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Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis
By Jim Gorman
…Spring here is at first so wary,
And then so spare that even the birds act like strangers,
Trying out the strange air with a hesitant chirp or two,
And then subsiding. But the season intensifies by degrees,
Imperceptibly, while the colors deepen…
John Koethe
One of our native, small trees possessing memorable, even spectacular, early spring color is the Cercis canadensis, Eastern Redbud. As it is known that men are more likely to be color blind than women, surely this tree's name was coined by a man otherwise it might perhaps have been dubbed magenta bud, or pink bud.
Nonetheless the name alludes to distinct, unopened flower buds, boldly glowing in the mostly bare landscape. In addition to the tree branch stems being brightly lit by these buds, these trees are cauliflorous, having direct flower formation, along older branches and trunks, which is rare outside of the tropics and sub-tropics. After a week or more of the bud display, the one-half-inch-long flowers, often in clusters of 4 to 8, emerge with a lighter-hued pink color.
These flowers are papilionaceous, or pea-like flowers, which have five petals of three different shapes. A single upper petal is referred to as the "standard" or "banner", extending laterally on either side are two "wing" petals, and at the bottom are two adjacent "keel" petals. Such flowers are common in this botanical family, the FABACEAE. Cross pollination is usually accomplished by long-tongued bees. The bees are oriented into the flower by nectar guides on the standard/banner petal. Landing on the two lower keel petals causes the stamens to be pushed up, passing pollen onto the bee's abdomen.
Usually not taller than thirty-feet, these trees are native from southern Connecticut and New York westward to southern Michigan, Illinois, eastern Iowa, Nebraska, then south to the Gulf of Mexico. Cultivated since the seventeenth-century, we know that George Washington (1732-1799) at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) at Monticello planted these ornamental trees. Eastern Redbud continues to be one of the most popular native landscape trees in the United States, with a 2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture report stating one year sales totaling over $21-million.
They have distinctive, alternate, simple, three-to-five-inch broad, heart-shaped leaves, which have an entire (non-toothed) margin. The flowers if successfully fertilized produce autumn seeds within a true pod. These two-to-five-inch-long, flattish pods helped give the genus its name. Cercis comes from the Greek kerkis, a weaver's shuttle, reminiscent to these pods' shape. There is a white flowering variety, Cercis canadensis var. alba. There are also purple-leaved cultivated varieties available.
The genus includes approximately 10 (or less) species, depending upon differing taxonomists, with two being native to North America, six native to Asia, and one native to southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean. It is the latter one Cerscis siliquastrum, Mediterranean Redbud that is commonly called the "Judas Tree". In Matthew 27:5 Judas Iscariat returns blood money and commits suicide by hanging himself from this kind of tree. Purportedly its formerly white flowers then turned red with either shame or blood.
Another species of note is Cercis chinensis, Chinese Redbud (below), often having a large shrub-like form. This is similar in leaf and fruit, but often is more abundantly floriferous. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, its bark is used as an antiseptic.
At Mount Auburn's Halcyon Garden, designed by Reed Hilderbrand Associates, you may view a beautiful allee of Cercis canadensis, Eastern Redbud. They will be in colorful bud and flower late-April, into early-May. With our never-ending winter last year they did not flower until May 11. In 2014 it was May 5, in 2013 it was April 29, in 2012 it was April 23.
Compare the variability of these flowering dates with ones documented by the renowned Donald Wyman (1904-1993), horticulturist for 34 years at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, located in Jamaica Plain. In the April 20, 1945 issue of Arnoldia he reported Cercis canadensis, Eastern Redbud flowering at the Arnold Arboretum as: 1945 on April 15, 1941 on April 30, 1939 on May 20, 1938 on May 5, 1936 on May 7, 1935 on May 1, 1933 on April 28, 1932 on May 1, and 1931 on April 30.
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The second part of my exploration of a commercial sample bundle is now available on the ModeAudio web-site. This time I actually used the 'Found Percussion' sounds for their intended purpose - drum sounds.
The beauty of layering is that you can copy a layer and adjust the copy, or you can switch things in and out as required. In the article I do a couple of variations of a snare sound, and show how they have different spectrums (you might have a gap in the overall spectrum that each fits into, for example) - and of course, you can switch Spectrum in and out by using the power button too. A lot of my audio paths have stuff turned off using the power button that were used during development, and so they are ready to be included again when I need them.
The time it takes to become familiar with the possibilities of using Racks creatively is time well spent, in my opinion. I encourage all Ableton Live users to spend some time with Racks!


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GeoInspirations: Alastair Bonnett - Defining Geography Beyond the Map
Editor's note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr. Alastair Bonnett, a geographer and educator at Newcastle University in the U.K.
In my travels promoting geography and geospatial technology over the years, I have often quoted Dr. Bonnett and have read all of his books. His writings in articles and books such as "What Is Geography?" have long impressed me for his ability to cut to the heart of what geography is, and also, why it matters. He says that geography is a study of survival and order — our attempt to find understanding and order in and of our world. I respect his attachment to place and to finding meaning in ordinary places near and far, as he does in his latest book "Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias." He is equally skilled at writing for the general public and for academics. I also respect his ability to say quite a bit in few words. Therefore, it is my pleasure to bring him to the attention of the readers of Directions Magazine.
I asked Dr. Bonnett to describe his background and current position. "I'm a professor of social geography at Newcastle University in the U.K. Social geography, at least these days, is sociologically focused geography, so we look at sociological topics – like gender, for example - but from an international and comparative perspective. However, over recent years I've been trying to reach new audiences and write about my passion for place, especially strange, alluring and lost places. This new work isn't 'academic' – no long bibliographies – and hopefully is pretty easy to read, but I think it's just as 'intellectual,' in the sense of being full of ideas and arguments, as anything I've done before."
When I asked Dr. Bonnett what convinced him to enter the fields that he ended up pursuing, I found that I could really identify with his response. "To be honest, it was growing up in a small town on the outskirts of London, a town that was rapidly expanding, being transformed into a dormitory settlement and then a suburb. New roads ploughed through the fields, houses spread across the fields, new types of business replaced old ones. Even the accent of the people changed; the old country accent disappeared and soon everyone was speaking with a London twang. It was like living through a revolution. This is hardly a unique experience; most of us have witnessed the same kind of rapid changes. What it drove home to me is that place matters and that it is changing fast. So geography seemed like an important and urgent thing to me, and it still does."
What most inspired him during his career? "I came across the books of Yi-Fu Tuan, the Chinese American geographer, as a student. He writes about the experience of place in an open, creative and profound way – I'd never read anything like that before. His book "Topophilia" is about place being something into which we pour emotions – which we love but also sometimes hate – and it opened up a door for me. "Place and Placelessness" by Edward Relph had a similar effect. It's not been a consistent journey for me. Geography allows you to pursue many interests. I've written books on both 'white identities' and nostalgia, both from an international and comparative perspective, as well as works on stereotypes of the West from the same kind of angle. These topics might appear a bit eclectic – they probably are – which helps explain why I also ended up writing a book called "What is Geography?" to try and pin down what this 'discipline' actually was. My answer was that it is the world discipline, with two basic pillars, international and environmental knowledge. So geography's broad – it's a big project – but also very necessary – indeed vital – in an age of connection, globalisation and environmental crisis. But I also keep coming back to Yi-Fu Tuan, as a kind of anchor. It wasn't just what his books said that mattered to me but also that they were well written, both fluent and enthralling. Writing geography isn't just a technical exercise; it's also a craft that demands attention to the art of communication."
What project or initiative is Dr. Bonnett the proudest of being a part? "I was invited to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in 2014 to give some public talks about micronations, which are tiny attempts to declare sovereignty, often outrageous, even comic, but with a serious side. I was really struck, humbled really, by how important this topic was to my audiences – there was a real sense, a desire, to think and talk about ways people could govern themselves. I was even approached by groups of 'micronationalists' for advice on how to set up their own mini-country. One was a would-be 'nation' of poets and one a would-be nation of people who spoke Elvish (the language from Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings"). Sounds odd but they were super serious. They didn't need me of course and I wasn't much help to them but the memory of those conversations continues to fascinate me. The desire for autonomy – for a creative, free life on one's 'own place' – is hard to underestimate, and not just in Russia."
I asked Dr. Bonnett, "What is the most important thing you think we need to work on as the geography/education/science/geospatial community?" to which he replied, "First, I think it has to be the changing nature of place. More precisely, how people's relationship to place is changing in what can sometimes seem to be an ever more uprooted world. I'm not sure we quite have the language for this yet. Sometimes talking about 'why place matters' can become very waffly very quickly. The challenge is to find ways of thinking about place that are substantive and hit home."
"There is a second agenda I'm interested in, and that is engaging the diversity of geographical knowledge and traditions. Rather than just thinking about geography as something that is created in the West and then worrying away at how the West sees 'the rest,' getting to grips with, for example, Asian and African 'geographical imaginations,' in all their diversity, seems to me a necessary task for twenty-first century geographers."
What is his advice to a new professional in these fields? "The community you're part of is a lot bigger than you may realise. There are so many 'ordinary' people, all over the planet, that care deeply about geographical issues and want to hear from us. So, where you can, reach out and talk to them."
Dr. Bonnett offered this quote:
"We are a place-making and place-loving species." -- Italo Calvino, in "Invisible Cities"
To learn more about Dr. Bonnett, see:
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and our Search for New Utopias by Alastair Bonnett.
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett
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Firefighters were called to extinguish a flat fire in Lancing last night.
Crews from Lancing, Shoreham and Worthing were called to the home in Crabtree Lane, Lancing, at 3.22am on Tuesday (January 2), a spokesman from the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service confirmed.
A fire – found to be of accidental ignition – had started in a cupboard in a ground floor flat, according to the spokesman.
Four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used one high pressure hose reel to extinguish the flames and left the scene at just before 4am.
All persons were accounted for, confirmed the spokesman.


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A recent publication in Biometrics 'A Gatekeeping Procedure to Test a Primary and a Secondary Endpoint in a Group Sequential Design with Multiple Interim Looks' greatly extends the results of Glimm et al. ( 2010) and Tamhane et al ( 2010) which studied the problem of testing a primary and secondary endpoint, subject to a gatekeeping constraint, using a group sequential design (GSD) with K = 2 looks. This extends the methodology to provide for multiple (K>2) looks. The methodology is applied to the data from the RALES study (Pitt et al., 1999; Wittes et al., 2001).
The primary author, of the paper, Dr. Tamhane, developed the methodology for the publication, and Cytel's Cyrus Mehta, President and Co-Founder of Cytel, and Teresa Curto contributed as co-authors with Jiangtao Gou and Christopher Jennison. Dr. Mehta provided the data and discussion for the RALES Study and Teresa Curto, Senior Biostatistician at Cytel performed the analysis on the RALES study data. Using data sets from the RALES study, Teresa obtained log-rank statistics from survival analysis and performed Kaplan-Meier analysis so that survival curves could be examined. This was conducted for each of 5 interim time points and for primary and secondary endpoints (death, cardiovascular death and sudden cardiovascular death).
We asked Dr. Mehta about the objectives, key take-aways and expected impact of the publication.
Cytel: What were the objectives of the publication?
Cyrus Mehta : The objective was to develop a statistically valid and efficient method for testing a secondary endpoint if the primary endpoint showed overwhelming efficacy at an interim analysis of the accruing data resulting in early termination of the trial. In the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES), the treatment arm (spironolactone) was shown to reduce the all-cause mortality (the primary endpoint) at an interim analysis and the trial was stopped. The methods of this paper were used to provide a valid test of the efficacy spironolactone for the secondary endpoint of sudden cardiovascular death.
Cytel: What key learning points could readers of the publication expect to take away?
Cyrus Mehta: There are very subtle statistical issues with testing a secondary endpoint in a study that has interim analyses that can lead the statistician astray, resulting in hypothesis testing procedures that inflate the false positive rate. These subtleties do not arise in trials where there is no hypothesis testing at interim analysis time points and in that case the testing of primary and secondary hypotheses is straightforward.
Cytel: What impact do you expect this publication to have?
Cyrus Mehta :We hope that these methods will lead to a better understanding of multiplicity issues in group sequential designs that can result in incorrect hypothesis testing procedures. As a result more trials will build in at least one interim analysis for testing both the primary and secondary hypotheses so that effective new drugs can be detected earlier and be available to patients who have an unmet medical need.
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Tamhane, A., Gou, J., Jennison, C., Mehta, C. and Curto, T. (2017). A gatekeeping procedure to test a primary and a secondary endpoint in a group sequential design with multiple interim looks. Biometrics.


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Região Administrativa Especial de Oe-Cusse Ambeno, também conhecida por Oecussi-Ambeno, Ocussi-Ambeno, Oecússi-Ambeno ou simplesmente Oecusse ou Ocussi, Oecússi ou Ambeno (em tétum Oe-Kusi Ambenu) é um região administrativa especial de Timor-Leste, localizado na costa norte da metade ocidental da ilha de Timor, constituindo um exclave de Timor-Leste, uma vez que está separado do resto do país pela província indonésia de Timor Oeste, que rodeia o pequeno enclave por todas as direcções, excepto a norte, onde é banhado pelo Mar de Savu.

Oe-Cusse Ambeno é uma palavra composta com os nomes dos dois reinos originais que formam a actual região administrativa especial.

Características
O território conta com 64.025 habitantes (censo de 2010) e tem área de 815 km². Sua capital é a cidade de Pante Macassar que, no tempo dos portugueses, era conhecida como Vila Taveiro.

O região administrativa especial de Oe-Cusse Ambeno é idêntico ao concelho de Oecússi do tempo do Timor Português, a última circunscrição timorense a ser elevada a concelho em Agosto de 1973, e inclui os postos administrativos de:
 Nitibe,
 Oesilo,
 Pante Macassar
 Passabe.

Para além das línguas oficiais do país, o tétum e o português, no região administrativa especial de Oe-Cusse Ambeno grande parte da população expressa-se em baiqueno. O bahasa é também amplamente falado e conhecido.

História

Ocupação portuguesa
Oe-Cusse Ambeno foi o primeiro ponto da ilha de Timor em que os portugueses se estabeleceram, pelo que é usualmente considerado o berço da nação Timor-Leste. Em 1556, um grupo de frades dominicanos estabeleceu o primeiro povoado em Lifau, a meia dúzia de quilómetros a oeste de Pante Macassar. Em 1702, Lifau tornou-se capital da colónia ao receber o primeiro governador enviado por Lisboa, estatuto que manteve até 1767, quando os portugueses decidiram transferir a capital para Díli, como resultado das frequentes incursões das forças holandesas.

Foi só em 1859, com o Tratado de Lisboa, que Portugal e Países Baixos dividiram a ilha entre si: Timor Ocidental para os holandeses, com sede em Kupang, e Timor-Leste para os portugueses, com sede em Díli, reconhecendo região Oe-Cusse Ambeno como um enclave português no espaço holandês.

Invasão indonésia e reintegração
A invasão indonésia do até então Timor Português ocorreu em Oecússi uma semana antes de no resto do território — foi em 29 de Novembro de 1975 que Pante Macassar foi ocupada pela quinta coluna do exército indonésio.

Contudo, mesmo sob ocupação indonésia, Oe-Cusse Ambeno continuou a ser administrado como parte da província de Timor Timur (a designação de Timor-Leste na língua bahasa), tal como sucedia no tempo dos portugueses. Por conseguinte, quando do reconhecimento da independência do novo estado, em 2002, Oe-Cusse Ambeno tornou-se parte integrante da jovem república.

Economia
Recentemente, o enclave tem experimentado um grande crescimento económico, graças a obras de infra-estrutura do governo e ao investimento de empresas portuguesas na região. Em 2015, foram mais de 90 milhões de dólares (82,6 milhões de euros) investidos no região administrativa especial. Em 2017, foi inaugurada a ponte de Noefefan, conectando as regiões mais afastadas de Oe-Cusse Ambeno à capital regional, Pante Macassar.

A Região Administrativa Especial de Oe-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA) já recebeu oficialmente  a obra do novo aeroporto internacional do enclave timorense, o mais avançado de Timor-Leste, com um custo total de quase 120 milhões de dólares.

A obra arrancou em março de 2015 e foi adjudicada à empresa indonésia PT Wijaya Karya com um valor inicial de 79,8 milhões de dólares, revisto em junho de 2016 para 119,9 milhões, o seu valor final.

Esse aumento de preço surgiu depois de uma revisão ao projeto inicial realizado pela empresa ISQ que obrigou a "alterações profundas" no projeto que se não tivessem sido feitas, como foi anunciado na altura pelos responsáveis timorenses, teria inflacionado a obra para um custo de entre 140 e 160 milhões.

Ver também
 Forte de Santo António de Lifau

Ligações externas

 União das Cidades Capitais de Língua Portuguesa
 Associação dos Militares do Oecussi
 Dicionário português-baiqueno
 O imaginário Sultanato de Occussi-Ambeno

Municípios de Timor-Leste
Enclaves e exclaves
Fronteira Indonésia-Timor-Leste

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Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Kolaiyuthir Kaalam
Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy "Jett" Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their…
After attending a gathering on a billionaire's yacht during a European vacation, a New York cop and his wife become prime suspects when he's murdered.
Plot is unknown. Sequel of the 2013 film "The White Storm"
Country: China, Hong Kong
A grieving police officer, along with the man who shot his partner, finds himself in an underworld filled with working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian…
The Last 24
Follow determined investigators working the most shocking murder cases as they reconstruct the tragic final hours in the victim's life, in order to find their killer and crack the case.
Genre: Crime, Documentary
A mano disarmata
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family
James, a disgraced firefighter turned grifter, seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life's worsening course as he attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to…
Seeking justice for his partner's murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is…
Country: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
To impress his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling drugs online out of his bedroom — and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.
Four masked men break into the Anand family home, taking them hostage. Pushed into a do-or-die situation, Dr. Mira Anand has to make a choice. Will she take a life…
Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison
For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands,…
Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold…
A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven…
Country: Italy, USA
Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Uess Interviews
The Uess Interviews are finally here!! The Interviews follow a man on a journey through the music industry. However, this journey takes a darker turn.
Genre: Crime, Documentary, Music
A Violent Separation
1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's…
Outlaws Don't Get Funerals
An outlaw and his ex-con grandfather team up for a big score, but a ruthless killer stands in their way.
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by…
Country: South Korea, USA
Valentine: The Dark Avenger
Batavia City is a metropolitan jewel … but one increasingly tarnished in the face of rising crime. Amidst the chaotic onslaught of robbery and violence, Srimaya, a waitress at a…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller
L.A.'s Finest
Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is…
The Void Evidence
"Reverse murder" began with the criminal police team receiving an anonymous murder live broadcast email. From the perspective of the different characters of the criminal police team, the puzzle was…
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
The Red Line
A heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the…
Stray Dolls
Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. The motel's other employees and guests pull…
The sequel to the 1991 hit, follows an investigator with the Chicago F.D., who has to track down an arms dealers who use deadly fires as a distraction.


Jerry has tried and arbitrated cases and argued matters in federal and state courts throughout the country and counsels business clients on a wide range of issues.
Jerry is the past chair of Fox Rothschild's Electronic Discovery Committee.
At Villanova Law School, Jerry was a member of the Moot Court Board and a finalist in the prestigious Theodore S. Reimel Moot Court Competition. Following law school, Jerry served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Joseph T. Doyle, the former President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
Jerry has published a number of articles in legal publications and lectured on a variety of topics including class action defense, TCPA, electronic discovery, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, RICO and civil procedure. He is active in Democratic politics, particularly at the local and state levels.


Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children's publisher in the world and publishes a diverse catalog of books, many of which focus on international or worldwide stories. They have many interesting new titles coming out today, and this post provides quick introduction of some of them.
My Family Tree and Me (April 1, 2015) by Dušan Petričić (ARC provided via Net Galley).
This is a great concept book on genealogy and the family tree. The book reads from both sides, with one side, front-to-middle, telling the story of the boy's father's family, while the other side, back-to-middle, telling the story of the boy's mother's family. There is also a clever conceit of each pair of parents having a picture hanging up of the previous generation. The text itself is completely generic (with the exception of the fact that the boy has aunts and uncles on both sides) and could be used with kids to put together their own versions. I also appreciate how this book celebrates multiracial and diverse families.
Me, Too! (April 1, 2015) by Annika Dunklee and illustrated by Lori Joy Smith (ARC provided via Net Galley).
This friendship tale addresses a classic problem: two great friends and the uncomfortable arrival of a third. The unique appeal of this book is in its embrace of diverse characters: Lillemor is from Sweden and speaks English and Swedish, while Annie speaks English and Oinky Boinky (her own invented language). Both enjoy learning about each other's backgrounds and differences. But when new girl Lilianne arrives from France, Annie immediately goes on high alert. Will her friendship with Lillemor survive?
Look Where We Live! A first book of community building (April 1, 2015) by Scot Ritchie (ARC provided via Net Galley).
This charming little book highlights the different people, buildings, and structures that make a community. The overall story is about a community fundraiser for the library. Geared towards younger students, perhaps K or first grade, each two-page spread provides about two paragraphs about different locations around the community, as well as an additional paragraph with another fact or aside. This book is very simple, but it would be a great book for introducing kids to the different roles that people play within a community or for starting a longer conversation about communities.
School Days Around the World (April 1, 2015) by Margriet Ruurs and illustrated by Alice Feagan (ARC provided via Net Galley).
Margriet Ruurs continues her around the world series with School Days Around the World . (Read my review of Families Around the World here.) The book profiles 14 different children from 13 different countries across 6 continents. Each two-page spread describes a different school from the point-of-view of the student, often focusing on an interesting activity as well as overall subjects.
This book gives kids a brief peek into schools and countries different from their own and provides a great foundation for comparing and contrasting. My main issue with the book is how abbreviated the descriptions are and how little actual information is presented about each school. This would be a great book to raise a lot of questions about schools around the world, but it is not necessarily the book to answer them.
These look like great books and the kinds of things that kids often wonder about (I know I did and so did my Kiddo). Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks, Alex! Yes, I do appreciate Kids Can Press for tackling such high interest topics.
What a great idea to give this as a teacher's gift!
Thanks so much! Net Galley is a great site, if you are looking to get pre-publication access to books. Glad you enjoyed them!
These sound like truly quality books. Visiting from the Kid Lit Blog Hop.
Thanks so much, Tiffiny! There's a lot to love about these books.
Thanks for sharing these great kids books on the Kid Lit Blog Hop! The Around the World series could be used in classrooms so students could learn more about other cultures. Going to mention them to my daughter who teaches in elementary school.
Definitely, Cheryl. I have a series of posts about "Around the World" type books. Children Just Like Me is one of my favorites.
This is a wonderful selection of books. I love the concept of My Family Tree and Me. Family dynamics can be such a difficult thing for children to understand. Whose related to who and on which side is confusing enough for adults! Thanks for sharing these books on the hop.
Bummer, Renee! They probably archived it on the first when the print copies became available. Definitely worth checking out.
I'm ordering School Days around the World! Thanks for the recommendation.


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James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, poet, songwriter, writer, and film director. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors, and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic and influential frontmen in rock music. He was also the author of several books of poetry and the director of a documentary and short film.


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First NWA COVID-19 patient to receive plasma released from hospital
Staff at Northwest Medical Center lined the halls cheering for Mirna Marquez on Monday as she was discharged after spending two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19.
Author: Kathryn Gilker
Published: 8:02 PM CDT April 22, 2020
Updated: 8:07 PM CDT April 22, 2020
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The staff at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale lined the halls cheering for Mirna Marquez on Monday (April 20) as she was being discharged after spending two weeks in the hospital.
She was the first patient in Northwest Arkansas to receive COVID-19 treatment with convalescent plasma through a blood transfusion.
"We were just thankful for everything. I know when I spoke with my dad he said when he talked to the doctors, he was like if you truly believe this is going to be the best thing and it's going to help her, then do it, just do it," said Marquez's daughter Claudia Ramos said.
Marquez, who is from Huntsville, was on a ventilator for 10 days and didn't know she received the treatment until she woke up. She primarily speaks Spanish so her daughter Ramos is speaking for her. She says she couldn't have asked for better care.
"She says she has no words to say how grateful she is to the hospital for everything they did and in any way she could help she will do," Ramos said. "For one thing she is sure that as soon as she recovers and feels better she is going to go and donate blood as well."
Convalescent plasma comes from recovered patients and contains antibodies to fight off the infection.
CEO of Northwest Health in Springdale, Hans Driessonack says they have an amazing care team and you could see the personal connection she had with them, which is especially important in a time when you can't have your family by your side.
"I think that was a proud moment for me as a leader of an organization that is ultimately here to improve people's lives both clinically and emotionally as well and that definitely showed through in this tough time," he said.
Driessonack says they also have amazing physicians like Dr. Kaylan, the pulmonologist who managed Marquez's critical care.
"And also, infectious disease Dr. Hennigan who is the one who actually facilitated the use of convalescent plasma which is what we believe strongly was a big contributing factor for her miraculous recovery."
Anyone who has recovered from COVID-19 can help others by donating plasma. If you are interested in doing this call your doctor and they can set you up with the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks.
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Of course, since this is San Miguel de Allende, which has been described by Condé Nast Traveller as a "jewel of a city," we will concern ourselves with beauty. For Vitruvius, beauty in architecture was a matter of symmetry, proportion, and alignment, with universal principles and ratios found in nature, including the human body. You have all no doubt seen the famous perfectly proportioned man of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing.
For the twenty-first-century eye, beauty in architecture has become more subjective, a question of personal taste. How do you define a universal ideal of beauty if the classical principles no longer hold true?
But no one can deny how uplifting it is to round that first corner on the lookout and see the glory of San Miguel spread out before you. How enchanting is it to take that first morning walk along the (now wet and treacherous) cobblestones. So, what is it about the architecture of our city that makes this glorious mash-up of architectural styles (Spanish Baroque, Neoclassical, Mission, Mexican Modern) so appealing?
Now take a moment and imagine a "relaxing green" Parroquia presiding over the Jardin: after you get over your initial horrified reaction, consider that the vibrant, exciting, and creative soul of San Miguel likely never would have materialized without the color of its most photographed icon.
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Charting Children's Literature: Rosa, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
Posted by Shivanee @ Novel Niche in Charting Children's Literature
Bryan Collier, Charting Children's Literature, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, Fiction, Joyce Sidman, Nikki Giovanni, Poetry, Rick Allen, Rosa
A special, ultra-vibesy shout-out to Novel Niche's official illustrator (and my dear friend), writer and artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, whose newly-commissioned artwork for NN filled me with a burst of creative zeal, inspiring me to relaunch this particular series. Thank you, Danielle! 🙂 *showers you with leaves*
Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier. Published in 2005 by Henry Holt and Company.
This story first came to me in my mid-twenties.
It's December 1st, 1955. After a day of work at her seamstress' job in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks boards a city bus from its hateful Coloureds entrance, and takes a seat in the vehicle's neutral section, where both blacks and whites can sit. Looking forward to returning home and cooking her husband something special, Parks' positive daydreaming is interrupted by the bus driver's belligerent demands that she surrender her seat to a white passenger. As anyone with a smidgeon of knowledge on the African-American Civil Rights Movement will tell you, Rosa Parks refused – not with equal hostility, but with a calm, undaunted resolve that has etched her name into history books, monuments and national holidays. Giovanni's faithful, poetic retelling of Parks' story takes the reader onto that very bus, and beyond it, to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that her actions springboarded into life. It includes the nomination of Martin Luther King, Jr. as the official spokesperson for anti-segregation laws, sparking a nonviolent movement towards equality in the Constitution of the United States.
What enchanted me?
Rosa Parks' story isn't, or shouldn't be, new to most adults with any cognizance of the struggle against segregation in the U.S., but it might be in danger of being forgotten, if the story ever ceases to be told. This feels like a difficult concept for me to swallow, but several conversations with young people have assured me, repeatedly, of how easy it is to forget — and I balk to think at all the truthful, useful things I myself have forgotten.
Giovanni frames this true encounter with racism's snarling maw in a way that glides effortlessly off the page. She fills up the narrative with impressions of Rosa as she was: calm, grounded, honest about her motivations in refusing unfair treatment: not because she was physically tired, but because she was exhausted of being trampled by an unfair hierarchy. Books such as these are a boon to young readers, who interface with history's heroines and heroes, as well as to the adults who read them aloud. For adults, they act as pillars of printed remembrance, of real stories that ought never be forgotten.
A 2006 Caldecott Honor Book, Rosa is beautifully illustrated in watercolour images and collage treatments by Bryan Collier, creating warm and immersive effects. His pictoral imaginings of the life that Parks led, up til and beyond her powerful act of resistance, complement Giovanni's clear, strong prose. Collier received the 2006 Coretta Scott King Book Illustrator Award for his work in Rosa.
Lines for Life:
"She sighed as she realized she was tired. Not tired from work but tired of putting white people first. Tired of stepping off sidewalks to let white people pass, tired of eating at separate lunch counters and learning at separate schools. […] She thought about her mother and her grandmother and knew they would want her to be strong. She had not sought this moment, but she was ready for it."
This book would be best-beloved by:
♣ An avid junior historian who's curious about investigating the past, and not hesitant to name pioneers for social justice as her role models, in lieu of pop stars.
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen. Published in 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
I was in my mid twenties when these poems fell into my palms.
This collection begins with a nocturnally winsome invocation, "Welcome to the Night", in which these dark hours are described with as much liveliness and imaginative engagement as any merry daylight revel:
"The night's a sea of dappled dark,
the night's a feast of sound and spark,
the night's a wild, enchanted park,
Welcome to the night!"
Subsequent poems are dedicated to specific woodland creatures: snails; moths; owls; trees; spiders; porcupettes; crickets; mushrooms; efts; bats, and the moon. Each poem reveals the ways in which these night companions investigate and explore their domain, during the hours between evening's first footfall and the dawn's pearly herald of a new day. For every poem, too, there is a column of accompanying factual text, detailing the physical properties, habits and characteristics of the poem's subject.
A 2011 Newberry Honor Book, Dark Emperor is precisely the sort of children's book that will be read to Baby/ies Novel Niche, should one/s ever be bouncily forthcoming. Barring that possibility, however, this remains a book for both treasuring closely and sharing widely, which is why I've two copies and plans to acquire more. Sidman's poems are laden with the prancings, rustlings and winkings of these sylvan inhabitants, and each piece is a resonant embodiment of its focus. In "Dark Emperor", from which the book derives its title, Sidman hones in unerringly on the great horned owl's imperious majesty, wondering in verse at
"What symphonies of
squeaks and skitters, darts
and rustles, swell the vast,
breathing darkness of your realm?"
The owl as foreboding predator; the spider as confident peddler of survival instincts; the steadfast and nurturing guardianship of the oak tree: these character sketches and several others await the reader, bound to fascinate children with any love for the earth's wild and unexplored places. The factual supplements will interest older children who are getting their hands and chemistry sets messy with documenting their environmental observations.
Rick Allen's relief printed lino cuts are individual vistas of panoramic and precise astonishment, allowing a revisitation of familiar animals and haunts with eyes that will appreciate the artist's intricacy, his use of shadow and light, his measured and brilliant application of pigment. Allen's art holds hands eagerly and elegantly with Sidman's, and the results are worth reading and rereading: they make the perfect invitation to a night-time slumber party of imaginative revels, beneath the glow of a moon waxing towards fullness.
"Where are the diving sweeps of the nighthawk
and where its haunting cry?
Where is the thrum of crickets,
the throbbing of frogs?
Where are the great flocks of travelers
whose soft wings whispered to me,
wave upon wave,
beating toward some distant wood?"
from "The Moon's Lament" (an ubi sunt)
♣ A wee expeditioner with good, clean dirt beneath his fingernails, a magnifying glass hanging from a string 'round his neck, and a heart filled with investigative zeal that tracks muddy footprints right into the night forest's teeming core.
Charting Children's Literature is a monthly feature at Novel Niche that seeks to highlight the beauty and richness inherent in many of the books written and illustrated with the enjoyment and education of young children in mind. The feature was launched in August 2011, and is set to run for the foreseeable future (to infinity and beyond)!
If you're interested in bringing to my attention beautiful children's books I haven't yet covered, feel free to leave a comment on this page. If you would like to contribute a guest Charting Children's Literature feature, please make use of the contact form provided. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
34. The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman by Loretta Collins Klobah
Posted by Shivanee @ Novel Niche in Reviews 2012, Trinidad Guardian Sunday Arts Section
Fiction, Loretta Collins Klobah, Peepal Tree Press, Poetry, Review, The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman, Trinidad Guardian Sunday Arts Section
Published in 2011 by Peepal Tree Press.
Winner of the Poetry Category Prize, OCM Bocas 2012.
Shortlisted for the overall OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2012.
Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, 2012.
We lead complex, beautiful, many-dimensioned relationships with the Caribbean islands we inhabit. They require different masks, evolving responses to unpredictable seasons: whether we luxuriate in the heated thrust of Carnival, or mourn our murderous headlines, we, people of these particular islands, contain multitudes. This is one of the many gracefully-articulated messages woven into the fabric of Loretta Collins Klobah's poems. At their forefront gleams the titular persona, the twelve foot neon woman, a resistance heroine, a glorious Madonna for the 21st century. She resonates with passion as much as she snarls in discontent, this unabashed Puertorriqueña, and in so doing she provides both anchor and platform for Klobah's wondrously sung pieces.
Indeed, it is singing that comes first to mind as one allows this collection to simmer in the blood, registering the finely-wrought heat of its movements, the attention paid to dance and the rhythms many claim as indigenous to our shared shorelines. In "The BBC Does Bomba", barrio children set themselves free to the persistent, encouraging tattoos pounded out on Modesto Cepeda's barrel-drum, becoming receptacles of kinetic splendour.
"Girls raise the ruffled circle-skirt
to salute the drum, flick wrists
con fuerza until the butterfly skirts snap
por la derecha, por la izquierda,
the flower-print cotton
faldas swinging like machetes
over the harvest."
Wrapped up in the flowing undulations of dances like these, the poet reminds us, are examinations that pierce, conducted by both foreign and local eyes. The question of perceptions, of how Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean sees itself, how we are seen by others, runs through several of the poems, keenly felt in pieces such as "Googling the Caribbean Suburbs". Here, the narrator conducts a search that zooms in on satellite images of her home from space, the rows of houses making up, in impersonal relief, the neighbourhood whose inhabitants she knows intimately, having shared her life in close communion with their own. "Google Earth makes us out as small, blurred spaces," the penultimate line of the poem reports, closing with, "That's how we look, from out there."
Embedded in this discussion of how we see ourselves are uncompromising, angry refrains against the criminal violence exploding through Puerto Rican and all Caribbean streets. Klobah's voice rings out against the censorship of police brutality, gang warfare, injustices against children. These poems do the opposite of presenting a unified touristic front: they impel in language that abjures the severity of academia for the warmth of the pueblo, for the anxious concerns of living, working, struggling Caribbean people. "We have created a new world where the indiscriminate gun is always at our backs," laments the narrator, in "El Velorio, The Wake (1893)", a poem that paints in vivid and excruciating detail the preparations for the funeral of a child killed by a stray bullet. Unforgettable images of sorrow in the wake of destruction accompany many of these examinings, in the shape of a halo of flies around a child's head; of corpses that "lie in little beds of straw in the war zones"; of five young bodies tumbling off a fortress wall, "their surprised appendages flailing like starfish legs, turning like pinwheels."
At the epicentre of all this, the soul's purely decadent delight with its own rhythms is allowed to unfurl. Poems like "The First Day of Hurricane Season" possess this self-ownership without apology or shame, as its narrator, a woman in the full glow of her maturity, savours the taste of her life as it is now.
"I brew fresh ginger tea with coarse brown cane sugar,
cut a papaya, and watch the sun bead its juices.
No one ever taught me to expect that a phase of life
spent without a lover could be as happy, simple, and rich
as this."
There is a way, too, that Nature reaches out to graze its fingertips against the wetness of human experience in the poet's verse. The veil between what we fabricate for convenience, and what the land offers us for survival: this seems thinnest and most porous in pieces such as "Night Wash", wherein a woman, post-washtub-rinsing, hears night beckoning her. "When one frog sings alone," she listens, "it sounds like someone weeping, or hiccuping after the kind of hot-eyed, bottomless weeping that I have not had for a very long time." Even amidst the uncertainty of violence, about which nothing is definite other than its eventuality, these poems are sheathed in sylvan hope. They can show you the way back to your own open heart, gently, with the grace of forests, bamboo cathedrals, singing frogs.
If we run the risk of becoming inured to daily senselessness, then Klobah's poems pull us back from the brink of ennui, reminding us what fiery solace can live in raised arms of protest. There is a balance here of old worlds meeting new, of the slavery barracks colliding with street art, of our ancestors melding into the patterns of fierce pop and rap songs.
The twelve-foot woman herself, she who can claim many names in daylight or in darkness, holds this cultural syncretism proudly in the cradle of her belly. In the lushly-titled "The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman on Top of María's Exotik Pleasure Palace Speaks of Papayas, Hurricanes, and Wakes", she sways in her hard-won confidence. She has wrestled her autonomy from the clutches of slave owners and abusive lovers, from history's cruelties and a nation's difficult congress with itself. She channels "Oya, orisha of whirlwinds and cemeteries", making no apologies for her pain, no reparations for her sweet, Boricua music, intent on "writing my son and daughter all my love songs," a woman warrioress we both need and recognize triumphantly.
A marginally shorter version of this review first appeared in the Trinidad Guardian's Sunday Arts Section on August 19th, 2012. You can view it here.
Andre Bagoo interviews Loretta Collins Klobah in the September/October issue of Caribbean Beat, here.


To establish a "homeland of talent" in Jiading district, the local government has carried out the following beneficial policies in housing issues to attract and encourage high-end talents to develop in Jiading.
1. The excellent high-end talents can purchase apartments of 70-90 square meters at 60 percent of the market price, as their employers shall pay 10 percent of the market price for them.
2. Excellent youths and college graduates can apply for the subsidy for housing rental, as the subsidy amount ranges from 400-600 yuan per month.
1. The certified excellent talents must work in Jiading for at least five years, which shall be clearly ruled in the contract.
2. The special-supplied house shall not be rented out or sold out within five years without the permission of the local administration, which shall be clearly ruled in the contract.
Promoting and developing an economy of headquarters is considered an important measure to promote the development of Jiading's modern service industry and perfect the industrial structure, as this opinion is established to attract more international corporations to set up regional headquarters in Jiading district.
2. Regional department headquarters of foreign capital institutes registered in Jiading district after July 7, 2008. The total assets of the parent company shall not be less than $200 million, as the number of its subsidiaries shall not be less than three, including one trans-regional enterprise. The headquarters itself shall be an independent legal entity, as the registered capital shall be more than $2 million.
1. For those headquarters of State-certified enterprises, the local government will grant full-amount support on tax payments for the first three years since the certifying day, and grant half-amount support for the second three years.
2. For those headquarters of city-certified enterprises, the local government will grant full-amount support on tax payments for the first two years since the certifying day, and grant half-amount support for the next three years.
3. For those headquarters of district-certified enterprises, the local government will grant full-amount support on tax payments for the first year since the certifying day, and grant half-amount support for the next two years.
1. For newly-established headquarters of foreign capital firms certified at the State or city level, the supporting measures will follow the regulations of the Shanghai municipal government.
2. For headquarters of enterprises certified at the district level with sales income in their first year reaching over 300 million yuan since the certifying day, the local government will grant a one-time support award of 500,000 yuan.
1. For the headquarters of foreign capital firms certified at the State or city level, the supporting measures will follow the regulations of the Shanghai municipal government.
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Cell Phones and Car Crashes-ticket to additional Insurance Coverage?
I would estimate that 30% of the car crash injury cases we see involve a defendant driver who was talking on the cell phone or sending a text message while driving. Of these crashes, many of the phone calls are work related calls/text messages which can be the ticket to additional insurance coverage and additional defendants.
The defendant does not always admit to talking on the cell phone at the time of the car accident, and it is often hard to prove. However, in serious personal injury cases and in wrongful death cases, it can be vitally important. Say there is a car crash-a rear end accident-on Interstate 495 in Montgomery County, Maryland. Hypothetically the defendant driver is driving a 2001 Oldsmobile with minimum limits of insurance coverage ($20,000/$40,000.00 in MD). The Defendant driver makes an unsafe lane change while talking to a client on his cell phone, causing a terrible crash where John Smith is injured. Smith breaks his neck and is, unfortunately paralyzed. The innocent victim driver Mr. Smith is going to be limited in his recovery to the amount of his uninsured motorist benefits. Unfortunately, the amount of coverage available will not come close to covering his lifetime of medical expenses.
However, if a lawyer can prove that the defendant driver was on his cell phone for work at the time of the crash, then the defendant driver's employer can be sued under a vicarious liability theory. Typically companies, even smaller ones, have larger insurance policies than individual drivers. It is not unusual for a small business to have a million dollar commercial insurance policy to cover instances such as accidents when its employees are talking on the cell phone for work purposes.
In this day and age, lawyers need to be aware of the fact that additional insurance coverage can be triggered by establishing that a motor vehicle driver is talking on the phone or texting for work purposes at the time of the crash.


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Q: When a loop A induces a current in an adjacent loop B does the change in current in the loop B affect the current in loop A? Let's say we take a Loop A connected to an AC voltage source and place it adjacent to a closed Loop B.

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*we know that the change in the current in Loop A leads to a change in the magnetic flux
through loop B ($\Delta\phi_{\rm BA}$) and hence a current is induced in the loop B.

*If the induced current in the loop B changes won't it lead to  a change in the magnetic flux through loop A ($\Delta\phi_{\rm AB}$)?

*If yes, then won't the $\Delta\phi_{\rm AB}$ induce a current in the loop A in such a fashion that it increases the net current in the loop A at that instant to oppose $\Delta\phi_{\rm AB}$?

*Now it is once again loops back to step 1. This seems to be an infinite loop of the above three steps thus producing 'infinite' current in both the loops.
Can someone clarify where my understanding goes wrong and what actually happens in the process. It would be really helpful if I get an answer.

A: technically a varying induced flux generates an electromotive force (emf). In order to relate it to a varying current, it will depend on the resistance, or more generally the impedance (it could be wired to a capacitor etc.) of the loop. Specifying the impedances, you therefore have a dynamical system, for the respective currents $i_A,i_B$ which you can solve depending on the varying degree of complexity.
For example, in your case, I think you are interested in the following model: loop A (resp. B) has resistance $R_A$ (resp. $R_B$) and applied AC voltage $u = u_0e^{i\omega t}$, and they have mutual inductance $M$. In this case, you get the system:
$$
R_Ai_A+M\frac{di_B}{dt}=u
$$
$$
R_Bi_B+M\frac{di_A}{dt}=0
$$
Since the model was simple, you can easily get a closed form setting $\tau = M/\sqrt{R_AR_B}$:
$$
i_A(t) = i_1\cosh(t/\tau)-i_2\sinh(t/\tau)+u\frac{R_B}{R_AR_B+\omega^2M^2}
$$
$$
i_B(t) = -i_1\sinh(t/\tau)+i_2\cosh(t/\tau)+u\frac{-i\omega M}{R_AR_B+\omega^2M^2}
$$
with $i_1,i_2$ fixed by the initial conditions. Actually, for typical initial values, the solution diverges from the stationary solution as you suspected. These pathologies arise because the model is not realistic, you neglected the self-inductances of the loops which help converge to a stationary solution. Writing their respective self-inductances $L_A,L_B$, the equations become:
$$
RI+L\frac{dI}{dt} = U
$$
where I wrote vectorially the system: $I = (i_A,i_B)$, $U=(u,0)$, $R = \begin{pmatrix} R_A & 0 \\ 0 & R_B\end{pmatrix}$ (resistance matrix) and $L = \begin{pmatrix} L_A & M \\ M & L_B\end{pmatrix}$ (inductance matrix). While before $-L^{-1}R$ had eigenvalues $\pm 1/\tau$ whose positive one resulted in the exponential instability, the new one with has only negative eigenvalues which you can check with  the determinant (positive so same sign) and the trace (negative so both negative). Physically, the self-inductance saves us thanks to Lenz's law which acts as a break to the amplification effect you noticed.
Hope this helps and please tell me if you find some mistakes.

A: I'm not sure that this answers your question, but the situations are similar. In an ideal transformer in which no current is being drawn from the secondary, the current in the primary is determined by the inductive reactance of the primary and is out of phase with the voltage, thus drawing no power.  The voltage in each coil is determined by the rate of change of the flux. If the input voltage is fixed, then the magnitude of the flux is fixed. If current flows in the secondary, its field causes a phase change in the flux. That causes the current in the primary to shift toward being in phase with the voltage.  The input power must match the output power. Both can be dependent on the phase difference between current and voltage. Any resistance in the coils will dissipate power and complicate the situation. (In many modern devices which use integrated circuits, the input 120  volt power is rectified to give a high voltage DC. That drives a high frequency oscillator which drives the step down transformer. At high frequency, the transformer can use fewer coils and have much less resistance. It becomes much smaller, lighter, and more efficient. After being stepped down, the high frequency low voltage can be filtered by a much smaller capacitor. Net effect: the devices are smaller with a much lower shipping weight.)

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Scythian/Sarmatian DNA, your thoughts.
Thread: Scythian/Sarmatian DNA, your thoughts.
07-02-18, 13:30 #651
howyesno
Scythians were in my opinion R1b and closely related to Celts....
myth of origin of Scotish people written down in Declaration of Arbroath says they come from Greater Scythia
It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today.
http://webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/...onArbroath.pdf
Greater Scythia is parts of Balkan.. there in Albania we find tribe name Chelidones (Greek Χελιδόνες) see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...English%29.svg,
in Spain we find tribal name Caladuni (next to Seurbi and Helleni see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Peninsula.png) and in Scotland we find tribal name Caledones or Caledonii; Greek: Καληδώνες, Kalēdōnes) and alternative name for Scotish people is Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich while Scotland is Alba.
thus we have claims of Declaration of Arborath supported by tribal names Chelidones-Caladuni- Caledonii and Albania -Albannaich link
Scotish people that are proud to origin from Greater Scythia (extension of Scythia) are R1b so Scythians are probably also R1b
Scythians attacked Cimmerians in 8th century BC causing them to move from area north of Black sea to west becomming spread in whole east Europe.. Cimmerians were in my opinion I2a Din..they merged with R1a Thracians giving Thraco-Cimmerians with archeological findoings of their culture being spead all the way to Denmark and north Italy..this spread far away from Thrace means that name Thracian in wider sense included Pannonians and Veneti..
Sarmatians subjugated Scythians... Sarmatians were in my opinion G2a...reason to claim this is that Osetians are thought to be direct offspring of Alani the main Sarmatian tribe and they are speaking iranic language and are G2a.. Being iranian some Sarmatian tribes might have been R1a but not European clades like M458 and M558..
Slavic people and language come mainly from Veneti as Jordanes clearly stated it saying that Antes and Slavi are two biggest tribes left over from numerous race of Veneti... only part of Slavic people used Slavi as self name..like today only Slovaks and Slovenians do...they were Veneti..their halpogroups are R1a and they have I2a din admixture of Cimmerians...
Thracians (and related Dacians) were in my opinion very similar to Veneti in both genetics, language and culture.. so they were easily assimilated by Slavic people in 6th century ...
some Veneti/Pannonian tribes lived on Balkan north of Illyrians long time before Slavic arrival in 6th century.. Pannonians were in my opinion also among numerous Veneti race.. and in wider sense so were Dacians and Thracians..
Russian primary chronicle speaks of Danubian Slavs and among them Serbs, white Croats and Carantanians (Slovene) living around Danube (In nowadays Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary) prior to Vlachs (roman empire) invasion...after which they moved to Vistula river in Poland ...so south Slavs in 6th century move back to their previous settlement place....
XipeTotek
Turkish,Albanian
Originally Posted by Goga
Many Europeans in Central and Northeast Europe claim their ancestry. But those people were Euroasian and not entirely European and they spoke Iranic (Aryan) languages. But people in Europe don't speak Aryan languages.
I know nothing about these peoples, but somehow they got my attention and I got interested in these people, because many folks link them to the ancient West Asian Aryan Medes (Mitanni).
I'm a West ASIAN Kurd and Kurds in general claim their ancestry to the West ASIAN Iranic Medes. In Kurdistan there're many archaeological traces left of these Aryan folks and of their Zoroastrian and other Aryan religions. So I truly believe that Aryan ancestors of the Kurds were West Asian too.
If it is true that Scythians/Sarmatians were related to the Medes, then it's possible that these Scythians/Sarmatians were and admixture of North EUROPEAN and West ASIAN DNA, it is also possble that these folks had mostly West Asian DNA. Because I believe that the proto-Aryans came from West Asian/South Caucasus.
So I think that these Scythians/Sarmatians that live in North Caucasus were:
mostly R1a, I2a, J2a. With some Caucasian G2a, R1b, R2a, J1 & T and East European Q & N elements, but not so much.
What are your thoughts about these folks?
brothers scythians from turkic land of central asia. we can clearly see they life style come from common ancestor also genetic(r1a have most on the altai turks on the world, and i think they come from scythians.) i think they are tribe of the central asian turkic/hunnic/mongol/east and west iranian peoples. and i dont think they speak one common language. this area make always tribal federation empire like hunnic. so why today some peoples say clearly they are iranic or europeans say we are scythians and turks not so absurd. finally i think they are come from mostly r1a and ancestor of turks sogdian and east iranian.
scythians are ancestor of west iranian and turkic common peoples. and i think they dont have a common one language.
PabijanBrzeski
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Slavic(Polish)/ Greco Italic
I believe that the Scythian/Indo Iranic peoples did contribute to certain Slavic populations. Some Slavic words, like Bog(God) are said to be loanwords from Iranian languages. There is also high levels of similarity between Slavic/Baltic languages and Sanskrit, which is an Indo European tongue.
Polish nobility always claimed descent from the Sarmatians. Recent studies have shown that Polish coats of arms were different than western heraldry, and bears imagery and cult symbols found among Scythian/Alanic peoples.
J2b2 PH1602
That's very interesting. My only very close match is a prominent member of the Lubomirski noble family from Poland. We're J2b2 L283, specifically PH1602. I'm wondering if that could have come from Sarmatia.
Wonomyro
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Originally Posted by PabijanBrzeski
Recent studies have shown that Polish coats of arms were different than western heraldry, and bears imagery and cult symbols found among Scythian/Alanic peoples.
That is very intersting. Could you pls. give us some links.
hrvat22
For now we do not have migration of R1a peoples from Iran, India or that direction to Europe except Scythian R1a-Z93 but they come later.
The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3,000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC) into the modern-day Slavic languages which are today natively spoken in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of North Asia and Central Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...avic_languages
Vedic Sanskrit and tracing its linguistic ancestry back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
Migration of R1a peoples.
https://cache.eupedia.com/images/con...ration_map.jpg
This for now means that Indo-European language could only come from the Russian steppes to India, Iran and that area. This is if we look at Slavic language and its similarity to Sanskrit.
For nearly 2,000 years, Sanskrit was the language of a cultural order that exerted influence across South Asia, Inner Asia, Southeast Asia,
As far as I can see, migration of R1b people from that direction exist but they come to Europe before Sanskrit being mentioned and Slavs were probably speaking Slavic at that time. So it's my opinion that Sanskrit comes from the Russian steppes to India and that area.
Which would mean that Slavic language is older than Sanskrit and that same language is mix between old Slavic language and languages in that area.
https://cache.eupedia.com/images/con...ration-map.jpg
Indo-European migration is also seen here, everything goes from Yamnaya culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I...migrations.gif
The Yamna people or Yamnaya culture(traditionally known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture) was a late Copper Age to early Bronze Ageculture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester and Ural rivers (the Pontic steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BC.
3300–2600 BC and Yamnaya culture is time before Sanskrit is mentioned and probably in that area of Yamnaya culture they speaks some old archaic Slavic language. In migration map of haplogroup R1a it can be seen that Indo-Aryans come to India and that area 1700 BC with mutation L657 and probably that tribe brings Slavic words to Sanskirt.
As far as the influence of Scythians is concerned, I think that they brought some old Slavic word to Europe which some Slavs had previously brought to India, Iran and Sanskirt.
The Scythians first appeared in the historical record in the 8th century BC.
Originally Posted by howyesno
(Postquam vero Theodosius amator pacis generisque Gothorum rebus excessit humanis coeperuntque eius filii utramque rem publicam luxuriose viventes adnihilare auxiliariisque suis, id est Gothis, consueta dona subtrahere, mox Gothis fastidium eorum increvit, verentesque, ne longa pace eorum resolveretur fortitudo, ordinato super se rege Halarico, cui erat post Amalos secunda nobilitas Balthorumque ex genere origo mirifica, qui dudum ob audacia virtutis Baltha, id est audax, nomen inter suos acceperat. Mox ergo antefatus Halaricus creatus est rex, cum suis deliberans suasit eos suo labore quaerere regna quam alienis per otium subiacere, et sumpto exercitu per Pannonias Stilicone et Aureliano consulibus et per Sirmium dextroque latere quasi viris vacuam intravit Italiam nulloque penitus obsistente ad pontem applicavit Candidiani, qui tertio miliario ab urbe aberat regia Ravennate. Quae urbs inter paludes et pelago interque Padi fluenta unius tantum patet accessu, cuius dudum possessores, ut tradunt maiores, ainetoi,* id est laudabiles, dicebantur.)
Thus, Ravenna is described in Getica as founded by a people called Ainetoi – the name of those people, it is said, meant the "brave ones". Of course, Ravenna is also very close to Venezia .
So, in the simplest of terms it would seem that the Goths' rampage resulted in the conquest of the Veneti on the Baltic and, possibly drove, at least some of them, the newly anointed "Antes" and "Slavs" south. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that, in subsequent passages about the Goths and in the works of Procopius, the Veneti are no longer discussed (except perhaps indirectly via the name of Vinitharius). Instead, the focus is on the Byzantine borders (not northern Scythia) and, consequently, on the Antes and the Slavs – not the Veneti.
But what about the Sporoi? That name seems to suggest a "multitude" or "largeness" as per modern Slavic language. It should not take a Mensa member to note that Jordanes observes on more than one occasion (on two in fact!) that the Veneti were a "populous race" (Getica 5) that was "strong in numbers" (Getica 23). This would seem to connect the Sporoi with the Veneti.[3] Further, something that has not been noted is the similarity of the name s-Poroi to the word Poruse or, Prussians. The "s" or "z" in most Slavic languages means "from". The Prussians were known to the Roman cartographers (see Ptolemy) as either being part of or living next to the Veneti.
The Baltic Veneti/Venedi became the Warmians of Old Prussia eventually to be eliminated in the 13th century by the teutons..............they have nothing to do with Pannonians
Dibran
R1a-L1029*
H11a2*-146+
Albanian/Gheg/Dibran/Okshtun
Opinions don't matter in the face of facts. Scythian remains this far have been R1a-Z93, J1, G, N.
I2a1b-Din in south Slavs is extremely young and remains discovered were in a medieval Slav. Nothing to do wit Cimmerians which were probably connected to I2 found in Kavkaz that is different from I2a1b Din.
Sarmatians were the result of mixing between scythians and other peoples. Whilst G2a is almost a definite, we can't be sure what other lines they possessed.
The only ancient Thracian remains discovered so far are R-a-Z93 and I2a2a(Balkanic) which was found in Pomaks and Greeks. The Thracian R1a has not been discovered in living peoples. They did not have I2a1b-Din found in south Slavs.
I am not privy to any ancient remains discovered if Dacians but it's not impossible to assume they may have had I2a1b being shifted further north among other lines like Z280 they would have surely existed in their northern kin the Getae.
Illyrian remains were already discovered in Bronze Age Dalmatia and they were J2b2 L283. Found predominantly in Albanians but also in some Southern Slavs as well. Including Vlachs. Older lineages like V13 and R1b were also discovered and likely participated in the ethnogenesis of both Illyrians and Dardanians.
Additionally M458 is yet to have any ancient DNA discovered from 500AD or earlier. We can't say for certain who it moved with based on modern distribution alone. However, M458 is rather uncommon outside of Germans, Poles. In the Balkans it's mainly common in Bulgarians and Romanians. Even Greeks have more of it compared to other South Slavs.
Given that M458 reaches upwards of 22 percent in Turkic tribes like Nogays and Kipchaks and Kavkaz in the north and south such as Circassians, it's possible it moved with Pannonian Avars and Volga Bulgars.
They have more M458 than the entire Balkans combined. Only in Bulgaria does it reach 10 percent. Given the geographical sphere of Pannonian Avars and Volgar Bulgars in Poland and Bulgaria, it makes sense that some clades of M458 were carried by them.
They already had adopted Slavic as a lingua Franca before entering the Balkans, so it's not out of reason that at the collapse of their power structure they largely absorbed into Slavic ethnos. Z280/I2a1b-Din are the strongest and most characteristic of the Slavic migration.
They may well be connected to Getae or in small part to late Iron Age Dacians given over lap of modern Slavic and Baltic territories.
Originally Posted by Polska
While your clade is not common in Albanians J2b2 L283 is. Perhaps an assimilated Illyrian that went with the Roman auxiliary to Central Europe. Don't see how it's Sarmatian. Even though we don't have their remains they were similar to Scythian and those remains were mostly R1a-Z93, J1, G and N for east Scythian
Originally Posted by Dibran
thracian samples
Sample P192-1 was found at the site of a pit sanctuary near Svilengrad, Bulgaria, excavated between 2004 and 2006. The pits are associated with the Thracian culture and date to the Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) based on pottery found in the pits. A total of 67 ritual pits, including 16 pits containing human skeletons or parts of skeletons, were explored during the excavations. An upper wisdom tooth from an adult male was used for DNA analysis......belonged to haplogroup E1b1b1a1b-Z1919........mtdna U3b
Sample T2G2 was found in a Thracian tumulus (burial mound) near the village of Stambolovo, Bulgaria. Two small tumuli dating to the Early Iron Age (850–700 BC) were excavated in 2008. A canine tooth from an inhumation burial of a child (c.12 years old) inside a dolium was used for DNA analysis......belonged to R1b-Z2103.
Sample V2 was found in a flat cemetery dating to the Late Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC) near the village of Vratitsa, Bulgaria. Nine inhumation burials were excavated between 2003 and 2004. A molar from a juvenile male (age 16–17) was used for DNA analysis.
Sample K8 was found in the Yakimova Mogila Tumulus, which dates to the Iron Age (450–400 BC), near Krushare, Bulgaria. An aristocratic inhumation burial containing rich grave goods was excavated in 2008. A molar from one individual, probably male, was used for DNA analysis......belonged to J2-Z7402
Guachelin
I haven't post in a few years. I was under impression, due to suggestions from other members of this forum, that my YDNA was Sarmatian, because it is R-Z93, since then I've tested Big Y at FTDNA and I am R-Z93>YP5585>YP5578>BY30053>Y28816>YP5905>YP27595.
Let's disregard all after YP5578, as I know from research and YFULL when and even who was the original "bearer of that SNP.
I want to concentrate on YP5585 and YP5578.
YP5578 is unique. It virtually stands alone as to origin and time of appearance, being in the north of England (Northumbria at the time) and about the time of the returning crusaders. It also appears at the time when English castles were being rebuilt from mud, wattle and timber affairs on motte and baileys to stone castles and English steel was upgraded from the crude steel the crusaders used to the high quality of Damascus steel. And the area in which the DNA was originally centered is also a rich iron ore bearing area called Cleveland (Clifflands) in Yorkshire.
So far there are 20 men, most who have the same surname or a variation, who have tested YP5578, all have an ancestral origin in the north of England (Dane and Angle Northumbria, modern Yorkshire).
Now the kicker. There is also an Indian (subcontinent) whose DNA is YP5585. We know that the Scythians swept into the Indus Valley, the so called Aryan Invasion, and left their DNA in what is now the Brahim class, and of course converts to Islam especially in Pakistan, but I do not have an inkling as to their subclades, and subclades are important. R-Z93 is too broad, covers too much territory, too many peoples.
I have arrived at a tentative conclusion that my first English ancestor was actually a Christian Dhimmi, perhaps an expert in forging Damascus steel (the late 13th, 14th and 15th century spelling of the name was Ferror, a ferror is a maker of iron, as opposed to a smith who works iron.
He was a descendant of an Indian, who was taken captive during the Arab conquest of the Indus Valley in the 8th Century, he survived the trek over the mountains named for them, Hindu Slaughter or Hindu Kush, and was sold in a slave market, perhaps in Damascus.
As a kufr, unbeliever or infidel, and not a Peoples of the Book (Christian or Jew) he would have been given a choice to say the Shahada or die, however he was also a valuable commodity and one does not waste their property or investment, so Hindu slaves, during the reign of the Umayyad caliphate which considered Islam to be an Arab only religion, allowed or persuaded their Hindu and pagan slaves to Christianity. Conversion to Judaism required instruction and cooperation of Rabbi's, not forthcoming. Christianity required only baptism by a priest.
Life as a Christian under Islam meant living as a second class citizen and paying a poll tax (jizzyah).
Thus when the Crusaders appeared and marveled at the technology and techniques of the old Greco Persian empire as inherited by the Arabs, they were like kids in a candy shop. Enamored of their masons and forgers of steel, they wasted little time in convincing these dhimmi's to return with them to England, and the skilled dhimmi's, saw relief from paying jizzyah and living as second class citizen and eagerly boarded crusader ships for transport to Europe and England.
The transformation of Europe and England and it's climb out of the dark ages actually started with the Crusades, when the encountered the philosophy, science, technology and techniques of the old Greco Roman Persian empire as brought together and synthesized by the Arabs.
The Arabs who themselves were amazed and enthralled by the philosophy, technology, skill, medicine of the Greeks, Romans and Persians who they conquered and very much like the Christians later, were like kids in a candy shop, absorbing everything new that they found, and taking it one step further by amalgamating all, improving and enhancing such as the mathematics of al Jabr which bears his name today in albebra.
Too bad it has gone backwards in the modern era, but the same retrograde, conservative tendency is apparent in Christianity and Judaism as so called fundamentalism or fear or discomfort with modernity and progress is on the uptick. But I wander afield as I always do.
Point is that a "son" of R-Z93 apparently landed in England between 1000 and 800 ybp, by the circuitous route of India and Damascus. At least that is the idea for now.
Originally Posted by Sile
And your point being? This doesn't negate what I said. There was also a R1a-Z93 sample discovered in a Thracian from Bulgaria. Additionally, the 2 Cimmmerians tested in a recent paper were Q and R1b-Z2103(if I am not mistaken). Which furthers my point that Cimmerians were not I2a1b-Din.
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