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These icicles, hanging down from a barn roof in Funen, Denmark, have been bent inwards by repeated thawing and freezing. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Melted snow from the icicles in the picture above has frozen on a cotoneaster below. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Poem by American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963), first published in Harper's Magazine 1920.
Tongariro National Park is situated in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand, centered around three active volcanoes, Ruapehu (2797 m), Ngauruhoe (2291 m), and Tongariro (1978 m). This park, which covers 786 km2, was established as early as 1887, thus being among the oldest national parks in the world. For the major part of the year, the higher areas of the park are covered in snow.
In fact, Ruapehu is a name that includes a number of peaks, of which the tallest is Tahurangi (2797 m), whereas a striking pointed peak is Girdlestone (2658 m). Initially, this mountain was named Little Matterhorn Peak by Hubert Earle Girdlestone (1879-1918), a New Zealand explorer and war hero, who was killed in France in 1918. His friends installed a plaque on the mountain in 1922, renaming it Girdlestone Peak.
Various views of a snow-covered Ruapehu, at various times of the day, seen from the south. The pointed mountain is Girdlestone Peak. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Following a night with slight frost, very thin sheets of ice are covering a pond in Tongariro National Park. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Junipers (Juniperus) are conifers of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), comprising between 50 and 67 species, depending on authority. These trees and shrubs are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. This genus is described on the pages Plants: Plants in folklore and poetry, and Plants: Ancient and huge trees.
Drooping juniper (Juniperus recurva) is native to the Himalaya, from northern Pakistan eastwards to the Yunnan Province, south-western China, growing at altitudes between 1,800 and 4,600 m. The specific name is from the Latin recurvo ('bent backwards'), like the common name referring to the drooping branches.
Foliage and wood of this species are burned as incense at Buddhist and Hindu shrines, and near the Pangboche Buddhist Monastery in Khumbu, eastern Nepal, is a sacred growth of this tree, depicted on the page Religion: Animism.
These branches of drooping juniper are covered in newly fallen snow, between Tharepati and Melamchigaon, Langtang National Park, central Nepal.
In the 1980s and 1990s, I spent several winters on the island of Vorsø, a nature reserve in Horsens Fjord, Denmark. During these stays, I could enjoy a number of very beautiful impressions. Below, a collection of winter pictures from this interesting reserve is presented. Others are shown on the page Nature Reserve Vorsø.
In severe winters, each falling tide leaves a thin layer of frozen saltwater on emerging stones. The following rising tide will press this layer outwards, leaving a new thin layer of ice inside the previous layer. In this way, several rising and falling tides create a 'flower' with delicate ice petals. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Other ice sculptures, created around stones in Horsens Fjord. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Leaves of dewberry (Rubus caesius), covered in rime. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The sun sets in an orgy of red and orange over Horsens Fjord, adorning the sea ice with gorgeous patterns. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
These catkins of common hazel (Corylus avellana) were formed already in late autumn, and now they are covered in rime, ready to burst with the first sign of spring. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Ice flakes, pushed up along a crack in the sea ice. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Fruits of great burdock (Arctium lappa), covered in rime. – This species is described in depth on the page Plants: Plants in folklore and poetry. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Today, the common male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) has taken over huge areas of the former fields on Vorsø. This partly withered plant is almost covered by snow. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Wind-made patterns in a compact layer of snow around a coastal stone on the southern shore of the island. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Hips of dog rose (Rosa canina), covered in snow. This plant is extremely common on Vorsø. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Fruit spike of common bulrush (Typha latifolia), covered in rime. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In Taiwan, ice on the road is a rare phenomenon, only occurring in the highest mountains in the centre of the island. As ice so rarely occurs, salting of roads is unknown in the island, and drivers have a hard time negotiating the ice-covered roads. In January 2020, my friend Niels Andreasen and I encountered a stretch of ice on the high-altitude road, leading across the Hohuan Shan Mountains. Several cars were stuck here, as the drivers were not accustomed to such roads and were speeding up far to much to pass the spot.
Cars, stuck on the Hohuan Shan road. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snowdrop (Galanthus) is a genus of c. 20 species in the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), most of which are native to the Balkans, the Near East, the Caucasus, and the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. One species, the common snowdrop (G. nivalis), is found from northern Spain and western France eastwards to Ukraine, but has become naturalized elsewhere in Europe and in parts of North America.
The generic name is from the Greek gala ('milk') and anthos ('flower'), referring to the white flowers of the genus, whereas the specific name nivalis ('of the snow') refers to the early flowering of common snowdrop. The name snowdrop first appeared in 1633, in the book Great Herball by English herbalist John Gerard (c. 1545-1612). (In the first edition of his book, Gerard had named it the timely flowring bulbus violet.) The word snowdrop may be a translation of the German word Schneetropfen – a type of earring, which was popular in those days. Other common English names include February fairmaids, dingle-dangle, Candlemas bells, Mary's tapers, and, in Yorkshire, snow piercers. (Sources: M. Bishop, A. Davis & J. Grimshaw 2002. Snowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus. Griffin Press, and R. Mabey 1996. Flora Britannica. Sinclair-Stevenson)
An old legend relates that when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they experienced dark and cold for the first time, and Eve sat down on the cold ground and wept. An angel appeared before her, caught a snow flake in his hand and blew on it. The water drop fell to the ground, and a snowdrop appeared. This gave comfort to Eve, who began to have new hope.
Common snowdrop is one of the first harbingers of spring, often appearing before the winter snow has disappeared. It is cultivated everywhere in northern Europe and often escapes, in this case in Nature Reserve Vorsø, Horsens Fjord, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) resembles common snowdrop, but has wider, bell-shaped flowers with a yellowish-green spot on each petal. Formerly, the genus Leucojum contained 11 species, but in 2004 nine of these were moved to the genus Acis. Today, only L. vernum and L. aestivum remain in Leucojum. The generic name is derived from the Greek leukos ('white') and ion ('violet').
Spring snowflake is also widely cultivated, here on the island of Funen, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
If you walk around the Annapurna Range, central Nepal, you must cross over the pass Thorung La (5415 m). People in this area are mainly Buddhists, and the peak of this pass is marked by a chorten (a Tibetan variety of the stupa) and vividly coloured prayer flags. Below, five winter pictures from this area are shown.
Chortens, prayer flags, and other Buddhist subjects are described in depth on the page Religion: Buddhism.
Rays from the rising sun illuminate the snow-clad peak of Annapurna II (7,937 m), seen from the Upper Marsyangdi Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Morning sun, illuminating snow-covered mountains around the Thorung La Pass. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Eroded gullies near Thorung La. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snow leopard (Uncia uncia) lives in mountains of Central Asia, but has been hunted to extinction in many areas because of its rich and beautiful fur. In Buddhist areas of the Himalaya, hunting is banned, and in these areas this rare cat has safe havens, where it can prey on species like bharal (Pseudois nayaur), urial (Ovis vignei), Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), and Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster).
One morning, in the Jarsang Khola Valley, we found these partly melted pugmarks in the snow, signifying that a snow leopard had passed here the previous night. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The black Eurasian coot (Fulica atra) is a member of the large family Rallidae, comprising coots, gallinules, rails, crakes, and many others. As a breeding bird, it is widely distributed across Temperate Eurasia, eastwards to Japan, and in north-western Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, and Australia. Siberian populations are migratory, whereas African, Indian, Australian, and most European birds are resident. Very similar species are found in the Iberian Peninsula, Africa, the Americas, and Hawaii.
Coots, walking on the ice-covered Lake Hornborgasjön, Västergötland, Sweden. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In January 1999, I spent some days in and around Portland, Maine, United States – days of freezing temperatures and heavy wind. It was indeed a cold, but also very beautiful experience, as the following pictures show.
Frozen pond, surrounded by trees, covered in frozen rain, Cape Elizabeth. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Frozen rain on a paper birch (Betula papyrifera), Freeport. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Branches, covered in frozen rain, shining like silver under a Full Moon, Portland. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This snowman in Portland partly melted in the sunshine, causing it to tilt. However, during the night it froze again, assuming an unusual position. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Slight snowfall has left a thin snow cover on these walled fields near the village of Ghyaru, Upper Marsyangdi Valley, Annapurna, central Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Common mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum), of the campion family (Caryophyllaceae), is common in grassy areas and in fields in the major part of Europe, and has also been introduced elsewhere.
Rime-covered leaves of common mouse-ear chickweed, central Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 2011, I participated in an expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula, north-eastern Siberia. Our adventures on this trip are related on the page Travel episodes – Siberia 2011: Caterpillar trip in Chukotka.
Our transportation in Chukotka took place in an old army caterpillar. In this picture, it is crossing a stream, bordered by snow walls. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Spring in Chukotka: Meltwater and snow walls along a stream. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The specific name of the bell rhododendron (Rhododendron campanulatum), from the Latin campanula ('little bell'), refers to its bell-shaped flowers. This attractive shrub is very common in the Himalaya, forming dense thickets at altitudes between 2,800 and 4,000 m. One of the characteristics of this plant is the rusty-coloured layer of hairs on the underside of the leaves. This species, and many other rhododendrons, are presented on the page Plants: Rhododendrons.
Bell rhododendron, covered in newly fallen snow, between Tharepati and Melamchigaon, Langtang National Park, central Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In the summer 1999, I joined a group of Scandinavians on a hike in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Glacier with patterns, created by deposited moraine, Yrdyk Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Mountains, snow, and fog, Kaska Su Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Horse riders in a snow-covered landscape, Arashan Valley. – The domestication of the horse is described on the page Animals: Animals as servants of Man. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This lady's mantle (Alchemilla) has been covered in snow during the night, Kaska Su Valley. – The medicinal usage of lady's mantle is described on the page Plants: Plants in folklore and poetry. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This sign in the Lammartal Valley, Austria, says 'Honey for sale'. Presumably, it was placed here in the summertime, but maybe there is still a few jars left? (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The Barun Valley is an alpine valley, situated in Makalu-Barun National Park, which covers an area of c. 1,500 km2 in northern Nepal. To the west, this park borders Sagarmatha National Park, covering 1148 km2, to the north the huge Qomolangma Nature Preserve in Tibet, covering c. 35,000 km2, and to the south a buffer zone, covering 830 km2. Thus, the valley is situated in the heart of a very large protected area.
In spring 1991, together with Lars Nørgaard Hansen, I undertook a very interesting hike to this valley, related on the page Plants – Plant hunting in the Himalaya: The rhododendron valley.
Our porters, struggling through snow and fog near the Shipton La Pass (4,216 m). (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
On our way across this pass, we met another group of porters, heading the opposite way. Note that the woman is bare-footed. If she had been one of our porters, we would have bought her a pair of sneakers! Unfortunately, we did not have a spare pair to give her. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Frozen meltwater lakes and deposited moraine gravel on the Lower Barun Glacier, Barun Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) comes in two colour morphs, a snow-white phase, which has given this species its common name, and a bluish-grey phase, referred to as 'blue goose', which has given it the specific name caerulescens, meaning 'bluish'.
The snow goose is a bird of the New World, breeding mainly in northern Canada and Alaska, with small populations in Greenland and north-eastern Siberia. It spends the winter along the Pacific coast, from southern British Columbia southwards, and also in southern United States and Mexico.
Snow goose, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, California. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Hailstones are balls or irregular lumps of ice, measuring more than 5 mm in diameter, and, exceptionally, they may reach a diameter of up to 15 cm. They often occur during thunderstorms.
Hailstones in grass, Horsens Fjord, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
During a hike in the Arun Valley, eastern Nepal, huge hailstones suddenly began falling, and we hurriedly sought shelter. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 2011, Lars Skipper and I spent a month in Chile. One of the highlights of this trip was a visit to Parque Nacional Conguillio. Our adventures in this park are related in detail on the page Travel episodes – Chile 2011: The white forest.
View from inside an ice cave in the Sierra Nevada, Parque Nacional Conguillio. The taller trees with white trunks are the national tree of Chile, pehuén (Araucaria araucana), described on the page mentioned above. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Poplars (Populus), also called aspen or cottonwood, of the willow family (Salicaceae), are a genus of anywhere between 25 and 35 species of trees, some of which are indeed majestic, growing to 50 m tall, and with a trunk diameter up to 2.5 m. Poplars are deciduous, and several species display brilliant yellow foliage in the autumn. Some examples are shown on the page In praise of the colour yellow.
Poplars are native to the major part of the Northern Hemisphere, from subarctic areas southwards to Mexico, North Africa, Iran, the Himalaya, and China.
Snow, falling on poplar trees, Massachusetts, United States. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The Canadian poplar (Populus x canadensis) is a hybrid between black poplar (Populus nigra), which is native to Europe, south-western and central Asia, and North Africa, and eastern cottonwood, or necklace poplar (Populus deltoides), which is native to the United States, south-eastern Canada, and north-eastern Mexico. This hybrid is very commonly planted around the world, often along roads.
Canadian poplars, covered in rime, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Many people in the Himalaya are a tough breed. During a snowstorm below the Rohtang Pass (3,978 m), Himachal Pradesh, India, this roadside vendor continues roasting corn cobs, while his partner seeks shelter under a huge umbrella. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snowy egret (Egretta thula) is named after its snow-white plumage. This small heron, which is very similar to the Old World little egret (E. garzetta), is found in South and Central America, and also in parts of North America, where some populations are migratory, wintering further south.
The generic name is from a French word, aigrette, meaning 'little heron'. In 1782, the specific name, thula, was given to this bird by a mistake by Chilean Jesuit priest and naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina (1740-1829), who didn't realize that in fact thula was the local Mapuduncun name for the black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus).
Snowy egret, Tortuguero National Park, Limón, Costa Rica. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Tombstones, partly covered by snow, in a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark. – Many other pictures, depicting tombstones, are presented on the page Culture: Graves. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Rime-covered fence, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is aptly named, as it breeds in the High Arctic, spending the winter in snowy fields and coastal meadows further south. Its plumage is also predominantly snow-white. This species has a northern circumpolar distribution, with isolated populations in northern Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. A close relative, McKay's bunting (P. hyperboreus), has even more white in the plumage. It is restricted to two small islands in the Bering Sea.
The generic name is from the Greek plektron ('cock's spur') and phenax ('imposter', i.e. 'replacement'). This probably alludes to the shorter claw on the hindfoot of these birds, compared to their close relatives, the longspurs (Calcarius). The specific name is from the Latin nix ('snow') and -alis ('like'), of course referring to the plumage of this bird.
Previously, snow buntings were placed in the bunting family (Emberizidae), but recent DNA research has concluded that they, together with the longspurs, form a separate family, Calcariidae.
Male snow bunting, taking off from a rusty pipe, Chukotka, Siberia. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Beauty bush (Linnaea amabilis, also known as Kolkwitzia amabilis), of the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae), originates in China, but is widely cultivated for its beautiful flowers. It was described by German botanist Paul Graebner (1871-1933), who named the genus Kolkwitzia in honour of Richard Kolkwitz (1873-1956), professor of botany in Berlin. The specific name means 'lovely'.
In 2013, following genetic research, it was suggested that Kolkwitzia and other genera should be included in the genus Linnaea, which, until then, contained a single species, the twin flower (Linnaea borealis) – the favourite plant of Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), also called Carl von Linné. As he was also quite fond of himself, he decided to name this plant Linnaea!
Withered inflorescences of beauty bush, covered in rime, Funen, Denmark. A gust of wind blows off some of the rime. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snowcocks (Tetraogallus) are a group of five large species of game birds, distributed in montane areas from eastern Turkey and the Caucasus eastwards to Central Asia and western China.
The Tibetan snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus) is widely distributed in Central Asian mountains, from Tajikistan southeast along the Himalaya to Arunachal Pradesh, and thence northwards through western China to Qinghai, and from there westwards to the Kunlun Mountains. It avoids desert areas of the Tibetan Plateau.
Tibetan snowcock is rather common in drier areas of the higher parts of the Himalaya. These birds are feeding near Tughla, Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, eastern Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Pack ice, which has been pushed ashore, eastern Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
At high altitudes in the Himalaya, yaks burdened with bulky loads are a very common sight. The Latin name of these beasts, Bos grunniens ('the grunting ox'), is very descriptive, as they grunt incessantly. The females, called nak, yield excellent milk. – The domestication of the yak is described on the page Animals: Animals as servants of Man.
Yaks are very hardy animals. In these pictures, they are grazing in the snow-covered Jarsang Khola Valley, Annapurna, central Nepal. The pointed mountain is called Khatung Kang (6,488 m). (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Early in spring 2009, I paid a visit to the Wumeng Shan Mountains, Guizhou Province, China, related in detail on the page Travel episodes – China 2009: Among black-necked cranes.
Village and terraced fields in the Wumeng Shan Mountains, covered by a thin layer of newly fallen snow. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Rime-covered needles and flower buds of a pine (Pinus), Wumeng Shan. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Rhododendron flowers, covered in rime, Wumeng Shan. – Many species of rhododendron are presented on the page Plants: Rhododendrons. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Cracked sea ice in evening light, Mill Neck Creek, Long Island, United States. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The landscape of Khumbu, eastern Nepal, is an area of very high mountains, including the highest peak on Earth, at 8,850 m, in the West known as Mount Everest, whereas the Nepalese call it Sagarmatha, the Tibetans Chomolangma. Other very tall peaks in this area include Lhotse (8511 m) and Nuptse (7879 m).
One very striking mountain is the double-peaked Ama Dablam (6812 m), which is sacred to the local Sherpa people. In Nepali, the name means 'mother's necklace'. The long ridges on either side of the highest peak are likened to the arms of a mother (ama), spread out to protect her child, whereas the hanging glacier on the mountain is likened to a dablam, the traditional necklace worn by Sherpa women.
My late friend John Burke (1951-2010), who joined me on my first hike to the Khumbu, loved Ama Dablam, and he took the striking picture below, depicting Sherpa women, passing in front of the snow-clad peak. Our hike is related on the page Travel episodes – India & Nepal 1978: Journey towards Everest.
Snow wall, covering a mountain beneath Lhotse, Khumbu. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Evening light on Ama Dablam. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Sherpa women, passing in front of the snow-clad Ama Dablam. (Photo John Burke, copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The yellow-flowered Rhododendron campylocarpum is very common in the Khumbu area. In this picture, Ama Dablam constitutes a spectacular background. Tibetan prayer flags are also seen. – Other pictures of rhododendron species may be seen on the page Plants: Rhododendrons, whereas prayer flags and other Buddhist phenomena are described on the page Religion: Buddhism. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 1984, the mute swan (Cygnus olor) was elected the national bird of Denmark – an appropriate choice, as it is very common. This was not always the case. In the 1800s, swans were hunted in Denmark, and by 1920, only three or four pairs were breeding in the vicinity of Copenhagen. Swans were protected in 1926, and the mute swan soon began spreading across the country.
In his fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen relates the fate of a cygnet, which is ostracized by its fellow fowl in a farmyard, where it has been hatched together with ducklings. It has to undergo much suffering, before it realizes that it has matured into a beautiful swan. In reality, this story is about the fate of Andersen himself.
The mute swan is native to northern Europe, from southern Norway and southern Finland, southwards to southern France and Romania, and from Ireland eastwards to western Russia and Ukraine, and with patchy breeding occurrence in the Balkans, Turkey, and Central Asia, eastwards to southern Siberia, Mongolia, and northern China. It has also been introduced elsewhere, including North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
As opposed to the other northern European swans, the whooper swan (C. cygnus) and Bewick's swan (C. columbianus ssp. bewickii), the mute swan is not very vocal, hence the popular name mute. The name Cygnus is a Latinized form of the Greek kyknos ('swan'), whereas olor is Latin, also meaning 'swan'.
The winter is a hard time for these birds, and in severe weather conditions, many succumb to cold and starvation.
These mute swans are resting on the ice-covered Roskilde Fjord, Zealand, waiting for milder weather. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In these pictures, numerous mute swans are gathered around a crack in the sea ice, near the island of Møn. Some have already succumbed, while others are dying. The dark spots on the ice are excreta from the birds. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Mount Taranaki is a dormant volcano on the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand. This striking mountain rises to a height of 2,518 m from the surrounding lowland. It was named Taranaki by the Maori, from the words tara ('mountain peak'), and, presumably, ngaki ('shining'), alluding to its snow-covered peak.
Until recently, the official name of this mountain was Egmont, thus named by British explorer and captain James Cook (1728-1779), in honour of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont (1711-1770), who, as former First Lord of the Admiralty, had supported the search for Terra Australis Incognita.
Various impressions of Mount Taranaki. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Common mare's tail (Hippuris vulgaris) is a striking plant, growing in shallow freshwater. It is distributed in northern Eurasia, southwards to the Himalaya, northern China, and Japan, in Greenland, and in northern and western North America, southwards to California, New Mexico, Illinois, and New England.
The generic name is from the Greek hippos ('horse') and oura ('tail'), thus horsetail. In English, it is also sometimes called horsetail, although this name is usually reserved for species of the genus Equisetum. Previously, Hippuris was the only genus in the family Hippuridaceae, but has now been moved to the plantain family (Plantaginaceae).
Common mare's tail is utilized in herbal medicine for treatment of wounds, stomach ulcers, and internal and external bleeding.
Rime on common mare's tail, growing in an ice-covered pond, near Akureyri, northern Iceland. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 1982, together with Ajai Saxena and John Burke, I undertook a most interesting hike into the Nanda Devi National Park, Uttarakhand, northern India, related in detail on the page Travel episodes – India 1982: Pleasures of Nanda Devi.
In this picture, an avalanche is roaring down the Bethartoli Glacier, Nanda Devi National Park. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Queen of Spain fritillary (Issoria issaea), sitting on newly fallen snow, Nanda Devi National Park. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Drying socks, covered in rime, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snowfinches (Montifringilla) are a small genus of eight high-altitude passerines, mainly distributed in Central Asia. A single species, the white-winged snowfinch (M. nivalis), is found further west, through the Middle East to the Alps and the Pyrenees. Despite their name, snowfinches are not finches, but sparrows, of the family Passeridae.
This Tibetan, or black-winged, snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi) is feeding on seeds, Nagarze, Tibet. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Frozen waterfall, Taglang La Pass (5,328 m), Ladakh, India. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) is a parasitic member of the heath family (Ericaceae), which derives its nutrients from underground fungi. It is distributed from the Cascade Range of Oregon, southwards through montane areas of California to northern Baja California, Mexico.
American botanist, chemist, and physician John Torrey (1796-1873) found the colour of this plant so striking that he named it Sarcodes sanguinea, from the Greek sarkos ('flesh') and the Latin sanguis ('blood'), thus 'the blood-coloured fleshy one'. The common name refers to the early flowering of this species, which often appears, when snow is still covering the ground.
Snow plant, photographed in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Evening sun on grass, covered in rime, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The large-flowered viburnum (Viburnum grandiflorum) is distributed from Pakistan eastwards to south-eastern Tibet, growing at altitudes between 2,700 and 3,700 m. This species is among the few high-altitude Himalayan trees, which bloom in winter and early spring.
The inflorescence of this large-flowered viburnum is covered in ice, which fell as snow the previous night, partly melted, and then froze. – Dodi Tal, Asi Ganga Valley, Uttarakhand, India. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snow-covered mountains in morning sun, Isafjördur, northern Iceland. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The goat willow (Salix caprea) is a smallish tree, which is native to almost all of Europe, the Caucasus, and parts of Central Asia. As opposed to most other willow species, goat willow thrives in forests, but is far more beautifully developed in open land, where it often becomes a tree with several trunks, to 15 m tall.
Especially beautiful are the male trees in spring, when they display thousands of golden-yellow catkins, which are much visited by bees and bumble bees, as the goat willow is among the earliest suppliers of nectar and pollen. An old Danish name of the species was palm willow. In the days, when people in Denmark were Catholics, flowering branches of goat willow were utilized to adorn the churches on Palm Sunday.
Previously, this species was utilized for numerous purposes. The foliage was a good animal feed, and even today it is utilized as fodder for sheep and goats in certain parts of Norway. The thinnest branches were made into various items, including fish traps and baskets. Today, branches of osier (Salix viminalis) are used, as they are more suitable. Due to the light and tough wood, slightly thicker branches were made into tool handles and fences, the trunk into e.g. furniture.
Wicks were made from the seed hairs, which were also stuffed into quilts and also used as lining in coats. The bark contains tannins and was formerly used for tanning of animal hides. The bark also contains a glycoside, salicin, which was previously used as a febrifuge in the form of salicylic acid, which is today produced chemically.
Most of these old utilizations have today gone out of use. One particular usage takes place in the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, where pegs for the reconstruction of viking ships are made from goat willow wood.
Freezing rain has left these catkins of goat willow embedded in an armour of ice, Ruda, Kalmar County, Sweden. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
As its name implies, the snow pigeon (Columba leuconota) lives in cold regions. This species is very common in higher mountains, from Afghanistan eastwards to the Yunnan Province, China, and from the Himalaya northwards to the Qinghai Province, China.
In winter, snow pigeons gather in large flocks, as here in the Great Himalayan National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snow pigeon, taking off from a rock, Namche Bazaar, Khumbu, eastern Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 1976, an area of 1,710 km2 in central Nepal, comprising the Langtang Valley, the Gosainkund Lakes, and the area north of these lakes, to the Tibetan border, was declared a national park, named Langtang National Park. Altitudinal variation in the park is tremendous, from 792 m above sea level along the Trisuli River, to the peak of the highest mountain of the area, Langtang Lirung (7245 m).
No less than five vegetation zones are represented in this park: subtropical, lower temperate, upper temperate, subalpine, and alpine, containing large tracts of forest, comprising species of oak (Quercus), maple (Acer), Rhododendron, Himalayan birch (Betula utilis), Himalayan silver fir (Abies spectabilis), Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa), blue pine (Pinus wallichiana), and others. These forests are home to several threatened animals, including snow leopard (Uncia uncia), red panda (Ailurus fulgens), and a gorgeous pheasant, the satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra).
The Gosainkund Lakes, comprising altogether 54 lakes, are all sacred to Hindus. Every year, during Full Moon in July or August, thousands of devout pilgrims undertake the demanding hike to these lakes to have a cleansing bath in their icy waters. Orthodox Hindus wish to bathe in all 54 lakes.
My adventures in this area are related on the pages Travel episodes – Nepal 2009: Across a snow-covered pass, and Plants – Plant hunting in the Himalaya: Around sacred lakes of Shiva. Hinduism is dealt with in detail on the page Religion: Hinduism.
Morning light on Langtang Lirung (7245 m), the highest mountain in Langtang National Park. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Strong winds are whirling snow around the peak of Kimshung (6781 m), Upper Langtang Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snow-covered mountains around Kyanjin Gompa, Upper Langtang Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Newly fallen snow partly covers a dwarf bamboo, between Tharepati and Melamchigaon. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Parallel snow walls on a peak in the Upper Langtang Valley. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
My guide Tanka Bahadur Pantha enjoys a brief lull in a snow storm below the Laurebina La Pass (4609 m). The lake in the background is one of the sacred Gosainkund Lakes, Surya Kund. In the Hindu pantheon, Surya is the Sun God. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) is a native of North America, but has been introduced as an ornamental to many other parts of the world. Formerly, indigenous American tribes utilized the leaves as a poultice on cuts and other wounds. A mild extract of the bark was used in cases of coated tongue in children.
Snowberry was named after its snow-white berries. In this picture from Funen, Denmark, the tiny pink flowers of this species are also seen. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Forest walk with a pram, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Primroses (Primula) are ubiquitous in the Himalaya. Below, 3 winter pictures, depicting primroses, are shown. Together with a number of other Himalayan species, they are presented in depth on the page Plants – Mountain plants: Himalayan flora. Pictures, depicting primroses from other parts of the world, are shown on the page Plants: Primroses.
Snow, falling the previous night, has partly buried these flowers of Primula irregularis, Helambu, central Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This flower of Primula sessilis, encountered in the Asi Ganga Valley, Uttarakhand, India, is partly covered in ice that fell the previous night as snow, which partly melted, and then froze. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
These golden-eyed primroses (Primula strumosa), growing in the Upper Ghunsa Valley, eastern Nepal, were surprised by late spring snowfall. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This iceberg, partly covered in moraine, is stranded in a glacial lake, called Jökulsárlon, beneath the Vatnajökul Glacier, southern Iceland. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Growth of red algae on ice, covering Reflection Lake, Mount Rainier, Washington, United States. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Firs (Abies) are a genus of c. 50 species of conifers, mainly growing in montane areas across Eurasia, North Africa, and much of North and Central America.
The Himalayan silver fir (Abies spectabilis) can grow to very large proportions, to 50 m tall, with a trunk up to 1.5 m across. This species is very common in the Himalaya, found from Afghanistan eastwards to Myanmar. It is widely used locally, its wood for construction, carpentry, furniture, paper-making, and firewood. The foliage is utilized medicinally for asthma, bronchitis, colds, and rheumatism, and is also burned as incense.
Snow-covered branches of a Himalayan silver fir, seen from above (top) and from below, between Tharepati and Melamchigaon, Langtang National Park, central Nepal. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Due to their floating heart-shaped leaves, a group of plants of the genus Nymphoides, which belong to the bog-bean family (Menyanthaceae), are called floating hearts. One species, N. indica, is named Indian snowflake after its fringed flowers, which resemble snowflakes.
Indian snowflake, photographed in Lake Phewa Tal, Pokhara, Nepal. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Tourists, visiting the glacier beneath Grossglockner (3798 m), the highest mountain in Austria. During the last fifty years, this glacier has been melting at an alarming rate. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The snow lion is a mythical creature of Central Asia, which, according to local belief, ranges over mountains and glaciers. It symbolizes strength, fearlessness, and joy.
The base of this chorten (Tibetan style Buddhist stupa) at Tharke Ghyang, Helambu, central Nepal, is adorned with reliefs, depicting snow lions. – Chortens and other Buddhist phenomena are described on the page Religion: Buddhism. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This wall painting, depicting a snow lion, was observed in the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet. – This temple is described in depth on the page Travel episodes – Tibet 1987: Tibetan summer. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The common eider (Somateria mollissima) has an almost circumpolar distribution, found along Arctic and Northern Temperate coasts, from the Kola Peninsula westwards across Scandinavia, the northern British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, Maine, Arctic Canada, and Alaska, to the extreme eastern Siberia.
The nest of this species is built near the seashore, lined with down, which the female plucks from her own breast. This soft down has been harvested by people for hundreds of years, used as filling in pillows, quilts, and jackets. This harvesting was done with no harm to the birds, as it took place when the ducklings had left the nest.
The scientific name is derived from the Greek soma ('body') and erion ('wool'), and the Latin mollissimus ('very soft indeed'), all referring to soft down feathers. The name eider is a corruption of the Icelandic name of the bird, æðarfugl, which is derived from the Old Norse æðr.
In Northumberland, southern Scotland, the eider duck is known as the cuddy duck, named after Saint Cuthbert (c. 634-687), a monk, bishop, and hermit of the early Northumbrian Celtic church. While on the Farne Islands, he instigated special laws to protect the ducks and other seabirds, nesting on these islands.
Eiders in Jökulsárlon, a glacial lake with melting icebergs, which have broken off the Vatnajökul Glacier, southern Iceland. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Snowbells, of the genus Soldanella, comprising about 15 species, are found in montane areas of southern Europe, from the Pyrenees eastwards to the Balkans. The common name snowbell refers to the early flowering of these plants, which often appear in depressions, shortly after the snow has melted. The generic name Soldanella is a diminutive of the Italian word soldo ('coin'), thus 'little coins', referring to the leaf shape of most species of this genus.
Dwarf snowbell (Soldanella pusilla) is found in the Alps, the Carpathians, the Apennines, and in mountains of the Balkans. Other species of snowbell are described on the page Plants: Flora of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
An abundance of dwarf snowbell, growing in a depression near Hochtor, Grossglockner, Austria. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The rosebay willow-herb (Chamerion angustifolium) is a colonizer of disturbed areas, readily invading forests clearings and abandoned fields. An excellent example of its ability to completely take over newly abandoned fields can be studied on the page Nature Reserve Vorsø: Expanding wilderness.
The stem of this rosebay willow-herb is covered in rime, bending it to the ground. – Nature reserve Vorsø, Jutland, Denmark. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
In 1994, together with Niels Andreasen and Helle Hansen, I undertook an interesting hike up the Ghunsa Valley, eastern Nepal. During this hike, I had a rather hair-raising experience, described on the page Travel episodes – Nepal 1994: A close call.
One morning, when we were camping at Lhonak, Upper Ghunsa Valley, we woke up to a snow-covered landscape. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
During the day, the weather improved greatly. Here, our staff is posing for me. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
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The Bachelor of Arts in Art is designed to provide a broad background in a variety of media for those students who plan to pursue careers in graphic design, web design, photography, digital media, or studio by helping them achieve the necessary artistic and/or computer skills to create marketable imagery and for those students who wish to further graduate or professional work in these or related studies. The School of Arts and Sciences offers Bachelor of Arts in Art with concentrations or emphases in Art and Technology, Graphic Design, Digital Media, Photography, and Web Design.
The student is to complete the required thirty-eight (38) semester hours in Foundational Core courses for the bachelor's degree, along with the thirty (30) semester hours of the Visual Art Core, twenty-four (24) semester hours of a concentration or emphasis, and unrestricted electives for a total of 120 semester hours. Required courses in one emphasis may not be substituted for required courses in another emphasis.
For every credit hour in a studio class, two (2) studio contact hours are required. When this requirement is not scheduled, studios will be open and accessible to students. Because of scheduling and the nature of certain studio materials, course times may vary.
Digital technology and art are now interlinked with technology providing new tools for the creative artist. The Art and Technology concentration provides students an opportunity to mix different types of media, both digital and traditional, in order to create new forms of art.
The Art major is designed to provide a broad background in a variety of media for those students who plan to pursue careers in graphic design, web design, photography, digital media, or studio by helping them achieve the necessary artistic and/or computer skills to create marketable imagery and for those students who wish to further graduate or professional work in these or related studies.
In today's information-driven world, with many messages vying for our attention, Graphic Design has never been more important and it is an ever-growing field with many different career options. Students enrolled in the Graphic Design emphasis will learn the principles and practices of effective visual communication by using type and image and will be proficient in the use of industry-standard design software and tools. Throughout the coursework, students will also create a portfolio of their work that can then be given to prospective employers or used as the basis of admittance into a graduate program.
Photography is both a science and an art that is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing, business, fine art, and mass communication. Students enrolled in the Photography emphasis will study advanced camera techniques and applications; the principles of light, color, and composition; creative visual expression; and the history of photography. They will also learn the principles and practices of digital image manipulation using industry-standard computer applications.


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The current global economic and ecological crisis has many facets, among them urban development, economic sustainability and soil health. Just Transition: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World by Mark Swilling and Eve Annecke, and published by UCT Press, provides a comprehensive overview of global challenges from the perspective of a southern, developing country and encourages ways of thinking about solutions.
Youth Violence: Sources and Solutions in South Africa, by UCT's Dr Catherine Ward and Assoc Prof Emer Andrew Dawes and Amelia van der Merwe of the Child, Youth, Family & Social Development research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, reviews the risk and protective factors for the likelihood of aggression among young people. The book, published by UCT Press, looks at a host of factors, including race, class and gender, and the role of the media.
Substance Use and Abuse in South Africa: Insights from brain and behavioural sciences, by UCT's Prof George Ellis, Prof Dan Stein, Assoc Prof Ernesta Meintjes and Dr Kevin Thomas, arose out of UCT's Brain-Behaviour Initiative, which relates neuroscience and behavioural science to social issues. This ground-breaking book, published by UCT Press, looks at the problem of substance abuse from multiple perspectives, particularly in the light of recent discoveries in brain and behavioural sciences.
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In February, rents in nine of the 12 most expensive US rental markets dropped – or plunged. In San Francisco, the most ludicrously expensive rental market in the country, the median asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment dropped 8.9% from a year ago to $3,270 a month, and 10.9% from the crazy peak in October 2015. Two-bedroom rents dropped 7.6% year-over-year to $4,500, and 10% from the peak, according to Zumper's National Rent Report. The last time rents declined year-over-year in San Francisco was in April 2010 as the housing bust was hitting bottom. read more.


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A few weeks ago, conservative activist David Horowitz asked college newspapers to print an ad titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks—and Racist Too." The ad provoked a few campus uprisings and a national uproar over race relations and political correctness. The 10 points stated in the ad can be boiled down to four principles about racial generalizations, divisiveness, gratitude, and victimization. Whether reparations advocates, blacks, college students, or liberals should heed the four principles can be debated. What is certain is that these principles are being ignored by David Horowitz.
Similarly, Horowitz dismisses all critics of his egotism, tastelessness, casual exaggeration, petty belligerence, and/or political views as "the left." "Every American is suspect in the eyes of the left—and this is about the left—as somebody harboring racist ideas," Horowitz complained on Hannity & Colmes. "Leftists have contempt for America," he declared at Berkeley two weeks ago. "What the left is about is a species of civil war." To Newsweek, he complained, "The left boycotts my events and burns down my posters." From whom has Horowitz extrapolated this monolithic picture? Himself. "I adopted the tone and the style of the left, and they can't handle it," he says.
To illustrate his concern that reparations might stir up racial conflict, Horowitz uses the example of an immigrant from Mexico. "How could you tell Jose Martinez, who may have come to this country 10 years ago and is struggling to put bread on the table for his family, to pay reparations to Johnnie Cochran and Jesse Jackson, who are multimillionaires? This is a very divisive campaign," Horowitz protested on CNN's The Point March 27. The warning might have seemed more sincere if it hadn't been at least the 11th time Horowitz had delivered exactly the same sound bite—Jose Martinez, bread on the table, Johnnie Cochran, Jesse Jackson, multimillionaires—over the course of three weeks. When Horowitz repeatedly goes on television to predict that the black leadership's "constant shakedown of the rest of America" will "alienate the black America from Hispanic America, Asian America, and European America" (Fox News, March 12) and will "pit Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, as well as European-Americans, and all other Americans against the African-American community" (CNN, March 26), he has crossed the line from forecasting a backlash to inviting it.
Horowitz also complains that three college newspapers that rejected his reparations ad "printed an ad denying the Holocaust a few years ago." This complaint clearly isn't about consistent censorship of views that might be deemed offensive to minorities. It appears to be about differential treatment of views pertaining to two different minorities. What exactly is Horowitz's point?
The same question could be asked of Horowitz. By a similarly utilitarian calculus, he has profited from his persecution. Thanks to radical students at three campuses who tried to punish editors for running his ad—and who took copies of the Brown University newspaper to prevent the ad's dissemination—Horowitz has now reaped, by his own admission, "the most publicity I've ever got." He fills college lecture halls and appears on national TV virtually every day. His run-ins with hecklers and protesters at campuses a few weeks ago have given way to well-attended speeches and orderly question-and-answer sessions. But that hasn't stopped him from harping on his persecution, which evidently includes the public regrets of editors who printed his ad. Such apologies are "a way of stigmatizing me and my views," Horowitz told Newsweek.
Actually, not a single act of violence has been reported. Harvard and Columbia didn't ban the ad. Their principal student newspapers declined to take the ad, leaving Horowitz the option of submitting his message as an op-ed or delivering it through other outlets on those campuses. Student protesters tried to pressure or punish editors at Wisconsin and Brown who ran the ad, but the editors stood up to them and kept their jobs. Campus police, as the Wisconsin case illustrates, protected the editors. Brown reprinted 1,000 copies of its newspaper, and campus police guarded the newsstands where they were delivered. The editor at Berkeley who apologized for running the ad has been derided in the national media for doing so—and what's important for the exchange of ideas is that he ran the ad, not what he said afterward. "I had 30 armed guards at Berkeley. And there seem to be some here today," Horowitz complained at the University of Texas. "This is an outrage on a college campus." An outrage? Imagine what Horowitz would have said if he hadn't been protected. Finding a grievance either way is the highest art of the professional martyr.
Horowitz's most ludicrous complaint is that his oppression is even worse because his views are overwhelmingly popular. "I cannot go and speak on the University of California campus without being concerned about my security," despite the fact that "70 percent of the American people support the anti-reparations view," he protested on Fox News. On CNN, Horowitz said of a leftist professor, "This is the way he intimidates his campus community, by calling perfectly reasonable arguments—shared by 70 percent of the American people—calling them racist." To Newsweek, Horowitz flatly declared, "The issue of reparations isn't going anywhere." So where's the crisis? Horowitz isn't the isolated minority. His "intimidators" are.
To rectify the left's crimes against Horowitz, in short, colleges would have to stop tolerating so much controversy, protest, and talk of bigotry. And to think the descendants of slaves are only asking for money.


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Concentration camp survivor Celina Biniaz.
Oskar Schindler's grave in Jerusalem. Stones were placed by the descendants of those he saved.
Deportation from the Krakow ghetto in March 1943.
Celina Biniaz was just 12 when Schindler, a Czech industrialist and Nazi Party member, saved her and her parents from near-certain death in Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland. As the world commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, the former Wantagh resident, now 87, reflected on her experiences as the youngest female on Schindler's famous list.
When Spielberg released the film in 1993, Biniaz felt she could finally tell her story.
Polish forces were completely overwhelmed, and Germany established an occupation government, depriving Jews of all civil rights.
Before the war, Biniaz and her parents, Phyllis and Irvine Karp, lived in a middle-class neighborhood where Jews were assimilated, she said. Her parents worked as accountants in one of the two textile factories owned by a Viennese businessman, Julius Madritsch. After Poland's defeat, the apartment Celina shared with her parents was confiscated, and the family was forcibly removed to a walled ghetto in the suburbs of Krakow.
Biniaz worked in the ghetto, making envelopes and cleaning brushes. Her parents continued to work for Madritsch. "Mr. Schindler and Mr. Madritsch were very good friends," Biniaz said. Both men were authority trustees — citizens of the Third Reich who could apply to use forced laborers. The two leveraged their positions to help their Jewish workers. Madritsch provided his workers with food far beyond the 100-gram daily ration of bread and the 200-gram monthly ration of fat or sugar.
A blue card permitted ghetto residents to leave the ghetto on work details. Because Biniaz looked older than her age, her parents were able to obtain a permit through bribery that added two years to her age. She was also transferred to Madritsch's factory. When the ghetto was liquidated in March 1943, the family's position at the factory saved them from being taken to an extermination camp.
Biniaz and her parents worked in the factory until 1944, living in the Plaszow concentration camp. That fall, as Germany's defeat appeared increasingly likely, Schindler suggested that Madritsch join him in Brünnlitz, Czechoslovakia, where he had established a factory and manufactured kitchenware and, later, ammunition for the German army.
Pemper's aid, he was able to get at least 1,100 names.
Schindler asked Madritsch to add names from his factories as well. He sent 100 names, including Biniaz and her parents.
According to documents on file at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust documentation center and memorial in Jerusalem, Schindler's complete list consisted of the entire workforce from the Zablocie concentration camp outside Krakow and some workers from the Plaszow camp.
The roughly 800 men and 300 men were to be sent to Brünnlitz from Poland, but the men ended up in the Grosz-Rosen concentration camp. The women were to have followed to Brünnlitz two weeks later. "Unfortunately, in the middle of the night, we found ourselves in Auschwitz," Biniaz said simply.
Biniaz remained in the camps for six weeks until Schindler was able to rescue his workers. He bribed the commandant of Auschwitz, lieutenant colonel Arthur Liebehenschel, and reassembled his workforce at Brünnlitz, where they remained until the town was liberated by Soviet troops in May 1945.
She was in high school for only a month, in September 1945, before violent attacks on Jews by other Poles — a pogrom — began in eastern Poland. "My parents decided they did not wish to continue living in Poland," she said. "We decided to smuggle [ourselves] into the American zone in Germany." She lived in the zone with her parents for two years while awaiting passage to the U.S.
In June 1947, on Biniaz's 16th birthday, the family sailed from Bremerhaven to New York. After an 11-day passage, they were met on arrival by her uncle, David Karp, who had immigrated before the war. He drove the family to Des Moines, Iowa, where her parents lived for the rest of their lives. Irvine died in 1995, and Phyllis, in 1997.
Biniaz received a bachelor's degree from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1952, and returned to New York that fall to study at Columbia University Teachers College. There she met her future husband, Palestine-born Amir Biniaz. She completed a master's degree in education and married Biniaz in 1953.
The newlyweds moved to Wantagh, where the remained for the next 40 years. The couple has two children: Robert, 63, and Susan, 60.
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Trade Everyone! -- the starters
By Jay Jul 18, 2006, 2:42pm EDT
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Most fans at this point are sick of the entire Indians roster, and who can blame us? I don't know if everyone on the roster is "on the table" for trades, but a part of me would like to think that there is no option for improving the roster that Shapiro wouldn't consider. That nobody is untouchable.
In theory, nobody is untouchable. With the right offer of players and/or money, there is no player in the game who can't be had in a trade. It's just a question of making the right offer. So why not consider it? Today, the starters:
PAUL BYRD
PRO - Huge return would be expected for a well established pitcher with sub-4.00 ERA over the past 1.5 seasons, all in the AL, very reasonable contract, "veteran leadership."
PRO - Much more likely to be worse rather than better over the next 1-2 seasons (ages 36-37).
PRO - Clears good chunk of payroll for 2007.
CON - Production is reasonably priced for 2007 and difficult to replace.
CON - Hurts negotiating position with other free agents; Byrd took less money to come to Cleveland, trading him away can't be done lightly.
CLIFF LEE
PRO - Truly massive return would be expected for proven AL lefty starter, not eligible for free agency for three more years, no guaranteed money, no trade restrictions.
PRO - Moving him would shake up team, send message through organization and fan base that all bets are off.
PRO - Overvalued in the market due to strong run support and ridiculous Cy Young voting, performance doesn't match reputation.
PRO - About to turn 28 and has not shown significant signs of development.
PRO - Hasn't been inclined to sign favorable contracts.
PRO - It's not like we're going to run out of lefties.
CON - Performance has been reliable if not terrific; certainly better than the Loiazas of the world.
CON - Is in his prime and could still break out one of these years.
CON - Salary will be a bargain for at least another year or two.
C.C. SABATHIA
PRO - Young and established lefty power pitcher viewed as ace-in-waiting, would generate a higher return than any other Indians pitcher, possibly one impact young player and one impact prospect.
PRO - Injury risk becomes someone else's problem.
PRO - Would clear significant payroll through 2008.
PRO - Would allow team to refocus on 2008-2010.
CON - May well be entering the best years of his career.
CON - Production probably can't be replaced at less than twice the price.
CON - A signature player, fans would interpret as a step back.
JEREMY SOWERS
PRO - Could be used as part of a package to attract an even better pitching prospect ... e.g., Belliard and Sowers for Scott Elbert or Jason Hirsh.
PRO - May be at the peak of his value now, had great ERA in the minors but bad peripherals.
PRO - Not likely to be a key contributor in 2007, not expected to be a top starter at any point.
CON - Broad consensus of experts says he'll be a good major league pitcher, has succeeded at every level and is young enough to keep developing.
CON - Will play for minimum salary through 2009, bargain money through 2011 or so.
JAKE WESTBROOK
PRO - Again, huge return for solid veteran pitcher under reasonable contract through 2007.
PRO - Particularly attractive for teams with strong infield defense.
PRO - Only under contract through 2007 anyway.
PRO - Soon to turn 29, may be at his peak right now.
PRO - Not well suited to Indians' uncertain infield defense picture.
CON - Probably is undervalued in the market ... Westbrook has been Top 15 in FIP each of the past three seasons, but the ERAs are less impressive and stable.
CON - Very difficult to replace his production in the market, Guthrie probably not up to the job.
CON - Should flourish if we can improve defense.
CON - Seems likely to sign favorable contract extension as Sabathia did.
IN GENERAL: For all except Sowers, the best case for a trade is the massive return we'd get, and the best case against is the difficulty of finding even solid starting pitching on the market for less than $8 million, which is the most salary that can be cleared in this deal. Of these five, I believe the best case can be made for Cliff Lee, in part because he's represents probably the second-highest possible return after Sabathia and is likely to be the most overvalued.
That said, other than the Sowers/Belliard type of scenario described above, any trade of a starter is going to weaken the team's basic base of talent for 2007, unless the plan is to sign or trade for a top starter in the offseason. That would seem a very tough proposition to rely upon -- unless the team is willing to put siginificant dollars there, spending more to replace one of these starters than it would have cost to keep him. The value proposition becomes this: Are the players we'd get back worth the extra money we'll have to spend to replace this pitcher's production?
With no other closer or setup men seeming likely to fall out of a tree, it's likely that Fausto Carmona is going to stay in the bullpen. Jason Davis seems unlikely to get another shot at the rotation. That leaves only Jeremy Guthrie and Jason Stanford to join Sowers at the back of the 2007 rotation if we trade one of the other four. Not very appetizing.
On the other hand, the market for starting pitching is extremely thin, made moreso by the fact that all National League pitchers are now viewed with suspicion. The opportunity to extract a king's ransom -- "your best young pitcher AND your best young outfielder" -- may be hard to resist.
FORGET 2006 ... AND MAYBE 2007, TOO: Another consideration is the basic question of whether it makes sense to try to contend in 2007 at all. Most of our core players are under contract until 2009 or later, while the Tigers and White Sox will find it harder to field a world-beating team more than one more year. At the same time, we seem to have several almost-rookies who may well need a full year in the majors to adjust (Marte, Garko, Sowers, Gutierrez), and another round of exciting prospects who are still a year away (AstroCab, Miller, Kouzmanoff, Crowe). Would it possibly make more sense to let the White Sox, Twins and Tigers fight a war of attrition next season, while we take a half-step back and reload for 2008?
And if so ... shouldn't we think about trading one of these starters?


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June 18, 2014 7.33am EDT
Richard Elliott, University of Sussex
Lecturer in Popular Music, University of Sussex
Jack White, phonographic archaeologist. Kris Krüg, CC BY-SA
In the weeks leading up to the release of Jack White's new album Lazaretto on June 10, a number of record shops around the world ran a promotional campaign that gave curious users the chance to experience White's "ultra LP" on a bright yellow spinnerette turntable manufactured for and sold by White's record company Third Man. In addition to being an eye-catching promotional gimmick, the provision of the turntable is something of a necessity for those listeners who don't happen to have a player that runs at 33, 45 and 78 RPM. All three speeds are needed to get the most out of Lazaretto.
White's LP comes with a variety of notable features, all aimed at encouraging the listener to interact physically with the object itself. For starters, there's a matt side and a glossy side, two finishes designed to evoke different historical moments in the production of records. Then there's the fact that one side has been cut so that the needle runs from the central grooves to the outer ones rather than vice versa, a bit of a head-scratcher for seasoned users of records.
There are also hidden tracks etched under the labels in the middle of the vinyl, one of which runs at 45RPM and the other at 78. These and other features are listed on the Third Man website and explained by White on an instructional video. Here, and on the promotional trail for the album, White has been keen to boast of the revolutionary vinyl engineering features of his LP.
The "ultra" LP.
A few weeks earlier, White had been also been involved in promoting Neil Young's new album, which was recorded in a 1940s Voice-o-Graph booth and subsequently released on Third Man. Because Young has spent much of 2014 promoting his Pono music system and waging war on low fidelity MP3 music, some have seen the lo-fi, noisy new album as a sign of deliberate contrariness.
But I'm not so sure that Young's release of A Letter Home and launch of Pono represent a contradiction. Both are ways, it seems to me, of claiming an immediacy of experience that contrasts with most people's everyday encounters with music. Easily accessible, portable and preferably free music has become the norm for many in the digital age. This seems to be motivating playful, explorative audiophiles like White and Young to offer something different.
When I recently acquired an old Decca portable gramophone, the thing that struck me most was the immediacy of the musical performances being played back. Whether as a result of the significant surface noise accompanying the music or the surprising volume and command of the sound (particularly vocals), there is a palpable sense of time distortion; it's as though the listener is in the presence of the performer.
There is also the ritual involved in winding the gramophone, attaching the needles (which are supposed to be changed after every couple of sides) and handling the fragile 78s. The short duration of the records means they demand constant attention, giving the listening experience something of the brief, sensory thrill of a good espresso or shot of whiskey.
The sense, however illusory, of intimacy and proximity that I found with listening to 78s this way is also, I imagine, a key to understanding Young's Voice-o-Graph recordings and his campaign for higher quality digital sound via Pono. The thrill of the ritual engagement with the recordings is, meanwhile, what seems to be behind White's obsession with evocative objects.
Young and White are not alone in their desire to play around with recording history as a way of getting people to hear beyond the everyday. A team working under the title of The 78 Project have been getting musicians to do one-take, direct recordings of old American vernacular songs, then playing the records back to the often surprised and delighted artists.
That this work of phonographic restoration operates primarily as a digital video project via websites (and now a film) is, admittedly, something of an oddity. But it's also a sign of the digital age's fascination with what it no longer has or does. Perhaps it's as fascinating for viewers to watch musicians being amazed by sound as it is to hear it. This might also explain the thinking behind the video promotion accompanying Pono. Web viewers are asked to buy into the system's superiority by witnessing other people (including many celebrities) being amazed by the Pono experience.
It may be easy to dismiss the undertakings of White, Young, The 78 Project and a host of other phonographic archaeologists as gimmicks. But it is precisely this gimmick status, their weirdness and unexpectedness, that makes them fascinating and relevant. Whatever we think of the actual music associated with these projects – and I've said nothing about that here – the acts of recording and playback they invite serve to recall music's millennia-long relationship with tangibility.
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Count shows 12.7% rise in homelessness countywide
On June 12, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released the results of the 2020 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, which showed 66,433 people in Los Angeles County experiencing homelessness. This represents a 12.7% rise from last year's point-in-time count of 58,936. The city of Los Angeles saw a 13.6% rise to 41,290.
The report captures a picture of homelessness in Los Angeles County as it was in January, the time of this year's homeless count, and before the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic could be felt, measured or responded to through efforts such as Project Roomkey, rent freezes and eviction moratoriums.
"LAHSA does not like these numbers because we know firsthand that we have done so much to increase the effectiveness of our systems and bring tens of thousands of people inside," said Heidi Marston, executive director of LAHSA. "This year's results reinforce that our community must address the deep-rooted causes within larger safety net systems that stop people from falling into homelessness."
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, 3rd District, pointed out that while local officials have "built a smart, sustainable and increasingly effective system to help men and women who are experiencing homelessness get back into housing and to help those who may be at risk of homelessness stay in their homes … we continue to struggle to reduce the total homeless population." This is especially true of black Angelenos, of whom one in 33 will experience homelessness at some point, she said.
"We need half a million affordable homes that simply don't exist, and the COVID-19 pandemic now threatens to make the conditions that force low-income men, women and families into homelessness even worse … All of us – elected officials, private sector and nonprofit leaders, and members of the public – should see [this] announcement as an urgent call to action."
Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin called the count results "tragic and utterly unacceptable."
"Billions of dollars have been committed to address homelessness by the city and County of Los Angeles, yet we have far too little to show for the money or work. What we have is more people, more families, living on our streets in squalid conditions. Local governments and service providers must do better," he said.
Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) said he was "angry and frustrated" about the results.
"We simply cannot keep doing the same things over and over and expect different outcomes. The system is broken. It needs to be blown up and rebuilt differently. The time has come to rip through the bureaucratic red tape and force the change we need. It is unacceptable that children, women, families, veterans and people of all backgrounds are living on the streets," he said.
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