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Clarinet Quintet: Score
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A Kind Note From Composer Noah Creshevsky
From: Noah Creshevsky
Date: February 29, 2016 2:14:55 PM EST
To: Daniel Goode
Subject: Your clarinet quintet
Dear Daniel,
That is such a beautiful piece–written on a quite large scale, technically assured, expressive, and–yes, a rare word–inspired!
I had great pleasure hearing it now. Thank you for posting it.
My best to you,
Mahler's 8th Symphony at St. John the Divine, February 25, 2016: What was it like?
The "symphony of a thousand." At the premiere in Munich, 1910 there were apparently 1,0030, counting the conductor, Maestro Mahler. I haven't counted last night's forces, swelled by very big choruses, but it might not be a thousand, and of course it often isn't and it doesn't need to be. Punkt! Big: yes, very.
I was anxious to have Ann, my wife hear it, and though I didn't really hear it very well, even though "enhanced" by the big loud speakers a few yards from our seats, still, it communicated a great and fabulous glowing sound.
What was this Jewish composer, who converted to Catholicism before becoming artistic director of the famous Vienna Imperial Court Opera under the Hapsburg emperor, doing in setting, in Part 1 of the symphony, a ninth-century religious hymn, "Come, Creator Spirit" and in Part 2, the final scene of Goethe's two-part, "Faust" poem? Very god-infested, yes it is!—(and why that from the humanist, cosmopolitan, Goethe? I don't know.)
Well, Mahler called it an allegory of what cannot be spoken of. A good defense! He was a well-read intellectual, interested in ideas, progressive aesthetically and helpful to, for example, the young composer, Schoenberg who befriended him. That's a good story.
Back to Ann who, not knowing the music as I do, coming to the event fatigued and ready for bed, was revived and full of enthusiastic appreciation. She said: "A superfluity; staggering, complex; moments when a kind of screaming enters from the side like a blue-note."
That's a complex review, probably not what Mahler consciously intended. As Theodore Adorno says in his excellent short book, Mahler, a Musical Physiognomy, "Mahler was a poor yea-sayer." So the Eighth Symphony is a kind of anti-phobic answer to a difficulty in his psyche. Fine! It works and the marvelous, doleful, dark shadings, in the beginning of Part 2, and in Part 1 with the verse that begins "Infirma" —"[strengthen] our weak body"—we get the wonderful part of Mahler who can't say "yes." And we know that he continued not to say "yes" persuasively in the Ninth Symphony, some of Das Lied Von Der Erde, and the uncompleted Tenth Symphony. We don't really like false positive-ness! Quite amazing, also, that neither of these three amazing works did he hear in his lifetime.
He was obsessed with death (well documented in marginalia), and in fact, though vigorous and athletic, was struck down by endocarditis at 51, an infection of the heart, now easily treatable with antibiotics. Heart! But there was more to it. He'd lost one of his two daughters to a childhood disease. And he'd also very late in life lost his beloved Almschi to a lover, the architect, Walter Gropius. Lots to cry about. He was bereft, finally, and sick, even while conducting the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera as a European star! At the same time composing his Ninth and Tenth symphonies, mostly in the summer, back home in the Austrian countryside. He was recognizably "modern," 20th Century even with his rich, opulent, essentially late 19th Century musical language (thank you, Barry Goldensohn, for this accurate adjective: opulent).
So in Mahler-time, he races through a huge amount of material in an hour and a half. It's efficient, with no lovely dallying as in the "Night Music" of the Seventh Symphony. We get to the last line of text, "the eternal feminine leads us up" sung by the Chorus Mysticus, and that's it. Terrible pre-feminist politics: masculine is striving, ambitious, heroic; feminine is nurturing, comforting, satisfying. But hey, he sort of lost his loved one. And also, how could he contradict his beloved, German, Goethe (he hated Austrian culture, was a Germanophile)!
At the same time he suffered from the standard anti-Semitism of the time, saying that being Jewish was like going through life with one arm shorter than the other; yet having to identify with the dominant Christian culture which repeatedly hired him to more and more prestigious positions. We are luckier living among the diaspora in New York, not in Budapest and Vienna of his time.
But of the performance at St. John the Divine under its music director and organist, Kent Tritle conducting: what was it like? Well, really not very intelligible to one who knows the music. The cathedral succeeded in muddying the very precise rhythms of the excellent players from the Manhattan School of Music, and making such things as the wonderful bass pizzicati throughout the beginning of Part 2 sound like random dull thuds. A "sound-designer" failure? Probably. And what about the stridently over-amplified, over-vibrato-ed soprano soloists (google the performance for names). It's a lingering operatic disease from Wagnerian times on: vibrato amplifies the volume of the sound for very well-documented scientific reasons. The justification used to be that the Wagnerian orchestra was always in danger of drowning out the Wagnerian sopranos and tenors. But why now! in a piece of music where Mahler's superior orchestrational knowledge allows a less strident vocal style? No answer to this persistent question.
And what of Adorno's disparaging and sarcastic remark about the Eighth Symphony as a "genre chef d'oeuvre?." (page 138, op. cit.) A genre masterpiece. What's the genre? Spectacle? Conflation of religion and art? He answers: "To glorify the collective sounding through him as an absolute… That he did not resist, is his offense," his "false consciousness." Adorno prefers, and maybe we do too, that part of the composer that looks "questioningly into uncertainty."
So why given Mahler's "offense," and that last night when we couldn't really hear Mahler in St. John the Divine's, did we jump to our feet at the end, clapping and cheering with tears in our eyes?
Because we knew he was there! His temporary "Yes" was our temporary Yes.
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Hey, Very thoughtful writing, yet again, it would have been a fine night of being surrounded by profound sound, I imagine. Maybe it was the amount of acoustical vibration that got everyone so excited? (Not that there's any other kind of vibration – but that is a special place to listen.) -g
~composer, Gayle Young, Toronto
I agree. The vibrational thing over-ruled the exact musical thing. Also, I didn't mention the off-stage trumpets at two points, and the off-stage trombones (which I never located), but were in balconies above the audience. And also making vibrational geschrei was the organ, at key points. The very first sound is a giant Eb major chord from the organ, an instant before you here the first instrumental entries. It switches you instantly into a different mode of listening. I also didn't say in the essay, but mentioned to Ann that visual grandeur (= the sublime, in some quarters) like a huge cathedral, and auditory grandeur as in a huge orchestra and chorus have different needs: like a really great concert hall in the latter. So I wasn't exactly a happy camper at St. John's, but registered it as a moment of the "sublime" in experiential terms, probably for much of the audience. And cheered for that. The great church organist composers (Bach and others) did make both visual and auditory grandeur in the same place. But Mahler symphonies need different acoustics.
Thanks for your comments. Definitely adds to what I felt was going on, but didn't really have the words for.
Daniel @ 80
Birthday Concert #2
February 12th, 2016 at The Cell, 7:30 PM
Chamber and orchestra works by Daniel Goode
with the Momenta Quartet and Moran Katz, clarinet, and the
Flexible Orchestra conducted by David Gilbert
Clarinet Quintet, for clarinet and string quartet (2015)
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Tunnel Funnel (1988)
Karl Kraber
Margaret Lancaster
Pamela Sklar
David Wechsler
Jen Baker
Mark Broschinsky
Chris McIntyre
Matt Melore
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin (Momenta)
Karen Kim, violin (Momenta)
Stephanie Griffin, viola (Momenta)
Michael Haas, cello (Momenta)
Jay Elfenbein, contrabass
Chris Nappi, mallet instruments
Marijo Newman, piano
David Gilbert, conductor
Moran Katz, clarinet with the Momenta Quartet in Clarinet Quintet
Daniel Goode Birthday Announcment
Hymn from the One Word Opera
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I'm offering to the European Union at no cost, my new "Hymn from the One Word Opera" to replace the current European Union hymn, Beethoven's Ode to Joy. It's time for an update! So here is the score and a sound file for your enjoyment. I lowered the key in the score for easier singing. I think it's both beautiful and appropriate. Hope you do too.
Somewhere in his ground-breaking book, "The Tuning of the World" R. Murray Schafer wonders aloud why music tends to be an anchor to the familiar, rather than an antenna receiving new exciting information from "out there." There could by a one-word answer to Schafer's question: 'lullaby.' But instead, let this whole essay be an answer.
vibrato – buzzing in the ear (even damage) – low frequency weapon (WWI)
"meditative making out:" RIP Hayman's kissing/humming action
low E on the clarinet vibrates her/his trusting body
compare sound frequency to light frequency: you can feel one, not the other: the
scale is different
rock music is high amplitude, especially the bass which is felt in the body
visual art is "cold," pop music is "warm," what is classical music?
question of modernism and anti-romanticism
the pomo reactions
the mindless neo-romanticism of e.g., "the derriere-garde,"or movie sound
the role of tonality in warmth? There may be, but considering tonality's widest
range from drone music to highly chromatic music in the post-Viennese school or the
new complexity music, there is no correlation to anyone's style
tendency of forgetting duplicates of previous styles as if they had never
serve [as] memory and also mark the spot previously occupied by so-and-so or
such-and-such: in that, we are like a "traditional culture," that only revives, re-stages,
replays, but doesn't innovate consciously
consciousness feels like it is in the head, not the torso or the limbs – is that
because of voice, ears, eyes?
lack of parallelism between sound (music) and light (visual arts)- there is no touch
until infra-red and heat lamps, but then it is not in the visual range
Still, heat rays are too fast to feel as vibration. The warmth of vibrational frequencies is obvious. Both metaphorical and literal. The spectrum of orgastic vibration makes heat.
Vibrating one's body to keep warm is as rock-bottom as you can get to warmth. Sound begins at the high end of that frequency range. You can get warm by singing. So, harmonic relations probably have warmth encoded within. Quotients (of warmth!) may be measurable. This could lead to a dumb or a very smart critique of serial music (and the "new complexity" type). But not Alban Berg's, which is why the dumb critique won't work.
Warmth is not just a direct conversion of physical vibration of something bound into temperature of the receiver's body. The transmitted, culturally determined melodic/harmonic/rhythmic shapes of a certain tradition (pick your culture) stir the emotions somehow (pick your theorist), and warmth results. Even sadness, maybe especially sadness brings warmth. The constant exercise of emotional organs is what it feels like. Emotional aerobics? Music can stimulate emotional aerobics.
Warmth and tonality:
Given the over-determined causation by both acoustically generated warmth and by historical styles of melodic and harmonic shapes that trigger emotional warmth, it seems an obvious connection to link warmth with tonality. There are strong counter-examples in Schoenberg and Berg, though: that the emotional gestures are there and effective without their being based on tonality. Also strong counter-examples in the "Polish School" of '60s tone-color music, and also in the decades of Phill Niblock's tape music for his films. In both these, and others of similar effect the rubbing of dissonant tones to create "beats" is a source of acoustical warmth not from tonality, though (as Schoenberg might protest these are the result of TONES, so cannot be called "atonal music.")
Let's consider what I'd call the "Appoggiatura Mime," (mime, the short-hand formula, mental "radical" around this musical term). Originating in harmonic practice going back to the Renaissance, and flowering through the Baroque and Classic periods, it emerges in the late Romantics and early 20th Century composers, of Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg as an increasingly intense, complex, and over-arching phenomenon. In this figuration warmth is both acoustic (dissonances rubbing frictionally) and emotional —made up of layers of association with the music that pushes through to the listener with this mime.
A more subtle emotional mime might be the sequence: the melodic-harmonic repetition at successive pitch levels. Many, many passages from Vivaldi through Bach's Brandenburg concertos (his 3rd has a doozy one), on through Bruckner have a way of building excitement through varied repetition that can lead the listener into a kind of emotional response I'd call restrained frenzy—sometimes to tears. The sequence is the basis of my long minimalist symphony, Tunnel Funnel. Warmth generated.
The connection of music and mimes is the basis of Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game [Das Glasperlenspiel]. It is the idea that discreet units of culture: music or word-based complexes, visual, mathematical formulae (Hesse is brilliantly vague in describing what these cultural modules are exactly) become the "glass beads" in a chess-like game of friendly competition among the intellectual elite. This is the most seductive use of ideas as palpable serious playthings I've ever found. And it contains within it, as the novel shows, an elitism that burns out on its own decadence and self-defeat, told in its last page by the death by drowning of the hero who has become the master of the Game.
But if we extrapolate to Minimalism: I once had an imaginary conversation with Tom Johnson (at least I think it never happened, but maybe it did) in which we agreed that minimalist typology could stay implanted in culture as firmly as traditional genres of composition like the canon or fugue or variation procedure.
One-tone composition
Phasing of various parameters
Meditative sound concepts
Pulse composition
"Deductive Music" (Tom's self-description of his style)
These would be on-going genres as confident of continuance as the high Baroque seemed to be.
An aspect of these genres would be their warmth quotient. Not as an evaluative thing, but as one aspect of style.
Two Observations
TWO OBSERVATIONS together only because I wrote them in pencil in the end-papers of a book. (Middlemarch by George Eliot):
These wispy things—clouds—gathering around the hard geometry of the city buildings and their silhouettes. (As seen from my roof.)
Mahler 9th, first movement: The simplicity of the surface-level melody forces the increasing intensities of the orchestra counterpoint. That is, the surface melody is Mahler's "earworm? Did he have (suffer from) them? How would we know? Just what is an earworm? If he had them, were they vernacular borrowings or original , possibly, or not (interesting—this) inspired by vernacular.


In his Yoga Sutra, Patañjali says that there are many paths to the state of yoga and that each person needs to choose the path that suits him or her. Patañjali points out paths for particularly intelligent people, for individuals who have unusual physical strength, for people for whom devotion comes easily, and for people who are already very close to achieving a state of yoga [YS I.19 ff].
Patañjali's eight-fold path is a path for individuals who do not have all of the aforementioned abilities – in other words a kind of "Yoga for Dummies" for people who are not particularly intelligent, physically strong, spiritual, and so on. But the eight-fold path is a systematic and direct path to yoga for such individuals nonetheless. The various yoga traditions hold differing views as to whether the eight elements of the eight-fold path are a series of steps, limbs that are on a par with each other, or a series of parallel practices.
This controversy notwithstanding, the eight-fold path tradition is based, literally, on the aforementioned statement from ~'s Yoga Sūtrāni. In aṣṭāṅga-yoga, the eight limbs are regarded as a series of interrelated steps along a path. Just as a monk climbs a narrow ladder to a temple rung by rung, so does a yogī only take the next step along his spiritual path after having passed through the previous stage, and thus reaches a state of yoga by passing through the eight stages in succession.
This procedure which I myself use and teach, is very harmonious for me. The next sentence further elucidates the nature of the eight limbs.


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Phathom Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Vonoprazan in Helicobacter Pylori (H. pylori) Infection
December 23, 2019 08:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHAT), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel treatments for gastrointestinal diseases, announced today the initiation of PHALCON-HP. In this pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, clinicians will evaluate vonoprazan in combination with amoxicillin (vonoprazan dual therapy) and vonoprazan in combination with amoxicillin and clarithromycin (vonoprazan triple therapy) for the successful eradication of H. pylori infection. With the initiation of PHALCON-HP, vonoprazan is now being evaluated in two pivotal trials to support regulatory submissions in two different disease areas in the United States and Europe. Earlier this month, the company initiated PHALCON-EE, a pivotal trial evaluating vonoprazan for both the healing and maintenance of healing of erosive esophagitis as well as the relief of heartburn. Topline data from both PHALCON-HP and PHALCON-EE are expected in 2021.
PHALCON-HP is a randomized, multicenter, Phase 3 trial that is planned to enroll approximately 975 patients with H. pylori infection. Participants will be randomized 1:1:1 to one of three arms: vonoprazan 20 mg administered twice a day (BID) and amoxicillin 1g administered three times a day (TID); vonoprazan 20 mg BID, amoxicillin 1 g BID and clarithromycin 500 mg BID; and lansoprazole 30 mg BID, amoxicillin 1 g BID and clarithromycin 500 mg BID. Each treatment regimen will be administered for 14 days. The primary endpoint of PHALCON-HP is the percentage of patients with successful eradication of H. pylori infection.
"The initiation of the PHALCON-HP study is another significant step in the development of vonoprazan for underserved patients living with gastrointestinal diseases," said Azmi Nabulsi, MD, Chief Operating Officer of Phathom. "There are millions of people living with H. pylori infection in the United States and Europe and due to increased antibiotic resistance, eradication rates for patients treated with currently available therapies are declining. In addition to the troubling symptoms of H. pylori infection, H. pylori patients have an increased risk of developing other serious diseases including gastric cancer and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. Vonoprazan, if approved, represents a first-in-class treatment that we believe will be a much needed new therapeutic option for H. pylori patients."
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Vonoprazan, is an oral small molecule potassium competitive acid blocker (P-CAB). P-CABs are a novel class of medicines that block acid secretion in the stomach. Vonoprazan has shown rapid, potent, and durable anti-secretory effects and has demonstrated clinical benefits over standard of care treatments as a single agent in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and in combination with antibiotics for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. The FDA has designated vonoprazan as a qualified infectious disease product (QIDP) and awarded Fast Track status for the treatment of H. pylori infection in combination with both amoxicillin and clarithromycin and with amoxicillin alone. Phathom in-licensed the U.S., European, and Canadian rights to vonoprazan from Takeda, which completed 17 Phase 3 trials for vonoprazan and received marketing approval in Japan and numerous other countries in Asia and Latin America.
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Volvo Cars CEO says auto tariffs threaten jobs at new U.S. plant
Harriet McLeod
BERKELEY COUNTY, South Carolina (Reuters - Chinese-owned Volvo Cars opened a new auto factory in South Carolina on Wednesday as company executives warned that the U.S.-China trade dispute could undermine plans to create up to 4,000 more auto jobs in the heavily Republican state.
"If you have trade barriers and restrictions, we cannot create as many jobs as we are planning to," Volvo Cars Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson told Reuters on the sidelines of an event celebrating the new facility.
The auto factory is the latest addition to several large-scale manufacturing operations in South Carolina, including a Boeing Co(BA.N) aircraft plant and a BMW AG (BMWG.DE) auto assembly plant, that rely heavily on export sales to support jobs.
"We want to export and if suddenly China and Europe have very high barriers, it would be impossible," Samuelsson said. "Then you have to build the cars there. And then all cars will be more expensive, you have to invest more tooling and have every model in every country. That's against all the logic of modern economies that trade with each other."
Volvo Cars and its new U.S. factory illustrate the conflicts created by President Donald Trump's proposals to impose tariffs of as much as 25 percent on imported vehicles and auto parts as a way to encourage more U.S. manufacturing and press trading partners to drop tariffs on American goods.
Volvo currently imports all the vehicles it sells in the United States. Rising demand for those imported vehicles helped convince the company, owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group [GEELY.UL], to expand its investment in South Carolina to $1.1 billion and make plans to hire about 4,000 workers by the time the new factory reaches full manufacturing capacity.
Initially, the Volvo South Carolina plant will build S60 sedans, which currently are imported from Europe or China. Some of the U.S.-built cars will be exported to markets outside the United States, Volvo executives said.
The company has no immediate plans to build another model at the plant, company officials said. But if a decision is made to launch Lynk & Co vehicles in the United States, building them in South Carolina would be an option, Samuelsson said. The Lynk brand is co-owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd and its two carmakers, Volvo and Geely Auto.
Volvo has hired about 900 workers at the plant. It will need about 1,500 as production ramps up in the fall, said Anders Gustafsson, Volvo's senior vice president for the Americas. "We need to speed up."
If the U.S. imposes tariffs on foreign cars, and trading partners retaliate, that could could chill Volvo Cars' plans to add jobs, Samuelsson said.
Reporting by Harriet McLeod. Editing by Joseph White and Tom Brown


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Other Sights of Odaiba Island
There's so much to do on Odaiba, you could never hope to see it all in a single day. Even if the attractions aren't always impressive on an individual basis (and many are simply malls), the very fact that such a large section of Tokyo has been given over to leisure and shopping is amazing. We've written quite a bit about Odaiba already, but here are some other sights which warrant mention.
If you're into the Mobile Suit Gundam series, you might want to put on diapers before visiting Diver City. Because stationed in front of this mall is something which could make you wet your pants: a full-scale 1:1 Gundam figure, eighteen meters in height. This is part of the Gundam Front museum found on the mall's top floor. The museum's entrance fee of ¥1000 is too expensive for those who aren't already fans, but the Gundam Cafe on the ground floor is free, as is the museum shop where you can buy plastic models to put together yourself. [Location]
One morning, Jürgen asked me to meet him in the church plaza, where he was enjoying the sunset with a glass of wine. Hmmm, a sunset in the morning, and there aren't exactly a lot of church plazas in Tokyo. So I figured he must be calling from Venice. Or at least, Tokyo's version of it. The Venus Fort mall is a Vegas-like attempt to recreate the atmosphere of the Floating City. It's as delightfully horrible as it sounds. [Location]
Until the opening of the London Eye, Odiaba's 115-meter Daikanransha Ferris Wheel was the tallest in the world. The wheel can be seen from across Tokyo and makes a lovely sight in the evening, when it bursts into color. Although we had planned to take a ride, we were distracted by the giant arcade found at the foot of the Diakanransha and opted to instead spend our money on a few rounds of Mario Kart. Maybe not the best decision, but one I would probably make again. [Location]
Venus Fort, Daikanransha and the arcade are part of an entertainment complex known as Palette Town, which also is home to the Toyota Mega Web. Both a showcase for Japan's largest manufacturer and a theme park, Mega Web is a must-see for anyone into cars. There are attractions like a rollicking moving theater, and you can test-drive some of Toyota's newest models. Also impressive is the History Garage, which showcases a number of old models from various manufacturers. [Location]
Has your whiny brat of a kid been misbehaving? Then cancel the excursion to the Miraikan and take her to Odaiba's Sewage Museum. We visited, hoping to discover one of those museums so weird that they manage to be awesome, but it wasn't so in this case. The Sewage Museum is aimed at small children and it's dreadfully boring. The subject of waste, and especially waste management in Tokyo, is potentially fascinating… just think of the crazy exhibits possible with such stinky material! But the museum can't be recommended, unless you have a kid who needs to be punished. [Location]
We usually reached Odaiba with the elevated monorail, but a more romantic method of transportation is offered by the Water Bus. You can board at Asakusa, and then take a leisurely hour-long boat ride down the Sumida River until arriving at the beach. [Location: Asakusa Departure]
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Other Sights of Odaiba Island There's so much to do on Odaiba, you could never hope to see it all in a single day. Even if the attractions aren't always impressive on an individual basis (and many are simply malls), the very fact that such a large section of Tokyo has been given over to leisure and shopping is amazing. We've written quite a bit about Odaiba already, but here are some other sights which warrant mention.
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Church leaders in Congo urge the country to go to the polls
by Fredrick Nzwili, RNS
Congo is preparing for a crucial vote to elect a successor for President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since 2001. A successful election would mean the first peaceful transition of power for a country whose rule by dictators has been broken only by coups and civil wars.
But church leaders have put the stakes higher for Sunday's vote (Dec. 23), demanding deeper change for Congo's 81.5 million citizens.
"What is at stake is unity of our country, the integrity of our national territory, justice, peace and the improvement of the people's living conditions," said the country's Catholic bishops, spiritual leaders to half of the population, in a statement last month.
Two years ago the bishops brokered a pact between Kabila and the opposition that allowed Kabila to remain in power until his successor is elected.
The Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa. Map courtesy of Creative Commons
Now the bishops, joined by leaders from other churches, are urging their followers to turn out in large numbers to elect leaders who can defend the country, guarantee freedoms and do not steal the country's resources, among other qualifications.
"We are urging the people to elect those who stand for progress and those (who) would not steal people's mineral wealth," said Bishop Josue' Bulambo Lembelembe of the Church of Christ in Congo.
The bishops say they do not support any particular candidate but instead want the people to vote their conscience and elect a leader they deem trustworthy.
"We have told everyone to prepare to participate in the elections. We have urged them to ensure the process is carried out in a peaceful atmosphere," Archbishop Marcel Utembi, president of the Congo Catholic bishops conference, told Religion News Service.
More than 40 percent of the country's people are Roman Catholics, while a similar proportion is Protestant. An estimated 10 percent are Muslims, while others follow an indigenous group known as Kimbanguist.
While rallying people to the polls, religious leaders have been leading prayer vigils and preaching against the violence that has marred the electoral campaigns.
On Dec. 13, a mysterious fire burned down the electoral commission's warehouse in Kinshasa. Police reports indicated that nearly 8,000 of the 10,000 electronic voting machines and ballot boxes to be used in the capital for the election were destroyed. The computerized voting system, purchased from a South Korean firm, has been met with mistrust after a similar system was abandoned in Argentina because it was vulnerable to hacking.
Bishop Marcel Utembi in Kinshasa, Congo, on Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)
In eastern Congo, people are also dealing with an Ebola outbreak, posing a further obstacle to getting people to the polls.
"I think some people are running out of patience," said Lembelembe. "This raising (of) tensions days before elections is not good."
The race has attracted 21 presidential candidates, with Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, widely viewed as Kabila's proxy, as a front-runner. The opposition has fielded two main candidates, Felix Tshisekedi and Martin Fayulu.
The Rev. Donatien Nshole, secretary-general of the bishops conference, stressed that the bishops only want to ensure that the election is credible.
Church leaders have urged the international community to accompany the people of Congo in this process.
"We want them to be there and tell the truth and defend the truth when the results are released," said Utembi.


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Court shifts Nnamdi Kanu's trial to Jan 18 2022
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A Federal High Court in Abuja today rescheduled the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from January 19 to 18, 2022.
The shift in the trial date followed the abridgment of time granted by the Judge following a passionate plea to that effect.
Kanu's lead lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor had approached the Court with an application seeking an order of the Court to accommodate the trial in November and December this year as against the earlier January 19, 2022.
The prosecuting Attorney of the Federal Government, Shuaib Labaran, however, told the Court that a counter affidavit opposing the request by the government has been filled and served on Kanu.
Justice Binta Nyako however informed Kanu's lawyer that the application for time abridgment cannot be granted because there was no judicial time for such an issue.
During the drama that ensued, the case diary of the Court was read to the lawyer to establish that the Court has crowded pending cases.
Following the insistence, Justice Nyako agreed to shift other cases slated for January 18 to accommodate the trial which would last till January 19 and 20.
Justice Nyako ordered the Department of State Services to allow Kanu to practice his faith, change his clothes and be given the maximum possible comfort in the detention facility.
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Norgine has re-joined UK trade body the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), nine years after denouncing its approach to pricing negotiations.
The Netherlands-based firm resigned its ABPI membership in 2008 in protest over a perceived lack of representation for smaller, specialised pharmaceutical developers, taking particular issue with talks on the PPRS.
Speaking at the time, Norgine chief operating officer Peter Martin said the company felt the ABPI's agenda had been "driven by the interests of its largest multinational members".
This had, he added, "resulted in perverse consequences for those of us who are trying to help patients and their carers in more specialised niches, such as gastroenterology".
Alongside gastroenterology, Norgine specialises in hepatology, oncology and pain management, and manufactures its medicines and medical devices in Hengoed, Wales, where it is the region's largest pharmaceutical manufacturing employer.
The company also has offices in Harefield, England, where it shares joint responsibility for Norgine's global operations with its headquarters in Amsterdam.
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Montana Supreme Court Denies Hepatitis-C Treatment
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News February, 2004, page 29
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses, Hepatitis, Mandamus. Location: Montana.
A divided Montana Supreme Court denied a state prisoner's habeas corpus petition seeking treatment for his Hepatitis-C (Hep-C) disease because the factual basis presented was inadequate.
Keith Brown, incarcerated at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby, Montana, alleged he suffers from diagnosed Hep-C disease and "is dying a slow and painful death." The Montana Dept. of Corrections (MDOC) denied his administrative grievance for treatment on the grounds that no prisoner is receiving Hep-C treatment because it is "not yet available." Notably, Brown's offer to pay for his own treatment was also rejected.
His court petition alleged that such failure to treat Hep-C violated the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, averring that not permitting any treatment was an act of "deliberate indifference." Brown backed his petition with media articles including an Associated Press release reporting that 900 of Montana's 2,750 state prisoners have Hep-C. The court also cited to a June, 2002 Prison Legal News article which reported on two unpublished federal court decisions ordering treatment for Hep-C disease. (See: PLN, June 2002, p.16 "Two Federal Courts Grant Injunction For HCV Treatment.")
The Montana court rejected habeas corpus as a forum for Brown's complaint because in Montana habeas lies only for a sentence modification - not a challenge to unconstitutional conditions of confinement. Although the court stated that it might yet grant a writ for "extraordinary relief" (under Montana Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rule 17), it could not do so here on "the state of the record."
That "state," the court noted, was that Brown's allegations of his diagnosis, the treatment regimen he demanded, his susceptibility to success from such treatment and such treatment's availability, were only alleged - but not adequately supported - in the record.
The majority admitted that Montana law mandates that prisoners be treated for infectious diseases, and avowed "this Court will not countenance the failure to provide appropriate treatment to an infected inmate on the basis that the Department has insufficient resources to do so." Yet, it said - inconsistently - it would be sufficient if MDOC only treated Brown's symptoms, e.g., pain, and not his underlying disease.
An acrid dissent from Justice Trieweiler would have granted Brown's petition as one for mandamus. He disparaged the majority's symptomatic treatment suggestion. "In other words, they will agree to make him more comfortable while they let him die. The Department's offer to treat Brown's symptoms is like offering a person with a treatable brain tumor an aspirin to reduce his pain but otherwise leaving his condition untreated."
Nor, the Justice continued, should Brown's condition be litigated while he slowly dies. "It's to condemn him to death for the non-violent offense for which he has been imprisoned. Worse than that, the Court's order puts at risk one-third of the prison population whose only hope now is that they can serve their sentence before they die from a disease which, if untreated, gradually destroys their livers. ... Hepatitis C and the state's refusal to treat it is turning Montana's prisons into potential death camps. I thought this country fought a war to eliminate death camps and then severely criticized the citizens in the society which created them for not doing more to end their operation."
Justices Nelson's and Leapheart's dissent added: "We enable the violation of Brown's fundamental constitutional rights; and we demean the notion that we live in a `civilized' society."
Finally, Justice Cotton parted company with the majority's reliance on the state's "disingenuous" assertion that treatment for Hep-C `is not yet available," saying "this simply isn't so." He referred them to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) exhaustive guidelines for treatment of Hep-C - available at hcvprisonnews.org/bop.pdf and US Dept. Of Justice BOP Technical Reference No. 6100.02. See: Brown v. MacDonald, 66 P.3d 323 (Mont. 2003)(Table Opinion).
Brown v. McDonald
66 P.3d 323 (Mont. 2003)(Table Opinion)
State Supreme Court
Brown v. MacDonald
SUPREME COURT OF MONTANA
315 Mont. 537; 66 P.3d 323; 2003 Mont.
February 25, 2003, Decided
NOTICE: [*1] DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION
PRIOR HISTORY: Original Proceeding. Extraordinary Relief.
OPINION:
Denied.
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Ohio Supreme Court: Only Statute, Not Agency Policy, Creates Legal Duty Enforceable in Mandamus, July 19, 2022. Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Mandamus.
Settlement Finally Reached in Prisoners' Hep-C Class-Action Against Connecticut DOC, June 1, 2022. Hepatitis, Settlements.
Vermont Hep-C Settlement Agreement Provides Direct-Acting Antivirals to Infected Prisoners, April 1, 2022. Centurion, Hepatitis, Failure to Treat.
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Louisiana Federal Prisoner's Suit Challenging Disciplinary Sanction for Breaking CPAP Machine, March 28, 2022. Medical, Disciplinary Hearings, Money/Property.
Texas Agrees to Settlement Providing Prisoners Hep C Treatment, Will Pay $950,000 in Attorney Fees, Jan. 1, 2022. Hepatitis, Settlements.
$15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC's Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud, Dec. 1, 2021. Medical, Malpractice.


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SE2 Awarded Multi-Year Contract with Nassau Financial Group to Transform Administration of its Existing Life and Annuity Blocks of Business
SE2 to convert policies spanning multiple legacy systems onto the SE2 Aurum® digital platform to enhance customer experience, optimize cost structure, and increase speed-to-market for future products
SE2, an industry leader in providing technology driven third-party administration (TPA) services, announced today that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with several insurance subsidiaries of Nassau Financial Group (Nassau), to convert and manage existing policies across multiple legacy systems onto SE2's Multi-tenant SE2 Aurum® digital platform. The strategic partnership will further enable Nassau to deliver a best-in-class customer experience and drive down unit costs over time across a broad range of products. Nassau will maintain its industry-leading in-house call center.
SE2 was carved out of a leading insurance company in 2005 to specialize in Third Party Administration services for the U.S. Life and Annuities Industry. SE2 currently manages over two million policies for more than 25 Life and Annuity Carriers and has a unique actuarial driven conversion methodology that has led to their market growth. SE2 will ultimately administer the majority of Nassau's life and annuity products.
"We have invested significantly in building the best-in-class digital platform, and this is being recognized and appreciated by our clients who are able to enhance their customers' experience while reducing time to market for new products," said Gautam Thakkar, Chief Executive Officer of SE2. "This deal comes at the back of multiple significant wins in the recent months and is a testament to our deep expertise and track record in the U.S. Life and Annuity Insurance Third Party Administration market."
"We are looking forward to the partnership with SE2 as we leverage their innovative platform to enhance our best in class customer experience," said Phil Gass, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nassau. "We expect the SE2 partnership will allow us to simplify our administration, optimize costs, enhance customer outcomes and launch new products more efficiently into the market."
SE2 Aurum® is the industry's first end-to-end, multi-tenant and open-architecture digital insurance platform ecosystem, conceived by insurers for insurers. SE2 Aurum® provides insurance carriers with a rich, engaging, fully-digital environment that enables them to quickly launch new products, create cost efficiencies and acquire new customers across all distribution channels. The highly configurable platform offers the flexibility to seamlessly integrate with external data sources and an extensive partner ecosystem.
About SE2
SE2, an Eldridge Industries business, is a leader in technology-driven third-party administration services for the U.S. life and annuity insurance industry. SE2 has a proven track record in delivering platform led transformations for the life and annuity insurance industry. SE2 uniquely combines the maturity and peerless industry knowledge of its 125+ years of life insurance industry heritage with its end-to-end digital platform to enable the rapid launch of new and innovative products through existing as well as digital channels. SE2 currently administers nearly 2 million active policies on behalf of its 25+ clients. SE2 has over $100 billion in assets under administration and handles more than 200,000 new business applications annually. Please visit SE2 at www.SE2.com to learn more.
About Nassau Financial Group
Nassau's mission is to build a franchise across the insurance value chain. Based in Hartford, CT, Nassau Financial Group currently has combined assets of approximately $22.6 billion and capital of approximately $1.3 billion. Our business covers four segments: insurance, reinsurance, distribution and asset management through various affiliates. Nassau was founded in 2015 with capital provided by Golden Gate Capital, a private investment firm with over $15 billion of committed capital. For more information, visit nsre.com.
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The Pocket torch is a clever invention that can be attached to any 2-cylinder and convert its mediocre and weak flame into a torch of searing hot blue flame. Other than appearing directly above the lighter as other regulars, the pocket torch's flame exits on the side.
The pocket torch is surprisingly easy to work with. All you need to do is pop it open and slide the lighter down its bottom chamber. Pop the cover back in and squeeze to start producing your torch of flame. Pressing on the torch forces out liquefied gas from the lighter's chamber and pushes it through the device. An electric ignition system, in turn, fires up the gas as it passes through the exit nozzle at high speed.
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Home Jurisdiction Federal Red tape crackdown renewed: Morrison prefers 'animal spirits' to endangered animals
Red tape crackdown renewed: Morrison prefers 'animal spirits' to endangered animals
Picture: AAP/Lukas Coch
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reinforced his intention to remove "regulatory and bureaucratic barriers" that increase costs for companies, closely guided by common complaints about government agencies from business people.
The PM told the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry he believed "the much-needed animal spirits in our economy" were being held back by regulations like environmental protection laws as well as public service regulatory processes, in a speech on Monday.
Following up his victorious address to Australian Public Service leaders asking them to help the government reduce "congestion" in their departments, Morrison said he was building on the policy of "cutting red tape" and light-touch regulation that began under his predecessor Tony Abbott.
"Removing what governments identify as excessive or outdated regulation is one thing. Whether we are really focusing on the barriers that matter to business in getting investments and projects off the ground is another," the PM said.
Morrison has assigned responsibility for the Coalition's return to red tape to his assistant minister Ben Morton and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who was also Abbott's red-tape lieutenant. There would be "a renewed focus on regulatory reform but from a different angle" so public servants would look at the regulatory experience from the perspective of particular kinds of investment or business.
"Rather than setting targets for departments or government agencies, we'll be asking the wider question from the perspective of a business looking, say, to open a mine, commercialise a new biomedical innovation, or even start a home-based, family business," the PM said.
"By focusing on regulation from the viewpoint of business, we will identify the regulations and bureaucratic processes that impose the largest costs on key sectors of the economy and the biggest hurdles to letting those investments flow."
He repeated his previous criticism of the WA Environmental Protection Agency for its implementation of new greenhouse gas regulations for major projects, which also drew the state government's ire, and said some federal regulators were also unnecessarily impeding investors in similar ways.
Another local example for the WA business people was the increase in regulatory requirements for mining in the state, over a timeframe of over half a century to exaggerate the point.
Morrison noted that in the mid-1960s, "the late Sir Arvi Parbo took the Kambalda nickel mine near Kalgoorlie from discovery to operation in 18 months" while the Roy Hill iron ore mine in Port Hedland had required "around 4,000 approvals" and took about 10 years to get running.
"There is a clear need to improve approvals timeframes and reduce regulatory costs, but in many cases regulators are making things worse," the PM said. "Look at the WA Environment Protection Authority and the uncertainty it has created over new emissions requirements for the resources sector. Business will also make valid criticisms of many Commonwealth agencies and departments."
Later, a medical analogy served to explain the new plan to remove and reduce federal regulations. Speaking to the business group, Morrison focused almost entirely on the costs to business and made no attempt to defend the importance of government regulations in general, given they create level playing fields and aim to protect the community, or the fact that business rightly wears the cost of compliance.
"Step one is to get a picture of the regulatory anatomies that apply to key sectoral investments. Step two is to identify the blockages. Step three is to remove them, like cholesterol in the arteries."
Morrison inspired by Trump's small-government policies
While Donald Trump's performance in government is not universally considered inspirational by leaders of other nations, Morrison appears to find plenty to admire in the Republican President's small-government policies.
He enthused that while he also wanted to cut taxes, like the US President, "it was actually the Trump administration's commitment to cutting red tape and transforming the regulatory mindset of the bureaucracy that delivered their first wave of improvement in their economy" in his view.
"You can be assured I have begun this term by making it clear to our public service chiefs that I am expecting a new mindset when it comes to getting investments off the drawing board," he added.
In a segue to the Coalition's industrial relations policy, Morrison confirmed that unions are the one type of organisation he would like to subject to a greater regulatory burden.
According to the PM, his government now "believes in cooperative workplaces" and Christian Porter will be looking for "impediments to shared gains for employers and employees" in his new capacity as Industrial Relations Minister.
People: Ben Morton Donald Trump Josh Frydenberg Scott Morrison
Departments: WA Environmental Protection Authority
Tags: Environment red tape regulation regulators


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Acer reportedly hit with $50 million ransomware demand
The attack looks to be the work of the REvil group that hit Travelex last year
By Kim Lyons / @SocialKimLy
Mar 20, 2021, 1:10 PM UTC |
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A hacking group is demanding $50 million from Acer, Bleeping Computer reported, in what appears to be one of the biggest ransomware demands to date. According to Bleeping Computer, the attackers may have gained access to the Taiwanese computer manufacturer's network via a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability. The REvil group that carried out a ransomware attack on Travelex last year is believed to be behind the Acer breach as well.
Bleeping Computer said REvil is giving Acer until March 28th to pay the ransom or it will leak the data it claims to have collected. Microsoft recently released several security updates to fix vulnerabilities for exploits found in its Exchange software, but it wasn't immediately clear whether the Acer breach was connected.
Acer did not acknowledge whether it had been the victim of a ransomware attack, but a spokesperson said in an email to The Verge on Saturday that the company "routinely monitors its IT systems, and most cyberattacks are well defensed. Companies like us are constantly under attack, and we have reported recent abnormal situations observed to the relevant law enforcement and data protection authorities in multiple countries."
The spokesperson added that the company could not provide further information: "As this is an ongoing investigation and for the sake of security, we are unable to comment on details."
Update March 20th 11:10AM ET: Adds statement from Acer spokesperson


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GAP 4, To West Newton
We left the Hampton Inn to ride along "The Waterfront" part of the trail exiting the Pittsburgh suburbs. On the other side of the fence the area managers were using an interesting technique to keep some of the invasive and pest species of plants (especially Japanese knot weed, fallopia japonica, also called "donkey rhubarb"—a perennial shrub related to buckwheat, but considered an invasive in much of the US) that grow along the steep banks of the Monongahela in check.
Once we left The Waterfront, however, we rode through heavy industry, both current and of times past, and it was difficult to ignore how much work the Pittsburgh area still has to do to clean up its coal and steel past.
At one bridge overpass into an enormous lot filled with steel and concrete construction pieces (T- and I-beams, road safety walling, poles and pipes, as well as a lot of trash) someone had erected a tall metal tower upon which was a visible platform and an osprey nest. The residents, however, had all moved on by September, so we didn't see any osprey.
Just after I rode off from the bridge near the nest, however, the rest of the gang saw what Jack believes was a peregrine falcon, zipping through the area chasing a pigeon. He said it was a spectacular display, even though the pigeon finally found cover and eluded the talons of death.
As we moved farther from the city, we saw additional evidence of the flooding from storm Gordon, including several serious mudslides, and places where large trees had been removed from the trail.
We passed many waterfalls, including one that had washed the rocks nearly white with some kind of icky deposit; and later the marginally "famous" Red Waterfall, which had been awarded its own reader board.
The water here is acid and iron-rich, coming up to the surface from underground mines, staining the rocks rust red. Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a major source of water pollution and the cause of extensive stream degradation and environmental damage.
The Ocean Coal Company, a subsidiary of Berwind-White Coal Company of Philadelphia, PA, established several mines in this region including (in 1900) Ocean No. 2. It is purported that drainage from Ocean No. 2 is the chief cause of the Red Waterfall.
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the massive Pittsburgh Coal Seam formed underneath parts of PA, WVA, and OH, from ancient swamp plants. Sand, silts, shells, and other matter were deposited and made a rock seal over the carbon-rich vegetation. This rock contained the mineral pyrite, made of iron and sulfur.
Coal mining exposes pyrite to oxygen and ground water, causing the formation of sulfuric acid and a number of red, orange, and yellow compounds. AMD occurs when this mine water seeps, or in this case, bursts out, into streams. The yellow sulfur can be seen in the shale near coal seams.
We saw an old bicycle wheel in the overgrowth right next to the Red Waterfall, and imagined that a hapless cyclist might have ignored the sign we conjured that would have read "Don't drink the water," and the cyclist subsequently died then was consumed with his bike by the nearby weeds.
We rode through McKeesport (MP 132), where the town is mostly dead or dying, with nothing we could see to recommended it. Yet it is the place where the Monongahela meets the Youghiogheny, which is the river GAP riders follow from here eastward. We went through a nice city park by the river, but then had to wend our way through more industrial sections to regain the rail-trail on the other side.
Next we arrived in Boston (MP 128), a pretty little section of the GAP ride which is beginning the process of re-inventing itself for tourism, but still has closed mills and warehouses reminding one of better times. Below the trail in a park near the water we saw more evidence of the flooding of Gordon. Above the trail are a couple of interesting little businesses setting up shop in existing buildings. One of these is The Betsy Shop, where we paused to have "finger sandwiches and tea," said Allen.
He reminded us that our lunch stop was in West Newton at a place tantalizingly called "The Gingerbread Bakery," so he encouraged us to eat light.
But what a spread! The place was quaint, with an enormous variety of purchase-ables within, from kitchen aprons to halloween decorations; from funny cards and magnets to antiques.
And we didn't hold back on the eating front because it was more than "finger sandwiches" and totally delicious.
Lovely scones with an orange curd dip topped the offering tray; croissants filled with cucumber salad; and at the bottom, open-faced chicken salad sandwiches served with a thin layer of apricot jelly between the bread and the chicken salad. Some folks had coffee and tea, but I just drank water, and the whole shebang was delightful.
Near "Little Boston" is the location of an historic meeting between Queen Aliquippa and the-Major George Washington, sometime before 1754. The area is the summer home of Queen Aliquippa's people (some historians believe she was the leader of a group of Mingo Seneca; others believe it could have been an Iroquois tribe). About 30 families used the region starting about 1730, and Queen Aliquippa became their leader, having inherited the position after the death of her husband.
As the story goes (recorded in Washington's journal of his travels) Washington came to the area to request that the French leave, as he and Braddock were claiming the territory for the British. On that trip, he failed to stop and visit/acknowledge the queen of the Native American residents. After several close calls with the French (who did not want to leave the territory), Washington stopped by John Frasier's Trading Post in what is now Braddock, where he heard of Queen Aliquippa's displeasure. He tried to make up for his lack of courtesy by bringing gifts, and the meeting became immortalized in song*. Later, Washington honored the Queen's son, Kanuksusy, by giving him the title of Colonel Fairfax. Queen Aliquippa became a key ally of the British in the time leading up to the French and Indian War. She and her son, plus warriors from her band traveled to Ft. Necessity to assist Washington, but did not take an active part in the Battle of the Great Meadows (July 3-4, 1754), where the British were defeated by the French, causing the evacuation of Ft. Necessity. Queen Aliquippa moved her band to the Aughwick Valley of Pennsylvania for safety, and she died there on December 23, 1754.
*The "immortalized in song" part of the story amounts to one verse of a Robert Schmertz song, "The Forks of the Ohio:"
Now, Queen Aliquippa (sic) was the Indian skipper of a tribe down Logstown way
And George said, "I better win this lady Indian, and without delay."
So he took her a coat and a jug of whisky, and stayed a day or so
And he came back a ridin' and a lookin' and a walkin' to the forks of the O-Hi-O.
http://www.robertschmertz.com/v-forks-of.asp
We pushed on to West Newton (MP 114). As we approached the town, stark evidence of Gordon's destruction was on every side. People were piling the ruined things from their homes onto the street corners and curbs; the canoe and kayak livery had every one of its boats strung together with cable, high above the riverbanks, and it was obviously closed; tree roots were visible in pulled-up lawns, and debris was everywhere. A mother and daughter were covered with mud, carrying wet junk out of their basement to deposit for trash pickup. It was quite sad.
On our schedule was a canoe/kayak float, but not only was the business closed, the put-in upriver from which we'd float back to West Newton was closed due to the amount of mud blocking the drive and parking area.
West Newton was once a river boating town. Abundant timber allowed for pioneers to build their own flatboats and barges that would float downriver to McKeesport, Pittsburgh, and finally to the Ohio River and south.
We rode past our lodging spot and into the town, and found the Gingerbread Bakery, conveniently located adjacent to a BBQ place, so the variety of food available was excellent. They took very good care of us there, but the flooding evidence was throughout the town. In talking about the storm to the Bakery folks, we learned that most of the flooding was in folks' basements, including that of the senior home down the road. Not every structure was affected, but most people in the community were.
Back to the Bright Morning Bed and Breakfast — a series of four Victorian homes (circa 1864) refurbished for lodgers, where we also had dinner on their back patio. It was quite a nice evening.
The next morning, we got a tour of the Ruritans' "museum" in a reclaimed rail car the volunteers had fixed up, which conveniently sat nearly across the trail from the B&B. They had some fun displays about what we would see going southeast on the trail, and one of the most interesting displays was the rail car itself. Our guides explained that this and other cars like it were sent to Ellis Island in New York to offer immigrants "a job and a house" if they'd come west to work in the mines and factories. They'd pick up three or four families in each car with each run to the east, and thus were able to populate these western towns with people from the old country.
There was a display depicting a school bus, and our curators were proud to say that West Newton is the place where the national law requiring all school busses to stop and open their doors before crossing railroad tracks was enacted—unfortunately, due to a school bus-related accident with a train when the driver did not hear the whistle blowing.
Another story told there (and which we'd see the site of tomorrow) was the Darr Mine Disaster, the worst mining accident in Pennsylvania history. In 1907 near the village of Van Meter (MP 106) 239 coal miners were killed in a massive underground explosion at the Darr mine; only one man escaped. National attention was brought to the conditions in the mines, due to this disaster and one a mere 2 weeks earlier (making December 1907 the deadliest mine fatality month in US history). The federal government initiated efforts to prevent mining accidents beginning in 1908 and established the US Bureau of Mines in 1910.
Tomorrow: West Newton to Connellsville.
Bike Stats:
Cycle time: 2:33
Stopped time: 3 hrs
Distance 30 mi
Average speed: 11.4MPH
Fastest speed: 25.5MPH
Ascent: 207 ft.
Descent: 207 ft.
Posted on September 14, 2018 September 29, 2018 Author chichleeCategories Bicycling, Travel, travelogueTags Berwind-White Coal Company, Boston, Bright Morning B&B, Darr Mine Disaster, French & Indian War, George Washington, Gingerbread Bakery, goats, Japanese knotweed, McKeesport, Mingo Seneca, Monongahela River, Ocean Coal Company, osprey, Pennsylvania, peregrine, Pittsburgh Coal Seam, pyrite, Queen Aliquippa, Red Waterfall, Robert Schmertz, sulfuric acid, Tea Room, The Betsy Shop, The Forks of the Ohio, The Waterfront, tropical storm gordon, West Newton, West Newton Ruritans
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