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Here's a vide of Dorothy McDaniel, Stick Gilbert, and me (Kent McDaniel) jamming live on WDBX 91.1. Carbondale. Rolling with some Jimmy Reed.
Here's a vide of Dorothy McDaniel, Stick Gilbert, and me (Kent McDaniel) jamming live on WDBX 91.1. Carbondale. Rolling with some Jimmy Reed.
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Here's an article Carbondale Times ran about Dorothy and me back in June. We appreciate it, and like the new merging of Carbondale Nightlife with Carbondale Times.
By Dakota Holden
updated: 6/22/2018 5:44 PM
The McDaniels will make their debut at PK's in Carbondale June 23. The blues and rock will start at 9 p.m.
The McDaniels are Kent (guitar, vocals) and Dorothy McDaniel (bass).
Kent McDaniel originally performed in Carbondale in the 1970s with The McDaniels Brothers Band, splitting shows with Shawn Colvin, opening for Earl Scruggs, and often sharing the stage with Tawl Paul. The McDaniel Brothers were a PK's regular, playing every Thursday night until Kent moved out the region.
Kent moved to Chicago in 1980. He tells Nightlife he bumped into Dorothy riding the train into the loop. She was going to her oboe recital, and he was on his way to see Koko Taylor. They decided to attend both events with each other. They later married and started a family of their own. They have been playing music together ever since as The McDaniels. In the past year, they both moved to Carbondale.
"No matter where I lived, I have always searched for a place that felt like home," Kent says. "When I moved back to Carbondale, it finally felt like home."
Since their return, they have hosted and performed on WDBX, played small shows at Tres Hombres and Celebrate 618, and now PK's for their first full-length show.
The McDaniels have an interesting combination of influences. Dorothy grew up playing with a strong classical background, teaching Kent theory and how to read sheet music. In return, he taught her the art of improvisation and memorization of music.
The McDaniels have been working with Jim Foerster at Mole Hole Studios on new music and are excited to release their recordings. Their song "When the Blues Come Knocking" features B.B. King-style rhythms and tasteful leads as well as beautiful background vocals.
The McDaniels' debut will feature guests including Stick Gilbert (percussion), Lew Hendrix (banjo) and Tawl Paul. It also happens to be Kent McDaniel's birthday that night, so make sure to give a proper Carbondale welcome.
Music is available through kentmcdaniel.bandcamp.com.
Who: The McDaniels
When: June 23
Where: PK's
I recorded a version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" (see icon below). I always thought the song was interesting but never bothered to learn it. Then my friend Tony Weisskopf wrote a parody of it called "Ghost SFPAans in the Sky," and once at a party during ContraFlow I told her I'd record it. Which I eventually did. When we finished it, I thought the music sounded interesting, like a spectral stampede across the sky. I decided to record the actual lyrics to the music as well as Toni's parody. The result is below.
An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw
Plowing through the ragged sky and up a cloudy draw
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered cross the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry
Yippie I A Yippie I O, ghost riders in the sky
Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat
They're riding hard to catch that herd but they ain't caught em yet
For they got to ride forever on that range up in the sky,
on horses snorting fire. As they ride on hear them cry.
Yippie I A Yippie I O, ghost riders in the sky
As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from hell ariding on our range
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Trying to catch The Devil's herd across these endless skies
Yippie I A Yippie I O, ghost riders in the sky
Ghost riders in the sky
Credits: Dorothy McDaniel, bass; Chris Butler, percussion; Bob Swenson, vocal harmony; Dan Marsh, harmonica; Me, guitars and vocal.
Dorothy and I returned to our favorite radio station WDBX for an hour set back in December. It was just the two of us, playinga mix of blues, country, jazz, and folk, but I'm gonna tell you, we were rocking pretty nice. There's a recording of the set, below. I hope you give it a listen and use some headphones when you do. It'll be worth it.
We want to thank WDBX for having us on. And especially Loy Addington, host of Lonesome Roy's Country Hoedown. Every time we get together with him, it feels like a
party to us.
I'm posting audio below of a filk song Toni Weisskopf wrote to be sung to the tune of "Ghost Riders in the Sky." The lyrics are below the audio icon, and below them a glossary to the various jargon from sci-fi fandom contained in the song.
I told Toni that I'd have it recorded by last May. The good news is that I'm not quite a year behind schedule.
Ghost SFPAns in the Sky
By T.K.F. Weisskopf Reinhardt
(after Stan Jones, 1948)
At DSC a fine young fan got on
the waitlist today
Upon a couch he rested as
He went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd
Of old SFPAns he saw
Plowing through the lobby
And some of them could draw.
[Verse 2]
Their hands were still on fire and
Their stencils made of steel
Their glasses black and shiny and
Their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as
Their comments made him sigh
For he saw the SFPAns drinking hard
And he heard their mournful cry
Minac I owe! Minac aiee!
Ghost SFPAns in the sky
[Verse 3]
Their eyes were blurred, their faces gaunt
Their shirts all soaked with sweat
They're writing hard to match page count
But they ain't caught Lon yet
Cause they've got to write forever at
That con up in the sky
Al's typer snorting fire
As they write on, hear their cry
Minac I owe! Minac aiee!
Ghost SFPAns in the sky
[Verse 4]
As the SFPAns rumbled by him
He heard Ned call his name
If you want to save your soul from hell
From page counts in our range
Then Jophan change your ways today
Or with us you will write
Trying to match Hank's golden wit!
And with Dolbear an Ignite!
Minac I owe! Don't make me OE!
Ghost SFPAns in the sky
Ghost SFPAns in the sky
DSC – Deep South Con. One of the oldest science fiction conventions that happens in the southern U.S. Been going fifty-four years now.
SFPA – Southern Fandom Press Alliance. SFPA is a science-fiction apa (amateur press alliance) founded circa 1962. Members all send fanzines into the Official Editor (OE), who assembles them into packages called "mailings" containing one copy of every zine and sends them out to each member. Apas used to be the heart of much of the most exciting activity in sci-fi fandom. Mailings could run close to a thousand pages. Membership rosters were limited, and fans often spent years and years on a waitlist before gaining entrance into to the more respected apas. With the advent of the internet, apas have generally experienced dwindling memberships. And though most of the great apas continue, few if any have a full roster these days. In its day SFPA was one of the great ones, and many sci-fi professionals and well-known fans got their start in SFPA.
SFPAn – A member of SFPA. Pronounced Seffpan.
stencils– Mimeograph stencils. Before photocopiers and home computers, most fanzines were printed on mimeographs. The text would be cut into a stencil using a typewriter with the ribbon removed. The stencils would them be attached to a large curved ink pad, which could be turned by hand to print the individual letter sized pages that were fed one by one into an open ended tray that the ink pad would run over.
Minac – Minimum activity. In order to stay in good standing, apa members have to contribute a certain amount of pages. (Often six pages every other time a mailing is sent out.)
page count– the number of pages in an entire mailing or the number of pages contributed by a member to a mailing or over a period of time.
Lon – Lon Atkins, a long time member and OE of SFPA, who contributed prolifically, perhaps more so than any other member in SFPA's history.
Con – Convention, in particular a sci-fi convention.
Al – Al Andrews, a founding member of SFPA, good guy, and co-editor of a respected fanzine called Iscariot. Late in life he was gifted an electric typewriter by some of his fellow SFPAns.
Ned– Ned Brooks, a SFPA member for over forty years, who was also SFPA's official archivist. Over the course of his fannish life, Ned assemble a collection of tens of thousands of fanzines, which included a complete run of SFPA's mailings. The collection is now housed at the University of Georgia.
Hank – Legendary sci-fi Fan Hank Reinhardt, a collector, editor, writer, active member of SFPA and The Society for Creative Anachronisms, and all around wild man.
Dolbear – Dennis Dolbear, a fan whom I never knew, but who I know was loved throughout sci-fi fandom.
OE – Official Editor. See SFPA, above.
This week's General Fave is the science-fiction artist Frank Kelly Freas, more commonly
known as Kelly Freas. He was an incredibly prolific artist; I'm guessing his science-fiction work alone numbers well into the thousands, of book and magazine covers as well as interior illustrations. He also painted the official insignia for Skylab I, more than 500 portraits of saints for the Franciscans, and numerous cover paintings for Mad Magazine (although Norman Mingo was the more-or-less official artist for Alfred E. Neuman's likeness, Freas did quite a lot of Neuman covers, and they're every bit as good as Mingo's).
Although I'm guessing I saw many of those Mad covers, I didn't really become aware of Freas' work until I saw his cover for Analog Magazine in May of 1967. I had been a science-fiction reader (hardcore fans almost NEVER call it "sci-fi") since I was very young; I think Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time was my first, checked out from my grammar school's reading room in 1962, followed by *Andre Norton's Daybreak 2250 A.D.,* purchased from a mail-order book club. I wasn't into the magazines so much, but some thing about Freas' cover painting compelled me to buy this one; I have no memory whatsoever of the story that it illustrated.
Born in 1922, he sold his first magazine cover painting to the venerable Weird Tales in 1950. Gnome Press published three book covers in 1952, and he started working for Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1953; Astounding changed its name to Analog and Freas worked for them until 2003. He started working for Mad in 1957, and painted most of their covers until 1962, which would have been right around the time that I started reading the magazine. He also painted hundreds of covers for the paperback publishers Ace, DAW, Signet, Avon, Ballantine and Lancer.
His style is instantly recognizable. His draftsmanship is clean, and his color palette really made some of his book covers (more so than the magazine covers) literally jump off the racks. His black-and-white work was always beautiful as well; he had a technique that I especially
loved, pen and ink on a textured illustration board that used to be called either Ross board or coquille board; sports cartoonists used to use the technique a lot. After the
main illustration was done with the brush, he's go over it and add shade values with a lithographic crayon. He also did a lot of scratchboard work, as well as straight-ahead pen and ink.
Like all artists, he had some visual tropes – the Kelly Freas spaceship, which owed a lot to the kind of streamlined spaceships drawn by Flash Gordon artist Mac Raboy; futuristic cities and space stations; robots; and of course, sexy (and usually scantily clad) women. Good lord, those Kelly Freas women! But like all artists, great and not-so, every once in a while he painted something that was completely uncharacteristic, like these cute lil' creatures:
He was nominated for the annual Hugo Award for best science-fiction artist a remarkable 20 times, and won the award 11 times, an unbroken record. He died in 2005, and by all accounts he was a warm, humorous guy, a frequent guest of honor or simple attendee at many science-fiction conventions. He dominated the field in a way that I think no one before or since has.
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Vital AirPosted: March 15, 2019 Filed under: Academia, Amber Ale, American Beer, Ethics, History, Natural Philosophy, Poetry, Red Ale, Theology | Tags: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Joseph Priestley, O'so Brewing Company, science, Wisconsin beer Leave a comment
Science and beer go together like philosophy and beer. Or art and beer. Or pretzels and beer.
Around the time of the American Revolution, brewing played an important role in the early study of chemistry. Dr. Joseph Priestley was one of the first people to isolate oxygen and identify some of its remarkable properties. He wrote a six-volume work entitled Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air in which he describes a number of different "airs" – "gasses" in modern English – and his experiments with them.
His "fixed air" – our "carbon dioxide" – was readily supplied by a nearby brewery. The fermenting beer provided such a great and steady supply of the gas that it became a favorite subject for experimentation. Dr. Priestley found that in fixed air, "a candle would not burn, and a mouse would have died presently." He even used an upside-down beer glass for his make-shift gas chamber:
If I want to try whether an animal will live in any kind of air, I first put the air into a small vessel, just large enough to give it room to stretch itself; and as I generally make use of mice for this purpose, I have found it very convenient to use the hollow part of a tall beer-glass… which contains between two and three ounce measures of air. In this vessel a mouse will live twenty minutes or half an hour.
For the purpose of these experiments, it is most convenient to catch the mice in small wire traps, out of which it is easy to take them, and, holding them by the back of the neck, to pass them through the water into the vessel which contains the air. If I expect that the mouse will live a considerable time, I take care to put into the vessel something on which it may conveniently sit, out of reach of the water. If the air be good, the mouse will soon be perfectly at ease, having suffered nothing by its passing through the water. If the air be supposed to be noxious, it will be proper (if the operator be desirous of preserving the mice for further use) to keep hold of their tails, that they may be withdrawn as soon as they begin to show signs of uneasiness; but if the air be throughly noxious, and the mouse happens to get a full inspiration, it will be impossible to do this before it be absolutely irrecoverable.
If that description made you feel bad for the mice, you should know that you are not the first to have that reaction. At least part of the time he was making these experiments, Dr. Priestly was a tutor at the Warrington Academy. A colleague of his at Warrington had a daughter named Anna Laetitia Aikin, later Anna Laetitia Barbauld, who grew up to be a prominent woman of letters. One of her early works was a poem, dedicated to Dr. Priestley, called The Mouse's Petition. The poem was written from the point of view of a mouse that had been trapped by Dr. Priestley and lamented it's prospective demise on the alter of scientific research. As the story goes, Anna placed the poem in the trap with the mouse, and when Dr. Priestley found it in the morning, he set the mouse free. Scientists, after all, are not completely heartless.
Beer of the week: Rusty Red Ale – Building on the work of Dr. Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrated that respiration and combustion are forms of oxidization: oxygen bonding with other elements. Like respiration and combustion, rust forming on iron is a form of oxidization. This red ale is from Wisconsin's O'so Brewing Company. It pours a dark red-brown with a head that dissipates very quickly. The aroma is mostly of roasted malt. The beer is bready, and the flavor follows. It is pleasant and malty, but I'd like a little more flavor. Even more caramel malt or more hops bitterness. Or both.
Reading of the week: The Mouse's Petition by Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Barbauld's narrator mouse makes compelling appeals that are both philosophical and sentimental. The poem also has a line that makes me curious about how intimate the author was with Dr. Priestley's work. The mouse claims that "The cheerful light, the vital air, / Are blessings widely given." The term "vital air" was one of the names given to oxygen, so it is possible that Barbauld was making a specific reference to Dr. Priestley's experiments with different gasses. Also, lest the reader get the wrong idea about the good doctor, Barbauld added a note to this edition of the poem to say that she did not mean to attribute any cruelty to Dr. Priestley, of whom she maintained the highest regard.
Question for the week: The use of animals in scientific research is a touchy subject. Some extremely important discoveries have resulted from the death and suffering of countless animals. Is there anything like a clear line that can be drawn between acceptable and unacceptable animal testing? For example, might we agree that testing cosmetics on animals is never ok, or that testing prosthetics on animals is always ok?
Natural BeautyPosted: October 26, 2018 Filed under: Amber Ale, American Beer, Natural Philosophy | Tags: Breckenridge Brewery, Colorado beer, George Berkeley, hiking, natural philosophy, nature Leave a comment
This is the thirty-seventh in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XXXVII: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
It is shockingly easy to forget just how amazing our surroundings are. Every so often, one needs to be reminded to look on the natural world with awe. Consider this your periodic reminder, care of George Berkeley:
"Look! are not the fields covered with a delightful verdure? Is there not something in the woods and groves, in the rivers and clear springs, that soothes, that delights, that transports the soul? At the prospect of the wide and deep ocean, or some huge mountain whose top is lost in the clouds, or of an old gloomy forest, are not our minds filled with a pleasing horror? Even in rocks and deserts is there not an agreeable wildness? How sincere a pleasure is it to behold the natural beauties of the earth! To preserve and renew our relish for them, is not the veil of night alternately drawn over her face, and doth she not change her dress with the seasons? How aptly are the elements disposed! What variety and use in the meanest productions of nature! What delicacy, what beauty, what contrivance, in animal and vegetable bodies! How exquisitely are all things suited, as well to their particular ends, as to constitute opposite parts of the whole!"
So go outside with a beer and gaze in wonder at how the trees have changed from just a few weeks ago, how the clouds undulate in the sky like foam on a freshly poured beer, or how a stream's flow is both constant and ever-changing.
Beer of the week: Avalanche Amber Ale – An avalanche is a terrifying and devastating event, but it also has something of a Berkeley's "pleasing horror." Avalanche Amber Ale is not terrifying, but it is terrific. It pours with a fluffy tan head atop a dark amber beer. On the nose are bread and caramel. This ale has a surprisingly light mouthfeel and just enough hops to balance out the plentiful malt. Breckenridge seems to know what they are doing.
Reading of the week: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley – This short excerpt from the Second Dialogue comes at the end of Philonous' argument that matter does not exist except in the perception. Just as Hylas has been wrangled into accepting the position that material has no existence independent of humans, Philonous pulls the rug out from under him and declares that material does exist because it is constantly perceived by God.
Question for the week: Where do you look for natural beauty?
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.Posted: September 7, 2018 Filed under: Amber Ale, American Beer, Natural Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology | Tags: Alaskan beer, Alaskan Brewing Company, alt beer, Douglas Mawson, geography, Harvard Classics, resolve, Robert W. Service, Sir Archibald Geikie Leave a comment
This is the thirtieth in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XXX: Scientific Papers
In 1911, a mere two years after the Harvard Classics was first published, Douglas Mawson (later Sir Douglas Mawson) led an expedition to map the coastline of Antarctica. He was an adventurer and a hero, but he was a man of science first. The great proof of this is not only in his scientific achievements, but also in his very attitude toward his objectives.
In 1912, Mawson was part of a brutal race against time and weather to get back to the base camp. He was part of a three-man surveying party that had pushed over 300 miles into (quite literally) uncharted territory. Suddenly, one of the dogsleds disappeared into a crevasse. With it went one of the men, B. E. S. Ninnis, the better half of the dogs, and most of the rations. Mawson and his remaining companion, Xavier Mertz, with little food (and no dog food) turn back to camp faced with the very real possibility that the weather and lack of supplies would thwart their attempted return.
Frostbite was a problem for them. But even worse was a condition called hypervitaminosis A. When humans consume too much vitamin A, they can suffer from adverse mental effects, hair and skin loss, and a slew of other nasty effects. And it just so happens that husky livers are chock-full of vitamin A. Of course, Mawson and Mertz did not know that; vitamin A was not even named until 1920. So when it came time to eat the sled dogs, they ate them liver and all. The results were deadly.
After nearly a month of trudging, eating stringy dog meat, and deteriorating health, Mertz succumbed. With the wind howling outside of the tent, his team members dead, and his own collection of physical ailments, Mawson considered just staying in his sleeping bag. It would be easy to just stay in the bag forever. But instead, he remembered this poem by Robert W. Service:
The Quitter
When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and… die.
But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can,"
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow…
It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.
"You're sick of the game!" Well, now, that's a shame.
You're young and you're brave and you're bright.
"You've had a raw deal!" I know — but don't squeal,
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
It's the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don't be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit:
It's the keeping-your-chin-up that's hard.
It's easy to cry that you're beaten — and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight —
Why, that's the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try — it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.
(Service, by the way, is known as the Bard of the Yukon. How appropriate for someone struggling for life near the South Pole to get strength from a poet of the far north.)
And those words inspired Mawson to break camp and trudge on. The day he buried Mertz in the snow, Mawson wrote in his journal: "I read the Burial Service over Xavier this afternoon. As there is little chance of my reaching human aid alive. I greatly regret inability at the moment to set out the detail of coastline met with for three hundred miles travelled and observations of glacier and ice-formations, etc.; the most of which latter are, of course, committed to my head." See what I mean about Mawson's attitude toward his geographic work?
Over the next thirty days, Mawson made his way back toward base. At one point, he fell through the ice. However the sled, what was left of it, wedged in the opening of the crevasse, and Mawson dangled from a rope above the abyss. Despite his weakened state, he hauled himself up, only for the edge to break away beneath him and leave him hanging once more at the end of the rope. He summoned all of his strength for one final attempt and dragged himself from the gulf in the ice.
Eventually, Mawson made it back to base camp. He returned without his companions, without his dogs, and without much of his skin and hair. What he did bring back was a great deal of geographical information, including names for two large glaciers on the Antarctic coast: Ninnis Glacier and Mertz Glacier.
Beer of the week: Alaskan Amber – Alaska has many nicknames, including "The Last Frontier". But Mawson's account of Antarctica makes Alaska seem relatively tame. And at least Alaska has breweries. From Juneau comes this delightful amber ale. It pours a clear dark amber with a good head. It smells mostly of roasted malt. The beer is smooth and malty, with hints of marshmallow and apricot. Delicious.
Reading of the week: Geographical Evolution by Sir Archibald Geikie – At the beginning of this essay, Geikie writes, "From the geographical point of view… we must rank an explorer according to his success in widening our knowledge and enlarging our views regarding the aspects of nature." In this respect, Mawson ranks very highly among the great Antarctic explorers.
Questions of the week: As great a story as it is, is it even possible that the information gathered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition was worth the human suffering and death?
Scoundrel WorshipPosted: August 3, 2018 Filed under: Amber Ale, British Beer, Fruit Beer | Tags: Biography, Harvard Classics, hero-worship, resolve, Thomas Carlyle, Wells Brewing Company Leave a comment
This is the twenty-fifth in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XXV: Autobiography, Etc., J.S. Mill; Essays and Addresses, T. Carlyle
It is clear from a review of the titles in the Harvard Classics that Dr. Eliot was a firm believer of the importance of role models and the possibility of learning from experience. His "five-foot shelf" includes a seemingly disproportionate share of biographical works. In addition to Plutarch's Parallel Lives and biographies by Izaak Walton, the set includes autobiographical writings by Franklin, Woolman, Augustine, Mill, Dana, and Cellini.
If the purpose of studying biography is to learn from positive role models, most of these selections are totally understandable. Franklin's Autobiography is full of folksy wisdom and Puritanical morality. Augustine's Confessions describe the path to faith and virtue from a dissolute youth. Johns Donne and Woolman were humble and pious preachers whom one would do well to emulate. Excellent role models, they.
But Thomas Carlyle suggests in his essay on Sir Walter Scott (another biographical work) that the value of biography is more than just an appreciation for role models, but an instinctive attraction to people of distinction. "Such is hero-worship; so much lies in that our inborn sincere love of great men!" If we are to emulate the subjects of biographies, we are to emulate them for their greatness rather than any moral virtue they happen to have. And more likely, we are to find that we are incapable of emulating them and should worship them all the more for doing what we could not.
What's more, Carlyle claims that the attraction to prominent figures is more important than finding truly great heroes to worship. For even in the hero-worship of merely "noted men" is the seed of the value of following the truly great. "Find great men, if you can; if you cannot, still quit not the search; in defect of great men, let there be noted men, in such number, to such degree of intensity as the public appetite can tolerate."
Here, I think Carlyle misses the mark. His version of history is a string biographies of a few great men who, by power of personality and virtue (in the Machiavellian sense,) were able to drag society upward. In truth, we give far more credit to "great men" than they deserve. It is the toil of the multitude, and the choices of the many that have led to the tremendous material improvements in society. From the spontaneous order of the market to the physical production of the food and widgets that we need and desire, the actions and decisions of each individual has always better provided for the material needs of society than the dictates of any "great leader". There is plenty to learn from biographies of notable people, but it is a mistake to assume that their lives alone have brought us here.
Beer of the week: Wells Banana Bread Beer – The name says it all. This not-quite-copper-colored ale is banana bread in a can. The aroma is of bananas and spice. Without being too sticky or sweet, this really does taste a lot like banana bread. It is very smooth with enough spicy hops in the finish to make sure that it tastes like beer as well. And delicious beer at that.
Reading of the week: Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Carlyle – Later in the essay, Carlyle writes, "there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man: also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed."
Question for the week: How does biography compare to other forms of nonfiction? Is it even fair to call biography a subcategory of nonfiction?
Strong LanguagePosted: July 20, 2018 Filed under: Amber Ale, American Beer, History | Tags: Aldi, Biography, resolve, Richard Henry Dana Leave a comment
This is the twenty-third in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XXIII: Two Years Before the Mast, Dana
In the preface to Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. warns: "I have been obliged occasionally to use strong and coarse expressions, and in some instances to give scenes which may be painful to nice feelings; but I have very carefully avoided doing so, whenever I have not felt them essential to giving the true character of a scene."
Perhaps the most extended example "strong and course" language Dana employed was in relating a telling-off that the crew of his ship received from their captain:
"Away with you! go forward every one of you! I'll haze you! I'll work you up! You don't have enough to do! If you a'n't careful I'll make a hell of the ship!…. You've mistaken your man! I'm F—— T——, all the way from 'down east.' I've been through the mill, ground, and bolted, and come out a regular-built down-east johnny-cake, good when it's hot, but when it's cold, sour and indigestible;—and you'll find me so!"
If that is what passed for strong language in 1840, then I'll be d—d!
Beer of the week: Independence Harbor Amber Ale – This is an ALDI house brand. It had been known as Revolution Harbor, but the name has changed for some reason. Either name seems to allude to Boston Harbor (and perhaps hint at the beer being similar to Samuel Adams). Boston, of course, is where Dana's life as a sailor began. Independence Harbor is a handsome amber beer with a decent tan head. The aroma is of biscuit. The flavor is the same, with just a bit of honey sweetness at the finish. For the price, this is a very solid beer.
Reading of the week: Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Chapter VIII – I've really enjoyed this book. From his descriptions of life onboard a merchant ship in the middle of the 19th century, to his exploration of Californian culture in the days before the gold rush, Dana's paints vivid scenes. This chapter includes discussion of sailors' slang, duties onboard, and the ship's arrival in California. If you enjoy this chapter, the rest of the book should be, in Dana's language, "nuts to you." (That's a good thing.)
Question for the week: It is often said that profanity shows a lack of imagination, but can't the stringing together of profanities be an art of its own?
Mermaid BloodPosted: June 8, 2018 Filed under: Amber Ale, American Beer, fiction, Literature | Tags: Brothers Grimm, Chicago beer, Disney, fairytales, Hans Christian Andersen, Pipeworks Brewing Company, resolve Leave a comment
This is the Seventeenth in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XVII: Folklore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
SPOILER ALERT: This posts contains spoilers for centuries-old fairytales.
Those raised on Disney films and picture books are likely to be shocked by the original versions of the fairytales that they learned growing up. The basic formula for so many of these stories are 1) witch causes magical transformation, 2) protagonist finds true love, 3) kiss breaks the spell, and 4) they live happily ever after. In the older versions, however, there is often another important plot point: brutal violence.
In Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Sea-Maid, there is plenty of violence that got left out of the Disney version. In the first place, the transformation from mermaid to human is extremely painful, as if she were being run through with a sword. And her new feet bleed constantly, so that every step that she takes feels "as if [she] trod upon sharp knives." This is compounded by the fact that the prince loves to see her dance, so, for his entertainment, "she danced again and again, although every time she touched the earth it seemed as if she were treading upon sharp knives." But at least that wins his heart, leading to the kiss that would make her transformation complete, right? Wrong.
See, in Andersen's version, the prince falls in love with a princess and marries her instead of the mermaid. The irony is that he thinks the princess, rather than the mermaid, saved him from his shipwreck. After the prince and princess marry, the mermaid takes a magical knife and prepares to stab the prince right in the heart. The plan is for his heart's blood to fall on her feet and cause them to "grow together again into a fish-tail" so that she she can return to the sea. But she cannot bring herself to murder the prince (although she does get so far as to stand over the prince and his bride as they sleep, knife in hand.) Rather, she jumps back into the ocean and dissolves into sea-foam. There is, however, a sort of happily ever after for the little mermaid. She is given the chance to earn an immoral soul through good deeds. In a way, this is a much more positive message than the idea that being loved by the prince is the key to lasting happiness; her destiny is in her own hands rather than in his.
The Disney version of Cinderella is less markedly different from the source material, but there is still a good bit of violence left out. In the Bros. Grimm version, when the prince goes out looking for the owner of the lost slipper, the step-sisters go to terrible lengths to try to make it fit. The first sister cuts off her big toe and the second cuts a chunk off of her heel. The prince, evidently not one of the smartest characters in literature, is fooled by each in turn. Each time, talking birds save the day by telling the prince to look down at all of the blood that is positively streaming from the slipper. After he finds Cinderella and marries her, those same birds go and peck out the eyes of the step-sisters to punish them for their dishonesty, as if having mutilated feet is not bad enough.
It is constantly bemoaned how violent popular media has become, so how does one account for the softening of these violent stories? In part, it may be that the intended audience for Andersen and Grimm are not young children. Or at least not young children exclusively. Also, the violence serves the purpose of hammering home a moral lesson. The last line of Grimm's Cinderella is not about the prince and Cinderella living happily ever after; it is about the step-sisters: "for their wickedness and falsehood they were punished with blindness as long as they lived."
Next time you are shocked by how violent a movie is, remember the sea-maid hiking up a mountain as her shoes fill with blood, or the step-sisters being blinded by pigeons who are also total snitches.
Beer of the week: Blood of the Unicorn Hoppy Red Ale – Now, to transition from step-sister and mermaid blood to Blood of the Unicorn. Chicago's Pipeworks Brewing Company makes this fantastic(al) red ale. In truth, the beer is dark brown with just a hint of red, which becomes more pronounced when the sediment is swirled from the bottom of the can and poured out. It comes with lots of smooth soft foam (not sea foam) and an aroma of herbal hops. Although it is plenty hoppy it also has some sourdough yeastiness and a bit of burnt caramel. Blood of the Unicorn is a very smooth, very deliciously brew.
Reading of the week: The Frog-King, or Iron Henry by The Bros. Grimm – Young king gets transformed into a frog, he finds a princess to break the spell, her kiss frees him. Right? Not quite. In this version, the princess finds the frog to be so odious that she "took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall." Hurling a frog against a castle wall cannot be described as anything other than attempted amphibicide. Yet, somehow, that act of disgust and rage breaks the spell.
Question for the week: Why have fairytales been watered down and sweetened?
Time-AtomsPosted: July 28, 2017 Filed under: Amber Ale, American Beer, History, Natural Philosophy, Religion, Skepticism, Theology | Tags: David Hume, Goose Island Beer Co., Islam, Maimonides, Muslim theology, Skepticism, Theology 2 Comments
This is the third in a series of posts on skepticism (and Goose Island beers.) The earlier posts can be found here.
We are told by Moses Maimonides that the predominant Muslim scholars of his day were atomists. Much like most people today, these mutakallimūn believe that all matter is composed of indivisible particles. More controversially, however, they also believe that time itself is composed of time-atoms. Maimonides claims that this belief is derived from Aristotle's assertion that time, space, and motion "are of the same nature" because they can be divided in constant proportions to each other. So if all matter is divisible into a finite number of atoms, then time cannot be infinitely divisible. To maintain constant proportions to the nth degree, time must also be divisible only a finite number of times. The result of the final division is an indivisible unit of time.
A consequence of these time-atoms is that each moment must be discrete from that which precedes or follows. And, more importantly, the characteristics of each time atom adhere to that time-atom alone and do not transfer from one moment to the next. So all accidents ("such as colour, smell, motion, or rest") lack duration. For example, the only reason that a beer is amber in color one moment and continues to be the same color in the next moment is God actively creating each atom in each moment. If we were to add green food coloring to beer (for some reason), it would probably turn green. But the "greenness" of the dye ceases to exist in the very instant that the beer comes in contact with it, and God must create the greenness anew in the beer.
Obviously, the beliefs of the mutakallimūn are not consistent with skepticism. (The fact that they are beliefs at all is a dead giveaway.) But some of their consequences certainly appear skeptical. For one thing, these beliefs implicitly deny cause and effect. The addition of green food coloring to beer may result in green beer 10 times out of 10, but the mutakallimūn attribute the change to the will of God, not to some principle of the dye acting upon the beer. This is quite reminiscent of Hume's argument against inductive reasoning. We cannot come to a rational conclusion that some specific cause always has some specific effect, because that is merely an assumption based on our limited experiences. It is always possible that we are missing something or that some change might disrupt our supposed "law" of cause and effect.
Likewise, the idea that physical attributes do not have duration squares with a thought of Hume's. Hume argued that to believe in causation, one would have to first identify some law that the future is always similar to the past. But even if such a law does exist, we have no way of knowing it. As a result, it is unreasonable to form any belief as to what will happen in the future, even with things that we observe to be regular and predicable. Although the mutakallimūn apparently believe that God constantly creates attributes through time to create the appearance of continuity, they, like Hume are unwilling to acknowledge any law that the future must be like the present.
The great caveat in this whole line of thought is that one need not actively deny that the addition of food coloring will change the color of the beer. We are entitled to rely on practical experience to help us through our day. The issue is whether we can, through reason, come to believe that causes will always have effects and that the so-called laws of the universe will be the same tomorrow as they are today. The mutakallimūn doubt both of those, but believe in a certain explanation of the universe and that the will of God creates the illusion of continuity. The skeptics, on the other hand, simply withholds belief outright.
Beer of the week: Honkers Ale – No doubt about this offering from Goose Island. This copper-colored bitter is quite nice. It is just a solid, malty ale with a finish that is just bitter enough to balance it out.
Reading of the week: The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides – This selection from Chapter LXXIII of Part I lists the twelve propositions common to all mutakallimūn, as well as some of the consequences of those propositions. Regarding time-atoms, Maimonides writes "The Mutakallemim did not at all understand the nature of time."
Question of the week: How can one square the skeptic's rejection of causation and the reasonable confidence that flicking the light switch actually does cause the lights to come on?


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Fast Facts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Antibiotic use is the most important modifiable driver of antibiotic resistance, and antibiotic-resistant infections lead to higher healthcare costs, poor health outcomes, and more toxic treatments 1.
At least 30% of antibiotic courses prescribed in the outpatient setting are unnecessary, meaning that no antibiotic is needed at all. Most of this unnecessary use is for acute respiratory conditions, such as colds, bronchitis, sore throats caused by viruses, and even some sinus and ear infections 2.
Total inappropriate antibiotic use, which includes unnecessary antibiotic use plus inappropriate antibiotic selection, dosing, and duration, may approach 50% of all outpatient antibiotic use. 3, 5.
Antibiotics are the most common cause of adverse drug events (ADEs) in children, accounting for 7 of the top 10 drugs leading to pediatric ADE-related emergency room (ER) visits. Antibiotics are in the top three drug classes leading to ADE-related ER visits for all ages. 6.
Improving antibiotic prescribing can reduce harm. A 10% decrease in inappropriate prescribing in the community can result in a 17% reduction in Clostridium difficile infection, a severe form of diarrhea usually caused by antibiotic exposure 7.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States. 16 September 2013. Web. 17 July 2014.
- Fleming-Dutra, K., et al. (2016). "Prevalence of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions Among US Ambulatory Care Visits, 2010-2011." JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association 315(17): 1864-1873.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Office-related antibiotic prescribing for persons aged ≤14 years — United States, 1993—1994 to 2007—2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60(34):1153-6.
- Pichichero ME. Dynamics of antibiotic prescribing for children. JAMA. June 19, 2002;287(23):3133-5.
- Shapiro DJ, Hicks LA, Pavia AT, Hersh AL. Antibiotic prescribing for adults in ambulatory care in the USA, 2007–09. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2014;69(1):234-40.
- Shehab, N., et al. (2016). "US emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events, 2013-2014." JAMA 316(20): 2115-2125.
- Dantes, R., et al. (2015). "Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection." Open forum infectious diseases 2(3): ofv113-ofv113.


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Camp Arcadia, located in Northwest Michigan, is a non-profit, Lutheran, family resort and retreat center on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan. Arcadia exists to provide a setting for families and individuals to "vacation with God." We want you to be renewed in spirit, mind and body – as you are surrounded by God's creation and live in community with other Christians..
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Beaches – Ericeira
Coxos beach
Coxos beach is a small yet lovely horseshoe-shaped beach, bathed by extremely clear water and sheltered from the north wind.
Don't be fooled by the beach's name: the world-famous waves of Coxos (which forms a part of the Ericeira World Surfing Reserve) are not found here, but in the neighbouring bay to the south.
It has a small bar and toilet facilities.
Ribeira d'Ilhas beach
Ribeira d'Ilhas beach, located between Ericeira and Ribamar, is internationally renowned as one of the best surfing spots in Europe
It has been host to the ASP (WQS) surf world championships since 1985. There is a car park available and the Ericeira beach bus stops nearby. Excellent restaurant with terrace on the beach as well as a surf center.
São Sebastião beach
Under the gaze of the church that gives it its name, São Sebastião beach is situated at the northern end of the village of Ericeira.
The beach (which is long but narrow, practically covered by the ocean during high tide) is accessed by a beautiful stairway of Portuguese cobblestones.
Another attraction at this beach are the waves, highly sought after by surfers and bodyboarders.
Praia do Sul beach
The beautiful beach of Praia do Sul (also known as Praia da Baleia Beach) is located just south of Ericeira.
The break can be divided into two different waves. The first is a right point/reef break that is only suitable for experienced surfers. The second is a mixed (sand and reef) break that is also suitable for less experienced surfers with smaller swells. On the cliff top exist two support parking lots. This beach is sheltered from winds coming from all directions, except west, so it's an ideal spot for children to play and swim.
Foz do Lizandro beach
When traveling to Ericeira with children, Foz do Lizandro beach is the perfect beach to go!
There is a river that runs from the sea which allows younger children to play safely in slightly warmer water and let the kids safely try body boarding on the little waves. For those wanting to catch some good waves the ocean is right there, it's a great spot for surfers whether beginner or more skilled.
Lots of free parking, several surf schools and a few cafes/restaurants with healthy food along the elevated walkway parallel to the river/sea front.
Other facilities include changing rooms, toilets and showers and a first aid station. Beach umbrellas and sunbeds are available to hire on the sand.
São Julião beach
Praia de São Julião in the south is one of the more picturesque beaches on the Ericeira stretch of coastline.
If you catch it at low tide, it can be several kilometers long and an unbroken stretch of white sand beneath dramatic cliffs.
Popular with surfers and sunbathers alike, this beach is a great place to spend the day sunbathing and to hit some waves.


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The Arena Club
The Arena Club, located in Bel Air, MD, is the real deal for getting your body and mind fit. The health club offers nearly anything you can think of: state-of-the-art fitness equipment, personal training sessions, a saltwater therapy pool, an elite indoor turf field, and over 85 group fitness classes. Not to mention, the Arena Club boasts the largest waterpark in Harford County!
As you can see, the Arena Club really has their stuff together when it comes to health, fitness, and fun. But, when it came to generating new leads through digital marketing, they wisely sought out some assistance.
The Arena Club realized that their website needed updating if they were going to bring in the desired membership numbers. Their goals for the website were as follows:
The Arena Club's measurement of success would be the number of new members gained from the online form. Another objective the Maryland fitness club wished to meet was 150 leads from the new website in a month. The DGA and Arena Club teams decided that ease-of-use would be the leading force in this project.
While paid traffic was being driven to the Arena Club website, these visitors weren't turning into members. To bring in more qualified leads, the Arena Club provided DGA with a few buyer personas that they believed would be best to target. These included
To help these top qualifiers through the buyer's journey, the Arena Club asked for easy-to-locate program schedules, membership benefits, and member registration forms. The gym also wanted to boost new campaigns that promoted kids' activities and their sports performance program.
After hearing all of the Arena Club's objectives, the DGA team was ready to get our hands dirty! It wasn't going to be a quick job, however. The Arena Club needed 60+ web pages to house all of the necessary content. Using our analyst's reports, we were able to identify the type of content and the locations that users seemed to opt for.
Our content team ran through all of the Arena Club's images, PDFs, videos, and contact forms with a fine-toothed comb. We kept the best of the best and optimized the rest.
Trainer bios, class schedules, and other important contents were thoughtfully placed in the navigation according to category. Throughout the entire process of designing and placing content, we kept the Arena Club's buyer personas in plain sight..
The Arena Club went for gold. And they got it. Some of their achievements include


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Muslim Feminist's Killing Angers Turkey
2000-01-26 04:00:00 PDT Istanbul -- With Turkey in a state of shock over the discovery of dozens of savagely tortured bodies beneath hideouts of a religious terror group, much of the outrage and grief has been focused on the case of the only female victim.
The woman, Konca Kuris, was often described as a Muslim feminist. In books, articles, lectures and television appearances, she had described Islam as a religion that guarantees women's rights, and asserted that male commentators over the centuries had twisted its essence in ways that led to the oppression of women.
In July 1998, Kuris was kidnapped from the street in front of her home in the Mediterranean town of Mersin. There were no clues to her fate until her burned and disfigured body was exhumed Saturday from a shallow grave in Konya, 220 miles northwest of Mersin.
Her body was one of 33 that have been found so far at properties used by Hezbollah, or the Party of God, a group dedicated to overthrowing the secular Turkish state and establishing an Islamic republic in its place. According to news reports, some of the bodies were missing limbs, and others had nails driven into their skulls. Police investigators are searching for more corpses.
An estimated 200 residents of southeastern Turkey, most of them businessmen unsympathetic to the cause of militant Islam, have disappeared since August. Hezbollah is now considered the prime suspect in many of these cases.
The group is also suspected of involvement in a 1993 arson attack in the city of Sivas. That fire killed 37 secularist intellectuals who had gathered for a conference.
Hezbollah is not believed to be connected to the similarly named group that has fought against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Both groups, however, proclaim loyalty to fundamentalist Islam.
According to press reports, the police team that uncovered Kuris' body also found a videotape containing scenes of torture sessions she endured over a period of weeks. At one of the sessions, her captors are said to have charged her with seeking to become Turkey's version of Salman Rushdie or Taslima Nasrin, writers whom some Muslims consider heretics deserving of death.
"She had a great influence on Turkish women," said Ayse Onal, who has written several books on feminism in Turkey. "She showed that it's possible to be completely modern and still be faithful to Islam. That's why she was killed.
"Hezbollah, which is a very sick and deeply violent group, could not tolerate her point of view."
Kuris was the only intellectual among the Hezbollah victims found so far. Most of the others are believed to have been Kurdish businessmen from war-torn provinces in the southeast.
After the first bodies were found last week, several politicians, news commentators and others charged that the Turkish military had collaborated with Hezbollah in the early 1990s, encouraging its death squads to kill Kurds considered favorable to the cause of Kurdish nationalism.
President Suleyman Demirel rejected that charge but appeared to agree that some government agents or agencies might have had connections to Hezbollah.
"The state does not commit murders or order murders to be carried out," Demirel told reporters in Ankara on Sunday. "There may be forces belonging to the state that act illegitimately, but they are committing a crime."
Military commanders issued a statement denying that they or their predecessors had sponsored or aided Hezbollah.
Turkey is arguably the world's most secular Muslim country, and many people here, especially women, considered Kuris an exemplar of their tolerant brand of Islam.
She was born in 1960, was married at 17 and had five children. At a young age, she became interested in Islam but quit the first religious sect she joined after being asked to wash its leaders' clothes. Later, she made a trip to Iran with a Hezbollah delegation but returned disillusioned with the organization because, she said, it supported a brand of Islam that was hostile to women.
After reading the Koran and various works of commentary, she began challenging religious orthodoxy, asserting that Islam does not require women to cover their hair with scarves and does not require the separation of the sexes at funerals or in schools. She also urged that public prayers be offered in Turkish rather than the traditional Arabic.
"Konca used her mind, her emotions and her conscience to interpret God's message," said Gonul Tufekci, a lawyer who is prominent in Islamic feminist circles in Istanbul. "This approach challenges the ideology that tries to use Islam as a tool to keep women down. It is based on the concept of an open mind. This concept is repugnant not only to groups like Hezbollah, but to many institutions in this part of the world."


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An air quality management system has been in operational use in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, for several years. In the system there are, in addition to databases for measurements of air pollution and meteorological parameters and emission data, several dispersion models. The models include a Gaussian and a Eulerian (grid) type of dispersion model. An evaluation of the Gaussian and the grid models for Stockholm has been carried out. Simulated concentrations of nitrogen oxides, NOx, have been compared with measured NOx concentrations at three measuring stations in central parts of the city. The evaluation was based on comparisons between measured and simulated concentrations in two time-series, a summer week and a winter week, and between two seasonal simulations, a summer and a winter seasonal average and extreme concentrations. It was noted that the mean difference between the measured and the simulated concentrations during all trials varied from a few percent up to 60%. It was also noted that the differences for the seasonal averages and 98-percentile decreased considerably when the simulated value was picked from the gridpoint with best agreement with the measured value, inside a circle with a radius of one grid distance from the measuring station.
The paper presents estimates of the far-range atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), obtained using the long-range atmospheric dispersion model MATCH. Software tools were developed to run MATCH in the EU nuclear emergency response system JRODOS using freely available numerical weather prediction (NWP) data of the Global Forecasting System (GFS) operated by the United States National Center of Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Comparisons are made of results with JRODOS/MATCH and a standalone MATCH operated by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) driven by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) NWP data.
Working Group 1 of COST Action 710 investigated the use of meteorological pre-processors for short-range dispersion models for regulatory purposes. Two commonly used schemes for estimating boundary-layer fluxes from standard meteorological observations were intercompared using high latitude measurements from Sweden for spring/summer and winter conditions. Ground heat fluxes estimated with five different schemes were compared for data measured in Switzerland. The main results of these studies are presented.


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Origami is an art of paper folding so that you could represent an object out of it. It is often associated with Japanese culture. Let's kick-start Origami Day with these origamis – Yoda from Star Wars, Santa bookmark and a useful box.
Yoda from Artis Bellus
A Dog's box from Origami Club
Santa Bookmark from Origami Resource Center
Happy Origami Day!
SOURCE: FreeImages.com/Adam Bollenbacher


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YMCA participants and those interested in using Open Y are invited to join a monthly call to discuss the progress of features and integrations, plus explore opportunities for collaboration.
Calls are scheduled for 11am (Central Time) on Tuesdays:
- First Tuesday of the month for Ys new to Open Y. Coming later in Q1.
- Second Tuesday of the month for Ys experienced with Open Y
- Third Tuesday of the month for core Open Y partners (by invite only)
Contact the Open Y team for more information on the calls.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va.- Newcomers West Virginia and TCU are fitting in nicely to the pass-crazy Big 12.
The Mountaineers' Geno Smith and the Horned Frogs' Casey Pachall have helped elevate the conference's stock of talented quarterbacks following the departures to the NFL of Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III of Baylor and Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden.
Smith is among the national leaders in passing yards and is tied for the FBS lead with 12 touchdown passes. Pachall leads the country in passing efficiency with six other Big 12 quarterbacks among the top 20.
Five of the top 10 scoring teams in the country are from the Big 12.
Last year the Big 12 had four 4,000-yard passers. Despite the losses of Weeden, Griffin and Ryan Tannehill of now-former Big 12 member Texas Aandamp;M, "the Big 12 is just going through the roof again with offensive numbers," said Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. "So, it's going to be fun to watch this thing."
West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen has prepared his team to fit in to a high-scoring conference yet said each Big 12 opponent will dictate what he does with his offense.
"We've got to get out there and put these guys in position to be successful, and hopefully you'll have more points than they do in the end," Holgorsen said.
That might be a lot on Saturday, when Smith and Griffin's successor, Nick Florence, go head-to-head when No. 9 West Virginia (3-0) goes against No. 25 Baylor (3-0).
Smith has thrown for 1,072 yards and 12 TDs with no interceptions this season.
Florence and Smith are 1-2 nationally in total offense at 388 and 380 yards per game, respectively.
Florence has gotten up to speed on the Baylor starting job. Because he was Griffin's backup a year ago, Florence didn't throw a pass until late November.
He's coming off a 351-yard, four-TD performance in a comeback win over Louisiana-Monroe.
Pachall, who set school records for passing yards (2,921) and completions (228) as a sophomore last season, has kept up the pace this season and is the first Horned Frogs quarterback in 11 years with consecutive 300-yard passing games.
Let's not forget about Big 12 veterans like Texas Tech's Seth Doege, Iowa State's Steele Jantz, Kansas State's Collin Klein, Oklahoma's Landry Jones and Texas' David Ash.
Doege threw for six touchdowns in his last game against New Mexico. Both Doege and Jantz are averaging 25 completions per game, which is second in the league to Smith's 32.
Then there's the scrappy Klein, who may not have the gaudy numbers of other quarterbacks but has No. 7 Kansas State at its highest ranking in nine years.
And despite No. 16 Oklahoma's loss to Kansas State last week, Jones moved into ninth place in FBS history with 13,511 passing yards.
Ash is the only other Big 12 starter besides Smith without an interception.


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Due to the uncertainty of Corvid-19, we have decided to temporarily close until further notice. We hope to be open again soon, once things have settled.
Kind regards The Messy Hare Gallery Management
"Our aim is to Support local artists by offering a creative hub for the community of Burton upon Trent and its visitors and promoting creativity for improved mental wellbeing"
The gallery is situated in Crossley House which is located between the Market Hall and Burton & South Derbyshire College in Burton upon Trent. The venue houses; to the front, a coffee shop, where you can enjoy a range of fine teas and ground coffees, along with a range of tasty homemade fine snacks and cakes, with ingredients locally sourced wherever possible. The café includes the offer of vegetarian / vegan / gluten free options, all served in a creative way to match the creative environment.
There is a small selection of art materials for sale in the shop area to nurture creative skills, before you enter the gallery space proper, which is a large area (approx 36sq metres), housing a range of artwork; from paintings and drawings to jewellery, pottery and sculptures, predominantly by local creatives.
Workshops will be on offer for all skill levels, with in-house and guest tutors.
Address: The Messy Hare Gallery & Coffee Shop | Crossley House | Manor Croft | Burton upon Trent | Staffordshire | DE14 1HJ
Opening Hours – Tuesday to Saturday: 9am to 4pm, Sunday: Closed except for workshops and events


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By Tyler "The Miracle Man" White
After losing his last two fights to both Anthony Joshua and more recently, Dillian Whyte, many people will be doubting Parker's place amongst the top current crop of heavyweights.
Despite having previously held the WBO World title.
It's no secret that Parker had a far easier route to becoming a World champion than most of history's most prestigious heavyweight champions had, as did Anthony Joshua, after Tyson Fury vacated all of the titles he won from the long reigning heavyweight king – Wladimir Klitschko.
However, a World title is a World title and once Fury vacated his belts it opened up a lot of opportunities for a lot of fighters.
Parker won his WBO strap with a Majority Decision win against Andy Ruiz and from what little bits I can remember, it was hardly an outstanding performance and from the judges scorecards it was not a real decisive win.
Two fights later and Parker beat Hughie Fury – the younger cousin of Tyson – although again that was another questionable victory, as many thought that Fury did enough to outbox and outscore the Champion from New Zealand.
Everyone knows what came next and Parker lost to Anthony Joshua at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. In front of around 80,000 fans and almost 12,000 miles away from home, Joseph Parker failed the impress and never really got going against an unusually wary AJ.
Granted, the referee didn't help Parker out in that fight, but none-the-less, the fight became a real stale-mate and left boxing fans bitterly disappointed.
However, last month Parker had another chance to make a statement over in the UK, against Joshua's long time rival – Dillian Whyte.
Initially, Parker started off well, looking very confident behind his jab and letting his punches go with a real sense of speed, purpose and sharpness.
This exciting looking Parker began to fade however, and for the majority of the fight the former champion looked flat, demotivated and like a man who was already beaten.
What ignites a flicker of hope within me however, is the sharpness that Parker showed in the first few rounds accompanied by the same sharpness and that inkling of desire that he showed in the last round when he knew Whyte had no gas left in the tank.
If Parker can work on his psychology and get past that mental barrier that he quite clearly has, then I believe there's a lot of potential there which could see him cause upsets amongst the giants of the heavyweight division.
This is an opinion that is probably not shared by most within the world of boxing, but when you think about how cagey Joshua was with Parker and how sharp Parker started against Whyte. You can see some potential and that this guy packs a punch, whilst carrying the speed alongside it that could catch any heavyweight off guard.
I've also seen footage of Parker hurting Joe Joyce before in a sparring session and for anyone that's seen Joe Joyce, they know he's a big; strong unit. The fact that Parker hurt him in a sparring session and that Parker has a solid chin, well, this gives me added hopes that Parker could come back one day in the future and regain his heavyweight crown.
Whether he does or not, is down to him and how much he's willing to do to get it back.Contact the Feature Writers


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5 Easy Christmas Tags | Personalized Gift Wrap with Love Happy Holidays
I wanted to get a start on the Christmas tags for this holiday season. I have never made them before and I hope to keep doing this over the next few weeks.
You will need a few things:
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The most important element in raising children is the element of surprise. The second most important element in raising children is cadmium. But everybody knows that.
Insecure about your level of artistic talent? This blog is for you. My wish is that you view my work and think, "Seriously? I can do better than this."
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My own weekly meme where I list some of the awesome books I bought, received in the mail, or checked out of the library. This week I received so many amazing books in the mail that I'm not going to bother with mentioning anything else! I also love how most of these books have a red, white, and black theme going on.
In the Mail:
An ARC of Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker from Harper Collins. Comes out September 27th. I think I'll probably have to re-read the first two books first, but I cannot wait to read this!
Review copies of Bloodlands by Christine Cody (July 26th) and Chosen by Blood by Virna DePaul (July 7th) from Penguin.
An ARC of When She Woke by Hillary Jordan from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Comes out on October 4th.
Review copy of With No Remorse by Cindy Gerard from Pocket Star Books/Simon & Schuster.
What books did you get this week?


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Experience the Cabot Trail as you drive along a small portion of the Atlantic shore from the port of Sydney to Ingonish. You'll view some of the most dramatic and pristine scenery in North America including spruce covered mountains, tranquil rivers and ocean beaches.
This tour reveals vistas that inspired Alexander Graham Bell to observe, "I have traveled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps and the highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all." Picture stops along the way will help you remember some of the most dramatic and unspoiled scenery you experienced while on Cape Breton Island. Enjoy a buffet style lunch along the Cabot Trail before returning to your ship.


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Trans-shipping of coal in the Great Barrier Reef
The Queensland Government recently announced a new policy regulating trans-shipping (unloading and reloading at sea) of coal off Queensland including within the Great Barrier Reef. While this looks like increasing protections it breaks a commitment by the Labor Party to not allow trans-shipping in reef waters by making exceptions for "designated ports", like Abbot Point. With a quick turn around date for the proposed regulation NQCC made a submission, available here: Trans-shipping_submission.pdf.
National Day of Action - Make a human sign to "StopAdani"
Our biggest day yet to #StopAdani.
Sometimes you just need to spell it out for people.
The fate of Adani's monstrous coal mine hangs on securing a one billion dollar government loan from our government. This is our moment to call out our political leaders for supporting this Reef-destroying, future destroying mine.
So we're going to spell out the #StopAdani message loud and clear for our politicians.
As the sun sets on Saturday 7 October, thousands of Australians will have had the biggest day of action we've ever seen to stop Adani. We will create human signs so big that they can't be ignored, at iconic locations across Australia and make no mistake the beach below the Rockpool, the Strand, Townsville with Magnetic Island in the background and our beloved Castle in the foreground is our icon.
With the creative team that brought you Heads in the Sand which went viral together with many of Townsville's leading singers we will create a massive human sign and sing our hearts out to the tune of the three line chorus of Let the Sun Shine In from the musical Hair. As a bonus, small, red and white cardboard placards will be available which we can hold to the sky as the drone flown camera captures our stop sign.
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Divestment – what is it and why it works
Divestment Day 2016 is coming up! Here's a quick guide to what divestment is, the successes that divestment campaigns have had so far, and what we are doing this year.
What's divestment?
Divestment is the opposite of investment. It's rearranging your finances so that you aren't supporting the fossil fuel industry through your bank, investments, superannuation or insurance. We have power as consumers to choose financial services products in-line with our strongly held convictions about climate change.Read more
Coal and Coal Seam Gas
Despite the massive weight of scientific evidence showing that our addiction to fossil fuels, by increasing carbon emissions, is exacerbating climate change and threatening the survival of our planet as we know it, we keep on producing and consuming more and more of the stuff!
And in north Queensland we not only consume more and more of it, we help others to develop and feed the habit. North Queensland has the shaming 'honour' of being the world's largest coal exporting region. (Australia is not the world's biggest producer but is one of the largest exporters and, as of 2009, Hay Point, Abbot Point and Gladstone between them were already shipping nearly 60% of the total.) Over the last decade, perhaps in a desperate rush to make as much money as possible before the world wakes up to alternative (clean) energy, mining companies vastly increased the rate of exploitation.
At the same time, Queensland's farms and towns are facing the onslaught of the race to exploit coal seam gas regardless of its known dangers. Fortunately, CSG is not a big industry in our region, while the February 2016 decision by AGL (a major CSG producer 'down south') to pull out of CSG and coal fired power stations is a huge win for the conservation movement.
The continuing fall in the price of coal (as of February 2016, forecast to stay at around $43/tonne through until 2020) is leading to slow- and shutdowns in this industry worldwide as reported in the SMH. Nevertheless, the push to stop extraction and use of fossil fuels cannot afford to slacken off and NQCC continues to campaign strongly to this end. Click here for our most recent posts relating to Coal and Coal Seam Gas, and visit the separate Abbot Point Update page for details of NQCC's legal action against the coal terminal from June 2014 onwards. There are a few more blog posts on the topic in our archive, at this link.
#StopAdani Roadshow returns to Townsville
The #StopAdani Roadshow returns to Townsville on 27 April after the original event was cancelled due to Cyclone Debbie. Organisers are expecting to the 400 seat theatre at Event Cinema.
"The momentum to Stop Adani just keeps growing. We are excited by how many North Queenslanders are getting behind this event and joining the movement to Stop Adani" says North Queensland Conservation Council coordinator Maree Dibella.
"Communities are putting on film screenings in Port Douglas, Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton. There are over 110 community groups leading campaigns in their towns and suburbs, with 12 just in regional Queensland.Read more
Paperbark April 2017
Welcome to the April issue of Paperbark. Our thoughts and well-wishes are with the communities to our south who felt the full force of Cyclone Debbie.
In this issue: Guarding the Galilee film screening – Special General Meeting – Stop Adani Alliance launched – Adani roadshow returns – Queensland Women's Week event wrap up – Minister's Environment Roundtable – upcoming local enviro events
Date savers (more details below)
27 April – "Guarding the Galilee" premiere documentary screening.
2 May – Special General Meeting regarding Port of Townsville expansion project campaign
12 May – 'The Food We Eat: its impact on environments and bodies' free public discussion
MEDIA RELEASE: NQCC signs up to be part of historic Stop Adani Alliance
Today in Canberra, veteran environmentalist Bob Brown will join community leaders from around the country to launch the 'Stop Adani Alliance' and build the biggest movement in Australia's history to stop Adani's dangerous coal mine and end coal for good.
North Queensland Conservation Council (NQCC) is a founding member of the Alliance.
NQCC co-ordinator Maree Dibella said, "It's great to see people from around the country join our fight to stop the Adani's mine from going ahead. I know there is a lot of local support here in Townsville for this campaign, but I also know we can't win this on our own."Read more
Media release: The Adani Files
North Queensland Conservation Council (NQCC) is shocked by a new report that shows that not even the Federal Minister responsible, Senator Matt Canavan, knows where a $1 billion taxpayer-subsidised loan would go to within the Adani group of companies which operate many of their entities in tax havens.Read more
Adani's Carmichael Mine: Addressing the Facts
This is a post by outgoing Community Campaigner Jacob Miller.
The Adani Carmichael Project has increasingly benefited from State and Federal Government support while the list of financial institutions distancing themselves the project continues to grow. Supporters of the mine try to justify the project, citing the supposed economic benefits for North Queensland and even go so far as to claim coal from the mine will help India reduce its carbon emissions. This post is going examine and dispel the myths that are being used to prop up the case for the Carmichael project.Read more
Paperbark November 2016
Another busy month at NQCC! November will be another eventful month, with Maree attending the Environment Roundtables with other Queensland enviro groups, NQCC hosting an intern, and our unmissable trivia night on the 19th – don't forget to purchase your tickets!
In this issue: Townsville Port expansion – radioactive contamination at Ben Lomond – Adani 'critical infrastructure' – Hell's Gate Dam forum wrap-up – fisheries reform – Marine Park review – Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – NQCC's trivia night – EOI for 2017 postcard exhibition.Read more


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Water Conservation
Conserving water helps everyone. It can lower your utility bills in the City of Brantford, help the environment, and aid in water sustainability for the future.
Watering restrictions
The Water Conservation by-law helps us manage the outdoor water usage of residents.
In the by-law, watering times are restricted in the summer months (June to August).
Watering times are restricted to:
- 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
- 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
In the summer, your water usage days depend on your house number:
- If you have an odd numbered address, you can only water on odd numbered calendar days.
- If you have an even numbered address, you can only water on even numbered calendar days.
Do not overspray water on paved surfaces, such as your driveway. This is prohibited as it wastes water.
Watering cans and pitchers filled from your tap are excluded.
You can also apply for a watering permit.
Low-flow toilets
You can save water by installing low-flow toilets in your home. These are designed to use less water and save money.
Water conservation tips
Use these water conservation tips to save water every day.
2019 garden seminars
Join us as we host free gardening seminars for City residents in the month of March and learn how you change your green space into an attractive, waterwise landscape. Visit our gardening seminars page for more information.
Waterwise demonstration garden
The Waterwise demonstration garden, located at Tranquility Hall, showcases gardens that rely on rainfall for moisture.
Waterwise recognition
We recognize your water conservation efforts and award residents who have designed waterwise landscapes. Find out more about our waterwise landscape recognition program.
Watch our water conservation videos for more useful tips.


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Wow, 2 more days to go for #Blogvember! And I'm almost missing my deadline for today, as I start writing this at 21:55. Welp, let's get on with it! For this blog I had a really fun idea to answer some anonymous questions from you all. I thought, as you see my pictures almost daily: I should share some of my deepest, darkest secrets. Well not too dark obviously. I'm a really light, bright and bubbly person for the record. Also there are some "would you rather"s in there. Ouch, this is gonna be another messy blogpost.
Starting off light, innit? See, this is why I procrastinated on this blogpost. Because of these kind of questions. Why are y'all like this? My fetish right now -to be completely frank- are dark painted walls. Sorry not sorry. They really give me the special tingles.
Are you dating anyone now?
Besides dating my bed and my fear of failure: I too am dating a human. You didn't define "dating" though, nor did you ask any follow up questions, so I get of the hook here!
Wine or beer?
Honestly both. At home mostly wine, at the pub mostly beer. Pfew, did I answer correctly?
What's your most unpopular opinion?
Okay, I'm going to say it. Star Wars is hella overrated. Don't @ me.
Hawaii or Iceland?
In an ideal world I'd visit both once in my lifetime. However, I'm such a pale bag of bones that I can't handle temperatures above 20 degrees Celcius. Also, Iceland is wayyy more my aesthetic. So: Iceland.
Biggest guilty pleasure song?
Oh I have like 40000 of them. I don't feel that guilty about most of them though. I think my biggest "guilty pleasure" jam is Left Outside Alone by Anastacia. Okay, maybe I'm currently listening to that one right now.
Summer or winter?
Throwback to the 'Hawaii or Iceland' question: I don't handle the heat well. But I also don't like snow. So I go for autumn.
Straight, gay, bi or pan?
Not really scandalous but; alcohol or weed?
Yes. Not opposed to both of them, don't smoke that often though.
Hamburger or sushi?
If I were a cultured and interesting person, I'd go for sushi. I -however- am a trash human, that just enjoys burgers like it's no ones business. Hamburger. All. The. Way.
Is Black Pete racist?
So for the not-Dutchies here, there is this tradition here similar to Santa Claus which has "helpers" which are wearing blackface as part of their costume. It ís racist. I mean, look how it sounds when trying to explain it in English.
Are you gay?
Night in or night out?
Night in for sure. Although I can kill it on the dance floor once I feel like it. But even then I have to end the night with some downtime at home.
Do you have any guilty decor pleasure?
Ooooooof I have way too many. Kitchy portraits of children who look sad. Way too over the top gilded statues of flamingos. Granny lampshades. Generic inspirational quotes is one of my most guilty decor pleasures.
Written blogs or YouTube videos?
Okay this one I put in here myself, being transparent with you. I write blogs, which I like. I always have enjoyed writing and storytelling. However, I stumbled upon a great quote when doing research about writing better blogs. "Don't create content which you don't consume." Keeping that in mind, I'd choose YouTube videos.