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I remember reading a few years ago that archeologists had found a shard of pottery with mention of King David on it.
Evidently, this was the first material evidence of King David's existence. According to the articles I read, lots of learned folk had, up until then, been preaching and teaching that King David never existed, was a myth, a legend, a made-up fictional character from a preliterate era.
I remember reading that, and thinking, Huh? Then shaking my head.
What these so-called learned folk had fallen into was the hubris of believing that what they knew was all there was to know. It happens all the time with learned folk, and much misery for us less learned folks ensues.
Here's a small example: I have rheumatoid arthritis. It first reared its head when I was 16. I once had a doc tell me that I had the highest ra titer in my blood she'd ever seen. Despite that, it's well controlled. I know how to handle it, and God has been generous with me about it. I never go a day without aches and pains, but I'm not debilitated and my joints aren't deformed.
However, one thing I can count on is knowing when bad weather is in the offing. The day of the May 20 tornado, I woke up aching literally from head to toe. The foot I broke last fall, my leg, and every other joint I had including the little ones, ached from the moment I got out of bed with that oh-no-something's-coming indescribable ache. My husband says he'll trust my joints over the weather man, every time.
How this applies to the discussion at hand is simply that for years scientists and other learned folk insisted that this aching before a storm stuff was, in their scientific opinion, "all in your head." They may have changed their pointy little minds about this by now. I haven't kept up. But that is for sure what I read back in the day when I first noticed that my body was a powerfully accurate weather vane.
My point?
Just this: Learned folk think more of their data than they do reality. In fact, they believe that their data is reality, and that reality is a figment of everybody else's imagination. To top it off (and this is where King David comes in) they believe that if they can't prove something, then it doesn't exist. This is kinda like me deciding that, if I can't find my car keys, that I just imagined I ever had car keys and they don't really exist.
I understand that scientists can't and shouldn't corroborate claims that they can't prove. What I don't understand is this mighty leap off the side of the hubris cliff to bold assertions that everything they can't prove is either a myth, a confabulation, or some sort of delusion. They carry this, especially in questions of religious faith, to the point that, if you believe them, you've also got to believe that everybody on the planet is hallucinating about something.
I used the words "teaching and preaching" advisedly when I said that they had been preaching and teaching that King David never existed, because what they were claiming was not science. It was a matter of faith. The faith was their addlepated and totally unscientific belief that their data was omniscient.What they should have been saying is We don't have any proof that King David ever existed. That would have been a fact. But bold assertions that he, in fact, actually never existed, were just — dare I say it? — myth.
I am not writing this to make you doubt science or to encourage you to start believing that everything that cannot be proven must, by derivation, be true. Not at all. What I am saying is that you should look at the claims that learned folk make by asking yourself how solid the basis is for what they are saying. Sometimes people falsify data. But it is far more common for them to come up with bogus applications of the data they have. Data omniscience hubris is a common and widespread learned person error when dealing with anything that appends to matters of faith, in particular and specifically, Christianity.
What I am saying is that they are biased. And they allow their bias to interpret their data for them.
The good thing — and it is a very good thing — is that when the data changed, they didn't deny it. They didn't toss that pottery shard into the sea and pretend they hadn't seen it. This was not a Doctor Zaius from The Planet of the Apes moment.
They not only acknowledged the pottery shard, they also acknowledged its implications, which were that there probably was a historical King David.
Now, archeologists have uncovered what they think may have been a palace that belonged to King David. And they're talking about it and filing it away in their data trove.
When they found something material that conflicted with their earlier interpretation of their data, they changed the interpretation. That says one simple thing: They aren't liars.
So we have a scientific community, some members of which seem to be suffering from data omniscience hubris. But they are essentially honest folk who will change their too far-reaching conclusions when the data changes. They're arrogant, but they're not liars.
This is important for us to know when dealing with their conclusions. Unfortunately, it puts us in the position of often having to interpret their data for ourselves, since their interpretations are subject to their biases.
What they are leaving out of their considerations is that while the data may not be human, they are. And they are subject to all the vagaries and venalities of humankind, including, and especially, since they are intelligent, gifted people who get a lot of respect, hubris. Anybody can make a mistake. But data interpretation according to hubris will be mistaken as often as not.
As for me, I'd forgo this dubious gift of being able to predict the weather if it would get me out of the pain that goes with it. However, time has shown that, despite the claims of those suffering from data omniscience hubris, my husband is right: My arthritis is just about as accurate as the weather man.


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The Common Tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius, is a small warbler whose range extends from India to southern China and down into Indonesia. It is common, mostly in the lowlands, but can range as high as 5000ft. It is found in most habitats with thick cover and can often be found in urban parks and gardens.
It is an active bird that seldom stays still or quiet and often cocks its tail as it moves about through the thick cover. This individual was seen in Hong Kong and the comparatively short tail suggests that she may be female. The males have long central tail feathers in their breeding plumage which would be attained by early March in readiness for the season. Otherwise, sexes are alike. Her behaviour was at odds with what I have seen before. She was on the ground in an open area with only sparse cover, feeding at the entrance of crab(?) holes and allowed me to get very close.
It's song was nicely summed up by Rudyard Kipling in Rikki-tikki-tavi, where the tailorbird Darzee continually and irritatingly chirps on without thought given to the content of the piece. "Nag is dead..is dead..is dead." Kipling also makes the suggestion that tailorbirds trail a wing to feign injury, but this remains anecdotal and has not been proven. As it happens, this individual did display this behaviour, trailing her left wing, but as she allowed me to approach so closely and when she did fly, she did so weakly, it's possible that she actually was injured. On close inspection of the photographs, her left eye appeared infected.
The bird is named for its habit of sewing two leaves together to make a cup in which it builds its nest. The latin binomial means 'straight-edged cobbler', which may be a closer description of how it constructs its nest-bearing cup. It uses its bill to make holes in the leaves as a shoe-maker might use his awl to pierce leathers before sewing or tacking them together. The tailorbird uses spider's silk, grass or tiny twigs as threads, tacking material or even rivets.
For a three-part trip report to Hong Kong, including the Common Tailorbird and visits to sites at Tai Mo Shan, Cheun Lung Family Walk, and Aberdeen Reservoirs follow the links or visit Redgannet.
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Very active, adorable little birds.I was fortunate to photograph and film some juveniles sometime back this year.
Very interesting post.. How cool is it that the bird "sews" its nest. Great photos 🙂
Great series on an interesting bird!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
Lovely images and info of a beautiful little bird.
I just love that first image!
Her coloring is so warm – her green feathers contrasting with her brown head. Such a lovely little bird.
Thanks for sharing!
Everyone seems very taken with the Tailorbird. Indeed it is a very endearing bird with a penetrating song and a cheeky manner. It is not usually as approachable as the individual above, preferring to call from tangles and show briefly. I was lucky to find this one out in the open.
@ Carletta, I am making an assumption about her being a female. The longer central tail feathers that would indicate a breeding male were not present, but that does not discount the possibility of a late developer.
The sexes are the same apart from the tail feathers.
Great photos and a beautiful bird. It does have pretty coloring.
SO Interesting—and it reminds me of the wrens we have around here except for the color of course–they have similiar behaviors as you described. Great Photos!!
Very awesome photos…visiting from Bird Photography…
Awesome. A true close encounter! The detail is phenomenal, It looks like you could climb on her back and fly away. Sad to say I have never seen a warbler in "real" life. These captures and your wonderful text is a revelation!
What an interesting little bird! Wonderful photos and good info in your post!
Interesting bird! With its tail up and its curved beak it reminds of a wren, specifically the Carolina Wren. But it's probably just coincidence, or convergent evolution?
A lovely little bird — wonderful capture!
cute birdie nice feathers
I love birds i hate you xD
thats soo awesome they are fluffy!!
this was awesome it really helped me with a report and i also liked how they build their nests.
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NEW ORLEANS -- John Harbaugh was the first coach to take a play out of his bag of tricks Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 Super Bowl XLVII win. However, it didn't work.
|The much-anticipated matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers has come. Take a look at the best images from Super Bowl XLVII.
Leading 14-3 with just more than three minutes to play in the first half, the Baltimore Ravens brought out their field-goal unit on fourth-and-9 from the San Francisco 49ers' 14-yard line.
Kicker Justin Tucker took the direct snap and headed around the left end. He was tackled out of bounds by cornerback Darcel McBath 1 yard shy of the first-down marker. The 49ers took over on downs.
The play marked the first fake field-goal try in Super Bowl history.
It's the type of decision that's easy to criticize when it doesn't work. That said, it was a strange call considering the amount of yardage Tucker needed to get the first down.
John Harbaugh went for an early dagger blow. Instead, he gave the 49ers a very temporary momentum boost.
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Just in time for your office holiday party, a new study that links drinking and a desire to have unprotected sex. Someone should conduct a study that attempts to link scientists who are excited to go on vacation and the conducting of obvious studies.
In addition to getting raped and putting a lampshade on your head, drinking too much alcohol will make you want to bareback with impunity, which can in turn cause you to get AIDS. At least, according to a study published in the journal Addiction it can.
A meta-analysis conducted by a team of Canadian researchers found that as people drink more alcohol, their desire to have sweet, sweet condomless sex with a blurry stranger increases. At .1 BAC, at which women typically arrive after about 4 drinks and men after 5, study subjects were 5% more likely to not only have sex, but to do it without protection.
Researchers argue that since the 12 studies they analyzed showed that alcohol directly leads to unsafe sex, AIDS prevention efforts should include intoxication prevention efforts.
Getting drunk and acting stupid: who knew they were connected?!
Next week: not eating lunch and then looking at pictures of cake— does it make you want to eat the cake? I can't wait for science to find out.
Drinking and alcohol fuels the desire for unsafe sex [The Atlantic]


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Babysitters come and go because not all of them will meet our expectations especially if our children's needs are more than just being watched over. It may interest you to know that there are those who have really made a career out of being babysitters. They are known as the professional babysitters, because the qualities of their services are really above par.
Babysitter agencies who guarantee the services of professional babysitters also implement stricter guidelines among their pool of caregivers. The online babysitter agency would also like to uphold their reputation as a provider of highly qualified and reliable child care providers.
What qualities can you expect from a professional babysitter?
1.) A babysitter who is at least 18-years-old must undergo a thorough pre-screening procedure. An agency may require for the issuance of certification as a "Certified Sitter" to signify that she has passed all pre-screening requirements.
2.) The babysitter has a reliable means of transportation or vehicle because she can be asked or relied upon to drive or pick up the child under her care.
3.) Her credentials in child care are backed-up by extensive babysitting experiences. These highly qualified babysitters are well rounded when it comes to handling children of all ages and gender.
4.) They spend their time wisely by engaging the children in meaningful activities suited to their ages. If the child prefers other activities, the professional babysitter can manage to rise up to the child's expectations by interacting with the child in her best capacity as an older companion. As much as possible, she will try to divert the child from watching too much TV or playing video games.
5.) As a professional babysitter, it is required that she knows how to perform CPR and First Aid. This is to ensure that the children in her care can have the immediate attention they need in case of emergency situations.
6.) Her character as child companion and caregiver is expected to create a positive influence; hence, it is important that she passes her babysitter agency's personal character assessment and evaluation.
7.) The professional babysitters are expected to use their cell phones or landlines only for emergency purposes or as a means of communicating with the parents or babysitter agency. She will treat the home seriously as a place of professional work, thus, she will see to it that her personal affairs do not mingle with the job at hand.
8.) She reports for her babysitting engagement well groomed and casually attired in a manner that will make the children warm up to her. What most agencies prescribe are clean jeans and tees in its most regular and decent form. The babysitter always arrives on or before the appointed time.
9.) As a competent caregiver, she will not leave the children unattended even if the appointed time is already up. In case the parents are not home at the time expected, she will get in touch with the agency to notify them of the situation. Neither will she leave the house disorganized or unkempt.


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Surgery Overview
Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser epithelial keratomileusis (LASEK) for farsightedness use a laser to reshape the cornea so that light is refocused on the retina. The laser reshapes the cornea accurately without damaging nearby tissues. No surgical cut is needed. Either procedure may be used to correct farsightedness and astigmatism at the same time.
These procedures can be done on an outpatient basis in a surgeon's office or same-day surgery centre.
With PRK, surface skin cells of the cornea are removed, and a laser is used to reshape the cornea. The whole procedure, including preparation and surgery, takes about 20 minutes.
With LASEK, the surface layer of the cornea is loosened and pushed to the side. After the laser reshapes the cornea, the surface layer is placed back over the cornea.
PRK and LASEK are sometimes called surface ablation.
What To Expect After Surgery
You will wear an eye shield, a bandage, or special contact lens for 2 to 3 days after surgery. And your doctor will prescribe eyedrops to reduce inflammation and the risk of infection. You may need to use eyedrops for several months after surgery. Several follow-up visits are needed.
The eye can be quite painful for 2 to 3 days. Your vision will be reduced for several days after surgery, until the surface skin cells heal. Recovering from LASEK surgery may not be as painful as with the PRK procedure.
Why It Is Done
PRK and LASEK are similar surgeries and are done for similar reasons. Your doctor will let you know if you need PRK or LASEK instead of the more common LASIK procedure. One reason may be that you have a thin cornea.
Health Canada considers both surgeries safe and effective for mild to moderate farsightedness. PRK has been approved for use in the United Provinces in people age 21 and older who have mild to moderate farsightedness.footnote 1
PRK or LASEK may not be appropriate for people who have more severe farsightedness (high hyperopia), because the results are harder to predict and complications are more likely.
Both are elective, cosmetic procedures, done to correct farsightedness in otherwise healthy eyes.
These procedures may not be done during pregnancy, because pregnancy may interfere with the healing of the cornea.
How Well It Works
PRK and LASEK effectively reduce mild to moderate farsightedness. Little is known about the long-term effectiveness of either procedure.
In the short term, PRK has proved effective in correcting mild to moderate hyperopia.
One problem commonly associated with PRK is clouded vision (sometimes referred to as haze). Most eyes treated with PRK have some clouding of the cornea as a result of healing. Your doctor may prescribe a medicine that will help take away the haze. But sometimes the haze won't go away.
Other complications of PRK may include:
- Night vision problems, such as halos (often described as a shimmering circular zone around light sources such as headlights or streetlights).
- Glare, or increased sensitivity to bright light.
- Double vision (diplopia), usually in one eye.
- New astigmatism.
- Regression. As the cornea heals, cells may fill in the area that was reshaped by the laser, causing at least some of the farsightedness to come back. Regression may also occur if the treated area thickens as part of the healing process. Regression may occur up to 2 years after surgery. Medicines are sometimes used to control and limit regression.
Serious but rare complications may include:
- Infection.
- Elevated pressure inside the eye (intraocular pressure) and glaucoma.
PRK is considered safe. Serious complications are rare. But PRK is a relatively new procedure, and it may have long-term side effects or complications that are not yet known.
LASEK has similar risks to PRK. Also, there is a risk of the epithelial flap coming loose after surgery and causing pain.
What To Think About
If you are thinking about having surgery to improve farsightedness, discuss the different options (LASIK, PRK, LASEK, LTK, CK, and intraocular lens implants) with your doctor.
Although PRK and LASEK are viable options for correcting farsightedness, LASIK is the preferred procedure because of its quicker healing time and quicker visual recovery.
Both PRK and LASEK are cosmetic procedures. The cost of refractive surgery varies. Provincial health plans and most insurance companies do not cover the cost of refractive surgery.
Current as of: January 2, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review: Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine & Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine


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Closure (also known as Halo 12) is a double VHS video set released on November 25, 1997. The first tape is a documentary of the Self-Destruct Tour, and the second tape is a compilation of music videos that had been created up to that point.
An improved DVD version was first announced to be released in late 2004, but due to issues with Interscope Records, this has yet to happen. On December 20, 2006, two DVDs of Closure were leaked through the use of BitTorrent. Shortly after the leak, a message on Trent Reznor's personal blog on The Spiral was posted possibly linking Reznor himself to the leak:
12/21/2006 : HAPPY HOLIDAYS! This one is a guilt-free download. (shhhh - I didn't say that out loud). If you know what I'm talking about, cool.
Several years before this higher quality DVD was leaked, a bootleg DVD version of the original VHS titled "Rated 'R' - A Retrospective" was spread around. Aside from the main menus which were fan-created, it is virtually identical to Closure.
Video listing
Part 1
Part 1 shows live and behind-the-scenes footage from the Self-Destruct Tour.
Additional items are included on the DVD version:
Part 2
Part 2 shows the music videos, in order, that were released up to the point of the release of Closure.
An additional item is included on the DVD version:
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With the new battle fatigue feature now implemented, I think it's time to take a fresh look at our battle UI And see how we can improve upon it. The battle UI is quite complicated and there's a lot to cover, so to start out with let's just talk about the main battle view when no command window, dialogue window, or anything else is on the screen. Here's what this looks like today, with the HP/SP fatigue system and indicators in the UI.
Looking at this, these are the problems I see:
- HP/SP numeric text is hard to read (simple to improve: needs a text shadow). Furthermore, the presence of this text covers up the HP and SP bars that now are a little more complex than a simple single colored bar. It can make it difficult to find what region of the bar is fatigue and where the active max HP/SP is (the small yellow bar)
- When there are two enemies of the same type in a battle, there's no way to differentiate between the two of them. You can't tell which icon on the stamina bar (on the right of the screen) corresponds to which spider.
- Although not seen here, when an actor receives damage the damage numbers are not bold enough to make it easy to see. Furthermore, the damage appears on the side of the character and moves around, which also make it harder to read.
I'm going to go through these changes/proposal from the markings here clockwise, starting from 12:00.
- Move the stamina bar to the top of the screen. This was Djinn's suggestion. I'll talk about that more later.
- Add an "A", "B", etc. to distinguish between enemies of the same type. On the enemy's action icon, I put an "A" to show the enemy there (the other spider is hidden behind the snake icon and would have a "B" icon)
- Added the distinguishing letter to the enemy target as "Spider A". Also some slight re-formatting of the text for the attack point target name (Head)
- Proposal: make an icon image of an arrow that sits between the action name and the target. Just to make it a little more clear that "X" is being done to "Y"
- Just a remark that these "arrow" icons are temporary/place holder images. I made these to get this feature working a long time ago, and we still need to replace it with something nicer
- Proposal: move the HP/SP number text to the right of the HP/SP bar instead of sitting on top of it and obstructing the view
- The greyed out "Swap" icon that is always in the lower left corner was for a feature we had planned long ago that would allow you to swap out party members mid-battle. I'm not worried about this feature at all right now because we won't have more than 4 characters for a long time still, so I just want to cut it out entirely. If we decide to have a swap party member feature later in the game, we'll just revisit the design and figure out what needs to change.
- Proposal: The damage numbers (12 on Claudius, 7 on the spider) might be better and more readable if they are above the head of the actor in question. This in addition to using a bolder/more distinguished font would make damage easier to track.
The thing about the top of the battle background image is that it is supposed to be the most visually interesting aspect of the background. We also have support for this part of the background to be animated (imagine a castle under attack and seeing other NPCs and enemies fighting it out in the background). So I was really hesitant about putting any permanent UI elements over this part of the screen for that reason. However, there are benefits to doing it here as well. I think it would be easier to glance at and quickly assess the state of the situation. We would also be able to have a much longer stamina bar here, and icons wouldn't overlap so often or so frequently. I'm honestly torn about whether to keep the stamina bar where it is or move it to the top of the screen and make it horizontal. I could go either way really, so I want to hear more opinions about this.
The most difficult part about this current mockup is the HP/SP numeric text. We don't have a lot of room to work with here. And I also really like the look of our HP/SP bars and don't want to see those go away. While we might be able to squeeze in the HP/SP text now with these low-digit numbers, we wouldn't be able to fit late game HP/SP values which will have more digits. I'm at a loss about what to do here. Back in the day, we decided against not having a bar graphic and just having text like this: "HP: 1257/5428", because it's a lot more difficult to look at those numbers and figure out "Okay, I'm down to about 25% of my max health". Hence the bars, which are much easier for a user to glance and and quickly absorb the information. But the bars by itself are difficult as well, because then you don't have a good idea of "Okay, that enemy dealt 50 damage to me last round. How much of my HP did that remove?". This is why we have both the text and the bar graphics.
How can we make these both fit in this limited space in an aesthetically pleasing way? We also don't want to "hide" this information from the player ever, because they need it available 100% of the time to make informed decisions about their next actions.
End of rambling. I look forward to hearing others ideas/suggestions, and maybe seeing mockups from other people as well.


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July 18 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania State University's trustees have authorized the payment of about $60 million to settle claims by the victims of sexual abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The settlements of about 25 of some 30 claims are expected to be finalized within a month, the paper said on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The university said the claims would be settled by its insurer, Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Co, although the firm has gone to court to contest its liability for claims related to the case.
Sandusky was convicted in June last year of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years, some in the team's showers. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
A spokesman for Penn State declined to comment to the Journal. Reuters could not immediately reach Penn State for comment outside of regular business hours. (Reporting By Kanika Sikka in Bangalore; Editing by Kevin Liffey)


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Zika hasn't been in the news much, but that doesn't mean it's gone
Herd immunity may be preventing more big outbreaks
Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP
Less than a year after the World Health Organization declared Zika is no longer a public health emergency, the virus seems to have fallen from public consciousness, at least outside of heavily affected areas. The mosquito-borne virus staged a massive assault on the Western Hemisphere in 2015 and 2016 (SN: 12/24/16, p. 19), but this year, Zika appears to be in retreat.
In the hardest-hit countries, data from each country's department of health shows a striking drop in locally acquired cases, that is, ones caused by bites from local, infected mosquitoes. For instance:
- Brazil had over 216,000 probable cases in 2016; as of early September, the new cases for 2017 were around 15,500.
- Colombia tallied more than 106,000 suspected and confirmed cases from 2015 to the end of 2016. This year, new cases have plummeted, with around 1,700 by mid-October.
- Mexico went from about 8,500 confirmed cases in 2015 and 2016 combined to around 1,800 by early October of this year.
The numbers have also dropped in the United States and its territories. In Puerto Rico, Zika cases hit nearly 35,000 in 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. But this year, less than 500 cases have been tallied as of mid-October. In the 50 states, the CDC counted about 5,100 cases in 2016. Most were in travelers who had been to places where Zika was active, although 224 were locally acquired in Florida and Texas. So far in 2017, only about 300 cases have been reported as of mid-October, mostly from travelers. Local transmission seems to have come to a standstill, with one suspected case in Texas and one case confirmed in Florida.
That doesn't mean Zika's days are numbered. If Zika behaves like other arboviruses, such as chikungunya and dengue, it will probably stick around. Arbovirus diseases tend to be cyclical, says public health researcher Ernesto Marques of the University of Pittsburgh. "You have big booms, then they drop. Then a few years later, they come back again."
Why the dramatic rise and fall? The likely answer is herd immunity, says epidemiologist Albert Ko of the Yale School of Public Health. "Zika came in like a bulldozer," he says, and many people in the Americas who coexist with Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit Zika, were infected. Now, "there are so many people who've already been exposed to the virus and are presumably immune, it kind of protects indirectly the people who haven't been infected. So that's probably happened."
Zika virus transmission is more complicated since mosquitoes are involved, Morens says. Other factors such as how dense the human population is in an area, mosquito abundance and climate also play a part. "But it's clear there is some level of herd immunity," he adds. "We see it with all of these arboviruses that cause epidemics. They burn out because the virus can't find enough people to infect."
It's difficult to assess what percentages of populations across the Americas have been exposed to Zika. While the virus is linked to birth defects (SN Online: 9/28/17) and to neurological problems in adults, most cases lead to mild or no symptoms. Some infected people probably don't get medical assistance, leading to missed cases. And diagnostic tests looking for antibodies against Zika can't always tell the difference between Zika and dengue infections.
It's also unclear for mosquito-borne diseases how widespread infection needs to be before herd immunity kicks in. Scott Weaver, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, notes that in places where chikungunya immunity was measured, "typically from 20 to 50 percent of the population became infected as the outbreak swept through a given region." At those levels, "we don't see very efficient transmission."
Though the downtick in Zika cases is evidence of herd immunity, whether a person's past infection leads to lifelong immunity is unknown. The general understanding of Zika's close relative dengue is that, once someone has had an infection with one type of dengue virus, that person is protected from further infections from that type. But a 2016 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases found reinfections are possible. So Zika immunity might wane over time, perhaps leading to reinfections, says pediatrician and microbiologist Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
It's also possible that Zika will find an animal host in the Western Hemisphere, providing the virus a way station of sorts until the human population is more susceptible again. Researchers have detected Zika in capuchin monkeys and common marmosets, which both reside near humans in Brazil (SN: 3/4/17, p. 15).
All of the unknowns make it hard to predict when Zika will reemerge. There may be epidemics here and there, and then years later it pops up "in a place, in a time you can't predict," Morens says. "The Zika virus will be around indefinitely."
J. Waggoner et al. Homotypic dengue virus reinfections in Nicaraguan children. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Vol. 214, October 1, 2016, p. 986. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw099
M. Aliota et al. Zika in the Americas, year 2: What have we learned? What gaps remain? A report from the Global Virus Network. Antiviral Research. Vol. 144, August 2017, p. 223. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2017.06.001
S. Ali et al. Environmental and social change drive the explosive emergence of Zika virus in the Americas. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Vol. 11, February 9, 2017. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005135
T. Saey. A mutation may explain the sudden rise in birth defects from Zika. Science News Online, September 28, 2017.
L. Biel. The Zika epidemic began long before anyone noticed. Science News. Vol. 191, June 24, 2017, p. 12.
M. Rosen. DNA may offer rapid road to Zika vaccine. Science News. Vol. 191, March 18, 2017, p. 12.
T.H. Saey. Zika virus 'spillback' into primates raises risk of future human outbreaks. Science News. Vol. 191, March 4, 2017, p. 15.
M. Rosen. Year in review: Zika virus devastates Brazil and spreads fear across Americas. Science News. Vol. 190, December 24, 2016, p. 19.


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Anyone who has lived in a minister's house knows that middle-of-the-night telephone calls often bring bad news. But for many pastors there is one kind of call that is uniquely painful. There are times when the shock of death is easier to handle than questions about eternal life.
"It happens like this," noted the Rev. J. Gerald Harris, who became editor of the Southern Baptist newspaper of Georgia after 40 years in ministry. "A grieving widow would call and say with a broken heart and with tears in her voice, 'Pastor, my husband had a heart attack last night and we took him to the hospital, but he was dead on arrival. I can't believe it has happened, but we need your help. I know he was not a church member, but we would like for you to preach his funeral.' "
The pastor says "yes," of course. Then, while talking with the family, it often becomes apparent that the deceased was not a believer or may even have been someone who -- by word or deed --flaunted his status as an unbeliever. Others may join the church, then walk away for decades.
This is awkward, noted Harris, for clergy who believe salvation is found through faith in Jesus Christ, alone. It's one thing to step into the pulpit and preach on the mercy of God and to speak words of comfort to a grieving family. It's something else for a pastor to go a step further and do what loved ones may want him to do -- openly proclaim they will be reunited with the deceased in heaven.
Harris said he started receiving calls and emails soon after he wrote about this subject in the Christian Index, in part because this dilemma pivots where the minister draws a theological line, a line that many liberal Christians no longer believe needs to be drawn at all.
There is no question, Harris stressed, that pastors should provide comfort and care for families in these circumstances. Obviously, there is no need for preachers to speak words that would cause grieving relatives pain. However, he also is convinced that it's wrong for pastors to deliver messages they sincerely believe are not true -- to embrace the doctrine of "universalism," which proclaims that all people find eternal salvation, no matter what they believe or how they live their lives.
This is tricky doctrinal territory, as Sen. Barack Obama learned during a June 10 meeting with clergy behind closed doors in Chicago.
While other conservative leaders asked Obama about controversial social issues, the Rev. Franklin Graham -- son of evangelist Billy Graham -- asked an openly theological question: Did the candidate believe that "Jesus was the way to God, or merely a way."
Later, Obama told Newsweek that -- in a candid, personal answer -- he replied: "It is a precept of my Christian faith that my redemption comes through Christ, but I am also a big believer in the Golden Rule, which I think is an essential pillar not only of my faith but of my values and my ideals and my experience here on Earth. I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell."
In the end, Harris said, it's all but impossible to ignore this kind of doctrinal division. However, pastors do have options when handling these situations, other than delivering sermons that violate their own consciences.
In many Christian traditions, funeral rites consist of hymns and prayers that place more attention on the words of scriptures than on a minister's message. But if the family insists on a sermon that focuses on the deceased, he said, pastors can suggest that a friend deliver this message. In some congregations, loved ones offer eulogies during gatherings -- fellowship meals, perhaps -- following funerals.
"These questions aren't going away," said Harris. "For many people today it's not enough to be tolerant of other people's decisions and religious beliefs. Now they want a kind of positive tolerance, they want you to accept and praise other people's beliefs. You have to be willing to say what they want you to say. ... "That just isn't possible, for a lot of us."


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Question: One of my colleagues told me that I have to be careful how large my indexes are, both in terms of the index key and the index depth. I understand why the index key should be small but what is the index depth and why does it matter?
Answer: The index depth is the number of levels in the tree structure that comprises the index, numbered from 0 at the leaf level (the bottom of the tree, imagining a fir tree) and increasing by 1 up to the root page of the index (the tip of the tree, imagining a fir tree).
Generally speaking, to find a particular record at the leaf level of the index, the Storage Engine starts at the root of the index and navigates down through each level to find the correct leaf-level page that contains the record being retrieved. This is called traversing the index. There are short-cuts that occur for range scans compared to repeated single-row seeks, but those are beyond the scope of this column.
At each level in the index the Storage Engine needs to figure out which path to take to the next level down towards the leaf level. It does this by analyzing the records in the page it's currently on, finding the page at the next level down which will lead eventually to the correct leaf-level page, and then moving down to that page at the next level down.
One way to think of it is that at any particular point while traversing the index, there are a set of sub-trees. One of the sub-trees will contain the record being searched for (or, I guess not, if that record turns out to not exist!). The Storage Engine needs to determine which sub-tree to move into, and then which sub-tree within that, and so on, until the very last sub-tree it moves down to is a single page at the leaf level.
At each level in the index while traversing it the Storage Engine needs to find the correct index record on the current page that identifies the sub-tree to navigate to. This involves doing a binary search over the records in the page, and occurs whether the index page is in memory, or first needs to be read in from disk.
Obviously, the more levels there are in the index between the root and the leaf, the more pages need to be binary searched, and so the slower an index traversal becomes. Therefore, the index depth affects the performance of index seeks.
If the index key is small then the "fan-out" of the index (the number of index records per page in the non-leaf levels of the index) will be higher. This is because index records in the non-leaf levels comprise the index key, plus a 6-byte pointer to a page at the level below in the index—the smaller the index key is, the smaller the index records will be and the more index records can be stored per page). The larger the fan-out, the smaller the index depth will be and the less effect on index seek performance there will be.
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I thought it was so charming when Kabelo showed me this photo The Smarties created of their very own "Pitti Wall," like the wall I have shot numerous times during Pitti Uomo.
Friday, November 9, 2012
I thought it was so charming when Kabelo showed me this photo The Smarties created of their very own "Pitti Wall," like the wall I have shot numerous times during Pitti Uomo.
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THE SOCKS!!! All the Smarties look great, but those socks are beyond excellent.
coll socks galore :)
Yes! That's what I noticed!
I love the spotty red socks, they are beyond cool!
Men with great style …. I absolutely like men in first pic and their superlative socks
xo Lelli, italian fashion family
love the pitti wall!
So much dapperness, I can't even get myself together.
Love the first shot, they look so Dandy style!
New post–> http://lowbudget-lowcost.blogspot.it/2012/11/shopping-time-three-total-low-cost-looks.html
Their socks are the beyond cool – totally make the outfits.
I agree, they make it all!
Great stories and pictures on The Smarties – what a find –
You'll have to be sure to get back to South Africa to get us updates on their evolving look!
My sentiments exactly! These guys should definitely be a focus of yours in the future, as I'm sure they will quickly capture the attention of the fashion industry.
i get this warm fuzzy feeling inside when i see how the talent and fashion love that South African fashionestas possess is being so well exposed…….. #ProudSouthAfrican
I think you should do a book featuring The Smarties and other little sartorial clubs like them around the world. Call your publisher and get on that.
I concur! I have loved seeing all your pics of the Smarties, and would definitely buy a book about them!
Those socks are hot!
Very interesting comparison, Scott!
The Bespoke Dudes
Oh my they look awesome . Love this shot. What a compliment
Dapper dressed men! like those two tone shoes.
Oh I love the Pitti Wall. Perhaps Kabelo and his friends will still know each other when they reach the age of the gentlemen in the picture below them.
Love the socks!!
Loving the socks, so you have my attention!
I love the socks.
I like bright socks!
Gian Luca M
The Smarties are definitely the highlight of your Africa trip for me. So dapper, so charming and completely working what they have. They are the essence of personal style.
The smarties look amazing! What great style and verve.
Love the socks too, great shot! xx
absolutely loving the smarties' style!
I like the last picture!!!
Are those golf shoes on the guy in the middle? That's either an interesting pattern of wear on the soles, or those are screw in golf cleats.
Indeed they are golf shoes, but with softspikes, not the old metal cleats which made walking on pavement slippery.
Got to love the flamboyant and charming Lino but the Smarties ?
What clever looks. I can't get enough of them.
love! go the fab soweto boys and the gentlemen in the photo below them.
These guys are so impressive! I'm a huge fan of menswear so I'll definitely be looking at these pics again for inspiration.
Elaine, I can't agree with you more…. They give real meaning to the term "style". I want to invite them home to dinner and hear all about their lives And passion for fashion.
Les Sapeurs!
I love their amazing styles!
Great photos!
xo Jennifer
They look so damn good.
How ADORBS are they? LOVE their socks too!
-Daisy Nguyen from the PS BANANAS! fashion blog: http://psbananas.com
Better than the original ! Well done, guys.
Buon giorno, we have been waiting for you…
The middle gent looks like a young Cuba Gooding Jr.
Love the gents! What's the of that peculiar wooden (?) building behind The Smarties? It'd like to find more pictures of it.
The wooden structure is an old stamp mill used to crush gold. Johannesburg started as a mining town. See this link: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/21d3f1/?pageNum=10
oops it was used to crush rock.
The Smarties are doing me in. So much genuine charm, heart and style!
I had to go back and reread your comment…in order to understand that "the Smarties" 'created their own 'Pitti Uomo wall" in this photo, after your photos at that famous Florence wall. Kabelo and Co. simply must get to Pitti uomo….. '13….and of course The Sartorialist luncheon with Lino and Luca and all their heroes….and a trip to Milan and Al Bazzar/FW. Nothing but the best for them!
They are the definition of Joyful Style! If there are any websites in the works where we might purchase,say some authentic "Smarties" fan club items..oh i'd love a bunch of genuine "The Smarties" of Soweto Ts. SHOUT OUT to JENNA LYONS…and MICKEY… isn't this just the kind of brilliant colaboration you're famous for at J Crew????!!! These guys are genius!!
Just recognized myself in the picture with Lino. My jeans look good.
Nice to see photo's of the smarties on the Sartorialist.
I know that Americans travel to North Africa and South Africa, but what about Sub-Saharan Africa Above South Africa the large part in between?
Especially interesting are The Sapeurs today belong to 'La SAPE' (Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes) imortalised by the ITALIAN photographer DANIELE TAMAGNI in his fine book GENTLEMEN OF BACONGO
I believe it's spelled Smarteez
interesting, but I don't think the photo was taken in Soweto
No, it was taken in Jo'burg's CBD.
i will enjoy seeing the dinner or lunch that happens in SA. bring the Europeans over and let them see how it's done someplace else!
Chic men are so chic.
Both pictures rock. Brilliant. I love the two tone monk shoes.
Someone should give these guys an ad campaign.
Me too, how adorable.
… chissĂ perchè io trovo che la classe è tutta un altra cosa … mah !?


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D.I.Y Scarification Experience. (The begining of my own being my own person.)
Ever since I was little, it was drilled into my naive brain that piercing and tattoos were disgusting and trashy, so, of course I believed it. Any time I saw a piercing, I'd think, "Ew. That's sick." Especially say, nose piercing. The same went with tattoos. I always thought they were stupid and ugly.
A few years later, I went to middle school. Yep, as most would tell you, it changes your views on everything. Many girls we're "Goth" and scene they wore black dresses with red bows. I thought they were ugly and stupid, but then after listening to some music, seeing some pictures, opening my mind, I realized they're just people. (I know it sounds like I'm saying they're a different race or something. I guess that's just how I viewed it back then.) I learned to love their hair, their dark makeup, and beautiful, OUT THERE clothing. But along with opening my mind to different people, I opened my mind to piercings and tattoos. But I still said "Well, I'll never get one!" Little did I know..
Fast forward a year and a half. I was only ten when I was in 7th grade, eleven the day that 8th grade began. I stayed at my current middle/high school for about half a semester, then I went into home school cause I couldn't take my school anymore. After home school, I skipped the rest of 8th grade, and went right into 9th at a brand new school that had just opened that year. There were people with tattoos and piercings all over the place, and there were only 50 people there. That opened me up even more, and I became very interested, but still not enough to research, or to get either.
Fast forward another two and a half or so years, and it's 10th grade, just a few months before summer vacation. My dad sadly has cancer, and my mom is totally stressed out, leaving me having a really hard time at home. Mom yells at me all the time, and dad isn't doing well at all. Eventually, he goes under, and I'm spending most of my time at my friend Ann's house. My dad is at the hospital, and I can't deal with it. Ann and I stay up all night quite a few times, and we found BME.com, out of boredom. I looked up a few tattoos, piercings, etc. It was actually quite interesting, and I really liked it. Finally, I stumbled across scarification. I liked that too, and it looked absolutely amazing.
We looked, well, I looked at many piercings, but the scarring stayed with me. I hate to use the word eventually, but, eventually, my dad died in hospice, and I was called home from school that day. I cried, and immediately went on the internet to calm my mind. I looked up more stories. I wanted a tattoo, or piercings, many piercings, so badly it hurt. I now knew many ways to self pierce, but I didn't want to do anything wrong, so I held off. I brought up the matter to my mom, and of course, she was totally against it, telling me it was disgusting and trashy. So, that was a given NO.
That whole situation opened the door to the world of piercing and tattooing.
Another year, and I'm in 11th grade, age 15. The need for a tattoo, piercing, or scar was even worse than ever. I had found the band Hollywood Undead a few months earlier, and immediately fell in love. They were amazing people in general, their music was wonderful, the guys were sexy, and I could completely relate to almost EVERY one of the songs. After quite a bit of thought, I had eight tattoos revolving around Hollywood Undead planned out. But I just couldn't wait.
After reading almost all of the "D.I.Y. Scarification" stories, I decided I'd do it myself.
Besides the fact I thought it was absolutly amazing, it felt like it was a way to show that I am my own person, and my body is my art canvas, that I can tweak and perfect to my liking.
I decided on a day, which was that day, haha, and tried it (big mistake) on my arm with a safety pin. I put HU4L (Hollywood Undead 4 Life) on my forearm, in a horribly visible spot. I cut extremely deep, and began to bleed almost straight away. I cleaned it off, and put on a sweatshirt.
Then, I decided I'd do it again somewhere else, less visible. I thought about placement, tools, everything. I decided on my leg, under my knee, just to my left. At about noon, I stole a bottle of Rubbing Alcohol from the upstairs bathroom, along with a lot of cotton pads. I grabbed a glass from the kitchen, and some foil, and some paper towels. I headed back downstairs to my 'dungeon' (I 'own' the basement. It's like a little apartment.) and holed up in my bedroom. I scrubbed it top to bottom, and laid out my supplies. Then, I ran around the downstairs finding all sorts of sharp objects. I found a razor blade, sewing-machine needle (it has a thicker base, and extremely sharp point, sharper than a plain sewing needle.), and safety pin. I poured an entire glass of rubbing alcohol, and dropped my tools into it, to disinfect. Maybe not the best idea to put them all in the same glass, but it's way too late for that.)
I waited patiently all day, and finally, at about 8:30 at night, when my mom was sound asleep, I headed downstairs.
I opened up my laptop, and went on Facebook, and Bmezine.com, as a distraction. I put in my Hollywood Undead, Desperate Measures DVD, and went to work. I pulled off my pants, put on some shorts, and disinfected my leg. Washed my hands at least three times, and got my tools out of the Alcohol.
Well, I decided on a Funny Man mask. I traced a bottle cap onto my leg with ballpoint ink, tapped it with R.A again, and started. I picked up the safety pin, and scratched at my leg. It didn't really hurt, but I wasn't going deep enough in the slightest. So, I grabbed the needle, and went for it. I cut deeper and deeper. The hardest part was the small triangle of small circles underneath his right eye.
It wasn't bleeding as much as people who have done it themselves said, so I grabbed the razor blade, and went deep. I was talking to many people during this, and two out of about seven asked to see pictures. The rest thought I was stupid and didn't want to see it.
Finally, I decided I was done, and poured rubbing alcohol on it, and scoured it with a toothbrush. I tried to bandage it, but I couldn't walk with it on. So, I went without. It didn't hurt at all, pretty much.
The next morning, I looked to see if it had scabbed, and it hadn't. Well, it did, but it was a very thin scab. Nonetheless, I scoured it with the toothbrush, and disinfected it with more R.A. I went to school, in pain. I had a limp, and the HU4L scabbed tremendously, so I couldn't roll up my sleeves past my wrist.
Two days later, HU4L and the mask had scabbed nicely, and I picked at them a lot. But I wanted more. So I traced out a star on my wrist, and dug in. My excuse for this, because I didn't want to wear wristbands, or not be able to roll my sleeves up, was I slept on a sharp wire-earring, and it sliced my arm. Everyone accept my boyfriend believed me.
Another three weeks later, I'm in the shower, and I look down, and the mask looks purple. I shrug, thinking it's my eyes, as hot water makes me dizzy, and distorts my vision, so. When I get out of my shower, I put my foot on the sink, and it is purple, and all the scabs are white, and falling off. I grabbed a toothbrush, and got all of the scabs off. I suppose the scar itself is going to be fairly dark, because it's lightened a little, but it is fairly dark. There's only a very small portion of the mask that's still scabbed over, and the HU4L is almost totally healed.
And so, this is the begining of becoming myself.
I'm sorry if I've totally and completely bored you to death, but that's my D.I.Y scarification experience, and I plan on getting it done professionally next time.
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1789 Platt Rogers Road
Final Old Road Post!
For those history lovers that enjoy trying to locate the old state roads (in this case - the oldest) and could sit under an old tree and imagine a stage or horse driven cart rambling by, then these short, semi-bushwacks may offer a fun adventure.
Platt Rogers (1740 - 1798) was a private in the revolutionary War from Poughkeepsie, NY. After the war he became a surveyor and was hired by the state to lay out and construct the first road to run through the region (built from 1789 - 1793). It ran from Schroon Lake all the way north to Plattsburgh. He was paid in large land grants which he mostly sold off. He was also involved in the development of Plattsburgh, although the city was not named after him. He started a ferry service that ran from Basin Harbor Vt. to Split Rock (1 mile south of Essex). He also built the high bridge over Ausable Chasm. He eventually settled in Basin Harbor where he owned an iron ore bed. He was good friends with William Gilliland (first settler in this region - founder of Willsboro in 1765) and it was actually Platt Rogers that Gilliland was visiting when, upon his return trip across a frozen Lake Champlain, William got disoriented in a blizzard and eventually succumbed to the elements. His frozen body was found the following spring at the base of Coon Mountain, what today is an enjoyable 1 mile hike (between Essex and Westport).
The Platt Rogers Road heads north from Schroon Lake, basically following the course of today's Route 9. in 1805, approximately 15 years later, the Great Northern Turnpike was constructed, which from Schroon Lake to Keeseville, almost completely followed the same course as the Platt Rogers Road. The newer road simply avoided a few hills and widened and improved upon the older road in places.
As mentioned, the Platt Rogers Road basically follows the course of Route 9. It deviates in a few places and locating/tracing these short stretches can be entertaining. One such deviation occurs around Split Rock Falls, south of Elizabethtown. Heading north on Route 9 towards Split Rock Falls, approximately 500 feet before the waterfall at a sharp bend in the road, an obvious by-pass road - the Platt Rogers Road - cuts off to the right. Park nearby and follow this old road downhill and within 15 minutes or so it leads to an old stone bridge foundation that leads back to Route 9, a half mile of so below the falls. A huge blast furnace once existed on top of the hill just above the falls, on the eastern bank. Iron ore slag is still very evident lying amongst the rocks where swimmers leave their towels just below the bottom pool/falls...
Another, longer, more primordial feeling (and more highly recommended) stretch of the Platt Rogers Road that deviates from Route 9, starts at Sharp Bridge near North Hudson. To walk this 1 mile plus section of old road, park on the southern side of Sharp Bridge. Walk across the road to the east side of Route 9 and head south (uphill) about 50 feet from the bridge. Where the guard rail ends near a road sign, climb the left highway bank and dive into the woods. Nose around and the old road should become evident. The road soon crosses a ravine where an old bridge once existed and can be picked up on the other side. It traverses a slope high above the Schroon River, following it downstream. After 10 minutes or so, the road enters a section of old, large, pine trees, some down across the road. Here is where old telephone wires and even an insulator or two can be found (please leave in place) on the left side of the road. These lines must have followed the path of the old road and were probably put in around 1920 to bring telephone service to the newly opened Sharp Bridge Campground (one of the first 2 campgrounds opened by the state).
The road soon crosses lower, flatter land (the bane of all old road tracers) and staying on it really tests one's mettle. It stays very straight (as shown in all old maps) but can be followed by keeping track of the side drainage ditches. If in doubt - keep going straight and eventually the road intersects the old, historic, Cedar Point Road. A newer woods road has been built over the old Cedar Point Road in this section. Turn right at this junction and follow this newer road a few minutes back to Route 9 approximately 1 mile south of where you began. This stretch is much easier to pick up and follow starting at the Sharp Bridge end. The intersection of the Cedar Point Road and Platt Rogers Road was evident 20 years ago but not so today.
A third deviation of the Platt Rogers Road and Route 9 can be seen from your car. On Route 9 heading north from Sharp Bridge, approximately half a mile from Sharp Bridge, one can see the old Platt Rogers Road 30 feet or so back in the woods (on the right - eastern side) and up 10 feet or so above Route 9. It traverses the slope and parallels Route 9. As one drives across the small bridge a mile or so north of Sharp Bridge, the old Platt Rogers bridge abutment is briefly visible if one looks north and up the Schroon River. The old road crossed the river on this bridge and joined a current dirt road that went through the once bustling village of Deadwater, which in the 1850s - 1870s, enjoyed prosperity as an iron producing town (doing especially well during the Civil War).The cellar holes are still evident - it had a store, P.O., school etc. as well as a large blast furnace that dominated the town. The location of this old town is about a mile north of Sharp Bridge, down some dirt roads on the right of Route 9.
Once in the old village of Deadwater, find the end of the pond and the start of the river and you'll see the remains of the dam. A road crossed here, giving access to buildings on both sides of the river. A large blast furnace was located just across the dam, 10-30 feet downstream of it. A trestle bridge/loading ramp connected to the top of the furnace from high up on the ridge above the eastern bank of the river. From this trestle they crushed/dropped their ore into the furnace. Slag can still be seen in the river downstream. Roads radiated from this once thriving village (1 leads through the woods, past a large cellar hole and on to the old Sharp Farm - now under the Northway - while another 2 old roads pass on either side of Deadwater Pond, both leading to the current Tracey Road and eventually the Crowfoot Pond Road upon which they received their raw ore from Port Henry).
The operation became unprofitable quickly after the Civil War ended and the village of Deadwater became another Adirondack "deserted village", with French Canadian squatters living in the old, abandoned buildings in the 1890s - 1900s...
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Great stuff. I don't know where you get it, but keep it coming! Is there anything left of this furnace and town of Deadwater (other than cellar holes)?
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Not much left to see at Deadwater. Cellar holes, an old dam remains, old roads etc. Still fun to walk around and locate how it must have once looked. George Underwood (for whom the nearby Underwood Club was incorporated by and named for), who was the boss at International Paper at one time and owned a mill in Plattsburgh, owned the Deadwater area after the village was deserted. He fixed up a few of the buildings and had a farmhouse there but most everything was burned in the early 1920s. The parking area on Route 9 at the southern of the 2 dirt roads that lead into Deadwater is where the Serpitarium used to be (1960s). It had hundreds of rattle snakes in a fenced in area and a guy with tall boots would walk around with a stick and pick them up for everyone to see. I guess it went along with Frontier Town down the road a bit...check out French's Map to see the old 1789 Road and Deadwater village: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3803e.la000495a/
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I think Serpantarium folded about the day that the northway opened for traffic. Frontiertown lasted a good deal longer because they were right at Exit 29 - the one exit in the Park where signs were allowed to be visible to drivers. This was considered an "oasis" in the middle of the Park section of the Northway and perhaps compensation for the plan for the state to buy up all the land around Exit 30 to keep that wild with no services. Can you imagine the business a gas station/convenience store could do at the location today?
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Another very interesting piece, thanks for sharing?
Speaking of the Sharp Bridge area and "Under the Northway"...
Do you have any info on the old "Goeway Place" that was supposedly located near today's Gui Pond?
I've spent some time exploring this area while assisting with field research for a forthcoming guidebook, and aside from some traces of an old road near the north & south ends of Gui Pond (along with some short sections of a stone fence line) I couldn't find any sort of evidence of an old building foundation anywhere, or any other artifacts or remains, which led me to presume maybe it could've been located directly under I87...?
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Hi Justin, Here's what I know....This info. may make wandering around this area more fun for you while undertaking your guidebook research...
The Sharp Farm (owned, and at times leased by Abraham Sharp and family - 1840s - 1850s) was the large farm located on Gui Pond. It was their pen/walls you found. 10 minutes from there, at the other end of Gui Pond, a faint road can be traced that connects to the old village of Deadwater. I imagine the Sharp family provided much of the food for the village and numerous iron workers during its heyday. Kind of like the old road that went from Averyville to the old village of Adirondac (that is now the Northvile Placid Trail and trail by Preston Ponds) which was built by the farmers to help them sell their goods to the ready market at the bustling McIntyre Iron Works...
I vaguely recall seeing in a census that Abraham and family moved to Wisconsin (late 1850s?) as so many farming families did around that time. I do recall more confidently that a Sharp child/daughter is buried in the North Hudson Cemetery (died around 1848).
The Sharp Farmhouse was described by a hunter in 1900 as having been abandoned for 10 years but at one time was "a fine old house, with great open fireplaces, full of old nooks and corners...". It is shown on French's Map (see link on a previous post on this thread) just north of Lindsey Brook, exactly where the Northway now is. This is the only map I know of that shows it's location. Barbara McMartin states in one of her guidebooks that remains of the Sharp Farm (the stone walls) were apparent but that the farmhouse cellar hole was "hard to find" - my guess is that that was guidebook speak for "I couldn't find it but it must be somewhere"...Anyway, I have looked everywhere and I'm pretty darn sure that the cellar hole no longer exists...
The large cellar hole just 8 - 10 minutes up the trail that starts at Sharp Bridge (south and western side of bridge) and heads up to Lindsey Brook (and the old Sharp Farm remains which is further up this trail) was the old Goewey Place. It is on the left side of the trail/old road (which is the end of the old Chapel Pond Road actually). The Goewey cellar hole is close to the road but not obvious unless looking for it. That farm was on both sides of the road and has roads, walls, a barn foundation etc. all around.
In the 1930s, campers at Sharp Bridge Campgound used to hike Makomis Mountain (just off exit 30 of the Northway) as a popular hike. The trail was rarely used in recent times and was finally destroyed by Hurricane Floyd...In the 1930s, from the fire tower and building on top, hikers reported seeing two large farms/open areas to the south towards the campground (down the valley that the Northway now goes through). These were the remains of Goewey's Farm (the further south of the two) and the Sharp Farm.
Anyway, I forgot your question but I hope an answer is in here somewhere...
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Thank you very much for your reply!
Looks like I need to spend some more time exploring the area!
Your posts have been fascinating, thanks again!
- Justin
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