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Meade / Coronado 40mm f/10 PST H-Alpha Personal Solar Telescope with Case
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The PST with custom hard carry case is a Coronado innovation. This 'little' telescope is another step toward Coronado's goal of making it possible for everyone to "Experience the Sun our way." No wonder it is the world's most popular telescope to observe the Sun!
Sub angstrom H-alpha systems have long been cost prohibitive for the amateur. Designs other than the Coronado are difficult to use because of temperature and F-Ratio requirements. This 40mm diameter highly portable dedicated solar telescope features completely internal non-removable and student safe solar filtering optics with a 1.0 angstrom hydrogen-alpha (Ha) bandpass for great surface detail. Not only does the PST have a bandpass of <1.0 Angstrom but it is also thermally stable and requires no more time to operate than putting in a eyepiece and adjusting the focus.
Study of the solar disk is now within the reach of the amateur astronomer. The PST will show you the dynamic, ever changing prominences at the edge of the Sun as well as filaments and other surface details in amazing detail, all in the brilliant and distinctive red color of hydrogen-alpha light. The PST represents the same technology and quality that goes into a SolarMax series telescope but with a few unique design characteristics that allows Coronado to offer it for less than some premium eyepieces. At <1.0 Angstrom it will not reveal as much surface detail as the SolarMax series telescopes and filters but it certainly doesn't disappoint.
Features a 40mm diameter dedicated Ha optical system with 30mm internal etalon primary blocking filter and incorporated focuser and bandpass fine adjustment controls and built in solar viewfinder. 400mm focal length, f/10 focal ratio, with Kellner eyepiece. Tripod not included.
Mounting options include use on a standard photo tripod (scope is threaded for a standard camera 1/4-20 mounting bolt), use of a Coronado Malta table top tripod (sold separately) or the Meade DSM mount (sold separately) with computerized Autostar and GoTo technology. Open up a whole new world of astronomy with the Coronado PST.
Product carries full five year Meade factory limited warranty (valid within US/Canada only).
- Aperture: 40mm
- Focal Length: 400mm
- F/Ratio: F/10
- Bandwidth: <1.0
- Thermal Stability: 0.005 /°C
- Safety Blocking: >10-5 from EUV/IR
Jun 13, 2014
For the money, it's an excellent scopePros:
Compact,Lightweight,Easy to UseCons:
Small Exit ApertureComments:
I have also tried the Lunt 35mm. The Coronado PST 40mm is better in my opinion. Best accessories to buy is the CNC focus knob, a generic 8-24mm zoom and a baseball cap to cut the glare of the sun.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
It is a great solar scope that can keep you happy for a lifetime but beware of the small exit aperture of the etalon which although presenting you with a great solar image, makes eye placement a bit sensitive.
I think this is currently the best offering, but this will probably change with the upcoming Lunt 50mm.
For the money, you can really enjoy prominences and filaments in an easily portable package. A basic tripod and mount head are all that is required as well as the recommendations made above re baseball cap, CNC machined knob (available here at Agena!) and also a basic 8-24mm zoom.
This review was provided courtesy of AgenaAstro.comDec 26, 2011
Great ValuePros:
Compact,Strong Construction,Easy to Use,LightweightCons: Comments:
Great little solar scope for solar viewing mounted easily on an old EQ5 mount also light enough to mount on a camera tripod. The solar finder is a great little addition.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
The supplied 20mm eyepiece was a tad disappointing had far better views with a 10mm plossl.
This review was provided courtesy of AgenaAstro.comJan 6, 2011
Excellent and affordable solar scopePros:
Compact,Strong Construction,Quality LensesCons: Comments:
This telescope allows the average person access to quality Halfa solar observation. It can be used in a simple photographic tripod, as well as in an equatorial mount. I have been even using it for some solar photography. The images it gives are very detailed, you can see prominences, spots, plages, filaments, etc.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
This review was provided courtesy of AgenaAstro.comNov 17, 2010
Excellent telescope, afordable pricePros:
Compact,Strong ConstructionCons: Comments:
This small but powerful telescope make solar observation affordable. The quality of the images given by it is excellent, you can see many different details in the Sun's surface, from sun spots to filaments and prominences. For me, the best size/definition retion is obtained with the 15mm eyepiece.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
The built in solar finder is really usefull to locate the sun. The packing is really nice too.
Also, it is not necessary to have a telescope mount to use it, just use a photographic tripod and you are ready to go.
This review was provided courtesy of AgenaAstro.com
AstroGuy1 New Member
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- Review by zardoz66 of Illinois.
The Coronado PSTPros:
Great views,Easy to use finder,Low costCons: Comments:
When you consider the price and then consider what you can see with this telescope, it is an amazing feat. With such a small and light weight package you can make out details on the sun itself, see prominences, sun spots and flares. It is so light that you can mount it on even the flimsiest of tripods with ease. As always, looking at the sun is dangerous and should be attempted with caution and deliberation.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
This review was provided courtesy of AgenaAstro.com
Stargazer New Member
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Apr 28, 2008
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Coronado PSTPros:
Excellent, clear views; Light weight for easy, quick setupCons:
I've always enjoyed viewing the sun in "white-light" and became interested in H-Alpha viewing when I had a chance to look through a PST a couple of years ago. Wow! The view, though small, was awesome!Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
I plunked down the $600 when a rebate was offered last December. This is a great little scope and its light weight allows quick setup anywhere. I use an 8-24mm zoom and, with a 400mm focal length, the 16x to 50x is perfect. Low power to get the full disk in the "sweet spot" and then zoom in for a more detailed study of the prominences, filaments, and surface details. In average-seeing conditions, I find that going over 50x will begin to degrade the image.
Be aware that users of the PST have found a few eyepieces and barlows that will not come to focus. So you may want to inquire before purchasing a specific barlow or eyepiece dedicated to the PST.
The PST tuning knob works well for adjusting the performance of the filter and the focusing knob also does a good job. I am really impressed with the "Sol Ranger" finder on the PST. A very SAFE, efficient means of lining up the scope with the sun.
If you're thinking of entering hydrogen-alpha viewing, the Coronado PST is an excellent way to start.
kevinbozard New Member
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Mar 16, 2008
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Coronado PSTPros:
<0.1 Angstrom; Thermally stableCons:
Doesn't reveal as much surface detail as the SolarMax series telescopes, but it doesn't disappoint.Comments:
The Coronado PST is a fine little scope for the price. Solar viewing is not for everyone, and you have to train your eyes for observing some of the more subtle features with this small scope. But the view, once you get used to using this scope, is fabulous. Solar flares, solar filaments, and solar prominences are the order of the day when viewing with a Coronado PST.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? Yes
zardoz66 New Member
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Dec 30, 2007
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The Coronado PSTPros:
Great views, easy to use finder, low costCons:
None considering the priceComments:
When you consider the price and then consider what you can see with this telescope, it is an amazing feat. With such a small and light weight package you can make out details on the sun itself, see prominences, sun spots and flares. It is so light that you can mount it on even the flimsiest of tripods with ease. As always, looking at the sun is dangerous and should be attempted with caution and deliberation.Bottom Line: Would you recommend this item? YesSort by
Telescope Aperture 1.57" (40mm) Manufacturer Coronado Telescope Aperture Up to 80mm Telescope Series Coronado PST


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The Art Caravan first saw Daphne Odjig's work hanging in the hallway of an elementary school in the north end of Winnipeg. Was it an original print? Was it a poster? I don't know, and all that matters is that it was my introduction to this great artist.
Was it the Cubist inflections in her work that caught my eye? I know that her subject matter–the celebration of life around us–has kept me interested in her art.
In 1973 Ms Odjig helped create the Professional Native Indian Artists Association. She is a member of the informal Aboriginal Group of Seven along with Jackson Beardy, Eddie Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morriseau, Carl Ray and Joseph Sanchez.
Ms Odjig is 95 years old. She talks frankly about her age, and her art, in this interview from the National Gallery of Canada.
Her work has been featured on Canadian postage stamps, and used as inspiration for clothing. She has received several honorary degrees, and has been awarded the Order of Canada. In 2007, she was awarded a Governor General's Award for Lifetime Achievement in Visual and Media Arts.

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There is a new tailgating option coming to Kansas City. Or something like that.
BurgerBusiness.com, which is a real website and seems awesome, reports that McDonald's is coming out with a new boxed meal in the Kansas City market. And as you can see in the photo above, this is a Chiefs sponsorship, which means a Chiefs blog can write about it.
McDonald's for the first time has brought to the U.S. the multi-person boxed meal idea it first tried in Australia in 2010. In the Kansas City, Mo., market, the chain is heralding the start of the NFL season with the Blitz Box, a boxed meal that includes two Quarter Pounders with Cheese, two medium fries and a 20-piece serving of Chicken McNuggets. The Blitz Box is priced at $14.99.
Fun fact about me: I stopped eating most fast food about a year ago. No big reason why. I just stopped. I used to eat fast food somewhat regularly (at least once a week) but the longer you don't eat it the harder it is to think about eating it again. So I haven't eaten at McDonald's in a long time. For whatever reason, the one fast food I don't have this mental block with is Winstead's in Kansas City. Maybe it's the onion rings.
Back to this Blitz Box. The size of this thing makes me think some people are going to tailgate with this. I don't think that's a good idea. Fast food is not tailgating.
Is this the best idea ever or the worst?


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Westin Makes the Free-Market Green Choice
If you have stayed at a hotel recently, you have seen a card in the bathroom exhorting you to help the planet by reusing your towels, thus reducing the amount of water, energy and detergent used by the hotel. Such appeals are typically based on guilt – you reuse the towels and the hotel receives the financial benefit.
The success of such efforts, however, is tenuous because it is entirely contingent on the convenience and good will of the guests.
Westin Hotels, however, have harnessed the free market to find a better way.
When I checked into my hotel in Charlotte last week, I noticed a door hanger lying on the bed which read:
"Make a green choice. Enjoy a $5 voucher at participating food and beverage outlets or 500 SPG Starpoints awarded at checkout for each night you decline housekeeping."
Instead of guilt, Westin recognizes that sharing with their customers the benefit of conserving resources is likely to make the program more successful. And they are seeing results.
Chris Para from the Westin Charlotte said the program has grown in each of the three years they have offered it. He estimates that 16 percent of guests take advantage of the program. This is a remarkable result considering what it might take otherwise to cut water use for laundry by about one-fifth.
The program was actually conceived at the Westin and Sheraton in Seattle where the "green" ethic is ubiquitous. But it goes beyond simply cultivating a green image. Westin enjoys financial benefits in two ways. First, it saves money by reducing the laundry and housekeeping costs. Second, it is an initiative Westin can use to attract corporate customers from organizations requiring their employees to stay at "green" hotels.
The group most likely to be incentivized by the program and use it are business travelers, and Westin's Starwood points are a particularly attractive reward.
Interestingly, Para seemed sheepish when I asked if the hotel benefited financially from the program. By providing benefits to the hotel and customer, however, the program is more likely to stand the test of time. Too many green programs are based on people being willing to endure inconvenience or cost and are jettisoned when times get tough. With the hotel benefiting, they are more likely to continue and even expand the program.
Instead of apologizing for the benefits they receive, Westin should be proud. Those financial rewards may encourage other hotels to follow suit, further reducing overall resource use.
By harnessing the incentives of the free market, Westin, its customers and the environment all benefit.


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June 22, when Germans attacked USSR, Finland declared neutrality but Russian attacked the Finnish military ships from air. The Finnish territory were bombardment from the base Hanko and in several places the Russian-Finnish border have broken. In this time the German and Finnish military ships mine the Finnish gulf, and the German aircraft bombarded Hanko island.
Despite of military preparations in Finland, occasion to the beginning of war became the Soviet bombardments of the Finnish cities and airfields on June 25, 1941 by 480 Soviet aircrafts. At decisive session of parliament in the same evening was declared, that the war begins with same, with what Winter war - from an attack of the Soviet Union. The military cooperation with Germany could be ignored, as the deputies had about them vague representation. The group under a management Risto Ryti, Karl-Gustav Mannerheim and Vaino Tanner, supervising external politics of government, has gone on the introduction of Finland in considered favourable war for returning of Karelia.
From a beginning of war in Lapland arrived four German divisions of army "Norway": two overland from north Norway in area Petsamo, one overland from north Norway in Salla and one on the sea from Germany in Salla. Besides by rail from Oslo through Sweden in Hanko should be thrown 163-th field division, hardly more than year back played the basic role in capture Scandinavia. However strengthenings Hanko were recognized powerful enough, and German 163-th division was transferred to a reserve in Karelia.
At the expense of additional preparation the Finns managed to increase military forces up to 16 divisions. The main staff settled down in Mikkeli. The most powerful Finnish group (7 divisions) has made the "Karelian" army in area Yonsu. The staff of a German group in Lapland has settled down in Rovaniemi. 3-rd Finnish army corps in Kuusamo was transferred under German command.
Irrespective of the expected introduction of the Finns into war against the Soviet Union put forward to Kirkenes (Northern Norway) the mountain-rifle corps of the general Dietl, which in 1940 protected Narvik, had a task with the beginning of war to grasp important economically Petsamo area, taking place on the Finnish territory, and defence it from Russian. Then the mountain-rifle corps should grasp Murmansk, sole not freezing port Russian on Northice ocean.
Simultaneously six Finnish airfields with the beginning of war were transferred at disposal of German 5-th air fleet. However in autumn the naval forces of Germany have returned on the bases, and the air forces further worked only in controllable Lapland.
June 22, the Dietl corps has passed the Norwegian-Finnish border and has occupied Pechenga area, not having met resistance Russian. Before the battle actions against Murmansks have begun, some extent compelled introduction of Finland into war.
In the central part of Finland the army corps with structure of one division and several parts of armies SS was thrown. Efforted by Finnish parts and have put a task to grasp Salla and then advance on Kandalaksha to cut the Murmansk railway. Both German corps submitted command by army "Norway", which staff was already transferred in Rovaniemi. The basic forces of the Finnish army were concentrated by two groups on the southeast of the country, with the purpose to return the important areas seized in Russian spring by 1940, and then, coordinating the actions with offensive of German group of armies "North" to advance till both side of the Ladoga lake.
The German and Finnish armies offensive have begun from the Finnish territory in different time. June 29, mountainrifle corps on Far North has passed in attack. In the beginning it was quickly advanced and behind some days has passed 30-40 kms. But then in result all of growing resistance of the Soviet troops and progress on deserted stony tundra the German armies have exhausted. The offensive was stopped far from the Zapadnaya Litsa river, by which there should be Dietle's corps. Russian have landed in rear of the mountain-rifle corps, and against them it was necessary to direct Finnish field regiment.
The Englishmen also came to the aid of the new ally: the planes which have risen from an aircraft carrier, bombarded Petsamo and important for supply of German armies Kirkenes port.
September 7 the Dietl's corps has renewed offensive and has reached Zapadnaya Litsa river. But up to Murmansks still there were 50 kms till a straight line. The battle actions have accepted trench warfare character, which up to the end of war and did not manage to be changed. The persistent fights, developed soon on all fronts, have required the maximal pressure of forces and have not allowed enough to strengthen the mountain-rifle corps. Besides it would be possible to supply large German forces only at significant expansion of a road network in North Finland, and for this purpose was not neither working hands, nor engineering. Thus, Murmansk was not taken during all war.
Jule 1, 1941 German XXXVI Corps (169th, SS Nord and Finnish 6th Divisions) start to attack in the Salla sector aiming to cut Murmansk railroad. III Corps crosses border in Uhtua sector. The difficulties weren't smaller which should be overcome at offensive on Salla 36-th German corps which has not accustomed with this theatre of military actions. The German armies which have begun here offensive should advance through a huge wood with numerous lakes and bogs. Such district favoured to a defense and forced frequently to resort detours, inconvenient and taking away a lot of time to break resistance of Soviets. Nord division was to make a frontal attack on the Soviet positions in front of Salla while the 169-th field division attacked on their northern flank and the 6-th Finnish division was to drive deep behind the Soviet 122-th rifle division to Allakurtti from the southern flank. 5 Jul 1941 German advance stops in Salla. Finnish 14-th infantry regiment is sent to help. 7 Jul 1941 Germans take Salla and are exhausted. 14-th Division takes Repola and Omelia Germans had put 36-th corps with SS-division Nord, 169-th division and Finnish 6-th Division to cut the Murmansk Railroad in town of Kem on the coast of White Sea. Soviet 122-nd division and other units however made furious resistance in battles of Salla and Kairala. Nevertheless during heavy fights as a result of slow, but correct progress to the end of August the German armies have reached old Russian-Finnish border. Further, overcoming persistent resistance to district, using a favourable condition, of Russian armies, Germans have managed to advance for 40 kms to Kandalaksha. Then the offensive of the German-Finnish armies was finally stopped. German attack was stopped in the River Verma. Germans stayed there until October 1944.
The situation of 3-rd Finnish army corps coming on Louhy was not better. Despite of all heroic efforts, it has not advanced further Uhta city. Kestenga became accidentally the main point where Finnish and German forces tried to cut the Murmansk railroad. It wasn't meant to be the point where the railroad was to be cut, but easy early advances gave the impression that this was the right point to cut the railroad. Battles however got stuck after attack by III corps (Finnish Group J and German SS-division Nord) in July-August 1941, but troops were worn out and no advance could be made since enemy brought in new combat formations.
30 Jun 1941 Mannerheim establishes "Karelian" Army to organise offensive in the northern Karelia. The Army has 2 Corps, the VI and VII and Group O, which are composed of 5 divisions, 2 jaeger brigades and a cavalry brigade. Army has also one German division , 163-rd, in reserve. The main forces of the Finnish armies came till both side of the Ladoga lake and should advance to the north of the Ladoga lake to the Onega lake subsequently come between lakes to the river Svir and from this boundary to take part in general offensive to Leningrad.
Jule 10, 1941 "Karelian" Army launches her first large offensive, which leads to a breakthrough in Korpiselka and to the collapse of Soviet defences north of Lake Ladoga. Korpiselka was the place where first breakthrough of the attack of summer 1941 was made by 5-th division of VI corps. After fierce fights on July 21, Finnish has reached by the right flank Salmy on the east coast of the Ladoga lake, and on the next days-old Russian-Finnish border. July 26, its left flank has reached Petrozavodsk on the west coast of the Onega lake. However extremely desirable impact for Germans on the south for forge Russian forces could not be undertaken, as Russian continued persistently keep in rear of the Finnish armies in Suoyarve area, and also still defended on the right flank at Yanisyarve lake. August 8, 1941 1-st corps (7-th, 19-th, later 2-nd divisions) is established to destroy encircled enemy in shores of Ladoga. August 15, 1941 7-th division takes town of Sortavala, first of the three towns in territory ceded in 1940, which is taken back. Soviet 198-th and 168-th divisions had to retreat from town of Sortavala and environs in late August 1941 after heavy fight to the shores of Lake Ladoga. They had to evacuate in barges via lake leaving all heavy equipment behind.
Very fierce fights order Russian on the Karelian isthmus, defending approaches to Leningrad. August 21, 1941 18-th Finnish division is attacking Soviet defences from the rear. 24 Aug 1941 8-th Finnish division crosses Gulf of Viborg in Lihaniemi and Soviet forces in Viborg is soon encircled. When the 18-th and 12-th divisions closed in on Viborg from the east the main part of three Soviet divisions was encircled. Soviet forces had to abandon their heavy weapons and vehicles, and start to flee in small groups. Two divisions, 43-rd and 123-rd were heavily beaten, their heavy weapons were in Finnish hands and Viborg was taken as the result of this campaign. At the end of August the Finns have grasped area, for which the winter went such persistent struggle, with especially important for Vyborg city.
From the north side the coming Finnish armies of September 4, have occupied Beloostrov city. On September 5, Olonets city was taken, in 2 days the Finns came to the Svir river. After persistent fights they managed to force the river and September 12, grasp Podporogye. Encirclement, captured Leningrad, were compressed. It was necessary to overcome small distance, that the advanced parts of German army coming from the south, have incorporated to the Finns. The affinity of the desired purpose gave enemy armies strength and persistence for furious attacks on defensive of the Soviet armies.
At the same time, the Finns aspired to supervise district before forward edge of a defense in East Kareliya to secure east border. After offensive of the Finnish armies in the summer and autumn of 1941, Finnish High Command has tried to weaken cooperation with German army, that the war of Finland with USSR has remained detached and was not dissolved in world war. The Finns, for example, have not agreed to participate in a capture of Leningrad, about what was officially declared on negotiation in Mikkeli on September 4, 1941.
The attenuation of German offensive was unpleasant unexpectedness for "Karelian front", which September 4, when Germans came nearer from the south to Leningrad, have begun prompt progress on the river Svir and have reached it in three days in Lodeynoye pole area. They hoped, that soon will incorporate with German armies, advanced to the south of the Ladoga lake on the east. Instead of this September 26, German command has addressed to the Finns with the urgent request to render in area of the river Svir as stronger pressure on Russian armies is possible to facilitate a situation of corps conducting fierce fights in area to the south of the Ladoga lake. But the Finnish army, which north flank under Petrozavodsk itself should constrain strong counter-attacks, be unable to do this. Finnish troops take Petrozavodsk on October 1, after a month of continuous fighting in the wilderness. Offensive in the northern direction from Petrozavodsk by 7-th corps is launched, the aim is to take favourable defensive positions along Maaselka Isthmus. It continues until December with continuous fighting. In October 4, a Finnish unit refuses to cross Svir under enemy fire. In the end of October Finnish forces take defensive positions in front between lakes Ladoga and Onega after heavy action with new 114-th Soviet division. In October - November 1941 Karl Mannerheim has refused to participate in the Tikhvin operation and has given to understand command of 3-rd army corps, that Finland not necessary lost the soldier in planned Germans operation in capture of the Murmansk railway. In the beginning of October Karl Mannerheim and president Ryti decide not to continue attack towards White Sea because the USA has threatened to declare war if Finns cut the Murmansk railroad.
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A Note on Construction Worker Migration to New Zealand 1962-2018
This paper constructs a long time series of permanent and long-term arrivals and departures of construction workers to and from New Zealand between 1962 and 2018. It briefly describes the data and the sources, then discusses key observations in the data.
The key findings are that the large outflow of construction workers following the collapse of construction sector activity in the mid-1970s, combined with changes to migration rules in the early 1990s, led to a significant, persistent reduction in the net migration of construction workers. That reduction was probably partly responsible for the capacity constraints we currently observe in the construction sector. Read the Note on Construction Worker Migration to New Zealand 1962-2018 here.
Note - The following paper is by the same authors on construction in New Zealand: Residential construction and population growth in New Zealand: 1996-2016


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Mackey, Edmund William McGregor
As a native and a Republican who seemed continually to be seeking elective office, Mackey came to be regarded by many in the state as little more than a scalawag opportunist. He was, however, seriously involved in trying to maintain and even strengthen the Republican organization.
Legislator, congressman. Mackey was one of the state's controversial Republican politicians during Reconstruction and thereafter. Born on March 8, 1846, in Charleston, he received a classical education, but the outbreak of the Civil War prevented his entering college. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1868. In 1874 Mackey married Vicky Sumter, who was part African American. The couple had two sons.
Mackey first entered Republican politics with his election to the state constitutional convention of 1867. Between 1868 and 1875 he held a series of elective offices including county sheriff, Charleston alderman, and member of the state House of Representatives from Charleston County. He also was editor of the Charleston Republican, which enabled him to increase his influence in the Republican Party. In 1874 he was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the state's Second District, and he served for sixteen months until the seat was declared vacant.
In October 1876 Mackey was again elected to the General Assembly. However, election returns from several counties were in dispute, with both Republicans and Democrats claiming victory in the gubernatorial and presidential contests and in certain state legislative races. Each side accused the other of fraud. Out of this confused situation emerged two separate State House organizations, one that elected Mackey as the Republican Speaker and one that elected William H. Wallace as the Democratic Speaker. The two competing bodies became known as the "Mackey House" and the "Wallace House." For days they occupied the same chamber, sought to conduct business, and tried to ignore one another. Subsequently, the state supreme court ruled that Wallace, not Mackey, was the "legal speaker of the lawfully constituted House of Representatives." In April 1877 the legally recognized "Wallace House" successfully reduced the Republican contingent in the General Assembly through forced resignations, expulsions, and declaring invalid the election of Republican members from Charleston County, including Mackey.
In 1878 Mackey again sought election to Congress from the Second District and again was unsuccessful. Two years later, in 1880, he made still another try. This time, after challenging the seating of the incumbent Democrat and with the contest still pending, his opponent died and Mackey was awarded the office. In 1882, running in the newly drawn Seventh District that had a black majority, he was easily reelected.
As a native and a Republican who seemed continually to be seeking elective office, Mackey came to be regarded by many in the state as little more than a scalawag opportunist. He was, however, seriously involved in trying to maintain and even strengthen the Republican organization. To that end, he was twice a delegate to Republican National Conventions and from 1880 to 1884 served as chairman of the state party committee.
About halfway through his second term in Congress, on January 27, 1884, Mackey died unexpectedly in Washington, D.C. He was buried in that city's Glenwood Cemetery.
Obituary. New York Times, January 29, 1884, p. 5.
Simkins, Francis Butler, and Robert Hilliard Woody. South Carolina during Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.


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As your projects and interests change over time, so should your custom streams. Edit them to match what you need from the community at any given time. You can also delete a custom stream.
Your streams should change over time as you add and remove people, places, and content from them, depending on what you're working on and how your team, products, and tasks change over time. From any of your streams, you can hover over a place name or person's name and selector select the streams you want to follow it in. For content items, click the name of the item, and then select and select or unselect the streams you'll see it in.
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13 Sep 2017
Gaston-Louis Roux and Avant-Gardism
Tobacco Museum
Reviewed by Vera Wilde
Gaston-Louis Roux's commanding impatience earned him a rightful place among leading 20th-century avant-garde painters including Picasso and Max Ernst. Veering from Cubism (Composition, 1930) to Expressionism (Le duel, 1936), Roux's best work wows with vivid colors and motion. He also bridges these modernisms with measured color and blocky composition in Les tulipes (1938).
Later, he commands primary colors and simplified shapes (Jeune fillet au bouquet, 1947). He dips into Surrealism (La jeune fille au diabolo, 1930) and then Art Brut (Mes enfants a l'aube, 1947). His strongest lines invoke Picasso (Les jeux du cirque, 1947). Stylistically, this looks like a group show.
Like many pioneers who push boundaries - theirs and others' - Roux's hunger undermined the career it had advanced. The same man who masterfully combined the best of various modernisms subsequently alienated his dealer by returning to realism. Did his own vision crystallize there at last? The answer isn't on display.
|Gaston-Louis Roux and Avant-Gardism
|Start date
|08 Jun 2017
|End date
|29 Oct 2017
|Tobacco Museum link
|Carrer Dr. Palau, 17, Sant Julià de Lòria, AND map
|Gaston-Louis Roux, Guitariste, 1944, pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm, private collection, courtesy of the Museum of Tobacco
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Warming ocean waters have caused a drop in the brightness of the Earth, according to a new study.
Researchers used decades of measurements of earthshine -- the light reflected from Earth that illuminates the surface of the Moon -- as well as satellite measurements to find that there has been a significant drop in Earth's reflectance, or albedo, over the past two decades.
The Earth is now reflecting about half a watt less light per square meter than it was 20 years ago, with most of the drop occurring in the last three years of earthshine data, according to the new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, which publishes high-impact, short-format reports with immediate implications spanning all Earth and space sciences.
That's the equivalent of 0.5% decrease in the Earth's reflectance. Earth reflects about 30% of the sunlight that shines on it.
"The albedo drop was such a surprise to us when we analyzed the last three years of data after 17 years of nearly flat albedo," said Philip Goode, a researcher at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the lead author of the new study, referring to the earthshine data from 1998 to 2017 gathered by the Big Bear Solar Observatory in Southern California. When the latest data were added to the previous years, the dimming trend became clear.
Two things affect the net sunlight reaching the Earth: the Sun's brightness and the planet's reflectivity. The changes in Earth's albedo observed by the researchers did not correlate with periodic changes in the Sun's brightness, so that means changes in Earth's reflectiveness are caused by something on the Earth.
Specifically, there has been a reduction of bright, reflective low-lying clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean in the most recent years, according to satellite measurements made as part of NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) project.
That's the same area, off the west coasts of North and South America, where increases in sea surface temperatures have been recorded because of the reversal of a climatic condition called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, with likely connections to global climate change.
The dimming of the Earth can also be seen in terms of how much more solar energy is being captured by Earth's climate system. Once this significant additional solar energy is in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, it may contribute to global warming, as the extra sunlight is of the same magnitude as the total anthropogenic climate forcing over the last two decades.
"It's actually quite concerning," said Edward Schwieterman, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Riverside who was not involved in the new study. For some time, many scientists had hoped that a warmer Earth might lead to more clouds and higher albedo, which would then help to moderate warming and balance the climate system, he said. "But this shows the opposite is true."
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Sarah Ruhl is the only playwright who's an author of one of the 100 Notable Books of 2014 selected by the New York Times – and the book they selected is not a play. It is "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater" — and the title is longer than some of the 100 essays. (The complete text of essay 11, which is entitled "An essay in praise of smallness" is the following: "I admire minimalism.")
The book has received what may be the greatest raves of Sarah Ruhl's writing career — "compulsory reading for fans and practitioners alike" (American Theatre); "a work of profound moral organization" whose "deeper purpose is to define the artist's relationship to truth and to demonstrate how, from within the correctness of the artistic process, life can be meaningfully understood." (New York Times Book Review) — a sentence I didn't meaningfully understand.
The reviews can be viewed as ironic, because the playwright of "The Clean House" and "In The Next Room," and, most recently, Stage Kiss (which I loved) and The Oldest Boy (which I found beautifully rendered), makes clear that she only wrote these essays because she was temporarily unable to write plays.
The first essay (1. On Interruptions) apologizes for the brevity of the essays, and explains how they came to be: She gave birth to twins. The last two paragraphs of that first essay:
"There was a time, when I first found out I was pregnant with twins, that I saw only a state of conflict. When I looked at theater and parenthood I saw only war, competing loyalties, and I thought my writing life was over. There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me (truly you have not lived until you have changed one baby's diaper while another baby quietly vomits on your shin) and finally I came to the thought: all right, then, annihilate me, that other self was a fiction anyhow. And then I could breathe. I could investigate the pauses.
"I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is also a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion."
It occurred to me right away how that last sentence would literally fit as a Tweet, with just a little tweaking:
"At the end of the day,writing has very little to do w/ writing,& much to do with life.And life,by definition,is not an intrusion."
And as I read her book, I realized how many Tweets they contained, enough to fill the running time of the average play.
I need to make three points here:
1. This is not meant as snarky put-down. I Tweet every day.
2. This is not a way of arguing that her book is too quirky to be treated so seriously. (Essay number 61 explains that she hates the words "quirky" and "whimsy" — two words frequently applied to her plays as well.) It's true I savored most the personal stories she works into the essays. Her longest essay, at seven pages (80. Is playwriting teachable? the example of Paula Vogel), is one of my favorite. It really just tells the story of how she became a playwright, and her relationship with her teacher at Brown University, the playwright Paula Vogel; it offers tasty tidbits of Ruhl's life and (forgive me) her whimsical nature — how, for example, she named her twins Hope and William because these were the streets in Providence, Rhode Island at the intersection of which she met her husband. But it would be hard for me to deny what the American Theatre review claims — that, in spite of the book's "fragmentary nature, it presents a surprisingly clear portrait of the author's worldview" as "a true aesthete, a dyed-in-the-wool romantic, and that rarest of creatures: a writer who is both an optimist and an idealist."
3. Sarah Ruhl does not Tweet. I know this not just because you can't find her on Twitter, but because of her reaction when she watched the audience at the Tony Awards during the commercial breaks. "What were these rarefied creatures doing? They were texting. And I thought, The age of experience is truly over; we are entering the age of commentary." (71. The age of commentary.) But most of them were probably Tweeting – and sharing their experience with their followers. In other essays, Ruhl admits to being schoolmarmish at times; this is one of those times.
Recalling the time when a fire alarm drove audience and actors of her "Passion Play" onto the street – where the actors finished performing the play – she writes that it made her remember:
Theater is at its roots some very brave people mutually consenting to a make-believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.
She longs for a time when theater was less rational, when theaters didn't look and smell like airports…
The theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake.
…when theater makers didn't focus on commercial success
Failure loosens the mind; perfection stills the heart. More failure! More demand for failure! More bad plays! Less perfection! More ugliness! More grace!
From Essay 74. Theater is a preparation for death:
Every night when a curtain comes down, a world dies. The world of present relation dies, and one mourns the end by applauding
As I read on, I began to see that nearly every one of her essays had a Tweet in it.
From 82. A love note to dramaturges
We need you to fight the mania for clarity and help create a mania for beauty instead.
From 85 What about all that office space?
Marketing people have jobs and health insurance and chairs, but artists generally don't.
From 90. Oh the proscenium and oh the curtain
If a world without curtains is a world without illusions, then perhaps we should hold onto the curtains.
From 98. The audience is not a camera; or, how to protect your audience from death.
Regard with suspicion any idea that seems cool.
The cool idea in this essay was that to make the bleachers where the audience sat move back suddenly and without warning. The mechanism had been put in place before Ruhl realized it might fall through the floor (which had holes in it) and kill everybody.
Some of her essays can be shaped into Tweets:
What theater making shares w/ parenting:
Dealing w/ irrational people day and night
Embracing impermanence
Both are embodied art forms
For more about the book and the playwright, check out this interview with Sarah Ruhl by Polly Carl in Howlround.


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Leadership styles in the crypto market have long been a topic of contention among industry observers. While much of the digital currency and blockchain ethos leans on the side of libertarianism — a political philosophy that seeks to maximize autonomy and political freedom while emphasizing free association — the technical leaderships and directions differ massively.
Ajit Tripathi is one such observer. A graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Tripathi went on to work for Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and Barclays and PwC in London before turning to the blockchain space seeking a new challenge. He served as a partner as Ethereum development lab ConsenSys for its FinTech division and worked on the Banking and Payments division of Binance until September.
In an interview with crypto edutainment platform Cryptonites host Alex Fazel this week, Tripathi spoke on the ongoing developments in the DeFi space, the battle of layer-2 technologies Ethereum, Cardano, and Polkadot, and how leadership styles across various projects can actually influence the type of talent they end up attracting.
It's one you wouldn't wanna miss.
How Joe Lubin's ConsenSys set the path for Ethereum
Tripathi started the show with insights on how Joseph Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys, helped create a brand of engineers, developers, and designers to help propel adoption and application building on Ethereum.
"He had this consistent messaging about this," recalled Tripathi, "You know, making the world a better place." He noted further:
"Everyone was looking at this whole new technology with suspicion and you had this Bitcoin community really getting excited about disrupting the banks and the revolution. [But] Joe was coming in with messages, which were about, you know, making the world a better place."
The narrative that Lubin pushed during Ethereum is one that continues till today. Bitcoin proponents largely push the asset as a currency and digital gold, while the Ethereum community focuses more on the development of usecases and applications built atop the technology. (Author's note: That's not to suggest that Bitcoin developers do not work on the technology or that Ethereum devs don't consider ETH as money).
Sharing Tripathi's sentiment, Fazel mentioned how Ethereum's development activity is evident on GitHub, compared to other blockchains and the so-called Ethereum "killers."You can see the activity of Ethereum and it just has more people involved thanks to great leadership directly to ship all of them," noted Fazel.
ETH 2.0 critics…but killers have "nothing to offer"
The Cryptonites host then spoke on the criticism and skepticism of Ehereum's upcoming 2.0 upgrade, which sees the network shift from a proof of work design to a proof of stake consensus mechanism — a move that would make the Ethereum network faster.
But other blockchains like Cardano are catching up, featuring lower (read: negligible) fees, and fast transactions. Fazel said in the regard, "A lot of people are kind of saying that ETH 2.0 is going to be a very, very difficult transition are and very concerned, especially the geeks are saying that it's not feasible."
Tripathi was quick to suggest that "nobody has really offered anything. He stated:
"There have been lots of Ethereum killers, right? Charles (founder of Cardano) is an incredibly smart guy. Tezos founders that are really smart people, but what nobody's got the mix."
"Nobody has really given something that's compelling enough and different enough. It's got to have something more than what Ethereum has to offer," he added.
Polkadot is still "learning"—but one mistake
Polkadot's a relatively new Ethereum competitor, enabling cross-blockchain transfers of any type of data or asset, not just tokens. Its DOT tokens launched this year and quickly zoomed to the top-10 cryptocurrencies, with a current market cap of $3 billion at writing time.
Tripathi, however, says that Polkadot is learning as it goes. "What Polkadot is doing right is that they're learning. You're gonna say, if you look at some of the other competitors, there are lots of good tech in this space, but they haven't spent enough time learning," he stated.
Tripathi added:
"They've got hung up on one thing. That or they have over-promised they promised the perfect solution. And like Dfinity, I mean, great team, really, really smart tech people, but they're promised a Nirvana, you shouldn't promise Nirvana as a startup because you don't know what it's like."
As Fazel put it for the other Ethereum killers. "So you can have the fastest and the most scalable blockchain, the highest throughput throughout the entire ecosystem. But if nobody uses it, Then it's worthless, right?" he said.
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Okay, this one is kind of funny. But first you need to know who José Francisco López is.
Who is he? He's a civil engineer and a longtime member of the sleazy Kirchner circle in Argentina. In 1991, when Nestor Kirchner became governor of the state of Santa Cruz, he put López on the administrative board of the state's roads authority. Later he named López to executive positions in other state agencies. When Kirchner was elected president in 2003, he took López with him to Buenos Aires, appointing him to serve as the federal Minister of Public Works. As such, López was the "right-hand man" of the notorious Julio de Vido, the Minister of Federal Planning.
In this position, which López retained under the presidency of Kirchner's wife, Cristina, he wielded enormous power, had control of massive amounts of money, and was (along with de Vido) an object of widespread suspicion. Both were accused of a range of corrupt acts, such as pressuring construction firms for bribes and kickbacks and using federally funded construction projects to reward friends or punish enemies. One of de Vido's and López's associates, Ricardo Jaime, was eventually arrested, tried, and imprisoned for stealing evidence.
Which brings us to what happened this past June 14. On that day, in a district of Buenos Aires known as General Rodriguez, López was arrested while in possession of approximately $7 million dollars in cash in a range of denominations, including U.S. dollars, euros, and yen. The money was distributed among six large plastic bags, a suitcase, and the trunk of López's car. In addition, López had on him an unidentified amount of jewelry, a receipt from a Beijing bank, and several high-end watches, including Rolexes and Omegas.
Oh, and he was packing a gun.
There's more. According to reports, López tried to hide the bags of money at a convent called Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima; it was, in fact, the resident nuns who fingered him, phoning the cops and reporting that (no kidding) some man was throwing plastic bags over their convent wall. When officers arrived at the scene, the ever-intrepid López tried to hide in the convent, where he endeavored in vain to persuade the nuns, who were obviously no fools, that he'd brought all that dough to donate it to them and that the police were trying to steal it.
It was unclear from news reports whether López also claimed to have intended to give the nuns the jewelry and watches.
In any event, the nuns didn't buy it. When the cops turned up, López offered them bribes. That didn't work, either.
Anyway, so it goes in Argentina in these immediate post-Kirchner days. Another day, another name added to the long roster of Kirchner functionaries being investigated for money-laundering –Néstor and Cristina's favorite indoor sport.


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Posted: 4/17/2001 12:42:09 PM EST
Last weekend on a call in radio show a caller stated that Feinstine would make alot of money if some sort of bullet was outlawed. I think he said lead bullet. He was not allowed to elaborate, the call was cut short so I don't know for sure if I heard right. Does anyone have information about this?
feinstein's hubby richard blum is into the land acquisition business. IIRC there was a big controversy as to a conflict of interest when she introduced S7 which would shut down offroad vehicle access to desert areas but allow mining rights to corporations, which was coincidently one of blum's interests. I am not sure if there were tungsten (the metal that the military will be using in bullets) deposits on that land.
What a bitch. It figures. She probably will benefit financially. I would love for there to be some kind of conflict of interest charges. Maybe something criminal. We can only hope.
I hope she burns in hell.
S21 or S11 whichever involved a big land swap for DiFi. She and her hubby ended up trading for a huge, low grade gold deposit around the Chocolate Mountains somewhere.
She is so crooked she'll have to be screwed into the ground instead of buried.
Boxer, Feinstein and Tauscher.
Evil incarnate.
I hate this stupid B$tch. I wish she would hurry and die, because I really want to piss on her grave.
This bitch is among those that scream that the Republicans are for big business and not the little guy, for the rich and against the poor, and claim to be environmentalist and the Republicans are not. HOW ABSOLUTELY FREAKING HYPOCRITICAL!!!!!!
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We are delighted that several ACCA member organisations participated in the 2017 annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva. During the Forum, ACCA member organisations and friends of ACCA convened, and released the following statement with their reflections and call for action:
Published on 30 November 2017
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The African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) congratulates the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (Working Group) on its successful convening of the 6th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, from 27–29 November 2017.
ACCA commends the Working Group on its choice of Access to Remedy as the theme for this year's forum; especially considering that Access to Remedy was also the theme for this year's ACCA General Assembly which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 14-16 November 2017, and is one of ACCA's thematic focus areas.
ACCA thanks the UN Working Group for providing ACCA with a platform to present the findings from its research on Access to Remedy, in the session entitled: An African perspective to access to remedy – Regional challenges and needs.
ACCA acknowledges and commends the UN Working Group's efforts to ensure greater diversity in this year's forum by facilitating the participation of more persons of colour, particularly, African civil society actors, women, and business host community members at this year's Forum. ACCA further acknowledges the Working Group's efforts to include investors from the global South, which is representative of its commitment in getting all stakeholders to engage in the Forum.
ACCA calls upon the organisers of the Forum to further encourage attendance and participation from governments (particularly of African states), and various diplomatic representatives at the Forum.
ACCA highlights that convening of communities can lead to creating a space for communities to bolster community-to-community exchanges for experience sharing. ACCA maintains that there can be no remedy for communities who have lost their right to self-determination.
ACCA urges African states to ensure that self-determination is guaranteed to all communities by respecting norms, cultural practices, customs and traditions of different communities whose rights are adversely affected by the activities of corporations. ACCA calls on African governments to ensure timely, adequate and fair compensation during evictions and resettlement in accordance with international best practice. ACCA strongly promotes principles of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).
Lastly, ACCA urges African states to guarantee access to information for its citizens by ensuring that relevant information reaches local communities on time, and in an appropriate format and language. Confidentiality clauses in investment contracts should not trump human rights.
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Whether hormones help or hurt your brain depends on the type and the dose.
By John R. Lee, M.D. and Virginia Hopkins
The latest revelation about HRT is that not only does conventional HRT not help with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia in women, it actually doubles the risk of getting them in women over 65.
This research from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was published in the May 28, 2003 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and is based on a four-year experiment involving 4,532 women. Half took placebos, and half took PremPro, a combination of estrogen and a progestin. In four years, there were 40 cases of dementia in the hormone group, and 21 in the placebo group. If we extrapolate that out to the real numbers of women who were taking conventional HRT before last summer, that's 68,000 additional cases of Alzheimer's annually, caused by a misguided approach to hormone replacement.
Here's what I wrote about HRT and Alzheimer's back in 1998:
"Estrogen has been promoted by the drug companies as a remedy for Alzheimer's but until recently they were all short-term studies or they failed to consider other obvious risk factors. A study reported in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society (July '98) found that women whose own estrogen was higher did not have better cognitive function or a lower risk of cognitive decline (senility), and in fact, some of the women with higher estrone levels did worse on cognitive tests.
There's no doubt that estrogen has a beneficial effect on the brain at normal levels, but I believe that as soon as estrogen dominance or excess occurs, the benefit is lost."
Here's what I wrote about HRT and Alzheimer's in 1999:
"In April, TV news programs around the U.S. aired a clip reporting that a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study found that estrogen supplementation improved memory in menopausal women. In fact, the study found that estrogen supplementation increased brain activation patterns, but the authors clearly reported that, "Estrogen did not affect actual performance of the memory tasks." (emphasis added). Thus, the study merely confirmed what has been long known, namely that estrogen increases brain cell membrane excitability. But it did not show, contrary to the TV news report, that estrogen supplementation improved memory in menopausal women.
It is well known that estrogen increases brain cell membrane excitability. In balance, this has a beneficial effect on the brain. A deficiency of estrogen can lead to depression, and an excess can lead to anxiety and poor sleep. Most postmenopausal women are making plenty of estrogen in their fat cells and don't need supplemental estrogen for good brain function.
It is also known that progesterone has a calming effect on brain cell membranes. In fact, in physiologic doses it allows the brain to concentrate, or focus better. In excess it can cause lethargy or sleepiness, which is often reported when women use oral progesterone. Women using physiologic doses of progesterone notice that their brain performance for memory or for tasks that require concentration is improved; they also note better sleep and less anxiety.
The JAMA study merely reaffirms the fact that excess estrogen can increase brain cell excitability without increasing brain performance. In other words, being hyper, anxious and sleep deprived does not make you smarter. If you think you might be estrogen deficient, it's a good idea to get a saliva hormone test to find out for sure."
Here's what Virginia Hopkins wrote about HRT and the brain in the Hopkins Health Watch in 2000:
"A few years ago a very small study showed that estrogen increased "brain excitability" in older women, and this was widely and inaccurately reported by the media as proof that estrogen could help treat Alzheimer's victims. Suddenly everything we read about estrogen claimed, without qualification, that it was good for Alzheimer's and/or brain function.
A study done at the University of California at Irvine, and published in the Feb 22, 2000 issue of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) helps debunk the estrogen-Alzheimer's myth. Researchers studied 120 women with mild to moderate Alzheimer's. They were either put on "high" estrogen, "low" estrogen, or a placebo every day for a year. The women were given a variety of cognitive tests, and those taking estrogen fared slightly worse than the placebo group in a rating of dementia.
The researchers concluded that, "Overall, the results of this study do not support the role of estrogen in the treatment of Alzheimer's."
In other words, the evidence has been there all along that conventional HRT doesn't help with Alzheimer's or dementia. Ironically, PremPro, the focus of the bogus news reports, was never approved to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease. The hype around HRT and Alzheimer's was created by the media, who unquestioningly spouted press releases put out by the makers of PremPro.
Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water
The irony of this new evidence on hormones and Alzheimer's is that estrogen and progesterone really can help brain function. I have seen or heard of literally hundreds of cases in the past twenty five years where older women who were cognitively impaired began using progesterone cream and regained their brain function. Progesterone in and of itself is good for the brain, and it also keeps estrogen receptors functioning. I have also heard over and over from estrogen-deficient menopausal women over the decades that their brains work better when they're using a little estrogen. There are good, solid, physiologic and biochemical reasons for this. So why does conventional HRT do more harm than good?
- The dose of estrogen is too high. Excess estrogen causes over-excitation of the brain, which damages the brain and causes insomnia and anxiety. Excess estrogen also increases the risk of blood clots. This may not show up as an actual stroke, but can damage tiny blood vessels in the brain, which interferes with brain function.
- The estrogen is combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate (Provera), a progestin with a long list of nasty side effects, some of which include negative effects on brain function. There is no reason for a menopausal woman to ever take a progestin. Estrogen should always be combined with progesterone.
A Few Fundamentals about Good Brain Health
Although conventional medicine has no cure for Alzheimer's disease or even dementia, there is a lot we know about what causes brain dysfunction and how to prevent it. Here are some keys to optimal brain health. You can find out more about maintaining optimal brain function in my booklet, Get Smart about Your Brain.
Take Physiologic Doses of Natural Hormones as Needed: Menopausal women should get a saliva hormone level test to find out if they have a hormonal imbalance. Deficiencies can be supplemented with doses of natural hormones that match what the body made when the ovaries were functioning properly. It is counter-productive to use high doses of hormones, and this includes progesterone.
Details on saliva hormone level testing, as well as specifics on recommended dosages and timing of hormone use can be found in all of my "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You" books.
Avoid Sugar and Refined Carbohydrates: Good circulation and B blood vessels are one of the foundations of good brain function. It is well established that the chronically high blood sugar and insulin levels created by eating too much sugar and refined carbohydrates damage blood vessels, making them weak and "leaky." This is most clearly demonstrated in people with diabetes, who have a greatly increased risk of Alzheimer's and dementia. Regular exercise is also one of the fundamentals of good circulation.
Avoid Brain Toxins: You wouldn't sniff glue, because you know it can damage your brain, but how about stripping varnish, repairing an irrigation pipe, using paint thinner to clean a brush, putting on or taking off fingernail polish, or breathing the fumes while you put gas in your car? In every case you're unnecessarily exposing your brain to toxic fumes. Don't do that! Wear a mask and work in a well-ventilated area when using a volatile chemical, and stay upwind of gas fumes.
Avoid Aluminum: We don't know how or why aluminum contributes to the plaques that are seen in Alzheimer's disease, but we do know it's there and it makes sense to avoid it. Don't cook in aluminum pans, use deodorant sprays that contain aluminum, eat food that's been wrapped in aluminum foil or drink water that's been fluoridated with aluminum fluoride. (Don't drink water that's been fluoridated, period.) Heavy metals such as mercury and lead also clearly have devastating effects on brain function.
Use It or Lose It: It's true – people who use their brains more have a lower risk of Alzheimer's and dementia. In fact, autopsies show that the effects of Alzheimer's can be greatly reduced by education. A study in the journal Neurology showed that the plaques typical of Alzheimer's patients had less effect on the brain performance in those with more education.
Brain expert Joseph LeDoux, author of Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, maintains the brain becomes accustomed to whatever you give it. If you stimulate your brain and learn new things, new pathways are forged and your brain power is expanded. This could be something as simple as learning your way around a new town, doing crossword puzzles, or playing bridge every Thursday night. Balance your checkbook without the calculator, help a child with homework, learn how to play a musical instrument, and exercise your curiosity. While daily routines are comforting and reassuring, it will perk up your brain if you change things now and then.
The bottom line is that if you pay attention to your brain health and take an active interest in the world around you, your brain will be the better for it. As Dr. Phil likes to say, "I want you to get excited about your life!"
Buddhist Brains Light Up
Researchers in Wisconsin studying the brains of Buddhists who meditate regularly found that their left prefrontal lobes "light up" the testing equipment even when they aren't meditating. These areas of the brain, just behind the forehead, play a major role in foresight, planning and self-control, as well as a lesser role in emotion, mood and temperament. The persistent activity indicates positive emotion and good mood.
Researchers in San Francisco are also studying the brains of Buddhists, and so far have found that experienced meditators aren't shocked or flustered by unpredictable sounds as easily as ordinary people. This may be an indication of a state of calm in the amygdala, an area of the brain involved with more primitive emotional and behavioral responses.
This research Bly indicates that we can create more happiness and contentment within ourselves through focused spiritual practice. Who needs Prozac when you can chant a tone?
This article was originally published in the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter. Although the Medical Letter is no longer published, you will find many articles from it on this website.


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In 1887, founder James Hewitt began delivering milk to the people of Hagersville with a horse-drawn Democrat. The ladies would bring their pitchers to be filled from the milk cans on the back of James' wagon. They had a choice of night or morning milk; the night milk would have the cream already on top!
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So for supper I had some wholewheat crispbread which had been in my work desk drawer for about a year now. I don't believe that wholewheat crispbread gets better with age, but in the same breath I can honestly argue that it does not get any worse. Wholewheat crispbread is seemingly one of those things in life that one can always depend on.
At first I tried some low fat animal spread or some such to at least attempt to alleviate the anhydrous dullness which defines wholewheat crispbread, but quickly realised that it would probably be better if I just fish out some navel lint or smegma and apply it on this snack of desperation and pretend that it is some exotic entree from Eastern Albania. Much to my dismay I took a bath the night before and paid particular attention to the area around my navel for reasons which I am not at liberty to discuss at this exact moment in time but would certainly go into verbose detail in the near future when the anecdote had matured and I am sufficiently bitter to part with that little chapter of my life. And I am circumcised. God had some pretty strange designs on me but I'm sure it will all come together and make sense about a second after I have pulled the trigger and the bullet has already begun to lodge itself into my medulla oblongata.
So I continued my exloration of a rather barren refrigerator in a desperate attempt to locate something that would save me from the bromidic hell that is my life. Somewhere between a mexican stand-off with the fridge light and trying to figure out what the hell that shit that is clinging onto the shelves are, I suddenly and without any logical explanation realised that there are absolutely no tomatoes in this refrigerator. Now, I'm not a petty person, but I'm not quite sure that I can work for an employer that does not have tomatoes in his fridge. I believe that there is something fundamentally wrong, perhaps even sinister afoot. With my paranoia now in full swing and my career in doubt I somehow stumbled upon a tupperware container filled with cow's gold: butter. My mind raced back to all those commercials where people spread butter on everything with huge grins on their faces as if they know something about that butter that the TV audience will never comprehend. "Butter: the anal lubricant that keeps on giving. It even makes a rimjob bearable!"
Disgusted in myself I took the butter container off the shelf and feverishly applied it to my vintage wholewheat crispbread imagining fucking that girl from Private Matador II up the ass while my employer is lying below her with his cock up her moist wet lubricated pussy and through the thin sheath of skin between her cunt and her anal cavity I can feel the texture of his cock against mine as if he is fucking me too.
Understandably, the butter was no deliverer from the arid abyss that is wholewheat crispbread. The tales of the messiah were lies and I, I am the fool who swallowed the fraudulent images of whitened teeth and racial purity through the use of dairy products.
So with the image of stained teeth in mind I wandered to the nearby bottle store and purchased 2 bottles of cheap red wine, returned to my office and had a couple of glasses of the cheapest wine money could buy while receiving abuse from an ex-girlfriend on MSN Messenger about what a terrible person I was when I spent my 3 year sentence with her in the loveless gulag one calls a relationship, all the while praying for the prince with the white Nissan pick up to deliver me from this hell and mistake me for a stray cockroach and mangling me into a pastry of exoskeleton and bugshit.
But to make a long story short. I stayed at work really late. See, I don't have a car. I can't even drive. As a matter of fact I can barely walk because of a crime of passion, which is another one of those anecdotes that will require a certain level of bitterness to be conveyed properly to an attentive and sophisticated audience. That's the problem with being milquetoast, instead of doing something about the situation at hand, I'd rather just battle with wholewheat crispbread for about 4 hours. Fuck it. I may not have achieved much tonight but at least I didn't sit in rush hour traffic.
I am so fucking happy I can beat myself with a stick
Sticks: Is there anything they can't do?
Argh. I'm fucking hungry and I can't walk
All I have in life are tazos and a massive collection of disease inducing condoms.
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Many thanks to Alan Rider of UK magazine Outside Left for press this nice album feature on the forthcoming "No." album. — '…alternately bubbling or razor-sharp analogue synths battle it out in a sound that is both retro and futuristic.'
Fiction Prediction at 7 Years
23 June 2020
The second album Fiction Prediction was released on this day in the year 2013. Over the past year I've started writing these reflective summaries of past works on their release date anniversaries so here's my thoughts on this record.
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11 November 2019
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21 October 2019
Finally it's here! The new Soft Riot album entitled When Push Comes To Shove, which will be officially released on 11 November 2019 on Possession Records. The album contains eight new tracks and will be available in vinyl LP, compact disc and digital formats.
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23 September 2019
Some More Terror, the third album, was released five years ago today on Sept 23rd, 2014. Released between Fiction Prediction (2013) and You Never Know What Might Come Next (2015), the release took a very notable sonic detour as it was a collection of semi-improvisational experiments
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19 September 2019
The fourth Soft Riot album, You Never Know What Might Come Next , was released four years ago today on EXBTN Records out of Paris. In hindsight it was sort of a transitional record, moving from the cinematic, atmospheric stylings of the first two LPs No Longer Stranger and Fiction Prediction into a more rhythm-oriented mutant "synthpop" sound.
New Album In Production
6 September 2019
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7 January 2018
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14 August 2015
After a bit of a delay the official release of the new album You Never Know What Might Come Next will occur next month, September 2015 on Exhibition Records. There is some work getting all the announcements and things set up behind the scenes. A new video for the title track "You Never Know What […]
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28 June 2015
Official version of new album delayed until later in the summer, new remix by Sur Une Plage, show dates, video and other news.
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2 January 2015
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Originally posted 25 Sept 2012 / Revised 24 Oct 2012 Here's peek at the cover for the upcoming album Fiction Prediction. This is proudly being released on the Other Voices label, responsible for some pretty stellar output by artists such as Eleven Pond, Tobias Bernstrup, Attrition, The Silicon Scientist and more. Check out the Other […]


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