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Production note: The entire town was repainted with names that would reflect the mid west. No one ever knew there was a Harbor just 200 feet away. The employees in the Deli, in case they appeared on camera while working were even wearing shirts with the made-up name of the Deli. The only sotre that didn't get a name change was the sporting goods store next to the Diner. That store is gone today."


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Origin of the Pliscotheans Ch. 1
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The Xanthos settled quietly to the surface of Omthal, her plasma powered magnetic engines emitting a muted whine as they fought against the planet's gravitational field. She carried a survey crew of three, who's orders were to map this four thousand sardecs of the planet, catalogue the flora and fauna, and select at least three colonization sites. The colonist ships would follow from the missionary station after the return and report of the survey crew.
Omthal was the fourth planet orbiting the sun called Anthes by the Pliscotheans, and had been selected as a colony planet because of it's atmosphere, water, evidence of plant and animal life, and the probability of rich mineral resources. Omthal had been scanned many times, first from the missionary station by short wave gamma radiation, and later by digital video and thermal imaging equipment aboard several orbiting probes. The Pliscotheans had little choice in their decision to colonize Omthal. Their population had exceeded the bio-capacity of their home planet, forcing them to utilize colony stations orbiting their world, and now the stations were overcrowded. The missionary stations were constructed to seek and find new worlds for colonization, and were positioned throughout the galaxy.
The main hatch of the Xanthos opened, and the survey crew leader stepped into the bluish light cast by Anthes. Arnak Sanava had seen twenty five cycles of his planet's solar orbit, though he had never actually been to the planet's surface. Of the species called humanoid by the biologists at the station university where he studied engineering, Arnak was one of the prime specimens selected by the Committee for Colonization by Pliscothea. The "CCP" logo on his close fitting uniform identified him as one of the few of his race selected to identify and begin settlement of new worlds. His body had been hardened by exercise, his leadership ability forged by the CCP, and he was also known to the females on the station to be a lover with skills uncommon for one of his age.
Arnak stepped off the entry ramp onto the soil of Omthal, and breathed deeply. The atmosphere seemed alive compared to the recycled mix of gasses that passed for air on the station and survey ship. A slight breeze wafted through his dark wavy hair, and brought to him a musty, tangy odor that suggested plant life, water, and decay.
He tapped the communicator on his wrist to summon the other two members of the survey crew, and was joined momentarily by two slender females, a buxom, blonde haired doctor/biologist named Shilla Novamene and the equally curvaceous, red haired botany specialist named Vrenna Annoe. Both females were as seductive as they were intelligent; their soft, tanned skin and body curves spoke to Arnak in the age-old language of males and females of ripening fertility, and their normal motions suggested a desire and capacity for great and continued pleasure. He watched their sensual approach, their hips swaying and breasts rising and falling inside the snug uniforms with each step, and blessed the psychological tenets behind their selection for this mission.
Studies by CCP had indicated that a crew size of three was optimum for long term isolation from a station, because, while two crew members would soon become hostile to one another, the third member served as a mediator, and harmony would be restored. Studies also indicated that the proper gender ratio was one male to two females, and that the two females should be bisexual. Sex was a factor not to be ignored on long term missions, and this ratio ensured contentment and loyalty among the crew. After the long journey, Arnak, Shilla, and Vrenna understood and greatly appreciated the logic. If one crew member was not feeling up to relieving the tensions of the mission with another, the third was usually willing and eager. On the occasions that all three were feeling in the mood for release, the combination was explosive, and these sessions guaranteed that jealousy did not interfere with the accomplishment of the mission.
After two cycles of Anthes were used to set up the base camp domes, move in supplies, and generally settle in, Arnak planned the first mission. They would start the survey by laying out and mapping one hundred sardec quadrangles, and by examining the terrain and specimens of life found in them.
The survey of the first quadrangle was progressing according to plan, when Vrenna found a humanoid footprint under a leaf she was collecting for study later. Her initial thought was that one of the others had stepped in the spot, and the track had been covered by the leaf at a later time. Arnak and Shilla, however, had been working some distance away from the spot, and could not have left the track. She called to the others, and after examination of the impression, the three returned to the common dome to discuss the finding. A check of the station scan results revealed no indication of humanoid life, either past or present. The footprint was a mystery to be dealt with cautiously, and Arnak issued the order that all crew members would be armed with ion disrupters on all future excursions. The disrupters should not kill, but would stun or drive away any dangerous animal, or indeed, another humanoid.
On the tenth Anthes cycle, Shilla was watching a small creature when she saw a silvery flash in the distance. Crouching down, she saw something approaching through the thick undergrowth, something large, but moving with stealth, and barely moving any of the plant life. As the creature was almost upon her, she raised her disrupter and fired. With a shrill, shrieking cry, the creature fell to the soil and lay still. At the sound of the disrupter, Arnak and Vrenna came running, and the three cautiously walked to the site where the creature had fallen.
Lying on the ground was another humanoid form of undetermined gender. The humanoid was clothed in a silvery, pearlescent garment that fitted the body as a second skin. Long silvery hair was present on the head, and except for the strange garment covering them, the features of the face were remarkably similar to their own. Examination of the creature revealed no beating heart, no breathing, and it was assumed to be dead. Arnak lifted the creature to his shoulder, and they proceeded to the domes to make a more thorough examination. They arrived as Anthes was dropping below the eastern horizon.
Arnak carried the creature to the lab dome, and placed it's body on the examination table. Shilla began her examination, first activating the lab voice recorder.
"Record start. Officer Novamene recording. Oral log of examination of unidentified creature killed on Omthal, Sector twenty seven, Pliscothean orbit count four thousand nine, ten point... ninety three Anthese cycles from landing."
"Subject is of bipedal, humanoid form, appearing to be clothed in a smooth, opalescent fabric that covers the entire body with the exception of the area of the head covered with fine, white hair. Attempting to remove the covering...wait... examining the covering under magnification... fascinating... it's skin, the creature has very white skin covered with microscopic, silver, translucent scales. Humanoid hair covers the scalp and is of fine texture and white in color. General body type is slender, with most features similar to those of our race. Primary sexual identifiers indicate the subject to be female, as evidenced by a vaginal opening, but the subject is lacking mammary glands. There are two very small protuberances present at the mammary site which appear to be nipple-like, but these are not large enough to be utilized in feeding young. Subject exhibits the body type of a female, with small upper torso, and wide pelvis. Record stop."
Shilla made some notes on the computer terminal and reached for a scalpel. She poised the gleaming blade over the creature's midsection, paused, and then said, "Arnak, I'd like to wait until tomorrow to do a complete internal examination. A complete workup will take several hours, and we're all tired. The temperature in the lab dome can be lowered to preserve the state of the body."
Arnak agreed, and after a quick meal, they retired to the sleeping dome. Later that night, Arnak woke and went to the utility dome to relieve his bladder. On his way back, he noticed the door to the lab area was ajar. As he went to close it, he saw movement from the common area in his peripheral vision. Quickly turning, he saw a silvery form disappear into the darkened interior, and started to follow.
Upon entering the common dome, he saw the creature standing in profile against the window. Light from Omthal's three moons illuminated the creature, which dropped to a crouch upon seeing him, then rose and stood facing him, it's legs parted to shoulder width and it's hands resting on it's full hips .
As he watched, the creature spoke to him in a low, husky, feminine voice.
"Why did you hurt me. I meant you no harm. I was coming to greet you. We are more alike than you know, and we must talk."
"Who are you", said Arnak.
"I am Ansea, of the planet Lauxes. I was sent to greet you; to welcome you back to your heritage."
"Y-y-you were dead," he stammered. "I carried you here myself, and felt no life signs. My heritage? What do you know of my heritage?"
"Our species has healing powers far beyond those granted to you. When you hurt me, my body entered stasis so it could repair itself. The state is close to what you call "death". The beat of our primary heart and breathing stops, and respiration takes place through pores in the scalp. Our mental processes continue, powered by the small secondary heart at the base of the brain. While in this state, we are conscious, but immobile. We stay in this state until all damage is repaired, and then resume our normal bodily functions."
"I heard Shilla as she reported her examination log, and she is quite incorrect. I am very female, with all the organs she possesses, although in somewhat different form. If she had started her internal examination before I awoke, she would have learned these facts, although then I would be truly dead, and there are more enlightening ways to decipher the truth."
"Explain yourself. How do you know our language? What do you mean by "my heritage."
"I know your language because it is our language. We taught you to speak, at the same time we made you. You were made in our image, except for some engineered mutations for your safety and ours. Allow me to show you."
Ansea moved to stand in front of him. Taking his hands, she placed them on the tiny nipple-like structures on her chest. "Caress gently, if you would know the truth."
Arnak, feeling somewhat foolish, began to gently touch the small buds. Quickly, Ansea began to breath deeply, occasionally emitting a throaty moan. As he touched her, the flesh under his fingertips began to expand. As Ansea's moans became more frequent, the tissue swelled faster, and soon Arnak's hands cupped two large, perfect, firm breasts, with large, dark pink aureoles and long, hard, thick nipples. The tiny scales now were scattered over a larger expanse of skin, and reminded him of the glittery cosmetics used by Vrenna when she was feeling particularly female and erotic. It was very stimulating, and he felt his member begin to react. He began rolling a nipple between his fingers, and Ansea said, " Ahhhhhhhh, you have learned well. Please do not stop."
As he massaged her now turgid breasts, Ansea put her arms around his neck, and led him to the seating platform in the center of the room. Releasing him, and lying on her back, she beckoned him. "Remove your robe, and lie on top of me." Arnak complied, and Ansea again placed her arms around him. Suddenly he felt warm, moist lips caressing his male organ. The lips circled the head of his organ, and then began moving down its hardening length. As they moved, he felt himself being sheathed in warm wetness. With a start, he raised up and looked between his legs. His member was encased in a pink, pulsating sleeve that extended from Ansea's vaginal opening, a sleeve that was working its way to the base of his member.
"Do not be afraid. You were created to match our bodies, and our passion. Just enjoy as I am."
As the lips reached his base, they tightened on him and began pulling him inside her, the muscular contractions of her lips exciting him to a full erection. Arnak had no choice but to move into her, and soon was buried in her warm, wet passage.
"I know you make love to Shilla and Vrenna. I watched through the transparent panels of your sleeping chamber. Make love to me as you do to Shilla and Vrenna", whispered Ansea. "We are not very much different, although I have different ways to pleasure you."
The lips began to draw him in and thrust him out, and Arnak took up the familiar rhythm. As he stroked, he became aware of a firm nub of flesh rubbing on the top of his organ. Again looking down, he saw that what was apparently Ansea's clitoris had enlarged to the size of his first finger joint, and was rubbing itself back and forth on his organ.
Ansea was now moaning with passion, and her entire body was thrusting against him, her hard nipples brushing wildly across his chest and her hips rushing to meet his thrust. Long before he was ready, she began heaving against his member, her clitoris rubbing hard, and her voice making tiny mewling sounds.
"mmmh...mmmh...mmmuh."
Her breathing increased to a pant, and her love sounds increased to loud moans. "Harder, please, harder, ahh, ahhh, ohh, ohh, you feel so good inside me, ohh, ahh, ahh, harder... yes, yes, ohh, ahhhh, ahhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Do not stop. I need more from you."
Ansea quieted for a brief moment, then resumed her pumping motion, her voice back to small moans. Arnak's member was being milked by her lips, and he found himself enjoying the sensation. It was like having Vrenna's talented mouth pleasuring him while stroking his member inside Shilla, and although Arnak prided himself on his control, he was quickly reaching his peak. He began to make small "mmmm" sounds in time to his thrusts. Ansea was also climbing to another peak that promised to be higher than the first. Arnak forced a hand between them and pinched hard on an erect nipple. Ansea's body lurched as she said, "Ahh, yes, again, again."
Arnak pinched again, and was rewarded by hi pitched squeeks and low sultry moans as Ansea thrust hard against him. She arched her back in time with his thrusts, her head first arching with her, then rolling slowly from side to side. Suddenly he felt her inner lips pulling hard on him, particularly on the area just behind the head of his organ. The lips released, and pulled hard again, and again, and again, creating a sucking sensation that was exquisite. The sensation was more than enough to cause his explosion, and he thrust hard into Ansea, over an over, as he spurted his sperm into her body. As the first splash bathed her insides, Ansea screamed, "Ahh, yes, now, now, now, shoot into me, now, now, ahhh, ahh, ohh, yes, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", and thrust back at him. Her fingers raked long red welts down his back on their way to his hips, which she then pulled into her. She wrapped her legs around his waist and lifted her hips to give him complete access to her sex, and stroked her body over his throbbing manhood. Arnak held her tightly and continued to stroke his spent, but still erect manhood in and out of her grasping passage. Her warm, inner core massaged him, begging for him to plunge deep as Ansea's moans became one long ramble of unintelligible animal grunts, groans, and whispered words. "I feel.. umm, umm, you, ahhh, ahhh, hot, sticky, ummm, ummm, so nice at last, ahh, ahh, OH DON'T STOP, DON'T STOP, DON'T STOP, uMMMM, AHHH, AHHHHHH, AIEEEEEEEEEE." With the final scream, Ansea collapsed on the sitting platform, panting as her inner lips released her hold on him. Her enlarged clitoris continued to rub back and forth across his now softening member, slowly and then rapidly, and from time to time she would arch her back to force him back inside her. As they lay together and he stroked her breasts and tweaked her nipples, Ansea stimulated herself to release after release. The climax of her passion was difficult to detect; she seemed to be continuously reaching peak after peak, each higher than the first, and each time her marvelous inner lips milked his member gently but furiously as her clitoris danced over him and her own outer lips. By the time she reached what he thought was her fifth release, Arnak was erect and again matching her thrusts. As he erupted into her again, Ansea was mostly silent, the only sound her rapid, throaty, gasps as she peaked and peaked again. At last, she lay still, and he watched as the large breasts receded to the minuscule nipples as before.
After they had recovered somewhat, Ansea spoke.
"Arnak, our efforts have come to fruition. You have come to us as we designed you. Our early population was mostly male; they were small, with low fertility, and genetically weak. Our species survived because the females evolved an extremely strong drive for reproduction and sexual release, but our need for repeated couplings would kill most males after one or two sessions. As the number of males decreased to unsustainable numbers, our species was in danger of extinction. Our brightest scientists were given the task of saving us, and their solution was to genetically engineer our species to be self-fertilizing, eliminating the need for males. Unfortunately, all offspring were also female, and our species has been totally female for the last five thousand of your sun cycles. We retained the strong reproductive drive that caused the original problem, and so formed relationships with other females for sexual release. While the touch of one female to another is very satisfying, we also longed to couple with males, and genetically engineered your species to provide males who are stronger and have extreme virility, and modified the organs of your females to make them more sexually provocative and a little more easily satisfied. We then "seeded" your species, our "offspring", to the planet from which you came, and waited until you had advanced enough to understand us. You were designed to return to us, to give us pleasure that we will return, both to male and female alike. I was appointed to study you on this planet, and if our experiment proved successful, to greet you, test you, and introduce you to our ways. It may please you to know you have performed admirably."
"You created us?" Arnak stammered. "And waited on us? To pleasure you?"
"Well, of course, each may choose his or her own destiny. You will not be forced. You can continue to colonize other worlds, invent, create, anything you want. The offer is just that, an offer. I doubt many of your males would refuse one of us though, don't you agree?"
"I can see your logic, and will not dispute it, but what about the females of my species? Won't they become jealous, and resist you?"
Ansea laughed, the first time he had heard her do so. "We will see after I give them my um... test. Remember the females of my species have been loving each other for many generations. We have developed skills that will be hard to resist, and our different bodies allow some unique forms of stimulation. I doubt that there will be a problem. I think tomorrow, I will conduct my own internal examination of Shilla and Vrenna."
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Colombian Soul: Mercedes Salazar Welcomes The Nopo to Colombia
Plus all the reasons why you should visit Colombia right now
It's been very difficult to keep this quiet over the last few months, but we've been hard at work to uncover more wonderful artisans and beautiful crafts from our next destination. You heard right, our journey of discovery has taken us south to a beautiful land of jungles, sea, white sands, tropical vegetation, and virgin mountains… Welcome to Colombia!
We enlisted the help of an amazing local partner to scour the four corners of Colombia, searching for the most unique treasures among the thousands of artisanal crafts Colombia is rich in. From the crochet technique of the Wayuu people in La Guajira and surrounding to the iraca and werregue palm weaving, via the most exciting Bogotá-based brands and creators, we're bringing the essence of Colombia straight to your doorstep.
Shop our Colombian Collection
As always, the journey has been an exciting one, and we are beyond thrilled to announce none other than world-famous Colombian designer Mercedes Salazar decided to join forces with us and endorse the launch of Colombia on The Nopo.
Mercedes is one of Colombia's top designers with a career spanning almost three decades, and her work to preserve, enrich and promote Colombian craftsmanship has been transformational for hundreds of artisans. Barely two years after starting her brand in the late 90s, Mercedes had her own workshop and showroom in Bogotá, La Casa de Mercedes, and now counts over 300 worldwide distributors across close to 30 markets around the world, including Colombia, the USA, Europe & the UK, and Asia.
Ever the creative and inspirational soul, Mercedes took a deep dive into the stories and crafts of the Colombian artisans The Nopo has been selecting so far, and she has put together her favorites in a Curated Collection that will bring all of Colombia's rich diversity to you.
Mercedes Salazar Curated Collection — The Nopo
We had the huge pleasure of catching up with Mercedes at her workshop in Bogotá, where she spends every working day after a morning routine of meditation and hiking the beautiful hills in Bogotá's neighborhood Oriente.
With an artistic career spanning almost three decades, it's safe to say Mercedes is one of Colombia's best-established and original voices in Colombian design. Mercedes knew very soon that jewelry would play a big role in her life, ever since the friendship bracelets she made and sold at school aged ten were an instant hit among her peers.
"Jewelry has always been present in my life, and at nineteen after school, I decided to move to Mexico to study at the National Institute of Fine Arts, where I specialized in gold smithery and learned about metal sculpting and enameling."
Back in Colombia at twenty-two, Mercedes would have it all or nothing. Fresh from her learning in Mexico, she immediately started her Mercedes Salazar Joyería brand, all whilst getting married and becoming pregnant with her first child. When people kept admiring the jewelry she made and wore all the time, she understood there could be a business path beyond her passion and hunger for creativity.
"My brain is always creating, I'm constantly imagining new pieces, ideas, combinations. Soon I understood there was no way I could keep up with myself, and that I most enjoyed designing, so I started collaborating with artisans to make my visions come alive."
More than twenty years later, Mercedes employs fifty people and collaborates with over two hundred artisans across the whole country, having expanded beyond jewelry into home decor, ceramics, basketry, lighting, hat and bag making, and more. Indeed Mercedes integrates a wealth of ancestral techniques from across Colombia in her work, such as the crochet technique from the Wayyú community of la Guajira, the straw weaving from the Zenú artisans of Córdoba, the iraca palm weaving from the artisans of Nariño, and the werregue palm weaving of the Wounaan Nonam community from Chocó, among others.
What struck us most about Mercedes is her symbiotic relationships with the artisan communities she works with, which normally continue for months or years of intense creative exchange between her design eye and the artisans' manufacturing and technical skills.
"The knowledge indigenous people in Colombia have is the most beautiful and important asset we have and working to foster traditional crafts is the best way to preserve it. When artisans work together, they are not just creating a product to sell, rather they are perpetuating their culture and identity generation by generation."
Endlessly inspired by Colombia's natural environment and its indigenous people and their cultures, Mercedes is one and the same with her motherland. "Colombia is my soul," she said with shining eyes, "It's who I am and where I come from ancestrally. I am honored to have this creativity inside me that allows me to share everything that Colombia is with the rest of the world."
Read on to discover our top reasons to visit Colombia… And when your mouth starts watering, head over to Mercedes's Curated Collection or Shop Colombia to assuage your thirst!
#1 The Beaches
Stretching across the top of South America, Colombia features not one, but two beautiful coastlines, both very different from each other. The northern coast looks out onto the stunning Caribbean sea, with its crystal clear waters and its otherworldly beaches, such as Palomino and Cabo San Juan in the beautiful Tayrona National Park.
The western coast faces the neverending expanse of the wild Pacific Ocean, with virgin, secluded beaches that sometimes can only be reached by boat or a hike through the jungle. Head over to Guachalito Beach to marvel at its black sands, or visit El Amejal beach for some surfing and a host of boutique hotels to choose from.
#2 The Cities
While Colombia is more often associated with wild jungles, high mountains, and stunning beaches, its cities have been up and coming in the last few years. Its centrally-located capital Bogotá offers a booming food & lifestyle scene, with plenty of coffee shops, restaurants, and street art, as well as historical itineraries on foot and hikes in the surrounding hills.
Colombia's second city Medellin has seen a renaissance in recent years, while Cartagena, the jewel of the Caribbean coast, displays a wealth of colonial architecture visible in small streets with pastel-colored buildings and ornate balconies, as well as breathtaking sunsets on its urban beaches.
#3 The Coffee
From sustainable growing techniques that respect the environment and employ the local population to roasteries open to the public, to courses to become an expert, if you like coffee you will have a wealth of opportunities to delve into the history of this ancient drink.
Try Libertario, Pergamino, or Varietale coffee for an excellent brew with meaning, or hop around the thousands of coffee shops Bogota has to offer, such as the beautiful El Atillo Cafe in the chic neighborhood of Usaquen, or Catación Publica, which hosts roasting workshops and coffee tasting experiences.
Mercedes's life-long commitment to Colombia and its crafts is shining through her Curated Collection, filled with all her favorites from the Colombian artisans The Nopo is collaborating with. Take a deep dive into the stories and crafts of Colombia with her Curated Collection available from today!
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What this book is about: It is 1942, and America is at war with Germany. 14-year-old Jill Winter's mother is travelling to Newfoundland and must pass through the treacherous North Atlantic, where German submarines – U-boats – stalk like wolves. Her famous pop-singer father, is on tour, so Jill is sent to Winter Haven, Maine to stay with Nana. Quarry, a local boy, says that "gossip ain't never been so good," and Jill soon discovers he's right – Winter Haven is full of secrets and rumours. It seems everyone has something to hide – even Nana! Jill doesn't know whom to trust, and she's worried for her mother's safety. And things get even worse when she finds a wounded carrier pigeon with a coded message attached to its leg. Jill is determined to get to the bottom of all these mysteries, but when she uncovers the biggest secret of all, she finds herself in grave danger – and must run for her life!
My review: A really interesting read!! I love war stories like these – highlighting friendship, courage and loyalty. This is one about friendship – particularly the one Jill made with Wendy Taylor and how it played out. Joan Hiatt Harlow has now firmly become a favourite author to watch out for!! I really enjoyed this book as the descriptions of Winter Haven during those war years transported me to a harsher, yet simpler time. Her dialogue and storyline was quite funny as well. Apparently Joan Hiatt Harlow has a companion story to Shadow on the sea called "The watcher" where we get to see what happened to Wendy!!
What this book is about: 1942. Berlin, Germany. How did Wendy end up in such a place? Just a few months ago, she was enjoying her time in Maine, supporting the American war effort. But she was kidnapped, then betrayed by her own mother, who is actually a Nazi spy. As a new Berliner – and now a German – Wendy is expected to speak in a language she's never known and support a cause she doesn't believe in. There are allies, though, among the Germans. Allies who have been watching Wendy since she arrived. And Wendy, along with her new German Shepherd puppy, must comfort them. Her life depends on it.
My review: This companion novel to Shadows on the sea was written by Joan Hiatt Harlow due to demand and curiosity of Wendy's account after she left Winter Haven so abruptly. An engrossing read I must say. We are able to see what it was like in Berlin during those tumultuous times and gauge the reactions of the civilians living there. Although Wendy's mother Adine works for the Nazi's and tries to get Wendy to change her point of view, Joan Hiatt Harlow goes to lengths to show that there were those who didn't agree with the Nazis and worked behind the scenes, in secret, to help Jews out. An amazing story, well written and wonderful characters!! My favourite next to Wendy, and Watcher the dog is Barrett!!
Additional note: I just wanted to let you know that some scenes portrayed in this book would be better for older readers or with some parental support.


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On the Importance of Perspective Taking
One day a foreign scholar came to Aksehir and asked to talk to the wisest man in the city. The villagers took him to the Hodja. When they met, the foreigner took a stick and drew a large circle on the ground. The Hodja looked at the circle, took the stick, and drew a line across the middle of the circle. The foreigner drew another perpendicular line, dividing the circle into quarters. The Hodja gestured as though he were taking three of the sections and leaving the fourth. The foreigner then put his fingers together, faced them toward the ground, and shook them. The Hodja raised his hand to the sky and stretched out his fingers. When the meeting was over, the foreign scholar explained, "Your Hodja is very smart. When I indicated that the Earth was round, he responded that an equator divides it. When I divided the Earth into four sections, he said that three-quarters of it is water. When I asked him what causes rain, he told me that water evaporates, vapor rises, then clouds form and turn into rain." The villagers asked the Hodja what happened during the meeting. He answered, "That glutton! He told me he had a pan of baklava. I said that he couldn't eat it alone and that I would eat half of it. Then he asked me what I would do if he divided it into four pieces. I told him that I would take three of them. Then he said, 'Let's sprinkle nuts on it.' I said, 'Fine, but you can't bake baklava on a weak fire; it has to be strong.' He felt defeated and went away."
This story dates from the 1400s and comes from the Turkish folk tradition. According to legend, the creator of the tale is Nasreddin Hodja, a wise teacher who told many stories to make points about human nature, politics, and the differences between social classes. Indeed, the word Hodja means teacher. Many of these stories have been passed down from generation to generation orally and in writing. [1]
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Doc Avis & Miss Pliscz: Inspiration for Generations of St. Markers
When I first arrived at St. Marks I was graciously welcomed into the Science Department by Doc Avis. I found him to be always supportive and encouraging and a good listener. Early on, in my first year, I asked if we could purchase an analog computer kit for the AP Physics students to put together, he approved it and took interest in what the device could do. Later on, the school installed our DEC digital computer, Doc Avis agreed it would be only available for student use, with an open door policy. He also agreed to modify the III Form Science course (required of all) replacing the physics trimester with computer science. This had many future ramifications, as students were able to study what the machine could do, the results of this policy you can find in the ranks of our alums.
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Resilience and Adaptability: Our Daily Challenge
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."
― Elizabeth Edwards
"Adaptability is the simple secret of survival."
―Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
I have spent a lot of time this academic year repeating the mantra resilience and adaptability, two characteristics I value highly. Resilience, as commonly defined, is the capacity to keep going in the face of difficulty, and adaptability is the ability to adjust to new circumstances. I am proud of the way everyone in our entire School community―students, faculty, and staff―has displayed resilience and adaptability in the face of a multitude of challenges.
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2020 Convocation Talk: Becoming a Truly Antiracist School
Welcome to the 2020-21 academic year. Convocation is, typically, a time for us to gather physically as an entire School community and mark the beginning of an academic year. On this occasion, we welcome new members of our community, celebrate faculty milestones, and present student character prizes. A responsibility I treasure on this occasion is to offer some observations to help set the tone for the year.
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St. Mark's Spring 2020: Embracing a Remote Approach to School
When the news of the Novel Coronavirus (later named COVID-19) was first reported late in 2019, its worldwide impact was hard to imagine. Indeed, the impact on school operations was unimaginable to many of us even in early March when the only question we thought we needed to answer was whether the School's Spring Break travel programs—cultural and athletic—could proceed. Shortly thereafter, of course, the educational landscape changed radically. The focus immediately became how to develop an outstanding remote academic program, an outstanding approach to caring for our students, faculty and staff, and an outstanding approach to maintaining routines that would keep our community feeling together even while apart. We immediately recognized that the focus of our planning for the time of physical separation needed to be comprehensive: academic and personal, individual and collective.
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Some Reflections As We Start Remote Learning in the Time of COVID-19
As Margaret Wheatley once observed,
"It is possible to prepare for the future without knowing what it will be.
The primary way to prepare for the unknowable is to attend to the quality of our relationships, to how well we know and trust one another."
Here, blessedly, is where Episcopal schools are at their best—in knowing and trusting one another, in adhering to a clear purpose, our very reason for being.
-Dan Heischman, Director of the National Association of Episcopal School
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New Faculty Orientation: A Model of Intentional Support
I recently took the opportunity to sit with our newest faculty members to hear about how they have experienced our efforts to support their entry to St. Mark's. I heard generally positive feedback, with a particular emphasis on a sense of welcome and a readiness on the part of members of the adult community to offer support and advice and to answer questions.
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Ben Bradlee '39: A Historically Significant Life of Consequence
I have experienced a distinct sense of déjà vu over the last couple of months as I have watched, listened to, and read about events relating to the impeachment of Donald Trump. My experience of these events brings back a flood of memories about events in 1973 and 1974, my VI Form year at St. Mark's. It was at that time that another impeachment inquiry, sparked by what is known as Watergate, was gripping the country.
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The Difference a Skilled and Caring Facilities Operation Makes to a School
One winter morning many years ago, as I was conducting an interview in the living room of Laura's and my househead apartment at our last school, a flood of water suddenly began cascading from the ceiling at the top of a two story stairway and down those stairs and through our fuse box. Interview over! In a panic I called the school's facilities operation, and staff members arrived within minutes, quickly identifying a broken water pipe, turning off the water supply and developing a plan to "make things right" as quickly as possible. The renovation work, as you can imagine, was quite extensive.
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Experiential Learning: An Essential Part of a St. Mark's Education
My leadership of St. Mark's has been highly influenced, since the 2011 adoption of our strategic plan, St. Mark's School: 2020, by the list of educational outcomes the plan asks the School to prioritize.
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A Life of Consequence: A Worthy and Achievable Aspiration
I am often asked what the phrase "Lives of Consequence" means. The question is a logical one because you see the phrase prominently displayed since we have chosen to make it the tagline for our capital campaign. You can't miss seeing it when you drive up to the Main Building since it appears on banners attached to lampposts, and you will also see it in many of our social media messages and in our publications.
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Patterson Innovation Grants: Fostering Our School's Intellectual Vibrancy
In my experience, the best educators are the ones who constantly seek ways to continue their own learning, thereby modeling a habit of mind that we want for our students. Those educators, lifelong learners, are also able to convey a passion for learning for a particular subject that is infectious for students and colleagues alike. I am proud of the desire for continued growth that I see among my St. Mark's colleagues, and I am proud of the love they convey for their work, both inside and outside the classroom. These educators do so much to make St. Mark's an intellectually vibrant school, energizing for adults and students alike.
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"The School Under One Roof": Present, Past, and Future
A distinguishing characteristic of St. Mark's is that so much of the life of our School takes place in this Main Building. Here we are in the Chapel, so we worship together in the Main Building; 13 faculty and over 100 students live in the Main Building; we take our meals together in the Main Building; most of the School's academic work takes place in the Main Building in classrooms, offices, and the library; many administrative offices are located in the Main Building; and the intellectual heart of the School, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, is located right in the physical center of the Main Building. So, while we are not literally a school under one roof, since living and learning take place elsewhere on our campus too, the phrase "school under one roof" certainly describes St. Mark's accurately.
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St. Markers in Military Service: A Long and Proud Tradition
Every day every one of us walks the hallways of the Main Building, and at least twice a week we spend time in this space, Belmont Chapel. If you are anything like me, you have at least a passing familiarity with what is displayed on the walls of these spaces, however you do not engage regularly in a close study of what you see there. The walls really do tell a story, a story about St. Mark's and a story about leadership and service.
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Our Episcopal Identity: Informing What We Do at St. Mark's School
Inside the front entrance of Belmont Chapel, one can find a recently added holder for pew cards. These cards identify values we hold dear at St. Mark's that we trace directly to our identity as an Episcopal school:
We value time for spiritual reflection and the intentional teaching of wisdom, compassion, and humility
We value human reason used critically in the pursuit of knowledge
We value life in common, believing it is strengthened by honest and respectful dialogue across lines of disagreement and difference.
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The St. Mark's Approach to Drug and Alcohol Use and Prevention
I am deeply concerned about the dangers that drug and alcohol use pose for St. Mark's students. Any report of a drug, or alcohol-related adolescent tragedy, especially involving someone known to a member of the St. Mark's community, chills me to the bone. I am also keenly aware that the possibility of a drug or alcohol related tragedy in our school community is very real, as are short or long-term negative health consequences resulting from use.
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Our Spaces, Our Identities
I imagine everyone here tonight has decorated a space—a bedroom, a dorm room, an office—so that it reflects you. Those of you boarders moving into rooms in your houses here are going through that exercise now. Those of us who have offices and classrooms here at School go through that exercise often annually, continuing to add or subtract to what we and others will see. The choices we make about what to display are highly personal, and if the space we are decorating is frequently visited—like an office or a dorm room—the choices we make are often also influenced by messages we want to send to others about what is important to us—the parts of our identity, our passions, and our loves that we want others to see.
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Educators' Meetups: Realizing the Center's Promise
Our 2011 Strategic Plan, St. Mark's School: 2020, envisioned a Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning that would bring ever greater intellectual vibrancy to our School by inspiring professional growth in our faculty and by engaging St. Mark's in the broader educational dialogue about teaching and learning. I am pleased to report that Center Director Colleen Worrell, currently completing her third year in the role, has undertaken a number of initiatives to make that vision a reality.
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The St. Mark's and Waterford Kamhlaba School Exchange: Creating Transformative Experiences
John C. Warren, '74
Laura P. Appell-Warren
We are all of the earth, which does not see difference of colour, religion or race. We are 'Kamhlaba' - all of one world.
His Majesty King Sobhuza II (1967)
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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Ensuring the Safety of Our Students
The safety of our students is my most important priority; nothing matters more to me. I am keenly aware of the trust parents place in the School to provide an environment that is safe, supportive and respectful. As consumers of media, we are all aware of boundary crossings in the workplace and of predatory behavior toward students at schools and colleges. Not surprisingly, I am frequently asked how we atSt. Mark's protect our students from abusive and unsafe situations. I am pleased to be able to answer these questions by describing an extensive and sophisticated array of policies and practices. At the same time, I know that we cannot be complacent about the topic, so we are constantly on the lookout for ways we can make our approach even better.
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Joseph Burnett: A 19th Century Visionary and a 21st Century Role Model
We have all seen the portrait of our School's founder, Joseph Burnett, on the far wall of the Dining Room, and I trust you have also noticed the relief sculpture on the wall just outside the entrance to Belmont Chapel.[1] As with so much that becomes familiar, we can pass by these objects without giving them much thought. I hope that by telling you a bit about Joseph Burnett today you will develop the same respect and admiration I have gained for him. As I will explain, Joseph Burnett subscribed to certain admirable values that are familiar to all of us as St. Markers. Most importantly, though, he walked the talk: he acted in accordance with these values, leading a life of consequence and leaving a positive legacy that continues today.
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Innovation at St. Mark's: More Than a Buzzword
Innovation is one of the most commonly used words in today's education literature. St. Mark's publications are no exception to that trend. Indeed, we are very proud of The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, a major initiative of our Strategic Plan, and often write about its innovative work.
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St. Mark's Global Citizenship in Theory and in Practice
I am very proud of our Global Citizenship Program because of the way it benefits each one of our 360 students and because of the way it benefits our School as a whole. Our students gain knowledge and insight about themselves and the world from courses, from spending time with students visiting St. Mark's from our partner schools, and from participating in exchange or travel opportunities. The climate of our School is enriched by the periodic presence of students from our partner schools in Australia, Korea, Germany, and Chile. Valuable conversations result in the Dining Hall, in classes, in the Houses, and elsewhere around campus that enlarge our students' perspective. The climate is also enriched by what our students bring back from their travel. Our students who return from places like Haiti and the Dominican Republic and Cuba share their stories both informally and in formal settings like Chapel and School Meeting enlarging the perspective of their peers.
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Being Your Best Self: The Power of Role Model
One winter evening in 1966, walking down a hallway at New York's LaGuardia airport, after returning with my family from a visit to my grandparents in Cambridge, I was excited to see TV cameras, and spotlights aiming toward someone in the middle of a small crowd. As I got closer I recognized the subject of the attention as Robert Kennedy, who everyone called Bobby at that time, then a United States Senator from New York. I suspect Kennedy had been on our flight. An avid follower of the news, even at age 9, I was very excited. I quickly pulled my ballpoint pen out of my jacket pocket and asked my parents for a piece of paper so I could get the Senator's autograph.
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Wisconsin Keeps Focus Against Minnesota ~ The Bucky Channel - The World of Sports from Wisconsin's Perspective.
No letdown for the Badgers today as they traveled to Minnesota to take on Tubby and the Gophers. Minnesota hung with the Badgers in the 2nd half, but Wisconsin did enough in the first half to get their 18th victory of the season. Trevon Hughes put up 20 points in the contest.
The Badgers are playing some great basketball as of late, and they'll need to continue to do so with a tough stretch of games coming. They'll travel to Iowa later in the week, then host the Boilermakers, who are currently tied with them for the Big Ten lead. Purdue beat the Badgers in Purdue just a week ago. After that, they'll travel to Hoosierland for a rematch against Indiana.


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Music|Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3
Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3
The singer and guitarist Elena Tonra, of Daughter, in 2014.CreditCreditJason Kempin/Getty Images for Coachella
A selected guide to concerts in the New York City area.
For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. A searchable guide to these and other shows is at nytimes.com/events.
BEACH HOUSE (Thursday) This Baltimore duo, whose pillowy, somnolent synth pop features the singer and keyboardist Victoria Legrand's seductive croon, is growing more prolific with time. Last year, Ms. Legrand and her band mate, Alex Scally, released two excellent albums, "Depression Cherry" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars," within two months. The plush Kings Theater, which has been booking more cutting-edge indie-rock acts recently, is the perfect space to let their dreamy tunes envelop the room. At 8 p.m., 1027 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 718-856-5464, kingstheatre.com. (Kevin O'Donnell)
CYPRESS HILL (Friday) Cypress Hill, the pioneers of early-'90s West Coast hip-hop, are hitting the East Coast for two special occasions: to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their groundbreaking debut album, "Cypress Hill," and to give their annual Haunted Hill party for Halloween. The gangsta rappers Naughty by Nature, whose breakthrough single "O.P.P." also turns 25 this year, will open. At 8:30 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, 800-745-3000, terminal5nyc.com. (O'Donnell)
DAUGHTER (Tuesday) On its second album, "Not to Disappear," this London-based trio delivers 10 songs that touch on reverb-soaked shoegaze rock, ambient soundscapes, propulsive electro pop and much in between. Those diverse styles are held together by the singer and guitarist Elena Tonra, who shares raw, diaristic confessionals in the great tradition of tortured songwriters like Cat Power. At 8 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, 800-745-3000, terminal5nyc.com. (O'Donnell)
GALANTIS (Saturday) The Swedish musicians Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklow have a track record of writing and producing hit singles for Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Icona Pop and others. As Galantis, the duo takes current electronic-music tropes — thumping beats, climactic builds, even more climactic beat drops — and fuses them with their proven gifts for crafting ear worms. One song, "Peanut Butter Jelly," has an improbably catchy refrain ("Spread it like peanut butter jelly/Do it like you owe me some money!") that morphs into symphonic disco bliss. At 10 p.m., Brooklyn Hangar, 2 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 718-492-0800, thebrooklynhangar.com. (O'Donnell)
BILLY JOEL (Friday) Since 2014, Mr. Joel, the unofficial patron saint of Long Island, has held a residency at Madison Square Garden, where he broke the record for most solo performances in the space in 2015. (The distinction was previously held by Elton John.) Now, after scattered dates this summer here and abroad, he is close to wrapping up his tenure, ending in December, with his 33rd show. He will perform fan favorites drawn from his lengthy career including "New York State of Mind," "The Entertainer" and, of course, his defining tune, "Piano Man." At 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, 866-858-0008, thegarden.com. (O'Donnell)
LAPSLEY (Wednesday) The singer, songwriter and producer Lapsley, born Holly Lapsley Fletcher, is something of a musical savant. Growing up in Britain, she learned to play oboe, piano, guitar and drums; in her teenage years, she was exposed to late-night raves in Liverpool. She marries those two influences — classical instrumentation and electronic beats — on her enrapturing debut studio album, "Long Way Home," which sounds like Sade as produced by tastemakers like Jamie xx and the Weeknd. With Aquilo. At 8:30 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com/events. (O'Donnell)
'STAND UP FOR HEROES' (Tuesday) Now in its 10th year, this benefit for war veterans, established in part by the ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, will feature top comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan and Louis C.K. But Bruce Springsteen, who published a best-selling memoir, "Born to Run," in September, will provide the evening's musical highlight. Mr. Springsteen will perform a stripped-back acoustic set of rarities and hits — and, as in years past, share plenty of unfiltered jokes and asides, both political and personal. At 8 p.m., Theater at Madison Square Garden, 800-745-3000, theateratmsg.com. (O'Donnell)
THE B-52S (Saturday) These New Wave icons will take their quirky, party-starting sensibilities to their annual Halloween Scream bash, held last year in Atlanta. Interestingly, this will be the first time the group has performed at Webster Hall since 1983 — six years before the release of its breakthrough hit "Love Shack." They will perform that song, along with art-pop classics like "Rock Lobster" and "Roam," while decked out in appropriately festive attire. At 8 p.m., 125 East 11th Street, East Village, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com/events. (O'Donnell)
TOBACCO (Tuesday) Tom Fec, a Western Pennsylvania-based musician who performs as Tobacco, is a curious cipher: For his shows, he is typically seated on the stage floor, wearing a mask. But the gimmicks are well suited to his music: eerie, psychedelic synth pop, with melodies tweaked by robotic-sounding effects. In concert, Mr. Fec and his band perform with transfixing footage of 1980s-era fitness movies and other bits of VHS ephemera; sometimes they will break out a wonderfully warped cover of T'Pau's 1987 pop confection "Heart and Soul." At 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, 718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com. (O'Donnell)
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Acetobacter Xylinum Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenases
Levy , H Richard
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
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Most glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenases (G6PDs), including those found in the tissues of animals and higher plants, utilize NADP as their coenzyme. A few bacterial G6PDs, like the one from Leuconostoc mesenteroides can utilize either NADP or NAD, each coenzyme being required for different physiological purposes. The bacterium Acetobacter xylinum produces two G6PDs, one specific for NADP and the other requiring NAD. The latter is the only NAD- specific G6PD known. The long-term goals of our research are to understand the structural differences among these G6PDs that contribute to their different coenzyme specificities and mechanistic and regulatory features.
The specific aims of the present proposal are to contrast the structures of the two A xylinum G6PDs, especially of their coenzyme binding sites, and their kinetic and regulatory mechanisms. Both enzymes will be purified to homogeneity. The genes encoding both enzymes will be cloned into a specially constructed Escherichia coli strain lacking G6PD and the DNAs will be sequenced. This information will be used to infer whether the two G6PDs arose by divergent or convergent evolution. The steady-state kinetic mechanisms, kinetic and binding constants for NAD and NADP , and regulatory features will be determined for both enzymes. The coenzyme binding sites of both enzymes will be covalently labeled and the modified peptides containing the label will be isolated and sequenced. Transfer nuclear Overhauser effect measurements will be used to assess the conformations of NAD+ and NADP bound to the NAD- and 11ADP-linked G6PDs, respectively. These studies are relevant to understanding the mechanism and regulation of human G6PD. Considerable sequence homology exists between the G6PDs of human erythrocytes and L. mesenteroides. Although the human G6PD is normally NADP-specific, in some hereditary disorders G6PD shows high NAD-linked activity. Certain steroids are potent inhibitors of human and animal G6PD, but not bacterial G6PDs. The comparative structural, mechanistic and regulatory studies proposed should help to illuminate the structural basis of abnormal human G6PDs.
Microbial Physiology and Genetics Subcommittee 2 (MBC)
R01 GM Acetobacter Xylinum Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenases
Levy , H Richard / Syracuse University
Ragunathan, S; Levy, H R (1994) Purification and characterization of the NAD-preferring glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Acetobacter hansenii (Acetobacter xylinum). Arch Biochem Biophys 310:360-6
Adams, M J; Basak, A K; Gover, S et al. (1993) Site-directed mutagenesis to facilitate X-ray structural studies of Leuconostoc mesenteroides glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Protein Sci 2:859-62
Lee, W T; Levy, H R (1992) Lysine-21 of Leuconostoc mesenteroides glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase participates in substrate binding through charge-charge interaction. Protein Sci 1:329-34
LaDine, J R; Carlow, D; Lee, W T et al. (1991) Interaction of Leuconostoc mesenteroides glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase with pyridoxal 5'-diphospho-5'-adenosine. Affinity labeling of Lys-21 and Lys-343. J Biol Chem 266:5558-62
Levy, H R; Cook, C (1991) Purification and properties of NADP-linked glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Acetobacter hansenii (Acetobacter xylinum). Arch Biochem Biophys 291:161-7
Lee, W T; Flynn, T G; Lyons, C et al. (1991) Cloning of the gene and amino acid sequence for glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides. J Biol Chem 266:13028-34


Gordon Duncan and Vince Blubaugh would meet regularly to discuss life, family, ministry, and business.
What they discovered is they both had a passion: Taking ideas and turning them into reality. Each did that through various vehicles.
Vince through coaching, business development, and even Nascar sponsorships.
Gordon through church planting, medical consulting, and human resource development.
After years of talking and dreaming, they agreed it was time to turn another idea into reality, and thus, CTP was born.
The hope behind CTP is that by combining both influences and backgrounds, a true partnership could be created.
CTP was the come alongside companies, non-profits, and individuals to help them take their concepts and bring them to reality and profitability.
universities, eye doctors, realtors, and so many other companies.
How Can CTP Serve You?
understanding your needs and ideas and creating a plan to bring them to market.
campaign creation, fundraising, and tons of other services.
Is there a need for another marketing company?
promising to help you sell or market your idea, service, and product.
But in our research, there was a need. There was a gap, a blank space.
to do good in the world beyond the selling of a product.
Out of that awareness, Vince and Gordon created CTP.
(no cookie cutter seminars here) coupled with a 20% commitment to giving.
towards efforts like military appreciation, missionary work, and disaster relief.
CTP makes it incredibly easy to get in touch with us.
To meet your needs, we attempt to be as accessible as possible.
If you don't get us at first try, we will get back in touch with you as soon as possible.


An enduring tribute plated in brilliant 24K gold with genuine black onyx inset. "We Will Remember Them" engraved on inside band. With gift box.
They served in the most dangerous ways at the most dangerous times and made the ultimate sacrifice protecting the country they loved. Now you can honour the service of our men and women who pledged their lives to protect Canada with the Lest We Forget commemorative men's ring, a fine jewellery design exclusively from The Bradford Exchange.
Plated in 24K gold, this handcrafted ring features a bold setting sun design that stands out against an inlay of genuine black onyx. In honour of those who valiantly serve to uphold the pride of Canada, the sentiment "Lest We Forget" is boldly engraved on the golden sun. The line "We Will Remember Them" from the "Ode of Remembrance" poem is engraved on the inner band. High demand is expected, so don't delay. Order now!
Inside of band engraved with the words "We Will Remember Them" from the poem "Ode of Remembrance"


South Africa finds itself on the threshold of new challenges taking place in virtually every :possible sphere of life, i.e. the political, technological, human, social, economic and cultural spheres. The education system is also faced with these changes and cannot be viewed in isolation, rut demands new outlooks by educational planners and educationists. Non-formal education f orns an integral part of the provision of a system of education in' South Africa and is also influenced by these challenges. In order to make reasonable reconnnendations on how the challenges - particularly those of education management - should be approached by education planners and educationists, the following were investigated: * the role of and need for non-formal education in a system of education provision in south Africa so as to detenltlne the need to manage and administrate non-formal education successfully * the institutions which make the biggest contributions to the provision of non-formal education in south Africa, in order to point out where problem areas exist, and the resultant duplication, overlapping and fragmentation of training regional development and the role of regional bodies such as the Regional Development Advisory Conunittees, Regional Development Conunittees of the National Training Board, Training Board for Iocal Government Bodies and Regional services Councils the utilisation of Regional services COUncils to co-ordinate non-formal education at regional and local levels Based on the findings, an educational strategy is proposed to co-ordinate non-formal education on recJional and local levels through Regional Services councils.


If have a Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge on the Verizon network, there is a new software update waiting for you. The new build of Android Marshmallow addresses some call quality issues as well as enabling the FM radio built into the device. Specifically, you are looking for Verizon's software version MMB29M.G935VVRU2APG5 for those keeping score at home and it is currently rolling out to customers. You can manually check for the update by going to Settings>System Updates. It is a small one as Verizon is allowing users to download it over LTE but you can expect about a 10 minute download and another 10-15 minutes to install and reboot your device.
Additionally, the FM radio stack in the device has been enabled so you can listen to free radio directly on the phone now. Part of the install will be a push of the app NextRadio to your Galaxy S7 but you can use other apps to achieve the same result.
Also, the Barcode Beaming service has been enabled which allows you to scan which allows you to scan loyalty cards and coupons that can be used with Samsung Pay on the device. All-in-all, a nice update for the S7 lineup.


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Q: How to manually edit 16 bit GDEM elevation data on a Geotiff file I'm building a virtual 3D terrain scenery using both satellite imagery (google maps satellite) and elevation data from GDEM Aster elevation data (geoTIFF format files).
My problem is that the elevation data does not perfectly match the satellite images. For example, on some small coastal zones, the sea actually reaches the top of some cliffs...
So I'm desperately looking for a way to manually correct the GDEM Aster elevation data (geoTIFF format files) for these zones.
I tried using different photo editing software (trial versions and free versions) but none of them lets you set signed or unsigned 16 bit values to individual cells. Even though they are perfectly capable of processing 16 bit greyscale images, they only allow you to set 8 bit values (0-255) in their respective color pickers...
I tried :
Photoshop CS5,
Photoline,,
Picture window Pro
Paint shop pro 10,
Gimp 2
Thank you for any info on any software (Windows) that allows to do this.
P.S. I already use Geotiff tools to save and restore the geographic metadata.

A: Take a look at Daylon Leveler: http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller/

A: I also was looking for pixel editing tools some time ago, and found a couple of things.
The paper Manual Raster Editing in Erdas Imagine (pdf) describes some pixel values editing methods.
And there is the Raster Editor toolbar for ArcGIS > 9.0.
Hope they will be good for your DEM.
Also, these two questions Change one pixel and Manually edit a raster describe the similar problem, and the suggestion was to create vector, rasterize and merge with your raster.

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So the camping gear has mostly all come out of the van, kitchen items gone through the dishwasher and been repacked into their respective plastic totes. Our friends Jess and Steven has borrowed our larger tent for a camping trip over the weekend and we are left trying to figure out the easiest way to organize the remaining items so we can find them when our next camping trip calls. We think our next trip may be a kayak based trip over to Hope Island, we would love to do it this summer, but we will have to see how things pan out on that front.
My dream would be to create a storage bin that fits in the back of the van on a roller system as when the back door is up there are two small cupboards on the left and right and then a large rectangular opening that is a T shape, but getting anything into the top of the T, behind the cupboards is pretty hard. So a roller system that would pull out into a large rectangle with a drop down leg so you could pull it out, pack it, push it in, then when you are the camp, pull it out and unpack it, plus then not have to worry about things getting caught in the guides for the seat (that turns into a bed) which is the problem we had before when we had our sleeping bags stored in the top of the T. If we also had certain things packed into bins (like our camp kitchen) that fit easily into the pull out system it would make packing the van for a camping trip so much easier. Now to do some measuring and see how it could easily, inexpensively, and strongly manufactured. If it was easier to do we might actually do it more often as well, at the moment it is a bit of a chore to pack things up for camping.
Yesterday Nathan and I decided we needed to get out and go kayaking so we took the kayak down to Capitol Lake. We put in at Marathon Park, which has a dock so we didn't have to put our feet in the icky water, it is gross this time of year. We paddled up the lake towards Tumwater Falls, we saw lots of bird life, some seals (they must have gone up the fish ladder), and fish, it was an easy paddle and it felt great to be in the kayak again with our new custom seats, it was much more comfortable than sitting in the bottom of the boat!
We probably could have gotten closer to the falls, but we didn't move that way soon enough and the current from the falls was pushing us too quickly but that is ok, we could still see them, and it was nice and cool in the shade of the trees. The old, old Brewery is such a great building to study and look at, it definitely needs a lot of work, but you can still see a lot of the architectural details they put into it so long ago, and it would be a fantastic anything, if someone would just do something with it. We were trying to figure out how one would get there via land because we know there must be a road of some sort, but we couldn't see one at all, and for us sitting in the kayak it looks like the easiest way to get there is by water. I didn't take the camera so no photos this time, but I think we will take that paddle again so next time I will have some photos to share.
I know this all used to be marsh and wetlands and you can still see plenty of that evidence, especially upstream from the lake, but it is too bad that more can't be done with the lake, if it was like Greenlake in Seattle with a swimming area, more boats, and more activity I think more people would appreciate it. We enjoyed our paddle, and even though the water is really quite disgusting in some parts (like when we had to back up to go around the algae because we were pushing it instead of going through it), it is such a beautiful spot. In most of the area the trees come right down to the waterline, and the contrast between the green trees, the water (which sometimes looked blue, but in several places was quite green) the Capitol dome rising out of the treeline, and the wildlife was just stunning. Today we are going to go try our our new single kayak we picked up a few days ago! Stay tuned.
We went kayaking again today and even took Syd with us this time. She wasn't so sure about it, but did pretty well. I think the most annoying thing for her was that she couldn't reach over the side of the kayak to drink the water, which is great for us because salt water sure does a number on her digestive system! We paddled from Northpoint just around the harbor, to the bridge and fish ladder to see if there were any fish running yet. We saw lots of little tiny fish, but no salmon.
Seals however were everywhere and very curious! There were a couple of times they swam under us and would pop up next to us within paddle reach, but every time they did Sydney was looking the other direction, I don't think she ever saw them. In retrospect that was probably a good thing because if she tried to jump out to chase them she probably would have capsized us all! Good thing she doesn't like water, or she might have a couple of times, but when she would shift and the boat would rock she would just hunker down in the hatch. She fit pretty well back there, even with her puppy PFD on. We didn't get any pictures of her, it was a bit tough because she was behind us, but someone did come out of one of the buildings downtown to take a photo of us!
As always we got lots of compliments on Nesi'ka, she is a beautiful boat, and if our PFDs were just an inch or two longer it would be even more comfortable to paddle without seats. Can't wait to get those seats!
So this is the photo I took of the view from the 5th Avenue bridge. As you can see the water again was smooth and since it was slightly overcast it was a nice and cool day to paddle!


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Our Staff, Elders and Deacons bring a diversity of experience and ideas together toward a common goal of seeing a Gospel movement on the North Shore.
Melissa Lowther
Brittany Casey
Greg Lowther
Genesia Christensen
Amy Tuck
Ruth Feins
Maria Reiss
Jeremy Hatch
bobby@nscbc.org
Bobby is excited to lead a church that is committed to making disciples, reaching the lost, and living on mission together. Bobby is originally from Austin, TX, and received his Bachelor of Business Administration and Master's in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. After spending some time working in business, he felt a call to ministry and went to China with his wife, Julie, for three years as a church planter. Bobby then came to New England to study at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Divinity degree. He has most recently served for eight years at a church in Southwest London as the Associate Pastor and then Senior Pastor. Bobby and Julie have four children: William, Grace, Annie, and Lucy. Bobby enjoys cycling, reading, Netflix, meals with friends, and (don't tell anyone) bird-watching.
ben@nscbc.org
Ben is originally from Moorestown, NJ, a suburb just outside of Philadelphia. He attended college at the University of Alabama, where he was converted, and eventually received his call to ministry. His wife, Stephanie, and he were previously in Southern California for three and a half years, where he served as a youth pastor, and received his Masters of Divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (GGBTS), before joining NSCBC in October 2017. He and Stephanie have two young kids, Piper and Karis. His hobbies include running, hiking, reading, exploring the area with Stephanie, and generally trying to keep up with his kids. Ben is excited to pray for and labor for a gospel movement on the North Shore.
Ministry Associate for Discipleship
melissa@nscbc.org
Melissa grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Valley Forge as a theological studies major, minoring in church music. She also graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) with a Master of Divinity degree. Melissa began as the Office Administrator at NSCBC and moved into the Ministry Associate role in January 2017. She's excited to help implement and support ministries of the church as we seek a gospel movement on the North Shore. Melissa has been a member of NSCBC since 2011. Her other interests include exploring the North Shore with her husband Greg and son Emmett, singing, and enjoying all things chocolate.
Ministry Associate for Mission
richard@nscbc.org
Richard came to New England from the other side of the Atlantic, growing up in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, before moving to Cambridge, England for university and a subsequent career as a Software Engineer. After working on staff for two churches in Northern Ireland, Richard decided to come to America to study for a Masters of Divinity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Richard loves the North Shore and the people here and is passionate to see as many people as possible across Essex County hearing, understanding, and being changed by the gospel of Jesus. He and his wife, Tess, have been members of NSCBC since 2016 and now live in downtown Beverly. They love to spend as much time as possible outdoors on the North Shore, and are very fond of all the local seafood. Richard particularly enjoys playing and watching rugby, but is yet to find a sport that he doesn't enjoy (Go Red Sox!)
brittany@nscbc.org
Brittany is originally from Huntsville, Alabama, but she grew up in Rochester Hills, Michigan. She attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance. After graduating college, Brittany worked in marketing at a record label in Nashville before moving to New England with her husband, Cameron, where they joined NSCBC in May 2016. Brittany has spent many years working in business but has been serving in worship ministries since high school. She has a passion for leading others in worship and looks forward to glorifying God during our Sunday morning gatherings as we attempt to re-tell the gospel story each week. She has also spent multiple years serving in youth ministry and loves that NSCBC is an intergenerational church family. Her hobbies include going to coffee shops with Cameron, singing, reading books based in the 19th century, and cheering on the Alabama football team (roll tide!).
Greg grew up in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and moved to the North Shore to attend Gordon College where he received his Bachelor's of Music in Organ Performance. He has been playing organ in churches since he was 14 years old and has served as Organist and Director of Worship Ministries in churches throughout the Boston area, including First Baptist Church in Arlington and First Congregational Church in Hamilton. He is also passionate about choral conducting and music composition. Greg moved into the Organist role at NSCBC in January 2019. He and his wife Melissa love the North Shore and are grateful to serve NSCBC together. Greg also works at a software company and his other interests include woodworking, playing with his son Emmett, and watching a good documentary.
Director of Children's Ministries
children@nscbc.org
Genesia, along with her husband Eric, have been blessed to attend NSCBC for the past 20 years, serving in just about all of the children's ministry areas. She came to the area from Vermont, while attending Gordon College where she received her Bachelor's of Science in Elementary Education and English. She continued on to receive her Master's in Education from the University of New England. After teaching for several years, she decided to stay home while raising their three children; Madelyn, Aiden and Owen. Living in Gloucester, her family loves doing anything and everything at the beach!
Amy grew up in San Jose, CA and moved to the North Shore in 2015. She started calling NSCBC her home church in 2015 and became a member in 2017. She got her BA in Youth Ministry at Eastern University in PA. Amy is grateful to be given the opportunity to learn from experienced Christians and see people in different walks of life and how that plays into the church. She loves organizing and working with children. Some of her hobbies include swing dancing, rock climbing, hiking, and theatre.
bookkeeper@nscbc.org
Ruth Feins grew up in Scotland, graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a science degree. She has lived in Beverly for about 10 years with her husband Dan, 2 teenage daughters (Becca and Iona), and their dog, cat and bird. Ruth has been a member of NSCBC since 2007 and has served in a variety of ministry areas including worship ministries, Christian education, and community care. Her interests include singing, learning to play the piano, arts and crafts, and nature walks with the dog.
Assistant Bookkeeper
Maria is from all over the Midwest and set down roots on the North Shore in 2009. She's been a member of NSCBC since 2009 and has been involved in various ministry aspects of the church. She received her BA in Elementary Education from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL and received her M. Ed as a math specialist from Gordon. She currently teaches middle school math and enjoys using her love of math to benefit the church as Assistant Bookkeeper. In her spare time, Maria enjoys playing volleyball, ultimate frisbee, taking stats for the church softball team, or sitting around a campfire with friends.
caretaker@nscbc.org
Bio coming soon.
The Elders at NSCBC seek to ensure that the church achieves its mission and observes biblical standards by caring for, praying for, and serving the individuals and families we worship alongside.
Howard Botterill
howardbott@aol.com
Ted C.
tedebbie@gmail.com
Clay Range
cbrange@hotmail.com
Johathan Senning, Chair
jonathan.senning@gmail.com
The Deacons at NSCBC assist the Elders in achieving the mission of the church by caring for, praying for, and serving the individuals and families we worship alongside.
Jennifer Bradford, Chair
Paul Couture, Facilities
Mark Fitzgerald, Finance
Katherine Hovarth, Personnel
Joyce Botterill, at-large
Ian Guarino, at-large
Bob Stallard, at-large
Hannah Mignard, at-large
Daniel Tuck, at-large
Debbi Tuck, at-large
Jim Maden, Treasurer
Click here to see a presentation of our leadership structure at NSCBC.


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Prisons and probation
Prison whistleblower loses unfair dismissal case
Tribunal rules against Diane Ward, who reported dangerous conditions at Nottingham jail
Diane Ward emerges from an employment tribunal at Victory House in London. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
Diane Taylor
Wed 24 Oct 2018 14.31 EDT Last modified on Wed 24 Oct 2018 18.27 EDT
A former prison officer who exposed escalating levels of violence and rampant drug use at HMP Nottingham has lost her claim for unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal.
Diane Ward, 55, had 31 years' service in the prison establishment. She claimed she was dismissed from her job because she had made 100 reports – known as security information reports – about large quantities of drugs being smuggled into the prison and about a breakdown in discipline, which she claimed left prisoners and officers unsafe.
But Judge James Tayler and a panel of two lay people at the London Central employment tribunal, dismissed Ward's claim that she had been unfairly dismissed and found that she had been sacked because she had been diagnosed with work-related stress, which made it difficult for her to continue doing her job.
However, Tayler did uphold many of the reports she filed raising the alarm about conditions inside the jail. These are known as "protected disclosures".
Ward told the Guardian she was likely to appeal against Wednesday's decision.
She was diagnosed with cancer of the womb after her dismissal and said that getting the diagnosis made her more determined than ever to bring the case.
"I was preparing for this case after I had surgery and during my chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment," she said.
Nottingham prison has been the subject of critical inspection reports and there have been several recent deaths of prisoners. Robert Frejus, 29, died at the prison earlier this month. In July, inmate Ferencz-Rudolf Pusok, 28, was charged with murder following the death of fellow prisoner 43-year-old Brett Lowe.
In May, the chief inspector of prisons reported a "dangerous" and "disrespectful" environment at the category B jail.
There have been eight self-inflicted deaths at the facility since 2016, including four in the space of as many weeks last year.
The Ministry of Justice said it had made improvements to the prison, including recruiting more prison officers to improve safety and tackle drugs.
Ward was a prison officer from 1983 until 2015. She began to raise concerns about conditions inside HMP Nottingham in 2013, where she had worked since 1997. She told the employment tribunal that the 100 security information reports she submitted over a three-year period were raising concerns "in the public interest".
She told the tribunal: "It's a shambles: it's chaotic: it's dangerous."
She admitted to swearing at one of her bosses and to using force against a prisoner who she admitted to pushing in the back. "Yes I got slightly frustrated. I held my hands up, I got my punishment."
"[The drug] mamba was coming into the yard over the wall, people were throwing it over. Prisoners were collapsing in the yard," she told the tribunal.
Ward said that problems at the prison started when changes were made to staffing, which led to a reduction in the number of officers on the wings and the arrival of the drug.
While Ward said she was disappointed with the decision she said she felt vindicated by the fact that the tribunal upheld the majority of her reports about drugs and disorder at HMP Nottingham.
Georgina Halford-Hall of Whistleblowers UK, who has been supporting Ward, said: "Diane was right to expose the serious risks to the health, safety and welfare of prisoners and officers in the jail. She has spoken truth to power and wants to encourage others to come forward and work with whistleblower organisations like ours."
Halford-Hall said she had been contacted by 100 prison officer whistleblowers in the last year.
"All of them are scared that they'll lose their jobs if they go public."
The Ministry of Justice declined to comment.
UK criminal justice
Employment tribunals


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The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2012 £5.00
Reviewed by Nikolai Duffy, D A Prince and Clare Best
Nikolai Duffy:
Jesse Glass's Two consists, perhaps unsurprisingly, of two long poetic sequences. The first purportedly deconstructs the "post-modern fable of the Beat 'Freeway' Reading at the Old Longshoreman's Hall, San Francisco, 1964," and the second reframes the Gilgamesh narrative "told in the light of America's Iraq interventions and the current world economic fizzle". Throughout, there are echoes and traces of various Beat writers, but it's probably Ginsberg's and Burroughs' examples which cast the greatest shadow across these 33 pages, not least in Ginsberg's spiritually mediated profanations blended with Burroughs' cut-up method.
But Two is also far more radically disjointed than either of those culturally prominent examples. Language, typography, and punctuation take on a structural role that appears to hold precedence over the semantic. The following, from the beginning of the second part, 'The Hero I Evoke', is representative:
(A=NU, the high=est, hearz moth=erz drahummbabheat),
(vain threats of d****), (bride=groom sound=beyetzuh:
<help! kyah! missing kyah! bride!>)
According to the description on the back of the pamphlet, Glass is described as a poet working in the tradition of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, and it's this tradition more than those vocal Beat derivations which may be most helpful in trying to locate what's at stake for Glass here. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, at its peak in the 1970s and early '80s, was and is experimental, difficult, intellectual, theoretical, political (Marxist), and concerned with a sense of poetry as primarily textual or writerly. For these poets, language is not a transparent reflection of experience but plastic, a material in itself. As Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews (the founding editors of the influential L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine and subsequent anthology) put it, "It is our sense that the project of poetry does not involve turning language into a commodity for consumption; instead, it involves repossessing the sign through close attention to, and active participation in, its production."
Bruce Andrews, in his essay 'Poetry as Explanation, Poetry as Praxis,' goes further, stating how "this displacement or social unbalancing has more than nuisance value. It's more than an invitation to an ego trip for righteous poets. Instead, it offers a guide by which matters outside do not hang together—an unsuturable condition: where norms are contradicted & where you can recognize that therefore they can be contradicted, the space for reading blossoms."
Perhaps it's these ideas which Glass is recycling and reworking in Two. As with much L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry though, while I may find the ideas interesting, may even feel personally close to some of these ideas in the way I scuffle my way through the days, much of the work I can take or leave. In all honesty, more often than not, I tend to prefer the essays. I wouldn't mind reading an essay by Glass, I think it would probably be quite interesting, but I'm not the most intuitive reader and without some kind of statement of intent I'm just not quite sure where to get my bearings.
D A Prince:
This pamphlet (two long poems—'Poetic Fictions' and 'The Hero I Evoke') is deeper in left-field territory than I would usually venture. It is not for the beginner or those unfamiliar with Jesse Glass, a significant figure in American experimental poetry who is currently teaching American Literature at Meikai University in Chiba (Japan). He has been extending the languages of poetry since around 1972, and although listening to him read via on-line sites helped me absorb his rhythm and tonal patterns—and enjoy his dense imagery and ability to blend wide ranging cultural reference—it was not enough to facilitate a satisfying reading of these poems.
The publisher's description did not help or encourage. The description of the pamphlet as "a two part L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E excavation of the rhetoric of history" fails to clarify the poet's intentions, and so does "Glass dissects the Beat Myth with an obsidian microlith washed up on the shore of Lake Titicaca."
But let's look at the poems rather than the poet's Wikipedia entry and the publisher's blurb. The following quotation is from 'The Hero I Evoke' in which Glass reworks the story of Gilgamesh in the light of America's interventions in Iraq:
(A=NU, the high+est, hearz moth=erz,drahummbabheat),
(vain threats of d****), (bride+groom sound=beyetzuh:
(See? Demgodz <r>not<deaf>Dei us!!!!!)
(& 2 Aruru of the wedge-shaped hair
& cootie fingerz, sez):
(This bull-man), (this <well-hung>f**k:
GNOMEN KANT'S BEE/ZEN!)
OK, I've chosen an extreme example of linguistic innovation, but it will help you decide if this is a book for you. If it is, try to find a clip of Glass reading it; I haven't tracked one down, yet, but I suspect this might be a sound poem rather than a page poem, and that pamphlet publication is not the most appropriate format.
(A YouTube interview with Jesse Glass, from 2011—though not reading the poems in this pamphlet—can be found here. Ed.)
Clare Best:
Try not to be put off by the gratuitously silly blather on the back cover. I was, initially, but when I finally sat down to read, I found the work far more engaging than the blurb would have you believe.
Glass is a distinguished writer, folklorist and student of the imagination, and his involvement with experimental poetry goes back to the early 1970s. I think his work deserves to be more widely read. I would like to make a plea to 'left-field' poets and their publishers to frame work in a more user-friendly way—if, that is, they want to invite readers. I don't know whether they do.
I'm not sure how to write about the experience of reading this collection. I would quite like to do this:
SIT above c,h,a,i,r
OK – not the W>H>I>Z>Z, I (mean) when
you (and: I) read read uneyed uneared, sloth timid tock-tick tactic
come back=more
HEAD-OUCH!!
Seriously, this seems one way of responding. But is it helpful? Trying to write anything at all about the sensation of reading this pamphlet has given me a lot of head-ouch.
Nevertheless, I was swept along and away by parts of it. Pages 21-24, for example, where I caught the tail/tale, I revelled in the pace, the getting lost, the sheer bravado. Here the dynamism was welcome after the (for me) more impenetrable first section, like a helter-skelter ride after wandering in a hall of mirrors:
And I have bitten my arm to better feel their pain
& have plotted the advance of the red spiral
Provided free of charge at grocery & convenience stores
Where the blank faces look out at me from the magazine racks
So proud that I can see bits of the spiral
In their hands
Now that seemed to me the kind of writing I could feel taken by. And there are other passages where the excitement of language bursts out:
I learned to whistle
A high thin wire of sound
Passing like a cheese-cutter
Through the brains
Of Pundits who prattle
Their henchmen & their stooges;
Of Reverends who babble,
Their champions & handlers
Of politicians, technocrats,
Lawyers & plutocrats
Zelots & harlots, the Tight-fisted,
the latch-breasted
Let me confess: I was left wondering why there could not be more of these bits and fewer of the other, more or less unreadable, bits. But that's me.


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