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Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers "Going Deep" This episode takes a look back at the decades of effort that culminated in the deep sub Alvin reaching the ocean floor, and looks forward to what's next. D
12:30 am
Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers "Chimp Minds" This program visits with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about six or seven million years ago - with whom we share almost all of our genes, but not a lot of our lifestyle. Why the difference? Maybe it's in how we learn. D
1:00 am
Autism: Coming of Age In the next 10 to 15 years, an estimated 800,000 children with autism will age out of the school system and transition into adulthood. Then, they will look to ill-prepared state and federal governments for the support services and resources to meet their many needs - a situation autism experts refer to as the "coming tsunami." The one-hour documentary AUTISM: COMING OF AGE provides an inside look at the lives of three adults with autism and includes interviews with their families and support teams. D
2:00 am
POV "Biblioburro, The Donkey Library" Two burros, Alfa and Beto, carry the circulating library of donated books that 39-year-old Luis Soriano, a small-town elementary school teacher in northern Columbia, takes to isolated villages during arduous weekend journeys. The film travels with Soriano, who walks with his donkeys, through dense tropical beauty on nearly impassible trails. They face dangers from nature and humans (guerillas, bandits) to reach the villages and the children hungry for learning.G
3:00 am
Outdoor Idaho "Home on the Range" The real heyday of the American cowboy has come and gone; but in Idaho, the hard-scrabble hero of so many of our nation's legends can still be found, riding the range on the West's public lands. It seems there will always be a place for cowboys, wherever there are cattle to be rounded up and wild horses to be tamed, and wherever there are people who love the cowboy lifestyle. As cowboy poet Rudy Gonzales reminds us, "People want to be cowboys!"G
3:30 am
Dialogue "Amy Waldman: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The author-journalist discusses her work with host Marcia Franklin. Waldman's first novel, The Submission tells the story of a jury, in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial from among anonymous submissions, and the reactions when it chooses a design created by a Muslim-American architect.G
4:00 am
Sesame Street "The Good Sport" Elmo and Abby are playing a game of hot potato together. Elmo keeps losing the game and starts to feel frustrated. He thinks that something must be wrong with the potato, and tries using another one, but he still loses. D
5:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty/Daniel Goes To The Potty" Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty - Prince Wednesday is in the block corner at school building the "tallest tower in the world!" Even though he needs to go to the bathroom, he doesn't want to stop what he is doing. He learns how important it is to stop and go right away. Daniel Goes to the Potty - Dad's trumpet is broken, so he takes Daniel along to Music Man Stan's Shop to get it fixed. D
5:30 am
Martha Speaks "Martha in the White House, Part 1 & 2" Martha in the White House, Part 1 - The new president is looking for a dog to live in the White House. Martha knows the perfect dog for the job! What better way to recommend some of her neighborhood pals than to put in a few calls to the White House herself? Vocabulary: (E) neighborhood, nation(al), volunteer, recommend(ing), community, nominate (I) president, white house, leader, country. Martha in the White House, Part 2 - The president is calling! One of his aides heard about Martha's speaking ability and he needs her to report to the White House immediately. D
6:00 am
Austin City Limits "Bon Iver" The Grammy-winning group performs material from its self-titled second album.G
7:00 am
Rick Steves' Europe "Three-Part Travel Skills Special" Rick completes his favorite 3000-mile journey that winds through Europe from London. Part 3 of 3G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Naples and the Amalfi Coast" Rudy explores some of Italy's great historic treasures in Pompeii, then moves to Sorrento and Capri.G
8:00 am
The Desert Speaks "Mending Australia's Ancient Forest" Near Albany, in Southwestern Australia, Australians are trying to piece together the remains of fractured habitats that were destroyed beginning right after World War II. From the woodlands of the drier interior to the tall wet forests in the far south-west corner, host David Yetman gets a first hand look at this ambitious project called Gondwana Link. The evolutionary process moves quickly in this environment, and new hybrids and species are discovered almost every week. D
8:30 am
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Warm Crawfish and Artichoke Salad, Ragout of Crawfish over Fresh Pasta, and Crawfish Pies. D
9:00 am
America's Heartland Idaho farmers use high tech produce tracking to protect food safety (Rob Stewart). A Minnesota man keeps home dairy delivery alive. (Jason Shoultz). D
9:30 am
New Scandinavian Cooking "Oil Adventure" Is cold-pressed rapeseed oil the olive oil of the north? To find out, Andreas travels to the old fortress town of Fredrikstad in Eastern Norway. Using fresh vegetables, Andreas makes classic and innovative emulsion sauces, preserved and deep-fried mackerel, crispy potatoes, and Norwegian coleslaw. D
10:00 am
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Soup and Bread from Scratch" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread, and science expert Guy Crosby reveals the problem with whole wheat flour. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reviews Pullman bread pans to see if they live up to the hype. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of whole wheat flour. D
10:30 am
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Vegetable Delight" Allen shows how he is growing an organic vegetable garden full of traditional favorites.G
11:00 am
Live from the Artists Den "The Wallflowers" It has been seven years since their last album, but the Wallflowers are back in full force for a performance before 600 invited guests at Bimbo's 365 Club, a San Francisco institution for more than 80 years. Frontman Jakob Dylan leads the group through an 18-song set, featuring new songs from their recently released album Glad All Over, and classics such as "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache."G
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "Abby's Tricycle" Abby is preparing to ride her very first tricycle! She has her basket, helmet, and her friend Elmo, but Abby doesn't know how to ride a tricycle. Elmo suggests that Gordon teach Abby since Gordon was the one to teach him. Gordon teaches Abby about all the different parts of a tricycle; the seat, handlebars, and pedals. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "The Good Mom/Hornucopia" The Good Mom - "Mom's" the word when Mrs. Pteranodon meets fellow mom Millie Maiasaura, who is a little too over-protective of her kids. The two moms compare mothering methods in a play date at the Big Pond. Hornucopia! - At the Big Pond, Tank introduces the Pteranodon family to his friend, Stacie Styracosaurus, a fellow Ceratopsian with a crown of elaborate horns on her head. D
1:30 pm
Super Why! "The Adventures of Math-A-Million" It's math class at school, and Pig is having a big problem.a math problem! To find a solution, the super readers accompany a math superhero as he confronts a series of arithmetic emergencies. Will the super readers figure out a way to make Math Boy's problems as easy as 1, 2, 3? Educational Objectives: To learn some basic math skills. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Pick Your Friends/ Finola's Farm" Pick Your Friends - It's Valentine's Day and Nick and Sally disagree hotly on how to decorate the card they're making for the Cat. Does this mean they aren't really best friends? The Cat takes them to meet Sheldon, a tortoise who knows all about friendship. They learn that Sheldon's best friend is completely different from him and that being best friends doesn't mean you always have to agree. D
2:30 pm
Wild Kratts "Race for the Hippo Disc" When Chris and Martin accidentally lose a Power Disc on the African savannah, the Wild Kratts goes into crisis mode to find the disc before it gets into the hands of Zach Varmitech. D
3:00 pm
Dialogue for Kids "Sound" Sounds are vibrations of energy. Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientist, Steve Shropshire, Professor Of Physics, Idaho State University, answer students' questions about sound.G
3:30 pm
Dialogue "Amy Waldman: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The author-journalist discusses her work with host Marcia Franklin. Waldman's first novel, The Submission tells the story of a jury, in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial from among anonymous submissions, and the reactions when it chooses a design created by a Muslim-American architect.G
4:00 pm
Bluegrass Underground "Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver" Singer/mandolinist Doyle Lawson is yet another deserving winner of a National Heritage Fellowship (2006). Lawson's band is known as the School of Bluegrass for its many high-profile alumni. This latest batch of hot young pickers lives up to that legacy, as Lawson leads them through state-of-the-art traditional and progressive bluegrass, as well as some of the most compelling a cappella Gospel harmonizing seen or heard anywhere. D
4:30 pm
Music Voyager "Nashville: Music City" Known as the capital of country music, Nashville also is home to some of the world's top singer-songwriters and rock and pop bands. Host Jacob Edgar receives a personal tour of Nashville's iconic Grand Ole Opry by country superstar Vince Gill. Then, he sees Elizabeth Miller perform at a funky bar in East Nashville, the bohemian district home to many of the city's musicians. D
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6:00 pm
Land Girls "Final Reckoning" Connie discovers more about the piano player she is in love with. Joyce realizes there is something wrong with Martin and decides to follow him. Elsewhere, Finch helps Esther raise money by setting up a boxing match with his old adversary Vernon.G
7:00 pm
Midsomer Murders "Blue Herrings (Part 1)" DCI Barnaby has a week off and takes the time to visit his elderly aunt, who is convalescing in a residential nursing home for the elderly. She prompts him to investigate a series of suspicious deaths after people have changed their wills. Part 1 of 2G
8:00 pm
Masterpiece Classic "Upstairs Downstairs, Series 2 - The Love that Pays the Price" Lady Agnes catches the eye of charismatic American millionaire Caspar Landry, but as she and Sir Hallam look to their future, a tragic turn of events leaves their promised dreams, and a close family member in jeopardy. Downstairs, Mrs. Thackeray makes a momentous decision that throws the running of 165 into chaos. Blanche and Mr. Amanjit continue to clash, until a heart-breaking cause compels them to reconsider their differences. Part 2 of 6G
9:00 pm
New Tricks "Dockers" The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad members investigate the 1975 death of the general secretary of the Crane Drivers' Union, whose body was found in the Thames. As the team delves into the case, they find a political minefield, with suggestions of misappropriated union funds, MI5 involvement and a union leader whose threatened strike action was a danger to national security.G
10:00 pm
Call The Midwife "S1 E3" Jenny makes calls on the nursing roster and seeks to learn why a new patient seems upset by her latest pregnancy. Part 3 of 6G
11:00 pm
Land Girls "Final Reckoning" Connie discovers more about the piano player she is in love with. Joyce realizes there is something wrong with Martin and decides to follow him. Elsewhere, Finch helps Esther raise money by setting up a boxing match with his old adversary Vernon.G


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Terrorism scare rattles residents in Old Saybrook
Old Saybrook — A police dispatcher sent out a prerecorded, loudspeaker message Sunday afternoon telling residents to seek shelter because of a terrorist attack. Shortly after, the police department sent out a mass telephone message to 5,000 residents that said there was no emergency or homeland security crisis.
Police Chief Michael A. Spera said that the department received a few calls but that there wasn't panic in town.
Jim Reck, who lives near the fire department where the initial announcement was made, said the experience was "unsettling."
"I looked at my wife and my wife was like, 'Oh my God, did that just say what I think it said?'"
He said he initially looked outside and there seemed to be a sudden stream of cars in the street. Then he checked Twitter, Facebook and the television, he said.
"There was nothing, which made it even more, I think that kind of magnified the uncertainty, so I was like, OK let's go," Reck said.
He and his wife jumped in the car and drove to Main Street where they saw people sitting around outside at Penny Lane Pub.
"We figured they thought everything was safe or that they didn't care — one last meal," Reck said.
There was also no activity at the firehouse, he said.
So they decided to go back home. Shortly afterward he saw that Fire Chief JT Dunn had responded to a Facebook message Reck had posted. Dunn asked Reck to call him.
Reck called and found out that the message had gone out by mistake. Dunn also informed Reck about the mass-calling emergency system, Everbridge, which Reck had not signed up for.
The mass-calling system reaches residents' home phones, but if someone has a cell phone they need to sign up for the service at ctalerts.gov, Spera said.
Spera said the dispatcher was trying to send out a message to the fire department to clean up Fireman's Field after a fundraising event Saturday for returning U.S. Marine Sgt. David Tupper.
When the dispatcher did not see the button he was looking for on the computer screen, he went to a second window labeled emergency management, Spera said.
"He thought he did his job when in fact what he did was send out that we are under terrorist attack message," Spera said.
The chief said his options were to ignore the message, send out another loudspeaker message or use the mass-calling system, which he chose to use because of how quickly information travels these days on social media sites.
"I thought the best thing I could do is alert all our citizens that a mistake was made and that there was no active emergency," he said.
The three areas where the loudspeaker message was broadcast were the fire department, Fenwick and Saybrook Point, he said.
There is an internal review underway and some sort of corrective action will be taken, Spera said. It may or may not be discipline with the employee or procedural corrective action, he added.
He said there hasn't been a problem in the 10 years the loudspeaker system has been used. In the past, the loudspeaker system has been used to warn residents about tropical storms and hurricanes.
"We will not let yesterday's mistake cloud the future of communicating with our residents during a crisis," Spera said Monday.
First Selectman Carl Fortuna said the matter was dealt with appropriately.
"It was clearly a mistake," he said. "As soon as he (Spera) realized there was a mistake, he took corrective action."
Any follow-up response will be handled by Spera, who is the dispatcher's supervisor, Fortuna said.
"It's an internal matter," he said.
Reck said he thought most people's first reaction would be "How can someone make such a horrifying mistake, but at the same time we all make mistakes every day."
He added that he would be OK, "as long as they address it, whether it is more training or more oversight."
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Adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle is something many people do selflessly in an effort to protect the environment and ensure that the generations to come have a healthy planet at their disposal. But that same lifestyle can also pay instant dividends, helping homeowners save money and creating a healthier atmosphere in which to live. Homeowners can make several manageable changes around the house that can protect the environment without disrupting one's current lifestyle.
1. Clean green: Instead of using harmful chemical cleaners when cleaning around the house, choose green cleaning supplies that don't release harmful chemicals or toxins into the air.
2. Paint with the planet in mind: Homeowners with painting on their to-do list should choose no-or low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints.
3. Fix the drafts: Chances are, at this point in a long winter, homeowners are well aware of which rooms are warm and which might have drafts. Visit those colder rooms and plug any air leaks around the house. This will result in a lower heating bill and could save substantial amounts of energy. For homeowners with attics, checking the attic for air infiltration should be done every year.
4. Alternative landscaping: Xeriscaping, a style of landscape design that requires little or no irrigation, can save significant amounts of water. If xeriscaping is a viable alternative, then homeowners will save water while also reducing the use of potentially harmful pesticides and chemicals commonly used to keep lawns looking lush.
5. Low flow: If replacing shower heads, faucets or even toilets is on the to-do list, replace existing fixtures with low-flow models to save water and money.
6. Shop sustainable: Sustainable flooring is growing in popularity now that going green has truly taken off. Search for wood that has been harvested in an environmentally friendly way. Sustainable flooring materials include bamboo and cork, which many homeowners find as esthetically appealing as they are eco-friendly.
7. Double it up: Single-pane windows not only allow lots of external noise into the house, but they also contribute to heat loss in the winter, forcing residents to turn up the thermostat and waste more energy as a result. Installing double-pane windows will keep more external noise at bay, and allow homeowners to minimize heat loss in the winter.
8. Unplugged: Perhaps nothing around the house silently uses energy as much as a plugged-in appliance that's not being used. Certain estimates suggest as much as 40 per cent of a monthly utility bill is going toward powering home appliances that are turned off. While every home is different, it's a safe bet that most homes can save energy by simply unplugging appliances that aren't in use.


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Increasing Lutein Levels in Broccoli to Fight Age-Related Eye Problems | Plants For Human Health Institute
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CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
A new NCSU study at the Plants for Human Health Institute at the NC Research Campus focuses on enhanced levels of lutein in broccoli. Lutein, an antioxidant also found in leafy greens such as kale & spinach, is associated with lowered risk for cataracts & age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Allan Brown, Asst. Prof., Horticultural Science & the Plants for Human Health Institute, received a $1 55,525 grant from the NC Biotechnology Ctr. for broccoli research with matching funding from Monsanto.
N.C. Research Campus partnership launches $1.5M program immersing students in science | Plants For Human Health Institute
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An unprecedented partnership of academic and industry organizations at the North Carolina Research Campus has launched a groundbreaking $1.5 million program to engage college students from across the state in a first-of-its-kind education and research endeavor.
Called the Plant Pathways Elucidation Project (P2EP), the program teams university scientists, industry leaders and college students, who together will explore plant pathways to answer why and how plants, like fruits and vegetables, benefit human health. P2EP aims to foster scientific discoveries, provide educational opportunities and create a vast knowledge base of plant pathways research.
Read more | http://tinyurl.com/lnr247s
By Catherine Kozak, Coastal Review Online | With numerous bureaucratic hurdles finally cleared, an innovative wetlands restoration project led by the N.C. Coastal Federation is about to begin on thousa...
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Dr. Mike Burchell & engineers in the CALS Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering are designing a canal complex intersecting with farmland in Hyde County. Pumps & weirs will redirect rain stormwater into a created wetland, protecting the Albemarle & Pamlico Sounds of North Carolina. Read more | http://tinyurl.com/kgb7ucg
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has announced its intent to establish a Cooperative Agreement with the North Carolina State University, Prestage Department of Poultry Science and the Piedmont Research Station Poultry Unit to...
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CALS Research, NCSU's curator insight, June 26, 2013 4:21 PM
The research project will focus on advancing shell egg safety from Salmonella serotypes in the US market. The agreement will go into effect in September 2013. Read more | http://tinyurl.com/ozpj2z6
by Paige Brown, Guest Correspondent @FromTheLabBench Electron micrograph of hepatitis A virions.
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Hepatitis A outbreak: How frozen berry, pomegranate mix could sicken 97 | Food safety experts in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University -- Dr. Ben Chapman & Dr. Lee Ann Jaykus -- explain how water, supply chain, and global trade can affect food safety. Read more | http://tinyurl.com/m2zqr5s
A method that may reduce by more than half the time it takes health officials to identify Salmonella strains has been developed by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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CALS Food scientist, Dr. Rodolphe Barrangou, helped develop method to speed response to foodborne illnesses \ Read more | http://tinyurl.com/kapf3e9
From a number of the top beers brought forth for judging at the 2012 North Carolina's Brewer's Cup, three brews originated at N.C. State. These beers were created by researchers in the brewery cradled within the lower level of Schaub Hall.
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CALS Food scientist, Dr. John Sheppard launched the CALS' brewery, which created 3 of 4 top quaffs in 2012 NC Brewer's Cup. Read more | www.technicianonl... | AND we're also working on hops! | http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/specialty_crops/
CALS Sustainability Office hosts Leadership Triangle program | CALS News Center | News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State
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Dr. Danesha Seth Carley, Director of Sustainability Development for the Collete of Agriculture & Life Sciences at North Carolina State University, talks small solutions, with big impact. Read more | http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/perspectives/cals-sustainability-office-hosts-leadership-triangle-program/
Craven County prawn farmers Don and Kim Ipock stocked Carolina's Freshwater Prawn Farm's three ponds with juveniles last weekend to grow a fall harvest that has a committed buyer — a first in their seven-year aquaculture venture...
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Extension researchers in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciencees at North Carolina State University helped research & develop local freshwater prawn production for a North Carolina aquaculture facility. Read more | http://www.jdnews.com/news/business/aquaculture-crop-grown-here-headed-to-california-clients-1.145352
Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate "biofuel crops" from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted.
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Peach Genome Offers Insights Into Breeding Strategies for Biofuels Crops: Dr. Bryon Sosinski of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University is part of the research team which has sequenced Prunus persica, a close relative of potential biofuel crops, poplar and willow. The new sequence data is expected to be helpful in breeding such crops. Read more | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130324152303.htm
N.C. State Researchers Create Fruit, Vegetable-infused Ingredients for U.S. Army Rations | Plants For Human Health Institute
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NC State University has gained US Army support to create functional food ingredients from fruits & vegetables that will be used to develop healthier, more portable combat rations. Researchers with CALS' Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI), at the NC Research Campus, in Kannapolis, are infusing protein powders & flours, the kinds found at health & nutrition stores, with health-promoting compounds from greens kale & muscadine grapes. Read more | http://plantsforhumanhealth.ncsu.edu/?p=8971
Some populations of roaches have evolved a highly effective strategy to avoid sweet-tasting poison baits, researchers say.
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CALS researchers Dr. Coby Schal, Dr. Jules Silverman & Dr. Ayako Wada-Katsumata report in the prestigious journal, Science, that roaches can change their taste chemistry, making usually appealing sweet food become bitter. So they avoid baits containing glucose. Result: Failed cockroach control! Now we know why, and how they do it. The innovative research also has implications for control of other insects, such as mosquitoes. Read more & watch the little buggers flee jelly | http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/science/a-bitter-sweet-shift-in-cockroach-defenses.html
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Dr. Slavko Komarnytsky, Asst. Prof. of Pharmacogenomics at the Plants for Human Health Institute searches for plant-derived compounds from Thunder God Vine, blueberries and blueberries to address these diseases, along with PHHI collaborators, such as Dr. Mary Ann Lila and Dr. Allan Brown. Read more: http://www.ncresearchcampus.net/partners-and-research/latest-research/tracking-parallel-pathways-of-obesity-diabetes-and-inflammation
NC State News :: NC State News and Information » Irish Potato Famine-Causing Pathogen Even More Virulent Now
CALS Research, NCSU's curator insight, July 18, 2013 4:23 PM
The plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s lives on today with a different genetic blueprint and an even larger arsenal of weaponry to harm and kill plants.
Read more | http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/mk-ristaino-infestans-2013/
Werner honored with Burbank Award | CALS News Center | News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State
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Dr. Dennis Werner, JC Raulston Distinguished Professor of Horticultural Science, has won the American Horticultural Society's Luther Burbank Award. Given in odd years, the award recognizes extraordinary achievement in plant breeding. It is named for legendary plant breeder Luther Burbank & is one of the society's Great American Gardener awards. (Dr. Werner is pictured with the weeping redbud, Ruby Falls, he developed. | http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/media-releases/werner-honored-with-burbank-award/
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The past year has been a bad one for America's honeybees, with commercial beekeepers reporting hive losses of up to 50 percent. Some blame the mysterious
CALS Research, NCSU's curator insight, June 28, 2013 4:22 PM
CALS apiculturist, Dr. David Tarpy joins Dick Rogers, manager of Bayer CropScience's Bee Care Center (under construction in RTP) & Jeffrey Lee, who owns Lee's Bees in Mebane, NC, to discuss the issue. Read more | http://wunc.org/post/why-are-hon
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FDA Enlists NC State to Chart Salmonella Transmission Routes | The Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) will begin working with the Prestage Department of Poultry Science & the Piedmont Research Station Poultry Unit in Fall to study transmission routes for Salmonella in the shell egg industry, to improve the food safety controls which prevent foodborne illness. Readmore | http://tinyurl.com/odbp5lt
Poole Golf Course receives Audubon International certification | CALS News Center | News from the College of Agriculture and Life Scie...
News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State
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Only one other university course is Audubon cerfified; and there are only 92 other Signature certified sanctuaries. The designation is awarded for environmental sustainability.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lf5xmna
In March, N.C. State University hired Chen Jiang, a graduate student, to assist Penelope Perkins-Veazie with the postharvest research.
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Dr. Penelope Perkins-Veazie's team at the Plants for Human Health Institute is investigating plant-based compounds as produce washes, for food safety & longer shelf life, with acceptability for organic food labeling. Read more | http://tinyurl.com/oyj4te5
Ecologists are increasingly interested in the great wildlife diversity indoors, where they've found that buildings contain identifiable microbial signatures of their human inhabitants.
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Mapping the great indoors: Dr. Rob Dunn's Your Wild Life Project is among research efforts to catalog, understand the microbiology of the human built environment discussed in this New York Times article. Dr. Dunn is a faculty member in the Collete of Agriculture & Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. | Read more | http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/science/getting-to-know-our-microbial-roommates.html? | Visit the web site for the Your Wild Life Project | http://www.yourwildlife.org/
The Produce News - Covering fresh produce around the globe since 1897
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Agriculture brings science & math to life for NC high school students: Strawberry breeder, Dr. Jeremy Pattison at the Plants for Human Health Institute, part of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University, helps create a real-world research experience for Rowan County high school students Watch the video here: http://www.producenews.com/index.php/90-videos/10333-agriculture-brings-science-and-math-to-life-for-north-carolina-high-school-students
Tractor gives students access to latest technology | CALS News Center | News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
News from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State
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NCSU College of Agriculture & Life Sciences students will be able to learn on the latest equipment thanks to the generosity of a farm equipment manufacturer and a farm machinery dealer. AGCO, a farm machinery designer, manufacturer and distributer, has provided the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory with a new Massey Ferguson tractor through a no-cost lease agreement, said Curtis Powell, field lab superintendent. The Massey Ferguson 7620 tractor was provided by C&R Implement Company in Williamston.
The tractor will be used for classes and demonstrations and normal work around the field lab, which is just south of the Raleigh city limits on Lake Wheeler Road.
Read more ... http://tinyurl.com/lmsfmos
SOUTHERN PINES - Jamie Sasser cradled a tiny woodpecker in his hands. The bird quivered slightly as Sasser peered intently at it.
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Researchers trying to identify, catalog every species in Moore County preserve | Entomologist, Dr. Clyde Sorenson, of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University took several of his students to scout for insects in the 24-hour Weymouth Woods bio-blitz last weekend. Read more about their adventure in this special wildlife refuge here | http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2013/05/27/1256089
A dog may not only fill a home with joy, it fills a home with a whole lot of bacteria, new research suggests. But that doesn't mean you have to kick your pooch out of the bed.
CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
Dirty dogs: Home with pooches loaded with bacteria: Dr. Holly Menninger & researchers of CALS' Your Wild Life Team at NC State University find that dog owners and their homes carry bacteria from their pets. But that may not be a bad thing for human health. Read more | http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18427037-dirty-dogs-homes-with-pooches-loaded-with-bacteria
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From electrical engineer to entrepreneur: when Ph.D student Vindhya Kunduru came to NC State, she didn't know she'd soon be bringing vaccines to market.
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Kunduru took an enterpreneurship course in which she learned about a patented vaccine targeting poultry Salmonella, developed by Dr. Hosni Hassan & Matt Koci of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. As part of her entrepreneurial coursework, she helped develop a business plan for what became Enteric Vaccine Solutions. EVS is listed as one of NCSU's Clase of 2013 "Fast 15" spinoff companies. Read more: http://www.ncsu.edu/features/2013/03/unexpected-entrepreneur/ | Fast 15 list | http://research.ncsu.edu/ott/for-entrepreneurs/nc-state-fast-15/class-2013/
David H. Murdock gives $50 million to the research institute that bears his name in Kannapolis.
CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
The gift will support daily operations at the David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI), the core labs for the NCRC, which includes CALS' Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI).
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I am profoundly grateful for your interest and support in our house and our lives. I am especially grateful to those of you who take the time to leave comments for us- you have absolutely no idea how much your comments motivate me!
love of home.
Thank you so much.
At four years, this feels like the right time to take a short intermission and unplug for a while. I have more to say and more to share, so I promise to be back soon...
but, until then I will leave you with these fall "around" the house photographs!
That is our house in the middle of this photograph!


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MGMT and ULTRA SIMPLE ZAZEN
First this is my new favorite song in the world. I don't care what it's about. You don't need drugs. Just listen to this! It's called "It's Working" by MGMT. The whole album is amazing. I'm so jazzed that something really good is popular.
Although, I have to add that this is something like what I was trying to do with Dimentia 13 (altho MGMT does it sooo much better). Just sample this from the first Dimentia 13 LP.
I don't have a whole lot of time for a report. We'll be on our way to Warsaw in just a few minutes. It's been raining like cats and dogs the whole time I've been in Poland. I know because I stepped in a poodle!
But seriously, folks, the rain has been so bad that a lot of the roads are washed out, trains are stopped, all sorts of chaos has ensued. But we made it to Katowice last night and had one of the best talks ever with the group from the Bodhidharma Zen Center. As usual with the talks that end up being good, this one was probably not recorded. The iPhone my host Slawek used to record it was acting weird the whole time. So maybe something made it on to the hard drive but probably not the whole talk.
Which is sad because you'll miss out hearing the crazy woman who came in, asked a few bizarre questions and then left in a huff when the answers I gave didn't satisfy her. She was very mystical and was apparently testing my ability to see Beyond The Beyond or some such thing.
After she left the discussion settled a bit. One of the questions I was asked concerned mistakes Westerners make in Zen. I get that one a lot. But last night, for some reason it sparked a memory from when I worked for Tsuburaya Productions.
Ultraman is one of the most incredibly simple designs in the world. Look:
It's very straight-forward and that's why it works and has become so iconic. Even 6 year old kids can draw Ultraman.
I have a friend, Hiroshi Maruyama, whose job it used to be to design the new Ultraman characters. He told me once that all he could ever do with that design was mess it up. It was perfect as it was. The only thing you could do was ruin the beautiful simplicity of it.
Here's one of the later Ultraman characters to give you an idea what he meant. This is actually not one of Maruyama's designs. His are a lot more successful. When they got to this character they had someone else work on it and all they did was add unnecessary shit on to what was already complete in and of itself. And this isn't even one of the worst. They'd add horns and noses and big ears and all kinds of crap.
I think this is what often happens with Western Zen. We seek to "improve" something that has already undergone thousands of years of refinement. All we can do is add extraneous garbage to something and ruin its original simplicity.
Zen is stupidly simple. It needs to remain stupidly simple.
We do this not only culturally, but in our own practice. At least I do! I'm always looking for something more complex to add to the practice. But it's fine just as it is. You don't need to explain it. You don't need to tack on a lot of pop psychological bullcrap. Just leave it be! Leave Britney alone! And leave Zazen alone!


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Award requirements
- 1. Age Requirement. To enroll in the BSA Lifeguard course, you must be at least 14 years of age or have completed the eighth grade.
- 2. Prerequisites. To enroll in the BSA Lifeguard course, you must:
- a. Swim 400 yards: Jump feetfirst into water over your head and swim continuously for 400 yards in a strong manner. The 400 yards shall consist of a minimum of 50 yards of elementary backstroke; 50 yards of breaststroke; 50 yards of front crawl or trudgen; and 50 yards of sidestroke.
- b. Surface dive: Perform both a feet-first and a head-first (tuck or pike) surface dive in 8 to 10 feet of water and recover a 10-pound weight on each dive.
- c. Demonstrate the ability to rest by floating.
- d. Perform a long, shallow dive.
- 3. Aquatic Skills. Perform each of the following aquatics skills:
- a. Perform a long, shallow dive into deep water and swim an approach stroke 25 yards in 20 seconds or less.
- b. Throw a line for accuracy 10 yards, three times in one minute. The line may be weighted, unweighted, or attached to a ring buoy.
- c. Perform a rescue of a swimmer using a watercraft common to your area. Explain how other watercraft can be used to perform a rescue. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different craft in making rescues.
- d. Perform each of the following rescues with the aid of a rescue tube:
- 1. Perform a swimming extension rescue. Using a front approach, swim with the rescue tube 15 yards to a distressed swimmer; extend the rescue tube to the victim; have the victim grasp it; and tow the victim back to the starting point in the water.
- 2. Perform an active drowning victim rear rescue. Using a rear approach, swim with the rescue tube 15 yards to a conscious/active but not struggling victim; Place the victim on the tube by using a "scooping technique and tow the victim back to the starting point.
- 3. Perform an passive drowning victim rear rescue. Using a rear approach, swim with the rescue tube 15 yards to face down victim; squeeze the rescue tube between your chest and the victim's back, role the victim face up and tow the victim back to the starting point in the water.
- 4. Passive drowning victim front rescue. Approach a face-down, unconscious victim from the front; Reaching across the rescue tube, grasp the victim's wrist and rotate the victim into the rescue tube. Clamp the victim to the tube with your other arm and tow the victim back to the starting point.
- 5. Perform a submerged victim rescue. Approach until you are over the victim and do a feet-first surface dive. Using the rescue tube between your chest and the victim's back, move the victim to the starting point.
- e. Perform a swimming rescue of a distressed or active victim using a flotation aid other than a rescue tube. Demonstrate an appropriate entry and approach stroke for 15 yards and the tow the victim to the starting point.
- f. Perform a stride jump into water at least 9 feet deep; swim 15 yards to an unconscious victim; use a front surface approach; position the victim for a wrist tow; and use a wrist tow to return the victim to the starting point in the water.
- g. Perform a long, shallow dive into water at least 9 feet deep; swim 15 yards to beyond the victim; position the victim in either a single- or double-armpit tow; and tow the victim to the starting point in the water.
- h. Perform a compact jump into water at least 9 feet deep; using a rear approach swim 15 yards to an active victim; contact the victim and level the victim using a single- or double-armpit tow; position the victim in a cross-chest carry; and return to the starting point in the water.
- i. Perform the following defenses and escapes:
- 1. Wrist-grip escape
- 2. Rear head-hold escape
- 3. Front head-hold escape
- j. Remove the victim from the water using each of the following techniques, in the appropriate circumstances:
- 1. Lift from the water using a backboard and two lifeguards
- 2. Walking assist
- 3. Beach drag
- k. Perform an ease-in entry in shallow water and approach a victim who is facedown on the surface and simulating a spinal injury. Turn the victim to a faceup position and support the victim at the surface.
- l. Perform an ease-in entry in deep water and approach a victim who is floating facedown on the surface and simulating a spinal injury. With a rescue tube, turn the victim to a faceup position and, maintaining contact, swim with the victim to a corner of the pool or the shallow end of the pool. Repeat without a rescue tube.
- m. As a team member, participate in a back-boarding procedure in shallow water.
- n. Demonstrate the proper use of mask, snorkel, and fins.
- 4. First Aid and CPR.
- a. Show evidence of the ability to perform the skills and a knowledge of basic first aid.
- b. Show a knowledge of the procedures for the universal precautions for bloodborne pathogens.
- c. Hold current certification in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or the National Safety Council.
- 5. Examination. Demonstrate an understanding of aquatics program and emergency management skills by correctly answering 80 percent of the questions in a written or oral exam on theory and knowledge (standard BSA Lifeguard examination).
- 6. Supervised Lifeguarding. Serve as a lifeguard, under supervision, for at least two swimming activities (2 to 3 hours total).
Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)
BSA Lifeguard Training Procedure
- 1. Only those persons currently certified as BSA Aquatics Instructor or as BSA Lifeguard Counselor may train the completion of BSA Lifeguard requirements.
- 2. Training as BSA Lifeguard is valid for 3 years from the date of application.
- 3. All requirements must be met - no substitutions or omissions are permitted.
- 4. The completed application is sent to the local council service center where BSA Lifeguard emblems may be purchased.
- 5. To qualify for BSA Lifeguard, the candidate must complete the BSA Lifeguard course consisting of a minimum of 30 hours under the direction of either a BSA Lifeguard Counselor or a BSA Aquatics Instructor. The course for the BSA Lifeguard is in the BSA Lifeguard Counselor Guide.
BSA Lifeguard Retraining
To be retrained as BSA Lifeguard, a person who previously has been trained can complete the regular BSA Lifeguard course, passing each of the requirements. Those whose BSA Lifeguard training is current or has expired within the past 12 months can be retrained by demonstrating a current knowledge of and ability to perform the skills necessary to fulfill BSA Lifeguard requirements. It is not necessary to retake the BSA Lifeguard course.


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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Labyrinth of Poodles
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.--Jorge Luis Borges
It's the other one, HoseMaster, that everything happens to. I love books, Northern Rhone wines, baseball, the aroma of wet dog in someone else's bottle of wine, the prose of Jerry Lewis, and limp celery. And he, Hosemaster, loves the same, only in a creepy way, a way that demeans while pretending to celebrate, like an award for a cretinous, self-published blog. I wouldn't say that I hate him, that might be hyperbole, but I live so that he can create, so that he can aim his broadsides at the fools who give points, are pointless, point at themselves ad nauseum. And more and more I become him, that loathsome creature. I confess that he has written a funny piece now and then, managed to heap scorn on the right people, people with astonishing amounts of hubris who certainly do not own mirrors or they would notice they all look the same in the mirror's reflection. Is that Laube reflected in that circus mirror, or Parker, though it looks like Tanzer, and might be a Heimoff if only it were much smaller, and I don't mean in height, I mean in significance. They are all one and know it, but must not surrender to the illusion that they are individuals or they might cease to exist. That is, if they exist at all. If being a wine critic can be defined as existence, which most would say it cannot. More and more I am subsumed by HoseMaster and little by little I can no longer be saved by his works. His works are not mine, and not his, but are owned by the Internet, that Truthslayer, and consumed by thankless automatons with only electronic lives. They are nothing without FaceBook. The word is apt. It is not FacesBook. They have but one Face, and it's pretty hopeless and ugly. It's the Face of the Internet, it is God's Face. It is the face of loneliness. For what is real loneliness but to be surrounded by imaginary friends? Friends who all have the same Face. Your Face.
In my dreams now I am him all the time. The separation I feel from him in my waking hours does not exist. I am him in my dreams. I do not exist in my own dreams. In his dreams we are being pursued by poodles. More poodles than one can count. Everywhere we turn there are poodles. They seem threatening, but are not. The poodles are different colors, relentlessly white, chronically black, and all kinds of sizes, though they are mostly toys, and they are all toothless. We run and we run, HoseMaster and I, though it is only him in my dreams and I am forced to will myself into his dream mind, which he forbids, though it is I who is asleep. Wherever we turn there are more and more toothless poodles. The poodles bark as ferociously as they can, which is a kind of chorus of canine yawns, but it is still inexplicably frightening. Even more horrifying is the way they urinate everywhere, marking each other, leaving each other messages that only have meaning for them and no one intelligent or sane. When one poodle disappears, another one takes its place almost immediately. They reproduce without procreation. The poodles are a many-headed Cerberus of inanity. He is surrounded by the comically scary poodles and when he runs, and as I struggle to keep up with him, with myself, HoseMaster is caught in a labyrinth to which there is no end, and in which every turn leads to a post, a post on which each poodle has left a bladder-inspired message. Here is the post about Wine Tasting Wednesday, a frightening puddle of stupidity beneath it. Around the labyrinth's next corner is the Parker post. Or is it the Laube post? Doesn't it seem like the Vaynerchuk post? Does it matter if they are all the same? No. But to imagine it the Vaynerchuk post, does that make it more pleasant to micturate against? But save some, there is another post around the corner. Or are they all just the same post, the same post that every poodle visits and revisits and from which there is no escape? If you read them, they are the same posts excreted by different poodles, who believe they are different, but are, in fact, very much the same.
Most nights the poodles have human faces. The males are all castrated, powerless and toothless. The bitches parade around, tails up, but they are clearly unsatisfied. The human faces when they appear to the HoseMaster are also toothless. Saliva pours from the canineless canines. This passes for thought among the poodles. If they stop barking they vanish. HoseMaster, using me as his vessel, his portal into this dreamworld we all live in, hopelessly tries to get them to be quiet. He looks at their human faces and knows what to do.
HoseMaster and I run into the labyrinth once again, only now the walls of the labyrinth are covered in mirrors. He knows not to look into any mirror. I know never to look into a mirror in his dreams. The mirror will reveal him to himself as another poodle. But the poodles don't know this. The poodles pursue HoseMaster into the mirrored labyrinth. They bark toothlessly at their own reflections. The castrated boys lift their legs and piss on themselves, thinking they are leaving an intelligent message for others to read. The bitches just stare at their reflections and seem confused. Only one poodle, neither dog nor bitch, stares back at each of them. Everywhere they turn it is the same poodle, drooling. The poodles are silenced, and they vanish.
But we always wake up.
28 comments:
- Samantha Dugan said...
Damn. Brilliant Love, this was brilliant.
- June 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Steve said...
What? Brilliant? I'm often a fan of Los Hose, but this made me nearly fall asleep....
- June 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- k2 said...
Fucking dark. Man, I felt like David Cronenberg just reached up and gave my taint a slight tickle. Fiendishly brilliant!
One of the poodles,
- June 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Thomas said...
To paraphrase Neil Sedaka: Waking up is hard to do.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I thought of suggesting reading it again while moving your lips....helps in comprehension and has the added benefit of assisting in that staying awake thing. Worked for me, well before I dropped out of school....
- June 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Steve said...
Ah, yes, because it's patently ridiculous to think that someone might have comprehended this post and, *GASP*, not enjoyed it quite like you did.
Doesn't HM mention something about hubris somewhere....?
- June 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
He does and he is often speaking about me. Just didn't get how you could not like it but you are correct, being bitchy...sorry bout that.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- abc said...
Good to know ahead of time what tonight's nightmare may be about.
Charlie and I and our assorted entourages are going to Oakland to see the Red Sox on 7/21. You should join us.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
Suffering from ennui, are we? Existential angst? Perhaps that's why so many of the great literary lights drank.
I don't see poodles. I see football and I don't care which side of the Atlantic we are talking about. The uniforms change but the players are interchangeable, and there are only so many plays that can be run. It may be a billion-dollar industry but in the end it is just f***ing football.
Or maybe we can simplify further and just put everyone either on Team Edward or on Team Jacob.
But "...consumed by thankless automatons with only electronic lives." - ? I took time out of my day to read your work (and thank you for doing it BTW) and further to comment on it - and this is what I am reduced to? Diss me like that again and I will piss in your Manhattan.
- June 3, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
Is this what happens when someone gets 100 comments on one post and then another 50 after that? Does popularity breed contempt the way that familiarity breeds poodles? Is the Internet all knowing, all wise, all full of grace or as pointless as the Harlots, Chix, Palate Press and Colored Girls? Who can we trust in times like these? Where do we turn when Tom Wark leaves us? Is the Hosemaster angry at us for making him famous and popular or is he angry at himsself or has the Hosemaster became so powerful that he is taking over for Mr. Ron, and leaving us not knowing who to love anymore? If the Internet is God, is Gary Vaynerchuk Zeus?
We need to know the answers to these questions. Preferably in a group of one-liners. Served without the suet pudding, thanks.
- June 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM
I'm confused, is John going to micturate in your cocktail or spend a penny in a NY borough? Either way won't be pretty, should not have let the big HM break bad on him.
- June 3, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- D J R-S said...
I'm with you on this one. You don't have to be class clown all the furschluginner ticktockticktock, man. Mad Gentleman Hopper is dead. Keep mixing it up. Damn the torpedoes! Captcha: HALOGIN
- June 3, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Okay now I'm confused.
- June 3, 2010 at 9:22 PM
- k2 said...
Ron's words and these comments are shades of Dorothy Parker in a drunken rage going all Praying Mantis on her Algonquin Circle.
- June 4, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- 1WineDude said...
What's next, poesy?
- June 4, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Hey Gang,
After this rather surreal and difficult to understand (especially for me) post, I thought I'd just step aside and let it bark for itself. Until now.
Steve, man, I guess I could start reviewing $10 Merlot in a faux 1WineDude voice which comes off as hip and condescending rather than knowing and interesting, but I write for pleasure not self-promotion. That said, I'm grateful for someone to show up and state an honest opinion that he was bored by my little Borges parody. Honest opinions are scarce on wine blogs. So thank you, Steve, sincerely.
Kevin, you were once an early supporter of HoseMaster,then you vanished, removed me from your blog list and moved to Samantha's place. Well, welcome back. You may be a poodle, but you're one of the ones worth listening to.
John, you mean you're going to ennuiui in my cocktail? And you're right about football, that's for sure. I'm a baseball guy. And your call here screwed up my perfect game.
Charlie, I just write 'em, I don't explain 'em. And, as the post explains in lousy Borgesian prose, I just house the HoseMaster, I don't tell him what to say. Borges has been on my mind for quite awhile and the HoseMaster finally decided to have some fun with him. The literary parodies are truly done for myself. It's like writing a piece of music in Beethoven's style, or Dylan's style, it's how you learn a craft. Spending a few hours reading Borges was pure joy, and then writing a bit like him helped me understand him a little better. It's kind of the same when I parody bloggers--Alder or Alice or your son--you come to understand them in an interesting light. OK, enough boring talk. The post, love it or hate it, stands.
1WineDoody, man, you don't know how close I came to breaking out my Whitman or Dickinson parodies!
D J R-S, thanks. More and more I just do what seems like fun. I might even right about actual wines again. Depends on what the HoseMaster has in mind. He constantly surprises me.
- June 4, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Steve said...
Hey! That $10 Merlot drank like at least 12 bucks!
- June 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- k2 said...
My apologies for caving to the Man earlier. Sticking by my guns now and have your back from here on. Cheers!
- June 5, 2010 at 10:40 AM
You're my civil dawn, Ron.
abc, I like the convenience of the A's (in Oakland and sentences) but I'm Natl League.
Samatha's right. Writing isn't a voice without rhythm.
- June 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Do you mean that without rhythm, writing isn't a voice or that some believe writing is a voice without rhythm?
Signed, confused in the writer's block.
- June 7, 2010 at 6:13 AM
Borges, one of my (two) favorites of all time. Interesting post, mister. :) (I'm playing catch up.)
- June 9, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Goddam that's funny. I was almost bored to stone but I stuck with it, and I have to say, that was goddam funny. Brilliant even. Well, at least funny. I'm off to smash all my mirrors.
- June 14, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Doug,
Welcome. I'll settle for funny. Brilliant might be a little much.
Thank you.
- June 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- D J R-S said...
NYTimes refuses to let Borges die? Borges on Pleasure Island - http://nyti.ms/an1bJm
'...Borges did have some mortal qualities. He lived most of his life with his mother. He loved detective and adventure novels. (His first story in English was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.) Though he started to go blind in his 30s, he never learned to read Braille. And in his later years he made some unappealing political remarks about being happy that, following the military overthrow of the Perón government, "gentlemen" were again running the country. (Perón, to be fair, had "promoted" Borges from head of the National Library to head of poultry inspection.)...'
- June 26, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Ron Washam said...
I lit up when I saw an appreciation of Borges, one of the more interesting characters of literature in the 20th Century, though the piece was not particularly revelatory. I have a craving to go back and read him again, though it will only make me depressed at how far short of his talents my stupid parody falls.
And then Saramago had to go and die recently. One the the giants of literature in the 20th Century, and beyond. I'm back reading Saramago again too. And looking forward to a September release of a translation of one of his last works.
I've never been a wine snob, but, alas, I'm a horrible book snob.
- June 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- D J R-S said...
Yeah, article started out promising but it ended up a fluff review...
In the self-loathing dept., I'm reminded of (Former)Love-of-My-Life's warning, 'Let's not play 'Can you top this', but...' --I'm an unpublished (but for student rags back in the day) minor poet in two languages, who hasn't ever read Saramago...now that he's gone to the Big Underground library to trade invective with Borges, everything will probably be back in print-- I could even try to bluff my way through something in the original Portugues...Heh-- can you imagine us getting together over a bottle of vino next time I make it West? Friends might dub us the Death of the Party...
- June 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Saramago has never been out of print. I love "Death with Interruptions," and "Blindness," and "The Double."
If you ever do make it to Sonoma, let me know. We can share a few drinks and bore the crap out of the room. No Jagermeister.
- June 29, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- D J R-S said...
Deal. I took a hands-on crash course in Basic California Spoofulation Wine Technique by signing on to three separate projects at Crushpad for the '06 harvest. My cases just got moved out of their old SF digs & up to Napa. We can, perhaps, take a chance on some of those?
- June 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM


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* The function of Nikon D200 almost at underwater enabled.
* Equipping the quick shoe which can make the removal and re-installation of the camera simple.
* The lock type pas chin lock which does not have the times when you open carelessly.
* The leak sensor which informs about the flooding of the unlikely event.
< Accessory >
Housing body cap, grip stay, O- ring, silicon grease, camera quick shoe, hexagonal wrench and CR2032 lithium electric battery
< Specification of DX-D200 housing >
* Material: Body/resistance corrosion aluminum alloy, grip/resistance corrosion aluminum die-cast
* Pressure-resistant depth: 60 m 4 substance size: Width 330mm× height 163mm× depth 136mm
* Weight: Approximately 2,500 g (only housing)
* Connector:N type 2 basis (2pin connector +5pin connector)
* Function part:Power switch, shutter, AE/AF lock lever, focusing/zoom dial, main command dial, subcommand dial, focusing mode dial, AF area mode dial, photometry mode dial and exposure revision button, exposure mode/format button and white balance button, picture quality mode/setting reset button, ISO sensitivity button, オートブラケティングボタン, deletion/format button, playback button, menu button and sum nail button, protect/help button, execution button, multiple selector button and AF operation button
D300, D200, D70, 12-24 f4 AFS DX, 60mm f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR, 105 f2.8 AF-S VR, Tokina Wunderlens.
Photo galleries @ Ruaux.net
Posted 01 April 2006 - 08:59 AM
What's about Sea & Sea housings quality ? is it as good as Subal ?
Nikon D300 - Sea & Sea housing
Posted 01 April 2006 - 09:48 AM
I had a Sea&Sea for F100 before, it was one of their best housings, and now I have a Subal, so I can give you my opinion about that.
If you are asking because both will cost the same in Europe, I would get the Subal. Sea&Sea is a great housing, don't get me wrong, it is light, keeps the water out and has a nice port system, but it is not the same quality as the Subals. One click turning the wheels is not one click in the camera. Also, to access the main command dials I had to let go of the housing handle (but this may be related to hand size). So, my main complaint is ergonomics. This may not be important (and it is not, as I am seeing in other topics) for many people.
Having said that, I still think the Sea&Sea is a great housing. It was much better than my previous housings, but it is not better than the Subal.
Posted 01 April 2006 - 11:52 PM
You're right I'm asking because of the price as in Europe, the Subal is about 25% more expensive ! But seems like Subal is better quality...
Nikon D300 - Sea & Sea housing
Posted 03 April 2006 - 03:59 AM
He expects deliveries to begin in June/July.
He had a plastic mock up of the housing and it is smaller than the D50 housing. It fits the camera like a glove. He thinks it will be the best digital housing that S&S have made since film days.
I am tempted to stay with S&S as a result if/when I upgrade.
Lighting: 2 x Ikelite DS-125, 2 x Manual controller
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Posted 03 April 2006 - 05:42 AM
It's interesting to hear it may be smaller than the D50 housing which may due to the fact that it is all aluminium as opposed to the D50's aluminuim and plastic mix.
Now if only Sea & Sea would come out with a magnified viewfinder as I hear aquatica, hugyphot, UK germany and possibly even Ikelite are talking about - then this would be a very appealing housing at a good price.
Posted 10 April 2006 - 08:50 AM
Much easier to comprehend.
The same page is linked from the Sea and Sea USA website.
D300, D200, D70, 12-24 f4 AFS DX, 60mm f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR, 105 f2.8 AF-S VR, Tokina Wunderlens.
Photo galleries @ Ruaux.net
Posted 10 April 2006 - 10:40 AM
Dual Ikelite Strobes
Photo site - www.reefpix.org
Posted 11 April 2006 - 10:40 AM
Hmmm...anyone know which iTTL converter they are using?
Roumors say its the Mattias Heinrich converter, but with a longer lasting battery, exposure kompensator knob and a manual bypass.
But I do not now that this is infact true?
Posted 11 April 2006 - 10:59 AM
If that is the case, then there will be a very short list of strobes that are iTTL compatible with the housing. A VERY short list...
But I guess they don't care, as long as the Sea and Sea strobes work, right? :-)
Dual Ikelite Strobes
Photo site - www.reefpix.org
Posted 11 April 2006 - 11:26 AM
Posted 11 April 2006 - 12:53 PM
The difference on S&S TTL converter is that it is an external/optional type, not permanently installed inside housing. It should work with other housings w/ 5pin-N connector + S&S Strobe w/fast recycle(hopefully with my old YS-120).
I was ready to choose between S&S and Nexus whichever comes out to market first & I got Nexus D200 housing 10 days ago & posted sample pics. My supplier told me first batch of S&S D-200 housing will be avail.
in end of April & second batch in end of May.
Nexus also, has choice of new
view finders. I got mine with basic finder & found it is easily replaceable to multi-finder by finger without any tools.
D500/D5 in modified Nexus housing
and EOS-1DS Mk3 in Seacam.
Posted 11 April 2006 - 12:56 PM
Personally, I shall stick to manual on my pair of YS90 Autos.
Posted 18 June 2006 - 12:46 PM
I am a Nikonos V user about to make the digital plunge with my Nikon D200. I'm accustomed to shooting the Nikonos V with the UW-Nikkor 15mm lens, lighting it with a diffused SB-102 strobe plus a small Sea & Sea YS-30TTL strobe for added modeling. I'm anxious to get away from a huge strobe like the SB-102 and the flooding risks/maintenance costs of the Nikonos V. I'm planning to use the D200 with the Nikkor 105mm/f2.8 AF, 10.5mm DX, and 12-24mm DX lenses. I've got the 18-70mm DX also, but don't forsee it being very desirable for u/w photography.
Right now, I've pretty well pared my D200 housing choices down to the Sea & Sea or Aquatica, and would appreciate any insight you have to offer if you've compared the same two housings and why you chose the Sea & Sea.
From your website, I see that you say you shoot with the Nikkor 10.5mm FE and 12-24mm zoom, using the Compact Dome Port for both and adding the extension + zoom ring with the 12-24mm. So, while your excellent gallery speaks for itself, I'll still ask the question of whether you find the Compact Dome Port truly sufficient for both lenses? The Sea & Sea system chart only shows the NX FE Dome Port as recommended for the Nikkor 10.5mm lens, but certainly the compact dome would pack/travel more easily. Have you seen any distortions in using the compact dome with either lens and have found found a need to use any diopter with the 12-24mm lens?
Finally, even if shooting manual flash proves to be the more common approach with U/W photography, I like to at least know that I can exploit the capabilities of iTTL if I choose to. The photo on your website equipment page shows the S&S housing with their TTL converter, but I'm guessing that is a marketing photo and not your actual housing. Regardless, I'm curious if - since the time of your last post -you've had an opportunity to try out the converter with your YS-90 Auto strobes and, if so, what is your opinion on it? In lieu of the external converter, I wonder how well it would work to have the DX-D200 housing modded internally with the H-W TTL circuit and perhaps using a dual strobe connector with the single N-type bulkhead connector? I'd like to get the newest Sea & Sea YS-110 strobes if they are availble by the time I order (within 1 month, maybe a bit more) but may also consider the YS-90 Auto as an alternative. With that in mind, have you found dual YS-90s to give you the lighting you need and want for the Nikkor 10.5mm lens? The Z240 strobes sound nice from all I've read, save for the price and buoyancy issues, so I'm leaning in favor of Sea & Sea.
While I've directed these questions to you, based upon similar equipment and the anticpated equipment I may purchase, I welcome insights from anyone.
Posted 23 July 2006 - 02:06 PM
I've been exploring how to get all the equipment packed into a carry-on sized Lowepro backpack, and managed it! Including a large Dell notebook PC, the back is hefty at 45 linear inches and 44 lbs., so I'll pull the notebook out to a 2nd allowable carry-on and pack my reg and othe items in with it. Details on what I packed and some of my considerations are given at http://ambress.com/D...200/carryon.htm, but the photos below sum it up pretty well.
Only the items with red checkmarks made it into the bag.


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Gay Art Student Will Lose His Virginity In Front Of An Audience For Project
My college-level art class projects involved lots of sketching fruit in charcoal on various mediums. One of 19-year old Clayton Pettet's art projects will involve losing his anal sex virginity in a performance art piece in front of a live audience. Did I attend the wrong school?
Clayton (pictured above) will perform "Art School Stole My Virginity" on January 25, 2014. In the piece, he plans to bottom for the first time with a close friend taking the top.
"The key thing about performance art is that it should only be performed once, and this is the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime performance," Clayton said.
He adds:
"I've held on to my virginity for 19 years, and I'm not throwing it away lightly. Basically it's like I am losing the stigma around virginity.
"I want the audience to see if anything has changed between me and my partner.
"Since culturally we do hold quite a lot of value to the idea of virginity I have decided to use mine and the loss of it to create a piece that I think will stimulate interesting debate and questions regarding the subject."
Critics include the U.K.'s Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, whose spokesperson Rev. Sharon Ferguson says that Clayton's gallery performance "cheapens our own sexual relationships."
What do you think of Clayton's upcoming show?
(h/t: Huffpo)
What would be novel and really wonderful is if he wasn't actually planning to perform the act, but rather, the entire thing was an experiment in reaction to the possibility of the act. As many people have already said, its ALREADY generating much more conversation and debate about what art is and what virginity is and it hasn't even happened. It would be hilarious (but also thought-provoking and a wonderful experiment) if everyone showed up to watch his sex act (his performance art) and he said, "this ain't gonna happen, I just wanted to see who would show up, why, and ask you why my virginity is so interesting to you all."
What would be novel and really wonderful is if he wasn't actually planning to perform the act, but rather, the entire thing was an experiment in reaction to the possibility of the act. As many people have already said, its ALREADY generating much more conversation and debate about what art is and what virginity is and it hasn't even happened. It would be hilarious (but also thought-provoking and a wonderful experiment) if everyone showed up to watch his sex act (his performance art) and he said, "this ain't gonna happen, I just wanted to see who would show up, why, and ask you why my virginity is so interesting to you all."
Having sex in front of an audience is neither original nor interesting nor creative.
More importantly, in Clayton's desperation to get attention and publicity for himself, he's also giving homophobes all the ammunition they could ever want. This is like an illegal alien trying to make a case for immigration reform by using a knife to hold up a grocery store on live TV. It fuels all of the stereotypes and ultimate damages the community.
I would not be surprised if Clayton's "performance" ultimately results in one of more states being UNABLE to pass gay marriage laws because this faux-art will be such fuel for conservative fundraising.
very little that an art student produces is original, interesting, or creative--at least in the manner in which you make your claim.
beware of projection with your claims of attention and publicity seeking. it's just reading a bit into the story. also, your comparison to the illegal alien is horribly flawed: no one seemed to suggest he was doing this for "support of gay issues." and "all of the stereotypes?" ...hyperbole, much?
and not buying your claim for gay marriage failing (potentially) because of this performance.
Wait, The article described the intent of this performance art piece as wanting to stimulate discussion with regards to the, "value to the idea of virginity". I have seen a lot of discussion which is good, though it has been surrounding the either gay sex or the validity of public sex (which can been seen in any men's bathhouse on a regular basis) as art. On that note the intent of the piece is already off point. I would ask Clayton how, if the value of virginity is what you want to inspire a discussion about, can you modify your concept to bring that as the focus? Or, is the fact that your loss of virginity not being the main focus of others statements commentary enough to say that not many people put much stake in virginity any more rather it is just a vocal few? (I'm not saying that is reality rather supposing if one can interpret the response that way). I think it is brave to be willing to go to all ends to shine a light on things that have been taboo.
He may be brave for wanting to do this in front of people but this is something you don't take lightly. In my opinion this is the same as porn. Sexual intercourse is only suppose to be done behind closed doors and not for the world to see. Me as someone who serves for this country see this as disgrading for them
Hey if this guy is brave enough to do it in front of an audience then more power to him. art is supposed to make you talk and think, not to mention shock and sometimes appall you. i say lets not judge this kid. he is letting people in on his deepest darkest moment. this is a vulnerable place. in turn it can be beautiful and ugly at the same time. that to me is art. so let the artist create. if you don't like it then don't watch! maybe not so original though, i am sure this has been done before. but still a beautiful thing to see, in a grotesque way!
I agree. This piece contributes to the art world, and is about more than the vanity of the performer. Although his little blurb in the above article is quite lacking, this is something worth doing. It does seem to add a bit to the "art is dead" movement, but I'd like to see the performance, or at least see how it turns out.
This discussion is incredible. It's amazing to see the opposing views. This event hasn't even taken place yet & it has us all so very passionate about it.
Art, among other things, is supposed to provoke thought & discussion. This idea clearly does that.
Judge not lest ye be judged (or some shit like that).
@ Clayton Pettet... Have you considered live suicide. It can only take place much and it will contribute far more to Art and its future if you are not in it. F*cking Hack, get a life. You bring utter shame to gay men and artist every where!!! PS being criticized by thousands does not count as "facilitating conversation" either
In terms of an artist trying to make a name for himself, the "shock and awe" value of this piece is obvious. Performance Art is an incredibly competitive industry and this artist cannot be blamed for playing the game. Nonetheless, I question what this performance will add to the discussion of "virginity" in today's society, if not deem it banal enough to lose it in front of an audience.
There's a fine line between art and pornography. If there is time in the piece before and after where we get to see the 2 interacting non-sexually, I think it could be an extremely interesting developement in artistic expression. If it's sit down, wham, bam, thank you sir, then I'd classify it as a live sex show. If it's the former, I'd be extremely interested in being a part of that audience. Art is supposed to make you feel something, that level of intimacy, off the top of my head I can't think of something more stirring.
OH PLEASE!!! Its a performance, but it's not art. I can see hundreds just like him doing the same thing on a mis-click on the internet. If you want art….do something that hasn't been done before! Want to be brave? Find someone and love them as long as you can. Please!!!! I'm now going bathroom to make some what your calling"art". Wanna watch?
"I've held on to (my virginity) for 19 years," he says, as though it was really hard for him to resist fucking someone for those first 13 or so....
Sorry kid. This isn't original, it isn't meaningful, it's not particularly good, and it definitely ain't art.
Now, maybe if you were being raped by an obese black man wearing a Ted Cruz mask while "Ride of the Valkyries" plays.... Hold up, I think I know what I'm submitting to the next Armory show...
I applaud you Clayton. Bring into the light the true act of a one time performance.
It is truly amazing to bring into question the morals of the Victorian era still hovering over a community in 2013. Virginity is simply a humbled colloquial phrase for having never. This has nothing to do with intimacy and everything to do with art. I find that this has nothing to do with the question that revolve around sex and sexuality but that rather of the human and the change in perception and mental status before and after.
Truly truly well done. Art is not simply the product more so the process. You are unique and I welcome your vision in this world of cynics.
I think this is incredibly brave. As a concept, I totally get it. His apparent intentions & purpose for this are really interesting. I applaud his point of view & boldness. In theory this is a daring & smart.
I hope that he has the maturity to keep this in it's place & doesn't later regret it, or suffer shame based on others opinions. He is likely to hear a lot of negativity, possibly from people he cares about.
I really hope that he is more than an exhibitionist with a need for attention, or a victim of abuse with esteem issues, crying for help. That would be terribly sad.
I guess it remains to be seen whether he, or his partner will suffer performance anxiety. This could all go limp (pun intended).
If this is as pure as it seems to be, it's genius. Good luck!
On one Hand as an artist, i totally get it... however... on the other... I don't necessarily believe full heart-idly that people do a live sex performance art show for much other than "Shock and Awe" attention.
1) you probably arn't going to notice a "change" that quick, they're going to get off, it will be over, and everyone will go home either aroused or grossed out.,
2) when it's all stripped away it's just 2 people having public sex for you to watch. I really doubt his message is going to be nearly as strong as he assumes it will
meh, I don't think you need %^#@ in front of a live audience to make it thought provoking... the guy's only 19... he's hardly lived or for that matter been out on his own yet. It screams "im different and i want to shock everyone and get my name out there. Here let me perpetuate the stereo type and of course do something sexual... because, let's face it.. being gay means we're all sexual deviants... (no no we are not) If he wants to be creative with sex... look at Black Spark's music videos.. that essentially combines music, film making and pornography and actually make something kinda beautiful.
It just honestly sorta seems like a bs artistic response to be able to do essentially what you want to do in public.
What gives gay people a bad name is calling this sick and silly and then identifying it as "gay." I see this as sex, a human act, not gay not straight not black not white, sex between to human beings. Sex amongst animals is not dolphin sex, or monkey sex. Labeling anything gives anything a bad name.
So, Rygar, what YOU'RE saying is "straight" media rarely, if ever, makes everything about sex. Crawl out of the cave you grew up and live in and open your eyes. All media, period, makes everything about sex. Quite some audacity you have for calling it a "gay" thing to do. Bitch, please - grow up.
yeah.... i don't think this is that awe inspring or brilliant.
Human Sexuality is beautiful, and we shouldn't be ashamed of it. However all communities are sexually active and have there own "mating rituals" if you will..
this performance (as a gay artist myself) just screams "attention" to me, i don't think he's old enough or mature enough to properly handle the topic at hand. He's making it all about virginity.. which really most people know is a crock anyway. It's really not that thought provoking.
I think ultimately art is in the eye of the beholder. Some people might not view it as such but I have to agree with the artist on this, it is a once in a lifetime performance - he's taking it seriously. I applaud him.
Gay or straight sex isn't something to be ashamed of. We hide sex, as a culture in general we put a stigma on it that simply should not be there. I genuinely hope the future generation coming up is able to crack some of this because it's not healthy for our society. It leads to lack of education and fear to ask thing when uncertain. This only adds to the numbers of sexually transmitted diseases and the fear that people will judge you when something does happen.
I think it is a brave thing to do. The only problem I see is that the first time is not something that should be a public event. That is a frightening experience. Not only is it happening for the first time but you don't know how you will feel during. I do however feel like this is a creative idea. Just may be to.
I have to agree with the artist. It is the epitome of unique art--it can never be repeated or redone...it will most definitely inspire all sorts of feelings, which is at its heart, the meaning of art. I'm sure there will be discomfort, embarassment, excitement, fear--it actually sounds not just like art...but like great art.
Isn't porn considered first amendment free speech? Isn't art viewed in the same vein? I don't see anything wrong with it, and doing something like this as performance art is just that, performance art. I like how Clayton has a message to this, trying to bring down or change the vision of what we think of in virginity.
I have been on your side of the argument in times past and perhaps may still pitch my tent in the same camp but this opportunity to bend the norms seems interesting in that the young man is not on the same parameter of "intimacy" as are those of us from the "old school" and I think that's the crux of the act.
Go for it. Art is art. It is meant to express something the artist wants to say and trigger some sort of reaction. It's serving it's purpose beautifully. We can make personal value judgments on it all we want, but it doesn't change anything. Good art, bad art, weird art, whatever, its all art.