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Portland, Oregon--January 8, 2013-- Stu Whitcomb, with Rivers West of Portland connects a TV on one of the groups wood boats Tuesday at The Expo Center. The nonprofit group promotes wooden boats, stewardship and safety and each summer hosts an event called "Family Boat Build" when a family builds a wooden boat in a weekend. The TV will be used to show the boat building demo from the family boat build class. The 53rd annual Portland Boat Show opens Wednesday at The Expo Center in Portland and runs through Sunday. Hundreds of boats will be on display, including sailboats, sport boats, wakeboard boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, personal watercraft and even an enormous house boat. General admission is $10.00 with 12 and under admitted free – all inside 250,000 square feet of boat filled exhibit space! Jamie Francis/The Oregonian
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In the militant setting of urban commuting, a good set of earbuds is priceless. Denizens of the 9-to-5 march along toting their standard issue white earbuds (you know the ones) but what we have in the Wicked Audio Heist are high caliber, feature-packed earbuds, with the unique twistof an in-line splitter, all at an palatable price of $29.99.
The first thing you notice about these buds is the generous cord length. A double-edge sword to be sure as I often found myself tangled in the extra length. Though, while stationary in the office trenches or lounging at home, it becomes a non-issue. Wicked Audio, from the looks of their literature, is gearing most of their products to the extreme sports audience. No, I didn't shred a pool this weekend or dodge buses on my fixie, but the addition of a clip is handy for reeling in the four foot finger trap that the super-long cord became. I wager they may could suit the fitness crowd looking for something more secure. That four foot cord also boasts a splitter; the main draw of the Heist.
One rarely ends up needing a splitter but when faced with situations such as the "no inflight movie," suddenly the splitter is the difference between a 5 hour joy ride and hair-pulling boredom. So your significant other wants to share that movie with you on your iPad or perhaps you want to impress the blue-haired girl on the train with that new, obscure British power metal band? The Heist has you covered; in gold-plate actually since the splitter jack appears to be coated in such, as is the main jack.
The Heist also boasts "Enhanced Bass" and "Noise Isolation" according to Wicked's site. Strong words for drivers that are 10mm but these are essentially little Howitzers. The bass output was so strong that this metalhead selected "Treble Booster" in his iPod EQ just to level the sound. So perhaps, on that note, these may be geared more towards the hip-hop or EM crowds but don't let that drive you away. With a little EQ magic on whatever player you prefer, these buds can suit your listening needs. And while noise isolation is hardly worth mentioning in this category, the Heist managed to cut down on the chatter from loud-talkers on the train and even obscured most of that coworker's conversation with his proctologist. Bonus.
Cutting out external noise with the Heist is also infinitely more attainable with the included buds for small, medium or large ears. Testing the fit made me wish for so many years back of trying to fit those white showerheads Apple calls earbuds into my auditory sensors. Who would have guessed that I have small ears? The fit not only seems to aid in noise isolation but better sound since the audio is directed straight into my ear canal. (Warning: careful with that volume!)
All told, the Heist are a versatile set of buds with a wide range. I believe the additional features afforded put it ahead of most other choices in this category and price range.
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Like any good ol' Texas cowhand, Tom Mantzel ignores the boot-sucking mud squishing beneath his feet when it's feeding time down at the Fossil Rim Ranch. Never mind that the herd stomping impatiently to be fed is a group of rare Grevy's zebras from Kenya. Zebras? In central Texas? Well, what about black rhinos, addax and oryx antelope, waterbuck and wildebeest, to say nothing of ostriches and giraffes? Such creatures make Mantzel's 1,500-acre spread look more like a landlocked Noah's Ark than a typical Texas ranch with its requisite horses, sheep and cattle.
Which is probably as it should be, because there is very little that is typical about Mantzel, a 37-year-old bachelor who for 11 years has taken it on himself to provide a bucolic sanctuary for 20 rare and endangered species from Africa. "Every year I seem to bite off more than I can chew," he says. "Right now, we're fencing off several acres where we'll have our first 12 cheetahs this spring."
As if to offer some rationale for his odd menagerie, Mantzel suggests that "this is an extension of my childhood love for animals. Basically, I'm just a kid." He also happens to be president and owner of Pride Energy, a natural-gas company in Fort Worth. His Monday to Friday dealings in the city help pay for the care and feeding of the 1,000 animals he keeps at Fossil Rim. Last year Mantzel spent $60,000 to bring a rhino and its mate to this country aboard a 747 as part of a program by zoo and conservation groups to save threatened species. To help pay for the rhinos' tickets, Mantzel ran fund raisers, including a $100-a-plate jungle costume party for 350 people at the ranch.
"You can put just so much food in your stomach and you can't wear but one suit of clothes at a time," Mantzel says philosophically. "No amount of money can buy a two-inch rainfall in the middle of a hot August. Here I can drive out to a pasture and sit for hours and get a rush unlike anything I've ever experienced in the business world."
Mantzel's efforts have earned him the respect of preservation groups. He is the first game rancher admitted to the Species Survival Program of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums and the only rancher sanctioned by AAZPA to raise Grevy's, considered the most beautiful of all zebras. In addition, the International Wildlife Foundation bestowed on him its annual conservation award a few years ago for helping restore dwindling herds of addax antelope.
Mantzel has no trouble maintaining and even breeding exotic creatures in his home state because the Texas climate and terrain are very much like the animals' homeland. "It's just a matter of their getting used to the reversed seasons," he says. Since last November, 18 addax and gemsbok antelope, 11 waterbuck and three oryx have been born on the ranch. Although he owns 90 percent of the animals outright, his goal is preservation, not profit. "This isn't the kind of business you get into to make money," he says.
Mantzel is no stranger to money making, however. Born in Dallas and raised in Austin, he peddled doughnuts door-to-door as a third-grader to finance his first exotic creatures—tropical fish. Later, he worked his way through Texas Christian University and peddled custom-made suits after graduation. Mantzel made such a hit with one customer, Dick Lowe, president of Fort Worth's American Quasar Petroleum Co., that Lowe offered him a job raising investment capital. That, helped on by his own smart investments, brought him his first million. He drives a Mercedes 450 SL and lives in a contemporary brick house located near the prestigious Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth.
But his dearest possession is Fossil Rim, 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Mantzel runs the ranch with a staff of four, and his unusual home on the range makes some daunting demands. Once he was attacked by an oryx, a 450-pound African antelope with long, saberlike horns capable of killing a lion. "I looked up and immediately realized he was unhappy I had invaded his turf," Mantzel recalls, putting it mildly. The oryx charged three times and on its third try tore a gaping hole in Mantzel's thigh. "I was on the ground, pretty helpless," he says, but his two spaniels, Polly and Daisey, pounced on the oryx, biting its hind legs long enough for Mantzel to haul himself up a tree. A week later he limped out of the hospital.
Mantzel is now organizing a youth information center where he and his staff will teach kids about wildlife preservation. He has already opened the ranch for drive-through tours ($4.50 for adults, $2.50 for kids under 12), but he bristles at the thought of going commercial. "We'll never have hippo boat rides or stuffed animals that kids can sit on to have their pictures taken," he says. Visitors are not permitted out of their cars, and there's no guarantee they'll see every species. (Some areas, like the huge, fenced pasture where the black rhinos roam, are strictly off-limits.) Even so, Mantzel says, the visitors enjoy seeing the animals "running free instead of in cages."
He himself gets as close to his prehistoric-looking pals as they'll allow. The rhinos love having their master scratch behind their ears, and on any weekend night, if you're in the right place, you may catch a glimpse of three creatures lumbering through the bluestem grass—two very fit rhinos inside the fence, and one panting, happy millionaire outside. "I've always had a fear of going into a pine box before I've accomplished anything," Mantzel says. "This is the avenue I've decided on to give something back to the world."
For Texas Rancher Tom Mantzel, Home on the Range Is Where the Zebra and the Antelope Play
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FDI into Africa has followed the oil over the past decade, and this will likely increase, as it is projected that at least another 100 billion barrels of oil are available off the continent's shores, only waiting to be discovered. Although Africa's oil, gas, mineral, and metal endowment will remain important draw cards for investment on the continent, focus is shifting increasingly to the potential contained in the size of and growth in Africa's consumer market. In addition, enormous agricultural potential exists on the continent – while at the same time two recent global food price increases have highlighted the vulnerability of the world's population.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Dream come true!
Watch me perform with "Cherish the Ladies" at our family's Irish fest this weekend!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Does Oprah know she's pro-life?
"How I think one masters one's life is to understand that you are co-creating that life with the ultimate creator. Not understanding that puts you at your own pitiful, meager, little will and everything is left up to you. And YOU can't do it. YOU cannot survive in this world, by yourself, just believing in yourself. You're not big enough to do it. I'm not big enough to do it. Nobody is big enough to do it. You have to understand that your very presence here as a human being on this earth came from something bigger than you. And not justfrom your parents who wanted to have a child. The fact that that egg was hit by that particular sperm in that particular moment and you were created.. Wow! How amazing is that!? Of all the different choices that had to happen in order for you to be here now.. What a celebration that is!
"So when you recognize the mystery of that creation. All the circumstances that had to configure and reconfigure themselves. All the questions that we don't have answers to. You have to know this: the fact that I'm here matters. And the fact that you're there matters. This is no accident. None of us are."
~ Oprah on Master Class on OWN
You'd be stupid to not acknowledge all this but then say that there is nothing wrong with destroying that sperm and egg that has so mysteriously come together to form a person. Wish Oprah would get publicly behind the pro-life movement!
Blogging with a Bad Catholic!
Here is part one.
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Part three is coming soon! :)
Monday, July 18, 2011
I'm baaack!
I said don't!
I can't bring myself to figure out how many days it has been, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was a million days ago.
Yes, definitely a million days ago.
Ah! Why did you just go look?!
It was only 2 months ago?
Well, see now that doesn't seem so bad!
And see, I do have an excuse!! Well, actually 10 of them! Can I give you a list of the top 10 things I have been doing since I last blogged?
10. Teaching kids to read. While in transition between the last two things on this list, I was nannying. And I totally taught this little one to read! What a great feeling! I hope teachers feel this rewarded. Though.. Some of my pride came from having taught her to read the colors of OPI nail polish. "Duh.. Dee.. Deeva.. uh.. of.. Gin.. Geneeva.. Diva of Geneeva!" Way to go, kiddo!!
8. I became homeless. I moved out of my apartment, am storing my stuff in my parents garage and living in my car an hour away awhile I'm working. Staying with friends here and there, but basically homeless. I wonder how bad it would be to stand on the corner of a big intersection, begging for money, with a sign that read: "I guess I could go home, but it's like an hour drive.."
7. My brother John and my cousin Maria graduated high school and my BFF finished, defended and turned in her dissertation! Okay, so I had very little to do with this, but I am so proud of all three!
6. My brother left me a few voicemails. Have you heard these? They are seriously deranged. The one above is where he spends nearly 4 minutes pretending that he's responding to a Craigslist ad. Clearly the kid has problems. But I can't help it! I love his voicemails! :)
5. Getting ready for the festival! 29 years ago my grandparents started Cleveland's Irish Cultural Festival and it is now considered one of the best in the country! It is so much fun and I am so proud of what our family has created! Being around all that Irish music, dance, people.. Whew! It is awesome! And you should come! But my favorite thing is that I end up staying up all night in the hotel bar, singing and playing music with some of the best Irish singers and musicians in the world.. It's dreamy!
4. I just planned the bestest shower/bachelorette party ever! Now, I have been bridesmaid before (in fact, I am also in my other BFF's wedding next month! Can't wait, Rita!!), but this is the first time I have been Maid-of-Honor. Lots of responsibility.. You think the BRIDE is stressed! Ha! :) But I hosted a garden party bridal shower in my parent's backyard and then planned a bachelorette weekend in Chicago. It was perfect: fun and relaxing, exciting and girly. Minus the cab ride with Mitchell, an older gentleman whose long-winded stories were as comprehensible as his slurred speech. Don't worry. I got his number.
3. I worked my butt off to finish school, these past 6 months, cramming in classes that I didn't have time for before, taking indpendent study courses and being resourcesful in my scheduling of classes. I must thank Marian University because although I didn't love everything about the school, by the grace of God (and my advisor), I can safely say the following:
2. I graduated!! Now, for those of you new to the Caitie-scene, this has been a long time coming! I took four years off school and went back when I was 23, so it kinda took me 8 years to graduate. "Eight years?" You say. "That's not so bad"! Well, yeah. If I were now a doctor. But no. I'm just a lowly Theology major with a book-bag full of Peter Kreeft books. Woe is me. Or is it.. (See #1)
1. I GOT A JOB! It's my dreeaaammmm job and so thankful for the opportunity! I am now the youth minister at St. Maria Goretti Church in Westfield, IN. This parish is so cool.. Very family oriented, very Eucharistic centered. It's a new church and the pastor is awesome. Big parish, strong youth programs and a lot of room for growth -- both for the teens and for me! :) I am so excited -- praise Jesus!


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Student Loan Forgiveness Programs
My sister is a public school teacher in Boston. She's participating in a program where her student loans will be paid off after some number of years teaching difficult students in schools in low-income neighborhoods. The arrangement works for my sister because she would be teaching anyway, though as a young female teacher the rowdy students seem like they would be a greater challenge for her, and now she's also getting sizable debts forgiven. She hasn't complained once yet, so perhaps things are well.
I don't know the name of the program she's participating in but there are several public service programs that offer the same benefits. If you're in one of these fields, you'll want research these more as you could get some of your loans forgiven. I don't know if the pay for these jobs is adjusted accordingly though.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is the biggest of the loan forgiveness plans. It offers total loan forgiveness on Stafford, Grad PLUS and associated consolidation loans in the Direct Loan program if you work in a "qualified public service job" for at least 10 years and continue to make payments during that span. Ten years seems like an awfully long time. The standard payment structure on Stafford Loans is equal payments over ten years! However, typical consolidation repayment lengths are often thirty years and consolidation is always a good idea.
A qualified public service job is often determined by the employer, rather than the role you play. If your employer is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, you're eligible. If it's the federal, state, local, or tribal government, you're eligible. Finally, if you're in a full-time Americorp position, you're eligible. If you don't meet any of those, you can still qualify if your employer is a non-profit type entity that is engaged in public service but is not a political organization, religious organization, or a labor union. Rules are slated to be finalized by the Department of Education in November.
TEACH Grant
The TEACH (Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education) Grant is a grant worth up to $4,000 a year if the student agrees to teach at least four years in the next eight in a "high-need" field in elementary or secondary school that serves low-income students. It's a new program and you need to apply with your school's financial aid office. If you've already graduated, unfortunately you can't apply for this particular grant.
If you are out of school, thus ineligible for the TEACH Grant, consider asking your school district's administration to see if they are covered under The National Defense Education Act. Under that Act, if you become a full-time teacher in an elementary or secondary school that serves students from low-income families, you can get some of your Perkins loans forgiven. It's 15% of your loan for the first and second years, 20% for the third and fourth years, and 30% for the fifth. My sister may be in this program.
Volunteer Work
Those two programs have been getting most of the press lately but there are several other programs available. Here are some of the other options:
- AmeriCorps: Receive $7400 in stipends and $4725 towards your loans for 12 months of service.
- PeaceCorp: You can get deferment of your student loans and partial cancellation of Perkins Loans, 15% per year of service up to 70%.
- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA): $4725 for 1700 hours of service.
In addition to the programs mentioned here, there are many more specific programs.
Additional resources:
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness [IBRinfo, nonprofit, nonpartisan Project on Student Debt]
- TEACH Grant Program [Federal Student Aid, office of the US Dept. of Education]
- Loan Forgiveness [FinAid.org]


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The struggle to bridge generation gaps is as old as time itself, but the disconnect between Millennials, their parents and grandparents is one of the widest ever.
Born between 1980 and 1995, most Millennials don't know a world without the Internet. Eighty million strong, they're now entering the workforce, and employers find that they're just different.
Many of those differences are good. Others are a bit more challenging, but most of them stem from the Millennials' immersion in technology.
Technically Social
Whether it's networking, sharing information, or just keeping in touch, Millennials often turn to social media.
"When I'm reviewing documents and I need to send a PDF real quick to myself, or to edit, or to make sure that a client has an important document, I have an app on my phone that's great for that," Karla Soloria, an attorney and a Millennial, said. "Because I follow social media, you hear about all of this innovation that can make the work process easier."
But to an older generation, constant use of social media looks more like a distraction. As a consultant and professional speaker, Doña Storey has often looked out over her audience and found them focused on their phones instead of on her.
"It's pretty horrifying when you're on that stage, or you're giving a presentation and you look and half of the audience is doing that thing they do," she said.
She later found out that while some may have been distracted, others were sharing her speech through Twitter. It's a simple miscommunication, but one that's becoming more common as older generations try to grasp the technology.
Employers say they see the benefits of technology and how Millennials use it in the workplace. But they also fear those benefits come at a cost.
"The texting and communication without face-to-face seems to become problematic in the sense that our business is based on relationship building," Jeff Karr, a certified public accountant, said.
Experts agree. Author Thom Rainer's book, The Millenials: Connecting to America's Largest Generation, takes an in-depth look into the world's largest generation.
"I believe that this will be one of the greatest challenges in the millennial generation going forward," Dr. Rainer said. "There's never going to be a time that you can replace face-to-face conversation."
Spreading the Difference
It's not surprising that this strength, a tech-savvy, multi-tasking approach, can also be a weakness. But Rainer said employers should work with Millennials on their shortcomings and not discredit their strengths.
Take Mark Slagle and Alex Cox, both 25 years old, for example. Out of college they started working with Mana Nutrition, a company that makes therapeutic food.
"It's peanut butter for children who are severely malnourished," Slagle said. "And its amazing because it can rapidly change the effects of malnutrition. It can bring kids back from the fatal stage of malnourishment to healthy living children who can grow up to be healthy adults."
Their mission: to spread the word about Mana's therapeutic peanut butter.
"We stopped at churches and we stopped at colleges and high schools, anyone who would basically let us come in and talk," Cox said.
Eventually they decided they could do more.
"It would make sense to make a consumer product that is in a similar form so people could buy the product and through that purchase essentially be doing their donation also," Cox said.
"We didn't have any money to start with. We didn't have a rich uncle and, you know, we didn't have peanut experience. But we had a good audience from the people who believed in Mana's mission and our mission, so we started an online, crowd-funding campaign," Slagle said.
The Millennial Way
Slagle and Cox decided they would need about $65,000 to get their company off the ground. People were so receptive they over-funded, raising about $70,000. That was the start of their company, Good Spread.
"Every time we sell a packet or a jar of our peanut butter we give away these packets of therapeutic peanut butter to kids who are malnourished," Slagle explained.
Their peanut butter is mixed with honey, but whenever someone buys that kind, they're giving away peanut butter mixed with milk and vitamins.
Not only did technology play a huge role in starting Slagle and Cox's business, it's also helping them keep it going. Slagle is based in Nashville, Tenn., while Cox is in Washington, D.C.
"Ten years ago this would have never worked," Slagle said. "But Alex and I literally every day, it's like a long distance relationship. We can talk on the phone, we can video chat, we can text and just within seconds, we can make decisions for our little peanut butter company."
In November, Good Spread sent its first batch overseas through a partnership with World Vision. The total: 33,000 packets.
It's a business run the Millennial way, and it's making a difference.
Mana Nutrition
Good Spread
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wav2bin? then the samples you bought before not so useless as you said or? :-)
My LM-1 samples are now useless and don't sound half as good as this. I would not load an inferior sample of the LM-1 in to the machine that already has pristine LM-1 BIN files in it. My other samples on the other hand are great to change to BIN and drop in to this thing. Gives them a new life.
Yes, it's another new evidence that the modelling synthesis is the real future instead of the sample based instruments. First in sample based instruments, the sound can't be alive by itself (it needs effects to give it life) while in physically (or electronically) modelled synthesis the sound is alive in itself, by mathematical progressions, and second... while gigabytes of samples are needed in sample based synthesis, just some megabytes (a thousand times less) is enough for a modelling synthesis instrument... which will have a far better quality.
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John Atkinson points out that "a much-touted benefit of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD is that these new media can store digital audio data extending one or more octaves higher in frequency response than the capabilities of the CD." But is this a difference that makes a difference? Atkinson examines the mounting pile of data in What's Going On Up There? Is there recorded life above 20k? The answer may surprise you.
Jonathan Scull writes, "I wasn't raised a McIntosh lad. My dad used Fisher, Bogen, Leak, and Ampex tubed electronics. So while I knew that many audiophiles hold tubed McIntosh gear—especially the early designs—in very high regard, I was somehow never bitten or smitten." Scull has a chance to make up for lost time when he reviews the McIntosh MC2000 power amplifier. But was it love at last?


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The 1995 World Food Prize has been awarded to Hans R. Herren for his work at IITA on classical biological control of the cassava mealybug. Hans Herren, as an IITA entomologist, helped to conceive the project in 1979 and led it from its inception to its successful conclusion in the early 1990s when the mealybug problem was effectiuvely eliminated in 30 African countries without the use of pesticides.
In 1994, Herren left IITA to become Director of the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology .
The World Food Prize is considered the foremost international agricultural award recognizing outstanding individual achievement in improving the world food system. The Prize is administered by the World Food Prize Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa. Members of the selection committee remain anonymous except for the chairman, Norman E. Borlaug, a Nobel Prize laureate.
In the early 1970s the cassava mealybug was accidently introduced to Africa from South America, and in 10 years threatened to wipe out the continent's cassava crop -- the staple food of more than 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Herren's biological control project involved finding and introducing from South America, the origin of cassava, predator wasps that attack and kill only the cassava mealybug. The wasps were then bred in huge numbers in Africa and released from a airplane over the entire cassava growing belt, an area larger than continental United States. In about seven years, the wasps spread rapidly to a point where a state of ecological balance between the cassava mealybug and its predators has been created throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The benefit of this project to African farmers has been estimated at about US$3 billion.
IITA's expertise in biological control is now being employed to address various other pest problems in Africa. It is helping to control the cassava green mite throughout the cassava belt. It is helping solve the mango mealybug, grasshopper and locust problems in West Africa, the water hyacinth spread that disrupts water transport and destroys peasant fishing industries in East and West Africa, and the larger grain borer that pulverizes stored maize.
Last year, IITA won the CGIAR's King Baudouin Award for International Agricultural Research. That award recognized IITA's achievement in breeding plantain varieties resistant to black sigatoka disease, and for contributions to the understanding of plantain genetics. IITA has won the King Baudouin Award three times in the past eight years.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Health care is a basic human right. That is the mantra being recited in this island nation of 23 million inhabitants.
It sounds like a universally accepted doctrine, right? Not exactly.
Taiwan wants to join the World Health Organization, the U.N.-funded agency designed to foster unfettered access to health-related remedies to its member nations. Taiwan doesn't belong to the United Nations. Thus, it doesn't belong to the WHO. Its leaders believe it deserves to belong to the WHO - and to the U.N.
But there remains this problem with Taiwan. It has a very large neighbor just across the Taiwan Strait: the People's Republic of China. The PRC leadership believes it owns Taiwan, which at one time was part of the monster nation. That relationship changed in 1949, when the Nationalist government, the Kuomintang - which lost a civil war to the communists - fled to Taiwan to set up a new nation. The rulers on the mainland have been bristling ever since, threatening to take Taiwan back by force if they are provoked sufficiently.
Short of that, though, the communists have blocked Taiwan's participation as a full-fledged member of the international community. The PRC has managed to persuade most WHO member nations that they cannot allow Taiwan to belong the health organization, citing most countries' "one-China policy," which declares there can be only one China and that the only China in the world comprises about 3.7 million square miles on the Asian mainland.
The small island nation off the coast? It doesn't exist, at least according to those who run the WHO.
Taiwan says that is unjust, unfair and unacceptable.
The Taipei leadership has it right.
The world health body's meeting in May well might consider - yet again - whether to allow "observer" status to Taiwan, which is willing to accept that standing for now. The meeting, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, would have to agree to let Taiwan take part in health-related conferences, but only if it keeps its national mouth shut. The Taiwanese can be seen, but not heard.
WHO membership is critical in this regard: It gives Taiwan access to the same medical information that every other nation that belongs to WHO gets.
Taiwan has paid a price for its unjustified exclusion.
The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak killed 73 Taiwan residents. Taiwanese health officials contend that they didn't get any help from anyone in the world until the deaths began mounting.
Dr. Shuh-min Wu, an internal medicine specialist who once practiced in Kansas and taught medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said that Taiwan can give as much as it gets from the WHO. "We have experience related to SARS, but so far we aren't getting anywhere," he said.
The country is making small inroads in the WHO community. The United States and Japan - which both have one-China policies - have supported granting observer status to Taiwan. But larger blocs of nations, such as the 25-member European Union, vote consistently against Taiwan's entry, citing its own adherence to recognizing just a single China - the big and powerful one on the mainland.
"We go back to Geneva every year and ask nations for their support," Wu said. "We'll do it again this year."
Indeed, the WHO's own bylaws declare that its goal is the "attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health." Taiwanese officials contend justifiably that the WHO is violating its own stated intention by refusing to allow Taiwan into the organization.
Taiwanese officials boast of the high level of health care in their nation.
Dr. Jen-Hsiang Chuang, representing the country's Centers for Disease Control, showed off an array of high-tech gadgetry that enables the country to track infectious diseases. Airport screening devices, he said, detect whether someone coming into the country has a fever. If that fever is confirmed through a follow-up examination, the visitor can be hospitalized.
But none of that matters to the WHO powers who say that Taiwan doesn't deserve membership. Why? China objects and that's reason enough for most of the WHO.
Mayor Tain-tsair Hsu of Tainan - a city of 750,000 residents on the southwestern coast of Taiwan - believes "justice" eventually will open the door to Taiwan's membership in the WHO. He also believes "time will make this power of justice stronger day by day."
Perhaps. Meanwhile, no one should be forced to live under the fear of serious illness or death when the next epidemic arrives.
That is the fear the Taiwanese face because their country cannot gain the same access to health care available to the rest of the world.
Health care is a basic human right.
John Kanelis is editorial page editor of the Amarillo Globe-News. He can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com. Kanelis' column appears Sunday.
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Seattle Children's Center for Diversity and Health Equity supports the hospital's quest to eliminate pediatric health disparities.
Health disparities are differences in health status and the quality of healthcare between people and communities. Some of the factors that contribute to health disparities in this country are gender, race, ethnicity, education, income, disability, sexual orientation and gender expression.
The center works both internally with hospital staff and faculty and externally with community leaders to ensure the highest quality of care for all of our patients and for the families in the communities we serve.
The center helps the hospital monitor quality of care by race, ethnicity, language and socioeconomic status.
We have found that the care we provide is equitable in some critical areas, such as timeliness of emergency department care and pain management. However, families who identify themselves as non-white or Latino are more likely than white families to say they want to be more involved in decisions about their child's care. Information like this is used to make improvements that will help eliminate disparities not only at Seattle Children's but also at other children's hospitals.
Another way we monitor quality of care is by working with other departments to assure that families with limited English proficiency receive interpretation. In the past year, Children's provided interpretation for nearly all (98% of) outpatient visits for patients with limited English proficiency. Our hospital policy requires that we provide interpretation twice per day to inpatient families with limited English proficiency; close monitoring has demonstrated that we meet this standard.
The center also provides patient navigation to teach immigrant families how to effectively use the healthcare system for their children's complex or chronic medical needs. Spanish- and Somali-speaking patient navigators teach families how to become more active participants in their child's care, schedule appointments and arrange transportation. Patient navigators also train hospital staff and faculty how to provide effective care across cultures.
Children's is committed to helping children grow up without illness and injury. Connecting with children and their families where they live gets us one step closer to achieving our mission.
Not all communities are equal. They have different challenges to keep their children healthy and safe.
The center partners with staff to provide relevant and culturally appropriate child health information and resources to families where they live.
We partner with community organizations to offer classes to parents on topics such as common pediatric illnesses; when to seek medical and dental attention; and how to prepare fast, tasty and nutritious meals.
Children's aims to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We know the benefits that come from having staff whose beliefs, attitudes and life experiences are similar to those of the families we serve. As a truly multicultural organization, we will be better prepared to deliver care that is respectful to all patients.
The center works with others across the organization to introduce youth from racial groups that have been historically underrepresented in healthcare professions to the many career opportunities available in pediatrics. We offer:
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The Amarillo Area Foundation Nonprofit Services Center and the Texas Plains Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals will sponsor the Panhandle Nonprofit Institute from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Amarillo College Business & Industry Center, 1314 S. Polk St.
"Panhandle nonprofit organizations have repeatedly expressed the need for local training opportunities in all areas of nonprofit management, including fund-raising, financial management and technology," said Ashley Allison, foundation director of community services and Texas Plains AFP president. "We are bringing in expert speakers from throughout Texas to provide a high-quality nonprofit training experience usually only available in places like Dallas or Washington, D.C."
Sponsors also need people from businesses and nonprofits to participate by setting up booths at the Nonprofit Service Fair during the seminar. Booths will provide brochures, information and advice regarding their professional services available to nonprofit organizations, a news release said.
The daylong professional development workshop is open to the public. Nonprofit directors, staff members, board members and volunteers can attend. The cost will be $80 per participant, and scholarships are available. A continental breakfast and lunch will be served.
Reservations to attend may be made and booth space can be reserved by contacting the Amarillo Area Foundation at 376-4521 or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Organizations who set up booths are encouraged to make a $10 charitable contribution to the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Space is limited.
AC will provide a total of 3.5 continuing education units for the day for attendees.
The Panhandle Nonprofit Institute is adapted for various skill levels and divided into three sessions, providing participants with three choices per session.
Topics for Session One, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., are: "Parenting for Baby Nonprofits," basic steps for developing a new nonprofit; "Surfing the Wave of Change: Why and How to Diversify Your Organization"; and "Innovative Fundraising for the Advanced Executive."
Topics for Session Two, from 12:30 to 2 p.m., are: "What the Heck is an Unrestricted Gift?" nonprofit financial information and planning; "Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave," trouble-shooting with nonprofit Web sites; and "Fundraising Techniques for Nonprofits that Raise Funds in Rural Communities."
Topics for Session Three, from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., are: "How to Develop and Analyze Investment Policies"; "May the Workforce Be With You," personnel issues and policies; and "Stop the Special Event Insanity!" learning to analyze and redesign events for better results.
Speakers will include: Bob Atkins, an independent Web developer and consultant; Kim Eisner, a Dallas-based consultant with nonprofit management experience; Sue Ann Gillman, former national vice chair of development for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and now a national Komen trainer for fund development; Renee Keel, a certified public accountant and director of operations for the area foundation and The Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation; Susan Owens, vice president of human resources for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch and Affiliates; and Kay C. Peck, certified fund-raising executive and owner/operator of Flying Pigs Creative Services, a resource development consulting firm.
The Amarillo Area Foundation offers management and technical assistance to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in the 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle through the AAF Nonprofit Services Center because nonprofit organizations often need more than grant money to operate effectively and stabilize their future.
The Nonprofit Services Center is a part of the community services division supported by the foundation's supporting organization, The Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation.
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Thinking inside the box: Back to Basic
Greetings, my friends.
A few weeks ago, a gentleman who rejoices in the improbable name of Mr Paul J. J. Payack, and who is the founder of an organisation named the Global Language Monitor, based in Austin, Texas, in the Anglo-American United States, pronounced that the English language was about to gain its one millionth word. He established his prediction upon an intensive monitoring of writing published on the world-wide web, analysed through a complex of formulae and algorithms. Came the day—the 10th of June—and the 'word' was unveiled as 'Web 2.0'. I was hardly alone in questioning whether this curiously unpleasant hybrid appellative qualified as a word at all. A Mr Benjamin Zimmer found Mr Payack's method to be a 'self-aggrandizing scam'; while Professor Geoffrey Nunberg, an authority on linguistics based at the University at Berkeley, California, opined that it was not so much 'bad science as nonsense'. Another commentator judged the exercise 'a load of old cobblers', a somewhat baffling neologism in itself, but one which I understand to derive from a cobbler's awl, and to mean nothing less than nonsense upon stilts. The consensus of informed opinion—and it is a view with which I would entirely concur—is that language is of its nature so entirely fluid, more especially in its less formal usages, that no absolute figure can, at any particular time, truly be placed upon the number of words which constitute its vocabulary.
Nevertheless, the incident prompts me to share with you some of my own ideas on English, and on language more generally, a topic which not infrequently claimed my attention in my lifetime, and which I strove to set upon a rational, logical and scientific footing.
Throughout my work of attempting to formulate, categorise, and codify complex notions and arguments, I frequently encountered the difficulty that the vocabulary at my disposal, the bequest of previous generations, was wholly inadequate to my purpose, and that it was necessary to introduce new coinages. Exceptions excepted, the more copious a language the better. 'Aneunomothetic'; 'phthisozoics'; 'somatico-hedonistics'; 'pneumatico-hedonistics'; 'nooscopics'; 'power-holder'; 'chrestomathic'; 'international'; 'anthropurgic'; 'physiurgic'; 'living wage'; 'locupletative'; 'ante-jentacularization'; 'Panopticon'; 'friend-sickness'; 'Ultramaria'; 'Aristocratico-Monarchico-Anarchical'; 'psychologization'; 'pathematology'; all these, and many more, are invaluable words and phrases of my own invention. They are founded in every case upon sound etymological principles and precedents, and are, I trust, not inexpressive in their self-evident meanings. My regret is that, even after the passage of two centuries, the wider English-speaking world has yet to adopt several of them.
My thoughts on language, however, went far beyond mere copiousness. This is hardly the occasion for an exposition of my ideas in detail, but I attempted to analyse and expatiate upon the uses, operations and desirable properties of a language. I laid emphasis upon such matters as clearness, conciseness, facility of utterance, melodiousness, ornability, impressiveness, and dignity, and explained how these might best be achieved and rendered compatible with one another.
Regrettably, more pressing affairs claimed my attention, and so I was unable to bring my writings on these topics (as on so many others) to fruition within the course of my lifetime. They were, however, made public after my death—albeit in a somewhat defective form—and in the first half of the twentieth century they were taken up and further developed by a young disciple named Charles Kay Ogden. With much ingenuity and effort, but on a sound foundation of the principles I had expounded, he designed a simplified language as a lingua franca of international communication, naming it Basic English . (His invention is not, of course, to be confounded with BASIC, an erstwhile 'language' used in the programming of computers, with which some of my older readers are perhaps familiar.) Basic English reduced the number of verb-forms to just sixteen, and allowed a core vocabulary of just 850 words (a far cry from Mr Payack's million!). With these, averred Mr Ogden, 'everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence'.
Within a very few years, Basic English began to enjoy considerable success as a medium of essential communication in commercial circles, and as a foundation for a more sophisticated linguistic education. Later, during the Second World War, when military exigencies demanded rapid and unambiguous communication between individuals of multifarious nations, it attracted the attention of the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill. He appointed a committee of the Cabinet to address the subject, and propounded the adoption and promotion of Basic English as an instrument of government policy.
In pursuit of this goal, which remained upon the carpet at the war's end, Mr Ogden was in 1946 asked to assign his copyright in the language to the Crown, and was offered a monetary sum by way of compensation. In a gracious acknowledgement of my own role as the ultimate progenitor of his scheme, the figure was settled at £23,000, the very sum which I had been paid in 1813 by the administration of the day in compensation for its failure to adopt my plans for a Panopticon prison.
Although Basic English is now largely forgotten within Europe, it continues to underlie much teaching of the English language in China, Japan, and elsewhere in the far East. I am pleased to think that, in this age of global intercourse and polyglot communities, so much of my work remains at the heart of communication between individuals.
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December 14, 2009
Synthetic Red Blood Cells Developed
Soft and synthetic red-blood-cell-like particles carry oxygen, drugs, and more…
Biocompatible synthetic red blood cells (sRBCs) synthesized by the UCSB team, where the shell is composed of alternate layers of hemoglobin and BSA. (Scale bar, 5 microns)
Santa Barbara, California, December 14, 2009—Scientists at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with scientists at University of Michigan, have developed synthetic particles that closely mimic the characteristics and key functions of natural red blood cells, including softness, flexibility, and the ability to carry oxygen.
The primary function of natural red blood cells is to carry oxygen, and the synthetic red blood cells (sRBCs) do that very well, retaining 90% of their oxygen-binding capacity after a week. The sRBCs also, however, have been shown to deliver therapeutic drugs effectively and with controlled release, and to carry well-distributed contrast agents for enhanced resolution in diagnostic imaging.
"This ability to create flexible biomimetic carriers for therapeutic and diagnostic agents really opens up a whole new realm of possibilities in drug delivery and similar applications," noted UCSB chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri. "We know that we can further engineer sRBCs to carry additional therapeutic agents, both encapsulated in the sRBC and on its surface."
Mitragotri, his research group, and their collaborators from the University of Michigan succeeded in synthesizing the particles by creating a polymer doughnut-shaped template, coating the template with up to nine layers of hemoglobin and other proteins, then removing the core template. The resulting particles have the same size and flexibility, and can carry as much oxygen, as natural red blood cells. The flexibility, absent in "conventional" polymer-based biomaterials developed as carriers for therapeutic and diagnostic agents, gives the sRBCs the ability to flow through channels smaller than their resting diameter, stretching in response to flow and regaining their discoidal shape upon exiting the capillary, just as their natural counterparts do.
In addition to synthesizing particles that mimic the shape and properties of healthy RBCs, the technique described in the paper can also be used to develop particles that mimic the shape and properties of diseased cells, such as those found in sickle-cell anemia and hereditary eliptocytosis. The availability of such synthetic diseased cells is expected to lead to greater understanding of how those diseases and others affect RBCs.
The discovery is described in the current online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and will be published in the print version of the journal in the near future. UCSB graduate student Nishti Doshi was the lead author of the paper; former post-doctoral researcher Alisar Zahr (now at Harvard Medical School's Schepens Eye Research Institute), Mitragotri, and their University of Michigan collaborators Srijanani Bhaskar and professor Joerg Lahann were co-authors.
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Set in the heart of beautiful countryside, this reserve is a fantastic day out for people of all ages. Walks lead through hedge-lined paths to viewing areas and hides where volunteers are often on hand to help point out the wildlife.
We managed to acquire Rainham Marshes in 2000 and set about transforming it into an important place for nature and a great place for people to visit. Now you can expect to see breeding wading birds in spring and summer, and large flocks of wild ducks in winter.
This dramatic offshore island has cliffs up to 120 m high, the perfect place for breeding seabirds in spring and early summer. Walk along the coastal heathland and enjoy the spectacular views.
Rathlin Island has a rare, untamed beauty. The wildlife is evident before you step ashore - the ferry crossing presents many opportunities to spot auks, gannets and gulls with even a chance of porpoises or dolphins.
This small reserve provides views over Rockland Broad, the River Yare, reedbeds and open grazing marshes, via a wheelchair-friendly path. A hide overlooks the Broad, where in spring and summer, kingfishers and great crested grebes can be seen. Along the path, wetland warblers can be seen and barn owls often hunt.
You can escape for an hour or two at this oasis for wildlife, less than 5 miles from the centre of Birmingham.
Enjoy a close-up view onto a wonderful cliff-side nesting colony, with binoculars and telescopes provided. You'll be able to watch guillemots, razorbills and puffins all raising their young, while live television pictures give you an even closer view of the nests! Rare choughs can also be seen on the reserve.
Walk round the reedbeds, woodlands and orchid-rich meadows and you could chance upon marsh harriers, bitterns and kingfishers. Come in spring and summer when the meadows bloom with flowers, and see an array of dragonflies and butterflies, including the spectacular swallowtail.
Visit these cliffs during the summer and you'll be privileged to witness the amazing spectacle of thousands of breeding seabirds, including puffins, guillemots, shags and fulmars. Sumburgh Head is a great place to watch for whales and dolphins, particularly minke whales and orcas.
The Lodge nature reserve opened in 1961. The woodland, heath and acid grassland along the Greensand Ridge cover 180 hectares, and are being restored to form the largest stretch of heathland in Bedfordshire.
Rugged coastline and open moorland. The diversity of landscapes make this reserve a pleasure to visit. If you're new to birdwatching, why not come on one of our guided walks - you might see a rare chough or perhaps a golden eagle.
This popular reserve on the north Norfolk coast has something for everyone. A walk from the visitor centre down to the sandy beach takes you past reedbeds and shallow lagoons, which are often full of birds. You can sit on benches or watch from spacious, wheelchair-accessible hides.
The high cliffs of Troup Head provide a spectacular setting for Scotland's only mainland gannet colony. There are also thousands of kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills, along with several other species, including puffins. You may even be lucky enough to see porpoises, minke whales or dolphins offshore. Please take care on the cliffs.
The best time to visit this typical piece of Orkney moorland is during the summer months, when you should see breeding red-throated divers, hen harriers, merlins and short-eared owls.
Part of the Loch Leven National Nature Reserve, this is an ideal day out for all the family. Visit our hides for close-up views of wildlife.
West Sedgemoor is part of England's largest remaining wet meadow system. Set among the Somerset Levels and Moors, it has the largest lowland population of breeding wading birds such as lapwings, snipe, curlew and redshanks in southern England.
The Wood of Cree is the largest ancient wood in southern Scotland. In spring, the woodland really comes alive, with bluebells on the ground and birdsong in the air. The wood is the perfect place to see willow tits, which are declining in the UK, as well as barn and tawny owls.
Ynys-hir mixes Welsh oak woodland with wet grassland and saltmarshes. Feast your eyes from any of our seven hides - look out for birds of prey. Then round off your visit with a snack at the visitors' centre.
This nature reserve offers a haven for wildlife on the edge of the city, but is a great place for people too with a new RSPB visitor centre, a café, shop and children's play area.
This important seabird colony is one mile off the Northumberland coast. No landing is possible on the island, but during the breeding season you can get close-up views of the birds by taking a boat trip around the island.
Isley Marsh is made up of saltmarsh and intertidal mudflats on the southern edge of the Taw Torridge estuary. It is an important haven in the busy estuary for undisturbed feeding and resting birds, especially the wintering flocks of ducks and waders.
At Winterbourne Downs we're re-creating species-rich chalk grassland. The reserve will form an important link between the extensive grasslands of Salisbury Plain and Porton Down. Wander through the grassland in summer and you will be delighted with the myriad of flowers and the gentle buzz of insects.
Set in the beautiful North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Geltsdale is home to black grouse, birds of prey and breeding waders and ideal for walking. There are four waymarked trails leading from the car park at Howgill.
Nor Marsh is a saltmarsh island in the Medway Estuary. To the east is Motney Hill, another area of mud and saltmarsh. In winter at both sites, large numbers of wildfowl can be seen. In spring and autumn, look out for black-tailed godwits.
On a ridge overlooking the Thames Marshes and its marsh harriers, Northward Hill includes scrubland rich in nightingales and whitethroats, a lovely bluebell wood, a large rookery and a cherry orchard.
Nestled in the beautiful Tame valley, just south of Tamworth on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border, Middleton Lakes is our latest nature reserve to open to the public.
Truly get away from it all at this remote and unspoilt reserve. Come during the winter and you'll see sea ducks feeding offshore, while from late summer to late spring, large numbers of bar-tailed godwits, oystercatchers and knots flock at high tide.
Here on the shore of Loch Sunart, on the rugged Ardnamurchan peninsula, wood warblers nest in the spring, along with redstarts, spotted flycatchers and common woodland birds. You may well see an otter along the shore, and seals are common.
If you enjoy the solemn grandeur of moorland landscape, the Orkney moors can be a wonderful place to visit, full of wild and windswept beauty. Come during the summer to see hen harriers, short-eared owls and elegant Arctic skuas nesting.
This reserve is a magical mixture of land and sea, from sea cliffs to saltmarsh, from moorland to sandflats. Stroll through the moorland and you may well see hen harriers, short-eared owls and red-throated divers, all of which nest on Orkney's moorland.
This mixture of moorland and cliff tops may be exposed to the elements, so you really do need to wrap up warm, but a visit is very rewarding. You'll see the famous Old Man of Hoy rock stack that has inspired generations of climbers, not to mention the nesting seabirds that have been known to dive-bomb them too!
Fineshade Wood has a wide range of habitats and is rich in all kinds of wildlife from red kites to deer, butterflies, orchids and reptiles. Each season brings changes in the colours, sounds and smells of the woodland, making it ideal for return visits.
This new reserve gives you a chance to get up close to a reedbed and its fascinating inhabitants. Bitterns come to spend winter camouflaged amongst the reeds and we hope they'll stay to breed soon. It's easy to access from the Dearne Way footpath and Trans Pennine Trail.
Saltholme has taken years of planning. Buckets of sweat and tears have gone into turning into reality our dream of an awe-inspiring nature reserve in the industrial heartland of Tees Valley. We can't wait to show off what we've got!
Nestled in the spectacular Mawddach Valley, Coed Garth Gell is a woodland and heathland nature reserve. The visitor trails weave through beautiful oak woodland with a fast-flowing river in the valley bottom.
The sandflats and saltmarshes of Morecambe Bay are vital feeding grounds for a quarter of a million wading birds, ducks and geese. It's the second most important estuary in the UK and is protected by European and UK law. You can get great views of the spectacular flocks of birds.
This nature reserve was purchased in 2008 to help secure the future of the cirl bunting. Being such a well-known beauty spot, offering stunning views over Lyme Bay, the site already attracts many thousands of visitors a year. But it's more than just a view!
This new saltmarsh reserve is a great place to admire the gathered pink-footed geese, wigeons, teals and other wildfowl in winter, along with big flocks of golden plovers, lapwings and black-tailed godwits. In spring the marshes are alive with the sight and sound of displaying waders, including avocets and lapwings. But as recently as 2006, the land was used for growing crops.
This remote headland has spectacular displays of wild flowers, including sea campion, thrift and spring squill. In spring and summer, thousands of seabirds nest on the cliffs. In August, look out for great yellow bumblebees.
The Wildlife Garden and Visitor Centre are located within Basildon District Council's Wat Tyler Country Park and are the gateway to our South Essex reserves.
Come to our visitor centre on the edge of Fairhaven Lake. It's the gateway to the north side of the Ribble Estuary - the most important single river estuary in the UK - which attracts over 270,000 birds each year.
Aghatirourke is part of the Cuilcagh Mountain World Geopark in County Fermanagh. It's an area of extensive upland blanket bog habitat bordered by limestone grassland to the north, and montane heath on the summit to the south.
We're working in partnership with Lafarge Tarmac to restore a sand and gravel quarry on the River Trent into the biggest reedbed in the East Midlands. At present there is a public footpath that follows the entire perimeter of the site, giving great views of the changing landscape.
A landscape that will take your breath away. Towering hills, sheer rock faces, swathes of open moorland, a picturesque reservoir - that's Dove Stone, the northern gateway to the Peak District National Park.
The view that opens up in front of you is breathtaking. Cairnsmore of Fleet and the Galloway Hills act as a backdrop to wild saltmarsh and mudflats which positively ooze with birdlife. Watch thousands of wading birds wheel in the sky in a mesmerising display.
The ancient oaks of Swell Wood are part of a continuous strip of woodland extending some 10 miles along the ridge from Langport to the Blackdown Hills.


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On Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South's effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant's Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west. On the very same day, Robert E. Lee was in Pennsylvania, parrying the threat to Vicksburg with a daring push north to Gettysburg. For two days the battle had raged; on the next, July 4, 1863, Pickett's Charge was thrown back, a magnificently brave but fruitless assault, and the fate of the Confederacy was sealed, though nearly two more years of bitter fighting remained until the war came to an end. In Receding Tide, Edwin Cole Bearss draws from his popular Civil War battlefield tours to chronicle these two widely separated but simultaneous clashes and their dramatic conclusion. As the recognized expert on both Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Bearss tells the fascinating story of this single momentous day in our country's history, offering his readers narratives, maps, illustrations, characteristic wit, dramatic new insights and unerringly intimate knowledge of terrain, tactics, and the colorful personalities of America's citizen soldiers, Northern and Southern alike.
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"The Insect Comedy"
Jan Hus Playhouse
351 East 74th Street
New York, New York
May 1960
The Jan Hus Playhouse was located on the upper East Side of Manhattan, part of the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church.
Here's the Samuel French (theater booksellers and publishers) description of the satirical play, The Insect Comedy by Josef Capek and Karel Capek:
"A wanderer who is something of a philosopher falls asleep after drinking in a forest. In his dream he observes the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the insects, whose problems and affairs are like those of humankind. The butterflies make violent love. The beetles hoard money and live selfishly. The ichneumon flies murder crickets and stuff their larders with food, and parasites greedily devour what others work to save. Finally the red and yellow ants wage war to see which shall have the right to travel a particular sunlit path between two blades of grass."
Barbra played a butterfly, a messenger, and "Second Moth" in The Insect Comedy, which was produced by a group of actors calling itself "The Actors' Co-op."
Barbra became friends with Barry Dennen, who was also cast in the show. In his 1997 book, My Life with Barbra: A Love Story, Dennen recalled that "you didn't have to be a genius to figure out that The Insect Comedy wasn't very good and probably wasn't going to get much better ... Throughout the whole hideous adventure Barbara and I clung closer and closer to each other, worked on our own scenes, and just tried to get through it."
It was during the rehearsals of this show that Barbra made friends with Terry Leong, a young costume designer and illustrator. He created Barbra's costumes for The Insect Comedy. The sketch below is of Barbra's butterfly costume in printed silk—a paisley wing sleeved top.
Below are two more costume sketches by Leong for The Insect Comedy. Left is another butterfly costume in china silk with a multi-color printed silk skirt; Right is Barbra's moth costume in layers of grey chiffon, with a Japanese kimono sleeve top.
"The Insect Comedy" played only a handful of performances at the Jan Hus Playhouse in May of 1960.
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