yourself look foolish...again, there is a "Nut cup" game between SME & SMW. Eli was not wrong so just apologize and move on. No need to be belligerent...
Hula Bowl - Indians vs. Cougars circa 1969
Began in the early SMN-Larry Taylor era, and start the NW program led by Ken Johns for the first 8 seasons of the schools program. It was a rather rocky era for Ken Johns vs. the legendary Larry Taylor 4-time State Champion SMN Indians.
Larry Taylor of SMN owns the most W's against the Cougars going 10-0 (winning 10 straight gc) before retiring in 1978. Former Cougars HC Tony Severino managed a winning 4-2 record from 1977-82.
That said, with a rather early dip back in to the years since NW opened its doors, the roles have been reversed drastically since the exit of Sam Brown in 2004 (9 seasons ago.) The Cougars have dominated since the 2003 season winning 10 straight games. This streak also includes the week-1 W against the Indians in the opening of the new-Larry Taylor Field in '06.
After 41 games played, the Cougars lead the series 21-20 over the Indians. North's last win was a 28-8 W coached by Sam Brown. Following that W, Brown closed out with a 0-2 record, Ryan Majors 0-4, and Dennis Grayless 0-3 and now Don Simmons 0-1.
Child please,
As for other internal game-trophies or "Cups" played for within the league, much is unknown. There are many rivalries which we are all aware of via city of Olathe with N & S, as well as Lawrence & Free State which also started in Fall of 1997.
Enjoy the read on this rainy day and another day close to game day!
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Samsung Electronics announced the one millionth TV application downloaded globally from Samsung Apps, a HDTV-based application store, while the company’s 200th TV application is also now live via the platform. With this service for Samsung TV owners, users can purchase and download applications from a range of content directly from their TV. Samsung has reached these milestones in less than a year after the initial launch of Samsung HDTV Apps.
Some of the most frequently downloaded applications include Hulu Plus, ESPN Next Level and Texas Holdem, covering sports, movies and gaming respectively.
“The evolution of television in recent years has been astounding as consumers seek technology that enhances their viewing experience, and their lives,” said Mr. Boo-keun Yoon, president of Samsung’s Visual Display Business.
In the first half of 2010, Samsung took over 66% of the US connected TV market, according to research firm the NPD Group. Samsung presents Samsung Apps on more than 50% of its 2010 TV line-up and is currently the market leader in global LED TV, LCD TV and plasma TV sales.
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Jay DeMerit
Full name Jay Michael DeMerit
Date of birth December 4, 1979 (1979-12-04) (age 30)
Place of birth Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position Centre Back
Current club Watford
Youth career
1998–2001 UIC Flames
2004– Chicago Fire Premier
2007– United States 0016 (0)
correct as of 23 November 2008.
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Jay Michael DeMerit (born December 4, 1979, in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American soccer player. He is a centre back and currently plays for and captains Watford in the English Football League Championship.
1.1 Early Career
1.2 Watford
1.3 International career
1.4 Honors
1.6 External links
DeMerit was a three-sport high school athlete in Wisconsin, where he participated in basketball and track in addition to soccer. He attended Bay Port High School and graduated in 1998.
DeMerit played college soccer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he moved from playing forward to defender. While in college, DeMerit formed part of a defensive backline that helped lead the team into the NCAA playoffs in 2000. Although he played with Chicago Fire Premier, the development team of the Chicago Fire in the USL Premier Development League, he was not drafted or signed by any Major League Soccer clubs following graduation from college. Taking the advice of a former European teammate, he decided to take advantage of his European Union work status (due to his Danish grandfather) and moved to England in 2003 with only $1,800, in an attempt to find a club to play for. He started off playing in the ninth tier of English football for Southall Town F.C., earning only £40 a week.
In July 2004, DeMerit joined Northwood, a seventh-tier side, to play in some of their pre-season matches. Northwood played Championship side Watford, then a League Championship side in their second pre-season match. During the course of the match, DeMerit impressed then Watford manager Ray Lewington enough to earn a two-week trial. Following the trial, DeMerit signed a one year contract with Watford to play in their 2004–05 season and has been a regular in the Watford lineup ever since.
During the 2005–06 season, Watford was expected by many to fight relegation from the Championship to League One as they had in DeMerit's first season with the club. However, under new coach Aidy Boothroyd, Watford maintained strong form throughout the season and finished third in the Championship table, earning the right to enter the playoffs for the last of three annual promotion spots to the Premier League. On May 21, 2006, in the play-off final against Leeds United, DeMerit headed in the game's first goal and was named Man of the Match as Watford gained promotion to the Premier League by defeating Leeds United 3-0. Soon afterwards, he joined the ranks of athlete-musicians by releasing a single entitled "Soccer Rocks," available in the club shop.
DeMerit's hard work in the 2005–06 Championship season and his efforts in helping get the club promoted was rewarded with a contract extension taking him through the end of the 2008–09 season as a Watford player.
DeMerit was named as one of three candidates for Watford's 2006–07 Player of the Season award, which was ultimately won by goalkeeper Ben Foster.
Until the 2007–08 season, DeMerit often filled the role of Watford's vice-captain, behind then-captain Gavin Mahon. He captained Watford for the first time on December 9, 2006, in the home game against Reading, and re-donned the armband on January 6, 2007, for the 4–1 win over Stockport County in the FA Cup third round. On December 15, 2007, it was announced that DeMerit had been named captain, replacing Mahon, whose contract was not being renewed.[1] However, this later proved to be a temporary move, with the captaincy rotating between himself, Danny Shittu, and Richard Lee, before finally being passed to John Eustace, a newly signed central midfielder. In later interviews, DeMerit admitted that this placed strain on his relationship with manager Adrian Boothroyd.
Early in the 2009-10 season, DeMerit suffered a scratch on his eyeball while removing a contact lens. DeMerit's eye became infected, severely obscuring his vision and requiring surgery. He returned to action on December 7, 2009, playing the second half of Watford's 3-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers.
DeMerit earned his first cap for the United States national team on March 28, 2007, starting in a friendly against Guatemala.[2] He was a member of the USA squad for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. During the 2009 Confederations Cup, DeMerit started at center back due to Carlos Bocanegra's hamstring injury. He played the entire game when the USA defeated Spain in the Confederations Cup semi-final 2-0 on June 24, 2009; the Barcelona sports daily El Mundo Deportivo called DeMerit's play "superb." DeMerit also played the entire match when the USA lost 3-2 to Brazil in the Cup final on June 28, 2009.
CONCACAF Gold Cup Champions (1): 2007
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^ http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6587074
Jay DeMerit profile at watfordfc.co.uk
Jay DeMerit career stats at Soccerbase
Jay DeMerit articles on Yanks Abroad
USA Today article on DeMerit prior to Watford's promotion match against Leeds United
DeMerit Making His Name in the Premiership
A Guy From Green Bay Plays the Other Football from The New York Times, 28 June 2009.
United States Squad
United States squad – 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup Champions (4th Title)
1 Howard • 2 Hejduk • 3 Bocanegra • 4 Mastroeni • 5 Feilhaber • 6 M. Bradley • 7 Beasley • 8 Dempsey • 9 Johnson • 10 Donovan • 11 Ching • 12 DeMerit • 13 Bornstein • 14 Ralston • 15 Simek • 16 Parkhurst • 17 Spector • 18 Keller • 19 Clark • 20 Twellman • 21 Mapp • 22 Onyewu • 23 Guzan • Coach: B. Bradley
United States squad – 2007 Copa América
1 Howard • 2 Wynne • 3 DeMerit • 4 Boswell • 5 Feilhaber • 6 Pearce • 7 Califf • 8 Gomez • 9 Johnson • 10 Davies • 11 Gaven • 12 Conrad • 13 Bornstein • 14 Olsen • 15 Moor • 16 Kljestan • 17 Beckerman • 18 Keller • 19 Clark • 20 Twellman • 21 Mapp • 23 Guzan • 25 Nguyen • Coach: Bradley
United States squad – 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Runners-Up
1 Howard • 2 Bornstein • 3 Bocanegra • 4 Casey • 5 Onyewu • 6 Pearce • 7 Beasley • 8 Dempsey • 9 Davies • 10 Donovan • 11 Wynne • 12 M. Bradley • 13 Clark • 14 Califf • 15 DeMerit • 16 Kljestan • 17 Altidore • 18 Guzan • 19 Adu • 20 Torres • 21 Spector • 22 Feilhaber • 23 Robles • Coach: B. Bradley
Watford F.C. – current squad
1 Loach · 2 Mariappa · 3 Travner · 4 Severin · 5 Lansbury · 6 DeMerit · 7 Cowie · 8 McGinn · 10 Graham · 11 Helguson · 12 Doyley · 13 North · 14 Jenkins · 15 Harley · 16 Lee · 17 Bennett · 18 Hoskins · 19 Henderson · 20 Cleverley · 21 Young · 23 Parkes · 27 Sadler · 28 Eustace · 29 Bryan · 30 Kiernan · 31 Sordell · 33 Hodson · 34 Oshodi · 36 Brooks · 37 Bond · Manager: Mackay
NAME DeMerit, Jay
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Bay, Wisconsin
Categories: 1979 births | Living people | United States men's international soccer players | Expatriate footballers in England | American expatriate soccer players | People from Green Bay, Wisconsin | Chicago Fire Premier players | Northwood F.C. players | Premier League players | Watford F.C. players | Soccer players from Wisconsin | Danish Americans | CONCACAF Gold Cup-winning players | 2007 Copa América players | 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup players | Chicago Sockers players
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Jay Michael DeMerit
December 4, 1979 (1979-12-04) (age 31)
Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
UIC Flames
Team Apps† (Gls)†
Chicago Fire Premier
Northwood 0 (0)
Watford 182 (8)
National team‡
United States 23 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:36, 7 June 2010 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 June 2010
Jay Michael DeMerit (born December 4, 1979) is an American soccer player who is currently a free agent, having previously played for and captained Watford. He also plays for the United States.
2 International career
DeMerit played college soccer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he moved from playing forward to defender. While in college, DeMerit formed part of a defensive backline that helped lead the team into the NCAA playoffs in 2000. Although he played with Chicago Fire Premier, the development team of the Chicago Fire in the USL Premier Development League, he was not drafted or signed by any Major League Soccer clubs following graduation from college. After spending some time working as a barman, Demerit took the advice of a former European teammate and decided to take advantage of his European Union work status (due to his Danish grandfather) by moving to England in 2003 with only $1,800, in an attempt to find a club to play for. He started off playing in the ninth tier of English football for Southall, earning only £40 a week.
In July 2004, DeMerit joined Northwood, a seventh-tier side, to play in some of their pre-season matches. Northwood played Watford, then a Football League Championship team, in their second pre-season match. During the course of the match, DeMerit impressed then Watford manager Ray Lewington enough to earn a two-week trial. Following the trial, DeMerit signed a one year contract with Watford to play in their 2004–05 season and has been a regular in the Watford lineup until 2010, when he was released from his contract.
During the 2005–06 season, Watford was expected by many to fight relegation from the Championship to League One as they had in DeMerit's first season with the club. However, under new coach Aidy Boothroyd, Watford maintained strong form throughout the season and finished third in the Championship table, earning the right to enter the playoffs for the last of three annual promotion spots to the Premier League. On May 21, 2006, in the play-off final against Leeds United, DeMerit headed in the game's first goal and was named Man of the Match as Watford gained promotion to the Premier League by defeating Leeds United 3-0. Soon afterwards, he joined the ranks of athlete-musicians by releasing a single entitled "Soccer Rocks", available in the club shop.
Early in the 2009-10 season, DeMerit suffered a scratch on his eyeball while removing a contact lens. DeMerit's eye became infected, severely obscuring his vision and requiring a corneal transplant in October.[2] He returned to action on December 7, 2009, playing the second half of Watford's 3-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers. DeMerit's contract at Watford expired in June 2010, and was not renewed.[3]
DeMerit earned his first cap for the United States national team on March 28, 2007, starting in a friendly against Guatemala.[4] He was a member of the USA squad for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
During the 2009 Confederations Cup, DeMerit started at center back due to Carlos Bocanegra's hamstring injury. He played the entire game when the USA defeated Spain in the Confederations Cup semi-final 2-0 on June 24, 2009; the Barcelona sports daily El Mundo Deportivo called DeMerit's play "superb".[citation needed] DeMerit also played the entire match when the USA lost 3-2 to Brazil in the Cup final on June 28, 2009.
For the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, he made Bob Bradley's 23-man squad, and started all four of the United States matches - the three first-round games, against England [5], Slovenia, and Algeria, and the second round match against Ghana, in which the USA were eliminated. During the Algeria match he played most of the game with a split tongue that required five stitches after the game.[6]
Football League Championship play-offs (1) : 2005-06
CONCACAF Gold Cup (1): 2007
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^ World Cup 2010: Jay DeMerit warns US over Wayne Rooney
^ http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=249722/match=300061466/index.html
^ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2010/06/usa_world_cup_rewind_1.html
Jay DeMerit feature from 2006 on SI.com
Profile and Stats at Footbalistic
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United States squad – 2010 FIFA World Cup
1 Howard • 2 Spector • 3 Bocanegra • 4 M. Bradley • 5 Onyewu • 6 Cherundolo • 7 Beasley • 8 Dempsey • 9 Gomez • 10 Donovan • 11 Holden • 12 Bornstein • 13 Clark • 14 Buddle • 15 DeMerit • 16 Torres • 17 Altidore • 18 Guzan • 19 Edu • 20 Findley • 21 Goodson • 22 Feilhaber • 23 Hahnemann • Coach: B. Bradley
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Jay DeMerit articles on Yanks Abroad - .:: Yanks Abroad - European Soccer, Made in America ::.
London Calling - SI.com - Magazine - Soccer: London Calling - Tuesday October 10, 2006 11:13AM
DeMerit Making His Name in the Premiership - Dyer: DeMerit making his name in EPL - Americans Abroad - ESPN Soccernet
Watford | News | News | Latest Headlines | HUGE SHOES TO FILL
Season-by-season statistics from jaydemerit.tripod.com - Jay's Stats
Fan Site - The Official Jay DeMerit Fan Club
Jay DeMerit scores for Watford in the final promotion playoff match against Leeds United - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
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City of Bakar Tourist Board
The town of Bakar
History through the ages
The Francopan Castle
The Castle of Hreljin
Bakar’s drystone walls
Crypt and Catacombs
The Turkish House
The Roman House
The Risnjak National Park
Beach Melnić
Small museum “Rati”
Naturally sparkling wine
Bakar’s Baškot
The Town’s Guard Bakar
The walking paths
Educational Trail Ponikve
Karst phenomen
History on elevations
Notes from the past
A Walk through History
Bakar Encounters
Margaret's fair
Bells and music for Bakar
Chrismas in Bakar
The Margaret’s Summer
Mountain Lodge Risnjak
WHAT DID THE BEST EXPLORER OF THE CROATIAN COAST WRITE ABOUT PONIKVE?
Would you like to know how Ponikve experienced a man who completed 679 scientific trips all over Croatia from 1878-1912, a man who visited almost every forest in Croatia and several plants and animal species were named after him?
Dragutin Hirc (Hirtz) (Zagreb, 6 April,1985 - Zagreb, 1May,1921) was a versatile Croatian naturalist, botanist and zoologist, a teacher, a mountaineer and a travel writer who through his natural science researches left an important mark in Croatia. With his book ″Croatian Coast″ left a deep footprint in this area.
He worked in many Croatian cities as a teacher and in 1877 he came to Bakar. He frequently visited the nearby Ponikve or, as he usually called it, the area round Kukuljanovo Lake exploring their particularities. It is interesting to note that at the time he served in Bakar, he sent more than 10,000 pieces of dried herbs to his correspondents-botanists. He picked them up himself and in this way he introduced his correspondents with flora from Bakar area, including Ponikve.
This is what he wrote about Ponikve!
"It's nice to look at the lake in spring or autumn from some peaks of nearby hills! All around stone peaks, green forests, nice meadows, and deep beneath you –green water where the clouds float as in a mirror and the moon with the stars swim at night. It is pleasantly human. All this is exemplified with the sound of water from deep down, sometimes with strong and sometimes with silent rumour reveals itself, than again is quiet as if it is not flowing. "
"And in the late autumn is nice to come here, too, when instead of watery-vaguely lake covers Ponikve. It is said that a sinkhole is every morning all the year round covered in fog. "
"The whole sinkhole is now turned into a beautiful lake, so beautiful that no such lake can be seen anywhere in our country. The water rises 6-8m, once it flooded the village itself. It happened on St.Andrew's day, 65 years ago. It was rising so fast until Christmas that inhabitants had to come out of their houses to tie barrels with ropes. "
"But where the water flowing into the lake of Kukuljanovo comes from? It comes out partially near the sea in Bakar, under the houses situated at the foot of the hill where the town was built. It goes out through cavities and fills up the "Jaz" (water collection point). It is so strong that it turns five mill wheels in Bakar. In September 1878 when it started raining and continued to rain until May, the water was exceptionally high, and Mali Lug was already flooded in June. In Jaz the water was so high that it started overflowing although regularly comes out through two channels.“
"Such are hydrographic relations in Primorje, where there is sometimes no water all the year round, not even to fill a tear in the eye. One can't describe the pain when a seaside man watches the necessary water uselessly perish into the soil as well as a pleasure when Kukuljanovo would have one-hundredth part of the water which disappears underground into the lake.“
"One can't describe the emotion which overcomes a man when leaving dead karst, comes to the edge of Kukuljanovo Lake and looks closely at Veli lug. There are rows of fields where corn, wheat and barley are sown as well as potato, cabbage and trkljaš bean. On the foothill and on slopes of some peaks there are some vineyards and forests. The whole sinkhole was once covered with forest. Noweday, as a memory from that time just a few trees has been saved in the name of Veli and Mali lug (″lug″ means ″forest″).″
″I used to have a rest here when visiting these interesting places. That's why I'm fond of this forest for there are many rare plants growing here. If you come in April you'll get to know ″ponikvarica″/Poet's daffodil/ (Narcissus radiiflorus), as well as hairy violet(Viola hirta), grape hyacinth (Muscari) and many other rare plants″.
″Hunting in these areas has been known since ancient times. The inhabitants remember honorable hunter Petar Ban Zrinski. While hunting, he arrived to Ponikve. When the time came for a rest, hungry and tired he asked Vidaljka, an old woman from Ponikve if she had anything to eat. The old woman went to a small hut and brought the prince a great cheese pie. The Prince Petar started eating sweet cottage bread offering one to one of his servants, while the other servant did not want to taste the bread at all. Seeing that, Prince Peter got angry and said, "Here is your wage, I don't need you any more; do you think you are better than your master to whom cottage bread is fine? "
″Once you get out of this humid depth you see the Mount Učka, north-west the whole mountain range of stone peaks and in spring there is also a white cap on top of the mountain Risnjak. Straight in front of you is a lush, green Cernik, further there Čavle and Grobnik. Once you get out of the depth, nowhere on the Coast can be seen litoral peaks so picturesque as from this place."
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Introduction, 2nd Edition, 2014
On Sunday afternoon, 31 August 2008, just on six years ago now, I conducted a seminar at the Pride History Group, at Glebe, a Sydney suburb. The seminar was divided into two parts; before the afternoon tea break I presented details about the recently completed three volume, 2,200 pages, Unfit for Publication (UFP). After the break there was a question and answer session.
Having explained previously that I believed that I had collected as much NSW data as I possible could, seeing that the lower court Quarter Sessions – depositions – had not survived a fire on 22nd September 1882 which destroyed the Garden Palace, situated Sydney Domain, which according to the NSW Police Gazette contained, amongst others “ …Government Archives.” A smart alick in the front row at the seminar self-assuredly lamented ‘that their would be newspaper reports of the cases for which depositions had not survived’.
SRNSW: NRS2467, [3/6089],
State Penitentiary photographic
description book, 9 Apr-2 Jul 1915.
Photo: Peter de Waal
This revelation spurred me on to make UFP even more complete!
The starting point and initial resource for UFP was the NSW Police Gazette. All the entries were checked in newspaper reports to explore if further details were available. A number of entries described in the Gazette as indecent assault, after examining newspapers, were found to be indecent assaults on females. Since the number of these cases was small the decision was made to retain them as part of UFP.
Over three-hundred metropolitan and country newspapers were examined for court proceedings coverage to supplement details for some 1,750 cases.
Projects evolve and grow as research continues. So it was with the following:
Photographic gaol description sheets, more commonly called, gaol photos, provide much useful biographical, physical, and other details, apart from the photo, of previous offences committed by convicted and gaoled perpetrators. The gaol photos facilitated following up previous or subsequent offences committed (not necessarily sexual ones) by quite a number of offenders through newspaper searches.
Nearly 1,200 gaol photos are included in this second edition, starting from as early as 1872 and continuing to the mid 1930s.
The gaol photos are kept in various formats at State Records NSW: Firstly, the fragile photos have been microfilmed and are only accessible by viewing the films; secondly, the less fragile ones are available, in bound volumes, for examination; finally, some volumes have been dismantled and are thus available as individual sheets.
SRNSW: NRS2467, [3/611- 9], State Penitentiary
photographic description book, 5 May-7 Oct 1927,
No. 22345, p. 99. Photo: Peter de Waal
The condition of the paper to which the photos are adhered, for the latter two categories, is somewhat brittle. Often the sheets are bent where the photos have been attached, presumably caused by the kind and age of the glue used.
In order to make a reasonable flat image of the ‘curly’ photo sheets small paper-weights were required.
To contain the overall budget for the second edition, and in particular the gaol photo costs – images of originals provided by SRNSW cost $25 each – the author has photographed a considerable number himself using the paper-weight method as described above.
This edition of UFP also includes around three hundred and fifty relevant illustrations consisting of: a sketch or drawings of the crime locations; a hand written page and cover of judge’s notebook; court deposition covers; sketches of penal institutions and other noteworthy locations; mastheads of early newspapers; one page of a four page ‘love’ letter; and numerous historic and current photos of public buildings, including those of NSW courthouses; and many other ones.
While searching various sources a number of offenders’ divorce proceedings emerged; in some instances divorce court transcripts were found while for others only newspaper reports could be obtained. Similarly, a number of offenders had served in WWI and a National Archives of Australia link has been included so that their war service can be examined.
Accordingly, the initial printed three volume 2,200 pages version, also called the first edition of UFP, has grown to over 7,000 pages made up of almost 4 million words.
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Willard Bay Map
Willard Bay
Surface Area: 10,000 acres
Volume Capacity: 193,300 acre-feet
Max. Depth: 36.1 ft.
Avg. Depth: 19.4 ft.
Current Conditions:
Last checked for updates: 1/21/2020
Ice is Never 100% Safe! — Do not judge ice safety on thickness alone. Ice does not form or maintain a uniform thickness. Snow, wind, slush, temperature, and other factors can cause ice thickness and strength to vary greatly, even within inches. Recreate on ice at your own risk and verify ice thickness as you head out. Click here to learn more ice safety tips.
DAY-USE: Open
WATER SURFACE:
North Marina– Ice covered with some open water near the boat ramp and at the mouth to the bay. 0-5 inches of ice.
South Marina– Ice covered with some very thin spots 1/2-5 inches.
Bay– Mostly open water with some ice near the shore. Unknown ice thickness.
South Inlet– Ice covered with some very thin spots near shore and around foliage. 1/4-5 inches of ice.
LAUNCH RAMPS:
North Marina- Open, blocked by ice.
South Marina- Open, blocked by ice.
Courtesy docks and fishing docks in the water year round.
CONDITIONS: Cold with some ice and snow in areas causing slick ground conditions.
All restrooms are closed for the season. Vault toilets are open.
CAMPGROUND:
Cottonwood- CLOSED- Full trailer hook ups.
Willow Creek- Open- No hookups
South Marina- Open -full trailer hook ups and tent camping available
Camping by reservation or first come first serve the day of arrival if not reserved.
Water Temp: 41 degrees
Water Level: 8-20ft average depth of water in marina’s. Water levels may fluctuate
Additional Fishing Info: Visit http://wildlife.utah.gov/hotspots for more information.
Place the fish on it’s side with the jaw closed
Squeeze the tail fin together turn it so you can obtain the maximum overall length
Measure a straight line from the tip of the snout to the extreme tip of the tail fin.
Crappie: 10
Wiper: 3
Channel Catfish: 8
Walleye: 6 One may be over 24″
Yellow Perch: 50
Large mouth/Small mouth Bass: 6
Possession and use of commercially sold and preserved gizzard shad is allowed. Otherwise, possession on gizzard shad, dead or alive is unlawful
Monte Cristo Conditions: https://www.snowut.com/Grooming
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Wear your life jackets.
As always launching boats is at the owners risk.
Willard Bay Reservoir is located about 10 miles north of Ogden, with two off-ramps from I-15. It is not a big lake, by comparison to some of the other wiper waters in the country. This manmade shallow bowl is only 10,000 acres in size, but it has several clearly defined areas popular with wiper chasers. In several places around the lake there are underwater "trenches" gouged out by heavy equipment during the dredging and dike building process. These depressions sometimes provide enough extra depth to attract and hold more fish.
Willard Reservoir is a portion of the Great Salt Lake that was diked off and dewatered. It was then filled with water from the Weber River that would otherwise have flowed into the Great Salt Lake, and stored for irrigation and other uses as may be needed on the northern Wasatch Front.
Willard Bay is a very popular reservoir with both boaters and fishermen. The current state record Wiper, weighing in at 9 lbs. 12 oz., was caught at Willard Bay. Wiper - a hybrid between a white bass & a Striped Bass, are are known for being aggressive fighters, and are very popular with local Utah anglers.
Willard Bay Wiper
The Northeast corner of the reservoir has traditionally been a good place to catch crappie. Most years the water is high enough to provide flooded stickups, where crappies prefer to spawn. However, in low water years, they have to settle on using some gravel and weed beds...and not much of that. When this happens, there is likely to be a poor spawn with low recruitment.
Wipers are caught all over the reservoir, with trolling being the most popular method to catch them. A popular place to troll is past 'the lightpole', the light pole that is out on the dike. See below for more fishing location tips.
Fish Species:
Bullhead Catfish
Gizzard Shad
Wiper limit: 3 fish
Crappie limit: 10 fish
Walleye limit: 6 fish, but only 1 over 24 inches
CLOSED to the possession of gizzard shad (dead OR alive)!
Two poles may be used if a 2-pole permit is purchased
Fishing Tips - Where to fish:
North Marina: This is the largest and deepest of the two marinas. It is the safest for launching larger boats, especially during low water periods. There is surprisingly good wiper action right inside the marina when the water is up and the shad come inside. Those who do not fish from boats can sometimes get into wiper boils right next to shore inside the marina. Even when the wipers are not showing, they often cruise around inside the marina and can be taken on various baits or lures if you hit them right.
Northeast Corner: The entire area from the mouth of the north marina to the north dike can be good for wipers, at different times during the year. There is an uneven bottom contour here, with deeper trenches, gravel bars and even a couple of rocky humps. There is a large area of trees and brush that is flooded during high water and attracts baitfish and predators alike. When the prevailing winds from the southwest blow shad into that corner, you can experience some great boil action in the shallows. It can also be a good area for anglers who wade or cast from shore.
North Dike: The long straight manmade dike that runs along the north side of Willard is a popular starting point for wiper trollers. They usually motor over to a spot just west of the outlet structure and then start trolling toward the "Light Pole". Since wipers often follow contour and depth lines while hunting for shad, you can work in and out watching sonar to find the fish and feed them your lures. When the water levels are up into the rocks, this dike is a great spot to walk and cast for fish that cruise close to the shoreline.
The Light Pole: This is a prominent landmark on the west side of the lake. It also has some of the deepest areas of the lake. These holes and trenches can be almost 30 feet deep during high water periods, and only half that in lean times. If the shad are deep, or the wipers are "dogging it" in deeper water, deeper is better. The rutted perimeter road ends at the light pole for bank tanglers.
The West Side: This is the long straight leg of the dike running approximately from north to south along the far side of Willard. Some of the deeper trenches occur here, it is one of the favorite wiper trolling lanes. Unfortunately, it is also popular with the "power squadron", water skiers and wake boarders. Wiper trollers and the power squadron do not coexist well. Bank tanglers can access the entire west side by parking anywhere along the rutted dirt/mud road and walking up over the dike. This makes winter ice fishing easier, when the road is passable to the west side.
The Southwest Corner: As the name implies, this bend in the rock dikes is at the far southwest corner of Willard. It is one of the few places where there is an easy road/trail up over the dike. The road exists for the water users' association to operate and service the pumps they use to suck water out of Willard Bay for irrigation. It is gated against vehicular access but can be used by shore fishermen or float tubers. When north winds blow into this corner, they bring nutrients, shad and predators. At such times the shore bound angling contingent can experience good fishing for several species. It is sometimes crowded when wipers chase shad into the shallow waters there.
The South Dike: Again, a no-brainer. The long stretch of dike between the east and south dikes. Since there is a decent road now travelling along most of its length (for the water users), and there are pullouts and trails up over the dike, it is a good place for shore bound anglers to access the lake. The fishing is not always the best, but can be good if you time it right. The best wiper trolling is further offshore than the other dikes.
The East Dike: The long east dike is bisected by the entrance to the south marina. Like all the dikes, fishing can be good or bad on either side of the marina, depending upon the movements of bait and wipers. Sometimes, during high water periods, the east dike can be more productive than other popular spots. The rock dikes on both sides of the marina entrance are easily accessible on foot and are prime for casting from the rocks when the water is up. When the water is lower, the lake may be too shallow to hold wipers within close proximity to the dike.
The South Marina: This is where the inlet channel comes in, from the combined Weber and Ogden Rivers. The fresh running water creates a current that attracts hordes of wipers during the "false spawn" in spring, usually in May. Large numbers of "regulars" flock to the big swirling "scour hole" where the water pours in, to cast jigs and other lures for the confused and lustful fish. After the spawn there are often some wipers inside the dredged channel, mainly between the boat launch and the mouth of the marina. They come inside to hunt for the shad that congregate there. Soaking bait on the bottom, below a bobber or casting lures can all be effective.
The Island: There is a shallow hump about a mile NW of the entrance to the south marina. It is a fish magnet, drawing shad and predators alike. When the water levels are up, you can troll over the hump. When it becomes a true island, in low water, you can cast around the edges or troll at the desired depths around it. There is usually (but not always) a marker buoy over the island. If there is no buoy, the GPS coordinates are: Lat: N 41degrees 22.018 minutes and Long: W 112 degrees 05.423 minutes.
The Hog Farm: Also known as the "feed lot", this operation is a visible from the open lake. You can see the feed silos and towers on the other side of the east dike. And, if you get downwind, you will have no questions as to why it is called a hog farm. The heavenly aroma will clear your sinuses. But, there are some humps and depressions straight out from those structures that seem to be wiper magnets. And, that stretch of the east dike seems to almost always hold fish better than many of the other stretches of dike. It is especially hot during the boils.
Freeway Bay: Just north of the hog farm the east dike makes a big circular dip to the east and brings the dike close to I-15. The water within this bay is known as "Freeway Bay". It also can be easily reached by shore anglers via a dirt road...if you know where to get on it. At road's end you go up over the dike for some of the best shore fishing when the water levels are high. Energetic tubers and tooners also launch from the rocks here. Trollers should always wash a few lures in the bay. Lots of dandy wipers taken here when they are in and active.
Pelican Beach: The last prominent point before reaching the north marina from the south is the beginning of Pelican Beach. There is a low island straight out from this popular picnic and Jet Ski beach, and there is a deep trough just west of it that can be a great trolling lane. But, you have to be careful in low water since there are some very shallow gravel bars between there and the mouth of the marina. Always make a wide swing out to the west before coming back into the marina after fishing points further south.
The Open Lake: Many wiper hunters just set out their lines and start trolling as soon as they clear the marinas. Since wipers are free ranging and schooling fish, it is possible to find and catch a few with this random approach. But, if you happen to find fish, and sonar shows some anomalies in bottom contour, you may want to record the GPS coordinates to check the spot again in the future. It is holds fish one time, it might work again. But, don't bet your life savings on it. At the very least, you will want to keep working that school until you limit out or lose the school.
Utah Lakes:
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Trip Schedule - September 2017
Dates: 9/1-4 (FRI-MON)
Location: LAKE GEORGE WILD FOREST CAMPING TRIP - Adirondack Park (New York).
Level: EASY-MODERATE
Spend Labor Day weekend (4 days) with us in the splendid wild forest east of 32-mile-long Lake George, where there are over 30 smaller lakes and ponds, in New York’s enormous (6-million-acre) and spectacular Adirondack Park. We were last here several years ago, when we camped at scenic Fishbrook Pond. This year we’ll camp at one of several beautiful ponds in the area. From the parking area our hike in will be a maximum of 4-5 mostly easy but hilly miles, and from our campsite we’ll be taking (optional) easy to moderate day hikes on the second and third days. Aside from other ponds in the vicinity to visit, there are mountains nearby with trails to the tops that offer wonderful vistas. Swimming is another daily option, and it’s also possible to spend one or more days resting by the pond. Departure will be Friday morning September 1 (early morning for those traveling with us from NYC, and late morning for those meeting us in the park) and we’ll be leaving the park by mid-day Monday (Labor Day). Group size is limited to 9 people, and early reservations are highly recommended. [If you need to cancel or miss a trip for any reason, cash refunds are not available and credit for future trips is available only if you cancel far enough in advance for your space to be filled]. Transportation from NYC is available at no extra cost for those who need it (or you may meet us in the Adirondack Park). Fee for members: $450 (Member-driver with car who can take passengers from Manhattan: $225, with gas & toll costs reimbursed). Non-members: $550 (Non-member driver with car who can take passengers from Manhattan: $325, with gas & toll costs reimbursed).
Date: 9/9 (SAT)
Location: APPALACHIAN TRAIL: HUDSON HIGHLANDS TO FAHNESTOCK STATE PARK (New York).
Level: MODERATE HIKE (9 miles)
Today we’ll be hiking the Appalachian Trail corridor from Hudson Highlands State Park (in New York’s Hudson Valley) to Fahnestock State Park, which will take us thorough some beautiful mountain forest and over little mountaintops with a couple of fine vistas. There are no major climbs but plenty of ups and downs over sometimes rocky trail.
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Date: 9/10 (SUN)
Location: LAUREL POND - Wawayanda State Park (New Jersey).
Level: EASY HIKE (5-6 miles)
One of NJ's lesser-known parks, 18,000-acre Wawayanda State Park is a tract of mostly wild and unspoiled forest, including areas thick with rhododendron and cedar, featuring 255-acre Wawayanda Lake. Our hike will include a stop at beautiful Laurel Pond. It's easy but hilly walking with a few rough spots.
Date: 9/16 (SAT)
Location: MILLBROOK MOUNTAIN / SHAWANGUNK CLIFFS - Minnewaska State Park (New York).
Level: EASY-MODERATE HIKE (7-8 miles)
The spectacular cliffs of the Shawangunk Mountains are justly famous, and Millbrook Mountain is said to have one of the highest sheer drops east of the Mississippi. Today's itinerary includes some rough stretches of trail. Among the rewards are a number of magnificent views, including from the massive cliff known as "Gertrude's Nose."
Location: WINDHAM HIGH PEAK / BURNT KNOB - Catskill Park (New York).
Level: MODERATE-STRENUOUS HIKE (11 miles)
On this trip we'll be hiking to the top of the northernmost peak in New York's Catskills, 3524-foot Windham High Peak (1880 ft. elevation gain), and then over 3180-foot Burnt knob. The day's total elevation gain will be more than 2500 feet, with a few steep stretches, and we'll be enjoying some spectacular mountain vistas. Recommended for experienced and especially fit hikers who can maintain a reasonably brisk pace.
Location: PAWLING NATURE RESERVE (New York).
This is a rather large and little-known tract of wild forest in Dutchess County. Several miles of trails run through the reserve, including the Appalachian Trail. There's a fine vista from a ridge, a lovely hemlock gorge with a little waterfall, and a splendid sense of isolation. It's mostly easy hiking with a couple of very steep hills.
Location: BELLEVALE MOUNTAIN / HEWITT STATE FOREST (New Jersey / New York).
Level: MODERATE HIKE (10 miles)
Today we'll be hiking a stretch of the Appalachian Trail along the scenic ridges above 9-mile-long Greenwood Lake, from Bellevale Mountain through Hewitt State Forest, starting in New Jersey and ending in New York. There are no major elevation changes, but some of the trail is extremely rough and rocky, with endless small ups and downs -- and some splendid vistas.
Location: WARD POUND RIDGE RESERVATION (New York).
Level: EASY HIKE (6 miles)
4,700-acre Ward Pound Ridge Reservation is the largest and one of the loveliest parks in New York's Westchester County. Our hiking itinerary will take us through some attractive deciduous forest, with pine and hemlock groves, and to a couple of fine viewpoints. It's very hilly but otherwise easy.
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WOMEN'S WORLD CUP U.S. beats host France, advances to semis
Scoring two goals for the second consecutive game, Megan Rapinoe led the U.S. women's national team to a 2-1 quarterfinal win over host France in Paris on June 28.
Rapinoe is the first player to score twice in two consecutive World Cup games since Marta in 2007, ESPN.com noted.
Rapinoe, an out lesbian, had been in the headlines for happenings off the field as well. In addition to boycotting the national anthem, she engaged in a war of words with President Donald Trump on social media after saying she wouldn't go to the White House if Trump invited the team.
The U.S. now plays England in the semifinals on Tuesday, July 2, in Lyon, France.
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Title: Ginseng
Subject: Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan, Chinese herbology, Shi Quan Da Bu Wan, Herbalism, Alternative medicine
Collection: Dietary Supplements, Herbs, Medicinal Plants of Asia, Non-Timber Forest Products, Panax, Plants Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Panax quinquefolius foliage and fruit
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Subfamily: Aralioideae
Genus: Panax
Subgenus Panax
Section Panax
Series Notoginseng
Panax notoginseng
Series Panax
Panax bipinnatifidus
Panax japonicus
Panax vietnamensis
Panax wangianus
Panax zingiberensis
Section Pseudoginseng
Panax pseudoginseng
Panax stipuleanatus
Subgenus Trifolius
Panax trifolius
Ginseng ([1]) is any one of the 11 species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, belonging to the genus Panax of the family Araliaceae.
Ginseng is found in North America and in eastern Asia (mostly Korea, northeast China, Bhutan, eastern Siberia), typically in cooler climates. Panax vietnamensis, discovered in Vietnam, is the southernmost ginseng known. This article focuses on the series Panax ginsengs, which are the adaptogenic herbs, principally Panax ginseng and P. quinquefolius. Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides and gintonin.
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is in the same family, but not genus, as true ginseng. Like ginseng, it is considered to be an adaptogenic herb. The active compounds in Siberian ginseng are eleutherosides, not ginsenosides. Instead of a fleshy root, Siberian ginseng has a woody root.
Folk medicine 3
Considerations 5.1
Side effects 5.2
Interactions 5.3
Overdose 5.4
Common classification 6
Asian ginseng (root) 6.1
Red ginseng 6.1.1
Fresh ginseng 6.1.2
White ginseng 6.1.3
Wild ginseng 6.1.4
P. quinquefolius American ginseng (root) 6.2
Other plants sometimes called ginseng 7
The English word ginseng derives from the Chinese term rénshēn (simplified: 人参; traditional: 人蔘). Rén means "Person" and shēn means "plant root"; this refers to the root's characteristic forked shape, which resembles the legs of a person.[2] The English pronunciation derives from a southern Chinese reading, similar to Cantonese yun sum (Jyutping: jan4sam1) and the Hokkien pronunciation "jîn-sim".
The botanical/genus name Panax means "all-heal" in Greek, sharing the same origin as "panacea" was applied to this genus because Linnaeus was aware of its wide use in Chinese medicine as a muscle relaxant.
Besides P. ginseng, many other plants are also known as or mistaken for the ginseng root. The most commonly known examples are xiyangshen, also known as American ginseng 西洋参 (P. quinquefolius), Japanese ginseng 東洋参 (P. japonicus), crown prince ginseng 太子參 (Pseudostellaria heterophylla), and Siberian ginseng 刺五加 (Eleutherococcus senticosus). Although all have the name ginseng, each plant has distinctively different functions. However, true ginseng plants belong only to the Panax genus.[3]
In 2010, nearly all of the world's 80,000 tons of ginseng in international commerce was produced in four countries: South Korea, China, Canada,[4] and the United States. The product was marketed in over 35 countries. Sales exceeded $2.1 billion, of which half came from South Korea.[5] Historically, Korea has been the largest provider, and China the largest consumer. Control over the ginseng fields was an issue in the 16th century.[6]
Folk medicine
The root is most often available in dried form, either whole or sliced. Ginseng leaf, although not as highly prized, is sometimes also used. Folk medicine attributes various benefits to oral use of American ginseng and Asian ginseng (P. ginseng) roots, including roles as an aphrodisiac or stimulant treatment, but there no studies to date proving the effectiveness of ginseng for treating any disease.[7][8][9]
Ginseng may be found in small doses in energy drinks[10] or herbal teas, such as ginseng coffee.[11] hair tonics and cosmetics preparations, but none has been proven effective.
Ginsenosides, unique compounds of the Panax species, are under basic and clinical research to investigate their potential for use in medicine[12] or when taken as a dietary supplement.[13]
Ginseng is known to contain phytoestrogens.[14][15][16]
A common side effect of P. ginseng may be insomnia,[17] but this effect is disputed.[18] Other side effects can include nausea, diarrhea, headaches, nose bleeds,[19] high blood pressure, low blood pressure, and breast pains.[20]
Ginseng has been shown to have adverse drug reactions with phenelzine and warfarin; it has been shown to decrease blood alcohol levels.[21] A potential interaction has also been reported with imatinib[22] resulting in hepatotoxicity, and with lamotrigine[23] causing DRESS syndrome.
Ginseng may also lead to induction of mania in depressed patients who mix it with antidepressants.[24]
The common adaptogen ginsengs (P. ginseng and P. quinquefolia) are generally considered to be relatively safe even in large amounts. One of the most common and characteristic symptoms of acute overdose of Panax ginseng is bleeding. Symptoms of mild overdose may include dry mouth and lips, excitation, fidgeting, irritability, tremor, palpitations, blurred vision, headache, insomnia, increased body temperature, increased blood pressure, edema, decreased appetite, dizziness, itching, eczema, early morning diarrhea, bleeding, and fatigue.[3]
Symptoms of gross overdose with Panax ginseng may include nausea, vomiting, irritability, restlessness, urinary and bowel incontinence, fever, increased blood pressure, increased respiration, decreased sensitivity and reaction to light, decreased heart rate, cyanotic (blue) facial complexion, red facial complexion, seizures, convulsions, and delirium.[3]
Patients experiencing any of the above symptoms are advised to discontinue the herbs and seek any necessary symptomatic treatment, as well as medical advice in severe cases.[3]
Common classification
Ginseng roots in a market in Seoul, 2003
Asian ginseng (root)
Ginseng and reishi mushrooms in bottles being sold in Seoul, Korea
Panax ginseng is available commercially as fresh, red, and white ginsengs; wild ginseng is used where available.
Red ginseng
Red ginseng (Hangul: 홍삼; hanja: 紅蔘; RR: hong-sam; traditional Chinese: 紅蔘; simplified Chinese: 红参; pinyin: hóng shēn), P. ginseng, has been peeled, heated through steaming at standard boiling temperatures of 100 °C (212 °F), and then dried or sun-dried. It is frequently marinated in an herbal brew which results in the root becoming extremely brittle.
Fresh ginseng
Fresh ginseng is the raw product. Its use is limited by availability.
White ginseng
White ginseng, native to America, is fresh ginseng which has been dried without being heated. It is peeled and dried to reduce the water content to 12% or less. White ginseng air-dried in the sun may contain less of the therapeutic constituents. It is thought by some that enzymes contained in the root break down these constituents in the process of drying. Drying in the sun bleaches the root to a yellowish-white color.
Harvested ginseng in Germany
Wild ginseng grows naturally and is harvested from wherever it is found. It is relatively rare, and even increasingly endangered, due in large part to high demand for the product in recent years, which has led to the wild plants being sought out and harvested faster than new ones can grow (it requires years for a root to reach maturity). Wild ginseng can be either Asian or American, and can be processed to be red ginseng.
Woods-grown American ginseng programs in Vermont, Maine, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, West Virginia and Kentucky,[25][26] and United Plant Savers have been encouraging the planting of ginseng both to restore natural habitats and to remove pressure from any remaining wild ginseng, and they offer both advice and sources of rootlets. Woods-grown plants have a value comparable to wild-grown ginseng of similar age.
Partially germinated ginseng seeds harvested the previous Fall can be planted from early Spring until late Fall, and will sprout the following Spring. If planted in a wild setting and left to their own devices, they will develop into mature plants which cannot be distinguished from native wild plants. Both Asian and American partially germinated ginseng seeds can be bought from May through December on various eBay sales. Some seed sales come with planting and growing instructions.
P. quinquefolius American ginseng (root)
According to traditional Chinese medicine, American ginseng promotes yin energy, cleans excess yang and calms the body. The reason it has been claimed that American ginseng promotes yin (shadow, cold, negative, female) while Asian ginseng promotes yang (sunshine, hot, positive, male) is that, according to traditional Chinese medicine, things living in cold places or northern side of mountains or southern side of rivers are strong in yang and the converse, so the two are balanced. Chinese/Korean ginseng grows in Manchuria and Korea, the coldest area known to many Koreans in ancient times. Thus, ginseng from there is supposed to be very yang.
Originally, American ginseng was imported into China via subtropical Guangzhou, the seaport next to Hong Kong, so Chinese doctors believed American ginseng must be good for yang, because it came from a hot area. They did not know, however, that American ginseng can only grow in temperate regions. Nonetheless, the root is legitimately classified as more yin because it generates fluids.[27]
Most North American ginseng is produced in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia and the American state of Wisconsin.[28] P. quinquefolius is now also grown in northern China.
The aromatic root resembles a small parsnip that forks as it matures. The plant grows 6″ to 18″ tall, usually bearing three leaves, each with three to five leaflets two to five inches long.
Other plants sometimes called ginseng
Several other plants are sometimes referred to as ginsengs, but they are either from a different family or genus.
Angelica sinensis (female ginseng, dong quai)
Codonopsis pilosula (poor man's ginseng)
Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian ginseng)
Gynostemma pentaphyllum (southern ginseng, jiaogulan)
Lepidium meyenii (Peruvian ginseng, maca)
Oplopanax horridus (Alaskan ginseng)
Panax notoginseng (known as san qi, tian qi or tien chi; ingredient in yunnan bai yao)
Pfaffia paniculata (Brazilian ginseng, suma)
Pseudostellaria heterophylla (prince ginseng)
Schisandra chinensis (five-flavoured berry)
Withania somnifera (Indian ginseng, ashwagandha)
Codonopsis pilosula "poor man's ginseng"
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Return to Civilization No More (Ajax/Open) Dec 2, 2010 0:32:55 GMT -5
Post by Steinerman on Dec 2, 2010 0:32:55 GMT -5
Alexis walked a few steps forward and froze, every alarm in her mind going off at once. The other two had stopped, and what little she passively gleaned from their minds wasn't good.
An errant thought strayed to the gun in her pack, was it still there? Yes, they hadn't checked the bag, they had no reason to, or did they? She'd been asleep, and if there truly was danger, she couldn't count on the gun, they could have tampered with it.
With care, she slowly spun on her heels to stare at them, her eyes wary and her expression hard.
"Well." She stated softly, her voice barely drifting above a whisper.
"Would one of you mind explaining what just happened? Something I said, presumably." She continued, her tone slowly returning to normal.
"Because I get nervous when people seem to think something bad is going to happen me. So please, do tell." She finished sweetly, her eyes sparkling in the light of the warehouse.
Post by The Rising Dragon on Dec 2, 2010 0:53:14 GMT -5
"... follow us," Jerome said after a moment, and he and Ker lead her to an unoccupied room in the shelter housing their base of operations below the surface.
"Okay, look," Ker started, leaning against the wall. "Everyone in the Korin that was around back in your time KNOWS you, Vister. They knew what you were capable of, they know you were the reason why we pulled off a number of big-time missions, and they know you up and disappeared back into Stamaria."
"They also know that you were working on some kind of superweapon before you disappeared," Jerome explained. "The details never got out but they knew you were working on something. I don't know what it is, but the higher-ups do. And they know that you took whatever it was with you when you left. They'll want to know, Vister. And I seriously doubt they're going to be happy about it."
Alexis listened carefully, her eyes drilling holes in the floor as the others spoke.
A super-weapon? She nodded her head, yes, she supposed it could be called that.
"So that's what all the fuss is about." She replied with a sigh.
"Admittedly. I hadn't thought to run into you bunch so soon after my little break-out. I'd wanted time to test the waters, as it were. See if me coming back were a good idea or not. Sounds like 'not'."
She grinned, her body relaxing from it's tense position. "But hey, if bad stuff is going to happen, might as well come from old comrades." She ended with a hint of sarcasm.
"Sorry I couldn't give you better news," Jerome said with a shrug. "Your disappearance was kind of a shock for everyone. I can't speak for Carn or the others, so I don't know how any of this is going to play out once word reaches everyone else."
"Let's just hope Carn doesn't blow a gasket again," Keri said offhandedly. "Guy looks so old one good shock'll kill him."
Alexis nodded her head, half-listening to their words as she thought the situation over.
Had anything really changed? No...not really. Not yet, at any rate. Her arrival had caused some strong emotions from a group that had only heard of her. She wasn't sure what to expect from the rest of the Korin. Would the Harbinger himself take an interest? That thought made her queasy and excited at the same time, that someone so important might think her worth the trouble...
But no, right now it was best to stick to her plan. Feel things out. If they wanted the super-weapon (she thought it slightly amusing that they called it a super-weapon), then by all means, she'd try and give it to them. It might be a little awkward when they found out that she'd had help from an outsider, and thus only knew roughly half the design of her little bomb.
her thoughts drifted back to the conversation at hand, they had stopped talking a moment ago. She concentrated, remembering what they'd said, then gave a half-smile and spoke.
"Well, I'll be pleasant and let you do most of the talking, then." She joked.
"It would be supremely awkward to accidentally give a Korin cell-leader a heartattack."
"Considering how much of a bastard Carn can be," Jerome said derisively, "The Stamarians would probably give us medals. After they shot us, at least."
They lead the woman into a comms station, where a large viewscreen was already active and waiting for them. The technicians moved out of their way, and Ker settled into the back of the room--this was Jerome's show now.
"Connection established," one of them said, and the viewscreen cleared, showing the image of a stern-looking, balding old man in a black coat. His dark face was heavy with age lines, and his eyes seemed to bore into the two people waiting in front of the monitor.
To Alexis Vister, Carnithius Vern would look all too familiar.
"Well, it looks like you're back, Saelle," Carn said. "I take it the heist went off without a hitch?"
"Gods, no," Jerome said--while Carn was always serious, he rarely was. "The prisoner busted herself out before we even got there. But we did have a problem entering the city. Roas had to bail us out and he still isn't back yet. The Stamarians are out in force this evening."
"That's hardly a surprise," Carn said, snorting. "If our intel's correct, then the Stamarians are gonna be edgy for a while."
"What intel are you talking about?" Jerome asked, frowning. "That kind of knowledge--"
"--is none of your concern and certainly nothing your crew could handle," Carn cut off, almost growling. "Now, you said the prisoner broke herself free? I do hope you managed to track her down and put a stop to the beacon."
"We did, Carn. You'll get a load out of who the prisoner was, too. C'mon," Jerome waved Alexis into range of the camera transmitting the conversation.
Alexis could hardly believe her ears when she heard Carn's voice.
A wave of memories came crashing down like a tidal wave. Carnithius Vern. A decade ago she'd often worked with the man. Always serious and scowling, and ever-so-secretive.
To say they'd hated each other would probably be an overstatement, they'd worked together and she had respected his ability to lead. But beyond the respect for his ability, she'd born him no love. He hadn't seemed to like her much, as she recalled. And she'd always liked to irk him whenever possible, never even thinking of trying to build any sort of camaraderie with the man.
With a shake of her head she stepped into view of the camera, her eyes alight with amusement.
"You always were a stingy one with the information-sharing, Carn. As I recall that lack of trust for your comrades nearly got us killed on several occasions."
She swept her bangs out of the way to offer him a good view of who he was taking too.
She then cracked a sarcastic smile. "I'd say it's good to see you, old man. But that'd be a lie, and we both know it."
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"So, you've returned, Vister," Carn replied, his facial expression not changing in the slightest. "So they were right about you. You had been captured by the Stamarian forces after you left the Korin. Now how does a woman with your capabilities get taken by them?"
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Alexis' eyes narrowed, focusing on Carn. "Someone I was working with in Allondell ratted me out, they used a truck-load of mages and a few dozen soldiers to capture me. Though I killed about half their mages before they locked me down." She ended with just a hint of a smile.
"You don't seem surprised to see me, Carn. I find that interesting. Care to explain?"
Well, that certainly fit the Witch's capabilities, Carn thought.
"We managed to secure intelligence detailing a high-level prisoner being transferred to the nearby prison facility, Vister," he explained. "We weren't given any names, but the Stamarians take so few of us prisoner. You know that. So it's not difficult to imagine the one we tried to liberate would be someone of your stature and capabilities."
Alexis mulled his words over for a moment, then nodded. "I suppose it makes sense. I assumed everyone thought I was dead, it's been just a few months shy of a decade since any of you saw me." She replied with a shrug.
"Thanks for sending the rescue my way, it's been rather exhausting, breaking out of a Stamarian jail. It's good to be among friends again."
Now her tone grew innocent, "I am among friends, yes?"
Carn wasn't fooled by Alexis' act. "That remains to be seen, Vister," he said coldly. "You disappeared from the Korin at the worst possible time, and took your little pet project with you. And that will concern the others when you meet with the Harbinger, Vister. So why don't you make things easy for us... where is she?"
Alexis went rigid, her eyes closing tight to hide the sudden spike of fear.
"Screw you, Carn." She replied venomously, putting all of her protective fury into the words. She opened her eyes and stared furiously at the man on the screen, "I'm not going to tell you."
"Hmph. I figured you weren't going to cooperate on that. Luckily for you, it's not imperative you hand over that information to me," Carn said, leaning back into his seat on the screen. "But when the Harbinger gets word of your return, he'll want to know."
Alexis' body shuddered at the mention of the Harbinger. What would he want with a newly escaped mage?
"Why would the Harbinger care about me? Or her?" She replied, some of the fury in her voice replaced by worry.
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Tyler Rich Marries Actress Sabina Gadecki
Tyler Rich is a married man! The country singer married actress Sabina Gadecki in Tennessee on Friday (Sept. 20).
Rich, 33, and Gadecki, 36, wed at Saddle Woods Farm in Murfreesboro, Tenn., with 275 guests in attendance, People reports. The "Leave Her Wild" singer and Gadecki, who has acted in shows including Law & Order and House of Lies, chose the barn venue in part because of the "kind" couple who own it, Jayne and Gary LeGate.
“They invited us in for dinner with their family during the holidays when we visited the venue,” the couple tell People. “We were sold right then and there.”
The couple chose a music festival theme for their wedding and decorated the venue with "pampas grass, macrame, neon lights, bulb string lights, vintage rugs, teepees and couches," according to People.
“We met at a music festival and spend so much of our time together on the road at shows [and] festivals,” they state. “So we wanted to throw a festival-themed wedding so our guests could take a step into our lives for a night.”
Gadecki wore different gowns designed by Galia Lahav for the ceremony and reception, while Rich wore a charcoal suit from Boglioli, as well as a Rolex Yacht-Master from Crown & Caliber.
Rich scored his biggest hits in 2018, when "The Difference" reached No. 21 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. He and Gadecki had planned to honeymoon in the Cayman Islands following their wedding, but will have to postpone their plans because Gadecki has booked a role in an upcoming film titled False Positive.
“The Caribbean is so relaxing, recharging and the break we sure could use right now," Rich tells People. "But Sabina just booked a new film that starts shooting right away, and we are so excited about it! So, we will try to have a honeymoon in January when our schedules usually slow down. Either to Grand Cayman still, or potentially southeast Asia, it will be January weather-dependent.”
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Join us on our Kailua Ahupua’a Geology Tour, Sat. Oct. 11, 2014
Kailua Ahupua’a Geology Tour, Sat. Oct. 11, 2014
Kawainui looking west. Kaimi Scudder photo
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A geology tour of the Kailua Ahupua’a, including Kawainui Marsh will be conducted on Saturday, October 11th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Dr. Floyd McCoy, geology professor from the Windward Community College, will take the tour group to the Pali Lookout, AMERON quarry and Na Pohaku of Hauwahine, by Kawainui Marsh. He will explain how the Ko‘olau eruptive center was formed two million years ago and how the catastrophic collapse of the windward side of the shield volcano occurred. Dike formations and the quarrying operations by AMERON will be shown. Geological features of Kawainui will also be explained at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine. Bring your cameras, sun screen, wear outdoor gear and walking shoes.
The tour is co-sponsored by Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club, and AMERON. Donations of $10 will be accepted. There will be a limit of 30 persons and reservations must be made by calling Ka’imi Rick Scudder at 263-8008 or via email at “email @ ahahui.net”.
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Kailua Ahupua’a Geology Tour, Oct. 6th
Dr. Floyd McCoy with tour at the Nu’uanu Pali
A geology tour of the Kailua Ahupua’a, including Kawainui Marsh will be conducted on Saturday, October 6th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Dr. Floyd McCoy, geology professor from the Windward Community College, will take the tour group to the Pali Lookout, AMERON quarry and Na Pohaku of Hauwahine, by Kawainui Marsh. He will explain how the Ko‘olau eruptive center was formed two million years ago and how the catastrophic collapse of the windward side of the shield volcano occurred. Dike formations and the quarrying operations by AMERON will be shown. Geological features of Kawainui will also be explained at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine. Bring your cameras, sun screen, wear outdoor gear and walking shoes.
(Note: the next tour will be on Oct. 27th, not Nov. 3rd.)
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Join us on our inaugural Hawaiian Fish Ponds Tour, Sat. May 5th
Hawaiian Fish Ponds Tour
Early Hawaiians were engaged in fish farming or mariculture practices over a thousand years in Hawaii. One of the largest and oldest inland fishpond, the Kawainui Loko I’a was located in Kailua. Other types of fish ponds that were located along the shoreline with a wall enclosure (kuapa) and sluice grates (makaha) to control the movement of fish and tides can still be found in Kaneohe Bay.
Join ‘Ahahui Malama I Ka Lokahi and the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club on Saturday May 5th from 8:30am to 12:30 pm to visit the ancient fishponds at Waikalua Loko Kuapa with brief overlook stops to Nu’upia Loko and Kawainui Loko I’a. Make your reservations by calling ‘Ahahui at 263-8008. There will be a $10 donation requested. We will meet at Ulupo Heiau at 8:15am and carpool to the various sites. Bring sun protection, water, snack and camera.
Also, at the Waikalua Loko Fishpond, we will be taking the opportunity to participate in the 350.org world wide event to Connect the DOTS on Global Warming. We will be holding a sign (bed sheet) with a painted Red Dot to indicate the rise of sea level within 50 years that will impact this site. A digital photo of this scene will be added to the thousands of photos being taking on this day throughout the world.
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Kailua Ahupua’a Geology Tour, Oct. 1st
Signup now for the Kailua Ahupua’a Geology Tour:
A geology tour of the Kailua Ahupua’a, including Kawainui Marsh will be conducted on Saturday, October 1st from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Dr. Floyd McCoy, geology professor from the Windward Community College, will take the tour group to the Pali Lookout, AMERON quarry and Na Pohaku of Hauwahine, by Kawainui Marsh. He will explain how the Ko‘olau eruptive center was formed two million years ago and how the catastrophic collapse of the windward side of the shield volcano occurred. Dike formations and the quarrying operations by AMERON will be shown. Geological features of Kawainui will also be explained at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine.
The tour is co-sponsored by Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club, and AMERON. Donations of $10 will be accepted. There will be a limit of 30 persons and reservations must be made by calling Ka’imi Rick Scudder at 263-8008 or via email at “email@ahahui.net”.
September 13, 2011 at 10:10 pm Leave a comment
Geology of Kailua Ahupua‘a Tour Sat. Oct. 2
Sign up with Ahahui now so you can go on the popular Geology of Kailua Ahupua‘a tour to take place on Saturday, Oct. 2rd. Dr. Floyd McCoy of Windard Community College will lead the geology tour (via car-pooling) to different sites around Kailua including Ameron’s quarry and Kawainui Marsh. The tour will start at 8:30 am. A donation of $10.00 is requested at time of sign-in on the 2nd. Contact Kaimi Scudder to make reservations asap and receive further information at 263-8008, or email Check this blog for updates.
Ramsar World Wetlands Day at Kailua Saturday, Feb. 6th
Don’t miss out on this. Ramsar World Wetlands Day on Saturday Feb. 6th from 9am to 2pm, at the parking structure behind Longs Drugs in Kailua, Oahu. Free natural and cultural history bus tours around Kawainui Marsh by Doc Burrows and Dr. Paul Brennan. Free walking tours to Hamakua Marsh along Hamakua Drive. See native waterbirds! Visit the displays of different organizations and listen to the talks about wetlands and global warming. Many hands on activities for the kids.
Sponsored by Harold K.L. Castle Foundation and Ameron.
February 5, 2010 at 1:52 am Leave a comment
KAILUA JOINS GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION TO SPREAD MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER IN THE WORLD
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For Immediate Release Contact: Chuck “Doc” Burrows
Event is October 24, 2009 Mobile: 372-7594
Email: <chuckb@hawaii.rr.com>
One of Over 2,000 Simultaneous Events in Over 150 Countries
Kawainui Marsh at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine in Kailua, Oahu: October 24th— 75-100 students from Kailua and Oahu will gather in Kawainui Marsh to form the number “350” as part of the largest day ever of climate change activism. People joining from more than 2,000 communities in over 150 countries are part of a global day of action coordinated by 350.org to urge world leaders to take bold and immediate steps to address climate change and reduce carbon emissions.
“These young students will encounter the effects of global warming in the town of Kailua and Kawainui Marsh within their lifetime if we don’t take real action to reduce our carbon footprints before the problem becomes worse here in Hawaii and globally,” said Chuck “Doc” Burrows, board member of Hawaii Interfaith Power and Light and president of Ahahui Malama I Ka Lokahi.
Around the world on 24th October 2009—from capitol cities to the melting slopes of Mount Everest, even underwater on dying coral reefs—people will hold rallies aimed at focusing attention on the number 350 because scientists have insisted in recent years that 350 parts per million is the most carbon dioxide we can safely have in the atmosphere. The current CO2 concentration is 390 parts per million.
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MFO and Roly Porter. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Roly Porter + MFO
Half of seminal late-2000s dubstep duo Vex’d with Kuedo (Jamie Teasdale), Roly Porter’s solo work since chances at dance floor optics, but serves the bodies beneath with chanting choirs, beats and slow-moving synths. Artist Marcel Weber (MFO) makes audio-visual performances, scenography and installations using old and new media. The Berlin Atonal visual director is known for his seminal work with Tim Hecker, on the Stranger Things soundtrack and more. On their return to Sonic Acts, Roly Porter and MFO deliver sepulchral scenography for audio-visual show cum primordial medium Kistvaen (2019) together with Mary-Anne Roberts (Bragod).
Musician Roly Porter began his career as part of production duo Vex’d, later releasing two albums under his name on Subtext, Aftertime (2011) and Life Cycle of a Massive Star (2013) (a FACT Magazine best album of the year). In 2015, he released Third Law (Tri Angle Records), described by Pitchfork as ‘Truly, Awesomely Terrifying’. His residency in Aldeburgh with Cynthia Millar resulted in the 2017 album Fall Back. Porter is a Sonic Acts veteran, having presented work with Marcel Weber (MFO) in 2012 and 2017, he returns with another result of their collaboration, Kistvaen (2019), an audio-visual show performed with Mary-Anne Roberts of Bragod. The piece contrasts primordial motifs – elements, seasons, gods and magic – with twenty-first century designed environments and virtual existence. Field recording, folk instrumentation and digital sound merge against Weber’s scenography of subliminal stage and lighting effects and the cinematic imagery filmed in Białowieża, Dutch Westland, Tokyo and Dartmoor – the last of these home to Kists, Neolithic sites that along with burial ritual songs are foundational to the work.
Marcel Weber (MFO) is a visual artist who directs audio-visual performances, stage designs, video works and installations. He is a resident within multiple experimental art and music event series’, for instance, as Berlin Atonal’s director for light and visuals and long-time collaborator of Unsound Music Festival in Krákow/New York/Adelaide/Toronto. His performances and installations are commissioned and featured at music and art festivals including CTM and MUTEK and many international institutions. Recent projects of note are installation-performance piece Nervous System 2020, live performances with Aïsha Devi, and with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein on their Music of Stranger Things. Further collaborations include those with sound artists and musicians such as Tim Hecker, Ben Frost and Liz Harris (Grouper). With musician Roly Porter, MFO presented work at the 2012 and 2017 editions of Sonic Acts and now again in providing scenography for the audio-visual show Kistvaen (2019) performed by Mary-Anne Roberts (Bragod).
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Matter and Form 3D Scanner V2 Review
By Nick Lievendag • 1 year ago
This is a bit of background info about the history of affordable 3D scanners, so feel free to skip the intro and drive right into the Review.
Back in 2013, desktop 3D printers were supposedly going mainstream. That is when I bought my first 3D printer, a 5th Gen MakerBot Replicator. I didn’t like it at all, so I started complaining about it on my website. Accidentally, I created my very first blog post. That review drove a lot of interest and got me into reviewing other 3D printers until I decided I didn’t like those machines at all and switched to 3D scanning — the rest is history.
When I was testing 3D printers I did know that there were also 3D scanners because they used to be marketed towards the same audience. MakerBot had the Digitzer — a small turntable combined with two lasers and a camera. It was originally priced at $1400. Truth be told, you couldn’t scan a lot of things with it — mainly small toys and trinkets. It didn’t capture color and the geometry it captured wasn’t very detailed. But it was probably an experiment just as desktop 3D printers were.
Anyway at that moment in time (and it’s only 5 years ago really) more companies started betting on the affordable 3D scanner market. 3D Systems introduced the Sense handheld 3D scanner, which actually was the first 3D scanner I reviewed. But not much later a company called Matter and Form announced their take on the MakerBot Digitizer. This first generation device, now known as MFS1V1, also featured two lasers but did have a color camera.
And on top of that, the scan head could automatically move upwards by means of a threaded rod, very similar to desktop 3D printers. This meant it could scan objects that were taller. And the whole contraption could be folded into a case so you could take it everywhere. Is was originally priced at $600 — less than half of the MakerBot Digitizer. Nowadays you can still get one brand new for $399 on Amazon.
I have used both the MakerBot Digitizer and Matter and Form V1 a few times but I never officially reviewed them because their scan quality and long scanning times seemed a bit sub-par to me at the time I started reviewing 3D scanners. Structured light-based desktop scanners were just becoming more affordable with the introduction of the EinScan-S (Review) which was a bit rough around the edges but made detailed scans quite fast.
So I thought that desktop 3D scanners with lasers where a bit passe. I recently reviewed the Eora3D smartphone-based scanner which I think as great potential but is still a bit too limited for automatic 360-degrees object scanning with the current app, especially the meshed results. And Matter and Form’s Bevel (Review) didn’t convince me as a face scanner at all.
So it kind of surprised me that Matter and Form is re-releasing its laser-based desktop scanner. It’s now called the MFS1V2, or Matter and Form 3D Scanner V2.
Changes & Pricing
Not a lot has changed on the hardware side. The enclosure is now totally black instead of the black and white color scheme of the V1 and, according to the manufacturer, improvements to the design of the hardware have been made to enable a higher scan accuracy of 0.1mm vs. 0.25 – 0.45mm (depending on which spec sheet you read) on the older model. But al major components, such as the lasers, HD CMOS sensor and motors, are the same.
A bigger change is on the software side. In April this year, Matter and Form introduced new 3D scanning software called MFStudio. It’s available for both Mac and Windows and boasts a completely new user interface and a modular add-on system.
The first module is called +QuickScan which, as the name implies, reduces the scanning time. It’s apparently a single-laser scanning algorithm that M&F invented for the Bevel (Review) and have now ported to the desktop product. This feature is an in-app purchase of $79 for existing users of the MFS1V1 — which is reduced to $499 on the Matter and Form site but sells for $399 on Amazon while stock lasts — but is included with the MFS1V2, which retails at $749.
The price surprises me because the press release on the Matter and Form website mentioned a price of $649. I also can’t find a listing of the scanner for $599 without the +QuickScan feature.
The Matter and Form 3D scanner can fold into a small suitcase. The idea that this makes it portable is nice but I’m not sure if people would transport a desktop 3D scanner often. And it’s still too large to put in a big with a laptop. It’s made entirely out of plastic and is very light. It feels a bit cheap for a $749 product, especially compared to the Eora3D (Review) which is also a small laser-based desktop scanner that costs $599 on Amazon but made out of anodized aluminum.
The Eora3D doesn’t have a built-in camera and uses the one on your smartphone. But almost every modern smartphone camera sensor is better than the HD CMOS sensor in the Matter and Form 3D Scanner.
The electric turntable on the MFS1V2 is 16 centimeters in diameter. This is larger than the 12cm plate included with the Eora3D but notably smaller than turntables that come with most structured light scanners. For example, The EinScan-SE (Review) comes with a 20cm wide turntable. But that device costs $1299, $550 more than the MFSV2. According to the specs, the maximum diameter of scannable objects is 18cm so they can hang a bit over the edge of the turntable.
The scanner is all made out of one part, so the distance between the scan head and turntable is fixed. The head can move upwards to enable scanning objects up to 25cm tall, according to the specs. It’s noteworthy that while the turntable operated almost completely silent, the stepper motor that moved the head upwards is very loud. Luckily it only moves after each 360-degrees cycle and 5 times maximum.
The red lasers are Class 1, so they are eye safe. However, the downside of consumer grade red lasers is that they aren’t very bright so you’ll quickly run into contrast problems as I’ll demonstrate later in this review.
For comparison, the Eora3D’s Class 2 (also “eye safe”, but a bit less) green laser is notably brighter and offers more contrast on a greater variety of surface colors and characteristics. That effect is enhanced by using a better, more light sensitive smartphone camera and that, like our eyes, camera sensors are usually more sensitive to green than to red (or blue).
Besides the scanner, the box contains a calibration card and a rubber ducky that can be used as a test subject. Also included is a USB cable and a power adapter with add-ons for every thinkable international power outlet.
The scanner has a single button to turn it on and off. The idea of using the MF logo as a button is nice but the LED is very dim so it’s hard to tell if the device is on in average room lighting.
Finally, the specs state this scanner has an accuracy of “within ± 0.1mm”. Even if that is really true, actually getting that accuracy in scan detail depends on a lot of variables such as object color, material, lighting condition and the size of the object. I usually judge these figures the same as I do with mileage figures on cars: I’ll judge it myself after a long test drive!
MFStudio is the big new thing. They could have just introduced the software without a new scanner but I do understand some of the marketing thoughts behind it. The good news is: the software is really nice! It’s very user friendly with clear instructions for turning the device on, calibration and scanning. Totally new is that you can make more than one scan with an object in various positions and align the results to create more complete 3D models.
All settings can be made though sliders and the live viewports respond to what you’re doing. That’s nice, but it still means you have to dial in exposure values for geometry and color capture manually and separately. It would have been great if the software was smart enough to do initial auto exposure in both cases. Manual override would of course be nice for advanced, but for beginners a single scan button would have been nice. I wouldn’t be surprised if MF would introduce a +AutoExposure add-on in the future.
You can select how high the scan head must go in 5 blocks and you can also opt to scan only a part of an object by limiting the turntable rotation to a minimum of 45 degrees. Unfortunately, the fact that the meshing algorithm always produces watertight meshes makes partial scanning useless for most purposes.
No matter what settings you change, you’ll always have a clear indication of the expected scanning time in the top of the interface. This is really important because scanning times on the Matter and Form scanners can be very long. Regular scanning can easily take up to an hour. Of course there’s now the +QuickScan feature that indeed greatly reduces the scanning time so it’s great to see indications between 1 and 15 minutes, depending on various settings. The question of course is how much this speed increase impacts scan quality.
Most light or laser-based scanners need calibration but the fact that this scanner has a fixed camera-to-turntable distance means that you won’t have to do it often. Calibration is also simple and quick: just put the card on the turntable in two positions and you’re done within minutes. I normally hate calibration but this is one of the fastest procedures I’ve every encountered on a desktop 3D scanner so kudos for that.
Scanning in Regular Mode
If your project needs the best quality you’ll have to use the regular scan mode. It uses both lasers which are positioned in different distanced from the camera. So the scan will contain the least amount of holes and scan data from two laser lines makes the procedure more robust than using a single laser.
Yes, regular mode is slow. Scanning a 10cm tall toy figure would require the height to be set to 3/5, although I found that setting it to 4/5 filled in a little bit more details on the top. If you want to scan just geometry, a scan would take 37 minutes. With color capture enabled, it jumps up to 57 minutes. That might be fine if you just want to scan stuf for fun. And people that use desktop 3D printers are pretty well used to lang waiting times for printing small, fun objects. But for more professional use cases where you’d want to scan multiple objects it’s very slow. For comparison, an entry level structured light scanner like the EinScan-SE an scan a small object like this in less than four minutes.
In regular scan mode the turntable stops many times (I guess 360 times but I didn’t count) to allow a capture of the first laser, second laser and then a color capture with a different exposure value. After a full rotation, the scan head moves up and the procedure is repeated. It’s nice to see the point cloud being built in real time on your screen. And in this mode this is also in color. There’s a clear indication of the remaining scanning time.
Color capture in this mode is made from stills so RGB exposure time is automatically increased when you increase the brightness. This does further add to the total scanning time but it does prevent motion blur in the final texture. It’s good to know that while the point cloud is colored, the actual texture of the final meshed model will be generated through UV-mapping based on the separately captured HD color frames.
Scanning in +QuickScan Mode
In QuickScan mode (let’s drop the + for better reading) you have to choose if you want to use the first or second laser. The first one is further away from the camera which will result in scans that are more accurate but can possibly contain more holes. Laser two will capture more of the object but with slightly reduced quality.
In this mode I could scan the same 10cm tall toy figure in 6.5 minutes instead of almost an hour, so that’s a huge speed increase. The scanner can scan this fast because the turntable now rotates in a continuous motion. It does one pass for the geometry with the chosen laser on and a second pass for color capture with the laser off and a higher exposure on the camera. Keep in mind that the highest exposure values can result in motion blur, depending on the lighting conditions. As a hack, this mode does allow to switch on studio lights after the laser pass and switch them off again when the scan head moves upwards.
It’s noteworthy that while QuickScan does capture color it does not color the point cloud. It will UV-map the model in the meshing phase with the captured color frames.
Anyway, QuickScan is faster. And those scan times are realistic for a $599 device in my option. In most cases it does result in a lesser result though. If that’s a problem really depends on the object. I found that most QuickScans has more holes in them. And because the software fills all holes when meshing this can result in unwanted surface details.
I’ve added results from both modes later in this review.
Unscannable Colors, Materials & Shapes
In general 3D scanning has the problem that not every object is scannable. The usual problems are surface characteristics like transparency or glossiness. And many 3D scanners have a hard time scanning surfaces that are very dark or black. But as I wrote before, the Class 1 red lasers on the Matter and Form 3D scanner had problems with relatively light colors, notable blue and red. Even in perfect lighting conditions I sometimes couldn’t capture geometry of objects made of red or blue plastic.
Where did Miffy’s arms go?
Some parts also can’t be captured because the lasers are fixed and only the turntable is moving. So these parts are literally in the shadow of other parts. For comparison, the Eora3D’s single laser also moves horizontally in a sweeping motion. Below is an example of a scan of a dog figurine that’s clearly a hard shape for this scanner to capture. And this was made in regular scan mode.
Lighting Condition Hacks!
Lighting conditions for this scanner are tricky. I found that to get the best contrast on the lasers, the room lighting should be almost off. But that of course does greatly impact color capture. The design of the device also makes it hard to light the object properly from the front with external because the casing is so close to the turntable.
Directional light from windows, even on an overcast day, can also impact scan quality of both the geometry and color. So I ended up placing the whole scanner inside a $70 Foldio 2 light tent. I didn’t use the LEDs in the tent itself but the semi-translucent white material of the tent made the scan area dark enough for proper laser contrast and diffuse enough for proper color capture. Depending on the surface characteristics of the object I switched on external studio softboxes to get the best geometry/color-capture balance.
Christmas vibes!
This experiment made me realize that it’s a pity that Matter and Form didn’t put more thought into upgrading the hardware. Especially now that the QuickScan feature does a separate color capture pass, a built-in LED light that would automatically switch on during color capture could greatly increase texture quality without any hassle.
In the photo above I’ve attached a $1.49 USB-powered LED Strip to the inside of the casing which I plugged in and out manually. It’s a bit short and not very bright, but actually works pretty well as a proof of concept. If only the inside of the casing was white like the V1 model, which would have allowed for more diffuse light. But then there’s office paper!
Scan Density vs Size
An interesting thing I found was that because of the fixed amount of line captures during a 360-degree rotation, object with a small diameter result in denser point clouds than larger objects. For objects wider than 8-10cm there’s quite a bit of spacing in between them, causing a loss of detail. It would require a lot more captures per rotation to fill these in but there’s no setting for that.
Editing & Aligning
In the new MFStudio you can add an unlimited amount of scans to a project. In practice you’ll probably make two scans with an object in different positions. You can use a brush tool to select and clean unwanted points.
You can clean noise with a slider but for me it wasn’t entirely clear when I was deleting actual noise of started deleting valuable data. But it’s a visual tool and the software has a great undo feature so you can experiment.
If you’ve cleaned your scans you can align them by clicking the A icon on the base scan and than the A icon on the scan that needs to be aligned. This is an automatic feature so success will depend on distinctions in shape of the object and the overlap between two scans. You can’t assist the algorithm manually so you’re either in luck or not.
While you can hide, unhide or delete scans in the project window, I greatly miss a way to duplicate scans. That feature would allow users to experiment more with different variations of editing an noise reduction.
Meshing is a separate tab with only two options: a quality slider and a checkbox to enable or disable texturing. The software fills all holes by default, and there’s no way to turn this off. Great for 3D printing purposes but very annoying if you want to create a 3D asset for digital use. A slider to control hole filing is an absolute necessity in a future update of MFStudio in my opinion.
Alternatively you can export the raw point cloud data and perform meshing externally but you can export the captured color frames so you can’t perform UV-mapping then.
While meshing just the geometry is pretty fast on my Surface Book with i7 processor and 16GB of RAM, the texturing algorithm takes a lot of time and is very resource intensive. There’s just an animation and no status bar so I often wasn’t sure if the program had crashed or was still working hard. It actually always finished but sometimes after 20 minutes for a 10 cm tall model and up to an hour for large objects meshed at the highest quality setting. I can imagine that this will be a problem on less powerful computer hardware.
What I also miss is a way to edit the final texture in terms of brightness and contrast. This would have been a great way to counteract the fact that geometry capture works better in lower light conditions. Luckily you can edit the texture files easily in a photo editor of choice as you’ll see below.
As you will see in the results below, some of the textures have black parts on them. Sometimes it’s just a spot, sometimes it’s a larger part. Either way, they shouldn’t be there and I hope it’s a bug that can be fixed.
You can export the point clouds as PLY or XYZ files and meshes as STL or OBJ files. The latter includes a UV Texture map. It’s good to know that, regardless of using the regular or QuickScan option, the OBJ always has a separate texture map. It’s usually a 3840 x 1920 map that consists of 6 views of the model.
It’s not an efficient UV map at all but it is very easily editable in a photo editor like Photoshop this way, which I actually like.
It would be great if Matter and Form added a few more export formats and maybe a Sketchfab exporter in the future. The embeds below were made by uploading the exported OBJ files. Finally, it’s also noteworthy that after the time-consuming meshing and texturing phase, exporting to OBJ again can take a while, even on a PC with an SSD drive. So there’s a lot of waiting involved.
Below is a scan of the toy you see in the photos in regular scan mode, followed by the same object made in QuickScan mode.
Small Toy (Regular Scan) – Matter and Form V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
Small Toy (+QuickScan) – Matter and Form V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
As you can see, the textures both scans are similar, and not as sharp as I had hoped. If you press the 3 key on your keyboard to view the models without texture, you can see that the geometry is also similar but the regular scan did capture more actual details of the front of the ears while the QuickScan uses more hole filling. But that’s a small difference. In general I think that for this model the QuickScan feature is similar enough to be the one to choose. However, I do find that both (and all) results contain quite a lot of surface noise since the actual plastic toy is completely smooth. Smoothing the noise externally would also reduce the details in the necklace.
Below is another example of another small toy. It’s a combination of a horizontally and vertically placed scan with the pre-meshing noise filter of MFStudio at full effect:
vtech toy (full noise filter ) – MFS1V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
As you can see the noise filter has removed quite some noise compared to the other toy but you’ll probably never get the super smooth results that structured light scanners can deliver. It’s also noteworthy that this figurine again doesn’t have complete arms. Whether that’s because of the red color, specularity or position of the laser (or a combination of all) isn’t totally clear to me but scanning objects like this doesn’t result in complete models.
Next up is a toddler-size sneaker that just fits on the turntable. It’s matte and white so it should be ideal for any scanner, except for maybe the black stripes. Again I aligned two scans: one with the shoe on its sole and one positioned on its side.
Toddler sneaker – Matter and Form V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
I don’t like the texture quality but the geometry is actually quite usable although there’s also still quite some noise. And the scanner wasn’t able to capture the patterns on the nose of the sneaker.
To better illustrate which parts of the mesh above are actual captured details and which are generated through hole filling, here’s the unedited point cloud from the MFS1V1:
Toddler Sneaker (Point Cloud) – MFS1V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
You can clearly see that the laser line captures have been further apart in near the front and back. Combining the two scans made the lines into a grid which does create a better mesh but that this has quite large holes in it.
This point cloud also allows me to best compare the scan data of the MFS1V2 with the Eora3D because the latter didn’t have a high quality meshing feature at the time of testing (I will re-test it soon).
Toddler Sneaker (Point Cloud) — eora3D Studio by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
It’s really hard to compare scans this way but to me it shows that the Eora3D captures a denser point cloud throughout the object with less noise.
For a totally different comparison, here’s the same sneaker scanned with the EinScan-SE structured light scanner. The embed below is a fully textured mesh.
Toddler Sneaker — EinScan-SE by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
It might be comparing apples and oranges, but even though the texture of that scan will need some retouching it’s sharp and usable. And the geometry is a lot more detailed. It’s also smooth where it needs to be and textured where the actual model has actual depth patterns. You won’t be surprised if I say I like the last result a lot better. And it was also a lot faster to scan than both the laser scans.
Onto something bigger, in this case an old jar that’s 18cm wide and 14cm wide at the handles. This is actually the largest object I could fit on the Matter and Form V2 that also has some definition on the top part.
Old Jar (+QuickScan) – Matter and Form V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
I’m happy that the Matter and Form V2 is able to scan objects beyond the small trinket category, but there are quite a lot of part’s I’m not really happy about. The texture has funky black parts and the color changes upwards. That might very well be because of changes in room lighting during scanning (the texture is scanned in 5 different height passes) but that further proves that that approach has downsides. I was surprised to see that the edge of the opening on the top has been captured quite good but unfortunately the same can’t be said about the handles of the jar. I also couldn’t put this object on the turntable sideways because the opening of the jar would almost touch the scan head and completely block the lasers from reaching the handles.
Putting the same model on the larger turntable of the EinScan-SP (which will give similar results as the SE for objects like these) which also has a larger distance to the scan head (even when mounted on the included stand), I could easily scan to separate positions and combine them into a more complete (and mode detailed) model of the jar:
Old Jar — EinScan-SP by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
To wrap up, here’s a scan of the small, full color sandstone 3D print you saw in some of the photos above. I’m including it because it seems to be the ideal subject for this scanner: it’s matte, it’s small, it’s bright and it doesn’t have arms (or other extruding parts). It’s a regular scan.
Lorentz 3D Print (Regular Scan) – MFS1V2 by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab
Even for this object, the top of the head and shoulders couldn’t be captured in a single scan in standing position. I could have improved the texture with better lighting conditions but the geometry is good. There’s more noise in the geometry than the actual sandstone material has, though.
The V2 is an evolution of the original Matter and Form 3D scanner from 2014 but it’s not a revolutionary new product. No major hardware parts were changed so it’s a combination of very small hardware design changes and a large change in the software. This might indeed result in higher accuracy from a measurement perspective, but it will depend on your use case if that is relevant.
While this the MFS1V2 is capable of capturing a lot of details for a scanner of this price, the output is inconsistent. Some objects turn out okay while others are disappointing. This is true for any scanner to a certain extend but extra noticeable on this one. The fixed setup greatly limits the size of scannable objects and on top of that the red laser has problems with certain surface colors, especially when they are even a bit glossy. The scanner very much prefers matte surfaces so you might have to treat objects with matting spray to get better results. But even when doing so, scans of smooth objects can contain quite a bit of noise.
The position of the lasers in relation to the camera is fine for some object but can be problematic for others. Even when using both lasers in regular scan mode, complex objects often contain holes because the lasers can’t reach extruded parts or into some cavities. The new MFStudio software does allow aligning multiple scans but not all objects (certainly not larger ones) can be put sideways on a turntable and the increase in total scan time also makes doing this unrealistic, at least in regular scan mode.
You also can’t just put the scanner anywhere as room lighting conditions greatly impact the scan quality. If you want to have control over both geometry and color capture, you’ll have to put the scanner in a light tent or something similar.
The new, single-laser +QuickScan feature is a big time saver. It brings scanning most object under the 10 minute mark which is a lot more realistic than scan times of an hour or more in regular scan mode. Again, it works nicely on some objects but depending on the laser you choose you can end up with a model with even more holes. The software will fill those holes automatically when meshing but that might be an unwanted feature for purposes other than 3D printing.
While the scanning phase does offer an indication of the remaining time, meshing does not and if you want textures it can take very long. There’s no progress bar at all and sometimes it took up to an hour on my quite powerful Surface Book. The resulting textures sometimes contain black parts or other inconsistencies.
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Ultimately, even though the MFS1V2 is quite picky about the objects it can scan and doesn’t always produce consistent, complete results, there aren’t many other scanners (see alternatives in the panel below) in this price range that can scan small objects with this level of detail. Even if you would clean the scans of the surface noise, you will still have a lot more details than any depth sensor (like Structure Sensor or Intel RealSense) can capture on objects this small.
For $749 I expected a bit more of this updated hardware/software combination. As it stands now the $599-$649 price tag mentioned in the original press release would make a more sense te me. I’m also not convinced by the add-on software business model. I hope that M&F will also keep adding free improvements to MFStudio and won’t be charging users $79 for each new feature.
Using laser lines still seems to be the only way to produce a commercially viable desktop 3D scanner for less than $1000, but with structured light scanners coming very close to that mark I’m very curious how this market will develop in the coming years.
Besides open-source DIY laser scanner kits like the $115 Ciclop, there are no other computer-connectable desktop 3D scanners that cost less than $750 so there’s little competition for the MFS1V2.
The only logical competition in the commercial laser scanner range is the $599 Eora3D. That smartphone-based device has the benefit of using a more powerful laser your smartphone’s great camera. It had the downside of working with complex 3D calculations and editing on a mobile device but Eora3D Studio did just add iPad (Pro) support so you don’t have to do everything on a smartphone anymore. However, I should note that when I last tested the Eora3D Studio app, the alignment and messing features weren’t well enough developed to do proper mesh-to-mesh comparisons with the Matter and Form V2.
If your pockets are a bit deeper than $749, there’s the $1299 EinScan-SE structured light scanner. Like the MFS1V2 it also works on Windows and Mac (the latter is in beta) but it does allow scanning objects with more diversity in surface characteristic, that are a lot bigger, in less time, and often with less noise in the geometry. It also offers 0.1mm accuracy if that’s important to you and updates of the EinScan software have so far always been free.
If you’re on a budget and just want to make 3D scans of small stuff for fun (meaning you don’t care about the increased accuracy), probably the best alternative for the Matter and Form 3D Scanner V2 is the V1 that’s now $399 on Amazon while supply lasts. You can use it with the new MFStudio (download here for free) and get the +QuickScan feature as an in-app purchase for $79, which I recommend.
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Meeting Ariana Grande and the cast of Victorious
On March 27, 2010, a new series premiered on Nickelodeon. It was created by Dan Schneider and is about a teenager named Tori Vega who attends Hollwood Arts with her sister, Trina and their friends.
Ariana Grande plays Cat. Her character is always really happy or really sad. She talks in a high pitched voice and has really red hair. Sometimes she shows off her awesome voice on the show. She sang a song on Freak the Freak Out called Give it Up. In real life, Ariana is an awesome singer, loves her fans, family and supporting charities. She actually starred on Broadway in a show called 13. She was born in Florida and has a brother she’s really close to named Frankie. Ariana is very passionate about a charity called Broadway in South Africa. Ariana loves to stay in touch with her fans through Twitter. She lets you know how much she loves you and when she’ll be somewhere where you can meet her. She is very loving and offers “Free Hugs”.
Once she tweeted that she would be at a charity event in Hollywood. We live near there so my mom said we could go. WooHoo! When we got there we found out it was a fund raiser and tickets cost $150 each! My mom talked to the ticket lady and explained we only wanted to see Ari..So the lady let us both go for $150. That’s a lot of money but my mom loves to support charities and I REALLY wanted to meet Ariana. We listened to a lot of awesome singers from Broadway sing that night. We met Matt Doyle, Tom Link and also met the actor who played Sebastian from Little Mermaid!
Ariana was awesome. She sang “Beautiful” and one other song. The crowd LOVED her! After, we went up to her. She was with her mom. They were super nice and we got an autograph and lots of pictures. We ran into her again out in the lobby. We told her how much we loved her on Victorious. Her voice in real life is different from Cat’s. She explained that has 3 voices, her “Cat” voice, her “real” voice and her singing voice.
In September, she tweeted that she would be at an event at the Santa Monica Pier. It was a charity for the earth called Roots and Shoots. It was the same day as the Jonas Brothers’ Road Dogs Game. We went and waited but had to leave to get to the game before she got there. We left her a note and a picture of us together!
A few months later she tweeted thst was going to be a waitress at Chili’s nearby as part of a fund raiser for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital! When we arrived there were a few friends we knew from Twitter. We all sat together and soon Ariana arrived to serve us. That was a really fun day!
Dan Schneider, Erik Lange, Danielle Monet and Ariana’s family all came out to support her and St Jude’s. Ariana spent a lot of time at our table and even sang Happy Birthday to someone at our table!
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I think it was really cool of the Dan, Erik and Daniella to come out and be so nice to their fans and support Ariana and this awesome charity.
My mom tweeted that the “Free Hug” I got at the Broadway event cost her $150. She never thought Ariana would actually see that tweet but she did. Ariana is such a cool person that she thought that it was pretty funny. She also gave me a shout out n Twitter and talked about me in a chat!
I hope we see Ariana Grande again soon!
I have met other members of the cast too:
I met both Avan and Victoria Justice at the Teen Choice Awards. They were on there way to an after party so I just got quick pics!
I met Leon at a launch party for Concrete Minds in Hollywood.
I met Matt Bennett and Danielle Monet a few different times at events… Here’s a pic of me with Matt at the Miss Behave Launch event in Hollywood. He is so silly!
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Euthanasia in Canada: What has happened to democracy?
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Last January, Prime Minister Trudeau replaced Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould and appointed Hon. David Lametti as Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada. Wilson-Raybould was replaced because she refused to change her mind when pressured by Trudeau in the SNC Lavalin affair.
I was very concerned by Lametti's appointment because Lametti had voted against Canada's euthanasia bill because he thought that it was too restrictive.
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Soon after, Lametti, in an interview with Tonda MacCharles from the Toronto Star, stated that the government would not expand Canada's euthanasia law before the five-year review that was to begin in June 2020. MacCharles reported:
Any changes would have to wait until the conclusion of a five-year parliamentary review about how the new regime is working.
“the parliamentary process struck “an important balance” that he respects, and a five-year review would be able to assess “data” and “evidence” about the impact the law is having.
On September 11, a Quebec Superior court judge struck down the requirement, in Canada's euthanasia law, that a person's "natural death must be reasonably foreseeable." This section of the law was not defined but it did prevent people from being lethally injected based on psychological reasons alone.
The Quebec court gave the Quebec and Federal governments 30 days, or until October 11 to appeal the decision. But alas, Canada was in the middle of a federal election.
During the French language leaders debate Prime Minister Trudeau decided to ignore democracy and the promise by his government to uphold the current euthanasia law until after the completion of a five-year review (June 2021). Trudeau stated that the government will not appeal the Quebec court decision and the Liberals would amend the current euthanasia law soon after the election.
Jody Wilson-Raybould - David Lametti
Remember that Wilson-Raybould was removed as the Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada because she refused to be influenced by Trudeau in the SNC Lavalin affair. Wilson-Raybould stated that it was not a political decision but a decision based on the independent role as the Attorney General.
Similarly it is undue influence for Trudeau to announce that the government will not appeal the Quebec court decision? Trudeau had no right to politically interfere in a legal decision.
Even if Trudeau agreed with the court decision, the decision should still have been appealed based on the language of the decision and the precedent that it establishes. Political interference should not have been allowed in this case either.
Finally, what is the point of a five-year review if the law is amended before the review?
What has happened to democracy in Canada?
Labels: Alex Schadenberg, Canada euthanasia, David Lametti, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Quebec euthanasia
Paul Anderson said...
Very disappointing. Mr. Trudeau's decision not to appeal the Truchon-Gladu judgment seems to have been influenced by the proximity of the federal election. He has taken pains not to appear eager to challenge legal decisions made in Quebec, including the recent religious symbols law, as the LIberals need votes there.
D Desrochers said...
Am I correct in saying that an unfortunate result of the Charter of Rights is that Judges have power to legislate? We should revise it. Secondly, does it not seem that Judges interpreted the Canadian Charter as based on the foundation of "rule of law" only while ignoring the foundation of "supremacy of God", as specified in the Charter preamble? Surely, the Judeo-Christian God's commandments such as Do not murder, Do not steal, do not lie or cheet, care for the child, orphan, widow, the poor, sick, disabled, and dying, the command to seek peace, love enemies, etc. formed Canada's foundation of laws and values. They set an objective standard of right and wrong. But that foundation has eroded.
Seems to me that now Canadian judges and legislators think even murder is not so wrong anymore. Perhaps Canadians aught to stand guard against such thinking and demand they use God's laws as the objective truth again. We Canadians need to repair this 2nd foundation before our government, say, builds "death centres" to solve its problems of the high costs of health care, homelessness, mental illness, palliative care, disabilities, poverty, unemployment, refugees, etc.
The Nazis euthanized their own people first to free up hospital beds for soldiers: 70k+ long term sick and disabled men, women, and children euthanized at death centers, justifed because these were not living lives that were worthwhile. Later they sent the gypsies, political dissonants, and other scaoegoats like the Jews.
"Never Again" Canada!
Gilles Saint-Amour said...
Very interistingly, after obtaining an amendment to the law basing their revendication on the extreme pain they were suffering and the anguish of having to wait any longer, Mrs Gladu declared «having many thngs to do, like studying the new amendment, and seeing some friends, and not being in such a hurry after all. Mr Truchon said, well, «I want to see this winter, live theough it, then the next spring, then we will see what happens next summer». To much for the emergency of changing the law.
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From Palestine to the US, festival highlights a common struggle
Nada Elia
Published date: 14 October 2019 14:00 UTC | Last update: 3 months 1 week ago
Three-day event will explore the commonalities between Palestinian and African American communities
US revolutionary icon Angela Davis will be a keynote speaker at the New York University festival in March (AFP)
“One of its charming miracles is that through its form, poetry can resist the content of authoritarian discourse,” writes Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti.
“By resorting to understatement, concrete and physical language, a poet contends against abstraction, generalisation, hyperbole and the heroic language of hot headed generals and bogus lovers alike. Poetry remains one of the astonishing forms in our hands to resist obscurantism and silence.”
It seems perfectly appropriate, then, that the first major North American festival of Palestinian literature, Palestine Writes - set to take place in New York University next March - will open with a lineup of Palestinian poets from the homeland and the global diaspora, asserting our right to express our own realities and experiences, away from the obscurantism, generalisations, and the hyperbole of authoritarian discourse.
Supporting justice
From Dareen Tatour’s poem “Resist, My People, Resist Them”, which led to her arrest and imprisonment in Israel on charges of “incitement through social media”; to Remi Kanazi’s observation on his grandmother’s Nakba experience that “We will return/That is not a threat/Not a wish, a hope or a dream/But a promise”; to Rafeef Ziadah’s defiant “We Teach Life, Sir”, which questions the Zionist narrative that vilifies Palestinians - along with many others - the festival promises to showcase the diversity, breadth and depth of Palestinian culture today.
Palestine Writes will be “three days of readings, talks, and performances celebrating Palestinian literature”, as it brings together writers, artists, publishers, booksellers and scholars to read, present work, and have conversations about art, literature, and the intersections between culture, struggle and politics.
What are the voices that no prison walls can silence telling us? How are these voices shaping our cultures?
As festival organisers explain: “The common threads uniting all participants are the love of books and support of justice for Palestine. Our festival honors the many historic personalities who have walked this path before us, and showcases living voices celebrating Palestinian life, devoted to the belief that art challenges repression and creates bonds between Palestine and the rest of the world.”
The festival “will highlight the richness of Palestinian art for a North American audience who may not have had the opportunity to experience this work due to lack of linguistic access [limited translations of Arabic literature], the severe restrictions on movement of Palestinians, and the censorship and repression of Palestinian speech in the US”, organisers note, adding that it will bring people together “in the spirit of Mahmoud Darwish’s sentiment that we ‘have the right to smell autumn’s fragrances and ask the night for a dream’.”
The festival will also be an opportunity to explore the commonalities between Palestinians and other communities in struggle, especially in the North American context. One plenary will explore the parallel lives of Palestine’s Ghassan Kanafani and African-American revolutionary thinker James Baldwin, two fearless contemporaneous literary icons who never met, but were - and remain - equally influential on their communities, and far ahead of their time in the social analysis that pervaded their work.
Another plenary linking struggles from Palestine to North America will focus on “Political Prison Writing”, featuring some of the iconic letters penned by revolutionaries in North American and Israeli jails.
Demonstrators mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on 17 April in Gaza City (AFP)
The panel will discuss the historic and cultural relevance of some of these writings, while also touching on contemporary writings and what they mean in our current reality, where one in every three African American men will be incarcerated in the US - a statistic similar to that experienced by Palestinians, who are convicted and imprisoned at the highest rate in the world. What are the voices that no prison walls can silence telling us? How are these voices shaping our cultures?
A panel on children’s and young adult literature, meanwhile, will focus on issues of representation in literature aimed at young audiences, and the challenges of raising children amid popular images that misrepresent the communities they identify with, and do not speak to their experiences.
Keynote speakers include US revolutionary icon Angela Davis, a longtime supporter of Palestinian rights, whose recent book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, explores institutionalised racism and criminalisation, as well as the alliances forming to counter and overcome these oppressive systems.
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The festival will close with a panel on Palestinian theatre and cinema, with a possible screening of Elia Suleiman’s It Must be Heaven, the country’s nominee for best international feature film at the 2020 Oscars.
Since publishing the festival’s website and Facebook page, organisers have been receiving a steady trickle of requests to participate - many from Palestinian writers and artists, but also, in a welcome and encouraging move, from allies near and far, who want to be part of this ambitious, history-making project. Organisers are still raising money for this major endeavour, and hope to expand the programme to include even more presenters, if they exceed their goal in time.
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Northern Artists Show on the South Side: A Review of “Visions of Wisconsin” at La Luz Gallery
August 25, 2017 at 8:30 am by Chris Miller
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Creativity is ubiquitous. While working on an art project in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Susan Attea encountered a vibrant Wisconsin art community. She has brought four of its artists back to her gallery in Pilsen, and there are several surprises here.
Sara Strozinsky makes the kind of watercolor nature studies that are likely found in the competitive exhibitions of watercolor societies. Nature is presented as squeaky clean and well-ordered. Her pieces are pleasant and well-crafted, but beyond that, they have a vibrant intensity that borders on the compulsive. She now specializes in leaves of grass with an overall sharpness and clarity that feels more like engraving than watercolor. And indeed, she cuts into the paper to bring out its brightness beneath the maze of sharp, twisting foliage. A million things appear to have been done as well and quickly as in a well-kept kitchen. Emphasizing that domestic feeling, her best piece presents a robin sitting in its tangled nest. Wildness is under tight control and domesticity conquers all.
As a younger artist, Katie Schofield reflects the more conceptual bent of current art education. She has crumpled and tied old newspapers into tube-like structures that immediately made me think about cliff swallows. I’ve often seen their nests bunched together beneath bridges over Midwestern rivers. Mine is a happy memory, and it is enjoyable to think about how these elegant creatures have repurposed clunky human constructions just as she has repurposed newsprint. Excepting that personal memory, the pieces were no more visually interesting than a grayish lump of sacks piled on the floor.
Another young artist, Laura Annis, appears to have developed her practice out of an enthusiasm for a genre of popular art. With training in animation, she has applied that quick, smooth, linear approach to dramatic figuration. She has a steady hand and a facility with carving and welding as well as painting. The results feel more sincere than commercial as she deals with themes like broken hearts and heroin abuse, but they also feel tacky, disposable and adolescent. Her facility with materials is way ahead of her sense of mass, line, color and formal structure.
The most remarkable artist here is the Dutch illustrator Anne Horjus. His inner child seems to have never lost that dreamy sense of wonder and curiosity that characterizes his illustrations for children’s literature. It’s not a genre to which I have ever related, even as a child. Specifically for this show, he has painted something completely different: two wall-size skyscapes that seem to have leaped straight out of the Dutch Golden Age. They summon that sense of celestial awe so easily associated with divine revelation. They come from a time in European history when faith drove armies, and I might almost have signed up. Horjus is a versatile artist. Possibly he will never paint the swirling clouds of a luminous Baroque sky ever again, but I wish he’d make it his specialty. (Chris Miller)
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If you just want to look at a pretty picture, you can stop now. If you’re curious about how this picture came about and are not afraid of some math, keep reading.
0.0.0.1 The times they are a-changin’.
1 The Idea
2 The Data
3 Math
4 Math with Bicycles
5 Another Idea
6 Framing the Picture
7 Lessons Learned
8 Making Lemoonade
Cool picture, right? Here’s what went into making it:
It all started with an email to my friend Jacob, who moved back to Alabama ((Roll Tide)) last year:
Remember when I rented that 600mm lens for Seafair a couple years ago?
I’m renting the 800mm this year…wish you were here.
On my DX body, it’s effectively a 1200mm and it also comes with a 1.25 teleconverter for 1500mm of awesomeness.
While the primary intent was to take pictures at Seafair, Jake and I went back and forth for a bit on other cool photo ideas, originally talking about astrophotography but then moving to something a bit more Earth-bound. The idea was to do an ET-esque moonshoot similar to what Switzerland-based photographer Philipp Schmidli did:
The Silhouette of a Bike Rider on Thursday, April 25, 2013 before the rising full moon. Photo by Philipp Schmidli.
Another friend, Nate, was having a bachelor party that would involve lots of biking on Friday night. I was hoping to get everyone biking on top of the hill at Gas Works park, but the technical logistics don’t really work. Let’s go through the data.
Here’s the US Naval Observatory (USNO) Calculated Altitude/Azimuth Data for the Moonset times (when the Moon is at an altitude ((For the record: I prefer “elevation”, but I’ll try to remain consistent with the USNO wording)) of 0°):
Azimuth ((E of N))
Fraction Illuminated
8/1 23:00 258.1° 0.32
For Friday (8/1), the reverse bearing is . Moving out 1000 meters ((at this point, 1000 m is just an arbitrary “best guess” for how far away I’d have to be)) from the Gas Works Park hill (“S”) on a bearing of 78.1° puts us right over by I-5 (“D”) — so at least we’re on land.
Gas Works Park hill (“S”) on a bearing of 78.1° puts us right over by I-5 (“D”)
Unfortunately, it also puts us at an elevation that’s ~30 meters above the top of the Gas Works Park hill — we’d be looking down at them by :
Note: the elevation profile (top) is the opposite direction as the map (bottom).
Moving down to the water would reduce our elevation, but now we have another problem: Queen Anne Hill is blocking the moon. We’d have to shoot looking up 2.5°:
Going back to the USNO, we could look up and find that at 22:43 the Moon will be at an elevation of 2.5° and an azimuth of 255.0°, or about 3.1° to left of where it would be at 23:00. We could keep playing this game until we found the perfect spot, but that still doesn’t solve our issue of being too close to the subject (i.e. the bikers at Gas Works Park).
The Gas Works Park location does not work because we must be far enough away from our primary subjects (the bikers in this instance) for them to appear small enough in comparison to our secondary subject (the Moon). Just how far is a function of (Or solving for theta: , which is the equation used several times above)
The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the length of the adjacent side.
In order to make the primary subject look smaller in comparison to the Moon, we are taking advantage of the fact the arc length (θ) of an object does not change significantly when your distance from the object is very large in comparison.
Arc diameter (Y-axis) vs ratio of distance/diameter (X-axis, log plot)
For example, the diameter of the Moon is about 3,475 km and the distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 385,000 km. This means the Moon has an arc diameter of:
Even if we move 100 km toward the Moon the arc diameter would still only be:
…a difference of 0.0002°
Meanwhile, a person 1.8 m tall at a distance of 1 km would have an arc height of:
However, if we move closer just 0.5 km the person now has an arc height of:
…a difference of 0.1°!
Math with Bicycles
In Schmidli’s Moon photo, the Moon is about 7 bicycles in diameter:
If the bicycle is 1.8 m long, the camera must be at a distance of: , where x is the distance between the primary subject (the bicyclist) and the camera. Solving for x:
…1.396 kilometers.
If Schmidli had only been 500 meters away, the photo would have probably looked something like this:
It still looks cool, but not as cool. So, what else could I take a picture of?
How about the Space Needle? Plotting the azimuth of the Moon set for all three nights to see if a good location is feasible:
Bearing of the Moon set on 8/1, 8/2, and 8/4
The southwest corner of Volunteer Park on Sunday, August 4th looks like it could work and the elevation profile looks good too:
The “Black Sun” sculpture at Volunteer park is at ~137 m above sea level and the base of the Space Needle is ~2.77 km away at ~40 m above sea level. The top floor of the Space Needle is ~158 m above ground level which makes the top floor 198 m above sea level. Google Street View confirms that we have good view. I stopped by during the day to confirm the view and find a good spot to setup.
Framing the Picture
The Space Needle “Halo” has a diameter of ~42 m which at a distance of 2.77 km gives it an arc diameter of — or about 1.7x larger than the Moon. The maximum angle of view of the Nikkor 800mm (on a DX body) is just 2° — thus the Space Needle should take up about 43% of the frame width.
I relayed my findings back to Jake:
I’ve been doing some math, and on Sunday night I’ll head to up to the SW corner of Volunteer Park. That puts me on a 248 deg bearing with the space needle and the moon will be right behind it. At 2500m away, the halo of the space needle will still appear to be about twice the diameter of the moon and if I put the teleconverter on I think the moon + spaceneedle will fill the frame just about perfectly.
So something like this…but in high def:
So that was that. I showed up a bit past 11pm on the night of August 3rd, set up my equipment, and sat around listening to passersby play the piano as they filtered out of the park. I took test photos as the Moon grew closer and closer, and then just like clockwork…almost.
I forgot to take into account the height of Space Needle relative to the elevation of the Moon, so the Moon was too far to the left for the picture I was hoping for — but pretty much dead on the calculations I made, even if I calculated the wrong thing.
The halo of the Space Needle was at an elevation of . Add 0.3° for the arc radius of the Moon to get ~1.6° of elevation. Using the USNO table, we find the Moon at an azimuth of 245.6° at 23:50. The reverse bearing is 65.6° which puts me about 100m too far south-ish for the picture I wanted. Unfortunately, the right spot was blocked by trees…so it’s kind of a moot.
Making Lemoonade
Put I still have a bunch of really cool photos and after looking at them all of a bit I think to myself, “Hmmm…this could be really cool as a multiple exposure / panorama shot.”
I went through all the photos to find the ones that had both a complete view of the Moon and at least part of the Space Needle. Three interesting things occurred as the Moon started to set:
The Moon became more red as it set. This is due in part to particulates in the air (e.g. pollution) as well as atmospheric scattering (i.e. Rayleigh scattering).
The luminance of the Moon decreased significantly during its setting, such that its exposure was almost the same as the Space Needle. The Moon is typically several stops above the ambient landscape, even when the landscape is lit up. If you’ve ever tried to take a photo at night, you’ll probably notice that the Moon looks blown out — this is why.
The shape of the Moon gets a bit wonky as comes in line with the ground and picks up some heat shimmer.
I played around with different sets of pictures and finally settled on a set that I think flows well. I did some basic exposure and color correction so that the photos were more-or-less “correct” and then imported them into Photoshop. Once in Photoshop, it was just a matter of aligning the images to build the panorama and then masking out sections to get the multiexposure. The Space Needle itself is a composite of several different shots because I couldn’t fit the entire Space Needle into a single shot (yea, it’s a BIG zoom lens). I also needed a properly exposed shot of the interior of the top floor and a shot of the elevator in motion. Here’s what it looks like decomposed:
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Excellent post! Lots of work went into this! I love seeing all the calculations. And I really love the last gif showing the composition. I finally brought my camera up to ND with me. I have been wanting to do this for a couple years. Although I need a tripod but as my birthday is coming up soon I can’t buy one for myself 😛
I got a 3021B Pro back in 2007. It’s a bit heavy, but otherwise I love it.
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Ford’s Pinto disaster, GM’s ignition switch debacle, and Tepco’s nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima – all unintended consequences of company goals to manage costs. Lucent Technologies and Enron’s goals were all about market value growth – neither company survived. Toyota’s issue with uncontrolled vehicle acceleration was tied to goals about capturing market share. VW’s goal was to be the leader in environmental performance – and they created software to fake emission test results. And, now we have Wells Fargo’s “scandal” and its goal was to become the most valuable bank in the world.
All of these companies failed in one way or another while trying to achieve goals that seem reasonable and appropriate.
Wells Fargo is an even more special case. Among peers, it’s the only bank that was not bailed out by the Federal government during the credit market collapse in 2009. It never ventured into the sub-prime mortgage frenzy that took down most of the major US banks. Instead, it maintained a conservative posture, built on a vision and set of values tied to caring for customers and the employees who develop relationships with them. It still has, even today, the highest customer satisfaction ratings in surveys conducted by JD Power. And its market value in early 2016 exceeded $300 billion, making it the most valuable bank in the world, with profits so high that it ranked among the top five payers of corporate income taxes in the US.
Yet, we just watched alarmingly over the last month as the bank’s highly successful and revered CEO, John Stumpf, got destroyed by a handful of US senators. He and the retail banking head, Carrie Tolstedt, forfeited $60 million in unvested compensation, and the bank paid a $185 million fine. All of this attributed to fraudulent sales practices by low-level employees and a handful of regional managers that led the bank to repay, on its own volition, $2.6 million in fees to customers. At the 10000-foot level, nothing adds up here – a great CEO forced to resign and $245 million in combined penalties – all for $2.6 million in illegitimate fees that the bank repaid!
There are four clear leadership lessons to be learned from Wells Fargo’s situation: Goalodicy and Wrong Message as unintended consequences of a poorly designed performance management system, the pitfalls of Hierarchy Myopia, and the consequences of not being proactive in managing risks.
Goalodicy
Wells Fargo’s goal to be the world’s most valuable bank is entirely appropriate. The issue was a performance management system for retail bankers that was too focused on a single metric: cross-selling – which is measured by the number of accounts opened per customer household. The target was set at 8.0 and in 2016 the bank achieved 6.13.
Bankers in the company’s 6000 branches could earn bonuses of $500 to $2000 per quarter for hitting the cross-selling target. That’s a significant incentive relative to an annual base salary of roughly $30000. The system was implemented in 2007 and, overtime, it shaped the culture of the retail bank. The sales-driven culture was so heavily rooted among employees that cross-selling become more than a target – it defined the identity of a successful banker. That identity blinded bankers to the moral disengagement and illegalities of creating accounts for customers without their consent. Often the customer did not know the fake accounts existed. Approximately 1.5 million deposit accounts were fraudulent, out of 82 million accounts opened over the 5-year period ending in 2015. In addition, 565000 credit card accounts were opened without customer approval.
Had the bank created a more balanced score card for retail bankers, the bad behaviors likely would not have occurred. For example, a metric like “Account Utilization” in addition to Cross-Selling would have created a self-checking feature to the system. Fake accounts would have diminished performance incentive value if they were not used by the customer.
Wrong Message
As we discuss in Applied Leadership, Message = Content + Context. Carrie Tolstedt was called “The Watchmaker” by colleagues because of her capacity to absorb and analyze great volumes of details. Cross-selling was about deepening relationships with customers, but the message got blurred with the excessive focus on data. It’s reported that Carrie’s operational reviews with regional bank executives would dive into nitty-gritty line items at the expense of shaping context about expectations. The important context in the bank’s Visions & Values handbook about honesty and ethics, escalating concerns to management’s attention, and building connections to communities was overshadowed. Low-level employees felt pressured to meet targets in order to keep their jobs – a perception that was messaged but not intended by the senior executives of the company. These employees did not take Carrie out of context, they took her into their context – and that was “I will get fired if I do not hit the sales target”. By all reports, Carrie was the standard-bearer of the bank’s vision, a champion of their customers, and a role model for responsible, principled, and inclusive leadership. Sadly, her data orientation likely overtook the important context and a critical number of employees got the wrong messages.
Hierarchy Myopia
We define hierarchy myopia as the situation that occurs when the “official truths” held at the top of a company vary significantly from “what’s actually happening” in the company. John Stumpf learned about the sale-practice abuse in 2013, many years after it begun. Regional executives had been addressing the issues all the way back to when it was first reported in 2009. They even created a special task force in 2012 to look into suspicious patterns in sales practices, resulting in the first employees being fired for sales-related misconduct in 2013. There is some evidence that the bank’s decentralized structure may have prevented the escalation of issues to the top of the company. Typically, however, the myopia is an unconscious effect, i.e., the manifestation of a lack of diversity in the executive ranks, where senior managers perceive the same information but are blinded to other information and interpretations inconsistent with their mental models. What may have appeared as “willful blindness” on the part of executives was nothing more than the effects of hierarchy myopia.
Proactive Risk Management
In Applied Leadership we highlight the need for attention on identifying and managing risks. Moreover, we note the issue of a “perfect storm” when risk events occur more systematically rather than as one-offs. Despite the banks many efforts over several years to stop the sales abuses, clearly the mitigation actions were more incremental in nature and collectively were inadequate to address the scale of the issue. But there’s an even more important lesson – a number of seemingly random but related events converged to create the perception of a “scandal” when in fact one did not exist:
200 employees are fired in 2013 in the Los Angeles area for unethical sales-related misconduct.
The Los Angeles times reports in a story that low-level employees are being scapegoated.
The Los Angeles city attorney initiates an investigation and ultimately a lawsuit against Wells Fargo.
Several civil litigations fully air all of the sales practice issues at the bank.
The firings increase to 5300 employees through 2015 – a number that stirs outrage in local communities as it becomes public knowledge.
The bank modifies and lowers the performance targets for bankers at retail branches.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, set up after the 2009 banking crisis, is upstaged by the LA city attorney’s prosecution of the bank.
Wells Fargo management agrees to settle with the city attorney rather than go to court – and the embarrassed federal agencies jump in on the settlement and ultimately drive it up to the $185 million level.
The settlement is announced right as congressional election campaigns are heating up.
Politicians spin a tale of “bankers gone wild” to justify Washington’s financial bureaucracy and its failure to unearth the Wells Fargo issue.
What appears to many as a charade of congressional hearings seemingly has little to do with investigating anything and everything to do with politicians elevating their election-year profile by re-enacting anti-banker tirades.
Had Wells Fargo stalled the settlement until after the November elections the “scandal” likely would not have occurred. Instead, John Stumpf was “scalped” and the bank’s reputation was impaired. Many observers believe that his resignation was a necessary gesture to appease the Washington political machine. As one journalist reported, “The hiring and firing of CEO’s does not operate on principles of justice but on what’s good for the business.”
One thing is clear: Wells Fargo is an extremely well-managed company. The root cause of the so-called scandal was weakness in leadership, not management, especially in the areas of performance and risk assessment. More attention to creating congruent messages through robust context sharing from the top to the bottom of the company, more diversity of observations at the executive level, and attention to connecting the dots on risk events could have averted the entire debacle.
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Originally Posted On: 20th Jan 2003
Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith is a mighty good rapper
and a mighty good rapper was he
but he got stage fright
and he clammed up so tight
that he walked off at the speed of light
If you're into rap culture, this movie is for you. But comparisons of these kinda movies where you have low / no confidence prodigies going through trials and tribulations to emerge as champions at the finals of competitions may sound a bit ordinary.
But in this show, Eminem rulez!
What's so NC-16? The language which is used. Every word that comes out of anybody's mouth is F, or colourful variations of F, and every hand sign involves the middle finger. Can't take it? Don't watch it you wuss! (The teenage couple sitting beside me regretted watching the show, the gal couldn't stand the cussin and the humpin, while the guy probably thought this was a date movie and could bring across some warped message / hints to his girlfried, LOL!!!)
Brittany Murphy.....wooooo! All dolled up now (compared to her sickly Don't Say A Word), hubba hubba hubba. Too bad she plays your typical bad girl who have no qualms about making out in factories or studios with different guys (yeah, she bonked with someone else other than Rabbit)
Check out the finale where Rabbit goes one on one against the bad dudes, confidence and bad mo-fo attitude ablazing! Nothing can stop him, and that showdown alone is worth the price of your ticket.
My only gripe is that Eminem should've rapped more, and the ending at the Rap Finals is kinda anti-climatic, though you can see shades of Slim Shady coming onto screen and kickin serious rappin @$$!
Lap it up, and Lose yourself in the music, the moment you own it....
2 words: It SUCKS!
Ok, so sue me, perhaps i don't know how to appreciate this film, so if you do, write a comment will ya?
So what's so NC-16 about Full Frontal?
1. There's this ONE blurred out humpin scene
2. David Duchovy's less than 10 minute screentime with only a sheet / towel covering his hugely erected dick. And I mean HUGE (maybe fake, but who cares?)
3. Him asking for a handjob, and boasting he can cum in 30 seconds (actually 40 seconds, so says the narrative)
4. Him dying in his bed with one hand on his willy and a plastic bag over his head, probably some masochistic self-gratification which we don't see
This movie starts off as a movie within a movie, called Rendezvous. For the next 1/2 hour, you're left wondering WTF is this movie all about.
Simple. Basically just telling you stories behind those characters leading up to their attending a director's (Gus, played by Duchonvy, less than 10 mins screen time mind you) birthday party.
Characters include a black actor (Blair Underwood), a white actress (Julia Roberts), a HR vice president of some company, her sister who's going to meet some guy whom she knew from IRC, that guy from the IRC who didn't really tell her frankly who he was (some art director rather than a painter), a stage actor, and many others you probably won't give a shit about.
However, the only saving grace was David Fincher and Brad Pitt playing themselves. Watch out for Fincher's spoof of his own directing style (the endless reshoots of even simple scenes involving only 1 spoken line).
Although the movie is draggy, stay on during the end credits where you get to see some contrived behind the scenes shots, as well as a Brad Pitt "Easter Egg" scene right at the end.
That is if you still have the patience to torture yourself through it all. A lot of people in my screening left halfway through the show, and those who forced themselves to sit through the ending because they paid $8.50 darted out of the theatre once the credits start rolling.
Don't watch, unless you really think you can pretend to understand the show.
Hero (Ying Xiong)
Not goin to spoil the movie for you, but damn, history aint gonna be screwed up in the movie, and unless you are CLUELESS, Qin Shi Huang of course will remain alive and well at the end of the movie
So, wassup, you might add
The way the narrative was delivered.
We are given 3 different perspectives
1. The Lie, as told by Nameless (Jet Li). Shot in red (and i mean red, including everyone's wardrobe), and with themes like anger, lust, jealousy, revenge
2. The Rebuttal, as Qin Shi Huang didn't really buy into Nameless' story, Shot in blue (and i mean blue, including everyone's wardrobe), with themes like love and loss
3. The Truth, as revealed in
Flashbacks, shot in green (and i mean green, including, everybody altogether now.... everyone's wardrobe), with themes like love, hate and self-actualisation
Current Time, shot in white (and i mean white, yeah, no prizes now, almost everyone's wardrobe - Nameless was in black :P ) and which nicely wraps up the ending revealing the outcome of each assassin.
Watch it, but do not compare to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as it is like comparing apples with oranges. If you think CTHD's flying kung fu is too far fetched, wait till you get a load of this movie's, especially the duel between Nameless and Broken Sword (Tony Leung) in some lake.
Oh, man, Zhang Ziyi still looks babelicious :P even though she's only a supporting actress here :P Stunning in red, as it gets ripped apart by Broken Sword :P Oh yeah baby, hearing her moans can make any red-blooded male go on a high (pun intended!!) :P
One gripe though, the soundtrack sounds suspiciously similar to certain tunes from CTHD, did Tan Dun rip off himself? :P
Originally Posted On: 2nd Jan 2003
I guess the one thing on everyone's mind about the show, just what is so NC about the NC-16 rating that is slapped on this movie currently screening in local theatres
Your search is over, here are the answers:
1. The bloody opening gang fight, which one suspects has been snipped at some points ever so carefully by the censors
2. There is a nightclub scene which has prostitutes baring their chests
3. In that scene they smoke opium
4. Sorry guys, you do not see Ms Diaz exposed ala Halle Berry in NC-16 Swordfish
Ok, now to the movie proper, just 4 words: Daniel Day-Lewis Rocks. If you think that is 3 words, you're just being petty. The first 10 minutes of raw gang power's the best thing in the show, other than that... sad to say, there ain't no more of an all out gang war despite the rebuilding of The Dead Rabbits. The plot is choppy at times, probably because the show had to be cut down to a more butt-tolerable length of 169mins.
Leo Di Caprio's Amsterdam resurrects The Dead Rabbits. Hmm... that good? :P
Daniel "Bill The Butcher" Day-Lewis' moustache is bad @ss!
Yup, lotsa ugly extras in the show :P
What are you waiting for, move your butt and hit the theatres, now! now! NOW!
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2005 Chicago: Kia keeps pressure on minivan leaders with redesigned Sedona
DALE JEWETT | Automotive News
CHICAGO – Kia expects to keep the pressure on in the minivan segment with a redesigned Sedona that is bigger, more powerful and equipped with many of the same safety features and conveniences as the segment leaders.
Yet the Korean automaker expects the 2006 Sedona, revealed Thursday at the Chicago Auto Show, to still undercut its chief rivals on price.
The redesigned Sedona, which goes on sale late this year, is the first in a two-model strategy for Kia in the minivan segment. Another Sedona model, with a shorter wheelbase, will go on sale for the 2007 model year.
"Sedona was Kia’s best-selling vehicle in 2004, and historically speaking it is an incredibly important vehicle for the company," said Peter Butterfield, president of Kia Motors America Inc. "We paid careful attention to every detail during its redesign."
The new Sedona gains 4.3 inches in its wheelbase and nearly 8 inches in overall length. That puts it on par with competitors such as the Dodge Grand Caravan, Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey.
A new 3.8-liter V-6 engine makes 240 horsepower. That’s up from the 195 hp from the 3.5-liter V-6 in the current Sedona. The power flows through a five-speed automatic transmission. The chassis under the Sedona is new, Kia says.
Kia is equipping the 2006 Sedona with a flat-folding third-row seat, split 60/40, that has become a benchmark in the segment. But unlike the Dodge Grand Caravan or Nissan Quest, the second-row seats must be removed to open up maximum cargo space.
The list of standard safety equipment includes anti-lock brakes, tire pressure monitors and a full set of airbags – front, seat-mounted side impact and side curtains that cover all three rows of seating. Traction control and stability control will be available as extra-cost options.
One thing the new Sedona won’t have more of is weight. The current Sedona has been criticized for its heft – it has a curb weight of 4,802 pounds. That compares to a curb weight of 4,120 pounds for a base Toyota Sienna.
Kia says the 2006 Sedona will weigh less than comparably equipped 2005 versions. But it didn’t say how much less or how the weight savings are achieved.
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Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm
Sharon Harlan
Promotion within organizations is increasingly recognized as an important mechanism for socioeconomic attainment during the course of individual careers. In addition to the material benefits that promotions convey, they also have symbolic meaning in American society as the principal way that individuals participate in the ideology of success. This paper uses data on production and clerical workers in one manufacturing plant to show that opportunity in work organizations, or the lack of it, explains three categories of promotion attitudes: high expectations and aspirations, low expectations and aspirations, and low expectations and high aspirations. Opportunity is defined as position in the organizational hierarchy and as workers’ perceptions of the degree to which the firm’s administrative system awards promotions through fair and open competition. The analysis shows that the effects of opportunity variables on promotion attitudes are significant even when age, education, and gender are controlled. This study goes beyond other studies of organizational opportunity structures by showing that both positional and normative opportunity have independent effects on promotion attitudes.
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Harlan, S. (1989). Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm. Social Forces, 67(3), 766-788. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/67.3.766
Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm. / Harlan, Sharon.
In: Social Forces, Vol. 67, No. 3, 1989, p. 766-788.
Harlan, S 1989, 'Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm', Social Forces, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 766-788. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/67.3.766
Harlan S. Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm. Social Forces. 1989;67(3):766-788. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/67.3.766
Harlan, Sharon. / Opportunity and attitudes toward job advancement in a manufacturing firm. In: Social Forces. 1989 ; Vol. 67, No. 3. pp. 766-788.
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IamA John Nese, soda pop expert and owner of Los Angeles' only soda pop store
My short bio:I love soda and turned my family grocery store (started 1897) into a soda (and other beverages) only store 15 years ago. My focus is finding is stocking hard to find and niche sodas, thing from long ago. Do you have a had to find soda question? Or let's talk about your favorite soda!
My Proof: https://www.facebook.com/GalcosSodaPopStop/posts/627322360665045
Comments: 156 • Responses: 33 • Date: 2013-11-16 00:07:41 UTC source
zoglog16 karma 2013-11-16 00:45:39 UTC
I love going to Galcos and you're awesome to talk to John. Have you ever thought about doing a soda of the week/month club?
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GalcosSodaPopStop13 karma 2013-11-16 01:03:21 UTC
Yes we have thought of that...Logistics -- and PRICE of shipping -- gets in the way of making it reasonable for people. But we haven't given up on it yet! It would be a major endeavor for soda lovers in the US!
justgentile11 karma 2013-11-16 00:32:23 UTC
John, I'm a huge fan of the shop and I bring my friends whenever they come into town. I'm really excited about the new make your own soda fountain. Can you tell us more about that and what the experience entails? Thanks for all the pop!
The Soda Creation Station is where anyone can come in and make their own soda. We have more than 80 syrups to choose from and it's easy and quick. $2.99 a bottle. The Girl Scouts were just in here making sodas!
SamTheSnowman8 karma 2013-11-16 00:18:46 UTC
No question, just a statement. I bought a dozen sodas from you, and I loved all of them. Thanks for doing what you do.
GalcosSodaPopStop5 karma 2013-11-16 01:04:49 UTC
lichorat8 karma 2013-11-16 01:06:01 UTC
What's the best way to get bubbles into a soda? (Ex. yeast, co2 cannisters, dry ice, Liquid Nitrogen, etc.)
What's the perfect co2 to non carbonated soda ratio?
What's the cheapest way to make soda?
How do you make a great tasting soda?
What do you have to say about the health effects of soda? (Because of carbonation, sugar, etc.)
What's your favorite thing to use your cell phone for?
Health effects of soda....you have to remember sodas started off in pharmacies as medicinal! Yes, carbonation was considered healthful. Coke's first water was from Lithia Springs a natural medicinal water. Now talk about sugar, back in the day, sodas were sold in 6 1/2 oz bottles - not BIG GULPS. They were considered treats, something special to be savored. NOT A COMMODITY. That's what you see with large sized, corn syrup sodas from big bottlers and fast food operations.
Bubbles in soda...you can brew the soda like beer and get your bubbles. Take 3-4 days. But you have to keep it cold to stop the fermentation. Second way is to use dry ice. It's break down, you get a real fine bubble that will stand up. That's what we call pin point carbonation. Red Ribbon sodas use this method and they are one of the few that do. Third time is a mechanical carbonation and it's the most popular method because it's the cheapest.
supercruiser6 karma 2013-11-16 00:38:46 UTC
John - Your enthusiasm for history, recycling and overall outlook on how to do business are extremely admirable. Myself along with my wife and friends visit your store often and its the destination for just about any out of town guest we entertain. White Rose is one of our favorites- If there was one long "dead" brand soda you'd like to see revived, what would it be?
The last time I said my recommendations someone did it and it was HORRIBLE! :-( I don't want to name the front line bottler. I wouldn't call them "dead" sodas because so many of them are awaiting re-birth! I make suggestions to bottlers all the time, because I am on the firing line with my customers. Mr. Q Cumber started with us and it was named Soda of the Year in 2010
OddDude556 karma 2013-11-16 00:24:02 UTC
I have been to your store in LA and I just want to thank you for providing such a great soda experience! Your personal soda recommendations and in-depth descriptions really made it a special trip. You are an idol of /r/soda!
InfernalWedgie5 karma 2013-11-16 00:25:36 UTC
I think it needs to be said that Galco's has a staggering selection of beer.
Yes, we just ramped it up this year with our new beer coolers! Added 14 total doors of beer space. Check out our seasonal brews....arriving every day!
s_mw5 karma 2013-11-16 00:19:01 UTC
Six questions come to mind.
What is the most expensive soda you sell?
If you sell Faygo, do you get a lot of those Insane Clown Posse people in the sotre buying it?
Do you sell Stewart's brand grape?
When you claim to be the only soda store in LA do you mean the only store who specifically sells soda as their majority product?
How good is business?
Do you offer specials?
Most expensive soda....hmm....have to think it. The one that comes to mind is the Virgil's Bavarian Nutmeg Root Beer in a swing top bottle. $3.99. Yes, we do have Stewart's grape soda. Reimes imported from France is also pricey -- also in a swing top cap. $4.99 for a 750 ml.
Stewarts is pricey anywhere, but $5? That's insane. But those swing tops sodas are always overpriced.
Do you offer any black-cherry flavored sodas?
I quit drinking soda a longtime ago, and try my hardest to stay away from caffeine (I like tea). But there is this soda shop where my sister was living where you pick out what you want and they put it in a six pack for you. She got me this black-cherry soda and it was delicious.
Did you like the Original Dr Pepper from Dublin, Texas? If so, you may want to try the Dublin Black Cherry which has more black cherry on the front end and finishes like a Dr Pepper. Also try Hank's Wishniak Black Cherry. It's probably their best flavor.
CTYankee152 karma 2013-11-16 00:43:09 UTC
Stewarts is $1.49 or something like that. THe $4.00 one is one of the uber fancy French sodas he sells.
He carries a number of black cherry sodas. I'm on a cherry soda kick right now and Virgil's is one of my favorites. Americana is another (they make the best Cream soda).
Stewart's here is pricey, but I never buy soda.
That black cherry soda was delicious though.
I still want to know if he sells Faygo and if the ICP fans go in and buy it. I was being serious about that question.
No the majority of the people who buy Faygo are from Detroit and tell us they appreciate we sell their soda with pure cane sugar AND in glass bottles. ICP are looking for 2 liter plastic bottles and we don't carry those.
Bencool4 karma 2013-11-16 00:21:26 UTC
What soda stands out to you the most from an aroma perspective?
The Sweet Blossom Rose - when you open the cap you can smell the roses! Honestly!
tmangat4 karma 2013-11-16 00:21:11 UTC
No question. Just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. I've only been to your shop once but I absolutely loved it!
Thanks! Come back!
TheThingy3 karma 2013-11-16 00:33:49 UTC
I went to your store last time I took a vacation to California. I bought something called Brainwash Soda. I brought it home to my brother's house and opened it and accidentally got it all over the place. And the extreme blue food coloring made a mess. Then I tried the soda and it was one of the weirdest tasting things I have ever had. I didn't really like it particularly but I drank it. It turned my entire mouth blue for the rest of the day. It wasn't pleasant but it's a story I enjoy telling. All the other sodas I got from you were great though.
Anyway, if you could make a soda that doesn't exist, what would it be?
It's so hard to answer that question! But that's why we set up the Soda Creation Station because everyone has a different idea on what they want as an unique soda combination. We have syrups like Apple Pie, Chocolate, Peppermint, Pumpkin, Jasmine, Habanero Mango, Elderflowers....you name it, it's probably there!
theygotthemustardout3 karma 2013-11-16 00:32:17 UTC
Thank you for having an amazing selection of cider! Do you have a personal favorite?
It's so hard for me to have favorites but many tell me they like Clos Normand. It's from France and very reasonably priced ($7.99 for 750 ml). We sell a lot of them and people are happy with it.
Mr_A3 karma 2013-11-16 01:12:46 UTC
At what point did you think "I am going to start a soda only shop" - what led you to this point and what were the initial struggles/reactions? Did you expect it to be as bigger part of your life as it is now?
When you are going broke it's easy to make decisions. The hardest thing to do is to jump off the cliff! This store was my family's in 1940s and it was obvious we needed to change the store in 1990s because the super markets were buying the distribution channels and putting the mom and pop stores out of business. Huell Howser was responsible for helping launch the store as a soda pop business. So was LA Times food editor Charles Perry. Back then we were in a controlled collapse situation but we kept going just year by year. Every year pushes us forward. Even today!
Can you sell Caruso's Legacy Maraschino Cherry cola, please!?
I believe it's a made-up soda brand. I think it's just a gimmick....But hey, I could be wrong. I have never heard of it.
johnww22 karma 2013-11-16 00:28:28 UTC
What are your opinions about the political climate for small family owned businesses?
P.S. I live in Northern California, but your store is a Mecca type destination when we wander down to L.A. Loved your video and everything you said in "Obsessives" / CHOW on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbh6Ru7VVM
The problems is that we lump businesses altogether and the needs of big businesses are so different from small businesses. In small businesses, you need to know everything and be aware of all the hidden taxes that the consumer doesn't know are hidden taxes. The higher cost of an item doesn't mean we make more money! Hardly! Regulations are straggling small businesses!
mjbrslou2 karma 2013-11-16 00:13:37 UTC
We in the US make some delicious sodas outside of Coke, Pepsi. If you like mint, try Plantation Style Mint Julep. You will have a completely a new taste experience and you'll be helping a small bottler who has been making this soda for more than 40 years!
bambadingo1 karma 2013-11-16 00:14:41 UTC
What's the rarest soda you own? Or like to have?
Riki!!! It's an Artic black tar soda from Finland! It tastes like a very light cola with tar...people back in the day used to chew on tar. I would love to carry this in glass. Just about all the sodas in my store are in glass. Much better tasting!
VeryNeat1 karma 2013-11-16 00:25:25 UTC
Do you have a house blend or a favorite combination?
No, we don't have a house blend but during our Summer Soda Tasting event we had entertainer Charles Phoenix create a POPTAIL which was Plantation Style Mint Julep and Mr. Q Cumber. It sure was good!
JoCitizen1 karma 2013-11-16 00:51:30 UTC
I don't have a question, I just came here to say I love Galco's! You guys are the best!
orangebuttercat1 karma 2013-11-16 00:26:32 UTC
you can only drink 1 soda/pop the rest of your life?
it is...
It would be the one I would make at my soda Creation Station!
CercaTrova61 karma 2013-11-16 00:40:28 UTC
Hi, I drink a lot of soda here and while I have not bought any from your specific store (soon to change based on these comments though!) I would like to open a business like your own for the local folks here. For the specialty sodas, not Coke, Pepsi, etc, where do you find the suppliers? Do you buy directly from the factory or brand, or do you have a conglomerate middle man that handles getting the soda to your store? Thanks.
Remember we have been doing this for 15 years. It's take a long time to build up relationships with suppliers. We do wholesale and make sodas available to other small businesses. Wholesale website is under construction....stay tuned!
I'm a local. Just wanted to tell you I love Galco's. I love the summer soda trading festival so very much!!!
Thank you! And all the proceeds went to support the reopening of the Southwest Museum! We enjoy putting this even on every year!
Toolazytolink1 karma 2013-11-16 00:32:48 UTC
LA native here, do you have any events planned soon like Soda Tasting events? The wife and myself love trying new things.
We will have another Soda Tasting in 2014 toward the end of July. They have been very popular events -- and they are a LOT OF WORK!
What are the general rates on international shipping?
No general rate. Depends on where it goes. Europe and Asia, etc. different prices.
LiberDeOpp1 karma 2013-11-16 00:15:05 UTC
Your opinions on the soda vs pop debacle? Please don't say coke.
Don't hate this answer. We call it soda pop! Most of Los Angeles calls it soda.
orangebuttercat-2 karma 2013-11-16 00:15:39 UTC
Thanks for answering! When I lived in the midwest it was pop, in STL it's soda. Do you use cane sugar vs corn syrup and is it really the same like farmers want us to believe?
It's not the farmers who say its the same. It's ADM, Con-agra and Cargill who tell you that. Corn syrup is NOT the same as cane sugar. However, they are pushing the idea that it all goes under the generic category of sugar. People coming from others countries, pick up a soda, like a Coca Cola and say, "What's wrong with this?"
[deleted]1 karma 2013-11-16 00:09:02 UTC
The Coke we carry come from Mexico and is made for consumption in Mexico. It's made with Mexican pure cane sugar.
Docktorpeps431 karma 2013-11-16 00:09:45 UTC
What is your most popular soda that is sold in your store? (Besides coke, pepsi, and other popular sodas that you can get anywhere)
Depends on the person buying it. Everyone has a different taste. We don't carry coke or pepsi from corporate USA. We do have Mexican Coca-Cola which comes from independent bottlers.
What are some sodas you would want to sell, but can't. Why can't you sell them?
Some little bottlers don't have CVR on their bottles and can't meet California labeling standards. Big Bend out of Pennsylvania is one - out of the Anderondicks. Club Matte from Germany is really good, but the bottler is so small and they can't export. It was a tea soda!
MGGall0 karma 2013-11-16 00:30:09 UTC
Hi John - My fiance and I love your store and Blockbuster sandwiches.
My favorite soda I've discovered in your store is black cherry Jic Jac; but lately I'm on an orange soda kick, I've tried probably half-a-dozen now and still haven't found one better than good old Crush. What's your favorite orange soda?
I don't have a favorite - but you should try the Blood Orange Soda from Bunderburg. It's brewed like a beer and made with real fruit. You can see the pulp in the bottle. PLUS...we have a new old Crush here now. It's from Guatemala and made with pure cane sugar.
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opioid analgesics, anticholinergics, or anaesthetic gases
comorbidities (e.g., diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular insufficiency, Chagas disease, scleroderma)
non-surgical cause
ileus lasting longer than 3 days or prolonging the postoperative recovery
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD (Hon), FACS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed), FRCSI (Hon)
Department of Colorectal Surgery
SDW has received consulting fees, stock options, and royalties from the following companies. These relationships are ongoing. Consulting - Intuitive Surgical, Karl Storz Endoscopy America, Medtronic, TiGenix. Royalties - Covidien, Intuitive Surgical, Karl Storz Endoscopy America, Unique Surgical Innovations. There are no relevant disclosures to the submitted work.
Dr Steven D. Wexner would like to gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Dr Stephen P. Sharp to the update for this topic. Dr Wexner would also like to acknowledge Dr Ahmed Sami Chadi, and Dr Paula I. Denoya, previous contributors to this topic.
David J. Hackam, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery
DJH declares that he has no competing interests.
John Jenkins, MB CHB, FRCP
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
JJ declares that he has no competing interests.
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Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society
Petr Lupač
Charles University, Czech Republic
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This book critically reviews existing digital divide research and challenges its core thesis, which posits unequal Internet access as a newly formed source of social disadvantage.
The author begins by introducing the building blocks of the information society theory. The book goes on to present a systematic overview of digital divide research - its development, arguments attesting to the social gravity of the digital divide, and current findings on the uneven diffusion and use of the Internet. It evaluates the validity of the theories and concepts associated with digital divide research. The author offers an overview and re-examination of six presumptions and biases found in the prevailing approach to the digital divide. Given that Internet use has, in certain contexts, become an absolute necessity, an alternative approach is proposed, recognizing the indispensability of Internet use as context dependent. The book concludes with a consideration of the implications that this new perspective has for the information society theory and policies as well as for the role of social science in the informatization process.
2. Searching for the Core of the Information Society Theory: Developments, Versions, Arguments
3. Manuel Castells: Towards the Digital Divide of the Information Age
4. Digital Divide Research
5. Tenuous Assumptions in Digital Divide Research
6. Understanding Indispensability: Contexts, Networks and Discourses
7. Conclusion: Towards a New Theory of Information Society
Petr Lupač obtained a Doctoral Degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Czech Republic where he now serves as Assistant Professor. He has participated in academic and research programmes in Kansas State University and New York University. His primary sociological interests include technology, globalization and media. Since 2015, he has also been working as an external consultant for the Czech Strategy for Digital Literacy. He is the Czech representative for the World Internet Project. Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society is updated and revised from a book originally published by the author in Czech.
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Let’s do lunch: smoked salmon
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An excellent starter or light lunch—and the perfect pairing for champagne
“It’s all about the quality of the salmon,” says Rob Maylon, the head chef at Wright Brothers Borough Market. “It’s a fairly simple dish in its concept—just smoked salmon, salad leaves and a wedge of lemon. Easy as that.” Except, of course, that it’s not.
Each aspect, from sourcing the ingredients to the composition of the dish, is carefully considered: the salmon fillets are from the Faroe Islands, “carefully nurtured by three brothers who have devoted their lives to the welfare of their fish”.
“Var salmon is a premium Scandinavian salmon. The water’s different: it’s purer,” Rob continues. “It’s considered the best in the world—though of course the Scottish would disagree, and likely the Canadians!”
While the fish are technically farmed, the aim is to replicate wild conditions as closely as possible. The farm’s location on the North Atlantic means there’s a constant temperature of between 7-10C all year-round. The fish are placed in pens to swim against the natural current a mere 15 miles away from where their wild cousins choose to congregate for winter. When it comes to harvesting, the pens are drawn in slowly, into a channel that simulates a fast-flowing river for the fish to swim up before they are stunned and bled.
Traditional British woods
Once the salmon arrives at the Severn and Wye smokery, it’s cured, hung and smoked over traditional British woods—oak, horse chestnut, ash and cider fruit—lending the salmon a distinct flavour. “It leaves a lovely lingering flavour in your mouth, but without being overbearing, which means it won’t ruin the rest of your meal,” Rob continues.
“You can tell it’s been farmed and smoked correctly, because it has a nice waxy feel and an oily sheen, which is the natural fat of the fish. When it’s over-cured or smoked, it will dry out. This is good quality salmon.”
Sliced expertly with a long, sharp blade in the Wright Brothers kitchen—“you want to do it in one stroke, which takes practice! The aim is for it to be thin enough to see the knife through the flesh of the fish. The thinner it is, the better it will taste.”
Plated neatly alongside a fresh, crisp garnish with zingy homemade dressing, it’s served classically, with brown bread and butter and “black pepper cracked over it, if you’re me”, it’s an excellent starter or light lunch, and the perfect pairing for a cool glass of crisp chardonnay or champagne—’tis almost Christmas, after all.
Preserve of the elite
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Boston Biotech Watch
by Steve Dickman | April 14, 2011 · 6:46 am
Hacking Ourselves: “Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life” by Marcus Wohlsen
A Boston Biotech Watch Book Review
By Steve Dickman, CEO, CBT Advisors
Marcus Wohlsen’s ahead-of-the-curve new book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, brings us a radical idea: garage biologists are busily “hacking” their own genomes, cooking up a variety of novel and potentially useful wetware inventions. Some of these may look like Rube Goldberg contraptions right now, but they might change the world profoundly, much as mainstream biotechnology already has. Even (especially?) for those of us who live and breathe biotech in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this idea is fresh, even startling.
So much DNA, so little time*
Biopunk chronicles, for one, a young MIT-trained “DIY scientist” who created and ran a DNA test on herself in her Cambridge kitchen for less than $200. The test would cost thousands if ordered from a clinical lab. She used countertop gear to look for – and find – evidence that she had a predisposition for a hereditary and severe disease.
In another chapter, a research team in an undisclosed location crowdsources funds on the Internet to create “the world’s smallest version of the thermal cycler,” an all-important DNA analysis tool that would “wedge open the door … to peer-to-peer biotech.” Combined with “an as-yet hypothetical DNA reading chip” and some samples of pathogen DNA, the team’s invention could give a doctor or nurse working in the field in a developing country “an answer in minutes” about which pathogen had infected a patient.
And more: industrial-strength “DNA photocopiers” known as PCR machines encased not in sheet metal but in wood; an edgy conference called “Outlaw Biology?”; and a pony-tailed bioinformaticist who tinkers after hours in his Mountain View garage with a device that could read DNA electronically, a device that he would give away or sell at cost to developing-world health initiatives or to other biohackers. If it works, it could eventually undermine or augment traditional diagnostic assays based on technologies like ELISA and microarrays.
It is for the developing world, with its cost constraints, lack of up-to-date technology and urgent needs, for which biohacking would seem to hold the greatest promise, as long as it can overcome some daunting obstacles. But for would-be startup founders who need a shortcut to intellectual property, DIY would seem to offer an attractive “quick-and-dirty” alternative. No less a luminary than Freeman Dyson is a full-on advocate for DIY biology. In a 2007 essay entitled “Our Biotech Future” published in the New York Review of Books, he said “I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next fifty years at least as much as the domestication of computers has dominated our lives during the previous fifty years.”
Marcus Wohlsen
Wohlsen, a Bay Area-based science reporter for the Associated Press, plucked the book’s core concept from a brief story he had published. Unfortunately, the moment he has chosen to expand it into a book feels a bit too early. Invisible on Google Trends, “Biopunk” has been mentioned only in a few magazine articles (for example in the New Yorker and Wired), mostly in the context of the promise and threat of mass-producing DNA via “synthetic biology.”
But Wohlsen’s timing does society a favor. Although his choice of topic may not help his book ring the gong of popular science as did, say, James Gleick’s Chaos in the 1980s or Dava Sobel’s Longitude in the 1990s, he has nonetheless caught and illuminated biohacking while it is still a tiny subculture and yet potentially could grow into a powerful force. Could it become a bigger one? Could it – pardon the expression – go viral, with astonishing results? Or will it be tamed and shackled, reduced to a harmless hobby like coin collecting or trainspotting?
Wohlsen is a fine writer with an ear for the absurd. Biopunk is well written, well-organized and has a satisfying amount of fresh material, answering the insistent question “Who ARE these people?” in a way that brings the individuals satisfyingly to life.
But as enjoyable as the book is, it does not describe a “what is” as much as it gives us a glimpse of a “what might be.” Like personal computing before Steve Jobs and the Homebrew Computing Club, DIY DNA is missing both a galvanizing new technology (the personal computer, the internet) and a recognized leader.
Will the next Jobs hack bio?
What’s more, no matter how good it is, a non-fiction book cannot yet capture the world that may yet be created by DNA “hackers.” There are three reasons for this:
Reason One: DIYers haven’t created enough of it yet. There is no brilliant hack even of the 1988 variety nearly pulled off by Marcus Hess, the KGB Hacker, when he penetrated the network at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and started looking for nuclear secrets (a story I covered for Nature that was later told compellingly by Clifford Stoll in his 1989 book The Cuckoo’s Egg), let alone a hack as subtle and diabolical as that described here (Social Media Tools Used to Target Corporate Secrets: USA Today, March 31, 2011) or even the successful takedown of tens of millions of credit cards by this guy (Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen, Crown 2011).
Reason Two: The possibilities are so massive no one can think of them yet. One could argue that financial or intellectual limitations will prevent the hacking of anything more complex than a bacterium. But that would be so wrong. Wohlsen shows convincingly that the technology of DNA manipulation is available, affordable and already being applied. So what if the “tinkerers,” as they proudly call themselves, have not yet tinkered their way to a gryphon or some other creature we have not even thought of yet? This technology – cloning, sequencing, DNA manipulation and now synthesis – is extremely powerful. Think about that power – to create and fuse entire genomes. Now consider the tools of the moment – of Facebook, Twitter, the internet itself — all tools that foster “distributed intelligence” and group problem-solving. Combine cheap tools to manipulate DNA with the power of networks and you’d better stand back because what happens might rival the power of the nuclear bomb, a comparison Wohlsen aptly draws.
Made to order?
Reason Three: Before they can create much, the government will stop them. This, it seems to me, is the biggest threat that faces the nascent and promising movement of DNA hacking. As Germans from both East and West Germany used to say just after reunification, the “wall in the head” is much more formidable and hard to dismantle than the actual Berlin Wall was. According to Wohlsen, the troubling arrest and successful prosecution of one apparently non-malicious DNA hacker has already shown that it can chill the field. More systematic government intervention has the potential to freeze it.
If government intervention – through regulation, post-9/11 bioterror laws or “just” by intimidation – were to shut down DNA hacking, this would be both sad and ironic. Sad because it would cut off a potentially limitless source of new discoveries that could benefit humankind. Ironic because forcing DNA hackers back into “societally approved” (read expensive, cumbersome, peer-reviewed) channels or driving them underground would be a denial of the bottom-up, can-do pioneering spirit that is part of the cultural heritage of the United States.
The not so subtle message of Wohlsen’s book is that the very nature of the hacker community – low-budget, decentralized and interested in the pursuit of novel applications for DNA for their own sake – makes it a threat both to public safety as well as to corporate profits.
For the moment, we hasten to add, the threat seems more imagined than real. As Wohlsen puts it, “…bad guys with a semester of community college biology under their belts can get far more destruction for their dollar by whipping up a vat of botulism-causing bacteria in their basements than by trying to splice genes.”
Government meddling may be enough to slow the pace of biohacking. But I hope that does not stop it. Just as free-flowing, non-establishment creativity has helped give us Linux, SETI and the remarkable political power of Twitter and other social networks, DNA hacking may turn out to be a potent source for good.
This will only happen before a couple of those obstacles are overcome. First off, cost is a much bigger factor in home-brewed biology than it has ever been in computing. Second, assuming that some of DIY DNA’s discoveries would ultimately have to be converted into mundane intellectual property (IP) even to be applied effectively in the developing world, let alone in developed countries, the “quick-and-dirty” approach might well be too “dirty” to ever become the underlying IP for a biotech or diagnostics startup. It is no coincidence that a typical biotech company raises $100 million or more before it achieves a viable proof of concept for a new therapeutic. And that is just the beginning.
The best science writing reads like science fiction, introducing people, techniques and discoveries right now that make us feel like the future has arrived and it’s even shinier and newer than we thought it would be. Although neither a critical discovery nor a galvanizing leader has emerged from this potent stew, Biopunk succeeds in thought-provokingly preparing us for the new world that will greet us when they do.
*Steampunk photo courtesy Curious Expeditions under Creative Commons license
Further reading: DIY DNA in art and science fiction
(Special thanks to EW for these recommendations)
Margaret Atwood’s provocative novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood explore some possible and frightening futures.
Strange Culture is an indie film chronicling the strange story, also retold in Biopunk, of artist and professor Steve Kurtz who, according to the Netflix plot summary “on the eve of his new exhibit, was shocked by the news that his wife had died of heart failure. The medics on the scene became suspicious of Kurtz’s artistic media, which includes genetically modified foods, and the FBI accused him of bioterrorism.”
Tagged as Biohackers, Biopunk, book review, DIY DNA, Freeman Dyson, garage biology, hacker ethic, Marcus Wohlsen, non-fiction, outlaw biology
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Home / Features / Editorial / IT’S HOMECOMING Y’all!!!!
IT’S HOMECOMING Y’all!!!!
By Eric Graham
NORTH CAROLINA, (BASN)—Going to a HBCU separates us from some.
But, it connects us with so many.Because, all of us, who dared to walk in the same path as our ancestors, knew we made the right decision when we got there.
Matter of fact, we could feel our ancestors walking with us to class. Looking over our shoulders as we studied in the library. And applauding us when we graduated.
Why, because W.B. DuBois did it. Booker T. Washington did it. Ida B. Wells did it. Martin Luther King, Jr. did it. Ralph Abernathy did it. Jesse Jackson did it. Kwame’ Ture’ did it. Medgar Evers did it. Louis Farrakhan did it. Na’im Akbar did it. John Hope Franklin did it. Andrew Young did it. David Dinkins did it. Maynard Jackson did it. Louis Bennett did it and Ralph Ellison did it too.
Now, what are you going do?
Don’t miss your opportunity.
It’s a life changing event.
This is no lie.
Because, Black colleges are heaven sent.
But if you decide not to go, there is no need to complain.
Because, they are all one in the same.
And if you decide to come, you’ll be glad you came.
Plus, after one day, you’ll be one of us.
I swear to God, you’ll experience a sense of freedom on that campus.
Because, this is a place which allows you to freely express yourself.
And a place, where your voice can finally be heard.
But, honestly, there are no words
That can describe it or even explain it.
But, you know it; when you see it.
Because, you can feel it in your spirit.
You can see it in your eyes.
Because, there is a sense of pride.
It’s like the day your grandparents sent you off college and stared out the window and cried as they waved good-bye.
Because, they put all of their faith in you, that you would go to school and learn things that they never knew.
You know, this is true.
Because, there is a sense of oneness
And a type of inner peace, which says “This is where I belong.”
Because, this is your home.
Therefore, you should embrace it. Hug it. Love it. High-five it.
Grip it up.
And dap it up.
Because it’s ours.
It belongs to us.
And nobody else.
Why? Because Oprah did it. Spike did it. Tom Joyner did it. Ossie Davis did it. Phylicia Rashad did it. Samuel L. Jackson did it. Ed Bradley did it. Stephen A. Smith did it. Pam Oliver did it. William Rhoden did it. Alice Walker did it and Toni Morrison did it too.
So, what about you?
Will you attend a HBCU too?
See, when you attend a HBCU,
There “ain’t” “NOTHIN’” like it.
Now, this is so true.
Many people know exactly what I am talking about…
While others, don’t have a clue.
But let me re-assure you,
It’s not the same as going to Duke, Carolina or even ECU.
It’s something totally different.
Sorta like a different world
Something special.
Something scared.
Something, we can call our own.
So, brothers and sisters welcome home.
See, we are so happy you came.
I remember your face.
But, I forgot your name.
Oh yeah, that’s: Wale, Taraji, Shabbazz, Christa, Pinchback, Mase, Yvonne, Flipper, Hosea, Geese, Kamu Shasta, and Jocelyn. Regina, Alexis, Puffy, Thurgood, Marsalis, Savannah, Kedar, Esther, Yancy, Bridgewater, Thaddeus. Kimbo, Elijah, Keenan, Constance. Joesphus, Little Richard, Clinkscales, Cassandra and Eryka Badu.
Oh yeah, now I remember you.
We attended different schools.
But, we are on the same team.
And any person, whoever went to a Black college, knows exactly what I mean.
For, we all have the same memories yet different dreams…
And if Norfolk State defeats Missouri in the NCAA Tournament, we all yell and scream.
Because we have formed an unbreakable bond that has binded us all together forever.
Seriously, going to a Black college makes it MO BETTER.
Because, we are all one.
And nothing can divide us.
Because, we are all in the same family.
Besides, I want my nephews and niece to be just like my “brother and me”
One, can go to Winston and the others can go to A &T.
Why? Because my brother, cousin and auntie,
Plus “mama and them”
All went to HBCU
And I want them to be just like them too.
So, they can tell their children about our Blackness, The Block Parties, The Gym Jams, The Lectures, The Learning and the late night debates.
Plus, the Sit-ins, the Protest and the Boycotts
I will always remember those dates.
Plus, I can’t wait
For them to study Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Philosophy, Geometry, Theology and our Black history.
Because, I want them to be Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, Scientists, Engineers, and teachers.
But, honestly,
I just want them to be GREAT!!
Plus, I want them to be Black and give BACK!!!
And every homecoming, promise, they’ll come back .
Still BLACK.
In order to celebrate homecoming, the Battle of the Bands and the Step Shows.
Plus the football games and the basketball games,
You knooooooooow……
Why? Because, Walter Payton played there. Doug Williams played here. Jerry Rice played there. Michael Strahan played here. Earl “the Pearl” played there. Wilma ran here. McNair played there. Shannon Sharpe played here. Richard Huntley played there. Charles Oakley played here. Big House coach there. John Chaney played here. Larry Little played there. Driver played here. Lou Brock played there. Sam Jones played here. Jackie Slater played there. Avery Johnson played there and Alice Coachmen went here.
Therefore, I would like to thank Howard. Hampton, A &T, Winston Salem State, North Carolina Central, Southern, Norfolk State, Florida A&M, Grambling, Morehouse, Spelmen, Bennett, Shaw, Bethune Cookman, Morgan State, Virginia Union, Tuskegee, Fisk University, Jackson State, Bowie State, Morgan State, Clark, South Carolina State, Virginia State, Norfolk State and all Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout the United States for teaching us, inspiring us, and letting us be us.
So, please don’t turn your back on us, or sell us out in order to please some corporate criminals, who want to erase our history and steal our legacy.
Because,
It’s Homecoming Ya’ll.
Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television and a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Editor and Chief of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.” Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com
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How Does Extreme Winter Weather Affect Wildlife?
Many wildlife species, like snowshoe hares, are well adapted to survive cold temperatures. Photo: Christopher Brown
Much of the eastern and southern United States is dealing with frigid temperatures and bracing for a “bomb cyclone,” creating miserable conditions for people.
It can be equally miserable for some wildlife species.
Many animals, of course, are well adapted to thrive in even the coldest of temperatures. Creatures like Arctic foxes, with frostbite-proof feet, are exquisitely adapted for Arctic environments.
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Other wild animals have evolved ingenious ways of conserving energy, including hibernation, torpor and other physiological changes. Some simply migrate to warmer climes. Others have thick layers of fat or lush fur that helps them stay warm and dry.
Birds will seek out a variety of unconventional shelters – both natural and human-made – to stay warm on bitterly cold nights. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich reports flying squirrels cramming into small tree holes, huddling together in a tight mass for warmth. (Heinrich’s book Winter World is a treasure trove of stories of how animals survive the cold).
There are species, though, that have recently expanded their range due to climate change or other factors. When a cold snap occurs, they’re ill prepared for it.
While it’s difficult to know how this latest bout of frigid weather will impact wildlife in parts of the United States, here are some species that may not fare well.
Carolina wrens expand their range northwards until cold weather causes die-offs. Photo © Isaac Sanchez / Flickr through a CC BY 2.0 license
While visiting my parents and brother in central Pennsylvania over the holidays, I enjoyed watching the antics of the Carolina wrens visiting their bird feeders. They’re fun birds to observe, always active and vocal.
They’re also somewhat unfamiliar to me: growing up, we’d never see them around the yard. Indeed, Carolina wrens have been expanding their range north over the past decades. They are not migrants: they live in a locale year round.
However, these birds don’t fare well during periods of very cold weather. Since they don’t migrate, they often perish.
This pattern has been recorded by the Great Backyard Bird Count, a citizen science initiative held each February where participants keep track of birds seen in backyards or nearby parks. In years with very cold weather, Carolina wren sightings diminish greatly — the birds have died off, and their range contracts.
The Carolina wren population eventually expands northwards again. It takes time. According to Great Backyard Bird Count reports, it can be ten years or more until Carolina wrens return to northern states in numbers following a cold weather die-off.
My parents tell me they have not seen the Carolina wrens this week, not a promising sign. The polar vortex will likely wipe out many of these birds in the East and Midwest. They’ll be back, but not immediately.
Virginia Opossum
Opossums are prone to frostbite on their hairless tails. Photo: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy
The opossum has been expanding its range north for decades. It’s particularly well adapted to humanity, able to survive amidst farms, city parks and suburbs.
It’s much less well adapted to winter weather.
Unlike some other mid-sized mammals that thrive in the presence of humans – think raccoons, red foxes, coyotes – opossums don’t have furry, protective tails. In fact, their tails (and ears) are hairless, making them particularly susceptible to frostbite and even hypothermia.
Many opossums bear physical evidence of surviving harsh winters – damaged ears and tails. Their tails often appear stumpy or as if something had bitten them off, but these are signs that their tails suffered frostbite.
Opossums will den for a few days to escape the cold, but they don’t hibernate. They have to feed periodically. Sometimes they’ll change their nocturnal habits and feed in daylight hours during the winter, to take advantage of warmer temperatures.
That doesn’t make much difference, though, when it’s -20 degrees Fahrenheit (as it was in parts of their range this week).
Expect to see a lot of tail-challenged opossums this spring.
Northern Bobwhite quail Photo © Steve Maslowski/USFWS on Flickr through a CC BY 2.0 license
The northern bobwhite can survive harsh winters quite well – provided it has ample habitat.
This quail species was once a common farmland and grassland bird, and a celebrated game species over much of its range. Since 1966, its populations have declined by 85 percent. While the reasons for this decline remain contested, nearly all biologists agree that habitat loss plays a major factor.
Thick cover along fields provides many benefits for quail, among them protection from inclement weather. Bobwhites, like many species, need to burn more energy to stay warm in winter. Even a few degrees temperature can have a tremendous impact on survival. The conservation group Quail Forever has found that “the temperature inside a high-quality shelterbelt – ideal cover from the cold – can be 5°F warmer.”
Those 5 degrees can be the difference between life and death. Recent research found that a severe winter weather event can have long-lasting impacts on northern bobwhite populations. A healthy quail population could bounce back from this decline, but a population in peril – with inadequate habitat – may take years to recover, if it ever does.
Manatees require warm springs to get through cold spells. Photo © Carol Grant
Perhaps hardest hit are animals like manatees that thrive in more tropical environments, but encounter chilly weather in the northern parts of their range. Florida, home to well-known populations of manatees, is also experiencing a cold spell this week.
Manatees require water 68 degrees or warmer. Despite looking rather plump, they have very little fat to protect them in cold water.
When they swim in cold water for long periods, they suffer from what is known as manatee cold stress syndrome – leading to starvation and death.
There are current reports of hundreds of manatees moving into warmer springs that remain a constant temperature. Fortunately, these springs are being closed to public access so the manatees can take refuge there without being further stressed by people.
These winter warm-water areas are vital to the continued survival of manatees in Florida.
New England Cottontail
Zoo-bred New England cottontail being released. Photo © Tom Barnes / USFWS
The New England cottontail has faced numerous challenges to its survival – lack of young forest habitat, invasive plant species and competition from introduced eastern cottontails (a similar but separate species). And yet conservation efforts, including improved forest management and captive breeding, offer hope.
Will a harsh winter harm these “Yankee cottontails”? It would seem that a rabbit that lives in New England would be well suited to winter. And that’s probably often the case. With excellent habitat and a thriving population, the rabbits would likely do just fine. But a population on the brink without access to food may be wiped out by a heavy and persistent snow.
Researchers in 2015 found a 60 percent reduction in New England cottontail sites in Maine following a harsh winter. Every radio-collared rabbit in New Hampshire perished in that same winter. Plants like blackberry and raspberry bushes become buried with snow, making it harder for the rabbits to feed. The brown rabbits may also stick out more for predators (unlike snowshoe hares which turn white).
Non-Native Reptiles
Non-native green iguanas fell from the trees during Florida's freezing temperatures in 2010. Photo @ The Nature Conservancy
In Florida, species like Burmese pythons and green iguanas can become invasive, posing serious threats to native wildlife. When these species are released into a new environment, they find lots of prey but none of their native predators. Their populations can grow rapidly.
Still, they’re not equipped for cold weather. Most conservationists consider this a good thing.
During the so-called “deep freeze” Florida experienced in 2010, there were frequent sensational media stories of iguanas dropping from trees. Most of these iguanas weren’t actually dead; they enter a catatonic state when the temperature drops to 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
There were similar stories of pythons dying by the thousands, although this may have been overstated – there are still plenty of non-native snakes in South Florida.
Zoologist Vladimir Dinets reports in his new book Dragon Songs that non-native spectacled caimans (a crocodilian species) pretty much disappeared from the state following the freeze.
It’s interesting to note that native alligators did just fine. But Dinets reports that dozens of American crocodiles, a native species, died due to the cold in 2010.
Firewood in snow. Photo © RedTux / Flickr through a CC BY 2.0 license
Frigid temperatures might have another positive effect: killing invasive forest pests. These non-native pests can hammer forests but cold weather offers some hope of slowing the spread.
As Minnesota Public Radio reports, the emerald ash borer could suffer through the kill of a high percentage of emerald ash borer larvae. Since it was first confirmed in southern Michigan in 2002, the emerald ash borer has spread rapidly — now infesting more than 100,000 square miles. It devastates ash trees, and there’s no hope of eradication. But at least the cold weather might slow the spread, buying conservationists more time.
The Don’t Move Firewood blog also reports that the hemlock woolly adelgid, an insect devastating to eastern forests, is affected by cold weather. However, the temperature needs to drop below -22 degrees Fahrenheit before this pest begins dying in numbers.
Leigh Greenwood of Don’t Move Firewood notes that even the coldest weather won’t kill all forest pests, it will merely reduce their numbers. So please don’t move firewood to new locations; there may still be (living) invasive species lurking there, and you could spread the pests to new locations.
It will be interesting to learn what effects the “polar vortex” has on native and non-native wildlife. Are you seeing any impacts on wild creatures near your home? Your observations can help scientists learn more about how species fare in this cold weather.
When the snow gets deep, ruffed grouse head under the snow. Photo: Ben Amstutz / Flickr under a Creative Commons license
Ruffed grouse thrive in winter and heavy snows and frigid temperatures will be unlikely to affect populations. But a sudden shift in temperatures might trap some grouse…under the snow.
As is the case with skiers, ruffed grouse love powder. When the snow is fluffy, this bird creates one of winter’s most unusual wildlife shelters.
Forget moving out of the snow; ruffed grouse plunge into it.
The ruffed grouse flies along and dive bombs head first into deep, fluffy snow – completely submerging itself. Its body heat then creates a sealed dome under the snow: essentially, its own igloo.
This structure allows the grouse to stay warm even in the most inclement conditions. Research shows that the snow shelter can warm to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and rarely drops below 20 degrees — even when it’s much colder outside.
The ruffed grouse is found in many forested areas of North America, so it’s the grouse you’re most likely to see on winter wanderings.
In fact, numerous stories exist of grouse “exploding” out of the snow when a skier or snowshoer approaches – surely a dramatic sight, and one I always hope to see on my own winter outings. However, I’ve never seen a firsthand report, so it’s unclear how often this really happens.
Unfortunately, a snow shelter is not without risks for ruffed grouse. Researchers have found instances when a crust forms on the snow, trapping the grouse inside. If the crust lasts too long, the grouse is unable to escape and dies.
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By Joe Collins | Reply
Nine-banded armadillo range expansion. Armadillo die in large numbers when colder weather sets in. Let’s hope the nine banded armadillo don’t die off too much. I like them.
So, would you say that this is also and example of natural selection for each animal example you’re given in the article (native and introduced)?
By Matt Miller | Reply
In part, yes. In a couple of instances (northern bobwhite and New England cottontail), I would say it is more a case of species being vulnerable due to having small populations. If those species were abundant, they would be able to bounce back from blizzards and other “threats.” But when their populations are small or isolated, it’s much more difficult for populations to rebound.
A comparison might be to a person who has something happen, like a burn. If you receive a minor burn on your arm, it is painful, but if you are strong and healthy, it is not life threatening. But if your immune system is compromised, then even a light burn could be devastating.
A wildlife population that is strong and healthy is able to deal with freak weather, blizzards, fires, predators, etc. These are all a normal part of many ecosystems. But if the population is small, isolated and vulnerable, something like a blizzard can be devastating.
By Anna-Louise Fitzgerald | Reply
Thank you for this tarticle. Ive been worried about tbe wildlife! What about deer in the South?
By Kenneth L Darsney | Reply
Just want to say love reading the info.!
By Jennifer Rayhill | Reply
Thank you. Answered many questions during the current weather we are having. I have wondered about the birds that migrated only to be met with colder temps than they left…
By Karen Adams | Reply
I remember hearing Bob Whites all the time in SC in the late 70s and early 80s. Hopefully new laws to protect wildlife and habitat will resurface no matter who thinks they re running our Democracy
By Lynne SCHUBERT Colyer | Reply
Florida manatees also head to power plants where warm water is discharged. In winter these are great tourist gatherings complete with tee shirts toy manatees etc.
By Nancy Howe Russell | Reply
Here in southern Vermont, where we border on all sides by protected land, we have not, until this week, had problems with whitetail deer causing browse damage to shrubs around the house in winter. This past week during the snowstorm and subzero temps, the deer came during the middle of the day to strip off all the winterberries and chokeberries from the shrubs we planted for the birds. They also ate frozen persimmon still hanging on the tree branches. A rabbit, holed up under the hot tub for the winter, did a good job of pruning down the spirea bushes next to the house to about 6 inches.
I was fortunate several years ago to experience a grouse exploding from its snow shelter while snowshoeing in the woods close to our house. I was within inches of stepping on it, so it scared the daylights out of me. I had read about this winter behavior, so it was exciting to experience this in person.
Thanks for sharing your observations. I would love to see a ruffed grouse explode out of a snow cave. Every time I write about this, I hear from many readers who have experienced this. Consider yourself very lucky! I hope to have the same encounter some day.
By anylah fambro | Reply
how come you did not add bears???????
By Judy Perfido | Reply
I met up with a possum early last spring in my garden, just coming out of the woods and looking at me. I guess he was nosey to see what the noise was. He did not seem to feel intimadated, but I did stand very still. I welcomed him and advised him to go back where he belongs and he turned and left. I named him “Petee the Possum” and I was wondering if there would have been anything I could have done this winter to help him with food, etc. I know that feeding wild animals is not a good idea. I do hear him in the summer when something comes near his “house” and my motion detectors do go on at night and I am hoping it is Petee.
Hi Judy, Thank you for the question! Assuming you’re in the US, it’s best not to feed ‘possums since they’ll lose their fear of people and might then go to close to a neighbor or pet who’s not as friendly to ‘possums. One thing you can do is have “shelter” for them and other creatures in your yard, preferable at a distance from your house – possums can use a variety of spaces as shelter: http://www.dfwwildlife.org/opossum.html
By Maryle Barbe | Reply
What about eaglets surviving a cold snap here in Florida?
Hi Maryle, Thank you for the question! The raptor resource blog has good information on how eagles stay warm: https://raptorresource.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-do-eagles-stay-warm.html
By Sara Hutchinson | Reply
I live in northern Delaware and have seen more raccoons in my backyard this winter. They also frolic on my roof and peer in my bathroom window at dusk. The apple pieces I leave on the roof are always gone in the morning. I think (and hope) that the raccoons have eaten them because the squirrels have already gone to bed by the time I put out the apples. (I know, I know, I shouldn’t feed wildlife, but I have a soft spot for raccoons.)
By Leslye Jacobs | Reply
I was very moved by Matthew Miller’s cool green science blog and wonder if he has time to meet with a classroom in LA as a Pals Around the World speaker. We are a non profit that is sponsored by children.org and we work with After School All Star middle school classrooms in LA and public schools around the United States donating our Pals books on taking care of the earth and learning about our world. Each Pals book is based on another country and we bring in hundreds of volunteer guest speakers since we launched in 2009 from all walks of life. We started on recycled eco- friendly paper donating trees w American Releaf and Global Forestry for each book we manufactured. Yet since our launch, our consciousness has grown and we only provide pdf versions for school whiteboards and computers to leave a better carbon foot print along with our Pals toolkitnon taking care of the earth. You can see some of these visits in our Pals Ambassador library page at www. Palsaroundtheworld.com Please advise. Thank you
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By Ann M. Price | Reply
Terrific piece! Thanks to M. Miller for writing it and to the Conservancy for making it available to members.
from tree and animal-hugger in CT, Ann Price
By William J. "Bill" Getson | Reply
Please explain to me what thousands of MUSKRATS to along a river, such as the Susqluehanna River,. in Pennsylvania, when a VERY SERIOUS FLOOD occurs.
These fur=bearers live in burrows that BEGIN UNDER WATER, but lead to Dens which are ABOVE the water line. . When a River rises say THIRTY (30) Feet above “normal” level, what do these Muskrats DO and WHERE do they GO to escape being DROWNED ???
I used to be a Trapper of Mink and Muskrats and would like to know what happens to the MUSKRATS in the case of a MAJOR FLOOD ??? I,. personally, have NEVER seen signs of “Scurrying” Muskrats during or after a BIG FLOOD !!!
Thanks for any insight.
Bill Getson
Many thanks for your question. I have not been able to find a definitive answer to your question. I will keep looking. Muskrats are really interesting animals and I always enjoy encountering them. I also know in some areas, like Pennsylvania, that they are in serious, long-term decline. I think this is a great topic for a future story. Hopefully my research turns up an answer to your question!
By Elizabeth Bartlett | Reply
What an informative and interesting article. Thanks.
By Jamie Trask | Reply
Save ALL the Animals now and forever. Jamie
By Colleen Virgina Marsh | Reply
Hello, my name is Colleen. I am in grade 9 and I attend AHSS. I have a science project and I found this website, I thought it was pretty cool. So thank you for creating this website. Much love xoxo
By Deborah | Reply
Interesting article, but what can we do to improve their odds of surviving?
By Andrew Tait | Reply
As Mother Nature attempts to compensate for Global Warming sever weather events over large areas will occur with greater frequency.
All eco-minded organisations need to ban together to insure our next President and administration have the intent and advice to deliver a huge impact by greatly reducing CO2S, meat production, phosphates, pesticides and chemicals.
Andrew Tait
theenvironmentalist
By Benita Auge | Reply
Why is there so little news coverage of how animals are faring during these extreme weather events? At the very least, it would bring attention to the fact that humans are not the only species on this planet dealing with the changing environment. It has become very easy to forget that human actions have placed great stress upon these nonhumans who have to live with the poor decisions we have made and which impacts them their entire lives.
By herb skovronek | Reply
what about the plain ole field mouse? I trap em live in my house, but then what? If I put them out, as I did yesterday, the poor thing just seemed to go into shock and die.
By Ferne | Reply
I always learn something here. I spent 17 years in Ruffed Grouse country with the wonderful sound they produce. But I never new that they made their own snow shelters. The creative adaption of wild animals can be truly amazing.
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Guest Post, Jacob M. Appel: Transcending the Particular
October 20, 2016 October 17, 2016 Jacob M. Appel
Transcending the Particular: Why All Stores Do not Matter Equally
Shakespeare and I have far less in common than meets the eye.
On the surface, we’re both Caucasian, male, reasonably well-off for our times, and, in the eyes of my students, roughly the same age. And, as it happens, we also write plays—although his have received a somewhat more enthusiastic reception. For the time being, at least.
That’s roughly where the commonality stops. Shakespeare was English, and left countless artifacts to prove it, as every huckster in Stratford-upon-Avon will assure you. Meanwhile, in Shakespeare’s day, my forebears, a motely crew of impoverished fishermen, brick layers and subsistence farmers, struggled to survive the brutality of the Russian Pale. They practiced a rigid breed of Orthodox Judaism, spoke Yiddish, and suffered the brutality of Cossacks. Novels and plays were likely as alien to them as the church bells of London. Later, those relatives who survived the Pogroms found their way to the gas chambers of Poland. To describe Shakespeare’s drama as my cultural heritage, merely because of the demographic characteristics enumerated above, would reflect the worst of whiggish anachronism.
I emphasize this context, because I want to explore an argument advanced by a Sacramento high school English teacher, Dana Dusbiber, in a Washington Post op-ed last summer, in which she argued against assigning Shakespeare to her inner city students, a majority of whom are low-income kids from minority backgrounds. She wrote:
“….I enjoy reading a wide range of literature written by a wide range of ethnically-diverse writers who tell stories about the human experience as it is experienced today. Shakespeare lived in a pretty small world. It might now be appropriate for us to acknowledge him as chronicler of life as he saw it 450 years ago and leave it at that.”
I do not mean to dismiss the entirety of Dusbiber’s argument: Certainly, students should be able to relate to the literature that they read and a strong case can be made for allowing young people a say in designing their own curricula. Having exposure to literary role models with whom they can connect is essential if we are to welcome a diverse generations of future writers. My concern with Dusbiber’s column is that it does not just dismiss Shakespeare, but embraces a philosophy, increasingly present in literary circles, that writing does not transcend context. One might as easily argue—and I think this would prove a grievous error—that Frederick Douglass lived in a remote antebellum world of chattel bondage, so why read a slave narrative? Or dismiss the distinct rural feminism of Willa Cather, because nobody dwells in sod houses any longer. What makes great literature, as I see it, is precisely the opposite: The ability to capture your own “pretty small world” in a way that speaks to people nothing like yourself.
One need not be African-American to be moved by Richard Wright’s Native Son or Jewish to connect with Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer—or, I’d like to hope, to see the commonality of experience endured by Bigger Thomas and Yakov Bok. The joy of reading lies in recognizing the universality of human experience lurking within the particulars: seeing your own tedious cousin in Jane Austen’s William Collins or an ex-girlfriend in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jordan Baker, or, I have no reason to doubt, a friend or acquaintance lurking in the great oral narratives of Latin America or Southeast Asia—even though one has not grown up in 19th century Britain or Jazz Age Long Island, has never stepped foot in the Andes or the Mekong Delta. When in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, she describes the “long littleness of life,” I understand instantly, even though my politics and lived experience might prove closer to Shakespeare’s than to hers. Whitman’s “multitudes” may be vaster than my own, but the moments of overlap leave me breathless. Growing up as a Dumbo-eared, funny-looking child with a lisp, I remember discovering Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and feeling a deep kinship with her—not to suggest, obviously, that my suffering was anywhere as severe as hers, but I cannot emphasize enough the solidarity, and solace, I found in our parallel fantasies.
Great stories look outward. What is the point, after all, of speaking to people who share your own values and experiences and sensibilities? I wish to emphasize very strongly that this observation is not directed only or primarily at minority writers. Quite the opposite. Far too many of today’s celebrated A-list literary figures are upper-middle class white men who write specifically for people precisely like themselves. (Brooklyn Heights, I hear, crawls with them.) They are often enabled by a publishing industry populated by editors who share similar lived experiences. That is not to say that one cannot cull worthwhile, transcendent truths from Sutton Place or Westchester County—as, for example, does John Cheever—but that many authors no longer seem to be trying. Similarly, a resistance exists to reading about people different from ourselves, or to do so primarily to witness their differences, in lurid exoticism disguised as open-mindedness, rather than to enjoy our similarities. So much of publishing has become inward looking—about marketing to specific audiences, branding, and targeting insular literary communities. I want my students to write for people as unlike themselves as possible. The stories that matter most, at least to me, are not those that merely capture an unknown world—but those that bring me a world I do not know and teach me how it reflects or connects to my own.
With increasing frequency, when I speak at conferences or on panels, audience members ask some variation of the question: Can I write effectively about people whose backgrounds and lived experiences are fundamentally different from mine? (It is worth noting that the questioners tend to by an extremely diverse lot—far more so than the audiences at these events.) To my surprise, and dismay, authors I admire are increasingly answering “No.” I think this approach is misguided, but also tragic. Needless to say, it is much harder to write about cultures and experiences distant from one’s own—and the room for error is significantly greater. Exploration is not an excuse for carelessness or stereotype. But do we really want to create a literary world where the next Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee can’t write about heterosexual couples? Or in which William Styron, whose Sophie’s Choice rivals The Diary of Ann Frank as the most compelling of Holocaust narratives, confines his intentions to Tidewater Virginia? I believe we should be encouraging our students to write about people far different from themselves—to hope for empathy rather than to fear appropriation. (This is a distinct issue, I believe, from the serious problem of the chronic underrepresentation of certain stories and groups in mainstream publishing, but the two matters are often—and, in my opinion regrettably—conflated.) I dream, maybe naively, of a world where we tell each other’s stories, and do so with such insight and identification, that they truly become our own.
So back to Shakespeare.
A host of plausible reasons exist for reading less Shakespeare. But I’d hate to believe that one of them is that he doesn’t speak to low-income minority students. To me, that sells those students short. I’d hope that their teachers can find a way to show the relevance of Hamlet’s doubt or Macbeth’s ambition to their own lived experiences, much as my teachers were able to do for me. Obviously, students of all backgrounds should also be introduced to the universal human experience found in writers who “look” nothing like Shakespeare. But there’s a magic to discovering that someone very much unlike oneself—let’s say a playwright who lived on a distant island more than four centuries ago—shared recognizable fears and longings.
If literature cannot bring us together, what can?
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Guest Post, Brad Modlin: Writing with Lettuce between Your Teeth
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When I say Mrs. Dalloway is unforgettable, I don’t mean that I didn’t accidentally leave my copy by my bedside table on a day I was supposed to teach with it. Two days, in fact. It’s the beginning of the semester, and my students keep calling me “Doctor” like we’re suddenly in a hospital. I have a last name, but maybe they’ve forgotten it and are embarrassed about asking. For my part, I was afraid to ask them for page numbers and look like an idiot professor who forgets his book (twice); therefore I kept beginning my questions with, “Just off the top of your head…”
I think I covered fairly well, thanks to the memorable antics of Sally Seton—you know her—Mrs. Dalloway’s youth-hood friend who, to my students’ delight, once forgot her bath sponge and ran naked through the crowded house to fetch it. “I like Sally because she doesn’t care what people think,” a shy student said from the third row. Me, I like Sally because she doesn’t let embarrassment get in the way, and this may be why she’s reached literature stardom even though she shines for only a dozen or so pages of the twentieth century.
Sally knows something that we writers sometimes forget.
You’re at your writing desk, and you have a maybe-great idea, but it’s actually a horrible idea. Because mixing metaphors is always a horrible idea. Wrong, wrong, wrong—do you want people to think you’ve never read a good book or attended a workshop in your whole life? A horrible idea—except maybe this one risky time it could work? Hamlet, after all, does say, without apology, “…to take arms against a sea of troubles.”
In my daydream, Ezra Pound sits at his desk chewing his lips and thinking, “Will anyone take a two-line poem about a metro station seriously?”
Other wrong ideas include putting on a jumpsuit and pretending to be a dancing cat. (You’ve seen this?) Maybe in the production days of this video, those members of Ballet Zoom didn’t admit to their families exactly what they were up to. Maybe when their spouses or children asked, “How was work today?” they changed the subject. Or maybe their cheerful leaps weren’t just performance, but a sincere, artistic moment. Either way, look at the joy they’ve given many of us viewers now.
We often hide from potential embarrassment, but everything new is embarrassing. Every poem, essay, or story draft is gangly before it outgrows adolescence. And taking a risk gives others permission to do the same. From time to time, let’s all dare to eat a peach, even if we might end up with food between our teeth.
So yes, I forgot the book like an idiot, and both days turned out fine. Sally Seton forgot her soap, which led my shy student to speak up in class. And in offices, and kitchens, and empty corners, many of us heard that 1970s beat, and—even if we won’t admit it—tossed up our hands as if they were feline paws and bounced them a bit, laughing like (to mix a metaphor) happy hyenas at a birthday party.
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Imaginative Skeptics
May 23, 2013 May 21, 2013 Monica Petersen
Author Ian McEwan recently visited ASU for a lecture in partnership with the ASU Origins Project and the Center for Science and the Imagination. At this co-sponsored event, Ian McEwan, author of Atonement and Sweet Tooth and winner of the Man Booker Prize, and Lawrence Krauss, cosmologist and theoretical physicist at ASU, discussed doubt and skepticism in relationship to writing, as well as the interplay between science and literature.
The first question posed to McEwan and Krauss contained the overarching theme of the discussion: what is doubt and skepticism and how is it approached in writing both fiction and nonfiction?
McEwan began by defining doubt as “someone hesitating before a problem or outcome…pausing before a moral choice.” He explained that the novel is a secular form which is invested in individuals and is at the heart of doubt and skepticism. Using Hamlet as the quintessential example of a self-examining and moralizing character embodied by doubt, McEwan described literature as reflective of the relation between consciousness and doubt in examining human actions and motives.
In reply, Krauss examined uncertainty in nonfiction, the scientific version of doubt. According to Krauss, uncertainty quantifies science because it imparts a worth on scientific discovery and establishes a value of correctness or probability. Although uncertainty is valuable to science, Krauss discussed how in writing scientific articles, his copy editor eliminates uncertainty and ambiguity even though “there is no absolute truth in science…it’s either very very very likely or very very very unlikely or in between.” While uncertainty is crucial to scientific discovery, he explained that the human condition does not allow for doubt in something we like to accept as pure fact and truth.
In discussing the place of the scientific account in the narrative spectrum, McEwan commented that “science invades the territory of land held by the novel.” He explained that as science progresses, it seeks to quantify how we as humans make our choices. Understanding human action, as defined by science, forces the novel into a position of doubt as it must change its set of approaches in human emotional analysis. The novel, McEwan argued, is in a position of vague threat due to the increasing advancements of science because “if [science] changes the novel, it will change everyday lives.”
The moderator asked both lecturers to discuss how each conveys skepticism and doubt in a narrative. McEwan characterized his approach as a bottom-up–not a top-down–matter. In paraphrasing a 1953 lecture by Nabokov, McEwan said that one’s job as an author is to find the details; what a novelist has to do is build a world where skepticism is possible.
In contrast, Krauss’s approach to skepticism in nonfiction is a top-down approach, which to him is the best tool a scientist can use. For Krauss, skepticism is best utilized by conveying shock to the reader because “the easiest person to fool is yourself.” By getting someone to make the discovery that what they believe is wrong, it opens up the possibility that everything else could be wrong and leads to a questioning everything. Krauss argued that it is vitally important for a scientist to be brutally honest as “little accidents can have a profound impact.”
In their examination of doubt and skepticism, McEwan and Krauss spent a substantial amount of time examining the vitality of the novel and writing. Writing doubt takes different forms in each genre, and as science alters humans’ understanding, fiction writing will alter as well in a continued attempt to clarify the human condition. This intimate discussion between two prominent masters of their field stirred a thought-provoking lecture in the exploration of how these two fields affect and alter one another.
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Suhyeon Choi, age 8, won the Grand prize (ages 7-10) which includes a zoo Overnight Adventure on August 15, 2015. Congratulations Suhyeon! This is what Suhyeon had to say about tigers, "I love tigers because they are cute yet fierce and I love animals all the same". We couldn’t agree more. Suhyeon’s creativity and her rainbow palette really stood out to the judges.
Ella Gruner, age 6, won the Grand prize (ages 3-6) which includes a tiger ZooParent adoption and plush! When asked why she loves tigers, Ella said, “I love tigers because they live in one of my favorite places, the jungle.” We really loved her delicate tiger drawing as well as the amazing penmanship and…
Reasons for Hope on Global Tiger Day
Posted by: Dr. Fred Koontz and Bobbi Miller, Conservation Team
Tigers have always been around, right? Who didn’t grow up seeing Tony the Tiger hawking breakfast cereal, watching Tigger bounce (“Bouncing is what Tiggers do best”) across the pages of Winnie the Pooh, or hearing the story of How the Tiger Got His Stripes? The fictional tigers that brought us a happy childhood are still around, and will be for generations to come, but can the same be said for the real deal—tigers in the wild?
Today we focus on those real-life wild tigers, and what can be done to ensure that they too remain for generations to come.
Global Tiger Day was set aside to promote the protection of wild tigers and their habitat, and to further awareness and support for their conservation. If there was ever an animal that needed our protection, it’s the majestic tiger.
Just over 100 years ago there were as many as 100,000 wild tigers living in Asia. Today there are fewer than 3,200 wild tigers, with only 7% of th…
50th penguin chick marks Woodland Park Zoo milestone
With two late-in-the-season Humboldt penguin hatchings, Woodland Park Zoo has hit a new milestone—50 chicks hatched since 2010, the first breeding season in our new penguin exhibit.
Over the last six breeding seasons at the zoo, penguin chicks have typically hatched between April and May. While the two chicks are latecomers, they are genetically valuable to the North America population. They are the first offspring for 3-year-old father Maximiliano and numbers 11 and 12 for 8-year-old Dora.
Video: Tiny penguin chicks mark 50th hatching at Woodland Park Zoo.
The chicks are off exhibit in nesting burrows where they are under the care of the parents. To ensure the chicks are achieving growth milestones, staff weighs them as they develop. Staff minimizes intervention to allow the parents to raise their chicks and gain parental experience.
This year’s breeding season produced a total of eight penguin chicks, six of which have now joined the o…
Conservation researchers observe rare early parenting behaviors in young gorillas
Posted by: Marie Manguette, Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study, a Woodland Park Zoo Partner for Wildlife
At Mbeli, we follow twenty-one groups of gorillas that come to feed in the clearing. The number of individuals in a group ranges from just two to around 13. In gorillas, it is generally only the mother that takes care of her infant, with no assistance from the other members of the group.
On rare occasions however, we have observed juveniles carrying their siblings on their back or helping them when they are climbing trees. These altruistic behaviors have been observed in only two of the groups followed at Mbeli, and in both female and male juveniles. While rare in the wild, this phenomenon seems quite common in habituated or captive groups of gorillas.
Zulu’s group is one of these groups where juveniles have been observed caring for and supervising their siblings without interruption from the mother. There are a total of eight individuals in the group, including the silverback, Zulu. The re…
Browse gardens abundant with edible flowers
Photos by Kirsten Pisto/WPZ.
The delicate petal of a sweet rose, the crisp stem on a freshly cut camellia and a mouth full of luscious nasturtiums leaves! The zoo’s browse gardens are bursting with color and we are celebrating this summer yield with a special delivery of mouthwatering garden plants to our resident herbivores. This is the fifth summer of cross-department collaboration between horticulture, animal management, ZooCorps and the commissary. The program has been a great success in ensuring the animals receive fresh summer treats as well as providing an excellent learning opportunity for our ZooCorps teens.
Browse gardens are scattered throughout zoo grounds, tucked behind buildings and in-between exhibits, they offer an extra space for horticulture to grow fresh herbs, flowers and some fruits and vegetables. When summer does its part and the browse gardens begin to flourish, the teens in ZooCorps assist with tending the gardens and a…
Animal selfie!
When lead keeper Stephanie Miller tried to snap a photo of our male blue-billed curassow, he showed a lot of interest in her phone.
Playing along, Stephanie reversed the camera so he could see himself on the screen. And that’s when he pecked at it, amazingly hitting the shutter button just right to take this perfect selfie!
The duckface is over. It’s all about the curassowface now.
And this critically endangered species from Colombia needs all the attention it can get! Look for this beauty in the zoo’s Conservation Aviary.
New Strategic Plan: Growing our Reach and Impact
Plus our heartfelt thanks to Deborah Jensen for 13 years of service! Posted by: Bruce Bohmke, Acting President and CEO
Dear Friends, As zoo members, supporters and partners, you are an integral force in the success of our mission. You also have a vested interest in the future of your zoo. So, on behalf of all the zoo staff and board of directors, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Woodland Park Zoo’s new Strategic Plan 2015-2018: Growing our Reach and Impact.
You’ll be proud to know that Woodland Park Zoo is already recognized as a standard-setter among top zoos and aquariums in the U.S. With this plan as our compass, we will evolve to meet our community’s current and future needs, while further shaping and modeling the purpose of zoo-based conservation organizations in the 21st century.
Because a significant rise in population is anticipated for the Puget Sound region, we must dramatically increase our reach and impact to serve a growing community. But there is an even greater re…
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Books: Netflix Nations
By Jonathan Clements. In a publicity coup to rival no other in January 2016 at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that while he had been talking, Netflix had rolled out (at least in theory) in 130 countries, including Azerbaijan, Vietnam, India, Nigeria, and Poland. It’s a suitably grandstanding opening […]
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The hand stood up on three fingers and its thumb, and craned its forefinger like a long nose… Slowly the hand crept over the stones, searching. I Lost My Body, screening in selected cinemas before hitting Netflix on Friday, isn’t anime. But this outstanding French animation is the kind of film that pushes animation – […]
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MCM Birmingham Comic Con November 2019 – Anime Guest of Honour
You’re no doubt used to us discussing and promoting an Anime Guest of Honour at MCM’s London Comic Cons, but today we have a slightly different announcement for you, as we can confirm that MCM are bringing their first-ever Anime Guest of Honour to MCM Birmingham Comic Con this November! The guest for this event […]
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Illang: The Wolf Brigade
By Andrew Osmond. Now streaming on Netflix, Illang: The Wolf Brigade is the new cinema live-action remake of the 1999 anime Jin-roh: The Wolf Brigade. The original will be released shortly by Anime Limited, and there’s a certain neatness to a remake appearing now. The anime Jin-roh was a successor to Ghost in the Shell, […]
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By Andrew Osmond. Shock news at full moon! Warren Ellis, the comics titan who scripted the acclaimed animated version of Castlevania, has never played a Castlevania game. But before you grab your stakes and pitchforks, here’s some more news: the adult cartoon’s producer and showrunner, Adi Shankar, is a massive fan of the games. Shankar […]
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From patient to advocate: Trinity’s journey with cleft lip and palate
August 8, 2019 CHOC Children's Leave a comment
After a normal pregnancy and healthy delivery, Trinity was diagnosed at birth with cleft lip and palate, birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy.
Her parents, Krisha and Jason, didn’t know much about these conditions at the time. They were quickly referred to the CHOC Children’s Cleft and Craniofacial Program, which includes a team of multidisciplinary specialists including plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat), dentists, and more. Krisha and Jason relied on their CHOC team for help, education and resources regarding their daughter’s diagnosis.
Trinity underwent her first in a long series of surgeries when she was just 10 weeks old. Although it’s been a decade since that day, her parents still remember waiting for Trinity to emerge from that first surgery.
“In that first surgery, minutes felt like hours,” says Krisha. “Having to give up your 10-week-old baby knowing that they’re going to look different when they come out—it was a scary situation.”
Although Krisha and Jason knew their little girl was in good hands at CHOC, they were understandably worried about her surgery. What helped was memories of Jason’s own experience as a CHOC patient when he was a child.
“It’s been over 30 years since I was a CHOC patient, but I still remember that CHOC took really good care of me,” he says. “Even then, I remember CHOC being a really neat place. It’s so family-oriented.”
Trinity at CHOC Children’s Hospital, before a surgery.
Over the last ten years, Trinity has returned to CHOC for more surgeries, check-ups and other care. This has included surgeries to improve the appearance and function of her lip and palate, multiple ear tube procedures, and a palate expander. She’s also undergone multiple bone grafts where bone is taken from her hip and grafted into her mouth and gum line. She has had multiple ear tube procedures, a palate expanded etc. Future surgeries include jaw surgery, nasal surgery, orthodontia, and potentially additional lip and palate repairs.
“People assume that cleft lip and palate is just a cosmetic deformity, but it’s so much more than that,” Krisha says. “Trinity sees a wide variety of specialists, including a craniofacial plastic surgeon, a craniofacial orthodontist, an otolaryngologist (ENT), a speech pathologist, an audiologist, and more.”
Becoming part of her own care team
As Trinity has gotten older, she’s taken a more active role in her care—especially when interacting with Dr. Daniel Jaffurs, medical director of plastic surgery and craniofacial services at CHOC.
“Dr. Jaffurs acknowledges Trinity first when he walks in the room, before he speaks to us as parents. He explains everything on her terms, and then he will address us as parents.”
This confirms to Krisha that Dr. Jaffurs knows that Trinity is the most important person in the room and has helped foster the bond between doctor and patient.
“Dr. Jaffurs is my favorite doctor,” Trinity says. “He’s really nice. When I was little, I was afraid of doctors, but I’m not afraid anymore.”
A lifelong love of music
Children with cleft lip and palate often have trouble speaking clearly because the structure of their mouth and nasal cavity makes it hard to produce certain sounds. Although Trinity underwent speech therapy when she was younger to normalize her communication abilities, anytime she sang, it always came out clear. She also taught herself to play piano when she was just 8 years old.
“Whenever I have surgery and I don’t feel good right after, I put on music and then I start to feel like my normal self again,” Trinity says.
Always the performer, Trinity also participates in school musicals and dreams of being a professional musician someday.
A budding advocate
Trinity has become an advocate for other craniofacial patients.
“She’s always made her story known,” says Krisha. “She’s had situations in school where other kids ask questions about how she looks, and instead of getting mad, she brings in her baby book and says, ‘I’m going to tell you why I’m different.’”
Before performing a song at an annual picnic that brings together craniofacial patients and families, she gave an impromptu speech about confidence to the 400-person crowd.
“If someone makes fun of you because of how you look, get back up again and don’t let them bother you anymore,” she told the crowd. “You are special, and you were born exactly who you were supposed to be.”
This message was in line with what her parents have been telling her since she was born.
“I never wanted her to forget where she came from,” Krisha says. “Even though she was undergoing all these surgeries, I wanted her to know that she was beautiful and perfect the way she was born.”
Trinity continues to increase craniofacial awareness in her community. She often shares her story with her classmates and once even spoke to her school board about her surgeries.
Trinity with her family.
Trinity and her family find value in connecting with other craniofacial families. Their decade-long relationship with CHOC’s craniofacial team has given them an inside look on how CHOC and the department have evolved.
“The craniofacial program at CHOC has grown so much in the past 10 years. It’s incredible to see what they can do,” says Krisha. “This program has changed our lives for the better.”
The importance of community support
Support from their community means the world to Trinity and her family.
Trinity paints a picture frame in a playroom at CHOC Children’s while recovering from surgery.
“Donors have a big role. They help CHOC be up to date on everything,” says Jason. “CHOC is constantly evolving and in terms of the latest technology and procedures. It’s neat to see everybody coming together to make all this accessible for families like us.”
To Trinity’s family, CHOC is an essential part of the community.
“It changes families’ lives,” says Krisha. “It definitely does. It changed our lives.”
Trinity plans to keep on singing, inspiring others and returning to CHOC to continue her treatments.
“Hands down, CHOC makes everything better,” she says. “CHOC is the friend you never knew you had.”
Genetic Syndrome Causes Cleft Lip, Palate in Sisters
Just like most sisters, Tristyn and Raigyn Snyder will share toys, clothes and friends throughout their lives. They also share something unique: a genetic condition called Van der Woude syndrome. In ...
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Just like most sisters, Tristyn and Raigyn Snyder will share toys, clothes and friends throughout their lives. They also share something unique: a genetic condition called Van der Woude syndrome.
In the Genes
When Cindy Snyder was 12 weeks pregnant with Tristyn, a prenatal ultrasound showed that the baby had a bilateral cleft lip and palate. After Tristyn was born, specialists at the CHOC Children’s Cleft and Craniofacial Program noticed she also had small indentations on her bottom lip, or “lip pits,” a key marker of Van der Woude syndrome (VWS).
Van der Woude syndrome is the most common single-cause of cleft lip and palate. Individuals with VWS may have a cleft lip with or without a cleft palate, a submucous cleft palate, lip pits along the lower lip, or any combination of these features. Tristyn’s dad, Matt, also has Van der Woude syndrome and had a unilateral cleft lip as a child.
“If a child’s mother or father has Van der Woude syndrome, each child would have a 50 percent chance of also having the condition,” according to Dr. Neda Zadeh, a CHOC Children’s genetic specialist. “VWS can present differently in each person. For instance, a mom may have had lip pits, but her child could have a cleft palate and no evidence of lip pits.”
Shortly after Tristyn’s birth in 2011, she had a nasoalveolar molding (NAM) device fitted inside her mouth to partially close her cleft. Plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Sundine performed surgery at CHOC to repair Tristyn’s lip when she was seven months old, and he did a second surgery when she was 10 months old to finish her palate repair and remove the lip pits.
Now 3 years old, Tristyn barely shows any physical evidence of her condition. Other than a need for speech therapy, “No one even knows anything happened to her,” Cindy says.
Baby Raigyn after her surgery.
The Decision to Expand Their Family
“We wanted to have another child, regardless,” Cindy says. “Some people are like, how could you have another one? Tristyn is so happy and healthy. How could we not have another one?”
In 2014, Cindy and Matt were thrilled to learn they were expecting another girl, Raigyn. An ultrasound showed that Raigyn’s lip was not forming properly, a sign that she likely had Van der Woude syndrome. A genetic test could have confirmed it, but the Snyders opted out.
“We didn’t really need to know either way, and we felt like the cleft was enough to know,” Cindy says.
The Snyders were prepared when Raigyn was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. She wore a NAM device and recently had surgery to repair her lip. In a few months, she’ll have another procedure to repair her palate. Cindy is confident that Raigyn will continue to develop normally, just like her big sister.
“They are perfectly healthy children,” Cindy says. “Everyone’s born with different things, and this is just what they were born with.”
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pair of pro-marijuana groups in Utah accused the Mormon church Thursday of “extreme undermining” of a medical marijuana ballot measure, alleging it is exerting its power to push through significant changes to the proposition.
In a letter, the groups called for the cancellation of an upcoming special session of the Legislature set up as part of a pre-election compromise between cannbis advocates, the church and state lawmakers to gain the support of the church for medical marijuana.
“They lost. They ought to accept their loss and move on.”
Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City mayor
Key revisions to the ballot measure approved by voters last week are expected to be implemented at the session.
The letter sent by attorney Rocky Anderson on behalf of the groups Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education, or TRUCE, and the Epilepsy Association of Utah, accuses the church of trying to interfere with the measure.
“They lost. They ought to accept their loss and move on,” Anderson, a former Salt Lake City mayor, said in an interview.
Doug Anderson, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in a statement that the faith stands behind the work it did to help craft a compromise it considers a “safer” medical marijuana program.
“As members of the community, we have worked, from the outset, with medical professionals, law enforcement, educators and many other groups and prominent community leaders to seek the best for the people of Utah,” Anderson said, “to provide relief from human pain and suffering, especially where children are concerned.”
The measure passed by voters creates a state-regulated growing and dispensing operation and allows people with certain medical conditions to use the drug in edible forms. It does not allow pot smoking.
Under the plan crafted in the compromise, the measure would be changed to block some marijuana edibles like cookies that might appeal to children. It also won’t allow people to grow their own marijuana if they live too far from a dispensary.
The letter was sent to the church, state leaders and the Utah Patients Coalition, the main group backing the initiative approved last week by voters.
The coalition says it agreed to the Dec. 3 special session so it could prevent radical changes to the measure.
The Mormon faith had opposed the ballot proposal over fears it could lead to broader use of marijuana. However, as the proposal seemed to gain support, the church agreed to the pre-election deal to allow access for people with serious medical needs.
Mormons have long frowned upon marijuana use because of a key church health code called the “Word of Wisdom,” which prohibits the use of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs.
The letter highlights the rift that developed among marijuana backers when the compromise was reached in October.
Anderson called it a betrayal by other marijuana groups to “cower to the demands” of the Mormon church after about 52 percent of the state’s voters approved the measure. . He said the groups he represents are considering a lawsuit
DJ Schanz, director of the Utah Patients Coalition, said the group would rather be part of the discussion that on the sidelines.
He said it’s simply a reality that the religion has a major voice in Utah politics. About two-thirds of the state’s residents belong to the religion and the majority of state and federal lawmakers are Mormon.
“We made a conscientious decision to not burn all the bridges down just to control the ashes,” Schanz said.
By passing the measure, Utah joined a list of more than 30 states allowing patients legal access to medical marijuana.
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