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APPROPRIATELY, given the holiday season, New Yorkers have a new miracle to behold. This one, however, is not on 34th Street, but rather 57th. The legendary Carnegie Hall has been restored, at a cost of $30 million. The extensive work was accomplished in the incredible span of just of 29 weeks. As Lawrence P. Goldman, Carnegie Hall's director of real estate planning and development, notes, ``In New York City, you can't do anything in 29 weeks. But they did, and the glorious interior looks even better now than it did originally.''
Closed last May, Carnegie Hall reopened Dec. 15 with a gala concert starring, among others, violinist Isaac Stern, pianist Vladimir Horowitz, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic, opera singer Marilyn Horne, and Frank Sinatra with Peter Duchin's orchestra. Such varied offerings were designed to show the full tonal range of the 2,800-seat hall.
The sound - conductor Serge Koussevitsky said the hall has ``a sonority like a Stradivarius'' - brought Carnegie Hall its stellar reputation.
The neo-Italianate design was by architect William B. Tuthill, and Andrew Carnegie, for whom the hall was named (the source of the magnate's fortune may help explain the extensive use of steel in the hall's balconies), picked up the tab. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted the opening concert in 1891, and was followed by nearly every famous musician since. Sergei Rachmaninoff made his American debut at Carnegie in 1909, as did Horowitz in 1928 and the Beatles in 1964. Gershwin's ``An American in Paris'' was first performed here; Benny Goodman's jazz was heard here.
Over the years, Carnegie Hall came to exemplify musical success. Says Isaac Stern, the hall's president, ``This is where they separate the men from the boys.''
Despite its pedigree, Carnegie Hall suffered no little abuse over the years. During the depression, portions of the space were sold to commercial ventures to subsidize the hall. A glass-fronted coffee shop, for example, occupied the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue (in the just-completed work, it was removed and the original brick and terra cotta fa,cade restored). In addition, Carnegie Hall never had a true lobby. Patrons entered the hall on a wide set of stairs leading directly from the street. A tiny box office was tucked at the side. With no elevator, the handicapped were denied access.
There were other problems. During the making of the movie ``Carnegie Hall'' in 1946, a gaping hole was cut into the acoustical shell over the stage to allow room for lights and ventilation. Subsequently, the hole was hidden by a teaser curtain over the proscenium and a false ceiling on the stage. Gold radiator paint was applied repeatedly to the plaster decoration over the years, so that the details were lost.
Perhaps the final indignity was an ill-conceived plan to replace Carnegie Hall in 1960 with a high-rise office building, a project featured in Life magazine. The threat of demolition spurred action, led by Isaac Stern, who, days before the wrecking ball was to swing, persuaded the New York Legislature to approve purchase of the hall by the city, which subsequently leased the operation to a newly established nonprofit corporation. Since the rescue, Mr. Stern has remained in the forefront, and he oversaw restoration of the landmark.
Under the watchful eye of the architectural firm of James Stewart Polshek & Associates, the shortcomings and abuses have been remedied.
The scope of work in the concert hall was vast - new seats, floor, and carpet, reconfigured proscenium, and enlarged backstage area. Complicating the effort was the necessity of retaining the acoustical quality, which mandated extensive testing of all new materials. The color scheme was altered from antique white to varied shades of ivory with gold trim. Much of the work, such as a totally new electrical system, is invisible. New air conditioning, which the hall never had, will enable it to be open during the summer months. The massive duct work is hidden cleverly, filling voids in the walls. Existing openings in the hall ceiling were utilized for vents.
Part of the success of the redesign stems from the architects' attitude that nothing new or added should be made to look as though it had always been a part of the facility. Thus, the ``tiara,'' or lighting frame over the stage, follows the lines of the shell but is stylized and has a modern look, without becoming a piece of minimalist sculpture.
In the new lobby, architect Polshek says he purposely tried not ``to pander to ersatz historicism. We didn't want to be too cute, and we didn't pretend it was all there before.''
The result is a very untraditional space, declares the architect, who turned for precedent not to the American Renaissance under way when the hall was built, but to the decorative arts in Europe during the period. The pleasantly scaled, Polshek-designed torchiers on each side of the stairs were inspired by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
One might quibble over the too-simple design of the balcony railings in the lobby, but overall there is a superb mix of old and new. It provides ``reminders of change over time,'' says Polshek, who notes that ``people who come to Carnegie Hall are not stuffed shirts.''
Adds Tyler H. Donaldson of the Polshek office, ``Carnegie Hall is the closest thing in America to a people's concert hall.'' It was that accessible, populist character - which in most cases had been only damaged, not lost - that the architects were determined to retain.
That they were able to do so - and in such an unbelievably short time - is due in no small measure to a dedicated crew of construction workers and artisans who completed their tasks with aplomb.
Yet to come are a cleaning of the exterior and construction of an adjoining 59-story office building. Designed by internationally renowned architect Cesar Pelli for a private developer, Rockrose Development Corporation, the richly evocative tower, sympathetic in design to Carnegie Hall, will provide additional backstage space and a funding source to guarantee the hall's future. Carnegie Hall is ready for its next 100 years.
Carleton Knight III reports regularly on architecture for the Monitor.


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Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh (modern K'iche': Poopol Wuuj [ˈpʰoːpʰol ˈʋuːχ]) is a corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the Post Classic K'iche' kingdom in Guatemala's western highlands. The title translates as "Book of the Community", "Book of Counsel", or more literally as "Book of the People".[1] Popol Vuh's prominent features are its creation myth, its diluvian suggestion, its epic tales of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué,[2] and its genealogies. The myth begins with the exploits of anthropomorphic ancestors and concludes with a regnal genealogy, perhaps as an assertion of rule by divine right.
As with other texts (e.g., the Chilam Balam), a great deal of Popol Vuh's significance lies in the scarcity of early accounts dealing with Mesoamerican mythologies. Popol Vuh's fortuitous survival is attributable to the Spanish 18th century Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez.
- 1 Structure
- 2 Excerpts
- 3 History of Popol Vuh
- 4 Antecedents in Maya iconography
- 5 Popol Vuh today
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Popol Vuh encompasses a range of subjects that includes creation, ancestry, history, and cosmology. There are no content divisions in the Newberry Library's holograph, but popular editions have adopted the organization imposed by Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1861 in order to facilitate comparative studies.[3] Though some variation has been tested by Tedlock and Christenson, editions typically take the following form:
- A brief statement attesting to the antiquity of the mythistory, its perpetuation in oral form, and its post-conquest writing.
Part 1
- Account of the creation of living beings. Animals are created first followed by humans. The first humans of earth and mud soak up water and dissolve. The second humans are created from wood, "but they did not have souls, nor minds."[4] They lose favor with the gods who cause them to be beaten and disfigured before receiving a deluge of heavy resin.
- Hero twins. Exploits of hero twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué also known as Hunter and Jaguar deer.
- Their defeat of Vucub-Caquix and his sons Zipacná and Cabracán, presentation of ball-game motif.
Part 2
- Lineage of principal figures. Xpiyacoc and Xmucané beget Hun Hunahpú and Vucub Hunahpú; Hun Hunahpú and Xbaquiyalo beget Hunbatz and Hunchouén.
- Demise of Hun Hunahpú and Vucub Hunahpú and origin of hero twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. They are summoned to the underworld of Xibalbá for playing their ball game too noisily. They are killed; Hun Hunahpú's head is placed in a calabash tree. This skull later impregnates Xquic, daughter of a Xibalbé lord, by spitting into her hand. She flees the lords and lives with Xmucané where she gives birth to "Hero Twins" Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. Mistreated by their half-brothers Hunbatz and Huchouén, Hunahpú and Xbalanqué trick them into climbing a tree. Hunbatz and Huchouén transform into monkeys.
- Rediscovery of ball game and defeat of the lords of Xibalbá. Upon finding the father's equipment suspended from the ceiling, Hunahpú and Xbalanqué are also summoned to Xibalbá for playing too boisterously. They outwit the lords and ascend to the night sky as constellations.
Part 3
- Creation of humans, migration, and first dawn. Animals gather white and yellow corn from which the gods create Balam-Quitze, Jaguar Night, Naught, and Wind Jaguar. Their four wives are later created while they sleep. Their descendants travel to Tulán Zuiva to await the first dawn. The god Tohil gives fire, but it is extinguished by hail. Tohil requires concessions to restore their fire, but the K'iche' hide themselves in smoke and obtain their fire without conditions. The K'iche' rise to prominence over the other tribes. The first dawn appears, dries out the land, and turns original animals to stone. Distinct languages evolve.
Part 4
- Migration and division. The K'iche' travel into the mountains, find Q'umarkaj where Q'uq'umatz (the feathered serpent lord) raises them to dominance. Gucumatz institutes elaborate rituals. Cities are founded, significant architectural structures emerge to which fortifications are later added. Inter-tribal strife ensues. Anthropological correlation to terminal classic period (roughly 790 - 1000 CE).
- Genealogy. States the lineages of several tribal rulers leading up to the Spanish conquest.
All editions of Popol Vuh come from the records of the Dominican priest Francisco Ximénez who lived around the turn of the 18th century. His manuscript, presently housed at The Newberry library,[5] is faded or stained in places, has no organizational divisions, and does not exhibit consistent punctuation or capitalization. For all of these reasons, editing the manuscript has been a challenge and even successful editors are forced to exercise a great deal of judgment in preparing print editions. Recently some editors (Tedlock, Colop, and Christenson) have endeavored to versify Ximénez's text. The preamble below is presented, with minor modifications, in Father Ximénez's prose and is followed by a sample of the versified renderings.
ARE V XE OHER Tzih varal Quiche vbi. Varal xchicatzibah vi xchicatiquiba vi oher tzih, vticaribal, vxenabal puch ronohel xban, pa tinamit quiche, ramac quiche vinac; arecut xchicacam vi vcutunizaxic, vcalahobizaxic, vtzihoxic puch euaxibal zaquiribal rumal tzacol bitol alom, qaholom quibi hunahpu vuch, hunahpu vtiu, zaqui nim ac tzÿz, tepeu, qucumatz, v qux cho, vqux palo, ah raxa lac, ah raxat zel chuqhaxic.[6]
ESTE ES EL PRINCIPIO DE LAS Antiguas historias aqui en el quiche. Aquí escribiremos y empezaremos las Antiguas historias, su principio, y comienzo de todo lo que fue hecho en el pueblo de el quiche, su pueblo de los indios quiches; y de aqui tomaremos su ser declarado y manifestado, y su ser relatado, la escondedura y aclaradura, por el formador, criador madre, y Padre q' así se llaman, hunahpu vuch. hun ahpu vtiu. Zaquinima tzÿz tepeu. gucumatz. vguxcho. vguxpalo. [...] el de el verde cagete, el de la verde hícara son llamados.[7]
THIS IS THE BEGINNING of the old traditions of this place called Quiché. Here we shall write and we shall begin the old stories, the beginning and the origin of all that was done in the town of the Quiché, by the tribes of the Quiché nation. And here we shall set forth the revelation, the declaration, and the narration of all that was hidden, the revelation by Tzacol, Bitol, Alom, Qaholom, who are called Hunahpú-Vuch, Hunahpú-Utiú, Zaqui-Nimá-Tziís, Tepeu, Gucumatz, u Qux cho, u Qux Paló, Ali Raxá Lac, Ah Raxá Tzel, as they were called.[8]
"Part One"
Are utzijoxik wa'e
Esta es la relación de cómo
This is the account of how
Creation myth
Chapters 1-3 contain Popol Vuh's creation myth. There are four deities, three in a celestial realm collectively called Tepeu and Heart of Heaven and another on the terrestrial plane called Gucumatz.
- "This is the first account, the first narrative. There was neither man, nor animal, birds, fishes, crabs, trees, stones, caves, ravines, grasses, nor forests; there was only the sky. The surface of the earth had not appeared. There was only the calm sea and the great expanse of the sky. There was nothing brought together, nothing which could make a noise, nor anything which might move, or tremble, or could make noise in the sky. There was nothing standing; only the calm water, the placid sea, alone and tranquil. Nothing existed. There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with light. [...] Then Tepeu and Gucumatz came together; then they conferred about life and light, what they would do so that there would be light and dawn, who it would be who would provide food and sustenance. Thus let it be done! Let the emptiness be filled! Let the water recede and make a void, let the earth appear and become solid; let it be done. Thus they spoke. Let there be light, let there be dawn in the sky and on the earth! There shall be neither glory nor grandeur in our creation and formation until the human being is made, man is formed. [...] First the earth was formed, the mountains and the valleys; the currents of water were divided, the rivulets were running freely between the hills, and the water was separated when the high mountains appeared. Thus was the earth created, when it was formed by the Heart of Heaven, the Heart of Earth, as they are called who first made it fruitful, when the sky was in suspense, and the earth was submerged in the water."[11]
Together, the gods attempted to create living beings so that they may be praised and venerated by their creation. Their first attempts (animals, mud man, and wooden man) proved unsuccessful because they lacked speech, souls, and intellect.
- "This the Forefathers did, Tepeu and Gucumatz, as they were called. After that they began to talk about the creation and the making of our first mother and father; of yellow corn and of white corn they made their flesh; of cornmeal dough they made the arms and the legs of man. Only dough of corn meal went into the flesh of our first fathers, the four men, who were created. [...] And as they had the appearance of men, they were men; they talked, conversed, saw and heard, walked, grasped things; they were good and handsome men, and their figure was the figure of a man."[12]
Women were created later while the first four men slept.[13]
History of Popol Vuh
Father Ximénez's manuscript
In 1701, Father Ximénez came to Santo Tomás Chichicastenango (also known as Santo Tomás Chuilá). This town was in the Quiché territory and therefore is probably where Fr. Ximénez first redacted the mythistory.[14][15] Ximénez transcribed and translated the manuscript in parallel K'iche' and Spanish columns (the K'iche' having been represented phonetically with Latin and Parra characters). In or around 1714, Ximénez incorporated the Spanish content in book one, chapters 2-21 of his Historia de la provincia de San Vicente de Chiapa y Guatemala de la orden de predicadores. Ximénez's manuscripts remained posthumously in the possession of the Dominican Order until General Francisco Morazán expelled the clerics from Guatemala in 1829–30 whereupon the Order's documents passed largely to the Universidad de San Carlos.
From 1852 to 1855, Moritz Wagner and Carl Scherzer traveled to Central America, arriving in Guatemala City in early May 1854.[16] Scherzer found Ximénez's writings in the university library, noting that there was one particular item "del mayor interes" ('of the greatest interest'). With assistance from the Guatemalan historian and archivist Juan Gavarrete, Scherzer copied (or had a copy made) of the Spanish content from the last half of the manuscript, which he published upon his return to Europe.[17] In 1855, French Abbot Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg also found Ximénez's writings in the university library. However, whereas Scherzer copied the manuscript, Brasseur apparently "absconded" with the university's volume and took it back to France.[18] After Brasseur's death in 1874, the Mexico-Guatémalienne collection containing Popol Vuh passed to Alphonse Pinart through whom it was sold to Edward E. Ayer. In 1897, Ayer decided to donate his 17,000 pieces to The Newberry Library, a project that tarried until 1911. Father Ximénez's transcription-translation of "Popol Vuh" was among Ayer's donated items.
Father Ximénez's manuscript sank into obscurity until Adrián Recinos (re)discovered it at The Newberry in 1941. Generally speaking, Recinos receives credit for finding the manuscript and publishing the first direct edition since Scherzer. But Munro Edmonson and Carlos López attribute the first (re)discovery to Walter Lehmann in 1928.[19] Allen Christenson, Néstor Quiroa, Rosa Helena Chinchilla Mazariegos, John Woodruff, and Carlos López all consider the Newberry's volume to be Ximénez's one and only "original."
Father Ximénez's source
It is generally believed that Ximénez borrowed a phonetic manuscript from a parishioner for his source, although Néstor Quiroa points out that "such a manuscript has never been found, and thus Ximenez's work represents the only source for scholarly studies."[20] This document would have been a phonetic rendering of an oral recitation performed in or around Santa Cruz del Quiché shortly following Pedro de Alvarado's 1524 conquest. By comparing the genealogy at the end of Popol Vuh with dated colonial records, Adrián Recinos and Dennis Tedlock suggest a date between 1554 and 1558.[21] But to the extent that the text speaks of a "written" document, Woodruff cautions that "critics appear to have taken the text of the first folio recto too much at face value in drawing conclusions about Popol Vuh's survival."[22] If there was an early post-conquest document, one theory (first proposed by Rudolf Schuller) ascribes the phonetic authorship to Diego Reynoso, one of the signatories of the Título de Totonicapán.[23] Another possible author could have been Don Cristóbal Velasco, who, also in Titulo de Totonicapán, is listed as "Nim Chokoh Cavec" ('Great Steward of the Kaweq').[24][25] In either case, the colonial presence is clear in Popol Vuh's preamble: "This we shall write now under the Law of God and Christianity; we shall bring it to light because now the Popol Vuh, as it is called, cannot be seen any more, in which was clearly seen the coming from the other side of the sea and the narration of our obscurity, and our life was clearly seen."[26] Accordingly, the need to "preserve" the content presupposes an imminent disappearance of the content, and therefore, Edmonson theorized a pre-conquest glyphic codex. No evidence of such a codex has yet been found.
A minority, however, disputes the existence of pre-Ximénez texts on the same basis that is used to argue their existence. Both positions are based on two statements by Ximénez. The first of these comes from Historia de la provincia where Ximénez writes that he found various texts during his curacy of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango that were guarded with such secrecy "that not even a trace of it was revealed among the elder ministers" although "almost all of them have it memorized."[27] The second passage used to argue pre-Ximénez texts comes from Ximénez's addendum to "Popol Vuh." There he states that many of the natives' practices can be "seen in a book that they have, something like a prophecy, from the beginning of their [pre-Christian] days, where they have all the months and signs corresponding to each day, one of which I have in my possession."[28] Scherzer explains in a footnote that what Ximénez is referencing "is only a secret calendar" and that he himself had "found this rustic calendar previously in various indigenous towns in the Guatemalan highlands" during his travels with Wagner.[29] This presents a contradiction because the item which Ximénez has in his possession is not Popol Vuh, and a carefully guarded item is not likely to have been easily available to Ximénez. Apart from this, Woodruff surmises that because "Ximenez never discloses his source, instead inviting readers to infer what they wish [...], it is plausible that there was no such alphabetic redaction among the Indians. The implied alternative is that he or another missionary made the first written text from an oral recitation."[30]
Antecedents in Maya iconography
Contemporary archaeologists (first of all Michael D. Coe) have found depictions of characters and episodes from Popol Vuh on Maya ceramics and other art objects (e.g., the Hero Twins, Howler Monkey Gods, the shooting of Vucub-Caquix and, as many believe, the restoration of the Twins' dead father, Hun Hunahpu).[31] The accompanying sections of hieroglyphical text could thus, theoretically, relate to passages from the Popol Vuh. More recently, Richard D. Hansen has found at the site of El Mirador [32] a stucco frieze showing two floating figures that might represent the Hero Twins.[33]
Following the Twin Hero narrative, man is made from white and yellow corn, demonstrating the crop's transcendent importance in Maya culture. To the Maya of the Classic period, Hun Hunahpu may have represented the maize god; his decapitated head became a calabash, or, as some believe, a cacao pod, or an ear of corn. In this line, decapitation and sacrifice correspond to harvesting corn and the sacrifices accompanying planting and harvesting.[34] Planting and harvesting also relate to Maya astronomy and calendar, since the cycles of the moon and sun determined the crop seasons.[35]
Popol Vuh today
Modern editions
Since Brasseur's and Scherzer's first editions, the Popol Vuh has been translated into many other languages besides its original K'iche'.[36] The Spanish edition by Adrián Recinos is still a major reference, as is Recino's English translation by Delia Goetz. Other English translations[37] include those of Victor Montejo,[38] Munro Edmonson (1985) and Dennis Tedlock (1985, 1996).[39] Tedlock's version is notable because it builds on commentary and interpretation by a modern K'iche' daykeeper, Andrés Xiloj. Augustín Estrada Monroy published a facsimile edition in the 1970s and Ohio State University has a digital version and transcription online. Modern transcriptions of the K'iche' text have been published by, among others, Sam Colop (1999) and Allen J. Christenson (2004). The tale of Hunahpu and Xbalanque has also been rendered as an hour-long animated film by Patricia Amlin.
Contemporary culture
The Popol Vuh continues to be an important part in the belief system of many K'iche'.[citation needed] Although Catholicism is generally seen as the dominant religion, some believe that many natives practice a syncretic blend of Christian and indigenous beliefs. Some stories from the Popol Vuh continued to be told by modern Maya as folk legends; some stories recorded by anthropologists in the 20th century may preserve portions of the ancient tales in greater detail than the Ximénez manuscript.[citation needed] On August 22, 2012, the Popol Vuh was declared intangible cultural heritage of Guatemala by the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture.[40]
Reflections in Western culture
Since its rediscovery by Europeans in the 19th century, the Popol Vuh has attracted the attention of many authors. For example, the myths and legends included in Louis L'Amour's novel The Haunted Mesa are largely based on the Popol Vuh. The planet of Camazotz in Madeleine L'Engel's A Wrinkle in Time is named for the bat-god of the hero-twins story. The text was also used by German film director Werner Herzog as extensive narration for the first chapter of his movie Fata Morgana (released 1972). In 1934, the Franco-American early avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse wrote his Ecuatorial - a setting of words from the Popol Vuh for bass soloist and various instruments. The Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera began writing his opus 44 symphonic work 'Popol Vuh' in 1975, but left the work incomplete at his death in 1983.
In Munich, Germany in 1969, keyboardist Florian Fricke — at the time ensconced in Mayan myth—formed a band named Popol Vuh with synth player Frank Fiedler and percussionist Holger Trulzsch. Their 1970 debut album, Affenstunde, reflected this spiritual connection. The band is notable especially for its extremely early experimentation with forms that became popularized through the modern electronic, new age/ambient music that was to follow years later. They also worked together with Werner Herzog for 5 of his movies. Another band by the same name, this one of Norwegian descent, formed around the same time, its name also inspired by the K'iche' writings.
See also
- ↑ According to Allen Christenson, the mat was a common Maya metaphor for kingship (like "throne" in English) and national unity.
- ↑ Junajpu and Xb'alanke in Modern K'iche' spelling
- ↑ Recinos explains: "The original manuscript is not divided into parts or chapters; the text runs without interruption from the beginning until the end. In this translation I have followed the Brasseur de Bourbourg division into four parts, and each part into chapters, because the arrangement seems logical and conforms to the meaning and subject matter of the work. Since the version of the French Abbe is the best known, this will facilitate the work of those readers who may wish to make a comparative study of the various translations of the Popol Vuh" (Goetz xiv; Recinos 11-12; Brasseur, Popol Vuh, xv)
- ↑ Goetz 89
- ↑ Tedlock 1986:30; Quiroa 2001; López 2007:126; Woodruff 2009; Chinchilla Mazariegos (Rosa Helena) 1993; Newberry Library [1]. Specifically, Tedlock states that Father Ximénez "made the only surviving copy of the Quiche text of the Popol Vuh and added a Spanish translation" (qtd. in López 2007:126).
- ↑ Ohio State University [2] modified to reflect Christenson's word divisions [3]
- ↑ Ohio State University [4] word divisions modernized for readability.
- ↑ Delia Goetz edition
- ↑ from Colop's 1999 edition
- ↑ From Recinos's 1947 edition, which is not "poetic" but line breaks have been inserted to represent "poetic" editions.
- ↑ Goetz 81-84
- ↑ Goetz 167-68
- ↑ Geotz 170
- ↑ See Tedlock's definition and usage of this term.
- ↑ Ximénez's title page reads in part, "cvra doctrinero por el real patronato del pveblo de Sto. Tomas Chvila" ('doctrinal priest of the district of Santo Tomás Chuilá').
- ↑ Woodruff 2009
- ↑ Scherzer also published a detailed inventory of the contents in 1857 edition that coincides with the Ayer ms. Scherzer's copyscript and edition began at the third internal title: 1) Arte de las tres lengvas Kakchiqvel, Qvíche y Zvtvhil, 2) Tratado segvndo de todo lo qve deve saber vn mínístro para la buena admínístraçíon de estos natvrales, 3) Empiezan las historias del origen de los indíos de esta provinçia de Gvatemala, 4) Escolíos a las hístorías de el orígen de los indios [note: spelling is that of Ximénez, but capitalization is modified here for stylistic reasons].
- ↑ Woodruff 2009 p.46-47. Brasseur mentions Ximénez's Popol Vuh manuscript in three different works from 1857-1871, but never explicitly states the library document as the source of 1861 French edition. See Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l'Amérique-Centrale (1857), Popol vuh. Le livre sacré (1861), and Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne (1871). It was not until fifteen years after his return to Europe that Brasseur suggested a specific provenance of his source material and then asserted that it had come from Ignacio Coloche in Rabinal. The inconsistency among his statements led Munro Edmonson (1971) to postulate that there had been multiple manuscripts in Guatemala.
- ↑ Edmonson 1971 p.viii; Lopez 2007
- ↑ Quiroa, "Ideology" 282)
- ↑ Recinos 30-31 (1947); Goetz 22-23(1950); Tedlock 56 (1996)
- ↑ Woodruff, "Ma(r)king Popol Vuh" 104
- ↑ Recinos 34; Goetz 27; see also Akkeren 2003 and Tedlock 1996.
- ↑ Christenson 2004
- ↑ After the list of rulers, the narrative recounts that the three Great Stewards of the principal ruling K'iche' lineages were "the mothers of the word, and the fathers of the word"; and the "word" has been interpreted by some to mean the Popol Vuh itself.[citation needed] Since a prominent place is given to the Kaweq lineage at the end of Popol Vuh, the author / scribe / narrator / storyteller may have belonged to this lineage as opposed to another K'iche' lineage.
- ↑ Goetz 79-80
- ↑ "y así determiné el trasuntar de verbo ad verbum todas sus historias como las traduje en nuestra lengua castellana de la lengua quiché, en que las hallé escritas desde el tiempo de la conquista, que entonces (como allí dicen), las redujeron de su modo de escribir al nuestro; pero fue con todo sigilo que conservó entre ellos con tanto secreto, que ni memoria se hacía entre los ministros antiguos de tal cosa, e indagando yo aqueste punto, estando en el curato de Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, hallé que era la doctrina que primero mamaban con la leche y que todos ellos casi lo tienen de memoria y descubrí que de aquestos libros tenían muchos entre sí [...]"(Ximenez 1999 p.73; English translation by WP contributor)
- ↑ "Y esto lo ven en un libro que tienen como pronostico desde el tiempo de su gentilidad, donde tienen todos los meses y signos correspondientes á cada dia, que uno de ellos tengo en mi poder" (Scherzer 1857; English translation by WP contributor). This passage is found in Escolios a las historias as appearing on p. 160 of Scherzer's edition.
- ↑ "El libro que el padre Ximenez menciona, no es mas que una formula cabalistica, segun la cual los adivinos engañadores pretendían pronosticar y explicar ciertos eventos. Yo encontré este calendario gentilico ya en diversos pueblos de indios en los altos de Guatemala."
- ↑ Woodruff 104
- ↑ Chinchilla Mazariegos 2003
- ↑ El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2011
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- ↑ McKillop, 214.
- ↑ Schultze Jena 1944
- ↑ Low 1992
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Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education (AP)
This was in the news today. It seems the US will be again borrowing money from China et al for this program and while the funds appear to be targeted at the states, I hope Merrimack looks into what the State of New Hampshire is doing regarding this new education funding. This could possibly help us?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_ ... ma_schools


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What does Brian Kilmeade have to say to get fired?
Blog ››› ››› JULIE MILLICAN, CHRISTINE SCHWEN & JUSTIN BERRIER
Today, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade hit a new low, insisting on both his television and his radio show that "all terrorists are Muslim." On his radio show, he declared that this was simply a "fact." He went on to ask if "Americans have a right to look at moderate Muslims and say, 'show me you're not one of them.'" Despite the incredible ignorance and bigotry that motivates such statements, according to Huffington Post, Kilmeade is only planning on "clarify[ing] this point on television and radio on Monday." Clarifying it? You have got to be kidding me.
First of all, despite Fox News SVP of Programming Bill Shine's suggestion, Kilmeade was definitely not simply "referring to the radical extremists who killed Americans on 9/11." On his radio show, Kilmeade specifically named several acts or attempted acts of terrorism, including 9/11, and said:
KILMEADE: Muslim extremists, Al Qaeda, blew up those buildings -- blew up the Khobar Towers, blew up the Cole, blew up the embassies, tried to blow up Times Square, tried to blow up the plane. The shoe bomber, the Times Square bomber, the underwear bomber -- they have one thing in common. They are all extremists, and they are all Muslims.
Not every Muslim is an extremist, a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim. You can't avoid that fact. And that is ridiculous that we got to keep defining this - the people that equate Timothy McVeigh with the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, which is growing and a threat that exists.
And, while defending Bill O'Reilly's controversial appearance on The View on this morning's Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said: "Here's the thing, that debate was almost like our debate on training wheels, and they can't handle the give and take of the debate. They were outraged that somebody was saying that there's a reason that a certain group of people attacked us on 9/11, it wasn't just one person, it was one religion. Not all Muslims are terrorist, but all terrorists are Muslims."
Rather than be fired for these outrageous statements, Kilmeade is getting a chance to "clarify." I, for one, can't wait. After all, the last time Kilmeade had to "clarify" his insane and idiotic commentary, we got this: After opining that "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and ... the Swedes have pure genes, because they marry other Swedes. Because that's the rule," Kilmeade later weaklyapologized for his "inappropriate" comments.
And this certainly isn't the only time Kilmeade has said something "inappropriate." Let's run down some of our greatest hits, shall we?
- Kilmeade asks if "it's time for the military to have special debriefings" of Muslims, because "I've got to know the guy next to me is not going to want to kill me." Following the shooting at Fort Hood, Kilmeade asked on the November 6, 2009, edition of Fox & Friends: "Do you think it's time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army civilians, officers, anybody enlisted, because if I'm going to be deployed in a foxhole, if I'm going to be sticking in an outpost, I've got to know the guy next to me is not going to want to kill me." Guest host Peter Johnson Jr. asked Fox News legal analyst Geraldo Rivera, "You won't countenance special screenings for Muslim officers, will you? ... Will you countenance that?"
- Kilmeade: Muslims "have to understand" being profiled because of "the war that was declared on us." On the November 10, 2009, edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade told Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham: "You get a chance to talk to a lot of Islamic experts, Muslim experts, and people who understand the Quran, and I asked him one time, off camera, I said, 'How do you feel about the extra scrutiny, clearly, you're getting at the airports?' And he said, 'I'm all for it, because I want to get home to my family, too.' And that's really got to be the attitude. So, if you're Islamic, or you're Muslim and you're in the military, you have to understand ... and that's just the fact right now in the war that was declared on us."
- Kilmeade: "[I]f you're a 20- to 30-year-old Islamic male, even if you have no evil intentions, expect to be delayed. We have to profile." On the January 4 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said, "[N]inety percent of these terrorists are men, Islamic men between 20 and 30. Why are we pretending that all of us should get equal training [sic]? Shouldn't we just tell -- if you're a 20- to 30-year-old Islamic male, even if you have no evil intentions, expect to be delayed. We have to profile."
- Kilmeade's "message to our special forces...kill" terrorists "in the field" because "we can't find a way to try them at home." On the August 30 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, during a discussion about the upcoming trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Kilmeade asserted that "the is message to our special forces, the message is to our CIA: Kill them in the field, because we can't find a way to try them at home."
- Kilmeade doesn't understand why Whitman-Brown debate was in Spanish, asks "isn't this in America?" On the October 4 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said he wanted to talk about something he thought was "fascinating," and asked "Why are they debating in Spanish? Isn't this in America?"
- Kilmeade refers to women as "babes, chicks," and "skirts" during segment on consumer car preference. On the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Kilmeade, reporting on a study of car purchasing tendencies between genders, said "yeah, so they did this 13 million vehicles were registered on this truecar.com, and they figured out that babes, chicks, what do you call them Steve, skirts?...that these are the cars that women most likely will pick out when they have the choice."
- Kilmeade: "Maybe" eliminating "unemployment benefits will get people to sober up" and get jobs. On the July 15 edition of Fox & Friends, referencing Senate Republicans who had blocked extending unemployment benefits, co-host Brian Kilmeade told Partnership Staffing Inc. CEO Bill Auchmoody that "maybe" the elimination of "unemployment benefits will get people to sober up and take some of your offers."
Seriously, Fox. At one point do you draw the line and say enough is enough?
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Below is compiled info so far. Please post corrections or additional info below. Original post kept for posterity.
Hexx Ruins: Defeat Southern Swamp
Ick Swamp: Find Naga sub dungeon in Hexx Ruins after completing at least once.
Naga City: Complete Ick Swamp
Labyrinth: Defeat Western Jungle
Dragon Isle: Defeat Labyrinth
Halls of Steel(Hard): Defeat Eastern Tundra
Halls of Steel(Vicious): Defeat Halls of Steel(Hard) with 4 classes
Namtar's Lair: Defeat Halls of Steel(Hard)
Shifting Passage: Defeat Northern Desert
Demonic Library: Defeat Shifting Passage
Gaan'talet(Hard): Opened by quest progression in game and getting one of every trophy.
Gaan'talet(Vicious): Opened by completed Gaan'talet(Hard)
Gnomes: Complete quest at beginning of game
Halfling: Complete quest at beginning of game
Orc: Search Western dungeons for sub dungeon with Orc who will have you drink a potion.(Note Western Jungle seems to ALWAYS give taurog sub dungeon until completed, so druid's grove may be ideal if you do not want to unlock taurog).
Goblin: Search Southern dungeons for a sub dungeon with a goblin who wants money.(Note Southern Swamp seems to ALWAYS give Tikki Tooki sub dungeon until completed, so hexx ruins may be ideal if you do not want to unlock Tikki Tooki).
Fighter: Guild Level 1
Berserker: Guild Level 2
Warlord: Guild Level 3
Thief: Thief's Guild Level 1
Rogue: Thief's Guild Level 2
Assassin: Thief's Guild Level 3
Priest: Church Level 1
Monk: Church Level 2
Paladin: Church Level 3
Wizard: Mage Tower Level 1
Sorcerer: Mage Tower Level 2
Bloodmage: Mage Tower Level 3
Tinker: Found in sub-dungeon enclosed by walls(Requires Alchemist unlocked).
Transmuter: Found in sub-dungeon randomly. Unknown if any pre-req.
Crusader: Found in random sub-dungeons and requires you to get to 100 piety and talk to him(pre-reqs?)
Half-Dragon: Requires completing Dragon Isle with 3 classes
Gorgon: Requires completing Naga City with 3 classes
Vampire: Requires completing Halls of Steel(Vicious) with 3 classes
Wraiths: Unlock Berserker Class
Goo Blob: Unlock Warlord Class
Gorgon: Unlock Rogue Class
Bandit: Unlock Assassin Class
Serpent: Unlock Monk class
Dragon Spawn: Unlock Paladin Class
Goat: Unlock Sorcerer Class
Golem: Unlock Bloodmage Class
Whhurrgll: From the Berserker quest (Punycrush McSissymage)
Trisword: From the Warlord quest (Bleaty)
Midas Gloves: From the Rogue quest (Lord Lut and Mr. Treshar)
Agnostic's Collar: From the Monk quest (Second Son)
Blue Bead: From the Sorceror quest (World of Goo)
Viper Ward: From the halfling village quest (Fangface)
Soul Orb: From the gnome village quest (Mr. Biggles)
Venom Blade: From Creeplight Contract (Assassin quest versus Anoobis)
Vampiric Blade: From the three-part Bloodmage quest in the west
Matyr Wraps: From the three-part Monk quest in the south
Witchalok Pendant: From the Halflings Ho! quest in Grim Grotto
Fire Heart: From the Ice and Fury quest (beat the berserker camp with 4 classes)
Mage Plate: From the Noises in the Dark quest (beat the Labyrinth with 4 classes)
Battlemage Ring: From the Minecraft quest (beat Magma Mines with 4 classes)
Hero's Helm: Confidence quest in Den of Danger
Zombie Dog: From completing quest to win Den of Danger with first tier classes.
Crystal Ball: From completing quest to win Den of Danger with second tier classes.
Dragonshield: Lockerable artifact from Dragon Isles(Last Boss Drops instead of trophy).
Avatar's Symbol: Lockerable artifact from Demonic Library(Last Boss Drops instead of trophy).
Namtar's Ward: Lockerable artifact from Namtar's Lair(Last Boss Drops instead of trophy).
Sensation Stone: Lockerable artifact from Havendale Bridge(Dropped by bridge troll if defeated). Can also be acquired within Gaan'talet on troll floor.
For all gods, once you have touched the alter and leave the sub-dungeon they are unlocked. You can retire or die or complete.
Glowing Guardian: Found in the East(Sub dungeon with path and 3 zombies of increasing level)
Dracul: Found in the East(Sub dungeon with your clone, you are locked in) (prerequisite: glowing guardian)
Mystera: Found in the North(Sub dungeon with 999 hp dragon, creative use of magic will get you past him)
Jehora Jeheyu: Found in the North(Sub dungeon has imps and an alter) (prerequisite: mystera)
Taurog: Found in the West(Sub dungeon.. large room with taurog alter at the center)
Binlor: Found in the West(Sub dungeon small room surround in walls, smash walls to find alter)(prerequisite: taurog)
Tikki Tooki: Found in the South(Sub dungeon with Imp that blinks and has death protection, chase it through stairways)
Earthmother: Found in the South(Sub dungeon filled with plants)(prerequisite: tikki tooki)
Pactmaker: Found anywhere(Sub dungeon giant room with alter in the middle, touch alter 3 seperate times to unlock) (prerequisite: Unlock any god)
Witch: I found this in the eastern tundra after many many many tries. Get a quest inside to collect 5 items by killing plants.(This may be harder to find if you do not unlock Dracul because that has a high chance of spawning).
Alchemist: Buy Philospher's stone and exit the level without dying.
Bazaar: Buy Portal scroll and exit the level without dying.
Bank: Will receieve quest.
Ok so there seems to be a focus lately on specific unlocking. However, I can't find any detailed information on where or how to unlock various things whether it be gods, items, classes, races or dungeons. Part of the problem is that the search function on the forums seems to dislike any word I use and claims it is too common.
I figure with people having been starting new profiles it might be good to document this information somewhere as people rediscover it.
So specifically the information *I* want to know is:
1) What items are unlocked specifically by which easy quests.
2) How do you unlock orc/goblin? Is it random and you can expect to reload dungeons 1-100 times or are there specific places that they appear? Are there prerequisites?
3) What dungeons are necessary to open the various vicious dungeons.
4) Where do you find the tinker? Is it random? Are there prerequisites?
Beyond that I would be happy to update this first post on any unlock info provided so EVERYONE can have a resource until such time that it is worth updating the wiki.


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Fire personnel were still on the scene of a fire at Saxon Mill in central Spartanburg on Sunday.
On Sunday, streets of the Saxon Mill village, just outside the city limits of Spartanburg, were busier than usual, residents said.
Cars and trucks drove by slowly along Saxon Avenue, their occupants' eyes trained on the smoldering ruins of the Saxon mill. A fire was reported at the mill about 9:50 p.m. Saturday, and fire personnel remained at the scene on Sunday to battle hot spots.
"I saw huge flames shooting out the side of the building about 10 p.m.," said Saxon Avenue resident Eddie Holland. "I ran over there," he said, pointing across the street, "to watch it from the fence. It was so intense. You could hear the floors collapsing."
Holland said he saw the side of the building and the roof collapse on the brick building, built in 1906.
"You could feel the heat," Holland said. "It lit up the whole street."
Officials said 100 firefighters from 12 departments initially responded to get the blaze under control. Standing among cheerful Christmas decorations in front yards, firefighters sprayed down several homes with water along Front Street near Adger Street closest to the mill as a precaution, but no evacuations were required, said Spartanburg County Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Bryson.
Holland's sister, Tracy Calvert, came by Saturday night to offer her brother a ride in case he was asked to evacuate. Holland, Calvert and their sister, Rhonda Johnson, grew up in a duplex in the neighborhood.
"It was just scary," Calvert said. "It was so hot, too. I thought something might explode. It was sad, and it was just surreal. It brought back memories of my grandpa and the people who are gone now."
Calvert's grandfather, B.D. Gregg, was electrician at the plant during the 1920s and '30s, she said.
Misty Jennings, Holland and Calvert's cousin, lives on nearby Jordan Street. She said she was coming home and saw the massive blaze.
"All we saw was red flames," Jennings said. "They were huge. You could hear the booming and the popping."
Bryson said firefighters got the fire under control about 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Una firefighters responded to a flare-up at the plant about 6:45 p.m. Sunday, but Chief Jeff Hadden said it was minor.
The building was vacant and had no electricity, and no work was being done on the building at the time of the fire, Hadden said.
"This fire had a big head start," Hadden said. "It's pretty evident it's suspicious right now. But to be honest, we'll probably never know what started it."
There were no hazardous materials in the building, Hadden said. His department is prepared to respond to the site several times until the fire burns itself out.
"This stuff is going to burn for a while," he said. "I'm sure we'll be in and out of here several times in the next few days."
The plant, under Saxon Development Venture, LLC, at 11 Front St., was on the list of properties for Spartanburg County's delinquent tax sale last week.
Mill days remembered
Saxon Mill was founded in 1900 by John Adger Law, a Spartanburg banker, with the main building built in 1906.
Several residents said they recalled firefighters responding to the vacant mill during the past several years, including in June 2009, when a fire broke out in the air conditioner units on the roof.
The fire kindled memories of the plant for mill village families, a few of whom still live there, and for those who have moved away but drove past the ruins Sunday to get a look at the plant that provided a livelihood for so many in Spartanburg.
Calvert remembered the special lighted Christmas decoration her grandfather placed on the roof during his time there.
"He put a Christmas star on the roof," she said, pointing to a portion of the building that was now without a roof. "I always wanted it."
Calvert remembered the duplexes built for the mill workers. She lived in one next door to her aunt. She grew accustomed to the sounds of textile machinery that lulled her to sleep each night. She said a friend spent the night with her once and couldn't sleep because of the sound.
"I couldn't even go to sleep without the sound of the mill running," Calvert said.
Children in the neighborhood attended Saxon Elementary, built on mill property, and walked to school.
"Everybody knew everybody," said Calvert's sister, Rhonda Johnson, 58. "You could ride your bicycle down the street, roller skate."
There was a lot of community pride, Johnson said.
"People keep calling this Una," she said, standing in the front yard of where her family's duplex once stood and where Holland's mobile home is now. "This is Saxon. Una is across the railroad tracks."
Tony Kirby, 57, worked at the plant when it was Phillips Fibers until it closed in 2002. He visited Sunday with his mother, Barbara Kirby, 80, who has lived on Saxon Heights in the mill village for 57 years. Mother and son stood on her porch and watched as thin, white smoke rose from the charred brick.
Barbara Kirby filled batteries at Saxon Mill, then worked in the lab at Phillips Fibers before swing shifts got the best of her and she quit in 1968.
"It's been here a long time," Barbara Kirby said of the mill. "A lot of families were raised on it."
Throughout the years, the Kirbys have watched as crews have stripped and removed parts of the building, very slowly. There was talk about the mill becoming apartments, or being torn down, but Tony said nothing definite ever materialized.
Conditions in the Saxon Mill village, as with numerous mill villages across the state, deteriorated when the mill was shuttered.
"It used to be a good street," Barbara Kirby said.
Barbara Kirby said she is among one of the oldest residents in Saxon of those who moved there to be close to the mill during prosperous times for the textile industry, when the plants provided well paying jobs.
"I wouldn't be satisfied anywhere else, I've lived here so long," she said with a smile.
Pigeons flapped around the street Sunday, displaced by the fire.
"I feed the pigeons," Barbara Kirby said. "I don't know where they're going to stay now."


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AIRS: Thursday, April 5, 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Mark Bray, the author of 'ANTIFA: The Anti-Fascists Handbook,' and Yaron Brook, the co-author of 'In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance' will be Tom Needham's exclusive guests this Thursday at 6 P.M. on 'The Sounds of Film.'
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Our featured guest on Science Review this week is Brookhaven National Laboratory's Keveti Assamagan. Dr. Assamagan will discuss his journey from growing up in the small West African country of Togo to his collaborations on the ATLAS project and the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN.
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American Masters' 'Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me,' is the first major documentary to examine Davis' incredibly diverse and successful career. The film documents Davis' incredible journey in show business during a time of racial prejudice and political change in America. The movies features fascinating interviews with Billy Crystal, Norman Lear and Jerry Lewis. Documentary Producer/writer, Laurence Maslon, will be joining Tom Needham for a Q & A at the Port Jefferson Documentary Series' screening of 'Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me' on Monday, March 26th at 7:00 PM at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook.
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Co-author of the graphic memoir series, MARCH, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award. The Washington Post heralded the completion of the MARCH trilogy, saying, "The closest American peer, I've found, to Maus has arrived."
Oscar Winner, Alexander Payne, Talks 'Downsizing' on Tom Needham's 'The Sounds of Film'By Angelo on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 3:23am
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Legendary two-time Academy Award winner, Alexander Payne, will be Tom Needham's exclusive guest this Thursday at 6 P.M. on WUSB's 'The Sounds of Film.' The celebrated director will be talking about his ambitious new comedy, 'Downsiding,' which is now available on 4K, Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital.
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Is that true? Please tell me it's a joke... *weeps for humanity*
This is the polite believers version of daring god to strike you with lightening. Perform, almighty one!
That would be awesome if Adam West just appeared in the cage.
I'd like to see some kids sneak in there at night and put a cat or dog in there. That would freak some people out.
C'mon... that can't be real... can it???
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1. Friday night in Bangor there's an extra special night at Nocturnem Drafthaus in Bangor – it'll be the first of their beer "competitions," pitting Belgian breweries Chouffe and Ommegang against each other, with the soundtrack of the enchanting Stesha Cano; Saturday night, there's Mark Miller. Meanwhile, Paddy Murphy's hosts reggae band Knotty Pine on Friday and rockers Ranura on Saturday, while across the square at the Big Easy at the Charles Inn Larry and Leslie Latour are paired with David Meek. Up at Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High, Paul Sullivan joins the Midcoast Community Choir for a night of beautiful music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
2. Now this is what a fun weekend looks like! Portland's got it going on, starting with Single Going Steady, ForMorning, Shashasha, and Forget, Forget at the Big Easy on Friday, followed by the rather odd triple bill of Murcielago, Educated Advocates and The Other Bones (pictured) on Saturday. At Empire, check out Normal Instruments and Alex Russo on Friday, then Endless Jags, The RattleSnakes, Contrapposto and DJ Erik Smith on Saturday. Yet another jam packed weekend is set for Geno's, with Joint Collision, Low 90, and Danger, I Reckon on Friday and then Sunrunner, Atlatl and Apocryphonic on Saturday. In fact, Friday is almost cruelly packed, as there's also Suitcase Junket, Rusty Belle, Jesse Pilgrim at Oak and the Ax in Biddeford, and the "Debtors Ball," benefiting general medical debt relief, featuring Awaas, The Last Sip and DJ Heidi Powell at Space Gallery. Finally, Friday also brings Deltah, Crunk Witch and Hi Tiger at Slainte, followed by The Woulds, Archon and Big Charlie's Rubber Band. Saturday also brings Too Late the Hero and Absence of the Sun at Port City Music Hall. I need a nap.
3. For the fifth year in a row, the Trekkers – a youth group in Knox County – hosts Trekkapalooza, a fundraiser that showcases local bands. This year's event, set for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Strand Theatre in Rockland, features rockabilly band the Murder Weapon (pictured), pop rock band the Just Teachers, Afro-pop group Djump Djump, folk rockers the Educators, power trio Pig Knuckle, and eclectic pop band Indoblue. Tickets are $15 at the door. Also in Rockland that night is the Nikki Hunt Band at the Myrtle Street Tavern, while acorss the bay at Chummies in Ellsworth check out Livewire on Friday and the Worthy Bones on Saturday. Finally, check out rockabilly band the Crown Vics at Mainely Meat Barbecue in Ellsworth on Saturday night.
4. College Week concludes at Sugarloaf, so students, get your slope time in ASAP! Afterwards, check out the Gravel Project at the Widowmaker Lounge on both Friday and Saturday, and at the Rack in Newry enjoy North of Nashville on Friday and the Jeff Merrow Band on Saturday. Over at Sunday River it's also College Week, and again, it concludes on Friday, so after all that fun is over you can enjoy Rustic Overtones at the Foggy Goggle on Saturday; there's also funk masters Sky-Chi at the Phoenix, off mountain in Bethel.
5. Oscar noms were announced this week, and as usual, I have seen a grand total of one of the films nominated for Best Picture ("Django Unchained," which was awesome). So, the coming weeks behooves me and perhaps you to see more of the big movies this year. Where can you go? Well, "Life of Pi" is still playing at Movie Magic in Bangor. "Django" is still at most multiplexes, along with "Les Miserables" and "Lincoln," and opening this week nationwide is "Zero Dark Thirty." "Silver Linings Playbook" opens this week at both Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville and the Nickelodeon in Portland, and at beloved small moviehouses statewide you can see "Les Miserables" and "Lincoln" at the Colonial in Belfast, "Lincoln" at the Alamo in Bucksport, and "The Sessions" – for which Helen Hunt was nominated for Best Supporting – is at Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor, where on Tuesday "A Royal Affair," nominated for Best Foreign Film, will also open. "Amour" isn't playing anywhere in the state, and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is on Amazon streaming and in video stores. OR, you could go to the Grand Theatre in Ellsworth, where the first of the Maine Mini Film Fest Screenings is set for Saturday, featuring two films about real Maine things: "Downeast," about the story of Stinson Seafood's closing (pictured above) as the last remaining sardine cannery in the United States, set for 2 p.m., and "Hardwater," about Maine's ice-fishing industry, set for 7 p.m. It's $10 for both screenings, and it's well worth attending.


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For decades, the Zarqa River in Jordan has been increasingly over-exploited and polluted. IUCN, in close cooperation with one of its Members, the Jordanian Ministry of Environment, is working to reverse this trend, coming to the rescue of the river basin itself and the people that need it to survive.
With only three river basins - the Yarmouk River, the Jordan River and the Zarqa River - Jordan has a critical water shortage. Water use per person in this country is among the lowest in the world. The impact that this has had on the Zarqa River has been particularly damaging and calls for urgent restoration action.
Sixty-five percent of Jordan's total population and more than 90% of the country's small and medium industries are concentrated in the Zarqa River area, putting it under increasing pressure. As a result, its natural flow has been seriously reduced due to the increasing demands for water supply. The quality of its water has been heavily degraded by domestic and industrial waste water.
"With the growing need for the river's scarce resources for agriculture, industry and households, treated wastewater is gradually replacing freshwater," says Mufleh Abbadi, Zarqa River Restoration Project Coordinator from IUCN's Regional Office for West Asia. "Solid waste management is also a big challenge in this heavily populated and industrialized region, where poverty and degraded livelihood conditions prevail."
But action is being taken to reverse this situation. The municipality of Zarqa, Jordan's ministries of environment, water, and agriculture, and IUCN's Office in West Asia are working together to help restore the river's natural flow, support the economic development of the area and improve the living conditions of local communities.
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"Many people depend on the Zarqa river and on the quality of its water for food, health and business activity," says Mufleh Abbadi. "But it is the same people that are putting enormous pressure on it, leading to its ongoing degradation. Through this project, we want to raise their awareness about how they can help improve the quality of the water and give them a louder voice in decisions related to the management of the river."
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text: Friday, March 11, 2011 Home Health Therapy Coverage Requirements: CMS Fact Sheet Available In anticipation of the new home health therapy coverage requirements that will go into effect April 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted a Therapy Requirements Fact Sheet on its Web site to aid physical therapists and home health agencies as they seek to implement these policies. CMS indicates that more detailed language will be available in the coming weeks as it plans to release changes to the home health provisions contained in the Medicare Benefits Policy Manual (Pub 100-02, Chapter 7). Comments looking for home health seminars...recommendations?? Posted by Corinna Baffa on 3/24/2011 1:11 AM The new Medicare rules for 13th and 19th visit reassessments needs some improvement. I would like the APTA to propose to CMS that when 3 therapy disciplines are active for a patient, reassessment is only required prior to the 19th visit, not 14th and 19th. I have had a CVA patient in which ST and OT were also in and I was forced to do reassessments on two consecutive PT visits. I saw the patient on the 13th visit. The OT the 14th, ST the 15th, and I had to do one on the 16th visit or I would not have made it back by the 19th visit. This rule creates potential for disruption of services with 3 disciplines. Posted by keith bisesi on 4/30/2011 12:39 AM Reassessment every 30 days, 13th and 19th visit of all therapy services, after hospitalizations (even if for a day), at the end of MD orders (which may be for only 1 to 2 weeks, after all incidents. Ole McDonald had a farm ei ei oh, with an assessment here and an assessment there, here assessment, there assessment, everywhere an assessment assessment. In an effort to save money Uncle Sam is shooting himself in the foot by providing less treatment time to the pt. and more nonproductive time on paper work. Posted by Bruce Gaines on 7/16/2011 9:07 AM Had something come up in my office. Did a PT evaluation in old cert period, but that cert period was about to run up. They calculated my 30th from the first PTA visit in the new cert period, but I figured it should be from my first assessment. A little confusing???? Posted by Nikki Snelgrove on 9/6/2011 8:08 PM HHA Posted by SAHENDY on 10/24/2011 10:37 PM Do I really need to reassess on the 13th visit if the 30 day reassessment falls on the 12th visit? Posted by Julie Timberlake on 11/12/2011 12:32 PM Yes. You have to reassess again on the 13th visit if the 30 day reassessment falls on the 12 visit. Posted by keith bisesi on 2/1/2012 10:13 PM Nikki, that is incorrect. The reassesment for the 30th day is based on the last time you performed and initial assessment or reassessment, not at all based on the first day of the new cer period, nor the first PT visit in the new cert period. A better example, if you recerted a patient 4 days before the end of a cert period, the 30 day reassessment is from the day the recertification was rendered, not the first day of the new cert period. Posted by keith bisesi on 2/1/2012 10:17 PM I agree that cms make this requirement and we have to fallow but require another pease of paper when the require more time for the therapist and less time for the patient why we are no focus first on taking care our patient I am physical therapy on the home and I always reasses my patient every visit because we have to see the changes on our patient but assessment and assessment 30 13 19 enough is enough let treat our patient and provide the documentation that justified why we see our patients I. Posted by Francisco caballero on 10/21/2012 4:02 PM Hello everyone! My name is Adrian, and I am the DON of Aspen HH Care in Chicago, IL. I got a question regarding the mandatory 30-day re-eval per PT. Can anybody HELP CLARIFY the following: 1-Our HH agency is using contracted PT services 2-The contracted PT agency uses RPT's & PTA's 3-One of their RPT did an INITIAL EVAL on 6/27/12 4-Same RPT did a PTA supervisory visit on 7/16/12 which is day 19 from the initial Eval 5-The RPT also used this day-19 PT visit as a day-30 PT RE-Eval 6-Other 3 PTA visits were made afterwards, on 7/18,7/23 & 7/25, which count for day 21,26,28 respectively from the Initial Eval 7-The RPT insists that the day-30 re-assessment can be done ANYTIME within the 30 day from the Initial Eval, including day 19 from Init.Eval 8-Our Agency believes that the 30-Day re-assmt should be done AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to the 30-th day from the Init.Eval, in our case NOT SOONER THAN 7/25, which is day 28. Can anybody help us clarify the above? Is there any guideline in this regards? Can you provide me a specific article in CMS regulation on this? Please reply ON THIS PAGE, or on our agency's email: firstname.lastname@example.com THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A QUICK REPLY. --3+ Posted by ADRIAN on 11/1/2012 4:46 PM Hey Adrian, the definition of the 30 day reassessment rule is for a reassessment to be performed "at least every 30 days". Each time a reassessment visit happends the 30 day clock resets. So the PT can perfrom the 30 day reassessment anytime during the 30 day period. Example lets say a Pts POC was 5w2,3w2. They would hit the 13th visit reassessment requirement before the 30 day requirement. Once the 13th visit is performed, the 30 day requirment resets. Hope it helps Posted by Chad on 11/28/2012 5:35 PM If a PT conducted at 13th visit/30 day reassessment (PT only patient), but had a missed visit because of patient request, but, the PT conducted the 13th visit/30 day reassessment on the actual 32nd day, is that still reimburseable? Posted by Ryley Rodriques -> @LRbDF on 12/19/2012 5:47 PM I'm confused about those visits....does that apply to everyone, example care improvement plus, humana, etc? Posted by Janie on 2/27/2013 6:28 PM Can you perform a re-assessment on every visit in order to prevent missing the 13, 19, and 30day? While i have found nothing that directly states you can. I have located a note from CMS stating that: If the measurement results do not reveal progress toward therapy goals and/or do not indicate that therapy is effective, but therapy continues, the qualified therapist(s) must document why the physician and therapist have determined therapy should be continued. Therefore, if we are performing a reassessment on every visit and not noting progress from previous one, we stand to risk licensure for providing a service that is not documented as necessary. Thought? Posted by Enon on 12/10/2013 11:04 PM I have a question that I cannot get answered - if a homecare patient is ordered for "PT only" but the PT goes & feels for whatever reason the patient needs a nurse, and calls the MD and gets the RN order, the PT would then open or admit the patient, but the visit is not "billable" because the RN comes in the next day & does the OASIS. In that first visit the PT did their eval. Does that first visit "count"? Or does the PT do a reassessment on the second visit and have the count start from there since the first visit is "non covered". How do others handle this? Posted by Jen on 1/9/2014 8:43 PM Jen: Why didn't PT just do a PT SOC and complete the OASIS, making that a billable visit? Order for RN occurred after SOC, so RN would just do SN evaluation anyway. I am not seeing why the first visit would be "non covered" at all. RN only has to do the SOC if both are ordered on the initial referral, not if RN is an ancillary service ordered after the case is open. Posted by Juli on 1/25/2014 11:45 PM I would like to ask, can the OT do the evaluation first prior to PT after the RN did the SOC (OASIS C). I would like a clarification, because per inquiries to different people who works in HHA and therapists as well, they said OT can go first if OT able to set appointment earlier but OT can not do OASIS-C Start of care but can do dc OASIS. I remember that my DON/ owner said that NO but she called one of her HHA friend and said yes. But now, it is No again. I do not know how to dealt with this kind of No yes No yes issue, I am just an employee and she is the owner. I have no rights to argue. It is really complicating me if people changes and don't remember what they were talking before. I probably have a written or recorded conversation to avoid confusion. Posted by Lee on 12/4/2014 11:34 AM i have a question..I am a PT and work in home health. Can PT eval the patient before the nurse admits ON THE SAME DAY?? thanks Posted by Nicki on 1/26/2015 5:33 PM


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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code M16.11
Unilateral primary osteoarthritis, right hip
Diagnosis Code M16.11
Short Description: Unilateral primary osteoarthritis, right hip
Long Description: Unilateral primary osteoarthritis, right hip
This is the 2018 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code M16.11
Valid for Submission
The code M16.11 is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00–M99)
Osteoarthritis (M15-M19)
- Osteoarthritis of hip (M16)
- Osteoarthritis (M15-M19)
Information for Medical Professionals
The diagnosis code M16.11 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG V35.0)
Convert to ICD-9 General Equivalence Map
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- 715.15 - Loc prim osteoart-pelvis (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
Information for Patients
Also called: Degenerative joint disease, OA, Osteoarthrosis
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. It causes pain, swelling, and reduced motion in your joints. It can occur in any joint, but usually it affects your hands, knees, hips or spine.
Osteoarthritis breaks down the cartilage in your joints. Cartilage is the slippery tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint. Healthy cartilage absorbs the shock of movement. When you lose cartilage, your bones rub together. Over time, this rubbing can permanently damage the joint.
Risk factors for osteoarthritis include
- Being overweight
- Getting older
- Injuring a joint
No single test can diagnose osteoarthritis. Most doctors use several methods, including medical history, a physical exam, x-rays, or lab tests.
Treatments include exercise, medicines, and sometimes surgery.
NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- Osteoarthritis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- What Is Osteoarthritis? - NIH - Easy-to-Read (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)


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Anyone following along in the tinyscheme + mg thread on openbsd-tech? Would you use tinyscheme with mg?
My first thought was that this would be so cool if they did this. My second thought was that I bet there are some scheme (and maybe even some common lisp) people who might be more inclined to use OpenBSD if they chose to have scheme in base. I know myself, the fact they have Perl (and keep up fairly well with new versions) in base has always given me the warm and fuzzies about them.
But then I thought about it more. I wouldn't actually use it.
First, I don't use mg at all despite using and liking emacs a lot. When I want a small editor I use vi. To me, completely different key bindings and user interface is better when switching between editors than almost the same but with slight differences. mg, like every other little editor with emacs key bindings, always annoys me when I try to use it.
Then there's whether it's really exciting to have this as a way to use scheme instead of emacs lisp to customize my editor (imagining mg became my editor). Scheme is a nicer language IMO than Common Lisp, for sure, and would be an improvement over emacs lisp too. If some GNU person resurrected the guilemacs effort or they managed to somehow get guile and elisp to coexist harmoniously in a later emacs, that would be cool. But mg + tinyscheme? Are the OpenBSD people going to be the ones who finally redo emacs "the right way" with a "real lisp?" I don't think so. First, the people who've been thinking about this I've heard of are people many of the OpenBSD people probably wouldn't get along with (GNU people). Second, is tinyscheme a "real lisp"? It's some easily implementable subset of R5RS. This just sounds like emacs lisp all over again. Worse, because scheme people all seem to have their favourite implementations they want to use. For instance, I like using scsh enough that if I were using mg I'd be more likely to look at what they've done with tinyscheme and try to do the same with scsh instead, rather than using what they've done and participating in any group of OpenBSD tinyscheme users sharing scripts emacs lisp style. And then that's probably not even where they're going. It's probably more mg + tinyscheme is to emacs like nvi + Perl is to vim.
Still, scheme in base would give the warm and fuzzies.
Last edited by thirdm; 28th June 2012 at 04:21 PM. Reason: s/guilemacs/tinyscheme/ towards end.
I recall discussion on tech@ about a year ago around adding a scripting engine to mg(1) as the thought was this would make it more flexible to individual tastes. tedu mentioned that he was working on implementing a small Scheme interpreter such that a number of Emacs extensions could then be used in mg(1). At the time, this was seen to be useful work -- adding a small Lisp-like interpreter to a small Emacs alternative. Take that, Mr. Stallman.
Now that there appears to be an interpreter available, the question returns as to whether this is the direction the project wants to take, & whether this is the language to use in other candidates for scripting -- systat(1) & top(1) being two possibilities.
So, what we are seeing on tech@ is continued discussion. It doesn't appear to be final, & I don't expect the work to integrate Scheme into mg(1) to commence quite yet.
The flip side of this discussion is what are the ill-effects which comes with growing mg(1) from a small compiled application to a run-time interpreted environment. mg(1) as it is now is refreshing small & fast in comparison to Emacs. Unfortunately, Emacs has some (not all...) features I would like in a replacement. If mg(1) could retain some of its original agility after having a script engine added, that would be the bomb (), but this would not be known until the work was finished.
Last edited by ocicat; 28th June 2012 at 06:43 PM. Reason: added missing grammar for clarity
Reviving an old chestnut.
In reading undeadly's post mortem on the recent g2k12 hackathon, it looks like Lua 5.2 is being considered as the potential scripting engine for integrating into mg(1) as opposed to TinyScheme. Apparently, there is a similar discussion brewing around tmux(1) as well:
Oh well. Boring, but probably more in line with what most people are used to in terms of syntax. And Ted Unangst at least is a Lua fan which counts as one more OpenBSD developer in the Lua camp than I know of who is strongly in the Scheme camp, unless Aaron Hsu is an OpenBSD developer.
At least now I don't have to worry about taking myself on yet another useless excursion to explore replacing gnu emacs/elisp with mg/tinyscheme or trying to (or daydreaming about?) re-implement the Gnus newsreader in Scheme and mg. Actually, I read the other day that someone's done Gnus in Scheme for Edwin. Crazy.
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