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Last Dance for My Ladies
What a pair of bird dogs taught me about life, love, and aging gracefully
By Tom Brokaw
illustration: Daniel Adel
This is the story of two Labrador ladies: one, an elegant, highly intelligent, and self-confident blonde, the other, her kissing cousin, a tautly shaped raven-haired bundle of energy and anxiety. The blonde was known to a wide circle of admirers as Sage the Wonder Dog. The cousin was called Abbie, a name assigned by her Scottish breeders before she arrived in our family at the age of two.
My wife, Meredith, and I have been so willing to arrange our lives to accommodate Sage and Abbie that in a vain attempt to re-claim some dignity we say aloud from time to time, "Good God, we're the kind of people we used to make fun of." It doesn't change our behavior, but we do take some comfort in acknowledging our weakness in their presence.
They, in turn, demand nothing more than regular meals, soft beds, hands-on affection, and deep grass hillsides or fields of grain so they can exercise their God-given abilities to find upland birds, send them aloft, and, if their master doesn't screw up, retrieve for him the shotgunned quarry.
But I am ahead of myself.
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.
Sage came from that litter first to our ranch in Montana, where from her earliest age she demonstrated a unique combination of curiosity and what can only be described as canine self-confidence. She seemed to know she had royalty in her bloodline.
When Sage arrived, she was nameless and remained so for several weeks as we struggled to find the right call sign while remembering the admonition to pick a name that also serves as a command. Preferably one syllable and punchy.
We were struggling until a family friend suggested running through the spices. Rosemary and thyme may work for Paul Simon but not for a bird dog. But Sage? Yes. Perfect, especially for a dog already showing signs of innate wisdom and, besides, she was starting life nosing through the sagebrush on the surrounding hills.
Sage seemed to understand that her moniker brought with it certain expectations of self-confidence and making the right choices.
Shortly before acquiring Sage, I had edged back into shooting again after a hiatus brought on by the lethal consequences of 1968 when two of my heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, were gunned down. I had moved up from the Remington Wingmasters of my South Dakota youth to my friends' over-and-under Berettas and Purdeys at their exclusive shooting clubs in New York.
My eye had not left me, and the old thrill of nailing a pheasant on afterburners had returned. I began to wonder, could this new dog become a boon companion in the field?
From her earliest days with us she was nose down and tail up whenever we wandered into the hills surrounding our ranch, endlessly curious and focused.
I called a well-known trainer in upstate New York, Jerry Cacchio, who came highly recommended. He set the tone quickly. "You celebrities all think you've got a bird dog. You'll have to leave her with me for six weeks at least before we find out." We hesitated, but agreed that, however Sage turned out, the training would be helpful for her as a pet.
Three weeks after we dropped her off, Cacchio called to say, "Come get your dog." Damn, I thought, she flunked out. "No," Cacchio assured me. "You're a lucky guy. This is a smart dog. I can't teach her much more. You and I are going to spend a lot of time together."
It was a conversation that changed my life. I had a bird dog. Now the challenge was to get her into the field as swiftly as possible. And so began one of the unexpected but altogether harmonic experiences of my life, an annual rite of man, dog, friends, guns, and cackling roosters in the autumnal glory of the high plains or the quick flush of Hungarian partridge and sharptail grouse in the sagebrush-dotted landscape of Park County, Montana.
On our first trip back to South Dakota, my hunting pals were simultaneously skeptical and patronizing: "A New York dog, here in the mother lode of wily wild pheasants, competitive canines, thick cover, country boy shooters, and hunting as high church? Ho ho."
Two memories from those first hunts will linger forever. Sage was in a post-puppy phase, still finding her way when we hunted with friends in a sprawl of vast cornfields. I had left the main party with Sage to work her in a more isolated corner of the grain when I heard Meredith shouting to send her back. My friend Emmett had downed a rooster, and the other dogs had not been able to find it in the jungle of unpicked corn spilling over the horizon.
"A New York dog, here in the mother lode of wily wild pheasants, competitive canines, thick cover, country boy shooters, and hunting as high church? Ho ho"
I said simply to Sage, "Go to Meredith," and she sprinted off a hundred yards to the main party. Meredith pointed to the general area where the pheasant had gone down and said, "Sage, get the bird." Sage turned and rocketed into the standing stalks for a few moments and then came strolling out with a dead pheasant locked firmly in her jaws. Sage dropped the retrieved bird at Meredith's feet and raced back to join me in our corner of the field.
Emmett turned to Meredith and said, "You know, it's a shame that dog has to live in a New York apartment. Why don't you leave her here with me?" Nice try, no deal.
The following autumn Sage sat up in the passenger compartment of the plane I had chartered to central South Dakota as we drifted down to a small strip near Platte, a farming community in the heart of corn, soybean, and cattle country. Sage's ears were cocked and her nostrils were wide before we taxied to a stop. She was a long way from her New York home, but she knew exactly where she was and what was expected of her.
For the next three days she put on a gold medal performance of finding, flushing, and retrieving a rich harvest of wild pheasants in corn, beans, sunflowers, grass, and tree rows, moving at a steady, fluid gait with no episodes of whining or yelping while she gave equal attention to the eight hunters she was serving.
In a deep ravine hard by the Missouri River, the prairie grass had grown so thick it created a long, winding tunnel of cover along the dry creek bed at the bottom. Sage quickly determined it was the equivalent of a pheasant bunker, and she fearlessly dove in and disappeared from view. But we could track her by the nervous movement of the grass speeding along in two distinct clumps: first, pheasants racing through what they thought was their sanctuary, followed closely by Sage.
We raised our guns, knowing this couldn't go on forever and then—boom—at one end, the roosters exploded into the cerulean sky, followed by a streaking blur of golden dog fur. Bang, bang—one, two roosters went down, but one managed to get airborne again, however momentarily. Sage leaped four feet into the air and snatched it back to earth.
My friend Terry Ring, the soft-spoken proprietor of Silver Creek Outfitters, Sun Valley's premier gun and fly fishing shop, turned to me and said matter-of-factly, "I've been doing this a long time; I don't think I've seen a better dog."
That night I retreated to my bedroom to read, and Sage went along. I was in bed with a book and Sage resting her head on my chest when a college friend looked in on us. I could tell from his expression that he would have been less jealous if I had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
From that day and night on, Sage was not just my dog; she was my mistress and no one was more understanding than Meredith.
When Sage was tight by my side on the sidewalks of New York, cornfields and CRP plots of the Great Plains, sage-covered hills of Montana, and streamside as I fished through the summer months, we moved seamlessly through a zone of serenity, bound by deep mutual affection and dependence.
It was a pattern happily repeated season after season and then enhanced by the arrival of Abbie when Sage was eight years old.
On her baptismal trip to South Dakota, Abbie was confused. She'd been trained to retrieve, not to flush, so on opening day she stayed close by my side in the first field while Sage reconnoitered the landscape. After a few moments Sage simply looked back over her shoulder at Abbie, as if to say, "Okay, rookie, let me show you a trick or two."
I sent Abbie to Sage's side and then hit but did not kill a feisty rooster who immediately went into the evade-and-escape mode. As the pheasant darted off, Sage led Abbie on a serpentine track, her nose down and tail up, until they caught up to the wounded bird and brought it back to my feet.
Later on that cold and windy day, I dispatched Sage to help my friends hunt a band of trees bordering a cornfield while I kept Abbie with me to work on her commands. My back was to a barbed wire fence that separated the field from a ditch and a gravel road when a cackling rooster throttled out of the tree line just as a carload of local hunters stopped on the road to watch the action. I swung my 20-gauge hard from left to right, thinking, "Please, God, don't let me blow this shot in front of the good ol' boys." It was a clean kill over the road, and the big cock pheasant went down in the deep grass of the far ditch.
I released Abbie, who took four strides, cleared the fence in a powerful yet graceful leap, and streaked to the far side of the road where she grabbed the pheasant and returned it swiftly to my side. As she resumed her sitting position, the carload of locals broke into whistles and cheers.
I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. That day with Sage and Abbie is right up there when I come to reckon, "How did one guy get so lucky?"
I shot a double of sharptail grouse, and Sage, for the first time in her life, didn't know where they were. Her eyesight, hearing, and now her matchless nose were going fast
Somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind and heart, however, I knew this couldn't go on forever. Somewhere out there beneath an ominously gray sky of late autumn in the American West, when the birds were blitzing the steady winds, the day would come when Sage and Abbie would make their final retrieve.
That each would do that with élan and dignity in her own way is one more tribute to their individual and collective place in that part of my soul I reserve for greatness that I've encountered.
When Sage turned thirteen, I knew the day was fast approaching. She was hobbled by arthritis, and her hearing was as dim as my own. Still, she maintained her essential majesty, never more elegantly than when I returned from a long, difficult trip to Iraq and stumbled into our bedroom for a recuperative nap. As I lay down I could hear Sage laboriously working her way up the stairs to our bedroom. Just as I was about to drift off, she somehow managed to struggle onto our bed and stretched out beside me, placing her head affectionately on my shoulder as if to say, "Welcome home, partner. I missed you."
A few weeks later we were back in Montana for a snowy weekend of shooting Hungarian partridge. My friend Ron had flown in from Los Angeles, and we both knew this was going to be tough duty for my aging ladies, Sage and Abbie.
They were game, but the birds were scattered by the storms and so we spent a couple of hours trudging through deep snow and up slippery hills. As we were walking back to my pickup, we passed a thick hawthorn bush on a steeply pitched hillside leading into a marsh belly deep in white, wet snow.
Without a word from me, Sage did a sharp right turn and plunged into the bush. I shouted to Ron to be ready, and he clocked a partridge forty yards out in the snowy marsh grass. Sage was on the retrieve, making her way through the drifts like a swimmer stroking against the tide. She collected the little gray bird and turned back to us, the most difficult part of her journey still ahead as we stood atop the pitched embankment.
Abbie rushed down, trying to claim the retrieve, but Sage just patiently turned her head until Abbie sheepishly backed off and allowed Sage to make her way steadily to our side. Ron and I were speechless.
Four days later Sage and I were in the sagebrush on another hillside. I shot a double of sharptail grouse, and she, for the first time in her life, didn't know where they were. Her eyesight, hearing, and now her matchless nose were going fast.
The following summer we buried her in Montana in a grove of aspens on a hillside overlooking the river where she frolicked with me on my morning plunges and stood as a sentry while I cast for rising trout, awaiting autumn and rising birds.
Abbie lived on but she, too, began to break down, and no combination of drugs or surgery could delay the onset and penalty of withered limbs.
My hunting days were now the province of Red, another yellow Lab, a boy's boy, athletic, and another superior dog in the field. In Abbie's thirteenth year I gathered my gun, shells, and whistle from the locked closet in our Montana farmhouse and started out with Red for an afternoon of grouse.
Abbie rallied herself from the sleeping pad and gave me such a mournful look that I succumbed and said, "Okay, you get to go, too." She waggled all the way to the four-wheeler, where I lifted her in beside me and drove to a tall stand of bluestem and timothy bordered by chokecherry bushes leading to a sharp incline.
Red was bouncing through the vegetation, onto something, just what, I didn't know, as Abbie followed me through the waist-high grass. Suddenly, Red put up a covey of blue grouse and a separate covey of ruffed grouse simultaneously.
I killed a ruffed and winged a blue at the top of the ridgeline. Red went after the dead bird, and I said to Abbie, "Okay, old girl, we have to find the other." It was a hard, hot hike straight uphill. When we reached the top, I looked around and Abbie was missing. "My God," I thought, "she's died of a stroke or a heart attack."
Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a black ball of fur tumbling down from the top of the hill, pushing a wounded grouse ahead with her nose. Abbie, her legs now worn out, was sliding and rolling the bird into the bushes where she could trap it against the thick roots. When she reached the bushes, she grabbed the blue in her jaws and lay down, waiting for me to retrieve them both. I pocketed the grouse, picked up Abbie, and carried her down the hill, weeping softly as I kept repeating into her ear, "Good girl, good girl."
"Last Dance for My Ladies" is excerpted from the book Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs (May; Skyhorse Publishing). The collection also includes stories from Richard Ford, Howell Raines, Rick Bass, Sydney Lea, Jim Harrison, and Tom McGuane.
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Featured at My Book, The Movie: From Darkest Skies by Sam Peters.
From Darkest Skies was optioned by a London-based production company almost two years ago with a view to making it as a TV series. Now it's true that this happens to a lot more books than actually make it all the way to the screen. I don't know what the hit rate is – probably less than ten percent – and even for those that make it, the time between being optioned and hitting the screen can be many, many years (fifteen, I think, for Altered Carbon, which undoubtedly shares some DNA with From Darkest Skies). The point being for both authors and readers: don't hold your breath! But the point also being that in this case, I've given quite a lot of thought to who I think would be great to play each of the major characters.
From Darkest Skies is a futuristic thriller centred around intelligence agent Keon Rause, native of a colony world whose original settlers were predominantly Pacific Islanders so I'd really like Keon to be played by someone who looks like they have some of that DNA in them. A strong noir element permeates the atmosphere, too. World-weary and grieving, I'm going for Matrix-era Keanu Reeves for this.
Although notionally trying to unravel the death of a minor celebrity from an apparent drug overdose, Keon's real goal is to discover the truth about the death, five years ago, of his wife Alysha. To help him with this, Keon has recreated his wife as a simulation embedded in Artificial Intelligence, whom he calls Liss, and this is where the heart of the story lies, in the complex and difficult relationship between Keon and Liss as they discover both separately and together that Alysha wasn't quite...[read on]
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Los Invernaderos Kiseki No Hoshi en japonés: 奇跡の星の植物館 Kiseki no Hoshi no Shokubutsukan, también denominados como Museo de las Plantas Planeta Milagroso.

Es un complejo de invernaderos que albergan un jardín botánico y que ocupan 6,700 m² de extensión, lo que les hace ser la segunda mayor superficie de invernaderos botánicos en Japón.

Se encuentran en la prefectura de Hyōgo, Japón.

Localización

Kiseki no Hoshi no Shokubutsukan, Yumebutai 4 Banchi, Higashiura-cho, Tsuna-gun, Awaji-shi Hyogo-ken 656-2301, Awaji-jima Japón.

Planos y vistas satelitales.

Está abierto al público diariamente excepto el día de año nuevo. Se cobra una tarifa de entrada.

Historia
Fue abierto al público el 18 de marzo del 2000. El edificio del invernadero tiene la altura del techo aumentada aún más del sentido de la escala, para crear la sensación de un espacio diáfano y abierto.

El tema principal del invernadero es "crear impresiones", el arte es un espacio de exposición de un nuevo tipo que combina el verde y las flores.

Colecciones
Este jardín tiene por objetivo el reencuentro del hombre (a través del arte, y el medio ambiente de vida) con la naturaleza. Así pues se presentan objetos de arte junto a las plantas; se realizan algunas puestas en escena de plantas en macetas, para dar ideas a los visitantes aplicables en su medio ambiente diario.

Consta de 5 invernaderos temáticos, un invernadero de helechos, un espacio nombrado " atrium", y las salas de exposiciones.

Con las colecciones siguientes en los invernaderos temáticos:

 Invernadero n°1 "Galería de Plantas": colección de plantas suculentas y puesta en escena de objetos de arte en un jardín seco.
 Invernadero n°2 "Jardín Tropical": colección de plantas tropicales; jardín de verano.
 Invernadero n.º3 "Nuevo estilo de vida con plantas": presentación de distintos estilos de jardines japoneses.
 Invernadero n.º4 "Jardín Sanador": reconstitución de un ambiente que alivia que combina la naturaleza y el arte.
 Invernadero n.º5 "Espacio de exhibición floral": 1000 m² de invernadero para exposiciones temáticas de flores.
 Invernadero de los helechos
 El atrio: presentación de pequeños jardines en macetas y consejos para su mantenimiento.

Actividades
Organizan cursos sobre el cultivo de los bonsais, y cursos de aromaterapia.

Se dan algunos consejos en jardinería en el sitio Internet en japonés, así como la lista de los principales vegetales cultivados en los invernaderos y un calendario de floración.

También se organizan varias exposiciones cada año; el calendario de las exposiciones se encuentra en el sitio Internet en japonés.

Se organizan también algunos conciertos en los invernaderos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Invernaderos Kiseki No Hoshi (japonés)
 Jardins Botaniques Japonais (francés)

Kiseki No Hoshi, Invernaderos
Kiseki No Hoshi, Invernaderos

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GB Makes History
Great Britain hosted their first-ever all women's baseball game on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Organized by Laura Hirai and Luke Stott, 20 women participated.
The event was for some of the softball women, curious to learn more about baseball but wanting to play with other girls. The team recruited some university students to play against and the game was on. The teams played with wood bats and, though the field and ball sizes were overwhelming for those new to the game, Hirai said a few of those balls managed to get smashed into the outfield. Hirai gave them a fundamentals lesson and the teams held to baseball rules while utilizing their softball fundamentals.
"I couldn't stop smiling throughout the entire game," Hirai told EBSM. The GB U19 national baseball team pitcher, and U19 national softball team player, has had a busy spring. She not only was named to both national teams and organized this event, she was at Prague Baseball & Softball Week in late April to coach the softball crew.
According to Hirai the day was beautiful. The sun even made an appearance at times which, anywhere in spring is a delight but on the hills of London, an unexpected surprise no doubt. There was a crowd on-hand, including men who were in the area for a softball tournament, to, as 17-year old Hirai put it, "watch girls kick butt on the baseball field."
Hirai organized and participated in the event. Though she normally plays on the diamond with boys, she said, "that day I played with girls and I felt like girls have taken a massive leap toward gender equality in baseball, in sport and in society in general."
Ever since she began playing baseball, Hirai has followed the philosophy, 'Why wait for change when it can be me who makes it?' Perhaps that is why she serves as International Youth Ambassador for the International Women's Baseball Center. She had a dream of playing with women on a baseball field. Hirai says she surrounded herself with people that shared her passion and dream to create a women's baseball game in the UK.
That, in turn, made it much easier to recruit girls to help make her dream a reality. One of those people was British Softball UK's Luke Stott. Stott is no rookie planner. As president of the Loughborough Baseball & Softball Club he orgainzed tournaments and an All Star game. He also created the National University Baseball League (NUBL) which has 16 teams across three divisions that play 70 games a season. Stott told EBSM, "As commissioner of British University Baseball I've always supported women's involvement in our sport. I'm incredibly pleased to have played a small part in the progression of the women's game in this country." According to Stott the university league's rosters are 15% female. He's looking to increase participation to 50% but says, "to do that we need more opportunities for women to play. That's why this past weekend was momentous."
While this was a one-off event, for now, the long term goal is to start a women's baseball league. "For now it's just about exposing the sport to women and letting them know they don't have to be dragged into softball," Hirai said. She believes that universities are the right place to start.
This game ended another historic week for women's baseball. In Argentina the first women's baseball league opened their season as well. If June follows April and May's leads, there is a good chance that women's baseball may soon be the norm rather than the exception. Perhaps, by the time 2024 comes along it will simply be baseball and softball in the Olympics with mixed teams competing in both sports and finally showing what players of each game know to be true. They are completely different sports and everyone has the right to play whichever one they chose.


Many parents feel like they are under continuous pressure to make sure that their child has the best possible chance in life, and at no time is this more evident than in those precious years before they go to school.
In June 2000 the UK Government published its report about early years education, the period between birth and first going to school at about 5 years of age. The report, Early Years Learning, was stimulated by the concern that perhaps 'too much too young' might be harmful. The report summarises the scientific research on the development of the brain and the psychological development of children, and of studies that compared the outcomes of different types of pre-school education.
The idea that children should study things like maths and languages or music as soon as possible is founded on aspects of developmental neurobiology (how the brain develops) which shows that the brain does, indeed, experience a huge amount of change in the first few years of life. But, the report says, other scientists also say that not enough is known about the brain to link these ideas directly to instruction and learning. In fact, the idea that the brain only changes when we are infants is, of course, nonsense. How else would you be able to learn to drive, or manage your bank account?
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Let's think about how language is acquired.
In the first 12 months of life, a baby categorises the sounds needed to speak its own language. New-born babies are able to distinguish between all speech sounds, but after 12 months lose the ability to distinguish between sounds to which they are not exposed. For example, Japanese people can rarely distinguish between the sound R and L. Because their language does not contain distinct R and L sounds Japanese new-borns are not often exposed to them. Because of this, we'll soon be making our products available in Japanese, Chinese, Russian and other languages which have sounds unique to them. It is not about teaching a second language, but simply to familiarise children with the sounds of different languages. Let us know if you would like these sooner, and we'll get cracking!
After about a year, babies begin to turn sounds into words, and in a process called 'fast-mapping' babies begin to associate words with objects. They do this by hearing other people around them, so one of the most important things a parent does is simply to talk to their baby. By two years most children will have the command of between 20 and 50 single words, and by now the learning process accelerates at a fantastic rate. By the time they are five most children will have a vocabulary of around 5,000 words, and this rate of learning continues into primary education and only starts to slow down in adolescence. Children develop grammatical rules without being explicitly taught them, and will naturally experiment with how language fits together in their early years, sometimes with hilarious effect. Children really like playing with sounds and you only have to listen to a playground to hear language being experimented with through games, songs and nonsense rhymes.
We all pick up new words all of the time and learning never really stops. While you sing-a-long with your child, you too will pick up new words in other languages. Why not impress your friends by singing a song in Spanish, or French?
The activity of singing along is really useful to help a child acquire general language skills. Adult humans appear to have an innate ability to form word sounds that have an almost song-like quality when talking to very young children. Psychologists call it Motherese, and adults do it naturally all over the world. Rhyming is also very helpful, and this may account for why nursery songs remain one of the most popular ways for parents to interact with their children – everyone loves it, it is great fun, and your child is learning all the time. Good spoken language skills naturally combine with story telling and reading, although again, the Government's report finds that it is not necessarily those who read at a very young age who will continue to become stronger readers later in life. The most powerful influence for a child is simply to have access to books in a supportive environment without putting pressure on them with structured learning. In the end, the best way to help your child is just to have fun talking, singing, and telling and reading stories together. Turn off the telly, and sing, dance and bang a drum to a nursery rhyme in different languages and you'll all have much more fun, all the while learning things as if by accident.
Of course exactly how children learn, what scientists call cognitive development, is much more complicated and a lot more has yet to be discovered. We do know, as you will, that children begin to develop basic numeracy skills quite naturally in their early years; another reason why nursery rhymes that include counting games are very popular. Being able to count is an important step in helping children to understand about sharing.
In short, children in their early years learn through their own experience of interacting with the people and objects around them. Playing, exploring, talking and just having fun in an easy going supportive atmosphere seems to do the trick. According to the Government, there is no clear evidence that suggests a specially enriched environment is particularly beneficial, and in some circumstances, formal tuition of numbers and letters at a very young age can be counter-productive.
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Below is a summary of other research and discussions about children and learning that we thought you might find interesting.
Ah ha! This most controversial claim, that listening to Mozart will turn your child into the next Prime Minister, or Nobel Prize winner, is much misunderstood. The idea comes from a test conducted among college aged students, not very young children, in America in 1993, and again with a different group in 1995. The test was a spatial reasoning task. Over sixteen exercises, the students had to work out in their minds the shape of pieces of paper that had been folded and cut. The whole group were tested on the first day, and then split into three groups to be re-tested over the next 4 days. Before each test, one group listened to ten minutes of a particular piece of Mozart's music, another group ten minutes of silence, and the third a mix of different sorts of music and spoken word. The Mozart group performed better than the others. However, according to Steven Demorest and Steven Morrison in Music Educators Journal this proved nothing, not least the fact that they didn't test Mozart against another classical composer. They said, "Though the results are interesting, there is a long way to go before establishing any direct connection between musical organization and the inner workings of the mind. […] Having parents rushing out to buy Mozart CDs will certainly not hurt children and may provide a certain type of cultural enrichment-at least involving one culture. The harm comes when these results are viewed either as a rationale for music education, or as a curriculum guide." Claudia Winkleman, writing in the Daily Telegraph said that her son Jake, who she had banned from watching too much telly, "found it tricky to dance to Mozart, so that's been taken off the music rota," he prefered Vivaldi and Bach she says. So, there we have it. Mozart is, well, Mozart and as much as anything what our children listen to probably only comes down to taste. In our experience, children like all sorts of music, for all sorts of reasons and that's good in itself.
It is easy to forgive the harrassed parent who plops their child in front of the telly to get some peace, or simply to get some time to do the million other things that need to be done in a day. Learning happens through action, says Donna Brink Fox in her article Music and the Baby's Brain: Early Experiances. Donna says that it is "active engagement, not passive response" that develops brains. Changes in brain structure in adult musicians is shown to be caused primarily by the active making of music. Juliet's husband Simon, who plays the guitar, can testify to that too and says that making music is very rewarding. Passive listening is useful too, especially for changing moods, but brain development is happening when music is being made. Donna suggests that there is a strong connection between music and language development, and stresses that for young children, music making is just part of their lives. "Music is woven into social encounters," she says, and that music making is "an ongoing individual and social part of everyday life". Get out the pots and pans, blow a whistle, ring a bell, and play along with the songs.


Leila George has been cast in TNT's "Animal Kingdom" in a recurring role for the upcoming fourth season.
George, daughter of actors Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi, most recently starred in Universal's "Mortal Engines" adaptation and previously starred in James Franco's "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?" remake for Lifetime.
She is next set to appear alongside Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan and Chris Pratt in D'Onofrio's directorial debut "The Kid" for Lionsgate.
"Animal Kingdom" was renewed by TNT for Season 4 last July, midway through the series' third season. Based on the 2010 Australian film of the same name, "Animal Kingdom" stars Ellen Barkin, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Finn Cole, Molly Gordon and Carolina Guerra.
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Jesus Christ Superstar (March 30th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)
[JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR screens Monday March 30th at 7:00 pm with stars Ted Neeley, Barry Dennen, and Bob Bingham in attendance.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
What makes the revival screening of 1973's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at the Cleveland Cinematheque so special? A few things. First, key actors from the film version of the Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber musicalization of the New Testament will be in attendance live, including Ted Neeley (Jesus), who has subsequently toured with the live version. Also scheduled at the Cinematheque are Barry Dennen (Pontius Pilate) and Bob Bingham (High Priest Caiphas).
Second, it's probably the last time you can get to see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in its original Universal Pictures form. To keep in step with the changing times in which we now live, all prints are going to be recalled, re-edited and re-released as MOHAMMED ROCKS, to please the rising Islamofascist market demographic among the ticket-buyers in world audiences. There will singing/dancing decapitated heads of hostages, the Jews will be the bad guys (still), and the finale will literally bring the house down - well, at least the World Trade Center towers.
Okay, just kidding in that last paragraph. But you just know there are Cleveland liberals, mainly in our college community, who would probably welcome such a reboot. I strongly suspect President Obama would.
The point is the world has changed a lot since JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR made its debut, after the Rice/Lloyd-Webber musical (and, most people forget, a hit rock-opera concept-album LP, just like the Who's 'Tommy') left its indelible imprint on the religious side of the "hippie" era. If you haven't given the disc a listen lately, I recommend it indeed, and Lloyd-Webber cooperated with Andre Previn on the film's orchestration.
Seen today, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR's faint traces of quasi-psychedelia and the Age of Aquarius that render so many other late-60s/early-70s films unbearably campy are less evident than they might have been. The G-rated feature has actually aged pretty well, granted the bold stylistic choices brought to the material by director Norman Jewison, hot off doing the (more traditional) film version of another blockbuster musical, Fiddler on the Roof.
Chiefly, Jewison framed the whole production (JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, we're talking) in contempo terms, shooting on location in Israel (and in between a series of wars with Egypt, no less), using caves, ancient temple ruins and skeletal scaffolding for the minimalist sets, and putting his actors in modern dress. In literalist terms, they're a multi-ethnic troupe of nobody-over-30 hipster performers in bell-bottoms who arrive by bus in the desert, unload their costumes and props at the outset, and perform the whole musical that you see. Rather a cool notion - although the Stephen Schwartz musical GODSPELL, released as a film via Columbia also in 1973, did that too, only in a mysteriously deserted New York City.
It's also actually pretty wild, even by modern standards, that the main character in JCS, and in many ways the most fully realized and sympathetic, is Judas Iscariot, played by the late, great Carl Anderson, as a revolutionary type and Jesus' official second-in-command, dismayed about all the messiah talk and fears that the wrath of the whole Roman Empire will come down on their heads. Dennen's Pontius Pilate also manages to register, as a mocking official who comes to rue the persecution and execution of the so-called King of the Jews on his watch. Ted Neeley's tortured, self-doubting Jesus has been criticized as "whiny," but he anticipates the human-scale Christ to be dramatized by later filmmakers, most notably Martin Scorsese's novel adaptation THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. As with just about every Bible epic, those who complain about lack of background, motivation, character development and downbeat ending [SPOILER ALERT: no resurrection is depicted; maybe Rice and Lloyd-Webber are saving it for the sequel) should be told it's partially their own fault for Not Having Read the Book. In this case, THE book.
But it is true that most of the actors are dwarfed by the Israeli landscape, props (dig those tanks!) and settings, with Jewison often using performers, especially the limber Anderson, as graphic/pictorial elements in the widescreen spectacle. The big screen is definitely the way to see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. And to have several cast members present is a divine bonus.
And, let's face it, a meet-and-greet with Ted Neeley is the closest to meeting Jesus that most folks in University Circle will ever get. Sorry, the devil made me write that line. (3 out of 4 stars)
Posted by Charles Cassady Jr. at 8:49 AM
Labels: Charles Cassady Jr., Christianity, Cleveland cinematheque, Cleveland OH, Jesus Christ Superstar, Movie Review, musical, Norman Jewison, religion, Ted Neeley


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Harper's Magazine, 1955: Journalist Investigates New Polio Vaccine
1955 article on the new polio vaccine (Harper's Magazine)
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Thanks to Suzanne Azar
Who is responsible, and why, for the chaotic confusion over the polio inoculations? A noted medical journalist disentangles the essential facts.
THE PEAK of the polio season usually comes in the second half of August or the first part of September. This year, we might have had substantially fewer cases of polio than usual. As it is, the number we do have will be largely a matter of luck.
We will have whatever number of cases do occur instead of the smaller number we might have had because of the Great Vaccine Mess. During this past spring, the country was made to witness a spectacle without precedent. On April 12, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, reported on the largest and most carefully executed field trial of a vaccine product in history, the 1954 test of the Salk polio vaccine. The trial confirmed a major medical discovery.
The Salk vaccine was found to be adequately effective in preventing paralytic poliomyelitis, and remarkably safe. A month later, the hopes the Francis report had aroused, and the vaccine itself, had been very nearly dissolved in an incredible sea of confusion.
How did this come about? Who and what were responsible? It is no doubt too early for anyone to attempt a final assessment of what happened. The principal details, however, can be established.
The Great Vaccine Mess was a tangled compound of many factors. It involved technical questions so abstruse there are scarcely two score men in the United States competent to pass on them, and everyone with a direct part in the situation, or nearly everyone, acted from the best of motives.
But demagogy and political expediency also contributed to the brew. So did over sensationalism by the press, radio, and TV, and a misguided attempt by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to withhold from the public for many weeks information the public was entitled to have from the beginning. Also involved were timidity and lack of leadership; a complete failure to educate the public properly on vaccines (despite all the propaganda); the constitutional unwillingness of scientists to give absolute guarantees; and many things more.
The point is, though, that the mess was unnecessary. Even if better planning might not have avoided the accident with Cutter vaccine, many more children than were inoculated could have been immunized safely in time for this year's polio season. The vaccination program was perhaps not the best that could have been devised. But it was not a bad program. It could have been kept on the track. All that was necessary was a little judgment and some capacity for decisive action in the right places at the right time.
THE BEST WAY to unravel the Great Vaccine Mess is to set down, first, a simple chronology of events as they were seen, let's say, by an average newspaper reader or TV viewer. Then we can get on to some other things that also happened-though they were not in the papers-and to an examination of what went wrong.
The place to begin is New York in October 1954. In that month, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, whose office is on downtown Broadway, announced that it was taking a "calculated risk." The Foundation had paid for the development of the Salk vaccine and paid for and arranged the field trial. Now, without waiting for Dr. Francis' report on the trial, it was ordering enough vaccine to immunize nine million children. Its purpose was to get manufacturers into production and to have vaccine on hand as soon as the trial results were announced in the event that these were favorable.
During the March of Dimes in January, Foundation workers and Foundation publicity carried the message of the "calculated risk" into nearly every home in the country. As the date for the Francis report drew near, interest was whipped up still more by advance newspaper stories-like an erroneous New York World-Telegram & Sun report that the vaccine had been found 100 per – cent effective.
The date for the Francis report was set by Dr. Francis himself. It could not be later than mid April (otherwise the inoculation of school children could not be completed before the end of the school year).
Dr. Francis was pressed by the big news magazines to make it early in the week (to meet their deadlines). The University of Michigan, where a special scientific meeting was held to hear the report, asked that the day not be a Monday (to avoid calling out a make-ready crew on a Sunday, at Sunday rates). So it was April 12, the second Tuesday of the month and the tenth anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most famous polio victim of all–a circumstance which was to lead to caustic remarks later, but of which Dr. Francis insists he was at the time unaware.
By 9:00 A.M.. of the big day, nearly two hundred newsmen were jammed into a temporary newsroom on the third floor of the Michigan graduate school administration building, awaiting copies of the report. These arrived at 9:15 under the escort of a university press officer and four Ann Arbor policemen. (It took the four policemen to get the press officer and his cargo through the crowd of newsmen and into the newsroom.)
Dr. Francis began reading his report to an audience of five hundred physicians and scientists in the auditorium downstairs an hour later. As the cameras ground, he announced that the vaccine had been between 60 and 90 per cent effective in preventing paralytic polio, and even more effective in avoiding the bulbar form of the disease. Side reactions among the 440,000 children who had received the vaccine had been very few and mild. There was no evidence to connect the vaccine with the cases of polio that did occur among inoculated children; those children simply did not develop immunity or did not develop it in time.
In Syracuse, New York, the success of the Salk vaccine was signaled by airraid sirens, church bells, and the turning of all traffic lights red for one minute. In Washington, late that afternoon, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare signed licenses for manufacture of the vaccine. Parke, Davis & Co., one of six vaccine firms under contract to the polio foundation, made its first shipment less than four hours after its license was signed. Vaccination of first- and second-graders under the Foundation program got under way, in San Diego, April 16.
Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the polio foundation, predicted that there would be enough vaccine to immunize twenty million children by July 1. This was raised to thirty million when the Foundation's medical advisory committee decided on two shots for each child this spring, with the third put off until next winter. (The longer interval between the second and third injections, Dr. Salk reported, would provide more solid, longer-lasting immunity.) Newspapers reraised Dr. Van Riper; they guessed there might be enough vaccine to inoculate forty-five million children before the polio season.
To get some of this vaccine for youngsters not covered by the Foundation program, state and local health departments throughout the country began placing orders with the vaccine manufacturers. The manufacturers said no orders could be accepted until commitments to the Foundation had been fulfilled. It was soon evident that vaccine production was neither so large nor so elastic as expected and that the Foundation contracts would take longer to complete than anticipated. New York and many other communities had to postpone scheduled inoculation clinics repeatedly because the vaccine had failed to arrive. The World-Telegram & Sun (Republican) charged that vaccine was being diverted to commercial channels and the "black market." Congressmen (mostly Democratic) charged that the Eisenhower Administration was failing to make adequate plans to meet the demand for the vaccine, and introduced bills to control the vaccine's distribution.
THE CUTTER CRISIS
OVER the next ten days, the vaccine shortage dominated the news. Then, during the night of April 2627, the U. S. Public Health Service received word of six cases of paralytic polio in children inoculated with vaccine manufactured by the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California. This was more than could have been expected to occur by chance, among the comparatively small number who had received Cutter vaccine, in the post-inoculation interval before immunity develops. The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, at once banned the Cutter product and started an investigation to see what, if anything, had gone wrong with it.
Additional cases of post-inoculation polio soon appeared, many involving Cutter vaccine, but also some where the injections had been the product of other manufacturers. The latter almost certainly had nothing to do with the vaccine. Like all other vaccines, polio vaccine takes a period of some weeks to produce immunity. During this interval, the inoculee is still susceptible to the disease, and some inoculees will get it, if there is polio around–as there was in most of the areas where inoculations were taking place. But no one in a responsible position had the wit or courage to make this clear for many weeks, not in the Public Health Service, not in the American Medical Association, not even in the polio foundation itself. So the panic grew.
In the meantime, on April 29, a committee of polio experts met at the National Institutes of Health (the research arm of the U. S. Public Health Service) to consider the problems posed by the Cutter vaccine. The committee, on April 30, recommended continuation of the polio program with the vaccine of other manufacturers, and the appointment of a smaller committee to see whether more stringent safety standards for polio vaccine were possible.
This second committee met on Thursday, May 5. On Friday, it was joined by representatives of the vaccine firms. At 4:00 A.M. on Saturday, May 7, the Surgeon General ordered a complete halt to the immunization program. He said he had acted because mass immunizations were scheduled in several states over the weekend, and because there had been insufficient time to evaluate the committee's findings.
During the next several weeks, a team of Public Health Service experts and consultants visited the vaccine plants. As a result, vaccine of two manufacturers that had been distributed but not used was "re-cleared" for use. (Vaccine of two other manufacturers was cleared later.) Between trips, the touring experts consulted with more experts at ad hoc conferences. These went on at the National Institutes of Health until far into the night.
FINALLY on May 25, Dr. Scheele appointed still another committee. This one, which consisted of two representatives of the Public Health Service and five polio experts (including Dr. Salk), recommended a series of changes in the procedure for testing polio vaccine. After a day of debate, the changes were accepted by the manufacturers.
Meanwhile, it developed that there was live polio virus in some Cutter vaccine. But this information did not come from the Public Health Service; to all questioners (and there were many), PHS was still replying as late as the first week of June that investigation of the Cutter vaccine was not yet completed. The information came from Dr. Louis B. Gebhardt of the University of Utah, via an enter program last fall or winter when the need seemed far less pressing.
More serious, to my mind, is the evidence that there was a notable lack of real planning for the technical aspects of producing vaccine on the part of the Foundation, agencies like the American Medical Association, and-most important, because they have the legal responsibility–the Public Health Service and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. No matter how it's sliced, the production of 3,500,000 cc last year was mass production. Any difficulties that turned up this year could and should have been detected last year. Whether or not it could have been avoided, in any event, the Cutter incident was subsequently so mismanaged that it very nearly wrecked the program we had.
In the first place–for reasons that I find hard to understand–the department and the Public Health Service have not been candid with the public.
From about the beginning of May through at least the first week of June, a curtain of silence was drawn down around Public Health Service scientific and technical personnel working on the polio vaccine problem. When I visited Washington and Bethesda (the Washington suburb where the National Institutes of Health are located), I was not permitted to see any PHS scientific or technical people. The excuse offered was that all were busy preparing a report for the President on new measures to reassure the safety of the vaccine. But reporters had not been able to obtain information directly from PHS technical people for weeks; and, except for a press conference held by Dr. James A. Shannon, associate director of the Institutes of Health, the press had seen PHS personnel only casually (mainly in the NIH hospital cafeteria, the only eating place in the sprawling medical research plant). Reporters were forced to submit questions through Department and PHS press officers. Practically all the important questions went unanswered for weeks, though no secrets of state were involved, just the health of the American people.
THREE BIG QUESTIONS
ONE CAN nevertheless establish some of what happened in the Great Vaccine Mess, and much of what the Department and the Health Service did not see fit to tell. I address myself to three questions: What went wrong with the Cutter vaccine? Why did Dr. Scheele call off the immunization program at four o'clock in the morning of May 7? And who finally got the vaccine program "back on the track"?
Let us take up the Cutter affair first. Although the Public Health Service has been at some pains to avoid saying so, there was presumptive evidence of the presence of live virus in some samples of Cutter vaccine from the first dozen polio cases associated with it. First, some cases turned up in areas like Idaho, where polio does not ordinarily occur at that time of year. Second, in most of the first cases, paralysis began in the in jected limb; such an association is not usual, though it may occur once in a while, when there is no connection between vaccine and post-inoculation disease.
By now, of course, the presence of live virus in one sample of Cutter vaccine has been confirmed. (As recently as June 7, however, the Health Service refused to say whether its scientists had found virus in the vaccine or not.) How did it get there?
As Dr. Shannon of NIH points out, this may never be known for certain. The vaccine in involved was shipped from the Cutter plan shortly after April 12. Its defects did not become known until two weeks later. How can one be sure precisely what submicroscopic viruses were where when that vaccine was processed, perhaps months before?
Nonetheless there appear to be only two ways in which live virus could have got into the vaccine. One was somehow to survive the killing treatment and pass undetected through the battery of safety tests to which all polio vaccine is subjected. Recent calculations suggest that this could have happened.
The other possibility is that the virus got in accidentally during bottling or at some other time after the killing agent was neutralized. (The agent employed to kill the polio virus, formaldehyde, is toxic to human tissue as well as virus and must be neutralized before the vaccine can be used.)
In favor of the second possibility is the fact that part of one of the suspect lots was apparently all right; no cases of polio turned up among children injected with a 22,000 cc sublot of one of these lots. This implies (though it by no means proves) that the virus got in after manufacture was completed and before the vials in which the vaccine was packed were sealed. Moreover, Cutter alone among the six vaccine manufacturers bottled in the same building where live virus was handled. Polio virus may well get into the air in such a building. Two considerations would imply this. First, production workers in at least one other polio vaccine plant have been found to have very high concentrations of anti-polio antibody in their blood, sure evidence of repeated exposure to the virus. Some of this was probably air-borne. Second, accidental polio infections have occurred from time to time in diagnostic laboratories. Some of these are also thought to have been air borne.
It should be emphasized, whatever went wrong or was wrong at Cutter, that the Public Health Service is right in the boat with Cutter. The PHS Laboratory of Biologics Control prescribed the safety tests. PHS regulations permitted bottling in the same building with live virus, provided certain precautions were observed (and they were observed). PHS inspectors visited and approved the Cutter layout before Cutter received its license.
ALMOST NONE of the above was stated or admitted by the Public Health Service. Nor was the Surgeon General telling the whole story when he stated that he had called off the immunization program on May 7–the act that really sent the program into a tailspin–to allow more time to evaluate the findings of the expert committee that had been meeting in Bethesda.
During the ten days between the first Cutter cases and May 6, Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby had evidently made it plain to Dr. Scheele that there must be no more postinoculation polio cases on the Eisenhower Administration's political doorstep. The immunization program was to be stopped unless and until the Surgeon General could give, or obtain from the experts, an ironclad guarantee of no more Cutter incidents.
Dr. Scheele is an experienced public-health man. He knew that there is no medical preparation whatever that is absolutely and unconditionally safe; that some risk is taken when any medicine, even as innocuous as aspirin, is given. He knew also that the product of the other five vaccine manufacturers was (and is) as safe a vaccine as there is; and that the risk of another Cutter incident was very small–especially since other manufacturers began strengthening their safety procedures as soon as word of the Cutter affair got around.
But the Surgeon General is not a specialist in immunology, one of the most highly complex branches of modern medicine and biology; not one physician or public-health officer in a thousand, for that matter, can have a really adequate knowledge of it. Dr. Scheele put the problem to the experts who met on May 5 and 6. Being experts, and therefore men who wouldn't absolutely guarantee anything, the committee would not give him the guarantee he needed. Furthermore, they brought up a variety of technical problems concerning the vaccine which should have been thrashed out prior to April 12 but which were now brand-new to Dr. Scheele. He felt he had no choice but to close down the program.
The person who finally started the program back on the track was none other than Dr Jonas Salk. In the two weeks after the shut-down order, Dr. Scheele called platoons of additional tional experts to Washington. ("I've had more calls to the Washington airport in the past two weeks than in the last twenty years," said a Bethesda cab driver.) The experts now met in "ad hoc" conferences. This meant that anyone could say whatever he wanted to, at any time he desired, and no one had authority to anything. The "ad hoc" conferences stretched on and on into futility until one man decided he had had enough.
On Friday night, May 20, Dr. Salk went home to Pittsburgh. On Saturday night, he sent Dr. Scheele a wire informing him that he would attend no more "ad hoc" conferences and calling upon the Surgeon General to appoint a committee with power to act and get the program going again. A wire from Basil O'Connor, president of the polio foundation, seconded Salk's proposal. The committee (a larger one than Salk had suggested) was appointed May 25; Salk was named a member (though he had not proposed himself). In two days, this committee–given different titles in different Public Health Service releases–drew up and secured acceptance for a new set of safety standards. At last, the wheels slowly began to turn again.
THE NEW safety standards, which were announced May 27, make three matieral changes in the procedure for testing polio vaccine.First, larger samples of each lot must be tested to make more certain that any live virus present is picked up. Second, the killing process is somewhat lengthened and two successive negative tests for live virus instead of one are required at the end of the killing process. Third, the vaccine must be tested for live polio virus after bottling.
The new standards invite two comments. To begin with, there is no requirement for duplicate testing of all lots of vaccine (although the Public Health Service is increasing the number of lots on which it is running tests). The reasons why PHS has not asked for full duplicate testing are that the Health Service hasn't the manpower or facilities to perform them, and doesn't believe duplicate tests are necessary. Last year, the vaccine used in the field trial was triplicate-tested because few laboratories were experienced in performing the tests, and as a test of the reliability of the safety tests themselves. The tests (especially the tissue culture tests) were found sufficiently reliable so that no purpose would be served by holding up immunizations this year until all lots of vaccine could be duplicate-tested.
THE OTHER comment is that the new testing procedures, as Dr. Scheele has said, make a safe vaccine safer. They lock up all the doors through which live virus could have got into the Cutter vaccine, or might get into other vaccine. However, they could and should have been developed before the Cutter incident. Failing that, they could and should have been developed without putting the immunization program into reverse.
In saying this, I am aware, of course, that I have the benefit of hindsight. Also, I am urging someone else to have shown courage I, for one, might have lacked, had I been in the kitchen when the heat was on.
It seems to me that the Surgeon General should have announced, as soon as he realized that some of the Cutter vaccine had gone sour, that Cutter's Polio vaccine production unit had been shut down and would not be reopened until it had been entirely rebuilt under the most severe safeguards. Simultaneously, he should have directed other manufacturers to perform a final afterbottling live virus test on a sample of adequate size. This would have provided immediate protection against live virus in the final product (however it got there), and enabled the immunization program to proceed. Any other needed changes in safety standards could then have been made later.
The Surgeon General must or should have recognized almost immediately the probability that he was dealing with live virus, and that how it got there was likely never to be settled for sure. Instead of first conducting a "scientific experiment" to settle largely unanswerable questions, he should have been busy putting out the forest fire that the Cutter accident had started.
If he had paid attention to putting out the fire, much less damage would have been done to the immunization program, to the Public Health Service, to public confidence in the Salk vaccine, to the dignity of the medical profession in general, and, incidentally, to Cutter Laboratories. An ironical feature of the policy the Surgeon General and his superiors actually followed-ironical because this is a Republican, pro-business administration–is that it has served only to deepen Cutter's difficulties. If the Surgeon General had announced that the Cutter polio-vaccine unit would have to be rebuilt–which it will have to be anyhow, if the Berkeley firm again expects to sell the vaccine-Cutter's name would soon have dropped out of the headlines. The Health Service's prolonged refusal to say what the situation was at Cutter and what was being done only kept reporters asking questions and thus kept Cutter's name in the newspapers.
Perhaps the misguided silence on Cutter was merely one more manifestation of a failing that has plagued the Health Service and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare throughout the vaccine mess. The Health Service and the Department not only hurt the polio program and themselves by doing the wrong things. They did it through plainly avoidable public-relations ineptness, typified by Dr. Scheele's penchant for announcements in the small hours of the morning and by Secretary Hobby's classic fatuity: "No one could have foreseen the public demand for the vaccine."
Shortly before I left Washington, I stopped by for a chat with a friend in the Public Health Service who has nothing to do with polio or vaccines. "The only good thing this mess has shown," he said, "is that people are more discriminating than we think. Most of the kids who missed out on their shots will be back, though perhaps not as soon as they should be. But I don't know how our service will come out. I asked a housewife who withdrew her youngster from the program at his school whether she'd lost confidence in the vaccine. 'No,' she replied, I'm just waiting for the Public Health Service to get itself squared away.' "


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Max Kellerman Makes Sobering Prediction About NBA Season
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Max Kellerman doesn't seem so optimistic about what the Coronavirus could do to the NBA season.
Coronavirus has put the entire world on hold. Just a couple of months ago, the Coronavirus was something people weren't taking seriously. It was a story that was taking place in another country. Now, it has spread over the entire world and drastic measures are being put into place to ensure everyone is safe, moving forward. Every single sports league in the world has been shut down until further notice which means sports fans are in a sad state of depression.
Through all of this, ESPN's First Take has remained on the air and continues to get a healthy dose of viewers, especially with everyone quarantined. Today, Max Kellerman and Stephen A. Smith discussed the possibility of the NBA season coming back in June. In the clip below, Max Kellerman dismissed the idea and believes the NBA season will actually have to be canceled due to the virus.
Kellerman noted that the virus could continue to spread in waves and that the public will most likely have to self-isolate for multiple months. The idea that this could all be over by June has started to become more wishful thinking then reality, at least that's how Kellerman sees it.
For now, it remains to be seen if Kellerman's prediction comes true. If you're an NBA fan, you're praying that he is completely wrong. To be fair, he's been on the wrong side of debates numerous times before.
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I had the privilege of taking a tour of the new Bohlsen Family Emergency Department at Southside Hospital. Once I walked through the sliding doors only one word came to my mind: WOW. This newly renovated facility had light colored walls, a beautiful structure, an open atmosphere and a welcoming feeling to it. I was greeted by Jim Wescott, ED Nurse Manager, and Harold Fischer, ED Director of Patient Care Services, who began to explain this beautifully built facility. The new building is three times larger than the old ED, and is able to treat 70,000 patients a year because of the new set-up, process improvements, and the amount of staff they have working at any given time. Looking around the new 30,000 square foot facility I began to ask a million questions – what were the new rooms I was looking at? What did the lighting system above each door mean? Why was the department built this way? The list went on, and on.
They then went into the building design and how it was created with two major factors in mind, the patient experience and employee needs. Designed for efficiency, the re-construction of the ED absorbs excess noise so it creates a calming atmosphere, even when it's at full capacity. You can actually hear a pin drop! There are two central nursing stations so it gives nurses and doctors the extra room they need and creates a better working environment. With 16 private rooms and a 5 bed isolation unit, the nurses are constantly moving between patients, and after talking to a few it was clear that they appreciate having two stations to choose from.
"I love the new ED – it's great to have 2 nurses' stations because you always have access to what you need when you need it. When you have 2 stations, you are constantly in contact with everyone and you are always walking past your patients, which makes you check on them more. This also increases communication between nurses and doctors with their patients which allows us to provide them with the best care possible." said Jeanette Pisano, Emergency RN.
From there we headed towards the new Behavioral Health Department which was designed for the safety of the patients, as well as the staff. The unit consists of 6 private rooms with a secure interview room when they first check in. I was able to chat with the staff working there which consisted of security guards, social workers, registered nurses, environmental services workers, and a psychiatrist. The great part about the layout of the department was that the workers always have views of all of the rooms so they could keep watch of their patients while talking to me. The unique part about the new Behavioral Health department was that they had their own ambulance entrance for patients to come through. This was something that the nurses really loved, because the team can immediately start assessing patients and give them the care they needed without having to go through the ED.
The rest of the trip consisted of viewing the helipad for our SkyHealth helicopter program, touring the old Emergency Department, and talking about the next steps to come – which includes a Pediatric ED, infectious disease unit and a new unit for patients who need to have a longer stay. With 60 treatment spaces, radiology suites, a rapid access area, a new layout, and process improvements, it seems as if this new Emergency Department has it all – for the patients, and for the employees.
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Q: How long have you been working here?
A: I have been a Registered Nurse with Northwell Health since February 13, 1989. I started working at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ) and transferred to Huntington Hospital June 17, 2013.
Q: What positions have you had since being in the health system?
A: When I started at LIJ I worked as a Labor and Delivery RN. I stayed in that position for 12 years and in December of 2000 I worked as a Pain Management Nurse within the anesthesia department on labor and delivery for the labor patients. In January 2012, I changed positions to Quality Management at LIJ and I was responsible for core measures and also supported the quality measures within the anesthesia department. In June of 2013 I transferred to Huntington Hospital as a Quality Coordinator and at that time was supporting the OB/GYN/PEDS and Anesthesia departments in their quality program.
Q: Has Northwell Health provided you with any career growth opportunities?
A: When I transferred from pain management to quality at LIJ, I had the opportunity to attend Beginnings. This was extremely inspiring to me because our President and CEO, Michael Dowling, gave a presentation and asked each of us in the room where we would like to be in 5 years, or even 10, and inspired me to return to school for my Master's degree in nursing administration. At this time I have only 2 more classes before I complete my Master's degree and this has allowed me to climb the ladder with my career here at Huntington Hospital. In February, I was chosen to become the Manager of the Nursery/Special Care Nursery and in September I became the Nurse Manager of the maternity unit as well. This has been a wonderful experience to grow my career. I have been involved in many leadership classes at the eastern region level and also at the system level at the Institute for Nursing and at the Center for Learning and Innovation. I was also able to attend graduate school because the health system pays, encourages and is supportive of nursing higher education. I am grateful for the opportunities the health system offers and I would not have been able to attend the program if their support was not available to me.
Q: What do you love most about working in nursing at Northwell Health?
A: I love all the opportunities available to nurses that allow us to continue to be a lifelong learners. I am proud to work for the largest private employer in New York State, and when people ask where I work I proudly say Northwell Health at Huntington Hospital. So many of things I previously stated are the reasons I LOVE working for the system. I have worked here since I am 22 years old, going through many milestones in my life, and I have always felt that this organization is supportive of their nurses and honored home/work life balance. Not only am I proud to be a nurse in the system, but I have encouraged all new nurses that I meet to apply and work in a Northwell hospital. I am extremely passionate about having people come to one of our hospitals that I even encouraged my daughter, who was actually born at LIJ, to seek employment and she now works in labor and delivery at LIJ. I am truly grateful for the opportunities Northwell has provided for me over all these years, and am excited to see what the years to come have in store for me.
Picture: This group photo shows Jill (From left to right, she is the 5th woman in the back row) and some of the nurses in her unit.
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Hear from Kory Stimpfl, Assistant Director of Engineering and Plant Operations, and Roger Arnott, Director of Engineering and Maintenance, about why they chose Northwell Health as the place to grow their engineering career.
Why did you choose to pursue an engineering career at Northwell Health.
KS: Huntington Hospital, and through them Northwell Health, has been a staple of the community for my entire life. I was born at Huntington Hospital, so I am grateful for the chance to work here and help make it even better. I have had many family and friends that have been helped right here, and now I have the chance to use my engineering skills to help other peoples family and friends.
RA: I personally chose to come to Northwell Health because I wanted to work in a field where I could use my skills and abilities to help people.
Tell me a little bit about your background? Were you always in health care – if you weren't, why did you decide to get into the field?
KS: I graduated college from SUNY Maritime College in the spring of 2015 with a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a Coast Guard Marine Engineering License. Using this license I got a job as a civilian contractor with the US Navy. In this job I was on a team that took care of the engine room of one of the navy's civilian ships. I worked for them for almost a year, during which time I was traveling all over the country and the world. I realized that I wanted something that was more stationary but also wanted to see how my engineering was benefiting people, because in my old job there was a much greater divide between myself and the "customer". When I started looking for jobs, Huntington Hospital immediately stuck out because it would allow me the best of both worlds. As the Assistant director of Engineering I can use my engineering talents to help the hospital not only with the day to day facility operations, but also with the improvements to it going forward. Every day I know that the work that I am doing in the health care field will help save people's lives, or at least help the medical staff save people's lives.
RA: My career started in the Marine Industry after graduating from The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
After working as a Marine Engineer for almost 30 years, including operations in Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and much international travel, it was time for a change. My new path took me to Brooklyn, New York for the next five years and a large 46 high story building housing complex with a centralized power plant. An engineering opportunity then arose to come to Northwell Health Huntington Hospital. I had grown up in Huntington, NY and the opportunity to work and help people at the very hospital I was born in was extremely appealing to me. This was my first endeavor into the Healthcare Industry.
What career growth opportunities does Northwell provide for you and all engineering professionals?
KS: Northwell health is a large healthcare system, and is always growing. As with any system this large, it begins to take on a lot of its own engineering and facility work. As an engineer within the system, there are opportunities to grow within the individual hospitals and into the Physical Assets department and beyond. As a young engineer, there is incredible room for growth within the system.
RA: I believe Northwell Health offers growth opportunities for engineering professionals in different ways. The many engineering responsibilities at a hospital afford engineers the opportunity to hone their skills and expertise in many different disciplines. In addition, Northwell Health is a large and ever growing organization. This allows one many opportunities for future career advancements.
Why would you encourage other engineers to work for our health system?
KS: Working in this health system allows you to have a direct impact on helping people. The sense of purpose here is incredible, all it takes is a walk around the hospital to see all the amazing things that are possible because of the work that our department does every day.
RA: If you are a person who desires work that is personally rewarding and professionally challenging, then Healthcare industry is a good field for you. Northwell Health is a great system because it believes in and fosters a culture where everyone is a caregiver to its patients. You truly feel you are part of a coordinated team supplying patient care.
What new initiatives/ projects have you worked on?
KS: Since July I have been involved multiple projects including the commissioning of two new emergency diesels and testing of their associated transfer switches. I have participated directly in the patient's environment through Environment of Care rounds and through mock Joint Commission inspections. I have also been involved in the planning of the installation of three new boilers and two new air cooled HVAC chillers. As these projects complete there are always new ideas and projects around the corner that need some input from our department. This ensures that the job will always be exciting.
RA: Since my start a few months back I have been involved in numerous projects of varying sizes. Although it was started before my tenure I have been working to finalize and commission our new Emergency Department addition and its associated 3 MW of emergency diesel power system. I have also been working on the design and construction for three Main boiler installations totaling 650hp, and a chiller relocation and replacement project for 800 tons of air cooled chillers. Both of these projects being simply the first phase of a two phase projects. Additionally, we are also doing work for a new Hyperbaric unit requiring the installation of an additional Oxygen tank and pad, re-powering from 208 VAC to 480VAC, installation of new lab testing equipment, installation of new nuclear medicine equipment , replacement of an Underground fuel oil tank and new air handling equipment. This is all happening coincidentally with multiple departmental re-locations and renovations as well as the day to day repairs and maintenance of the hospital. It is a busy pace covering many Engineering disciplines but is extremely rewarding.
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, K. B. a British officer of great bravery and talents, was the son of George Abercrombie > of Tillibodie, in Clackmannanshire, esq. by Mary daughter of Ralph Dundas, of Manour, esq. and was born about the year 1738, or, according to his epitaph at Malta, 1733; and, after a liberal education, went by choice into the army. His first commission was that of cornet in the third regiment of dragoon guards, dated March 23, 1756. In the month of February 1760, he obtained a lieutenancy in the same regiment, and in that of April, a company in the third regiment of horse. In this last regiment he rose to the rank of major and lieutenant-colonel. In November 1780, he was included in the list of brevet colonels, and -in 1781 was made colonel of the 103d, or king's Irish infantry. On Sept. 26, 1787, he was promoted to the rank of major-general.
Soon after the war broke out on the Continent in 1792-3, he was employed there, and had the local rank of lieutenant-general conferred upon him. He commanded the advanced guard in the action on the heights at Gateau, and was wounded at Nimeguen. On every occasion his bravery and skill procured him the warmest praise of the commander in chief, and of the army. In the unfortunate retreat from Holland, in the winter of 1794, the guards as well as the sick were left under his care, whom he conducted with the utmost humanity, amidst many painful scenes, during the disastrous march from Deventer to Oldensall. In 1795, he was made knight of the Bath, and appointed commander in chief of the forces in the West Indies. On his arrival, he obtained possession of the island of Grenada, in the month of March, and soon after of the settlements of Demarara and Essequibo, in South America. His next conquests were the islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent's; and in February 1797 the Spanish island of Trinidad capitulated to him. This successful campaign being concluded, he returned to Europe, and had the command conferred upon him of the 2d, or North British dragoons, and had been before his arrival promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and was | appointed lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, from which he was in 1798 removed to the higher office of governor of Fort Augustus and Fort St. George. Previous to this he was appointed commander in chief in Ireland. In this situation he laboured to maintain the discipline of the army, to suppress the rising rebellion, which had been concerted between the French government and a number of traitors at home; and he protected the people from the inconveniencies of military government, with a care and skill worthy of the great general, and the enlightened and beneficent statesman. But circumstances rendering it necessary that the civil and military command of that country should be invested in the same person (the marquis Cornwallis), he was removed to the chief command in Scotland, where his conduct gave universal satisfaction.
When the great, and, in its plan, highly judicious enterprize against Holland was undertaken, sir Ralph Abercromby held a principal command under his royal highness the duke of York; and it was confessed, even by the enemy, that no victory could have conferred more honour than the great talents, activity, and bravery he displayed in forwarding the purposes of that expedition, which failed, partly from the want of a judicious co-operation on the part of our allies, the Russians, but perhaps chiefly from the conduct of the Dutch themselves, who still were deluded by the professions and pretended amity of the French.
A more favourable enterprize, however, soon afforded our gallant hero an opportunity of immortalizing his name. This was the memorable expedition ordered in 1801 to dispossess the French of Egypt. To this destination, sir Ralph conducted the English -army and fleet in perfect health and spirits, and landed at Aboukir on the 8th of March, 1801, after a severe battle, in which the English were victorious. The landing, the first dispositions, the attack, and the courage opposed to attack, the high confidence of the army in their general, and the decided superiority of the British infantry under his command over the French, which was thought the bravest and best disciplined infantry in Europe, all demonstrated that the best qualities of the greatest commanders were united in sir Ralph Abercromby. But it was his destiny to fall in the moment of victory. After having repulsed the French in a general attack upon our army near Alexandria, the French again, on the 21st March, made a second advance, | which was contested with unusual obstinacy, and they were again forced to retreat. On this memorable occasion, he received a mortal wound in the thigh, which he concealed until the enemy were totally routed, when he fell from his horse through loss of blood. He was conveyed from the field of battle on board the admiral's ship, where he died on the 28th, and was interred under the castle of St. Elmo, in La Valetta, in the island of Malta. The following just and admired tribute to his memory was contained in the dispatch from lord Hutchinson, who succeeded him in the chief command:——"We have sustained an irreparable loss, in the person of our never to be sufficiently lamented commander in chief, sir Ralph Abercromby, who was mortally wounded in the action, and died on the 28th of March, I believe he was wounded early; but he concealed his situation from those about him, and continued in the field giving his orders with that coolness and perspicuity which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him more than any other person; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that, as his life was honourable, so his death was glorious; His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country; will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity." In private life, sir Ralph in his manners had somewhat of reserve; but was truly amiable, honourable, and virtuous, attached to his country and to his profession, and in every relative duty most exemplary. He was one of a family distinguished for bravery or talents. His brother James, a lieutenant-colonel in the 22d foot, was killed in America, 1774, at the battle of Bunker's Hill. The character and high rank of his surviving brother, sir Robert Abercrombie, K. B. are well known. Another, Alexander, one of the Scotch Judges, died in 1795, a man of high reputation in the law, and not less distinguished for his taste in the belles lettres. He was the author of ten papers in the Mirror, and nine in the Lounger, two well-known periodical papers published at Edinburgh. Sir Ralph sat in three parliaments for the county of Clackmannan.
Gent. Mag. 1801, 1802.—Biographical Peerage.—Beatson's Political Index.


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The "Wind of Change" speech was a historically significant address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa, on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. He had spent a month in Africa visiting a number of what were then British colonies. The speech signalled clearly that the Conservative-led British Government intended to grant independence to many of these territories, which indeed happened subsequently, with most of the British possessions in Africa becoming independent nations in the 1960s. The Labour governments of 1945–51 had started a process of decolonisation but this policy had been halted by the Conservative governments from 1951 onwards.
The speech acquired its name from a now-famous quotation embedded in it. Macmillan said:
The occasion was in fact the second time on which Macmillan had given this speech: he was repeating an address already made in Accra, Ghana (formerly the British colony of the Gold Coast) on 10 January 1960. This time it received press attention, at least partly because of the stony reception that greeted it.
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Wind(s) of Change may refer to:
"Wind of Change", a speech made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa in 1960
"Wind of Change" (Scorpions song), 1991
"Wind of Change" (Bee Gees song), 1975
Wind of Change (band), an American hardcore band
Wind of Change (album), an album by Peter Frampton, 1972
"Wind of Change" (Peter Frampton song - title track from the "Wind of Change" album), 1972
Winds of Change (Eric Burdon & The Animals album), or the title song
Winds of Change (Jefferson Starship album), or the title song
"Winds of Change", a song by the Beach Boys from their album M.I.U. Album
"The Wind of Change", a 1985 song by Robert Wyatt with the SWAPO Singers
"Wind of Change", a song by Acoustic Alchemy from AArt
"Winds of Change", a song by Cinderella from Heartbreak Station
"Wind of Change", a song by Hawkwind from Hall of the Mountain Grill
"Wind of Change", a song by Badger from One Live Badger
"Winds of Change", a song by Kutless from Hearts of the Innocent
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The Wind of Change is a 1961 British drama, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Donald Pleasence, Johnny Briggs and Ann Lynn. Taking its title from the famous "Wind of Change" speech given by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in South Africa in February 1960, it is one of the earliest British films to tackle race as an issue, focussing on disenchanted working-class white youth finding an outlet for their frustrations in racial hatred. The film is set around the coffee bars and homes of the Notting Hill district of West London, scene of the notorious 1958 Notting Hill race riots.
Frank (Briggs) is an unemployed, discontented and rebellious teenage Teddy Boy, living at home with his mild-mannered father (Pleasence), domineering mother (Hilda Fenemore) and sister Josie (Lynn). Frank harbours a deep-seated resentment and hatred towards the black people he sees as flooding Notting Hill and taking all the jobs. He spends his time hanging around with a gang of similar youths who all share his racist views.
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I folow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change
Are buried in the past forever
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With you and me
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She came 46th in class and 464th overall!
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