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Grandmaster Flash plays the 2016 National Folk Festival in downtown Greensboro on Saturday night.
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Folk: The 2016 National Folk Festival Guide
Eric Ginsburg
There's plenty to be excited about at this year's National Folk Festival in downtown Greensboro, but one act stands shoulders above the others: the legendary DJ Grandmaster Flash.
Considering the breadth of music, the free buses, the convenient location and, most importantly, the solid booking, the free festival deserves even more credit than it receives. We truly enjoyed last year — the first in a three-year run in Greensboro — with Mavis Staples, bluesman Marquise Knox and the Japanese taiko drummers. But Grandmaster Flash is one of the founding fathers of hip hop.
There's no good excuse for not being aware of Flash at this point, especially given his high-profile portrayal in Netflix's new series "The Get Down." The Baz Luhrmann epic chronicles the birth of hip hop, including the monumental influence of Grandmaster Flash on the genre's style. It's a fast-paced, engaging look that Flash and other greats directly helped mold.
Flash said in an interview with Triad City Beat that he got "quite emotional" the first time he saw part of the show because of how adeptly it translated what he and others had relayed about the time. Flash, who acted as a producer, called the final product "totally incredible."
In many ways, Grandmaster Flash is the perfect fit for the National Folk Festival. As a DJ, he's long sampled from disparate genres including Latin music, disco, jazz and rock. His style hasn't changed from the same precision and technique that made him famous decades ago, spinning two copies of a record at once and pioneering a form of turntablism that extended beats and clips. Back then he didn't have the internet, a studio or much at all beyond his fingertips on a record, and when Flash takes the stage at the National Folk Festival, it will be much the same.
Spend a little time looking up videos of Flash's "quick-mix theory" to see his raw talent in action, the sort of live sampling that is a far cry from what most DJs do today. But it's that approach that allows Grandmaster Flash to change on the fly — he's constantly watching his audience, he said, figuring out what they're into and honing his set to the crowd. What works in France won't work in Germany, Flash said — he returned from a tour in Europe just last week — and he'll put forward something fresh and unique at the Folk Festival as well.
"For me, it's candy," he said of the festival during a phone interview. "It's wonderful."
In many respects, the National Folk Festival transcends what many Triad residents might imagine when they hear the word "folk." But interpreted as something like "the people's music," the festival draws on deep-seeded musical traditions from this region and others around the world. The diversity of the music makes attending a profoundly interesting experience. And that's a huge part of Grandmaster Flash's appeal, too; he isn't just a living legend and a pioneer who's still practicing the craft, but his DJ set promises to be an embodiment of the symbiosis that the festival itself aims to achieve.
Don't miss DJ Grandmaster Flash when he takes the stage at the Dance Pavilion on Saturday at 9:15 p.m. He's the kind of artist that's worth seeing over and over, especially since his sets will be tailored to the crowd, so find him again on the same stage on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
Beyond that, here's a curated list of the most significant, interesting and out there performances to catch at this weekend's National Folk Festival, running from Friday through Sunday, Sept. 11. We picked out highlights and made a schedule of our own — there's too much happening at once to see it all — to help you find your way.
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Life and Death in the 21st Century:
Future Plagues
BBC2 8:00pm Wednesday 5th January 2000
PAUL MAYHO: I'd been given 10 weeks to live. I could either (a) die or (b) take the medication and run the risk of having to spend the rest of my life in a room 10 by 8. Death often seemed a very attractive option.
NARRATOR (DILLY BARLOW): Paul Mayho has a disease that was completely unknown only a few decades ago. He was then infected with another disease that was thought to have disappeared entirely from the West. As we enter the 21st-century with all our modern medical weaponry the question is: how could these things be happening? The dominant species on this planet are not humans. They are organisms too small to see with the naked eye, viruses and bacteria. Many believed that we would have won the battle against these microbes in the last century, but things turned out very differently. The new things that will kill us in this century will be unknown emerging microbes and the return of old plagues that we thought had been defeated. Scientists now know that we can never defeat nature itself.
DR JOE McCORMICK (Epidemiologist): Let's understand that this is a serious evolutionary, biological war that we're fighting with, with bacteria and viruses and they've been at it one hell of a lot longer than we have.
DR C.J. PETERS (Center for Disease Control): We're setting the stage for the emergence of more and more infections and surprisingly enough every 2 or 3 years something absolutely brand new comes along.
ARCHIVE FILM PRESENTER: 25 years ago, only 25 years, penicillin, antihistamines, polio vaccine, heart surgery, all those things that I've mentioned haven't been discovered yet. The greatest advance in the history of medicine has taken place.
NARRATOR: In the last century science launched an extraordinary global battle against infectious disease.
LAURIE GARRETT (Epidemiology Historian): I think it's very hard for modern, contemporary young people to imagine what the euphoria was like in the industrialised world regarding health.
NARRATOR: In a burst of scientific creativity, antibiotics were developed against killer bacteria and vaccines against the deadliest viruses. With these magical new weapons the World Health Organisation enthusiastically set out to immunise the whole world and rid us finally of some of the most feared infectious diseases.
LAURIE GARRETT: The epidemics yielded to one intervention after another and then massive vaccine campaigns seemed to present the possibility of truly eradicating infectious diseases. There claimed to be this sense even inside the World Health Organisation that one could actually set up a timetable for eradication. By next year, according to the original time-table, there was to be no tuberculosis on planet Earth. The first one on the timetable was smallpox and indeed we succeeded, we eradicated smallpox in 1977 and that was a tremendous victory for humanity, tremendous. Then we set targets on measles, polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, one after another, we were going to get rid of every single one of them.
C.J. PETERS: My belief when I was in medical school was that that medicine textbook would not change, it would just get more complete. We would find additional ways to treat things and things would just get better and better and better.
NARRATOR: These were the microbes that scientists believed would soon be defeated. The bacteria that caused tuberculosis, diphtheria, septicaemia and many lethal viruses, like those that cause polio and smallpox. 100 years ago we lived in fear, two-thirds of children died before adolescence, a simple cut could lead to a lethal blood infection and now the hope was that many of these diseases would be history.
DR JULIE PARSONETT(Stanford University): We had antibiotics that could cure infection, we knew how to treat tuberculosis, we had vaccines for polio and measles and the diseases that killed children and everybody was just enormously optimistic that infections just weren't going to do anything. I think now in retrospect we realise that that's just incredibly naïve.
NARRATOR: After decades of success optimism led to complacency. The pace of research into viruses and bacteria began to slow down. This was to prove a fatal mistake. Scientists did not anticipate what would happen next. Behind the scenes a series of strange, new, lethal viruses began to appear around the world. They came as a complete surprise to epidemiologists. No-one knew where they came from or why they were emerging. Many of them were different from other known viruses and some caused dramatic and horrific diseases: Hantaan, Junin, Rift Valley fever, Lassa, Ebola.
C.J. PETERS: Literally the virus [Ebola] is a very destructive virus by itself. There's bleeding in about half the cases and these cases the bleeding probably results from the virus chewing up the blood vessels and on around 9 or 10 days about 80% of the patients die. We understand how they propagate once they start, but we don't understand what starts them and, they've been relatively easy to control, but we still have this enormous blank space in terms of our understanding of those viruses.
NARRATOR: When analysed some of these new viruses had DNA unrelated to anything science knew of. The mystery deepened. It was only through years of painstaking epidemiology, tracing each epidemic to its source, that a picture of why they were emerging has started to come into focus. We now know that as human development encroaches on places that have never been touched before we come into contact with animals that carry viruses and diseases never seen before. We are stumbling on the viruses that have lain dormant around the world until now, viruses that could mutate to cross species and infect humans.
C.J. PETERS: We've changed the world tremendously in the process of our development and this has led the pace for development of new infections. As we've changed the world microbes have evolved and began to fill ecological niches that weren't there before, so we're setting the stage for the emergence of more and more infections.
NARRATOR: Inside this lab they're preparing for the 21st-century. This is the hot zone. Here scientists handle the most deadly emerging viruses. Sealed inside spacesuits, hooked up to air from outside, they never breathe in the lab air. They work in complete isolation and shower in disinfectant before returning to the outside world. Labs like this have restarted the battle against the virus. Joe McCormick is one of the new breed of virus trouble-shooters. He has been involved in the identification of many of the new emerging viruses. When there's an outbreak of any mysterious or unknown disease anywhere in the world this team flies out to collect blood samples and brings them back to identify the virus.
JOE McCORMICK: If an outbreak occurs somewhere we'll be looking to identify new viruses that we haven't seen before that may require this kind of containment. Out there in that cauldron of animal world we are churning over these viruses by the trillions all the time. They have been emerging and changing for centuries and we've got to believe that that's going to continue to happen. We're getting a huge population. It means that we can transmit viruses more rapidly to more people and this provides a greater opportunity for even more death.
NARRATOR: The increase in world population and travel means new viruses could potentially spread more rapidly than ever. The full danger of emerging viruses is just beginning to dawn. One in particular has shaken the medical establishment to its core. It never occurred to scientists that a completely unknown virus could emerge, become epidemic and within 20 years turn into the world's biggest infectious killer: HIV. DR JIM CURRAN (Epidemiologist): That something could overcome and overtake other causes of death and come from nowhere, from not causing any death to be the highest cause of death. That wasn't on the radar screen, that was not something that scientists even thought to speculate about. There was universal inability to see just how big this problem could get to be. This remains truly a new disease. Over 40 million people throughout the world are estimated to be infected, or have been infected. Between 11 and 15 million people have died. There are tens of millions of orphans, of parents who have died of HIV and the disease is just starting to show its true burden.
NARRATOR: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is so complex it has yet to be beaten by modern medicine. Every time scientists try to make a vaccine the virus mutates so rapidly the vaccine becomes redundant. Science has been left struggling.
JIM CURRAN: People are scurrying to find new therapies, but there hasn't been a cure. There are not people that are cured from HIV infection.
LAURIE GARRETT: It is now endemic rather than epidemic in most of the world. HIV certainly has given us adequate alert, alarm and proof that a virus previously unknown can emerge simultaneously on 3 continents and come to be one of the truly great plagues in the history of humanity.
NARRATOR: With their success in the battle against smallpox and polio many scientists believe that vaccines would eventually defeat most viruses, but this concept of unstoppable progress has now changed. In the 21st-century our continual development of the planet will inevitably lead to the unearthing of yet more killer viruses and the next emerging virus could be the next Great Plague.
C.J. PETERS: What we didn't take into account was that the world changes in a lot of different ways and that these viruses and other disease causing agents can evolve and that came as a complete surprise.
NARRATOR: This evolution of microbes across the planet has produced a superbug for the 21st-century, very different from viruses. Mutant forms of bacteria are now threatening to defeat one of our most powerful medical weapons: antibiotics. Antibiotics are chemicals secreted by moulds. They cannot kill viruses, but they do destroy bacteria. When they were first invented they seemed miraculous and saved millions of lives. Antibiotics became the most widely used chemical in medicine and we became completely dependent on them, and then something began to change: nature fought back.
PROF. ROBERT DAUM (University of Chicago): Bacteria evolve like humans evolve. The difference is bacteria have a new generation every 20 minutes and humans have a new generation every 25 years, so the pace of bacterial evolution is truly dizzying.
NARRATOR: This is a picture of something extraordinary: bacteria having sex. It is one of the key ways that bacteria can evolve. Under certain conditions when two come into contact one becomes male and the one female. They develop thin tubes that connect with each other and through these pili the bacteria randomly exchange parts of their DNA in a microscopic mating game. They then divide and the next generation will have new genetic characteristics. We now know that bacteria can evolve with the genetic characteristics that give them resistance to antibiotics and these strongest will be the ones that survive. The circled bacteria in this colony is a stronger resistant mutant. When an antibiotic is added to the petri dish the weaker, un-resistant bacteria are all killed allowing the resistant one to thrive and multiply.
LAURIE GARRETT: A petri dish full of bacteria can tomorrow be an entirely genetically different petri dish full of bacteria that have mutated and adapted under whatever pressure we've put on them and grow to be millions and millions or billions and billions that can now withstand whatever that antibiotic might have been.
NARRATOR: Over the years scientists have altered the chemical composition of antibiotics to overcome the ever-changing defences of bacteria. But the more antibiotics we use, the more resistant the surviving bacteria become, and now bacteria have evolved into Superbugs.
ROBERT DAUM: What we humans are trying to do here is to outstrip the pace of evolution. There's no if to the evolution of the resistance mechanisms. In every case where an antibiotic's been introduced bacteria learn to become resistant. It's a question of how fast and by what mechanism.
NARRATOR: The place where these resistant forms of bacteria have begun to colonise is the one place where you go to be cured, the place where the most antibiotics are used and, therefore, the resistant bacteria thrive: in hospitals.
ROBERT DAUM: You have sick people who hang around the hospital, they get more infections, they see more antibiotics, they also come in contact with other people who have resistant organisms on their skin, or on their nose, or on their mouth and so the net effect of all of this is that the hospital's a special milieu, we don't want to be there unless we're sick.
NARRATOR: Hospitals have now become breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant superbugs.
LAURIE GARRETT: Now we have such aggressive microbes that have evolved so magnificently to defy the system that they'll actually grow inside medical equipment and there may actually be colonies of microbes growing in certain rubber gaskets, certain bits of silicone and so on. Last year in the United States 88,000 people died as a result of hospital acquired infections. People want to frame this whole concern of emerging diseases as what will arise out of Africa. Well excuse me people, it's arising right out of our wealthy, fancy high-tech hospitals.
NARRATOR: This is the bacterium that is now raising the most alarm bells in the medical world: Staphylococcus aureus, or Staph a. It has evolved into a superstrain and seems to become resistant to every antibiotic we devise against it. These bacteria can live harmlessly on our skin, but if they enter the bloodstream they can kill within days. The antibiotic that scientists have depended upon until now to fight Staph a is Methicillin, but a new strain of a bacterium has evolved – MRSA – Methicillin -resistant Staph a.
ROBERT DAUM: The MRSA problem has gotten worse and worse and so that we now have in this country and in yours and in fact most countries, a major problem with MRSA being major components of the Staphylococcle bacterial population.
NARRATOR: In the future with the relentless increase in resistant bacteria being in hospital for routine surgery for a hip replacement or a Caesarean could be lethal. If even the smallest wound became infected it could kill you, and this is already happening.
ROBERT DAUM: There've already been several deaths at this institution from infections, literally caused by germs that are resistant to every antibiotic there is, both licensed and coming down the pike. We've lost at least 3 children in recent memory that way so we've got to work quickly.
NARRATOR: Until now resistant strains of this bacteria only evolved within the unique hospital environment where most antibiotics are use, but the Superbug has now taken the scientific world by surprise. It's begun to evolve in the outside world. In this affluent suburb of Chicago a teenage girl recently went to have her ears pierced. A minor infection turned into a nightmare.
LINDSAY KICKERT: I got my ear pierced first in January and then it was OK for a while and then it started to get infected.
WOMAN: Feel like you've got the clamp?
LINDSAY: Yeah.
The day it started this slowly it got like 4 or 5 times the size my regular ear and it just started to flop in and it turned blue and purple. I don't know if my ear's going to fall off or what.
WOMAN: Try this.
NARRATOR: One by one the infection beat every antibiotic and Lindsay's condition worsened. The situation became critical. Unless something worked the infection could spread and kill her. Lindsay was rushed to hospital and what scientists discovered there shocked them.
ROBERT DAUM: And the organism we got was MRSA. That was sort of heretic.
NARRATOR: There was only one antibiotic left that could kill MRSA: Vancomycin, a powerful and toxic drug, the drug of last resort. It's rarely used in the hope that bacteria won't become resistant to it. For 2 hours a day Lindsay was given intravenous Vancomycin. This drug of last resort saved her life.
JOE McCORMICK: The issue of an era where antibiotics are no longer effective is coming to us much more rapidly than we might have expected. I think that in fact it's come very rapidly.
NARRATOR: In some places the situation has already become more dangerous. In Japan a baby contracted a Staph a infection during heart surgery and this time not even Vancomycin worked.
ROBERT DAUM: This isolate was the first Vancomycin resistant isolate and sounded a warning cry really that's been heard around the world. Vancomycin resistance has now been reported from at least 4 different continents and it's been a problem for about a year and a half, so fasten your seatbelts. No-one knows how fast this will go and we'll just have to wait and see.
NARRATOR: At the height of our success in the battle against bacteria science slowed down its search for new antibiotics. Now scientists are hard at work trying to create new antibiotics through chemistry, computer drug design and analysing the genes of bacteria themselves hoping to find new ways of attack. This year a new antibiotic was licensed – Synercid – and 3 more are on the way. They will kill all known current resistant strains, but inevitably the stronger our attack, the more the bacteria will evolve even stronger resistant strains. Evolution will for ever keep the bacteria one step ahead.
JOE McCORMICK: These organisms have been up against probably a lot tougher environmental enemies than our antibiotics and they've managed to weather it by developing all of these strategies that we haven't understood. The idea that yes, we'll make a few antibiotics and now we've gotten rid of that, that bacteria has suddenly disappeared and with it some of the confidence I think that we had that, that we were winning this war.
NARRATOR: There is yet another consequence of the growth of antibiotic resistance. Diseases we used to die of that we thought we'd long conquered have begun to evolve and are returning in more sinister forms.
DR RICHARD COKER (Tuberculosis Consultant): 50 years ago people were writing books about the conquest of tuberculosis, tuberculosis the requiem, so when we look back we see that, that the predictions that were being proffered then were clearly wrong.
LAURIE GARRETT: We actually do now have, throughout the world, strains of universally drug-resistant tuberculosis and one of the major places where you see them right now is Russia and the former Soviet Union. These are untreatable cases. Now about one out of every five tuberculosis patients in Russia is treated surgically which is to say the drugs don't work anymore, let's go back to the 19th-century and cut out the infected lung.
NARRATOR: This return to the past will become the story of the future. Drug-resistant strains are now appearing in the wealthiest cities of the world. An outbreak of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis has taken New York City by surprise. It's been one of the most serious epidemics to hit the West since the early 20th-century and this is only the beginning of a possible global disaster. The city was utterly unprepared to cope with either the scale or nature of this epidemic. Paula Fujiwara was brought in to stop the disease in its tracks.
DR PAULA FUJIWARA (New York City Department of Health): It's hard to convey the sense of panic I think that happened in New York City. People who were infected, especially those who were HIV infected and then on top of that got tuberculosis, were dying. Tuberculosis usually in a situation where you have the correct drugs it's not a disease one dies from.
RICHARD COKER: There was a fear that transmission of this potentially untreatable disease could occur and could affect anybody irrespective of whether they're a commuter from Connecticut, whether they're living on the Upper West Side, or whether they're living in central Harlem.
NARRATOR: There was only one way to cure this new resistant strain of TB and it was extremely unpleasant: by taking a massive daily cocktail of toxic drugs, antibiotics and injections for up to 2 years. The problem was the treatment was so horrendous that few managed to keep it up and without finishing their antibiotic courses patients encouraged ever stronger bacteria to survive and spread.
PAULA FUJIWARA: We said this was a battle that could be won, but it was going to be won patient by patient and that meant giving the patient medicine, watching the patient take medicine.
NARRATOR: The only sure way to control the disease was a drastic and almost medieval solution. On this island off Manhattan people are imprisoned. They have not committed a crime. They have contracted tuberculosis. In Goldwater Memorial Hospital they are being forcibly detained and treated. They will be imprisoned until they're cured. That can take years.
RICHARD COKER: In New York they changed the law, the health codes so that they could lock up people. If you don't comply with the treatment then you can be detained and you'll be detained until you've completed your treatment and that may be 6 months or that may be 12 months or it may be 2 years.
DESIREE WILLIAMS: The police came, handcuffed me. I thought I was under arrest for something and they sent me to Goldwater. When you get there that's when you find out that you ain't going nowhere no time soon. When you get there they don't tell you none of that, but you know, I mean I already know it could happen but I didn't believe 'em, so now reality hit me and I, I was in there.
NARRATOR: Desiree Williams had TB. She found it hard to keep attending clinics and taking her multitude of drugs, so she was forcibly taken away and locked up in Goldwater for the remainder of her treatment to make sure that she completed her antibiotics course.
DESIREE WILLIAMS: I'll be honest, when you get there, when you finally get to Goldwater you ain't leaving out of there till you've completed your medication because, if they had me placed somewhere but they make you take it they ain't going to trust you, you know, so once you get there you stay in there till you finish.
PAULA FUJIWARA: When we started this programme, detention programme, I felt that it shouldn't be done at all. In an ideal world it shouldn't be done, it shouldn't need to be done, but it's been what we call a credible threat of detention. Most people, some people if you dangle that in front of them will say OK, OK, I'll take my medications, you don't have to do that, but I feel like it has been necessary.
NARRATOR: The detention of patients in New York seems draconian, but at the moment science can provide no easy alternative. The strains of multi-drug-resistant TB are now spreading throughout the world until science has another answer. In the future, detention may be the only option.
RICHARD COKER: What do we do about antibiotic resistance? I think that's the, the $64 million question. Nobody knows what we do with multi-drug-resistance tuberculosis.
NARRATOR: It's a problem we now face in Britain.
PAUL MAYHO: I didn't know that I had been exposed. The first indication I had was a phone call from the hospital saying you need to come in straightaway. I was absolutely petrified.
NARRATOR: Paul Mayho has HIV. Whilst being treated in hospital he then caught multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. This combination is called the Devil's Alliance.
PAUL MAYHO: I'd heard about MDR TB. I knew it was becoming a big problem in the States, I knew that in people who were positive the mortality rate was thought to be very, very high.
NARRATOR: It was essential to isolate him as soon as possible.
PAUL MAYHO: Hospitals didn't have negative pressure isolation rooms, they had none, so I was sort of isolated in a side room where they hurriedly built me one.
NARRATOR: Paul's chances of survival were low.
PAUL MAYHO: I've done an awful lot of medication to treat the TB. I was on about 30 pills a day and 3 intra-muscular injections a week. Death often seemed a very attractive option. When I was infected with TB I was on a 6 bedded bay of the ward. Everybody on the bay was infected and to my knowledge I'm the only survivor.
NARRATOR: Paul Mayho is now completely cured of TB. His isolation was voluntary, but 4 people were forcibly detained in London last year. More countries are now changing their laws to allow long-term detention of patients. In this new century we may find ourselves resorting to this age-old solution more and more often, the equivalent of leper colonies for TB, or perhaps worse.
RICHARD COKER: There is a school of thought, that people quietly say in corridor, that we should let those with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis die.
NARRATOR: It is virtually impossible to keep up with the evolution of microbes. In the future the solution to some infectious disease will no longer come from high tech medicine, but from a return to more primitive measures. In 1998 in Malaysia a deadly pig virus began to kill humans. The only way it could be halted was by the extermination of nearly 2 million pigs. A lethal influenza outbreak in Hong Kong was only controlled by the slaughter of the carriers of the virus. The entire chicken population was killed. For all the many brilliant achievements of medicine in the 20th-century one lesson has been learned: science will never again be complacent about infectious disease. Outwitting viruses and bacteria has become a continuous struggle and scientists are already trying to explore new ways to defeat the microbes. These mice may hold one answer. They've been injected with a lethal dose of Salmonella bacteria, but they're thriving. They're being protected by a completely new kind of vaccine, a vaccine that could free us from our dependence on antibiotics in the future. Like many other scientists around the world, geneticist Mike Mahan and his team are looking for alternatives to antibiotics. They've discovered the very gene in Salmonella that triggers disease.
PROF. MIKE MAHAN (University of California, Santa Barbara): Well there's basically two main points to our findings. One is we've, we believe we have uncovered a master switch controlling bacterial infection and when we knock out this switch it completely disables the ability of the bacterium to cause disease. Point 2 is that we've utilised this information to devolve a vaccine. Mice immunised with this vaccine elicit a fully protective immune response, that is these mice are completely protected against subsequent bacterial infection.
NARRATOR: Once in the body bacteria normally hide from the immune system until they reach their target cells. There they switch on the gene that stimulates the production of the poisons that make us ill. It's not until this moment that the body recognises the invader and attacks it. By then it's too late to stop the bacteria from causing disease.
MIKE MAHAN: Bacteria only turn on genes if they have to, and with regards to the immune system they don't like to reveal their weapons. If they do they get nailed.
NARRATOR: In his vaccine Mike Mahan has engineered the master gene so that the bacteria are recognised by the immune system the very second they enter the body. The body immediately launches an attack destroying the bacteria before it can do harm. This white blood cell, part of the immune system, is engulfing and destroying an invading bacterium. This is what happens when the new vaccine is used. From now on the body is forever alerted to attack invading bacteria before they can cause disease. When lab mice were given this new vaccine their body's response was so intense they became completely immune to any dose of salmonella without the need for antibiotics.
MIKE MAHAN: These mice didn't die. Actually at levels 10,000 times the dose that, that would kill mice these mice have no symptoms whatsoever.
NARRATOR: If a similar gene can be shown to affect other types of bacteria then in the future we might have vaccines against most bacterial diseases without ever having to resort to antibiotics.
MIKE MAHAN: We really believe that this is going to lead to a new generation of vaccines. This is really, it's new hope against a really serious battle which at the moment we're, we're not winning.
NARRATOR: This way of replacing antibiotics with a new medical solution is not the end of the battle. Bacteria will eventually evolve and find a way round even this, so the search for the next solution continues. But scientists have had to face another unexpected shock. They're beginning to realise that these deadly microbes may be more pervasive than they ever thought. Dr. Sandeep Gupta is one of several specialists around the world who are puzzled by some strange statistics. He doesn't work with bacteria or viruses. In fact, he's a specialist in heart disease.
DR SANDEEP GUPTA (Consultant Cardiologist): We all recognise that smoking, high cholesterol, blood-pressure, diabetes, a family history is all important as, as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, but the, the point is this that those risk factors fail to explain everything.
NARRATOR: For decades scientists have focused on lifestyle factors as the cause of the sharp increase in heart disease in the West. For those with a genetic predisposition it's believed that smoking, high cholesterol foods and high blood-pressure are key factors, but when analysing statistics on the subject, scientists saw some puzzling anomalies.
SANDEEP GUPTA: Some patients who have heart attacks don't smoke, they don't have high cholesterol. Japan has some of the highest rates of smoking, cigarette smoking in the world and yet some of the lowest rates of coronary heart disease. Patients from Afro-Caribbean population often have some of the highest rates of diabetes and high blood-pressure and yet some of the lowest rates of coronary heart disease.
NARRATOR: Many scientists came to believe that there must be another, hidden risk factor that was somehow triggering heart attacks and now they think they may have discovered it. In the blood of many heart patients scientists have found an unexpected bacterium: Chlamydia pneumoniae. Chlamydia pneumoniae is a bacterium that usually lives only in the lungs where it causes nothing more than a mild cold, but it's become clear that this bacterium is also able to get into the bloodstream and travel to the heart. Scientists suspected that Chlamydia pneumoniae could be the missing link and that heart disease could actually have an infectious element to it. Sandeep Gupta was the first to put this idea to the test. He decided to look at some of his patients who'd suffered heart attacks and had Chlamydia pneumoniae in their blood. He gave them antibiotics to kill the bacteria and he discovered that at the same time the swelling in the arteries of many of his patients was reduced.
WOMAN: When this comes to a stop I'm just going to take your blood-pressure one more time.
MAN: OK.
SANDEEP GUPTA: Done very well, very good. So the, two of the main heart valves…
NARRATOR: Dr. Gupta's initial results seem to confirm the theory, but it's still too early to know for sure if there really is a connection between the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae and heart disease.
SANDEEP GUPTA: So basically it's sound waves being bounced off… We still don't know whether this organism is an innocent thing that has nothing to do with coronary heart disease, but the implications are major, that the ultimate aim if we prove this story would be to develop a vaccine against Chlamydia pneumoniae.
NARRATOR: But heart disease is only the first of a whole range of chronic diseases that we now surprisingly being linked to viruses and bacteria. Bizarrely scientists are beginning to realise that even cancer may be infectious.
JULIE PARSONETT: I think if you went and talked to people on the street and asked them did infection cause cancer most people would say you're crazy. Took 60 years for people to really believe that a virus could cause cancer and the main argument against it was that viruses just didn't cause cancer. That was, it wasn't any more logical than that, that there was cancer and there were viruses and they weren't the same thing and they didn't do the same thing.
NARRATOR: Research has now shown that some of the leading cancers in the world are caused by infection. Some stomach cancer is caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacterium. Cervical cancer is almost universally caused by Papilloma virus. Liver cancer is known to be caused by the Hepatitis viruses.
JULIE PARSONETT: If you eliminated smoking as a cause of cancer, if we could get people to stop smoking then infection would be by far the most common cause of, of cancer that we know of. I think at the end of the day we're going to find that almost all disease is caused, in some way, by infection either directly or indirectly by the way we've evolved to respond to them, or by the exposures that we had from childhood that affect us many years later.
NARRATOR: Now scientists are beginning to understand how pervasive these microbes are. Labs like these will continue to be in demand in this new century, a century of renewed struggle against viruses and bacteria, some of them as yet unknown. The optimism of the past is over and now it's clear that the ingenuity of scientists is all that will keep us one step ahead of nature.
ROBERT DAUM: On the whole, I have a rosy picture of how it's going to play out. I think we'll be, we humans are smart too and we'll identify new targets and make new antibiotics. On the other hand, we've got to work quickly.
JOE McCORMICK: We've got a lot to learn and we should stop assuming that once we've got something conquered we suddenly outsmarted nature and evolution. We haven't done that.
C.J. PETERS: We're racing the viruses and the bacteria and if we're not out there running that race I think we'll come up losers in the end.
JULIE PARSONETT: We live in a microbial world. They are the dominant force, living force, on this earth and we're not going to escape them.
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Ohio State Preparing For Tough Matchup With Akron
By Patrick MayhornNovember 9, 2021 (5:00 pm)Basketball, Men's Basketball
Traditionally, Ohio State doesn't like to open its men's basketball season with a huge challenge. The nature of the college basketball preseason is such that, even with secret scrimmages and exhibitions, coaches don't really have a great grasp of their teams entering the season and would prefer not to learn of the holes in their roster the hard way. A tune-up game or two against a lesser opponent can make for an easier transition than an immediate defeat at the hands of an equally matched opponent.
Though it wouldn't be fair to describe Ohio State and Akron as "equally matched," the Zips are quite a bit better than the standard fare for the Buckeyes to open their season against – making for an interesting dynamic entering the Nov. 9 matchup, slated for 6 p.m. in Value City Arena. To make matters even more intriguing, this is an especially significant matchup for Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann, who went to college with and then coached alongside Akron head coach John Groce.
"This is the toughest home opener we've had in our four-plus years here," Holtmann said. "I'm looking forward to playing a really good Akron team. Obviously, I have a close personal relationship with (Akron head coach) John Groce, he's a dear, dear friend. Our families are close, we went to college together and he gave me an opportunity when I was a young – younger – low-major assistant. He gave me an incredible opportunity and we spent a couple of really enjoyable years together at Ohio where he did a phenomenal job, leading them to a Sweet 16 and winning a couple of NCAA Tournament games. He really did a tremendous job there.
"This will be an interesting thing, we've played one other time before but these are difficult games. We played when I was the head coach at Gardner-Webb but these are difficult games. They sound good when you schedule them but not as good when you look at the quality of team that they are. "
As for this specific Akron group, Groce returns a roster that was 15-8 a season ago and won the MAC title in 2019 before the season was cut short by COVID. It has been one of the MAC's better program's since Groce's arrival and has its eyes on another conference crown this season after coming up just short last year.
"He's done a great job with that Akron program, it's been a great program for a number of years," Holtmann said. "They won 24 games and the MAC two years ago right before COVID hit, the tournament got taken away from them. Played a top-10 Louisville early in the season to a two-possession game. It's a talented, older group, a lot of high-major transfers blended in with some guys he's recruited, and they play just incredibly hard. Really well-coached, he has a terrific staff. I have a lot of respect for this Akron team and I know our guys do too, with their talent and how hard they play and their ability, I think they're going to have a very good season. We'll need to play well, for sure."
The primary difference between this Akron group and last year's is at point guard, where 2020-21 points leader Loren Cristian Jackson has departed, leaving the Zips with a gap in their starting lineup that has made assessment a bit tricky for the Buckeyes.
"It's tough because when you're playing teams early in the year you don't really know what to expect," Holtmann said. "They're a little bit different because they had a point guard last year (Loren Cristian Jackson) who they ran a lot of the offense through (and he's gone now). As much as possible, early in the season you're trying to really get good at your stuff and make the appropriate adjustments if you need to. There's a level of physicality and aggression that Akron plays with that's really impressive. For us, that's the first order, we need to be ready for that."
As for the Buckeyes, expect something close to a healthy group in scarlet and gray. Forward Kyle Young is a game-time decision as he deals with vestibular dysfunction, but Justice Sueing is expected to return, though Holtmann warned that he'll be a bit rusty after spending much of the offseason dealing with a nagging leg injury.
"We expect Justice to be available as long as practice goes well," Holtmann said. "Kyle will be a game-time decision, we need to see more progression from him. There's more doubt right now on Kyle's availability than Justice's."
Ohio State is favored and should feel comfortable about its ability to knock off the Zips and start the season 1-0, but this may be the MAC's best, and a Big ten squad losing to a MAC group is far from unheard of. To avoid that same fate, Ohio State is taking Akron as seriously as it would any other opponent – and hoping that the work put in this offseason will pay dividends.
"Looking at film, they're really a good team – talented, athletic," point guard Jamari Wheeler said. "Going into the game we have to just make sure we do what we do and control the things we can control, and we'll like the outcome. Go in there, play hard, get stops, rebound the ball and set the rules for the game."
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This weekend has been the Great Backyard Bird Count sponsored by the Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and I've been making bird observations around my feeder and the waters along the Indian River. The count got off to a slow start on Friday; it seemed all the birds "flew the coop". But things picked up on Saturday and then Sunday morning was spectacular, despite the rain. Between 7 and noon Sunday morning I identified 25 species of birds - from the tiny brown-headed nuthatch to the American bald eagle.
The morning got off to a strong start when I spotted a red-tailed hawk swoop into one of the loblolly pines with its breakfast in its talons. Meanwhile, the bird feeder had steady traffic of cardinals, chickadees, white-throated sparrows, house finches, and a persistent red-bellied woodpecker. Also hanging around were blue jays and yellow-rumped warblers. Out on the river, there were floats of bufflehead and hooder merganser ducks taking turns diving for small fish and other subaquatic prey. There were also a few mallards and two canada geese that seem to be setting up housekeeping across the channel. Out on a dock were some ring-billed gulls and a cormorant. Then a large hawk flew overhead, dark chested with white speckles; I wasn't sure what it was so I broke open the bird book and identified it as a 2nd year bald eagle; having not yet developed the classic white head.
I knew there were more bird species that frequent the area, so I kept watching after breakfast. Spotted a crow and a turkey vulture. Then a mockingbird braved the rain to sit atop one of the young live oaks in the area. Then it seemed it was time for the second wave. The lawn was besieged by a flock of robins - with a couple of European starlings intermixed. Some tiny brown-headed nuthatches and several red-winged blackbirds joined the rotation at the bird feeder. A carolina wren hopped past and then a beautiful northern flicker woodpecker landed in the tree. And to the overall list a great black-backed gull from Friday, a brown pelican from yesterday and a pileated woodpecker that I spotted during our Walk in the Park, also yesterday, and the total species cound for the weekend is 28. I still haven't spotted any herons, egrets, or kingfishers, but overall a great count.
Never been to Indian River Park? Interested in seeing where it is and what's happening in the park? Join us this Saturday, February 18th from 10 am to noon to explore Indian River Park. We'll meet at the park entrance at Rokeby Ave and Main St. (Rokeby may still be closed south of Military for maintenance so follow the detour from Sparrow Rd to Main St to Rokeby). We will take a walk through the park and see some of the impressive old trees in the park, the Indian River's stream and flood plain, the bike trails, and perhaps some birds. I'll also point out some of the invasive plants and other areas for improvement. The round trip walk will be about 1.5 miles.
I joined the Eastern Virginia Mountain Bike Association (EVMA) Southside chapter for another cleanup and trail day at Indian River Park on Saturday morning. The EVMA adopted Indian River Park and holds frequent events to maintain the trails and keep up the park in general. The events are coordinated with the City but are accomplished with all volunteer effort. The threatening weather dampened the turnout today but not the spirits of the team. The community also seems to be on a PR roll - another reporter from the Virginia Pilot was at the park to interview the volunteers before the cleanup got underway; we may see another article in the Clipper soon.
Armed with wheel barrows, rakes, shovels, and a hefty supply of trash bags provided by the city, the crew fanned out around the park. While one team worked on repairing a curved berm on one trail, Mike Buff, the event coordinator, and I worked our way along the Indian River's stream bank collecting trash. We discussed the flooding that inundates some trails caused by toppled trees further downstream on the other side of Military Highway; the City's Public Works department is investigating. We also talked about keeping a healthy stream "connected" to its flood plain, which is an important factor in reducing storm runoff into the tidal Indian River and the Chesapeake Bay in general. Another topic was the creeping encroachment of invasive English Ivy.
I was happy to discover the progress that was made on the stream crossing just off the park entrance. The EVMA has replaced the improvised string of loading pallets that bridged the gully with a neat path of split logs. And local Boy Scout Troop 6 is raising funds to build a full hiker/biker bridge on the trail.
Overall the EVMA team removed a stack of old loading pallets, a wrecked tent, a pair of broken patio chairs, and six big bags of trash - mainly bottles and cans washed downstream from the surrounding streets. Then they re-painted several bridges and entry sign to the park. They topped off their efforts with a mini-picnic with burgers and hot dogs as they proudly considered their work and discussed opportunities for further enhancements to the BMX trails.
We had a great first meeting of the Friends of Indian River last night. Sixteen neighbors from points up and down the river gathered at the library to share their stories and their interests. Long time residents remembered how the river was once much clearer, and then became much muddier as development swept through the upper watershed in the 70's and 80's. The attendees expressed great interest in doing good for the community, and hoping to get improvements for the community in return.
Areas of interest identified by the group included the state of the business district along Indian River Road - especially the empty supermarket in Indian River Shopping Center; the state of the river, its grasses and oysters; the over abundance of non-migrating Canada Geese and their negative impact on the environment; and the impact of wakes from fast moving boats. We discussed the Indian River Park, piecing together stories of its acquisition from the city of Norfolk, and the work done by the local chapter of the Eastern Virginia Mountainbike Association (EVMA) in keeping the park accessible. We talked about the possibilities of locating a canoe/kayak launch site somewhere along the river. Several members expressed interest in doing outreach and education in the community.
The consensus was that we should work with the city and other organizations like the Norfolk Highlands Civic League, EVMA, Chesapeake Master Gardeners, Elizabeth River Project, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and even local Scout groups to improve the community. By getting organized we can use our numbers - and our connections - to take action, get attention, influence, and results.
The group agreed to meet again in early March to continue organizing and planning. The date is TBD until we nail down a meeting room. In the meantime we'll share more information by e-mail and organize a "Walk in the Park" to explore some of the high points, and some of the low points, of the park. We'll also look into coordinating with the Chesapeake Environmental Improvement Council to see if we can help tree planting efforts on Arbor Day, March 31st.


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Q: MySQL / PHP - Storing parameters in a database table: Good or bad idea? So far I store all the relevant parameters that I need for my website as variables in a php file; then I point to this file through a requirestatement in each page that needs those parameters.
This is most of times good and easy to mantain, but sometimes I need to change those variables "on the fly" and I feel the need of some sort of web-panel where I can change them even more easily (I'm thinking to a web page with a form to update the parameters).
So I've created a table in my MySQL database to store parameters (basically, this table has two columns: ParamName and ParamValue; I've stored the parameter names as a varchar without the $ sign at the beginning), in order to create the web-panel I've in my mind.
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*Is this a good or a bad idea?

*What are the main issues I could encounter doing so (in terms of security, too)?

*How deprecable and dangerous is the use of $$ParamName?

*I'd better change my mind or can I proceed this way?

EDIT: I changed mysql_ syntax into mysqli_ as suggested.

A: Using arbitrary values in a database as variable references is highly risky. What you'd want to do is fetch the data from your key/value store into a self-contained associative array and use that instead.
You also do not want to be using mysql_query for anything these days. Please, put that thing away.

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If these parameters will change, using a database that specializes in key-value stores might be more useful for you instead of using a standard relational database.
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One Big Rush: The Genius of Joe Satriani es un álbum de compilación del guitarrista Joe Satriani. Éste contiene canciones de las décadas anteriones.

Lista de temas
 "One Big Rush" - 3:27
 "Surfing with the Alien" - 4:23
 "Sleep Walk" - 2:45
 "Belly Dancer" - 5:02
 "Back to Shalla-Bal" - 3:16
 "(You're) My World" - 3:56
 "Motorcycle Driver" - 4:58
 "All Alone" - 4:22
 "Cryin'" - 5:43
 "Up In Flames" - 4:33

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 en guitar9.com One Big Rush

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Turkey Must Release Osman Kavala and Drop Charges Against Him and Henri Barkey
PEN America says new charges levied against the two men are absurd and represent an egregious attack on human rights and free expression
(New York, NY) — In response to news that Istanbul's chief prosecutor is seeking aggravated life sentences plus 20 years for detained philanthropist Osman Kavala and scholar Henri Barkey, PEN America unequivocally condemns these absurd charges and calls on the government to release Kavala and drop all charges against both men.
"This new indictment is yet another egregious attack on the human rights of Osman Kavala, who has dedicated his life to promoting cultural collaborations and advocating for the rights of people in Turkey," said Karin Deutsch Karlekar, director of PEN America's free expression at risk programs. "It is a brazen demonstration of the Turkish government's disregard for the most basic of rights, and of ongoing efforts to criminalize and punish free expression and legitimate criticism of the government. We call for the immediate release of Osman Kavala, and for all absurd charges against both him and Professor Barkey to be dropped."
Last week, the Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No.36 accepted baseless renewed charges against writer, philanthropist, and activist Kavala, who has been unjustly held in pre-trial detention for over three years. Barkey, an American scholar the Turkish government accuses of orchestrating the July 2016 attempted coup, has been charged in absentia. An Istanbul prosecutor is seeking aggravated life sentences plus 20 years for both Barkey and Kavala for "espionage" and "attempting to overthrow the constitutional order" for their alleged roles in the 2016 coup attempt. Barkey remains in the U.S., but if convicted, Kavala could face life in prison with no potential for release. A first trial hearing for both men has been scheduled for December 18.
Kavala was initially arrested in 2017 on charges that he was involved in orchestrating the 2013 Gezi Park protests, and has been held in Istanbul's Silivri prison since. He was held in pre-trial detention until February 2020, when charges against him and eight other activists were dropped. However, immediately upon his release, the Turkish government levied new charges against him for alleged involvement in the 2016 attempted military coup against President Erdogan's AKP-run government, and he remains in detention on the basis of these new accusations.
In late September and early October, just weeks before these charges were accepted by the Istanbul court, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers renewed calls for Turkey to comply with the European Court of Human Rights judgment calling for the release of Kavala. The Turkish Constitutional court, which rules on the legality of charges, such as those against Selahattin Demirtas, said they would postpone judgment until the new indictment was released, and the court has yet to set a date for the new consideration. Further, on October 14, another Istanbul court ruled, upon the appeals of Kavala's lawyers, that the clause of the new indictment calling for him to be remanded in prison was illegal. However, he remains detained on the charges of espionage, which his legal team is appealing.
Following the July 2016 coup attempt and the imposition of a state of emergency by the current government, freedom of expression has come under severe pressure in Turkey. According to PEN America's inaugural Freedom to Write Index, Turkey ranked third worldwide, with 30 writers and intellectuals detained or imprisoned during 2019. PEN America has campaigned on behalf of a number of writers incarcerated or otherwise facing restrictions on their freedom of expression or movement, including the Altan brothers, Ahmet Sik, and Zehra Doğan.
Kavala is best known for his work in creating Anadolu Kültür, a non-for-profit center bringing together individuals from the art world, business, and civil society to develop mutual understanding and overcome regional prejudices. In addition, he was an instrumental force in establishing İletişim Publishing, which strives to foster within its catalogue a number of young Turkish authors.
Joint Letter on the 1000th Day in Detention of Osman Kavala
Joint NGO Statement Condemns Turkey's Decision to Continue Detention of Osman Kavala
Detention of Publisher Osman Kavala Evidence of Erosion of Liberties in Turkey
Gezi Park trial's second hearing confirms lack of rule of law in Turkey
Turkey: Gezi Park case must be dismissed
Tags: arrest, free expression in turkey, gezi park, henri barkey, Human Rights, Osman Kavala, TurkeyGenre: Press ReleaseTopic: Free Expression in TurkeyCategory: Advocacy, News & AnalysisCountry: Turkey
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As part of their massive new Triennial exhibition, the NGV are installing an 18-metre reclining Buddha, built by international contemporary artist Xu Zhen. The sculpture weighs in at 15 tonnes, or about 12.6 Volkswagen Golfs in the old scale.
The Buddha breaks down into 20 individual pieces, which have to be carefully assembled by Xu Zhen and his team. It's modelled on the famous reclining Buddha from the High Tang dynasty, built in the Nirvana Cave, near the Chinese city of Dunhuang. What makes this one different is the Greco-Roman sculptures sitting on top, a personal flourish by Zhen. As if a Buddha big enough to swallow you whole wasn't cool enough.
'Xu's work brings together elements from Eastern and Western cultural heritages to promote cross-cultural understanding and appreciation,' says NGV Directory Tony Ellwood.
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Professor Carmichael's expertise and research interests cover: Construction engineering; Construction and project management; Systems; and Problem solving. Current research projects include: Project and investment feasibility; Contracts, contracting and project delivery; Sustainability in construction; Climate change and carbon impact on projects.
He is the author and editor of twenty-three books and over two hundred papers in structural and construction engineering and construction and project management.
He is a graduate of The University of Sydney (B.E., M.Eng.Sc.) and The University of Canterbury (Ph.D.) and is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers, Australia, a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, formerly a Graded Arbitrator with The Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators, Australia, and a trained mediator. He is currently a Consulting Engineer and Professor of Civil Engineering, and former Head of the Department of Engineering Construction and Management at The University of New South Wales.
Professor Carmichael publishes, teaches, and consults widely in most aspects of project management, construction management, systems engineering, and problem solving. He is known for his leftfield thinking on project and risk management (Project Management Framework, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 2004), project planning (Project Planning, and Control, Taylor and Francis, London, 2006), problem solving (Problem Solving for Engineers, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, London, 2013), and infrastructure investment (Infrastructure Investment: An Engineering Perspective, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, London, 2014).
He has acted as a consultant, teacher and researcher in a wide range of engineering and management fields. Major consultancies have included the structural design and analysis of civil and building structures; the planning and programming of engineering projects; the administration and control/replanning of civil engineering projects and contracts; and various construction and building related work. In addition there have been numerous smaller consultancies in the structural, construction and building fields. He has provided expert reports and expert witness in cases involving structural failures, construction accidents and safety, and contractual and liability matters.
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Attracting birds to your garden in winter is easy to do by leaving the flowers of summer and fall-flowering perennials alone after the flowers fade, allowing them to form seed.
Gardeners are often quick to prune off spent flower heads of flowering perennials such as asters, coneflowers, coreopsis, globe thistle, goldenrod, penstemon, rudbeckia, and salvias. But, when you prune the flowers from these plants, you are robbing birds of a great source of seeds.
We often focus on the beauty of these flowering plants without realizing that they have much to offer our feathered friends once the flowers fade.
The flowers of Chaparral Sage (Salvia clevelandii) a favorite of hummingbirds throughout the spring and summer.
In winter, their dried flowers contain seeds that are a welcome treat for birds while adding welcome textural interest to the winter garden.
The pink flowers of this drought-tolerant Penstemon adds beauty to the garden throughout the growing season.
However, when not in bloom, the spent flowers offer seeds to feathered visitors.
Seeds from trees, like this Maple, also provide an important food source for birds.
Once the plumes fade from ornamental grasses like these Pink Muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris), the seeds will extend an invitation for birds to visit your garden.
Leaving plants such as these, alone throughout the winter not only attracts birds to the winter garden – they also add texture with their spiky shapes to an otherwise barren landscape.
*If you don't care to see dried flower heads in high-profile areas, then you can simply cut them off (leaving long stems) and tie them together and hang from a tree.
So, as you get ready to plan your garden this year, be sure to include a few of these plants which will provide beauty throughout the growing season and attract birds to your garden in winter.
For other ways to attract birds to your winter garden, check out Birds & Blooms article, "10 Tips to Attract Birds".
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A lot of plants grow in the snow. you just can't see them under all that snow., If you don't have that much snow all year around you will see. I have Heather plants that bloom in winter.
I need something that grows in the winter in savannah ga …. please that is easy … for me to have . I would rather have potted plants that come back every year .
I visited your beautiful city last spring. How about growing Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) in a large container? They have beautiful flowers and will do well throughout the year.
I'm trying to find your FREE CONTAINER PLANS on your webside. (It should have 11 step-by-step planter guides for your outdoor containers). I like to plan ahead what I will put in pots on our patio in May. It is always fun to get ideas from your magazine.


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Trippie Redd's new single "I Got You" has officially dropped on streaming services. The artist paired up with the OG Busta Rhymes to create an old school R&B flow fans haven't heard from Trippie before.
The song is set to hit Trippie's upcoming album Pegasus. Its a modern spin on Busta and Mariah Carey's 2002 track 'I Know What You Want'.
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Transforming Lives and Hearts Through Hospitality
Dr. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield encourages listeners to utilize the power of hospitality to share the Gospel with their neighbours in a discussion based on her book The Gospel Comes With a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World.
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Rosaria Champagne Butterfield is a former tenured professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University. She became a Christian in 1999, describing her conversion as a "train wreck" because of how it radically transformed her life, identity and relationships. Her memoir, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, describes that difficult journey. Rosaria has taught and ministered at Geneva College and is now a homeschooling mother, a pastor's wife, a part-time author and an occasional public speaker. Learn more about Rosaria by visiting her website, www.rosariabutterfield.com.
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If Blake Griffin Leaves LA, Blame CP3
Blake Griffin and Chris Paul haven't always gotten along. Photo Credit: NBA.com
If Blake Griffin leaves the LA Clippers and Chris Paul stays, it's an indictment on CP3.
The Clippers can offer him the most money. He's already playing in the second largest market in the U.S. The team has also won .600 percent of their games the last six seasons. So what other reason does he have to leave?
Let me put this in relationship terms. For example, when a man or woman ends a relationship or gets dumped, their friends will say "they weren't good enough for you." When the next relationship ends they may say "that's okay, it wasn't the right time for you." After another breakup you might hear, "don't give up, your perfect match is closer now than ever."
At a certain point, a true friend should pull that man or woman aside and say "you may be the problem." I'm looking at the Halle Berry's, Brad Pitt's, Elizabeth Taylor's and Tom Cruise's of the world. That's where Paul is now. Head coach Doc Rivers and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer need to pull him aside and say "It's you."
Paul has a reputation around the league for being difficult to play with. It was rumored that he was the reason DeAndre Jordan initially signed with the Dallas Mavericks in 2015. According to several reports in the days after the center signed with the Mavs, Jordan grew tired of Paul's constant barking, petty gestures and freezing him out of the offense.
Current Clipper free agent JJ Redick appears to be a lock to leave this summer. He and Paul have had ugly open disputes on the court during their time in LA. In fact, their dislike goes back to their days as ACC rivals when they played for Duke and Wake Forest.
If Griffin chooses the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets or Boston Celtics, all of whom have been rumored to be interested in him, he's stating clearly he no longer wants to play with Paul. All things considered, those teams aren't definitively better with him than the Clippers are.
Paul is a future Hall of Famer, and at 32 years old is still a top three-point guard. He is a winner no doubt. He has proved it over the course of his 11-year career with both the New Orleans Hornets and now Clippers. The franchise has never enjoyed the level of success it has currently until he arrived. Therefore there's no reason to leave that team unless you can't stand the guy tabbed as the franchise player.
This entry was posted in NBA, Sports Commentary and tagged Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Doc Rivers, LA Clippers, NBA, NBA Free Agency on June 25, 2017 by Kavis Peak.
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