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Re-Imagining Frontierland
June 30, 2020 Andrew Krivsky magic kingdom, walt disney world Leave a comment
In the wake of the announcement that Splash Mountain at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will be re-themed to the animated film 'The Princess and the Frog', a lot of people have been curious about how Disney will make the newly themed ride fit within their current lands. For Disneyland it's pretty easy to comprehend, since Splash Mountain is situated next to New Orleans Square and 'The Princess and the Frog' takes place in New Orleans. Walt Disney World's Splash Mountain is a bit trickier though. The ride is situated in Frontierland, which is themed to the American Frontier of the 19th century. New Orleans isn't really a part of this, so a lot of people are concerned that Disney doesn't have a solution to this issue of theming.
Now the easy answer to this is that Splash Mountain is situated between the Caribbean section of Adventureland and the American Southwest of Frontierland. New Orleans sits right between these, so with a little exterior re-theming to the surrounding buildings they could easily make a new mini-land similar to New Orleans Square at Disneyland.
But what if that wasn't enough? What if Disney wanted to turn the entirety of Frontierland into an East-Coast New Orleans Square? I had an idea for an article about re-imagining the different lands of the Disney parks, and now seems like a great time to do that. I'm going to take a look at the different parts of Frontierland and see what we can do to rework them into a New Orleans Square for the Magic Kingdom. Keep in mind that nothing is sacred, so your favorite attraction might get changed. Don't worry, it's all part of the fun.
Big Thunder Mountain sits at the northern most part of Frontierland, so I figured it would be good to start here and work our way downwards. This is also probably going to be the most challenging, as Big Thunder feels like the most "western" thing in all of Frontierland. I also don't want to make this another 'Princess and the Frog' re-theme, since I don't want the whole land to be entirely based on that movie. Finally, I don't want this article to just be "tear down the ride and replace it with something completely different", so we're sticking with some sort of mine-train roller coaster. That said, I think any and all of the theming and rock-work can be changed. All that has to stay is the coaster itself.
I would like to re-theme Big Thunder Mountain into The Runaway Streetcar Extravaganza. If you didn't know, one thing New Orleans is known for is having the oldest operating streetcar transit system in America. I feel that an original ride based on this could be extremely innovative while still keeping the same thrill level as Big Thunder Mountain. They could replace the mountainous rock-work with buildings from the French Quarter and make it so that the coaster seems like it's traveling along the street (and even potentially smashing through buildings, if this was a runaway streetcar). The ride vehicles would resemble the street cars themselves, and would maybe even have an electric cable above the track. I don't really have much an idea for what the actual storyline of the ride would be, so feel free to get creative and come up with your own!
Tom Sawyer's Island
Tom Sawyer's Island would become a Louisiana Bayou, perhaps the one from Princess and the Frog. I don't want there to be overexposure for that movie in this new land, since I tend to prefer original storylines to things based on movies, but I understand why it fits perfectly here. If it was based on Princess and the Frog, then you could have all sorts of interaction with characters from the movie. You could find Louie playing his trumpet, Ray and his other firefly friends, and Mama Odie in her house.
More importantly, I would like the island itself to be a story-driven walkthrough. Sure, it would have familiar characters, but it would also feature a new storyline with loads of interactivity with original characters and the island itself. I think they could almost turn it into like a longer interactive experience where you feel like you are actually part of the story, similar to the first half of Rise of the Resistance. Sure, that might take out the exploration aspect of Tom Sawyer's, but turning it into a show that you are a part of is better in my eyes.
Liberty Square Riverboat
Yeah, I know this is part of Liberty Square, but I wanted to lump it in here because of the important presence that riverboats have in New Orleans and Louisiana itself. This is going to be the only exception to my rule of not building anything completely new, as I would like to build a second dock in between Big Thunder and the Tom Sawyer rafts where guests can board the boat for a cruise along the Mississippi River. There would be live music and drinks aboard for guests to enjoy, and they could even do a daily Mardi Gras show from aboard the boat. I think leaving in the Liberty Square station would be fine, but if it caused too much congestion then maybe it would be best to take it out.
Walt Disney World Railroad – Frontierland Station
This one is easy. All that has to be done is overhauling the station to make it look more like the New Orleans Square station in Disneyland.
Splash Mountain
I originally wasn't going to talk about this, since the main reason I'm turning Frontierland into New Orleans Square is because of the Princess and the Frog overhaul coming to Splash Mountain in the near future, but I figured I'd at least touch on the thing I want most in the ride: an original story. They should definitely have different elements and songs from the movie, but I think rehashing the whole movie would make for an outright boring ride. Think of how Frozen Ever After had an original story of celebrating the Official Summer Snow Day (the anniversary of when Anna saved Elsa in the first movie). That story is the perfect blend of new and old ideas, and I hope they keep that in mind when designing the Princess and the Frog ride.
Briar Patch is a small gift shop near the entrance of Splash Mountain. I think it would be good for this to become a designated place Princess and the Frog merchandise. I just hope they don't give it a generic name like "Princess and the Frog: The Store" or something (not that I think they would).
Pecos Bill's Tall Tale Inn and Cafe
I see a lot of people online talking about how they want this to become Tiana's Place. I actually think Tiana's Place would be a better fit somewhere else, and we'll get to that in a minute. Since Pecos Bill is a quick service, I think re-theming it to Duke's Cafe (the cafe Tiana works at in the beginning of the movie) would fit a lot better here. I know I said I didn't want to oversaturate the land with Princess and the Frog stuff, and two restaurants based off the movie might sound like it is, but I really think they could get away with having no references to the movie in Duke's Cafe. It would be more along the lines of a classic New Orleans cafe, with the name being the only nod to the movie. Well, that and the delicious beignets they would serve.
Golden Oak Outpost
Golden Oak Outpost is a small food stand on the border of Adventureland and Frontierland. There's not too much to change here, so I think changing the name to something like Golden Trumpet Outpost would bee a creative nod towards the original. It could serve various Cajun foods.
Westward Ho is another food stand in Frontierland. Since I like references to previous things in Disney, the new name would be Southeastern Ho. Adding some speciality drinks found in New Orleans would make this stand fit in with the new area.
Prairie Outpost & Supply
This small store offers your usual Disney sweets and snacks. I think they could keep selling the same stuff under a different name like Mississippi River Supply. Maybe they could add some popular Louisiana sweets to the mix as well!
Country Bear Jamboree
This was the one I was arguably most excited to re-imagine. Country Bear Jamboree is a fun, albeit dated and creepy attraction that could use an update. However, I still want to keep the idea of bears playing instruments. What if the famous Country Bears had grown tired of performing the same country songs and decided head towards Louisiana to pursue a new audience in a new genre…jazz. The band renames itself to The Bears of Jazz, and the attraction is now known as The Quarter Venue Presents: The Bears of Jazz. With the help of some new animal friends from the area (perhaps even Louie from Princess and the Frog), the bears put on a new show that breaths fresh air into a cute but dated idea.
Frontier Trading Post
Frontier Trading Post is my favorite store in Walt Disney World, because it's one of the best places to buy and trade pins! I still want the store to centralize around pin trading, but now in the setting of New Orleans. Call it Orleans Trading Co., or something more creative, and that should be good.
Frontierland Shootin' Arcade
This one's tough, because I can't just rip it out and put something completely different in its place. That said, I don't think a shooting range is the most fitting thing in New Orleans Square, even if it is admittedly pretty fun. My solution would be to take out the laser guns and set pieces and replace them with a screen and a line of guns that resemble the guns from Toy Story Midway Mania. Guests would insert a quarter to play on their section of the screen, where they would shoot different objects at Mardi Gras targets like balloons and other decorations to get a high score. I would name this Mardi Gras Mayhem.
The Diamond Horseshoe
Remember when I said we'd get to Tiana's Place? Well here we are. The Diamond Horseshoe is a sit-down restaurant, making it the perfect location for a restaurant themed to the one Tiana dreams of creating (and eventually does) in the movie. The building will be a near exact replica, inside and out, and will feature dishes such as gumbo, jambalaya, and minced vegetables. There will also be the glorious crystal chandelier and a bandstand with a pianist and other live jazz musicians. Many people have been requesting this restaurant for a while, myself included, and I hope they decide to put it here.
Those are my ideas for Re-Imagining Frontierland! Obviously, not every idea is entirely realistic, but that's all part of the fun. If you liked these ideas, be sure to leave a like and let me know down in the comments. If you have your own ideas on how to Re-Imagine Frontierland, be sure to leave a comment down below discussing what you would change!
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Els nostres Tours pretenen ensenyar la Barcelona més real, la que veuen cada dia els ciutadans que hi viuen.
La bicicleta, s'està convertint en el mitjà més popular per moure's dins la ciutat, els gairebé 200 Km en carril bici en són una bona prova.
Fer el tour en bici, ens permet recórrer una llarga distància (uns 14 Km) en un espai de temps relativament curt (3:00-3:30 hores).
El 90% del tour, rodarem per carrils bici, de manera segura.
Sortirem des de Plaça Espanya, on hi ha moltes línies de metro i autobús per arribar, al costat de la Fira de Barcelona i la muntanya de Montjuïc.
Recorrerem parts de la ciutat que no estan atapeïdes de turistes, no ens agrada fer cues.
It's one of the most important squares in Barcelona, built in 1929 for the International Exhibition. From here you can see Montjuic, home of 1992 Olympic Games.
Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina starts with the two Venetian Towers and goes directly to the 4 columns of Puig i Cadafalch, that symbolises the four bars of the Catalan flag, Fonts de Montjuic and MNAC.
Next to us, is the Arenas of Barcelona, which in the past was a bullring. Now a days bullfight is prohibited in Catalunya, and Arenas is a Shopping Mall. At the top of the mall, there is a good and free viewpoint to see the entire city.
In Barcelona there are more or less 35 gardens like this.
In the mid XIX century, Barcelona was just old city and it couldn't grow because it was walled. The council decided to destroy the wall and make a new city, La Eixample. There were a contest, and the winner was Antoni Rovira i Trias, a Catalan architect. But the Spanish government imposed the Cerdà plan. Ildefons Cerdà was a Catalan engineer.
In the original plan of Cerdà, all the Eixample had gardens bigger than this, but the money and speculation did not allow for this. Now a days Barcelona has a natural walls, the Mediterranean sea, the Collserola Mountains and the two rivers, Besòs and Llobregat.
It is the biggest market in Barcelona, and in the Cerdà Plan it was to supply the entire city. Now a days there are 43 markets in Barcelona. The first written documents about the Barcelona markets date back of the 10th century, though their origin could be older.
Before newspapers, radios and television existed, they were the place to find out what was going on in the town, country and around the world.
This is 15th century building, which formerly served as a hospital and hospice.
The foundation stone was laid in 1401 in the presence of the king Martin the Humane.
The work was largely complete by 1414, it had a lot of reconstructions to improve the building during the years.
By 19th century, the hospital had become outdated because of the growth of the city and the advances that had been made in medicine and hygiene, and so it was moved to a new site at the Hospital de Sant Pau (Domenech i Muntaner), built between 1902 and 1930.
It now houses the Biblioteca de Catalunya, the Institut d'estudis Catalans, the Massana School and two public libraries.
The University was founded in November 1450. Before it, Barcelona had a medicine school, but this became the official university.
Now a days, the Universitat de Barcelona has more than 60.000 students, and it's considered to be the best university in Spain. There are almost all the official degrees in Europe. The colleges are around the city, in this building there are all the philology's, mathematics departments and the government of the University.
Block of Discord. The block is noted for having buildings by three of Barcelona's most important Modernist architects, Lluis Domènech i Montaner (Casa Lleó Morera), Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Casa Amatller) and Antoni Gaudí (Casa Batlló).
Casa Lleó Morera: The building was originally constructed in 1864, ans was renovated at the beginning of 1902. It is named from the lion and mulberry trees motifs in the decorations.
Casa Amatller: The buildings was originally designed as residence for chocolatier Antoni Amatller and was constructed between 1898 and 1900.
Casa Batllò: Much of the crane is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles. The roof is the back of a dragon, and at the top the turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George, which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
During the summer this place is call the mini beach of the Eixample. All the children of the area come here to have a bath.
It was the first garden recuperated by the council in 1987.
In the past 19th century, the water tower supplied all the area.
This is one of the most important markets in Barcelona.
The market's building project was assigned to Antoni Rovira Trias, the architect who had already done the project of the Sant Antoni Market. The metal structure of the nave was built like that of the Boqueria Market. It was opened in 1888, and it was named after the neighbourhood church of the Concepció.
Modernist house that was built in 1901.
Modernist house that was built in 1905.
It was a commision from Terrades brothers, originally was a building with 3 houses.
Puig i cadafalch got the inspiration from European medieval gothic style.
It's the last piece of Domenech i Montaner in Barcelona.
In 2004 a hotel company bought the house and made a luxury hotel. During the summer, in the roof there is a nice terrace to have a drink.
Until beginnings of the 20th century, it was a independent town. La Eixample engulfed it.
During the tour we will see many of its squares, and nice streets.
It was Gaudi's first important work. It was built in the period of 1883-1889. There are four levels. The most notable influence is the Moorish, particularly evident at the top.
The owner, Manuel Vicens, had a brick and tile factory, so the ceramic tiles come from his factory.
The house is a private residence, its interior cannot be visited.
Modernist house that was built in 1903.
Now a days it's the headquarters of all the councils of Barcelona.
Its owner never lived in the house. It was a religious school.
Now it's the headquarters of Circulo Equestre, a private club for the rich people of the city.
It used to be the house of a Indiano from Filipinas. The big windows in Diagonal, the people from Barcelona call it "La Peixera" (The fishbowl).
It's considered to be the last modernist house built in Barcelona, the architect was Sayrach, the son of the owner,the details are very fine inside the house.
It's part of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district.
The central part of the square contains a pond modelled after the shape of Minorca, the birthplace of its architect, Nicolau Rubió i Tudurí, as well as femenine sculpture called Joventut ("youth") designed by Josep Manuel Benedicto, added in 1953.
He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music throughout his career, also as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.
Casals was an ardent supporter of the Spanish Republican government, and after its defeat vowed not to return to Spain until democracy was restored. Casals performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on October 19, 1938, possibly his last performance in Catalonia before his exile.


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The main dartboard that professional darts players use is the bristle dartboard. Frankly, it is the only dartboard which has material that can last for a long time and give professional players the accuracy they demand. Bristle is a material comprised of special plant fibers called sisal.
Unlike normal plant fibers, sisal is very strong and durable. These are the same plant fibers used to make ropes, cloth, hats, and various other products. But they are best suited as dartboard material because of their ability to take punishment from darts. You will not find a better dartboard in the market for professionals.
Professionals' players use bristle sisal dartboard because of its minimal reduced outs than an electronic dartboard. The surface of a bristle dartboard is constructed with lower compression sisal fibers this is why the hitting darts are easily penetrating into the dartboard. Now, most of the dartboard is using thinner wiring system that dramatically helps to reduce bounce-outs.
A lot of dartboards use wiring on the surface to divide the various segments and zones. But if a player throws a dart and it hits the wiring, the dart will bounce out and fall to the ground. For this reason, many professional bristle dartboards are designed with very thin wiring to reduce the bounce-out rate. This means more successful hits with the darts. Plus, the tips of the darts will take less punishment because they won't keep banging against the steel wiring so much.
Another special thing about bristle dartboards is that you can easily rotate the numbered ring for the segments. Since the edging of the board contains composite materials, this gives you the ability to rotate the outer ring without any hassle. The purpose of rotating the ring is to increase the difficulty and challenge of the darts games. If players get used to the same points for the same segments, it will get too easy and redundant. Switching the segment points ensures that players are using their skills to win the game and not relying on a pattern.
Bristle dartboards have a self-repairing ability that no other dartboard has. This makes them the most durable dartboard that you can purchase. When a player throws a sharp-tipped dart into the surface of a bristle dartboard, it will not leave a permanent hole. As soon as the player pulls out the dart from the surface, the hole will patch itself back up. This ensures the dartboard maintains regulation standards in a professional competition.
The real truth is that most of the dart tournaments in the world offer bristle dartboard competition rather than other type dartboard competitions. As for, professionals' players use bristle dartboard to sharpen their aiming.
No one likes having to purchase a new dartboard every couple of months because they put too many holes in their current one. Paper and rubber dartboards may be great on accuracy, but they have a very short lifespan because they cannot repair themselves. If you play darts regularly, you will put so many holes in the dartboard that it will be unusable in a professional game. On the other hand, bristle dartboards have a very long lifespan because the holes get repaired on their own.
As a professional player, you might need to move your dartboard around to various areas and locations. Since bristle is a very lightweight material, it makes the dartboard lightweight as well. This means you will have an easy time hanging a bristle dartboard on a wall, tree, or any other vertical surface that is sturdy. If you are traveling on the road, you can easily back the bristle dartboard in your vehicle or carrying around by hand if necessary.
You might think that a professional dartboard made from bristle will cost a lot of money. The truth is that bristle is a very inexpensive material, despite being so durable and long lasting. You can purchase a bristle dartboard for anywhere from $20 to $200. They typically come with up to 6 darts each, which is enough for 2 players. The quality of the dartboards is the same, no matter how much money you spend. The only real differences might pertain to the accessories that are included, such as a cabinet or dart holder.
I think you already get the idea why professionals use the bristle dartboard instead of other type dartboards.
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Several years later I was captivated by his song To The Door Of The Sun, a hit on the pop charts in 1974. I was just a young teen of the time, but quite frankly I was intrigued by this crooner of my parents' generation far more than any of the artists my peers were grooving to in that era. I suppose Al Martino himself decided to try adapting somewhat to the times when he recorded a hit version of the Italian standard, Volare, with a distinct disco beat to it. Still, he raised the bar even there, by belting it out in his majestic, rich voice of near operatic proportions.
I collected several of Al's albums on LP back then, and have since bought a number of hits compilations released on CD. I do wish that more of his original albums would be released on CD, but I must admit that I do get a nostalgic kick out of spinning that vinyl. I'm glad I've kept all of my LPs through the decades!
In recent years, I was fortunate enough to see Al Martino in concert whenever he performed here in Mississauga at the Stage West hotel theatre. It was particularly nice in that I would go see his shows with my Mom, also a longtime fan of his. After the show, Al Martino was gracious enough to come out and greet and sign autographs for his many fans. It was a huge thrill for us to meet him, and I presented him with a framed caricature I had drawn of him. It was also very gratifying when he returned the next year to perform and his lovely wife Judi told me in the lobby before the show how much he appreciated the caricature, hanging it on his home office wall once he'd returned from his tour. I got to see Al after this show too and it was great to chat with him again, and he thanked me once more for the artwork. Unfortunately, Stage West's dinner theatre is no more, but I'll cherish seeing those shows and spending such wonderful times with my Mom through those years.
In 2009, we sadly lost Al Martino at the age of 82, and his passing affected me deeply. Of all my favourite crooners of that great era, Al was the only one whom I'd had the pleasure to actually meet, so he'll always be a very special memory for me. He was a ruggedly handsome man, with such a majestic voice and stage presence. There will likely never be any more singers to come along of that calibre. They are the product of a superior era of genuine entertainment.
And so, I have created this new caricature of Al Martino that appears at the top of this post in tribute to this magnificent man on his birthday. It has also been my pleasure this year to have been reacquainted with his wife, Judi, and their daughter Alison through Facebook. It's very gratifying to see that Alison Martino has dedicated herself to remembering that era of entertainment by setting up interviews with noted veteran performers to reminisce on stage for appreciative audiences. Alison, I know your Dad would be so proud of your efforts! I would therefore like to dedicate this post to Judi and Alison, with much admiration.
Here is the video reference that I mostly used to create my new caricature of Al Martino, in which he performs his hit song, Spanish Eyes. Enjoy!


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We have lots of other wonderful dogs and puppies looking for homes. Adopt, don't shop.
The last of this group of puppies is adopted! He has three boys of his own to play with and love. He gets walked on a leash and has a big yard to romp in too. His new name is Tigre! Perfect name, perfect life! Thank you for adopting a rescue puppy.
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Abby and Ernie are adopted! Hooray for Abby and Ernie for finding wonderful forever homes. Only four more puppies left in this litter of small dogs. If you'd like to adopt, view our adoptable dogs and email help@t-bar.org to arrange to adopt.
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Ceres one of a handful, if not the only, "dwarf planet" orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
Since the demotion of Pluto, a lot of discussion has gone into the notion of dwarf planets. The basic definition is a body that has sufficient mass to pull itself into hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning it is spherical, or nearly so.
The majority of dwarf planets are "Trans-Neptunian", orbiting out past Neptune and/or in the Kuiper belt.
Dwarf planets may range in diameter from nearly 1500 miles (Ceres' diameter is 587 miles) down to perhaps 187 miles.
Ceres' orbits 257 million miles from the Sun; Pluto, now classified as a dwarf planet, orbits some 3.67 billion miles out, while Eris, now the most distant dwarf planet discovered, orbits at some 90 billion miles from the Sun.
Dwarf planets may be icy, rocky or both.


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Mudd Gallery prints blend digital and traditional
· April 21, 2006 ·2 min read
Mandy Burgess
(Brent Schwert)
The Mudd Gallery is currently hosting "Uncertain Pantheon,"an exhibition of the prints of Scottish artist Murray Robertson. The Mudd exhibition, organized by fellow printmaker and Lawrence art professor Joe D'Uva, opened Friday, April 14 and is the latest in a long line of Robertson's solo exhibitions.
The exhibition of hand-colored etchings, lithographs and digital prints centers around Robertson's interest in the visual representations and expressions of scientific and spiritual systems of knowledge.
Exploration of these symbols and signs and their placement within a composition allows Robertson the freedom to juxtapose ancient concepts with modern and construe new meanings.
The imagery used in the prints is often radically diverse, crossing cultural, historical and technological boundaries. Robertson mentions that sources and inspiration for his works include astrological charts, textbooks on natural history, antique maps, scientific symbols, technological imagery and collected items from world travels.
Through his use of careful composition, deliberate color placement and obscure technology employed in conjunction with traditional printmaking techniques, Robertson says he aims to portray the complexity and irrationality of our world while still showing it as "vibrant with symbolic meaning."
The prints are meant to allude to concepts pertaining to "humanity's eternal and universal quest in a seemingly intractable and unknowable world," Robertson says.
The foray from traditional printmaking methods – which have been essentially unchanged for centuries – into the constantly revolutionizing medium of digital art seems appropriate for Roberson's artistic intentions.
Digital imaging allows for the appropriation of these spiritual and technological signs and for Robertson to make them his own. Through juxtaposition and manipulation he reassigns and creates meaning that, while not entirely divorced from the original, is much more significant to us as viewers in the modern world.
"Essential Balm," a series of 28 panels with miniature compositions, illustrates this idea. A Ganesh statue, a Buddhist stupa and Sanskrit text are intermingled with an atom bomb and molecular structures, bringing the concerns of ancient and foreign spirituality into the rhetoric of today.
His best and most effective pieces, however, are those that utilize both traditional and digital techniques.
Works like "Capsid Hexon Triptych," a lithograph and digital print, are most visually arresting due to the interplay between the evident quality of the artist's process and the smooth-surfaced mechanical property of the digital print.
The contrasting elements straddle the divide between tradition and modernity, navigating between the two delicately but conscientiously, perhaps alluding to human attempts to find meaning and balance in an unpredictable and ever-changing world.
Robertson is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and is currently working at the Glasgow Print Studio. His work is held in collections from New York to Kyoto.
The Mudd Gallery will be showing Robertson's work through April 25.
Murray Robertson's "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" digital print. (Brent Schwert)
Murray Robertson's "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" digital print.
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You've read the five of us discussing our thoughts on the 2012 season throughout the year. Now it's time to make your voices heard as we open the voting for the inaugural VeloVoices Awards. Over ten days in ten categories – some serious, others less so – we're asking you to select your choices of 2012. We'll publish the final results in the run-up to Christmas. (Hopefully next year we'll have a grand gala dinner in central London …)
Yesterday we revealed our shortlist for Rider of the Year. Today it's the turn of our nominations for Team of the Year:
Sheree: I've loved the fact that Euskaltel-Euskadi has nurtured Basque (or Basque-trained) riders from cradle to grave and has given the sport's most passionate fans something to rally behind. What would the Pyrenees be like without the hordes of Basque fans? Cycling fans around the world affectionately call them 'The Carrots' and should any of them fall [which happens rather a lot – Ed] the cry of "Carrot down!" goes out on Twitter. Surely, there's not a more loved team than the boys in orange? That's why they're my team of the year. Sadly, they're abandoning their all-Basque stance in 2013 for riders who can score points in a wider range of races than the all-Basque mountain goats.
Tim: They're not the most popular choice, I know, but Sky finished 2012 as the WorldTour's top-ranked team by a margin. Of course, there was Wiggo and Chris Froome. But Mark Cavendish's 'unsuccessful' season saw him win three stages at both the Giro and Tour. Edvald Boasson Hagen took a clutch of victories including the GP Ouest France and a silver at the Worlds. Richie Porte won the Volta ao Algarve. Colombians Rigoberto Uran and Sergio Henao were seventh and ninth at the Giro, and Uran won silver in the Olympic road race. There's no denying either the results or the depth of talent here. In this case, the stats don't lie.
Kitty: It should be Argos-Shimano. They were a notable presence in the majority of races this year, working hard to get that train on the tracks for both Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb and even when they misfired, they misfired with all their hearts. They worked seamlessly as a team and had a joie de vivre that many of the bigger teams lacked. Their snowy white Argonaut suits were brilliant shafts of light cutting through the peloton, particularly in the Vuelta, where Degenkolb really came into his own as a sprinting force to be reckoned with. Great attitude, great guys, amazing results.
Jack: For me it's the Belgian World Championships road race team. Over the past few years all of the pressure has been on Belgium's team to deliver race favourite Philippe Gilbert to the rainbow jersey. Unfortunately it had never quite come together – until this year, that is. On the familiar Classics roads around Valkenburg they knew that this year would be as good a chance as they would get. And they certainly did not disappoint. As soon as Jurgen Roelandts, Bjorn Leukemans and company hit the front on the final ramp up to the finish line, there was only one winner. World Championships are notoriously difficult to control, but the Belgians did an outstanding job of dominating the race and sealing the victory.
Panache: The men of Omega Pharma-Quick Step had 54 road victories in 2012 by a variety of riders. What impresses me most is the number and variety of races they won, including the Tours of Qatar, Oman, Belgium and Beijing, Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Harelbeke, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships team time trial. They also seemed to spread the victories throughout the team. They won with Boonen, Terpsta, Chavanel, Leipheimer, Velits, Chicchi, Martin – it just goes on and on. The only thing OPQS didn't win was a three-week Grand Tour.
Tomorrow we'll unveil our shortlist for Breakthrough Rider of the Year.
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This is home.
Exploring Family History and Connections to the Land
Going fishing with Grandpa
"Grandpa wake up!"
Better than Christmas
"Ass Over Teakettle"
On the Farm, Part 1
Deer Camp
Grandpa Ray and Will Rogers
What Grandpa Said
He Painted It Silver
Into the Whiteshell, Part 1
Rez Plumbers
Shivaree in the Judiths
Minnesota History
Before there was a Minnesota
This is hard.
A family at Sandy Lake
The Man from Maskinonge
Holy Matrimony at La Pointe
Uncle Antoine
A Visit to Sandy Lake
Life at Little Rock Lake
A Tragic Loss
Who Was Mitchell Spry?
The Treaty of 1867: On to White Earth
White Earth: Settling In
The Man from Maskinonge and the Woman from Sandy Lake
"A Model Reservation"
What I Learned at the National Archives, Chicago
Prosperity and Hard Times in Callaway
Building our Home
It's about time.
I am not a logger.
Zhingwaak
A Giant Sandbox
Our Mysterious New Neighbors
The War on Shrubs
Zhingwaak Revisited
Almost a House
Passing Judgment on Squirrels
On the Land
Wandering the Prairie
Grandfather Oak
Miracle in Green
July 20, 2015 August 22, 2015 / Mike S.	/ 1 Comment
Following their marriage at La Pointe in 1843, the next data point I found for Pierre and Angeline Trotochaud is July 27, 1848. On this day, Pierre declared his intention to become a U.S. citizen before a county clerk in St. Croix County, Wisconsin Territory. This would have been in Stillwater, in what is now Minnesota. Later that year Wisconsin became a state. The following year, 1849, Minnesota Territory was formed from the areas left over after Wisconsin and Iowa (1846) statehood.
I came across this information in a book titled "Declarations of Intention (1847-1852) of 262 Minnesota Pioneers", published by the Minnesota Historical Society. The author, James E. Erickson stumbled upon an index of the first declarations made in St. Croix County and was able to track down the actual hand-written declarations for all but 3 of the 262 pioneers. Unfortunately, Pierre's declaration, which would have stated where he entered the U.S., is one of the missing three.
Stillwater was ground zero for the beginning of Minnesota's logging boom. One can imagine how shocking it must have been for the young couple to come from Sandy Lake (or LaPointe or Fond du Lac or Lac du Flambeau), deep in the woods, to this boomtown with all its hustle and bustle.
They may have come to Stillwater looking for work, or they may have just been passing through. Regardless, they were leaving behind the life they knew. The fur trade was winding down, transitioning from large monopolies like the American Fur Company controlling vast territory to independent traders focusing on particular locations still holding furs. Working for these independents probably was not as stable as working for the old "outfits".
Meanwhile, their Ojibwe relatives were finding the subsistence lifestyle more difficult to maintain. A succession of treaties the Ojibwes were making with the federal government continued to reduce their land base, making them dependent on government food supplies.
These were the circumstances that set the stage for the Sandy Lake Tragedy in 1850. Territorial officials, led by Alexander Ramsey, sought to remove the Ojibwe from Wisconsin. To do so, they moved the location of the annuity payments under the treaty from LaPointe to Sandy Lake. Thousands of Ojibwe made the trek to Sandy Lake, only to find the annuity payment had been delayed. Government food supplies were late in coming, and what food was available was spoiled, which eventually sickened and killed hundreds. Lobbying by Ojibwe chiefs and public pressure finally forced the government to allow the people to return to their homelands. But by then winter had set in, and many more died on the way.
It is not clear whether any of Pierre and Angeline's extended family were still at Sandy Lake to witness the tragedy. Her brother Antoine had settled on land near Little Rock Lake, near present-day Rice, Minnesota in 1849. It is possible that Margaret Blair (Ma Chay) and the younger siblings stayed at Sandy Lake, among her relatives. As for Pierre and Angeline, the 1849 census (and the 1850 census) found them in Little Canada.
Founded just 5 years before by Benjamin Gervais, Little Canada, as the name implies, was originally a town full of French Canadians. Gervais had arrived in the area as a refugee from the Red River colonies in 1826, and was twice forced off Ft. Snelling land by the U.S. Army. Gervais had Dakota Indian friends who told him about the rich land of their traditional summer camp at "Lac du Savage." After scouting the area, he sold the 160 acres he had purchased from "Pigs Eye" Parrant (property which would later become downtown St. Paul) and moved to the lake that now bears his name. By 1850, about 30 families had moved to Little Canada.
Some twenty years ago, when I first became interested in our family history, I came across a record that indicated Amelia Trotochaud had been born in "New Canada" in 1851 (of course, now I can't remember the source or where I found it). Assuming this refers to Little Canada, it would make Amelia one of the first babies baptized in the St. Paul Diocese, founded in 1850.
In my research, I've found several sources of information on the early days of St. Paul and Little Canada. Each source takes great pains to individually name each of the families that arrived and the year of their arrival. J. Fletcher Williams' "A History of St. Paul to 1875," first published in 1876, focuses on the prominent businessmen and other early leaders, apparently very few of which were French Canadian. The French Canadians are given better treatment in "Minnesota Territorial Census 1850", (Minnesota Historical Society 1972), which provides additional information on the families found in that census. Henry Scholberg's "Les Pionneers Francais du Minnesota" names dozens of families that settled in Little Canada, including 14 French Canadians who arrived at Little Canada in 1849-50.
Interestingly, the name Trotochaud does not appear in any of these publications. How is it possible that Pierre and Angeline's family were overlooked? I have a theory. In those days, people like Angeline were considered "half-breeds", people who lived like (and sometimes with) Indians. Largely illiterate and non-English speaking, they were ostracized by mainstream society. As I will discuss further in my next installment, mixed bloods such as our ancestors were largely ignored by whites. To put it another way, while "half-breeds" were officially counted in the early censuses, when it came to early Minnesota historians, they didn't count.
June 27, 2015 June 27, 2015 / Mike S.	/ 5 Comments
On September 28, 1843, at St. Joseph's Mission in LaPointe on Madeleine Island in Lake Superior, Angeline Blair, the daughter of Margaret (Ma Chay) and Alexander Blair, married Pierre Trotochaud. St. Josephs was built by the famous missionary priest, Frederic Baraga. Originally from Austria, Fr. Baraga first came to the U.S. as a missionary to Ottawa Indians in Michigan in 1831. He established his mission at La Pointe in 1835. The church in which Angeline and Pierre were married was built in 1841.
As of 1843, La Pointe was well established as the center of the fur trade in the region as well as the headquarters for the American Fur Company. But the fur industry was declining rapidly as the beaver were being trapped out and European fashions were changing. In the 1830s, the Company began a commercial fishing business on the island. Fish were processed into barrels and salted down for preservation before being shipped to markets to the east. But this business line suffered growing pains and setbacks from national financial crises. In 1842, the Company suspended operations and a few years later went bankrupt.
La Pointe became an important government center about that same time. Treaties between Ojibwe bands and the US government 1837 and 1842 called for annuities to be paid to tribal members. The 1842 Treaty included the Lake Superior band members at Sandy Lake. The federal government began establishing agencies where the annuities could be distributed and other Indian issues could be addressed. One such agency was established at La Pointe. Here tribal members from the treaty bands would gather annually to receive their payments. Just as the few year-round residents of Madeleine Island did, the treaty band members lived the subsistence lifestyle while on the island, harvesting berries, wild rice, fish and game.
Also present at annuity time were the traders to whom they owed debts. Indian trappers and hunters were encouraged to buy traps and other supplies at the trading posts on credit before the trapping season started. As dwindling harvests, the introduction of whisky and unfair trading terms took their toll, Indians often fell hopelessly in debt. This resulted in the traders' bills being payed as part of the treaties and the traders benefiting from the annuities more than the Indians did.
All of this information serves as background when considering the question of how and where Pierre and Angeline met. Was Pierre employed by the Company at La Pointe? Perhaps Alexander Blair was a fur company employee or an independent trader who had moved his family to La Pointe from Sandy Lake. Or, after Alexander died, Margaret moved her children there so they could find work. A check of the burial records for St. Joseph's Mission (dating back to 1835) does not list any Blairs. I have yet to check the church's baptismal records.
Margaret and her family may have remained at Sandy Lake, and only traveled to La Pointe for the annuity payment. As many as a couple thousand Indians would gather at La Pointe to await the payments. When there were delays in the arrival of the payments and other treaty goods, the bands would head out for the trapping and hunting season without their supplies. Because the band members had to be present to accept the payments and goods, the traders were not able to benefit.
A third possibility is that Pierre met Angeline while he was working at Sandy Lake or nearby Fond du Lac. Further research into fur company payroll records might verify where and when he worked in the fur trade. Under this scenario, they would have traveled together, perhaps at the time of an annuity payment, to La Pointe to be married in the church. This would suggest some devotion to the faith on their part, as many marriages between white men and Indian women in those days were informal and not officially recorded.
Pierre was about 28 years old and Angeline about 24 when they got married. Although it is possible theirs was originally a marriage of convenience to facilitate trade, they remained committed to each other the rest of their lives, until Pierre's death in 1906. Their marriage endured personal tragedy, involved two homesteading efforts, and witnessed a tremendous amount of change in the Indian world as white settlement became an overwhelming tide.
On June 27, 1839, a man named Pierre Trotochaud entered the United States from Canada (according to a "Declaration of Intent" filed ten years later to become an American citizen). Pierre was born in Maskinonge, Quebec around 1815. Maskinonge, located between Montreal and Quebec City on the St. Lawrence River, was one of the communities where the fur trading companies recruited voyageurs, at least in the early days of the fur trade. Whether or not this practice still was occurring in Pierre's day, furs were still being moved along the St. Lawrence and opportunities to work in the fur trade were still available to young men looking for adventure.
Unfortunately, the location where Pierre entered the U.S. is not known and could have been any number of places. However, having read up on the history of the Great Lakes region at that time, and having identified the places where Pierre later showed up in and around Minnesota, I think there are three main ways Pierre could have entered the country.
One was at Ft. Michilimackinac, which was an important port of entry for the fur trade at that time. Michilimackinac was located on an island in Lake Huron, at the mouth of the St. Marys River, which flowed out of Lake Superior. Trade goods moved through Michilimackinac, up the St. Marys to Sault Ste. Marie and on to Lake Superior. Trade goods and people were moved across Lake Superior largely by small boats called bateaux, which were wooden, approximately 40 ft long and rowed by a crew of 5 or more. Occasionally these boats were fitted with sails. Birch back canoes were also still in use, mainly for shorter trips along the coasts.
In those days, the American Fur Company dominated the fur trade in the Great Lakes region and had its headquarters at La Pointe on Madeleine Island off the southern shore of Lake Superior. The company had docks, warehouses and stores located in La Pointe. According to the journals of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, approximately 800 people called Madeleine Island home in 1832. Schoolcraft estimated that only about 150 members of the population were Ojibwe. With the exception of a handful of "white" employees of the fur company, the remaining population were "half breeds". These were the sons and daughters (and grandsons and granddaughters) of unions between mostly French Canadian men and Ojibwe women. Such marriages were encouraged by fur company officials and if not encouraged, at least tolerated by Ojibwe leaders to facilitate trade.
If Pierre did not come through Michilimackinac, it is possible he arrived in Minnesota by steamboat. In those days, the head of navigation on the Mississippi was St. Peter's Landing, below Fort Snelling. He could have boarded a steamboat in Prairie du Chien, a fur trading center on the Wisconsin side of the river, or perhaps he boarded at St. Louis, also a major trading center. Many other French Canadians who entered the US at that time landed at St. Peters.
This brings us to the third theory of Pierre's arrival. He may have relocated from the Red River Colony, traveling what would soon become one of the Oxcart Trails. French and Scottish Canadians were recruited to settle the colony, located near present-day Winnipeg, by Lord Selkirk and others, beginning in the early 1800s. Floods, grasshopper plagues, isolation and other problems made life in the Colony very difficult and led to many of the settlers returning to eastern Canada or emigrating into the US.
Whether Pierre arrived by land or by water at St Peters, he would have found a few makeshift dwellings around the fort and not much else. The inhabitants were mainly French Canadian and mixed blood hunters, trappers and traders. Around that time the US Army began its efforts to move all civilians off the post property. The Army was concerned about a possible Indian attack, did not completely trust the mixed bloods and did not want their dwellings to provide cover for attackers. In 1840, the Army finally removed the remaining squatters by force and burned their buildings. One of those forced out was "Pigs Eye" Parrant, who was just getting his tavern business started. The place downstream from the fort where he relocated was the beginnings of a village originally named Pigs Eye, which later became St. Paul.
Regardless of how Pierre came to what is now Minnesota, it seems clear that he was involved in the fur trade. Given he was about 24 years old, it is possible he began working when he was much younger, perhaps in a warehouse back in Canada. That may have led to a similar job at La Pointe. Alternatively, he may have met and gone to work for one of the major players in the fur trade, who were often conducting business in and around Fort Snelling. These would have included Henry Sibley, William Morrow Rice (who also arrived at St. Peters in 1839), and others.
His work in the fur trade led to meeting a mixed-blood woman from Sandy Lake named Angeline who would be his wife.
May 10, 2015 June 13, 2015 / Mike S.	/ 5 Comments
My family's Ojibwe ancestry has been traced back to a woman named Margaret or Ma Chay, who was born around 1800 at Sandy Lake, which was a major Ojibwe village located in what is now northeast Minnesota in the 18th and early 19th century. According to Anton Treuer's book The Assassination of Hole in the Day, Hole in the Day the Elder was a prominent chief at Sandy Lake and his son Hole in the Day the Younger was born there.
Sandy Lake was also the site of important trading posts during the fur trade era. In 1794 the Northwest Company established a post on the west shore of the lake that remained in operation until after the War of 1812. A law passed in 1816 required all trading with Indians be conducted by American citizens, which forced the Northwest Company to sell its holdings in the U.S. to John Jacob Astor. Astor's American Fur Company operated the old fort for several years before establishing a new fort on the Sandy River, which connects Sandy Lake to the Mississippi. Several other independent trading houses also may have existed in the area.
The trading posts are important to our family's story because it is likely that Margaret met Alexander Blair at one these posts. According to government records, Blair is listed as the father of Margaret's four children: Angeline (born 1819), Antoine (1827?), Edward (1829?) and Alex (1840?). Given the time span between the oldest and youngest, it appears that Margaret and Alexander had a long-term relationship.
Unfortunately, I have found no solid information for Alexander beyond his name. Having read as much as I can about the fur trade in the early 19th century, including employee lists of the trading companies, I have yet to find any mention of him. I have found other potential clues. There was an Alexander Blair who served in Canada in the British army during the War of 1812. Is it possible that our Alexander stayed behind after the war? There are also a couple of Alexander Blairs who show up in city directories for Detroit and other cities in Michigan and upstate New York in the 1840s and 1850s. Was our Alexander one of many white men who, after making their fortune in the fur trade, abandoned their native families and returned to "civilization" to start another life? It is unlikely that I will find any connections between these men and our family, but I'll keep looking.
Unfortunately, there is also little information about Margaret. Her name shows up in the "Half-Breed Scrip" report, which investigated the use of scrip to issue land claims under the 1854 Treaty. The investigating commission had as one of their sources a trader named Peter Roy, who claimed to know Margaret. Roy stated that she and her three children who filed claims for scrip in 1864 were from Sandy Lake and were mixed blood Ojibwe of Lake Superior. The commission ruled that Margaret was not eligible for scrip because Margaret was married before 1854, and therefore was not a head of household when the treaty was signed. Apparently, because Margaret was ineligible for scrip, the claims of her children were also rejected. Census records indicate that Margaret lived with one of her sons through at least 1870 and the sons and her daughter all settled together at Little Rock Lake north of present-day Sauk Rapids (the next part of the story will be in a future post).
My sense is that Alexander Blair died at Sandy Lake. I have no way of verifying this, of course. The burial grounds at Sandy Lake have long since been covered up by lake homes and condos. Or was he buried along side a trail or portage somewhere? Did he drown? There are many possibilities, all of which suggest Alexander Blair was one of many men involved in the fur trade who are lost to history.
May 2, 2015 June 27, 2015 / Mike S.	/ 2 Comments
Ok, so I was going to write an "epic" historical novel about my French-Canadian and Ojibwe ancestors. I came up with an opening scene and wrote the first few paragraphs. I had a general idea where I wanted to go with it, but then I stopped. Maybe I was just scared, but the right side of my brain was telling me it was not practical for me to write a novel to share on this blog.
I know almost nothing about writing fiction, and my attempts to date have been painstaking. I need to give myself time to learn how to write fiction without the pressure of any deadline or specific goal. I need to start out on a smaller scale, join a writing group, do some workshops, etc. At least that is what I have read about other writers starting out. Mostly, I need to find out if I am any good at it.
But I have all this information about my ancestors that I really want to share. I decided I will share it in essay form. Hopefully, I can keep it interesting enough to keep you coming back for more. Bear with me.
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This Canadian food startup wants you to eat crickets. Here's why
Nutritious and ecologically friendly, crickets might just be the food of the future
Imagine if you could feed your body the protein of a steak, the vitamin B12 of a piece of salmon, the iron of a spinach salad and the potassium of a banana, all in one snack-size bar.
Thanks to Crickstart, a new Montreal-based food company, you can. There's just one catch: technically you'll be eating insects. Crickets, to be exact.
Crickstart founder Daniel Novak was weirded out the first time he tried crickets, too. The former investment banker and self-proclaimed health nut had heard that the insects packed a nutritional wallop, so he ordered a can of cricket powder from a Canadian farm and mixed up a smoothie for breakfast.
"I hesitated!" he recalls with a laugh. "I was with my girlfriend, and we said, 'Okay, three, two, one, here goes.' I took a sip, then she took a sip, and we were like, 'Oh, alright.' "
The taste was surprisingly pleasant, with "the earthiness of a beet and a little bit of chocolatey, nutty flavour," Novak says. He shared a photo of his cricket smoothie on Facebook, and was immediately bombarded with questions — many of them inquiries about how his friends could try cricket products for themselves.
Novak started making baked goods from cricket flour and selling them at cost to friends and family, but quickly realized there was a larger market for insect-based products.
"I was amazed at the spark the topic lit in people," he says. "It brought them out of their comfort zone in a way that was uncomfortable but touched on their concerns about food from an environmental and a health perspective."
Novak teamed up with a couple of business partners, and in 2016 founded Crickstart, which now sells snack bars, crackers and smoothie mix online and in health food stores across Canada. Come February, Crickstart products will also be available at Bulk Barn stores nationwide. Every ingredient the company uses is certified organic, including the crickets, which are farmed near Peterborough, Ont., and their products are also gluten-free and dairy-free. Novak has since made it his mission to convince as many Canadians as possible that the benefits of eating crickets far outweigh the mental ick factor.
By dry weight, crickets have twice the protein of beef, twice the calcium of milk, twice the iron of spinach, and seven times more vitamin B12 than salmon.
Cricket farming also has a tiny ecological footprint, requiring 2,000 times less water and emitting 80 times less methane than cattle. Crickets can be farmed vertically, and as a swarming species, they thrive in close quarters surrounded by large numbers of their kind, so they take up very little space. The entire cricket is processed for food, and their feces make excellent fertilizer, so nothing is wasted in production.
This makes crickets an appealing alternative for what Novak calls "ethical omnivores" — people who want to eat nutritious food that is raised humanely and sustainably. And really, he says, we've only been socially conditioned to think eating insects is strange. Crickets are arthropods, meaning they're related to commonly-consumed crustaceans such as shrimp and lobster.
"For me, eating crickets quickly went from being a pretty big mental hurdle to, 'How did I think that was a mental hurdle,' to, after a while, having a hard time remembering why I ever thought it was strange," Novak says.
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1 April 2006 POSTNATAL ONTOGENY OF MARMOT (RODENTIA, SCIURIDAE) CRANIA: ALLOMETRIC TRAJECTORIES AND SPECIES DIVERGENCE
A. Cardini, R. W. Thorington
A. Cardini,1,2,* R. W. Thorington3
1aHull York Medical School, The University of York, York, United Kingdom (AC)
2bThe University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom (AC)
3cDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Wash
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J. of Mammalogy, 87(2):201-215 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-242R1.1
Marmots are the largest extant representatives of the squirrel family (Sciuridae). Members of this clade are believed to have conservative skeletal characters and are inclined to convergence in species with similar size and ecology. However, this does not seem to hold for the mandible and cranium of marmots; instead, similarities reflect subgeneric classification or geographic distribution. To understand the pattern of morphological evolution in the genus Marmota, the ontogeny of the cranium is investigated in 7 of the 14 living marmot species. In particular, the role of allometry in producing intra- and interspecific differences is analyzed. Sexual dimorphism in allometric trajectories is found to be negligible, whereas shape traits that characterize a specific age are mostly allometric. Allometry accounts for an important proportion, although not for the majority, of shape variation during postnatal ontogeny of the cranium. Interspecific differences in allometric trajectories are generally small and the majority of shape differences in relation to phylogeny appear early in ontogeny. Thus, allometry might have had a limited role in producing the morphological variation of living marmot species or it might even have constrained the range of evolutionary changes in this clade. A very different role of allometry as a source of morphological novelties can be speculated to exist in earlier stages of marmot evolutionary history, when a highly distinctive cranial shape evolved concomitant with a 2-fold increase in size. Three sets of analyses are performed to investigate the ontogeny of cranial form in Marmota. Three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of anatomical landmarks are used to describe the whole marmot cranium in the first 3D geometric morphometric analysis of a sciurid taxon. Also, anatomical landmarks that describe the dorsal and lateral sides of the cranium are used for 2-dimensional (2D) analyses complementary to previous studies on the ventral cranium. Despite the complexity of the cranium, which makes it a poor candidate for 2D studies, results of 2D and 3D analyses are generally in good agreement.
A. Cardini and R. W. Thorington "POSTNATAL ONTOGENY OF MARMOT (RODENTIA, SCIURIDAE) CRANIA: ALLOMETRIC TRAJECTORIES AND SPECIES DIVERGENCE," Journal of Mammalogy 87(2), 201-215, (1 April 2006). https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-242R1.1
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Occupational licensing enjoys some political appeal under the guise of consumer protection, but it fails to achieve this. Instead it reduces employment, gives consumers fewer choices and higher costs, protects existing business from competition, and keeps out qualified people.
Now, if a bipartisan bill (Licensing Relief and Job Creation Act) before the Minnesota legislature passes, the government will be required to show there is a real threat to public health and safety before enacting a licensing law. Furthermore, if such a threat is found, the legislature must choose the least restrictive means to address the problem.
A Legislative Backgrounder on the bill, prepared by Lee McGrath of the Institute for Justice, which is active on this issue, gives an example of why the state's current occupational licensing must be replaced. After a tornado devastated parts of Minneapolis, a longtime customer asked Jim Dolphy to remove two fallen trees from his property. Because Jim didn't have a license for tree trimming and removal, he was fined $250 and prevented from completing the work.
In Minnesota, occupational licensing boards are made up of mostly licensees. There are public (non-licensed) members on board but rarely do they constitute the majority of the board. Obviously, they have every incentive NOT to certify new members, in order to keep the shared monopoly to themselves and keep newcomers from offering better prices to consumers.
Academic studies show licensing laws reduce competition and raise consumer prices by about 15 percent in Minnesota. Consumers are forced to pay up to $3.6 billion more for services, and economic growth is reduced by $1.1 billion annually.
This is not just a Minnesota problem. Nationwide 29 percent of all workers must obtain a government license for their occupation. This is more than twice the percentage of workers who must belong to a union (12 percent.) Today 50 occupations are licensed in all states, and 800 are licensed in at least one state.
A federal trade commission report revealed that the incidence of fraud among TV repairmen in Louisiana, which has a state licensing requirement, was about the same as in states where repairmen were not licensed—and TV repairs cost more in Louisiana.
A U.S. Department of Labor report said state licensing boards were "riddled with faults...fraught with chaotic and inequitable rules, regulations and requirements and prone to restrictive and exclusionary practices as a result of pressures exerted by special interest groups"—who seek to obtain special privileges.
When the Civil Aeronautics Board came into existence in 1938, it immediately certified the nineteen existing airlines then operating across state lines—and would not certify a single new trunk carrier over the next 40 years!—despite the enormous growth of air traffic during this period.
Under today's licensing requirements, Thomas Edison could not have been certified as an engineer, Abraham Lincoln would have been barred from practicing law, and Albert Einstein could not have been even a high school science teacher.


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Mass panic occurs at places where many people gather. These include events, festivals, football matches, etc. The risk map shows events attended by 5,000 or more people and held in a confined area. Violations of public order are, for instance, riots during demonstrations or violence at football matches. The risk map shows locations where large-scale violations of public order may occur.
What is the risk?
Panic in a crowd results in various risks. People may get caught up in a rush, be trampled under foot and suffocate. The cause is often something unexpected: a fire, a fight, a sudden change in the weather. Panic may occur if:
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Before you enter a building, building complex or the site of an event, familiarise yourself with the emergency exists or escape routes.
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In the case of demonstrations or football matches, the police can collect information in advance. This allows them to obtain a picture of possible violent offenders. On the day in question, there is a visible police presence at strategic locations. The police will act if necessary. The Riot Police [ME] are sometimes called in.
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Gen-X-cavation Special: "We Are the World" – Then & Now
February 17, 2010 in Cyndi Lauper, Gen-X-Cavation Specials, Prince, USA for Africa | Tags: "We Are the World", 25 for Haiti, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, USA for Africa | by genxsingalong | Leave a comment
Why isn't Barbra singing?
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Reagan was in his second term, MTV was in its fourth year, and lots of tasteless jokes about the Ethiopian famine were being told in middle schools around the U.S. But the world's biggest pop star and his trusty sidekicks were about to awaken America's long-dormant spirit of charity with an improbable pop anthem featuring the vocal talents and star power of a Top 40 rainbow coalition. For one brief moment, Westerners felt sorry for people in the developing world. (Then, of course, those same people all got AIDS, and folks got turned off.)
On the eve of USA for Africa's 25th anniversary, as if sent by Lionel Richie's guardian angel, came the massive earthquake in Haiti. For whatever reason (we could explore the social psychology of it for days), this particular misfortune hit America hard. Perhaps it was the Google Earth/Facebook/Twitter effect; perhaps it was Anderson Cooper carrying a bloody child through the ruins of Port-au-Prince; perhaps something entirely else. But before you could say, "Quincy Jones," a remake of "We Are the World" was being planned. And the speculation began: Who would be asked to participate? Who would be shut out? Who would solo? And how would Bob Geldof feel about all this?
Again, in a "synergy" every music industry publicist would give a kidney for, the new "We Are the World" was ready to be premiered just as the Winter Olympics were starting up. The video for this "Haiti Redux" was sneak-peeked just before the opening ceremonies, and shown in its entirety the following day on several TV networks. And immediately, the fur began to fly. Of course, the original version had had its share of detractors, mostly white men who cringed to see Springsteen and Dylan breathing the same air as Richie and Cyndi Lauper; why should this one be different? The media speculated on why superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z did not participate; now we know why: "I know everybody is gonna take this wrong," said Jigga, but given the original single's place in pop history, which he likens to that of Thriller, "I don't ever wanna see it touched." Music critics complain that the new version is "oversung" and too "Hollywood."
News flash, all y'all: NO ONE CARES.
Criticizing the concept, the singing, how the stars dressed, either in '85 or in '10, is ultimately pointless. Let's be honest: this is not a song. It's performance art. The fascination of the original had to do with celebrity meeting charity, with shallowness linking arms with seriousness. The fun of listening to the record was playing "Guess the Artist" as one solo gave way to the next – hell, stand-up comic Kevin Meaney made his career on his visual impressions of each and every participant. And most important: the record made money and engendered good will for people who desperately needed both. Let's hope the "25 for Haiti" update will do the same.
That said, here are my lists of the highlights, and lowlights, of "WATW" 2.0.
Hip-hop-ification: In the years that have passed since the original recording, hip-hop went from the fringes of the industry to center stage, so of course the update was going to include rappers galore. Luckily, they were used pretty skillfully. The added bridge, performed by LL Cool J, Snoop, Will.i.am and others, is my favorite part of the new version. Kanye's rhyming is also effective, not over the top, and allows him to demonstrate that he is capable of behaving in a sane manner. Including a T-Pain auto-tune solo is a clever and hilarious choice; and in response to the critic who remarked that Lil Wayne is "no Bob Dylan"…um, Bob Dylan wasn't even Bob Dylan anymore in 1985, dude. Relax, it's not a competition.
Big-voiced ladies: Making one wonder how the hell she was left out of the original recording session, Barbra Streisand brings a surprising amount of soul to her take on "It's true, we make a better day, just you and me." P!nk – a criminally underappreciated talent, IMHO – makes other, girlier, more popular singers look like chumps when she belts out, "There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives." And who else could take on the indelible Cyndi Lauper moment but Celine Dion? Moments like this one are why artists like her exist. She nails it. In general, the female contribution to USA for Haiti is much greater than that of USA for Africa (a full third of the soloists, in contrast to a quarter back in '85), but did one of them have to be the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls? Then again, that girl can really sing.
A super-hip chorus. Some old-reliables (Harry Connick, Rob Thomas, Brandy), and some head-scratchers (most glaring: Jeff Bridges and Vince Vaughn), but also a stunning number of ass-kicking original talents: I mean, India.Aire? Robin Thicke? Raphael Saadiq? Nikka Costa? Kid Cudi? Can they record yet a third version with all the cool, sexy people up front?
Freda Payne. I'm just glad she was there.
Wyclef. I admit, sometimes he gets on my nerves. But without him there, the record just feels like a series of platitudes. He gets on the mic and is in the zone…when the music fades out at the end and you're left with him chanting, "Ha-i-ti, Ha-i-ti" in a Kreyol accent, well, you get a little verklempt.
The ghost of Michael Jackson. No one else from 1985 got to reprise their roles, why him? Oh, yeah, because he died. I know lots of people like the use of MJ's original vocal, and Janet coming in on harmony with him, but this isn't "Unforgettable," and he's only been dead nine months. You say "touching," I say, "creepy."
Justin Bieber. I get why they used him as the first singer. He's super popular with the kids and still has a child's voice, so it's affecting and all. But I have a hard time believing anyone will know who he is in 25 years. Lionel Richie may not have had a hit in a while, but people still lose their shit when "All Night Long" comes on at the Fourth of July barbecue.
Tony Bennett. I adore him. I revere him. I think he has no idea what he is doing here. Like, literally, it sounds like he is speaking English phonetically. A shame.
Gladys Knight. You're thinking, "Gladys Knight? She doesn't solo." Exactly my point. She's in the studio, doing backup and handclaps, just like Vince and Jeff. Granted, there were several major divas, both male and female, who were relegated to the chorus (Natalie Cole, the Wilson sisters of Heart, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys), and the whole point is supposed to be to "check your ego at the door" – and Gladys did. But the woman is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She has had to walk ten paces behind Diana Ross for her entire career. This could have made up for just a little of that. But no, instead we got Jamie Foxx and Adam Levine. Just know, Sister Gladys, I got your back.
Now ignore everything I just said, and go buy the track. In fact, while you're at it, go buy a copy of the original too – I recommend the full USA for Africa album, if you can find it (yes, I own it…on cassette. It includes a killer Prince track and an even cheesier Canadian charity single. Corey Hart? Of course). Because no matter what your musical principles, "there are people dying." You can stand on principle later. Buy the record.
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There six bothies along the Southern Upland Way, some of which are maintained by the Ranger Service.
Bothies only offer very basic shelter.
You will need to supply your own water.
Bothies, due to their remoteness do not have toilet facilities.
Bothies are not staffed and the condition of the bothy very much depends upon the previous users so please leave them as you would like to find them.
Firewood is sometimes available, however, this depends upon the generosity of the previous occupants.
The Mountain Bothy Association (MBA) was founded in 1965 to maintain simple unlocked shelters in remote places throughout country.


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When I was in Japan last time I kept seeing Cremia everywhere but I kept thinking I'll get it tomorrow and when I was looking for it I couldn't find it. So this time when I saw Cremia I frigging made sure I got it, even if it was at 9am in the morning. Holy frigging gosh, it's so frigging creamy and the best soft serve I've had in my life. What other places should I tick off my list?