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This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Walking is falling forward.
Each step we take is an arrested plunge, a collapse averted, a disaster braked. In this way, to walk becomes an act of faith. We perform it daily: a two-beat miracle—an iambic teetering, a holding on and letting go. For the next seven years I will plummet across the world.
I am on a journey. I am in pursuit of an idea, a story, a chimera, perhaps a folly. I am chasing ghosts. Starting in humanity's birthplace in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, I am retracing, on foot, the pathways of the ancestors who first discovered the Earth at least 60,000 years ago. This remains by far our greatest voyage. Not because it delivered us the planet. No. But because the early Homo sapiens who first roamed beyond the mother continent—these pioneer nomads numbered, in total, as few as a couple of hundred people—also bequeathed us the subtlest qualities we now associate with being fully human: complex language, abstract thinking, a compulsion to make art, a genius for technological innovation, and the continuum of today's many races. We know so little about them. They straddled the strait called Bab el Mandeb—the "gate of grief" that cleaves Africa from Arabia—and then exploded, in just 2,500 generations, a geological heartbeat, to the remotest habitable fringe of the globe.
Millennia behind, I follow.
Using fossil evidence and the burgeoning science of "genography"—a field that sifts the DNA of living populations for mutations useful in tracking ancient diasporas—I will walk north from Africa into the Middle East. From there my antique route leads eastward across the vast gravel plains of Asia to China, then north again into the mint blue shadows of Siberia. From Russia I will hop a ship to Alaska and inch down the western coast of the New World to wind-smeared Tierra del Fuego, our species' last new continental horizon. I will walk 21,000 miles.
If you ask, I will tell you that I have embarked on this project, which I'm calling the Out of Eden Walk, for many reasons: to relearn the contours of our planet at the human pace of three miles an hour. To slow down. To think. To write. To render current events as a form of pilgrimage. I hope to repair certain important connections burned through by artificial speed, by inattentiveness. I walk, as everyone does, to see what lies ahead. I walk to remember.
The trails scuffed through the Ethiopian desert are possibly the oldest human marks in the world. People walk them still: the hungry, the poor, the climate stricken, men and women sleepwalking away from war. Nearly a billion people are on the move today across the Earth. We are living through the greatest mass migration our species has ever known. As always, the final destination remains unclear. In Djibouti city, the African migrants stood waving cell phones on trash-strewed beaches at night. They were capturing a cheap signal from neighboring Somalia. I heard them murmur: Oslo, Melbourne, Minnesota. It was eerie and sad and strangely beautiful. After 600 centuries we were still seeking guidance, even rescue, from those who had walked before.
Herto Bouri, Ethiopia
"Where are you walking?" the Afar pastoralists ask.
"North. To Djibouti." (We do not say Tierra del Fuego. It is much too far—it is meaningless.)
"Are you crazy? Are you sick?"
In reply, Mohamed Elema Hessan—wiry and energetic, the ultimate go-to man, a charming rogue, my guide and protector through the blistering Afar Triangle—doubles over and laughs. He leads our micro-caravan: two skinny camels. I have listened to his guffaw many times already. This project is, to him, a punch line—a cosmic joke. To walk for seven years! Across three continents! Enduring hardship, loneliness, uncertainty, fear, exhaustion, confusion—all for a rucksack's worth of ideas, palaver, scientific and literary conceits. He enjoys the absurdity of it. This is fitting. Especially given our ridiculous launch.
I awoke before dawn and saw snow: thick, dense, choking, blinding. Like plankton suspended at the bottom of a sunless sea, swirling white in the beam of my headlamp. It was the dust. Hundreds of animals in Elema's village had churned up a cloud as fine as talc. Goats, sheep, and camels—but, sadly, not our camels.
The cargo animals I had requisitioned months before (a key arrangement in a project that has consumed thousands of hours of planning) were nowhere to be found. Their drivers, two nomads named Mohamed Aidahis and Kader Yarri, were absent too. They never showed up. So we sat in the dust, waiting. The sun rose. It began to grow hot. Flies buzzed. To the east, across the Rift, our first border, Djibouti, was receding at the rate of three-quarters of an inch every year—the speed at which Arabia is drifting away from Africa.
Are you crazy? Are you sick? Yes? No? Maybe?
The Afar Triangle in northeast Ethiopia is dreaded as a waterless moonscape. Temperatures of 120°F. Salt pans so bright they burn out the eyes. Yet today it rained. Elema and I have no waterproof tents. We have an Ethiopian flag, which Elema wraps himself in as he walks. We have found and rented two camels. We plod across an acacia plain darkened to the color of chocolate by the warm raindrops. We tread on a photographic negative: The camels' moccasin-like feet pull up the frail crust of moisture, leaving behind ellipses of pale dust.
After a dozen miles, Elema already asks to turn back.
He forgot his new walking shoes from America. And his flashlight. And his hat—and the cell phone. So he hitches a ride from our first camp to his village to retrieve these vital items. And now he has jogged all the way back to catch up. He complains, laughing, of crotch rash.
This absentmindedness is understandable. It is impossible to remember every detail on a walk of this scope. I have forgotten things myself—nylon stuff sacks, for instance. Because of this, I begin my trek out of Africa with airplane luggage, a city slicker's rig with plastic rollers and collapsible handle, strapped to a camel's back.
It is the scientists of the Middle Awash research project who invited us to begin walking at Herto Bouri, our symbolic mile zero in the Ethiopian Rift—one of the richest human boneyards in the world. This is the famous site where some of the world's oldest human fossils have been found. Homo sapiens idaltu. Gone for 160,000 years. A big-boned ancestor—a dawn version of us.
The Middle Awash Project researchers, a team led by Tim White, Berhane Asfaw, and Giday WoldeGabriel, have uncovered in Ethiopia many of the most important hominin fossils of our day, including Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4-million-year-old biped. My unpredictable Afar guide, Elema, is their veteran fossil hunter.
Raised in a nomad culture feared for its tough warriors, Elema speaks three languages—Afar, Amharic, and a profane English patois gleaned from the Middle Awash scientists. He is a paleontologist in his own right. He exclaims "Wow" and "Crazy, man" and "Jeezus" while identifying the Rift's key geological strata. (Me he calls, not without endearment, White Asshole; I return the compliment with equal fondness, dubbing him and his perennial rash, Burned Asshole.) He is the balabat,or traditional leader, of the Bouri-Modaitu clan of the Afar. His cell phone holds the numbers of Ethiopian grandees and French academics. Educated to the eighth grade in schools of the Emperor Haile Selassie, he bridges more cultures than a Malinowski. He holds more time warps inside his head than an Einstein. He is a phenomenon.
We are camped at Aduma when the Middle Awash scientists find us. They have come to show us a Middle Stone Age site.
"These tools are still a little early for the people you're following," says Yonatan Sahle, an Ethiopian researcher based in the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. "But their technology was basically as advanced. They made throwing weapons that allowed them to outcompete the other hominins they encountered outside Africa."
We lean over a delicate stone point, a work of art that lies where its maker dropped it 80,000 to 100,000 years ago. In the distance we hear screaming. We look up.
An Afar woman strides in from the desert, waving her arms wildly. Where did she come from? Is she warning us off her hill? Is she mad? No. She marches up to a man dozing nearby on the ground. She gives him a sharp kick. She hefts a stone—a Middle Stone Age tool, perhaps—and threatens to brain him. Is it the collection of a debt? A matter of the heart?
I hear the victim laughing. I know this maniacal laugh. It is the man who will guide me to Djibouti, to the Gulf of Aden.
Dalifagi, Ethiopia
Water is gold in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.
No surprise. This is one of the hottest deserts in the world. Walking for three days near the western scarp of the Rift, Elema and I find only one miraculous pool of muddy rainwater to ease our camels' thirst. But we stumble across a new type of water hole a day later—a coveted oasis of electrons, the village of Dalifagi.
The immense salt scapes that shroud the borders of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea weren't even mapped until the 1920s. For centuries the martial Afar pastoralists who ruled the area resisted all incursions by the outside world. Today, though, besides their usual armament of pointy daggers and Kalashnikov rifles, they carry cell phones. They embrace the tool of instant communication with a vengeance. "It has given them power," says Mulukan Ayalu, 23, an Ethiopian government technician who maintains the tiny power plant at Dalifagi. "They can call different goat traders. They can choose their selling prices."
The diesel generator at Dalifagi chugs out a 220-volt current for six hours a day. Ayalu plugs in the nomads' cell batteries for a few cents each. On Mondays—market day—grizzled Afars line up at his office door. The folds of their sarong-like skirts bulge with dead cell phones of faraway neighbors. The nomads are addicted to the devices. "Hallow? Hallow?" Elema bellows into his phone on the trail, with an accent that sounds, to my ear, straight out of Brooklyn. But he is asking directions to some ancient well. Or exchanging news of the dreaded Issa, armed raiders from a rival nomad group.
The electronic oasis at Dalifagi would never draw tourists, much less inspire the verse of caravan poets. But it is the real story today in sub-Saharan Africa. Nine hundred million people. A headlong sprint into the digital age. Exploding aspirations. Consequences unknown.
Near the Talalak River, Ethiopia
Footwear is a hallmark of modern identity. How best to glimpse an individual's core values at the start of the 21st century? Look down at people's feet—not into their eyes.
In the affluent "global north," where fashion caters to every whim and vanity, shoes announce their wearer's class, hipness, career choice, sexual availability, even politics (the clog versus the cowboy boot). It is disorienting, then, to be walking through a landscape where human beings—millions upon millions of women, men, and children—slip on identical-style footwear every morning: the cheap, democratic, versatile plastic sandal of Ethiopia. Poverty drives demand. The only brand is necessity.
Available in a limited palette of chemical hues—black, red, brown, green, blue—the humble rubbery shoes are a triumph of local invention. They cost a pittance to manufacture. Any pair can be had for the equivalent of a day's field labor. (Perhaps two dollars.) They are cool—permitting the air to circulate about the feet on the desert's scalding surface. The ubiquitous sandals of rural Ethiopia weigh nothing. They are recyclable. And home repair is universal: Owners melt and mend the molded-plastic straps over wood fires.
Our binary camel caravan—our two beasts are named A'urta, or Traded for a Cow, and Suma'atuli, Branded on the Ear—has been joined at last by its two long-lost cameleers, Mohamed Aidahis and Kader Yarri. These men caught up with us from our departure point at Herto Bouri, crossing miles of gravel pans and rumpled badlands during days of quickstep walking. In the manner of life here, no explanation was asked or given regarding the nature of their weeklong delay. They were late. Now they were with us. Each wore a pair of the region's signature plastic sandals. Color: lime green.
The dust of the Rift Valley is a palimpsest stamped by such footwear. Yet if Ethiopia's populist sandals are mass-produced, their wearers are not. One man might drag his left heel. A woman might mar her right shoe's sole by stepping on an ember.
Elema knelt the other day on the trail, examining this endless mutation of impressions.
"La'ad Howeni will be waiting for us in Dalifagi," he said. He pointed to a single sandal track. La'ad was waiting in Dalifagi.
Near Hadar, Ethiopia
We are walking in the direction of Warenso.
The world changes when you are thirsty. It shrinks. It loses depth. The horizon draws close. (In northern Ethiopia the Earth butts against the sky, hard and smooth as the surface of a skull.) The desert tightens around you like a noose. This is the thirsty brain compressing the distances of the Rift, sucking in the miles through the eyes, magnifying them, probing them for any hint of water. Little else matters.
Elema and I have trudged more than 20 miles through the crushing heat. We have separated from the cargo camels to visit an archaeological site folded into a wrinkled draw: Gona, the location of the oldest known stone tools in the world. (Age: 2.6 million years.) Our water bottles are empty. We are uncomfortable, anxious. We speak little. (What can be said? Why dry the tongue?) The sun's rays corkscrew into our heads. An Afar proverb: It is best, when you are lost or thirsty, to keep walking under the sun, because eventually someone will see you. To be tempted into shade, to drop under one of 10,000 thornbushes, means death: No one will find you. So we stagger on into the blinding afternoon—until we hear the faint bleating of goats. Then we smile. We can begin to relax. Goats mean people.
Our hosts: an Afar family camped on a hill. Two strong, smiling young women. Eight children in thin rags that once may have been articles of clothing. And a very old woman—she doesn't know her age—who hunches like a gnome in the shade of a reed mat. Her name is Hasna. She has been sitting there, weaving with spidery fingers, since the beginning of time. She invites us to join her, to rest our bones, to remove our shoes. From a battered jerrican she pours us water—chalky and warm, so salty, so alkaline, it oozes down the throat like soap, but precious nonetheless. She offers us a fistful of yellow berries from a wild tree that grows in wadis. She is our mother.
When our ancestors wandered out of Africa 60,000 or more years ago, they encountered other species of hominins. The world was crowded then with strange cousins: Homo neanderthalensis, Homo floresiensis, the Denisovans, and perhaps other varieties of people who weren't quite us.
When we met them, perhaps like this, on some remote hilltop, did we share water, or even interbreed peacefully, as some geneticists suggest? (Outside Africa, modern human populations seem to contain as much as 2.5 percent of Neanderthal DNA.) Or did we rape and kill, launching our species' long and terrible history of genocides? (In a cave occupied by modern humans, Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, has identified a Neanderthal jawbone mutilated by the cut marks of butchery, perhaps cannibalism.) Scientists still debate this puzzle. All that is certain is that we alone survived to claim the Earth. We won the planet. But at a cost: We are without close family. We are a species racked by survivor's guilt. We are a lonely ape.
Hasna's gentle voice lulls me to sleep.
When I awake, Elema is hunkered in low conversation with the men of the nomad camp. They have returned from tending their flocks. We shake hands. We thank them. We leave packets of crackers for grinning Hasna, and walk on. We are hurrying to meet the camels, walking toward Warenso. That night, while sipping our gift of salty water around a red fire that saws back and forth in the wind, Elema tells me the men of Hasna's camp had threatened him. He was not of their clan. He nearly hit them over the head with his walking stick.
Dubti, Ethiopia
Moving north and then east, we abandon the desert and stub our toes on the Anthropocene—the age of modern humans.
Asphalt appears: the Djibouti-Ethiopia road, throbbing with trucks. We drift through a series of gritty towns. Dust and diesel. Bars. Shops with raw plank counters. Garlands of tin cups clink in the wind outside their doors.
Then, near Dubti: a sea (no, a wall) of sugarcane. Miles of industrial irrigation. Canals. Diversion dams. Bulldozed fields. Levees crawling with dump trucks. Elema becomes lost. Night envelops us. We end up pulling the weary camels in a gigantic circle. "Wow, man!" Elema says angrily. "No way! Too much change!"
This is the multimillion-dollar Tendaho sugar plantation, an Ethiopian-Indian project that is making the Afar Triangle bloom. Fifty thousand migrant workers will soon toil here, tending 120,000 acres of desert that have been scraped, shaped, molded, and flooded by the Awash River to sweeten the world's coffee, its tea. Eventually, it could make Ethiopia the sixth largest sugar producer in the world. It will help break the country's dependence on foreign aid—a good thing.
But the benefits of economic progress are rarely shared equally with all involved. There are winners and losers in every improvement scheme. Here, one of the losers is a bright young Afar woman—a girl, really, though her poise makes her seem old beyond her years. She is wrapped in a red dress. She stands by a new levee. She is collecting water from what used to be the Awash River.
"The company moved us off our land," she tells us, waving her arm at the sheets of cane. "We get a little work, we Afars, but it is always the lowest work. Watchmen. Shovel work."
A typical sugar plantation salary: $20 a month. The girl says police came to expel the Afar diehards who refused to move. Shots were exchanged. Blood flowed on both sides.
How old is this story? It is one of the oldest stories in the world.
What are the individual names of the Sioux forced from the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory by gold miners? Who remembers this anymore? Who are the millions of people who surrender their livelihoods today—Irish farmers in the European Union, Mexican ranchers shunted aside by highways—for some abstract common cause? It is impossible to keep track. Humanity remakes the world in an accelerating cycle of change that strips away our stories as well as the topsoil. Our era's breathtaking changes flatten collective memory, blur precedence, sever lines of responsibility. (What disconcerts us about suburbia? Not just its sameness, but its absence of time. We crave a past in our landscapes.)
Dubti is a busy green frontier. Ethiopians are flocking there, bringing new hopes, tastes, ambitions, voices, a new future—a new history.
In Dishoto, another truck stop town, I recharge my laptop at a police station. The officers are all outsiders, non-Afar, from the highlands, from the south. They are friendly, curious, generous. They ply Elema and me with tea. (It is dense with sugar.) Our conversation is interrupted by government ads. The policemen watch these nation-building commercials intently: music played over video loops of strip mining, roadbuilding, workers in medical labs. We thank them. We walk on.
Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist, once wrote that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The Afar girl's name is Dahara. She is 15.
Near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border
We camp on the flank of Fatuma mountain, a basalt sentinel overlooking the caravan trails that braid eastward to the old coastal sultanate of Tadjoura. The tiny Republic of Djibouti sprawls below: a scalded plain, hotter and drier than the Ethiopian desert, with dry lake beds of blinding white salt, scarps of gunmetal gray, and doubtless, huddled somewhere in the shade of a doom palm, more Afar nomads—herders cleaved from their Ethiopian brethren by a colonial border, speaking in halting French.
This is where I begin to say goodbye to the Afar camel men from Herto Bouri.
Elema, Yarri, and Aidahis declare themselves ready to push on. They wish to walk with me to the beaches of the Gulf of Aden. But this is impossible. Two of them have no passports, no documents, no scraps of paper attesting to their existence. ("This is all Afar land!" they say.) And besides, Elema is sick. He issues his camel-loading orders lying down, from under his shire, his sarong, which he drapes over his head like a sheet. In a few hours we will part ways in the ugly border town of Howle.
What is it like to walk through the world?
It is mornings like these: Opening your eyes to nothing but seamless sky for day after day; a pale, numinous void that for one fleeting instant, when you first awake, seems to suck you upward, out of your body, out of yourself. It is the clarity of hunger, a transparency that seems blown through by the wind, the way a hollow pipe is blown to make it whistle. (We trekked 18 miles yesterday on short rations, on a single bowl of noodles and a handful of biscuits each. My wedding ring, once tight, jiggles loosely along my finger.) It is learning to read landscape with your whole body, your skin, not merely your eyes—sensing camel fodder in a thorn scratch, the coming dust in the smell of the wind, and of course, precious water in the fold of the land: a limbic memory of great power. It is watching the eternity of Africa slip by at a walking pace, and coming to realize dimly that, even at three miles an hour, you are still moving too fast. It is the journey shared.
Mohamed Aidahis: a powerful ant-stomping gait. Kader Yarri: the marionette looseness of a skinny man's step. Mohamed Elema: the spring-loaded step of a square dancer. On our best days we four ramblers recognize our immense good luck. We ricochet down steep mountain trails, almost running, with the desert of Ethiopia shining at our feet. We bounce our voices off the walls of black-rock canyons in whooping contests. Then we catch each other's eye, three Afars and a man from the opposite longitude of the Earth, and grin like children. The cameleers catch the spark, and sing.
What is it like to walk through the world?
It is like this. It is like serious play. I will miss these men.
Ardoukoba lava field, Djibouti
The dead appear on the 42nd day of the walk.
There are five, six, seven of them—women and men sprawled faceup, facedown, on the black lava plain as if dropped from the sky. Most are naked. They have stripped off their clothes in a final spasm of madness. Sandals, trousers, brassieres, cheap nylon backpacks—their belongings lie scattered, faded, washed out, bleached by the sun to the pale gray of undersea things. The skin of the dead is parched a deep burned yellow. The little wild dogs that come in the night have taken their hands, taken their feet. They might have been Ethiopians. Or Somalis. A few, probably, were Eritreans. They were walking east. This is what unites them now in the mineral silences of the desert: They were making for the Gulf of Aden—for the open boats of the Yemenis who smuggle destitute Africans to peons' jobs in the Middle East. How many such migrants die in the Afar Triangle? Nobody knows. At least 100,000 attempt the crossing to the Arabian Peninsula each year, according to the UN. Police chase them. They become lost. Thirst kills them.
"A crime!" Houssain Mohamed Houssain shouts back at me. "A disgrace!"
Houssain is my guide in Djibouti. He is a decent man. He is angry and perhaps ashamed. He strides far ahead, shaking his walking stick at the stone white sky. I lag behind. I wipe the sweat from my eye sockets and study the dead.
A demographer calculates that 93 percent of all the human beings who ever existed on Earth—more than 100 billion people—have vanished before us. Most of humanity is gone. The bulk of our heartaches and triumphs lie behind us. We abandon them daily in the wasteland of the past. Rightly so. Because even though I have told you that I am walking to remember, this isn't completely true. As we reenact the discovery of the Earth over and over again, to keep going—to endure, to not sit down—we must embark also on journeys of forgetting. Houssain appears to know this. He never looks back.
One day later we reach the Gulf of Aden.
A beach of gray cobbles. Waves of hammered silver. We shake hands. We laugh. Houssain opens a sack of hoarded dates. It is a celebration. We stand on the rim of Africa. The sea is walking—it falls endlessly forward into Africa and then rolls forever back, pulling away to the east … toward Yemen and the Tihamah Coast, toward the lupine valleys of the Himalaya, toward ice, toward sunrise, toward the hearts of unknown people. I am happy. I write this down in my journal: I am happy.
Brave, foolish, desperate travelers. You almost made it. You fell three miles from the coast.

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Mesh Networking Relay 16-Channel 1-Amp DPDT with UXP PortZUXPSR161DPDTPROXR_ZBMESH
Mesh Networking RelayThe ZUXPSR161DPDTProXR_ZBMESH Mesh Networking Relay is equipped with a Mesh Networking interface that will allow you to add relay control to your existing mesh network. Once connected to your network you can send commands to the board to control the relays. The ZUXPSR161DPDTProXR_ZBMESH can also use a Mesh Networking Coordinator connected to the USB port of your computer to communicate if you are starting a new mesh network.
ZUXPSR161DPDTProXR_ZBMESH for Existing Mesh NetworksThe ZUXPSR161DPDTProXR_ZBMESH Mesh Networking Relay will integrate into an existing mesh network as a router or endpoint and you will have to choose this at checkout. Because of it's complexity we don't recommend first time users learning Mesh Networking with these devices.
Mesh Networking Relay - ProXRThis is a ProXR board meaning that it has the industry leading command set and the board can be expanded to include up to 256 relays. Adding relays is as easy as adding expansion boards as your needs arise.
Mesh Networking Relay 16-Channel 1-Amp DPDT with UXP PortZUXPSR161DPDTPROXR_ZBMESH
Mesh Networking Relay at a Glance
- 16 1-Amp Relays Installed
- Double Pole Double Throw (DPDT) Relay
- Temperature Rating -40° C to 85° C
- Expandable up to 256 Relays
- Onboard Digi Series 2 Interface
- Mesh Networking Module
- Integrates in Existing Mesh Network
- Industry Leading Command Set
- Specific Commands to Control Relays
- Program in Almost Any Language
- UXP Expansion Port for Adding Additional:
- Contact Closure Modules - up to 256 Inputs
- Digital Potentiometers - up to 48 Inputs
- Analog to Digital Conversion - up to 256 Outputs
For the Advanced UserZigBee Mesh networking can be slow, but extremely powerful and very reliable when you follow all the rules. We offer the mesh networking interface for the experienced user and not for someone who is starting a mesh network. The ZUXPSR161DPDTPROXR_ZBMESH will integrate into an existing mesh network as a router or endpoint and you will have to choose this at checkout. If you have an existing mesh network and want to add relay control our customers have had great success integrating these boards into their network and controlling the relays.
Data Travels Over Mesh NetworkExperienced users can also design a mesh network from the ground up using the Mesh Networking Coordinator available at checkout. Plug a Coordinator into the USB Port of your computer. The Coordinator will communicate to your wireless ZB ZigBee Mesh Network. The Coordinator will mount as a COM port on your PC. Open the COM port and start sending data to the Coordinator. The Coordinator will forward your data to any or all devices on the ZB ZigBee Mesh Network.
ProXR Command SetBy combining the power of ZB ZigBee Mesh Networking with our ProXR series relay controllers, you can take advantage of our powerful ProXR command set for data collection and control, in combination with many wireless ZB ZigBee Mesh Networking features. ZB ZigBee is a perfect integration of good speed and excellent reliability.
ZB Mesh Network
|A ZB ZigBee Mesh Network consists of up to three components:
ProXR RelayWe've looked at the interface now let's take a look at the board design and programming. The ProXR series controllers are manufactured by hand for a highly accurate and reliable design. Equipped with the XR Expansion Port additional relays can be easily added. Fully tested before they leave the production facility each ProXR controller is ready to stand up to rigorous demands from heat, cold or vibration. The best test of all is the numerous boards in the field from customers all over the world in all sorts of conditions. Take it from us, these controllers will hold up!
Easy Software DevelopmentMost of our customers write their own program for controlling these devices. Since you can use almost any programming language, you can use one that is most familiar to you so you don't have to learn a new language. These boards support the Serial Port Profile, meaning they will mount to the computer as a virtual com port. This makes it very easy to send commands to the device.
Plug-In for Visual StudioThe NCD Component Library is a plug-in for the Visual Studio 2005/2008 that greatly simplifies the communications to the NCD product line. The samples can be run in Visual Studio and full customization to your needs. Over 40 samples included with this free download! Component Library.
Base Station SoftwareBase Station will assist you in learning how this device functions and is the ultimate reference tool for setting up, testing and controlling this device. Base Station software supports every feature of this device - no other controller manufacturer even comes close to offering this type of software. Base Station works by communicating with your controller to identify the model and provides the appropriate graphical user interface for setting up and testing the identified device. To help you get started and learn this controller Quick Start Guides are available for just about every feature. As you discover a feature in Base Station a link is provided where you can easily download the Quick Start Guide.
UXP ExpansionUXP is a new standardized data port, specifically for the purpose of speaking to various expansion modules. If the controller you are considering is equipped with a UXP port, you can take advantage of extended commands to speak to our growing line of I/O expansion modules. You will find the UXP port on models with UXP in the part number.
- Summary of UXP Modules
- Compatible with UXP Series Controllers ONLY
- Not a stand-alone controller - MUST be used with a UXP Series Controller
- Add Contact Closure Inputs
- up to 256 Inputs
- Add Analog to Digital Inputs
- up to 48 Inputs
- AddDigital Potentiometer Outputs
- up to 256 Outputs
UXP Expansion ModulesUXP Expansion Boards have no on-board brains. They are entirely reliant on the brains of a "master" device. A master device is an NCD controller with a UXP expansion port and a microprocessor of some kind. Most master UXP devices have on-board relays. If you need to add A/D, Contact Closure Inputs or Digital Potentiometers just plug in the appropriate expansion module. You cannot daisy chain different types of modules to the same controller however. In other words if you plug in a potentiometer you will not be able to plug a contact closure or A/D module also. For controllers that are equipped with a UXP Expansion port (and are suitable master devices for UXP Series Expansion) simply look for UXP in the part number. All UXP Expansion Modules have an input and an output so you can simply daisy chain the boards together until you reach the number of contacts you are looking for.
XR Expansion PortMost UXP controllers (Master Devices) have an XR expansion port and therefore can accommodate XR Expansion Boards. Typically the XR Expansion port is used to add relays to the main controller (Master Device). Like the UXP Expansion boards the XR Expansion Boards have no on-board brains. They are entirely reliant on the brains of a "master" device. When you run out of relays, just plug in an XR expansion board that is equipped with the kind of relays you need. You can add up to 256 relays including the relays that are on the main controller (Master Device). All XR Expansion modules are compatible with each other so if you want to add different types of relays you can. For controllers that are equipped with an XR Expansion port (and are suitable master devices for XR Series Expansion Controllers) simply look for PROXR in the part number.
Using XR and UXP TogetherIf you select a board that is equipped with both XR and UXP port you can use both ports simultaneously. This allows you to add and control more relays through the XR port plus add A/D, Contact Closures or Potentiometers to the same board through the UXP port. This can all be controlled through the same virtual COM port on your computer. These Expansion Boards can be purchase with the controller or purchased at a later time when you have a need to expand. To use both ports together you will need to select a controller that has UXP and PROXR in the part number to have bothports available on the controller (Master Device).
ProXR Enhanced Firmware InstalledThis board has ProXR Firmware installed that responds to the full ProXR Command Set. The ProXR Firmware is the industry leading firmware for controlling relays with more commands and functionality than any other board on the market. The list of commands and parameters this board is capable of is extensive. ProXR Enhanced is the newly released enhance version of the ProXR Firmware with more commands, more functionality and better control than ever before! For a detailed list of all the commands with descriptions see our ProXR Enhanced Command Set.
Essential Power RequirementsApplying Good clean power to the board is essential for the operation of the board. Not only for the switching of the relays but the firmware that processes the commands. Without good steady clean power from a regulated power supply the board simply will not function correctly. All boards on the site require 12 VDC power. The PWR12 US power supply is a 120VAC to 12VDC 1.25A 60Hz regulated power supply and it plugs into the barrel connector on the board. The output connector is a 2.1mm I.D. x 5.5mm O.D. x 9.5mm Female R/A barrel connector. We also carry an international power supply with interchangeable adapters for international customers. Learn More
DPDT Relays InstalledThis board has DPDT relays installed. A single DPDT relay is made up of 2 SPDT switches. Each relay acts as two switches that are activated at the same time. This allows two independent signals to be switched at one time. In effect, there are two independent switches on a single DPDT relay - they will always switch together.
There are two connectors with Normally Open, Normally Closed and Common for each relay allowing two separate connections. The picture above shows the 4-channel connectors. The diagram to the right shows the how the arms of the common connector swing from the Normally Closed to the Normally Open positions when energized. Wiring to either the NO or NC can produce your desired results.
2-Million CyclesProXR series controllers are designed for long life, you should expect to get years of service from your controller and literally 2-million cycles from the relays on board. With a 5-year warranty and a money back guarantee you have nothing to loose! Place your order now, while everything is in front of you.
This Board is RoHS CompliantThis board is led free and RoHS Compliant. If your requirements are for RoHS compliant parts this board is manufactured with RoHS compliant led free parts and solder.
Add Relays as Your Needs GrowThe ProXR series controllers are expandable up to 256 total relays. The controller is fitted with an XR Expansion Port where you can add expansion boards to this relay. Expansion boards can be added until you reach 256 total relays. The Expansion Boards get their logic from the main board and will require 12 VDC power. Expansion boards do not need to be the same relay amperage as the main board or other expansion boards.
16 User-Programmable TimersThe ProXR Series controllers have 16 user-programmable timers. Each independent timer can be assigned to any relay, and can be programmed to hold the relay in the On state, or to pulse the relay at the end of the timer. The ProXR timing features are ideally suited for Watchdog, Keep Alive, and Server Reboot applications, as well as sprinkler systems, gate openers, and lighting applications. Relay Timing Features support two modes of operation: Duration and Pulse. Duration timing is ideally suited where a device should be activated for a period of time. Pulse timing mode is designed specifically for server reboot applications, whereby, if the timer is not reset periodically by your software, the timer will run out and reboot your computer.
5-Year Warranty/Money Back GuaranteeProXR Lite series controllers are guaranteed against manufacturing and functionality defects for a full 5 years! Not to mention a 30-day money back guarantee! If for any reason you are not happy with a relay purchased from Relay Pros, simply return it within 30 days and we will give you your money back! Controllers that are damaged by our customers will not of course be warranted under any circumstances.
ShippingThe boards sold are brand new units shipped from our office conveniently located in Missouri. These boards are completely tested before they are released for shipping With so many boards on our site it is impossible to stock boards, please allow two to three days production time for your order to ship. If you have any questions please feel free to call our office at 800-960-4287 or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
ProXR with UXP Control Is Here!A more streamlined manufacturing process brings a more durable, reliable and better relay board to the market. Here's a lists of great features:
- User Friendly Board Design
- "Wall Wart" or direct power capability
- Relay status light bar
- XR Expansion Port - easily add more relays
- Easy screw terminal connections
- DPDT Relays with 2 connections per relay
- Each Connection has Common, Normally Open & Normally Closed
- ProXR Features
- Works with the full ProXR Enhanced Command Set
- UXP Expansion Port
- Highly reliable relay with industry leading command set
- 16 programmable timers available
ProXR Videos
Power Supply AvailableThe PWR12 is regulated power supply providing clean power necessary for the performance of these boards. The PWR12 US power supply is a 120VAC to 12VDC 1.25A 60Hz regulated power supply and it plugs into the barrel connector on the board. The output connector is a 2.1mm I.D. x 5.5mm O.D. x 9.5mm R/A barrel connector.
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ZB Mesh CoordinatorThe Coordinator mounts as a Virtual COM Port on your computer. All of your software will be written as though you are talking to a COM port at 115.2K Baud. AT and API Coordinators are available and you will need to choose this option at checkout if you are setting up a new mesh network. If you have an existing mesh network the coordinator is not necessary and does not need to be purchased. Click Here for More
Induction SuppressionControlling an inductive load using our relay controllers requires the use of induction suppression capacitors. The purpose of this capacitor is to absorb the high voltages generated by inductive loads, blocking them from the contacts of the relay. Without this capacitor, the lifespan of the relay will be greatly reduced. Induction can be so severe that it electrically interferes with the microprocessor logic of our controllers, causing relay banks to shut themselves down unexpectedly. Click Here for More
N-Button LiteN-Button Lite is software that allows you to configure buttons to control relays and read the status of those relays without programming. You can also create meters for reading variable input sensors connected to the board in real time!
Relay Timer R16XRelay Timer Software allows you control each relay independently from a time schedule you create! The software can be installed on a server or PC and uses the computers time for an accurate relay control. Enter the board's IP address in the software and access it over the network. Change and override the time schedule from anywhere on the network the software is loaded. Look for Relay Timer R16X during checkout.
Quick Timer R16XQUICKTIMER_R16X Software supports turning on/off each relay automatically during the predetermined duration. First set the duration that you want the sequence to be active. Time periods can then be set where the relay is energized within the set duration. Look for Quick Timer R16X during checkout.
Software OptionsNot a programmer and think these boards look great, not to worry we have software to help get you connected and even control the relays with a button on your desktop or by a time schedule!
Base Station
Free Software for Board ConnectionBase Station Software is our reference tool for designing and testing all currently manufactured NCD Devices. Base Station will assist you in learning how any NCD device functions and will provide valuable diagnostic tools to help determine if your controller is functioning as designed. Base Station software exercises every supported feature of every supported device. It is the ultimate reference tool for learning, diagnosing, and testing NCD devices.
Board IdentificationA window will open labeled "Device Identification Data". This window contains important "Read-Only" information about your device. Note the "Documentation Related to this Controller" field. This is a compilation of all articles relevant to your device. Click on an item in the list to view. You will need an Internet connection to access this information.
Board Command SetsBase Station software asks the controller which command sets are supported. The supported command sets are listed when you run the Base Station software application. Some controllers may show more command sets while other controllers may show fewer command sets. The Base Station program will decide which command sets apply to your particular controller. This allows our software to scale with the product line.
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N-Button Software
Point-And-Click SoftwareN-Button is software that allows you to configure buttons to control relays and read the status of those relays without programming using point-and-click action. You can also create meters for reading variable input sensors connected to the board in real time!
USB and Network CompatibleN-Button Lite supports Serial Port/ USB and Network connection between the PC and the relay board. Add any type of included N-Button Lite widgets with N-Button Lite Manager. It's also very easy to modify the widget's properties to get the button and configuration you are looking for using the full command set!
Lite vs. ProN-Button Lite has all the buttons and widgets of the full version but is limited to 16 widgets. Created for users with smaller needs to save money, N-Button Lite is a powerful tool for controlling relays or reading A/D inputs with up to 16 widgets. If you want to add more than 16 widgets, a Pro version is available and supports up to 255 widgets.
Create Desktop MetersDesktop Meters can be created for real time level readings of any variable input sensor. "It's like having a meter right on your desk for constant monitoring". Meters can be created for temperature sensors, moisture sensors, light meters and others. Read the sensor and create relay buttons that will allow at-a-glance determination of the relay status. Best of all the increments on the meter can be fully customized to fit your needs. Choose an Analog to Digital controller (look for AD in the part number) purchase a copy of N-Button or N-Button Lite and you can read the A/D levels right on your desktop! If you have an application where you need to track sensor levels you will have a live real time meter right on your desktop!
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Relay Timer
Time Schedule ControlRelay Timer Software allows you control each relay independently from a time schedule you create! The software can be installed on a server or PC and uses the computers time for an accurate relay control.
Control relay in recurrent time sequenceThanks to protocol of ProXR & ProXR Lite boards it is possible to update 8 relays at one time. If speed is a requirement it only take about 30 ms to update 8 relays. In multiple relay applications Relay Timer calculates all relays' status together, even though each of them work separately.
Take Manual ControlYou can take manual control of any relay at any time to interrupt the schedule and control a relay. Automatically switch back to Auto Mode and resume the schedule manually or set a fixed time to return to the schedule.
Quick Timer
Time Sequence ControlQuicktimer Software supports turning on/off each relay automatically during the predetermined duration. First set the duration that you want the sequence to be active. Time periods can then be set where the relay is energized within the set duration.
Control Relays by Time DurationQuick Timer is a software program specifically developed for the relay boards on our site. The software will allow you to control the duration the relays will be energized. This software is not designed to control relay at a specific time of day but rather a time duration. The time sequence is manually started and can run through a set sequence and stop of be set to loop until manually stopped.
Control Within a Predetermined DurationQuick Timer Software supports controlling each relay automatically during the predetermined duration. A duration can be set first then each relay on the board can then be controlled with their own time sequence within the set time duration.
Component Library
Visual Studio SamplesThe NCD Component Library is a plug-in for the Visual Studio 2005/2008 that greatly simplifies the communications to the NCD product line. The samples can be run in Visual Studio and fully customizable to your needs. Over 40 fully functional fully working samples are included in this free download.
Visit our Component Library Page to view all the samples available.
Data Sheets & Quick Start GuidesBelow are the Data Sheets Quick Start Guides for this board. These are the guides that will help you communicate and configure this board.
ZB ZigBee Quick Start Guide
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ProXR Quick Start Guide
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Base Station Quick Start
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1-Amp DPDT Data Sheet
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ZB ZigBee Data Sheet
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Hardware Reference Guide
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
and so thanksgiving begins.
Posted by karen at 12:56 AM 2 comments
Sunday, November 20, 2011
why I am what I am.
This took some introspection.
And, completely unrelated, there's the newfound fame issue...
Posted by karen at 10:23 PM 4 comments
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Anyone need a book for Kiddie Book Club?
Lucky for me, right on the heels of my pre-holiday breakdown, came some well-timed comic relief.
As I was putting Ellison to bed, she naturally wanted to read with me. I grabbed a chapter book off of her shelf called "The Higher Power of Lucky". It was a Newbery Medal Winner. Guh-reat! We hadn't read that one yet, and frankly I was a tad bored of mimicking what I thought Junie B. Jones' voice sounded like.
Here we come, warmth and fuzzies! Let us wind down together, darling daughter...
{An excerpt from Page 1}:
"Sammy told of the day when he had drunk half a gallon of rum listening to Johnny Cash all morning in his parked '62 Cadillac, then fallen out of the car when he saw a rattlesnake on the passenger seat biting his dog, Roy, on the scrotum."
So much for dewdrops and lollipops.
Too tired to discuss scrotal and/or alcoholic implications with my seven year old, I stared into her elfin-like face and mentally begged her just not to ask. Too tired. Too tired. Too tired.
Subsequently, my Junie B. Jones impersonation was dead-on.
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The "I'm overwhelmed" holiday breakdown came a little early this year.
Expectations of the morning pulverized. Kids hadn't practiced the piano before school. Again. Scriptures not read over breakfast. Again. Lunches not made for kids. Again. Gym clothes sidelined.
(For an outfit perhaps better suited for the school Book Fair).
Seven pounds gained.
A smattering of various other shortcomings magnified. Forgetting to pick up Ellison at piano lessons was a particular lowlight of the week. "Mom, are you ever coming to pick me up?" was the exact phraseology.
I was a puddle of tears sitting on the stepstool in my closet by 8:30am.
The tears were cathartic. The self-flogging over in five minutes.
[Twenty, tops].
The thought bubble over my head might have read: "Maybe I will attempt to sausage myself into Caroline's spandex mermaid tail and go swimming. Then surely things would look up..." (?)
Moving on.
Post edit: After deeming the morning utterly unsalvageable, I mumbled something under my breath in the general theme of "I quit" and went back to bed until noon. Thankfully there was a Bubble Guppies marathon on for Charlotte.
I'm back.
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We revisit the tragic night of December 8, 2004, the fallout among bands and fans the following day after the final live performance of Damageplan. And then we move to the advent of Hellyeah, and into the rise of Nu Metal and Metalcore. We close our examination of the subgenre, and dig deep into the Future of Groove Metal.
Hosted by Greg Davies, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
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- "Save Me" by Damageplan from New Found Power
- "Cemetery Gates" by Pantera from Cowboys From Hell
- "Bestial Devastation" by Sepultura from Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation
- "Pride" by Damageplan from New Found Power
- "Soul Bleed" by Damageplan from New Found Power
- "Nothin' to Lose" by Rebel Meets Rebel from Rebel Meets Rebel
- "Hush" by Hellyeah from Blood for Blood
- "Strange" by Kill Devil Hill from Kill Devil Hill
- "We've Lost You!" by Sepultura from A-Lex
- "Sanctuary" by Cavalera Conspiracy from Inflikted
- "Prophecy" by Soulfly from Prophecy
- "Nothing for Me Here" by Dope from No Regrets
- "Confrontation" by Otep from The Ascension
- "Click Click Boom" by Saliva from Every Six Seconds
- "Fiend" by Coal Chamber from Dark Days
- "High Road" by Mastodon from One More 'round the Sun
- "A Warrior's Call" by Volbeat from Beyond Hell / Above Heaven
- "Sail" by DevilDriver from Winter Kills
- "Push Pull Destroy" by Battlecross from Pursuit of Honor
- "I am the Scum" by Scum of the Earth from Blah Blah Blah
- "Turn it Up" by Texas Hippie Coalition from Peacemaker
- "Come on Get up" by Adrenaline Mob from Men of Honor
- "Under and Over it" by Five Finger Death Punch from American Capitalist
- "Motor-Ready" by Alabama Thunderpussy from Staring at the Divine
- "Thunderhead" by The Native Howl from Thrash Grass
- "Wicked Young Man" by Alice Cooper from Brutal Planet
- "Laughing Man (in the Devil Mask)" by Iommi from Iommi
- "Fucking Hostile" by Battlecross from Hostile
- "Drone Hunter" by Shapeless Sphere from Shieldead
- "Becoming the Beast" by GrimWolf from Lycanthrope
- "When Time Stood Still" by Sergeant Thunderhoof from Ride of the Hoof
- "Less Than" by Ratgod from The Loneliest Place on Earth
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Frazier family and Bazel Family of Staunton, Augusta, Va until 1850
Margaret Frazier, b 1780-90 Ireland, with Hannah, born 1817, William born 1825-32, Sarah born 1826-33 and Elenora, born 1842, all lived in Augusta Co, Staunton Va until around 1850. Next door to them lived Peter Bazell, who was married to Margaret's daughter, Ann. Shortly before 1850, both families moved to Madison, Clark Co, Ohio. By 1870 they had all moved to Iowa, with the Bazel family moving to Des Moines, and the Frazier family, a few miles away in Indianola, Iowa.
Who was Margaret's husband? Hannah was Elnora's mother. Who was Hannah's husband? Was Margaret the mother or was she the grandmother of William and Sarah?
Sarah married David Pratt. Elenora married John Hall. Both of these families lived in Indianola, Iowa. Were they related to the other Fraziers living in Indianola, Iowa?
If anybody has any information, a response will be greatly appreciated. Please respond to email@example.com, as well as posting on this board.
My ancestors named "Frazier" also spelled their name "Fraiser"
On some records, such as the Ohio civil war record and Warrensburg, Mo, burial record for William "S" Fraiser, born around 1832 or earlier, was spelled differently than subsequent generations, who spelled the name "frazier." If anybody has ever head of William and Maggie Fraiser, born 1830's and moved to Brunswick, Chariton Mo by 1880, Sarah Pratt Frazier and husband David of Iowa, Edward and Ada Frazier of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, or Frank Beaumont Frazier of Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, please post a response. Thanks, Cathy
Looking for Ancestors of Margaret A. "Maggie" Marietta, born 1837-40, PA
Looking for ancestors of Maggie Marietta, born 1837-40 in Pa; married James H Tout in Iowa in 1861, divorced in 1871; children Charles "Charlie" born 1863, and Hattie, born 1866. Who were her parents and siblings? She married William Frazier (Frasier) in Indianola Iowa 3-4-1875, then they moved to Missouri. Maggie and William Frazier had at least 3 children I can trace: Edward, Herman and Dora. Dora married Lewis (Louis) Alexander. First to Chariton Co, then to Livingston Co, and Warrensburg in Johnson Co. Maggie died there in 1905. Any information will be appreciated.
Carrie Broadway, born about 1884, lived in E. Oklahoma and Eastland TX
I am trying to find the family of Carrie Broadway, born about 1884. She married James Richard Flowers and children were Dovie, Willie, Ira, Susie, Martha, Myrtle, etc. Dovie was born 1800 in Paris or LaMar Texas. I think Carrie was born in Texas.
Elijah Larabee living in Illinois in 1850
I am trying to find the ancestors of Elijah Larabee (Laraby, Larby, Larrabee) living in Illinois in 1850. One of his marriages was to Eliza Willis in Illinois in 1844. His children were William,born about 1836, married Mary Ellen McDow, Venton (Vinton, Benton) born about 1843, married Amanda Wade, and Maria, Born about 1842, married John Stump. Any information will be appreciated, I have been unable to find out the name of the childrens' mother, or who Elijah's parents and relatives were.
Looking for William and Maggie Frazier, Indianola Iowa, Chairton Co, Mo and Joplin Mo/Galena Kansas
I am looking for the family of William Frazier, born about 1832, Ohio or Va, and Maggie Frazier, born about 1837, Pennsylvania. I need to know who their parents were, and the names of their children. I think Edward, Herman and Dora, who married Lewis Alexander and lived in Galena/Joplin are are some of their children. Edward married Ada M_____, and lived in Oklahoma. Herman died in Joplin Mo. Margaret, born about 1790, may have been William's mother. His sister was Sarah, who married David Pratt in Indianola Iowa around 1860. Any information will be appreciated.
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Damn Ugly was featured this week on both culturedrop.com and sneezr.ca and I must say, while I'm extremely flattered by the opinions others have of me, all of this attention is gonna force me to get up off the couch and do something to prove them right!
Jenan Mujkic runs Sneezr.ca and he stumbled across my work late last year. One of the things he does is an 'interview-via-email' that usually asks a single, open-ended question. For me, he actually had two questions and you can read the interview here:
How to be undeniably good. How to be like Brad.
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Elizabeth P. Benson. Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. xix + 162 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1518-7.
Reviewed by Bryan Just (Tulane University)
Published on H-LatAm (March, 1998)
Benson's Bestiary: Precolumbian Fauna Confined in an Exhibition
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America was published as an accompanying text to a traveling exhibition of the same name funded by the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences. Although Elizabeth Benson's general survey of faunal imagery in ancient Latin America covers a myriad of traditions with a wide array of specific examples, the illustrations in the text come solely from the exhibition, comprised of selections from four institutions: the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The book was not created, however, as an exhibition catalog, but as an expansion of the major themes of the exhibition, intended primarily for the general public as an introduction to the topic. Still, the author claims that the work will prove useful for scholars in many fields as well. While the text successfully places the exhibition objects in a broad symbolic tradition, the general and at times anecdotal use of temporally and geographically diverse sources makes the work potentially confusing for the general reader while also inconvenient for the serious scholar. The greatest value of the book, in my opinion, is the publication of many heretofore unpublished objects, primarily ceramics and gold artifacts from coastal Peru, western Mexico, and the Intermediate Area. Even so, I see this book as neither particularly useful for scholars nor clearly informative for the general reader. It is important to note, however, that these inadequacies are most likely the result of inherent limitations posed by the exhibition, which seemed to stifle the careful, thorough and stimulating scholarship more typical of the author.
The body of the text includes a basic introductory chapter of the animals of Latin America and a general overview of how the inhabitants of ancient Latin America made use of them, with a focus on imagery and mythology. Benson stresses the pervasiveness throughout Latin America of faunal references in ancient mythology, ritual, and symbolism.
This chapter is followed by a series of six topicalized chapters, each discussing briefly a set of animals corresponding to the following groupings: domesticated animals, hunted mammals, anomalous animals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, and finally fish, crustaceans and mollusks. In each of these chapters, Benson systematically discusses the range of possible meanings particular animal imagery may have had throughout a myriad of ancient Latin American cultures. By grouping analyses by animal instead of culture, a sense of how each culture coordinated and assembled its faunal symbolism is lost in exchange for a very general range of meanings across varied temporal and geographic contexts. This form of organization, although it assumedly follows the organization of the exhibition, leads to confusion for both the interested general reader and the more knowledgeable student or scholar.
Also, the text only generally provides creatures' habitation zones and presents no photography of the less commonly known animals, such as peccaries or quetzals. Whereas such imagery would prove informative for the general reader, it would also facilitate a more critical and scholarly consideration of what Precolumbian peoples considered diagnostic of these creatures, shedding light on their most fundamental symbolic meanings.
Furthermore, many of the most powerful and compelling animal references known in Precolumbian art are mentioned without illustration. For example, there are no illustrations of the puma form of the Inca city of Cuzco, no images of the caiman on the Chavin Tello Obelisk, no Aztec serpent sculptures, and no Maya uinal toads. Although appropriate for placing the exhibition objects in a broad Precolumbian context, limiting the visual component of the text to these images provides a rather narrow view of the ancient Latin American corpus of animal imagery as a whole.
In my opinion, one of the most compelling issues raised by Precolumbian faunal symbolism is the frequent reference to animals not indigenous to the given culture area. Tropical fauna in particular appears in art from the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala as well as the Andes. As mentioned above, however, the organization by species and more general faunal categories cloud the geographic and temporal distinctions that are essential for such investigation.
Finally, a significant strength of the book for scholars and amateurs alike is Benson's bibliography, which provides a convenient assemblage of the best Latin American bestiaries as well as an array of articles related to faunal iconography throughout the region.
In sum, Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America provides a broad, general context for better understanding its corresponding exhibition, yet the book itself offers neither a clear introduction to the general reader nor a significant source for the scholar. Still, the newly-published imagery and thorough bibliography may be of use to both audiences. In any case, the limitations of the text are clearly imposed by its exhibition context and do not represent the quality of Benson's typically fine scholarship.
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When it comes to flavors and spices, I'm always trying to expand my palette and try something new. I often find myself standing in front of the spice rack at the grocery store thinking about what flavors would pair well together. McCormick has recognized the growing preference for more complex and intense tastes in their Flavor Forecast for 2011, which identifies leading culinary trends for the year to come. As spice consumption and demand in variety increases, McCormick has continued to push the envelope by mixing and matching different tastes, textures and visual cues.
I gave McCormick's Coconut-Almost Chicken Stew with Cilantro a try and really enjoyed the different flavors. The almond butter was an interesting addition to the coconut milk, red chili paste, and cilantro. Check out the McCormick website for a ton of other recipes I'm sure you and your family will love!
Coconut-Almond Chicken Stew with Cilantro
The traditional African ground nut stew gets a Southeast Asian accent from coconut milk, red chili paste, almond butter and cilantro. Makes 8 servings Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 40 minutes
1. Season chicken with sea salt and pepper. Heat oil in 5-quart nonstick Dutch oven or saucepot on medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 3 minutes per side or until golden brown. Remove chicken. Add onion; cook and stir 3 minutes or until lightly browned. Add chili paste; cook and stir 1 minute.
2. Stir in broth, coconut milk, sweet potato and bell pepper. Bring just to boil. Return chicken and any juices to Dutch oven. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and sweet potato is tender.
3. Mix almond butter, lime juice and 1 cup of sauce from the stew in medium bowl with wire whisk until smooth. Gradually stir back into stew. Simmer 5 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with cilantro. Serve over cooked rice, if desired.
Nutritional Information:
For 1 serving: Calories: 447 | Sodium: 679mg | Fat: 31g | Carbohydrates: 17g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Fiber: 3g | Protein: 25g
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Mom Central received a McCormick Flavor Forecast 2011 spice kit to facilitate this review.
I love cinnamon.
I love the Italian grinder……really I love all of the grinders!
I always have McCormick Grill Mates in the kitchen. I use it in all kinds of meat dishes–not just grilling.
I love their Perfect Pinch Basil and Garlic! We live near the one McCormick plant in Hunt Valley, Maryland and nothing beats coming out of your front door and getting a whiff of whatever spice they are working on! We buy nothing but McCormicks spice wise. You cant beat the taste or freshness!
I love McCormick spices!!! I've been using them for years!!! Great Giveaway!!!
My favorite McCormick spice is cinnamon, use it all the time when I make Cinnamon toast, and I also put it in my rice pudding (my family's fave) for an added flavor!!!
My favorite McCormick Spice is Lemon & Pepper because it tastes great on Seafood!
I like all thier spices, and am planning on trying the new perfect pinch sets. what a great idea.
also, new flavors are great, espcically with summer grilling on the way.
I don't think I could pick a favorite~I really do like all of them!
I just love food so I can't pick a favorite
My favorite is the cinnamon sugar grinder
My favorite spice is cinnamon!!
I probably use the onion powder the most. I use it for anything from green beans to eggs.
I use McCormick Grill Mates all the time. I'm not that great of a cook so I like it when companies do the work for me.
I love all McCormick's Grill Mates!!!
I love McCormick's grill mates
I love their cinnamon!
Even though I'm a huge lover of Mexican food, one of my favorite spices of all time is not Mexican at all, but Indian – LOVE, LOVE, LOVE curry.
We love their Cinnamon Sugar. We use it on toast and applesauce all the time.
100% Organic Gourmet Collection. McCormick is the only company I will purchase EXTRACTS from, I believe pure.
Mmm….Garlic Powder is one of my favorites. I love garlic! Also love lemon pepper. My mouth is watering now…
I also absolutely love their grillmates lines! Montreal Chicken and their hamburger seasoning.. mmm
I would have to say my favorite is McCormick lemon pepper. We use lemon pepper on everything.
I love cumin!
My favorite is their Swiss Steak seasoning packet…tastes just like what my mom made from scratch! Wait…maybe it was McCormicks?
We love the grill mates seasonings
I use McCormick's Grill Mates seasonings – especially the Montreal Steak flavor. Then there's the lemon pepper… such a tough decision!
This recipe sounds wonderful. I grow cilantro on the deck in summer and on top of the piano in winter; I think I'm just waiting for recipes like this one.
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I love their lemon pepper for grilled corn..the spices make the corn so tasty.thanks
We love their Rotisserie Chicken seasoning!
My family loves Salad Supreme. I add to everything, but my favorite recipe is pasta salad.
I love the Montreal Steak Seasoning
I am a McCormick-aholic. I love them all.
I always have McCormick cinnamon on hand. It is good in so many things from breads, applesauce, even chili!
McCormick Cinnamon is always a staple in my house!
cinnamon is a staple in my house too
I love their lemon and pepper spice. This may sound odd but I put it in my tuna fish and it gives it a nice little bite. I also like to use it on chicken.
I just love the new "recipe inspirations" as they are so easy to use!
Their flavored grinders are my favorite! Love em all, especially grilling ones and lemon pepper in grinder.
I love their dry mustard
Love the swiss steak seasoning
Love grill mates seasonings, so versatile!
I love McCormick's dried Basil leaves. I was looking on the website and saw an Old Bay salmon rub I would love to make with this spice!
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love the italian seasoning…ty
McCormick's Grill Mates seasonings
I just discovered cumin, and my chicken salad has never been so tasty!
Rosemary. I make a very nice pan roasted Garlic and rosemary red potato side dish. I use more then just rosemary and garlic, but I don't want to give away the whole kit n' caboodle yet. Perhaps if I should have the time later I will share the recipe. Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful package.
Parmesan herb – use it almost everyday
Love McCormick spices.
Parmesan herb – use it almost everyday
Gotta have my Salad Supreme. Wakes up my macaroni salads and my family : )
We always have McCormick in the house
I like the Grill Mates. We run out of it pretty quick.
We always have McCormick in the house
I love the grill mates, but have been using their curries recently. I take 2-3 and mix them. I really like the red curry, but I mix it with the reg curry for my DH.
We love McCormick spices!
I love McCormick's Grinders. Lemon pepper is my fave.
I use McCormick's Grill Mates all the time (even when I don't grill). Thank you for the chance to win!
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I love McCormick salad supreme yum.
I love McCormick salad supreme
I love McCormick salad supreme
I use McCormick's Grill Mates all the time LOVE IT
I use a lot of mccormick gravy mixes & spices. My favorite spice
is definitely cinnamon because you can use it in so many
recipes to add just the right sweetness. I'd like to try out
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I love all the McCormick's spices. But I am very fond of garlic!! And basil!
I have been using McCormick spices for years. If I had to pick a favorite, which is so hard to do, I would have to say rosemary tops the list.
A favorite spice in our house is McCormick Garlic Powder. We use it alot to replace salt in foods. It is great in mashed potato.
Grillmates Montral Steak Seasoning is the best!
I love their black pepper powder, is the way it should be. Thanks for the giveaway
I love all the mcCormick spices that you make. They are all delicious. Keep up the good work!
Well it's hard to pick a favourite McCormicks spice as I use so many spices, seasonings and gravy mixes. I couldn't get by without their black pepper or garlic powder but I would have to say Grill Mates is a family hit.
I use McCormick's Grill Mates and love to use it when trying more recipes
My favorite McCormmicks spice has to be allspice
McCormick has been a favorite of mine for all my years of cooking. The quality of the spices and the variety available make them the first choice for all my cooking needs.
I use McCormicks because my mom always uses them and my grandma always did. I love cooking with them because you can always depend on your food tasting great when you cook with McCormick's.
Mmmm Grill Mates! Now that spring is upon us, it's all about the BBQ!
Garlic is my "go to" for everything spice
Just came from Thailand and would enjoy extended that experience at home.
Love seasoning with herbs, so this would be a treat!
Love herbs and love mccormick. This would be a killer combination!
My mom used McCormick's and so do I. If I had to pick one favorite, I'd say NUTMEG!
What a delicious prize! This recipe sounds divine!
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Ooops! Forgot to add my fave spice! I'd have to say curry, but my husband will tell you his fave is McCormick's Grill Mates!
Our favorite is Salad Supreme – I can't even count the bottles we have gone through in the past – we use it on everything!
Ginger and Cumin are ones we use a lot!
Montreal Grill Seasoning, so versatile.
I love McCormick's Cumin – it is so fresh and distinctive
With out a doubt cinnamon and cumin super versatile!
Nutmeg, we add it to a lot of stuff.. yum!
We use lots of herbs and spices in our cooking! I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be the Italian Seasoning. We've recently started using that on sweet potatoes that we roast in the oven — who would think it would taste so good
McCormick's cinnamon is a mainstay at our house. I'm also having fun with a new salmon marinade that includes ginger and OJ-so tasty!
I have so many! I found that using spices, onions, and mushrooms or galic I can make incredible meals without additives!
I love bay leaves
pumpkin pie spice
garlic salt
oh the list goes on and on! McCormick is the best and my preferred brand to use. Always!
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I love McCormick spices! Thanks!
I have one full cupboard shelf devoted to spices and herbs and flavorings and seasonings. They make each dish unique and I love to use them when I cook. This would be a great prize.
Of my many favorites, I really like bay leaves and cumin. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love their ground cumin
I love all Mccormick spices. My favorites are. Cumin, Onion, Garlic, paparika.
We use so many McCormick spices but I'd have to say Season All because we use it in almost everything.
I have only tried a few of the McCormick products,Would be great to win this and expand my taste sensations!TY
I love black pepper. Works great in lots of dishes.
I have always used McCormicks lemon pepper its a must have here.
I am a black pepper girl! I use it in everything and McCormick's is the best.:)
I love their chili powder.
cinnamon for me
have used their products for a while
My favorite McCormick spice is basil—I adore the taste and scent of it. My husband's favorite would be the whole peppercorns—we go through so much pepper because he puts it on EVERYTHING. I going to try the recipe above, I've always wanted to prepare a chicken dish with coconut.
I like their Montreal steak seasoning. I use it in burgers, too.
I love Smokehouse Maple Seasoning! Sooo good
We are dried onion & dried garlic fans in our house! McCormick dried onions/garlic & the powders are our favorites for so many meals & recipes!
I love the pumpkin pie spice. It's great in oatmeal!
I love to spice thing's up!!! This is a wonderful give away.
McCormick black pepper is a staple in our house and it is what I grew up with.
Black pepper!! In everything I can possibly use it in!
We have several but I see the most used of the spices are:
Perfect Pinch Steak, Minced Garlic, Grill Mates, Chili powder, etc
The top 4 quality McCormick spices I have are: Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, and my favorite Ground Cinnamon which is great for lowering cholesterol.
my favorite is cumin
lemon pepper – it's awesome on baked or grilled chicken!
Love McCormicks
my family LOVES McCormick's Garlic salt with parsley flakes! My 8 yr old loves it so much that i have to put it up extra high to keep her from sneaking to pour her a handful to eat!!! lol
I just tried their new Recipe Inspirations "Rosemary Roasted Chicken and Potatoes" and it was incredible. I loved that I didn't have to measure anything!
Their smoked paprika. So yummy!
All McCormick products are my faves! Can't pick a real fave….love them all!
I love all McCormick spices!
My fave is McCormick's Garlic salt with parsley flakes!!
I love so many of McCormick's spices, but I'd have to say my family uses the most cinnamon!
I love to add Dill to my peeled potatoes and saute them in butter.
I have to go with Lemon Pepper. Love it!
Love em all but I have to go with Basil.
Definately Cumin. It completes my spicy rice dish.
McCormick spices are so flavorful!
Garlic powder, I put it in everything
I use tons of McCormick spices. A favorite is turmeric.
Black pepper.
I LOVE the Peppercorn Grinders from McCormick . . . it adds zip to everything I make!
I love all of their spices.
Basil! Simple, but McCormick makes the best. I just noticed today that my basil is almost gone (again!)
I am in love with McCormicks Apple, Sage Pork dinner seasoning kit. The spices in the blister packs are single serve. The flavor is robust and the kit makes preparing a meal simple!
I am in love with McCormicks Apple, Sage Pork dinner seasoning kit. The spices in the blister packs are single serve. The flavor is robust and the kit makes preparing a meal simple!
I love their black pepper.
I love McCormick spices, use them everyday. Picking just one as my favorite is tough, but I have to say the Montreal Steak is it, I put it in/on everything. =)
We love all of their spices, but the garlic salt gets emptied out pretty quickly.
Love the McCormick spices, and the salt-free Garlic with Herbs has been a staple in my spice cabinet for years.
i love the McCormick's Garlic salt with parsley flakes great on everything.
Its a toss up between cinnamom and garlic salt I love them both!
I use garlic powder for everything!!
I love garlic powder!


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Thank you to Wendy Dessler for this guest post on tips for healthy kids.
We all want healthy, well-balanced children. We want them to enjoy physical activity and we want to provide them with foods to fuel their bodies and minds.
Unfortunately, we live in an instant world where snacks are loaded with sugars, fats, and just enough nutritional value to earn a government okay to label them healthy.
Children develop their taste from the foods we give them. They are not mature enough to decide what is good and what is not. Even adults have problems in this area.
Further, how we present something to them can build excitement or dread. This is true with their lifestyles, diets, and special treats.


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Mandatory courses 2 x 7,5 credits
Decision Support Methods 7,5 credits
The course aims to provide basic knowledge on decision support methods and decision analysis, ability to structure and evaluate decision problems and to analyse and evaluate different solutions.
Decision Theory 7,5 credits
In this course, the basic ingredients of a decision-theoretic approach to decision problems are presented. Moreover, the concepts of classical decision theory are introduced in some detail and various modern attempts at modifying the classical theory are discussed at some length. Here special emphasis is on presenting Super Soft Decision Theory which by and large has been developed at DSV.
2nd Semester
Mandatory courses 2 x 7,5 credits
Analysis of Bases for Decisions 7,5 credits
In this course some useful tools from the Theory of Argumentation are presented but the main focus is on applying these tools and the ones introduced in previous courses in detailed examinations of the bases for decisions made by political assemblies and authorities. The student here has the opportunity of selecting decisions that is of particular interest to her.
Logic 7,5 credits
Formal analysis can compensate for the usual ambiguity of normal human reasoning and uncertainties of the human cognition. Furthermore, it can increase the understanding of human communication and assist in avoiding many misunderstandings and misconceptions in real life situations and facilitate the analysis of argumentation and decision-making. This course is an introduction to the principles of correct reasoning as they are manifested in various uses of languages. The course focuses on formal logic and practical applications thereof with the purpose of getting a better capacity to understand many fallacies in reasoning and to practice deductive thinking. To be able to do this, some knowledge of formal languages and rules of deduction is inevitable.
3rd Semester
Mandatory courses 2 x 7,5 credits
Risk Management 7,5 credits
In this course probabilistic as well as non-probabilistic approaches to risk management are presented, and the rationale behind various types of risk analyses are discussed in some detail. The main focus, however, is on examining how the authorities of a modern society copes with risks within their domains. Here special emphasis is placed on financial risks and physical hazards.
Scientific Communication and Research Methodology 7,5 credits
Computing as a discipline combines three academic traditions: the theoretical tradition, the scientific (experimental) tradition, and the engineering tradition. Due to that combination, there is no clear methodological tradition in computer science. This course introduces computer science students to the principles of scientific research: how to design, implement, and report a research study. The main focus of this course is in research design and reporting: students will learn how to align problem statement, aims, objectives, research questions, data collection and analysis, and reporting into a coherent and logically flowing whole.
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