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Today Tomorrow and Forever - In Loving Memory Of Elvis Presley
Elvis' Musician's And Singer's - The Full List
The full list of the musicians and singers Elvis worked with!
A number of things glorify a great talent more than surrounding it with other great talents. Elvis, from the very start of
his career, was always with great muisicians and singers. He only worked with the very best and Elvis worked with some of
the music industry's finest and most respected singers and musicians. This page is dedicated to those musicians and singers
who played, recorded and made Elvis the greatest entertainer of all time.
1950's till 1960's
When Elvis went into Sun Records and began his out standing career, he was joined by three young musicians - Bill Black,
D.J. Fontana and Scooty Moore. Along with Elvis, they made rock 'n' roll and changed the face of music forever. Here is the
lowdown on the early band members in the King's career.
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931 near Gadsden, Tennessee) is a legendary American guitarist
and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Scotty Moore learned to play the guitar from family and friends at eight years
of age. Although underaged when he enlisted, Moore served in the United States Navy between 1948 and 1952.
Moore's early background was in jazz and country music. A fan of guitarist Chet Atkins, Moore led a group called the "Starlite
Wranglers" before Sam Phillips at Sun Records put him together with Elvis Presley. In 1954, Moore and double bassist
Bill Black played on the Sun Studios session with Presley that cut "That's All Right (Mama)", a recording regarded
as a seminal event in rock and roll history. Elvis, Black and Scotty Moore then formed the "Blue Moon Boys." They
were later joined by drummer D.J. Fontana. Beginning in July of 1954, the "Blue Moon Boys" toured and recorded throughout
the American South and as Presley's popularity rose, they toured the United States and made appearances in various Presley
television shows and motion pictures.
Moore played on many of Presley's most famous recordings including "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Baby Let's
Play House", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Mystery Train", "Hound Dog", "Too Much" and
"Jailhouse Rock".
In the 1960s, Moore released a solo album called The Guitar That Changed the World. He performed on the NBC television
special called Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special.
In 2005, Scotty Moore was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bill Black:
William "Bill" Patton Black, Jr. (September 17, 1926 - October 21, 1965), is an American musician. Born in Memphis,
Tennessee, in July of 1954, Bill Black played bass ('slapped/rockabilly' upright double) with guitarist Scotty Moore while
Elvis Presley sang "That's All Right (Mama)" in a Sun Studios session in Memphis that is considered a seminal event
in the history of Rock and Roll.
Bill Black would go on to play double bass on early Presley recordings including "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Heartbreak
Hotel", "Baby Let's Play House", "Mystery Train", "That's All Right", "Hound Dog",
"Too Much" and "Jailhouse Rock" during the late 1950's. After leaving Presley he had a subsequent career
as the leader of Bill Black's Combo which made a number of commercially successful instrumental records in the early 1960s.
He died of a brain tumour in 1965 at the age of thirty-nine and is buried in "Forest Hill Cemetery" in Memphis,
D.J Fontana:
D.J. Fontana began his incredible career as a staff drummer in 1953 on the famous Louisiana Hayride. While working the
Hayride in 1954 D.J. met Elvis. They formed a common bond of friendship and admiration for each other's immense talents. D.J.,
Scotty Moore and Bill Black formed Elvis' original band. D.J. was the man behind the beat for the first 15 years of Elvis'
career. D.J starred in Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, King Creole and G.I Blues. D.J starred on TV with Elvis in The Dorsey
Brothers Stage Show, The Milton Berle Show, The Steve Allen Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Welcome Home Elvis 1960 and The 68
Comeback Special. D.J. and Scotty received the Nashville Music Award for the best Independent Album Of The Year in 1998 for
All The Kings Men. They were also nominated for a Grammy in 1998 for Going Back To Memphis, from their CD All The Kings Men.
D.J. along side Scotty played on approximately 460 RCA cuts with Elvis.
Also working with the lads, Elvis sung with the gospel group The Jordanaires.
Gordon Stoker, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins, and Hugh Jarret made up the legendary Jordanaires. One Sunday afternoon, in
1955, the Jordanaires played a show in Memphis with Eddy Arnold. They had just completed the "Eddy Arnold Show"
for TV in 1954, and, were in Memphis, publicizing the series. The Jordanaires had sung "Peace In The Valley" on
the show that afternoon. When the show was over, a young man, blond, quiet and courteous, and, plenty of combed-back hair,
came backstage to meet them. He was Elvis Presley, a young, practically unheard of singer, just getting his start in the area.
There were a few polite exchanges, then Elvis said, "If I ever get a recording contract with a major company, I want
you guys to back me up." He was on "Sun" at that time. Thinking back to that night, The Jordanaires' first
tenor, Gordon Stoker, remembers wishing Elvis well, "But we never expected to hear from him again," he said. "People
were always coming up and saying that. We're still told that."
Sure enough!! Elvis recorded his first session with RCA on January 10, 1956, with Scotty, Bill, and, D. J. . That day,
"I Got A Woman", "Heartbreak Hotel", and, "Money Honey" were recorded. On January 11, 1956,
Gordon Stoker was called by Chet Atkins to do a session with a "new-probably-wouldn't-be-around-long kid, named Elvis
Presley"---oily hair, pink shirt, black trousers. RCA had, also, just signed "The Speer Family". Chet asked
Gordon to sing with Ben and Brock Speer so he could use them. On that day, "I'm Counting On You" and "I Was
The One" made history by being the first recording session that Elvis, did with vocal background. By April 1956, "Heartbreak
Hotel" was "No. 1". After having done several more recording sessions in New York with Scotty, Bill and D.
J., Elvis flew to Nashville on April 14, 1956, to record "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". Gordon was called,
again, to sing a vocal trio with Ben and Brock. After the session, Elvis took Gordon aside and told him (not knowing, at the
time, why all the Jordanaires were not there) that he wanted "the" Jordanaires on all his future recording sessions.
This time, Stoker saw to it that it was known - and - true to his word - Elvis used the Jordanaires on nearly every one of
his recording sessions for the next 14 years. At a time when no backing musicians, producers, or engineers received a name
recognition on any records, Elvis insisted that he have the "Jordanaires" on the "labels" of his records.
The reflected glory was enough to earn the Jordanaires "Group of the Year" awards well into the Beatles era.
They were with Elvis untill 1970 when Elvis went on tour again and they stayed in Nashville. Two of my fave Elvis albums
have the Jordanaires on it, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art are amazing albums!!!!!!! Also I love the voices of the
Jordanaires sooooooo much! It's known that they sung over 200 songs with the King of Rock 'n' Roll!!
1970 till 1977:
Elvis went back on tour again after making films in Hollywood. He got together a new band and singers. His band in the
1970's were called the TBC band and here is the information on them:
James Burton - Lead Guitar:
James Burton began his career at age 14, playing guitar in the house band for Shreveport's famed Louisiana Hayride. While
playing in Dale Hawkins' band in 1955, he wrote the music for the hit song Susie-Q and recorded it with Hawkins. In 1957,
he began a nine-year run as guitarist for Ricky Nelson, including recording sessions and concert tours with Nelson and weekly
appearances on the Nelson family's classic television show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. By the mid-sixties, Burton
was in demand as a session player and made some recordings of his own. Among the many artists he has recorded with over the
years are: Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, John Denver, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Rosanne Cash,
Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, Tina Turner, Elvis Costello, Andy Williams, Dolly Parton, Linda
Rondstat, Hank Williams, Jr., Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Dean Martin, Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Arlo
Guthrie, Johnny Mathis, The Mamas and the Papas, The Mills Brothers, Herb Alpert, and many others. Elvis himself called James
Burton and asked him to help put together a band for his 1969 engagement in Las Vegas. Burton was Elvis' lead guitarist in
concerts for Vegas and national tours, and on many recordings, from 1969 until Elvis' death in 1977. The next long-term gig
for Burton was recording and touring with John Denver for a number of years. Today, he continues to work with a wide variety
of artists in the studio and on the road, and he is involved in a broad range of projects. Among guitarists James Burton has
become an icon, and his influence on generations of guitar players, both the famous and the unknown, is unmistakable.
Glen D. Hardin - Piano:
Glen D. Hardin was born on April 18, 1939 in Hollis, Oklahoma. He began his career with fellow Texan Buddy Holly as a
member of his band The Crickets. He started playing piano for Elvis in January 1970, taking over from Larry Muhoberac. His
first show with Elvis was in Las Vegas on January 26, 1970. Glen also liked to try different sounds and ways of playing some
of Elvis' most beloved and new songs. His first studio recording happened with Burning Love on March 27 1972. His last show
with Elvis was on December 31, 1975 in Pontiac, MI. He recorded last with Elvis in the Jungle Room of Glaceland during Feb
2-8 1976 when Elvis recorded Hurt and Moody Blue. Glen had performed with Elvis an amazing 889 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glen still
plays with Elvis and the other members of the TCB in Elvis The Concert.....which travels around the world ( It's an amazing
Jerry Scheff - Bass Guitar:
Jerry Scheff grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, started playing tuba in grammar school and, by seventh grade, got
into playing string bass. His musical bent was toward jazz and R&B. By age fifteen he was playing in clubs in his new
hometown of Sacramento and back in San Francisco. As a high school senior Scheff joined the U.S. Navy and wound up in the
Navy's school of music in Washington, D.C. taking a nine-month course studying theory and harmony and getting to play with
some great musicians. After the course ended he stayed on to teach, moonlighting as a player in jazz clubs, then the Navy
transferred him to San Diego. Some time after his service discharge Scheff moved to Los Angeles and played regularly at a
club called The Sands in Watts, where a teen-aged Billy Preston often appeared doing James Brown covers. Oddly enough, bass
player Scheff began his work in the L.A. recording session scene playing valve trombone. The first hit record Scheff played
bass on was an album by the group The Association, including the singles Along Comes Mary and Cherish. On Mary, Scheff made
a bass mistake that got left in, so the thrill of hearing his work on a radio hit was counterbalanced by his cringing every
time he heard the mistake. However, a couple of years later, it was gratifying to hear an "elevator music" cover
of it that had the bass player copying Scheff's part, bad note and all. A special career highlight was playing on The Doors'
album LA Woman. Over the years Scheff recorded with Bobby Sherman, Tiny Tim, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Bobby Vinton, The Everly Brothers, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, Linda Rondstat, Judy Collins
and many others. By the late sixties he crossed paths with guitarist James Burton, who remembered Scheff's work and called
him when putting together the band for Elvis in 1969. Scheff worked with Elvis from 1969 to 1973 and 1975 to 1977, on stage
and on a number of recordings. Reflecting on those years, Scheff says "Elvis had a big impact on my career. It was like
going to school." Today, he continues to work as a session musician with a wide array of artists. A passion in recent
years has been song writing. Although much of his career has been working with rock and pop greats, he still enjoys sitting
in to play a little jazz every once in a while, as he says "to keep the cobwebs clear." Both of Scheff's sons, Darin
and Jason, are musicians. Jason Scheff took over Pete Cetera's spot in the band Chicago. He also travels the world with Elvis
The Concert.
Ronnie Tutt - Drums:
Ronnie Tutt is originally from Dallas, Texas. He studied music at the University of North Texas, playing gigs in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area, and held staff positions (drums and vocals) at two 'jingle' studios. In 1963 he moved to Memphis and played with
some of that city's great rhythm sections during an exciting time in Memphis music history. In 1969, he auditioned for Elvis,
who was putting a band together for his 1970 Las Vegas tour. Ronnie got the job. Ronnie's talent was amazing and Elvis took
to him fast, they became life long friends. Elvis liked the way Ronnie would watch him, take in his moves and the way Elvis
would joked around with him on stage. Their musical communication was a huge part of the live shows. From 1969 till 1977,
Ronnie played live on stage and in the studio with Elvis and remained loyal till this very day. After Elvis passed away, Ronnie
became a studio drummer in LA and then moved to Nashville. Ronnie's work with Elvis is never forgotten but Ronnie has also
worked with other legends of rock and pop. For many years he was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band, doing albums and touring
non stop. Since 1981, Ronnie has been a member of the Neil Diamond Band, has endorsed DW Drums, Paiste Cymbals and Calato/Regal
Tip Drumsticks. Ronnie, along with the other TCB band, travels the world with Elvis The Concert.
Elvis also had a musical Director & Conductor during the 1970's
Joe Guercio:
Joe Guercio has enjoyed a prolific career, but he is probably best known and admired for his work with Elvis Presley.
He was musical director and conductor for Elvis' concert shows from the summer of 1970 to the summer of 1977 when Elvis made
his last concert appearance. Elvis was known for spontaneity and improvisation on stage and the cast had to be ready for anything.
Guercio remembers "He'd just turn around and start a tune. The rhythm section knew him backwards and forwards, but when
you're up there conducting a twenty-six-piece orchestra, what are you gonna do?" In describing that experience, Guercio
once commented good-naturedly that conducting for Elvis was "like following a marble down concrete steps." This
led to his being a target for a particular practical joker. Guercio later found his stage tux stuffed with marbles and a few
hundred more rolling around in his dressing room. Along with the marbles was a note: "Follow the marble - E.P."
Guercio was musical director for the International Hotel in Las Vegas when the work with Elvis began. Along with the obvious
contributions he made to Elvis' shows, including many of the triumphs of Elvis' "concert era", it was Joe Guercio
who created the now almost iconic six-note theme for Elvis' stage entrances and bows. It was also Guercio who suggested that
Elvis' shows open with Theme from 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Also Sprach Zarathustra). The inspiration came when Guercio and
his late first wife saw the now-classic science fiction movie in a theater, for when the music began Mrs. Guercio whispered
to her husband "You'd think Elvis was about to enter."
Joe Guercio first left his native Buffalo, NY as an accompanist for Patti Paige. He has lived in Las Vegas since 1967
and has been a musical director for Diana Ross, Jim Nabors, Florence Henderson, Diahann Carroll, and Steve Lawrence and Eydie
Gorme, among others. His arrangement of the medley Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead was a 1972 hit for Barbra Streisand, and
his arrangement of The Way We Were/Try to Remember was a 1975 hit for Gladys Knight. Guercio's work with Natalie Cole to reunite
her on stage in duet with her late father, Nat King Cole, pre-dated her famous early 1990's duet recordings and videos with
Mr. Cole. Recently, Guercio accompanied blues legend B.B. King to Rome to meet Pope John Paul II and perform in the Vatican's
fifth Christmas concert.
Elvis also had a number of gospel quartets and soulful harmonie groups too. Here is the full list of backing groups which
sung with Elvis.
The Imperials:
Sherman Andrus, Terry Blackwood, Jeo Moscheo and Jim Murray make up the gospel band The Imperials. Elvis loved gospel
music, particularly male gospel harmony, which was not only a major part of his gospel recordings, but also an element in
the sound of much of his pop, rock and country work. The Imperials first worked with Elvis doing some of the backing vocals
in the 1966 sessions for his How Great Thou Art album, which won Elvis his first Grammy Award, Best Sacred Performance for
1967. The Imperials worked on a regular basis with Elvis on stage and in the recording studio from 1969 until the latter half
of 1971, beginning with his triumphant 1969 Las Vegas engagement. A major highlight of their collaboration with him was the
1971 recording (1972 release) of He Touched Me, an album that earned Elvis his second Grammy Award, Best Inspirational Performance
for 1972.
Gospel legend and former Statesmen Quartet member Jake Hess founded The Imperials in 1964, putting together what he would
call a "super group" in the gospel music industry. By the late sixties, they had a new look and sound, a bit on
the "mod" side, which drew criticism from some circles, but the group prevailed. They sold a lot of records, enjoyed
a long series of major TV guest shots, toured with country singer Jimmy Dean and appeared regularly on his weekly TV show,
and the group had regular bookings in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe. And, of course, there was the special association with
Elvis Presley. Over the years, the group in its various membership incarnations has released over forty albums with fourteen
of their songs hitting number one, and they have racked up twelve Grammy Awards and 13 of the gospel field's Dove Awards.
They were the first Christian group to perform on a Grammy Awards telecast. Their catalog of songs is one of the most enduring
in all of gospel music, many of them landmark recordings that raised the standards for the gospel music industry at large.
Like Elvis' other male back-up groups, The Jordanaires and The Stamps, The Imperials' current and former members are recent
inductees into Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame.
As with so many enduring groups, there have been personnel changes in The Imperials over the years. Terry Blackwood and
Jim Murray, who regularly participate in our show, Joe Moscheo, who has toured with our show at times, and Roger Wiles, who
has participated in some shows, were all members of The Imperials during the group's tenure with Elvis. Sherman Andrus, who
regularly tours with us, joined The Imperials shortly after the group stopped working with Elvis in 1971. He got to know Elvis
because The Imperials remained close to him and often sang together with him informally, while J.D. Sumner & The Stamps
took over the role of onstage male backing vocalists. Imperials members from the Elvis days have all gone on to separate careers
in and out of the music business. Armond Morales, who was with the group when they worked with Elvis, owns the Imperials name
and has kept the group going with new members. We thank Armond for allowing us the use of the name in our reunion of former
members from the Elvis days.
In accommodating scheduling needs for our tour and the other professional obligations of the two groups, former Imperials
and former Stamps have alternated from tour to tour as the male backing vocalists for our show since we first hit the road
in 1998. In more recent engagements, members of Voice, another male vocal group that backed Elvis, have also participated.
J.D Sumner And The Stamps Quartets:
J.D Sumner, Ed Enoch, Ed Hill and Rick Strickland make up the amazing J.D Sumner And The Stamps Quartet. The lowest vocal
bass note ever recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records came from J.D. Sumner. It's only one of a long list of great
moments in the life of the late musical legend. For much of his career he headed up the Stamps Quartet, one of the greatest
success stories in the gospel music industry. The group was nominated for Grammy, Dove and TNN awards, and they toured the
world in concert. Sumner was credited with being a major force in the formation of the Gospel Music Association, the Dove
Awards and the National Quartet Convention, and for being a significant influence in leading the gospel world to even greater
levels of professionalism and organization. His direction and management of the Stamps was, and continues to be, a model for
many other groups.
The Stamps worked with Elvis Presley from 1971 to 1977 as the male back-up group for his concerts in Las Vegas and on
national tour, and they worked with him on numerous recordings. (The Imperials backed Elvis from 1969 to 1971, and the Jordanaires
were Elvis' male back-up group in the 50's and 60's.) The most recent configuration of The Stamps was comprised of: J.D. Sumner
(bass), Ed Enoch (lead), both of whom worked with Elvis from 1971 to 1977, and Ed Hill (baritone), who worked with Elvis in
the latter two years of that period, and Rick Strickland (tenor) who joined in the early 1990s and is a lifelong Elvis fan.
In the Elvis tour days, other members at various times included Bill Baize, Donnie Sumner, Larry Strickland, Dave Rowland,
current record industry executive Tony Brown, and current Oak Ridge Boys member Richard Sterban.
Sumner's relationship with Elvis long pre-dated the Stamps' employment with him. Elvis, as a teenager with sideburns
and loud clothes, frequently attended the monthly gospel sings at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis. He became a regular fixture
backstage, meeting and talking with the singers he admired so much. One of those singers was J.D. Sumner, then part of the
Blackwood Brothers. Sumner and the others came to expect to see Elvis whenever they were in town. One night, the kid wasn't
there, so when they played Memphis again, Sumner asked Elvis why he hadn't been there. Elvis confided that he simply had not
had the money for a ticket. From then on, Sumner got Elvis in free through the stage door. Said Sumner, "The next thing
I knew, Elvis was letting me in free through his stage door!"
With great success J.D. Sumner & the Stamps continued to make recordings and television appearances, and they constantly
toured in concert, performing gospel music as only they could. They also continued to have very strong ties to the Elvis phenomenon
through their friendship with Graceland/EPE and their loyal following of Elvis fans. The Stamps, including former members,
are 1998 inductees into Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame.
J.D. Sumner & The Stamps participated in the March 1998 tour of Elvis-The Concert in America. The next booking for
J.D. and his group for our show was January/February 1999, our first European tour. Sadly, J.D. died in November 1998, but
the remaining Stamps fulfilled the tour engagement. Ed Enoch, Ed Hill and Rick Strickland then formed a new group known as
Ed Enoch & The Golden Covenant. Strickland has since left that group. Enoch and Hill, along with new members Butch Owens
and Royce Taylor, tour with our show from time to time. In 2003, Ed Enoch acquired the trademark rights to the name Stamps
Quartet and renamed his group accordingly. Alternating with The Stamps Quartet on our tours are former members of The Imperials
and Voice, two male vocal groups that backed Elvis. Former Stamps members from the Elvis days other than Enoch and Hill also
participate from time to time.
The Sweet Inspirations:
Estelle Brown, Portia Griffin, Sylvia Shemwell and Myrna Smith make up the wonderful Sweet Inspirations. The soulful harmonies
of the Sweet Inspirations have enriched recordings by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and other legends. They have collaborated
with writers and producers such as Carole King, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. They've had success with R&B, gospel and
pop recordings of their own, most notably their first hit single Sweet Inspiration, which gave the group their name in the
late sixties and earned them a Grammy nomination. It was that song that caught the attention of Elvis Presley, who signed
them to provide backing vocals and be an opening act for his record-breaking 1969 Las Vegas engagement, his official return
to the live concert stage after his triumphant '68 TV special and the end of his Hollywood movie contract obligations. No
audition was required. The Sweet Inspirations met him when they arrived for the first rehearsals for the '69 engagement. The
"Sweets" worked with Elvis in Vegas, on his national concert tours and on recordings from 1969 to 1977.
Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shemwell, Estelle Brown and Cissy Houston (mother of superstar Whitney) were the members when the
group first worked with Elvis. Houston left to go solo after the first gig with Elvis. Among those to fill the vacant spot
was Anne Williams, who joined them in 1970 for a short time. Brown, Shemwell and Smith soon settled on being a trio. The three
stayed together and worked with Elvis until the end of his life. They eventually went their separate ways professionally.
In the early 1990's they started performing together again. Due to illness, Sylvia Shemwell has not been touring with us for
the last couple of years. Today, new members Portia Griffin and Kelly Jones join original members Myrna and Estelle on our
tours of Elvis-The Concert.
Myrna Smith recalls that first meeting with Elvis, "He walked in and had on a chocolate colored suit. He had a tan,
and he looked absolutely gorgeous. He walked over to us and introduced himself - like we didn't know who he was: 'Hi, I'm
Elvis Presley.' (Cissy literally fell off her stool.) From then on, whenever he'd see us, it was always a kiss." Smith
remembers his talent, "He had so much energy. His voice was a lot more remarkable than it ever came off on record...He
was just a much better singer than could ever be captured...Some great singers' voices are just too big. Elvis' was like that."
Elvis also worked and sing with two soprano vocals - Here are the names and information
Millie Kirkham:
Millie Kirkham's association with Elvis Presley began with a 1957 recording session, one that yielded, among other classics,
Blue Christmas, which features some of the most unique vocal background work she and the Jordanaires ever did with the superstar.
Throughout the next twenty years Kirkham's strong, clear soprano could be heard on many of Elvis' pop, rock, gospel and country
recordings such as The Wonder of You, Surrender, How Great Thou Art, Polk Salad Annie, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Don't,
Just Pretend, Devil in Disguise, C. C. Rider, and many others. She also sang with Elvis on movie soundtracks and appeared
with him on stage in Las Vegas. Kirkham has long been a fixture in the music community in Nashville. Her credits include numerous
radio and television appearances, collaborations with the Jordanaires and the Anita Kerr Singers, and recording sessions in
Nashville, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Among the many artists she has recorded with are Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Burl Ives, Johnny Cash, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Pete Fountain, Bob Dylan, Perry Como, Carl Perkins, Rosemary Clooney,
Little Richard, Reba McIntire, Brook Benton, Tammy Wynette, Vic Damone, Paul Anka, George Jones, Patti Paige, Les Paul &
Mary Ford, Eddy Arnold, Loretta Lynn and, of course, Elvis Presley.
Millie Kirkham was with us for our first several tour outings. I never got to hear her sing live and I know she has an
amazing voice!
Kathy Westmoreland:
Elvis would always call Kathy the little girl with a beautiful high voice - And she was! Born on August 10, 1945 in Arkansas,
Kathy was not new to show biz; her father appeared in two MGM movies, The Great Caruso 1951 and The Student Prince 1954.
Replacing Millie Kirkham, Westmoreland toured with Elvis during his 70's concert tours. Before too long their on-stage relationship
turned to romance. During the time Elvis dated Kathy he bought her several cars including a blue Continental Mark V.
A rather embarrassing incident occurred at the North Carolina concert on July 20, 1975 when Elvis introduced Kathy by
saying "This Kathy Westmoreland our soprano singer, who doesnt like the way I introduce her if she doesnt like it, she
can get the hell of the stage." Shocked! Kathy and two other singers walked off the stage in front of the audience. Later
Elvis apologised and they became friends again, and remained so till his death.
In her revealing autobiography, "Elvis and Kathy", she admits to falling in love with Elvis and sleeping with
him. Noting that sex was involved. Her book also covered the fact that she, Larry Geller and Charlie Hodge were told my Elvis
doctor, Dr Nickopoulos that Elvis was dying of bone cancer.
Today Kathy has her own fan club, a website, and about to release a CD of the songs recorded in 1978, to include the tribute
single, You Were the Music and the song she sang at Elvis funeral & My Father Watches Over Me.
Now onto something which should NEVER be left out or forgotten! Not only did Elvis work with amazing musicians and singers,
he worked with two the world's most famous song writers. Do you know who I am talking about??
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Jerry Leiber was born April 25, 1933 and Mike Stoller was born March 13, 1933.
Leiber came from Baltimore, Stoller from Long Island, but they met in Los Angeles, where both attended Los Angeles City
College. After school, Stoller played drums and Leiber worked in a record store and, when they met, they found they shared
a love of blues and rhythm and blues. In 1950, Jimmy Witherspoon recorded and performed their first commercial song, Real
Ugly Woman. Their first hit composition was Hard Times recorded by Charles Brown, which was a rhythm and blues hit in 1952.
At the same time, they wrote Kansas City which was also recorded in 1952 with Little Willie Littlefield but became a No. 1
hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison. In 1953 they wrote Hound Dog for Big Mama Thornton; it became a major hit for Elvis Presley
in 1956, although in a bowdlerized version. Their later songs often had lyrics more appropriate for pop music, and their combination
of rhythm and blues with pop lyrics revolutionized pop and rock and roll.
They formed Spark Records in 1953. The label was later bought by Atlantic Records, who hired Leiber and Stoller as independent
producers. At Atlantic they re-vitalized the careers of the Drifters and continued to turn out hits for the Coasters. Their
songs from this period include Smokey Joe's Cafe, Riot in Cell Block #9, Charlie Brown, Stand By Me, Save the Last Dance for
Me, and On Broadway among numerous other hits (for the Coasters alone they wrote twenty-four songs which appeared in the national
Phil Spector served an "apprenticeship" of sorts with Lieber and Stoller in New York, developing his record
producer's craft while assisting and playing on their sessions, including guitar on On Broadway.
In the 1960s Lieber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued the Shangri-Las' Leader of the
Pack and the Dixie Cups' Chapel of Love. After selling Red Bird they worked as independent producers, and continued to write
songs. Their best known song from this period is Is That All There Is? recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969. Their last major work
was Stuck In the Middle With You recorded by Stealers Wheel in 1972.
They won Grammy awards for Is That All There Is? and for the cast album of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical
based on their work.
Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist-composer husband William Bolcom have recorded an album of "other songs
by Leiber and Stoller," featuring a number of their more unusual (and satiric) works (including Let's Bring Back World
War I, written specifically for them, and Humphrey Bogart, a tongue-in-cheek song about obsession with the actor).
Leiber and Stoller have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
First photo:
Leiber and Stroller
Elvis with J.D Sumner
The beauitful Sweet Inspirations
The TCB Band
And then Kathy Westmoreland
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Alex (@alexprostrollo) – I was introduced to comics around 5 years ago. A friend had lent me somewhere around 70 to 100 comic books ranging from Batman and Action Comics to Captain America Super Soldier and Amazing Spider-man. Honestly I wasn't always a comic book fanatic, but I as started to read the comics lent to me and as Flash Point had just started I jumped on and found what may be the most expensive hobby and that I down right love comics.
As it stands I am all over the comic book spectrum reading Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, and Image. Love the owner created books such Tokyo Ghost and Autumnlands, but I always have room for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, and Spider-man in my weekly stack.
Marvin (@marvin_salguero) – My first experience with comics was when my father took me to a comic shop and I was able to pick up a few random issues. I still have my copy of Uncanny X-men #300 from 1993 (though the copy isn't in the best quality, but I was 7). My interest in comic related media stayed around, however I wouldn't pick up another comic until around 2005-06. Around that time I picked up a few trades that you would normally see on a beginner's guide to comics: Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and Civil War. After reading these books I was hooked. I picked up more trades and starting my journey into the Green Lantern universe. It came to a point where I needed to be reading weekly. Around 2007 I started picking up comics weekly and I still do to this day. My journey went from being a mainly DC reader to Marvel and now I'm reading everything from everyone.
Garrett (@garot2188) – "You've been a customer here for 15 years; of course we will hold that for you." At first when I heard those words at my local comic shop, I was dumbfounded to think about how long I have been reading comics (Now 16 Years) and I have loved every second of it! I can even remember my first comic I ever got when I was 7 years old (Heroes Reborn Steven Rogers Captain America #1) and how much I would read that one book over and over again; that was only one book and I have read hundreds up to this point in my life.
How I got into that local comic shop started with my childhood obsession with superhero movies especially the Tim Burton's Batman movies and the Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman movies (Superman II Richard Donner Cut reigns supreme!). I had always loved superheroes and never had any way besides watching the movies to channel that love until one life-changing day my brother got assigned a project about comic books in grade school. The day we went into a comic shop was to be nothing like I had ever experienced before. The shelves and boxes full of comics seemed never ending and they were all full of infinite stories of the superheroes I love and thus the obsession began.
My friends know me as the "DC Guy" because that is my world; not to say I don't like Marvel or any other company but I am partial to DC because my favorite superhero belongs to that universe, Superman. Superman for me was the friend I would associate with my entire life into my adulthood because Superman is always immune to physical issues (for the most part) but never immune to emotional drawbacks and that part of his legacy I could always associate with; To read how even Gods among men deal with life in every aspect is a comfort in the trials in everyone's life especially my own. As my tenure in comics has grown so has my appreciation of more characters in the DC Universe; I always hold a special place for Superman but for every ray of light there is dark and that brought on another of my favorite heroes Batman. Batman encompasses for me my inner demon that needs its justice or redemption. Everyone wants to overcome tragedies in their life and following the Dark Knight on his journey has helped many around the world on their own journey and myself included. It only makes sense that Superman and Batman are the World's Greatest, Light and Dark on the same team!
In my stack each week there will be Superman, Batman, most of the Robin books and Dark Knight III from DC (Grayson, Robin Son of Batman, We are Robin, etc.); Avengers, Iron Man, and Extraordinary X-men from Marvel; Tokyo Ghost, Walking Dead, Descender, Invisible Republic and Lazarus from Image; and new from Boom Studios, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! These are just the spotlights of books I get across every company in comics with many more than that on my pull list! I love comics and always will.
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Our Longwings are Doing Vine, Thank You
Now that the dark winter months are coming to an end, the Psiguria in our Butterfly Garden are starting to grow out again. Psiguria (sometimes called the pygmy melon) is a tropical vine which happens to be the only flowering vine in the garden and is of special importance to some of the butterflies in the exhibit. Although butterflies can survive on nectar, they do not necessarily thrive on it. The problem is that nectar is predominantly sugar and water. While this allows butterflies to keep their energy levels up for flying around, it will cause them to slowly die of nutritional starvation.
One group of butterflies has adapted to feed on pollen as a way to increase the nutrition in their diet. With pollen, their maximum lifespan can range between 4-6 months. Without pollen, their maximum lifespan drops to a few weeks. Among these pollen feeders are butterflies that specialize almost entirely in feeding on Psiguria pollen, such as the Blue and White Longwing, (Heliconius cydno).
Our exhibit displays several species of longwings, the majority of which are pollen feeders and a few of which feed specifically on Psiguria pollen. While many of this vine's close relatives provide us with fruits (such as cucumber, melons, or squash) or other useful items (such as gourds and luffa sponges), Psiguria itself has no economic value whatsoever. This makes it more difficult to find at plant nurseries or greenhouses. So how do we get the number of vines we need to support our butterflies? Tune in next week to find out!
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We're a bit late linking to this column from yesterday's Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria. The column is called "Glimmers of Hope in the Arab World," and it seems to me that Zakaria finds more than just glimmers. His view is that Islamic extremism is losing throughout the Muslim world, and that serious reform is taking place in a number of Muslim countries. He cites, in particular, the Persian Gulf states, Jordan, and Morocco.
Unfortunately, reform is proceeding much more slowly in Egypt and not at all in Syria. Zakaria finds it ironic that these large Arab states, once considered in the vanguard of modernization, are lagging. I would characterize it as more tragic than ironic.
One source of the tragedy is Europe. Commentators have explored the connection between Europe's twin statist-totalitarian doctrines — Communism and Fascism — and Islamic extremism, citing the Muslim Brotherhood as a key link. However, it can be argued that the worst legacy of bad European ideologies in the Arab world was their influence on Arab "reformers" of the 1950s and 1960s, most notably the Baathists. Their embrace of statist models provides the best explanation of why, in Zakaria's words, "countries such as Syria appear to be stuck in the Stone Age," and have been surpassed by states that not long ago were "backward Bedouin societies."
UPDATE: Barry Rubin, writing in the Jerusalem Post, finds addtional grounds for hope in the Arab world. According to Rubin, "the year 2004 may well be remembered as the time the Arab reform movement really got going."
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CBK's battle against religious violenceJuly 8, 2014, 8:19 pm
I refer to the statement made by Mrs. Chandrika Kumaratunga that when she was the President she prevented a religious uprising. This is indeed true.
In December 2003 when the Ven. Soma Thera passed away in St. Petersburgh in Russia after suffering a heart attack the Christians of this country were accused by several Buddhist monks of causing his death. It was through one of these Fundamentalist Christian Organisations that a doctorate was arranged for Soma Thera based on a book he had written on Stupas. The Thera decided to accept this doctorate and travelled to Russia. While on this flight he suffered a heart attack and instead of entering a hospital when the plane landed in Moscow he continued with his journey to St. Petersburgh and attended the ceremony where he was conferred the doctorate. He then entered a sanitorium at St. Petersburgh where his condition gradually became worse and he died. However, accusations were made by some members of the Buddhist clergy that a poisonous substance had been introduced into his food presumably during the flight which caused his death.
When the Ven. Soma Thera's body was brought to Sri Lanka, due to the accusations being made against the Christians, President Chandrika made arrangements for three non-Christian Judicial Medical Officers to perform the autopsy on his body. Their conclusion was that the Thera had suffered a heart attack which caused his death. Samples of his tissue analysed by the Forensic Dept. did not reveal any poisonous submission. Moreover, the Theras's mother sent a representative to the post-mortem inquest to say that the Thera had been a diabetic for the past 10 years. In spite of all the medical evidence the Christians were accused of murder.
When the Buddhist monks attached to the temple where the Monk last stayed wanted permission to perform the last rites on Christmas day, President Chandrika firmly refused and requested them to have it on the 24th instead.
Realising that the monks were intent on causing trouble she held a conference where the IGP was told very clearly that. She did not went a religious strife on her hands and to protect all the churches in Colombo. She went to the extent of telling the IGP that if he did not have sufficient manpower that he could get the help of the Army. This conference was shown on TV. The very next day when I visited my church in Borella. I found 4 police officers armed with guns in the precincts of the church. All the other churches in Colombo were similarly protected.
The funeral orations at the last rites held on the 24th delivered by Buddhist monks accused he Christians of committing murder. Almost every one of them made these accusations to incite the lay people. Once the funeral rites were over the clergy and the laity wanted to go in a procession on he streets of Colombo which was sternly refused by the police thereby averting a disastrous situation on the eve of Christmas 2003.
I am not a fan of Mrs. Chandrika Kumaranatnga but the Christians of this country are indeed indebted to her for preventing attacks on Christian places of worship on that day.
When former President Chandriak says that during her period in office that there was no ethnic or religious strife she is speaking the truth. Whatever her other faults were she was able to maintain law and order in this country.
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Much of the RDT's ground work is carried out by support services that facilitate better overall functioning and offer best possible health care services to the patients.
A 24-hour Pharmacy is available for the convenience of patients and their families. All the common and useful Medical and Surgical Consumables are available at the store.
Radio Diagnosis & Imaging
The Department of Radiology was started in 2002. With the help of imaging techniques, physicians are able to provide early and reliable consultation to the patients, increasing the chances and rate of recovery. It helps in better diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients. Abdominal and Pelvic ultrasounds are extensively carried out as a subset of the Obstetrics & Gynaecology department. As a part of its Cancer Screening Project, a Mammogram Machine has been recently added at Bathalapalli hospital to diagnose breast cancers at an early stage. Digital Radiography facility is available.
Nutrition & Dietetics
The Bathalapalli hospital offers nutritious and ailment-specic diets to its patients, e.g. high protein diets, Jejunostomy feeds, Ryles Tube feeds, and diabetic and renal diets are also provided as per the advice of the nutritionist. The food is provided free of cost to its patients.
Blood Bank
Blood bank with the facility of full blood transfusion services was started in 2003 at Bathalapalli hospital. Now, the blood bank is equipped with component separation facility to separate blood into Platelets, Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP), Packed Cells and Cryoprecipitate (Cryo). The facility is also planning an upgrade to include Plateletpheresis in the near future which will facilitate further the effective use of platelets. With this facility, people have realised the importance of blood donation and saving lives in time.
Clinical Biochemistry and Histopathology Laboratory
The laboratory with clinical biochemistry and histopathology services was started in Bathalapalli hospital in 2001. In 2009, the histopathology services were separated from clinical biochemistry. Nearly 6,000 biopsies, cytology and FNAC and 1,50,000 clinical chemistry tests conducted together enable the hospital in conrming its diagnoses of TB, benign and cancerous tumours, infectious diseases detected via lesions and many more ailments. There are plans to add new instruments in the clinical chemistry lab and immunohistochemistry and liquid-based cytology in pathology services.
In 2008, the lab started automated blood cultures system which helps in diagnosis of sepsis and fever. Soon, TB diagnosis with microscopy were carried with Auramine staining technique and GeneXpert. Molecular Line Probe Assays help to nd out which drugs the TB bacteria in a person are sensitive so new technologies like LPA- GT 48 and Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube ( MGIT 960) have been added to identify TB MDR cases from 2015. This is the only lab having liquid culture system for patient follow-up in the Rayalaseema zone.
Hospital Information System (HIS)
In 2009, RDT brought into use the in-house HIS software. Since then, maintaining patient data has become very convenient. The organised format also helps in fast retrieval of patients' medical history for better treatment. The software is continually being upgraded for future enhancements and better performance.
Biomedical Waste Management
It is indispensable to dispose of biomedical waste from hospital in a stipulated manner, as it can be extremely dangerous for the health of people. The waste is collected thrice a day from the hospital in collection bins that are color-coded in accordance with WHO guidelines. To cause minimum environmental pollution, bio-waste is disposed of by in-house incineration. Kitchen waste and glasses are buried deep in the ground, and plastics are shredded.
To ensure that medical care is swiftly provided to patients during emergencies, Bathalapalli hospital has 4 ambulances that are available round-the-clock for transferring critical patients or patients who need to undergo special investigations like CT scan, MRI, etc. to ther/higher centres.


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|Isaac Asimov
Given my passion for anti-theism, I may not be an accurate representation of the typical atheist, but the fact remains that I know more than a vast number of believers about their own religion. (Although I admit that I'm lacking in non-Christian religious knowledge, but I know more about other religions than most Christians do.)
But the point is not that I'm an atheist, so I know more about religion; that's the wrong cause and effect. I think the more accurate way to phrase it is that I know more about religion, so I'm an atheist.
As the late, great Isaac Asimov wrote: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov
(More quotes like the above on my atheism quotes page.)
|Create-An-Atheist Kit
In short, reading the Bible in detail -- actually paying attention to what's written on every page, not cherry picking -- easily is the best tool out there for atheism. It's also a great tool for developing critical-thinking skills.
The more you know about religions other than your own, the more likely you are to realize how similar they all are. Native Americans believed in their creation myths just as passionately as you believe in yours now. Muslims are just as convinced that they're right as Christians are, and for the same reasons (ancient writings, personal "experiences," and community). It doesn't take much for a rational person to put two and two together to recognize that it's more likely that all current religions are false than only one is true.
A detailed knowledge of the Bible and a better understanding of the numerous world religions is key to organically creating an atheist. How ironic.
Here are some pro-atheism tools that any proactive atheist should feel fine giving any religious friends they have:


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Dr. Erika is also a Registered Acupuncturist.
Acupuncture is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine.
Its most common use is to treat pain, by re-balancing energy flow.
Acupuncture has been used for centuries to treat acute and chronic conditions, and also for prevention. Its non-invasive nature means almost no side effects and no interference with any medications you may be taking. It's a holistic treatment that empowers the body to heal itself. It will address the root of the problem rather than just treat the symptoms.
It's all about balancing your "chi". Chi or qi is the flow of energy through pathways or meridians in your body. By inserting needles into certain points along these meridians, a certified acupuncturist can re-balance your energy flow.
Some of the conditions which can be addressed by acupuncture include: allergies, asthma, arthritis, auto-immune disorders, colitis, depression and anxiety, digestive disorders, fatigue, fertility, headaches and migraines, nausea and heartburn, high blood pressure, infertility, insomnia, menstrual disorders, menopause, pain, pregnancy, repetitive stress injuries, carpal tunnel, sciatica, skin disorders, stress management.
When it comes to trying acupuncture, you have nothing to lose. If you've been dealing with an acute or chronic condition and prescription medication is only managing symptoms, you need to consider this natural and effective therapy. Dr. Erika can plan your course of treatment and get you on the road to recovery and better health for the long term.


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Aloe vera gel or juice (aloe barbadenis) is soothing and cooling to the skin. Is known to have rapid cell regeneration properties; good for wounds, rashes, burns and all skin issues. Anti-bacterial, anti fungal, antiviral, anti-allergy and anti-inflammatory.
Avocado oil (persea gratissima) this thick oil is rich in Vitamins A, C, D & E. Softens and nourishes dry and dehydrated skin and is highly absorbable.
Borage oil (borago officinalis) helps slow down aging of the skin. Helps relieve rashes, irritation of the skin; eczema, inflammation dermatitis.
Castor oil (ricunus communis) a humectant (promotes the retention of water) which is very good for very dry or chapped skin. Gets rid of warts and prevents scars. Castor oil as a poultice is known to dissolve cysts and growths, enhance the thymus gland which supports the immune system. Helps with various cutaneous (skin) issues such as ring worm and itching.
Coconut oil (cocos nucifera) keeps the skin smooth without making it greasy. Rich in antioxidants and is antibacterial.
Evening Primrose oil (oenothera biennis) rejuvenates skin cells. Beneficial for dry scaly skin, dandruff, psoriasis, eczema and wounds. Prevents premature aging. Nice to use in hair oil formulas.
Grapeseed oil (vitis vinifera) rich in vitamins; especially Vitamin E. Is a polyunsaturated fat and is 68%-76% linolenic acid which is important for healthy skin and important for cellular membranes. Good for all skin types and is odourless.
Jojoba oil (simmondsia chinensis) this oil is considered a liquid wax. Is known as our "skin twin". Great for skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, non-oily but yet very softening to the skin. Great for those with sensitive skin. This is not a NUT OIL, and is excellent for all skin types.
Neem oil (azadirachta indica) cold pressed from the neem kernel and is high in oleic acid. Great for skin conditions; eczema, psoriasis, nail fungus. It is antibacterial, antifungal, and antiseptic. Known to repel fleas.
Rosehip oil (rosa mosqueta) great for aging, mature or sensitive skin. Known to help prevent and diminish or fade age spots, stretch marks and wrinkles. Contains Vitamin C and E giving it anti-inflammatory properties for skin conditions; eczema, psoriasis.
Seabuckthorne oil (hippophae rhamnoides) contain 190 bio active components of which 106 are in oils. This oil is great for inflammatory skin conditions such as rosacea, eczema and psoriasis. Helps promote tissue regeneration. 5% Seabuckthorne oil is added to a carrier oil.
Shea butter (butyrospermum parkii) also known as African Karite. High in linoleic acids; very nourishing to the skin cells. Rich in Vitamins A and E.
St. John's Wort (hypericum perforatum) this dark red oil is very soothing to inflamed nerves (anti-inflammatory); sciatica, neuralgia and wounds where there is nerve tissue damage.
Sweet Almond oil (Prunus dulcus) great overall massage oil for all skin types. Works well on itching and dry skin, is anti-inflammatory and helps with burns. This oil and olive oil are great for infusing fresh flowers.
Vegetable glycerin: naturally derived from plants, is a soothing skin emollient, lubricant and humectant. This helps the skin retain its moisture and to restore natural pH balance.
Vitamin E Oil (tocopherol) an antioxidant used as a preservative in oil blends and salves to prolong shelf life. Also beneficial for scars and stretch marks.
Wheat germ oil (tritcum vulgare) this oil is good for skin conditions; anti-inflammatory for the pain and swelling of eczema and psoriasis. Helps prevents premature aging and stretch marks.


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Quercus is a Environment ngo that occupies a place in the portuguese society simultaneously irreverent and constructive, in defense of the multiple causes of nature and environment. At the present time, the planet's resources are increasingly scarce, being essencial to awaken public interest in this matter in order to stop the degradation of the planet Earth.
To improve the communication of the ngo Quercus with the audience, re-designing the Newspaper Quercus Ambiente and create a style guide. This newspaper aims to inform the audience about environmental issues as well as to show the importance of this ngo in society.
After the research the Quercus and its role in society, and the analysis of what people think about this ngo, I decided that to be more relevant we need to create a publication that was conscious, meaningful and free about ecology, in order to raise awareness of people for environmental and civic education as well for the sustainable development of his actions. It was determined that the size of this newspaper should be reduced to tabloid. This compression has several advantages, one of them is less waste of material and also its easy handling.
I chose Arnhem because is a functional typeface but has some personality. Today Sans was the companion of Arnhem being a typeface with impact, that share some particularities, creating an harmonious combination.


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View From Peru: The Amazon And Altiplano
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Here is a detailed review from the Preisers of Walton, NY, who went on a Peruvian adventure, taking in the sights of Machu Picchu, Puno and the Amazon aboard La Amatista:
'Dear Matt,
We are pleased to report a very satisfying and rewarding trip to Peru and the Amazon. All transfer connections were on time. We were very pleased with the accommodations noting that the Casa Morey in Iquitos was exceptional. We were guided around Peru by skilled guides, were well fed and had restroom stops when needed. The visits to Uros and Taquile in Lake Titicaca were magical.
We were lucky to have only 5 in our Amazon tour group on the La Amatista for the first 2 days with our guide Huber, a Peruvian national treasure; he was great and very knowledgeable. His partner, Robinson, who arrived on day 3 with the rest of the group was also top notch. The river trip was most notable for the people and villages along the banks. We saw many birds, but exotic animals are maybe better seen in a zoo.
The second day visit to the aguardiente (sugar cane rum) distillery was amazing. The entire La Amatista crew was ingratiating and their nightly live music wonderful. The boat accommodations were fine with AC, private shower and without bugs. The food was abundant but not exceptional. It was special when the chef prepared the piranhas that we caught and the fish we purchased from a dugout canoe fisherman. I would have liked a dugout canoe paddle experience myself!
Any pre-trip misgivings we had evaporated and your planning and voucher system worked well.


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Designation: Emeritus Scientist
Phone No: 2567760
Phone Ext. No: 6170
E-Mail: aks[at]csmcri.res.in
Project Leader of : In-house project "Functional modification of seaweed polysaccharides"; Miniistry of Earth Sciences funded project "Drugs from the Sea"
Organic Chemistry - Natural Products, Seaweed Polysaccharides and Gels
CURRICULUM VITAEArup Kumar Siddhanta
Date of Birth: March 30, 1954 Present Position and Address: Scientist-F; Group Leader Natural Products Chemistry Group Marine Biotechnology & Ecology Discipline Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Bhavnagar 364 002, Gujarat, India. Phone:91-278-2567760 (Work); Mobile:91-9825189117; Fax:91-278-2567562 (Work)
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com ; Website: www.csmcri.org
Education (Post-Graduation onwards)
Calcutta University
"Studies on heterocycles and organometallic compounds"
Calcutta University
M.Sc. (Chemistry)
Area of Specialisation : Organic Chemistry, Natural products chemistry; Bioactive compounds; Functional modification of seaweed polysaccharides; Polymers; Gels
Professional Experience:
· Visiting Scientist (DFG, Germany), Physical Chemistry I, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth,
Germany, 2003 (July-September) [with Professor Heinz Hoffmann].
· Post-doctoral Research Associate, Divn. of Medicinal Chemistry, Coll. of Pharmacy,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U S A, 1984-85 [with Dr David E Thurston].
· Robert A Welch Fellow, Chemistry Laboratory, Dept of Mol.Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Centre, Dallas, Texas, U S A, 1983-84 [with Professor J R Falck].
· Post-doctoral Research Assistant SERC, UK), Chemistry Department, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, U K, 1980-83 [with Professor Brian Capon].
· Research Fellow (CSIR, New Delhi), Chemistry Department, Calcutta University, Calcutta, 1978-80 [with Professor Avijit Banerji].
· Research Fellow (UGC), Chemistry Dept., Calcutta University, Calcutta, 1975-78 [with Professor Avijit Banerji].
Employment History:
· Scientist F, Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 2007-present.
· Scientist EII, Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 2002-2007.
· Scientist EI, Marine Algae and Marine Environment Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 1997-2002.
· Scientist C, Marine Algae Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 1992-1997.
· Scientist B, Marine Algae Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 1988-1992.
· Scientific Pool Officer, Marine Algae Discipline, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar; 1986-1988.
Invited Talks: Delivered invited talks in India and Germany in Symposia and University Departments
Ph.D. thesis examiner: Bhavnagar University, Madras University, Osmania University, Hyderabad; Calcutta University, Kolkata.
Reviewer: Review papers for various refereed journals including those of NISCOM, CSIR, New Delhi, Polymer journals of Wiley Interscience and Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; Natural Product Communications.
Ph D Students: Five received Ph D; Two registered for PhD degree; 7 Students are currently working for PhD degrees; One did MSc Dissertation, under my supervision.
· Research Papers: 57; Published a number of papers in prestigious journals (Acc Chem Res, J Org Chem, Tetrahedron Letters, Biophys Bichem Acta, Lipids, Org Magnetic Reson, Phytochemistry, Botanica Marina, Int J Biol Macromol, J Phycology; J Applied Phycology; Polymer Journal (Japan); J Appl Polym Science; Polymer International, Food Hydrocolloids, Carbohydrate Polymers, Green Chemistry, J Polymer Materials, J Materials Science, Bioresource Technology, Indian J Exp Biol, Indian J Marine Sci, Separation Science and Technology; Indian J Chemistry A & B; J Indian Chemical Soc) in the areas of natural products chemistry of terrestrial plant, marine algae/seaweeds, animal (mammal), functional modification of seaweed polysaccharides, hydrogels, enols and analytical chemistry.
· Patents Co-inventor in four patents: One USP 6,893,479; dated May 17, 2005; One US Patent US Patent No. US 7067568 B1; June 27, 2006; One US Patent (US Patent Publication No. US 2005/0267296 A1) pregrant application published on December 1, 2005; one filed (September 2008).
Technology Transfers:
(i) One patented technology "Integrated method for production of carrageenan and liquid fertilizer from fresh seaweeds" (USP 6,893,479) transferred to M/s Pepsico India Holdings Ltd. during 2005-2006.
(ii) The technology entitled "Cultivation of Gracilaria edulis and Extraction of Agar Therefrom" was transferred to M/s Community Enterprise Forum International, New Delhi, during 2006-2007. This technology is based on our patent entitled "A cost-effective process for preparing agarose from Gracilaria spp."(US 2005/0267296 A1; GB2429209).
(iii) Demonstration of know how transfer for Sargassum based LSF on a 5 kg seaweeds batch in the pilot plant (March 26-28, 2008). The know how was transferred to M/s Jupiter Agriinputs Corporation, Vadodara.
(a) Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)-Drug Project: Principal Investigator (1990-
(b) Functional modification of seaweed polysaccharides for preparing new gels and materials (2008-2011; In-house project)
(b) Value addition of seaweeds and seaweed polysaccharides: Project Leader (2005-2008; in-house project).
(e) Modification of seaweed polysaccharides for special effects: Project Leader (2002-2005; in-house project).
(f) DBT/In-house Project on seaweed polysaccharides- "Improvements in Cultivation of Agarophytes, Carrageenophytes and their Phycocolloid Extraction Procedures": Member of the team (2000-2004).
(c) Industry Project: Feasibility studies on the development of carrageenan-based hard capsule material: Project Leader (2007-2008)
(d) Industry Project:Development of seaweed polysaccharide-based soft gelatin capsule material: Project Leader (2004-2006)
HRD Experience: More than 40 students/research staff have carried out R&D works under my supervision, five of them received their PhD degree and one did his MSc Dissertation. Five students are working in projects under my supervision for their PhD degrees.
Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Ph.D.
1. Patent entitled "Integrated method for production of carrageenan and liquid fertilizer from fresh seaweeds". Karuppanan Eswaran, Pushpito Kumar Ghosh, Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Jinalal Shambhubhai Patolia, Chellaiah Periyasamy, Aditya Shantibhai Mehta, Kalpana Haresh Mody, Bharatkumar Kalidas Ramavat, Kamalesh Prasad, Mahesh Rameshchandra Rajyaguru, Singaram Kulandaivel Chennur Radhakrishna Reddy, Jayant Batukrai Pandya, Akhilesh Tewari.
2. Patent entitled "A cost-effective process for preparing agarose from Gracilaria spp". Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, Bharatkumar Kalidas Ramavat, Pushpito Kumar Ghosh, Karuppanan Eswaran, Sangaiya Thiruppathi, Vaibhav Ajit Mantri.
3. Patent entitled "Process of preparation of biodegradable films from semi refined kappa carrageenan. Pushpito Kumar Ghosh, Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Kamalesh Prasad, Ramavatar Meena, Amit Bhattacharya.
4. A US and PCT patent application with full specifications entitled "Improved process for the preparation of agarose polymer from seaweed extractive" (Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Pushpito Kumar Ghosh, Gaurav Mehta, Bhartkumar Kalidas Ramavat, Meenakshi Sundaram Ganesan, Bhavanath Jha, Avinash Mishra, Mahesh Ramniklal Gandhi, Pradeep Kumar Agarwal, Karuppanan Eswaran). Sent to CSIR for filing on September 23, 2008.
Technology Transfers
(i) One patented technology "Integrated method for production of carrageenan and liquid fertilizer from fresh seaweeds" (USP 6,893,479) transferred to M/s Pepsico India Holdings Ltd. during 2005-2006.
(ii) The technology entitled "Cultivation of Gracilaria edulis and Extraction of Agar Therefrom" was transferred to M/s Community Enterprise Forum International, New Delhi, during 2006-2007. This technology is based on our patent entitled "A cost-effective process for preaparing agarose from Gracilaria spp." (US 2005/0267296 A1; GB2429209).
(iii) Demonstration of know how transfer for Sargassum based LSF on a 5 kg seaweeds batch in the pilot plant (March 26-28, 2008). The know how was transferred to M/s Jupiter Agriinputs Corporation, Vadodara.
Dissertations Guided
Ph D Dissertations
(i) Mr M Shanmugam was awarded Ph.D. degree in Chemistry of Bhavnagar University in December 1998, for his thesis entitled Studies on the Biomedically and Industrially Important Metabolites of Indian Marine Algae, [Guide : Dr A K Siddhanta].
(ii) Mr A Sai Krishna Murthy was awarded Ph D degree in Chemistry of Bhavnagar University in November 2000, for his thesis entitled Chemical investigation of Indian marine algae with special reference to water soluble metabolites [Guide : Dr A K Siddhanta].
(iii) Mr A M Goswami was awarded Ph D degree in Chemistry of Bhavnagar University in January 2001, for his thesis entitled Chemical studies on the metabolites of Indian marine algae [Guide : Dr A K Siddhanta].
(iv) Mr Kamalesh Prasad, Scientist C, was awarded Ph D degree in Chemistry of Bhavnagar University in December 2005, for his thesis entitled Chemical and Rheological Characterization of Seaweed Polysaccharides [Guide: Dr A K Siddhanta].
(v) Mr Ramavatar Meena, Scientist C, was awarded Ph D degree in Chemistry of Bhavnagar University in December 2007, for his thesis entitled Chemical Studies on the Polysaccharides of Indian Seaweeds with Special Reference to Agar [Guide: Dr A K Siddhanta].
M Sc Dissertation
(i) Mr Deepak Kumar Sinha carried out project work (January-June 2004) of M Sc (Biotechnology) Semester IV Course of Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur University and submitted a dissertation in June 2004, entitled DNA Characterization of the Red Seaweed Eucheuma cottonii & Chemical Investigation of Seaweed Polysaccharides (e.g. Agar & Carrageenan).
(Guide: Dr A K Siddhanta; Co-guide : Dr C R K Reddy).
Arup Kumar Siddhanta, Ph.D.
Research Papers
1. Banerji, A.; Ray, R.; Siddhanta, A. and Pal, S., "Constituents of Piper sylvaticum and Piper aurantiacum". Indian J. Chem. 17B: 538, 1979.
2. Banerji, A.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Acharya, A.K. and Dutta, C.P., "Carbon-13 NMR Spectroscopy of Kawa-pyrones". Org. Mag. Reson. 13: 345-48, 1980.
3. Banerji, A. and Siddhanta, A.K., "Studies on Kawa-pyrones: Synthesis of 5,6- Dehydrokawain". Current Science (India), 49, 845-47, 1980.
4. Banerji, A. and Siddhanta, A.K., "Schloraine: An Indole Alkaloid of Alstonia scholaris". Phytochemistry, 20: 540-42, 1981 [IF 2.322].
5. Banerji, A. and Siddhanta, A.K., "3,4-Bond Cleavage of Tetrahydro--carboline Alkaloids: Transformation of Venenatine and Rhazine to the 2-Acylindole Derivatives". J. Indian Chem. Soc. 59: 542-47, 1982.
6. Banerji, A.; Siddhanta, A.K. and Ghosal, T., "Metal Reagents in organic reactions: Part III - 1,2-Diamination of Styrene Utilizing Amino-mercuration Reaction". Indian J. Chem. 21B:464-66, 1982.
7. Capon, B. and Siddhanta, A.K., "The Stereochemistry of Simple Enols in Solution". Tet. Lett. 23: 3199-3202, 1982.
8. Falck, J.R.; Manna, S.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Capdevila, J. and Buynak, J.D., "Transformation of 15-HETE to 14,15-Dihydroxyeicosatrienotic acid and 11,14,15- and 13,14,15-trihydroxyeicosatrienoic acid". Tet. Lett., 24: 5715-5718, 1983.
9. Capon, B. and Siddhanta, A.K., "Simple Enols 3. The Stereochemistry of Simple Enols in Solution". J. Org. Chem., 49: 255-257, 1984.
10. Falck, J.R.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Estabrook, R.W.; Capdevila, J. and Mioskowski, C., "5- and 8-HETE Production by Rat Hepatic Microsomal Cytochrome P-450". Tet. Lett., 25: 1457-1458, 1984.
11. Banerji, A.; Bondopadhyay, D.; Sarkar, M.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Pal, S.C.; Ghosh, S.; Abraham, D. and Shoolery, J.N., "Structural and Synthetic Studies on the Retrofractamides - Amide Constituents of Piper retrofractum". Phytochemistry, 24: 279-284, 1985.
12. Capon, B.; Siddhanta, A.K. and Zucco, C., "Simple Enols 4. The Generation of Some New Simple Enols in Solution and the Kinetics and Mechanisms of Their Ketonization". J. Org. Chem. 50: 3580-3584, 1985.
13. Falck, J.R.; Manna, S.; Viala, J.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Moustakis, C.A. and Capdevila J., "Arachidonate Epoxygenase: Inhibitors and Metabolite Analogues". Tet. Lett. 26: 2287- 2290, 1985.
14. Toto, R.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Manna, S.; Pramanik, B.; Falck, J.R. and Capdevila, J., "Arachidonic Acid Expoxygenase: Detection of Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids in Human Urine". Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Lipids and Lipid Metabolism, 919: 132-139, 1987 [IF 2.371].
15. Falck, J.R.; Schueler, V.J.; Jacobson, H.R.; Siddhanta, A.K.; Pramanik, B. and Capdevila, J., "Arichidonate Epoxygenase: Identification of Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids in Rabbit Kidney". J. Lipid Res. 28: 840-846, 1987 [IF 3.893].
16. Banerji, A.; Bandyopadhyay, D. and Siddhanta, A.K., "Synthesis of Retrofractamide A". Phytochemistry, 26: 3345-3346, 1987.
17. Capon B.; Guo, B.; Kwok, F.C.; Siddhanta, A.K. and Zucco, C., "The Generation of Simple Enols in Solution". Acc. Chem. Res. 21: 135-140, 1988 [IF 16.214].
18. Siddhanta*, A.K.; Ramavat, B.K.; Chauhan, V.D.; Achari, B.; Dutta, P.K. and Pakrashi, S.C., "Sulphonoglycolipid from the Green Alga Enteromorpha flexuosa (Wulf.) J.Ag." Botanica Marina 34 (4): 365-367, 1991.
19. Sen, A.K. Sr., Das, A.K., Banerji, N., Siddhanta*, A.K., Mody, K.H., Ramavat, B.K., Chauhan, V.D., Vedasiromoni, J.R. and Ganguly, D.K., " A new sulphated polysaccharide with potent blood-anticoagulant activity from the red seaweed Grateloupia indica". Int.J.Biol. Macromol., 16(5): 279-280, 1994.
20. Siddhanta*, A.K.; Mody, K.H.; Ramavat, B.K.; Chauhan, V.D.; Garg, H.S.; and Sharma, M., "Characterization of Sulphonoglycolipid from the Red Alga Laurencia pedicularioides". Botanica Marina 38:329-331, 1995.
21. Siddhanta*, A.K., Mody, K.H., Ramavat, B.K., Chauhan, V.D., Garg, H.S., Goel, A.K., Jinandra Doss, M., Srivastava, M.N., Patnaik, G.K. and Kamboj, V.P., Bioactivity of marine organisms: Part VIII - Screening of some marine flora of western coast of India. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 35:638-643, 1997.
22. Siddhanta*, A.K., Shanmugam, M., Ramavat, B.K. and Mody, K.H., Agar from Gracilaria dura of the west coast of India. Seaweed Research and Utilisation 19 (1&2):95-99, 1997.
23. Siddhanta*, A.K., A.M. Goswami, M. Shanmugam, K.H. Mody, B.K. Ramavat and O.P. Mairh. Studies on sulphated polysaccharides of Laurencia species of the west coast of India, In : Recent Trends in Algal Research (Ed. G. Subba Rangaiah); Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University Publications; pp. 91-98; 1999.
24. Mody, K.H., Sai Krishnamurthy, A., Siddhanta*, A.K., Ramavat, B.K. and Mairh, O.P., Investigation on the sulphated polysaccharides of Sargassum cinctum of Saurashtra coast, In : Recent Trends in Algal Research (Ed. G. Subba Rangaiah); Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University Publications; pp. 83-90; 1999.
25. Siddhanta*, A.K., Shanmugam, M., Mody, K.H., Goswami, A.M. and Ramavat, B.K. Sulphated polysaccharides of Codium dwarkense Boergs. from the west coast of India : Chemical composition and blood anticoagulant activity. International J. Biol. Macromol. 26:151-154, 1999.
26. Shanmugam, M., Mody, K. H. and Siddhanta*, A. K.. Blood anticoagulant sulphated polysaccharides of the marine green algae Codium dwarkense (Boergs.) and C. tomentosum (Huds.) Stackh. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 39:365-370, 2001.
27. Siddhanta*, A.K., Goswami, A.M., Ramavat, B.K., Mody, K.H. & Mairh, O.P. Water soluble polysaccharides of marine algal species Ulva (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) of Indian waters. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 30 :166-172, 2001.
28. Shanmugam, M., Mody, K.H. Ramavat, B.K., Sai Krishna Murthy, A. and Siddhanta*, A.K. Screening of Codiacean algae (Chlorophyta) of the Indian coasts for blood anticoagulant activity. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 31:33-38, 2002.
29. Siddhanta*, A.K., Shanmugam, M., Goswami, A. M., Mody, K.H. and Ramavat, B.K. Sterols from marine green algae of Indian waters. Journal of Indian Chemical Society 79 : 294-297, 2002.
30. Siddhanta*, A.K., Goswami, A. M., Shanmugam, M., Mody, K. H., Ramavat, B. K. and Mairh, O. P. Sulphated galactans of marine red alga Laurencia spp. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from the west coast of India. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 31 (4) : 305-309, 2002.
31. Siddhanta*, A.K., Goswami, A. M., Ramavat, B. K. and Achari, B. Nitrogenous glycerolipids from Ulva fasciata (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) of West Coast of India. J Indian Chem Soc 79: 843-845, 2002.
32. Shahi, V.K*., Thampy, S.K., Siddhanta, A.K. and Rangarajan, R. Separation of sodium sulfate and p-toluene sulfonic acid by electrodialysis. Separation Science and Technology 37(14) : 3273-3289, 2002.
33. A K Sen, Sr.*, A K Das, K K Sarkar, A K Siddhanta, R Takano, K Kamei and S Hara. An agaroid-carrageenan hybrid type backbone structure for the antithrombic sulfated polysaccharide from Grateloupia indica Boergensen (Halymeniales, Rhodophyta). Botanica Marina 45 :331-338, 2002 [IF 0.976].
34. CRK Reddy*, G Raja Krishna Kumar, K Eswaran, A K Siddhanta and A Tewari. In vitro somatic embryogenesis and regeneration of somatic embryos from pigmented callus of Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) Doty (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales)". Journal of Phycology 39 (3) :610-616, 2003.
35. Kamalesh Prasad, A. K. Siddhanta*, A. K. Rakshit, Amit Bhattacharya and Pushpito K. Ghosh*. On the properties of agar gel containing ionic and non-ionic surfactants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 35:135-144, 2005 [IF 1.578].
36. Kamalesh Prasad, Keyur Trivedi, Ramavatar Meena, A. K. Siddhanta*. Physical modification of agar: Formation of agar-fatty acid complex. Polymer Journal 37(11): 826-832, 2005 [IF 1.421].
37. K. Prasad, K. Trivedi, A. K. Siddhanta and A. Bhattacharya. Surface tension studies of polymer-surfactant solutions: I. Agar-CTAB. Indian J Chem 44A:2445-2449, 2005.
38. Kamalesh Prasad, Ramavatar Meena and A.K Siddhanta*. Microwave induced rapid one-pot synthesis of k-carrageenan-g-PMMA copolymer by potassium persulphate initiating system. J Appl Polymer Science 101:161-166, 2006 [IF 1.008].
39. Meena R., Prasad, K. and Siddhanta*, A.K. 2006. Studies on "sugar reactivity" of agars extracted from some Indian agarophytes. Food Hydrocolloids 20:1206-1215, 2006 [IF 2.492].
40. Kamalesh Prasad, Gaurav Mehta, Ramavatar Meena, A.K. Siddhanta*. Hydrogel forming agar-graft-PVP and k-carrageenan-graft-PVP blends: Rapid synthesis and characterization. J Appl Polymer Science 102:3654-3663, 2006 [IF 1.008].
41. Prasad, Kamalesh, Goswami, A.M, Meena, Ramavatar, Ramavat, B.K., Ghosh, Pushpito K. and Siddhanta*, A.K. Superior quality agar from Gelidiella acerosa (Forsskal) J. Feldmann & G. Hamel (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales) of the west coast of India: An evaluation. Ind J Mar Sci 35:268-274, 2006 [IF 0.302].
42. Meena, Ramavatar, Prasad, Kamalesh, Mehta, Gaurav and Siddhanta*, A. K. Synthesis of the copolymer hydrogel k-carrageenan-graft-PAAm : Evaluation of its absorbent and adhesive properties. J Appl Polymer Science 102, 5144-5152, 2006 [IF 1.008].
43. Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, A. K. Siddhanta*. Preparation of genipin-fixed agarose hydrogel. J Applied Polymer Science 104:290-296, 2007 [IF 1.008].
44. Kamalesh Prasad, A K Siddhanta*, M Ganesan, B K Ramavat, B. Jha and P K Ghosh. Agars of Gelidiella acerosa (Forsskal) J. Feldmann & G. Hamel (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales) of west and southeast coasts of India. Bioresource Technology 98:1907-1915, 2007 [doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2006.07.028] [IF 3.103].
45. Ramavatar Meena, A.K. Siddhanta*, Kamalesh Prasad, B. K. Ramavat, K. Eswaran, S. Thiruppathi, M. Ganesan, Vaibhav A. Mantri and P V Subba Rao. Preparation, characterization and benchmarking of agarose from Gracilaria dura of Indian waters. Carbohydrate Polymers 69:179-188, 2007 [30-3-2007; doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2006.09.020] [IF 1.782].
46. Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, A. K. Siddhanta*. Effect of genipin, a naturally occurring crosslinker on the properties of kappa-carrageenan. Int J of Biological Macromolecules 41(1):94-101, 2007 [doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2007.01.008] [IF 1.578].
47. S. Santinath Singh, A. K. Siddhanta, Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, S. Bandyopadhyay and H. B. Bohidar*. Intermolecular Complexation and Phase Separation in Aqueous Solutions of Oppositely Charged Biopolymers. Int J Biological Macromolecules 41:185-192, 2007 [doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2007.02.004] [IF 1.578].
48. Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, Mahesh Chhatbar, A K Siddhanta*. Development of a robust hydrogel system based on agar and sodium alginate blend. Polymer International 57: 329-336, 2008.
49. Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, M Ganesan and A K Siddhanta*. Superior quality agar from Gracilaria species (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) collected from Gulf of Mannar, India. J Appl Phycol 20:397-402, 2008 [DOI 10.1007/s10811-007-9272-6] [IF 0.788].
50. Kamalesh Prasad*, Ramavatar Meena, A K Siddhanta*. A new approach to functionalize agar and κ-carrageenan based thin films with improved barrier properties. J Polymer Materials 25 (3):373-380, 2008 [IF 0.373].
51. Kamalesh Prasad*, P Bahadur, Ramavatar Meena and A K Siddhanta. Facile solvent free synthesis of polymerised sucrose functionalised polyoxyethylene (23) lauryl ether by microwave irradiation. Green Chemistry; 10:1288-1293, 2008 [DOI:10.1039/b810514f] [IF 4.836].
52. Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, A K Siddhanta*. Development of a stable hydrogelnetwork based on agar-kappa-carrageenan blend cross-linked with genipin. Food Hydrocolloids 23 (2): 497-509, 2009 (Published online; March 25, 2008) [doi:10.1016/j.foodhyd.2008.03.008] [IF 2.492].
53. Mahesh Chhatbar, Ramavatar Meena*, Kamalesh Prasad and A K Siddhanta*. Microwave assisted rapid method for hydrolysis of sodium alginate for M/G ratio determination. Carbohydrate Polymers 76: 650-656, 2009 [doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2008.11.033] [IF 2.64].
54. Gayatri Prasad, Kamalesh Prasad, Ramavatar Meena and A K Siddhanta*. Facile preparation of Chaetomorpha antennina based porous polysaccharide-PMMA hybrid material by radical polymerization under microwave irradiation. J Materials Science 44(15): 4062-4068, 2009 (Online June 15, 2009; DOI: 10.1007/s10853-009-3586-5) [IF 1.081].
55. Mahesh U Chhatbar, Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad and A.K. Siddhanta*. Agar/sodium alginate-graft-polyacrylonitrile, a stable hydrogel system. Indian J Chem 48A:1085-1090, 2009 [IF=0.60].
56. A K Siddhanta*, Kamalesh Prasad; Ramavatar Meena; Gayatri Prasad; Gaurav K Mehta; Mahesh U Chhatbar; Mihir D Oza; Sanjay Kumar; Naresh Sanandiya. Profiling of cellulose content in Indian seaweed species. Bioresource Technology 100: 6669-6673, 2009 [doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2009.07.047] [IF=4.5].
57. Gaurav K Mehta, Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad, M Ganesan, A K Siddhanta*. Preparation of galactans from Gracilaria debilis and Gracilaria salicornia (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) of Indian waters. J Appl Phycol (In press; January 4, 2010; DOI: 10.1007/s10811-010-9502-1) [IF=1.2].
Book Chapters
1. Siddhanta, A.K.*, Meena, R., Prasad, G., Chhatbar, M.U., Mehta, G.K., Oza, M.D., Kumar, S., Prasad, K. Development of carbohydrate polymer based new hydrogel materials derived from seaweed polysaccharides in "Handbook of Carbohydrate Polymers: Development, Properties and Applications" Ito, Ryouichi and Matsuo, Youta (Eds), Chapter 15. Series: Polymer Science and Technology 2010. ISBN: 978-1-60876-367-2. NOVA Science Publishers Inc., New York, April 2009 (In press).
2. Ramavatar Meena and A K Siddhanta*. Agar and Value Addition of Indian Agarophytes. In the monograph on "Recent Advances on Applied Aspects of Indian Marine Algae with Reference to Global Scenario", Vol. 2 (A Tewari, Ed.), 2006; pp.172-184, CSMCRI Bhavnagar.
3. A K Siddhanta*, Ramavatar Meena, Kamalesh Prasad and A Sai Krishna Murthy. Seaweed polysaccharides, their bioactivity and value addition the Indian perspective. In the monograph on Agar and Value Addition of Indian Agarophytes. In the monograph on "Recent Advances on Applied Aspects of Indian Marine Algae with Reference to Global Scenario", Vol. 2 (A Tewari, Ed.), 2006; pp.229-243, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar.
Review Articles
1. Siddhanta, A K. Chemical investigation and value addition of seaweeds. Indian Hydrobiology7 (Supplement):29-34; July 2005.
2. Siddhanta*, A.K., Goswami, A.M. and Sai Krishna Murthy, A. Bioactive compounds from marine algae. Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: Current R&D Highlights 23: 21-25, 2000 (Publisher : NICDP, CDRI, Lucknow; published in April 2001).
3. Siddhanta*, A.K. and Sai Krishna Murthy, A. Bioactive polysaccharides from marine brown algae (Phaeophyceae). Journal of Indian Chemical Society 78:431-437, 2001.
4. Siddhanta*, A.K. and M. Shanmugam, Metabolites of Tropical Marine Algae of the Family Codiaceae (Chlorophyta) : Chemistry and Bioactivity. Journal of Ind. Chem. Soc. 76 : 323-334; 1999.
5. Siddhanta*, A.K.; Ramavat, B.K.; Mody, K. and Chauhan, V.D., "Biomedical Potential of Marine Algae". Seaweed Research and Utilization 15 (1&2): 149-157, 1992.
General Articles
1. Chauhan, V.D.; Siddhanta*, A.K., "Samudri Shabaal Ke Ousodhiya Upyoga (Medicinal Application of Marine Algae)". In: Samudri Sansadhano Se Ousodhiyaa (Drugs from the Sea). Eds. S.A.H.Abidi, B.N.Dhawan, H.S.Garg, G.Mantri, K.R. Sharma).Mahasagar Vikas Vibhag, Bharat Sarkar (Department of Ocean Development,Government of India), New Delhi, 1992, p. 49-54.
2. Siddhanta*, A.K., Mody, K.H., Ramavat, B.K. and Chauhan, V.D., "Bharatiya Samudri Shaibaal se Upalabddha Jaibasakriya Yogikon ka Addhayana ( Studies on the bioactive compounds of Indian marine algae)". In: Mahasagariya Sansadhana (Investigation on Ocean) (Eds. S.A.H. Abidi, J.B.R. Prasadrao, B.N. Dhawan, P. Natarajan, R.N. Vohra, Ms. Rakesh Sharma). Mahasagar Vikas Vibhag, Bharat Sarkar (Department of Ocean Development, Government of India), New Delhi, p.217-224, 1994.
3. Natarajan, P. and Siddhanta*, A. K., Marine algae - Their chemistry and utilization. In:Souvenir of published by the Seaweed Research and Utilization Association on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations during September 2-6, 1994; pp.34-36.
4. Siddhanta*, A.K., Marine algal polysaccharides - Functions and utilisation. In : Trends in Carbohydrate Chemistry (Ed. P.L. Soni). (IX Carbohydrate Conference, Lucknow, November 24-26, 1993). Surya International Publications, Dehra Dun - 248 001 (India), 1995; pp. 125-131.
5. Siddhanta*, A.K., Mairh, O.P. and Natarajan, P., Value added marine flora, In:Chemistry and Biology of Herbal Medicine (Eds. V P Agrawal and V P Kamboj). Society of Biosciences, Muzaffarnagar, India, 1997; pp. 163-174.
1. Falck J R, Schueler V J, Jacobson H R, Siddhanta A K, Pramanik B, Capdevila J. Detection of 8,9-Epoxyeicosatrienoic and 14,15-Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids as Endogenous Components of Rabbit Kidney. Kidney International 31(1): 269-269, Jan 1987.
2. Toto R D, Falck J R, Siddhanta A K, Capdevila J. Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids (EETs) In Human-Urine (Hu) - Detection Of 8,9-Regioisomers And 14,15-Regioisomers. Kidney International 31(1): 289-289, Jan 1987.


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Vautour and Gollish named Investors Group Athletes of the Week, powered by 2XU
BURLINGTON, Ont. – The following athletes have been named Investors Group Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Athletes of the Week, powered by 2XU, for the period ending November 14th, 2017.
Male Athlete of the Week – Daniel Vautour (St. Louis de Kent, N.B.), 1st Year – RMC Paladins
It had been a winless start to the season for the RMC Paladins men's hockey team, but thanks in large part to rookie goaltender Daniel Vautour, the team was able to crack the goose egg in fine fashion this week.
Not only did Vautour backstop the Paladins to their first two victories of the season, but did so against a top-ten squad in all of Canada. Going head to head with No. 7 UQTR, Vautour stood tall between the pipes in both the 2-1 (OT) win and the following 4-1 victory. The goaltender stopped 32 of 33 shots in the first game, and outdid himself in the second half of the back-to-back by stopping 44 of 45 shots.
The first-year Arts student, on an individual note, tallied his first two career wins, but also secured RMC's first wins over UQTR since 2005.
Female Athlete of the Week – Sasha Gollish (Toronto, Ont.), 5th Year – Toronto Varsity Blues
Not only has University of Toronto women's cross country champion Sasha Gollish been named the Varsity Blues female athlete of the week, but the OUA's female standout as well.
The fifth-year veteran won the women's individual title to lead the Varsity Blues women's cross country team to their first national banner since 2002 at the 2017 U SPORTS championships in Victoria, B.C. Appearing in her fourth U SPORTS cross country championships since being named rookie of the year in 2000, Gollish, a 35-year-old PhD in engineering education candidate, won the 8km race in 27:36.27.
The 2015 Pan Am Games 1500m bronze medalist made a decisive move to build a gap on Claire Sumner and Branna MacDougall, both of Queen's, in the final 1000m of the race.
Gollish becomes the first Varsity Blue to win the individual national title since Megan Brown in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and led U of T to their third national title in program history.


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Currently being phased in for different types of claimant across the UK, it is aimed at making the system simpler so people who are able to work are rewarded for doing so.
But it has been criticised for running over budget and causing delays to people's payments.
On Wednesday, another former prime minister, Labour's Gordon Brown, also attacked the scheme, calling for it to be put on hold.
The current Labour leadership has gone further and vowed to scrap it.
Speaking on the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, Sir John – who was PM from 1990 to 1997 – said the theory behind the reform was "impeccable" and "entirely logical" – but he warned against it being introduced "too soon and in the wrong circumstances".
He said people who faced losing out in the short term had to be protected, "or you run into the sort of problems the Conservative Party ran into with the poll tax in the late 1980s".
The poll tax, or community charge, was supposed to make local council finance fairer and more accountable.
Instead it triggered civil disobedience and riots and a rebellion in the Conservative Party which contributed to the fall of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.
Sir John, who scrapped the poll tax when he replaced her in Downing Street, said he was not predicting riots as a result of universal credit.
But, referring to reports that millions of households face losing £2,400 a year, he said: "I am saying that if you have people who have that degree of loss, that is not something that the majority of the British population would think of as fair.
"And if people think you have to remove yourself from fairness, then you are in deep political trouble."
Downing Street said no-one moving on to universal credit would lose out and that the nationwide rollout next year would proceed gradually in order to identify difficulties.


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Flexible production cell featuring bending robots and encoding by transfluid
19th February 2018
When the requirements are complex, a solution is required that provides dynamic and diverse results, like in the case of transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH's current project. The specially developed automation system bends 6m long pipes with small diameters at a consistently high speed. Simultaneously, the transfluid production unit is capable of producing shorter pipelines of 500mm featuring diverse bending geometry in large quantities. Handling the coated pipes during the process is also demanding. Due to the sensitive surfaces, special care and treatment are required during processing.
To ensure that production can be implemented safely, quickly, and thoroughly, transfluid has equipped two robots that are used as bending machines with different magazines. One magazine is a so-called "chain conveyor". It guides long pipes to the bending robot. According to the markings placed on the pipes by the encoding beforehand, the robots are able to detect which geometries need to be produced. In this case, they are capable of bending a long pipe from one side to the centre. Following processing, the workpiece is placed on a slide.
The bending cell also possesses a separate step conveyor. This feeds in short pipe lengths, including two different pipes if this is required. Depending on the case at hand, each robot processes a different geometry or pipes with another diameter. This enables a large series of short components to be processed efficiently at the same time. Long components can be processed just as effectively.
"An additional challenge for the development of our solution was that all the pipes have previously formed ends on both sides or they already have cutting rings mounted," explains Stefanie Flaeper, General Manager at transfluid. "With robot technology, bending geometry may be started at an extremely short distance from the bend on both previously mounted ends. And the process, i.e. preparing the ends first and then bending, is able to be implemented consistently for any pipe with this bending technique."
This makes pre-processing of the ends significantly cheaper and faster. Because of this process, there are no geometric limitations, and the pipe can be sealed beforehand with caps. This makes it immediately available for use after bending.
In addition to flexibility, an additional strength of the automation system offers another advantage that cannot be underestimated: The robots do not need to be programmed. As with any conventional bending machine, the necessary data may be loaded into the bending robots with a data file directly from the CAD system and transformed into a bending geometry. This makes the psychological barrier raised by programming a thing of the past. The systems can also be linked online with all relevant measurement systems.
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… A Smooth, Creamy Frosting for Spreading or Piping!
This frosting is perfect for decorating your cutout cookies at Christmas time, or for any time you make rolled and shaped cookies. The frosting spreads very smoothly, and is the right consistency for piping your fine details (this is not my forte, as you can see). The frosting will firm up just right as it sets.
Using only three ingredients: vegan margarine, almond milk, and powdered sugar, you'll have a clean, white frosting. Want to know a tip? I omitted the vanilla extract because I don't think this recipe needs the flavor, and it will cause the white frosting to become beige. If you want colored frosting, simply add a few drops of food coloring. If you need to stay away from using food coloring dye, you can create your own natural food dyes by using carrot juice for yellow and orange, beet juice for red or pink, elderberry or blueberry juice for blue and purple, and a combination of your carrot and elderberry juice for green. Depending on how strong you want your natural colors to be, you may need to substitute some of the almond milk or non-dairy milk with your juice, so as not to make your frosting too runny.
Have fun and don't worry about being a perfectionist when embellishing your cookies. Part of the fun of these cookies is the handmade love that shows on them. Happy decorating!
Gluten-free Dairy-free Cutout Cookie Frosting
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: None
Makes: about 2 ½ cups of frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
4 Tablespoons non-dairy margarine, melted – I use Earth Balance Natural Buttery Spread – soy free
2 2/3 Tablespoons (8 teaspoons) non-dairy milk substitute – I use Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Almond Milk
food colorings of your choice, optional – I like to use India Tree Vegetable Colorants (all natural)
decorating sugars or candies, optional
Place sugar, margarine, and milk in a bowl. Whisk until smooth and ingredients are completely combined. Set aside for about 5 minutes to slightly stiffen.
If adding coloring, place some of the white frosting and in a small bowl and add coloring as needed. If the frosting becomes too thin, simply stir in additional powdered sugar, 1-2 Tablespoons at a time until desired consistency is reached. If frosting becomes too thick, add in a teaspoon of liquid (either non-dairy milk or juice for coloring) until desired consistency is reached. It requires much less liquid to thin frosting than it requires of powdered sugar to thicken. It isn't a one-to-one ratio.
Spread on cookies as desired. If piping, let frosting sit for about 15 minutes to stiffen a bit more. Stir before adding to piping bag fitted with piping tip. For a quick substitute to a professional piping bag, use a re-sealable plastic baggie, cut the tip off of one corner, fit with piping tip, and proceed as usual.
Set frosted cookies on a plate or cooling rack to let frosting firm up for about an hour, unless you want to eat softly frosted cookies right away (which is practically a must when decorating Christmas cookies, right?)
Store in an airtight, re-sealable container at room temperature for up to a week.
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