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Name: Jay
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Why she needs help:
Jay (age 39) reached out to CMP through facebook. She is not a veteran but is a representative of many of the single mothers out there who must depend on government assistance to survive. She has two young boys (5 yrs old and 7 years old) who depend on her for their safety and well being.
Over a year ago a pipe busted in her kitchen and above her boys bedroom. The water in the kitchen was black and the water in the bedroom was soaked up by the rug. The landlords did the bare minimum to "clean" the water.
So now, Jay is living in a rat infested, black mold growing, HUD approved apartment complex. She has brought up the issues to the landlord, housing authority, HUD, and county health inspectors. After doing so, she has been told to leave because they can't do anything.
When did we as a society determine that it's okay for poor folks to live is such horrible conditions? She isn't the only one this is happening to, but she IS the only one speaking out and being punished for it.
Her little boy has been diagnosed with sever allergies and asthma, and will eventually need a breathing machine. He's 7 years old. His leg breaks out with a rash and blisters some times from the mold in the rugs.
She's in the process of getting the voucher transferred to another apartment, but she needs the funds to help her move and get back on track towards independence.
She was saving money and starting to do better for her family until the black mold spread and her boy became sick. Now all of her time and money goes towards dr visits and transportation.
Before Jay was approved for Section 8, she was in the shelter with her boys. She doesn't want to go backwards, so LET'S help her move forward.
CMP is asking that the community help with the following needs:
- Transportation (CMP can help her find a car for under $3,500 and we'd like to pay for three months insurance, usually $40-50/m)
- 2 Booster Seats for the boys ($50)
- Medication assistance ($200)
- Movers to new place ($500 - $700)
- Beds for her boys ($1,200)
- First month apartment rental payment (they are open to living any where in Los Angeles county, close to the boys father $2,000 estimate)
Estimated total: $7800
I know this seems like a lot, but this is the cost for CMP to help put this family back on track. No other organization is willing to do this. The county programs spend 1,000,000s of dollars to "help" people who are homeless, but nothing is really being done. This solution is very little compared to what we spend as tax payers.
NOTE: CMP will be doing follow up visits with them and will post updates on this page. Please make sure to bookmark to follow her story to success.


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The Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 will probably soon become a collector's item. There are only 500 of them in the world, and when Audio Advisor's allotment of Nu-Vista 300s is gone, there will be no more; last time I checked, there were fewer than 90 left in stock. So if this review has whetted your audiophile appetite, you'd better get busy before it's too late.
But the amp's collectibility alone is not reason enough to buy it. The Nu-Vista 300 combines many of the best attributes of tube and solid-state power amplifiers. Its powerful high-current design is claimed to be capable of outputting 1000W into 2 ohms, yet it sounds as delicate and liquid as a good tube amp. Not that you'd ever mistake it for one---its presentation is both too quiet and a bit too lean in the mids, and perhaps slightly too crystalline on top, to ever be mistaken for a tube sound. But it's never harsh or grainy, and has enough of a grip on the midband to give music a rich, satisfying bite.
Free of grain, liquid, effortless, bass that was taut and deep, extended and airy highs, a fine overall tonal balance, solid imaging, fine soundstaging, and black, utterly silent backgrounds---these were but a few of the performance features that make it easy to say that this is an impressive, exciting-sounding amplifier. Given the Nu-Vista's sound, build quality, virtually unlimited power, attractive cosmetics, and potential collectibility, its asking price of $5495 makes it a bargain among high-powered amplifiers. Given its power, sonic performance, build quality, and cosmetic excellence, the Nu-Vista has to be considered an outstanding value.
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In the continental USA there are numerous underground bases. I will briefly list just some of the bases that my research has uncovered over the last 17 years. There are assuredly many more than those listed here.
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■ Camp David, the Presidential retreat, is immediately adjacent to Catoctin Mountain Park. On the surface there are some cabins and lodges, and conference rooms for Presidential use. But most of this facility runs like a labyrinthine anthill under Catoctin Mountain, just west of Thurmont, Maryland, along Rte. 15 between Frederick, Maryland and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The facility is operated and maintained by the U.S. Navy Seabees. The U.S. Marines provide military security. I have spoken to an individual who used to work there on a classified maintenance contract.
My source informed me that the underground portions of Camp David are so extensive and elaborate, and there are so many miles of secret tunnels, that it is doubtful that any one person would have a complete map of the facility in his or her mind.
In other words, we hear or read the words, Camp David, in the mainstream news media, but understand virtually nothing of what really happens there, or what the full nature of the installation really is.
Commentary from Alex Thomas: The fact that they have moved the G8 meetings to Camp David indicates that G8 nations may be actually doing their most important meetings within the underground base near Camp David.
■ Fort Meade, near Laurel, Maryland, midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. My research, from a variety of sources, indicates that there is a huge underground maze beneath Fort Meade.
Fort Meade is operated by the U.S. Army, but the National Security Agency (NSA) has its largest, publicly known operations center there. The NSA has literally acres upon acres of super computers underground at Fort Meade, stacked level upon level, going down and down and down, like a gargantuan subterranean stack of hi-tech digital pancakes.
The NSA is notorious for the ECHELON spying program and other unconstitutional spying activities. It is something like a high-tech KGB or Stasi surveillance agency, spying on the American population's electronic and digital communications.
■ FEMA alternate underground command center, off of Riggs Road, not far from Olney, Maryland, to the north of Washington, D.C. When I visited the place back in the 1990s, only a few shabby, almost dilapidated looking buildings were visible through the security fence.
A few vent pipes poked above the ground here and there. There were a few largish antennae and radio masts visible. The casual onlooker would probably just drive right by, unaware that the real activity was taking place below ground.
I spoke with one man who had been in the facility and he described a multi-level base crammed full of sophisticated electronic gear. He had been to level seven underground, but did not know if the base extended deeper than that, or whether it was connected via deep tunnels with other underground bases in the region.
■ Site R, also known as Raven Rock or the Underground Pentagon, is about 6 miles north-northeast of the Camp David facility, not far from the Maryland-Pennsylvania state line. This enormous facility is the alternate underground command center for the Pentagon.
In recent years Dick Cheney reportedly spent a lot of time underground at Site R. I have heard that Site R and Camp David are connected by underground tunnels, and I am inclined to believe the rumors are true.
Site R is now under the command of Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland, to the northwest of Washington, D.C.. Fort Detrick is the U.S. Army's infamous biological warfare research facility.
■ Mount Weather, near Bluemont, Virginia on Rte. 601, is the major underground command center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA has a 400 acre complex on the surface of the mountain. The underground base is very large, and actually qualifies as a high-tech, subterranean town. This base dates to the 1950s.
■ The Pentagon, in northern Virginia, the national military command center, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.. The Pentagon was built directly on the site of Robert E. Lee's former plantation.
I have been told that there are multiple underground levels beneath the Pentagon. I don't know how deep the complex goes, but elsewhere in this book I discuss plans dating to the 1960s to build a very deep base at the 3,500 foot level. I consider it likely that something like this has been done.
■ U.S. Army Warrenton Training Stations A and B, in the near vicinity of Warrenton, Virginia are ostensibly U.S. Army facilities. But in reality, my research showed that there is a CIA presence there. As for what sorts of operations take place there – who knows? I visited these places in June of 1992 and found Station A on Rte. 802; Station B is on Bear Wallow Road.
There are also Stations C and D elsewhere in the region, which I did not visit. In the course of my research, I called up Col. Fletcher Prouty, the well-known author of the book, The Secret Team.
For many years, at the height of the Cold War, Prouty was a liaison officer for the Air Force, helping the CIA with its clandestine activities worldwide. I surmised that if anyone ought to know something about what was going on at Warrenton it should be Fletcher Prouty.
So I put the question to him point blank, and asked him what the CIA was doing underground at a U.S. Army training installation in Warrenton, Virginia. To begin with, he confirmed that the CIA was indeed present in Warrenton, and was using the U.S. Army as a cover.
I asked him what was going on underground. He responded, "Well, you have to understand that that gets into the realm of Special Operations and that's classified." And that was all that I could pry out of him. I suspect the entire locale is tunneled out underground.
The palpable Alice in Wonderland aura exuded by the Warrenton U.S. "Army" Training Stations continues to linger in my memory, even with the passage of 17 years.
■ Before leaving Virginia, I also want to say something about another low profile CIA facility. Camp Peary is located just a few miles from Colonial Williamsburg. It is sometimes referred to as "The Farm" in popular parlance.
Though it is hard to find out much about the base, enough is known to say with confidence that Camp Peary is the CIA's main training and operations base in the USA. As with the Warrenton Training Stations, the CIA uses a thin U.S. military cover at Camp Peary; in this case, maps indicate that Camp Peary is a U.S. Navy Reservation.
I am a native Virginian, from the Tidewater region, and spent my early childhood in a community just 20 miles away from Camp Peary. In the 1970s I attended the College Of William & Mary, in Colonial Williamsburg. Camp Peary lies just to the east of the town of Williamsburg, on the northern side of Interstate Highway 64. I have driven past the place numerous times over the years and it has always seemed darkly brooding to me.
Camp Peary lies on the York River; immediately to the southeast lies the U.S. Navy's Cheatham Annex, a major weapons supply depot for the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, part of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station. This interests me, because many years ago I spoke with a woman whose father worked at the Cheatham Annex/Yorktown Naval Weapons Station complex in the years after World War II.
He was a construction worker, and at that time, about 60 years ago, the U.S. Navy was building a facility deep below the water line. The whole site lies only a few feet above sea level, so the water table is very close to the surface. The Navy used high powered water pumps to instantly pump out the brackish ground water that was rushing in, to keep the excavation from filling with water.
My acquaintance told me that her father said they used a fast setting concrete. She did not know the purpose of the facility. The instructive part of the story is that even then, 60 years ago, military engineers had the capability to construct facilities below the water line, using high powered pumps and quick setting concrete.
Moreover, the Navy's Cheatham Annex lies immediately adjacent to the CIA's secretive Camp Peary base, nominally administered by the U.S. Navy. Considering the Navy's construction activities 60 years ago, and recalling that the Camp David Presidential retreat in Maryland is also administered by the U.S. Navy and lies above a major underground base hidden beneath it, I conclude that there is a high probability that the Camp Peary/Cheatham Annex area along the York River is underlain by an underground complex, too.
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■ The White House has a very large, deeply buried facility underneath it. One of my close friends was taken down into this facility during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration in the 1960s. She entered an elevator in the White House and was escorted straight down.
She believes that the elevator went down 17 levels. When the door opened underground she was escorted down a corridor that appeared to disappear to the vanishing point in the distance. Other doors and corridors opened off of that corridor. That was what Washington, D.C. was really like underground almost half a century ago.
■ My research indicates that Washington, D.C. has a veritable labyrinth of tunnels beneath it. Some of the tunnels are publicly known, such as the Metro tunnels and the underground train tunnels that members of Congress use to travel from their office buildings to the Capitol building.
As I discuss elsewhere in this book, I have been told and read stories of other tunnels that are more secret. In light of the available evidence, I incline to the view that these stories contain an appreciable degree of truth.
■ Medina Annex, at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio. This facility lies in southwest San Antonio, on the south side of Rte. 90, immediately west of the junction of Interstate 410 and Rte. 90. This is one of the original Q Areas built by the Pentagon back in the late 1940s and 1950s for the storage and assembly of nuclear weapons.
Local lore has it that the underground portion is very large. I have been told that the underground base is very deep and cold, for whatever reason. The National Security Agency (NSA) also has a major presence at the Medina Annex with thousands of personnel. I have on occasion driven by the Medina Annex on Rte. 90 and the base has a very dark, ominous presence.
■ Camp Bullis, in northwest San Antonio, Texas, not too far from Interstate Highway 10. This is an Army training base, immediately adjacent to neighboring Camp Stewart, another Army base that keeps a much lower profile. I have been told that the Camp Bullis/Camp Stewart reservation is the site of an underground base.
■ Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, 70 miles north of Austin. This was also the site of one of the original Q Areas. I have been told that the area of Fort Hood, and the former Killeen and Gray Air Force Bases, are the site of a secret underground complex. I communicated with one ex-Fort Hood soldier whose duty area was at a checkpoint two miles inside a tunnel leading to an underground area, near the former Gray Air Force Base.
■ Offutt Air Force Base has had a major underground facility for decades. During the Cold War it was the underground command center for the Strategic Air Command. George Bush flew there for protection on Air Force One during the 9/11 attacks.
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■ Since the late 1940s there has been a major underground base at Kirtland Air Force Base. The base is beneath a foothill of the Manzano Mountains. It was originally constructed as a super-secure nuclear weapons assembly and storage facility for the military.
Today the base is used by other agencies. The Air Force has built another, state of the art, facility for nuclear weapons storage at another location at Kirtland AFB. The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory is immediately adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base, on the southeast border of Albuquerque.
I talked with one of the men who helped to build the Manzano base in the years after World War II. He spent his entire career as a hard rock miner for federal agencies, working on underground projects all over the western USA. While excavating the Manzano base, security was extreme.
The miners were blindfolded when they were transported to and from their work site. When they were taken from the area where they were working to another part of the facility they were always blindfolded. The practical result of this procedure was that not even the miners who built the underground base knew its layout.
All they ever saw was the immediate chamber or tunnel section they were currently working on. It was a strictly compartmentalized project in every sense of the word. I suspect that this facility has been expanded over the years.
■ Los Alamos is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national research laboratories, to the west of the state capitol of Santa Fe. I have been informed that the underground work space beneath Los Alamos is even greater in extent than the sprawling surface facility, reaching as much as one mile deep in its farthest reaches.
Two of the main missions of Los Alamos are nuclear and genetic research. Presumably classified projects related to these fields are among the secret activities carried out underground.
■ White Sands Missile Range, in south-central New Mexico, is the largest military base in the USA. It was the site of the first test explosion of an atomic bomb in 1945. White Sands was the launch site for test firing of captured Nazi V-2 rockets after the military defeat of the Third Reich.
Today it is still an operational military missile range, and also serves as an alternate space shuttle landing site for NASA. Underground facilities beneath White Sands are reportedly devoted to cutting edge research in lasers and conscious super-computing. The sum of my research strongly indicates a major underground component at White Sands. Nothing would surprise me where White Sands is concerned. Nothing whatsoever.
■ The notorious Area 51 of UFO fame and the Tonopah Test Range/Nevada Test Site/S-4/Nellis Air Force Base reservations in southern Nevada are all in relatively close proximity to each other.
My research and sources point to major, massive underground facilities in this region. A great deal of ultra-sensitive military R&D takes place here. Much popular lore has arisen around the theme of captured UFOs held in secret by the American military at Area 51.
In my estimation, these stories are probably true. Ryan Wood and other researchers have accumulated a great deal of evidence over the years that indicates that American military agencies are lying and that they do have captured UFOs. Area 51 is reportedly one of the places where this sort of technology is sequestered and studied. It is my informed guess that White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico is another site for the study and R&D of exotic techologies
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The spring wedding theme is steadily growing in popularity, and it is thought that the spring wedding theme may one day even usurp the popularity of the summer wedding.
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Buddy, the branch, was very unhappy: What good am I? I'm just hanging here, not learning to do anything on my own and I can't do a single thing without consulting with the vine. He thinks he is so important! He's always right! Hey, I have some talents, too, but do I get to use them? Oh, no, I'm totally dependent! That's what I am and I hate being dependent on someone else. I have my own dreams to live and wonderful visions to accomplish.
Complain, complain, complain. Then, one day some men come and cut off some of the branches on the tree and put them in a big truck and carry them away. Buddy thought: Look! They've been set free! If only I were free like that! What I could do on my own! People would know who "Buddy the branch" was or my name ain't Chuckawallabillredfield! I can promise you that! Oh, brother! Those branches were so happy to be set free from this life of being a nobody. They were all clapping their hands and waving. What fun! I wish that truck would come back and get me.
In spite of the fact that Buddy was a male, he was not thinking pragmatically as most of the male species is prone to do. (Pragmatic: testing the validity of all concepts by their practical results) There were some facts of which our leafy friend was not aware:
- A branch dies when it is not attached to its "life" source, the vine.
- The only strength a branch has comes from the vine.
- A branch cannot bear fruit apart from the vine. What a silly picture that isa branch struggling to produce fruit! Of all the groaning and grunting and sweatingto no avail! I've been there.
- A branch loses all its beauty when separated from the vine.
- The truck takes the "happy little" branches and grinds them up and uses them for compost.
Is your name "Buddy"? Mine was for years. I would read the verses that talk about the vine and the branches and my impotence and promptly pick up my purse and head out the door to "produce some fruit." As a female I tend to think "subjectively" instead of "pragmatically." Look at those people. They are so happy, and they are accomplishing so much FOR the Lord. I can do that! Look out world! Here comes Anabel.
I finally heard what the Lord was saying to me: "Anabel, sweet thing, without Me you can do nothing." "But, Lord, I do some things quite well!" "Get out your dictionary, Anabel, and look up the meaning of the word, nothing. Tell Me, Honey, what does it mean?" "It means: 1) no thing, not anything 2) nothingness 3) something that does not exist 4) a person or thing considered of little or no importance 5) a zero. It means . . . well, it means nothing." "Now do you understand, dear child?" "Yes, Lord. I understand. I can try to be something or someone on my own; I can try to produce fruit and accomplish great dreams and visions for You. But, the truth of the matter is this: Anything that I do has no beauty or lasting endurance. Without You, I can do nothing."
That's approaching the scripture pragmatically and applying it both pragmatically and subjectively to my walk with the Lord. By the way, I've changed my name from "Buddy" to "Clinger." I'm the "clinging vine" type now, and I've grown to love every minute of it! (See John 15: 2-6 / II Corinthians 3:5)


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We are totally in love with the Celebrity Solstice Cruise Ship. We often admire passenger ships from afar as they gracefully glide up the River Derwent into Hobart. We've snapped countless photos and shared via Facebook; and we've always wondered what it would be like on board. And now, thanks to an invitation for Think Tasmania to join a port tour, we know the reality is just a magical as we'd imagined.
Cruise Ship: On Board in Hobart Tasmania
Firstly, we must admit it would be impossible to share everything about this cruise ship in a single article. During our few hours on board, we took 200 photos and walked 20kms. Okay, maybe not quite that far, but this beauty is massive. It would be understandable if all the passengers stayed on board and admired the views of Hobart right from their home-away-from-home.
Passengers Touring Tasmania
Clearly the guests don't stay on board the cruise ship all day. Thankfully for the tourism operators and business owners in Tasmania, most areas were practically abandoned by passengers during our walk-around. They were off on buses and walking tours, possibly enjoying the Wooden Boat Festival.
I'd hate to give you the impression that gazing at the views is the only option on the Celebrity Solstice. Nice option that it is, you can get active if you want. The cruise ship employs two full time gardeners to maintain a real lawn on the top deck, and passengers can play various outdoor games.
Of course, what would a cruise ship be without a pool and deck chairs? Celebrity Solstice has indoor pools, outdoor pools and spa pools. Absolutely no shortage in that department. They all looked so inviting, we just wanted to stake a claim on a lounge and dip our toes in!
Celebrity Solstice: Attention All Passengers
The upmarket Celebrity Solstice is essentially aimed at the adult traveller, but our guide was quick to point out that children were more than welcome. The cruise ship offers both child-free zones, and places the kids can cut loose.
Parents are required to supervise their own children at meal-times; otherwise the juniors and seniors can go their own ways.
Just imagine… breakfast, a dip in the pool, a quick game of table tennis, maybe shoot a few hoops. And then retire to the lounge with a good book while the kids hit the PlayStation or the air hockey table. While the kids are still happy, you could have a spa or get your hair done. Bliss!
Wining and Dining Pleasure
During the tour, you get the sense that a major focus aboard Celebrity Solstice is food and wine. You'd be kidding yourself if you weren't impressed by the range of dining and drinking options. On just this cruise ship alone, there was everything from room service, all-day buffet selections, coffee shops, cocktail bars, Chinese banquets… right through to fine dining. Not only are the passengers helping tourism operators in Hobart, they're also eating food and drinking beverages that need to be restocked by local suppliers.
It doesn't matter what time hunger strikes either… somewhere on board there will be food available. Even if you choose to stay in your room in your PJs all day, one of the fabulously friendly staff will bring you refreshments.
Most of the food is included in the cost of your cruise ship holiday. Some restaurants incur a small surcharge and alcoholic beverages are an extra expense, but sold at reasonable prices.
At the conclusion of our Celebrity Solstice tour, we were invited into the main dining room to sample the food. Gee, it was good too. The sweet corn soup was so divine… craving that right now! Beef with mashed potato and tempura beans, washed down with a glass of wine. All followed by a chocolate and mocha dessert. Yum! The staff were very friendly and by necessity they're efficient, because they serve two sittings every evening and cater for hundreds of passengers.
Good Health and Happiness on a Cruise Ship
If all this talk about eating and drinking has you worried about your waistline… there's a gym on board. Apparently the multitude of exercise equipment is very under-utilised during the first few days of any cruise. Then around day three, the guilt kicks in and passengers start working up a sweat.
If you like the idea of working up a sweat without running on the treadmill, you could book into the sauna room. The lounges face the full-length picture windows, and the beds are heated. I kid you not.
Celebrity Solstice: Love At First Sight
There's so many things we could tell you about Celebrity Solstice; we could write an article every day for a month and still have new material. We'll be sharing more photos of the cruise ship via our Facebook page, no doubt.
Here's a few more things we can tell you about the cruise ship, just briefly…
- Security is paramount. We passed through three check points and they commandeered our passports before we were allowed on board. People and bags were scanned by staff. No one is
getting on this cruise ship unless they're meant to be there. We love that.
- Passengers come from all over the world to join a cruise around Australia. You can mingle with different nationalities if you want. Or not, either way. We love that.
- On board entertainment is so varied and offered at all times of the day and night. Live shows and music; dancing, performances and demonstrations. Even glass blowing, can you believe? We love that too.
Here at Think Tasmania, we are totally in love with the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship. Did we say that already?
Think Tasmania toured as guests on board the Celebrity Solstice Cruise Ship. For more information or to book a cruise ship holiday, please visit the operator's website or contact a Tasmanian travel agent. You can also follow Celebrity Cruises on Facebook and Twitter.


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Professor Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman,
by S. Bhagavantam
The Andhra Pradesh Academy of Science, Hyderabad, 1972.
Raman and His Effect
by G.H. Keswani
National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1980.
C.V. Raman (Builders of Modern India Series)
by P.R. Pisharoty
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, revelled in his freedom of thought and blazed a trail of glory to scale dizzy heights of excellence in several fields of Physics. His indomitable spirit for experimentation in unexplored areas of research and his supreme self-confidence led inm to discoveries which won for inm almost his instantaneous recognition from his scientific peers in all parts of the world.
A comprehensive article on Raman was written by Prof. S. Bhagavantam, a distinguished student of Raman for the biographical memories of Royal Society, London in 1971. Professor Bhagavantham also authored a book for the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences entitled: 'Professor Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (His life and work)", in 1972 (103 pages). This book is divided into ten chapters and provides a concise coverage of Raman's life and work, and is punctuated with several quotations of Raman. This authentic account of Raman's career by one who is inmself a reputed physicist provides an objective appreciation of the maestro. Prof. Bhagavantham has quoted Raman wherever possible, but never out of context and these make the book engrossing. For instance, the following is a typical example:
"On one occasion when he (Raman) was provoked by a newspaper reporter, he said pointing towards the laboratory. This Histitute is a monument to my egotism. I am an egotist and just as the Egyptian Kings used to build pyramids before their death, so is This Histitute my pyramid'. Although this statement, taken out of context, appears to give prominence to the ego in Raman, it is the opinion of the writer that it is no more than the expression of an uncommon degree of self-confidence which Raman always displayed in his own methods of work. On the same occasion, he went on further and said, 'you know I was in the Indian Histitute of Science and I was due to retire at 60. So two years before my retirement I started building This Histitute so that on the day when I retired I took my bag and walked into this Institute. I cannot remain idle for a single day. That was the main purpose for which the Raman Research Institute was built by Professor Raman and indeed, it served the purpose so hilly and so admirably that it enabled Raman to work there almost every day of the twenty and odd years that he lived after retirement from his formal position at the Indian Institute of Science".
The National Book Trust of India published a book entitled: "Raman and his effect" by G.H. Keswani, in 1980 (188 pages). This book in the words of its author, a non-scientist, "contains short essays on the life and work of Raman string together. Short essays, connected yet independent...". The book contains 21 sections including an attempt to simplify the physical ideas with the help of some technical details. There are some interesting statistics on the impact of Raman Effect - that "the number of papers published in the decade following the discovery in 1928 as above 2,000": that "at the time of Raman's death in 1970, some 10,000 papers had been published on the Raman Effect"; and that "it is estimates that some 12,000.papers have been written on the Raman Effect to date (1980)" that a "Raman Newsletter" is published periodically [under the auspices of the National Bureau of Standards of the U.S.A., devoted mostly to the laser-based Raman Spectroscopy] - and some on other aspects too/"He (Raman) published papers jointly with thirty-four assistants and associates". (List on p.38); 'He initiated into independent research some 150 young men'; In his Nobel lecture, he mentioned ten co-workers and pupils'. An attempt has been made to place facts concerning Raman's life, as well as his work, in the proper scientific perspective'. "Cabannes and Pringsheim quickly christened the new phenomenon simply as 'the Raman effect in the same year, although it continued for some time to be called by some in Germany as the 'Smekel - Raman Effect". Within a few months, Lands berg and Mandelstam of Russia published papers on the same effect in quartz".
The supreme self-confidence and agility of mind of Raman is best reflected in the following instance: "On a December evening in 1927, Raman was sitting in his office with his brother (father of Prof. S. Chandrasekhar, the famous astro-physicist) when K.S. Krishnan rushed into announce the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to A.H. Compton for his work on the scattering of X-rays. Himself a master of the subject of scattering of radiation, Raman brightened up, and burst out, 'Excellent news.... very nice indeed but look here Krishnan, if this is true of X-rays, it must be true of light too. I have always thought so. There must be an optical analogue to the Compton Effect. We must pursue it and we are on the right lines. It must be and shall be found. The Nobel Prize must be won". Pursue the idea he did, as one possessed, with his collaborator K.S. Krishnan and published ten papers in rapid succession, in 1928, mostly in the prestigious journal Nature.
Keswani dwells at length on the controversies surrounding Raman, in particular about the credit for the effect named after him and goes to the extent of stating that "Many have felt that K.S. Krishnan should have been acknowledged as the co-discoverer of the effect now bearing Raman's name exclusively". The question of priorities and credits is a sensitive issue for working scientists and the excerpts from the diary of K.S. Krishnan (reproduced in Appendix VII) leaves one to clearly perceive Raman as the driving force and the master-mind behind the discovery.
A brief section in Keshwani's book deals with the revolutionary change in Raman studies ushered in by Porto and Wood and Stoicheff, in 1962, when they employed a pulsed ruby maser to obtain Raman spectra of some liquids. More recently) lasers have been used to study Raman spectra and this has provided a new lease of life to Raman Spectroscopy.
The Appendices (6 pages) in This book by Keshwani contain technical notes on the Raman Effect; the first three communications by Raman to Nature, Presentation speech by the Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel lecture of, Raman, a comprehensive Bibliography of the works of Raman; a 'select list of references on Raman Effect; etc.
Another brief biography of "C.V. Raman" is due to Prof. P.R. Pisharoty, a meteorologist of repute, who was a student of Raman and it belongs to the Builders of Modem India series published by the Publication Division of the Ministry of Information dn Broadcasting, Government of India (1982). This short biography is confined to eight chapters in 43 pages, winle the ten Appendices in This book occupy 50 pages. This biographer provides the reader a critical appreciation of Raman, who inspired through his enthusiastic work which he was eager to share with one and all. Raman is perhaps one of the ablest orators of science the world has seen. This book presents the facts of Raman's life and work in simple words and contains some anecdotes not contained in the other two books referred earlier. One such is the following:
"As was the custom, all the Nobel Laureates were treated to a grand dinner that evening, the hosts being die King and Queen of Sweden. During the dinner, one of the invitees said: 'This morning Raman demonstrated his effect on alcohol. Now we would like to see the effect of alcohol on Raman". So saying he pushed a glass of an alcoholic drink towards Raman. True to classical traditions, with polite thanks, Raman returned the glass and sipped water instead. He was a teetotaler with conviction and courage".
The Appendices on the honors bestowed on Raman; the Nobel lecture; his Radio talk on The Scientific outlook'; Raman's popular talk on 'Why is the sky blue'?; some of Raman's saying his; what others said about Raman; a sample of Raman's handwriting; provide interesting supplementary reading material. The Bibliography given in this book does not give the detailed list of published scientific papers of Raman but instead gives the subjects and the number of papers in it published by Raman. These are: Wave Optics (46 papers); Vibrations and Sound (23); Theory of Musical Instruments (18); Colloidal studies (9); Molecular Scattering of Light (30); X-rays, Electron diffraction and Crystal Optics (121); Magnetism and Magneto-optics (11); Electro-optics and Dielectric behavior (6); Raman Effect (17); Viscosity of liquids and surface forces (8); Ultrasonic and hyper-Sonics (9); line and band spectra (4); Optics and elastic properties of solids (45); Physiology of vision (85); Miscellaneous (9). This list of subjects gives the reader the range of subjects that were successfully explored by This great Indian Scientist, who when he stepped down from the Directorship of the Indian Histitute of Science, was offered the Directorship of the Kammerlhigh Onnes Laboratory at Amsterdam which "he politely declined... saying that his place of work was India".
An interesting fact not found in these three books is that in 2929 Raman was nominated for the Nobel Prize by C-Fabry and Niels Bohr. But that year the Prize was conferred on Louise de Broglie. The next year (1930), Raman was nominated for the Nobel Prize by the following: E. Bloch, Niels Bohr, L. De Broglie, and M. De Broglie, 0. Khvolson, J. Perrin, R. Pfeiffer, E. Rutherford, J. Stark and C.T.R. Wilson. Keshwani and Pisharoty record in their books that Raman had booked his passage to Stockholm in July itself though 'the meetings of the Nobel Committee are held in highest secrecy and the awards are announced in November about a month before the Prize giving ceremony at Stockholm around mid-December'!
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BEIJING, March 10 (UPI) -- North Korea's chief nuclear envoy Saturday said the United States has promised to lift its financial sanctions against his country.
"The North is keeping a close eye on the promise,'' Kim Kye-gwan told reporters at Beijing's Shoudu Airport as he headed home to Pyongyang, the Korea Times reported. "If the U.S. fails to solve the issue completely, we will have to take partial actions against it,'' Kim said.
In particular, Kim said the United States has said it will lift sanctions at the Banco Delta Asia in Macau, which the U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted in 2005 for its role in helping North Korea launder money, the Korea Times reported. The bank then froze $24 million in North Korean accounts.
Kim was in Beijing meeting his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, as they prepared for another round of talks on North Korea nuclear disarmament.


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"There are only two seasons: winter and baseball."
~Bill Veeck
Hey all, if you didn't get a chance to see it, my article on character development is up at WOW. I love what they did with the graphics and the pics ,too. Very cute. Got an email from the editor yesterday afternoon telling me one of their regular writers saw it and mine was the first article she read in the Feb. issue. She loved it!
In other news, all the teachers and students around here spent yesterday hoping for snow to fall and cancel school today ( it didn't). See, with the crazy warm temperatures we've had so far this season, we haven't had a single school closing.
Now let me digress: I grew up in central NYS, smack in the middle of the lake effect snow belt. Then I spent 6 years in college and graduate school living in 2 cities on the Great Lakes. More lake effect snow. So when you talk about winter to me, it means temps below zero and wind chill WAY below zero. It means shoveling snow from November to March and having at least 2 ice scrapers and 3 extra pair of gloves in the car at all times. It means learning to take your driver's test when you're 16 on snow-covered roads, and mastering the art of the controlled skid, because otherwise you'll have to wait months to get your license. It means the kind of cold where, when you breathe in, the inside of your nose crinkles up.
It does not mean, as people in my newly adopted hometown think, 3 inches of snow that falls in one night. It does not mean temperatures that flirt with zero overnight and then inch their way up to 30 during the day. It does not mean school closings for 2 days straight because the towns can't manage to plow the roads.
When I was growing up, one of the most familiar sounds in the wee hours of the morning was the plow going down the street, scraping it clear and taking out people's mailboxes on the way (we had to get a new one every spring). School never closed. Ever. Are you kidding? We would have missed ¾ of the days from December to February.
But here? We get an average of 5 snow days each year. And don't even get me started on 2-hour delays. 6 a year? 10? No limit, apparently. I'd never even heard of the concept of the 2-hour school delay until I moved here. I guess it allows the plow drivers to sleep in until 5 or so and get the roads clear by 9, so that the buses can lumber on to school and collect their state aid for the day.
One time a couple of years ago (this is the best), every school in the county closed because of the threat of a storm. Guess what? Not a single flake fell.
Sorry for the tirade, but sometimes I just have to laugh. OK, have at it: what does "winter" mean to you??
Happy Weekend!
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Buna man dead as result of single-car accident
A Buna man was discovered deceased inside his truck in the woods north of Deweyville hours after an apparent accident, reports the Texas Department of Public Safety.
According to a news release from DPS, at approximately 9:45 a. m. on March 20, the Texas Department of Public Safety received a telephone call from a motorist that a vehicle was in the woods on Highway 87 near Deweyville. Troopers responded to the area and discovered a wrecked 2009 Chevrolet pickup truck in the woods off Highway 87 about five miles north of Deweyville. The driver of the Chevrolet, 25-year-old Jared Jordan of Buna, was pronounced dead at the scene by Judge Dana Ashmore.
Investigators report that the truck was traveling southbound on Highway 87, and Jordan drove off the roadway and into the woods for an unknown reason. The vehicle reportedly struck several trees and turned over onto its side before coming to rest in the woods. Troopers suspect that the driver may have fallen asleep and that the crash occurred sometime after 2:00 a.m.
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US Exported $723M More Solar Power Products Than It Imported in 2009: New Trade Balance Report
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Next time someone bemoans the fact that even all the renewable energy manufacturing is heading overseas, point this next report out: According to new industry analysis carried out by GTM Research for SEIA, the US is a net exporter of solar power products, to the tune of $723 million in 2009. Here are more of the key points from the US Solar Energy Trade Assessment 2010: Though the US was a net importer of PV modules in 2009, importing some $232 million more than it exported, polysilicon exports dwarfed imports by $1.1 billion.
Even considering that the majority of solar PV modules in the US were assembled elsewhere, 74% of total value created from US solar power installations in 2009 came from US products. Most of this was due to costs of installation, legal and permitting fees, and system engineering and design.
In total, US solar power installations created $2.6 billion in direct value to the US economy in 2009.
You can read the entire original report at the link above, but here are some of the charts to give you a better idea of where US solar power products are going to and coming from.
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Michelle Shocked may have eventually apologized about her utterly bizarre gay marriage rant at a recent concert, but that doesn't mean she's willing to quietly take her medicine and move on. Last night, the singer showed up at one of the venues that cancelled her performance looking like a deranged futuristic mummy with black tape over her mouth with the words "Silenced By Fear" scrawled on it.
Here's what Shocked said on Twitter prior to her appearance…
"Moe's in S Cruz tonight ok? Its an art project 'My Summer Vacation' I want your autograph. Bring Sharpie. #truthvsreality #shortsharpshocked"
According to The Daily Mail, Shocked's mummy-like white outfit was actually a disposable safety suit. She wore it to Moe's and brought along a bunch of Sharpies with the intention of having fans sign her weird suit. She also pasted all sorts of signs on the wall asking if Free Speech really scared people this much.
Here's the problem for Shocked. Yes, she has the right to say whatever the hell she wants about any group, but anyone who owns a bar or venue has equally as much right to decide they don't want to put her on stage to rant about her distaste for homosexuality again. Free Speech flows in multiple directions, regardless of who it might be inconvenient for.
Whether Shocked likes it or not, gay marriage is coming. Every year, more and more Americans voice at least vague support for the practice. Here's to hoping that figure only keeps increasing.


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Big flagship luxury sedans are relics. Artifacts left over from a time when social standing was reflected in the length of a car's wheelbase and how upright its grille stood. A time when Mercedes wasn't reaching down-market and Hyundai wasn't aiming for the heights. Back when the sight of a new Cadillac put a company's employees on high alert that the boss was on site, and not just that some drone in Section G had leased a CTS.
So here comes Lexus's redecorated 2013 LS 460 wafting out of the 20th century. The sedan is the direct successor to the 1990 LS 400 that established a reputation for quality, quiet and conservative design for the then-new luxury division of Toyota.
And like that first car 23 years ago, today's LS is as traditionally engineered as a Chippendale hutch. That means rear-wheel drive (though all-wheel drive is optional), an all-independent suspension tuned to quietly suffocate every road and a V-8 engine as creamy as Vermont butter.
Every detail has changed, and the price has gone way, way up over two decades, but the LS is still the most Lexus-like of Lexuses. The LS's new face fronts largely carried-over engineering. The steel unified body structure is virtually unchanged from the LS generation that entered production as a 2007 model.
While the all-independent suspension's tuning has been tweaked, the basic design is the same. The familiar 4.6-liter direct-injection engine used in every LS except the Hybrid (which has a 5-liter version) is now rated at a modest 386 horsepower (six more than last year) and it still sends its power out through an 8-speed automatic transmission. An option on the LS 460, all-wheel drive is standard on the Hybrid. And if the regular LS 460's 116.9-inch wheelbase feels cramped, the LS 460L, with 121.7 inches between the front and rear wheels, is likely to seem less so.
As mechanically conservative as the updated LS is, its reconstructed nose is relatively radical. It's a version of the "spindle grille" used on other Lexus vehicles, the sides pinched in to form an hourglasslike hexagon. Lexus uses words like "bold," "dynamic" and "fresh" to describe the styling, but "alien," "bizarre" and "weird" also work.
That noted, throw in a newly sculptured hood and headlights overstuffed with LED elements, and the result is a car that, at least at a glance, appears newer than it actually is. The value of rhinoplasty is, ultimately, in the nose of the beholder.
It's inside where the redesign is most successful. A 12.3-inch high-resolution display embedded in the dashboard is the command center for a suite of new technologies that include operation of cellphones, audio system, climate controls and the navigation unit. The screen is big enough that it can be split into separate elements for, say, navigation on one side and audio controls on the other.
Lexus also offers an "Executive Class Seating Package" option that reconfigures the rear seating area into a mash-up of a mobile office, an upscale spa and the American Airlines Admirals Club lounge at La Guardia. If you can afford a chauffeur, the $16,400 price ($15,960 with all-wheel drive) is a mere pittance for the power adjustable reclining rear seats, power door closers, multifunction Shiatsu massage system and much more.
But the most impressive thing about the LS is how well Lexus builds it. Every switch, button and lever operates with precision, and when a door opens there's an audible whoosh as the seals around it separate and the cabin pressure equalizes with the open air. The leather is impeccably tailored and so well finished that it seems a shame to sit on it. And the straightforward instrumentation glows with almost symphonic elegance — starting the engine makes it all blaze to life as if accompanied by a Strauss melody. Viennese moonlight should be so elegant.
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Like all cars in this class, the LS carries an array of electronic devices to keep the passengers entertained and the driver from doing anything truly foolish. There's even a precollision system that, if it detects an object ahead and the car is moving less than about 25 miles per hour, will apply the brakes to prevent a collision.
But what's missing is the automatic parallel-parking system that Lexus introduced with much fanfare when this generation of LS was introduced for 2007. (You can get similar systems now in much less expensive cars, including the Ford Focus.)
I drove two rear-drive LS models, a long-wheelbase LS 460L and the shorter, slightly more aggressively equipped LS 460 F-Sport.
Initially both seemed distant in their driving experience. Numb not only in their steering response, but also in how every mechanical system seemed to be drowning in its own silent refinement. Around town, both were simply boring.
On the open road however, each car revealed some character. With so many luxury cars running engines rated beyond 500 horsepower, the 386 horses in the rear-drive LS seems modest. But with eight gears to keep the engine humping in the thickest part of the powerband, both cars rip out solid acceleration. Car and Driver tested an all-wheel-drive F-Sport, in which the V-8 is rated at only 360 horsepower, and still achieved a solid 6-second trip from 0 to 60 m.p.h.
But it's the F-Sport that's more entertaining. With more aggressively bolstered seats, paddle shifting of the transmission (with rev-matching downshifts), larger 19-inch diameter wheels, oversize six-piston Brembo front disc brakes, variable-ratio electric power steering and an adjustable air suspension system tuned to control body roll, the F-Sport is significantly more responsive and entertaining on twisting back roads. It's still not quite a sport sedan in the BMW tradition, but it feels muscular and capable and rides as well as the regular LS.
Prices for the shorter-wheelbase LS start at $72,885 and escalate rapidly. The LS 460L with the thickest option package — an $18,400 accumulation of electronics that includes a "climate concierge" to coordinate various heating and cooling elements in the cabin — goes for $97,585.
The F-Sport package is a $15,230 option on short versions of the LS. My F-Sport test car came in at $88,115.
There's something almost noble in the LS's upright stance and forthright engineering. But it's impossible to shake the feeling that this is a car whose time has passed. Not only because Lexus itself offers S.U.V. alternatives that many buyers will prefer, but because so much of the competition is ahead in technology.
The Audi A8 and Jaguar XJ sedans, for instance, are built around lighter all-aluminum chassis structures, and the imminent next generation of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class will be as well. And turbocharging smaller engines has let the German brands produce similar performance with better fuel efficiency. As it is, the ratings of the rear-drive LS — 16 miles per gallon in the city and 24 on the highway — are only so-so.
The LS is the flagship — a car for the Horatio Lord Nelsons of the 21st century. But the ships in other fleets pack more technological firepower. Lexus may need to re-arm if it hopes to rule the waves again.


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M. Rockwell Parker: Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S. – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
M.S. – Washington State University
Ph.D. – Oregon State University
Postdoctoral Research – Monell Chemical Senses Center
Phone - 540-568-5116
Fax – 540-568-3333
Office – Bioscience 2016G
Courses: Human Physiology (BIO 270), , Reproductive Physiology (BIO 426), Advanced Topics in Cellular and Molecular Biology (BIO 630)
Research Interests: Pheromones, Chemical Ecology, Sexual Signals, Animal Behavior, Invasive Species, Endocrinology, Chemical Senses, Reptiles
Hormonal modulation of pheromone production – The main focus of my research is to develop an understanding of how sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone regulate the production of sexual signals used in mate choice. I use snakes as a model group of vertebrates in my studies because snakes rely almost exclusively on chemical cues (pheromones) to identify and choose between mates. Further, snakes are great study subjects because their behaviors are easily scored and analyzed. My research uses classical endocrinology techniques like castration and hormone replacement to effect change in animal behavior and chemical signals. I also use analytical chemistry techniques (fractionation, GC-MS) to quantify these changes.
My lab is currently determining a) which hormone-responsive genes in the skin control pheromone production and b) how hormone dosing can alter pheromone production in females and males. Students in my lab are actively involved in the extraction and analysis of specific genes, isolation of pheromones, animal care, surgical manipulations, field work, and behavioral studies with this project. Our major effort each year is driving to Manitoba, Canada, to conduct behavioral experiments at the snake dens in May and then running experiments at JMU after.
Chemical ecology of mate choice in invasive reptiles –My Ph.D. work enabled new collaborations with federal agencies that started with researchers at USDA (Drs. Michael Avery and Bruce Kimball) to determine the chemical signals used by invasive reptiles to find mates. With Dr. Kimball (NWRC-USDA, Monell), we are studying brown treesnakes, an invasive reptile on the island of Guam. We have discovered that estrogen can cause male treesnakes to produce female lipids, and we are currently planning additional experiments to study how wild males use female scent in the field. Students on this project isolate chemical cues, assist with hormone manipulations, and conduct behavioral analysis.
With Dr. Avery and Dr. Michael Grace (Florida Institute of Technology), my lab has been isolating chemical cues in Burmese pythons by extracting and identifying the lipids produced in their shed skins. Pythons are an invasive species of concern in the Florida Everglades, and we are determining if the cues we can isolate from their skins are a) sexually dimorphic, b) seasonally variable, c) attractive to conspecifics, and d) useful in management strategies. Recently, I have started a new collaboration with Drs. Bob Reed and Bryan Falk (USGS) to implant male pythons with estrogen and track their interactions with other males in the field. Students in my lab are isolating chemical cues from the pythons and analyzing behavioral data from trials done in Gainesville. Also with Dr. Avery, we have started a project with Argentine tegu lizards, another invasive reptile in Florida, and we are examining similar questions as with the Burmese pythons.
Research Articles (# indicates student author)
Parker MR, Kardong KV. 2017. Airborne chemical information and context-dependent post-strike foraging behavior in Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus). Copeia 105:651–658.
Smith KPW#, Parker MR, Bien WF. 2015. Behavioral variation in prey odor responses in northern pine snake neonates and adults. Chemoecology 25:233–242.
Prokop-Prigge KA, Grice E, Mansfield CJ, Parker MR, Thaler E, Wysocki CJ, Preti G. 2015. Ethnic/racial and genetic influences on cerumen odorant profiles. Journal of Chemical Ecology 41:67–74. PMID:25501636
Parker MR, Mason RT. 2014. A novel mechanism regulating a sexual signal: the testosterone-based inhibition of female sex pheromone expression in garter snakes. Hormones and Behavior 66:506–516. PMID:25058443
Parker MR, Feng D#, Chamuris B#, Margolskee RF. 2014. Expression and nuclear translocation of glucocorticoid receptors in type 2 taste receptor cells. Neuroscience Letters 151:72–77. PMID:2481458
Mosinger B, Redding KM, Parker MR, Yevshayeva V, Yee KY, Dyomina K, Li Y, Margolskee RF. 2013. Genetic loss or pharmacological blockade of testes-expressed taste genes causes male sterility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:12319–12324. PMID:23818598
Smith KPW#, Parker MR, Bien WF. 2013. Anaxyrus fowleri (Fowler's toad): interspecific nest use. Herpetological Review. 44:492–493.
Ellis HT, Tordoff MT, Parker MR. 2012. Itpr3 is responsible for the mouse tufted (tf) locus. Journal of Heredity 104:295–297. PMID:23100490
Parker MR, Mason RT. 2012. How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of sex pheromone production in male garter snakes. Journal of Experimental Biology 215:723–730. PMID:22323194
Mason RT, Parker MR. 2010. Chemical and pheromonal communication in reptiles. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 196:729–749. PMID:20585786
Parker MR, Mason RT. 2009. Low temperature dormancy affects the quantity and quality of the female sexual attractiveness pheromone in red-sided garter snakes. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35:1234–1241. PMID:19904571
Parker MR, Young BA, Kardong KV. 2008. The forked tongue and edge detection in snakes: an experimental test. Journal of Comparative Psychology 122:35–40. PMID:18298279
Parker MR, Kardong KV. 2006. The role of airborne and substrate cues from non-envenomated mice during rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) post-strike trailing. Herpetologica 62:349–356.
Book Chapters
Rowland H*, Parker MR*, Jiang P, Reed DR, Beauchamp G. 2015. Comparative taste biology with special focus on birds and reptiles. In Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation, 4th edition (R Doty, ed.), pp. 959–984. Wiley Publishers, New York. (* co-first authors)
Parker MR, Mason RT. 2011. Pheromones in snakes: history, patterns and future directions. In Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes (D Sever and R Aldridge, eds.), pg. 551–572. CRC Press, Enfield, NJ.
Parker MR, Kardong KV. 2005. Rattlesnakes can use airborne cues to relocate envenomated prey. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, Vol. 10 (RT Mason, MP LeMaster and D Mueller-Schwarze, ed.), pp. 397–402. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York


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'He was the only major movie star of the studio era — perhaps of any era — to have had the career his talent meant him to have, and to have had it as long as he liked," That's what the dance critic Arlene Croce wrote about Fred Astaire in the New York Review of Books.
It is quite a claim, but one borne out by Astaire's history. He was 34, with a hugely successful Broadway career behind him, when he pitched up at RKO. Although the story of the remarks about his first screen test — "Can't sing, can't act, balding. Can dance a little" — is sadly likely to be apocryphal, he wasn't the most obvious movie star.
But from the moment he appeared in Flying Down to Rio (1933) with Ginger Rogers, his dancing lit up the screen. The first Variety critic got it right: "He's distinctly likeable on screen, the mike is kind to his voice and as a dancer he remains in a class by himself." He is, even today, the dancer most idolised by other dancers: Nureyev and Baryshnikov longed to move like Astaire. What they loved, I think, is the way in which both music and movement seem to flow through his entire body. Though dapper and civilised, he looks as if he has been inspired to dance by a primitive force he cannot resist.
Look at him in Top Hat — the Irving Berlin musical about to be revived in the West End — and pity poor Tom Chambers stepping into his shoes. He may be able to match Astaire's charm, but he will never come near to the elegant way he shapes his body, or find the still centre out of which the most graceful movement springs.
The movie follows the pattern of all the Astaire/Rogers films of this period: solo for Fred, comic duet, solo for Fred, romantic duet, finale. The plot is thin, but Astaire's innovation was to make the singing and the dancing spring organically out of the story.
So a sand-dancing solo is a lullaby to Rogers; his courtship of her takes place in the park, in Isn't This a Lovely Day?; his virtuoso solo — in the title song — is part of a stage show. Then there is perhaps the most famous routine in the entire musical — Cheek to Cheek.
Rogers danced this in an ostrich feather dress which she had not worn before, and which shed tiny feathers all over Astaire's jacket, into their mouths and eyes, making dancing impossible.
Yet the final result seems to carry the transformative force of love itself.
It is that ability to make dance into something else that lies at the heart of Astaire's genius as a dancer, and as a choreographer of dance on screen.
That very different dance innovator Pina Bausch said: "Dance, dance or we are lost." Astaire would have understood that sentiment. He made it seem effortless, but he knew that dancing was essential.