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                                    Joshua Munoz on July 16, 2015

Top 10 Destinations

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                                    Ronald George on July 13, 2015

Follow Your Dreams

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                                    Joshua Munoz on July 6, 2015

Travel & Work

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                                    Denise Watson on June 21, 2015

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                                    Julia Cole on June 16, 2015

Black & White

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                                    Sara Holland on June 1, 2015

Exploring the Alps

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Located in the giant tourist trap that is the Black Hills of South Dakota, Presidents Park is on my list of heartbreaks. I only got to stand outside the gates and see this epic bust of Lincoln. Inside? A giant bust of every president in the midst of a pastoral park. I gots to get back there.
Crazy Horse Monument is almost inconceivably big. This is a rendering of what the final sculpture is supposed to look like.
Here is the monument from a distance–you have to pay extra to get up close but we opted not to (I don't even remember why–I think we were in a hurry). At any rate, to give you some idea how big this thing is there is a tiny tractor at the base of the sculpture, as you can see below.
Cropped to see some detail. Pretty spectacular!
I always wanted to visit Mount Rushmore. And I always figured I'd be disappointed or underwhelmed but when I finally saw it–glimpsing it the evening I arrived at Keystone–I thought it was awesome. I got weirdly excited and felt kind of emotional.
It's a pretty spectacular sight and it's an incredible tribute to some of the great leaders of the past. It's beautifully executed and majestic. I would go back–also because I never made it to the Reptile Park, which was a bummer!
While this is a weak example, the I-90, the highway that cuts across South Dakota is littered with promotional signs for Wall Drug. A drug store tourist trap that is a must-see in South Dakota–if only to answer the mysterious call of the dozens of billboards that boast all manner of exotic treasures at the legendary Wall Drug.
An 80-foot dinosaur greets you in Wall, South Dakota, along the highway. If you head into town you see the infamous store.
I don't want to ruin the Wall Drug experience for anyone! So only a couple of pics of the inside. It's a wacky labyrinth of mini shops offering everything from jackalopes to cowboy hats and everything in between.
One of the most unusual–and quiet (and oddly empty) spots is the traveler's chapel. Just a quiet respite in the midst of a cacophony of tourist trappings. Pretty fabulous. Worth the minor detour. And you'll be thirsty by then anyway!
You can see where the horns used to be on this Jackalope but the saddle is still in place. Awesome photo op in Mitchell, South Dakota.
There's nothing quite like the world famous Mitchell Corn Palace! It's worth the stop on any road trip through South Dakota.
The outside is filled with corncob art that is completely rebuilt on an annual basis.
As you an see it wraps around the building. Each panel is made entirely of corncobs.
Inside, there is quite the tourist trap, and it features a roaming cob!
There are more panels of corncob art on the inside.
Here's an overview of the interior! Quite the mega-mart of corncob-themed supplies.
Before reaching the fabled Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, we stumbled on the motel. Wish we had stayed here!
A giant long-horned steer sits on the side of I-90 somewhere in South Dakota.
This was worth pulling off the side of the road for. We had lunch nearby and there is a teeny, tiny gift shop located to the left of the giant.
I used to drove along Lahser in suburban Detroit to avoid the highways, and I'd always spy this giant penguin through the trees. It was hard to see in summer. But in winter? You could get a closer look.
So I zoomed in on him.
No idea why he's there or what he is up to. But I like him.


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ENMARES was founded in 2007 as a wide-range turnkey engineering solutions service supplier. The complete scope of our project implementation process; which covers design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, ILS (Integrated Logistics Support) and after sales support, became ENMARES' distinguishing power in many aviation and defence projects for years.
Modern Machine was established in 1990. The owner's background in Mechanical and Mining Engineering combined with his entrepreneurial approach to business has made Modern Machine Corporation a first rate CNC Milling, fabrication, and welding shop. Modern Machine is an approved Boeing Tooling & GSE supplier.
Based in Toulon – France, TMH-tools is one of the world's leader in the field of maintenance tooling and Ground Support Equipment. As a subsidiary of TECHMAN-HEAD Group, we offer a large choice of solutions for the ground maintenance of your aircraft.
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Swype Keyboard revolutionized the way we type in touch screen phones. This virtual keyboard allowed us to slide our fingers across characters on an on-screen keyboard to bring out the desired words. It used a blend of artificial intelligence and an algorithm that allowed users to type correctly most of the time.
Swype keyboard costs only $0.99 at the Play Store. This keyboard was also the reason for the development of other keyboards with the same functionality. While it is a known fact that Swiftkey Keyboard or Google Keyboard are the next best things to Swype, know that there exists other alternatives.
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There are also several other features that are more common in PCs like cut/copy and paste, undo/redo, home/end keys, arrow or cursor keys and the select all option. If you miss these functions or keys, you will love this app. This keyboard supports more than 70 languages and text input methods. You also get text prediction, and the option to switch between AZERTY/QWERTY and other international input methods.
This app is not entirely free as it provides us with a trial phase of 14 days. After that the unique features that it provides will be disabled and it will convert to a normal keyboard. All the interesting features like text swiping, next word prediction, auto correction and changing of keyboard size are disabled. But you still get to keep those cursor keys and Emojis. After this, you get the option to unlock all the features with ai.type Keyboard Plus for a price that is currently marked at $4.36.
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Drummers for Events, Corporate Entertainment and Festivals
November recap!
The first weekend of November was kind of momentous for Fogo Azul NYC because that was New York City Marathon weekend. On Friday, November 3rd, Fogo Azul had the distinct pleasure and honor of ushering the Brazilian contingent of Marathon participants in the Parade of Nations pre-show at the TCS New York Marathon Opening Ceremony in Central Park. It is so exciting and encouraging that Fogo Azul is earning recognition within the Brazilian samba-reggae drum community in New York City/ At their invitations, we have kicked off the months of September and November "representing" in some of their most special events.
The weather in the Big Apple was mild on November 3rd. The air on the West side of Central Park, near 69th Street, was electric with that exciting buzz that is unique to, and always generated when musicians and athletes from around the world gather together to celebrate. As the parade participants were arranged alphabetically by country, we were lucky to be near the front. The short parade route was lined with cheering spectators packed on bleachers. As we queued up, we were surrounded by hundreds of curious and expectant runners and entertainers. In between meeting and greeting we watched the huge Jumbotron near the grandstand beyond us, and listened as each country was introduced over a powerful public address system.
Minutes before we got the signal to start playing, a petite sprite dressed in a glittery blue and yellow unitard and a huge blue, yellow and green afro danced and bopped around us stopping to hand out tiny green and yellow flip-flop key chain mementos. A kind, low-keyed Canadian representative followed, offering tiny Canadian flag lapel pins as souvenirs of the moment as well. We were good on the swag front!
Madame Fire Chief called us to attention with her drum
and we stepped to our samba-reggae beats accompanied by our Brazilian sprite, and our own mini Fogette in training, Su-Su. With her irrepressible enthusiasm, Chief engaged the crowd with her characteristic high energy playfulness and comic dancing. To add to the excitement and activity of this extraordinary event, to our great surprise, we realized we were being filmed by NYC's WABC-TV Channel 7! And not just for a few seconds. No! While the commentators seemed particularly taken by our all-women composition and the blue flame decals that wrap around our drums, for several minutes, ground and aerial film footage of us doing our thing was televised live! To see what I mean, click on this link, http://abc7ny.com/sports/opening-ceremony-kicks-off-tcs-new-york-city-marathon-weekend/2600827/, and, if you'd like, fast forward to 1:53. Thank you, WABC-TV Channel 7!!!
By the time the parade concluded the sun had set
The dark sky was the perfect backdrop for the impressive and celebratory fireworks display that stopped many of us in our tracks and caused us, awestruck spectators, to respond in a chorus of excited oooos and ahhhhhs. Although the fireworks marked the official conclusion of the opening ceremony, a group of Bhangra drummers and dancers kept the party going. And slowly, like metal shavings drawn to a magnet, one Fogo drummer and then another inched closer to the circle of musicians and swirling dancers all dressed in vibrant jewel color silks. Timidly at first, a surdo played along with the Bhangra base line, and then another, and then several of us riffed on our samba-reggae patterns joining in what seemed to be a friendly dialogue between the two camps of drummers. It was electric! Such are, I believe, the connections of spirit that are bridged by the magic of music.
Later, as the last of us returned to our white, green room tent to pack up our drums and gather our belongings, I realized that Fogo Azul and the Bhangra band (I would learn is associated with NYC Bhangra) had shared the same space. Having overheard one of my drum sisters wonder if, given the volume of our drums, which can easily overpower most instruments, our Bhangra brothers and sisters may have perceived our engagement as rude or imposing, I tapped one of the musicians on the shoulder to ask. What a relief to have the kind drummer inform me that that style of engagement was welcomed and typically, such dialogues became friendly duels in which each group tries to outplay the other drummers and dancers in volume and speed. That was my great factoid for the night! It is my hope that sometime in the not too distant future Fogo Azul will have a similar opportunity to drum dialogue across cultures—it was so edifying and such a vibe raiser!
Two days later…
Before the 9:00 am hour, we positioned ourselves in front of the gas station near the foot of the Verrazano Bridge, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood that has come to expect to see us there to help welcome the courageous and determined Marathon racers to their beloved borough of Brooklyn. For several hours we drummed up extra energy that, hopefully, boosted the courageous runners, of a diversity of physical abilities, along the next twenty-some miles of the race. Most memorable were the runners who possessed the grace and playfulness to smile, nod, wave or even dance their way past us. Again, beautiful manifestations of the healing and energizing power of drum warmed up a few endorphins, triggered some smiles and raised the level of human connection between the runners, the spectators and ourselves.
Just as Madame Fire Chief predicted, based on previous experience, runners body temperatures would have risen enough while crossing that bridge that they would begin shedding layers as they passed us or close by. And sure enough, by the time we'd called it a Marathon gig, and began to make our way to UNO's Pizza, where our generous leader treated us to a spirited lunch and celebration of our assistant director's birthday, we found, scattered along the route, long-sleeved tees, gloves and hoodies and other abandoned Marathon accoutrement—there for the taking by pedestrians and charity workers alike.
Later in the month
Under the direction of our assistant conductor, Dany, Fogo Azul gathered on the grounds of City Hall to join those participating in the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. We had been invited to lead attendees in a short march around City Hall Fountain. While we waited for our cue to begin, our incredibly thoughtful Fogo Azul Husband/security guard/band videographer/promoter, David, handed out yellow flowers for our drums and event t-shirts which, many of us wrapped around our necks for warmth, as some of us weren't prepared for the chilly wind that didn't seem to let up.
I wondered how we would temper our samba reggae drum music for such a somber occasion. But, I eventually realized that we were marching not only to commemorate the victims but to bring attention to the need for city government to improve the safety of our streets for pedestrians and cyclists. Under Dany's conducting we played a slow, thoughtful samba reggae clave with which, I think, we successfully communicated both respect for the lives unnecessarily lost, and the outrage of the survivors, pedestrians and cyclists who work so hard to raise awareness for the need for new traffic regulations designed to protect pedestrians and cyclists alike. I am impressed that, under the sensitive guidance of both Stacy and Dany, Fogo Azul continues to expand and adapt its repertoire to an ever growing diversity of occasions.
We brought November to a close.
Not with our drums but with a wonderful culinary and gastronomic event. Yup! At the suggestion of our surdo sister Catalina, we agreed to celebrate Thanksgiving with our very own Fogogiving potluck. Thanks to the generosity of our drum builder (Taryn) and her partner, they transformed their DUMBO loft into a family friendly Fogo Azul dining extravaganza, complete with white linen table cloths and the most delicious, mouthwatering, tender, moist turkey I have ever eaten, expertly carved by Patti, a surdo and emerging dobra sister. I still salivate when I think of that turkey!
We had dips and side dishes a-plenty (including my own Grand Marnier-spiked cranberry relish), a "Puerto Rican lasagna", greens, salads, and at least four different desserts. Danuza's pineapple filled, layer cake with Fogo blue coconut frosting was incredibly moist; Erica's OMG, unbelievably rich key lime filling was made with the most flavorful dairy products—sour cream, heavy cream and butter; and rice pudding was also delectable. And again, our drum builder surprised us with yet another talent we had not be aware of—baker! In addition to cooking the most delectable, did I already mention, melt-in-you-mouth turkey? Taryn baked a pumpkin pie with an elaborate crust featuring individually handmade, egg wash glazed, beautifully browned maple leaves that would have been the envy of Martha Stewart! Truly worthy of a food porn photo! I am embarrassed to say that we were so busy enjoying the food and company that no one thought to save a plate for our dear Madame Fire Chief whose arrival, from the northern most reaches of the state, had been delayed. Although side dish and dessert offerings remained, a vulture could not have found a morsel to pick from that bit of remaining turkey carcass. I'm guessing it was the absence of that turkey in the stomach that allowed the powerful homemade Puerto Rican alcohol based beverage, Coquito, of which several bottles were brought, which, word has it, Madame Fire Chief imbibed liberally, to result in an unanticipated period of recovery that prevented Madame from attending our rehearsal the next day! All to say, our first Fogogiving was indeed a cornucopia that satisfied both the stomach and soul. We wined and dined and danced, and we gave thanks for Stacy and Fogo Azul and the bounty of food and friendship generated by her generous and allowing leadership and love of samba-reggae.
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This is a 75 piece vintage set of Holmes & Edwards Danish Princess Silverplate Flatware—- It is a beautiful pattern. There are 12—- 6 piece placesetting (minus 1 teaspoon) plus 4 serving pieces. There are—12 knives—12 forks–12 salad or dessert forks—-12 round soup spoons—23 teaspoons. 1 slotted serving spoon—–1 serving spoon—1 sugar spoon and 1 butter knife. This set has been in the family since it was received new as a gift in 1957—it has been very gently used– there is minor scratching but no plate loss that I see—it is a wonderful set and has been lovingly cared for Our home is smoke and pet free and it has been kept in a drawer lined and separated with tarnish proof cloth All pieces except the knives are stamped Holmes & Edwards inlaid I S deepsilver (which means extra silver is applied to the areas that are most handled). The item "Danish Princess Holmes & Edwards 75 Pc Vtg. Silver Plate Service for 12+ Servers" is in sale since Friday, July 21, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Flatware & Silverware". The seller is "70arblatt" and is located in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.
Two are 5 3/4 inches and the remainder are 5 1/4. The item "Vintage Eleven Raimond Silver Plate Goblets" is in sale since Tuesday, November 29, 2016. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Other Antique Silverplate". The seller is "richardrandomtreasure" and is located in Roseburg, Oregon. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Vintage Silver Plate and Crystal Bucket. Please scroll down for photographs below. A stylish drinks bucket in very heavy cut glass with a simple silver plated mount with swing handle. Neat size and suitable for bottles or ice. Diameter 16.5 cms. Please note that this item is not new and will show moderate signs of wear commensurate with age. Reflections in the photograph may detract from the true representation of this item. Our shop address is waxantiques, 49 Camden Passage, Islington, London N1 8EA. Saturday, Wednesday or by appointment. Please make all cheques payable to "Wax Antiques". Posting days are Wednesday and Friday. Posting and packing for. North America, Australia and Japan: FREE. Rest of the world: Price on request. The item "Vintage Silver Plate and Crystal Bucket 1950 stock id 7635″ is in sale since Saturday, July 29, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silver Plate\Other Silver Plate". The seller is "waxantiques" and is located in London. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.
Tiffany & Co Egg Coddler. Measures – 9″H x 4 7/8″ D. Tiffany & Co silverplated egg warmer. Wonderful detail in the claw feet! This piece is in excellent condition. Free of dents, damage or plate wear and look barely ever used. Overall it's a lovely addition to any collection! The item "Vintage Antique Tiffany & Co Silver Plate Claw Foot Egg Warmer Coddler Dish F168″ is in sale since Tuesday, July 11, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Other Antique Silverplate". The seller is "parkavecellar" and is located in Maitland, Florida. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.
Vintage Gorham 100 Pc Lady Caroline Silver Plate Set in Naken 2 Drawer Chest. Beautiful 2 Drawer Naken Tarnish Proof Silverware Chest few nicks on the edges. Set includes 16 teaspoons, 12 soup spoons, 12 salad forks, 12 dinner forks, 12 hollow handle knives, 12 butter knives & 12 cocktail forks. Serving pieces are Pie server, small serving fork. Tongs, Large Casserole Spoon, ladle, butter knife, fork, 4 serving spoons & sugar spoon. Silver-plate shows wear but no damage. Even has small gift card dated Christmas 1937. Your satisfaction is important to us. The item "Vintage Gorham 100 Pc Lady Caroline Silver Plate Set in Naken 2 Drawer Chest" is in sale since Thursday, July 20, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Flatware & Silverware". The seller is "tmrrgm" and is located in Chiloquin, Oregon. This item can't be shipped, the buyer must pick up the item.
ASCO 1897 Vintage American Silverware/Flatware Lot – 32 Pieces. This set is silver-plated. Includes one ladle that has a slightly different pattern than the rest of the set, and is made by RC & Co. The rest of the lot is all American Silver. Please note that this set does NOT include the original box. From a smoke-free home! Please contact me with any questions, concerns or if you'd like any close-up photos of specific pieces. The item "ASCO 1897 Vintage American Silver Silverware Moselle Silverplate Lot 32 Pieces" is in sale since Tuesday, June 20, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Flatware & Silverware". The seller is "pixelpikachu" and is located in Ravenna, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.
17.75 tall when the arm structure is set in place. Pretty extraordinary for the price. The marks underneath don't mean anything to me. They have a great visual impact. They are also undamaged. The item "Antique Vintage Silver Plated 5 Lite Candelabra Pair" is in sale since Thursday, January 19, 2017. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Other Antique Silverplate". The seller is "truckerwoman48″ and is located in San Angelo, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States.


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In the past I've written about some of the consequences of alcohol consumption, and many of our readers have gotten very upset with what I've had to say. I want to address this right off the bat here and say there is absolutely no judgment within this article, and I'm not attempting to tell you what you should or should not be doing. I am merely speaking from my own experiences and sharing some insight that I have gained; I'm offering another perspective and potentially something useful for you to consider.
Alcohol consumption is something that is not only widely accepted in our society, but in many cases and social settings actually implied and expected. It is promoted heavily in the media, with countless ads depicting glamorous living, which always includes indulging in the finest liquor, wine, and beer. It sometimes seems in our society that the only way to have fun is to include alcohol in the equation. Just the mere fact that it is so heavily promoted through media and advertising in the first place is enough to make me skeptical, but there are many other reasons that led me to this conclusion.
In alchemy, alcohol is used to extract the soul essence of an entity. Hence its' use in extracting essences for essential oils, and the sterilization of medical instruments. By consuming alcohol into the body, it in effect extracts the very essence of the soul, allowing the body to be more susceptible to neighboring entities most of which are of low frequencies. (Why do you think we call certain alcoholic beverages "SPIRITS")? That is why people who consume excessive amounts of alcohol often black out, not remembering what happened. This happens when the good soul (we were sent here with) leaves because the living conditions are too polluted and too traumatic to tolerate. The good soul jettisons the body, staying connected on a tether, and a dark entity takes the body for a joy ride around the block, often in a hedonistic and self serving illogical rampage. Our bodies are cars for spirits. If one spirit leaves, another can take the car for a ride.
Essentially when someone goes dark after drinking alcohol or polluting themselves in many other ways, their body often becomes possessed by another entity.
This really hit home for me. As someone who used to drink alcohol in excess and not remember a thing that happened afterward, the idea that the soul actually steps out of the physicality during this time fully resonates and actually explains a lot of what went on without my knowledge or awareness. Waking up in the morning and not having a single clue what had happened was the worst feeling in the world, but was also all-too familiar for me. The things I had apparently chosen to do and situations I ended up in were absolutely not things that I, as me, the "good soul" in my body, would ever choose to do in a million years. I was faced with so much confusion and fear and it never really made sense to me. I always thought to myself, How could I have done this?
When I would drink, after a certain point I would not be able to stop. I can see now that it was likely at this point that a darker entity would take over my physicality and use my body as a vehicle to experience a hedonistic lifestyle for the evening, or however long it was. Now, to clarify, I know that this does not happen to everyone who drinks. For me, I think it was something that developed over time, but the instance of me blacking out, or in this case "stepping out" when I would drink, began happening at the age of 16, and continued on for about 10 years of my life. In some ways I think it was hard to accept responsibility for my actions because I had literally no memory whatsoever of what had happened. I would be left with a tremendous amount of guilt and shame, however, that stopped me from admitting to others and myself that it was in fact a problem in my life. Those closest to me would notice that I "wasn't there" while under the influence of alcohol, and people who weren't even aware of this concept would say this to me often.
Since having an incredibly healing journey with ayahuasca in November of last year, I no longer allow my body to be used as a vehicle for entities to use. In other words, I no longer consume alcohol at this time in my life. Now, why I chose to continue drinking despite what was happening while under the influence is a whole other story, and diving into the reasons behind what actually causes addiction in the first place is a really eye-opening and important conversation to have, but it is off-topic for the purpose of this article.
Consider putting yourself in a social setting with many new faces you haven't met before: Would you prefer that alcohol was a part of the equation or would you be completely fine without it? We often use alcohol as a crutch, to feel more comfortable and confident in who we are. But at what point are we actually becoming someone else, a person who doesn't even actually represent who we are in the first place?
If you drink alcohol, how often are you drinking? Do you find that you tend to drink as an escape? Are you able to have fun in social situations without alcohol? Do you drink alcohol in order to relax or relieve stress at the end of the day? After asking yourself these questions you may want to reconsider your relationship with alcohol. Challenging yourself to a month without any alcohol could be a really beneficial way for you to see what your life is like without it and to address what comes up in a healthier way. If you are feeling stressed, for example, some breathing exercises may help, or reassessing your schedule to fix what isn't working. Without the escape that alcohol gives us, we are then confronted with the issues in our lives and forced to actually fix them.
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What Causes Genetic Copy Number Variations?
A discussion with Lucas Argueso, PhD
"It is known that certain environmental exposures can accelerate the pace of mutation, and this is my main interest, discovering and characterizing agents ... that may speed up ... mutagenesis."
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Commentary in Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis: Contrasting mechanisms of de novo copy number mutagenesis suggest the existence of different classes of environmental copy number mutagens
"We now know that autism is strongly associated with mutations that are new to a family, also referred to as de novo mutations."
"Some CNVs have a peculiar feature in that nearly identical mutations can form independently in completely unrelated individuals."
"Those CNVs are then classified as recurrent.... There may be mutagens out there that trigger recurrent CNVs."
"Mutagenic forces are present in nature, however, excessive exposure to specific mutagenic agents (sunlight, smoke, etc.) does accelerate the pace of mutation."
"About 8% of autism cases are associated with a de novo CNV, not present in the parents. Most of the de novo CNVs associated with autism are classified as recurrent."
"I am not aware of anyone else who like us, is specifically looking for environmental mutagens that can increase recurrent CNVs, the main class of CNVs associated with autism."
Lucas Argueso, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Boettcher Investigator, Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, at Colorado State University. Dr. Argueso grew up in Brazil, and has a Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from Cornell University. His research interests include chromosomal rearrangements and phenotypic consequences of altered genome architecture; the effects of environmental exposure on copy number variation (CNV) and chromosome structure; and molecular mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair.
Cognizant of the literature demonstrating that novel copy number variations are playing a role in the etiology of a subset of autism cases, Dr. Argueso has been asking about the mechanisms and exposures that could possibly lie at the root of these genomic disruptions.
Interviewed by Jill Escher, December 2015
Tell me about your background, Dr. Argueso: how did you come to study mutagenesis? And how did your thinking drift to autism?
I have been interested in all mechanisms of genetic variation since very early in my career. I researched DNA base mutations as a graduate student and much larger chromosome structure mutations as a postdoc. Both types of mutations appear naturally at a basal rate in each new generation, in people and in all organisms—it is just part of being alive.
However, it is known that certain environmental exposures can accelerate the pace of mutation, and this is my main interest, discovering and characterizing agents present in the environment that may speed up the mutagenesis process.
We now know that autism is strongly associated with mutations that are new to a family, also referred to as de novo mutations. This means that the parents do not have the mutation, but their affected child is the first one in the family to have it. The first de novo mutations discovered in autism were changes in chromosome structure that lead to gene copy number variation, or CNVs. This happened around the mid 2000's, precisely when I was studying the fundamental biological mechanisms controlling this class of mutation in a yeast model cell system. The discovery of the important role of de novo CNVs in autism made me redirect my research to the question of whether environmental exposures could somehow cause CNVs, particularly those found in autistic children.
What are the different types of mutations seen in the germline?
Mutations are generally arranged in two major classes: Variations in isolated bases in the DNA sequence, or Single Nucleotide Polymorphims (SNPs); and structural variations (SVs) in chromosome structure. SNPs are very small, local changes in chromosomes, but they can be sufficient to alter or eliminate the function of a gene, thus conferring an altered trait and in some cases genetic disease. SVs are large changes in the structure of chromosomes and can alter the function of the genes in that region, sometimes many genes are affected by a single SV.
CNVs are one specific type of SV in which a large segment of a chromosome is either deleted or duplicated. When this happens the overall dosage of the genes in that region of the chromosome falls out of balance relative to the two copies that each gene typically is found in the general population. An individual carrying additional or fewer copies of a certain gene may have traits or disease consequences caused by this dosage imbalance.
What forms do CNVs take?
There are two major classes of CNVs: recurrent and non-recurrent CNVs. Mutations, both SNPs and SVs, are formed by accident and are typically randomly distributed in the genome. For this reason, most de novo mutations tend to be unique to the individual where they first appear and are non-recurrent.
Some CNVs however, have a peculiar feature in that nearly identical mutations can form independently in completely unrelated individuals. An autistic child from Germany and another autistic child from the US may be born with almost exactly the same autism-causing CNV, even though their parents and no one else in their families has that CNV. Those CNVs are then classified as recurrent because they can appear identically in independent families.
We and others believe that the differences in the two CNV classes suggest that the mechanisms of mutagenesis must also be quite different, and therefore there may be mutagens out there that trigger recurrent CNVs but do not trigger non-recurrent CNVs, and vice versa.
Are CNV's natural, or are they induced by mutagenic forces, or both?
Both. CNVs and all other types of mutations occur naturally because of mistakes that occur during the replication of the genome, or exposure to natural products that can damage the DNA. A low rate of new mutations in each generation is actually essential for evolution, and is the reason why organisms are able to successfully adapt to new environments. Mutagenic forces are present in nature, however, excessive exposure to specific mutagenic agents (sunlight, smoke, etc.) does accelerate the pace of mutation and can lead to negative effects, including cancer and genetic diseases in the subsequent generations.
Are there specific human phenotypes associated with CNVs?
Yes, many, and we've only started discovering them. There are many well characterized human genomic disorders such as a form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, Smith-Magenis, Potocki-Lupski, and CNVs associated with autism, such as duplications or deletions of the 16p11.2 region of human genome. Each of these and others have very distinct features, and each person carrying the CNVs may have different manifestations of the disorders.
However, CNVs are also associated with many human features that are not linked to disease. They simply help make healthy people and human populations different from each other. One of the most interesting examples is the variation in copy number of the gene that encodes the enzyme amylase, needed to digest starch. It turns out that populations from Asia where rice is a staple of the diet evolved many copies of this gene, while certain populations from Africa that have meat-rich diets have a lesser need for this enzyme and also have fewer copies of the same gene.
What percentage of autism cases appear to be associated with germline CNVs? Are these de novo mutations or inherited from the parents and earlier ancestors?
One recent comprehensive study estimated, taking into account many different studies, from different populations, that about 8% of autism cases are associated with a de novo CNV, not present in the parents. Most of the de novo CNVs associated with autism are classified as recurrent. It is also the case that some CNVs associated with autism are already present in one of the parents, but do not cause significant symptoms that would lead to a diagnosis. An interesting theory has been developed in recent years that proposes that in some cases the combined effect of two CNVs is needed to trigger stronger autism symptoms: one CNV that had already been present in the family, and another is a de novo CNV that is new to the affected child.
How predictive are CNVs of autism or other disorders?
It depends on the region of genome where the CNV is detected. CNVs in some regions have very strong effects and are highly predictive of a disease outcome, regardless of the composition of the rest of the genome, or genetic background.
In other cases the effect is weaker and not necessarily deterministic. Some of these CNVs can be asymptomatic in some individuals, or cause weak symptoms that do not reach the level that would prompt a firm diagnosis. In other individuals with a different genetic background the same CNV may have a stronger effect that does cause clear diagnosable symptoms.
Could human sperm be tested for CNV's?
Yes, but not without destroying it in the process. It is possible to extract DNA from a single sperm cell and use it for genetic tests, but then that sperm cell is no longer usable.
Interestingly, in the case of female reproductive cells, it is now possible to infer whether CNVs are present or not, using methods that preserve the viability of the egg cell for later in vitro fertilization and implantation. This procedure has actually been recently used and healthy, mutation free babies were born after the mother's eggs were harvested, screened for the absence of CNVs and other chromosome abnormalities, then fertilized with the father's sperm, implanted, and carried to full term gestation.
My ASD kids had microarrays performed but no CNVs were detected. And no other frank mutations. What else in their genomes should we be looking for?
There are a number of plausible possibilities. There could be epigenetic changes that do not change the sequence or structure of chromosomes, but that change the function of genes important to ASD. There also could be specific existing common variants already present in the parents that when combined, lead to ASD.
There could also be rare CNVs or base mutations that are not picked up by conventional clinical microarray tests, but that might be revealed by whole genome analyses. One of the challenges with many clinically available tests is that they are designed find the most frequent and best understood sources of genetic disorders. In the case of ASD, where multiple genetic causes exist and many of which are rare or even unique to a child, it is extremely difficult to design tests that can pick up every possibility. Also, epigenetic alterations and combinations of common variants are not routinely analyzed, leaving a number of possibilities not investigated.
Finally, there is also the possibility that no genetic or epigenetic mutation is present, and the symptoms may be derived from an exposure during embryonic development or early childhood that somehow perturbed the normal development without necessarily affecting the genome. Likely all of those scenarios may play larger or smaller roles in each case.
Are other researchers looking into the sources of de novo mutations seen in autism, or are you pretty much alone in this quest?
There are many colleagues looking at sources of de novo DNA base mutations in humans, leading to autism and all kinds of other genetic disorders. There are some, but fewer, of us looking at sources of de novo CNVs. Hopefully we are not alone, but within this smaller group, I am not aware of anyone else who like us, is specifically looking for environmental mutagens that can increase recurrent CNVs, the main class of CNVs associated with autism.
What are we learning about the mechanisms behind CNVs? Or any particular exposures that might precipate them?
It is still very early in this research. We do know that a particular cellular pathway, non-allelic homologous recombination, is how recurrent CNVs are formed. We are currently developing lab tests designed to identify mutagenic exposures that activate this pathway. We are planning to use these tests in a broad search of chemical compounds to find such recurrent CNV mutagens, and hopefully we will find some candidates in the next couple of years.
How can studying yeast as a model organism lead to discoveries about autism?
It turns out that model organisms like yeast, fruit flies, worms, or mice, are extremely useful tools to accelerate discoveries in problems directly relevant to human health. Many of the basic processes that govern the workings of a human cell are highly conserved in other organisms. Relatively simple model organisms like yeast are much more amenable to basic lab studies, which in turn illuminate paths for investigation in much more complicated human cells.
A great example of this is how the pathways that control the cell division cycle were first discovered and understood in the yeast model. Years later researchers learned that when the same cell cycle control pathways are perturbed in human cells, those cells give rise to cancerous tumors. It was research done in yeast that cleared the way to figure out some of the most important mechanisms of cancer formation in humans, and this work ended up earning yeast researchers the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
At the fundamental cellular level the mechanisms of CNV formation in yeast are very similar to the mechanisms of CNV formation in humans, so the yeast model offers a great way to help us learn the basics more quickly, and then translate those discoveries to humans, for example, to identify mutagens that can cause CNVs in yeast, and then protect humans from getting exposed to those compounds, therefore preventing CNVs that can cause autism.
This is fascinating and important information, Dr. Argueso. It's wonderful to see a mutagenesis researcher starting to connect the dots between the molecular histories of germ cells and pathogenesis in offspring. I am truly grateful for your work and inquiring mind.


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Automating the Detection of Landslides
As farmers in Nepal prepare for the benefits of monsoon season, Dalia Kirschbaum anticipates the dangers of those torrential rains—mainly, the loosening of earth on steep slopes that can lead to landslides. In this mountainous country, 60 to 80 percent of the annual precipitation falls during the monsoon (roughly June to August). That's when roughly 90 percent of Nepal's landslide fatalities also occur, according to a 2015 report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"We know a high number of landslides occur around this time, so documenting them is really important, especially to better characterize when these events happen and what impact they have," said Kirschbaum, a landslide expert at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Kirschbaum oversees a team of researchers designing an automated system to identify potential landslides that might otherwise go undetected and unreported. The computer program scans satellite imagery for signs that a landslide may have occurred recently.
The Sudden Landslide Identification Product (SLIP) combs through Earth imagery and analyzes consecutive images of the same location to spot changes in soil moisture, muddiness, and other surface features. The program also compares the hill slopes with topographic information derived from digital elevation models, such as those built from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emissions and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). By combining this information, SLIP can automatically pinpoint the locations of possible landslides each time a new, cloud-free land image is acquired.
The left and middle images above were acquired by the Landsat 8 satellite on September 15, 2013, and September 18, 2014—before and after the Jure landslide in Nepal on August 2, 2014. The image on the right shows that 2014 Landsat image processed with the new SLIP algorithm. The red areas show most of the traits of a landslide, while yellow areas exhibit a few of the proxy traits.
What the Goddard team cannot determine from images alone is when a landslide occurred. Landsat, for instance, takes 16 days before it passes over the same spot on Earth. To more precisely pin a date on each landslide, Kirschbaum and colleagues turn to rainfall measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The GPM core satellite measures rain and snow several times daily, allowing researchers to create maps of rain accumulation over 24-, 48-, and 72-hour periods for given areas of interest—a product they call Detecting Real-time Increased Precipitation, or DRIP. When a certain amount of rain has fallen in a region, an email can be sent to emergency responders and other interested parties.
"We're interested in rapidly and precisely identifying unreported landslides to better understand landslide triggering conditions," said Aakash Ahamed, who worked on the project at Goddard as part of the NASA DEVELOP program. "This information can improve maps that show which areas are susceptible to landslides, and it can promote responsible management."
Though still in the testing phase, the SLIP-DRIP software is open source and available to the public. Ahamed, Kirschbaum, and colleagues believe it could significantly improve landslide inventories, leading to better risk management. This information will ultimately be fed into NASA's Global Landslide Catalog—the first and only global database of rainfall-triggered landslides. The catalog is accessible to emergency response teams, researchers, and the public. To date, the catalog has only included landslides reported in news outlets, online journals, and disaster databases. SLIP-DRIP products will make that information more current and comprehensive.
"While the Global Landslide Catalog has already provided some really interesting insight into where and when landslides are occurring, being able to capture information from satellite-based sources provides a more robust way of figuring out the true frequency and impact landslides can have," said Kirschbaum.
SRTM


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Using the Network to Root Out "The Other"
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I'm participating in Fun-a-Day 2014, a daily art challenge through the month of January, committed to do a daily post here detailing some Big Art Idea or project that looms somewhere out in my future.
After recently rereading Michel Foucault's seminal and familiar essay "Panopticism" from Discipline and Punish which focuses on the centralization of power and surveillance, and reading Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker's "Nodes" in The Exploit: A Theory of Networks focusing on the decentralization of power I had some thoughts about control in a networked context.
We assume there is an iron hand behind the back, an attempt to control us in conventional ways that comes with our access to networks and corresponding loss of privacy. What if there is no controlling hand, just control over the networked protocols we use and a corresponding profit in information about us?
While we are familiar with (and familiar with resisting) centralized control, we have an intuition that old modes of control become outdated and ineffective in a decentralized and networked society. To be sure, imprisoning and torturing the body are still effective means to reach an individual, but not necessarily effective at stopping an idea, a movement, or destroying networked resistance. When people are loosely affiliated, connected over networks, and united by ideas and larger goals, it is much more difficult to exert control in the old usual totalitarian ways.
Or to quote Fred Hampton of the Oakland Black Panthers assassinated by the FBI and Chicago Police in 1968:
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.
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Fred Hampton is saying that centralized authority can imprison, torture, and assassinate individuals, but with their old ways of centralized control cannot contain networked and decentralized movements. And he's right, but we couldn't expect authority to stay ignorant forever. In the early oughts, a systemic crisis prompted agents of the state and capital to adapt and seriously address networked resistance.
It was refreshing to read Brian Holmes's 2007 essay The Revenge of the Concept: Artistic Exchanges, Networked Resistance , and strange to read something serious about the anti-globalization movement that didn't originate from the anarchist and radical left. It was also refreshing to read something about networked resistance that didn't slyly imply that those who engage in resistance against capitalism are, if not actually terrorists, inadvertently helping them. I have a lot of familiarity with the movement, having participated in regional protests and actions since 2002.
I appreciated that Holmes knew what of he wrote. This sounds obvious, but much of what is written about the global protest movement is partly or wholly inaccurate. Still after a decade and a half after the first WTO protests, for example, writers still refer to the Black Bloc as an organized group rather than the temporal tactic it is. Perhaps this is less of a surprise when we learn later in the article that the author himself was excitedly involved in the 1999 London J18 protest/street party.
Holmes is right that the systemic crisis allowed state actors to ramp up an overtly heavy-handed counter-resistance to the anti-globalization movement. If protesters hit on networked resistance, including decentralized leadership, flexible planning, and media opportunism, as a strategy to resist the carnival of capital marching inexorably forward, the agents of capital, while a little slow on the draw, were not unable to follow. Soon economic and leadership summits were turned into police states, and those who questioned the right of empire were branded as sympathetic to terrorists. The same-old tactics of networked resistance, summit hopping, we called it, was now a dead end.
Looking beyond the demise of the global protest movement, the people who seemed to learn the most lasting lessons were the agents of capital and their hired guns, that is: a heavy-handed focus on security is a more effective tool at controlling resistance in systemic crisis than a liberal (small L liberal) agenda. So that now, summit protesters, race rioters, radical queer activists, feminists who challenge the patriarchy, anarchists, animal rights protesters, all who interferes with the flow of capital, are branded terrorists.
In their 2007 piece "Nodes," Galloway and Thacker argue that in a decentralized and networked society, dominant forces have reorganized themselves to adjust to the difficulty of top-down control. They argue an authoritarian epistemological shift from hierarchy to networks. They also argue that protocols control the exchanges made over networks.
This matches our sneaking intuition (and something that Marshall McLuhan warned us about) that those who create and control the networks — no matter how benign and benevolent those agents seem — control the way that we use those networks. That is to say, we can't wholly discern the motives of those who provide "free" services such as Facebook and Google, but we are dimly aware they are vying for our souls.
Protocols are a technology to direct flows of information over decentralized networks. As Galloway and Thacker see it, protocols are made of complex relationships that emerge through autonomous interconnected agents, emerging through debate and negotiation. They are robust and flexible, inclusive, and universally applicable. If protocols control the exchange through the network, the big questions for me are:
Who gets to design the protocols?
Who gets to know the entire network?
What benefits derive from providing the protocols and the network?
Clearly, these are the people who win.
In the last ten years, we've seen a shift from centralized to decentralized control. Rather than the FBI's powerful G-Man, we see decentralized Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) working with local law enforcement. We see surveillance moving online as with the National Security Agency's global surveillance program which it reassuringly claims is only used to watch non-citizens and terrorist connections (without ever elaborating on who gets branded a terrorist in our current security-obsessed context).
Increasingly, we see the new networked forces collaborating with the old centralized control. Facebook has an entire page devoted to helping law enforcement, helpfully filed under "safety." In fact, the Law Enforcement Online Request System can be accessed with no more than an assurance that you are "a law enforcement agent who is authorized to gather evidence in connection with an official investigation."
The confirmation email one gets after submitting this page says:
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This is not an academic question. Do police routinely read your Facebook profile as part of their investigations? Yes, of course they do. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and online networks are a dream for police investigators. Where they used to have to go out and interview people, check records, walk the street, now they merely have to go online. Investigation from the convenience of their offices.
A few years ago, I took part in a demonstration and was arrested on seriously questionable legal grounds. I later requested a copy of the police report and was surprised to find that the police had gone beyond just the basic facts of my arrest. They has tracked down my personal Myspace profile in which I had some pretty cheeky anti-authoritarian hyperbole. It was taken wildly out of context and quoted in the report. "Subject says in his myspace profile that he is 'looking for someone to turn over and burn police cars with,'" a dumb comment that had been part of my online profile for many years. There was a printout of my entire myspace, facebook, and website. They passed all of this information on to my employer with a suggestion that they look into it.
While I wasn't arrested burning police cars, nor was there any suspicion along those lines (I was caught redhanded playing music), my employer took it seriously enough, especially coupled with a heads-up from the local police. The implication and insinuation that someone is involved in something nefarious can easily be made. If you are engaged in resistance of any sort — even artistic resistance — don't think for a minute that just because you are non-violent (and even law-abiding) doesn't mean you can't be charged with something.
Imagine what might be said about your online profiles. For instance, it is not hard to imagine this showing up in the usual exaggerated claims of an indictment: "Subject follows on Twitter 'Action for Animals.' This is a group with connections to the Animal Liberation Front, whose members have been convicted of arson and long watched by the FBI as a serious potential domestic terrorist threat." Bullshit and circumstantial connections notwithstanding, the implication is there for a prosecutor to use and with which the media can make hay.
While I don't imagine that local law enforcement has the time or resources to randomly surf online sites in order to make connections, they do investigate people who've come to their attention. It is certainly not beyond the means of the feds or the many JTTFs to map out networks of connections and involvement. Online profiles and blogs have definitely been used against people in criminal cases.
To be clear, it isn't the usual individual privacy concerns that I am highlighting here. I am not wholly concerned with the fact that Facebook and therefore the feds know that I had sushi last night or even that I shared an article about police abuse at DUI Checkpoints from CopBlock. The interesting concern is about our aggregate network, the connections we share, not just one of us, not just me or you personally, but all of us. If you control — or better! provide — the network, you know who knows who and what they talk about.
This brings up one of the most empty assurances I've heard in the last decade. When it was first revealed that the US government engaged in warrantless surveillance of phone networks in the early 2000s, they assured us that there was nothing to worry about because without a warrant, they only viewed the "envelope information." This is also called a pen register tap or a tap-and-trace. That is, the government didn't listen in on your calls or read your texts, they only tracked who and when you called or texted. Later, it was revealed that the NSA records envelope information for domestic email as well. But relief that they are not listening to our calls misses the point of what they do get: the entire network topology, the configuration of the global communication network, the Who Knows Who of the Information Age.
All of this brings up some questions for me. How do we bring forward the benefits (or risks) of knowing the topology of a network? How do we feel that some institutions know everything about all of us, including who we know? How do they use that information? What does resistance to control look like in a networked society in which the tools and protocols we use are out of our control?
I had an idea to create software that would playfully (but seriously) extract your social media footprint from public network sources, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and so on. It could create your personal social network topology, extracting trends and keywords, noting possible threats and concerns and implications. I think it would be both technically challenging and conceptually easy.
However, creating such a beast might be a dangerous game to play, like experimenting with a deadly and virulent virus. Precisely the kind of thing that I could imagine accidentally moving from an art context ("Whoa, looks what terrible thing is possible!") to a law enforcement context ("The People of the United States vs. You"). A self-destruct mechanism would almost certainly be needed in such a project.
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Reply Jeremiah Jan 6,2014 2:47 pm
Not having a social media account for reasons of avoiding this sort of judicial persecution is also turning into a reason for suspicion.
It's soul boggling and stupid… I want to run away.
Reply nick Jan 9,2014 12:01 am
have you seen this? https://immersion.media.mit.edu/ i too, once thought of writing a similar program. i'm not convinced it's dangerous only because i'm sure this work has been happening behind closed doors for years. but it is illuminating when hackers/artists show what's possible.
it's scary how well it works.
digging the fun-a-day blog!
Reply Wes Modes Apr 14,2014 8:42 am
Nick, immersion was fun to play with. It reminded me a bit of FOMOphobia my fall piece in that it made the normally private world of email visible.


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Александр Яковлевич Салихов (19.02.1895 — 02.10.1984) — председатель колхоза «Новый путь» Кимовского района Московская область. Герой Социалистического Труда (07.04.1949).

Биография
Родился 19 февраля 1895 года в городе Москва. Русский.

В 1929 году из шести бедняцких хозяйств организовал колхоз «Новый путь» Михайловского (с 1930 года – Кимовского) района Московской (в 1937-1942 и с 1957 года – Тульской) области. Первое время в колхозе было всего 12 гектаров земли и никакого скота. Но благодаря мудрости Александра Яковлевича и упорному труду колхозников, хозяйство быстро развивалось, и уже через 6 лет колхоз был занесён на областную доску почёта в Москве и удостоен премией – грузовой машиной.

В 1937 году в колхозе появляется механизированная крупорушка межрайонного значения, звероферма по выращиванию чёрно-бурых лисиц, клуб, хата-лаборатория, медпункт, школа, свиноферма. Было организовано производство кирпича и черепицы. В хозяйстве выращивались овощи, давал свои плоды фруктовый сад, имелась пасека на 200 пчелосемей. На всей посевной площади сеялись сортовые посевы.

В 1939 году колхоз «Новый путь» Кимовского района за высокие достижения стал участником Всероссийской сельскохозяйственной выставки (ВСХВ) в Москве, на которой колхоз был удостоен Диплома выставки, премии в 10 тысяч рублей и подарка в виде легкового автомобиля.

В начале 1941 года первым в списке от имени колхозников, возглавляемого им хозяйства, подписал обращение «ко всем колхозникам и колхозницам Кимовского района» об активном участии каждого в соцсоревновании, взятии каждым конкретных задач и обязательном их достижении.

Начавшаяся Великая Отечественная война помешала достичь новых трудовых успехов. Всего за годы войны из Краснополья призвали на фронт 210 жителей (каждый второй из них погиб). С первых дней войны колхоз сдал в фонд обороны 3 грузовых автомобиля, 64 лошади с повозками, пожарную мотопомпу, запряжённую двумя лошадьми (всего за годы войны колхоз передал для фронта 157 коней). В селе был организован истребительный отряд, который возглавил А. Я. Салихов. В него вошли 15 сельчан. По ночам они дежурили в сельсовете, проверяли несение службы сторожами, охранявшими колхозное добро, документы у подозрительных лиц, следили за воздушной обстановкой.

Колхоз регулярно выделял людей на строительство оборонительных рубежей и другие работы, связанные с нуждами армии.

Почти каждую неделю в село приходили «похоронки». Вот что вспоминал об этом А. Я. Салихов: «Бывало, прихожу с этой вестью, как могу, поддержу словами сочувствия, пообещаю от имени правления колхоза, что будем по возможности оказывать помощь семье, посижу некоторое время и уйду, оставляя в этом доме частичку своего сердца... Поплачет бедная мать о сыне, жена о муже, а наутро вся опухшая от слез идёт на работу».

В 1944 году в домах Краснополья зажглись электрические лампочки, началось применение электричества в сельскохозяйственном производстве.

После войны было необходимо быстро восстанавливать разрушенное хозяйство. И трудолюбие жителей села, упорство руководителя постепенно привели к положительным результатам. Ежегодно колхоз перевыполнял планы по сдаче государству зерна, картофеля и овощей. В 1948 году руководимый им колхоз получил 11,7 тонны свинины в живом весе на 960 гектаров закреплённой за колхозом облагаемой пашни.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 7 апреля 1949 года за получение высокой продуктивности животноводства в 1948 году при выполнении колхозом обязательных поставок сельскохозяйственных продуктов и плана развития животноводства по всем видам скота Салихову Александру Яковлевичу присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Многие годы избирался депутатом Московского и Тульского областных Советов депутатов трудящихся, входил в состав депутатов Кимовского района, являлся депутатом Краснопольского сельского Совета.

Проработав более 25 лет в должности председателя колхоза «Новый путь», в 1956 году вышел на заслуженный отдых и был удостоен персональной пенсии союзного значения, но не позволял себе отсиживаться дома. Его часто видели в поле, на фермах, в колхозных мастерских, в местной школе.

Жил в селе Краснополье Кимовского района. Умер 2 октября 1984 года.

Награды

 Золотая медаль «Серп и Молот» (07.04.1949)
 Орден Ленина (07.04.1949)

 Медаль «В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина» (6 апреля 1970)
 Медаль «За трудовую доблесть»
 Медаль «За оборону Москвы»
 Медаль «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Медаль «Ветеран труда»

Память
 На могиле установлен надгробный памятник.
 Имя А. Я. Салихова носит Краснопольская основная общеобразовательная школа.

См. также
 Список Героев Социалистического Труда (Саакян — Сальникова)

Примечания

Литература
 Салихов, Александр Яковлевич. За высокую товарность свинофермы [Текст] : [Колхоз "Новый путь" Кимов. района] / А. Я. Салихов и Н. Демин, Герои соц. труда. - [Москва] : Изд. и тип. изд-ва "Моск. рабочий", 1949. - 60 с. : портр.; 20 см. - (Опыт Героев социалистического труда). (Опыт Героев социалистического труда) Дела и люди нашей свинофермы А. Я. Салихов.

Ссылки

 Александр Салихов
 Салихов Александр Яковлевич. Герои страны.
 120 лет со дня рождения создателя первого колхоза в Кимовском районе Александра Яковлевича Салихова.
 Салихов Александр Яковлевич

Депутаты Тульского областного совета
Персональные пенсионеры союзного значения
Герои Социалистического Труда
Члены КПСС
Депутаты Московского областного совета
Председатели колхозов
Награждённые золотой медалью ВДНХ
Депутаты районных советов РСФСР
Депутаты сельских советов СССР


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