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Rowan sociologist spearheads 'Wheelchairs for Haiti' project
That's why Chaskes is spearheading an effort to send durable, safe wheelchairs to adults and children injured by the Haitian earthquake.
As part of Rowan Relief, a University-wide disaster relief effort, Chaskes is working with Whirlwind Wheelchair International (www.whirlwindwheelchair.org), a San Francisco-based company, to raise funds to send wheelchairs to Haiti.
The 40-pound wheelchairs, which cost just $220, are made especially to handle Haiti's rough terrain. The chairs, which are made in developing countries of the world, such as Mexico, Vietnam, South Africa and China, can be easily repaired using simple supplies, making them a viable option for Haitians. Available in adult and pediatric sizes, the chairs can be adjusted to fit different body types, according to Chaskes.
The 41-year Rowan professor would like to raise funds to purchase 250 wheelchairs. A local businessman has already pledged to cover the shipping costs, according to Chaskes.
"The chairs are very simple, but strong," says Chaskes, who began using a wheelchair six years ago after developing critical illness axonal polyneuropathy as a result of complications from a staph infection.
"One of the beautiful things about the chair parts is that they can be fixed anywhere. The parts, such as standard ball bearings, can be found anywhere," says Chaskes.
Checks to support the effort can be made out to the Rowan University Foundation and sent to 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, N.J. 08028. Checks should include "Wheelchairs for Haiti" in the subject line.
The "Wheelchairs for Haiti" project is just one aspect of Rowan Relief, a movement organized by Rowan's Student Government Association (SGA). The SGA expects to begin selling "Rowan Relief" wristbands soon, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross.
Additionally, a benefit concert, a dance-a-thon and a telethon on the Rowan Television Network are all being considered for later in the semester.
Chaskes, who is teaching an Honors course titled "Disability as a Lived Experience" this semester, had the idea for "Wheelchairs for Haiti" after listening to a radio broadcast about the number of earthquake victims who have suffered spinal cord injuries and amputations.
His initial thought was to collect used wheelchairs to donate, but a quick Internet search showed that wheelchairs specially designed for unpaved roads and rugged terrain would work best in Haiti.
"Standard wheelchairs made in the United States are not suitable for developing nations such as Haiti, which has unpaved and rutted roads, few sidewalks, or ramps and curb cuts. The Whirlwind Rough Rider wheelchairs are perfect for the needs of Haitians," says Chaskes.


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CHICAGO (AP) - Former major league pitcher Jim Deshaies has agreed to a 4-year contract to serve as a Chicago Cubs television analyst.
WGN-TV and the Cubs announced the agreement Monday. Deshaies will work with Len Kasper in the booth and replace Bob Brenly, who left in October to return to broadcasting for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Deshaies has been serving since 1997 as an analyst in Houston, where he spent most of his playing career. He was 84-95 with a 4.14 ERA in 12 major league seasons.
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Portrait of a Rider
16 comments:
- Piper (DailyDivaDish) said...
Jackie was just such a class act. If this was how she achieved that amazing poise under pressure - I'm with you...sign me up too!
XO Piper
- June 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Ivy Lane said...
such wonderful images.. I love Churchill's quote!
- June 28, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- SPLENDEROSA said...
Such an elegance about her, no matter what she was doing. Thank you for some nice memories. Growing up my daughter rode Hunt Seat...girls & horses...a very good thing. xx's
- June 28, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Sarah M. Winchester said...
All of these are just gorgeous!
- June 28, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- the gardeners cottage said...
i believe that whatever poise i possess, i learned on the back of a horse. you are so right.
- June 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- kim c said...
Hi Heather,
Saw a picture of you with Charlotte Moss in the little augury blog. How fun! That must have been a great event!! Lucky you!
- June 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- splendidmarket.com said...
I never tire of seeing her image.
- June 28, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Elle said...
What a fabulous find! I adore Jackie, and I have been horse crazy my whole life! Thank you for sharing....
I'm especially drooling over that picture of Jackie on the horse with Jon Jon and Caroline riding her pony next to them... it reminds me of fall!
- June 28, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- Heidiopia said...
She looks so at home on horseback-- the picture of poise and grace. I've never seen these before, so thank you!
- June 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- EJR said...
I love this book, I own it!
- June 28, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Black Zebra said...
I want to get this book for my daughter. She's 10yrs old and has been ridding for the past three years.TOTALLY LOVES IT!!! you're quite right about posture and poise,she has become a "right little posh Madam" now because of ridding.....Its great though, as long as she is happy.....bloody expensive!
- June 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- sharon said...
These are such beautiful pictures, especially to someone who takes huge pleasure in riding out with my own children.
Love the Churchill quote too.
- June 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Suze Yalof Schwartz said...
LOVE JACKIE!!!!!! Amazing post!
- June 28, 2010 at 9:48 PM
- Renata said...
Fantastic post and pictures - I love Jackie and I love horseback riding, so I really enjoyed seeing all of these pics!!!
- June 29, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Claudia Juestel said...
Thank for a wonderful look back at a fascinating woman, stylish on every occasion.
- July 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- 'Megan' said...
Interesting to see those pictures. I once saw a brief film reel of Jackie riding a pony and jumping with a friend, very evocative - all sunlight and stubble fields.
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By Amy Lester, Oklahoma Impact Team
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Superintendents and teachers across the state are losing sleep, worrying about the future of their schools. Districts already suffering from budget cuts this year anticipate next year will be worse.
"It has affected morale, you can tell, people are uncertain and fearful. I pick up on that in our district as well as the community," said Dr. Clark Ogilvie, Superintendent of Owasso Public Schools.
Districts are already taking serious steps to make up for current cuts. Some districts are changing to four day weeks to save money. Others are restricting travel, putting hiring freezes in place and offering early retirement incentives. Most districts have 80 to 90 percent of their budget tied up in salaries. So, if less money comes in next year, many will have to let employees go.
"I don't think there's any question. We will have to lose teachers for next year, good teachers. We will have to cut staff. We'll lose support staff. We're going to lose administrative staff. We're going to lose people all around," said Terry Simpson, Superintendent of Guthrie Public Schools.
The Speaker of the House, Chris Benge, said even if the state uses all of its reserves to make up for the revenue shortfall, agencies would still deal with a 10 percent across the board cut. Right now, the state has $460 million federal stimulus dollars and $149 million in the Rainy Day fund.
Where does this leave education?
"We've done a very good job so far of shielding education, probably more so than any other area in the budget, from cuts," said State Treasurer Scott Meacham. "I do think we will see probably some cuts to education next year."
That is the last thing teachers want to hear, especially first-year teachers. They're on temporary contracts and would be the first to go.
"It is always there in the back of your mind. Me and my husband are trying to find a house and it's like, well, what do we do? What price range? Should we even look for a house," said Keisha Cole, first-year teacher at Guthrie High School.
If Cole loses her job, she doesn't know where to turn. She said she worries that it will be nearly impossible to find a teaching job in Oklahoma because of the budget crisis. Cole cannot move out of state for a job either. Her husband is currently a student at the University of Oklahoma.
"I may not be able to teach, I guess, if I can't find a job. I'd have to find something else to do which would be horrible. I worked so hard in school and all my life to get to this," Cole said.
Cole said she will stay in limbo, indefinitely. Even though state law requires the legislature to fund education by April 1, that rarely happens. Meacham said this year won't be any different.
"I don't think that's going to happen this year, I think with the hole being as big as it is, it's going to take a lot of time to work this budget deal out," Meacham said.
Superintendents and teachers have no other choice but to wait and see what lawmakers decide.
"They were like, oh, we should know by April. Then, it's June. It's like, well, just tell me when you can. I need to know as soon as possible so I can start making plans," Cole said.
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The politics of fuelby Gerry Foley
We all know just how combustible petrol can be. Throw it into the hothouse of Westminster politics and you get a very volatile situation. Former Labour ministers still tremble when reminded of the fuel blockades of autumn 2000 when, for a few days, it seemed as if the government had lost control .
The opinion polls suddenly showed a huge jump in support for the Conservatives as voters questioned the competence of Labour. Since that time, all senior ministers, are aware of the importance of being seen to be in control. Hence the determination of coalition ministers to demonstrate that proper planning and resilience measures are already been put in place in case there is a strike by tanker drivers.
Unfortunately conflicting advice from ministers seems to have added to the panic rather than temper it. It's now pretty clear that the advice from Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude that it might be sensible to keep a spare jerry can of fuel in the garage did more harm than good. Indeed the Roads Minister Mike Penning (a former fireman) has gone on the record to say that it was a mistake.
The official line now from the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, is that it would be wise for motorists to keep their fuel tank about two thirds fuel and to top up where appropriate. In more normal times, the average motorist's tank is about a third full at any given time. Ministers are also pressing ahead with the training of additional military personnel to drive some tankers.
Labour have criticised the government's handling as being shambolic. The coalition are seeking to put pressure on Ed Miliband to condemn the action by UNITE, the union which is the largest donor to the Labour party.
It is of course important to bear in mind that we don't even know whether any action will actually go ahead. UNITE would also have to give 7 days notice before action could start. Who knows we might eventually end up with petrol shortages but without a tankers strike!
– Diana Holland, Assistant General Secretary, Unite
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2002 - Grote Reber died.
Reber was an American amateur radio operator and astronomer who built the first radio telescope. After learning about Karl Jansky's discovery of radio signals from space, he built a 9-meter dish receiver in his back yard. He began a systematic mapping of radio frequencies of the night sky. His success began the radio observatory boom of modern astronomy.
1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin died.Hodgkin was a British biophysicist who shares the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine with John Eccles and Andrew Huxley for their research into nerve cells. They discovered the chemical processes that dictate the passage of impulses along nerve fibers.
1996 - Carl Sagan died.
Sagan was an American astronomer who popularized astronomy and astrophysics through a successful 13 part television program called "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". He also supported efforts to search for evidence of extra-terrestrial life and the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) program. He was among the first to recognize Saturn's moon, Titan could support oceans that could support life and the surface of Venus was more likely to be extremely hot and dry rather than stormy.
1921 - Richard Julius Petri died.
Petri was a German biologist who is credited with the invention of the petri dish while working as an assistant to Robert Koch. This shallow glass cylinder is used to culture cells and bacteria.
1915 - Thomas Leopold Willson died.Willson was a Canadian chemist and inventor who discovered an economical method to create calcium carbide and its by-product acetylene. He dumped his waste slag from an electric furnace producing aluminum into a nearby stream and obsserved a burst of flame. Further investigation showed that adding water to the slag would produce calcium carbide and acetylene. He also was the inventor of over sixty inventions including electric arc lighting and gas navigational buoys.
1901 - Robert Jemison Van de Graaff was born.
Van de Graaff was the American physicist who designed the Van de Graaff generator. The Van de Graaff is a generator capable of generating high voltages of static electricity. It uses an insulated motorized belt to transfer charge from a power source to the surface of a conducting sphere. They are capable of generating voltages of up to approximately 20 million volts and are usually used to demonstrate the effects of high DC voltage.


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If there are three things that Miami Beat Wave stand for in this world, they're Love, Peace & Unity… with "havin' fun" as a close fourth. Their latest single, a Booth-exclusive world premiere, epitomizes each and every one of these qualities, boasting an exuberant throwback beat by the Panhandle State production crew and rousing, politically-charged bars from dead prez' own M1. In addition to being featured on MBW's as #B2B LP, this record is slated to appear on prez' forthcoming "unofficial audiobiography" of hip-hop legend Afrika Bambataa. Stay tuned for further details on both projects, neither of which are currently scheduled.
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This year, the National Education Association, more than 3.2 million educators who work to improve public schools, and several literacy and youth groups, called on book lovers on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss, around the nation to take up The Lorax, the popular children's book published in 1971 about the lovable creature who fights to save the environment.
At Friday, families members of the teaching staff were on hand to share their love of reading with students, who dressed up as Cat in the Hat characters Thing One and Thing Two and ate Green Eggs and Ham. Moms and dads of teachers, sons and daughters of teachers, husbands and wives of teachers all joined in on the fun!
"After hearing the Dr. Seuss story of Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Ms. Jukins' second grade made their own ooey, gooey, sticky, Oobleck," according to the school's blog.
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A man who told Greenwich Police that he was following a car because he saw the driver run a red light ended up being charged second-degree breach of peace.
According to a Greenwich Police report, it all started in Port Chester, NY around midnight April 25 and ended nearly 4 miles away when a Greenwich police officer stopped the drivers of a sedan and an SUV on Route 1 in Cos Cob. The drivers caught the attention of Officer Stanley Sanders who saw them driving at a high rate of speed near the state line.
While Sanders was following them, a passenger in the sedan called Greenwich 911 dispatch center to report they were being chased by the SUV. In his report, Sanders wrote that the SUV driver said he was following the car because he saw it run a red light in Port Chester and he was unsuccessful in calling 911 to report that incident.
The SUV driver, identified as John C. Giordano, 52, who gave an address of 126 Haseco Ave., Port Chester, was issued a misdemeanor summons for breach of peace. He was released on a written promise to appear May 2 in state Superior Court in Stamford.


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The Sevier County Commission is in the process of reappointing commission committees; therefore, no committees, except for E-911, Steering, and Planning, will meet in September.
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October 18, 2012
Kale Chips
Kale Chips have been on my list of things to cook with my fall crops. I have never been an avid lover of kale. I have incorporated it into stews and sometimes even meatballs, but I have never been a "can't wait to dig into some yummy kale" kind of girl. I feel like Kale has become increasing popular over the past couple of years. Even cooking methods for kale has become a popular pin on Pinterest. I started some Ragged Jack Kale from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds back at the end of July with the goal to have a nice crop of kale to try this recipe.
Kale is a really easy plant to grow. Frost does not hurt it….some might say that the flavor is enhanced by the cold. Once the plant starts were in the ground, the kale took off and has not stopped.
Kale Chips are extremely easy to make and surprisingly delicious. I believe that Kale Crisps are a better name for them because of their light texture. They almost melt in your mouth and are a little addictive. Here is the recipe I used from Smitten Kitchen:
Kale Chips recipe from Smitten Kitchen
1 bunch (about 6 ounces) kale (I used Ragged Jack but any type will do)
1 tablespoon olive oil
Sea salt, to taste
Preheat oven to 300°F. Rinse and dry the kale, then remove the stems and tough center ribs. Cut into large pieces, toss with olive oil in a bowl then sprinkle with salt. Arrange leaves in a single layer on a large baking sheet (I needed two because mine are tiny; I also lined mine with parchment for easy clean-up but there's no reason that you must). Bake for 20 minutes, or until crisp. Place baking sheet on a rack to cool.
My picture does not do the Kale Chips justice. It was taken with my cell phone and does not show the rich green color of this tasty snack. My final vote is that this snack is super easy to make, very yummy, and will now become a staple in my household. Give it a try, it won't disappoint!
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I made kale (and other greens) chips for the first time recently, but I dehydrated mine, instead of roasting them. They were good (I love greens) but I put a bit too much salt on mine. I also made mine without removing the spine or cutting them. Next time I would cut them into smaller, bite-size pieces, so instead of biting into them and them cracking (and putting bits of kale crumbs everywhere) you could put the whole piece in your mouth!!ReplyDelete
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Lately I've been enjoying massaged kale salads. Just kale, some sea or kosher salt, olive oil and then I've been using taragon vinegar right now. Oh, I love it! Worth trying!
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ps, I am also considering trying kale for the first time. This post may have pushed me into it.
WOW!! Never thought on making kale chips. Eventhough the image is not that appealing however I would surely try this recipe.ReplyDelete
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Hi everyone!
The new Support Center was launched this week! All support requests must now be submitted through the support center – not through the comments page or contact form. This will provide an enhanced support experience for everyone, and allow you to get the answers you need even faster
Thanks for the overwhelmingly positive response to UberMenu 2.0! If you're upgrading from 1.x to 2.0, don't forget to read the important upgrade instructions – or find out more about what's new in UberMenu 2.0. Existing customers can download the update through your CodeCanyon Downloads page for free!
As always, thanks so much for your support in making UberMenu the #1 Selling CodeCanyon WordPress Plugin of all time, and the top selling product overall for the last 14 weeks! I truly appreciate your business!
Thanks so much!
Hi Chris,
Finding it very hard to remove residual styling even though I have read your guide on the 2 ways to remove. I wouldn't mind if I could ask for assistance on this please. And yes it is still on the same theme as I have been working on with the kite surfing. I had it nailed until the latest update.
Hi Ciaran,
I've responded to your request in the forum. It seems you've already resolved the issue, but if not please let me know by responding to the forum post and I'll be happy to take a look
Responded in the forum.
Does the menu support "sticky menu" – so that the user scrolls downwards the top menu allways stays on top of the browser, perhaps with a little transparency? I like the style of twitters bootstrap menu bars allways staying in view.
Hi gehrkensit,
A sticky menu is not an out-of-the-box feature with UberMenu, but it could be easily achieved by applying fixed positioning to the #megaMenu element. Here's a quick demo I made up, hope you find it useful! http://wpmegamenu.com/mega-menu-sticky-header-demo/
Hello, I have bought this plugin. but I have problem with this plugin. I use wordpress 3.3.1 but I can't set thumbnail for each menu because link "Use as featured image" not appear. But old wordpress the link appear. What should I do.
Hi halisya,
WordPress 3.3 changed the way featured images were handled. UberMenu 1.1.4 was released to provide compatibility with the new system. You'll need to upgrade to a newer version. Please see http://wpmegamenu.com/help/#FAQ-no-featured-image for more information.
If you have future support requests, kindly start a new thread in the Support Center. Thanks!
Okay, problem solved. Thank you. But how to remove the arrow in the top-level menu? I want the arrow only appears when the menu has a sub menu. But if the top menu does not have a sub menu, the arrow does not appear. Thanks.
You need to uncheck "Activate Mega Menu" on the top level menu items that do not have submenus.
Again, if you have further questions, please post them in the Support Center. Thanks.
thank you for updating plugin, sir..this is still best menu plugin on world!
You're welcome – and thanks very much for your kind words!
Hey, bought the plugin yesterday but my code won't work on the forum… it says: "No valid purchase codes where found." what can I do? Oh ok fixed. Had to use the same name I had here…
First of all I would like to say that this Menu plugin is just great.
I do have a problem and the problem is, the submenu doesn't show up.
I noticed when I remove this code
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js from header.php the submenu appears. But without that code my slider doesn't work.
I hope you understand what I mean, and I also hope there is a easy fix to this problem. Could you please tell me how to fix this problem?
Thanks a lot in advance
Hi bokazini,
It sounds like you have a javascript conflict from your theme. If that line of code is in your header.php, it means the theme has not properly enqueued jQuery, and that is probably the issue.
If you would like to create a thread in the Support Forum and post a link to your site, I'll be happy to take a look for you
Thanks for your quick reply,
I started a thread on your forum.
I've replied to your thread on the forum Not seeing any errors, I think you just needed to switch from Click mode into Hover mode.
I just noticed the above about the new support forum. I'll post there.
Thanks! I've replied in the forum
Your Plugin has made my life much easier, kindly fix one thing. when we press ENTER after entering text in any field, instead of Submitting and Saving Settings, It Pop Ups the 'Reset Settings' and i accidently reset my settings Twice, thats very annoying.
Thanks for your feedback, glad you like the plugin! In my tests, this should only occur in the Advanced panel, where the reset button resides, so hopefully that annoyance is not too prevalent. However, I will improve that part of the interface in the next version
I'm trying to list my taxonomies in columns in the submenu instead of the regular flyout layout. Any idea how I can do that?
Replied to your post in the forum http://support.sevenspark.com/forum/topic/73/submenu-items
How can I get rid of the arrows?
I've replied to your forum post, and the answer is here in the guide: How to remove the arrow indicators
Hello, I have bought UberMenu and it is very nice. I have a question : is it possible to change the css of the drop down menu with transparence (dealing with opacity) ? PS : excuse my english : I am french.
Hi fsutter,
Yes, you can set an opacity value on the submenu UL using custom CSS . Please note that all support is handled through the Support Forum, and if you need further assistance, kindly post there. Thanks!
Hi sevenspark Thanks for your answer. I have tried to connect the forum, but it says that my email is not the right one and when i put the item purchase code, I am not able to create an account.
You need to use your Envato username and email address. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact me via my contact form.
Hello Sevenspark,
I´m deciding wether or not to buy a license of UberMenu but when I test responsiveness of the menu at IETester, it seems like it does not work in IE8 . But I don´t know if it is a software problem. I just want to make sure that the UberMenu is responsive for IE8 as well.
Thank you,
Hi Marcel,
Responsiveness is not supported in IE8 , simply because IE8 does not support CSS3 media queries If that's important to you, you can try a CSS3 media query polyfill like css3-mediaqueries-js, Respond.js, or mediatizr.
Keep in mind that the menu responsiveness is only going to work well when coupled with a responsive theme. If the theme is responsive in IE8 , it is likely already using a media query polyfill.
Hope that helps!
Actually I am using a responsive theme for IE8 /9/10 (there´s a "modernizr.js" that must do the trick), but I don´t know how I would adapt it to the UberMenu. Will I have to make new CSS or just link that javascript file and UberMenu will work automatically for IE8 ?
If it helps at all, the theme name is Gala, here from theme forest.
Hi Marcel,
I just tested the Gala demo, http://demo.designerthemes.com/gala/ , in IE8 , and it is not responsive in that browser (tested in IETester and IE Emulator). As I mentioned, that's to be expected, since IE8 does not support media queries, which are one of the foundations of responsive design (and what make it possible).
To my knowledge, modernizr does not make media queries work in IE8 . I's purpose is feature detection, not feature replication (which is what a polyfill does).
Again, you can use a polyfill to achieve responsiveness if you desire – supposedly they are plug-and-play (no configuration necessary, just include the javascript), but I don't have any first-hand knowledge using them, so I can't guarantee or support them.
Hope that helps
Hi Chris,
Thanks for you reply. I´m frustated as I thought Gala would be responsive to IE8 (I actually thought that only IE7 and lower wouldn´t respond to media queries). Well, I´ll buy the menu anyway because I really like what I see, and hope that the world will upgrade fast to IE9 . Thank you for all your informations.
You're welcome, hope you enjoy the menu!
is this plugin compatible with the genesis framework?
Hi socialist1911,
Yes, you'll just need to add a few lines of PHP code to your functions.php to remove some residual styling. You can review http://wpmegamenu.com/help/#theme-genesis for details
Wow, thanks for the super quick response. Will buy it this weekend.
You're welcome! Enjoy
Hi Sevenspark,
Plugin is fantastic. Works perfect in safari, chrome and FF. Just have a fer issues in IE.
On IE the menu displays items are vertical, not horizontal. Also most of the preset stylings are not working on IE.
I have turned on the IE fix and turned off HTML5 on the UBER Menu in WP, but still no luck.
The website is: http://viveya.co/
Hi Paul,
Thanks, glad you like the plugin!
I took a look at your site and I believe the issue is that you have a line of HTML printed before the doctype declaration. Currently your HTML source looks like this:
<div class="home">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
As a result, IE doesn't read the doctype and renders in quirksmode, which breaks everything. (You can't have anything before the doctype).
I believe removing the .home div from the top of the document will resolve the issue.
If you have further questions, kindly post them in the support forum, thanks! http://support.sevenspark.com
Fantastic! Fixed the problem : )
Thanks for the support!
You're welcome!
Cool plugin. But one questions…
Is it possible to align a mega menu to its parent li element? (The same as how a regular fly out menu is aligned)
At the moment I am simply setting the sub menu's left value to "auto !important", which works okay. Only problem is that this could go off the screen unlike the regular mega menu which will not go wider than the container.
Hope this makes sense
Hi smilledge,
You have it right that if you customize the menu to align the submenu to the parent LI, it has the potential to run off the page, since there is no natural boundary between LI start and UL end. If you set the submenu to full width, it'll automatically be the width of the entire menu bar – so that'll definitely run off on anything but the first menu item. If you turn off full width, can overflow by a small amount, but would be mostly contained.
If you need to align your submenus to the parent LI, my recommendation would be to set an explicit width as well.
If you have additional questions, kindly post them in the support forum – http://support.sevenspark.com – thanks!
Je profite d'être Français pour laisser un commentaire dans cette lanque pour les autres compatriotes. Cette extension fonctionne parfaitement en wordpress 3.3.1 avec les thème twenty eleven et donc le menu par défaut. Il reste juste une fois installé à s'approprier la prise en main pour comprendre la logique de l'auteur pour ce qui est du décalage et donc de la création des colonnes dans le sous menu. Reste à mon avis à enlever le moteur de recherche qui se trouve pour ma part dans le header du thème en faisant sauter la commande php qui appel la balise div search. Le top serait que cette option soit disponible par défaut par l'auteur de cette extension. Dans tous les cas merci infiniment à sevenspark pour ce travail et désolé pour lui s'il ne comprend pas toutes les subtilités de mon commentaire qui seront utiles aux Français pour apprécier son travail ! Encore merci ! : Kiss:
Hi chikungunya,
I don't speak French unfortunately, but I did run your comment through a translation program, so I think I got the idea.
You're very welcome! Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you've found UberMenu useful!
All the best,


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Engineering Students Design Affordable Solar Lamp for Use in Developing Countries
With more than 2 billion people on the planet living without reliable electricity, Sacharia Albin, an Old Dominion University electrical and computer engineering professor, gave three students in his Electrical Engineering Design class a challenge. They were tasked with designing a portable, solar- and battery-powered lamp that would provide three hours of reading light per day, at a cost per unit of only $20.
The students, Rodney Douglas of Virginia Beach, Richard Schaefer of Evansville, Ind., and Anthony Gontarz of Phoenix - all seniors, majoring in electrical engineering at ODU's Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology - did so well with the project that Albin is planning to send several prototypes to Haiti as part of a relief mission shipment from his church.
"The students came up with a really good design. The rechargeable battery they use has a life of 500 days," Albin said. "I think this will get exposure in the community. This is kind of what engineering is all about - finding solutions to real-world problems."
The idea is for the recipients of the lamps to use them instead of burning candles or kerosene lanterns, which aren't as safe and cost far more than the lamp in the long run.
The three seniors are so excited about their project that they plan to continue working on it after graduation, in hopes of making a viable lamp that could be used by students in developing countries as a study aide during nighttime hours.
"That's what you dream about as an engineer, and why we were excited to work on the project," Douglas said. "Everyone is motivated to kind of leave a legacy. That would be one of the best things we could do."
The students presented their project on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Gontarz told the professors grading the assignment that the efforts to find the right casing, battery, solar panel and light bulb was "kind of like doing a 1,000-piece puzzle, where you work on every piece at the same time."
The student team finally settled on a lamp with five light-emitting diode bulbs and three rechargeable alkaline batteries linked up to a solar panel. Their specially designed lamp gave the longest, brightest beam of light for the lowest cost.
The lamp is housed in a thin, round metal casing, with a bendable wire stand. It's affixed with a clip to attach to a table, but the clip can also be folded so the lamp can stand on its own. The lamp also bends down to a third of its size, making it easier for shipping to developing countries.
"We wanted a design that would ship easily, but be useful down there," Schaefer explained. "The challenge was not only having a lamp that provided six hours of light, but one that charges in six hours. All of the commercially available solar lamps - which cost $35 and more - take nine or more hours to charge."
Albin plans to include a number of the lamps as part of a shipment of goods sent by his church, Holy Spirit in Norfolk, to a series of schools in Haiti. If the lamp is well received and the students continue to improve the design, Albin believes it could be something that gets distributed widely to countries with ample sunlight, but not enough safe, reliable sources of power.
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I am confounded by the sudden inabilitty of the numeric keypad to function. How do I turn it on and off?
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Top 10 High-Yield Big-Cap Growth Picks
Nobody wants volatility. But everyone wants capital appreciation, and if there's cash thrown in, all the better.
Large-cap and growth have been two ugly beasts over the past five years. But people need stability right now -- hence large-cap -- and growth has gotten so cheap that all the indices that track growth stocks have lower price-to-earnings ratios than the value indices. That's why I feel strongly that the winds are changing toward growth and large-cap.
However, let's play it safe and find the large-cap growth stocks that are most likely to succeed and then cement the deal with a nice steady dividend check every quarter. That way, if the market ever slips, it won't bring our friends with it. On Stockpickr, we've set up a portfolio of the Highest-Yielding Large-Cap Growth Stocks.
First on the list is Telefonica of Argentina (TAR), a Buenos Aires-based company that provides both business and residential telecommunications services throughout Argentina. The stock has an extremely high P/E ratio of 247; however, it yields 10% based on its latest annual dividend. Telefonica of Argentina has been paying dividends for 12 years. This is one of the stocks on the Stockpickr list of high-yield Argentina Stocks.Telecom Italia (TI.A) is another telecommunications company, this one based in Rome but with operations in both Europe and South America. Its P/E is a reasonable 10.7, and its P/E-to-growth ratio is 3.6. The stock carries an annual dividend rate of 7.4%. To watch Gregg Greenberg's video take of this column, click here.
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I like fans making bold predictions. So I'm going to try a few of my own...
1) Adrian Peterson will not rush for more than a 100 yards, but will come very, very close. Steelers always play up or down to the competition. For the most part we contain the elite backs, but Peterson is still phenomenal so he will make us sweat a little.
2) We will pick off Favre at least twice (Polamalu will have one of those interceptions).
3) We will hold the Vikings to an insanely low amount of yards in the first half (under 100), and then they will adjust and explode in the fourth quarter.
4) Whichever team has the ball in the last two minutes wins this game.
5) Fright Night will get more rushing yards than Adrian Peterson.
6) Big Ben has another 300-yard passing game.
7) Vikings Defense will double-cover Hines Ward and bump Santonio Holmes in his routes, leaving Mike Wallace open to have another 100+ yard performance.
8) We will sack Favre at least 4 times.
9) Steelers O-line protects Ben but he still gets sacked 3 times for holding on the ball for too long.
10) Jeff Reed doesn't miss any field goals, then he goes out to celebrate after the game, gets drunk and punches a police officer in the face demanding him to dispense paper towels.
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Bears announce Campbell will start Monday night
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Thursday's 60-second rant: Bears-Niners bash weighing heavy on brain
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Key matchup: Bears RBs Matt Forte and Michael Bush vs. 49ers defense
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Tuesday's 60-second rant: Injuries could dull 2012's best one-two prime-time punch
What appeared to be great NFL drama in Week 11 took a potentially big hit with three significant QB injuries.
NFC West spin cycle: Unlikely tie tightens up division
While the Rams and Niners fought to a 24-24 deadlock in San Francisco, the Seahawks kept the heat on with a 28-7 pasting of the Jets.
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Alex Smith completed 18-of-19 passes for 232 yards and three TDs as the 49ers flexed their NFC West dominance with a 24-3 win over the Cardinals.
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DEVON & Somerset Fire & Rescue Services partnership with Bourne Leisure is progressing well, according to the company's Health and Safety Manager for the South West.
Working closely with Bourne Leisure has allowed the Service to provide fire safety advice and assistance that is better tailored to their needs enabling us to assist with the future proofing of individual business strategies.
Kevin Tudor, Health and Safety Manager for the South West said: "The national partnership with Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is working extremely well for everyone involved. Certainly the board are very happy as they want to be certain all the fire precautions on every site are safe and secure. This enforces our mission statement – safe and secure.
"We see Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue as a second pair of eyes. We have our group polices but the service externally audits us, as well as providing advice on our fire procedures."
Pictured from left to right: Kevin Tudor, Health and Safety Manager for Bourne Leisure in the South West, Fire protection Officer John Beamson for Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service and Terry Collins, Deputy General Manager for Devon Cliffs.
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Winning trainer Bob Baffert said, "There was a lot more pressure on Mike with this filly because she's (owned by Baffert's wife). She wasn't in the picture and Jill said to me, "why is she way back there?' I said, 'that's the way she runs.' I told Mike, 'she runs like Zenyatta a little bit, but don't count on her to make up that much ground.'".
Jockey Mike Smith added, "(Awesomeundo and Love and Pride) came together a little bit because she was gawking around at the crowd, but it wasn't anything. We had a little trouble leaving, but she proved she's very talented. She has a beautiful long kick."


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Time to Eat the DogsOn Science, History, and Exploration
Archive for Africa
Rwenzori Journal
For the past three weeks, I've been in Uganda doing research on my next book, Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and a Theory of Race that Changed Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). The book begins in 1876 in East Africa, where the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered four Africans whose light complexion and European features "aroused [his] curiosity to the highest pitch." They came from the slopes of Gambaragara, a snow-capped mountain west of Lake Victoria. That such a towering range existed in the heart of equatorial Africa was astonishing enough. "But what gives it peculiar interest," Stanley wrote, "is, that on its cold and lonely top dwell a people of an entirely distinct race, being white, like Europeans."
Stanley's story had the ring of the fantastic about it, but was taken seriously by scientists, explorers, and the general public — and came to be supported by evidence ranging from the origin stories of the Hebrew Bible, the discovery of ancient ruins in Egypt and Zimbabwe, the kingship legends of African cultures, and the physical differences observed — by Stanley and many others — among African tribes. The existence of white tribes of Africa was a theory, defenders claimed, supported by many pillars. Lost White Tribe traces the rise and fall of this theory, the Hamitic Hypothesis, and the scientific expeditions that gave it life.
After completing my research at Makerere University in Kampala, I took a bus west to Kasese, and then hired a motorcycle taxi to Kilembe. This small town was the gateway to the Rwenzoris, the tallest mountain range in Africa. Just east of here Stanley glimpsed the massive blue silhouette of Gambaragara (now called Mt. Stanley) for the first time. I spent eight days on Mt. Stanley with a Bakonzo guide and porters, recording what I could of the mountain, its people, and my own subjective experiences. Here are some brief excerpts:
10 January 2013
Sine Camp 8576 ft (2596m)
At 9:30 we walk into Kilembe village, past wooden huts and kiosks, men raking coffee beans, selling cell phone time, children driving cows. Rows of single-level dormitories stretch off to the left covered by rusty metal roofs, goats graze the courtyards between. The dorms were originally built as housing units for workers of the British copper mining company that came here years before. Now muzungu money enters the valley only from coffee sales or trekkers like me. The presence of whites is now rare enough to peak interest. Or fear. As we climb the trailhead, we pass a woman bringing her children to work the vertical fields of bananas and cassava ahead. Her daughter, about three years old, is ahead of us on the trail. As the girl sees us approach, separating her from her mother, she begins to cry. When she sees me, her cries grow sharp. I remove my sunglasses thinking it will help. Bad idea. She screams, covers her eyes, leaps off the trail. Scary muzungu.
11 January 2013
Kalalama Camp 10,327 ft (3147m)
My guide William Kiminywa is Bakonzo, a member of an ethnic group that inhabits the lowlands of the Ruwenzoris, from Western Uganda to Eastern Congo. All of the porters are Bakonzo too, mostly from Kilembe. He's heard no talk of "white Africans" living on the mountains, but clearly the mountains are a place of the sacred and the strange. William will not say the names of the mountains that tower above us on both sides of the valley – 13,000ft pinnacles that drop straight down to the heather trees of the valley. He writes out the names in my journal instead. Unwise to say the original Bakonzo names out loud. He is no mere folklorist though. William knows the Rwenzoris like no one else. We hike through knee-deep swamps and bogs, oceans of mud. He always sees a way through though – rocks, branches, tussocks invisible to me – stepping stones through the black ooze. I call him the mud whisperer. He laughs. But its true, his knowledge goes deep, sensory and academic. Where I see a mass of ferns and heather, he sees colobus monkeys, dikas, rock hyrax, turacos. He points them out to me quietly with his walking pole, whispering their Latin names so as not to scare them away. I nod, write, take pictures.
12 January 2013
Bugata Camp 13,327 ft (4062m)
Today we approach the lower arm of Mt. Stanley. We are now closer to the mountain than Stanley was in 1876 when he climbed a small mountain near the Katonga River and "caught a passing glimpse of the king of mountains Gambaragara." It was at the summit of this great mountain, Stanley's African troops told him, that the white Gambaragarans lived amid the snow and craters lakes. Still, my head is elsewhere today. Tess completes in the final round of an oratory contest in Bloomfield, a big event in her life and to miss it hurts a bit. More than a bit. I feel the isolation of the mountains as we go higher. William is fantastic, and his crew of porters are polite, knowledgeable, professional, but no companions. I am a client, not a friend. The porters bring food, supplies, then retreat to their own tents. Tea and biscuits at 4pm, even in rainstoms, on windy cliffs. When I visit their quarters to talk, they stand, go silent. I'm unshaven, unshowered, caked with mud, but I'm still the Earl of Grantham and I've come to servants' quarters unannounced. My liberal politics, my critiques of colonialism, Victorian explorers, mean nothing here. I enter a fixed role, one that's been set in place in Africa for hundreds of years and is kept in place by all kinds of trekkers organizations here, Kilimanjaro, maybe the Himalayas too? (I must ask the Everest people). I'm head muzungu. It's Upstairs Downstairs, only at altitude. Where's my pith helmet?
15 January 2013
Margherita Camp 14,714 ft (4485m)
We leave at 3 am for the summit, headlamps on. I stay very close to William. I never know if the blackness covers a slope or sheer void. After an hour of hiking we're in snow, then glacier. We take thirty minutes to put on crampons and harnesses, rope up. The march across Elena Glacier is calming after the rocks. Black sky and an ocean of white, just the sound of our feet. We descent a sharp pinnacle of rocks, then we're on Margherita Glacier. This is not calming. The glacier is steep here, very steep, and the wind howls. I don't know how many knots but its enough to push flinty pieces of ice up the 50° slope towards the summit and into the skies over Congo. They hit us and keep moving. The air is so thin, it cracks my lips and it's impossible to catch my breath. I shuffle like an old man. William seems unaffected. Three hours of this and we are finally the rocky crown. It's so hard to move up this craggy face, I have to crawl at points towards the summit. When we're there, I stand and sob. I can't help it. An accumulation of feelings over the six day ascent, and longer perhaps, the three weeks in Kampala and Western Uganda. There are many points of contact between Stanley's description, those of his African soldiers, and what I see here. The ice and snow, the small lakes in the shadow of the glacier, the great elevation. But there are no lost whites up here – well — none except for me. And maybe there's something to that. Stanley wasn't the only one to think he saw white people in weird places. Not a product of lying, I think, but, more likely wishful thinking. A racial Rorschach test. It may have given Stanley – already a lonely man — some comfort to imagine Africans who shared his color, his features, perhaps his kinship, so far from home.
Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives
Last weekend, I attended a symposium, "Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives" at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. I will post some reflections about themes of the conference, starting here with the keynote speech by historian of anthropology, Henrika Kuklick.
In her address "Science as Adventure" Kuklick describes a historical shift in thinking about anthropological fieldwork. In the early 1800s, westerners who ventured into the remote regions of the world were often seen as gofers rather than researchers, rugged collectors that did the bidding of armchair scientists back home. These sedentary scientists did not perceive their distance from the field as a bad thing. Far from it: in their labs and museums, they could pore over specimens and cultural artifacts without the distractions of life on the expedition. In their more controlled habitats, they believed they could consider objects comparatively, objectively, and dispassionately. Thus, distance seemed to offer advantages both physical and methodological: a safe environment and a privileged perspective from which to see species and human cultures without the bias of being on the ground, in the vortex of the new encounter.
By the early twentieth century, Kuklick argues, perceptions of fieldwork began to change. The New Imperialism of the late 1800s brought huge swaths of Africa and Asia under colonial control, making them more accessible to field scientists. The rise of disciplines such as public health and tropical medicine also gave new impetus to the human sciences conducted in remote places. Finally the meaning of first-hand fieldwork itself had started to evolve. No longer did the field represent a place of bias and distortion, but as a stage for adventure. In adventure, the explorer-scientists could show their passion for science, a passion great enough to risk sickness and death, and thereby enhance their reputation for trustworthiness in the process. In showing an adventurous spirit, the pith-helmeted field scientist's credibility was revealed, not diminished. "It is because they act heroically, Kuklick writes "that their testimonials can be believed." Kuklick presents a number of examples of this new authority of adventure within the work of anthropologists, particularly in the writings of Bronisław Malinowski, who studied native peoples of Australia and the Western Pacific.
Yet it is not clear to me that these examples are as representative as Kuklick claims. Yes, we can find prominent armchair scientists in the nineteenth century as Kuklick suggests, men such as Richard Owen and Georges Cuvier who were happy to do science from the confines of the museum. But we can also find plenty of counter examples: explorer-scientists such as Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and John Tyndall who were not just tolerated, but celebrated, for their rugged fieldwork.
Indeed, adventure had become something of a fetish by the mid 1800s, affecting not only scientists but legions of western writers, artists, and intellectuals. This was, after all, an era still enthralled by Romanticism, a movement that celebrated the individual's confrontation with nature as an essential component of truth seeking.
Conversely, the twentieth century is not quite the adventure-junkie paradise that Kuklick suggests. True, the early 1900s had a number of adventurous anthropologists, as Kuklick persuasively documents, but it also had plenty of scientists who lamented adventure as a distraction from serious field work. Beginning with the International Polar Year of 1882-3, western scientists sought to distance themselves with expeditions based on pure adventure. It was for this reason that the American Geographical Society tried to make its organization more rigorous at the turn of the twentieth century. Even the father of American anthropology, Franz Boas, believed that adventure could be taken too far. "We must not forget that the explorer is not expected merely to travel from one point to another," Boaz wrote, "but that we must expect him also to see and to observe things worth seeing."
In short, western scholars have been debating the meaning of expeditionary fieldwork for at least 250 years. Whether one views it as the peripheral, or the central, event of scientific discovery probably has more to do with issues of personality, individual opportunities, and disciplinary training than shifts in the scientific zeitgeist. If it does express a shift, as Kuklick suggests, I think it's more likely to be confined to the discipline of anthropology. As for the meaning of fieldwork outside anthropology, the patterns are more difficult to see.
Science and Exploration
I've been slow to update the past two weeks, due to the collision of teaching and writing projects. One of these projects, an essay for an edited collection, looks at the relationship of science and exploration in historical context. I'm including the first paragraphs of the intro below, just so you don't think I'm playing foosball.
Westerners began to think differently about exploration in the nineteenth century. Whereas they once talked about it as a fascination, a symbol of progress, they began referring to it a "fever": something rampant, contagious, and immune to reason.[1] During this period, explorers poured out of Europe and the United States for regions remote and dangerous. Some raced to the limits of latitude, to stand first at the polar axes.
Others set off for the equatorial regions seeking lost tribes, lost cities, and lost explorers. Survey expeditions mapped the American West, inventoried the ocean depths, and facilitated the "Scramble for Africa." States sponsored some of these efforts. Museums and universities sponsored others. Meanwhile private adventurers set off to write, photograph, and hunt their way through the world's remaining terrae incognitae.
Taken together these activities produced oceans of text: articles, technical papers, and personal narratives. One writer for Nature, buried by stacks of expedition literature waiting to be reviewed, wondered what was driving the process. Did exploration fever grow out of a deeper love of science, a "craving for knowledge by stronger stimulants than can be obtained by books" ? Or was it —as the metaphor of fever implied— beyond human control, an affliction activated by some instinctive desire, "a remote ancestral habit which still clings to us." If it was the latter then science would seem to be artifice, a veneer applied to expeditionary endeavors in order to mask true motives, deeper and atavistic urges that lured explorers up mountains and into malarial jungles.[2]
[1] Robinson, Michael, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 159-164; Robinson, "Maybe I Was Wrong" http://timetoeatthedogs.com/2009/01/29/maybe-i-was-wrong/
[2] "Two Amateur Explorers," Nature 13: 264 (3 Feb 1876)
First, Fastest, Youngest
Firsts have always been important in exploration. This seems rather straightforward, even tautological, to say since being first is woven into the definition of exploration. After all, traveling to unknown places is doing something that hasn't been done before (or at least hasn't been reported before). And this is how the history of exploration often appears to us in textbooks and timelines: as lists of expeditionary firsts from Erik the Red to Neil Armstrong.
In truth, though, firsts are fuzzy.
Some fuzziness comes from ignorance, our inability to compensate for the incompleteness of the historical record. This is a perennial problem in history in general and history of exploration in particular. (I call it a problem but it's actually what makes me happy and keeps me employed).
Was Christopher Columbus the first European to reach America in 1492? Probably not, since evidence suggests that Norse colonies existed in North America five hundred years before he arrived. Was Robert Peary the first to reach the North Pole in 1909? It's hard to say since Frederick Cook claimed to be first in 1908 and its possible that neither man made it.
Some fuzziness comes from the different meanings we give to "discovery." The South American leader Simon Bolivar called Alexander von Humboldt "the true discoverer of America." Bolivar did not mean this literally since Humboldt traveled through South America in 1800, 17 years after Bolivar himself was born there, 300 years after Columbus first arrived in the Bahamas, and about 16,000 years after Paleo-Indians arrived in America, approved of what they saw, and decided to stay.
But for Bolivar, Humboldt was the first person to see South America holistically: as a complex set of species, ecosystems, and human societies, held together by faltering colonial empires. Being first in exploration, Bolivar realized, meant more than planting a flag in the ground.
At first glance, we seem to have banished fuzziness from modern exploration. For example, there is little doubt that Neil Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the moon since the event was captured on film and audio recordings, transmitted by telemetry, and confirmed by material artifacts such as moon rocks. (Moon hoax believers, I'm sorry. I know this offends.) Were the Russians suddenly interested in challenging Armstrong's claim to being first, they would have a tough time proving it since Armstrong could give the day and year of his arrival on the moon (20 July 1969) and even the exact hour, minute, and second when his boot touched the lunar surface (20:17:40 Universal Coordinated Time).
But this growing precision of firsts has generated its own ambiguities. We have become more diligent about recording firsts precisely because geographical milestones have become more difficult to achieve. As a result, there has been a shift from firsts of place to firsts of method. As the forlorn, never-visited regions of the globe diminish in number, first are increasingly measured by the manner of reaching perilous places rather than the places themselves.
For example, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to ascend Mt. Everest in 1953, but Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb the mountain without oxygen in 1978. In 1980, Messner achieved another first, by ascending Everest without oxygen or support.
Now as "firsts of difficulty" fall, they are being replaced by "firsts of identity." James Whittaker was the first American to summit Everest in 1963. Junko Tabei was the first woman (1975). Since then, Everest has spawned a growing brood of "identity first" summits including nationality (Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, Pakistan), disability (one-armed, blind, double-amputee) and novelty (snowboarding, married ascent, longest stay on summit).
It would be easy to dismiss this quest for firsts as a shallow one, a vainglorious way to achieve posterity through splitting hairs rather than new achievements. But I don't think this is entirely fair. While climbing Everest or kayaking the Northwest Passage may have little in common with geographical firsts in exploration 200 years ago, this is not to say that identity firsts are meaningless acts. They may not contribute to an understanding of the globe, but they have become benchmarks of personal accomplishment, physical achievements — much like running a marathon — that have personal and symbolic value.
Still, I am disturbed by the rising number of "youngest" firsts. Temba Tsheri was 15 when he summited Everest on 22 May 2001. Jessica Watson was 16 last year when she left Sydney Harbor to attempt a 230 day solo circumnavigation of the globe. (She is currently 60 miles off Cape Horn). Whatever risks follow adventurers who seek to be the oldest, fastest, or the sickest to accomplish X, they are, at least, adults making decisions.
But children are different. We try to restrict activities that have a high risk of injury for minors. In the U.S. for example, it is common to delay teaching kids how to throw a curve ball in baseball until they are 14 for fear of injuring ligaments in the arm. Similar concerns extend to American football and other contact sports.
So why do we continue to celebrate and popularize the pursuit of dangerous firsts by minors? What is beneficial in seeing if 16-year-olds can endure the hypoxia of Everest or the isolation of 230 days at sea. Temba Tsheri, current holder of youngest climber on Everest, lost five fingers to frostbite.
We must remember that to praise "the youngest" within this new culture of firsts, we only set the bar higher (or younger as it were) for the record to be broken again. In California, Jordan Romero is already training for his ascent of Everest in hopes to break Tsheri's age record. He is thirteen.
Prester John
For Europeans in the 1450s, the Western Ocean (or the Atlantic as we now call it) was a frightening place. Unlike the cozy, well-mapped Mediterranean which was surrounded by three continents, the Western Ocean was unbounded, poorly understood, and filled with dangers.
The dangers were not the threat of sea monsters or falling off the edge of the world. Medieval sailors and geographers understood that the earth was spherical. (The idea that they thought it was flat is a fantasy conjured up by Washington Irving in his 1828 biography of Christopher Columbus.)
Rather, the real threat was the ocean itself. Expeditions that followed the West African coast had revealed strong winds and currents that made travel south (with the current) easy, but return extremely difficult, especially with vessels that could not tack close to the wind. By the 1430s, Europeans had even identified a spot on the West African coast, Cape Bojador, as the point of no return.
And yet Europeans, led by the Portuguese, continued to push further south despite this risk. They developed trade factories off the west coast of Africa which exchanged Europeans goods — horses, wool, iron — for gold, ivory, and slaves. And ultimately they followed the African coast around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean, reaching the Indies — the holy grail of luxury items — in 1498.
All of this makes European exploration seem logical and methodical, driven by the promise of riches. Yet Europeans were interested in more than slaves and spices. Africa attracted Europe's attention because it was considered the most likely location of Prester John, legendary Christian king and potential ally in the fight against the Muslims who occupied the Holy Land.
Historians have long placed Prester John within the category of myth, and in so far as myths describe "traditional stories, usually concerning heroes or events, with or without a determinable basis of fact" I suppose Prester John qualifies.
But "myth" has subtler, darker meanings. The world is filled with traditional stories that have a tenuous relationship to observable facts: the Gospels, the Koran, and the Torah are filled with them. Yet we describe these stories as "beliefs" out of faith or respect. We usually reserve the word "myth," however, for those stories — unicorns, leprechauns, a living Elvis — that we dismiss as untrue.
The point here is not to say that Prester John was real, but to say that in characterizing him as a mythic figure, historians have tended to discount his serious influence on European exploration and discovery.
This is a central argument of historian Michael Brooks in his excellent thesis, Prester John: A Reexamination and Compendium of the Mythical Figure Who Helped Spark European Expansion. Brooks shows that, while it might be clear in hindsight that Prester John was more fable than reality, it was not clear to Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries, all of whom could point to multiple accounts of the Christian king from different, trustworthy sources. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, one of the most popular books in late medieval Europe, even offers a first-hand account of Prester John's palace:
He dwelleth commonly in the city of Susa. And there is his principal palace, that is so rich and so noble, that no man will trow it by estimation, but he had seen it. And above the chief tower of the palace be two round pommels of gold, and in everych of them be two carbuncles great and large, that shine full bright upon the night. And the principal gates of his palace be of precious stone that men clepe sardonyx, and the border and the bars be of ivory. [Mandeville quoted in Brooks, 87]
On the basis of these multiple, mutually supportive documents, Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator) charged his explorers to bring back intelligence about the Indies and of the land of Prester John. This was not merely an addendum to their orders for geographical discovery. Argues Brooks:
Without the lure of making political connections with the supposed co-religionist Prester John in the struggle against the Islamic world, the European history of overseas expansions would likely have taken a different course [3].
This serious, sustained interest in Prester John helps explain the longevity of the legend well into the seventeenth century. I could not help seeing many similarities in Brooks' account of Prester John with other stories of exploration. The one I have written the most about, the theory of the open polar sea, has also been discounted by historians as "myth" even though it was taken very seriously by scientists, explorers, and geographers in the nineteenth century, shaping the missions of numerous explorers.
Brooks' thesis is available in pdf here.
He also posts a number of articles and reviews on history and exploration on his blog, historymike.


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If you wanted to rock out with the Rock'n for a Cure concert, I have bad news: the benefit show, which was scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 18 at Ontario's Citizens Business Bank Arena has been canceled.
Bummer since I personally wanted to see the lineup, which included Kix, Warrant, Dokken, L.A. Guns, Skid Row and Lordz of Rock.
The arena said the event's producers canceled the show.
Here's the blurb from the Citizens Business Bank Arena's website:
We regret to inform you this event has been cancelled. If you purchased your tickets via credit card for this event, a refund will automatically be issued to your credit card within 7-10 days in most cases. Otherwise, refunds are available at point of purchase.
We understand that you may be disappointed and perhaps even frustrated. As fans first, we can relate. Therefore, if you have any questions or would like to speak with someone in Guest Services, please call 1.888.929.7849 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also check our frequently asked questions here: AXS
The only mention of the cancellation on the event's Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/RockForCure is in the response to a comment from a fan.
Were you planning to go to the event?


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Celebrity Big Bruvver
IT'S been a while, folks, but I'm back with another batch of cheeky blogs on the world on TV.
Let's start with Vinnie Jones.
Never forgiven him.
Not for being a member of the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon which brought football into more disrepute than a global warming expert in the middle of the worst winter for many years.
Not even for copping a feel of Gazza's crown jewels in THAT infamous football match.
Nor for making a subsequent movie career based on violence.
But for completely ruining Juggernaut in X-Men 3 - The Last Stand.
It was the worst of the three X-Men movies due, at least in part, to what some fans consider mis-casting.
His one-dimensional portrayal of Juggernaut - a complex character in the comic books who has been on the side of the angels - was a travesty.
Jones is now in Celebrity Big Brother and, apparently, is favourite to win and favourite to walk although I'm not sure how he can be both.
No-one can tell me if he is favourite to get a red card.
Jones has an abysmal discipline record in football and has capitalised on his image in film and video.
Yet he is, amazingly, a role model.
It's a strange world when a man who has made his name through violence on the pitch and on the screen - and sometimes in real life - should be considered a celebrity worthy of adulation.
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Creamy Veggie Salad Recipe
"This delicious, low-fat recipe with its hint of horseradish has been a favorite for years," writes Gene Kelly from Fort Myers, Florida. "It's so refreshing on a hot summer day and always brings me compliments."
- 4 cups fresh broccoli florets
- 4 cups fresh cauliflowerets
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen peas, thawed
- 5 green onions, sliced
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 1 to 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- In a large bowl, combine the broccoli, cauliflower, peas and onions. In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Pour over vegetables and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Yield: 9 servings.
Originally published as Creamy Veggie Salad in Light & Tasty June/July 2006, p55
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Nice and creamy with lots of flavor.
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I made this salad as written last night to serve today. When I pulled it out of the fridge this morning, it really seemed like it still needed something- so I added about 1/3 cup of real bacon bits. This helped, but I still think it needed something more, possibly some splenda, maybe chopped red pepper. I'll report back if I find good results with these changes.
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