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Journey to the Pito Deep
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Daily Science Report: Monday February 20th
February 20, 2017 / Pito Deep
The last sunset & the last evening at sea. We're packed and I think the whole science party is very ready to go home. There'll be a big party on shore tomorrow night and the team will begin flying home early on Wednesday morning. All in all it was a pretty amazing trip, Easter Island, the best mapped section of fast spread gabbroic crust underwater ever, some very exciting magnetics and the third dimension of the magnetic anomaly boundaries, and seven active hydrothermal vents, five of which have never been seen before. But soon, back to the "day-job". The final thing is to say a big thanks to everybody, without whom none of this could have been possible; the intrepid science team, the doughty outreach team, the dauntless Jason & Sentry teams, the incredible Shipboard Science Support Group (SSSGs), and the amazing crew of the RV Atlantis, & of course the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Download Your Own 3D Hydrothermal Vent!
When a new sample comes onboard, we carefully photograph and describe it. However, one of the principal investigators on this expedition, Jeff Gee had an idea of how to go a step further, why don't we make 3D models of the samples?
Daily Science Report: Friday February 19th
The first birds, packing and more report writing. Today, was the last but one day, and packing preceded apace together with that tinge of sadness that it's nearly all over… and the real world is looming. These days, (some) internet & e-mail keeps one more in touch with the outside world during a cruise than in the good old days (no internet, limited e-mail), but we are still in our own little world out here, with three provided meals a day (the best food I've ever had on a research vessel) and a routine focused on the job at hand.
Daily Science Report: Saturday February 18th
Just over two days to go before we reach Arica, Chile and we're starting to be investigated by birds so we know we're getting close to land. Today was the last of our very successful series of 2-way live broadcasts to shore led by our outreach folks Lucas Kavanagh and Theresa Williams. In total they gave 33, 45 minute sessions to 1053 people at schools, universities, and aquariums in the US, UK, and Canada! The entire science part participated in these and had a lot of fun at the same time but now it's now lab cleaning and report writing. Sigh.
Opportunistic Argo
Our final science mission was to deploy Argo floats in international waters along our route back to Chile. The plan is to have a float in every three-minute by three-minute square of latitude and longitude all over the world's oceans. We lowered one off the back of the ship about every 26 hours as we came to the scheduled locations.
We are on the 6th day of our 9 day transit to Arica in Chile & all is well. We just spent five days sampling, whilst maintaining orientations, on the 413 rocks we collected, with approximately half of each sample been put aside for archiving and the other half cut into smaller pieces for the science team to make thin sections, and carry out geochgemical analysis. As the rocks are going to Scripps, Jeff (Gee) and his team will take their samples for magnetic studies back at home. On another front, the good ship Jackelope is currently heading for the Pitcairn Islands! She covered over 128km yesterday and is heading just south of west.
Daily Science Report: Thursday February 16th
"Mapping ocean crust continental style".
We're lucky to have Second Mate Logan on this ship. He is knowledgeable about historical sailing techniques, has sailed across both the Atlantic and Pacific using celestial navigation, and he designed the rigging for the movie Master & Commander. We asked him to teach us about celestial navigation and the use of a sextant.
Meet Jason: Underwater, Robotic, Geologist.
How do geologists study the seafloor? They use remotely operated vehicles like Jason...
Jackalope's Journey
Slackjaw Sally here with news of Jackalope.
Daily Science Report: Sunday February 12th
We completed our last multibeam and magnetometer survey of Pito Deep at 6am and then set off eastwards, multibeaming as we go. We got our first GPS position for the Jackelope at 9am (she calls in at 14:00Z every day). She'd travelled 52 km just south of west in 14 hours and we must have passed close by her in the middle of the night.
The final science day and likely my final blog. Friday evening we launched Sentry dive 428, our tenth Sentry dive, at site A. This dive was designed to complete the magnetics coverage and to illuminate a large 20km wide slump of basalts and sheeted dikes which was causing an anomalous pattern in our magnetic maps. The magnetic mapping has been a great success too producing a definitive geometry for the 3rd dimension of the magnetic stripes. We recovered sentry at 7pm and then launched the good ship Jackelope and we watched her sail off into the big Pacific. She'd been sitting in the science labs for most of the cruise, so it feels like we've said goodbye to an old friend. I hope she fares well & sails off to some far away exotic place. You can track her on the NOAA website.
Holy Smokes, Jason!
What are those smoking chimneys on the ocean floor?
Staying Current
By Theresa Williams
Slackjaw Sally here with reflections on water's wishy-washy ways. There's very little water movement in my part of the ocean, but being up here on the surface has me thinking about how water moves and mixes. Tides cause the water in the ocean to slosh back and forth in its basin, winds push energy through water in the form of waves, and density stratifies water and leads to the slow creep of arctic water toward the equator along the ocean floor, but the most energetic mixing of oceanic water comes from surface currents!
It's all a result of the unequal heating of Earth's surface! Earth is roughly spherical so sunlight hits the surface at a more perpendicular angle near the equator than farther north or south. This causes more warming near the equator. Cooler air and water is denser and moves toward and underneath warmer air and water which is less dense.
Here's how the water circulation gets started. During winter at the north and south poles ocean water cools and freezes. When water freezes, the salts remain in solution below the ice making the unfrozen ocean water saltier. The combination of increased salinity and decreased temperature makes the water denser and it sinks. Sinking water pushes the water beneath it toward the equator and leaves space above it for warmer water to take its place. The warmer water cools, freezes and sinks continuing the cycle. That cold, salty dense water moves slowly along the ocean floor until it is gradually warmed.
But there's more going on at the surface than just water warming in the sunshine. On the surface, there is wind caused by the uneven heating of Earth's surface. Air flows from areas of dense, cool, dry air (high pressure) toward areas of less dense, moist, warm air (low pressure). Air can blow in any direction but the average direction is called the prevailing wind. Winds transfer their energy to the water dragging the water across the ocean in increasingly deeper layers. Due to the rotation of the planet the water doesn't go directly in the direction of the prevailing wind; it turns to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. The water is pushed in large somewhat circular currents called gyres (rhymes with hires). The gyres north of the equator rotate clockwise and those south of the equator rotate counterclockwise. The South Pacific gyre moves warm water down past Australia and cool water up the west coast of South America. There are also smaller, less prominent currents moving water around near the surface.
The ocean near the equator doesn't experience much water movement from surface currents because warm, humid air rises there instead of generating current-driving winds. The Atlantis is floating at about 23⁰ south of the equator on the northern edge of the South Pacific gyre. At the end of our research in this area, we'll launch a small sailboat, the Jackalope, with a GPS onboard to track its path around the Pacific. The data it broadcasts to NOAA will help to improve ocean surface current maps. Students in Laramie, Wyoming built the Jackalope as a school project to learn about the ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean. They'll be following Jackalope's adventure and hoping to connect with other students on far away shores.
Catchin' a current,
Pito Deep
Hydrothermal vent day at Pito Seamount! We launched Jason on Thursday evening after a quick turnaround with the Jason team going above and beyond to get Jason ready for action. Just after 7pm, we were on the seafloor crossing relatively fresh lava flows- in fact the volcanic landforms were spectacular throughout the dive, which was perhaps not surprising, because Pito Seamount is more East Pacific Rise than seamount. It even has it's own rift/axial valley. Aided by the bathymetry images and data provided by Sentry together with the expert guidance of the world renowed "ventfinder general", and on shore scientist, Chris German, we found our first active blacksmoker vents within the first hour and spectacular they were. We named the first two Jason and Medea after the two vehicles/ROV system we are using. Jason vent was large & very "smokey" and the Medea vent was just beautiful. Later ones were named Sentry and ABE. We discovered 6 vents in total in three separate sites and 10's of "dead" vents at various stages of decay. Most were of the "live" ones large (the tallest was 22 metres high) and delicate. Tube worms, mussels, fish, gastropods, anenomes, and crabs were common at the live vents, but Freyella like brisingid sea stars called the dead vents their home (see adjacent photo). We returned from the seafloor after lunch and later gazed at our samples of chimneys and basalt.
Daily Science Report: Thursday February 9th
Jason dive 960 was designed to address two specific geological questions within our main gabbro area: i) Is there a continuous layer of gabbro that extends across all of our area above the troctolitic rocks? ii) detailed observation (photograpy) and sampling of the layering in the lower part of our section and additional sampling to fill in part of our area. The latter part was a little rushed as the 23.5 hour, one elevator, dive ended and Jason was recovered on deck by3:30pm. We increased our sample haul by 36 samples and passed the 400 mark for overall number of samples. Some of the samples are spectacularly complex troctolites with large dendritic/skeletal olivines and we also collected a few large samples that contain several layers. Once Jason was on board, we sped off for Pito Seamount and for our final Jason dive searching for the hydrothermal vents so effectively illuminated by the earlier sentry dive there.
Daily Science Report: Wednesday February 8th
Success snatched from the jaws of defeat! Upon looking at the 24 samples recovered from the Jason dive which we recovered at 8am, we found 14 of the 23 samples were gabbros (we feared they were mostly sheeted dikes), and they were in a sensible stratigraphic order (despite the extensive mass wasting). Most importantly we recovered two troctolites which suggests that our main area of troctolites, 12km away, is not anomalous and that shallow primitive troctolite is a feature of fast spread oceanic crust in the area. During the middle of the day we carried out more magnetic surveying and multibeaming of the seafloor, and at 4pm, we launched Jason for yet another dive in our main gabbro area at site B to try to complete our map.
Daily Science Report: Tuesday February 7th
Excitement spread throughout most of the ship (non-scientists included). Yesterday we sent Sentry to map the top of Pito Seamount and Sentry once again produced an incredible map of the rift valley and it's multiple hydrothermal chimney fields. In the afternoon we launched Jason in the new area that Sentry had explored two days earlier and I slouched off to bed disappointed. Extensive sediment cover and mass wasting resulted in the dive being a rapid 1100m long transect and the dive was called to come up at 8am on wednesday.
Daily Science Report: Monday February 6th
Jason returned at 8am with 37 more gabbro samples and a miniaturized football. Chris German even offered us a hashtag: #nomore(expletive deleted)gabbros. We are currently cutting and describing these new samples, as Sentry flys below us making another map. We also carried out another multibeam and magnetometer survey between the Jason and Sentry dives to extend our approximately 60m resolution map of the whole of Pito Deep. With only 5 more days left, changeover times are beginning to be more important in terms of maximizing on bottom time.
Daily Science Report: Sunday February 5th
Super Bowl day & we played touch football on the deck with Jason. Jason played quarterback and insisted on keeping the ball and we'll see if the ball is "deflated" when it returns from the dive tomorrow. Sentry boldly went to where no folks had gone before and returned at about 2pm with another amazing bathymetry map. We were relived and excited to see outcrop which we'll investigate with Jason later. The 1-2m resolution is truly amazing and slope instability features of all scales dominate. At the bottom of the map, we saw structures which are almost certainly rift related basaltic volcanism. Later in the day Jason descended to our main gabbro area at site to carry out detailed sampling across some key lithological boundaries- we really are trying to do field geology 4000m below the sea surface. Another 240lbs of gabbros are expected in the morning.

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Cultural capital could change the world, and we've been looking at how to do that for young people in London - helping them to break out of what have become increasingly managed, restricted and unhealthy lives.
At university, I discovered a French sociologist called Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu was an observer of the everyday. He was interested in social change and the struggles and solidarities of daily life. He believed that in addition to economic and social capital, a person has 'cultural capital' – education, knowledge, language, habits – that develop first in childhood and through time influences the ability to get ahead in life. His hypothesis was essentially that cultural capital confers status and sustains social hierarchies across society. His ideas were formative, let's say.
At a New Direction, we think a lot about culture's role in society and the lives of children and young people, particularly in London where we do most of our work. We are interested in understanding the notion that engagement in arts and culture through childhood helps young people to know who they are, engage with the world around them and navigate choices, as they get older.
Because the thing is, London's children and young people are not very happy, nor are they doing as well as they could be: 37% of children live in poverty after housing costs are taken into account; more than 110,000 children, or around one in ten, suffer from significant mental ill-health; obesity levels are rising, there are high levels of youth unemployment, especially for less advantaged groups, and there is increasing polarisation between young and old.
For the past ten years, A New Direction has been working to open up the city's cultural resources for all young Londoners to experience and enjoy. We encounter the same systemic issues confronting communities up and down the land – issues relating to inequality, power, relationships, identity, ownership, representation etc. Our work is most effective when the systems and infrastructure supporting children and young people – schools, nurseries, arts organisations, health providers, statutory services – take account of their need to play, be creative and experience culture. Through research and innovative partnerships, we are able to have a different conversation that positions culture as a positive, freeing force in the lives of children and young people. These days we are having to work smarter than ever before, when the role of arts and culture in supporting social and economic development is given less attention, and at a time when the education system favours academic subjects over more creative pursuits.
Frustration with supply-side deficit models, i.e. this is culture; you should consume it, has compelled us to explore new ways of interpreting how cultural opportunities operate for young people within ecosystems – complex, fluid networks operating within and across a range of contexts, from home, school and locality, to national, global society and the virtual world.
Last year we published a research report with Kings College London called Caring for Cultural Freedom that promotes a model of 'supported autonomy', where it's the job of the cultural learning system (teachers, artists, parents, peers) to enable each individual to explore creativity in their own way, not just provide 'access' to a pre-determined cultural offer. Principles of caring, autonomy, and democracy are informing our work going forward and helping us to think through how we develop the practice of supporting ecosystems and approaches to collaborative projects that are attentive and responsive to the views and needs of young people.
Lessons from our work are that many children's lives have an increasingly managed quality, dominated by homework and school. Young people lack freedom and space for self-organised activity, and anxiety about crime can lead parents to restrict their behaviour. Young people need to be able to play and explore – this is how resilience, curiosity and creativity are nurtured, and ultimately how new forms of cultural capital will change the world.
This blog was first published in Insights for A Better Way: improving services and building strong communities. The Better Way Network is a network of social activists who want to improve services and build strong communities.


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First French Language Job Fair in the U.S.! [fr]
Last Thursday, more than 500 people gathered at Tulane University to participate in the first French Language Job Fair in the United States.
This unique event was a great opportunity for students to meet potential employers, discover companies (Total, Airbus, Marriott…) and network with professionals who were sharing their expertise in how French opens new doors and possibilities!
Roundtables and conferences with panelists from many different horizons were held to show how French can be a game-changer in terms of opportunities and mobility.
Professional workshops in French were offered to students at 3 levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
The Consul General of France Vincent Sciama, during his opening address of the conferences exposed some important facts to understand the growing interest that the French as a professional language arouses.
Last year, the volume of trade between France and the United States reached 128 billion dollars and remains in constant increase.
Just for Louisiana, of which France is the second-largest investor, French companies have created ten thousand jobs in 2018.
This forum has therefore highlighted French language as a highly valued and competitive advantage at any stage of a career or study.
Survey findings from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs in 2019 show that French is the most in-demand foreign language for US employers just after Spanish and Chinese.
Also according to that survey, 9 out of 10 U.S. employers rely more on employees with language skills other than English.
This event was organized by the Consulate General of France in Louisiana and Tulane University.
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On Works Sunday, individuals of many faiths reach out together to support neighbors in need. Not only is our community better for our efforts, participants are richer for the experience. In this section, we feature stories that highlight the impact of Works Sunday both on volunteers and those we seek to help. We hope our experiences will encourage you to participate in one of this year's activities.
Bringing Smiles to Sick Kids
By Jacke Bolware
If you can imagine the heartache of a parent miles from home seeking treatment for their child's serious illness, you can understand the morale boost of a home-cooked meal and comfortable environment. Our visit to the Ronald McDonald House of Northern Viginia delivered a taste of home to young patients and their families. [more]
Connecting With Alzheimers Patients
By Rikki Epstein
A very special Works Sunday event takes place each year with the residents of the Rose Garden Activity Center, a Tall Oaks at Reston program for senior citizens with dementia and Alzheimer's. The residents of Tall Oaks enjoy the companionship of visitors and the music, jokes and stories of school-aged volunteers. [more]
The Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation's AMAZING Blankets
Soft, comfortable Emergency Rescue Blankets – made from recycled plastic bottles?
Sounds crazy!
But it's true!
For years, the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation's "Bottles into Blankets" program has provided tens of thousands of these blankets to victims of natural and man-made disasters the world over. For the moment, the program is centered in Asia, where plastic bottles – the kind you find in vending machines and at your local grocery store - are collected, shredded, transformed into cloth-like fibers, and woven into unbelievably soft, warm and comfortable twin-size blankets.
"It's absolutely astounding to realize that these blankets were once nothing more than ordinary plastic bottles," said Christopher Wist of St. Thomas à Becket Catholic Church, Chairman of the Works Sunday 2015 Steering Committee. "They have the look and feel of real cloth – there's nothing "artificial" about them! The Works Sunday Committee is proud and privileged to be able to help spread the word about this wonderful charitable program being provided by our Buddhist brother and sisters."
But it doesn't stop with blankets.
Because the fibers that can be woven into blankets can also be transformed into shirts.
The Foundation's Program makes cool, comfortable polo shirts in a range of colors – blue, white, green, yellow, and more - that correspond to the color of the bottles being recycled and re-purposed. And there would seem to be no barrier to producing other types of apparel as well. All in all, this is truly a "win-win" situation – a win for disaster victims receiving the Program's blankets, and a win for our planet, which need not allocate valuable primary resources to the production of these items derived from recycled materials.
The Tzu-Chi Foundation affiliated with the Buddhist congregation that meets at 1516 Moorings Drive in Reston has long been a valued member of the "Works Sunday" family of faith communities. For 2015, the Foundation will be donating 10 blankets to the Laurel Learning Center Project, which solicits needed clothing, toy, book and hygiene items for the preschoolers who frequent the Center. Said Wist, "The Works Sunday Steering Committee is very grateful to the Tzu Chi Foundation for their generous donation to this worthy cause."
You too can contribute to this Project! For more information, just click on "Donate to Laurel Learning Center" under the heading "This Year's Projects" on the left-hand side of the Works Sunday web site's home page at www.workssunday.org.
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As it has in years past, the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation will also be sponsoring and hosting a "Mini-Health Fair" featuring Body Mass Index ("BMI") measurement, cholesterol screening, vision and hearing screening, healthy lifestyle tips, and alternative Chinese medicine. This year's Fair – historically, one of the most popular and well-attended "Works Sunday" projects – takes place from 1 pm to 4 pm on Sunday August 16th at the Foundation's Moorings Drive location.
Do yourself and your body a favor and drop by! You'll be glad you did!
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Today, a machine solves the riddle of Rubik's Cube in 0.89 seconds only. Infineon will attempt to break the current Guinness World Record by using the company's AURIX™ microcontroller. Join us at the Infineon booth or follow us on twitter.com/Infineon to experience this world record attempt.


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Audibles From the Long Snapper: A Completely Non-Bears Version (Kinda)
Jeff Hughes | February 26th, 2018
Alshon Jeffery: American Hero
Jeffery played 2017 with a torn rotator cuff. Just a few weeks after he and the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl 52, it was announced that Jeffery underwent surgery for the injury that has all-but guaranteed he'll miss the entirety of Philly's off-season program and has put the start of the 2018 regular season in jeopardy.
A few questions:
Did the team know? If they did, how can this not get publicly reported all season? Was Jeffery never even PROBABLE with a rotator cuff tear? He was just 100%, good-to-go? If you have a torn rotator cuff, that injury is not one that can't be hampered more severely in-game.
Why did Jeffery play? Cash. The league made it very clear to Jeffery's team they did not believe he could either (a) stay healthy or (b) play through pain? This season he proved he (a) can't stay healthy and (b) can play through pain. But what will the long-term ramifications be of his playing hurt to get a lucrative extension? We'll know more in September and beyond.
There's been a lot of talk about Jeffery leaving Chicago because the Bears would not pay him. That talk is incorrect. I urge people to go back and read some actual reporting in this space that detailed what Jeffery was offered and how things turned out.
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A nice new twist the NFL is doing this year for players accepting an invite to the draft: Bringing the player's high school coach with them, all expenses paid.
— Gil Brandt (@Gil_Brandt) February 22, 2018
Here's an idea for Roger Goodell. FIX THE DAMN LEAGUE! STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE DAMN DRAFT AND FIX THE SPORT WHICH YOU COMMISSION.
Doug Pederson MIC'D UP!
Pederson caught a lot of shit this year, primarily from Mike "Can't Hold Down a Job For Any Employer But Bills Belichick & Simmons" Lombardi. But he's proven to be a damn good coach and this was a fun look back one of the finest Super Bowl coaching displays in league history.
Personnel Men on the Rookie QBs
I'm not bothering to explain who my friends are. They are these guys. Here's what they told me on the incoming quarterbacks.
AFC Personnel Man: "There's not a star in the bunch."
NFC Personnel Man: "The best QB in this class will be the fifth or sixth guy taken. Watch." (I followed up on this text and got an "LOL". So fuck him.)
Links!
Not sure there's been a weirder story than Jonathan Martin vaguely-threatening bully revenge on social media with photos of guns & ammo…a week after a school shooting. Richie Incognito took the brunt of the media's force but many believed Martin was the unstable one in the Dolphins locker room. He's starting to prove it.
Did kneeling for the national anthem play a role in the Chiefs dealing Marcus Peters? For the sake their fans, I hope not.
A CBS piece from October worth revisiting: "As the NFL and its players pledge to work together in turning protests into community service, one team has announced a donation of $500,000 toward the banning of bump stocks and other features of automatic weapons." Read the entirety of the piece HERE.
Charles Tillman is an FBI agent now.
From The Big Lead, on what Fox airing the draft on network TV means for the NFL's relationship with ESPN: "Monday Night Football has been a major component of why ESPN has been able to command affiliate fees from cable operators leaps and bounds ahead of anyone else. But, MNF is not the platform it once was. It is undeniable that this package gets worse games from the NFL than the broadcast nets Fox, CBS, and NBC do. Yes, the Draft is comparatively on the periphery in relation to the games, but airing it on Fox certainly has the byproduct of even further atrophying ESPN's relationship with the League as they will lose market share on a spectacle that they essentially created from thin air in the 1980's."
A Good Piece of Classical Musical
From Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. Saw this at New York City Ballet a few back and it was sensational. This piece of music has stayed with me. And now I'm giving it to you, despite the fact that 99% of you don't want it.
Tagged: Alshon Jeffery, Doug Pederson, Gil Brandt, Jonathan Martin, Marcus Peters, Prokofiev


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A tilapia farm in Utah? One couple want it to happen — if state will just ease its ban on the increasingly popular fish.
(Dieu Nalio Chery | AP file photo) In this April 17, 2018 photo, Taino Aqua Fish worker Berthony Nelson removes tilapia from a cage in Lake Azuei Fond Parisien, Haiti. A week's crop can reach 20,000 pounds.
By Kathy Stephenson
· Published: January 9, 2019
Tilapia has become one of the most popular fish to buy at the grocery store or order at a restaurant, but because the species poses a threat to native fish, commercial production is illegal in Utah.
That statewide ban hasn't deterred Cliff Sackett and his wife, Teri.
The Moroni farmers are seeking an exemption from the law so they can raise and sell the mild-tasting white fish — along with lettuce, cabbage and other leafy greens — to Utah restaurants, grocery stores and Asian fish markets.
The Utah Wildlife Board will consider the variance request Thursday during its monthly meeting.
"I want to get fresh fish and vegetables out to the community," said Cliff Sackett. "I hate to see the frozen stuff come from out of country. Some of it has mercury and other [pollutants] you can't put your thumb on."
If the board approves the Sacketts' request — and the couple get an aquaculture license from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food — it would be the first time tilapia farming has been allowed in the Beehive State.
But it still may take some time before consumers can purchase Utah-raised tilapia. The Sacketts say it would take at least six months to build the facility. They also recently lost their main investor and are looking for another serious business partner.
Getting a variance has been a yearslong process, Sackett explained, so they're used to waiting.
Possibly one of the oldest farm-raised fish in the world, tilapia has been called St. Peter's fish, because biblical scholars believe it was the fish used by Jesus to feed the crowds at the Sea of Galilee.
In recent years, U.S. consumption of tilapia has grown 15 percent to 30 percent annually. About 80 percent of the fish is shipped in from China and other Asian countries. Another 10 percent is farm-raised in South America.
"We produce very little here," said Sackett, who added that getting the exemption to raise tilapia also could be a boost for a growing form of agriculture called aquaponics in the state.
Aquaponics — in which fish, plants and microbes work in symbiotic fashion — has been around for centuries. According to agricultural studies, the farming method produces three to six times more vegetables and uses 70 percent to 90 percent less water than traditional dirt farming.
As available land and water become more scarce, aquaponics and its cousin hydroponics — in which plants grow in water without the fish fertilization — are seen as viable alternatives for food production.
How does it work? It starts with the fish, which naturally emit waste and ammonia into the tank. The excrement-laden water — which offers a complete fertilizer for the plants — is pumped into growing beds, where naturally occurring, but beneficial, organisms break down the ammonia into nitrites and then nitrates.
The plants absorb the nitrates, helping them grow and naturally filtering the water. With no restrictive dirt, and plenty of nutrients, the plants quickly form massive root systems.
Several species of fish do well in these recirculating aquaponic systems, including trout, koi and goldfish. But tilapia is the most common species used nationwide. The fish reach full size quickly and can tolerate crowding and fluctuating temperatures.
Cliff Sackett has been in the fish business for two decades and has helped develop an innovative filtration system, which reuses and recycles 98 percent of the water. Because of the fish's rapid reproductive rate, he estimates that the aquaponics facility he wants to build in central Utah's Sanpete County could produce 17,500 pounds of tilapia — worth as much as $65,000 — each month.
A Certification Review Committee from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has studied the Sacketts' variance request and has recommended approval — as long as certain guidelines are followed. Namely, the agency wants to ensure that the Sacketts build a safe facility away from essential streams and waterways and one that can withstand flooding and earthquake damage.
"Tilapia has been identified as one of the top 100 most invasive species in the world," the committee's recommendation states. "If tilapia escape from the facility and cause damage to native or sport fish populations or their habitats, it will be your [the Sacketts'] responsibility to restore the damage incurred as a result of the escapement."
Sackett has already found what he believes is an appropriate site 2 miles south of Fountain Green and three-fourths of a mile east of state Route 132. The property has no flood risks and moderate earthquake vulnerability, he said.
The committee also suggested other environmental safeguards such as:
• Prohibiting the sale or transfer of live fish from the facility.
• Having DWR approve the species of tilapia brought into the facility.
• Posting a bond and taking financial responsibility for any reclamation efforts if native species are affected.
Sackett said he is willing to abide by all the requirements.
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Did you notice those cute knit pants in Mae's six month post? These are the Rocky Joggers knit in Regia Design Line by Arne and Carlos in colorway Star Night. The yarn is dyed in a way that forms these stripes and patterns all by itself... no fancy colorwork needed! I saw another project on Ravelry using a similar self-striping yarn and knew I needed to make a pair for Mae.
I made an elastic waistband instead of a drawstring since I know Mae would be constantly untying the strings. Hopefully she agrees that the cuteness outweighs the itchiness of wool pants!
They had been noticed... and they are really nice! Congratulations. And the elastic addition is clever!


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RSA announces Royal Designers for Industry for 2008
Press Release 17 Dec 2008
Five of the UK's best designers are to become the latest Royal Designers for Industry at an award ceremony held today at the RSA.
Recognised for their outstanding contribution to design, Max Fordham, Sam Hecht, Sarah King, Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd will join a select group of designers who currently hold the RDI award.
Regarded as the highest honour a designer can receive in the UK, four honorary RDI awards will also be given to international designers including Andrea Branzi, James Carpenter, Dries Van Noten and Sori Yanagi.
Following the announcement of the new Royal Designers, the RSA's Bicentenary Medal 2008 will be awarded to Tom Bloxham MBE for his commitment towards the regeneration of Britain's inner cities.
As Group Chairman and Co-Founder of Urban Splash, the property development company, Bloxham has been instrumental in transforming inner cities into vibrant places to live, work and play. Addressing the RDI at John Adam St, his speech is entitled "Can good design survive the economic downturn?"
Commenting on the RDI awards, RSA Director of Design Emily Campbell said:
"The RSA has vigorously supported design since it emerged as a professional discipline in the early 20th century and continues to reward excellence in a very specific way through the distinction of Royal Designer for Industry. The RDIs are integral to the contemporary account of design and social progress which the RSA is developing now."
Jaguar Director of Design and recipient of this years Walpole Award for 'British Luxury Design Talent' Ian Callum said:
"Design is at the very heart of Jaguar's philosophy to create Beautiful, Fast Cars and both the XK and recently introduced XF models represent a new and exciting direction for the brand. It is natural therefore that Jaguar should support the RDI Awards which celebrate excellence across all fields of Design and it is an honour for our brand to be amongst such esteemed company".
The distinction Royal Designer for Industry will be conferred to the following designers for 2008:
Max Fordham has been a pioneer of environmental engineering design for buildings in the UK for more than 40 years and remains a leader in the development of a new sustainable architectural aesthetic. His high profile projects include Tate St Ives and the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Visit Max Fordham's website.
Sam Hecht (Product Design)
Sam Hecht's studio Industrial Facility applies intellectual rigour, high design values and vision to mass-produced items – from household whitegoods to electronics, and for companies such as Epson, Magis, Lexon, Whirlpool, and Muji, where Hecht is European creative director. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, and the Centre Pompidou. Visit Sam Hecht's website.
Sarah King (Textile Design)
Sarah King is one of the most skilled and prolific textile designers in the UK and has worked in the industry for over 25 years. Her technical expertise, spectacular use of colour and particular sensitivity to cloth construction gives her fabrics unique character. King's clients have included Heals, Joseph, Liberty, Colefax and Fowler, Crafts Council, and Bloomingdales, New York.
Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd (Product Design)
PearsonLloyd became a partnership in 1997. Masters of proportion, scale and colour, they bring great technical rigour to the design of products and environments and a total integration of functionality and aesthetics. They have recently been selected as product designers for Transport for London until 2009. Visit the PearsonLloyd website.
Andrea Branzi (General Design)
Branzi has been working in industrial design, architecture, urban planning, education, cultural promotion and research for over 40 years. A partner of the internationally known avant-garde group Archizoom Associati from 1964 - 1974 , he was Co-founder and director of the Domus Academy in 1982, and remains an influential teacher, critic and researcher in the theory of design at the Politecnico di Milano. Visit Andrea Branzi's website.
James Carpenter (Glass Design)
Carpenter's work is a synthesis of creative ideas and technical expertise that straddles art, architecture and engineering. Glass and light in transmission, reflection and refraction are his medium and guiding principles in the design of architectural projects. He has played a leading role in teams that have produced a number of progressive contemporary buildings. Visit James Carpenter's website.
Dries Van Noten (Fashion Design)
Described by the New York Times as one of fashion's most cerebral designers, Van Noten presented his first collection in London in 1986 as part of 'The Antwerp Six'. Renowned for sophisticated prints and an outstanding sense of colour, he designs collections 'item by item', rather than creating a collection around one silhouette. In 1985 he opened his first shop in Antwerp selling men's and womenswear in the same fabrics, and now has five stores and 400 outlets worldwide. Visit Dries Van Noten's website.
Sori Yanagi (General Design)
One of the most respected designers in the world, Sori Yanagi is also regarded as the father of industrial design in Japan. After working with Charlotte Perriand in the early 1940s he founded the Yanagi Industial Design Insitute in 1952, which generated a prolific number of products and furniture for daily use, characterised by a combination of western industrial design and Japanese native artisanal tradition. Yanagi has also designed lighting, glass objects, cutlery, toys, metro stations, cars, and motorcycles.
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North Carolina must face down a looming budget crisis while sustaining—and even expanding—its school improvement efforts over the next two years, Gov. Michael F. Easley told state legislators last week in his first State of the State Address.
Mr. Easley called for a voluntary, statewide preschool program for 4-year-olds deemed at risk for academic failure, as well as reduced class sizes in grades K- 3, as ways to help students reach higher standards.
"Our schools have made great strides, but in many parts of our state they are simply not the schools our children deserve," he said in the Feb. 19 speech. "If we want our students to succeed, they must arrive at the schoolhouse door ready to learn—and once inside, they need an encouraging environment that allows them not just to pass but to excel."
The governor, a Democrat, proposed a state lottery system—a plan he said would raise $400 million to $500 million annually—to pay for the programs.
During his campaign last November to succeed longtime Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., Mr. Easley pointed to evidence that residents regularly cross state lines to play lottery games in Virginia and Georgia.
"We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars—North Carolina's dollars—to build new schools in other states, while we're packing our kids in trailers at home," Gov. Easley said in his address last week.
Lottery initiatives have been proposed, and defeated, in every North Carolina legislative session since the early 1980s. Some observers believe, however, that the worsening budget situation, as well as a recent ruling in the state's 7-year-old school finance lawsuit, will put new pressure on lawmakers to pass such a measure.
Earlier this month, the governor declared a fiscal emergency, citing a projected $800 million shortfall in the state budget for the current fiscal year. But education escaped the knife in his plan to cut nearly $1 billion from the $14 billion budget. Over the past few decades, budget woes have contributed to North Carolina's legacy of stop-and-start efforts to improve its schools.
The state's 4-year-old accountability program has won North Carolina national recognition as a leader in the push to ratchet up academic performance by holding students and schools to state-specified standards. The program has also won widespread bipartisan support in the legislature and has been viewed as a long-term commitment among lawmakers.
But now it is time, Mr. Easley declared, to move beyond setting and enforcing academic standards. The state must now provide the tools to help students meet those expectations.
"North Carolina is recognized for real accountability and high standards," the governor said. "But accountability is simply enforcing standards. We are simply not doing enough to help students reach higher standards."
The preschool proposal would help close the state's achievement gap between white and minority students, Mr. Easley argued. It might also help satisfy a Wake County superior court ruling last fall in a lawsuit brought by low-wealth districts that would require the state to provide preschool to at-risk children.
Moreover, Mr. Easley said, reducing the pupil- teacher ratio to 18-to-1 in the early grades would give teachers more chances to meet individual children's needs.
Getting the word out on how schools are doing should also be a priority, the governor said. He proposed mailing report cards to parents on how many students are in their children's classes and whether their teachers are certified in the subjects they are teaching.
The former state attorney general asked local school boards to adopt character education programs, dress codes, and stricter discipline policies to make schools safer for students and teachers.
"State Budget Woes Hit Schools in Deep South," Feb. 14, 2001.
"States Adjust High-Stakes Testing Plans," Jan. 24, 2001.
"Winners of Gubernatorial Races and Their Positions on Education," Nov. 15, 2000.


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Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2002: Hearings Before a ..., 2. daļa
Autori: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative
The funds we are requesting are critical to addressing our succession planning challenges and enhancing the knowledge, skills, and abilities of our workforce. A large percentage of our workforce will become eligible for retirement within the next 5 years. More than 35 percent of our analysts and 50 percent of our senior executives will be retirement eligible within that time period. We need to aggressively continue our efforts to hire new staff, develop existing staff, and otherwise build the future GAO. In order to be competitive in attracting, hiring, and retaining high caliber and talented staff, we need to be able to further enhance our human capital programs. Thus, the funding we are requesting for training, performance-based recognition and compensation programs, education loan repayments, mass transit subsidy allowance, and enabling technology is critical. Without such funding, we will not be competitive in attracting and retaining the best, brightest, and expertise needed to effectively serve the Congress in addressing the complex, controversial, and multidimensional issues and challenges it faces each year.
If the funding trend of the past 3 years is continued, we will need to restrict our work to only responding to requests from committees and subcommittees, thus severely limiting-and potentially eliminating-work done for individual members. Such a restriction also would further reduce the limited flexibility we have to research and develop expertise on emerging issues, thereby limiting our ability to respond to the Congress when related issues arise on short notice. For example, were it not for the advance research and development work we had done on computer security, China, the World Trade Organization, and last year's presidential election issues, we would have been unable to be responsive to the congressional requests and public debates on these real time, event driven issues. We need sufficient funding to build and ensure we have the capacity and expertise to address such emerging issues on short notice in the future.
Fiscal year 2000 was a tremendous year of accomplishment and achievement for GAO - a year of great service to the Congress and of great benefit to the American taxpayer. We have made significant progress in addressing many of the areas in need of improvement in GAO and need to continue these efforts. The resources we are requesting for fiscal year 2002 are critical to sustaining our high-level of performance and service to the Congress. We are the nation's and possibly the world's leading accountability organization. We need these additional resources to continue our efforts to further strengthen GAO and be a model organization for the rest of the federal government and accountability organizations around the world. In addition, given GAO's impressive results and return on investment, it only makes sense for GAO to receive resource allocations that are well above average for other federal entities. To do otherwise would send a troubling message to GAO's employees, the press, and the public.
We look forward to your continued support and working even more closely with you and your staff this year and in fiscal year 2002. This concludes my statement. I would be pleased to respond to any questions that the Members of the Subcommittee may have.
FTE LEVELS Mr. TAYLOR. We will go directly to questions, with your agreement. During the past 5 years, we have reduced the GAO personnel more than 25 percent. Your budget request has an increase of 125 FTEs. Please tell the committee why you need such an increase and how will those new FTEs be assigned throughout the agency?
Mr. WALKER. First, our head count is roughly 40 percent below what it was in 1992. We are requesting funding at our full targeted level, which is 3,275 FTEs. We are currently about 125 below that number. We would allocate the additional FTEs into the areas that would support our strategic plan, areas where we have the greatest supply and demand imbalances—such as health care; education, workforce, and income security; information technology; and financial markets and community investment.
Everything that we are doing is being tied back to our strategic plan and to where we are getting the most demand from the Congress. As you know, demand far exceeds supply, so this is one means that can provide more equilibrium in that regard.
Mr. TAYLOR. On the question of asbestos abatement, I have only been on this subcommittee since 1993, but it seems like the asbestos abatement has been a question for the entire time. Is there any end in sight in the asbestos abatement program?
Mr. WALKER. If we can get the funding, the answer is definitely yes. I will turn it over to Dick Brown, who can bring you up to date on where we stand on it.
Mr. BROWN. We have completed asbestos removal from almost the entire building. As you may recall, all of the duct work in the GAO building was made of asbestos instead of metal. We had 35 miles of asbestos duct work that carried the air. All of it was removed except for that remaining on the west half of the sixth floor. So we have half of one floor left to go. With the funding that we have requested in 2002, we should be able to complete that floor.
Mr. WALKER. As you know, Mr. Chairman, we have seven floors in our building. So this would complete the task.
TRUTH IN REGULATING ACT
Mr. TAYLOR. Good. You are requesting $5.2 million to fund the Truth in Regulating Act. Would you provide the committee with an idea as to your plan for implementing your responsibilities under this act?
Mr. WALKER. Sure. As you know, Mr. Chairman, the Congress last year passed the Truth in Regulating Act, but in order for it to be operational, it also expressly provided that there had to be a separate appropriation to fund those activities. We are engaging in preliminary planning as to what type of skills and knowledge we would need to do that work. Some of these we already have within GAO. We do, however, anticipate that should the Congress decide to fund TIRA that we would want to end up adding a few additional staff, including one individual who would be specifically reman, TIRA, in effect, is a counterpart to OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It is designed to provide the Congress with its own independent source or check-and-balance against the type of work that OIRA does for the Office of Management and Budget.
We can be up and running if we get the funding, and it is up to the Congress to decide whether or not they want to provide that.
Last thing, Mr. Chairman, it is a 3-year demonstration project, and we have asked for supplemental funding of $2.6 million for the balance of this year. The $5.2 million represents what we would need for the full fiscal year 2002, should Congress wish for us to proceed.
EDUCATION LOAN REPAYMENTS Mr. TAYLOR. GAO has requested $410,000 to fund an education loan repayment program. This program will provide for the repayment of education loans for GÃO employees, as currently is being provided to executive branch employees. What authorization allows GAO to administer such a program and what are your projected costs of a fully operational program?
Mr. WALKER. Mr. Chairman, last year the Congress passed an act that provided the ability of virtually all departments and agencies within the Federal Government to offer student loan repayment assistance. We believe this is critically important in order to not only attract but also to retain skilled and knowledgeable workers for the GAO and for other departments and agencies. We are finding all too frequently that individuals coming out of college into government service today are facing a double whammy. They are not going to be compensated at the same level as in the private sector, but in addition to that, they have accumulated significant debt. The combined effect of those two causes some individuals, who otherwise would like to go into public service, not to. And we believe that this would be helpful in attracting these people.
OPM has to finalize its related regulations. My understanding is that should happen within the next month. Once those regulations are finalized, the GAO will be covered. Within those regulations there are certain limits as to how much we can pay each year and over an individual's lifetime. The real key is once you have the authority, you need the money.
So what we are respectfully suggesting is that with some funding to get us started on this program, we would implement it. Obviously we wouldn't reimburse everyone at once. We started rehiring within the last couple of years, and we expect that when the program is fully operational, it could end up running $2 to $3 million per year. We believe it is critically important.
HUMAN CAPITAL LEGISLATION
Mr. TAYLOR. You have been working to reengineer and right-size the GAO since you became the Comptroller General. Do you have all the tools and statutory power necessary to complete the job and can you amplify that for us?
Mr. WALKER. Mr. Chairman, we were fortunate last year to gain the Congress' support in passing some human capital reform legisnow of implementing that authority. We are also looking at whether and to what extent we need additional authorities.
I do not have any specific requests at this point in time, but I can assure you, Mr. Chairman, that if we don't get the job done with the authority that the Congress gave us last year, I won't hesitate to come back to you and work with you in that area.
The last thing that I would say, Mr. Chairman, is that many of the targeted investments that we are asking for in this budget are designed to support us within the context of current law and the additional authority that Congress gave us last year.
Mr. TAYLOR. Well, we have been very proud of the work you have done so far. Please keep in communication with us regarding this matter so we can see if we can provide what is needed for GAO to meet its responsibilities.
I have a question I will submit to be answered for the record. [The question and response follow:]
HUMAN CAPITOL Question. Please describe in detail any actions taken to-date, or planned, using human capital provisions enacted for the GAO by the last Congress in Public Law 106–303.
Response. Following enactment of the human capital legislation, we established priorities addressing the publication of regulations implementing the new authorities granted GAO by this legislation. In developing and issuing the human capital regulations, we are providing all employees the opportunity to provide input.
SENIOR LEVEL POSITIONS
We developed GAO Order 2319.1, Senior Level Positions, to incorporate the provisions related to senior level positions. An individual serving in a Senior Level position must meet critical scientific, technical, or professional needs of GAO. Senior Level incumbents are subject to the laws and regulations applicable to GAO's SES with respect to rates of basic pay, performance awards, ranks, carry-over leave, benefits, performance appraisals, removal or suspension, reductions-in-force, and rights of appeal to the GAO Personnel Appeals Board. Senior Level positions generally do not include managerial or supervisory duties.
In developing these regulations, we consulted with and obtained comments from GAO staff and the Employee Advisory Council (EAC). Draft regulations were provided to the EAC in December 2000, and to all GAO employees for a 30-day comment period on January 2, 2001. Following consideration of comments received during this period, the draft order was finalized and issued on March 22, 2001. All GAO employees were notified of the availability of the final regulations on GAO's Intranet, along with a summary of the changes incorporated in the regulations based upon comments received. Our first competitive announcement for Senior Level Technologists closed on April 23, 2001. Under this new authority, to date we have filled 7 Senior Level positions: 3 staff were reclassified from SES to Senior Level, and 4 staff were selected under competitive announcements.
VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENT AUTHORITY We also published regulations related to the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority provisions. The regulations were provided to the EAC in December 2000, and to all GAO employees for a 30-day comment period via the Intranet on January 8, 2001. Over 60 comments were submitted by employees and fully considered. The final regulations along with an explanation of the changes made as a result of comments received, were issued on April 27, 2001. We provided a briefing to GAO's Managing Directors and EAC in June 2001 to seek input on the proposed early retirement opportunity period and related criteria. In addition, we have announced a 45-day period from July 16, 2001 until August 30, 2001 during which time employees can apply for a voluntary early retirement.
The voluntary early retirement offer is designed to support our strategic plan to serve the Congress in the 21st century, while maintaining the resources necessary to deliver on our current commitments to the Congress. The specific objectives of


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Palaeontology, Archaeology & History
Irish Famine remains found on Canadian beach
By Still Waters, June 10 in Palaeontology, Archaeology & History
cap-des-rosiers
carricks shipwreck
county sligo
irish famine
Remains washed up on a Canadian beach belonged to shipwreck victims lost at sea while fleeing the Irish Famine, the Canadian government has confirmed.
The bones of three children washed up on a beach at Cap-des-Rosiers following a storm in 2011.
The remains of 18 others, mostly women and children, were uncovered by archaeologists on the beach in 2016.
Experts have now said the remains were from the 1847 Carricks ship from County Sligo.
Scientists said that that the location of the remains, combined with laboratory analysis, confirmed the theory that they were from the Carricks shipwreck.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48575903
RabidMongoose 3,408
5 minutes ago, Still Waters said:
But 1847 is from before the potato famine.
OverSword 39,295
Location:Seattle WA USA
8 minutes ago, RabidMongoose said:
The Great Famine, or the Great Hunger, was a period in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 of mass starvation, disease, and emigration. Wikipedia
Eldorado 35,149
I reckon so.
There's some documentary here... (five minutes)
Ozymandias 2,713
Location:Ireland
My feet are on the ground.
'The real safeguard of democracy is education' - Franklin D. Roosevelt
1 hour ago, RabidMongoose said:
Not true. There was famine in Ireland before 1847. The Great Famine began in 1845. It is so-called in order to distinguish it from lesser and smaller local famines that were common in Ireland for decades before 1847.
2 hours ago, OverSword said:
Thats creepy, I just had a reality jump.
An interesting story that can be replicated hundreds of times. Most people are aware that the Great Famine of Ireland killed a million and forced another million to emigrate. The consequences for them are well known to many observers. But spare a thought for those in Ireland who actually managed to survive the cataclysm and cling on to life. I am descended from such people.
Although I have an 'English' name my ancestors are Irish as far back as I can go - that is into the 1700s - and they were also Catholic. However, in Ireland, the original English immigrants with my surname were Protestant and arrived here in the 17th century. At some point in the following 100 years collateral Catholic offshoots sprung from these Protestant immigrants (you might make an intelligent guess as to how that happened). Those Protestant families who hold my surname in Ireland are 'upper class' whereas my Catholic ancestors were all of peasant stock – landless labourers for the most part.
Having traced my family tree I know the impact of the Famine on my own ancestors. It does not make pleasant reading. Even if a family escaped starvation during the famine they did not escape the social and economic consequences. But more import still were the familial ravages that the famine wrought on the survivors, and it was these effects that have been the most enduring in Irish society. Historians have analyzed the social and economic outcomes but none have investigated the personal, familial damage that was done to survivors and family networks. In what way did the experience of the Famine change the people who survived it and how did those changes influence the formation of the character of subsequent individuals reared in that family, and inform the attitudes passed down to following generations.
Many people saw their neighbours die of disease and starvation and could do little about it. The churches and the charities were helpless also. More traumatic was to see and powerlessly experience your own relations, including your own children, die of hunger or famine related disease. That happened in my own family. Many of my collateral ancestors died in the famine and I am obviously descended from survivors. In fact, from a cottier family that was evicted from their home and land near Newport, Co. Tipperary, and had the house pulled down behind them as they took to the roads walking to Limerick city. My great great grandfather experienced this eviction but also the destruction of his traditional way of life and his wider family network and his communal support. The physical and psychological impact of that event and what followed immediately in its wake has come down to me in a very recognizable manner.
My evicted ancestral family could not afford to emigrate when they reached Limerick and were submerged in the struggling slum-dwellers (Angela's Ashes) of that city. To survive in the city they needed English and so rejected their Irish language. Their ambition was to get out of Ireland. We know that my great great grandfather lost three children to hunger and disease. His other children, except for one, simply disappeared without trace. Whether they reached maturity and emigrated we know not.
The rest (including my great great grandfather) I have been able to trace down through the generations. What astonishes me is that the collateral branches that descend from that Newport family do not know each other at all. A complete fragmentation developed and the dynamic that led my surviving ancestors to play out their self-reliant lives in circumstantially imposed isolation from each other is still evident today in the family. Those that stayed and survived in Ireland became revolutionaries to a man. None took the establishment side but resented authority and British rule here and fought – frequently in arms – against it. Is it really surprising that Ireland achieved independence from Britain within two generations of the famine?
Edited June 11 by Ozymandias
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