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Skip to comments.Texas Biolab Loses Deadly Guanarito Virus
Posted on 03/25/2013 8:57:36 PM PDT by dragnet2
The Galveston National Laboratory lost one of five vials containing a deadly Venezuelan virus, according to the University of Texas Medical Branch, which owns the $174 million facility designed with the strictest security measures to hold the deadliest viruses in the country.
Like Ebola, the missing Guanarito virus causes hemorrhagic fever, an illness named for "bleeding under the skin, in internal organs or from body orifices like the mouth, eyes, or ears," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is clearly an incident that is very discomforting and embarrassing to the University of Texas Medical Center and their national biosecurity lab that they have there,"
"The mortality is anywhere from at least 10 to 20 percent or slightly more," Kurilla told ABCNews.com, adding that there is no treatment or cure for Guanarito. "That is considered very, very severe if you have a 1 in 5 chance of dying without anything to do for the person other than provide supportive hospital care."
The Galveston researchers were conducting a routine inspection on March 20 and 21 when they noticed there were only four Guanarito vials instead of five.
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How nice...
Ruh Roh...
" vials containing a deadly Venezuelan virus..."
Thought it was dead already.
Anyone named Mohammed working in that lab? After all, we must celebrate diversity!/sarcasm
Read Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan. The book studies the plagues from 1347 to 1666 that killed half the population of Europe. The authors prove that it wasn't Bubonic Plague from rat fleas that caused the Black Death like everyone was taught in school, it was a hemorrhagic virus transmitted from person to person.
I would fire and jail the director of this lab. Pension gone. Seriously. Fire, jail and pension gone for anyone who was responsible for handling/keeping it recorded where it was supposed to be.
Anyway, I didn't know there was such a lab there. A hurricane coming into Galveston could tear the building to pieces and a number of those buildings were flooded due to Ike. I think that's a poor place to have deadly diseases.
Thankfully it is not spread by humans.
Not that we know of.
There are actually three forms of Bubonic Plague, which are somewhat dependent on the state of the immune system of the patient. The bubonic form is the least fatal, as there is still an effective lymphatic system which collects the toxins/bacteria in the lymph nodes which swell up and turn black. The second highly fatal form is septicemic which basically poisons the blood in a person with weak immunity. The third highly fatal pneumonic/hemorrhagic form is transmitted from person to person through the air. Here is the Center for Disease Control on the subject.
Bubonic plague is endemic among the wild rodent populations of something like 17 western states. The Black Rat in Europe seems to have been particulaly effective in spreading the disease as it lived upstairs with the people. The Norwegian gray rat which is so common in our cities is a cellar and sewer dweller where it and its fleas comes into less contact with people.
If we were in crisis with a major outbreak, I would lay in a supply of vitamin C and the C complex substance called Pycnogenol, not to mention other immune enhancers.
bumping for later
"bumping for later"
Assuming there IS a later...
Zombie Time???
I'll just bet that, that was a very unpleasant day at work for the principles involved.
"This is clearly an incident that is very discomforting and embarrassing to the University of Texas Medical Center and their national biosecurity lab that they have there,"
THEY are disturbed and embarrassed?
Oh, isn't that special...
Of course, Al Quaida has no lack of bioweaponeers in its ranks.
Not as plain. But you can bet it's child's play to piggyback it on something else. Safe to work with, while you splice it into something waterborne, for example.
I've been fearing that Obama was preparing to signal Hamas and Hezbollah sleeper cells to initiate biological attacks. We'll see what comes of this...
That's just great. Get on Hwy. 45 in Galveston and head north 100 miles and there I am."
There are just a whole lot of us stuck in the 100 miles between this lab and you. UTMB was closed for quite a while and they were pretty successful at remaining out of the press limelight after Ike. Nurse I know who worked there pre-Ike said we would be amazed at what all was not found after Ike hit.
Don't know if you remember the flood of 2001 in the Med Center when we had something like 40 inches of rain with Allison. All kinds of stuff was in the basement of the medical buildings and ended up floating all through the sewer and bayou system.
Pity nobody knows for certain what happened. Does not say good things about control factors on these supposedly controlled items.
Probably just transferred to al Qaeda as part of the
MANPAD and other tech-transfer by Obama/Holder/Clinton.
After all, there's four vials of deadly virus they didn't lose!
Ive been fearing that Obama was preparing to signal Hamas and Hezbollah sleeper cells to initiate biological attacks.
This is what concerns me more than Homeland Security buying bullets. Americans have enough ammo to shoot every HS employee 50,000 times, but Americans don't have an easy defense against weaponized swine flu or smallpox.
These Nazis in Washington wouldn't hesitate killing 100 million Americans with biological warfare, IMO. The only viable defense we have against this is the Defense Intelligence Agency which can connect the dots in a biological attack.
I would think that would be one of the wost places to be during a real zombie outbreak. Cast members and crewmen would think it was all fake until it was too late.
It wasn't lost.
It was stolen.
This is how universities operate..At the pleasure of the government.
Well what's interesting is this was posted as part of "Front page" news, and one of the nanny moderators didn't like it so they took it out.
Yet this below remains in Front page section and is accepted...yuk yuk..
""Hiker and dog save man trapped for days in hole on California mountain""
Never thought of that...I guess a hurricane could blow those deadly cooties all the way up into Oklahoma.
Look, it was just lost, a simple mistake...Haven't you ever misplaced your car keys or forgot to turn off the sprinklers?
I was afraid that the Hamas and Heabollah operatives that were flown in direct unchecked flights from Iran to Venezuela would have brought biological weapons with them. And they may have. Or the Obama regime may be providing the goods for them...
Can the butterfly drones disperse biological agents?
Ooh. I just noticed again. This is a disease from VENEZUELA. Where the Hamas and Hezbollah operatives were shipped to, from Iran...
The lab is there because of politics and location. The fact that Galveston is a barrier island allows for easy cut-off from the mainland in the event of the release of a deadly biological agent. All that needs to be done is stop the ferries running to Bolivar, close I-45 at the causeway bridge and and the train tracks, and to the west, close San Luis Pass. The only other way off the island is to swim the Gulf. Anybody on the island at the time of such a release will be quarantined until the risk is cleared.
They did have problems with lab security when I was there. I worked in an area where my team and I would need to go into the lab on a regular basis. They also have a large foreign student population which is worrisome. The folks who work on campus found out about this about the same time as the general public did. The folks running the National Lab of course knew because of the inspection.
The stories they are putting out there are ridiculous. Galveston is a port city. If they have Venezuelan ships in in port, they most likely will have Venezuelan rats. Also, what mechanism keeps other rats exposed to the virus from being infected? How can they be sure? The plague was thought at one time to be confined to rats and not transmittable to other species. This whole thing has cover-up written all over it, especially the story that the vial could have stuck to someone's glove and been accidentally disposed of. There will be more coming out of this.
Thanks for posting. I know the exits off the island you are talking about. My husband was a Vice-Pres. of American National Insurance, worked for them 30 years. Yes, that Am. Natl. building is the tall one in Galveston. I was in and around Galveston many years. For a number of months I worked for a doctor at UTMB doing research for a psychological test that was being developed for children with ADD.
I didn't know the building you are talking about would withstand a 5 hurricane. I did know there was flooding in those UTMB buildings from Ike. Perhaps the bldg. you are talking about was somehow built to prevent its flooding.
I was thinking the bldg. could get damaged and have those deadly mixtures in them from a hurricane so it was bad to have them in Galveston. I see where you are coming from to have a strong building and put the deadly stuff on that island so the island could be quarantined.
The article said UTMB people think the vial was thrown away, but you are doubting that. Since you worked there, you should know how possible that is and you don't think it was thrown away. Add to that Galveston is a port city with ships in and out. Bring bad guys in and they get off the ship and they are here.
Well, heck, I was going to stop thinking about that missing vial but, due to you, I can't. I wonder if we would be notified if they did find out it was stolen. I would bet the govn. wouldn't tell us.
"Where the Hamas and Hezbollah operatives were shipped to, from Iran..."
Yeh, okay. Now we're talking about the asymmetrical warfare group, a wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force. Known as Unit 400, these elite killers are under the command of Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Rumors were rampant that these killers passed through our southern border.
Let me bring in Marcella and texgal to see if they can add anything to our conversation.
Such a friendly place, surely no bad guys around. What I don't know is where these ships come from. Venezuela has come up as a place terrorists went, so I'll do some web research to see if I can find out if ships from Venezuela dock there. Be back in a bit.
We know Iran is close friends with Venezuela and both countries leaders hate us.
If our ports aren't protected any more than our southern border, consider those ports as sieves for anyone wanting to enter.
We know texgal said there are a number of foreign students in UTMB in Galveston and that was a concern. So, we have a missing vial of a dangerous, killing, substance that was in that Galveston lab and now it isn't. WHERE IS IT?
Marcella, thanks for your input.
I'm looking around and seeing patterns that I'm concerned about. Whatever you can contribute is appreciated.
Semper fi, buddy
I wonder if there is a way to find out when and how the University got this vial in the first place.
That is the best compliment you could give me. I have been married to two husbands and both were Marines and both died of cancer, one with kidney cancer and the other of brain cancer. During my first husband's cancer fight, I carried a Marine flag and always put it up in his hospital room every time we had to go to the hospital.
After living with each of them for many years, I know Marine "language", every filthy, wonderful word they come out with. I'm by myself now, but if an eligible Marine showed up, we would have a good time.
Semper fi, buddy
It's the "Galveston National Laboratory" so the University of Texas Medical Branch was awarded that by the federal government and they put it on that island away from the mainland. While doing research, I quickly saw a map of the US and where these labs are. Looked like about five of them spread around the US. We know the CDC in Atlanta has one. I think that one is the grand daddy of them all.
Women like you make Marines whole, and God bless every one of you. You hold the line back home and raise our children while we're away. You welcome us back home regardless of the dirty work we did. You are treasures, all of you.
Thanks for the ping!
They have closed ranks on this and we will probably not get much info from UTMB. Watch for "resignation" announcements and for new hires in that area. The city of Galveston will keep it quiet because bad PR can hurt their tourist season (come on down kiddies and play with the rats that glow in the dark!),
The building, to address the possibility of flooding is elevated several feet, you have to climb stairs to enter the building. If there is a basement I'm sure they learned from the flood at the Med Center in Houston and are not storing experimental items there. I'm not so worried about the workers coming in on the freighters as I am the students and medical personnel from other countries who have badges and can access these labs. Some BSL-1 & 2 labs are housed other places on campus and are less secure.
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I'm sure many of us have found ourselves in this situation, we have a Twitter account which we update regularly with "quality content" for our own personal amusement doing all the "right" things. Before you know it you've got hundreds or if you're terribly unlucky thousands of followers hanging on your every word. I mean, who needs that sort of pressure? I can't even pee in a public toilet if there's a guy within 2 urinals.
So what can you do to get rid of these stalkers so obsessed with you and what you have to say? I'm not talking about the bots and spammers, these guys won't cause you any trouble. I'm talking about those guys who actually read your tweets, retweet you (to even more stalkers) and even, in the worst cases, try to interact with you. If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having an account which has got out of hand don't panic, there are a number of steps you can take which will see your follower count drop like a stone.
Stop Tweeting – The first tip is the simplest to implement, just stop tweeting, no matter how much you have been enjoying the process and want to keep going you've got to realise continuing down the path you are on will only mean more followers, is that what you want? Unfortunately, whilst this tactic is very easy to implement it's not overly effective. It will take a while before people realise you're no longer clogging up their stream and even when they do they may cling on in the hope you will fall off the wagon and return to feeding their tweet addiction.
Don't reply to interactions – As mentioned above if you've been really unlucky some of these Twitter pests will be trying to interact with you on a 1-2-1 basis. I know, these people are unbelievable. So, when they do reach out to you with a comment, question or similar just turn your (virtual) back on them. Even if they persist great, your continued lack of response will hopefully convince them to click the "Unfollow" button. This strategy works best when not coupled with the above complete Twitter abstinence, if the pests can see you are still active they know you are giving them the cold shoulder.
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Get Hacked – This is a really great technique which requires little effort on your part but can reap great rewards in terms of a followers cull. If you can manage to allow your account details to get into the "wrong" hands they will do all the work for you, spamming your stream with links to sites full of malware, adverts for diet pills, sending DM's to your followers warning them of rumours which are being posted about them. The down side of this idea is that you may completely lose control of your account, meaning although the followers will be gone you won't be able to continue tweeting in piece.
Tweet in bursts – Nothing annoys the Twitterati more than having their streams filled up with with Tweets from the same person. If you normally Tweet 10 times throughout the day store these Tweets up and post them all in the space of a minute. I guarantee within 2 – 3 days you'll start to see the effects as you start to shed those irritating followers. The upside of this is that you can still continue to use your account in almost exactly the same way as you were previously, you just need to schedule your "Tweet Time".
Tweet overdrive – It's all about upping your game and simply beating your followers into submission with a constant bombardment of Tweets. If you normally put up 10 Tweets a day, up this to 20 for a week. If you've lost less than 10% of your followers in the first week, up it to 40 Tweets a day. Continue doubling the amount of 140 character bombs you're dropping until you have lost your target number of followers. I'm not going to lie, this is a pretty tough task, upping your tweet count so significantly and sustaining that over a number of weeks is extremely difficult, however you will start to see rewards within just a few days. Using the "Tweet overdrive" strategy in conjunction with "Tweeting in bursts" will maximise the effectiveness.
"Continue doubling the amount of 140 character bombs you're dropping until you have lost your target number of followers"
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat – Tweeting the same thing over and over is sure to get up the nose of any followers who are paying attention to what you Tweet. Repeat the same thing often enough and they'll soon get tired and scramble for the Unfollow button. Mission accomplished.
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If you have found yourself with an uncomfortably large following start implementing the strategies above as soon as possible in order to stem the tide. If you fail to take action the army of snoopers is only likely to multiply!
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A Highland Pipers Guide to Music
Part three Transposition
The cycle of fifths
If you've followed me this far you have the makings of an understanding of what key you are playing your GHB, smallpipe or border pipe chanter in. What we are going to tackle now is what happens if you decide to play on your GHB chanter music written out for instruments in other keys – D, G, C, F Bflat - fiddle music, for instance, might be in any of these or other keys. We will look at music that can be played on the GHB chanter using the process known as 'transposition'; converting the notes of one key into those of another. This music will at first look alien; we are going to explore how to come to terms with it.
First, let's go back to the key signatures we had:
Fig 10 [ from Fig 3]
Fig 11 [ from Fig 6]
Fig 12 [ from Fig 9]
And to the scales they relate to, in reverse order
D E F# G a b c# d
a b c# d etc
It is clear there is a pattern here and we have discerned above what it is; each scale is related to the one before and after by a fifth. What happens if we extend this sequence beyond the bounds of our chanter, maintaining the same major scale? [intervals of tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone-tone]
We can do this in both directions, of course. Going down a fifth from G brings us to C.
C D E F G A B c
The F here must be 'natural' [dropping the sharp from the key signature]; the key signature is 'empty'. [note that this is what our fiddler reads when they see GHB music – hence the strange sounds they produce playing what in the hands of a GHB piper is a normal tune].
Let's stop there for a moment and go from A in the opposite direction;
A fifth up from A brings us to E; to maintain the major scale intervals we must raise the D to D#, adding a fourth sharp symbol to the key signature.
A fifth up from E is B and again to preserve the major scale intervals we must add another sharp, this time to the A.
At this point things start to get bewildering; a fifth up from B is F# and to maintain the major scale starting here we must raise the seventh note, which is E. Now, on a fixed tuning instrument, like a piano, or for that matter a bagpipe chanter, raising the E by a semitone brings us to F. However, music written in the key of F# writes E# instead. [For obscure reasons which are actually crucial to understanding bagpipe tuning, this E# is not actually the same as F, but we'll leave that aside for now]
A fifth up from F# brings us to C#; here we have the same problem as with F# major, only concerning the note B; it must be written B# [although this is nominally the equivalent of C]
This means we now have a scale with seven sharps in the key signature [pianists really do have to read such things ocassionally]. We should stop here and go back to our C major scale. What happens if we go down a fifth from C?
We are brought to the note F. Can we build a major scale on F?
Now the interval between the A and B is a tone when for a major scale it should be a semitone; we need to lower the B by a semitone which we do by using the 'flat' sign [for convenience I'm going to write this b]
Thus, where we had an 'empty' key signature for our C major scale, we now have one flat for our F major. You can probably predict how this will go – each fifth we go down, from F to Bflat, to Eflat, to Aflat, to Dflat, to Gflat to Cflat we add another flat to the key signature; You can probably write out these scales for yourself, taking care to always preserve the major scale intervals. Note that by the time we reach Dflat we have [again, nominally] reached the same scale as C# [and thus Gflat=F#, Cflat = B] [Again, piano works do exist written in Gflat, six flats].
Let's now write out the names of all these keys, starting with C#/Db:
C#/Db, F#, B, E, A, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db/C#
In 12 steps we have returned to our starting point; this cycle is called 'the circle of fifths'.
If we were to count in fifths from a C# at the very bottom of the piano keyboard we would end up on a C# 7 octaves above where we started [most normal piano keyboards don't have that many notes]. [4]
In Fig 6 we saw a tune written out in the key of D; the notes of this tune are such that we can play it on a GHB chanter; however, here is another version of the tune which we cannot play on the GHB chanter.
Fig. 13
Our fiddle player will have no difficulty playing from this music; they will, however, be playing a fifth lower than before. For a piper to play along, they will need a different chanter, one whose 'six-finger' note is D, rather than A. A GHB piper could play this D chanter reading from the GHB music, 'pretending' they were playing in the usual way; the only difference would be that they were now playing a fifth lower.
However, the task our GHB piper has set themself is to learn to play the A chanter [or, indeed, any other pitch of chanter] from music written for some other instrument [an English bagpipe collection, say, published for chanters in D]. Fig 13 is an example, and this is another:
Fig 14
which is our first tune, only written in the key of D rather than A.
How does our piper learn to read and play this? Basically they must understand pretty well the material we covered in the previous sections, how the chanter scale relates to the key signature. Then they must tackle the manner in which the tune is built out of the scale and how this relates to the fingering of the chanter. Once the structure of the tune in one scale can be grasped, then it will become possible to transfer this structure from one scale to another.
It's worth reassuring ourselves that this task is made immensely easier because we have only nine notes to deal with in any one scale or structure; imagine having to learn how to apply this to all 12 keys and all seven octaves, as a pianist would have to do.
Before proceeding, let me just name the notes that appear in this music that GHB pipers may not have met before. I have labelled them as they appear in the second four bars of the tune;
F# E D c-natural C-natural
We are now going to analyse how a tune is built. It is done by putting together blocks of notes, blocks which themselves consist of small patterns. Pipers who have experience of playing a number of tunes will be aware that they often find themselves playing the same little patterns repeatedly in different tunes; if you have not had this experience, then you are going to get it now, because we will begin by looking at these 'blocks' as they occur in the tunes we have considered so far.
The most fundamental of these 'blocks', and among the shortest is the 'octave'. This should be no surprise, given what we have learnt so far about how music is constructed mathematically. If we understand the information contained in the key signature we can identify what this octave should be even if it does not actually appear as a 'block' in the tune.
Look at notes iv,v & vi in bar 1: [I shall not be counting the short bit of bar that often occurs at the beginning of a tune; this is called a 'pick-up'; bar 1 is the first full bar.] In this case the octave is indeed the basic one of the 'key', D major; the block is the beginning and end of the scale of D. We can consider this as the 'outer frame' of our tune's structure [although we will often step outside this outer frame].
One of the benefits of using the pipe chanter to learn this stuff is that there are only two possible octaves available; on the GHB chanter these are A-a and G-g. In our tune here they are D-d and C-c [You may find yourself wanting to play music written for an instrument that can also play an octave C#-c# - I shall not deal with that possibility now – it will cause complications which you should beware of; basically a GHB chanter cannot reproduce such music without modification.]
So, we have two octave blocks, one of which, by referring to our key signature, we have identified as forming the 'boundaries' of our scale. It so happens that in this tune we also have an example of the other octave, notes v & vi of bar three
C-c, the equivalent in the key of D to the GHB G-g octave.
So, by understanding the key signature and relating this to the notes of the tune, we have identified, first our 'six-finger' note, and then our 'seven-finger' note, as well as their relative octaves; that's four notes out of nine, nearly half-way and all we've done is look at the key signature and two notes …
Now, in our discussion of the relationship between keys we identified the interval of a fifth as being crucial, it bearing the next closest relationship to the root after the octave. Let's look for this interval in our D tune
We find it at bar 2, notes iii & iv. A-D. It is as if the A stands in the middle of the scale, between the D and the d. Between the D and the A in this sequence we find an F#. [7] The interval between the D and the A we know is called the 'fifth'; that between the D and the F# is called the 'third', since the F# is the 3rd note in the D major scale.
So these simple mathematical ratios have built us a further subdivision of our octave; we now have D-F#-A-d
Let's look again at this tune in A:
We can see here that the 'block' we have identified [bar 2, notes i- iv] is constructed from the notes A-C#-E-a, our six-finger, four-finger, two-finger and open notes. We can therefore translate this fingering into D-F#-A-d in our D major music. Together with our two octaves this gives us the knowledge to identify 6 of our nine notes.
Finally let's go back to the C-c octave and look at the first four notes of bar 4 of the 'D' version:
The notes here are C–E-G, they have the same relationship between them as the D-F#-A group has [being the 1st, 3rd and 5th of the C octave], they translate into G-B-D on the GHB chanter and they make our total of recognisable notes up to 8.
You have probably noticed that bars 3 and 4 here are 'identical' to bars 1 and 2 - 'identical' that is, in their structure, though they are a tone apart. Let's look at the last three notes in bar 1 and the first four in bar 2 [and their equivalent in bars 3 and 4]
We can recognise here our octave and 5th and 3rd; but what is that note iii? Well, it's a B, GHB pipers are familiar enough with it, though in the key of A on the GHB it plays a very different role. I am going to say little more about this note here except to observe that the sound of the notes DF#ABdBAF#D will be familiar enough to anyone who has ever listened to a 1950's rock and roll band. The B is a '6th' and is the equivalent in the key of D to the F# in the key of A.
So now we have identified all our 9 notes using the key signature and the simple intervals of 5th and 3rd.
The art of transposing
The whole art of transposing music for bagpipes can be described in two simple processes; first, to familiarise oneself with the relationship between these 'structural' intervals and the fingering that produces them and second, to identify these structural intervals in different keys.
So let's chart these structural units in each of the keys pipers are likely to meet in most instances: we will put the familiar 'key of A' set at the top and work down in fifths, and next to each we will list the 'seven-finger octave' equivalent to that which a GHB piper has on their chanter: [8]
A C# E a [ G B D g
D F# A d [ C E G c
G B d g [ F A c e
C E g c [ BbD F bb
Here are the last two notes of the first bar and the first four notes of the second bar of our tune in each of the keys we are considering, together with their associated 7-finger sequence from bars 3 & 4 [I have included the natural symbols as they would appear with the key signature appropriate for each key]: this pair of sequences contains all the notes on the GHB chanter.
And to complete the exercise, here's the original tune in each of the keys:
Try taking other short sections and playing them from each version. Same sound, different notes…
For completeness' sake, here are the other two tunes we have been considering, in all four keys: These are real challenges, since the 'original' keys involve scales that begin in different places – needs some thinking about; to help, I have ordered them so that the familiar GHB version is first
For our second tune, Robertson's Quickstep, the original is in the '3-finger' key. If French or other European pipe music is what you want to play, then you will have to master this challenge, since much of the music is written in this way. As usual, the trick here is to identify the octave interval the tune includes, and treat that as the '6-finger' note; the difference is that whilst this octave forms the 'frame of the tune, it is not the octave we should expect from looking at the key signature. Thus, the first example, our original, marked 'D', contains an A-a octave, and is thus written for an A chanter; the second example 'G' contains the octave D-d, and is written for a 'D' chanter - and so on. Notice that for a 'C' chanter this tune is written and played in F.
Robertson's Quickstep
D ['A' chanter]
G ['D' chanter]
C ['G' chanter]
F ['C' chanter]
The last tune, Stormont Lads, is even more of a challenge, since it is written in the 7-finger key; the trick here is slightly more complex, since we must identify both octaves, treating the upper one as our 6-finger note, since the top note of the upper of the two octaves will be our highest available note. One result is that on a C chanter this tune would be played in Bflat. Fortunately, pipe music in this key is rare outside of the GHB repertoire. Playing in this way does however have one unique characteristic on the GHB chanter; it provides a true 'major' scale across a full octave.
Stormont Lads
G ['A' chanter]
C ['D' chanter]
F ['G' chanter]
Bb ['C' chanter]
Part Four – Transposing Minor Keys
Earlier in this tutorial we mentioned the issue of 'keys' that share their key signature with those we have discussed so far. It is now time to look at these and the implications they have for pipers learning to transpose non-GHB music.
So far, the key signatures used have been those of 'major' keys [the 'Ionian mode'], that is, a scale with the intervals tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, tone, tone, semi-tone. When playing this music on the GHB chanter, of course, we have to modify the written music by the use of 'natural' symbols to accommodate the fact of the 'flat 7th' of the chanter, giving us the scale tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, tone, semi-tone, tone – the 'Mixolydian' mode.
Pipe-music, however, can be, and often is, written in other 'modes', as we have seen earlier. [9] The GHB chanter makes particular use of the 'B' scale and to a lesser extent, the 'E' scale.
Let's begin with the 'B' scale.
B C# D E F# G a [b] [the GHB chanter does not include this note, although it is well-documented that pipers in the past have played this note using various techniques]
The intervals here are tone, semi-tone, tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, [tone]; this mode is named 'aeolian'. Looking at the notes included in this scale we can see that an appropriate key signature would be two sharps –
the same key signature as our D major key. How does this affect the process of transposing? Supposing, for instance we encounter the following:
'Brose and Butter'
At first glance it looks like a G tune, judging by the key signature, but when we look for the octave structure we find D-d; this, then is a tune written to be played on a D chanter. We can identity our D intervals
and we can identify what look like G intervals in the first bars of the second line but the E's in the first line are a sign that something else is involved. The issue becomes clearer when we look at a tune like the following:
'A Pretty Wench, and a tenant of my own'
Here we can clearly see the intervals of a scale based on the E:
This is an 'Aeolian' mode scale; on the D chanter, E F# G A B C d [e]
with the intervals
tone, semi-tone, tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, [tone];
Both these tunes reveal however, the close link between this E mode and the G major mode; the second strain of such tunes often opens with G major intervals. In fact, in musical parlance G major is called the 'relative major' of E minor. [The use of the term 'minor' in music is a compromise that has crept in to 'art music'; traditional music has retained the rich variety of modes.]
Now consider this tune –
'Johnny Lad'
Here the key implied by the key signature is C and we have an octave C-c, both of which seem to imply a C chanter setting; but the second part has high d's which means something else is involved here; the only way a GHB-type chanter can encompass this setting is if the 6-finger note is D; the tune is in fact in a mode that starts on A [on the D chanter- equivalent of E on the 'A' chanter]]:
Since the F# does not appear, it is undecided whether this is an Aeolian mode (tone, semi-tone, tone, [tone, semi-tone, tone, tone]- A,B,C,D,[E,F,G,a]) - or a Dorian one (tone, semi-tone, tone, [tone, tone, semi-tone, tone], A,B,C,D,[E,F#,G,a]).
Appendix I - Closing the Circle of Fifths
Although, when using a piano keyboard to demonstrate the relationship between the 12 fifths and the 7 octaves, we do return to the note on which we started, 7 octaves higher, this is a fudge. The discovery that this is the case has been attributed to Pythagoras. The mathematics will reveal the true situation. An octave is produced by doubling the frequency of our root note; thus the 7th octave note will have a frequency of 27=128. The frequency of a fifth is 3/2 times that of the root; thus the 12th 'fifth' has a frequency of (3/2) 12 =129.746337890625. The difference is now known as the 'Pythagorian comma'; for Pythagoras, this 'shortcoming' was the reason why the cosmos could never be perfect and was doomed to come to an end.
[1] The ratio between the frequency of the fifth and the root is 3/2, the second term in the 'harmonic series' the items of which are related to each other by the simple mathematical series 2:1,3:2,4:3.5:4.6:5 etc. This series is one of the basic structures of nature; there is a profound secret here regarding the nature of the relationship between this series and the human sensitivities, which results in the universality of human musical enjoyment.
[2] Some editors will use two sharps plus a g natural in their key signature for A Mixolydian tunes.
[3] The GHB chanter might well be considered as playing three pentatonic [5-note] scales; starting on G, A and D. These scales all avoid determining the intervals between C/D and F/G by omitting either the lower or the upper notes of the pairs.
[4] See Appendix
[5] This is not, of course, how a tune is composed; that is a very different matter
[6] As usual, this is not true for every instance; we have seen that some types of scale share key-signatures; we will put this matter to one side for the time being and concentrate on 'major' keys.
[7] The ratio between the frequencies of the D and the F# is 4:5
[8] Although I have given three 'new' keys here, and in the following, you may find it easier if you concentrate your attention on only one of these until you have mastered it. Which you choose will depend on the music you have to hand; you will find that much English pipe music is written for a D chanter, and most French music for a G chanter;.You will only occasionally meet with music written for a C chanter. As for music written in other keys, you now have the tools to work it out for yourself!
[9] This system of analysis was not part of early 18th century Highland piping; Joseph MacDonald in his tutor divides his tunes by what he calls 'Tastes'; this is a system that composers and analysers of highland [and other] music might do well to revisit.
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By Brendan Conway
Reuters is reporting that hedge fund manager David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital dropped its lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) now that it has won the day on the shareholder vote we wrote about last week:
The lawsuit's withdrawal, disclosed in a court ruling, closed the chapter on what was the strongest challenge by an Apple investor in years. Einhorn, leading calls on Wall Street for Apple to share more of its $137 billion in cash, wanted it to issue what he called "iPrefs," or preferred shares with a perpetual 4 percent dividend.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
When it pays to not stay put
I worked hard and late all day Sunday and early Monday to finish up my one mandatory project, and hit the road at 2:30 p.m. Leaving California is always a chore. I basically sat in traffic for 150 miles. But once I cleared Auburn, I was free.
I will write more later but I thought I'd post a few pictures of the trip so far. I embarked on an amazing spontaneous overnight trip on the Pacific Crest Trail near Truckee, Calfornia. I started hiking from Donner Pass at 6:30 p.m., camped seven miles from the trailhead, hiked/ran nine more out to Granite Chief Wilderness and back in the morning, and then hiked back to my car for the 550-mile drive to Salt Lake City. Big day, and it's only just the beginning of this whirlwind trip. But so far, so worth it. So worth it.
Tomorrow ... Lone Peak!
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Oh my goodness - I love the salt flats photo - that's amazing!ReplyDelete
I lvoe impromptu trips - they're the best :o)
Inspiring as always!ReplyDelete
Totally cool! I want to go hiking now. Instead I'm chained to my desk. :(ReplyDelete
HI Jill!ReplyDelete
I have been reading about your adventures for some time now and it's strange (in a fun way!) to hear you reference places I know! I live in Sacramento, and have sat in traffic to Auburn myself many times. On a different note, you have been very inspirational to me in countless ways; not many follow their muse the way you do. Keep on trucking!
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It only takes one ride past Café Hollander in Wauwatosa to see that it has become one of the anchor destinations in this thriving village.
On a summer night, patrons spill out onto the bridge that spans the Menomonee River, creating an idyllic scene that any restaurant would covet.
Opened in June of 2009, Café Hollander is part of the locally owned Lowlands Group that also owns several other restaurants in the Milwaukee area. It's a casual spot that attracts everyone from families with children to young professionals looking for a hip place to hang out for a few drinks.
"Café Hollander is a Belgium-themed café that focuses on Belgian beer and pub food," explains Tony Chiccarello, one of the managers. Some of the signature dishes include: The Grand Café Club sandwich ($11.95), Benelux meatloaf ($13.95) and the blackberry turkey sandwich ($10.95). They also offer salads and breakfast items and brunch on weekends.
In just a few short years, Café Hollander has become such a draw in the Wauwatosa village that they have truly become a business magnet in the community. So, it's not surprising that they are proud of their work giving back to several community organizations, such as nearby Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
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By Tiernan Ray
The media today homes in on an interesting aspect of the bitcoin fervor, a patent filing by J.P. Morgan Chase claiming a "method and system for processing internet payments using the electronic funds transfer network," something that others take as similar to bitcoin, perhaps even a competitor.
The patent application, filed November 28th, describes an association between a "payment address" for an account with an account holder name, and a means for the account holder to make withdrawals.
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The Financial Times's Tracy Alloway describes the filing as allowing "people to make anonymous, electronic payments over the Internet, without having to reveal their name or account numbers or pay a fee."
The article points to a post by Let's Talk Bitcoin's Brian Cohen, who notes that Chase was instrumental in "shuttering" a bitcoin player named Bitinstant, and that the firm takes a swipe at the virtual currency, stating in the application "None of the emerging efforts to date have gotten more than a toehold in the market place and momentum continues to build in favor of credit cards…," referring to new Internet payment mechanisms.