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With 40 seasons of magic now in the books, Upper Darby Summer Stage is gearing up for its 41st in Summer 2016! The highly anticipated lineup of shows slated for the Upper Darby stage was announced this past weekend. Today, Luner on Theatre brings you the news that Upper Darby Summer Stage has announced its 41st season for Summer 2016!
Upper Darby Summer Stage is one of the nation's oldest and most successful youth theatre programs. A staple of the Philadelphia region since 1976, the program recently celebrated its 40th season of theatre during the summer of 2015. Disney's Aladdin, pictured right, is just one of six shows produced last summer. Each summer, Upper Darby presents six Children's Theatre shows over the course of the summer. Ranging from revues to Jr. theatre shows, the productions are presented at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. The 2016 Children's Theatre season has just been announced and the question of what audiences can expect to see this summer is no longer a mystery! Get ready to experience the magic with…
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Upper Darby Summer Stage has also proudly announced their 2016 Main Stage production! The Main Stage production at Upper Darby features performers ranging from 18 to 28 who are young adults pursuing theatre degrees, working theatre professionals or those seeking to continue their theatre career during the summer. The show is always a full Broadway style production that rivals most regional theatres in the area or professional productions in downtown Philadelphia. After several years of contemporary musicals, the Main Stage returns to a classic Broadway feel while still producing a new show. Filled with gangsters and flappers galore while featuring songs written by George and Ira Gershwin such as "S'Wonderful", "Fascinating Rhythm" and "Somebody To Watch Over Me" to name just a few, the 2016 Main Stage production will be…
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The musical was just recently seen on Broadway starring Tony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara in 2012. Other recent Main Stage productions include Disney's Mary Poppins (Pictured Bottom), Shrek the Musical, Fiddler On The Roof, Hairspray, Titanic, West Side Story, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ragtime to name a few. The production will be directed by Brian Walsh.
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The program's list of notable alumni continues to grow with two on Broadway this season. Jeremy Morse (Pictured Right) will make his Broadway debut in Waitress and Alyse Alan Louis will return to Broadway in Disaster! Louis was previously seen on Broadway in Mamma Mia! Other well known alumni of the program include Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, Terrance J. Nolen (One of the Arden Theatre Company's Founders), Monica Horan (Everybody Loves Raymond & Broadway Producer of Spring Awakening), Josh Young (Amazing Grace and Jesus Christ Superstar) and the well-known songwriting team Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk.
What is Upper Darby Summer Stage?
Luner on Theatre is looking forward to bringing you coverage of Upper Darby Summer Stage's 41st Season this summer! Stay tuned as we bring you a look into each production and more about the summer season as it continue's to be revealed to us. For more information, visit Upper Darby Summer Stage's Official Website, Facebook or Twitter. (Please note; Unless a photo is noted to be taken by Luner on Theatre, we do not own/claim ownership for any photos used in this post.) And of course, check out the rest of Luner on Theatre for all your theatre news you don't only need but want to know and so much more!


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I read just now that the head of the NRA is recieving a lot more death threats than he usually does.
This is a common problem in the gun business. Those who sell and promote guns are at constant risk of being shot by their clients.
That is why gun shop workers are taught to be alert on the job. They don't like to let you open a box of cartridges when you buy a gun and bullets at the same time.
They are well aware that a portion of their clients are robbers, murderers, and psychos.
They keep loaded guns behind the counter and in the office ready to kill their clients if needed.
Owners of flower shops don't have a client base that goes straight from the store to a theater near you for a slaughter.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:49 pm
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Here is an epic Gun Fail video. It reminds me of the Movie Idiocracy, where so many idiots and bums reproduced that it watered down the average IQ.
The government is partly responsible because the self reliance our founding fathers had has been wiped out by big government handouts, loss of morality and of course some in-breeding on the farm...
Serious gun training and age restrictions should be required to own a semi-auto weapon, but please don't ban them for people with IQ's above 110 who can pass a safety course and know how to safely store them.
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The requirement to demonstrate current insurance coverage actually bothers you guys? I really don't get it. In MA, there is no requirement to show anything but the license and registration. The name of the insurance company that issued coverage at the time of registration is printed thereon. No separate card required. CT, by contrast requires a separate insurance card.
Despite CT's additional card requirement, each state mandates minimum coverage. And there is no further difference. Merely because a card (or even a declaration page, for that matter) identifies the coverage fails to provide proof of actual coverage at that time simply because one can fail to pay a premium, get cancelled but yet also hold a valid registration.
How does this relate to failed laws? If a fine is levied and not paid, the license and registration can be suspended. Driving without either amounts to mandated arrest in many states. Now the driver faces a pending criminal contempt charge if he fails to pay and/or appear. Most recalcitrant drivers will eventually find themselves unable to drive and posing no risk on the roads because they are locked up for contempt.
Again, if a state decides to create or increase a minimum jail sentence for this behavior, not only are the violators off the street for longer but it will change the behavior of many who would otherwise consider driving around illegally.
The deterrent effect of law is probably seen most clearly with highway speed limits. Lower speed limits consistently see lower actual speeds over time -even if the conditions might appear to warrant a higher speed. The ONLY reason this works is because of the speed limit and associated punishment for violation's deterrent effect.
Dan, I have to ask, do you have any FIRST HAND experience with this stuff? Or are you just quoting stuff? I drive the speed limit on the freeway 99% of the time. I can tell you FIRST HAND, that the speed limit is not obeyed by the majority of the people. I'm passed all the time (sometimes quite rudely) by the majority. I'm actually excited when I actually pass somebody...
As to the insurance part, you are missing the point. Yes, if they don't get insurance and prove it their licenses are suspended. But guess what? They STILL drive!! I know this FIRST HAND by the people I pulled over. It is amazing how people justify what they do. Texting and driving? Sure well it was just this "one time"..... Same thing with no license. They feel the need to go to the store to buy milk or more likely alcohol, they just "do it" the fact that it is illegal barely registers because in their mind they justify it.
And to bring this point back around, gun laws ONLY affects those willing to obey them. The "criminals" really don't give a crap about laws.....
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:59 pm
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Bard you do remember that no laws are proposed at all about to ban private gun ownership?
That is the central lie being told nonstop by the NRA to avoid gun registrations and oher sensible controls that they fear might reduce sales of their products.
I have no objection to the weapons dealers advertising and promoting their products.
When they purchased the NRA to lie to us and brainwash the American people into chanting you are taking my guns away every time gun control is mentioned- I have a problem with that.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:06 pm
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My experience isn't the same as yours. I've not served on any police force but I've been an officer of the court in two states, third pending and three federal jurisdictions. My practice isn't criminal law and I've only made a single appearance on behalf of a defendant.
Yet, I've spend hundreds of hours waiting in courtrooms while defendants parade for arraignment and have practiced with plenty of crim defense attorneys.
To be clear, my example simply showed that deterrence can work. People may still speed, but they don't drive at the same speed as before the limit was dropped. The degree of crime and potential of innocent loss is thus reduced.
You are correct that not all law changes reduce the targeted behavior but there is a logical tipping point where a punishment becomes draconian enough that it affects changes in behavior. Drunk driving laws certainly had this effect.
Behavior related to firearm possession comes with such dramatic risk of loss that society applies very severe penalties for proven violations. We also have adopted laws to change with the times. For example, there are many laws restricting how or when one can use a firearm -even when it comes to defending house and home. A stark example of this are the so-called spring gun laws that criminalize auto-fire weapons even when the intended use is honestly intended self-protection.
Creating new laws or increasing the penalties of existing laws ought to be reasonably tailored to address the concern. Laws of general applicability are not required to be so narrowly tailored as only to assure no effects other than the intended goal.
This is the crux of the NRA's argument: "Gun control laws affect far more than reducing gun violence and, therefore, more gun control laws are normatively wrong." Yet, as I discussed, a law of general applicability (one that applies to everyone and doesn't single out a protected class does not need to be without serious side-effects or unintended consequences. See, e.g., Oregon vs. Smith. If a gun law that bans a certain weapon is written without a so-called grandfather clause, the law will likely cause serious concerns about its side-effects but will not fail for that reason.
We don't need to go 'round further about driving laws. I only brought that up for the limited purpose I discussed and to transition back to a direct discussion of how invalid the NRA arguments really are. It's simply a shame that a very important topic is diminished by the best known organization that claims to speak for the 2nd Amendment. The NRA's logic is flawed and its actions are hypocritical to its assertions.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:07 pm
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In my complicated life I have had contact with more than one criminal.
They care a lot about this issue. More than one mob guy is in jail for nothing at all except the gun they were carrying illegally.
It is not easy to be a gun toting Mafia wannabe in a society that restricts guns in any way.
I went to high school in the Mob neighborhood in Kansas City.
I have had criminals I have known since high school tell me with a big smile that they are strong NRA supporters.
They had no interest at all in assault rifles. They strongly support concealed carry.
And no background checks at gun shows.
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Out of the mouths of poets. Carl Sandburg:
Here is a revolver.
It has an amazing language all its own.
It delivers unmistakable ultimatums.
It is the last word.
A simple, little human forefinger can tell a terrible story with it.
Hunger, fear, revenge, robbery hide behind it.
It is the claw of the jungle made quick and powerful.
It is the club of the savage turned to magnificent precision.
It is more rapid than any judge or court of law.
It is less subtle and treacherous than any one lawyer or ten.
When it has spoken, the case can not be appealed to the supreme court, nor any mandamus nor any injunction nor any stay of execution in and interfere with the original purpose.
And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the most revolvers.
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Revolvers...how quaint. Great poem.
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Here is an epic Gun Fail video. It reminds me of the Movie Idiocracy, where so many idiots and bums reproduced that it watered down the average IQ.
The government is partly responsible because the self reliance our founding fathers had has been wiped out by big government handouts, loss of morality and of course some in-breeding on the farm...
Serious gun training and age restrictions should be required to own a semi-auto weapon, but please don't ban them for people with IQ's above 110 who can pass a safety course and know how to safely store them.
Thanks for the laugh. Loved the one of the guy's pants falling down. I can relate to the ones with the bruised shoulders, made the same mistake in high school.
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Yeah that was funny. Sadly, he was the most competent of the group.
Certainly 230 years ago, laws of Darwin would eliminate many of those folks. Perhaps the reason our founding fathers didn't see the need for gun control. Something's gone wrong here for sure.
Very good poem Mac. However, it is a false God that Pirates have used for thousands of years to make war.
And KC, the revolver/pistol IS the weapon of choice in murder. Stats bear that out. In a crowded setting, the most lethal would be a sawed off tactical shotgun followed by the semi-auto hand gun. What I don't like is the media marching in lock step with the prez on this "assault rifle" ban. Assault rifles account for less than 2.5% of murders.
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Despite several official honours Weinberg's fortunes declined notably over his final two decades, not least owing to the emergence of a younger generation of composers whose perceived antagonism to the Soviet establishment ensured them a much greater coverage in the West, and his death in Moscow on 26 February 1996 went all but unnoticed. Since then, however, his output—which comprises 26 symphonies and seventeen string quartets, along with seven operas, some two dozen song-cycles and a wealth of chamber and instrumental music—has received a rapidly increasing number of performances and recordings, and has been held in ever greater regard for its notable continuation of the Russian symphonic tradition.
If the majority of Weinberg's symphonies from his final two decades fall between the 'abstract' and the 'programmatic', the trilogy that is Nos 17–19 presents an interesting synthesis. Subtitled 'On the Threshold of War', it surrounds a vocal piece with two purely orchestral works. Symphony No 19 (1985) is subtitled 'Bright May' (though 'Joyous May' makes for an equally viable translation) and is prefaced with a quotation from the 1945 poem The Victory by Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), a writer who often found herself at loggerheads with Soviet officialdom though her work was undergoing a degree of rehabilitation through the auspices of Mikhail Gorbachev's recently inaugurated policy of Glasnost:
This is a symphony that views May not in terms of a national holiday but as the month in which the 'Great Patriotic War' came to an end, with the note of apprehension as keenly underlined as that of celebration. Unlike its two four-movement predecessors, moreover, it unfolds as a single span whose content proceeds inevitably from its opening (to which end, the three tracks allotted the work here should be taken as access points rather than as formal demarcations). The première was given at the Moscow Autumn Festival on 23 November 1986 by the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Fedoseyev (who championed Weinberg's music assiduously, giving the first performances of no fewer than six of his later symphonies).
The work begins [1] with trenchant writing for strings to which brass and timpani add a harmonic underpinning, the music all the while gaining in expressive weight before woodwind and brass gradually emerge out of the texture. The tension eases as solo woodwind share a pastoral dialogue that soon passes to the upper strings, then brass and percussion enter as the music gains in rhythmic energy towards a brief climax before returning to the earlier pastoral manner. This in turn tails off into hesitant exchanges between strings and woodwind, dying away to reveal [2] an eloquent threnody for strings with atmospheric touches from woodwind. This passes into ominous writing for the lower woodwind over quietly pulsating pizzicato strings, its distinctive rhythmic profile latterly taken up by strings and brass as the piece heads towards its central climax—with the salient rhythms expounded across the whole orchestra in aggressively martial terms before culminating in thunderous exchanges between brass and percussion. This dies down toward a general pause, from which solo woodwind and divided strings muse thoughtfully on the initial music as if in wistful recollection. This pauses briefly, then [3] strings continue in searching polyphony towards an ecstatic culmination with bells to the fore. Solo horn and strings then converse resignedly over a gentle harp ostinato with whimsical asides from flutes, a further climax being swiftly curtailed to leave solo clarinet with limpid phrases which gradually overcome any remaining tension as solo horn and piccolo continue against gently capricious strings. Over a sombre chord deep in the lower strings, woodwind and brass trade ever sparser exchanges until any residual activity has died away against airborne upper strings.
While Weinberg was to amass a large number of orchestral works, the vast majority are symphonies or at least symphonic in scope, with only a dozen or so pieces (not including several which are currently missing) of a more descriptive nature. Despite the relative success that his music enjoyed during the 1960s and 1970s, Weinberg was never a 'Party' figure or one able to attract support from Communist officialdom. The number of pieces commemorating official occasions are correspondingly few in number, though two such works emerged relatively late on. One of these is the 'festive poem' The Banners of Peace (1985), written immediately after the Nineteenth Symphony, dedicated to the 27th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and first performed in Moscow on 23 February 1986, once again by the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Fedoseyev. Here the musical conception, despite an essentially positive and outgoing manner which is rather at odds with the increasingly introspective manner of his later music, is appreciably well removed from the propagandistic—not least the way in which fragments from traditional and revolutionary songs (several of them also to be found in Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony) have been drawn into the overall texture so as to become mere constituents in a broadly cumulative span of music that fulfils without drawing attention to its purpose.
Robust chant-like writing for strings sets the work in motion, horns and woodwind then opening out the texture before brass and percussion round off the initial paragraph. The pace duly picks up as strings and brass engage in ever more animated exchanges, urged on by woodwind and percussion, before the brass alight on a chorale-like idea that also brings an easing of activity. The music now heads into an expressive passage for strings, itself cut short to make way for elegiac exchanges between lower and upper strings with the haunting addition of celesta and a soulful contribution from clarinet. Livelier comments from oboe then flute and bassoon presently emerge, the strings seizing on their nagging rhythm as the music gains in impetus with brass and percussion once more to the fore, before the earlier poise is regained. From here the strings make an elegant transition, with echoes of the very opening, to further animated writing which soon draws in the whole orchestra as the work's climax is reached: strings sounding forth in soulful terms with rhetorical interjections from brass, the latter urging the music on to a brazenly affirmative close whose most notable aspect is its evident lack of irony.
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Kim Marie Stevens of Newburgh, NY entered Heaven's Pearly White Gates on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.
She was the beloved daughter of Gilbert Stevens and Bertha Deans, born April 26, 1966. Kim graduated from Newburgh Free Academy and worked as a waitress at Friendly's (Newburgh Mall) and was a nursing assistant at Wingate (Fishkill and Dutchess County) and Westledge Nursing Homes for 20 years.
Kim was a dedicated Vice President of the Dynamic Approach Marching Band and Captain of the Pom Pom girls. She was always active since High School in cheerleading, music, dance and double-dutch. She loved people and her doors were always open, ready and willing to assist in helping no matter what the circumstance. If it was no more than a hug, she touched many people hearts with her love.
She leaves to mourn are her four daughters: Takiaya Stevens, Jayniece Gordon, Tyaria Stevens and Tapria Forrest; two grandchildren: Yahinese Trice and Imani Stevens; seven brothers: Preshay Deans, Darnel, Daniel, Michael, Benjamin, Johnathan, Nicholas Stevens; two sisters: Latiyce and Makayla Stevens; aunts: Vicki Deans of Newburgh, NY, Loraine Burnett of Albany, NY, Maryanne Dixon of Atlanta, GA, Shirley Dorsey of Texas, Clarena Tajan, Joanne Marshall of Newburgh and Cordelia Singletary of Rochester, NY; also a host of cousins and friends.
Kim was predeceased by her grandmother, Dorothy Carter; grandfathers, Austin Deans and Benjamin Stevens; aunts: Bessie Dubois and Wanda Deans.
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Steampunk Baby Names: Victorian tech
By Nephele
What is steampunk?
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that presents an alternative future or universe in which modern-day type inventions and conveniences are propelled by steam or inventive clockwork mechanisms. Dirigible airships are also iconic to steampunk.
Although the steampunk movement emerged in the 1980s, there have also been novels, movies, and television series which are today identified as steampunk (or containing steampunk elements) that predate the actual coining of the term.
The steampunk movement has inspired an entire subculture consisting of enthusiasts who meet at steampunk conventions and who tend to dress in fabulous fashions that meld a futuristic look with nineteenth century Victoriana. Much of steampunk fashion incorporates goggles (the apparent badge of the Victorian scientist/adventurer). Steampunk jewelry features clockwork motifs. The names in the following list include typical steampunk names (names which were in vogue during the latter half of the nineteenth century), character names appearing in popular works containing steampunk elements, and names of noted authors who have influenced the steampunk literary movement.
- ALEKSANDAR – the young hero of Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series.
- ARRONAX – from Professor Pierre Aronnax, a scientist in Jules Verne's, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- ARTEMUS – after Artemus Gordon, secret agent partner to Jim West in the television series and movie, The Wild, Wild West.
- BLAYLOCK – a name honoring early steampunk author James P. Blaylock.
- BRISCO – the cowboy hero in the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- IVAN (pronounced ee-VAHN) – from Ivan Dragomiloff, the anti-hero (played by Oliver Reed) in the movie, The Assassination Bureau.
- JETER – a name honoring science fiction author K.W. Jeter, who coined the term "steampunk."
- JULES – a name honoring author Jules Verne. Also the name of one of Doc Brown's sons in the movie Back to the Future, Part III.
- LANGDON – after Langdon St. Ives, a scientist and adventurer-explorer who appears in a number of popular steampunk stories by author James P. Blaylock.
- NEMO – the anti-hero and genius captain of the fantastic submarine in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Unfortunately, many people today will probably associate this name with the Disney movie Finding Nemo.
- OSWALD – from Oswald Bastable, a British army captain in author Michael Morcock's The Warlord of the Air.
- PHILEAS – from Phileas Fogg, the main character in Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.
- QUATERMAIN – from Allan Quatermain, a main character in the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as inspired by the character from the novels of H. Rider Haggard.
- RAY – from James "Ray" Steam, an inventor's son living in 19th century England, in Katsuhiro Otomo's acclaimed animated steampunk movie, Steamboy.
- SOCRATES – after the character Socrates Poole in the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- VASH – after Vash the Stampede, the lead character in the Japanese "Old West" style steampunk manga and animated television series, Trigun.
- VERNE – a name honoring author Jules Verne. Also the name of one of Doc Brown's sons in the movie Back to the Future, Part III.
- AGATHA – from Agatha Heterodyne, the teenage heroine in Studio Foglio's Hugo award-winning (2009 and 2010) online steampunk comic, Girl Genius. The Hugo Award is one of the highest achievement awards bestowed in the genre of science fiction.
- ALEXIA – from Alexia Tarabotti, the protagonist in author Gail Carriger's novel Soulless.
- CLARA – Doc Brown's 19th century love interest in the movie Back to the Future, Part III.
- DERYN – the young heroine of author Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series.
- LYRA – from Lyra Belacqua, the young protagonist in author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
- LUCREZIA – after Lucrezia Mongfish, former bad girl turned good, in Girl Genius.
- MAGGIE – after Maggie DuBois, the intrepid journalist and suffragette (played by Natalie Wood) in the movie The Great Race.
- OCTAVIA – after Octavia Pye, airship captain in author Katie MacAlister's novel Steamed: A Steampunk Romance.
- SCARLETT – from Scarlett O'Hara St. Jones, a major character in Japan's acclaimed animated steampunk movie, Steamboy.
- SONYA – from Sonya Winter, the intrepid journalist and suffragette (played by Diana Rigg) in the movie The Assassination Bureau.
- VIOLETTA – the cute, red-headed minion of Agatha Heterodyne in the online steampunk comic Girl Genius.
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isabel Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 8:28 am
Sweet list! Mostly guilty pleasures for me, but some of my favorites are there:
Jules (nn for Julius)
Arabella, Cecilia, Genevieve, Emmeline…love a lot of them!
Lola Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Oohh, Ambrose! Ivan, pronounced properly! Jules on a guy! I love Steampunk. 🙂
Araminta, Cecilia & Lucrezia are some of my absolute favorites for girls! I love this list, thanks Nephele!
Vanessa Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 10:11 am
I never knew I was a Steampunk fan. I've always loved Victorian Age science fiction. Now I know there's a name for it. Thanks Nephele!
Salome Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Another huge fan of Victorian literature here! I could almost live off of this list.
Boys: Bartholomew is one of my absolute loves. Silas and Jeremiah are close runners up.
Girls: Emmeline, Eulalia, Evangeline… the E's have it! Agatha and Clementine are both on my short list. Maggie is just a classic.
Chantal Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
My great-great-great-great grandfather's name was Granville. Cracked me up to see it on this list!
Trustedwriter Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Wow! I knew I liked steampunk-esque names, but I didn't think any of the names in my current list of favorites fit that description. Imagine my surprise…Bartholomew and Maxwell are here! They're both middle names in my "ideal future sibset". 🙂
I love a lot of other names here as well, but in many cases they're a little more out there than my usual style, my husband has turned them down, or they're too similar to other names (I love, love Emmeline…but I could never have an Emmeline if this baby is a girl, since we'll be naming her Coraline!).
I am definitely going to get my Steampunk name… 🙂
Jennie Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Julius with the nn Jules has been on our list for a long time. My husband and I are both science fiction geeks (him more than me) and it's a great nod to one of the fathers of the genre.
Also, for some reason, I never thought of His Dark Materials as steam punk; it's one of my favorite series of all time, and now thinking about it, I guess you could classify it as that. But let's keep Lyra on the down-low. I've been wanting to use it for years! Though it might be good to get the word out so people know how to pronounce it properly and I don't get a million weird looks. Either way, it's a beautiful name.
Livi Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
I was delighted to find Steampunk names in a blogpost, and even more so to see Girl Genius and Steamboy mentioned!
I love steampunk names. I suppose one could say that any Victorian-era name can be considered steampunk.
WildWildWest.org Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Jim West's partner's name is spelled incorrectly.
It is ARTEMUS GORDON.
And it is a very kewl name.
linda Said
on February 10th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Artemus is fixed–thanks WildWildWest.
Linelei Said
on February 11th, 2011 at 1:09 am
Jennie, I feel the exact same way about Lyra. It's such a wonderful name and such a wonderful character! Let's keep it quiet. 😉
Minnie Said
on February 11th, 2011 at 5:23 am
Hmmm… Steampunk names have a really gorgeous edge to them. They speak of an era of refinement, of gentile beauty; they seem ever-so-slightly fragranced with lavender. Among the wonderful names here, I have an especial fondness for Minerva. Thank you for this wonderful list, Nephele! And, thank you for bringing "Girl Genius" to my attention – am devouring avidly…
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JuliaDrucilla Said
on April 13th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Hm. Some of these are pretty cool. Here are the ones that caught my eye:
Arronax- I love Journey to the Center of the Earth! This is genius!
Cornelius- Personifies fusty charm, but it's pretty over the top. The nickname Corny is somewhat unavoidable.
Cyrus- I like this a lot! Never heard it before, though… Hm.
Oswald- This name makes me smile. I might just have to name a pet Oswald some day! (Deffinitely not easy for a real person to carry.)
Silas- Very handsome, sensible but friendly with a slight southern twang.
Socrates- Pretty cool. Really weird. I love unusual names, but I probably wouldn't go that far!
Cleora- As it turns out, Cleo+Lora=a really nice name! It does sound kinda made up, though.
Eulalia- Gorgeous! One of my newest name crushes!
Genevieve- I know a girl with this name and will be forever envious of her… So elegant!
Jessamine- Too sweet for my taste, but I can see why someone could fall in love with this name.
Lavinia- A nicely balanced name. Pretty and girly without TOO too many frills.
Lucrezia- Lucretia with a bit of ZZZING! I love how it rolls off the tongue.
Parthenia- Unusual perhaps to the point of weird, but spelling and pronounceation look pretty easy, and it is quite a lovely name.
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mill1020 Said
on September 8th, 2014 at 10:27 pm
Cool article! I like Silas and Clara.
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Mussolini Bunker Opens to Public
A Roman villa's wine cellar which was converted into an air raid shelter for Benito Mussolini and the Italian dictator's family, is opening its anti-gas, double steel doors to tourists.
Located in the Villa Torlonia in Rome, the shelter was quickly constructed in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II in what had once been the wine cellar of a noble family who lived there before Mussolini took up residence during his Fascist rule.
Visitors can see the iron-rung ladder used for emergency exits and a rusting contraption to purify air in case of a gas attack. A label on the apparatus was dated November 1940 in Roman numerals, in keeping with Mussolini's style of evoking the ancient Roman Empire's glory days as inspiration for his own rule.
The tours, which run on weekdays, also take visitors to see a separate underground bunker that was later built for Mussolini directly under the villa.
Mussolini had the bunker made by encapsulating the 19th-century villa's underground kitchen area in reinforced concrete. Before that, the Mussolini family would have had to dash across the villa's sprawling lawn and gardens to reach the wine-cellar shelter in a separate structure if air raid sirens sounded.
Work began in 1942 to expand and fortify the bunker. Archaeologist Giuseppe Granata said Mussolini had lamented in writing that the updated bunker was running behind schedule and over cost. It is not known if the dictator ever used the bunker. By the time Allied bombings hit Rome, the dictator had been deposed and, under Nazi protection, was leading a puppet state in northern Italy. In 1945, partisans captured and executed him.
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Arsene Wenger admits Barcelona are almost perfect - but insists it is easier to prepare his Arsenal side for the Catalan giants than it was for Saturday's scoreless FA Cup draw against Hull.
The Gunners face a tough examination when they come up against Champions League holders Barcelona tonight as they look to progress past the round of 16 stage for the first time in five seasons.
With Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez forming a formidable front three for the visitors, many - including Wenger - make the La Liga side favourites.
Wenger believes Barcelona currently have "top, top class" attacking talent but says they have a chink in their armour and his players will take no preparing for the task at hand.
"The difficulty of the task is completely different but it is more difficult to prepare against Hull than Barcelona," he said.
"Against Barcelona everyone is naturally focused. It is more to create belief and confidence, because Barcelona are super-favourites in this game.
"Against Hull it is more to raise the urgency level and convince everybody that it is a very difficult game.
"Everyone is convinced that as a squad we need to have absolutely total focus to have a chance and that is what I try to raise. Belief, confidence.
"Of course, no team is perfect. But they are not far from it.
"We have to use every moment in the game where we have the chance to score, and as I said after the Hull game, we had 70 per cent of the time the ball but we didn't make a lot of it. Against Barcelona we will have the ball far less and we will have to make more of it."
Arsenal have suffered from poor results in the opening leg of knockout Champions League ties in recent years, last season losing 3-1 at home to Monaco before being eliminated on away goals following a 2-0 victory in the principality.
And Wenger wants his squad to show they have learned from previous mistakes.
"It is a good opportunity to show we have learned because it is true we have given ourselves a difficult task after the first home leg and maybe after we have been a bit too keen to make the difference in the first game," he added. "We need to find the right balance between being audacious because that is what you will need to be against Barca.
"We need to be strong defensively as a unit and not put ourselves in front of a very difficult task in the second leg."
Arsenal only scraped through to the latter phases after staging a comeback in their group having lost three of their opening four matches.
A 3-0 success in Olympiakos on the final matchday saw them edge through at the expense of the Greeks and Olivier Giroud, who scored a hat-trick in Piraeus, has pointed to Arsenal's strength in depth as a positive as they also challenge for the FA Cup and Premier League.
"Barcelona are favourites," he said. "But we have good quality this year, even if we had a lot of injuries, but we did well during a tough moment in the Autumn and we have our players back.
"We are very happy with that. For example Danny (Welbeck) made the difference against Leicester, I was very pleased for him. We need everybody, we have a strong squad and that is why we play in every competition."
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At 7 PM Pierre and I met for the first time. At that time I lived in a 2 room apartment in Amsterdam. Pierre had visited a patient of him in hospital in Amsterdam. I had prepared a 7 course dinner. The poor GP was so exhausted of all the emotions of the day, that he fell asleep after dinner. -> The expression "Ruby" derives from a congratulations App from Lady Mary.
Here are some scans of 40 year old pictures 🙂
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David Truscello, DO '18, pictured left, addresses the South Philadelphia community as an appointed committeeman.
David Truscello (DO '18) has both politics and medicine in his blood; one grandfather was a city councilor, the other was a district judge.
Several members of his family are physicians—including his aunt, Adele Lam, DO '99, and uncle, James Tayoun Jr., DO '90, who both went to PCOM.
"My uncle James, who is a surgeon, ran for state Senate in 2004 to advocate for his profession and to ensure his success and the success of other doctors," said Mr. Truscello. "I really admired that."
Mr. Truscello himself has served as an appointed committeeman in his South Philadelphia community for several years. In his role, he canvasses neighborhoods to help get out the vote, gives voters information, directs them on where to go and provides a litany of other services to constituents.
"In a way, it's very similar to being a physician—you work long hours because you care, and you want to be helpful whenever you can," he said.
He also works with the Pennsylvania Medical Society, meeting regularly with legislators to advocate for health care and for the medical profession. (State Sen. Sharif Street has said he hopes Mr. Truscello "opens up an office in my district one day.")
Mr. Truscello says it's imperative for physicians to have a seat at the table to discuss healthcare legislation.
"When your car breaks down, you don't take it to a lobbyist or a lawyer, you take it to a mechanic because he's the first line of defense," said Mr. Truscello, who will be starting an internal medicine residency at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. "When your body breaks, you take it to a doctor. That's why its imperative for physicians to have a say in how healthcare is administered and legislated at every level of government."
Ultimately, he feels that getting involved in politics can make for more effective doctors.
"At the end of the day, patients need to come first, and by advocating on a political level we can ensure better care for them and better working conditions for us," he said.


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Some of you have been checking on me, wondering how things are going, so I thought I would share a quick update, which is to say that not much is going on. I'm no longer bleeding; in fact, a few days ago I felt like I might be headed toward ovulation. I'll have my blood tested tomorrow to see where my HCG levels are. We're hoping for under 5. I never thought I would hope to see low HCG numbers, honestly, but that seems to be my experience with life. I never imagined a lot of things. I've been staying incredibly busy with teaching and my other work, which is helpful at times until I have a few minutes to breathe, and then I fall apart. I'm just hoping time will slip by quickly. That's all I can hope for right now.
I'm also working on doing all I can to keep the ole body healthy and happy. My primary care physician recommended maybe trying an anti-inflammatory diet just to really clean things out and promote a fertile environment. I'm inclined to listen to her; she's usually right. She also recommended an interesting supplement for my anxiety/grief, which I hadn't heard of before. It turns out (unbeknownst to her) that it is also showing to be helpful with ovulation and improved egg quality in some small studies. Those are some promising side effects, and it's easy enough to take a supplement a few times a day. I'll be going back to acupuncture again this week as well. It helped last time; I have no doubt it will help again.
And we wait. And wait. And wait.
In the meantime, life keeps passing by. J and I celebrated our sixteenth anniversary this week. I contributed to the festive nature of the day by catching a cold. We did precious little but go out to dinner. We cried a bit. We laughed a bit. We marveled at how long we've been together, how old we're getting, how lonely it is without a child, how lucky we are to have one another through it all. We have been taking turns falling apart about this miscarriage, taking turns holding one another up. It's no small feat because both of us have so little left to give right now. Still she manages to console me through the worst of it, and I try my best to be there for her during the worst of it. It's something we've both grown rather skilled at, but we're both tired of nursing one another through grief.
Today we both did our best to avoid the world of children in their Easter finery searching for eggs, smiling with delight over too much chocolate. I worked all day. J worked on some art. I somehow landed in social networking land a couple of times to find photos and videos galore that bowled me over with the reminder that the whole damn world seems to be swimming in beautiful kids, and my wife and I have none. We celebrated exactly two Easters with BG. He dyed eggs once. It was wonderful. But I won't lie; it's painful beyond belief to see other families doing the same. And I hate this holiday. It's my least favorite. And still it hurts because having a child even made this holiday fun. Oh I miss it.
So that's how I am. It's a fairly miserable time here. I'm doing my best to find my way back, to avoid succumbing completely to grief and hopelessness. I'm hanging onto hope that I will get pregnant again soon and will be headed back toward having a child in my arms. I'm trying. It's hard, but I'm trying.


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I am on the Pill, and have sex regularly. Recently, I have had a discharge.
This discharge is discoloured and that really worries me – so what should I do?
I'm sorry to hear about this.
I don't think your discharge can possibly be due to the Pill. Coloured discharges are often due to a vaginal infection – such as trichomonas.
However, a brown discharge can indicate internal bleeding.
I think you should go and have an internal check-up by the doctor who is prescribing your contraception.
Most cases of vaginal discharge in young women aren't too serious, and are easily treated.
The sooner you get this sorted out, the better. So, please make an appointment as soon as possible.
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A few months ago, I ended up with a PS Vita and a copy of Persona 4: Golden. What followed was an extended love affair. I could not put my Vita down for weeks. When I wasn't busy with family, or work, I was hanging out in Inaba.
Living alongside Rise Kujikawa, the J-idol on a break, and Yosuke Hanamura, the troubled son of a large department store owner, was blissful. Walking the streets of the shopping district, or along the flood
plains, there was always some to spend time with, and delve into their fascinating backstories. The Scooby-Doo like whodunnit mystery was the pièce de résistance. It motivated you to keep moving forward, to find the killer before he struck again.
I'd never been much of a JRPG fan but Persona 4 and I bonded. I can't remember a game in twenty plus years of playing where I was that invested into it. Maybe Pokemon Red in 1997, where the sense of adventure, venturing out boldly into the unknown was mind-blowing for a small child. Spending time with the cast of Persona 4 was always a pleasure – amusing, witty conversation and genuinely likeable personalities.
When it finally wrapped up, and the train whisked me away from my family back to the city, I sat quietly on the sofa for several minutes. Knowing it was over left me following hollow. It sounds borderline psychotic to be so emotionally attached to pixels, but I can't deny those feelings. As the credits rolled, the mixture of emotions – sadness it was over, joy at having experienced such a wonderful journey, depression that I would never be able to experience it all for the first time again – was overwhelming.
I take solace in the fact that Persona 5 had released just a few weeks prior. After taking a break in order to mull over the odyssey I'd gone through, I bought a copy of P5, and started it up.
20 hours in, and there's nothing I want to do more than leave Tokyo and get back to Inaba. I just can't engage with this game. This is an extremely unpopular opinion, seeing as how lavished with praise it has been. Almost every media outlet has given it a 9 or higher.
Every Persona game has an extremely loyal following – some of my friends believe 3 is the best, others 4, and the rest 5. Each game has such a unique personality, I feel it's pointless to argue which one is best. Every game will have some meaning to each person, and every one of those people has an entitlement to their opinion.
My opinion is that 5 is not a bad game, and indeed, it is the opposite – it's a very good game. But, it doesn't have the innocence, the passion, the naivety and freedom and coming-of-age that 4 has. It doesn't have the compelling characters, the twisting, bending mystery, or the family ties. It has no soul.
I'm nowhere near finishing the game, which I intend to do, but after 20 hours, I feel I've seen enough to give some early game impressions.
1. Yusuke, the artist you recruit while doing the second palace, is a scumbag and no one even bats an eye. This guy tries to blackmail a high school girl into posing as a nude muse. Not only is she in high school, she was a founding member of your gang of thieves. Everyone seems cool with this, even pushing her into doing it as a distraction. Subsequently, he is welcomed into your crew with no questions asked. It is extremely jarring to watch the characters be such assholes.
2. The definition of a bad person is fairly loose. In the first dungeon, you are going after a teacher named Kamoshida who is physically assaulting students, and blackmailing female students in sleeping with him. This is the definition of a shitty person, and going after him completely justified. The second dungeon is an artist who is plagiarising his students work. Ethically wrong, but not exactly sexual and physical assault bad. It's not until the end of the dungeon it's revealed the artist allowed shitty guy Yusuke's mom to die of a seizure. It seems tacked on to prove that Maradame, the copying artist, really is a bad guy and deserved this. I'm fairly sure the developers felt it was a weak palace, so they ham-fistedly shoved this in to make sure you know he's a bad guy. "LOOK HE LET THAT GUY'S MOM DIE! YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT DOING THIS TO HIM".
3. Morgana, the cat guide that follows your everywhere – literally everywhere – can turn into a bus. You read that sentence right. This cat can, somehow, turn into a bus you can climb into and drive, steering wheel, pedals, and all. In Persona games, lots of weird things happen, way too much to explain in one column. Yet this is the first time I've ever looked at my baby son in bemusement playing a Persona game. I can handle a lot of things – but a cat bus that people drive around is just too much. There is no explanation as to how this happens – you just need to accept it. I would much rather just run around a smaller area than have to drive this monstrosity around a large area.
4. This criticism is a deeper one and has two facets – the first being you come to Tokyo with baggage and a history, and secondly, the whole game so far has been a flashback from a police interview room.
I call this the Fallout 4 Conundrum. In that game, you are a man with a family, whose son has been kidnapped. Having this baggage means you can't effectively role play in a role playing game. As the father of a baby son, if he was kidnapped, I would not rest until I had found him.
Yet, you can spend fifty hours building your settlement and farming for garbage. These two paths cannot realistically coexist – which father wouldn't track down his child immediately? If you were truly roleplaying, you'd would have to go after your child. Contrast this to New Vegas – your backstory is you got shot in the head and you want revenge. It means you are free to do however you wish because you have no anchor around your character.
This is similar in P5 – you start the game as a police captive. This subsequently means every choice you make until that investigation scene is void. Inevitably, you will end up in that room, unless I've yet to reach some plot twist that means the whole police aspect isn't real. In that sense, I've come to Tokyo because I've been found guilty of a crime – all my classmates consider me some kind of psycho ne'er-do-well. Both of these points mean I can't role play my character like I want to. In P4, I was a blank slate, tabula rasa, and I could do anything I wanted. My future was my own to seize. In Persona 4, I had to decide carefully what I wanted to do, as I didn't know what the consequences would be. In P5, it seems likely I'm going to end up in custody. No point being invested in the future if I know what's going to happen!
ME GO OUT AT NIGHT, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. The damn cat is always in my room telling me I'm tired and that I should sleep. Just fuck off and stop being such a damn buzzkill, Morgana. I want to go out at night and hang out with people like I did in P4. I whiled away so many pleasant summer evenings with Rise and Yukiko and Chie and Marie and Yosuke. Now, i'm being caged in like a damn animal by, ironically, an animal.
Although this sounds like an extremely negative review of the game thus far, I really don't hate it, or even dislike it. I think the style and the visuals ooze cool, like Steve McQueen wearing a Submariner. The palaces are aesthetically pleasing, and well designed. The enemies are bizarre as always, and the combat has so many improvements over P4. Being able to 'Baton Pass'- passing your turn over to an ally – always looks wonderful. Being able to immediately scan an enemy for a weakness, and having the game choose a Persona you control to take advantage of that frailty is extremely convenient. But herein lies the issue – I am apathetic to this game.
Apathy is never something you should feel toward something, which is my major conflict with this game. I loved Persona 4, and it ranks near the top of my all time favorite experiences in any form of media. I had such high expectations of Persona 5, that may be affecting my judgement. From a gameplay standpoint, there is nothing wrong with 5, but from a storytelling and character view, it pales in comparison to 4.


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Im interested in comments on people who have made or even thinking or have thought about making li-ion/li-po batteries, as you may know i have gone to a 7" screen on my sounder this raised an issue with battery storage, so I've opted for an FPV 17.5 li-ion battery.
I have been investigating making my own battery using 18650 li-ion cells after several vids and forums later i decided on purchasing the FPV one, the reason for this was not because i wasn't confident to make it, it was because of sourcing genuine parts and testing equipment.
Sourcing the batteries was the easiest part, when making a battery bank you really need a BMS (battery management system) this regulates the input and output voltages to protect the battery from over/under charge/use it also balances the battery charge state, these can be defective so need testing and some circuit parts relaced, the cells (each 18650) could/should be tested to determine it's capacity and arranged in a specific order to get the best longivity out of the battery, then there is the charger, this is suitable to charging li-ion/li-pol batteries.
My issue is of a result of watching perhaps too many vids, ok if you find a reputable store (online or not) that you can buy everything needed then alls good but is it? You can buy cells (18650s or others) they are 3.6v nominal and upto 3.6ah this is there rating not what they are, as stated they should be tested to find where they are placed in your battery bank, for example to get 12v at 17ah i need to have a 3s5p bank of 3.5ah 18650 cells, 3s = 3 18650s in series 3 x 3.6v =10.8v nominal 12.6v charged, 5p = 4 18650s in parallel 5 x 3.5ah =17.5ah, now for proper and safe charging/discharging you need a 3s BMS the rated amps needed is determined by 1. That rated for the cells 2. What your intended usage will be so for a kayak battery i would be looking at 10amps rated output so the PMS would be 3s 10amp.
Ok to summarize so far your 18650s, need testing, this can be done using an of the shelf 2, 4 or 6 battery compartment li-ion/li-po charger/tester, your battery bank 3s 5p needs a BMS and a charger, all of these items, 18650s, cell tester, BMS, and charger need to be purchased from a reputable dealer? But have they been tested before they get to you? How accurate are they in their intended function?
After watching many videos on YouTube of people making battery banks of many shapes and sizes, anyone can do it! But can anyone do it properly? The item being made is only as good as the person making it. Does the person know what they are doing? The person in the vid is my teacher! How good is my teacher? Ok so i watched many vids of guys building these battery banks, then testing these banks only to the put a BMS rated to the job on the correctly built bank then test the input and output voltage to make sure it was within specifications. All looked good! However i then watch another guy build a similar bank, but! He tested the BMS and found it to be faulty.
Let me explain a bit about 18650s. They have a nominal voltage of 3.6v and a rating of a certain amperage, you can drain a 18650 pretty much to zero amps however the voltage should go now lower than 3v, and when charging they should not charge higher than 4.2v, also they they have an input/output rating in amps if you exceed any of these parameters then you reduce the life of the battery.
Now back to testing the BMS if when testing your built battery bank you find one channel or more on the BMS or battery bank (depending on your test location) charge over 4.2 (if this is the stated max for the cells) and or deplete lower than 3v (if this is the stated min) then the faulty charge or discharge ic's need to be replaced and retested.
When building a new battery bank you should test each cell to find it's capacity, so you can arrange the cells evenly in the bank, this protects the cells and bank for premature failure.
Chargers: in some situations banks dont have an internal BMS so the charger is required to have one, most of the better battery chargers for charging li-ion/ li-pol battery banks are made to charge remote control toys?..... but dont have built in BMS so the chargers do, as these are the better chargers suited to charging li-ion / li-pol battery banks then it's these that would be the best to use to get the best out of your battery bank
My conundrum, am i garrenteed that if i buy/build my batter bank,tester, charger and BMS that they will be as stated? Even if all part are purchased from a reputable dealer? I dont think so! So without going to extremes, i need the tester, batteries, charger and BMS, the tester tels me the batteries are good or not, also where in my bank they shouod be placed for besr performance and if they are as rated (if not they are returned), the BMS this you have 2 choices build your own or buy but it MUST be tested in use, if not your bank will not last as it should, at worst it will explode, or catch on fire.
Buying goods over the Internet as we all know can be risky, especially from overseas as overseas dealers arnt governed by our laws, this can be a major issue when spending lots of money on faulty items, the reason for buying items from overseas is usually the price, sometimes you just cant source what you need here or have trouble finding an Australian supplier, so in the case of li-ion/li-po and anything to do with safety, test, test, test.
Ok sorry for the long road to get here but now the questions, who has used 18650 or similar for use in kayaking, camping and any other activity? What are they used for? Where did you get them? Did you make your own bank? And if so did you use a BMS? What if any testing was done on it/them? And finally (for now) are you happy with them?
Ps, this is im hoping to open some discussion on the use of an alternative to using SLA batteries in mainly kayaking and associated camping and any other use you have for them.


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March 28, 2006
Malaria Conference Highlights Complexity of the Fight against Malaria
Most of us don't think of the dreaded Anopheles mosquito as an underdog, a hapless creature that is easily infected by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite and needs our help in fighting off this invader. But that's exactly how many malaria researchers perceive this universally disliked pest: They are trying to help it fight off its Plasmodium infection. At the March 20–21 Third International Malaria Research Conference at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, they shared the progress they are making in finding a cure for this disease, which cripples whole nations in the developing world.
In his keynote address, Fotis C. Kafatos, PhD, told of identifying a rich array of killing mechanisms within the mosquito's immune system, some of which can destroy as many as 99 percent of the invading parasites at various stages of Plasmodium's lifecycle. Kafatos's lab is working to boost the killing efficiency of some of these processes to 100 percent. Conversely, Kafatos, director-general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and his colleagues have also been locating agonist genes, those that help Plasmodium to survive. By over-expressing the genes antagonistic to the parasite and repressing expression of the agonists, the scientists are trying to find ways Anopheles can rid itself of infection.
Zul Premji, PhD, head of the department of parasitic infections at the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is not a microbiologist; instead, he uses epidemiologic methods to take a macro approach to fighting malaria. He told of some surprising epidemiologic findings his team has made. Not only has Tanzania's incidence of malaria dropped from 2.1 per 100,000 in 1995 to 0.17 currently (a finding also reported in Zambia), but the disease is also attacking greater numbers of young adults. Premji offered some explanations of these shifts, among them an increased awareness of the disease among the population, a serious drought in East Africa, improved roads, greater use of bed nets (40 percent of the population now use them, up from 2 percent), and the easy availability of new medications.
At the same time that some processes are reducing the incidence of malaria, Premji also noted that malaria is getting a boost from such things as the spread of HIV (which aggravates malaria), the lack of good diagnostic tools and malaria's continued resistance to drugs. These opposing processes make it difficult to determine the true direction malaria incidence is going to take. Premji stressed that a fast and accurate diagnostic test is particularly crucial because as many as 50 percent of the children currently receiving antimalarials do not have the disease.
Didier Fontenille, PhD, of the Laboratoire de Lutte Contre les Insectes Nuisibles, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Montpellier, France, is another investigator looking at the big picture. Dr. Fontenille addressed the complexity of vector species composition in malaria endemic regions of Africa. For instance, malaria in Cameroon is transmitted by a couple of main vector species—along with another nine secondary vectors that also can carry the parasite. "And these species," he said, "are really very different from one another. The same village can be plagued by several different species." He has not yet determined whether these different vectors each carry a different variation of Plasmodium. "There are huge differences between mosquitoes within 50 km of each other, and these are not areas with big climate differences either." He now is looking at whether the numbers of Plasmodium oocysts (cysts located in the outer wall of the mosquito midgut) and infection rates differ among these mosquito subspecies.
Fontenille noted that chromosomal variations in mosquitoes can be linked to climate and environment. By studying hosts and breeding sites—standing pools, and even cattle and camel hoof prints—he has determined that An. gambiae, for instance, has five different chromosomal arrangements, each corresponding to a somewhat different moisture level, ranging from very wet to nearly dry.
If this Third Annual Malaria Conference underscored the seemingly unending and ever-expanding complexities of malaria research, Kafatos was still hopeful: "The next period of time will see a multi-pronged approach to malaria that will usher in one of the great chapters in the history of science." —Rod Graham