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Bob Weir
Bob Weir | |
Bob Weir performing in 2007
Background information | |
Birth name | Robert Hall Weir |
Born | San Francisco, California United States |
October 16, 1947
Genres | Psychedelic rock, rock |
Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, |
Years active | 1963–present |
Labels | Warner Bros., Arista, Grateful Dead |
Associated acts | Grateful Dead, Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog, The Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur |
Website | bobweir.net |
Robert Hall "Bob" Weir (WEER[1] born October 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur, co-led by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh.[2]
During his career with the Grateful Dead, Weir played mostly rhythm guitar and sang many of the band's rock-n-roll tunes. As a guitarist, he is known for his unique style of complex voiceleading, bringing unusual depth and a new approach to the role of rhythm guitar expression.[citation needed]
Early life[edit]
Weir was born in San Francisco, California, and was raised by his adoptive parents in the suburb of Atherton. He began playing guitar at age thirteen after less successful experimentation with the piano and the trumpet. He had trouble in school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and he was expelled from nearly every school he attended, including Menlo Atherton High School in Atherton[3] and Fountain Valley School in Colorado. At Fountain Valley he met John Perry Barlow, who later wrote the lyrics to a number of Grateful Dead songs.
On New Year's Eve, 1963, 16-year-old Weir and another underage friend were wandering the back alleys of Palo Alto, looking for a club that would admit them, when they heard banjo music. They followed the music to its source, Dana Morgan's Music Store. Here, a young Jerry Garcia, oblivious to the date, was waiting for his students to arrive. Weir and Garcia spent the night playing music together and then decided to form a band. The Beatles significantly influenced their musical direction. "The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock 'n' roll band," said Bob Weir. "What we saw them doing was impossibly attractive. I couldn't think of anything else more worth doing."[4] Originally called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, the band was later renamed The Warlocks and eventually the Grateful Dead.
Weir played rhythm guitar and sang a large portion of the lead vocals through all of the Dead's 30-year career. In the fall of 1968, the Dead played some concerts without Weir and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. These shows, with the band billed as "Mickey and the Hartbeats", were intermixed with full-lineup Grateful Dead concerts. In his biography of Jerry Garcia, Blair Jackson notes, "Garcia and Lesh determined that Weir and Pigpen were not pulling their weight musically in the band… Most of the band fights at this time were about Bobby's guitar playing."[5] Late in the year, the band relented and took Weir and Pigpen back in full-time.)[6][7]
The incident apparently led to a period of significant growth in Weir's guitar playing. Phil Lesh said that when drummer Mickey Hart left the band temporarily in early 1971, he was able to hear Weir's playing more clearly than ever and "I found myself astonished, delighted and excited beyond measure at what Bobby was doing." Lesh described Weir's playing as "quirky, whimsical and goofy" and noted his ability to play on the guitar chord voicings (with only four fingers) that one would normally hear from a keyboard (with up to ten fingers).[8]
In the late 1970s, Weir began to experiment with slide guitar techniques and perform certain songs during Dead shows using the slide. His unique guitar style is strongly influenced by the hard bop pianist McCoy Tyner and he has cited artists as diverse as John Coltrane, the Rev. Gary Davis, and Igor Stravinsky as influences.[3] Weir was known for using periodic guitar moves during various times at Grateful Dead concerts to invigorate the crowd and to create musical momentum.
Weir's first solo album Ace appeared in 1972, with the Grateful Dead performing as the band on the album, though credited individually. Included in this line-up were Keith Godchaux and his wife Donna, both of whom would be in the band by the time of the album's release. A live version of the album's best-known song, "Playing in the Band", had been issued on the Skull & Roses album of the previous year. While continuing to perform as a member of the Grateful Dead, in 1975 and 1976 Weir played in the Bay Area band Kingfish with friends Matt Kelly and Dave Torbert. He later contributed to Kelly's 1987 album A Wing and a Prayer, on Relix Records. In 1978 he fronted the Bob Weir Band with Brent Mydland, who joined the Grateful Dead the following year. In 1980 he formed another side band, Bobby and the Midnites.
Shortly before Garcia's death in 1995, Weir formed another band, RatDog Revue, later shortened to RatDog. As of April 9, 2008, Weir had performed approximately 800 shows with RatDog. Known for his raspy, deep tone, in RatDog Weir sings covers by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and Willie Dixon while also performing many Grateful Dead classics. In addition, Ratdog performs many of their own originals, most of which were released on the album Evening Moods.
In 1994, he was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead.[9]
Weir has participated in the various reformations of the Grateful Dead's members, including 1998, 2000, and 2002 stints as The Other Ones and in 2003, 2004 and 2009 as The Dead. In 2008 he performed in the two Deadheads for Obama concerts. In 2009 Bob Weir and Phil Lesh formed a new band called Furthur—so-named in honor of Ken Kesey's famous psychedelically-painted bus.
In 2011, Weir founded the Tamalpais Research Institute, also known as TRI Studios. TRI is a high-tech recording studio and virtual music venue, used to stream live concerts over the internet in high-definition.[10]
In 2012, Weir toured with Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, and singer/songwriter Jackie Greene as the Weir, Robinson, & Greene Acoustic Trio.[11]
Weir resuscitated Ratdog in March 2013. The Ratdog Quartet, feturing Weir, Jay Lane, Robin Sylvester, and Jonathan Wilson debuted on March 3, at the Sweetwater Music Hall. . Jason Crosby was their featured guest at the first two shows.
On April 25, 2013 Weir collapsed onstage during a Furthur performance at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. The band finished the show without him. He performed with the band two days later in Atlantic City, but on April 29 a representative announced that Weir would be "unable to perform in any capacity for the next several weeks" for unspecified reasons.[12] Weir resumed performing that summer.
Personal life[edit]
Weir remained single throughout his years with the Grateful Dead, although he lived for several years (1969–1975) with a woman named Frankie Hart, who was a former go-go dancer at the Peppermint Lounge in New York, and later, on the TV shows Hullaballoo and Shindig. Frankie was the inspiration for Weir's well-known song "Sugar Magnolia". Frankie met Bob through Mickey Hart, who dated her briefly after they met following her first Grateful Dead show in New York in 1968. Her real name at that time was Frankie Azzara (from a previous marriage), but used the stage name Frankie Hart (she apparently "borrowed" Mickey's last name). Although she and Weir never married, she adopted his last name after moving in with him and was subsequently known as Frankie Weir.[3][13] For a short time, she was a secretary for the Beatles' publicist, Derek Taylor, and subsequently an assistant to George Harrison.[14][15] She also sang vocals in the mid-1970s for a Bay Area band, James and the Mercedes (which occasionally opened for Kingfish), starring James Ackroyd, from James and the Good Brothers.[16][17][18][19] On July 15, 1999, Weir married Natascha Münter. They have two daughters, Monet Weir and Chloe Kaelia Weir. Natascha's younger sister Leilani Munter is a race car driver in the NASCAR circuit.
Weir is on the board of directors of the Rex Foundation, the Furthur Foundation, and HeadCount.[20] He is an honorary member of the board of directors of the environmental organization Rainforest Action Network, along with Woody Harrelson, Bonnie Raitt, and John Densmore. He is also on the honorary board of directors of Little Kids Rock, a non-profit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in under-served public schools throughout the U.S.
Weir is reported to be a member of the Bohemian Club and has attended and performed at the secretive club's annual bacchanal at the Bohemian Grove.[21]
Early pictures of The Warlocks in concert show him playing a Gretsch Duo-Jet,[22] and after the Warlocks became the Grateful Dead, Weir briefly played a Rickenbacker 365, a Guild Starfire IV acoustic-electric (with Garcia playing an identical Cherry Red Starfire IV, which appear very similar to the Gibson ES-335) as well as a Fender Telecaster before settling on for the following decade, the Gibson ES-335.[23] Weir usually played a cherry red 1965 ES-335 until the band's hiatus in 1974, although he did occasionally use a Gibson ES-345. Weir played a black Gibson Les Paul in 1971. Weir can also be seen playing a sunburst ES-335 in The Grateful Dead Movie, filmed in October 1974. During the early 1970s, Weir also used a 1961 or 1962 Gibson SG.
In 1974, Weir began working with Jeff Hasselberger at Ibanez to develop a custom instrument.[24] Weir began playing the Ibanez 2681 during the recording of Blues for Allah; this was a testbed instrument with sliding pickups that Hasselberger used to develop several additional 2681s for use onstage, as well as Weir's custom "Cowboy Fancy" guitar, which he played from 1976 until the mid-1980s.[25] Weir began using a Modulus Blackknife at that point, and continued to play the Blackknife, along with a hybrid Modulus/Casio guitar for the "Space" segment of Grateful Dead concerts for the rest of that band's history. Weir's acoustic guitars include several Martins, a Guild, an Ovation, and a line of Alvarez-Yairi signature models.
Of late, photos on his website show Weir playing most often a Modulus G3FH custom and has returned to using a Gibson ES-335. He seems to have retired a 1956 Fender Telecaster.[26]
With the Grateful Dead[edit]
As bandleader and compilations[edit]
- Ace - Bob Weir (1972)
- Kingfish - Kingfish (1976)
- Live 'n' Kickin' - Kingfish (1977)
- Heaven Help The Fool - Bob Weir (1978)
- Bobby and the Midnites - Bobby and the Midnites (1981)
- Where the Beat Meets the Street - Bobby and the Midnites (1984)
- Kingfish in Concert: King Biscuit Flower Hour - Kingfish (1996)
- Live - Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman (1998)
- Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions - Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (1999)
- Evening Moods - RatDog (2000)
- Live at Roseland - RatDog (2001)
- Weir Here – The Best of Bob Weir - compilation (2004)
- Fall 1989: The Long Island Sound – Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman (2013)
See also[edit]
Grateful Dead portal |
- ^ Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir (1989). TV ad for AIDS research donations (Advertisement) (Television).
- ^ "Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Joe Russo, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and John Kadlecik Form New Band "Furthur", Set Dates For September, JamBase, August 14, 2009
- ^ a b c McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7679-1185-7
- ^ Garcia An American Life by Blair Jackson 2000 pg. 67
- ^ Garcia: An American Life, Blair Jackson, p 155
- ^ McNally, p. 279, 284
- ^ Scott, John W. et al. (1999). DeadBase XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists, DeadBase, ISBN 1-877657-22-0, p. 8
- ^ Searching for the Sound, Phil Lesh
- ^ List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- ^ Selvin, Joel (June 7, 2011). "Grateful Dead's Bob Weir debuts TRI Studios on Web". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
- ^ Hollerith, David. "Wakarusa Report: Weir, Robinson, & Greene Acoustic Trio". American Songwriter. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ^ "Furthur Cancel BottleRock Festival Gig After Bob Weir's Stage Fall". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ Barlow, John (November 3, 1994). "Cassidy's Tale". Literary Kicks. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ^ The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-8118-2684-6.
- ^ Brightman, Carol (1998). Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure. Pocket Books. pp. 175–176. ISBN 0-671-01117-0.
- ^ "Lost Live Dead: Bob Weir and Kingfish Tour History, 1974 (Kingfish I)". livelostdead.blogspot.com. October 7, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: James and the Good Brothers (Courtesy of the Grateful Dead)". jgmf.blogspot.com. March 31, 2011. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Live Lost Dead: February 27, 1971 Fillmore West: James and the Good Brothers with Jerry Garcia and Jack Casady". livelostdead.blogspot.com. July 9, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ "The World According To Me: My Little Pop Quiz". mizshelysspace.blogspot.com. May 12, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
- ^ Furthur Foundation web site, accessed December 14, 2010
- ^ "The gentlemen's club for the rich and famous that worships a 1980s Page 3 girl | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ Psychedelic News
- ^ Hunter, Robert, Stephen Peters, Chuck Wills, Dennis McNally. "Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip." DK ADULT; 1 Amer ed edition (October, 2003). ISBN 0-7894-9963-0
- ^ "Ibanez". Dozin.com. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ "Weir Interview". Dozin.com. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ "Tele Story". Dozin.com. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- Condran, Ed. "Hot Rats", Atlantic City Weekly, July 9, 2009
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bob Weir. |
- The official Bob Weir & RatDog site
- The official Bob Weir site
- Bob Weir collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive


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Take Out the Trade Names If you think your conference attendees aren't as concerned as you are about commercial influence creeping into meeting content, think again. Dr. Eduardo Bruera, chairman, department of symptom control and palliative care, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and two colleagues, noticed that trade names seemed to be popping up with increasing regularity.
To see if their perceptions were accurate, they analyzed the use of trade names at the World Congress on Pain, which is held every three years, organized by the International Association for the Study of Pain. They found that the proportion of abstracts containing a trade name increased from 19 percent in 1993 to 36 percent in 1999 - an 89 percent increase. Bruera and his colleagues, Carla Ripamonti, MD, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy; and Leaha Beattie-Palmer, also at M.D. Anderson, wrote a letter explaining their findings, which was published in the September 14, 2000, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
We asked Bruera to explain the possible impact of this trend on industry meetings.
Q: Why do you think the use of trade names in scientific sessions is increasing so dramatically?
A: The use of trade names seemed to be associated with two factors: the presence of a patented drug and part authorship by pharmaceutical companies.
Q: Why is the escalating use of trade names a concern?
A: The role of industry at scientific meetings has been reasonably well-defined. Traditionally, advertising did not take place in the scientific paper area - and it looks to us like this has changed in recent years.
It is in the best interest of the scientific organizations that run the congresses, as well as those who pay the registration fees, to avoid this slippery slope. We can eliminate the pressure on investigators and industries to try to make their trade name appear by clearly establishing that the use of trade names should not be allowed in poster and slide presentations. That would make the participants of the meeting more comfortable with the [meeting's] credibility. The other thing would be to make disclosure of industry support and participation mandatory.
Q: Under the Accreditation Council for CME's Standards for Commercial Support, such disclosure is required. The Standards also say that if trade names are used in presentations, those of several companies should be used.
A: I don't remember a single case where there was [more than one] trade name used. I have received several phone calls from meeting organizers and physicians who have observed similar things. We have regulated the educational components [of medical meetings], but we have not regulated enough the scientific paper presentation component.
Q: One of your findings that struck me is that trade names were used in 58 percent of abstracts describing more-expensive drugs, as compared to 10 percent of the time when describing less-expensive drugs.
A: One of the challenges that all our scientific organizing committees should address, because of the potential impact it may have on patient care, is the [potential for] tremendous over-representation of those more-expensive products.
We need to require our abstract and paper reviewers to use different criteria. Right now, we're slanted much more toward excellent methodology at the cost of content. Industry-sponsored research can be scientifically much better than [other] research because industry has more resources. Independent research which is of great quality, but which may not have same level of support, may not make it to the main presentation. If 90 percent of the meeting is clogged with methodologically excellent studies on one single agent, the ability of the meeting to impact patient care is decreased dramatically because other clinical problems end up not being covered. The scientific committee should be able to say, "We already have enough papers with this content. Let's be sure that other content is represented."
Q: Should meeting organizers worry about losing commercial support if they follow your suggestions?
A: I doubt it. A meeting that people feel is of great educational value and well-organized will always be attractive to industry.

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Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a Pie
Μην αφήνετε κότσυφας σας ταΐσουν με το ρόδι ή θα πεθάνει! — Tragoudos Sankotsiphas
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known nursery rhyme, thought to date from the 18th century. But the origins, like that of most nursery rhymes, is probably far older. In Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (written probably in 1602), Sir Toby Belch exhorts a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" (Act II, Scene iii). "Bonduca" by Beaumont and Fletcher (1614), contains the line "Whoa, here's a stir now! Sing a song o' sixpence!"
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish, To set before the king?
The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; When down came a blackbird And pecked off her nose.
Many interpretations have been suggested for this rhyme. A known 16th-century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 described such a recipe: "make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up".
The Common Blackbird was seen as a sacred, though destructive bird, in Classical Greek folklore, and was said to die if it consumed pomegranate. Some of you readers may appreciate the irony of this fact to the author. Like many other small birds, it has in the past been trapped in rural areas as an easily available addition to the diet.
Be that as it may, I would never be satisfied until I concocted a literal blackbird pie and compared it with the literary version. I am here to tell you that it was a resounding success: so much so as to warrant the shooting of two dozen blackbirds and all the attendant preparation.
Late fall is a good time for this and it has become my tradition to make this dish once a year and share it with friends who come dressed in medieval garb for the occasion. I dare say the pie would be every bit as good—at least gastronomically—without the theatricals, but, in my opinion, food is for the soul as much as for the body, and I prefer to consume mine with the attendant ritual wherever possible—when it comes to blackird pie, for me that means medieval costume and the singing of madrigals. I do not proselytize, but you might want to try it my way and let me know how it went.
In the inimitable style of Mrs. Beeton, first catch your blackbirds. I find that the best place to do that is on wide-open ploughed land in proximity of tall trees. I guess that blackbirds like roosting on the trees and keeping their field under surveillance. The fact is that, when they are disturbed, they will take flight and nine times out of ten they will make for their trees. This allows you to place yourself strategically so that you can intercept their flight. If you acquire the knack, you will be shooting two, three or more blackbirds with each shell you fire.
I use #8 shot, which I think is an ideal compromise between killing capacity and density of the rose, provided you use the right choking. At thirty to forty yards you should aim to bring down at least three birds per shell, on average. At a pinch, #6 shot will do, but you will probably be shooting longer to fill your bag. For hunting, shot size must be chosen not only for the range, but also for the game. The shot must reach the target with enough energy to penetrate to a depth sufficient to kill the game.
Number 8 shot loses its velocity very quickly due to its low sectional density and ballistic coefficient, but it will give you a nice high-density pattern at ranges up to 40 yards. Small shot like that will have lost all appreciable energy by 100 yards. You will want a cylinder choke on your shotgun barrels for the maximum possible spread. You should get a useable rose of about 50 inches or so at about 35 to 40 yards with a cylinder choke. Placing your shot carefully should allow you to bag two to three birds per shell at that range.
The way I clean a blackbird is quick: the breast is the only edible part. I stand on the wings as close to the joints as possible. Then I grab the legs and pull on them, the breast will come completely out. It will not have feathers on it and the guts will be left behind. Now, with a sharp boning knife, all you have to do is cut down on either side of the sternum to free the breast fillets. You can prepare two dozen blackbirds in under an hour with a little practice, and with two dozen to prepare you'll get plenty of that.
Place your breast fillets in a stoneware basin and cover with good full-bodied red wine, a couple of small fistfulls of juniper berries lightly crushed, a couple of handfuls of dry but not fossilized bay leaves, two or three dozen cloves of garlic with the skins still on but bashed, three onions thinly sliced, a couple of small fistfulls of peppercorns which you will have toasted until they start popping in a small cast iron skillet, a couple of dozen cloves toasted together with the peppercorns, three large carrots finely sliced, a goodly bunch of celery coarsly chopped and two small fistfulls of coarse sea salt or kosher salt. Irrorate with a goodly drizzle of decent olive oil, this will help tenderize the flesh. Let the breasts marinate in a fridge or cool place for three days.
Meanwhile place all the bones and legs that you have salvaged from the carcasses, and which you will have rinsed well, in a pressure cooker together with chicken necks and carcasses, and beef gristle for its gelatinous goodness (else a couple of pig's trotters or a calf's foot), and cover with water. Bring to the boil and cook at very low heat for about an hour and a half. When the pot has cooled sufficiently, open it and strain off the broth: discard the bones.
When the breasts have marinated sufficiently, remove them from the basin in which they have marinated and pat them dry with a clean cloth or paper towelling. Add the marinade to the previously made broth and simmer until reduced to abour two pints or little more. This will take quite some simmering. When the liquid has reduced sufficiently, stir into it a lump of beurre manié (butter worked together with flour) about the size of two hen's eggs and go lightly with the flour. Continue simmering while stirring, until thickened to the consistency of light cream.
In a large tinned copper or cast iron skillet, heat some butter, olive oil and a dollop or two of good bacon grease until quite hot. Sauté the previously floured breast fillets in batches, adding more fat as necessary. When the breasts have all been done, sauté two pounds of firm sliced button mushrooms and splash with white wine, scraping with a wooden spatula to deglaze the pan. Season lightly and set aside with the breasts.
Now, all that remains is to make the pastry and assemble the pie. The best pastry for this will be a fairly stiff shortcrust made with butter and lard.
One part of butter and one part of lard are rubbed into four parts of plain flour to create a loose mixture that is then bound using a small amount of iced water, rolled out, then shaped and placed in a pie dish to create the top and bottom the pie. The butter serves to give the pastry a rich flavor, whilst the lard ensures optimum texture.
You will probably need at least eight cups of flour and two each of butter and lard for four and twenty blackbirds to be accomodated in a pie—be generous since any excess will be transformed into biscuits and so will not go to waste. Your pie dish will need to be 16-18 inches in diameter, and the resultant pie will feed at least twelve good trenchermen or women.
When you have lined the pie dish with the pastry (about half an inch thick), paint the inside all over generously with softened butter, then fill the pie with the breasts and the mushrooms and pour over the broth and marinating liquor which you will previously have strained and reduced, to just cover the meat. Sprinkle over the lot a good glass of fine malt whiskey. When the pie is filled the breasts should just be covered in the thickened juice. Now place the lid on the pie, having first moistend the edges of the base with milk to allow the pastry to bond together. Impress the edge all round with the tines of a fork neatly and decorate the lid with shaped offcuts of leftover pastry. Now glaze the top of the pie carefully by painting on egg yolks beaten with a little milk. This will give you a glossy finish and a mouth-watering golden hue.
Any surplus pastry may be rolled out and shaped into biscuits which you will glaze and bake in the oven together with the pie. Hand these round as an appetizer with the preliminary drinks. If you are inclined to make them sweet, you may sprinkle them with sugar before baking and strew them with good fennel seeds.
Bake your pie in a medium oven for about an hour and a quarter, or until nicely golden. Be sure not to let it darken excessively or the pastry will lose its fine flavor and become bitter.
The pie will need to cool down to barely lukewarm or even to room temperature to be eaten. Do not be tempted to eat it too hot, for it will not be very good. Do not refrigerate any leftover pie if you will be eating it within the next day, but simply cover with a clean white cloth and place in a cool larder. It is my belief that decent food should never see the inside of a refrigerator—you may well not share this view.
You may serve a good Chianti wine or a Claret with your pie, and your guests will not complain—some may prefer Port wine and others a dark winter ale, and you should aim to satisfy their whims, and they will thank tou for it. Remember that you will be counting on their good cheer and gratitude to sing madrigals and provide a jolly atmosphere. Serve anything you like after the pie—I leave the choice to you—but feed your guests little more than fennel biscuits and wine before it, so that they may have a keen edge to their appetite, the better to enjoy the fruits of your considerable labor.
The Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush, and, in common with other passerine birds, parasites are common. Most Common Blackbirds harbour intestinal parasites (most frequently Isospora and Capillaria species), as well as haematozoan parasites (Leucocytozoon, Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Trypanosoma species).
This, of course, is true for a great many game species as well. Follow my instructions carefully during preparation and you should come to no harm: I have lived on wild fowl and game for years and have a clean bill of health.
However I can take no responsibility for what you eat, and, as a disclaimer, I advise you to seek competent veterinary and medical advice—or in any case to assume responsibility for your own actions. We live in a sanitized world where much of what is considered "clean" is contaminated and vice versa. Follow your own convictions and inform yourself carefully. Forearmed is forewarned, and vice versa.
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Sweating sickness
Sweating sickness | |
Classification and external resources | |
MeSH | D018614 |
Sweating sickness, also known as "English sweating sickness" or "English sweate" (Latin: sudor anglicus), was a mysterious and highly virulent disease that struck England, and later continental Europe, in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. The onset of symptoms was dramatic and sudden, with death often occurring within hours. Though its cause remains unknown, it has been suggested that an as yet unknown species of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was responsible for the outbreak.
15th century[edit]
Sweating sickness first came to the attention of physicians at the beginning of the reign of Henry VII. It was known a few days after the landing of Henry at Milford Haven on 7 August 1485, as it was noted before the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August. Soon after the arrival of Henry in London on 28 August, it broke out in the capital. There, it killed several thousand people by its conclusion in late October that year.[1] Among those killed were two lord mayors, six aldermen, and three sheriffs.[2] This alarming malady soon became known as the sweating sickness. It was regarded as being quite distinct from the plague, the pestilential fever or other epidemics previously known, not only by the special symptom that gave it its name, but also by its extremely rapid and fatal course. The sweating sickness reached Ireland in 1492 when the Annals of Ulster (vol.iii, ed. B. MacCarthy, Dublin, 1895, pp 358f.) record the death of James Fleming, Baron of Slane from the pláigh allais, newly come to Ireland. The Annals of Connacht (ed. A. M. Freeman, Dublin, 1944, pp 594f.) also record this obituary, and the Annals of the Four Masters (vol.iii, ed. J. O'Donovan, Dublin, 1856, pp 1194f.) record 'an unusual plague in Meath … of 24 hours' duration; and any one who survived it beyond that period recovered. It did not attack infants or little children. However, Freeman in his footnote to the Annals of Connacht denies that this 'plague' was the sweating sickness, in spite of the similarity of the names. He thought it to be 'Relapsing or Famine Fever' – possibly typhus.
16th century[edit]
From 1492 to 1502, nothing was recorded of the ailment. In 1502, it was believed to have caused the death of young Arthur, Prince of Wales, elder brother of Henry VIII of England. He died in his home at Ludlow Castle in 1502, leaving his young wife, Catherine of Aragon, a widow.
In 1507 a second, less widespread outbreak occurred, followed in 1517 by a third and much more severe epidemic. In Oxford and Cambridge it was frequently fatal, as well as in other towns, where in some cases half the population are said to have perished. There is evidence of this outbreak spreading to Calais and Antwerp, but nowhere else outside England.
In 1528 the disease reached epidemic proportions for the fourth time and with great severity. It first broke out in London at the end of May and speedily spread over the whole of England, save for the far north, not spreading to Scotland, though it did reach Ireland, where the Lord Chancellor, Hugh Inge, was the most prominent victim.[3] In London the mortality was very great; the court was broken up, and Henry VIII left London, frequently changing his residence. The most remarkable fact about this epidemic is that it spread to Europe, suddenly appearing at Hamburg and spreading so rapidly that in a few weeks, more than a thousand people died. The sweating sickness swept through eastern Europe as an epidemic causing high mortality rates. It appeared to be infectious similar to cholera, perhaps spread as a result of poor sanitation and contaminated water supplies. It arrived in Switzerland in December, then was carried northwards to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and eastwards to Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Cases of the disease were not known to occur in France or Italy. It also emerged in Flanders and the Netherlands, probably transmitted directly from England by travellers, as it appeared simultaneously in the cities of Antwerp and Amsterdam on the morning of 27 September. In each place it infected, it prevailed for a short time, generally not more than a fortnight. By the end of the year, it had entirely disappeared, except in eastern Switzerland, where it lingered into the next year. After this, the disease did not recur on mainland Europe.
Final outbreak[edit]
The last major outbreak of the disease occurred in England in 1551. An eminent physician, John Caius, wrote an eyewitness account of the disease at this time called A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse.
The symptoms and signs as described by Caius and others were as follows: The disease began very suddenly with a sense of apprehension, followed by cold shivers (sometimes very violent), giddiness, headache and severe pains in the neck, shoulders and limbs, with great exhaustion. After the cold stage, which might last from half an hour to three hours, the hot and sweating stage followed. The characteristic sweat broke out suddenly without any obvious cause. Accompanying the sweat, or after that was poured out, was a sense of heat, headache, delirium, rapid pulse, and intense thirst. Palpitation and pain in the heart were frequent symptoms. No skin eruptions were noted by observers including Caius. In the final stages, there was either general exhaustion and collapse, or an irresistible urge to sleep, which Caius thought to be fatal if the patient was permitted to give way to it. One attack did not offer immunity, and some people suffered several bouts before succumbing.
The malady was never seen again in England after 1578. A similar illness, known as the Picardy sweat, occurred in France between 1718 and 1861, but was less likely to be fatal. It was accompanied by a rash, which was not a feature of the earlier outbreaks.
The cause is the most mysterious aspect of the disease. Commentators then and now put much blame on the generally poor sanitation, sewage and contaminated water supplies of the time, which may have harboured the source of infection. The first outbreak at the end of the Wars of the Roses means that it may have been brought over from France by the French mercenaries whom Henry VII used to gain the English throne. However, the Croyland Chronicle mentions that Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby used the "sweating sickness" as an excuse not to join with Richard III's army prior to the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Relapsing fever has been proposed as a possible cause. This disease, which is spread by ticks and lice, occurs most often during the summer months, as did the original sweating sickness. However, relapsing fever is marked by a prominent black scab at the site of the tick bite and a subsequent skin rash.
Noting symptom overlap with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, several scientists proposed an unknown hantavirus as the cause.[4][5] A critique of this hypothesis included the argument that, whereas sweating sickness was thought to be transmitted from human to human, hantaviruses are not known to spread in this way.[6] However, infection via human to human contact has been proven in hantavirus outbreaks in Argentina.[7]
In fiction[edit]
The 1528 outbreak is depicted in the 2007 episode of The Tudors titled "Message to the Emperor". William Compton is killed by the disease and both Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Wolsey are stricken. In Season 1, Episode 5, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, the king's officially recognized, illegitimate son dies of "The Sweat" at about 3–5 years old. The real Henry FitzRoy died about one month after his seventeenth birthday, probably of tuberculosis.
A small outbreak in 1527 kills Liz, the wife of Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey's advisor, in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. In 1529, the disease also claims the lives of Cromwell's daughters Grace and Anne.
The 2012 mid-season finale of Warehouse 13 titled "We All Fall Down" uses sweating sickness as a plot device. Agents of the eponymous warehouse are seeking a quasi-mystical artifact, a Chinese orchid, which within the fiction of the series was the cause of the 1485 outbreak. The episode ends with the artifact releasing the sickness, potentially infecting the entire world.
Sweating sickness is also featured in the British television series Merlin, which gives a heavily fictionalized account of the lives of Merlin and King Arthur. The illness historically did not appear until many centuries after any of the supposed dates for King Arthur's reign, and none of the legends surrounding him discuss plague outbreaks.
- ^ Entick, John (1766). A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent. London. pp. 434, vol. 1.
- ^ Harrison, Walter (1775). A new and universal history, description and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark. London. p. 127.
- ^ Ball, F. Elrington (September 2005) [First published 1926]. The Judges in Ireland, 1221–1921. The Lawbook Exchange. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-1-58477-428-0. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Thwaites, G; Taviner, M; Gant, V (1997). "The English sweating sickness, 1485 to 1551". The New England Journal of Medicine 336 (8): 580–2. doi:10.1056/NEJM199702203360812. PMID 9023099.
- ^ Taviner, M; Thwaites, G; Gant, V (1998). "The English sweating sickness, 1485-1551: A viral pulmonary disease?". Medical History 42 (1): 96–98. doi:10.1017/S0025727300063365. PMC 1043971.
- ^ Bridson, Eric (2001). "English 'sweate' (Sudor Anglicus) and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, The". British Journal of Biomedical Science.
- ^ Padula, P; Edelstein A, Miguel SD, López NM, Rossi CM, Rabinovich RD. (February 15, 1998). "Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak in Argentina: molecular evidence for person-to-person transmission of Andes virus". Virology (London: Elsevier) 241 (2): 323–330. doi:10.1006/viro.1997.8976. PMID 9499807.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
- Bridgett, Thomas Edward (1904). Life and Writings of Blessed Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr Under Henry VIII.. Original from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. p. 74.
External links[edit]
- E. Bridson – "The English 'sweate' (Sudor Anglicus) and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome" in Br J Biomed Sci. 2001;58(1):1–6.
- Sweating Fever Dr Jim Leavesley commemorates the 500th anniversary of the first outbreak – transcript of talk on Ockham's Razor ABC Radio National
- The Curious Case of the English Sweating Sickness, contains a map of the disease dispersion created and mapped by Kirstyn Pittman from California State University, Chico (requires Adobe Flash)


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My system is a Pentium II 400MHz with 128MB of RAM and an 11GB EIDE (actually Ultra-DMA 33 ATAPI, for you hardware gurus) hard drive. The hard drive had Windows 95 "C" on one big FAT32-formatted C: drive, which is a typical factory configuration. I tested installs of Red Hat Linux 5.1 and SuSE Linux 5.2.
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Divorce Agreement! THIS IS AWESOME!!! AMEN, AMEN, AMEN
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> > Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound maybe this would be a solution we could live with. DIVORCE AGREEMENT -- This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! Whatever he runs for, I'll vote for him!
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, regressive, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.:
> >
> > We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
> >
> > Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
> >
> > Here is a model separation agreement:
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> > 1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.
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> > 2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
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> > 3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
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> > 4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
> >
> > 5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
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> > 6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.
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> > 7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
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> > 8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
> >
> > 9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
> >
> > 10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood ..
> >
> > 11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
> >
> > 12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
> >
> > 13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
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> > 14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
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> > 15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
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> > 16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors..
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> > 17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is an earned luxury and not a right.
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> > 18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
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> > 19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World."
> >
> > 20. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
> >
> > 21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.
> >
> > 22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > John J. Wall
> > Law Student and an American
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> > P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.
> >
> > P.S.S..: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
> >
> > Forward this every time you get it! Let's keep this going; maybe some of it will start sinking in!
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> > **If you can't stand behind our Military, Please feel free to stand in front of them! **
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One thing the Civil War proved is this nation cannot and will not exist divided. Send that boy back to school.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
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- DEATH DATE: July 04, 1997
- EDUCATION: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Central High School, Alexander Graham Junior High School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Wilmington, North Carolina
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York
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Sarah from Weirton, WV
05/30/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
2 out of 2 people found this review useful. 1 of 3
Categories Comments In three sentences its a good school with a lot There are wonderful teachers. more time to study there.
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Tara from Moundsville, WV
12/12/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 2 of 3
Categories Comments Food and Dining The only food you can get here is from machines, or the library.
Dorm Life This school does not have a dorm.
Academic Rigor This college is a great place to be, and i would rate it a 5.
In three sentences West Virginia Community College is a great college. The cost is low, and the teachers are great. Also, the classes are easy, and its easy to get a degree here.
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Tracy from Wheeling, WV
05/20/2013Reviewer is A past student here.
3 of 3
Categories Comments Campus Safety Downtown weirdos and isolated parking lot.
What to do for fun Nothing, but it is a community college.
Food and Dining Minimal food service available.
Dorm Life No dorms available.
Tips for prospective students There are not a lot of frills.
In three sentences It was a good value for the money. It allowed me to build confidence. My credits are transferrable.
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Illinois Digital Archives
Section 10 Methodology Development for the Big Muddy River Watershed v 10-7 FINAL REPORT (Metcalf and Eddy, Inc. 1991). For analysis, a ratio of 1.3 was used to calculate BOD5 for each sample date. Literature provides equations to calculate both the BOD5 decay rate coefficient (kd) and reaeration rate coefficient (ka). The decay rate coefficient is dependent on stream depth, and the reaeration coefficient is dependent on depth and velocity. Due to the limits of the data set shown in Table 5-10, the decay rate coefficient was calculated from either known depths or rating curves allowing the reaeration coefficient to be calculated from the Streeter-Phelps equation presented above as the only unknown variable. The rating curves used to determine depths are available in Appendix K. The BOD5 decay rate coefficient (kd) at 20°C was calculated based on the following equation (USEPA 1997b): The BOD5 decay rate coefficient was corrected for temperature with the following equation (Novotny and Olem 1994): where kdT = BOD5 decay rate coefficient at temperature T; T in °C = Thermal factor The thermal factor () in the above equation has an accepted value of 1.047 for the BOD5 decay rate coefficient (Novotny and Olem 1994). The decay rate coefficient typically falls between 0.02 and 3.4 day-1. The reaeration rate coefficient typically ranges between 0 and 100 day-1 (USEPA 1997b). For comparison purposes, the reaeration coefficient (ka) was calculated based on the following equation (USEPA 1997b): where: v = Stream velocity (feet/s) H = Stream depth (feet) Like the BOD5 decay rate coefficient, the reaeration coefficient is corrected for temperature with the following equation (Novotny and Olem 1994): at 20 C H 12.9 v k 1.5 0.5 a 0.3 for H 8 for 0 H 8 8 H k 0.3 0.434 d20 (T20) dT d20 k k
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