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INTRO – A Durham couple has a unique problem in their publishing efforts… and if they choose to commiserate about their problem with a malted beverage in hand, that's o-k. It's just more research for their next published effort which, given exponential growth in their chosen topical field, could be sooner rather than later. George Olsen has more.
Erik Lars Myers and Sarah H. Ficke have what would typically be a devastating problem for authors… they no sooner publish a book and its out-of-date.
(Erik) "Even when we hit 45 breweries in the first book that book was 6 or 8 breweries out of date by the time it even got published a few months later. We had something similar with this book. We finished writing it in December and now there are 176 breweries in the state, so there are almost as many breweries that have opened since we finished writing this book in December as there were in the first book."
Erik Lars Myers talking about the first two editions of North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries. The first edition came out in 2012… and as just mentioned was out of date when it hit stores. This year's second edition profiles 136 breweries and brewpubs around the state… and 40 more have opened over about eight months' time. Craft breweries are now just starting to take off in North Carolina, propelled by the arrival in 1980 of a German immigrant to the Outer Banks region.
(Sarah) "He was really important because when he came to North Carolina he came because he was in farming, and when he came to NC he had this vision of starting up a business like the ones they had in Germany where you have a farm that's also a brewery. When he looked into it he discovered it was illegal because the laws we had were still left over from post-Prohibition, essentially. So people who were producing beer were not allowed to sell it on their own premises. He thought that was pretty backward, and so he basically realized that, right around when he was doing this, wineries had just passed a law in the NC House and Senate that allowed them to have a restaurant on premises because they wanted to be able to make wine and also have people consume it there. So what he did was take that bill and essentially cross out winery and put in brewery. He took it back to the Legislature and said, hey, here's this bill and I want to get it passed, and it was the same thing they just looked at so they looked at it again and they said that looks fine and so he actually got the law changed so that people could make beer and also sell it to people to consume on their premises, and that allowed him to open up Weeping Radish."
Co-author of North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries Sarah Ficke talking about Uli Bennewitz, whose arrival in 1980 ultimately brought action in the state Legislature in 1985 followed by his first brew pub Weeping Radish in 1986. Sarah notes it's not the first "big moment in beer history" for eastern North Carolina. Christoph von Graffenried arrived in what would become New Bern in 1710. The Swiss nobleman soon wrote a relation in Germany requesting equipment for one thing he found missing in the New World.
(Sarah) "That was the earliest mention of brewing in the state of NC that I could find when I was doing my research. And I love it because it was another German immigrant who did the same thing that Uli did who wrote home saying could someone send equipment to brew with because there's no beer here. In his case his wife knew how to brew and he asked them to send him equipment and they did."
All that history and the work of Uli Bennewitz didn't prompt a flood of craft brewers in the state. Fifteen years after Bennewitz' advocacy only 28 breweries were active in the state. That's when the next great moment in North Carolina beer history occurred… the passage of the Pop the Cap legislation in 2006 that raised the legal alcohol limit for beer.
(Erik) "It sounds a lot like let's make sure we can all get drunk but that's not what it's about. It's about a breadth of styles and the ability to make a wide array of beers. Six percent alcohol just doesn't have enough range to be able to allow people to make a wide range of say Belgian offerings or German offerings or English offerings. There's just a lot of variety to be had there. So there were breweries in NC and they were making really great beer. I think the real stumbling block is you didn't have a very excited drinking base at that point. The customers were not really excited about the variety that was available to them. And when the cap got raised, what you had was a lot of breweries from out of state who were not distributing it to NC who all of a sudden saw NC as a viable distribution alternative, because if you're a brewery in Michigan or Pennsylvania or something like this and you have six beers that you make and three of them are over 6 percent alcohol, three of them are below 6 percent alcohol you won't distribute any of them to NC because it's not worth the distributing if you can't distribute your whole portfolio. So for a lot of people who were outside of this state it just made a lot more sense to not distribute until an entire portfolio was available and that I think brought in a lot of options and variety into the marketplace and got drinkers very excited which meant that having a brewery here doing a wide array of offerings was a much more viable business."
Still, craft brewers didn't suddenly overflow the North Carolina market. Pop the Cap passed in 2006, by 2010 the number of breweries had crept up from 28 in 2000 to 48 and shortly after Eric and Sarah published their first edition of North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries in 2012 the number of breweries was only in the 50s. That's more an indication of the fact breweries are not overnight start-ups. You want to start a brewery… don't quit your day job, at least for a while.
(Erik) "I think pop-the-cap was definitely the catalyst. It certainly set everything into motion. You've got to think that yes, we're only seeing a really big explosion over the past few years but it takes a long time to start a brewery. You're usually talking 3-to-5 years between coming up with the idea and actually getting equipment set up and brewing. Five years is probably a generous idea on how long it takes to start one of these businesses. So, a lot of this has taken place over the last decade and is coming to fruition now."
And Erik Lars Myers further notes an evolution in government thinking about breweries… from prohibition in the early 20th century to state legislation making a craft brewery economically viable to outright courting of brewpubs.
(Erik) "Overall you see a lot of local governments realizing that breweries are good for economic growth, and so a lot are trying to attract breweries no matter how they can, giving them tax abatements or in some case even offers of free rent in buildings just to get something going on. I know Warren County was looking for a brewery for a long time. Greenville has been actively looking to find a large brewery to move in there. People are really recognizing that breweries are drivers for economic growth or a good source of jobs, and of course they are a good source of tourism. They bring people into your town to see the town that they wouldn't necessarily go there for. "
And local breweries aren't just local in the sense they exist in your town. Erik and Sarah say local brewers can come pretty close to producing beer with 100% in-state grown items … barley is grown and malted in-state though a consistent source of local hops is still a problem. But the biggest single ingredient in any beer is water, and as most craft brewers don't have access to giant water processing facilities, Erik says "You're using your local town's water so it makes it taste like your local town's water." Just as more restaurants are taking advantage of what their region produces, brewers are recognizing where they're from, putting them firmly in a trend moving away from a "one size fits all" mentality that predominated the food and beverage industry for decades.
(Erik) "Frankly, I think we see America going from this great homogenization in the 1950s to the 1970s in which the pinnacle of food, or achievement in food, was making a hamburger that tasted the same way on both coasts, ignoring the fact that America is really this great tossed salad of people, and everybody everywhere has their own particular tastes and wants in terms of the food they create and the climate they're living in. What we're really seeing now is a food economy and a drink economy that's reflecting the actual society that we are rather than this idea of homogenization."
Erik Lars Myers & Sarah Ficke of Durham are the authors of the second edition of North Carolina Craft Beer and Breweries published by John F. Blair. I'm George Olsen.


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Let me state up front that I have been away from the internet and TV for most of the last two days, so I have missed out on a ton of stuff making the news. It is my understanding that parts of Texas have been blasted with severe weather over the past few days and quite a bit of property damages was done by high winds and hail. That infers that roof damage to homes in the area must be pretty widespread, leaving thousands of folks needing roof repair ASAP. If you fall into this category, I have found a company for you that does things the Old Fashioned Way - with deference to the needs of the customer and with quality that would make your Mother proud - Tice Roofing.
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While some composers would be horrified if a new piece of music put an entire audience to sleep, Max Richter fully expects it. The German-British composer has created what's believe to be the longest continuous piece of classical music ever recorded. Called "SLEEP," its sole function is to provide a lulling soundtrack to your non-waking hours, immersing listeners in what he calls an "unconscious sense of fleeting through a landscape."
The project took two years to compose, with Richter consulting with American neuroscientist David Eagleman on the various phases of sleep and the sounds that best complement them. The end result is an eight-hour piece scored for piano, strings, vocals and electronics.
"It's a piece that is meant to be listened to at night. I hope that people will fall asleep listening to it, because the project is also a personal exploration into how music interacts with consciousness – another fascination for me," Richter writes in the sleeve notes for "SLEEP." "We spend more time sleeping than we do anything else – in the average life it amounts to several decades. What a miraculous part of our lives, this state of suspended animation existing between being and non-being (and for me personally, where all my work is actually done). What happens to music here? Are there ways in which music and consciousness can interact other than in a wakeful state? Can music function as a truly shared creative space?"
Those anxious to experience Richter's "SLEEP" can actually give it a shot tonight. Starting at 8 p.m., his #ONEWORLDSLEEP site will stream the entire album for free for one night only. Participants are encouraged to turn down the lights, listen, fall asleep, and then post reactions on social media.
join me at 8pm: an experiment of what happens when music & our sleeping minds connect http://t.co/wxYN8MO6rq #OneWorldSleep— maxrichtermusic (@maxrichtermusic) September 3, 2015
If you happen to be in Germany this October, Richter will premiere his new composition as part of an epic eight-hour concert from midnight until 8 a.m. "We basically will play in the round, so the band is in the middle, and ringed around it are four or five hundred beds," Richter told NPR.
Instead of the sweet sound of applause, Richter's gauge of success will likely come from the amount of snoring he hears around him.
"This whirlwind of a life – so fast, so little time. When I look at my children, I wonder where they will find rest," he adds. "Those moments of being that they used to have as tiny babies, arms outstretched, trusting of the world.
"I've long wanted to write something that might soothe them, so this is my personal lullaby for a frenetic world – a manifesto for a slower pace of existence."
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[ syll. lee-ta, le-eta ] The baby girl name Leeta is pronounced as LIY-TAH †. Leeta is used mostly in the English language. Its language of origin is Latin, Hebrew, and African-Swahili.
Leeta is a derivative (English) of the Hungarian, Dutch, German, Italian, English, and Greek name Alida.
Leeta is also a derivative of the English and Hebrew name Carmel.
Leeta is also a derivative of the English name Leta.
See also the related categories, swahili, english, latin, and hebrew.
Leeta is not frequently used as a baby girl name. It is not ranked within the top 1000.
Baby names that sound like Leeta include Leata, Leyta, Lada, Laoidheach, Latah, Lauda, Leatha, Leatrix, Leda, Leeda, Leetice, Leida, Leita, Lelita, Leota, Letha, Letsee, Letsey, Letsi, and Letsie.
† approx pronunciation for Leeta: L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"


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I am back! A married woman, and finally back on the blogosphere. And i couldn't think of a better place to start than to talk you through my wedding day make up!
Yes in an ideal world, I would have had a wonderful make up artist at my beck and call, creating a look of the rich and famous. Instead I had my trusty sidekick Mags, a suitcase full of brilliant make up, and a few lessons under our sleeves.
So what did I learn? Doing my own make up meant I had a real natural look, when applying make up on ourselves, we are defintely less liberal, and more inclined to layer to ensure no mistakes are made. I also believe that lighting played a huge part. Stood in an awkward mirror in the wrong lighting does no one any favours. And product is key.
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* Nars Primer - light and silky, perfect for humid conditions
* Laura Mercier foundation - a shade darker than normal to compliment the overseas location
*Chanel eye shadow - these prove that layering works, and you most defintely get what you pay for!
*Chanel eye pencil - in green, this really complimented my eye colour, and big thanks to Dawn in Debenhams, Salisbury for even suggesting this off the wall idea!
*Liz Earle eye cream - amazing at concealing the dark circles, without a made up look of some concealers
*No7 translucent powder - perfect for setting the make up to last
*A lovely pale pink Chanel lipstick
*And finally a glass of champers, with a bit of confidence, we all let our inner beauty shine through!
This was a brilliant learning curve for myself and Mags, with a combination of make up counters, books and trials at home, we perfected my wedding day look.
So a quick insight for you on how we approached my wedding day make up. I will be talking about some of the products in more detail in future blogs, and look out for some christmassy themed blogs coming soon!
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The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it! I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you,"Thanks for loving America." I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page – it's dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the U.S.A. as much as I do.
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They're now erroneously reporting on the book's contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We've heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, "fact checking" research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to "fact check" what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing.
We'll keep setting the record straight, and we'll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting. A great, recent post that accomplishes this is a Conservatives4Palin post. It's got some nice fact checking included. As always, they did a great job holding some of the media accountable for spreading more misinformation and for making things up. You can read it here. Enjoy!
And I can't wait to see you! God bless the fight for freedom! Keep up the great work, Patriots who love this country.


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I have put together a fun-run with several distance options from 3 to 50 miles. Of course, for those joining the 50-milers later in the day you'll have to suffer the slow pace and the moaning and complaining and likley have to hang at the "drop-station" van until we make it back from one of several, different loops...but hey, maybe that's incentive to go for the long run?
This is a "mixed" ultra consisting of both trail running and asphalt paths in the urban setting, but don't let that fool you! The trails I've linked together are possibly the best the twin cities has to offer in one continuous circuit linking both cities. Home base, and the support van, is located at Forst Snelling SP and several loops branch out and back from there, so no crew people needed that would have to sacrifice an entire day to help us. The longest ssection without aid is the first 20 miles of the day, so packs may be required for that section depending on conditions and your needs. All trails stick to the two rivers' cooridors and offer fun, highly variable running with beautiful vistas.
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Relive 1 NEWS NOW's live coverage of tonight's Super Rugby clash between the Chiefs and the Queensland Reds at FMG Stadium in Hamilton.
The Chiefs hold on, but only just. Brave stuff from the home team as the referee rules that the Queensland Reds' reserve hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa was held up over the try-line.
80 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
PENALTY! Another penalty goes against the Chiefs for an infringement at line-out time and the Reds again kick for touch and have another line-out from 5m out.
78 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
PENALTY! The Chiefs are just on holding on! They are penalised for an offside play and the Reds get another shot at the try-line as they kick for touch and get an attacking line-out from 5m out.
74 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
Again it is Lachlan Boshier who makes another steal at the breakdown and gets his team the Chiefs out of trouble! The Reds are relentless on attack and look like they are most likely to score next.
70 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
TURNOVER! Chiefs' blindside flanker Lachlan Boshier saves the day just as it looked like the Reds were going to score. He makes a brilliant turnover 3m out from his own goal line and Jack Debreczeni clears the ball into touch with a great kick.
64 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
An unusual exit play from the Chiefs from deep inside of their own 22 - but it works. Chiefs winger Etene Nanai-Seturo makes a break and is brought down just on his own 22m line. Jack Debreczeni gets his boot to ball and he kicks it deep into the Reds' half.
56 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 13
TRY! After 19 phases the Reds finally get over for their first try of the match! Taniela Tupou celebrates big after he burrowed over to score his side's first five-pointer of the match.
Bryce Hegarty is on target with his shot at goal and the Reds now trail by just six-points.
50 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 6
PENALTY! The Chiefs are penalised for an offside play on their own 40m line. Queensland Reds' prop Harry Hoopert is down and time has been called. Hoopert suffered a nasty head knock and shoulder injury as he attempted to tackle Brad Weber.
Harry Hoopert has been stretchered off the field and he has been replaced.
45 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 6
PENALTY! Reds fullback Matt McGahan is hit with a high shot by Tumua Manu on Queensland's 40m line.
40 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 6
And we are back underway! Marty McKenzie gets things started with a deep kick-off towards the Reds.
39 mins: CHIEFS 19 REDS 6
TRY! The Chiefs keep the ball in hand and spread it wide to their left winger Etene Nanai-Seturo, he has too much pace and speed. He's over to score the Chiefs' third try of the match.
Marty McKenzie is on target with his shot at goal from the sideline.
34 mins: CHIEFS 12 REDS 6
THREE! Reds' number 10 Bryce Hegarty slots his penalty kick at goal from pretty much in front of the sticks.
33 mins: CHIEFS 12 REDS 3
NO TRY! Reds hooker Alex Mafi is tackled 4m short of the try-line and he has crawled his way over. Referee blows his whistle and gives the Reds a penalty after he was playing an advantage for an offside play by the Chiefs.
30 mins: CHIEFS 12 REDS 3
TURNOVER! Sam Cane comes up with a brilliant turnover 5m out from his own goal-line and Alex Nankivell makes a brilliant clearance kick with the midfielder finding touch around halfway.
25 mins: CHIEFS 12 REDS 3
PENALTY! Taniela Tupou tries to put on a big shot on Nepo Laulala and he is penalised with his second shot at Laulala deeming to be a high and dangerous shot.
Laulala's teammates don't like it and the Chiefs players pile in! It's all on as the players push and shove, Taniela puts his hands up and approaches Laulala and apologises for the dangerous hit. A nice gesture from the Wallabies prop.
23 mins: CHIEFS 12 REDS 3
TRY! The Chiefs are in again! Alex Nankivell made the initial run and break for the Chiefs. Brad Weber gives the ball to Nathan Harris and he bobbles it backwards with his front row partner Atu Moli regathering the ball before putting his head down and powering over to score from close range.
Marty McKenzie's conversion attempt is offline as the ball hits the uprights.
13 mins: CHIEFS 7 REDS 3
THREE! The Chiefs are penalised for an offside play and Reds first-five Bryce Hegarty steps up and nails a 25m+ penalty kick at goal.
9 mins: CHIEFS 7 REDS 0
TRY! Some wonderful work from Chiefs' number eight Pita Gus Sowakula who breaks out of three tackles to score down the right flank after an incredible 30m run.
A clearance kick by the Reds proved costly as Solomon Alaimalo ran the ball back before linking up with Marty McKenzie and Sowakula.
Marty McKenzie is on target with his conversion attempt from out wide.
5 mins: CHIEFS 0 REDS 0
NO TRY! Chiefs' midfielder Alex Nankivell breaks through the Reds' defensive line and the Chiefs spread the ball wide to left winger Etene Nanai-Seturo and he goes over to score down the left hand corner.
The referee sends it upstairs to the TMO and he rules the Nanai-Seturo lost control of the ball as he grounded it. A controversial call by the officials.
4 mins: CHIEFS 0 REDS 0
NO TRY! The Reds go side-line to side-line and inch their way closer and closer to the Chiefs' goal-line. Reds' number eight Angus Scott-Young picks and goes from the back of the ruck and he's over. Replays show that Angus had a second dig at the line.
Referee blows his whistle and rules a double movement, a lucky escape for the Chiefs.
KICK-OFF! Reds first-five Bryce Hegarty gets things started with a high and long kick towards the Chiefs.
The Chiefs are in must-win mode and need to win their remaining three regular season matches to have a shot at making the play-offs.
Sam Cane made a successful return to rugby after being out of action since October last year with a neck fracture.
He came off the bench in the Chiefs' 23-8 loss to the Blues last week at Eden Park and played 42 minutes.
The 27-year-old has been named to start in the No.7 jersey tonight and will take over the captaincy role from starting halfback Brad Weber.
Brad Thorn's Reds have won three out of their last four games against the Chiefs in New Zealand.
Chiefs: 15 Solomon Alaimalo, 14 Shaun Stevenson, 13 Tumua Manu, 12 Alex Nankivell, 11 Etene Nanai-Seturo, 10 Marty McKenzie, 9 Brad Weber; 8 Pita Gus Sowakula, 7 Sam Cane (c), 6 Lachlan Boshier, 5 Tyler Ardron, 4 Jesse Parete, 3 Nepo Laulala, 2 Nathan Harris, 1 Atu Moli.
Reserves: 16 Samisoni Taukei'aho, 17 Aidan Ross, 18 Sosefo Kautai, 19 Daymon Leasuasu, 20 Mitchell Karpik, 21 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi, 22 Jack Debreczeni, 23 Sean Wainui.
Reds: 15 Matt McGahan, 14 Jock Campbell, 13 Seb Wileman, 12 Duncan Paia'aua, 11 Sefa Naivalu, 10 Bryce Hegarty, 9 Tate McDermott; 8 Angus Scott-Young, 7 Liam Wright, 6 Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, 5 Angus Blyth, 4 Izack Rodda, 3 Taniela Tupou, 2 Alex Mafi, 1 Harry Hoopert.
Reserves: 16 Brandon Paenga-Amosa, 17 Feao Fotuaika, 18 Ruan Smith, 19 Adam Korczyk, 20 Scott Higginbotham, 21 Scott Malolua, 22 Teti Tela, 23 Liam McNamara.


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Jozef Gécz is a NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Human Genetics at the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide. He joined the Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme in April 2016 after being awarded the Inaugural Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability.
In 2000 Jozef established and currently heads the Neurogenetics Research Program which focuses on genetics and biology of neurodevelopmental disabilities. In his 30 years of competitive research, he has discovered or contributed to the discovery of numerous (>150) genes for various forms of neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g. FMR2, ARX, CDKL5, PHF6, PCDH19, UPF3B, IQSEC2, TBC1D24, USP9X or HCFC1 to name a few).
Jozef has published in excess of 253 peer-reviewed publications. The main research interest of the Neurogenetics Research Program is gene identification and functional, cellular and molecular modelling of intellectual disabilities, epilepsies, autisms and cerebral palsies for better management and eventually treatment of these disorders.
1986 Prize of Ministry of Education - awarded to top 10 students in the country
1989 Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences - award to young scientist
1990 ESHG (European Society of Human Genetics) Travel award
1991 FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Travel award
1994 Soros Foundation Travel award
2000 Nominated to HUGO Council
2005 Elected, president of the SA branch of HGSA, member of the HGSA Council
2005 Inaugural HGSA (Human Genetics Society of Australasia) 'Sutherland' lecture award'.
2007 South Australian Great Finalist in 'Excellence in research for public good outcomes'
2008 Toshi Yamada memorial lecture, Institute of Molecular Biosciences and Queensland Institute of Brain Research, Queensland, Australia.
2009 NARF (National Association of Research Fellows) annual lecture award, Sydney, November 27, 2009.
2010 NHMRC Excellence Award for the highest ranking Program Grant Application (NHMRC 628952).
2010 Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FFSc RCPA)
2012 Izakovic Memorial Medal Award of the Slovak Society of Medical Genetics.
2012 Award of the Associazione Abitanti Centro Storico di Roma (Rome, Italy) for research into molecular genetics of the disorders of the Central nervous system.
2015 Fellow of the AAHMS (Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences).
2016 Spirit of Progress Award, PCDH19 Alliance, San Francisco, USA, June 5, 2016.
Selected publications – past five years:
Nguyen LS, Jolly L, Shoubridge C, Chan W, Huang L, Laumonnier F, Raynaud M, Hackett A, Field M, Rodriguez J, Srivastava AK, Lee Y, Addington AM, Rapoport JL, Suren S, Hahn C, Gamble J, Wilkinson MF, Corbett MA, Gécz J. Transcriptome profiling of UPF3B/NMD deficient lymphoblastoid cells from patients with various forms of intellectual disability. Molecular Psychiatry, 17(11):1103-15, 2012.
Huang L, Jolly L, Willis-Owen S, Gardner A, Kumar R, Douglas E, Shoubridge C, Wieczorek D, Tzschach A, Cohen M, Hacket A, Field M, Froyen G, Hu H, Haas SA, Ropers HH, Kalscheuer V, Corbett M, Gécz J. A non-coding, regulatory mutation implicates chromatin-associated gene HCFC1 in non-syndromic intellectual disability. American Journal of Human Genetics, 91(4):694-702, 2012.
Jolly L, Homan C, Jacob R, Barry S, Gécz J. The UPF3B Gene, Implicated in Intellectual Disability, Autism, ADHD and Childhood Onset Schizophrenia Regulates Neural Progenitor Cell Behaviour and Neuronal Outgrowth. Human Molecular Genetics, 22(23):4673-87, 2013.
Homan CC, Kumar R, Nguyen LS, Haan E, Raymond FL, Abidi F, Raynaud M, Schwartz CE, Wood SA, Gécz J* and Jolly LA*. Mutations in USP9X are associated with X-linked intellectual disability and disrupt neuronal cell migration and growth. American Journal of Human Genetics, 94(3):470-8, 2014. * - corresponding author.
Coe BP, Witherspoon K, Rosenfeld JA, van Bon BW, Vulto-van Silfhout AT, Bosco P, Friend KL, Baker C, Buono S, Vissers LE, Schuurs-Hoeijmakers JH, Hoischen A, Pfundt R, Krumm N, Carvill GL, Li D, Amaral D, Brown N, Lockhart PJ, Scheffer IE, Alberti A, Shaw M, Pettinato R, Tervo R, de Leeuw N, Reijnders MR, Torchia BS, Peeters H, Thompson E, O'Roak BJ, Fichera M, Hehir-Kwa JY, Shendure J, Mefford HC, Haan E, Gécz J, de Vries BB, Romano C, Eichler EE. Refining analyses of copy number variation identifies specific genes associated with developmental delay. Nature Genetics 46(10):1063-71, 2014.
McMichael G, Bainbridge MN, Haan E, Corbett M, Gardner A, Thompson S, van Bon BWM, van Eyk CL, Broadbent J, Reynolds C, O'Callaghan ME, Nguyen LS, Adelson DL, Russo R, Jhangiani S, Doddapaneni H, Muzny DH, Gibbs RA, Gécz J* and MacLennan AH. Whole-exome sequencing points to considerable genetic heterogeneity of cerebral palsy. Molecular Psychiatry, 20(2):176-82, 2015. * - corresponding author.
Kumar R, Corbett MA, van Bon BWM, Woenig J, Weir L, Douglas L, Friend KL, Gardner A, Shaw M, Jolly LA, Tan C, Hunter M, Hackett A, Field M, Palmer EE, Leffler M, Rogers C, Boyle J, Bienek M, Jensen C, Van Buggenhout G, Van Esch H, Hoffmann K, Raynaud M, Zhao H, Reed R, Hu H, Haas SA, Haan E, Kalscheuer VM and Gécz J. THOC2 mutations implicate mRNA export pathway in X linked intellectual disability. American Journal of Human Genetics 97(2):302-10, 2015.
Jolly LA, Nguyen LS, Domingo D, Sun Y, Barry S, Hancarova M, Plevova P, Vlckova M, Havlovicova M, Kalscheuer VM, Graziano C, Bonora E, Pippucci T, Sedlacek Z and Gécz J. HCFC1 loss-of-function mutations disrupt neuronal and neural progenitor cells of the developing brain. Human Molecular Genetics, 24(12):3335-47, 2015.
Gécz J, Corbett M. The Lancet, 385(9975):1266-7, 2015.
Guy MP, Shaw M, Weiner CL, Hobson L, Stark Z, Rose K, Kalscheuer VM, Gécz J*, Phizicky EM. Defects in tRNA Anticodon Loop 2'-O-Methylation Are Implicated in Nonsyndromic X-Linked Intellectual Disability due to Mutations in FTSJ1. Human Mutation 36(12):1176-87 2015. * - corresponding author.
Tan C, Shard C, Ranieri E, Hynes K, Pham DH, Leach D, Buchanan G, Corbett M, Shoubridge C, Kumar R, Douglas E, Nguyen LS, Mcmahon J, Sadleir L, Specchio N, Marini C, Guerrini R, Moller RS, Depienne C, Haan E, Thomas PQ, Berkovic SF, Scheffer IE, Gécz J. Mutations of protocadherin 19 in female epilepsy (PCDH19-FE) lead to allopregnanolone deficiency. Human Molecular Genetics 24(18):5250-9, 2015.
Kumar R, Corbett MA, Van Bon BW, Gardner A, Woenig JA, Jolly LA, Douglas E, Friend K, Tan C, Van Esch H, Holvoet M, Raynaud M, Field M, Leffler M, Budny B, Wisniewska M, Badura-Stronka M, Latos-Bieleńska A, Batanian J, Rosenfeld JA, Basel-Vanagaite L, Jensen C, Bienek M, Froyen G, Ullmann R, Hu H, Love MI, Haas SA, Stankiewicz P, Cheung SW, Baxendale A, Nicholl J, Thompson EM, Haan E, Kalscheuer VM, Gécz J. Increased STAG2 dosage defines a novel cohesinopathy with intellectual disability and behavioral problems. Human Molecular Genetics 24(25):7171-81, 2015.
Kumar R, Ha T, Pham D, Shaw M, Mangelsdorf M, Friend KL, Hobson L, Turner G, Boyle J, Field M, Hackett A, Corbett M, Gécz J. A non-coding variant in the 5' UTR of DLG3 attenuates protein translation to cause non-syndromic intellectual disability. European Journal of Human Genetics, 4(11):1612-1616, 2016.
Corbett MA, Bellows ST, Li M, Carroll R, Micaleff S, Carvill GL, Myers CT, Howell KB, Maljevic S, Lerche H, Gazina EV, Mefford HC, Bahlo M, Berkovic SF, Petrou S, Scheffer IE, Gécz J. Dominant KCNA2 mutation causes episodic ataxia and pharmacoresponsive epilepsy. Neurology, in press, 2016.


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text: 2020-06-02T20:57:08Z http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/?_action=export&rf=summon&issue=1200 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Nonlinear transversely vibrating beams by the homotopy perturbation method with an auxiliary term Hamid M. Sedighi Farhang Daneshmand This paper presents the high order frequency-amplitude relationship for nonlinear transversely vibrating beams with odd and even nonlinearities, using Homotopy Perturbation Method with an auxiliary term (HPMAT). The governing equations of vibrating buckled beam, beam carrying an intermediate lumped mass, and quintic nonlinear beam are investigated to exhibit the reliability and ability of the proposed asymptotic approach. It is demonstrated that two terms in series expansions are sufficient to obtain a highly accurate periodic solutions. The integrity of the analytical solutions is verified by numerical results. Homotopy Perturbation Method with an auxiliary term Non-linear vibrating beams Frequency-amplitude relationship 2014 06 01 1 9 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10545_cdeea4bb07f2a3db61cf4e9502de142e.pdf 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Optimal Roll Center Height of Front McPherson Suspension System for a Conceptual Class A Vehicle Javad Meshkatifar Mohsen Esfahanian In this paper, the effects of roll center height of McPherson suspension mechanism on dynamic behaviour of a vehicle are first studied, and then the optimum location of roll center of this suspension system is determined for a conceptual Class A vehicle. ADAMS/Car software was used for the analysis of vehicle dynamic behaviour in different positions of suspension roll center. Next, optimization process has been done using ADAMS/Insight. Results show significant effects of roll center location on body roll angle, body roll rate and steering response. Also, the contradiction between body roll and steering response can be observed. Vehicle dynamics Roll center height McPherson suspension mechanism 2014 06 01 10 16 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10578_3cdaf7097bd9f98624ec26e839b070d2.pdf 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Pull-in behavior analysis of vibrating functionally graded micro-cantilevers under suddenly DC voltage Jamal Zare The present research attempts to explain dynamic pull-in instability of functionally graded micro-cantilevers actuated by step DC voltage while the fringing-field effect is taken into account in the vibrational equation of motion. By employing modern asymptotic approach namely Homotopy Perturbation Method with an auxiliary term, high-order frequency-amplitude relation is obtained, then the influences of material properties and actuation voltage on dynamic pull-in behavior are investigated. It is demonstrated that the auxiliary term in the homotopy perturbation method is extremely effective for higher order approximation and two terms in series expansions are sufficient to produce an acceptable solution. The strength of this analytical procedure is verified through comparison with numerical results. Micro-actuator Functionally graded material Dynamic Pull-in instability Homotopy Perturbation Method with an auxiliary term 2014 06 01 17 25 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10552_dc1efb081b26fc82c7ab2c8edeb51aa1.pdf 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Global Finite Time Synchronization of Two Nonlinear Chaotic Gyros Using High Order Sliding Mode Control Mohammad Reza Behjameh Hadi Delavari Ahmadreza Vali In this paper, under the existence of system uncertainties, external disturbances, and input nonlinearity, global finite time synchronization between two identical attractors which belong to a class of second-order chaotic nonlinear gyros are achieved by considering a method of continuous smooth second-order sliding mode control (HOAMSC). It is proved that the proposed controller is robust to mismatch parametric uncertainties. Also it is shown that the method have excellent performance and more accuracy in comparison with conventional sliding mode control. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the proposed controller and some generic sufficient conditions for global finite time synchronization are designed such that the errors dynamic of two chaotic behaviour satisfy stability in the Lyapunov sense. The numerical results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme to synchronize the chaotic gyro systems using a single control input. smooth second-order sliding mode (SSOSMC) control chaos synchronization chaotic gyros stability Uncertainty finite time converges 2014 06 01 26 34 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10549_077192115381693b0d840d62b92b3586.pdf 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Bearing Fault Detection Based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Optimized ANN Using the Bees Algorithm Behrooz Attaran Afshin Ghanbarzadeh Rotating machinery is the most common machinery in industry. The root of the faults in rotating machinery is often faulty rolling element bearings. This paper presents a technique using optimized artificial neural network by the Bees Algorithm for automated diagnosis of localized faults in rolling element bearings. The inputs of this technique are a number of features (maximum likelihood estimation values), which are derived from the vibration signals of test data. The results show that the performance of the proposed optimized system is better than most previous studies, even though it uses only two features. Effectiveness of the above method is illustrated using obtained bearing vibration data. Fault Diagnosis MLE distributions RBF neural network Bees Algorithm 2014 06 01 35 43 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10547_decbdc01b7f1970b36a9b83382e1f020.pdf 2014-06-01 10.22055 Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics J. Appl. Comput. Mech. 2015 1 1 Determination of Periodic Solution for Tapered Beams with Modified Iteration Perturbation Method Mohammad Mashinchi Joubari Davood Ganji Hamid Javanian Jouybari In this paper, we implemented the Modified Iteration Perturbation Method (MIPM) for approximating the periodic behavior of a tapered beam. This problem is formulated as a nonlinear ordinary differential equation with linear and nonlinear terms. The solution is quickly convergent and does not need complicated calculations. Comparing the results of the MIPM with the exact solution shows that this method is effective and convenient. Also, it is predicated that MIPM can be potentially used in the analysis of strongly nonlinear oscillation problems accurately. Periodic behavior Tapered beam Modified Iteration Perturbation Method (MIPM) Nonlinear ordinary differential equation Nonlinear oscillation 2014 06 01 44 51 http://jacm.scu.ac.ir/article_10729_d9d4b6eb88c9bf486ec1ad1fad40136f.pdf


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THE Lake District National Park authority is facing an unprecedented vote of "no confidence" over controversial plans for a Tarmac path in the heart of the Cumbrian fells.
The quango tasked with looking after one of the most beautiful corners of England has agreed to a four-mile track in the shadow of Blencathra in a move that has been described by objectors as an "act of landscape vandalism".
The £7.9m Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Path Reinstatement has provoked a public outcry, sparking an extraordinary general meeting of Keswick Town Council due to be held on Thursday (October 10).
Responding to the concerns, a spokeswoman for the authority said it was "extremely disappointed" by the town council's decision and stressed that the public had been given their say on the plans.
But councillors determined to force a re-think have accused the body of disregarding the opinions of the majority and of eroding public trust in the organisation.
Members of the town council will discuss whether to submit what is thought to be first ever vote of no confidence in the authority at this week's meeting.
Town Councillors met with representatives of the LDNP on October 2 to express their concerns.
Following the discussions, members accused the organisation of "complete intransigence" and of ignoring the "overwhelming view" of local people, visitors and the wider community.
The council said the LDNP was putting the cyclists' desire to ride "at speed" ahead of other considerations as well as imposing an "urban solution" on a rural area.
Objectors are urging the authority to bow to public pressure and to consider alternative measures in a bid to "restore faith" in the authority, which they say is being "eroded".
Tony Lywood, town and county councillor pledged to issue a similar statement to the board on October 16.
Mr Lywood, who is also Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Copeland, said: "It appears that a well-entrenched bunker mentality is now developing within the LDNP which is unhelpful.
"The people should be heard from and not dictated to by a largely unelected body based in Kendal whose agenda is not necessarily ours."
The councillor, who himself sits on the LDNP, said the views of the authority were "completely at odds" with those of most people.
"This is the Lake District National Park not the Lake District theme park and what is proposed is an act of landscape vandalism," he added.
Mr Lywood described the authority's move as "extremely worrying" amid claims decisions such as this one may ultimately damage the Lake District's coveted World Heritage Status.
The re-surfacing plans emerged in response to the floods in December 2015 which caused extensive damage, sweeping away two bridges that cross the River Greta.
A spokeswoman for the LDNP said research had been followed by detailed design, consent and planning permission procedures.
She said the public had been given a "a range of opportunities" to have their say on "needs and preferences" for the scheme.
She added: "We held local design drop-in sessions and received over 2,500 responses on the future use of the trail.
"The new surface meets such needs, adds resilience to future flooding; being durable and incurring lower maintenance costs than unbound surfaces.
"Tarmac suitability in this location in a national park was part of the determination consideration for the planning permission.
"While the trail does run through a rural landscape, the route followed is man-made, with a clear transport related history; being an old railway line.
"Therefore, the use of a Tarmac surface was considered appropriate and the project was given planning permission."


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Zucchini: The Trickster Ingredient
July 11, 2011 in Italian, Pizza, The Weekly Menus and Recipes, Vegetarian
I like zucchini.
I like zucchini when it is stuffed, shredded, and fried.
I like zucchini when it is on top of a big ol' pile of cheese and garlic and pizza dough.
I like zucchini pizza.
One of my favorite things about zucchini is that when you are eating it, you often don't realize just how good it is for you.
That makes it even better.
Oh zucchini, you such a trickster!
I feel like I kind of can't wait to have kids, just so I can trick them into eating healthily with things like zucchini pizza.
(Mom, don't you get too excited over there. I said kind of. And it's only so I can trick them into eating things like zucchini pizza and zucchini cookies. That's it.)
For now, I'll just have to settle for plying my friends with warm, gooey zucchini goodness.
Luckily for me I have a friend named Alise.
She comes over, brings me wine, tells me stories, and makes me laugh.
I feed her zucchini pizza.
I hope that's a good enough trade for her because I'd really like to keep her around for a while.
1 pre-made pizza crust, or ingredients to make your own
1 tsp. cornmeal
¼ cup olive oil
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (adjust to taste)
1 cup whole milk ricotta cheese (you can use skim; I just think the whole milk tastes better here)
½ cup grated mozzarella cheese
3 zucchini, grated
2 cloves garlic, minced
Prepare pizza crust according to directions, but do not bake yet. Lay out on greased baking sheet, sprinkled with cornmeal. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Grate zucchini, using the large holes on a box grater. Grate into a colander, then use paper towels to wring water out of the zucchini.
A lot of water will come out. You'll probably need to use several paper towels, as they will soak through. Keep squeezing, until zucchini is mostly dry. Add grated mozzarella to the grated zucchini. Mix to combine.
In a medium bowl, mix together ricotta, salt, olive oil, black pepper, red pepper flakes, and minced garlic.
Spread over unbaked pizza crust. Spread the zucchini mixture over the ricotta mixture.
Bake on middle rack in oven for 10-15 minutes, until crust is golden brown and cheese begins to bubble.
Drink wine and eat pizza with your friend.
Laugh at her stories.
Alternatively, eat pizza with your children whom you've successfully tricked into eating their vegetables.
Laugh at their shock when you tell them that they're eating zucchini.
Zucchini, so tricky, that one!
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Kids??? I didn't even notice your comment, haha. Love zucchini and glad you do too. All the tricks I came up with, (i.e. fried, in pasta salad, in soup, and in zucchini bread) seems to have worked. Yay! Love your zucchini recipes. xoxo Mom
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I LOVED IT! and I will forever be telling you stories, Kellie. You're stuck with me.
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This morning I was drawn to the book shelf and I took out Sark's "Succulent Wild Woman - Dancing with your wonder.full self!"...and I opened it up to this page...how interesting this was for me...sharing it with you and my May intention collage below,
"How We Stop Ourselves"
I am always "turning away from the ecstasy". There are things I know I love doing, yet I stop. Why? Everytime I meditate, there is a benefit. Still, I stop myself all the time from doing it. My mind is filled with fresh and realistic reasons about "why it's not time to meditate. "exercise creates more oxygen and a "new mind", but I am almost frantic to postpone it. eating well provides an almost instant reward. yet I run to empty foods from childhood that used to comfort me, and now are sedating.
I'm often seduced by struggle.
It's as though it's painful to feel "too good". I'm used to the effort, and sometimes confused by the joy.
I am familiar with rejecting pleasure, and with a low-grade, almost constant feeling of despair. There are many companions for this journey, even though it makes no sense, I find myself clinging to sadness to avoid feeling my emptiness, or even happiness!
I think it is easy to stop ourselves from being too bright, too happy, too successful. conformity also soothes us. we can predict it, and there is the illusion of control.
Unfortunately, we also stop ourselves from being too visible, unusual or vivid.
"I am not eccentric! It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel, set in a pond of goldfish! "Dame Edith Sitwell
We stop ourselves from being too loud, too different, or too much.
Yet we crave our individuality, our wild special selves. We want to live our adventures, and be seen for our essences.
Who are you after the guests have gone home? Who are you after you take your makeup and clothes off? What do you dream about? Who are you reading? How do you stop yourself? Who are you?
I found this a powerful excerpt to read this morning..and I ask myself these questions and most of all encourage myself and all of us to really live loud, your wild selves and enjoy being all that you are ....wonder.full.
This is my May Intention Collage I did for the "creative awakenings" process - Side 1 above and Side 2 below...
During this May Creative Awakenings Envisioning Process...This came out...The lotus imagery is coming out loudly for me in my work..I think it symbolizes the awakening time coming out of this dark and drudgery time...where things were murky, unclear..and yet out of this time comes such a beautiful blossoming, like the lotus...So for May, my intention was to Let Go and blossom anyway, relinguish control...love, art, grow, creatively....
I am finally sharing this now...but I did this a while back..it will soon be time to do the June Envisioning process..highly recommend this process...Check out Sheri Gaynor's Creative Awakenings book and site etc.
Technically speaking, this collage was so great to do also, I have been really pushing myself to use different materials, techniques, glazes, etc. I did this in preparation for my May 11th teaching Collage and Mixed Media Workshop at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery..it was a ball of fun too....


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The storm had formed over New Orleans, swirling out of a trough of low pressure over the Gulf of Mexico. It swept north-east over night, leaving the southern states under an unusually thick blanket of snow. In Alabama, a man died when frozen branches of a tree fell on him. Atlanta, Georgia, and Chicago both recorded their lowest temperatures of the century. By the morning of Wednesday, 13 January 1982, the blizzards had reached the capital, Washington D.C. At 1pm the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) closed National Airport, a mile from the White House, for 73 minutes so ploughs could clear runways of a five-inch covering of snow.
In government offices all over the city, civil service chiefs anxiously scanned the cloud-laden skies, and soon after lunch, agreed to let all staff head home early to beat the expected drifts. Soon all roads out of the capital were choked with cars inching their way cautiously through the blinding snow. A vast snake of traffic edged across the frozen River Potomac on the dual carriageway 14th Street Bridge, part of Jefferson Davies Highway, the busiest route between Washington and the suburbs of Virginia. Then, at exactly 4pm, terror roared out of the sky in a disaster that was to claim 78 lives and stun a nation.
Air Florida Flight 90 had been due to leave National Airport for Fort Lauderdale and Tampa at 2:15pm. But it was 3pm before the 71 passengers – three of them carrying babies – left the departure lounge and filed into 21 rows of seats in their Boeing 737. Forty-one seats were left empty. Captain Larry Wheaton, 35 and first officer Roger Pettit checked their instruments and apologised for yet more delays while airport workers de-iced the wings with glycol fluid. Though visibility was still restricted to less than half a mile, the airport had re-opened, and the two men watched an arriving plane taxi to the terminal, noting the huge icicles hanging from its wings.
Air Florida B737 in sunnier times
"I'm certainly glad there's people taxing on the same place I want to go" said Wheaton. "I cant see the runway without these flags. Maybe further up ...". Head stewardess Donna Adams looked out at the white landscape and said: "I love it out here, look at all the tyre tracks in the snow. Pettit was more concerned with practicalities."Boy, this is a losing battle, trying to de-ice those things", he muttered, watching men at work on the wings. "It gives you a false feeling of security, that's all it does".
At 3:38pm the B737 finally taxied out for a take-off from runway 36, at 6,870ft the longest at the National. Passengers were relieved that their long wait was finally ending. The sun of Florida seemed even more inviting in this Arctic weather. The two pilots viewed the slushy runway through the still-falling snow and elected to lift the nose wheel earlier than usual to assist the take-off. Just after 3:59pm the B737 left the contaminated runway 36.
Air Florida Flight 90 lifting off runway 36
Within 30 seconds the crew knew something was wrong. "... look at that thing .... that doesn't seem right", said Pettit, "Easy, v2, forward, forward" urged Wheaton. "Come on, forward .... forward ... just barely climb ..." he continued. The plane was shuddering and shaking badly. Pettit tuned to his captain "Larry, we're going down, Larry ...." Wheaton replied coldly "I know it". At 4:01 pm Flight 90 crashed.
On the 14th Street Bridge, less than a mile from National Airport, drivers trapped in the crawling traffic jam heard the plummeting jet before they saw it. "I heard a roar but I couldn't see anything for the snow" said Justice Department clerk Lloyd Creger. "The engines were so cloud, they had to be going full blast. I couldn't hear myself scream. Then I saw the plane coming out of the sky. It was just falling, but there didn't seem anything wrong with it. The nose was up and the tail was down. Then there seemed to be no sound at all". Another driver sobbed "I heard the noise of the jet getting louder and louder. I threw open my door and ran for my life. I didn't stop to turn around, I just heard a massive bang as the plane hit the bridge".
The 14th Street Bridge
The stricken plane only just cleared a railway bridge to the south of the two choked road spans. As it roared low over the helpless commuters a wheel struck a truck on the southern carriageway and the plane tumbled over the parapet into the Potomac between the road bridges. It ripped the tops off five cars and swept others into the icy water.
The ice on the river shattered like a windshield hit by a rock and debris bounced into the air. Stunned witnesses slowly realised the enormity of what had happened. "There was twisted metal from crushed cars everywhere" said reporter Al Rossiter. "Some of the vehicles started burning and the truck that had been hit was hanging over the edge at a 45 degree angle. Vito Maggiolo said "There were bodies lying all over the bridge and bodies on the ice in the river. US Air Force Sergeant Jerome Lancaster said "I counted about six or seven people in the water who were alive, but they were messed up. We threw a rope out to one passenger".
The B737 had broken into three sections on impact. The nose plunged straight under the surface, killing the flight crew instantly. The main fuselage belly flopped and settled briefly and horrified onlookers could see people inside strapped to their seats as the jagged wreckage slowly sank. But the tail miraculously floated for twenty minutes and most of the survivors came from there. Five emerged, battered and shaken and scuttled across the ice to safety. Others spilled like dolls into the icy water and desperately clung to pieces of wreckage or ice floes. People on the bridge threw every available cable out to them.
The remaining tail section from Flight 90
But with a city clogged by snow and traffic it made it impossible for the emergency services to react at full speed. Some staff were among those sent home early. Ambulances, fire engines and police cars were trapped in the jams having to swing on to the wide pavements in front of the White House to get through.
Incredibly, a second accident within minutes added to the chaos of the capital. A subway train packed with 1,000 commuters was derailed less than a mile and a quarter from the bridge, leaving three people dead and many hurt. Emergency services had to be diverted to cope there too.
The first rescue vehicles to reach the 14th Street Bridge arrived on the Virgina side of the Potomac at the same time as the first dozen police and armed forces helicopters arrived overhead, hovering dangerously close to the bridges to try to winch survivors to safety. And now the disaster took on almost bizarre proportions. TV crews alerted by the call-up of the emergency services arrived with their cameras and began to send live coverage of the drama to a multi-million coast-to-coast audience.
People were drowning and freezing to death less than 50 feet from the shore in water where they could survive for only 10 minutes. They feebly splashed around until the numbing cold paralysed muscles, making swimming impossible. They reached despairingly for lifelines hanging from helicopters, then slumped back beneath the surface, their hands too cold to keep a grip. A rescue official said "It was heart breaking to see them so close and not be able to help. No one would live more than a few minutes in that water".
Stewardess Kelly Duncan, 23, dressed only in her thin short-sleeved blouse and uniform skirt, failed to repeatedly to grasp the rescue rings. It seemed she was doomed. Then helicopter pilot Donald Usher risked the lives of himself and crewman Gene Windsor by settling his craft almost on the water, while Windsor clambered out on to the landing skids and snatched Kelly to safety. She was rushed to hospital with a broken leg and hypothermia. Kelly was the only crew member to survive from Flight 90.
Priscilla Tirado was also in the water. She lunged at a cable but could not reach it. Her fading strength sent her under the surface but she bobbed up again and the helicopter crew three her a lifebelt attached to a line. Priscilla pushed her arm through it and seemed secure as the helicopter began to tow her ashore. But again she list her grip and plunged back into the water. Hundreds on the bridge and millions on TV watched her agony in despair. But only one man reacted.
Lennie Skutnik, a 38 year old desk worker on his way home from the Congressional Budget Office, tore off his jacket and boots and waded to the water, regardless of his own safety. Priscilla was almost unconscious, but Skutnik managed to push, pull and even kick her to the bank, where willing hands dragged them ashore. They shared an ambulance to hospital, he suffering from hypothermia, she critically ill – and unaware that her husband and two-month old son had both drowned.
Priscilla Tirado being rescued from the Potomac River
Hero Skutnik, later praised by President Ronald Regan, was modest about his part in the rescue. "She just gave out" he told reporters. "Her eyes rolled back and she had just started to go under when I grabbed her. You could tell just by looking at her that she didn't have an ounce of energy left in her. She seemed to be losing the will to live. I didn't notice the cold at all while I was in the water. The only time I felt it was in the ambulance going to hospital afterwards. I noticed my toes were cold, that was all. I don't think I was any kind of hero. It was just an automatic reaction". But a hero he was.
However not all survived to tell of why they reacted as they did. Five times he grabbed lifelines thrown down by helicopters, but on every occasion he handed the rope to others who were dragged or lifted to shore. "He could have gone first" said pilot Donald Usher. "We threw the ring to him but he passed it to a man who was bleeding badly from a head injury. We went back four times and each time he kept passing the ring to someone else, including three ladies hanging on to the tail section. The last time we went back, he had gone. The ice had formed over where he had been. We stayed there ten minutes, just in the hopes had had crawled onto the fuselage and found an air pocket. But he had gone. He's the real hero of this whole thing. It you were in his situation, a hundred yards from shore and knowing that every minute you were closer to freezing to death, could you do it?".
Co-pilot Gene Windsor said "The guy was amazing. I've never seen such guts. It seemed to me he decided that the women and the injured man needed to get out of there before him and even as he was going under he stuck to the decision. Afterwards we looked everywhere for him, but he was gone". Only when all the bodies had been recovered was the identity of the man established. Arland Williams, 46, a federal government employee, was the only one who had died from drowning alone. All the rest had broken limbs.
One of the five people Arland Williams saved
Mercifully most of the plane's passengers died instantly on impact. But some of the 78 victims died horrifyingly slowly. One elderly man's story was told by Salvation Army major Harold Anderson "He was alive when police saw him under the ice and he watched rescuers trying to get to him to get him out of the water. He was trying frantically to get out, but by the time they got the ice broken he was gone. They couldn't review him".
The first survivors were admitted to the George Washington Medical Centre 45 minutes after the crash. Three and half hours after the disaster hospitals were officially told to expect no more patients. Only five people aboard the plane had survived. Four drivers on the bridge had been killed; sixteen people from the bridge were in hospital.
The gristly search for bodies went on long after dark. Floodlights and the flashing lights of rescue vehicles lit up an eerie scene as men with boat hooks fished from a tug and rubber dinghies between the ice floes near the wreckage of the white and blue Air Florida jet. Helicopters switched their attention from the river to the bank, airlifting the less seriously hurt away from the tragic scene. Bodies were laid out in the snow and a makeshift mortuary set up in a tent. Army ice-breakers arrived and divers in specially thick wetsuits tried to batter their way into the fuselage to reach bodies till strapped into seats.
The search continued in the Potomac River
Diving operations continued over the next week, but it was a slow process. Visibility under water was reduced to 18 inches and the jagged wreckage was surrounded by treacherous currents and submerged ice. Spilled aviation fuel made the wreckage slippery and the Arctic weather never let up. One diver had to be rescued when his breathing valve froze up and a barge carrying a crane was holed by ice. Divers were restricted to 30 minutes at a time in the 25 feet deep water, despite maximum protection clothing. It took them seven days to recover the black box flight recorders, vital to the subsequent inquiry into why the crash happened.
Because of the snow, no-one, not even the control tower staff at National Airport had seen Flight 90 leave the ground. The FAA investigators had to rely on the automatic tapes of the pilots, quoted earlier, and the evidence of the few survivors.
Both stewardess Kelly Duncan and passenger Burt Hamilton, 40, spoke of the plane shuddering badly soon after take-off. Mr Hamilton, whose seat was by the galley at the back of the B737, said "I knew something was wrong as it took off. The plane seemed to take an awful long time to pick up speed. It really started vibrating – a strong shaking, so bad that I tightened my seatbelt and started to pray a lot".
Businessman Joseph Stiley, 42, a private pilot, also claimed he knew that all was not well. Thumbing through his paper with his secretary, be turned to her as the engines roared and said "We're not going to make it, we're going down". Later, in hospital with two fractured legs, he said "Things were not going right soon after we started down the runway. We didn't have the speed. It seemed like the pilots tried to abort, but ran out of runway. He had to make the decision to go, so we took off. We got up a little bit, but it didn't climb like a normal 737. We got a fairly descent angle, then stalled and we went down. We were in the air only 20 or 30 seconds before impact, when I passed out".
The disaster was the first major crash since President Regan had fired 11,500 striking air traffic controllers (ATC) the previous August. The controllers' union had warned that pilots flying blind in winter would miss the help from the ground they usually relied on. But FAA chiefs dismissed ATC error as a possible cause of the accident.
Since man first took to the air, ice on the wings, restricting their power of lift, or ice in the engine, distorting air intake and reducing power, have always been a danger. And within days of the Potomac disaster, it was revealed that just one week before the crash the British had warned their American counterparts that the B737 was particularly vulnerable to icy conditions.


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Careers related to sound and waves
Hello, I am developing a career-based teaching scenario in the context of sound and waves in grade 8. The scenario will be a socio-scientific related 'story' that will assign students a specific mission associated with the respective science career(s). Hence I am looking for careers related to this teaching unit to integrate in the scenario apart from Sound Engineering Technician. Do you have any ideas?
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