text: tag:wedge.org,2012-03-16:recent Wedge - Off-topic 2020-10-28T20:33:42Z Live information from Wedge Wedge Wedge Re: My Journey with Wedge. But I don't want to migrate to another forum engine that has also stopped developing as SMF 2.1I liked the Russian translation of your forum engine description here: dragomano.ru/articles/wedge"Wedge, the first modification of the original SMF forum, is an alternative for fans of not just forums, but all-in-one blogs.Enhanced security, UTF8 support, and out-of-the-box add-ons. Instead of modifications, Wedge uses the term "plugin". Plug-ins are enabled and disabled with a single button."]]> forumovod https://wedge.org/profile/forumovod/ 2020-08-30T03:07:40Z 2020-08-30T03:07:40Z tag:wedge.org,2020-08-30:msg-297954 Re: My Journey with Wedge. It's no longer alive as in 'I'm not going to add new major features to the software', and probably no minor features either. This is the users' job, I guess: the plugin system is really solid, it's very easy to port SMF 2.x mods to Wedge, and Wedge-only mods are way funnier to build (because they work on cached versions of the files, so you can for instance re-download a clean copy of a base file, modify it yourself, and the mods will still be applied to them as soon as you upload the file to your server.)I don't know about 7.2 compatibility, but this is the kind of thing that I tend to update Wedge for.I know I should release an 'official' version 1.0, and perhaps even finally change the license to MIT overall (it's been my intention for a few years now), but given that it's not a generally well known forum package, it seems like it'd be a waste of time. I don't know. Do you?]]> Nao https://wedge.org/profile/Nao/ 2020-08-29T10:38:10Z 2020-08-29T10:38:10Z tag:wedge.org,2020-08-29:msg-297953 Re: My Journey with Wedge. Hi! Is the wedge project still alive? Is it compatible with PHP 7.2 ? forumovod https://wedge.org/profile/forumovod/ 2020-08-21T06:29:54Z 2020-08-21T06:29:54Z tag:wedge.org,2020-08-21:msg-297952 Re: My Journey with Wedge. ;)I'm still working on it occasionally but if you're looking for mods you're better off using SMF I suppose, even if it's inferior. (Which is a bit sad considering the modding system in Wedge is so much easier to both create and install/update.)As a reminder, I do most of my Wedge development for https://lestrades.com now, i.e. new features are implemented over there first. If anyone here is interested in a feature I premiered at LT's, I may consider backporting it to Wedge.]]> Nao https://wedge.org/profile/Nao/ 2019-09-10T11:20:01Z 2019-09-10T11:20:01Z tag:wedge.org,2019-09-10:msg-297944 Re: My Journey with Wedge. I very randomly stumpled upon Wedge, it ofcourse reminded me so much of SMF, which I love, but this fork looks great aswell, I will try to make a forums on that soon. mark435 https://wedge.org/profile/mark435/ 2019-08-06T15:57:49Z 2019-08-06T15:57:49Z tag:wedge.org,2019-08-06:msg-297943


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Lachelle Smith
Lachelle is the Director for ECHO Idaho. Prior to joining the WWAMI team, Lachelle was most recently a special projects contractor for the public utility company in American Samoa. She previously managed a $1.5 million grant portfolio of AmeriCorps VISTA and Senior Corps programs that focused primarily on meeting health and education needs in communities across Idaho. Lachelle taught elementary school music in Minnesota before earning a Master's in Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Except for a two-year stint in the South Pacific, she has called Boise home since 2010.
Lachelle is passionate about social justice and routinely volunteers with organizations that support access to resources for underrepresented groups. She actively mentors a refugee family in Boise, and previously worked as a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Indiana. She also taught high school in the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, and worked at an underprivileged kids camp in Connecticut.
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Katy is the Manager for ECHO Idaho. Katy's educational and professional background includes leading public health and health research programs in California, Idaho, and Fiji after obtaining a Bachelor's of Science in Anthropology and Geography with minors in Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to this role, Katy managed Idaho's Sexual Violence Prevention Program at the Department of Health and Welfare. Katy looks forward to leveraging and growing her knowledge, skills, and experience in her role and is excited to advance medical education opportunities in rural and frontier areas in Idaho.
When she is not in the office working to enhance medical access and care throughout her home state, Katy enjoys experimenting with new recipes, volunteering with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and reading.
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Kayla Blades
Kayla is the Program Coordinator for ECHO Idaho. Previously, Kayla served as the Idaho State Program Officer for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) where she managed a $1+ million grant portfolio. Before moving to Idaho for her position with CNCS, Kayla served one year as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with the St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity in her home state of Wisconsin. During this time, she also volunteered as a sexual assault services advocate for the St. Croix Valley Sexual Assault Response Team. Before completing a term of service as a VISTA, Kayla received her undergraduate and graduate degree in public administration from Upper Iowa University.
When not working, Kayla loves volunteering at her two sons' schools, reading, baking, hiking new trails and exploring the latest frozen yogurt shops.
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Jessica Whitlock
Jessica is a Program Coordinator for ECHO Idaho. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in English language and a minor in editing. Before joining ECHO Idaho in March 2019, Jessica worked in the publishing industry, where she enjoyed source editing and proofreading publications about nineteenth-century American religion.
Jessica grew up in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and in August 2018 moved with her husband to Moscow, Idaho, where she enjoys running on the Paradise Path, gazing distractedly at the hills of the Palouse, eating pizza and looking for opportunities to play volleyball.
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Twins edge Mariners, snap long losing skid
Thu., Sept. 22, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS — Rene Tosoni hit an RBI double with two outs in the ninth inning and the Minnesota Twins snapped their 11-game losing streak, beating the Seattle Mariners 3-2 Thursday. The Twins avoided another sweep and won for just the second time in 17 games. This was the third-longest skid in Minnesota's 51-season history, behind a 14-game slide in 1982 and a 13-game drought in 1961, the first year the franchise moved from Washington. Trevor Plouffe drew a two-out walk from Steve Delabar (1-1) and Tosoni followed with a drive that hopped off the right-field wall. Plouffe slid home, easily beating the relay. Tosoni had three hits and scored twice. The rookie began the day batting .174 in his first big league season. Joe Nathan (1-1) pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the win after getting out of his own trouble. The Mariners stranded 12 runners, including the potential go-ahead run at third in the ninth when Wily Mo Pena flied out. It was another close game between the two teams. The Mariners won the first two games of the series by 5-4 scores and both teams had their chances late in this one. Ichiro Suzuki grounded back to reliever Glen Perkins with the bases loaded to end the Seattle eighth. The Twins threatened in the bottom half before Michael Cuddyer hit into a double play against Delabar. Mariners starter Blake Beavan, acquired from Texas along with Justin Smoak in the Cliff Lee trade in 2010, pitched seven innings, giving up two runs and six hits. After what Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire called a "flop" in his last start, Anthony Swarzak came back with a six strong innings for the Twins, allowing two runs on nine hits.
NOTESMinnesota C Drew Butera's RBI single in the fifth inning snapped a personal 0-for-21 stretch. It was the first hit by a Twins catcher since Sept. 9, a string of 27 at-bats. … Seattle OF Casper Wells (nose) was going to see a doctor Thursday to further diagnose what is giving him sinus trouble. He's expected to be with the team this weekend for a series at Texas. … Minnesota OF Denard Span (concussion) sat out after playing Wednesday for the first time since Aug. 13. Span told trainer Rick McWane he would prepare to play in Friday's game at Cleveland. … Seattle C Chris Gimenez snapped an 0-for-13 streak with hits in his first two at-bats. … Seattle LHP Anthony Vasquez (1-4, 8.25) will be making his sixth career start on Friday in the opener at Texas. Vasquez lasted just three-plus innings in his last start also against Texas. He gave up five runs and seven hits and allowed home runs to Adrian Beltre, Josh Hamilton and Elvis Andrus. … Minnesota RHP Carl Pavano (8-13, 4.40) will make Friday's start for the Twins in Cleveland. Pavano has lost his last two starts, including Sept. 18 against the Indians when he gave four runs — one earned — in 6 2-3 innings. Pavano is 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA in four starts against Cleveland this season.
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Lamb Rogan Josh is a gorgeous, aromatic dish loaded with seven spices worth stocking your pantry with. This might seem complex but once you measure out your spices you'll find its addictively delicious and easy enough to make a weekly staple.
This Lamb Rogan Josh stew was a spur of the moment creation as I found myself with twice as much lamb as I needed for another recipe. The Moroccan Tagine I'm working on calls for a four pound bone-in shoulder while I accidentally purchased a four pound bone-less shoulder. Ugh. When life gives you lamb, you reach to your spice cabinet.
It's certainly not the cheapest cut of meat at your butcher's counter but lamb is absolutely worth making a few times a year. Lamb lends itself well to bold spice blends and acidic marinades. My favorite is grilled lamb chop with lots of garlic, lemon, and parsley. For this recipe I trimmed most of the fat prior to butchering in to bite size cubes. The fat holds most the distinctive flavor so use your best judgement when it comes time to trimming.
I have a confession to make when it comes to the spices. I didn't follow any particular Lamb Rogan Josh recipe. I'd love to say this is the most authentic, true to Indian Cooking recipe but alas, I cannot. It was only after I made the dish, had died, then gone to heaven having eaten it, that I tried to find a similar preparation online.
Sometimes authentic is overrated and you just have to go with your gut – or what you have in your cabinet.
Like Italian grandmothers who all have their own tomato sauce recipe, every region and family in India has their own recipe for Rogan Josh. I've found that there's no particular method or combination of ingredients that would qualify as 'authentic'. The biggest difference with my recipe though is that Rogan Josh typically has a cup or so of yogurt in it. This would be a great addition towards the end of stewing or as a side dish if you'd like to mellow the spices a bit.
… and now I'm thinking about how to turn this whole recipe in to a lamb rogan josh burger with honey yogurt and pickled red onions.
Lamb Rogan JoshCourse: Mains, RecipesCuisine: Indian
Lamb Rogan Josh is a gorgeous, aromatic dish loaded with seven spices worth stocking your pantry with. This might seem complex but once you measure your spices out it you'll find its easy, and addictively delicious enough to make a weekly staple.
1 large onion chopped
2 tbs butter
1 tbs olive oil
2 lbs lamb shoulder trimmed
14 oz crushed tomatoes
1/2 lemon juice
1 1/2 tbs fresh minced ginger
1 1/2 tbs fresh minced garlic
1 tbs ground cumin
1 tbs ground coriander
1 tbs tumeric
1 tbs paprika
1/2 tbs cinnamon
1/2 tbs cayenne
1/2 tbs ground cardamom
- Trim lamb of most of it's fat and cube in to one inch chunks.
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium high heat in a medium dutch oven.
- Add chopped onions, a pinch of salt, and sauté until softened; about 3 minutes. Then add garlic and ginger and sauté for another minute.
- Lower heat to medium and sauté spices with onions for a minute.
- Add the lamb and mix well to coat with spice mixture stirring occasionally for 3-4 minutes.
- Briefly deglaze the pot with the juice of half a lemon then stir in crushed tomatoes and cover pot. Lower heat to low and stew for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Tilt lid to the side to allow steam to escape and stew for another 45 minutes. Liquid should thicken and reduce by half.
- Serve garnished with finely chopped parsley and cilantro, a wedge of lemon, and a small side of yogurt.


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Olive oil is a natural and healthy product not only for us to consume, as often as we like, but also around the home. You can use a bottle of inexpensive, domestic olive oil for these around-the-house uses. To avoid waste, you can fill a spray bottle with olive oil. There are no harmful or toxic chemicals when you use olive oil, instead of commercial products, in these ways.
6 olive oil tips for your personal use
1. Use olive oil to give yourself a relaxing scalp massage before combing the oil through your hair. Then leave for an hour. This is a good time to relax with some ME time – perhaps soaking in the bath or doing a manicure or pedicure while you are waiting. A drop of olive oil will moisturize cuticles or you can mix some oil and water and soak your hands before a manicure. After an hour, wash out the oil in your hair with your natural shampoo. Olive oil provides a nourishing treat for your hair from all the good fats in the olive oil. Another tip for your hair is to comb through a drop or two of olive oil when it is dry to tame the frizz and fly-a-ways on humid days or during winter.
2. Olive oil makes an excellent natural and rich moisturizer for your hands, feet or elbows especially after a shower. If using for your feet, then put on some soft socks and leave for a while. Keeping your feet moisturized in this way helps to prevent cracked heels whether in the hot summer months or the cold, dry winter months. Olive oil is also good to use on areas of the skin after shaving or waxing.
3. A mixture of sugar, a few drops of essential oils together with olive oil will give you a scrub for exfoliating dry skin and dead cells while moisturizing at the same time. A bonus is the great smell from the essential oils. Alternatively, rub your skin with olive oil, then scrub with sugar or coarse salt, and rinse.
4. Olive oil makes a safe and natural make up remover including taking off stubborn eye make up. An alternative to olive oil which I often use is a natural baby oil. I also add a few squirts of the baby oil into the bath water to keep my skin soft and moisturized. You can put some drops of olive oil into the tub for the same result.
5. If you ever find you get a bit too much sun, and there is evidence of some sunburn on your skin, massage olive oil into the area for a couple of days afterwards to speed up the healing process and to prevent peeling.
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Reddit Comes to the Rescue of Adorable Bucket-Loving Pit Bull
OCT. 28, 2015 UPDATE: Happy news — Slim's shelter days are over! He and his beloved bucket have been taken in by Forget Me Not Animal Rescue.
"We are looking forward to helping Slim learn how to live a wonderful life where he doesn't have to worry anymore," wrote Dorian Lansky of Forget Me Not in a comment below. "If you'd like to contribute to Slim's rehabilitation and training needs, all donations are greatly appreciated." You can make a donation via PayPal to email@example.com.
Thanks in large part to a video that went viral on social media earlier this month, a ridiculously cute Pit Bull who made his own shelter bed quickly found a loving forever home.
And, thanks again to social media, another adorable Pit Bull pound pup may soon be rescued from a shelter. Although he doesn't make his bed, he's very attached to a metal bucket that's almost as big as he is, as you can see in this photo going viral.
"This popped up on my newsfeed," wrote LittleDank, who posted the photo on Reddit yesterday. "The rescue group said he's lost without his bucket and will have to take it to his new forever home."
As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 677 people have left comments on the photo, helping to spread the word about the dog, whose name is Slim. The photo has also been viewed over 1.8 million times on Imgur.
Slim, who's 5 to 6 years old, was found abandoned and starving in a house last December. The energetic charmer has been at the Ashland County Animal Shelter in Ohio ever since then.
"He is anxious in the shelter and has destroyed most of the toys he's been given," Rescue Me Ohio, a statewide companion animal advocacy organization, wrote on its Facebook page Oct. 22.
"But his favorite toy is his bucket!!! He loves his bucket and is lost without it!! He sits like a perfect gentleman for a treat and takes them so nicely. He will need a home that will continue to work on these manners he has learned."
Although many people have expressed interest in adopting Slim, he will be released to a rescue organization that can work with him on those manners before he goes to a forever home.
"Due to Slim's past history of neglect, the shelter feels that it would be best to list him as rescue only," Rescue Me Ohio reported earlier today. "He will need time to properly decompress and learn how to be a normal dog again."
Rescue organizations interested in Slim can email Michelle at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"For everyone who is interested in adopting or who cannot adopt but would like to get involved in rescue, please consider becoming a foster for a local, reputable rescue!" Rescue Me Ohio wrote. "Fosters are the biggest need in rescue. They make it possible to save many, many lives!!"
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Stress is an inevitable part of life. Rushing in the traffic, meeting important deadlines, fulfilling social commitments, satisfying role expectations to even taking care of your self can push your stress levels out of control. Can it be a bad news for the thyroid gland?
What is this stress – thyroid connection?
When we are stressed, our body releases the hormone cortisol. Excess of cortisol can interfere with thyroid hormone production.
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Stress and thyroid imbalance can feed on each other. Stress can aggravate the imbalance or you may feel stressed because of the imbalance symptoms. Stress also increases your vulnerability to autoimmune thyroid conditions.
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All elements of the image are photographic in origin and don't necessarily appear in reality as depicted. I have drawn upon my childhood, interpreting my imagination and memories drawing the viewer in to take a walk through the image and imagine being there. How does it make you feel, what can you smell, what do you see, what is there to discover, have you been here before?…to experience for yourself and believe the unbelievable." ~ Suellen Cook
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Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
I am an evolutionary ecologist who studies humans. My main interest is in how the evolution of fancy social learning in humans accounts for the unusual nature of human adaptation and extraordinary scale and variety of human societies. Humans are more widespread and successful than any other vertebrate. Simultaneously, humans are unlike any other animal in that we cooperate in very large groups of unrelated individuals. I and my colleagues use formal evolutionary models, experiments and ethnographic fieldwork to address these puzzles.
Since my work tends to lie at the intersection of evolutionary and cultural anthropology, I sometimes do a good job of displeasing both sides.
Current Projects
Just finished the 2nd edition of my PhD-level stats book, and still analyzing huge amounts of foraging data with Jeremy Koster. Mainly, building a new department at MPI-EVA.
Contact information
See my contact information at the MPI-EVA website.
Some Presentations
Bayesian Statistics without Frequentist Language – Keynote at Bayes@Lund2017: Youtube
Evolution of Statistical Methods for Studying Human Evolution – HBES Plenary 2015: Youtube
The cultural evolution of evolutionary mismatch – UCLA 2013: Youtube
Evolutionary Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior – Kavli Frontiers 2012(?): Vimeo


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Today I decided I wanted to move a blog from Blogger to WordPress. It is a successful blog, where I showcase books for authors. It is called, New Book Blogger. Anyway, I decided I liked how WP kept to its schedules, and the layout is more suitable, so decided to rename the blog, The Virtual Bookcase, (thanks Jessica Bell), and spent hours creating the header.
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Halfway through creating the blog, and uploading the posts, I got a message from WordPress. They think I have broken the policy of advertising, and deactivated the blog. I suppose in a way, it is advertising. I showcase books for authors, free. Their links go to their sales sites. It is a shame, as I am not gaining from the blog, I am trying to help fellow writers get their books seen.
I have contacted them in the hope they will review the old blog, and see what I am trying to do is for others, and not for my monetary gain. I wait for a response, with fingers crossed. Just a shame I wasted so many hours on a "light-bulb moment"
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The degree programme includes:
Introduction Module 1A-1E
Module 2: Fundamentals of Materials Science
Module 3: Materials Characterization and Materials
Specialization: 1
Metals and Ceramics (Modules 4A-4C) / or
Semiconductor Processing and Nanotechnology
(Modules 5A-5C) / or
Biobased Materials (Modules 6A-6C)
Module A: Theory and Application
Module B: Laboratory
Module C: Elective Subject
General Electives and Soft Skills
Free-choice subject
Master's seminar
Master's thesis
Master's examination
The degree programme is a strongly interdisciplinary programme dealing with materials and their properties. Students will get an advanced education in an area of specialisation of their choice. Students may choose one of the following areas of specialisation: "Metals and Ceramics", "Semiconductor Processing and Nanotechnology" or "Biobased Materials".
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The family-run Hotel-Restaurant Vier Linden is located in Stade, just a 5-minute drive from the River Elbe. It provides free WiFi, a traditional restaurant and a sauna area. All rooms at the Hotel-Restaurant Vier Linden are well-equipped and have a private bathroom and satellite TV. The Vier Linden prepares a varied breakfast buffet every day. In the evenings, the hotel restaurant serves local specialties and fine wines from the private wine cellar. In addition to the sauna area (available for an extra charge), guests are welcome to use the Vier Linden's skittle alley. The hotel also offers a bike rental service, for those wishing to explore the surrounding countryside by bicycle. Parking is free here, and the A26 motorway is just 3.1 mi away.
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The Samsung NX210 ($899) is a compact mirrorless interchangeable lens camera -- err, Smart Camera. Samsung has given the "Smart Camera" moniker to all of their Wi-Fi equipped cameras this year, and their implementation of this feature is one of the best I've seen.
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• Everyone has one of four blood types – A, B, AB, or O – which is inherited from your parents
• Your blood type is determined by the presence or absence of two antigens – A and B – on the surface of red blood cells. A third antigen, called Rh factor, will either be present or absent, making your blood type positive or negative
• If incompatible blood types are given during a transfusion, the donor cells will be attacked by the patient's immune system, which may cause shock, kidney failure, and death
• Everyone can receive type O blood, the most common type in the US, as it has neither A nor B antigens on red cells
Everyone has one of four blood types – A, B, AB, or O – which is inherited from your parents, like your eye color, dimples, or curly hair. While all blood is similar in its components (such as containing red cells, platelets, and plasma), it also has important characteristics that make it unique.
Your blood type is determined by the presence or absence of two antigens – A and B – on the surface of red blood cells. A third antigen, called Rh factor, will either be present or absent. Antigens are substances that may trigger an immune response, causing your body to launch an attack if it believes they are foreign.
Taken together, these factors determine the right type of blood for your body, should you need a transfusion. Receiving the wrong type can be catastrophic, even resulting in death. According to Blood Transfusions and the Immune System:1
"If incompatible blood is given in a transfusion, the donor cells are treated as if they were foreign invaders, and the patient's immune system attacks them accordingly.
Not only is the blood transfusion rendered useless, but a potentially massive activation of the immune system and clotting system can cause shock, kidney failure, circulatory collapse, and death."
What Exactly Is Blood?
Blood is a living tissue made up of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma (which is more than 90 percent water). Your body weight is about seven percent blood. Men have about 12 pints of blood in their body while women have about nine.2
Blood's main role is to transport oxygen throughout your body, although it also plays a role in fighting off infections and carrying waste out of your cells. Blood also:3
Regulates your body's acidity (pH) levels Regulates your body temperature (increased blood flow to an area adds warmth)
Supplies essential nutrients, such as glucose and amino acids, to cells Has specialized cells that promote blood clotting if you are bleeding
Transports hormones Has "hydraulic functions," helping men to maintain an erection, for instance
Which Blood Types Are Compatible?
It's not entirely true that you can't use blood from someone who has a different blood type than you. Everyone can receive type O blood, the most common type in the US, as it has neither A nor B antigens on red cells (and both A and B antibody in the plasma).
Beyond that, however, blood types must be carefully matched as follows to avoid potentially deadly consequences. First, a breakdown of the four blood types:4
• Type A: Only the A antigen on red cells (B antibody in the plasma). The second most common blood type.
• Type B: Only the B antigen on red cells (and A antibody in the plasma). Relatively rare, especially among Hispanics and Caucasians.
• Type AB: Both A and B antigens on red cells (both A and B antibody in the plasma). Very uncommon, only seven percent of Asians, four percent of African Americans, four percent of Caucasians, and two percent of Hispanics have this blood type.
• Type O: Neither A nor B antigens on red cells (both A and B antibody in the plasma). The most common blood type, especially among Hispanics.
Your blood type may be either positive or negative, depending on the presence or absence of Rh factor (about 85 percent of people are Rh positive). Generally, Rh negative blood is given to Rh-negative patients while those with Rh positive blood receive Rh positive blood in transfusions.
Rh factor is generally tested during pregnancy, as an incompatibility between mother and fetus may cause the mother's body to attack the baby's "foreign" blood. (Rh immune globulin is an effective treatment that can stop this attack if found early on.)
The American Red Cross has created the following chart to explain which blood types are compatible with others.
Source: American Red Cross, Blood Types
Why Are There Different Blood Types?
It's thought that different blood types developed as a way to help protect humans from infectious disease. For instance, cells infected with malaria don't "stick" as well to type O or type B blood cells, which means a person with type O blood may get less sick if they're infected with malaria than someone with a different blood type.
Perhaps not coincidentally, regions with high burdens of malaria, such as Africa, also have a high rate of type O blood. The fact that certain blood types are incompatible is likely the result of a mutation. As reported by Live Science:5
"Blood type A is the most ancient, and it existed before the human species evolved from its hominid ancestors. Type B is thought to have originated some 3.5 million years ago, from a genetic mutation that modified one of the sugars that sit on the surface of red blood cells. Starting about 2.5 million years ago, mutations occurred that rendered that sugar gene inactive, creating type O, which has neither the A nor B version of the sugar.
And then there is AB, which is covered with both A and B sugars. …But incompatibility is not part of the reason humans have blood types, says Harvey Klein, chief of transfusion medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. 'Blood transfusion is a recent phenomenon (hundreds of years, not millions), and therefore had nothing to do with the evolution of blood groups,' he said."
Does Your Blood Type Dictate Your Diet?
You may have heard about diets based on your blood type, which claim that certain foods react in different ways in your body depending on your blood type. I personally do not advocate such diets. I actually attended a small lecture given by Dr. D'Adamo before he published his book Eat Right for Your Type. I believe one of the main reasons why most support it is due to the fact that O is the most common blood type and calls for a severe grain restriction. If you are a blood type A like myself, it can lead to severe problems.
I actually developed diabetes after following it for a short time. My fasting blood sugar shot up to 126. Not only did it include eating large amounts of fruit for breakfast, but advocated mild exercising for blood type A. So, I cut down my exercise and increased my fruit intake, which resulted in a 20-pound weight gain and a diagnosis of diabetes. This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about my nutrition plan – it is based on whole foods, nothing too extreme, and goes by the guiding principle to listen to your body and let it be your guide on which foods are best for you.
Facts About Donating Blood
Someone in the US needs blood every two seconds,6 so if you're up for doing a good deed, donating blood is a phenomenal choice. More than 41,000 blood donations are needed each day, but although about 38 percent of Americans are eligible to donate blood, less than 10 percent actually do so each year.7 The two most common reasons why people don't donate blood are fear of needles or simply not thinking about it.
On the other hand, those who choose to donate most often do so in order to help others (which it does in spades, as one donation may save the lives of up to three people). So, if you can spare an hour or so of your time, your donated blood may save the life of someone in an emergency (or the countless other scenarios in which blood transfusions are necessary). Finally, if youriron levels are high, donating your blood is a safe, effective, and inexpensive solution, as one of the best ways you can get rid of excess iron is by bleeding.


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Two years I wrote a guest column for the now defunct New West NewsLeader called: The elusive third bedroom in New Westminster. My rumblings about finding a larger space to raise a family in New Westminster was not new, but I had no idea the traction it would gather. I was invited to do a CTV interview on the same subject, based on the reporter finding my guest column. Granted the TV piece was rather Vancouver-centric, it does illustrate the problem is not just specific to one city.
Like many others, I am an import to New Westminster. It's easy to quickly fall in love with this little town. It comes with a lot of quirks, even some drawbacks, but the connected, tight-knit community feel trumps any negativity tenfold. After setting up roots here, we knew we wanted to stay in New Westminster and continue raising our family here.
When first entering discussion about finding a larger condo we talked about a cap of $400 to $450 thousand. That would have worked maybe 6 months ago, but as houses become more and more out of reach for locals, the next closest thing is the much coveted townhouse and then the elusive 3-bedroom condo.
Townhouses, while popular, are a rare breed in New Westminster, so much so that we had to quell an online rumour that we had gotten into a bidding war on a nice unit in the Brow of the Hill area. Turns out the unit did not quite fit for us, so the search continued. Given how small this community is, it wouldn't be unreasonable to find yourself looking at housing options and bumping into people you know – even bidding against them. I'm sure it has happened.
We set our sights to Victoria Hill, a master planned community with lots of everything – townhouses, condos – both low and high rise. But more importantly they had units that were big! Now to be clear, I don't need big in the sense of a single family house. If I wanted "big" I would likely not be living in New Westminster, but probably on the south side of the river somewhere.
We had been working with our realtor for quite some time, granted it was a soft search process in the beginning. We knew what we wanted and what we didn't want. When a property in Victoria Hill came up, our realtor was able to show us the unit before it even made it to open house. My wife met the realtor that evening after walking from Columbia station. I was to meet them with the boys, but it was one of those awesome nights where traffic was gridlocked along Royal Ave, so I said screw it rather than try to navigate the 10 blocks. We knew this condo ticked off most of the boxes we were looking for so we made an offer the next day. Not exactly how I envisioned the process, and a lot more rushed and stressful than when we bought here eight years ago. It's amazing that this is how people buy houses now, with less than 24 hours thought and I didn't even go inside.
Our offer stuck, and we recently moved. We are very happy with our new digs, but more importantly, we are happy to STILL be in New West. The city must keep working hard to provide housing options for families, both rental and non-rental. I think we are on the right track with initiatives that all new construction requires two and three bedroom units.
As far as affordability? That is anyone's guess as right now the market is beyond crazy. Hold on to your hats.


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"This piece is inspired by the memory of holding my children when they were really tiny … holding them so close that it involves all of your senses … the scent of the fuzzy head against your cheek, the skin-to-skin warmth, the realization that you can love another being so very, very much. I wanted to capture that sensory memory that every mother has from when she held her newborn infant — an innermost quiet joy. The sentiment has a lullaby feel to it."
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Press Release: 2nd India-China Think Tanks Forum
A delegation led by Director-General, Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) Ambassador Nalin Surie is in China to participate in the 2nd India-China Think-Tanks Forum (22-27 June 2017), organized by the ICWA and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The delegation consists of distinguished Indian scholars and experts on regional, economic, and strategic issues from 11 institutions in India.
The Forum is a bilateral platform established by a Memorandum of Understanding concluded between Ministry of External Affairs, India and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, during the visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to China in May 2015. This year's Forum follows the First India-China Think-Tanks Forum, which was held in New Delhi on 9-10 December 2016.
The Forum will enable in-depth discussions among Indian and Chinese scholars on a range of issues including strategic communication, bilateral trade and investment cooperation, science and technology and people-to-people exchanges. Following the Forum in Beijing, the delegation will proceed to Guangzhou and Shenzhen for additional exchanges with think-tanks there and site-visits.


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By Tessa Raebeck
New York officials have introduced legislation that would impose a two-year delay on the Department of Environmental Conservation's plan to eradicate the state's mute swan population by 2025.
Co-sponsored by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor, the bill would halt the DEC plan, which was introduced in December, and require the DEC to illustrate the "actual damage" the mute swan population causes to the environment or other species before exterminating the birds altogether.
"Wildlife experts, rehabilitators and environmentalists do not unanimously agree that exterminating the mute swan population is justified," Mr. Thiele said in a statement. "In addition, there is debate amongst such experts about whether the planned eradication of the mute swan population is even minimally beneficial to the ecosystem or to our environment. Therefore, it is incumbent on the [DEC] to illustrate the necessity of eradicating this non-native species by demonstrating the actual damage to the environment or other species caused by mute swans."
Mute swans are a species of swan named "mute" because they are less vocal than other swans. Native to Europe and Asia, they were brought to North America in the late 1870s due largely to their aesthetic appeal. Initially introduced in New York as ornaments on the estates of the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island, mute swans were present in the wild by the turn of the 20th century.
According to the DEC, the mute swan population had increased to about 2,000 statewide by 1993, peaked around 2,800 in 2002 and is now estimated at about 2,200, most heavily concentrated on Long Island and in the lower Hudson Valley.
"On the East End of Long Island, the mute swan is often visible in local ponds and waterways," stated Mr. Thiele. "My office has not received one report in all my years in office that the mute swan is a nuisance or an environmental problem."
The DEC says the non-native species causes a variety of environmental problems, "including aggressive behavior towards people, destruction of submerged aquatic vegetation, displacement of native wildlife species, degradation of water quality and potential hazards to aviation."
Although opposed to the DEC plan, local ecologist Tyler Armstrong said there are ecological benefits to reducing the population. "It would help rare native waterfowl, as mute swans defend large nesting territories and exclude other birds from nesting, as well as competing with native birds for aquatic vegetation, like eelgrass," he said.
The DEC has conducted "mute swan control activities" since 1993, but not to the extent permitted by the new management plan, which will include shooting free-ranging swans on public lands and private lands (with owner consent) and live capture and euthanasia.
North Haven resident Richard Gambino, professor emeritus at Queens College, said the DEC's reasons for exterminating the swans are scientifically flawed.
"Everything affects the environment. The question is, do we have a sufficient reason, a necessary reason to kill them off, to exterminate them—and I don't think we have one here," he said, calling the plan "extreme." The aggression shown by swans is evident in all mammals when they feel threatened and it's arbitrary to call a species "alien" when it has been present for over 130 years, he added.
"If you've got a system such as nature—which is the most extreme system, with countless variables changing just about every second—we're very limited in our ability to predict it," he said, referring to the chaos theory.
Comments can be sent to the DEC by email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Swan Plan" in the subject line by February 21.


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Corum, a key player in the sailing world, now establishes itself in all the major competitions on the circuit. After announcing a double in 2009, partnering alongside team Okalys-Corum and giving its name to the Corum Grand Prix (one of the major races of the Challenge Julius Baer), the independent watchmaker is continuing its conquest in 2010, recruiting the talented and charismatic Loïck Peyron and announcing its partnership with the Bol d'Or Mirabaud in April. A prestigious calendar echoing the 50th anniversary of the iconic Admiral's Cup collection. The waters of Lake Geneva are now under the Corum flag that today celebrates the 2010 season opening of the Challenge Julius Baer by launching a Grand Prix Corum 2010 limited edition timepiece.
In 2010, it is aboard team Okalys-Corum at the Grand Prix Beau-Rivage Palace that Corum will begin its Challenge Julius Baer. From May 8 to May 9, 2010, twelve D35s will compete on the waters of Lake Geneva in the vicinity of Ouchy (Lausanne) down to the heart of the great lake to inaugurate a season that will honor the best crew.
Last year, team Okalys-Corum, helmed by Loïck Peyron, came close to victory by winning a silver medal in the final of the Challenge Julius Baer. The winds have always been unpredictable at this event, which is usually the final race in the sailing season. This year the AMC (Association of Multihull Competition) has decided to reschedule the 2010 Challenge Julius Baer. Located between the Ouchy waterfront and Lavaux vineyards, the Grand Prix Beau-Rivage Palace now opens the season, heralding a wind that should be more supportive. Indeed, the Lausanne region is less favorable to thermal currents and the start of the season should provide a more sustained wind.
Having concluded the 2009 season tied in points with Team Alinghi, we can expect that team Okalys-CORUM will stand out from the start of the season as an exceptional challenger. As for the ambitions of the crew, team Okalys-Corum has always started its season with a team which, by its characteristics and cohesion quickly finds its benchmarks. Nicolas Grange, owner, helmsman and skipper of the boat is aiming therefore for a victory. Year after year, each step gained is crucial in view of the tight gap remaining between the competitors in the final.
As an official partner of the Corum Grand Prix and the Okalys-CORUM team, the brand is this year launching an official Grand Prix 2010 timepiece with the Okalys-Corum team colors. In line with the Admiral's Cup collection, this new timepiece joins the iconic models of the brand. With a titanium case and a dodecagonal bezel in rubber, the Admiral's Cup Chronograph 48 provides a dial decorated with monochromatic nautical pennants contrasted by the hour markers, a second hand and two counters hands (minute counter at 3 oclock and small second counter at 9 o'clock) enhanced with the Okalys-CORUM team's iconic orange color.
|May 8 and 9
|Grand Prix Beau-Rivage Palace
|May 22 and 23
|Realstone Cup
|June 4 and 6
|Open de Versoix
|June 5
|June 12
|Bol dOr Mirabaud presented by CORUM
|August 21 and 22
|Open de Crans
|September 4 and 5
|Sogeti Cup La Réserve
|September 17 to 19
|Grand Prix CORUM
Over the past few years, Corum has undergone a complete transformation that has enabled it to achieve a perfect match between the product and the demands for quality and creativity that are the very foundations of its credibility. Its firmly upscale move is a logical result of the brands efforts to recapture its historical standing while significantly reinforcing its horological substance. Corum's substantial investments have led to the integration of watchmaking professions, the development of production tools, the enhancement of human resources and the promotion of staff training. The result is a brand once again entirely in tune with its genetic heritage.
Positioned as an exclusive brand, Corum offers high-quality watch collections featuring an innovative and distinctive design, and equipped with sophisticated mechanical movements. Its 150 current references, spread between four key pillars Admirals Cup, Romvlvs, Golden Bridge and Artisans enjoy a legitimacy rooted in the brand history. The full set of collections comprises models at prices ranging from 5,000 to 1 million Swiss francs and giving pride of place to precious metals and horological complications.
In 1960, the first interpretation of the Admirals Cup model paved the way for Corum's success. This model celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010 and remains emblematic thanks to its history, which is inextricably bound up with major sailing competitions and prestigious sailors, as well as for its inimitable esthetic based on a twelve-sided case and a dial set off by twelve nautical pennants. These are its distinctive and unmistakable identifying characteristics.
|D35 Technical Specifications
|Hull length
|10.8 m /td>
|Overall length
|14 m /td>
|Overall width
|9 m /td>
|Mast height
|21 m /td>
|1,250kg /td>
|Sail area, close-hauled
|150 m²/td>
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|210 m²
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Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
President, The University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Amy Gutmann became the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania on July 1, 2004. In her inaugural address, Gutmann launched the Penn Compact, her vision for making Penn a global leader in teaching, research, and professional practice, as well as a dynamic agent of social, economic, and civic progress. The Compact focuses on increasing access for the most talented students regardless of socioeconomic background, recruiting and retaining eminent faculty who integrate knowledge across multiple disciplines, and making Penn a more powerful transformational force locally, nationally, and across the globe. In October 2007, Gutmann officially launched "Making History: The Campaign for Penn," a five-year, $3.5 billion fundraising effort to support the University's priorities of expanding undergraduate, graduate, and financial aid, strengthening faculty endowment, and creating the optimal environment for teaching, research, and student living. "Making History" is the largest fundraising effort by far in Penn's history.
As Penn's President, Gutmann has championed equity in higher education, encompassing access for students from middle-income as well as low-income families. During her presidency, Penn first replaced loans with grants for students from families with incomes less than $60,000. In December 2007, Gutmann announced that, beginning in September 2009, Penn will replace loans with grants for all financially eligible undergraduate students.
Gutmann serves on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation and the Vanguard Corporation, and on the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center. In 2005, she was appointed to the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, a committee that advises the FBI on national security issues relating to academia. Gutmann is a member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF), which convenes at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is a member of the Asia Society's Task Force on U.S. policy toward India. She also is among the leaders of a select group of presidents of research universities throughout the world who advise the U.N. Secretary General on a range of global issues, including academic freedom, mass migration, international development, and the social responsibilities of universities.
As CEO of Philadelphia's largest private employer, Gutmann is a leader in civic and business affairs. She is overseeing the implementation of Penn's new campus development and expansion plan, called "Penn Connects," which is converting 24 industrial acres previously owned by the U.S. Postal Service into a mixed-use neighborhood of recreational green spaces overlooking the Schuylkill River, housing, shops and restaurants, and a state-of-the-art complex for medical care and research, including the Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, which opened in October 2008.
Gutmann serves on the Executive Committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber's CEO Council for Growth, and on the Board of Directors of the Schuylkill River Development Corporation. In 2007, Gutmann co-chaired the transition team for current Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter.
An eminent political scientist and philosopher, Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, with secondary faculty appointments in the Philosophy Department in Arts and Sciences, at the Annenberg School for Communication, and at the Graduate School of Education. As Penn's President, Gutmann continues to teach, lecture, and write extensively on ethics, justice theory, deliberative democracy, and democratic education. In 2006, she delivered lectures on the lure of extremist rhetoric at Brown and Stanford universities, and at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Scholars. She delivered the 2005 keynote address, "Educating for Citizenship: Locally and Globally," to the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2008, she delivered the 30th annual Pullias Lecture at the University of Southern California, "Great Expectations for Higher Education in the 21st Century."
Gutmann has authored and edited fifteen books and has published more than 100 articles, essays, and book chapters. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Daedalus.
Gutmann's most recent books include Why Deliberative Democracy? (2004, with Dennis Thompson), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (1996, with Dennis Thompson and selected by Choice as one of "the outstanding political science books for 1997"), and Color Conscious (1996, with K. Anthony Appiah). Color Conscious won the Ralph J. Bunche Award "for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism"; the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights Award for the "outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America."
Gutmann has served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and is a founding member of the executive committee of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Prior to her appointment as Penn's President, Gutmann served as Provost at Princeton University, where she also was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics. She was the founding Director of the University Center for Human Values, a multi-disciplinary center that sponsors teaching, scholarship and public discussion of ethics and human values. She served as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty in 1995-97 and as Academic Advisor to the President in 1997-98. In 1998, Gutmann received the Bertram Mott Award from the American Association of University Professors "in recognition of outstanding achievement towards advancing the goals of higher education." In 2000, she was awarded the President's Distinguished Teaching Award by Princeton University.
Gutmann graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1971. She earned her master's degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 1972, and her doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University in 1976.
In 2003, Gutmann was awarded the Centennial Medal by Harvard University for "graduate alumni who have made exceptional contributions to society." In 2005, she was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Rochester and by Wesleyan University, where she delivered the commencement address. In 2006, she received the Alumnae Recognition Award from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard for her outstanding contributions to liberal arts education.
Gutmann is married to Michael W. Doyle, the Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs at Columbia University. Their daughter, Abigail Gutmann Doyle, is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Their son-in-law, Jakub Jurek, is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton.
Dr. Gutmann is an internationally renowned scholar whose research addresses some of the most important issues in our society today: religious freedom, equal opportunity, race and affirmative action, education, democracy, multiculturalism, and ethics and public affairs.
On the faculty of Princeton for 28 years, Gutmann is an award-winning teacher of political philosophy, democratic theory, practical ethics, and the history of political thought.
Gutmann has authored and edited fifteen books and has published more than 100 articles, essays, and book chapters. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Daedalus.
Gutmann's most recent books include Why Deliberative Democracy? (2004, with Dennis Thompson), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (1996, with Dennis Thompson and selected by Choice as one of "the outstanding political science books for 1997"), and Color Conscious (1996, with K. Anthony Appiah). Color Conscious won the Ralph J. Bunche Award "for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism"; the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights Award for the "outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America."
Addresses, Articles and Books "Penn's excellence across an extraordinarily broad spectrum of teaching and research is paramount to what attracts me here, and what it can offer the city, the state, the nation and the world."
-- Dr. Amy Gutmann. Press conference announcing her nomination. January 22, 2004
2008-2009 Academic Year
Lecture Delivered in China at Shanghai Jiao Tong University - "A Roadmap for Global Education: Break Down Walls and Build Windmills."
Convocation - "Traveling Unconventional Paths."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan/Feb 2009 Issue, From College Hall - "Sound Investments - These times will bring out the best in the Penn family."
"Deliberative Democracy," with Dennis Thompson, in Richard Crouto, ed., Handbook of Political and Civic Leadership, Sage Publications, forthcoming.
"Preface: Common Ground, Common Good," in Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Eds., Growing Greener Cities - Urban Sustainability in the Twenty First Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, ix-xii. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
"Identity in Democracy" Published in El Pais, Spanish Newpaper, October 31, 2008.
"Identity in Democracy" Published in La Nación, Argentine Newpaper, September 1, 2008.
Pennsylvania Gazette, Sep/Oct 2008 Issue, From College Hall - "Penn's Building Blocks - Why bricks-and-mortar matter."
"The Importance of Identity Politics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," in Deen Chatterjee, ed., Feminism, Multiculturalism and Group Rights (Oxford University Press, In Press, 2008).
2007-2008 Academic Year
Commencement - "Changing the Political Climate."
Baccalaureate - "Pursuing Ideas Across all Boundaries."
"Great Expectations for Higher Education in the 21st Century," Pullias Lecture, University of Southern California.
Greetings for Higher Education at Harvard's Presidential Inauguration.
Memorial for Penn Emeritus President Martin Meyerson.
Convocation - "Expand Your Horizons."
"Why Elite Colleges Have Sweetened Their Student-Aid Packages ," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008.
Pennsylvania Gazette, May/Jun 2008 Issue, From College Hall - "Making Gardens Bloom - More financial aid helps students, Penn, and the world."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan/Feb 2008 Issue, From College Hall - "Ideals Embodied - Penn's faculty forms the core of a great teaching and research community."
"Scaling Up the Environmental Commitment and Contribution of Universities."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Sep/Oct 2007 Issue, From College Hall - "Opening Doors - Penn's College Houses let students choose their own adventure."
"Democracy," in Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge, eds., A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 521-531. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
"Educating for Individual Freedom and Democratic Citizenship: In Unity and Diversity There Is Strength," in Harvey Siegel, ed., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press, in press.
"The Penn Compact and the Teachers Institute," On Common Ground, Winter 2007, pp.16-17. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
2006-2007 Academic Year
Commencement - "Taking the Environmental High Road."
Baccalaureate - "Amazing Grace."
Convocation - "Passionate Intensity."
Statement Opposing Boycott of Israeli Academics.
Pennsylvania Gazette, May/Jun 2007 Issue, From College Hall - "Sustainable Dividends - At Penn, what's good for the environment pays off in other ways too."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan/Feb 2007 Issue, From College Hall - "A Great Year for Buildings - How five innovative spaces are transforming campus life and learning."
"The Lure and Dangers of Extremist Rhetoric," Daedalus, Fall 2007.
Newsday - Commentary.
The Washington Post - Commentary.
Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept/Oct 2006 Issue, From College Hall - "Ever Stronger - From research to real estate, how Penn connects."
"O que significa democracia deliberativa," in André Ramos Tavares and Pedro Buck, eds., Revista Brasileira de Estudos Constitucionais RBEC, Editora Fórum, Ltda., Brazil, 2007, pp. 17-78. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
2005-2006 Academic Year
Commencement - "Magical Capacity for Inventiveness."
Baccalaureate - "Striving in the Spirit of Caring."
Association of American Universities (AAU) Fall Meeting - "Equity in Higher Education: The Unfinished Agenda."
Convocation - "Taking a Fantastic Road Trip."
Pennsylvania Gazette, May/Jun 2006 Issue, From College Hall - "Building Global Bridges."
Chronicle of Higher Education: "Hidden Treasures on the Beaten Path."
Philadelphia Inquirer -"For Franklin, generosity and prudence were partners - A call to continue his legacy of public service."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan/Feb 2006 Issue, "From College Hall" - "Worthy Heirs?"
Chronicle of Higher Education - "Academic Freedom or Government Intrusion."
Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept/Oct 2005 Issue, From College Hall - "Picturing Penn's Future." (Relates to The Penn Compact.)
"Forward: Legislatures in the Constitutional State," in Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana, eds., The Least Examined Branch, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. ix-xiii. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
Forward in Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl and Howard Kunreuther, eds., On Risk and Disaster, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. vii-viii. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
"Afterword: Democratic Disagreement and Civic Education," in Susan Fuhrman and Marvin Lazerson, eds., The Public Schools, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 347-360. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments, with Dennis Thompson, Nelson-Hall: Chicago, IL, 1984. Fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
2004-2005 Academic Year
Wesleyan University Commencement Address.
Commencement - "Pursuing the Answers to the World's Problems and Mysteries."
Baccalaureate - "Striving in the Spirit of Caring."
Annenberg Distinguished Lecture - "Deliberation in Education and the Media: Rising to the Challenge?"
Inaugural Address - "A Penn Compact."
Convocation - "Taking Intellectual Leaps."
Pennsylvania Gazette, May/Jun 2005 Issue, From College Hall - "Building Bridges." (Relates to The Penn Compact.)
Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan/Feb 2005 Issue, From College Hall - "A Sacred Trust." (Relates to The Penn Compact.)
Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept/Oct 2004 Issue, From College Hall - Why I Love Penn.
"Preface: The Power of Values," in Peter Conn, ed., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, ix-xii. (Link to a PDF copy here.)
Democracy and Disagreement, with Dennis Thompson, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA 1996. Chinese translation: People's Publishing House: Beijing, 2005.
Why Deliberative Democracy?, with Dennis Thompson, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2004.
Democratic Education, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1987. Japanese Translation: Dojidal Sha, 2004.
2003-2004 Academic Year (Prior to Penn Presidency)
February 20, 2004 - Acceptance of Trustee Nomination as President.
January 22, 2004 - Nomination Press Conference Remarks.


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"Even William Shatner can't make me want to drink this stuff,
and William Shatner makes me want to do a lot of crazy shit."
Bovril Prevents That Sinking Feeling
poster c. 1920 – Herbert H. Harris (artist)
Prints & Drawings; Victoria and Albert Museum
Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, owned and distributed by Unilever UK.
It can be used as a flavouring for soups, stews or porridge, or spread on bread or toast, rather like Marmite. It can also be made into a beverage by diluting with hot water, or less commonly with milk.
Bovril beef tea was the main warm drink that Ernest Shackleton's team consumed
while marooned on Elephant Island during the Endurance Expedition. +
(image source)
In 1870, Napoleon III, (1808 – 1873) then mired in the Franco-Prussian War, ordered one million cans of beef to feed his troops. The job of supplying all this went to a Scotsman named John Lawson Johnston.
While working as a butcher in Edinburgh, he decided to use the large quantity of beef trimmings produced in the butchery process to make his own glace de viande (meat glaze) – beef stock, concentrated by heating until it becomes dark brown and viscous, thus giving it a long shelf-life. Johnston's Fluid Beef (later the Bovril brand) was born.
For his services, he was awarded the Order of the French Red Cross. After his factory burned down in 1880, he returned to England and lived at "Bovril Castle"– Kingswood House, Sydenham. He was a keen yachtsman and died while aboard his boat in Cannes, France, on November 24, 1900. +
Bovril Puts Beef Into You
Kitch-a-Gogo UK
La Grande Puanteur: Death Rows on the Thames
The Silent Highwayman; Punch Magazine, July 1858
The Great Stink
The Great Stink, or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London.
rt: A microscopic examination of the water supplied to the inhabitants of London; Arthur Hill Hassall, 1850
During the 19th century, London became one of the world's busiest (and filthiest) ports. The surrounding population, mostly slums, exploded.
Industrialization had turned the River Thames into a carrier of disease and pollution, threatening the lives of the people living nearby who relied on it for their water supply.
In the absence of proper sanitation, the effluent from the growing numbers of houses went directly into the river. There was also pollution from gas works, hospitals and slaughterhouses.
In addition to domestic waste, factories disgorged coloured dyes, lead, soap, offal, chemicals, minerals and all manner of poisons and solvents used in manufacturing.
The lack of planning and sanitation became key issues. Invention of the flush toilet in the 1840s caused the sewers to overflow.
In 1854, more than 10,000 people died in a rampaging cholera epidemic. +
History, photos, and diagrams of British Sewers
on sewerhistory.org
London sewage system
on wikipedia
coloured wood engraving of panorama London showing the Thames
(to see full panorama, chick here and enter "Thames" in the search box)
In 1845, Frederick Engels described the giant docks:
"…the thousand vessels that continually cover the Thames… The masses of buildings, the wharves on both sides, especially from Woolwich upwards, the countless ships along both shores, crowding ever closer and closer together, until, at last, only a narrow passage remains in the middle of the river, a passage through which hundreds of steamers shoot by one another; all this so vast, so impressive that a man cannot collect himself. "
Crossness Pumping Station
full size on steveparkerphotography
(many more photos)
Bazalgette and the London Sewer System:
on PortCities London
Taking seven years to complete. Joseph Bazalgette's achievement was amazing even by modern standards. When completed in 1865, London had 2100 km (1300 miles) of sewers. Almost a century and a half later, London still relies on Bazalgette's system.
inset: Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment
Coloured engraving 1828 By William Heath
Cholera Patient
"If any one is seized with sickness, slight vomiting, and purging,
a burning heat at the stomach, with cramp in various parts of the body,
and a feeling of cold all over, it probably is the Cholera"
Cholera is an infection in the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated by the feces (waste product) of an infected person.
The main symptoms are watery diarrhea and vomiting. An untreated person with cholera may produce 10 to 20 litres (3 to 5 US gal) of diarrhea a day, with fatal results. Cholera has been nicknamed the "blue death" due to a patient's skin turning a bluish-gray hue from extreme loss of fluids. abv rt: Cholera in Le Petit Journal; 1912: 3,420 × 5,057 pixels
Tragedy of the Thames: the Princess Alice Disaster
c1878 – London Metropolitan Archives
The dreadful state of the Thames near the sewer outfalls was highlighted by the SS Princess Alice disaster of September 1878
The Princess Alice Before the Disaster
Named for the third child of Queen Victoria, the SS Princess Alice was a long, slim, lightly built wooden paddle steamer of 251 tons. She sat low in the water, and had only two lifeboats and twelve lifebuoys. +
She was one of the most popular paddle steamers on the Thames, and on that Tuesday morning had left London Bridge at 10 am on a day-long cruise to Rosherville Gardens at Gravesend, one of London's largest and most popular pleasure gardens in the nineteenth century. +
The SS Bywell Castle weighed much more than the Princess Alice. She was built of iron and powered by a single four-bladed screw. At 890 tons, she was nearly four times as heavy as the steamer, and sat much higher in the water.
She usually carried coal to Africa and had just been repainted at a dry dock and was headed downstream, Newcastle-bound, to pick up a load. Her Master was Captain Harrison, who was accompanied by an experienced Thames river pilot. +
Almost cut in half by the force of the impact, the Princess Alice sank in less than five minutes. The unfortunate passengers were thrown into the filthiest and most polluted stretch of the river; at Tripcock Point, a mile downstream from Woolwich. +
Sea Wreck 1878 Princess Alice/Thames Disaster
1280 x 844
rt: The GOOD news…
The Princess Alice left Gravesend with somewhere between 750 and 800 passengers on board, mainly families. At about 7:30 pm she came round Tripcock Point and into Galleons Reach, heading toward the sinking sun. It was a perfect late summer's evening; many of the women were wearing long dresses, and the band was playing. The sound of music and happy children would have carried across the river as the ship headed back upstream.
The force of the ebb tide had pushed her to the north side of the river, and to regain her bearing she was in the process of turning and moving southwards to the centre of the stream. Her new course however took her across the bows of the Bywell Castle, which bore down upon her and cut her almost completely in half. +
The Bywell Castle went full astern, but this wrenched the two vessels apart, forcing the steamer to split in two. There was not even enough time to launch the two lifeboats, and the passengers were either trapped below decks or thrown into the river. There was no requirement at that time for children to have tickets, so the exact numbers of passengers will never be known.
On the bridge of the Bywell Castle, Harrison observed the Princess Alice coming across his bow, making for the north side of the river; he set a course to pass astern of her. The Master of Princess Alice, 47 year-old Captain William R.H. Grinstead, was confused by this and altered her course, bringing her into the path of the Castle. Captain Harrison ordered his ship's engines be reversed, but it was too late. +
The Wreck of the Princess Alice; unknown artist
The BAD News…
The twice-daily release of 75 million imperial gallons (340,000 m3) of raw sewage from sewer outfalls at Barking and Crossness had occurred one hour before the collision. +
Swallowing water at this part of the Thames, at that time, was usually fatal. Few victims died in the actual collision – most suffocated and drowned in the toxic combination of raw sewage and industrial pollutants. +
A contemporary account described stated:
"At high water, twice in 24 hours, the flood gates of the outfalls are opened when there is projected into the river two continuous columns of decomposed fermenting sewage, hissing like soda water with baneful gases, so black that the water is stained for miles and discharging a corrupt charnel house odour".
Passenger Ship Disasters on shipsnostalgia.com
Recovering bodies from the Thames after the Princess Alice Disaster
Illustrated London News dated 14th September 1878 – 1280 x 957
It was all over very quickly. Within twenty minutes nothing was visible on the surface except for hats, caps, cloaks and other personal belongings. Rescue attempts began immediately, and lifeboats from the Bywell Castle, which was largely undamaged, picked up a handful of survivors. Some watermen came out from Woolwich to help, and a few passengers managed to swim to the foreshore.
Searching continued into the night, but proved fruitless. The next few days were taken up by the gruesome task of recovering the bodies. +
69 people were saved, many by another London Steamboat Company ship, Duchess of Teck, which arrived ten minutes after the disaster.
The bow section (above) was recovered with some difficulty in the early hours of Saturday 7th September and beached at Plumstead Marsh. On Sunday 8th September, the aft part was raised by barges and beached at Woolwich. +
Most passengers never stood a chance. Piles of bodies were found around the exits of the saloon when the wreck was raised. +
Identifying the Dead; Woolwich Dockyard
1280 x 921
A central mortuary was established at the Woolwich Royal Dockyard, and the grim process of identification got under way. One hundred and twenty bodies were never identified. They were buried in a mass grave in the Woolwich Old Cemetery. +
The subsequent Board of Trade inquiry concluded that Captain Grinstead of the Princess Alice (who was among those drowned) was to blame as he had run directly across the path of the Bywell Castle, contrary to the "Rules of the Road". +
Many Thames watermen considered that, as all experienced Thames pilots were well aware that 'working the slack' on the south side of the river was a common and accepted practice of the day, the pilot of Bywell Castle should have realised the situation and acted accordingly. The Thames Conservancy had published by-laws in 1872 which mandated the 'port to port' rule, with no provision for exceptions. (details of the inquest)
The wrecksite became a tourist attraction. Crowds of sightseers who had heard of the disaster came out on trains from London and clambered over the wreckage. Anything that "could be chipped or wrenched off was carried off as curiosities by visitors". +
The London Steamboat Company salvaged the engines and scraped what was left. +
SS Princess Alice (1865) on wikipedia
Gravesend; Remains of the West Street Pier, River Thames
from which the Princess Alice departed
(2,848 x 2,136 pixels)
Gravesend Town Pier and Gravesend West Street Pier
historic and contemporary (post-restoration) photos
The Doomed Ship; Pogues Forum
SS Princess Alice
Will's Cigarettes Trading Card
Which brings us back to Bovril…
Bovril had been a staple in pantries all over France and Britain for generations. It should come as no surprise, then, that when London found itself with a massive deadly human waste build up in the Thames, the vessels that came to the rescue were aptly dubbed the "Bovril boats".
rt: sludge vessel Henry Ward (1923)
National Maritime Museum, London
Bovril boats, also known as sludge vessels, were specially designed sewerage dumping vessels that operated on the River Thames from 1887 to 1998. The vessels were very well maintained, and crews could expect reasonably good pay and regular work.
A Royal Commission of 1882 concluded that it was necessary to create a cleaner river by separating the sludge part from the liquid sewage and remove it via boat for disposal at sea. In 1887 the first ship of a long line of 'pump and dump' effluent tanker vessels was launched.
European Union legislation forbidding the dumping of sewage at sea, coupled with concerns that sewage was contaminating beaches led to the phasing out of the fleet and many were scrapped or sold on to private companies. +
One of the sludge vessels, SS John Perring; 1926
Map of the Lower Thames; downstream from London 1840
(906 × 454 pixels)
Their task was to remove London's sludge waste from Beckton and Crossness Pumping Stations for disposal (on the ebb tide) in the Black Deep, an extremely deep channel in the North Sea, located fifteen miles off (the aptly named) Foulness Island, on one of the main approaches to the Thames Estuary. It's position has been known since the fourteenth century.
Deep-draught vessels in the North Sea, approaching from the north-east and making for the Port of London pass through the Black Deep, and thence into the Knock John channel to enter the Thames.
Thames Estuary; Black Deep: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (pdf)
illustration by Bowsprite – concept & typesetting by Monkey Fist
Shieldhall on ShipPhotos.co.uk (2 more photos)
Steam driven sludge vessel built by Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew (1955)
Now preserved as a passenger ship operated by the Solent Steam Packet
"No trace of their humble task was ever seen. They were always spotlessly clean…"
Shieldhall is named after a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow, south of the River Clyde. It is the site of the King George V Dock and Shieldhall sewage treatment works, which are owned by Scottish Water. +
SS Shieldhall; A Grand Lady Returns Home
article on Clydesite
Shieldhall is a Heritage steamer and flagship of the National Historic Fleet,
and is recognised as the largest working steamship of her type in Britain.
photos of engine room here and here
Tanker Daystream; Goole, United Kingdom
built 1965 by Bayerische Shipbuilding; Erlenbach, Germany
Bovril Boat Hounslow going for another dump in the Black Deep; 2005
Bovril Boat Bexley (1966) River Thames
on the Beckton Sewage Works-to-Black Deep run
"Gardyloo!" was an old cry used in Edinburgh, to warn of slops about to be thrown from an upper window. It was appropriate therefore as the name of this sludge vessel, built in Glasgow in 1976. It currently sails under the name Shollar from Azerbaijan. see also: Leith Docks in June, 199o
How sewage boat MV Gardyloo became a tourist favourite
stern of the sludge vessel North River on the Hudson
capable of carrying more than 100,000 cubic feet of sludge
photo by Mark Butkus on New York City Minute
The city pays a private company 32 million dollars to take the sludge off its hands and convert it into fertilizer. That happens at a facility operated by the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, or NYOFCO.
The smell from NYOFCO is just horrendous.+
DEP Sewage Sludge Ship RED HOOK
by PeetthePhotographer – (2048 x 946)
Red Hook can load up with a good 1.2 million gallons of sludge +
Captain Sean Riel:
"The cargo is not necessarily the most prestigious, shall we say… but it's pretty safe.
It's not really going to explode. It's not going to make you sick.
You won't get cancer from it."
Field Trip Friday: Motor Vessel Red Hook Sludge Boat
Red Hook discharging its precious cargo at the North River wastewater treatment facility which processes 125 million US gallons (470,000 m3) of wastewater every day. Built on a 28-acre reinforced concrete platform over the Hudson River, the roof is home to Riverbank State Park, the largest "green" roof in NYC. (full size)
The crew of six including Captain Reil, an Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mate, and two Sailors, makes 7-10 trips a week. +
AUDIO: Sailing Round Manhattan on the Sludge Boat on WNYC
Sludge Vessel NEWTOWN CREEK
NYC-DEP Marine Section uses three sludge vessels
(Newtown Creek, North River & Red Hook) for the transportation
of liquid sludge from wastewater treatment plants – (1024 x 682)
photo by Mitch Waxman; from his post on The Newtown Pentacle – see also
Waste & Refuse Vessels
on ShipPhotosUK
Waste Disposal Vessels
on ShipSpotting
Editor's Note:
Friend Joel, a Workboat contributor, mentioned on Saturday that he had "interviewed some sludge boat guy" a while ago, but he couldn't remember the name of the article and didn't feel like looking for it, so it will not be included in this post.
Clarence Pier, Southsea – postmarked Portsmouth, September 1915
(953 × 587 pixels)
Adventures of the Blackgang on tumblr or twitter
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