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Many years ago Staden R. (1984) Graphic methods to determine the function of nucleic acid sequences. Nucl. Acids Res. 12, 521-538 we separated methods for searching for genes and their control regions into two classes: "gene search by signal", and "gene search by content". Staden R. (1985) Computer methods to locate genes and signals in nucleic acid sequences, Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods Vol. 7, Edited by J. K. Setlow and A. Hollaender, Plenum Publishing Corp.. Signal searches look for short segments of sequences such as promoters, ribosome binding sites, splice junctions, etc, whereas content searches look for the sequence patterns that are characteristic of protein coding regions, or RNA genes. Protein coding sequences produce particular amino acid sequences, often using preferred codons, and this leaves patterns in the sequence that can be used to distinguish them from non-protein-coding DNA. tRNA genes must produce stable cloverleaf structures and "standard" tRNAs must contain particular (conserved) bases at locations within the cloverleaf. These features can be used to locate tRNA genes, and probably other RNA genes could be sought in a similar way.
The original nip program contained several content searches for protein coding regions, one for tRNA genes, and many ways of searching for signals. We have implemented four of the content searches in nip4 and a splice junction search. Obviously since our early work in this area others have invented new algorithms for these tasks, some of which combine content and signal searches, and it is our intention to include these new algorithms or to enable nip4 to display the results of these methods in the future. However we have implemented our own methods first and they are described here.

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What does it really mean when a guy grabs your ass?
when a guy grabs your ass what does this mean and what is he thinking when he does it ...i was just wondering because it happened.
Most Helpful Opinion
I use to do it when I am hanging out with a girl I like, I have been making out with her but not sexually yet. It is a good place to start telling her that you are interested in something else and not asking it directly (which reduces the possibilities of success by the way). I think that girls find it less offensive than grabbing their breasts unexpectedly or other places, and you can do it easily while dancing or making out and while standing. I would definitely not do it to a girl I don't know or think in the inside that she is going to get mad about it. You have to take your chances though... :)
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well I really don't think when I to do it, its just arousing lol but be a little more detailed, do you mean in public or Private cuzz I would never grab my girls ass in public (hate being the center of attention) but in private ill rub the hell out of it... why? Because to me (Meaning just me and possible to other guys) the ass is equivalent to boobs in the way that their fun to grab and look at for no reason at all other than sexual arousal.
Pure sexual gratification, he either figures he'll get away with it, or he figures the brief thrill is worth a smack in the face.
Calling it sexual assault is overly dramatic. I think the ever expanding definitions of rape and sexual assault cheapen the terms, and do a disservice to victims of the real thing.
So don't listen to the potato! lol
What Girls Said 5
If he's your ex and you've talked to him about how you no longer have feelings for him, then the next time he does it, flip your lid. Hard. Wig out on him and make him back off. Giggle at your vengeance later.
If you do still have those pesky feelings for him, then talk to him and ask him why he continues to push your buttons. Because there are chances that that's his immature way of saying he likes you and wants to get back together.
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My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
It occurred to me that since I had never baked bread before and am within sight of having a WFO, I should probably try it in a regular oven first. So I did it for the first time about ten days ago using off the shelf fleishmans active yeast.
To get the stone baked feel I cut six fire bricks into splits and lined my oven shelf. As per the recipe I also put a broiler pan below the shelf with the bread and poured a cup of hot water in the pre-heated pan immediately after putting the bread on the stones. I was happy with the way it turned out since it was the first thing I had ever baked (Not counting baked potatos and pillsbury biscuits from the roll.)
I've baked three times since the first time but have been doing four loaves at a time in the oven now. Getting much better color now that I am doing four loaves at once.
So a few nights ago I decided to try a sourdough starter. I didn't have any whole grain flour. All I had was the Conagra "Minnesota Girl" baker's flour I bought at Costco. So I put one cup of one hundred degree water and one cup of that bakers flour in a four cup mixing cup and stirred well. I'd read that some people use a grape to innoculate with yeast and some just rely on the yearts present on the whole grain.
Since I didn't have whole grain I figured I should innoculate with something likely to have yeast on it. No grapes around so I used what I had in the refrigerator...blueberries and rasberries.
I took three blueberries and one rasberry and dropped them in the flour/water mix. I gently stirred the mix twice over the next hour. After one hour, I gently stirred again and then fished the undamaged berries out of the mix and tossed them.
I had also read that yeasts like a low ph and most bacteria doesn't. Since I was doing this whole thing in a somewhat odd manner I was afraid of "bad" bacteria being present in the bakers flour and taking over as the dominant speices of microrganism. So I decided to put a table spoon and a half of apple cider vinegar in the mix as well to bring the ph down a bit. I stirred again and lightly covered it.
The following (day 2) morning it had very tiny bubbles all over the surface. I stirred, pulled out a half cup of the mix and tossed it, and fed the starter a half cup of flour and a half cup of warm water. I did that again twelve hours later and have continued doing so every twelve hours since.
By that night (still day two) it was looking dead. No bubbles at all and a separated clear water layer on top. I fed it as before and went to bed. The next morning (day three) there were some bubbles again, not a lot, but the individual bubbles were bigger than they had been before. This morning (Day 4) I checked it and it looked better still, lots of big bubbles.
Here is my starter this morning (Day Four.)
It smells very nice and slightly yeasty. I think I'm on the right track in spite of doing everything a bit strangely???? Comments or concerns?
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
You're looking good from my perspective. I found early on that if my starter was lightly covered it seemed to be happier. I don't have enough experience to say if it was related to the youth of my batch or if this is true of most all SD starters. I decided at the time that the CO2 accumulation over the starter was killing the desired beasties, but it could have been that I needed to feed more often at that stage.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
Interesting. I had covered mine tightly on day 2 because I wanted to see if the C02 production would "balloon" or inflate the wrapper. That's the same day it seemed to have died off (or at the least, drastically reduced activity.)
This morning (day 5) it looks fine, and actually smells a little like sour dough bread...not stinky...just kinda nice smelling. I just fed it a few minute ago and the surface had bubbles on it almost immediately after stirring it up again. By five minutes after feeding it has bubbles all over the top. This is what it looked like five minutes after feeding. What ever is going on in there, it's pretty darn active I think.
How long would you guys keep letting it go on the counter top with twice a day feedings?
Do you think it's too soon to try baking a batch of bread from it? Tomorrow will be day six...I was thinking maybe tomorrow night do a dough for baking on Sunday???
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
I don't remember when, how many days, I made my first loaves from my starter. I'd need to refer to some other expert.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
Personally I would give it another week. If it doubles in size in 4 to 8 hours it's running healthy. But young starters are still working out chemical balances at the 6 day mark. You can always give it a try but just don't be overly disappointed if you don't get the expected results on the first run.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
Thanks for the advice. I may give it a shot tomorrow just to see what happens.
As far as it doubling in size...I haven't noticed that my starter is doubling (or even increasing much at all). I don't know if it's too liquidy or what, but the bubbles seem to pop right through the mix and up to the surface. Should the starter be thicker?
I have a four cup measuring cup with just over two cups of starter in it. Every time I feed I remove a half a cup of starter. I then stir in one half cup of water and one half cup of flour. Intuitively, I would expect that the mixture would be getting wetter over time, but that does not seem to be happening. Evaporation? Cellular activity breaking down water into CO2? (I'm guessing the latter now that I think about it.)
As i think about it...I'm guessing that one and a half cups of starter (That's what I begin with when I feed), needs more than a half cup of flour???
Anyway, the mixture does not seem to be getting wetter and is not expanding significantly when I feed it. Just lots of bubbles.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
Bubbles are just one indicator a doubling in size is also and help determine when to re-feed.
Place a rubber band ( or use a marker pen)level with your starter after feeding when it double and before it collapses, you may discard some and re-feed. Give it a few more day to get stronger and more mature.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
I feed mine 1:1:1 but that is by weight. 100% hydration
Starter feed at a 1:1:1 is half water half flour.
1 cup of flour on a dip and sweep is about 157 grams
1 cup of water is 236 grams
So you are actually feeding 78.5 grams flour and 118g grams water.
So you are keeping a starter at more like 150% hydration.
Liquid levains are typically kept at 100% to 125% hydration so you are running a bit wet.
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
I run my starter at 100g of water 100g of flour and about 35g of starter from the last batch. This gives me about 200g of starter to put toward bread and 35g to roll forward into the next batch.
Faith, how much starter do you feed? Is the 1:1:1 1 water:flour:starter?
Re: My first attempt at bread and making sourdough starter.
Yes. I do things a bit different from others.
I take my 120g starter and feed it 120g water & 120g flour then let it rise to maximum then just to start to fall.
Then I take 40g of that and feed it 40g water & 40g flour. and put it back in the fridge.
The left over starter I put to various uses like bread or English muffins.
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opinionBy Safiya I. Dantiye
The heading of this article may be incongruous because if you hear of abused victims you automatically think of them as women. This is what is usually the case since women are more susceptible to abuse; being under the control of men in marriage and in some families they are made to feel inferior to their male siblings. Then in the work place and other institutions they are subjects of sexual harassments. Above all, they are victims of rape, either when they are visited by armed robbers or unfortunate enough to fall into the trap of such wicked and lewd characters.
So from the above it is easier for a woman to become a victim of domestic violence, being beaten by her husband. But even though you hear rarely that some men (?) also suffer abuse from their wives, you will not think that it is serious, afterall a man is much physically stronger than his wife, so how could he allow her to abuse, slap or beat him? It is quite unthinkable. But you really give it a second thought when you begin to hear it more frequenlty, as a result of which one man joked that men really need a ministry of men affairs to look after their problems.
The man made the remark on seeing a sticker against women abuse. He said men too were being abused and nobody is doing anything about it. And to think that those that abuse them are women! Those human beings that are supposed to be 'weak', gentle and soft.
Another thing that has made me to take the issue of men abuse seriously was when I read recently that in one African country it was so serious that they were raising alarm, because since many people believed that only women could be abused, the abused men are suffering without anybody to officially come to their rescue.
Even though in Nigeria I haven't yet heard such outcry, there are indeed cases of men abuse and something should also be done to them. Though many people would think like me that the solution is simple, that is the man should just get out of the marriage. Or is it also difficult for men as it is for women? At least women stick to unhappy marriages because they don't want to be separated from their children, and some are pressurised by their parents to stay in the marriage, which could not be brought to bear on men.
In any case, definitely such 'weak' men are not behaving like men with responsibilities, for example one man told me that his friend's wife would slap him at the slightest argument and lock him out of the house when he came home late. Well, in some way he set the stage for his own humiliation, for one, he lives in her house, rides her car and eats her food. Apparently this reversed position made her think that she owned him, body and soul.
Such men are so lazy and undignified that they cannot or refuse to work for the upkeep of the family no matter how little they provide. At least the effort makes them manly. But when they prefer to sleep and laze around while their wives work hard, they are courting trouble. One of the reasons that makes women to lose respect for their husbands is for the husbands to rely on them financially, not once in a while, but to be permanently so without making the effort to get job or something doing to feed their families.
Were men to come out and say they are being abused by their wives will not only ridicule them, but also make their fellow men to regard them with contempt.
By the way, why should men go into relationships with women that have stronger character than them, or are they so spineless that they prefer to be cowered in order to live off the wives?
Thereafter, if such men should form a 'a cry for help' organization and advocate for ministry of men affairs, fine, but they should also be taught what it takes to be a man, and some of those qualities are to be brave and to provide for your family. By this, a woman can hardly feel that you are beneath her and trample on you in the process.


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Ten up for Paul Brady in California
Cavan's Paul Brady secured a phenomenal tenth title at the 65th USHA National Four-Wall Championships in California.
Cavan's Paul Brady secured a phenomenal tenth title at the 65th USHA National Four-Wall Championships in California.
Hull City made it two wins on the bounce and took a big step towards safety with a 2-1 victory over fellow strugglers QPR in a game in which Robbie Brady, Paul McShane and David Meyler all featured.
Paul Brady continued his amazing run of success on the US Handball Race4Eight tour when he routed the field once again in Houston, Texas.
Cavan's four-time World Champion, Paul Brady, may have skipped this year's All-Ireland Championships but the Mullahoran man admits he is 'hungry for success' ahead of this week's US Nationals in Minneapolis.
Cavan's Paul Brady and Michael Finnegan captured their tenth All-Ireland doubles title following a pulsating final against Meath's Tom Sheridan and Brian Carroll at St Comans in Roscommon on Saturday evening.
Slipper Orchid had a productive season last year and she opened her account for 2014 on her seasonal debut in the feature www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap at the all-weather track.
Cavan's Paul Brady won his tenth title and ninth in a row in the GAA Handball O'Neills All-Ireland 40x20 Senior Singles Final at a packed venue in Abbeylara.
Cavan's Paul Brady squares up to Westmeath's Robbie McCarthy in the Handball All-Ireland Men's 40x20 final.
Recently crowned World Handball Open singles champions, Paul Brady and Aisling Reilly, have followed up their Citywest success with impressive US Open title wins this week.
Paul Brady tells Brian Carthy that he was not at his best and had to battle to win his fourth world title
Brian Carthy reports on Paul Brady's fourth men's handball world title and Aisling Reilly's women's final success
Paul Brady won his fourth Men's Singles title in a row at the World Handball Championships.
Paul Brady will meet his doubles partner Michael Finnegan as he steps up his bid for a fourth title in a row at the World Handball Championships in Dublin.
Defending world champion Paul Brady looks ahead to this week's World Handball Championships at Citywest
Cavan star Paul Brady claimed his seventh USHA Four-Wall National Championships Men's Open Singles title in Los Angeles.
Cavan's Paul Brady added yet another trophy to his ever swelling list of handball titles in Montreal this week when he secured the 2012 Canadian Nationals crown at his first attempt.
Defending champions and No 1 seeds, Cavan stars Paul Brady and Michael Finnegan (both Kingscourt), have successfully retained their GAA/O'Neill's All-Ireland (40x20) Championships Men's Open Senior Doubles title.
Defending champions and top seeds, Cavan's Paul Brady and Michael Finnegan, booked their place in the Men's Open Senior Doubles final of this year's GAA/O'Neill's All-Ireland 40x20 Championships.
Paul Brady goes head to head with Robbie McCarthy this weekend in Roscommon in a highly-anticipated Men's Senior Handball final.
Kerry's Maria Daly and Cavan's Paul Brady will both lay their respective GAA Handball titles on the line in the coming weeks as the duo get ready to battle against Ireland's elite players.


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I'm back with another BRIGHT pop of color. First, I brought you the Periwinkle Wings look/tutorial and shortly after I was inspired by another INCREDIBLE Stila eyeliner in the shade Turquoise (which definitely appears more MINTY than turquoise to me). The Stila periwinkle eyeliner was a liquid and this eyeliner is a smudge stick. I personally prefer the liquid but believe that BOTH types are worth purchasing. It simply depends on your preference. I want to keep branching out and trying different colored eyeliners because looks like these are PERFECT for this time of year. If you aren't daring enough to wear this eyeliner as a wing on your upper lashline then smudge a bit on your lower lashline! Either way it will be bold and fun so enjoy and let me know if you decide to give this try. I already know I've converted hundreds of you! HAHA! It makes me happy to share what I love in hopes that you'll fall in love as well.
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Clashes near Syria-Israel frontier add to concerns
BEIRUT Syrian regime forces routed rebels in fighting on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last week, leaving at least 35 dead, activists said Saturday, as the country's civil war reached the doorstep of the strategic plateau.
The rebel effort to overrun the Quneitra region along the cease-fire line separating Syria and Israel has heightened worries that Islamic extremists among those fighting President Bashar Assad could take over the front line with Israeli troops and gain a potential staging ground for attacks on the Jewish state.
The frontier has largely been calm in the nearly four decades since the two countries fought a war over the Golan Heights that ended with a U.N.-monitored cease-fire. But Israeli military officials have expressed concern that a rebel takeover could upset the calm maintained by Assad and his predecessor and father the late Hafez Assad.
Those fears have been compounded by increasing influence wielded by extremist groups over the divided rebels and the increasing international isolation of the regime.
"We are seeing terror organizations gaining footholds increasingly in the territory," said Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel's military chief at a conference in Israel last week. "For now, they are fighting Assad. Guess what? We're next in line."
One of the worst-case scenarios as Syria enters its third year of conflict is that neighboring countries such as Israel or Lebanon could be drawn in.
Israel says it is trying to stay out of Syria's civil war, but it retaliated for sporadic Syrian fire that spilled into Israeli communities on the Golan Heights on several occasions over the past few months.
When Israel bombed targets inside Syria said to include a weapons convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon in January, Syrian opposition fighters derided Assad for not retaliating.
The Syrian rebels are made up of dozens of groups including the powerful, al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, which has been labeled a terrorist organization by the Obama administration. One of the groups involved in the Golan fighting, the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, is an Islamic militant group.
The rebels have largely been beaten back since they seized control of at least one Druze village and parts of several others in Quneitra province near the 1974 disengagement line.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 35 opposition fighters and contact had been lost with more than 20 others believed to have died in the fighting Wednesday and Thursday.
At least six pro-Assad fighters were also killed and dozens of others were wounded, according to the activist group.
For now, opposition fighters in Syria appear to be focused on toppling Assad, and there is little to suggest that they may be planning to turn their guns on Israel.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Observatory, said fighters were rallied around the same goal of ousting Assad. "But when there's chaos, who knows what might happen," he said.
Anthony Skinner, Middle East-North Africa chief at the British risk analysis firm Maplecroft, said the number of armed groups fighting in Syria makes it difficult to predict whether militant Islamists would contemplate an attack on Israel if the opportunity arose.


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Coastal Brazil - This is the home of the Tupinamba, an early slave society in pre-European South America that practiced the ritualistic slaughter of their slaves. Slaves had little value to the master except for the honor and dignity of the slaveholder.
Angola - This is the home of the Impangala, an African slave-based society. The slave master depended on the slave's productivity and motivated the slave by the promise of freedom.
Coastal Celebes - This is the South Pacific island home to a group of people, some of whom practice slavery. Slavery introduced the notion of different classes with different status.
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Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site for further information. All listings must include an image. Electronic images are preferred, but we can accept photographs or slides. The information may be e-mailed to <[email protected]> or mailed to Exhibitions, Maine Antique Digest, PO Box 1429, Waldoboro, ME 04572.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Farm House at Essex, 1929, watercolor on paper, 14" x 19 15/16".
—Through August 15
—New York City
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Our American Life, an exhibit of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the 19th century to the present that focuses on the landscape and culture of America as seen by the artists. Works by Eastman Johnson, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Fairfield Porter, and others are on view, as well as works by contemporary artists.
Hirschl & Adler is located in the Crown Building at the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. For more information, call (212) 535-8810 or visit (www.hirschlandadler.com).
Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), Peace and Harmony, 1865.
—Through September 12
—Keene, New Hampshire
The Historical Society of Cheshire County presents Canvassing the White Mountains: Icons of Place, showcasing works from the 19th and early 20th century of New Hampshire's White Mountains and Mount Monadnock. The exhibit features paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Bricher, Asher Durand, Alvan Fisher, and others and shows "how the painting styles of these artists illustrate not only the evolution of American art, but also how they helped to shape the American view of and reaction to wilderness and nature."
The historical society is located at 246 Main Street in Keene. Hours are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and the first and third Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to noon. Admission to the exhibit is $5 ($4 for members). For more information, call (603) 352-1895 or visit (www.hsccnh.org).
John Belli, Indian Low Front.
—Through September 28
—Springfield, Massachusetts
At the Springfield Museums is a series of exhibitions focusing on the art genre known as steampunk. Steampunk Springfield: Re-Imagining an Industrial City has exhibits in both the George Walter Vincent Smith (GWVS) Art Museum and the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History. According to a press release, the term steampunk "describes a fantasy world where steam-powered technology of the Victorian era merges with elements of contemporary time. Steampunk has...grown into an artistic and design subculture combining science fiction, history, fantasy and technology." The GWVS Art Museum is hosting the primary exhibit of the project, Humachines, with 12 large-scale pieces created by guest curator and visionary Bruce Rosenbaum and a group of artists that "transform legendary Victorian-era writers and inventors into the very creations they envisioned." Other exhibits of Steampunk Springfield consist of entries chosen during design competitions in the fall of 2013. Brassy Bridal: Steampunk Wedding features steampunk bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, tuxedos, jewelry, and accessories and is on display at the GWVS Art Museum, while Fifty Firsts: Springfield Inventions Reinvented is on display at the Wood Museum of Springfield History.
The museums are located at 21 Edwards Street in Springfield. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and for college students with ID, $8 for children three to 17, and free for children two and under. Tickets include admission to all five of the museums in the complex. For more information on these and other steampunk events in the area, call (413) 263-6800 or visit (www.springfieldmuseums.org).
—Through October 5
—Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents a collection of Fabergé from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Fabulous Fabergé, Jeweller to the Czars. A press release notes that "the exhibition comprises some 240 objects, including four of the 43 remaining famous Easter eggs commissioned by the Romanovs. It also features a wealth of documentation on the history and traditions of Orthodox Russia, the techniques of the House of Fabergé and those who forged its works, and the fall of the czarist regime, which brought about that of the jeweler." A catalog of the Fabergé collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is available.
The MMFA is located at 1380 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest in Montreal. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Wednesdays the museum is open until 9 p.m. Admission to the exhibition and the museum is $20 for adults ages 31 and up, $12 for ages 13 to 30, and free for children 12 and under and for VIP members. Admission is $10 on Wednesday evenings starting at 5 p.m. For more information, call (800) 899-6873 or (514) 285-2000, or visit (www.mbam.qc.ca).
Carl Fabergé, Henrik Wigström (workmaster), Imperial Czarevich Easter egg, 1912, six sections of lapis lazuli decorated with two-headed eagles, winged caryatids, hanging canopies, strap work, floral baskets, and sprays. A thin, flat tabular diamond covers the Cyrillic monogram "AF" (for Alexandra Feodorovna). Inside the egg is a two-sided portrait of the Czarevich Alexei at the age of eight painted on ivory, inlaid in a support in the shape of a two-headed eagle encrusted with diamonds, resting on a lapis lazuli pedestal. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. Photo by Katherine Wetzel, ©Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
—Through November 2
—Bennington, Vermont
The Bennington Museum presents Alice Neel/Erastus Field: Painting the People. A press release notes that although portrait painters Neel (1900-1984) and Field (1805-1900) were separated by 100 years, their works "have a remarkable resonance with one another." The exhibit shows the similarities in the artists' "cultural, political, and social milieus, as well as the subjects of their paintings."
The museum is located at 75 Main Street in Bennington. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, July through October; and Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., November through June. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and for students over 18, and free for youths 17 and under. For more information, call (802) 447-1571 or visit (www.benningtonmuseum.org).
Erastus Salisbury Field, Sarah Elizabeth Ball, circa 1838, oil on canvas, 35 1/8" x 29¼". Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Photo by Petegorsky/Gipe.
—Through December 14
—Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Williams College Museum of Art presents Material Friction: Americana and American Art–Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection.In an interview published in the exhibit's brochure, the Fieldings explained their focus: "The broadness of our collection has to do with our interest in history and the stories the objects tell. We did not want to confine ourselves to just furniture or just paintings because there is so much beauty in things such as a piece of needlework or a beautifully carved foot warmer. We do have a specific focus on New England from 1680 to 1850, although a few objects from New York and Pennsylvania have crept in."
The museum is located at 15 Lawrence Hall Drive on the campus of Williams College. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and until 8 p.m. on Thursday. Admission is free. For more information, call (413) 597-2429 or visit (http://wcma.williams.edu).
Maker unknown, Devotion family slant-front desk, 1700-40, maple with brass hardware. Collection of Jonathan and Karin Fielding. Photo by Tim Street-Porter.
Bartholomew Schaats, tankard, silver, circa 1728. The Cahn Collection, image ©2011 David Ulmer.
—Through May 24, 2015
—Williamsburg, Virginia
A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver from the Cahn Collection is currently on view at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at Colonial Williamsburg. More than 50 pieces have been selected for the exhibit from the collection of Paul and Elissa Cahn, including a circa 1690 brandywine bowl by Cornelius Vander Burch and a pair of sauceboats by Paul Revere. These are supplemented by 14 items from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's collection.
The museum is located at 326 West Francis Street in Colonial Williamsburg. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Admission is $12.95 for adults, $6.50 for youths six to 12, and free for children under six. For more information, call (888) 965-7254 or visit (www.colonialwilliamsburg.com).
—September 6 through March 29, 2015
—Harvard, Massachusetts
Maker unknown, Henry David Thoreau's desk, circa 1800. Photo by Erb Photography.
Fruitlands Museum will present 100 Objects, 100 Stories, 100 Years at Fruitlands Museum in celebration of the museum's 100th anniversary. This exhibition will showcase select items, as chosen by the public, from the museum's five collections: the land, the Shakers, the Transcendentalists and reformers, the Native Americans, and American art. A book by the same name will be available.
The museum is located at 102 Prospect Hill Road in Harvard. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for students with valid ID and seniors, $5 for youths five to 13, and free for children under five and for members. Hours through November 2 are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For winter hours and more information, call (978) 456-3924 or visit (www.fruitlands.org).
Originally published in the August 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2014 Maine Antique Digest


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Winter in the Village of Newfane, Vermont
"Boston said only a couple of inches," I put in.
"What do they know?" George asks.
Approximately the same conversation is to be heard from one end of town to the other. The villagers shake their heads and go about their business as best they can, but not without having a rueful little laugh together at winter, and at themselves as winter's unwilling servants. Winter is an ordeal that is not avoided or defeated, but shared. Therefore, it's in the depths of winter that the village is most perfectly a community. We pay attention. We focus. We set things around our houses to rights. We lay in supplies at the village store. We know the snow falls on all alike, sending male and female, young and old, rich and poor slipping and sliding helplessly into the ditch. Winter puts us all in the same boat.
It puts us all in the same boat, but it does more: It makes us almost glad to be there—something that cannot be accomplished by talent or hard work or strong character, but that can be accomplished by humor. Winter breeds wits as summer breeds mosquitoes. What you can't avoid or overcome you must endure, and humor aids endurance. John is on his way home to work on his driveway. He had it nicely cleared last evening, but the town plow came along in the night and left a ledge of snow the size of the Hoover Dam where the driveway meets the street. John has a heavy job ahead of him.
"See you fellows later," he says. "I've got a lot of snow to shovel."
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Heat and controlled atmosphere are being used in many parts of the world to control stored product pests.
As the Montreal Protocol continues to reduce and eliminate the use of methyl bromide around the world, various products and processes are being implemented to replace this previously go-to, virtually all-purpose fumigant for control of stored product pests. Two of the non-chemical processes gaining use in Europe, but only gradually getting a foothold in the United States, are heat and controlled atmosphere treatments. (See The Evolution of the Montreal Protocol, at the bottom of this article, for more information on the protocol and methyl bromide.)
At the 10th Fumigants and Pheromones Conference, organized by Insects Limited and Fumigation Service & Supply and attended by 225 people from 33 countries and six continents, discussion of heat and controlled atmosphere were included in the presentations of a number of the global presenters.
The theme of the three-day conference, held in Indianapolis, Ind., in May was "Pest Management Around the World." It included speakers from Africa, Europe, South America and North America covering a variety of topics from a global pest management perspective, as well as nine hands-on demonstrations.
In the presentation, "How is Europe Surviving Without Methyl Bromide," Darka Hamel, an entomologist with the Croatian Center for Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, explained that European scientists began investigating alternatives soon after the 1992 decision that methyl bromide was going to be banned in developed countries as of Jan. 1, 2005. "There was not a common program within the European Union (EU), but scientists have started studies according to their interest, available methods and money," she said.
Both heat and controlled atmosphere have the advantage of being natural, non-chemical applications that leave no pesticide residual. However, each has its disadvantages as well, including the expense of controlled atmosphere and the limitations of heat on some food applications.
Heat Treatments. Although heat will kill all life stages of insects, there are some advantages and disadvantages to this type of treatment.
What It Is. To kill all stages of food product pests, the temperature in a sealed area or structure is increased to 122°F (50°C) and held for 24 hours or 136°F (58°C) for 16 hours, explained Vasilis Sotiroudas of AgroSpecCom in Thessaloniki, Greece. Of the first method (122°F at 24 hours), Sotiroudas said, "That is the principle accepted around the world as a good temperature and time target." But, he added, "We have come up with an alternative — we can reach a little higher and be a little shorter because we are killing before 58°C (136°F)."
In trials, Sotiroudas said, the increased temperature has not caused any damage, but it is critical to ensure that the temperature is consistent throughout the area being treated. Although heat treatments can be done by food company personnel, it is necessary to have the proper equipment and understanding of the process, thus, in Europe the treatment is frequently outsourced.
There can be extensive variation in temperature from floor to ceiling and wall to wall, depending on duration of heating, building material and equipment in the building, as well as the number of heaters and fans and their placement, said Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Scientist Paul Fields. These factors cause hot and cold spots. "When people start doing heat treatments, often they don't have enough air circulation. You need lots of powerful fans. Good air circulation can prevent areas from getting too hot, which can damage equipment. Also, it can eliminate cold areas, where insects escape to survive," Fields said.
Methods and Equipment. Three types of heaters are used for heat treatments, Fields added. These include steam-powered heaters attached to boilers, forced-air heaters using propane or natural gas and electrical heaters. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, steam has the lowest energy costs, whereas electrical has highest, but it can be better for smaller jobs. Forced-air can be faster than the other methods.
When selecting equipment and method, there is also the question of whether to recycle the air or introduce new air, Sotiroudas said. With air recirculation by electric heaters, it takes about 24 hours to reach 122°F and the temperature must be maintained for an additional 24 hours. With air addition using gas heaters, it takes about eight hours to reach 136°F and maintenance at that temperature for 16 hours.
"Heat treatment is a precise treatment as we are able to monitor every part of the building because we walk in during the treatment," Sotiroudas said.
The advantages of each method are as follows:
Air recirculation:
Air introduction:
Disadvantages include the following:
Air recirculation
Air introduction
With the disadvantages of each, he said, there can be an advantage to combining the two methods, targeting basements and cement silos with gas heaters and targeting equipment with electrical heaters.
A significant advantage of heat treatments in general is, that because of its non-chemical nature, there are no government regulations controlling its application. In addition, this enables it to be used in a sealed area of a building while work continues in other areas.
When done correctly, the heat is able to penetrate throughout the area or a complete structure, detecting and eliminating pests from hidden areas. However, heat cannot deeply penetrate dense product such as flour, thus enabling pests to burrow down for survival. "This is the reason that flour mills must have no silos or bins full (inside the building) during a heat treatment," Sotiroudas said, explaining that a small amount of flour forgotten in a conveyor will be heated and insects will die, but a bin with a large amount would never be heated properly.
Care must be taken to thoroughly inspect the structure and equipment within, and to remove items that could be affected by the heat. If a structure is heated or cooled too quickly or the temperature is allowed to rise too high, there is the potential to damage the structure/equipment.
Determining Efficacy. Proving the efficacy of a heat treatment became a challenge, Sotiroudas said, because there were no studies or data from Greek universities. So how does one prove to the customer that the treatment was effective and counter any customer claims that it wasn't? Sotiroudas recommends that bioassays be used for verification and that this be agreed by the customer prior to treatment. "Mention the survival of bioassays on the contract as the treatment effectiveness decision point," he said.
The reason this is needed is because, he said, although heat will kill all life stages, there is potential for adults to escape into a structural crack in a window or outer wall, then return after the heat is reduced. To help prevent the survival of these adults, Sotiroudas also recommended that a contact insecticide be applied around doors, windows and cracks. Or, if there is a preference to avoid chemicals, PMPs can use an organic insecticide, such as essential oils, to control any escaping insects.
A Case Study. Nestle Purina PetCare has been using heat since 1993, and today, it is the only treatment the company uses, said Director of Food Safety Kim Kemp. When Kemp joined Purina, he was tasked with developing a new sanitation program. Kemp was interested in pursuing a pesticide-free option. So he began his research focused on the question, "How do you modify your atmosphere to reduce the pest pressure at your plant?" and eventually decided to try heat. In addition to eliminating the pests, Kemp said, "It was the best inspection tool I've ever used."
Initially, he used a self-made portable heater. This transitioned to stationery heaters, and eventually became the process used by all Purina PetCare plants. "Methyl bromide is no longer used or on Purina's approved list," he said.
In addition to providing pesticide-free control, the use of heat reduced chemical costs from more than $60,000 pre-heat to $3,000 in 2007 and less than $2,000 in 2011, Kemp said. Today, he added, "Our fogging program is being further modified to be done based only on the insect-catch records for a given area. This will cut chemical usage even further." The process also gained the company the 2006 EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award.
Controlled Atmosphere. As indicated by the Purina story and the gradually increasing offerings of heat treatment by pest control companies and equipment manufacturers, heat is seeing some use in the United States. However, controlled atmosphere (CA), while becoming more common in Europe, is seeing slower penetration in the United States, which has not yet completely released its hold on methyl bromide critical use exemptions.
What It Is. As defined in a report from the University of California and Getty Conservation Institute, "controlled atmospheres are modified atmospheres that are usually produced artificially and maintained by additionally generating the desired gases (CO2 and N2) or by purging with these gases from pressurized cylinders."
Replacing the oxygen in the air with carbon dioxide or nitrogen gas kills all stages of insects. The insect's metabolic process requires oxygen; depriving its body tissues of oxygen causes it to dry out and die.
To modify and control the atmosphere of a structure or area to be treated, special equipment processes ambient air, separating out the oxygen and leaving only nitrogen behind. This modified air is pumped into the structure being treated, forcing out the oxygenated air. At the same time, the temperature is increased enough to ensure the insects are active — causing their respiration and metabolism to increase, speeding the time to kill.
According to a paper from the USDA's Methyl Bromide Alternatives Outreach program, "At exposure concentrations of 0.5 percent O2 for 96 hours, 100 percent mortality has been observed for nearly all insects tested."
However, exact principles of a treatment are dependent on variables such as the product or space being treated, weather and insect being eliminated, Sotiroudas said. Examples he gave included treating bags of sesame for Indian meal moths in the summer with an ambient temperature of 77°F. For complete kill, this insect needs 95°F at one percent oxygen for two days, and one day is needed to reach these parameters, thus a total of three days is needed. But treating bags of rice for rice weevils in the winter with an ambient temperature of 50°F would require three days to reach the needed parameters of 95°F at one percent oxygen for five days, thus a total of eight days is needed.
In addition to the amount of time needed, CA can be expensive, Hamel said. As such, it is used in Europe primarily for smaller consignments and valuable commodities such as spices and herbs, she said, adding that in-bin sealing also is often a limiting factor. CA installations and chambers are present in Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, she said.
Advantages and Disadvantages. The technology can be used in airtight chambers or in silos to treat foodstuffs. Other advantages of CA technology, as detailed by Sotiroudas and Hamel include:
Disadvantages include:
Combining Technologies. While each technology has advantages and disadvantages in and of itself, further options can be provided through the combining of heat, controlled atmosphere and phosphine, Fields said, referencing a technology invented by David Mueller, president of Insects Limited.
The process involves the use of carbon dioxide at three to six percent, heat at 85°F to 105°F and phosphine at 50 to 100 ppm. Sensitive equipment should be removed or sealed. In two trials in Canadian flour mills, the procedure killed 100 percent of adults and 99 percent of eggs of red flour beetles, Fields said.
U.S. Methyl Bromide use. The United States is one of very few countries still using methyl bromide. Having gained permission from the Montreal Protocol for continued critical-use exemptions for 2012, producing and consuming 922.826 metric tons of methyl bromide, the United States is the highest producer/user of the compound. Currently, 93 percent of methyl bromide still in use around the world is used here.
In May, the USDA announced a Methyl Bromide Transitions (MBT) program, the goal of which is to "support the discovery and implementation of practical pest management alternatives to methyl bromide uses for which the United States is requesting critical use exemptions." The program seeks to ensure that economically viable and environmentally sound alternatives to methyl bromide are in place and available as soon as possible for the current 2013 Critical Use Nominations, the announcement stated. The solicitation, which closed in June, focused on integrated commercial- or field-scale research targeting short- to medium-term solutions, associated extension activity to foster adoption and an economic analysis of cost of successfully implementing the transition on a commercial scale.
The author is editor of Quality Assurance and Food Safety magazine, PCT magazine's sister publication. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Evolution of the Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth's ozone layer. Depletion of the ozone layer reduces the shield that protects the Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays. The original Montreal Protocol was agreed on in September 1987 and entered into force on Jan. 1, 1989. Since its implementation, 197 countries have ratified the protocol.
Included in the substances whose use was to be reduced, and eventually discontinued altogether, was methyl bromide, an odorless, colorless gas that has been used as a soil and structural fumigant to control pests. Use of methyl bromide was to be completely phased out by Jan. 1, 2005, however, the Montreal Protocol also includes provisions for three broad sets of exemptions, including critical uses of methyl bromide; essential uses for all other controlled chemicals except HCFCs; and laboratory and analytical uses.
Additionally, in recognition that methyl bromide use for quarantine and pre-shipment purposes is an important remaining use, the amounts used for quarantine and pre-shipment applications are not included in the calculated levels of consumption and production. However, parties to the protocol are requested to provide information on their national strategies and actions to reduce these uses.
According to the most recent release from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (October 2011), there was an unprecedented stratospheric ozone loss in the Arctic in 2011. The loss was attributed to the continuing presence of ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere and a very cold winter in the stratosphere. Although adherence to the Montreal Protocol is lowering levels of these substances, the publication notes that, because of the long atmospheric lifetimes of these compounds, it will take several decades before their concentrations are back down to pre-1980 levels, the target agreed in the protocol.
The Montreal Protocol also includes a provision enabling parties to respond quickly to new scientific information, agree to accelerate the reductions required on covered chemicals, then automatically apply them to all countries that ratified the protocol. Since its initial adoption, the protocol has been adjusted five times. In addition, the protocol was amended to enable the control of new chemicals and the creation of a financial mechanism to enable developing countries to comply. Unlike adjustments to the protocol, amendments must be ratified by countries before their requirements are applicable to those countries. The U.S. has ratified all amendments.
Source: Compiled from information from the United Nations Environment Program (http://ozone.unep.org)


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In 2005 The Ecstatic Exchange was created to publish the extensive body of my life's work, with many books now available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, the printer, Lulu.com., WAO books (U.K.), etc. Autographed copies and books with CDs (where indicated) are made available by contacting the author's email (see Contact). Zilzal Press was created in the 80s to publish some of the manuscripts or selected poems from larger manuscripts as chapbooks. To read a note on publications,
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City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1964
This Body of Black
Light, Fred Stone, Cambridge, Mass, 1965
Burnt Heart,
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The Desert is the Only
Way Out, Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara, 1985
The Chronicles of Akhira,
Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara, 1986
Halley's Comet, Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara,
Atomic Dance, am here books, Santa Barbara,
Awake As Never Before,
Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1993
The Quest for Beauty, cover/illustrations
by Sara Steele, Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1994
Roses, A Selection of Poems, Zilzal Press,
Philadelphia, 1994
Maulood, a poem in praise
of The Prophet Muhammad, Zilzal Press, Philadelphia,
Mecca/Medina Time-Warp,
Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, January, 1996
The Ramadan Sonnets,
Kitab/City Lights Books, Bethesda, San Francisco, September,
The Blind Beekeeper, Zilzal Press Chapbook,
Philadelphia, 1999
The Blind Beekeeper,
Poems, Jusoor / Syracuse University Press,
Syracuse, 2001
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Salt Prayers, The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005
Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi, The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005
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I Imagine a Lion, The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006
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CHEATING the European Community is not the preserve of Greek peach farmers or Italian olive growers. Scientists are also on the fiddle, according to the European Court of Auditors.
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There was no separate estimate for how much may have been misspent by the Framework Programme, although the auditors complained that not a single Ecu of Framework's 50 000-Ecu budget for "measures against fraud" had been spent. They singled out for particular criticism the Framework budget for Human Capital and Mobility. Most of the 587 million Ecus in the HCM budget pays postdoctoral scientists to work in other member states.
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Mithril Prospecting
#1: Mithril Powder
#2: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby
#3: Mithril Powder, Aquamarine, Aquamarine
#4: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby
#5: Mithril Powder, Aquamarine, Aquamarine, Large Opal
#6: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Aquamarine
#7: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Aquamarine
#8: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Star Ruby
#9: Mithril Powder
#10: Mithril Powder, Citrine
#11: Mithril Powder, Aquamarine
#12: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Blue Sapphire
#13: Mithril Powder, Aquamarine
#14: Mithril Powder, Citrine, Star Ruby
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#16: Mithril Powder, Citrine, Star Ruby
#17: Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Citrine
#18 Mithril Powder, Star Ruby, Aquamarine
#19: Mithril Powder, Aquamarine
#20: Mithril Powder
As you can see there's about a 10% chance to get a gem upgrade (thorium quality gem) from mithril. There was also a very high number of star rubies vs other gem types. This can annoying for jewelcrafters since star rubies aren't nearly as utilized as aquamarines or citrines. Overall I got 27 gems from 20 prospects, so that's a drop rate of over 100%. I've found this to be true with most of the ore I prospected, not just mithril.
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- goody24January 19, 2007 at 12:06 AM
I thought i would share propecting thorium today. I dont have the breakdown by prospect but in 4 stacks of Thorium ore:ReplyDelete
2 Az diamonds
1 Blue Saph
1 Lg Opal
9 Star Rubies
1 blood garnet
The stacks cost me 8g's apiece and gave me approx 3 points. So i continue to be stuck at 284. Whats up with the rate on Star Rubies?
Thanks for the JC guide, i had it printed next me during my entire grind!
Hi Goody, thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience! I too am completely mystified by the star ruby drop rate. I found it quite annoying personally when I was counting on other gems that are more useful for jewelcrafting. Actually, I guess I wasn't counting on them really. But what the heck am I going to do with 30 star rubies??ReplyDelete
- goody24January 21, 2007 at 4:29 AM
Finally made it to 300 and thought i would add more to be mystified about, today i prospected 1 stack of Fel iron ore whichi bought for 18g.ReplyDelete
The results: 1 Brill Draenite.
I'm amazed at how bad the prospecting rates are.
It sounds like you hit a bad run, typically you average at least 1 gem per prospect. Maybe 1 in 5 prospects you get zero gems, but usually you have at least 1 in 5 that gives 2 gems so it tends to even out. Don't give up, it was probably just bad luck :(ReplyDelete
- TampageJanuary 22, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Am also annoyed at the Star Rubies. Had 30 Thorium Ore and gotReplyDelete
1 Huge Emerald
4 Star Rubies
6x Thorium powder.
I'd expect the rubies from Mithril, but not so much from the Thorium.
Had something weird with the prospecting interface afterwards too. Tried to prospect a stack of 6 Mithril and the progress bar moved, but there was no loot dialog box and no change in the quantity of Mithril. I haven't tried again since logging off so I'm hoping it will work now. I could do other things normally. Just not prospecting. Don't know if anyone else has encountered this.
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In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. Auditions for the Laramie Project:
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The Bachelor of Architecture degree is offered in a five-year curriculum, which focuses on the design laboratory. The studio sequence consists of four segments: a three-year basic core, a threer quarter topic studios an urban design studio and a two-quarter long culminating senior project. Lecture classes in Architecture Theory and History, Human Behavior, Professional Practice, Programming, Sustainability, Building Technology, Structures, Codes and Digital Media are closely coordinated with the studio sequence, and students are expected to demonstrate their knowledge of these areas in their design projects.
Course work within the Department of Architecture is open only to those students who have been admitted to the Department and are designated Architecture majors.
The undergraduate program in the Department of Architecture is considered to be "impacted," that is, many more students apply than can be accommodated each year and a supplementary admissions process is required by the University and the Department; all candidates must meet regular University admission standards as well as additional standards required by the Department of Architecture. For further information about University requirements for "impacted" programs, please refer to the University website for freshmen and for transfer students.
As a result of state impaction requirements, applications are only accepted from October 1 through November 30 for the following academic year; only a small number of non-resident and foreign students are admitted to the B.Arch. program. In accordance with University policies for student affirmative action, women, minorities, and disabled persons are especially encouraged to apply.
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Students who have less than 18 quarter (or 12 semester) units of transferable college credits by the end of the fall quarter (or semester) during which they apply are considered freshman applicants.
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Upper division transfers must complete 60 semester (90 quarter) units of transferable coursework, including 30 semester (45 quarter) units of courses equivalent to general education requirements, with a grade of "C" or better by the end of the spring quarter to be considered for the next fall quarter.
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