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News outlets and social media went berserk over the news, calling the cupcake trend officially "dead." Fortunately, within the week, investors had stepped in to revive the cupcake and reopen Crumbs!
Are they just delaying the inevitable, though? The trend has been well on its way out since Jack Donaghy shared need-to-know information with a NYC tourist on an episode of 30 Rock in 2008, "Let's see, we're using credit cards in cabs now. All the galleries have moved to Chelsea, and we're off cupcakes and back to doughnuts."
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WHEN the democratic revolutions of 1989 put European communism in the ash heap of history, Communist Party faithful behind the fallen Iron Curtain were suddenly born again, adopting new names and swearing allegiance to free-market principles.
But observers in recent weeks have begun to see tinges of communism resurface among Eastern European politicians, fueling doubts over their commitment to capitalism.
When voters -- struggling with the hardship and poverty that accompanied reform -- started voting former communists back into power in fair elections, Westerners watched nervously. But after regaining power in Lithuania in 1992, Poland in 1993, and Hungary in 1994, the ex-communists didn't immediately move to slow reform.
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''These parties [with former communists] prevailed due to the campaign promises that they gave, which were very populist,'' says Piotr Nowina-Konopka, a leader of Poland's main opposition Freedom Union party. ''They are finding out their promises are unkeepable.''
Former communists are now back in power in all but a few Central European states, the Czech Republic being the most notable exception. In several countries -- Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania -- the Party apparatchiks never fully lost control after 1989.
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The results of the AD2000 study of donepezil (Aricept) in Alzheimer's—published in the June 26 Lancet—made a big splash in the media pond. While confirming previous findings of modest benefits on certain tests, the study authors challenge claims that the drug has valuable effects on "real-life" measures of disability, and they charge that is not cost-effective.
The use of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) has exploded in just a few years, producing golden eggs for several pharmaceutical companies. Detractors have noted that the benefits are far from outstanding. In particular, there is no strong clinical trial evidence to suggest that patients should stay on the drugs for more than a year or two, though many apparently do (see ARF Live Discussion on ChEIs). While many short-term studies indicate beneficial effects on neuropsychological tests and activities of daily living scales, there has been little study of whether the drugs provide benefits over the long term, especially in terms of overall disability and the need for institutionalization.
The publicly funded AD2000 study, conducted by the Clinical Trials Unit of the University of Birmingham in England, was created to fill this void, and also to address concerns that the research to date has mainly been industry-funded, with design biases toward showing benefits. AD2000 was intended to assess donepezil in a "real-clinic" situation, in contrast to industry trials, whose inclusion and exclusion criteria tend to exclude the majority of dementia patients. Originally slated to enroll 3,000 patients for a single phase of 60 weeks, the study ended up with only 566. The study was redesigned to follow all these patients through a series of phases.
The blame for the low turnout can be laid on a variety of forces, argue the authors, including the rapid speed with which ChEIs became available to patients at large. Once this occurred, it became difficult to recruit patients for a trial in which they might be receiving a placebo. This lower number of subjects means the study lost statistical power to make conclusive assessments about its primary outcomes of institutionalization and progression of disability, writes Lon Schneider of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in an editorial accompanying the study.
Even into the trial, these same forces exerted a strong influence—the high attrition rate is partly due to patients opting for open-label treatment with ChEIs. Of the 486 patients entering the 48-week Phase 1, only 293 completed that phase; 111 patients completed Phase 2; and 20 patients completed phase 3. However, other factors such as death and institutionalization also contributed to the drop in subjects.
Despite the attrition rate, the study did not lose power for the secondary endpoints; these include changes in specific tests scores such as MMSE or the Bristol activities of daily living score (BADLS). Indeed, AD2000 confirmed and extended previous results, showing that in the donepezil subjects cognition averaged 0.8 MMSE points better, and functionality measured at 1.0 BADLS points better, and that this benefit was maintained over the first two years of the trial.
In terms of the primary endpoints, the AD2000 researchers report no differences between the drug and placebo groups in terms of institutionalization—42 percent vs. 44 percent at three years (p=0.4). Similarly, they report no differences in disability progression between donepezil and placebo groups—58 percent versus 59 percent at three years (p=0.4). The researchers also report finding no differences between donepezil and placebo in terms of behavioural and psychological symptoms, caregiver psychopathology, formal care costs, unpaid caregiver time, adverse events or deaths, or between 5 mg and 10 mg donepezil.
Despite the lack of power for primary endpoints, both the authors and commentator Schneider feel that the results deserve notice. The study results, writes Schneider, "…undermine an assumption that improvements in cognition and ADL scores generalize to maintenance of function, cost savings, or delay in institutionalization. … Results are incompatible with many drug-company-sponsored observational studies and advertisements claiming remarkable effects for cholinesterase inhibitors. For example, claims that donepezil stabilises cognitive decline, or delays nursing-home placement by 2-5 years now can be seen as implausible in the light of AD2000."
The authors argue that "AD2000 found no evidence that costs of caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease in the community are reduced by donepezil. Indeed, our findings suggest that these drugs would increase [British National Health Service] cost per patient—mostly hospital care—by around 40 percent without any offsetting through reductions in service use."
Some previous economic models have suggested that ChEI-related improvement on tests such as the MMSE will lead to cost reductions, but the authors argue that the studies these models were built upon "clearly overestimate benefit because of selection bias." The only study that, in the opinion of the authors, was properly set up to assess economic endpoints failed to find a benefit from donepezil (Wimo et al., 2003).
But wouldn't the small, but significant, MMSE and BADLS improvements with donepezil over the two-year study mean that patients experienced an increased quality of life? Without question, it is a difficult thing to assess, but the authors note that the U.S. FDA's guidelines on a worthwhile clinical response would require at least a 1.4 MMSE point difference, and many clinicians believe that the minimum clinical benchmark is a 3.0 point difference on the MMSE, both figures outside the confidence intervals for these data.
The authors make another argument against the interpretation of previous clinical trials of ChEIs. "The significantly worse cognitive and functional decline seen among retrieved dropouts in AD2000 compared to those who continued treatment confirms that differential dropout, particularly if analyses do not include retrieved dropouts, exaggerates efficacy," the authors write, noting that differential dropout was not discussed in previous clinical trial reports.
What about separating responders from non-responders early on and sparing expenses and pointless side effects for the non-responders? The potential for this appears to be low. "Reliable discrimination between responders and non-responders—on the basis of changes on simple scale outcome measures of cognition, functionality, and behavioural and psychological symptoms—is not possible," argue authors.
Ultimately, it is those who pay for the drugs—whether public or private—who will make the decisions about their availability. In the popular press, medical statistician Robert Gray, director of the University of Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit and spokesman for the study, has argued that in England the money spent on cholinesterase inhibitors would be better spent on doctors and nurses and better social support for patients and their caregivers.—Hakon Heimer
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The AD2000 study reported in The Lancet is an important article, and Lon Schneider's editorial also is important. The findings were that "donepezil produces small improvements in cognition and activities of daily living in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease" with no loss of benefit for 2 years. It was not cost-effective when measured in terms of institutionalization or progression of disability. Thus, the benefits are modest at best.
I do not believe that any clinician managing Alzheimer's patients believes differently: donepezil (indeed, all the cholinesterase inhibitor drugs approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease) show consistent but modest benefit in virtually all the studies performed to date. The question is whether the modest benefit is "worthwhile". As the AD2000 authors point out, it is difficult to evaluate what is "worthwhile". I believe that many patients and their families appreciate even the modest benefits these drugs afford. Of course to some extent this is supported by the sense of hope that comes from being able to treat this terrible disease with drugs that are only minimally beneficial versus the despair of having no treatment options at all.
There is no question that better drugs are needed to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. More importantly, drugs are needed that target the disease mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease; these drugs may then arrest progression of the illness or, if introduced early enough in the incipient stages of the disease, conceivably even prevent the appearance of symptoms. Although I will continue to offer cholinesterase inhibitor drugs to my patients with mild-moderate Alzheimer's disease, we all should support the development of truly effective therapies.
As a fairly inexperienced clinician working with dementia diagnostics and treatment, I'd appreciate more comments by the experts on the AD2000 protocol in regard to all those quite long washout periods, the first one as early as after 12 weeks. In my training it has been stressed that it is essential to keep up continuous medication lest the deteriation will accelerate to quickly reach a stage comparable to that of untreated patients. Might it be the case that this repeated washout protocol in a way "ensured" the mediocre findings? Was it wished for? Perhaps it also contributed to the extensive dropping out - if patients and their carers actually feared discontinuity of medication? If the study had been funded by the pharmacological industry, would they have allowed such washout periods? With what rationale were they necessary for this study?
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The AD 2000 collaborative group have studied the cost-effectiveness of donepezil in the UK. In their study, donepezil did not delay nursing home placement, and since this is the major cost driver of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the agent did not reduce overall care costs of AD.
In considering this study, it is important to note that it verified small but significant effects of donepezil on cognition and activities of daily living (ADL) and showed that the effect was evident over the two years of the trial—longer than any previous trial. From a patient perspective, these are very important observations and do not undermine the use of cholinesterase inhibitors in practice. This should be separated clearly from the issue of cost effectiveness, i.e., a payer perspective.
Several aspects of the study deserve comment. First, in an effort to make the study as relevant to actual clinical practice as possible, relatively brief diagnostic assessments and outcomes measures were applied. This resulted in a high frequency of co-morbidity and likely inclusion of some non-AD types of dementia. Second, patients were included if the doctor was "substantially uncertain that the individual would obtain a worthwhile clinical benefit from donepezil"; that is, the physicians were searching for non-responders to enter into the trial. There is no information on exactly how these decisions were made but the methods seem to have been successful. This approach doesn't simulate clinical practice, where the doctor does not try to eliminate those likely to respond to treatment but instead include them. Third, three past studies in the U.S. Knopman et al., 1996; Lopez et al., 2002; Geldmacher et al., 2003) have suggested that treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors delayed nursing home placement.
None of these studies is without flaws, but it is uncertain whether it is differences in the studies, differences between the health care systems of the UK and the U.S., (which are substantial), or other differences that account for these varying outcomes. The results of the study by the AD 2000 collaborative group are not necessarily generalizable to other systems.
The AD 2000 collaborative group has performed a valuable service in attempting to develop a methodology for generating effectiveness information that differs from the efficacy information derived from clinical trials. These results, however, should not be interpreted as demonstrating that donepezil and other cholinesterase inhibitors are not worthwhile. They provide a different type of information relevant to the specifics of this trial, in a particular setting, and most applicable to health finance issues in the UK.
Knopman D, Schneider L, Davis K, Talwalker S, Smith F, Hoover T, Gracon S. Long-term tacrine (Cognex) treatment: effects on nursing home placement and mortality, Tacrine Study Group. Neurology. 1996 Jul;47(1):166-77. PubMed.
Lopez OL, Becker JT, Wisniewski S, Saxton J, Kaufer DI, Dekosky ST. Cholinesterase inhibitor treatment alters the natural history of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2002 Mar;72(3):310-4. PubMed.
Geldmacher DS, Provenzano G, McRae T, Mastey V, Ieni JR. Donepezil is associated with delayed nursing home placement in patients with Alzheimer's disease. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003 Jul;51(7):937-44. PubMed.


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You might find that adding small fine textured evergreen trees or large shrubs can give you filtered shade to expand your options. If that isn't interesting, then the succulents are often a good fit in these conditions, such as many Aloes, Agaves, Sedums, Kalanchoes, Cotyledons, etc. Many Mediterranean climate plants such as common Lavenders, Rosemary, Euphorbias, etc will also handle these conditions well. Some of my best locations for favorite plants are at the south side of large trees. The lower winter sun angle is perfect for my bromeliads, with things like Billbergia vitatta foliage coloring up deep purple with the winter sun, but shading at noon in summer. |
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I have that too. I have been experimenting with short trees and standards to provide light shade during the summer four hour blast. So far Brugmansias have worked pretty well, since I can cut them to the ground and they grow back up by midsummer. I also have a poodled nectarine tree that works out okay, since it leafs out and shades things in the summer, but it's quite a bit of labor keeping it in shape and I imagine it won't live long. The Oro Blanco grapefruit is a bust- it grows too fast and dense so I can't plant beneath it. I'm thinking about trying a Little John Callistemon standard there instead. I agree with Borderbarb- nandinas to the rescue! And a much maligned plant- Sprenger asparagus fern. I like them raised off the ground in pots. Bearded irises will grow there but they may not bloom well. Some have variegated foliage that is very pretty. Another option is to put up a pergola and grow all shade plants. Renee |
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Revolutionary Soldiers of Montgomery County
Mr. A. T. Strange
Secretary Montgomery County Historical Society: -
I shall try to comply with your request to furnish the Society with a sketch of the solders of the Revolutionary War, who lived in Montgomery County, who died here, and who are buried in its soil.
I believe that I shall be able to furnish you with the names of all the Heroes of the Revolution that have lived at any time in Montgomery County; however I shall only be able to give the resting places of only a few of them.
Some of them may have removed from this county after filing evidences of their services as Revolutionary soldiers, with the Commissioners Court of this county; while others possible lie unmarked, forgotten and in neglected graves.
From the records of the Court above mentioned I have been able to gather the evidence which I shall submit to the Association.
1st WOOTEN HARRIS. Of the Hurricane (Van Burensburg) settlement, enlisted in Capt. Elliott's company of Militia, Brunswick County, Virginia, in 1777, and was regularly discharged after a short period of ninety days. He re-enlisted thereafter under Capt. William Peterson of Colonel Harrison's regiment, with whom he served until the close of the war. He was personally acquainted with General Washington, General Greene, Colonel Morgan, General LaFayette and others. Wooten Harris died in 1837, and was buried in the Seribner graveyard in Fillmore Township. About fifteen years ago, his remains, together with other members of the family, were removed to the Fillmore graveyard, where they now repose. The relationship of many of the families of Fillmore township to Wooten Harris is direct, and but little effort will be required on their part to give them standing in the Societies of Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
2nd EZRA BOSTICK . Of Bostick settlement, now Irving, enlisted under Capt. Patrick Bogan, in command of the mounted volunteers of Anson County, North Carolina, October 15th, 1780. From that time until the close of the war he saw service under different officers. He was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, in 1753. He came to Montgomery County in 1818, forming a settlement not far from the village of Irving. Many of the leading families can lay claim to membership in the aforementioned organizations by reason of being able easily to trace their ancestry to Ezra Bostick, whose remains slumber in the little graveyard not far from the corporate limited of the aforementioned little city (Irving).
3rd JACOB SIGHTS. A resident of the Bostick settlement, enlisted under Capt. John Reese in 1776, was transferred to Capt. Plunkett's company, 4th regiment, Light Dragoons of the Pennsylvania line. He was taken prisoner in 1778, but shortly afterwards escaped and rejoined the army under General Washington, and served with him until the close of the war. He was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and others. I am sorry that we lose sight of Jacob Sights at this particular point of his history; as I have been unable to find any one who can remember anything concerning him. Possible reference to the records at Washington might reveal where he received his last pension from the Government.
4th HARRIS REEVES. Of the Hurricane settlement, enlisted under Sergeant Langham, Saulsbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, in the fall of 1780. He was stationed at the Majazine and remained there until the close of the war. He was born in North Hampton County, North Carolina, in 1750. He was one of the Commissioners of this county during its early history. He died at his home near Van Burensburg in 1837, and was buried in the Wright graveyard, near that place. Many of the families in that section of the county can trace their lineage to this old soldier of the Revolutionary War.
5th THOMAS CRAIG. Of East Fork Township, Montgomery County, entered the service of the United States in Capt. Smith's company, North Carolina, in 1781. He later re-enlisted in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in the Indian Spy service of the Southwest, and was sent into the Indian country, serving under Capt. Brown Stimson, and Col. Sevier. He was personally acquainted with Col. Isaae Shelby. He was born in Granville County, North Carolina, in October, 1762. Many residents of Montgomery can claim place in the Association by relationship to this old hero. Where he is buried I do not know, possibly some of his descendants in their county may be able to give the information wanted.
6th JOHN LIGET. Entered the service under Capt. James Gilmore, in 1780. He was in the battle of the Cowpens, and served with Morgan in his campaign against the Tories. He was personally acquainted with General Washington and Col. Pickens. He served under General Greene at the battle of Guilford Court House, and took part in the siege of Yorktown. He was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and it was in that siege that he received a wound from which he afterward was made a cripple. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, In March 1762. Like Jacob Sights, the story of John Liget end with his application for a pension before the Commissioners Court of Montgomery County in September of 1832. I shall be very glad if any one who reads this little bit of history, who can add anything to these personal histories, will inform me concerning them.
7th HENRY BRIANCE. Entered the service under General Rutherford in 1777. Served also under Col Wade Hampton, Gen. Sumpter and Gen. Marion. He took part in the battles of Eutaw Springs, Fridays Fort, Thompsons Fort, Monks Corner, and Monroe's Old Field. He knew most of the Generals who commanded the forees in the South. He, like some of the others mentioned, drops from view when he made application for pension in 1832.
8th. JAMES RICHARDSON. Of Hillsboro. Entered the service under Capt. Lemuel Smith, Col. Peter Perkins' regiment, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in August, 1780. He served under Capt. Miner Smith of General Rutherford's command on the Yadkin. He was in the battles of the Brick House and at Georgetown. He was born in Middlesex County, Virginia, August 25th, 1757. Several families about Hillsboro trace their ancestry back to James Richardson.
9th BENJAMIN GORDAN. Entered the service July, 1780, under Thomas Sumpter, near Charlotte, Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. He was sent, after the battle of Guilford Court House, as wagoner to General Greene's army, with the wounded. Later he served as a Mountaineer Ranger under Gen. Clark of Georgia. He was discharged in Newberry County, South Carolina, in 1783, after serving three years. He was personally acquainted with General Morgan, General Greene, General Sumpter, General Clark and General Casey. He was born in Newberry County, South Carolina, August 30th, 1762. That Benjamin Gordan belonged to the Hurricane settlement is evidenced by the fact that Rev. Henry Sears attested his papers as a Revolutionary Soldiers. Whatever became of him, or what lines of his descendants he may have left, is unknown to the writer.
10th THOMAS BROCKMAN. Entered the service early in 1776, under Capt. John Marks, of Col. Charles Lewis' regiment in General Greene's Division of the United States Army. He served in this particular company under Capt. Marks for three years, and during the remainder of the Revolutionary War under Capt. Archibald Moon. He was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Stoney Point, and many other minor engagements. He was born in Albermarle County, Virginia, date uncertain, and died in Montgomery County about 1838. He recites in his application for a pension that he resides on the East Fork of Shoal Creek. His remains lie buried in a little graveyard, at the side of the road, at the present in a pasture lot belonging to Joseph Spinner. His grave is unmarked, but the late John Brockman wrote me only a few weeks before his death that he could possibly give the exact location of the grave. Now, that he is gone, it is doubtful if any one living can point out the exact spot where he lies.
11th JOHN CRABTREE. A resident of "South District" Montgomery County, in his application for a pension as a Revolutionary soldier, recites the following facts: He was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on the 3rd day of May, 1763, and that he entered the service of the United States, under Capt. Edward Williams, in 1780, under whom he served but a short time. He afterwards reenlisted under Capt. John Knight, whose energies and efforts were directed against the Tories in his section of North Carolina. John Crabtree was among the first settlers in Montgomery County and lived in what was known as the "Street Settlement", about four miles southwest of Hillsboro. Many families of Montgomery County are directly connected with John Crabtree, the pioneer Revolutionary soldier. His remains lie buried in the family graveyard not far from the old homestead.
12th BENJAMIN TODD. Father of the late Thomas Jefferson Todd, of Fillmore, claims a place in the galaxy of honored names. We find no documentary evidence to support this claim. If it exists it has escaped our notice in my investigations concerning these old heroes. Many descendants of Benjamin Todd live in Fayette County and in the eastern part of Montgomery County. His remains lie buried in the Ables Cemetery, just over the line in Fayette County.
I have been able to give you a summary of the facts obtainable concerning the matter of which you wrote me. They are not colored, but appear as the documents to which we have referred, present them.
Very Obediently Yours, JACOB L TRAYLOR.
JACOB SIGHTS, Revolutionary Soldier. Mr. Traylor, in his article on the Revolutionary Soldiers of this county, says that the record is incomplete as to the burial place of Mr. Jacob Sights. Mrs. Bette Hughes has furnished the desired information in the following letter:
Irving, Illinois
April 7th, 1914
Mr. A.T. Strange:
In answer to your request for information concerning Jacob Sights, I will say: He was born in Germany in 1755. Came to America when quite young: and after the Revolutionary war settled in Kentucky. There he married a Miss Mary Black, and reared a large family. A few years after the establishment of the Bostick Settlement in this county, he with his wife and the families of two daughters (Mrs. James Grantham and Mrs. Jack Bostick) came to what is now known as the Meadowfield District, one and a half miles southwest of Irving in this county. He died here in 1845, at the age of 90 years, and his body lies in the Hopewell Cemetery in this district. There is one grands0n still living in Padueah, Ky., Dr. Sights, perhaps he could give you some facts I cannot.
Sincerely BELLE GRANTHAM HUGHES
This information is gratefully received, and if others can give further information pertaining to any Revolutionary soldiers that lived in this county, we will be glad to hear from them.
A.T. STRANGE, Corresponding Secretary County Historical Society.
In reference to John Liget and Henry Briance, the Department of the Interior, Washington, has furnished me the following information.
John Liget, born March, 1762, in Augusta County, Virginia. Enlisted in the Revolution from Rockbridge County, VA. Applied for pension from Montgomery County, Illinois; date of application Sept. 18th, 1832; claim allowed; battles engaged in Cowpens, Guilford; wounded in left hand, in siege of Yorktown. Enlisted in 1780 first for six months as a private under Capt. James Gilmore; soon after for six weeks under Capt. James Hall; later for six weeks under Capt. Jas. Hall; and still later for three months under Capt. Hall. He had children living in Arkansas in 1836.
Henry Briance. Born March 27th, 1760, in York County, PA. Enlisted in Revolution from Mecklenburg County, N.C. Battles engaged in, Fridays Fort, Entaw Springs and Monks Corner. Applied for pension Sept. 18th, 1832. Pension allowed. No family reported.
Another Revolutionary Soldier
Mt. A.T. Strange, Cor. Sec'y Montgomery Co. Historical Society.
My Dear Sir: -
I am glad to know that we have a Historical Society in our county, and gladly embrace the opportunity of recording the name of my Revolutionary ancestor, Reuben Sibley, upon its roll of honor. Respectfully,
Mrs. Abigail E. Torrey Sibley Hood
32 E. Union Avenue, Litchfield, Ill.
Captain Reuben Sibley was born in Sutton, Mass., Feb. 20, 1743. Died Nov. 17, 1810. Capt. Sibley was chosen Captain of the 2nd Sutton Company, Col. Thomas, 5th Regt. Was ordered in Council June 28th, 1776, that said officers be commissioned. Reported Commissioned June 28th, 1776. Capt. Sibley was in service at Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown and North Castle, New York, in 1776. He also served in Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment. Roll made up for service in Rhode Island in August and September, 1778. Also in Col. Jacob Davis regiment July 30th, 1780.
The Foregoing items were taken from memoranda of authority in archives commemorative of Massachusetts War Service, Office of War Service.
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Has anyone ever noticed that asteroids appear "different" from stars? Last Saturday while I was at Stellafane we were observing Uranus in our various scopes. I noticed in Stellarium that Pallus was close by so I star-hopped to it, just to see if I could. It was exactly where it was supposed to be… But while observing it with my recently refigured and well collimated 10" Dob, it appeared "different" from the nearby stars. Slightly sharper, or more defined. Somewhat non-stellar, is the only way I can put it in words.
I asked my fellow observers if it was supposed to look different? No one had ever heard that it was possible to tell the difference. So another person took a look see. All he knew is that Pallus was within the field of view. He purposely didn't look at Stellarium beforehand. Sure enough, he picked it out!
Is this a well know phenomena, or wishful thinking?
Visual asteroids ID?
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 01:59 PM
Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:33 PM
I think you're probably right. I found 433 Eros visually before putting the camera on and I noticed that it looked a little different than the stars behind it. I felt like it was more of a color difference; 433 Eros was more orange than I expected most stars to be. I wonder if it was because of it's surface composition, or if it was the Sun's spectrum giving it that hue...
Posted 29 October 2012 - 12:35 PM
Interesting. I've been observing asteroids visually for 40 years and I never noticed anything that stood out, but you are right, you can usually spot the asteroid in a field if you know one is there. I'm usually looking for the 'star' that doesn't belong. I wonder if they twinkle slightly differently and your eye picks up on that.
Neat stuff.
Neat stuff.
Posted 29 October 2012 - 01:56 PM
Unlike stars, planets don't "twinkle" in the sky because they have resolvable disks. Perhaps asteroids, when viewed through a scope, don't "twinkle" as much as stars since they also have a very small, but resolvable disk. I don't know if this is true ... but, it's a thought.
Posted 22 November 2012 - 03:52 PM
That would appear to be correct - anything that subtends a "disk" does look different from a point source. I would think it only applies to objects greater than a certain apparent size, but I'd be hard-pressed to even begin to say what that size would be. Common sense says something in the order of maybe a quarter arcsec or so? Ceres looks non-stellar when near opposition, but it's HUGE compared to most minor planets. Vesta also looks remarkably non-stellar. But as I said, I'm not sure what the cut-off is, apparent size-wise.


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Thu, Dec 14, 06 at 22:20
Wild aster seeds were given to me (don't know what kind it is, except purple flowers, curly leaves, quite tall and bushy, is what I think she said) - looks like dried up flower head, no fluff at all - are there actually any seeds I wonder. Do I plant the whole thing or break apart. |
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Hi Gardenway, Asters seeds are attached to the fluff like you're thinking. Either they all blew away before she went to collect them, or the flowers she is calling asters are actually something else. If you had a photo, it would be easier to possibly tell. When you have flowerheads with seeds in them, a bit of breaking apart when planting is good. Remy |
remy - thanks. I'll ask her what happened to the fluff! She sent them from RI and seemed certain the plant was an aster of some kind, but doesn't mean she wasn't wrong. Also, she said curly petals, not leaves as I said previously. |
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"must: (1) learn and / or acquire an adequate interlanguage phonology that compensates for the lack of native competence and THEN learn and/or acquire the phonemic awareness... Indeed, it could be logically concluded that effective phonemic awareness training can not precede the development of a sufficient, internalized interlanguage phonology" (p. 8).This paper will argue a different view; that once one has acquired a given level of phonological awareness in one language, it is possible to transfer that understanding to any other languages.
Phonological awareness is generally considered to be a unitary construct which appears to be made up of a hierarchy of different sized phonological units (Gough, Larson, & Yopp, 1996). It is generally agreed to subsume syllabic awareness, sub-syllabic awareness (onset and rime¹), and segmental (phonemic) awareness. As phonemic awareness seems to be the most crucial for learning to read English, it will be the main focus of this paper. Taking the definition offered by Jannuzi (1998), phonemic awareness is "a verifiable insight that one's native or non- native language can be broken down into sounds and sound combinations" [original emphasis] (p. 8).
The importance of phonemic awareness has become almost axiomatic in the literature on L1 reading acquisition and dyslexia (for an overview, see Adams, 1990). Bryant and Goswami have said, "the discovery of a strong relationship between children's phonological awareness and their progress in learning to read is one of the great successes of modern psychology" (1987, p. 439). This insight is seen as fundamental to grasping the alphabetic principle. On the other hand, phonemic awareness is rarely mentioned in the TEFL and SLA literature. Despite this, the idea that phonology--not just good pronunciation--is important for foreign languages is not a new one. Carroll and Sapon (1959) included a number of measures of phonology in their modern language aptitude test. Among these are some tests of ability to decode written texts. More recently, researchers have begun to consider the role of phonology in L2 learning of vocabulary (N. Ellis, 1996), L2 reading, (Harrington, & Sawyer, 1992), and L2 learning disabilities (Sparks, Ganschow and their colleagues, 1992; 1993; 1997).
Unfortunately, the majority of the research on phonemic awareness has been done with children learning to read English as their L1. There is also a smaller body of research dealing with children learning to read other languages as their L1 (e.g. Mann 1986; Lundberg, Frost, and Peterson, 1988). There are, however, only a few studies dealing specifically with phonemic awareness in the L2 (e.g. Allan, 1997). Given that phonology varies from language to language, more such studies are definitely needed. The lack of such information leaves us with the question of whether phonological awareness is language specific or not.
Ganschow, Sparks and colleagues (1992) state that their
"use of the term phonology does not refer primarily to ones (sic) ability to pronounce words either in the native or foreign language. It may include pronunciation but refers specifically to ones (sic) ability to learn sound (phoneme)/symbol (grapheme) correspondences, discriminate between sounds, and make explicit reports about sound segments in words. This later skill, (is) known as phonemic awareness" (pp. 57-58).Thus, they clearly distinguish between phonemic awareness and phonemic discrimination, both of which they lump together under term phonology. Evidence that phonemic awareness can develop with an inadequate phonology comes from people who have been profoundly deaf from birth. Despite this obstacle, "the young deaf child often develops metalinguistic, phonological awareness on an underdeveloped phonological system" (Campbell & Burden, 1995).
The idea that phonemic discrimination is a separate construct from phonemic awareness is further supported by a number of studies (Yopp, 1988; Stanovich, Cunningham, & Cramer, 1984; Gough, Larson, & Yopp, 1996). In one of these, Yopp administered a number of different phonemic awareness tests, including an auditory discrimination test (Wepman, 1973), a phoneme blending test (Roswell-Chall, 1959), a phoneme counting test (I. Liberman et al., 1974), two phoneme deletion tests (Bruce, 1964; Rosner, 1975), a rhyming test (Yopp, 1988), two phoneme segmentation tests (Goldstein, 1974; Yopp-Singer, 1984), a sound isolation test (Yopp, 1988), and a number of others. The results of the tests were all significantly intercorrelated except Wepman's auditory discrimination test, which had a low positive correlation. Similar results in the other studies mentioned above indicate that phoneme discrimination seems to be related to, but separate from, phonological awareness.
Another reason to doubt that phonemic discrimination is a prerequisite for phonemic awareness is the modular nature of the phonemic identification process. Alvin Liberman (1995) argues convincingly that there is a phonemic identification module. Two central characteristics of modular systems is that they are informationally encapsulated and autonomous (Fodor, 1983, p. 37). This would indicate processes which are beyond the conscious control of the individual. Yet, metalinguistic concepts are, by definition, ideas of which the individual can conceive and deliberate. While knowledge of a language's phonemes is linguistic knowledge, phonemic awareness is metalinguistic in nature. Metalinguistic knowledge is largely transferable to any new language. For example, the awareness that there are parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) in one's L1 can assist in learning L2, in that it helps the student know what to look for. The knowledge that one can employ humor and sarcasm, or represent speech in print are all forms of metalinguistic knowledge that one can easily apply to any other language, regardless of one's ability to perform the tasks.
Thus, it seems highly unlikely that an adequate interlanguage phonology must be developed before phonemic awareness training can begin. In fact, even those with severely limited phonology, may benefit from phonemic awareness training. If phonemic awareness can exist without an "adequate" L2 phonology, there is no reason to believe that it is language specific.
A number of large scale longitudinal studies indicate that phonological awareness is teachable in one's L1, and is teachable at very young ages-- even before students begin to read (Blachman, 1994; Lundberg, Frost, & Peterson, 1988). The same studies show significant positive effects of such training on later reading ability. In an L2 study, Reynolds (in preparation) has found that teaching English letter-sound correspondences to first and second year Japanese junior high school students resulted in significant improvements in phonological, and specifically phonemic, awareness. The students scored higher on a test of phonological awareness (Reynolds, 1997) than high school students with four more years of English instruction. Thus, it appears that both early L1 and L2 instruction are likely to result in improvements in phonological awareness.
One way is by using concrete representations of the individual phonemes. This can be done by having students put down a tile or other marker for each sound they hear in a word.
(Japanese word for "rabbit") /usagisan/ = 8 sounds (phonemes) = 8 tiles
speed = /spid/ = 4 sounds (phonemes) = 4 tiles
Exploiting the layout of the kana chart with rows organized by vowel and columns organized mainly by consonant, can also be enlightening to students. Coloring the kana half one colour for consonant sounds and half another colour for vowel sounds is even more clear, especially for younger children (e.g. coloured Fidel kana charts, Gattegno, 1972). Using romaji (Roman letters) can also be a useful way of showing that (/ka/) is made up of two sounds /k/ and /a/. These are good ways to overcome the fact that Japanese has a predominantly logographic and syllabic orthography, not an alphabetic one.
These techniques should be supplemented by training students to isolate, segment, and combine phonemes. Teaching alliteration and rhyme is a good way to start. Sesame Street type blending activities are also ideal.
Ssss...Aaaa... Nnn..., SssAaaNnn, SAN!
Reynolds (to appear) presents a wide variety of short, interesting activities that can be done with beginning students.
Allan, M. (1997). Phonological awareness of young EFL learners: Can Mother Goose teach sounds? Temple University Japan, Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 10, 91-103.
Blachman, B.A. (1994). What have we learned from longitudinal studies of phonological processing and reading, and some unanswered questions. A response to Torgeson, Wagner, and Rashotte. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27, 287-291.
Bruce, D. (1964). An analysis of word sounds by young children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 34, 158-170.
Bryant, P. & Goswami, U. (1987). Beyond grapheme-phoneme correspondence. Cahier de Psychologie Cognitive, 7, 439-443.
Byrne, B., & Fielding-Barnsley, R. (1991). Evaluation of a program to teach phonemic awareness to young children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 451-455.
Campbell, R., & Burden, V. (1995). Pre-lingual deafness and literacy: A new look at old ideas. In B. deGelder and J. Morais (Eds.), Speech and reading (pp. 317-337). Hove: Erlbaum (UK)
Taylor & Francis. Carroll, J. & Sapon, S. (1959). Modern language aptitude test (MLAT) manual. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corp.
Ellis, N. (1996). Sequencing in SLA: Phonological memory, chunking, and points of order. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18, 91-126.
Fodor, J. (1983). The modularity of mind. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press.
Ganschow, L., Sparks, R., Javorsky, J., & Patton, J. (1992). Factors relating to learning a foreign language among high- and low-risk high school students and students with learning disabilities. Applied Language Learning, 3, 37-63.
Gattegno, C. (1972). Teaching Foreign Languages inSchools: The Silent Way., 2d ed. New York: Educational Solutions.
Goldstein, D. (1974). Learning to read and developmental changes in covert speech and in word analysis and synthesis skill (Doctoral dissertation; University of Connecticut). Dissertation Abstracts International, 35, 1B-606B. (University Microfilms No. 67-4246)
Gough, P., Larson, K., & Yopp, H. (1996). The structure of phonemic awareness. Available online at http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/klarson/recife.html.
Harrington, M., & Sawyer, M. (1992). L2 working memory capacity and L2 reading skill. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 14, 25-38.
Jannuzi, C. (1998). Key concepts in FL literacy: Phonemic awareness. Literacy Across Cultures, 3(1), 7-12.
Liberman, A. (1995). The relation of speech to reading and writing. In B. deGelder and J. Morais (Eds.), Speech and reading (pp. 17-31). Hove: Erlbaum (UK) Taylor & Francis.
Liberman, I., Shankweiler, D., Fischer, F., & Carter, B. (1974). Explicit syllable and phoneme segmentation in the young child. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 18, 201-212.
Lundberg, I. Frost, J, & Peterson, O. (1988). Effects of an extensive program for stimulating phonological awareness in preschool children. Reading Research Quarterly, 23, 263-284.
Mann, V. A. (1986). Phonological awareness: The role of reading experience. Cognition, 24, 5-92.
Morais, J., Cary, L., Alegria, J., & Bertelson, P. (1979). Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise spontaneously? Cognition, 7, 323-331.
Morais, J., (1993). Phonemic awareness, language and literacy. In R. M. Joshi & C. K. Leong (Eds.), Reading disabilities: Diagnosis and component processes. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Reynolds, B. (1997). A test of phonological awareness for Japanese EFL students. Available online at http://eslsv001.esl.sakuragaoka.ac.jp/ teachers/BR/papers/PhonemicTest.html
Reynolds, B. (to appear). Promoting phonological awareness in Japanese high school students. The School House: The newsletter of JALT's jr. & sr. high school N-SIG.
Rosner, J. (1975). Helping children overcome learning difficulties. New York: Walker and Company.
Roswell-Chall Auditory Blending Test. (1959). New York: Essay Press.
Sparks, R., Ganschow, L. (1993). Searching for the cognitive locus of foreign language learning difficulties: Linking first and second language learning. The Modern Language Journal, 77, 289-302.
Sparks, R., Ganschow, L., et. al (1997). Prediction of foreign language proficiency. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 549-561.
Stanovich, K. E., Cunningham, A. E., & Cramer, B.R. (1984). Assessing phonological awareness in kindergarten children: Issues of task comparability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 38, 175-190.
Wepman, J. (1973). Auditory discrimination (Revised ed.). Chicago, IL: Language Research Associates.
Yopp, H. (1988). The validity and reliability of phonemic awareness tests. Reading Research Quarterly, 23, 160-177.
Yopp, H., & Singer, H. (1984). Are metacognitive and metalinguistic
abilities necessary for beginning reading instruction? In J. Niles &
L. Harris (Eds.), Changing perspectives in research in reading/ language
processing and instruction. Thirty-third yearbook of the National Reading
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Younger DS lives in NYC and says his feet are usually cold. So I have been meaning to knit him some socks, something I have never done, and just got out the LionBrand Magic Stripes yarn tonight. I am making the sock pattern on the back of the label and find to get gauge that I need to use size 1 needles. Wish me luck. The one time I tried anothr sock pattern, it came out huge. It was not hard to knit, just did not turn out the right size.
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- Posted by donna_loomis (My Page) on Fri, Dec 22, 06 at 9:23
Sheila, the one pair of socks I made for my husband also came out a bit too large. But he loves them for sleeping in. I've made several pair for a sister-in-law who swears that they are the warmest socks she's ever had. She works outside and wears them to work in quite often. She calls them her toasty socks. |
Sheila, you bet wool socks are warm! And your DS will love them! I knitted 1 pair for DH and am working on another for him. I won't let him wear them to work, because he wears holes in them, but at night he will put them on here at home for a few hours. He loves them. I have 4 pair of my own, with one of a pair missing at the moment. One of those pair is made with alpaca, and is the warmest socks I've ever found. I can only wear them when I am freezing! Tami |
Oh yes. I heart my handknit wool socks. I would never ever knit them on size 2s again, but I love them. If you use a toe-up pattern, it's easier to get them the right size, I think, 'cause they're easier to try on that way. I knit some for a friend, and didn't have him around, but he had roughly the same size feet as one of my brothers, so I made my brother try them on. You can ALWAYS block them bigger, but you can't block them smaller. ~ Kit |
- Posted by sheilajoyce (My Page) on Sun, Dec 24, 06 at 13:16
Well, he laughed at the Magic Stripe I was using (with navy, medium blue, brown and flecks of ecru) so I ripped out the half I had made and am now making little bootie socks for expected grandson with the yarn. It seems everything for little boys is shown in brown or denim these days, so these socks will work fine for him. I made a round of eyelet holes at the bottom of the ribbing to be able to use ties on the socks so they will stay on. I also had bought some black finer, fingering wool yarn, so I will try that yarn for a pair for DS which he will learn to love, I hope. Solid black will be properly professional looking, and as he has a law internship next semester, he will get more use from the plain black since he will have to dress for work every day. |
If it's not sock yarn, you should reinforce the heel/toe with thread. It'll make them last longer. The only thing my place of employment DOESNT get upset about is my socks. For some reason, I'm allowed to have mismatching socks or socks that don't match my outfit at all - that show, mind you - but I'm not allowed to put spikes in my hair on a temporary basis for Halloween. You could probably get away with making him funkier socks. ~ Kit |
- Posted by grannymarsh (My Page) on Tue, Dec 26, 06 at 9:16
ironkit-good suggestion re: using yarn designed specifically for socks. One other thing I do when knitting socks is to cast on using a slightly larger needle. ie: when knitting with a size 2 needles, I cast on with a size 4 and then switch back to 2's. It seems to eliminate some of the stress on the yarn when putting them on da feet. The variety of sock yarns available is mind boggling. Don't you just want all of them?? Marsha |
- Posted by sheilajoyce (My Page) on Fri, Dec 29, 06 at 17:39
Well, I do have some black fingering sock yarn I also bought. I think he will get a pair of the black wool ones whether he wants them or not. He says his feet get cold all the time, so we'll see how they work. |
- Posted by donna_loomis (My Page) on Fri, Dec 29, 06 at 18:36
I don't think you can go wrong with black. But it is sure hard for my old eyes to work with. I'm making a pair of fingerless gloves for DH right now and cannot wait to be done with them. Just started the second one. |
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