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"We make your children's antiques."
-Joe Jostes
When does something become antique? What's the difference between "antique" and "collectible?" Does the status of a pot change when its maker retires? When they die? A hundred years later? Where on the continuum would the item lay if it was in a "traditional" style, an extension of what went on before?
I ask because of the number of great craftspeople today who do historically based work. Some were brought up that way, some love the challenge of reproductions, and some are just into history and don't know what else to do with their time. What they make is an amazing collection of work solidly rooted in respect for the past.
A definitive list of "traditional" potters is impossible. But everyone has their favorites. Here is a brief sampling, a sort of "greatest hits," of potters I admire. If I had more time the list would be longer.
Lester Breininger bridged the gap between old and new. The grand master passed away a few years ago.
Ned Foltz is another who led the way for us youngsters. I had the great pleasure of actually meeting him once.
Don Carpentier is the undisputed modern master of mocha.
Greg and Mary Shooner are a powerhouse team of lead glazed redware potters.
Michelle Erickson does exacting reproduction work – when she's not veering off into the blurry world between "traditional" and "idiosyncratic."
Julia Smith, semi-retired, had an incredible command of a wide range of period types and styles.
Ken Henderson makes the best Rockingham, hands down.
Sue Skinner and Joe Jostes of S&J Pottery are my favorite, and perhaps the best all around potters. Walking into their booth at a show is a trip across the spectrum of early pottery.
The "Devonshire Potter," Doug Fitch must be included here. He lives in Devonshire, England (duh). I hardly know of many modern English potters. But if you've seen his work you'll understand why some of us here are glad he doesn't live near us – job security!
John Worrell wrote an engaging essay about early 19th century New England potters titled "These Were the Potters that Dwelt among Plants and Hedges." Perhaps that was so. Although I'm sure the people listed above all live in very nice houses, they are the potters who propel the tradition into the future.
"These Were the Potters that Dwelt among Plants and Hedges." John E. Worrel. Old Sturbridge Village/Sturbridge, MA. 1980.


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4 Can't-Miss Health-Care Events This Week
With earnings season in full swing, earnings reports practically dominate the stories to watch this week in the health-care sector. Today we'll look at a few noteworthy reports worth keeping an eye on, as well as one FDA ruling bound to turn heads.
Starting in reverse, you'll want to keep a close eye on Isis Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi , which are expected to receive an FDA ruling on Kynamro, its homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia drug, on Tuesday. Although Kynamro received a recommendation of approval from the FDA panel by a 9-6 vote, it nonetheless had the panel raise plenty of yellow flags with regard to excess fat buildup in the liver, as well as abnormal growths known as neoplasms in 3.1% of all tested patients. Furthermore, Aegerion Pharmaceuticals' Juxtapid was approved well before its PDUFA date to treat HoFH, adding an extra level of competition and urgency for Isis and Sanofi.
On the earnings front, we have big news headed our way from drug maker Eli Lilly , biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , and health insurer Aetna .
With Pfizer, Merck, and Eli Lilly all on the earnings docket this week, I'd suggest keeping an eye on all three. I specifically chose Lilly as the one most worth watching because of the steep fall off the patent cliff that's expected through 2017. Lilly is expected to lose two blockbuster drugs -- Cymbalta for depression, and diabetes drug Humalog, which are expected to have combined for more than $7 billion in annual sales this year. Sales of high-growth drugs such as Forteo and Effient, as well as growth at Lilly's animal health division, will be key figures to watch. You'll also want to keep an eye out for indications of what Lilly might do to spur sales growth, such as collaborative partnerships or buyout opportunities. Look for this earnings report on Tuesday.
Biotech growth juggernaut Regeneron, best known for Eylea, its blockbuster wet age-related macular degeneration treatment, is slated to report earnings on Friday. Considering that Regeneron raised sales estimates on Eylea three times last year and it's crushed Wall Street's EPS estimates by an average of 129% over the past three quarters, I think you'd be Foolish not to be keeping a close eye on this company. I'll be looking for updated guidance with regard to Eylea sales now that Regeneron has received approval for the drug in Europe for wet-AMD. I'll also be tuned in for any additional info on when Regeneron might have its late-stage data available in its attempt to gain additional indications for Eylea. Unsurprisingly, I'd expect another big earnings beat here.
Finally, I'd keep a close eye on Aetna in the health-benefits sector, which is preparing for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act next year. Most insurers are trading at incredibly cheap valuations because of the profit caps soon to be imposed by the ACA. However, the personal mandate that's going to require individuals to obtain health insurance is going to create a historic influx of new customers into the industry. I'll be looking for comments from management with regard to how Aetna is positioning itself to take advantage of this expected influx, as well as its ability to keep costs under control. Look for Aetna to report its results on Thursday.
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Maryland Film Festival (May 6-10 in downtown Baltimore) proudly announces our complete 2015 lineup today, unveiling our Closing Night film, the titles for our annual Opening Night Shorts Program, and a few late-breaking features. Our Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedule grids are also now live and available for download on our website.
Maryland Film Festival's Closing Night film will be Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack, the mind-blowing buzz documentary that took home the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. MFF also announced 5 additional emerging features for its lineup, including new work from Joe Swanberg, Rick Alverson, and Andrew Bujalski; and two repertory screenings guest-curated by key figures in Baltimore's cultural scene: musician Abdu Ali introducing Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, and Wham City's Alan Resnick and Dina Kelberman introducing Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls.
Maryland Film Festival first devoted our Opening Night to celebrating shorts filmmakers in 2002, and we have done so each year since 2004. Opening Night will take place in the Maryland Institute College of Art's Falvey Hall the evening ofWednesday, May 6th. Each Opening Night short will be hosted by its filmmaker.
MFF 2015's Opening Night shorts are:
BAD BOY OF BOWLING (Bryan Storkel) From the co-director of Fight Church, a high-octane portrait of a bowling star with a plus-sized personality.
CHARLOTTE (Angel Kristi Williams) A coming-of-age story from the director of MFF 2012's The Christmas Tree, a Baltimore native.
MELVILLE (James M. Johnston) A rapper struggling with personal pain finds release in music. Directed by the producer of Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
PINK GRAPEFRUIT (Michael Mohan) A couple sets up two friends for a romantic weekend. Winner of the narrative shorts jury award at SXSW.
SHARE (Pippa Bianco) A young woman returns to high school after being shamed by an explicit video. Winner of a special jury prize at SXSW.
Feature films announced for MFF 2015 today:
Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville) In 1968, a ratings-starved ABC coordinated a series of debates between conservative journalist William F. Buckley, Jr. and liberal novelist and thinker Gore Vidal. The network garnered huge audiences—and perhaps a bit more than they bargained for, as high-level political discourse collided with name-calling and meltdowns. This Sundance-premiered documentary comes courtesy of Twenty Feet From Stardom director Morgan Neville, and author/filmmaker Robert Gordon (of MFF 2012's Very Extremely Dangerous).
Digging For Fire (Joe Swanberg) When young parents Tim (Jake Johnson) and Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt) agree to house-sit for a wealthy acquaintance, Tim finds something suspicious on the grounds—and an initial spark of intrigue becomes a consuming obsession. Joe Swanberg continues to take his unique working methods to the next level, with an amazing cast that includes Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Jane Adams, Sam Elliott, and Mike Birbiglia, all working together to deliver an infectious mix of comedy, drama, romance, and thrills.
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Spike Lee's modern classic, detailing racial tensions and police brutality on the hottest day of summer in Bedford-Stuyvesant, has never been more crucial and relevant. With the sounds of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" blasting from boomboxes, this seminal film boasts cinematography from Ernest Dickerson, and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay (not to mention an iconic performance) from Lee; his phenomenal ensemble cast includes Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Rosie Perez, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson. Selected and guest-hosted by musician, DJ, and curator Abdu Ali.
Entertainment (Rick Alverson) Gregg Turkington, perhaps best known for his persona Neil Hamburger, stars as The Comedian, a beleaguered, Hamburger-ian performer who endlessly tours Grade-Z clubs and non-venues across America, shocking and dismaying audiences with his lewd and convoluted punchlines. At turns bleak, poignant, disturbing, and darkly hilarious, this fascinating and beautifully composed provocation from the director of The Comedy also features Amy Seimetz, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Lotte Verbeek, and Michael Cera.
People, Places, Things (Jim Strouse) In this thoughtful and hilarious rom-com, Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows stars as a graphic novelist whose comfortable life is shaken after walking in on his wife with another man. Downgraded to a tiny apartment and weekends-only status with his twin daughters, a bright spot appears when a student in a college art course he teaches challenges him to be more social and adventurous.
Results (Andrew Bujalski) High-octane personal trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders) works for her friend, fitness guru and entrepreneur Trevor (Guy Pearce)—both of whom have their lives turned upside-down when nouveau-riche couch potato Danny (Kevin Corrigan) arrives at their gym. The director of MFF 2013's Computer Chess follows up that highly experimental work with something different: a romantic comedy with a stellar cast and a massive heart.
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995) Intentional camp? Brilliant social commentary? A noble failure? Irredeemable trash? Books have been written exploring what Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Starship Troopers, The Fourth Man) was going for with this follow-up to mega-hit Basic Instinct. Starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon, this seedy, Vegas-set film was derided upon its release but has lived on as a midnight movie and cult favorite. Selected and guest-hosted by Alan Resnick and Dina Kelberman of Wham City.
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle) CLOSING NIGHT This extraordinary documentary brings us into the lives of the Angulo brothers, who grew up homeschooled and in extreme isolation from the outside world in a Lower East Side apartment. Home video became their only window into the outside world, and they took to recreating their favorite scenes and styling themselves after films such as Reservoir Dogs. But when one of the brothers escapes the confines of their apartment, all of their lives are forever changed. A sensation at Sundance, where it won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize, this is a documentary that delivers on the buzz, built on amazing access to a truly incredible story and unforgettable characters.
Previously Announced Feature Films for Maryland Film Festival 2015:
6 YEARS (Hannah Fidell)
BEATS OF THE ANTONOV (Hajooj Kuka)
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (Stanley Nelson)
BREAKING A MONSTER (Luke Meyer)
CALL ME LUCKY (Bobcat Goldthwait)
CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (Charles Poekel)
CROCODILE GENNADIY (Steve Hoover)
DEEP WEB (Alex Winter)
DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL LAMPOON (Douglas Tirola)
FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah)
FOR THE PLASMA (Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan)
FRAME BY FRAME (Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli)
FUNNY BUNNY (Alison Bagnall)
A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS: THE AMINA PROFILE (Sophie Deraspe)
GIRLHOOD (Céline Sciamma)
GOD BLESS THE CHILD (Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck)
HENRY GAMBLE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone) World premiere.
IN THE BASEMENT (Ulrich Seidl)
JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
KILLER JOE (William Friedkin, 2011) Hosted by John Waters.
LIMBO (Anna Sofie Hartmann) Hosted by Matthew Porterfield.
PROPHET'S PREY (Amy Berg)
THE REAPER (Zvonimir Juric)
REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
SAILING A SINKING SEA (Olivia Wyatt)
SON OF THE SHEIK (George Fitzmaurice, 1926) With a live original score by Alloy Orchestra.
STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver)
TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (Jeffrey Schwarz)
TIRED MOONLIGHT (Britni West)
TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martin Rejtman)
UNCLE KENT 2 (Todd Rohal)
UNEXPECTED (Kris Swanberg)
VENICE (Kiki Álvarez)
WELCOME TO LEITH (Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
WESTERN (Bill and Turner Ross)
A WONDERFUL CLOUD (Eugene Kotlyarenko)


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Last month I got to experience the most incredibly flower-filled week in Portland. The main reason for our trip was to partake in a rather special flower workshop run by The Little Flower School (Nicolette & Sarah) at Schreiner's Bearded Iris Farm. A combination of things that proved exceptionally inspiring, joyful and exciting. We were pigs in mud. I was there with three Australian's – Jardine, Eliza and Josh, and we met many local florists, and others who had travelled with Nicolette and Sarah to help out on the day. We visited flower farms (I'm looking at you Elizabeth), were taught how to water paint by Helen Dealtry, and enjoyed playing with endless leftovers. A notable thank you to Madison of Hart Floral (and her boyfriend Kyle) for showing us some of the amazing countryside beyond the city. You can read about her impression of us lot here. Sorry for the massive overload of pics but it was super difficult to cull.
All photographs by Sophia Kaplan.


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Phase III Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma (ACT IV)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01480479
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 29, 2011
Last Update Posted : January 16, 2018
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- No Results Posted
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This 2-arm, randomized, phase III study will investigate the efficacy and safety of the addition of rindopepimut (an experimental cancer vaccine that may act to promote anti-cancer effects in patients who have tumors that express the EGFRvIII protein) to the current standard of care (temozolomide) in patients with recently diagnosed glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.
All patients will be administered temozolomide, the standard treatment for glioblastoma. Half the patients will be randomly assigned to receive rindopepimut and half the patients will be randomly assigned to receive a control called keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
Patients will be treated in a blinded fashion (neither the patient or the doctor will know which arm of the study the patient is on). Patients will be treated until disease progression or intolerance to therapy and all patients will be followed for survival.
|Condition or disease
|Glioblastoma Small Cell Glioblastoma Giant Cell Glioblastoma Gliosarcoma Glioblastoma With Oligodendroglial Component
|Drug: Rindopepimut (CDX-110) with GM-CSF Drug: Temozolomide Drug: KLH
|Phase 3
The purpose of this research study is to find out whether adding an experimental vaccine called rindopepimut (also known as CDX-110) to the commonly used chemotherapy drug temozolomide can help improve the life expectancy of patients with newly diagnosed, resected EGFRvIII positive glioblastoma.
The duration of participation in this study may be up to 5 years. After you are screened and enrolled in the study, you will be administered temozolomide and either rindopepimut/GM-CSF or KLH until either disease progression or intolerance to the medications. If your tumor progresses while on this study, your doctor may treat you with other therapies that are not part of the study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|745 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An International, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF With Adjuvant Temozolomide in Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Surgically Resected, EGFRvIII-positive Glioblastoma
|Study Start Date :
|November 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2016
|Experimental: Rindopepimut/GM-CSF plus Temozolomide
Drug: Rindopepimut (CDX-110) with GM-CSF
Two intradermal injections two weeks apart, followed by monthly injections until tumor progression or intolerance.
Each dose will be 0.8 mL containing approximately 500 mcg CDX-110 and 150 mcg GM CSF.
Other Name: CDX-110 with sargramostim (GM-CSF) (Leukine®)
Drug: Temozolomide
150 to 200 mg/m2 for 5 days during each 28-day cycle for a minimum of six cycles or a maximum of 12 cycles, or until intolerance or progression.
Other Names:
|Active Comparator: KLH plus Temozolomide
Drug: Temozolomide
150 to 200 mg/m2 for 5 days during each 28-day cycle for a minimum of six cycles or a maximum of 12 cycles, or until intolerance or progression.
Other Names:
Drug: KLH
Two intradermal injections two weeks apart, followed by monthly injections until tumor progression or intolerance. Each dose will be 0.8mL containing approximately 100mcg of KLH.
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: During treatment and every three months from end of treatment through end of study or approximately up to 5 years. ]The primary efficacy endpoint of Overall Survival is defined as the number of months from randomization to the date of death (whatever the cause), and will be censored for patients who remain alive at completion of the study for patients with a gross total resection (~n=374). The overall survival of patients will be monitored and compared between the two study arms until the end of the study.
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks from Day 1 through progression or initiation of other anti-cancer therapy ]Compare progression-free survival between the two treatment arms
- Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: Until day 28 of follow up ]Safety and tolerability will be measured by comparing the two arms in regards to vital sign measurement, physical and neurological examination, adverse events reporting, ECOG performance status, and EORTC core Quality of Life Questionnaire
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria-
Among other criteria, patients must meet the following conditions to be eligible for the study:
- Adult patients, ≥ 18 years old
- Newly diagnosed glioblastoma
- Attempted surgical resection followed by conventional chemoradiation
- Documented EGFRvIII positive tumor status by a Sponsor designated laboratory
- No evidence of progressive disease from the post-operative period to the post-chemoradiation period
- Candidate for, and agrees to receive, adjuvant (maintenance) temozolomide therapy
- Systemic corticosteroid therapy at ≤2 mg of dexamethasone or equivalent per day for at least 3 days prior to randomization
- WHO-ECOG Performance Status ≤ 2
- Patients of childbearing/reproductive potential will be instructed to use birth control as defined by your doctor.
Exclusion Criteria-
Among other criteria, patients who meet the following conditions are NOT eligible for the study:
- Stereotactic biopsy only (without further surgical resection)
- Presence of diffuse leptomeningeal disease, gliomatosis cerebri, or infratentorial disease.
- History, presence, or suspicion of metastatic disease
- Patients who have received any additional treatment for glioblastoma, aside from surgical resection and chemoradiation with temozolomide
- Active systemic infection requiring treatment
- History of any malignancy (other than glioblastoma) during the last three years except non-melanoma skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, treated superficial bladder cancer, cured, early-stage prostate cancer in a patient with PSA level less than ULN,or other carcinoma in situ that has been adequately treated and cured.
- Planned major surgery
- Evidence of current drug or alcohol abuse
- Known allergy or hypersensitivity to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), GM-CSF (sargramostim; LEUKINE®), polysorbate 80 or yeast derived products, or a history of anaphylactic reactions to shellfish proteins
- Severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that could increase the risk associated with participating in a clinical trial
- Women who are pregnant or lactating
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01480479
|Responsible Party:
|Celldex Therapeutics
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 29, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 16, 2018
|Last Verified:
|April 2017
Small cell
Giant cell
Brain Cancer
Brain Tumor
EGFR variant III
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological


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Sandy the Superstorm feels like it was a long time ago given the short life cycle of headline news, but it's going to take a while to get everything back to normal on the east coast. Two weeks after the storm, there are still people without electricity, heat, and even homes. I just read a great blog post by Mary Mooney of the Oregonian. She details why you shouldn't knit for Sandy's victims, at least not directly, if you're not local to the scene. As knitters we want to help, but the best way to help is with dollars, not items that have to be shipped and managed.
In this spirit, I'd like to offer up Ruffle Kerfuffle. All proceeds from online sales of my Kerfuffle Cowl and Ruffle Kerfuffle Scarves and Cowl patterns from now until December 15, 2012 will be donated to the Red Cross. I'll pay the Ravelry and paypal fees myself; 100% of the purchase price will go towards disaster relief.
What is a kerfuffle, anyway? According to the dictionary, it's commotion, disorder, agitation. I think that's a good description of what happened. I hope things get back to normal there soon.
The cowl pattern is just for the cowl; the Scarves and Cowl pattern includes the cowl and the steeked scarves.
Click here for information on how to purchase the pattern. Knit one for you and one for a friend! Two 100 gram balls of yarn will make two cowls in opposing colorways. And thanks for helping out.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (BP) — Church missions leader and former missionary Tim Lubinus has been elected as the Baptist Convention of Iowa's new executive director/treasurer.
Lubinus, a native Iowan, was elected by the BCI Executive Board on March 10. He will replace interim executive director/treasurer Tom Law on March 24.
Lloyd Eaken, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Anamosa and president of the Baptist Convention of Iowa, said Lubinus "will be a great asset to the work of the Lord here in Iowa.… I believe God has led us to this moment and this man. I encourage all Iowa Baptists to support Tim and lift him to the Lord daily."
Lubinus, 50, was recommended by the BCI's executive director search committee Feb. 22 after what a convention news release described as a "year-long process of prayerfully sifting through resumes and interviewing applicants."
Lubinus has been the regional and global ministry director at Cornerstone Church in Ames the past eight years. His responsibilities have included Cornerstone's church planting strategy, which has started six new BCI churches with nearly 2,000 attendees.
He isn't done planting churches, telling members of the search committee he has "more vision and energy for church planting and church health/development across the state." Lubinus also was involved in the sending of Cornerstone short-term mission volunteers, preparing long-term missionaries and creating new ministries to reach the needy in Ames.
Lubinus was baptized while attending Iowa State University and became a member of Grand Avenue Baptist Church. He was called to the ministry in 1982, recounting that he and his wife Darlene "went forward after IMB missionaries to the Philippines Bill and Lyn Hyde [for whom the Iowa State Missions Offering is named] spoke at Grand Avenue Baptist Church. We pledged to serve Jesus wherever He would call us." Hyde was among 22 people killed in 2003 when a bomb exploded at the Davao City airport.
Lubinus completed his undergraduate degree in public service administration in 1985 at Iowa State. The couple then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1988. Following graduation, Lubinus became the university student ministry director at Northern Illinois University for the Illinois Baptist State Association.
In 1990, the couple and their children became International Mission Board missionaries in Korea where he was a university student ministry director for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board.
The family moved to Central Asia in 1996 where Lubinus started, led and expanded a team of more than 100 IMB missionaries in 12 cities while serving as the strategy associate on IMB's Central Asia regional leadership team. In 2005, Tim also became a trainer for ministry supervisors in Central Asia.
"While in Central Asia I worked hard to create a quality organization that missionaries joined because they wanted to, not because they had to," Lubinus recounted. "As a result of high growth and low attrition rates, our team became one of the fastest-growing IMB teams at that time in one of the most closed countries in the world. I have a similar vision for the Baptist Convention of Iowa in which pastors are excited about participating and inviting their friends to join for the vision, strategy, structure and excellence provided and because of the benefits they receive from being part of the organization."
Search committee chairman Dan Doolin, pastor of Solid Rock Baptist Church in Wappelo, said Lubinus comes to the BCI "with a depth of experience and with a heart to reach not only his community and state where he lives, but also the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is an exciting day for me to think that God has raised up a native Iowan to lead the ministry of the BCI and has given to us a person that not only understands our culture but the cultures of the world."
The Lubinus family returned to Iowa in 2006 when he began work with Cornerstone Church in Ames. He recently completed his doctor of ministry degree through Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City with an emphasis in church planting and church revitalization.
Lubinus thanked all the people God has used to bring him to the state convention staff, saying, "God used Grand Avenue Baptist Church and [then-pastor] Tom Nesbitt, the Baptist Student Union and Jack Owens, Bill and Lyn Hyde, the International Mission Board, North American Mission Board, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Cornerstone Church to develop my faith. I love the opportunity to give back to Iowa Baptists what I have received from them."
Ken Livingston, pastor of First Grace Baptist Church in Sheffield and BCI first vice president, said, "It is wonderful to see how God worked with and through the search committee and the Executive Board to bring Tim and Darlene Lubinus to this place in their lives. I see God in this decision and therefore I am anticipating great things for Iowa. It will be an honor to minister with them and support them as we serve the Lord Jesus together."
In addition to Doolin, members of the search committee appointed by the Executive Board were Mike Carlson (vice chair), Eugene Guthrie, Ted Keys, Jerome Risting, Chuck Spindler, Bob Stout and John Faulkner (alternate).
Lubinus and his wife Darlene have four grown children: Jacob Lubinus, 20; Nathan Lubinus, 21; Andrew Lubinus, 24 and Linsey Gravlin, 26, who is married to David Gravlin.
Reported by Jon (Ole) Olsen, publication editor for the Iowa Baptist News. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


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After-Work Gourmet: No need to 'stew' any longer over spring stews
Our stew pots often get put away with our winter coats. However, stew is a wonderful way to highlight and deliciously combine the flavors of spring as well.
Lamb, for instance, is a flavorful base with just enough natural fat to enrich the final results. Vegetables, like asparagus, add distinctive appeal and soften up much more than from other preparations while absorbing added seasonings, such as the spring herb tarragon.
Cooking can be delicious yet simple, nutritious and inexpensive, too, as the following split-second sensations prove. They take just 10 seconds each to read and are almost that quick to prepare. They are tasty proof that everyone has time for cooking and, more importantly, the healthy family togetherness — including prepping with your kids — that goes along with it!
Another benefit: You effortlessly become a better cook, since there are no right or wrong amounts. These are virtually-can't-go-wrong spring stew combinations, so whatever you choose to use can't help but draw "wows."
Crazy for Carrots: True baby carrots (as opposed to packaged bags of larger carrots that are milled down into a mini shape) are in season from spring through summer. They are known for being more tender than their larger counterparts and, therefore, perfect for spring stews.
Use a vegetable or poultry broth. After removing stems, add seasoning that will complement, such as tarragon and sorrel. Consider stewing lighter meats, like chicken or poultry.
Minty Fresh: Using a meat broth, combine chunks of lamb, pieces of new potatoes, shelled spring peas, generous handfuls of minced fresh mint, a bit of mint jelly, salt substitute and freshly ground pepper.
Asparagus as an Accent: In a vegetable broth, accompany asparagus with chunks of ham, celery and spinach. Stir in some prepared ham glaze, Dijon mustard, as well as a bit of cayenne pepper.
Eager for Edamame: To a vegetable broth, add handfuls of spinach or kale, finely minced garlic and red onion, shelled edamame (fresh soybeans that are high in protein and low in fat found in most supermarkets), a few dollops of plain, nonfat Greek-style yogurt and Chinese five-spice powder (a blend found in most supermarket spice aisles).
Chocolate Lovers Unite: Who says stew can't be for dessert, too? To a broth of water, add unsweetened cocoa powder (considered by nutritionists not only as delicious, but a powerful antioxidant), a sugar-free nonartificial sweetener, like stevia, diced apples and pears (which will soften, but keep their shape and texture), and a combination of fresh berries (which may eventually break apart and flavor the broth by somewhat liquefying). Swirl in a small amount of whipped cream just before serving.
• 1 pound small red potatoes, halved
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 3/4 cup shredded carrots
• 3 T all-purpose flour
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 t grated lemon peel
• 2 t dried thyme
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/4 t pepper
• 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, halved
• 2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 T minced fresh parsley
Yields 4 servings.
Place potatoes, onion and carrots in a 3-quart slow cooker. Sprinkle with flour, garlic, lemon peel, thyme, salt and pepper; toss to coat. Place chicken over top. Add broth and bay leaves.
Cook, covered, on low, 7 to 9 hours, or until chicken and vegetables are tender. Carefully remove bay leaves. Sprinkle with parsley.
— TasteOfHome.com
Lisa Messinger is a first-place winner in food writing from the Association of Food Journalists and the author of seven food books, including "Mrs. Cubbison's Best Stuffing Cookbook" and "The Sourdough Bread Bowl Cookbook."


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Monday, February 28, 2011
From the Archives!
A gallery masterwork titled "Call 911". Thought this would be helpful if mass produced and hung in all homes as a useful guide demonstrating many situations where dialing 911 would be called for.
Just another example of Mitch giving back.
You're welcome!
From the Archives!
Had all my envelopes printed with this catchy design for a year or so. Only drawback was when I put them outside for the postman to pick up, neighborhood delinquents, apparently believing the hyperbole, would snatch 'em from the mailbox.
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
From the Archives!
My 1st grade talent show entry was an on stage drawing demonstration as I espoused a bit o learning 'bout the dinosaurs. I lightly prepenciled the yellow posterboard that gave the illusion I was a magic marketing right out of my head. Also had some humor mixed in (that I'm guessing went unheard since I was facing away from the PS 24 audience). As I went over the outline of the stegosaurus's spiked tail, my jaunty hee-haw-larious patter went a little something like this... "Y'know, when he hit the other dinosaurs, they were sure to get the point!"
I went home and promptly fired my mother from my joke writing sta
Friday, February 25, 2011
Always Fashionable!
After returning from chores at Jewel, Staples, the bank and Home Depot daughter Kieran pointed out in a "laughing at" way that I had inadvertently made a new fashion statement. You'd think the person whose room is being painted pink wouldn't make such fun of the person doing the painting!
From the Archives!
As the weather reports threaten enough snow to bury everyone up to their shoulders in Chicago, I've been inspired to dig up another ye olden Christmas card!
From the Archives!
A one day sabbatical from my art has passed, and now back to…
From the Archives!
A piece that actually sold at a gallery show! I wish I could remember how I did that!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Mary Tyler Moore Hijinks!
I love art that is driven. Where you can tell whatever was brewing inside it's creator is just bubbling up to the surface and is gonna spew, so all you can do is get outta the way and shield your eyes.
These personal pieces are from the estate of... I can say no more... but they show the intense, crazy, dizzying fascination he has with everyone's sweetheart, Mary Tyler Moore. The under the mattress masterpieces are pieced together from porno magazines, TV Guides, newspaper clippings and photos snapped off the screen. Some are fairly tame and others would be completely obligated by red censor dots if I attempted to post 'em.
On a personal note, when I pass, if someone could just empty out my bottom left desk drawer and burn the contents (without looking), I'd sure appreciate it!
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
(you) Mitch, please clutter up the blog with more of your art, because we all firmly believe that any time your pen has touched paper it should be posted for the world to marvel at!
(me) Sorry, but I'm much too busy to…
(you) PLEASE! PLEASE!! PLEASE!!!
(me) Oh, all right!
From the Archives!
Another early business card featuring a seemingly living dead Elvis...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
From the Archives!
If you were on my Christmas card mailing list in 1991, this is what you would've found waiting in your mailbox sometime in December (or possibly January. I'm blaming the Chicago post office)!
From the Archives!
Where art directors on a budget might have first come across my doodles, the clip art company Dynamic Graphics. This was their big monthly subscribers book titled "PMS".
Get the juvenile chuckles out.
I'll wait.
It stands for "Print Media Services".
Now don't you feel silly?
Inside was filled with page after page of illustrations you could, well, clip out and use for whatever your heart desired!
From the Archives!
From the (I don't care if you're sick of 'em) Archives!
The cover (and back cover) of Lollapaloosa, my way back when self published fanzine.
Yes, the lead off article was me explaining the ins and outs of of being a professional comic artist. The fact that I wasn't, well, just shows I've always been about 90% hutzpah!
We interrupt "From the Archives"!
My children have put a crimp in my day.
Here I am celebrating myself, day in and day out, with all the postings of my art as a youngster. The not so subtle message being... I've been unbelievingly GREAT starting DAY ONE!
The kids KNOW how sensitive daddy is, they KNOW that I need CONSTANT praise and adulation, yet, knowing all this, the 12 and 15 year old keep on whipping up artwork better that I ever could at their age.
They can think about that when going to bed early without dessert.
From the Archives!
1991 fever!
This was done for the huge Northalsted Day's block party here in Chicago. I first had the guy with the pipe mirrored on both sides of the gal, but, guessing since it took place in "boystown", was told by the organizers that it wasn't gay enough (I'm quoting). I responded that the pipe smoker was homosexual, but they didn't believe me, so I had to change one of the faces to someone that they thought looked gay.
Art by committee! Oy!
From the Archives!
I went through many phases of being influenced by great artists. I only was able to tap some of their surface techniques (and obviously not that well), but I still had alot of fun being so inspired. In this case, my salute to the amazing JC Leyendecker, an artist who was so out there with talent that I still have no concept of how he did it.
From the Archives!
This theme will stop at some point, so just hang in there!
Was a winner of a draw Beethoven contest (on the occasion of his 200th birthday) by submitting this piece of the maestro deep in thought thinking of all the instruments he could compose for. Including banjo.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
From the Archives!
Mitch at… carry the 7, minus 3… oh, you do the math!
Poster for a Chicago Bettie Page play. Sadly, the one night I went there to see it they only had one paying customer in attendance so the performance was canceled.
I even shrieked (while stamping my feet), "Do you know who I am?!!" to no avail.
From the Archives!
Mitch at 20.
My first piece for Playboy. Thanks to art director (and superstar comic artist) Skip Williamson for giving the helping hand to a young(ish) American Academy of Art student!
If Marvel doesn't want me drawing Conan for 'em I'll take Conan to Playboy!
From the Archives!
Mitch at 16.
One of the many pieces of art submitted to DC Comics in the hope of drawing Batman (I submitted Conan art to Marvel).
Sadly, they didn't realize what a golden opportunity they had knocking at their door.
FYI I'm still great at drawing Batman (and Conan)!
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
My first and only actual job was spent happily drawing away for a year and a half at FASA, a role-playing game company in Chicago. Started right after leaving art school, but then began to get enough freelance to not bother with 9 to 5 employment. The rest is history!
From the Archives!
I devoured all things Warren as a youngster... Eerie, Creepy and Famous Monsters (and a Vampirella or two).
My 12 year old tribute to Uncle Creepy!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
A older, wiser and much more insightful Mitch ruminates on… well I'm sure it's fairly obvious to you art and culture connoisseurs.
Without this pieces existence, the careers of Cy Twombly, Jean Michel Basquiat and Jasper Johns would never have been.
You're welcome!
From the Archives!
Still going through all my art (and, believe me, even I'm getting tired of looking at it) and I'm gonna continue to make you deal with it too.
"Genius" is a word I've used to describe myself- but that might be too feeble a word. Behold- Thar She Blows! A 4 year old Mitch Masterwork!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Like Father...
Kieran, besides inheriting my beautiful singing voice and good looks, also dabbles in the arts (I also like to draw in case you couldn't follow the analogy)!
Last night she worked up a Stella McCarthey fashion ad campaign proposal AND found time to sharpie a tramp stamp on me while I enjoyed 30 Rock.
Only 6 short years until she starts earning a living and I can retire!
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
From the Archives!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
OMG! OMG! and OM freakin' G!
A whole spankin' new bunch of giclee prints are now up 'n available at www.mitchoconnell.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doctor, HELP! They've all fainted from the excitement!
I should have made sure ya'll were sitting first.
My bad!
Shame! Shame! Shame! 2
The guys soliciting aren't any more fetching, but that was pretty expected, so not quite as jarring as posting the gals.
Fun Fact! Rhonda Parker went onto fame and fortune under a different name, Judge Judy! So no matter how bleak things sometimes look...
Fun Fact! Rhonda Parker went onto fame and fortune under a different name, Judge Judy! So no matter how bleak things sometimes look...
Shame! Shame! Shame!
Just ran across a copy of "Justice Coalition's Victim's Advocate", a free St. Augustine, Florida newspaper that I picked up in 2008 when I was having a show at the wonderful Screen Arts Gallery. The highlight is the "Shame, Shame, Shame" page where mug shots of folks arrested for soliciting and prostitution are printed.
It might just be my city pride talkin', but I think Chicago has MUCH hotter hookers.
Who's with me fellers?!
Am I right or am I right?!!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
From the Archives!
A much more recent masterpiece (cover for While You Were Sleeping magazine)!
Saw Pee Wee at The Park West Theatre a million years ago (before his tv show). Favorite part was when he asked all the audience members to toss their change on stage. "Toss" became "Hurl" as he walked back 'n forth like a carnival rifle range target holding a trash can lid in front of his face.
Jus' waiting for the new show to make it's way to Chicago!
From the Archives!
…as I eased into my fancy pants fashion '80's- '90's period.
Fun Fact! Those "usher" designs were actually laid in the sidewalk in front of the Roger's Park theatre "The Adelphi" on Clark. The movie house has closed, but I haven't checked to see if the uniformed gentleman are still standing/lying there waiting to guide you inside.
From the Archives!
A "still life" assignment while at Clague Middle School in Ann Arbor.
Maybe the correct medication would have helped way back when, but it's much too late now.
Love me for who I am!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Culture Time!
I yap about how many things Chicago has going on, yet I rarely leave the warm glow of my Netflix instant que. Today I pried myself off my $39.99 (This Weeks Special!) Staples office chair (suction pop sound goes here) and took in the Jim Nutt exhibit at the MCA (Tuesdays are free!). To all my fellow tri-state residents- I heartily recommend the event! Almost picked up the corresponding book, but it doesn't do justice to seeing the paintings in person (amazing variations of luminescent rich yet subtle colors) , so I'd rather keep them in my memory than be befuddled by the pint size reproductions. I was inspired to rush home and paint, and maybe... just maybe, you will be too!
Day after Valentines Flea Market Finds!
A treasured family heirloom, one of the pieces from my Great Grandmothers set of fine china and glassware.
Day after Valentines Flea Market Finds!
Day after Valentines Flea Market Finds!
This was my Match.com ad before spellcheck (but I still always go with "Wuv" no matter what Spellcheck says)!
Day after Valentines Flea Market Finds!
Monday, February 14, 2011
A Glittery Valentine!
Impress your Valentine by sending them the gift of a Colleen Truscott Fry glitter graphic!
Free Valentine Tattoo Design! #3
Or if you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY like them, that just leaves everyone's favorite person… oh, I'm too embarrassed to say (but I saved you the time by already putting it on the ribbon)!
Free Valentine Tattoo Design! #2
Or if you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY like them, get this done to show your commitment when you pop the question (first fall in love with someone named "name")
May I suggest...
Free Valentine Tattoo Design! #1
Show someone special that you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY like them with a Valentine's Day tattoo!
May I suggest...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Warm 'n Toasty!
What a perfect day to stay in bed and spoon!
Yes, I just posted a photo of my cats being cute.
I'm going to have to take a self-impossed exile from blogging and think about what I've done.
From the Archives!
Vegas Baby!
Why "Official Licensee of Marvelous M.O'C Products" isn't mentioned in the flyer is beyond me, (probably a screw-up at the printers) I'm going to be the bigger man and still recommend you visit the Retro A Go-Go Gang at-
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Gay marriage rights were supported by popular vote on Tuesday in Maine and Maryland, and Washington state joined Wednesday afternoon, making it the first time gay men and lesbian rights were approved at the ballot box.
In Minnesota, voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage, marking another victory for gay rights advocates, even though gay marriage remains illegal in the state.
"When the history books are written, 2012 will be remembered as the year when [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] Americans won decisively at the ballot box," said Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign. "The dreams of millions of fair-minded Americans were realized as discrimination crumbled and equality prevailed."
HRC raised and contributed millions of dollars to advance marriage equality in all four states voting on gay marriage rights come Nov. 6. The group contributed at least $800,000 to advance marriage equality in Maine and $2.8 million in Maryland. The group also sent thousands of e-mails to supporters of marriage equality, as well as recruited hundreds of volunteers.
On Tuesday, 53 percent of voters in Maine voted in support of gay marriage versus 47 percent who voted against. In Maryland, the referendum question 6 allowing same-sex marriages passed 52 percent to 48 percent. And in Washington, about 52 percent of voters approved of same-sex marriage, versus 48 percent who voted against it.
In Minnesota, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, 51 percent of voters opposed the constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage.
The outcomes in Maine, Maryland and Washington broke a 32-state streak, dating back to 1998, in which gay marriage had been vetoed by voters. The decisions made across the four states could influence the U.S. Supreme Court, which soon will be considering the law that denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages.
Gay marriage has always been controversial, but Gallup, a polling group, found that national support for gay marriage has risen from 27 percent in 1996 to 50 percent in May 2012.


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1791 Smallpox
Smallpox did not exist among the native peoples of the Americas until the Europeans came. When exposed to smallpox, nearly everyone caught the disease, and nearly half of those who caught it died. Native Americans died in heaps, the settlers wrote, leaving villages nothing but piles of bones. In 1738 half of the Cherokee nation succumbed to smallpox.
Smallpox was the first epidemic in Cincinnati in 1791, just a few years after the first settlers of 1788. "Dr. William Burnet Jr. came to Cincinnati in 1790 with a few books and medicines and moved into a cabin on Front Street. He barely had begun practice when in 1791 the smallpox broke out and he fled to New Jersey. He never came back." In later years there were several other outbreaks. Those who did not die were often left with severe disfiguring scars.
In other parts of the world the practice of inoculating with pus from infected individuals had existed but 1 in 50 died from this procedure. In 1796, Edward Jenner, an English country doctor, noted milkmaids who caught cow-pox from cow's udders became immune to smallpox. Inoculation with this cowpox became known as vaccination after the Latin word 'vaccinus', meaning "of a cow".
Dr. John Hole, the first doctor to settle in Cincinnati, was later credited with introducing cow-pox vaccination to the area when this knowledge became available. Smallpox survived only in the human body, once every available human was protected by vaccination, smallpox perished.
"John Corbley Jr. was the victim of the 'Cold Plague' of 1814 which carried off more people at the same time, in proportion to the population, than any other sickness that had prevailed in the West." ( The Life and Times of Reverend John Corbley, Murphy, Leola 2nd ed. )
"Joseph Mathews served in the War of 1812, but died around 1820 when a plague known as "black tongue" swept over the Ohio Valley and took away every family member of every generation except two of the parents and nine children." In some epidemics, black tongue was a common term for diphtheria.
1832 – CHOLERA Also 1834, 1849, 1850, 1852, 1866, 1873.
"The blue cholera, as it was called, overcame people so quickly that they could leave the house for work in the morning pink-cheeked and healthy and be dead by evening. Victims were suddenly struck with horrible cramps, violent vomiting, and diarrhea: their face, hands, and feet shriveled and turned blue-black."
Although unknown outside India before 1817, cholera has made its way via ships and steamships, to just about every part of the globe. In 1832 it arrived in America by an emigrant ship at Quebec and quickly spread to New York and the Midwest. It arrived in Cincinnati about the 20th of September, and for thirteen months spread its terror everywhere. Within the first month 423 persons had died of this bacterial infection spread by poor sanitation, close contact and contaminated water .
"The city, during the prevalence of this dreadful epidemic, presented a mournful aspect. Thousands of citizens were absent in the country; very many were closely confined by personal affliction or the demands of sick friends; hundreds were numbered among the dead; the transient population had entirely disappeared. All business interests were at a standstill; the city seemed lifeless and property found no sale at even low prices." In 1849 the cholera again returned - worse than ever. That year 8,500 perished, one in every fourteen citizens.
Tuberculosis existed among Native Americans but did not flourish among fairly healthy people living in scattered small groups. But after Native Americans were moved to crowded reservations, it ran rampant. The same pattern appeared as Cincinnati grew into a flourishing city. The disease was primarily spread by respiratory infection, especially in crowded living conditions. Farmers were not without concerns, however, because milk cattle often became infected and could pass the disease through their milk to humans.
For the most part, people who were sick with tuberculosis of the lungs felt a little sick for years, without being completely bedridden. For this reason, the disease was known as "consumption" or by the name the Greeks gave it, "phthisis".
Dying went on for years. The thin, flushed, and feverish look usually with a hacking cough and blood-tinged handkerchief. Tuberculosis is stealthy: after it enters a body, the germ will wait as long as it takes, ten days or fifty years, for the moment the host is weak enough to attack. As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, one quarter of all Europeans died young of tuberculosis.
Early Cincinnati physician, Dr. Daniel Drake, in his Systematic Treatise on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America describes both of these mosquito borne diseases as being found in the Ohio and Mississippi valley basins. Before the settlers, there were many areas of swamps that were later drained for fields. Early physicians did not know the causes of these illnesses but recognized them by their fever patterns and complications. Fevers were classified as intermittent, relapsing, recurrent, autumnal, inflammatory and malignant.
Many senior citizens still remember the common illnesses of their childhood that frequently caused serious illness or death. Diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, polio, tonsillitis, pneumonia and many other illnesses were common causes of death that have been eliminated or treated effectively with immunizations or antibiotics, both of which were not developed until the 1940's.
Selected Reading:
Drake, Daniel MD, Physician to the West, Selected Writings of Daniel Drake, 1970, University Press, Lexington, KY.
Drake, Daniel MD, A Systematic Treatise on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, 1850, Cincinnati.
Farrell, Jeanette, Invisible Enemies, Stories of Infectious Disease, 1998, New York, Farrar, ISBN 0-374-33637-7
Goss, Charles F., Cincinnati – The Queen City, 1912,
Leonard, Lewis Alexander, Greater Cincinnati and Its People, 1927, Lewis Publishing, Cincinnati.
Archaic Medical Terms for Genealogists – Multiple internet sites eg. http://www.genproxy.co.uk/old_medical_terms.htm
Compiled by John Tholking MD
Membership in First Families is open to descendants of pioneers who were residents of Hamilton County, OH before December 31, 1820. Pioneers of Hamilton County, Northwest Territory, which included areas of current Ohio, Michigan and Indiana are also eligible.. (See Tracer Vol. 21 #1 2000) Applications or requests for forms may be sent to FFHC, Hamilton County Chapter OGS, PO Box 15865, Cincinnati, OH 45215-0865.


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white recluse
July 25, 2012
if any of you out there are only children,
you may agree with me that we are prone to solitude.
it isn't that we don't like people, or being with people.
we aren't antisocial per se, it's just. . .
we had a lot of alone time during our formative years
and we need to occasionally revisit that feeling of aloneness.
or maybe i'm just projecting my weirdness onto you people. sorry.
regardless! that's what my prolonged silence has been about;
a bit of isolation in these last quiet months before 'year two' begins.
for a good chunk of the time,
i've been here, in the bed of my adolescence,
in the house that's been my home since i was fresh out the womb.
my grandfather was living with my parents for a brief period,
but he's happily moved out into the old folks home.
luckily, from what i can tell,
'happily' is exactly the right word
his unassuming charm (and lack of dementia)
have made him quite the popular chap, apparently.
and so it's just the three of us,
mom, dad, and i, just as in old times,
bickering, laughing, observing wildlife,
playing pinochle and canasta like fiends.
i never sleep better than when i'm here.
in this room, i'm surrounded by childhood mementos that recall times i know i lived but can barely imagine. i look at photos and certificates and medals and boxes of comics and books and stuffed animals and it's like i've lived three lives already. no wonder i feel old.
i realize just how lucky i am, at 27, to still have a place to come home to, where i'm fed and loved and can wear yesterdays clothes without judgement. the only thing that's changed is my mom knocks and then
waits for a response before barging into my room.
but you don't really care about my sappy thoughts.
you want at least some fiber content.
unfortunately, i haven't been all that fibery.
i did, however, do my own personal tour de fleece.
compared with people like helloyarn, david of southern cross fibres, the harlot or frankly anyone else who participated, i am the rankest of amateurs. the fact of the matter is, i'm a slow spinner with very little instruction. the fact that i can make yarn at all is a victory.
i had one simple goal: finish spinning my rhinebeck fiber.
i started it back in april and made a lovely skein.
during my tdf, i made two more.
(mo is serving you french bulldog realness!)
that's 8oz of corriedale top from …into the whirled in the 'rendition' colorway. the skein in the back is the original. the subsequent two are much more fingering-sport weight whereas the original is a sport-dk.
i'm still happy.
you may have also noticed a little mini skein hanging out there with it's big brothers. that is my real tdf victory. by some miracle, i spun the exact same length of single on each bobbin for the second skein; no leftovers. (i did plying dance of joy that featured some very inappropriate movements) for the final skein, i split my remaining fiber in half, spun my singles, and had quite a bit left over on one bobbin after plying (wtf?). since i only had 8oz to begin with and i wanted to maximize yardage, i decided to navajo ply the remaining single and i'd use it for the cast on or something. after all, this is tdf! i should end with a challenge. (did i mention i've never navajo plied?)
now, in knitting, i can pretty much pull of any technique of which i know the theory. in spinning, this is not the case (see above comment about rank amateurity). i'm telling you, bitches, if you had seen the scene of me navajo plying…..not my most graceful moment.
somehow though, i pulled it off. there's way too much twist in it and my 'loop lengths' are in no way regular, but a good soak and one serious thwacking later and i've got some decent yarn.
go me.
but just when i feel pretty darn smug about clearing out 70% of my spinning stash, this arrivesthis box contains one special alpaca fleece (thanks sally!)
i have no idea how i'm going to clean, card, or spin this,
but how hard can it be?
14 Responses to "white recluse"
July 25, 2012 at 6:34 am
I agree with you about only children needing to be recluse every so often. Now that I have a husband and two kids it is hard to achieve and I miss it…
July 25, 2012 at 6:50 am
Yay, you! You made gorgeous yarn!
As far as the alpaca fiber is concerned, it's fairly easy to process (from what I've heard — I've not done it myself). There's no lanolin, so you just have to wash it. Then you can use a cheap dog comb or flicker and spin from the locks. Check out the fiber prep group on Ravelry for good tips!
July 25, 2012 at 7:48 am
Mo's got an excellent Zoolander face going there. He also seems to be channeling the Burt Reynolds/Playgirl cover. Why does he have a shaved spot – vet visit? The handspun is beautiful, I second the "yay, you!"
I'm an "only" also and agree completely. I need some alone time on a regular basis and periodically go into No Comm mode (a term at our office for No Communication).
I have no doubt you'll rock the fleece. (And how-hard-can-it-be is my favorite phrase. Of course, it's got me into trouble more than once, but that's rather the fun of it.)
July 25, 2012 at 10:27 am
I've never seen a dog give a shade throwing face before and that expression is just that! Glad you're enjoying your time home. I think we all need that once in a while.
July 25, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Dear Steven,
As usual, a lovely, reflective post. I want a book, fiction. You definitely have it in you.
That Mo, he is a good friend to you.
July 25, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Hell, Nancy, even a non-fiction option has wicked good possibilities – truth being stranger than fiction and all. 🙂
July 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm
I agree…I think you'd make a great writer. I enjoy your posts.
July 25, 2012 at 7:45 pm
I don't know how hard it can be, but I'm quite sure it's harder than I'm willing to work! And regarding the "alone time", I'm with you on this, but I'm not an "only" . . . so, just antisocial, I suppose. And regarding the possible-if-we're-lucky-in-a-perfect-world-it-would-happen book . . . don't even know if this is something you want to do, but I'd sure love to read it. Glad you're enjoying your break. Take care.
July 25, 2012 at 10:33 pm
I can vouch that "eldests" need that alone time just as much as "onlies" sometimes — as well as that need to go somewhere that feels like home. Glad to hear you've been spending time with your parents, quiet time you can spend enjoying them and assessing your next steps without the headaches of worrying about finding a parking place or getting to work on time.
And I'm sure you can find someone there in your home state who can advise and assist with that fleece. (You know you've got to make yourself something from that, even if it's an i-cord bracelet. Don't argue.)
But beware of getting on the wrong side of a grumpy bulldog. (Despite the one bad day, hope he's enjoying his vacation, too.) Mo was giving you the evil eye, as if you got too close to his new and favorite chew bone. You need your fingers intact to deal with that fleece!
July 26, 2012 at 11:54 am
I'm an only child. I totally get it.
Also, that photo of Mo is priceless. Just priceless.
July 26, 2012 at 2:44 pm
I love how happy you are at home. You can spin, that's more than I can say so bravo for your miracle fibers.
July 26, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I'm an only child too, and an introvert to boot. Being the stay-at-home mom of a pair of boisterous extroverts has been my biggest challenge to date. They are awesome, but they go to bed early. We all need a break! 😉 Your handspun is gorgeous. If this is what you make as an amateur, I can't even imagine how amazing it will be when you're an expert!
July 28, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I completely agree on needing alone time. I'm an only as well, and the only time I really get alone time is when the parents are asleep, or when I go to the movies by myself, which isn't that often, considering the price.
As fot the Alpaca… You can do it, dude!
And forget the expense account, you need a personal jewelry maker.


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CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.
"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."
In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.


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It makes me particularly proud to see that my father's 50th anniversary in the City of London is makes headlines courtesy of the City Editor of the capital's great newspaper.
Evening Standard
Anthony Hilton
26th September 2012
Today saw the annual general meeting of Fiske & Co, the stockbroker and investment bank.
It also marks the day 50 years ago when Fiske's chairman, Clive Fiske Harrison, joined Panmure Gordon, then one of the leading brokers. A fellow junior colleague in Panmure at that time was David Mayhew. He, like Fiske Harrison, has survived the intervening years of change rather better than has Panmure. (Mayhew stood down as chairman of J. P. Morgan Cazenove at the end of last year.)
In those relaxed days, the market opened at 9.30am, the partners drank gin or whisky (starting often not much later) and the office workers beer. Hardly anybody drank wine. This was of course before the 1970s market collapse, 1980s Big Bang and 1990s explosion of regulation.
But some things haven't changed, Fiske Harrison told his shareholders. When he started in 1962, Greek bonds traded at the equivalent of 30p in the pound!
Well done, Clive! I doubt there are many of the current City take who will match your half century.


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Yoga, Equanimity, Tarot and more!
A lot of threads came together in a lovely pattern this weekend, and I thought I'd share it with you. Be patient, the weaving takes some storytelling. This is one of the many things I experienced Friday through Sunday! Before this weekend, I was spiraling into a mild sense of "lackawanna;" forgive the pun on Lackawanna, NY, and not wanting to do all the things I have or want to do. There was nothing specific going on, no big tragedies and no big frustrations or challenges; it was all just a sense of dull, grayness. I even skipped my two weekday yoga practices last week.
Then came the weekend. I signed up for the Lumberjill weekend retreat and it was a big renewal. The yoga studio where I practice, Pure and Simple Yoga teaches a variety of yoga styles including Svaroopa, Kripalu, Kundalini, and Bowspring. I practice Kundalini and Bowspring on a regular basis. Peg Engasser, the Bowspring teacher is also a LumberJill, competing on the U.S. team. She wanted to get together with her Lumberjill friends in the winter time, teach yoga, learn a few things, and have fun. The weekend included delicious food, all the weekend yoga practices, a hike, a painting party at Uncorked Creations Cortland It all worked and each woman had a profound, beautiful, and unique-to-her experience.
Pure and Simple Yoga has a theme for this year, 2017 is the year for experiencing Universal Love. For the first(ish) ten weeks the studio is guiding a Ten Weeks of Yoga to Open Your Heart. Each week, newsletter recipients receive an email with a write up, a pose, and a truly beautiful mandala incorporating it all. Each teacher incorporates the theme into their practice as their tradition and hearts lead. This weekend was the beginning of the sixth week and the theme is Equanimity: Being Peace. The write-up is beautiful so I've excerpted a portion below (no author given).
Equanimity is defined as a state of mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temperament. Equanimity is not a state of indifference or not caring but instead a practice of caring about all outcomes equally without adding judgement. Keeping an open mind and a balanced perspective allows us to feel pleasure without grasping on to it and to feel without trying to push it away.
Equanimity, then, allows us to experience all events and emotions from that state of welcoming calm. Sounds impossible, doesn't it. Fortunately, none of us has to be perfect all the time, but rather to practice the emotion as best we can. Today, for instance, I got an email from someone sharply criticizing something I did using background and data that is to put it, elegantly and appropriately mature, absolute bull ka-ka. Instead of doing my omigods and verbal expletives, my reaction was 'well that's no surprise.' and proceeded to discuss this with my colleague with a calm and matter of fact demeanor. We are able to fashion a neutral and appropriate response. That probably won't stop me from satirizing my own response, but I'm not doing damage, just amusing myself. Here again, equanimity becomes a practice and something to be aware of and welcome rather than something to strive for and achieve.
The weekend turned out to be an exploration of equanimity. On Friday, we had a session of Tarot, with most people never having exposure. As part of the party, I had each person draw a card and then I read them all. As usual, I don't remember it all, but I do remember the card I drew, the Two of Pentacles because it came up for me all weekend and into the week. In our discussion, I pointed out that the figure in the Pentacles card on the right was in constant motion, indeed everything is in motion, and yet the figure is able to keep hold of the two objects and even weave them into a pattern. I describe the Two of Swords to them as another card of balance where every muscle is focused on using stillness to balance the objects and even the background is still. If there was movement, the balance may be impossible to achieve or, at the very least look very different. The movement of the Two of Pentacles corresponds with the yoga postures of balance (especially in Bowspring) where adjustments, wobbling, weaving, and even falling are all part of the ways to greet and embrace balance.
Twos and the number twos are, to me, about the integration of what you've learned thus far. You may not know everything and you may not even know what you don't know, but what you have learned has been embraced if full and equal measure. The lessons, be they challenging or joyful, have been integrated and understood. There is more to come but for now, the peace of however you define where you are is in the being. See what I did there? I brought us back to the theme: Equanimity: Being Peace.
Just a little more to add to this post: I couldn't participate in all the events and at first I was a little resentful of what pulled me away but I felt better about doing it than not doing it. The Kripalu yoga practice on Saturday morning was a release of some sort, all the angst and bitchiness of the weeks before released. I'm not even sure what it all was but I thanked it for teaching me and let it go. Then the Kundalini practice on Sunday morning filled me the peace of balance.
May you find the peace and equanimity in being present to it all.


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Report on Sheveluch (Russia) — 13 November-19 November 2002
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report,
13 November-19 November 2002
Managing Editor: Gari Mayberry
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 2002. Report on Sheveluch (Russia). In: Mayberry, G (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 13 November-19 November 2002. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
56.653°N, 161.36°E; summit elev. 3283 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
During 11-14 November, seismicity remained above background levels at Shiveluch. During this interval, seismic data indicated that there had been hot avalanches and seven ash-and-gas explosions in which clouds reached 2-3 km above the lava dome. Weak intermittent spasmodic tremor was registered. According to seismic data, possible short-lived explosions sent ash-and-gas plumes to heights of 5.5 km above the dome. Gas-and-steam plumes were seen rising to ~800 m a.s.l. and thermal anomalies were visible on satellite imagery. Shiveluch remained at Concern Color Code Orange.
Geological Summary. The high, isolated massif of Sheveluch volcano (also spelled Shiveluch) rises above the lowlands NNE of the Kliuchevskaya volcano group. The 1,300 km3 andesitic volcano is one of Kamchatka's largest and most active volcanic structures, with at least 60 large eruptions during the Holocene. The summit of roughly 65,000-year-old Stary Shiveluch is truncated by a broad 9-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera breached to the south. Many lava domes occur on its outer flanks. The Molodoy Shiveluch lava dome complex was constructed during the Holocene within the large open caldera; Holocene lava dome extrusion also took place on the flanks of Stary Shiveluch. Widespread tephra layers from these eruptions have provided valuable time markers for dating volcanic events in Kamchatka. Frequent collapses of dome complexes, most recently in 1964, have produced debris avalanches whose deposits cover much of the floor of the breached caldera.


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Musical Encounters and Acts of Audiencing: Listening Cultures in the American Antebellum
Editor's Note: Sound Studies is often accused of being a presentist enterprise, too fascinated with digital technologies and altogether too wed to the history of sound recording. Sounding Out!'s last forum of 2013, "Sound in the Nineteenth Century," addresses this critique by showcasing the cutting edge work of three scholars whose diverse, interdisciplinary research is located soundly in the era just before the advent of sound recording: Mary Caton Lingold (Duke), Caitlin Marshall (Berkeley), and Daniel Cavicchi (Rhode Island School of Design). In examining nineteenth century America's musical practices, listening habits, and auditory desires through SO!'s digital platform, Lingold, Marshall, and Cavicchi perform the rare task of showcasing how history's sonics had a striking resonance long past their contemporary vibrations while performing the power of the digital medium as a tool through which to, as Early Modern scholar Bruce R. Smith dubs it, "unair" past auditory phenomena –all the while sharing unique methodologies that neither rely on recording nor bemoan their lack. The series began with Mary Caton Lingold's exploration of the materialities of Solomon Northup's fiddling as self-represented in 12 Years a Slave. Last week, Caitlin Marshall treated us to a fascinating new take on Harriet Beecher Stowe's listening practice and dubious rhetorical remixing of black sonic resistance with white conceptions of revolutionary independence. Daniel Cavicchi closes out "Sound in the Nineteenth Century" and 2013 with an excellent meditation on listening as vibrant and shifting historical entity. Enjoy! —Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman, Editor-in-Chief
"To listen" is straightforward enough verb, signifying a kind of hearing that is directed or attentive. Add an "er" suffix, however, and "listen" moves into a whole new realm: it is no longer something one does, an attentive response to stimuli, but rather something one is, a sustained role or occupation, even an identity. Everybody listens from time to time, but only some people adopt the distinct social category of "listener."
And yet listeners have emerged in diverse historical and social contexts. Arnold Hunt, in his recent book The Art of Hearing, for example, points to the congregants of the Church of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, whose sermon-gadding and intense repetitive listening to preachers became a form of popular culture. Shane White and Graham White, in The Sounds of Slavery, argue that early nineteenth-century black slaves adopted listening, or "acting soundly," as a way of being that gave everyday sounds—conversation, cries of exertion, hymns—multiple layers of meaning and a power unknown to white overseers. Jonathan Sterne, in The Audible Past, describes the post-Civil War culture of sound telegraphy, in which young working class men trained themselves to employ "audile technique" for bureaucratic purposes, rendering their hearing objective, standardized, and networked.
We might add our own contemporary iPod era to these examples. We live in a time, after all, when it entirely acceptable to appear alone in public, ears connected to an iPod, head bobbing to the grooves of a vast archive of recorded music. Sampling, playlists, streaming–thanks to playback technologies, the U.S. has become a nation of obsessive listeners, and the power to "capture" a sound and re-hear it, something that began with the phonograph, remains a time-bending drama that can awaken people to their own aurality. Technologized listening, in fact, has spawned many of the icons of music discourse in the past 100 years: Edison's tone testers in 1910s, record-collecting jitterbugs in the 1930s, audiophiles of the Hi-Fidelity era in the 1950s, Beatles fans with their bedroom record players in the 1960s, the "chair guy" in Memorex's famous ad campaign of 1980, dancing listeners silhouetted in iPod posters since 2003.
But I think also that phonograph-centric narratives have obscured earlier, equally powerful cultures of listeners. The focus of my recent research, for example, has been the world of antebellum concert audiences. Between 1830 and 1860, the United States developed concentrated population centers filled with boosters and recent migrants eager to embrace a life based on new kinds of economic opportunity. Shaping much of the urban experience was a growing commercialization of culture that generated new and multiple means of musical performance, including parades, museum exhibitions, pleasure gardens, band performances, and concerts. Together, these performances significantly enhanced the act of listening: for people used to having to make music for themselves in order to hear it, a condition common to most Americans before 1830, access to public performances by others provided an opportunity for working and middle-class whites (women, African Americans, and the poor were another matter) to stop worrying about making music and, with the purchase of a ticket, to solely, and at length, assume an audience role.
The odd circumstance of purchasing the experience of listening provided class-striving urbanites with new possibilities for self-transformation. For many young, rural, white men, for example, arriving to the city for the first time to take clerking jobs in burgeoning merchant houses, being able to hear diverse performances of music was associated with a cosmopolitanism that brimmed with social possibility. Thus, for instance, Nathan Beekley, a young clerk, recently arrived in Philadelphia in 1849, found himself attending multiple performances of music several nights a week, including more and more appearances at the opera as a way to avoid "rowdies." In New York City during the 1840s, George Templeton Strong, a young lawyer in Manhattan, derided his own musical abilities and instead attended every public musical event he could find, carefully chronicling his listening experiences and analyzing his reactions in a multi-volume journal. Walt Whitman, a young man on the make in Brooklyn and New York between 1838 and 1853, regularly attended every sound amusement he could, including the Bowery Theatre, dime museums, temperance lectures, political rallies, and opera, writing in Leaves of Grass, "I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen/And accrue what I hear into myself."
This culture of listening was, in many ways, very much unlike ours. Despite an expanded access to performance, for instance, professional concerts before the mid-1850s were often understood as part of a wider ecology of sound. Very few listened to music in ways that we might expect today–focused on a "work," in a concert hall, without distraction. Listening, in fact, was as much a matter of local happenstance as personal selection—a passing marching band, echoes of evening choir practice at a nearby church, an impromptu singing performance at a party. Such experiences were marked by the momentary thrill of spontaneity and discovery rather than the studied appreciation of familiarity; in any moment of hearing, it was difficult to know how long the encounter might be, or even what sounds, exactly, were being heard. Cities like Boston and New York were especially rich with such surprise encounters.
Francis Bennett, a young arrival to Boston in 1854, for example, encountered, in his first night in the city, a band concert and the "cries" from a "Negro meeting house," and within weeks became enamored of fife and drum bands, often leaving work to follow one and then another as far as he dared. Young writer J. T. Trowbridge was more stationary but equally enthusiastic about what he heard from his New York rooming house in 1847: "The throngs of pedestrians mingled below, moving (marvelous to conceive) each to his or her 'separate business and desire;' the omnibuses and carriages rumbled and rattled past; while, over all, those strains of sonorous brass built their bridge of music, from the high café balcony to my still higher window ledge, spanning joy and woe, sin and sorrow, past and future…."
Music listeners were also often listeners of other forms of commercial sound, especially theater, oratory, and church services, which, together, comprised a complex sonic culture. This was especially reinforced by the physical spaces in which they shared such diverse aural experiences. In a rapidly-growing society, there often was not time or immediate resources to construct buildings dedicated to specific uses; instead, existing structures–typically a "hall" or "opera house"–served mixed uses.
As historian Jean Kilde noted in When Church Became Theater, evangelists in the Second Great Awakening often rented urban theaters for services; and congregations, in turn, rented churches to drama troupes, ventriloquists, and musicians to raise money. This "mixed-use" of buildings was reinforced by hearers, who often engaged in their own "mixed-use" understandings of what they heard. They evaluated sermons as they would a theatrical performance or found church choirs thrillingly entertaining rather than piously inspirational. Conversely, they listened to symphonic concerts with a religious solemnity.
This culture of antebellum, middle-class urban listeners didn't last long, succumbing to the class sorting by post-Civil War social reformers, who mocked the indiscriminate over-exuberance of antebellum listeners as a kind of "mania" and a form of social disorder. As Lawrence Levine explains in Highbrow Lowbrow, over the course of the nineteenth century, developing a "musical ear" became increasingly paramount, reverence for great works of art shaped audience response, and listening became a specific skill to be learned. Music became something to appreciate not simply hear. By the 1890s, a true listener was someone who, in the words of critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (in his enormously popular How to Listen to Music, from 1897), "will bring his fancy into union with that of the composer" (51).
In many ways, the controlled silent listening favored by reformers directly paved the way for music technologies, like the phonograph, that similarly sought to control and manipulate listening. But it was the urban music listeners of the 1840s and 1850s who were responsible, in the first place, for identifying and accentuating the joys and possibilities of "just listening."
Featured Image: Etching of Jenny Lind Singing at Castle Garden in New York City, 1851
Daniel Cavicchi is Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences at Rhode Island School of Design. He is author of Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum and Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans, and co-editor of My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life. His public work has included Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom, an inaugural exhibit for the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles; the curriculum accompanying Martin Scorcese's The Blues film series; and other projects with the Public Broadcasting System and the National Park Service. He is currently the editor of the Music/Interview series from Wesleyan University Press and serves on the editorial boards of American Music and Participations: the Journal of Audience Research.
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Sally Cronin has a wonderful new feature:
Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives.
I'm honored that she shared my old post on the power of kindness.
Today Diana shares her thoughts on random acts of kindness and explores if they can make a difference in this world that is struggling with so many disenfranchised and poverty stricken people. Is there a ripple effect of our efforts closer to home? Read on…..
Write and Change the World by D. Wallace Peach
Most of us have days filled with small acts of kindness. We smile, kiss hurt elbows, throw tennis balls for our dogs. We pay for a coworker's coffee and leave a big tip. We call a friend in need, chauffeur teenagers, cook a favorite meal, or pick up ice cream on the way home. These small invisible acts often go unacknowledged, but they travel around in overlapping circles, keep our lives balanced and relationships healthy. We see the results in strengthened bonds, deeper commitment, and abiding love.
But what about those times when we don't see the ripples? When we toss acts of kindness and compassion into a seemingly bottomless well of suffering and despair? When we perceive no reward for our efforts? When we don't know if we're making any lasting difference in our world at all? Some strangers we'll meet face to face, but most we'll never know. The poignant tales of their lives will play out in other neighborhoods, other cities, and other lands, unseen and unheard….
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A new study conducted by UC Berkeley researchers states that diesel exhaust is responsible for fifteen times more secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog, than gas emissions per liter of fuel burned.
The study performed by UC Berkeley researchers, which has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, states that the contributions to air pollution are derived from two types of fuel emissions. The authors estimate that diesel exhaust is responsible for 65-90 percent of a region's vehicular-derived SOA, depending upon the relative amounts of gasoline and diesel used in the area.
SOA contributes to respiratory problems and poor air quality, so pinpointing the major sources of the pollutant is important in evaluating current and future policies to reduce smog in the state. The new findings contradict previous research that put the blame on gasoline-fueled vehicles as the predominant source of precursors that form secondary organic aerosol.
"We can now say that, while both motor vehicle sources are important for these 'secondary' particles, diesel is responsible for a larger portion, especially in regions such as the San Joaquin Valley with a lot of diesel use," said study principal investigator and professor Allen Goldstein, who has joint appointments in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
"The data from our study contains the most comprehensive chemical detail to date on diesel and gasoline emissions," said study lead author Drew Gentner, a recent UC Berkeley Ph.D. graduate in civil and environmental engineering. "This presents many opportunities to assess the chemistry of these compounds in the atmosphere and the impacts of these sources. We expect that these findings will help policymakers improve air pollution control measures in the state, and also other parts of the world."
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