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Heifer exporters should limit disease incidence
Heifer exporters should limit disease incidence
by Michaela Kristula, D.V.M.
The author is the section chief of field service at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine.
World demand for U.S. dairy cows and heifers has surged. Exports of bred dairy heifers rose from 8,385 in 2007 to 73,639 in 2011, with Turkey accounting for more than half of the exports. Since 2011, exports to Russia have also been on the rise. Holstein dairy heifers from the West, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states account for the majority of stock. Because of its bluetongue-free status and location relative to ports in Delaware and Maine, Pennsylvania is a popular state to quarantine cattle prior to export.
If you are interested in marketing your heifers for export, apply practices to lower the prevalence of diseases for which testing is required prior to export. In addition to negative tests for brucellosis and tuberculosis, heifers must test negative for bovine leukosis virus (BLV), bluetongue virus (BTV) and Johne's disease prior to export to both Turkey and Russia. Turkey also requires that heifers test negative for bovine viral diarrhea virus-persistently infected (BVD-PI).
Since 2010, the Field Service veterinary team at the University of Pennsylvania has been involved with the export process, handling 7,339 pregnant Holstein heifers for overseas export to Turkey at USDA-approved isolation facilities in Pennsylvania. Heifers from endemic bluetongue states must be isolated for 21 days in a bluetongue-free state such as Pennsylvania prior to export to Turkey.
The Field Service veterinarians and students process the heifers according to Turkish import requirements. The heifers are bled for serology testing for certain diseases, tested for tuberculosis (TB), vaccinated for all the respiratory diseases, palpated for pregnancy and dewormed. Fourteen days prior to shipping, the heifers are given oxytetracycline and vaccinated for pinkeye. Any warts and extra teats are removed, and pinkeye and ringworm are treated. All heifers are given RFID (radio frequency identification) tags enabling them to be traced back to the herd of origin in the United States.
BLV is biggest battle
Because of the high prevalence of leukosis in U.S. cattle, all heifers are routinely screened prior to purchase and entry in quarantine. One study reported that 17 to 24 percent of dairy heifers tested prior to export to Russia were positive for leukosis. In our quarantine, 5.7 percent of prescreened negative heifers tested positive for leukosis during the quarantine period.
The leukosis virus produces fatal tumors in a small percentage of positive cattle. The organs most frequently affected are the lymph nodes, heart, abomasum, uterus, kidney, spinal cord and eyes. The highest incidence occurs in adult cattle, and once animals acquire BLV they are infected for life.
Leukosis is most commonly spread through the horizontal transmission of blood from an infected animal with BLV to an uninfected animal. The risk of in utero infections is generally low, but an infected cow can transmit BLV to her calf through colostrum or milk. Herd level control measures to lessen the spread of blood between infected cattle include using bloodless dehorning methods, sanitizing ear taggers between heifers, and using individual needles and palpation sleeves.
North lacks bluetongue
Heifers from endemic BTV states are routinely prescreened for BTV prior to entry in quarantine. In our quarantine, 4.9 percent of heifers tested positive for BTV. Bluetongue virus causes vasculitis and is transmitted by Culicoides spp. (biting midges) to both domestic and wild ruminants. The disease is not contagious and is only spread by competent vectors of Culicoides spp. In the U.S., cattle typically have unapparent infections, but the disease causes severe clinical signs in sheep resulting in facial and pulmonary edema, oral ulcers, lameness and pneumonia.
Northern states from Maine west to Montana, and those states extending as far south to Maryland and Pennsylvania, are considered BTV free because they are free of the BTV vector species. Historically, live cattle have not been exported from the U.S. to the EU primarily because of BTV restrictions on U.S. cattle, but there is general agreement that live cattle can be exported from BTV-infected countries by following recognized testing and quarantine procedures. Presumably, application of fly repellents to both the premises and animals would limit the prevalence of bluetongue in BTV-endemic areas. But research is lacking on the efficacy of any repellents to control the vectors.
Johne's and BVD lurking
Johne's disease is a chronic granulomatous gastrointestinal disease of cattle caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP). In our quarantine, 0.65 percent of the heifers tested positive for MAP. Calves are infected in utero or when they ingest cow manure with MAP and typically will not turn positive on tests until many years after infection.
The disease can be controlled by eliminating the contact of heifers with adult manure and by separating calves from cows after calving. In high-prevalence herds, additional helpful practices include feeding calves colostrum from only MAP-negative cows and removing high shedders from the herd.
In our quarantine, 0.68 percent of the heifers tested positive for bovine viral diarrhea-persistently infected (BVD-PI). Infection with bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) causes primarily reproductive problems and worse animal health.
BVD can cause either transient or persistent infections (PI). A PI animal is created when a fetus is exposed to a noncytopathic BVD virus, while in utero prior to the development of a competent immune system generally described as less than 125 days of gestation. The PI cattle continually shed large amounts of BVD virus during their lifetime.
BVD is generally introduced in a herd through purchase of PI cattle or PI-negative cows pregnant with PI fetuses. Control for BVD is centered on annual herd vaccination and eliminating BVD-PI cattle because they are viremic and continually shedding BVD, making more BVD-PI calves in utero.
Bulk tank milk samples can be used to screen the adult milking cows for BVD. During the testing period, all calves from pregnant females should be tested for BVD- PI, all BVD-PI animals should be slaughtered and any incoming cattle should be tested.
Dairy heifers bound for export also need to be properly vaccinated as heifer calves for all the respiratory diseases, BVD and leptospirosis, and receive a booster vaccine prior to entering quarantine.


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It's hard to imagine how hard it was for Cissy Houston to write this book.
Cissy Houston is the mother of the late Whitney Houston, the extraordinarily talented but deeply troubled singer who died in a bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel just over a year ago. Her death followed long years of drug abuse. An autopsy report called it an accidental drowning, and listed cocaine use and heart disease as contributing factors.
Whitney was 48 and trying to make a comeback when she died.
Moms love their daughters, and Cissy Houston is no exception. It would not have been surprising if her book had been nothing but a whitewash – one of those tomes that remembers only the good times, pretends the bad times never happened and uses up half its pages blasting away at all the people who criticized or made unkind observations about her daughter.
That would have been the easier way out. Cissy Houston, courageously, takes a different path.
She writes with great love for her daughter – whom she always refers to by her childhood nickname of "Nippy" – and tremendous admiration and pride for her musical accomplishments. But she also tells the honest, heartbreaking story of a great career devastated by drugs and bad choices.
At times, Cissy puts part of the blame on herself, wishing she had done a better job of communicating with her daughter and finding ways to help her with her problems.
"I don't know, maybe some of that was my fault," Cissy writes. "I was touchy about certain things, and quick to tell her … Nippy was complicated, and she could be fragile. She always preferred to hide her bad news, rather than tell me and hear what I had to say about it. Nobody likes to have their mama angry … Maybe she was a little afraid to talk to me, afraid that I would snap at her."
If you, as a Whitney Houston fan, were shocked and disheartened by her drugged-out appearances in the 2005 "reality show" she made with her then-husband Bobby Brown, you can only imagine how bad that show made her mother feel.
A deeply religious, no-nonsense woman, Cissy Houston says she tried for years to get her daughter off drugs. She once moved in with her for months, trying to keep her on the right path. After that failed, she went to Whitney's Atlanta mansion in early 2005 with sheriff's deputies and a court order, forcing Whitney to enter a drug rehabilitation program.
"I'm not going to lose you … I'm not going to stand by and watch this happen. I want my daughter back!" Cissy yelled at her emaciated, confused-looking daughter.
"She just stood there looking at me. The light had gone out of her eyes," Cissy writes. "[This] was the worst I'd ever felt in my life."
At first enraged at her mother, Whitney eventually put some effort into rehab and, for awhile at least, stopped using drugs.
But later, cocaine took over her life again, and it all ended tragically in that Beverly Hills hotel bathtub last year.
"Remembering Whitney" is a sad and moving story that will not easily be forgotten. Cissy Houston's ordeal, unfortunately, is one endured by tens of thousands of parents all over America every day. Drug abuse is a very real and growing epidemic in this country.
What makes the story so sad is remembering what a brilliant performer Whitney was. Sign on to youtube.com sometime and check out her performances from the mid-1980s, when she became a star. She was absolutely gorgeous, with a sweet, bubbly personality. She was a fine actress and superb dancer. But her real talent was her soaring, deeply expressive voice. A one-in-a-million voice, like a young Aretha Franklin.
Whitney sold more than 170 million records and videos, making her one of the most successful recording artists of all time.
"You finally found the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life," singer Tony Bennett told recording industry executive Clive Davis after hearing Whitney for the first time.
Whitney grew up in Newark, N.J., in a musical family that had deep roots in the church. Like her mom, she learned to sing in a gospel choir.
Even if she hadn't raised a world-famous daughter, Cissy's story would be fairly interesting in itself. She too was a child prodigy in the music world. She and several family members performed all over the eastern United States in a very popular gospel group called the Drinkard Singers.
As a young performer, she met, romanced and nearly married the brilliant soul singer, Sam Cooke.
Later, Cissy became one of the most successful backup singers in the recording industry. The list of people she performed with includes Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Donny Hathaway, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, the J. Geils Band and David Bowie. As one of the Sweet Inspirations, she traveled with Elvis for months at a time.
Cissy's lilting vocal in Franklin's ballad "Ain't No Way" is one of the prettiest backup vocals ever recorded in popular music. She also has a niece who is a pretty good singer – one Dionne Warwick.
Cissy was thrilled when her little "Nippy," the talented girl who emulated Michael Jackson, told her that she too wanted to be a performer.
Cissy and her husband, John Houston, considered themselves strict parents, but Whitney and her two brothers all strayed into the world of drugs. But Whitney was totally devoted to becoming a star, and it appeared to her mother that drug use was only an occasional vice. Whitney always seemed to have it under control.
That began to change in 1992, after Whitney married Bobby Brown, a troubled singer who'd had substance abuse problems and a number of scrapes with the law. Cissy confesses that she's never been a fan of Brown's music, and especially his classless hit song, "Humpin' Around."
But Cissy stops short of heaping all the blame on Brown for her daughter's demise. She repeatedly states in the book that she feels Brown is, at heart, a decent man. She writes that she is convinced he really did love Whitney, even though she reports that he once spit at her and may have physically abused her.
What upsets Cissy about Brown is that he never did anything to help his wife get off drugs when her life was careening out of control.
"[Unlike] a lot of people, I don't blame Bobby for introducing Nippy to drugs, or for the things that ended up happening to her," Cissy writes. "At the same time, I don't believe he did much to help her. He had his own demons to fight, and spent his fair share of time going to court-ordered rehab and trying to stay straight."
Cissy writes with great pride of watching her daughter sing the "Star Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl, at her starring movie role in "The Bodyguard" with Kevin Costner, and of other highlights of Whitney's career. And she writes with great sorrow of watching her haggard, drugged-out daughter losing her vocal chops and struggling to perform in her later years.
The last time she saw her daughter alive was the day after Christmas, 2011. They spent the day in a New York City hotel, laughing and talking about old times. At one point, Cissy sat on a couch and her famous daughter laid her head in her mom's lap.
"I stroked my baby's hair, and we just talked and talked," Cissy writes. "It was the most beautiful Christmas gift I could have had."
They talked on the phone a few times after that.
Ten weeks later, Cissy buried her daughter.
Now 79, Cissy has taken some criticism for writing this book. Whitney's only child, daughter Bobby Kristina Houston Brown, has issued a statement disassociating herself from the book, saying she will not read it. She tweeted that she considers the book a form of "disrespect" for her mother.
There's no doubt Cissy will make some money from this book, and some will condemn her for that, too.
But I would say this – take the time to actually read "Remembering Whitney" before you condemn this woman. A mother's love – tough love, perhaps – shines through on every page.
Remembering Whitney
By Cissy Houston with Lisa Dickey
Harper Collins
297 pages, $27.99
Dan Herbeck is a veteran News reporter and student of American popular music.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens for Health, one of the country's oldest consumer advocacy groups, is once again encouraging American families to get the "411" on what's in packaged foods and beverages by naming 4/11/2014 as the second annual "Read Your Labels Day."
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Based in Washington, D.C. the non-profit organization powers the Food IdentityTheft.com website to keep consumers aware of the latest food and beverage safety issues and concerns, including information about controversial ingredients that can be found in hundreds of processed and packaged foods, as well as where to look for them and why families should avoid products that contain them.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Blair County plans to demolish what's known as the Russo building at 31st Street and South Branch Avenue in Altoona, an action that could cost about $250,000.
The structure on the property, now under the county's control for lack of real estate tax payments, is beyond repair, county leaders agreed Tuesday.
"I don't believe the building is in even remotely [rehabilitative] condition," solicitor Nathan Karn said.
Karn said that because no one bid on the property during the county's last sale, the county should take action to address the danger the structure presents.
Commissioner Ted Beam Jr. said the county's highway department took measures to secure the building from intruders, but it remains a hazard.
Last year, a fire at the former slaughterhouse complex damaged portions of the deteriorating building, forcing the city to arrange for removal of unstable portions. It paid the $8,000 expense with block grant money dedicated for removing blight.
Commissioner Terry Tomassetti said he was inside the building in December with one of the county's engineers.
"There are stairways without railings, some 15 and 20 feet high," Tomassetti said. "There are walls missing."
Under the state's 1947 Real Estate Tax Sale Law, the county has the authority to seize properties whose owners fail to pay real estate taxes, then put the properties up for sale. If no one buys the properties, then they're put into a repository.
Under the law, the county is responsible for those properties and any required maintenance, including demolition to eliminate a hazard.
"We're required by law to tear it down," Commissioner Diane Meling said. "We're stuck."
Commissioners faced the same situation in 2009 when the City of Altoona issued a demolition order to the county for the former Eagles building at 11th Street and 12th Avenue. Although they objected to county taxpayers paying to demolish a building in the city, commissioners made arrangements with the city to have the building demolished and the county covered the $279,000 cost through installments.
Tomassetti estimated the cost of demolishing the Russo Building at $250,000, which will again fall to the county to cover.
"Is it fair we pay for it? No. Sometimes things aren't fair," Tomassetti said.
The demolition job will be advertised for competitive bids, commissioners agreed.


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Cooperation and collaboration are keys to combatting crime as law enforcement agencies see resources — in other words, tax dollars — dwindle. We didn't need a public safety summit to come to that conclusion, but last week's four-hour meeting helped reinforce the fact that agencies must work together or our communities will fall apart.
Cooperation and collaboration are keys to combatting crime as law enforcement agencies see resources — in other words, tax dollars — dwindle.
We didn't need a public safety summit to come to that conclusion, but last week's four-hour meeting that had participation from 90 law enforcement and political leaders from Winnebago County helped reinforce the fact that agencies must work together or our communities will fall apart.
Leaders did more than talk. They came up with 10 action items, items that can reasonably be accomplished.
- Increase the number of marked uniformed patrol officers. Pardon the pun, but it's criminal that a city the size of Rockford is so short of police officers. We understand budget constraints, but there must be a way to get more "feet on the street." Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel moved officers from administrative positions to patrols. A similar approach should work in Rockford.
- Create cooperative county patrols on fringe areas to free up city officers to deal with high-crime hot spots. The city is open to the county's idea of the sheriff patrolling outer areas of Rockford in high-crime periods so city police can focus on violent crime in the city's core. We reiterate what we wrote last month: We'd like to see Rock Valley and Rockford Park District police involved as well.
- Strengthen coordinated narcotics and gang efforts to promote zero tolerance. We think it's time to reinstate the Metro Narcotics Squad, a group of city, county, federal and state talent that was a model unit for more than 30 years. It's been six years since that unit was together, and drug and gang activity still are the biggest threats to public safety.
- Create a program to allow deputies to bring squad cars home to increase patrol time. The presence of a squad car can deter crime. This also would allow officers to respond more quickly.
- Develop a 311 call center to reduce non-emergency calls to 911. Let's keep 911 for real emergencies. A 311 system needs to be marketed appropriately so people know when and how to use it.
- Provide jail transport to outlying areas so officers can remain on patrol. Again, we need more officers on the street.
- Move city warrants to the Criminal Justice Center and provide mutual access to police reports. Sharing information should be simple with today's technology.
- Increase code enforcement to reduce neighborhood blight. Residents should be proud of their neighborhoods, which is hard to do when some houses are ugly and dilapidated.
- Increase neighborhood-watch programs. Police can't be everywhere, so we all need to help look out for one another.
- Increase communication with the public about efforts to reduce crime. Crime stories make headlines and lead to the perception that people are not safe. Success stories need to be shared with the public to change that perception.
Page 2 of 2 - These are not complicated items. This should be the minimum of what's achieved over the course of the year. We'll check on the progress of these items regularly. These are steps that need to be taken.
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FRANKLIN SQUARE - When Salem Township trustees meet in a special session at 9 a.m. today they are expected to pass temporary appropriations in the amount of $580,000 for 2013.
The money will be used to pay for all current expenses until April 1.
State law allows that on or about the first day of each fiscal year, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing agency shall pass an appropriation measure.
The law allows for supplemental appropriation measures later in the year as the government unit finds necessary, based on the revised tax budget or the official certificate of estimated resources or amendments of the certificate.
Trustees are also expected to take action on a road use management agreement (RUMA) for Hilcorp Energy which has the oil and gas rights to the Grubbs' well on Grafton Road.
Earlier this month, Hilcorp asked for a RUMA for about eight-tenths of a mile from state Route 558 to the south.
RUMA's are a detailed process aimed at making sure secondary roads are capable of handling high-tonnage truck traffic back and forth from oil and gas wells and maintaining them.
An engineer and project manager for the land services company handling the RUMA advised trustees that Hilcorp planned on installing a wellpad, water impoundment and related facilities.
The township is becoming an oil and gas drilling hot spot in the northern part of Columbiana County.
Currently Hanover Township has the most permitted wells in the county.
Chesapeake Energy has the most wells drilled or producing in Ohio with just over 130 and about 74 of those are in Carroll County.
Chesapeake has plans to drill up to 4,000 wells in Ohio in the next 20 years or about 200 a year.
Fiscal Officer Cathy Wilms said Thursday, the RUMA has been approved by the Columbiana County engineer's office and she didn't anticipate any problems with trustees approving it today.
Trustees will also hold a reorganizational meeting.
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Live at the Doctor Who event with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and lead writer/executive producer Steven Moffat at the Soho Apple Store in NYC on Tuesday night. Outside the store, BBCAmerica.com chatted with some dedicated Doctor Who fans including Dan Roth (Doctor Who: Podshock 185) about why they love the show.
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WHEATFIELD – The planned move of Trek Inc. from Medina to Lockport cleared another hurdle Wednesday, as the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency approved a 20-year property tax break on the building to which the electronic instrument maker is to relocate.
However, Trek's lease on that site – Building 4 of the former Harrison Radiator plant in downtown Lockport, now called Harrison Place – remains incomplete.
R. Charles Bell, city director of planning and development, said a bank's appraisal of the 96,000-square-foot, three-story building is not finished.
Without the appraisal, 210 Walnut LLC, the city-controlled entity that owns Harrison Place, can't complete the bank loan it needs to cover most of the tab for an estimated $4 million renovation of the largely vacant, unheated building. And without the loan terms being finalized, 210 Walnut can't be sure how much to charge Trek for the space.
Bell said the company must pay enough to enable 210 Walnut to make its loan payments.
"We're hoping to have something completed next week," he said Wednesday.
The 20-year lease would give Trek the first and second floors of the building, with the third floor held open for five years in case Trek wants it for expansion. The deal also gives Trek an option to purchase the entire building at any time.
On Monday, the city's Planning and Zoning boards approved the subdivision of the Harrison Place property to clear the way for the tax break on Building 4.
Although it's controlled by the city, 210 Walnut is formally a private entity, which means it's not exempt from property taxes without IDA action.
The payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement approved by the IDA board includes a 100 percent tax exemption for Building 4 for the first five years of Trek's occupancy.
That was allowed under the IDA's Opportunity Zone program aimed at luring tenants to vacant space in the downtown areas of Niagara County's three cities.
In the sixth and seventh years, the assessed value added to Building 4 by the renovation and Trek's relocation will be taxed at 20 percent of its full value. Taxation will be 30 percent in years 8 and 9; 40 percent in years 10 through 14; and 50 percent in years 15 through 20.
Trek, which says it has outgrown its current plant on Salt Works Road in Medina, will bring 72 jobs to Lockport and intends to add another 26 within three years.
The tax breaks, which include a mortgage recording tax exemption and a sales tax exemption on construction materials, furnishings and equipment for the new plant, will save the company an estimated $920,000 over 20 years. The annual payroll for 98 jobs is expected to top $5 million a year.
Trek moved 23 workers in research and development to 57 Canal St. in Lockport in 2011. Those workers will remain there.
The company considered moving its production facilities to South Carolina or Japan.
"We convinced them Niagara County was a good place to do business," IDA Chairman Henry M. Sloma said.
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NerdDinner.com is an excellent example application, and WAY better than the usual "Hello World" crap that's traditionally included in most books. And, it's an Open Source Project, so it'll grow way past the initial demo shown in the Pro ASP.NET MVC book.
I have heard some say that the book's not worth it since the NerdDinner Chapter (Ch 1); which is available as a free download; is 164 pages of the total 420 pages of the book (not including the index); however don't be put off by this. The book is an excellent reference!! If you're looking to demistify ASP.NET MVC and get using it; then I totally recommend this book.
Excellent Job on the Book!!!
I'm currently reading the "rough cuts" of Stephen Walther's book (because Wrox books aren't available on Safari Library).
I'm in two minds about ASP.NET MVC. On the one hand I'll miss at least the idea of drag-drop page creation that Webforms had (I say the idea because it rarely worked out that well in practice), and it kinda sucks having to go so low-level the way views are created and responses handled in MVC. But on the other hand, as I've been learning recently about creating really good CSS-based design and how that relies on having nice clean HTML markup, it seems like the only way to go. Also, my experience of Webforms is that that work really well up to a point, but sooner or later you end up wanting to do something that makes it seem like all that infrastructure is just getting in the way.
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Man shot in leg on West 17th Street
A man was shot in the leg Thursday night as he walked along West 17th Street near Cherry Street, Erie police said.
The man was taken to UPMC Hamot with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, police said.
The victim told police he was walking on West 17th Street, just west of the intersection with Cherry Street, at about 7 p.m. when a man approached him and asked him for money.
The victim said he refused to give the attacker anything, and the two fought briefly before the assailant fired two shots, striking the victim once in the left leg.
Police described the attacker as a tall, black man.
Police said the attacker ran from the scene west on West 17th Street.
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Who's Who in ICFA Collections
- Margaret A. Alexander
- Nicholas V. Artamonoff
- Hans Belting
- The Byzantine Institute, Inc.
- Sirarpie Der Nersessian
- Josephine M. Harris
- Nathalie Scheffer
- Paul A. Underwood
- Robert L. Van Nice
- Thomas Whittemore
Margaret A. Alexander
Margaret Eloise Ames Alexander (1916-1996) specialized in late antique mosaics of Tunisia. She received her PhD in 1958 from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was a junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks from 1942-1945. From 1967 to 1996, in collaboration with Mongi Ennaifer, she co-directed the Tunisian-American project Corpus of the Mosaics of Tunisia, which was supported in part by Dumbarton Oaks. She excavated at major sites in Tunisia, including Carthage, Dermesh, El Jem, Thuburbo Majus, and Utica. The first fascicle of the Corpus des mosaïques de Tunisie appeared in 1973 and the final volume under her direction was published posthumously in 1999. ICFA holds a collection of Margaret Alexander's research notes, field books, drawings, correspondence, budget reports, negatives, slides, and photographic prints.
- Finding aid: Margaret Alexander Papers and Records of the Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie, 1948-2003 (in progress)
- Online exhibit: From Clearing to Cataloging: The Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics
- Blog posts on Margaret Alexander
Nicholas V. Artamonoff
Nicholas Victor Artamonoff (1908-1989) was an electrical engineer who lived in Istanbul, Turkey from 1922 until the late 1940s. He took photographs documenting life in Istanbul and other sites in Turkey from 1935 to 1945. He also photographed archeological sites in western Turkey, such as Ephesus, Hierapolis, Laodicea on the Lycus, Pergamum, and Priene. Artamonoff studied and worked at Robert College in Istanbul, before moving to the United States in 1949, where he worked for the federal government. The collection in ICFA contains 542 black and white photographs, which are also available in an online exhibit. Additional photographs documenting Ottoman sites in Istanbul, as well as daily life in the city, may be found in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, as part of the Myron Bement Smith Collection.
- Finding aid: Nicholas V. Artamonoff Photographs of Istanbul and Turkey, 1935-1945 (in progress)
- Online exhibit: Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection
- Blog posts on Nicholas Artamonoff
- Exhibition at Koҫ University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul, Turkey, "Artamonoff: Picturing Byzantine Istanbul (1930-1947)," June-November, 2013, with online version of the exhibit.
- Artamonoff's photographs may be found in the Black and White Photograph Collection, under Architecture. You may also browse through his photographs of Istanbul in the Site Books.
Hans Belting
Hans Belting was born in Germany in 1935 and studied at the universities of Mainz and Rome. Trained as a historian of Medieval and Renaissance art, Belting has also written widely on contemporary art and image theory. He was a professor at universities in Hamburg, Heidelberg, Munich, and Kalrsruhe. He was a Visiting Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks four times in the 1960s and 1970s, and a Senior Fellow in the 1980s. ICFA holds a small collection of photographs of manuscript illuminations and late Byzantine manuscripts, as well as a selection of related research notes and correspondence.
- Finding aid: Hans Belting Research Papers and Photographs, ca. 1960s-1980s (PDF)
- Oral History Interview (2008)
The Byzantine Institute, Inc.
Thomas Whittemore, educator, amateur archaeologist, humanitarian relief worker, and globetrotting socialite, founded the Byzantine Institute in 1930. The Institute's mission was to conserve, restore, study, and document Byzantine monuments, sites, architecture, and arts in the former Byzantine Empire. Beginning with the examination of the wall paintings at the Red Sea Monasteries in Egypt, the Institute then undertook the conservation and restoration of the mosaics in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, as well as at neighboring Kariye Camii. ICFA holds the records of the work of the Byzantine Institute, including fieldwork notebooks, photographs, drawings, correspondence, moving images, and other administrative and financial records.
- Finding aid: The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. late 1920s-2000s (PDF)
- Online exhibits:
- Blog posts on Thomas Whittemore and the Byzantine Institute
- Harvard's VIA catalog contains images from the Institute's conservation of the mosaics of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, 1931-1964.
- The Moving Image Collection contains black and white and color 16mm moving images of the Red Sea Monasteries in Egypt and Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii in Istanbul, Turkey. These films are also featured in the online exhibit mentioned above.
Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896-1989) was a scholar of Byzantine and Armenian art who was born in Istanbul and moved to the United States in the 1930s. She served as the director of the Wellesley College Art Museum before embarking on a nearly twenty year career at Dumbarton Oaks, where she held positions as a Fellow in the 1940s, Acting Director of Studies in 1954 and 1961, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Harvard University in 1954, and Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology until 1963. ICFA holds a small collection documenting Der Nersessian's professional life and research conducted at Dumbarton Oaks, including correspondence, lists of projects, and photographs and negatives of Armenian manuscripts.
- Finding aid: Sirarpie Der Nersessian Papers and Photographs, 1939-1966 (PDF)
- Illuminated manuscripts in ICFA's Black and White Photograph Collection, compiled by Der Nersessian
- Blog posts on Sirarpie der Nersessian
- Related historical papers in the Dumbarton Oaks Archives
Josephine M. Harris
Josephine Marie Harris (1911-1992) was an archaeologist and art historian who specialized in Coptic sculpture. She received her PhD in Latin and Greek from Washington University in St. Louis. Harris was a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in the 1940s. ICFA holds a collection of Josephine Harris' documentation of Coptic sculpture from Oxyrhynchos, Egypt, including notes, drafts, correspondence, photographs, and negatives.
Nathalie Scheffer
Nathalie P. Scheffer (1889-1981) was born in Russia and later moved to Washington, D.C. Specializing in Russian icons and ecclesiastical art, she served as the head of the Slavic Division of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection from 1945 until 1965. ICFA holds a collection of Scheffer's research notes about Russian art and iconography, including an index of iconographic types of the Virgin and correspondence on Russian icons and artifact evaluations.
- Finding aid: Nathalie P. Scheffer Research Papers, 1940-1965 (PDF)
Paul A. Underwood
Paul Atkins Underwood (1902-1968) graduated from Princeton University and taught at Cornell University before becoming a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. He subsequently assumed the position of Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at Dumbarton Oaks in 1946, becoming an Associate Professor in 1951, and Full Professor in 1960. Underwood also served as the Field Director of the Byzantine Institute from 1950 to 1961. ICFA holds a collection documenting Underwood's work as a Junior Fellow in the 1940s, including research notes, papers, drafts, bibliographies, and photographs, as well as his work with Albert Mathias Friend on the Church of the Holy Apostles.
- Finding aids:
- Paul Atkins Underwood Research Papers, ca. 1936-1950 (PDF)
- The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. late 1920s-2000s (PDF)
- Exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks, "The Holy Apostles - Visualizing a Lost Monument, April-July 2015, with accompanying booklet (in conjunction with the 2015 Byzantine Studies symposium)
- Online exhibit: The Holy Apostles - Visualizing a Lost Monument
- Blog posts on Paul Underwood
- Oral History Interview with spouse Irène Underwood (2008)
Robert L. Van Nice
Robert Lawrence Van Nice (1910-1994) was born in Portland, Oregon, and received a Master's degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked at Dumbarton Oaks from 1955 until the 1980s. From 1937 to 1985, Van Nice conducted a large scale architectural survey of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. The survey was sponsored by both William Emerson, Dean Emeritus of the School of Architecture at MIT, and Dumbarton Oaks. Van Nice and his assistants produced detailed architectural plates from their fieldwork, publishing them in two installments entitled Saint Sophia in Istanbul: An Architectural Survey in 1965 and 1986. ICFA has a collection of Van Nice's papers and the fieldwork materials he produced while conducting the survey of Hagia Sophia.
- Finding aid: Robert L. Van Nice Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. 1936-1989 (PDF)
- Blog posts on Robert Van Nice
- Harvard's VIA catalog contains images of architectural details of Hagia Sophia from the Van Nice collection
- Oral History Interview with son Robert Van Nice, Jr. (2011)
Thomas Whittemore
Thomas Whittemore (1871-1950) was born in Massachusetts, attended Tufts College, and was hired to teach English there after graduating. He taught intermittently at Tufts, Columbia University, and New York University, directing plays and teaching English and Fine Arts. He became interested in archaeology and assisted with expeditions sponsored by the Egypt Exploration Society from the 1910s to 1930s. He also did much humanitarian work in Russia in the 1910s, and his experiences with both relief work and archaeology in Egypt and Bulgaria led to his creation of the Byzantine Institute in 1930. ICFA has a collection of Whittemore's papers related to his teaching career, correspondence, and personal photographs, as well as a collection of correspondence, fieldwork reports, photographs, drawings, and research notes related to Whittemore's early archaeological activities. ICFA is also the repository for the records of the Byzantine Institute.
- Finding aids:
- Thomas Whittemore Papers, ca. 1875-1966 (PDF)
- Early Archaeological Projects Associated with Thomas Whittemore, 1910s-1930s (PDF)
- The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. late 1920s-2000s (PDF)
- Online exhibits:
- Before Byzantium: The Early Activities of Thomas Whittemore (1871–1931)
- A Truthful Record: The Byzantine Institute Films
- Blog posts on Thomas Whittemore
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Back in 2008, Martin Wattenberg, a mathematician and computer scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, said that the biggest challenge of the Petabyte Age wouldn't be storing all that data, it would be figuring out how to make sense of it. At 200 terabytes, or the equivalent of 16 million file cabinets filled with text or more than 30,000 standard DVDs, the current 1000 Genomes project dataset is a prime example of this problem.
Datasets have become so massive that few researchers have the computing power to make best use of them. On March 29, Amazon Web Services and the NIH jointly announced that the 1000 Genome project, the world's largest set of data on human genetic variation, is now publicly available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) computing cloud.
This public-private collaboration demonstrates the kind of solutions that may emerge from the $200 million Big Data Research and Development Initiative launched by President Barack Obama. AWS is hosting the 1000 Genomes project as a publically available dataset for free, and researchers will pay for the computing services that they use.
Big data, very loosely defined and depending on whom you ask, means the tools, processes, and procedures allowing an organization to create, manipulate, and manage very large datasets and storage facilities. Some datasets have grown so gigantic, on the order of terabytes, exabytes, and zetabytes, that they have created capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualization issues beyond the current capacity of any one organization to manage.
Part of the problem, some say, is that scientists are pack rats, unable to part with any data—ever. Novel tools and approaches are sorely needed to analyze all this stuff and make it useful. Since single week-long sequencing runs currently can produce as much data as did entire genome centers a few years ago, the need to process terabytes of information has become a requirement for many labs engaged in genomic research, Illumina's Chief Information Officer, Scott Kahn, noted in an article in Science.
"We at Illumina see genomics big data as more of a challenge than a problem," Kahn told GEN. "We are pushed to create more sequences, more cheaply, more quickly, thereby producing more and more data to analyze.
"Our approach is to attack the issue on a couple of fronts. The first is to try to engineer more into our instruments so they can process but not remove any information content. We have moved from offline analysis to online analysis and now to offline analysis that can happen on the cloud."
Illumina introduced a software capability called RTA two years ago. It changed the need to bring image data off the machines to having the bases or reads come off the machine, Kahn explained. "This effected an order of magnitude of reduction in data, but the information remained intact—you didn't lose anything.
"We then launched BaseSpace to use the network to do processing in the cloud and to aggregate the data centrally," Kahn said. BaseSpace is Illumina's next-generation sequencing cloud computing environment for data analysis, archiving, and sharing MiSeq data.
"Variants, for example, are 10 or 20 times smaller than the raw data," Kahn continued. "So if you know what you are looking for, you can automatically deploy a workflow application that will reduce the size of the data and retain the information that you need." For example, he said, if you just want to look at variations in the genome, and just store the variations, you reduce the size of the data. "If you want to go back to the raw data, you'd have to resequence. As the cost of resequencing gets lower and lower, it becomes cheaper to resequence rather than store data."
Illumina, he said, recognized that "where sequencing is going requires a large engagement of the community." He explained that the company started a group called the Genome Informatics Alliance (GIA). "This alliance, by engaging the participation of a variety of informatics scientists, genomics scientists, and other interested parties, allows us to bring together an otherwise disparate community to discuss topics that they could contribute to and address. Over four years, it has worked out nicely. We can work on problems well in advance through anticipating them and planning for them a little better."
The inability to digest big data may compromise its utility in medicine, commented David Haussler, Ph.D., director of the center for biomolecular science and engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz. "Data handling is now the bottleneck," Dr. Haussler told The New York Times. "It costs more to analyze a genome than to sequence a genome."
One approach to making the size of the data more manageable and amenable to analysis is to compress it. Dr. Haussler's Santa Cruz group is participating in a study of different data-compression methodologies. Dr. Haussler noted, however, that "it's clear that you can't compress it without losing some information.
"It's a matter of whether you really need that information or not. Maybe we don't need to keep as much as we are keeping now, but we need to make sure our analyses work just as well on the compressed data."
The problem is that sequencing data is growing exponentially faster than computing power per dollar, Bonnie Berger, Ph.D., told GEN. "With the advent of next-gen sequencing, the size of the data is going up by a factor of 10 every year while processing power is going up by a factor of two every year, and computer power won't keep pace with data size."
The key thing, she said, is that "people suggest that cloud computing will solve the problem. However, it doesn't change the problem that the data is increasing exponentially faster than computing power per dollar."
Dr. Haussler also said that cloud tools need development, and currently "there's no definitive large-scale plan. There are some obstacles in terms of patient privacy and policy issues and other issues of design. If data is spread over several locations and you want to pull thousands of genomes together to compare and analyze them, it's too expensive to move them, and it's difficult to run the comparison process when they are kept separate. We are all trying to discover the optimum ways to compare and analyze thousands of genomes."
The only solution, according to Dr. Berger, is to "discover fundamentally better algorithms for data processing and sublinear algorithms that work faster and scale so their cost doesn't explode as the size of the databases increase."
Mere compression is not the answer, she added, because "eventually you have to look at the data. We need to develop better algorithms that allow us to use the natural redundancy in the data and can operate directly on the compressed data. Much of the new data is similar, and the question becomes how we can take advantage of its inherent redundancy."
As NIH director Francis Collins said, "The explosion of biomedical data has already significantly advanced our understanding of health and disease. Now we want to find new and better ways to make the most of this data to speed discovery, innovation, and improvements in the nation's health and economy." But achieving all of that will take a lot of computing power, inventive software, and cooperation and coordination among multiple scientific disciplines. The availability of big data is only the beginning.
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is a principal at BioInsight Consulting.
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Ello to all, wondering if anyone on here went to Nan Desu Kan in denver last weekend. It was full of fun times there.
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what are some of ur favorite miyuzaki films my selection spirited away howls movie castle castle in the sky
i like my nieghbor totoro and princess mononoke. i haven't seen howl's moving castle but brother said it is awesome. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
it was awesome, ponyo is coming out soon.
kiki's delivery service, castle in the sky, and howl's moving castle. ^_^"I love anime and manga! Also J-Rock!"
...because that's the only one I've seen Hears voices in his head...probably due to his headphones.
Definitely watch his others they are all good. They have lots of heart, good plots, great characters, amazing drawing, and they are just overall fun and likeable, I watch them over and over.
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
thats the only show i had seen.
id say that Whisper Of The Heart and Grave Of the Firefiles are my favorites;) You Are My Sweetest Downfall♥
i didn't know grave of the fireflies was one of his films. i found a post earlier by secondswell and she said it was a said movie. i'll have 2 check it out
yea its a really great film like the rest of his movies but it is sad:( but its one of his best in my opinion:) You Are My Sweetest Downfall♥
No Castle in the Sky is betterZombaukto Clan is cool Join
that is another movie i have 2 watch
Its the best out of all his movies cause it has giant distructive robots
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princess mononoke. gillian anderson is featured on the english dubb.
I have seen Spirted Away, Howl's Moving Castle,Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, Porco Rosso,Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, Whisper of the Heart, Kiki's Delivery Service, and The Cat Returns. My favs out of those are Howl's Moving Castle, Whisper of the Heart, and Spirited Away with My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso coming pretty close as well, but I love them all lol. By the way Grave of the fireflies isn't one of Miyazaki's works but it is directed by Isao Takahata, and the two have worked together on quite a few films so I can see the confusion there.
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
kiki's delivery service, totoro, howl's moving castle, and princess mononoke.
howls moving castle. spirted away. princess mononoke. and another somethin' in the valley of the winds it starts with an "n"


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quote: I think games are overpriced
quote: The technology has advanced so much that making a game is much less expensive now than then
quote: How exactly are games more expensive nowadays?
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Nah nah people, you've got it all wrong(or maybe I have, but last time I heard this is what 'poke' or 'poking' is known as in Oceania). Poking is not having sex. It's when someone inserts their finger into a girl's pussy with a repeated thrusting motion. The girl's version of third base.
"Hey, has your bf poked you yet?"
بواسطة anon سبتمبر/أيلول 30, 2004
The facebook version of a ginger stepchild. They just sit there and you have no idea what to do with them so you give your Pokes dirty looks and spit on them every once in a while.
FB Notification - "Joe Blow had Poked you! Click here to Poke him back!"
You - "Oh shit, not again..."
You - "Oh shit, not again..."
بواسطة UniverseTwister يوليو/تمُّوز 5, 2010
in northern ireland poke is another word for ice cream on a cone. so if offered a poke u are not being offered sex!
if you hear the term "pokie" this refers to the seller of the ice cream. usually in a van or other mobile stall.
if you hear the term "pokie" this refers to the seller of the ice cream. usually in a van or other mobile stall.
"fancy a poke" "aye go on!"
"who wants a poke"
"who wants a poke"
بواسطة 182appleshampoo إبريل/نَيْسان 21, 2009
an action on facebook letting someone know you thought about them that day.
I was flipping through an old book that a friend borrowed a couple years ago, and I noticed her notes in the margin. I looked her up on facebook and poked her.
بواسطة facebook user23450 نوفمبر/تشرين الثّاني 19, 2010
to touch with finger or other object briefly and then pull away (verb)
Playing pass-the-poke involves poking people in circles.
Gangpoking involves many people poking one person.
Gangpoking involves many people poking one person.
بواسطة Edward يونيو/حَزيران 17, 2003
a slang term in reference to sexual intercourse; see also: bone
all my friends are dying to poke me.
بواسطة Evan يونيو/حَزيران 25, 2002
n. On Facebook, a coded, subtle message sent to a recipient of sender's choice. Nearest literal english translation is "I have social insecurities."
"This hot chick's in a bunch of my classes, but I'm too self-conscious to say hi. I'm a loser."
--"It's cool, just send her a poke."
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The 02G Red beat Sting in the semifinal 1-0 and beat Andromeda 1-0 in overtime of the championship match. Addie Hackney scored the game winner in the semifinal and Natalie Cruz scored the game winning goal in the final after a great run and cross from Brooke MacArthur. Captain Abby Allen was brilliant throughout the weekend and the center backs Maddie Laude and Emma Hagart were sensational in a very tough final match.
Overall the girls had 21 goals for and ZERO against. Big thanks to Azul Alvarez who came up from 03G Red to play goalie for the weekend. Excellent work everyone!
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Women's Tennis Suffers 7-0 Loss to Miami Saturday
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State women's tennis team (5-15, 0-8 MAC) finished its Mid-American Conference regular season after suffering a 7-0 loss to Miami Saturday afternoon at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center.
Before the match the Cardinals paid tribute to their three seniors, Dena Boulieris, Sarah Hebble and Kyle Johnson. The three seniors lettered all four years for Ball State.
The Cardinals headed into singles action down 1-0 to the RedHawks after Miami clinched the doubles point, winning on all three courts.
Ball State went on to drop all but one match in straight sets during singles play, freshman Courtney Wild (Carmel, Ind./Carmel) was the lone Cardinal to go three sets at No. 1 singles, but lost to Stephanie Danesis, 6-3, 3-6, 10-5.
The Ball State women's tennis team will begin its MAC Tournament play, Thursday at Northern Illinois. Details about the tournament will be announced by the conference office Sunday.
Ball State 0, Miami 7
No. 1 Courtney Wild/Ashlyn Rang loses to Stephanie Danesis/Christine Guerrazzi, 8-4
No. 2 Sarah Hebble/Paola Rodriguez loses to Riekie Honiball/Nimisha Mohan, 8-2
No. 3 Dena Boulieris/Lauren Pickrel loses to Christiana Raymond/Jessica Parr, 8-3
No. 1 Courtney Wild loses to Stephanie Danesis, 6-3, 3-6, 10-5
No. 2 Kristel Sanders loses to Riekie Honiball, 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 Kylee Johnson loses to Nimisha Mohan, 6-1, 6-3
No. 4 Ashlyn Rang loses to Christiana Raymond, 6-2, 6-1
No. 5 Sarah Hebble loses to Alix Thurman, 6-2, 6-4
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