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The Camping Trip I'll Never Forget
True stories of roughing it, falling in love and learning the meaning of life in the wilderness
Anyone who really loves camping knows to expect problems and discomfort on every camping trip. Part of the joy of camping comes in the suffering.
I remember my first camping trip with two of my girlfriends and a crummy, borrowed tent. We camped on Hatteras Island at the KOA campground in Rodanthe. We had nothing. No bug spray, sunscreen, sleeping bags or money. The only thing worse than the head-to-toe mosquito bites was the ouch-red sunburn. We lived off hot dogs and chocolate chip cookies for three days. But then one night we walked out onto the dark beach and found it alive with bonfires. I didn't understand the crowds of people until I gazed upward to see a total lunar eclipse, the first one I'd ever seen. It was an awesome moment.
That's the magic of camping: the possibility of what might happen and what you might see or do. It's the lasting memories that you create with your friends and family when you're all gathered around a campfire instead of a television.
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Pop-up camper survives Nor'easter
Outer Banks, pop-up camper, Nor'easter. These are memorable words. In October 1990 my family and my husband's parents took a weekend camping trip to the Outer Banks. We stayed at a campground in Rodanthe. As we returned from the grocery store, we heard the weather forecast. I asked what "gale warnings" meant, and my mother-in-law said it would be rough on the water.
Shortly after bedtime, we were awakened by a terrible storm. We were in total darkness. The wind was rocking the camper, and rainwater was pouring in. I remembered the weather forecast and was afraid that we had been blown out to sea!
At daylight we learned that we were cut off from the mainland--no bridge, phones or electricity! A dredge had broken loose of its moorings and crashed into the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet, stranding us all on the island. We used a cabin for the remainder of our stay because our camper was soaked. A one-burner propane unit enabled us to cook and heat bath water. We used pool water to flush toilets. Restaurants donated food to the Chicamacomico Fire Department for everyone stranded on the island. Ham radio operators took messages for our families.
I found out later that shirts were printed with "I survived Bonner Bridge." But I wanted one that added "in a pop-up camper!"
The beauty of rain
In the summer of 2003, my son, two friends and I went backpacking for five days along the Appalachian Trail. Our 50-pound packs contained all of our supplies for the week. We slept under a tarp, cooked on a small gas stove, ate freeze-dried and instant food, and drank water that we collected from the creeks.
On the second day we were trying to cook in a rainstorm and I thought to myself, I would hate to be camping in this weather. Late in the evening on the third day another thunderstorm arose. The lightning was intense and the thunder shook the mountain beneath us. On the fourth day, at noon, it rained like I had never seen before. The trail quickly became ankle deep in water.
At this time, we were in the middle of the most beautiful forest you can imagine. Tall trees, mountains, valleys and creeks were made more beautiful by the green vegetation, as if in a rainforest. The air felt so clean, like I was breathing pure oxygen for the first time. The smell was fresh and alive, and I knew I would never forget this camping trip.
Detour to Vermillion
In August 1995, my husband and I and three of our four children pulled our travel trailer to Colorado to visit relatives. Our van hesitated several times on the way out as we encountered steep grades and hot weather.
After spending a week with our Colorado family we started our return trip via Wall Drug and the Badlands in South Dakota. We circled by the Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D., and proceeded southeast toward Iowa and the bridges of Madison County.
Just north of Vermillion, S.D., the transmission on the van burned out. We called AAA and they sent "the nicest tow truck owner in South Dakota"--a Mr. Ferdig. He pulled our camper to a free campground near the fairground in Vermillion and towed our van to a dealership across the street from the campground.
The five of us lived in our camper for more than a week, waiting for the supposedly overnight shipment of a new transmission. We had a wonderful time in this small town, home of the University of South Dakota. We went to the county fair and watched small boys competing in mutton busting, visited museums on the university campus, and toured the whole town on foot, even though the auto dealer offered us the use of a car.
Our eastern North Carolina families were concerned about us, but this unplanned extension to our vacation has created some of our fondest memories.
The last trip to Kerr Lake
When my husband and I were first married, our favorite pastime was camping at Satterwhite Point on Kerr Lake. On one particular hot summer weekend, we were able to get away early Friday afternoon and secure our favorite campsite. We got our tent pitched, gathered wood for our campfire, put the boat in the lake, and did some water skiing before dark. After dark we shared our campfire with fellow campers, roasting marshmallows and telling stories. At 11 p.m. when we went to our tent, a drizzle had started. Then, at 3 a.m., it started thundering and raining hard.
By daylight it had rained 11 inches, according to the ranger. Our tent and everything in it was soaking wet, including us. The boat was full of water, on the verge of sinking, and the temperature had dropped 20 degrees. We dipped the water out, loaded the boat on its trailer, threw the tent and its contents into the boat, and left.
When we got home, it was still hot and dry outside. We sold the boat and never went camping again.
Missing mommy
My husband and I had been married about a year in the summer of 1974. We loved camping. We decided to take our nieces on a weekend camping trip to the North Carolina mountains.
The girls had a younger sister about age 4. Because of a bad experience, she refused to go anywhere without her mother. After counseling, her parents were told that she was just spoiled and should be forced to spend time away from her mother. It was decided that she would go on this trip with us.
It was horrible. She cried the entire weekend. We took them to the "Land of Oz." She screamed the whole time. We took them to Tweetsie Railroad. Same screaming. What's more, it rained every night. We woke up each morning lying on the cold, hard, wet ground. Our air mattresses were flat. One night we left a bag of trash outside of our tent. A skunk spent the night in the bag. The next morning we had to wait in the tent until the skunk left.
When we finally started home, my niece stopped crying.
The next time we went camping, we took a pop-up camper and left the girls at home.
Close quarters in Emerald Isle
In April 1968 we took our first camping trip in our new 15-foot Shasta travel trailer. We were an Air Force family new to North Carolina and were anxious to see something of our new home state.
It was quite a chore to gather up our seven children, pack all of the necessary supplies and camping equipment, and hitch up the camper to our 1965 Buick Sportwagon. We headed east. An hour-and-a-half later, we were waiting in line for the ferry to take us across the sound to Emerald Isle.
We found a nice campsite at Camp Ocean Forest next to the Bogue Fishing Pier.
Daytime was fun with swimming and fishing, but bedtime was another story. Packing nine people into the limited space of a 15-foot camper is quite a feat. Each of the children had their own spot—three on the table that converted to a bed, one with my husband and me in our bed, and two on the floor. The baby's bassinet had to be fitted in where there was room. It usually took half an hour for the children to stop laughing and settle down.
That weekend everyone got a Bogue Pier sweatshirt. The shirts were passed down through the family as they were outgrown. Two of our grandchildren even inherited shirts.
These were hectic but very happy times. We liked the coastal area so much that in 1984 we moved to the coast and now live on that "old ferry road."
Almost okay
It was March in North Carolina—you know the time of year when it gets in the 70s and 80s in the daytime and the 30s and 40s when the sun goes down. Brian planned a camping trip for us, and he invited his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend. He had everything, and he told me "all you have to do is bring your clothes."
We put up the tent next to a pond in the prettiest place I had ever seen. We were so in love; it was the best day. He didn't bring any food. But it was okay. No toilet paper—well, it was okay. The sun went down and it was getting colder and colder. Brian built a fire, and it was okay.
When we got in the tent to sleep, I was shivering. We covered up with a thin sheet. I got a little upset and asked Brian why he didn't bring some covers. He said he did—Greg and Robin had them. I jerked those covers off of them and we all tried to cover up. It was not okay.
I got up and took my blanket out to the fire that was almost out. I stomped around in the woods, breaking limbs and sticks for the fire with no flashlight. The moon was full, so that was okay. I got the fire going and lay down beside it on the ground.
When I woke up, it was almost daylight. Brian was fishing. He hooked a seven-pound carp that really fought. Brian wanted me to feel it, so he let the fish swim away, and I reeled him in. The fish was jerking and pulling. We laughed so hard when we let him go and he swam back to us.
My hair was standing straight up. I had makeup and ash soot all over my face. I was so dirty from sleeping on the ground. We must have really been in love.
We still laugh about that trip almost 14 years later. Brian has become a good camper, and it's really okay.
Romance in Cherokee
We had only been dating for a few months when my parents invited him to go with us on our annual family camping trip to Cherokee.
"Are you sure?" I asked, seeing as how they had never allowed us to take dates on family trips before.
"Of course," they replied. "You'll marry him one day."
Unsure of this prediction, I agreed to let him go with us. I thought I could at least enjoy his company—he seemed nice enough.
Somewhere between the verses of the good old gospel songs led by my grandpa on the banjo, I fell in love with the love of my life. The romantic, picturesque views of the Smokies only added to the mood. We began to cherish every moment together.
Our love continued to grow. He proposed to me five months later at that same campsite on Valentine's Day. We reserved the site for our honeymoon six months later.
Now we've been married almost six years and have a precious baby boy. We try to go back annually to relive fond memories of the camping trip nobody in the family will ever forget.
Camping, city-girl style
This story involves my father and mother who have now been divorced more than 20 years. My father loves the outdoors and many years ago decided to take my mother, a city girl, camping for the weekend.
The weather started to get warmer and warmer and my mother knew the only solution to a hot summer day was air conditioning. To my dad's surprise, my mother had packed a small window air conditioner. This was very strange to my father, but even stranger was what the other campers saw when they awoke the next morning. Imagine a 1974 station wagon with side paneling, sporting an A/C unit in the rear roll-down window with two pieces of cardboard along its sides. And inside this "luxury" vehicle—a full-size mattress and two frozen young lovers! How's that for roughin' it?
Surprise trip to Hot Springs
In August 1988 my husband, Gene, turned 30. I planned a surprise camping trip to Hot Springs for 17 people, and didn't tell him about it until right before we took the trip.
The National Forest Service campsite at Hot Springs in Madison County is beautiful. It is on a jig of the Appalachian Trail, with primitive facilities. We went whitewater rafting on the French Broad River with the Nantahala Outdoor Center and had a great time. Everyone still talks about the thunderstorm that came through on our last night there. It just echoed through those mountains and left everything so clean and sparkly the next morning.
Hooks, bugs and blue beards
Labor Day weekend, 1959, we took our first camping trip in a black 1951 panel truck to Seneca Park, Md. This truck had only one seat—the driver's—so I rode in a rocking chair. When my husband, Landon, would brake, I rocked forward, and when he took off, I rocked backward. Our three small children thought this was very funny and laughed all the way.
On the way to the park, our daughter got a fishhook caught in her arm. After all of the screaming and crying, we got the hook out and continued on our way.
That night at the park, I asked my husband to keep the windows shut, because of a loud group up the road. During the night, I felt water dropping on me and I woke my husband. He turned the light on and there was condensation dropping from the ceiling. We opened the windows and went back to sleep only to be awakened by buzzing and biting. Landon turned the light on again to find hundreds of mosquitoes on the ceiling. He took care of this, and we finally slept.
The next morning, as we were eating our breakfast by the river, caterpillars fell on our plates. At this point, we decided to move on to Patapasco State Park which was better equipped for inexperienced campers.
The first night we nearly froze to death. So the next day we went to a shopping center, bought two cheap blue blankets and that night we slept warm and good. Landon had not shaved for several days so he had accumulated a little beard. The next morning, I woke first, then one by one, the children popped up their little heads and started laughing at their father. He had all this blue fuzz in his beard from the blankets. He was a true blue beard, and we continued to laugh as he picked it out.
That night we had grilled pork chops and a wonderful dinner cooked outside. It was dark before our dinner was ready, so Landon climbed a tree over the picnic table and hung a flashlight from it so we could see to eat. Most of the other campers had tents and Coleman lanterns, but I know they didn't enjoy it any more than we did.
River bear finds a home
My dad and I wanted to go camping. After days of planning, we decided to camp out on the riverbank behind our house. I set up the tent, sleeping bags and some other gear so that we would be ready.
About 10:30 or 11 p.m. that night we went to the campsite to settle in. Just before looking at the back of our eyelids, my dad said, "Wake me up if you hear a bear or a wampus cat or something." Man, was that one long night. It got down to about 55-60 degrees and the dew fell on us. You never fully realize how cold it is until you go to sleep with no heat.
I woke up cold that morning, walked down to the river and wouldn't you know it. There was a dag gum bear caught in debris smack dab in the middle of the river. The real strange part about it: the bear was stuffed. Who would want to get rid of a stuffed bear?
So I went back to the house to grab a rope so my dad could lasso him. We got him to the bank, and I cleaned all the leaves and mud from his fur. We hung him up in the garage. We tried to find the bear's rightful owner because we thought he might have been stolen.
From this camping trip, I learned two things: 1. Never go camping without your gun, because you never know what you are going to run into. 2. Sleep in your own bed when you get the chance. It's a lot safer and warmer.
Camping with Dad at Linney's Mill
I will never forget when the Cub Scouts went camping at Linney's Mill. We set up our tents, and then we grilled hot dogs for supper. We roasted marshmallows, made s'mores and told ghost stories over a big campfire. The next day, we rode bikes and put our feet in the cold water. Before we left, Mr. Linney showed us around the mill. We learned how the water wheel runs and how they make cornmeal.
The best part about the trip was that I went with my dad who is the Cub Scout leader. His name is Cecil Marlowe.


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A new generation of sweeteners
Whether the driver is obesity, diabetes or general health-consciousness, low-impact sweeteners are having a bigger impact on the market.
If, by a quirk of development, humans had developed a profound distaste for sweet flavors, food scientists would be scrambling to find ways to eliminate that taste while retaining the structure of the ingredients we call sweeteners. The wide-ranging function of these small carbohydrate molecules is too helpful to do without.
There is a place for both high impact (sweeter than sucrose) and low impact (less sweet than sucrose) sweeteners, and not just as flavorings. They also serve as humectants, browning agents, texturizers, osmotic actives and other tools.
A number of low-impact sweeteners offer these utilities without a lot of sweetness, and they are finding uses in the increasingly health-aware, safety-conscious marketplace. High- or low-impact technically defines a sweetener that affects insulin reaction -- and this is not just important to diabetics, this also impacts blood pressure and blood vessel plaque. High-or-low intensity refers to apparent sweetness.
Most of the newly introduced products that use these ingredients are beverages. That's because beverages are ideal carriers and the category is a growing one right now, although these sweeteners do have other applications.
Tagatose and trehalose are two of these up-and-coming low-impact sweeteners. Both technically have been around for several years, but were introduced as cost-effective products with self-affirmed generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status fairly recently. Both are produced from carbohydrates: tagatose from lactose (the sugar found in milk) and trehalose by enzymatic action on starch.
Conventional sweeteners
Generally, the sweetener market is in the hands of major companies. Capacities are large and startup costs are high. It usually takes a considerable time for a switch in sweetener use by major products, as was the case of the movement from sugar or invert sugar to high-fructose corn syrup.
These sweetener functions are frequently measured by dextrose equivalent (DE), which measures the amount of reducing power of the sweetener, roughly by the number of reducing ends of the saccharide fragments. Higher DE sweeteners are sweeter, thinner, and brown more easily and quickly.
Maltodextrins, available to very low DE, are not particularly sweet and provide more viscosity. But all of these sweeteners supply about 4 calories per gram, and are completely metabolized in the lower intestine.
Sucrose isn't measured by DE, is sweeter than the corn or other grain derivatives, provides body, and is totally metabolized. High-intensity sweeteners are very sweet, and generally have the functional characteristics of their carriers (maltodextrin, dextrose, lactose, etc.)
Change is slow, but eating into the mainstream market is a growing special needs market, populated by obese, overweight and diabetic consumers. Whether these people are watching calories, carbohydrates or the glycemic index, traditional sweeteners are not the answer. Indeed, some observers think this special needs market could become the mainstream market.
Regardless, the science behind these special sweeteners must be better understood by all food formulators.
Tagatose is made by hydrolyzing lactose with a special enzyme so the two monomers, galactose and glucose, can be separated by chromatographic columns. Tagatose was self-affirmed as GRAS in May 2001, by its developer, Spherix, of Beltsville, Md. www.spherix.com with a no-objection letter from FDA following in October.
Tagatose is found naturally in a number of foods: cheeses, milk and other common products.Tagatose is a monosaccharide in structure. The galactose molecule present in lactose is converted to tagatose using alkaline conditions, then concentrated and crystallized in a process much like the production of fructose from sucrose. Because of the position of chiral carbons, which makes the product technically a C-4 epimer of D-fructose, only about 20 percent of the sugar is metabolized. This provides a caloric value of about 1.5 calories per gram (sugar is about 4.0 calories per gram).
Crystalline tagatose is nearly as sweet as table sugar (92 percent as sweet as sucrose when presented in a 10 percent solution) but with a faster flavor onset, more like fructose. It is about 62 percent soluble in water at room temperature. Only about 25 percent of the product is absorbed, and the remaining 75 percent can produce the same laxation effects of other nonabsorbed products if used in high concentrations.
Spherix has licensed the product to Arla Foods of Denmark for sales in the food industry. Spherix retained the marketing rights for nonfood applications and has introduced its Naturex brand of tagatose for toothpaste, mouthwash and pharmaceuticals.
The product for the food industry is made in
It's recommended for use in cereals, desserts and other products that can use the functional characteristics to advantage. In addition to its low rate of metabolism, tagatose has a low glass transition temperature, low caramelization temperature and high melting point (134 degrees; C). Unlike glucose, it is not hydroscopic at 75 percent relative humidity and 30 degrees; C. It is stable at a fairly wide range of pH. Research in
One of tagatose's most successful uses in the
Because of its reduced level of carbohydrate metabolism, the sweetener can be used in products for low or no-carb diets. It is a good supporting ingredient for high-intensity sweeteners, improving the flavor profile and eliminating any chemical flavors. Because of the reducing power of tagatose, it is best used in foods that are low in protein, processed at low temperatures or use the low caramelization temperatures to advantage --in confections such as chocolate, caramels, ice cream, cereal, and meal replacements.
Pacific Health Laboratories chose trehalose for a sports beverage called Accelerade because the sweetener has low insulin response and is slowly metabolized to provide long-term energy.
One such product is produced by Pasco Beverages,
The current front label trumpets Sucralose, but the next generation of packaging will also carry the Gaio name for tagatose. "Splenda is a good sweetener and it's neutral -- it has no negatives associated with it, like some other sweeteners. But consumers do recognize the name," says Rich McClelland, director of marketing for
"I get some calls from people who know about tagatose and its health benefits, but there hasn't been a lot of discussion in the popular press," he continues. "When people learn about it, you see the possibilities. We introduced the Light and Tasty line last January, so it's too soon to track its progress in the market."
Trehalose has been produced and consumed in increasing amounts in
The ingredient is produced by Hayashibara's patented enzyme process from corn starch and is marketed in North and
Trehalose has been used for decades in pharmaceutical and specialty applications at relatively high ingredient cost. Hayashibara's breakthrough manufacturing process from cornstarch, using two special enzymes, has enabled trehalose to be economical for the global food industry in a wide range of applications.
While the current label trumpets Splenda sucralose, there also is Tagatose in Pasco's Light & Tasty juices. The next generation of packaging will also carry the Giao brand name as Tagatose and it's health benefits will be recognized.
Trehalose is two glucose molecules linked together (in an alpha-alpha 1-1 linkage) in such a way that they do not expose reducing ends. That structure is novel: The lack of reducing ends makes it a non-reducing sugar. This means it can be used to stabilize amino acids without triggering a Maillard reaction, even in acidic foods.
It is a disaccharide, completely metabolized to glucose molecules and is absorbed in the small intestine. However, unlike glucose, it elicits a low insulin response and is metabolized slowly, providing energy over a sustained period and stabilizing blood sugar over a long period of time. While the insulin response is low, the glucose response is normal.
Trehalose is about 45 percent as sweet as sucrose, but with an extremely clean, mild flavor profile. It has a high glass transition temperature, and protects proteins during freeze-thaw cycles. This property is integral to its function in various food systems, including processed meat, poultry, frozen fish and surimi.
Trehalose has been introduced in a sports beverage called Accelerade by Pacific Health Laboratories,
Feeling your oats
A third sweetener, quite new, is described as a functional syrup made from oats or waxy barley, grains that contain a significant amount of beta glucan. The sweetener, Oatscreme, is manufactured by American Oats,
Oatscreme is made from grain, using a combination of enzymes to convert a slurry to the level of sweetness needed. Most of the sweetness comes from glucose, but the other saccharides are larger, which provides more viscosity and texture to frozen desserts.
The flavor of the syrup is exceptionally bland, and "it tastes a lot better than it ought to" given the components, says inventor Paul Whalen. "It has a nice, balanced flavor and great mouthfeel."
The syrup, made just before it is used in Oatscreme frozen dessert, contains about 33 percent solids, a little more than 2 percent protein, about 1.1 percent fat, and about a gram of dietary fiber per 85-gram serving. Caloric content of Oatscreme is about 130 calories per 85 grams. Oatscreme contains no added fat, sugar, or other ingredients except for flavors. The syrup is simply aerated and frozen.
Currently, the oat-based syrup would have to be refrigerated during shipment if it were to be used as an ingredient by other companies.
High-impact sweeteners currently on the market are used to advantage with some of these low-impact, functional sweeteners. In fact, in some cases, the combination of high- and low-impact sweeteners is the key to product success.
There are sweeteners on the drawing board and new ones coming on the market all the time , as well as new food products that are crying out for sweeteners with certain functionalities. It's a sweet science, but not entirely about being sweet.
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While the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 eliminates the three-entity rule for farmers, it also makes it easier for a spouse to become eligible for payments. These changes could have a big impact on farmers, "especially when you talk about the sheer number of farmers who used the three-entity rule," said Gary Adams, vice president, economics and policy analysis, National Cotton Council.
Adams, leading an information session on the 2008 farm bill at Agricenter International in Memphis, said another significant change is the "tightening down of means testing," beginning with the 2009 crop. "Some of our larger farmers will feel it," Adams said.
The adjusted gross income component of means testing has been separated into off-farm and on-farm income. Under the provision, a farmer is not eligible for any commodity program payments for a year if in the three previous years he earned an average of more than $500,000 a year in adjusted non-farm income.
In addition, a farmer is not eligible for direct payments for a year if in the three previous years, he earned an average of more than $750,000 in adjusted farm, ranch and forestry income.
The farm bill will also include a means test for conservation programs. If an individual or entity earned an average of more than $1 million in adjusted non-farm income or more than $1 million in adjusted gross income (if less than 66.66 percent is from farming, ranching or forestry) that individual or entity is ineligible for conservation program payments for the year. This does not apply to easement programs.
Mike Farrish, a cotton merchant with Weil Brothers Cotton Co. in Memphis, said, "Under this new program, there is a whole lot more for the producer to be worried about. He has to understand the program to manage his farm operations."
"A lot of people have portrayed this farm bill as just a continuation of the status quo," Adams said. But there are some very significant changes in payment limits and eligibility that will impact producers. There are changes in the crop insurance program, a new permanent disaster program, additional funding for conservation and changes in the tax provision.
Adams said the means testing could impact way rental agreements on farms. "If farmers are in a share-rent situation with their landlord, they might need to be concerned if the landlord has a lot of non-farm income. The farmer may need to bring this to the attention of his landlord, to make sure that at the end of the day the landlord doesn't realize that he's not eligible."
More highlights of the bill:
- Covers the 2008-2012 crop, although some provisions will not start until 2009.
- Maintains the same basic structure of the 2002 farm bill with the "three legged stool" combination of the marketing loan, countercyclical payments and direct payments.
- Establishes economic assistance for the U.S. textile industry of 4 cents per pound for all upland cotton consumed from Aug. 1, 2008, through July 31, 2012. Beginning Aug. 1, 2012, the rate is adjusted to 3 cents per pound. Proceeds must be invested in the textile plant.
- Establishes the revenue-based ACRE program.
- Most of the loan rates will be constant throughout the life of the farm bill: Cotton loan rate remains at 52 cents for base grade (41-4-34) for each year covered by the farm bill. ELS cotton remains at 79.77 cents. The corn loan rate is $1.95 and soybeans, $5. In the last three years of the bill, the wheat loan rate will rise from $2.75 to $2.94.
- Repayment for grains and oilseeds will continue to be based on posted-county prices, but moves to a 30-day moving average of the county price.
- For 2009-11, the payment acres for direct payments will be reduced to 83.3 percent of base and restored to 85 percent of base for 2012.


text: I have been testing our code out on a Dual Opteron 275 system and it was very helpful. Based on my findings I'm planning on getting two separate dual 248 (or higher) systems instead of one Dual 275 system. ======================================================= Single program running: 4 Cores 2 Cores 1 Core Time (seconds) 509 739 1247 ======================================================= Two Dual-core jobs running at the same time: Job A Job B Time (seconds) 878 882 ======================================================= Four Single-core jobs running at the same time: Job A Job B Job C Job D Time (seconds) 1585 1522 1580 1545 ======================================================= What I was primarily interested in was comparing the time it took two 2-core jobs to run vs. the time for one 2-core job to run. There appears to be a hit of about 20% from 739 seconds to 880 seconds. This is why I am leaning towards the two separate machines. Sure it would be nice to run a single 4 core job once in a while but the primary use will be to have two people working on their own models. Just because it was there, I did: ======================================================= Four Single-core jobs running at the same time: Job A Job B Job C Time (seconds) 1593 1251 1625 ======================================================= I believe Jobs A and C shared a CPU. Why they took longer than the Four single-core jobs I don't know. This fairly clearly shows the impact of having two jobs running on the same core, at least for this application. Thanks very much to Jeff Nguyen at ASL Inc. (www.aslab.com) for providing the machine to test out. I had never heard of ASL or Jeff before this. I have no affiliation with them whatsoever. Jeff asked me if I wanted to test it out and that was it. No questions asked and no sales junk pushed on me. Just for curiousity I asked how much one of the dual 275 systems would be in order to compare with the price of putting one together myself. It seemed very reasonable. When I got done, I emailed Jeff and told him my results. He then offered to swap out the CPU's with two 248's so I could compare with identical hardware (except the CPU's of course): ======================================================= Single program running: 2 Cores 1 Core Time (seconds) 750 1378 ======================================================= Two programs running: 1 CPU (A) 1 CPU (B) Time (seconds) 1328 1344 ======================================================= For 2 CPU's, the 248's seem to work about the same as two cores on the Dual 275 if you run with one core from each of the 275's. For single CPU jobs, it seems that the 275's are about 7 to 10 percent faster than the 248. I don't know how to explain this. Could be that some cron job kicked in in the middle of the run. The only thing I see in the logs is sar every 10 minutes. These results are hardly scientific, however they are useful to me and I hope to others. Steve ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins at umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 208 Libby Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302


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Angie Hicks '95 Returns to Campus September 28 as 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture
August 2, 2012
Angie Hicks Bowman, founder of Angie's List and 1995 graduate of DePauw University, will return to her alma mater on Friday, September 28, to deliver a 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture. The program will begin at 4 p.m. in Meharry Hall, which is located within historic East College. The lecture will be among the featured events of Family Weekend and is free and open to everyone.
An economics major and Management Fellow at DePauw, Angie Hicks started her business shortly after receiving her bachelor's degree. The company began in 1995 with 1,000 members in Columbus, Ohio. Today more than 1.5 million subscribers across the U.S. submit more than 65,000 reports each month about their consumer experiences and use Angie's List to gain unlimited access to local ratings, exclusive discounts, the Angie's List magazine, the Angie's List complaint resolution service and information about how to make the most of their home improvement projects.
In her role as founder and chief marketing officer, Hicks regularly contributes to national and local consumer news stories across the country, including for CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Good Housekeeping and the Wall Street Journal, among others. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. In October 2009, Hicks was honored with DePauw's Robert C. McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. (at left: Hicks with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels)
She serves on the board of directors of the Governor Robert Orr Fellowship Program, which she helped found in 2001.
Learn more in this recent article.
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text: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Gus Correa wrote: > After I configured it with eight dual-slot quad-core Xeon E5472 (3.0GHz) > compute nodes, > 2GB/core RAM, IPMI, 12-port DDR IB switch (their smallest), > MS Windows installed, with one year standard 9-5 support, and onsite > installation, > the price was over $82k. > It sounds pricey to me, for an 8 node cluster. > Storage or viz node choices, 24-port IB to connect to other enclosures, etc, > are even more expensive. Again, excellently well put. This is literally the bottom line. What we are really talking about is form factor and who does what. People usually are pretty careful with their money, at least within their range of knowledge. When bladed systems first started coming out -- which was many years ago at this point -- I did a bit of an on-list CBA of them and concluded that there was a price premium of something like a factor of 2 for them, compared to the price of an equivalent stack of rackmounted nodes, more like 3 compared to a shelf full of tower units. I asked "why would anyone pay that"? The answer (given by Greg, IIRC but it was long ago and I could be mistaken about person and maybe the answer) was: * Cluster people with significant constraints on space, power, or AC. * businesses that want a turnkey system, typically for HA applications, that is compact and "easy" to support. And that is fair enough, actually. Some places one literally has a closet to put one's cluster in, and if one populates the closet with a rack one has to work within the current limits on processor (core) density per U in rackmount configuration. At the time that was typically two, and a blade chassis could achieve something like 2-3x the processor density per U. Space renovation can be very expensive, and sometimes there IS no space for a room full of racks at ANY cost, and shelved towers are even lower density as they waste a whole lot of space per tower. It sounds like these systems are following similar rules and economics today. At $10K/node, it sounds like it isn't really 3x as expensive as a rackmount cluster (with similar power) any more -- perhaps 2x as expensive or even a bit less. If one counts it as a "64-core cluster" it sounds a lot better than an "8-node cluster", and it also frees one to at least consider 16 node solutions with single quad cores to reach the same core count, that might well be cheaper (although networking might make that not so, but where splitting up the cores provides a lot more BW per core, so it might still be a good idea). Still, having a 64 node cluster that fits in a few U or in a box I could put in the corner of my desk is definitely appealing, even though the price is for me exorbitant. A final question remains, though -- it isn't just size (volume) -- it is infrastructure in general. How much power does this puppy require? How much AC? Not at all an idle question. Penguin's rackmount dual-quad nodes come with 600 W power supplies! If an 8-core node draws a not unreasonable 400W under load, 8 nodes in a bladed chassis will ALSO draw at least 3 KW! Ouch! That's hot! With this guestimate we have clearly exceeded the capacity of a standard 20 amp 120VAC circuit, the kind one MIGHT actually find in an office. Even a 200W/node box is clearly beyond the capacity of a 15 amp circuit. Big problem. My office actually doesn't have a plug or service capable of providing 3 KW at any voltage. And it might well need 4 KW if node draw under load is closer to 500W! Then there is the AC problem. My office isn't too big -- maybe 60-70 sf -- and of course it doesn't have its own thermostat or climate control -- it is temperature controlled by a large building-scale system that generated conditioned airflow to and between all the rooms on my hall. It stays perfectly comfortable with a variable load of perhaps 400-700 W of power produced within its walls -- that would be me (100W), lights (100W), a desktop (150W), a laptop (50W), and a bit of this and that, including a few students from time to time at 100W each and THEIR laptops as well, come to think of it. So it could have as much as a KW peak heat load, but it's a big building, there is some "ballast" and averaging from neighboring offices, and it doesn't really get hot even when we party in their. Now throw that extra 3 KW in. Suddenly the MINIMUM load is over 3x the PEAK load now. My office has no thermostat -- I just have to live with what the building delivers. Room temperature soars. rgb has to start going to work in shorts and sandals, no shirt, and installs a keg refrigerator to hold the beer essential to life that must be piped directly to mouth to replace the sweat and dull the pain of working under such extremely hot conditions. Only for a short while, of course -- cluster dies a horrible death, as it isn't designed to run at 110F. And then along comes winter, and Duke, foolishly assuming that it is cold outside and people need HEAT and not COLD delivered to their offices, shuts off the building chiller and turns on the steam. Obviously I wouldn't need the steam, but EVEN IN THE WINTERTIME I won't be able to get rid of 3500-4500 watts. I'd need a TWO-ton (well, I might get away with a 1.5 ton) AC unit of my very own to remove this heat and dump it -- somewhere -- and I'd have to control its thermostat. Fine. One can, actually buy 1 ton to 1.5 ton AC units that sit over in a corner and vent heat into e.g. the space inside a drop ceiling (where eventually building AC/climate control sucks it up and re-air-conditions it away). They draw a few hundred watts of their own, need a place to dump water from condensation (or a human has to hand-empty their condensation pan), and of course they are loud and annoying, but they work, when somebody doesn't kick the drain tube out so that they leak all over the floor or the ceiling space gets so hot that hot air back up into the room anyway. So, to run one of these "office clusters" in the REAL world, it sounds like I'd probably need the following: a) An additional 4 KW-capable circuit in my office. Concrete walls, I'm guessing fully subscribed service, let's be optimistic and add just $1K to get it. That leaves me my existing 20 A service to run the AC on; tight but doable -- or of course I can get a couple of high-power circuits while I'm at it, one for the system and one for its AC. b) A 1.5 ton AC as described. There goes 1 m^2 of floor space, hmmm, where the hell am I going to get THAT? A filing cabinet must go, or students will just have to sit on it. The unit costs perhaps $3-5K, depending on new or used and condition etc, and it still needs a bit of installation beyond just buying it from a catalog. Oops, and my office doesn't, actually have drop ceilings. Need to vent it outdoors, need hole in wall for vent, need at least $1K to pay the nice man to put it there and make it all pretty. Double oops, that needs outside wall, guess I have to lose a bookshelf intead of a filing cabinet, stack books to ceiling on top of filing cabinets that remain. c) A drain. Another hole. No bathroom nearby, I guess we'll have to just drill a different wall and dump. Hmmm, I wonder if local codes -- or Duke -- will let me do that? A perpetual drip into an interior "chimney" airvent next to the stairwell has nowhere to go. One out the other window, where will that water go? Must check, but either way another $500 for sure (and I'll have to move completely out of the office while they chop holes and generate all that dust, brick and concrete walls, very difficult to drill). So, after budgeting around $90K -- or even more -- for actually putting my cute little 64 core system, after moving out of my office while power and AC are retrofitted, after moving back into my office and clearing room on top of a filing cabinet or on a corner of my desk for the blade chassis, I move back in, crank the AC up to max (that's what it will run on nearly all the time, max) and power up my little sucker. Its cooling fans -- capable of moving that 3+ KW out of its small volume -- kick on and add to the soothing, um, "purr" of the AC, and I realize that I'm going to be living at 40 dB or more of steady-state background noise forever, maybe even 50 by the time my other hardware kicks in. Students have to speak loudly to overcome the noise, I take to wearing noise-cancellation headphones all the time even when I'm not listening to music in my room just to protect my hearing. But I've got a hell of a cluster, and it is in my office, and I snuck that keg refrigerator into the budget by arguing that the cluster was "liquid cooled"! Coolio! OR, since we already HAVE a lovely server/cluster room downstairs, with a large AC unit built right in that keeps the room COLD, and lots of power-poles just waiting to deliver power and trivially rewireable to deliver e.g. 209 VAC at 30A and no humans who have to listen to the 60-80 dB background roar except for brief intervals doing service, I COULD just buy a stack of 1U sufficient to give me 64 cores with 2GB/core and high speed networking, in the cheapest (per core) rackmount form factor. I don't even have to buy rack space, as we have that in abundance. Pricing out reasonably comparable 1U nodes from e.g. Penguin it looks like they would cost "around" $6000 with the usual service etc -- around $750/core instead of $1100/core (including the infrastructure mods). The cluster costs me a bit over 1/2 as much -- $50K, say -- although I'm not actually pricing it out and if I shopped harder it might be even less, or a bit more if I forgot something in my estimate. Now, I don't have to listen to it. I don't have to rewire my room and give up a table, desk space, etc. I have network access in my office (obviously) -- multiple ports, actually. If I feel really ambitious I spend a little of the money I save arranging to pipe one of the ports directly into my cluster down there so I can make my desktop a kind of "head node" for the cluster, although in practice I've never done that, why bother? GigE access on our standard LAN seems adequate, somehow. With the money I save I buy, lessee, at least 48 more cores! Wow, I get my computations done in a lot less time! Wow, with with 112 3 GHz cores total, I actually have capacity to spare, and can even loan cores out to my buddies who are CPU starved, which inspires the University to pay the nontrivial cost of providing power and AC to all of these CPUs! The cost savings of MY TIME -- well, it's hard to compute, but simply taking the salary I would need to be paid while all that work takes well over half again as long to complete and feeding even the savings on my meager salary back into still more nodes, the break-even point on the CBA exercise would probably leave me with WELL OVER 2x the 64 core capacity of the "cute" desktop cluster model. This little exercise in the realities of infrastructure planning exposes the fallacy of the "desktop cluster" in MOST office environments, including research miniclusters in a lot of University settings. There exist spaces -- perhaps big labs, with their own dedicated climate control and lots of power -- where one could indeed plug right in and run, but your typical office or cubicle is not one of them. Those same spaces have room for racks, of course, if they have room for a high density blade chassis. If you already have, or commit to building, an infrastructure space with rack room, real AC, real power, you have to look SERIOUSLY at whether you want to pay the price premium for small-form factor solutions. But that premium is a lot smaller than it was eight or so years ago, and there ARE places with that proverbial broom closet or office that is the ONLY place one can put a cluster. For them, even with the relatively minor renovations needed to handle 3-4 KW in a small space, it might well be worth it. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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ETS Invests in University of Pennsylvania's New Center For Minority-Serving Institutions
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PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education launched its new Center for Minority-Serving Institutions (CMSI) earlier this week, it did so with both funding and research support from Educational Testing Service (ETS). That investment reflects ETS's lifelong mission to increase enrollment, retention and graduation of minority and low-income students and improve the effectiveness of institutions serving those populations.
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CMSI brings together researchers and practitioners from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU); Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU); Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI); and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI). It will serve as a central hub for research, data, best practices, emerging innovations and ideas surrounding Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).
Dr. Marybeth Gasman, a historian and professor at the Graduate School of Education, has been named director of CMSI, which is focused on furthering higher education for underrepresented populations. ETS, The Kresge Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Penn Provost's Office, and the Penn Excellence through Diversity Fund have contributed a total of $2.5 million in funding to date.
"Some 3.6 million undergraduate students — 20 percent of all undergraduates — enroll in MSI's," says Dr. Michael Nettles, Senior Vice President of ETS's Policy Evaluation & Research Center. "Almost half of them are the first in their families to attend college. We have to ensure they have access to such colleges, that those institutions survive and expand the excellent job they're already doing and that they have access to research and findings to help them do that job. For more than 30 years ETS has worked with minority-serving institutions on similar efforts and we look forward to expanding that with this project."
The official CMSI launch was Tuesday, January 21. It included a town hall meeting and panel discussion, Envisioning the Future of Minority Serving Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities, co-moderated by Dr. Gasman and Dr. Nettles. The panel included:
- Cheryl Crazy Bull, executive director of the American Indian College Fund
- Kalindi Doshi, Campus Engagement Manager at Gates Millennium Scholars Program of the Asian & Pacific Islander American College Fund
- Karl Reid, senior vice president for research, innovation and member college engagement at the United Negro College Fund
- Deborah Santiago, the vice president for policy and research at Excelencia in Education.
Upcoming projects include a state policy report on HBCUs in Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Alabama; policy reports on Texas and California and their growing MSI populations; an investigation of HBCUs as leaders and teachers in STEM education; a research effort aimed at understanding doctoral pipelines for Latinos; research on MSIs as Community Colleges vs. Community Colleges as MSIs; and the development of a media toolkit for MSIs. Additionally, the CMSI will begin taking applications for its new Fellows program, which will award $5,000 to selected scholars to stimulate research about MSIs.
The CMSI's goals include elevating the educational contributions of Minority-Serving Institutions; ensuring that they are a part of national conversations; bringing awareness to the vital role MSIs play in the nation's economic development; increasing the rigorous scholarship of MSIs; connecting MSI academic and administrative leadership to promote reform initiatives; and bolstering efforts to close educational achievement gaps among disadvantaged communities.
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At ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research. ETS serves individuals, educational institutions and government agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher certification, English language learning, and elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, as well as conducting education research, analysis and policy studies. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually — including the TOEFL® and TOEIC ® tests, the GRE ® tests and The Praxis Series™ assessments — in more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. www.ets.org
About Penn GSE
Penn GSE is one of the nation's premier research education schools. No other education school enjoys a university environment as supportive of practical knowledge building as the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania. The School is notably entrepreneurial, launching innovative degree programs for practicing professionals and unique partnerships with local educators, and the first-ever business plan competition devoted exclusively to educational products and programs. For further information about Penn GSE, please visit www.gse.upenn.edu/.
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Thank you, dear readers, for your many kind comments on my column welcoming Pope Francis to the world of healing and hope. I'm truly excited to see his first humble and gracious acts, and I hope they presage a time of new beginnings and old continuities for the Catholic Church. I was particularly pleased to learn that one of the things he did was write a warm and welcoming letter to the rabbi of Rome pledging his commitment to continue the work of improving Catholic-Jewish relations. May Pope Francis go from strength to strength and from love to love.
Every year, as Passover and Easter approach, it's my custom, honor and joy to wish Passover and Easter blessings to all my Jewish and Christian readers. This year, I'm including three very different blessings about the same holidays. One is for all my readers who celebrate Passover, one is for those who observe Easter, and another is for people who don't celebrate Passover or Easter ... yet.
For those who celebrate Passover:
May your souls leave Egypt this year with your ancestors. Egypt is not just a place; it is a state of mind. The word Egypt in Hebrew, mitzraim, has as its root meaning, meitzar, the name of a narrow passage between two cliffs. It's a place of constriction, vulnerability and fear.
So when you come to the part of the Passover seder where we read the biblical commandment to see yourself as having left Egypt, even in future generations, I pray that you might visualize "Egypt" as the narrow place(s) you're going through right now in your life. Egypt is everything that's keeping you from doing your best, choosing the good and serving others. Egypt is the place where you've forgotten your best self.
God wants you to leave that place as you read the account of your ancestors leaving the real Egypt 3,000 years ago. I do not pray that your journey will be easy. Freedom is purchased dearly, but I do pray that you have the courage and love to complete the journey to your own promised land. That is the promise and the meaning of the Exodus and the holiday of Passover that is about to arrive and unfold again.
For those who celebrate Easter:
May you have the courage to see the crucifix and the joy to see the empty cross. I've always been moved by the different truths that Catholics and Protestants see in the world's most important symbol — the cross.
In Catholic churches, I always see the crucifix, which is, of course, the cross with Jesus' crucified body impaled upon it. This is the central truth of the cross for Christians. Jesus did not just come to earth, but he came to suffer here, and through that suffering, to cleanse the sins of all humanity. May you see the sufferings in your own life this Easter as a sign that even out of despair and pain, the seeds of redemption can still grow.
The second truth of the cross is the bare cross I see in Protestant churches — the truth of the risen Christ. It is the evidence of salvation and hope. It is the difference between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. May this Easter lead you beyond suffering to hope and Sunday joy.
For those who don't celebrate Passover or Easter:
In so many ways, these two holidays encapsulate hopes and joys that transcend even their religious origins. Let me begin by wishing you a happy springtime! Spring is not just another season. Spring is a moment in natural time that transcends nature. It is the season of renewal. Like babies, springtime is God's inescapable message that life should go on.
Spring brings rebirth in nature, and whether or not every person embraces religious faith, there's no doubt that we human beings are a part of nature and nature's time. Spring is a natural revelation. As I've often said, for me it always seems to come back to trees. The buds of spring are proof that life has an edge over death in our world. If nature can renew itself, so can we.
With all my heart, I pray for a springtime renewal for you and those you love. In the world and in your life, the warm sun is going to shine again. (Note: For those readers in Florida, please ignore this last sentence — you already know it's true!)
Happy Passover!
Happy Easter!
Happy Springtime!
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Abstract: Into The Mani: Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research in Diros Bay, Mani Peninsula, Southern Greece
Situated on the western shore of the Mani Peninsula on the southern Greek mainland is a massive cave that several thousand years ago was the site of a substantial early agricultural village. Alepotrypa Cave (Fox Hole Cave) is nearly half a kilometer deep, contains a cathedral-like main chamber, various smaller chambers, and a large freshwater lake. The cave also preserves several meters of archaeological deposits that date to the Neolithic Period (7,500-5,000 years ago) suggesting that it was home to some of the earliest farmers in Europe. People also came from distant places throughout the Aegean to bury their dead inside the cave. The remains of pottery, animals, and humans located on the surface of the cave floor suggest that the cave entrance collapsed at the beginning of the Bronze Age and that some individuals were trapped inside. The cave, which is a veritable Neolithic Pompeii, was discovered in 1958, but it is not widely known outside of Greece.
Dr. Parkinson is working with Greek and American colleagues to develop a multi-disciplinary research project that will place the cave into a regional context by reconstructing the ancient landscape and documenting the archaeological sites that surround it.
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...and of course I agree with you. Of course if I am asked a question about Dhamma, I will answer it as best as I can, I would not hold back. But no one is disputing that. I think that what some of us have been discussing here, is more the idea of laypersons such as ourselves 'going forth to make converts to Buddhism'...That is the bone of contention here, rather than whether we should answer simple questions put ot us (to which the answer is, yes, of course we should!).chownah wrote:My goodness! What is the big deal about teaching the Dhama......if anyone should ask me if the Buddha taught everything that he knew I would say that in the scriptures there is a sutta that says that the Buddha only taught about the way to end suffering and that I have never seen anything that said he taught everything that he knew...and that I am not the last word in interpreting the Pali texts so of course someone might disagree with me on this....
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A Helper's Hope (bringing skilled professionals to orphanages in need)
I need a logo for my organization. I want something lovely that makes me feel good when I see it. I have ideas but am not a professional and want to see what others can produce. The organization is created to lead teams of professionals with experience in early childhood to orphanages abroad to help make a difference in the lives of the children while training the staff and assisting with needs.
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a new e-zine I've created (K=O=L=L=A=P=S isn't dead, merely sleeping while I wait for the cover image/visual poem to be posted to me.) this blog will hopefully feature Poetry ( of all kinds, or at least the types that can fit into a PDF, such as visual and linier poetry. essays and articles are also welcome. The magazine will primarily be in PDF form as I say and published using scribd, to be posted on this specially created blog. those people I send mail-art to may receive a limited edition print copy. The occational interview with a poet may be included if i can wrangle on through the wonders of e-mail. This will be a fully illustrated(though low budget zine) dedicated to promoting the innovative contemporary poetry. so let me know if you want to submit any stuff!
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Jericho review: Can it fill a Downton Abbey-sized hole in our hearts?
The Western is a genre that has traditionally been associated with American television, but that might be about to change. ITV's ambitious new period drama Jericho is the tale… read more
Jericho review: Can it fill a Downton Abbey-sized hole in our hearts?
The Western is a genre that has traditionally been associated with American television, but that might be about to change. ITV's ambitious new period drama Jericho is the tale of a Western-style town in nineteenth century Yorkshire, which incorporates all the Western cliches: sheriffs, fights, and characters running from justice. Jericho has a British twist, however. It quickly stamps its mark with the usage of the very same Upstairs Downstairs class dynamic that helped make Downton Abbey so popular. Can it even come close to filling the Downton Abbey sized hole in our hearts, however?
Jericho stars Jessica Raine (Fortitude, Wolf Hall, Call the Midwife) as Annie Quaintain, a woman who is forced to move with her two children to the small viaduct-building settlement of Jericho when her husband's debts leave her nowhere else to go. With no skills useful to building a viaduct, Annie opens a lodgings for navvy labourers. She soon discovers that her own secrets are small compared to those she now lives alongside.
Raine as Annie is strange casting, as she looks ridiculously young for someone who is supposed to have borne a child the age of Amy James-Kelly, who is 20 in real life. I understand that glamorous casting is a loathed but apparently vital feature of television and film, but this was so much so that I found it distracting. Raine does the job, however, amicably enough. She stars alongside the attractive Hans Matheson (Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Doctor Zhivago, The Tudors) as Johnny Jackson, a navvy who seems contractually obligated to a disproportional number of shirtless scenes. Former Coronation Street actress Amy James-Kelly plays Annie's daughter Martha, but we don't really see enough of her during the first episode to form an opinion on her acting skills outside of the soap. Martha's brother George (Sam Bottomley) however, takes centre stage in an exciting twist that will almost certainly haunt Annie and Johnny and the family.
The decidedly middle class characters include Charles Blackwood, played by Daniel Rigby (Black Mirror, From There to Here), an entrepreneur who has invested in building the railway viaduct. He's unfortunately run into trouble with the funding of his vision, and is fairly unremarkable. However, this might be because he spends most of the first episode beside the fantastic Jeany Spark as Isabella, a wonderfully capable, intelligent businesswoman in an era that does not appreciate her. She could be one of the non-joke Apprentice candidates, and easily brings the sparkle to the Upstairs storylines.
One of the most intriguing characters is the enigmatic Ralph Coates, played by Clarke Peters (The Wire, Jessica Jones, Treme), an African-American who takes a position as foreman after a little trickery. A person of colour in a British period drama is refreshing (and yes, they did exist in 1870), but Coates is far more than ticking boxes. He is shady, intelligent and a puzzle I can't wait to explore.
I loved the glorious shots of the Yorkshire Dales, a loving homage to a truly remarkable part of the country. I sincerely hope this raises tourism, because the Dales are a place of beauty that everyone ought to witness.
The first episode is a whopping hour and a half, but packed to the brim with twists and turns to keep viewers engaged and had me wondering where the time went at the final credits. It's dare-I-say-it reminiscent of the early excitement that Downton Abbey caused. There are murders, a gunpowder plot, fights aplenty and so many secrets one wonders if a ten series commission would be enough to explore all that has been hinted at. Indeed, there are far too many characters to care about at this point, each with different plots and motives. It's exhausting to keep track of, and only time will tell if this will be the breaking of a good show or something that contributes to its success (again, like Downton Abbey). Jericho has a whole lot of promise, certainly, but we won't be holding our breath for success on a Downton Abbey scale.
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