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Osteoradionecrosis - Portneuf Medical Center
Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is a problem with bone healing that can occur in people who received high doses of radiation, particularly to the jaw. This complication can occur after dental surgery or extraction of teeth. High doses of radiation can decrease the bone's blood supply. If this happens, the bone gets less oxygen than it needs, resulting in the death (necrosis) of bone tissue. The most commonly affected bone is the jawbone (mandible). Source:www.mc.vanderbilt.edu
Who is at risk for osteoradionecrosis?
Survivors who received high doses of radiation to the jaw area are at risk for this complication. Radiation fields that often include the jawbone are as follows:
- Cranial (head/brain)
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how is osteoradionecrosis treated?
Treatment of ORN is mainly through control of uncomfortable symptoms. Salt-water rinses and light scrubbing of affected tissues may be helpful. Antibiotics may help if a wound becomes infected. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (oxygen delivered in a pressurized chamber) is sometimes used to increase the amount of oxygen given to the affected tissues and improve the chance of healing.


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I have so many memories of my youth and the life we lived on the family farm, I hardly know where to start. There were nine of us kids, so we were always cooking and washing dishes. In winter, when a cow and hog were butchered, we rendered lard in a big copper boiler on the wood cookstove. Mom would stir it with the long wooden ladle that was used to churn butter in the tall crock churn. Apple butter was also made in this old copper boiler, and wash water was heated in it too.
In early spring Mom would get baby chicks, possibly 200 or so. She would get up in the night and go out to the brooder house to check on them and add wood to the heater. These chickens would be our meat supply for summer, as we had no way to keep meat. Later on in the summer more chicks would be raised for fryers.
We had no electricity, but we had the kerosene lamps, the wood cookstove and heaters. I recall in winter how the dipper in the water bucket would freeze in the water. In summer as well as in winter we ate in the kitchen by the big wood cookstove. I don't recall anyone ever complaining about how hot it was, as we knew nothing else.
Mom was a wonderful cook, using lots of cream, butter and sugar. Most every night for supper we had a huge skillet of fried potatoes; to this day I still love them. We baked bread every other day in big, black bread pans that were my grandfather's when he batched; he was 40 when he married Grandma, who was 20. These pans were so worn that there were tiny holes in the bottom.
On the Fourth of July we would get ice! What a treat. We would have a big freezer of ice cream, and Mom would make orangeade from real oranges and lemons. This was made in a five-gallon stone jar with a big hunk of ice in it. This stone jar sat on the floor by Mom. The empty glasses were passed down the row of kids to Mom, who would refill them and pass them back up the row. We sat on long boards that rested on five-gallon cream cans.
Though it sounds as if we lived a hard life, it did not seem so to us, as it was all we knew.
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Open Sept 24th-Oct 31st Open Daily 10:00-6:00 pm
(Corn Maze admittance closes at 5:00 to allow for completion of maze, Halloween hours: 10-4)
Harvest Festival Activities Admission:
Activity Bracelets for Farm Fun No Admission to Pick a Pumpkin or Visit Farm Market
Avoid the crowds, come on a weekday
Weekday Activities Offered Monday- Friday
Weekday Admission Bracelet-$5/person – (2 & under free)
Weekday Family Pass-$20.00 for up to 6 people
(good for up to two adults and 4 children)
Bracelets only good on day of purchase and must be worn on wrist. Bracelets include:
Giant 5-acre Griffey Corn Maze open everyday
Hay ride
Petting Farm
Hay maze in barn
Hay jump
Busy Bee Garden and play area
Giant Sand Table Play Area
Duck Races and Pedal Tractors and inner tube jumper
Fort Nisqually Play Area with slides, cow roping, pumpkin bowling
Berry Bounce Jumping Pillow (opens at 3:00 on weekdays, one five minute jump included in price of activity bracelet, additional jumps available for extra fee)
Saturday – Sunday Basic and Combo Activity Bracelets Offered:
Basic Saturday or Sunday Admission Bracelet-$5/person – (2 & under free)
Combo Saturday or Sunday Admission Bracelet-$12/person – (2 & under free)
Weekend Family Combo Pass-$50.00 for up to 6 people
(good for up to 2 adults and 4 children) includes combo bracelets for each family member
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Giant 5-acre Griffey Corn Maze (no admittance after 5:00pm)*
Hay ride
Petting Farm
Hay maze in barn
Hay jump
Busy Bee Garden and Play Area
Giant Sand Table Play Area
Duck Races and Pedal Tractors
Fort Nisqually Play Area with slides, cow roping, pumpkin bowling*
"Round up Railway" Cow Train(one ride per person included with admission)*
Shooting the pumpkin blaster or corn cannon(one shot included with admission)*
Berry Bounce Jumping Pillow *
All Month Unlimited Pass-$30.00/person
(unlimited combo bracelets for the month of October) Purchase at the activity booth. Identification is required at time of purchase and check in with i.d. at activity booth at each following visit to pick up that day's bracelet is required.
Pony rides not included in price of admission! Bracelets only good on day of purchase.
A' La Cart Activities Menu:
Berry Bounce Jumping Pillow-$4.00/unlimited jumping, $3.00 one five minute jump (weather dependent)
Extra Shots at Corn Cannon/pumpkin Blaster- 3 shots for $2.00 or 1 shot for $1.00
Pony Rides (available Saturday and Sunday only) $5.00/ride
Extra Round Up Railway Cow Train Rides-$3.00/ride
Weekend Giant Corn Maze only Pass- $8.00/person (under 2 free)
Note: Pumpkins are additional fee, not included in price of admission. Pony rides not included in price of admission.
Military Discount: To thank all of our military who serve our country and patronize our business we offer a $1.00 per person discount on combo bracelet individual admission to the farm, or $4.00 off of the family pass admission price. Must show military i.d. to receive discounts. (Good for single day combo passes only. Excludes month long pass). Thank you
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This isn't on my personal blog, but I write twice a month for Scandinavian Child. Here is my post today about homemade Mac N Cheese.
This isn't on my personal blog, but I write twice a month for Scandinavian Child. Here is my post today about homemade Mac N Cheese.
I always make my own mac and cheese now, and my kids won't even eat the boxed kind anymore because it tastes gross.
I would never udnerstand why people buy boxed mac and cheese. Actually, i don't understand why people buy boxed ready to eat food at all!
DS loves M&C, and I always make my own. I've tasted the boxed kind and it is gross!!
I've never been a huge fan of M&C but Annie's brand makes a pretty decent organic M&C if your in a pinch. I have made my own before, but since we only eat M&C maybe once every 4 mths, I sometimes just buy Annie's organic brand from Whole Foods, that's about the ONLY thing I will buy boxed.....lol
Hoping for 5th, Married to DH since '96, humbly homeschooling & mothering w/ God's grace, Abby 10/2002, Bella 12/2003, Jules 4/2005, Luke 1/2008
I too have said all those things about boxed mac and cheese, I make all our own bread, pickles, tomato sauces from our home grown canned tomatoes, I make our granola cereal.
However my first trimester I spent throwing up three to six hours two to three nights a week, and dry heaving every morning, noon and evening. I laid on the sofa or in bed every day for four months, to avoid the heaves caused by standing.
I couldn't eat much, and annies boxed Mac and Cheese was one of the few items I could keep down.
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A long time ago, in a galaxy which is quite some distance away (and which some say doesn't actually exist)...
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It is a bleak time for Roger Forehander and his allies in the Tennis Rebellion. The Empire has driven Forehander and his chums from many of the planets which had been living in peace with Forehander as their leader.
The galaxy is in disarray, with many not knowing who to trust as their rightful king. Some inhabitants long for the old days and for things to go back to how they were; others welcome the shift in power after the many years with Forehander in charge.
Fortunately, all is not lost, as the members of the Tennis Rebellion still have one remaining base on the planet known as "Blushing Pastures." However, Forehander has been told by his mentor, Fourteen Slams-Won Kanobi (sometimes known as old Pete Kanobi), that he must leave the Tennis Rebellion, which is busy coming up with tactics to attack the Empire's man-made planet, the "No. 1 Star," and journey on his own.
Kanobi wants Forehander to pay a visit to the famous G.O.A.T. Knight, Lava, to learn more about the ways of the Force.
Darth Raf-er, leader of the Empire and its lands, is meanwhile seeking to take Blushing Pastures. Should he claim it, his Empire will be complete. But first, he must meet with Forehander on the clay of the "Red Earth" and the green pastures of the "Emerald Star"...
Scene One: Lava's Lair on the Lonely Planet "Calendar Slam"
Roger Forehander and Fourteen Slams-Won Kanobi have just landed on the deserted planet of "Calender Slam." They are walking through the blazing heat towards the sandy shores of the planet, where Kanobi hopes they will find Lava.
Forehander: Look, Fourteen Slams-Won, I am awfully grateful for you bringing me here and all, but I really don't think it is necessary. I don't need to speak to a G.O.A.T. Knight, I've spoken to so many, and I know my own powers, I don't need any help. I can wield my Wilsonsaber perfectly well, thank you.
Kanobi: You are wrong, my friend. I think you will benefit immensely. You may have spoken to some of the G.O.A.T. Knights of tennis, myself included, but you have never met a man with as much power as Lava. He is still considered the greatest of all G.O.A.T. Knights. He will help you fight back against the Empire and reclaim your home planet, the Emerald Star. Then you too will be permitted entrance to the planet of the Knights. That is what you want, isn't it?
Forehander: Well, yes, I suppose...but I'm still not convinced.
(Kanobi spots Lava topping up his tan on the beach.)
Kanobi: Lava, here he is. I have brought him to you.
(Kanobi pushes a reluctant Forehander towards Lava.)
Lava: The famous Forehander, is this? Hmm. Come for my advice? Hmm. Trust me, you must. Doubt me, never.
Forehander (to Kanobi): Why does he talk backwards?
Lava: Talk backwards, you say? Hmm. And that is what you must do. Play as Roger Backhander. No longer will you be known as Roger Forehander when I have finished with you. No. A fine tool, your Wilsonsaber is. But trust me, you must.
Forehander: Sorry, do you think you could say that again? I speak a lot of different languages, but I'm afraid I couldn't understand what you meant.
Lava: Darth Raf-er, he is strong, no? He plays with powerful top spin, no? He wields his Babolatsaber in his left hand, no? So you must use the force to counteract this, no? And the only way to do this is to become Roger Backhander, no?
Forehander: I suppose you do have a point there. Even some of those Scottroopers have been targeting my Wilsonsaber skills recently. But why are you suddenly talking as though you are part of the new Empire?
Lava: Sorry. Infiltrating their ranks, I have been. Happen, this does. Hmm. But listen, you must. Use the force. It surrounds us, it is within us. Harbour it and you will become a G.O.A.T. Knight, too. Be patient, you must.
Forehander: Well, half of that "Force" stuff sounds like utter baloney, but point about the Backhander business taken. Perhaps if I combine that with Kanobi's advice about coming forward to attack, I'll do better. Perhaps I'll try out my tactics on some of the Scottroopers on a smaller planet in the outer galaxy.
Kanobi: Go, you must...sorry, that way of talking is contagious. What I mean is, you must go. I will stay here with Lava and play some poker. This is your challenge, and your challenge only. You alone can determine your destiny.
With that, Forehander takes off to practice. But first he must find a comrade to fly him to a small planet off the Empire's radar where he can put his plan into action...
Next Time on Tennis Wars:
Darth Raf-er prepares for a visit from Emperor Toni whilst Roger Forehander hires A-Rodo to help him get to a small planet to practice so he can become Roger Backhander before he once again meets Darth Raf-er on the planet known as Red Earth.
(Phew…that was quite a mouthful!)
N.B. This article was inspired by Rohini and Sergery and their articles on Harry Potter and Robin Hood, respectively. So if you like it - great! And some of the credit must go to them. If not, blame them. Just kidding :)


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In a city known for its various types of native llamas, Awana Kancha produces one-of-a-kind textiles made from their fur. See the process the llamas and other animals, including alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos, go through to produce these luxurious textiles, and purchase any that catch your eye. The vicuña and guanaco are prized for their fiber - the vicuña being Peru's national animal and the guanaco's fiber being compared to cashmere.
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I recently upgraded my computer and now there is noise coming from the speaker tweeters. The cable is connected to the A/V receiver using digital coaxial from my MSI motherboard. Everything else is the same. It makes even more noise every time I move the mouse also. I'm using a Crown XLS1500 amplifier which had noise before but this is much much worst.
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Unfortunately, what you've written indicates that while you might have upgraded your computer's speed and graphics, you have managed to degrade its audio. You're hearing the crosstalk between the motherboard's digital and audio circuitry. If your computer's video card has an HDMI output and your receiver has an HDMI input, you might try using that instead.
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Since your interconnect is digital, the noise must be traveling over the ground wire of S/PDIF cable. Do you have the option of using Toslink optical digital? That would break the electrical connection.
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Yes I tried optical cable and it worked fine. I guess the motherboard is the problem
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David Buckley Borden's creative practice makes ecological issues relevant to the general public with a combination of accessible art and design. David was awarded a Studios at MASS MoCA Assets for Artists Residency in April 2016. He used the opportunity to focus his practice on North Adams' Hoosic River. The goal of David's place-based project is to promote a shared awareness and heightened cultural value of the urban watershed of the Hoosic River in North Adams and the greater Hoosic River Watershed (MA, NY, and VT). Research and community outreach informs the Hoosic project, which aims to highlight cultural and ecological issues at play in North Adams and ultimately promote a constructive dialog about the community stewardship of the Hoosic River Watershed.
As part of his Residency, David interviewed a diverse, intergenerational group of stakeholders including local residents, recreationists, conservation groups, artists, research scientists, and other creative minds engaged with the Hoosic River. He gathered discoveries through conversation, secondary research, on-site exploration and observation.
While in North Adams, David created daily digital drawings to communicate the ongoing local narrative of the Hoosic River's urban ecology. The series of digital prints were made by combining photography of iconic Hoosic River and North Adams views with David's suggestions for installations. These proposals are memorial, testament, and celebration of the Hoosic River. The site-responsive works address issues of river access, recreation, fisheries, river ecology, water quality, infrastructure, and cultural history, practice and future. Conceptualized as the Hoosic Expedition, the proposals form an interpretative trail along the channelized sections of the river.
Follow @davidbuckleyborden on Instagram and check #hoosicdailies to see the daily drawings from the residency.
Special thanks to folks from the Hoosic River Revival, Williams College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MASS MoCA and Sasaki Associates for sharing their insight, research and passion.
Bridge: obstacle or opportunity? Leverage existing railroad bridge to announce presence of "hidden" river below in support of Hoosic Watershed awareness. Flashing signs post distances to Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean.
I continued my New Year's tradition of participating in the Boston Fun-A-Day project by creating 31 study drawings during the month of January. This year's drawings were inspired by the scientists, research, ecology, and landscape of Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. Concept drawings explored topics of conservation, hemlock woolly adelgid, interpretive trail design, and future New England landscape scenario research.
Attitudes and opinions expressed in drawings are my own and do not (necessarily) represent those of Harvard Forest, nor its scientists and staff.
Landscape photography for illustrations primarily sourced from Dave Orwig, David Foster and Harvard Forest archives on Harvard University's Visual Information Access website.
I'd like to thank the Harvard Forest community for sharing their research, passion and insight. Special thanks to Matthew Duveneck, Aaron Ellison, David Foster, Clarisse Hart, Kathy Lambert, Matt Lau, Dave Orwig, Manisha Petal, and Jonathan Thompson.
If you have never explored the Harvard Forest, it's a nice day trip. Be sure to explore the trails and view the Fisher Museum's fine vintage dioramas.
Select Forest Studies were on exhibition as part of the 2016 Boston Fun-A-Day group show at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, MA. Opening reception took place on Thursday, April 7th, 2016.
Illustrative New England Scenario Quadrant. Quadrant visualization featuring government and population as two driving scenario forces. Study drawings based on Fisher Museum dioramas at Harvard Forest. Original photograph of diorama from Harvard Forest online archives found here.
New England scenario 1 of 4; high population and high government.
New England scenario 2 of 4; high population and low government.
New England scenario 3 of 4; low population and low government.
New England scenario 4 of 4; low population and high government.
Throughout 2014 I participated in Trifecta Editions' Hibernaculum Artist Residency. This project continued my ongoing exploration of alternative approaches to communicating past, present and future North American landscape issues. Driven by my passion for the Great Outdoors experience, the ultimate goal of the project was to promote a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology through the creation of accessible art and design.
As the 2014 Hibernaculum artist-in-residence I created several temporary site-specific landscape installations on Trifecta Editions' 30-acre site outside of Ticonderoga, NY. These installations and the research behind their design and construction were the basis for a collaborative silkscreen print series with Trifecta Editions.
This year-long project concluded with an multidisciplinary exhibition featuring a variety of work including the print series, multi-media drawings and select landscape installations adapted to the gallery environment. In support of the educational intent, the Hibernaculum exhibition was designed to be an immersive installation celebrating collaborative art & design inspired by nature and a deeper understanding of ecology.
The exhibition was supported by a month of programming featuring established and emerging voices from Boston's art and design community including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Boston Society of Architects, AntiDesign, Loyal Supply Co., Boston Society of Landscape Architects, A Street Frames, Trifecta Editions and others.
The Hibernaculum exhibition took place at the Innovation & Design Building (1 Design Center Place, Suite 142), Boston, Massachusetts.
PROJECT UPDATE: Due to the overwhelmingly positive response from gallery visitors, the greater Boston creative community, local press and Innovation and Design Building tenants alike, the Innovation and Design Building extended the Hibernaculum exhibition through the end of July 2015.
About Trifecta Editions
Trifecta Editions is a growing print collective based in Boston. They work with artists from all disciplines to create limited edition screen prints and art objects. Their unique editions are all hand printed and made with a strong focus on quality and craftsmanship. They take pride in a business model that benefits, supports and promotes emerging artists and fosters a new generation of art collectors.
About Trifecta Editions Hibernaculum Residency
Trifecta Editions Hibernaculum Residency is a free-form artist retreat at Eagle Lake in Ticonderoga, NY. Each year, Trifecta selects one artist to unplug, unwind and create a project and print series based on their time in the Hibernaculum. With 30 acres of forested land bordering on the Pharaoh Wilderness and frontage on Eagle Lake, the Hibernaculum Residency provides the perfect setting for artists to disconnect and get inspired. The residency program provides emerging artists with opportunities often reserved for more established artists. Each participant receives room, board and a small stipend.
Hibernaculum Installation
The culmination of the Hibernaculum Residency was an immersive exhibition at the Innovation and Design Building in Boston's Seaport District. The multidisciplinary installation featured a variety of work ranging in scale and media. Much of this work included collaborative design and production with a cast of collaborators ranging from painters to lettering artists to wood workers. View select Gallery installation work here.
Habitat Blanket Proposal
The foundation of the Hibernaculum is a series of one-page landscape installation proposals. Proposals are intended to meet at the intersection of popular culture and pressing ecological issues and everyday environmental phenomena. Accessibility to the general public is central to each proposal as a means to promote greater landscape appreciation and ecological awareness. Select proposals were constructed on site at Eagle Lake and/or in the Innovation and Design Building gallery. View select one-page proposals here.
Woodland Sign: Firewood Quarantine
A series of light-touch landscape installations were made in and around the property of the Trifecta Editions residency. For example, hand painted sign (pictured) with lettering artist John Cronan. Other installations include, Hibernaculum Woodpile Target, Wetland Forest Flag, Geologic Site Marker and more. View select on-site installations here.
Winter Nurse Log Silkscreen Print
The Hibernaculum project features a collaborative silkscreen print series with Trifecta Editions. The print series, inspired by time spent on Eagle Lake, center on the ecology and natural history of the Adirondack Mountains. View select prints here.
In January 2015 I was awarded the Teton ArtLab Artist Residency in Jackson, Wyoming. I used the month-long residency to investigate ecological and cultural forces at play within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The research-driven artwork promotes ecological awareness by highlighting environmental management, cultural attitudes, and land-use practices found throughout the iconic ecosystem.
The year-long project culminated with a multi-disciplinary immersive installation featuring silkscreen prints, mixed media drawings, maps and installations in and outside the galleries at Daly Projects in Jackson, Wyoming. In conjunction with month-long exhibition at Day Projects, I realized several temporary installations throughout Teton County.
The Greater Yellowstone exhibition consisted of four creative components: unsolicited proposals, GYE maps, silkscreen prints and temporary art installations.
Unsolicited Proposal for United States Forest Service
Unsolicited Proposals reflect the range of attitudes, conditions, and practices within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. These one-page, site-specific proposals were informed by interviews with ecosystem stakeholders ranging from individuals to government agencies. View select proposals here.
Detail of "Camp Wood" Installation at Jackson Hole Center for the Arts
Site-specific installations manifested select Unsolicited Proposals throughout Teton County. Installations included wood sculptures, large-format flags, silkscreen prints on canvas and other eye-catching collaborations with both Boston and Jackson artists. View select installations here.
Standing Dead Forest Map
Greater Yellowstone Maps focused on the intersection of the cultural landscape and ecological conditions making up the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Mapping included both NTS maps and cartography-based spatial data derived by ESRI.
"Black Flag Ecology," silkscreen print with watercolor, 9" X 12"
Silkscreen prints and mixed media work drew on ecology, cultural identity, natural history, and conservation practice found in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Select mixed media prints are available for purchase here.
Forman Watercolor Diagrams
Series of thirty-six 8"x10" study drawings in watercolor and ink created for landscape ecology education in preparation for my 2014 Trifecta Editions' Artist Residency at Eagle Lake, NY. This mixed media series reinterprets diagrams from Richard TT Forman's Harvard Graduate School of Design class lectures, field trips and publication: Land Mosaics, The ecology of landscapes and regions, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006. All text, unless noted otherwise, by Richard TT Forman.
Interested in learning more about Richard Forman's seminal landscape ecology work? I highly recommend these publications:
Landscape Ecology, Urban Ecology: Science of Cities and Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Planning
Fig. 13.3 Spatial patterns produced by three groups of processes. (a) Separate patterns; (b) planned refers to the rea as a whole; (c) unplanned refers to the area as a whole, though some or many places are highly planned and designed. Green area = natural vegetation; white = agriculture; coarse grid = residential; fine grid = commercial.
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Modeling Mosaic Sequences
Fig 12.8. Models of mosaic sequences. Each area starts 100% dark green and is progressively replaced by a white new-land-type (light green is simply used to identify locations of new land type during the 10% to 50% replacement period). White land type surrounds the landscape. Illustration based on original figure prepared by Kristina Hill.
Forman Watercolor Diagram: Landscape Types and Regions
Fig. 9.10 Six types of landscape based on predominant spatial pattern. (Adapted from Forman (1990b).
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Moving Patches
Fig. 4.13. Shapes suggesting past origin, present functioning, and future change.
Forman Watercolor Diagram: Habitat Arrangements and Strategic Points
Fig.9.12. habitat interspersion, adjacencies, and convergency points.
A result of interspersing more than two habitats is to produce convergency points ('junctions' or type of 'convert'). Design (a) has one convergency point, while design (d) has one has two. Such locations are of special importance to certain species. Convergency points are important well beyond wildlife habitat. They are often funnels for flows of water, eroded particulates, and mineral nutrients, as well as for moving animals. Thus, they are ideal locations for predators and hunters. Indeed, for the same reason, they are ideal for wildlife-oberserving blinds and platforms (Forman, 2006). Convergence locations are also ideal for ecological-based landscape interventions such as hibernaculum (Borden, 2014).
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Boundaries and Edges
Fig. 3.13. Eight common boundary surfaces
Forman Watercolor Diagram: Edge as Habitat
Fig 3.12. Wildlife usage and movement relative to boundary curvilinearity. Woodland is pinyon-juniper and grassland is grama-sagebrush. Scattered green dots represent elk (Cervus) and mule deer (Odocoileus), based on track and scat densities. Solid arrows indicate much movement, dashed arrows, intermediate movement, and dotted arrows little movement. P = predator movement (coyote, Canis). Summary patterns based on unpublished data of R. Forman, D. Smith, and S. Collinge from near Taos, New Mexico (USA).
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Key Processes
Fig. 7.4 Flow rates and stream-bottom particle sizes along river mosaic. Numbers 1 to 8 are sections along the river differentiated by a distinct change or boundary. Dotted line = hillslope. Material entering laterally from a tributary or in subsurface flow also passes through patches and boundaries. Flow rates and particle sizes are represented by large, medium, and small arrows and circles.
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Wind
Fig. 2.3. Generalized patterns of wind speed and productivity in a field. Relative to average wind speed over forest, thick arrows in field indicate accelerated , and dashed arrows reduced, wind speed. Un-shaded areas of field indicate low plant productivity.
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Windbreaks and Wind
Fig. 9.1. Flows or movements in an ecosystem cluster and a catena. (a) Flows between a patch and its surroundings in relation to distance and ecosystem or land use type. Amounts of flow indicated by arrows line weights. (b) Flows among five soils in a catena. Adapted from Hole & Campbell (1985) and Woodmansee (1990).
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Downwind
Fig 10.8. Downwind smoke and pollutant deposits related to temperatures above the ground. Adapted from Geiger (1965).
Forman Watercolor Diagrams: Hedgerows as Habitat
Fig. 6.9. Distinctive windbreak patterns around pastures. (a) to (d) Suggestions for the northern Great Plains of North America (Dronen 1988). (e) used successfully in North America in conjunction with Today I Learned (TIL) education movement (Borden 2014). Orientation is determined by wind and snowstorm directions.
Wild West at BDGA was a multi-disciplinary art and design installation focused on America's conflicted relationship with its landscape and natural resources. The installation set aside the popular narrative of inflated romance and violence associated with young America's western frontier experience for a narrative that instead positioned the "Wild West" in terms of regional landscape ecology.
There are troubling parallels to the Old West, however. The ecological Wild West of today, like that of yesteryear's Wild Wild West, is marred by conflict, conquest, and unchecked exploitation. The critical difference is that the stakes are exponentially higher and operate on a regional scale with both local and global environmental impact.
The installation's research-based work included maps, drawings, prints and a variety of cross-disciplinary collaborations* to illustrate species extinction, resource scarcity, chronic landscape disturbances, and the destruction of critical ecological systems within the contiguous United States. Specifically, the work considered current environmental issues such as water rights, fracking, mega-droughts, industrial livestock agriculture, road ecology, and more.
This self-financed research-based project was primarily funded by merchandising the research effort with a series of collaborative, topical, low-priced prints, postcards, and branded clothing collaboration with Bodega. Select merchandise collaborations are featured here.
Bodega's high-traffic retail location was selected in support of ongoing efforts to introduce pressing landscape ecology issues to new audiences in unlikely settings. The exhibition was in many ways an interior environmental design project integrated into Bodega's retail concept store. View photography of the in-store installation here.
Read more about the project including an interview about the project's theory, process and practice at Bodega blog.
Wild West at BDGA was on display from May 17th to August 31, 2014 at Boston's Bodega store located at 6 Clearway Street, Boston, MA, 02115.
*Collaborators: Bodega, Brad Crane, Mike Foster, Tera Hatfield, Myles O'Brian, Loyal Supply Co., Trifecta Editions, Valor Press, Union Press, Unlikely Creatures, and Steve Walz. Learn more about project collaborators here.
American Bison Extermination Map
Digital drawing, 29X29" Giclée print, #100 Canson cotton photographique rag paper
Updated re-presentation of American conservationist, taxidermist, and author William Hornaday's iconic American Bison Extermination Map published in 1889 by the Smithsonian Institute. This thematic three-color map Illustrates areas of population die-off and systematic extermination via species distribution up to 1889. Map also includes years of local extermination and current distribution of the American bison as of 2003.
Hornaday's cartography, writing and conservation advocacy is credited with preserving the American bison from extinction.
Source: Hornaday, William Temple. The Extermination of the American Buffalo. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002. Print.; Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print.
Ecological Distress Map: Old Growth Forest, Then & Now
Digital drawing. 32X32" Giclée print on 120# Canson cotton etching rag paper.
The United States Map Code, Title 5, U.S.C., Chapter 10. Respect for map: No disrespect should be shown to the map of the United States of America; the map should never be displayed with the Great Lakes down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life, property or landscape.
Ecological Distress Map: Mega Drought America
Data source: April 2014 drought intensity data, Mathew Rosencrans, CPC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA. http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Ecological Distress Map: Hydoscape
Digital drawing, 32X32" Giclée print, 120# Canson cotton etching rag paper
Declining water quantity and quality will be America's insidious environmental challenge in the 21st century. The nation's population and agriculture depend on it. The country's stressed hydroscape presents unprecedented ecological, financial and political conflicts. The great rivers of the West have all been dammed, diverted and dirtied and have created a number of ecological distress points throughout the country's macro-scale hydrological system. The Midwest faces an even more pressing issue as the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies water to 28% of the nation's agricultural land is predicted to be depleted by the end of this century.
Source: Ashworth, William. Ogallala Blue: Water and Life of the Great Plains. Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press, 2007. Print.; Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1993. Print.
Detail of Ecological Distress Map: Hydroscape
Detail of Ecological Distress Map: Frackscape
Frackscape map detail featuring gas shale basins (blue), current gas shale plays (red), proposed plays (gold) and fracidents (poison skulls). National Parks within shale basins overlaid in green. Terrifying in detail.
An estimated one million American gas and oil wells have been "fracked" in the last 70 years. The latest, highly controversial, shale-gas fracking technology relies on millions of gallons of high-pressure water and a cocktail of unregulated chemicals (acids, detergents and poisons) for each frack well. The ecological damage from fracking is terrifying; over time fracked wells often fail and leak, consequently contaminating both air and groundwater. Beyond chemical blooms in local aquifers, the ecological impact includes endangering aquatic habitat and the earth's climate with methane gas byproduct.
Source: Brantley, Susuan. "The Facts on Fracking." The New York Times. March 13, 2013. Online, Accessed March 28, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/global/the-facts-on-fracking.htm; Earth Justice. Interactive Fracking Map. Online, earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states. Accessed April 13, 2014.; U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Energy in Brief: What is shale gas and why is it important?" December, 5, 2012. Online, www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/article/about_shale_gas.cfm Accessed April 2, 2014.
Detail of Ecological Distress Map: Dirty Thirties
Detail of historic ecological distress map showing extent of Dust Bowl's ecological disaster and consequent mass migration routes to the west coast
See photography of maps in context of in-store installation here.
Ask a New Englander to describe their rural landscape and stonewalls would likely top the list, perhaps second only to trees. Glaciation produced a crop of stones and industrious New Englanders rearranged them into an estimated 250,000 miles of walls. Although it's been over 200 years since the height of stonewall building peaked in the early 1800's, an estimated 100,000 miles of stonewalls still stand as an understated testament to a complex land use history.
Not all stonewalls are created equal. The region's stonewalls are as varied as the people of New England in their build and intention. Stonewalls range from the hastily tossed farm wall to grand "finished" estate walls. Any landscape-loving New England native worth their salt can "read" a wall to accurately determine a parcel's land use history. The proposed field guide presents typical stonewalls in section with a brief description of defining features and how the wall's form provides clues to a landscape's history.
Mixed media: pencil, ink, colored pencil, dab of occasional photoshop color
This field guide was published in The American Guide in November 2013. Additional field guides published by the American Guide can be found here.
Tossed Wall
The Tossed Wall is architectural evidence of agriculture. As fields were cleared for tilling, these stonewalls were literally tossed into existence, one stone at a time, at the edge of an agricultural field. The form of a tossed wall is loose and often far wider than tall. The builder's goal was to dump the stone, stacking it up was unnecessary.
Disposal Wall
Similar to the Tossed Wall, the Disposal Wall is also a byproduct of agriculture. In some cases the Disposal Wall was initially a Tossed Wall that had been rebuilt in an effort to tidy up the farm. The Disposal Wall is built from two single stack walls, where the resultant void is filed with smaller fieldstones. This type of disposal wall is evidence of a successful agriculture.
Pasture Wall
The Pasture Wall, also known as a farm wall, was built to contain livestock and is the most common type of stonewall in New England. This wall is characterized by large stones and typically lacks the smaller stones of an agriculture related wall. The wood rails that once made up most of the wall's height and ensured that livestock stayed put, have long since rotted.
Gentleman's Wall
The Gentleman's Farm Wall or Estate Wall is neither the direct result of agriculture nor husbandry, but is a statement of values and achievement. This wall communicates pride, order and wealth by means of craftsmanship. The wall's tight one-over-two construction, consistent batter, and capstone, were of significant expense and beyond the reach of most thrifty New England farmers.
Whiskey Wall
The Whiskey Wall is arguably the most misunderstood and misclassified stonewall typology. There is serious debate as to the exact origin of the name. Some historians claim it is called a Whiskey Wall because it was built under the influence of whiskey. As one can easily imagine, "walling under the influence" lends to poor construction practice and eventually leads to the wall's failure. Others claim it is called a Whiskey Wall because it was destroyed by drunk hunters, likely trying to flush out an animal from within the wall.
I participated in the Boston Fun-A-Day 2014 project by developing 31 one-page landscape installation proposals during the month of January. The work was a freewheeling exploration of the New England landscape and our cultural love affair with the region's "great outdoors." Accessibility by the general public was central to the proposals in service to landscape appreciation and ecological awareness.
Beyond the 31 drawings, the ultimate goal of this project was a brainstorming exercise for a design-build project. Several of the proposed landscape installations were further developed and constructed as part of my participation in Trifecta Edition's Hibernaculum Artist Residency Program.
Exhibition Information:
Fun-A-Day Boston 2014Art Show & ReceptionHosted by Voltage Coffee & ArtOpening Reception February 21st, 7-9pmFebruary 17th through April 5th. 2014
Jan 1: Stacked Erratic Tour
Proposal: Self-guided glacial feature tour. Includes kettle pond, eskers, boulder field and the erratic stack. Designed experience as a celebration of glacial activity including the acceptance of the Anthropocene epoch.
Jan 2: Advertising Barn for Vermont Tourism Board
Proposal: In the tradition of the North American advertising barn, celebrate the quiet solitude of a wifi "dead zone" in the mountainous back roads of Vermont, the Green Mountain State.
Barn Image Source: Simmonds, WILLIAM G., Advertising Barns, Vanishing American Landmarks, St. Paul: MBI Publishing, 2002.
Jan 3: Roadside Stone Jump Maze
Proposal: Roadside jump maze of granite boulders on hillside. Rules: Keep off the grass and stay on the rocks. First one to get to the top wins shotgun seat and control of iphone mix.
Jan 4: Secret Glow-in-the-Dark Canoe Tour
Proposal: Stones painted with clear glow-in-the-dark paint and arranged underwater in the form of directional arrows. Stone arrows blend into shallow lake bottom during day light hours and only reveal "hidden" path after sunset. Arrows guide canoe tour to clandestine destination and moonless adventure of Eagle Lake…[Cue Loon]
Jan 5: Wood Pile Target
Proposal: 30-foot target supergraphic (spray paint cut ends of timber log stack) for forestry awareness campaign.
Jan 6: Cellar Hole Memorial
Proposal: Commemorate the nearly forgotten rural homestead of yesteryear with rough-hewn timbers arranged to spell out "1811," the year the home was built. Wood is burnt for preservation and contrast and laid in bottom of existing hand-built stone cellar hole. Winter midnight viewings encouraged.
Support: I'm actively looking for old cellar holes within New England that are available for land art installations. Leads welcome.
Jan 7: Cellar Hole Fun
Proposal: A cellar hole for the kids, the vernacular of play, the foundation of fun.. Just add plastic "fun balls" to desired depth (minimum of 30 inches) to structurally sound stone foundation and make architectural history relevant to the kids.
Jan 8: Turkey Trail Markers
Proposal: Wayfinding design for woodland path network at Eagle Lake, NY. Coded trail markers consist of maple log, cordage and dyed turkey tail feathers.
Jan 9: Stone Wall Beacon
Proposal: Stone wall beacon. Loose "tossed" stonewall constructed over internal steel cage which houses light source. The stonewalls day time shadows are transformed into night time highlights.
Jan 10: Razzle Dazzle Ships
Proposal: Pair of Razzle Dazzle ships for clandestine canoe tour on Eagle Lake. Ships painted in contrasting black and white striped geometry to provide visual "cover" during secret glow-in-the-dark canoe tour (See Proposal 4). Razzle Dazzle smock (as worn by model), required during rutting reason.
Canoe and kayak profile linework source: Guillemot Kayaks. Beautiful boats!
Jan 11: Veterans' Day Wood Pile Contest
Proposal: Veterans' Day wood pile contest as community building event for Historic Harrisville in Harrisville, NH.
Jan 12: Woodland Protector
Proposal: Woodland protector for Warden Woods. New England Woodland spirit statue to ward off invasive species including but not limited to Fallopia japonica, Berberis thunbergii, and the dreaded Celastrus orbiculatus.
Jan 13: Bespoke Logs
Proposal: Bespoke logs for your bespoke axe as a bespoke commentary.
Jan 14: Interpretive Watershed Markers
Proposal: Increase local watershed awareness relative to regional hydrologic system. Interpretive "signs" communicate stream orders within the Merrimac River watershed. Each stream order is represented with one granite chevron (third-order stream represented in illustration). Chevrons are engraved with the distance from headwaters as well as distance to the Atlantic Ocean.
Jan 15 Proposal: Take a Long Walk
Proposal: Take a long walk in Ticonderoga to the naturally formed glacial boulder that looks like a human head. Take a canteen and bug juice.
Jan 16: Glow-in-the-Dark Striped Road Cut
Proposal: Engage motorist and celebrate roadside geology on the darkest of lost and lonely highways. Fill the slightly angled drill-hole lines (remains from road cut dynamite operations) with glow-in-the-dark paint for a fresh take on the roadside attraction. Beware of teenagers.
Jan 17: Shade Collection Box
Proposal: A simple reminder of the value of canopy trees, made with a recycled box and paint pen of your choice.
Jan 18: Glacial Place Branding
Proposal: Celebrate the 800-mile journey of a glacial erratic boulder from its origin in Canada's Hudson Bay Region to its current resting place. Boulder is painted in Hudson's Bay Company's iconic four-color striped pattern and trademark coat of arms. Place-branding enters the glacial field.
Jan 19: Conceptualism Cycle Tour Mile Marker
Proposal: Cycle the Monadnock Region's back roads as you tour the area's best kept secret; a twelve-mile self-guided conceptual art tour. Maps and Google Tour glasses available at General Store in Harrisville, NH. Helmets strongly recommended.
Jan 20: Nurse Log Field
Proposal: Formalize nature's "nurse log" phenomenon with this ecological intervention by arranging logs in the form of a Swiss cross within temperate woodland. Jump start the germination field with a bed of moss, leaf litter and hemlock seedings. Weed out unwanted species annually. Practice patience.
Jan 21: Yes
Proposal: Say, Yes. Yes to wetland protection. Yes to road trips. Yes to skinny dips. And yes to "yes" spelled out in coir cursive.
Jan 22: Glacial Gift Pack
Proposal: Celebrate the glacial gifts of the Wiconsinan Ice Age. Dye rope to the color of your fancy and highlight six-pack of glacial boulders with a bit of festive gift-wrapping. Commence rock party.
Jan 23: Wet Meadow Vanes
Proposal: Highlight the dynamics and diversity of the wet meadow. Vertical sticks trace brook within meadow. Sticks are topped with painted arrows, which are inserted into bottles. Arrow swings and points into wind as bottle serves as bearing for stick. This simple weathervane* also serves as desirable bird-perch within regional landscape's ecological hot spot.
*Based on 18th century American folk art, as reported by Eric Sloane in his 1962 booklet "Diary of an Early American Boy."
Jan 24: Bastille Day Flag
Proposal: Tidy up side-yard of the old Down East back-to-the-lander with the dozen spent VW vans. Provide ladder and seating for grassroots "Etat du Maine, Bastille Day" fireworks night.
Jan 25: Flag for Education
Proposal: Flag ecological points of interest with classic signal flags as part of landscape ecology tour for youth. Nurse stump represented by medical flag and naval signal flags for "N" and "S." Host low-stress campfire quiz at day's end.
Jan 26: Undead Landscape
Proposal: Bring Successional landscape back to life with the help of a 19th century zigzagging stonewall. Punctuate wall with a moss-covered boulder and accent form with occasional dab of glow-in-the-dark paint.
Source: Successional landscape diagram from Eric Sloane's 1955 publication, Our Vanishing Landscape, Ballantine Books, NY.
Jan 28: Snack Stand
Proposal: Re-zone abandoned Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) nest as Snack Stand. Stuff sweet fruit in old nest and existing feeding excavations along tree trunk. Wait for creepy crawlies to arrive and then let the snack shacking begin.
Jan 29: LARE Riddle
Proposal: Fill in the blank.
Andrew called, he wants his _____________ back!
Jan 27: Flannel Flâneur
Proposal: Travel program featuring the rural discoveries of the new American Flannel Flâneur. Weekly episodes explore the place and people of rural New England through the lens of its landscape. Volume I crisscrosses Maine timber country and covers a variety of interests from regional woodland ecology to the details of woodpile instruction. Log landings, skidders, paper men, bottle cap clubs, nurse stumps, the growing woodpile art movement and more are captured in this stunning study of the cultural landscape of Maine.
Jan 30: Liberty Snake Pit
Proposal: Up-cycle 19th Century cellar hole to serve as habitat for the benevolent garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) with alternating bands of ground cover and stone. Plant band of trees for light-shade. Stock pit with snakes and provide initial feeding, if necessary. Yes, the Liberty Snake Pit is tread free.
Jan 31: Camp Cone
Proposal: Environmental education in woodland summer camp format. Camper favorites include: bow and arrow construction, poison ivy identification, and seed bombing. Space is unlimited.
Sometimes after a long week of grinding on the urban design production line, a little levity is in order.
She Will Bite Back
Ecosystem in action.
Mixdd media: Ink, graphite, colored pencil and carbon transfer on paper, 8.5 x 11", Winter 2012.
Mixed media: Pen, pencil, carbon transfer on paper, 8" X 10", Spring 2010.
Mixed media: Pen, pencil, carbon transfer on paper, 8" X 10", Spring 2012
Mixed media: Pen, pencil, digital typography on paper, 8" X 10", Spring 2011
Mixed media: Pen, pencil, water color paint, carbon transfer on paper, 8" X 10", Spring 2010
Ecological Engineers: Bison Series
As the keystone species of North America's Great Plains, Bison bison (buffalo) shaped America's grassland ecological system for millenniums. Before man re-shaped this vast ecosystem with sprawling networks of housing, agriculture, industry and infrastructure, the American Bison were the crucial player in maintaining this delicately balanced land of grass, fire, and migrating herds. Today, less than 1% of America's "pre-discovery" prairie grasslands remain and approximately only 4,000 "wild" buffalo remain, down from an estimated 80 million buffalo in the mid-1800's.
Mixed Media Series: Pencil, ink, carbon transfer on paper, 8" X 10", October 2009 to present, Series of 73 as of May 2015.
Buffalo Head Source: Harper's Magazine. Publication date and artist unknown.
Nurse Log
The nurse log is a familiar sight in the New England forest if you look for it. The nurse log, essentially a fallen tree, covered with a layer of moss and organic debris, is a natural woodland germination field for native species of shade loving plants including, Tsuga candensis (hemlock), Pinus strobus (white pine), and Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch).Mixed media: Ink, graphite, colored pencil, water color paint and carbon transfer on paper, 8.5 x 11", Winter 2013.
Momma Said Knock You Out
"In Cornwall, Connecticut, and wherever iron was made in the Birkshires, you may still see where burning mounds were: the hardwood is coming back in those hills, except for the chestnut, which reaches about ten feet before it browns and succumbs to the blight of 1904." (Sloane, 1965)
If you didn't know better you might believe the chestnut tree is making a comeback. The chestnut blight (caused by infection of Diaporthe parasitica, a fungus imported from Japan on nursery stock) is a cruel organism; just as the chestnut sapling appears to have made its triumphant return and is ready to shoot up to be a mighty tree of yore. It doesn't. The diseased tree remains in a sad arrested state of poor health. It's especially tragic considering the elm recently made up the majority of America's total tree cover.
Mixed media: Pen, pencil, carbon transfer on paper, 8" X 10", Spring 2011
Massachusetts' Premier Ecological Engineer
The Massachuset and Wampanoag tribes called the land I grew up in"Nanamooskeagin," or "land of many beavers." Sadly, the only castor canadensis I 've seen in my hometown are found on the Abington town seal at the top of property tax bills.
Silkscreen print on Rives BFK grey paper, 8 X 10", Spring 2013.
Beaver Head Source: Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts, Gesner, Konrad, ed. New York Dover Publications, Inc. 1973.


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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 1591
The power behind UK Channel4 TV- Stuart Cosgrove and Shirani Sabaratnam?
The Sri Lankan newspaper, the Sunday Leader, has unearthed startling evidence showing that the LTTE-leaning Diaspora in Britain have made in-roads to the highest levels within the British Channel 4 TV network.
The Sunday Leader has stated that Sri Lankan born Shirani Sabaratnam originally from Jaffna and Vaddukoddai is married to Channel 4 TV's Director of Diversity, the well-known British journalist Stuart Cosgrove.
Stuart Cosgrove's responsibilities at Channel 4 is, without doubt a major one: he oversees Channel 4's strategy to have innovation and to have creative diversity. He also is in charge of managing strategy and development of new companies, within the general ambit of Channel 4's operations with the ultimate aim of establishing Channel 4 as the "most creatively diverse media organization in Europe".
Vaddukoddai is famous for the so-called "Vaddukoddai Resolution" when the TULF in 1976 first called for the separation of the North and the East in order that Tamil aspirations could be better dealt with.
In 2010 Stuart Cosgrove reportedly participated in an unusual referendum: amongst the Tamil people of the world who voted for the creation of "Eelam" – a motherland for the Tamil community in the North and the East of Sri Lanka. Sometime thereafter, Stuart Cosgrove wrote about that election, "Maryhill (in Scotland) was chosen as a polling station in a global referendum organised by expatriate Tamils in their tense stand-off with Sri Lanka, a country that has resisted their independence."
He added, the "referendum is a fascinating story of democracy withheld, with more plotlines than a political thriller and enough constitutional twists to send Scotland's political intelligentsia into paroxysms of near-erotic delight." Cosgrove also said, "My interest went beyond the observational. I was there to cast my vote. My wife, Shirani Sabaratnam, is a native Tamil speaker from Jaffna, on the northern peninsula of Sri Lanka. She still holds Sri Lankan citizenship and, as a "qualifying spouse", I am allowed to participate in the poll. So, strange as it seems, the stubby pencil of democracy was rightfully mine. As I handed over my identity papers, I was acutely aware of the paradox. Voting Yes/Yes in the 1997 Scottish referendum on devolution seemed natural; voting in a referendum on Tamil independence was an unexpected experience."
Cosgrove was able to vote at the referendum because under the so-called rules of the Tamil Diaspora, he was a "qualifying spouse" through his marriage to Shirani Sabaratnam. Stuart Cosgrove waxed eloquent about the Tamil Diaspora's battle with Sri Lanka's government, "Tamils have for decades fought a relentless battle with successive Sri Lankan governments, demanding greater civil rights. With well-organised communities in Toronto, London and Paris, the Tamils are the undisputed world champions of Diaspora politics."
Sabaratnam and Cosgrove live in South London and are perhaps the best known husband and wife media combination in Britain – they make a formidable team: Sabaratnam is the Commissioning Editor at UKTV and Cosgrove had similar responsibilities at Channel 4 for a while.
The Sunday Leader states that neither Sabaratnam nor Cosgrove had any direct input on the production of the films broadcast on Channel 4 about Sri Lanka. Both have made visits back to Sri Lanka – the fact that Cosgrove was permitted to enter Sri Lanka in spite of his professional job at Channel 4 – and in an interview published locally Sabaratnam indicated that there were plans to make a film in Sri Lanka. Whether it was a film about Sri Lanka was not immediately clear.
Her plans for a film in Sri Lanka on the surface would be of immense benefit in terms of tourism, international positive exposure and for the film industry in Sri Lanka. However, the current revelations that Sabaratnam is very much an activist with the Eelam-seeking Diaspora in Britain, will serve only to sully those intentions. Additionally industry sources in Britain have indicated that following up on the made-for-TV films, a full-screen film is also being considered for release next year.
Many questions have been raised as to how it is that in spite of the world's hot trouble spots like in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Tibet, Iraq and Afghanistan, Channel 4 have yet to make a film based on their coverage of events in those countries and continues to have an abiding interest in the Diaspora's battles with Sri Lanka.
Many in Sri Lanka complained that Channel 4 had not given coverage to the atrocities committed by the LTTE which also included killings of civilians and children. Zimbabwe in particular is of interest as it was the Channel 4 reporting that brought the world news of the 'land grab' from white farmers.
There are a few issues published by the Sunday Leader that have muddied the waters for Channel 4. Although the news report does say neither Sabaratnam nor Cosgrove had any direct input on the production of the films broadcast on Channel4 about Sri Lanka, it is hard to believe they did not have some association, at least one of influencing the making of the films and perhaps providing links to the information sources contained in the films.
Much of this information had come from LTTE sources as the film depicted.
The other key issue is about balanced coverage. While TV companies and other media outlets are free to produce and air controversial films of the nature aired by Channel 4, it cannot be said by any stretch of imagination that the films displayed any sense of balance in the way events were reported.
The films were basically propaganda material for the LTTE and the Diaspora, as LTTE atrocities were hardly mentioned, leaving the viewers to form the opinion that all atrocities were committed by Sri Lankan government sources.
Considering the obvious bias towards the LTTE, Channel 4 surely cannot place their hands on a Bible and swear that they were after the truth and nothing but the truth.
By doing what they did, they proved that truth indeed was a casualty of war, and in this case, a convenient portrayal of untruths as truth. In doing so, Channel 4 promoted the real goal of the Diaspora and their supporters, an independent Tamil Eelam within the land mass of Sri Lanka.
In this deceit, it is hard to believe Cosgrove and Sabaratnam were mere bystanders.
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MAFFEI: From halftime to end zone, NBC excels in coverage
There is a reason why NBC hired Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison as NFL analysts.
Dungy, the former coach, and Harrison, the hard-hitting safety who played for the Chargers and Patriots, were right on the mark with their halftime comments for NBC's telecast of Super Bowl XLVI.
Dungy said the first drive of the third quarter would be huge. And the Patriots went right down the field and scored.
Harrison said the game would come down to turnovers and third-down conversions. Sure enough, Tom Brady threw a fourth-quarter interception and third-down conversions proved key.
And finally, Dungy predicted that the game would come down to a fourth-quarter drive. He couldn't have been more right as the Giants scored with 57 seconds to play for a 21-17 lead. Finally, the game came down to one Tom Brady heave into the end zone.
The NBC cameras and game announcers Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were just as good as the halftime predictions.
When New England took over at its 20-yard line with 57 seconds to play, Collinsworth, who played in and lost two Super Bowls, said, "There is no way you can simulate the pressure of this situation."
And on fourth-and-16 with 36 seconds to play, Michaels said, "It's fourth and forever." The Patriots converted on a pass from Brady to Deion Branch.
Finally, after Brady's bomb into the end zone fell incomplete, Collinsworth said, "Given last rites in December, the New York Giants are Super Bowl champs in February."
One minor complaint is that NBC chose to show the typical celebration shots — water dumps, confetti dropping from the roof — instead of immediately showing a replay of Brady's final toss.
When the network finally aired replays, they were good, showing that tight end Rob Gronkowski came darn close to catching a deflection.
At which point Michaels said: "They were ready to run (Giants coach) Tom Coughlin out of town eight weeks ago. Now he's going to head up the parade."
The first half of the game lacked drama, and Michaels and Collinsworth misfired on the first score of the game, failing to immediately recognize that Brady's throwaway in the end zone was a safety.
That, however, was their worst transgression.
The third quarter was when the network shined.
There were great shots and commentary when Brady went to the sideline after a sack and was seen flexing his shoulder.
There was a great sideline shot of Giants tight end Jake Ballard collapsing on the sideline as he tried to test an injured leg.
There were multiple replays and isolated shots of Mario Manningham as he made a sideline grab, good for 38 yards, on the Giants' winning drive.
But after Ahmad Bradshaw scored the winning TD, Michaels and Collinsworth failed to refer to Brady's pregame comments. Asked if he would rather have the lead and watch Eli Manning of the Giants try to win the game or have the ball in his hands with the chance to win at the end, Brady said he'd want the ball.
He certainly got his wish.
This game should garner the largest TV ratings in history. When the Giants beat the Patriots 17-14 in the Super Bowl four years ago, the game scored big.
Last week, Michaels said the best-case scenario would be a triple-overtime game. NBC will gladly take one decided on the last play.
"They should let these two teams play all the time," Collinsworth said.
Pregame singing
• Kelly Clarkson's rendition of the national anthem was good, really good. She showed off the range of her voice and didn't over-sing it. Honesty, though, the young lady who sang before Friday's Valley Center-Canyon Crest Academy boys basketball game was every bit as good.
• Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton sang "America the Beautiful" with a country twang, and they sang it well.
• Bob Costas as a host lends gravitas to an event. But there seems to be an air of arrogance about him, too. On the other hand, I really like Dan Patrick's every-man style.
• NBC's "Super Suite" was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. It was a weak effort to promote shows and movies.
• The new player intros were good, especially superimposed over the players leaving their locker rooms and going down the tunnel to the field.
• There was a very touching feature on former Saints defensive back Steve Gleason, who is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease. Gleason was the man who blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown in the Saints' first home game after Hurricane Katrina.
• There was a nice feature on New England defensive lineman Vince Wilfolk.
• Tony Dungy's attempts to dissect plays on the telestrator fell flat because the telestrator was too small.
• Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a show stealer. From start to finish, his analysis was outstanding.
• Didn't know that the grandfather of Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka was the first prime minister of Uganda and was murdered in a political struggle. Kiwanuka played for Cathedral High in Indianapolis — 10 miles from Lucas Oil Stadium — and won two state championships.
• Liked the on-field demos by Collinsworth, Harrison and Doug Flutie, especially the first one, showing how Giants receiver Victor Cruz operates in New York's offense.
• Didn't know Giants punter Zoltan Mesko was born in Romania and that his family won a lottery to come to the U.S in 1997. Also didn't know that Mesko speaks five languages and started playing football in elementary school after he kicked a ball over a fence.
• The feature on Patriots QB Tom Brady and the relationship with Tom Martinez — his mentor since age 12 — was touching, especially when it was revealed that Martinez needs a kidney transplant.
• Costas' sit-down with Archie and Olivia Manning was good, but not great.
• Costas' interview with Madonna was ho-hum.
• NBC has the London Olympics this summer, but an Olympic feature on the Super Bowl pregame show was totally out of place.
• Michaels' interview with Patriots owner Bob Kraft about the death of his wife, Myra, was touching.
• Harrison had a very honest reaction when he sat down with former Giants receiver David Tyree to discuss Tyree's circus catch in Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix. Harrison, who was the defender on the play, said it still hurts to think about it.
Presidential interview
Matt Lauer's sit-down with President Barack Obama was interesting, but when Lauer switched from sports to politics, the interview lost steam.
On Super Bowl Sunday, there was no reason to ask Obama about world affairs. Save that for another day.
Madonna's 12-minute concert was fine. Nothing great. Nothing over the top, but entertaining.
• The dumbest segment was for the Chevy Sonic. In one, a band was driving down a country road, bumping into stuff placed on a fence. It was just dumb. Then there was a segment in which the car was doing flips and bungee jumps.
• Loved the Downey spot with a woman giving former Steelers great Mean Joe Greene a bottle of fabric softener — instead of a Coke in the classic commercial. Joe then throws the women a smelly jersey.
• Honestly, Hyundai spent $3.5 million for a bunch of office workers humming the theme from "Rocky"?
• Audi's spot of vampires caught in headlights was stupid.
• Coke's polar bears spots are always the cutest thing on TV. And there were three different polar bear commercials.
• Chevy's after-the-blast spot with a shot of a burning Bob's Big Boy and a guy eating Twinkies was by far my favorite.
• The beautiful Teleflora girl getting dressed for a Valentine's Day date, then saying "Guys, give and you shall receive" was worth a replay or 12.
• The Doritos spot, with a grandmother launching a baby at a boy in a treehouse, was sick.
• TaxAct's spot with a little boy running around having to urinate, then going in the pool as his sister was diving in, was funny.
• Honestly, David Beckham in his underwear is not going to make me rush out and purchase whatever product he was pushing. That might work in England, but in the U.S., Beckham is just another dude with a beautiful wife.
• Really liked Budweiser's prohibition-is-over spot. Anything with the Clydesdales and the music from "The Natural" has to be good.
• The Fiat Abarth spot certainly kept your attention.
• Not sure what Century 21 was trying to accomplish with its series of commercials.
• Acura's spot with Jay Leno stealing the spotlight from Jerry Seinfeld was pretty funny.
• The NFL.com spot showing the evolution of the game was a classic.
• Loved Honda's Ferris Buehler-themed spot with Matthew Broderick.
• How about Jack in the Box with a guy getting married to bacon? And the minister says "You can eat the bride." Say what?!
Shameless promos
Usually for a Super Bowl, networks will plug their shows somewhere close to 80 times.
NBC was pretty conservative, with the number closer to 40.
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The really hard part of The Invisible Man is the way characters speak. A lot of these characters have thick accents. For instance, Mrs. Hall yells out to her husband, "You gart whad a wand?" (6.5). It took us several hours (years, actually) to realize that she's asking him, "You got what I want?" Luckily, it helps that we have some hints in the story to help us decode what people are saying. (In this instance, Mrs. Hall sent her husband to get something and he's taking a while.)
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