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The Third Pole – an area of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau and home to the largest reserve of fresh water outside the Arctic and Antarctic—is a region familiar to both earthquakes and dam projects. This irreconcilable reality is at the center of an emerging debate, raising environmental and security concerns as regional governments scramble for clean energy resources and control over a precious water source.
China proposed a dam three times the size of the Three Gorges to be constructed on the Yarlung Tsangpo River—on the border between China and India. If constructed the dam would draw from the headwaters of the Brahma Putra—one of India's most important waterways—and directed them to the parched Yellow River in China. India has said that construction of this dam would be taken as a declaration of war.
At this September 26th meeting, chinadialogue's founder and CEO Isabel Hilton will discuss how current dam building practices add to the security risks of the Third Pole region. Hilton will explain how dams in China and other neighboring may exacerbate natural hazards—particularly earthquakes and floods—which can increase political tensions in this militarized and politically unstable region. Drawing on his extensive work on hydropower projects with the Asian Development Bank's energy program, Dan Millison (Transcendergy, LLC) will talk about dam building trends in Nepal and India, contrasting them with dams in China.
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Juniper shrubs can grow just about anywhere. They are very hardy in nature and tolerate drought very well. These shrubs work great for landscaping projects. Certain types of juniper shrubs grow very low across the ground while others grow upward like a tree and take on a pyramid shape.
The foliage colors vary on these shrubs from light green to dark green, silver-blue to blue, and various shades of yellow. Juniper shrubs are used as ground covers, hedges and screens or as a foundation plant. They bear needle-like leaves that feel like an evergreen when touched. Their leaves are soft to the touch, unlike most evergreens, and leave a prickly feeling on the hand.
Some junipers grow berries, while others do not. Some of these berries are used for spices in a variety of dishes and are popular for flavoring gin. Juniper berries have been used in flavoring other liquors and beers as well. The berries can create a sauce that is used with various meat dishes such as pheasant, quail, rabbit and venison. Juniper berries have medicinal properties that have been used by the Native American Indians as a female contraceptive. The berries have been used to treat urinary tract infections, and they can be combined with berberis to create a tea for diabetics.
Juniper shrubs thrive in full sun. They are very tolerant of drier soils and soils with different ranges of pH levels. Some juniper shrubs even grow in sand. When planted in shady spots with moist soil, they can become susceptible to different insects and diseases.
Juniper shrubs will suffer from being watered too much. They only need water in the beginning after the shrub is first planted to help it take root in the soil and grow. It is wise to learn the growth habits of each juniper shrub because pruning them too much can damage the growth. Old dead limbs and foliage can be pruned out from underneath the shrub to help increase air circulation, improving the shrub's overall health.
Insects such as spider mites, bagworms and aphids can be a problem for juniper shrubs. Treating the shrub with the right type of pesticide can eliminate this problem. Diseases usually only occur when there is too much water in the soil or not enough sun. Placing the juniper shrub in the right kind of climate and sunlight can eliminate most problems you may encounter.
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Juniper berries are supposed to be very good for diabetics, and in fact they are trying to develop commercial products from juniper berries for this reason.
The berries help to release insulin into the body, which can balance blood sugar levels. It has the bonus effect of helping a person to feel less hungry.
Although, oddly enough, some people once considered juniper berries to be an appetite stimulant.
Maybe it simply helped people to feel as hungry as they should feel.
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Growing juniper shrubs in your yard is an excellent idea if you happen to like using juniper berries in your sauces or even if you make your own gin.
While you can dry the berries, and it is even possible to buy them online now, they are at their most potent when they are fresh. In fact, they start losing some of their flavor and smell immediately after they are picked and the quicker you can use them, the better off you are.
You have to make sure to pick one of the edible varieties though, or you might be disappointed. There are plenty junipers shrubs that are too bitter to eat.
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HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Livingston County judge accused of failing to disclose a relationship with a police officer during a murder case and other misconduct has been removed from hearing cases.
County Chief Judge Miriam Cavanaugh said in a news release Wednesday Theresa Brennan's caseload has been removed and reassigned until further notice. The move follows Tuesday's filing of a 66-page complaint against Brennan by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission.
Investigators say Brennan had 239 phone calls with state police Sgt. Sean Furlong over a 14-month period while Furlong was involved in a murder case before the judge. They acknowledged an affair but insist it started after the trial.
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Over the last few of years, the AV industry has enjoyed an enormous boost in enthusiasm, with much of its momentum due to the recent advancements in video technology. Though they once seemed like sci-fi or something from a Jetsons' episode, flat televisions that hang on the wall are becoming commonplace in home theaters across the country. With the flat TVs' increasing size and quickly dropping prices, mainstream America can walk into a Best Buy or Costco and pick up a mighty fine HDTV that can be the centerpiece of a respectable home theater system for $2,000 or sometimes even less.
Once you invest in your flat HDTV, you now have to deal with another issue: how do you get speakers to match? In many rooms, the advantage of a flat HDTV is the fact that it is actually flat. Traditional speakers are generally anything but flat, so in order to remove all of the clutter from a room that once had, say, a big-screen rear-projection TV in it, you have to look at replacing the speakers with something either very physically flat, something in-wall or something on-wall.
Enter the Mythos Eight on-wall loudspeaker from Definitive Technology. It is a two-way speaker design that measures 28-and-a-half inches in height, is just over six inches wide and is four-and-three-eighths inches in depth. It has two five-and-one-quarter inch midrange drivers, mounted above and below a centered one-inch pure aluminum dome tweeter, with two five-and-a-quarter inch passive sub radiators mounted at the top and bottom of the speaker. The Mythos Eight has a rated frequency response of 38 Hz to 30 kHz and is an easy load to drive at 91dB efficiency rating.
The exterior of the Mythos Eight is made from extruded aircraft grade brushed aluminum and is available in either silver or black finish. It has a modest retail price of $699 per speaker.
Upon unpacking, the Mythos Eight impressed me as a solidly constructed speaker. Weighing a hefty 15 pounds, this speaker feels substantial and is quite heavy for its size. A wrap of my knuckles against the enclosure yielded nothing but a sore hand. The connections on the rear of the speaker are nice gold-plated connectors. However, these are set into a pocket, which makes installing your speaker wire a challenge. Because of the limited space, it is pretty important to have your speaker cables exiting your wall at a relatively precise location. The Mythos Eights can be mounted either vertically or horizontally, allowing for those like myself to use one as a center channel, which is the common condition for mounting beside and below a flat-screen TV. They come with a handy and simple mounting bracket that installs to your wall and provides a rock-solid connection. Overall the Mythos Eights are a slim and sexy package, whether.


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Review: Captivating
As women, we desire for our beauty to be captivating. We are asking, "Do you see me?" A question that John & Stasi Eldredge clearly gives us the answer to in their book Captivating (Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul). In most instances, we asked our parents this at a young age and if this question was not answered by them we found ways to get the answer. Unfortunately as a teenager, I received my answer from boys. But I am grateful for the Father whom answers the questions of my heart today, "Do you see me, Am I lovely, Do I captivate you?"
Like the stories/movies we've grown to love as little girls: Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Gone with the Wind, and Titanic, this book tells us that we are apart of a love story and that God is the hero and romancer after our hearts. We learn that he possesses the answers to all of our questions. With snipets like: "The more His we become the more ourselves we become" and "Jesus has moved Heaven and Earth to win you for Himself", there's no way that you cannot fall in love with Him and not know that your are loved, beautiful, and seen.
This is another must have for women and young girls. Also there is a male counterpart to this book called, Wild at Heart by John Eldredge. Please check it out!
Make this personal: I am the lead character (the Beauty) in a love story. God is my hero, my lover, my pursuer; protecting me from the villain (Satan) who is out to make assaults on my soul. So I ask you, what would a love story be without the victor and his beauty?
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Today's post is about Photography.I read a good discussion in the comments section yesterday at "A Photo a Day" by Donald Kinney about California Poppies and saturation…click here. They got me to thinking about the use of saturation. (Be sure to check out his Douglas Iris photos while you are there – they are terrific).
I ran across the following photograph which I made a while back and thought it made a point about degree of saturation.
In this photograph, I wanted to emphasize the texture, smoothness and twisted nature of the trunks, so I isolated the trunks from the background and strongly de-saturated them and readjusted the levels to obtain the effect I wanted. I could have converted it to a black/white photo, but that would not have left the impression of almost no color as viewed in Moonlight. I hope the title sets the mood for viewing.
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Between 2006 and 2012 Christopher Hum was Master of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he remains as a Life Fellow. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Great Britain China Centre and a member of the Advisory Board of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University. He is currently studying Asian art at the School of Oriental and African Studies,London University.
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Robot Primer 13: Why Use Work Coordinates
Since Work coordinates are transformed into Base coordinates in the end, why bother? Why not just use base coordinates? Here are some possible reasons; I'm sure creative programmers have come up with others.
- Using Work coordinates can be more natural.
- Using Work coordinates can save re-teaching points.
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- Using dynamically updated Work coordinate makes complex situations such as picking and placing from a moving conveyor easy.
Next I'll look at some examples in more detail
Using Work Coordinates To Save Re-Teaching
If we use base coordinates and the robot's base coordinates change, then all the points have to be re-taught. However, if we've used world coordinates, all we have to do is to add the offset between the old and new base coordinates, and we're done.
Some reasons why the robot's base coordinates could change:
- Robot needs to be re-calibrated
- Robot needs to be replaced by another robot of the same or possibly different type
- Moving the whole base plate to a different robot cell
- If base plate fabrication is precise enough, to allow easier production
Let's look at a simple example using a simple assembly robot.
Simple Assembly Cell
This imaginery work cell uses a robot to:
- Pick up the circular yellow bases from the top left pallet (defined by points P1 to P4)
- Place the base in the assembly fixture (P13) and add glue
- Pick up the blue part from the bottom left pallet (defined by P5 to P8) and place it onto the base.
- Move the completed part to the inspection fixture (P14)
- Finally move the inspected part to the output pallet (defined by P9 to P12).
The base plate is big blue rectangle, and the base coordinates are represented by the even larger gold rectangle, with the coordinates for P1 shown (54.5mm and 85.0 mm).
My example is simple and easy, there's no need for additional complications such as work coordinates, right?
Work Coordinates to the Rescue
But now suppose the robot breaks down and is replaced by a new robot, with slightly different base coordinates (represented by the bold red rectangle).
As you can see, the position of P1 has shifted quite considerably on the base plate. So we will need to re-teach all 14 points.
No big deal, right? But now suppose the pallets and fixtures and interchangeable so we can assembly 10 different types of parts. Now we have to re-teach 140 positions: ouch!
Unless, of course, we used work coordinates – then all we have to do is change the offset so that the work coordinates for the robot matches the work coordinates for the old robot. Now a little bit of extra work pays off: we only have to teach 1 work coordinate instead of 140 positions.
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I actually saw this situation; a robotic system I serviced had its robot re-calibrated, and the program used base coordinates, so all the points had to be re-taught.
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Daiso Adventures
Over the past few months, I've had fun checking out the Daiso Japan store near Mitsuwa marketplace in San Jose. The good side is that most items are $1.50, so when I see something new and cool, it's hard to resist the temptation to add it to the basket to try it out.
Recent temptations have included
This red notebook has paper with a grid design. I've never seen a grid notebook at retail, but I've been curious to find out if I'd like it, so I couldn't resist the temptation of a mere $1.50 for 80 sheets of B5-sized grid goodness (the grid's dots are at 5mm intervals). My initial impression is, yes, I like it a lot.
This graph notebook with a translucent blue plastic cover was a no-brainer, also at $1.50 for 60 sheets of A4-sized paper.
My kids love these funky pencils with cute designs and a bunch of tips. They're a bargain at $1.00 for a pack of 8.
A4 paper comes and goes at Daiso, so I jumped at the chance at grabbing several 110-sheet packs for a miserly $1.50 each (A4 paper is double that price at Staples or Amazon, and is stratospherically priced at Kinokuniya/Maido). Since it's copy paper, I'll have to see how does in my inkjet printer.
I might prefer LED light bulbs, but at $0.50 for these 32W, 2100 lumen CFL bulbs, I couldn't resist picking up a bunch.
The Downside of Daiso
I've seen lots of cute and neat things at Daiso over the years (such as brush pens, cute stationery, cute sketchbooks, affordable handy storage boxes, made in Japan dishes, unique egg timers, and more), but it's kind of like Costco because:
- It's so tempting to add "just one more bargain" that you get surprised at check out time.
- Many items are here today, gone tomorrow. Just of the items I've shown, last time the blue notebooks were gone, and the cute pencils have been replaced by boring pencils. A4 paper has always been hit or miss (sometimes nothing, sometimes only colored paper, sometimes great selection, and so on).
- It's not always a bargain. Some items aren't worth a $1.50. Some items are sold in such small quantities (such as the wire frame storage) that when you add up all the $1.50 items you need, it's not so cheap.
- Inventory can vary a lot store to store. Daiso has a wide of items, but many of the stores are pretty small, so they get a different assortment of what's available at the moment.
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This Is Hallowe'en
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I'm doing the exact same thing :) Staying under the blankets watching scary films with my Mr, I may attempt to carve some pumpkins and make halloween cupcakes! xxxReplyDelete
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I'm dressing up at a house party, need a uber cheap outfit idea tho lolReplyDelete
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We love Halloween!! This year we'll be dressing up as The Grady Twins from The Shining. Check out our blog for some past costume hilarity ;)ReplyDelete
Katie & Kay xoxo
I really do wish Halloween was celebrated more here in Australia...maybe we dont because it's not autumn, therefore there isn't the same spooky atmosphere? hahaReplyDelete
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While I have to work that day, I will be watching scary movies that night. :) Scary movies and cuddling. Perfect!ReplyDelete
I work in the afternoon but thank the lord we can dress up! After that, I'm staying in and reading Dracula into the night :) Best Halloween.ReplyDelete
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Unfortunately I'll be stuck in my hospital bed with an impacting wisdom tooth! But at least me & the boy made our pumpkin last night :D!! xxReplyDelete
Scary films, well scare me! haha. I could never watch them on my own, I'd never leave the safety of my blanket again. I do miss those uni days of house parties though! xReplyDelete
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We went for a Halloween walk and then waited for the Trick or Treaters. Love Halloween.ReplyDelete


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Swami Arun from a young age travelled globally for personal research. Aboriginal Australia is where he began studies in Music Therapy by learning how to play the Didgeridoo with the Meditation of Circular Breathing. This, combined with studies in Pranic Healing, led him to create a form of 'Music Therapy Healing Massage'.He kept travelling in Nepal & India where he spent time at the Osho Multiversity for Meditation.India is where he received the Osho sannyasa and the name "Swami Arun". Gong meditation master In the Himalaya, he was touched deeply in the heart by Gongs & Tibetan Bowls & their Magical Healing Sound. With Divine guidance, intuitively, he created his own style of Meditation with the Healing Sound of Gongs & Tibetan Bowls. He treats individuals & groups and provides amazing transformational experiences. "The Vibrational Sound Frequency of Gongs & Tibetan Bowls can transport anyone in Meditation even without any previous experience & rebalance the Energy Field & Harmonize all the Chakras" – Swami Arun


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If you are new to the world of makeup, hairstyling and overall beauty, you are not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of girls out there feeling just as unsure and confused as you are (some of them are just a little better at hiding that confusion than others). As you begin to make the transition from childhood to adulthood, it is totally normal to want to take better care of yourself, and to look your best. Still, it's easy to feel intimidated by all those beauty ads. It seems like everywhere you go, suddenly everyone is trying to sell you makeup and hair products. Is this all really necessary? How do you use it anyway? What if it doesn't end up looking like the commercial said it would?
I am here to tell you to take a deep breath, and try to relax. If you are feeling blindsided by the avalanche of beauty advertisements, rest assured that everyone is, no matter how old they are. Let's try to take the difficulty out of this equation, and just look at the easy, natural and fun basics of feminine beauty. There is no need to buy expensive products, when a few essentials can work wonders.
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Skin Issues? Start With Your Doctor
If you are in your teens or tweens, you may have gotten a rude awakening in the form of breakouts. Welcome to the world of teenaged skin care! While these are a normal part of adolescence, sometimes they can be painful and recurrent. If you feel like you are having an unusually large number of breakouts, you should ask to see your doctor. They can help!
Now, I know it's tempting to rush out the door to the local drug store, and spend $40 on some harsh, chemical product you saw on TV that promised to clear up your breakouts. Take it from me – someone who dealt with frequent breakouts well into my early 20s – the stuff in stores is not nearly as good as the stuff your doctor can prescribe. In fact, a lot of those over the counter products can actually make matters worse!
Sometimes, there is an underlying cause to breakouts other than simply "you're a teenager". The only one who will be able to determine that is a doctor, so it is at least worth checking in. They may give you a topical wash to use, or even prescribe you a medication. Either way, you are going to get more help there than in the store.
Get Your Beauty Sleep
Are you suddenly feeling incredibly sleepy in class? Do you dread the thought of running laps in gym class, because you are just so tired? This is normal too. Believe it or not, your sleep patterns are undergoing a huge change right now. While you don't need as much sleep as you did when you were a young child, you still need more than you will as an adult. Understanding your sleep cycle, and making sure you get enough rest is actually a huge part of any beauty routine.
You have heard the term "beauty sleep", and until now, you may not have had any idea what that meant. Basically, the more you sleep, the more rested and refreshed you are. No dark circles under the eyes, no sagging posture, and more energy to engage in healthy activities like sports.
Also, the more sleep you get, the less you will crave sugary junk food. It's true! When you are not well rested, your brain is searching around for an energy source, and quick. The fastest way to get a much needed shot of energy to the brain is sugar. Next thing you know, you've eaten two bags of candy. Now, if you have weight concerns, or even just concerns about cavities, you can help improve both situations by making sure you get enough sleep. It may not be much fin at first, but set a bedtime for yourself and stick to it. Don't being your phone into the bedroom, and leave all other distractions out too. Let yourself fall asleep naturally, and your appearance will improve.
Replace or Clean Your Gear
Did you ever see one of those experiments where they check for bacteria on surfaces, and you find out that some of the things you use everyday are actually totally gross? Count your makeup gear among those things. That little powder puff that came with your compact? It needs to be washed regularly with soap and water. Otherwise the oils from your skin, along with the nice dark environment in your purse can lead to a veritable jungle of bacteria growing in there.
Same goes for some other everyday gear. That backpack you wear every day could probably use a trip through the wash – especially if you have been walking to school in June, and getting sweaty on the way. Your phone needs to be wiped down with an antibacterial cloth every few days, and you should do everything you can to avoid ever putting your purse or backpack down on the floor of a public bathroom.
When bacteria is allowed to grow on these things that come in contact with your skin every day, it can lead to breakouts, rashes or other issues. You can avoid these just by keeping your gear clean, and knowing when to toss old stuff.
Get Some Sun, (but In a Smart Way)
Sunlight is incredibly good for you. It gives you that much needed vitamin D, which is important for everything from proper growth to a happy mood. Still, going overboard in the sun is dangerous, so it is important to be smart about it. Wear sunscreen every time you go out, and yes, that means in the winter too.
Here is the good news: There are plenty of moisturizers, foundations and lip balms which already have sunscreen in them, allowing you to protect your skin, without having to deal with greasy sunblock all over your face. Protecting your skin now is going to pay off over and over again as you get older. I know you are probably not thinking in terms of premature wrinkles and aging now, but it is possible to begin seeing those things as early as your 20s.
Looking for a healthy glow? There are dozens of sunless tanning products available over the counter which give you that summery look without the skin damage. Avoid tanning beds, or "laying out" without any protection. The light is good, the burn is not.
Be a Beautiful Person
Last, but not least, we need to talk about inner beauty. You are going through an exciting and scary time in your life right now. You have more responsibility than ever, while at the same time, you have more of a need to express yourself individually than ever. This is a good thing! One thing to always remember however, is that everyone around you is going through these feelings too.
People you once considered best friends might have changed, the things you used to love might not be so exciting anymore. With all these differences, it is so easy to sometimes judge others, or to let meanness or spite take over. Rising above that makes you a rare and beautiful person. Practice kindness and understanding towards others, and be an example of how you want them to treat you. 20 years from now, nobody will remember the shade of lipstick you wore, but they will always remember that you were a good and honest friend.
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#322. Irene Update 3, 8 a.m. Sunday
The eye of the hurricane is 65 km south east of here, and moving towards us at 40 kph. So it should pass over NYC around 10 am. The winds in it are still up to 110 kph, but not much wind damage in NYC so far.
It seems the southern half of the storm has broken up so the weather should start clearing up this afternoon and they are saying we could even see the sunset tonight .
We have had about 150 mm rain overnight (officially 5.82 inches in Central Park...i brought my rain gauge inside so it didn't get smashed -and last winter's snow cracked it so it leaks above 100 mm, which we never get). But flooding is the concern although mainly along the beaches such as Coney Island and the Rockaways near JFK airport. they are having 7-10 m waves, and then there is the "storm surge". Hoboken NJ which one can see across the Hudson is also flooding
They would turn the power grid off if underground water gets into it.
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I don't care if I spoil it for you. It deserves to be spoiled: Lexa dies in Episode 7 of CW TV's series The 100. I don't care if I spoil this for you because I can no longer support this series, and I will no longer be writing these recaps. Here's why.
I started watching The 100 in 2014 just after Season 1 went up on Netflix. A sucker for sci-fi survival scenarios, this show hit all the marks for me. Sure, the first season got off to a rocky start, but the core concepts were all there: a failing space station, uncaring powers-that-be, the fairytale setup of kids abandoned in the woods, the introduction of conflicting forces, and some pretty good characters that kept getting better. I liked the show enough to start watching week-to-week in Season 2 and was impressed with the way they kept expanding this world they had created, including even a fairly fascinating fictional language and a surprising amount of detail and backstory. Former foes have to come together to fight a common enemy, and the survival scenario continues. The burden of leadership falls squarely on Clarke, our main character, who develops an increasing rapport with Lexa, the commander of the Grounders.
For some reason, maybe due to the superb, sparkling acting of both Eliza Taylor and Alycia Debnam-Carey and their remarkable onscreen chemistry, I became captivated by their relationship. And then The 100 did something utterly unprecedented on a network TV series. They set up their female lead and her possible love interest as queer, and they did so cleverly and organically via a sly coming-out moment by Lexa, several subtext-heavy scenes between them, and, finally, an actual, mutual kiss. So here we have two young women, two born visionary leaders, with the weight of the world shoved onto their shoulders at a young age, both with a history of pain and loss. And they find each other in this chaotic world of conflicting political aims and try to negotiate those in the context of a budding romance. We got a classically heartbreaking "duty vs. love" betrayal at the end of Season 2, but we knew there would be more to come of this relationship because it was left so open-ended, and even the so-called betrayal scene spoke of the connection between them.
In the months to follow, I must have seen a tweet or two, maybe an article posted somewhere about fan response to the Clarke / Lexa pairing and the fact that this show represented what appeared to be a new era of queer representation on mainstream, non-cable network television, a new world in which mainstream audiences would cheer on a bisexual lead in a same-sex romantic relationship. At that point, I did what any fan (or scholar) does – found out everything I could about the series and its impact on the wider culture. I re-watched the second season, and the subtext and lead-up to the fateful kiss scene were undeniable. When the Supreme Court marriage decision came down in June, fans produced pride-themed art and gifs of Clarke and Lexa saying "love wins." It was a heady couple of months.
In the fall, I was going through my tenure review at work, teaching a full load, and preparing for two conferences. My life had to revolve almost exclusively around my work. My personal life suffered, and I didn't go out much because I just didn't have the energy. When I got home at night, I wanted to be quiet and read. It was then that I remembered the phenomenon of fan fiction. I knew of it because I am a longtime Star Trek fan, and that was – as far as I know – the fandom that created contemporary fan fiction as we know it. I had read Constance Penley's work on the topic in a Media Studies course in grad school as well, so I was familiar. I had even read some myself along the way, usually Buffy or Firefly or Star Wars themed.
So this past fall, I didn't have much energy to read something challenging when I came home. I decided to see if there was any fan fiction of The 100. And there sure was, and a whole bunch of it was dedicated to exploring different facets of the Clarke / Lexa relationship. I should've known of course. I mean, there's fan fiction of everything, right? And as in any other fandom I had seen, there are both very good and very bad writers out there, and yes some of it is smutty, but most of it is about characterization, about capturing essential qualities of beloved characters, and this was true of "Clexa" fan fiction as well. There are several longer works out there that are downright poetic and are every bit as creative as the show itself. I used this to tide me over until Season 3.
Meanwhile I joined a Facebook group or two and explored social media revolving around The 100 fandom and discovered a world of hilarious, creative people. Even though I studied Film and Media, I'm not going to lie and pretend this was "research," although the phenomenon of fandom is one that has always fascinated me intellectually. I found a cast and crew that was exceptionally interactive with fans. They all kept dropping tantalizing hints about the Clexa relationship and how it would evolve, the fact that Alycia Debnam-Carey would return as Lexa, despite being cast on Fear the Walking Dead. The articles about the show's progressive representation of LGBT people kept rolling in.
Now, if you are queer, and a fan of any mainstream media property, there are a few facts that practically run through your DNA: 1) You will almost never see yourself represented in your fandom, 2) If you do, it will be subtext only, and 3) On the off chance that a character is canonically gay, he or she will likely be a) evil, b) crazy, or c) killed off right after achieving happy coupledom. The latter seems to happen most often to queer female characters. So much so that it has a name "The Dead Lesbian Trope." Essentially, the message is, gay sex is punishable by death, and queer couples can never be happy.
Sadly, all of us queer viewers are so happy to get any kind of representation, we will watch anything with queer (or even potentially queer) characters in it, even though we know we're going to see ourselves brutally killed onscreen sooner or later, and odds of our character ever being happy are slim to none. But we watch anyway, hoping that this time it will be different. This has a name too: queerbaiting, aka luring a queer viewership to your show to make it seem progressive, and hinting at a pairing that either never happens, or one of the characters is killed.
However, The 100 was different. They had given us a queer lead character in Clarke Griffin and did not appear to shy away from the notoriety it got the show. Tiny snippets of footage from Season 3 appeared to confirm that because we saw Clarke in bed with someone female, though apparently not Lexa as far as we could tell. Jason Rothenberg, the show runner, told us to trust him. He knew about the Dead Lesbian Trope and would not screw us over this time. Everything we learned about Season 3 gave us hope. Excitement in the fandom grew to a fever pitch, the more scenes that were released.
And the first episode was no disappointment. Clarke had a brief tryst with Niylah while she was out wandering the woods trying to come to terms with what she had to do to defeat Mt. Weather at the end of Season 2. Contrary to what some folks first believed would be the reaction, we cheered her on even though it wasn't Lexa. Here it was, our lead on a mainstream series, fully, 100% confirmed to be decidedly, unquestionably queer. This is it, we thought. Our day has come. Our day has come when we get the lead relationship treatment reserved for a hetero pairing 99.99% of the time. This is when everything changes.
And indeed, nothing indicated otherwise in the following episodes. Clarke and Lexa have an explosive reunion, but we begin to see them work their way back towards each other, both personally and politically. And then came the Fealty Scene. Nothing had ever prepared us for the pure romance that was that scene. Indeed, I think I even joked on this blog that, "I have seen the entire L-Word series, and I have never seen anything that gay happen on television." The writers GOT IT. There was something pure in that scene, something that spoke of a complete understanding of what it's like to be in a female same-sex couple. I personally identified with the level of devotion acted so perfectly by ADC as Lexa.
We rested easy after that. But we really shouldn't have.
The following episodes built up our trust in Clarke and Lexa as a solid pairing. We just knew they were going to kiss again, if not in Episode 6 then probably in Episode 7. I actually felt what it feels like to be normal, to see my love reflected on a screen, to be a true equal, at least on this one show, with this one pairing. And it felt euphoric. I think if you are not queer or any other minority, you cannot know what representation feels like. Because you are used to what it feels like so it feels like nothing to you. To us it is everything. The fandom was going wild with an explosion of creativity in the form of hilarious memes, inside jokes, and speculation about the wonderful future in store for Lexa and Clarke. And ourselves as equal participants in popular culture. For once. Finally.
Sure, we knew that ADC had her other series and was only available for a certain number of episodes this season. Sure we understood that Lexa's job as Commander – especially this season – was dangerous. We knew she could possibly be killed, and we knew that ADC's fate for any potential future seasons was questionable. But we also had constant reassurance from the writers and showrunner that we could trust them not to screw up these characters, that they were aware of the Trope and would avoid it even if ADC had to leave the show. Maybe she would go into exile. Maybe something else would separate them, but it was clear that they would be the main couple at least for this season.
How wrong we were to trust them. We were queerbaited in the most elaborate way imaginable. They made our pairing canon. They assured us not to worry, that they wouldn't take it in that worn-out direction, that they were progressive and cool. Every tweet, every post, every utterance in every interview was a flatout lie or, at best, misdirection. The "leaked" sex scene snippet seemed to confirm our every hope, that these two would be a couple, at least for a while.
They hyped Episode 7 like none before, and we all sat in anticipation because through the sort of fandom investigating and theorizing that every good show generates, it was deduced that the sex scene would happen in this episode, and we were so excited.
And then the love scene happened. And it was as beautiful, as tender, as perfect as anything we could have dreamed. And it was tasteful too, not in any way exploitative of the fact that they are both women, a scene not crafted exclusively for the male gaze. Living rooms across the nation, and indeed the world – because this fandom has spread to every corner of the globe, including countries where it is literally illegal to be LGBT – were cheering. It had finally happened. A new era was here.
For approximately five minutes.
When we came back from commercial, we immediately saw Lexa get shot by a stray bullet fired by an untrained hand – by her father figure Titus, no less, who had meant to shoot Clarke because he disapproved of their relationship. Lexa took the stray bullet, had no agency in her death – she wasn't even jumping in front of it for Clarke, which would've made it slightly better, though not much. But Clarke has medical training, right? She'll save Lexa. Everything will be okay.
But it wasn't. In the most heartbreaking scene I have ever witnessed in any media at any point in my life, Lexa died. Yes she died knowing Clarke loved her, but when Clarke recited the Traveler's Blessing, I knew it was over. I don't know what else happened in the episode, because all that rung in my ears was:
In peace may you leave this shore.
In love may you find the next.
Safe passage on your travels,
until our final journey to the ground.
May we meet again.
And I, along with our entire fandom, was tipped into desolation. This was not just a character dying. This was not just the end of a beautifully developed same-sex relationship unlike any other we had seen onscreen. It was the death of our hope. It was the death of our hope for ever feeling like we matter, like we are equal participants in this world. Despite whatever "progress" happens, people still hate us. Despite things like the marriage decision – which, frankly, will probably get reversed sometime – this was the assurance of what we have always suspected, always known in fact: We live in a culture that hates us and believes we deserve to die because of who we love. And make no mistake, Lexa was shot precisely because she loved Clarke, whatever context you might try to place around it.
And Lexa – the young Commander of the 12 Clans, an honorable warrior, smart, fearless, and so deeply, heartachingly human – was killed in the most meaningless, trite manner possible. A stray bullet, in an almost note-for-note rip-off of the heartbreaking death of Tara Maclay on Buffy in 2002, which also happened right after she and her girlfriend Willow reconciled and were shown in bed, in post-coital bliss, the only time this occurred between them in the series.
Say what you want about the shooting schedule, or contractual obligations, or "it's just a case of sloppy writing," or the fact that Lexa would eventually have to be written off the show regardless. Say what you want about her being "just a character." Say what you want about it being "just a show."
But if you say or think that, it's because you've never walked a mile in my shoes.
You've never been bullied or called names like "dyke" or "lezzie." You've never been stared at. You've never gone into a shop wondering if you'd be waited on when they see who you're with. You've never walked down the street and wondered if it's safe to hold your girlfriend's hand. No parent has said you'll never achieve anything in life because you're gay. You've never had the love of your life dishonored by being referred to as a "roommate" or "very good friend." You haven't been cut off from most of your relatives because you're considered a shame to the family. You've never wondered if you lost your job because you're gay and not for the stated reasons. You've never had a parent angrily read Bible verses to you after you came out to them. You've never seen your own father condemn "those homosexuals" to hell from the pulpit. You've never had someone condescendingly say, "Oh, I didn't know you were that way" when they find out. You've never had to question whether or not to mention your spouse in casual conversation. You've never worried that if your loved one got hurt in a car accident, the hospital might not let you in to see her.
I'd venture to guess you've never considered suicide because you live in a world that hates you, or you've never been barred from coming home to your family at Christmas. Your parents probably didn't boycott your wedding. And I bet you don't know what it's like to be so afraid to be who you are that you spent every day of your adolescence feeling doomed to a life of utter loneliness and despair. As a kid I never pictured my dream wedding or a family. I imagined myself as a grownup living alone in a cabin in the woods.
Maybe you've never even given these things a second thought. But everything I mention here has happened to me, and more. And I'm lucky because I came out as an early 20something, already away from home and self-supporting. There are kids kicked out of their homes every day. There are kids sent to brutal, futile "conversion therapy" programs. There are kids who engage in self-harm just to feel in control of one thing in their lives. You've seen it on the news. Kids commit suicide due to bullying and rejection by their families and friends.
There are reports, some still in the process of being confirmed, of young people having been hospitalized, having engaged in self-harm, and there has been at least one reported suicide triggered by this episode of The 100. I'm an adult, and I have diagnosed depression, and I have an arsenal of tools to manage it, but this stab at the heart of our community, this blatant manipulation of us for TV ratings, and the depiction of our love – once again, for the thousandth time – portrayed as punishable by death? It triggered what I hope will turn out to be a relatively short relapse, the first one I've had in several years. Since Thursday's episode I've been bombarded relentlessly by unbidden memories of every hurt that has ever stung me for being gay, every death or loss I've ever felt in my life. I have been plagued by feelings of hopelessness, and yes even suicidal thoughts. I know them for what they are and it's unlikely I'd ever act on them of course, but imagine a young, depressed, rejected, hurt queer person witnessing this broadcast as part of a family that rejects them for who they are. How could they not feel hopeless about living in this world? What other response could you possibly expect?
When your actors and crew have to start tweeting links to suicide hotlines, YOU FUCKED UP.
Shame on Jason Rothenberg and everyone else who made the decisions that led to this story and this episode. Shame on all of them for willfully manipulating a vulnerable audience into believing this time it's different. It's not.
I can no longer support a show that treats me, my love, my life, and my community like cheap, unworthy bullet fodder. I won't stand for it.
So no, it was not just a show. It represented far more than that. It represented a better world, a world where we are treated equally – not in a fictional future, but today. A world where we love who we love and don't get condemned or punished for it. But that dream got snatched away from us. Again. And I don't know if I'll live to see that world.
Maybe. Someday.
But that day is not today.
May we meet again in better times.


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Having released her debut album "The Spotlight" in April, reggae songstress Sophia Brown is this week announcing that based on tracking statements from several online distributors her album has sold 6,500 copies digitally to date.
According to Brown this marks her very first milestone as a new artist. "It really feels great to know that people are buying the album, the sales figures speaks volumes about the work i've put in knowing that I dont have a major deal with any record company i'm basically independent so that is wonderful".
Coming off a 5 week promotional tour of the U.S and Canada Brown recently returned to Jamaica to find her current single "Weak Tou You" still holding firm on several local charts. " I just last week came back in the island to find that my single is #4 on the FIWI Choice Top 20 Charts and #15 on the Jamaica Music Countdown List. I was away doing some promo for the album in places like Farmington Hill Michigan, Redding in Boston, a few places in Connecticut, Washington and Canada".
While Brown's trip was geared mainly towards pushing her album she incidental secured an endorsement deal with a New York based Clothing Line by the name Mizchif who also provides clothing for dancehall artists like Kiprich, Elephant Man, Da'ville and Wayne Marshall.
A philanthropist in her own right Brown has plans to also assist where possible to lest fortunate individuals. "I am a caring person who is always looking to help out so I have some clothing that I will be handing over to the Ronnie Thwaites Foundation who is currently providing assistance to fire victims. Big up Music Mecka, Icey Jace, Cell Block Music Group and everyone who is apart of my team".
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The Beatitudes – Matthew 5:3-12
"Happy are people who are hopeless, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 4 "Happy are people who grieve, because they will be made glad. 5 "Happy are people who are humble, because they will inherit the earth. 6 "Happy are people who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because they will be fed until they are full. 7 "Happy are people who show mercy, because they will receive mercy. 8 "Happy are people who have pure hearts, because they will see God. 9 "Happy are people who make peace, because they will be called God's children. 10 "Happy are people whose lives are harassed because they are righteous, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 11 "Happy are you when people insult you and harass you and speak all kinds of bad and false things about you, all because of me. 12 Be full of joy and be glad, because you have a great reward in heaven. In the same way, people harassed the prophets who came before you.
Prayer: O Jehovah God, you are our foundation, our shield and our defender. Help us follow the words and actions of Christ Jesus. Amen.


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"Love has no standards, it just comes unexpectedly and sometimes,
with the unexpected person..."
"Love has its own time, its own season, its own reasons for coming and
going. You cannot bribe it or coax it into staying. You can only embrace
it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you..."


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|Shana Tova
Pollyanna is back and wants to wish all our Jewish readers a Shana Tova U'mevurechet, שנה טובה ומבורכת a Happy and Blessed New Year for 5773 that begins next Thursday. Let us all hope that this next year will see a lessening of struggles and bloodshed around the world and a chance for peace. This is the time of year to assess yourself and maybe go to synagogue to think about what being Jewish means. Pollyanna refers you to the Reform Synagogues in Israel, sites in English, Russian and Hebrew. She also wishes a happy Labor Day weekend (Labour Day in Canada) to her North American readers. For the graduate students going back to school in the Northern Hemisphere, Pollyanna dedicates the following
For starters, let us refer you to the Miriam Shlesinger Human Rights action blog. As the weeks and months go by without Miriam, we continue to realize what we have lost. She got us into the human rights struggle. Please act on behalf of people who are so much in need of support in their trials and tribulations at the hands of oppressive regimes and corporations.
This week it is Pollyanna's turn to promote a charity. Her choice is Doctors Without Borders, an international NGO that does wonderful work around the world, from Haiti to Congo.
Please donate via the Web site. She also gives a thumbs up to the hospitals and doctors in Israel who are treating victims of the Syrian civil war.
On August 28, 1913, the great operatic tenor was born. He was one of the truly great ones. Here you can hear him singing Celeste Aida under the baton of Toscanini in 1949
Of course, Pollyanna cannot resist letting you hear Nessum Dorma.
He was also a wonderful cantor, indeed, he started in the synagogue. Here he is singing Kol Nidre which is appropriate for this time of year.
We heard him in Tel Aviv a few times. When Zubin Mehta gave us a bicentennial of Beethoven in 1970, he called on Richard Tucker for the Ode to Joy. Tucker related in a TV interview then that when he first sang Rhadames under Toscanini at the Met, he sang with pathos in the death scene at the end during a rehearsal. Toscanini banged the podium and shouted "You young fool, you are dying with the woman you love, sing with joy!" On Thursday, various events were held around New York in honor of Richard Tucker Day. We remember him fondly.
Pollyanna asks you to join the Amnesty International Campaign for My Body My Rights
This is a campaign about empowering young people, especially women and girls, to make their own decisions about reproductive and sexual health. She also would like to ask people of good will in Israel to show up on Saturday night at 19:00 in Habima Square in Tel Aviv to demonstrate against the forced eviction of 40,000 Bedouin citizens from their homes. In addition, she asks everyone to sign on to stop the Spanish government from further promotion of bullfighting as a Spanish cultural value.
Each year 250,000 magnificent animals are tortured and killed for human amusement. This is not acceptable.
On August 28, 1963 he delivered his "I have a dream" speech. We have nothing to add to it.
Today there is a black man in the White House. Yes, there are still inequalities and injustices, but the march of progress is there. Note his quotation from the prophet Amos.
ויגל כמים משפט וצדקה כנחל איתן
Let judgement flow like water and justice as a mighty stream.
Pollyanna says thumbs up to the Muslim girls of the UK who have found a simple way to avoid being sold by their fathers into a forced marriage (read abuse and slavery) in the homeland of their parents. A spoon in your underwear, the security magnetometer goes off and you have a chance to tell someone in authority what is being done to you. Bravissima girls. Almost half of the 1,500 cases a year handled by the Forced Marriage Unit involve Pakistan. Bangladesh counts for 11 per cent, and India eight per cent, the remainder being spread across about 60 countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Turkey. The youngest victim they have come across was aged two, the oldest was 71.
The most recent common ancestor of today's women, our mitochondrial Eve, lived about 150,000 to 240,000 years ago. The most recent common ancestor of men had been thought to be much younger. Now Y chromosome Adam has been found to have lived 120,000 to 156,000 years ago. That's roughly the same time that the last common ancestor of women is estimated to have lived, researchers report. No one says they were a couple, so creationists relax. Another study pushes the Y chromosome age back to over 300,000 years ago. It is interesting that the this Y chromosome age is much older than the homo sapiens fossil record. This will require more study, stay tuned. Sex with hominids, perish the thought.
The fortuitous discovery of a pulsar in our galaxy whose line of sight to us passes near our local black hole Sagittarius A* gives us a handle on the intensity of the magnetic field of the black hole. The change in the polarization of the waves, known as Faraday rotation, is related to the magnitude of the field. The field near the black hole may be as high as hundreds of gauss although uncertainties remain. Read the Nature article if you can access it. Pollyanna thinks this is cool.
The use of iron extracted from ore is thought to have begun in what is now Turkey in about 1300 BCE. New research indicates that thousands of years before that the Egyptians were using iron found in meteorites to make jewels and ornaments. They even had a word for the material, "metal from the sky." The Egyptians had a passion for jewelery, but use of meteoric iron certainly required the ability to reach high temperatures and contributed to the evolution of metal working and extraction technique
In terms of evolutionary biology, there would appear to be no reason why women should live on past their fertility years. It had long been thought that this was simply an artifact of better nutrition and health care, but now there is evidence that women lived past their childbearing years back in Stone Age times. There are various theories about it. Our primate cousins do not normally survive their fertile years, but oddly enough killer whales do. It has been proposed that grandmothering contributes to survival of children, i.e. the DNA of grandma survives in her granddaughters. Other theories deal with the apparent preference of human males for younger partners. Interesting question, not fully resolved.
What If asks :If you could teleport to a random place of the surface of the Earth, what are the odds that you'll see signs of intelligent life? The answer is interesting.
Wally who is the most dysfunctional person in the most dysfunctional company ever created by anyone's
imagination has good advice for us on how to prepare for disaster.
Our young friend and gym trainer Shira is studying to be a veterinarian. Pollyanna takes the liberty of pointing out what the profession may entail.
We have long been concerned with our living wills. We are glad to see that Maxine has resolved the issues with hers.


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Called to Speak: Six Strategies That Encourage Women's Political Activism
Publication Date: April 2006
Publisher(s): Institute for Women's Policy Research
Author(s): Amy Caiazza
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Politics (Political parties and groups)
Social conditions (Social values)
Keywords: religion; leadership; politics; women
Coverage: United States
Called to Speak outlines six successful strategies used by interfaith community groups to encourage women's political activism and leadership. These programs provide women something both simple and profound: the resources and opportunities they need to claim a voice of political and religious authority. Successful strategies described in the report include providing role models for women's political and religious leadership, creating space for women to address their discomfort with public voice, developing opportunities for women to cross lines of race, religion, and class, providing opportunities that ease women into leadership roles, developing mentoring programs, and making engagement easy and appealing based on the needs and concerns of women's lives.
The report includes in-depth examples of how organizations have used these strategies to successfully encourage women's political activism.


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Stephen Barmore came just a few tenths of a second from qualifying for the postseason in three events. Matt Bennett has two qualifying distances under his belt.
The Blue Knights wasted no time in their pursuit of the 2014 postseason. The 89-60 win over Hall was never in question. The only question for Blue Knight coach Colleen Roarty was how many kids would qualify for the postseason?
Southington hit the ground running with a handful of qualifyers and a large number of performances on the bubble.
"I was basically just looking for our kids to set some personal records, and a lot of our guys reached them," said the coach. "I wanted to get some people qualified for states. We had the standards written down. They all knew where they'd have to be, and a lot of them achieved it."
Southington cruised to victory with wins in 11 events and another nine runners up. The Knights swept two out of three throwing events, and had multiple place winners in 11 different events.
If there were any questions at the start of the meet, they were quickly answered.
"I was really happy with our performance," said Roarty. "I researched Hall to find their strengths and weakness, but you never know what will happen. They could have come out with someone phenomenal."
In fact, the Knights were the big surprise. Barmore swept the sprints with state qualifying times in the 100m (11.05) and the 200m (22.91), and he only needs a few tenths of a second to qualify in the 400m.
Bennett dominated in the shot put (47'2.5"), but he also qualified in the discus (129'6"). Still, it was the large number of performances just under the standard that turnd Roarty's head.
Charles Morelli needs just a few tenths of a second in the 100m hurdles (16.57) and a few seconds in the 300m hurdles (48.17). Alessio Diana (19'7") and Matt Maxwell (18'11.5") are flirting with the long jump standard, and Maxwell is within sights of a berth in the high jump (5'4"). Daniel Smolinski (10') is already within a foot of qualifying in the pole vault.
A number of others set the bar high for the spring in less than ideal conditions.
"It was really windy, so I think we'll do even better next time," said Roarty. "I expect even more things as the season progresses. This is just a start."
The only events that Hall won were the distance races, but even that saw a number of performances well within reach of a state qualifying time.
"Hall has a really strong distance team, so I don't want to take away from our distance guys," said Roarty. "They did such a good job. Some of them did two, three, or four events, and that's just huge for distance runners. It might have been difficult for a lot of them to place, but it certainly wasn't because we did a bad job."
Now, the Knights have a full week to tinker with their performances. Southington's only road meet has been rescheduled from Tuesday because of rain. The meet against Newington will be held as a tri-team competition with New Britain on Southington's track on May 20. The Knights will resume action against Simsbury on April 22.
Blue Knights cruise past Hall; Boys Track team wins easily in the season opener
By John Goralski


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In the late winter or early spring of 1989, I got a phone call from Lex Kaplen, who had been a fact checker at The New Yorker. I was on the copydesk, and had been there for seven years, a Biblical amount of time. Lex was eating as we talked—I pictured a jelly doughnut. He asked if I was interested in joining him and others who had been colleagues at The New Yorker on the startup of a new magazine called Wigwag.
I was wary. For one thing, I was affronted that someone would seriously offer me a job over the phone with food in his mouth. For another, I didn't like the name: Wigwag. It sounded like an eager puppy, all wiggly and waggy. But I liked the other people Lex had recruited. Nancy Holyoke, whom I'd met in my first job at The New Yorker, in the editorial library, would be the managing editor—we had always had fun working together. Evan Cornog, an ex-checker, would be the political editor. I would be the head of the copy department and would get to set style. I could jettison the diaeresis, impose my own logic on the hyphen, and defy Webster's by, say, making two words out of "hardworking." There was a possibility of doing some actual editing, but, most important, I could write.
My father was chief among those who thought I was crazy for giving up a stable job at a well-established magazine. But I knew what would happen if I stayed: nothing much. There were no openings at the next level of copy editing. I had friends, but the most I might look forward to professionally was someday perhaps being trusted to edit a book review. Leaving was the only way of finding out what might have been.
And so Lex lured me.
The Wigwag office was in SoHo, on Spring Street, downstairs from a place where a man dealt in geological survey maps, two blocks from the Spring Street Natural. Lex set the tone for the office. His favorite outfit was Bermuda shorts and a cardigan sweater. Sometimes he wore flip-flops. He was twenty-nine, and had brown hair and a beard, and was not very tall, with a comfortable layer of padding. His most endearing trait was his high-pitched laugh. One of his least was the habit of saying, the second he came through the door in the morning, "You know what you can do, Mare?" Lex was a great fan of old movies and vintage television, and his ideal office may have been the one in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." On the phone that day, he'd said we would have Martinis in the office every Friday, but that never happened.
There was a core of seven or eight people on the staff. Besides Lex and Nancy, there was Sam Schulman, the publisher, who looked like an Ed Koren character and surprised me by being deeply conservative. Caroline Fraser, also from The New Yorker, and also a writer, was the fact-checking department. Elizabeth Macklin came and went as the poetry editor (a part-time position). Later, Julie Just, of The New Yorker fiction department, joined us. Harriet Brown, a copy editor, was one of the few who did not come from The New Yorker. We had a series of staff writers (Steve Sherrill, Tom Hackett) and receptionists (Claudia Rowe, Bobby Worth). And Lex attracted assistants from all over: Christie Fountain, a former stewardess, came down from Connecticut to wait on Lex; Emily Nunn, originally from Galax, Virginia, by way of Atlanta, Georgia, moved to New York from Oberlin to be Lex's assistant. Offstage was the art director, Paul Davis, who, with his wife, Myrna, ran a studio a few blocks uptown. There was a lot of art in Wigwag—every piece was illustrated, and Lex was a pioneer of graphs and charts and maps—and the production assistant (Piera Pellegrino, Lynne Rabinowitz) spent a lot of time ferrying materials back and forth to Paul and Myrna.
So who was this Alexander Kaplen that he could set so much industry in motion? All I knew was that he was the youngest of three brothers from a wealthy family in Englewood, New Jersey. I had the impression that his dad built shopping malls. He had the confidence of someone who had been treated as a wunderkind at home. He graduated from Harvard, spent two years in The New Yorker_'_s checking department, tossed off a Comment for the issue of August 26, 1985, and left to go to Yale Law School. He was popular in checking. His boss, Sara Lippincott, said that he was "a smart guy and a reliable checker." He once organized a checking-department outing to a place in Pennsylvania Dutch country that served what was, according to him, the world's best sticky bun. I heard two versions of this story. In one, a massive traffic jam just outside the Lincoln Tunnel discouraged a carful of checkers, and they turned back; they later learned that a truck carrying watermelons had overturned, and the cars behind it had lost control. In the other, a carload of checkers made it to the mythical restaurant, only to be underwhelmed by the food. Lex's idea of home-cooked heaven turned out to be what Nancy Franklin, his good friend in checking, remembers as "heavy beige clumpy food."
Now, what kind of a magazine would come from the mind of a guy who organized a pilgrimage to Pennsylvania in search of a sticky bun? What was Wigwag? The word "wigwag" comes from military and naval parlance: "to send a signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code"; "to make a signal, as by waving the hand or arm." Lex's spin on it was that "wigwag" meant "to flag someone home"; for instance, when a third-base coach is waving a runner home, the sportscaster might say (though I never heard one say it), "And Coach Smartz gives him the wigwag."
Wigwag was a general-interest magazine that included some of the same kinds of things that The New Yorker ran—reporting, fiction, columns on the arts—along with quirkier features: a bedtime story, a map contributed by a reader ("Dogs of Westhampton, Mass."), a Family Tree of, say, TV sitcom writers or celebrity hairdressers. Its heart was a section called Letters from Home, in which writers from towns big and small (Baltimore; Dripping Springs, Texas) kept readers abreast of the local goings on. (If that sounds like the news from Lake Wobegon, bingo: the target audience for Wigwag was people who listen to public radio.) We solicited writing from everywhere, and ran pieces by Peter Matthiessen, John Lahr, Garry Wills, Jane Smiley, George Packer, Michael Cunningham, Terry McMillan ("How Stella Got Her Groove Back"). Nancy invited Wallace Shawn to contribute a bedtime story, and he wrote back on hand-scrawled letterhead, dated May 13, 1989: "Dear Nancy Holyoke, I am flattered that you think I could write something suitable for children. If you knew me better, you would know this isn't a possibility."
Lex followed through on some truly whimsical ideas—there was a polka-dot issue—and he liked to match writers with unexpected stories. Casting against type, he sent me to a hedonist camp in Jamaica, where I sat fully clothed on a nude beach. He gambled on an Angolan writer named Sousa Jamba to write a Letter from Springfield. There are forty-nine Springfields in the United States (not counting the one on "The Simpsons"), and every month Sousa Jamba got off the bus in a different one. He was a strangely incurious reporter, who expected people to be at least as interested in him as he was in them.
In those days, we lived and died by the assessment of someone named Samir A. Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi, who got trotted out in every article about new magazines. We knew that we needed investors, and the competition was fierce—scads of magazines were launched in the eighties. Lex, a student of the newsstand, once arranged them all on a table to show us what we were up against: Spy, Smart, Manhattan Inc., Lear's, 7 Days, Egg, Fame, Sassy, Taxi, Spin. The one that got the biggest laugh ("Hah! That will never last") was Martha Stewart Living.
The hope from the beginning was that some big publishing group would acquire the magazine. Lex and Sam were always going off to pitch Wigwag to potential investors. We were optimistic. My vision of life as a founding editor at a successful magazine was having a sunny corner office in a big corporate palace; every year I'd take a two-week scuba-diving trip to Aruba or Turks and Caicos, or maybe the Red Sea.
It was December, 1990. The name Katharine Graham had come up, and Lex and Sam went down to Washington to talk to her people. We all gravitated to the conference table and sat nervously, waiting for word of how the meeting had gone and wondering what would happen to us. Nancy had given her all, and she had a lot of responsibility, with a son and a husband. Harriet was pregnant with her first child. Emily had moved to New York to be part of this.
Katharine Graham's strategists nixed the deal. It was like going off a cliff. Our last issue came out in March, 1991. Wigwag was nominated posthumously for a National Magazine Award (it lost). The office was liquidated. Lex fell out of touch with everyone who had worked for him; that seemed to be his pattern.
Deep in my closet is my archive of Wigwags: a complete set of fifteen issues. A few years ago, a writer named Brent Cox revisited Wigwag for The Awl, and I came in for exactly the knock I was afraid of: my Letter from Astoria in the début issue was an "anachronism"—dated, old-fashioned, as soft as its retro subject, which was Weight Watchers. At the time, Lex had praised the writing, saying I had "the common touch." But to be successful Wigwag needed to be cutting edge. This thing Lex had for "home," and the yearning for it that ran like a thread through every issue—tellingly, his favorite book was "Howards End"—may have been too sweet and vulnerable for the hard-knocks publishing world.
Lex survived the hard knocks of the real world until December 16, 2015, when he died suddenly, at fifty-six. I heard it from Nancy, who heard it from Harriet, who heard it from Evan, who heard it from Sam. At first, no cause was given, which was worrisome; we later learned that it was cardiac arrest, and then we were sad.
How could we feel so bad about someone we hadn't seen in twenty-five years? We had all been disappointed about Wigwag, of course, but none of us would have felt it as keenly as Lex. In the months after the magazine folded, I imagined Lex picking himself up and going into something forward-looking, like Web content. Instead, he went into radio, and the only time I heard his name again was when the public-radio station had a fund-raiser, and the producers thanked Alexander Kaplen, of the Kaplen Foundation, for his support. Wigwag_'s_ diaspora covered a wide area. Nancy Holyoke went out to Wisconsin to launch another new magazine, American Girl. Harriet Brown became a science writer and teaches in the journalism school at Syracuse University. Julie Just went on to edit the children's books section of the Times Book Review. Bobby Worth is Robert F. Worth, of the front-page byline in the New York Times. Lex not only brought us together but sent us down different paths than we'd been on before he gave us the wigwag.
I slunk back to The New Yorker, where it was discovered that I had developed judgment, and after another twenty years of copy editing I got a book out of my day job. In the promotional materials for the book, Wigwag somehow got scrubbed from my biography. It didn't fit in; it looked like a detour. Lex fell out of my story, and when he died I felt I had denied him. So this is just to say, for the record, that all of us who went on that trip were shaped by Lex—him of the Bermuda shorts and the high-pitched laughter—and by our experience at Wigwag.


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Lake Welsh 2015 Survey Report (PDF 710.8 KB)
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Lake Welsh - 2015 Survey Report
Prepared by Lynn D. Wright and Timothy J. Bister
Inland Fisheries Division – Marshall District
This is the authors' summary from a 24-page report. For a copy of the complete report, use the download link in the sidebar.
Fish populations in Lake Welsh were surveyed in 2015 using electrofishing and in 2016 using hoop netting. Anglers were surveyed from December 2015 through February 2016 with a creel survey. Historical data are presented with the 2015-2016 data for comparison. This report summarizes the results of the surveys and contains a management plan for the reservoir based on those findings.
Reservoir Description
Lake Welsh is a 1,333-acre cooling reservoir for coal-fueled power generation. The reservoir is located in Titus County on Swaunano Creek in the Big Cypress River Basin. Habitat features consist of standing timber, rocky shoreline, riprap, native aquatic plants, and hydrilla.
Management History
Sport fish include Largemouth Bass and Channel Catfish. Largemouth Bass have been managed under an 18-inch minimum length limit, 5 fish daily bag limit since September 1994. All other sport fishes in Lake Welsh have been managed with statewide regulations. Florida Largemouth Bass stockings in 1975 and 1976 were successful in establishing the Florida Largemouth Bass genetics in the population. In 2011, fish attractors (sunken Christmas trees) were deployed at 6 locations in the reservoir.
Fish Community
- Prey species: Threadfin Shad were present in the reservoir. Gizzard Shad have not been collected since 1993. Electrofishing catch of Bluegill in 2015 was higher than previous years. Few Bluegill were over 5-inches long, which provided excellent prey for Largemouth Bass.
- Catfishes: The Channel Catfish abundance was low and only 4% of the total angling effort targeted Channel Catfish in the winter creel period. Flathead Catfish were present in the reservoir.
- Largemouth bass: Largemouth Bass were more abundant in 2015 than the previous surveys and exhibited quality size structure and condition. Largemouth Bass growth was fast. The average age of 14-inch Largemouth Bass was 1.5 years. Almost all (96%) of angling effort during the 2015/2016 winter creel survey was directed for Largemouth Bass.
Management Strategies
- Conduct electrofishing surveys in 2017 and 2019 and a required aquatic vegetation survey in 2019.
- Additional vegetation surveys will be conducted from 2016-2018 to monitor changes in hydrilla.
- Largemouth Bass will continue to be managed under the current 18-inch minimum length limit.
- All other sport fish will continue to be managed under statewide harvest regulations.
Performance Report as required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act Texas Federal Aid Project F-221-M-6 Inland Fisheries Division Monitoring and Management Program


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We at Griffith Foods have long recognized the power of merging the artistic and scientific mindset. Griffith Foods is focused on "creating better together" and we are excited to be part of this program, which we believe will help create better food, together as an industry, for the consumer." – Jim Thorne, General Manager, Griffith Foods
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