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13.6 Training for audiovisual archivists
Helen P Harrison
It has long been recognised that audiovisual materials have a place in the cultural heritage of the 20th century, although some have a longer history, particularly photographic materials and other visual resources.
But what about avm as archive materials. Curiously enough because of the concentration of most conventional archives on printed materials it has taken some time for the recognition of av as archive materials to penetrate the general consciousness, but there have been av archives, usually single media archives, in existence since early in the twentieth century. The National Film Archive and the National Sound Archive (Previously the British Institute of Recorded Sound) were set up in the mid-thirties. Other archives such as the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna go back as far back as 1899. These archives are single media archives, but in more recent times the concept of audiovisual archives, collecting materials in several formats has appeared. Sometimes this was as a result of amalgamation of collections under the same administration, film and sound coming together as in the National Film and Sound Archives of Australia, or the film, television and sound archives in the Library of Congress, or the Moving image and recorded sound archives in the National Archives of Canada. Such `multi-media' archives may have separate administration according to media, but more and more they have a function based administration with departments for collections management, acquisition, documentation, and preservation, of all materials. In addition to such older established archives, those being newly established, especially in developing countries, tend to be more generalist in approach and contain several of the audiovisual materials as well as printed materials. It makes more economic sense when financial resources are restricted to set up function based archives. This trend began in the audiovisual collections in libraries, especially the resource centres of educational institutions. Until resource centres had tried it the archives were more tentative in their approach.
With the collection of av materials has also come a recognition by the archives of the need for conservation/preservation and restoration of all archive materials, including av materials and an even sharper reminder of the particular problems of preservation which these materials exhibit. Av materials may be relatively recent in production, but they have some horrendous inherent problems which need separate and particular treatment. Film materials are vulnerable to casual damage: scratches on the emulsion impossible to eradicate, damage in projection and use, once caused difficult to repair. Film is also subject to particularly nasty `disease' such as the spontaneous destruction of nitrate and the `vinegar syndrome' of acetate or safety film. In order to preserve material subject to these troubles, copying (at considerable expense) is essential. Nothing else will do. Video materials are not immune either- developing systems mean the obsolescence of materials, formats and machines at intervals of ten years if you are lucky! Again copying to more recent formats is necessary. Sound materials are some of the most stable, but even they together with their video counterparts are subject to vinegar syndrome or laser rot for discs. Once again a constant copying or re-recording is required in an archive where preservation of the material is the primary aim.
An audiovisual archivist needs special skills and such skills do not come unaided or untaught. But where does the education and training in these skills come from? Are there institutions to which the archivists or potential archivist can turn for help in updating his own knowledge or acquire special knowledge to deal with the materials and their preservation? If not, why not, and how can some provision be initiated, encouraged, and organised.
Such questions have been asked increasingly in recent years and there have also been moves towards creating an environment in which rational solutions can be sought or the situation improved. In particular education and training of archivists, and in particular audiovisual archivists has recently been under investigation by a group of representatives of interested audiovisual archive associations.
Why Training?
Firstly we have to establish the need for a profession of audiovisual archivist and then to investigate whether training for this profession exists. We have seen already that the cultural heritage is in danger of destruction and loss due to the rapid deterioration of records on many formats, and audiovisual material forms a major part of the cultural heritage of the 20th century as well as being an important information carrier. Audiovisual material requires archival treatment and preservation in the same way as any other source of information, and it is essential that this should be carried out by professionally qualified personnel if the cultural record is to be preserved. Archivists and librarians need education and training for professional work, but further they need training in the special skills and techniques for working with audiovisual formats: bibliographic description, handling, storage and conservation require a somewhat different approach to other materials in the librarian's care. Archivists have the additional responsibility for selection and longer-term conservation and preservation of audiovisual materials. Both professions have to pay attention to the further training of individuals to equip them adequately to carry out this work. The library profession is tentatively grasping the nettle after a steady campaign of some 20 years and more and more we see optional courses or special options within regular courses appearing in the Library and Information Departments. All too often the cry is lack of time and space in already busy departments, but light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. In one respect librarians are at an advantage in that probably more librarians will come across audiovisual materials in their daily work than will archivists. There is a larger target population for training librarians in work with audiovisual materials than there appears to be for archivists. This has implications for the harmonisation of training programmes for different professions.
This is not to say that because there are fewer audiovisual archivists they do not have to be trained as systematically as other professionals. An archivist normally requires education to at least tertiary or first degree level, and then additional education in archive principles and practice. Nothing less is required for an archivist dealing with audiovisual materials, and in addition special skills in dealing with the materials. The education and training of audiovisual archivists is a key issue for the further development of sound, film and television archives. In most countries safeguarding the audiovisual heritage, and working off the backlog in this field, will depend on the mobilisation of human resources, with a knowledge of the tasks, objectives, management and structure of the audiovisual archives. This knowledge has to be imparted through systematic programmes of training, updating or continuing education in addition to basic education.
Do these programmes already exist?
Although there is an expressed need for systematic training programmes for av archivists, these do not exist at present. Although the training of new archivists is a recognised need and university education for traditional library and archive careers is possible in many developed countries, no university, film or tv school specialises in av archive operations. There is also a need for training in highly technical operations for restoration and preservation tasks.
On investigation one finds only evidence of seminars, short courses, summer schools or symposia, given on a national, regional or international basis. Although these can help the situation by giving knowledge or know-how and skills needed for certain jobs, they will never be a substitute for professional education based on scientific methods. These method can compensate for the lack of professional education, but not replace it. Such training courses and seminars usually specialise in selected practical problems, are available to very limited target audiences, and are very limited in terms of time. Even the best of them last for only a few weeks. Theoretical knowledge is seldom part of the course, there is not enough time to develop themes adequately, and the function of such courses is more often restricted to the improvement of performance on specific and limited tasks.
Is help at hand?
Obviously significant improvement in the situation will not be achieved overnight, but a start has been made. The education and training of AV archivists has been a subject of investigation by the International Round Table on Audiovisual Records for the past decade. This started as an exchange of information on the various national, regional and international efforts geared to the education and training of av archivists. In 1988 a Working Party was formed under contract to Unesco to analyse the current situation and make recommendations for future action. This report was published in the Unesco RAMP series in 1990, and the speed with which the Working Party got through its work is an indication of the urgency archivists feel towards finding some solutions as soon as practicable. Among other features the report includes theoretical aspects of archiving, training needs and standards, a draft curriculum and recommendations for implementation as well as the results of a survey of institutions with the potential to present audiovisual archive training programmes. See Section XIII: 13.2, 13.3, 13.4.
Who requires training?
There is widespread recognition that training should be provided for audiovisual archivists in general, that is people dealing with a range of av materials rather than specialist single media archivists. Several reasons can be found for this attitude: the integration of audiovisual materials in archives; the common functions found in activities such as acquisition, preservation, cataloguing and use of audiovisual materials; and from the point of view of the trainee the greater flexibility of placement after training. Harmonisation of education programmes for all audiovisual archivists, includes the general audiovisual archivist and the specialist film, television, or recorded sound archivist as well as related disciplines. Coordination between practising audiovisual archivists, librarians and documentalists is to be encouraged to the benefit of all who can be trained to a level at which they can be useful in several professional posts.
But the need for training cannot be restricted to any particular level of staff in audiovisual archives: there are different requirements for different levels, and this could influence the type of training and decide the most useful in some circumstances. Basic education to an appropriate level is essential, for example senior and middle managers will probably have at least first degree level, but there is still a need for additional systematic training programmes for all av archivists. It is also necessary to raise the general awareness of the importance and need for the proper handling and conservation of audiovisual materials in all situations, from archives and libraries to general use.
Education/training should include full-time courses for qualified personnel, short courses for specialist topics and personnel, workshops, seminars and symposia to present new knowledge, in-service training of skilled workers for specific jobs, hands-on experience and other updating activities and finally `brainstorming' seminars for the updating of the trainers. There is a blend of full-time and continuing education involved here. No academic education can dispense with continuing professional education. Audiovisual media develop at a rapid pace, and all changes in technology have repercussions on the work of archives. Continuing education of top and middle management personnel of av archives is imperative to enable them to cope with their duties.
Where should training be provided?
Systematic training for av archivists is in a very early stage of development, and there is no institution which currently offers a full-time course. If systematic training programmes could be developed, the next question is where to present them. This produces many thorny problems. Should the trainees be brought to the developed archives, or should courses be presented in situ. Also which institutions are best suited to present such programmes.
There have been many discussions about the best way to handle training in audiovisual archivism and some experiments from which to draw tentative conclusions. Short courses and seminars have been presented in developed centres and also in regional centres in developing countries. FIAF has presented summer schools in film archivism in both types of region and ICA (International Council on Archives) has experience in presenting short courses in developing regions. Other developed archives have accepted trainees from developing countries. But is it really useful to bring trainees (often at considerable expense to their institutions) into a developed archive where they will gain the sort of training and experience which cannot be applied effectively to their own situation, nor are such trainees in a position to influence management policy. They are in danger of being 'overtrained' for the jobs to which they return. People who would most benefit from training overseas in 'developed countries' are more likely to be at the senior management levels. They should be in a better position to relate the experience gained overseas to the home situation. Graduates should be in a position to be able to identify issues on their own and establish a sequence of priority for practical solutions in archives and av media, subject to different conditions prevailing in different countries and institutions. The transfer of basic knowledge and the employment of graduates as trainers in the sense of the 'snow-ball system' might contribute to the emergence of personnel, institutional, educational and teaching materials in the last decade of the 20th century.
In addition the trainers themselves would benefit from the opportunity to study as many different systems as possible. It is likely that in the initial stages, trainers from among existing practitioners could be sought out and sent on visiting fellowships or secondment to develop the training programmes. Such practitioners would have to receive familiarisation training in order to relate their existing principles and practices to the region they are teaching in. The use of existing staff from archives for training purposes also has certain disadvantages in that these people cannot always be spared from their jobs. But if training programmes are to initiated effectively this is a responsibility which the archive profession will have to face.
Harmonisation of Professions and Training Programmes
The concept of harmonisation is important in establishing training programmes for audiovisual archivists. Harmonisation can be interpreted in two ways: the integration of educational programmes for all av archivists: whether they work in film, television, sound or audiovisual archives, and further the integration of training programmes for archive personnel with that for other related professionals.
The concept of harmonisation is useful for any subject where the target audience is relatively small and the subject matter is capable of being used by more than profession. Harmonisation of training programmes between related profession should enhance and improve the training possibilities for archivists and librarians. There are two applications of the word which apply to training. Firstly there is a harmonisation of practices between different training centres and schools in the same country - which is important for equivalence of qualification. The second aspect is harmonisation of education and training programmes for the three information professions: archivist, librarian, and information scientist. Some subjects such as preservation and conservation appear to be good cases for harmonisation. It makes sense to look for cooperation and coordination between related professions in training for special aspects of work such as the archival aspects of audiovisual materials. The skills and resources of the three professions can be utilised for the benefit of all. Of the several areas recommended for inclusion in a plan of action for harmonisation, preservation and conservation, audiovisual materials, information technology and records management are of particular relevance to the audiovisual librarian. There are other benefits to be gained from collaborative training projects including economic benefits, when both human and financial resources can be used for mutual benefit; benefits for the students in that their range of skills is increased and barriers between professional groups are lessened giving the trainees greater mobility and job opportunities.
It seems to be preferable to integrate training with existing programmes rather than add another strand, but which disciplines should be selected as suitable for integrating audiovisual archivism? The major discipline is archival science. Documentation although important is less closely connected. Library schools could provide useful training for the disciplines of documentation, but archive science should form its own discipline and not be seen as an add-on aspect of a librarianship course.
Consideration needs to be given to the value of harmonisation of training for audiovisual archive and library personnel. but although the similarities between libraries and audiovisual archives appear close in terms of formal description, cataloguing, access; other skills of preservation and technical aspects require different training. There will not be complete harmonisation and the training programmes of the different skills cannot be used as substitutes for one another.
One of the first considerations of international schemes for the training of audiovisual archive personnel is the problem of whether such schemes should be centred in countries with developed archives - to illustrate elements of good practice - or whether to present training schemes in the areas/regions or countries in which the greatest need occurs. In the case of audiovisual archive personnel it has to be recognised that the greatest need is for the development of a universal scheme of training: the developed archives are as much in need of properly organised and assimilated training programmes as the developing countries and their archives. Developed countries need to put their own houses in order before preaching to anyone else. Having said this many developed countries have achieved some measure of principle and practice for collections management within their audiovisual archives and are gradually reaching a position where expertise and experience can be disseminated to a wider audience than before. But equally it has to be recognised that many developing countries have their own special problems and pragmatic solutions to add to this experience. The 'developed' world is not always any wiser than the developing world in these new areas of audiovisual archiving and indeed the developing world has much practical experience to offer with its changing conditions, financial and other resources, capacities and climates which has to be taken into account in any training programme if it is to be appropriate to regional and national interests. The question now is how to achieve a transfer of all this accepted knowledge and expertise to all those who are in need. If the developed world has a part to play in this process it is by facilitating with financial and human resources the transfer of knowledge, practice and principle.
But how best to implement these programmes and which is the better concept, to set up training programmes in developed archives with all their supposed advantages of equipment, sufficient staff, some of whom can be spared to tutor trainees, exemplary practices and wide connections and cooperation with surrounding archives and their practices. This implies that trainees have to come from far and wide, usually at considerable expense to their institution or government, take instruction in an alien situation which does not always relate or even appear relevant to their own particular situation and acquire knowledge which may or may not be possible to turn into practice in their own position. It is a lot to ask of a relatively inexperienced trainee! Such a scheme allows for only a limited number of graduates to travel at considerable expense, and courses held in these situations are usually irregular and designed for a wide variety of trainee, rather than courses specifically designed to a particular type of participant.
The other pattern is to send lecturers/tutors from a developed archive to the country or region which requires a training programme. This is sometimes more realistic as it means the funding of only one or two people into a country or region, who providing they are well briefed and at least familiar with the situation and climate prevailing in the region, can relate practical experiences of audiovisual collections management to the particular circumstances. There is also a most important aspect to this argument which is that in many instances it is not possible to transfer currency from one country to another. The problems of currency exchange range widely, but it is difficult to convert currency from one country to another and the more which can be spent within a country or region the more value that currency will achieve.
Although educational programmes may be centred on a particular country the concepts of regional education and cooperation are essential. The centre within a region which has the better facilities, and a wide range of different archives and audiovisual facilities within easy distance is the more obvious choice to conduct a training programme. Presenting courses in regional centres could ensure a sufficiently large target audience to make a course a viable proposition and also allow the participants to acquire much needed hands-on experience of a greater variety of relevant audiovisual equipment and materials. An audiovisual archive training course profits greatly from practical experience and fieldwork and this aspect is likely to be more easily and better arranged on a regional basis with the use of local resources and facilities in institutions which have audiovisual collections and are prepared to host 'working' visits - or who may have their own in-training courses.
There is a need to attach training programmes to existing training centres which are capable of expanding to include additional disciplines, or can be given the necessary resources to do so rather than set up new completely independent training centres for av archivists only. Such a new centre would find it difficult to be a viable proposition at least in the short-term. This introduces the concept of harmonisation. Training courses for audiovisual archivists could be associated with existing schools or training centres, for a variety of related disciplines including those of archive management courses, librarianship, film schools, etc.
Training programmes should really be set up in several centres. The training and education of audiovisual archivists needs to take place in existing archival institutions and institutions of higher education. The demand for one or more new institutions at national or international level to teach the staff of film, tv and sound archives is neither realistic nor financially feasible at present. Having accepted that training programmes need to be set up in several centres there is a need to begin the establishment as a matter of urgency. This will involve the international organisations of Unesco in particular, national archive schools and training centres of relevant institutions. Exemplary models can also be developed to serve for individual countries, perhaps even for regions sharing similar historical traditions and a common language. Existing regional or national centres such as national archives, archive management schools, library and information science departments etc. could be used for training programmes as well as other resources including archives and film schools which are available in the immediate neighbourhood. These institutions could form a 'pool of resources' in which students of the programme could gain the very necessary practical experience.
The results of the initial survey carried out by the Curriculum Development Working Party indicate that there is sufficient interest in developing courses for av archives within existing institutions, and a follow-up survey could be conducted to identify those organisations which have the greatest potential for such development.
Teaching Materials
Before training programmes can be successfully instigated there has to be some improvement in the provision of suitable teaching materials for the trainers to use. This ranges from the very basic manuals of practice, through other normal library tools such as bibliographies, to audiovisual teaching aids which can be used in for instance a distance teaching situation. Few of these exist at present, but there are plans to rectify some of the damage before too long. A bibliography of audiovisual archive materials is in preparation, a basic manual divided into theory and practice, technical and non-technical is also being prepared. Other aids such as a series of basic library handling pamphlets have also been initiated. While one would continue to encourage the production of these basic aids and manuals the further production of useful audiovisual materials indicating principles and practice which can be used in a teaching situation is to be encouraged. Distance learning has a value for audiovisual archive training and there is a ready market for the production of suitable teaching tools.
Finally we should not forget certification - that piece of paper which proves we have all gone through some period of training to fit us for the tasks ahead. Certification is becoming of importance within our own society as education edicts take hold, but they are of even more importance in developing countries - they give a person some kudos within their own society and the better the certificate the better the end result in the way of employment. It is therefore essential that when the audiovisual training programmes are in place the certification should be recognised throughout the various professions involved. There should be little problem with this providing the professions accept their responsibility for the better education of audiovisual professionals, whether these be archivists, librarians or information scientists. The opportunity is there, let us hope we will not be found wanting.
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I am writing some XML templates to speed up writing schemas. I was wondering if it is possible to do a "create element" with multiple cursor locations akin to Eclipse generating a method in a java class which allows you to tab through the return type, method name, and parameters (they appear selected by a rectangle).
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It moves the cursor to the name attribute, but I can't tab to the type attribute. Is there a way to do this with xml in eclipse?


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Volunteers are being signed up to help this spring and fall with biological monitoring of streams in Henderson County. A training session is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Those interested in signing up for the job and the training session should phone Angela Fernandini, ECO water quality administrator, at 606-2791 or visit the ECO Web site at www.eco-wnc.org for a printable application form. The Environmental and Conservation Organization sponsors the bio-monitoring program.
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The biological monitoring program supports and expands the information provided through the Volunteer Water Information Network, a stream monitoring program that ECO has coordinated in Henderson County for 15 years. That program provides monthly analysis of 33 sites on 28 streams in 13 parameters.
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First: I just bought ASKJ @ 1.15 AH after the news.
Second: ITRI already in huge chunk of the debt, and debt will build up to burn their cash (Only 20 mil left).
Third: They could repurchase up to as many as 813,800(do you think it alot?? Less than 5% of outstanding). But how much a shares that low enough for them to buy it back ($2.00 ??? Don't forget that they sold above $30). They are smart!! You should sell your shares after they sold their. Only you so stupid to hold it until now.
Fouth: Becarefull. They knew something you don't know...
Fifth: LOOK AT WCOME!
do you really think that the solution is buying ASKJ stocks? am i suppose to take serious some moron promoting an internet services company? am i suppose to take seriously someone who is giving only INCOMPLETE FACTS. i am sorry that you put so much money into ASKJ at 3 dollars or more. you are an idiot if you think you will find suckers here.
Please, explain where and how ITRI paid off a huge chunk of the debt? explain how they are able to do a BUY BACK? why are they doing so much better than anyone else in their industry class? if you cannot answer that, then it will prove you are an IDIOT!!! how many IDs are you gonna create that i will ahve to IGNORE?
At least the silly comments offer another way to examine the validity of the analysis. The company is amall in comparison with other industries, or the gas industry itself that it serves, among others. As the industry progresses, it will go to more automation instead of human meter readers and ITRI has more potential. The analysis is assuming a limited potential and a somewhat saturated scenario.
The tiny company has only 20mil cash.
The insider own less 2% shares (they don't give a
That whay it droped 33% today, even the best quarter ever report can't save them. Only Moron who buy @ 14.
there sure is a lot of dummies on these boards. how about the idiot who said i was slamming the people who had VALID INFORMATION? funny, i bet the moron cannot even be specific and back up his reasons for believing their validity. so he says -- blanketly that I must be wrong!!! shows they do not want to do real DD investigation, they just want to play fear-mongering jerks rather than using their brains. they are probably still playing video games in high school. there seems no doubt about it. this is a gift. no one could have believed that another ideal re-entry point was possible. i think the fella who said the AH high volume was an indication that people know this will rebound. another upgrade might happen soon too... cannot you believe that bunkerdog taking credit for First ALbany? i made room for him on ignore finally. what a lot of worthless ignorant noise.
That is true, but it makes me wonder how automated the trading computer progams are to do this. I know there weren't 100,000 sellers and buyers out there doing all this in a disconnected, individual trade.
demonstrate ONE place where someone presented sincere VALID information where i slammed them, that was specifically relevent to today? and please, explain why their position was valid or real? i sort of think hkestenholz and i are getting down to some solid facts. please, tell us one REALLY VALID piece of information that i slammed? explain why it was so valid. if you do not answer, then i will assume that YOU KNOW YOU ARE A LYING SCUM!!!!you act like anomolies like this never happen to good stocks with great fundamentals? it happens all the time. this is where buffett says the buying ops are!!!
Thanks for asking the hard questions nonprofit, it is refreshing after all the junk that goes across this net. Four smart people in two days is rare.
ITRI is one of the very BEST performing companies on the market. they have paid off large chunk of their debt, they are increasing earnings, and they are BUYING BACK!!! i asked the SEC to investigate First Albany's trades in Itron in the last month. that was a super GROSS downgrade. not even close to all the other analyst ratings.
get lost RETARD. did they let you out of the crib today? go back to school! a "tiny" company. where do you get you fundamentals, moron?


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"Not enough kids are getting enough calcium in their diets, and one of the reasons is that parents often eliminate dairy, thinking that it is the cause of stomach pains and the other discomforts that are associated with lactose intolerance," committee member Melvin B. Heyman, MD, MPH, tells WebMD.
Instead of banning dairy foods from a sensitive child's diet, the report recommends slowly introducing them to determine the child's level of tolerance.
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Valls, visiting Mali in the final stages of a French-led military operation to oust Al-Qaeda-linked militants from the desert north, pledged to help the former French colony build up its army to combat the continuing threat posed by rebel violence.
"France is mobilised alongside Mali in the fight against terrorism," he told reporters after he was welcomed by Malian Security Minister Sada Samake.
French troops entered Mali in January to halt an advance on the capital Bamako by the Islamists and allied Tuareg rebels.
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France still has 3,200 troops in Mali but wants to reduce the figure to 1,000 by the end of January.
A United Nations peacekeeping force meant to replace the French is expected to eventually reach 12,640 troops and police. At the end of July it had just over 6,000 but Nigerian and some Chadian troops have since withdrawn.
Bert Koenders, the UN special representative to Mali, told the Security Council last month that a recent escalation in rebel violence in the north of the country had been an important "wake-up call" over security.
Valls was on the third leg of a four-nation west African tour which has seen him in Senegal and Ivory Coast since Friday and concludes in Mauritania on Sunday.
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The minister was due to dine with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Saturday and hold talks with Malian Premier Oumar Tatam Ly on Sunday before flying to Mauritania.


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7. CASE STUDY: CHAGAS' DISEASE; LOCATION: GUATEMALA; Building a Better Bloodsucker
By Jack Hitt
Published: May 6, 2001
In an Atlanta suburb, I have joined two scientists at the Home Depot to shop for some wood. There are other men in the aisle, homeowners who are wheeling their flatbed lumber carts among the forests of upright planks -- poplar, oak, pine. They are building huts for their children to play in or sheds for their tools. Their mumblings involve the important issues of length and width.
My guys fret more about glue content and stability under intense humidity. They are not building a playhouse or a toolshed. Instead, these scientists are building a simulacrum of a thatched Guatemalan hut that will sit inside a triply-protected Level Two Biological Hazard greenhouse on the campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A few days from now, they will release into this near-natural environment a swarm of insects containing altered genes, what they cheerfully call ''Frankenbugs'' because they know as well as you do that it's inevitable.
For the last few years, the public debate involving the phrase ''genetically altered'' has remained hermetically contained within the plant kingdom. Now it is escaping the tomato vines and cornfields and jumping into the animal kingdom. The small group of scientists around the world who specialize in this new field recently held only their third annual ''Insect Transgenesis'' conference. Here in the United States, a handful of experiments tinkering with the genome of insects has recently received protocol clearance by the government. For example, some scientists hope to attack the pink bollworm moth, which harms cotton crops in the South, by releasing a modified male that passes along a fatal flaw while fertilizing eggs. As with this moth, most of the other tests use genetics to prompt massive, one-time collapses in the population of invasive agricultural pests.
The bug experiment in Atlanta, however, is different, and its implications are much further-reaching. The short-term hope is that the method being tested in the greenhouse will one day thwart an incurable tropical affliction called Chagas' disease. But should the technique work, the scientists may have devised a powerful, and entirely new, class of weapon in the battle to stop infectious diseases -- something on the order of the vaccine and antibiotics.
''What about cedar?'' asks Ben Beard, an entomologist working on parasitic diseases at the C.D.C.
''Doesn't cedar repel bugs?'' says his partner, Ravi Durvasula, an infectious disease scientist at Yale University.
Beard laughs and ambles on in search of cheap wood. He discovers some poplar listed at $4.59, perfect for his $50 hut budget. We unload a dozen towering planks. When it's our turn with the clerk who operates the table saw, he gives us the Look. ''You know these boards are $4.59 a foot, right?'' the clerk says as we all stare at what is suddenly a $500 trove of prime timber. A group of guys gives us that Other Look.
''Do you feel your testosterone draining away as quickly as I do?'' Durvasula whispers to me. We scramble back down the aisle, load up some sheets of crummy plywood and head back to the Chamblee campus of the C.D.C.
On the way, I listen to Beard and Durvasula describe the mechanics of their idea, and right away it is clear that this tiny shack we are about to build inside this greenhouse is about a lot more than the success or failure of stopping this one disease. These two scientists are opening the genetic door for a new reason -- not to enrich a global corporation but to take command of nature at a Darwinian level and erect a microscopic fire wall between us humans in here and those diseases out there. Of course, as always, these phylum-size paradigm shifts always sound good at first: one little tweak of the gene and poof! -- Chagas' or Lyme or some other disease is gone, no problem. And doesn't it always seem that after we are deep into the changes of some innovation, we suddenly ask ourselves, Why didn't we consider the implications of this before we made it standard operating procedure? This time, maybe we can pose a few of the hard questions first.
Chagas' is a devastating parasite-borne illness that kills 50,000 people a year. About 16 million people in Latin America have it, although with the warming climate, cases have just recently begun to crop up in Texas. In most cases, you become chronically ill for a long time; in the worst cases, after that long time, the wall of your heart weakens and one day just gives way.
The way you get Chagas' is, frankly, disgusting. The ''vector'' for Chagas' -- that is, the means by which people get the parasite -- is a tropical insect called the kissing bug. It looks like an exotic roach when fully grown: one to two inches long, with wings that it rarely uses. There are various species: some of them blandly gray, others with fetching little spots. The bugs thrive in dark hidden places like the thatch of roofs in Guatemala or the cracks of adobe in Mexico.
As a bloodsucking insect, the kissing bug tends to search out dinner at night by parachuting out of the safety of its thatch. Nature equips the bug with a unique method for finding its meal. It can detect sources of carbon dioxide. That's the gas that you softly exhale at night while you sleep. As a result, the bug usually heads for the area near your mouth (hence its name). The kissing bug then unfolds a proboscis from beneath its head and pierces your skin, drinking heartily -- for around five minutes. After eating, the bug leaves a parasite-laced fecal droplet right at the site of the feeding. In the morning, when you awaken, all you sense is a slight itching on your face. When you scratch, you rub the parasite into the tiny wound nearby. Twenty years later, if you are unluckier still, your heart will explode.


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Dear old little Malta! So charming, so flourishing, so surprising - especially for us, people from big cities where it is impossible not to lock the front door of your flat, as they do it in Gozo!
We spent a week in Malta right after the New Year, in the northern coast of the island in the place Qawra. Qawra and Bugibba (the neighbouring town) are the most popular tourist resorts. It usually rains in Malta only several days in September or October, but when we came it rained two days to commemorate our arrival. The seashore is rocky, in some places it reminds of the shores of Moscow ponds - covered with grass and wild flowers.
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About Jeff Masters
Dr. Masters co-founded wunderground in 1995. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990. Co-blogging with him: Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:19 AM GMT on October 28, 2007
The surface low pressure system about 150 miles south of the Haiti/Dominican Republic border has gained enough organization to be upgraded to Tropical Depression 16. Long range radar of of Puerto Rico shows bands of heavy rain continuing to affect the region. Satellite loops show most of the heavy thunderstorm activity is to the north and east of the low's center of circulation, but these thunderstorms have shown some impressive development tonight. Wind shear has fallen to 15-20 knots tonight, and is expected to fall below 15 knots on Sunday. This should allow TD 16 to develop into a tropical storm on Sunday.
Figure 1. Latest satellite rainfall estimate for TD 16.
This is a slow moving system that will dump very dangerous amounts of rain along its path. The system will continue to bring heavy rains and the threat of flash flooding and mudslides to Puerto Rico through Sunday night. Heavy rains of up to eight inches have already fallen in southeast Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Figure 1). Heavy rains will also affect the Dominican Republic and Haiti Sunday and Monday, and are likely to trigger life-threatening flash floods in Haiti.
This afternoon's 18Z (2 pm EDT) major intensity forecast models--the GFDL, HWRF, and SHIPS models--all agree that TD 16 will intensify into a hurricane. The 18Z GFDL, HWRF, and UKMET models predict TD 16 will move northwesterly across Hispaniola, then into the Bahamas on Tuesday, and intensify into a Category 1 hurricane over the central Bahamas on Tuesday. A trough of low pressure would then swing TD 16 northeastwards out to sea. This forecast track seems unreasonable, as TD 16 has headed more to the west today than these models predicted.
The ECMWF and GFS models predict TD 16 will track west-northwest along the length of Cuba, then pass within 50 miles of Miami on Thursday before recurving northeastwards out to sea. These models do not intensify TD 16 into a hurricane, due to the amount of time the storm spends over the mountainous terrain of Cuba. This is a reasonable forecast, should TD 16 track over Cuba for a long distance.
I believe the 12Z forecast of the NOGAPS model, which predicts a more southerly track into the Western Caribbean, just south of Cuba, is the most reasonable one. This track would favor TD 16 developing into a hurricane, possibly a major hurricane, since the heat content of the waters in the Western Caribbean is high, and the wind shear will be lower further to the south.
The area of disturbed area of weather in the extreme Western Caribbean, just east of the Yucatan Peninsula now appears to be too insignificant to affect the path or intensity of TD 16 very much.
I'll have an update Sunday morning.
Jeff Masters
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A Debate Over the Shifting Global Arms Market
U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter crew chief, Tech. Sgt. Brian West, watches his aircraft approach for the first time at Eglin Air Force Base, 2011. (U.S Air Force, Flickr)
Technology Matters
J. Thomas Moriarty
According to Jonathan Caverley and Ethan Kapstein ("Arms Away," September/October 2012), the United States' domination of the global arms market is disappearing, and as a consequence, Washington is squandering an array of economic and political benefits it has enjoyed as the foremost weapons dealer in the world. They argue that although the U.S. defense industry spent the last decade developing expensive, high-tech systems, such as the Joint Strike Fighter, also known as the F-35, foreign customers actually want cheaper, less advanced weapons. For Caverley and Kapstein, simpler is better.
Even if that were true, it would be a secondary concern. First and foremost, U.S. defense firms need to serve their most important client: the Pentagon. The U.S. military should not have to forgo stealth technologies, for instance, which better protect pilots and allow them to attack complex air defense systems, because the rest of the world is supposedly more interested in old airplanes equipped with outdated technology.
Moreover, the United States' declining market share in recent years is not a result of the Pentagon's pursuing cutting-edge technology, as Caverley and Kapstein argue. The landscape of global arms sales is shifting because medium-sized powers, such as India, South Korea, and Turkey, have enjoyed robust economic growth lately and are
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01. Assos is one of the most beautiful little towns in Turkey. Anna Edmonds, well known writer on Turkey, believes that the name came from Isij, "rising sun", a phrase later pronounced as "Asia."
02. It is hard to believe that this little village on the edge of the Aegean Sea is to Turkey what Niagara Falls is to the USA and Canada – the "honeymoon capital" of the Turkey.
03. Assos is a tranquil seaside retreat amid ancient ruins. The modern Turkish town is called Behramkale, which is built on top of a small ancient volcanic rock.
04. These ancient ruins overlook the Aegean Sea.
05. Nearby lies the Greek island of Lesbos, or Midilli in Turkish six miles, or ten kilometers, away.
06. The origin of Assos is debated by archaeologists. Troad is the region below the Dardanelles and Assos.
07. Emil Forrer postulated that this region used to be called Wilusa and that it had been dominated by the Hittites.
08. In 1983 Houwink ten Cate showed that two fragments were from the same original cuneiform tablet. Today most archaeologists accept that the restored letter showed that Wilusa was correctly placed in northwestern Anatolia.
09. Trevor Bryce, another archaeologist, writes that Hittite texts indicate a number of Achaeans raids on Wilusa during the 13th Century BC.
10. Homer uses the term Achaean word 598 times in the Iliad and Odyssey as a collective word to describe the Greeks.
11. Starting from the 13th century BC and for the next 100 years there may have been constant wars in this region. These battles may have resulted in the overthrow of king Walmu, the king of Wilusa.
12. This period of history would correspond with Troy Level VII – 1275-1100 BC.
13. From the 12th century to the 8th century BC this area of the Aegean Sea lived through a torpor that lasted at least 400 years.
14. Bryce also reports that archaeological surveys conducted by John Bintliff in the 1970s show that a powerful kingdom that held sway over northwestern Anatolia was based at Troy. If so, this explains the background of Homer's Iliad.
15. Some scholars believe that Assos, as a part of the international wars going on in the region, was founded by the people of Methymna in the 7th century B.C. a town on the island of Lesbos.
16. At that time in history the Mysian peoples along the Aegean Coast were part of the Ionian civilization.
17. Assos had a long history as a Greek colony, and then a city.
18. Atop a hill surrounded by olive groves are the ruins of the Doric-style Temple of Athena (530 BC) surrounded by crumbling city walls and an ancient necropolis (cemetery).
19. The most famous Temple of Athena was on the Acropolis in Athens. The name of the city, Athens, comes from the devotion of the people to the goddess Athena. The worship of this goddess spread across the Aegean Sea.
20. She was the goddess of War. The Temple of Athena mixed both Doric and Ionic styles in its original construction.
21. The half dozen reconstructed columns cannot give any idea of the popularity, centrality, grace, stature or importance that this temple held for thousands of people over hundreds of years. This was an important center of Greek worship.
22. Great prosperity followed the defeat of the Persian troupes in 480BC. Persia expanded its empire to the West and great battles were fought over the territories around the Aegean Sea.
23. With the defeat of the Persian fleet and the withdrawal from the Aegean Sea the way was open for a long period of uninterrupted peace.
24. The tyrant Hermeias was an enlightened ruler for that age. He studied at the Academy as a student of Plato in Athens, became the governor to Lesbos and Troad, the region as far north as the Dardanelles.
25. Hermeias encouraged philosophers and men of letters to live in Assos. Many buildings constructed at that time are still visible. Assos therefore flourished at the height of classical Greek expression.
26. Two famous philosophers came to live in Assos: Xenocrates and Aristotle. He went there in 348 BC and stayed for three years. During that time Aristotle fell in love with adopted daughter of Hermeias, Pythia.
27. The Persians, who had been defeated once in their wars against Greece, struck again. Even the massive walls could not keep the Persians out. Hermeias was captured and tortured to death in 344 BC
28. Aristotle founded his first school in Assos. Then Aristotle moved to Macedonia where he taught a smart young boy who seemed to have a bright future: Alexander, who was to become "the Great".
29. The remains of the ancient city are below the Temple of Athena. Aristotle's poem "Ode in Praise of Valor", written to commemorate his friendship Hermeias, was with often repeated at this temple.
30. Wheels of international revenge may move slowly, but they grind onwards with incredible precision. The Persians had conquered Greece.
31. Now Greece wanted the opposite politically in Greece.. Instead of being invaded it would invade and conquer Persia. It took 150 years for the right set of circumstances to come about
32. Alexander the Great gathered the armies of Greece (Macedonia and Achaia) and set out upon a conquest of the known world.
33. In 333 BC he began by conquering Anatolia, today's Turkey, and then in two dramatic battles he conquered Persia.
34. Tiny Assos was simply a dot in the huge tapestry of events between 333 and 321 BC. Alexander conquered the world as far as India and Afghanistan, then lost his life in a fever.
35. Pergamum, today's Bergama, became the undisputed powerful city of all the shores of the Aegean Sea. From 241 to 133 BC Assos paid its taxes to Pergamum.
36. When Attalus III (138-133 BC) died he left a will that ceded the territory of Troad, the northern region where Assos was located, as well as the whole of his kingdom to the Republic of Rome. Rome was now the rising star, the new hub of power in the world.
37. The Romans reorganized the administration of Pergamum, an act that was well in keeping with their bent and abilities to reorganize anyone and everything. From roads to temples, stadiums to Theatres, schools to triumphal arches - the Romans excelled in working with stone.
38. They placed Pergamum within the new province Asia Minor. Assos was part of another province, Mysia.
39. St Paul visited Assos briefly during his third missionary journey, (53-57 AD.)
40. He had landed in Alexandria Troas together with a number of traveling companions, probably in early April 55AD. He wanted to be in Jerusalem by Pentecost, which usually falls in May.
41. Wishing to be left alone for two or three days, Paul walked by land to Assos and sent his friends on to Assos by ship.
42. As he walked along Paul must have had many things on his mind.
43. He had initiated Christian work that included at least nine churches in what is today Turkey and Greece.
44. Each one of these churches had its own problems and he writes that he was more concerned about the health of the churches than the persecutions that came to him everywhere he went. (2 Corinthians 11:16-33).
45. Secondly, Paul was carrying a substantial amount of money from the Gentile Christians to the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem.
46. A large part of the New Testament that talks about generosity and giving was given to this offering. (I Corinthians 16:1; 2 Corinthians 8 and 9; Romans 15; Acts 20, 21).
47. Paul knew that he faced stiff opposition and probably physical assaults in Jerusalem.
48. At the same time Paul, who was a writer and careful teacher of early Christian doctrine, was thinking who he would leave as leaders in the churches he had started.
49. We also know from Romans 15 that he had already framed a future trip to Rome. He wanted to use Rome as his base for a future trip to Spain.
50. I believe he wanted to speak to the priests the Temple of Apollo of the Mice, Smitheion where an image of Apollo stood killing a mouse. The remains are located in Gulpinar, Laughing Springs, half-way between Alexandria Troas and Assos. (Click NEXT for photos 51-100.)
51. After this we do not hear anything about Assos in the New Testament.
52. In the time of the Byzantine Empire Assos was included in the thema, or province, of the Aegean Islands. Assos received a new name: Makhramion. After the invasion of Muslim forces the sturdy city fell into disrepair.
53. Following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire, the Troad region became part of the sanjak of Biga, the name of the Ottoman province along the Aegean Sea. Assos today is known as Behramkoy.
54. Nearby is the 14th-century Ottoman Murad Hüdavendigar Mosque. Some people identify the present mosque as an Orthodox Church building converted into a present day mosque.
55. Others identify the building materials that are used in the mosque as materials that came from a previous Orthodox church and that were later incorporated into the doorway, lentil and door frame.
56. As you go down the steep hill you will pass the marketplace, the city walls, theatre and Council Chamber, perhaps 2,300 years old. The gymnasium or "high school" is identifiable as one of the ruins.
57. Enchanting old stone houses that started out as Greek homes previous to the birth of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 now serve as inns, pensions and restaurants.
58. Down the steep seaward side of the hill at the water's edge is a hamlet alongside the dock. The effect is so charming that thousands of Turks find this their number one choice of an out of the way place to spend a romantic weekend.
59. The small pebbly beach is less of an attraction than the boat tours and picturesque nature of the hamlet itself.
60. One can reach Assos by taking a bus south from Canakkale along the main E87 / D550 route to Ayvacik.
61. Some visitors get Ayvacik confused with a nearby summer tourist city of Ayvalik. Ayvalik is a port city that receives thousands of tourists in the summer. See if you can take in both places, Assos and Ayvalik. The bus ride from Canakkale to Assos takes just under two hours.
62. The remainder of this album has photos from my collection of pictures taken in Assos.
63 As always, I received freely - use them freely. If you make a profit please donate generously to a charity working with children in the developing world say, "Photos used by permission of David Phillips."
64. This album incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
65. This album also incorporates some text from the Catholic Encyclopedia, which is in the public domain.
66. The following photos are additional pictures from my collection of scenes in and around ancient Assos.


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Balsamic Glazed Baby Onions
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 15 mins
This recipe comes from the Australian Women's Weekly Christmas Cooking.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon coarse grain mustard
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 lb baby onion, halved
- Combine vinegar, mustard and honey in small saucepan.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat.
- Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until glaze thickens.
- Heat oil in large skillet and cook onion, brushing constantly with glaze, stirring, until browned and cooked to desired doneness.
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Another great side dish! I love the mix of sweetness from the honey, with the acidity from the balsamic vinegar. It goes well on its own as well as in a salad.
Outstanding! I am always looking for new vegetable recipes that the whole family will enjoy. This recipe is easy to make and the flavor is wonderful I used 10 ounces of pearl onions which I boiled for 3 minutes and then peeled. I served with Black Cherry Pork Tenderloin (The Mid-Atlantic). Thank you for a great recipe! Made for PRMR.
ACE!!!!!!!!!!! These are so delicious. I kept the onions whole. I steamed them for a couple minutes and then used the oil but was finding the sauce just slipping off when I was basting so I just poured the sauce over and let it reduce that way. We had guest for dinner and there was almost a fight over who got that last couple onions. Definite keeper. Made for the Aus/NZ region for ZWT 5 for team Zaar Chow Hounds.


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Your doctor will ask you about your medical history and current symptoms. He or she will want to know about recent exposure to anyone with mononucleosis or mono-like symptoms.
During a physical exam, your doctor will look for signs of mononucleosis. These include:
A reddened throat with enlarged tonsils
Swollen lymph nodes in the neck and elsewhere
An enlarged spleen
A red rash, usually on the chest
Your doctor also will do blood tests to help make the diagnosis. The results of these blood tests may not be abnormal until the person has been ill for a week.
Two types of blood tests help to make the diagnosis:
Differential white blood cell count. This test measures levels of different types of white blood cells. In the first few weeks of mononucleosis, the number of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) is quite high. There also are large numbers of lymphocytes that look unusual, called "atypical lymphocytes".
Heterophil tests. Mononucleosis causes white blood cells to make an unusual kind of antibody called heterophil antibody. Heterophil tests measure levels of heterophil antibody.


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The lounge room overlooks the garden
View from the lounge room window
The lounge room at night
The kitchen and dining room
Main bedroom
Outlook from the front verandah in winter
Second bedroom
The bedroom opens to the side verandah
The side veranda is perfect for breakfast
The new bathroom retains a vintage feel
Thick stone walls provide great insulation
Enjoy a sunny reading nook
Or a shady spot instead
Blood lillies in summer
The night cottage
'Duck' cottage is a beautifully renovated 2 bedroom 1850's stone cottage on five acres of tree studded land. This unique cottage retains many of its original features including its wonderfully insulating thick stone walls, wide verandah, open fires and its low doorways (adequate at the time for small Cornish folk) .which are what led us to name it 'Duck' cottage. These heritage features are combined with modern amenities, comfortable beds, new bathroom and a fully equipped kitchen with full sized stove, microwave and refrigerator.
Duck cottage is perfect for those wanting absolute privacy in a rural environment within a short drive to the Second Valley Leonard's Mill restaurant, general store, art galley and delightful beach.
Second Valley is beautiful all year round. It has mild winters and warm dry summers - usually with a cooling evening breeze off the sea.
Spring is lush with birds and flowers in abundance in the Duck Cottage garden. In summer enjoy the beach and all its delights as well as the nearby Deep Creek Conservation Park, the Heysen Trail, Talisker Silver Mine or the unique Raywood Nursery.
Duck cottage only a 15 minute drive to the Kangaroo Island.
Ferry Terminal at Cape Jervis making it an ideal KI stopover.
It is a 5 minute drive south to the Delamere General Store fo supplies and petrol. Alternatively, the towns of Normanville and Yankalilla are about a 15 minute drive back towards Adelaide.
Duck Cottage is hidden from view in the midst of an old garden at the foot of a hillside that we have re-vegetated with native plants. The cottage is sheltered on three sides by a wide verandah, The thick stone walls keep it cool in summer and easily warmed in winter.
Duck Cottage is supplied by rain water and has solar powered assisted mains electricity.
The cottage is furnished in keeping with the era in which it was built but with modern comforts and amenities. There are two bedrooms, one with queen bed and the other with twin single beds sleeping up to four people -high quality linen and bedding is provided. The comfortable lounge room features the original enormous open fireplace. The large kitchen / dining room is has all modern facilities as well as the old wood burning stove, which is nice to light in winter for additional ambiance and warmth. The newly renovated bathroom is stylish and there are outdoor settings for garden or verandah meals.
Strictly no pets or smoking are allowed- in order to maintain the cottage as an allergy free space. Also our resident pet sheep 'Chloe' who lives in the fenced gully paddock beside the cottage and the local birdlife and kangaroos depend on there being no pets (particularly dogs) on the property.
There is a simple sound system but no TV, Broadband or VCR. Mobile phone reception is also unreliable so the experience of staying at the cottage is superbly quiet, though never boring.
There is a landline phone at the cottage for guest use and emergencies.
- Suitability
- Non-Smoking
- Entertainment and Family
- Stereo, Parking
- Kitchen and Dining
- Kitchen, Microwave
- Linen and Cleaning
- Linens provided, Iron and board, Towels provided
- Heating and Cooling
- Fireplace, Heating
- Custom
- CD Player, Tea/Coffee Making Facilities, Pets not allowed, Hair dryer


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