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Hawaiian Monk Seal Facts
Scientific Name: Neomonachus schauinslandi
Hawaiian monk seal. M Swiet Productions / Getty Images
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Most seals live in icy waters, but the Hawaiian monk seal makes its home in the warm Pacific Ocean around Hawaii. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of only two current monk seal species. The other current species is the Mediterranean monk seal, while the Caribbean monk seal was declared extinct in 2008.
Native Hawaiians call the seal "ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua," which means "dog that runs in rough water." The monk seal's scientific name, Neomonachus schauinslandi, honors German scientist Hugo Schauinsland, who discovered a monk seal skull on Laysan Island in 1899.
Fast Facts: Hawaiian Monk Seal
Common Names: Hawaiian monk seal, Ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua ("dog that runs in rough water")
Basic Animal Group: Mammal
Size: 7.0-7.5 feet
Weight: 375-450 pounds
Life Span: 25-30 years
Diet: Carnivorous
Habitat: Pacific Ocean around the Hawaiian Islands
Conservation Status: Endangered
The monk seal gets its common name for the short hairs on its head, which are said to resemble those of a stereotypical monk. It is earless and lacks the ability to turn its hind flippers under its body. The Hawaiian monk seal is distinguishable from the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) by its slender body, gray coat, and white belly. It also has black eyes and a short whiskered snout.
Habitat and Distribution
Hawaiian monk seals live in the Pacific Ocean around the Hawaiian Islands. Most of the breeding populations occur in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, although monk seals are also found in the main Hawaiian Islands. The seals spend two-thirds of their time at sea. They haul-out to rest, molt, and give birth.
Diet and Behavior
The Hawaiian monk seal is a reef carnivore that preys on bony fish, spiny lobster, eels, octopus, squid, shrimp, and crabs. Juveniles hunt during the day, while adults hunt at night. Monk seals usually hunt in water ranging from 60-300 feet deep, but have been known to forage below 330 meters (1000 feet).
Monk seals are hunted by tiger sharks, Galapagos sharks, and great white sharks.
Reproduction and Offspring
Hawaiian monk seals mate in the water between June and August. In some breeding colonies, there is a much higher number of males than females, so "mobbing" of females occurs. Mobbing can lead to injuries or death, further skewing the sex ratio. Gestation takes about nine months.
The female monk seal gives birth on the beach to a single pup. While they are solitary animals, females have been known to care for pups born to other seals. Females stop eating during nursing and remain with the pups. At the end of six weeks, the mother leaves the pup and returns to the sea to hunt.
Females reach maturity around age 4. Researchers are not certain of the age at which males become mature. Hawaiian monk seals can live 25 to 30 years.
While nursing, a female seal stops eating and remains with her pup. Thessa Bugay / FOAP / Getty Images
Hawaiian monk seals face numerous threats. Natural threats include habitat reduction and degradation, climate change, skewed gender ratios, and low juvenile survival rates. Human hunting has resulted in extremely low genetic diversity within the species. Monk seals die from entanglement in debris and fishing gear. Introduced pathogens, including toxoplasmosis from domestic cats and leptospirosis from humans, have infected some seals. Even minimal human disturbance causes seals to avoid beaches. Overfishing has led to reduced prey abundance and increased competition from other apex predators.
The Hawaiian monk seal is a conservation-reliant endangered species. This status indicates that human intervention is essential to the monk seal's survival, even if its population becomes self-sustaining. According to the IUCN Red List, only 632 mature individuals were identified on the species' last assessment in 2014. In 2016, there was an estimated total of 1,400 Hawaiian monk seals. Overall, the population is in decline, but the smaller population of seals living around the main Hawaiian islands is growing.
Disturbing a Hawaiian monk seal is illegal. Violators face a hefty fine. Teresa Short / Getty Images
The Recovery Plan for the Hawaiian Monk Seal aims to save the species by increasing awareness of the seal's plight and intervening on its behalf. The plan includes increased monitoring of seal population, vaccination programs, dietary supplementation, protecting pups, and relocation of some animals to better habitats.
Hawaiian Monk Seals and Humans
In 2008, the monk seal was designated the state mammal of Hawaii. The animals sometimes haul-out onto beaches that may be frequented by tourists. This is normal behavior. Seal and other marine mammals are protected, so while it may be tempting to get close to take a picture, this is prohibited. Take photos from a safe distance and be sure to keep dogs far away from the seal.
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Diary of a 'portable people meter' person
By Ben Fong-Torres
Published 4:00 am PDT, Sunday, August 8, 2010
Angella Sprauve, with the arbitron "portable People mover" devices she used to have her radio listening habits tracked.
Photo: Dianne Fong-Tores
You've heard, by now, about Arbitron's new device for measuring radio listening: the portable people meter (PPM). It picks up electronically encoded signals from radio stations (even if they're heard over a computer). Any station picked up by the PPM gets credit, even if the person wearing the meter did not choose to hear it. The PPM replaced the old diary system, in which survey participants wrote down what they listened to (or think they did) over a week.
It was imperfect, at best, and so is the PPM. Arbitron's had trouble getting younger people to participate. Many of them already have too many electronic gadgets on them, or don't want to deal with other requirements, involving an array of components, including a base station where participants place their meter at night, a hub that transmits codes to Arbitron and a portable recharger.
It's a wonder that anyone would want to be a participant, especially for the measly money the company traditionally has doled out.
But I found one. "Angella Sprauve," as she's asked to be identified to protect her privacy, is a product development manager in the cosmetics industry in San Francisco. She was between jobs a year ago when she was approached by Arbitron.
"I don't know how they found me," she said, "but they called and asked some general questions: age, ethnic background, income. They said they'd had difficulty finding people in this area in my age range." Sprauve is 32.
She had never heard of Arbitron but, after checking out the company, agreed to be a "panelist." "They offer incentives," she said, "by paying you based on points you earn for wearing the meter. There's a base of $45 a month, and bonuses, like $100 twice a year. And you're entered in contests for gift cards from Amazon or Visa. It's not a lot; it's just a little extra." (However, when Arbitron gets a family or household to be panelists, the money - and gift cards - can add up.)
Soon, Sprauve was earning her keep. "I was a good panelist," she said. "I wore the meter all the time and followed the instructions. I didn't find it that intrusive. But I wouldn't take it to some occasions, like out to dinner, and they want you to wear it all day, from the time you wake up until you go to bed, and to wear it on your person. You can't just leave it in your purse. And they pick up on it. They'll call you the next day or night and say, 'Hey, you weren't wearing it for 15 minutes yesterday.' "
And if a panelist wasn't home one night? That's what the portable recharger is for. Out-of-town trips required a heads-up to Arbitron headquarters.
"They are very thorough," said Sprauve.
The company, she said, didn't address the issue of accuracy, of panelists picking up signals of stations they had not chosen to hear. "When I was out - at a mall or the eye doctor or wherever - I was conscious that it was picking up other stations," said Sprauve, whose favorite stations include KMVQ ("Movin" at 99.7) for the morning show, KYLD ("Wild" 94.9) and KPOO (89.5 FM). "The only time it picked up what I'd chosen was at home or in the car."
After joining her current company, Sprauve felt less at ease wearing the meter. "Someone asked if I was wearing a pager," she said. "Pagers are like '80s things. And it was bulky." (Arbitron has remodeled the meter into a smaller, sleeker item that doubles as a clock.)
But, she noted, the PPM impressed some of her friends. "They thought it was fun; everyone I knew wanted to get on the panel." Of course, she added, she did tell them about the cash and gift cards.
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"Breathless on Broadway" brings the musical theater world to Sardi's restaurant, where attendees are treated to intimate performances of current Broadway hits and one-of-a-kind previews of future Broadway shows. All proceeds from the evening, which includes a silent auction, go to benefit phaware global, a nonprofit PH advocacy and education group, and its research efforts.
The benefit is also, importantly, a commemoration of Chloë Rand, a "PH warrior" who lost her life to the disease shortly before her 14th birthday, and who — despite a daily struggle to breathe — looked upon music as communication at its best.
"One of the blessings of our life," Marie Mascia-Rand, Chloë's mother and a phaware co-founder, told Pulmonary Hypertension News in an interview, "was that Chloë learned well through music. She understood things through singing to her better than through speaking to her. … My mom was a trained opera singer, so we're a musical family" whose members took to speaking through song to their eldest child and sister.
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Former Super Eagles striker and Nigerian Football Ambassador Daniel Amokachi has been appointed as the Special Assistant on Sports to President Mohammadu Buhari.
According to his letter of appointment dated August 17th 2020 and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr. Boss Mustapha , stated " I am pleased to inform you that Mohammadu Buhari , President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has approved your appointment as Special Assistant on Sports. The appointment takes effect from the 11th of August, 2020."
As Special Assistant on Sports, Amokachi is expected to advise the President on all sports matters.
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Q: Aligning Columns to Achieve `ls -l` Style Listing with find I'm trying to achieve the same format of listing that I get from ls -l when using find. Albeit with the full path name at the end rather than the filename. FWIW I'm using find (GNU findutils) 4.5.11.
I've found the -ls flag, which is nice, but it spaces the columns much more than ls -l, which is not useful, especially with a full path name at the end, as it is very likely to push the results on to two lines and makes it difficult to read them. For example...
$ find /example -ls
  7439    4 -rwxrwxr-x   1 example    example        1579 Oct 26  1985 /path/to/first/file/that/was/found
   530    4 -rwxrwxr-x   1 example    example         122 Oct 26  1985 /path/to/second/file/that/was/found

So while that does the job, I want to do better. Looking at the -printf flag for find, it seems the same thing can be achieved. So far I have -printf '%M %u %g %p\n' which is great, and I can customise which info I want and add the others in there. But...
The problem is, how can I align the columns?
When the user and group names are a different length, this doesn't work so well. For example...
$ find /example -printf '%M %u %g %p\n'
-rwxr-xr-x root root /path/to/first/example/file
-rwxr-xr-x example example /path/to/second/example/file

How can I solve this? Preferably using only find, but piping to something else would be ok if it's not possible. The man page for find doesn't seem to have any option for this using -printf.

A: The format specifiers of -printf in GNU find takes width and alignment (etc.) qualifiers, just as the printf() C function, meaning you can align the data left or right and, crucially for your current project, allocate a certain width for the data.
Default output:
$ find . -printf '%M %u %g %p\n'
drwxr-xr-x kk wheel .
-rw-r--r-- kk wheel ./.zshrc
-rw-r--r-- kk wheel ./file
drwxr-xr-x root wheel ./rootstuff
-rw-r--r-- root wheel ./rootstuff/SECRET
-rw------- kk wheel ./.viminfo

Specifying widths (6) for user and group columns (right-justified):
$ find . -printf '%M %6u %6g %p\n'
drwxr-xr-x     kk  wheel .
-rw-r--r--     kk  wheel ./.zshrc
-rw-r--r--     kk  wheel ./file
drwxr-xr-x   root  wheel ./rootstuff
-rw-r--r--   root  wheel ./rootstuff/SECRET
-rw-------     kk  wheel ./.viminfo

Same, but left-justified:
$ find . -printf '%M %-6u %-6g %p\n'
drwxr-xr-x kk     wheel  .
-rw-r--r-- kk     wheel  ./.zshrc
-rw-r--r-- kk     wheel  ./file
drwxr-xr-x root   wheel  ./rootstuff
-rw-r--r-- root   wheel  ./rootstuff/SECRET
-rw------- kk     wheel  ./.viminfo

With file sizes in bytes, allocating 5 digits (zero-filled, because just showing how it could be done):
$ find . -printf '%M %-6u %-6g %05s %p\n'
drwxr-xr-x kk     wheel  00512 .
-rw-r--r-- kk     wheel  00000 ./.zshrc
-rw-r--r-- kk     wheel  00095 ./file
drwxr-xr-x root   wheel  00512 ./rootstuff
-rw-r--r-- root   wheel  00000 ./rootstuff/SECRET
-rw------- kk     wheel  00922 ./.viminfo

Note that the ls command may well allocate widths for its columns dynamically based on the actual need whereas your find -printf command would have to use static widths, unless you run find twice to first compute the needed space for each column and then again to actually format the output (this is why the find -ls output is so wide, it does not use a two-pass approach and instead just gives each column ample space in the hope that everything will align somewhat nicely).

Of course, if you don't have many thousands of files, and you just want a listing of everything, recursively (i.e., you don't need to filter or do something else with the found pathnames in find), you could just use ls:
$ ls -d -l **/*
-rw-------  1 kk    wheel  922 Jul 25 23:46 .viminfo
-rw-r--r--  1 kk    wheel    0 Jul 19 23:39 .zshrc
-rw-r--r--  1 kk    wheel   95 Jul 25 23:51 file
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul 26 00:00 rootstuff
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0 Jul 26 00:00 rootstuff/SECRET

This relies on the ** globbing pattern being available, which it is by default in the zsh shell, and in bash if you use shopt -s globstar.  It also relies on the shell matching hidden names.  The zsh shell will do this if you set the GLOB_DOTS option with setopt GLOB_DOTS, and bash does it with shopt -s dotglob.
This would not work if your globbing pattern expands to a list so long that it generates an "Argument list too long" error.
This output would be different from the ordinary ls -l -R output in that directories would not be listed individually with breaks between them.

A: Here is another simple alternative
$ find example -exec ls -ld {} +


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Book review: Rabble-rouser for peace
28/09/2007 – City Press, Johannesburg
John Allen's authorised biography of Desmond Tutu, entitled Rabble-Rouser For Peace, is a 400-page book that paints a picture of how this man of the cloth's patience, open-mindedness, assertiveness and diligent efforts helped lead to the peaceful downfall of the former apartheid system.
The book starts by showing how the former Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town's intelligence and photographic memory helped him to secure tertiary qualifications that allowed him to get a mere three hours sleep each night. But his studies were nearly derailed as some of the church leaders suspected Tutu was a money-monger who couldn't control his spending.
After ascending to an influential position in his church, Tutu was harshly criticised by some of his colleagues and by apartheid leaders for calling on foreign countries to impose sanctions against South Africa. Tutu rubbed salt in the wounds of his relationship with his colleagues when he warned apartheid leaders that, if they failed to stop carrying out their discrimination, black people would revolt against the system.
Tutu's peaceful means of fighting against apartheid also led to some of the country's youth and ANC leadership questioning his motives as someone who was either on the side of the apartheid government or wanted to claim the struggle as belonging to him.
He sacrificed his family time to travel around the world, as well as to various townships and churches to condemn apartheid and tirelessly called for first world countries, such as Britain and America, to impose sanctions against the country.
Allen also shows how Tutu's love for his children caused his family to be torn apart when his children had to be scattered across several foreign countries to sidestep Bantu education. With the same strength, Tutu condemned atrocities carried out by the apartheid forces, while he also advised freedom fighters to tackle the system peacefully.
After several run-ins with the former British Prime Minister, Margaret "Iron Lady" Thatcher, she finally succumbed to his demands and called for former South African president FW De Klerk to release Nelson Mandela from prison and work towards abolishing apartheid.
Though well-researched, the author needs to improve the book by naming some of the ministers who abused the arm of the law by giving orders to apartheid forces to carry out atrocities against black people. In his revision, the writer should also try to adapt his writing voice so that it can be emotional and punchy, like Tutu's.
Other shortcomings are that you'll find a paragraph being congested with too many ideas. This does not only make it difficult for the writer to develop one idea coherently in a single paragraph and chapter, but also makes it hard for the reader to digest and follow what he is trying to say about Tutu's life without getting lost.
Mpho Sibanyoni
← A Different Kind of Christianity Biography of Desmond Tutu is rewarding read →


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You are sitting down, right? Some of those new Orange Line cars could start opening their doors to passengers this week
By adamg on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 11:47am
UPDATE: Wednesday, mid-day-ish.
WCVB reports. Fans of humid, wood-paneled rec rooms on wheels don't have to worry just yet, though - most of the trains that will continue to lumber between Oak Grove and Forest Hills will still be those grime and rust-coated 1987 cars you've come to love.
Free tagging:
By Michael on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 11:52am.
Voting closed 71
I can hear Charlie (Brown) saying
By roadman on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:39pm.
"This week, I'm really gonna ride a new Orange Line train!"
"This football has been pulled away
By jmeltzer on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 5:15pm.
because of switching problems at Wellington."
Soft Opening
By anon on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:49pm.
Ridership tanks this week. Good time to do it.
Voting closed 8
I've never had an issue with the AC on the Orange Line
By Waquiot on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:01pm.
Sure, there have been a bunch of other issues with the Carter era cars, but I've never felt too humid in the summertime while riding them.
Conversely, I decided to cool off on the commuter rail on one of those scorching Saturdays last month and was at first in a stifling car.
But don't confuse my defense of those Thunder Bay manufactured vehicles as a love of them. Perhaps I'll shed a tear when the last one goes out of service, but I felt the same way when I got rid of my 20 year old car with holes in the flood that, interestingly enough, did not have AC. Still loved my new car.
By you are wrong on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:53pm.
You have clearly never ridden the orange line at rush hour.
Yes, I have
And if you are conflating the heat generated by fellow riders with an AC failure, you should stop standing too close to your fellow riders.
And again I will note that I rode the trains that were on the line before there and remember when the T avoided turning the AC on for the buses (although I also remember the buses having no AC)
Suggesting that you "stop
By DTP on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 8:22am.
Suggesting that you "stop standing too close to your fellow riders" kinda lends credence to the idea that you have not in fact ridden the Orange Line at rush hour.
You have been lucky. I don't
By Swander on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 7:12pm.
You have been lucky. I don't run into it a lot, but the times I have, it's been miserable. You just sit and sweat, contemplate whether you can sprint to the next car, and speculate whether the ac is out for the whole train.
I'll say this much
I usually sit (or stand) in the southernmost 3 cars. Maybe the AC's just horrible at the end everyone downtown boards on.
Upon further review
By Waquiot on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:55pm.
When I board a train (or bus) I always move away from the doors. My gut is that in the summer, if you are by the doors when the open the humidity hits you.
My advice to you (and Adam) is to step into the middle of the car in the summer. The experience will be nice. Or at least don't crowd the doors.
I sit at the end of the train
By Swander on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 8:38am.
I sit at the end of the train, as far as possible from the door (the end that doesn't have a driver's compartment). I sit in one of the middle cars. When the ac is working, which to the credit of the MBTA workers, it usually is, it's ok. But the days the ac is out, it's misery. I'm glad you've avoided it. And with the new cars coming, hopefully you'll never experience it.
Now you've jinxed me
By Waquiot on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 12:33pm.
Or maybe I've jinxed myself.
And I'm not speaking figuratively. I've been on trains that have broken down. Recently, in fact, but somehow the AC has never let me down on a humid day.
I hope I haven't jinxed you!
By Swander on Wed, 08/14/2019 - 4:20pm.
I hope I haven't jinxed you! It isn't common, you just have to hold out a little longer. My fear is that they'll ease up on maintaining the old cars since they know the new ones are so near. I very much hope to be wrong about that though!
By Ari O on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:22pm.
If only. That may have been when those cars started running on their current alignment on the Southwest Corridor, but they first came in to service 1979-1981.
Rust Line...
By octr202 on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:37pm.
...to finally become a tiny bit less rusty.
I hope they have better ventilation than the current cars.
By CopleyScott17 on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:40pm.
In my experience, the Orange Line trains are the only branch that consistently stink. Literally.
six cars
By Bobp on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 2:16pm.
so one train set...
whoopie!!
By Div2Supt on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 2:48pm.
But will their debut in revenue service be like the Green Line Type Nines? A photo blitz media spectacular... followed by several months of them being withdrawn because more motorfolk need to be put through the training class and get qualified on them?
Now for any of you intrepid railfans out there in UHub-land...
So if this inaugural trip is to be Wednesday "midday-ish" the possible first trip could be...
The 12:16PM southbound trip from Oak Grove...
The 2:08PM southbound trip from Oak Grove...
The 2:59PM trip from Wellington to Forest Hills. Pulls out direct as Route 913.
The 12:16PM trip departs Forest Hills northbound at 1:00PM.
The 2:08PM trip departs Forest Hills NB at 2:56PM.
NOTE: Trips are per the timetable and thus are "subject to traffic delay." :P
What's the Governor up to that day?
By Michael on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 2:51pm.
I can't imagine he'll pass up a chance to cut a ribbon
I would guess an extra run as
By anon on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 3:07pm.
I would guess an extra run as directed, not in the timetable
Probably 12:16 trip from OG
But does that have a revenue pull-out from Wellington Yard?
I for one
By ChrisInEastie on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 3:24pm.
Will miss the sweet scent of weed and urine mixed with despair. Does the MBTA gift shop have that in a candle or something? #nostalgia
The OL cars were around in
The OL cars were around in the era when smoking was still allowed on them. The floors are sheet vinyl containing asbestos. Every surface probably has trace amounts of leaded gasoline fumes on them, not to mention leaked mercury from the fluorescent lighting, and who knows what else from the gross heavy metal contaminated air in the tunnels. The carpet remnant seats haven't helped with whatever ungodly biological funk they've absorbed since they replaced the vinyl covers either. Seriously, when these cars get scrapped they need to go into one of those toxic waste sites for all eternity.
There's just not enough Paxil in the world, is there?
By section77 on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 8:16pm.
Asbestos! Mercury poisoning from cursed light bulbs! Vapors from unleaded gasoline that was discontinued in the 70s and somehow ended up in the fabric of something that uses no gas at all! People used to SMOKE! PPB, PPB!
You strike me as a glass half empty type.
Smoking has never been
By hw on Wed, 08/14/2019 - 11:28am.
Smoking has never been allowed in these cars. Asbestos was banned before these cars were built. Where is the leaded gasoline from? Mercury only if the bulbs get broken. Don't know about heavy metal contaminants, but there is grease and oil, non-asbestos brake dust(perhaps some asbestos brake dust from long ago), and carbon dust from motor brushes in all the tunnels.
Wasn't that scent supposed
By roadman on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 4:45pm.
to be part of Yankee Candle's new line for this Christmas?
By cybah on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:08pm.
A few years I got on one of the new New Flyer buses (the 111 to be exact) and I was standing near the driver as we were driving away. I mentioned to the driver how the bus had that "new car" smell.
She replied "Oh yes, this bus has miles on it, it was put into service today"
Me: but I love the smell, sure beats the alternative of BO and stale beer
Her: Oh don't worry within in a week or so it'll be back to the normal scents of weed, BO, stale beer, urine, mixed in with some Axe body spray.
We both laugh..
Sure enough next time I saw her, she was in the new bus, which now reek'd of weed. Oh 111, don't ever change. (/snark)
I laughed out loud
By ChrisInEastie on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:50pm.
and am not surprised, at all.
What a bunch of whining
By dd808 on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 5:42pm.
What a bunch of whining assholes on here!
You're getting new cars and all you can do is complain about the smells of the old cars.
Be grateful they are here and more coming.
Everybody wants a better T, but they bitch about the work, the delays, the station closings and the smells.
This so Boston!
13 minutes between trains at rush hour
By Orange Line is Killing Me on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 5:53pm.
We desperately need some relief on the orange line. At rush hour, there are 13 minutes between trains with no announced delays. This has been occurring all summer long. It's not acceptable. I'm at the point where I feel like I need to get a job within walking distance to my home to preserve what's left of my sanity.
Sorry, Governor Baker
The old cars did have a strange odor. And they break down.
Shucks
By MassMikMouse on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:09pm.
Of all the days to get a ZipCar to do errands...
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Сергей Николаевич Богатиков (1980—2006) — старший сержант ВС РФ, Герой Российской Федерации (1999).

Биография
Сергей Богатиков родился 8 января 1980 года в Ельце. Окончил среднюю школу, учился в Елецком машиностроительном техникуме. В ноябре 1998 года Богатиков был призван на службу в Вооружённые Силы Российской Федерации. Окончил учебную воинскую часть в Наро-Фоминске, после чего служил заместителем командира взвода в 119-м гвардейском парашютно-десантном полку.

В 1999 году Богатиков в составе своего полка был отправлен на Северный Кавказ. Участвовал в боях второй чеченской войны. Когда из строя выбыл командир взвода, Богатиков взял командование на себя. Во время выполнения боевой задачи группа солдат полка в количестве 21 человека под командованием Богатикова попала в окружение сепаратистов. Богатиков успешно организовал круговую оборону, отбил чеченские атаки, а затем прорвал окружение и вывел группу к своим. В тех боях группа не потеряла ни одного человека.

Указом Президента Российской Федерации от 22 декабря 1999 года за «мужество и героизм, проявленные при выполнении воинского долга в Северо-Кавказском регионе» гвардии младший сержант Сергей Богатиков был удостоен высокого звания Героя Российской Федерации с вручением медали «Золотая Звезда».

В 2000 году Богатиков был демобилизован. Вернулся в Елец. Скоропостижно скончался после тяжёлой болезни 30 июля 2006 года, похоронен .

Примечания

Участники Второй чеченской войны

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Quick Answer: How many BTU does it take to boil 1 gallon of water?
How many BTU does it take to boil a gallon of water?
How much energy does it take to boil 1 gallon of water?
How fast will 15 000 BTU boil water?
How much energy does it take to boil water?
Is 18000 BTU enough for cooking?
How many BTUs should my water heater be?
How do I calculate BTU of water?
How many BTUs does it take to heat 1 pound of water?
How many BTU does it take to convert water to ice?
How long should it take to boil water on an electric stove?
How long does it take to boil 2 cups water?
How long does it take to boil water in the microwave?
What is the most economical way to boil water?
Is it cheaper to boil water with gas or electric?
How much energy does it take to evaporate a gallon of water?
Rounded up, 9,625 BTUs per gallon are needed to actually be absorbed by the water itself, to take it from 32 f degrees to 220 f degrees steam.
One BTU is the amount of heat energy required to raise one pound of water by 1ºF. Water weighs 8.33 pounds per gallon so we can calculate that one gallon of water requires 8.33 BTU to raise the temperature 1ºF.
Water requires the input of 4.2 KJ to raise each kilogram by 1 degree centigrade. A gallon of water weighs 3.79 kilograms. Assuming you're raising it from 20C to 100C, the energy required is 4.2 KJ * 3.79 kg * 80C = 1273.44 KJ, or roughly one-third of a kilowatt-hour to bring the water to a boil.
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On a 15,000 BTU burner, with water starting at 50°F it would take 12-15 minutes for 6 quarts (1.5 gallons) of water to boil. And 20-25 minutes to bring 12 quarts (3 gallons) of waters to a boil.
The energy required to change water from a liquid to a solid is 333.7 kJ/kg while the energy required to boil water is 2257 kJ/kg. The amount of energy needed to change the phase of water to a gas from a liquid is 540 times the amount of energy needed to raise the same amount of water 1° C.
Middle: 2,000–10,000 BTUs. Mid-range BTUs are good for everyday cooking like sauteing and frying. High: 12,000–18,000 BTUs. These high BTU burners are meant for high heat cooking like searing and stir-frying.
Input ranges from about 32,000 on a 30-gallon unit to 88,000 on a 100-gallon tank. A common input is 34,000 BTUs on a 40-gallon tank and 36,000 BTUs on a 50-gallon tank. The higher the BTU input and efficiency, the faster the recovery. Electric water heaters typically have one 5,500-watt or two 4,500-watt elements.
Math is the key to understanding how BTUs move through a system. The simple formula for water is System Delivered BTU = 500 x GPM x System Water Temperature Change.
The centigrade heat unit (CHU) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one Celsius degree. It is equal to 1.8 BTU or 1,899 joules.
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It takes 28 btus to change 1 pound of ice to 1 lb of water. The temperature of ice and water does not change.
So, How long does it take for water to boil? 1 liter of ordinary tap water will boil after 6-8 minutes at a gas stove and from 9 to 12 minutes at the electric stove. If the water is pure, it will be 6 minutes at a gas cooker and 8 minutes at an electric stove.
On a stove it would take about 5 minutes to boil 2 cups of water, depending on the stove and the factors I mentioned before. Usually it's 2 minutes per cup of water. It would take a lot longer to boil water on a grill. In a microwave, it would take about 1.5 to 2 minutes to boil 2 cups of water.
What is this? In order to boil a cup of water in the microwave, the required time is approximately 1-3 minutes to reach the boiling point. However, this depends on the microwave wattage or amount of water being heated.
For appliances – microwave, electric tea kettle, electric stovetop – the most efficient appliance is the one that can boil water while pulling in the least amount of electricity via its plug.
Because gas is cheaper than electricity, it works out slightly cheaper to boil water on a gas hob than using an electric kettle, as long as you are boiling just the quantity you need and switch off the hob as soon as it has boiled.
IT IS IMPORTANT: Why do you need to defrost meat before cooking?
It takes 8,092 BTUs to evaporate one gallon of water. Natural gas has a heating value of 1,000 BTUs per cubic foot (1 Therm = 100,000 BTUs). Approximate cost of natural gas is $0.50 per Therm.
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Admirers of the Spartans typically praise their valor and success in war. The Battle of Thermopylae, mythologized as 300 Spartans blocking the pass of Thermopylae for three days against a force of 1 Million Persians, represents bravery against all odds. Laconophilia is love or admiration of Sparta and of the Spartan culture or constitution. The selection of Spartans as the name of a sports team is an example of this continued admiration in popular culture.

Non-scholastic teams
Blyth Spartans A.F.C. (Northern Premier League), Blyth, Northumberland, England
Hamrun Spartans F.C. (Maltese Premier League), Ħamrun, Malta
La Crosse Spartans (Indoor Football League), La Crosse, Wisconsin
Manchester Village Spartans RUFC (North West Intermediate Rugby Union League), Manchester, England
Salem Spartans – ( One of  the eight franchise based on Salem city in Tamil Nadu Premier League, India)
Southern Oregon Spartans (Western States Hockey League), Medford, Oregon
Spartan Cricket Club, Barbados
Leeming Spartan Cricket Club, Leeming, Western Australia
Spartans F.C. (Lowland Football League), Edinburgh, Scotland
AC Sparta Prague (Czech First League), Prague, Czechia
Sparta Rotterdam (Eredivisie), Rotterdam, the Netherlands

University teams

 NCAA Division I FBS

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
San Jose State University, San Jose, California

 NCAA Division I FCS

Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia

 NCAA Division I non-football

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina

 NCAA Division II

St. Thomas Aquinas College, Rockland County, New York
University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida

 NCAA Division III

University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana
York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania
 Other

Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Secondary school teams
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Livonia, Michigan
Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, Connecticut
Athens Academy, Athens, Georgia
Bernalillo High School, Bernalillo, New Mexico
Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Bishop Walsh School, Cumberland, Maryland
Bixby High School, Bixby, Oklahoma
Boardman High School, Mahoning County, Ohio
Brentwood High School, Brentwood, Pennsylvania
Broad Run High School, Loudoun County, Virginia
Brookfield East High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Camelback High School, Phoenix, Arizona
Campbell High School, Smyrna, Georgia
Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute, Guelph, Ontario
Central Davidson High School, Lexington, North Carolina
Central Union High School, El Centro, California
Christ Covenant School, Winterville, North Carolina
Missouri Baptist University, Saint Louis, Missouri
Claremont Secondary School, Saanich, British Columbia
Collins-Maxwell School, Maxwell, Iowa
Connersville High School, Connersville, Indiana
Conneaut High School, Conneaut, Ohio
Corvallis High School, Corvallis, Oregon
Damien High School, La Verne, California
De La Salle High School, Concord, California
De Smet Jesuit High School, Creve Coeur, Missouri
DePaul Catholic High School, Wayne, New Jersey
Deptford High School, Deptford Township, New Jersey
Dunbarton High School, Pickering, Ontario
East Longmeadow High School, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
East Syracuse-Minoa High School, East Syracuse, New York
Emporia High School, Emporia, Kansas
Fargo North High School, Fargo, North Dakota
Framingham North High School, Framingham, Massachusetts
Garden Spot High School, New Holland, Pennsylvania
Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois
Greenbrier East High School, Fairlea, West Virginia
Greater Atlanta Christian School, Norcross, Georgia
Hillsboro High School, Hillsboro, Oregon
Holy Spirit High School, Absecon, New Jersey
Homestead High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Laurel High School, Laurel, Maryland
Lewis S. Mills High School, Burlington, Connecticut
Lincoln East High School, Lincoln, Nebraska
Lorne Park Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois
Marist Catholic High School, Eugene, Oregon
Mayo High School, Rochester, Minnesota
McFarland High School, McFarland, Wisconsin
Miami Country Day School, Miami, Florida
Miami Southridge High School, Miami, Florida
Milne Valley Middle School, Toronto, Ontario
Montour High School, Robinson Township, Pennsylvania
Mountain Brook High School, Birmingham, Alabama
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, California
Mount Tabor High School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Murray High School (Utah), Murray, Utah
North Springs Charter High School, Sandy Springs, Georgia
North Surrey Secondary School, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Oak Lawn Community High School, Oak Lawn, Illinois
Ocean Township High School, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Ohio School for the Deaf, Columbus, Ohio
Orcutt Academy High School, Orcutt, California
Oshkosh North High School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Pinole Valley High School, Pinole, California
Pleasant Valley High School, Bettendorf, Iowa
Queensbury High School, Queensbury, New York
Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Chicago, Illinois
Richmond Heights High School, Richmond Heights, Ohio
Richfield High School, Richfield, Minnesota
Ridgemont High School, Ottawa, Ontario
Riverdale High School (Pierrefonds, Quebec), Pierrefonds, Quebec
Roger Bacon High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
Romeoville High School, Chicago, Illinois
Salem High School, Salem, Virginia
Salmen High School, Slidell, Louisiana
Sanford High School, Sanford, Maine
Sanderson High School, Raleigh, North Carolina
Schurr High School, Montebello, California
Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana
Sentinel Secondary School, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Seven Lakes High School, Fort Bend County, Texas
Sheridan High School, Sheridan, Oregon
Sisler High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Skyline High School, Sammamish, Washington
Smithfield-Selma High School, Smithfield, North Carolina
Solon High School, Solon, Iowa
South Caldwell High School, Hudson, North Carolina
South Knox High School, Vincennes, Indiana
South Warren High School, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Southern School of Energy and Sustainability, Durham, North Carolina
Southwestern High School, Shelbyville, Indiana
Souris Regional High School, Souris, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Spalding Catholic High School, Granville, Iowa
Sparta High School, Sparta Township, Michigan
Sparta High School, Sparta Township, New Jersey
Sparta High School, Sparta, Wisconsin
Springport High School, Springport, Michigan
Start High School, Toledo, Ohio
Stoneham High School, Stoneham, Massachusetts
St. Johns Country Day School, Orange Park, Florida
St. Mary's High School, Lynn, Massachusetts
Sun Valley High School, Monroe, North Carolina
Sylmar High School, Sylmar, California
Villa Park High School, Villa Park, California
Waynesville High School, Waynesville, Ohio
Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
West Springfield High School, Springfield, Virginia
Westlane Secondary School, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee
Williamsville North High School, Williamsville, New York
Winthrop College Prep Academy, Riverview, Florida
W. W. Samuell High School, Dallas, Texas
Wyoming Valley West Senior High School, Plymouth, Pennsylvania

See also
List of ethnic sports team and mascot names
List of sports team names and symbols derived from Greek and Roman antiquity

References

Aurora university Spartans
Aurora Illinois

Lists of sports teams
Nicknames in sports
Sports culture
Athletic culture based on Greek antiquity


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The online catalogue does not include details of all our collections. Contact us for further information on collections not yet featured online.
Pursuing the Archaeology of the Peak District
The archaeology collections at the Potteries Museum cover many parts of Staffordshire, including parts of the county that fall within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park.
I'm currently involved in a project, working closely with Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, to track down where archaeological collections from the Peak District have ended up. The aim is to pull data together and create rich online resources for people to explore Peak District archaeology. Objects have ended up in many places. The excavations of Victorian antiquarians spread material far and wide across the country. The Peak District crosses four counties so material still ends up in one of several different receiving museums.
At the Potteries Museum, the majority of our Peak District collections relate to areas around the Manifold Valley – particularly the archaeology of the limestone caves that are widespread along the lengths of the Hamps and Manifold Rivers. You can see some of items on display in our archaeology galleries, including finds from the magnificent Thor's Cave.
Pieces of worked antler from Thor's Cave, Manifold Valley. Thought to be Iron Age cheek pieces for horse harnesses (see illustration)
Objects from Thor's Cave, Manifold Vallery: 26. Iron Age bone comb 27. Whetstone 28.Perforated bone
Of course, not all of our Peak District cave finds are ancient, but they do continue the comb theme…
Objects from Wetton Mill Rock Shelter: 16. Iron Horseshow, 13th-16th century 17.Ox molar 18.Plastic comb 19. Rabbit skull
There are many more wonderful finds from the Manifold Valley, and not just here at the Potteries Museum. Depending who excavated, and when, finds from the region can also be found in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and even as far away as Manchester Museum who have collections relating to Ossom's Eerie.
Today there is an established process for ensuring the results of archaeological excavations are carefully recorded and deposited in a logical place and we try keep archives from the same site together. Victorian archaeologists usually had very different methods. Caves were frequently excavated with dynamite (none in the Manifold Valley luckily!) and specimens were sent all over the country for colleagues to examine. Frequently objects made their way into private collections rather than public museums.
Of course, many of these private collections eventually ended up in the public realm. The collections of 'Barrow Knigjht' Thomas Bateman (1821-1861) who excavated more than 100 Peak District barrows is at Museums Sheffield. Similarly many specimens of subfossil bone can be found at The Manchester Museum through the activities of Sir William Boyd Dawkins (1837-1929) at sites such as Victory Quarry, Doveholes and Windy Knoll, near Castleton.
Thomas Bateman, the 'Barrow Knight', excavated more than 100 barrows across Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire. His collection is now with Museums Sheffield, Image (c) Museums Sheffield; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA.
Many of the bordering cities around the Peak District hold fragments of its archaeology. Alongside Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and Derby there are also collections at Derby and Bolton. However, some objects have traveled much further from the Peak District. From its origins in the 18th century, archaeology was long the hobby of elites, many of them landed gentry. It wasn't surprising then to see some objects had made their way into National Trust properties around the country.
The village of Warslow, Staffordshire was once owned by the Harpur-Crewe family of Calke Abbey. Some of the objects found on the estates made it down the family's main residence, including a box of animal bones and teeth found in a nearby cave. Where was this cave? You guessed it! The Manifold Valley.
Calke Abbey, South Derbyshire, owned by National Trust. Image by xlibber Creative Commons CC BY-SA.
Other travellers include a Bronze Axe from Eyam, Derbyshire, now at Wallington, Northumbria. I still haven't worked out the connection, but the Blacketts of Wallington were mine owners and may had a link with the lead-mining industry in Derbyshire.
My journey through the data is far from over – there are objects too in Oxford, London, and even Scotland. I can't wait to update the blog in the future and share where else the trail is leading, and what fun things we can do with the data.
The project is managed by Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and funded through The British Museum's National Programmes Scheme.
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is the principal repository for archaeological material from Staffordshire. The large archaeology collection includes artefacts which date from the prehistoric period right up to post-medieval ceramics from the sites of former local pottery manufactories. The latter complements the museum's extensive ceramic collections.
Artefacts deemed to be Treasure as defined by the Treasure Act are acquired. The most high-profile of these is the Staffordshire Hoard – an Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold and silver artefacts – which is jointly owned with Birmingham City Council.
Archaeology Collections Online
We have an ever-growing list of our archaeology collections available to view online.
Staffordshire Hoard
The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.
Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs
We did it! Thank you to the members of the public and numerous charitable trusts and organisations who helped us to bring the Leekfrith Iron Age torcs back to North Staffordshire where they belong and can be freely seen and enjoyed by all visitors to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
Stoke-on-Trent Young Archaeologists' Club
Details about our Young Archaeologist's Club.
Money & Medals Network
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery are a partner in the Money & Medals Network which is funded by Arts Council England and the British Museum's Partnership UK programme. [External Link]
Identifying Finds
How to contact us about identification queries. We also hold regular Finds Days in partnership with the Portable Antiquities Scheme's regional Finds Liaison Officer.
Deposition of Archaeological Archives
Information for archaeological projects and contractors who wish to deposit archaeological archives at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
The archaeology gallery showcases Staffordshire's rich and diverse archaeological heritage from prehistoric technologies to daily life in a Roman household, medieval monasticism to the early potters of Burslem. It includes fascinating excavated material and exciting treasure finds from across the county.
Young Archaeologists' Club: Volunteer Assistants Required
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work with Stoke-on-Trent Young Archaeologists' Club (YAC), helping to provide regular archaeology-themed activities for 8-16 year olds.
Activities usually take place at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
What tasks and activities does this involve?
Working with the YAC Leader (Curator of Local History), and other Assistants, to support and supervise 8-16 year old YAC members during activity sessions.
Following current Young Archaeologists' Club policies and procedures.
Helping the Leader to design and deliver an inclusive and accessible programme that meets the needs and aspirations of YAC members.
Helping the Leader to ensure the health, safety and welfare of everyone in the club.
Other specific duties agreed with the Leader and with their support and supervision; this could be, for example, writing content for blog posts or YAC website.
What will you gain by being a YAC Assistant?
Being a YAC Assistant can be great fun, and can get you closer to some brilliant local archaeology. You'll have the chance to get better at:
managing groups of young people
working in a team
communicating with people of all ages and abilities
planning and delivering safe, exciting learning experiences
and to develop your understanding of:
learning styles and abilities
child protection, and
(last but not least) archaeology!
What are the requirements for becoming a YAC Assistant?
YAC Assistants must agree to undergo a criminal record check every three years. They must be at least 16 years old. YAC Assistants come from a wide range of backgrounds and have many and varied skills, including:
Enthusiasm for working with young people, and the ability to be a good role model.
Enthusiasm for archaeology.
The ability to work in a team.
The ability to follow the instructions and guidance of the YAC Leader.
What support do YAC Assistants get?
YAC Assistants should go to their Leaders in the first instance for support or with questions, but are also very welcome to approach YAC HQ. YAC Assistants can join YAC's email network and Facebook group, where you can discuss any issues with other YAC volunteers. YAC organises face-to-face and online training sessions on a range of topics as funding allows, and YAC HQ will send out information about these as they arise.
How much time does being a YAC Assistant take up, and when?
We hold activity sessions once a month on Saturday mornings, usually from 10:30am – 12:30pm. In addition to these activity sessions, YAC Assistants may also spend time planning activities, taking care of branch administration, communicating with the YAC team and with YAC HQ. We estimate that YAC Assistants give an average of five or six hours a month each, but this will vary depending on how tasks are organised.
To apply, please get in touch with YAC Leader Joe Perry – [email protected] or 01782 232585.
PLEASE NOTE – our membership is fully subscribed, but get in touch if your child would like to be put on our waiting list.
We are looking for Volunteer Assistants to join us in running Stoke-on-Trent YAC. Find out more.
Stoke-on-Trent YAC is open to everyone aged 8–16 years. YAC clubs get involved in all sorts of activities, including visiting and investigating archaeological sites and historic places, trying out traditional crafts, taking part in excavations, and lots more.
Stoke-on-Trent YAC is based at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The club usually meets once a month. It is an affiliated club of the YAC network, and is run by staff and volunteers at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which is run by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Membership currently costs £24.00 per year and renews each January.
If you'd like to get involved with Stoke-on-Trent YAC, or find out more about how the club is run, get in touch with the team using the details below:
Contact: Joe Perry (Curator of Local History)
You can find out more about Stoke-on-Trent YAC, and other branches, on the YAC website.
Volunteer project to arrange the Freer moth collection into taxonomic order
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is supported by an amazing group of dedicated volunteers. Whether it's organising fossils, digitising watercolour paintings or engaging visitors with fascinating objects, there are a wealth of unique opportunities to support our collections and events. If you're interested in becoming a part of our story, get in touch or check this page for any available opportunities. We are only able to offer volunteer work to people aged 18 or over.
Visitor Survey Volunteers
We're currently looking for some enthusiastic volunteers to help us carry out visitor surveys. This important role is crucial in guiding our future programming and ensuring we continue to deliver engaging exhibitions and events to our visitors. If you're interested, please get in touch with Mel Firman, Audience Development Manager at [email protected]
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This path one time long time ago
This exhibition comes from a collaboration between myself, the Natural History department of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and AirSpace Gallery. It comes from a long term project that AirSpace has undertaken regarding the brownfield sites in and around Stoke-on-Trent. So the invitation was to think about the brownfield sites and the Natural History Museum. I did a residency in the summer of 2017 in AirSpace Gallery where I had the chance to explore the brownfield sites and also the Museum's collection and archives. This was a great way to think about the complexity of their relation. I worked very closely with Glenn Roadley who is the museum´s Natural History curator. I see the brownfield sites as a see through limit in the city and society. They are fenced out to prevent people from entering so they become thriving ecologies of all sorts of plants and animals which are allowed to grow without much of our control or planning. Of course in them we find all sorts of discarded objects that people throw into them. So it is a repository of sorts of both nature and culture. We are able to see how plants reproduce and spread out across the space challenging harsh conditions and materials such as tarmac and concrete. I am interested in these sites from the interactions between nature and culture. There is also of course the issue of land ownership, how much time has to pass in order for a site to be reconsidered as a green area of the city or for people to use freely? Or what is the purpose of having a site fenced down for people not to use for 15 years and where nothing else is happening. Natural History museums are places where we get a lot of our ideas about nature, so that´s why I was interested in trying to use the museum almost as a material and to use some connections that are already being made.
I have been working in relation to science in a number of ways, particularly responding to devices of display or devices of `knowing´ and describing the natural world. This interest has led me to develop ways to respond to certain devices such as the aquarium, the greenhouse, cabinets of curiosities, herbaria, and the diorama. This exhibition was a unique opportunity for me to propose a site responsive work that delves into the museum context. The fact of working with the regulations, limitations and also possibilities of the museum was a learning process that became an important part of the work. For example the fact of freezing every organic object for at east two weeks before entering the collection so nothing living was left in it seemed really fascinating and revealing of relations between life and death that are present in the museum. So I had to be much more planned and organized in my decisions that made me reconcile advance planning with intuition. When you make work in relation to science but that has been shown in an art context is something I was much more used to, even when collaborating with scientists for specific projects in the past. But the fact of showing and making work in a science context made me question the role of art in that context. I had recently made a work that was a deconstruction of the Natural History Museum but I think it wouldn't have worked in the Natural History gallery as it did in an art context. So the work needed a different kind of radicalness and that had a lot to do with being able to use what the museum had already made. My intention was to propose a cross- pollination of different departments from the Museum. So the Natural History collection permeated into the Local History displays, the ceramic collection went into Natural History, and to modify the existing Dioramas was crucial in the sense that it reflected for me the role of art in this context. How to disrupt the order of things, or propose new ways of looking and thinking through disciplines. Perhaps it has to do with the lack of certainty in art practice, or the sense of humour and other dimensions of thought that are less present in the most exact sciences. The first works I ever did which I still like where collages made with paper merging images of landscapes and anatomy books. The definition that Max Ernst elaborates about collage (1) has been always relevant for me but also felt important in the way I wanted to use the museum displays and collections.
This intervention came from a constant fascination I have of old pictures of the making of Natural History Dioramas. There is something about the artifice when its made visible that reveals some sort of fictional construction, the idea of nature as a construct. I think dioramas in this sense are places where science meets fiction. They are idealizations of nature, or places where we both manifest but also educate about the idea we have about nature. I wanted to challenge this device revealing the artifice emphasizing on the theatricality of the museum. The animals already had poses that suggested a response so it was about making it look as if the lights from the ceiling had collapsed. But because the animals are responding to this event they appear to be still conscious. I think there is a fundamental problem rooted in the consideration of ourselves as humans as situated outside our own definition of nature, we are here and nature is over there. This today is challenged by the current anthropocene era were it is no longer possible to find anything unaffected by human activity. This work for me became an attempt to visualize our stubbornness in our approach and relation to other species. If the pre-cinematic device of the Diorama is an old device for knowing that we still insist on then what would a more philosophically accurate one look like?
I am fascinated by a story I read about the English Naturalist and Architect Frank Stainbridge. He was one of the assistants accompanying Alexander Von Humboldt in his expeditions through the tropics and Latin America. In the 19th Century Stainbridge brought back to England his own collection of plant specimens and organised building a hothouse specially designed to fit his collection of plants gathered in the voyages throughout the American continent. The result was a very intricately designed cast iron building with glass and heating to maintain the plants in this new and much colder environment. There are a number of testimonies by visitors to this exclusive greenhouse when it was open to a selected few. For many this was the only way to experience what the tropics were like in the northern hemisphere inside an artificially created environment. After a violent storm the glass broke and the plants died of exposure to the winter in the north of England. After some years he decided to reconstruct the greenhouse but this time replacing the original plants with hand-made ones. He hired many craftsmen to help in this very ambitious endeavour that resulted in over 3000 manmade specimens that to his words were "free from decay and death" (2). This had a great response from its visitors that can be read in their testimonies when they experienced this replication of nature. After a while a religious fanatic burned it all to the ground because he believed it was an offense to God for trying to mimic his powers. So that was the end of it, but after Frank Stainbridge died some researchers started going through his correspondence and found out that in the first version of the greenhouse he showed plenty of "fake" plants along the live ones because many of them died in the journey; and in the second version he showed plenty of real plants among the fake ones. The important thing to me is that no one knew about this and therefore experienced a kind of hybrid between nature and culture that only he knew about. This is what I find particularly interesting about this story and that I had in the back of my mind when thinking about this work. It is the consideration of taxidermy as a cultural artefact, as a representation of an animal more than an actual animal even if it´s made using it´s real skin. So they are given the same consideration as the ceramic birds from the museum´s vast collection of ceramics. The ceramic birds are placed both merging into and also disrupting the display, they are positioned in relation to the taxidermies which appear to be perhaps frightened or intrigued by them.
This work is one of two vitrines that I used to place sculptures using materials found in the brownfield sites. I was very inspired by the metal armatures used to hold precious objects in collections. So I wanted to create something between museum metal armature stands for artefacts and early modernist sculpture. With found objects from the brownfield site which were previously discarded by other people the idea of assigning meaning and value bringing them to the museum was important. Almost like an archaeology of contemporary garbage and debris. The first museums in history that where the cabinets of curiosities now seem to hold everything from treasure to trash, just because our ways of ordering have changed so much since they were invented. It made me think about systems of value. About the consideration of something as trash or worthy of attention in a museum. The brownfield sites are in a way discarded by urban planning.
This work was the second of 2 vitrines. It was made with fragments of plant life found in the brownfield sites that where frozen for 2 weeks in order to enter the museum. This gave them a very particular colour and texture. I was focused on the vitrine as a device of knowing and display and the relationship between the natural and the artificial. A very abstract hybrid between plants and some sort of architecture. It also came after working with scale models to build large scale sculptures and realization of the potential of the scale models to be considered as sculpture. So I followed on from that to make this work.
This mobile sculpture is a deconstruction of a diorama where every object is expanded into space. Every object is also balanced in a fragile relation to all of the rest. This idea of weight and balance between all the parts is a physical metaphor for ecology. The animal form is a taxidermy mannequin used nowadays in the taxidermy process to achieve an accurate muscle structure, which is not meant to be seen unless you are part of the making of a diorama or taxidermy. The objects also where found on the brownfield sites. It insists in conforming an image even though its always shifting, as our ways of thinking about ecology are also constantly changing, or ecology is constantly changing while we keep trying to understand it.
By bringing local wildlife taxidermies from the Natural History collection into the Local History Dioramas I was trying to, perhaps it is impossible, think in an animal logic. The dioramas depict human living environments such as a Victorian House and a Pub. I tried to imagine what they would look like if humans were suddenly not there anymore and animals started to take over. There is something perhaps scary about sharing our living built environment with wild animals. Maybe it is their indifference towards our material culture that scares us because we believe so much in it. That friction between what is considered wild and what is considered civilized was very important, to see what happens when you dissolve the threshold between the inside and the outside.
Rodrigo Arteaga
"The collage technique is the systematic exploitation of the accidentally or artificially provoked encounter of two or more foreign realities on a seemingly incongruous level – and the spark of poetry that leaps across the gap as these two realities are brought together." Max Ernst. https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/max-ernst/collage-frottage-grattage/2 The greenhouse effect. Serpentine Gallery, Apr 1, 2000 – Art, British – 82 pages.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found, comprising over 4,000 items. Archaeologists believe the Hoard was buried during the 7th Century (600-699AD), at a time when the region was part of the Kingdom of Mercia.
The Hoard was jointly acquired by the Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Birmingham City Council after it was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2009, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. The discovery is still transforming our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon era.
In November 2019, the 10 year conservation project and research project came to a close with the publication of a major research monograph and the full catalogue published online via the Archaeology Data Service.
War Gear
Most gold objects found from the Anglo-Saxon era are pieces of jewellery such as brooches or pendants. The Staffordshire Hoard is unique in that it is almost entirely made up of war gear, especially sword fittings. Over 1,000 pieces are from a single, ornate helmet. It is the grandest example to have been found from the period and would have been fit for a king. An 18-month research project produced two reproductions of the helmet. You can see one on display next the Hoard at the museum.
Anglo-Saxon metalworkers were very skilled, and the Hoard represents the pinnacle of their work. The quality is even more striking when we consider that the items were crafted without the aids of modern jewellers: power tools, magnification, and bright, artificial lights.
Although most of the hoard pieces were parts of weapons and armour, they are still highly decorative. Many pieces feature elaborate designs made from filigree (twisted wire) and garnet inlays. The quality of the Hoard means it was probably associated with leading figures from Anglo-Saxon aristocracy or royalty.
No one can be sure why the Staffordshire Hoard was buried. Many of the pieces are bent or warped. It looks like they were forcefully pulled to strip them away from the objects they were attached to. One theory is that the Hoard is a collection of trophies from one or more battles, buried for safe-keeping or as an offering to pagan gods.
Alternatively, stripping away fittings from swords, shields and helmets may have been a ritual way of stripping away the identity of the previous owner. The war gear was re-purposed and redecorated by the victor, and the old gold fittings buried as a gift to the gods. Such an event is documented in the famous Saxon peom, Beowulf:
One warrior stripped the other, looted Ongentheow's iron mail-coat, his hard sword-hilt, his helmet too, and carried graith to King Hygelac; he accepted the prize, promised fairly that reward would come, and kept his word. They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was.
You can currently seeing objects from Hoard on display in our gallery, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, located on the ground floor of the museum. The display features a raised wooden-floored mead hall, with columns and banners adorned with Anglo-Saxon artwork– representing ancient designs on the Hoard artefacts – along with a replica fire pit and king's chair.
You can also find the Staffordshire Hoard on display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
You can find out more about the Staffordshire Hoard through the links below:
http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia
What can the Staffordshire Hoard tell us about Anglo-Saxon life and death? What can everyday Anglo-Saxon objects tell us about the Staffordshire Hoard? This fascinating exhibition sets pieces from the world-famous Staffordshire Hoard in context among items from our collection of Anglo-Saxon finds, many never displayed before, and offers a glimpse into our ancestors' lives.
The display features a raised wooden-floored mead hall, with columns and banners adorned with Anglo-Saxon artwork– representing ancient designs on the Hoard artefacts – along with a replica fire pit and king's chair.
Thought-provoking artworks inspired by the mystery of the Hoard are also on display, including a specially-commissioned animated film 'The Last Dragon-Hunter'.
The Hoard Helmet – On Display Now
Over 1,000 fragments of the Staffordshire Hoard came from a single, ornate helmet. It is the grandest helmet to have been discovered from the period. Helmets were rare, and helmets like this even rarer – it could even be considered a crown.
You will discover a stunning reproduction of this helmet on display alongside real fragments from the Hoard.
Two models were created as the result of an 18-month long research project involving craftspeople, conservators, archaeologists and art historians, supported by the museum, Birmingham Museums Trust and Historic England.
You can find out more about the Staffordshire Hoard, the Hoard Helmet reproduction, and the conservation and research projects, through the links below:
Welcome to The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is part of Stoke-on-Trent Museums Service. The museums service was established in 1911 with the Federation of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent. The largest museum in the service, the Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, became the Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery when it moved to new premises in 1956, and the museum underwent major expansion in the late 1970s, winning the 'Museum of the Year' award in 1982. In 1998 the museum was rebranded as The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (PMAG).
The museum's collection of Staffordshire pottery is widely acknowledged as the finest in the world and other collections of fine and decorative arts, natural history,social history and archaeology have local, regional and national significance. The museum is fully accredited and all the collections, totalling more than 650,000 individual objects, are Designated collections. The museum is also now home to a number of artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard, which PMAG bought along with Birmingham Museums in 2010.
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As the partial government shutdown entered its 11th day Tuesday, members of the U.S. Coast Guard stopped getting paid.
In Wisconsin, that means 362 people working as active duty, reserve and civilian Coast Guard employees received their last check Dec. 31. That is until President Donald Trump and Congress come to a resolution.
The Coast Guard is the only branch of the military under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Other branches of the military are housed in the U.S. Department of Defense, and will continue to be funded during the shutdown.
In previous federal shutdowns, government employees received back pay once the government resumed, and White House officials predict the same thing will happen this time.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian McCrum said regardless of receiving their last check at the end of December, morale is up because Coast Guard members know their job is a necessity.
"If I don't get paid by (Jan.) 15, it could become more difficult," McCrum said. "But I know I will get paid as soon as they come to a resolution."
McCrum has been an enlisted member of the Coast Guard for four-and-a-half years. He is paid about $28,000 per year. Most of the Coast Guard's civilian workforce has been furloughed without pay.
For those concerned about making monthly payments for rent, electricity and other necessities, the Coast Guard is providing information, as well as a form letter to send to creditors explaining the situation.
Still, the site reminds members of the Coast Guard that creditors are not obligated to provide relief.
About 800,000 federal workers aren't being paid because of the partial government shutdown.
"They might miss a pay period because the government is shut down, but in the end, even if they aren't working, Congress has decided to pay people for the whole time," White House economist Kevin Hassett told reporters in Washington on Dec. 26. "So, in the end, it's really just a short-term problem, not a long-term problem."
There are about 42,000 active-duty military members in the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is the first responder for maritime law enforcement issues. This includes search and rescue, boating safety and security for special events.
According to the website for the Milwaukee Coast Guard — which is responsible for coverage of the western half of Lake Michigan from Port Washington to Wind Point in Racine County — the station conducts an average of 120 search and rescue cases a year and performs approximately 350 law enforcement boardings annually.
"We're still showing up for work and performing our essential duties," McCrum said. "We're focusing on the essential missions. Anything that protects life and property and law enforcement duties. It's really not affecting us as far as our general mission readiness."


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