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Today was great, a bit too windy, but perfect for that H&M floaty skirt, therefor I was in the mood for a long photo shoot and we took hundreds of photos, so I hardly manage to select only these.
A friend of mine donated me that jacket since she was bored with it and you know, why refuse? She is like a thrift store, haha. And don't you just love that brooch?
I trust you all have a Happy Easter with your loved ones, I am spending time with my family and eating lots and lots of food and goodies! Yay for holidays!
Wearing: H&M skirt, no name jacket, vintage sweater and bag, Mei shoes, Meli Melo sunglasses, Breslo camee brooch


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From almost science fiction to necessary tool: such has been the rapid evolution of agricultural biotechnology as farmers capitalize on its production enhancements and cost-effectiveness.
And more's coming down the pike as science leapfrogs on what's already been accomplished, editors of Primediabusiness agricultural magazines said at a National AgriMarketing Association forum in Kansas City.
Acceptance by Southern farmers of genetically engineered crops "has been phenomenal," says Forrest Laws, executive editor for Farm Press Publications. "They've moved to Roundup Ready, Bollgard, and other new varieties because it helps simplify their lives. These seed may cost more than conventional varieties, but they allow producers to get more done more efficiently."
Combined with precision farming systems, growers are better able to tailor seeding rates and fertilizer/chemical applications to achieve higher yields at lower cost.
While moving enthusiastically into new technologies, Laws says, farmers have also been active in adopting production measures that will help keep older, effective materials on the market. "Agriculture has done a good job of lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to keep useful products available."
U.S. farmers will have to utilize new technologies in order to stay competitive in world markets, says Greg Lamp, editor of Corn and Soybean Digest.
"Farmers in South America, with cheaper land and labor, are nipping at our heels. We've got to stay on top of these new technologies or they'll pass us."
U.S. crops will be moving more from plants with genetically engineered input traits to those with specific output traits, Lamp says. These will include genes to produce medical components to fight health problems such as cystic fibrosis and heart disease. "Farmers are going to be producing foods that are healthier for consumers."
And he says, "Everyone is hoping Congress passes the energy bill, with its increased emphasis on ethanol. Already, 10 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used for ethanol, and new hybrids are being developed especially for this market."
Biotechnology "has revolutionized the seed industry," says Karen McMahon, editor of Farm Industry News.
"Crop seeds are being customized to include more complex traits that can be turned on or off by certain conditions." Future seeds, she says, may contain genetic codes that will allow them to tolerate wide variations in environment, "perhaps allowing a farmer to plant a crop at any time of the year, with the seed programmed to germinate when proper conditions occur."
In the animal sector, Dale Miller, editor of National Hog Farmer, says several projects are under way to identify genes for disease resistance, so producers could better control costly diseases in their herds and reduce the potential for antibiotic resistance. Scientists are also looking for ways to manipulate genes to reduce stress in animals and increase production efficiency.
Primediabusiness Chief Executive Officer Martin Maleska says the developments in biotechnology only skim the surface of the revolution that is occurring in information. "What's needed more than ever is the insight of knowledgeable, experienced people, such as our agricultural magazine editors, to help provide insight to our readers as to what that information can mean to them and how they can best use it."

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Above is the oldest photo I have; I would guess it's from around 1883.
Here are the brothers with my great-grandparents, Joseph and Ida.
Here are the brothers all grown up.
Foss was a farmer/land owner (Conn.), Jesse was a Methodist preacher (Calif.), Ames went on to be a professor at Williams College and Yale University, Roy became lieutenant governor of Delaware and Karl (my grandfather) was a pediatrician in Washington, D.C.
Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family!


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Curious about technology in the classroom, but don't know where to start?
Here are few tech tools that are easy to use and have a high impact on student learning.
Make wonder and inquiry a part of your weekly routine! Visit Wonderopolis.org and follow along as they ask questions, post a blog and share photo and video resources about a variety of topics. Wonderopolis is a great site for finding short, nonfiction text for readers of all ages. Wonderopolis is also a great site to use as a mentor text for blogging. We use it before we introduce blogs to identify what a blog looks like and sounds like, as well as what comments look like and sound like. If you're excited to teach students about the power of connection, post a comment or submit a wonder; Wonderopolis almost always responds to students and teachers. You can follow them on Twitter @Wonderopolis.
TodaysMeet.com is a free, web-based tool that allows users to backchannel a discussion online. A teacher can create a chat room that is available only to users who have the link (ie, your class). Once students access the website via the link they log on with their name and engage in a collaborative discussion online. Students can view all the responses as they are posted live to the discussion site. Anyone with the link can contribute, so you can invite students to collaborate across classrooms and with others who are not present, provided they have the link. (Think—cross-school, cross-district, cross-continent collaboration!). It's great for staff meetings too!
Croak.it is a free website that allows the user to record 30 second audio clips. The audio recording is then uploaded to a personalized website and available to anyone who has the link. The developers created the site for users to "Push. Speak. Share." and the simplicity is amazing. Even more unbelievable, Croak.it also has a FREE app available for iPhone and Android! Use Croak.it to create student reflections, share book talks and differentiate with audio instructions. This is a versatile little tool with hundreds of uses. Croak.it!
QR Codes
A QR code, or quick response code, is a matrix barcode that holds information about a tool or product. Using a QR code with a QR scan app provides students quick access to a website without having to type the URL. We use QR codes to distribute websites quickly and easily to students during lessons and create our own QR codes using the website qrstuff.com.
At our school we use QR codes to link to audio book recommendations that we attach to the front of books. As kids "shop" for books in our library, they can scan the QR code to hear a book review created by another student. Inviting students to create book reviews by students, for students empowers them as valuable contributors to our reading community, expands their audience and builds a buzz for books they love.
Songify is a fun app that converts the words or phrases you speak into a remixed song. Songify scrubs the vocal track and adds preprogrammed beats and background music. The basic touch-to-start and touch-to-stop technology provides ease of use for all ages. This app embraces multi-modal learning and easily differentiates instruction. Students love to create songs to synthesize their learning during an inquiry circle. Oftentimes the songs created in class—including Terra Cotta Warriors and the Nile River—become classroom hits. As we know, kids remember information that is set to music so I use it to create songs for math facts, spelling patterns and comprehension strategies.
Google Form
Google form is a free online tool for gathering information in a streamlined fashion. A Google form can be created easily in Google Drive and shared via a link for others to complete. Each Google form you create collects responses in a spreadsheet stored in Google Drive. The spreadsheet can be sorted and grouped in a variety of ways making the data easy to access and interpret. Google form is handy tool for creating quizzes, surveying parents or gathering feedback regarding inquiry circles and book clubs.
Create a classroom Twitter account to connect with other students and teachers. Post this tweet:
"Looking for other (insert grade or subject) classrooms to connect with. Anyone tweeting with their class? #(grade/subject)chat"
People will contact you and then you can follow them. Share your Twitter handle (your Twitter name) with your families and invite them to follow your class. Start by tweeting student reflections one day a week. Ask kids to share something they've learned or are wonder. These reflection tweets provide your families a "window" into your classroom and the curriculum. Also use Twitter as a place to crowdsource information. Post mini-inquiry questions and see who answers. Have fun and model connected learning! Twitter.com
You can follow our class @Burley106.
Kidblog.org is an amazing, safe blogging site created for teachers and students. Teachers can create a class for free and develop accounts for students that are not dependent on an email address. This is specifically helpful for younger learners who don't have an email. Once a class is created, students can log on from any device that connects to the internet and post a blog. You can use your blog for a variety of purposes—writing about reading, writer's workshop, or as a general repository for student thinking. You can view our Kidblog here.


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The Honda Accord Crosstour was launched in 2009 for the 2010 model year line. It is a full-size hatchback that fits into the Honda model line between the Honda Accord sedan and coupe and the Honda Pilot, which is a midsize crossover SUV. The Honda Accord Crosstour actually measures longer than the Honda Pilot, but it has only two rows of seating compared to the three rows found in the Honda Pilot.
The Honda Accord Crosstour sells as a hatchback version of the eighth (and current) version of the Honda Accord produced for the North American market. The Honda Accord Crosstour and the Honda Accord sedan both use the same platform and share many mechanical components, but the bodies are completely different. The Honda Accord Crosstour is longer, wider, and taller than the Honda Accord sedan. The interior of the Honda Accord Crosstour and the Honda Accord sedan bear a great resemblance to each other.
Honda produced a station wagon version of the Honda Accord before, but discontinued it in the mid-1990s. The Honda Accord Crosstour fits into its place within the Honda line of cars, as it doesn't quite make it into the crossover category of vehicles. The price of the Honda Accord Crosstour and its features push it a bit beyond the entry-level market. Instead of appealing to younger drivers looking for their first crossover SUV, it appeals to an active older generation, or customers in their late 40s and 50s. The cargo space makes it a more versatile option than the sedan.
The use of Honda Accord Crosstour as the name for the vehicle lasted for only the 2011 model year, Honda renamed the car to the Honda Crosstour, dropping Accord from its name. Currently, the Honda Crosstour sells in only a few countries, including the U.S., Canada, Russia, China, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East.
The Crosstour contains a 3.5-liter V-6 engine and offers front-wheel and all-wheel drive. This same engine can be found in the Accord sedan, and both come with a five-speed automatic transmission. This affects acceleration in the Honda Crosstour, as the car is heavier than the Honda Accord, and it can carry more with its extended hatchback body style. In addition, the fuel economy of the Crosstour can be lower than that of the Honda Accord sedan.
The engine in the Honda Crosstour comes equipped with a variable cylinder management system. This means that the engine can operate using three, four, or six cylinders depending on how the car is driven. The variable cylinder management system improves the overall gas mileage of the Honda Crosstour.
The current model of the Honda Crosstour comes in two trim levels, the EX and the EX-L. The EX model comes with front-wheel drive only, but both front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions of the EX-L model are available. Although the EX represents the base model of the Honda Crosstour, it offers many features standard. As such, the Honda Crosstour comes in with a slightly higher price tag than that seen on the Honda Accord sedan.
The Honda Crosstour EX comes equipped with features such as 17-inch alloy wheels, heated power side mirrors, Bluetooth, a USB audio interface, power seating, and a power moonroof, among many others. With the EX-L trim level, the Honda Crosstour has an all leather interior, heated front seats, 18-inch alloy wheels, and XM satellite radio. The all-wheel drive EX-L trim level has real time four-wheel drive. The Honda satellite navigation system can be added to either of the EX-L trim level cars and includes voice recognition commands and a rearview camera with guidelines. All models come with a range of safety features including a vehicle stability assist system, anti-lock brakes, a tire pressure monitoring system, active head restraints for the front seats, and dual stage, multiple threshold, and side impact airbags.
The Honda Crosstour offers more cargo space than the Honda Accord. The back seat can fold down completely or split 60/40. In addition to the cargo space in the back, there is also a space under the floor that can be accessed easily by lifting the floor with the provided handles. The additional height of the Honda Crosstour, as well as its profile, allows for the use of this additional space.
2011 Honda Accord Crosstour
Hatchback, Midsize
The 2011 Honda Accord Crosstour is an uneasy marriage of the Honda Accord sedan and a wagon, and therefore difficult to categorize.
2010 Honda Accord Crosstour


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When we think of an ideal e-reader, we tend to visualize something like the Nook or Kindle or iPad — a device that has the dimensions, but not necessarily the heft of a book. Most us probably don't think of our cell phones.
iPhones screens have remained relatively small and don't lend themselves to sustained reading. While the Samsung Galaxy screen is big for a phone, it still doesn't compare to the ease of reading on a tablet or Kindle. It might seem less than ideal for us, but for awhole sector of the world's readers, cellular phones are now the central medium for reading eBooks.
In developing countries, where landlines have been skipped entirely and millions of people have directly adopted cell phones as their main interaction with technology, eBooks are now being read in massive amounts on older, smaller phones that run off of a 2G wireless connection. The non-profit organization Worldreader, which used to just distribute Kindles to children in Africa, has now begun a mobile application where anyone with a mobile phone can access up to 1,400 eBooks for free.
Susan Moody, Worldreader's director of marketing and communications, told the website Mashable that, "Feature phones are omnipresent in the developing world. They're people's lifelines; they're where they get their access to payments and the Internet."
Worldreader takes advantage of Creative Commons licenses to make available classic children's books like Nancy Drew and Black Beauty. They also partner with larger publishers to offer such all-time favorites as Matilda and the Magic Tree House series. In addition, they offer a good amount of Africa-centric literature. Taking advantage of existing technological infrastructure to get kids hooked on reading is a wonderful idea, even if it puts eBooks on some unfamiliar territory.
Through the project, Worldreader has found some interesting (but somewhat predictable trends) — young women read a lot, and Romance is the most popular genre.
eBooks, often heralded as the end of publishing as we know it, continue to fight against that idea by introducing great works to even more readers everyday, readers who will search for even more books.
Would you ever read on a small cell phone screen with a slow 2G connection? Have you? What other ways can eBooks continue to reach out?
Image courtesy of WorldReader
Max Rivlin-Nadler writes for the Lulu Blog – Archived


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Buy eBooks. Save trees. In honor of The Lorax and Dr. Seuss.
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Our host Matias has a habit of signing up completely unprepared for long distance races. He isn't in them to win, just to prove to himself that he can do it! A year or two ago, it was a lengthy cross-country skiing event where he triumphantly took second to last (after having not set foot in a pair of skis for half a decade). Today, it was the Jakobstad Marathon.
Matias decided, perhaps wisely, to start with a half marathon, which is roughly 21 kilometers in length. Before this afternoon, the longest he'd had ever run was ten! Since his wife Mia and the boys were gone all day helping prepare for her sister's wedding, we acted as Matias' support crew for the event.
We met him at the race, and drove ahead several times, stopping to cheer and snap photos. I was the designated driver of our "getaway" car, and Tyler the action photographer.
Go, Matias, Go!
Matias' goal was to run the whole thing, except for stops at the water stations.
Somewhere near the halfway mark, he commented mid-stride as he passed, "It's getting a bit harder now!" Tyler and I immediately cracked up laughing, thinking this was really obvious and endearing. Like, in order to do something really big, you convince yourself it will be easy, and then you leap right in, and of course it isn't easy, so you just muddle along until you get stronger. I could relate.
Despite the difficulty, Matias kept up the running. After several cheering/photo ops, Tyler and I booked it to the finish line, where the race staff was unpacking medals for the competitors.
One by one, we clapped as athletes crossed the finish line. I was very surprised, though, because no one else was cheering! At races I've been to and participated in at home, a raucous crowd of onlookers clap and cheer for everyone, regardless of who they came to support. We were disappointed by the lack of Finnish enthusiasm, but we were elated for Matias when he came jogging to a finish:
After the race, we chatted while he gulped free smoothies and wolfed down a banana or two. Before we left, I asked him to get me a pickle (I couldn't work up the nerve to steal from the racer's table, that's just wrong!). He happily obliged. After re-fueling, we took him to his bicycle where he hopped on for a five kilometer cool-down ride (back home).
After dropping Matias off, we booked it back to the house to finish the baking and cooking we'd started earlier in the day. As soon as we arrived, Mia and the boys walked in the door. A few minutes later, Matias rolled up. Everyone chilled out for a few hours while Tyler and I worked on dinner.
We started with dessert first:
Then, while I got busy cooking chicken and veggies for pot pie…
…Tyler went out to play with Arvid:
When dinner was ready, we all sat down to eat. Arvid liked the star-shaped bit of crust I decorated the pot-pie with, but refused to touch rest of it. We didn't mind though because it meant there would be more for us!
After our feast, Tyler and Matias sat down for an hours-long discussion about Lightroom and photography, while Mia and I chatted in the living room about everything under the sun. We all re-convened before bedtime for cookies and ice-cream.
If great company and delicious food weren't enough to make our day (they were), we received an email from a Couch Surfing contact, saying he'd be willing to host us for a few days in Saint Petersburg too! With that niggling bit of Russian logistics taken care of, we happily set off to our "guest-house" to call it a night.
It was cold in the caravan, so we snuggled up in our blankets, excited to be in our cozy, lamplit surroundings. It was almost dark outside! We would have gone to bed, but we were eager to have a video chat with my parents. After catching up with a nice long Skyping session, we decided to call our friends Mike and Katherine too. It was the first time we've talked to them in 'real life' (as opposed to just emailing). It was so much fun!
Oh, and here's a final photo for the day. We see these nordic-skaters all over here in Finland! I think this lady looks like "Rollerblade Barbie":


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We hear a lot about "tearing apart" this or that – skepticism, the atheist movement, the world of skeptoatheo science-loving nerdery. Sometimes the idea is that the tearing apart is mutual, and sometimes it's that it's only the pesky feminists (or the mythical Atheismplussers, who are always people who aren't in fact Atheismplussers, like PZ and Rebecca and me).
Anyway – this idea of tearing apart is interesting. It seems like an odd thing for people who see themselves as involved in a movement to object to, because being involved in a movement also tears things apart. That's the point of being in a movement. A movement about Keeping Everything Exactly the Same needn't bother to be a movement. It can relax.
Movements tear things apart. Movements oppose the status quo; they're about change; they move toward change. Change tears things apart.
Ok, the defender of movement purity could reply to me. Ok, the movement is about change, but it has to unite and work together to make that change happen, so a new movement within the movement that tears the movement apart will defeat that goal.
Maybe. Then again maybe not. Maybe what it will do is change the movement in such a way that it becomes better and thus more attractive and thus bigger. Or maybe it will split into two halves, and both halves will become bigger, or one will and the other won't, but the two combined will still be bigger. There are a lot of possibilities.
But the point is that "tearing apart" is really just another word for change, and change isn't necessarily bad – and we all know that, or else we wouldn't be in a movement in the first place.
Shit's dynamic, people. Change is all the time. You can't freeze anything at one particular moment and declare that the Platonic ideal of what it's supposed to be. Right now the atheist movement is torn apart by battles over feminism. Well I know I'm not going to stop arguing for feminism and against noisy belligerent sexism, and I know I'm not the only one with that commitment, so there you go.


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My Dirtiest Fantasy: Angel Lopez Gang Bang is a group fuck extravaganza from My Dirtiest Fantasy/Staxus. Angel Lopez is new to us, though he had already been doing "regular porn," as he puts it, before appearing in this flick. What an awesome debut this turned out to be! Born in Paraguay but raised in Spain, Angel is totally cute and we'd love to hear him talk dirty to us in Spanish.
The interview is short and conducted in Spanish, but subtitled in English. In case you don't feel like reading, though, it's about how he got into porn and why he's doing this flick. He saw My Dirtiest Fantasy after finding the studio on Twitter, and wrote to tell them that his hottest dream involves letting a group of guys use both of his holes and paint his face with their loads. MDF, of course, jumped at the chance to cast this gorgeous young guy in a gangbang!
Angel takes on one dude at first, but soon there are others who join the fun. His smooth hole gets licked and fingered to warm him up. At one point there's an insanely hot moment when Angel's on his back on top of a table, surrounded by the other twinks, with one fucking his mouth and another flicking his tongue up and down Angel's ball sac, but then the harder fucking soon begins in earnest. The action is split into two scenes and lasts close to an hour. At the end, after taking a quartet of cocks in his mouth and his ass, Angel takes load after load and looks like he's never been happier!


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My mum-in-law just finished knitting a baby jumper for one of my nieces and she had left-over yarn, so she asked me to make some socks. Over at Knitting Daily, I found: Better-Than-Booties-Baby-Socks. You have to sign up to get the free pattern, but if you don't want to give up your email address and get spammed just for the sake of downloading the free pattern, utilize the services of the folks over at Mailexpire.com.
The socks in Ann Budd's pattern use Priscilla Gibson-Roberts (PGR) short-row heel and toe, but don't let that scare you because Ann has kind of simplified it. So anyway, usually when I knit stuff in the round where you have to join the work, I just hold the tail yarn with the feeder yarn and knit 3 stitches in pattern to make the join. I always hated the jog that results. But a while back when I was browsing Techknitter's brilliant, awesome, wonderful, helpful blog, I came across her method for joining knitting in the round, which really minimises (almost eliminates) the jog. I wish I had tried it sooner because it isn't really complicated, and it makes a big difference to the look of the top of your socks. So the first part of this vlog today covers using Techknitter's circular join for Ann Budd's cute little Ruffle Rib Socks.
In the image below I have circled the jogs on the inside of the ruffle edge, but I think if I hadn't done it, the jogs would probably not be noticable at all! I really love this circular join.
OK, now the other part of this post today is about the heel/toe construction of the socks. Ann Budd's instructions are pretty easy to follow, but I noticed they miss a bit about stitch mount correction, so I thought I would make a video about this. Unfortuantely my camera was a bit wonky and I didn't really notice! Oops. I also keep calling PGR "Patricia", lol. Excuse my brain-deadness.
I will upload my video anyway in case it helps someone. I plan to knit another pair of socks for my niece because I still have yarn left over, so perhaps I can try to make a better video. In the meantime, here is the heel video in 2 parts:
Part 1: Short-row heel decreasing
Part 2(i): Short-row heel increasing
Part 2(ii): Short-row heel increasing
And finally, here's what my baby socks ended up looking like:
Friday, February 22, 2008
Baby Socks for my Niece
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Sunday, 8 July 2007
News of our Neighbours
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Well it shows that the peregrine chick in Lincoln has expensive taste, no ordinary car for it!!!
Heather, Derby
- 8 July 2007 at 17:12
The Derby peregrines will always have a very special place in my heart but what wonderful news that they are not so rare as I thought. And of course the BRILLIANT and MAGICAL news for me is that we have one just up the road from me at Bucks County Hall. I'm told it's a first summer bird. I'd never have found out if I'd not been talking to people about the Derby project so thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I do agree that your birds are lucky to have your beautiful cathedral as "home". Bucks County Hall is probably great so far as peregrines are concerned but it's a brutal modernistic concrete slab - known locally as "Fred's Folly" and a hated piece of architecture!
- 8 July 2007 at 19:27
No occupants in or around the nest as of now.
- 9 July 2007 at 00:14
The Derby box is unoccupied as I write. I know the Aylesbury bird will be in residence - darn! I have to go to work!
- 9 July 2007 at 07:36
I remember last year seeing one of the Burton pair of peregrines tucking into a tasty lunch in the middle of my lawn here in Stretton, Burton. I didn't realise they had established themselves on the tall Coors(formally Bass) tower. I shall keep my eyes open from now on, thanks for that. Sue
- 9 July 2007 at 09:27
- helenhoward said...
1450 and having a quick peek b4 tackling mount ironing and was excited to see one of the family on the ledge below the nest!! Must tackle that pile!! What to be a bird and have so much freedom!!
- 9 July 2007 at 14:53
Birdie still on the ledge.
I didn't know anyone still ironed :-)
- 9 July 2007 at 15:25
Helen Howard always seems to be ironing!!! If I wasn't at work, I should be getting washing in and ironing the stuff (it's actually stopped raining - hurrah!)
This is now an even worse crime than peregrine web camming - blog commenting about people's domestic arrangements. I certainly WILL end up in my own courts!!!!
Sue @ work (not Wendover)
- 9 July 2007 at 17:01
- helenhoward said...
1750 and there is a birdie on the nest!! conquered mount ironing so thought i would have a nosey. The webcams sure give some form of escapism!!
- 9 July 2007 at 17:57
- helenhoward said...
1844 and shes still sat there!!
- 9 July 2007 at 18:47
- helenhoward said...
1907 and yes shes still there!!
- 9 July 2007 at 19:07
- helenhoward said...
am i the only one watching tonight!! 2105 and there is one of our feathered friends on the lower ledge
- 9 July 2007 at 21:05
No birdies there now.
To momentarily hijack the blog again, as a sloppy American living in dungerees and tshirts, sweatshirts, or no-iron tops, I'm not even sure where my iron, last seen about 1999, is.
Tell me you're not ironing sheets or something like that? Do we need a Free Helen campaign? :-)
- 9 July 2007 at 21:58
I've not even STARTED on my ironing yet so I've had no time to look earlier. Of course, there's no-one home at the derby nestbox! I have been in to Aylesbury tonight and couldn't wait to take a look at County Hall. Needless to say, there was no-one home there either! Such is life.
Sue Hetherington, Wendover
- 9 July 2007 at 22:29
On Sunday morning 08/07/07 about 08.30am I was walking into Derby along the River Derwent path and noticed a lot of Ferral Pigeons scattering this way and that.Sure enough a good way above them was a juv Peregrine. It appeared to be enjoying the thermals, circling around and occasionally doing the flap, flap glide flying action. It was a buff, cream colour on the underside which is why I think it was a Juv. I made myself comfortable and got the binoculars focused when the bird went into a stoop and dived for what must have been approximately 150 metres. I didn't see the hit or the target as the bird went from my view, behind trees but to see a live stoop was quite amazing and very fast. It must be great fun, exhilarating, to fly like that even if breakfast isn't the reward.
- 9 July 2007 at 22:32
- helenhoward said...
How fantastic mick for you!! Well impressed. We have been once to the watch at the cathedral and it was gob smacking to see the birds in the flesh so to say!!
Its a pity other counties with nest boxes could not put up webcams. Mind you that would give us even more excuses to do even less than what we already are doing!! but hey who cares thats life!!
Good night one and all from the founder member of the free helen campaign!!
- 9 July 2007 at 22:43
A fluffy friend engaged in grooming in the nest box.
- 9 July 2007 at 23:37
No birds currently at the nest...
- 10 July 2007 at 06:17
- helenhoward said...
morning all 623 and all is quiet on the nest
- 10 July 2007 at 06:25
- helenhoward said...
1703 and there is a beautiful visitor on the nest. Not to sure which it is but it looks in good shape whatever!!
- 10 July 2007 at 17:06
- helenhoward said...
2108 and there is still a feathered friend on the nest. wonder if she has been there all evening
- 10 July 2007 at 21:11
- helenhoward said...
2203 and our feathered friend is watching derby by lamp light. Gnite one and all
- 10 July 2007 at 22:07
Still a birdie on the nest...
- 11 July 2007 at 00:05
Still there...
- 11 July 2007 at 01:32
7.01pm B.C. Canada, one of the falcons is still on the nest edge
- 11 July 2007 at 03:02
- helenhoward said...
0624gmt and there is a birdie on the ledge below the nest
- 11 July 2007 at 06:26
now theres something you dont see very often!!!!!!
07.52 weds 11th july
a lone PIGEON is standing on the edge of the nestbox - yes i really did say pigeon, and it's not in the form of a carcass as normal, it's live - although i wonder how long for??
just popped in for breakfast i would imagine (haha)
- 11 July 2007 at 07:56
the pigeon had gone during the time it took me to blog, i wonder if it left by its own accord or was inevitably 'carried away' did anyone else see it????
- 11 July 2007 at 07:59
We have seen a number of birds get near the nest when watching from below ( although never on the nest!!!)The adults do not seem interested into trying to catch them. We were unsure if it is to do with some protective factor in ensuring the chicks stay safe or if they need to go through the process of stoop catch?However that one could just be a new form of fast food delivery!!!
- 11 July 2007 at 09:03
Hurrah - I've just looked at the webcam and there's actually one there for me!!!! First "hit" for ages. (10 to twelve - I'm just thinking of going off and getting my own lunch ... yes, I'm playing truant at court again)
- 11 July 2007 at 11:52
12.12 on wednesday afternoon 1 of the adults is on the tray
- 11 July 2007 at 12:12
12.30 ...still there...lovely sight!!
- 11 July 2007 at 12:32
Can the dairy page be brought up to date a bite more often, i would like to see more news and pictures about our birds. It seems to me like its being slowly finished'
- 11 July 2007 at 12:49
Hi anonymous (the entry before mine) ... I think that the project was all really about the nest and they've completed that bit now so it's much harder to have anything to comment on. It's the lucky people who live in Derby who can go out there and watch the birds "in person". I expect that after another month or so, the adults will expect the juveniles to be able to look after themselves and there will be some dispersement .... even less to report on the diary. There's loads more out there to look at though - search out your nearest Wildlife Trust for inspiration. I know the one down my way (Bucks, Berks and Oxon) has got a fab day planned for Sunday. It's tough - I really miss them too ... roll on next year when I hope the magic will happen all over again. It'll be a big relief to me when the "blog" shuts down - then I won't be risking my job at the courts by looking at it instead of working!!!!
- 11 July 2007 at 14:38
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
Hold on to your horses - I'm working on an update right now!
Though all the helpful comments being left here are keeping us all pretty up-to-date, so keep up the good work, folks.
- 11 July 2007 at 14:38
One extra pair to add to the almost-neighbours: this year saw Peregrines nest for the first time in Peterborough, where a single chick has fledged from a nest on the power station. Not nearly so scenic or visible as ours, but with the Nene Washes on their doorstep (and probably visible from the top of the towers there), they're likely to have rather expensive tastes in food: displaying Black-tailed Godwit, anyone? Yum...
- 11 July 2007 at 16:04


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There's something so deliciously satisfying about baking cookies this time of year. Maybe it's the cold and snow outside. Whatever it is, head to the kitchen and bake some memories this holiday season.
Top 10 tips:
1. Follow the recipe. I'm serious. Don't make any last-minute substitutions. Measure accurately. And preheat the oven, so the cookies will be done when the recipe says they will be done.
2. Use the best ingredients you can afford: real butter, fresh flour, fresh spices, fresh nuts.
3. Buy a timer -- and use it. (Or figure out how the one on your stove works. And use it.) Don't trust that you'll remember to take your baking out on time. You've worked too hard to burn them.
4. Don't rush. Ensure you have enough time to chill the dough (if necessary), roll it out and follow the instructions. A tip for rolled cookies? Roll the dough between two pieces of parchment paper, then chill it and cut out your designs. The cold will help your cookies hold their shape when cut.
5. Butter isn't your best choice for greasing your cookie sheets. "Butter can be unreliable, sometimes releasing your cake from the pan and sometimes holding onto portions of it," writes Lauren Chattman in The Baking Answer Book (Storey, $18.95).
"Non-stick vegetable shortening is a better bet for most pans. It's flavourless and guarantees that your cake will slide right out of any pan. Avoid vegetable oil, which can burn and can give your finished cake an unpleasant aroma and flavour."
6. "Always place your cookie dough on a cool or room temperature baking sheet," writes Chattman in her book. "If you don't, the dough will start to melt as you work, instead of beginning to bake properly with a hot blast of air from the oven."
7. If the recipe calls for unsalted butter, use it; the salt in regular butter varies from brand to brand, so you can't just use it and cut back on the salt called for in the recipe.
"For the most consistent results, it is better to use unsalted butter and add the precise amount of salt specified in a particular recipe," writes Chattman.
8. Need to bring your eggs to room temperature? Place them "in a bowl of hot tap water for five minutes," writes Chattman.
9. Are they done yet? "One sign that firm cookies, such as sugar cookies, are done: they lift cleanly and lightly off the baking sheet," writes Susan Samson in 12,167 Kitchen and Cooking Secrets (Robert Rose, $27.95).
10. Let cookies cool before putting them in containers. "Store similar cookies together, opposites apart. Separate dry and moist cookies, and those with clashing flavours," writes Samson in her book. "No biscotti with oatmeal cookies or peppermint with gingerbread."
The lowdown on five common Christmas cookie spices:
-Cinnamon: The dried inner bark of the tree of the same name, cinnamon was used by ancient Egyptians for embalming. Nowadays, we Canucks prefer to add it to our baking.
-Cloves: One of the strongest of all spices, cloves are "the dried immature flower buds of a tree in the myrtle family, Syzygium aromaticum, which is native to a few islands in present-day Indonesia," writes Harold McGee in his legendary tome, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribner, $49.95).
"In much of the world, cloves flavour meat dishes, while Europeans use them mainly in sweets. . . . By far their largest role is in the Indonesian flavoured cigarette, kretek, which may be 40 per cent shredded clove."
-Ginger: A distant relative of bananas, ginger is also related to cardamom, turmeric and galangal. "The name comes via Latin from the Sanskrit singabera, meaning horns or antlers, which the branched rhizomes resemble," writes McGee.
"To make the dried spice, mature rhizomes are cleaned, scraped to remove most of the skin sometimes treated with lime or acid to bleach them, and then dried in the sun or a machine." Jamaican ginger, McGee adds, is considered to be the world's finest.
-Nutmeg: "When Columbus sailed from Spain looking for the East Indies, nutmeg was one of the spices for which he was searching," write Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst in their book, The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion (Barron's Educational Series, $35.99).
The tropical evergreen tree's fruit "is split to reveal the nutmeg seed surrounded by a lacy membrane that, when dried and ground, becomes the spice mace."
-Cardamom: Grown primarily in India, Sri Lanka, Mexico and Guatemala, cardamom is a tall perennial shrub that's related to ginger, according to The Encyclopedia of Herbs, Spices and Flavourings: The Complete Practical Guide for Cooks by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz (Dorling Kindersley/ Reader's Digest Association, out of print). Each seed capsule must be harvested by hand; perhaps not surprisingly, then, it is one of the world's most expensive spices.


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'Malibu Country' Episode 5 Recap: Reba Tries to Bond With June Over Shopping in 'Not With My Daughter'
Episode 5 of Reba McEntire's 'Malibu Country,' titled 'Not With My Daughter,' focused on her eponymous character's relationship with her daughter June, named after June Carter Cash. Reba had to deal with June adapting to live in California by engaging in some female bonding activities and behaviors with their vapid (but means well) blonde neighbor Kim via retail therapy.
But June's quickly forged bond with Kim is not about material things. June is no longer the shy Nashville teen who barely came out of her room. She is now a full-fledged teenager, facing the same issues that all teen girls do. However, she is doing so in California, which has its own set of rules and cultural mores.
Watching Reba try to relate to June - calling her "J Dawg" and speaking in text lingo- is a hoot. When she says "LOL" and asks "What's the happs at the par-tays?," you cannot help but chuckle.
She's trying to be the "cool mom," but she's struggling mightily. This is not an issue unique to Reba and June; all moms go through this, but it's funnier when Reba faces it. She never comes across as uncool even when she is trying to be cool and fails at it. Her constantly perplexed look add another layer of subtle humor.
She tries to take her daughter shopping at hip establishments, which blows up in her face.
The BFF relationship between Kim and June, which makes Reba feel alienated, quickly peters out, with June admitting that while she loves it in Malibu and enjoys all the things that Kim shows her, no one can replace her... ever!
Reba's attempt to resurrect her music career wasn't even addressed in this issue, which makes us think that might be a focal point next week.
Lily Tomlin continues to provide a heaping helping of humor as an acid-tongued commentator on all the "happs" as Reba's mama Lillie Mae.


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Flipper | REWIGCD61 | Released: 27/06/09
Sleeve Notes by Krist Novoselic
In 1983 I was a maladjusted 18 year old. I don't need to go into why I felt that way - especially in writing a tribute to a work of music that means so much to so many. But I felt alienated from the world and that mindset compelled me to look for something to connect with.
That same year I met Buzz Osborne, another resident of the Grays Harbor area of Washington. He was an outsider who held little patience for the world. Buzz was a true believer in Punk rock. So much that he was an evangelist of sorts; spreading the good news about this music and the new life it would give to those who chose to believe.
However, true believers were hard to cultivate in the community. Most had built in prejudices regarding Punk, New Wave, Hardcore or anything you wanted to call the antiestablishment music of the early 1980's. I once witnessed Buzz try to spread the gospel to one person who outright rejected it. They said, "I know that shit," they then started singing with spastic convulsions, "I wanna fuck my mom, I wanna fuck my mom!!!!!!"
Buzz and I walked away and he laughed at that quite sick misperception. I laughed too because I knew Punk music was very sophisticated. And there was one group that proved this - it were the gods themselves - FLIPPER! The band's lyrics summed up the incident perfectly, "There are eyes that cannot see, and fingers that cannot touch - That's The Way Of The World!"
I was already a convert to Punk but I didn?' immediately embrace Flipper. Buzz had lent me his copy of Generic and I gave it a spin. My first impression was how raw it sounded. It was muddy and sounded like a live show recording. It was a far cry from the slick production with the heavy metal music of the period. Commercial music of the preceding 20 years had that gloss to it. Generic didn't.
The riffs were repetitive and the guitar an ambient wash. The drums had a cool back beat dripping with reverb. The bass riffs were a haunting base for the mostly bleak lyrics.
I listened with curiosity then let it go.
I came back the next day and gave it a turn. Same impression.
On the third day, with that third listen - my mind opened and the sheer beauty and brilliance poured in. "I saw you, I saw you shine!!" It hit me like a ton of bricks. The sonic / psyche barrier had toppled and I found myself on another side. It was an epiphany. Here was Flipper with this opus - far off the map of mainstream sensibilities but no less part of the pantheon of rock music.
I knew Sabbath's Vol. 4, Zeppelin's 4th and the other monuments to the riff, and here was the next level - Generic by Flipper.
American Hardcore of the early 1980's was more than just music. The movement revolved around personal and political alienation as this Flipper lyric from the song Ever, exclaims, Ever wish the human race didn't exist, then realize you're one too!
Flipper came out of the San Francisco scene. The Bay Area is a long time center of radical leftist politics. These sensibilities made it through to the various bands' music. Unlike many of their local contemporaries, Flipper didn't overtly denounce authority and the politics of the day. They pushed back with statements that were timeless and universal.
Shed No Tears rejoices in fallen authority while also delving into the phenomenon of idolatry. At the time I first heard the song I would have never imagined how much someone's suicide and martyrdom would be part of my life. The song goes, No sorrow, no pity, no, no crying no loss. But there is sorrow, and the pity is the great artists who have passed namely Will Shatter and Kurt Cobain.
No, no crying no loss because life is the only thing worth living for! LIFE, LIFE, LIFE!!!
Generic is deep. It can be bleak but there's a sense of humor too. Sex Bomb Baby Yeah! - Flipper romp with abandon, closing a work that's a milestone of rock music. A work of such stature produced offspring. Generic left a mark on Cobain too. He took that work and mixed it with his talent for pop hooks and thus Nirvana's In Utero was born.
If you haven't heard Generic before, and if it does not grab you right away, give it a few spins and it could very well creep up on you and knock you off your feet. If it does so - or not - that's the way of the world!


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State Government Records AccessionedAdjutant General. Letter copying books, special regulations, circulars, 1901-1908, 1942-1961. 5 volumes. Adjutant General's office. Ar1970
Board of Risk and Insurance Management. Minutes, 1984-1987. 4 folders. Board of Risk and Insurance Management. Ar1947acc
Capitol building. Notes, correspondence and other materials re: state capitol grounds, decorating, sites from Cass Gilbert Collection (photocopies), 1921-Jan. 1935. 1 folder. New York Historical Society, New York, NY. Ar1812acc
Rehabilitation Services. Director's correspondence and files, 2001-2003. 1 box. Division of Rehabilitation Services. Ar1943acc
Manuscripts AccessionedArnett, William Willey Collection. Journals, correspondence and other materials of Methodist Episcopal minister born in Monongalia County, 1815-1859. 2 boxes. Edward M Arnett, Durham, NC.
Billheimer, Gordon E. Collection. Diaries adn other materials of WWII soldier and Montgomery attorney, 1943-2008. 1 box. Gordon E. Billheimer, Montgomery. Ms2008-101
Bolyard/Summers Family Collection. Correspondence, financial records and other information of Monongalia County family, 1905-1985.1 box. Janet and Tim Wilson, Ligonier, PA Ms2008-098
Carter/Faulkner Family Collection. Correspondence, poetry, publications and other materials re: mostly Faulkner family members, including Charles James Faulkner, 1812-1949. 1 box and 1 oversized folder. Kathyrn Carter Hish, Whitehouse, TX. Ms2008-100
Charleston Area League of Women Voters Collection. Minutes, administrative files, program files and newsletters, 1946-2008. 4 boxes. Susan Watkins, Charleston. Ms2008-096
Civil War. Letter describing Battle of Cheat Mountain by William G. Graham, 1st TN Infantry, 1864 September 20. 1 item. Conway L. Johnson, Platteville, CO. Ms2008-074
Dorsey, Daisy Chapman Collection. Papers of science teacher who conducted tours for other educators, 1883-1971. 2 boxes. Milton Dorsey, South Charleston.
Dotson family collection. Account book, receipts, miscellaneous items 1867-1907. 1 box. Cynthia Kaye Higginbotham Reynolds, Midway, TX. Ms2008-032
Florian, Dr. Robert Collection. Unfinished manuscript and research materials on Jennings Randolph, 1910s-2002. 2 boxes. Dr. Robert Florian, Huntington. Ms2008-087
French and Indian War, Washington's lands, related topics, compiled by Clarence Griffin and wife (photocopies), n.d. 1 folder. Beverly Jordan, Beckley. Ms2008-005
Hawks Nest Collection. Materials regarding tunnel construction, especially of B. H. Metheney who worked there, 1932-1936. 1 box. Gregory B. Johnson, Williamsburg, VA Ms2008-092
Herscher family. Correspondence, much of it between John William Herscher and wife Lilian Paulsen Herscher, 1906-1950s. 1 box. Estate of Betty Herscher, Charleston. Ms2008-086
Hudnall, Jesse Collection. Materials of Warner Coal employee, including Kanawha Valley Mining Institute programs, Knights of Pythias, family history, 1933-1976. 1 box. William R. Hudnall, New Canton, VA. Ms2008-001
Hutchinson, John Quincy Collection. Papers of lawyer, state senator including Hutchinson genealogy, 1900-1980. 2 boxes. Unknown donor. Ms2008-091
Johnson, Virginia Collection. Correspondence, certificates, information on state treasurer William S. Johnson's family, 1911-1975. 17 items. Virginia Johnson, Charleston. Ms2008-030
Kanawha United Presbyterian Church. History of Charleston congregation (photocopies), 1816-1943. 1 box. Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, Charleston. Ms2008-037
Lewis family. Correspondence of state senator Joseph S. Lewis and family, 1906-1929. 1 box. Purchase - Ebay Ms2008-023
Lewis, Hughart and related families. Family history notes, lists (photocopies), 1864-1979. 1 folder. Sammie Wade, Ocala, FL. Ms2008-004
Literary manuscript. The Craik-Patton House Guide resource on house and family, no author listed, n.d. 1 item. Mrs. Robert W. Lawson III, Charleston. Ms2008-003
Literary manuscript. The Past Revisited by Thomas Stafford about Grafton, 1984. 1 item. Margo Stafford, Clarksburg. Ms2008-002
Montgomery family. Deeds, WWI liberty loans, receipts, correspondence and other documents of Kanawha and Fayette family, 1872-1938. 1 box. Unknown donor. Ms2008-088
Spanish-American War letter. Letter from Howard M. McConnaughy to Pauline, 1898 May 12. 1 item. William J. Sencio, Hickory, NC. Ms2008-102
Stacy, Dixie Collection. Materials of Joachim and Lee families, including Civil War service of George Joachim, 7th Ohio Batt. Light Artillery, Charleston High School, 1824-1960 1 box. Dixie Stacy, Charleston. Ms2008-095
Steckel Family Collection. Correspondence, banking information and other materials of Kanawha County family, 1911-1969. 1 box and 1 oversized folder. Barbara Smith, Charleston. Ms2008-097
Taylor family collection. Correspondence of Huntington family, especially to two sons and one daughter in WWII describing life in Huntington and their military service, ca. 1930s-40s. 2 boxes. Nancy Taylor, Huntington. Ms2008-026
Town of Littleton. Records of dissolved Wetzel County town, ca. 1907-2004. 5 boxes and 28 volumes. Wetzel County Commission, New Martinsville. Ms2008-025
WCTU, DAR. County histories of local WCTU chapters; list of DAR markers placed by Colonel Morgan Morgan chapter; 1900-1949. 1 box. Ronald Duncil, Carolina. Ms2008-040
West Virginia Academy of Science. Papers and proceedings, 1944-2006. 2 boxes. Dr. Donald Gray, Morgantown. Ms2008-033
Weston State Hospital. Articles, research information and copies of annual report information, 1859-1993. 1 box. Marjorie Carr Layman, Mount Claire. Ms2008-085
Wise, Bob Collection. Correspondence and other papers of Kanawha County congressman prior to election as governor, 1982-2000. 11 boxes. Robert Wise, Washington, DC. Ms2008-093
Woodman family. Diaries of Charleston businessman, letter copy books for Mountain Lake Land Company, 1895 October - 1918. 1 box. Mrs. Norman Fitzhugh, Charleston. Ms2008-036
Microforms Accessioned
Microfiche. Genealogical Society of Utah microfiche of Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia publications, records and maps, 1608-1980. 1 box. Estate of Patricia Pleska, Charleston. Mi2008-010
Photographs Accessioned
Arnett, William Willey Collection. B&W, tintypes and daguerrotypes of family, ca. 1850s. 1 box. Edward M. Arnett, Durham, NC. Ph2008-039
Baseball. B&W of Paw Paw team, n.d. 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Ph2008-007
Bolyard/Summers Family Collection. B&W of Monongalia County family, n.d. 1 folder. Janet and Tim Wilson, Ligonier, PA. Ph2008-098
Carter/Faulkner Family Collection. B&W of family members, n.d. 1 box. Kathryn Carter Hish, Whitehouse, TX. Ph2008-100
Charleston Area League of Women Voters Collection. B&W prints, 1946-2008. 1 box. Susan Watkins, Charleston. Ph2008-096
Charleston, Fayette County, Swann etchings. B&W of early Charleston, capitol fire, Whipple store, Swann etchings of Sunrise, Kanawha County Library, National Track and Field Hall of Fame, Centennial, 1886-1974. 1 folder. Cynthia Kaye Higginbotham Reynolds, Midway, TX. Ph2008-032
Charleston High. Reunion photos for Class of 1938 at 50th and 55th reunions, 1988, 1993. 2 items. Richard and Annie Pierce, Shenandoah, VA. Ph2008-099
Fairchild Aerial Survey Collection. B&W negatives of sites, most along Ohio and Kanawha rivers, October 1947, September 1951. 96 items. New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, NJ. Ph2008-009
Goff, Beavers, Bowman families. B&W and tintypes, n.d. 5 items. Gayle R. King, Gansevoort, NY. Ph2005-042acc
Golden Horseshoe, streetcars. B&W of Golden Horseshoe winners on capitol steps; copy negs of Charleston Interurban streetcar system and construction, 1920s, 1957. 7 items. Sandra Alderson, Charleston. Ph2008-028
Herscher family. B&W of family members, n.d. 1 folder. Estate of Betty Herscher, Charleston. Ph2008-086
Johnson, Virginia Collection. B&W of state treasurer William S. Johnson's family, ca, 1919-1940. 9 items. Virginia Johnson, Charleston. Ph2008-030
McGee, Taylor County, postcards. Digital prints of McGee in 1912 and 2007; postcards of Clarksburg and Parkersburg; 1912-2007. 8 items. Ronald Duncil, Carolina. Ph2008-040
Meadow River Lumber Company Collection. Color photocopies of Rainelle, 1922-1953. 1 folder. Elda Montgomery, Livermore, CA. Ph83-12acc
Music. Copy negatives and photocopies of musicians who performed on northern and north-central West Virginia radio stations, 1930s-50s. 30 items. Norman D. Munsey, South Charleston. Ph2008-027
Panoramic. Ragland Mine, Pemberton, Raleigh County by Rufus E. "Red" Ribble, ca. 1920. 1 item. Clarence E. Snodgrass, Douglas L. Snodgrass and Alonzo H. Snodgrass, Prescott Valley, AZ. Ph2008-016
Panoramics. Logging operations, Glade Creek area of New River upstream from Hawks Nest, ca. 1920s. 2 items. Charles R. Carder III, Roanoke, VA. Ph2008-017
Pitchford and Fisher families. Copy negatives, most in Putnam County area, n.d. 14 items. Rodney Pitchford, Red House. Ph2008-029
Postcard. Raymond City Electric Power House, n.d. 1 item. Harry Persinger, Amandaville. Ph2008-080
Postcard. Strand Theater, Moundsville, n.d. 1 item. Unknown donor. Ph2008-006
Postcard. Unidentified town, n.d. 1 item. Andy R. Rogers, South Charleston. Ph2008-081
Postcards. Gas wells at Copenhaver, Kanawha County; "U" curve on Laurel Mountain US 50 west of McComber, ca. 1900-1930s. 2 items. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Ph2008-022
Postcards. Linsley School, Wheeling, 2005. 4 items. Schramm Studio, West Liberty. Ph2008-083
Postcards. New River and Feran Spring Falls, n.d. 3 items. Kathy Pfeifer, Capitola, CA. Ph2008-079
Postcards. Various West Virginia scenes, 1907-1960. 61 items. Ebay Collection. Ph2008-094
Postcards. Welch, West Virginia Turnpike, New River, 1950s. 9 items. Elaine Decker, Charleston. Ph2008-084
Postcards. West Virginia scenes including Clarksburg, Bluefield, Huntington, Charleston, Spencer, Morgantown, Parkersburg, Midland Trail, Kanawha River, Greenbrier, ca. 1929-1950. 25 items. Steve Pilato, Fayetteville. Ph2008-078
Postcards. Wheeling, ca. 1908. 4 items. Mary Philo, Martins Ferry, OH. Ph2008-082
Sketches. Hand-tinted of execution of Cook and Coppoc at Charles Town; General Rosecrans commanding the Department of Western Virginia and his staff at their headquarters, Clarksburg; View of Grafton, Virginia on Monongahela River, headquarters of General George B. McClellan; 1859-1862. 3 items. Purchase - Mannings Books and Prints. Ph2008-019
Slides. Division of Highways roads and bridges, 1970s-1980s. 3 boxes (9255 slides). Transfer from Highways. Ph2008-089
Stacy, Dixie Collection. B&W of Joachim and Lee families, Charleston area, Camp Grant, IL, n.d. 1 box. Dixie Stacy, Charleston. Ph2008-095
Steckel Family Collection. B&W of West Virginia scenes, mining, family, n.d. 1 box and 1 oversized folder. Barbara Smith, Charleston. Ph2008-097
Underwood, Governor Cecil H. Prints and negatives of second term as governor, 1997-2001. 6 boxes and 9 volumes. Office of the Governor. Ph2008-103
Weston State Hospital. B&W and color of hospital, staff, activities, ca. 1900-2000. 1 box. Marjorie Carr Layman, Mount Claire. Ph2008-085
Widen. B&W of company store and other town structures, 1923. 5 items. Dennis Griffith, Chamblee, GA. Ph2008-008
Wise, Bob Collection. B&W prints of Kanawha County congressman prior to election as governor, 1982-2000. 2 boxes. Robert Wise, Washington, DC. Ph2008-093
Woodman, Sterrett, Quarrier families. Photo albums, View-Master slides, World War I review and travels, 1860s-1920s. 1 box. Mrs. Norman Fitzhugh, Charleston. Ph2008-036
Special Collections Accessioned
Annual report. Oglebay Institute, 1997. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-069
Blueprints. Reduced copies of AT&T Eastern Region building at Davis Square by Silling Associates, 1987. 33 sheets. Unknown donor. Sc2008-062
Broadside. Excursion train to New York and Philadelphia on Norfolk and Western Railway including McDowell County stations, 1930 April. 1 item. Purchase - Bookworm and Silverfish. Sc2008-018
Brochure. Franklin the Magician ad for Point Pleasant magical Ben Franklin IV, n.d. 1 item. Transfer from Goldenseal. Sc2008-015
Brochure. Park View Inn, Berkeley Springs, n.d. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-075
Bumper sticker. Civil War showcase Harpers Ferry, 1859-1865, ca. 1960s. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-077
Bumper stickers. Keep West Virginia Clean!!, ca. 1950s-60s. 3 items. Unknown donor. Sc2008-076
Calendar. Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History, 1991. 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Sc2008-071
Calendar. B&O Railroad Historical Society John J. Young Jr. calendar, 2007. 1 item. B&O Railroad Historical Society, Baltimore, MD. Sc2008-014
Calendar. Wolf Creek Printery, 2007. 1 item. Richard Fauss, Elkview. Sc87-41acc
Campaign materials. Artificial collection of flyers, brochures for state and local offices, 1996-2006. 1 box. Various donors. Sc2008-031
Cartoon. Sketch of Nitro and various public officials, 1919 May 1. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-021
Catalogue. Blenko Glass, 1987. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-073
Catalogues. Product information for Eagle Cans, Wellsburg, Sylvania Lighting, Wheeling, Penn Metal Lath and Plastering, Parkersburg, and McNicol China, Clarksburg, ca. 1951-1963. 1 folder. Unknown donor. Sc2008-057
Certificate. Elementary diploma for John Quinn Geiger, who attended school at Cass, 1921 May 4, 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Sc2008-020
Charleston High, prenatal care materials. Clippings, publications and other materials, 1930s-2003. 2 folders. Richard and Annie Pierce, Shenandoah, VA. Sc2008-099
Charter. West Virginia Mine Workers Local 32 at Leewood, 1931 July 6. 1 item. Kathleen Hope Curry, Ashland, KY. Sc2008-034
Christmas card. Governor and Mrs. Joe Manchin, 2006. 1 item. Richard Fauss, Elkview. Sc2008-052
Currency. Monroe County note worth 25 cents, 1863 January 1. 1 item. Charles and Betty Keppel, Clearwater, FL. Sc2008-068
Envelopes. West Virginia Historical Society, Room E-400, ca. 1960s. 4 items. West Virginia Historical Society, Charleston. Sc2008-046
Goff, Beavers, Bowman families. Bible of Adam H. Bowman and Hannah Beavers Bowman; marriage certificate of David R. Beavers and Ruhama A. Martin; partial newspaper The Press, Kingwood, July 1, 1892; 1842-1922, 3 items, Gayle R. King, Gansevoort, NY. Sc2005-042acc
Letterhead. Fayette Tribune, n.d. 3 items. Unknown donor. Sc2008-067
Letterhead. Webster Springs Hotel and Baths (photocopy), ca. 1910s. 1 item. Transfer from Library. Sc2008-048
Meadow River Lumber Company Collection. Rainelle Junior Women's Club Yearbook, photocopies of Rainelle clippings, Meadow River Post newspaper, annual report; 1922-1979. 1 box. Elda Montgomery, Livermore, CA. Sc83-12acc
Notecards. Christmas and an outhouse scene with Furner photos, 1990s. 2 items. Milton J. Furner, Wolf Summit. Sc2008-064
Poster. Ad for Eastern flavor apples from Appalachian area, ca. 1950. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-035
Program. Beni Kedem Temple Shrine Circus, 1984 October 27-28. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-065
Program. Dedication of plaque honoring Virginia Bondurant Johnson at West Virginia State Archives by NSDAR, 2006 October 14. 1 item. Transfer from Library. Sc2008-043
Program. Dedication of Walter Reuther Memorial, Wheeling, 2006 October 12. 4 items. Margaret Brennan, Wheeling. Sc2008-056
Program. River City Youth Ballet Ensemble production of The Snow Queen, 2007 Nov. 30-Dec. 15. 1 item. Transfer from Library. Sc2008-047
Program. Swiss Reunion and dedication of Helvetia Community Hall honoring Hon. Marc Peter, Minister Plenipotentiary of Switzerland, 1939 May 13. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-059
Program. West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame grand opening and inaugural induction, 2006 September 16. 1 item. Richard Fauss, Elkview. Sc2008-053
Program. West Virginia Labor History Hall of Honor ceremony, 2007 October 14. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-070
Program, postal cover, autograph. Randy Moss cover, Cultural Center, 2008 March 21. 3 items. Culture and History and Billy Smith (autograph). Sc2008-050
Programs, tickets. Materials regarding Huntington High's championship basketball teams and players, 2003-2007. 10 items. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Sc2008-024
Publication. Inspection report for Cass Scenic Railroad watertank by L. Robert Kimball and Associates, 1990 July. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-055
Publication. Marsh Fork Elementary and coal processing plant controversy, 2007. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-013
Publication. Pick and Shovel, Fayetteville, 1923 August 22. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-063
Publication. Sports Illustrated with article on Huntington High's O. J. Mayo, 2007 June 11. 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Sc2008-024acc
Publication. Strand Theatre restoration, Moundsville, ca. 2005. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-051
Publication. Union District Friendship Quilt Project, Aurora, Preston County, 2004. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2008-072
Publication. The Voters' Argument Settler published for American Fire Insurance Company of NY, 1900. 1 item. Transfer from Library. Sc2008-045
Publication. West Virginia First published by Steptoe and Johnson, 2006. 1 item. Transfer from Library. Sc2008-044
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Ticket. Speech by President Bill Clinton, old C&O station, Huntington, 1996 August 25. 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Sc2008-042
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JESUS, CHRISTMAS and VEGETARIANISM
My latest post on the Safe For Work Suicide Girls blog is up now. It's called "Jesus is the Reason for the Season?" Read it by clicking on the link.
I'm at my sister's house in Knoxville, Tennessee to celebrate Christmas. My sister is a Christian and so is her daughter Skylar. Her son is a Jew. Most of the rest of the family are committed agnostics. It's very confusing!
Back when Westerners first started encountering Buddhists it used to be the thing to do to show Zen Masters the Bible and ask them to comment about Jesus. There are a few stories like this still in circulation. One of them has someone reading some old Zen Master the parable about the lilies of the field. The Zen Master claps his hands and says something like, "This fellow is very close to Enlightenment!"
I remember someone asking Nishijima Roshi what he thought about Jesus. Nishijima said, "I think he was a historical person." Meaning he thought of Jesus as a figure from history and not as God incarnated in the flesh. Other than that he didn't have any opinions on the man or his teachings.
People aren't quite as interested in what younger Western Zen teachers think of Jesus. But I have a lot of interest in the subject myself. I've recently been reading a stack of books on the subject. While I was at Tassajara this summer I read Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite. I've also gone through several of Bart D. Ehrman's books, the best so far being Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, though I have yet to read his latest, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). But it kinda looks like it's the same book. I also took The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition out of the library, which is pretty good, though I haven't finished it.
It seems to me that Jesus was, indeed, a historical person. The evidence isn't enough to absolutely prove his existence. But it's convincing enough. It's hard, though, to know just what exactly this person did or said. It seems unlikely he claimed to be divine, or of he did make such claims, they were much inflated after he died.
There are stories of someone similar to Jesus studying at a Buddhist monastery in Norther India during what would have been the "lost years." This is based mainly on evidence presented in Nicolas Notovitch's 1894 book The Unknown Life Of Jesus Christ. But lately the sources of those stories have been examined and found to be highly questionable.
Some other theories for the missing years even place Jesus in Japan studying Shintoism! Here's a nice webpage that lists most of the major theories.
The idea that Jesus was influenced by Buddhism is an interesting one. It's certainly possible he traveled to India or met Buddhist missionaries who were active in the Middle East during his lifetime. But there's no real compelling evidence, so all of that is just speculation, and probably will remain speculation forever. It's tasty brain candy. Nothing more.
A number of Buddhist authors have turned out books that compare the sayings of Christ and Buddha. Some want to claim Jesus studied Buddhism. Others just want to show how their messages are basically the same. I've leafed through a few of those, but they didn't look compelling enough for me to want to take them home.
I don't think the parallels between the sayings of Buddha and Christ suggest necessarily that Buddhism influenced Christ. To me it more suggests certain universal truths that underlie what we call "Buddhism" and what we call "Christianity." Both of these philosophies have grown and developed over the course of history to become something different from what their founders began.
But it's Christmas I'm in Tennessee to celebrate. I'm a vegetarian. I started being a vegetarian maybe 6 months to a year before I started doing zazen. I'd been a half-assed vegetarian for maybe 4 years before that, basically all through high school. YOU try being a full-assed vegetarian as a teenager in Wadsworth, Ohio in the early 80s!
None of the rest of my family is vegetarian and I'm in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is hardly the easiest place to go meat-free. But I'm sure I'll survive.
When I got into Zen, I started hearing all the counter arguments against vegetarianism. And there are a lot of them. The most compelling one I've heard recently is that conscious meat consumption is less environmentally destructive and can be personally healthier than the kind of willy-nilly vegetarianism most of us veggies practice.
To give just one example, a lot of vegetarians refuse to buy leather. I did for a long time. I'd go to places like Payless to get imitation leather shoes instead. Then I realized I was probably supporting child labor and sweatshops through those purchases.
I'm far too lazy to get as deeply into this kind of stuff as some folks do. But it's just one example of how a decision to be mindful of the suffering of animals can lead you to create more suffering among people.
Anyway, when I started hearing stories about Buddhist masters who weren't vegetarians, I asked my teachers, both Tim & Nishijima, if I ought to drop the vegetarianism stuff. Neither of them are vegetarians.
They both encouraged me to keep being a vegetarian. So I still am. I think it's a good habit. I would only advise vegetarians not to be too full of themselves about how much better we are. Of course, we are better. We just need to not be so full of ourselves over it! Because we may not be as angelic as we think.


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Tsarnaev: History of Domestic Violence?
April 19, 2013
Statement from the National Network to End Domestic Violence's Massachusetts member, Jane Doe Inc., the statewide coalition of domestic violence and sexual assault programs:
Mary R. Lauby, Executive Director of Jane Doe Inc. has released the following statement:
As we collectively breathe a sigh of relief that the second suspect is in custody, we want to thank and applaud the leadership and collaboration among our local, state and federal leaders and law enforcement responsible for this outcome.
In the days ahead, both investigators and media will continue to dig down to find out more about these two men. Earlier on Friday, there were media reports of domestic violence in reference to the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. One article stated that Tsarnaev had been arrested for domestic assault and battery in 2009. Another article included a statement by his cousin that Tsarnaev was abusive to his girlfriend. A radio story also included accounts of domestic violence. The introduction of the element of domestic violence into this equation raises red flags for domestic violence experts and advocates. We appreciate the responsiveness of the Middlesex District Attorneys Office to our inquiries to confirm whether the case against Tsarnaev for assault and battery was in fact domestic violence related. We continue to work with our partners as this information is unfolding in order to expand and deepen our shared understanding of the connections between domestic violence and other forms of violence.
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Jane Doe Inc. is the statewide coalition of domestic violence and sexual assault programs in Massachusetts. Jane Doe Inc. advocates for responsive public policy, promotes collaboration, raises public awareness, and supports our member programs to provide comprehensive prevention and intervention services. We are guided by the voices of survivors. To learn more about Jane Doe, Inc, please visit www.janedoe.org
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In the colonial era Spaniards established most of the early settlements, although England and Russia also made expeditions to California. During the 80 years of Spanish and Mexican dominion in California (1769-1848), few immigrants came from Spain and Mexico, and even fewer came from other countries.
In 1841, overland travelers from the United States began to come to California. In 1846, war broke out between the U.S. and Mexico when American settlers in California protested Mexican rule and set up a republic. By 1848, when the U.S. acquired the area, fewer than 15,000 settlers lived there. Over half were Spanish or Mexican. The rest were of various nationalities, including English, Scottish, Irish, German, French, and Italian.
The discovery of gold in California in 1848 triggered a major exodus from the eastern states. Chinese also began to arrive in California. By 1850, Anglo-Americans (U.S. citizens of English descent or birth) made up the majority of the population. Individuals from New York, Pennsylvania, and the New England states predominated in migration during the gold rush years.
From 1850 to 1860, many immigrants came from the countries of northern Europe (especially Ireland) and from China. In the 1860s many came from western border states. The Chinese continued to immigrate to work on the Pacific railroad, which was completed in 1869. Until 1870, most of the Chinese came from the maritime provinces of China, especially Canton. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. Other nationalities who arrived in this period were the Germans, Italians, French, and Portuguese.
In the 1880s a southern California real estate boom brought the first large migrations from the Midwest and the number of English and German immigrants increased. Other major increases were among the Italians, Portuguese, and Japanese. Japanese laborers could not legally leave Japan until 1885, but after that date, many came to California. The number of Mexicans dropped, and the Irish increased only slightly.
After 1890 the Italians, Mexicans, and Japanese became the major immigrant groups. Other countries that have contributed substantial numbers to California's population are Russia, Canada, the Philippines, and Poland.
The Irish, French, Italians, and Chinese tended to settle in San Francisco. The Mexicans, Russians, and Japanese settled mostly in the Los Angeles area, as did Anglo-Saxons from the Midwest. Few Blacks settled in California until World War II. Those from the southern states usually went to Los Angeles or Oakland.
The major seaports of California have been Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Diego. There are very few passenger lists for the west coast ports. The Family History Library has ten microfilms of crew lists from the U.S. Customs House for the years 1848 to 1851, 1854 to 1862, 1881, 1886, and 1892.
- San Diego, index to passenger arrivals 1904-1952
- San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles, index to passenger arrivals 1907-1936
- San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles, arrival lists 1907-1948
- Ventura, passenger and crew lists 1929-1956
The National Archives has recently discovered passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco for the years 1893 to 1953, with an index for 1893 to 1934. The Family History Library has copies of the lists for the years 1903 to 1918 and the indexes from 1893 to 1934.
A reconstruction of passenger lists is Louis J. Rasmussen, San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists, Four Volumes. (Colma, California: San Francisco Historic Record and Genealogy Bulletin, [1965-]; Family History Library book 979.461/S1 W3r; film 1000139). This covers primarily 1850 to 1852.
An excellent source of about 30,000 names of miners, immigrants, and other pioneers in the gold rush is Charles Warren Haskins, The Argonauts of California (New York, NY: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1890; Family History Library film 1033667; fiche 6051188). This is indexed by Libera Martina Spinazze, Index to The Argonauts of California (New Orleans, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1975; Family History Library book 979.4 H2w index; film 928163 item 2; fiche 6051192).
Passenger Lists for those bound from New York to California for the Gold Rush, published 1851-1860 & 1865-1873 in the New York Daily Times.
Histories and records for ethnic groups such as the Chilean, Chinese, French, German, Irish, Jewish, Yugoslav, and Polish are listed in the Family History Library Catalog under CALIFORNIA - MINORITIES.
Records of American Indians are found in the Family History Library Catalog under CALIFORNIA - NATIVE RACES. From the National Archives—Pacific Region (San Bruno),the library has acquired copies of agency records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the years 1873 to 1947.
The Oregon-California Trails Association is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at http://www.paper-trail.org/
California Pioneer Project
The Native Daughters of the Golden West have a free 35,000 name index of California pioneer biographical sketches on the Internet. These pioneers resided or were born in California before December 31, 1869. The biographical sketches are permanently archived in individual volumes of 500 pioneers each in the California Room Library at the Native Daughters of the Golden West Home, San Francisco. New submissions are welcome. For a small fee the biographical sketches can be photocopied.
For a more complete explanation, see their Roster of California Pioneers Internet page.
- Only the name of the pioneer has been indexed; others recorded in the submission, such as family members, are not included in the index.
- The full record may contain the full name of pioneer, place and date of birth, marriage and death, date of arrival in California, method of travel, name of rail or vessel; states lived in prior to California, place and year of California residence; where educated, profession or occupation, public offices held; names of children; parents' names; name, address, relationship of informant (if any); date of registration and other comments.
Mexican Border Crossing Records
Numerous Mexicans came to California in the late 19th and early 20th century. Records of 20th century Mexican border crossings are available at the National Archives and Family History Library. These include:
- Andrade and Campo (Tecate), alien arrivals 1910-1952
- San Ysidro (Tia Juana) alien arrivals 1908-1952
'Wiki articles describing online collections are found at: '
- California, Los Angeles Passenger Lists, 1907-1952 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953 (FamilySearch Historical Records)


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Dog owners favor unique names for the pets, but the most popular choices rarely align with the most popular baby names.
The name Bella was good enough for the heroine of the popular Twilight book and movie franchise and apparently it's good enough for thousands of dog owners too. They made it the most popular dog name of 2013, a survey says.
Max, a standard-bearer in the annals of dog names, tops the list of names for male dogs. But with the total number of female dogs (56%) in the survey outdistancing males (44%), Bella takes the overall crown in the survey, conducted by Rover.com.
With just a few exceptions, such as Max, Buddy and Bear, most of the names on the Top 10 list "aren't what would be considered traditional dog names," says Easterly. There is no Rover, for example, in the Top 100.
That seems to reflect two increasingly popular trends seen among pet owners, he says: Viewing themselves more as "pet parents" than dog owner and preferring distinctive monikers for their canine family members.
"About 14% of the names in the database were unique to a dog," such as one named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, says Easterly. "No other dog had that exact same name."
Dogs may be seen as family members, but only one of the leading dog names, Chloe, overlapped exactly with a name on BabyCenter.com's recently released most popular baby names list for 2013. Another was similar though: Sophie, which was No. 9 on the female dog list, is a derivative of Sophia, which was the No. 1 girls' name on the BabyCenter list, for the fourth year in a row.
In a survey released this summer by the Veterinary Pet Insurance Co., a dog named Sir Knuckles da Dragon and a cat named Cheeto Burrito took top honors in its list of the Wackiest Pet Names of the Year.
Here are Rover.com's most popular dog names of 2013:
Male dogs:
1. Max
2. Charlie
3. Buddy
4. Jack
5. Cooper
6. Rocky
7. Riley
8. Toby
9. Bear
10. Harley
Female dogs:
1. Bella
2. Lucy
3. Bailey
4. Daisy
5. Lily
6. Molly
7. Lola
8. Maggie
9. Sadie
10. Chloe
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Now that genetically modified crops cover tens of millions of acres, are super weeds next?
What are the odds that those herbicide-resistant seeds you bought will grow into weeds? Could traits, so valued in crops, spread to weeds and wreak havoc in your fields? Could insects become resistant to your Bt corn? These are a few of the many questions growers, academicians, environmentalists and industry leaders are asking about transgenic crops.
The "odds" depend on a variety of factors, including crop type and the presence of relatives. The amount and quality of risk assessment and testing, and farm management practices also are involved.
Wild and weedy relatives. Corn and soybean growers can probably breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to weed-resistance issues. According to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the risk of gene transfer from corn and soybeans "to sexually compatible plants that results in the generation of progeny that can persist in the environment is negligible" in the U.S. This also is the case with cotton, potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco. Al-though potato and cotton have wild relatives, wild populations exist only for cotton relatives in the U.S.
APHIS also has determined that these crops listed have no weedy relatives in the U.S.
Margaret Mellon, director of the agriculture and biotechnology program for the Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization dedicated to improving the environment, notes that pollen from transgenic crops can only fertilize related plants growing near the crop. "Corn and soybeans do not have wild or weedy relatives in the U.S. and pose no risk of transferring pollen into weeds here. But crops such as canola and squash do have relatives here and pose risks of becoming weeds."
Mellon is coauthor of The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops, which lists crops with wild and weedy relatives. The book also discusses crops that are more likely to be converted to weeds through genetic engineering.
Mellon adds that although some crops pose no risks in the U.S., they may pose weediness problems elsewhere. "Corn, for example, has an important wild relative in Mexico and Guatemala called teosinte," she says.
Figuring the odds. USDA's APHIS has procedures that it claims will guard against the potential for transgenic crops to become weed risks. Developers of herbicide-resistant crops must fulfill notification requirements to introduce certain genetically engineered organisms in corn, soybeans, cotton, potatoes, tomatoes or tobacco. Developers also must meet requirements in their petitions to receive release from regulation of such plants that do not present a plant pest risk.
Companies intending to commercialize transgenic products conduct risk assessments, which are reviewed by APHIS. James White, senior operations manager, USDA-APHIS, says transgenic field tests are conducted under the guidance of APHIS.
Agriculture and Agri Food Canada has research stations across Canada. This agency has worked with the University of Saskatchewan on the biology of canola, including this crop's outcrossing behavior, says Margaret Gadsby, director, regulatory affairs-biotechnology, AgrEvo. She adds that companies such as AgrEvo will conduct additional research to verify that their transgenic products will behave as expected. Developers are trying to characterize their products appropriately and earn government approval, she says.
Gadsby notes that if a company were to alter a crop's reproductive processes in any way, such as changing duration of fertility or pollen size, an effect on outcrossing might be possible.
Gerry Dill, research director, global product stewardship, Monsanto, says that his company assesses the potential for outcrossing using greenhouse and small plot tests. Researchers observe pollen flow in these test environments if risk information is not already available. They pay particular attention to crops in geographies where outcrossing is known to occur. In Canada, Monsanto is conducting numerous tests on canola plots that are planted for commercial demonstrations.
Reducing the risks. "We're doing a lot to understand the impact of transgenic traits, and this differs by crop," Dill says. He notes that Monsanto weighs the impact of transgenic crops before introducing them and also determines what control measures may be used to mitigate resistance response.
Jeff Stein, director of regulatory and government affairs, Novartis Agribusiness Research, says that the industry is putting the finishing touches on a standard insect resistance management program. He notes that growers will be able to practically (and economically) implement the plan to prevent corn borers from building resistance to Bt. The plan, which should be ready in 2000, includes mitigating measures "in the unlikely event that resistance to Bt were to develop," Stein says.
Developers of transgenic crops are very aware of the potential of resistance buildup in weeds and pests, says Greg Wandrey, corn marketing manager, North America, Pioneer Hi-Bred International. "We know it is important to monitor changes that may occur and to have multipronged approaches to control the pests that growers deal with. For example, we continue to look for and we have found several modes of action that control corn borer. These developments, along with good insect-resistance management, education and implementation of plans, are important factors in decreasing potential risks," Wandrey says.
"Major land grant universities have programs devoted to the study of resistance management," adds Scott McFarland, director of industry relations, National Corn Growers Association. In addition to weed research programs, there are extension programs dedicated to studying the management of corn borers and rootworms, he says. USDA's White adds that USDA has provided grants to universities to make risk assessments.
Universities are well aware of public perception as well as the scientific aspects of resistance, says Ian Heap, WeedSmart, Corvallis, OR. He adds that universities have invested a considerable amount of money in the study of transgenic crops and resistance.
Companies that are developing herbicide- and insect-resistant products share information with the appropriate regulatory agencies during the commercial registration process. Even so, McFarland has some reservations. "I'm concerned that biotechnology companies are rushing some transgenic crop products to the marketplace because Wall Street rewards their stock price every time a new product gets registered and released. The impatient bulls on Wall Street are demanding return on the billions of dollars of investments they've made in big-business biotech over the past decade. The pressure to put new products on the market as soon as possible may cloud some biotech companies' judgment regarding the potential for resistance."
McFarland continues, "Another concern I have is the fact that different companies produce different research results regarding the potential for resistance. Companies always believe their internal research, which may not include all variables that could impact resistance."
White says growers must consider the many variables that can affect plants. Moreover, it is difficult to predict what may happen when a product has been tested on 10,000 acres but may eventually be grown on a million or more acres. White cautions that some growers may be too ready to plant products that have not been fully tested in their area.
Stacked traits. The market will increasingly see crops with stacked traits. Could the potential for resistance be greater with their introduction?
"Current science suggests that it might be less," McFarland says. "Theoretically, stacked strategies employ multiple modes of action, thus increasing control. With this increased control, survival of the targeted pests should be zero."
However, the Union for Concerned Scientists' Mellon says, "It seems reasonable that weeds that are both herbicide tolerant and equipped to fight off pests could be more of a problem than weeds with only one additional trait. But much depends on whether the weeds would be subject to herbicides and/or certain kinds of pests. Plants with stacked traits aren't necessarily going to become 'super weeds,' but might have a greater chance than single-trait transgenics."
Oregon State University's Heap says that a crop with several herbicide-tolerant traits stacked together could have more potential for becoming a weed itself (volunteer). This would be more likely to happen than a transgenic crop's conferring resistance to other plants.
USDA's White says the potential for resistance in a product with stacked traits is still unknown. "That's why we do evaluations on a case-by-case basis," he says. He adds, however, that most plants are resistant to most pathogens. "Susceptibility is the exception."
Ask questions. If you are concerned about the risk of passing on resistance, talk to your seed suppliers. "Farmers should ask if extensive and complete research has been conducted relative to the potential for resistance to develop. They also should inquire as to whether an unbiased third party has evaluated the findings," McFarland advises.
Adds Mellon, "Farmers should ask whether the crops have wild relatives in the region and how far away from the crops the weeds must be to avoid pollen transfer."
Bob Hartzler, extension weed management specialist at Iowa State University, advises growers to consider how the introduction of herbicide-resistant crops will affect their herbicide choices. If they are using Roundup on both corn and soybeans, for example, growers may increase the likelihood of volunteer corn in their soybean fields, Hartzler notes. This may force growers to use herbicides other than Roundup for soybeans. Hartzler points out that there are several other corn herbicide options.
AgrEvo's Gadsby says that companies "are happy to expound" on transgenic products and welcome customer questions about such issues as volunteer crops and crop and/or herbicide rotations. Good questions, she says, would be, Is there anything I should do with this crop that is different from practices used with conventional crops? and What are the warning signs that I have a resistance problem?
Pioneer's Wandrey says that the use of good pest management practices is critical for keeping resistance at bay. These include using different or rotating modes of action, implementing cultural practices and using common sense.
Gadsby agrees. She advises that if a grower notices a patch of weeds that is not responding to herbicide treatment, he should get on the phone right away. A company representative will likely come out and see if there is a potential resistance problem or if the situation is due to something else. Either way, it makes sense to address the situation in a timely manner.
Growers should ask companies about any special management requirements associated with transgenic crops, Gadsby says. She suggests that growers make their product selections based on their management level. If they learn that some new technology requires more management than they are willing to do, they may want to consider another product.
Wandrey states, "It is important for industry, universities, agricultural organizations and growers to work together to understand factors that can potentially lead to resistance and use practices that minimize the probability of resistance."