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For the last seven years, Alcon Laboratories Inc. has broadcast a medical procedure from the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Louisiana, live, via satellite, to the American Academy of Ophthalmologists' annual convention, as part of a teaching program that offers CME credit for the physicians in the audience.
This year, there was a big problem six weeks before the broadcast. The host facility, the Ambulatory Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana, run by world-renowned eye surgeon, Stephen F. Brint, MD, is in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb. (Brint is also an associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at Tulane University.) And in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Brint's clinic was wet — and it wasn't expected to be up and running in time for the AAO convention in October.
"It takes a year's planning to do this," says Carol O. Duke, BS, global medical education director, with Fort Worth, Texas — based Alcon. "Then Katrina hit, then Rita hit. For three weeks, we didn't know what had happened at the surgery center because Dr. Brint and his people couldn't get back in there. Then we found it had a couple inches of water. It wasn't washed away, but in a surgery center, it was major. There's always something. But never have we had anything like this," she adds. "Never this challenging. Each day brought a new twist to the saga."
Boyd to the Rescue
The complications reached far beyond the venue issue. The surgeon faculty consisted of U.S. and international doctors who had obtained a one-day teaching medical license from the State of Louisiana. Moving the procedures out of state would be a logistical nightmare, as they would have to meet the requirements of the new destination and there just wasn't enough time.
Duke did, nonetheless, consider other domestic and international locales before finding a facility in Baton Rouge that offered to host Brint and his visiting faculty from New York, Ohio, Japan, Argentina, and Brazil.
"So I had the facility," Duke says. "And I had hotel rooms for 35 people in Baton Rouge. Then, due to local issues in Baton Rouge, we lost the hotel rooms within 2 weeks of the program. Now I had a surgical facility but no rooms for the doctors to sleep. At one point we talked about having the surgeons just go to Chicago and show videos of previous surgeries. But we really wanted to offer the live surgery demo if at all possible."
Instead of canceling, Duke called New Orleans — based destination management specialist Bonnie Boyd, president of Bonnie Boyd and Company. Only one problem: Boyd, like many other residents of the Crescent City, was relocated by the hurricanes.
"I didn't even know where Bonnie was — I just knew she wasn't in her home," Duke says. "I called her cell phone and hired her to start looking for a new hotel for me in Baton Rouge."
Boyd's office, in the New Orleans Central Business District, is just four blocks from the badly damaged Superdome. But her office survived the storm intact. And her home in the Garden District was relatively unscathed. "We were among the lucky ones," she says. "I have four staffers who lost everything. They're coping; They're glad to have a place to work."
Grateful herself for the work at a time when most of her business was washed away, Boyd searched high and low. But there wasn't a spare room to be found within 100 miles of Baton Rouge. She even called plantation owners and inquired about pitching tents for the doctors. Then Boyd called her old friend Hans Wandfluh, president and general manager of the Royal Sonesta Hotel, located in the heart of the French Quarter. He guaranteed her that he could make the meeting happen.
Pre-Hurricane Katrina, the Royal Sonesta was an around-the-clock operation with 500 employees. After the big blow, the staff consisted of a mere 140 men and women, most of whom were themselves residents of the 484-room hotel.
"We work around the clock," Wandfluh says. "Our people are willing to do all kinds of jobs they never did before. We have front-desk agents who were never agents; waiters who were not waiters. Our gourmet restaurant is not open; our informal restaurant is. All our bars are open. We try to make it as simple as possible for employees."
Boyd was warned that her guests should not expect to find the usual quiet hotel from pre-Katrina days because of the FEMA staffers and construction workers on the premises. But the doctors were excited about the adventure.
Chef Paul Prudhomme, proprietor of the world-famous restaurant K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, was Boyd's next call. He was in China, promoting New Orleans cuisine. Prudhomme promised to come home and cook for Boyd's guests.
New Orleans officials thought Boyd was crazy. "They told me: 'You can't do this; you can't do that,'" she recalls. 'You won't have this; you won't have that.'" To which Boyd replied, "Why the hell not?"
Post-Flood Pre-Op
With lodgings arranged in New Orleans and the surgery set in Baton Rouge for Saturday, October 15 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., Carol Duke reported back to Brint and his administrator. Brint told her that it was nerve-racking enough for the surgeons to do an operation live with a thousand people watching them — they didn't need the additional stress of driving back and forth from Baton Rouge the morning of the surgery. He told her he would get his center up and going and recertified in time for the broadcast.
Brint's first major task was locating his staff. Some are still not back in their homes, but enough of them were found to repair and restore the surgery center. Then they had to find patients. "Before Katrina, in normal times, Dr. Brint would have a backlog of people already scheduled for procedures," Duke says. "What they did was call scheduled patients first to see who was still in town and wanted their surgery."
With the lodgings and surgery set for New Orleans, the surgeons would still have to fly in and out of Baton Rouge; There were no other options.
As much faith as Duke had in her friend Boyd — and Boyd in Wandfluh — the unstable situation in much of New Orleans still left her uneasy. "All along the way, I asked Bonnie, 'Are you sure about this?' She kept reassuring me. She said, 'It's good, it's good.' I have a lot of faith in Bonnie Boyd; her word was good enough for me; I didn't worry after that," says Duke.
When the surgeons arrived in New Orleans on Friday, October 14, they checked into the Royal Sonesta and made an introductory visit to Brint's facility to familiarize themselves with the physical plant and the production plan. Then they were feted with red carpet treatment at K-Paul's restaurant, which reopened just in time to welcome them — and with Prudhomme himself on hand to cook for them. It was the first business the popular dining spot had done since Hurricane Katrina hit.
"It was quite inspirational," Duke says. "And in all the years I've done it, this was the finest faculty dinner we've ever had. We invited all of Dr. Brint's staff and the faculty and Chef Prudhomme and Hans Wandfluh to join us."
Ironically, the curfew in the French Quarter was lifted that very night. The next day, Saturday, was showtime.
Of Saints and Surgery
The New Orleans office of AVW-TELAV Audio Visual Solutions brought in all the necessary audiovisual equipment for broadcast and satellite uplink from the surgery center, connecting with a satellite pickup at McCormick Center's Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, where the American Academy of Ophthalmologists' annual convention was in progress.
In a normal year, the program moderator would begin by introducing the visiting faculty panel, then lead into the first live case. This time the moderator went instead to Brint, who explained what he and his staff did to get the eye surgery center up and running again. Brint did a walk-through tour of his center, thanking his staff on camera for their remarkable dedication and performance under adverse circumstances. He wanted everybody to know the facility was fine and that people were coming back to New Orleans.
And despite all the complications and just plain craziness, the surgery went off without a hitch.
When the broadcast was almost over, Duke instructed the AV team to add a little New Orleans seasoning to the conclusion: "When The Saints Come Marching In." "The whole audience just erupted in applause," reported Duke's colleague, Deborah Berry, who managed the audience side of the program for Alcon.
After the live surgery, Duke got on a bus with the surgical faculty for the two-hour ride to Baton Rouge, where they boarded the only American Airlines flight to Chicago and attended the remainder of the convention.
"The live broadcast was the talk of the meeting," she says. "The doctors were shocked that we could continue on. It felt really good to accomplish what we set out to do. Even with all the roadblocks — literally! — we still went back to the original plan. Everybody had heard so much bad news about New Orleans; this was good P.R. for the city."
Royal Sonesta Survival Story
Hans Wandfluh, president and general manager of the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans, combined disaster planning, business smarts, fortunate geography, and a garbage truck in an unparalleled recovery for his landmark facility.
"Our hotel sustained little damage," he says. "I stayed here through the storm with a staff of 30. We stayed the whole time. We defended the hotel. We got a generator quickly to power up and the hotel never really closed. We sent [staff in] our laundry truck to Mobile, Ala., to go shopping. We lucked out; the water only came to the middle of the 200 block of Bourbon Street." (The hotel is at 300 Bourbon Street.)
When the storm ended, instead of throwing open the doors to welcome the world back in, Wandfluh actually nailed the doors shut because of the simultaneous looting and rescue operations.
Cleanup after the storm was easier than for other properties because "we have our own garbage truck, so we were able to get rid of all our trash where other hotels had to wait a month to clean out," Wandfluh says.
How many hotels own their own garbage truck? And why would they want to?
If you've ever been there, you know that the streets in the French Quarter are not as wide as in other parts of New Orleans. For city-owned trucks to come rolling through the streets and alleys to pick up a standard big bin is difficult. The trucks almost always damaged the Royal Sonesta. So Wandfluh got fed up and bought his own garbage truck.
"The insurance is high on it — I was going to sell it," he says of his mindset shortly before Katrina. "But now! Little did I think a garbage truck would be so important to a hotel! We even took it out and cleaned up the 300 block of Bourbon Street with it. The 200 block was dirty, the 400 block was a mess, but 300 was beautiful! And my guys just did it. I didn't even have to ask."
"As for the trash, it was dangerous to get rid of it," he continues. "The police weren't willing to give up manpower to give our truck safe passage in and out of town. But when we offered to move their trash, it became a horse of another color. Sanitation becomes one of the most important things in a situation of this nature."


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Morpheus - I was having a similar problem with CF JSON truncating strings with leading zeros and here's how I handled it. I know the string length should be 6 - so it could be 000000, or A12345 etc. <cfif StructKeyExists(LOCAL.returnQry,"group_id")>... read more »
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The PhytoTest is a great option to run alongside the TRS to help hold on to your gains in PCT,and perhaps even add some LBM.
PhytoTest is the only natty test booster I will ever use. Hands down best I've ever had (feel free to quote and insert joke with that one )
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Definitely keep this as part of your PCT recovery with the Testosterone Recovery Stack.
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I wasn't taking it for gaining size or anything but rather strength and all my lifts were up stiil and going up while in pct from 1-T. I also loved the pump or muscle hardness I got from the product, I honestly feel this helped me increase my chest size. Sounds weird but my chest lost a lot of size from when I was younger and this supp pumped em back up. I'm going to use this supp every pct pretty much from now on or just add to a nhs stack when I want a break.What type of gains did you see on it? I have two bottles ready to go starting in May. Thanks.
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Sounds very similar to Biotest's original Methoxy-7. Which I loved. I'll be sure to share my thought on Phyto once I begin.


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Laura Gonzalez December 5, 2012 at 10:34 pm
I love uncle mike. Wish I had more time with him. He had such a great heart and cared for everyone.…Read More He was like a big teddy bear. We love and miss u uncle mike. Stay close.
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I was a neighbor of Mike's. I only visited with him a few times and he was one of the nicest men I…Read More have had the pleasure of meeting. It was obvious to me how much he loved his family. He was always outside playing with the kids whenever we would pass by. He also took time to help out the elderly man that lived across the street from his family. He will be missed by many. I wish I had more time to get to know him better. My thoughts are with his family.
Andrew Ramerman January 27, 2013 at 02:31 pm
I miss you buddy, and think about you all the time. RIP my old friend.
Bob Martinek October 25, 2012 at 01:28 pm
I would like to see Hank Myers help put teeth in the towing sign on the "trail only"…Read More parking lot at the York Road (116th) bridge. Soccer folks seem to think they are above the rules and park there in spite of the signs telling them not to. Cracks me up, parents breaking rules right in front of their kids...nice lesson!
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Amy, you are missed. My best to your family, two-legged and 4- legged.
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Yes, I should have mentioned that in the post. David was the one who alerted us of Tareq's Redmond…Read More connections, which we certainly appreciate.
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Tareq was indeed, a good friend that always had a bright outlook on life and lived in that moment.…Read More I will always cherish his wonderful smile and generous energy he put forth. Grieve deeply my friends and take comfort that we had a brief opportunity to share our moments withTareq. Love generously as he did, Janeen Olson Redmond CERT Program Manager


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As associate director of MISTI, Gercik supervises the high functioning work of 10 different country program managers. As managing director of the MIT-Japan Program, Gercik teaches students about Japan, supervises their placement in Japanese internships, cultivates relationships with firms and institutions on both sides of the Pacific, raises funds and manages relationships with the Japanese community.
Gercik joined MIT more than 25 years ago to help develop what was then a fledgling program in Japanese studies at MIT. That program — now known as MIT-Japan — marks the genesis of applied international studies at MIT and is a cornerstone of the 10 (and growing) country programs of MISTI. MISTI is today the nation's largest and most successful program of applied international studies.
Vision, dedication, and compassion
Reflecting on Gercik's extraordinary contributions, Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science, director of the Center for International Studies, and founding director of the MIT-Japan Program, says, "Pat is a successful fundraiser in the corporate world; a dedicated mentor to students and staff; and an imaginative architect for each next phase of program development."
He adds, "Every successful project and institution requires such a visionary. She has been ours."
Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and director of MISTI, says: "Pat has a great capacity to bring intuition together with sharp observation and analysis in problem solving. I have never met anyone with the same combination of realism and toughness in judgment together with kindness and compassion in approach."
National leadership
Gercik's reach extends far beyond MIT. She has been a national leader in coordinating efforts on campuses form Massachusetts to California to stimulate more and better understanding about Japan and international studies. She has been the interface between MISTI and the U.S. government, from the National Science Foundation to the Pentagon. To that end, she authored a book, On Track with the Japanese, which has become required reading for the executives of many firms.
Childhood in Japan
Born to a British mother and a Russian father who relocated to Kobe, Japan, in the 1930s, Gercik lived a Japanese childhood. She has vivid memories of "confronting" U.S. soldiers during the Occupation and wandering through the black markets of a reconstructing Tokyo; she recently wrote a novel about this experience.
"Then, as now," says Samuels, "Pat had a remarkable sense of how to understand human behavior — and how to explain it in ways that de-mystify."
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The Dutch conductor, Jos van Veldhoven, received his training at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Utrecht. He also studied choral and orchestra conducting at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Since 1983 Jos van Veldhoven has been the Music Director of The Netherlands Bach Society. He regularly conducts choir and orchestra in the Netherlands and abroad in concerts of the major works of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, among which the traditional performances of the St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) in Naarden. Since 1989 he is also conductor of Cappella Figuralis, an ensemble of soloists of The Netherlands Bach Society that specializes in 17th century music. In addition he conducts the Utrechts Barok Consort he founded in 1976. In recent times Jos van Veldhoven attracted attention with performances of 'new' repertoire in ancient music. He teaches choral direction at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and at the Royal Conservatory in Hague.
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We've been in the news business for 118 years
SCHENECTADY In 118 years of informing its readers what's happening in the world, The Daily Gazette has at times made news itself. Who could ever forget photographer Sid Brown's run-in with gambling figure Paul "Legs" DiCocco in 1951, or the picture of receptionist and editorial assistant Jean Ball arm-in-arm with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1966.
The Daily Gazette, once known as the Schenectady Gazette, publishes a print edition seven days a week. In recent years, it's also up and running around the clock as a website, and more recently as a social media contributor.
Our private, family-owned company is based in Schenectady, New York. We offer a full news report but we specialize in local news coverage, focusing on Schenectady, Saratoga, Fulton, Montgomery Schoharie and Albany counties.
The Gazette embarked on its first online venture in 1996, a free Web site that contained virtually all of the content from each day's print edition. In 2003, the Gazette created a subscriber-only Web site, and then on Dec. 11, 2007, reverted back to a free Web site that offered some of the print edition's content. In August of 2009, the Gazette again began charging an access fee for its electronic version and that continues to be the case.
While change hasn't always come so easily at the Gazette, it has adapted to the changing times. The newspaper was formed in 1894 when the Schenectady Printing Association took over a weekly called the Schenectady Gazette and turned it into a daily, renaming it The Daily Gazette in 1895. Despite two other city newspapers - the Evening Star and the Union — the Gazette was successful under the leadership of Gerardus Smith. Describing itself as "independent in politics," the Gazette claimed by August of 1895 that it had the largest circulation in Schenectady, selling 3,000 papers a day.
Smith was one of five children belonging to David Cady Smith, the founder of a Schenectady law firm way back in 1837. Gerardus also studied law, but he seemed better suited for life as a banker and businessman, and it was his brother Everett who followed their father into the family's law practice.
Gerardus became the first president of the renamed Daily Gazette Company in March of 1899, and was followed in that office by Austin N. Liecty in 1917. Earlier, in 1902, the paper bought a new press and began going by the name of its predecessor, the Schenectady Gazette. Liecty, meanwhile, a Smith protege, is the only non-relative to serve as president of the company, his tenure finally coming to an end in 1945. John G. Green, who married Gerardus Smith's daughter, Eleanor Smith, followed Liecty in the presidency from 1945-64, and then Eleanor served in that capacity from 1965-83, followed by her nephew John E.N. Hume Jr., from 1983-86. His brother David Hume was president from 1986 until 1993, when John's son, John E.N. (Jack) Hume III, took over the reins.
It was Liecty who in 1924 oversaw the Gazette purchase the property on State Street it had been renting since 1899, and on Jan. 4, 1926, the newspaper rolled off the presses with a "new look." There was very little done to the Gazette's appearance over the next five decades until 1984, when, due to a national change in advertising standards, the newspaper went from eight columns to six.
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10.1.1. Calculating Real Memory Usage |
We have shown how to measure the size of the process's shared memory, but we still want to know what the real memory usage is. Obviously this cannot be calculated simply by adding up the memory size of each process, because that wouldn't account for the shared memory.
On the other hand, we cannot just subtract the shared memory size from the total size to get the real memory-usage numbers, because in reality each process has a different history of processed requests, which makes different memory pages dirty; therefore, different processes have different memory pages shared with the parent process.
So how do we measure the real memory size used by all running web-server processes? It is a difficult task—probably too difficult to make it worthwhile to find the exact number—but we have found a way to get a fair approximation.
This is the calculation technique that we have devised:
Calculate all the unshared memory, by summing up the difference between shared and system memory of each process. To calculate a difference for a single process, use:
use GTop; my $proc_mem = GTop->new->proc_mem($$); my $diff = $proc_mem->size - $proc_mem->share; print "Difference is $diff bytes\n";
Add the system memory use of the parent process, which already includes the shared memory of all other processes.
Figure 10-1 helps to visualize this.
The Apache::VMonitor module uses this technique to display real memory usage. In fact, it makes no separation between the parent and child processes. They are all counted indifferently using the following code:
use GTop ( ); my $gtop = GTop->new; my ($parent_pid, @child_pids) = some_code( ); # add the parent proc memory size my $total_real = $gtop->proc_mem($parent_pid)->size; # add the unshared memory sizes for my $pid (@child_pids) { my $proc_mem = $gtop->proc_mem($pid); $total_real += $proc_mem->size - $proc_mem->share; }
Now $total_real contains approximately the amount of memory really used.
This method has been verified in the following way. We calculate the real memory used using the technique described above. We then look at the system memory report for the total memory usage. We then stop Apache and look at the total memory usage for a second time. We check that the system memory usage report indicates that the total memory used by the whole system has gone down by about the same number that we've calculated.
Note that some OSes do smart memory-page caching, so you may not see the memory usage decrease immediately when you stop the server, even though it is actually happening. Also, if your system is swapping, it's possible that your swap memory was used by the server as well as the real memory. Therefore, to get the verification right you should use a tool that reports real memory usage, cached memory, and swap memory. For example, on Linux you can use the free command. Run this command before and after stopping the server, then compare the numbers reported in the column called free.
Based on this logic we can devise a formula for calculating the maximum possible number of child processes, taking into account the shared memory. From now on, instead of adding the memory size of the parent process, we are going to add the maximum shared size of the child processes, and the result will be approximately the same. We do that approximation because the size of the parent process is usually unknown during the calculation.
Therefore, the formula to calculate the maximum number of child processes with minimum shared memory size of Min_Shared_RAM_per_Child MB that can run simultaneously on a machine that has a total RAM of Total_RAM MB available for the web server, and knowing the maximum process size, is:
which can also be rewritten as:
since the denominator is really the maximum possible amount of a child process's unshared memory.
In Chapter 14 we will see how we can enforce the values used in calculation during runtime.
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When we put orchids in pots, we are trying to grow them in an unnatural environment just to make it easy for us. We need to try to come as close as possible in this new growing system to keep them happy. Over the years many different media have been used to grow orchids in pots, the most common at the moment is tree bark, specifically fir bark. Orchid roots need plenty of air circulation in order to keep from rotting and good sized pieces of bark provide the open environment that they need. Another common and available media is coconut husk chips (CHC). This media is becoming more and more accepted due to its availability and the fact that it is a sustainable and renewable resource.
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HowellDevine is the kind of blues you don't hear anymore. The raw slide guitar played by Joshua Howell evokes the Mississippi Hill Country greats like Fred McDowell and RL Burnside. The rhythm section of drummer and percussionist Pete Devine, along with the bass of either Safa Shokrai or Joe Kyle Jr., breaks from the norm in blues, providing rich and complex textures integral to the music rather than a simple backing section for a soloist. The result is a sound which stands in stark contrast to the typical blues heard in bars these days and would more likely be shaking the floors of a Southern juke joint some 70 years ago. HowellDevine brings life back to that sound, infusing the rural blues with their own unique style.
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1. Rollin' And Tumblin'
2. Guitar Rag
3. Harmonica Wobble #2
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9. Mellow Down Easy (on CD only)
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11. Mighty Long Time
12. Write Me A Few Of Your Lines (on CD only)
Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles
notes by Lee Hildebrand
Pete Devine was playing drums and washboard with Bo Grumpus when Chris Strachwitz came to see the ragtime trio some 22 years ago. The percussionist recalls that the producer didn't like what he heard that night, although Strachwitz remembers that he did.
Whatever the case, Devine's memory of that early encounter did not dissuade him from dropping by the El Cerrito, California, headquarters of Arhoolie Records years later with a copy of Delta Grooves, the debut release by a new retro-blues trio co-led by Devine and singer, guitarist, and harmonica blower Joshua Howell. (The CD was issued in February 2012 on Sparta Records, a label named after one of the percussionist's numerous cats.) Strachwitz was so knocked out by what he heard that he drove across the bay to check out the guys doing an all-acoustic gig at the tiny Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco's Mission District.
"It felt almost like sitting in a room in 1938," the veteran record man says of the experience. "They were so tight. Devine was playing a little washboard, and he blew into a jug and made sounds with his mouth. Josh's voice was really nice. There was no overdoing or under-doing, just straight out, the way blues were really sung. He played wonderful. It was almost all slide guitar on a National steel, and he played harmonica on a bunch of 'em."
Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles, HowellDevine's second CD, is something of a milestone for Arhoolie. Launched by Strachwitz in 1960, Arhoolie was essentially a blues label during its decade in business, with a roster that boasted such giants as Lightning Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, and Big Mama Thornton. The producer's interests gradually gravitated toward Cajun, zydeco, Mexican, and other styles, however, and after the 1986 release of The Beginning by young Louisiana bluesman Chris Thomas, the company issued no further albums of newly recorded blues, other than the blues-infused zydeco of Clifton Chenier's son C.J. Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles is therefore the first new blues recording to appear on Arhoolie in over a quarter century.
Judging from the vibrancy Howell, Devine, and standup bassist Joe Kyle Jr. (for whom Safa Shokral sometimes substitutes) bring to the Mississippi blues of both the hill country and Delta varieties and Chicago blues selections on the CD, along with Devine's own "Shotgun Blues" and the two instrumentals of his and Howell's invention, it's no wonder Strachwitz is so crazy about the combo. The players are thoroughly steeped in old-school traditions, yet they are no mere revivalists and instead approach their material with a fun-filled sense of adventure. Howell's singing, as Strachwitz noted, is strong yet never forced, his prowess on both Epiphone Dot 335 and National Duolian resonator guitars is awe-inspiring, and his unamplified harmonica work draws favorable comparison to his heroes Sonny Terry, Rice Miller, and Little Walter. Behind Howell, Devine and the bassist churn up an amazing array of syncopated rhythms. Devine incorporates a washboard that rests on his lap into a standard kit of Gretsch drums and Zildjian cymbals as he complements the bassist's propulsive, frequently slapped patterns. For Miller's "Mighty Long Time," in a version different from the one on the trio's previous CD, Devine switches to jug.
Joshua Howell was born in San Francisco on January 13, 1974, and was inspired early on by the blues records in his parents' collection. He took up harmonica at age 14 in the hope that it would help him stop biting his nails – it didn't work – and guitar at 16. At 17, he often sat in at the now-legendary Oakland blues joints Eli's Mile High Club and Your Place Too. He spent eight years building classical guitars before relocating to Pai, a town in northern Thailand that boasts an international artists' community. There he traveled by Moped between different bars and restaurants, playing three or four one-hour sets per night at each one, until, after three years, he was arrested, jailed, and deported for having worked without a permit. In July 2011, a year after returning home to San Francisco, he hooked up with Devine.
Pete Devine was born in Portland, Maine, on May 5, 1968, and as a child played along on pots and pans with his grandmother's Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Spike Jones records. (Jones, he notes, was an outstanding washboard player.) He got his first set of drums when he was 6 and to this day uses the Ludwig bass drum pedal that came with it. Drummers Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Francis Clay, Fred Below, and Earl Palmer rank high on his list of influences. He settled in San Francisco in 1989, a year before his 15 years with Bo Grumpus ended. His extensive resume also includes stints with Lavay Smith, Mal Sharpe, the gypsy jazz band Gaucho, Maria Muldaur, and his own Devine's Jug Band.
On October 28, 2012, HowellDevine was selected by the Golden Gate Blues Society to represent Northern California in Blues Foundation's 29th International Blues Challenge in Memphis from January 29 to February 3, 2013. That showcase, along with the release of Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles, is sure to serve wide notice of a sound that's both old and breathtakingly new.
-Lee Hildebrand , contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Living Blues
Living Blues Magazine
The first Arhoolie blues release in 25 years, Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles is a sensation. Chris Strachwitz' famed record label was a mainstay of the blues revival with Lightning Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, Clifton Chenier, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mance Lipscomb and more. The long Arhoolie blues hiatus has ended with this release by HowellDevine, a roots-blues combo from northern California.
Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles has a real King Biscuit Time vibe in sound, groove, and attitude. Joshua Howell, the band's guitarist and harmonica player, plays wicked harp loosely in the Rice Miller tradition, with traces of Jaybird Coleman and Little Walter. The fiery Howell plays emotive, straight blues, with sharp and superb guitar sliding & picking. Apparently, nobody showed the rhythm section the playbook. They are wild, juxtaposing interesting syncopations and jazz beats. Drummer Pete Devine and contrabassist Joe Kyle Jr. are in their own dynamic creative realm, approaching the rhythm in a free, almost avant-garde way—a contrast that gives the ensemble an idiosyncratic edge.
Apt liner notes by LB's Lee Hildebrand introduce this breakthrough project by a still relatively unknown ensemble.
The album offers twelve cuts, including three hot-licks guitar instrumental rarities by the great unsung country blues virtuosos Sylvester Weaver and Frank Hutchison, sweetly fingerpicked by Howell on the National resonator. It is packed with blues standards, starting with Muddy's version of Rollin' and Tumblin' with Howell sliding it just right. Howell plays it safe, but perfectly, on Rice Miller's Help Me, Willie Dixon's Spoonful, Little Walter's Mellow Down Easy, Sonny Boy Williamson's (Rice Miller) Mighty Long Time and Fred McDowell's Write Me a Few of Your Lines. The two originals are signs of good things to come.
— Frank Matheis — Living Blues Magazine
Arhoolie is one of those labels that provide a near-guarantee of quality. You might not always know the artist, the album title or the style of music under consideration but you can be sure that whatever it is, anything on Arhoolie will only have been released if it has met their own infallible in-house standards of taste, integrity and genuine enthusiasm for the variety of folk music indigenous to the Americas.
It is therefore quite a significant event when they released this CD recently with the claim that it is their first new release of original blues recordings for some 20 years. That is quite a billing, particularly if, like HowellDevine, you don't have a well established track record to back it up.
Fortunately, any doubts or fears are extinguished within the first few bars of the opener, a version of Rollin' And Tumblin' played with a Mississippi Hill Country-style slide guitar straight out of the Fred McDowell or RL Burnside textbook. By the end of the song, you just know you are in good company eagerly looking forward to the rest of the album.
With covers of other blues standards such as Help Me, Spoonful, Mellow Down Easy, Mighty Long Time and more, it would be easy to assume that you know what you are in for here. However, despite the familiarity of some of these songs, what you get is so much different to a typical modern-day blues band fronted by a hot blues guitar player. I'm still not sure if these guys are blues band playing blues songs as though they were a jazz band. They could just be a jazz band playing blues songs as though they were a blues band. Either way, this really swings and the instrumentation and interplay throughout the album is something else and mightily impressive.
Nowhere is this more in evidence than on Harmonica Wobble #2, an instrumental that starts as a harmonica-driven blues, introduces a honking R&B sax and then a barely-conceivable bass solo (only a jazz band would try this out, right?) before heading for the hills with the harmonica in the driving seat, seeing us out to the end of an all-to-brief six and a half minute highlight.
So who are these guys? Well, the singer, guitarist and harp blower is Joshua Howell, the drummer and washboard man is Pete Devine and the trio is completed by an assortment of guys on upright bass (dependent I guess on who was right for each song or available for each recording session). And that's pretty much all I know!
Despite the vagueness of the band, I can't recall the last time I heard a CD and knew from the get-go that it was the business (and been proven right). Try it yourself, I reckon you'll think the same!
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Early Childhood Education (Kinder früher fördern)
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In the Education Toolbox, you will find proven guidelines and tips for daycare facilities and schools. You will also find materials for ongoing development activities.
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State-Level Monitoring
Early access to good education can provide all children with optimal opportunities for personal development and social participation. Yet what is Germany's public childcare and education system doing to achieve this goal in the preschool years? The study "Early Childhood Educational Systems 2008" provides key information on childcare institutions and services in the country's individual states.
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Wach, neugierig, klug: Kinder unter 3 – Ein Medienpaket für Kitas, Tagespflege und Spielgruppen (Alert, Curious and Clever: Children Under Three – A media kit for daycares and other child-care facilities). The Bertelsmann Stiftung has been working together with the State Institute of Early Childhood Education in Munich to adapt the British "Birth to three matters" curriculum. Materials for practical implementation can be ordered from Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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What makes a daycare facility "good"? Both parents and childcare specialists devote a great deal of thought to this question. The "Dreikäsehoch'" (Little Nippers) daycare prize was originally launched to honor and publicize the excellent work being done by early childhood educators throughout Germany, in order that their efforts can serve as examples for the day-to-day efforts of other childcare centers. This year's prize is entitled "Making the Most of Every Child – Educational Opportunities for Children from Disadvantaged Families" and is addressing the issue of equal opportunity. It will honor programs that have developed outstanding methods of addressing the needs of socially disadvantaged children and their families.
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Kind & Ko (Child & Co.) is a community-based pilot project of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation that aims to improve the educational and learning opportunities of children in the first eight years of their lives. New methods are being developed and put to the test in the cities of Paderborn and Chemnitz. The focus is on enhancing daycare facilities as educational institutions, and improving the cooperation between parents and service providers, as well as among all institutions and facilities involved in childcare activities.
Forums organized by the Kinder früher fördern (Early Childhood Education) project focus on improving children's living and learning situations. We initiate various roundtable discussions with experts and policymakers to drive efforts for developing the entire system for early childhood education, care and child-raising.


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