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chart command is a reporting command that returns your results in a data structure that supports visualization as a chart (such as a column, line, area, and pie chart). You can decide what field is tracked on the x-axis of the chart. Read more about Splunk's visualization features and options in the Visualization Reference of the Data Visualization Manual.
eventstats, and
streamstats commands work in conjunction with statistical functions. These functions are described in more detail in "Functions for stats, chart, and timechart" in the Search Reference Manual.
Returns results in a tabular output for charting.
chart [sep=<string>] [format=<string>] [cont=<bool>] [limit=<int>] [agg=<stats-agg-term>] ( <stats-agg-term> | <sparkline-agg-term> | <eval-expression>...) [ by <field> (<bucketing-option> )... [<split-by-clause>] ] | [ over <field> (<bucketing-option>)... (by <split-by-clause>] ]
For a list of chart functions with descriptions and examples, see "Functions for stats, chart, and timechart".
Required arguments
- agg
- Syntax: agg=<stats-agg-term>
- Description: Specify an aggregator or function. For a list of stats functions with descriptions and examples, see "Functions for stats, chart, and timechart".
- sparkline-agg-term
- Syntax: <sparkline-agg> [AS <wc-field>]
- Description: A sparkline specifier optionall renamed to a new field.
- eval-expression
- Syntax: <eval-math-exp> | <eval-concat-exp> | <eval-compare-exp> | <eval-bool-exp> | <eval-function-call>
- Description: A combination of literals, fields, operators, and functions that represent the value of your destination field. For more information, see the Functions for eval. For these evaluations to work, your values need to be valid for the type of operation. For example, with the exception of addition, arithmetic operations may not produce valid results if the values are not numerical. Additionally, Splunk can concatenate the two operands if they are both strings. When concatenating values with '.', Splunk treats both values as strings regardless of their actual type.
Optional arguments
- agg
- Syntax: <stats-agg-term>
- Description: For a list of stats functions with descriptions and examples, see "Functions for stats, chart, and timechart".
- bucketing-option
- Syntax: bins | span | <start-end>
- Description: Discretization options. If a bucketing option is not supplied,
timechartdefaults to
bins=300. This finds the smallest bucket size that results in no more than 300 distinct buckets. For more bucketing options, see the bucket command reference.
- cont
- Syntax: cont=<bool>
- Description: Specifies whether its continuous or not.
- limit
- Syntax: limit=<int>
- Description: Specify a limit for series filtering; limit=0 means no filtering.
- single-agg
- Syntax: count | <stats-func>(<field>)
- Description: A single aggregation applied to a single field (can be evaled field). No wildcards are allowed. The field must be specified, except when using the special
countaggregator that applies to events as a whole.
- sep
- Syntax: sep=<string>
- Description: Used to construct output field names when multiple data series are used in conjunctions with a split-by field. Allows you to specify a parameterized expression with the stats aggregator and function ($AGG$) and the value of the split-by-field ($VALUE$), formatted as $AGG$<sep>$VALUE$.
- split-by-clause
- Syntax: <field> (<tc-option>)* [<where-clause>]
- Description: Specifies a field to split by. If field is numerical, default discretization is applied; discretization is defined with
Stats functions
- stats-agg-term
- Syntax: <stats-func>( <evaled-field> | <wc-field> ) [AS <wc-field>]
- Description: A statistical specifier optionally renamed to a new field name. The specifier can be by an aggregation function applied to a field or set of fields or an aggregation function applied to an arbitrary eval expression.
- stats-function
- Syntax: avg() | c() | count() | dc() | distinct_count() | earliest() | estdc() | estdc_error() | exactperc<int>() | first() | last() | latest() | list() | max() | median() | min() | mode() | p<in>() | perc<int>() | range() | stdev() | stdevp() | sum() | sumsq() | upperperc<int>() | values() | var() | varp()
- Description: Functions used with the stats command. Each time you invoke the
statscommand, you can use more than one function; however, you can only use one
by clause. For a list of stats functions with descriptions and examples, see "Functions for stats, chart, and timechart".
Sparkline function options
Sparklines are inline charts that appear within table cells in search results and display time-based trends associated with the primary key of each row. Read more about how to "Add sparklines to your search results" in the Search Manual.
- sparkline-agg
- Syntax: sparkline (count(<wc-field>), ) | sparkline (<sparkline-func>(<wc-field>), )
- Description: A sparkline specifier, which takes the first argument of an aggregation function on a field and an optional timespan specifier. If no timespan specifier is used, an appropriate timespan is chosen based on the time range of the search. If the sparkline is not scoped to a field, only the count aggregator is permitted.
- sparkline-func
- Syntax: c() | count() | dc() | mean() | avg() | stdev() | stdevp() | var() | varp() | sum() | sumsq() | min() | max() | range()
- Description: Aggregation function to use to generate sparkline values. Each sparkline value is produced by applying this aggregation to the events that fall into each particular time bucket.
Bucketing options
- bins
- Syntax: bins=<int>
- Description: Sets the maximum number of bins to discretize into.
- span
- Syntax: span=<log-span> | span=
- Description: Sets the size of each bucket, using a span length based on time or log-based span.
- <start-end>
- Syntax: end=<num> | start=<num>
- Description:Sets the minimum and maximum extents for numerical buckets. Data outside of the [start, end] range is discarded.
Log span syntax
- <log-span>
- Syntax: [<num>]log[<num>]
- Description: Sets to log-based span. The first number is a coefficient. The second number is the base. If the first number is supplied, it must be a real number >= 1.0 and < base. Base, if supplied, must be real number > 1.0 (strictly greater than 1).
Span length syntax
- span-length
- Syntax: [<timescale>]
- Description: A span length based on time.
-
- Syntax: <int>
- Description: The span of each bin. If using a timescale, this is used as a time range. If not, this is an absolute bucket "length."
- <timescale>
- Syntax: <sec> | <min> |
 | <day> | <month> | <subseconds>
- Description: Time scale units.
- <sec>
- Syntax: s | sec | secs | second | seconds
- Description: Time scale in seconds.
- <min>
- Syntax: m | min | mins | minute | minutes
- Description: Time scale in minutes.
-

- Syntax: h | hr | hrs | hour | hours
- Description: Time scale in hours.
- <day>
- Syntax: d | day | days
- Description: Time scale in days.
- <month>
- Syntax: mon | month | months
- Description: Time scale in months.
- <subseconds>
- Syntax: us | ms | cs | ds
- Description: Time scale in microseconds (us), milliseconds (ms), centiseconds (cs), or deciseconds (ds).
tc options
- tc-option
- Syntax: <bucketing-option> | usenull=<bool> | useother=<bool> | nullstr=<string> | otherstr=<string>
- Description: Options for controlling the behavior of splitting by a field.
- usenull
- Syntax: usenull=<bool>
- Description: Controls whether or not a series is created for events that do not contain the split-by field.
- nullstr
- Syntax: nullstr=<string>
- Description: If usenull is true, this series is labeled by the value of the nullstr option, and defaults to NULL.
- useother
- Syntax: useother=<bool>
- Description: Specifies if a series should be added for data series not included in the graph because they did not meet the criteria of the <where-clause>.
- otherstr
- String: otherstr=<string>
- Description: If useother is true, this series is labeled by the value of the otherstr option, and defaults to OTHER.
where clause
- where clause
- Syntax: <single-agg> <where-comp>
- Description: Specifies the criteria for including particular data series when a field is given in the
tc-by-clause. The most common use of this option is to select for spikes rather than overall mass of distribution in series selection. The default value finds the top ten series by area under the curve. Alternately one could replace sum with max to find the series with the ten highest spikes.This has no relation to the where command.
- <where-comp>
- Syntax: <wherein-comp> | <wherethresh-comp>
- Description: A criteria for the where clause.
- <wherein-comp>
- Syntax: (in|notin) (top|bottom)<int>
- Description: A where-clause criteria that requires the aggregated series value be in or not in some top or bottom grouping.
- <wherethresh-comp>
- Syntax: (<|>)( )?<num>
- Description: A where-clause criteria that requires the aggregated series value be greater than or less than some numeric threshold.
Create tabular data output suitable for charting. The x-axis variable is specified with a by field and is discretized if necessary. Charted fields are converted to numerical quantities if necessary.
Whereas timechart generates a chart with _time as the x-axis,
chart produces a table with an arbitrary field as the x-axis. In addition, chart allows for a split-by field. When such a field is included, the output will be a table where each column represents a distinct value of the split-by field.
This is in contrast with stats, where each row represents a single unique combination of values of the group-by fields. The number of columns to be included is by default limited to 10, but can be adjusted by the inclusion of an optional where clause. See where-clause for a more detailed description.
Chart allows for an eval-expression, which is required to be renamed unless a split-by clause is present. You can also specify the the x-axis field after the over keyword, before any
by and subsequent split-by clause. The limit and agg options allow easier specification of series filtering. The limit=0 means no series filtering. The limit and agg options are ignored if an explicit where clause is provided.
A note about split-by fields
If you use
chart or
timechart, you cannot use a field that you specify in a function as your split-by field as well. For example, you will not be able to run:
... | chart sum(A) by A span=log2
However, you can work around this with an
eval expression, for example:
... | eval A1=A | chart sum(A) by A1 span=log2
Example 1
|This example uses the sample dataset from the tutorial but should work with any format of Apache Web access log. Download the data set from this topic in the tutorial and follow the instructions to upload it to Splunk. Then, run this search using the time range, Other > Yesterday.
Chart the number of different page requests, GET and POST, that occurred for each Web server.
sourcetype=access_* | chart count(eval(method="GET")) AS GET, count(eval(method="POST")) AS POST by host
This example uses
eval expressions to specify the different field values for the
stats command to count. The first clause uses the
count() function to count the Web access events that contain the
method field value
GET. Then, it renames the field that represents these results to "GET" (this is what the "AS" is doing). The second clause does the same for POST events. The counts of both types of events are then separated by the Web server, indicated by the
host field, from which they appeared.
This returns the following table:
Click Show report to format the chart in Report Builder. Here, the y-axis is shown on a logarithmic scale:
This chart displays the total count of events for each event type, GET or POST, based on the
host value. The logarithmic scale is used for the y-axis because of the difference in range of vales between the number of GET and POST events.
Note: You can use the
chart, and
timechart commands to perform the same statistical calculations on your data. The
stats command returns a table of results. The
chart command returns the same table of results, but you can use the Report Builder to format this table as a chart. If you want to chart your results over a time range, use the
timechart command. You can also see variations of this example with the chart and timechart commands.
Example 2
|This example uses the sample dataset from the tutorial. Download the data set from this topic in the tutorial and follow the instructions to upload it to Splunk. Then, run this search using the time range, All time.
Create a chart to show the number of transactions based on their duration (in seconds).
sourcetype=access_* action=purchase | transaction clientip maxspan=10m | chart count by duration span=log2
This search uses the
transaction command to define a transaction as events that share the
clientip field and fit within a ten minute time span. The
transaction command creates a new field called
duration, which is the difference between the timestamps for the first and last events in the transaction. (Because
maxspan=10s, the
duration value should not be greater than this.)
The transactions are then piped into the
chart command. The
count() function is used to count the number of transactions and separate the count by the duration of each transaction. Because the duration is in seconds and you expect there to be many values, the search uses the
span argument to bucket the duration into bins of log2 (
span=log2). This produces the following table:
Click Show report to format the chart in Report Builder. Here, it's formatted as a column chart:
As you would expect, most transactions take between 0 and 2 seconds to complete. Here, it looks like the next greater number of transactions spanned between 256 and 512 seconds (approximately, 4-8 minutes). (In this case however, the numbers may be a bit extreme because of the way that the data was generated.)
Example 3
|This example uses the sample dataset from the tutorial. Download the data set from this topic in the tutorial and follow the instructions to upload it to Splunk. Then, run this search using the time range, All time.
Create a chart to show the average number of events in a transaction based on the duration of the transaction.
sourcetype=access_* action=purchase | transaction clientip maxspan=10m | chart avg(eventcount) by duration span=log2
This example uses the same transaction defined in Example 2. The
transaction command also creates a new field called
eventcount, which is the number of events in a single transaction.
The transactions are then piped into the
chart command and the
avg() function is used to calculate the average number of events for each duration. Because the duration is in seconds and you expect there to be many values, the search uses the
span argument to bucket the duration into bins of log2 (
span=log2). This produces the following table:
Click Show report to format the chart in Report Builder. Here, it's formatted as a pie chart:
Each wedge of the pie chart represents the average number of events in the transactions of the corresponding duration. After you create the pie chart, you can mouseover each of the sections to see these values (in Splunk Web).
Example 4
|This example uses the sample dataset from the tutorial. Download the data set from this topic in the tutorial and follow the instructions to upload it to Splunk. Then, run this search using the time range, Other > Yesterday.
Chart how many different people bought something and what they bought at the Flower & Gift shop Yesterday.
sourcetype=access_* action=purchase | chart dc(clientip) over date_hour by category_id usenull=f
This search takes the purchase events and pipes it into the
chart command. The
dc() or
distinct_count() function is used to count the number of unique visitors (characterized by the
clientip field). This number is then charted over each hour of the day and broken out based on the
category_id of the purchase. Also, because these are numeric values, the search uses the
usenull=f argument to exclude fields that don't have a value.
This produces the following table:
Click Show report to format the chart in Report Builder. Here, it's formatted as a line chart:
Each line represents a different type of product that is sold at the Flower & Gift shop. The height of each line shows the number of different people who bought the product during that hour. In general, it looks like the most popular items at the online shop were flowers. Most of the purchases were made early in the day, around lunch time, and early in the evening.
Example 5
|This example uses recent (September 29-October 6, 2010) earthquake data downloaded from the USGS Earthquakes website. The data is a comma separated ASCII text file that contains the source network (Src), ID (Eqid), version, date, location, magnitude, depth (km) and number of reporting stations (NST) for each earthquake over the last 7 days.
You can download a current CSV file from the USGS Earthquake Feeds and upload it to Splunk. Splunk should extract the fields automatically.
Create a chart that shows the number of earthquakes and the magnitude of each one that occurred in and around California.
source=eqs7day-M1.csv Region=*California | chart count over Magnitude by Region useother=f
This search counts the number of earthquakes that occurred in the the California regions. The count is then broken down for each region based on the magnitude of the quake. Because the
Region value is non-numeric, the search uses the
useother=f argument to exclude events that don't match.
This produces the following table:
Click Show report to format the chart in Report Builder. Here, it's formatted as a scatter chart:
This chart shows that the majority of the quakes that occurred in the past week were of magnitudes between 1 and 2.2. Quakes of higher magnitude were less frequent--Yay!
Also, the plot points for each region may overlap with another region's plot. If you want to see just the points for one region at a time, mouseover the region in the legend. If you want to see metrics for an individual point, mouseover that point on the chart. A tooltip will open and display the corresponding
Region, and
count of earthquakes.
More examples
Example 1: Return max(delay) for each value of foo.
... | chart max(delay) over foo
Example 2: Return max(delay) for each value of foo split by the value of bar.
... | chart max(delay) over foo by bar
Example 3: Return the ratio of the average (mean) "size" to the maximum "delay" for each distinct "host" and "user" pair.
... | chart eval(avg(size)/max(delay)) AS ratio by host user
Example 4: Return the the maximum "delay" by "size", where "size" is broken down into a maximum of 10 equal sized buckets.
... | chart max(delay) by size bins=10
Example 5: Return the average (mean) "size" for each distinct "host".
... | chart avg(size) by host
See also
Have questions? Visit Splunk Answers and see what questions and answers the Splunk community has using the chart command.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.0.10, 5.0.11, 5.0.12, 5.0.13, 5.0.14, 5.0.15, 5.0.16, 5.0.17, 5.0.18


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TALLAHASSEE -- The state university system Board of Governors will consider Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Jan Ignash for the job of interim chancellor while the board undertakes a national search to replace outgoing Chancellor Frank Brogan.
Board of Governors Chair Dean Colson said Thursday that he will make the official recommendation to the board at its Sept. 12 meeting and if the board agrees, Ignash will begin her duties Oct. 1,
"We are fortunate to have a seasoned academic leader on our team to fill in as interim chancellor while we conduct a national search," Colson said in a press release. "As chief academic officer, Dr. Ignash is already involved in the board's most important initiatives, such as its Access and Attainment Commission, the development of a performance-funding model and the expansion of online learning. She will help keep the train squarely on the tracks as we move forward on these and other critical system issues."
Brogan, who is taking a similar job in Pennsylvania, also endorsed the pending appointment, calling her a "game changer."
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Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
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Forum Post: Fed Easing 'Akin to Price Fixing'
Posted 6 years ago on July 13, 2013, 8:34 p.m. EST by AntiPoverty
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
JPMorgan Strategist Kelly: Fed Easing 'Akin to Price Fixing'
Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 01:13 PM
By Dan Weil
The Federal Reserve's massive easing program isn't boosting the economy, says David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.
Indeed, the Fed is embarking on a "stupid policy," he tells CNBC. "[It's] akin to price fixing."
Most analysts don't expect any change to emerge from this week's central bank policy meeting.
Editor's Note: The Truth About the Economy — Government Documents Lead to Eerie Conclusion
The Fed is buying $85 billion of Treasurys and mortgaged-back securities a month. And it has kept the federal funds rate at zero to 0.25 percent for more than four years.
But the economy would be just as strong without the Fed actions, Kelly says. The economy expanded 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
What the economy lacks is confidence, not liquidity, Kelly explains. "I don't see why the Federal Reserve is boosting liquidity, [thereby] depressing confidence, to try and achieve [low] long-term interest rates."
Kelly favors an increase in interest rates from the Fed, because that would be a signal of economic strength, allowing banks to make more profitable loans and consumers to gain enough confidence to lift their spending.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index fell to a 14-month low of 71.8 in March.
A survey of 50 economists conducted by The Wall Street Journal last week indicates that Kelly shouldn't hold his breath.
The average forecast is for the Fed to begin decelerating its monthly bond purchases in November. The economists predict that the central bank will cease its bond buying in May 2014.
And they project the Fed will start to consider raising the fed funds rate in June 2015, when the unemployment rate finally drops to 6.5 percent.
The central bank has said it doesn't plan on hiking rates until the jobless rate hits that level. Unemployment was 7.7 percent in February.
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Coburn labels 100 federal expenditures totaling $6.5 billion as unnecessary, duplicative or low priority.
The latest annual slam on wasteful spending from Sen. Tom Coburn mocks federal grants and line items ranging from magic museums to the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Oklahoma Republican does not spare Congress or his home state from his public scolding.
"Wastebook 2011," released Tuesday, ranks and describes 100 items totaling more than $6.5 billion as "examples of some of the most egregious ways your taxpayer dollars were wasted on countless unnecessary, duplicative and low-priority projects spread throughout the federal government," Coburn wrote.
Colorful examples include $150,000 in Institute of Museum and Library Services funds for an American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Mich.; $175,587 in National Institutes of Health funds for a University of Kentucky study of the sex habits of quail to pinpoint links between cocaine use and risky sex; and a National Science Foundation grant of $198,195 to the University of California-Riverside for research on whether using social media makes one happy.
Also making this year's list are larger-scale agency line items such as $68 million in fiscal 2011 for the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal partnership with 13 states set up in 1965 during the War on Poverty to promote economic development. Several groups have "identified" it as a candidate for elimination, the report said, including the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the Congressional Budget Office, and a report by Citizens Against Government Waste.
The Coburn report, bound with a light-hearted cover with images of a monkey, a toy train and a magician's rabbit, is heavily footnoted and cites numerous news reports. The estimated price tag is about half the 2010 total of $11.5 billion.
Coburn included two projects in his home state; $529,689 in Transportation Department highway funds to transform an abandoned rock house into a visitors center; and $93,000 from the Agriculture Department to conduct a statewide advertising campaign to promote Oklahoma's farmers markets.
He also blasted his own branch of government for spending too much time "bickering" while ignoring the rising national debt. "Perhaps there was no bigger waste of the taxpayer's money in 2011 than Congress itself," he wrote. "The dismal 9 percent approval rating, the lowest ever recorded, would indicate the vast majority of Americans would agree."
In his introduction, Coburn does acknowledge that some of the items are subject to debate on their merits. So he asks the reader to consider three questions, "Can we afford these things when we are running annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion? Do these initiatives match your understanding of the role of the federal government as outlined by the enumerated powers of the U.S. Constitution? Do these represent national priorities, or do they reflect the wasteful spending habits threatening to bankrupt the future of the American dream?"
Gary Therkildsen, a federal fiscal policy analyst at the nonprofit OMB Watch, criticized Coburn's approach for failing to address policy differences. "It lacks any sense of constructive purpose, other than to complain about government spending," Therkildsen told Government Executive. Though the report is "well-intentioned" and may well have uncovered wasteful spending, many of the programs could be debated in the public sphere to gauge public support, he said. "Some programs could be well-run, but Congress hasn't provided the necessary funds to make sure they're well-run," he said.
An example he cited is Coburn's targeting of $6 million in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration to subsidize small airports, which are being viewed "out of context," Therkildsen said, because many people don't remember that the grants were introduced by Congress to entice small airlines when many were going belly up after the deregulation of the airline industry in late 1970s.
"In the end, these things for conservative politicians become a self-fulfulling prophecy that government doesn't do anything right," Therkildsen added. "These reports just become more ammunition to use against what Coburn likes to call big government."
Thomas Schatz, president of the nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste, said, "Sen. Coburn serves a useful purpose for taxpayers by identifying projects that are easily understood and easily communicated to people so they understand where their money is going. Whether we have $15 trillion debt or a $15 trillion surplus, the money should not be wasted."
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I found this photo of the 3 largest gold nuggets to come out of the Rocky River. The nuggets where copied and the replicas are apparently housed at the Museum in Launceston. Ive never seen them and this is the first image of them ive ever seen.
The largest one is 8 inch x 5 inch!
The holdfast Gold Mines NL went broke in spectacular fashion. They did recover some gold, but nothing like the above.
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GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. - David Griem will remain Bob Bashara's attorney - for now.
During a hearing Thursday before 36th District Court Judge Kenneth King, Griem requested he be granted withdrawal as Bashara's counsel because the two's relationship was "no longer in tact."
Griem said he and Bashara met three times in the last four day and had "lengthy discussions" about the situation.
"We are on different paths, different wavelengths," Griem said.
He stressed that the request to part ways was being made by both parties.
"This is a client and an attorney asking the court to sanction the divorce, to sanction the severance of the attorney-client relationship," Griem said.
Griem said Bashara is already planning on meeting with two new potential attorneys Thursday and Friday.
When asked about specifics on what the two were disagreeing on, Griem said he would not share the reasoning in open court because he didn't feel comfortable talking about in front of the prosecution.
He then went on to say Bashara would never get a fair trial.
"The reason this man can't get a fair trial in the state of Michigan is police leaks and prosecution leaks," Griem said.
But the judge expressed concerns that bringing a new attorney before Bashara's preliminary exam wouldn't work, and that just because the two weren't getting along, wasn't a good enough reason for him to walk away from the case.
Bashara came to Griem's defense.
"In the last seven months since my wife's murder, Mr. Griem has spent a good portion of his time dealing with police leaks, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct and a number of things that have affected my ability to be treated fairly and to get a fair trial," he said.
Bashara also said he cares about Griem's reputation and doesn't want to make the situation worse.
"I don't want to fire him in open court," Bashara said.
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Bob Bashara arrested
Bob Bashara has been charged with plotting to have Joe Gentz killed - the man who is charged in Bashara's wife's death.
Bashara is accused of trying to hire a hit man between June 8 and June 25. His bail was set at $15 million cash. If he posts it, he must turn in his passport, driver's license and wear a tether.
A preliminary exam which had been scheduled for July 24.
Bob Bashara has been called a person of interest in his wife's January murder. However, Gentz has been the only person charged for the murder.
SLIDESHOW: The jail cell Bob Bashara is in
Grosse Pointe Park mother found dead in January
Jane Bashara was found dead in the back of her SUV in a Detroit alley on Jan. 25. She had been reported missing the night before.
Sources say Gentz has told police he was forced to kill the Grosse Pointe Park mother under the order of her husband.
Gentz has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Who is Joe Gentz?
Gentz is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Grosse Pointe Park mother's death.
He was a handyman for Bob Bashara, helping him with various real estate throughout the metro Detroit area.
WATCH: Local 4 legal expert on what's ahead for Bashara
Watch: Exclusive video of Bob Bashara at Wayne County Jail
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Carpet thread lodged all the way through a dog's insides, from mouth to backside, as well as a fully intact rubber chicken are just some of the more bizarre items that local vets have had to extract from dogs' stomachs, the results of a new survey show.
Vets4Pets' top ten list of unusual items removed from dogs' tummies has been compiled and published to remind dog owners to pay close attention to what their pets are up to.
A survey of its UK veterinary practices was carried out after vets at the practice in Newton Abbot had to remove a 21-inch riding crop - a short type of whip without a lash, used in horse riding - from a boxer dog.
In a separate and one of the most curious cases, underwear that belonged to someone other than the owners had to be dislodged from a mischievous pooch.
"Underwear and socks are not uncommon items that dogs can eat, but it's highly unusual to find out they don't belong to the owner or their partner," said Dr Huw Stacey, director of clinical services at Vets4Pets.
"On those occasions the vet's role is simply to remove the item and ensure the dog is fit and well before returning them to their owner.
"Of course dogs can often consume items left lying around the house, garden or outdoors, so it's important that owners are aware of what their pet is doing, in case of an emergency.
"Golf balls, ping pong balls and pebbles are commonly found, often requiring surgery to remove them, but the list we've compiled demonstrates that dogs can find a huge variety of items to eat, with or without their owner's knowledge."
In one case the practice in Keighley was brought a 'carpet-eating' dog that had chewed up a carpet and kept pulling at the thread. Eventually it had eaten so much that one end of the thread was hanging out of its mouth and the other end was coming out of its backside.
Among other more unusual items found was Christmas tinsel, needle and thread and, the middle of an eaten corn on the cob.
In Harrogate, the Vets4Pets practice recently removed a rubber chicken from a small terrier, which came out fully intact.
"In all the cases we've highlighted the skill of the veterinary teams have ensured a happy ending, well certainly for the dog, but by highlighting these items we're hoping to make owners aware that their pets can eat almost anything," added Dr Stacey.
"Like all pets, dogs have certain dietary requirements and it's important that receive a balanced healthy diet, which doesn't include items such as chocolate, chicken bones or grapes."
But the warning from vets extends beyond the more unusual items, with sticks causing one of the most common reason dogs to visit the vets.
Dr Stacey continued: "Stick injuries are very common and can often cause significant harm to a dog and can sometimes be fatal.
"The most common injury occurs when it sticks into the ground, and when the dog runs towards it, they can impale themselves causing deep wounds to the mouth, throat, neck or chest.
"As well as these injuries caused, splinters and fragments can be left behind which can be difficult to find and remove, since they are hard to identify on an x-ray."
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Wednesday, April 20 – Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa (supporting The Kills)
Friday, April 22 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom (supporting The Kills)
Saturday, April 23 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (supporting The Kills)
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Tuesday, April 26 – Boston, MA – Royale (supporting The Kills)
Wednesday, April 27 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts (supporting The Kills)
Friday, April 29 – New York, NY – Terminal 5 (supporting The Kills)
Saturday, April 30 – Montreal, QC – Olympia (supporting The Kills)
Sunday, May 1 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy (supporting The Kills)
Tuesday, May 3 – Detroit, MI – Majestic (supporting The Kills)
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Thursday, May 5 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave (supporting The Kills)
Sunday, May 8 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom (supporting The Kills)
Monday, May 9 – Seattle, WA – Showbox (supporting The Kills)
Tuesday, May 10 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom (supporting The Kills)
Wednesday, May 11 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore Auditorium (supporting The Kills)
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| A wiki dedicated to The King In Yellow, the Yellow Mythos and all things related
to the dark mysteries of Carcosa, Hastur and the Yellow Sign...
Welcome to The Yellow Site
Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with The King in Yellow will know that the character and the play of this name are not supposed to exist. They are fictional creations from the pages of a real book of the same name. This "real" version of The King In Yellow was written by Robert W. Chambers, a renowned author of a century ago, whose work has, on the whole, faded into obscurity. The King In Yellow is his most popular and recognised work, published in 1895, featuring a series of short stories (and poems) that are hard to categorise but are together regarded as an important early landmark in 'weird fiction'. The opening stories of the book concentrate upon the aforementioned mysterious, horrific play and those that fall victim to it, and hence to the titular entity that seems to stalk its pages and maybe the world the characters inhabit too. Although Chambers was an American writer, most of the stories are set in and around France, particularly Paris, where he had spent many years as an artist: this served as the inspiration for some of the tales, particularly the final stories of the book, which appear unrelated to its title. The ones in between these latter tales and those directly linking to the play vary in theme and content, but arguably touch on subjects related to the play. These will all be discussed at greater length elsewhere...
Introduction to the MythosEdit
If you are unfamiliar with The Yellow Mythos, the introduction will get you started. For an overview of the wiki as a whole see Wiki Overview. See also the box to the right for more general information.
Who or what is The King In Yellow?Edit
These pages look at the various items that go by the title The King In Yellow: in particular the 'original' play (author unknown); the book (partly concerning this play) written by Robert W. Chambers; and the entity that appears within the confines of the play and yet can be encountered outside of it too. Finally there is a page devoted to Kings in Yellow that have appeared in other mythologies and un-related tales.
What is the 'Mythos'?Edit
Over time a great mass of created fiction can build up around the core canon of an invented universe, into a collection of very many elements, characters, settings and themes, often disparate and sometimes contrary – a "mythos", whose various parts may be weaved together in different prose stories, poetry, games, films and so on into an interconnected, quasi-real folklore (there is, after all, a close linguistic association with mythology), although not necessarily an unambiguous or unchanging one.
The King In Yellow's mythos is based in greater part upon just a handful of century-old tales and only a small number of (often highly vague) in-universe 'facts'; on these there is no living, definitive authority whom we may question or appeal to. So there is in fact very little that is 'hard' canon, and as a result the book is unusual in being the basis of what can be thought of as several largely overlapping, frequently muddied – the names are often used interchangeably – yet in some areas distinct variants on one mythos, which have built upon these slender foundations in slightly differing ways:
- The Yellow Mythos – the most useful 'umbrella' term, this can mean either or both of the following two, but fundamentally draws upon the concepts derived from Robert Chambers' writing, particularly things associated with the eponymous colour;
- The Carcosa Mythos – which takes a relatively narrow path, the lineage focusing upon the mysterious city of Carcosa, including its earliest incarnation as set down by Ambrose Bierce, and those fictions that regard the King in Yellow as a terrible god in his own right rather than an avatar of some other eldritch abomination;
- The Hastur Mythos – which in contrast places the King and all things related firmly within a larger (though later-established) continuity, which The King In Yellow in fact helped to influence, known as
- The Cthulhu Mythos, a widely-referenced mythology based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft and subsequently greatly codified by August Derleth.
The following are some very useful first ports of call:
- Introduction to the Mythos is a helpful primer on the overall story and the universe surrounding The King In Yellow and related texts.
- Defining the 'Mythos' explores more fully the above-mentioned notion of there being multiple, varying but interdependent versions of the mythology.
- What counts as Mythos canon? This is a guide to what (if anything) must be regarded as necessary, sacrosanct and inviolate components of the Mythos.
Related topics to The King In YellowEdit
These pages look at those elements in the fiction that are almost always mentioned in relationship to The King In Yellow – sometimes they are more important to the stories than the King himself. They include:
Much of the fiction, including that involving the wider Hastur Mythos, refers to cults and inhuman servitors in thrall to the King and the Yellow Sign. There is also a strong history of referring to certain cosmological features, notably the Hyades and Aldebaran.
Source material for the MythosEdit
This includes published written material where the Play, the King, the Sign or Carcosa play an important part, including significant texts such as:
- 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' and 'Haita the Shepherd' by Ambrose Bierce – the very first stories in the evolving Carcosa Mythos and Hastur Mythos.
- The King In Yellow – 1895 collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, in which he took names from Bierce's two tales and used them to hint at a broader mythos. This collection defines much of the fiction.
- 'The Whisperer in Darkness' by H.P. Lovecraft – brought the concept of Hastur into the Cthulhu Mythos.
- 'The Return of Hastur' by August Derleth – did much to define the Cthulhu Mythos version of Hastur.
Various games (especially role-playing) that mention the Yellow Mythos, such as Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu. These are an important source for the Hastur Mythos version of the continuity in particular.
All of Lord Rutsah's video games feature (to some extent) the Yellow Mythos.
Film and TVEdit
Appearances of the Yellow Mythos in moving pictures, such as True Detective.
Live performances related to The King In Yellow.
Musical works based on or inspired by the contents of The King in Yellow, or which have inspired addition to the Mythos.
Further RecommendationsEdit
Stories and poems that touch on similar themes to those explored by this Mythos, such as The Phantom Of The Opera and The Yellow Book.
Theories on all things YellowEdit
Pages discussing various aspects of The Yellow Mythos and taking ideas in various directions.
Submissions Wanted and New ReleasesEdit
A chance for writers and readers to keep abreast of new projects related to The Yellow Mythos that are open to submissions or which are newly available for purchase. See also Mythos Development.
Information that is required to further flesh out this wiki.
- Taint of Yellow: A Mythos in the Making? An article looking at the possibility of Chambers' work spawning a wide spanning mythology.
- Simon Bucher-Jones's pantechnicon extravaganzaBlog including King In Yellow and Cthulhu Mythos-related pieces.
- The King in Yellow full text at Project Gutenberg
- The King in Yellow at yankeeclassic.com
- The King in Yellow at sff.net
- The King in Yellow publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "The King in Yellow": An Introduction by Christophe Thill
- The Carcosa Collection – another site dedicated to the same Mythos, with an interesting alternative version of The Yellow Sign (the symbol)
Using this wikiEdit
The category tags at the bottom of most pages are an excellent way to find related information – just click on the tag to be taken to a list of all the pages in that category. When adding or updating pages on this wiki please bear the following points in mind:
- Make use of the tags – these are really useful, but do make sure you put new pages in the correct category!
- Only make drastic changes to content where absolutely necessary (ie errors) or where an entry is incomplete.
- Make sure you are certain of your facts before changing information. If you are not 100% certain or a point is contentious, please leave the existing information and add yours with an indication as to the doubt or dispute. Alternatively, put a request for clarification on the Required page.
- Where information does not directly relate to The Yellow Mythos (such as the broader Cthulhu Mythos) please do not add it to the Wiki unless you really have to – use links to Wikipedia or a specialised Wiki instead. Non-Mythos stories are fine if a) they influenced or are strongly influenced by the Mythos, b) deal with similar themes that may be of interest to readers or c) demonstrate an interesting concept or involve some interesting trivia.
- When creating a new page, please doublecheck that it doesn't already exist – a couple of duplicates have arisen due to issues of capitalisation and styles of abbreviation. Also, make sure that the spelling and form is correct to prevent duplication by error. The Wiki works best when it is easy to find information!
- For further resources to help develop this wiki, see Wiki Development.
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Ultra*Pro Corp, already the parent company of scrapbooking manufacturers 7 Gypsies and Chatterbox, announced July 10th that it has also added the company Around the Block to its growing scrapbook industry portfolio.
Around the Block, which was founded in 2005 by Guinevere Wessell and Jennifer Straus and previously owned by Masterpieces Puzzle Company, specializes in creating tools for scrapbookers. Their most recent introduction is the Paper Gator, a tabletop corner rounder tool that cuts through multiple sheets of paper (or even chipboard), and which features several available cutting blades for different corner cuts. Around the Block also makes the Tape Writer, a label-maker type tool with interchangeable font wheels.
Ultra*Pro will move Around the Block's operations to their City of Commerce, CA headquarters just as they have done with previous acquisitions 7 Gypsies and Chatterbox. Ultra*Pro has been on something of a scrapbook company buying spree of late – it was only in Dec. 2007 that they snatched up the reportedly struggling Chatterbox.


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Mignolet signing spells the end for Reina at Liverpool
Pepe Reina has been Liverpool's number one 'keeper for nearly eight years but with Simon Mignolet joining the club, could the Spanish keeper's future be in jeopardy?
Reina joined from Villarreal in 2005 and has since been the first choice at Anfield. In his first two seasons at the club he kept the highest number of clean sheets in the Premier League.
The Spanish keeper kept 14 clean sheets in 31 appearances for the Anfield club last year.
Despite Reina's being one of the best keepers in the Premier League the past few seasons many mistakes have crept into his game. In 2010 Reina scored an own goal against Arsenal, since then he has not look assured. Soon after, Reina also conceded a tame header against Steaua Bucharest where he somehow let the ball trickle under his legs. This mistake was then repeated when the Spaniard let in a tame shot against Hearts in 2012.
Mignolet recently joined Liverpool from Sunderland and has been extremely impressive for the Black Cats in recent time.
The Belgian kept 11 clean sheets in 38 appearances last season and most notably the 25-year-old made one of the saves of the season parrying Emmanuel Adebayor's shot from close range against Tottenham Hotspur.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers now faces a conundrum whether Mignolet or Reina should be the club's number one goalkeeper. Mignolet is younger and the Welsh manager tends to go for youth, but Reina has more experience.
It is clear that Reina will not want to play second fiddle to Mignolet and could leave Liverpool with top clubs like Barcelona interested in him.
It would, perhaps, be for the best if Reina is sold. This will give Mignolet his chance to shine at the Reds.
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According to her family lore, former Germantown Friends School foreign language teacher Michèle Haines, who is also chef/owner of Spring House Café and Gallery, 164 Barren Hill Rd. in Conshohocken, for 34 years, says her babyhood was just as thrilling as the rest of her life so far.
A native of the Touraine region of France, Haines was born in 1942 on the border between Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Her father "was a powerful man who was welcome in the day time at the Gestapo headquarters and who would help British pilots at night." In 1944, when her father was killed in an American bombing, Haines, just 17 months old, was found safe in his arms.
Haines' grandparents played a central role in her life, when her young mother, who had Haines' sister days before the fatal bombing, moved into her parents' home in Tours with her children.
Haines still misses her grandmother, a tiny Swiss-German woman who had had a creamery, complete with donkey and cart, near Versailles. "I still smell food today and think, that's not as good as my grand-mère," she says. "When something very hard or amazing happens, I say, 'Thank you, mémère.'"
Haines always longed to go to the U.S. As a teenager, she won scholarships to Radcliffe and Stanford, but her family withheld permission. When an opportunity to work as a translator for the United Nations arose, she signed the paperwork herself and departed for New York. At a café on her first morning there in 1961, a US veteran of Normandy bought her breakfast. "Welcome to America," he said.
But the job at the UN proved disappointing: "I didn't realize I'd be a machine," Haines says. "I hated it." She lasted five days. Later, she joined a U.S. federal program run out of Florida State University, training foreign language teachers for American high schools. It was the first time she had heard of Tallahassee, but she boarded a plane and spent the summer of 1963 there.
While the university itself was racially segregated, Haines noted, the federal program located there was not. That same year, Haines traveled to Birmingham, Alabama for a simple reason. "I believe in freedom," she says. "I wanted to act what I preach."
She marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. and was arrested twice. In one incident, she sat next to a black friend in a restaurant and refused to move. A man subsequently attacked her, and she grabbed a stool to defend herself. By the time the police arrived, as she tells it, "The stool was red."
The next stage of her career brought her to Providence, Rhode Island, where her fluency in French, German and English gained her acceptance into Brown University's graduate-level Russian program. "My grandfather raised me to have many arrows in my bow," she explains of her diverse pursuits.
She met her husband of over 40 years, New Jersey native Arthur Carroll Haines, who at the time was an undergrad at Brown. In 1965, she joined the faculty of the Mary C. Wheeler High School, where she used her expertise to found a new language program: not German, French or Russian, but Spanish. A few years later, when Arthur's enrollment at the University of Pennsylvania brought Haines to Philadelphia, she joined the faculty of Germantown Friends School, where she taught French before founding its Spanish department.
But after about five years at GFS, the polyglot teacher was getting restless in the confines of the classroom. While many of her former students remain her friends 40 years later, she was ready to pursue another passion: cooking. She took menial restaurant jobs, determined to learn the industry from the ground up. Her mother was appalled; why throw away a top-tier education "to go peel onions?"
Haines takes a different view. "If you don't know something, recognize that. Then you can learn," she says. "People are not as young as they should be," she adds of the willingness to take chances in life. "I love fun as much as I love hard work."
Her culinary labors in 1970s' Philadelphia brought her to La Terrasse restaurant before she opened her own country-style French restaurant in 1978, the Spring Mill Café of Conshohocken. With a $500 investment, she and her husband teamed to paint the walls, and Michele literally made the tablecloths and napkins by hand for five lunch tables. Now, the Cafe serves up to 40 for lunch, brunch and dinner six days a week. Haines, originally a tenant, purchased the property 20 years ago.
"I have always loved cooking," she says, inspired by her grandmother. "It is a creation. It is art. We never heard of portion control," she says of French food, shocked at Americans' outsized servings of meat and potatoes. In France, "it's a little bit of everything because it's all so good." The French also don't brook any rush: in Michele's childhood home, meals usually averaged two hours except on holidays and special occasions, when they could literally last all day,lunch continuing into dinner. But good food is about balance, she says, likening a fat-free diet to trying to run an engine without oil.
Now a widow of five years and mother to two sons, Jason, 42, and Ezra, 38 (who, to Haines' deep gratitude, is in the process of taking over the Spring Mill Café), Haines' ongoing love of cooking and travel infuses her charity work. In addition to hosting frequent fundraisers at the café, after viewing a New York exhibit by Japanese-born photographer and humanitarian Kenro Izu in the 1990s and speaking to him about his plans to open a charity hospital in northwest Cambodia, she shocked him by joining him there to pledge her support for Friends Without a Border, founded in 1996. Last year, the charity's Angkor Children's Hospital treated its one millionth patient, and Haines remains involved as an advisor.
With friends from Mississippi to New Zealand and Bangkok to Morocco, Haines never remains in one place for long, often wearing green in honor of a friend who was incarcerated for three years after protesting in Tehran, Iran.
Now doing cooking demonstrations for a living in addition to managing special events and musical soirees at the Café,, she always has one eye on an upcoming trip: "I'll go and jump in the plane and go and cook," she says, offering culinary lessons across the world.
Her mother teases her for wandering so much, but Haines, now a resident of Old City, insists she is not a restless person – as long as she is free to travel. "I'm restless if I don't go," she explains. "I'm not restless if I can go." For proof, she points to her special enjoyment of the leisurely American south, where, once she arrives, she's happy to watch the tomatoes grow.
Her one rule while traveling continues to frustrate her adult sons. She refuses to book a hotel room. Instead, she won't board a plane until she finds someone willing to take a guest at home. From Hawaii to Sicily to South Africa, "everywhere I go in the world, I must be lodged," she says. "I'm in somebody's room. I'm part of the culture." She'll always repay the favor with some world-beating food.
"When you are 70 years old, people think you are retired," she says. "I've never been less retired in my life."
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August 2000
A child being immunized against polio. Photo: USAID Bangladesh
Evolutionary biology has an image problem. Some people are threatened by it and thus oppose it. Many people — even many of its defenders — view evolutionary biology as irrelevant outside of academia. And in a few cases, even though evolution is perceived as relevant, some see it as responsible for death and misfortune, e.g., drug-resistance in medicine and pesticide-resistance in agriculture.
Examples of evolutionary biology
Most people are unaware of uses of evolutionary biology. Public non-appreciation of evolutionary biology may depend as much on its perceived irrelevance as anything else. Yet, evolution, especially microevolution, has been fundamental to some social improvements this century, and it promises to be profoundly important to biomedical technology in the next generation. For example:
- Evolution underlies many improvements in agriculture (e.g., the artificial selection of crop strains and livestock breeds).
- A less well-known fact is that evolutionary principles were used to produce many of our best vaccines and that evolution also causes problems with the use of some of those vaccines.
- Some of the most promising areas for the future use of evolutionary biology lie in drug development and the biotechnology industry; patents worth vast amounts of money are based on ways of creating evolution (or avoiding evolution) in test tubes.
Polio vaccine is an old example but it is a good one.
- The vaccine now used to immunize against the disease poliomyelitis is a live poliovirus that we eat.
- This live virus does not give us the disease (except to about 1-2 in a million people vaccinated) because it is genetically weakened so that our body can defeat it.
- This process of weakening is called attenuation, and it is an evolutionary process. The attenuated vaccine strains came from wild, virulent strains of poliovirus, but they were evolved by Albert Sabin to become attenuated. Essentially, he grew the viruses outside of humans, and as the viruses became adapted to those non-human conditions, they lost their ability to cause disease in people.
This method of attenuation has been used to create many live vaccines. Evolution was the good guy here because it helped us make the vaccine. But the role of evolution and evolutionary biology does not end here — evolution becomes the bad guy too.
- When a person eats the attenuated virus, it infects his/her gut cells and starts doing what viruses do — making copies of itself.
- These viral progeny infect other cells in your gut, those in turn make other viral progeny, and so on, until you have a population of poliovirus growing inside your gut.
- Some of these viruses carry mutations, and some of those mutations (one or two in particular) restore most of the virulence to the virus.
- In your gut, these restored viruses may have a selective advantage over the weakened viruses, and in the course of a week or so after eating the vaccine, you begin shedding virus with restored virulence. In short, an evolutionary process inside your gut undoes Albert Sabin's attenuation of the virus.
These restored viruses do not hurt the person taking the vaccine because by the time restored viruses get to be abundant in the gut, the immune system has enough of a head start to keep the virus from getting into the central nervous system. Disease is caused only if the virus gets into the central nervous system.
However, if we were to vaccinate just one person in a population of non-immunized people the restored viruses shed from this one person would infect other people and could start an epidemic of nasty poliovirus.
In fact, people have gotten the disease from people who were recently vaccinated.
Fortunately, this problem caused by evolution has an easy solution — when polio vaccine is first introduced to a community, we try to vaccinate everyone in the community at once.
This is what happened in the U.S. when the Sabin vaccine was first introduced in the U.S. in the 1950's (vaccine "Sundays"), and it was done in other countries as well.
The WHO did all of China in 3 days, and vaccinated 90,000,000 people in India in one day.
Thus, understanding the evolution of poliovirus virulence allows us to use the vaccine without causing unnecessary disease.
The harm in misunderstanding evolution
The evolution of drug resistance in bacteria is one of the simplest examples of evolution that we have. It is extremely relevant to medicine. And since it is a case of microevolution, it is an example that should be widely embraced. Yet many people profoundly misunderstand drug resistance. Even news reports from the BBC have gotten it wrong.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an evolutionary phenomenon:
- heavy use of antibiotics selects bacteria that are genetically resistant to the drug
- with continued use of antibiotics, those resistant forms of the bacteria multiply and spread to other hosts
- eventually, resistant bacteria replace the population of once-sensitive bacteria.
In the minds of some people, however, the problem with misuse of antibiotics is that it can lead to a physiological tolerance in the person taking the drugs, so that antibiotics are no longer effective in that person. That is, they think that drugs become ineffective because of the person, not the bacterium. This erroneous, non-evolutionary view has serious ramifications, because it can lead to an unwarranted complacency about antibiotic misuse. Because drug resistance is evolutionary, your neighbor's misuse of antibiotics can injure or kill you. The unregulated use of antibiotics in, say, Europe can bring strains for which we have no defense to the U.S. and our hospitals. It is not simply a matter of the proper use of antibiotics in each of us individually; it is a matter of everyone's proper use of antibiotics.
It is tempting to speculate that the common, though not universal, public failure to understand the evolutionary basis of drug resistance reflects a widespread ignorance of evolutionary principles, even principles professed to be uncontroversial. The fact that this misunderstanding is not confined to the western side of the Atlantic suggests that political opposition to the teaching of evolution is not the only cause.
Modern applications of evolutionary biology
There are numerous ways to apply evolutionary biology to our needs today, among them:
- prolonging the life of drug/chemical resistant compounds
- constructing evolutionary trees
- pathogen tracking
- industrial production of biochemicals and other agents
1. Drug resistance and chemical resistance in microbes, plants, and animals. In the latter half of this century, industry has been exceptionally good at providing compounds to kill viruses, bacteria, insects that eat crops and weeds that grow in crop fields. We even have an abundance of chemotherapy drugs to kill rogue cancer cells. Yet virtually without exception, our attempts to kill these organisms cause them to evolve resistance against the chemicals used to kill them. For example:
Isolates of the AIDS virus with up to 15 different drug-resistance mutations are known, and the latest drugs are becoming ineffective.
Some strains of bacteria are resistant to all available antibiotics.
For multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, surgery is the only cure because antibiotics don't work and only 50% of those infected survive.
Chemotherapy for cancer often fails because drug-resistant cells evolve during treatment.
Pesticide resistance and herbicide resistance is so common now that the financial incentive to make new pesticides and herbicides is break-even or worse.
Evolutionary biology suggests how best to prolong the useful life of drugs/chemicals. The amounts of chemicals used, what combinations of chemicals to use, and when to apply them are all questions that can be assessed from the perspective of preventing or slowing the evolution of resistance. In some cases now, the companies marketing the compounds have a financial interest in maintaining the longevity of their product, and they are funding studies by evolutionary biologists to develop wise use protocols. In other cases, however, economic and emotional forces dictate policies that speed up the evolution of resistance (e.g., patients demand and physicians write prescriptions for antibiotics for viral infections; antibiotics are used in animal feed).
2. Evolutionary trees Perhaps the core of evolutionary theory is that all life forms are connected to each other through common ancestry. Molecular biology has reinforced this view to a far greater level than was deemed possible even 50 years ago. On a short time scale, of course, we observe that this is true — everything alive comes from something else that is both alive and similar. One of the big developments in evolutionary biology over the last 2 decades is a methodology to estimate the underlying patterns of ancestry among living things. These reconstructions of evolutionary history are known as phylogenies, or phylogenetic trees, because they are branched somewhat like trees when drawn from bottom to top. We can use molecular data to estimate the common ancestries of life as far back as we like — for example, between bacteria and our mitochondria (the energy-producing organelles in our cells). But we can also use these methods to estimate much more recent ancestries. And these methods have found many worthy uses in tracking infectious diseases.
3. Molecular epidemiology — pathogen tracking To an epidemiologist studying infectious diseases, it is very useful to know how or where a person became infected with the disease. This information is perhaps the most basic fact we can use in preventing the further spread of a disease. For over a decade now, epidemiologists have been using DNA sequences of viruses to make phylogenetic trees and thereby track the sources of infections. Some of these examples are spectacular.
Law: A case of intentional HIV injection?
In a highly publicized case in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1998, a woman claimed that her ex-lover (a physician) deliberately injected her with HIV-tainted blood (HIV is the virus that causes AIDS). There were no records of her injection and no witnesses. So how could her story be tested? Evolutionary trees provide the best scientific evidence in a case like this.
HIV picks up mutations very fast — even within a single individual.
If one person gives the virus to another, there are few differences between the virus in the donor and the virus in the recipient.
As the virus goes from person to person, it keeps changing and gets more and more different over time.
Thus, the HIV sequences in two individuals who got the virus from two different people will be very different.
Thus, if the woman's story were true, her virus should be very similar to the virus in the person whose blood was drawn but should be very different from viruses taken from other people in Lafayette.
That was exactly what the evolutionary trees showed; her virus appeared to have come from the patient's virus but was unlike the virus taken from other people in town.
Since there was no way to explain how she would have gotten that patient's virus on her own, the evolutionary analysis supported her story. (Incidentally, this case was the first use of phylogenetics in U.S. criminal court.)
Other cases Evolutionary trees have been used in many other cases of infectious disease transmission:
- the transmission of the AIDS virus by a dentist to his patients
- deer mice as the source of hantavirus infections in the Four-Corners area
- the source of rabies viruses in human cases, leading to the discovery of a case in which rabies virus took at least 7 years to kill a person
- whether recent cases of polio in North America were relict strains from the New World, were vaccine strains, or were introduced from Asia
4. Industrial production of biochemicals and other agents "Directed evolution", i.e. artificially-induced evolution, has become part of the jargon in biotechnology:
- Artificially evolved enzymes and other proteins are soon to become part of household and medical technologies.
- We will have protein-based drugs that, unlike the proteins inside our bodies, degrade slowly so that we don't need to take so much of them.
- Enzymes are being evolved to work in detergents (which they don't normally do).
- And as the stuff of futuristic novels, molecules are being developed to bind anthrax spores, ricin molecules, and other potential bioterrorism agents.
All of these developments take advantage of one or more forms of test-tube evolution. Armed with a knowledge of how natural selection works and combined with the right kinds of laboratory technology, people can create molecules to perform seemingly any kind of function. In some of the more spectacular cases, these test tube evolution methods have created enzymes from purely random pools of DNA (or RNA) sequences. Even 10 years ago, it was thought that a DNA enzyme was impossible, yet armed with only an understanding of how to apply test tube evolution, a DNA enzyme can now be created in days.
In conclusion
The pace of evolutionary biology and its ramifications has outstripped public awareness as well as expanded beyond the knowledge base of most classical evolutionary biologists. Even the textbooks have not kept up. It is thus difficult but important to recognize that evolutionary biology has implications to a new century of medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, and even law. Students educated with this knowledge will have an edge in the competitive job markets of the future, but at least in some areas of medicine, a basic public understanding of evolutionary principles may be essential in successfully waging the ongoing war with infectious diseases.
Editor's Note: The paper "Applied evolution" by J.J. Bull and H.A. Wichman in Annu. Rev. Evol. Syst. 2001, 32:183-217, provides a recent examination of this topic.
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Now there are workshops and then, there are workshops. I wouldn't say any of them are bad because it's all in what you're looking for. For example, you won't find me in a workshop that focuses on writing a historical romance. That's not to say it would be a bad workshop, it's just not my interest.
So where will you find me? Well, this last month I took several classes including one called Seven Elements of Story by Sylvie Kurtz. It was offered by www.writersonline.com. This is one I would highly recommend if you're interested in story concept and writing a story blurb.
This workshop was a journey focusing on my main character. We looked at his background, motivations, his goal and that all important flaw. We identified an ally, the event that catalyst him into the story, and the opponent that would best antagonize my main character. Then we developed a short (couple of sentences) blurb that tied all these elements together.
Sound easy? Well let me tell you it's a little more challenging than you might think. It's easy to write a few of paragraphs with all that information, but narrowing it down to 2 or 3 sentences was tough.
So what does a blurb do for me? Well, believe it or not, it's a short narrative of my story - start to finish. I'll refer to it often to help keep my story on track as I write and when I'm ready to submit my work to an editor/agent, I'll use it as a selling tool to pitch my idea. I call that time well spent.
I'm off now to catch up on my current classes. Did I tell you I was a workshop junkie?
Till next time, happy writing.
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