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Darwin, Erasmus
Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802
English medical practitioner, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor, and poet.
The grandfather of famed English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin, Erasmus Darwin is generally regarded as the first English poet to highlight modern science and technology in verse. A highly successful physician for more than fifty years in the Midland counties of England, Darwin celebrated his love for medicine, science, and technology in his poetry and prose, attempting to make his scientific subject matter accessible to the reading public. He wrote long, didactic poetry—a form common during the eighteenth century—and included lengthy and copious footnotes intended to help impart to his readers an understanding of nature. In fact, his notes are virtually as long as the poetry itself. This emphasis on the conveying of both scientific fact and theory has led critics to consider poems such as The Loves of the Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791), and The Temple of Nature (1803) as pieces of literature as well as informational texts. Although he is typically identified alongside other minor poets of the late eighteenth century, Darwin stands out for his significant impact on the major writers of the Romantic movement, who were indebted to him for his scientific authority, his verbal ability, and his successful integration of these disparate disciplines in his work.
Biographical Information
Darwin was born on December 12, 1731, near Newark in Nottinghamshire. He was the youngest of seven children of Elizabeth and Robert Darwin, a lawyer. In the early 1750s the young Darwin enrolled in St. John's College at Cambridge, where he earned a B.A. in 1754. He subsequently entered Edinburgh Medical School, then at the height of its renown as a medical school. Completing his M.B. in 1756, Darwin set up a medical practice at Lichfield, where he gained a reputation as the finest physician of his day. In 1757 he married seventeen-year-old Mary Howard, with whom he had five children. Of these, three sons survived past infancy; the third, Robert Waring, also became a doctor, and later fathered Charles Darwin.
During the 1760s the personable and successful Erasmus Darwin began establishing many friendships, most of which centered around his love of invention, physical science, and technological innovation. Included among these friendships was his association with Matthew Boulton, the prominent English manufacturer and engineer who later became a business partner of James Watt, the inventor of the modern condensing steam engine. Darwin also established a lifelong friendship with famed American inventor Benjamin Franklin, who shared his support for the American and French revolutions. William Small, a former teacher of Thomas Jefferson, also began meeting with Darwin, and by 1765 the informal gatherings between Boulton, Darwin, Small, and Watt, among others, became known as the Lunar Society of Birmingham. In existence until 1791, the Lunar Society was instrumental as the intellectual driving force behind England's Industrial Revolution.
After Mary's death in 1770 at the age of thirty, Darwin became increasingly involved in designing a variety of inventions, including a copying machine and a speaking machine. In 1777 he began an eight-acre botanical garden at Lichfield, triggering a keen and long-lasting interest in botany. He formed the Lichfield Botanical Society with the goal of translating the works of the great eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus from their original Latin into English. This massive undertaking resulted in A System of Vegetables between 1783 and 1785 and The Families of Plants in 1787.
Darwin married widow Elizabeth Pole in 1781, and moved to Derby, where he practiced medicine. During the early years of his second marriage Darwin had become less socially active and had turned his attention to writing. After the seven long years spent translating the works of Linnaeus, which were welcomed by the botanist community, Darwin produced The Loves of the Plants, a long didactic poem that eventually formed part two of The Botanic Garden (1791). A humorous and light popularization of the Linnaean works, The Loves of the Plants changed the perception of Darwin from a serious physician and scientist into a literary icon. The first part of The Botanic Garden, The Economy of Vegetation, appeared in 1791, and the two parts together established Darwin as a popular poet. Darwin, who had written several short, occasional poems before The Botanic Garden, was hardly considered a professional poet and astonished his friends with the volume's almost immediate success. Darwin produced a quite different work with his next publication, the massive medical treatise Zoonomia (1794-96), written when Darwin's reputation as a physician had reached almost legendary proportions. The following year, in 1797, Darwin published the slightly tongue-in-cheek Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools. This instructional guide was written to aid Darwin's two illegitimate daughters (fathered with Mary Parker in between Darwin's two marriages) in their efforts to establish a girls' school in the mid-1790s. Among the radical ideas included in the book are the importance of science and language studies for females and the need for adequate bodily exercise. Darwin produced another treatise, Phytologia, a survey of plant physiology and nutrition, in 1800. In April of 1802 Darwin had a heart attack and died in his Derby home. His last long poem, The Temple of Nature, was published posthumously in 1803 and is considered his finest. Devoted to Darwin's nascent theory of evolution, the poem traces the progression of life from microorganisms to civilized society.
Major Works
Publishing during the height of the Industrial Revolution in England, Darwin wrote from the perspective of a middle-class entrepreneur who believed ardently in scientific and social advances. Preoccupied with the progressive force of industrialization and with those who benefited from it, Darwin consistently praised the achievement of industrial intellectual innovation—the superiority of the human mind over nature. He extolled the work of inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs while at the same time omitting mention of the living laborer or the labor process itself. He made no reference in his verse to poverty, to the struggles of large families, or to rampant unemployment, even though the relief system for the underprivileged underwent a major crisis in the late eighteenth century. This emphasis of Darwin's on the educated middle class placed him in direct opposition with English artist and poet William Blake, whose social sympathies lay with the impoverished lower classes.
In his verse, Darwin made extensive use of the typical eighteenth-century device of personification—endowing a thing or abstraction with human qualities. He employed classical allusions and heroic couplets and was fond of replacing abstractions with detailed visual images. In attempting to create vivid pictures with words, however, Darwin was frequently criticized for his heavy-handedness, which obfuscated his verse and made his language appear ornate and artificial. In celebrating scientific advances, he juxtaposed mythological gods with his heroes, bestowing magical powers upon such individuals as Watt, Franklin, and Boulton. Darwin was unique, too, in his use of the industrial metaphor—he described nature as a machine and life as the end result of the manufacturing process.
His first major work of poetry, The Loves of the Plants, grew out of his enthusiasm for botany that began when he created his eight-acre botanical garden. Composed in rhyming couplets, the poem is a lighthearted retranslation of the works of Linnaeus, detailing the massive, methodical, classificatory system of plant life developed by the prestigious scientist. The Economy of Vegetation, with 2,440 lines of verse and about one hundred thousand words of "notes," revolves primarily around Earth science, containing four cantos divided into earth, water, air, and fire. Incorporating recent ideas regarding natural history, The Economy of Vegetation has been called an encyclopedia of science. Although the poem encompasses a great variety of topics, the tome is held together by Darwin's passion for technological and scientific advances, references to which appear throughout the work. His last poem, The Temple of Nature, is devoted to Darwin's theory of evolution. Published in 1803, the work, by virtue of its emphasis on biological advancement rather than divine creation, was considered subversive of the established order and censured by critics. Darwin set forth his views on evolution in his three-volume treatise Zoonomia as well. In the work, Darwin proposed that changes in the environment cause changes in animal and plant structures. Although the evolution account in Zoonomia is incomplete, Darwin's ideas marked a major achievement in biology, becoming an essential part of the scientific background for his grandson Charles Darwin's full defining of the theory.
Critical Reception
With the publication of The Botanic Garden, Darwin achieved best-seller status and garnered enormous acclaim from reviewers. Modern critics, however, have suggested that the praise was perhaps overdone, pointing to eighteenth-century comparisons of Darwin with poetic giants Dante and John Milton. This immense admiration inevitably led to parody and ridicule, which became quite fashionable after the publication of the parody "The Loves of the Triangles." Published in installments in The Anti-Jacobin beginning in the spring of 1798, "The Loves of the Triangles" proved devastating to Darwin's literary reputation. Apparently written by Hookham Frere, George Ellis, and George Canning, the work attacked, among other ideas, Darwin's theory that humans were descended from lower forms of animal life; this contradicted the prevailing assumption that humans were formed in the image of God. Consequently, The Botanic Garden became the subject of ridicule and contempt. In 1803, when The Temple of Nature was published, social order was seen as being threatened by science and technology, and medical practitioners and natural philosophers were regarded with suspicion. The Temple of Nature was found shocking in its premise that humans developed naturally and scandalous in its disregard for the involvement of God in the creation of mankind.
Among the attacks on Darwin was one by William Wordsworth in his Preface to the 1798 edition of the Lyrical Ballads, which many critics have viewed as a rejection of Darwin's works. The Romantic movement was just emerging as Darwin's popularity was fading (although he continued to publish through the turn of the century), and many modern scholars have credited him with having left a significant mark on the major figures of the Romantic era. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron all read a great portion of Darwin and were indebted to his poetry. The Romantics, however, also criticized Darwin for his inability to infuse nature with emotion, believing poetry should be a free expression of the artist's powerful feelings and limitless imagination. Coleridge claimed: "This is not poetry," of Darwin's Botanic Garden, while Wordsworth noted the "gaudiness" of the verse.
Darwin was basically disregarded during the nineteenth century, when he was considered a Jacobin and an atheist whose poetry was void of spirituality and contained nothing touching the heart. By the turn of the twentieth century, the discoveries of Charles Darwin turned attention again to his grandfather. Scholars began investigating the heritage of the renowned nineteenth-century evolutionist and found evidence that the elder Darwin had anticipated most of what his grandson had later proposed, except for that of natural selection. As the twentieth century progressed, Darwin began attracting attention as a minor English poet of the eighteenth century, one deserving of some merit and distinction based on his ability to popularize science through poetry and his skill in versification. Although his writings continue to be seen as obsolete, modern critics continue to stress the need to study him as a literary figure and not simply as an author of scientific texts. One area of concentrated critical study continues to be Darwin's influence on the Romantics, who reacted strongly to his scientific, religious, and political ideas.
Principal Works
A System of Vegetables, According to Their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species with Their Characters and Differences [translator of Systema Vegetahilium by the Elder Linnaeus] (scientific catalogue) 2 vols. 1783-85
The Families of Plants, with Their Natural Characters, According to the Number, Figure, Situation, and Proportion of All the Parts of Fructification [translator of Genera Plantarum and Mantissae Plantarum by the Elder Linnaeus and Supplementum Plantarum by the Younger Linnaeus] (scientific catalogue) 2 vols. 1787
*The Loves of the Plants (poetry) 1789
The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts; Part I: The...
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James Venable Logan (essay date 1936)
SOURCE: "The Poetry," in The Poetry and Aesthetics of Erasmus Darwin, Princeton University Press, 1936, pp. 93-147.
[In the following essay, Logan discusses at length Darwin's poetic merits, considering first the poet's occasional verse and continuing on through Darwin's three major works of poetry: The Loves of the Plants, The Economy of Vegetation, and the posthumously published Temple of Nature.]
We, therefore, pleas'd, extol thy song, Though various, yet complete, Rich in embellishment, as strong, And learn'd as it is sweet.
William Cowper: TO DR DARWIN
Let these, or such as these, with just...
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Desmond King-Hele (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "The Temple of Nature," in Erasmus Darwin, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1963, pp. 120-32.
[In the following essay, King-Hele offers an assessment of The Temple of Nature, and states that the poem is evidence that Darwin, although a minor poet, deserves to hold a distinguished place among his eighteenth-century literary contemporaries.]
In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestor dive: From a shapeless albuminous grain We mortals our being derive.
Grant Allen, Ballade of Evolution
Darwin's last poem, The Temple of Nature; or The Origin of Society, is largely devoted...
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James Harrison (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "Erasmus Darwin's View of Evolution," in Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 32, No. 2, April - June, 1971, pp. 247-64.
[In the following essay, Harrison focuses on Darwin's emerging ideas on the evolutionary process.]
Every historian of evolutionary ideas dutifully acknowledges Erasmus Darwin's distinguished right to be included in the roll of those who anticipated The Origin of Species in some way; even his grandson includes him in a footnote to his prefatory Historical Sketch.
It is curious how largely my grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, anticipated the views and erroneous grounds of opinion of Lamarck...
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Donald M. Hassler (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Influence of a Comic Materialist on the Romantics," in Erasmus Darwin, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973, pp. 95-113.
[In the following essay, Hassler argues that the major literary figures of the Romantic movement—Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, and Byron—were influenced considerably by Darwin's writings, as they reacted to his scientific ideas, his tone of comic defense, and his use of language.]
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all.
—William Shakespeare, King Lear
To endure the triumph of life and to settle for only that is very difficult for bumptious man to do....
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Clive Bush (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Erasmus Darwin, Robert John Thornton, and Linnaeus' Sexual System," in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring, 1974, pp. 295-320.
[In the following excerpt, Bush considers the effect of Darwin's poetical interpretation of the ideas contained in Linnaeus' Sexual System on the pioneering botanical engravings in Dr. Robert John Thornton's New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus (1797-1807).]
Between the years 1797 and 1807 Dr. Robert John Thornton produced his masterwork, A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus—a publication of enormous size devoted to celebrating the science of botany through...
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Desmond King-Hele (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Shelley and Erasmus Darwin," in Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference, edited by Kelvin Everest, Leicester University Press, 1983, pp. 129-46.
[In the following essay, King-Hele argues that Darwin's scientific, religious, and political ideas, as revealed in his poetry, strongly influenced the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.]
In the 1790s Erasmus Darwin would have needed no introduction: he was rated a great poet and respected as an eminent scientist; and he enjoyed a legendary reputation as a physician. Today, however, Darwin does need some introduction, and paradoxically it is because he was a giant who strode too easily across...
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Desmond King-Hele (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Erasmus Darwin," in Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 4-34.
[In the following excerpt, King-Hele provides a brief overview of Darwin's works.]
… It is in biology, however, that Darwin is best known as a scientist, for his ideas on biological evolution (as we now call it) recorded in Zoonomia (1794). He had been convinced of the truth of evolution for more than twenty years and he argues confidently. He first points out the great changes produced in animals naturally, 'as in the production of the butterfly with painted wings from the crawling caterpillar; or of the respiring frog from the subnatant tadpole'; and also...
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Maureen McNeil (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "The Scientific Muse: The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin," in Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature, edited by L. J. Jordanova, Rutgers University Press, 1986, pp. 159-203.
[In the following essay, McNeil explores the historical and cultural background against which Darwin endeavored to combine science and poetry.]
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of provincial culture in Britain. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), who, amongst other things, was a medical writer and practitioner, a poet, an inventor, and a theorist of education and agriculture, was a central figure in this blossoming. He was a founder of some of...
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Maureen McNeil (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Industrialisation, Poetry, and Aesthetics," in Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and His Age, Manchester University Press, 1987, pp. 31-58.
[In the following essay, McNeil contends that as Darwin celebrated the industrial and scientific advances of the late eighteenth century, he also expressed in his poetry an overall sense of optimism regarding the power and possibilities of all of humanity.]
In both the pregnancy of the mythical image and the clarity of the scientific formula, the everlastingness of the factual is confirmed and mere existence pure and simple expressed as the meaning which it forbids....
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Desmond King-Hele (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Disenchanted Darwinians: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake," in Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. 114-18.
[In the following essay, delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in the U.K. in 1993, King-Hele argues that Darwin's poetic style and scientific convictions significantly influenced the works of the major writers of the Romantic era—namely Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Blake.]
I have to begin with something that should be well known but is not, namely that Erasmus Darwin was regarded as the greatest English poet of the time when Wordsworth and Coleridge were in their early twenties. Darwin gained this high...
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Edward S. Reed (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Frankenstein's Science," in From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 38-59.
[In the following excerpt, Reed examines the essence and impact of Darwin's contribution to the alternative psychological theory referred to as fluid materialism—a belief that the human mind, and indeed life itself, can be understood within the framework of natural science.]
… Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia (the first edition appeared in 1792-94, but many subsequent editions were published all over Europe) launched a true alternative psychology, later popularized in his poem The Temple of...
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Further Reading
Hearn, Lafcadio. "Erasmus Darwin." In Some Strange English Literary Figures of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by R. Tanabé, pp. 33-39. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries, Inc., 1927.
Anecdotal and admiring summary of Darwin's life and works.
King-Hele, Desmond, ed. Introduction to The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 363 p.
Includes a comprehensive and readable account of Darwin's life.
Pearson, Hesketh. Doctor Darwin. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930, 242 p.
Lengthy, detailed, and...
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The Salukis open the regular season at Mizzou, marking the first meeting between the schools since the Tigers beat SIU by one point in the 2003 NCAA Tournament. Missouri has made five-straight NCAA Tournament appearances. The Salukis will also play road non-conference games at Austin Peay (Nov. 19), Chicago State (Nov. 30), Murray State (Dec. 17) and Miami University (Dec. 29).
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Back in print in an all-new edition is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the "Queen of Mystery". Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran's fascinating biographies Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the compelling, authoritative account of one of the world's most influential and fascinating novelists, told in her own words and inimitable style - and here in her own voice. These audio excerpts were dictated by Agatha Christie herself.
The New York Times Book Review called Christie's autobiography a "joyful adventure," saying, "she brings the sense of wonder... to her extraordinary career."
©1977 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2010 Agatha Christie Archive Trust
An old broad that enjoys books of all types. Would rather read than write reviews though. I know what I like, and won't be bothered by crap.
"The author explains her process!"
This is not your typical autobiography. It's more of a history on when and why she wrote her different books and plays. The unique thing for this is she reads it herself.
You can tell she is a very private person because there is little on her personal life in this story. It's really a textbook on how to write a book and how it worked for her.
For anyone who is a fan of Mrs. Christie's this is a fun book. Miss Marple is NOT her grandmother although a lot of characteristics they share, including a second sense that something is going to happen.
She also talks about her favorite books she's written: Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (her pseudonym). That particular book she wrote the first chapter, than the last chapter and continued to write it in one day with no sleep. She than slept for 24 hours straight and the next day she read and made very few changes. She said she loved that experience but didn't know she could survive another one.
This is a good short listen and well worth your time if you are an admirer of her work.
"Authentic recording"
This recording was an authentic recording from Agatha Christie, and if you focus on that fact, you will enjoy her. Yes, the hissing and bad recording are a bit annoying, so the quality and comfort are not polished, but knowing it was directly from Agatha Christie should count for something, without the editing and polishing. I enjoyed hearing from her in her own words though, so the performance from her was very valuable to me.
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"Love Christie, but . . ."
Thank you, Audible, for providing this bit of oral history. However, unless you are a true fan, this may be a challenge. The recording is of poor quality. It scores points for authenticity because it was performed by the Queen of Mystery herself. But it's not an enjoyable listen, the story skips around, the sound quality is distracting, and it's a struggle to follow.
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"free...because the audio quality it terrible"
As a writer I found this to be quite fascinating; however, I would like to have been able to hear it clearly. I couldn't make it all the way through but I appreciate that it was free; just a heads-up to potential downloaders.
"Authentic Agatha Christie"
This is brilliant! I read Christie's autobiography 30 years ago when I was young and it made a profound impact on me. Not only did she live in one of the most dynamic periods of history (1890-1970s), but her insights into life and the production of her books was enlightening. I have been meaning to reread it, but, of course, I don't have time to read a book with my eyes. I understand that 16 or 17 hours of recording were found just a few years ago and I hope Audible elects to release them all. As it is, this recording seems to be a pretty good selection, offering insight into many of her inspirations.
Me? ....... Capable of many moods, and enjoying a vast range of literature. Incapable of uploading a picture and realized none of the Avatars are ......appropriate. That pretty much "tells" it all.
Was very hard to under stand as the sound quality was awful. She is also difficult to understand but glad I listened. LOVE EVERYTHING SHE HAS WRITTEN WOW!
My favorite of all time is ........oh goodness way too many to list.!!!!!!!
"A charming time-capsule"
I very much enjoyed hearing Agatha Christie's voice. I've read both Come, Tell Me How You Live, and her written Autobiography, so this audio autobiography is a satisfying addition to the others.
The sound quality of this piece isn't up to the level we expect today, but being a vintage recording, I found that the non-recording studio quality allowed me to imagine her sitting in a drawing room for the interview.
I would recommend this selection to anyone who has an interest in the life of Agatha Christie.
"Agatha Herself"
Yes because you get to hear her voice.
It was interesting to hear her opinions on her stories.
Agatha herself. She is my favorite author. I have read all her books again and again.
Talking about assuming she'd be killed in the war.
Audio is terrible but it is worth the listen if you are a fan.
"Better than a biography"
In spite of the title given, this is NOT an autobiography of Agatha Christie. It is something more important and rare. It is the actual voice of Agatha Christie dictating notes, some of which were used to write her autobiography. The sound quality is poor because of the primitive sound equipment available at that time, and nothing can be done about that. And it jumps about because she dictated ideas and memories as they came to her. I have read the finished autobiography and enjoyed it.
I LOVED being able to hear the Queen of Golden Age Mystery Novels talk about the development of some of her best and most famous novels and stories. I remember reading in the newspapers about the discovery of these historic recordings, and a few scraps were made available. I very much wished to be able to hear them all. I am delighted to discover that Audible has made these important historic recordings available to listeners, and the price (FREE!) makes it even better.
"Its Free"
This Autobiography is the sames as it was when recorded. There is a lot of recording sounds in the back ground through out the recording. Agatha Christie is telling just what it took for her to write her mysteries. Her thoughts do not seem to be organized during the hour long biography, but after play the whole recording her biography was told just like she writes all over the place.
Over all the Autobiography was a pretty good lessen.
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Advocacy activities provide an avenue for all social workers to connect their practice with the profession's aim of social justice. In fact, it is this social justice connection to the advocacy role that may distinguish social work from other professions. Yet advocacy remains a controversial practice for many clinical social workers. This study reports on one aspect of a larger study (McLaughlin, 2006), which examined how clinical social workers in mental health conceptualized social justice as part of their work. The data revealed a strong relationship exists between clinical social work practice, social justice and advocacy. The concept of advocacy that emerged from the data was multi-dimensional and included strategies that were instrumental, educational, and practical.
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Since I love my Saturday morning trail runs, I was thrilled when our trail-group leader here in Okinawa organized a weekend "family" hike. Trail running is one of my favorite weekly activities, but it's an activity which excludes my family members and therefore takes time away from them. I usually justify my time out on the trails by insisting that my husband and daughters are asleep anyway. My husband and daughters have never complained about my absences on weekend mornings, but a little guilt often lingers—so the family hike would be an opportunity to share my love of the trails with him, as well as our nine- and 19-year-old daughters.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 20, 2010) – In a battle of pool undefeated teams, the U.S. Women's National Team stopped Trinidad & Tobago 25-17, 25-9, 25-11 Sunday evening during the IX Women's Pan American Cup being held jointly in the neighboring Mexico towns of Tijuana and Rosarita.
Team USA improves to 3-0 during the Pan American Cup Pool B competition, while the surprising Trinidad & Tobago team falls to 2-1. The U.S., the only undefeated team left in Pool B, continues action on Monday against Costa Rica (0-2 before Sunday night's match against Mexico) at 6 p.m. in Rosarita before concluding pool play on June 22 against host Mexico at 7 p.m. in Tijuana.
The U.S. used a 7-1 scoring run to break free from a 6-5 advantage in the opening set to win 25-17. Team USA produced an 11-2 scoring spurt in the second set to take an 18-6 margin en route to a 25-9 win. The Americans claimed a 12-3 lead in the third set on an 11-1 scoring run and never allowed Trinidad back into the set with a 25-11 victory.
"Trinidad showed us a different kind of game," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "They have very athletic players, and after the first set we had to make some adjustments and kept playing hard the entire match. Because if you stop playing hard, you give the power of the ball to your rival, that was what happened in the first set."
The Pan American Cup is a qualifying event into the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The top three teams from NORCECA during the Pan American Cup earn berths into the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix, while the top side from South America also earns a berth.
Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) and Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) scored 10 points and nine points, respectively, in the victory. Larson tallied eight kills on 17 attacks for a .470 hitting efficiency to go with a block and ace. Barboza tallied nine kills on 16 errorless swings for a .563 hitting efficiency. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) charted five kills on eight swings as part of a .500 attack efficiency with three blocks. Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.) came off the bench to score seven points on a six kills via seven errorless attacks for an .857 hitting efficiency to go with a block. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) converted four of six attempts into kills for a .667 hitting efficiency to accompany a block for five points in the first set only. Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) totaled five points with three kills and two blocks. Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) chipped in a block and ace in the victory.
The three middles combined to attack for 15 kills on 21 attacks and just one error for a .667 attack percentage. As a team, the U.S. converted 35 of 67 attacks into kills for a 52.2 kill percent and .463 hitting efficiency.
"We are happy for winning this match in three sets," said Metcalf, who is serving as Team USA's captain. "Trinidad is a very good team with good athletes. In the first set, it was very hard for us to stop them, but fortunately we kept the match on our side of the net."
Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) converted a team-high nine digs in the victory while adding five excellent service receptions on seven attempts. Barboza added five digs and a team-high nine excellent service receptions on 13 attempts. Team USA had 18 excellent service receptions on 29 attempts. Alisha Glass provided 15 running sets on 29 attempts, while Thompson chipped in five running sets on 23 attempts.
McCutcheon started Glass at setter, Metcalf at opposite, Akinradewo and Bown at middle blocker, and Larson and Barboza at outside hitter. Sykora was the designated libero for the match. Harmotto started the second and third sets in place of Akinradewo, while Thompson was the starting setter in the third set after being used as a sub in the first set with Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.) as part of a double-switch.
The U.S. out-blocked Trinidad & Tobago 9-2, while both teams had two aces. Team USA scored 35 points on kills, while limiting Trinidad & Tobago to 24 kills on 77 attacks as part of a 31.2 kill percent.
Trinidad & Tobago is playing in the Pan American Cup for the fourth consecutive year. Before this year, the team was winless in the previous three Pan American Cups. However, Trinidad & Tobago picked up its first two wins (3-0 wins versus Mexico on June 18 and Costa Rica on June 19) in tournament history before playing the U.S. Sunday evening.
Trinidadian Kelly-Anne Billingy scored a match-high 12 points and Krystle Esdelle added eight points in the loss.
"We fought on the beginning with no fear," Trinidad and Tobago captain Krystle Esdelle. "We were fighting on the first set, but after that I don't know what really happened to us."
Earlier today in Pool B, Peru improved to 2-1 as it defeated Puerto Rico (1-2) 25-21, 25-22, 25-14. Later tonight in Pool B, Mexico (0-2) hosts Costa Rica (0-2) at 7 p.m. PT.
In Pool A, Argentina defeated a young Brazil team 25-13, 25-15, 25-22 and Cuba defeated Dominican Republic 31-29, 23-25, 25-19, 23-25, 15-12. Argentina improves to 2-0, while Brazil falls to 0-3. Brazil, which has qualified for 17 of the last 18 FIVB World Grand Prix events and won five of the last six events from 2004 to 2009, is in serious danger of not qualifying for the 2011 World Grand Prix. Brazil will not be able to defend its Pan American Cup champion. Cuba is now 3-0 in Pool A, while Dominican Republic is 1-1.
The U.S. grabbed an early 4-1 lead in the opening set with a Metcalf block followed by kills from Barboza and Bown as part of a 3-0 run. Trinidad & Tobago rallied with consecutive points to close to one at 4-3. Leading 6-5, the Americans pushed out to a 13-6 advantage on a 7-1 run that included a block and kill each from Larson and Akinradewo. After a Trinidad error, Akinradewo added a kill to extend the lead to eight points at 17-9. Back-to-back kills from Larson and Akinradewo increased the margin to 19-10. Trinidad fought back to within 20-13, only to have Akinradewo pound consecutive kills and Braboza add a block for set points at 24-13. Trinidad saved four set points, the last two on aces, before winning on a service error at 25-17. The U.S. recorded four blocks in the opening set and converted 46 percent of its attacks into points.
Bown and Barboza put up back-to-back kills to give the U.S. an early 4-2 advantage in the second set. Three consecutive Trinidad & Tobago errors extended the American margin to 7-3. Harmotto downed a kill between two Trinidad errors to push the score to 10-4. Larson slammed a kill of the block and Barboza scored a kill from the back row to increase the gap to seven points at 12-5. After a Trinidad timeout, Metcalf added to the run with a block at 13-5. Larson served a winner between kills from Harmotto and Metcalf to yield a 16-6 Team USA advantage at the second technical timeout. Barboza finished off a 5-0 scoring run at 18-6 with a kill. Team USA increased its lead to 20-7 with a Harmotto kill and Trinidad attack into the antenna. Barboza pounded a kill after a Trinidad service error to inch the lead to 22-9. Consecutive Bown kills gave the U.S. set points at 24-9, then Glass put up a block for the winner at 25-9. Team USA converted 62 percent of its 21 attacks into kills in the second set with just one error.
Barboza banged two kills around a Bown kill and Trinidad error during a 4-0 U.S. scoring run giving the Americans a 5-2 lead early in the third set. A Bown block and kill around a Trinidad error extended to American advantage to 8-3 at the first technical timeout. Out of the break, Thompson and Larson put up consecutive blocks followed by a Trinidad error and Bown kill to increase the lead to 12-3. Harmotto claimed a block after a Trinidad service error and the U.S. went into the second technical timeout with three unanswered points at 16-5 on a Larson kill. Harmotto followed a Larson kill with her own to give Team USA a 22-10 lead. Harmotto put down a kill from the slide, followed by a Thompson ace to put the U.S. at match points 24-11. Larson finished the match immediately with a kill at 25-11. The Americans converted 14 of 24 attack attempts into kills with just one error in the third set for a 58 kill percent and .542 hitting efficiency. Team USA added three blocks in the third set.
U.S. Women's National Team Press Kit for Pan American Cup
Additional information on the event can be found on the USA Volleyball Pan American Cup event page at usavolleyball.org/events/3057.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for 2010 Pan American Cup
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OH, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)
2 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
3 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
15 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison
Team Leader: Mary Wise
International Referee: Julie Voeck
IX Women's Pan American Cup
June 18-26, 2010 * Tijuana and Rosarita, Mexico
(All Times Listed as Pacific Time)
Pool A
June 18: Argentina def. Canada 22-25, 25-20, 25-22, 19-25, 15-11 (at Rosarita)
June 18: Cuba def. Brazil 27-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-21 (at Tijuana)
June 19: Dominican Republic def. Brazil 25-14, 16-25, 25-19, 25-23 (at Tijuana)
June 19: Cuba def. Canada 21-25, 25-19, 25-21, 25-19 (at Rosarita)
June 20: Argentina def. Brazil 25-13, 25-15, 25-22 (at Rosarita)
June 20: Cuba def. Dominican Republic 31-29, 23-25, 25-19, 23-25, 15-12 (at Tijuana)
June 21: Canada vs. Brazil, 4 p.m. (at Rosarita)
June 21: Argentina vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m. (at Tijuana)
June 22: Dominican Republic vs. Canada, 4 p.m. (at Rosarita)
June 22: Cuba vs. Argentina, 5 p.m. (at Tijuana)
Pool B
June 18: USA def. Peru 27-25, 25-22, 25-17 (at Tijuana)
June 18: Puerto Rico def. Costa Rica 25-13, 25-15, 25-19 (at Rosarito)
June 18: Trinidad & Tobago def. Mexico 25-21, 25-15, 25-23 (at Tijuana)
June 19: USA def. Puerto Rico 25-13, 25-17, 25-14 (at Tijuana)
June 19: Trinidad & Tobago def. Costa Rica 25-15, 25-22, 25-21 (at Rosarito)
June 19: Peru def. Mexico 25-17, 25-7, 25-21 (at Tijuana)
June 20: Peru def. Puerto Rico 25-21, 25-22, 25-14 (at Tijuana)
June 20: USA def. Trinidad & Tobago 25-17, 25-9, 25-11 (at Rosarito)
June 20: Costa Rica vs. Mexico, 7 p.m. (at Tijuana)
June 21: Trinidad & Tobago vs. Peru, 1 p.m. (at Tijuana)
June 21: USA vs. Costa Rica, 6 p.m. (at Rosarito)
June 21: Mexico vs. Puerto Rico, 7 p.m. (at Tijuana)
June 22: Costa Rica vs. Peru, 1 p.m. (at Tijuana)
June 22: Puerto Rico vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 6 p.m. (at Rosarito)
June 22: USA vs. Mexico, 7 p.m. (at Tijuana)
Classification Matches
June 24: 2B vs. 3A, 5 p.m., at Tijuana (Match 28)
June 24: 2A vs. 3B, 7 p.m., at Tijuana (Match 29)
Classification 5-10
June 24: 4A vs. 5B, 4 p.m. at Rosarita (Match 26)
June 24: 4B vs. 5A, 6 p.m. at Rosarita (Match 27)
Classification 5-8
June 25: Winner Match 26 or 27 vs. Loser Match 28 or 29, 3 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 32)
June 25: Winner Match 26 or 27 vs. Loser Match 28 or 29, 6 p.m. at ROsarita (Match 31)
June 25: 1B vs. Winner Match 28 or 29, 5 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 33)
June 25: 1A vs. Winner Match 28 or 29, 7 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 34)
Classification 9-10
June 25: Loser Match 26 vs. Loser Match 27, 4 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 30)
Classification 7-8
June 26: Loser Match 31 vs. Loser Match 32, 1 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 35)
Classification 5-6
June 26: Winner Match 31 vs. Winner Match 32, 3 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 36)
June 26: Loser Match 33 vs. Loser Match 34, 5 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 37-Bronze)
June 26: Winner Match 33 vs. Winner Match 34, 7 p.m. at Tijuana (Match 38-Gold)


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Area law enforcement handled two Thanksgiving Day crashes.
Sydney R. Hancock, 16, Stonefort, was driving east on Taborn Road approaching Taborn Lane and failed to negotiate a curve 11:27 p.m. Thursday, according to a Saline County Sheriff's report.
She drive the Ford F-150 pickup truck off the road, lost control and the truck overturned several times.
She was taken to Harrisburg Medical Center by ambulance for treatment of minor injuries, according to the report.
Illinois State Police District 22 of Ullin handled a two-vehicle crash in Johnson County.
Amber R. Smith, 21, Simpson, was driving a 2010 Pontiac G6 west on Gilead Church/Tunnell Hill Road and Lenzie M. Johnson, 41, Harrisburg, was driving a Mazda I-Sport south on U.S. Route 45 about 8 a.m.
Smith drove into the intersection and Johnson drove into her vehicle, according to a release from ISP.
Smith was cited on a charge of failure to yield at an intersection and one or both were treated for injuries, according to the release.
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MMQ on BTF LOCApril 30, 2013 by Bruce Landsberg
We live by acronyms in aviation and even more so in the Twitter/text/smartphone world, thus the cryptic title regarding the loss of a Cessna 210 while landing at the Williamsburg, Va., airport (KJGG). The airport itself has a very good safety record with just two accidents dating back to 1983 not counting this one.
The runway is 3,200 feet long and generally unobstructed. The 4,300 hour pilot, an Air Force general who was accomplished in heavy military aircraft, was flying his personal Cessna 210 that he had presumably owned since 1994 accompanied by his wife and their black Lab. As the flight approached the airport, the KJGG METAR reported 192055Z AUTO 18014G28KT 10SM CLR 28/19 A2975. VFR conditions with some fairly gusty winds.
All commentary is speculative since the accident just happened. The right-hand traffic pattern specified for Runway 13, which the pilot was flying, had a significant tailwind on base leg. Could that have created the illusion of a high airspeed when in fact it's the groundspeed that was high? From the NTSB's preliminary report:
"According to witnesses, the airplane passed beyond the extended runway centerline when the pilot reported on the common traffic advisory frequency that he was turning from the airport pattern base leg to final approach for runway 13. The pilot executed a steep right turn towards the runway, and the airplane pitched down and descended at a steep angle behind a tree line."
There were no survivors and the engine appeared to be developing power.
Texting shorthand doesn't begin to convey the tragedy in this accident.
Acronym translation: Monday Morning Quarterbacking on Base-To-Final Loss of Control. The handheld GPS may provide some additional insight, but the illusion of speed from a strong tailwind has caused many a pilot to tip it up on a wing so as to not overshoot the runway. High groundspeed will result in a wider turn radius as we all remember from turns around a point. Natural reaction is to steepen the bank to hit the centerline.
There's a natural tendency to pull back to offset the rapid settling that the aircraft will develop. G-loads and AOA increase quickly and before one can say, "Oh, shucks!" the lift is gone and controlled flight is but a memory with no chance of recovery.
A strong tailwind on base is not something we see that often, and if it isn't top of mind, the accident chain can be really short. Perhaps we shouldn't be congratulating ourselves that we're all much too smart to ever make such a mistake.
Remember, a tailwind BTF turn is a BFD (Big Fat Deal…or something like that) and gravity can bite hard and fast.
Bruce Landsberg
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Donald W. Foster, 55, of Warren, Pa., passed away Thursday (May 9, 2013) in UPMC Hamot, Erie, Pa.
He was born May 19, 1957 in Jamestown, the son of Edward Foster and Alice Hitchcock Chapman.
Don attended Cassadaga Valley High School and had been a selfemployed truck driver.
Surviving are four sons: Shanin Rublee of Cumberland, Va., Daryk Rublee of Bradyville, Tenn., Jessi Rublee of Texarkana, Texas, Dustin Rublee of Woodbury, Tenn.; five grandchildren: Kierstin Rublee, ShayLynn Rublee, Makayla Rublee, Tristin Rublee, Aryahna Rublee; his mother Alice Chapman of Jamestown; three brothers: Edwin Hitchcock of Ellington, Ed Foster of Gerry, Richard Foster of Kennedy; four sisters: Cheryl McLane of Bradford, Vera McLane of Jamestown, Elizabeth Hillerby of Kennedy and Marsha Ramos of Jamestown.
He was preceded in death by his father Edward Foster; two sisters: Ruth Pellerino and Donna McLane.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Falconer Funeral Home. Rev. Donald Ray will officiate. Burial will be in KennedyRiverside Cemetery.
Friends will be received by the family from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be donated to Shanin Rublee, 453 Sugarfork Rd., Cumberland, VA 23040 to help with burial expenses.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (435 votes).
In short: Historic runningDate of review: December 17, 2004
In short: Reasonable race with serious shortcomingsIn full: This was a passable enough race. Average course, good friendly crowd and organisation. But, and it is a key BUT, any organiser who stages a 13.1 miler in mid-summer in 80 degree temperatures and can't organise water at water stops is never going to get a race entry from me again. The scene at the (dry) 10 mile water stop was farcical, not to mention dangerous.Date of review: December 17, 2004
In short: Good race, but water point problems on a very hot dayDate of review: October 25, 2004
In short: An OK course but dull in the ;atter stages.In full: Friendly organisation but a few problems with car parking / water stations. Mildly undulating pleasant course except miles 8-12, very dull along 2 main roads - the latter stretch is dead straight and seems never ending. Good crowds and ice lollies at the finish.Date of review: September 1, 2004
In short: must supply more waterDate of review: August 24, 2004
In short: Very hot, which meant the poorly organized drinks stations could have been disastrous. However, a scenic course, a bit undulating but got a pb!Date of review: August 24, 2004
In short: Very hot day and not all the drink stations were working properly. The course was mostly country lanes with only a bit on busy roads. Free sports drink and ice cream at the end made the hike back to the car okDate of review: August 24, 2004
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APA moves options forward for former Finch lands
SARANAC LAKE – The state Adirondack Park Agency has advanced a series of classification proposals for 47,000 acres of Forest Preserve land in the central Adirondacks, including the first phase of former Finch, Pruyn and Co. timberlands acquired by the state.
The APA board voted unanimously Friday to accept a draft Environmental Impact Statement that outlines seven possible classifications for the lands, including various combinations of wilderness, primitive, canoe and wild forest. The board also agreed to set a series of public hearings on the options, which will be held in the Park and around the state this summer.
The lands
The classification package includes 23,000 acres of former Finch lands in the towns of Indian Lake, Minerva and Newcomb that the state has recently acquired from The Nature Conservancy: the Essex Chain tract, the OK Slip Falls tract and the Indian River tract. A 160-acre parcel owned by the Open Space Conservancy, which the state is expected to close on soon, is also included. The agency is also considering reclassifying the Hudson River Gorge Primitive Area, and portions of the Vanderwhacker and Blue Mountain Wild Forest.
APA Senior Planner Kathy Regan noted that the Hudson Gorge Primitive Area would become wilderness in all of the seven classification proposals. That's because of a stipulation in the State Land Master Plan that says it should be reclassified as wilderness once the state buys or secures easements to the private lands that "intrude" in the area.
As a result, most of the variation among the seven classification alternatives is with the Essex Chain tract and the Indian River tract.
The options
There are two largely wilderness alternatives, called 1A and 1B. In 1A, which Regan called a "large wilderness paddling experience" there would be 38,563 acres of wilderness and 7,032 acres of wild forest. The wild forest lands would be the Indian River tract and areas north of the Essex Chain of Lakes. In option 1B, nearly all of the lands in question – 45,347 acres – would be classified as wilderness.
Option 2 would create an 11,743-acre primitive area, primarily made up lands in the Essex Chain tract. A primitive area is a sort-of wilderness-in-waiting due to nonconforming uses, in this case because float plane use would continue on First and Pine lakes. Another 32,234 acres in this alternative would be wilderness, including the Hudson and Cedar Rivers, and 1,637 acres would be wild forest.
Alternative 3A would create the Park's second canoe area using 6,624 acres around the Essex Chain of Lakes. Another 31,939 acres would be wilderness and 7,032 acres would be wild forest. Regan said this option would allow for mountain biking on state administrative roads, "and you'd have a marketing tool by calling it a canoe area. There's some pizazz to that."
Alternative 3B would expand the canoe area designation to part of the Hudson River and lands south of the Essex Chain, including the Indian River tract. The canoe area would be 15,067 acres, with another 18,829 acres as wilderness and 11,702 acres as wild forest.
Options 4A and 4B would expand the Blue Mountain Wild Forest to include the Essex Chain of Lakes. In both options, there would be 33,942 acres of wilderness and 11,653 acres of wild forest. The only difference is that in 4B, a special management area would extend over the Essex Chain, which would allow the state to implement restrictions on float plane and motor vehicle access to what Regan described as lakes that are "sensitive ecologically."
Other options
APA Planning Director Jim Connolly stressed that these aren't the only options for the lands.
"We have provided in these maps and in the documents a range of alternatives, but they're not the only alternatives that can be considered as part of this process," Connolly said. "Boundaries can be tweaked, areas of classification can be tweaked."
APA commissioner Sherman Craig noted that outside organizations, including environmental groups, have come up with their own proposals for these lands.
"If you look at all the alternatives in front of us, would you say all of those organizational perspectives are represented?" he asked.
Regan said she believes they are, in one form or another, although she said the agency "started from scratch and didn't want to look at their recommendations when we were developing our alternatives."
Earlier, Walt Linck, an APA associate natural resources planner, talked about the possible recreational uses on the lands.
"We should try to provide for a whole range of recreational opportunities based on the abilities of these lands to withstand the use," he said.
Linck said there are three major areas of potential recreational use on the lands. The first is the Hudson River corridor, between Newcomb and the confluence of the Indian River, which he described as an "incredible" and "wild" paddling opportunity. The second is the Hudson River Gorge Primitive Area, which will become wilderness.
"The hiking opportunities in here, particularly to see OK Slip Falls and some of these ponds are outstanding," Linck said. Whitewater rafting down the Hudson Gorge wouldn't be impacted by the change to wilderness, he said.
The third area is the Essex Chain tract, where Linck said a network of lakes and ponds could create many opportunities for water-based recreation. It also has a network of dirt roads and trails.
"The opportunity will exist, if these lands are classified as wild forest, for motorized and mechanized uses," Linck said. "The possibility exists for motor boating, mountain biking, snowmobiling."
Linck also said the Essex Chain's roads could become a horse-trail network, regardless of which classification is selected. He also talked about the possibility of creating a mountain biking trail on the east side of the tract that would connect to Indian Lake, and possibly to Newcomb.
Next steps
Public hearings on the options would likely be held in Ray Brook, Indian Lake, Minerva, Newcomb, Albany, Rochester and New York City. Dates and locations haven't been set but the hearings would likely be held from mid-June to early July.
In addition to the public hearings, Connolly said the agency is working with DEC to coordinate possible field trips to the lands for APA board members.
A preferred alternative could potentially be presented to the board in August or September.
Maps of each classification option are posted on the APA website at apa.ny.gov/Mailing/2013/05/StateLand/DSEIS_MapSeries_20130506draft.pdf.
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Monday unveiled its first netbook. Just like competing solutions, Nokia Booklet 3G is based on Intel Corp.'s Atom processor, but what will differ the devices from others is rather unprecedented battery life of up to 12 hours.
"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility. We are in the business of connecting people and the Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us. Nokia has a long and rich heritage in mobility and with the outstanding battery life, premium design and all day, always on connectivity, we will create something quite compelling," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive vice president for devices.
Nokia Booklet 3G is based on Intel Atom processor, features 10.1" screen, weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures "slightly more than two centimeters" and supports 3G/HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity as well as A-GPS support. The netbook also sports Nokia's broad suite of Ovi services. Besides, the mini-laptop comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth and an SD card reader.
Further information, including detailed specifications, market availability and pricing, will be announced at Nokia World on September 2.
The Nokia Booklet 3G will widen the Nokia portfolio, satisfying a need in the operator channel, and bringing another important ingredient in the move towards becoming a mobile solutions company.
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