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Lady Mendl's Invention
I was flipping through my copy of The Twenties in Vogue the other day, and I was reminded of how much I enjoy the book. (The Thirties in Vogue is also quite good.) It's fun to pore over the old photos of socialites wearing chic fashion as well as to read about the hijinks, the frivolity, and the trends of the day.
One of my favorite sections of the book is that which covers the food and cocktail crazes of the era. Back in the 1920s, of course, most people were cocktail mad, drinking such libations as the Corpse Reviver, the Between the Sheets, and, of all the crazy names, the Bosom Caresser. At least, this was what Vogue was reporting at the time. And canapes were also starting to come into fashion, something that was also, evidently, covered by the magazine in great detail. A canape that got an honorable mention in Vogue was one served at Somerset Maugham's home on the Riviera. His canape consisted of "a green olive stuffed with a nut dipped into Gentlemen's Relish, wrapped in a strip of bacon." That sounds tasty to me, but finding Gentlemen's Relish in Atlanta isn't the easiest endeavor.
Of the five or six cocktail recipes that appear in this book, one in particular caught my eye: Lady Mendl's Invention. The book fails to mention the origin of this recipe, but a Google search identified this cocktail by another name, Pink Lady. Did Elsie de Wolfe invent this cocktail? Or, did she adopt it as her own? I can't say, but I mixed one up over the weekend to see what the fuss was about. The cocktail isn't really bad, but it did remind me of the pink penicillin I had to take when I was sick with strep throat as a child. If you liked that taste (and I didn't), you might enjoy this cocktail.
And if any of you know what exactly Lady Mendl's connection was to this cocktail, do tell!
Lady Mendl's Invention
*Recipe is based on a 1 1/2 ounce measure. Shake well with broken ice and serve while frothy.
3/4 gin
1/4 grenadine
juice of half a lemon
1 white of egg
Hoyningen-Huene photo and Fish illustration from The Twenties in Vogue
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With cocktails enjoying a resurgence, I highly recommend the PDT Cocktail book, perhaps The Gentleman's Relish will, too. I found a recipe online, http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/11/gentlemens-relish-recipe.html and a place to buy it, http://www.amazon.com/Gentlemans-Relish-Spiced-Anchovy-Relish/dp/B000NUB9YIReplyDelete
What fun! No I don't know of the origin of the Lady Mendel connection + you are right, it sounds like a Pink Lady. Love the bar photo.xxpeggybraswelldesign.comReplyDelete
Well, that cocktail will certainly keep you in the pink! Thanks, Jen, for yet another delicious cocktail recipe.ReplyDelete
Seems to me that Lady Mendel had a very sweet tooth – I cannot imagine getting through a whole cocktail but might be prepared to try (if only for the purposes of historic research, etc.)ReplyDelete
Gentleman's Relish is, I think, a variant on anchovy paste which I buy in tubes at either IKEA or Wholefoods. I love it on hot buttered toast –or at least I did before such things as toast, marmalade, Gentleman's Relish, Lemon Curd and butter were forbidden by my waistline.
- Victoria7:22 PM
Patum Peperium, or The Gentleman's Relish, is indeed a 'spiced anchovy relish' to be enjoyed on hot toast. It should be used sparingly. It used to come in small, white, flat pottery jars with it's traditional black lettering. Nowadays, sadly, they are made of plastic.ReplyDelete
Victoria, I remember seeing those small white jars of Gentleman's Relish. I also remember my parents coming home from trips to London with small jars from Fortnum & Mason that were decorated with scenes of hunting dogs. They were so charming.ReplyDelete
As Blue says, that's one sweet drink, but then, it's not quite the same as the Pink Lady described in (I think) Ludwig Bemelmans' book To the One I Love Best, which adds grapefruit juice & Cointreau to the mix, with the Grenadine just added--I guess--to achieve a rosy blush, not that sort of lurid hue above. But that reminds me, at home I have a bottle of Grenadine that came out of my grandparents' liquor cabinet, and judging from its label, it must date from the 1940s or early 1950s. All I can say is that the stuff tastes nothing like today's Grenadine. I don't know whether that's because they've actually changed the recipe over the years--like Elsie's cocktail--or whether it's just chemical change over half a century, but I do know this: it tastes great. Of course, I've never actually drunk the stuff, just dipped a cocktail stirrer into it and tasted it, but either way, it conjures up a whole lost era.ReplyDelete
And I've always heard about Gentelman's Relish but never knew till now what the stuff was. On the other hand, I've been making anchovy toast for years: a half-tube of anchovy paste to a stick of butter, only halfway mixed to look like marble, and kept in a small ceramic ramekin I picked up at the bankruptcy sale of the "Continental Dining" hotel restaurant where I waited table in college. Those were the days. On evenings when I was officially off, I'd still show up early enough to sit in the back corner to help Zora, the World's Oldest Waitress fold our giant pink napkins, while helping myself to a giant pot of extra-strong tea & a half-dozen dinner rolls. Basically, I survived for four solid years on dinner rolls & Bearnaise sauce. It's a wonder I didn't have a heart attack at twenty-two.
Anyway, now that I know the kind of jars Gentlemen's Relish used to come in, I think I need to visit Ebay.Replies
Hello Simply Grand! I haven't had much experience with Grenadine except for the Roy Rogers that I used to drink as a child on special occasions. I believe that if I were to cut back on the amount of Grenadine in Lady Mendl's invention, it might taste less like cough medicine. Perhaps Grenadine has gotten sweeter over the years?Delete
If you ask me, dinner rolls and Bearnaise sauce sure beats the usual college diet of Ramen noodles.
Relatively speaking, today's Grenadine is fairly sweet. I've no experience with the vintage stuff, that said. Lady Mendl was obviously a fan in principle of the sours and these have definitely enjoyed a renaissance in London and elsewhere over the past 3 yearsDelete
Gentleman's Relish is still enjoyed in some measure here in Britain, though it is far behind the likes of Marmite and other tangy spreads in popularity
Good post, by the way
Thank you Barima. I wonder if sours are finding new fans here in the U.S. I just might have to investigate that!Delete
- Thomas3:11 PM
Discovered "Gentlemen's Relish" while reading Nancy Mitford- Immediately went to the Internet to find it, which I did on an English food website (Jolly Grub?) along with "English Monkey","Treacle Pudding" and the unfortunately named "Spotted Dick" bought the small size for me and the large size in the black glass container as a gift- Huge hit- HUGEReplyDelete
So sorry about "Gentleman's Relish"; could this be a Plymouth Gin situation? I used to gobble down the stuff at boarding school; on toast. And those Vogue books are great. By the way, if you like that sort of thing (and I know you do), "The Sixties in Queen" is going to be of great interest...And what the devil is "English Monkey"? I'm probably more English (or sort of Scottish) than "Brief Encounter and I've never come across it...ReplyDeleteReplies
I considered ordering some "Genteman's Relish" from Fortnum & Mason, but the shipping charges would be about four times the cost of the relish itself! And we need to get the bottom of this "English Monkey" thing.Delete
Thanks for the recommendation of the book. I'm off to find it on Abebooks!
Why not amaze your friends and family by making your very own "Gent's Relish"? If you pounded tinned anchovy fillets into unsalted butter, and added black pepper, you would end up with something similar. Had a quick look on the net at "English Monkey". It seems to be a variation on our very own "Welsh Rarebit", ie a melted cheese sauce, thickened with flour and flavoured with Lea & Perrins, poured over toast. I think "English Monkey" could be American. A bit like "English Muffins" which, of course, are about as English as the Greek Prime Minister.Delete
"The Sixties in Queen" is really interesting. It's more about the early 60's (Profumo scandal era) than all that Carnaby St/Blow-Up stuff. Full of original articles, photographs and period ads.
I'm glad that you solved the mystery of "English Monkey". I would never have guessed what it was!Delete
Congrats on being named a Favorite Blog in House Beautiful! They know a good thing when they see it!!!!ReplyDelete


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San Antonio took a nine-game winning streak against the Texas rival into the sixth postseason meeting between the teams, but now the second Game 7 between these teams is Sunday in San Antonio. The Mavericks won the other one there in 2006.
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Dallas' DeJuan Blair had 10 points and 14 rebounds after missing Game 5 against his former team when he was suspended for kicking Tiago Splitter in the head.
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August 27, 2010-Bottom Cleaning at Telaga
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Bottom Cleaning
We could either haul the boat at Rebak's boatyard and have them pressure wash it or scrub it ourselves but one way or the other the bottom needed cleaning.
Plus we needed fuel and Telaga Harbor has both a fuel dock and a clean anchorage.
So we went to Telaga for a few days.
We filled up the tanks at their fuel dock and then we anchored in the anchorage and scrubbed the bottom.
It took around 3 hours, all told, me doing the prop and the lower bits and Judy doing the waterline and down several feet. It surprised me after I did the keel and rudder how little of the rest of the bottom was left for me to do; Judy had reached down at least five feet along the full length of both sides. It seems that her fitness level is pretty good and I think mine is OK too. Cleaning the bottom of a 43 foot boat with a scrub pad and just snorkle and mask, and fins tests that in short order. Anyhow I finished the middle of the bottom and we were done.
Both of us working together; just as we always have.
The way it should be.
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Editor's Note: The Angry Singlespeeder is a collection of mercurial musings from contributing editor Kurt Gensheimer. In no way do his maniacal diatribes about all things bike oriented represent the opinions of Mtbr, RoadBikeReview, or any of their employees, contractors, janitorial staff, family members, household pets, or any other creature, living or dead. You can submit questions or comments to Kurt at [email protected]. And make sure to check out Kurt's previous columns.
Yesterday's Tour of California Stage 2 from Murrieta to Palm Springs was the most remarkable finish of a bike race I've ever seen in my life. The absolute carnage and destruction of the peloton was unprecedented thanks to soul crushing 23 percent gradients up Tram Way and temperatures that reached 122 degrees when factoring in the radiant heat off the blacktop. I've never seen harder men reduced to such human rubble.
Nearly every rider that crossed the line had to be escorted to their team vehicles because they had absolutely nothing left in their bodies to pedal another foot. Salt deposits turned jerseys into hardened pieces of fabric. Riders were splayed out on the ground, stuffing handfuls of ice into their jerseys and on their crotches. Some didn't even make it to the finish, passing out from heat exhaustion hundreds of meters from the line. Race organizers should thank the heat stroke Gods that nobody died yesterday, or it would have been the end of the Tour of California.
I've done a lot of dumb things in my life, and two nights ago while packing my bike and gear into the truck, I realized that pre-riding the 124-mile Stage 2 with a few buddies in 120+ degree heat was going to be another entry in the dumbass files. Everything in my good sense was telling me not to do it, but peer pressure is something fierce, and since a handful of my friends were doing it, well, why shouldn't I?
Making poor decisions has been a considerable skill for me. Skiing in New Hampshire with a wind chill factor of minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit resulting in permanent nerve damage to my feet, going four-wheeling with my father-in-law, bringing no supplies or tools and getting so stuck in the mud we had to sleep overnight in my brother's Land Cruiser and widespread destruction of public property as a college student that should have landed me in jail are just a few examples.
So at what point does a man finally listen to that voice inside him saying "just don't do it"? If you're a really stubborn ASS like myself, you have to do the same dumb thing several times before you realize it isn't worth doing anymore. It seems that every time I push my body well beyond its limits, I suffer so horrifically that the only thought going through my mind is "why am I doing this to myself?" It's usually after the second time you realize the answer; "because I'm a stubborn dumbass."
I love to ride my bike and I love a challenge, but I love having an affordable healthcare plan even more. I also love not having to get an intravenous drip of electrolytes to keep me from shriveling up into a human-sized raisin. So with a bit of reluctance, I shot my friends a message announcing withdrawal from the pre-ride. As a competitive person who doesn't often turn down a challenge, it was a difficult message for me to send. But as Dirty Harry says, "a man has got to know his limitations".
It's an interesting paradox – humans by nature are programmed to avoid undue pain and suffering, yet many athletes proactively seek it out. This is the true definition of a masochist, and whether professional or just a spectator, everyone who rode Stage 2 of this year's Tour is a full-blown masochist.
Instead of enduring the brutal heat of the Inland Empire, I opted to stay at the beach in Carlsbad, doing some work while watching endless eye candy stroll by, going for a swim in the ocean and taking a nice sunset spin down Coast Highway. My buddy Victor kept sending me photos of his Garmin. 105 degrees, 113 degrees, and the clincher, a blistering 122 degree reading on Tram Way. Clearly, I had made the right decision.
Who in a sane state of mind would voluntarily be out on their bike in that kind of weather? I don't even go outside to get the mail when its 122 degrees, let alone ride my bike up a 3.7 mile wall gaining nearly 2,000 vertical feet. Some might call me soft for not having done the ride, and that's perfectly okay. I'm proud of the decision, because for once I abstained from doing something utterly stupid and extremely dangerous.
They say wisdom comes with age. I'm still a long way from wisdom, but hopefully today got me just a tiny bit closer. My buddy Johnny rode the entire stage and was three Torpedo IPAs deep at the finish line watching the human destruction when he called me.
"You're a smart man for not having ridden," he said. "It's stupid out here, but I conquered this damn mountain, and it feels amazing."
Although I had made peace with the decision not to ride, there was still a little part of me wishing I had gone ahead with the idiotic mission. But knowing my friends, I'm sure there will be many more opportunities.


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O yes.
Jimmy Kimmel responded harshly last night to Jay Leno's claims that he felt "sucker-punched" when Kimmel came on his show and joked about the late-night scandal.
"Excuse me if I look like I've been crying, it's been an Oprah-whelming day for me," Kimmel said of Leno's Oprah appearance.
"It's kind-of funny, you know, celebrities usually go on Oprah with these intense, serious interviews to get support from the public after they had sex with their father or married Bobby Brown or something," he said. "Jay Leno went on because they gave him the Tonight Show back. So please, keep him in your prayers."
The kerfluffle started after Leno invited Kimmel to appear on his segment "10 Questions."
Kimmel used the opportunity to rib Leno about the Conan imbroglio, but Leno didn't respond. Shortly thereafter, he told Oprah in a broadcast interview that he felt "sucker-punched."
Check Kimmel's version of the story below:


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I have seen a number of articles on Zitterbewegung claiming searches for it such as this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2186. Others such as the so-called ZBW interpretation by Hestenes seemingly propose to explain electron spin as a consequence of ZBW.
According to Itzykson and Zuber p.62, Zitterbewegung is an artefact of considering a single-particle theory. It has been pointed out in this question's replies that it is not a physical phenomenon: What was missing in Dirac's argument to come up with the modern interpretation of the positron?.
How does the upgrade to many-particle theory solve the issue?


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Rumor Mill Lyrics
Just use your head. For the first time that you've shown you're finally open and it felt so good to me. Now that it's out there, the words I wrote are jumping pages, running circles.
And I know this isn't easy for you. Can you hear me? Please don't follow me home.
Like I said-not that I'd make you leave. But, why do this over? Please don't follow me home. Like I said-not that I'd make you leave. You're just more than make believe.
In nothing but yourself, well I think so. That's why we'll never work out in the end.
Hey, what is worse? Losing hope or losing interest in the one person that got you this far? If life is love, and love is real-then I've never seen such a liar. Try to tell the truth.


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Jamikleinfitness necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 152 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Jami Klein Fitness
I am a personal and group fitness trainer with a passion for helping and teaching people how to be fit, healthy, and active. After 15 years in a competitive business climate, I saw and felt the effects stress put on my body. But the gym was a very intimidating place and I had no idea what to do to get my body into shape. I love working with individuals, creating a path to help them reach their fitness goals, no matter where they are starting from. And I really love watching people achieve things they never thought they could do. A strong body helps to create a strong mind and a self confidence emerges that often gives people courage to try things they never would have. It is incredibly rewarding for me. Live Life Sweaty is my motto and I really believe it. Get out, get moving, and enjoy your life!! As a new trainer, my business has grown very quickly. I work hard for my clients and it shows, and I expect them to work hard for me. However, I see so many areas of opportunity to grow this business. I am developing a website with lots of great fitness and nutrition information. I would like to add in mobile fitness vans to go to employers and individuals homes and eventually my own training gym. I would also like to develop a clothing line. Its never too late to start working toward your fitness goals and I want to be the person to help you get there. Live Life Sweaty!!
I have a broad target audience, from 12-70, males and females. I work with a wide range of individuals. Many of my clients have a desire to be fit and healthy, but perhaps have not worked out in years, and have no idea what they should be doing. I also train athletes; young athletes to condition their bodies and teach them proper training techniques, as well as elite athletes that want a challenging fitness program to keep their bodies functioning at its best. I have several clients that are fit and healthy but want a challenging, fun workout to help them stay motivated. I utilize functional training focusing on core conditioning, balance, flexibility, strength and cardio.
I am looking for 3 elements to a logo to be used separately or together. I would like my brand name, Jami Klein Fitness or JK Fitness ( depending on which one works better), the company tagline, Live Life Sweaty, and a graphic element. I see using all of these elements separately, in pairs, or all 3 together. For example, "Live Life Sweaty" on t-shirts and towels, the graphic element alone as a small tag on clothing or as a symbol on clothing and other gear, and all 3 parts together on advertising, the website and stationary items, such as business/appointment cards, note paper, etc. I am leaning towards the colors navy, light blue (think the North Carolina Tarheels) and grey, a medium to darker shade; however I am open to orange (Chicago Bears!!) instead of the light blue as an accent color. These are not absolute, but they are what I go back to time and time again. I am also a big fan of all capital letters, with the first letter larger than the rest. Again not an absolute, its just a look I tend to go for. I haven't found the perfect font, so I am open.
I like clean and uncluttered designs, with a modern edge. Think the Nike Swoosh:) Nothing foo-foo or prissy looking. I really like the company tagline "Live Life Sweaty" and I envision it on lots of items. So feel free to be creative with that. Have fun!! and Thank you in advance for time!
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Guide to the Donna Barr Papers
Guide to the Donna Barr Papers 1963/2014Special Collections & University Archives
Detailed List of Contents
Correspondence 1970-2014
Barr's Invitation Flyers
Drawing from Fans
Early Life of Rosen Kavalier (A Dissenting View)
Fan Art Work
Fan Birthday Wishes
Fan Comic Strips
Fan Correspondence
Fan Correspondence
Fan Greeting Post Cards
Fan Holiday Cards
Fan Horse Photos
Fan Miscellaneous Greeting Cards
Fan Photographs
Fan Thank You Cards
Fan Torch #52 Dwight and Teri's Excellent Adventure
Letters written by Barr
Barbara Rausch's Pencil Comic Strip Sketches
Barbara Rausch's Pencil Sketches
Barbara Rausch's Postcards to Barr
Barbara Rausch's Postcards to Barr (8 Postcards)
Barbara Rausch's School of Paper Doll Arts
Fan Correspondence 1984-1989
Zine from a Fan - Why you got this Zine #2 1988
Barr Written Correspondence 1988-2000
Diana Sasse's Mailing Envelopes with her Art 1989, 1990, 1999
Diana Sasse's Comics and Correspondence from Germany 1989-1992
Barbara Rausch's Postcards to Donna Barr (10 Postcards) 1990
Barbed Illusions Rausch to Barr 1990
Fan Correspondence 1990-1992
Barbara Rausch's Correspondence 1990-1994
Barbara Rausch's Correspondence Envelopes 1990-1994
Barbara Rausch's Sketches 1991, 1995
Fan Correspondence 1993-1995
Correspondence from Famous Artists: Mary Fleener, John Blackburn, Steve Jackson, Cathy Hill, and Roberta Gregory 1994-1997
Source Material by Dave Sander 1995
Fan Correspondence 1996-2000, 2005
Fan Correspondence 1996-2000, 2005
Fan Correspondence 1996-2000, 2005
Fan Correspondence 1991, 2000-2002
Fan Art Work
Fan Prince Charming
Barbie Issue #26 Page #17 by Fan 1988
Fan Illustration 1995
Business Correspondence 2004-2014
Family Correspondence 1970-1976
Family Correspondence 1976-1978
Fan Correspondence 1997-2014
Greeting Cards and Postcards 2010
Administrative Files 1982-2014
Subject Files 1985-2014
Business Correspondence, Pamphlets, Notes, and Miscellaneous
Contacts and Directories
Donna Barr Art Class Materials
Legal Referral Resources
Business Correspondence 1985-1998
"Krauts," Artists Publishing Association (A.P.A) 1990
Artists Publishing Association (A.P.A) Art 1997
Business Correspondence 2000-2003
Business Invoice 2000-2002
Donna Barr's Calendar Schedule 1999
Awards 1990-1991
Biographical - Department of Army discharge papers 1973
PENSTUFF - Monthly Newsletter of Cartoonists Northwest 2009-2011
PENSTUFF - Monthly Newsletter of Cartoonists Northwest 2012-2014
Conference materials 2010-2014
Promotional cards
Consignment Work 1975-2010
Barr - Photographs
Color Illustrations
Comic Strips Drawings
Copy Illustrations
Duchovny Writes One Script Too Many
Field Grades, Noosprint Newsletter
Flyers with Barr's Artwork
Journal and Magazine Clippings
Lord Hornblower Yacht
Pen Illustrations
Raft Draft Sketches
Seattle Parks and Recreations 1975
Illustrations 1978, 1980-1989
Greeting Card Layouts 1980
Donna's Greeting Card Work 1980-1984
Copy Illustrations 1980-1989
Wolf Tree Nature Trail 1982
A Children's Guide to the Wolf Tree Nature Trail 1983
Discovery Park Programs 1983-1985
Association of Interpretive Naturalists, Region II Directory 1984-1985
Association of Interpretive Naturalists, Region III Directory 1985
Commission Letters 1985, 2001
Interpreting Our Best 1985
Convention Art 1986
Game Designer's Workshop Illustrations 1986
West Wind Club Zine of the North West Science Fiction Society 1986-1987
Discovery Park Programs 1986-1988
Advertising Art 1987
Discover the Forest 1987
The Military - Artists Publishing Association (A.P.A.) 1988
Dreamcon Illustrations 1989
San Diego Comic Con 1989
Dressage, The French Word for Torture 1990
Washington State Ferries Transportation 1990
Copy Illustrations 1990-1999
Ferry Schedule 1993
Random House 1994-1995
Seed Sprouting Pots 1995
Newsletters and Catalogs 1995-2003
HBO (Home Box Office) Animation Correspondence 1996-1997
Illustrations for Seattle Park and Recreation 1998
Color Illustrations 1998-1999
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Condom Savior Kit 2000
Illustrations 2000-2003
Dragon Flight, Convention 2001
Eric Schneider 2001-2002
Tribute to Sergio Aragones, Mexican Cartoonist 2003
SDSU at Comic Con 2006
Articles Regarding Desert Peach 1988, 1992, 1993
Ferry Schedule Blues 1993
Awards and Recognition 1973-2010
Certificate of Achievement, Madigan Army Medical 1973
Certificate of Recognition, Discovery Park 1986, 1989
Certificate of Recognition, Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation 1987
Evvie 1988
Westercon 41 Masquerade: Most Humorous & Best Presentation 1988
Dreamcon 4: Title of Master 1989
West Coast Comics Club 1990
Toonie Awards 1991, 1994-1995, 1997-1998
Comics Creators Guild Awards 1992
Membership of Cartoonists Northwest 1992, 1997, 2003, 2009
Into the Fire 1996
Washington Press Association 1997, 1998
Ignatz Awards 2001
Friends of Lulu New York 2003
Inkpot Plaque Award - Oversize 1996
Toonie Plaque Award - Oversize 1996
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, "Eyes and Hands - An Introduction to Drawn Books" 2010
Press Clippings 1987-2004
Articles about Barr
General Field Marshal Rommel
Black and White Postcard of General Feldmarschall Rommel
Newspaper Clippings
Articles About Barr 1987-2003
Barr's Interviews 1990-2001
Tips & Techniques: Cartooning and Humorous Illustration 1993
Articles by Barr 1993-2003
Newspaper Clippings 1988-2004
Interview with Donna Barr by Kristen Enos, Bagal Comic Connection 1997
Desert Peach 1919-2012
Manuscripts 1919-2003
An Army Officer
Manuscript (Incomplete)
Out of the East
Out of the East
Prologue: Melvin Lazarus Ramsbottom 1919
Mani Rommel's letter to his Father, Erwin Rommel 1958
Comic Number 3 1988
Comic Strips Stories 1988
Dear Masculine 1988
Desert Fox's Pretty Young Brother 1988
Library of Congress Copyright Sketches 1988
Snowbuni - Peach Jam 1988
Day Like Any Other 1989
Flight of Fancy 1989
Is There a Nazy in the House? 1989
Good Morning, Herr Hitler 1989
Miki 1989
Spoiled Fruit 1989
Fever Dream 1990
Menschenkind 1990
Lady Luck 1991
Gypsy Blood, Peach Son - Marc Eramo 1992
Slide (79) 1992
Lady Luck 1993
Notes and Schedule for the Desert Peach Play 1993
Playwright Script for the Desert PEach 1993
New and Different 1994
Vision 1994
Beautiful Dreamer 1995
Colonel in Mercy 1995
Snowbuni - Peach Jam Illustrations 1995
Snowbuni - Peach Jam (Copy of Published Book) 1995
Ups and Downs 1995
Miki (Draft Layout) 1996
New and Different 1997
Tongue 1997
Unstoppable 1997
Headaches 1998
Headaches (Copy of the Original) 1998
Headaches (Sketched Copy) 1998
Tongue 1998
Tongue (Draft Layout) 1998
Good Uncle 1999
Out of the East 1999
Out of the East (Draft Layout) 1999
Dead Can't Tan (Original) 2005
Desert Peach Original Manuscript 2005
Desert Peach Original 2005
Two Timer 1990
Confusing Sound of War by Johane Matt 1994
Age of Consent, by Howard Stangroom and Stephen Lowther
Ersatz RR5 Desert Peach Canned Under License, by David Morris
Musical Production 1943-1992
Color Drawings
Actors' Names and Addresses
Anybody Want to Buy a Used Musical by T. Brain Wagner
Fan Comic Strips and Illustrations
Fan Drawings
Jurassic Peach, by Brett Austin, Cartoonist
Musical Production Review by Jim Drew
Musical Review
Musical Screen Play Summary Letter
Photos of an actor as Rommel from the musical production
Syndicated Peach by Brett Austin Cartoonist
Australian Red Cross Society During World War II Research 1943
Musical Costume Sketches 1989
Research Correspondence 1990-1991
Correspondence 1990-1995
Willkommen in Stalingrad (Theater Ordinances) 1991
Illustration Layout for Musical Cassette 1992
Musical Play Photographs 1992
Photo for the actors from the musical productions 1992
Photographs 1992
Musical Poster Art 1991
Thoughts and Images musical script 1988
A Musical Piano Vocal Score 1991
A Musical Annotated Script 1991
Announcements 1988-2000
Excellent Items Catalog
Magazine and Newspaper Illustrations
Review for Miki by Margaret O'Connel
Peachy Shops, Continued Newsletters
Interview with Andrea Juno 1988
Look-a-like Contest 1988
Book Cover Illustrations 1990
Swastika Had Good Karma pre Hitler advice by Ann Landers 2000
Illustrations 1980-2012
Button Art
Comic Strip Sketches
Draft Sketches
Fine Line Art Illustrations
Hinde Orden Wei Brob, Comic
Little Night Mares...
One Page, Unknown Comic Strip
Paper Dolls
Peach Arrives
Peach Information
Portrait of Pfirsich Rommel
Short Comic Strips
Color Illustration 1980, 1987
Pfirsich Rommel, Desert Fox Pretty Boy 1987-1995
Draft Sketch 1989
Pen Illustrations 1990-2001
Comic Book Marker 1991
Go Reach Racer go, by Nim Doberman Groft 1995
Book Covers 1998
Color Illustration 1998
Old Unreliable 1992
Whipping Boy
Oversize Comic Strip 1994
Book Cover
Back Issue Advertisement
Delectable Desert Peach Portrait 1989
Pen Illustration 1991-1993
Pencil Illustrations
#25 Back Cover 1986
Desert Beast or Beauty and the Bitch 1989
Comic Strip 1993
Oversize Illustration 1994
Original artwork, various (photocopies) 1990
Original artwork, various (photocopies) 1992
"Peach on Earth" original artwork (photocopies) 1992
"Bread and Swans" rough sketches 1994
Tarot Deck original artwork and sketches 1995
"Beautiful" original artwork (photocopies) 1996
10th Anniversary Desert Peach, 25th Anniversary original artwork cover 1996
Sketchbook 1996
"After Dead" - "All the Wrong Places" original artwork 2009
"After Dead" - Wingless rough sketches 2012
"Catching Hell" rough sketch 2012
Various original artwork (photocopies)
Cell negatives
Miscellaneous sketches
Photographs of artworks
"Peach Slices" negative artwork end papers c. 1990s
"Snowbunni - Desert Peach" original artwork and photocopies 1995
Additional Materials 1941-2001
Erwin Rommel Desert Fox Painting on a Postcard
German Soldier Photos
Independent Spotlight or Voices From the Small Press by Eva Marlo
Pfirsich Rommel and Stein Held Low Hard
I Flew for the Führer, By Heinz Knoke 1941
Gag Art 1980-2000
Advertising Art 1987
Comics, Alternative History and Stereotype Bashing 1990
The Scene Treatment 1990
That Girl Done Need a Curry-Comb! 1993
Long Range Desert Convention - Personal Report
Paper Doll
Happy 10th Anniversary Pfirsich! 1986
Rolled posters
2 Desert Peach dolls
Model airplane
2 Mugs
Oversize Desert Peach doll
Glamazon: The Uncanny Super-Tranny tshirt
Hathor Rising wood sculpture 2007
The Desert Peach, 35mm slides of artwork and references
Stinz 1982-2003
Geiselics Drawn Book Stories
Geiselics, the Halfhorse Children
Geiselics LaitMotiv (3 copies)
Geiselics LaitMotiv
Lowhard Fast Growing Colt in the Geisel Valley
"Misconceptions" a Stinz "What if Story" by Joellyn Uuklandus
Life as Time-Line (Chart)
Gurps Character Sheet (2) 1981
Grandpa and the Kid, Manuscript 1982
Water Colors 1982
Illustrations 1982-1999
Andri's Christmas Shoes (Draft for the Original Book) 1985
Andri's Christmas Shoes adapted by Donna Barr original book (Final draft) 1985
Stinz Lowhard Centaur Colt Reached the Age of Discretion 1986
Early Stories 1986
Short Comic Stories 1986-1987
Alice and Stinz - "Hooves of Death" (2 copies) 1987
Andri's Christmas Shoes 1987
Stinz's Folks in: Wired Home 1987
Geiselics Drawn Book Stories 1987
How to Shoot Your Finger OFF 1987
People in "Old Man Out" 1987
Rough drafts, "Baby Game" 1987
Bruno Lowhand in Kompagne Muller (Original draft copy) 1988
Charger (Draft layout) 1988
Hooves of Death (Final draft) 1988
Horse Brush and Other Tales 1988
Nothing Like Gone (3 copies) 1988
Steinling Files 1988
Stopping the Train 1988
Short Comic Stories 1988-1989
Stinz's Illustrations 1986-1989
Office Bidding Announcement 1989
Fast One 1989
Fast One (Draft Copy) 1989
Blooming Affections 1990
Clother Horse-Something of a Hat Trick 1990
Freed Elections 1990
On a Pale Horse 1990
Book Illustrations 1990-2000
Book Master Image 1991
Lowhard in "Bad Memories" 1994
Bobwar (2 copies) 1994
Bum Steer (2 copies) 1995
We Like it Here 1995
Fashion Victims 1996
Last Horse Laugh 1996
Marvelous Resistance 1996
Out of Step (3 copies) 1996
Stranger to Our Kind (original copy of comic book) 1996
Very Fine Lines 1996
Fantagraphics book transparencies 1997
Marvelous Resistance 1997
Marvelous Resistance 1997
Marvelous Resistance 1997
Marvelous Resistance 1997
One of the Girls 1997
Announcement for "Marvelous Resistance" 1998
Book Cover (copies) 1998
Dog's Life 1998
Lowhard in "Playing" 1998
Lowhard in "Playthings" 1998
Specs for "Charger" cover and book 1999
Many Happy Returns Comics 2000
Many Happy Returns Comics 2000
Stinz 2001
Eating Crow 2002
Soup to Nuts 2002
Harry 2003
Show Me the Way to Go Home 2003
Homelife (Draft copy) 2005
A Stranger to Our Kind 1996
A Breathing Spill
Seal for the Baron 1986
Book cover transparency 1989
Book cover transparency 1989
Book cover transparency 1990
A Stranger to Our Kind 1996
Stinz and Desert Peach advertisement poster 1998
Stinz and Desert Peach advertisement poster 1998
"Stinz Lowhard und das Lund eine Lube in der Wüste des Reichs" - Typescript draft 1982
Rough sketches 1986
"Hubris" original artwork 1986
"Indian Giver" rough sketches 1988
"The Proving Ground" - "Hungry" official storyboard template 1994
Rough sketches 1994
"Eating Crow" original artwork (photocopies) 2002
Original sketches (photocopies), 1-18
Original sketches (photocopies), 19-30 c. 1982
Original sketches (photocopies), 31-43 c. 1982
"Tribals" unbound proof 2006
Cell transparencies
Bosom Enemies 1987-2003
Comic Strip Stories 1987
Published Comics 1987
Stu and Stephan Fall Illustration, Part V 1987
Stu and Stephan Learn the Hard Way 1987
What Became of Stu and Stephan (2) 1987
Book Cover Illustrations 2000-2001
Color Illustrations 2000-2001
Bearing Our Losses 2001
Bearing Our Losses (Draft Sketch) 2001
Original artwork (photocopies) 2003
Hader and the Colonel 1987-1999
Art Illustrations
Up in the Air
Hader and the Colonel 1987
Imagine What a Rabbit's Nightmare 1987
Hader and the Colonel Part II-IV 1987
Hader and the Colonel Part II-IV 1987
Hader and the Colonel Part II-IV 1987
Pen Illustrations 1987-1988, 1997
Book Cover Illustrations 1987, 1998
Draft Copy 1989
Extant Episodes 1991
Bath Day 1995
Breakfast 1995
Flying Blind 1995
In the Mood 1995
Mercy 1995
Hader and the Colonel Part V 1995
Birdfeathers 1996
Today I Am a Man 1996
Jaw Bones 1997
Extant Episodes Part III 1999
Original artwork [Oversize]
"Last Rights" original artwork 1996
Other Works 1981-2012
Art Cards Drawing from Donna Barr
Back of the Bus
Bone Folk
Bone Folk's Illustrations
Characters of Red Horse
Characters of Red Horse
Donna Barr Draft Sketches
Girl Behind the Gun
Home is Where...
Home is Where...
How a Luger (PAO9) Works
How to be the Author of a Drawn Book
Into the Fire
Medieval Sketches
Pen Illustrations
Political View Art Sketches
Ring Cat
Self Comic Strip
Sexual Fantasies Draft Sketches
Shrinking Generations
Sir George Frederick Gustave
Sketches from Dena Porter's House
Sunday Mornings
Swash Buckling, Pirates, & Musketeers
That Time of Year... Sketches
True Confession
Welcome to Callahans
When Germans Go Native
Young Baron Had Come Home
Black and White Water Color (Original) 1980
Family Drawings 1980, 1985
A Kindness 1981
In Supportable Light 1982
In Supportable Light 1982
In Supportable Light 1982
Donna Barr's Family Lineage (Geneology Research) 1983
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Ancient Light Manuscript 1985
Gaming Art for Commission Work 1985, 1998
Pike's Place, House Keeping at the Market 1986
Short Bio, "Mistranslate at Will..." 1986
Witch Hunt 1986
Colbert and the Smaj 1987
Sprunghack Hans, the are Stories- and There are Stories 1987
Art of the Copyright 1988
Barr Girls Comics 1988
"Surrender," Bookmaster Images 1988
Barr Wars (Flame War) 1988-1989
All Kiartan's People 1989
Breaking 1989
Centaurs Gatherum #18, with Donna's Illustrations 1989
Colbert and the Smaj 1989
How to Convince Your Comic Store to Carry Your Favorite 1989
Mer Curial 1989
Military 19 A.P.A. 19 (American Psychological Association) 1989
Comic Comment 1990
Cmoix 1990
Red Shetland 1990
Beware of the Health Police Steve Jackson 1991
Ein Urlaub 1991
Lady Leni 1991
Thelma and Louise Do Deutschland 1991
Little Tin Ear 1992
Nothing Like and Early Breakfast 1992
Where Do Males Come From 1992
Adventures in Ferryland 1993
Feedstore Conversion; Comic Strip 1993
How Fear Came 1993
Comic Strips Start Stories 1993-2000
The Barr Girls in: "What is this Stuff?" 1994
Coconuts! 1994
Interview with Another Vampire (original) 1994
Interview with Another Vampire 1994
Midnight Library 1994
Sketches 1994
Triple Treat: an Introduction to Diana Sasse's Comics 1994
Wire Bird 1994
Comic Book (Legal Defense Fund) Illustration 1995
Civilized with Donna's Illustrations 1995
It Hurts to Grow Up 1995
Silicone and Suffering 1995
Barr Girls Book Cover Illustration 1996
Bughouse Blues 1996
Centaurs Gatherum #29 with Donna's Illustrations 1996
Centaurs Gatherum #30 with Donna's Illustrations 1996
Donna Barr in Trading cards 1996
I Am Your Candidate 1996
Night After 1996
Barr Girls: Seeing Stars 1997
Delicate Balance 1997
I Am Anstalt, In the Institution 1997
Youssef Beni Ismail Paper Doll 1997
Rental Goddess Comic Strip 1997
Child's Play Comic Strip (6) 1998
Commission Work for Kim Davenport 1998
Barr Girls: Coordination 1999
Drawn Books One History (Original) 1999
Rental Goddess 1999-2003
Color Print of Man Vermißt Ihn 2000
Girl's Gotta Learn Not to Listen 2000
Crazy Davy's Tattoos and Piercing (Original) 2001
Crazy Davy's Tattoos and Piercing 2001
Help Me, Mama 2001
Watch Your Mouth 2001
Watch Your Mouth (Final Copy) 2001
Loan Prairie 2002
Loan Prairie (2) 2002
An Olympia Curse 2002
Shipbored and Tribal Bible 2002
Shipbored 2002
Tribal Bible 2002
The Early Life of Rose Kavalier (a Dissenting View) 2003
Indulgence 2003
Kunrah - Goddess of Not Putting Up with Shit 2003
One Short Day 2003
One Short Day (Draft Copy) 2003
The Secret of Sharing One Daiquiri with 10 Goats is They Have 2003
Very Weak Jaws 2003
Visions of Freedom 2003
Pen Illustrations
Pen Illustrations 1990-1993
The Job is Taken 1992
Tooth and Nail 1992-1996
Adventures in Ferryland 1993
Barr Girls: You Get What You Pay For 1995
Interview with Another Vampire (oversizes) 1994
Color Screen Prints
Donna's Official Birthday Non-Card 1998
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"Witchhunt" typescript draft 1980-1997
Gräzl and the Schirrmmeister original artwork 1986
Musswolf original artwork (photocopies) 1988
"Der Kauz" Newsletter 1989
Miki original artwork (photocopies) 1996
"Good Morning, Herr Hitler" 1998
"Perverts" prints 1999-2007
"Free Air" typescript draft 2003
"University Bomb" typescript draft 2003
Tank Boys - Print of original 2005
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Watercolor originals, Horses 2012
Northern Animals/Eastern New Year/Western Zodiac - "Beast Zodiac" 2012
Geiselthal Halfhorse sayings, proverbs, and such
Ramsbottom family history
"RingCat" typescript draft
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20 Cassette tapes
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Desert Peach: The Musical audio cassette tape 1992
Desert Peach: The Musical audio cassette tape 1992
"Foxhunt" one-act excerpt from The Desert Peach 1991
"Peach" Cast Has Fun, recorded live at the Fremont Palace
Interviews with Donna Barr
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Desert Peach, "Is There a Nazi in the House?", Issue 4 1989
Desert Peach, "Flight of the Fancy" Issue 5 c. 1989
Desert Peach, "Spoiled Fruit", Issue 7 1989
Desert Peach, "Dressing Down", Issue 8 1990
Desert Peach, "Scorge of Love" Issue 9 1990
Desert Peach, "Two Timers" Issue 10 1990
Desert Peach, "Straight and Narrow" Issue 11 1990
Desert Peach, "Menschenkind" Issue 12 1990
Desert Peach, "Nobody" Issue 13 1991
Desert Peach, "Surprise, Surprise" Issue 14 1991
Desert Peach, "Triangle Trade" Issue 15 1991
Desert Peach, "Flight of the Phoenix" Issue 16 1991
Desert Peach, "Outfoxed" 1991
Desert Peach, "Self-Propelled Target" 1992
Desert Peach, "The Good Uncle" 1993
Desert Peach, "Fever Dream" 1993
Desert Peach, "Bits and Pieces" 1991
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Desert Peach, "Visions", Issue 23 1994
Desert Peach, "Ups and Downs", Issue 24 1995
Desert Peach, "New and Different", Issue 27 1997
Desert Peach, "Pit Stop" "Sweet Delusions" 1990
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Desert Peach, "Miki" 1996
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Desert Peach, The Musical, original watercolors
Desert Peach , "Tongue" 1998
Desert Peach, "Headaches" 2000
Desert Peach, "Merchandise" 2006
Desert Peach, "Catching Hell" 2013
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After Dead 2006
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After Dead, "The Company" 2007
After Dead, "Snoozie" 2007
After Dead, "Invites" 2007
After Dead, "Little Man" 2007
After Dead, "About Time" c. 2007
After Dead, "Musswolf" c. 2007
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Desert Peach, Issues 1-3, cover art
Desert Peach, Issue 24, cover art 1995
"Sticky" 2010
Desert Peach, Issue 3, (partial)
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"Andri's Christmas Shoes" 1985
"Alpine" 1986
"Geiselics" 1987
"Nothing like Gone" 1987
"The Last Horselaugh" 1987
"Carp of Easter" c. 1987
"Breaking In" 1989
"Breaking to Harness" 1989
"On a Pale Horse" 1990
"Wedding Hell" 1990
"Freed Election" 1990
"Baby Games" 1991
"Bob War" 1994
"Bad Memories" 1994
"Old Man Out" 1994
"Bum Steer" 1994
"A Marvelous Resistance" 1997
"A Dog's Life" 1998
"Playthings" 1998
"The Fast One" 2000
"Eating Crow" 2002
"Facing Off" 2002
"Pithed" 2004
"Tribals" 2005
"Sunburn" 2006
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"Not My Problem" 1987
"The Proving Ground" 1987
"Chicken" 1988
"Prior Engagement" 1988
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Totally Unacceptable Alphabet 1988
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The Dreamery, Issue 1 1986
Beast Zodiac 2012
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PHILADELPHIA – Nearly half of the 700,000 cancer patients who undergo surgical removal of a primary tumor each year suffer a recurrence of their disease at some point, and many of those patients will eventually die from their disease. The traditional view of recurrent tumors is that they are resistant to therapy because they've acquired additional genetic mutations that make them more aggressive and impervious to drugs. Now, however, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvaniashow in an animal model that the enhanced aggressiveness of recurrent tumors may be due to changes in the body's immune response. The findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Typically when a patient has a tumor recurrence, their oncologist treats them, much like they treated them for the primary tumor – with drugs aimed at the tumor cells themselves. But we've found that it might be better to attack the tumor cells and knock down the bad immune cells that are protecting the tumor," says senior study author Sunil Singhal, MD, assistant professor of Surgery and director, Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine.
To assess the impact of anti-cancer vaccines on primary and recurrent tumors, the researchers immunized mice that had a primary or a recurrent tumor in their flank. Although both groups of animals developed an immune response to the vaccine, only the primary-tumor animals showed tumor shrinkage in response to the vaccine. The recurrent tumors appeared unaffected by the vaccine response. Moreover, this pattern held for several different vaccines.
Despite the prevailing models of tumor recurrence — which emphasize genetic changes in the tumor cells themselves — Singhal and colleagues could not find substantial genetic or behavior differences in the recurrent versus primary tumors that might account for the pattern of response.
By contrast, when the team looked at the types of immune cells in and around the tumor, Singhal's team saw a big difference. The recurrent-tumor mice had a large increase in the number of regulatory T cells, compared with primary-tumor animals. That could be important, says Singhal, because T regulatory cells are responsible for holding other immune cells in check and blocking immune responses.
Additionally, macrophages that protect the tumor cells from immune system also increased in number and activity in the recurrent-tumor animals.
Remarkably, when the researchers treated recurrent-tumor animals with drugs that block macrophage activity, tumor growth slowed significantly. However, the same drugs had no effect on primary-tumor animals.
Singhal says it is not clear exactly what triggers the immune system changes, but whatever it is appears to happen at the time of surgery. His group has already started looking for alterations in signaling molecules.
In the meantime, though, he notes that there are newly approved drugs and experimental agents that block regulatory T cells. Given his team's new results, he thinks testing these agents in patients with recurrent disease – in combination with drugs that attack the tumor cells themselves – could be an important advance for patients.
"We could impact the outcomes of as many as 250,000 patients a year, if this strategy works," he said.
Other authors from Penn include first author Jerrod Predina and co-authors, Evgeniy Eruslanov, Brendan Judy, Veena Kapoor, Guanjun Cheng, Liang-Chuan Wang, Jing Sun, Edmund K. Moon, Zvi Gregorio Fridlender, and Steven Albelda.
Funding for the study came from a National Institutes of Health Paul Calabresi Scholarship, the Lavin Family Foundation, and the National Lung Cancer Partnership.
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Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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Here's how a North Carolina district responded to a denial-of-service attack that came from one of its own schools.
At 7:45 a.m. on Monday, April 8, 2013, 23,000 network users in the Rowan-Salisbury School System's 35 schools were accessing their Web-based curriculum resources and administrative applications when suddenly all Internet connectivity stopped. The outage lasted for about an hour. Teachers had to quickly switch their lessons to a Plan B, since most had components that required Internet access.
Internet connectivity returned briefly, but suddenly went down again for another hour. The Internet would go down for a third time before school ended.
The Internet outages weren't due to hardware failures, Internet provider outages or network maintenance. The school district was under attack — specifically, we were experiencing a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS. DDoS attacks, one of the most common forms of cyberattack, are designed to overwhelm a targeted IP address with numerous network requests in order to interrupt or suspend network service.
Each morning for the next four days, the district lost Internet connectivity around 7:45 a.m. The Internet would remain down for about an hour and would go down two more times each day. During the next three weeks, the school system was attacked multiple times a day on eight different days. Each attack caused a loss of Internet connectivity. A great frustration among students and staff ensued. Teaching and learning was being significantly impacted.
Identifying the Problem
The school system's Internet connection was a 1 Gb connection. It was provided by the state of North Carolina as part of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). This network serves all the state's public education facilities, as well as many private colleges and universities and the NC Office of Information Technology. The NCREN system is managed by MCNC, a nonprofit organization. During the three weeks of Internet outages, numerous conversations took place between the MCNC staff and the district's technology department. It wasn't until the third day of Internet outages that MCNC identified DDoS attacks as the cause of the outages. Data analysis showed that the district's network was being attacked with as much as 6.4 Gb per second. The attack was focused on the public IP of the district's firewall. The purpose of the attack was to disrupt Internet connectivity to and from the school district.
Unfortunately, MCNC wasn't able to stop the DDoS attack at the perimeter of the NCREN Internet connection. Stopping the DDoS attack at the perimeter is essential to mitigate its effect on a network. Instead, MCNC implemented several measures to try to mitigate the attacks. These helped preserve connectivity for the other organizations sharing the network connection line with Rowan-Salisbury, but Internet connectivity for the district continued to be disrupted.
The district got some help from a retired 3Com/HP network engineer, Larry Tolbert. He had over 30 years of network engineering experience and was very familiar with Rowan Salisbury's network. After the district leveraged several of its infrastructure components to obtain additional information about the DDoS attack and to block the attack at the perimeter of the district's network, Tolbert configured the district's TippingPoint Intrusion Protection System (IPS) to capture packet data of future attacks for analysis. He also configured the IPS to prevent future attacks from reaching the district's firewall and to send alerts to the technology department at the start of any future attack.
As we discovered, the DDoS attacks were coming from hundreds of malware-infected, remotely controlled computers located all over the world. This made it difficult to determine the responsible person, but the district needed to try.
Calling the Cops
The next step was to get help from local law enforcement. Sgt. Detective Roger Hosey, who worked with the FBI's Cyber Taskforce and had previously worked as a school district technology technician, knew the system and its network.
The attacks continued for a fourth week, and on that Wednesday, Sgt. Detective Hosey and another officer visited each of the district's six high schools to interview staff members. They suspected a student might be responsible for the DDoS attacks. The staff interviews didn't reveal any specific leads, but they did raise awareness within the schools that law enforcement was investigating the Internet issues.
Sgt. Detective Hosey suggested assigning each high school a specific public IP and changing the firewall's public IP again. The changes were designed to limit the impact on the system's Internet connectivity if an attack was focused on an individual high school's public IP. Also, giving each school its own IP might help make a connection between the person responsible for the attack and the high school being attacked.
After law enforcement visited the high schools, DDoS attacks stopped for the next 15 days. On May 16, though, an attack was made on one of the high schools. Sgt. Detective Hosey believed the person responsible for the attack was using an online resource to determine the new public IP assigned to the high school.
An Attack From Within
The district's Palo Alto Networks firewall contained extensive reporting data, which showed that two computers in a Career & Technical Education (CTE) computer lab at a high school had accessed the website, IP Chicken to find the public IP of the attacked high school. A four-hour review of the firewall's logs also showed that the same two computers accessed a website, xboot.net, that allows individuals to buy, schedule and launch DDoS attacks on any public IP address that the user designates. Sgt. Detective Hosey, the assistant superintendent of administration, and I met with the CTE computer lab teacher to try to determine which students had been using the two identified computers.
Unfortunately, the teacher had not used good classroom management and technology supervision practices on the day when the attack had been launched, and was only able to suggest a couple of students she believed "may" have been using the two computers. We asked the teacher to make sure she employed good classroom management and technology supervision practices in the future, and we asked her to keep the meeting confidential. Somehow, though, that meeting information was leaked at the school, and students in the class were made aware of the situation.
We configured the district's IPS system to send alerts if anyone accessed IP Chicken or xboot.net, and waited for the next attack. None came until November 2013, when an alert indicated that someone had visited xboot.net. Firewall and IPS logs showed that a personal iOS device had been used to access xboot.net via the wireless network at the same high school that was linked to the previous school year's DDoS attack.
Aerohive access points provided wireless connectivity in the schools. These devices provide detailed reporting, and the district was able to determine that the user accessing the DDoS attack website was in the high school's gym. Calls to the high school's administration and school resource officer resulted in the user being located in the gym. The browser history on the device, an iPod touch, confirmed that it had accessed the DDoS website — but no attack had been initiated. The student was one of the two that the CTE computer lab teacher had suspected. The school's administration and local law enforcement took charge of the situation.
Since the initial DDoS attack, MCNC has installed a chief security officer and is looking at solutions that will safeguard the network against events like this at the edge in order to keep such attacks outside the main network. The school district's IPS alerts remain in place, waiting for the next attack to occur.
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Baumann joins Hoffenheim on four-year deal
Oliver Baumann has left Freiburg to sign a four-year contract with Bundesliga rivals Hoffenheim.
The goalkeeper joined Freiburg as a 10-year-old in 2000 and made his first-team debut in the 2009-10, however his 14-year association with the club has come to an end.
Baumann made 131 top-flight appearances for Freiburg after coming through the club's youth system.
However, the 23-year-old will now continue his career with Hoffenheim and is eagerly anticipating a fresh challenge.
"After 14 years at SC Freiburg, I'm really looking forward to a new environment," he told Hoffenheim's official website.
"Hoffenheim has an offensive style in the league. I will try to be a safe backing, so this style of play can be further developed. I am looking forward to this challenge."
Director of football Alexander Rosen welcomed the arrival of a goalkeeper boasting plenty of experience at a young age.
"Oliver Baumann will provide us with his experience from more than 130 Bundesliga games," said Rosen.
"We are sure that Oliver fits perfectly as a type in our young team. We are very happy that he has chosen the TSG and our way. "


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Australia have received a huge blow ahead of the Tri-Nations and the World Cup with the news star prop Benn Robinson has been ruled out.
Scans have revealed the Waratahs prop has suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in training on Tuesday. The 26-year-old hobbled from the field in obvious discomfort after hearing a "click" in his right knee during an opposed drill at Coogee Oval.
Medical staff were initially confident the injury was only minor, but the world-class loosehead prop faces up to nine months on the sidelines after scans confirmed a torn cruciate ligament as well as meniscus damage in the joint.
"It's disappointing news for Benn, disappointing news for the rest of the squad and for Australian rugby as a whole," Australia coach Robbie Deans said. "No-one likes to see injuries like this. The seemingly innocuous circumstances in which it occurred only adds to the frustration, but injuries have always been a part of the game.
"When the door closes for one player, it opens for another and I'm sure the other front rowers we have will step up to fill the void Benn leaves. As far as Benn goes, we wish him all the best for his recovery and will be providing him with any assistance he needs."
Australia have not named a substitute prop for Sunday's game against Samoa though it is expected that either Western Force prop Pek Cowan or the Waratahs' Al Baxter will come into the 22-man squad. Both players trained with the team on Wednesday as coach Deans assessed his options in the front row.
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Last week, 10-year-old entrepreneur Vivienne Harr stole the show at the National Small Business Week kickoff event at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters. Harr, founder of the charitable lemonade company Make A Stand, shared her "lemonade lessons" with the crowd of small-business owners and advocates.
Harr was only 8 when she saw photographer Lisa Kristine's image of two young Nepalese brothers carrying heavy stones down a mountain. When she learned that these boys were slaves, she immediately decided that she wanted to end child slavery. So in May of 2012, she did what many kids do, and set up a lemonade stand near her home in Fairfax, California, except the money she earned didn't go towards candy and toys. She charged "Whatever's in your heart" and gave all proceeds to charities fighting for her cause.
As word got out about her mission, Harr continued to sit at her increasingly popular lemonade stand every day, and in December, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited her to sell her lemonade in Times Square. By the end of the day, she had raised $101,320.
She told her parents that she wasn't going to stop until child slavery no longer existed, and they decided to help her turn her cause into a real company called Make A Stand. Five percent of profits from every professionally produced bottle of fair-trade, organic "lemon-aid" goes toward the company's foundation, which works towards Harr's goal by funding organizations like Free The Slaves and UNICEF. The company says its foundation has raised over $25,000, and UPS recently announced it would donate $1 for every bottle sold through December, up to $10,000.
In January, Harr's father Eric quit his job to dedicate himself to her goal full-time, and he's now in talks with two major grocery chains for distribution rights.
We caught up with Harr to find out how she successfully started a business and rallied people around her cause (with a little help from her parents). She shares some of her "lemonade lessons" for entrepreneurs and small-business owners below.
1. "Thinking like a kid" can help you overcome setbacks.
"Kids don't see a lot of the obstacles in the world," Harr says. She thinks that more adults could benefit from the idealistic optimism that comes with being a child. Failure has never once crossed her mind as she and her family worked to turn a lemonade stand into a real company. And her dad said it's her unwavering optimism that inspired him to leave his job and work towards realizing her vision.
2. Social media provides a great way to build trust with your customers.
Leave it a 10-year-old to harness the power of social-media marketing. Harr's successful outreach to celebrities and activists on Twitter introduced her to a national audience. She says that social media provides her and her parents with a tool to reach out to customers, and that these interactions build trust because they show that her enthusiasm for the movement is genuine. When you've personally convinced people to support your company, they become brand ambassadors.
3. If you grow too fast, you can forget why you started.
Harr wants her business to become successful, but she doesn't want to let too many people join and turn it into just another big company.
She wants to keep her team small enough so that she still has influence over the overall direction of the company. She says every owner has a responsibility to his or her company to "keep it pure."
4. Giving back is a win-win situation.
Harr doesn't expect every business owner to dedicate so much of their business to charity the way she does, but she thinks that it's a great idea to give your company some charitable aspect. There's the good you're doing, and in practical terms, "it makes more people want your product," she says.
She thinks that the charitable business model compels more people to give to charities, and since buying these products makes people feel good, sustains itself.
5. You have a shot at success if you "start with your heart."
As a final piece of advice, Harr says that the only way entrepreneurs have a chance of being successful is if they start a business because they're following their passion.
She believes so strongly in Make A Stand that she wants to make her foundation her life's work. And she thinks she'll get her first major goal completed in just a couple decades. "I plan on ending child slavery by the time I'm 30," she says, "and then I'll find another cause."


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This is not a mayan calendar.
The Spanish didn't wipe out the Mayans…Their civilization was gone before the conquistadors got there.
There were still remanents there, and the Spanish burned all but 6 of their books. Which is largly why we know little to nothing about the Mayans.
It's Aztec calendar ¬¬, is not the same.
It doesn't really matter if this is historically correct, really. The point is what it is. Doomsday 2012 is bull***t. Lol.
Maybe if people knew that the Conquistadors hadn't ever lain eyes on the Mayans, they would know the Mayans didn't disappear at the fault of the Spanish.
The end is always near, get over it.


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"This is my year to play," says Anthony Davis, composer, pianist, and professor of music at UCSD for the past 16 years. "Last year, I mostly concentrated on writing, but this project with Wadada is really opening up a lot of performance opportunities. Already, we've done three nights in São Paulo, three nights at Roulette in New York, and this week, we're headed to Austria."
The project Davis refers to is Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, a four-disc release containing four and a half hours of music that was nominated for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music — it made the final cut of three.
The pianist came to the La Jolla campus in 1997, after teaching at Yale and Harvard, and isn't planning on leaving. "It's a very supportive environment. Being here has afforded me the opportunity to pursue many creative projects."
This isn't the first time Davis, a University City resident, was nominated for the Pulitzer — in 1984 his composition "Wayang #4" for piano and orchestra made the short list, and he also wrote the music for playwright Tony Kushner's Angels in America, which won the Pulitzer for drama in 1993 and a Tony award as well.
Ten Freedom Summers is Smith's musical distillation of the Civil Rights movement, scored for jazz quartet/quintet and chamber group, with titles like "Dred Scott 1857," "Emmit Till: Defiant, Fearless," and "Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press." I asked Davis about how much work it took to prepare for the project.
"Wadada's compositions are very challenging. He uses a special system of notation, and we had to blend with a conductor and small orchestra, so we rehearsed for a week, did three nights of performances at REDCAT (Disney Concert Hall), then took a week to record it."
"I knew this had the potential to become really big," says Davis, reflecting on the multiple honors the music is up for. "Wadada has been one of the most original and creative composer's in the world for many years. I thought that when we first started playing in the early 1970s. This recognition is long overdue."
Davis turned down the opportunity to become a household name in 1971 when he declined an invitation to join the Grateful Dead after they heard him playing in a small club in Iowa. "I was 18 years old and still living at home. My parents said, 'You've gotta finish college!'" Any regrets? "No, not really. I had a very practical reason for staying in college. The draft was still on, and I had a very low number. All things considered, things have worked out really well for me."
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Excellent article by Robert Bush on one of the most undersung masters of American music. It's great to see so many blog postings by Robert Bush notable for their insight and passion for communicaring what is going on in jazz yet San Diego would profit by seeing more in print.