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Alan Friedman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology); Director for Medical Affairs, Yale New Haven Hospital; Immediate Past-President, Yale New Haven Hospital Medical Staff
Departments & Organizations
Pediatrics: Pediatric Cardiology: Pediatric Echocardiogram Program
Office of Cooperative Research
Dr. Friedman's clinical interests are primarily in the diagnosis and management of the fetus and neonate with congenital heart disease. He is particularly interested in physiologic changes that occur from the fetus to the neonate and the use of non-invasive imaging techniques to assess these. He has a busy clinical practice at the Yale New Haven Children's Hospital.
Dr. Friedman serves Director for Medical Affairs for Yale New Haven Hospital and has served as the President of the Yale New Haven Hospital Medical Staff from 2012-14. He is currently the interim Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Yale. He serves as a member of the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the ACGME's Pediatric Residency Review Committee. He has served on the Editorial Board of Prep SA for the American Academy of Pediatrics and on the Board of Rotary International. Dr. Friedman has been a staff cardiologist in the Yale Pediatric Cardiology since completing his fellowship training at Yale in 1994.
Education & Training
|Wayne State University (1987)
|Yale University, New Haven, CT
|Chief Resident
|Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL,
|Children's Memorial Hospital- Northwestern University, Chicago IL
|Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL,
|Board Certification
|AB of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology (1996, recertified: 2011)
Honors & Recognition
Paul Harris FellowshipRotary International Foundation (1998)
Howard A. Pearson Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award (1997)
Outstanding Fellow Teaching Award (1992)

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Brussels, 12 January 2011
EU economic governance: Commission sets the yearly priorities for EU growth
Europe has a comprehensive plan to respond to the crisis and to speed up Europe's economic growth. It now needs to focus its efforts in a coordinated manner and with an eye on priorities. That is what the Commission is presenting today. The Annual Growth Survey charts a clear direction on where Europe should be heading in the next year, with ten pressing actions focussed on macro-economic stability and fiscal consolidation, structural reforms and growth-enhancing measures. The Annual Growth Survey is the start of the first "European Semester" which changes the way governments shape their economic and fiscal policies. Once agreed by the European Council, Member states will reflect these recommendations in both their policies and national budgets. For the first time ever, Member States and Commission will therefore jointly discuss macro-economic stability, structural reforms and boosting growth measures in a comprehensive way.
President Barroso said: "A new phase of European integration begins with the Annual Growth Survey. We are setting out to break new ground and to decisively improve the way in which we manage and coordinate our interdependent economies in the European Union. This is the EU model. This is our economic governance in action. The Annual Growth Survey is a coherent and comprehensive plan to return Europe to growth and higher employment. If it is fully implemented, I'm confident that Europe can return to strong economic growth and higher employment".
This first Annual Growth Survey marks the start of a new cycle of economic governance in the EU. It brings together the different actions which are essential to strengthen the recovery in the short-term, to keep pace with our main competitors and prepare the EU to move towards its Europe 2020 objectives.
In the main Communication the Commission focuses on an integrated approach to recovery concentrating on key measures in the context of Europe 2020 and encompassing three main areas:
This first Annual Growth Survey is designed to apply to the EU as a whole and it will be tailored to the specific situation of each Member State.
The Commission highlights ten actions that grouped under the three main areas (see MEMO/11/11):
As part of the "European Semester" (see MEMO/11/14), and as announced in the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Commission, starting in 2011, assesses each year the main economic challenges for the EU and identifies priority actions to address them. It presents them in an "Annual Growth Survey" that serves as an input to the Spring European Council. In this first application, the Annual Growth Survey consists of different parts:
1. Communication of the Commission: "Annual Growth Survey: towards a comprehensive response to the crisis".
The first part focuses on urgent key messages, which cover the fiscal, macro-economic and "thematic" areas. They represent a selection of issues, which should be addressed as a matter of priority by the Heads of State or Governments when they meet at the March European Council.
2. Progress Report on Europe 2020
It reviews the situation as regards the EU headline targets, the draft NRPs and the reform path envisaged by the Member States.
3. Macro-economic Report
It provides the macro-economic outlook and pinpoints measures that have the highest potential of delivering positive growth-enhancing effects.
4. Joint Employment Report
It reviews the employment situation and labour market related policies. It is also the basis for the "Joint Employment Report", to be adopted jointly by the Commission and the Council in accordance with article 148.5 (TFUE).
The Annual Growth Survey is accompanied by a:
5. Proposal for a Council Decision on employment guidelines.
This is a technical extension of the Employment guidelines adopted only a few months ago, to comply with a legal obligation of adopting such guidelines annually.
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1. The full panoply of rights due a defendant in a criminal case are not applicable to a probation proceeding.
2. A probationer may voluntarily waive the requirement of a formal judicial hearing and finding of necessity required to extend probation under K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-4611(c)(8).
Appeal from Johnson District Court; THOMAS H. BORNHOLDT, judge. Opinion filed May 14, 2004. Affirmed.
Heather Cessna, assistant appellate defender, for the appellant.
Steven J. Obermeier, assistant district attorney, Paul J. Morrison, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before MARQUARDT, P.J., PIERRON and GREEN, JJ.
PIERRON, J: Ryan Patrick McCreary pled guilty to driving under the influence and assault on a law enforcement officer in one case, and to driving under the influence in another case. He was granted 24 months' probation in both cases. In the former case, his probation was extended for an additional 24 months based on execution of a voluntary extension. His probation in both cases was revoked due to his continued consumption of alcohol in violation of his community corrections conditions. In the former case, McCreary argues his voluntary extension was not permissible under K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-4611. In the later case, he argues the trial court erred in deciding it had no jurisdiction to consider his motions for modification of his sentences pursuant to the traffic code. The two cases have been consolidated on appeal. We affirm.
McCreary first argues his due process rights were violated when the district court allowed his probation to be extended without a hearing and a judicial finding of necessity where his waiver was not made in open court. We disagree.
K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 21-4611(c)(5), which is now K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-4611(c)(8), states:
"The court may modify or extend the offender's period of supervision, pursuant to a modification hearing and a judicial finding of necessity. Such extensions may be made for a maximum period of five years or the maximum period of the prison sentence that could be imposed, whichever is longer, inclusive of the original supervision term."
McCreary signed a voluntary extension of probation before his probation time period had expired. The extension provided that an additional time period was necessary because the balance of the court costs and fines would not be satisfied by the end of the probation period. The trial court executed the order before McCreary's probation had expired. The order has a detailed acknowledgment of rights:
"I further acknowledge that I have the right to an open hearing before the District Court of Johnson County, and may require the Intensive Supervision Officer and/or the Johnson County District Attorney to put on strict proof as to why my Order of Probation should be extended, in accordance with K.S.A. 22-3716."
"I hereby knowingly, with full understanding, waive my rights to: An open hearing on the extension of my Order of Probation; my right to be represented by counsel; my right to court appointed counsel if I am unable to employ counsel; and rights to call witnesses and present evidence for my benefit as afforded me in accordance with K.S.A. 22-3716. Further, I knowingly and with full understanding agree to the extension of my Order of Probation for a period of 24 months, or until the 17th day of May, 2004, or said balance is paid in full."
McCreary does not challenge the voluntariness of the waiver, he simply argues that for the waiver to be valid, it must occur at a modification hearing before the trial court where a judicial finding of necessity is made. It seems McCreary is attempting to invoke the same stringent rules for protecting a defendant's constitutional rights as are applied when the court accepts a guilty plea. See K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 22-3210(3) ("requiring that in felony cases the court has addressed the defendant personally and determined that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the charge and the consequences of the plea"). We will not apply the same panoply of rights in probation revocation proceedings. See, e.g., State v. Billings, 30 Kan. App. 2d 236, 238, 39 P.3d 682 (2002) (revocation of probation is not part of a criminal prosecution, and the full panoply of rights due a defendant in a criminal case is not applicable to a probation revocation proceeding).
McCreary voluntarily waived most procedural rights associated with the extension of his probation. Had he wished to have a hearing, he could have had one. Since he wanted an extension, he probably saw no reason to take the time out of his day to attend a hearing to get what could be obtained through a written agreement and waiver. We find this waiver unchallenged on appeal, and the district court's acceptance of the waiver prior to the expiration of McCreary's pending probation period satisfied the "modification hearing and a judicial finding of necessity" requirements of K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-4611(c)(8).
McCreary also argues the district court erred in finding that it had no jurisdiction to consider his motion to modify his sentence for driving under the influence under K.S.A. 8-1567.
McCreary acknowledges that this issue was decided adverse to his position in State v. Anthony, 274 Kan. 998, 58 P.3d 742 (2002). However, he argues Anthony was wrongly decided. We are duty bound to follow the precedent of the Kansas Supreme Court absent some indication that it is departing from its previous position. State v. Maybin, 27 Kan. App. 2d 189, 205, 2 P.3d 179, rev. denied 269 Kan. 938 (2000). McCreary does not demonstrate any evidence the Supreme Court is altering its view in Anthony; he simply contends that Anthony was wrongly decided.


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In Hill Offices, Protest Takes a Subtler Form
War Opponents Follow Up Weekend Rally With More Orderly 'Hall of Shame' Inductions
Tuesday, September 18, 2007; Page B03
After Saturday's raucous antiwar rally near the U.S. Capitol led to the arrests of 192 demonstrators, police at the Rayburn House Office Building yesterday braced for a confrontation with protesters who showed up to deliver written rebukes to members of Congress who support President Bush's Iraq policy.
As about 150 peace activists gathered by an entrance to the building on First Street SW, chanting slogans and singing protest songs, a dozen officers took up positions by the doors, a duffle bag filled with plastic handcuffs at their feet.
But getting arrested wasn't on the agenda.
Before leading the group into the building, one of the protest organizers, Medea Benjamin, a founder of the antiwar group Code Pink, approached the officer in charge, Capt. William Hanny of the U.S. Capitol Police.
"Okay, if we do anything you don't want in there, would you give us a warning first?" she said. "We don't want to get arrested today. We've got people catching planes tonight."
"We will give you a warning," Hanny replied. "But it's going to be up to you."
"Because sometimes people want to get arrested," she said. "They do what they have to do to get arrested. This is not one of those days."
The captain nodded. "Just don't block the hallways. Don't blow whistles. Don't cause a disturbance. Don't do any of that, and we'll be okay."
"Will you tell them to put the cuffs away?" Benjamin, 55, asked, smiling. She believes the Iraq war is criminal. So she said, "You can take those cuffs to the White House."
Hanny did not smile back.
And so it went yesterday as protesters took their antiwar message to the halls of several congressional office buildings -- an edgy demonstration at times but peaceful in the end.
"I don't believe we made any protest-related arrests at all," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a Capitol Police spokeswoman, after the activists had left.
As for the 192 demonstrators arrested Saturday, about five were still being detained yesterday because of outstanding warrants in other cases. The others, charged with illegally crossing police lines, were freed after paying fines or being issued summonses to appear in court, Schneider said.
Code Pink and numerous other groups opposing the Iraq war have planned several demonstrations this week in Washington and other cities, including protests yesterday at military recruitment centers. In front of a recruiting station, closed at the time, in the 1300 block of L Street NW, protesters marched all morning, their chants partly drowned out by construction noise.
"We have so many domestic needs right now," said Code Pink member Ellen Taylor, 54, of the Dupont Circle area. "We have education needs. We have serious health-care needs. We have reconstruction needs in New Orleans. And all these projects are getting shorted because money is being siphoned off by war contractors."
At the Rayburn building, the protesters gathered in the cafeteria at noon for lunch, talking excitedly about the afternoon ahead and occasionally shouting antiwar slogans. Then they rallied outside, chanting, singing and taking pictures, before organizing themselves for their march through the building's halls.
"People around the country have made it very clear," Benjamin said, addressing the demonstrators. "They went to the polls. . . . They voted to get out of Iraq. And the people in Congress are playing politics. They're playing inside-the-Beltway games."
Back in the building, the long line of protesters snaked along the halls, to the offices of Reps. Duncan Hunter and Dana Rohrabacher, both California Republicans; Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.). To each they delivered a "certificate of Induction into The Hall of Shame." Then they moved on to other congressional buildings.
"We'll keep pushing and pushing, and hopefully people will begin to listen," said Alexandra Herskovitz, 23, a Code Pink member from Los Angeles.
"There's just no way that over 100 people can come here and walk the halls of Congress and demand an end to the war and not be heard," said another demonstrator, Samantha Miller, 22, also of Los Angeles. "I know this will have an effect."


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I honestly don't know how we can survive as a country with leadership this absurd:
"We're opposed to it and we're not going to have any part of it," [Iowa Gov. Terry] Branstad said. "But we're taking our own approach. We want to put our own effort together to be the healthiest state, and we're willing to help people who are willing to help themselves. But we're certainly not going to buy into this federal effort. We're going to fight it in every way we can."
"We don't believe the federal government when they say they're going to pay the whole cost of this for the next three years," Branstad added, "because the federal government is dead broke."
Really? Well, I guess he's assuming a Romney win, in which case the feds probably will repeal the plan or he's talking to his own pals in the Party who are promising to squeeze it the first chance they get. Either way, the federal government is not dead broke — it can't be dead broke — but the Republicans (and some very stupid Democrats) are acting like it is. Maybe he could have a word with them about it on the QT.
I'd be plenty worried about what they mean by "helping people to help themselves." I'm guessing if you're a member of the working poor and you "help yourself" by giving up every single thing that makes your life livable, the freedom loving wingnuts might grant you a measly voucher to buy some vitamins. But they'll own you — drug tests will probably be the least of it.
These are many people, remember, who think like this:
I don't believe people are going to bed hungry. Do you know how much, do you ever go shopping? I go sometimes but I hate it. Do you ever go? … you can get, for instance I have friends of mine who eat rice and beans all the time. Beans protein, rice. Inexpensive. You can make a big pot of this for a week for negligible amounts of money and you can feed your whole family.
Look, you should have vegetables and fruit in there as well, but if you need to survive you can survive off it. It's not ideal but you could get some cheap meat and throw in there as well for protein. There are ways to live really, really cheaply.
That was multi-millionaire celebrity Sean Hannity. (And let's not forget the perennial "they have refrigerators and TVs! They don't deserve any help until they are living in a cardboard box — and even then…")
The problem with Medicaid is that it's going to poor people and Republicans just don't have any sympathy for them. Sure, it makes no sense to have your own government spend more money on emergency room care than on a health care plan the feds will completely pay for, but many of these people genuinely think it's a moral hazard to allow the working poor to have any help because it makes them dependent and lazy. Just look at the hideous stuff they say about the unemployed even in an economy with nearly 10% unemployment.
It's not just that a lot of our fellow Americans have no empathy, although they don't. It's that many of them are actively hostile to people they believe are taking their tax dollars and refusing to "earn" the benefits they themselves believe they have earned. These are often people who are on the dole in one way or another themselves. It's a conceit of white privilege and it hasn't gone away yet.


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Maybe you've seen the PhillyCOR billboard recently? Floaty clouds on a blue sky, with the text "Don't believe in god?" on top, and "You are not alone," on the bottom. It's an invitation to disenfranchised atheists to get in touch with local humanist, atheist, free-thought or secular organizations in their areas. And it's as inoffensive a message as I've ever seen from any atheist group. No attack on religion. No invitation to anyone to reconsider their beliefs. Just a note to those who already don't believe, who think they're on their own, to encourage them and let them know there are like-minded people "out there" who would like to get to know them and offer them camaraderie and community involvement. PhillyCOR actually even works alongside religious organizations to support charitable endeavors.
So, here again we have the age-old question: Is there any way—at all—that an atheist can express his opinion that won't be considered an attack on or offense to believers?
The answer, PhillyCOR has now made clear, is "no."
In an interview with Fox News, Family Research Council's own Peter Sprigg had this to say about the board:
"This billboard in Philadelphia seems to represent a trend—a new assertiveness, even aggressiveness on the part of atheists."
You heard right. Putting up a billboard to let like-minded people know you exist—people who often think they are utterly alone—is "aggressive." The billboard represents—is part of—a trend of "aggressiveness." Am I to assume that Sprigg has never seen a Christian billboard before? He should come to Austin, where he would be able to see several in a five mile stretch in any direction. And they don't just appeal to other Christians—they appeal to everyone to come to church, accept Jesus, believe in god, convert to Christianity. Would Sprigg label Christians as a "hyper aggressive" group, then? I'm guessing not—but to be consistent, he actually would have to. If atheists today are "aggressive," I can't see how Sprigg doesn't consider Christians to be hovering over the edge of "dangerous."
Further, this man who claims atheists are being "aggressive" has the following to add:
"Atheists are very vigorous in promoting the separation of church and state, but with the extreme way that they interpret that concept, you would basically eliminate every mention of god from the public square, and that would amount to the establishment of atheism."
First of all, it's not about eliminating the mention of anything from any "public square." People in the public square, speaking as private citizens, can say whatever they like. It's people and institutions that are in any way representatives of government that cannot, and should not, promote any religious perspective—including the existence or nonexistence of any god or gods. That's a little different, and perhaps a subtlety that is lost on people like Sprigg—although, if I am to speak frankly, I don't believe it's lost on him at all. I believe it to be an intentional misrepresentation—a strawman—intended to rile religious masses, because Sprigg knows that an accurate representation would not be nearly as compelling and effective in attaining that goal.
Free advice: When someone misrepresents their case, always, always, always ask "why?"
And while I am on misrepresentations, another interesting fact that Sprigg seems to conveniently have misplaced, is that one of the most active entities promoting separation of church and state is a group headed by the Reverend Barry Lynn, who often speaks on behalf of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Since Sprigg's group is so very interested in separation issues, I can't imagine he is unaware of this. And yet, he promotes separation as an "atheist vs. theist" issue, in order to launch an unfounded attack on atheists and rally undeserved support to his own agenda to use the government, openly and unapologetically, to promote a worldview that just happens to align with conservative Christian religious ideologies.
Asking Sprigg to not use our government as a vehicle to push his religion onto others is somehow an "establishment of atheism." I have pointed out before, but perhaps not at this blog, that asking that the government remove "under god" is in no way the equivalent of asking them to add "without a god" to the Pledge. Ensuring everyone, theists and atheists alike, is free from government sanctioned, promoted, or imposed religious ideology allows everyone, theists and atheists alike, the freedom to exercise their religion, or no religion, as they wish, by putting all religious ideologies on the same playing field—a field that is, and ever should be, found exclusively in the court of private practice.
The level of projection Sprigg employs is at least as bad as anything I have seen from any theist so far. He effortlessly scales the heights of hypocrisy as he accuses others of stepping out of line who are not, while he is guilty of absolutely all that he accuses. Ironically, even if atheists were guilty of all he accuses, they would be doing no more or less than their Sprigg-encouraged Christian counterparts, in so far as pushing their agenda via government and posting and promoting their ideology as far and wide as possible. So, how could Sprigg possibly criticize, even if atheists were guilty, without showing himself up as a raging hypocrite?
The real issue here is that Sprigg wants Christianity to enjoy special privilege and treatment from society, as well as from the government, without being able to actually explain why special status is merited. I would never advocate promoting atheism using the government. And yet, if I did, any criticism from Sprigg could be nothing less than stunning, as I'd be doing no more than he and his organization and religion are doing already (and have been doing for quite a long time).
It's actually competition Sprigg fears—not competition from others asking government to endorse their religious views, too, but the competition that would exist if his own religious view was no longer allowed to use the government as a prop—if it had to exist, horror of horrors, on the same level upon which all other religious views and ideas are now safely relegated—far beneath his own. It isn't that he thinks it's wrong to empower and utilize the government to promote religious views at all. His actions illustrate that he very much supports using government to promote religious views and policies. They also illustrate, in no uncertain terms, that his real beef is that he wants his particular brand of religion to be the only one that gets to do it.


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Yaesu FT-1000 Review
Yaesu FT 1000 Review by W4TI
I am way too cheap for this radio!
I am far too cheap to ever pay this much for a radio. The Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field is really out of my price class. I have always had middle-of-the-road kinds of radios, until I bought this one. There is a reason for this one, though, and why it is that in this one case, I bought the best radio I could find. My dad passed away at age 80, in May of 2002, and left my sister Julie and me whatever he had. My Auntie JoAnn told me her theory, that when someone dies and leaves you some money, that you should find one thing that you have really wanted for a long time, and buy that one thing, and use it to remember that person. After some thought, I consulted with my Beloved Wife Monica (N6PSD), and did just exactly that. I bought one top-of-the-line amateur radio transceiver with all of the bells and whistles, and think fondly of my dad every time I use the radio. He was never an amateur radio operator, although when I was a teenager, he aided and abetted my becoming one. So, thanks, Dad! I really like the radio you bought me!
How this radio is configured.
This particular sample of the Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field has every possible IF filter installed, along with the matching MD-100 microphone, SP-8 speaker and LL-7 phone patch. The filters are the original ones from Yaesu, as opposed to after-market units. I have strongly considered installing the roofing filter kit from International Radio, but have not done so yet. Other than the above, it is a stock radio, as it comes from the factory.
Features I really like:
Full Break-In CW (QSK) – The Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field is a CW operator's dream come true. The full break-in is so good that when I send, it is as if the receiver never goes away at all. I hear my signal in the midst of all of the other signals on the band. Over the years, I have attempted QSK operation with several radios, but this is the first one where it works perfectly, with no shortcomings as far as I can see.
Excellent Front Panel Layout – The Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field is a large radio, with ample room on the front panel for every useful control at my fingertips. The controls are well-organized, with related controls grouped in clusters, making managing the radio a simple matter. Unlike so many modern radios, none of the regularly used controls are buried in menus. Everything I use during operation is controlled by the front panel.
Dual Simultaneous Receive – The ability to listen in two places at once is a great asset. It can do this and listen on different bands at the same time, so it is possible to listen for a band opening on one receiver while operating on another band. For split operation, it is possible to hear both the receive and transmit frequencies, so that in a pile-up I can hear both the DX station and the crowd, and be able to hear where the DX is listening. I have had several radios which would operate split before, but this is the first one which allows the ability to listen two places at once. Furthermore, with stereo headphones, it can be set up to spatially separate the two receivers, with one on the left and the other on the right. The two receivers can be set to have different bandwidths or even modes. This is very slick indeed.
Excellent Selectivity and Control – This particular Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field has every possible filter installed, and the selectivity and adjacent-signal rejection are truly top-notch. The main receiver has two filters (mechanical or crystal filters) for each selectable bandwidth, which gives excellent steep skirts and very high rejection of off-frequency signals. The filters installed have nominal bandwidths of 2.4 KHz, 2.0 KHz, 500 Hz, and 250 Hz. This by itself is wonderful. However, by using the "Shift†and "Width†controls it is possible to move the centers of the first and second filters relative to each other, allowing an even narrower bandwidth to be achieved. But wait, there's more! Using the "IDBT†feature, I can tell the radio to automatically set the DSP to track the settings of the Bandwidth, Shift, and Width controls to further isolate the signals I want from the rest. If there is an interfering carrier, there is an automatic notch filter which will make it virtually disappear. There are probably more features one could add to a radio receiver, but this combination is absolutely excellent.
Absolute Frequency Stability – I did not purchase the extra high stability reference oscillator for this radio because, quite frankly, it didn't need one. The stability and frequency accuracy are good enough that I cannot detect any error or drift, measuring against WWV. It is always just right-on.
Easy-to-Understand Controls – I have used many radios over the years, and have come to like the "big rig†models. For a while I had a Yaesu FT-817, and it was supremely cute. The only real issue I had with it was that many of the functions I regularly used were buried in menus, making it difficult to use without having the manual right there. Recently, at Field Day, I found myself using another ham's Yaesu FT-847, and I was lost as to how to get it to do certain things. Once again, regular operational features were controlled by menus, and I had never used this radio before, and could not get it to do what I needed. By comparison, all of the regularly used functions on the Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field are controlled by front panel buttons and knobs, and well-designed ones at that. It is a lot easier for me to use. Furthermore, the buttons and knobs are large enough for my (large) hands to operate without inadvertently hitting other functions as well. This is a Very Good Thing.
Rear-Panel Connections for Every Mode – Yaesu has supplied input and output jacks for most any mode one could want. For instance, for the use of PSK-31, I attach the interface to the computer through the "Packet†port on the rear of the radio. The Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field is set up to automatically disable not only the microphone, but also other audio inputs when the packet mode is selected. The audio output to the "Packet†port is a constant level, and not controlled by the AF agin control, so that it is possible to operate PSK-31 and either listen to the audio or not, at one's own choice. The interfaces are very well thought out.
DSP That Works – Yaesu has put a lot of thought into the DSP system included in the FT-1000MP Mark V Field. The changeover from the original FT-1000MP to the Mark V series marked a real improvement in the control of the DSP, and the automatic linking of both the IF filters and the DSP operation. I find it amazing to engage the EDSP Noise Reduction, and hear the signal just stand right out from the noise. I am certain that improvements will be made to this sort of functionality in the years to come, but this design is so capable that it is truly amazing. This radio has a great receiver.
Built-In Power Supply – Plus External 12V Input – I like having a self-contained radio system. Ever since I bought my first TS-520 (more than 30 years ago) I have enjoyed having the power supply built-in. It makes taking the radio places so much easier, knowing that I can just plug it in. In this case, though, the Field model also has an input jack for 12 VDC, so that the radio can be used directly from an automotive battery. For me, this is a necessity. Emergency operations frequently do not provide 120/240 VAC, and even many of the radios with internal power supplies do not allow the user to bypass the internal supply and operate the radio from 12 VDC. This one does.
Quiet But Effective Cooling – the Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field has a huge internal heat sink, and a cooling fan which is thermostatically controlled. It is very quiet, to the point where I have had to turn the AF gain all the way down, and put my ear next to the radio to determine if the fan was running. It runs when the radio warms up, and not just when the transmitter is operating. During the summer months it gets hot here in Alabama, and the fan cycles as required to keep the radio cool and safe.
Excellent Transmit Audio – How did you want the transmit audio to sound? The Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field provides the capability to choose whether to use analog or DSP signal generation, and then to tune the entire set of transmit signal characteristics to match the user's voice and operating style. In addition, there is IF speech processing, which can be set to significantly compress the transmitted signal, while maintaining a narrow transmitted bandwidth. I have a friend who wanted the most potent pile-up busting extra-dense audio, and set his Field up to do exactly that. I choose to use a more moderate amount of processing, in order to sound more like me. With this radio, you can set it to do what you want.
Features I don't like:
Built-In CW Keyer – I find that the built-in CW keyer is "fussy" concerning hand timing, and that I have not been able to adapt to it. Furthermore, the speed knob is tiny, and covers a very wide range of speed. I suspect that the keyer is just another function of a very busy microprocessor, and that its timing varies a bit from time to time depending on what else the radio is doing. I have the FH-1 remote control keypad which allows use of the internal keyer for contests and the like, with canned messages and incrementing serial numbers and such. It works well, all except for the hand timing. I solved the problem by purchasing an Idiom Press Logikey K-5 keyer, which is feels right, and has about every feature that a serious CW operator could ever want. Considering how expensive the FH-1 is, an external keyer is a better deal anyway.
There are more features to speak of, but this is enough for now. Would I buy this radio again? Oh, yes! I intend to keep it and use it for many years, as it does exactly what I want, and does it very well.


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See that purty van behind us in the picture? A completely unexpected blessing was our friends O & H giving it to us to use while we are back in the states. And, you know what? It has sliding doors for our children on BOTH sides of the van. This is our first time to enjoy such a convenience, so we feel like we have "arrived" these days. The Lord is good in providing friends and even better to give us friends who are willing to sacrifice for us. {A big, public thank you, O & H}.
I am determined to get back into the blogging routine. This blog is my #1 way of recording these special memories and blessings for my children. Hopefully {for me}, my recent silence will be squelched.
Do you want to know how a family of 6 survives traveling on the road, how we pack, what we pack, where we stay, what we do as we travel, why we travel, what keeps us busy, etc...? These are some topics that might be worth exploring as we live this part of our lives over the next few months. Since this blog is also my way of giving our prayer partners a better glimpse into our lives and ministry, these topics will definitely give you a clearer vision of what we're up to these days.
Anyway, here are just a few words to describe some of my feelings the last couple of weeks...
Amazed at God's provisions.
Through all of these positive feelings, though, we find ourselves missing Ukraine and our dear friends there. Why, oh, why is it that the world has to be so big? And why does everyone have to live so far apart? Why do we always have to be missing someone somewhere... whether we are missing "home" or whether we are missing our "new home"?
So, do you wanna know where I'm sending my love from this time {or did you already catch on?} Not Ukraine. Not Israel. No... this post is being sent...
With Love from California.


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Big Wood is coming. Don't say we didn't warn you.
There is no secret that we are utterly obsessed with Brouwer's Cafe's Big Wood beer festival. Last year, we launched this site in the midst of Big Wood 2009. This year, we are giving you a 3 week "head's up."
Big Wood will be held on December 2, 2010. If I remember correctly (but I might stand corrected), Big Wood begins in the afternoon, sometime around 4 PM. The event is officially one day, but the beers will pour for several days afterwards.
What is Big Wood? Guess. Big Wood showcases wood-aged beers on more than 40 taps. Typically, you will see a plethora of massive scale beers pouring, including some of the most complex beers you will ever taste.
Last year — Hair of the Dog dominated. From beer nerds to beer newbs, Hair of the Dog shocked and awed the crowd. Alan Sprints delivered Fred from the Wood, Michael (Flemish Red), Matt (Bottleworks 10th Anniversary) and BOB (a barrel-aged lambic). Read our review of the event by following this link.
Brouwers has yet to release a list of this year's beers. They will slowly begin to trickle in but we have already seen them announce that Midnight Sun is sending a keg of Berserker and heard, through the grapvine, that New Belgium is bringing something special!
Keep following Brouwers Cafe's website and Facebook.
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This is a guest post by Iliana (aka Mosaica), who blogs about her daily life at The Daily Mosaica.
In life I often find myself embracing contradictions, and with regard to planning and preparing bento lunches, it appears that I am, at least, consistent. At times I am purely focused on taking a given recipe, often a Japanese recipe, and rendering it as authentically as possible given the constraints of my semi-rural existence in Vermont, a small state in the northeast of the US. For instance the bento from last week where I made inarizushi — this meal nourished me on a number of levels: it was completely delicious, it tied into a fascinating bit of cultural history, and it expanded my culinary repertoire. While I do miss the days when I was more of a globe-trotter, I've come to really appreciate how traveling via recipes from far, far away can give real pleasure —to my nose and eyes and tastebuds, as well as to my intellectual bits.
On the other hand, I'm also a bit of a fiesty girl, and I like to kick up my heels, as it were, in the kitchen, and for me this manifests itself as a willingness to play with food, to be led by my nose, or intuition, or a gut feeling that mixing this with that might just be yummy. That's what this post is about: Taking ingredients which are traditional in Japanese cuisine and dressing them up in flavors from around the globe: Tibet, Denmark, Africa, India, and beyond. In addition, if you start from a perspective of your own preferred ratio of carb to protein to veggies and fruit, I encourage you to include entirely new ingredients to add fresh flavor and interest to your bento meal. During the five weeks of the Bento Challenge, I was inspired to see how many of us were using foods and flavors from our own backyards to create delicious new twists on the bento theme.
Eggplant (aubergine) is certainly a beloved food in Japan, and is indeed popular the world over. It shows up in many bento meals either as a main vegetable component, and sometimes in the form of delicious-looking pickles.
A few weeks ago I was inspired by a fellow Bento Challenger when she shared a beautiful eggplant dish in her bento. I looked for the recipe for her dish, but she hadn't posted it yet, so I took a look at my own cookbook shelf. I went first to the most recent cookbook by my favorites Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, Beyond The Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China. A little page flipping and I was sold on their recipe for Tibetan Ratatouille, and I set about making it. It turned out great, and was visible in nearly a week's worth of bento lunches.
Here's the recipe, liberally adapted and warmly shared with the permission of Naomi:
Makes approximately six cups of ratatouille. I kept half of it in the fridge and ate it in bentos and for dinner within a week, and I still have six half-cup portions in the freezer as a tasty addition to my johbisai.
Trim eggplant and cut into 1.5 inch or bite-sized pieces, and set aside. Put the whole tomatoes into a large bowl and use scissors to chop into bite-sized pieces, an inch or so. Drain the extra juice that will have spilled out of the tomatoes and add the juices to the other juices you drained away. Trim the scallions and set aside the green parts. Cut the white parts into 1.5 to 2 inch lengths, and then lengthwise into ribbons, and set aside. Mince the scallion greens fine, and set aside.
Place a large wok or heavy skillet over high heat. I use a well-seasoned cast-iron wok, and I find this works well with a reasonable amount of oil, and I imagine that a large cast-iron skillet would work equally well. Eggplant can have a tendency to stick, but with vigorous stir-frying using a wok paddle and high heat, I never have problems.
Swirl oil to coat the surface of the pan and add the eggplant. Toss and stir so the oil is evenly distributed, and press the eggplant against the pan to scorch all the surfaces. After 3 or 4 minutes add the minced garlic and ginger. The original recipe calls for adding the garlic and ginger first, but I find it can burn too quickly, before the eggplant is sufficiently browned, so this switch works well for me.
Add 1 teaspoon of the salt and stir-fry for another minute or two, and then add the chopped tomatoes. Stir-fry for a minute or two, until the tomatoes are warmed and soft. Add the scallion ribbons and stir-fry to mix. Add the Sichuan pepper and the remaining teaspoon of salt, and stir-fry for another minute. Add the broth and stir-fry until it comes to a boil. Cover and boil hard for for 3 or 4 minutes. Uncover, stir, and taste the eggplant for doneness. I cooked it a little longer because I wanted a less saucy final dish. When the eggplant is tender to your taste, add the soy sauce and the minced scallion greens, stir, and taste for seasoning. I know I added an additional few splashes of soy sauce, and a pinch more of salt.
This is delicious hot or cold, and it goes particularly well with the nutty goodness of brown rice. I also enjoyed this in a bento lunch alongside spicy coleslaw, a few potato/sweet potato oyaki, and good mom bread.
As a note, I kept all that good tomato juice and used it in a vegetable stew a few nights later. It freezes well.
Chicken is another favorite the world over. Maki recently published a tasty recipe for chicken skewers, and I had a whole small chicken to use. I had planned to cut off skewerable pieces from the breast and then boil the rest for soup, but I got busy, and when I looked into the fridge a few nights ago, I saw that I needed to use that chicken right then! It was late, and I was tired, so went with an old favorite: simple roast chicken, sprinkled with salt and served with no more than fresh butter, a little mound of mustard, and some of mom's crusty bread. That was good, and I had left over chicken! I picked the good bits of chicken off, and gently boiled the carcass for soup broth, cooled it, and into the freezer it went.
The next day I came up with a delicious way to use the cooked chicken in my bento: a curried chicken salad. I was inspired by an amazing documentary series about the history of India, and this salad is fragrant, lush, and golden.
This recipe makes around 2 cups of salad, enough for a couple of bento lunches and leftovers for a quick & easy dinner for two.
Chop chicken into 1/2 inch pices and place in a bowl. Add the mayo, the celery, the relish or chopped pickles, the sweet curry powder, turmeric, salt, and pepper. I happen to really love peppery chicken salad, so I added an additional big pinch of ground pepper. Mix well, and enjoy with bread, crackers, or atop a green salad or even a simple carrot salad. Add a touch of contrasting colour with a sprinkle of chives or scallion greens.
I made a delicious bento lunch based on this chicken salad with two small plain onigiri, some sunomono salad, a small carrot cut into rounds, a few cashews, and a delicious pumpkin and coconut milk panna cotta, set with agar agar, which I learned over at Chez Pim. Not pictured were the 10 Wheat Thins (crackers) I ate with the chicken salad.
This kitchen-travel style of cooking adds adventure to my life, and it's wonderfully adaptable to each of our own particular set of food enthusiasms. It allows you to take inspiration from afar and apply it to your locally available food, or vice versa —try adapting some of your favorite family recipes to one of the new strange foods you find at your market; the possibilities are literally endless. I hope you enjoy these recipes, and I look forward to seeing how you might hack them to reflect your own culinary travel dreams via bento lunches. I'm off to try a Senagalese recipe that I heard about on The Splendid Table, a cooking program on public radio here in the US. It utilizes a grain little-known outside of Africa called Fonio, and I think it will make an excellent new carb in an African-inspired bento!
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I've made a delicious chicken salad for my bentos with half mayo half yoghurt and small pieces of apple instead of celery.
I read your story and found it very interesting and educational for a new Bento fan. Not only are the recipes great but having travelled and lived in several countries I totally agree with your philosophy of traveling the world from the kitchen. By learning to cook Italian, Norwegian, and the New England favorites, you learn about frugality, using locally grown food, and survival skills. In many ways this got sort of forgotten, but with the movement of locovores etc. we might get back to our roots of cooking and eating.
Thanks for the inspiration, skatten
Terrific post Mosaica. The food looks so good I'm not sure what to try first - the eggplant looks luscious - I want to eat that right now. The chicken salad - a creamy, spicy delight. Like skatten I like to hear the story alongside learning about food. I suppose I want food for thought as well as practical ideas. You've ticked both boxes with this post - I'm happy now in head and hand. Off to the kitchen I go!
Hey, thanks! I like using apple in chicken salad too, and I bet it will taste particularly nice with the curry.
Mom: no, YOU'RE the inspiring one! This cooking apple doesn't fall far from the tree ..
Thanks Blorgie! I hope you enjoy the eggplant dish; it's a twist on classic ratatouille that I really enjoyed. And speaking of food for thought as well as belly --I can't recommend Naomi Duguid & Jeffrey Alford enough. They learn beautifully authentic recipes as they travel, and share them with us, along with the stories behind and around the meals --really great stuff.
Hey, thanks! I like using apple in chicken salad too, and I bet it will taste particularly nice with the curry.
Mom: no, YOU'RE the inspiring one! This cooking apple doesn't fall far from the tree ..
Thanks Blorgie! I hope you enjoy the eggplant dish; it's a twist on classic ratatouille that I really enjoyed. And speaking of food for thought as well as belly --I can't recommend Naomi Duguid & Jeffrey Alford enough. They learn beautifully authentic recipes as they travel, and share them with us, along with the stories behind and around the meals --really great stuff.
Terrific post Mosaica. The food looks so good I'm not sure what to try first - the eggplant looks luscious - I want to eat that right now. The chicken salad - a creamy, spicy delight. Like skatten I like to hear the story alongside learning about food. I suppose I want food for thought as well as practical ideas. You've ticked both boxes with this post - I'm happy now in head and hand. Off to the kitchen I go!
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After allowing defensive tackle Roy Miller to get away in free agency, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have found his potential replacement in Derek Landri.
NFL.com's Michelle Beisner reported Saturday that the Bucs agreed to a two-year, $3.25 million contract with Landri, citing a source close to the situation. The contract pays Landri $1.25 million guaranteed in 2013 and $2 million in 2014.
Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun first reported the news.
According to Beisner, Landri also considered the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, but opted for the Buccaneers.
Landri made seven starts at defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles last season and figures to see snaps in Tampa's 4-3 scheme alongside Gerald McCoy.
Landri made a career-high 16 starts with the Carolina Panthers in 2010, but has spent most of his six-year run as rotational player. His bread and butter is the one-gap interior lineman role and that fills a need for the Bucs, who were light on tackles after Miller departed for the Jacksonville Jaguars in free agency. Tampa also has Gary Gibson, Corvey Irvin and Pep Levingston at the position.
With Da'Quan Bowers and a healthy Adrian Clayborn on the edge, the Bucs hope to duplicate last year's top-ranked rushing defense in 2013.
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As part of National Beer Day on April 7, here are awesome ways to make use of beer other than drinking
According to history, beer is the oldest drink enjoyed by civilization and may even be as old as civilization itself. Beer's history can be traced in history and literature, and the oldest proven record of beer is between 4,000 to 6,000 years ago in the poem to honor Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of brewing. However, as humans evolved, so did beer and its uses. Here are some awesome ways to use beer today:
Bake It With Cake and Eat It Too!
Nowadays, there are recipes for almost everything that can be ingested by the human body. One of the fantastic creations of the beer-loving culture is the beer bread. Making beer bread isn't as difficult as you'd imagine. You will need the following to get started with this classic beer bread recipe shared by Bridget from Bake at 350:


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Same-sex marriage poll finds majority approve
Support for same-sex marriage in California has never been higher, with 59 percent of the state's voters backing the legalization of gay nuptials, according to a new Field Poll.
What's notable is that some of the more significant gains in support came from Catholics, Latinos and older voters - part of the core of support for voter-approved Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Republicans and those who identify themselves as conservatives are the only demographic blocs that oppose allowing gays to marry, according to the survey of 1,003 registered voters released today. Overall, 34 percent of the respondents oppose same-sex marriage.
In a separate question, 51 percent of respondents said gays should be allowed to marry - up from 44 percent two years ago. The survey found that 29 percent support civil unions but not marriage and 15 percent favor no legal recognition. Five percent had no opinion.
"It's a wholesale change in public opinion," said Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo, noting that Field has polled on same-sex marriage issues since 1977. "Right now, it is more of a political objection than anything else."
Wary of numbers
But the rise in support was so high in this poll - seven points since the last Field survey on the issue in 2010 - that even some supporters of same-sex marriage are wary.
A September survey of likely voters commissioned by Equality California, which has been at the forefront of the fight for same-sex marriage, also found that 51 percent of Californians support it.
"While progress has been made, support does not yet appear to be sufficiently high enough to provide a solid opportunity for a successful ballot measure campaign on same-sex marriage in California," said an Equality California memo on Tuesday.
Rebekah Orr, communications director for the group, added, "While we welcome news that public opinion is changing, we know that public opinion is still pretty much in flux."
Opponents were even more skeptical of the poll's results, noting that there's a huge gulf between what voters tell pollsters and what they do in the voting booth. Voters have never approved same-sex marriage in the nearly three dozen times the issue has appeared on state ballots nationwide.
"They can take polls all day long," said state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale (Butte County). "California has its own distorted view of the world, but on this issue I think the voters have been very consistent."
Accelerating shift
Still, the new Field survey shows that a generational shift in attitudes among older voters is accelerating, particularly among people of color who tend to be more conservative on social issues such as marriage.
For years, people on both sides of the issue have acknowledged that support for same-sex marriage would increase over time as older voters, who overwhelmingly oppose gay nuptials, died.
But the survey found that 65 percent of nonwhites under 40 - most of them Latino - support same-sex marriage. Fifty percent of nonwhites over 40 oppose same-sex marriage, DiCamillo said.
Four years ago, 64 percent of Catholic voters supported Prop. 8, according to exit polls. But Field's latest survey found that 51 percent of Catholics support same-sex marriage.
Impact of the courts
DiCamillo attributed this spike in support in part to a series of court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage. This month, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declared California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Should the Supreme Court decide to review the matter, it probably won't happen until 2013.
Two federal courts, including one this month in San Francisco, have declared the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and woman, unconstitutional. In recent weeks, state legislators in Washington and Maryland have approved laws to make same-sex marriage legal in their states.
But those gains may not last long. Voters in as many in five states will vote this year on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.
"This poll is not reality; we'll see what the voters say," said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which has fought efforts to legalize same sex marriage nationwide.
The poll, taken Feb. 2-18, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. firstname.lastname@example.com


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In Quest for Japan's Revival, Abe Secures His Own Comeback
Prime Minister's Message: He and Japan Are Back
TOKYO — A Paralympic skier who lost her leg in a car accident. A fisherman who became a community promoter after nearly drowning. A young business owner with a successful new factory that replaced its recession-ravaged predecessor.
Those were among the handful of people Prime Minister Shinzo Abe invited to his residence in late June. The day's theme: "the second chance" and Mr. Abe's drive for Japan to revive a once-thriving economy by better tapping into the energy of people who have experienced failures or hardship—talent...


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Reviewed by Samuel P. (age 8)
I liked this book because it was a funny book, and I like to read funny books. I think the pictures in the book were good because they showed lots of details and made me want to read more of the story. I liked Hank, too, in the story. I liked Hank because he was funny. My favorite part of the story was when Hank jumped on the porcupine. It was very amusing and it made me laugh. This is the first Hank the Cow Dog book I've read. I might read another one, but I'm not sure.
I recommend this book because I think it's a good book - it is a funny book, and it made me kind of laugh. Hey, Matthew, I think you'll like this book because it is funny and it has dogs. I think you'll like the part where a dog jumped on the porcupine. It was funny when it happened and it was funny when a man had to pull the needles out. Some got in his nose!


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Profile of a Honey Bee Killer02 December 2013
Honey bees from stronger hives are taking home more than the honey stash from their weaker neighbours, as a honey bee killer stows away. This is according to a study to be published in the SfAM journal, "Environmental Microbiology".
American foulbrood (AFB) is the most damaging bacterial disease of honey bee larvae, causing the death of colonies all over the world. However, little is known about how this killer moves to find its prey.
In the first study of its kind, scientists have taken disease data from nearly 20 years of control efforts and analysed it to show that AFB occurs in clusters. These clusters, or aggregations of disease, appear at particular locations across England and Wales, and the pattern of occurrence appears to be impacted by the behavioural practices of bees and humans.
Honey bees display a very common behaviour of robbing honey from a neighbouring hive. This is far more likely to occur when the robber is from a stronger hive, robbing a weaker hive. A hive with AFB is likely to be weak, having lost a large proportion of its young to the disease. This makes it all the more likely that a bee returning from a crime spree will bring back a nasty stowaway and form disease clusters similar to those reported in the study.
Beekeepers may also play a role in disease spread. Larger apiaries formed by groups of amateur beekeepers and apiaries from commercial beekeepers were hot spots for AFB clusters. This could be caused by disease moving between multiple apiary sites and forming the observed clusters.
There is some good news though, because the results also confirm that in many cases, management measures, such as destroying affected colonies, are on the whole successful and the disease can be eradicated within a locality. This has likely contributed to a general decline in disease incidence over the study period. However, there were cases where clusters of AFB appeared to persist despite the implementation of these control measures. These persistent clusters could be a consequence of reintroduction of the causative bacteria by human endeavours including honey imports.
Dr Giles Budge of the Food and Environment Research Agency led the work and said, "These results provide insight into the pattern of spread of this damaging disease and provide important evidence that, on the whole, control measures implemented by the National Bee Unit and its inspectors are effective at locally eradicating the disease."
This work is part of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, joint-funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust. It is managed under the auspices of the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) partnership.
The paper is available as an Early View edition, as follows: Mill, A. C., Rushton, S. P., Shirley, M. D. F., Smith, G. C., Mason, P., Brown, M. A. and Budge, G. E. (2013), Clustering, persistence and control of a pollinator brood disease: epidemiology of American foulbrood. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12292.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Title of work: Thousand
Pieces of Gold
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Why did I write about Lalu Nathoy? Because it's so easy for us in this country to think about all the terrible things that are happening over there, in China, or over there in Afghanistan, or in Somalia, or Bosnia, or any other part of the world. Everywhere except for here. And I wanted to show that after the Civil War was over, after the emancipation proclamation when African American slaves were free, Chinese women in this country were still in slavery.
Q & A with Ruthanne Lum McCunn
How did you start writing Thousand Pieces of Gold?
I first came across [Lalu Nathoy's] story when I was researching the lives of Chinese in Idaho for an earlier nonfiction book called An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America. I came across her story in a book called Idaho Chinese Lore by Sister Alfreda Elsensohn -- it [included] just a few pages about her. But I immediately knew that I wanted to find out more about her and write an entire book about her because she brought out so many things about American history that we don't actually know about, generally, in this country. And also because, to me, she was such an extraordinary person in her own right. There are many people who survive incredible hardships, and she certainly did. But to survive with your capacity for compassion for other people intact and not to turn hard and bitter yourself is, to me, extraordinary. And that was what drew me to her and to want to find out more about her.
Is there something about your experience that led you to write about Lalu (who later changed her name to Polly Bemis)?
I grew up in Hong Kong and didn't come to America until I started college. There were family stories about my great grandmother having been sold into slavery, so this was emotional terrain for me. And so I could identify very strongly with Polly's story, and the answers really just leapt off the page at me. I had much, much more information about her life in Idaho, and yet, I couldn't relate to that at all; in fact, I had a really hard time with that entire part of her life. And again, the reason was because of my own personal involvement and emotion.
How did you research Thousand Pieces of Gold?
A lot of people think research is really boring. But to me, it's wonderfully exciting because I'm an intensely nosey person, and to me, research is just organized curiosity. It's just going after what you want to know. So I wrote to historical societies, libraries, archives all over the Pacific Northwest, asking for information about her. And back came a lot of newspaper articles, a lot of memoirs from pioneers who had written about themselves, and [also] about Polly Bemis because they thought that she was so special. There were also lots of photographs because she loved to have her photos taken. There was a particularly wonderful thesis that was written by a woman who had done a lot of interviews with pioneers from that time period. And so I had all this information that I could work from.
Unfortunately, all the information was about her life in America. There was very little about her life in China. We know that she was born in northern China, that she was sold by her father at a time of great drought, that her feet had been bound and then unbound, that she had been brought to America via Shanghai [and] auctioned off in San Francisco for $2,500. So I decided to find out as much as I could about life in China, northern China, at that particular time period. I found out what crops they planted, when they were planted, what tools they used, what the villages were like there at the time, what the flora and fauna was like ... The answers to those questions actually came out in the research, and it became like joining the dots.
Did you interview people?
The first person that I went to interview was the daughter of the woman who had taken care of Polly during the last days of her life. And I had all my questions, and I started asking her all the things that I wanted to know. And she was like a deer frozen in the headlights -- and totally silent. And I thought, "Oh, I've got all these other interviews to do. If she doesn't start talking soon, I'm really going to be up a creek." And so I started being even more intense, and she was backing off even more. And then my husband started talking about the weather and sun, and I kept kicking him and I was so irritated. And then I saw that the woman was relaxing as he was chatting her up. And then he gradually came around to the questions that I wanted, because he knew them all because that's all I talked about. And so I really learned how to do an interview without coming on too strong and to let people talk for themselves.
And this was a really, really valuable lesson because one of the many questions that I had was ...about [how], after her husband Charlie died, [Polly] had given the deed to their property to the men who lived across the river so that they would build a cabin for her and they would help her out by shooting game ...so that she could continue to live on the river. At that time, it was against the law for Chinese to own property. So how was it possible, I asked myself, for her to have the deed? And yet everybody said that [she did]. And when I actually did a search for the deed, I couldn't find it. Still, people insisted, "Oh yes, it was a deed."
Well, during one of the subsequent interviews that I went to -- it was [with] a man by the name of Johnny Carey, and [he] was the brother of Gay, who had a little girl who had lived with Polly at the last part of her life. And Johnny got together a whole bunch of other pioneers -- some of whom had known Polly, some who had not -- and they were just talking about old times, and I was just listening to them talk, the same way that I used to listen to my family talk when I was a little girl. And as they were talking, I realized they were talking about mining and about mining claims. And apparently, if you make a mining claim, then you are actually entitled to the acreage around the claim. And I knew that Chinese could own mining claims, and I thought to myself, "Is it possible that it wasn't a deed? Is it possible that it was a mining claim?" This would certainly help answer a lot of other questions I had. Charlie must have been afraid that he wasn't going to be able to hang onto that land. He could have bought that land. He had the money for it. But then Polly wouldn't have been able to have it. And so ...he had put in a mining claim so that he could protect her and the property. And that served her in good stead because she outlived him, and had it not been for that, she wouldn't have been able to hang onto that property.
Information about key references
Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880
This treaty stated that the government of the United States could regulate, limit, or suspend the immigration of Chinese laborers to America, but that it could not absolutely prohibit immigration. The treaty applied only to Chinese going to the United States to find work as laborers.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This Act suspended the immigration of any Chinese laborers to the United States for 10 years. The Act was only applicable to new immigrants; those Chinese laborers already in the country were allowed to stay, but were required to carry and display on demand legal documents verifying their right to be in the country.
Beginning a thousand years ago in China, women (frequently at the urging of men) pursued the ideal known as san zun jin lian (the "three-inch golden lily," or golden lotus, as it is also called), which was the custom of breaking and binding the feet into the shape of a pointed lotus bud. Contrary to general belief, foot-binding was not begun in infancy. A girl's foot had to be quite well developed before it could be worked with to achieve the desired shape and size. By the time the practice was outlawed in 1911, millions of Chinese women had endured the unimaginable pain of the foot-binding process, and in doing so had sacrificed forever their ability to move about freely and normally.
Suggestions for applying other theories to Thousand Pieces of Gold
Thousand Pieces of Gold ccan be taught using a reader-response approach by having students compare the film version with the novel. The teacher can have students begin by watching a short opening section of the film. They can explore their initial reactions in conversation and in their journals, noting their observations, curiosities, and questions. Students can then move to the book and explore the relationship between the film and the textual material. The class should alternate between the two over a period of several days, writing and discussing their impressions of both in relation to each other, and refining their responses as they progress.
Students can also use the film as the basis for an inquiry into the process of adapting a book into a film. They can write to producers, directors, and screenwriters with questions about the process. They can compare notes, focusing on how theoretical or philosophical ideas are translated from one form to another, and discussing practical information about writing. Students can then adapt a short story of their choosing into a film using a camcorder (or whatever equipment the school or students have available). If the technology is not present, they can adapt the book into a play.
A cultural studies approach to the book might involve an exploration of the popular culture in rural Idaho or China during the era in which the book is set.
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The Sony Cyber-shot WX10 is the company's new Canon Ixus challenger bringing with it 16.2 megapixels, a new sensor, and a host of other goodies to boot and we grabbed an afternoon with the new model at Kenilworth Castle to find out a little more.
The DSC-WX10 sits just above the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX7 and comes with a 7x optical lens that promises to get you that little bit closer. The WX10 also includes a high speed linear focus feature, helping to provide more accurate focusing, so it's almost like having a compact DSLR camera.
You'll get 3D images that are possible using the 3D Sweep Panorama mode or the 3D Still Image mode. With the latter, the camera takes two consecutive shots in different focus positions to gauge the depths, creating left-eye and right-eye images to produce a 3D effect.
The Cyber-shot also has video recording capabilities up to 50i in 1080 AVCHD.
Inside and you'll get a 16.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS Sensor that is now standard across the company's new Cyber-shot cameras - the HX7, HX9, HX100, WX7, and WX10.
That means, say Sony, that you'll get a new high-res panoramic scene mode, that at the press the shutter button and sweep the camera allows you to capture huge panoramic images with an incredible 10480 x 4096 resolution, over 40million pixels.
You'll also get an intelligent auto mode as well as a superior auto mode. The difference between them is that the superior mode will also work to enhance the image with HDR-like effects when needed rather than just choosing the right scene mode - you can see this in our test shots taken with the Superior Auto mode.
In our brief play the camera performed well, the superior auto effects appeared fairly quickly after a little processing time and the camera, although a tad bulky, is still fairly compact - certainly enough to slip into a bag (a pocket would be questionable).
It's worth pointing out that Sony have said that while the hardware is 100 per cent finalised the images are only around 90 per cent with final tweaks still to be made before the camera comes out at the end of March.
The camera is expected to cost around £280 when it hits the shops.