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Three events highlighting Native American peoples are scheduled in Holland this month, including two presentations at Hope College on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and culminating in the area's fourth annual traditional pow wow at the Holland Civic Center on Saturday, Oct. 25.
Three events highlighting Native American peoples are scheduled in Holland this month, including two presentations at Hope College on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and culminating in the area's fourth annual traditional pow wow at the Holland Civic Center on Saturday, Oct. 25.
The public is invited to all of the events. Admission is free.
The pow wow, which will feature the theme "Honoring Water" and is scheduled in the spirit of reconciliation, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Holland Civic Center, with highlights including Grand Entries at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., and "Quality Water," a panel discussion, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The corridor gallery of the college's De Pree Art Center is featuring a traveling exhibition of portraits taken by photographer Douglas Elbinger of Native Americans dressed in contemporary traditional regalia during the 1993 American Indian Heritage Pow Wow at MichiganStateUniversity. One of the men who was photographed, George Martin, who is a nationally known head veteran and traditional dancer, and was head veteran during the Holland pow wow in 2006, will speak during a reception being held in conjunction with the exhibition on Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Hope will feature the address "Honoring the Water: An Anishnabek Perspective" on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the MaasCenter auditorium. The keynote speakers will be Lorraine "Punkin" Shananaquet, community health representative with the Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi, and Frank Ettawageshik, chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
The pow wow on Saturday, Oct. 25, presented by the Anishnabek of West Michigan, will feature authentic Native American dancers in regalia, Native singers and drummers, along with Native American-made jewelry and other goods for sale. The event's planning committee anticipates participants from throughout Michigan.
Dances presented during the pow wow will include the Northern Traditional Men's Dance, the Northern Traditional Women's Dance, the Traditional Men's Grass Dance, the Traditional Women's Jingle Dance, the Fancy Dance for men, the Fancy Dance for women and intertribal dances for all peoples.
The Pink Shawl Project will be a new addition to the Holland pow wow. Native women are encouraged to craft a pink shawl to use in a special shawl dance ceremony promoting breast health awareness. The idea for the Pink Shawl Project was conceived by Shananaquet. October is national breast cancer awareness month.
To promote this year's theme of "Honoring Water," there will be informational booths and displays by local water conservations agencies all day in the CivicCenter north hallway. The panel discussion from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. will feature Garry Lee, a State of Michigan conservationist, along with representatives from local water conservation agencies. Also in celebration of the theme, the Hope College Environmental Issues student group will host a waterfront clean-up at Holland's Kollen Park from 10 a.m. to noon.
Those with leading roles during the pow wow will include Dale Peters, head veteran; Henry "Tiq" Bush, master of ceremonies; Jason Wesaw, arena director; Derek Bailey, head male dancer; Tonia Bailey, head female dancer; and Black River, host drum.
The Native Americans of the area refer to all Indians as Anishnabek people and themselves as the People of the Three Fires, also known as the Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Potawatomi (Bodewatomi). The pow wow, a family event open to attendance by all peoples, has been planned by a gathering committee representing members of the West Michigan Native community and other Native Americans living in the area.
The exhibition in the De Pree Art Center at Hope features 22 portrait photographs depicting dancers at the 1993 MSU Pow Wow, sponsored by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program and the Michigan State University and the Michigan State University American Indian faculty, staff, and students.
As a photojournalist, Douglas Elbinger photographed Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in May 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. A permanent exhibit of his "Celebrity Lecture Series" photographs is on display in front of the Big 10 Room at the KelloggCenter. Since 1978, Elbinger has operated a commercial photography studio in the Lansing area.
The exhibition is on display through Friday, Oct. 31. The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.; and Sundays from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Keynote speaker Frank Ettawageshik, of Harbor Springs, grew up there on Little Traverse Bay, in the Odawa homeland of Waganakising (the Crooked Tree). He opened Pigpigwa Pottery & Gallery in 1974 in Traverse City and was elected to the board of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of the Odawa Indians in 1989. He was instrumental in conceiving the Tribal and First Nations Great Lakes Water Accord in 2004, and has testified before committees of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives concerning water issues.
Ettawageshik serves as a Board Member of the Michigan Indian Education Council, the Crooked Tree Arts Center, Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority and Great Lakes Resources Committee, and sits on the Board of Advisors for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Michigan Travel Commission and a research associate for the Michigan State University Museum.
Lorraine "Punkin" Shananquet, of Hopkins, is affiliated with the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (GunLake). She has been employed as a community health representative since 1999.
Shananquet holds title to "Mide-waunah-Kwe" or Keeper of the Water Bundle for the Center Fire - Three Fires Midewin Society. The responsibility is held by generations, meaning its roles are passed from mother to daughter.
The exhibition in the De Pree Art Center is sponsored by the college's department of art. The address in the Maas Center is co-sponsored by the college's Office of Multicultural Education and the Phelps Scholars Program. Multiple programs at Hope are among the sponsors for the pow wow at the Civic Center. In addition to Hope, the pow wow's sponsors include several native tribes of Michigan, and the city of Holland.
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Oct 8, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Well it's been a momentous few weeks for FOSS fans recently, not least because LibreOffice -- one of the most popular exemplars of free and open source software today -- celebrated its second anniversary late last month.
"In just 24 months, we have achieved what many people thought was impossible when the project was launched," said Thorsten Behrens, SUSE developer and deputy chairman of the Document Foundation board.
Indeed, with 325 active committers over the last 12 months, LibreOffice is now the third-largest free software project listed on Ohloh focused on the development of a desktop application, Behrens said, following only Firefox and Chrome.
'It Has a Better License'
Yes, it's been a glorious journey ever since LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice.org back in 2010, and Linux Girl has come to rely on the young package exclusively for the writing she does every day.
With LibreOffice now a default part of Linux distributions large and small, in fact, many wonder whether a place for OpenOffice remains.
It's a question bloggers were mulling earlier this year, and recently -- thanks to a blog post that popped up last Monday -- it's been on their minds once again.
"If you are like me, you prefer LibreOffice over (Apache) OpenOffice because (1) It has a better open source license. (2) It has more community support. (3) It is more rapidly developing and releasing updates," the post innocently begins.
However, it comes to a shocking conclusion.
'OpenOffice Just Works'
Namely, when working with spreadsheets on the job, "LibreOffice has a bug that has persisted for many months, whereas OpenOffice just works."
Holy Surprise Endings, Batman! Yes, you heard that right: "in this case, the solution is to use OpenOffice," the blog post concludes.
Did that start a merry little conversation in the Linux blogosphere? You bet it did -- not just in the comments on the post itself but also on LXer and at blogobars throughout the land.
Linux Girl fired up her LibreOffice engines and tried to take down as much as she could.
'The Damage Has Been Done'
"I rarely find myself in a position outside of work that I'm required to use an Office product, and even instances inside of work are more rare than for most, I'd imagine," Google+ blogger Linux Rants offered, for example.
"I use LibreOffice, and will no longer use OpenOffice," Linux Rants told Linux Girl. "Oracle's heavy-handed attempt at taking it over soured me to the entire project.
"I realize at this point that it's been given back to the community, but the damage has been done for me," he added. "I moved to LibreOffice as soon as it was available, and have no plans on returning to OpenOffice."
'IBM and Oracle Made a Big Mistake'
In fact, "LibreOffice is clearly superior," blogger Robert Pogson agreed.
"They have been coding like mad for years now while OpenOffice.org was checking licenses," he added. "Really, OpenOffice.org was good, but it seriously lacked useful features like SVG, which Sun sat on for years."
LibreOffice, on the other hand, "made it a much higher priority," Pogson noted. "They also threw out dead/sub-optimal code, so LibreOffice is pretty smooth these days."
In short, "IBM and Oracle made a big mistake trying to maintain the status quo with OpenOffice.org," he concluded. "Sooner or later they will have to admit that or spend lots of money re-inventing the wheel instead of using shared code."
'They Will Continue to Limp Along'
Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, had a different view.
"Over time I have come back to appreciating OpenOffice, although I am not really a fan of office suites," Travers explained. "I still prefer Gnumeric for most spreadsheet work, truth be told, in particular because of mature LaTeX export support."
In any case, "both projects have a lot of work ahead of them, and hopefully both will prosper," he said.
"If OpenOffice can get their act together and encourage the right sorts of community, then they will have a bright future, possibly brighter than that of LibreOffice," Travers predicted. "If they can't, they will continue to limp along."
'The GPL Is More End-User Friendly'
For Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, it's all a matter of licensing.
"The Apache license is more developer friendly, the GPL is more end-user friendly, so it all depends on which of those you are," he explained.
"If you are a business that wants to build custom applications on top of an office suite? Then use OO," hairyfeet said. "If you are just Sally homemaker who needs a way to type up her recipes? Then LO is more for you."
'We Keep a Copy of LibreOffice at Church'
Indeed, more than a few bloggers could see a place for multiple competing packages.
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack, for instance, is placing his bets for the long run on LibreOffice, he told Linux Girl.
Nevertheless, "it really doesn't surprise me that people feel the need to keep more than one brand of office software around," he added.
"We already have to keep a copy of LibreOffice around at church in case someone comes in with a PowerPoint presentation that somehow manages to end up with something incompatible with Office Viewer, and somehow resaving it using the latest version of MS Office won't fix it," Mack explained.
'Use What Works for You'
Similarly, "I find that one can complement the other," Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol agreed.
"Actually, I use IBM's take on OpenOffice -- Lotus Symphony -- quite often, as it has better support for .docx rendering, so I don't find it so bad to work with the two," Ebersol added.
In fact, "as someone who has been teaching office apps for many years, the overall story should be that all of them are pretty much the same," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien suggested.
"I can use MS Office at work and LibreOffice at home and be just as productive in either," he explained. "So why not just use what works for you? The differences, when you find them, are always weird marginal cases that 99 percent of people would never encounter.
"If you have one of those oddball cases, and OpenOffice works better than LibreOffice, just use it," O'Brien concluded. "It is still free software."


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I think people come to see us play live because they are getting the energy and experience of an electronic music show while also getting to experience the spontaneity and vibe of a live band performing.
We use a software program (Ableton Live) that is controlled with a foot pedal that allows us a sort of choose-our-own adventure approach to our songs. We've been (doing improv) a lot on the Feed The Bass tour so it's been fun to draw things out longer when we're feelin' it. There is also a second computer that is synched via Ethernet, which is then synched to our bass player's vintage midi step. If, during the show, your vision blurs and you feel so much bass hit your body that you think you might have to sit down and regain your equilibrium, its because of the vintage midi step. The computer adds the ability to incorporate samples and crap that nobody really wants to do live. For example, if you hear a dusty sample of Brenda Lee, that's probably not one of us singing impeccably similar to Brenda Lee, or if you hear Mahalia Jackson soulfully belting out something awesome, that's probably not happening live either, or Doomsday prepping Robot voices, not us – get it? We get to play all the fun stuff like the drums, the bass, the guitars and synthy stuff and mess around however we want. The computer is there as a tool to allow us to bring a part of our creative process in the studio live to our fans at a concert.
The keyboard changes the dynamic in pretty amazing ways. Cody frees us up to actually feel like a band again, and not just producers going through the motions of a live set. He's given us the ability to do so many more things technically that we couldn't do without him, as well as insight, production and just an exponential new amount of creative possibilities.
What I can say about this album is that we are going to make no compromises, and it's going to be very different than anything you've ever heard a live band ever produce.
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During the July 17 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, discussing comments he made the previous night comparing the Daily Kos blog to the Nazi Party and to the Ku Klux Klan, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that "[t]he comparison is valid." O'Reilly was responding to a viewer who said in an email that O'Reilly "owe[d] me and thousands of others an apology," claiming that "you should not compare anything to the Nazis." O'Reilly replied: "Hate to say it, sir, that website traffics in hate, as do the Nazi websites. No difference." O'Reilly then read an email from another viewer who asserted: "I'm a black American and understand your argument against JetBlue, but I disagree with you comparing the Daily Kos to the KKK. The website simply hates the Bush administration." O'Reilly responded: "What does the pope have to do with the president, sir? How about Israel? The website sells hate, as does the KKK and the Nazis. The comparison is valid."
The content of his viewers' criticisms stems from O'Reilly's report during the July 16 edition of The O'Reilly Factor addressing JetBlue's decision to sponsor the YearlyKos convention. The segment featured a number of statements posted as diaries or comments to items, including several documented by the blog News Hounds. Among those were statements about the pope and Israel, to which O'Reilly alluded on the July 17 edition of his program.
O'Reilly's reference to Israel apparently stems from an interview of JetBlue CEO David Barger by O'Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters aired on the July 16 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, during which Watters asked: "I mean, do you think that your JetBlue customers want to know that you're kind of subscribing to the belief that Iran has the right to attack Israel? I mean, these are the kind of things they're saying on this website." Watters' allegation, in turn, appears to stem from a Daily Kos January 7 diary by "heathlander," titled "Iran has a right to attack Israel." In fact, the diary's thesis was that "any use of force aimed at destroying Iran's nuclear capacity would be preventive, not preemptive, and would thus be illegal." It added: "[I]f we accept that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, that would not qualify for a preemptive strike, even under the ridiculous standards of Israel and the United States. If it did, we would be forced to conclude that the majority of the states on the planet (including Iran) have a right to attack America, Israel, France, Britain, India and the other members of the 'nuclear club.' " The diary concluded: "I am not here advocating an Iranian 'preemptive' strike on Israel or the U.S."
O'Reilly's reference to the pope apparently stems from a user comment in response to a post reporting that a "Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber"; reader dconrad wrote: "Yes, the Pope is a Primate." As the Think Progress blog has noted, one of the pope's titles is "primate" because he is also the Bishop of Rome. A Daily Kos July 17 diary by AWhitneyBrown noted various media outlets referring to Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops as primates.
From the July 17 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: And finally tonight, the mail. JetBlue led the letters. BillOReilly.com premium members graded that segment very well.
David Reinstein, Buffalo Grove, Illinois: "O'Reilly, you owe me and thousands of others an apology. You should not compare anything to the Nazis. The Daily Kos keeps me informed."
Hate is hate, sir. That website traffics in it, as do the Nazi websites. No difference.
Kenneth Brown, Jacksonville, Florida: "Mr. O'Reilly, I'm a black American and understand your argument against JetBlue, but I disagree with you comparing the Daily Kos to the KKK. The website simply hates the Bush administration."
What does the pope have to do with the president, sir? How about Israel? The website sells hate, as does the KKK and the Nazis. The comparison is valid.
From the July 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. JetBlue and the radical left -- that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."
What do you think of someone who says the following: "The world would be better off without him." That after Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. "The pope is a primate." "Evangelicals are nut cases." "Better luck next time," after an assassination plot against Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan. And "Some attacks against coalition forces in Iraq are legitimate."
All of those thoughts were posted on a vicious far-left website called the Daily Kos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer. This summer, that website is having a convention in Chicago. And only one major corporation has stepped up as a sponsor. That company is JetBlue, the airline that melted down last winter.
As is our policy, we contacted JetBlue last week to ask why. Why would it sponsor a hateful website? It had no answer. So we sent Factor producer Jesse Watters out to see JetBlue CEO David Barger.
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WATTERS: Hey, Mr. Barger, Jesse Watters with Fox News. How are you?
BARGER: Good morning.
WATTERS: Good morning. Do you mind if we ask you a few questions?
BARGER: Regarding?
WATTERS: On the Daily Kos website, it says attacks against coalition forces in Iraq are legitimate. Does JetBlue subscribe to that kind of thinking?
BARGER: There's really, you know, politics and our business. Really, it's not something that we mix.
WATTERS: What about "The pope is a primate"? Do you agree with that kind of thinking?
BARGER: Same. I mean, it's -- from the standpoint of running our business, that's what we do from an airline perspective. So there's really not alignment along those lines. I appreciate your interest.
WATTERS: Do you think you're giving legitimacy to this kind of thinking? I mean, they're saying "The world may be better off" without Tony Snow when Tony Snow had a cancer relapse.
BARGER: It's -- I'm really not going to mix politics from the standpoint of running our business.
WATTERS: But aren't you guys kind of mixing politics by, you know, sponsoring this convention?
BARGER: It's -- it's -- I can see where you're trying to go with it, but it's -- I'm just not going to, you know, to respond to that here at this point in time.
WATTERS: But don't you think your sponsorship has kind of attached an endorsement to this kind of thinking?
BARGER: I think just the ability to leave my apartment and do that freely and go to work is really what I'm trying to do. And along those lines, I think the people can draw their own conclusion. We're running our business. And from the perspective of politics, there's not alignment. So thanks very much.
WATTERS: Thank you. I mean, do you think that your JetBlue customers want to know that you're kind of subscribing to the belief that Iran has the right to attack Israel? I mean, these are the kind of things they're saying on this website.
BARGER: I'll just close by saying this. I think our customers are -- I'll treat them with dignity and respect. They're very smart. They'll draw their own conclusion, whether it's watching your news show, whether it's watching our in-flight television. They're pretty smart people. They'll draw their own conclusion.
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O'REILLY: And we have. It is beyond belief that a company like JetBlue would sponsor hatemongers like the Daily Kos.
Comes a time when American consumers have to take a stand, and this is one of those times. Any company or person who endorses hate websites should be held accountable.
Finally, this isn't an ideological issue. If the company was sponsoring a David Duke convention, we'd do the same story. Hate is hate, no matter where it comes from. And that's the "Memo."
Now for the top story tonight, another view of this. With us, Diane Brady, a senior writer for Business Week magazine. I think Mr. Barger looked as bad as I've ever seen a CEO look in an interview like that. What do you think?
BRADY: Well, he's probably sending free air tickets to the pope and Tony Snow right now. But I think the main reason they did this is eyeballs. Daily Kos is a very popular website. It gets 500,000 hits a day. And one of the things with airlines is they seem to throw, you know, tickets at high school debating groups, forums. I don't think they necessarily always know what's on there.
O'REILLY: But we told them what was on there before we did the story. You got to understand that. We didn't ambush this guy. We gave them a week. We said look, look at this stuff. And they don't care. JetBlue doesn't care that they said all the things Jesse said at all. And I'm saying to myself, are they just plain stupid? Because this is hate of the worst order. It's like the Ku Klux Klan. It's like the Nazi party. There's no difference here. People should die. They want Tony Snow to die. Cheney to die. Doesn't get worse than this, Ms. Brady.
BRADY: You know, there's no question Daily Kos is clearly on the left. And one thing that comes up, especially with these open forums is you get a lot of lunatics come up. And I'm sure -- I look at this site.
O'REILLY: You know, you - look, I have my own website. We don't -- open forum is bull. All right? You can regulate what's on your website. Now, this kind of a thing has got to be troubling to, I think, millions of Americans when they hear it. Because this is the only, as we pointed out, sponsor. The only one. Everybody else stays way away from this.
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Who should own and control the food system? How much additional food production capacity do we need and where? How do cultural values influence food practice? Food systems scholars and leaders will address these questions and more when they convene at the University of Vermont (UVM) this June for the UVM Food Systems Summit to share research and engage in dialogue on the pressing food systems issues facing our world.
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The technique is powerful but obscure, so I created a repo on GitHub which demonstrates it.
smudge is equivalent to "run this code whenever you check anything out," and
clean is equivalent to "run this code whenever you check anything in." One major caveat to that overgeneralization is that git expects the code you run to be a filter. Because of this, it not only expects input from standard out and passes your code input via standard in, it also suppresses both standard out and standard error.
git-bisect, git filters allow you to execute arbitrary Unix software in a very powerful context, opening up the possibility for other use cases, but firmly encourages a particular use case.)
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FDA Approves Complera (Edurant + Truvada), a Second "All-in-One" Option for First-Line HIV Treatment
When it comes to single-pill HIV treatment regimens in the U.S., Atripla is no longer the only game in town. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved Complera, a once-daily tablet that contains Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) and the NNRTI Edurant (rilpivirine).
The approval of Complera has been highly anticipated for months. The drugs within the pill are similar to Atripla, which contains Truvada and an older NNRTI, Sustiva (Stocrin, efavirenz). In fact, Complera has frequently been referred to informally as "Btripla" by researchers, health care professionals and advocates. In a head-to-head study, the drugs that comprise Complera generally did just as good a job at controlling viral load as the drugs that comprise Atripla, but generally caused fewer side effects -- particularly the vivid dreams and neurological effects that are often associated with Sustiva. (That having been said, insomnia was one of the most common moderate-to-severe side effects experienced by people taking Edurant in its pre-approval studies, along with headache and psychiatric disorders.)
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On Friday, Aug. 23, "Music Under the Stars" was held at the Black Willow Winery and featured a selection of artisanal wines and meal paired with J & L Blvd. BBQ, and music by Busted Stuff. All proceeds of the ticket sales from the event were donated to Save-A-Pet.
Cynthia West-Chamberlain, owner of Black Willow Winery, presented a check for $500 to Save-A-Pet from these proceeds, which will be used to help homeless/unwanted dogs and cats in the Olcott/Newfane area. Additional funds were raised for Save-A-Pet during the event from the purchase of gift items sold by the organization, a basket and 50/50 raffle, and direct donations. All together, nearly $900 was raised for Save-A-Pet during the event.
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BRISTOL — Whitewater kayakers from up and down the East Coast and across the border in Canada tore over Bristol's infamous Bartlett Falls at last Saturday's New Haven River Festival. Organized by the University of Vermont (UVM) Kayak Club and the Vermont Paddlers Club, the festival hosted 59 paddlers in its third consecutive year, up from 26 last year.
At the heart of the festival was a grueling 1/3-mile race down a technical section of the New Haven River that finished at Bartlett Falls. And, the stakes were high.
VERGENNES — In scheduling a televised public forum in advance of the city's May 17 revote on Addison Northwest Supervisory Union unification, Vergennes aldermen and an ANwSU representative agreed on Tuesday that the school district should make a full presentation describing what the school governance change would mean.
The forum will be held at 7 p.m. on May 10 in the Vergennes Opera House. It will then be broadcast locally on cable channel 17 on Wednesday, May 11, at 1 and 7 p.m.; on Friday, May 13, at 8 p.m.; and on Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m.
NEW HAVEN — The chorus of spring peepers' early season song marks the end of maple sugaring season. For many sugarmakers across the lower elevations of Addison County's Champlain Valley, last weekend likely marked this sugar season's final sap run.
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Some members of the town's fire station study committee delivered that update to the Middlebury selectboard on Monday, along with news that maintaining stations on Seymour Street and in East Middlebury is gaining more support than the notion of erecting a single new facility on Route 7 South.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials are preparing a search for a new assistant town manager to take over for Joe Colangelo, who left that post last week to become town administrator in Hinesburg.
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MIDDLEBURY — A Bridport man pleaded innocent in Addison County District Court on Monday to charges of simple assault with a weapon and reckless endangerment, in connection with the accidental shooting of a neighbor on Aug. 13, 2010.
State authorities who investigated the case allege that Tracy M. Stone, 35, had alcohol in his system and was knowingly firing a malfunctioning firearm at the time that Peter Damone, then 76, was struck in the left arm and face by a .45-calibre round while grilling on his porch almost a half a mile away.
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Wine's Not-So-Secret Society
Once a month, on a Wednesday, a group of wine bloggers "meet" (in the virtual sense) to share their tasting notes and insights and post around a central theme. They call this, WBW, or Wine Blogging Wednesday, and some really solid, witty wine writing has come out of it, such as this post from the Second Glass.
The group was started by Lenn Thomspson of Lenndevours and here's how it works:
The idea is simple. Different bloggers sent Lenn ideas for themes or topics and then would become the hosts from month to month. Participating bloggers would then buy a wine that was consistent with the theme and blog their tasting notes on or before the Wednesday of the event. Since its founding, there have been more than 30 events and hundreds of participants from all over the international blogosphere.
More than 50 bloggers participate each month, and, due to the popularity, Thompson has had to add a group of advisers: Tyler Coleman of Dr. Vino, Andrew Barrow of Spittoon, and Tim Eliot of Winecast.
Some of my favorite themes have been "Let's Get Naked" (about unoaked Chardonnay) and "Box Wines" (about wine in a box and other nontraditional packaging). Be sure to check out the insightful conversation about biodynamic wines, too. This month's theme was on indigenous varieties (grapes grown more or less in the places they originated), and participation was at an all-time high of 54 bloggers. A record, they assure us, that was achieved without the use of steroids.
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SetiQuest Explorer
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setiQuest Explorer is a web and mobile application for viewing radio telescope data from SETI targets and helping to identify and categorize patterns. Based on Adobe Flash, it runs in your web browser and on Android devices. The setiQuest Explorer app was developed by Francis Potter and The Hathersage Group with funding from Adobe System's Experience Design Group.[1][2][3] The app was built with the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) environment. The server technology is Ruby on Rails.[4]
The private beta was launched on March 10th 2011.[5] and the public interest was very strong. Within 4 days of the announcement more than 1500 beta tester volunteers have registered.[6] The server software infrastructure and database have been ported to AWS in anticipation of extending the beta in Q3 2011.
setiQuest Explorer combines Google Sky with a Waterfall plot where users scroll through the entire signal bandwidth searching for signals. Any patterns found by users get tagged, categorized, and submitted to a database for further analysis. The eventual goal was to create the real-time streaming infrastructure and have enough app users to be able to analyze live data within 4 minutes.
- March 1 2011 - Jill Tarter demoed the setiQuest Explorer app at the TED 2011 event.[7][8][9]
- March 10 2011 - Private beta launch of setiQuest Explorer.[10]
- March 14 2011 - An overwhelming 1500 users registered for the beta.[11] Most were put on hold.
- March 22 2011 - 2300 users have registered for the beta. Only 300 have been accepted.[12]
- July 28 2011 - Avinash Agrawal and Francis Potter presented setiQuest Explorer at the OSCON 2011 convention.[13]
- July 31 2011 - setiQuest Explorer leaves beta?[14] Registration problems persist for some into August and September.[15][16]
- August 9 2011 - An open source setiQuest Explorer HTML5 port project was started by two software engineers at NASA Goddard.[17] It planned to utilize HTML5 instead of Flash so that it could run on iOS and on any modern web browser.[18] The ETA was Spring 2012.
- August - September 2011 - User:Jrseti spends "a lot of time" getting the setiQuest Explorer server running[19][20][21][22] at http://setiquest.info:8012
- October 4 2011 - The intern help of a USC undergrad is requested.[23]
- January 11 2012 - User:Jrseti meets with Francis Potter to discuss the future of setiQuest Explorer.[24]
- January 17 2012 - The decision was announced that setiQuest Explorer had been "discontinued."[25]
- April 10th 2012 - The steps for an orderly shutdown were discussed.[26]
- May 31 2012 - Francis Potter sent out the shutdown email to everyone who signed up for setiQuest Explorer.
Signal classifications
The setiQuest Explorer app allows users to classify signals into the following categories:
- Local / Locked
- Diagonal
- Squiggle
- Pulse
- Broadband
- Modulation
- Radar
- Unknown
- Android 2.2[27] or a web browser with Flash Player 10.2.
- Facebook[28] or Google account.[29]
- Network bandwidth. Each assignment downloads 20 MB of data.[30]
Preliminary analysis of the setiQuest Explorer results was performed by a student from the Armagh Observatory in the UK.[31] Lessons learned from setiQuest Explorer were incorporated into the SETI Live project.
Shutdown email
Thanks for signing up for setiQuest Explorer!
It's been an exciting year. setiQuest Explorer was an collaborative project of the SETI Institute, Adobe Systems, and The Hathersage Group. It was the first attempt at interactive citizen science around SETI radio telescope data, and it was a resounding success. Over 10,000 of you signed up, and identified over 14,000 interesting patterns in the radio telescope data.
However, we will be shutting it down this week.
The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter wrote:
- "We eventually analyzed that same data with our automated detection system called SonATA and compared the results against what you found. We used that information to study how often you marked the same signals and classified them the same way, and how often you marked what SonATA classified as noise-only based on statistics, i.e. where SonATA didn't find anything."
The SETI Institute also used learnings from Explorer to develop a new citizen science application in collaboration with TED, the Science Channel, and Zooniverse.
The new system is SETILive.
SETILive allows you to look at data in near realtime from the Allen Telescope Array, and to actually see where in the sky the telescopes are pointed at any moment. The telescopes will be focused on planets identified by NASA's Kepler satellite, theoretically increasing the chance of finding something interesting. And SETILive is focused on the specific areas of the radio spectrum where the Institute needs the most help. Jill wrote:
- "We decided to ask volunteers to help us look in regions of the spectrum where SonATA find lots of signals and cannot get them all classified in the time available. Historically, SETI searches have ignored these crowed bands that are filled with our own communications technology -- signals we refer to as RFI (radio frequency interference).But these are precisely the frequencies at which a nearby ETI would notice that the Earth is loud, and where they would know we'd have receivers to detect any signals they sent back. For more distant ETI, these bands are as viable as any other bands within the 1 to 10 GHz terrestrial microwave window, so why should we give them up? Maybe there's no option until we can afford to throw a lot more complex signal processing resources into the process -- a whole lot more. Or maybe the superior pattern recognition capability of the human eye and brain can figure out how to sort through all of our technology to see if there's any residual patterns that might not be our RFI, but might be from another, alien technology."
SETI Live is exciting for all these reasons. Over the coming weeks, we'll be phasing out setiQuest Explorer and encouraging everyone who signed up for setiQuest Explorer to start using SETI Live to participate fully in this new experiment. Once again, here's Jill Tarter:
- "Since you helped us out before, perhaps you'd like to do so again. What is available on line right now is a primitive first cut at the necessary tools. You can help the Zooniverse team make them better. When the browser-based platform becomes more elegant and stable, we plan to allow development of mobile applications."
Thanks again for all your feedback and help with setiQuest Explorer.
Go to http://www.setilive.org now to get started!
Francis Potter
The Hathersage Group
- ↑ http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20041365-245.html
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20041528-501465.html
- ↑ http://techland.time.com/2011/03/10/seti-explorer-app-finally-gives-your-phone-a-purpose/
- ↑ http://www.mobileapptesting.com/inside-the-setiquest-explorer-beta-test-interview/2011/03/
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/seti-taps-smartphones-hunt-et
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/setiquest-explorer
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/ted-2011-day-1
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/jill-tarter-ted-2011-%E2%80%93-day-2
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/jill-tarter-ted-2011-%E2%80%93-day-4
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/seti-taps-smartphones-hunt-et
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/blog/setiquest-explorer
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2011-03-22
- ↑ http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18710
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2011-09-06
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/setiquest-explorer-download
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/setiquest-explorer
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.08-09-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.09-13-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.08-09-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.08-16-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.09-13-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.09-27-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2011/setiquest.10-04-2011.log
- ↑ http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2012/setiquest.01-10-2012.log
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-01-17
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-04-10#comment-3183
- ↑ https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.hg94.seti
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/facebook-requirement
- ↑ http://twitter.com/francispotter/status/47906726153953280
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:SetiQuest_Explorer#Network_bandwidth
- ↑ http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/first-look-setiquest-explorer-results
External links
- http://explorer.setiquest.org/
- https://github.com/hathersagegroup/seti (source code)
- http://issues.setiquest.org/projects/explorer
- http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=201723139838082


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Taking care of the relationships in one's life is an important—and often undervalued—part of self-care. After twelve years of seeing troubled couples, we're convinced that having one or more poisonous or destructive—or even merely boring—relationship in your life can make you physically sick. A significant percentage of our clients have exhibited symptoms— ulcers, colitis, depression, insomnia, and migraines seem to be the most common—that seem almost invariably to disappear when the relationship problems are worked out. We have come to see destructive relationships as a health risk factor in the same league as overeating, smoking, lack of exercise, exposure to environmental pollutants, and poor nutrition.
This article focuses on building a strong and satisfying primary couple relationship, and with dealing with problems within that relationship, but the principles of supportive interaction and good communications we will describe can be applied in any relationship.
We'll begin by describing five common stumbling blocks—attitudes and behaviors that may keep the tools of couple self-care from working. Next we'll describe the five tools we have found most effective. Finally, we'll list some preliminary findings from our current research into the attitudes and behavior patterns of couples who have achieved especially enduring, zestful relationships. We hope that these ideas, tools, and resources will be of help to you in your efforts to create that kind of a couple relationship for yourself.
Stumbling Block #1: The Right /Wrong Game
The biggest single barrier to improving one's couple relationship is a tendency to see our partner as the source of our problems. We think that if we could only get our partner to change his or her behavior or personality, everything would be fine. When there is pain and conflict in the relationship, it's only natural to assume someone is doing something wrong, and if we feel that we're doing our best, it's got to be them.
Difficulties need not be anyone's fault, and assigning blame is rarely the most effective way of dealing with a problem. The fact is that there is pain and conflict in all relationships. Think of them as growing pains—as opportunities for both partners to learn and grow and change.
The tools we will be describing can all too easily be turned into clubs with which to beat one's partner over the head—by using them only to point out how he or she is "doing it wrong." It would be a shame for these excellent tools to be reduced to weapons in the right/wrong game.
Here are some tipoffs that you might be having trouble with this stumbling block:
1. You feel superior to your partner because he or she is not following the rules of good communication and you are.
2. You feel that the information you have learned from the new books and articles—including this one proves that you were right all along (and your partner was wrong).
3. You feel that the fact that your partner doesn't want to do certain exercises or follow certain rules proves that he/she is wrong and you are right.
Our research shows that couples with the most successful marriages rarely argue about who is right and who is wrong. They are not interested in fixing blame for painful or hurtful happenings. They simply share their feelings and see what they can do about preventing a recurrence.
Stumbling Block #2: Being Careful Not to Go More Than Halfway
Being careful not to go more than halfway is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. You may end up with a relationship that is "fair,'' but one in which neither of you gets very much. There will be a climate of scarcity in your relationship, a feeling that there is not enough love, affection, appreciation, forgiveness, and support to go around. You both begin to hoard all your love, appreciation, and support—refusing to give any out unless you get some first. So neither of you get any.
We would suggest that there need be no scarcity of love, affection, and support. Try giving more than your share. Chances are you will get more back. Instead of going just 50 percent of the way, go 60 or 70 or 100 percent—as far as it takes to make things work. After all, you have a vested interest in creating a nurturing, supportive climate for your relationship. So you're hardly being altruistic.
On the other hand, if you can't find a way to go the extra distance without feeling resentful, don't do it. You'll end up feeling resentful, superior, and ripped off. Such martyrdom will end up lowering, instead of raising, your self-esteem. At the same time, be wary of having your integrity riding on every little issue, or you'll end up with a relationship of great integrity and very little else.
Stumbling Block #3: My Partner Doesn't Want to Work on the Relationship
Many people feel that it's impossible to handle relationship problems unless their partner is willing to cooperate. This isn't necessarily so. Each partner makes an important contribution to any communications difficulty, so if either partner changes his or her pattern of behavior to a more effective one, the problem may be resolved.
It is easy to use an uncooperative partner as an excuse not to work on our own patterns of behavior. It may seem unfair to put forth more time and effort than our partner (Stumbling Block #2). But once we have chosen to stay in a particular relationship, it seems a little silly not to do everything in our power to make it work a swell as we can. Furthermore, whatever we learn about better and more complete communication will help us in other relationships (children, parents, friends, etc.) or with our next partner, should we eventually decide to end our present relationship.
Stumbling Block #4: Focusing on Who and What Your Partner Is Not
Just as the same bottle of wine can be seen as half full or half empty, you can focus either on qualities your partner has or on those he or she lacks. The former leads to satisfaction, the latter to frustration and resentment. If, for example, your husband is quiet, dependable, and hard-working, being dissatisfied that he is not emotional, spontaneous, artistic, and wildly passionate is looking at the half-empty side of the bottle. Being critical of him for those basic qualities and trying to do a major remodeling job will lead to resentment from him and frustration for you. You cannot turn a Chevy pickup into a Porsche. Some changes are possible, but when you get done, although you might have a great pickup, you will still not have a sportscar. If you can keep your partner's positive qualities in mind, then even while imagining certain changes, you can still experience the relationship as basically satisfying as it is.
Appreciating what your partner does have to offer has another beneficial effect—when people feel loved and appreciated for who they are, they grow and expand and become more open to change. When they feel unappreciated and unaccepted as they are, they become defensive and resistant to new approaches.
All this is not to say you shouldn't ask your partner to make changes. We're just suggesting that requests made in a supportive spirit will be most effective. The key here is to make it clear that there is nothing wrong with the other person, in fact quite the contrary, but that you would simply like it better if he or she were to behave in some other way.
Stumbling Block #5: Refusing to Use a Professional Counselor When Self-Care Isn't Enough
Solving our own problems without outside help is as American as apple pie—but sometimes there's a limit. Occasionally a couple may find themselves so deeply stuck in a seemingly insoluble problem that they are unable to use self-care methods effectively. We consider it an important part of couple self-care to use a counselor or therapist when appropriate. If you do so, we suggest you ask your counselor to help you work though the exercises described in this article, and perhaps those in one or more of the books we recommend as well.
Tools for Couple Self-Care:
The following tools are designed to help you communicate with your partner and experience satisfaction in your relationship. Feel free to adapt them to your own needs and personal style. And remember, the best technique in the world can have the opposite of its desired effect if used as a weapon in the right/wrong game.
Tool #1: Appointments for Time Together
Couple relationships are like gardens—if you take care of them on a daily basis, it doesn't take much effort. Spending time in the garden is a real pleasure. If you let them go without time and attention, getting them straightened out can be a huge job and may even require the help of a professional.
One immediate benefit that many couples get from starting couple therapy is that they spend one hour a week focusing on themselves and their life together. Sadly, that is one hour more than they customarily spend. Couples with busy lives—which is most of us—find it easy to give the last priority to scheduling time together. It may seem unspontaneous, but if you do not already do so, you should consider formally setting aside a small amount of time each day plus a more substantial amount of time at least once a week in order to really stay in touch.
A daily sharing time can be twenty to forty minutes, a good time to share events of the day, thoughts, ideas, wins, losses, appreciations, and gripes. (Don't use this time for gripes too often or your partner will start to avoid it.) A good exercise for this time is called the Ten and Ten. The Ten and Ten Exercise (developed in the Marriage Encounter Movement) consists of taking ten minutes and writing down in a notebook your "reflections"—thoughts and feelings about yourself, your partner. and your relationship. Then you get together at an agreed-upon time, read each other's notebooks, and talk for ten minutes about your reactions. More information about this exercise is available in How to Have a Happy Marriage.
The second category of time together can be used as an opportunity to go out together, to do something fun and special that you don't ordinarily do or haven't done in a long time. It can also be the time to work on a major problem in your relationship, such as working out a budget. This larger chunk of time, two to six hours, should be scheduled as faithfully as the daily sharing time, and not be sacrificed to demands of family, work, or other obligations. A Couple's Guide to Communication has a great list of fun things to do—in case you need to be reminded.
Tool #2: Listening Standing in Your Partner's Shoes
This is a big one. If you don't allow yourself to really listen, none of the other tools on this list are going to do you much good.
Good listening requires a willingness on your part to get a sense of what it's like for your partner—to stand in his or her shoes for a few moments. What makes this difficult is that most of the time we are judging and evaluating what our partner is saying, trying to decide if they are right or wrong. This makes it impossible to get a really clear sense of where they are coming from, what it is like for them. In addition, some things they say make us angry and that makes it difficult to keep listening.
Most of us have had the experience of really listening to someone and of really being heard. The experience can range from thrilling to deeply satisfying, and it is unfortunate that these moments are so rare for most of us. When someone really hears us, there is a sense of relief and movement. This is the experience that we have when someone really listens to a problem that we have, and, without any suggestions, we suddenly see how to handle the problem. The book P.E.T.: Parent Effectiveness Training is one of the best resources for learning to really listen. The material is readily adaptable to listening to your partner.
Here are some concrete steps you can take to learn to listen:
1. Really focus on what it's like to be in your partner's shoes; don't allow yourself to be distracted.
2. Listen without interrupting except to check your understanding of what has been said so far.


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Panama Holiday Festival today, Thursday
So, you thought that you were going to have to wait until next week for basketball — both when high schools will resume their current season as well as the 2012 LeFlore County Junior High Tournament. Not so.Today and Thursday will be the first-ever Panama Holiday Festival, which will not only feature the host Hogs and Lady 'Backs, but Howe's teams, Spiro's squads and teams from Acorn, Ark.For starters, this event was created to avoid some busy weeks which would have happened otherwise for the Panama teams."We're not in a conference, and we were having to play sometimes as many as three games a week," Panama Boys Coach Greg Nichols said. "Last December, we decided to try to have a Christmas Holiday Festival. So, we started calling schools to get participants, and we filled it up — and lots of them were excited to do it. I know (Spiro Boys) Coach (Dustin) Gist is real excited about it. We're excited to be having it, and we hope it turns out well."It also gets some regular games in during the Christmas Break instead of trying to find other means by which the teams could stay sharp."We're not going to have to try to find people to scrimmage over the break," Nichols said. "We now have some regular-season games."The schedule is listed at the end of this column.LeFlore County JH Tournament Guide Coming Out SaturdayThe 2012 LeFlore County Junior High Tournament Guide will be published in Saturday's edition, which will be New Year's Eve — Dec. 31. Last week, I accidentally put the day before, and I apologize.This week, not only will I be giving coverage to the Panama Holiday Festival, but I'll prepare this season's JH Tournament Guide.SchedulePanama Holiday Festival ScheduleTuesday's GamesSpiro girls vs. Acorn, Ark., 4 p.m.Spiro boys vs. Acorn, Ark., 5:30 p.m.Howe girls vs. Panama, 7 p.m.Howe boys vs. Panama, 8:30 p.m.Thursday's GamesHowe girls vs. Spiro, 4 p.m.Howe boys vs. Spiro, 5:30 p.m.Panama girls vs. Acorn, Ark., 7 p.m.Panama boys vs. Acorn, Ark., 8:30 p.m.


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Rhine River Cruise Mysteries
Plans for a boat ride called Rhine River Cruise in EPCOT Center's Germany Pavilion were shelved sometime shortly after the park opened in 1982. Few details about the ride have ever surfaced. Let's dive in and see what we can find.
What we know.
"The future River Ride promises to be as enjoyable as it is informative. An early concept has guests boarding a "cruise boat" for a simulated ride down the Rhine and other rivers, the trip affording a visual impression in miniature of the cultural heritage of Germany's past and highlights of its present. Among the detailed models envision are scenes in the Black Forest, the Oktoberfest, Heidelberg, the industrial Ruhr Valley... the possibilities are limited only by the planners' imaginations." –"Walt Disney's EPCOT Center" by Richard Beard
According to the Walt Disney Company's 1976 annual report, the Rhine River Cruise was to be "... a cruise down Germany's most famous rivers– the Rhine, the Tauber, the Ruhr and the Isar. Detailed miniatures of famous landmarks will also be seen, including one of the Cologne Cathedral."
Other accounts claim that the ride would have also feature the country's more modern achievements much like Norway's Maelstrom boat ride includes that country's more recent industrial efforts. These most likely would have stood in the Ruhr Valley portion of the ride.
How much of the ride was built?
For years I was under the understanding that the show building for the river ride was built. It's widely mentioned online and in at least one book that the the full show building was built and still stands today.
As it turns out, this is false. Or at least partially false. But how can this be? I've walked through the show building a number of times. A piece of the show building, attached to the rest of the pavilion, was built and still stands today. But the majority of the show building was never constructed. You'll notice on our map above that the load area and the unload area are all that could have fit in the existing building.
It is often pointed out that the large castle-like building behind the clock tower is the Rhine River Cruise show building. The tallest, most prominent castle architecture you see to the left is, however, the Biergarten restaurant building. Shorter castle architecture to the right is the queue/load building.
Claims have been made that trenches were built into the foundation of these parts of the building. If true, they've since been filled.
Was the rest of the show building built then torn down? It was not. Let's look at these EPCOT Center construction photos. We see that the rest of the show building was never built. (Additional World Showcase construction photos here.)
What remains today?
In the early 80's large wooden doors stood at what was to be the entrance to the Rhine River Cruise queue. They were later covered with a wall and this mural.
I am guessing the doors were removed and the mural went in within the first five years. It could have went in much earlier. The inside of the Germany Pavilion archways tend to show up very dark in old photos and video footage. We know by 1987 (at the latest) the doors were gone and the mural was up. This is based on a souvenir book published in 1987 with a clear view of the mural.
Were the wooden doors placed right where the mural is today? Were there additional doors in the archway? Was the whole foyer area west of the Biergarten entrance blocked off? We see from this early early photo (most likely from a pre-opening preview day) that a wooden door or wall appears. It's difficult to determine if its under the archway itself or further back against the wall.
My guess: This wooden door/wall was up against the archway. Let's compare it to the left archway in the same photo It appears that nothing as far back as the back wall would be visible in this photo.
Why would the "wooden door" matter?
It was evidence of the unbuilt attraction visible to guests. Could concept art or some sort of "coming soon" signage have appeared on or near the door? If so, such a sign most likely would have been seen by guests for a very short time. The company stopped mentioning the Rhine River Cruise in1982 at some point. Perhaps before a single guest entered EPCOT Centers' gates.
Why would a door blocking traffic through the archway be important? Could this foyer area have been designed to incorporate the first Rhine River Cruise scenery? Blueprints don't indicate a separation between the Rhine River side and Biergarten side of the foyer but could a separation have been planned? A queue/load area like the one in this concept art might require some of the foyer real-estate.
Starboard-facing passengers.
It is my conclusion that passengers aboard the boats were to sit facing out the starboard (right) side of the boats. This is based on the layout of the water flume and what we can see in the above artwork. The water loop does not appear to accommodate show scenery on both sides of the water.
If passengers faced one direction, all show scenes would appear directly in front of the passengers and a dark wall would stand behind them. This increases visibly, show designers ensure that their audience sees what they intend them to see, and space is saved. This is much like the Disneyland Railroad benches facing right, toward the inside of the park.
Here we see a rendering of the load area and a boat much wider than they were planned to really be. Isn't the atmosphere is oh so nice?
An exit with a view.
Blueprints show an area between the unload are and the exit called "Viewing Area". This box-shaped area faces the Biergarten stage. Today this area is used for buffet service. I reckon guests leaving the ride would have been able to step off the exit path onto a porch for a view of the restaurant and its live entertainment. The smells of German food might have enticed them to dine at the pavilion. Unlike in the Mexico Pavilion, boat passenger and restaurant guests would not have had a great view of what the others were doing. This viewing area would have at least connected the two in a small way.
Added bonus.
Does it not look like there's a little piece of a boat in the archway of this Germany Pavilion logo?
Other info needed.
If you have other information about the Rhine River Cruise plans, please let us know.
Special thanks to:
Foxxfur from Passport to Dreams.
Michael Crawford from Progress City, U.S.A
Hoot Gibson from Mesa Verde Times
Mike Lee from Widen Your World
Epcot Explorium
Epcot Encyclopedia
Varsenik Wilson and Todd Shirley for the mural photos.
Various printed resources from The Walt Disney Company.
Related posts:
EPCOT Construction from the Air
THEN AND NOW: Epcot World Showcase [Part 1]
Mural-Removin' Season at Disney
EPCOT Center Graphics
Disneyland Meets EPCOT Center
Walt's Wife Talks About EPCOT Center
Carolwood Pacific and Other Backyard Railroads
Frito Kid Mysteries Continue