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Michael Feinstein: What I Learned From The Gershwins
Originally published on Sat October 13, 2012 9:38 am
Michael Feinstein, the singer and pianist known as the "ambassador of the Great American Songbook," has a serious pedigree to back up that title: a real-life connection to one of America's greatest songwriting teams. It's the subject of Feinstein's new memoir, The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs. (A CD of Feinstein singing those songs also comes with the book.)
George Gershwin, the legendary composer of Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue and many classic songs, died in 1937 — long before Feinstein was born. However, through what he calls a "series of coincidences," Feinstein was introduced to George's brother and writing partner, Ira — then 80 years old, notoriously reclusive, and the last person Feinstein would have dreamed of getting to meet. He ended up spending six years working for Ira Gershwin as a cataloger and archivist, as well as the aging lyricist's eyes and ears to the outside world.
Feinstein spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about his time in Ira's employ, the lasting impact of George's untimely death, and the Gershwin masterwork Porgy and Bess.
Interview Highlights
On Ira's reaction to the loss of his brother
"George was the person to whom Ira was closer than anybody else on the planet. They had collaborated together for almost 20 years — George's music to his older brother Ira's lyrics. And Ira could not conceive living life without George, because George was truly his world. It was the kind of experience that Ira never got over. In the years that I knew him — 50 years after George's passing — he still would get very, very depressed if he started to talk about George, because he felt that nobody ever came close to the kind of talent that George displayed on this Earth. [He went on to work] with Aaron Copland and with Kurt Weill and with Burton Lane and Harold Arlen, and he said that of all of the people he worked with, only George was one whom he considered to be a true genius."
On the song "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
"It's a song that came to mean a lot to George right before his death, because his good friend Johnny Green had made the first recordings of the songs from [the 1937 film] Shall We Dance, from which the song is taken. And as he played the recording of 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' for George, George started crying and kept saying, 'Thank you, Johnny, thank you.' A month later, he was gone, and the song became his epitaph. It was the thing that was played on the airwaves after his passing, and was mistakenly referred to as George's last song. But it was the last song that he lived to see become popular, and it's a song that haunted Ira for a while — until he started to listen to the songs from Shall We Dance one day, and they actually helped him to begin to recover, realizing that he really had to go on and live his life."
On Porgy and Bess and Stephen Sondheim
"Sondheim said that if he was on a desert island, the one thing he would take — if it could only be one piece of music — it would be Porgy and Bess. It is incredible theater. ... When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress where the manuscript of Porgy and Bess is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear — he shed several tears. One of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript, and he was horrified. But now I guess it's been anointed by Sondheim's DNA."
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: (Singing) Let the drums roll out, let the trumpet call, while the people shout, strike up the band...
SIMON: The 1927 classic "Strike up the Band." Michael Feinstein strikes up his own song of praise to George and Ira Gershwin with this tune. His musical tribute comes in a new book. It's called "The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs." It includes a CD of Michael Feinstein singing those very same songs that are in the book. And Michael Feinstein, also known as the Ambassador of the Great American Songbook, joins us now from New York. Thanks very much for being with us.
FEINSTEIN: Thank you, Scott. My pleasure.
SIMON: George Gershwin, often considered the classic definitive American composer, died in 1937 at the age of 38. This, of course, was long before you were born. But you knew and worked for his brother, Ira Gershwin, who was also often his lyricist. How did you walk in to Ira Gershwin's life?
FEINSTEIN: Well, it's an amazing story because I was always an obsessive collector of Gershwin songs and such from the time I was I a kid. And when I moved to California at the age of 20, through a series of coincidences - buying some used records that belonged Oscar Levant, the great Gershwin interpreter, I met Levant's widow, June Levant, who eventually introduced me to Ira Gershwin, who was 80 years old and reclusive and the last person on earth I would have ever dreamt of having a chance to meet, and yet I was given this entre to his life and ended up spending six years working for him.
SIMON: What did you do for Ira Gershwin?
FEINSTEIN: I was initially hired to catalogue his collection of phonograph records, which dated back to 1917 and was wondrous to play in. And then he made me his archivist and I became as well his eyes and ears to the outside world. If anybody was doing a Gershwin show or needed a representative, they would send me to take a look at it and report back to Ira.
SIMON: Well, let's not waste any more time just talking, and listen to some of the music and then follow-up with questions. One of the songs you selected is "Someone to Watch Over Me."
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) I'd like to add my initials to her monogram, tell me where is the shepherd for this lost lamb...
SIMON: My gosh, what a heart-piercing song. As you write in the book, written for a 1926 musical, that I must say was new to me, called it Oh, Kay" K-A-Y. You say this melody actually began as a dance number.
FEINSTEIN: Yes. It's interesting because Gershwin had to always to come up with interesting and rhythmic dance pieces for the various shows that they worked on. And they wrote a lot of shows, sometimes two a year. And so he came up with a melody that went (hums) - syncopated - (hums). He was playing a tune for Ira and he was distracted by something his sister said. And as he was talking to her, he slowed down. And when Ira heard George slow down the tune, he said wait a minute. Maybe that could be the big ballad in the show, and that's what it became.
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) How I need someone to watch over me...
SIMON: Of course, you include a song from "Porgy and Bess," 1935. I have to ask first, I was expecting it to be "Summertime."
FEINSTEIN: Yes. "Summertime" is so well documented and covered, and so I really wanted to explore something else from "Porgy and Bess." And it wasn't easy to choose one piece because it is truly Gershwin's masterwork, something that he claimed that he would be remembered for, even though "Porgy and Bess" was a failure in his own lifetime. So, I chose "I Got Plenty of Nothing."
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) I got plenty of nothing, and nothing's plenty for me.
It's a song that George was very proud of. He wrote it as the first important song that Porgy would sing in "Porgy and Bess." And when he first played it for Todd Duncan, who was the original Porgy, he introduced it to him by saying this is the song by which you'll be remembered.
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) ...as the things that I prize like the stars in the skies are all free. Oh, I got plenty of nothing...
SIMON: 'Cause you note in the book a lot of people, a lot of critics maybe more than people, just didn't like this show.
FEINSTEIN: Yeah. Actually, "Porgy" got more positive views than negative, but it still was considered a failure by everybody.
SIMON: What about - and, look, somewhere in the world tonight I suspect somebody'll be performing "Porgy and Bess" and it will move audiences all over again. But what about the criticism - and if you hear it, you might hear it in this song - that it was a stereotype of African-American life?
FEINSTEIN: It was. But "Aida" is a stereotype maybe of Egyptians. You know, is "Carmen" a stereotype? I mean, they all are stereotypes in that sense.
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) I ain't a' frettin' 'bout hell till the time arrives. I'll never worry long as I'm well...
SIMON: What do you think, Michael, wound up making the opera not just a classic but a hit years after George Gershwin's death? What did people begin to respond to?
FEINSTEIN: The opera is musically the most extraordinary masterwork. And it is a very compelling story. It is a story that is stereotypical but it also is one that is immensely moving. Sondheim said that if he was on a desert island, the one thing he would take, if it could only be one piece of music, would be "Porgy and Bess." It is incredible theater. It is great drama. And it is musically an extraordinary accomplishment - not only the composition but the orchestration. It's a great, wonderful work.
SIMON: I gather, speaking of Stephen Sondheim, he left, if you please, a personal memento on the original score.
FEINSTEIN: Oh, yes. Yes. When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of "Porgy and Bess" is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified. But now I guess it's been anointed by Sondheim's DNA.
SIMON: We're speaking with Michael Feinstein, who has a new book and CD, "The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs." Let me ask you about another song - but first a little bit in the chronology. As we get into the 1930s, George Gershwin began to have some symptoms that worried those who loved him.
FEINSTEIN: Oh, yes. He started to have headaches, occasional headaches, and of course people were devastated when it turned out to be a very serious and real disease that felled him.
SIMON: Yeah. Well, that introduces this song among the 12 you pick. And the title becomes particularly heart-tugging when you realize that the was nearing the end of his life.
FEINSTEIN: Oh, yes, yes. "They Can't Take That Away From Me." It's a song that came to mean a lot to George right before his death because his good friend Johnny Green had made the first recordings of the songs from "Shall We Dance," from which this song is taken. And as he played the recording of "They Can't Take That Away From Me" for George, George started crying. He kept saying thank you, Johnny, thank you.
FEINSTEIN: And a month later, he was gone. And the song became his epitaph. It was the thing that was played on the airwaves after his passing and was mistakenly referred to as George's last song. But it was the last song that he lived to see become popular. And it's a song that haunted Ira for a while until he started to listen to the songs from "Shall We Dance" one day and they actually helped him to begin to recover, realizing that he really had to go on and live his life.
FEINSTEIN: (Singing) The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that, no, no, they can't take that away from me. The way your smile just beams...
SIMON: Can you help us understand the enormity of Ira Gershwin's loss when his brother died?
FEINSTEIN: George was the person to whom Ira was closer than anybody else on the planet. They had collaborated together for almost 20 years - George's music to his older brother Ira's lyrics. And Ira could not conceive living life without George because George was truly his world. And it was the kind of experience that Ira never got over. In the years that I knew him, 50 years after George's passing, he still would get very, very depressed if he started to talk about George because he felt that nobody ever came close to the kind of talent that George displayed on this earth.
SIMON: And, of course Ira Gershwin went on to work with a number of other composers over the years and did some very fine work.
FEINSTEIN: He did. He worked with Aaron Copland and with Kurt Weill and with Burton Lane and Harold Arlen. And he said that of all the people he worked with only George was one who he considered to be a true genius.
SIMON: You suggest in this book that music's come to play a different role in popular culture these days than it did in the time of the Gershwin's and you regret that.
FEINSTEIN: Very much so. You know, I was thinking about one of the presidential debates recently and how one of the problems we have in the world, or certainly in our country, is the fact that music is not as important as it was, and music at one time was such a communal experience in our country in a way that is not understandable now. And I think that it is the lack of that common bond of music that has created this divide politically because we've lost the common ground. We've lost the thing with the arch that has brought us all together. And I see that time and time again. I mean, it is so palpable to me, that we've lost something so important and I pray we can get back to it somehow.
SIMON: Michael Feinstein, host of an NPR show, Song Travels, and the author of the new book, "The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History of Twelve Songs." Michael, thank you so much.
FEINSTEIN: Thank you. It was a blast.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Paris Weissman is a shy but well-spoken 17-year-old who looks at home sitting on the couch, joking with her mother, Helaine Weissman.
On the surface, the mother-daughter pair are an odd couple. But Paris, a quiet teen raised in a dysfunctional household, finds stability in the outspoken smiles of 46-year-old Helaine, who has been her mother — officially — since July 2011.
At their home in Fairfax, the Weissman family is setting new domestic routines and traditions. And with the holiday season approaching, mother and daughter joke about their newest family holiday: Chrismukkah, a combination of Christmas and Hanukkah.
�The Christmas tree was new for me,� Helaine said. �We had our Christmas tree up last year and we put a yarmulke up [where other households usually place a star or angel].�
Paris is at home, but said it is a stark contrast from the life she left around the holidays at age 11.
�I was with my day care provider. I�d put my sister to bed and it was a school day, like a Wednesday or Thursday and — for some reason — I just started pouring everything out,� Paris said. �I remember telling her that if something didn�t change I was going to take my sister and run away or kill myself.�
Paris explained that her birth mother, who then was a member of the military stationed at Fort Belvoir, was physically and verbally abusive to her and her younger sister, Dayha, who is five years Paris� junior. Paris has not met her biological father. At the time, her mother was in a relationship with Dayha�s father, who raped Paris from ages 6 to 8. He later was sentenced to seven years in prison and now is a registered sex offender living in Pennsylvania.
Paris and Dayha�s day care provider reported their mother�s abuse to the military police. The girls were transferred into the county�s custody. Paris said she is not sure what punishment the military enacted against her birth mother, but believes she was removed from duty.
In the four years that followed, Paris had nine home placements: three group homes, three foster homes and three stints in a residential facility, which usually are centers for those believed to be suffering from mental distress.
�I always got the answer [I was placed in a residential facility] because they had nowhere else to put me,� Paris said.
While Paris was looking for a stable home, Helaine Weissman was looking to start a family of her own. This is their treaty, a joint goal toward being a family.
�I always thought I�d have kids and then all of a sudden I was in my 40s. I didn�t want a baby because I didn�t want to do that by myself,� said Helaine, who is a partner in a Fairfax-based certified public accounting firm. She said adoption was an easy decision for her.
Unlike Paris� rough start, Helaine said she has been very lucky in life.
Helaine began her child search online, visiting the Fairfax Families 4 Kids website.
�There were pictures of Paris and her story and I really liked her. Paris would tell you I started to stalk her,� Helaine joked. She attended an open house event on adoption held by the county, and then began volunteering with Families 4 Kids as she fulfilled the pre-adoption requirements.
Parents looking to adopt are assigned a social worker who conducts home visits and studies, asking probing questions, Helaine said, about personal habits and lifestyle. Helaine also was required to get a physical, pass a tuberculosis test, fill out questionnaires and write about herself, submit three letters of recommendation, get fingerprinted and have four background checks — local, state, federal and Child Protective Services.
�Probing questions aside, I didn�t think they asked anything of me that was unreasonable,� Helaine said.
Common myths about adoption are that parents have to be married or one parent must be a stay-at-home spouse, that there are income and homeownership requirements, it is expensive, and that it takes years to adopt. Helaine — who owns her home and has a full-time job — said the adoption cost her nothing but the time she put in. Paris moved in with Helaine in late August 2010. The adoption was finalized a year later.
Paris and Helaine�s domestic routine is normal. Helaine cooks, Paris cleans. The pair enjoys going to rock concerts — like seeing Pat Benatar at the Celebrate Fairfax music festival in June — and recently the musical �Jekyll and Hyde.�
�It�s hard being a parent of a teenager period, let alone having a child who comes to you as a teenager,� said Helaine�s mother and Paris� grandmother, Phyllis Weissman, 71. �I told Helaine this is going to be the struggle of your life, but it will be worth it.�
Phyllis said she and her husband Stephen Weissman were proud of Helaine�s decision to adopt, and have tried to add to Paris� support network, helping with homework and giving hugs.
�Right now, Paris is in a great situation where she has a lot of people in her corner,� she said. �She has more going for her than she ever thought she could.�
Paris, who is a senior at Fairfax High School, plans on attending Northern Virginia Community College next year, with the goal of enrolling in the college�s Pathway to the Baccalaureate Program, a two-year college to university agreement between NVCC and George Mason University.
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Paris said she likes to think of life with Helaine as not a happy ending, but a new beginning.
The Weissman story is one the Department of Family Services is hoping to draw attention to during November, which is National Adoption Awareness Month.
Currently, the county has 18 children — ages 3 to 17 — in need of adoptive homes. Last year, 21 children were adopted through the Fairfax County Department of Family Services.
�Typically [children] come into our system because of abuse or neglect,� said Michelle Cover, a supervisor in the county�s Foster Care and Adoption Program. Children are removed from their parent or parents� custody by the juvenile courts. �Children need a lifelong commitment from adults. � A happy ending for them is having a permanent connection for them when they are going to college, when they are struggling, then they need help on homework. � Someone they can call at night when they need support.�
Children like Paris are placed with their potential adoptive parents for up to six months as a trial period. During this time, a social worker makes monthly visits to the home to talk to parent and child about how they are adapting.
�I think we�ve seen a lot of successes when we place older children for adoption. � But that success doesn�t come without some challenges,� said Stephanie Pegues, a supervisor in the county�s Foster Care and Adoption Program. �We�re looking for families that can be part of a team, because we have a host of people [social workers, therapists and counselors] who work with these kids.
�[Paris� story] gives us hope that we�re doing the right thing for our kids.�
Life for both Paris and Helaine has changed for the better, the pair said.
�Nothing really prepares you until the human being is in your home,� Helaine said. �[My life has] changed a lot. I have another person here that I�m responsible for.�
Paris jokes that life has changed for Helaine.
�She has to buy more food,� she said. �I�m kind of spoiled now. Just a little bit. I�m kind of used to handling things myself and doing things myself even if it�s not the right way. I pretty much raised [my sister] when we were growing up and when we were in foster care.�
To learn more about adoption in Fairfax County, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs/childrenyouth/fca.htm.


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2011: Played in six games ... saw action against Richmond, Stanford, Boston College, Tulane, Georgia Tech and North Carolina ... logged six tackles ... had two tackles in tilts versus Richmond, Stanford and Tulane ... on the field for 46 total snaps.
2010: Played in six games on special teams ... saw action against Elon, Wake Forest, Alabama, Army, Boston College and Georgia Tech ... on the field for 34 total plays.
2009: Did not see game action.
Prior to Duke: Two-year letterman at Dorman under David Gutshall ... listed as the 27th-top cornerback in the country by ESPN.com ... all-area selection by the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in 2008 after posting 24 tackles, seven PBUs and three INTs ... in 2008, helped Dorman to a 13-1 record, national ranking as high as No. 12 by USA Today national rankings and berth in the state 4A Division I semifinals ... had 43 tackles and six INTs as a junior while Dorman went 10-3 and reached the second round of the state playoffs ... participated in the annual South Carolina North-South All-Star game ... All-Mid Atlantic Region pick by SuperPrep.
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Research about organisms that can weather Earth's harshest environments has broadened ideas of where living things can thrive. On Sunday, March 11, the Museum's 2012 Milstein Science Series kicks off with Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Environments, an exploration of how such organisms survive and what studying Earth's extremophiles could mean for the search for extraterrestrial life. Seth Shostak, one of the guest speakers at the March 11 program, is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute and researches whether life—from the intelligent to the extreme—could exist elsewhere in the universe. Below, Shostak answers a few questions about extremophiles and the search beyond life as we know it.
The Re-making of Mars: Terraforming Table
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The scent of evergreens, stones covered in moss, and the hum of rushing water are familiar features in many forests on Earth. But could these also describe a future landscape on Mars?
Once a staple of science fiction, terraforming—or making a planet more like Earth—is now being studied as a real possibility, as scientists research how to apply knowledge of evolution, climate, and technology to re-create the blue planet's environment on the red planet. Visitors can learn firsthand how humans might make Mars habitable with a custom, multi-user touch table featured in the Museum's exhibition Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration.
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For her research on flamingos, Felicity Arengo, associate director of the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation,has been profiled in Wildlife Heroes, a new book by Julie Scardina and Jeff Flocken. Combining photographs and fun facts with tales from the field, Wildlife Heroes features 40 conservationists dedicated to saving some of Earth's diverse wildlife.
Arengo's fieldwork has taken her across South America, from high-altitude lakes to fertile lowlands. "Flamingos are adapted to environments described as 'inhospitable,'" says Arengo. "They live in landscapes of extreme salt, wind, sun, and high altitudes." It takes a dedicated team to follow the birds and track their numbers.
Podcast: SciCafe: The Virus Hunters
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Highly publicized diseases like Ebola and swine flu are only some of the many viruses that spread from animals to humans. In this talk titled "The Virus Hunters" from a recent SciCafe, join virologist Nathan Wolfe and computational biologist Daniel Janies as they discuss their efforts to track infectious agents in animals before they reach people.
"The Virus Hunters" was introduced by Mark Siddall, a curator from the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology. The SciCafe took place at the Museum on February 1, 2012.
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Curator John Sparks is blogging weekly about the upcoming exhibition, Creatures of Light, which opens on Saturday, March 31. This week, he invited marine biologist David Gruber, an assistant professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) and a Museum research associate who consulted on the exhibition, to contribute the guest post below.
Imagine a group of single-celled animals smaller than the width of a human hair that possess 25 times the amount of DNA as humans. These organisms both bask in the sun to obtain energy, like plants, and actively hunt, like animals, even slurping out the insides of other cells. They include some of the fastest speed demons of the microscopic domain, propelling themselves up to 200-500 μm/second—the equivalent to a 6-foot Olympian athlete swimming at 40 mph. On top of these feats, a few members are responsible for creating the nighttime sparkle on breaking surf.


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|If you haven't cooked with butternut squash that much, this post can teach you How to Peel and Cut Up a Butternut Squash.
I think roasted butternut squash is one of the best things about autumn. That's why, if you live in the U.S., you'll see those bags of already peeled and cut butternut squash start to appear in stores at this time every year. In the past, I've confessed to buying pre-cut squash myself, even though I knew it couldn't possibly be as good as freshly cut squash. But the days when I'd pay premium prices for substandard squash changed when I discovered the Really Big Squash variety and started growing my own butternut squash. Now I had to master the slightly tricky process of cutting them up, and with practice I've gotten pretty good at it. If you've been a bit daunted by trying to cut up a hefty squash, here are some tips that can help you save money and get that garden-fresh squash flavor.
Butternut Squash Recipes from Kalyn's Kitchen:
Roasted Butternut Squash with Moroccan Spices
Butternut Squash with Rosemary and Balsamic Vinegar
Roasted Butternut Squash with Lime and Rosemary
Foil-wrapped Grilled Butternut Squash with Sage
Beef and Butternut Squash Stew with Rosemary and Balsamic Vinegar
Some Butternut Squash Ideas from Other Blogs:
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Butternut Squash and Parmesan Dip from The Kitchn
Butternut Squash Chili with Kale from Dani Spies
Roasted Butternut Squash and Onion Gratin from Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska
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Friday, March 29, 2002Gainesville, Fla. (Mar. 29, 2002) - East Tennessee State's track team came up with another strong set of performances today at the 59th edition of the Florida Relays. Freshman Brad Yewer (Newbury Park, England) took sixth place in the 1,500 meters, lowering his best time this season to 3:54.79, the third fastest mark in the Southern Conference so far this season. His teammate, freshman James Grufferty (Glanmire, Ireland) was 20th overall in a field of 48 with a time of 4:00.68. On the women's side, senior Lauren Campbell (Powell, Tenn.) ran her first 1,500-meter race of the outdoor season and finished sixth in her heat in 4:53.60, placing her among the top times in the SoCon so far this season. Senior Jennifer Howard (Knoxville, Tenn.) and sophomore Kim Simmons (Knoxville, Tenn.) both won their respective heats in the 400 meters, with Howard turning in a season-best time of 56.34, while Simmons also bettered her season-best with a 57.77. Their times place them among the SoCon best times in the 400-meter event as well.
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Anyone on here ever used a Miller 211 mig for welding thick steel like 0.170" thick or 0.230" thick in all positions: flat, vertical, overhead?
I'm still kicking around the idea of buying a Miller 211 and using it for welding 6" x 9lb/ft or 6" x 12lb/ft H-beams to make a loft in my shop for storage.
Can't find a lightly used CST 280 for a good price, so I'm thinking maybe I just need to mig weld this instead.
Anyone got any pictures of out of position mig welding on stuff this thick?
Would you recommend using Flux-core wire for the extra penetration or would argon/co2 and bare wire be just fine?
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03-07-2013, 01:08 PM #1Senior Member
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How does Miller 211 handle thick materials out of position? Structural H-beams
Not sure on the out if position part...have not done what your plan is but the 211 states it will weld up to 3/8 on both solid or flux core both at full power (10). Difference is the wire feed rate is quite a bit less with the flux core.
.230 is slightly less than 1/4 so I would think it would penitrate OK for you. Power settings for 1/4 is I think around 6 or 7. Might have to let it catch its breath once and a while but it should weld it OK.
Bevel your joint, 035 wire, 75/25 gas - burn it in
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There will be a LOT of T-joints vertical and lap joints both overhead and flat welded.
I've never heard of beveling on those 2 joints? Is that common?
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Should have no problem with steel that thin. I would use .030 and 75/25, as already said.
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I'm a newbie and a 211 owner. I've done a good bit of that range of material thickness. I would think as easy as it seems to be for that machine to burn through it is surely capable of doing what you want if you know what you're doing.
(yeah, I know who's doing the burning through :-))
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Here is what I am thinking.
I checked it with a uniform load of 250lbs per foot (a lot more than what I should have stored up there)
Uniform load of 20lbs per foot to account for the weight of the material (more than probably needed)
On the left I have a point load in case I want to ever put a small hoist to lift stuff (have it over rated too for what I will need)
This will have a top surface about 4ft wide.
The 3 fixed points are the vertical columns. I will have H beams running across as braces at the 3 fixed positions and at point #2.
I don't want to use an H-beam as a brace at point #1 because it will prevent the trolley from running back and forth on the 10ft span.
I will weld angle iron on the under side of the top of the beam and run it across like bridging to brace the beams, spacing will be every 2ft.
On top I will put flat expanded metal. I was considering plywood, but don't want to be running a grinder and set the plywood on fire above me. Also considered using light gauge steel plate, but not sure thick I would need to go to not have too much deflection with bracing at 2ft. Also, don't want to go too thick if I went with plate since that would be a lot of weight.
I will try to sketch something up more official looking when I get closer to buying materials.
I am really wondering if I will need to alter the cement slab for this in the shop. I think it is a 4" cement slab.
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In less developed countries, 1/3 of under-2-year old children are stunted (short stature for age). This early childhood stunting causes about one-fifth of all under-5-y child deaths in developing countries and, because brain development mirrors linear growth, leads to long-term cognitive deficits, fewer years and poorer performance in school, lower adult economic productivity, and a higher risk that their children will also be stunted, perpetuating the problem into future generations. The growth failure causing stunting occurs during pregnancy and the first two years after birth; after age 2 there is little or no recovery. Improving the diets of young children can reduce stunting, though, at best, only by about one-third. Frequent diarrheal illness has also been implicated. However, the effect of diarrhea on permanent stunting is relatively small, maybe because children grow at "catch-up" rates between illness episodes. The study will test the hypothesis that a major cause of child stunting and anemia is environmental enteropathy (EE), an asymptomatic condition of the small intestine caused by exposure to poor environmental sanitation. Environmental enteropathy is extremely common among people living in developing countries. During Environmental enteropathy, nutrient absorption is reduced and intestinal wall "leaks" allowing large numbers of bacteria into the blood stream which causes chronic low-grade infection. We hypothesize that children with Environmental enteropathy use much of the nutrients they eat to fight these chronic low-grade infections, using less nutrients from their diet for growing.
Growth; Stunting, Nutritional
Behavioral: Standard care
Other: WASH
Dietary Supplement: Nutrition
Other: WASH and Nutrition
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Sanitation, Hygiene, Infant Nutrition Efficacy Project
- Infant length at 18 months [ Time Frame: 18 months of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]recumbent length measured by length board
- Infant hemoglobin at 18 months [ Time Frame: 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measured by hemocue
- Infant diarrhea prevalence [ Time Frame: estimated diarrhea prevalence between birth and 18 months of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Assessed by 7-day morbidity history
- Infant fever [ Time Frame: fever incidence between birth and 18 months of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Assessed by 7-day morbidity history
- Cough with rapid breathing [ Time Frame: cough incidence between birth and 18 months of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]by 7-day history
- Infant Environmental enteropathy [ Time Frame: 18 months of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Assessed in a subsample of 1600 infants. These characteristics (laboratory test) of EE will be measured: Gut permeability (lactulose:mannitol test), Gut inflammation (fecal neopterin); Gut microbial translocation (plasma endotoxin core antibody, LPS (lipopolysaccharide), sol CD14); immune activation (proinflammatory cytokines, acute phase proteins, immunoglobulins); growth hormone axis (IGF-1 and IGF-1(insulin-like growth factor):IGFBP3 ratio).
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|Estimated Study Completion Date:
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|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Placebo Comparator: Standard of Care
The Standard of Care interventions are the blanket interventions.
Behavioral: Standard care
Standard Care:
Active Comparator: WASH
One of two active interventions to be studied in this 2X2 (two by two) Factorial trial:
Intervention 1: a package of interventions to improve household sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
Other: WASH
Active Comparator: Nutrition
One of two active interventions to be studied in this 2X2 Factorial trial:
Intervention 2: a package of interventions to improve infant feeding (IYCF)
Dietary Supplement: Nutrition
Active Comparator: WASH and Nutrition
This arm receives a combination of all standard care interventions, all WASH and all IYCF interventions.
Other: WASH and Nutrition
Sanitation/Hygiene AND Nutrition:
Detailed Description:
The Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy ("SHINE") study will test the effects of two packages of interventions: 1) improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and 2) improved infant nutrition (IN) on child stunting and anemia in the first 18 months of life. The study will be conducted in rural Zimbabwe where WASH is poor, food insecurity high, and where about 15% of pregnant women are infected with HIV. The study will enroll 4,800 women early in pregnancy and follow them and their infants until 18 months after delivery. The study will be a cluster-randomized controlled trial: two entire districts in central Zimbabwe have been divided into 212 geographic areas, each of about 100 households. The areas will be randomly allocated (that is, assigned by according to chance like the flip of a coin) to one of four interventions:
- Improved WASH (a ventilated pit latrine, hand washing facilities with soap, drinking water treatment, and health lessons to adopt improved hygiene behaviors)
- Improved Infant Nutrition (health lessons on best infant feeding practices and a nutritional supplement to be fed daily to babies from 6 to 18 months).
- Improved WASH and Infant Nutrition (both interventions)
- Standard of Care
All women living in the two districts who become pregnant during the recruitment period of the study will be invited to enroll. They will receive one of the 4 packages of interventions according to the area where they live. Health lessons will be given by Village Health Workers. Latrines and hand washing facilities will be constructed by building teams managed by Oxfam, a non-government organization active in WASH in Zimbabwe. Mothers will be followed up by research nurses at 7 months gestation, and at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 18 months after delivery. Primary outcomes are infant height and hemoglobin at 18 months of age.
In a sub-sample of 1600 mothers and babies the investigators will also collect samples of stool and blood and conduct a special sugar absorption test collecting urine. These samples will be tested for factors of Environmental Enteropathy (EE) - factors that indicate the health of the intestinal wall. The investigators will also ask these mothers to record all diarrhea, respiratory infection, and fever illnesses that the child has between 1 month and 18 months of age. This sub-study will investigate whether improved WASH reduces EE and whether reduced environmental enteropathy is, in turn associated with improved growth and reduced anemia.
Since the mothers enrolled in SHINE will have lived in unsanitary living conditions throughout their lives, it is anticipated that most will have some degree of EE themselves. It is hypothesized that resulting chronic inflammation contributes to adverse birth outcomes. This question will be investigated through an observational design. For all mothers enrolled in SHINE, the sugar absorption test described above will be conducted and specimens of urine, stool and blood collected and archived at the 10-12 week gestation visit for later assessment of EE indicators. The association of severity of EE with risk of adverse birth outcomes (low birth length and weight; miscarriage, stillbirth, and premature delivery) will be assessed.
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Study participants will be women who are rural residents of Chirumanzu or Shurugwi districts in Zimbabwe and who become pregnant during the enrollment period of the trial and are identified and consent to participation before 14 weeks of gestation, and their live born infants. A total of 4800 women will be enrolled.
Inclusion Criteria:
Women residing in the study districts under monthly prospective pregnancy surveillance of a Village Health Worker, who have a negative pregnancy test followed by a positive pregnancy test.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women residing in the study districts who were already pregnant when trial recruitment begins
- Women who are >14 weeks gestation at the time of enrollment
- Women residing in the study districts who become pregnant during the enrollment period but do not consent to join the trial
- Women who reside in urban areas of these two districts
- Infants with major non-fatal abnormalities will not be excluded from study procedures, but will be excluded from the final analytic sample if the abnormality is likely to directly affect gut health/function or stature (e.g. neural tube defects, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01824940
|Contact: Jean H Humphrey, ScD
|Contact: Mdu Mbuya, PhD
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Keywords provided by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
Cluster randomized trial
Water Sanitation Hygiene
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Eleanor Anne (Wallace) Cislo, 59, of Hughesville, MD, formerly of Waldorf, MD, passed away on August 14, 2013 at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.
She was born on October 23, 1953 in Bethesda, MD, daughter of Mary Alice (Mello) Wallace and the late Oliver Robert Wallace, Jr.
Eleanor graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, MD in 1971 and married John Leon Cislo in 1975. They have enjoyed a loving marriage of 38 years.
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In addition to her husband, Eleanor is survived by her beloved "Molly", her mother, Mary Alice (Mello) Wallace and her sisters Christine (Wallace) Hinchliffe and Elaine Wallace. Eleanor also leaves behind her brothers-in-law, John Lawrence Crowley and Richard W. Hinchliffe; and sister-in-law Margaret (Peggy) Alvey Wallace. In addition she leaves her husband's family, Charlie and Patty Case, Tom and Cindy Cislo, and Betty Addieg; and several friends, nieces and nephews.
Services are Private. Arrangements are being handled by Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home, P.A., 30195 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall, MD 20622.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Eleanor's memory to either: American Cancer Society, Southern Maryland Chapter, c/o 801 Roeder Rd., Suite 800, Silver Spring, MD 20910 or Humane Society of Charles County, 71 Industrial Park Dr., P.O. Box 1015, Waldorf, MD 20602.