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Contemporary Art Evening Auction
20,000,000 - 30,000,000 USD
signed and dated 1955 on the reverse
91 5/8 x 69 in. 232.7 x 175.3 cm.
Estate of the artist (no. 5004.55)
Marlborough A.G., Liechtenstein/Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, June 1970 - March 1971 (on loan)
Boston, Boston City Hall, The New York School, March - April 1971
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, October 1975 – October 1978 (on loan)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mark Rothko 1903 – 1970: A Retrospective, October 1978 - September 1979, cat. no. 122, illustrated in color
Beijing, Zhongguo Meishuguan; Shanghai, Shanghai Bowuguan; American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September - November 1981, p. 32, illustrated
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision, February - April 1982, p. 35, illustrated in color
Portland, Portland Museum of Art, May - September 1984
South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, An Architect's Eye, September - November 1985, p. 17, illustrated in color
London, The Tate Gallery, Mark Rothko 1903 - 1970, June - September 1987, cat. no. 49, p. 138, illustrated in color
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Mark Rothko, September 1987 - January 1988, cat. no. 25, illustrated in color
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Mark Rothko 1903 - 1970: Retrospective der Gemälde, January - March 1988, cat. no 39, p. 151, illustrated in color
South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Collective Pursuits: Mount Holyoke Investigates Modernism, April - May 1993, p. 59, illustrated in color
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Columbus, Indiana, Columbus Gallery, American Traditions: Art from the Collections of Culver Alumni, December 1993 - March 1994, p. 303, illustrated in color (inverted)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Reflections on Monet, September 1998 - January 1999
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Side by Side, 1999
Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko, "A consummated experience between picture and onlooker", February-April 2001, cat. no. 31, p. 110, illustrated in color
Kenworth Moffet, Morris Louis in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1979, p. 7, illustrated
Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self, New York, 1982, illustrated in color on the cover
Camilo Franco, "O humano sobre o home con fondo de cór", La Voz de Galicia, 22 October 1987, p. 4, illustrated
Julio Trenas, "Rothko y la 'Escuela de Nueva York'", Jano 804, January – February 1988, p. 106, illustrated
David Anfam, Mark Rothko, The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1988, cat. no. 523, p. 402, illustrated in color
Exemplifying Mark Rothko's legendary language of abstraction via the sublime aura of its golden surfaces, Untitled of 1955 affords a visual and somatic experience beyond compare. Executed at the height of the artist's creative powers, it is archetypal of his very best painting. Following the crucial turning point of 1949-50, when he resolved his inimitable dialect of abstraction out of the preceding multiform paintings, Rothko entered what David Anfam calls the anni mirabilis: the first half of the 1950s during which his mature mode of artistic expression pioneered unprecedented territory. Untitled of 1955 embodies a pinnacle of achievement during this classic period and crystallizes the conceptual and philosophical enquiries interrogated by Rothko during the preceding decade. Indeed, this vast painting stands as definitive verification of Rothko's vital role in shaping the course of twentieth-century Art History, and is also intrinsic to the international artistic revolution of the post-War epoch.
At over 90 inches in height, the scale of Untitled is monumental, broadcasting its allure on a greater-than human register, engulfing the viewer's experience, and situating us as actors within its epic drama. This apparent paradox typifies the artist's ambition, declared in 1951: "I paint very large pictures...precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience...However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command" (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Mark Rothko 1903-1970, 1987, p. 85). Of course, scale is fundamental to the nature of Rothko's work, identified as such by Clement Greenberg in the year of this painting: "their surfaces exhale color with an enveloping effect that is enhanced by size itself. One reacts to an environment as much as to a picture hung on a wall" (in "'American-Type' Painting", 1955 cited in Clifford Ross, Ed., Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, New York, 1990, p. 248). In the preceding year Rothko had written to instruct the hanging of an exhibition: "Since my pictures are large, colorful and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale" (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op Cit, p. 58). Indeed, describing "Rothko's desire to envelop the spectator with art that overcame its ambient space", Anfam cites a 1955 show at the Sidney Janis gallery where "the stature of the pictures and their siting – wedged into the spaces – is instructive. They seek to displace their environment" (David Anfam, Mark Rothko, The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 73). In this manner and in keeping with the most revered works of his canon, Untitled creates its own exclusive province of inimitable sensation for the viewer to enter. Nevertheless, even within Rothko's output the present work remains extremely rare: each of the four paintings executed in 1955 to exceed or equal the height of Untitled are today housed in prestigious museum collections; respectively the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
The canvas is dominated by two shimmering zones of light that are simultaneously drawn together and held apart by a horizontal band of lustrous orange, which is quietly echoed in a softer edge towards the foot of the painting. This central strip provides tonal contrast to the luminous seas of color above and below so that the composition operates around the identifiable focus of a central horizontal axis. Pushing out towards the uppermost boundaries of the canvas, a warm yet slightly citrus yellow expanse pulsates above a more introspective, almost square field of whites below. Rothko applied paint material in diverse fashions; the rectangles, or objects, being achieved either by paint being spread out from the centre, or by an outline being filled in, or by strokes being applied in parallel until the form was completed. Chromatic resonance is reached through the build up of translucent veils of pigment, with attention committed to the spaces between forms and the edges of the canvas. Both despite of and due to their differences, the two principle color fields equilibrate in Untitled: the lure of one is immediately countered by the irresistible pull of the other as they reverberate over the fractionally warmer ochre ground. The layers of pigments hover indeterminately as three-dimensional floods of color in front of the picture plane, while also reinforcing the materiality of the painted object through their saturation of the canvas weave.
Through form, surface, texture and color Rothko has struck a perennial balance that captures the viewer's constant attention. There is also a tension struck between the uplifting emotions conventionally evoked by warm golden hues and something implicitly more dramatic, or even tragic. Such elemental colors harbor primal connotations of light, warmth and the sun, but they also implicate the inevitable cycle of dawn and dusk, of rise and set, and their own continual demise and rebirth. Rothko once stated to David Sylvester: "Often, towards nightfall, there's a feeling in the air of mystery, threat, frustration – all of these at once. I would like my painting to have the quality of such moments" (Ibid, p. 88), and with its suggestion of an unobtainable horizon and an infinite, unbreakable cycle, Untitled possesses something unknowably portentous.
While much contemporary commentary cited Rothko's oeuvre as radically dislocated from precedent, subsequent perspective readily posits his oeuvre an eminent historical location. From J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and Claude Monet to the Luminists, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse; predecessors concerned with the pure effects of color from decades past informed Rothko's new painting in mid-century New York. Perhaps foremost among these was Matisse, whose own practice had radically redefined relationships between form and color, and as Robert Rosenblum has pointed out: "it dawned on many of Rothko's admirers that his dense seas of color might not have existed without the example of Matisse, a point the artist himself acknowledged" (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op Cit, p. 22). That Matisse died on 3rd November 1954, the year before the present work's execution, inevitably impacted Rothko's work. Soon after this sad event a discernible shift occurred, as elucidated by Anfam: "The output of 1955, the year after Rothko's departure from Betty Parsons (in favor of Janis) and the termination of his teaching job at Brooklyn College, emerges as critical" (David Anfam, Op Cit, p. 88). These eventful months witnessed accelerated experimentation in brushwork, composition and, most importantly, color, including Rothko's first serious use of the darker hues that so famously came to define much of his later work. That the brilliant luminosity of Untitled emerged during this time compounds its significance within Rothko's career.
It is well documented that Rothko was fixated with the literary work of Friedrich Nietzsche, above all his seminal opus The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music written in 1872. Nietzsche's ideas of how the tension between Apollonian and Dionysian forces dictates the terms of human drama were important to the advancement of Rothko's philosophy. Furthermore, Rothko's vast tableaux have often been discussed in the lexicon of the saturating effects of music. David Sylvester's review of the 1961 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition in London provides an apt response to Untitled in these terms: "These paintings begin and end with an intense and utterly direct expression of feeling through the interaction of coloured areas of a certain size. They are the complete fulfillment of Van Gogh's notion of using colour to convey man's passions. They are the realisation of what abstract artists have dreamed for 50 years of doing – making painting as inherently expressive as music. More than this: for not even with music...does isolated emotion touch the nervous system so directly" (in New Statesman, 20 October 1961 cited in Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op Cit, p. 36).
Excepting a letter to Art News in 1957, from 1949 onwards Rothko ceased publishing statements about his work, anxious that his writings could interfere with the pure import of the paintings. However, in a 1958 talk at the Pratt Institute, he repudiated his critics and denied any perceived association between his art and self-expression. He insisted instead that his corpus was concerned rather with the entire human drama. While he drew a distinction between figurative and abstract art, he nevertheless outlined an underlying adherence to the portrayal of human experience. Discussing the "artist's eternal interest in the human figure", Rothko examined the common bond of figurative painters throughout Art History: "they have painted one character in all their work. What is indicated here is that the artist's real model is an ideal which embraces all of human drama rather than the appearance of a particular individual. Today the artist is no longer constrained by the limitation that all of man's experience is expressed by his outward appearance. Freed from the need of describing a particular person, the possibilities are endless. The whole of man's experience becomes his model, and in that sense it can be said that all of art is a portrait of an idea" (the Pratt Institute lecture cited in Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op Cit, p. 87). The magnificent Untitled naturally holds no figurative content within its paint layers and the force of its abstraction is well beyond the means of literary description. It does, however, epitomize a critical chapter in the artist's life's work and is finally best served, perhaps, by Rothko's own notion of the portrait of an idea; the idea being an inexpressible sensation of the human drama itself.


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Look What's Bubbling Up From Russia's Melting Permafrost
Lions and diggers and The Bear, oh my!
The evolutionary hits just keep coming as climate change and other factors unearth amazingly well-preserved specimens of prehistoric beasts in Russia's remote, icy regions.
Images released earlier this month of an 18,000-year-old pup baring its milk teeth are just the latest reminder of the buried biological treasures in Siberia, where the icy climate has kept large patches of earth frozen for tens of thousands of years.
That deep freeze has eased as global temperatures and other factors combine to lay bare evolutionary secrets in a region that's normally more synonymous with cold and isolation.
Russia's famously frozen subterranean zone -- sometimes over a kilometer deep -- has been a natural storehouse for the carcasses of prehistoric beasts that last roamed its steppes before the end of the last Ice Age.
Finds of the past decade or so -- as permafrost melts, erodes, or is simply plundered for ivory or other valuables -- have included remarkably well-preserved woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, cryptic dog-wolves, vanished big cats, and other biological wonders.
They are windows on evolutionary and natural history, offering clues to behavioral, physical, and genetic adaptations that might otherwise be lost.
Their biological material -- frozen cells as opposed to fossils in which the building blocks of life have been replaced by, say, minerals -- includes DNA that is furthering efforts to decipher undiscovered genomes and, some say controversially, could one day help clone species that are extinct.
In at least one case, Siberia has yielded the seeds of an experiment that returned plants to life after tens of thousands of years in a deep freeze.
Dogor (above), named for the word 'friend' in the local Yakut language, has confounded scientists since the puppy's 18,000-year-old remains were found near Yakutsk last year.
DNA testing by Swedish scientists has been unable to firmly place it within the evolutionary chain, hinting it could fall somewhere between wolves and dogs.
The oldest-known common ancestor of modern wolves and dogs has otherwise been thought to have lived about 40,000 years ago, based on DNA testing.
Dogor and all but one of the prehistoric finds below are from the latter part of the Pleistocene Epoch that started with the spread of northern ice sheets nearly 2.6 million years ago and ended around 12,000 years ago. It's also the epoch that saw Homo sapiens arise and flourish.
Permafrost (shown in orange) is abundant in the Northern Hemisphere.
Permafrost is long-frozen ground that in most cases unites rocks and sediment in ice that seals out the elements. It is usually topped off by an 'active layer' heavy in organic matter that doesn't decompose due to the cold.
It is abundant in the Northern Hemisphere, owing to the amount of land mass in and near the Arctic Circle.
It covers nearly two-thirds of Russia's 17 million square kilometers of territory.
In the case of wide swaths of Siberia, even shallow permafrost has remained frozen for tens of thousands of years.
But like retreating glaciers and weather patterns, it is said to be seeing dramatic effects from man-made climate change.
The resulting thaws and erosion have helped expose a veritable gold mine for paleontologists.
Russian Geographic Society staff members carry the body of Yuka, a baby mammoth, to put on display in Moscow in October 2014.
Yuka became a cause celebre in 2010 as the best-preserved woolly mammoth ever to have fallen into the laps of scientists.
She was named for the Yukagir coast where she died, some 39,000 years ago, as a juvenile between 6 and 12 years of age.
Mammoths are getting increasingly controversial with each new find.
The discovery of such well-protected biological material has sparked talk of an effort to use DNA from Yuka's carcass or that of another mammoth to clone them and revive the iconic, Ice Age species.
A 10,000-year-old baby mammoth carcass, discovered by a reindeer herder in Yamal-Nenets, on display in the Arctic city of Salekhardi in 2007.
Many people believe cloning techniques are advanced enough to successfully revive a species like the woolly mammoth with intact DNA, but the damage of cosmic radiation is likely to have sufficiently 'shredded' any DNA so as to make it worthless for cloning efforts.
This year, however, researchers announced they'd taken 'less-damaged nucleus-like structures from the remains' of Yuka and seen 'signs of biological activities' in them after transferring them into mouse cells capable of forming ova, or eggs.
'Our work provides a platform to evaluate the biological activities of nuclei in extinct animal species,' they declared.
There is also an extensively chronicled, but still largely untallied, illicit trade in mammoth tusks that critics say undermines bans on the trade in endangered elephant ivory.
A contentious proposal to treat that long-extinct species as endangered under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was dropped earlier this year.
Woolly rhino Sasha
The first complete carcass of a juvenile woolly rhino -- hair and all -- turned up near the banks of a Siberian river in 2015.
Nicknamed Sasha and nearly a meter tall and 2 meters long at just 7 months of age, she would have towered over her modern peers.
Scientists still know very little about the behavior of woolly rhinos or their timeline on Earth, but early estimates put Sasha's remains at between 10,000 and 34,000 years old.
She was well-enough preserved that her tufty, strawberry-blond remains were reconstructed by a local taxidermist for visitors to her home in Yakutsk.
A woolly rhino whose partial skull was found in Germany in 2008 lived nearly a half million years ago, making it Europe's oldest such find. It was hailed as a major clue to how large, cold-loving species spread across Eurasia during the Ice Age.
A Lena horse foal that died around 40,000 years ago.
The cavernous Batagayka Crater in eastern Russia's taiga surrendered another prehistoric juvenile animal in 2018, this time a gangly foal (above) of the extinct species known as a Lena horse.
It was thought to be roughly 2 months old when it died, some 40,000 years ago.
Internal organs, tail, and hooves are whole, and even eyelashes and nostril hairs are clearly visible.
The prospect of harvesting useful DNA from the foal was high enough that a renowned South Korean pioneer of cloning, Hwang Woo-suk, was brought in as part of the dissection earlier this year.
Hwang, a vocal advocate of cloning techniques to revive woolly mammoths whose false claims earned him the label of 'bad-boy geneticist,' reportedly took samples of biological fluids like blood and even urine.
Cave lions, a subspecies of today's lion that also inhabited North America, are thought to have become extinct at least 10,000 years ago.
So scientists swooned when two nearly intact cubs, nicknamed Uyan and Dina, were uncovered just below the Arctic Circle in 2015.
They were spotted in an ice lens exposed when a crevice opened after the Uyandina River burst its banks and receded.
They are thought to have lived between 25,000 and 55,000 years ago.
Uyan and Dina were just weeks old when they died, with eyes not fully opened and teeth still embedded, so they never got a chance to roam the Siberian steppes. Instead, a scientist has speculated that a landslide entombed them inside their cave-like hiding place.
One of Russia's foremost authorities on prehistoric-fauna discoveries, Albert Protopopov from the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, told the Siberian Times the cubs were a 'sensational' find and noted that even their whiskers were intact.
'Given that the cubs have well-preserved soft tissues, we believe that they can be cloned. But we can speak about the results of this work in two or three years,' TASS quoted scientists as saying after the discovery.
Another frozen cub carcass emerged in 2017 from the eastern Siberian permafrost -- this one under 2 months old and possibly dating back tens of thousands of years.
Found near the Tirkhtyakh River by a man who was said to have been searching for mammoth tusks, it is thought to be a cave lion or a Eurasian lynx. In either case, a discovery dating back to the Ice Age would be rare.
Mammoth hunters were said to have found the disembodied head of an ancient subspecies of wolf (above) staring back at them from a bank of the Tirekhtyakh River in 2018.
Its mottled fur, brain, tongue, and other features were said to be the best-preserved of any previous specimens.
Scientists said its size -- about 25 percent larger -- distinguishes it from many modern wolves.
It is thought to have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years or so.
Yukagir tribe members stumbled across the preserved carcass of an ancient relative of the modern bison along a muddy Siberian lakeshore in 2011.
The adult Steppe bison likely to have starved to death 9,000 years ago, judging by the paucity of its digestive tract.
Its heart was complete enough that scientists even performed a CT scan on its brain.
Not all of the remarkable finds in Siberia's melting permafrost have been animals.
Russian scientists announced in 2012 that they had beat the previous plant-regeneration record by 30,000 years.
Silene stenophylla regenerated from 30,000-year-old fruits buried in permafrost deposits.
The seed-bearing fruits of the flowering Silene stenophylla, better known as the campion or catchfly, had been frozen for 32,000 years until they were dug up from 'fossil squirrel burrows' 38 meters beneath a bank of the Kolyma River.
Radiocarbon dating put the age of the fruits at 31,800 years, give or take three centuries.
Scientists could only produce healthy, fertile adult plants from regenerated 'placental tissue' from unripe fruits. They speculated that placental tissue is special because it is especially active -- it processes and transports not only its own nutrients but also those bound for other tissues. And, they suggested, the unripe fruit is a better vessel for preservation because it's closed off more tightly from the environment -- closer to ideal 'hermetic conditions.'
Images of 32,000-year-old Silene stenophylla seeds regenerated by Russian scientists.
'Naturally occurring permanently frozen sediments offer an important opportunity for the discovery of wild plant species, preservation of biological material, studying the conditions for cryopreservation, and developing germplasm collections,' said the authors of a Silene study.
'We consider it essential to continue permafrost studies in search of an ancient genetic pool, that of preexisting life, which hypothetically has long since vanished from the Earth's surface.'
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Date July 19, 2001
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by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
(Telos Publishing, £9.99, 201 pages, paperback, published 2003.)
"Porsche Winter has a problem ... as a fully fledged guardian angel, she is charged with the safety of her clients at all times. But you take your eye off the monitor for just one moment and the Devil is in there with a demon snatching the soul from one of your clients. But not just any client! Dreamboat and all round lust object Alex Chalmers..."
So goes the publicity blurb for the first in a proposed series of novels staring Guardian Angel Porsche Winter. Porsche is an up front and feisty character who in this first story gets literally entangled with the Devil, when she loses the chase for a soul, and is suitably demoted by her boss, none other than Gabriel himself. Finding herself working in the day to day dullness of the dream factory, she manages to contact Alex Chalmers through his dreams and the chase is on to retrieve his soul from the clutches of Lucifer.
Throughout this story we are introduced to various characters who will undoubtedly feature in the life of Porsche in the future, the most notable being the legendary cupid, who is the small cherubic fun loving best friend of Porsche, always there to advise and share a drink with our heroine.
Stephanie Bedwell-Grime takes us into the believable world of the hereafter where Heaven and Hell are constantly at each other's throats for dominance in the cut and thrust world of the afterlife. Heaven and Hell are run as businesses, the whole place is run by accountants and civil servants; when the Devil gets an upper hand, he manages to assert his authority over Heaven, getting a controlling seat on the board.
Bedwell-Grime paints vivid pictures with her pen. We can visualise the three stages of the hereafter, Heaven, The Netherworld and Hell, with sideshoots such as the Purgatory bar thrown in for good measure. Also the River Styx is brought vividly to life, where Porsche's father works as the ferryman and his dog Cerberus stands guard by the mouth of the Acheron. Wonderful stuff.
I liked this book very much, I found myself drawn into this beautifully realised world, the characters all leap off the page as fully drawn three dimensional figures with substance. The tale is told at a cracking pace, and by the end of the book I was left gasping for breath and eager for more. The story concludes in such a way that one is left in no doubt of the fun and adventure that Porsche and her cast of characters have ahead of her. To say any more would spoil a rather fun plot twist.
I suspect that the author is a fan of the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books as Miss Winter shares a few of Miss Plum's virtues and characteristics. Like Plum, Winter has the potential to be around for a long time to come. All the settings are in place for a terrific series of novels.
Review by Russell Cook.
© Russell Cook 19 October 2003


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The Country Living Handbook
A Back-to-Basics Guide to Living Off the Land
By Abigail R. Gehring
(Part of Handbook Series)
Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this compact guide has everything you need to dive into a more self-sufficient life. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, fermenting vegetables to soap-making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection. Topics covered include:
Cheese-making
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Vince Woska dominated the highly popular AMA/Prostar 1000 SuperSport class in 2006, winning the National Championship. With the help of an Innovate Motorsports and their LM-1/LMA-3 data logger kit, Vince scored seven No.1 qualifiers, six final round appearances, and three national event wins. He currently holds the National MPH Record in 1000SS at 161.92mph.
After a disappointing round-one loss in Sonoma, Johnson made a quick rebound with his 39th Pro Stock title. Following a solid qualifying performance that yielded the No. 2 starting spot, K.J. powered past Jim Yates, Mike Edwards, and defending event winner Jeg Coughlin to reach the final, where he defeated Dave Connolly. Johnson's ACDelco Cobalt was exceptionally consistent with four runs between 6.648 and 6.671 on race day.
"We had a super-great day," said Johnson. "We got a little behind at first, but the car got faster and faster each round. I'm also pretty happy with my driving. I had four good lights, and that makes me feel good. When your car is running as well as our car is, it does add pressure because you need to perform.
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The above images of sunlight pouring into the Capitol dome are from the 1950's. Photos by Eddie Winfred "Doc" Helm, courtesy Illinois State Archives.
To the left is a photo taken in 1887 or earlier, as there are no statues on the corbels. The statues were erected on the corbels beginning in August 1887. The same view today is shown on the right.
Click here to view The Corbel Statues.
Black & white photograph courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library
This photograph shows the impressive centerpiece of the Statehouse. The stained glass is to be found at the summit of the inner dome. Notice the arcane spelling of the word sovereignty. Also, the phrase "State Sovereignity" is placed above "National Union." This is opposite of what appears on the "official" Great Seal of Illinois. The placement of the phrases was the topic of significant debate during the adoption of the seal in the 19th century.
The Plaster Frieze
These are photographs, in no specific order, of the plaster frieze encircling the dome above the corbel statues. The frieze, which is considered by many to be some of the best artwork in the capitol, is painted to resemble bronze. There is some doubt as to the chronological order of the panels and the events depicted in the scenes. The description below is from the 1900 edition of the Illinois Blue Book.
"At the base of the inner dome, is a series of allegorical and historical pictures, in bas relief, of conceded artistic merit. Among these are the discussion of the stamp act, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, with Patrick Henry as the central figure, making his memorable address, and Washington and Richard Henry Lee among his attentive auditors; the evacuation of Yorktown by the British forces; Peter Cartwright, the pioneer preacher, conducting a religious service in a "settler's" cabin; the surrender of Black Hawk at Prairie du Chien; and a joint debate between those giants of the political forum, Abraham Lincoln and Steven A. Douglas, in their great campaign of 1858. In these historical representatives all of the figures are supposed to be portraits of historical characters. Many of them are easily recognized, but others it seems impossible to identify, as the gifted artist, T. Nicolai, who designed and executed the work, dying before it was wholly completed, left no key to the different groups so graphically represented."
The 1986 Restoration of the Capitol Dome
The inner dome was cleaned and repainted in 1986. At that time the stained glass at the top was also cleaned and refurbished. In this photo the inner dome is being painted by workers in a basket suspended from the top of the dome and pulled to the sides by cables.
This is a photo taken at the top of the inner dome just below the stained glass, taken while the restoration was in progress.
This is a view of the dome with the stained glass removed for cleaning and repair. The years of dirt, smoke and neglect are quite evident on the right side of this picture, when compared with the freshly painted side.
The above photographs illustrate the dramatic transition after the late 1980s renovation of the dome.
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Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία της Στατιστικής Υπηρεσί-ας Καναδά, η ευρύτερη περιοχή του Τορόντο είναι πρώτη σε δολοφονίες που διαπράττει το οργανωμένο έγκλημα. Σε σύνολο 36 δολοφονιών που έγιναν στην ευρύτερη περιοχή του Τορόντο το 2018 η πλειοψηφία διαπράχθηκε από οργανωμένες ομάδες τη μαφία και άλλες εγκληματικές οργανώσεις, κάτι που αποτελεί δυσάρεστη πρωτιά και στον Καναδά αλλά και ανάμεσα σε πολλές χώρες. Το Μόντρεαλ ήρθε δεύτερο με 24 δολοφονίες και το Βανκούβερ τρίτο με 20. Τα εγκλήματα περιλαμβάνουν πυροβολισμούς, μαχαιρώματα και ξυλοδαρμούς. Οι δολοφονίες αυτές αφορούν ξεκαθάρισμα λογαριασμών σε ξέπλυμα χρημάτων από ναρκωτικά, εμπόριο ανθρώπων και τζόγο. Η φτωχή παρουσία της αστυνομίας στην πολιτεία φαίνεται να έχει παίξει σημαντικό ρόλο στην εμφάνιση αυτής της εγκληματικότητας στην ευρύτερη περιοχή μας, σύμφωνα με την Οργάνωση αστυνομικών Οντάριο.
GTA leads Canada in organized crime homicides, Statscan reveals in new gangland data
There were 36 gang-related homicides in the GTA in 2018, Statistics Canada says
A clearer picture of the nation's criminal underworld emerged this week, as Statistics Canada released detailed data on organized crime for the first time in a decade.Within the report were figures that show more murders linked to gang activity and traditional organized crime happened in the Greater Toronto Area last year than anywhere else in Canada.
Investigators say the new data is a boon for police as they try to figure out which criminal organizations to target. But the local homicide numbers also point to a region that's bucking a worldwide trend as its criminal organizations clash violently in a bid for power amidst increased instability, a leading expert says.«It's unusual compared to the trend in many other countries,» said Antonio Nicaso, a Mafia expert who teaches courses on organized crime at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. «The tendency [elsewhere] is to use less violence and to adopt other strategies to deal with the proceeds of crime, and that's what we see around the world. We see criminal organizations are more business oriented than violent.»But in southern Ontario, these organizations are undeniably using deadly force. According to Statistics Canada, there were 36 gang-related homicides in the GTA in 2018 — a number that includes traditional Mafia, street gangs and other crime groups. That's the same number as the year before, and the most killings of this sort seen in the region stretching back to 1991.
Provincially, there were 51 homicides either linked to or suspected to be linked to organized crime or street gangs in 2018, Statistics Canada says, a rate that's been rising since 2014 and 2015. There were 21 such homicides in each of those years.Couple those numbers with the attempt on the life of convicted mobster Pat Musitano in front of his lawyer's office in Mississauga in April — and a host of other mob activity nearby in Hamilton— and the picture of an unstable region becomes even clearer.«When you fight over turf, that's what happens,» Nicaso said. He traces the surge in violence back to the 2013 death of reputed Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto.«This is a moment of great instability in the sense that after the vacuum left by Rizzuto, there is an imbalance of power within traditional organized crime,» he said.Shootings, stabbings and beatings
As part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Statistics Canada is now highlighting the total number of incidents police services have reported between 2016 and 2018 that have been flagged as related to organized crime. «For the first time in a long time, we have actual data that we can publish,» said analyst Warren Silver.Statistics Canada found that 34 per cent of reported human trafficking incidents in the province last year were linked to organized crime, as well as 24 per cent of all murders, Silver said.According to the new data, the other offences most likely to be related to organized crime or gangs in Canada are laundering the proceeds of crime, smuggling and trafficking tobacco, cannabis and alcohol, and conspiracy to commit murder.
Low levels of police reporting
Silver told CBC News that organizations have been pushing for this data, as it can inform both resourcing and policy decisions. So why did Statistics Canada go so long without publishing it?The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey originally started including data on organized crime back in 2005, Silver said. Police services were able to flag that specific incidents were linked to crime organizations when reporting to Statistics Canada.But, Silver said, the organization found it was getting consistently low numbers of flagged cases — so in 2009, a joint decision between the federal agency and police services was made to suspend the collection and release of the data to improve the process.Silver said it's difficult for police services to flag every incident that's linked to organized crime. «It's much more labour intensive than just reporting a robbery to us,» he said.
Though improved, the new data still doesn't paint a complete picture. Just over 81 per cent of the province's police forces sent data on organized crime to Statistics Canada last year, up from 78.2 per cent the year before. Silver said the rest of the province's police services are working toward reporting as well, but until that happens, the picture remains incomplete.
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Poland Briefly Detains Belarussian Dissident
WARSAW — Poland briefly detained and then freed a Belarussian dissident, avoiding a repeat of an embarrassing incident earlier this year when Polish prosecutors unwittingly contributed to the detention of another activist.
Polish prosecutors ordered the detention of Ales Mihalevich at a Warsaw airport on the basis of an Interpol warrant for his arrest lodged by Belarussian authorities, but the foreign ministry intervened to secure his release.
Minsk accuses Mihalevich, a former presidential candidate, of fomenting mass disturbances after last December's disputed election in which President Alexander Lukashenko won another term in power.
"I have received information that the prosecutor's office decided to free Mr. Mihalevich," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters Monday, adding that one of his deputies had intervened on the Belarussian's behalf.
Ironically, Sikorski made his remarks while handing an award to the wife of leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky, whose arrest and subsequent imprisonment on tax evasion charges came after Polish prosecutors unwittingly disclosed the details of a bank account he had in Poland.
The bank account was used to finance the activities of his group Vesna-96, which supports Belarus's opposition.
Poland, which has offered moral and financial help to opponents of Belarus' authoritarian leader Lukashenko, apologized for what it called a "reprehensible mistake," and two prosecutors involved lost their jobs.
Warsaw, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency, has long championed democracy and human rights in former Soviet neighbors such as Belarus.
Mihalevich, who is based in the Czech Republic, was traveling to London when he was detained on Monday, Polish media reported.
Two other candidates who ran against Lukashenko in last year's election remain in jail, though other opponents have been released.
The EU and the United States have imposed economic sanctions on Belarus and travel bans on its top officials following Lukashenko's crackdown on the opposition.


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Brady, congrats on your upcoming baby! I saw a Kickstarter the other day for a product called Rico that is a little robot that you can put an old smartphone device into but it's not expected to hit markets until Fall 2015 so might not be in time for your new child. Another app that I've heard of but not used is called iCam, might be worth checking that out too it's only $4.99 in the App store.
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Q: How to compare custom objects based on different properties using Equatable? I am using the equatable protocol in order to compare two custom objects based on one property named mediaUID.
Is there a way to switch between comparing on different properties?
In func fetchNotificationsRemovedsometimes I need to compare by  mediaUID or by likeUID.
 var notificationsArray = [NotificationInformation]()

class NotificationInformation {

    let type: String
    let mediaUID: String?
    let commentUID: String?
    let likeUID:String?
}

extension NotificationInformation {
    func fetchNotificationsRemoved(query: DatabaseQuery) {

    NotificationInformation.observeNewNotificationsChildRemoved(query: query) { [weak self] (newNotification: NotificationInformation?) in

            guard let strongSelf = self else {return}
            guard let notification = newNotification else {return}

        if notification.type == "like" {

            // How to compare based on likeUID using equatable?
            //compare based on likeUID
            //get the index of the item of type 'like' in notificationsArray and do something with it
            guard let index = strongSelf.notificationsArray.index(of: notification) else {return}

        }else if notification.type == "media" {
            // How to compare based on mediaUID using equatable?
            //compare based on mediaUID
            //get the index of the item of type 'media' in notificationsArray
            guard let index = strongSelf.notificationsArray.index(of: notification) else {return}
        } else if if notification.type == "commentUID" {
           ....
   }

            guard let index = strongSelf.notificationsArray.index(of: notification) else {return}

            strongSelf.notificationsArray.remove(at: index)

            let visibleIndexes = strongSelf.tableView.indexPathsForVisibleRows
            let indexPathOfRemovedNotification = IndexPath(row: index, section: 0)

            if let indexes = visibleIndexes,
                indexes.contains(indexPathOfRemovedNotification) {
                strongSelf.tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPathOfRemovedNotification], with: .fade)
            }
        }
    }

}//end extension

//enables us to compare two objects of type NotificationInformation
extension NotificationInformation: Equatable { }

func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation ,rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
    guard let mediaUIDLeft = lhs.mediaUID else {return false}
    guard let mediaUIDRight = rhs.mediaUID else {return false}
    return mediaUIDLeft == mediaUIDRight
}

A: You could use a static var to establish the field you want to use for comparison:
class NotificationInformation: Equatable {
    enum CompareField {
        case type, mediaUID, commentUID, likeUID
    }

    static var compareField: CompareField = .mediaUID

    let type: String
    let mediaUID: String?
    let commentUID: String?
    let likeUID:String?

    init(type: String, mediaUID: String? = nil, commentUID: String? = nil, likeUID: String? = nil) {
        self.type = type
        self.mediaUID = mediaUID
        self.commentUID = commentUID
        self.likeUID = likeUID
    }

    static func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation, rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
        switch NotificationInformation.compareField {
        case .type:
            return lhs.type == rhs.type
        case .mediaUID:
            return lhs.mediaUID == rhs.mediaUID
        case .commentUID:
            return lhs.commentUID == rhs.commentUID
        case .likeUID:
            return lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID
        }
    }
}

Example:
let a = NotificationInformation(type: "foo", mediaUID: "123")
let b = NotificationInformation(type: "bar", mediaUID: "123")

NotificationInformation.compareField = .type
if a == b {
    print("same type")
}

NotificationInformation.compareField = .mediaUID
if a == b {
    print("same mediaUID")
}

Output:

same mediaUID

Comparing multiple fields using an OptionSet
If you replace the enum with an OptionSet, you could select multiple fields to compare:
struct CompareFields: OptionSet {
    let rawValue: Int

    static let type       = CompareFields(rawValue: 1 << 0)
    static let mediaUID   = CompareFields(rawValue: 1 << 1)
    static let commentUID = CompareFields(rawValue: 1 << 2)
    static let likeUID    = CompareFields(rawValue: 1 << 3)
}

static var compareFields: CompareFields = .mediaUID

static func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation, rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
    var equal = true

    if NotificationInformation.compareFields.contains(.type) {
        equal = equal && (lhs.type == rhs.type)
    }
    if NotificationInformation.compareFields.contains(.mediaUID) {
        equal = equal && (lhs.mediaUID == rhs.mediaUID)
    }
    if NotificationInformation.compareFields.contains(.commentUID) {
        equal = equal && (lhs.commentUID == rhs.commentUID)
    }
    if NotificationInformation.compareFields.contains(.likeUID) {
        equal = equal && (lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID)
    }

    return equal
}

Example
let a = NotificationInformation(type: "foo", mediaUID: "123", commentUID: "111")
let b = NotificationInformation(type: "bar", mediaUID: "123", commentUID: "111")

NotificationInformation.compareFields = .mediaUID
if a == b {
    print("same mediaUID")
}

NotificationInformation.compareFields = [.mediaUID, .commentUID]
if a == b {
    print("same mediaUID and commentUID")
}

Output

same mediaUID
same mediaUID and commentUID

Multithreaded issue
There is an issue if your code is modifying the compareFields value in another thread.  The meaning of equals would change for all threads.  One possible solution is to only change and use equality for NotificationInformation in the main thread.
...
} else if notification.type == "media" {
    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        NotificationInformation.compareFields = .mediaUID

        guard let index = strongSelf.notificationsArray.index(of: notification) else {return}

        // use index
        ...
    }
}
...

A: Change your func to this:
          func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation ,rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
            guard let mediaUIDLeft = lhs.mediaUID else {return false}
            guard let mediaUIDRight = rhs.mediaUID else {return false}

            return (mediaUIDLeft == mediaUIDRight || lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID)
         }

This means that two NotificationInformation are equal if they have the same mediaUID OR the same likeUID

If you need a conditional check, you can introduce a boolean variable:
    class NotificationInformation {

      let type: String
      let mediaUID: String?
      let commentUID: String?
      let likeUID:String?

      let checkByMediaUID: Bool = true

    }

So change your Equatable:
      func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation ,rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
          guard let mediaUIDLeft = lhs.mediaUID else {return false}
          guard let mediaUIDRight = rhs.mediaUID else {return false}

          return (lhs.checkByMediaUID || rhs.checkByMediaUID) ? mediaUIDLeft == mediaUIDRight : lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID
      }

In more readable way:
   func ==(lhs: NotificationInformation ,rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
          guard let mediaUIDLeft = lhs.mediaUID else {return false}
          guard let mediaUIDRight = rhs.mediaUID else {return false}

          if lhs.checkByMediaUID || rhs.checkByMediaUID{
              return mediaUIDLeft == mediaUIDRight
          }

          return lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID
      }

This means that if you want to check by mediaUID, just compare two object. If you want to check by likeUID, just change the variable of one of the object.

Example
     let a: NotificationInformation = NotificationInformation()
     let b: NotificationInformation = NotificationInformation()

     //Check by `mediaUID`
     if a == b{
        ....
     }

     //Check by `likeUID`
     a.checkByMediaUID = false

     if a == b{
        ....
     }

A: You can check the type property of the NotificationInformation objects and compare objects according to that.
extension NotificationInformation: Equatable {
    static func == (lhs: NotificationInformation, rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
        guard lhs.type == rhs.type  else {
            print("Types of lhs and rhs are not same ")
            return false
        }
        switch lhs.type {
        case "like": return lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID
        case "media": return lhs.mediaUID == rhs.mediaUID
        case "commentUID": return lhs.commentUID == rhs.commentUID
        default: return false
        }
    }
}

And you can use enum for the type property
class NotificationInformation {
    enum NotificationType: String {
        case like
        case media
        case commentUID
    }
    let type: NotificationType
    let mediaUID: String?
    let commentUID: String?
    let likeUID:String?
}

extension NotificationInformation: Equatable {
    static func == (lhs: NotificationInformation, rhs: NotificationInformation) -> Bool {
        guard lhs.type == rhs.type  else {
            print("Types of lhs and rhs are not same ")
            return false
        }
        switch lhs.type {
        case .like: return lhs.likeUID == rhs.likeUID
        case .media: return lhs.mediaUID == rhs.mediaUID
        case .commentUID: return lhs.commentUID == rhs.commentUID
        }
    }
}

Usage
extension NotificationInformation {
    func fetchNotificationsRemoved(query: DatabaseQuery) {
        NotificationInformation.observeNewNotificationsChildRemoved(query: query) { [weak self] newNotification in
            guard let strongSelf = self else {return}
            guard let notification = newNotification else {return}
            guard let index = strongSelf.notificationsArray.index(of: notification) else {return}
            strongSelf.notificationsArray.remove(at: index)
            let visibleIndexes = strongSelf.tableView.indexPathsForVisibleRows
            let indexPathOfRemovedNotification = IndexPath(row: index, section: 0)
            if let indexes = visibleIndexes, indexes.contains(indexPathOfRemovedNotification) {
                strongSelf.tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPathOfRemovedNotification], with: .fade)
            }
        }
    }
}

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Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine
Yi-Hwa Liu, Albert J Sinusas,
Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine Pdf
This comprehensive book focuses on multimodality imaging technology, including overviews of the instruments and methods followed by practical case studies that highlight use in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Chapters cover PET-CT, SPECT-CT, SPECT-MRI, PET-MRI, PET-optical imaging, SPECT-optical imaging, photoacoustic Imaging, and hybrid intravascular imaging. It also addresses the important issues of multimodality imaging probes and image quantification.
Readers from radiology and cardiology as well as medical imaging and biomedical engineering will learn essentials of the field. They will be shown how the field has advanced quantitative analysis of molecularly targeted imaging through improvements in the reliability and reproducibility of imaging data. Moreover, they will be presented with quantification algorithms and case illustrations, including coverage of such topics such as multimodality image fusion and kinetic modeling.
Yi-Hwa Liu, PhD is Senior Research Scientist in Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Technical Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is also an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences at National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, and Professor (Adjunct) of Biomedical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. He is an elected senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a full member of Sigma Xi of The Scientific Research Society of North America.
Albert J. Sinusas, M.D., FACC, FAHA is Professor of Medicine (Section of Cardiovascular Medicine) and Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, at Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of the Yale Translational Research Imaging Center (Y-TRIC), and Director of Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a recipient of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Hermann Blumgart Award.
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The Creativity Challenge - Easter half-term fun. Be creative through tech!
I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity for you and your children. I am working with a fellow mum (Laila Edge) who has started a fab initiative called 'The Next Gen IT'. I took Sofia and Ollie along to a fun 1 day workshop near Portsmouth in October half term, which was part of a Creativity Challenge event. It was full of hands-on activities, learning about technologies what will be shaping the future. To name but a few we used a 3-D printer, made a butterfly or volcano come to life using augmented reality, created motorised robots and controlled a model of Yuri, the Mars Rover, helped by a very clever man from Airbus who built it!!
The ethos behind The Next Gen IT is for parents who are interested in getting answers to the question of 'how can we best prepare our kids for the digital future?' Personally, although I have IT skills, this is an area which I don't know much about (yet!) and would love to learn with Sofia and Ollie whilst spending quality time with them. When I asked Sofia and Ollie if they would like to go to another event like that, there was a resounding 'yes'! Because Portsmouth is a bit of a way, Laila and I discussed the possibility of starting a group up in the Winchester area. We are now actively looking for parents who want to be part of something that is purposeful, fun and engaging and learning about technologies that will be shaping the future.
Initially we are holding a 1 day workshop in the Easter Holidays for children aged between 6-14 years old, accompanied by their parents/carers. If there is interest, this would be the first of a series of workshop programmes held during the holidays in the Winchester area (Half Terms, Summer, Easter etc). We are inviting some great people along who are specialists in their respective fields to show the children new technology (for example, STEM ambassadors from Winchester Science Centre, a top female engineer who will be demonstrating 3D printing as well as an engineer who wants to get kids enthusiastic about sailing and engineering). What's so great is the real life context to show the possibilities of what can be done in the field of STEM while having lots of fun!
£5 per child (capped at £15 per family) to cover hall costs and materials.


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Despite grounding of Boeing plane, United 2Q profit rises
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Port-tries-to-reassure-public-about-third-runway-1297055.php
Port tries to reassure public about third runway
Use mischaracterized, Sea-Tac neighbors say
By KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG, P-I REPORTER
Published 10:00 pm PST, Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Port of Seattle told a group of angry Sea-Tac Airport neighbors at Thursday's Highline Forum meeting that the new third runway is being used as it was intended, despite elected officials' and citizens' protests to the contrary.
"We did the best we could to project what was going to be the noise associated with operation of runway," Port of Seattle Aviation Managing Director Mark Reis said.
He later added that the Federal Aviation Administration, whose air traffic controllers are in charge of the third runway's daily use, is "seeking ways not to use the third runway during night hours" from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Des Moines Mayor Bob Sheckler is co-chairman of the Highline Forum and the former chairman of the Airport Communities Coalition, a group of cities that spent more than $15 million suing the port in an unsuccessful effort to block the third runway's construction.
The port's argument for building the third runway has always rested on its assertion that about 44 percent of the year, poor visibility and bad weather conditions require air traffic controllers to land planes on only one runway, rather than two, causing delays. Now, they can land planes on two runways during poor weather -- and can continually stage landings and departures on all three. Neighbors said the port has overstepped its past promises by using the third runway so much, while the port counters that wintry conditions contributed to the heightened usage -- which, in the end, it does not control, the port said.
In 1997, the port estimated for its supplemental environmental impact statement that by 2010, 27.7 percent of planes landing at Sea-Tac each year would do so on the third runway.
Now, the port's figures show that 44 percent of all planes arriving at Sea-Tac landed on the third runway from its opening day Nov. 20 through Dec. 17, which airport spokesman Perry Cooper wrote "reflects the low visibility conditions of November and December as you would expect."
"The premise seems to have changed from being used as a foul-weather type of facility," state Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Normandy Park, said. "It's been shifted, and I am very concerned about what that does to the process on the EIS" -- the environmental impact statement required to get the third runway permitted.
"Why go through it if you are going to change the operations after all the construction is done?" Keiser said.
Reis replied that "when the rationale for the runway was articulated from the economic perspective, we were able to articulate what the economic benefit was ... the EIS never said the runway was only going to be used in foul weather."
Des Moines Mayor Sheckler, who has acted as chairman of the Airport Communities Coalition, told the Seattle P-I the port had mischaracterized the third runway's use when advertising the project to the community and responding to neighbors' concerns.
During the meeting, he said that whenever anyone questioned the port about the third runway's use, foul weather was the answer.
"They really emphasized that one idea -- that it was only going to be used for that purpose," Sheckler said. "That is why so many people in the public are upset about it."
After the meeting, Port Commissioner Pat Davis said that the port had not deliberately misconstrued the third runway's purpose.
To mitigate the third runway so far, the port has bought 64 homes and insulated 114 more as part of an FAA program called the Part 150 process, which requires that airport operators study and mitigate the noise effects of airports.
The port is tracking the newly situated noise created by planes landing and taking off along the new runway's more westerly flight path in order to determine whether additional noise mitigation is warranted.
A formal Part 150 process will begin in November -- one month after the reopening of the airport's longest runway, which is being closed for reconstruction from April through October, leaving the third runway and the center runway to handle all of Sea-Tac's air traffic.
"The afternoon that they opened the third runway, the planes started, and it's been nonstop," Sea-Tac neighbor Ted Turner said.
"My wife came home and cried for two weeks -- this is hugely affecting my personal life, my family; it has damaged me seriously."
Turner said his home's value has plummeted; he said he tried to move when the third runway was proposed but couldn't find anything comparable.
"Our neighborhood flat lined while everything around us skyrocketed," Turner said. "I can't find anything now, though I sure would like to move."
Bothell resident Mike Hughes owns a Burien rental home whose tenants called to ask for a $300 monthly rent reduction because of the noise, threatening to move out if they didn't receive it.
"The chance of me re-renting a house with airplanes over it, especially at this time of year, is slim to none," Hughes said, later adding he was hoping to join his neighboring property owners in redeveloping their parcels as light industrial, as permitted by new city zoning.
"The quality of life ... the fuel, the noise, the exhaust ... I could sell the house as a residence, but I am sure it would be rather difficult."
The port's Reis said during the meeting than an anomaly in the port's flight tracking numbers since then prevented the port from releasing more current data, which he said was in conflict with the FAA's own figures.
Weather data wrong, runway critics claim
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Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement
DOI link for Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement
Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement book
Edited ByAnnaliese S. Mason
BookPolyploidy and Hybridization for Crop Improvement
Imprint CRC Press
Interspecific hybridization has been central to the evolution, domestication, and improvement of Upland cotton, the cultivated form of Gossypium hirsutum. As the world's most important fiber crop species, Gossypium hirsutum belongs to the allotetraploid Gossypium clade that consists of six additional species. The lint fiber evolved only once in the history of Gossypium, in the ancestor diploid A-genome species, and this trait was passed on to the allopolyploid species when the A-genome united in a common nucleus with a D-genome from the other ancestor that produced no lint fibers. The domestication history of G. hirsutum involved the collection and use of lint fibers by indigenous people for the purpose of making strings and other textile products; hence, spinnable lint fibers were likely to have evolved under domestication. The geographical distribution of G. hirsutum overlaps with G. barbadense and G. mustelinum, and gene flow among these species has been documented. Therefore, the introgression of novel alleles into G. hirsutum possibly contributed to greater ecological adaptation in colonizing new habitats and providing important sources of genetic variation for artificial selection in the early domestication efforts. In modern Upland cotton, numerous germplasm lines have been developed from crossing with G. barbadense. However, reproductive barriers such as reduced fertility, segregation distortion, and hybrid breakdown are often observed in later
Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement Peng W. Chee1,*, Andrew H. Paterson2, Joshua A. Udall3 and Jonathan F. Wendel4
1 Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia – Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA 31794, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
2 Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
3 Department of Plant and Wildlife Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
4 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
generation hybrids between G. hirsutum and the other polyploid species, complicating the task of introgressing new, stably inherited allelic variation from inter specific hybridization. Recent efforts in molecular genetic research have provided insights into the location and effects of QTLs from wild species that are associated with traits important to cotton production. These and future research efforts will undoubtedly provide the tools that can be utilized by plant breeders to access novel genes from wild and domesticated allotetraploid Gossypium for Upland cotton improvement.


I have come to the decision that I am not going to do National Novel Writing Month this year. It is kind of a sad decision because I've completed a (terrible, awful) novel every November for the past five years. November is coming! It feels like it's time to ready those typing fingers! And I know I'll be sad when everyone else's word counts start coming in and I don't have one.
It's just that I feel like I'm already so busy that I can't get everything done that I want to do. I debated with myself over whether it's better to attempt and fail or not attempt at all. And I think it will stress me out, so I'm going to skip this year.
To all who are doing NaNo, best of luck! I will be rooting for you on the sidelines.
ETA (Oct. 9): Hah. My resolve lasted all of one day. Yes, I did come up with an awesome idea and yes I signed up for NaNoWriMo again this year. Sigh. I can sleep in December, right?
*And I did have an idea for this year. I reserve the right to change my mind and sign up at the last minute if an outline pops into my head. But I probably won't.
It's sad that you aren't doing it this year. I'm participating for the first year ever! =) But you probably have TONS of stuff to do for the Cybils...and real work too.
Becky, I honestly think there is some kind of time leak... I just seem to have so much to do and not nearly enough time to get it all done!
I'm with you on the time-leak thing, Abby - and I'm with YOU on the secretly wanting to write a book thing, Katie. I wasn't going to do Nano this year until an outline popped into my head the day you stopped by my library. It was one of those crazy "here it is!" kinda moments.


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This is noteworthy. Oh wait, so is this. And this. Dammit, just hand me the whole notepad.
Ilgunas' walk through those guts, along the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline, is the subject of "Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland," on shelves April 19.
Shaken by a stint as a dishwasher at an oil field in Deadhorse, Alaska, Ilgunas — who has also worked as an Alaskan tour guide and a back-country ranger at the Gates of the Arctic National Park — begins a 1,700-mile hike from Alberta to Texas in 2012, tracing America's fuel supply from excavation to distribution.
His deep-rooted environmental ethic may have sparked the trip, but he wants, first and foremost, to understand the land and people who will be affected by the pipeline. He is an explorer searching for the moving target of truth, filtered through tangled layers of poverty, lost opportunity and unexpected beauty.
There is no judgment, only curiosity.
Ilgunas examines the American conscience with compassion, wrestling with the noble drive to care for self and family, while never losing sight of the cost for future generations.
A long walk offers the daily adventure and variety Ilgunas claims humans need to thrive. And, just as important, the chance to sort out what impact one person can make in a world where meaningful change comes only from governments and corporations.
But he warns against giving in to despair, calling that a "seductive alternative to a life of civic participation." The book's strength lies in its encouragement to acknowledge the world for what it is, fight for what's right, and keep moving toward that next adventure.
In tackling both climate change and the struggles of daily life, Ilgunas realizes that success hangs on our ability to depend on one another. Reflecting on the trip, he sees himself transformed from a cynical Thoreau to an exuberant Whitman.
Fitting, because in "Trespassing," he does, in fact, make America sing, in all its richness, contradictions, and wonder.
"Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland" is out April 19, 2016, on Blue Rider Press.


Just a quick one today to yell YES!!! Today I am winning. Today I am conquering my little Everests. I set off with Kieran first thing to the childminder, he is off on a trip to the farm today so to make it to her house about 150m away with his pants still dry … Continue reading Winning!


In this paper I review the evidence for a pragmatic approach of the evolution of human language as an ostensive communication system(Tomasello et al., 2005; Tomasello, 2008; Sperber &Wilson, 2002; Sperber & Origgi, 2010; Scott-Phillips, 2010a,b). Such an account presupposes that human communication originated in the ability to attribute mental states to our conspecifics and that therefore Theory of Mind is an essential evolutionary precursor to human communication. However, according to Sperber & Wilson (2002) lower order intentionality is insufficient to initiate ostensive communication, at least five levels of mental meta-representations are necessary for human language to emerge. I discuss this account in terms of implicit and explicit mindreading, and report the results of an experiment that tested the ability of humans to process a chain of iterative mental attributions of up to the eighth level. Furthermore, we tested whether implicit and explicit mental reasoning show differences in performance when higher order intentionality is presented either implicitly, through acting, or explicitly in the form of a narrator. This task was modelled on the Imposing Memory Task developed by Kinderman et al. (1998), and we have modified it to account for our presentation, and also to address a number of shortcomings we observed. It was hoped that the implicit presentation would improve the processing of intentionality, compared to the explicit presentation. Whilst we were not able to find differences between the two forms of presentation, our results suggest that human mindreading abilities may reach up into eight order intentionality, and do not show a decline in mindreading ability at the fifth level of intentionality, as found in previous research (Lyons et al., 2010; Stiller & Dunbar, 2007; Kinderman et al., 1998) However, our study has a number of shortcomings, which I discuss in the context of implicit and explicit mindreading.


Another gorgeous Jersey day! The only hints of the miserable bugs from the past few weeks are the leftover welts and scabs on Wizard's legs, chest, and sides. The air is dry so everything is healing up quickly.
I hand walked Wizard and was accompanied by two riders, who rode Mary and Miss Tuesday. We hit the Across The Street trails again and were out for between 30 and 45 minutes. At the end of the straightaway, we got to a sloped trail with lots of little "roller coaster" dips- this is perfect for Wizard, who needs hill work to build strength in his hind end.
We got back to the barn as it was getting dusky. I grazed Wizard for a little while, and put him in his stall for hay and Dengie while I worked with Selena.
I grazed Selena for a few minutes before our ride. I was out in the outdoor arena under the lights with my two barn buddies and had a fantastic ride! In order to focus my ride and improve my position, I took my barn buddy's advice and borrowed a Parelli exercise (I have mixed feelings about Parelli work, but what I like best is that there is a clear plan for rides and ground work). We set up four traffic cones at four corners of a square on the size of a big circle. I started the ride by walking and situating my position. Then we rode the circle and halted at each cone, walking between them.
The exercise helped me to make my cues more precise and it helped Selena to learn to relax a bit because she recognized the pattern after a few circles. Then we played with the pattern, stopping every other cone, and sometimes walking past them. It helped me to refine my half halt as a precurser to the transitions and it helped Selena to learn to listen to me.
After the walk work in both directions, we began trot work. Selena was awesome! I think my position really helped her to relax and accept my requests to supple her. We walked from one cone to the next, then trotted to the next cone, and so on. Then we began skipping cones, and then doing transitions between cones. The exercise probably helped me more than it helped her, but it did wonders for getting me to focus and fix my position so I was actually sitting on my seatbones. Selena responded by relaxing her topline and stretching her neck. It was not a true stretchy trot, but it was relaxation and there was no resistance at all. Yahoo! What a difference a day makes.
Isn't it amazing how much better we ride when we know what we're doing? I think our horse can relax and trust our direction more thoroughly if we have a firm idea of where we are going, what we are doing and what we expect from our horses. Given uncertainty, most horses will either take the lead or act out, or they will get nervy and jiggy. It sure sounds like the cone project worked well for you and Selena. Are those successful days golden? I bet so.


There is something special about the sound of crunching leaves under your feet. Its the sound that Fall has finally arrived! One whiff of our Crunchy Leaves candle and you'll be busting out the boots and scarves and grabbing all the pumpkin spice lattes you can handle. Grab this candle and get to living your best Fall life, because when Fall is here you don't want to waste one minute.


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North Dakota University System names vice chancellor
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BISMARCK — The former director of academic affairs for the North Dakota University System has been named vice chancellor for academic and student...
NDSU, Essentia partner on new nurse practitioner residency program for rural providers
July 14, 2019 - 6:29pmeducation/business
FARGO — The School of Nursing at North Dakota State University is receiving a $1.57 million federal grant award to help educate future health...
Online education has changed higher-ed landscape, professor says
July 14, 2019 - 6:45amnews/education
GRAND FORKS — A higher education crisis is coming, according to Jeff Holm, the University of North Dakota's vice provost for online education...
Former UND president takes lead at University of Colorado System
July 1, 2019 - 6:04pmnews/education
Monday, July 1, marked the beginning of Mark Kennedy's tenure at the University of Colorado System. The former University of North Dakota president...
North Dakota has the highest rate of young kids not in school. Does it matter?
July 1, 2019 - 8:00ameducation/news
FARGO — North Dakota has the highest percentage of young children not in school compared with other states, according to a new report from...
U of M regents settle on 2% tuition bump
June 19, 2019 - 5:49pmeducation/news
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota will raise tuition by 2% for resident undergraduates on the Twin Cities campus. The Board of Regents...
Wynne takes UND's interim president job sans additional pay
June 18, 2019 - 12:43pmnews/education
GRAND FORKS — The contract for University of North Dakota interim president Joshua Wynne has been finalized and includes no extra money for...
Racial integration laws exempting charter schools might be unconstitutional, Minnesota judge rules
June 12, 2019 - 6:41pmnews/education
ST. PAUL — State laws that exempt charter schools from racial integration mandates might violate the Minnesota Constitution, a judge ruled...
Watertown college selected for Workforce Playbook
WATERTOWN, S.D. — Lake Area Technical Institute has been highlighted as one of six community colleges across the nation in The Workforce Playbook,...
A chemistry degree, not a 'weed degree': A look at Minot State's new major in medicinal plant chemistry
June 3, 2019 - 1:50pmnews/education
Editor's note: In the fall, Minot State University in Minot, N.D., will start offering one of only two four-year medicinal plant chemistry...
Launch of miniature canoes highlights River of Dreams watershed education program
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GRAND FORKS — They're flying off the bridge and into the water one by one, more than 80 miniature canoes headed down the Red River, launched...
After negative audit, North Dakota State College of Science may come under state oversight
May 29, 2019 - 7:20pmnews/education
BISMARCK — The state's university system may keep a closer eye on North Dakota State College of Science management after a state audit found...
North Dakota's literacy plan to be updated; comments sought
BISMARCK -- The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction is seeking public comments on the state's literacy plan that is being updated this...
Business leaders, student senators rally around NDSCS president before meetings on critical audit
WAHPETON, N.D. — Local business leaders and student senators have written letters of support for the North Dakota State College of Science...
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