text: Loboplusia coreana sp. nov. from South Korea, only the second species of a genus originally described from Costa Rica (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae) Author Jaschhof, Mathias Author Ham, Daseul Author Bae, Yeon Jae text Zootaxa 2018 2018-03-20 4399 1 131 133 journal article https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.10 1175-5326 1206422 64CC68AC-A539-497D-A98A-B12618E83166 Loboplusia coreana Jaschhof & Ham sp. nov. ( Figs 1–2 ) Diagnosis. Male genitalic characters to distinguish L. coreana ( Figs 1–2 ) from L. zurqui (Jaschhof 2016: fig. 15A) (characters in parentheses) are as follows. The basomedial lobe of the gonostylus is slightly bent and slightly swollen apically (not bent and not swollen); the gonocoxites have a roundish, setae-bearing protrusion dorsoposteriorly (no such protrusion); the posterior corners of the tegmen are both protruding and serrate (tegmen without serrate protrusions); and the ninth tergite has a posteromedial protrusion with glabrous margin and a group of about eight setae at the center (posterior section microtrichose, broadly rounded to truncate). Other male characters. Body length 1.5 mm . Head. About 10 genal setae in a cluster. Eye bridge 2–3 ommatidia long dorsally. Scape and pedicel concolorous with flagellum, scape larger than pedicel, both setose. Flagellomeres 14. Neck of fourth flagellomere 1.3 times longer than node; node with a whorl of short setae basally, a crenulate whorl with long sensory hairs with hooded alveoli medially, a short line of such sensory hairs ventrodistally, several short hairshaped translucent sensilla distally, microtrichia only basally. Clypeus with only 2 setae. Labellum normal size and structure. Palpus slightly longer than head height, 4 subcylindrical, setae-bearing segments, first and second segments with inconspicuous, short, hair-shaped translucent sensilla. Thorax. Scutal setae sparse; scutellum with a single pair of setae; other sclerites asetose. Wing and legs as in L. zurqui (Jaschhof 2016: 231) . Genitalia ( Figs 1–2 ). Gonocoxites: ventral setae normal size, not conspicuously enlarged as in L. zurqui ; ventral bridge membranous, asetose; dorsal apodemes interconnected forming wide bridge without anterior processes. Lateroposterior lobe of gonostylus much larger than basomedial lobe, cylindrical, apex bent dorsally, with conspicuously dense setae; basomedial lobe with strong tooth apically. Tegmen small in relation to gonocoxites; apex narrow-rounded; parameral apodemes long, straight, directed ventrolaterally. Ejaculatory apodeme thin, 2.5 times longer than tegmen. Female and larvae unknown. Etymology. The name refers to Korea , the only distribution known of this species. Type material. Holotype dissected and mounted in Canada balsam. Male , Republic of Korea , Gyeonggi-do , Gapyeong-gun , Buk-myeon , Jeokmok-ri , Garim , Gapyeong Entomological Research Center , 37°58´33´´N / 127°26´28´´E , 300 m a.s.l. , 15 July 2016 , light trap , Y.J. Bae leg. (in Entomological Museum of Korea University , Seoul ) . Discussion. The vast diversity of Diallactiini is found in the tropics rather than the temperate regions (Jaschhof 2016), a fact rendering Loboplusia coreana a remarkable discovery. Even more remarkable is the disjunct geographical distribution of Loboplusia , with one species each in the northern Neotropical and the eastern Palearctic region. Considering that the Diallactiini are a very ancient lineage (Jaschhof 2016), the present-day occurrence of Loboplusia might be relict and reflect a distribution that at some point in the past was conjunct and much more extensive. However, any attempt of interpreting the distributional pattern revealed here has to take the sparse availability of data into account: we simply don't know yet, for instance, whether the distribution of Loboplusia in the Neotropics is confined to higher altitudes (where basically temperate conditions prevail), or whether other, still uncollected species occur in other parts of the world (as entire regions are practically unexplored for Diallactiini ). Moreover, it is rather unlikely that the distribution as presently known for both L. zurqui and L. coreana reflect the total areas of these species. We would not be surprised to see that ongoing research reveals a genus Loboplusia that is more species-rich and has a basically pantropical distribution, with single species managing to adapt to temperate conditions. More data about the diversity and distribution of Diallactiini , including Loboplusia , are needed to resolve those issues. With respect to the provenance of Loboplusia coreana it is worth noting that the fungivorous subfamilies of Cecidomyiidae , including Winnertziinae , have remained largely unstudied in Korea until very recently; and the discovery described here is a first outcome of our efforts to close this gap of knowledge. Our data, mostly unpublished, suggest that the eastern Palearctic region hosts an extremely rich and diverse fauna of fungus-feeding cecids, including a considerable proportion of supposedly Oriental elements that are absent in the better investigated western Palearctic (e.g., Jaschhof 2000). In other words, for a better understanding of the Palearctic fauna we need to allocate more resources for taxonomic study to the east of the region, where the potential for making exciting discoveries is so patently obvious.


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This is a blog about the history, theory and practice of the criminal law. I shall write about books, cases, trials, novels that catch my interest, and even occasionally about current events. My aim is not comment on current caselaw or issues in criminal justice, but to rather to develop a more oblique critique of the law.
Oblique intent
Why the name? Well criminal law afficionados will recognise the phrase 'oblique intent' as referring to a problem of mens rea:can a person who intends to do x (such as setting fire to a building to scare the occupants) also be said to have an intention to kill if one of the occupants dies? This is a problem that has consumed an inordinate amount of time in the appeal courts and in the legal journals, and can be taken to represent a certain kind of approach to legal theory. My approach is intended to be more oblique to this mainstream approach, and thus to raise different kinds of questions and issues. Hence the name.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
On legal treatises
This view has now been challenged in a collection of essays published this month. While paying tribute to Simpson's groundbreaking work, the essays make two main points. First, the contributors show that the treatise could take many forms, and that not all treatises could fit easily into the template described by Simpson. There is more emphasis in these essays on the kinds of functions that treatises were expected to perform and who they were written by: were they aimed at students or practitioners? Were the authors judges or magistrates, or just hard up barristers trying to make a bit of money on the side? The answers to these kind of questions are often linked to the kind of literature that was produced, and suggests that many authors did not have the systematising ambitions identified by Simpson. Second, by looking at treatises in a wider geogrraphical context than just England - the essays cover the US, Canada and Scotland, as well as England - it shows that they played a range of different functions often depending on how developed legal institutions were in that particular place.
It would be wrong of me not to declare an interest in this - I wrote one of the essays in the book (on nineteenth century criminal law books) - but even so, this is still a tremendous collection and definitely worth a look.
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Made in Paris…
Last week, I went to again with my sister to relax and enjoy the city-atmosphere. Besides trying nice restaurants and enjoying the sun, on the top of our to-do list was the Dior exposition in le that is held until Januari 8.
'Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve' celebrates the 70th anniversary of Dior. This expo shows the very beginning of the house until the prettiness of Maria Grazia Chiuri's work for Dior today. Also the 'maquettes' of their garments – that's how they call the miniature versions- and the look behind the scenes is just mesmerizing. I must say it is by far the prettiest and most interesting fashion-exposition I've seen. So a good reason to book a ticket to Paris right away!
More info can be found here. I want to share some pictures I took during the expo, to give a glimpse of what to expect when visiting yourself.
Hope you'll visit! Besides, I'm a forever Miss Dior fan, and now I know it's the first Dior perfume it's definitely my all-time favourite.
Greetings from New York (my first time ever!)


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Dr Jen Hendry
- Position: Associate Professor in Law & Social Justice
- Areas of expertise: social and legal theory; socio-legal studies; comparative legal studies; indigenous justice; legal pluralism; and civil & criminal procedure; specifically procedural hybrids
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I completed my PhD in Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2009), before which I studied at the University of Glasgow (LLB Hons, 2002) and the University of Edinburgh (LLM, 2003). Before joining the School of Law in September 2009 I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Comparative & Transnational Law at Tilburg University.
I have been a visiting research scholar at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law (2015), the University of Arizona's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (2013), and the University of Sydney's Department of Philosophy (2011). For second semester 2018/19 I am a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law's Centre for Comparative & Public Law (CCPL).
I co-direct the Centre for Law & Social Justice (L&SJ) with Michael Thomson.
- Director, Centre for Law & Social Justice
Research interests
My research interests are in the fields of social and legal theory, socio-legal studies, and comparative legal studies. I am currently writing on issues of Indigenous justice, legal culture, and legal pluralism, and on theoretical and comparative perspectives on civil/criminal procedural hybrids, specifically civil recovery. I also write on systems theory and autopoiesis.
From 2013-2019 I served on the Executive Committee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), the final two years as Vice-Chair.
I am a member of the ESRC peer review college and the senior editorial board of the German Law Journal.
- PhD, European University Institute
- MRes, European University Institute
- LLM, University of Edinburgh
- LLB (Hons), University of Glasgow
Professional memberships
- Socio-Legal Studies Association
- German Law Journal Editorial Board
Student education
I am the module coordinator for both the level 2 core module Law and Society and the Theories of Social Justice module on the new Law & Social Justice LLM. Further information on this programme can be found here.
I supervise PhD research in the fields of legal and social theory, socio-legal studies, and comparative legal studies. I currently supervise two postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and have successfully supervised four doctoral scholars to completion:
- Dr Moa Näsström
- Dr George Wilson
- Dr Michael Randall
- Dr Louisa Ashley
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Law and Social Justice


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TRURO — The planning board's efforts to craft rules for marijuana businesses at its July 25 meeting produced more questions than answers.
The board discussed a bylaw to regulate cannabis cultivation, processing and retail sale, as well as a revised version of the bylaw proposed by the High Dune Craft Cooperative, a group of five farmers from Truro and Wellfleet who hope to obtain a joint license to cultivate cannabis. Instead of getting down to specifics, however, most of the meeting was spent answering general questions about marijuana cultivation and recreational use.
Board members and residents alike were concerned about appearances, including the use of greenhouses or containers to grow marijuana and security fencing surrounding cannabis fields. Others raised doubts about security, tax revenue, and the conversion of residential property to commercial property.
Attorney Katherine Laughman of KP Law was hired by the town to help draft the bylaw and she explained several differences between state and local jurisdiction. The town's bylaws can regulate buildings, taxes and zoning related to cannabis operations; state law covers security.
Laughman said that finalizing the bylaw is important as the state act legalizing marijuana consumption and cultivation produced an unprecedented "opt-out" situation.
"If the town does not take any action, [cannabis businesses] are basically going to be subject to existing underlying zoning," she said. Without bylaws dictating where and how marijuana can be sold or cultivated, a marijuana retail store could open in any commercial zone, while cultivation could begin in any zoning district where agriculture is allowed. "If you don't do anything, the town is wide open," Laughman said.
The High Dune Coop hopes to gain access to the cannabis industry by sharing start-up costs. Its attorney, Michael Fee, said the coop's revision of the bylaw gives farmers more flexibility. The coop is different from and therefore should be treated differently than large agribusinesses, Fee explained; they are local farmers who are hoping to add an additional crop to their operation.
But board member Peter Herridge worried about the visual impact of cultivation, including the use of greenhouses and "shipping containers" used to grow cannabis. "Growing marijuana is not growing tomatoes in your back yard," he said. "It is industrial agriculture that is done for big money. My concern is regulation of these hideous containers."
Another visual issue is security fencing. Fences are required by the state to enclose fields, ostensibly to prevent minors from getting at the weed. "Truro is not really known for its fences," said Steven Sollog, board chair. "Containing the product with a security fence will be foreign to Truro."
Board member Karen Tosh, who has worked extensively with the coop, agreed that maintaining Truro's character is important. "Will Truro still look like Truro when this is over?" she asked.
"My interest is working to honor the will of the voters while still honoring the integrity of Truro."
Tosh pointed out that all farmers will be required to get a special permit to cultivate marijuana. "I personally don't think we'll have to worry about a multitude of containers proliferating all over Truro," she said, noting that the farmers' site plans must be "harmonious" with existing structures.
Coop member David DeWitt said that the coop has held two public meetings to address specific questions about cannabis cultivation. "Nothing will happen without a special permit from the [zoning board of appeals] and figuring out whether it fits into the neighborhood," he said.
Herridge also pointed out that Truro will tax marijuana sales at only three percent. With the added costs of policing, he wondered whether the town might lose money on cannabis cultivation.
A resident asked whether allowing marijuana cultivation would convert residential property into commercial property. Fee said that, for the coop, cultivation would begin only on their existing farms.
At April's annual town meeting, voters rejected a moratorium on the licensing of cannabis businesses. Since then the town has been playing catch-up to create bylaws that will regulate such businesses.
Select board Chair Bob Weinstein said that the bylaw should be more specific in its definitions and regulation of fencing, lighting and alarm systems. "We need a clear presentation of what we're talking about," he said, adding that the complexity of the regulations was confusing.
Resident Joanne Barkan agreed with Weinstein, saying the town should take its time in adopting a bylaw. "We could go too quickly on this and find out much later, when we see and experience things we don't like, we passed a bylaw that we really didn't understand," she said. "I just feel like practically no one has adequate information yet."
But Tosh thinks many residents are "apathetic" and unwilling to learn more about the potential effect of the bylaw. "People are in favor of using [cannabis], but they really do not know what cultivating, manufacturing and producing it looks like," she said.
Tosh is also worried that arguing over the bylaw will take a toll on the community. "I think it's really sad if this town is so polarized over this that we make our neighbors our enemy," she said. Of the Coop, she added, "These are people who want to grow a crop, make a living and support their families. We need to work together."
The planning board will hold another meeting to address questions about the cannabis bylaw on Wednesday, Aug. 22. The coop is organizing its own public discussion to be held before that date. That meeting is expected to be next week at the community center, with updated information available on the coop's Facebook page.


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Nonetheless, the Star Mill and its successor companies – the Farwell Mills and the Nemasket Woolen Company - engaged large numbers of Middleborough residents in the manufacture of woolen cloth and transformed the face of the neighborhood which it occupied, an area which has since been known as the Star Mills. Star Avenue, and the mill houses which line it and neighboring East Main and Montello Streets, are all a product of the presence of the local woolen industry.
Historically, the Star Mill was an important link in the industrial development of Middleborough. Succeeding colonial and federal-era grist, fulling, carding and cotton mills which earlier had occupied the Nemasket River's banks near East Main Street, the Star Mill followed the practice of earlier Middleborough cotton mills by erecting duplex tenement houses nearby to house mill operatives. Nonetheless, the sheer size and solidity of the Star Mill complex represented a marked advance upon any manufacturing operation previously seen at Middleborough, and it became a prototype for the local shoe industry which began to consolidate its own operations in similarly large wood-frame plants in the mid-1870s.
Early Textile Manufacturing at the Lower Factory
The Lower Factory, the conjunction of the Nemasket River with what is now East Main Street, was the site of Middleborough's earliest industrial development. Prior to King Philip's War (1675-76), a dam and grist mill were erected here in the vicinity of the former Native fish weir. During the seventeenth-century ownership of the Bennett family, industrial operations at the Lower Factory were expanded, and the area became known as Bennett's Mills. Because the original circa 1670 dam's millpond held only enough water to power the gristmill, it is likely that the dam was raised to permit the operation of additional mills. The first addition, built sometime prior to 1803, was a fulling mill or "Cloathing Mill" for the processing of finished woven cloth. In 1803, Thomas Pratt contracted with his brother Holman and William Bennet to construct a carding mill, "being a Patent machine for carding wool" adjacent to the existing grist and fulling mills owned by Bennet and others. The carding mill was raised during the summer of that year, and its services immediately advertised by Holman Pratt in the Columbian Courier at New Bedford.
The subscriber has erected a CARDING MACHINE in Middleborough, at the Old Stone Wear [sic], for carding Sheep's Wool into rolls suitable for Spinning. It is necessary that the Wool should be picked and greased before it is brought to be manufactured into rolls. As the cost of carding in the machine is but trifling compared with the cost of carding by hand, and the quality of the rolls much superior, he hopes to receive the encouragement of the public. [Greatest] attendance will be given, and the greatest punctuality observed in transacting the business. Price for carding only 10 cents per pound.
The venture, however, appears not to have been financially successful, undoubtedly to the local decline in sheep rearing, and it was the cotton industry which would ultimately first establish a foothold at the Lower Factory.
Four years later, additional members of Wrentham's Shepard family established the textile industry in Middleborough when on December 14, 1810, Jacob Bennett sold to Captain Benjamin Shepard, Jr., Benjamin Shepard III, and Oliver Shepard, all of Wrentham, the land and water rights at Bennett's Mills "for the purpose of working a Cotton Mill or any other Factory or works." Excepted from the conveyance were the rights of the carding mill owners, the "Cloathing Mill" and Bennett's own grist mill. The following year, in 1811, a cotton manufactory was built on the west bank of the river on the site later occupied by the Star Mill and on January 1, 1812, the Middleboro Manufacturing Company was formed for the manufacture of cotton yarn and cloth.
Wool Manufacturing at the Lower Factory & the Star Mill
A year later, in late 1860, Peirce & Wood proposed selling the site which included the still extant cotton mill, several smaller buildings and the site of the former shovel works to Lawton & Esty of Tiverton, Rhode Island. Eventually, the site was acquired by a group of New Bedford investors including Loum Snow and George Brayton who proposed replacing the cotton factory with a large brick woolen mill. Like other New Bedford investors at the time, Snow, Brayton and their partners sought an alternative to whaling which was beginning to decline in importance, and textile manufacturing offered a potentially lucrative option. Consequently, the Star Mill corporation was established with a capitalization of $100,000, with Snow as President and Brayton as Treasurer and Clerk.
Manufacturing Woolen Cloth in 1864
At the time the Star Mill was constructed, the process of woolen cloth manufacture was already a highly mechanized process, one marked by the division of production into several specialized processes, with workers assigned to each. On record is an 1864 description of woolen cloth production in the Middleborough plant.
Although the importance of proper methods of mixing stock before subjecting it to the carding process is often underrated, it may be stated that with truth that the character of the yarn ultimately produced, depends, to a great extent, on the manipulation of the stock at this point.
By 1864, the mill had sixteen looms in operation and the weaving room was under the supervision of William Dunlop. From the loom, rapidly produced woven cloth was drawn over a roller, and inspected in strong light for imperfections which were marked with chalk and corrected if possible. As the cloth was rolled, its revolutions were calculated and the number of yards produced recorded.
The woolen cloth was then brought to the finishing room, spread on long tables and burled, a process which saw the removal of knots, ends and surface bits. The cloth was next milled or fulled where it was run for hours between rapidly revolving upright rolls while being constantly saturated with soap in a box-like mill. The soaping and kneading shrunk the fabric up to 12 inches from its original 65 or 68 inch width. The cloth was then vigorously machine washed to remove all remaining soap, centrifugally dried, drawn over rollers to straighten it, then drawn through a drying chamber where it passed alternately up and down over a series of rollers while hot air was blown onto it by a fan blower.
Next the cloth was gigged which was done by a machine with large cylinders set with teasles. As the cylinders of the gig revolved, the burrs on the teasles raised a nap on the cloth. The next machines, a brush mill and a shearing mill, brushed this nap while shears cut the nap to an even length, "a most delicate operation".
Shearing required strong attention to detail and was a position generally held by a seasoned operative. The cloth was then finished by being brushed once more and passed through a rotary press with a large smooth iron cylinder revolving in a curved bed from which it emerged perfectly ironed. From the press, the cloth was finally sent to the packing room where it was inspected one last time, re-rolled and stored by pattern, weight and color.
The Business of the Star Mill
The business of the Star Mill throughout its history proved erratic, subject as it was to fluctuations in the wool and woolen cloth markets. Though a successful company, the Star Mill was susceptible to the vagaries of the woolen market which frequently dictated operations in Middleborough. As early as spring, 1865, the company was successful enough to increase its capital stock, and by early 1870, the company's stock was being quoted at $95 a share. The following year, the company declared a dividend of 10% and throughout the year, business remained good, warranting full time operation of the manufactory. Undoubtedly, the mill was negatively impacted by the economic downturn following 1873. Certainly, the mill was forced to shut down at the start of summer in 1875. By the close of that year, however, business once more appears to have been thriving with Middleborough noted as having produced an estimated $300,000 in woolen cloth. By the following summer, business prospects for the company were reported as "good", so much so that an addition to the weaving room later that fall was necessitated. In late spring, 1879, the plant was operating "over hours" and four months later remained "lively". "They are working their full force of about one hundred hands, and produce on an average something like 400 yards daily".
The dull state of the woolen market causing but little demand for goods, the Star Mill company, at Middleboro, has about concluded on closing its factory for the summer months. This course will be taken rather than to manufacture and store the goods without profit.
Though acknowledged locally, the worsening economic climate of the mid-1880s was treated somewhat dismissively by at least one regional newspaper.
On every hand mills are closing their doors; the wages of operatives by thousands are being reduced; …And yet there are no indications that a period of long continued depression has been entered upon, or that 'hard times' is again to take up its reign among us.
Despite these assurances by the Plymouth Old Colony Memorial, depression conditions did reign, and in December, the Star Mill announced that it would shut down temporarily until economic conditions improved. While the factory was idled, numerous operatives were forced to seek elsewhere, many finding jobs in Fall River and New Bedford. The period of enforced idleness was one of the longest experienced by the company, and for workers mercifully came to an end in mid-summer, 1885, when conditions had improved enough to warrant resumption of work. Operations were subsequently restarted on August 1, and within months, the plant was apparently operating once more at full capacity, producing 15,000 yards weekly. Business, in fact, was so strong that weavers, the most skilled of the mill's operatives, were provided a 10% wage increase in March 1886.
The Star Mill's Owners, Managers and Operatives
To carry out the operations of the mill, the Star Mill engaged upwards of one hundred hands as sorters, dyers, carders, spinners, weavers, dressers, finishers, engineers and other occupations who became highly skilled in their defined roles.
Farwell Worsted Mill No. 2
In September, 1899, the Star Mill closed, and the property was disposed of on November 15, 1899, to Frank S. Farwell of Rhode Island, a prominent woolen manufacturer in that state. Farwell owned and operated a much larger mill at Central Falls, Rhode Island, where several hundred hands were employed in the production of worsted suitings and "trouserings", and the Middleborough mill consequently became known as Farwell Mill No. 2. Following his acquisition of the Star Mill property, Farwell immediately carried out unspecified renovations to the mill buildings.
Nemasket Woolen Mills
Unlike its predecessor, the Nemasket Woolen Company which had been organized from the wreckage of the Farwell Worsted Company had ready access to capital which it invested into the Middleborough mill and used to implement a number of needed changes. Almost immediately, the layout of the manufacturing process was reorganized and the machinery rearranged "to give better service." Old outdated machines that had been used by Farwell were replaced with modern up to date ones at a cost of $30,000. In March, 1907, 12 new looms arrived with an additional 12 to follow, greatly enhancing Nemasket's ability to produce fancy work which had been limited on the existing looms. The first cloth produced by the new firm was loomed in August, 1906, and business was subsequently reported as good with 150 hands being employed.
Business continued to be flush through 1917, and America's involvement in World War I brought more business when in July, 1918, the mill secured a contract to produce 65,000 yards of 20-ounce worsted suiting for uniforms. The run commenced on September 1, and required nearly half of the factory's capacity to produce. Demand for the company's goods remained high through the early 1920s, so much so that the company was unable to keep pace with orders and, as a result, additions were made to the mill including the construction of a large Weave Shed to house 40 looms which nearly doubled the plant's capacity and added 50 new jobs.
Few Middleboro people realize what is going on at the Nemasket Woolen Mills, and the prominent position which that company is taking in the community industrially. It can be safely said that the concern now in the hands of enthusiastic businessmen will so increase that Middleboro will shortly become a prosperous woolen town.
Workers & the 1924 Strike
The situation for the Nemasket Woolen Company's approximately 150 workers through most of its history was "comfortable", the company being a relatively benign employer. "The mill was known as a good place to work. Well managed, with a pleasant atmosphere and a product you could be proud to say you had a hand in. When you saw a picture of a New York banker in striped pants and morning coat you knew you just might have made that cloth yourself." Even the radical I. W. W. labor union which formed a branch in Middleborough in 1912 found conditions in the mill so satisfactory "that there is to be no effort to bring about changed conditions" in the mill by the union.
Much more crucially, a decision taken by management in late 1924, would have far graver consequences, both for workers and the future of the mill. In the late summer of that year, management began requiring weavers to assume responsibility for two looms – one producing white work and one producing fancy work. Because production of fancy work required two fillings for the loom which considerably slowed the weaving process, and because weavers were paid "by the cut" (the amount of fabric they produced), they felt aggrieved, arguing that they were "getting about half as much work as they would if the old arrangements were in vogue". In a later open letter to mill management, the weavers clarified their position:
The issue on which the suspension of work occurs is simply the matter of two kinds of filling for loom work. We desire to call your attention to the fact that some time ago, the superintendent, Mr. Lord, gave us his word that there would be no such task imposed on the weavers of the Nemasket Mill.
Lord appears to have been caught between the proverbial "rock and a hard place"; while he failed to deny the statement, he also failed to recollect having made such a promise. When Nemasket management subsequently failed to satisfactorily address the weavers' concerns, the weavers at the mill struck, and on September 17, sought to affiliate themselves with the Amalgamated Textile Councils of America.
For its part, mill management made no move to replace striking workers, who appear to have picketed the mill regularly, the Gazette noting in November that "there has been quite a demonstration among the strikers each day as those who are working go to and from their work." Meanwhile inside the mill, management and the remaining operatives were struggling to produce samples which were desperately needed to secure future orders as well as the future of the mill. "The management of the mill claims that if they are not allowed to make samples there will be no chance to get business and the strike matter will be further from settlement than it is now." Striking weavers, however, disputed that the mill was producing samples. "There are no samples being made at the present time in the mill. It is regular work known as Jobbers' Ends, made for the purpose of holding the orders, as all samples have been made." Once again, the strikers added "If the management wish to have these made, all they have to do is to take the warp out of the loom with the two colors of filling, and the weavers will return to work …."
The strike was never resolved and the continued inactivity of the mill ultimately drove the company into liquidation. On June 28, 1928, the assets of the Nemasket Woolen Company at Middleborough were sold, including the mill complex, 13 mill houses, 3 store houses (which stood on the site of the 1966 Winthrop-Atkins addition) and 3 buildable lots on East Main and Montello Streets. Also auctioned at the time were the contents of the mill buildings which included the mill machinery.
Walker Company
The Nemasket Woolen Mill and storehouses were purchased by Judge Dennis D. Sullivan of Middleborough for $12,850, who was then reported as "already in consultation with parties who he hopes will locate here in some form of manufacture." The bulk of the machinery was purchased in various lots, most by Rhode Island manufacturers. Unfortunately for Sullivan, the timing of his purchase was poor. Just over a year later, the stock market crash would precipitate the great depression, and in such a climate attracting manufacturers to the vacant mill proved impossible.
It was not until late 1935 that Sullivan was able to sell the newer 1920 section of the mill to the Walker Company of Middleborough, a manufacturer of ice bags, water bottles and electric heating pads, which had been established in 1918. Following the death of Albert Walker in 1936, the firm was acquired by William S. Bradford of Springfield, Massachusetts, who continued to manufacture under the Walker name, and who was responsible for the growth of the company which became a nationally-known producer and the leading producer of rubberized fabric ice bags in the country.
The older 1863 portion of the Star Mill complex was sold by Sullivan in mid-1936, at which time it was announced that the Standard Cut Sole Company of Brockton, a tanner and leather shoe sole maker, would occupy the remainder of the mill buildings and commence operations before July 1. "They suffered a substantial loss almost immediately when professional Boston thieves broke down the main gate and stole twelve thousand dollars worth of leather findings." In 1939, the Gerlich Leather Company, a maker of leather belts and fancy goods, leased a portion of the 1863 mill building and employed 100 operatives before relocating to East Taunton in 1941.
In 1944, the Winthrop-Atkins Company acquired the 1863 Star Mill for use as a manufacturing and storage facility for its calendar business. Following the closure of the Walker Company in 1972, the 1920 portion of the mill complex was acquired and reunited once more under a single owner. It should be remarked that the preservation of the property relatively intact and unaltered since that time has largely been due to the efforts of the Atkins family and the sympathetic ownership of the Winthrop-Atkins company.
This view provides one of the best known views of the upstream side of the Lower Factory dam, seen here in the middle right just behind the boatman. In contrast to other views of the mill, here the level of the mill pond is substantially lower, exposing an extensive swath of riverbank in front of the Repair Shop, as well as the top of the dam and the adjoining granite abutments. The dam had been erected in 1833 by Peirce & Wood which at the time occupied the future Star Mill site where they engaged in the manufacture cotton cloth, shovels and other iron implements.
Carding Engine, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA, Michael J. Maddigan photographer, August 22, 2004
A beautiful photograph of the Star Mill from the middle of the 19th century, this view well documents how Middleborough's agricultural economy was giving way to industrial development and the juxtaposition between the two. The mill complex, with its many different machines, was tangible evidence of the local Industrial Revolution and itself could be seen as a tightly-organized mechanism. Raw wool received into the end of the mill depicted at the left of the photograph was subjected to various processes, passing through the building as it went and ultimately emerging as finished cloth at the far end of the mill near the right hand side of the photograph. From left to right are the original Office and Drug Room located in the gambrel-roofed wing, the Drying Building with the cupola and mill bell, the hulking Finishing Building with its first smokestack just visible behind, the Weaving Building in the pontoon-roofed ell facing the camera, the Repair Shop in the gable roofed building and the Shipping Building. The only other structure visible in the picture is the duplex mill house located on Indian Hill just to the right of the Finishing Building. This house, along with several others, were built or owned by the company and rented to mill operatives. The mill pond may clearly be seen between the Repair Shop and Finishing Building. Notice that a neat sidewalk has been constructed alongside the stone wall up what would become known as Star Mill Hill. Many operatives, as well as management of the company resided along North Main Street at the crest of the hill.
Nemasket Mills, Fred F. Churbuck photographer, photograph, circa 1910
This view of the rear of the former Star Mill in winter indicates what this portion of the mill must have looked like. The two and one-half story building to the left served the Star Mill as a repair shop.
Wool Rovings, Paul Hart photographer
Wool-washing Machine, C. G. Sargent's Sons, Graniteville, MA, illustration from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, p. 943
Wool-Drier, illustration from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, p. 944.
Wool Picker, C. G. Sargent's Sons, Graniteville, MA, Illustration from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, p. 945.
Wool Mixing Picker, Davis & Furber, North Andover, MA, Illustration from I. C. S. Staff, "Wool Mixing" (International Textbook Company: 1905), section 32, p. 16.
"The principle on which the mixing picker operates is that of opening the wool and intermingling the fibers by means of a rapidly rotating cylinder armed with storng teeth curved forwards in the direction in which the cylinder rotates" ["Wool Mixing, p. 16].
Carding Engine, Davis & Furber, North Andover, MA, Illustration from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, p. 946.
Wool Warping Machine, Davis & Furber, North Andover, MA, illustration from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, 1889, p. 948.
Gigging Machine, Illustration from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876
"East Main Street and Nemasket Mills, Middleboro, Mass.", sepia postcard, circa 1908
A large number of operatives are depicted on (East) Main Street heading home for their 45-minute lunch or leaving at the close of their shift. The mill operations at the Star Mill employed upwards of 150 operatives, many of whom resided in the immediate neighborhood. For those that did not, there was a long trudge up Star Mill Hill to their homes along and off of North Main Street or the nearest trolley at Middleborough Four Corners. As seen in the picture, the plant was enclosed by a wooden fence. The building which appears just below the smokestack may be Hose House No. 3, a building erected by the Middleborough Fire District in the late 19th century to provide fire protection to the neighborhood. Originally the mill was equipped with fire pails to combat any threat of fire. Later, two hydrants were installed – one on the west end of the Finishing Building adjacent to the flume and the other on the east end between the Dye House and the Drug Room. In 1885, one of the town's 75 hydrants was installed as part of the waterworks system constructed for Middleborough at that time. The new municipal hydrant supplemented the Star Mill's existing fire protection at that time: 30 wooden pails, two fire extinguishers, 700 feet of two and a half inch linen hose attached to a vertical pipe on each floor, and a few pumps. By 1891, however, the mill was connected to the municipal water system and Grinnell automatic sprinklers had been installed throughout.
The family of Michael J. Maddigan (1854-1931) was typical of those that resided in the Star Mill neighborhood and who found employment as operatives in the mill. Michael Maddigan was engaged as a fireman and night watchman for the Star Mill in the 1910s and 20s. In 1900, son John was working as a wool carder in the factory while daughter Jane was employed in the finishing department. Their home (pictured behind them) was located on Star Avenue where other mill families resided at various times, including those of James H. Russell, the spinning room overseer in 1895, and Charles H. Boehme, a dresser in the mill. In the 1928 auction of the woolen company's assets, Maddigan purchased the duplex mill house on Indian Hill in the rear of the mill, and the property has remained in the family since.
These children – identified only as Charlie, Martha, Elsie and Eddie – along with their dog Prince, lived at 36 East Main Street, directly opposite the Star Mill, in one of the corporation's mill houses. Following the turn of the century, the house was occupied by Albert V. Jacques, boss carder at the mill, who himself had a young family similar to the one pictured above.
At the age of 32, Brayton (1831-1913) was named Treasurer and Clerk of the Star Mill corporation and relocated to Middleborough from New Bedford to oversee day to day operation of the mill. Brayton, like his operatives lived nearby to the mill, residing in the home on the southwest corner of North and North Main Streets across the lawn from Charles H. Tobey, the mill superintendent. Brayton's son, Edward Bond Brayton (b. 1865), was later employed at the Star Mill in the late 1890s as a pattern maker, while his daughter, Lucy Maria Tobey Brayton (1868-1904) was engaged as an assistant librarian with the Middleborough Public Library, a genteel occupation for a young woman of her class. The home in which Brayton resided is now part of the Downtown Middleborough National Register Historic District, as is the house of mill superintendent Charles H. Tobey. The silk dress of Brayton's wife, Priscilla (1829-1914), in the photograph above would have been quite dissimilar to those worn by mill operatives and it is indicative of her prosperity relative to that of her husband's employees.
Walter Thompson Collection, Middleborough Public Library
The mill buildings appear impressive in this view northeastwards across the millpond as they almost seem to float directly upon the pond's waters. For years, the pond remained the mill's primary power source until 1886 when large boilers were installed, replacing an earlier, smaller steam plant and the mill's water wheel. The smokestack visible in the picture was constructed at that time and became a conspicuous landmark in the vicinity.
The view depicts the rear of the Star Mill, obscured by the heavy vegetation is the Nemasket River. At the far left, a portion of the Nemasket Woolen Mill's Repair Shop appears. At the far right, a wood-frame storage shed obstructs the former Drying Building. The shed was replaced in 1918 by the Nemasket Woolen Mill's new Dye House which, itself, was greatly expanded two years later in 1920. The small shed in the middle center was utilized in conjunction with the local herring fishery, this site constituting Middleborough's municipal fishing pool. As the owner of the site, the Star Mill in 1882 had opposed the town's construction of a fish house on its property, arguing that it had no right to do so. The town remained undeterred by the hostile attitude of the company, and built the small structure anyway. Nonetheless, so wary of the mill's intentions were town officials that they had a guard posted to protect the structure during the alewives' annual spawning run that year. So as not to further antagonize the Star Mill's officers, the town removed the building at the conclusion of the run though the site continued to remain in use for the taking herring until 1965.
textile manufacturing. Posselt's is just one example and this page from December, 1914, hints at the technical nature of and preciseness required in creating and replicating woolen fabric patterns.
The view above is taken from the vantage point of a passer-by on East Main Street peering into the heart of the Nemasket Woolen Mill just four years after the 1924 strike which closed the plant. To the left is the 1886 Power Plant addition. Behind it is the large Finishing Building. At right of center is the smaller Weaving and Dressing Building. To the right is the small free standing brick Office Building constructed by the company in 1920 to replace its outdated office which since the opening of the Star Mill in 1863 had been located in the mill. The Office was relocated a short distance up Star Mill Hill in 1944 at which time it was connected with the 1920 Weave Shed with which it shares its design.
During the second quarter of the 20th century, the slow gradual decay of the dam permitted the waters of the mill pond to drain and the Nemasket River to resume its natural channel on its approach to the mill. While consideration was given in the 1950s to rebuilding the dam, no action was taken. The last remnants of the 1833 dam were removed in 1964 preparatory to the realignment of the river. "Destruction of the old dam has been completed" announced the local press at the time.
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"Insurance Maps of Middleboro Plymouth County Massachusetts". New York: Sanborn Map Company, March, 1906. Sheet 15.
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Weston Thomas. History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906.


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A ~ Each person has to list 6 facts about them.
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C ~ List at the end of your posting who you have tagged, and (if you can) add links to their page.
Fact: I love reading. I can be a rather poor friend when I have a good book. It just happens to be where ever I am.
Fact: Along with the fact above, I am cataloging all of our books. How nerdy is that?
Fact: I started a New Year's resolution of doing one new thing every day. And then I quit after 4 months when I got stressed out.
Fact: I can't wait until we have our own house so that we can have two Great Danes. (Right now we are settling for 2 black cats).
Fact: I like to feed people. When more than one person comes over, I start to supply food for everyone. I consider this a bad habit that I inherited from my mom.
Fact: I hate vacuuming. Out of all of the household chores this is my least favorite. The noise irritates me. It has been improving since our new vacuum, but I still try and get out of it (meaning make Andrew do it).
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This park was conceived when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the Building Research Establishment Innovation Park in Watford during 2010. The development of new codes for sustainability based on the BREEAM system required the design of an Innovation Park representing not only the best of emerging technology but new approaches to urban masterplanning.
The site contained several thousand cubic metres of rubble. The idea was to incorporate this into the western mound as an acoustic buffer and microclimate enhancement. Abandoned factory buildings were repurposed as a bio-fuel processing centre.
The park addresses issues such as energy, waste, water, food and sustainable materials. It also addresses public realm issues such as play, allotments and a community centre. Most Chinese parks are not free to enter; this park will not only be free but provide community food production gardens in order to ensure access to the land and to pass on traditions and skills being lost as people migrate to the city.
Strange fact: the rubble on site, which the landscape architects wanted to use for the mound, was removed because the contractor wanted to provide 'good new material'. The idea of re-using existing site resources - vegetation, buildings, materials or ecology - is only slowly filtering into guidelines and the thinking of developers.
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The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge. Votes: 4Samuel Johnson
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. Votes: 4Felix Frankfurter
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it. Votes: 4Rick Warren
The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict. Votes: 4Rick Perry
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. Votes: 4Anne O'Hare McCormick
This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. Votes: 4Enver Hoxha
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above. Votes: 4Virginia Woolf
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul. Votes: 4Baruch Spinoza
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. Votes: 4Fyodor Dostoevsky


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We finally made it to Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, the acclaimed Italian restaurant located few steps from Washington Square Park. This place, that opened in 1998 and got the "Best New Restaurant of 1998" award from the James Beard Foundation, is the first restaurant in New York of Chef Mario Batali. But, it is now owned and operated by Joe Bastianich, who used to be Batali's business partner before the recent allegations of sexual misconduct of the celebrity Chef that, at the time of this post have not been to trial. The food at Babbo is great: there are so many items on the menu that seem mouth watering that it is very difficult to pick a dish. But the ones we had were all amazing. Here is what we had:
As a cocktail, I ordered the Manhattan Nero, their own version of a classic, made with Michter's US-1 Bourbon and Amaro Averna. Very good, it was quite strong and had a beautiful dark color.
For appetizer, I was not sure what to get between the octopus, the tripe, the lamb tongue or the sardines. I settled for the latter. The sardines were marinated and served with a deliciously sweet caramelized fennel and lobster oil (I did not get much of taste there). If you like fish, I recommend it and know that the sardines were perfectly filleted, so if you do not like this fish because of the multiple bones, you will not be disappointed.
For her entree, Jodi ordered the Garganelli pasta with "Funghi Trifolati" or mushrooms. The pasta was superb, smothered in brown butter.
But the best pasta dish was for me the beef cheek ravioli with crushed squab liver and black truffle. These ravioli were amazing: homemade, the shell was thin, perfectly cooked, with a filling that was very tasty, but not as much as the squab liver that I could have eaten on a piece of bread. As far as the truffle is concerned, I however did not smell or taste it...Still, it was a fantastic dish that I also recommend if you are non-vegetarian. I should mention though that, if you have a seafood allergy, it contains anchovy paste.
For dessert, we could not resist not having the olive oil cake that was superb, not as good as the one at Maialino, but still delicious.
At the end of the meal, with the bill, they gave us some Italian cookies that was a nice touch to end a delicious dinner.
I am glad we finally got to try Babbo: it is now one of my top Italian restaurants in the City and I will surely go back!
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Pop Culture Pilgrims
Matthew Sweet travels to Blackpool to examine the purpose of pilgrimage today. He visits the town's tower, for years a site of 'social pilgrimage'.
Matthew Sweet examines the purpose of pilgrimage and how deeply rooted it is in the human psyche. As society becomes ever more secular, Matthew explores our continuing need to use places as points of focus for storytelling and connection with the past. Matthew will visit Blackpool Tower, for years a site of social pilgrimage for the working classes, to learn more about its appeal and discover if he can draw parallels with the pilgrims journeying en masse to Lourdes or Mecca.
Visitors to Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, explain why they are drawn from all over the world to walk the famous zebra crossing, recreating The Beatles' iconic album cover of the same name. As they walk in the footsteps of the Fab Four, stories of teenage dreams, lifelong relationships with music and first experiences of travel emerge.
For centuries, Rosslyn Chapel outside Edinburgh has been entwined in myth, legend and secrecy. When it was featured in the final scenes of Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code hundreds of thousands of visitors descended on the village of Roslin to visit the chapel. Many came to photograph a film set but as visitors explain in their own words, this complicated and compelling building's powerful atmosphere pulls many of them in to form a much deeper relationship.


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Countdown to the international tournament " VRILITTOS "
An international handball tournament of developmental ages as it also aims to become an institution, starts this year his own journey with the first "stop" at the gymnasium of Vrilissia. This is the mini tournament boys " VRILITTOS", which is under the auspices of the Municipality of Vrilissia ,the Hellenic Handball Federation and co is the club E.S.N. Vrilission . The big celebration will open its gates on April the 29th and will end on May the 1st . The organizers have started preparations for the tournament several months ago while club participations have already " locked " amounting in ten.
The important fact is that apart Athens teams, teams of Northern and Southern Greece as well as clubs from abroad will participate in "VRILITTOS" tournament also. It is indeed the first time in the history of the sport that a tournament of such a level will be held in Greece, with these ages of international nature.
The purpose of the tournament is to gain experience racing athletes, investing in children values such as inclusion in the group, cooperation, competition and fair play. Also, young children through their participation in the tournament "VRILITTOS " , will have the opportunity to have fun through the sport that they have chosen to deal with.
Moreover, during the " VRILITTOS" tournament ,organizers have planned an international training seminar, with speakers -coaches from Greece and abroad ,in collaboration with SY.P.CH.E. (Hellenic Handball Coaches Association).
There will be many surprises for lilliputian handball athletes who will compete in the " VRILITTOS ", while sport fans will have the opportunity for three days to get a taste of the "small" doing their first steps in handball and begin to "ask for " the distinction through it. Voluntary participation in the tournament is expected to be large and it is certain that people of any age with their help and support will put their own " stepping stone " so as to help for the 'sweet ' and successful the beautiful trip , of the 1st international Handball Tournament Mini " VRILITTOS ".


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Mistress's Nectarine Crisp
by Susu
Dia Passik doesn't recall how and why she was sold into slavery. Perhaps her mother was a slave, or she was kidnapped by slavers or pirates. She was unusually well-educated for a slave, having learned to read and write, as well as etiquette and deportment. One of her mistresses thought Dia should know how to prepare dishes favored by the master and his family. This didn't bother Dia, as it simply made her a greater favorite among those who controlled the terms and conditions of her life.
Actually, one thing did bother her about cooking -- she wasn't allowed to eat any of it. She was instructed in seasonings and procedures, but she couldn't even taste it! Some days, Dia thought she might die from the desire to put even a tiny morsel between her lips. In particular, she desperately wanted to eat this nectarine crisp dessert. She swore she could eat the whole thing herself.
So now that she was a Wraith, she pulled K.P. duty, like all of them. The very first chance she got, she managed to get Squeaky the protocol 'droid to trade for expensive, ripe, juicy nectarines, fine white flour and fresh, tasty butter. She served the bubbling hot dessert as the whole dinner to the squadron. They thought it curious, but it was delicious. Knowing the story of Dia's obsession, they congratulated her on restraining herself to one serving. Little did they know -- she'd baked and consumed another dish-full of the treat all by herself, just minutes before!
In a small bowl, blend the corn starch and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Toss this mixture with the peaches, coating evenly. Place the peaches in a 2½ quart ovenproof dish (or 9" x 13" baking dish will do, too).
Cut the cold butter into 1-inch pieces and rub together with the flour and remaining sugar till the mixture resembles coarse crumbs (like for making a pie crust). Spread this mixture over the nectarines. Bake till the topping is golden brown and the fruit mixture bubbles along the edges of the pan. This will take about 75 minutes. Serve warm, or allow to cool to room temperature.
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A team of scientists at Napier University in Edinburgh thinks they've found a way to rob a group of thirsty angels. The angels hover in gaggles above the distilleries of Scotland, Cognac, Kentucky and elsewhere slurping up the alcohol that evaporates through the pores of oak barrels. The scientists believe they've found a way to reduce this evaporation by half, or more. The whisky lost to evaporation is called "the angels share," and it is not unreasonable to assume there are more than a few spirits disappointed over their lost spirit.
The stakes are considerable because millions of liters of whisky spend years in barrels, benefitting from a subtle leaching of oak compounds from the wood and the micro-oxygenation that transpires through the pores in the wood from which the barrel is constructed. Abdy Kermani, leader of the team of scientists at Napier's Center for Timber Engineering, was quoted in The Herald Scotland as saying they were approached by whisky behemoth Diageo to make the study. "We worked using the existing cask and improved that so that the reduction was at an absolute minimum," he said. He went on to say the redesign of the barrels maintained traditional materials (they didn't glue staves together, for example).
Since as much as 20 percent of a barrel's contents may be lost to "the angel's share" during the maturation process, any savings amounts to a significant amount of whisky. With 20 million barrels of whisky resting in Scotland's warehouses, and yearly exports exceeding 99 million 9-liter cases, we are talking about a lot of whisky in Scotland alone. Saving even 10 percent of the evaporation means a lot, not only in revenue for Diageo and other producers, but for the government since producers are taxed on what they keep, not what they lose. And it's good for us consumers because there could be more whisky available.
Professor Kermani did note that since many whiskies age for long periods, the study will have to continue for a total of 10 years before scientists are sure they have a consistent, workable solution. Of course, in angelic time, ten years is not so long, but given how uneasy I get if it takes 20 seconds longer to brew a cup of espresso, I'm not sure I can wait ten years to learn if I'll end up with a few drams more. I think I'll just have a dram now to pave the way for a real celebration later.


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