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This online, interactive resource includes videos and games to better understand why we need water and what we each can do to preserve it.
These applications are interactive books, developed in Portuguese, permeated with poetry, music and stunning visuals. Animations and games punctuate this three part series on the history of the São Francisco River.
The WaterAid site has a 'Learn Zone' with lots of multimedia teaching resources for primary and secondary schools as well as universities. The site is full of interesting facts and features, including the on line comic: The Adventures of Super Toilet. The site also has several interactive games, including 'Turdlywinks' and 'Pani the handpump'.
The UN/ISDR Stop Disaster Game includes a disaster simulation game on flooding. Play it and check your scores against players from around the world. The site also provides other information materials, including fact sheets and videos, on flooding and other disasters.


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One of the earliest lifestyle intervention studies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes was conducted in men aged 47-49 in Malmö, Sweden. Some IGT and all normal glucose tolerant (NGT) men received usual care, while all type 2 diabetes men and the other glucose intolerant (IGT) men underwent a lifestyle intervention. Of these, approximately 40% of individuals participating in the lifestyle intervention underwent 6-months of supervised physical training and 6-months of dietary treatment in a randomized crossover design. Men who participated in the lifestyle intervention had a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes, and had a greater reversal of glucose intolerance compared to men who received usual care. At the 12 year follow-up, the IGT men who underwent the lifestyle intervention showed no difference in mortality rates when compared to NGT men, and had less than half the mortality rate when compared to IGT men who received usual care.
Outcome of oral glucose tolerance tests at 6-year follow-up:
Eriksson K, Lindgrade F. Prevention of type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus by diet and physical exercises. Diabetologia 1991; 34: 891-898
The Da Qing Study examined the effect of a 6-year diet and exercise intervention in Chinese subjects with IGT and a mean age of 45. The diet intervention alone was associated with a 31% reduction, while the exercise intervention alone showed a 46% reduction in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, the combined diet and exercise group had a similar 42% reduction in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes during a 6-year follow-up period.
Incidence of type 2 diabetes at or before the six year follow-up in the Da Qing study
Pan X, Li g, Hu Y, Wang J, Yang W, An Z. Effects of diet and exercise in preventing NIDMM in people with impaired glucose tolerance. The Da Qing IGT and Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care 1997; 20: 537-544.
The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) was the first randomized controlled trial to specifically examine the effect of a lifestyle intervention in preventing type 2 diabetes.17,25 This study randomized 522 overweight/obese subjects with IGT to either a lifestyle intervention or a control group and followed them for approximately 3.2 years. The lifestyle intervention provided individualized counseling focused on achieving and maintaining healthy body weight, reducing fat intake, increasing fibre intake and increasing physical activity. At 2 year follow-up, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the intervention group was less than half that observed within the control group. Further, the reduction in diabetes was related to the number and magnitude of the lifestyle changes made. Each component of the intervention: weight loss, increase in physical activity, reduction of total and saturated fat intake, and increase in dietary fibre contributed to the risk reduction. More recently, the DPS group have reported that the impact of lifestyle changes in reducing incidence of diabetes was maintained for at least 4 years after the intensive intervention finished.
Proportion of subjects without diabetes during the DPS:
- Lindstrom J, Louheranta A, Mannelin M, Rastas M, Salminen V, Eriksoon J. The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS): Lifestyle intervention and 3-year results on diet and physical activity. Diabetes Care 2003; 26: 3230-3236.
- Lindstrom J, Ilanne-Parikka P, Peltonen M, Aunola S, Eriksson J, Hemio K. Sustained reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle intervention: follow-up of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study. Lancet 2006; 368: 1673-1679.
One of the largest randomized controlled clinical trials to date is the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), which was conducted in 3234 US adults with glucose intolerance. Unlike most previous studies, the cohort was diverse and included a large proportion of women (68%) and ethnic minorities (45%), and compared lifestyle intervention versus drug intervention (metformin) and a placebo control group over 2.8 years. The DPP reported that both lifestyle intervention and metformin had positive effects on the prevention of type 2 diabetes and restoring normal glucose tolerance. However, the lifestyle intervention was more effective in preventing type 2 diabetes, particularly in older adults. The lifestyle intervention group also tended to have a lower mortality rate than the metfomin intervention group. The cost-effectiveness of metformin versus lifestyle is highly dependent on the costs of metformin. For example, considering the current generic metformin pricing in the USA, the price of both interventions is comparable.
A recent paper relating to the DPP concluded that an increase in physical activity helps sustain weight loss and independently reduces diabetes risk among those who do not lose weight. Although DPP was not originally intended to examine the metabolic syndrome per se, the DPP report that lifestyle intervention also improves lipid parameters of the metabolic syndrome (fasting triglycerides and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), and reduced the incidence of hypertension in addition to its positive effect on fasting glucose and glucose tolerance.
Cumulative incidence of type 2 diabetes with placebo, metformin and lifestyle intervention
Knowler W, Barrett-Connor E, Fowler SE, Hamman RF, Lachin JM. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002; 346: 393-403.
The Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme (IDPP)
The IDPP was a prospective community-based study, that examined whether the progression to diabetes could be influenced by interventions in native Asian Indians with IGT who were younger, leaner and more insulin resistant than populations studied (multiethnic American, Finnish and Chinese populations).28 Results showed that progression of IGT to diabetes is high in native Asian Indians. Both lifestyle modification and metformin significantly reduced the incidence of diabetes in Asian Indians with IGT, there was no added benefit from combining them. The relative risk reduction was 28.5% with lifestyle modification, 26.4% with metformin and 28.2% with lifestyle modification combined with metformin.
"Ramachandran A, Snehalatha C, Mary S, Mukesh B, Bhaskar A, Vijay V. The Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme shows that lifestyle modification and metformin prevent type 2 diabetes in Asian Indian subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IDPP-1). Diabetolgia 2006; 49: 289-297.


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Description ADULT Has greenish upperparts overall; marginally darker wings have two pale wing bars, lower one brighter and more distinct than upper. Dark eye has white supercilium and white "eyelid" below creating incomplete spectacled effect. Underparts are pale overall but washed buffy yellow. JUVENILE Similar to adult.
Dimensions Length: 4 3/4 -5" (12-13 cm)
Endangered Status The Least Bell's Vireo, a subspecies of Bell's Vireo, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in California. This little vireo lives in dense, streamside willow thickets from southern California into Baja California. The alteration of its habitat, caused mainly by water diversion practices, was a major factor in this vireo's decline. The stresses of habitat loss made the bird vulnerable to other factors. One of these is nest parasitism by cowbirds, which lay their eggs in the vireos' nests. The cowbird young crowd and starve out their hosts smaller offspring. There are thought to be about 300 breeding pairs of Least Bell's Vireos surviving.
Habitat Local and generally rather scarce summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to dense, riverine woodland and scrub across the Midwest. Winters in Mexico.
Observation Tips Listen for its distinctive song.
Range Plains, Southeast, Great Lakes, Texas, Southwest, Florida, California
Voice Song is a rapid, chattering chewee-cheweed'de'de'der; call is a thin chee.
Discussion Active, but highly secretive, warblerlike vireo. Feeds mainly on insects, foraging among dense foliage in a deliberate manner. Western birds (found outside range of this book) are paler and grayer than eastern birds (described in detail below). Sexes are similar.


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The bike lane on Queen's Quay at Bathurst has always been a parking lot. This lane, connecting directly to the Martin Goodman Trail to the west, is bordered by condos, townhomes and a park. The condo tower on the corner of Bathurst and Queen's Quay contains a small grocery store, one that constantly receives deliveries from large trucks who use the lane as their own private loading zone. Next to the store is the condo entrance, and at all times of the day you're likely to find a cab or car idling, waiting for someone exiting the building.
What I'm describing above could in fact be any bike lane in Toronto. The current (and building) resentment by non-bicycle riders towards bike lanes is best represented by the overwhelming number of vehicles idling, driving and often parked in Toronto bicycle lanes.
However, something has changed at the foot of Bathurst Street and this change has translated into cabbies using the Queen's Quay bike lane as a spot to queue. With the introduction of Air Canada flights to the Island Airport, no doubt the increased taxi idling is a direct result of greater air traffic at the airport.
Where there was typically just one or two (and far too many at that) cars and trucks in the bike lanes has turned into more than a dozen cabs, some idling, some with their engines off and occupants out chatting.
The above photo was taken on the morning of Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Frustrated, I called the police to report the cabs. Toronto City Council recently voted to increase the fine for bike lane parkers, yet just last year Toronto Police Services stated that they are impotent in enforcing the law.
Seconds after hanging up the phone with the police dispatcher a symphony of horns started roaring from the idling cabs. Do the cabbie dispatchers monitor Toronto police radio? Is this something that happens in 2012 or am I stuck in a 1980s ham-radio TV reality?
While a few of the cabs pulled forward and one drove off, another 3 quickly replaced them just as a police car arrived. The officer proceeded to park in the intersection of Bathurst and Queen's Quay and direct the cabbies toward the airport.
I assumed the officer may line the cabs up on Bathurst and begin writing tickets. While the officer did move his vehicle from the intersection and spoke with one cabbie, the others quickly disappeared or joined the long queue near the airport and I did not see the officer write a single ticket.
I confronted one remaining cabbie parked in the bike lane, telling him to move because the cop was writing tickets, he resisted but when I pointed to the parked cop he finally moved.
But what happens now? I expect the cabs will return and Toronto Police, whose bike cops I have witnessed use this bike lane while ignoring cars parked there, will have to be called by concerned citizens to simply issue warnings.
Why am I so pessimistic? Because as I proceeded along Queen's Quay I found an officer parked in the bike lane at Yonge, his car idling, chatting on the phone. While emergency services are exempt from parking laws, using a bike lane as a phone call lane seems like an abuse of this power to me.
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"Big Brother 13" Spoilers: Adam Wins Veto
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- Dan Survivorfan said...
As much as I wish Adam would use it because I am pulling for Porsche and Kalia. I think he probably is making the right decision not to use it. I don't really think it will further his game that much to turn on them now.
I don't think he will win either way, I think that ship has sailed whether he realizes it or not. But I think his best option is to leave the noms the same.
Although Adam using the veto would be epic. So I am hoping he makes another stupid decision and saves one of them.
- September 4, 2011 at 7:44 AM
- Edna Ruth said...
I hope Adam doesn't use the POV on either Kalia or Porche. I think Porche should be the one voted out this week. If Rachael & Jordan are in the bottom 3 they should take Adam with them. I don't think he would win. However we could be surprised.
- September 6, 2011 at 4:53 PM
He shouldn't use it on Whiny Rachael or Jordan. Edna is a moron.
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By Michaela Gibson Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Tupelo's Major Thoroughfare Program projects are moving along.
Work on South Gloster Street should finish this spring. The East Main Street widening project is on schedule and slated to finish late summer.
The Northern Loop, which will connect west Tupelo and the Barnes Crossing retail district, is down to two bridges. Thoroughfare committee chairman Greg Pirkle said he hopes that project will finish before the end of 2014.
"If all the projects are completed, we'll only have one more congested Christmas," Pirkle said.
Tupelo taxpayers provide the engine for the large-scale roadwork with a 10-mill property tax that generates about $4 million annually. The program comes back to Tupelo voters every five years for renewal.
To allow work to move forward on the long-anticipated projects, the city has temporarily committed $3 million in reserves to cover any gaps between construction expenses and revenue collection.
All three projects are leveraging partnerships with the Mississippi Department of Transportation. MDOT will handle the bridge over U.S. Highway 78 on the Northern Loop. The South Gloster project ties into the new U.S. Highway 6. The East Main Street project ties in with MDOT-overseen work in downtown Main Street.
After six years and miles of multi-agency red tape, it's down to the bridges for Tupelo's Northern Loop – the first new road built under the Major Thoroughfare Program.
"The road beds that connect the bridges are complete," Pirkle said.
The project's four road bed phases are complete and work is ramping up on one of the two bridges required to complete the project.
Work is beginning on the bridge that will span the Natchez Trace. Crews are currently clearing the land and moving equipment into place.
"It's a 16-month project," said engineer John White of ESI.
Traffic should be able to continue to flow along the Natchez Trace during the construction, Pirkle said.
MDOT is building the bridge over Highway 78.
Pirkle hopes to have the final real estate issues – which are Tupelo's responsibility – connected with the bridge over Highway 78 settled within a week.
Once that happens, MDOT – which is overseeing and funding the 78 bridge – is set to proceed with the bidding process.
ESI designed the Highway 78 bridge as well, and White anticipates it will be a 16- to 18-month project.
That should mean that by Christmas 2014, shoppers will have another route to the Barnes Crossing shopping district.
"It should be doable," White said.
The widening of South Gloster Street from Garfield Street to the new Mississippi Highway 6 missed its Dec. 31 deadline for completion, but the end is in sight.
The $6.5 million project will add a center turn lane, making the road five lanes wide.
Cook-Coggin engineer Carrson Neal anticipates the work should be complete later this spring.
"There will be some time extension granted due to delays caused by conflicts with other utilities, but the exact amount is not yet known, as that must be approved by MDOT sometime prior to work being completed," he said.
Construction crews are on target so far for the East Main Street widening project. Work began last fall and is slated for completion in early August.
The $3 million project will create five lanes between Veterans Boulevard and Willow Road and three lanes of traffic between Willow and Hillsdale Drive.
"It's going very well," Pirkle said.
The project has been long anticipated. Widening East Main was named a priority for the second five-year phase of the Major Thoroughfare Program, but had to wait until the fifth phase to move off the drawing board.
The final paving will be the last phase of the project.
The remaining priorities identified as possibilities for this phase of the Major Thoroughfare include tying Thomas Street into the new Highway 6, expanding Veterans Boulevard, adding right hand turn lanes to North Gloster Street around the mall and expanding West Jackson Extended around the Tupelo Regional Airport.
What project is chosen next depends on construction costs and the revenue available, Pirkle said. Historically, the committee hasn't started any new projects unless they have the funds to complete them.
"We have plenty of money to finish all the projects underway," Pirkle said.
Later this month, Pirkle anticipates the Major Thoroughfare Program will send a formal recommendation for a study to identify the priorities for the next round of Major Thoroughfare Project, which will come up for a vote in 2016.


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However you pray, pray for the people on that boat including the the NFL players who are still lost at sea!
However you pray, pray for the people on that boat including the the NFL players who are still lost at sea!
thoughts & prayers go out to those familes & the 2 guys missing.
god please help them...amen
To Change Your Heart
Pray for these men....as well as the Octomom's 14 children.
Players come and go, but I will always be a Miami Dolphins Fan first and foremost.
my younger brother
needs prayer, his life has gone off the rails. my parents are to old to have to deal with the way he is acting.his name is ben.
thank u.
I have a pretty big day today, I am a private person by nature so I don''t know how comfortable I would feel going into description, but if some could just have a good thought in your heart, I would be grateful. Thank you.
we have the nice topic.
It's good to know that there are people who were praying for you, isn't it?
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need."
my wife's cousin died in the Georgia flooding last night...22 years old... they have asked for prayer...
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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Mediterraneo, on Federal Hill, is a culinary greeter for the town's cuisine — at the beginning of Atwells Avenue, near the arch. Their reputation is such that they can brag about celebrity guests occasionally being sighted — a Rudolph Giuliani now, a Cameron Diaz then — and the kitchen's knack with dishes has created many loyalists among local fine dining aficionados.
The prices aren't sky high, though you can spring for a $26 seafood casserole appetizer or a $35 filet mignon main course. Among the starters, their fried calamari has always been prepared as local tradition dictates, but they also offer an inventive appetizer, crostini con portobello e manzo ($10), with roasted mushrooms and sautéed tenderloin tips atop grilled Tuscan bread in a Madeira and thyme cream sauce. Not too shabby.
While we're talking dishes that don't elicit yawns, their grilled salmon is topped with a spicy dill salmoriglio, a busily populated diced concoction that brings together fennel and Serrano chiles. But Mediterraneo's signature strength is definitive preparations of traditional Italian dishes, as the penne arrabbiata described below will attest. I still remember a Bolognese sauce I had there a decade ago because its veal, pork, and beef were in discernible bits rather than being ground together.
That's all prelude to my not having dinner there this time. When I noticed there was a three-course prix fixe lunch available, I thought I'd check it out. When I noticed it was only $14.95, I knew I would (it's served Monday through Friday from 11:30 am to 3 pm.). The deal becomes even more irresistible when you notice that half the items are also on the $29.95 prix fixe dinner menu.
The restaurant is attractive, with plenty of warm wood and decorative glass, including wine bottles everywhere cuing you to order a prosecco or a nice cab. Cobalt blue water goblets look good against the granite tabletops. The floor-to-ceiling streetside glass doors were all open that afternoon, making the dining room and sidewalk café tables one big patio. To get away from the traffic sounds and exhaust, we sat inside toward the back. In beneficent urban forgiveness, the city pardoned this disrespect and provided us a steady, cooling breeze anyway.
An appetizer special sounded so appealing, I ordered that first. The 20 or so Maine mussels ($10) weren't in the usual wine sauce but rather ringed around a goodly serving of cannellini beans deliciously prepared with tomatoes and onions. When the two pieces of grilled bruschetta on top weren't enough to mop up the broth, more was brought upon request.
The Caesar salads we both chose instead of mixed field greens were just right. Plenty of dressing, but not much, the lettuce already tossed — though I would wish the croutons had been tossed with the Romaine. The plentiful Parmesan on top was shaved, not grated. Well done.
The 21 main dishes offered temptations for every appetite: Mushroom caps filled with lobster and shrimp stuffing; fried calamari served over baby greens. Chicken piccata or chicken balsalmico. Paper-thin slices of beef carpaccio over baby arugula and large caper berries. And so on.
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Walter Murphy,
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Murphy will examine important constitutional questions facing the United States today, including whether current policies justified as necessary to wage a war on terrorism are preserving and enhancing the Constitution or harming its fundamental values.
Murphy, considered one of the most distinguished constitutional scholars of the 20th century, joined the Princeton faculty in 1958 and transferred to emeritus status in 1995. He has received numerous honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association's Law and Courts Section. His books include "Wiretapping on Trial," "Elements of Judicial Strategy" and "Congress and the Court" as well as works of fiction that explore political and religious themes.
The lecture is the initial event in this year's series of Alpheus Mason Lectures in Constitutional Law and Political Thought, titled "The Quest for Freedom," which is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Pace Center and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
According to a 2004 federal law, educational institutions that receive federal funds are required to hold programs about the U.S. Constitution on the anniversary of the document's signing, Sept. 17, or in the preceding or following week. A copy of the Constitution and further information regarding its creation are available on the National Archives Web site.


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Gunners Mount, Platform with receivers and pockets for rifle, carbine, and pistol repairs. The ideal platform to work AR/M4 lowers. Assemble, disassemble, and repair. Parts pockets are cut to prevent runaway components and a slot for supporting magazines when making repairs. The platform will also accommodate pistol magazine posts and other magazine fed weapon systems.
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Dr. Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest was President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Vest earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and M.S.E. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967 respectively.
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He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 1968 where he taught in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanic, and conducted research in heat transfer and engineering applications of laser optics and holography. He and his graduate students developed techniques for making quantitative measurements of various properties and motions from holographic interferograms, especially the measurement of three-dimensional temperature and density fields using computer tomography. He became an associate professor in 1972 and a full professor in 1977.
In 1981 Dr. Vest turned much of his attention to academic administration at the University of Michigan, serving as associate dean of engineering from 1981-86, dean of engineering from 1986-1989, when he became provost and vice president for academic affairs. In 1990 he became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served in that position until December 2004. He then became professor and president emeritus.
As president of MIT, he was active in science, technology, and innovation policy; building partnerships among academia, government and industry; and championing the importance of open, global scientific communication, travel, and sharing of intellectual resources. During his tenure, MIT launched its OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative; co-founded the Alliance for Global Sustainability; enhanced the racial, gender, and cultural diversity of its students and faculty; established major new institutes in neuroscience and genomic medicine; and redeveloped much of its campus.
He was a director of DuPont for 14 years and of IBM for 13 years; was vice chair of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness for eight years; and served on various federal committees and commissions, including the Presidents Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy and the Rice-Chertoff Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee. He serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations and foundations devoted to education, science, and technology.
In July 2007 he was elected to serve as president of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for six years. He has authored a book on holographic interferometry, and two books on higher education. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from eighteen universities, and was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President Bush and received the 2011 Vannevar Bush Award.
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Earth Song, Ocean Song
Earth Song / Ocean Song is the coming-of-age voice of Mary Hopkin. Recorded as Mary turned twenty one, it is a sophisticated, elegant collection, sung most beautifully and from the heart. Not that these are love songs. Rather, they speak of reflection, of deliberation and of questions. Mary Hopkin says today: "This is what I would have written had I been writing songs at the time — well, I wish I could have."
She adds: "I was writing down lyrics and ideas, but not actually completing anything. Due to my concert commitments, I just never found the time. It was a confidence thing, as well." But self expression doesn't always have to be self-written, and Mary's choice of songs speaks so well of her intent. She says: "Other writers were saying what I was feeling."
Mary did have confidence — in her singing — and it's the strength and purpose in her voice that's most telling on Earth Song / Ocean Song. The album remains important to her. "This is dear to my heart," she says. "If I'd recorded it today I would be very proud."
Released by Apple Records in October 1971, Earth Song / Ocean Song draws upon Mary's love of traditional folk music both American and British. This is not a traditional record, however, but an exploration of contemporary folk, with modern string arrangements and subtle musical experiments.
The sessions for Earth Song / Ocean Song began in May 1971 at George Martin's AIR Studios, in central London. The producer was Tony Visconti, who had produced The Iveys for Apple, but was best known at this point for his work with David Bowie and Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex.
Following on from 1969's Post Card, Earth Song / Ocean Song is Mary's second Apple album. She took control from the artwork onwards. She was pleased to be working with Tony Visconti; for the second time, it turned out, as they had recorded together before, although Mary didn't realize it until their re-acquaintance.
In 1969, Tony had been put forward as a producer for Mary, and his audition was to record a version of Gallagher & Lyle's 'Sparrow' in Welsh (following the earlier English version). Somehow, she wasn't informed that it was a try-out for Tony. "I didn't know who he was," she recalls. "So after the session I just said goodbye. And because I didn't mention him to Apple, they put me with Mickie Most, thinking 'She can't have liked Visconti'. It was two years before he came back on the scene."
By this time, Mary had grown tired of singing the pop material for which she was famous, and she was eager for a new musical expression. "Stan, my brother-in-law and manager at the time, played me the Strawbs' album Dragonfly," she remembers, "and it was so understated, the production was so sparse and beautiful that I thought, that's the guy I want as my producer." That guy was Tony Visconti.
For his part, Tony was also delighted to be working with Mary again. "I thought her voice was that of a fairy princess," he says today. "So unique, so special. Every time I heard her sing it made me think of Lord Of The Rings. If you could hear the characters in Tolkien's book singing, they would sound like Mary."
Together, Mary and Tony decided to create a different type of record. Mary remembers, "I was so keen to experiment." Tony adds: "We didn't make a straight up, honest, organic folk album. We wanted to use modern techniques and evocative sounds to make it a super-folk sounding album."
For the musicians, Tony recruited Terry Weil and Clive Antree on cellos, and for the strings, the Pop Art String Quartet. On acoustic guitars he brought in Dave Cousins, the main creative force behind The Strawbs, and folk singer Ralph McTell; and on upright bass, Danny Thompson. Ralph had released three highly regarded folk albums by this point — and Mary chose songs from two of them — while Danny Thompson had earned his reputation in the folk-rock group Pentangle, while also becoming the most in-demand stand-up bassist around.
"These were my drinking buddies," says Tony of Ralph, Dave and Danny. "I'd produce records with them and then we spend long evenings in the pub together." Mary was delighted with her ad hoc backing band: "I had the best musicians in the world on this album," she says. "It's got this lovely rounded sound throughout. Tony wrote beautiful string arrangements and played recorder on some songs too."
The relationship between singer and producer soon blossomed. "We were getting to know each other and falling in love on this album," says Mary. "It was such a special time." Before the record was completed, Mary and Tony were a couple, and towards the end of 1971, they were married.
Each track on Earth Song / Ocean Song was originally published by Westminster Music, which held the biggest catalogue of folk songs in the UK at that time. Westminster was part of the production group Tony worked for, and from there he sourced more than a hundred songs, mostly demos on open reel tapes, from which Mary made her selection.
The one exception was the opening track, 'International', which Tony interprets as "a need for countries without borders, for us to open up to other cultures". This was recorded before the rest of the album, with classical guitars by Kevin Peek and Brian Daly. It was written by Mary's friends Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, then signed to Apple Publishing. "I love the message of that song," says Mary. "It was something I wanted to pass on to people. I've always loved Benny and Graham's songs, everything they've written."
'There's Got To Be More' is by British folk singer Harvey Andrews. "I love the gutsiness of that," says Mary. "It's rather profound; when we picked these songs we noticed they all seemed to have a message. This one is 'Think deeper'. This is the underlying theme of the songs I write now."
"This is Ralph's magic," Mary says of 'Silver Birch', by Ralph McTell. "It's about the landscape being more important than the relationship. Waiting for someone, and she doesn't care if he turns up or not when there's this amazing sunset to watch. It's a haunting melody." Ralph plays acoustic guitar to Dave Cousins' banjo, to which Tony added a delicate delay effect. "It really made the banjo sparkle," he says.
Tom Paxton and David Horowitz's 'How Come The Sun' is "one of the outstanding tracks for me," says Mary. The song led to what would become Mary's farewell concerts, after which she would retire from live performance. "Tom Paxton heard Mary's version and was besotted," recounts Tony. "He invited her to tour Australia and New Zealand with him. She sang 'How Come The Sun' every night and he'd listen in the wings."
Both 'Earth Song', which closed Side One of the vinyl LP, and 'Ocean Song', which was the album finale, were written by American writer Liz Thorsen. "We couldn't believe that she wasn't as big as Joni Mitchell," says Tony. "But she was very low profile. We never heard an album by her, just isolated tracks." For Mary, the two Liz Thorsen songs became personal. "Tony played me her demos and I was blown away," she says. "I very much identified with her sensitive style."
Just as it would later fade out, Side Two of the album faded in, with 'Martha', another Harvey Andrews song, one that he cut himself on his Writer Of Songs LP in 1972. "That was fun to do, quite spooky," says Mary. "I'm a great fan of discordant music. I love musical seconds, and weird sounds coming in — the chance to get something dark or creepy in there. It can change a mood completely."
"Danny's bass part is amazing," adds Mary. "It continues a thread that runs through the whole album." Says Tony: "The bass fiddle doesn't often go up in that register, playing lead. But Danny does it so well."
Mary: 'Martha' is about a sad lady spying on everyone; lonely people." Tony: "It's like a more cruel 'Eleanor Rigby'. Mary had all this inside her that she wanted to get out."
'Streets Of London' is the quintessential song about Britain's capital and it remains the social anthem of the Seventies and beyond. It's also Ralph McTell's signature tune. "It was a joy to be in the studio singing while Ralph was playing guitar on his own songs," admits Mary. For this track, Mary also added her own acoustic guitar accompaniment too.
"I let my music take me where my heart wants to go," sang Mary on 'The Wind', by Cat Stevens, from his 1970 Tea For The Tillerman LP. "I am a great Cat Stevens fan," she says. "And I loved Tony's arrangement for this." Tony: "For me as an arranger, 'The Wind' was a wonderful opportunity to stretch out. A lot of work went into it. We're very proud of the results."
'Water, Paper And Clay', written by Reina and Mike Sutcliffe, was the penultimate track on the LP and it became Mary's last single for Apple Records, issued in December 1971. "I was so enchanted by that," she says. "It has the quality of an anthem. I liked the fact that I didn't quite understand the lyrics. I liked the mystery." The recording was fun too: "I played the harmonium. I couldn't play and pump the pedals at the same time, so Danny and Ralph are on their knees pumping the pedals while I played the keyboard. Then we all went off to the pub and the guys had a few beers and then we did the slightly inebriated, very loud and free backing vocals. Dave Lambert from the Strawbs joined us for that, and he was the only one who could hit the high notes."
'Ocean Song', the second from Liz Thorsen, is the album's finale. Mary sings with composure yet her vocals are heartfelt, while Tony's subtle phased strings combine with the unbeatable bespoke trio that was Dave Cousins, Ralph McTell and Danny Thompson to create a masterpiece of contemporary music making. Tony: 'Earth Song' and 'Ocean Song' were bookends. They were so perfect. We were overwhelmed with the beauty and the expanse of those songs. They were very precious to us." Adds Mary: "I felt as if they'd been written for me. That's why we named the album after them. Soulful, and hiraeth as we say in Welsh, the longing. It's what moves you, it's like a passion. Songs like this have always appealed to me."
As 'Ocean Song' and Earth Song / Ocean Song closes, Mary hums soothing ad-libs and then withdraws, bowing out with style and grace. She turns her back on her three years of fame and heads towards domesticity and a brand new family life. Mary had made the album she had always wanted to make and felt she had little left to prove. To herself or to others. This would be her last album for many years. She concludes: "I'm very black and white, and I thought I don't want to compromise any more, as I had done in the past, and this coincided with getting married, and so I decided to stop, and more or less leave the business."
'Kew Gardens' "It's a beautiful little narrative," says Mary of this Ralph McTell song cut during the album sessions and issued as the B-side to 'Let My Name Be Sorrow'. "I loved recording the harmonies for this. We replicated the ones that we had heard on the demo version."
'When I Am Old One Day'
Also from the album sessions. Written by Harvey Andrews, and found on his Writer Of Songs LP. "I thought this was adorable," said Mary. "The quirkiness of it, and the poignancy."
'Let My Name Be Sorrow'
Mary's penultimate single for Apple Records, issued in June 1971 and written by Martine Habib & Bernard Estardy. Tony: "We were trying out this big full, orchestral sound (with Richard Hewson as arranger). But for Earth Song / Ocean Song we adopted a simpler approach." Says Mary about her choice of 'Let My Name Be Sorrow': "That's the Welsh in me. There's something rather lovely about dark tones, and minor keys."
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I'm enjoying it. I read #1 and 2 back to back and couldn't wait until #3 came out. It made me wonder: if this version of SW made it to the big screen, would it have been a hit? Don't know if it would've been the blockbuster it turned out to be, but it would've intrigued people.
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Will the mirrors mentioned be visible like the Starshine project - which I had a had in !DaveG6ZKC
The mission is postponed again due to the same problem that caused an earlier delay. It will at least take a month before the launch will happen. At least, that is what I read in today's newspaper
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