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Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Only One Beyoncé: Services Pick Up After Your Music
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My digital music collection is over a decade old, and it’s as disorderly as a drawer of mismatched socks.
Many songs are missing the correct album titles and cover art—or just show up in Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iTunes with mysterious names like “Track04.” Over the years I’ve used several programs to import and buy music, resulting in wild inconsistencies in my collection. I’ve got songs by Beyoncé (with accent), Beyonce (without accent), Beyoncé Knowles (with accent) and Beyonce Knowles (without accent).
Several companies have developed programs that tap into vast databases of songs to tame music collections. I’ve been testing one by San Francisco startup TuneUp Media that’s available to download online and buy in Apple’s stores. While I was reluctant to pay $19.95 for a year’s subscription to a service I reckon should be in iTunes for free, TuneUp has largely delivered on its promise to scrub my music collection with minimal effort, making sure tracks were properly titled and adding extras like album cover art.
TuneUp’s greatest asset is that it works seamlessly with iTunes (for Mac and PC). With TuneUp hooked on to the right side of the iTunes program, you drag “dirty,” or mislabeled, songs into a box identified by a spray bottle of cleaner. The software identifies songs by taking clues from information you’ve embedded in your music, as well as sampling the song’s digital fingerprint. TuneUp looks for a match to those clues in a database of songs maintained by Sony Corp.’s (SNE) Gracenote.
Some matches are a slam dunk, but almost half of my collection proved to be problematic. Of the 500 most-played songs in my pop-oriented collection, TuneUp found “matches” for songs across 79 albums and “likely matches” for songs across 209 albums. It couldn’t identify 10 songs. The company says it counts matches as a 90% or higher chance of a match, and “likely” as at least 75% chance of a match. Songs with a likelihood under 75% are labeled “not found.”
TuneUp gives you the chance to review each of the matches before it adjusts your catalog. (It comes with an undo button.) Accepting all of the sure matches is easy enough, but slogging through the likely matches is troublesome. TuneUp gives you only the option to accept or reject its one recommendation after listening to the file, if you want.I worried that I might be inadvertently mislabeling a song, but haven’t yet found evidence of errors in my collection. The company says it cut out alternative matches to simplify the cleaning process, but is working on adding them to future releases of the software.
Once a song has been cleaned by TuneUp, it is given a consistent name, track number, album cover and other helpful information, such as the year it was released. Now I’ve got songs by just Beyoncé (with accent) and almost all of my songs feature the album cover art that looks so nifty on iPhone screens. The software assigns your songs genre identifications, which can be handy for matching music to your mood. Most of the classifications aren’t terms I would have come up with: Beyoncé is dubbed “urban crossover,” while Michael Jackson is either “disco” or “other pop” depending on the era—but at least they’re consistent. You also can tell TuneUp not to change any specific part of a song’s existing catalog listing, including genre.
TuneUp takes a few seconds, depending on your computer and Internet speed, to identify and re-classify each song. Attempting to scrub a whole collection—mine has more than 10,000 songs—can be a lengthy affair. The company suggests cleaning 500 songs at a time, but you can do many more than that if you leave it running over night.
I tried out a free competitor to TuneUp called MusicBrainz Picard, which matches songs based on a database collected by a swarm of Internet users, rather than one particular company. TuneUp and MusicBrainz, which is run by a nonprofit, are as different as Britannica and Wikipedia in their approaches to cataloging information.
The MusicBrainz approach to building a user-generated database is powerful and has been tapped by companies such as the BBC and Amazon.com (AMZN) to improve the way they keep track of music on their sites. Some of my songs that TuneUp couldn’t identify, such as the song “This Way” by hip hop group Dilated Peoples, were a breeze for MusicBrainz. To date, MusicBrainz has about 700,000 “releases” (such as whole albums) and 8,000,000 individual “tracks” in its database.
But MusicBrainz’s database has limitations, such as the inability to catalog album-cover images or song lyrics, both of which are copyrighted material. The free Picard program lets you tap the MusicBrainz database from your own computer. Serious music fans will be attracted to Picard because it is more precise than TuneUp; Picard guides you to choose from a variety of options when it isn’t certain of a match. But the software is rudimentary and requires concentration and time to use. Picard also doesn’t connect directly into iTunes’ catalog. To use it with iTunes, you have to first clean up all of your music files with Picard and then re-import your songs into iTunes.
I recommend TuneUp for the average music fan who might view cleaning up a music collection as the sort of task that shouldn’t take much longer than one rainy Sunday afternoon. Picard is better for people for whom maintaining an orderly music collection is a never-ending project.
TuneUp comes with a feature called “Tuniverse,” which fills the right side of the screen with information related to whatever song iTunes is playing at the time. That information includes YouTube videos, biographical details from Wikipedia, Google (GOOG) News, music recommendations from Amazon and tickets from StubHub to coming concerts in your area. While I initially worried Tuniverse would feel like added advertising on the screen, I’ve come to enjoy the extra information. And once again, I was left wondering why Apple hasn’t built these capabilities directly into iTunes. I, for one, learned from Tuniverse that Beyoncé has a concert in San Francisco next week, and I just might buy a ticket.
Walt Mossberg is on vacation.
Write to Geoffrey A. Fowler at Geoffrey.Fowler@wsj.com
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Het Smeden van Gongs by Kleynenberg (c.1912)
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Tags: Antique Print, Asia, Indonesia, Java.
No. 91 Het Smeden van Gongs. Java.
Beautiful print depicting gong making on Java. This photograph depicting the Dutch East Indies was originally published as part of an information series for school children. It consisted of 170 educational prints and covered a diverse range of subjects, separated into two parts: numbers 1-150 depicted places and people in the Dutch East Indies and numbers 151-170 depicted places and people in the Dutch West Indies. The first 150 photographs of the collection are attributed to the photographer Jean Demmeni (1866-1939), whose pictures provided the Dutch public with some of the first photographic depictions of the colonies that they had read so much about. Demmeni was born in Padang Panjang in West Sumatra, the son of a native woman of the island of Madura and a Frenchman who had left his country to join the Dutch East Indies Army. Demmeni followed in his fatherʹs footsteps and, after technical training in Holland, entered the Third Infantry Regiment in 1887. He was seconded to the topographic unit of the armed forces and in 1894 was assigned as the official photographer to an expedition to Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis. Demmeni was then employed by the Topographical Service at Batavia from 1911 until 1920, after which he worked as a photographer at the Central Office of Dactyloscopy. In the biography of Jean Demmeni Indonesia: Image s of the Past (Singapore: 1987), Leo Haks described him as ʹone of the first photographersʹ to capture the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, and called his work a ‘vital contribution to Indonesian history and the art of photography’ which ʹprovides a comprehensive record of the Indonesian islands at the turn of the century, unmatched in its singular insightsʹ. This selection of photographs shows interesting details around the expansion of industries such as tobacco (a lucrative export) in the area, and the local processes of production. The group also records the religious influences in the region, showing Islamic and Christian presences in local communities. Islam had been established in Indonesia since the fourteenth century, and colonial European settlers had ushered in a new phase of Christian proselytising around the Pacific Ocean – one which was frequently characterised by notorious insensitivity towards the indigenous population. However, these photographs demonstrate the more tolerant educational interest being taken at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Measures: 72 x 60 cm.
Purchase Code: KB91
5.500.000 IDR
Antique Map Batavia by Leti (c.1690) – SOLD
Antique Maps, Plans & Charts, Asia, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
Antique Map Batavia by Leti titled ‘Waere affbeeldinge Wegens hets Cafteel ende Stadt BATAVIA/gelegen opt groot Eylant JAVA Anno 1681’. The very rare and sought after large map of Batavia in 1681 in old colour...
Antique Map of China and Indonesia by Covens & Mortier (c.1735)
Antique Map of China and Indonesia by Covens & Mortier titled ‘Carte d’une Partie de la Chine, les Isles Philippines, de la Sonde, Moloques, de Papoesi &c’. Rare map of China and Southeast Asia, centered...
Antique Map of the Indonesian Archipelago by Bonne (1773) – SOLD
Antique Map of the Indonesian Archipelago by Bonne ‘CARTE DES ISLES DE LA SONDE, ET DES ISLES MOLUQUES. Par M.Bonne, Ingenieur – Hydrographe de la Marine’. Late 18th century French map of South-east Asia and...
Antique Map Batavia and Bantam by Van der Aa (c.1714)
Antique Map Batavia and Bantam titled ‘La Rade de Batavia, La Rade de Bantam’. Two small early 18th century black and white maps of Batavia and Bantam by the prolific Dutch cartographer Pieter van der...
Antique Map Java by Van Keulen (c.1753) – SOLD
Antique Map Java by Van Keulen titled ‘INSULAE IAVAE PARS OCCIDENTALIS EDENTE HADRIANO RELANDO/INSULAE IAVAE PARS ORIENTALIS EDENTE HADRIANO RELANDO/t’Amfterdam by GERARD van KEULEN aan de Nieuwe brug met Privilegie’. The very rare and much sought-after...
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Antique Map of Java, Sumatra and Borneo by Bellin (1773) – SOLD
Antique map of Java, Sumatra and Borneo by Bellin titled ‘Carte des Isles de Java, Sumatra Borneo &a. Les Detroits de la Sunde, Malaca, et Banca, Golfe de Siam &a. Orbis terrarum’. A nicely coloured...
Antique Map Java by Tombe (1811)
Antique map Java by Tombe titled ‘Carte de l’Isle de Java et des Détroits de la Sonde de Madure et Baly / dresée par Mr. Tombe, Chef de Batallion, Officier Supérieur d’Etat Major; gravé par...
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Antique Map Java by Van Linschoten titled ‘Iava Maior’ (Java Major). A rare and interesting woodblock map on page with text, from ‘Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West...
Antique Map Batavia and Surroundings by Van Schley (c.1760)
Antique Map Batavia and Surroundings titled ‘Carte des Environs de Batavia, Kaart van de Buitenstreeken van Batavia’. Mid-18th century black and white map of Batavia engraved by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779) and published in...
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Condé Nast Tries Turning the App Store Into a Newsstand: Will You Buy GQ for Your iPhone?
October 20, 2009 at 12:26 pm PT
I’ve all but declared a moratorium on “Company X has an iPhone app” stories–memo to PR folk: There are now 85,000 apps–but this one is actually interesting: Condé Nast is turning the app into a digital magazine.
The publisher plans to start selling digital copies of its print titles via a yet-to-be-approved app. Condé will start with the December issue of GQ, which it will sell for $2.99 (versus a newsstand price of $4.99), but the idea is that the publisher can use the same technology to sell other issues of other magazines down the road.
Condé says the GQ digital issue will replicate the print one on a page-by-page basis, including the ads. Digital bonuses include related videos, as well as links to sites for products (clothing, music, etc.) featured in the issue.
I wasn’t able to attend Condé’s presentation this morning, so I can’t tell you how its attempt to transfer a rich glossy magazine onto a phone (or iPod touch) actually works. But for now, I’ll take the company’s word for it and assume that it’s a nice alternative to carrying around some dead trees.
The interesting question is the business model, which I think has some real potential. This doesn’t solve Condé’s core problem–its costs are too high to support its shrinking ad revenue–but it does have several things going for it.
For one, this approach reaches its potential readers where they are: I don’t want to read a magazine at my desk, and I’m far from sold on the idea of buying a specialized reader to consume it digitally. Getting it to me on my phone, which goes wherever I do, is the way to go.
It also generates some (potential) additional revenue for Condé Nast right off the bat without creating a channel conflict with its analog product line: Condé will be able to count any magazines sold via its app platform toward its audited circulation numbers, a trick that no publisher has been able to pull off with Web products so far. Meanwhile advertisers in the print publication who want to add digital links to the iPhone version will pay a premium, Condé says. And the publisher has been able to extract additional dollars from Grey Goose and Gillette, which will be “premium sponsors” of the GQ issue.
Bonus upside: Condé says the technology it has assembled for this effort should work well for future Apple (AAPL) products, like, say, its mythical tablet. “We think that the minute Apple is ready, if they ever are, to announce that they’re going forward with a tablet, that we’ll be ahead of everybody,” says Sarah Chubb, president of Condé Nast Digital.
This doesn’t solve the distribution issue that Condé and other publishers have with Apple, Amazon (AMZN) and other potential digital delivery outfits: Apple, not Condé, will control the billing relationship for the app. But then again, Condé doesn’t get to interact with you when you buy a magazine at a newsstand either, so at least it’s not getting disintermediated.
The question, as always, is whether customers are willing to pay anything at all for content they’ve been getting free on the Web. I still think we’re going to end up with a small segment of people willing to pay up for specialized stuff and a very large group that are going to end up with free things of dubious value. It would be great to be proved wrong, though.
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There was a worry before I started this that I was going to burn every bridge I had. But I realize now that there are some bridges that are worth burning.
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Home Mobile Phone POCO revealed as new Xiaomi sub-brand, images and specs of first device leak
POCO revealed as new Xiaomi sub-brand, images and specs of first device leak
Xiaomi is one of the most well-known Android device makers around, but this week they’ve confirmed that they’re launching a new Android brand.
POCO is a new smartphone brand from Xiaomi. According to a letter from Jai Mani, POCO’s Head of Product, the Xiaomi sub-brand aims to offer a powerful smartphone that’s also affordable:
Many of you have been wondering what POCO is really about. Here’s our answer from @jaimani….#GoPOCO pic.twitter.com/f7CadsK68e
— POCOPHONE Global (@GlobalPocophone) August 10, 2018
The Xiaomi sub-brand hasn’t made any announcements about what that first product will be, but the rumor mill has churned out a few leaks that’ve revealed the device ahead of time. Reportedly called the Pocophone F1, the device has been shown in leaked photos and a 9-minute long unboxing video.
Like many other recent Android phones, the Pocophone F1 has a notch at the top of its display and a chin at the bottom, as well as a dual rear camera setup and a rear fingerprint reader. Spec leaks have tipped the Pocophone F1 as having a Snapdragon 845 processor, a liquid cooling system, dual rear cameras, a 20MP front-facing camera, and a 4000mAh battery. It’s also allegedly equipped with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
It’s rumored that the Pocophone F1 could launch in Europe in mid-September and then in India in early October. There’s no word on any other launches or pricing, but considering POCO’s statement, expect the Pocophone F1 to be priced aggressively.
Based on these leaks, the Pocophone F1 doesn’t seem like anything crazy different from what we’ve seen from some other Android makers lately. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though, as it’s nice to see high-end Android phones with aggressive pricing for folks that can’t or don’t want to pony up $1,000 for a phone. Here’s to hoping that we get an official Pocophone F1 announcement soon so we can learn more about what makes it tick and try it for ourselves.
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Guide To Understanding Catalonian Dissent: From Proclamation To Referendum, Andrew Larkin Apr 2018
Guide To Understanding Catalonian Dissent: From Proclamation To Referendum, Andrew Larkin
Honors Theses
"Guide to Understanding Catalonian Independence Efforts: From referendum proclamation to 1-O" explains and chronicles key events from June 9 to October 1, 2017 that have impacted Catalonia's ploy for independence. The northeastern region in Spain is situated on the Mediterranean coast and plays a strong role in the Spanish economy. Although the region is well situated and prosperous, some push for an independent Catalonia. The guide is written with readers from the United States of America in mind and includes excerpts translated into English so that the struggle between Spain and independence-minded Catalans can be easily understood. Official statements ...
The Behavioral Revolution In Contemporary Political Science: Narrative, Identity, Practice, Joshua R. Berkenpas Apr 2016
The Behavioral Revolution In Contemporary Political Science: Narrative, Identity, Practice, Joshua R. Berkenpas
The behavioral revolution of the 1950s and early 1960s is a foundational moment in the history of political science and is widely considered to be a time in when the discipline shed its traditional roots by embracing its identity as a modern social science. This dissertation examines reference works published between 1980 and 2012 in order to gauge the contemporary significance of the behavioral revolution. The behavioral revolution is discussed in many foundation narratives throughout reference works like dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks. After sixty years, why does the behavioral revolution still figure centrally in the way political scientists remember their ...
Failure Of Democratic Consolidation: The Three Year Interlude Of Military Rule (1958-1962) In Burma, Zaw Thein Aug 2014
Failure Of Democratic Consolidation: The Three Year Interlude Of Military Rule (1958-1962) In Burma, Zaw Thein
Many scholars believe that the period between 1948 when Burma won Independence and 1962 when the military took over the country from the elected civilian government as the parliamentary democracy era. During this era, there was a three-year interlude where the military leaders ruled the country as the Caretaker Government- a euphemism for the three-year military interlude. My argument is that this interlude happened due to the growing strength of the military as an institution and the decline of political parties in Burma. The strength of the military institution was due to the civil war that broke out just after ...
The Social And Political Philosophy Of Bertolt Brecht, Anthony Squiers Dec 2012
The Social And Political Philosophy Of Bertolt Brecht, Anthony Squiers
Bertolt Brecht is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Twentieth Century literature. An acclaimed poet, he is best known as a playwright and director. His 'epic theatre' revolutionized the theatre by creating radical breaks from traditional literary and theatrical form. These radical breaks were done in an effort to facilitate radical social change. Specifically, Brecht designed his epic theatre as a revolutionary aesthetic which would help bring about the advent of a Marxist revolution. There is a broad corpus of academic work which analyzes the formalistic elements of his work. However, this body of work ...
International Cooperation In The World Of Sovereign But Interdependent Nation States: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation As An International Regime, Chien-Hong Lee Dec 2001
International Cooperation In The World Of Sovereign But Interdependent Nation States: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation As An International Regime, Chien-Hong Lee
Assassination In Modern America: Political Participation Through A Gun Barrel?, Richard Grossenbacher Dec 1993
Assassination In Modern America: Political Participation Through A Gun Barrel?, Richard Grossenbacher
Assassination has been a constant companion of the world's societies from the beginning of recorded history. Only relatively recently have social scientists begun empirical study of these acts in an effort to reveal any commonalties and possible predictive traits. Investigation of the assassination phenomenon assumed a special urgency in America as violence seemed to escalate in the 1960s, which resulted in some notable research.
The present research collected data of presidential and non-presidential assassinations and attempts that occurred from 1969 through 1992 and compared the findings with the results of earlier studies.
The data indicate that presidential assaults increased ...
Contracts In Conflict: Perestroika And The Decline Of Soviet Legitimacy, Karl Glenn Hokenmaier Aug 1993
Contracts In Conflict: Perestroika And The Decline Of Soviet Legitimacy, Karl Glenn Hokenmaier
Gorbachev's perception of the Soviet Union's socio-economic crisis and his subsequent actions to correct the economy and reform the political system were linked with attempts to renegotiate the social contract between the state and the Soviet people. However, reformulation of the social contract was incompatible with the conditions of a second arrangement between the leadership and the nomenklatura--the Soviet ruling class. The failure of Gorbachev's reforms and the decline of Soviet legitimacy were linked to the irreconcilability of the nomenklatura's "political contract" and the social contract.
The construct of the social contract was utilized to represent ...
Offense Perceived, Appropriate Actions And Possible Solutions: A Research Of Censorship, Sharon K. Van Poolen Jun 1993
Offense Perceived, Appropriate Actions And Possible Solutions: A Research Of Censorship, Sharon K. Van Poolen
Students at Western Michigan University were asked via a survey to read lyrics and indicate an offensiveness rating. Lyrics containing vulgar or sexual language or derogatory statements about religion received higher offensive ratings. Actions deemed acceptable in response to offensive lyrics include picketing and boycotting. Prevalent themes identified in the lyrics are antagonism toward religion, sexism and unhealthy sexual relations. Groups cited most frequently as potentially harmed by lyrics are children 5-12, adolescents and women. Respondents were questioned about participation in certain activities and what alternatives to direct censorship are acceptable. Most would prefer to be involved indirectly, for example ...
Ethical Implications Of Politics In English Speaking West African Countries: The Need For A Greater Ethical Concern, Adeyinka Christopher Thompson Dec 1991
Ethical Implications Of Politics In English Speaking West African Countries: The Need For A Greater Ethical Concern, Adeyinka Christopher Thompson
This thesis evaluates the ethical implications of policies adopted by politicians in three West African countries: Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The evaluation focuses on the policies African politicians adopt in their bid to solve two problems facing Africa: corruption, and achieving a democracy.
The evaluation relates selected policies of some African politicians to certain ethical theories propounded by various philosophers. Such questions as the respect politicians show for human life or dignity; the way they manipulate people, using them solely as a means to an end; secrecy in government; and whether their policies are meant for the general good ...
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After Painful Ordeal and $800K Medical Bill, Unvaccinated Boy Survives Tetanus
FRIDAY, March 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Amid outbreaks of preventable childhood illnesses, one unvaccinated Oregon boy's nightmarish encounter with tetanus should serve as a cautionary tale for "anti-vaxxer" parents, doctors say.
A team led by Dr. Judith Guzman-Cottrill, a pediatrician at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, related the harrowing story of a preventable illness in a 6-year-old.
It began in 2017, when the boy cut his forehead while playing outside. According to the report, "the wound was cleaned and sutured at home."
Unfortunately, the boy's parents had never gotten him the routine combo DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis) vaccine. Potentially deadly tetanus developed six days later.
Tetanus is caused by infection with the Clostridium tetani bacterium. "Bacterial spores found in soil can enter the body through skin disruption," the Oregon doctors noted, with onset of illness typically occurring within about eight days.
The young boy went through a severe, life-threatening illness.
"He was really sick and it was really difficult to watch," Guzman-Cottrill told Stat News. "He was suffering."
First came the painful, telltale signs of tetanus known as "lockjaw."
Still at home, "he had episodes of crying, jaw clenching, and involuntary upper extremity muscle spasms, followed by arching of the neck and back," his doctors reported.
"Later that day, at the onset of breathing difficulty, the parents contacted emergency medical services," and he was transported by air to OHSU's Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland.
Upon admission, the boy was still conscious and asked for water, but the "lockjaw" of tetanus rendered him unable to open his mouth. He was still undergoing spasms, so he was sedated, placed on a ventilator to help him breathe, and a tube was placed in his trachea.
Because any stimulation appeared to trigger more spasms, the boy received earplugs and was placed in a darkened room in the ICU, Guzman-Cottrill's team said.
Symptoms worsened, however, and he developed a form of high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat and fever up to nearly 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Doctors gave him the first of the recommended two-dose DTaP vaccine, and treated the boy with "neuromuscular blockade" therapy to help ease spasms.
Only by the 35th day after admission to the ICU was the boy able to be weaned off neuromuscular blockade therapy, and by Day 44 he could breathe on his own again and took his first sips of water.
By Day 50, the boy could walk a few steps with assistance, and at Day 54 he was transferred to 17 more days at a rehab facility.
The total bill for his inpatient care was $811,929, Guzman-Cottrill and her colleagues said. And that didn't include costs for air transport, rehab and any follow-up costs.
The good news: The boy survived his vaccine-preventable ordeal and seems to have fully recovered, running and bicycling again as might any child his age.
The bad news: His parents have refused the second recommended dose of the DTaP vaccine and any other vaccinations for the boy, despite what he went through. His physicians noted that "inadequately vaccinated persons" remain at risk for tetanus, and the boy's encounter with the disease doesn't render him immune from it happening again.
This is the first case of tetanus in an Oregon child in more than 30 years, the doctors noted.
"I never thought I would see a case of severe tetanus in the United States," Guzman-Cottrill told Stat. "That was an astounding point for me."
Luckily, the vast majority of American parents do follow guidelines that advise routine five-dose vaccination of DTaP vaccine at four points in infancy and then a "booster" between 4 and 6 years of age. Ideally, people should then get DTaP boosters every 10 years throughout their lives, according to guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Widespread vaccination has nearly -- but not completely -- eradicated tetanus as a major threat, causing deaths linked to the illness to fall by 99 percent since the 1940s, the CDC says.
The boy's case was outlined in an article published in the March 8 issue of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Are your kids up to date on their shots? Find out at the CDC's immunization schedules page.
SOURCES: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 8, 2019; Stat News
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Boys and Girls, Men and Women
We do use these terms differently for males and females. No, let me be more precise right from the start, as I am hoping to make some distinctions. We use these terms in almost the same way in some situations, while using them differently in others when referring to males and females of different ages and status. This is generally to the disadvantage of females and their perceived status, but there are some reverses.
First, people of both sexes use the term for themselves for single-sex groupings that are primarily social. Going out with the boys in your 80's is not different in tone from your sister going out with the girls in her 80's. This is especially true if these are age-mates one actually has known for years. The term signals informality, but not the least hint of disrespect.
There is a slight weakening when one uses it about others. A husband who goes out with The Boys might reference that his wife is out with The Girls at the moment and vice-versa if each uses that term themselves. But if not, there might be a hint of superiority. That flows both ways about equally, I think. This is even more true of children speaking about their parents. It is possible that there is not the least amusement or condescension when talking about Mother going out with The Girls, but more likely, there's at least a touch of it. It is very likely to be present in the comment of a granddaughter talking about her grandfather going out with The Boys.
Yet even here some other factors have quietly entered in. The age-reversal of speaking of people 40-60 years older than you as boys or girls is humorous in itself. Children don't use the words that way in other contexts. They lack the abstraction and metaphor to even understand that the reference to boys is subtly humorous to a 70-year-old and is signalling affection. This collision of meanings does not go away quickly in children, even into their 20's before they are quite comfortable with it.
This is a good spot to insert that there are going to be regional and cultural complications here. In New England people are very likely to use the term "guys," and there is no good female equivalent. "Gals" is more southern and midwestern, though we do use it some, especially in combination with guys.
At the other end are the clearly sexist references, in contexts where 25 y/o males are called "men" but 45 y/o females "girls." There aren't so many of these now, but they persist. The gap has narrowed, anyway. The complication here is that age is not the only factor directing our choices. The status of the person or group of people is usually an even stronger driver of whether they get called man or boy, woman or girl. This starts to curve back upon itself. For most of history men have had the higher status jobs. Do we ascribe greater status to them in our reference because of their maleness, their age, or their status? Cart, horse. (I would very much like to digress here and discuss what preferable metaphor I should use instead of cart/horse when there are three choices. But I refrain. Though it bothers me, and it's a wrench to leave it behind.)
Racial discussions had a steady undercurrent in the 20th C of not using "boy" or "girl" for any grown African-American, hoping that language change would bring social change. This turned into a huge factor in original feminism, as there was suddenly pressure to use clumsy terms like chairperson. The consensus at the time was that such language changes are not effective when imposed by fiat, they have to evolve naturally. I don't think that has turned out to be entirely true. I think the enforced language changes have had mixed effect, but have mostly worked in the direction their advocates wanted. There has been a cost in resentment and less-graceful, less-comfortable language, but I think the changes have indirectly changed thinking. I don't hold with that ever-popular linguistic myth that changes in language create changes in thinking, but I do believe that the artificial awareness of language has reminded people of the potentially insulting nature of some traditional phrasings. Christmas carols and other hymns are made worse, and not only because we are cutting ourselves off from our own ancestors. But not as worse as was predicted, and I believe the gains elsewhere in equality have compensated.
Though again: Cart. Horse. Perhaps the changes were going to happen anyway and all the language battles have been irritating to no effect.
In between all this is a swamp of usages that depend on competing forces and contexts. One of my patients years ago was a black man my own age. He had been an honor student at a rival highschool and I knew friends of his from a summer studies program at St. Paul's. He was bipolar with some additional, but not severe alcohol problems. He would slow down pretty quickly on medications and we would have a fine time talking. He only had 3-4 admissions in a 2 year period and then I never saw him again. I liked to thank him for going out for walks with me so that I could look like I was working when I was just hanging out with a guy. But when I was talking with his mother on the phone, I completely lost the context that she did not my age or my connection, and when I said "He's a very smart boy" there was a chill on the other end of the line. My error, not hers, though I have said the same about other men my own age.
There are male-female contexts that are equally perilous. I have read a few times of women quietly shuddering the first time a young man called them "ma'am," and developed the habit decades ago of calling every woman "miss." Thank you, miss. Not every woman comments, but when they do the response has been overwhelmingly positive, usually humorous. Yet not always. A very few times I have felt instant resentment to my word-choice. I understand it. You would think the resentment would lessen as I aged, as a large percentage of females are indeed young to me now. But I think the offense is increasing. I don't know if that is a culture change, where my use of "miss" is heard as an equivalent of "girl," or some assumption that because I am an old guy I must be a benighted individual who still adheres to ancient attitudes.
Grim said...
Here in my part of the South, which is primarily the mountain regions of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, we call actual girls "ma'am," not just ladies. I hear my mother refer to her granddaughter that way, and I do it also when I have reason to address girls of six or seven (or any other age).
Thank you for this, Grim. This inspired enough to require a Part II.
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Review: How Old is the Universe? By David A. Weintraub.
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Probably the toughest questions an astronomer ever has to field with the public are those in cosmology. How old/how big/how far are truly mind bending questions, and difficult to explain to the average man on the street in sound-bite style. This week, we look at David Weintraub’s latest, How Old is the Universe? out by Princeton Press. Fans of this site will remember our review of Is Pluto a Planet? also by Mr. Weintraub a few years back.
How Old is the Universe? Serves as an address on the state of cosmology today, and how we’ve accumulated our knowledge up to this point and what it says about our present and future. Its premise is a simple one; a basic question of the age of existence and the ramifications that it implies. A field such as cosmology builds on evidence-based suppositions; the author starts with how we know the age of the Earth, Moon and bodies in the solar system and how this puts rough constraints on the lower age limit of the cosmos. You can’t be older than your parents by definition, and objects in the universe cannot be older than the universe itself.
Cosmology has rapidly moved in the last century from the realm of philosophy to one of science. Imagine; the universe of our grandparents consisted of the Milky Way, with a few dim smudges on a photographic plate that defied description. Edwin Hubble blew the doors off of that in the 1920’s, showing that our galaxy is but one in the cosmos. And our great-grandparents had the formidable task of measuring the stellar parallax, using nothing but windup time pieces and wire transit micrometers and a sharp eye… the road to modern cosmology has been a tough one indeed.
Universe climaxes with another quiet watershed moment of the 20th century; the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) by Penzias & Wilson in 1964. Here is science at its best; a surreptitious discovery of a prediction made by theory.
The author also covers other points of evidence that builds a compelling case for the Big Bang; did you know that the ages of globular clusters fit nicely with the constraints of predictions, or that the temperature/luminosity of white dwarfs suggests a lower limit to the age of the universe? Or that the Hubble constant has been narrowed down considerably in the past few years, or that the ratios of lithium, deuterium and even the very existence of such elements as boron suggest that the Big Bang had to occur and the the resulting universe was non-homogeous? Universe covers all of this and more, looking at the compelling questions of modern cosmology; is the universe open, flat or curved? What is dark energy? Where is a majority of the universe (aka dark matter) hiding? These are questions we may just see answers to in our lifetimes.
Read How Old is the Universe? To get a compelling look at a fundamental question. The cosmological questions are always the toughest to answer, as our knowledge stacks one careful cornerstone after another. It seems that after evolution and climate change, the Big Bang Theory stacks up as public enemy no. 3 in the theories that the anti-science crowd wants to knock down. It’s strange that this should be so; most creation tales start with a finite beginning, a “let there be light” moment that jibes well with what modern cosmology tells us, if you allow for a modicum of allegory… in our minds, a steady state universe would be more bizarre. Read Mr. Weintraub’s work to arm yourself with the best reply, that of knowledge and wonder at the universe we all inhabit.
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Ten recipients of the Gratitude Scholarship program from Syria, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon will begin their studies at United World College (UWC) schools around the world in September. Each is either a refugee or displaced, living in extreme poverty, or living with the loss of a parent or a guardian. Seven of the students will attend UWC Dilijan in Armenia, an international co-educational boarding school which hosts students from more than 60 countries.
The Gratitude Scholarship program, valued over $7 million, is a joint undertaking of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the Near East Foundation. Over the duration of the program, 100 promising students from countries affected by conflict, displacement and poverty in the Middle East will benefit from the opportunity to study at one of the United World College international schools and colleges. The program was established to thank the people of the Middle East who offered shelter and food to those displaced by the Armenian Genocide a century ago.
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August 31, 2016 - New York – Ten recipients of the Gratitude Scholarship program from Syria, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon will begin their studies at United World College (UWC) schools around the world in September. These students have been chosen based on their high academic performance. Each is either a refugee or displaced, living in extreme poverty, or living with the loss of a parent or a guardian. Seven of the students will attend UWC Dilijan in Armenia, an international co-educational boarding school which hosts students from more than 60 countries.
The Co-Founders of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative have also announced the continuation of the Amal Clooney Scholarship. Now in its second year, the scholarship offers one female student from Lebanon free enrollment in a two-year international baccalaureate program at UWC Dilijan. The student is selected based on her exemplary academic performance and interest in the promotion of human rights and international issues. The scholarship was established to strengthen cross-cultural education and understanding, in honor of the scholarship’s namesake, esteemed international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
“We are proud to offer education and international experience to deserving students from the Middle East, home to so many Armenians during the last century,” said Ruben Vardanyan, Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. “By bringing together young people from across the world, we seek to promote international dialogue and understanding at an early age, when relationships are formed and values are instilled. Our hope is that this reinforces a sense of compassion, understanding and the willingness to help each other, even in the face of adversity.”
This year's Amal Clooney Scholar was selected from more than 43 short-listed applicants for her stellar academic performance, positive energy and passionate sense of social responsibility, which she plans to put to good use by studying law at university.
“We are proud to be able to help empower our next generation of female leaders and humanitarians through this program,” Vardanyan added. “And we’re excited by the possibilities this scholarship holds for the young women of Lebanon and the region.”
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative aims to advance collaborative social and philanthropic projects on behalf of the global Armenian community. Its flagship project is the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, a $1 million global humanitarian prize which honors those who put themselves at risk to enable others to survive. George Clooney, Co-Chair of the Aurora Prize Selection Committee, presented the inaugural Aurora Prize to Ms. Marguerite Barankitse during a ceremony in Armenia on April 24, 2016.
Nominations for next year’s Aurora Prize are open until September 9, 2016. Members of the public are encouraged to nominate inspiring humanitarians who are saving lives and advancing humanitarian causes in all parts of the world. To nominate an eligible candidate, please visit https://auroraprize.com/en/prize/detail/nominatenow.
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The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative is committed to building a broad, global humanitarian movement. The initiative is rooted in inspiring stories of courage and survival that emerged during the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians perished. Those fortunate few who survived were saved also by the courageous and heroic acts of intervening institutions and individuals. A century later, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative seeks to express gratitude, share remarkable stories of survivors and their saviors, and celebrate the strength of the human spirit.
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative instigates, includes and supports projects designed to raise public awareness and address some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian issues. These projects include the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, the Aurora Dialogues, the Aurora Humanitarian Index, the Aurora Gratitude Projects and the 100 LIVES initiative. The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative is an enterprise of the IDeA Foundation (Initiatives for Development of Armenia).
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The Near East Foundation helps build more sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive communities in the Middle East and Africa. NEF has worked with refugees since it was founded in 1915 in response to the Armenian Genocide, and has organized relief and development projects in nearly 50 countries. For the past 100 years, NEF has worked to provide vulnerable and disenfranchised populations with the skills and resources they need in order to fully engage and prosper in their own communities and economies.
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United World College makes education a force to unite peoples, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. Established in 1962 UWC educational movement now is comprising of 16 international schools and colleges, national committees in more than 150 countries, and a series of short educational programmes.
UWC Dilijan School is the first international boarding school of the UWC education model in Eastern Europe and CIS. The school opened in September 2014 in the Armenian town of Dilijan and currently has 198 students enrolled from 72 countries. Its admissions policy aims to make enrollment available to anyone, regardless of socio-economic background, on the basis of demonstrated need. Forty nine percent of students receive full or nearly full scholarships and 43% have partial funding. In May 2016 the first generation of UWC Dilijan alumni graduated; many of them are continuing their education in the leading universities worldwide – Yale, Columbia, UCL, Duke, Berkeley and many more.
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Recommended Shows: Fin de Siècle and Sara Greenberger Rafferty
by Corinna Kirsch on November 6, 2014 · 3 comments Reviews
Sara Greenberger Rafferty installation view; image courtesy of Rachel Uffner
Rachel Uffner
170 Suffolk Street
Runs through December 21, 2014
What a difference a space can make. Rafferty has created a theatrical event in the upstairs and downstairs of the still-new Uffner galleries with floor-to-ceiling curtains dotted with pink-and-purple flies; blob-like paintings (of people, a wall, a noose) and inkjet prints layered on top of each other, flattened behind plexi to give the appearance of multi-dimensional depth; all adorned with the tiniest of hardware, like screws, that have been attached to the surface of her works.
Throughout the exhibition, I kept thinking about flatness—how even three-dimensional screwheads can look planar when added atop plexi. But hers is really a theatre of deception, and no matter just how flat her works may seem, there’s always shallow depth. In a time of flat paintings—mostly I’m referring to those that lack perspective, as if all that’s shown on the canvas has been pressed up close to your eyes—I appreciate that the next course of action might be a transition from pure flatness to a somewhat flat, though highly layered space. (Just take a trip around NADA, or the Lower East Side to see full-on flatness in action.) Though that’s likely to seem like a boring formal conceit to some, in an age where we look at flat screens all day long, it’s unsurprising that artists are trying to understand the depths of flatness. But full-on flatness could be a misreading of how we actually interact with screens: looking at emails all day might seem like a very flat life, but when you’re roaming the halls of a video game, you can become fully immersed. Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s works come close to demonstrating that strange balance found in our age of screens.
Fin de Siècle installation view; clockwise from top right: Chairs by H.R. Giger, Oswald Dubach, anonymous, Bruno Rey, Gian Franco, Legler, Marie Botta, and Marcel Breuer. Image courtesy of the Swiss Institute.
The Swiss Institute’s First Annual Design Series: Fin de Siècle
Curated by Andreas Angelidakis
Swiss Institute
Runs through November 23, 2014
I’ve found a nominee for this year’s best exhibition. It’s a show about chairs.
At the Swiss Institute’s first annual design exhibition, you’ll find Modernist designs by the likes of Le Corbusier alongside less-household names like Martine Boileau. Walk into their main gallery and you’ll see chairs scattered about, as if acting in several unconnected plays. Save for the occasional industrial floodlight set on the floor, to spotlight certain chairs, The first: H.R. Giger’s predatory chair—the same type of sleek, black plastic as Darth Vader’s armor—comes complete with a bony spine along the chair’s back. It has been set high upon high, as if on a throne, with other chairs down below, a captive audience playing the role of disciples. Other settings include a schoolroom with a chalkboard and a chair set up as a dunce in the corner, and a disco ball-lit psychoanalyst chair (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand) in conversation with another chair, one with an orange ball substituted for one of its four feet (Peter Shire). These chairs were on stage, but rather than seeming human, they approximated evil, having a brooding, unknown life of their own.
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8changes November 6, 2014 at 10:24 pm
You do know that your taste in art is going to be tired in ten years. It’s sadly so obvious. It’s lazy..actually it’s not lazy it’s just fashionable and at best intellectual fashion…which is even worst. No, that’s not the worst of it, the worst is that you’re privileged white people attempting to be fair. There’s no real risk in the work you promote…gifs? really? Whats worst is that you’re considered independent reporting….it’s like a vacuum with horse blinders. Go away or try harder….it’s like the last sip a very a watered down jamesons.
Paddy Johnson November 6, 2014 at 10:41 pm
Oh boo hoo. Someone doesn’t have the same taste as you. The failure of independent blogs must be decried!
Being told we take no risks by an anonymous commenter sure is rich. Grow up.
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Blinn’s fifth annual Boots and Blue Jeans Fundraiser raises $12,000 for Sealy Campus students
Proceeds benefit academic scholarships and new educational programs
The Blinn College-Sealy Campus recently raised $12,000 for academic scholarships and new educational programs during its fifth annual “Boots and Blue Jeans for Blinn” fundraising celebration.
“I am very appreciative and grateful for the support the Blinn College-Sealy Campus receives from the community,” said Lisa Caton, Executive Dean, Sealy Campus. “It was a great evening and the generosity displayed will help provide scholarship funds for local students.”
The fundraiser takes place each year at the Sealy American Legion Hall and features a ribeye dinner, live music, auction, and raffle.
“I love that the funds at this event all go back into the students’ tuition through scholarships,” said Janice Whitehead, City of Sealy Mayor and Blinn instructor. “The Blinn-Sealy Campus allows students to go to a local college and get an individualized education.”
Approximately 140 people attended this year’s event, which allows Blinn to provide scholarships to Sealy Campus and local dual credit students.
Austin County Judge Tim Lapham, who attended Blinn College along with his three brothers, has supported the Sealy Campus fundraiser every year.
“This fundraiser is great because it supports our local college and the students who attend, and it is important for our community to have a junior college here in town,” Lapham said.
Former Austin County Judge Carolyn Bilski attended Blinn along with her husband and three children.
“Blinn is a great investment for education and I was on board right away when we had the opportunity to fundraise to help families get a Blinn College education,” Bilski said. “Blinn College offers such a wide variety of opportunities in higher education for students and young adults, so this cause is very important to me. Blinn College and community colleges are great places to start and we are happy that Sealy gets to be a part of that.”
Current high school and college students can apply for all Blinn College endowed scholarships by completing the single application at www.blinn.edu/scholarships. Prior to applying for scholarships, students must complete their application for admission to Blinn College at www.applytexas.org and submit their high school transcripts to the Blinn College Admissions Office.
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Sandy Kim
Family Bookstore invites you to join us for an afternoon with Sandy Kim. At our temporary bookstore at the MOCA Geffen
Monday, April 23, 5pm (today! please don't be late - museum closes at 6!)
We will be launching Kim's book, Sky High, co-published by Unpiano Books and SF's Evergold Gallery
Kim will present a slideshow with commentary and be signing copies of Sky High. Copies are available at event only (sorry).
"I kept hearing about how great her work was from all of my interns and assistants. She's the real deal. Sandy is a confessional photographer with a thing for body fluid. She really knows how to use natural light, like early morning light, or sunset light in an apartment. She pays attention to it and that's always the sign of a good photographer, knowing when and how to use that light. She's small, a fly on the wall, with balls to pick up her arm and take the photo without asking permission. Sandy brings her camera everywhere and she's always ready and waiting for the moment. She documents her life in San Francisco and you get a sense of the scene there-but not in a blogger way, Sandy is actually talented - an artist. I like how she still shoots film. it's old school. She reminds me of when I was young - out partying every night, snapping away so that the pictures can provide evidence of the night." - Ryan McGinley (Sky High introduction)
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No reprieve for Poso 3, officials say
PALU - Prosecutors insisted Sunday the death sentence for three men convicted for their role in the sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, would be carried out soon despite mounting calls for a stay of execution. Central Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office head M. Jahja Sibe said technical difficulties were holding up the execution of Fabianus Tibo, 60, Marinus Riwu, 54, and Dominggus da Silva, 43, three Christians who were convicted of masterminding a series of attacks on Muslims in Poso in 2000.
"I need to reaffirm that the executions have not been carried out because the preparations are incomplete," Sibe was quoted by Antara newswire as saying. Last week, lawyers for the three filed a second plea for clemency with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, while demanding the prosecution of 16 men they said were the real masterminds of the Poso unrest.
"We will press ahead with the execution process of the three convicted men despite their second appeal for a presidential pardon," Sibe said, adding a convict could only make one appeal for presidential clemency. Attorney General's Office spokesman Masyhudi Ridwan also said Saturday that "technical reasons" forced prosecutors to delay the execution although he did not explain the difficulties.
The office previously said the men, currently detained in a Palu penitentiary, would face the firing squad by the end of March after their appeal for a presidential pardon was turned down last December. Local Christians and some Muslims have backed the demand to delay the executions until the three men have been given the opportunity to testify in any future trial of the people identified by the lawyers.
Thousands of Christians held a mass prayer gathering Saturday in the Central Sulawesi town of Tentena to show their opposition to the executions. There were tearful prayers asking for the salvation of the men. Local Christian leader Rev. Renaldy Damanik, who led the prayer, expressed concern the executions could trigger a new wave of sectarian hostilities in Poso.
"I can't imagine about what will happen after the execution, as hundreds of emotional Christian people would carry the three men's coffins along the 200-kilometer-road connecting Tagolu village to Poso and Beteleme in Morowali regency (all mainly Christian areas," said Damanik, who was released from police custody in 2004 for alleged involvement in the turmoil.
Damanik also said the execution would "bury the truth" of who orchestrated the two-year conflict in Poso. Other local Christian leaders have said Tibo, Da Silva and Riwo were scapegoats in a scenario contrived by the political elite. In an effort to maintain calm before the executions, local police and religious leaders held a meeting Sunday evening, an activist said.
However, Central Sulawesi Police chief Brig. Gen. Oegroseno claimed the situation in Poso was "under control". Damanik also urged Yudhoyono to visit Poso to hear the local community's opposition to the executions. The three men were sentenced to death in March 2001 by the Palu District Court for masterminding a series of attacks that killed a total of 200 Muslims in 2000.
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Home » Blog » Art » Red Baraat inspires celebration of spring colors
18 May, 2017 in Art / Botany / Nature Photography tagged arizona / arizona native plants / art / botanical illustration / botany / celebrate / color / Hinduism / holiday / illustration / inspiration / marker / music / native plants / nature / nature journal / pedicularis centranthera / pen and ink / prismacolor / Red Baraat / science / sketching / spring
In the March 13th NPR Tiny Desk Concert video, Red Baraat frontman Sunny Jain introduces the band, saying “we’re here presenting Holi, the festival of colors. It’s a Hindu holiday, a celebration, a commemoration of Hindu mythology, of victory of good over evil. And also a rejoicing with family, friends, and strangers in an array of colors.”
There is so much color and energy in this inspiring concert! The contrast of their white clothing covered in colorful swirls of flowers complements the music so well. Plus, the confetti and scarves are a blast! Dancing to their music was a wonderful way to welcome the season of renewed growth- I can feel that energy on the Prairie as spring continues to blow into Northern Arizona.
Red Baraat’s enthusiasm inspired me to illustrate Pedicularis centranthera, known commonly as betony and dwarf lousewort. These herbs in the Orobanchaceae Family bloom in early spring. Each plant’s inflorescence nestles within their exuberantly shaped leaves, which are referred to in botanical nomenclature as pinnatifid with broad, obtuse lobes and crenate-dentate margins with white tipped teeth.
Sketching P. centranthera, 05/18/2017
P. centranthera flowers and leaves display a fantastic variety of colors from cool, minty tea-green to deep, dark violet-mahogany (in Prismacolor marker pigments!).
Pedicularis centranthera leaf, 05/11/2017
The colors and shapes of these low-growing perennials signal the beginning of spring for me in Northern AZ. Right now, these little plants are fruiting in the xerophytic forests of ponderosa pine/Arizona fescue where I live and work.
Close-up of sketchbook page of P. centranthera, 05/18/2017
Glossary of Botanical Terms
crenate: with a round-toothed or scalloped edge or margin
dentate: toothed or serrated
flower: in angiosperms, the structure concerned with sexual reproduction, consisting of the *androecium (male organs) and *gynoecium (female organs), commonly surrounded by a *corolla (petals) and *calyx (sepals). The male and female parts may be in the same flower or in separate flowers.
fruit: the ripened ovary of a plant and its contents. More loosely, the term is extended to the ripened ovary and seeds together with any structure with which they are combined, e.g. the apple, a *pome, in which the true fruit (core) is surrounded by flesh derived from the floral *receptacle (that part of the stem from which all the parts of the flower arise).
herb: a small, non-woody seed bearing plant in which all the aerial parts die back at the end of each growing season.
inflorescence: a flowering structure that consists of more than a single flower.
leaf: a thin, usu. green expanded organ borne at a node on the stem of a plant, typically comprising a *petiole (stalk) and *blade (lamina) and subtending a bud in the axil of the petiole. The leaves are usu. the main site of photosynthesis. Sometimes in classification, the term is restricted to the leaves that are *diploid (having two sets of chromosomes) structures of the *sporophyte (the spore producing generation in the life cycle of plants).
margin: edge
perennial: a plant that normally lives for more than 2 seasons and, after an initial period, produces flowers annually.
pinnate: *compound (applied to flowers or leaves that have two or more parts), with leaflets displayed on either side of a central stalk or *rachis.
pinnatifid: applied to leaves that are *pinnately divided, but not all the way down to the rachis.
pome: fruit in which the seeds are protected by a touch carpel wall and the entire fruit is embedded in a fleshy receptacle. In an apple, the carpel wall surrounding the seeds comprises the core, which is the true fruit.
rachis: the axis that bears the flower or, if the plant has compound leaves, the leaflets
Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences (3rd ed., 2006). Oxford, NY.
Field Guide to Forest & Mountain Plants of Northern Arizona (1st ed., 2009). Springer, J. D., Daniels, M. L., Nazaire, M. Flagstaff, Arizona: Ecological Restoration Initiative.
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Raging Vortex of Weirdness
The raging vortex of weirdness descended today upon the place I work part-time for a little extra cash. First, a truck went through our carwash. Apparently the goof driving didn't expect the storm windows lying in the bed to fall out onto the carwash tracks and cause it to be out-of-order for two hours.
Then, the ATM went off-line.
Then, three gas pumps rejected credit cards simultaneously ... and refused to take them even though later inside they were found to be good.
Later, after the car wash had been fixed, a bolt snapped on a counter-weight bar and 400 pounds of weights landed on the car wash floor, leaving an indentation that my co-worker described thusly, "Like the depression in the ground where Superman lands after being pummeled by some huge space creature."
Then I actually won $15 in scratch-offs.
I'm home now. Fortunately for me and my wife, she's already seven months pregnant ... no longer any chance for twins.
It is Bullshit!
Tom Tomorrow is spot on.
The depravity of conservatives, and the willingness of the media to indulge it, never ceases to amaze me. In a rational society, when a drug-addled gasbag radio host mocks an actor with a debilitating disease, the ensuing discussion would revolve around said drug-addled gasbag’s many, many faults as a human being, not least of which being his ready willingness to mock the handicapped. Rather than treating his uninformed speculation as beneath contempt, however, people are actually discussing whether Michael J. Fox’s symptoms are as bad as they look in these campaign commercials. I know that the media are amoral predators, constantly alert for any hint of blood in the water, but I guess I’m still naive enough to wish that occasionally Keith Olbermann wouldn’t be the only person in the entire industry willing to call bullshit when the odor is rank enough to make you gag.
But I’m also naive enough to imagine that this will backfire as spectacularly as the Terry Schiavo circus did. Seriously, Republicans — you want to rally around the drug-addled gasbag hatemonger in his war against the beloved actor with the debilitating disease — please, by all means, go for it.
Dueling Sad Songs
Having just finished listening to The Dears at Pundit Nation, I offer this sad song for my listener. This YouTube effort includes some sappy pictures, but the music is pure Prine.
Conservatism: A Definition
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Al-Republican
This is powerful ... by Keith Olberman. Any Republican or conservative who still supports this administration is just as culpable in the Bush administration's continuing effort to frighten and terrorize its fellow citizens.
It's Our Home
Listen to the wombat.
h/t Bob Harris
The Republican National Committee today announced a new series of ads with Rush Limbaugh as the centerpiece. The ads will feature Limbaugh speaking about the need to increase funding for rehab centers for wealthy Republican donors and politicians.
A pre-screening of one of the ads was shown to media representatives on the east and west coasts. Most shocking about the ads was the vision of Limbaugh drooling puddles on his lap. He also fell off his chair twice. The second time he fell while apparently trying to push away from, what was later determined to be, killer butterflys wearing Cubs hats. He also mumbled something about the where-a-bouts of his personal physician or physicians. It was hard to discern.
There was also a question whether the audio was a voice over, and not truly Limbaugh’s voice … considering his mouth was full of saliva and tiny round and white objects, there is some credence to that.
Republicans immediately attacked the media for distorting the ad and ignoring the important message that Limbaugh had to convey. When confronted with the fact the only possible message that could be garnered from the ad was “Don’t take drugs,” and “Rush Limbaugh is a drug-addled sot,” Republican objections soon faded away. However, Democratic candidates across the nation asked for permission to air the ads. As one high-profile candidate said, "We're all for exposing the need for rehab centers."
With Friends Like These ....
Want to know who Big Oil likes the most. Ask Jim Jubak.
Think it's a matter of chance that we don't have a meaningful national energy policy? Wondering why oil and gas companies don't pay higher royalties to the Treasury now that oil is over $55 a barrel? Amazed that Washington loves to talk about energy research with promise 15 years down the road, but won't put significant money into alternative technologies that could reduce energy consumption now?
For answers to all those questions and more, just follow the money. Nothing about U.S. energy policy should be a surprise if you know where the money's been going and which legislators have taken the biggest payouts from the energy industry. So don't miss your only chance in the next two years -- the Nov. 7 election -- to tell Congress what you think of its sellout to the energy companies.
And here's the list of Big Oil's 10 favorite Congress members:
1 - Hutchison, Kay Bailey, R-Texas - Senate - $258,361
2 - Burns, Conrad, R-Mont. - Senate - $188,775
3 - Santorum, Rick, R-Pa. - Senate - $188,120
4 - Bode, Denise, R-Okla. - House $153,650
5 - Allen, George, R-Va. - Senate - $148,600
6 - Talent, James M., R-Mo. - Senate - $147,470
7 - Cornyn, John, R-Texas - Senate - $142,750
8 - Barton, Joe, R-Texas - House - $138,450
9 - Hastert, Dennis, R-Ill. - House - $122,200
10 - Pombo, Richard, R-Calif. - House - $121,340
Data from the FEC as of Sept. 11, 2006. Compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
As Gomer Pyle was often heard to say: “Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
This about Jim Jubak:
Jim Jubak is senior markets editor for MSN Money. Previously, he served as senior financial editor at Worth magazine and as editor of Venture magazine. Jubak was a Bagehot Business Journalism Fellow at Columbia University and has written two books: "The Worth Guide to Electronic Investing" and "In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines." As an investor, he says he believes the conventional wisdom is always wrong -- but that he will nonetheless go with the herd if he believes there's a profit to be made. His column Jubak's Journal appears on MSN Money every Tuesday and Friday. He lives in New York.
Gomer Pyle Does the White Album
A friend e-mailed this to me. I managed to make it half way through before the urge to chew off my arms began to overwhelm me. I offer this Jim Nabors and Leslie Uggams duet from her early 1970s replacement show, for those who are stronger.
No Friend of the Death Penalty
I have been contemplating a post regarding the referendum vote this Novemeber 7 on the death penalty and whether it should be reinstated in Wisconsin. My argument has always been twofold: We should not place ourselves in the role of god (or God, for those annoyed by the small "g") and what if an innocent is executed? There is no going back.
I asked a person I know (staunchly conservative) the question about innocence some time ago and his response was a cold-hearted, "So What. Accidents happen." The answer and its callousness astounded me. I guess I should not have been surprised. Like chickenhawk conservatives who support the fiasco in Iraq from afar, though they could serve, too many conservatives are ready to throw the switch ... damn the consequences.
James Wigderson, author of Wigderson Library & Pub, is different. He has written an excellent piece in the Waukesha Freeman on the demerits of reinstating the death penalty. I initially thought it odd that James would be on the con side of this debate, considering he is a staunch conservative. But thinking it over, his being against the death penalty is consistent with his views, and if there is one thing I know about James it's he is consistent.
How is James consistent? James is consistent in his views on abortion and the death penalty ... in both cases, his belief is to stand with life. Without getting into an abortion debate (we disagree about abortion, though I suspect we have more in common that we think) his consistency is admirable ... an area, in my opinion, in which far too many conservative fall short.
And, to be fair, some liberals.
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Who Does He Think He Is? Gandalf?
This is weird. From Jonathan Schwarz at This Modern World.
A short letter to Pennsylvania
Dear Pennsylvania,
Please do not reelect this man to the Senate:
Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.
Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.
“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.
“It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”
your friend,Jon
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Terrestrial Mollusks of the Family Urocoptidae in the Island of Cuba
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Tomas Barrera expedition to Cuba, 1914
Paul Bartsch (1871-1960) was a zoologist with the United States National Museum, 1896-1946, Professor of Zoology at George Washington University, and Director of the Histological and Physiological Laboratory at the Medical School of Howard University. He was in charge of the pearl mussel inquiry, 1907; Smithsonian representative on the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1909; Director, Tomas Barrera expedition to Cuba, 1914; recipient of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship to explore the West Indies, 1928-1930; Director, first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench, 1933; and a member of the Smithsonian-Roebling Expedition, 1937.
(1) Biographical materials, 1952-1963; (2) correspondence, 1907-1946; (3) field notes on birds, 1912-1927; (4) research expedition materials, 1907-1933; (5) bibliography and publications, 1904-1950; (6) draft articles and monographs; (7) notes, speeches, and specimen lists; (8) student theses, reports, and examinations, 1915-1936; (9) photographs and prints; (10) newspaper clippings, 1907-1909, 1933; (11) gazetteers of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; (12) field notes and journals, 1907-1937; (13) publications with card index, 1901-1955
These papers include Bartsch's field notes based on his ornithological investigations in Haiti, the Florida Keys, and the West Indies; field notes pertaining to the Albatross Philippine expedition; field notes regarding the Tomas Barrera expedition to Cuba; extensive field notes, manuscripts, financial accounts, and correspondence regarding his explorations to the West Indies on the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, and the first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the West Indies; papers relating to the Bartsch process for the preservation of wood and fibres; student theses and reports done under Bartsch's guidance; publications, draft articles, and monographs including the text of Bartsch and Carlos de la Torre y de la Huerta, The Terrestrial Mollusks of the Family Urocoptidae in the Island of Cuba, with two supplementary reports, 1943-1950, unpublished; photographs of Bartsch and de la Torre, as well as of birds, mollusks, and research activities in Florida and the Caribbean.
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Palestine and Europe’s Symbolic Gestures – Alan Hart
Pro-Palestinian supporters position a giant banner calling for a recognised Palestinian State, in Parliament Square, central London on October 13, 2014 (AFP Photo/Leon Neal)
Why symbolic European gestures of state recognition alone won’t advance the Palestinian cause
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t a recent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference in Chicago, Israeli peace activist and author Miko Peled said the following: “Palestinians are subjected to the inevitable brutality that comes with occupation and they are subject to racist laws that are designed to discriminate against them, to disenfranchise them, to take away their land and eventually get them to surrender completely or leave or die.” In the light of that reality how should votes in European parliaments to recognise a Palestine state be judged?
Miko’s answer was that they should be seen for what they really are: “cowardly and symbolic acts”.
The real cowards are European leaders and their governments.
I disagree with Miko to the extent that I believe it’s wrong to label (if only by implication) all who voted in favour of recognising a Palestinian state as cowards. Many of them would like the governments of the parliaments of which they are members to set a timetable for an end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and siege of the Gaza Strip prison camp with the declared intention to isolate and impose sanctions on the Zionist (not Jewish) state if it did not comply with the withdrawal timetable. My point here is that the real cowards are European leaders and their governments.
In the words of a recent Haaretz editorial, many of the members of European parliaments who voted in favour of recognising a Palestinian state did so in part because they are aware that a growing number of the citizens whose votes they need at election time “have had enough of Israel’s occupation and settlement”.
In that light, and noting that European leaders are not prisoners of the Zionist lobby to anything like the extent President Obama is and loathe Netanyahu and his ever expanding settlement policy every bit as much as he does, the question arising is this.
Is there any reason to believe that the time is coming when European leaders will stop being cowards and summon up the courage to take action to cause (or try to cause) Israel to end its defiance of international law and be serious about peace on terms which would provide the Palestinians with an acceptable amount of justice and security for all?
At the time of writing there is a French initiative underway. Its purpose is, it seems, to get a new Security Council resolution in which the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 would be a key component and which would limit restarted negotiations for peace to two years.
Without a declaration that a rejectionist Israel will be isolated and have sanctions imposed on it, a new Security Council resolution would be just another cowardly and symbolic act.
According to usually well informed sources, the French have received an assurance from the Obama administration that it will not seek to derail the initiative. And this has led the French to entertain the hope that Obama will not veto a new Security Council resolution no matter how much Israel’s leaders, their lobby and its deluded, so-called Christian fundamentalist allies object to it.
At first glance the developing French initiative seems to offer a small ray of hope for a peace. But… There is no indication of whether or not a new UN Security Council resolution would declare that Israel will be isolated and have sanctions imposed on it at the end of two years of a restarted peace process if it continued its rejectionist position and demonstrated that it’s not interested in peace on any terms the Palestinians could accept.
I want to close this post with some suggested reading for President Obama.
It was drawn to my attention by John V. Whitbeck, an American international lawyer who specialises in conflict resolution in general and international law as it relates to the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel in particular.
It is a quotation from part of President George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796. In this letter to his people, America’s first president warned of the political dangers that had to be avoided if Americans were to remain true to their values.
Here is the paragraph containing his most prophetic vision.
…a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favourite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill will and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld: And it gives to ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favourite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliance of ambition corruption or infatuation.
If he could revisit us today I am sure he would say that America’s passionate attachment for Israel has produced the variety of evils he described.
If the time comes when President Obama has to debate with himself about whether or not he should veto a Security Council resolution demanding that Israel ends its defiance of international law with the promise of sanctions if it doesn’t, I think he should read the whole of Washington’s Farewell Address before making his decision.
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Adder, Snake
Deer or Stag
Dog or Hound
Dolphin:
Griffin:
Hare or Rabbit
Hedgehog:
Turtle:
(NATHAIR): The snake has long been associated with wisdom, reincarnation, and cunning. The poisonous adder of the British Isles has the same reputation. The Druids were known in Wales as Nadredd; in the Fold of the Bards, Taliesin says "I am a Wiseman, I am a serpent". The Druids carried an amulet called gloine nathair (serpent glass); although they said that this was formed by snakes, it was probably really an adder stone or blown glass. In the Scottish Highlands, the adder symbolized the Cailleach's power. When you see a snake while on a shamanic journey, prepare to shed something in favor of something greater and better.
(BROC): This animal is unyielding in the face of danger and is noted for its tenacity and courage. In the Welsh tale of Pwyll's courting of Rhiannon, a badger is mentioned as a guide during dreaming. The badger will teach you to fight for your rights and defend your spiritual ideas.
(IALTAG): Associated with the Underworld; as the bat's radar helps it to avoid obstacles and barriers, so it can teach you to do the same thing.
(ARTH): Although the bear was native to the Isles, it is now extinct there. Evidence of its being a totem animal is found in many Celtic designs; although it is not mentioned in the legends. The word "arth", which means, "bear", is the root word for the name Arthur. The bear was noted for its strength and stamina. It can help you find balance and harmony in your life, and the strength to do what is necessary.
(BEACH): The bee is usually mentioned in connection with honey and mead, which was made from honey. The bee is industrious, single-minded when performing a task, and fearless when defending its home.
(DRUID-DHUBH, LON DUBH): Legend says that the birds of Rhiannon are three blackbirds, which sit and sing in the World Tree of the Otherworlds. Their singing puts the listener in to a sleep or trance that enables her/him to go to the Otherworlds. It was said to impart mystic secrets.
(BACRIE, TORC): Important to the art and myths of the Celtic peoples, the boar was known for its cunning and ferocious nature. Once common throughout the British Isles. A famous Irish legendary boar was Orc Triath, which the Goddess Brigit owned. In the Arthurian tales of the Mabinogion the boar Twrch Trwyth was a terrible foe to Arthur. The White Boar of Marvan sent inspiration to its master to write music and poetry.
(TARBH): A common animal-figure in Celtic mythology, the bull symbolized strength and potency. Certain divination rituals required the sacrifice of a white bull. In the tale of the Tain Bo Cuilgne (Cattle Raid of Cooley), two special bulls are coveted by two rulers. The Taroo-Ushtey (Water Bull) is said to haunt the Isle of Man.
(DEALAN-DÉ: Many cultures cal butterflies the souls of the dead and the keepers of power. No negative energies will be experienced in any Otherworld area where you see butterflies. They will teach you to free yourself form self-imposed restrictions and to look at problems with greater clarity.
(CAOIT, CAT): Many of the Celtic legends pictured the cat as a ferocious, evil creature, but that may have been because cats at that time were untamed. However, it was considered a potent totem animal of several clans; Caithness was named after the clan of the Catti. In Ireland Finn Mac Cumhail was said to have fought a clan of "cat-headed" people, probably Celts who wore cat skins on their helmets. The cat is a strong protector, especially when facing a confrontational situation.
(COILEACH): In several Celtic legends, the cock chases away ghosts and other night terrors by his crowing at dawn. It represents the power of the word to dispel negativity.
(BO): Once so important to the Celts that it was considered a form of currency or monetary exchange. Ancient Irish lords were known as bo-aire or cow-lord. The cow was sacred to the Goddess Brigit. The cow symbolizes contentedness, defending the inner child, and providing for daily needs.
(CORR): At one time the crane was a common animal in the British Isles. One late Celtic tradition, apparently originated after the arrival of Christianity, is that cranes are people who are paying a penance for wrongdoing. The crane is associated with the Cailleach and Manannan Mac Lir, who made his crane bag from its skin. The crane, with its colors of black, white, and red, was a Moon bird, sacred to the Triple Goddess. Magic, shamanic travel, learning and keeping secrets, reaching deeper mysteries and truths.
(BADB, ROCAS): This animal is to be treated with care. Along with the raven, the crow is a symbol of conflict and death, an ill omen associated with such Goddess as Macha, Badb, and the Morrigan. The Irish word for crow is badb, which is also the name of a Celtic war Goddess. Although the crow was an ill omen, it was also considered to be skillful, cunning, single-minded, and a bringer of knowledge. It is of value when trickery is needed. It also teaches you to learn from the past, but not hold onto it.
(FIADH) OR (SAILETHEACH, DAMH): In its form of the White Doe or White Stag, the deer was often a messenger and guide from the Otherworlds. Following such an animal led the unsuspecting human into contact with supernatural beings. Celtic shamans may have copied the antlered headdress of Cernunnos as apparel in their rituals. The deer represents keen scent, grace swiftness, and gentleness. There are ways of reaching your goals other than force.
(ABACH, MADADH) OR (CÙ): Devoted hounds are often mentioned in Celtic myths, such as Bran and Sceolan, which belonged to Finn Mac Cumhail. Underworld hounds, such as the Welsh Cwn Annwn belonging to Arawn, are always white with red ears. The Underworld Hounds run down and punish the guilty. Dogs represent tracking skills, the ability to scent a trail, and companionship.
This creature was associated with sea deities. It deals with dreams and harmony, and recognizing an balancing the rhythms of your body with those of nature.
(PIASTRAS (PAYSHTHA), HORM): The dragon in Celtic-British mythology has more varieties then the standard legged form; it is sometimes represented as a water serpent or worm-shaped beast. There are many references to serpents or dragons in Celtic myths. On many occasions the Fianna fought huge dragons in lakes. One likely center of the serpent (dragon) was the sacred site of Kildare, under the protection of the Goddess Brigit. Most cultures considered the dragon a benevolent dweller of caves, lakes, and the inner Earth. It was an ancient symbol of wealth. The dragon symbolized the power of the Elements, especially that of the Earth, but also of the treasure of the subconscious mind. It may appear at initiation.
(IOLAIR, FIREUN): A bird noted for wisdom and long life in Celtic stories. The eagle represents swiftness, strength, keen sight, and the knowledge of magic. It helps you to see hidden spiritual truths.
(EAS-GANU): The eel is mentioned in several Celtic legends, on of which is the story of the two swineherds who battled through a variety of shape-shifting forms. In their final form as eels, the swineherds were swallowed by cows that later gave birth to magical bulls. Cu Chulainn's spear Gae-Bolga got its name from the eel. The Morrigan took on the form of an eel when she had a magical battle with the hero. The eel symbolizes adaptability, wisdom, inspiration, and defense.
(MADADH-RUADH, SIONNACH): In Taliesin's Song of His Origins, the Bard says he assumed the shape of a satirizing fox, a reference to the cunning, slyness, and ability of the fox to make fools out of those who chase it. The ability to watch the motivations and movements of others while remaining unobserved yourself.
(LOSGRINN): In many cultures the frog is a symbol of shamanism and magic. It can teach you to leap swiftly from one level of consciousness to another, from this world to the Otherworlds. The frog can also help you find the courage to accept new ideas, nurture yourself, and find connections between ideas.
This mythical beast has the head and wings of an eagle, and the body and tail of a lion. It teaches the shaman to combine various positive traits in strength, yet maintaining discretion and seeing the truth. The protective griffin symbolizes great magic and power.
(GÈARR) OR (COINEAN): An animal sacred to the Goddess Andraste in particular. Its movements were sometimes used for divination; Boadiccea used a hare this way just before her last battle with the Romans. Associated with transformation, the receiving of hidden teachings, and intuitive messages.
(SEABHAG): Celtic oral tradition lists the oldest animal as the hawk of Achill. As with other birds, the hawk is a messenger between the Otherworlds and this world. However, it is of greater skill and strength than other birds. It symbolizes clear-sightedness and far-memory. If you hear a hawk cry during a journey, be alert to upcoming situations that need boldness and decisiveness to keep from being thrown off balance.
This prickly little creature often shows a need for less defensiveness and seriousness. Appreciate life more.
(CORRA-GRIOTHACH): Many of the myths and attributes of the crane are shared by this bird.
(EACH): A popular totem animal of the Celts; sacred to the Goddesses Epona and Rhiannon. The horse was considered to be a faithful guide to the Otherworlds. It symbolizes stamina, endurance, and faithfulness.
(DEARC): One of the few reptiles recognized as helpful to the shaman. It symbolizes the shadowy plane of manifestation where events are constantly changing shapes and patterns. If you see a lizard on a journey, be alert to all below-the-surface activities going on around you.
This creature is the keeper of deep secrets and hidden knowledge. It can help with divinatory skills and the development of psychic senses. Sometimes it symbolizes the need to look deeper within yourself and see what is hidden.
(PIOGHAID): This bird deals with omens and prophecies; the mysteries of life and death.
(LUCH): The mouse is often mentioned in Celtic folklore. In one Welsh story concerning Manawydan and Pryderi, a mouse is portrayed as the shape-shifted wife of the magician Llwyd. The mouse represents secrets, cunning, shyness, and the ability to hide in times of danger. Its appearance often signals a need to pay attention to small details, such as the fine print in contracts or the double meaning in words.
(CÙ-DUBH OR DÒBHRAN): These animals were considered very magical by the Celts. During the voyages of Maelduine, Brendan and others, these traveling Celts were met by helpful otters. The otter is a strong protector who helps with gaining wisdom, finding inner treasures or valuable talents, faithfulness, and the ability to recover from any crisis. Enjoy life instead of just enduring it.
(CAILLEACH, OIDHCHE, COMACHAG): These birds were most often associated with the Crone aspect of the Goddess. The word "cailleach" in the Scottish-Gaelic means "owl". The owl is often a guide to and through the Underworld, a creature of keen sight in darkness, and a silent and swift hunter. It can help unmask those who would deceive you or take advantage of you.
(MUC): It was considered to be the magical, sacred food the Tuatha de Danann and an animal of Manannan Mac Lir. In the Mabinogion Pwyll received a gift of pigs from the Underworld god Arawn. The writings of Merlin say that he spoke with a little pig in visions. Symbolic of the spiritual food necessary to the shaman.
(RADAN): Rats are not mentioned in a favorable light in Celtic folklore, but hey have their place in shamanic journeys. Rats are sly, sometimes aggressive, creatures that can track down whatever they seek, defending themselves with great ferociousness.
(FITHEACH): Take care when dealing with this bird. An important totem animal of the Celts. In Ireland the raven was associated with the battlefields and such goddesses as the Morrigu or later Welsh Morrigan, just as was the crow. The bird was connected with Bran the Blessed; in Welsh bran means "raven". Although its reputation is dubious, it is an oracular bird. It often represents the upsets and crises of life that are necessary for anything new to be created.
(BRADAN): A very wise, magical creature in Celtic lore. A salmon of great knowledge is said to swim in the Well of Segais, eating the mystical hazelnuts that fall into the well. This salmon is said to be as old as time itself and knows everything past and future. When the Irish hero Finn Mac Cumhail burned his thumb on a salmon and then put the thumb in his mouth, he gained shamanic knowledge. The salmon teaches you how to get in touch with ancestral knowledge and put it to practical use.
(FAOILLEANN): Seagulls do not figure in Celtic legends. However, they are connected to sea deities, such as the god Manannan Mac Lir and the goddess Don. Like other birds, they are messengers from the Otherworlds.
(AIRC, MUC): The Goddess Cerridwen is known as the White Sow. The sow was considered a very powerful creature in the Otherworlds, particularly the Underworld. As a creature of Cerridwen, it was associated with the Sacred Cauldron and the granting of inspiration; also a creature of death and rebirth.
(FEÒRAG): This creature is always preparing for the future; it can show the shaman how to do this in a practical way. Sometimes its appearance heralds changes, even adversities. Plan ahead so that you have time, resource, and energy stored.
(EALA): A mystical bird who figures in several Celtic stories. Its feathers were often used in the ritual cloak of the Bards. Swans are connected with music and song. Swans also help with the interpretation of dream symbols, transitions, and spiritual evolution.
The turtle is a slow-moving, methodical creature, carrying its protection constantly with it. It can teach the shaman to be grounded, how to stay in tune with Earth energies, the wisdom of flowing with the cycles of life, and to be gentle with the body's needs.
(BRIABHALL): This mythic animal had the body of a white horse, the legs of an antelope, and the tail of lion; a single horn was on its head. It is the symbol of supreme magical power. It teaches that every action is creation, so make every day counts. It also helps to understand the relationship between physical and spiritual realities.
(MADADH-ALLUIDH): The wolf is a cunning, intelligent creature, capable of out-thinking hunters. It can teach you how to read the signs of Nature in everything, how to pass by danger invisibly, how to outwit those who wish you harm, and how to fight when needed. Sometimes the world, seen on a journey, will lead you to a spiritual teacher and guide.
(DREATHAN-DONN, DREÒLAN): A sacred bird to the Druids, its musical notes were used for divination. As with many other birds, the wren was considered a messenger from the deities.
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Downtown Vancouver – Original works of art on paper, European and American masterworks
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Dali, The Divine Comedy
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Dalí was a prolific artist all his life and the scope of this article is not to give a chronological recap of the artist’s life – this you can read on our Dalí Biography web page – but it is Dalí’s personality and interests, with special regards in later years of his life, at the time when this sculpture collection was created.
In the years after the Second World War Dalí stopped confining himself to painting and experimented with many new and unusual media. This period bore the hallmark of technical virtuosity and an intensifying interest in optical effects, science, and religion. Many of his works incorporated optical illusions, negative space, visual puns, and visual effects of distorted space. He created bulletist works, which is an artistic process that involves shooting ink at a blank piece of paper. Dalí also experimented with pointillism, enlarged half-tone dot grids (which Roy Lichtenstein would later use), and stereoscopic images. He was among the first artists to employ holography in an artistic manner. Young artists such as Andy Warhol proclaimed Dalí had an important influence on pop art.
Dalí was a very unique artist in every way, a one-of-a-kind thinker, innovator, even his choice of words was through and through Daliesque.
Reynolds Morse, Dalí’s patron quotes the artist when he remarked about his large canvases: “Now is necessary expline one other aspect of les masterworks. Quand myself am paint dees verks, is no one question of choice (choosing) one subject apres les udder. Is no one random apparition. On le contrary les masterworks is represent le ultimate manifestation of le Continuité Dalienne, parce que each is relate avec le udder, et each is involvéd some new discovery que y yam make”.
– Dalí – the Masterworks, vol. 3, by A. Reynolds Morse
Dalí also had a keen interest in natural science and mathematics. This is manifested in several of his paintings, notably from the 1950s, in which he painted his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horn shapes. According to Dalí, the rhinoceros horn signifies divine geometry because it grows in a logarithmic spiral. Dalí was also fascinated by DNA and the 4-dimensional cube and the quantum mechanics. He became an increasingly devout Catholic, while at the same time he had been inspired by the shock of Hiroshima and the dawning of the “atomic age”. Therefore Dalí labeled this period “Nuclear Mysticism.” Dalí sought to synthesize Christian iconography with images of material disintegration inspired by nuclear physics.
At some point, Dalí had a glass floor installed in a room near his studio. He made extensive use of it to study foreshortening, both from above and from below, incorporating dramatic perspectives of figures and objects into his paintings.
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THE LIVING COMPOSERS PROJECT
John S. Gray
(b. 18 January 1953, Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Canadian composer of mostly chamber, piano and electroacoustic works that have been performed in North America.
Mr. Gray is self-taught as a composer. He studied piano privately in Halifax from 1959–69.
He is also active in other positions. As a pianist, he made his début in 1960. He sang as a chorister in the King's College School Chapel Choir from 1966–69 and the Dalhousie Chorale in Nova Scotia in 1974–75. He worked with the ensemble Murphy's Law from 1975–78 and served as an interim director of the Experimental Sound Studio in 1979. He established the studio Life Force Productions in Halifax in 1980 and later worked for the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto.
E-mail address: john@musiccentre.ca
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
Waiting for Dinner (incidental music), 1978, revised 1994
ORCHESTRAL:
Untitled, string orchestra, 1992
Episodes for Orchestra, 2003
Introduction and Autumn Prelude, 2004 (expanded version of Autumn Prelude)
Sinfonia d'espoir, large orchestra, 2005
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Elegy, flute, French horn, double bass, piano, 1973
Drunk Jam, The Third Take, 2 synthesizers, 1975
Journeys without Direction, synthesizer, percussion, fixed media, 1976, revised 1990
Rievaulx, 2 trumpets (1st + vibraphone), electric guitar, double bass, piano (+ synthesizer), 2 percussion, 1977–78
Witness to the Holocaust, synthesizer, 1980
Untitled, ensemble, fixed media, 1985
Untitled, synthesizer, fixed media, 1986
A3W-1, oboe, bassoon, piano, 1987
Pastoral Sequence, synthesizer, 1987
A Hearing in Our Time, synthesizer, fixed media, 1988
Fire Flux, synthesizer, 1990
4W-1, oboe, bassoon, violin, piano, 1991–93 (also version for flute, bassoon, violin, 1993)
Autumn Prelude (original title Advent Prelude), bassoon, violin, harmonium, 1996 (also expanded version as Introduction and Autumn Prelude, orchestra)
Andante in C minor, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, organ, 2002 (version of work for piano)
Le Vernissage, flute ad libitum, oboe, bassoon, 2 French horns, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, organ, MIDI-keyboard, 2002
Three Old Friends, any 3 players, 2002
Promenade, flute, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2004
Steps to the Setting Sun, flute, clarinet, MIDI-keyboard, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, 2005
Clarinet Quintet, clarinet, string quartet, 2005
Little Cantata for Christmas Eve (text from the Book of Luke), mezzo-soprano, baritone, bassoon, violin, harmonium, 1995
Improvisation on the 5'9" Baldwin, 1977
Improvisations, 1981
Hauskonzert, piano (+ synthesizer), 1983
The Big Slow C Major Improvisation with Sostenuto Trick, 1983
Improvisation for David Nos. 1–2, 1984
The Big B-flat Improvisation, 1984
Consolation, 1985
This Subsequent Time, 1986
Benediction, 1986
This Immediate Time, 1986
Benediction Variations, 1987
Improvisation for Chris and Diane, 1990
Fantasie, Minuet and Trio, 1997
Andante in C minor, 1998–99 (also version for oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, organ)
Three Late-Night Improvisations on the Steinway A-3, 1999
Morning Improvisation on the Steinway A-3, 1999
The 29 March 1999 Piano Piece, 1999
The 10 April 2000 Piano Piece, 2000
ORGAN:
Lenten Prelude, 1997
ELECTROACOUSTIC:
Exercises on the Modes, Continued, fixed media, 1974
The First CDKU Jingle, fixed media, 1979
The Nova Scotia Tattoo Synthesizer Piece, fixed media, 1979
D3W-1, fixed media, 1981
Igor's 99th, fixed media, 1981
Belinda's O, fixed media, 1981
Sergeant Bluepetal's Dream, fixed media, 1981
Tea Time, fixed media, 1981
By Appointment to Her Majesty, Blended in Scotland, fixed media, 1981
Glory Be!, fixed media, 1981
Afterthought, fixed media, 1981
Coda, fixed media, 1981
Music for Art Galleries No. 1, fixed media, 1979–83 (its four sections may be performed separately: Dinner Music One, 1979; Lamentation, 1981; Reflection, 1981; 23:41.1, 1983)
Venezia, fixed media, 1984
No Radio, fixed media, 1984
The D minor Harpsichord Construction, fixed media, 1984
Music for Art Galleries, Volume 1.1, fixed media, 1984 (one section may be performed separately: Embers)
Peregrine, fixed media, 1985
Preconsolation, fixed media, 1987
Der Abschied, fixed media, 1987
Music for Art Galleries No. 2, fixed media, 1991
FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR):
Perspectives, 1980 (Floyd Gillis)
Time Lines, 1981 (Floyd Gillis)
Atomic Dragons, 1981 (James MacSwain)
Flower, 1985 (James MacSwain)
Glory Be!; D3W-1; Belinda's O; Sergeant Bluepetal's Dream; Witness to the Holocaust; Tea Time; By Appointment to Her Majesty, Blended in Scotland; Igor's 99th (excerpt); Recent Works/8 PM (excerpt); Rievaulx; concert (2 excerpts). John S. Gray, piano, synthesizer; ensemble (CSM: 001, 1981) (cassette)
Lamentation; Afterthought; Reflection; Dinner Music One; Coda. (CSM: 002, 1986) (cassette)
Venezia; 23:41.1; Improvisation for David No. 1; Hauskonzert. John S. Gray, piano, synthesizer (CSM: 003, 1986) (cassette)
Improvisation on the 5'9" Baldwin; Journeys without Direction; Drunk Jam, The Third Take. John S. Gray, piano, synthesizer (CSM: 005, 2000) (cassette)
Three Late-Night Improvisations on the Steinway A-3; Morning Improvisation on the Steinway A-3; Andante in C minor (original version); The 29 March 1999 Piano Piece; The 10 April 2000 Piano Piece. John S. Gray, piano (CSM: 006, 2000) (cassette)
9 improvisations. John S. Gray, piano (CSM: 007, 2002)
Website designed by Ron Hannah.
Renovations in 2012 by Romeo Talento.
All data compiled by Dan Albertson and Ron Hannah, 2000–.
This page last revised on 2 January 2017.
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Kane Heating & Ventilating suffers great loss with Hubbard’s passing
Posted by Travis Silvas | Feb 11, 2019 | Charlotte | 0 |
Chad Lewis had worked by Joe Hubbard’s side for 30 years. The two started as co-workers in the late 80s, building a friendship over the course of a decade that eventually led into a business partnership in 1999, when the two purchased Kane Heating and Ventilating from founder Frank Kane.
As friendship turned to partnership, the Hubbard and Lewis families came together, building upon the family business that Kane started nearly 70 years ago.
Joe succumbed to cancer Sunday, Feb. 3, leaving a great hole in the Hubbard family, in the Kane Heating business, and in Chad’s friendship.
“I’m going to miss our friendship the most,” Lewis said this past week. “We liked to cut up a lot, and I’m really going to miss the non-work related conversations.”
Chad said Joe and his wife, Kathy were eyeing retirement in a few short years when Joe’s cancer diagnosis sped up the process. It was always the plan that Chad would take sole ownership, just not this quickly.
Currently Joe and Kathy’s daughter, Jenn works in the office as the service dispatcher, schedules service calls, locates and retrieves repair parts and also does the duct cleaning.
In the past Kane’s has also employed two of Joe and Kathy’s others daughters, Jennifer and Antonia, granddaughter Alexis, who continues to help out when needed and son-in-law, Adam as well as Chad’s daughter, Courtney and sons, John and Chris. Chad’s other daughter, Haylee has worked as a co-op student.
“I want to reassure our customers that it’s business as usual,” Chad said. “We learned a lot together through the years, and we’re going to continue to be a company built on our reputation of service. We’ll always honor that.”
Though Chad said Joe leaves awfully big shoes to fill, he’s confident in his team moving forward.
Joe is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Kathleen; five daughters, Jennifer Robles (Chris Tossava), Jesica Hubbard, Michelle Henry, Antonia (Joseph) Challender, and Jennifer Lynn (Joey Green) Squier; grandchildren, Cody, Kayla, Mason, Rose, Grace, Katie, Austin, DeVante, Britany, Alexis, Rachel, Athena, Adara, J.D. (Joseph Donald), Chrisitian, Trevor Joe-Jack, Emalynn, and Elijah; six great-grandkids; mother and step-dad, Eileen and Bennie Pittman; step-mother, Sharon Hubbard; siblings, Shannon, Shawn (Michelle), Jerry, Antonette, Jack Wayne, Teresa, Lynda (Mike), Betty, and Julie (Jerry); many specials aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, and cousins.
Funeral services are Monday, February 11, 2019, at 1 p.m. at Pray Funeral Home in Charlotte.
Kane Heating & Ventilating is located at 504 Island Highway and offers Air Ease equipment, as well as a full custom sheet metal shop, fireplace showroom, a full line of installation services, service and repair parts for the professional and do-it-yourselfers. Kane also provides and experienced and knowledgeable service and installation staff for all service and installation of furnaces, air conditioning, ventilation, wood, gas and pellet stoves and fireplaces, heat pumps, boilers, water heaters, high efficiency air cleaners, humidifiers and duct cleaning. Kane has also added a line of made in the U.S.A. wood stoves from Buck Stove. Kane offers free replacement estimates and provides discounts for senior citizens.
Kane is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon (closed on Saturdays during the summer), Kane also offers 24-hour emergency service.
Stop in or contact Kane Heating and Ventilating at (517) 543-1040, email kaneheating@hotmail.com or visit KaneVentHeat.com.
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A photo posted by Lisa Rinna (@lisarinna) on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills diva wrote to her 323K followers: 'It hurt and angered many of you and we are deeply sorry for that. We should have been more careful and thoughtful'Polish the crystal glasses and chill the rosé.Similarly, he went on working hard and appearing in different series. Afterward, he appeared in many films like “Blue Skies Again”, “Frogs and Snakes”, “Perfume”, and others. Presently, he earns a huge amount of salary and has a net worth of million. Presently, there are no other rumors that surround his personal or professional life.Consequently, in 1981, he joined the cast of fantasy film, “Clash of the Titans”. Moving towards his body measurements he has a good height of 5 feet 11 inches 77kg.Dazzling: Stood on pointed kitten heels, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star looked sensational as she was dressed in panelled straight-leg trousers, paired with a low-cut sparkly blouse, which she tucked into her bottoms Her suave husband looked dapper as he teamed a rich velvet blazer with a black shirt and fitted denim jeans.Harry's youthful face was accessorised with square framed glasses as he walked arm in arm with his mother and wife.Guest star Harry Hamlin is an actor you probably already know (trust me).And you better get to know him fast, because who can say how long Walter will be in the picture?The pair celebrated their 20-year anniversary earlier in March this year.And Lisa Rinna, 54, slipped into a glamorous all-black ensemble as she visited Craig's restaurant with Emmy nominated actor Harry Hamlin, 66, in West Hollywood.'The pair share daughters Delilah, 19, and Amelia, 16, who are both signed to IMG modelling agency, while Harry has a son Dimitri Alexander Hamlin, 37, with former partner Ursula Andress. As per his proper TV career, he made his debut in 1979 in a TV show, “Studs Lonigan”. Law”, “Ink”, “Movie Stars”, “Veronica Mars”, “Shameless”, and others. Afterward, rumors started spreading that they are separating.
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Harry Hamlin Dating History - FamousFix
Since 1997, Hamlin has been married to former Days of our Lives actress and television host Lisa Rinna. They have two daughters, Delilah Belle Hamlin and Amelia Gray Hamlin, who both featured in the reality show Harry Loves Lisa with the couple. Harry and Lisa were first seen together at the 7th Annual. more. 6. 0 0.
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Mar 8, 2015. Happy couple Harry Hamlin stood behind his wife Lisa Rinna after her outburst on Tuesday's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills defending his honor. The pair are pictured at an awards dinner. The season five reunion episode was filmed on February 20 and will air on a later date. Fans witnessed the feud.
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28 years ago - Tony Woodward is born.
13 years ago - 15-year-old Tony drops out of school.
7 years ago - 21-year-old Tony is sent to prison for assault.
6 years ago - 22-year-old Tony is released from prison. He finds work with a hazardous material clean-up crew.
4 years ago - 24-year-old Tony incites a riot. He falls into a vat of molten steel from a starr labs facility. He gains is synthetic metal body and goes on a rampage, eventually stopped by the Flash.
3 years ago - 25-year-old Tony is freed from Iron Heights by Clifford Devoe to form his new team of Rogues. They are defeated by the combined strength of the Flash and the original Rogues.
1 year ago - 27-year-old Tony joins the Legion of Doom.
Wally West really arrived as a character during the series written by Mark Waid and Geoff Johns in the late 90's early 2000's. Part of what made that era so sucessful was that it really revolutionized the Flash's villains, focusing on what made them unique and interesting while also introducing a suprisingly broad spectrum of new threats. One of those new threats, for better or worse, was the metal-bodied Girder.
Girder's Comic History
First created by Geoff Johns as he worked to modernize and update Flash's rogues gallery in the early 2000's, Girder is a pretty noteworthy departure from the traditional baddies the Flash fights. He's noteably not 'a guy with a gimmick' like most of the others, nor is he a serial killer like a lot of the villains introduced in that era; he's an actual metahuman with a specific power set
Of course, it's kind of hard to miss just how poor a fit Girder is as a villain for the Flash. He has nothing to combat his enemies superspeed, doesn't really control the battlefield in any noteworthy way, and isn't even a kitchy throwback. He's just a big, angry, mean blunt object, the sort of character that generally gets beaten in the opening pages of a comic as the introduction to the heroes before we even begin the larger threat. He certainly LOOKS threatening and might actually serve as a great challenge for, say, the Teen Titans, but for an experienced speedster like Wally West's Flash, this is the sort of enemy he would defeat in nanoseconds while rushing out to pick up flowers for his wife when her back was turned.
Our Girder Story
It does sort of beg the question why we're even bothering to include Girder at all. He does have at least some recognition; he was depicted in the live-action CW Flash series all the way back in it's first season, since that was really the only time when a baddie like this presented any sort of challenge. So why would we do the work to bring him in?
The answer is actually in our decision to create a new, more dangerous group of Rogues. We made our team centered around the Thinker, but really the idea was that this was a younger, less likeable, more dangerous collection of baddies, and Girder is a near-perfect addition. The Thinker would WANT a blunt-instrument enforcer. Even if Wally would normally be able to mop up a big dumb violent enemy like this, when paring him with the Thinker he suddenly becomes way more dangerous. Sometimes you just need some narrative foot-soldiers, and characters like this are perfect for that job.
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Vainglory is a MOBA action-oriented action game set in multiplayer, maintained in a fantasy atmosphere and produced by the Super Evil Megacorp team. Fun comes down to clashes between the two teams of players, with each trying to reach and destroy the enemy base located there crystal. Vainglory is a network battle game belonging to the category known as MOBA, which popularized such hits as League of Legends or Dota 2. The production was developed, among others, with a view to mobile devices running Android and uses the free model with micropayments. The title is a design studio debut of Super Evil Megacorp, founded by veterans of bands such as Supercell, Riot, Rockstar and Gazillion Entertainment. The action takes place in a standard full of magic and fantasy land where people live next to a few other sentient races. However, the story does not play any significant role in the game and is only a background for online games. The basic gameplay mechanisms do not deviate from the standards of the genre MOBA. Fun turns around so triple battles between two teams, each trying to destroy the crystal in the base and prevent the enemy to do the same thing in the command center. Winning is not easy, because the access to the base is defended by numerous automated defensive systems and you must destroy them first. The authors prepared a nice variety of characters and each of them has, of course, a unique set of skills and development of their own tree. The map has been designed so that the bases are located at its opposite ends. Between them runs the path we are traveling the attacking side. It pays, however, also down from the proposed route, as it is located on the roadside forest hiding numerous treasures for easy referencing victory. An important role is also played by the bases, where we can regenerate life points and use the shop that receives the currency earned during the game.
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The pharmaceutical company that makes the expensive, life-saving EpiPen—an auto-injector that comes preloaded with anaphylaxis treatment—will launch a generic version of the product in the wake of intense criticism over recent price hikes. Manufacturer Mylan said early Monday that a new generic will cost $300 for a two-pack, which is about half the regular version’s market price. It will be available within the next several weeks. Mylan CEO Heather Bresch called her company’s move “an extraordinary commercial response” to patient anger and frustration over the rising cost of EpiPen. Last week, the drug maker had offered discounts on the shots for lower-income patients and triggered further anger. The company was widely criticized by parents and politicians, including Hillary Clinton, following the latest price rises, which amounted to more than 400 percent over the past 10 years.
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Will the third time be the charm? After his first two picks to head the Transportation Security Administration withdrew their nominations after confirmation appeared to be doubtful, President Obama must be relieved that his third choice, John S. Pistole, has accepted. "I am grateful that he has agreed to take on this important role, and I look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead," Obama said. Pistole is currently deputy director of the FBI. "The talent and knowledge John has acquired in more than two decades of service with the FBI will make him a valuable asset to our administration's efforts to strengthen the security and screening measures at our airports."
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Neil Leach, “Swarm Urbanism,” Architectural Design 79, issue 4 (2009), pp. 56-63.
Neil Leach applies the concept of swarm theory to urbanism in search of a future computational method that may act predictively according to the dynamic urban system. Leach, a prolific theorist in the realm of computation, formats this article as a review of theories on urban behavior that may contribute to a new digital modeling system.
Significant to the discussion on swarm theory is the concept of emergence. In accordance with Steven Johnson’s Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Cities, and Software, Leach offers a definition as it relates to the city:
The city operates as a dynamic, adaptive system, based on interactions with neighbors, informal feedback loops, pattern recognition, and indirect control. . . Like any other population composed of a large number of smaller discrete elements, such as colonies of ants, flocks of birds, networks of neurons or even the global economy, it displays a bottom-up collective intelligence that is more sophisticated than the behavior of its parts” (58)
The term “emergence” has been recently popularized in relation to contemporary design issues and the use of digital modeling, since a similarity exists between the aforementioned emergent logic of cities and the operations of some computational software. However, Leach posits that emergence may be most clearly observed in traditional aggregative urban forms, such as medieval villages, Chinese hutongs, and Brazilian favelas. Here, the logic of part-to-whole becomes clear: these vernacular urban formations “constitute a relatively homogeneous field of operations, where individual components do not stand out, but conform to the pervasive logic of their surrounding environment” (58). While new urban developments and landmark architecture may provide emergent logic as well, it is the “architectures of the everyday” that most clearly aggregate to form a more intelligent system.
The emergent city is formed from individual elements that display a swarm intelligence. Leach cites Manuel DeLanda’s research which strives toward modeling the behavior of these elements to produce the effects of urban processes. This model, like the city, would consist of “a system of intelligent agents capable of making their own decisions and of influencing others in their decisions in order to generate urban form” (61). Although such a system has yet to be developed, there are a few existing examples of swarm theory that may be called upon. Frei Otto’s “wet grid” experimented with different materials dipped in water to produce unique geometries. While the effects of such an experiment are interesting and display a useful behavioral logic, it is geometrically fixed, thus eliminating the necessary shifts in form, space, and time that are necessary for a pure model of swarm intelligence.
Leach’s premier example of swarm intelligence as a successful design tool is the work of Australian architecture firm Kokkugia. The firm’s work does not intend to model the behavior of the agents of a swarm system but rather to develop single flexible systems that embody a similar type of intelligence. Leach states:
“With their swarm urbanism projects, the concern of Kokkugia is not to simulate actual populations or their occupation of architecture, but to devise processes operating and much greater levels of abstraction that involved seeding design intent into a set of autonomous design agents which are capable of self-organizing into emergent urban forms” (61).
This logic marks an important shift in urban design from the master-plan to the master-algorithm. In this way, design ceases to be composed of a set of small-scale elements, but rather a synchronized flexible process with micro and macro decisions occurring.
The Rhizome
Leach relinks the logistics of an intelligent urban model to the concept of emergence through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theoretical model of rhizomatic urbanism, as outlined in their work A Thousand Plateaus. They describe the city as a network of self-regulating, flexible processes, and often refer to the multiplicities that exist in the logic of the crowd as in a pack of wolves. It is emphasized that the rhizome is based on multiplicities and is not hierarchical: it is “proliferating and serial, functioning by means of the principles of connection and heterogeneity . . . of ‘becoming’, of forming a relationship with the other . . . where one de-territorializes the other” (62).
Following this definition, the rhizome is best illustrated in the naturally occurring relationship between the wasp and the orchid. Serving the purpose of cross-pollination, the wasp is attracted to and housed by the orchid, but the main concern for Deleuze and Guattari is the mutuality exhibited in the pairing. The wasp and orchid “enter a mutual reciprocity, such that the wasp has adapted to the orchid, no less than the orchid has adapted to the wasp.” The two form an assemblage, such that “there is not a pre-existing collective body . . . but rather a new stable body is composed from the intricate connections of these previously disparate bodies” (62). This exemplification of the rhizome points out the wisdom of all living things that eventually form a relationship with something else, such as other plants, animals, or the weather. By extension of this logic, we may understand the city and its inhabitants as forming a rhizome. Furthermore, this leads us to view humans as the agents operating within the urban system, but in a mutually responsive way:
“It is as though the city is ‘formed’ by registering the impulses of human occupation, much as the sheets on our beds record the movements of our bodies through the night. . . Over time the fabric of the city evolves through interaction with its inhabitants“ (62).
The idea of mutual modification is a temporal phenomenon that is integral to a system modeling the city and its inhabitants.
Once he has collected the elements deemed necessary to understand in a future model of swarm urbanism, Leach concludes without a solution to the problem of a computational methodology. Rather, he identifies a design method called “scenario planning” that may assist in the predictability required in imitating urban processes. He states that “the task of design therefore would be to anticipate what would have evolved over time from the interaction between inhabitants and city.” In implementing scenario planning, “we can see that in effect the task of design is to ‘fast forward’ that process of evolution” (62). In this conclusion, the reader remains hopeful that such a design logic may culminate in the future.
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With five studio albums and two movie soundtracks under their belts, Give Up Your Dreams is a shrewd and vibrant reminder that in the phoenix foundation’s gloriously absurd world of technicolour pop, it’s the challenges you set yourself that reap the greatest rewards!
Released on August 7th, The Phoenix Foundation have honed their skills on this album, self-producing the entire record for the first time in an outing that is driven by optimistic vibes and an infectious rhythmic sound.
Never ones to sit still, the band have also been busy teaming up with the Garage Project on another creative venture. Music and beer are two great bedfellows, and with The Phoenix Foundation and Garage Project both being born and bred Wellingtonian outfits, a partnership to collectively give up their dreams with the creation of New Zealand's finest craft draught was just good sense. More details on this exciting collaboration will be coming soon.
The prog-indie sextet have established themselves as firm favourites among local fans with their innovative, experimental sound and hypnotic live show and can’t wait to kick off the tour in Wellington on September 18th. Tickets will be available through Under The Radar from thephoenixfoundation.co.nz, with support acts to be announced.
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New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
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P-glycoprotein-9 and macrocyclic lactone resistance status in selected strains of the ovine gastrointestinal nematode, Teladorsagia circumcincta
Turnbull, F., Jonsson, N. , Kenyon, F., Skuce, P. J. and Bisset, S. A. (2018) P-glycoprotein-9 and macrocyclic lactone resistance status in selected strains of the ovine gastrointestinal nematode, Teladorsagia circumcincta. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 8(1), pp. 70-80. (doi:10.1016/j.ijpddr.2018.01.004) (PMID:29414109)
The Teladorsagia circumcincta P-glycoprotein-9 (Tci-pgp-9) gene has previously been implicated in multiple-anthelmintic resistance in this parasite. Here we further characterise genetic diversity in Tci-pgp-9 and its possible role in ivermectin (IVM) and multi-drug resistance using two UK field isolates of T. circumcincta, one susceptible to anthelmintics (MTci2) and the other resistant to most available anthelmintics including IVM (MTci5). A comparison of full-length Tci-pgp-9 cDNA transcripts from the MTci2 and MTci5 isolates (∼3.8 kb in both cases) indicated that they shared 95.6% and 99.5% identity at the nucleotide and amino acid levels, respectively. Nine non-synonymous SNPs were found in the MTci5 sequences relative to their MTci2 counterparts. Twelve genomic sequence variants of the first internucleotide binding domain of Tci-pgp-9 were identified and up to 10 of these were present in some individual worms, strongly supporting previous evidence that amplification of this gene has occurred in T. circumcincta. On average, fewer distinct sequence variants of Tci-pgp-9 were present in individual worms of the MTci5 isolate than in those of the MTci2 isolate. A further reduction in the number of sequence variants was observed in individuals derived from an IVM-treated sub-population of MTci5. These findings suggest that Tci-pgp-9 was under purifying selection in the face of IVM treatment in T. circumcincta, with some sequence variants being selected against.
This work was funded by Moredun Research Institute (UK) and AgResearch (NZ)
Anthelmintic resistance, Ivermectin, P-glycoprotein, Teladorsagia circumcincta
Jonsson, Professor Nicholas and Turnbull, Dr Frank
Turnbull, F., Jonsson, N., Kenyon, F., Skuce, P. J., and Bisset, S. A.
College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
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First published in International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 8(1):70-80
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Tag: Joseph Hamrick
What We Learned This Week: July 29-August 4
Posted on August 4, 2018 by everymoviehasalesson.
LESSON #1: THIS PRESENT CULTURE OF HEADLINE NEWS NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN— Feelin’ Film Facebook Discussion Group member Joseph Hamrick penned an outstanding editorial recently on his website Article Asylum entitled “We Need to Talk about the ‘We Need to Talk About’ Headline Culture.” Joseph discusses the wayward directions and lack of due diligence taken in entertainment news nowadays where too many so-called discussion pieces are reactive rather than reflective, defeating the purpose and wearing out that headline trope. James Gunn and even Chris Hardwick are recent examples where patience could have gone a long way before vilification and over-inflation. I know I see this all the time researching for this weekly column and Joseph nailed it. Kudos and my compliments on a great piece!
LESSON #2: TROPES ARE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN IN THEIR EFFECTIVENESS— The concepts that we all call tropes become tropes because they are successful to a nearly automatic level more than not. I greatly enjoyed an article in The Guardian this week that reported on findings compiled by a behavioral economics and data science team at the University of Birmingham. They combed through over 6,000 scripts to show which story arcs made the most money at the box office. The winner was the “man in the hole” arc, which might as well be your classic underdog story. Enriching stuff! Give it a read.
LESSON #3: TRAILERS TOO HAVE BECOME AN EFFECTIVE SCIENCE— Speaking of effectiveness, trailers know exactly what they are doing to get audiences to desire the product they are advertising. The top trailer-makers have studied and refined the craft of provoking emotions and evoking the senses right down to the algorithms and triggers. As you know I’ve ranted in this soapbox space before, they have still become formulaic with their own troublesome tropes in my opinion and should be avoided, or at least tempered. Still, the entire addictive draw and the creativity behind the craft is fascinating. Enjoy this interview and examination video from Vice News:
LESSON #4: EVEN MONUMENTAL BLOCKBUSTERS BECOME “LITTLE ENGINES THAT COULD”— It has taken six months after its huge February debut and spring box office dominance, but Marvel’s Black Panther, thanks to one final tickle of $15,000 becomes only the third film to earn $700 million or more domestically. It joins Avatar ($760 million) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936 million). To be the highest grossing MCU film was already achievement, but to hit that benchmark is both impressive and special. Congratulations to Ryan Coogler and company!
LESSON #5: NEED A LAST MINUTE HOT SUMMER BEACH READ? CONSIDER A SCREENPLAY— Are you a movie fan that wants to dive in and relive some classic stories? Then get to read between the lines with their scripts. Sure, they might have zero pictures and whole bunch of extra framing words, but I bet they’re better than another trashy hit-or-miss novel off the rack. Last year, Script Reader Pro collected 50 of the greatest film screenplays of all-time and released them for free available downloads. In July, Shore Scripts added 45 more, also completely for free. The combined selections are extraordinary. Search by genre in either stack and revisit some cinematic gold in its purest creative form.
DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based film critic writing on his website Every Movie Has a Lesson and also on Medium.com where he is one of the 50 “Top Writers” in the Movies category. As an educator by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle. As a contributor here on Feelin’ Film now for over a year, he’s going to expand those lessons to current movie news and trends while chipping in with guest spots and co-hosting duties, including the special “Connecting with Classics” podcast program. Find “Every Movie Has a Lesson” on Facebook, Twitter, and Medium to follow his work.
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Posted on August 15, 2014 August 14, 2014 by Steven
DIR/WRI: David Michôd • PRO: David Linde, David Michôd,Liz Watts • DOP: Natasha Braier • ED: Peter Sciberras • DES: Josephine Ford • MUS: Antony Partos • CAST: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy
In a world bereft of new Twilight films, anything that Robert Pattinson does is going to be looked at, and he couldn’t have gone further (in almost every way) in this film, which is set in a desolate, dilapidated Australia “ten years after the collapse” and begins with grubby Eric (Guy Pearce) driving across the dusty, deserted land. We don’t know where he’s going or why, but his eyes are fixed in a thousand yard stare and only just register signs of life when his car is stolen outside a lonely bar.
After revving the thieves abandoned truck out of the ditch it landed in when it crashed, he gives chase. The injured Henry (Scoot McNairy) and his two scavenger friends can’t believe it, and even when they pepper the truck with bullets and come to a halt, standing off like cowboys on the road, Eric vows that he won’t stop following them until they give his car back.
Elsewhere, a shot and bleeding Rey (Pattinson) clambers into a dying soldier’s Hummer and sets off along the road. He’s chasing after Henry too; he was a member of the gang and got left behind for dead when things went wrong.
Eric comes to and gets back into the truck, then stops at every bizarre roadside shack looking for information – and to buy a gun. Now the killing begins. Back outside, Rey appears and unwittingly asks Eric where he got Henry’s truck from; now Eric has a way to get his car back, though first he has to get Rey patched up at the house of a bush doctor (Susan Prior).
As they drive, drive, drive, Eric says little and seems to care even less, while the seemingly slow-witted Rey struggles with being left behind. Sleeping under the stars, they’re soon on the run from the army too as they make for the small town where the gang was due to lay low…
Owing a great deal to Westerns, the legacy of Mad Max – and the often-forced quirkiness of David Lynch too – this rather frustrating but compelling film is held together by excellent performances from the leads. Pearce – his shoulder hunched, his eyes looking exhausted and his mind as focused as a psychopaths – is as intense as the ruined country he now lives in, while Pattinson is a revelation, a mass of ticks and confusion as he heavy-breathes and tries to come to terms with not only his sibling betrayal, but the fact his only source of hope is a man unconcerned with humanity.
The shoot took place in sweltering and isolated spots of Australia, and it certainly did its job: you’re always itching for a shower. The countless supporting characters – many of them local people and all of them shouldering rifles – look so drawn and wild that they could easily fit into the world of JRR Tolkien.
But it’s relentlessly grim, violent stuff, and the long stretches of time when we simply follow the car or Eric sits in silence while Rey tries desperately to make a connection, the pair of them seeming like Lennie and George from Of Mice and Men, can get very tiresome.
There are some major self-serving logic problems too; it’s unbelievable that Henry’s truck is drivable after the crash we see – let alone that they leave it by the unconscious Eric after he’s just said he’d never stop chasing them – and as thieves it’s inconceivable that they wouldn’t bother to look in the boot, or at least siphon out the precious petrol.
Eric never seems to want for water or food either – though he almost seems like he doesn’t need it – and the thing that was in his car? Well, I’ll leave it to you to decide whether – and why – it was worth it all the dead bodies.
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Zvi
Analysis of the apology (Zvi) (update)
From Zvi:
Erdogan is a repulsive anti-Semite, and apologizing to him because soldiers defended their own lives against violent rioters masquerading as "activists" angers me.
But I don't think that Netanyahu would have done this for no reason, or just because he was pleased by Obama's visit.
The following is speculation.
I notice that the "reconciliation" happened very late in the visit, but that it was far from spontaneous; the diplomatic push began 2 weeks ago, purportedly triggered by a letter that 89 senators sent to Erdogan after his recent anti-Semitic rant:
On March 12, 89 members of the U.S. Congress wrote a letter to Erdoğan and asked him to retract his words on Zionism, which he did not; he said he stood behind what he said but he had been misunderstood.
It seems that letter triggered the U.S. move, since the White House wanted to see its two main allies in the region work together once again as they did until the “one minute” incident in Davos in 2009.
Additional steps were taken in the background.
Turkey's foreign minister said:
I spoke with Kerry six times over the last week. We talked about the negotiations on the texts [of the apology]," he said. Davutoğlu noted that during the last week Turkey had only been in contact with U.S. officials, who mediated the final agreement before U.S. President Barack Obama's Israel visit. "We agreed that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu would call the Turkish prime minister accompanied by President Obama. Each word of the agreement has been studied. We worked on it until the morning and at noon we got a clearer picture."
Erdogan appears to have sought the approval of Hamas and Fatah before he accepted the call - which speaks volumes. Turks may well ask who is the final arbiter of Turkish foreign policy. But I won't go off on that tangent. Hurriyet:
Davutoğlu also said that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called both the Hamas prime minister of Gaza and the leader of the Palestinian Authority to get their approval before accepting Israel's formal apology for the Mavi Marmara raid. He explained that the conversations took place moments before Netanyahu's call. He added that Erdoğan also called Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati. "The tripartite meeting started afterward. Netanyahu began, then passed the phone to Obama. [Other sources say that it was the other way around - Zvi] I did not count the minutes, but the call lasted between 20 and 30 minutes," Davutoğlu said.
The "reconciliation" was evidently an important objective of the visit, but this has not really been acknowledged. For most of the visit, the press babbled on about the Palestinians and all but ignored Israel-Turkish relations. Even afterward, Obama almost seems to be deemphasizing the Israeli-Turkish meeting, though he is clearly pleased with it.
Which leaves me thinking about Syria, and about Iran.
In Jordan, after leaving Israel, Obama said, "I am very concerned about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism because extremists thrive in chaos, they thrive in failed states, they thrive in power vacuums."
The situation in Syria is going critical. Israel, Jordan and Turkey are Syria's neighbors. Chemical weapons are being used by the regime, and maybe by some of the rebel groups. Did Obama tell Netanyahu that a new phase has arrived, and that the only way to prevent the spread of chemical weapons among al-Nusra (closely aligned with al Qaeda in Iraq), and throughout the failed Syrian state and the region, is for Israel to work together very closely with Turkey, at the highest levels? I don't know.
Netanyahu has always been a pragmatist. He has never been the strongest-willed leader, but he does try hard to save Israeli lives. I can easily imagine him agreeing to the lesser of two evils - a formula that includes an apology for any mistakes made, as long as the soldiers are protected from revenge harassment by the Turkish state - if it might achieve something that is far more important. I can easily imagine that with really solid US guarantees, he would have been willing to pick his battles and set aside the fight with Erdogan in order to save thousands of Israeli lives.
In Jordan, Obama also indicated that he would ask Congress to provide more budget support for the kingdom, which currently houses 460,000 Syrian refugees. This is consistent with a deep concern in Washington about the civil war raging in Syria, especially if one expects the situation to grow much worse before it improves.
After meeting with the Jordanians, John Kerry will return to Israel. But he won't return to Ramallah. The president's conversation with King Abdullah concerns Syria at least as much as it concerns the Palestinians, and probably much more.
At the same time, Turkey is reaching out to the Kurds, and Abdullah Ocalan has responded.
Things are shifting in the region, some of them below the radar, and I think that meltdown of Syria lies very close to the center.
And then there is Iran.
Turkey's subsequent behavior will tell us a lot about the strategic importance of this "reconciliation." If Erdogan demonstrably ends his attacks on Israel and actively promotes cooperation, then that will tell me that Turkey views reconciliation as strategically vital. If not, then Erdogan's regime views all of this as a "political football," all speculation aside.
Bülent Yildirim of the IHH claims that the trials of the Israeli soldiers in the ICC will go ahead; but this is apparently incorrect.
Sometimes, when the risk of fire is high, you need to establish firebreaks that can prevent a conflagration from getting out of control. Obama and Netanyahu both know this. Erdogan may be thinking along the same lines.
UPDATE: See also The Daily Beast. And Foreign Affairs.
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Offa's Dyke | Article about Offa's Dyke by The Free Dictionary
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Offa's Dyke
Offa's Dyke,
ancient entrenchment of W England and E Wales, from the Dee estuary to near the estuary of the Wye River. It was built in the 8th cent. by Offa, king of MerciaMercia
, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, consisting generally of the region of the Midlands. It was settled by Angles c.500, probably first along the Trent valley.
..... Click the link for more information. , as a barrier against the Welsh and lies mainly along the England-Wales boundary. Watt's Dyke, a similar work, roughly parallels a section of Offa's at a distance of c.2 mi (3.2 km). Parts of the dikes are well preserved.
<a href="https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Offa%27s+Dyke">Offa's Dyke</a>
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Marathon walk challenge
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Calling all walkers..
Although Welsh he seems to have it in for Wales for some reason, tending to decry or disparage all things appertaining to his country, while at the same time indicating similar things the other side of Offa's Dyke are infinitely preferable.
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The 51-year-old plumber will walk all 168 miles along Offa's Dyke Path, which runs the entire length of the border between England and Wales, to raise as much as he can for the leukaemia fund.
Michael will go the distance for Josie
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