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By Jeffrey Bramnick, Pure Matters
Each day, 27,000 Americans sprain an ankle. That's almost 10 million a year, making this simple twist our most common joint injury.
When you sprain an ankle, one or more ligaments on the outside of your ankle become stretched or torn. Ankle sprains most often occur when your toes are on the ground, but your heel is up and you are walking on an uneven surface. Your ankle can turn inward, damaging the ligaments.
"Most people do not seek medical attention. They ignore their sprain or self treat," says Glenn B. Pfeffer, M.D., a past president of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. "The problem is that many people don't realize how serious neglected ankle sprains can be." Untreated, one out of five injuries can weaken an ankle so that people skip or limit some activities, such as hiking.
Recurring sprains can lead to arthritis, tendon injury and an ankle that gives way easily.
"People who have simple strains, or grade 1 sprains, usually don't see a doctor," Dr. Pfeffer says, and they usually don't need to. "When there's a grade 2 sprain or greater, with discoloration and swelling, they're more likely to make an appointment or show up in the ER."
Your doctor may advise you to:
- Immobilize the ankle with an inflatable splint.
- Use the RICE method (rest, ice, compression and elevation).
- Let the ankle bear weight as best you can, using crutches.
- Move the ankle a bit with your health provider's guidance.
- Take anti-inflammatory drugs.
In severe cases, your doctor may put a cast on the foot and ankle for 10 to 14 days.
If you sprain an ankle, Dr. Pfeffer advises wearing a brace for a few months. That's especially wise during high-risk activity, such as playing basketball or volleyball, hiking or just climbing stairs.
Ankle sprains' severity and appropriate treatment:
Grade 1 — A stretching of the ligaments. Treat by using RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation).
Grade 2 — A stretching and some rupture of the ligaments. Treat by using RICE and by allowing additional time to heal. A sprain of this severity may need to be splinted.
Grade 3 — Greater rupture of the ligaments. You may need to wear a cast or a cast brace for two to three weeks while the injury heals. Repeated ankle sprains may require surgery to repair the ligaments.
Recovery after a sprain
Whatever the severity of sprain, the ankle needs time to recover. The first step in rehabilitation is to rest the ankle, protecting it from further injury and reducing the swelling by following RICE. The next step is to strengthen muscles and ligaments, and to restore range of motion. The last step involves activities that move the foot in a straight line, followed later by sports that use more cutting movements.
If you sprain your ankle, it's important to follow through with rehabilitation to avoid further injury. Once your ankle is fully recovered, work to keep your ankle in good shape with flexibility and strengthening exercises.
An ankle exercise
When your ankle feels more stable, ask your doctor about this exercise:
Stand on both legs. Brace yourself with one hand. Lift the uninjured leg off the ground by bending your knee. Do this for 60 seconds with your eyes closed. Switch sides and repeat until it's just as easy on both sides. Then, increase the time. This helps restore your sense of "where your injured ankle is in space," Dr. Pfeffer says.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), speaks at the White House after meeting with US President Barack Obama on November 16, 2012 in Washington,DC.
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Bruno went on a raceboard.
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Are orgasms overrated? Why do people choose chastity? Clarisse Thorn answers these question in a two part sex column.
The following pieces were originally published at the girl-power site Off Our Chests: here's Orgasms Aren't My Favorite Part of Sex, and here's My Chastity Urge. I've combined them in one post because they feel, to me, like they deal with fundamentally the same issues, and belong together.
A month or two ago, I published a piece called A Unified Theory of Orgasm. In that piece, I talked about my own history, and how long I took to learn how to orgasm. Basically, learning how to orgasm took a long time and a lot of angst. And I'm really glad that I eventually figured it out—and that I have many years of experimentation still ahead of me.
That piece was really well-received, and a lot of people have thanked me for writing it. As always, though, there's some mixed feedback too. And I've been worried about one thing in particular: it seems like a lot of people missed the part in my article where I said that, now that I've learned how to have orgasms …orgasms aren't even my favorite part of sex. It's a long article, and I can see how people would miss that, but I did say it and I think it's important.
Specifically, I wrote:
[It may help some people] not to prioritize orgasms. I am not saying orgasms aren't important; I just don't want the importance of orgasms to wound you, the way it wounded me. For me, it is helpful to imagine sex as a journey. For me, it helps to focus on having fun throughout, instead of doing what it takes to reach the "goal" of orgasm. If you're not taking pleasure in the journey—or at least indulging some curiosity—then why keep going? Why not stop and try something else?
Experimenting sexually in an open-ended way has been, for me, the most productive possible attitude. And in fact, once I knew how to make myself come, I discovered that—though it's helpful to be able to attain that release if I really want to—orgasms aren't actually my favorite part of sex! There are lots of other things I like better.
It's also worth noting that our definitions of "orgasm" are fairly narrow. Some research indicates that there may be other ways to conceptualize orgasms than the stereotypical genital-focused approach.
And now I want to talk about it some more.
It may be ironic that I spent so much time feeling terrible and broken and depressed because I couldn't figure out how to have orgasms…whereas now I prefer not to focus on them. In fact, I estimate that most of my current sexual encounters don't include my orgasm, and very few of my most pleasurable sexual encounters have included my orgasm.
I'm the first to admit that I don't know everything about sex, and there's a lot that I haven't experienced. Anything might change. But seriously. The best sex I've had in my life has been connective and emotional and, for me personally, has frequently involved intense BDSM. My favorite sex so far? Has also mostly been orgasm-free.
Some people in some sex-related communities have asserted that for maximum amorous power, it's actually best to limit one's orgasms, because then the contained sexual energy ends up channeling into a deeper connection with one's partner. I can see that. For me, another way of thinking about it is that I'm really into being teased — and I'd rather experience hours of being teased without an orgasm, than have a quick encounter that ends in orgasm.
And…(Oh no, I can already tell this is going to get complicated…but hey, sex is complicated, so I'll give it a shot.)…Especially when I'm doing BDSM, it can actually be hot sometimes if I don't have an orgasm. For example: if I go to sleep so turned on that I can't dream about anything but my partner, and then I wake up in a damp mess, and then my partner makes my life difficult all morning, it's pretty awesome. (Although it's very nice that I know how to give myself orgasms now, because that means that if I'm really feeling overwhelmed by my own sexual energy, I know how to give myself release if I have to. You know, like…if I need to get some work done.)
Aaaaand…here's the most painful, ridiculous, circular irony of all. Ready? Here goes: now that I'm capable of having orgasms, I've found myself occasionally having orgasms only to satisfy my partner. How absurd is that? Plus, I know I'm not alone, because I've talked to other women who do the same thing!
I've written before that in the past I've felt trapped by fake plastic ideas of "what hot girls look like during sex"; I've written about how the pressure to "perform" my sexuality can hurt. What has amazed me, as I've gotten older, is just how pervasive that pressure can feel with some partners…and how little pressure there is with other partners. The question of how to create a low-pressure environment for sexuality to flourish is big and complicated, so let me just say here that although I'm all about people giving each other orgasms…it's no good if my partner's desire to give me an orgasm turns into pressure for me to have an orgasm!
Scarleteen, my favorite sex education site, has a great article about "squirting" orgasms and how some women feel pressured to "squirt" for the sake of the sexual "novelty". On a similar note, I'll close this post with an anecdote about a guy I dated a while back who was very focused on giving me orgasms. To his credit, he figured out how to make me come very quickly. But the problem was that—I soon realized—the biggest reason he wanted to make me come was because he wanted to feel like he could. Fundamentally, it wasn't about my pleasure; it was about him feeling like "the man".
Let me be clear: he was a great guy, and I was into having sex with him. But it became very obvious to me that if I didn't have an orgasm every time we had sex, then he would be really bothered. So there were definitely a few encounters where, although I wasn't especially interested in having an orgasm, I still closed my eyes and flicked through fantasies with a kind of panic…until I managed to kick-start my body into coming. Isn't that messed up?
One thing I've learned, in years of writing about sex and gender, is that anything—anything at all—can be a tool for limiting or stifling sexuality…just as much as it can be a tool for releasing sexuality. Turns out, orgasms are no exception. Even orgasms can become a difficult duty. I'm so glad that I know how to have an orgasm now; for me, that was an important step for my sexuality and my self-esteem. But now that I've learned how to do that, I find myself questioning why it's such an important and destructive issue in the first place!
Sex is a journey. There are so many directions, so many forks in the road, so many stops along the way. There are so many speedbumps and roadblocks, uphills and downhills, free and easy open stretches. Sometimes people stop to rest. Sometimes people double back. Everything is evolving. A lot of people find it most awesome to simply…enjoy the road.
When I was in my late teens, I had a couple straight lady friends who did this thing where they took a year of chastity…although they had already had a fair amount of sex. It wasn't that they thought sex was bad. It wasn't that they especially disliked sex. It wasn't that they regretted choosing to have sex previously. But these women felt powerfully drawn towards taking a year away from sex, a year where no sex happened in their lives … and I instinctively understood because I felt the same urge. In fact, I came up with the idea of deliberately taking a year of chastity on my own, before I heard that anyone else was doing it.
I'm not telling you this because I want to sound like one of the "cool kids"; I'm not trying to say anything like, "I was into chastity when it was underground!" As it happened, I never actually went through with my chastity urge. But I thought about it a lot, and I thought about the fact that other girls I knew were doing it. We didn't have backgrounds that one would normally consider anti-sex. We had liberal backgrounds, liberal parents, liberal educations. Why were we so attracted to the idea of taking a year without sex?
I thought about it a lot, and I concluded this: We felt like we didn't own our sexuality. We felt like our sexuality wasn't for us. Or at least, that's how I felt.
Even though on the surface it looked like I was totally in charge of my sexual decisions, there were social pressures and expectations that made me feel overwhelmed and confused. Not always, and not all the time! But enough that there were plenty of times that I just felt like all I wanted to do was stop and be done with it…"take my body back" from a world that seemed intent on constantly telling me how I must look, how I must dress, how I must have sex.
I've written about how much easier it was for me to learn how I ought to look and "perform" while having sex, than it was for me to learn what I actually wanted from sex. That, I think, is where the chastity urge came from for me. That, and the way I kept finding myself making out with guys who I had zero interest in because it was "too awkward to say no." Or the way I didn't feel like I could decide not to have sex with my boyfriends; not because I didn't think my boyfriend would listen if I said no, but because his potentially hurt feelings seemed so much more important than my bodily preferences.
So many things about the way I was having sex seemed to have nothing to do with me. And if sex had nothing to do with me…then why was I doing it? I guess I wanted to reassure myself that I could take control of at least one thing: saying no.
Eventually, I got a better handle on my sexual preferences and began to learn how to talk about them. It was a long process, and my sexual journey is far from over (yay!). There were people who showed me what it meant to have a low-pressure sexual relationship; there were people who made it easy for me to talk about sex; and there were other people who made it easy for me to turn them down, sexually, which was just as important.
But one interesting thing during the beginning of my learning process…especially given that I now really emphasize and encourage talking directly about sex…was that I felt like a couple of my boyfriends really, really didn't want to talk about sex. And while sometimes this was clearly terrible and toxic, sometimes it felt good. It felt safe. I wanted to be sexual, but I also felt so much pressure to be sexual that it sometimes felt like a huge relief to just…"not worry about it."
In retrospect, though, I think that the "safety" I felt when I didn't talk about sex with certain partners was a mirage. It was a false safety, sustained by a carefully crafted mutual fiction of the relationship. When we ended up talking about sex later, "giving up that safety" just made the conversation unnecessarily scary and weird. And the independent illusions we each had about our sexual relationship flourished and grew strong within our silence. Those illusions were so much harder to release after months of self-reinforcement than they would have been if we'd dragged them into the light from the beginning!
Occasionally, I wonder how it would have felt if I'd taken that deliberate year of chastity. I wonder which of my early experiences would have changed; I wonder whether a year of chastity would have made me feel more comfortable with my sexuality sooner. I'm very happy with how I feel sexually now. I sometimes feel confused or overwhelmed, but I think I'm okay at handling that and even talking about it. Yet I do wonder how it would have felt to draw such a strong boundary; to say such a strong "No" to the world and its messed-up sexual expectations.
Originally posted at Clarissethorn.com.
—Photo Ed Siasoco (aka SC Fiasco)/Flickr


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I was just kind of amazed. As you know, it's been a really tough season for me, and I've always just had that real belief that I can do it. So putting out these dreams and beliefs that I can come out here and have a medal and everyone being a little skeptical and just knowing in my heart that I can do it was kind of like crossing the finish line saying, 'See it works! Believing in yourself works! I got a medal today!'
I just love being here at the Olympics. It's so much fun and I get really energized. I got a lot of energy from watching the men's race yesterday, and it was just a perfect example of what I always think: anything is possible at the Olympics, you can never count anyone out and you always have to just do your best.
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I wrote about this lovely young lady a long time ago when I first received a copy of this photo from a gracious cousin, in We Have a Face. At the time all I knew is that she was the mother of Laura Alice Barnett Conner, but we did not know her name. Recently I've been working on finding out who this lady was along with a couple other cousins. I now have a story to tell.
According to her death certificate in Texas Bethany Barnett was born 4 August 1856. Her parents were unknown. She died 23 Nov 1945. The informant on her death certificate was her son Wilford Barnett. She was a widow by this time.
The family reported to me that her husband and Laura's father was Sam Barnett. I did find Sam's death certificate in Texas as well. He was born in Kentucky on 17 May 1850, parents unknown. He died 30 Aug 1937. The informant on his death certificate was his wife Bethany Barnett.
At around the same time as I found both death certificates I also found their graves. I found this on Find-A-Grave. They are buried at Old Fellow Cemetery, Georgetown, Williamson County, TX. The photo is posted there courtesy of John Christeson. Their headstone information corresponds with their death certificates, but unfortunately neither certificate gives us any parents names.
Up to this point I only had the word of family that Sam Barnett was the father of Laura Alice Barnett, that is until I found Laura and William Conner's marriage certificate, where S. J. Barnett gave his permission for his young daughter to marry William. They were married by the justice of the peace on 30 Aug 1890 in Webster County, Missouri.
Then I found the record that linked them all together. I found a birth record in Menifee, KY for an Alice Barnett born 30 Dec 1875 to a Samuel Barnett and Bethana Slusher. Father was born in Floyd Co., KY and mother in Breathitt Co., KY. This was the proof I was looking for. Then I began to search for the families in this area.
Now I was looking for the parents of Sam Barnett and of Bethany/Bethinia Slusher, but before I did that I wanted to complete the family history by finding them in the 1880 census. I found them in Jeffersonville, Montgomery, KY. Sam is age 30 and Beatheney is 23. They have a son, Henderson age 7, daughter Alice age 4, and baby boy Wesley 8 mo. This means that Sam and Bethany have were likely married before 1873.
Other than Laura and William's marriage the Barnett's seem to have strong roots in KY. So I focused my search in KY and was reward well. Next was an explosion of records. Knowing the Bethany's maiden name was Slusher I began searching for her in the 1870 census. My assumption was that she was married shortly after the 1870 census and that I would hopefully find her with her family, and I did. They are living in Menifee, KY. Which is where Sam and Bethany's daughter Alice was born. I'm certain this is her family. She is 14 years old and that matches very closely to her death certificate that puts her birth in 1856. Her father's name is G. R. Slusher and her mother is Ibby.
I then found them in 1860 in Breathitt, KY. This time her parents names are clarified as Gradner Slusher and Isabella Slusher both age 23. They have three children, Phoebee age 6 Nathina (I believe this is a misspelling on the part of the census taker, as the age is consistent with Bethany) age 2 and Shylvana age 1. Everyone except Shylvana is listed as born in Floyd, KY and Shylvana was born in Breathitt, KY. Also on either side of the family are two other Slusher families. One is Phillip Slusher age 52, likely Gardners father? The other is John Slusher age 26, likely a brother?
Then I found the marriage record of Gardner Slusher and Isabella Prater on 27 Sept 1855 in Floyd Co., KY. This record is very hard to read, but by blowing up on my computer I was able to make out the names. Now I have Isabella's maiden name. But I've not yet researched her family. I wanted to find out more about the Slusher's as I believed that the Phillip Slusher living next door to them was likely his father, the age was right.
Then I began a search of Gardner Slusher and sure enough I found him the in 1850 census in Floyd Co., KY in the house of Phillip Slusher and Mary. Likely I suspected, Phillip is likely his father and Mary his mother, though this is hard to prove from the census records as relationships are not listed at this point. Also in the house is a John Slusher that corresponds in age to the John Slusher living next door to them in 1860. It's not proof, but considering the connections and repeated places I believe that Phillip and Mary Slusher are the parents of Gardner Slusher the husband Isabella Pratter the parents of Bethany Slusher.
Even in all of this research though I have found no mention or proof of the family being Native American like the family swears they are. According to the family Bethany Slusher was 100% Native American. So far these are the only records I have found to establish this family. However, it is interesting to note that William Conner married Laura Alice Barnett the daughter of Bethany and Sam Barnett in Missouri. Up until this point the Slusher and Barnett family lived exclusively, from what I can tell, in KY. Why they move? William and Laura were married in 1890 which is too late for the Trial of Tears, and during the Trail of Tears the are definitely well rooted into their communities around Floyd, Breathitt and Menifee Counties, KY. These counties are not next to each other, but near by. Why then did they suddenly move to MO in the late 1800's. Were they able to avoid the Trail of Tears, but truly were Native American and were forced to move later? We may never know, but I will always keep searching. I will admit that Bethany Slusher Barnett does appear to be Native American. I will also add that I have search Dawes Application and the Dawes rolls to find none of these family member on them. If they were in fact Native American it appears at this point that they never registered on the rolls. Though we do know that William and Laura did go to OK at a later date, but it was too late for them to have registered either, and I know from my research of the Conner that they never register for Native American rights.
My search will continue, but this is where I am at this time on the Conner, Slusher, Barnett and Prater families.
My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
26 November 2011
A Name and Story behind the face; Bethany Slusher Barnett
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Jose John December 7, 2013 No CommentsDAMS – THE LIFE LINE OF A COUNTRY Water management is essential not only for the development but for the very existence of the people. It is because of non realization of this that in many developing countries floods and drought go side by side. In the year 2000 in certain areas of Gujarat water was to be transported by trains while certain areas of Orissa and West Bengal were reeling under floods. In certain areas of Bihar it rains heavily during monsoon. But immediately after the rainy season the farmer finds his fields dry. It just means that it is essential to store the water for future use .One may just be helpless for the floods. But these too can be controlled to some extend if the river is channeled towards big dams. Thus both for future use and for partially checking the floods big dams are necessary. For utilizing the rain water in sloppy areas like that of Bihar small dams are a must. It is rather exulting that while we had only 300 dams in 1947 we have 4300 big and small ones today. Thus the dam consciousness is gaining ground. During the last three centuries water requirement has increased 35 times. The annual consumption now... read more


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Monday, November 22, 2010
I'm ready for winter
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- ~RaenWa~ said...
I will happily send you all the snow I am getting right now since you are more prepared for Winter then I am lol.
- November 22, 2010 at 11:23:00 PM PST
- Kaye said...
I am! NOw if only this crappy 68 degree weather would go away!
I think you need to crank out five or six pairs more and just wash your socks once a month.
- November 23, 2010 at 2:58:00 AM PST
- dianne said...
That's a fun picture!
- November 23, 2010 at 4:33:00 AM PST
- Discoknits said...
Ooh, it's like spot the sock pattern. I see Leyburns, blackberry brambles,..........
Fun :0)
- November 23, 2010 at 4:36:00 AM PST
- doulanana said...
Awesomeness! I hoard the 2 pair of knitted socks I own! I better get busy!
- November 23, 2010 at 4:59:00 AM PST
- French Press Knits said...
This is crazy! I have my fisrt pair of socks for myself on the needles, but they have been left alone for a month due to baby knitting :)
- November 23, 2010 at 5:29:00 AM PST
- Mya said...
I need one of those nifty drying racks.
- November 23, 2010 at 5:36:00 AM PST
- cockeyed said...
now feeling like i should wash my socks.....
- November 23, 2010 at 6:25:00 AM PST
- doviejay said...
I love this post! I like seeing the socks after they've had some time being loved and worn!
- November 23, 2010 at 7:20:00 AM PST
- SissySees said...
Gasp! I need to find my sock mojo! I need more socks!
- November 23, 2010 at 7:23:00 AM PST
- gMarie said...
I love it! Can you help prepare me? g
- November 23, 2010 at 8:02:00 AM PST
- Guinifer said...
I just finished doing that with my socks last week! Although, I am much less loyal to any brand of sock yarn!
- November 23, 2010 at 8:55:00 AM PST
- Stephen said...
Is it wrong that those photos cause me to tingle down there... in my feet? Going through sock yarn yesterday only made me want more, more, more.
- November 23, 2010 at 9:23:00 AM PST
Um...that's 26 pair. But that's ok because its a great photo!!!
- November 23, 2010 at 10:06:00 AM PST
- Neuroknitter said...
love it!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!! xo
- November 23, 2010 at 12:37:00 PM PST
- Zonda said...
Hehe..like Disco said, spot the pattern and the yarn :D
Bring on the cold weather I say!!!!
- November 23, 2010 at 3:58:00 PM PST
- neknitsandbeads said...
Wow! That is most impressive!
- November 23, 2010 at 5:22:00 PM PST
- Jean said...
You'll be warm and stylish! I've been working on a pair of socks and will look for the couple of pair I knitted last year.
- November 23, 2010 at 6:52:00 PM PST
- Knitterella said...
Whoa! Puts my wee three pairs of hand knit socks to shame. I need more for sure!
- November 23, 2010 at 6:57:00 PM PST
- Jocelyn said...
Wow, awesome clothesline. I can identify about 6 pairs and maybe 4 colourways there. How scary is that?
- November 24, 2010 at 12:17:00 AM PST
- Caffeine Girl said...
Now that's my idea of a winter garden!
- November 24, 2010 at 4:08:00 AM PST
- sockdoc said...
Wow! you inspire me to knit up some more socks for myself....just that darned christmas gift list projects I started ambitiously. But the socks I could carry about.....
- November 24, 2010 at 8:59:00 AM PST
- pdxknitterati/MicheleLB said...
Not 25 socks. Not even 25 pairs of socks. 26 pairs of socks means 52 socks! You are set for the winter!
- November 24, 2010 at 9:25:00 PM PST
- Darcys Knotty Knitter said...
Your living my dream to have a Dozen handknit socks awesomeness so pretty love pictures:)((((Hugs))) Darcy
Happy Thanksgiving
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Many individuals these days are looking for ways to be more eco-friendly, which might involve recycling, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, conserving water, and using more earth-friendly products. This is also true for museums, libraries, and archives, many of which have launched "green" initiatives. But these institutions face enormous challenges when it comes to preserving humanities collections that represent our shared cultural heritage. Caring for these often fragile materials can be costly. Collections must be protected from fire, flood, and theft, and they must be kept in environments that slow their deterioration. To preserve their collections, cultural institutions often rely on systems for climate control and lighting that demand significant amounts of energy. To help museums, libraries, and archives meet their preservation goals in more energy-efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly ways, NEH developed in 2010 a grant program in the Division of Preservation and Access called Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections.
On occasion, we'll be highlighting grants awarded through this program and illustrating some of the ways museums, libraries, and archives are incorporating sustainable strategies into their preservation practices, strategies that balance cost, environmental impact, and preservation effectiveness.
Today, we're introducing the work of the Litchfield Historical Society, which was founded in 1856 to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Litchfield, Connecticut. The museum is located in a National Landmark District, has five full-time staff and an operating budget of less than $500,000 a year, and maintains three historic buildings that feature collections of furniture, paintings, textiles, toys, ceramics, trade signs, and other fine and decorative arts, along with a library of local business and organizational archives, manuscripts and family papers, reference books, and genealogical material. Collections date from the founding of the town in 1719 to the present, with a concentration on the years 1781 to 1840 when Litchfield was a bustling commercial and educational center.
Visitors to the historical society can learn about local lawyer Tapping Reeve, who developed the first curriculum for teaching common law and opened the first law school in the United States. Between 1774 and 1833, the school's graduates included two vice-presidents, Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun; 14 governors; 14 members of the federal cabinet; 28 U.S. Senators; 100 members of the House of Representatives; and three members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Litchfield was also the home of the Litchfield Female Academy, a pioneering institution of female education founded in 1792 by Sarah Pierce with a curriculum that combined academic, practical, and ornamental courses for girls. More than 3,000 girls attended the school over its 41 year history. You can learn more about the two schools and their students by visiting the society's website and searching The Ledger, an online database that brings together letters, artwork, and personal belongings of the students along with biographical and genealogical information.
In 2010, with the assistance of a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections planning grant, the museum began to investigate ways to provide the best possible conditions for their collections with the least consumption of energy. The museum's staff had been attempting to adhere year-round to the narrow environmental parameters of 70° Fahrenheit (± 2°) and 50% relative humidity (± 5%), which required enormous amounts of energy and financial resources. In addition, the strain placed on the mechanical systems to continually regulate the air being brought into the buildings led to frequent breakdowns and expensive repairs of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. During the planning project, the staff of the historical society worked with an architect, an engineer, a conservator, and a climate control technician to review comprehensively the conditions of the exterior and interior of the historic buildings, their mechanical systems, the collections contained therein, and the current collections environment.
The planning team recommended widening the parameters for temperature and relative humidity, which would reduce energy costs for the historical society without compromising the longevity of the collections or the integrity of the historic buildings. They recommended that the museum maintain relative humidity at between 30% and 60% while allowing for gradual seasonal variations, and cooler temperatures in collections spaces. The project team also identified "passive" (i.e., nonmechanical) measures that could be implemented to secure the building and minimize the infiltration of moisture into the interior as well as upgrades to lighting and climate control systems to make them function more efficiently and effectively. With these improvements to the museum's historic buildings and environmental systems and with more realistic environmental parameters, the planning team believed that the historical society would be able to maintain a quality preservation environment while reducing energy use and saving money.
In 2011, the Litchfield Historical Society received a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections implementation grant from NEH along with support from other private foundations, which enabled it to carry out these recommendations for the 1901 Noyes Memorial Building, which houses the exhibitions, the society's library, collection storage spaces, and staff offices. Work included installing a new roof, gutters, and downspouts; repointing (i.e., replacing the mortar) of masonry; and replacing old lighting in the exhibition galleries with new energy-efficient LED lighting. Components of the existing climate control system were also upgraded, automated climate controls and monitoring systems were added, and the museum's textile collection was rehoused in a mobile compact storage system.
The work at the Litchfield Historical Society has already paid off. The collection environment is being maintained as intended, and the museum has seen significant reductions in its energy use and costs. Between 2006 and 2009, before the project began, utility bills at the historical society had averaged nearly $35,000 a year. As improvements were made, energy use began to decline, and in 2012, the annual utility costs for the society were $11,720. The museum continues to track energy use and costs and monitor environmental conditions to ensure that its collections will be protected and preserved well into the future.
The society has realized other significant outcomes as a result of its commitment to sustainable preservation practices, which are worthy of mention. The museum's staff is working with consultants and the Board of Trustee's building and grounds committee to create a 10-year maintenance plan for its physical facilities. The board has initiated a capital campaign to raise additional funds for the museum's immediate needs and to develop a maintenance endowment for future needs. Fundraising is now underway to implement passive and mechanical improvements to the museum's other buildings. Furthermore, the historical society's climate control technician is documenting changes to the mechanical systems and mapping how conditioned air moves through the buildings, so that in the future staff and technicians can continue to manage and maintain these environmental systems effectively.
Litchfield Historical Society's work, supported in part through these NEH grants, underscores the value of a more pragmatic approach to preservation that is based on the specific nature of the humanities collections and the buildings that house them and that takes into account local climate conditions, institutional capacity, energy efficiency, cost effectiveness, and environmental impact. The NEH project clearly demonstrates that sustainable preservation strategies can save costs, reduce energy use, help the environment, and protect important cultural heritage collections.
For more information about this project, see the narrative of Litchfield Historical Society's grant application. A white paper describing the lessons learned from the planning project is here, and a white paper from the implementation project will be posted online when that project is concluded later this year.


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Sailing's governing body may conduct independent water-quality tests in Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, the sailing venue for the 2016 Olympics and the site of Rio's first test event in 2½ months.
Any hope Brazil would be able to clean up the sewage-filled bay soon was quashed in a document obtained by The Associated Press over the weekend.
In a May 7 letter to sports minister Aldo Rebelo, Rio's state environment secretary Carlos Francisco Portinho acknowledged in a best-case scenario that pollution flowing into the bay could be cut to "over 50 percent"—well below the promised reduction of 80 percent.
Alastair Fox, head of competitions for the international sailing federation, told the AP the body is likely to test on its own, hoping to allay athletes' health concerns.
The tests could also push Rio organizers to move more quickly on the problem.
Fox said he hoped the International Olympic Committee would do independent testing, although the IOC indicated it had no such plans.
"If the IOC are not conducting water-quality tests, then I think it is very likely the ISAF will," Fox said Monday in an email. "Certainly compared to most sailing venues, the water quality is very, very bad."
Danish Olympian Allan Norregaard, a bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics, said Guanabara was "the most polluted place I've ever been." Other sailors interviewed called it an "open sewer."
The bay and similar concerns about Rio's iconic Copacabana and Ipanema beaches add to the disarray plaguing South America's first Olympics.
The IOC has sent a special troubleshooter to monitor progress, and last month IOC vice president John Coates said Rio's preparations were the "worst" in memory.
Spending on Rio has reached $17 billion and is expected to rise.
Nearly 70 percent of Rio's sewage goes untreated into its waters. Exposure to fecal matter can cause hepatitis A, dysentery, cholera and other diseases.
The visible problem involves old couches, tires and dead animals floating in the 148-square mile (383-square kilometer) bay. State officials are using garbage boats to collect floating debris, with the detritus weaving giant blankets of human and industrial waste along noxious shorelines.
"If someone picks up a bag, or hits a sofa or something like that, then clearly that is going to affect them in the race," Fox said.
"We've seen numbers from teams of the fecal content in the Guanabara Bay, which clearly are not safe," Fox added. "For us, that's a matter of concern. We've been assured again by the organizers that they are doing everything they can."
The IOC said it had no plans to test, but suggested others might.
"We trust the organizers and (the) ISAF will carry out the necessary research and analysis that will be carefully considered in order to ensure the safety of the athletes," the IOC said in a statement.
The IOC did not respond to repeated requests to interview IOC Medical Director Dr. Richard Budgett about potential health risks to athletes. In March, Nawal El Moutawakel, head of the IOC inspection team in charge of preparing Rio, said she had been assured the bay could be "clean from garbage."
"I don't think we will forgive ourselves if we let the athletes compete in an environment that is not safe and secure," she said.
Malcolm Page, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and chairman of the sailing federation's Athletes' Commission, said he trusted state tests, but welcomed independent testing.
"If the Brazilians are happy to receive any of that independent help, it only makes dealing with the problem easier and removes any sugar-coating," he said. "The sailors are certainly worried about it."
An analysis last year of a decade's worth of government data on Guanabara and other waterways showed that sewage pollution indicators consistently spiked far above acceptable limits, even under Brazilian laws that are far more lenient on pollution than those in the United States or Europe.
Fox said at least five courses—three inside the bay and two in the open Atlantic—would be used at the test event beginning Aug. 2. He said courses outside the bay had always been planned, not driven by the pollution problems.
Fox said plans call for the medal race—the final race where the gold, silver and bronze medals are decided—to be held in Guanabara near Flamengo Beach, a venue convenient for fans.
Signs around that beach warn against swimming.
Mario Moscatelli, a biologist and outspoken environmentalist, said retrieving the floating garbage in the bay was fine, but did not address the problem of untreated sewage.
In an open letter to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he asked for the "release of the funds needed to recover the environmental assets, which are being used in Rio as garbage dumps and latrines.
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Your humble scribe is off doing things with the family for a while. There may be a little light posting next week, but normal service will not resume until Tuesday January 28th. Until then, stay well and kiss the people you love regularly.
Breaking: Venezuela army and police can no longer be prosecuted for killing protesters
The executive order, signed by the President, was published today. Here's the image:
What that says, in a nutshell, is that the law has been altered and that from now on, any member of the armed forces or a member of the police force who kills or injures somebody "in compliance with their duties and using a weapon or other method of defence" cannot be prosecuted afterwards.
Which is a pretty amazing piece of police state legislation and it's all true. Except for one thing. It has in fact been passed as law today in Peru and not in Venezuela, so you'll hear precisely fuck all about it up North. More on the story in Peru's El Comercio, here
The Osisko (OSK.to) Goldcorp (GG) deal: Please allow IKN to translate the latest tweet from Andrew McCreath of BNN because...
...IKN Nerve Centre™ agrees with his take (and as a couple of mailpals know, said as much pre-bell today). Here's his tweet:
That says, "Apart from an attempt to find a white knight (i.e. friendly third party who will pay more), the gold company Osisko Mining Corp (OSK.to) will be bought out by Goldcorp (GG) once a second sweetened bid is offered by Goldcorp. It's too difficult for another senior, Tier 1 mining company to spend one billion dollars in cash at the moment".What that means in something approaching normal English is that Goldcorp (GG) has pitched its bid nicely for Osisko (OSK.to), but ostensibly at least it's a non-solicited bid (though the chances that GG didn't talk with OSK and try to get a friendly deal done before today aren't very high at all) so the OSK board will almost certainly say "not offering enough".
So, what happens from there? Basically one of four things:
1) GG doesn't offer any more, nobody else turns up to make a counter, OSK holders don't bite, deal fails. This is rated as an unlikely though possible scenario.
2) GG sweetens the deal at least once, maybe twice, finally getting OSK people on board. Deal goes through. This is the most likely scenario and it's the one the market has baked into the pie today by bidding OSK.to up to $6.20 or so.
3) GG sweetens the deal once or twice, but OSK doesn't bite and still refuses the offer. Nobody else shows up then after a battle the shareholders either side with the GG offer and the deal is done, or they go with their board and it all falls through.
4) OSK gets a second offer from somewhere else and a bidding war starts for control of OSK. That counter may be unsolicited or a White Knight found by OSK. This is rated by your humble scribe (and by McCreath, it seems) as a possible, though substantially less likely than scenario 2 above. Here's something I wrote here on the subject earlier and covers the bases well enough:
It's a bold move by GG, though. On balance i think they've pitched the offer well, it makes enough (not total) sense and i agree they're the best fit for this one, too. ABX has enough on its plate disposing of assets without ponying up for a new mine, working or not. NEM is the only real alternative I see. Others are maybes but only as white knights if the affair gets messy.
All in all, it's the type of M&A action that the mining industry needed at this point and if only for that, GG should be applauded. A nice chunky fight with billions of dollars in play, rather than a few million as seen in other recent deals. I like it, game on.
UPDATE: More reco'd reading is the VancVenture take on OSK/GG, but you must be fluent in ironese to see his greater point. Nice post, PSDave.
UPDATE: More reco'd reading is the VancVenture take on OSK/GG, but you must be fluent in ironese to see his greater point. Nice post, PSDave.
Fortuna Silver (FVI.to) (FSM) put in a very good quarter of silver production at San José
Chart here:
Company NR here. Gold was slightly off for 2013 and Caylloma's silver production a little on the soft side for 4q13, but those are gripes next to the main positive. FVI is up in early trading on this and deserves to be.
Disclosure: No current position in FVI
UPDATE: By the way, just noticed that this is the 10,000th post here at IKN. Some sort of landmark, I suppose.
UPDATE: By the way, just noticed that this is the 10,000th post here at IKN. Some sort of landmark, I suppose.
A job for Canadian government mining person in Peru
This is interesting. Looks like the Canadian government wants somebody to go down to Peru and improve their pisspoor environmental image when it comes to mining activities in the country.
The document has been sent to me by a very nice man from the Canadian government website intranet site, so therefore no links available (and a bit of cropping to maintain anonymity was needed too), but the offer is real and kosher.
Anyone up for this cushy government post? $15m to throw at you, little in the way of accountibility, get to play in a foreign country for a year and skip all that subzero thing you guys have. It's the public servant's dream
UPDATE: Thank you reader MM, we now have a weblink for the above. Right here
UPDATE: Thank you reader MM, we now have a weblink for the above. Right here
Chart of the day is...
...Osisko, five years, with a line drawn in at $5.95:
Goldcorp (GG) just put the cat among the pigeons. This should be fun.
UPDATE post-open: OSK pops to $6.15/$6.20 at the open, the market assuming that a sweetener or a counter will happen to this one. Pretty likely I 'd say, just by looking at that chart. If I were a seed holder of OSK I'd be ...(etc etc, you know the drill).
The IKN Weekly, out now
IKN245 has just been sent to subscribers. Just the usual load of twaddle, if I were you I'd move on right now and go back to that star-studded Golden Globe awards ceremony.
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Latin America's fashionable scepticism: Setting the record straight
This is a good note on the state of macro-economic development in the LatAm region. Here's the intro blurb to get you going, click through for the whole thing.
Latin America's fashionable scepticism: Setting the record straight
Augusto de la Torre, Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Samuel Pienknagura, 12 January 2014
There is a wave of fashionable pessimism over the future growth of Latin America. This column distinguishes between two main types of concerns – related to the trend of the long-term growth, and to the cyclical vulnerabilities of the region. While the first type is partially justified, the second type is not because such concerns overlook two fundamental changes in Latin American economies. First, the de-dollarisation of financial contracts reduces the adverse effects of currency depreciations. Second, a more credible monetary policy was implemented with a substantial decline in the exchange rate pass-through to inflation.Full article here
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The latest iOS jailbreak that works on devices running iOS 6.x has been used to crack almost 7 million iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches, according to Cydia admin Jay Freeman. Freeman's comments were published by Forbes on Friday morning, highlighting the continued popularity of jailbreaking among certain segments of the iOS-using community.
The latest jailbreak tool, called "evasi0n," was released on Monday of this week—the first iOS jailbreak to be released in quite some time. Freeman says it took 136 days to crack iOS 6.1, compared to the previous jailbreak taking 98 days, and the one before that taking 38 days. "That's what made this such a landmark jailbreak," Freeman told Forbes. "It had been so long and we were all so hungry for it."
Unlike some of the others, the evasi0n jailbreak is untethered. The tool works by exploiting an undocumented flaw within iOS 6, and although the first beta of iOS 6.1.1 was released to developers after the jailbreak was published, the update has yet to fix the flaw that makes the jailbreak possible.
Apparently, there were millions of users just waiting to apply evasi0n to their devices in order to customize them and install non-App-Store software. According to Freeman, the tool was used on 5.15 million iPhones, 1.35 million iPads, and 400,000 iPod touches in the first four days since release. Cydia, which acts as a repository for jailbreak software, has seen "insanely more new traffic" since the evasi0n release, said Freeman—he doesn't have numbers on the popularity of previous jailbreaks but is confident that the latest tool is the most popular yet.
Despite its obvious popularity, iOS users shouldn't hold their breath when asking themselves whether Apple will eventually "break" the jailbreak. Apple often patches security holes as soon as they're public or exploited in some way, so it's only a matter of time before an updated version of iOS 6.x comes out that fixes the vulnerability used by evasi0n. As mentioned earlier, the first beta of 6.1.1 has yet to do so, but we wouldn't be surprised to see a future beta release that renders evasi0n dysfunctional.


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(Phoenix, AZ – October 9, 2003) Attorney General Terry Goddard today testified at the United States Senate Commerce Committee's field hearing on Pipeline Safety in Phoenix. Goddard testified that Arizona's economic future depends on affordable, reliable and safe supplies of both energy (fuel and electricity) and water and that Arizona is in a delicate position due to the scarcity of water and the lack of crude oil production or gasoline refining in the State.
While acknowledging that a reliable fuel supply is essential for maintaining a stable economy and way of life, Goddard stated that safety in supply is of utmost importance for the health of Arizona's people and environment, noting that fuel spills and other gasoline-related pollution affect the air, water and land.
"As Attorney General, I am charged with enforcing existing laws and representing State agencies, many of which have been working tirelessly to ease the damage caused by the recent Kinder Morgan pipeline shutdown," Goddard testified.
He added that his Office continues to work closely with the Governor's Office, the Governor's Gasoline Working Group, and other State agencies to evaluate what led to the gasoline shortage, and to develop long-term policy solutions. Goddard said he is also working with legislators on proposed price gouging legislation to deter and punish those who would take advantage of consumers during a state of emergency. According to Goddard, consumer feedback to his Office demonstrated overwhelming popular support for a "Price Gouging" law to protect consumers.
Goddard noted that gasoline prices in Phoenix skyrocketed from an average of $1.54 per gallon for regular on July 30, before the pipeline rupture, to a record average high of $2.14 per gallon on August 26. "These dramatic price increases caused lost income to businesses and consumers," said Goddard. "Hardest hit were the working families, those on fixed incomes, and gasoline-dependent businesses."
The Attorney General said that the gasoline shortages resulted in lost income due in part to transportation difficulties. "Working Arizonans could not get to work," he said. "Others did not drive for recreational purposes. Although difficult to quantify, Arizona likely experienced significant losses from tourism declines and event cancellations due to the instability the fuel shortage caused."
Goddard said he is investigating issues surrounding the gasoline supply shortage, including obtaining supply volumes from Kinder Morgan. That information is being evaluated.
"I am concerned about the potential harm to Arizonans and the Arizona environment where this, in some places, 55 year-old pipeline, was not properly inspected and violations were not vigorously enforced even in the face of probable safety violations," Goddard said. According to Goddard, from 1988 to 2001 the Arizona gasoline pipeline had forty-six probable non-compliance violations noted by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Since 1993, the Office of Pipeline Safety issued two noncompliance letters and one corrective notice, which was in response to the July 30, 2003 pipeline rupture.
Among the recommendations from the Attorney General were steps to ensure that property owners near the pipeline are properly informed and that all feasible and reasonable steps are taken to minimize risk to Arizonans. He also recommended increased frequency and thoroughness of inspections, stronger enforcement of violations, increased federal financial support for interstate pipeline inspections, increased authority for state inspectors and a more aggressive approach to pipeline security.


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