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Every hour, more than four hundred children in the developing world die from water-borne diseases. Now there is hope that many children's lives will be saved and the health of other children improved with the introduction of an innovative water disinfection device developed by Dr. Ashok Gadgil of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. UV Waterworks is a portable, low-cost, low-maintenance, energy-efficient water purifier that utilizes ultra-violet light to render viruses and bacteria harmless. It is also an outstanding example of an invention created in response to an urgent environmental health problem by a concerned and dedicated scientist.
On April 28, in keeping with its 1998 theme of inventing for the environment, the Lemelson Center hosted two events featuring Dr. Gadgil and UV Waterworks. First was a ceremony announcing the donation of two UV Waterworks units. One was presented to the National Museum of American History, where it will be a valued addition to the collection of objects on the history of public health. It was accepted by Dr. Ray Kondratas, Curator of Medical Collections. The other was donated to the U.S. Department of Energy for field testing at a site in South Africa where contaminated water poses a serious threat.
Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld of the Department of Energy received the gift and explained that the DOE was interested in the device for several reasons. While saving the lives of children is of foremost importance, the possibility of purifying water without polluting the environment is also a critical issue. By using ultraviolet light, powered by only 40 watts of electricity, instead of the more common method of boiling, which would require the daily burning of two or three tons of firewood to treat an equivalent amount of water, each UV Waterworks unit has the potential to prevent a ton of carbon dioxide per day from being released into the air.
The donation ceremony was followed by "Innovative Lives," the fourteenth in a series of programs in which the Lemelson Center brings middle-school students together with inventors to stimulate young people's creativity and their interest in science and invention. Gadgil met at the Museum with students from Jefferson Junior High School of Washington, D.C., and from Mary of Nazareth School and Nicholas Orem Middle School, both in Maryland. In connection with their visit, the students had been learning about municipal waterworks. Gadgil showed them the UV Waterworks unit and explained the process of its invention; then he accompanied them to the Museum's Hands On Science Center, where the students had a chance to experiment with water purification methods.
Gadgil told the students that as a child growing up in Bombay, India, he had a tremendous curiosity about how things worked. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a scientist, always seeking to solve new problems. He obtained a degree in physics from the University of Bombay, but he found theoretical physics too abstract; he wanted to do science that would have an impact on the real world in his own lifetime. He went on to get a master's degree in applied physics from the Indian Institute of Technology and then, in 1979, a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley .
After graduating, he was employed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researching problems of solar energy applications, energy efficiency, and indoor air pollution. While he enjoyed his work and was grateful for his training in the United States, where he learned the disciplined questioning and critical attitude that is essential to scientific inquiry, he wanted to apply his knowledge to problems in India. He returned to India and worked there from 1983 to 1988, but frustrated by the bureaucracy and petty politics he encountered in practicing science, he returned to Lawrence Berkeley, where he is now Senior Staff Scientist in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division.
One of the problems that concerned him in India was water contamination. When Gadgil was a child, five of his cousins died in infancy from diarrhea caused by water-borne organisms. Although he did not understand the implications of their deaths at the time, as an adult and a scientist he realized how heartbreaking and preventable those deaths were. In the back of his mind, even as he worked on other environmental issues, was the idea of finding a solution to this problem that so greatly affects India and other developing countries.
Although Bombay has a municipal water system and introduced chlorination early in this century, a large part of India's population still relies on open wells, rivers, or lakes for their water supply. The task of hauling water for daily use falls on women and children, who often carry water up to a mile from the nearest source. Women and children are also responsible for gathering firewood for cooking, a task that takes several hours a day and consumes much of their energy. It is not feasible for them to gather enough wood to boil their drinking water, and chemical disinfection is cumbersome and often impractical in communities without a water system. Even in cities like Bombay, where water is municipally treated and piped to homes, contamination frequently occurs.
It was a violent outbreak of cholera in 1993 that catalyzed Gadgil's determination to deal with the problem. A mutant strain of cholera had suddenly emerged in India and was resistant to existing vaccines. First detected in Bengal, it quickly spread. In the month of May, this disease killed two thousand people in the state of Bihar alone. The epidemic soon reached the nearby countries of Bangladesh and Thailand.
Gadgil knew that of the three methods of water disinfection--boiling, chlorination, and exposure to a special range of UV light (which damages the DNA of viruses and bacteria so that they cannot reproduce)--only the third had potential for serving the very poor populations most affected by water contamination. He sent literature on UV disinfection to his colleagues in India, urging them to explore its practical application. When his colleagues protested that they did not have the time or funding to do so, he decided to take on the project himself, knowing that it would require working on weekends and evenings with whatever resources he could pull together.
With the assistance of a graduate student and the support of colleagues who lent him laboratory space and equipment, Gadgil began experimenting with available parts and materials. All existing UV water purifiers required pressurized water. To serve the poorest populations, his device would have to operate with unpressurized, hand-pumped or hand-poured water. To function in poor and rural areas, it would have to reliable, rugged, easy to maintain, and above all, cheap to purchase and use. No matter how effective the technology, it would be worthless if it did not fit easily into the social patterns and economic realities of subsistence-level communities.
Eventually Gadgil and his team obtained seed money from Federal and private sources and constructed a prototype. It met their goals of efficiency and low cost: it could disinfect eight gallons of water a minute for only two cents per ton. But made of stainless steel, it was large, heavy, and expensive. When they field tested it in a village in India (using a car battery as a power source, since the town did not have electricity), the villagers told them it was too efficient: it purified water in greater quantities and at a much faster rate than they could supply or use, and it was too big, bulky, and expensive.
So the unit was redesigned. Compact in size (28" x 15" x 11") and weighing only fifteen pounds, the new model has no moving parts. It can disinfect four gallons of water a minute, enough to provide safe drinking water for up to 1,500 people, at a cost of only four cents a ton. It requires very little maintenance--just cleaning the water pan every few months and changing the UV lamp once a year. It uses less electricity than a table lamp and can be powered by a car battery, bicycle generator, wind, or even solar cells. The retail cost per unit is about $600.
This new model has been tested in India, the Phillipines, and Mexico and is currently being field tested at an orphanage near Durban, South Africa. With proper maintenance, it eliminates nearly 100 percent of pathogens from even highly polluted water.
Once the unit was developed, a number of companies expressed interest in manufacturing it. It was licensed to Waterhealth International, Inc. in Napa, California, and is now on the market. UV Waterworks has the potential to supply safe drinking water to communities around the world, not only in poor and developing regions, but anywhere that water treatment systems are not functioning, such as in the case of floods or other disasters. It has already received two awards: Discover Magazine's 1996 Award for Technological Innovation (Environmental Category), and Popular Science Magazine's "Best of What's New" 1996 Award.
Having found a solution to the problem he had set himself, Gadgil is now working on other environmental projects. In 1998, he will collaborate with UNICEF engineers in integrating the water disinfecting unit with a hand pump, all solar powered, so that people will not have to use water from open sources. He is also providing technical advice to India's largest bank concerning development loans to industries for better environmental management. His other projects deal with the effect of indoor air pollution on telecommunications equipment; energy efficiency in semiconductor high technology manufacturing; and a low-environmental-impact energy plant for Manaus, Brazil. With his intelligence, commitment, and determination, Ashok Gadgil will no doubt continue to fulfill his aim of using science to have a positive impact on the real world.
All text and images © Smithsonian Institution. Updated 26 February 1999.


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Having an array of desserts to choose from for your guests is a really good alternative to the traditional wedding cake. Follow the suggestions at the post or use them as inspiration when coming up with your wedding desserts. What desserts are you serving on your wedding?

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Axioms for 2012
4) Getting Jimmy Carter involved in anything at all (see #3, above) will only make matters worse.
5) Getting the United Nations involved in almost anything (see everything on this list) will quite likely make matters worse — with the exception of the UN itself, which will almost certainly emerge with more of your money.
6) There are miracles in life.
7) But fortune favors those who do their homework. Especially in politics, it is folly to depend on miracles.
And whatever the fol-de-rol, wrangles. loss, sacrifices and genuine crises that lie ahead — as a great many surely do — it's worth celebrating life itself, which I think is the basic reason we raise a toast to the dawn of a New Year. Happy 2012!
32 Comments, 14 Threads
1. Aqua
Thank you. And Happy 2012 to you too!December 31, 2011 - 8:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Dianna
Excellently said, and I will celebrate life, too.December 31, 2011 - 8:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
3. Victor
8) The price of oil
–as it determines everything in the economy in the US and the rest of the oil dependent world.
If we attack Iran then the price of oil will go up to $ 300 + from the current
$ 100 per barrel.
That would destroy all western economies.December 31, 2011 - 10:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
A. Johnson
I call bullsh!t on that one Vic.
Get a life in 2012.January 1, 2012 - 7:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Victor, if the Iranians successfully close the straits of Hormuz what will the price of oil rise to? How will that affect world economies, not just those in the "West?" There are no good options when it comes to Iran. Have no fear Obama, as usual, will back down. You know, soft power, while leading from the bunker! Incidentally, the Western governments are doing a more than adequate job of destroying their collective and respective economies.January 1, 2012 - 7:35 am Link to this Comment | Reply
congrats Vic. Wrong, wrong and wrong.
In 2012, try looking at things through a lens other than your myopic ideological one.
If Iran was attacked, the price of oil would certainly go up for a while, just as it does when there is ANY significant world event. And the price of oil hardly controls "everything". And the US has a lot more oil in reserve than Iran has. Maybe if Iranian oil wasn't available, libwits and other nuts would come to their senses about US energy policy.January 1, 2012 - 8:11 am Link to this Comment | Reply
If Iran managed to sink one or two supertankers in the Persian Gulf, the oil companies would stop sending supertankers through there until hostilities had been concluded. Until then, Middle Eastern oil would be essentially off the market.
Then watch the price of oil soar.
Attacking supertankers would be Iran's best counter to U.S. military action.January 1, 2012 - 2:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. tanstaafl
It is frustrating to hear the same people who agree with your point #1 (the federal government doesn't create jobs) turn around and criticize that government (or its putative leader) for not creating jobs.
The federal bureaucracy has, reportedly, expanded some 20% under Obama, so those are "jobs", eh wot ? I think it was Obama who self-righteously speechified a few months back as to how we gotta respect all those newly created bureaucratic "jobs", as he self-righteously proclaimed as to how working in the federal gov't should be more highly respected !
Shirley Sherrod of dept. of agriculture infamy advised people to seek jobs in the federal bureaucracy, lifelong security, baby.
A confederacy of dunces comes to mind, ok, a federacy of fools.January 1, 2012 - 6:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply
When an administration takes on the responsibility to produce private sector jobs it is legitimate to criticize that administration for its lack of production. It is also legitimate to point out that administrations' lack of understanding of the real world. Failure to understand the reason for failure leads to repeating that same mistake!January 1, 2012 - 7:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Every government job is a huge drain on the economy, and takes multiple productive jobs to support. Creating a government jobs is one of the worst things the country can do.
The exceptions are public security, protection and defense jobs, and to some extent, jobs in k12 education (which would be much more effective if they were in the private sector).January 1, 2012 - 8:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
proreason: I think there are a few things beyond defense and security where government plays an important role. For one, I don't see how private sector schools can replace a public education system in terms of educating the populace. Although private schools may generally be better than public schools, our nation can't afford to forsake the education of those who can't afford private schooling. Also, the government can play a useful role in creating infrastructure – another service that we can't count on the private sector to provide in situations where it doesn't profit, but a service to which all citizens deserve access.
I think both of these government services deserve your attention, because in both cases the government jobs in question surely can't be called a pure drain on the economy. They may involve the forced transfer of assets from taxpayers to the salaries of government workers. But investing in our workforce and our infrastructure will undoubtedly benefit the economy. You might argue that those benefits won't outweigh their cost in taxes, but you'd be hard pressed to prove that they don't exist. Not only that, but those on government payroll spend their salaries on goods and services just like the rest of us; clearly it's hyperbole to say they're nothing but a drain on the economy. The difficult question to answer is always whether the benefit outweighs the cost.January 5, 2012 - 10:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Larry J
It takes the full taxes of many taxpayers to pay the salary and benefits of a single government employee. While not all government employees are useless, IMO way too many of them are and represent a massive drain on the economy.
Government can't be a net producer of private sector jobs. Sure, it can use "stimulus" to give money to politically connected cronies and benefit them but the net result is the loss of jobs elsewhere. The government taxes money from the private sector, skims off a huge percentage for "overhead" and returns a bit of the money. For that, we're supposed to be grateful. If you gave me $100 and I gave you $50 in return, odds are you wouldn't be grateful. Neither would I if the roles were reverses.
The best thing government can do to stimulate private sector job growth is to reduce the tax and regulatory burden on businesses. In other words, get off of everyone's back. This, of course, they will not do because it weakens their power over us.January 1, 2012 - 9:38 am Link to this Comment | Reply
"It takes the full taxes of many taxpayers to pay the salary and benefits of a single government employee."
Not right now. Right now the money to hire employees and finance new government projects is being created out of thin air, by the Federal Reserve.
Obama signed his $780 billion stimulus package into law without abrogating the Bush tax cuts. So taxes didn't go up; the money for the stimulus package is being printed.January 1, 2012 - 2:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Tom T
It's like this. If a mobster agrees not to kill you, it doesn't mean he gives you life. Likewise, asking the government to stop job-killing policies is not the same as asking the government to create jobs.January 1, 2012 - 6:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. butpygmies
8. Whatever happens in the Mid-East, Israel will be blamed.
9. Whichever Muslem leaders do not call for genocide in English will be labeled "moderate" by our media and perhaps even by our own government.January 1, 2012 - 7:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Tex Taylor
I just love this lady at the Wall Street Journal. It was always like the anticipation of a great VDH PJ article on Friday. Must read. You make the trip over to see if they posted anything.
There are sane voices in the media. Just not enough of them.January 1, 2012 - 8:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
7. jidcat
People will continue to pursue the best interests of themselves, their nuclear families, their extended families and friends, and their immediate communities, in that order. This includes the politicians and bureaucrats of the Progressive or Socialist state. No amount or indoctrination or re-education will change this immutable fact of human nature. Nonetheless, the Progressive/Socialists will continue to search for the mix of policy and educational prescriptions that will convince a sufficient number of citizens to work exclusively for the benefit of those who don't, and to whom they have no natural relation, all the while, of course, collecting from the public trough an income and a prestige that is the appropriate measure for men and women of unbounded compassion and social commitment.
Socialists/Progressives will continue to push the idea of Equality enforced by an all-powerful state administered, in the large, by people who have (1) never conceived of, established, and successfully run even a minor enterprise at their own financial risk; (2) who could not have conceived of, invented, manufactured or even repaired any of the major technological innovations that have improved modern life; (3) who have not the slightest idea of the major physical, mental and psychological needs of those they govern, nor of the wide variation in these, nor any idea how the policy prescriptions they prescribe will affect even the majority, much less all, of these needs in a positive manner; (4) and who imagine that people can be leveled by leveling their wealth and income, irrespective of the other human assets, such as natural intelligence, physical stature and abilities, attractiveness to the opposite sex, temperament, etc. To the Progressive, the short, unathletic, intellectually untalented, ugly man in a wheelchair is the equal to the tall, dark, intelligent, sociable and handsome man; and the dumpy, unfortunate-looking, unscholarly, awkward woman is the equal of the curvaceous, well educated and loquacious beauty, because their incomes and wealths are equal. They make no provision for those with an unfortunate physical, intellectual or emotional inheritance to improve their stature through industry, prudence, thrift, or even luck in a lottery.
I await the thundering insight that the natural inequalities of man can be remedied, not by leveling wealth and income, but by a state-enforced, tilted redistribution of larger wealths and incomes to those less endowed by nature. Anyone for a Department of Natural Endowment Assessment and Redistribution?January 1, 2012 - 8:53 am Link to this Comment | Reply
"Anyone for a Department of Natural Endowment Assessment and Redistribution?"
They'd have it, by George, if they thought they could get away with it.January 1, 2012 - 10:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply
The don't believe it themselves.
It's just a way to acquire power. It's the con to fool the rubes.
But many of the marks believe it, because it's in their self-interest to buy into the con. They may even know it's a con, but they're gambling that the con will continue. The allure of the con is overwhelming for many, to the point that they are willing to suspend believe and assume the con artists can walk on water forever.January 1, 2012 - 3:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. cfbleachers
Happy New Year, Claudia.
Today marks the start of the race to see if we can beat the Mayan Calendar.
The UN, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran…certainly will impact how the race is run.
Our present group with their hands on the reins want to negotiate with the Taliban, by using a murder-plotting jihadist. In other words, "negotiating" is the method of choice for those who wish to kill us and Israel,…but SUING the state of Arizona is a better way to deal with one of our own states.
It is important to this crew to shut down our space program and make Muslims feel good about themselves…but making Evangelical Christians and Jews feel that they are "the enemy" is the better tactic. Clearly at the UN, beating on Israel is a bloodsport of Olympic status.
Murdereres who shoot people at Ft Hood and elsewhere are "police matters"…Tea Partiers who want small government are "terrorists".
If it was not clear in 2008 who were the "enemies" of this administration, there certainly are pretty clear signs today.
All the "outreach", all the "negotiations", all the "reaching out" and "reset" buttons and deep bows…seem to not go to Americans or our allies. Those that want to kill us, wipe Israel off the map…don't get called names, nor are they left to dine alone.
The ones who get called names, for whom there is never outreach, negotiation, or 'reset"…are…us.January 1, 2012 - 9:40 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Our present group with their hands on the reins want to negotiate with the Taliban, by using a murder-plotting jihadist.
Reportedly, this creep.January 1, 2012 - 1:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8) The nihilist will keep forgetting Whom they should thank for their own existence.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !January 1, 2012 - 11:18 am Link to this Comment | Reply
The "cool" guy with the sun glasses it's there because I did not remember to put a space between the
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Succinct, witty and true. I especially thank you for using the correct word for these grown-up brats.January 2, 2012 - 6:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply
10. sagebrush
I have been wishing friends NEW YEAR. Happiness is up to you, more so now than ever.January 1, 2012 - 2:40 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. egoist
Unfortunately, I expect this to be as true at the start of '13 as at the start of '12: we've tried everything else, we might as well try freedom.January 1, 2012 - 3:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. berlet98
2011 Sucked, 2012 Could Be Even Worse
On a personal, family level, 2011 was one of the worst years of our lives, but that's our problem.
On national and world levels, 2011 sucked just as much with the added downer that, unlike us, 2012 holds the prospect of being even worse for the United States and the planet.
Of course, good things happened last year; they always do.
Navy Team 6 dispatching Usama bin laden was the highlight, an economy showing meager signs of improvement was less noteworthy but nevertheless a good thing, GOP candidates having the nerve to debate incessantly and make their opinions known to the electorate was a refreshing novelty, the stock market did fairly well, the Iraq War temporarily ended, and the number of abortions declined.
As is too often the case, the bad outweighed the good both at home and throughout the world in 2011.
Domestically, MSNBC and Bill Maher are still regurgitating, the economy is still wallowing in the doldrums, poverty is increasing as planned by the administration, our borders are farcical, and the nation suffered through a series of unprecedented natural catastrophes as well as social upheaval with 1960′s precedents in the persons of the Occupiers.
However, although Mother Natures's onslaughts are inevitable and unavoidable, we are free to pull the plug on MSNBC and Maher, the economy will recover, the poor really aren't really all that bad off, various states are attempting to perform the federal job of stemming illegal immigration, and the Occupiers are more and more recognized for the anarchists they are.
As opposed to those 2011 negatives with silver linings, above all else in the negative category is the fact Barack Hussein Obama still reigns as America's Chief Executive.
Overseas, cataclysmic natural, economic, and political events were far worse than our own. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=11968.)January 1, 2012 - 3:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Hanoi Paris Hilton
Yo, Tanstaafl…
Your reference to the lovely Ms. Shirley Sherrod might be a little too obscure even for PJ media. In one of the truly egregious intentional media failures since the Obamazoids came into power, the "Pigford" settllement got about zero MSM covereage (nearly two $2 billon in reparations to "black farmers" who s'pozedly got screwed by the raciss USDA). Definitely worth delving deep into that stinking mess, which big flat rock was prised up by Andrew Breitbart, whom for his troubles is deepi nto defending himself from litigation by whoever's punching Ms. Sherrod's ticket. For Breitbart's astonishing in-depth coverage, see:
Read it and weep.January 2, 2012 - 8:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply
I have read some about it, and wept.
Where a lot of the "black farmers" receiving "reparations" have never even farmed, or where growing tomatoes in the backyard served to qualify you as the beleaguered farmer, deserving of cash recompense.
Some of the windfall recipients themselves were scratching their heads, wondering exactly why they got paid.
Yet another appalling government boondoggle.January 3, 2012 - 8:13 am Link to this Comment | Reply
14. Albert
All this blather about governments not being useful in creating jobs, and that such efforts erode 'freedom', should be given some context with an example like Finland. You probably don't know that today Finland consistently leads in almost every international indicator for social, economic and environmental innovation, productivity and quality of life, including the lowest level of government corruption. Their system steadily produces brilliant software developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, designers, managers, musicians, orchestra leaders, hockey goalies, etc. They have done this despite suffering a nasty series of geopolitical shocks in the 20th century comparable to the reunification of Germany.
Nokia, Kone and other Finnish companies are thriving in the international marketplace. It's forests are only .1 per cent of the world's forests yet Finland supplies much of the equipment for forest-based industries around the world, including the IP for 90 per cent of Canada's forest equipment. And why? Because they pay high taxes, and trust their governments, given the successes to which those governments have contributed.January 3, 2012 - 8:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Some notes on Finland's economy from Wikipedia:
"State and municipal politicians have struggled to cut their consumption, which is very high at 51.7% of GDP compared to 56.6% in Sweden, 46.9 in Germany, 39.3 in Canada, and 33.5% in Ireland.[28] Much of the taxes are spent on public sector employees, many of which are jobs-for-life and amount to 124,000 state employees and 430,000 municipal employees.[13] That is 113 per 1000 residents (over a quarter of workforce) compared to 74 in the US, 70 in Germany, and 42 in Japan (8% of workforce). . .The state has a programme where the number of jobs decreases by attrition: for two retirees, only one new employee is hired. . .Tax cuts have been in every post-depression government's agenda and the overall tax burden is now around 43% of GDP compared to 51.1% in Sweden, 34.7% in Germany, 33.5% in Canada, and 30.5% in Ireland. . ."
Not quite the high tax rate paradise you describe, Albert!January 5, 2012 - 12:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Oregonian, you neglected to include the following Wikipedia comment from your reaction to my comment. Even the part you quoted seems to be a further compliment to how Finland is managing a difficult situation. Because they are paying high taxes is WHY they have, as Wikipedia notes, 'one of the most peaceful, competitive, and livable countries'. And I didn't even get into the issue, again quoted in Wikipedia, about how that they have the best educational system in the world.
"Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialisation, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. Thereafter, economic development was rapid. Finland built an extensive welfare state and balanced between the East and the West in global economics and politics. With the best educational system in Europe,[9][10] Finland has recently ranked as one of the world's most peaceful, competitive and livable countries."January 6, 2012 - 7:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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Walking Tour Map in pdf Format
1. Fire Station # 1223 North MainDesigned by architect Hal Wheelock. Built in 1928 by J.E. Dunn, contractor. This city building was renovated for use as a Ticket Center and offices for the Nation Park Service in 1983-84.
2. 1859 Jail and Marshal's Home 217 North MainOpen for tours by the Jackson County Historical Society. The two-story brick house on the street was home for the Marshal and the two-story stone jail is attached to the rear of the house. The early 20th century two-story brick addition is now used for offices and museum exhibit space and the original kitchen is the gift shop.
3. Clinton Drugstore Building100 West MapleConstructed by G.W. Clinton as a commercial block after fire destroyed the earlier building in 1906. Clinton Drugstore relocated into the corner building after the fire.
4. Jackson County Courthouse112 West LexingtonThe 1932-33 renovation and expansion plans bear the name of Harry S Truman as presiding judge. This building incorporated parts of all preceding brick courthouses on this site.
5. Truman Barber Shop417 West Maple (Private)The original shop was located at 214 North Main Street. This brick shop addition to the Miller Home was made about 1965, and their shop moved here. George was Harry's barber, and Doris was Bess's hairdresser.
6. Memorial Building 416 West MapleBuilt as the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in 1926, with Alonzo H. Gentry as architect and M.T. Colgan as builder. This building served as a community center until it closed in 1996. Harry Truman, a World War I veteran, oversaw its dedication on July 4, 1926. Complete restoration and rehabilitation was completed in 2002 so residents could use the facilities for meetings, dances, performances, and athletic events.
7. First Presbyterian Church100 North Pleasant Designed by the firm of Nier, Hogg, and Byram and built by local contractors Christian Yetter and J.W. Adams in 1888. Features three elaborate rose windows in gable ends. The education wing was added in 1924.
8. Bundschu House 601 West Maple (Private)Built for Anton J. Bundschu around 1890 and remodeled by the family after 1907 to update the home and make it less Victorian. The Bundschu Store was built by this family on the east side of the square in 1928.
9. Ginkgo Tree 611 West MapleA registered historic tree first marked by the Independence Garden Club in 1931. Truman was fond of this old tree and often told it that it was doing a good job on his walks.
10. Joseph T. Noland House216 North DelawareA Queen Anne Cottage constructed over a 25-year period between 1858 and 1880. It was the home for Anthony Slack from 1865 until he built a large Queen Anne house on the ground to the north. In 1900 the Noland family rented the house and then bought it in 1908. It remained in the family name until sale to the National Park Service in 1986.
11. Truman Home 219 North DelawareBuilt in several stages. George Potterfield Gates purchased this property with a small one-story house in 1867 and later built a two-story addition. By 1886, the large Queen Anne front addition had been constructed by the Gates. His daughter, Margaret Gates married David Wallace in 1883. Their daughter, Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace married Harry S Truman in 1919. This house remained the Truman's home until Bess's death in 1982.
12. Leonard/Choplin House 304 North DelawareBuilt as a small brick two-room house in 1853. The Italianate two-story brick front was added in 1858. Home to a number of families prior to 1921, it was occupied by the Choplin family for more than 70 years. It was damaged in 1994 when the front wall collapsed because of foundation drainage problems and was successfully rehabilitated through community efforts.
13. Buchanan House 310 North Delaware (Private)Spanish Colonial Revival House built in 1926 as a duplex for Mrs. Ella W. Buchanan and her daughter and son-and-law, Frances and Ora C. Myers. Purchased by P.D. and Pearle Bush in 1945 who later deeded it to their twin daughters Virginia and Elizabeth Bush. Elizabeth married Carl H. Sapper Jr. in 1955. They lived there until the property sold in 1992 to LaVonne E. Moore.
14. Compton House 318 North DelawareBuilt by architect Robert L. McBride in 1913 and occupied by the Sollars family in the 1910s; the Dunn family in the 1920s and 1930s, Polly Compton in the 1960s and 1970s. A good example of Craftsman/Prairie style architecture.
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16. Kelly/Etzenhouser House 426 North Delaware (Private)The Kelly family moved into this 1910 home built for the Baldwin family. Charles Kelly was a Jackson County deputy sheriff for several years. It is a four square craftsman style home that has a hipped roof with bellcast eaves.
17. Sawyer/Jennings House 510 North Delaware (Private)Built in 1887 as designed by T. B. Smith for the Aaron Sawyer family. Aaron's son, Lock H. Sawyer, sold the house to the Frank Jennings family in the early 1920s. It was honored by the Jackson County Historical Society in 1976 for their preservation efforts. Rehabilitated in 1995, it is one of the few brick Queen Anne houses remaining in Independence.
18. Bostian House 602 North Delaware (Private)An 1887 frame Queen Anne that was built by W.T. Cooper and was home to Maria J. Fletcher, a widow who took in boarder. The house was sold to the Bostonian Family in 1905.
19. Bess Truman Home Site610 North Delaware (Private)This stately old Burr Oak once stood in the front yard of the Wallace Home before that house was replaced by the present building in 1922. "Bess" Wallace and her parents lived on this site form 1887 to 1903. Bess and her mother moved into the Gates/Wallace House at 219 N. Delaware that year.
20. Thice/Twachman House 618 North Delaware (Private)This English Cottage house was built before 1916 for the McDavitt family who operated a drug company on the Courthouse Square. The Thice family, both practicing lawyers, lived here for several years.
21. Bullane/Choplin House702 North Delaware (Private)A two-story Queen Anne house dating from 1887. Features many stained glass windows, a corner tower, a bay window and a wrap-around porch. Sited on a double corner lot.
22. The "Neck" Delaware & Bess Truman PkwyRefers to the African-American neighborhood that once occupied this valley. It was platted as the Hendrickson Addition, Davis Place and the Atkinson Addition between 1858 and 1888 with small narrow lots that provided space for the domestic help for middle class families of Delaware Street. McCoy Park and Bess Truman Parkway were created after the Truman Library was located to the north.
23. Truman Presidential Musuem & Library US 24 Hwy and North DelawareDesigned by Gentry, Voscam, Neild and Somdal of Louisiana. Henry J. Massman and Slavatore Patti companies built it in 1956-57. In 1967 a southern wing for offices was added and the courtyard was enclosed in 1972. A major renovation and expansion was completed in 2001.
24. Stewart House 635 North Delaware (Private)A 1937 frame house that was home to the Stewarts for several decades. Bryon A. Stewart was co-owner of the Stewart Electric Company and an attorney with partner John W. Clements.
25. Sea/Hare House 633 North Delaware (Private)1937 Tudor Revival house built for Hiram and Julie Sea. He was a lawyer who worked as manager of the John Sea Abstract Company. The George M. Hare family purchased this house in 1951. It was sold out of the Hare family in 2001.
26. Mize Peters House 631 North Delaware (Private)Built ca. 1905 and home to several families before Mize R. Peters lived here from 1924 to the early 1950s. He ran a drug store on the Courthouse Square.
27. Fullerton House 627 North Delaware (Private)Frame home for the Abraham Myers family when firs The Boston archi tectural firm of Sturgis and Brigham are credited with the design of the early Gothic Revival Church. Local contractors William M. Randell did the brick work, P. Morgan did the foundation, and J.W. Adams was the carpenter. Harry and Bess were married here on June 28, 1919; Margaret Truman married Clifton Daniel on April 21, 1956; and Mrs. Truman's funeral was held here in 1982.
41. Frank Wallace House 601 West Truman Road (Not open to the Public)Bungalow built on what had been part of a pasture and garden plot for the Gates/Wallace house. Frank and Natalie Wallace lived here until 1960. This and the adjoining home of his brother have always been considered part if the Wallace/Truman family complex. It is now part of the Truman National Historic Site.
42. George Wallace House 605 West Truman (Not open to the public)Bungalow built for George and Mary Frances (May) Wallace before their marriage in 1916. He worked for the Jackson County Highway Department for 27 years. The side yard of this house was once also part of the Gates/Wallace house grounds. It is now part of the Truman National Historic Site.
43. Truman Boyhood Home 909 West Waldo (Private)1886 Queen Anne home to young Harry Truman for six years. The area around this house changed from rural to urban after the Truman family left in 1902. The house was changed with the addition made to the east end and the removal of the wrap around porch. What had been garden and carriage house areas are now other home sites.
44. Harpie Club 101 North Main (Upper floors private)Independence Harmonicon Society met on the upper floors of this building. The building was remodeled and enlarged around 1921 for the Farmers and Merchants Bank on the first floor. After the bank closed, the building housed a drug store, a confectionary store, and a loan company at street level. Professional offices were located on the upper floors.


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Bull, a pioneer in software development factories/forges, is launching Virtual Shore, a whole new mode of software development that combines the flexibility of collaborative approaches, the power of software development factories and all the advantages of Open Source.
This morning event which kicks off with an opening session exploring the adoption of Open Source in business functions, chaired by American industry analysts Forrester will be a great opportunity to find out more about the advantages that collaborative development can offer and the new horizons opened up by Virtual Shore, through expert presentations and business case studies.
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The Internet is at once the point of convergence and the driving force behind most of the changes and innovations in the digital world. DigiWorld Summit will address these various issues, with particular focus on the views of the industrys leading players, while providing European and international perspective with South Korea as this years Guest Country.
High-level specialty sessions and plenary sessions will be devoted to a cross-sector and forward-looking perspective. Moreover, they will take advantage from the sharp analysis provided by IDATE experts.
Bull, Integrator, Industrial and Innovator, establishes himself as a key player in the Telecom & Media market and is involved in this major event.
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InfoSecurity Europe is among Europe's leading Information Security events, addressing today's strategic and technical issues in an unrivalled education program and showcasing the most diverse range of new and innovative products and services from the top security solution and services suppliers.
Bull will launch its 7th initiative dedicated to IT security at this industry show, highlighting its full range of security solutions: globull, Evidians IAM products and security services.
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This day led by experts from Bull is a unique opportunity to improve your knowledge of the latest storage and virtualisation solutions.
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This seminar organized by Bull and Intel at Clarion Congress Hotel Prague will focus on virtualization techniques. NetApp and VMware are both partners of the event.
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Against a background of globalization, and with the growing threats from terrorism, fraud and data theft, security now has to be seen as a key component of competitiveness and differentiation, rather than as a limitation and additional expense for the enterprise. A number of recent failures in security systems highlighted by the media have shown just how important the issue of security is to the survival of the enterprise, and to its development.
What aspects of security are essential to a full appreciation of the problem? What are the functions and the limits of enterprise security? What respective roles do the State and individual businesses play when it comes to fulfilling societys need for a certain level of security? What are the issues that go hand-in-hand with the existence of an enterprise security policy? Does the security policy applied by the enterprise play a financial or social role? What will be the outcome if enterprises continue to underestimate the importance of these questions? Do decision makers appreciate the full significance of this challenge?
In an attempt to answer these questions, the enterprise security directors club CDSE (Club des Dirigeants de la Sécurité d'Entreprise) seminar will be held on 26 November from 9am-5pm, in the AGF auditorium (87 Rue Richelieu, Paris I) with the participation of senior managers representing AREVA, Bull, EADS, GDF SUEZ and Vigeo.
Following an opening address by François Roussely, the President of the CDSE, and Anne-Marie Idrac, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Didier Lamouche, Chairman and CEO of Bull, will speak on: Security: a new challenge for competitiveness.
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Its becoming a major concern for IT Directors and CIOs: How to take advantage of the latest technologies to meet ever more demanding service level requirements?
With the increasing globalization of the economy, and the rise of the Internet and mobile computing technologies, doing business is now a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week activity. And that mean, for most organizations, that any kind of service interruption is not longer acceptable.
Against this backdrop, information systems are a major business asset. IT Directors and CIOs have to ensure continous operations and focus their actions towards preventive measures, in line with the needs of different business functions. The increasing power of IT (in terms of processing power, virtualization, storage networks...) opens up new opportunities to respond to these demands for service continuity. A whole new vision of the Data Center is taking shape, based on simplification, industry standards, flexibility and cost optimization.
Bull as a specialist in IT infrastructures that combine open systems and mainframes is driving forward that vision, capitalizing on its extensive experience built up as a result of its consulting and outsourcing activities.
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IT and businesses are in the midst of a fundamental revolution: the Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). At the crossroad of FLOSS, the first Open World Forum will provide an international place where community members, politicians, IT decision makers, software project managers and leading-edge researchers and academics can meet to strengthen collaboration, identify key trends and cross-fertilize ideas and initiatives. Through tens of sessions, activities, and events, the Open World Forum will bring among FLOSS's best keynote presentations, community events, and technical tracks, covering from high level business policies to deep technical insights.
Created by a pioneering group of communities and IT industry players, the Forum has already attracted the majority of the largest FLOSS communities and ITC companies from across three continents.
This brand new initiative, initiated by Bull and other major European and French players from the IT world, the Open World Forum will bring together most of the worlds leading technology and software players in Paris including AtosOrigin, Bull, CapGemini, IBM, HP, SAP, Siemens, Sun, Thales..., as well as the largest FLOSS communities (Apache, Eclipse, QualiPSo, Linux Foundation, OW2,...), major research organizations and competitiveness clusters (Cap Digital, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, INRIA, Fraunhofer FOKUS, South China University of Technology, System@tic, ...), the main European and French Open Source industry associations (ADULLACT/OSOR, AFUL, April, Silicon Sentier) and a widespread international network of SMEs from across four continents, with the active support of the European Commission, the Paris City Authorities, Ile-de-France regional council and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Bull will be part of the plenary session on Tuesday 2 December, with Jean-Pierre Barbéris, General Manager of Bull France.
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Each month, Bull offers an open invitation to its breakfast-time seminars, each focusing on a theme linked to implementing Open Source software. Led by experts, these morning sessions offer pragmatic solutions to IT managers seeking to integrate Open Source software into their information systems. Their objective: to bring true technical contents to IT managers, which are willing to expand the use of Open Source software and eager to benefit fully from it.
The experiment of big Open Source-based projects, its links with the Communities, its capacity to support many components together with a long practice of Open Source software acquired in its R&D centers, make Bull a major actor in the Open Source world.
Wednesday, December 17 - BPM, the cornerstone of SOA implementation. The importance of a methodological framework and key points of the approach. Bulls approach to Open Source.
From 9.00 to 11.00 at Centre Régus, Paris La Défense, Tour Ariane
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The Patient Who Receives No Visits
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I am assured that every nurse who has ever worked at the bedside has provided care for patients who never receive any visitors. Some of us are left wondering why this happens or how the situation evolved to be the way it is today.Im certain that every nurse who has ever worked at the bedside has provided care for the patient who never seems to receive any visitors.
In fact, the roles were reversed nearly five years ago when I was the patient laying in a bed on a womens medical/surgical unit at a community hospital in a large city. Even though my inpatient hospital stay was a swift overnight affair, I received no visitors. The facility was located almost forty miles from my home, so a friend dropped me off on the morning of my planned admission before she reported to work, and another friend picked me up at the time of my discharge after her workday had ended. In addition, I had no family members in the area. The vast majority of my relatives lived more than 1,400 miles away from me.
In spite of this, my overnight hospital stay was so short that I did not feel lonely. On top of it all, I was so sedated from the narcotic pain medications that infused into me every time I pressed the button on the patient-controlled analgesia pump.
Anyhow, some of us naturally wonder about the patient who receives no visitors. Many of these patients have adult children, siblings, and other people in their lives who reside in the same metro area based on the information provided on the face sheet. However, none of these individuals ever drop in or call to see how the patient is doing over the course of a lengthy stay at the facility. And when nursing staff or physicians desperately need to contact the next of kin, none of the people listed on the face sheet seem to answer their phones.
Some people jump to conclusions and will exclaim, How terrible! I would never leave a person alone in this world. Family is everything! It is true that some self-centered adult children are willingly estranged from a parent who provided nothing but love, warmth, support, and happy memories during their upbringings. These situations are truly heartbreaking.
In addition, other patients are modern-day recluses who actually prefer social isolation over interaction any day of the week. These people would rather have no one in their lives.
However, we do not know the whole story. Nurses have witnessed family dynamics that are edgy or downright dysfunctional. Rather than remain in a situation that produces so much unhappiness and discord, some relatives cut themselves off from the person altogether as a way of emotional self-preservation. Dysfunctional family units are more common than many people realize.
Some would say, I would hope people show a little more respect for their sick family member than that! But for many adult children, it is hard to be around the seemingly pleasant male patient who sexually abused them throughout their childhood and adolescence. It is almost impossible for adult grandchildren to visit the sweet elderly female patient who disciplined them as children by burning them with lit cigarettes and beating them with horsewhips. The smiling patient in the hospital bed is the same woman who, many years ago, disowned her sister for marrying someone of another race and rejected her brother for revealing he is gay.
To come to the point, I try to refrain from criticizing the relatives who never visit, and I also try to avoid condemning patients, no matter how difficult or demanding they might be. I am cognizant that I might open emotional wounds if the wrong words come out of my mouth. Dysfunctional families are a familiar part of our societal landscape. If an insensitive nurse lectures about the importance of family, the chances are high that some people within an earshot have dealt with incest, beatings, addicted relatives, emotional abuse, and other unpleasant circumstances within their family units. For them, breaking free took courage.Last edit by Joe V on Mar 11, '13
About TheCommuter, ASN, RN
TheCommuter is a moderator of allnurses.com and has varied workplace experiences upon which to draw for her articles. She was an LPN/LVN for four years prior to becoming a registered nurse.
TheCommuter has '9' year(s) of experience and specializes in 'acute rehab, long term care, and psych'. From 'Fort Worth, Texas, USA'; 33 Years Old; Joined Feb '05; Posts: 28,519; Likes: 41,996. You can follow TheCommuter on My Website10Mar 11, '13 by TheCommuter, ASN, RN Senior ModeratorQuote from VickyRNYou are right on target as usual, VickyRN.Even sadder are the pediatric patients who receive no visitors. We try to make up for this on the pediatric floor by assigning students to be with these patients.
I had adult patients in mind when I wrote my piece. However, I do not see what a child could have ever done to deserve no visits, even if the child is institutionalized, has severe developmental disabilities or was given away by the birth family.2Mar 11, '13 by amygarsideThanks for this enlightening article. It made me wonder why is it that some patients receive visitors more than others. I guess each one has their own back story that we will never know.2Mar 11, '13 by anotheroneQuote from VickyRNI was assigned to a few of these peds pts as a student. Some had deceased parents or parents in prision or where abouts unknown. etc. Everyone has their own story . I do not find anything suprising, nor do i judge people for not visiting. Some people choose to isolate themselves and have a small circle . Some curiosity to backstories. Have had pts for months with no visitors or even contact people listed. Many pts have listed "none" or "no one" as their in case of emergency contact. there have been plenty of media stories of people found dead in their homes who had been dead for years!!!!!! Actually, I am suprised when some have so many visitors for short stays!!!Even sadder are the pediatric patients who receive no visitors. We try to make up for this on the pediatric floor by assigning students to be with these patients.15Mar 11, '13 by uRNmywayAnd then you have the other side of the coin. Family members who ignore their parents while they are home, then all of a sudden when an end seems imminent, they come around and try to ingratiate themselves back into the will...or try to take them home so they can collect retirement, SSI, wtv, when parents are too demented to let on about elder abuse...Just as sad.8Mar 11, '13 by imintroubleI'm almost glad that some nurses pass judgement on families that do not visit. It indicates to me that they don't have a clue, what kind of horrors can occur behind the closed door of the family home. They must have had a perfectly normal loving home life. They didn't experience fear, pain, shame, and then think that was normal.
Good for them. I simply tell them, when they finish the "I can't believe nobody visits" rant, you don't know what went on during the first 50 yrs of this persons life.10Mar 11, '13 by BrandonLPNQuote from imintroubleI couldn't agree more. I work in LTC and some of my residents never receive visitors.I'm almost glad that some nurses pass judgement on families that do not visit. It indicates to me that they don't have a clue, what kind of horrors can occur behind the closed door of the family home. They must have had a perfectly normal loving home life. They didn't experience fear, pain, shame, and then think that was normal.
Good for them. I simply tell them, when they finish the "I can't believe nobody visits" rant, you don't know what went on during the first 50 yrs of this persons life.
But we don't know how these residents treated their children. Maybe they were alcoholics or abusive or deadbeats. Maybe they don't deserve a visit from their kids.and for some residents, if they treated their families as bad as they treat the staff, well, I don't blame the family one bit.5Mar 11, '13 by PoochiewoochieIn my case it's just me and my Dad. I don't talk to the rest of my family because all they do is talk about the past and how horrible they had it growing up(one is still harping on the fact that my parents couldn't afford a nicer place than the VFW for her wedding reception when they had 4 other kids to worry about who were underage)
To be quite honest I really don't enjoy the company of others. I have and always will be a loner. I like the freedom of going somewhere and being able to leave when I want to and not have to wait around until the person I came with decides to leave. So when my Dad passes I will be one of those patients that puts none when listing next of kin or who to contact in an emergency. But don't worry, I won't be lonely if I have to stay in the hospital.
Another plus is that I don't have to spend a lot of money each month for a cell phone contract because I am such a social butterfly with tons of contacts.


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Who needs furniture when you can have a basketball court? Not Josh (Tom Hanks), the 12-year-old boy with a five-figure income. His Manhattan loft, with its 50-foot-high ceilings, hardwood floors, and enormous toy collection, is every kid's dream home—and probably most bachelors'.


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