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January 2007
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and a Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and their Effects
2007 Emmons Lecture
Mary Lou Zoback, Vice President for Earthquake Risk Applications, RMS (Risk Management Solutions)
Abstract: The 1906 M=7.9 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault marked the birth of modern earthquake science in the U. S. For the first time, an earthquake was interpreted as a recurring phenomena along an active fault. The trace of the San Andreas fault was mapped throughout California and offset on the 300 km long surface rupture documented. Comprehensive study of seismic intensity showed the strongest shaking occurred in areas of "made land" (fill) and soft sediment, including China Basin and the present day Marina district, two San Francisco neighborhoods again heavily damaged in 1989. Damage to structures showed destruction was closely related to building design and construction — a painful lesson oft repeated around the world. Based on repeated surveying data and geologic evidence of recurrence, Henry Reid proposed the elastic rebound hypothesis — that earthquakes represent sudden release of elastic energy along a fault resulting from a cycle of slow strain accumulation produced by relative displacements of neighboring portions of the crust. This hypothesis, developed five decades before the plate tectonics revolution provides the basis for modern seismic hazard analysis. We now know that a repeat of the 1906 earthquake is only one of a wide number of future major damaging earthquakes likely to impact the Bay Area. Although we can not predict earthquakes, we can predict their likely effects and the most hazardous regions.
February 2007
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March 2007
Evolution and Occurrence of Uranium Deposits Through Geologic Time
Sam Romberger, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract: The formation of economic concentrations of uranium is controlled by the contrasting behavior of its two principal oxidation states, the normally immobile reduced uranous U4+ ion, and the generally mobile oxidized U6+ as the uranyl ion UO22+. During primary igneous processes the incompatible behavior of U4+ results in concentration in late alkalic differentiates. Therefore, the mobility and concentration of uranium will be strongly dependent on the redox state of the earth's crust. A major timeline during the evolution of the earth was about 2400 Ma when the crust of the earth changed from reduced to oxidized. Previous to that time, uranium was concentrated in paleoplacer deposits, exemplified by Elliot Lake. Following the oxygenation of the atmosphere and hydrosphere most economical deposits, i.e, unconformity-related, sandstone-hosted, vein-type, and breccia pipe, resulted from fluid transport of uranium as uranyl carbonate complexes and deposition by reduction; similar processes resulted in the subeconomic shale-hosted deposits. Differentiation within these types lies in the, mode of transport, nature of reductant, steepness of the redox gradient and host structure.
Even though some deposit types appear to be concentrated at certain unconformity horizons, i.e. Middle Proterozoic of northern Canada and Australia, there is not a consistent relationship between deposit type and age. Concentration is more related to the establishment of geologic circumstances that result in contrasting redox states across lithologic boundaries, whether it was oxidized siliciclastic units overlying carbonaceous metamorphic rocks in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan and Pine Creek Geosyncline of Australia, or facies changes within fluvial environments in sandstone-hosted deposits. Age-specific occurrences are a result of geologic processes favorable for the proper combination of source of uranium, redox gradients, and structure to serve as conduits for fluid flow, from crosscutting faults and breccias in unconformity-related deposits, to permeable fluvial channels in sandstone-type deposits. Circumstances that could be particularly favorable for mineralization include the superposition of elevated carbon dioxide levels in the hydrosphere with increased alkalic volcanism and deposition of volcaniclastic debris.
The Tarkwaian Gold Deposits of West Africa – A Geologic Travelogue
Thom Fisher, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract: The Tarkwaian gold deposits of West Africa are second in gold production only to the famous Witwatersrand of South Africa. Such "paleoplacers" are widely distributed and are the largest gold deposits in the world and produce over 60 percent of the world's gold supply. At Tarkwa, gold has been mined since at least the 4th and 5th Centuries B.C. when the Phoenicians and Carthaginians sailed the Gold Coast in search of gold and more. Demand for the precious metal created trans-Saharan trade routes which traversed such legendary and exotic places as Timbuktu and Wangara.
The Tarkwaian deposits are of Lower Proterozoic age (ca. ~2.1-1.9 Ga) and mainly quartz-pebble conglomeratic basin-fill occurring in inverted extensional half-grabens along the Ashanti Mineral Belt ("Tarkwa Syncline"), a northeast trending basin some 220km long by 40km wide in south-central Ghana. The Tarkwaian is composed of some 2500m of metamorphosed (greenschist facies) siliciclastic sediments and are divided into four formations, the Kawere Quartzite, the Banket, the Tarkwa Phyllite (fine-grained lake sediments), and the Huni "sandstone." The 150m thick Banket is the primary gold-bearing unit, and its sediments are interpreted to be largely braided stream deposits and alluvial fans. Gold production is from as many as ten stratigraphic units composed of quartz-pebble conglomerates separated by finer-grained trough cross-bedded units and, often, intraformational unconformities. Gold distributions are intimately associated with sedimentary and stratigraphic features and paleocurrent data indicate that at least three different drainage systems filled the basin.
Almost all of the gold bearing conglomerates are associated with a single cluster of current directions, indicating a possible single source for the quartz-pebble sediments. Intervening finer-grained sediments appear to have been swept in by streams flowing somewhat parallel to the graben axes. The gold of the Tarkwaian is very fine-grained to flour sized, and was probably derived from exhalative and epithermal deposits originally formed in the underlying Birimian arc systems. The Tarkwaian rests unconformably on this older (ca. ~2.3 – 2.1 Ga) metamorphosed accretionary sequence of arc and backarc volcanics and sediments.
Since the introduction of "modern" mining techniques to the area by French, Dutch, and British interests in the 1880s, the Tarkwaian has produced over 14,000,000 troy ounces (435Mt) of gold. Today, the primary concessions on the Tarkwaian, held by Gold Fields Ghana, Ltd. produce upwards of 800,000 troy ounces per year. The mines are operated mainly by local peoples managed by a small cadre of British, South African, and occasionally American expatriates.
While this region continues to grow from its mineral wealth, many of its people still live in deep poverty. Nonetheless, the Ghanaian people are proud, hardworking folk and are some of the most hospitable people in the world, with a ready and willing smile for strangers. They have a thirst for knowledge fed by the many schools and universities established by the Ghanaian government since independence in 1964.
Please join me for this geological travelogue and introduction to the gold paleoplacers of Ghana. Along the way we'll meet some of the locals, catch a glimpse of the wild life, and see some of the geography of Ghana and surrounds.
April 2007
Introduction to Space Weather (for the non-scientist)
Joan Burkpile, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Abstract: Space Weather is the term used to describe disturbances in interplanetary space that can harm astronauts, damage satellites, generate aurora, and disrupt power grids, communication and navigation equipment. These disturbances are driven, primarily, by activity occurring in the sun's atmosphere. I will describe how conditions in the solar atmosphere create activity that can propagate through interplanetary space and effect the environment at Earth and all the planets.
May 2007
The Volcanoes of Colorado:
A Colorado Scientific Society Symposium Honoring Thomas A. Steven
Topics: All aspects of the volcanic history of Colorado
On May 19, 2007, at the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, the Colorado Scientific Society sponsored a one-day symposium on the volcanic geology of Colorado. The symposium was dedicated to Tom Steven, USGS retired, whose work provided the foundation of our understanding of Colorado's volcanic history.
Download a PDF with abstracts of the presentations.
September 2007
October 2007
A new look at old friends—The paleogeography of the ancestral Rocky Mountains of Colorado
Chuck Kluth, Director, Center of Research Excellence, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract: New data, combined with earlier data, indicate that previous interpretations of the geometry and timing of the classical Ancestral Rocky Mountains in the Colorado region are in need of revision. N-S stratigraphy of the Fountain Formation along the present Front Range suggests that the Fountain on lapped a broad NW-SE arch that began to develop in early Pennsylvanian time. Interbedded or subjacent marine rocks are preserved as far north as Lyons and as far south as Perry Park, Colorado. The interbedded marine rocks and the preservation of earlier Paleozoic rocks indicate that the Front Range was separated from a narrow, uplifted block in the Colorado Springs area, the Ute Pass Block. The southwestern margin of the Front Range was faulted and had approximately 6 kilometers of structural relief. In contrast, the NE side of the Front Range is now interpreted to have been a NE dip slope with only minor faulting. The presence of Pennsylvanian marine rocks constrains the Front Range to have had its northern plunge end at approximately the Colorado-Wyoming state line.
The San Luis Highland is interpreted to have been a west dipping fault block with approximately 8 kilometers of structural relief on its eastern side and a gentle west dip-slope on the western side. It is interpreted to have been a separate uplift from the adjacent Uncompaghre Uplift to the west, during at least its early history, and possibly its entire history. The San Luis Highland was uplifted in early Pennsylvanian time and shed coarse sediments eastward and northward into the Central Colorado Trough, and more fine grained sediments westward into the Paradox Basin.
The Uncompaghre Uplift is interpreted to have been uplifted in late Pennsylvanian and early Permian time, after the deposition of the middle Pennsylvanian evaporites. The data show that the geometry of the Uncompaghre front, to the SE of the Utah/Colorado state line, contrasts to the single large fault in Utah, and is a stack of SW directed thrust faulted basement blocks. Distribution of synorogenic sediments derived from the Uncompaghre Uplift was largely by axial river systems. Loading by the sediments caused the underlying salt to move into salt walls that nucleated on basement faults. These basement faults formed between middle-late Mississippian and middle-early Pennsylvanian time. The basement faults are usually interpreted as normal faults, but there is evidence that at least some of them were reverse faults. The development of accommodation space for each minibasin between salt walls ended when the pre-salt and post-salt sections welded together, as the last of the salt moved from beneath the basin. The locus of deposition then moved to the SW, farther away from the Uncompaghre front, and a younger salt wall and minibasin formed. This process was repeated several times, with the result that the salt walls are progressively younger toward the SW. The coarse alluvial fan material was preserved and prograded away from the mountain front only after the locus of deposition moved to the SW and axial rivers no longer redistributed the erosional debris. The new interpretation of the geometry and timing of the Uncompaghre Uplift suggests that the Paradox salts and the Eagle Valley Evaporites were deposited in a continuous basin that existed across the site of the later Uncompaghre Uplift.
The Central Colorado Trough was a NW-SE basin located between the Ancestral Front Range and the San Luis Highland and Uncompaghre Uplift. The Trough appears to have been complexly faulted, and contained crustal slivers that were uplifted in a complicated pattern within the trough. These blocks and slivers included the Ute Pass, Wet Mountain/Hartsel Uplift, possibly the ancestral Sawatch Uplift, and unknown small uplifts known only from lithologies and paleocurrent data from their synorogenic sedimentary packages. Normal block faults and thrust faults are located in the Central Colorado Trough, although the details of their relationships to each other are not yet known.
There appears to have been almost no reactivation of Late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountain structures during the Late Cretaceous/Early Cenozoic Laramide Orogeny. Most of the younger structures cut across the earlier structures. Structures oriented almost normal to the Laramide regional stress, such as the Uncompaghre and San Luis fronts, the Ute Pass and Gore faults, were reactivated with movements that appear to be orders of magnitude less than the late Paleozoic movement. The Laramide Front Range formed in a N-S orientation that is oblique to the NW-SE orientation of the Ancestral Front Range, which might have been at almost right angles to the regional Laramide stress fields.
CO2 Sequestration Potential of Colorado
Genevieve Young, Colorado Geological Survey
Abstract: The Colorado Geological Survey is a participant in the Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration whose primary goal is to determine an optimum strategy for minimizing greenhouse gas intensity in the southwestern United States. The Southwest Partnership is a large, diverse group of expert organizations and individuals specializing in carbon sequestration science and engineering, as well as public policy and outreach.
In 2000, CO2 emissions were more than 92 million short tons in Colorado; of which 46 percent came from coal-fired power plants. These stationary point sources afford the possibility of capture and separation of CO2 for transport to, and storage at, nearby "geologic sinks".
Although CO2 sink potential is widely distributed across the state, characterization efforts during Phase I (2003-2005) focused on seven "pilot study regions" defined on the basis of maximum diversity in potential sequestration options relatively close to large CO2 sources. Utilizing both geologic and mineralization options, carbon storage capacity within these regions is an estimated 720 billion short tons. With the availability of suitable technology, the pilot areas have the potential of providing a long-term storage solution. The highest CO2 sequestration capacity potential for Colorado lies within the oil, gas, coalbed, and saline aquifer reservoirs of the Denver, Cañon City Embayment, Piceance, and Sand Wash basins.
The Southwest Partnership is currently conducting three pilots for Phase II (2005-2009) of the U.S. DOE/NETL Carbon Capture and Storage Program. These include one pilot each in the San Juan Basin, the Paradox Basin, and the Permian Basin. The Colorado Geological Survey is taking a key role in the design, implementation, and analysis of the San Juan Basin Fruitland coal pilot because of expertise in coalbed methane development.
November 2007
Student Night
Field-scale Measurement of Water Table Profiles in a Drained Slope
COOK, Diana I. 1; SANTI, Paul M. 1; SHORT, Richard D. 2; and HIGGINS, Jerry D. 1
(1) Dept Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, email@example.com, (2) Blackhawk Geologic Hazard Abatement District, 4125 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Danville, CA 94506
Abstract: In 2003, Crenshaw developed a method for calculating the average water table height between horizontal drains in a slope. The method relies on drain flow rates, slope geometry, and soil hydraulic conductivity. The corrugated shape of water table profiles between drains and the departure of the water table surface from the drain near its uphill end were verified by Crenshaw using laboratory-scale physical modeling and computer modeling. However, field verification of Crenshaw's findings was not conducted at the time. During the summer of 2007, a study program was conducted seeking to confirm Crenshaw's findings using field-scale physical modeling at the Blackhawk Geologic Hazard Abatement District (GHAD) test site in Danville, California. The Blackhawk GHAD test site is composed of a 2H:1V concrete slope 30 feet long and 12 feet wide, simulating impermeable bedrock conditions. The concrete is embedded with 5 perforated pipes which cross the slope laterally. These 5 pipes are connected to a water system and are used to simulate base flow recharge. For this study, the concrete was covered with compacted layers of a lean clay representing local materials known to be susceptible to slope failures. Two wick drains were installed during construction at a spacing of 8 feet. A total of 50 standpipe piezometers were installed in the slope in order to measure water table profiles both between and along the two drains. Measurements were taken during both recharge and drawdown events. The test was repeated with a locally representative clayey gravel/sand soil. Field test results generally confirm the findings of Crenshaw (2003), with some localized variations in the water table profiles. The variations are most likely due to factors such as inhomogeneity of soil properties and/or compaction, the development of preferential pathways within the slope during recharge, clogging of piezometers, or differential water infiltration in the slope due to a loss of pressure along the perforated recharge pipes.
Petrology and Geochemistry of Tannurjeh Porphry Cu-Au, North-eastern Iran
SAADAT, Saeed, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, firstname.lastname@example.com;
KARIMPOUR, Mohammad Hassan, Geological Sciences, CU- Boulder;
Ferdowsi Mashhad, Boulder, CO 80309;
AJAYEBI, Kimiya, Islamic AZAD University,Tehran, Iran; and
STERN, Charles, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
Abstract: Tannurjeh the first porphyry Cu-Au system was discovered in Eastern Iran and is located within volcanic-plutonic of Kashmar- Khaf belt. Eocene rhyolite, dacite, rhyodacite and minor andesite are intruded by monzonite, quartz monzonite, diorite and quartz diorite porphyry (Oligo-Miocene). Most of them have small exposure. Hydrothermal breccias (rich in goethite & Au) with circular exposure are being recognized in some portions of the system. Intrusive rocks are meta-aluminous, medium to high-K series, I-type, Na2O > K2O and indicate a continental arc setting. Unaltered intrusive rocks have magnetic susceptibility > 200 ×10-5 SI. Both ASTER and ground checking revealed very broad altered zones characteristic of Cu- Au porphyry systems. Such as propylitic, sericitic, argillic, alunite and vuggy silica that are well developed in the area. The silicified zone covers a large area. Pyrite and minor chalcopyrite occur both as disseminated and fracture filling, but no stockwork.
Au, Cu, Zn, Pb and As, show anomaly in stream sediments and in rocks. Due to strong oxidation, most of sulfides are being oxidized and copper is being leached and secondary argillic zone is formed. Secondary iron oxides (mainly goethite) vary between 1 to %10.
Morphology of the intrusive, alteration types and geochemical anomalies indicate that present exposure is high level of porphyry system. High pyrite content, broad zone of silicification, confining the copper with potassic zone at depth, and high and very broad zone of Au anomaly make Tannurjeh to be new type of porphyry Cu-Au deposit.
Keywords: Tannurjeh, porphyry Cu-Au, Iran, breccias
Longevity of Acid Rock Drainage (ARD): Mineralogical and chemical comparison of mine-waste piles and post-glacial talus rock producing acidic solutions
Jessica Duggan, Colorado State University
Abstract: Significant environmental problems are caused by acid solutions generated naturally and anthropogenically from rocks. Pyrite, a common accessory mineral in epithermal and porphyry deposits, oxidizes under atmospheric conditions and contributes to the environments acidity. This project documents the mineralogy and chemical characteristics of originally pyritic material exposed to oxidizing environments for different time periods, in order to determine natural and anthropogenic acid production rates, and quantify these rates over orders of magnitude longer time frames than have been previously investigated in laboratories. Two acid producing sites with similar mineralogy and climate, but orders of magnitude different exposure time, are located in major mineralized districts of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The Chattanooga acid iron fen, located in the Silverton caldera of southwestern Colorado, is fed by natural acid generating, post-glacial (~10,000 year) talus slope, while series of abandoned 100 year-old mines and sulfide-rich waste piles in the Sugar Loaf mining district, on the western edge of the historical Leadville, CO mining district generate acidic solutions. Field mineral distribution, microscopic textures, chemical characteristics, and chemical mass balances of these materials exposed to atmospheric conditions are determined to quantify acid production. Important rate-controlling factors to consider for acid generating environments are field scale sulfide dissolution mechanisms, secondary mineral reactions, grain-size, rock-pile volumes, climate, hydrologic parameters, biologic catalysts, and vegetation. The mineralogy and chemical components of rocks from these sites are compared to ecologic, water quality, and net acid production data collected by Yager et al., 2005, Chimner, R., per. comm. 2006, and Dee, K., per. comm. 2007.
Late Pleistocene Equilibrium Line Altitude Trends and Precipitation Distribution in the Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado
Kurt A. Refsnider, Keith A. Brugger, Eric M. Leonard, James P. McCalpin, Phil Armstrong
Abstract: Using primarily field observations, we reconstructed the late Pleistocene extents and equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs) of 31 glaciers across the Sangre de Cristo Range of southern Colorado. Reconstructed ELAs range from 3,185 m for the Hunts Glacier at the northeast end of the range to 3,707 m for the Willow Glacier on the west side near the town of Crestone. In general, reconstructed ELAs are 100-150 m lower for the east side of the range for glaciers at similar latitudes. Along strike, reconstructed ELAs on both sides of the range increase to a maximum near the highest topography in the vicinity of Crestone and the Blanca Massif and then decrease slightly into the Culebra Range toward the Colorado-New Mexico border.
Modern precipitation varies considerably across the range, and precipitation gradients between the extremely dry San Luis Valley and the crest of the range are very steep. Meteorological stations show that the east side of the range likely receives ~35% more precipitation during the winter months than any other part of the range, but given the lack of stations at higher elevations, we cannot accurately determine vertical precipitation gradients for most of the range. To circumvent this limitation, we regressed the PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model) precipitation data against topographic data, resulting in a basic precipitation-elevation relationship. Normalized residuals for mean winter precipitation show a 10-30% enhancement in precipitation across the east side of the range and a deficit of similar magnitude on the west side of the range.
Areas of enhanced and deficient precipitation correspond closely with lower and higher reconstructed ELAs, respectively. The similarities between the reconstructed ELA trends and the modern precipitation distribution suggests that during the late Pleistocene, winter precipitation from upslope storms delivering moisture from the southeast exerted a strong positive influence on the mass balances of glaciers on the east side of the range. Storms delivering Pacific-derived moisture were, like today, probably not the dominant source of precipitation for the Sangre de Cristo Range. Such a late Pleistocene precipitation distribution may also in part explain the dramatic geomorphic differences between valleys on opposite sides of the range.
December 2007
Late Paleozoic Uplifts in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Adjacent Areas
Dr. William Nesse, University of Northern Colorado
Abstract: The location of "Ancestral Rockies" uplifts that developed in the Pennsylvanian is defined by the distribution of sedimentary cover on Precambrian Basement as documented by geologic mapping and oil well data. Areas of major Pennsylvanian uplift which shed clastic debris into adjacent basins are approximated by areas where Permian and younger sediments rest on basement. Areas with preserved Mississippian and older sediments must be in adjacent basins. Areas with Pennsylvanian sediments on basement are marginal to the uplifts and are either areas of pre-Pennsylvanian non-deposition or erosion, or areas where Pennsylvanian uplift was sufficient to erode early Paleozoic rocks before being buried by sediments derived from the uplifts.
The use of the terms Ancestral Rocky Mountains, Ancestral Front Range, and Ancestral Uncompaghre is rooted (Lee, 1918, Ver Wiebe, 1930) in the incorrect presumption that Laramide and Pennsylvanian uplifts are coincident and represent areas of continuous topographic and structural relief from the Paleozoic to the present. Continued use of Laramide/Modern structural terms for Pennsylvanian features is inappropriate and confusing. It is suggested that the terms Arapahoe uplift and Ute uplift replace Ancestral Front Range, and Ancestral Uncompaghre respectively. The term Anasazi uplifts is suggested as an alternative to Ancestral Rocky Mountains.
Based on the criteria outlined above, the Arapahoe, Apishapa, Ute, Sierra Grande, Pedernal, and Zuni/Defiance uplifts can be documented. The Arapahoe and Apishapa Uplifts extend NNW from SE of Pueblo diagonally across the modern Front Range, Middle and North Parks, and Park Range and a short distance into Wyoming. The Ute uplift forms a dog-leg shape in SW Colorado and adjacent areas in New Mexico and Utah. The oldest sediments to extend continuously across the Arapahoe and Ute uplifts are Jurassic. The Sierra Grande, and Pedernal uplifts are irregular shaped areas in NE and south central New Mexico respectively. The Zuni/Defiance uplift is a roughly circular area with two segments straddling the New Mexico-Arizona border. Permian sediments rest on basement nearly continuously on the Sierra Grande, Pedernal, and Zuni/Defiance uplifts.
A number of features have been identified in the literature as Pennsylvanian uplifts, but which are either platform areas within basins, or did not exist. Platforms are areas where the water depth shoaled so that deposition was restricted. Mallory's (1966) Pathfinder uplift in Wyoming is a distal portion of the gentle north flank of the Arapahoe uplift. It is a platform area and includes areas where both early Paleozoic and Pennsylvanian sediments rest on basement and is not a major structural feature. An area in western Wyoming is often shown as an uplift, but this too, is a platform area with nearly continuous coverage of Pennsylvanian sediments resting on lower Paleozoic sediments. The Piute/Emery platform area in central Utah has been re-defined based on the available oil well data to be an area which lacks Pennsylvanian sediments but where older sediment is preserved. The Florida Island and Roosevelt areas in southwest and eastern New Mexico respectively are small platform areas, but not significant uplifts. The "Ancestral Sawatch Range," presumed to have once occupied the site of the modern Sawatch Range did not exist. Mississippian and older sediments are preserved around the flanks and on top of the Sawatch Range indicating that the area was within the Pennsylvanian Central Colorado Trough depositional basin in the Pennsylvanian.
Depositional basins adjacent to the uplifts received up to 20,000 feet of clastic and evaporite sediments. These include the Eagle Basin/Central Colorado Trough, Paradox Basin, Dalhart Basin, Rowe-Mora/Taos Basin, Tucumcari Basin, and Orogrande basin. The Pennsylvanian basin in eastern Colorado is usually incorrectly referred to as the Denver Basin, but the Denver Basin is a Laramide construct. It is suggested that this basin, which extends to the SE to join with the Anadarko Basin, be referred to as the Pueblo Basin. The Central Colorado Trough is often shown in the literature extending continuously into New Mexico and connecting with the Rowe-Mora basin. Data from this study, combined with a reinterpretation of isopach data presented by McKee and Crosby (1975), show that the Cimarron Arch separates the Rowe-Mora basin from the basin in Colorado. Further, it appears that the Central Colorado Trough was divided into two segments. The northern portion is often referred to as the Eagle Basin. It is suggested that the southern portion, roughly centered on the modern Sangre de Cristo Range, be referred to as the Cuchara Basin.
Data from this study and reinterpretation of the Pennsylvanian isopach data from McKee and Crosby (1975) establish the presence of a more-or-less continuous Pennsylvanian structural arch that includes the Florida platform, Zuni Defiance uplift, and Piute/Emery platform, extending from southern New Mexico, across northeast Arizona and into west central Utah. This structural arch served as the western or southwestern boundary for the Orogrande, Rowe-Mora, and Paradox basins.


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The Pentagon wants $1.4 billion for sniper-fighting gear – including a whole bunch of next-generation shooter-detectors.
The current crop of gunshot locators are attached to Humvees, or to light poles. New models could be small enough to carry around in a pocket, and powerful enough to fit onto a spy drone.
One candidate, according to Defense News, is the Ears 100, one of several acoustic sensors that "detects the sound of a gunshot, the shock wave of a bullet and the blast from the muzzle, then runs the data through two computers to pinpoint the shooter's position."
But the Ears 100 is small. It "comes in a 6-inch, 5-pound variant for vehicles, a 1-pound version that clips onto a soldier's uniform and a 5-pound ground-mounted version." There's also a "2.2-pound personal-data-assistant-sized version" in the works.
The Pentagon is also looking at putting sniper detectors in the sky.
In February, the Army finalized a $20 million deal to equip some UAVs with Radiance Technologies' WeaponWatch, allowing them to locate the source of incoming rockets, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and small-arms fire.
First deployed in 2004, five are in Iraq and five in Afghanistan, with five more on the way...
To date, the system has had very successful airborne tests on UH-60 Black Hawk, UH-1 Huey, C-21 and the Boeing unmanned Little Bird.
The 27-pound, less-than-1-cubic-foot WeaponWatch carries an infrared sensor to pick up the heat from a launch tube or gun.
"We have a unique system that is able to measure this and tell the class of weapon, from a .50-caliber machine gun to small-arms fire to an RPG," Clark said.
The system can detect and classify the weapon from farther than the range of the round, he said. The sensor sends its information to a small laptop display that points to the shooter's location.
WeaponWatch is part of a larger Army R&D program into sniper-detection, called OverWatch. Here's a video overview.

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What does a university's "participation" entail?
Effectively, participation means that your university would like to display the exhibition, which as it's a large, hand-embellished, loose-leaf folio edition, is easy to exhibit on walls, stands or display cabinets. Participation is flexible to your schedule and exhibition space. There is no cost involved.*
When is The Creative Process exhibition? What is the earliest/latest possible exhibition date?
Our inaugural exhibition took place at the Sorbonne (Panthéon 1) in March 2016. Since we are now expanding the scope of the 100+ interviews to include conversations with creative thinkers from a variety of disciplines and are participating in a number of educational initiatives, these interviews will be complete in late 2017. Universities will receive their Creative Process hand-embellished edition from 2018 onwards and can exhibit it anytime thereafter.
Are there any supporting events planned around the exhibition?
The Creative Process is happy to work with participating universities to arrange events to encourage public as well as student engagement. This may mean hosting the exhibition to coincide with annual literary festivals or centennial celebrations, as some universities are doing, or organizing other readings and performances. Please see Supporting Events.
In addition to the traveling exhibition, interviews will also be published online through a network of collaborating university and national literary magazines. For further information, please contact us.
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The Creative Writing and Literature departments are invited to participate in interviews or contribute text for the forward of their own unique edition. We are also arranging interviews with creative thinkers from a variety of disciplines for our In Conversation section. Your university or literary magazine can also participate in our Interlinking Online Exhibition. See section below.
We also have a number of ongoing educational initiatives which your university might like to get involved in. They include curriculum integration and short film workshops that give student filmmakers the opportunity to interpret short stories by leading writers and show this work as part of the projection elements at exhibitions. Some universities are implementing special 4th year courses in collaboration with The Creative Process. For more information on these initiatives, please email email@example.com.
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Do you have any specific criteria for authors?
What's important is that they are open to discussing their work, the humanities, and the issues which touch us today. Essentially, we are interested in established authors who have unique insights and are willing to share their story. Most of the authors interviewed have won literary prizes and/or their works are in translation, so that when the exhibition travels to other countries audiences abroad may be familiar with their work.
However, we welcome all suggestions. In addition to the 100 illustrated interviews with writers, we're conducting a number of non-illustrated interviews for the introduction, supporting events and online exhibition. Ancillary interviews will be prominently featured in exhibitions, either as part of the projection elements or as part of the core 100 interviews at some universities. N.B. As the exhibition travels, the core 100 interviews changes a little for universities in each country, e.g., exhibitions at University of Milan or University of Warsaw will include more Italian or Polish writers.
*We are honored to have the participation of invited universities in the physical exhibition, so there will be no cost to your university for receiving the unique, hand-embellished folio edition. In order to continue our editorial activities, participate in supporting events, and widen our educational reach, however, The Creative Process depends on the support of grants. If you would like to help support our non-profit educational initiative or are aware of any grants or philanthropic foundations which might expedite this process, we welcome donations which will help us bring the physical exhibition to your university in a timely manner. This ensures the quality of the unique artworks and edition gifted to your university, as well as facilitates the possible creation of larger scale artworks for your exhibition and university art collection.
For further information, please contact us.
In addition to The Creative Process traveling exhibition, the interviews will also be published online through a network of collaborating university and national literary magazines.
Example: Interview with Hilary Mantel published across the network.
The aim of the online exhibition is to expand the conversation and facilitate exchanges between universities, writers, students, faculty and visiting professors.
Since interviews run to several thousand words, they will be published in interlinking excerpts published in several literary magazines simultaneously.* In that way, readers may begin an interview in one online literary magazine and, to continue reading, follow the link to another magazine produced by a university in another part of the world.
DISPLAYING THE EXHIBITIONWall-mounted with Fixations
Flat-laying or Standing on Display Tables
- Since The Creative Process exhibition is in the form of a hand-embellished, loose-leaf folio book, it is modular and expands or contracts to suit any space.
- The page size is approximately ledger size/A3, making it easy to exhibit on a wall, display table, or in a corner of the library.
- Since the pages are loose-leaf, sections can be removed and mounted or displayed separately, making it possible to show one part in the library and another in the Creative Writing or Literature Department. Display on a table(s) probably being the easiest form of exhibition, as the pages can be rotated to display different authors over the course of the exhibition.
- For wall exhibition, easy-to-mount fixations and reusable presentation templates are provided. The pages are lightweight and therefore can be mounted in any suitable space.
- We also provide a DVD containing projection elements, which expand the scope of the exhibition, document various educational initiatives, and make The Creative Process adaptable to any exhibition space available at your university.
The Creative Process is happy to work with participating universities to arrange events to encourage public as well as student engagement. Some universities have elected to have a local featured author attend a launch, while others are organizing talks and conversations around the theme. Readings performed by faculty and students of featured authors' work are another way universities can participate in turning the exhibition into an event which can be enjoyed by all.
The Creative Process traveling exhibition will take place within a five year period and will be held in leading universities around the world. The list of participating universities and institutions is presently being completed. If you'd like to take part in this celebration of the humanities, please contact us.
If you are a writer and would like to participate in The Creative Process, contact email@example.com.
The HAND-EMBELLISHED, LOOSE-LEAF A3/LEDGER-SIZED FOLIO EDITION can be:
This allows for greater flexibility of display options, longer excerpts and unique interviews with writers from your region to be exhibited.
Pages are easy to mount on walls (frameless "gallery style"presentation using tiny magnetized discs). Selected pages may be shown on accordion structures provided by The Creative Process.


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SPAR Hypermarkets is in India through a license agreement between the Max Hypermarkets of Landmark Group and SPAR International, the world's leading food retail and wholesale chain, which has 12,500 stores across 44 countries and serves around 15 million people. Landmark Group is involved in retail of apparel, footwear, consumer electronics, cosmetics and beauty products, home improvement and baby products. The Amsterdam-based SPAR was founded in 1932 by Adriaan van Well. SPAR promises to elevate shopping from a daily chore to a world class, value for money experience. Customers will have the option to choose from a wide variety of products ranging from grocery, fruits and vegetables, bakery, dairy, meat, poultry and fish, wine, beer and spirits, home textiles, personal care, crockery utensils, plastics and kitchen appliances, electronics, IT accessories and much more. Rajeev Krishnan, managing director & CEO of SPAR Hypermarkets spoke to Mini Tejaswi of Financial Chronicle about a wide range of topics and what works for SPAR in India, changing trends in retail, continuous evolution happening around retail formats to keep pace with rapidly changing customer preferences and also about expected shakeups in pure play ecommerce sector. Edited excerpts:
SPAR is in India over a decade now. What's your current positioning and market share?
SPAR is one of the fastest growing Hypermarkets in the country. As per recent Nielsen reports, we are growing much faster than the rest of modern trade. We serve over 30 million customers annually through 20 stores across Bangalore, Mangalore, Shimoga, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Chennai. We believe that market shares are a result of delivering on a vision and a mission, consistently; and we will continue to do this. We directly employ 2,400 people in India.
Our new 55,000 sq.ft outlet at Vega City Mall will offer over 50,000 products through 25 billing counters. In our stores, approximately 60 per cent of the shelf space is allocated to food categories and 40 per cent to non food categories. We use innovative technology and our billing time --- customers standing in the queue---is almost reduce by 60 per cent.
In India, SPAR Hypermarkets operates over one million square feet area across 20 stores in nine cities. The average store size is 40,000 sq.ft. We crossed revenues of Rs 1,000 crore last year and have been clocking double digit growth of late. We plan to increase our retail space by 40 per cent during the current financial year.
How is SPAR different from other FMCG/food retail chains in India? You keep talking about innovative formats and experiential shopping. How do you offer tangible difference to your shoppers?
Our vision is to be the most engaging and innovative hypermarket in India. We are working towards delivering this to our customers by focusing on four core pillars: Freshness, Value, Choice and Service. As part of the Landmark Group, we are deeply rooted in being customer centric and customer driven. Our format is in a state of evolution, which is a result of past ten years' experiences with customers, products and services and this is an evolution, which will continue. Our approach towards merchandise is driven by ever evolving customer needs, which is why categories like SPAR Natural, which is about Health & Wellness are part of our journey. We have expanded into the cultural arena with Grandmas Corner, which enables modern smaller families to enjoy a bit of nostalgia. For us everything is about ensuring that our customer needs are met and that they keep coming back for more. With differentiated offerings such as Wonder Years for Kids, Beauty, Taste of India, Taste the world, Freshly, SPAR Natural and more. We have brought in technology innovation in a big way. Our stores have self-assist kiosks, an interactive digital SPAR Studio and the SPAR play pad where children are free to express themselves.
Our stores bring together EQ (Emotional Quotient) & IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to create an innovative and differentiated customer experience. We see the results in our loyalty programme share, which is the best in the industry. We have decided that it is time to innovate beyond transactional operations to create customer experiences that are shaped by both the intelligence and emotional quotient (IQ and EQ) as one to one customer connect is lost
What kind of loyalty programmes do you run here and how are they working?
We keep listening to our customers and there are clear areas where customers have shown confidence in us. Firstly, they see strength in our assortment, with specific reference to our fresh produce with great choice in our food offering. The value offering in home & apparels is also very attractive. Secondly, we continue to deliver great value offering with our 'Lowest Price' super saver and private label offerings; by making the overall basket of the customer very attractive, Thirdly, customers feel confident in our service standards and have expressed their trust in us. As part of the Landmark Group, we operate the Landmark Rewards programme, which is a clear benefit driven programme where customers gain with every purchase made across the top retail brands in India - Lifestyle, Splash, Max, Home Centre and SPAR.
How is Omnichannel catching up in the Indian retailing space?
We see Omnichannel as being the way forward for most businesses. We are seeing shakeups in pure play ecommerce sector and an increased convergence based on how consumers behave. But our definition of Omnichannel is a little different. We think there is space for all kinds of channels – website, store, applications, phone & order, truck based business and more. We believe our Omnichannel is about being everywhere, because that is where the customer is. We are hearing news of collaborations and acquisitions in the Indian market towards precisely this and this is in line with our belief that a retailer cannot choose to be only one channel but needs to adapt to meet customer needs across all channels, the customer is on. We believe that India needs both brick and clicks to co-exist. With the brand connect and loyalty at SPAR stores being our differentiator, we intend to use merchandising and technology as the strategic pillars to continuously offer Omniretailing opportunities as never before.
What is Spar's key mandate for India by 2025?
The biggest mandate that we have in India is to be the most engaging and innovative hypermarket here, making a difference in the lives of teams, customers, communities and shareholders on a daily basis. We will continue to stay invested in our markets and grow into new markets. Our biggest investments are in our people and we continue to build our business with small but sure steps.
What are the new trends in retailing and customer behaviour?
Food concepts, health and wellness range, organic, OTC, beauty, skin care are the new and emerging categories. The aspiration levels of customers are going through an upward evolution. More and more customers are becoming aware of themselves, of what they consume and impact of the products they buy on their health and on environment. They are also looking at going back to traditions and roots. The aspiration levels of customers are going through an upward evolution. Customers are increasingly becoming aware of themselves, of what they consume and impact of the products they buy on their health and the world. And this is changing the way they look at their lives and what they consume. Today's extremely busy consumers are not only looking at shopping regular basket items but are also looking at solutions from retailers. We see 'convenience' shopping as a big opportunity. Health & wellness is again a very promising segment. As a consequence of the sedentary lifestyle most of us lead these days, pursuing an 'active life' it has become a quest. We identify ourselves as contributing significantly in this space by offering a range of products and solutions to our shoppers.
How is your farmers' connect programme working, how many farmers in the country are part of it now?
SPAR Hypermarkets is building relationships with the farming community towards educating farmers on new methods and new technology for improvement of in-farming processes. SPAR also adds value in terms of consistent sourcing and pricing advantages for the farmer. And most importantly, it builds a partnership between the farming community towards better merchandising and customer engagement. This means that the customer gets fresh produce everyday from the source and can cook a meal everyday with really fresh produce. As of today, there are 52 select farmers which are part of the farmer connect programme and we are very confident that our programme is going to grow from strength to strength. SPAR has access to worldwide best practices from the global farming community. Therefore, we are able to add value in terms of consistent sourcing and pricing advantages for the farmer.
And most importantly, we build a partnership between the farming community towards better merchandising and customer engagement. We believe in inclusive growth that takes the local communities into account and as such, we have partnered with farmers, fishermen and small-medium businesses in each region to source products that our customers want and need.
What kind of demand you see now for organic products, vegetables and fruits?
We are seeing a visible re-emergence of organic and healthy foods in dietary plans of our customers. A prominent trend towards healthy eating these days is the revival of interests in millets. SPAR Hypermarkets is taking the health and wellness space very passionately. We are looking at enriching the lives of customers by bringing in interactive and innovative ways to educate them on living in a healthier manner. Millets have been part of the Indian diet for ages and has been a popular choice because of its nutritional value and health benefits. While on the one hand, the general lifestyle and wellness trends for the urban populace point towards healthier food options, on the other hand, climate change is spurring a resurgence of millet cultivation in the country. In keeping with the strong growing trend towards healthy eating and living, SPAR has been encouraging organic and locally grown products in all its stores across the country. This move emphasises SPAR's commitment to the health and wellness of its consumers and also demonstrates its focus to help farmers by making them its partners in the process. Our fresh produce categories are growing consistently. The main driver of this section is product quality and freshness, which is largely enabled by direct farm sourcing, continuous supply chain improvements, and in-store merchandising initiatives. New assortments also play a critical role here. We offer the widest range of fish and meat – both local and imported. Amongst fruit and vegetables, the organic, pesticide-free and exotic ranges are gaining good traction. Health and wellness related categories, which include low gluten, diabetic, low cholesterol, vitamin and mineral fortified, OTC ranges are also gaining momentum in our stores. Customers are becoming more discerning in their food habits and seeking out quality products for which they are happy to pay a little extra, particularly if they believe that these products are healthier options for the family.


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To a Woman in Her Home
after Kotaro Takamura
The compass of my heart's monsoon aligns itself
With you, my love.
And the night's cold slips beneath its
Aquamarine shell.
While you, love, sleep peacefully there in your home.
You sleep with the trust of a child asleep, a truth
Transparent and pure,
That banishes the heart of darkness.
Virtue, baseness, all are unveiled before you.
Surely, to one whose transcendent judgement,
Child-like clarity, discerned
A worthiness in this, my unworthy life.
How to fathom what you saw in me?
All I know is that your certainty
Transfigured me to joy,
Engendered faith that what you saw,
That unknown me, could be
Real, here in the flesh.
The leaves from the zelkova elms have fallen.
The night is hushed.
And now my heart's monsoon begins its course
To you, my love,
Like an extravagant, artesian spring
Gently swelling from its subterranean lair
To drench you, every inch of you, your skin.
And as you stir, this vasculation
Surges, swirls, revels,
And encompasses you,
My love, my font of life.
While you, love, sleep;
Sleep through the night's cold trespass;
Sleep peacefully there in your home;
With the trust of a child,
You sleep.
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The Chieko poems trace the Japanese artist Kotaro Takamura's life with Chieko Naganuma, an iconoclastic woman artist - their attraction, separation, marriage, his coming to terms with her illness and death, and the power of love.ReplyDelete
One of my projects to interpret these poems through the sensibilities of a poet, and to complement the translation work done by talented scholars such as Leanne Ogasawara, Paul Archer and John G. Peters.
Short link - http://bit.ly/s4herhome
I'd also like to take this opportunity to ask those who can to help the Red Cross relief effort for the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami...
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I really like this! I like that his love is like a monsoon. He IS defined by her affection.ReplyDelete
So transfigurating is this poem in message, style, and rhythm. It has the feel of a classic. This is poetry writing at it's best. National Poetry Month (April) is producing a bumper crop of great poetry from you Sam, and the month is still young. We eagerly await to see what the full harvest shall bring.ReplyDelete
Are you translating directly from the original Japanese poetry? Or are you interpreting from someone's english translation? Just curious. :)ReplyDelete
I can do a basic translation, but don't have any mastery that can only come from experience.ReplyDelete
Leanne Ogasawara - a friend and a lifelong and talented translator - has kindly provided me with her own translations (many as of this writing unpublished, but forthcoming in her own book). She has been instrumental in encouraging me to use hers and other work as starting points for my interpretations.
I'm also acquainted with the other major translators I've mentioned above - Paul Archer and Jack Peters - as introduced to me by Leanne.
But it's with Leanne that I interact a lot, and beyond just the translations. For example, I'll consult her if I don't quite understand the historical context of a specific phrase, and she'll put me straight. In those cases, because I'm not constrained by an exact translation, I can refer to that context in my interpretation, for the benefit of everyday readers, even though it may not be in the original poem.
Also, in some cases my interpretation may differ quite aggressively from the straight translation - and I look to her as a trusted reference to tell me if I have still captured the essence, the intent, of the original.
Thank you for explaining, Samuel. I am enjoying the Cheiko poems as well as your other work. :)ReplyDelete
With 'Time Zones' and 'Helium', this is one of three poems which have been included in the arts and literary journal, The Poetry Tree. My thanks to Renée Sigel, publisher and managing editor, and the staff at The Poetry Tree for allowing me to be a part of their journey.ReplyDelete
Exquisite imagery here, Sam-- very beautiful, as ever. xxxxjReplyDelete
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So far in July, there have been a number of delightful surprises and there are Lily events coming up!
The first was finding a stand of Candidum Lilies near my brother's Lilycrest Gardens field in St. Catharines. There were probably 30 or 40 plants blooming and in that large a group their colour become so clearly the dominant quality. They are an amazing white - so clean and pure - no other colours on the petals. And the plants were large and healthy - so unusual in Candidums in our area.
The second surprise occurred as I visited more of the front gardens on the OpenGardensToronto 2009 tour. I mentioned this organization in an earlier post. Many of these beautiful gardens are close-by in my neighbourhood so I took the opportunity to visit a few of the front gardens from a previous tour day that I had missed as I wasn't available. Up the street from the Winston Grove garden, I happened upon a front garden at its full peak in full and perfect bloom. It had a beautiful combination of Lilies and Lavender that I'm posting - what a gorgeous colour and form combination!
The Ontario Regional Lily Society Annual Flower show is this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. It will be in the atrium at the Royal Botanical Gardens main building on Plains Road. I will be looking forward to seeing the show in this new venue, and being able to take some scenic photos this time.


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Since Magic Lantern commenced in mid-2001, we've shown a variety of fine US contemporary and classic films as well as some of the finest offerings from abroad. These screenings are intended to offer an alternative to local commercial movie theaters and to add an additional cultural resource to Winchester's historic center and to the surrounding area. They would not be possible without the support and co-sponsorship of various local entities, often including provision of a venue for our ambulatory theater. Our primary partners are the Friends of Handley Regional Library, the Barns at Rose Hill, Veramar Vineyard, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Frederick County Parks and Recreation and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley.
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Like all my peers, I started shooting on film. In mid 80s in India, B&W was much cheaper than colour and I could process it myself. It was easier to print than colour. Ilford FP-4 was widely available at Rs.20/- per roll if one bought a pack of 10s. Microdol-X was my preferred developer, diluted 1:3. So I shot a lot of B&W and later colour after turning a professional.
{However back then, in the 80s I didn't ever think that there would be a day when one had to search for film in India, in the same way as I couldn't imagine then that there would be a day when one can walk into a camera store and buy anything she wanted without paying customs of duty of 250%}
I have now begun to catalogue my work of three decades. As I look back three decades and, the "Allure of Film' pulled me in. The images shot on film, negatives especially look beautiful, poetic. There is an enveloping softness, something intangible in those images that tug your heart. Shooting with film teaches you the craft of photography, to visualize and patience.
The images recorded on the modern digital sensor are sharper than a Hattori Hanzo sword. However many of them seem to lack the craft that is required to make an image using film. The revival of film is already underway, with the success of Impossible Project and the efforts to revive other brands of film. Ferrania tried to raise USD250000.00 via their Kickstarter campaign and they already have USD281000.00 with eleven days to go!
The great photographer Eric Meola made a stunning image in Burma that changed his life. It was of a ceremony known as Shinbyu"–where young boys would become Buddh and would be initiated as novice monks.
In a recent Facebook post he said
"It would be several weeks before I saw the image because I was, of course, shooting film. But I realized at that moment that my life had changed and that I had been privileged to witness a precious few moments that also marked a passage in this young boy's life. I remember opening the box, and spreading the slides onto the lightbox, and looking intensely through a loupe and seeing this image for the first time. That moment of recognition has changed. We glance at our camera's LCD's as we would an image on an iPhone–an image flashing a scene for a few seconds. The connection of a "latent" image hidden in the darkness of a film canister, is gone. That sense of something precious and unique is now consumed by the world's production of imagery. Today, in the single minute it took to open the box of processed film and find this image, 210,000 images have been uploaded to Facebook. In the next 24 hours, another 302,000,000 images will make their way onto Facebook's servers. Three hundred and two. Million images. In one day. But for that one moment as I looked through the loupe, I knew I had made an image that was important, and that had changed my career and my life, forever"


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Listen, the very LAST thing you wanna fall down with when you're forced to make a not-so-triumphant return to the Sunshine State is DEBILITATING ILLNESS. I'd MUCH rather collapse from too many rummy cocktails. But that's just what happened to me by Day 3 of the Key West portion of our trip to Florida a week and a half ago. I woke up that Friday morning, fearful that I couldn't, like, BREATHE…and the next thing you know, I was being hooked up to a Nebulizer at the Urgent Care facility on N. Roosevelt Blvd.!
Is THIS what I need???
As it turns out, no one knew what the hell was wrong with me. First I was told I having a heart attack, then it was a Pulmonary embolism, then it was asthma, then it was an allergy attack. Allergies to "new pollen" I had not yet been introduced to. So after a chest X-ray and some drawn blood, I was told I'm an ox and just needed an inhaler and some steroid pills. Well, sure enough, I was horrendously sick the ENTIRE rest of the trip. And I was doing ALL the driving, too. I also had to be a major support system for the wife, as we were driving up to Central Florida next to visit her parents, my in-laws.
Oh, you wouldn't BELIEVE how hard I rallied for the woman I share a life with. She was disappointed, sure. Only because she actually cares about my health and was worried I wasn't having any fun. But it wasn't about me at that point. This was about endurance, survival, and SALVATION. So I spent the majority of the trip stifling my physical miseries and rising to the occasion. When we got back to L.A., my wife praised me for being such badass about the whole thing. "I mean, you REALLY stood up, Koch! Like a REAL man would! I was so impressed."
Whoa! What? REAL man?? Really??? Now THAT'S something I've been needing to hear for the past coupla years!!! Validation, validation, valiDATION!
Anyway, more about Florida and in-laws later. I just wanted to quickly tell you about Schnebly Redland's Winery. This place was extra special and we managed to hit it on our way down to Key West.
Here. You gotta check out our visit to Schnebly in Part ONE of the newly-posted "Max Koch Goes to Florida" video. Oh, and wait'll you see the big ol' brown iguana they got runnin' around down there. Click the pic of the winery's fountain here and GO:
As it turns out, I went and saw a doctor again once I got back into town and was told I'm suffering a pretty bad bout of bronchitis. So now I've just been hiding out, reading, being creative, and watching movies. But it's a DRAG, man. I am RUN DOWN. Plus I've had to bail on all these amazing social engagements I'd placed on the calendar. But I suppose it's better than dropping dead in Florida, where I would've KILL MYSELF if I'd died there. (What?)
Hey, whaddo ya know. It's movin' n' shakin' over here as I've just now uploaded Part TWO of "Max Koch Goes to Florida", which predominantly takes place in Key West. So click the pic here of the wife at I at the very southernmost Southernmost point of the USA and go look at that one, too:
WINE PAIRING: Most definitely give the Schnebly Sparkling Passion a splash. We bought a couple bottles with us down to Key West when we stayed at the Parrot Key Hotel & Resort and they most perfectly punctuated our sunsets.
And special thanks to Ernesto and George at Schnebly for being so cool to us and letting us film!


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Underwood Noiseless 77
My gorgeous shiny and expensive Underwood Noiseless 77 which I've spoken about in a previous post here had been in need of new feed-rollers for months. Not having found anything suitable in the meantime and after a good boiling didn't do the trick with the existing rollers, I decided to try simply shaving the edges of the squared rollers off with a pocket knife, leaving them slightly rounder.
Believe it or not this actually did the job. I was expecting to need to roll a bit of duct-tape around one or two to fatten them up to size, but no. I now have a fully functional sparkly new looking Underwood Noiseless. If I happen to find suitable replacement rear feed-rollers at a later date I can always fit them in. Accessing and removing the rear feed-rollers on these machines (Remington Noiseless 7 / Underwood Noiseless 77) is a relatively simple matter of adjusting the margin stops to their outer-most limit, activating the paper release to move the rollers away from the platen and lifting the whole assembly (4 rollers attached to a single rod) out of their holder. Moving the carriage to one extremity helps ease of access.
Remington Portable 5
Another satisfying repair was finishing off my shiny Remington Portable 5, for which I had previously borrowed John's tool to straighten the keytops on (mentioned here). After the keytops and the feed rollers had been done, the only thing left was the carriage return lever. I had assumed I would be able to use the carriage return lever off the parts-machine Remington 4 that John had loaned me, however this was not to be the case.


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There is a lot of evidence-based research to support the treatment of stuttering for pre-schoolers and adults. In Australia, there is near consensus among speech pathologists that the Lidcombe Program is the most effective treatment for pre-schoolers who stutter. Clinical trials completed in Australia and across the globe have proven that it works for the majority of children countless times.
But what if it doesn't? And what about children who are no longer preschool aged? We need better treatments for school-aged children who stutter. Research groups, like the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC) are working to develop and test new treatments. But front-line speech pathologists and families of school kids who stutter can't afford to wait for the perfect treatment.
Why we can't afford to wait for the perfect treatment?
Besides the fact that there is a possibility that no perfect treatment will ever be developed there are a number of reasons to treat stuttering for school-aged children as soon as possible. Here are just a few:
- Stuttering becomes harder to treat and control with age. Full recovery also continues to become less likely with growing age as the neural pathways in the brain become cemented and less malleable.
- With entry into school, stuttering can result in social and emotional problems (Conture & Guitar, 1993). They are at risk of bullying and teasing with studies showing more than 59-80% of stuttering children being bullied about their speech; 38% on most days or every day in primary school; 11-12 year old kids who stutter were almost three times as likely to be bullied as kids who did not stutter; and school children are far more likely to see peers who stutter as victims of bullying than children who do not stutter (Blood & Blood, 2007; Davis et al., 2002; Ezrati-Vinacour et al, 2001; Langevin et al., 1998).
- Studies have also shown that children from 4 onwards begin to experience negative reactions from peers and school-aged children that stutter often develop negative attitudes towards speech and communication, include actively avoiding speaking situations and this continues to worsen during the school years (Denil & Brutten, 1991, Vanryckeghem & Brutten, 1997; Langevin et al., 2009)
- Children who stutter are more likely than those who don't to repeat a year at school (Boyle et al., 1994) and they also report a lower quality of life than children who do not stutter (Beilby et al., 2012).
- These negative effects do outlast high school and can affect the individual's further education and job opportunities (Yaruss, 2001). Adults that stutter are also 7 times more likely to have an anxiety disorder compared to those who do not stutter (Iverach et al. 2009). There is a strong association between bullying during the primary school and subsequent anxiety (Gladstone et al., 2006). Social anxiety often starts during early teenage years, which means it's likely develops during the primary school years (Smith et al., 2014; Messenger et al., 2015).
With all that said, where do you turn if there is no treatment method with strong supporting evidence to treat school-aged children who stutter? Each individual is different and treatment needs to be carefully selected based on a number of factors. There is exciting new evidence to support a hybrid treatment using syllable timed speech and the Lidcombe program. Click here to out more. It is important to work closely with a qualified speech pathologist experienced at treating fluency disorders to determine the right course of action for your child.
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Saw this mother and child in the woods in Rhode Island.
Postcard Home
After my motorcycle ride through the Catskills I had a few days at home before heading off to Princeton Seminary for the 4 day Fred Buechner Writer's Workshop. There were 300 accomplished and would-be writers in attendance. Barbara Brown Taylor, a very gifted preacher, speaker and writer - one of my favorites, was the keynote presenter. I attending a variety of workshops as I reconnected with old friends and made some new ones. I was inspired to continue to craft my skills of story telling.
Last Friday I headed to Rhode Island for a grief ritual workshop. This grief work is based on the tradition of the West African Dagara tribe. 16 people gathered in circle to learn about and open to a wide variety of grief. Through ritual, story telling, drumming, chant and dancing deep wells of grief were accessed and expressed. I have never experienced anything quite like it. Carolyn Baker masterfully convened the retreat creating a safe holding space for grief to be expressed. She told some very moving stories accompanied by drumming.
Monday I participated in a day-long retreat at Sabbath House. Phyllis Zoon convened 10 people for conversation and reflection around the theme of "Our Place In Time and Space".
I now have three weeks in which I'll not be doing much traveling as I continue to explore the landscape of my soul and my relationships.
I'm reading several books including the novel "Gilead" by Marilynn Robinson; "The Mindful Writer" by Dinty W. Moore; "The Grace in Aging" by Kathleen Downing Singh; "Backpacking With the Saints" Belden C. Lane; "Landmarks" by Robert Macfarlane; and Love 2.0. by Barbara Fredrickson.
Reflections Along the Way
In the events outlined above I experienced a powerful thread of "story". The stories told at the grief ritual were raw, archetypical and timeless. They were old mythic stories from indigenous cultures that cut through the rational defenses we erect to give us an illusion of security. The accompanying drum reverberated like a heart beat opening in the chest. These were stories and rituals intending to be disruptive, to catch the ego off guard to make room for the soul.
Ursula K. LeGuin wrote, "The truth goes in and out of stories, you know. What was once true is true no longer. The water has risen from another spring"
When stories become too tame and familiar they tend to loose their transformative power. Think of the stories Jesus told or the poems the Psalmists gave us. Sometimes they have been so homogenized, so common place, the disruptive rhythm, the heartbeat that can get under our egoic defenses, becomes just another whistling tune along an ordinary path to nowhere.
I wonder what it would be like to celebrate the story of the Passover or the Lord's Supper to the beat of a drum and dancing?
ps. Just read this in "Gilead":
"I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books. This is not a new insight, but the truth of it is something you have to experience to fully grasp."
Robinson, Marilynne (2004-11-15). Gilead: A Novel (p. 45).


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Lyrics of Abba medley
Stars On 45
The stars on 45
Keeps on burning in your mind
But we can work it out
Remember twist and shout
You still don't tell me why
You know it way
Voulez-vous aha
Take it now ore leave it aha
Now it's all we get aha
Nothing promised , no regrets
So when you're near me darling can't you hear me s.o.s.
The love you gave me nothing less can save me s.o.s.
When you're gone how can i even try to go on
Like a bang , a boom a boomarang
Dum be dum dum be dum be dum dum
Oh bang a boom a boomerang
Love is a tune you hum de hum hum
Money , money , money must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money , money , money always sunny
In the rich mans world
Aha haaaaa
All the things you can do
If i had a little money
It's a rich mans world
Knowing me , knowing you aha
There is nothing you can do
Knowing me , knowing you aha
We just have to face it
This time we're trough
Breakin' up is never easy
I know but i have to go
Knowing me , knowing you
It's the best i can do
There was something in the air that night
The stars where bright
They were shining there for you and me
For liberty
I don't wanna talk
About the thing we've gone trough
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've don too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play
The winner takes it all
The loser standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny
Souper trouper beams are gonne blind me
But i won't feel blue
Like i always do
'cause somewhere in the crowd there is you
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Lyrics of the track abba medley by stars on 45.


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Mueller Lifts Baseball Past Sacred Heart
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ALBANY, N.Y. – On Tuesday, the University at Albany baseball team (22-23, 8-12 AE) hosted its final home game of the 2017 regular season. The Great Danes defeated the visiting Sacred Heart Pioneers (18-33, 11-12 NEC) by a score of 14-13 after an up-and-down game that culminated in a go-ahead home run from senior Eric Mueller.
UAlbany jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Patrick Lagravinese led off with a slow-rolling single to the pitcher. After Nick Kondo fouled out to the catcher, Connor Powers hit an RBI double to center, scoring Lagravinese. Next, with Powers on second, Kevin Donati hit a two-run home run to give the Great Danes a 3-0 lead.
Sacred Heart responded with one run in the top of the second inning, cutting the lead to 3-1. UAlbany scored six runs in the bottom of the inning. Alex Thul drew a leadoff walk, and advanced to second when Stephen Loreng grounded out to shortstop. Lagravinese next drew a walk to put runners on first and second, before Nick Kondo hit a three-run home run.
After Kondo's home run, Powers hit a single through the right side, and Donati singled to left, setting up a three-run home run for Travis Collins, the team's second of the inning, to bring the game to 9-1.
Sacred Heart scored one run in the top of the third, cutting the Great Dane lead to seven, and two more in the top of the fourth to cut the lead to five.
Two and a half scoreless innings went by before Sacred Heart hit a home run to lead off the top of the seventh, cutting the lead to four. The Pioneers scored five more runs before the Great Danes recorded an out, taking a 10-9 lead. They would add three more runs in the inning before the third out, and the Danes came up to bat in the bottom of the seventh trailing 13-9.
UAlbany responded immediately, scoring four runs to tie the game at 13. Kyle Sacks led off with a single to left center, followed by a single through the left side from Thul. Evan Harasta, pinch hitting for Loreng, fouled out to first, after Sacks and Thul each advanced a base on a balk from Sacred Heart's pitcher. Lagravinese next drew a walk to load the bases. Kondo hit a single to center, scoring Sacks. Powers next hit a grounder to second and was thrown out at first but Kondo was able to cross the plate. Donati narrowly beat out a single to first, allowing Kondo and Lagravinese to score to tie the game.
Mueller led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a home run to left give UAlbany a one-run lead. It would prove to be the go-ahead run that put UAlbany up for good, 14-13. It was the first home run of Mueller's collegiate career, and it came in his last at-bat at Varisty Field.
Donati led UAlbany with four hits, and shared the team lead with Kondo with four RBIs each. Additionally, each of the first five batters in UAlbany's lineup today recorded multiple hits and scored at least one run. Great Dane starter David Hutchison lasted 2.0 innings, allowing one run on two hits with two strikeouts. Six pitchers, Angelo Spedafino, Brendan Smith, Ryan Daugherty, Terry Dugdale, Charlie Peltz, and Dominic Savino combined for the final 7.0 innings, with Savino getting the win after pitching 2.0 innings, allowing one hit and recording one strikeout.
"We had a nine run lead that we established early," said head coach Jon Mueller. "You know, it's tough when guys aren't out there a lot. It's tough to stay sharp. But we battled back late in that game four runs down. And what a great finish for Eric Mueller, the home run late to finish off the home season. So we're excited and looking forward to Maine this weekend."
Sacred Heart scored 13 runs on 15 hits with no errors. UAlbany scored 14 runs on 19 hits and commited two errors.
The Great Danes will close out the regular season with a three game series at Maine starting on Friday, May 19. The America East tournament starts on May 24 in Lowell, Mass.