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A study led by the University Hospital radiation oncologist Dr. Timothy Showalter indicates that brachytherapy — a type of radiation treatment where the radioactive sources are placed directly inside the body — is underutilized for the treatment of cervical cancer despite being a critical aspect of treatment. External beam radiation, while often used in combination with brachytherapy, is less effective when used alone in the treatment of cervical cancer.
According to Showalter, cervical cancer is different from other cancers because it is the only cancer where brachytherapy is a critical component of a non-surgical treatment approach.
Dr. Shiv Khandelwal, who also works in radiation oncology at the University, says placement of the radiation sources directly inside the body as done in brachytherapy provides an effective high dosage to the cancerous tissue.
"When you're giving external radiation, you're having to treat through a number of organs to get to the cervix," Khandelwal said. "With brachytherapy what you're doing is treating from the inside out — radioactive sources are placed inside the cervix — and because of inverse square law, the radiation dose is very, very high close to the radioactive sources but then drops off rapidly away from the sources."
According to Assoc. Radiation Oncology Prof. Bruce Libby, lack of resources and improper incentives have contributed to the decreasing use of brachytherapy. For instance, brachytherapy involves the presences of both a licensed physician and physicist — which some facilities do not have access to. Additional personnel can also increase the cost of conducting the treatment.
In the study, Showalter was able to calculate the cost of delivery for the different types of radiation therapy for cervical cancer. Medical student Kristine Bauer-Nilsen, who assisted with the study, said the discrepancy in the cost and reimbursement of brachytherapy treatment was striking.
"We found that about 50 percent of the total cost for cervical cancer treatment was personnel cost," Bauer-Nilsen said in an email to The Cavalier Daily. "Brachytherapy consumed about 80 percent of total physician time and was associated with a smaller proportion of total reimbursements per course compared to external beam radiation therapy."
According to Bauer-Nilsen, a relative value unit (RVU) is used by hospitals as a measure of productivity and is associated with physician reimbursement. The study showed that the amount of time spent by an attending physician was four times higher per RVU for brachytherapy compared to external beam radiation therapy. Therefore, it is cheaper for physicians to only perform external beam radiation therapy as their rate of radiation will be higher.
"It's not a really a very level playing field," Khandelwal said. "External beam radiation doesn't require nearly as much effort as brachytherapy, but brachytherapy is not really reimbursed at a rate that makes up for the difference in labor costs and effort."
While the decrease in brachytherapy has been observed nationwide, brachytherapy is typically more common in metropolitan and high-volume regions as compared to smaller, rural places. Showalter said that smaller community practices may be limited by financial constraints and only be able to offer external beam radiation. While the physicians may urge patients to travel to other facilities for brachytherapy, patients may be unable to do so due to their jobs. Therefore, patients may be forced to receive only external beam radiation therapy which has been proven to have a lower curative rate compared to a combined treatment plan involving both external radiation and brachytherapy.
Although cervical cancer requires a combined treatment using both brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy, not all cancers are treated in the same manner. According to Showalter, the use of brachytherapy in prostate cancer has also decreased. However, there is not a clear difference in survival outcomes for the patients, and so it is more economical to use external beam radiation therapy.
Libby said this study was beneficial because it was able to quantify the problem and discrepancy in reimbursement for brachytherapy.
"We know personally that yes, these treatments take more physician time and physicist time and more resources from the clinic and hospital, but now we've quantified it," Libby said. "So now that we've quantified it, we can then say these are the numbers, this is the issue. Now we can go and say how are we going to solve this problem."
Bauer-Nilsen said the ultimate goal is to cause a change in current reimbursement practices so that cost-effective care can be delivered to patients. The results from this study should be able to inform policymakers as to the need for an increase in reimbursement for brachytherapy.
Showalter also said that patient transportation should be facilitated so that they are able to receive adequate healthcare. In fact, Showalter is a part of a telemedicine project which would allow physicians at the University to give consultations to patients in more rural regions as well as help local doctors deliver more specialized care.
Brachytherapy is not the only underutilized treatment despite its efficiency. Khandelwal treats many skin cancer cases which sometimes require a non-surgical approach as to avoid complications with plastic surgical reconstruction due to the location of the cancerous tissue.
These types of skin cancer can be treated through radiation by either doing external beam radiation or superficial X-ray therapy. External beam radiation requires the use of a linear accelerator which costs between two to four million dollars while superficial X-ray therapy requires a machine which costs $150,000. Furthermore, superficial X-ray therapy is more beneficial to the patients compared to the electrons delivered through the linear accelerator.
However, many facilities do not have the additional equipment necessary for superficial X-ray therapy and have no incentive to maintain a second piece of equipment from the insurance companies.
"We have to remember this is about what's doing best for the patient," Libby said.


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Timm Lichte. 2018. Incremental inference-based MWE processing with TUCO. Talk at Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (CoSt 2018). 12.–14. September 2018, Düsseldorf.
Timm Lichte & Christian Wurm. 2018. Meaning and Combinatorics of Ambiguity. Poster at the Ambigo Workshop, 4.–6. July 2018, University of Göttingen.
Fabienne Cap, Rafael Ehren, Maximilian Köper, Timm Lichte, Sabine Schulte im Walde & Heike Zinsmeister. 2018. VerbCompoCor: A German Corpus with Compositionality Judgments for Verb-Dependent Pairs. Poster at the DGfS-CL poster session at the 40th annual DGfS meeting, 07.–09.03.2018, Stuttgart.
Benjamin Burkhardt, Laura Kallmeyer & Timm Lichte. 2018. Depictives in English: An LTAG approach. Poster at the DGfS-CL poster session of the 40th annual DGfS meeting, 07.–09.03.2018, Stuttgart.
Timm Lichte. 2018. Gapping without surprise: Toward an ellipsis-agnostic model of context dependence. Talk at AG12 (Relating elliptical utterances to information in context) of the of the 40th annual DGfS meeting, 07.–09.03.2018, Stuttgart. [slides/pdf] More (2017-2014)
Timm Lichte. 2017. Der Kopf als Epiphänomen: Ein Bestiarium kopfloser Grammatikformalismen. Talk at the workshop "Köpfigkeit und/oder grammatische Anarchie?". 11.–13. May 2017, FU Berlin.
Timm Lichte & Laura Kallmeyer. 2017. Tree-Adjoining Grammar: A tree-based constructionist grammar framework for natural language understanding. Talk at the AAAI Spring Symposium Workshop on Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. 27–29 March 2017, Stanford University, CA. [slides/pdf]
Timm Lichte. 2016. On the syntax-semantics interface of idiomatic multi-word expressions. Talk the colloquium of the CRC "The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science". 22 December 2016, Düsseldorf, Germany. [slides/pdf]
Christian Wurm & Timm Lichte. 2016. The proper treatment of linguistic ambiguity in ordinary algebra. Talk at the 21st Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2016), 20–21 August 2016, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Rainer Osswald & Simon Petitjean. 2016. Argument linking in LTAG: A constraint-based implementation with XMG. Talk at the 12th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+12), 29 June – 1 July 2016, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Wolfgang Maier & Timm Lichte. 2016. Discontinuous parsing with continuous trees. Talk at the NAACL workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing (DiscoNLP 2016), 17 June 2016, San Diego, USA.
Timm Lichte, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Agata Savary & Jakub Waszczuk. 2016. Separating the regular from the idiosyncratic: An object-oriented lexical encoding of MWEs using XMG. Poster at the 6th general meeting of the PARSEME network, 7–8 April 2016, Struga, Macedonia. [abstract/PDF]
Timm Lichte & Laura Kallmeyer. 2015. Same syntax, different semantics: A compositional approach to idiomaticity in multi-word expressions. Talk at CSSP, 8–10 October 2015, Paris, France. [slides/PDF]
Timm Lichte & Simon Petitjean. 2015. A unified metagrammar approach to the implementation of MWEs in LTAG. Poster at the 5th general meeting of the PARSEME network, 23–24 September 2015, Iași, Romania. [poster/PDF]
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Rainer Osswald, Sylvain Pogodalla & Christian Wurm. 2015. Quantification in Frame Semantics with Hybrid Logic. ESSLLI workshop TYTLES (Type Theory and LExical Semantics), 3–7 August, Barcelona.
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte & Rainer Osswald. 2015. Argument linking in RRG: A constraint-based implementation. International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), 31 July – 2 August 2015, University of Düsseldorf. [slides/PDF]
Simon Petitjean, Younes Samih & Timm Lichte. 2015. Une métagrammaire de l'interface morpho-sémantique dans les verbes en arabe. Poster at 22ème Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), 25 June, Caen.
Timm Lichte & Laura Kallmeyer. 2015. Two ways of modelling idiomaticity as semantic ambiguity in LTAG. Poster at the 4th general meeting of the PARSEME network, 19–20 March 2015, University of Malta.
Timm Lichte & Laura Kallmeyer. 2014. Transparency in multi-word expressions: An LTAG approach. Poster presented at the 3rd general meeting of the PARSEME network, 8–9 September 2014, University of Frankfurt. [poster/PDF]
Timm Lichte & Laura Kallmeyer. 2014. Constructing a Construction Grammar with LTAG: Linguistic and computational perspectives. Talk given at the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG8), 3–6 September 2014, University of Osnabrück. [slides/PDF]
Timm Lichte, Laura Kallmeyer & Rainer Osswald. 2014. What is a natural syntactic model for frame-semantic composition? Talk given at Concept Types and Frames (CTF), 25–27 August 2014, University of Düsseldorf. [slides/PDF]
Timm Lichte, Simon Petitjean, Laura Kallmeyer & Younes Samih. 2014. XMG: a tool for implementing frames. Talk given at Concept Types and Frames (CTF), 25–27 August 2014, University of Düsseldorf. [slides/PDF]
Timm Lichte. 2013. Pushing TAG to the extremes: coherent constructions and ellipsis in German. Invited talk given at the Freie Universität Berlin, 19 March 2013. [slides/PDF]
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|Workshop at ESSLLI 2018: Ambiguity: Perspectives on Representation and Resolution (ARR)
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Efficient heating and cooling can be a little challenging, particularly in older homes. Nevertheless, when you upgrade your home with Energy Star doors, windows and appliances, energy waste can be reduced and you'll start saving.
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You can make numerous adjustments in and around your home that will pass for tax credits. Most of these adjustments require an initial payment that might make you less enthusiastic, but investing results in so much savings eventually as they help one to become more energy efficient. Ensure you confirm the expiration dates on the tax credits..
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If your home is situated somewhere that receives so much direct sunlight, solar power is an excellent option to save energy. Solar energy is excellent for powering water heaters. Homeowners depend on water heaters for different reasons all through the year. Homeowners still use hot showers even when the weather is hot. You can spend some money on a solar water heating system so as to cut the amount of energy used for heating your water supply. Solar water heating systems can save you at least 50% on costs of water heating yearly.
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof complained a while back that he was still "waiting for Gandhi" in Palestine. I complained, in turn, that it was hypocritical for Kristof to bewail, and perpetuate the stereotype of, the "violent" Palestinians. Instead he should stay home and call for a new Gandhi here in the U.S., which perpetuates Middle East violence by so consistently supporting Israel, despite its abuses. Latest example: The feeble statement from the State Department that the U.S. is "disappointed" to see the Israelis resume settlement expansion.
But if Kristof and others need to travel abroad in search of a new Gandhi, it's worth asking why they go to Palestine and not to Israel. After all, Palestinian violence against Israel has virtually ceased. It's the Israelis who now inflict nearly all the violence. Shouldn't we be looking for the Israeli Gandhi?
The search might not take as long as you think. There are plenty of Israeli Jews nonviolently resisting their own government's policies of occupation and oppression. The latest to find the public spotlight is Rami Elhanan, a former Israeli soldier who joined other Jewish activists from Israel and around the world as sailors for peace and justice on a boat called the Irene. They were headed for Gaza -- bringing medical equipment, fishing nets, textbooks, toys, prosthetic limbs, and other humanitarian supplies, aiming to break the Israeli blockade that deprives the Gazans of such desperately needed materials -- when the Israeli military seized them on the high seas.
Rami Elhanan said that he was on the Irene because it was his "moral duty" to act in support of Palestinians in Gaza, because reconciliation is the surest path to peace. That note of duty is certainly a Gandhian touch. But what qualifies him even more as the Israeli Jewish Gandhi is another comment he made to a reporter: "Those 1.5 million people in Gaza are victims exactly as I am."
That comes close to the heart of Gandhian nonviolence. It's far more than just resisting the impulse to strike out at your enemy. It's the realization that, as Gandhi put it, "for one who follows the doctrine of ahimsa [nonviolence], there is no room for an enemy; he denies the existence of an enemy." And it's the willingness to put your life on the line for the truth that we have no enemies, because we are all equally participants in, and victims of, the same system of violence.
Rami Elhanan did not learn that lesson from studying Gandhi. He learned it from the cruelest experience imaginable: seeing his 14-year-old daughter Smadar killed in a suicide bombing in 1997. At first, he says, he had the natural reaction: "I was tormented with anger and grief; I wanted revenge." Then he and his wife, Nurit Peled (herself now a well-known peace activist), realized that revenge would do no good because "the blame rests with the occupation. The suicide bomber was a victim just like my daughter, grown crazy out of anger and shame. I don't forgive and I don't forget, but when this happened to my daughter I had to ask myself whether I'd contributed in any way. The answer was that I had -- my people had, for ruling, dominating and oppressing three-and-a-half million Palestinians for 35 years."
That's another important Gandhian insight: Not only are we connected to our so-called "enemies" as victims; we're also inescapably linked to those who do violence in our name. We cannot escape responsibility for that violence. We can only choose either to acquiesce or to resist.
Then Elhanan learned that he and his wife were not alone. They discovered The Parents Circle - Families Forum, which brings together Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family members to violence from the other side and realized that reconciliation is better than hatred and revenge. Some 800 people from both sides have now joined the group. Rami Elhanan, who serves on PCFF's board of directors, devotes his life to what he calls the "sacred mission" of spreading its message. "You can not correct one evil or a wrong by creating another evil," he says.
In true Gandhian fashion, he extends compassion and understanding to both sides in the conflict, including his fellow Israeli Jews. Most of them "never saw the other side," he explains, "not the anger, not the pain…not the story… nothing. When the other side started to bite back, after 37 long years of humiliation without any democratic rights, Israelis were overwhelmed and shocked. … From this fear came the anger. From the anger came a very strong public demand for a wall to hide behind."
In equally true Gandhian fashion, he rejects the idea of severing connection with fellow humans, especially when they are neighbors: "I don't believe in walls. I do not think walls create good neighbors. … Walls create hate, especially if you build it in the middle of your neighbor's living room instead of your own backyard. As a Jew, the most alarming thing for me is that my people … are creating their own ghetto. It will not protect us. … It will make us give up any connection with our neighbors. It will make us feel full of power when we are really powerless. The price of this wall is too high. It will put the very existence of the state of Israel in jeopardy."
Still in the Gandhian vein, Rami Elhanan extends the web of responsibility to the whole world, "and the world's behavior is a shame! Today, while these two crazy peoples are massacring each other without any mercy, the free and civilized world led by the US is not only standing aside but rather supporting one side unconditionally at the expense of both sides, prolonging the suffering of both sides."
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Like Gandhi, though, his mission is not to criticize and complain. It is to inspire the will to change, "to convey this very simple truth: We must break down this wall of hatred and fear that divides our two nations. We must turn our pain into hope."
Hundreds of Israeli Jews who have lost loved ones to violence have embraced this message. But Rami Elhanan stands out as an Israeli Gandhi because he has taken the vital step from inspiring talk to an act of resistance that involved a risk of serious injury or even death.
As the Irene was leaving its port in Cyprus, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) chief of staff went out of his way to warn publicly that "we do not dismiss the possibility of casualties" on ships bound for Gaza. Just before the Irene was stopped by the Israelis, Elhanan said: "They're demanding that we stop and threatening that should we fail to do so there may be injuries. We are continuing at full force." Elhanan and the other Jews on board the Irene understood the coded message. They knew that the IDF had killed nine activists at sea on a similar mission last May. They knew the risk they were taking by continuing at full force. Yet they went ahead.
This time no was killed or seriously injured. But there was a major casualty: truth, which is always the first casualty in war. The Israeli naval commandos who interdicted the Irene did commit something like an act of war, using excessive force, including tasering -- and then an Israeli military spokseman lied, claiming that the incident was totally peaceful.
There was no need for the violence, since the activists were totally peaceful. But it's easy to imagine why the commandos who seized the Irene lashed out at fellow Jews. The Irene's voyage did what all acts of Gandhian resistance should do: force the oppressors and their hired hands into a situation that makes them face the truth of their own immoral actions, in full public view.
Gandhi was sure that this would, eventually, "melt the stoniest heart." It seems the Israeli military has not yet faced enough nonviolent resistance to melt. But the commandos' harsh response suggests they may have been so badly confused and embarrassed that they lost control of themselves.
Or perhaps the violence was a calculated measure, ordered by the IDF's upper echelon, to send a signal to the world that the Israelis will strike back at anyone -- even their own people -- who shines too clear a light on the suffering in Gaza. When the IDF's chief spokesman dismissed the Irene's voyage as a stunt "to generate media attention and (stage) a provocation," he may have been more accurately describing the IDF's response.
There is no reason to think this will deter nonviolent activists in Israel from continuing acts of resistance to the blockade of Gaza -- nor to the occupation of the West Bank, where Israeli Jews continue to stand with Palestinians against Israeli violence. Rami Elhanan is hardly unique among his people in his commitment to risk all for the moral truth. Others show the same kind of courage. Their example will surely inspire more and more Israelis to spread the spirit of Gandhi throughout their land, as long as their government continues to block the path to a just peace.
Finally, a personal note: Elhanan's father-in-law was Israeli General Matti Peled -- the man who, more than anyone else, inspired me to become a Jewish peace activist when I heard him speak here in Colorado, nearly 35 years ago. I never met the General personally. He had no way of knowing how deeply his words affected me, leading me to a path that has me writing about his own family's quest for peace and justice all these years later.
We can never predict, or even know, the full impact of our words and deeds. Nor, as Gandhi taught, should we judge the value of our words and deeds by the impact that we can see. The test is only whether we follow, pursue, and insist upon moral truth, whether we say and do what is right. Rami Elhanan is among the Israeli Jews who have surely passed that test.


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Here are two new promotional videos and photos for 'Arrow' episode 1.20, titled "Home Invasion".
Arrow is back with new episodes on April 24 I know, I know, I wish it was sooner too but now, The CW has released some official stills from Arrow Episode 20 which is called Home Invasion. Some cool guest stars, including the return of Michael Rowe as Deadshot, are within this one . as is Angels J. August Richards, who also might be headed to the Marvel Universe with a role in ABCs S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot. We also know Richards character name now hes Mr. Blank. And he has a Gunn. (ba-dum-bum!) Looks like we get some good Celina Jade Shado action in this one as well, plus the requisite Tommy-Oliver drama. And is Lyla Michaels a harbinger of things to come? Here are the new pics which will hopefully make the long wait a little bit shorter, if not make the anticipation grow even more.
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Newcastle are at the front of a lengthy queue for Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha's signature in January, according to reports from The Telegraph.
The England international looks set to leave the Red Devils on loan next month having struggling to force his way into David Moyes' first-team plans after completing his move to the club from Crystal Palace, and is attracting attention from Everton, Stoke, West Ham, West Brom, Swansea, Cardiff and Aston Villa.
However it is the Magpies who are thought to be out in front, with United aware of the Tyne club's fixture list.
Newcastle are due to take on the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea in the New Year, and Moyes is hopeful that his man can help them take points off of their rivals to get his side back into the title race – mirroring the impact Romelu Lukaku has had for Chelsea.
Zaha himself is thought to be keen to a loan switch, with regular playing time likely to give him an outside chance of making England's World Cup squad.
One potential stumbling block could be the youngster's £35,000-per-week earnings, with United looking for any club that takes him to pay the full sum.


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I think we are pretty safe reguarding re-releases.I can`t really think of any Kubricks that were re-released.They did the paint deco change up to the Marvel kubs for boxed sets, and the Batman boxset also. But they were specifically for the US market, I just don`t see ithappening with SW.
your right. i just wanted to throw the idea out there fully knowing there would be alot of resistance against that. hell, i own a imperial officer and i fully know that any kind of releases would kill the value. the main problem at least for me was how hard it was to get into the line initially as a brand new collector with the end of series 4 and into series 5. now imagining getting into a SW line without some of the main characters like chewy and r2d2. i'm not talking about background characters...i'm talking about main characters itself. it was interesting to see the replies though....i was beginning to think that this thread was slowly drifting off a bit....
Yakface, man I would be all over that Kuby!
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|March 28, 2020
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Discussion: WALMART
Local Wal-Mart stores are not able to raise the price of an item above the corporate price. You probably saw a label of an item next to the milk.
|March 9, 2018
|Topic: Players looking to join a team
Discussion: Moving to Tucson May 2018
Sam: contact Larry Denzler (520-271-6167) or Chuck Bullard (520-869-0703) who run One Time in the Tucson Sunday league. They are looking for players.
|April 14, 2015
|Topic: General and miscellaneous
Discussion: Wondering about your team name; especially the unusual ones.
Played against a team in the 80s from Austin named YATYAS which of course was You Ain't Texas You Ain't S!#%!
|April 3, 2015
|Topic: General and miscellaneous
Discussion: George Mccellan Southern Az. legend gone
George Mc. long time player with Boomers, Az. Players, Post 60, Kelly Glass and Scrap Iron passed away on Monday 3/30. Those of us that played with and against him remember him as a great defensive player with a outstanding throwing arm. He was also a very heady player and base runner with the ability to hit line drives to all fields. George's proudest accomplishment in Senior Softball was winning a ring playing with his buddies Dick County and Dave Honor with Scrap Iron.
We will all miss his competitive spirit, love of the game and story telling while sitting around after the game. Rumor has it that he already played a double header going 9 for 8 and throwing out the tying run at home in the bottom of the 7th.
RIP your bud Dave
|April 1, 2015
|Topic: Players looking to join a team
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Have played with Steve for several years and he is a great 3rd baseman and middle of the lineup hitter. Knows how to play the game and would be a great pickup .
|Oct. 2, 2014
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A legimate AAA team doesn't hit 18 hrs in one game in Las Vegas or any other place.
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I have been playing AAA and up for the last 10 years and have never seen a AAA team hit any where near 18 home runs in any game even with a toronado like wind blowing out. How they got in AAA had to be a screw-up.
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I continue to see players complaining about no water in the dugouts.We play in Az. Nm., and Nv. with 100 plus weather June, July & Aug. and we take our own water to the games.
|June 20, 2011
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Bruce: saw the play and thought the umpire missed it. Rule 8.4 states the orange bag is in foul terriorty and white is fair. Defensive player only has the white bag to touch in fair terrority!
|June 20, 2011
|Topic: General and miscellaneous
Discussion: pitching motion
Played in Pinetop the past weekend and got into a discussion about the pitching motion about the pitcher for Summit. I know this was not a SSWC tournment and the wife of the pitcher stated that the shuffling of the pitchers feet has been questioned in the past and never been ruled illegal. He shifts his pivot foot taking it off the rubber before releasing the ball and according to rule 6.6 he has to maintain contact with the rubber. I thought this was a no brainer and one team brought this up to the umpire but nothing was called? I would like a ruling>


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During new hair formation, drugs, chemicals and medications can be incorporated into the hair. There the substances end up being stored and they grow fixed into the hair matrix externally. In a trip meter-like manner, information is later able to be delivered about exposure at a particular time point – or at least that has been our reasoning until now.
Fire alarm due to antimony
Just how false analysis can be is something that many cases have shown: eight years ago a chief firefighter in Florida sounded the alarm, believing many of his co-workers to be poisoned. In his worried state he engaged the American health department CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) after antimony levels were detected in the hair of 30 firefighters. More than a million firefighters carry uniforms in which antimony monoxide is utilised as a fire retardant. The CDC confirmed the strongly elevated levels in the hair analysis but still gave the all-clear.
Blood and urine probes had no such elevated levels – which is evidence supporting the idea that the misinterpretation of hair analyses can lead to erroneous assessments. The CDC also gave the all-clear in other cases involving elevated mercury levels.
Drug analytics and failure potential
Hair analysis plays an extremely important role in forensic drug analytics. The consumption of illegal substances is able to be detected after months or even after years. The need for such testing is substantial. On the internet one can now apparently solve the problem with little money. Zydot® is supposed to draw all contaminants and illegal substances out of urine. Zydot ultra clean is said to even wash drugs and medications out of the inner parts of the hair.
Drug findings in hair demonstrate pitfalls
Until now it had been believed that drug analytics in hair deliver watertight evidence. In order to disprove this, toxicologist Prof. Volker Auwärter and his team at the University of Freiburg (Germany) swallowed capsules with the synthetic cannabis active substance dronabinol.
Over a period of a month they took 2.5mg of it daily. Oral intake is supposed to ensure that the hair is prevented from getting contaminated. THC was detectable in the blood of subjects, but did not turn up in head and beard hair or in body hair. The breakdown product THC-COOH, which is created exclusively in the body, was indeed found in the hair.
Until now it has been assumed that the substance manages to find its way through the bloodstream to the hair root, thereby demonstrating that the consumer has consumed cannabis actively and not taken it up passively. The test disproves this already legally utilisable false assumption. The metabolite managed to get onto the surface of the hair via sweat and sebum. Conversely this also means that a negative hair probe finding does not tell us anything about cannabis consumption.
"The new findings in particular with respect to analyses of children's hair are of significance in the context of custody rights", says Auwärter, "since cannabinoid-transfer is highly probable with close body contact and can lead to the fully wrong conclusion". In several court proceedings parents had their custody rights removed on account of hair probes from children being able to demonstrate the presence of drug metabolites, although the parents had insisted that they had not given any drugs.
Cutting instead of blowing?
For some ten years now information on alcohol drinking behaviour has been able to be recorded via retrospective hair analytics. For this purpose the alcohol markers ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE) are ascertained quantitatively.
Ethyl glucuronide is created in the liver even with only minor alcohol consumption. Hair analysis is well suited to "medical-psychological examination" employed as an abstinence control. The cut-off level used here is 7 pg/mg. Alcohol abuse and abstinence behaviour is able to be shown over a long time period when looking at hair. In driving aptitude diagnoses three centimetres of a head-proximal section of hair is normally examined and if the measured level falls below the cut-off level abstinence of three months can be justifiably asserted.
A supplementary examination of fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE) can act as a sensible addition to some questionnaires. Fatty acids released from fat via metabolic processes react with ethanol to form fatty acid ethyl esters. This occurs in the sebum glands in the hair, where this product is stored and is progressively spread into the hair during hair growth.
Ethanol metabolites are detectable in serum for hours, in urine for seven days, in full blood for over two weeks and in the hair over months. In a consensus of the Society of Hair Testing a FAEE concentration of over 0.5 ng/mg hair and/or EtG concentration of over 30 pg/mg hair in scalp proximal 0–6 cm is interpreted as distinct evidence of excessive and regular alcohol consumption.
Blond or brunette – this is decisive
Use of hair analysis for the purpose of acquiring evidence of doping is permitted in France. It is nonetheless not approved by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). A positive finding alone is not sufficient grounds for a ban.
Colourings and pigments such as melanin in hair concentrate certain substances at elevated levels. Those with dark hair can end up with more drugs or other substances incorporated in their hair. In contrast these substances are stored in blonde hair in more minor amounts, says a study by Skopp et al.
Hair biomonitoring is controversial
Patients who suspect environmental contamination, pollution in the workplace or the undersupply of trace elements to lie at the origin of an ailment hope to obtain help through hair analyses.
Hair analyses for quantifying environmental stresses have been increasingly offered in the last years in diverse places.
No recognised norms, reference or environmental medicine-based thresholds have been ascertained for environmental medicine-based results analysis. Information on normal range is characterised in general by considerable variations from element to element and from laboratory to laboratory.
Sobering conclusion
With respect to screening procedures which can be used for larger populations, the human-biomonitoring commission of the Austrian Federal Environment Office assessed hair analysis to only be able to be employed in examining contamination from nicotine, inorganic arsenic compounds and lead.
The US-American Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) views hair analysis as only being suitable in establishing methyl mercury contamination in individual cases.


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LONDON — Court documents show that a 13-year-old boy who was reported to be the father of a baby girl born earlier this year in Britain is not her dad.
Newspaper photos of the baby-faced teenager, Alfie, along with the 15-year-old mother and the infant shocked the country.
They also sparked debate about sex education in Britain, which has one of Europe's highest teen pregnancy rates.
Details of DNA testing were revealed Tuesday when a court-ordered reporting ban was lifted.
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More than 60 parents and children enjoyed a fascinating weekend of archaeological discovery at Smarden History Society's Big Dig event in 2008.
Under the guidance of TV's Time Team expert Carenza Lewis and her team from Cambridge University, assisted by mediaeval pottery expert Luke Barber from Sussex University, 11 teams opened test pits in the gardens of houses in the ancient centre of the village.
The aim of the project was to discover more about how the old mediaeval village developed, and where Smarden's old market place once stood.
It was soon apparent that most pits were going to produce large quantities of finds and at the close of the first day's digging, hundreds of artefacts were brought back to the Dig HQ at Smarden Primary School for examination by the experts. By the end of Sunday the quantity of collected items had run into the thousands !
All of the finds have now been taken to Cambridge University for further analysis, but the initial assessment showed that pottery pre-dating the building of Smarden Church had been discovered, together with significant quantities of Mediaeval, and Tudor fragments.
Perhaps the most exciting find was a hoard of silver English and French coins dating from the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th centuries found in one garden.
On Sunday afternoon everyone returned to the School once again and in turn, each team gave an account of its digging progress, which Carenza followed by revealing the experts' opinions of what they had found.
The Society now plans to display many of the Dig's finds at the Heritage Centre in due course, and hopes to arrange a talk about the Dig early next year.
The Big Dig weekend was voted such a big success by all the teams that the Society is now considering organising another Dig next year !
Smarden Test-Pits (SMA 08)
Pottery and Clay Pipes
Pottery Fabrics
NB. Date ranges given are for likely ranges from the current site.
S: Shell only
Pottery tempered with shell and no/very little sand is the earliest type from the site. The moderate shell tempering, often burnt out during firing leaving voids, ranges up to 1mm across. The fabric is usually low to medium fired and forms consists entirely of cooking pots and bowls. Such wares were probably made at a number of locations in the Weald though no kilns are known.
Date range: 1100-1200
S/S: Sand and shell
Pottery tempered with sand and shell marks a progression of ceramic technology though the wares overlap with the shell tempered wares. The fabric usually contains moderate to abundant fine/medium sand and sparse to moderate shell tempering to 1mm (often burnt out during firing leaving voids). The fabric is usually medium to well fired and vessels tend to be more competently formed. Vessels consists primarily of cooking pots and bowls though some unglazed jugs are known. Such wares are common in the Weald though only one kiln (at Potters Corner, Ashford) has to date been excavated.
Date range: 1150-1250/75
F/MS: Fine to medium sand.
Throughout the 13th century in the Weald there is a refinement in pottery manufacture with the transition to sand tempered wares made on a potter's wheel. By the end of the 13th century most pottery is sand tempered. There are a range of fabrics in this group tempered with sparse to abundant fine to medium sand. The fabrics are usually medium to well fired and forms consists of cooking pots and bowls as well as glazed jugs, usually in the finer sand tempered fabrics. Such wares were probably made at a number of locations in the Weald, for example at Rye, though no local kilns are known.
Date range: 1225/1250-1350/75
LF/MS: Late fine sand
Throughout the 14th century there is continued refinement in pottery manufacture with fabrics becoming finer and, particularly after c. 1350 becoming harder fired. This is a gradual an uneven transition. This group of fabrics is tempered with sparse fine/medium sand and typically represents the beginning of the transition toward post-medieval ceramics. Forms consists of cooking pots and bowls and occasionally unglazed/sparsely glazed jugs and pitchers. Such wares were probably made at a number of locations in the Weald though no kilns are known.
Date range: 1350/75-1450/75
HFE: High-Fired earthenwares
A range of related fabrics including late C14th to early C15th medium-fired silty wares as well as the more common hard-fired sparse fine to sparse/moderate fine/medium sand tempered vessels. These can either be deliberately oxidized orange or reduced to have dark grey/black surfaces. These wares are typical of the true transitional period between the medieval and post-medieval periods. The vessels are always well made and usually highly fired. Forms consist of jars/cooking pots (though this is a period when cooking with metal vessels was becoming more common) and large jugs/pitchers. A number of small production sites are known of in the Weald, including Hareplain, Biddenden (by far the closest), Boreham Street and Hartfield though there are likely to be many more as yet unexcavated ones. Although these wares begin in the later C14th and continue into the C17th they are at there most common in the early Tudor period, between 1450 and 1550.
Date range: 1375/1450-1550/1600
GRE: Glazed red earthenwares (early)
As the C16th progressed lower fired earthenwares, glazed to a greater or lesser extent on their interiors, increase in numbers. This is really the advent of the true post-medieval tradition. The range of vessels increases too as the use of pottery alters with more being created for use at the table rather than primarily for cooking. Jars, bowls, tripod pipkin (cooking vessels with three feet), jugs, storage jars, mugs, cups and plates are common. The fabrics are usually tempered with rare to sparse fine sand and normally fired to various shades of orange (though reduced grey examples are also present). Glazes are usually clear (glazing to red/brown due to the iron in the clay) or green (by the addition of copper). Some of the metallic glazes are present from Smarden, which are quite typical of the 17th century. These wares were made at numerous small potters workshops around the Weald. The wares represent the most common pottery type in households from the 16th to mid 18th centuries.
Date range: 1525/50-1800
BORD: Borderware-type ware
During the 16th to early 18th centuries a large pottery industry was working across the Surrey/Hampshire border producing a wide range of medium fired earthenwares. Although London was the primary market the wares are to be found all round the South-East. Both iron-rich (red-firing) and iron-free (white firing) clay was used to produce a typically wide range of pot types as noted for the local glazed red earthenwares. It is usually the white, or off-white, vessels that are recognized in the Weald. They are always well made and glazed. Glazing is usually clear (firing to yellow) or green (with copper added) though brown glazes (with iron added) are also quite common.
Date range: 1550-1800
WB: Wealden buff earthenwares
Although the majority of the local potteries during the early post-medieval period were producing the glazed red earthenwares if whiter-firing clay (without the high iron-content) was available they would utilize it, probably in an attempt to copy the whitewares of the Boderware industry. They produced a similar range of vessels but is a distinctly buff/pink range of colours as opposed to the red/orange or off-white of the other main types of pottery. Glazes tend to be green. These wares must have been produced at a number of sites (such as Graffham in West Sussex) but the source of the pots from the Smarden area is not known.
Date range: 1550-1800
FREC: Frechen German stoneware
Stoneware from the Frechen industry in the Rhineland is one of the commonest imports during the early post-medieval period. It appears to travel well inland away from the ports and appears on sites of all social status. By far the most common vessel type are bottles, frequently with the embossed face-mask on the neck (Bellarmine bottles). All are salt-glazed, often with iron added to give a mottled brown finish.
Date range: 1550-1700
TGE: Tin-glazed earthenware
Tin-glazed earthenwares represent the start of refined pottery for the table. They are usually quite low-fired fine buff earthenwares with a thick opaque white glazed (due to the added tin) which provided a good background for hand-painted decoration. Although made on the Continent in the C16th the ware was not produced in England until the C17th. It continued in production into the C18th by which time the white tin-glaze often had a distinct blue tinge to it. Plates and bowls are the most common vessel tyes though it was also used for drug jars and ointment pots. The material from the site includes C17th plain white, white with blue hand-painted decoration and white with purple sponged decoration as well as the later C18th wares with blue-tinged glaze, including plain and blue hand-painted decoration.
Date range: 1600-1750/75
C18th wares
A range of wares are represented, though they are not differentiated on the Test-Pit tables, including the following
Glazed red earthenware (1675/1700-1800) – a continuation of the earlier local glazed red earthenware tradition though there is a tendency towards larger storage vessels and fabrics tend to be finer with better glazing. Some of the examples with metallic glaze may be of the C17th though this type did continue into the C18th.
Jackfield-type ware (1675-1800) – a black glazed red earthenware.
Staffordshire combed slipware (1650 – 1850) – a buff earthenware with two layers of coloured slip on the vessel interiors, usually combed through to create a feathered pattern. Plates and bowls are the most common types.
London stoneware (1680 – 1800) – usually an iron-washed (brown) salt-glazed stoneware with notable black iron oxide inclusions in the fabric. Tavern pots and tankards are the most common vessel types.
Basaltes (1770 – 1870) – a matt black slip-moulded refined stoneware. The most common vessels are teapots, usually highly decorated.
White salt-glazed stoneware (1720 – 1780) – a white stoneware made in Staffordshire with fine salt glaze. This was far superior to the tin-glazed earthenwares. The most common vessel types consist of plates, though bowls, mugs and jugs are also common.
Creamware (1760 – 1840) – This represents the first mass-produced tableware and was more affordable than anything before. Early creamware has a notable yellow/creamy tinge to the glaze though vessels got paler through time. A full range of table and teawares was produced.
C19th wares
A range of wares are represented, though they are not differentiated on the Test-Pit tables, including the following
Unglazed red earthenware – usually flower pots
Glazed red earthenware (late) – a continuation of the local industry with a refinement of fabrics and glazes
English stoneware (inc. examples with Bristol glaze from the 2nd half of the C19th) – typically ink and ginger beer bottles.
Blue stoneware – plates and bowls are the typical forms.
Midlands slipware (late) – red earthenware bowls with internal white slip are the most typical form and were common in most Victorian kitchens.
Yellow ware – a range of bowls, chamber pots, oven dishes, jugs usually with blue mocha decoration are typical of the Victorian kitchen.
Industrial slipwares – these are usually in the form of bowls, measuring jugs and tankards.
Plain pearlware – earthenwares with a blue tinge to the glaze. A full range of table and teawares are present, most notably plain plates with blue shell-edge decoration.
Transfer-printed pearlware – as above but with blue (occasionally other colours) transfer-printed decoration including willow-pattern.
Plain china – refined white earthenware with no tinge to the glaze. These develop from the pearlware.
Transfer-printed china – As above but with blue, black, purple, green, red, brown transfer-printed decoration.
English porcelain – All of the material from the site is of typical 'low-grade' English porcelain which can be found in Victorian household assemblages of low to middle class.
Details of clay pipes are given in individual test-pits.
Test-Pit 1
Context S/S F/MS HFE TGE WB FREC C18thwares C19thwares C. Pipe DateRange
1 2/28g 1/10g 1/4g 6/52g 116/402g 7/14g 1500-1900
2 1/4g 1/3g 1/10g 5/14g 85/182g 1/3g 1275-1900
3 1/3g 2/30g 1700-1900
4 1/8g 4/86g 32/58g 2/6g 1200-1900
5 7/14g 1800-1900
The earliest occupation is represented by a single C13th- cooking pot base sherd of S/S (4). There is also a sherd of F/MS cooking pot of the late C13th to mid C14th (2). There are notable quantities of HFE from the later C15th to C16th centuries as well as C17th activity as represented by the TGE, WB and Frech sherds. The C18th is also well represented with glazed red earthenwares, Jackfield ware, London stoneware, white salt-glazed stoneware and creamware. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all excavated contexts. The clay pipe includes material of the early 18th to 19th centuries.
Test-Pit 2
Context S S/S F/MS LF/MS HFE FREC TGE GRE C18th C19thpot C. Pipe C19thchim DateRange
1 2/8g 10/44g 1700-1900
2 51/280g 1/2g 1800-1900
3 1/3g 59/260g 6/12g 20/1152g 1300-1900
4 1/2g 4/4g 47/178g 8/14g 5/143g 1450-1900
5 1/10g 6/20g 48/90g 1450-1900
6 1/8g 5/22g 3/7g 11/36g 5/11g 6/16g 9/17g 1300-1900
7 1/38g 18/86g 1/4g 6/15g 2/4g 4/3g 12/29g 1350-1900
8 3/11g 6/13g 2/8g 1/4g 1200-1750
9 1/7g 2/4g 1/3g 3/1g 1100-1900
20 2/2g 1800-1900
The earliest occupation is represented by a single abraded mid C12th- to early C13th- shell tempered cooking pot rim sherd (9). However, there is a notable quantity of S/S cooking pot sherds of the late C12th to mid C13th (8) and F/MS cooking pot ang jug sherds of mid C13th- to mid C14th- date suggesting notable medieval activity. There are also sherds of LF/MS, including a jug strap handle (7) indicating continual activity in the C14th to C15th. The presence of notable quantities of HFE show quite intense activity throughout the mid C15th to C16th centuries. The later C16th to C17th period is also represented, though on a lesser scale by some glazed red earthenware, tin-glazed earthenware and Frechen stoneware. A similar quantity of material is present for the C18th including more glazed red earthenware, London stoneware, white salt-glazed stoneware, creamware and basalts. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in virtually all excavated contexts though it is probably intrusive in the lowest (9) which would otherwise appear to be of C16th- date. The clay pipe includes a high proportion of C17th- material (notably from contexts 6 and 7) though C18th- and C19th- pipes are present in all contexts down to context 7.
Test-Pit 3
Context F/MS HFE FREC TGE C18th C19th C. Pipe DateRange
2 22/77g 1800-1900
*3 33/244g 1800-1900
*3 15/84g 53/686g 1750-1900
4 1/2g 20/132g 1300-1900
5 1/5g 1/10g 5/19g 1450-1800
* two separate bags labeled Context 3 – I suspect one is in fact Context 1…!!!
The earliest occupation is represented by a single F/MS cooking pot sherd of probable C14th- date (4). There are equally small quantities of C16th- to C17th- material but more is notable for the C18th. The latter includes a number of sherds from a single late TGE plate decorated with blue which may have been discarded in the C19th. However, there is also a little creamware and glazed red earthenware of C18th- date. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all but the lowest excavated context where the latest material was of C18th- date. No clay pipe was noted in this test-pit (*probably not given to me at the end of the day!).
Test-Pit 4
Context S/S F/MS HFE FREC C18th C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 1/1g 1/2g 1/1g 18/60g 2/2g 1250-1900
2 1/2g 2/6g 7/36g 1/6g 52/216g 6/6g 1150-1900
3 1/5g 22/143g 6/11g 1700-1900
4 2/5g 8/38g 2/4g 1250-1550
5 2/7g 5/100g 2/1g 1250-1800
The earliest occupation is represented by a single C13th- cooking pot body sherd of S/S (2). There are however, a notable number of F/MS cooking pot sherds of the late C13th to C14th suggesting this was the main period for the onset of activity. There are notable quantities of HFE from the C15th to C16th centuries, including a large unabraded sherd from context 5. The sherds of Frechen stoneware may well be of the mid C16th (though they may be earlier Raeren stoneware). The next period of activity appears to be the C18th, which is represented by a small but notable quantity of glazed red earthenware, London stoneware and creamware. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all but the lowest two excavated contexts. It is likely the two chips of C18th- material in context 5 are intrusive. As such, the lowest two contexts in this test-pit were probably not deposited after the mid C16th. The clay pipe includes material of the C17th (context 3) as well as the C18th to C19th centuries (contexts 1 to 3).
Test-Pit 5
Context F/MS HFE FREC C18th C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 1/12g 2/3g 26/134g 1/1g 1550-1900
2 1/8g 6/24g 53/150g 7/6g 1450-1900
3 1/4g 3/20g 67/152g 6/10g 1450-1900
4 1/5g 3/26g 1/4g 3/3g 2/3g 1250-1900
The earliest occupation is represented by a single F/MS C14th- cooking pot body sherd (4). There are a number of HFE sherds of mid C15th- to mid C16th- date suggesting this was a period of increased activity. The later C16th to C17th is represented by a single sherd of Frechen bottle. However, there is another increase in activity during the mid/later C18th with a notable number of glazed red earthenware, white salt-glazed stoneware and creamware sherds being present. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all excavated contexts though that in context 4 may be intrusive. The clay pipe includes material of the 17th to 19th centuries mixed throughout all of the contexts.
Test-Pit 6
Context S/S F/MS LF/MS HFE FREC C18thpot C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 1/6g 11/16g 1/1g 1450-1900
2 4/28g 2/2g 29/64g 4/16g 1450-1900
3 1/1g 1/2g 1/1g 21/46g 10/18g 1350-1900
4 3/30g 1/2g 4/5g 37/106g 16/30g 1250-1900
5 7/26g 2/6g 2/2g 7/30g 4/6g 1150-1900
6 4/6g 1/2g 1/1g 1150-1900
The earliest occupation is represented by a notable quantity of C13th- cooking pot sherds, including one with a triangular club rim (context 5). One of these sherds, from context 6, is quite low fired and may be of the second half of the C12th. There are also a notable number of F/MS cooking pot sherds of mid C13th- to mid C14th- date clearly showing a continuation of activity. Although there is only one LF/MS sherd of mid C14th- to C15th- date there is an increase in the number of sherds of the mid C15th- to C16th- with moderate quantities of HFE. It is quite possible the Frechen sherd belongs to the latter part of this period. The C18th is well represented with small quantities of glazed red earthenwares, creamware and basaltes. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all excavated contexts. However, the post-medieval pottery in context 6 is likely to be intrusive suggesting this deposit is of C13th- date. The clay pipe from context 5 is all of C18th- date though the layers above this level have a mix of C17th- to C19th- pipe fragments.
Test-Pit 7
Context HFE FREC GRE TGE C18thpot C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 8/28g 2/6g 29/104g 7/16g 1450-1900
2 1/14g 1/10g 1/1g 10/22g 81/300g 6/14g 1450-1900
3 5/30g 2/10g 1/6g 8/34g 8/26g 6/26g 1450-1900
4 3/28g 2/4g 2/1g 1/6g 1500-1900
5 1/2g 1700-1750
The earliest occupation is represented by notable quantities of later C15th- to C16th- HFE jar/pitcher sherds suggesting that occupation was quite intense at this time. The later C16th to C17th is represented on a lesser scale by some glazed red earthenware, frechen stoneware and purple-sponged TGE. Occupation is well represented for the C18th with a number of glazed red earthenware, London stoneware, white salt-glazed stoneware and creamware sherds. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all excavated contexts. The C19th- material in context 4 is probably intrusive suggesting this layer to be of C17th- date. The lowest fragment of clay pipe, dated to the early C18th, may be intrusive in context 5. Context 4 above contains a single C17th- stem fragment, while context 3 contains two mid/late C17th- and four C18th- fragments. Above this level there is a mix of C17th- to C19th- pipe fragments.
Test-Pit 8
Context HFE C18th C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 1/7g 1/7g 23/119g 1/4g 1450-1900
2 8/30g 1800-1900
3 1/8g 2/20g 3/10g 1400-1900
The earliest occupation is represented small numbers of mid C15th- to mid C16th- HFE sherds indicating the start date of activity. The next period represented by the pottery is the late C17th to C18th where a few sherds of Staffordshire combed slipware and London stoneware (inc. a tavern pot) indicate continued activity. There is a notable increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all excavated contexts. The clay pipe consists of a single C19th- stem fragment.
Test-Pit 9
Context LF/MS HFE FREC TGE C18thpot C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 1/3g 3/4g 6/4g 8/18g 1450-1900
2 1/3g 1/1g 6/18g 2/3g 1550-1900
3 1/12g 1/2g 1350-1800
The earliest occupation is represented by a single mid C14th- to C15th- cooking pot body sherd. There is also slight evidence of continued activity in the mid C15th to 16th centuries in the form of a single sherd of HFE. Activity in the later C16th to C17th is also not well represented but this period did produce a little Frechen stoneware and TGE. The C18th is represented by small quantities of pottery again, including glazed red earthenware, white salt-glazed stoneware and creamware. There is a slight increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is represented in all but the lowest excavated context. The lowest piece of clay pipe recovered consists of an C18th- bowl fragment though this may be intrusive in which case this deposit could be of mid C14th- to mid C15th- date. The clay pipe from contexts 1 and 2 is a mixture of c17th- to C19th- fragments.
Test-Pit 10
Context F/MS LF/MS HFE FREC BORD? TGE GRE C18thpot C19thpot C. Pipe DateRange
1 2/6g 1/8g 36/154g 4/8g 1450-1900
2 4/32g 4/20g 1/8g 1/6g 9/20g 254/1,004g 12/30g 1350-1900
3 2/8g 3/9g 1/2g 1/5g 7/22g 123/404g 1350-1900
4 2/12g 10/42g 14/74g 1/8g 6/36g 7/28g 89/316g 1250-1900
The earliest occupation is represented by two sherds of F/MS cooking pot of late C13th- to mid C14th- date (context 4). However, this test-pit also produced significant quantities of mid C14th- to mid C15th- LF/MS sherds including cooking pots and glazed jugs. As such it is likely quite intense activity began in the C14th, perhaps toward the middle of that century. Activity appears to have continued at quite a dense level judging by the quantities on mid C15th- to C16th- HFE sherds recovered. The later C16th to C17th is also well represented with quantities of glazed red earthenware, Borderware-type, Frechen stoneware and TGE. Activity appears to have continued at a similar pace during the C18th, with notable quantities of glazed red earthenware, Jackfield ware, London stoneware, basalts and creamware. There is a dramatic increase in the amount of pottery during the C19th and this material is significantly represented in all excavated contexts showing c19th- disturbance to the base of the excavation. The clay pipe includes a mix of C17th- to C19th- material from the upper two contexts only.
Test-Pit 11
Context GRE DateRange
1 1/6g 1500-1600
4 Not pot -
This test-pit produced a single sherd of low-fired earthenware (probably originally glazed) of C16th- date.
The earliest pottery from the test-pits is probably of the 2nd half of the C12th. However, it is not until the C13th that there appears to be significant activity in some test-pits. This continues in many in the C14th to early C15th and indeed, in some, this is when activity appears to start. There is a notable rise in activity from the mid C15th to C16th in most test-pits, and indeed this is the earliest activity in some. It is quite likely this is the result of the importance of the Wealden cloth industry at this time. Activity in the later C16th to C18th remains at a moderate level with a sharp upturn in refuse disposal in virtually all test-pits in the C19th.


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Break out an extra bandanna and wipe off the goggles -- in addition to playa sand, there's playa smoke at Burning Man this year.
Several large wildfires in northern California continue to blaze, and smoke from these conflagarations are expected to reach Burning Man attendees, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Attendees are advised to take precautions such as "drinking more water" to combat the "occasional inundation of smoke that can irritate your throat, lungs and eyes," according to the Bay Citizen.
The Rush fire, the fire closest to Black Rock City, the temporary art-exhibit/playa town inhabited by the Burners, is expected to be contained sometime in the next few days, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.
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Dj Ashba Quits Guns N' Roses and Forges Ahead with Sixx:A.M.
Dj Ashba quits Guns N' Roses and forges ahead with Sixx: A.M.
Guitarist Dj Ashba just announced today via a classy handwritten letter that he is quitting Guns N' Roses to focus on Sixx:A.M., his wife and family.
Dj Ashba joined Guns N' Roses back in March 2009 when he replaced Robin Finck who left the band to rejoin Nine Inch Nails.
The handwritten letter from Dj Ashba states:
"To Each and Every One Of You,
6 years ago I received a call that changed my life forever. The call was from a dear friend of mine (Katie McNeil-Diamond) who was working with Guns N' Roses. It was an offer to audition for Axl Rose and earn a role in arguably the biggest rock band of my time. While I thought it was a complete long-shot, I decided to go ahead and give it a try. Much to my shock and surprise, I got the gig. And so began the most incredible journey I could have possibly imagined. I was blessed with the opportunity to not only work with one of the most talented bands but also to share the stage with a living legend and a truly gifted human being, Axl Rose. The amount of confidence and trust that Axl placed in me was genuinely heartwarming and truly career-defining. In the years that followed I traveled the world many times over and played these incredible songs night after night to the most enthusiastic and loving crowds. As you can imagine, the friendships that were forged during that time were deep and long lasting. But the most beautiful surprise of all was YOU… the fans. You welcomed me into your lives with open arms and showed me love and support that I could only have dreamed of. From the very first time I stepped on stage and started playing "Welcome To The Jungle," and felt the crowd erupt, I knew my life would never be the same. I'm not gonna lie…I was terrified!! But you were so accepting. You immediately turned my fear into pride. For that, I am truly grateful.
So now it is with a very heavy heart and yet great pride that I announce that I've decided to close this chapter of my life and encapsulate the wonderful times that I've shared with Guns N' Roses into fond memories. I have reached a point in my life where I feel its time to dedicate myself to my band Sixx:A.M., my adoring wife and family, and to the many new adventures that the future holds for me. I have always been driven by my passion for creating music and Sixx:A.M. has always been a place where I can express myself honestly and share that passion with my two brothers and bandmates, Nikki Sixx and James Michael. As you know I have also been blessed with the love and support of my incredible wife, Naty, who has been at my side for much of this amazing journey.
As I sit here writing this letter, I want to take a moment to thank Axl from the bottom of my heart for not only the most incredible experience of my life, but for truly believing in me. You are a true friend and a champion of mine and I am forever grateful. And even as I move on to pursue other endeavors, I will always remain one of your biggest fans. I also would like to thank each and every one of you fans for your love and support throughout the years. Without you, I am nothing. Please know that I do not take one minute of this amazing life for granted.
I hope that you all join me as I forge ahead. Let's conquer the world together!
With love and respect,
Dj Ashba"
The following press release was recently issued by Eleven Seven Music Group about Sixx:A.M.'s plans for 2016:
"Sixx:A.M. is the band formed by bassist Nikki Sixx, vocalist & producer James Michael and guitarist Dj Ashba. Sixx:A.M.'s previous two albums – The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt – both of which were accompanied by books of the same name – have sold over 600,000 copies and spawned 2 number one radio singles, "Life Is Beautiful" and "This Is Gonna Hurt". Their third album, released in October 2014, called Modern Vintage has garnered rave reviews. The album's breakout hit single "Stars" has sold over 73K copies and its video has 1.1 million views.
The band's first headline tour, a limited run of North American dates in April of 2015, was a huge success & the catalyst for the band's most prolific period.
Nikki explains "Sixx:A.M. is in the most creative place of our career and we've already completed almost 24 songs to date. We're still on a writing and recording spree and plan on finishing up at least 30 songs total. Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the album have over 22 songs that tie together thematically and sonically. They will not be released at the same time to allow fans to absorb each album to its fullest but both will come out in 2016. This will be tied in with a 24-month world tour. For James, DJ and myself we think it's the perfect time to release so much quality music to our fans who've been supporting us over the last 3 albums. We're ready."
James Michael adds, "There have been a few moments in Sixx:AM's history that I would consider 'turning points.' When "Life Is Beautiful" reached the top of the charts, we realized that the three of us had a real chemistry and a knack for writing songs that connected with people. When we recorded "This Is Gonna Hurt", it became clear that we had created a unique "sound" that only the three of us together could achieve. But, I believe that the most pivotal moment for us came when we set out on our first headlining tour for "Modern Vintage." Playing to sold-out audiences every night made it clear that we had finally become a real band. We have now taken that energy and inspiration into the studio as we embark on our most ambitious undertaking… A double album which leaves no stone unturned in our quest to create important music and push the boundaries of rock."
Dj Ashba sums it all up… "Imagine the next two years filled with world tours, meet n' greets and more new music by Sixx:A.M. than your ears can handle. Well that's exactly what's going to happen! Nikki, James and myself have all decided to make Sixx:A.M. our main priority! We are on a mission to give our fans even more than they could have hoped for, both musically and visually. Also, we would like to thank you for your patience, your loyalty, and most of all, for turning us into a real band. We'll see you on the road in 2016!"
Sixx:A.M.'s Modern Vintage was voted the #12 album of the year for 2014 by Sleaze Roxx readers.