Rotherham and Barnsley MIND in association with Northern College have produced a short humorous video depicting the first visit to college for a student who has mental health problems. The video, featuring members of MIND and Northern College students, shows, through Michelle's eyes, her first few hours at college and some of the barriers she overcomes.
This film was a small part of the MHFE virtual secondee project and sought to involve learners with mental health problems in identifying and overcoming barriers to returning to learning and encourage others to do so.


i think saddam is dead.
& that's the real time.
or around the real time.
is maybe a sign of luck?
spoken word by ron androla, with kurt nimmo, jeff filipski, & others. aural textures mixed by the eyes of ibad. produced & directed by kurt nimmo in chicago il., 1998. $10 postpaid.
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Recovered Voices Symposium 2014 at The Colburn School
"I Remember Gideon Klein"- Testimony
Holocaust Music Testimony of Terezin Composer. Holocaust survivor, George J. Horner, remembers Gideon Klein.
"Music from Theresienstadt" by Daniel Hope
The latest short film, entitled "Music from Theresienstadt," features mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter and friends, as they tour Europe together performing music which was suppressed by the Nazis.
A Concert of Music by Ernst Krenek: In honor of his 80th birthday (April 18, 1980)
A recording of a concert given in celebration of Ernst Krenek's 80th birthday, on April 18, 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and sponsored by the Goethe Institute. Charles Boone, who studied with Krenek, introduced the composer
A Tribute to Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The copyright to the rare images of Erich Wolfgang Korngold all belong to 'The Brendan G Carroll Collection' and if anyone wishes to use them, they must request permission. These requests may be sent to: brendangcarroll@yahoo.co.uk
"A collection of unique photos of Erich Wolfgang Korngold accompanying a rare test recording of TOMORROW - in its chamber version - for the film THE CONSTANT NYMPH with Sally Sweetland dubbing Joan Fontaine, and the ensemble comprising Louis Kaufman (violin) Eleanor Aller (cello) and Korngold himself at the piano. This recording is a test and differs somewhat from the final version that appears in the film, where the opening lines of the first verse are spoken by Charles Boyer. The film was never shown due to complex copyright issues. Korngold is pictured here from age 4 until his last photo age 60, with several showing him at the piano, and with famous colleagues such as Max Reinhardt, Jascha Heifetz and Bette Davis, as well as his wife Luzi and his parents Dr Julius & Josephine Korngold. The last photo shows his grave in Hollywood with a facsimile of his autograph of the Mariettalied from the opera Die tote Stadt."—Brendan G. Carroll
Arnold Schoenberg Statement by Ernst Krenek
Composer Ernst Krenek (1900-1991), pupil of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), is talking about his teacher.
David Fanning talks about Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Eric Zeisl: His Life and Music
Transcript of a twelve-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program and the UCLA School of Law. Zeisl recalls her and her husband's life in Vienna; his musical education; details of his compositions and teaching; their émigre life; and settling in California.
Ernst Krenek talks about "Johnny spielt auf"
Glenn Dicterow on Korngold's Violin Concerto
The New York Philharmonic's concertmaster, Glenn Dicterow, discusses his February 2008 performance.
James Conlon [Brandeis] Lectures on Composers Silenced During Holocaust
James Conlon, music director of Los Angeles Opera, visited Brandeis on Nov. 17, 2008 to speak about his project "Recovered Voices," which celebrates and revives the music of composers silenced during the Holocaust.
Morning Concert: The Music of Berthold Goldschmidt (July 21, 1992)
Charles Amirkhanian explores the life and music of Berthold Goldschmidt (b. 1903). Goldschmidt is a German born composer who emigrated to England when Hitler came to power. There he existed in the margins of the musical world until his work was discovered by a number of younger composers in the early 1980s. He then experienced a sort of renaissance in which his works were performed and recorded, and also during which he composed a number of new works. This program includes a telephone interview with the 89 year old composer from London as well as interviews with a number of his relatives that live in the Bay Area.
Recovered Voices: Operas Suppressed by the Nazis- Jewish TV Network
LA Opera Music Director James Conlon presents "Recovered Voices," operas suppressed by the Nazis. The operas include the U.S. Premiere of "The Broken Jug" by Viktor Ullmann & West Coast Premiere of "The Dwarf" by Alexander Zemlinsky.
Segment from Entartete Kunst in Music—Korngold's Das Wunder der Helian
Extract from documentary, "Entartete Kunst in Music," features Korngold's Das Wunder der Helian, as well as provides clips of musical scene of Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Additionally, this extract includes brief interviews with Berthold Goldschmidt, John Mauceri, and Norman Lebrecht.
Weinberg: Short Televised Clip [in Russian]
Televised clip "Culture" about a concert in Rachmaninoff Hall, Moscow Conservatory that took place in January 20, 2009. [In Russian Language]
What Happens When Art Collides with Its Society? A Lecture by James Conlon
James Conlon, Music Director of the LA Opera, is one of todays preeminent conductors. He has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire. In this lecture, Conlon discussed how compositions and performances were affected by the rise of Nazism and the events of World War II and looked at parallels in societies around the world today. The event was organized by the USC Thornton School of Music as part of Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative, and was held on October 13, 2008, at Bing Theatre.

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On Growth and Form (en français Forme et Croissance) est un livre du mathématicien et biologiste écossais D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948). Le livre compte 793 pages dans sa première édition de 1917, et  pages dans la deuxième édition de 1942.

Le livre aborde de nombreux sujets, dont les effets d'échelle sur la forme des animaux et des plantes (les grands organismes sont nécessairement relativement trapus), la comparaison des effets de la tension superficielle dans la forme des bulles de savon et de structures similaires telles que les cellules, la spirale logarithmique observée dans les coquilles de mollusques et les cornes des ruminants, l'arrangement des feuilles et autres parties de la plante (phyllotaxie) et la théorie de Thompson relative aux transformations, expliquant les changements dans la forme des crânes d'animaux et d'autres structures sur une grille cartésienne.

Vue d'ensemble

On Growth and Form, l'œuvre la plus célèbre de D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a été écrite à Dundee, principalement en 1915. Sa publication a été retardée jusqu'en 1917 en raison de l'éclatement de la Première Guerre mondiale et des nombreuses modifications que D'Arcy Thompson apporta au texte avant publication définitive. Le thème central du livre est que les biologistes ont eu tort de trop insister sur l'évolution en tant que déterminant fondamental de la forme et de la structure des organismes vivants, et d'avoir sous-estimé le rôle des lois de la physique et de la mécanique. À une époque où le vitalisme était encore considéré comme une théorie biologique, il a plaidé pour le structuralisme comme une alternative à la sélection naturelle pour la détermination de la forme des organismes vivants, ne laissant au vitalisme que le moindre rôle de force vitale invisible.

Thompson avait déjà critiqué le darwinisme dans un article intitulé Some Difficulties of Darwinism. On Growth and Form explique en détail pourquoi il croyait que le darwinisme propose une mauvaise explication de l'origine de nouvelles espèces. Il ne rejette pas la sélection naturelle, mais la considère comme secondaire comparée aux influences physiques sur la forme biologique.

À l'aide de nombreux exemples, Thompson a souligné les corrélations existant entre les formes biologiques et certains phénomènes mécaniques. Il a montré la similitude des formes de la méduse et les formes des gouttes de liquide tombant dans un fluide visqueux, et entre l'agencement des structures de soutien à l'intérieur des os creux d'oiseaux et l'assemblage en treillis bien connu des ingénieurs. Il a mis en évidence la relation entre la phyllotaxie (l'ordre dans lequel sont implantés les feuilles ou les rameaux sur la tige d'une plante) et la suite de Fibonacci.

La partie la plus célèbre de l'ouvrage est probablement le chapitre 17, La comparaison de formes connexes, dans lequel Thompson a étudié comment les différences entre formes apparentées chez les animaux pouvaient se déduire de transformations mathématiques, s'inspirant en cela des travaux précurseurs du graveur allemand Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).

Le livre est plus descriptif qu'expérimental : Thompson n'a pas exprimé son point de vue sous forme d'hypothèses pouvant être testées. Il était conscient de cela, et affirmait :

Éditions
La première édition est parue en 1917 (793 pages) et publiée par Cambridge University Press. La deuxième édition, parue en 1942, compte  pages et comporte de nouveaux chapitres, mais n'a pas modifié de façon significative la thèse de Thompson. Depuis, l'ouvrage a été réimprimé de nombreuses fois, en particulier en 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 et 2014. Il a donc été imprimé et réédité en continu depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le livre a été traduit en allemand, en espagnol, en français et en grec. L'édition de 1961 est une version abrégée de 346 pages due à John Tyler Bonner et qui présente l'essence de la théorie de Thompson.

L'édition française est la traduction de la version abrégée de John Tyler Bonner. L'édition complète et révisée de 1942 de  pages n'est actuellement pas traduite en français.

Critique
Ce travail a été largement plébiscité par les biologistes, les anthropologues et les architectes entre autres. Mais Peter Medawar remarque que l'ouvrage est plus souvent cité que lu et explique que bien qu'il fût pionnier dans l'utilisation des mathématiques en biologie et aida à vaincre les idées mystiques du vitalisme, le livre est affaibli par l'incapacité de Thompson à comprendre le rôle de l'évolution dans l'élaboration des structures vivantes. Philip Ball pour sa part soupçonne que, bien que Thompson ait toujours recherché les mécanismes physiques sous-jacents dans la genèse des formes du vivant, son rejet de la sélection naturelle confine au vitalisme.

Références

Livre paru en 1917
Biomathématiques
Critique du Darwinisme

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Elon Musk will translate and recommend great tweets from other countries to provide richer content for Twitter users
Elon Musk has said in his latest tweet that...
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Lenovo Slim 7 laptop to launch in April: powered by Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake chips
The latest version of Lenovo's Slim 7 laptop weighs 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg) and comes with a maximum 14-inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel, 120Hz IPS LCD display (or FHD OLED screen), Intel Core i7-1360P processor, 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage space.
Lenovo said the Lenovo Slim 7 will be available in April this year for $730 (about RMB 5001) and up. The entry-level configuration will come with 12th-generation Intel Core chips instead of Intel's newer 13th-generation processors.
Known outside of North America as the Lenovo Yoga Slim 6i, the laptop will be available with Intel Core i5-1240P, Core i7-1260P, Core i5-1340P and Core i7-1360P processor options.
While these are all 28W, 12-core, 16-thread chips, the newer models have a higher base and core frequencies and incorporate new power-saving features that Intel says will provide longer battery life.
The expected starting price of $730 is likely to be limited to the Core i5-1240P chip version.
Other features include two Thunderbolt ports, a 60Wh battery with 65W charging, stereo 2W speakers and a 1080p infrared camera with facial recognition and privacy shutter support. The laptop is available in "Storm Gray" or "Misty Gray" and comes with a 180-degree hinge.
Lenovo Slim 7
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Acer's legendary Edge Laptop on sale in Japan: 16-inch 4K OLED screen
Stephen Cruise - 28/01/2023
Acer launched the Legend Edge Laptop in China last year with a 16-inch 4K OLED screen, equipped with the R7 6800U processor, and a...
Apple is registering the "xrOS" trademark worldwide
In his latest tweet, Mark Gurman said that Apple is registering the trademark "xrOS" worldwide through a shell company. The trademark could be used...
OPPO Reno8 T box and price overseas exposure
The new OPPO Reno8 T has been leaking for the past few weeks and is expected to be released in the Philippines on February...


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Q: Cordova Error Please Install Android target 19 My Cordova has suddenly stopped working.
It was working well when I was last working on it - around 2 months ago.
Now when I want to resume working on my project, it gives me the error:
> cordova platforms add android
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/3.7.1
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/3.7.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-3.7.1.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-3.7.1.tgz
Platform android already added.

> cordova run android
Running command: C:\Work\Eclipse\Workspace\Android\CordovaTmp\HelloWorld\platforms\android\cordova\run.bat
"C:\Work\Eclipse\Workspace\Android\CordovaTmp\HelloWorld\platforms\android\cordova\run"
ERROR: Error: Please install Android target "android-19".
Hint: Run "android" from your command-line to open the SDK manager.
ERROR running one or more of the platforms: Error: C:\Work\Eclipse\Workspace\Android\CordovaTmp\HelloWorld\platforms\android\cordova\run.bat: Command failed with exit code 2
You may not have the required environment or OS to run this project

> cordova -version
4.3.0

I have checked out these posts, but thats of no help: link 1, link 2 and link 3.
Also, I am unable to run 'android' on the cygwin shell even though I have added tools and platform-tools to my PATH variable in 'My Computer'
I am running Windows 8.1, cygwin and here is what my SDK Manager looks like:

My platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml looks like:
<manifest android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="0.0.1" package="com.foo.helloworld" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <supports-screens android:anyDensity="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:resizeable="true" android:smallScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <application android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale" android:label="@string/activity_name" android:launchMode="singleTop" android:name="CordovaApp" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
            <intent-filter android:label="@string/launcher_name">
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="21" />
</manifest>

A: The cordova run android command needed to be run from windows powershell and not cygwin.

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Newt Gingrich admits Trump probably can't get Mexico to pay for his wall. 'But it was a great campaign device.'
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Two days after Donald Trump was elected president, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an ardent Trump supporter, admitted the president-elect's promise to get Mexico to fund his proposed border wall may have just been "a campaign device." "He may not spend much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it," Gingrich said of a hypothetical border structure. "But it was a great campaign device."
Gingrich, who is reportedly being considered for the role of secretary of state, said what Trump will "spend a lot of time" on is "controlling the border." Gingrich suggested the flow of refugees into the U.S. could be reduced "by 99 percent in one day by just being practical." "He knows how to build big buildings. He knows how to build golf courses. He knows how to build lots of stuff," Gingrich said of Trump. "The idea that Trump can't figure out how to control the southern border is just silly."


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Big 3 ignore identity of rioting groups
Wednesday's Example of Media Bias — Posted on November 4, 2020
With the streets of the nation's capital being turned into "fortresses of plywood" (as coined by CBS Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues on Monday), the broadcast networks [don't] say who they were protecting their businesses from.
CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News spoke in vague terms of "violence" and "unrest."
ABC's World News Tonight ignored the boarded-up businesses, and scoffed at the White House's installment of a new protective barrier.
Any honest observer understood just who those businesses feared.
"Across the country, major cities are preparing for potential violence after the election, from New York to Philadelphia to Los Angeles," reported NBC correspondent Gabe Gutierrez.
Now, those cities were definitely not known for their enclaves of rioting Trump supporters (they don't exist).
Business owners knew there was a chance that the radicals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter would take to the streets and [ransack, loot, burn or destroy their property] following the election.
"Even the White House plans to install a non-scalable fence. In Kenosha, downtown businesses have been boarded up for months," Gutierrez added, failing to note why Kenosha had been stuck like that for so long.
But at least that was more than what ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl told his viewers. [Ignoring the boarding up of multiple businesses in Washington, DC, he only reported on] the White House's construction of a new steel fence. [He put a negative spin on the protective barriers, saying],
"President Trump has invited 400 guests to the White House tomorrow to watch election returns. Today, barriers are going up, walling off the complex to the world outside."
(The White House has good reason to prepare. Following the conclusion of the Republican National Convention, which was held in August at the White House, as they returned to their hotels, multiple guests were harrassed, screamed at, menaced and spit upon by angry mobs of BLM and Antifa "protesters." See Senator Rand Paul's experience, which was dismissed by the media. Shouldn't the media be on the side of law and order, and innocent civilians?)
On CBS, anchor Norah O'Donnell continued to keep the threat to the public as obfuscated as she could.
"Today, new steel fencing went up around the White House complex. Security is being tightened all over the country over concerns of unrest after the election," she said.
Nora, Trump supporters were not going to attack the White House or burn down stores and homes. That's the extremist left.
At the top of his report, CBS's Jeffrey Pegues noted that "in New York City, the nation's largest police department is putting businesses on alert as stores there and around the country board up as a precaution." Again, not a place that saw Trump supporters riot and loot.
New York City: 11 Times Square, located at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, is seen boarded with plywood in anticipation of trouble due to general elections results Tuesday, Nov. 3. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
He went on to speak with an unnamed Homeland Security official who warned of the "half-a-dozen protests" that could swarm D.C.
"We are seeing a lot of these," he told O'Donnell as he toured a D.C. street, "fortresses of plywood here around D.C. as a precaution. Because we're being told there are no specific threats of violence. Even so, businesses around here aren't taking any chances after a summer of unrest."
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ABC-Ignores-Prepping-for-Riots_CBS-NBC-Play-Dumb-on-Attackers.mp4
What groups were behind the "summer of unrest," Jeff? [Isn't it your job as CBS Homeland Security correspondent to report the facts to your viewers]?
1. What type of bias do you think the "Big 3" (ABC, CBS, NBC) display in their reporting on businesses across the country preparing for potential riots?
Nora O'Donnell says "Security is being tightened all over the country over concerns of unrest after the election," implying that there will be unrest no matter who wins (that Biden supporters or Trump supporters would riot if their candidate does not win)
NPR reported Nov. 2: "From coast to coast, cities are preparing for possible protests, civil unrest and violence, regardless of the election's outcome. ... Groups on all sides of the political spectrum are planning election night demonstrations, and the very real possibility that the results might not be known for days or weeks after Election Day could escalate tensions."
Antifa and some BLM protesters were responsible for the ransacking, looting, burning or destruction of businesses in multiple cities across the country over the summer (and still ongoing in several cities).
2. Why do you think the ABC reporters chose not to report on businesses across the country boarding up in preparation for riots?
3. Why do you think CBS and NBC reported on the protective preparations, but did not report on Antifa being behind the expected rioting?
4. a) Do you think Trump supporters will smash windows, loot and destroy businesses if Biden wins? Explain your answer.
b) Do you think the average Biden voter will smash windows, loot and destroy businesses if Trump wins? Explain your answer.
c) Why do you think the media won't report on Antifa as an organized group whose goal is chaos and anarchy and instead cover up this leftist-extremist violence?
d) What responsibility do you think mayors of the cities where riots are expected have to prevent Antifa from wrecking havoc in their cities? - and to arrest and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law?
e) What responsiblity do you think the media has to report on Antifa's ongoing destructive violence and the organization's true goals?
f) Ask a parent: Do you think the assertion that rioting occurs/is not stopped in Democrat-controlled cities is accurate? Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kenosha, Rochester… Please explain your answer.


Recently the Sisters of Charity Federation posted a series of Lenten video reflections on prayer, fasting and almsgiving which are worth a second look in case you missed them. Here is an excerpt from the the talk on Fasting. Sister Rejane Cytacki, Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, generously shares some great ideas about fasting from "time-eaters"– those things that take our focus away from our prayer relationship with God. She also recommends a number of excellent books, listed below the video. Thank you to Sr. Rejane and the Federation for providing these videos!
Source: This video is an edited version of one that originally appeared live on the Sisters of Charity Federation's Facebook page @scharityfed. See the complete video here.
The Sisters of Charity Federation is hosting a series of online video reflections during Lent [March 10-13, 2019]. Sisters and Daughters of Charity will go live on the federation's Facebook page to share their perspectives and insights on prayer, fasting and almsgiving during the Lenten season. Audience participation is welcomed, encouraged, and eagerly anticipated!
This year, the first week of Lent coincides with Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14 and National Women's History Month. We recognize and honor the lives, mission and ministries of Catholic sisters throughout the United States and the world.


The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) in Akwa Ibom has raised the alarm over 132,078 uncollected Permanent Voters' Card (PVCs) by electorates in the state.
According to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Mike Igini, the figure comprised old and new PVCs, adding that PVC collection by electorates in the state was very poor.
Igini said out of the 127,267 new PVCs received by the commission and distributed across the state, only 12,881 have been collected leaving an outstanding of 114,386.
"From the old PVCs, out of 18,541 received and distributed, only 849 have been collected, leaving an outstanding of 17,692", he said.
Igini noted that nationwide, over 7million PVCs were yet to be collected, the REC wondered how the electorates will cast their votes less than 224 days to the commencement of the elections across the country without their PVCs.
He explained that even with the campaigns run in the media on the issue, many people in Uyo, the state capital with the highest number of polling units are yet to collect their PVCs.
The REC charged political parties in the state to employ the strategy used in ensuring the electorates registered during the Continuous Voters' Registration exercise to visit INEC offices for the collection of their PVCs.


Diagnostic and immune status serologic assays are performed for various rickettsial and viral agents. Assay methods vary depending upon the specific test requested.
Only serum and CSF may be submitted for serologic testing. Specimens submitted to the Virology/Serology Unit must be accompanied by a fully completed submission Special Serology Form #3445 (PDF, 192 KB). Failure to supply the requested patient information may result in significantly delayed specimen testing. Tests must be requested by name. Nonspecific requests for "viral studies" or "viral serologies" will not be accepted. Consult with the laboratory if there is a question as to which test is appropriate.
All suspect or probable cases of vaccine preventable diseases (measles, mumps, varicella zoster) must be reported to the Communicable Disease Branch at (919) 733-3419 for prior approval of laboratory testing.
"Stat" varicella zoster virus (VZV) immune status testing is available for prenatal clients only who lack a clear history of varicella zoster infection or whose immune status is unknown and have been exposed to a known case of VZV. In cases in which testing is appropriate and results are urgently needed, the submitter must contact the Women's Health Nurse Consultant or Maternal Health Nurse Consultant to arrange for testing at the State Laboratory. The Consultant will then contact either the Virology/Serology Unit Supervisor or the Special Serology Laboratory Supervisor at (919) 733-7544 so that testing can be scheduled for timely results, preferably during normal business hours. Use Special Serology Form #3445 (PDF, 192 KB) and provide a contact name and telephone number for the person who is to receive the test result. If required, every effort will be made to provide "stat" VZV testing during off hours, weekends, and holidays; however, this testing is dependent upon the availability of limited trained personnel who are not designated "on call".
Immune status testing for measles is available for clients when vaccination is contradicted (e.g., pregnancy, immunosuppression or allergy to vaccine components). Reason for contraindication must be noted on the test request. Use Special Serology Form #3445 (PDF, 192 KB).
Immune status testing for rubella antibody is available for prenatal patients with no documentation of vaccination or previous immune status testing. Use DHHS Rubella Serology Form #1188 (PDF, 87 KB).
Specimens submitted for testing that are not labeled with correct patient identification information will not be tested. Patient identification includes full first and last name and either SSN, date of birth, or other unique identifier. Specimens which, for any reason, are deemed unsuitable or inappropriate for serologic testing will not be tested. Rejected specimens will be properly stored for ten days pending verbal and/or written notification of the submitter. Unless alternate arrangements are initiated by the submitter upon notification of specimen rejection, the specimen will be discarded at the end of the holding period.
To collect serum, draw blood into a red top vacuum tube allowing the tube to fill completely. Let stand for 30 minutes to ensure complete clotting of the blood. Centrifuge for 5-10 minutes at 1000-1500 x g. Transfer the serum to a plastic screw capped vial. Hemolyzed, icteric, or lipemic serum may be unacceptable for certain serologic assays.
Clearly label each vial of serum with the patient's full first and last name, either SSN, date of birth, or other unique identifier, and the date collected if paired sera are submitted. Complete a Special Serology Form #3445 (PDF, 192 KB) submission form specifying all required patient information and which infectious agents are suspected.
The serodiagnosis of a current or recent infection generally requires the simultaneous testing of paired serum samples, principally, acute and convalescent serum samples. The acute serum should be collected no later than 3-5 days after the onset of illness. The convalescent serum should be collected 2-4 weeks after onset. Where paired sera are advised or required, it is to the advantage of both the submitter and this laboratory if the acute serum is stored frozen by the submitter until the convalescent serum is collected. Both serum samples may be submitted with one submission form.
Serological diagnosis of mumps between acute and convalescent sera can be made by demonstrating a four-fold or greater rise in titer. For certain agents such as measles and rubella, specific IgM assays on a single acute serum specimen may provide evidence of a recent infection. Additionally, single "high" antibody titers to viral and rickettsial agents may be considered presumptive evidence of recent infection. Immune status determinations require a single serum sample only and should be clearly designated on the request form. Antibody determinations on cerebrospinal fluid may be of value in diagnosing viral encephalitis and other central nervous system diseases. Cerebrospinal fluids for serologies should always be accompanied by a serum collected the same day.
Properly identified vials of patient sera along with the completed submission forms should be sent in the blue colored specimen mailers labeled SPECIAL SEROLOGY. For detailed shipping instructions using the double mailers, see Packing Instructions Using Outer Baggie (PDF, 4.6 MB). Ship at ambient temperature by the State Courier or U.S. Mail. Specimens should be shipped immediately and should arrive in the laboratory within 48 hours of collection. Specimens may be shipped refrigerated or at ambient temperature. If transport to the laboratory is to be delayed, specimens can be refrigerated up to seven days or frozen.
Serum transport tubes and blue colored specimen mailers are available through the NCSLPH online supply ordering system at this website. Both Special Serology Form #3445 (PDF, 192 KB) and DHHS Rubella Serology Form #1188 (PDF, 87 KB) may be downloaded and printed from this website.
Assay turn-around-time after receipt of the specimen(s), methodology used, serum requirements, and test interpretation vary considerably between tests. The following chart lists the special serologic assays performed by this Unit. A brief statement of the "normal" values for each assay is given under the heading "Negative Reference Range". The test method, specimen requirements and turn-around-times are also listed for each assay performed.


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Which Birthstone Is Yours?
written by Jo Bergstrom
A birthstone is a precious gem that marks your month of birth. Each one has a unique meaning rooted in ancient beliefs. From ancient China to today, people have believed in the magical powers of gems, such as their ability to bring health, wealth and love. Discover your birthstone below and what it symbolises.
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JANUARY – GARNET
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Introduction: Household Words — "As familiar in their mouths as household words"
Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Canada; Professor Emeritus, Lakehead University
Victorian Web Home —> Periodicals —> Charles Dickens]
"A Preliminary Word" (Saturday, 30 March 1850)
We aspire to live in the Household affections, and to be numbered among the Household thoughts, of our readers. We hope to be the comrade and friend of many thousands of people, of both sexes, and of all ages and conditions, on whose faces we may never look. We seek to bring to innumerable homes, from the stirring world around us, the knowledge of many social wonders, good and evil, that are not calculated to render any of us less ardently persevering in ourselves, less faithful in the progress of mankind, less thankful for the privilege of living in this summer-dawn of time. — Charles Dickens, "A Preliminary Word," Household Words, No. 1, Page 1.
Dickens the Journalist
As a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Dickens regularly contributed to such periodicals as The Examiner and The Daily News; however, much of his journalistic pieces first appeared in the organs that he himself established, Household Words (March 1850-April 189) and All the Year Round (1859-70). For two years early in his career as a professional writer, Dickens had served as the editor of publisher Richard Bentley's weekly magazine Bentley's Miscellany, in which Dickens published stories, poems, sketches, and a complete novel, Oliver Twist (24 instalments, February 1837 through April 1839). Although he was Bentley's "Editor," Dickens in fact enjoyed the greatest freedom as editor and writer with the two later magazines.
He didn't have to report the day's news, or discuss the week's unless something happened on which he wanted to comment. But he enjoyed the outlet for his overflowing feelings, and he wrote such bright journalistic prose that his readers enjoyed them, too. [Fido 29]
Weekly Publication for a Middle Class Readership
Despite the fact that it was always dated on a Saturday, it was actually published every Wednesday from 27 March 1850 to 28 May 1859 at the offices at No. 16 Wellington Street North, Strand (Covent Garden). Each number cost a mere tuppence, thereby ensuring a wide readership. Theoretically, it championed the cause of the poor and working classes, but in fact Household Words addressed itself almost exclusively to the burgeoning middle class. Only the name of Charles Dickens, the journal's "Conductor," appeared; articles were unsigned (although authors of serialised novels were identified) and, in spite of its regularly featuring an "advertiser," unillustrated.
During its first years the magazine did valuable work in the cause of sanitary reform (especially London's water supply and sewerage system), than a topical issue and provided information about emigration to Australia. [Bentley et al, 124]
Typically, each issue or number offered readers six to ten items, was printed in double columns, and was twenty-four pages or 22,000 words in length. When the second instalment of his article on the lost Franklin expedition appeared on 9 December 1854, for example, Household Words for that week also contained "Madame Busque's" by George A. Sala, "The Saucy Arethusa" by Grenville Murray, Chapters 29 and 30 of Gaskell's North and South, and "The Great Red Book," also by Sala. "Poems, for edification and for pleasure, appeared more frequently in earlier volumes than in later ones" (Lohrli 18).
The style of the articles, whether verse, non-fiction, or fiction, was decidedly rhetorical and fanciful. Inspired by (or perhaps consciously emulating) Dickens, contributors used figure rather than journalistic language, frequently employing such devices as personification, contrived conversation, exaggeration, and distortion. Even reportage and social commentary utilized "fantasy, vision, fable, imaginary travels, . . . and the use of fictitious characters to serve as mouthpieces of information and opinion" (Lohrli 9).
Although the lead item might sometimes be an article dealing with an issue of social import, the instalments of both Hard Times and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices always led off the issues in which they appeared. although serialising his own novels had not originally figured in Dickens's plans for Household Words, which he primarily intended to be a vehicle for topical journalism, essays, short fiction, and occasional poetry, in 1853 he determined to run Hard Times for These Times (1 April through 12 August 1854) in order to bolster the sagging circulation and ensure his income as writer, editor, and publisher should not be jeopardized, for as the founder and conductor he received both a salary and a share of the profits. He found the experience of writing for weekly serialisation, however, quite wearing, and determined not to engage in the practice again — and, in fact, he did not until the launching of his new weekly, All the Year Round in April 1859.
The Diverse Nature of the Contents: Household Words (1850-59)
Contributors to Household Words
Wrapping up Household Words
Charles Dickens and George Elgar Hicks' representations of the General Post Office on St-Martin's-le-Grand
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Lohrli, Anne. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859 Conducted by Charles Dickens — Table of Contents, List of Contributors and Their Contributions Based on The Household Words Office Book in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, Princeton University Library. Toronto: U. Toronto Press, 1973.
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When I began to create this painting, I had many things on my mind. In Math Explorations, Professor Julian Fleron had presented diagrams and pictures to better illustrate each problem. The focus of these packets was on large numbers and the concept of infinity. In observing the illustrations, my mind would wander into places only an Art major would go. I would see certain angles and line segments and think about how I could build off of them and create different things with them. In a stroke of genius while reviewing for the final (and the realization that I wasn't going to do so well in the class), I decided to use the diagrams and illustrations to create my own piece of artwork and hand it in as a 'thank you' gift for putting up with me (and maybe some extra credit).
Being a fan of geometry and clean lines, this sort of thing was right up my alley. I took the seemingly simple illustrations and manipulated them in my favor so they created a, understandable, yet abstract, piece of artwork. Rather than using black lines, I chose white. I used the primary colors, red, blue, and yellow to fill in the background because they are easily identifiable, and I believe that math, if you have the time or mindset to look into it, is fairly simple.
I didn't feel that the piece was anything too spectacular, but I did know that I learned a lot while creating it. Julian's reaction to the painting made me think further into what I had made. He saw things much differently than I had. Although line, shape, and form had intrigued me first in the illustrations, I was now surrounded by so many other aspects of the piece: placement of different figures, their relationship to each other, hidden symbols created by the composition, and something that I introduced on my own – color. All of these things made the painting complex and interesting without me even knowing it.
I came across a quotation by John Louis von Neumann: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." No statement could ever been truer.


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Never Mind The 'Bollix,' this is TG4!
Fionn Foley on the set of Eipic. From Magamedia.
"TG4 find that dialogue-heavy material is hard to get an audience for."
Olaf Tyaransen, Irish Independent, 15.08.2015
Two things made the news recently that suggest that the Irish language – as a cultural institution – is in real trouble. First, Olaf Tyaransen reports that TG4 – the state supported Irish language television station – finds "that dialogue-heavy material is hard to get an audience for. Music and sport works for them because it's not that language dependent." The second piece of bad news came from the ESRI. It concluded that "while attitudes towards the Irish language are broadly positive, this does not translate into significant use of the language."
To be fair, its not clear who Olaf Tyaransen was paraphrasing, if he was paraphrasing any one. But the reference to sport and music are not new. A few years ago I did a workshop for new directors with Gréasán na Meán and it was based on more or less the same audience analysis. Essentially, we were being asked to come up with new ideas for Irish language obs-doc (observational documentary) TV that would get around the "dialogue-heavy" issue. These ideas were to be shoe-horned into a formula devised for a slot on Sunday evenings and a Gaeltacht audience.
There was a distinct impression that TG4 was desperately in search of an audience or, to put it another way, a formula for an audience that was not necessarily interested in Irish language "dependent" television. That takes us back to Olaf Tyaransen. He describes how Magamedia are using music and 'bad' language as a strategy to attract a young audience to a 'drama' based on the rebellion of 1916: "So, with Eipic (Epic) the music is almost like a trojan horse. You get them in through that and they'll stay [and] We got a good few 'f**ks,' a 'bollix,' and there's a 'pr**k' or two thrownin." The latter half of the quote comes from Mike O'Leary whose original script in English has been translated into Irish, minus the 'c**ts.'
Péig it ain't – but will it work? Maybe. The company behind Eipic also produced the "critically acclaimed" Corp + Anam, and they have a budget of 1 million Euro of public broadcast funding to boot. It can't be any worse than some of the other strategies adopted by TG4: the history of the cup of tea, or the place of the donkey in Irish culture for instance. Or the current trend in presenter led "road-trip" documentaries like Cé a chonaigh i mo theachsa? or An Lá a Rugadh Mé? To be fair – again – this is not confined to TG4. Creedon's Wild Atlantic Way on RTE is typical of that 'genre' and has gotten a fair amount of drubbing, mainly because of the constraints of the format (John Boland). This kind of formula driven 'documentary' making can result in some real horrors. Have a look at this clip form An La a Rugadh Mé:
Is this the world television programme ever?
On the face of it the idea of programme based on Harry McGee (media savvy Political Correspondent) and Alan Dukes (former govt. minister and chairman of the most toxic bank in Ireland) going through newspaper archives in the National Library of Ireland would have been a must-see, but this is really terrible. The hyped Pathé-style commentary, the relentlessly perky tone, and busy-never-mind-the-remote-control chopping of content makes its treatment of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp utterly perverse: no more so than the transition from a chorus line to the site of the Sachsenhausen museum and camp. How did TG4 ever release this? What were Harry McGee and Alan Dukes thinking? Whatever it was, it has been totally lost in the translation of a potentially intriguing story about history, journalism,and politics into format-driven "infotainment" of the most surreal kind.
Never mind the content, this is television – Irish language style.
A couple of weeks ago research published by the Gaeltacht Authority suggested that the majority of people living in 134 out of the 155 areas currently defined as Gaeltacht (primarily Irish Speaking) districts have given up on Irish (Welcome to the Galltacht). Now it seems that the television station tasked with keeping the language alive and relevant has a preference for content that is "not that language dependent." Is it any surprise that Dr Marike Darmody of the ESRI has concluded "it is hard to see how the Irish language can flourish in future".
This entry was posted in Comment, Journalism and tagged 1916, Alan Dukes, An Lá A Rugadh Mé, Ciarán Walsh, Eipic, ESRI, Gaeltacht, Harry McGee, Irish language, Magamedia, Never mind the Bollicks, Olaf Tyaransen, social documentary photography, TG4, www.curator.ie on August 18, 2015 by ciaranwalshnoe.
Photographs were taken: documenting the second famine in Connemara.
The origins of social documentary photography in Ireland: Part 2.
This photo was taken a couple of years ago. I was travelling between Rossaveel and Maam Cross, on my way to Leenane. The road travels through an upland wilderness of bogs and small lakes, a landscape that is typical of Southern Connemara. It reminded me of a shot taken by Marguierite Mespoulet in 1913, probably to the west on the coast road to the village of Carraroe.
Maison isolée, Sud du Connemara, Irlande, 31 mai 1913. Autochrome de Marguerite Mespoulet (inv.A 3 664).© Musée Albert-Kahn – Département des Hauts-de-Seine
Mespoulet had been commissioned by Albert Kahn to document 'peasant' life in the remote west of Ireland. She was using the newly developed autochrome process to shoot what are probably the first colour photographs taken in the west of Ireland. Mespoulet left Galway and headed for Connemara on 31 May, travelling along a well established tourist route. She never got there. She was stopped in her tracks by reports of an outbreak of typhoid that was sweeping the islands of southern Connemara. She took this shot of a thatched cottage. "A little to the north of the place where this small house was taken" she wrote "the people are dying like flies from typhoid fever."
Typhoid in Connemara was nothing new but in 1913 the cause of recurring outbreaks of fever was the subject of a row between the Irish Independent (nationalist) and the Irish Times (unionist) newspapers. An article published in the Irish Independent on May 26, 1913 accuses the Irish Times of publishing an editorial that was intended to minimise reports of a "plague" in Connemara. It included this quote from the editorial:
"[Typhoid] has made its appearance upon a few islands off Southern Connemara , miles removed from the tourist routes, in Gorumna, Lettermore , and Lettermullen, which have been described as 'plague spots,' the peasants are huddled in hovels that pass for houses, and they draw water from stagnant pools."
The correspondent for the Irish Times claimed that poor housing and lack of clean water were to blame for renewed outbreaks of fever, but argued that talk of an "epidemic' was not justified by the figures. In a dispensary area of almost 10,000 persons there were five fatal fever cases and 40 more cases notified. He (presumably) drew comparisons with other parts of Connemara "where things are more favourable, or at least not quite so unpleasant," highlighting the fact that in the "plague centre" people shared their hovels with pigs "who were practically members of the household." The peasants, it appears, were the agents of their own misfortune.
The Irish Independent took issue with this. A correspondent had stated in an earlier article (May 15) that "If corroboration of the case [that there was a fever plague in Connemara] and the graphic photographs reproduced in our columns were required, it would be found abundantly in the immediate response to, and commendation of our appeal by those who know the distress and the appalling conditions of the stricken locality." The Irish Independent criticised the callous bureaucracy of government and sanitary authorities, accusing them of placing the islanders in imminent danger of absolute extermination through shameful neglect.
The Irish Independent also published an eyewitness account of conditions in Connemara. It was written by a special correspondent of the Connacht "Tribune." He had motored with the local M.P. (Wm. O'Malley) to Carraroe, where he met the parish priest (Healy). They went on Bealdangan and picked up the local doctor (O'Kelly). They then went to the "little hut" of John Lee where they met the Chief Secretary (Birrell), who was on a tour of inspection.
A halftone reproduction of John Lee's "hut" was featured on The Irish Independent Magazine Page on May 14, 1913. It was printed under the headline "Peasants Appalling Plight, Fever Stricken Connemara."
Lee's family was one of 800 hundred families trying to subsist on patches of potato scattered across "the wilderness of rock and bog." His 17 year old son had died in April and another child was in the fever hospital in Oughterard:
"The house stood about seven feet high, and was without an aperture of any kind, save the small door …We entered this 11 feet by 8 apartment that constituted the entire interior, and growing accustomed to the darkness, we recognised that it was practically devoid of furniture … It was, declared Mr. Birrell, the worst dwelling he had ever seen.
Where had he been? People like John Lee and his family had been dying in a famine that had started during the "crisis of 1879" and had continued more or less for over 30 years. On December 13, 1879 The Illustrated London News published the following illustration of the "Bog-Trotters of Ballintober:"
IRISH SKETCHES: BOG-TROTTER'S CABIN, BALLINTOBER BOG, ROSCOMMON. – SEE PAGE 558, Supplement to The Illustrated London News, Dec. 13, 1879, p. 557. Collection of Ciarán Walsh.
The accompanying article stated that:
The agricultural disadvantages of Connaught are not to be denied, and we hear without surprise of the distressed condition of small farmers in that part of the island … Here [Ballintober] are still to be found some of the genuine "bog-trotters," a class of peasants living in squalid poverty by the scanty produce of small plots of ground and wages by field labour, where no farmer has capital to give them employment. Our artist's sketch of one of their wretched cabins, with the poor man and his children waiting for their dinner of potatoes to be boiled over a turf fire, outside the dwelling, by the comfortless care of the wife and mother, is a sorry picture of Irish rural life. There are probably a hundred thousand people in Ireland whose condition is not much better.
Some 20 years later the same conditions were documented in Connemara, and again in 1913. The tone of The Illustrated London News commentary is not all that different from the Irish Times editorial of 1913. Complacency and official inaction was the order of the day. In an effort to shock people out of their complacency photographs were taken inside the "hovels" of the starving peasants in Gorumna in 1898. The intention was to prove that reports of a famine in Connemara were not exaggerated, that people were indeed starving to death in the west and southwest of Ireland. These photographs were published by the Mansion House Committee established by Lord Mayor Tallon. It was a remarkable event that signalled that social documentary photography had arrived in Ireland.
Next: In search of the "The Starving West."
Information / References
Marguerite Mespoulet: http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/europe/irlande/
Ballintober / Cluain Bhríde in Roscommon is on the R367, a minor road heading northeast from the N60 Roscommon to Castlerea road, just before the village of Ballymoe. The river Suck meanders through extensive boglands on the Galway / Roscommon Border. The railway line runs through bogland in Cleaboy, just under two kilometres southwest of Ballintober, crossing the R367 at 53.7031629,-8.4184402
This entry was posted in Comment, Heritage, Photography and tagged Albert Kahn, Anthropology, Ballintober, Ballymaclinton, Ciarán Walsh, Co Roscommon, Connaught Tribune, Connemara, famine, Gorumna, Illustrated London News, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Mansion House, Marguerite Mespoulet, Typhoid, www.curator.ie on August 14, 2015 by ciaranwalshnoe.
The Horror And The Curiosity
Charles R. and John Browne, 1893, Group of women and Girls Inishbofin, from the Photograph albums of Charles R. Browne, TCD. With permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN IRELAND: PART1
Alfred Cort Haddon visited North Connemara in July 1890 and it left "a distinct impression of sterility, stones & starvation." He neatly summarised the relentless famine that was endured by the cottier class right up to the end of the 19th century and, in some places, into the early 20th century. This was to become the object of intense curiosity in the illustrated press: a morbid fascination that has its roots in groundbreaking reports published in the Illustrated News between 1847 and 1850. These reports would, in turn, provide the 'horrific' foundation for two of the main tropes of social documentary photography as it developed in the west of Ireland from the 1880s onwards: the wretched hovels of the Irish peasantry and the "distressful" condition of women.
James O'Mahony, Mullins Hut, at Scull, published in THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 13, 1847. from the collection of Ciarán Walsh.
The Illustrated London News begins its coverage of the famine in West Cork in 1847 with the following declaration:
With the object of ascertaining the accuracy of the frightful statements received from the West, and of placing them in unexaggerated fidelity before our readers, a few days since, we commissioned our Artist, Mr. James Mahoney, of Cork, to visit a seat of extreme suffering, viz., Skibbereen and its vicinity; and we now submit to our readers the graphic results of his journey …
A specimen of the in-door horrors of Scull may be seen in the annexed sketch of the hut of a poor man named Mullins, who lay dying in a corner upon a heap of straw, supplied by the Relief Committee, whilst his three wretched children crouched over a few embers of turf, as if to raise the last remaining spark of life. This poor man, it appears, had buried his wife some five days previously, and was, in all probability, on the eve of joining her, when he was found out by the untiring efforts of the Vicar, who, for a few short days, saved him from that which no kindness could ultimately avert. Our Artist assures us that the dimensions of the hut do not exceed ten feet square; adding that, to make the sketch, he was compelled to stand up to his ankles in the dirt and filth upon the floor.
In 1849 The Illustrated London News followed up on this report up with a series of seven illustrated articles on the operation of the newly introduced Poor Law in Ireland, concentrating on Kilrush but covering west and north Clare, Connemara and Clifden as well. The report published on 22 December contained an illustration that was to become – probably -the most iconic representation of famine in Ireland, a sketch of Bridget O'Donnell and her children.
40 years on the pattern repeats itself in the coverage of the "Second Famine" that followed the "crisis" of 1879 and reached a peak in 1898 in Connemara and in the South West of Ireland. There was a difference though, James O'Mahony's pioneering illustrations were to be replaced by a series of graphic photographs. Was this the beginning of Social documentary photography in Ireland?
Photographs were taken: The origins of social documentary photography in Ireland: Part 2.
To read the Illustrated London News articles online go to:
https://viewsofthefamine.wordpress.com/illustrated-london-news/sketches-in-the-west-of-ireland/
This entry was posted in Comment, Photography on August 6, 2015 by ciaranwalshnoe.
What happened on Inishbofin in July 1890? Three days that changed the history of Anthropology in Ireland and Britain.
Teampall Cholmain by Marie Coyne, The Inishbofin Heritage Museum
St. Colman's Abbey is a small ruin on a remote island off the West coast of Ireland. It is situated on the site of a seventh century monastery established by Colman of Lisdisfarne around 668AD. Archaeologically speaking this is a modest site but it is the setting for a remarkable sequence of events that were to have profound consequences for the development of anthropology in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
On Wednesday 16 July 1890 – 125 years ago to the day – the steamer Fingal anchored in Inishbofin. The Fingal had been chartered by the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) for survey work on the fisheries of the western seaboard. One of the scientists on board was Alfred Cort Haddon, a marine zoologist who had developed an interest in ethnology—the comparative study of races—whilst on a similar survey the year before in the Torres Strait,located between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Haddon had joined the remarkable and Reverend William Spottiswood Green, Inspector of Fisheries, in Killybegs in County Donegal on 26 June and headed south three days later. Haddon assumed responsibility for keeping a "narrative " journal of the survey. Green's narrative has been publish by the RDS but Haddon's account has never been published in full and the manuscript is held in Cambridge University.
This is Haddon's account of what happened on Inishbofin in July 1890:
Wednesday – July 16 . Dixon and I got up at 6 o'clock & photographed Cromwell's Fort and had a bathe. The 2 Mrs Allies (who reside on the island) & Father McHugh came to breakfast at 8 o'clock & after breakfast we tried a new fishing ground for longline fishing. We had just over 400 hooks out on a line measuring about —- feet – the result was poor for we only got 1 Halibut / 5 foot long and weighing 95lbs.) 1 Turbot, 1 Cod, 13 Ling, 17 Conger, 2 Torsk, 1 Cuckoo-Gurnard, 6 Pickard dog fish, 1 Tope, 7 Nurse-Hounds (Dogfish), 1 Skate, 1 Ray. – Then Dixon and I had to measure, weigh & examine a selection of them. I will explain our particular work on another occasion.
The 2 Mr Allies are Englishmen – some time ago, 8 or 9 years I believe, their father foreclosed on a mortgage on this island & so it & several others some 7 in all – including rocks – became his property & he sent a son to look after it & he has lived here ever since. For about the last 18 mths. another brother joined this one & so these 2 middle aged men are living bachelor's lives on this out of the way island – fishing, farming, & so forth. They have both spent several years in Australia, mainly in Queensland, sheep farming etc.
The latter brother is more or less () an engineer. The former is the recognised landlord. I got more intimate with Edward, the engineer, & I hope I have interested him in Folklore & he has promised to collect information for the Royl. Irish Academy. He told me of an old ruined church where there were some skulls & we arranged with Dixon a plan of action. We all went ashore together that night & he provided us with a sack & later in the dark, took us close to the church. The coast being clear Dixon & I climbed over the gate & went down the enclosure which is practically a large graveyard, on our way we disturbed several cattle. We stumbled along & entered the church tumbling over the stones which are placed over the graves, in the corner we saw in the dim light the skulls in a recess in the wall. There must have been 40 or more, all broken, most useless but on (overhanding) them we found a dozen which were worth carrying away & only one however had the face bones. Whilst we were thus engaged we heard 2 men slowly walking & talking in the road & like Brer Fox – we 'lay low' & like the Tar Baby "kept on saying nothing." When the coast was clear we put our spoils in the sack & cautiously made our way back to the road, then it did not matter who saw us. We returned to the Allies' house. Dixon kept the bag & then Poole went off to the gig with us. The 2 sailors wanted to take the bag for Dixon but he wouldn't let them & when asked what was in it replied "poteen." So without any further trouble we got our skulls aboard & there we packed them in Dixon's portmanteau & locked it, no one on the steamer, except our two selves, having any idea that there were 12 human skulls in the steamer & they shan't know either.
Teampall Chomain by Dixon. The niche where the skulls were kept is visible in the lower right hand corner. The sketc h referred to by Haddon below is an exact illustration of this scene, suggesting that the sketch and the photograph are contemporaneous. This copy of the photograph is from the photograph albums of Charles R. Browne. With permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.
Next afternoon we landed & went to have a look at the place by daylight & then I made this sketch [a drawing illustrating the site of the niche and the skulls]. The whole place is a mass of graves covered with loose stones. There are no inscriptions & there is no carving anywhere. This particular building was the chapel of a monastery which was founded by St. Coleman in about 667. It is referred to by the "Venerable Bide"; but soon passed into oblivion. On the succeeding page I give a sketch of the church from a neighbouring hill, showing Inishlyon in the middle distance and the mountains of Connemara in the far distance, the group of mountains to the right is "The Twelve Pins." In the right hand neat corner of the churchyard is St. Colman's will of which the accompanying is a sketch, the well itself is inside.
Teampall Cholmain, Inishbofin by Marie Coyne, Inishbofin Heritage Museum.
Haddon left Inishbofin on Friday 18 July 1890.
In November 1893 he presented a more formal report on Studies in Irish Craniology II, Inishbofin, Co. Galway to the Royal Irish Academy.
Cyanotype of the Anthropometry Laboratory and Comparative Anatomy Museum in TCD in 1891. With the permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.
Haddon had earned the nickname "Haddon the Headhunter" as a boy because of a prank he played on his sisters. The visit to Inishbofin set in train a series of events that converted a boyish fascination with skulls into a scientific orthodoxy that was the signature of an influential player in the establishment of anthropology as a scientific discipline in Britain.
Haddon's involvement in the Fingal fishing survey coincided with a developing interest in anthropology as a result of his experiences in the Torres Strait. He was particularly interested in folklore as a form of history used by primitive peoples. He regarded the link between folklore and anthropology as similar to the link between palaeontology and archaeology. He had heard of a tradition of proxy weddings on Inishbofin and was eager to learn more. This seemed to matter more than 'Headhunting' in July 1890. He had collected skulls in Torres Straits but referred to them as "curios." Following his escapade with Dixon however he developed a more "scientific" interest in skulls or "crania."
Dixon had been working in comparative anatomy under Professor Daniel J. Cunningham of TCD. At the time Cunningham was mapping the topography of the human brain and comparing this to the brains of anthropoid apes. Dixon was also a keen photographer. This meeting of interests was to have a major influence on Haddon's future direction as a scientist. He became obsessed with craniology – the categorisation of skull types through the measurement of particular features – and developed a theory of racial migration based on tracking the distribution of different skull types.
On his return to Dublin Haddon and Cunningham established an Anthropometry Laboratory in TCD and in 1891 they launched the Ethnographic Survey of Ireland. This was an attempt to use laboratory methods "in the field" in an attempt to trace the origins of the Irish race; this was the origin of the term "fieldwork" which, in this case, consisted of measuring and photographing the physical characteristics of people in the remotest districts in Ireland, starting in the Aran islands in 1892.
Charles R. Browne "in the field" in Inishbofin in 1893. From the photograph albums of Charles R. Browne. With Permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.
The following year his colleague Charles R. Browne returned to St. Colman's Abbey but the islanders prevented him form stealing more skulls. Browne, a medical doctor, was more interested in social conditions in the West and, with Cunningham, began to emphasise sociology over physical anthropology and, ethnography over measurement: a split that anticipated a major philosophical divide in the natural and social sciences in the 20th century.
That is a story that has yet to be told.
Credits / Further Information:
Photography by Marie Coyne, The Inishbofin Heritage Museum.
This blog is based on a presentation made by Ciarán Walsh at the Anthropology and Photography Conference organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum in May 2014, in association with Dr Jocelyne Dudding (Cambridge) and Dr Mark Maguire (Maynooth). This research continues as a postgraduate research project with the Anthropology Department of Maynooth University in association with the Irish Research Council. Ciarán Walsh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2015.
The photographic archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey was published by Ciarán Walsh and Dáithí de Mórdha in 2012 in association with TCD, the OPW and the Heritage Council of Ireland. See De Mórdha, Dáithí and Ciarán Walsh, 2012, The Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne. Dublin: Stationery Office & http://www.curator.ie.
This material was updated in 2013 in an article by Ciarán Walsh for the Irish Journal of Anthropology: Walsh, C., 2013, Charles R. Browne, The Irish Headhunter, Irish Journal of Anthropology Vol 16. Anthropological Association of Ireland.
This entry was posted in Heritage, Photography and tagged Charles R. Browne, Ciarán Walsh, Haddon the `headhunter', Inishbofin, Inishbofin Heritage Museum, Irish Ethnographic Survey, Irish Research Council, Marie Coyne, Maynooth University, Photography, TCD, Trinity College Dublin. on July 18, 2015 by ciaranwalshnoe.
Welcome to the Galltacht
Buntús Cainte: So – you wanna save the Irish Language
I was in the attic the other day looking for records to play on a recently recovered record player when I came across an ancient copy of Buntús Cainte, the Irish language instructional programme that was broadcast by Radio Teilfís Éireann — the national radio (Raidió) and television (Teilifís) station of Ireland (Éireann) – from 1967 to 1969. Gael Linn issued the record to complement the series. It must have been thirty years old – not as old as Wish You Were by Pink Floyd which, if I remember correctly was bought in a second hand shop in Richmond St in 1978 courtesy of my first paypacket from the Dept of Justice. Nostalgia! Either way I thought that Buntús Cainte might just come in handy – again – given the news. The demise of Irish as a living language had just been announced on the web and people were wondering what could be done about it. Revive Buntus Cainte?
It's not often that you browse a story and see the same headline repeated across all platforms. The breaking news was that the "Decline of Irish as spoken language was 'worse than previously thought.'" The Hibernian Brotherhood blog bucked the trend by boldly declaring "Ireland for the Irish" but really toed the line and posted a link to the a story about the "Decline of Irish as spoken language 'worse than previously thought."
The story was as brief as it was predictable. The Irish language is in decline. The "shocking" news was contained in a study commissioned by Údarás na Gaeltachta, the organisation tasked with the economic, social, and cultural development of districts where Irish is spoken more than English, that is Gaeltachts. The study showed that by 67% or more of the population spoke Irish on a daily basis in just 21 of the 155 electoral divisions in the Gaeltacht. Within 10 years all 155 divisions will have dropped below the 67% threshold of a "living language."
The reaction was as muted as it was predictable. "The end is nigh. Irish is on last legs as living language" wrote Donal Nolan in the Kerryman while the national version of the Kerryman, the Irish Independent, warned that by 2025 the Irish language that "will not be used as the primary dialect anywhere in the country" in a piece written by Daniel MacDonald.
Dialect is an interesting choice of wording. The difference between Gaeltacht Irish and School Irish — its poor half-cousin in the towns – has been narrowing for years. Anyone who has worked in the Gaeltachts will have seen the relentless progress of English and despaired of the ability of Irish to handle the linguistic demands made by modern globalised communications and social media in particular. "Fócasáil an ceamara, lad" sums up the "spotty" language of that developed in the space between the Gaeltacht, the land of the Gael, and the Galltacht, the land of the foreigners where the townies and other non-native speakers live.
The Irish village of Ballymaclinton epitomised the Galltacht and the creeping Anglicisation of Irish society that was denounced by Douglas Hyde in a speech delivered to Irish National Literary Society in Dublin, on 25 November 1892. The Gaeltachts were established by the Free State as a bulwark against, and a cure for Anglicisation. All the resources of the state were devoted to the reversal of Anglicisation and the revival of the Irish language. The Gaeltachtachtaí or Gaeltachts were culturally and, to a lesser extent, economically advantaged (the deontas) in order to advance the 'Irish Ireland' project. The rest of us were schooled in compulsory Irish and sent to the Gaeltacht during the summer to learn the real thing. Now that the majority people living in 134 out of the 155 areas currently defined as Gaeltacht districts have given up on Irish, what happens?
More De-Anglicisation? More Resources? More Irish in Schools? More "Spotty" Irish in the media? I heard recently that parents on an island that had always been a stronghold of Irish were speaking English at home and were depending on teachers to teach Irish to their children. The study by published by Údarás na Gaeltachta confirms that but there is worse to come. It follows on other surveys that confirm what 125 odd years of 'De-Anglicisation' has shown: you can't 'school' a living language. If in doubt have a listen to Buntús Cainte. If you haven't got a record player, don't worry. Its online. Just googaláil Buntús Cainte.
This entry was posted in Comment, Current Affairs on June 4, 2015 by ciaranwalshnoe.
The War of Independents, The Legacy of Jackie Healy Rae.
The War of the Independents, Jackie Healy Rae marches on parliament. Picture by Don MacMonagle, 2007.
Don Mac Monagles' classic photo of 'The Healy-Raes On The Move' was taken during the election campaign of 2007. Jackie Healy-Rae flanked by his sons Danny and Michael (who 'inherited' the seat from his father) march through the streets of Killarney with 'pikemen' brandishing flaming torches. It was one of 10 photographs that Don Selected for a feature I did in the Irish Independent (27 July 2013 WEEKEND Magazine) on 100 years of photojournalism by the MacMonagle family.
Don has documented the Healy-Raes since the 1970s. "I would consider myself non-political but I am fascinated by the Healy-Raes," says Don. He got a tip that 'Jackie' was planning an old style rally to make an impact in the final week of the election. The picture went viral and a pundit reckoned that it would get Healy-Rae re-elected. It did.
Like Healy Rae, Fox and Blaney were of the Fianna Fáil gene pool. Gildea was a single-issue candidate and didn't last long in national politics. As for Fox, her father whose seat she 'inherited' was a member of Fianna Fáil before he went independent. Harry Blaney got his brother's seat (briefly occupied by Cecilia Keaveny) who had in turn gotten it from his father. In fact the Blaney 'dynasty' ran from 1927 to 2002. It started with Neal Blaney whose son Neil was expelled from Fianna Fáil in 1972. His other son Harry took Neil's seat after his death in 1995. Confused? Well, there's more. Niall Blaney, Harry's son (I think) took the seat in 2002, rejoined Fianna Fáil in 2006 and resigned the seat in 2011. The seat was then taken by Sinn Féin.
The Healy Rae phenomenon may be more recent but it is as complex and dynastic as the 'Donegal Mafia' (as the Blaney's political organisation was called). That's only part of the point. The really interesting point is the battle between the margins and the centre in Irish politics. The increasing centralisation of the mainstream parties forced the likes of Healy Rae to go independent. When the independents were lucky enough to hold the balance of power they screwed the parties for all they could get in order to consolidate their positions in their constituencies, and lucrative positions they are too. In 2011 journalist Ken Foxe (Irish Daily Mail) calculated that the Healy Raes had earned €8m over 14 years 'in salaries, expenses and contracts from the public purse.' That is a side issue and, as Jackie Healy Rae pointed out, it was the system.
From Irish Election Literature
What is more interesting is the way the Healy Raes turned the institutionalised clientilism of the big parties into a very localised power base – and turned the entire system on its head in the process. As a young civil servant I was fascinated by the fact that government ministers were provided with elaborate constituency offices within government departments at taxpayers expense, a massive advantage at election time. I learned very quickly that getting around fines, housing lists, planning, education grants and jobs in state agencies mattered more to politicians than policies. As a civil servant I worked under the best/worst of the clientilist politicians of the time – Gerard Collins (FF) Jim Mitchell (FG) and Sean Doherty (FF) – although I did refuse a transfer to Doherty's constituency office on ethical grounds. It was an interesting encounter and as well that I decided to attend NCAD on a full time basis shortly afterwards.
The nature of clientism was summed up by anthropologist Lee Komito in 1984 (The Economic and Social Review, April, 1984). 'The political broker who intervenes on behalf of constituents to help them obtain government benefits and the client who rewards the politician with his vote has become an acceptable, and even fashionable, model of Irish political life.' Healy Rae's election in 1997 showed just how well that model could work for constituents in a tight Dáil and, very soon, every constituency wanted the same! The assault by independents on the mainstream parties had begun.
from Journal.ie
30 years on it seems like the independents and others (32%) now stand in the way of any viable coalition. Fine Gael (19%) has become the incredible shrinking party and Labour (6%) has compromised itself out of existence. It even looks like Fianna Fáil (21%) and Sinn Féin (22%) couldn't form a government (even if they wanted to) without the support of independents. It's not all Jackie Healy Rae's fault. He got lucky but the real lesson of his role in Irish parliamentary politics is that clientilist politics have wrecked a system and the rise of the independent has been driven as much by the mainstream political parties inability to take reform seriously. Political parties how are you, it's every man for himself and Jackie Healy Rae wrote the manual.
This entry was posted in Comment, Current Affairs, Journalism and tagged Ciarán Walsh, Clientilism, County Kerry, cronyism, Don Mac Monagle, Donegal mafia, Independents, Jackie Healy Rae, Ken Foxe, Lee Komito, Photography, political dynasty, The Economic and Social Review, www.curator.ie on December 9, 2014 by ciaranwalshnoe.


Volkswagen's new factory mural created by Almap BBDO + Lightfarm is so so large it almost didn't fit in this post! The mural is 530′ wide and the original file is 100.000 pixels wide or 30′ at 300 DPI  The models and cars were clicked by Lightfarm director Milton Menezes with the 100MP Phase One. The concept car and the scenery was entirely developed in CGI by Lightfarm's crew.


To celebrate Runeberg* enjoy Runeberg Cakes (Runebergin tortut). Recipe adapted by Kirsti Langbein, Finnish Translator and Interpreter (contact info), from various sources. The Runeberg Cakes are easy to make, and they go perfectly with tea or coffee. Runeberg apparently had them for breakfast after a night out.
* Johan Ludvig Runeberg, one of Finland�s greatest men, was known throughout Scandinavia as a poet, teacher & statesman. The ideals portrayed by Runeberg, to a great extent, formed the foundation for this organization, which bears his name.
Beat 3 first ingredients well, add yogurt and beat well. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to the first mixture. Divide into 8 muffin tins. Bake at 400 f for 18-20 min. Put a dollop of raspberry jam in the middle of each. Let cool. Mix 1 dl of powdered sugar with a teaspoon or two of water to make a paste. Decorate the cakes with the paste by forming a ring around the raspberry jam.
Vatkaa margariini, oljy, sokeri ja muna vaahdoksi monitoimikoneessa tai sahkovatkaimella. Lisaa jugurtti ja vatkaa hyvin. Sekoita kaikki kuivat aineet keskenaan ja lisaa seos rasvaseokseen. Sekoita hellavaroin. Jaa 8 muffinssivuokaan. Paista 400 F:ssa 18-20 min. Pane vadelmahillonokare jokaisen keskelle. Anna jaahtya. Sekoita 1 dl puuterisokeria ja noin 1-2 tl vetta tahnaksi. Koristele renkaalla hillon ympari.


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Chicken back importers call for fairer regime
... want ministry to disclose, justify quota restrictions
Published:Friday | April 1, 2022 | 12:08 AMJudana Murphy/Gleaner Writer
Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr.
Local importers are calling on the agriculture ministry to increase transparency in the importation of chicken back and chicken neck.
CJ's Export, Import and Manufacturing Company Limited, a Westmoreland-based family business, has not sold chicken back for more than five years.
"We were on the list of importers for a number of years, and all of a sudden, we just got cut off. I made contact with the Ministry of Agriculture on several occasions, but to no avail," said manager Kevin James.
He told The Gleaner that he continued to make applications for a year, all of which were left with a pending status.
The Integrity Commission had criticised the ministry for giving preferential treatment to applicants on the basis of prior importation history and suggested that the probity of the award process was compromised and hindered competition.
In a December 2020 report, the commission recommended that the ministry stop the issuance of import permits under current arrangements.
Jamaica imports around US$25 million worth of chicken back and chicken neck each year.
In an advertisement earlier this week, the ministry said that for the period April 1 to 8, registered entities will be able to make applications under a "revised regime".
When questioned about the new regime, Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr said that the ministry was in consultation with stakeholders and that meetings were ongoing.
James told The Gleaner that he is contemplating whether to apply for a licence this time around.
The Integrity Commission report showed that between 2006 and 2013, CJ's – formerly registered as International Meat Traders – imported 45 containers of chicken back. No products were imported for three of the eight years.
Over the said period, three companies imported in excess of 400 containers of chicken products each, and seven of 116 importers brought in 46 per cent of all the chicken neck and chicken back.
"Chicken back is not an extremely profitable product, but it sells quickly. The competition that would've been there is significantly reduced when the majority of goods are being imported by a small set of importers," he explained.
James said had chicken back been the primary income-earner of the family business, which has been in operation for more than two decades, it would have ceased operation.
Another chicken back importer, who asked not to be named for fear of being victimised, called on the agriculture ministry to make import allocation lists public.
"We are still in the dark about the basis on which the allocations are made. We need some clarity, and the best way to make the process fair is to publish the amount each company gets so that it can be scrutinised. We just get an email saying: '[Name of company redacted] is authorised to apply for two containers'. We are not aware of who gets 30 or 20 and on what basis they were approved for so much," the importer said.
He intends to make an application for an import licence when the portal opens on April 1 but is not convinced that the "revised regime" will be any fairer.
The importer, who has also been in the business for decades, said he is allotted three or four containers per issuance but has not received any in the last six months.
He explained that giving preferential treatment to importers is at the expense of operators who have built their business largely on the sale of chicken back, which is consumed in huge volumes among Jamaica's poorest households.
"Let's say I used to get eight containers and they cut me down to one. I already have a market for eight, so I am forced to buy from the connected parties at very little profit," he lamented.
Meanwhile, the import officer at a north coast-based establishment told The Gleaner that she is taking a wait-and-see approach towards the revised regime.
"They always say that the process is fair, but you really don't know what the next business is getting, if they get 10 or 100. Sometimes you just see the market flooded and you don't get any," she explained, adding that they are generally unsure of how much chicken products they will be allowed to import when they apply.
"People tend to be a little hush-hush about how many they get. So we really didn't know until that report was published. Most times I get two containers, and it's not necessarily every month. It's maybe once every three months," the import officer added.
In the commission's report, some importers were also accused of blending in leg quarters among shipments of chicken back and neck to escape combined tariffs for premium parts that reportedly amount to as much as 240 per cent.
Charles Jr said the ministry continues to monitor the poultry sector and encourages that reports of illicit mixing be made to the ministry swiftly.
Earlier this year, the agriculture minister proposed a suspension of the common external tariff (CET) as well as stamp duties on imported leg quarters.
Such a move would slash the price of leg quarters by more than half – from $360 per pound to $160 per pound – making chicken meat more affordable.
"The ministry continues to monitor and evaluate the situation and will act accordingly to ensure that the best options is pursued that will redound to the benefit of all stakeholders," he said in response to questions about a projected timeline for implementation.
The CET has to be ratified by CARICOM, but the minister said that the process is yet to be started. However, the ministry is in dialogue with the finance ministry to examine the possible economic implications.
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ADVISORY - CN to report fourth-quarter and year-end 2016 financial and operating results on Jan. 24, 2017 Français
Jan 05, 2017, 09:00 ET
MONTREAL, Jan. 5, 2017 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) will issue its fourth-quarter and year-end 2016 financial and operating results on Jan. 24, 2017, at 4.01 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).
CN's senior officers will review the results and the railway's outlook in a webcast/conference call starting at 4.30 p.m. ET Jan. 24. Luc Jobin, CN president and chief executive officer, will lead the call.
Parties wishing to participate in or listen to the fourth-quarter and year-end 2016 presentation and question-and-answer period by telephone should call 1-800-355-4959 or 416-641-6122 by 4.20 p.m. ET on Jan. 24.
CN will webcast the presentation live and furnish slides supporting the officers' remarks via the Investors section of its website, www.cn.ca/en/investors. The slides will be posted on the website after the close of markets on Jan. 24. A webcast replay will be available after the call ends.
CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries – serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit the Company's website at www.cn.ca.
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ADVISORY - CN to report fourth-quarter and year-end 2016 financial and operating results on Jan. 24, 2017


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Bush Tetras
Indie Basement: Best Reissues, Box Sets & Compilations of 2021
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This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new releases from Modern Nature (ex Ultimate Painting), Can, The Bush Tetras and µ-Ziq
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"He was an amazing drummer, one of the best, and a very dear friend," Bush Tetras' Cynthia Slay and Pat Place wrote. "We'll miss him daily." Dee Pop was 65.
The Bush Tetras releasing new Best Of box set (hear unreleased song "Cutting Floor")
The box set features remastered versions of Bush Tetras' best-known songs, including "Too Many Creeps" and "Things That Go Boom In The Night," as well as songs that were never released on vinyl, and three previously unreleased songs.
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The Ambedkar Hastshilp Vikas Yojana (AHVY) mainly targets the integrated development of the society and aimed to promote the handicrafts by creating the artisans who have the capability to manage things professionally. Now, they form a group with 242 women artisans which are administered and managed by the Mahila Bunkari Sahakari Samiti Limited. This community has run its production unit in order to develop the beautiful durries.
The AHVY project launched to gather the craft artisans via the self help groups and help them to improve their skills with the latest technological trend through the specific designs. They also guide the artisans on how to use the highest quality raw material and its designing equipments in order to add more value for the products and make it as a user-friendly. By creating the innovative designs and development of products, they can gain much profit even than before.
Moreover the AHVY is mainly concentrated on poor economic condition artisans and greatly support them to update their advanced skills based on technology. So, the AHVY project is conducted in rural areas and save the poor economic people by initiating this intervention. According to the latest survey, the AHVY is very useful and gaining popularity among artisans, especially who are in the most backward areas. It also creates more awareness for people who are physically challenged, minorities, handicapped and also the women who live down the poverty line.
However, the Ambedkar Hastshilp Vikas Yojana can create awareness to the handicraft arts to enhance the overall development. They also provide efficient training to the artisans who want to expose their talents in the market. However, these artisans can gain proper education and enough knowledge to sell their handicraft items in the market as well as obtaining the best results.


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            throw new IllegalStateException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
        } finally {
            try {
                objectStream.close();
                byteStream.close();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
            }
        }
    }
}

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