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To live more simply is to unburden our lives -- to live more lightly, cleanly, aerodynamically. It is to establish a more direct, unpretentious and unencumbered relationship with all aspects of our lives: the things that we consume, the work that we do, our relationships with others, our connections with nature and the cosmos, and more. --Duane Elgin
A Dollar A Year CEO
Feb 19, 2007-- In a letter sent November 2006, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey announced that he would take nothing more than a $1 annual salary, donating the rest and all future stock options to the company's two foundations. "The tremendous success of Whole Foods Market has provided me with far more money than I ever dreamed I'd have and far more than is necessary for either my financial security or personal happiness," said Mackey. "I am now 53 years old and I have reached a place in my life where I no longer want to work for money, but simply for the joy of the work itself and to better answer the call to service that I feel so clearly in my own heart." (2770 reads)
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Aya Nakamura: Wayfaring
Saturday, Jan 15 – Feb 26, 2022
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Western Exhibitions is thrilled to present 10 new abstract works on paper—colored pencil on artist-produced handmade paper—by Aya Nakamura in her first show, Wayfaring, at the gallery. The show opens on Saturday, January 15 and will run through February 26, 2022. Appointments are not necessary; masks are mandatory; gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11am to 6pm.
Aya Nakamura borrows the show's title from Tim Ingold's Lines, a book that proposes a taxonomy of lines across different cultures and time. For Nakamura, abstraction is a way of relating intention in the moment. It is a kind of wayfaring, or of following the signs and guideposts that reveal themselves along a path in order to arrive at an end point. Nakamura works in pencil, as this slows down time enough for her to deliberate while drawing. She thinks of each element in the drawing as a consciousness that engages directly with its neighbors and aggregates into a larger entity, like an anthill. The result is a series of encounters, a permeability of space and form, embedded sensitivities, and touch.
The drawings are colored pencil on handmade paper of different sizes and shapes, which have a physicality and assert themselves during the drawing process. Variegated lines move across, alongside and into fields of color, and these assemble into amorphous compositions that appear to simultaneously build and dissolve. Some have visual links to existing symbols and objects, which provide a starting point and focus. Their inspirations are various but orbit around a cataclysmic event, the passing of a loved one in the spring of 2021. They are meditations on death and metaphysics, and provide a space for questioning, grief, memorial, humor, and healing.
Nakamura's work is influenced by a philosophy of mind that does not exclusively locate consciousness in the human, derived from interacting with plants and following posthumanist research in biology and anthropology. Drawings like Dwelling, Wheel and Dharma Spin deal with Buddhist death rituals and beliefs, and with attempts to inculcate some of these values within herself. In other works like Where Is Your Head At? and Holes, materiality itself seemed to shift towards porosity, an overwhelming sense of things to come, or as Thomas Ligotti writes in his short story Alice's Last Adventure: "I felt intimations of a thousand misshapen marvels—of things going haywire in curious ways, of the edge of the world where an endless ribbon of road continued into space by itself, of a universe handed over to new gods."
Aya Nakamura has shown at venues in the US and abroad, including The Hangar and Dawawine in Beirut, Lebanon; Supa Salon in Istanbul, Turkey; Mana Decentralized in Jersey City, NJ; and MPSTN in Fox River Grove, IL. She is the recipient of the Denbo Fellowship from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and the George and Ann Siegel Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nakamura is also a member of Chicago API (Asian, Pacific Islander) Artists United (CAAU), and a board member of Spudnik Press in Chicago, IL. Nakamura was born in Japan and educated in France and the US. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently lives and works in Chicago.
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How Does TV Affect Your Relationship?
When the topic of shacking up comes up with my guy, he's got a big concern: A 60-inch flat-screen-sized worry about how we'll handle TV time. While he'd hunker down for hours after work, happily engaged in whatever animated rerun, sporting event, or Jeopardy! challenge he can find, I stick to a strict schedule of CW and ABC dramas, then promptly go to sleep at the unreasonably early hours of 9 or 10 P.M. "I can DVR the games and watch them when you head to bed," he so sweetly offers, "but will it bother you if we don't go to sleep together?" Through our own discussions and observing friends' habits, I can see how a TV can truly affect a cohabiting couple's relationship. Here are a few issues that can pop up over TV time. Remote wars. They're called prime-time hours for a reason. The hottest shows across networks and cable stations broadcast from 8 to 11 P.M., so it's likely you and your guy will vie for remote control at the same time at least once a week. Who wins—and who's relegated to ignoring social media until he or she can watch the belated DVR recording? Sleep schedule
By Jillian Kramer
When the topic of shacking up comes up with my guy, he's got a big concern: A 60-inch flat-screen-sized worry about how we'll handle TV time. While he'd hunker down for hours after work, happily engaged in whatever animated rerun, sporting event, or Jeopardy! challenge he can find, I stick to a strict schedule of CW and ABC dramas, then promptly go to sleep at the unreasonably early hours of 9 or 10 P.M.
"I can DVR the games and watch them when you head to bed," he so sweetly offers, "but will it bother you if we don't go to sleep together?" Through our own discussions and observing friends' habits, I can see how a TV can truly affect a cohabiting couple's relationship. Here are a few issues that can pop up over TV time.
Remote wars. They're called prime-time hours for a reason. The hottest shows across networks and cable stations broadcast from 8 to 11 P.M., so it's likely you and your guy will vie for remote control at the same time at least once a week. Who wins—and who's relegated to ignoring social media until he or she can watch the belated DVR recording?
Sleep schedule nightmares. As my boyfriend and I are finding out, the TV could lead to one of us—me!—heading to bed alone several nights each week. While I appreciate more than words can accurately express not being asked to watch every athletic event ever broadcast, on those nights, I'll miss slipping into bed beside his warm body. This separation often happens to my married friend, whose husband's sports screams can be heard from the second-floor bedroom at least twice a week. "Ear plugs," she says, "have become a necessity so that I can sleep while he watches the games."
Killed conversations. TV time can put a damper on quality conversations. Couples in the habit of coming home and exchanging pleasantries before zoning out for hours in front of the tube miss out on talks then might have in a TV-free environment. As one friend admits, "when the TV's on, we don't talk about anything other than what just happened on-screen." She also admits she's OK with that—as she says, "I don't need to talk to him for two hours each night." But for others, too much TV time and too little talking could cause an undesirable rift in the relationship.
Sexy-time slumps. A TV in your living room likely won't disturb your sex schedule. But a flat-screen mounted above your dresser definitely could. A friend who just bought a TV for her bedroom discovered her sex life has taken a nose-dive in recent days. "What used to happen was that we'd go to bed together, and one of us would initiate sex," she says. "Now we go to bed together, turn on the TV, and, inevitably, one of us ends up falling asleep while the other stays up and watches it. The one who stays awake isn't going to wake the other up to get something started, so we end up not having sex."
Of course, TV issues are tiny on the grand scale of relationship difficulties. Each of the aforementioned problems can be solved with a little bit of compromise and extra effort to keep your relationship spark alive. But it's interesting to me how something seemingly small, like TV time, can fester and truly affect the quality of your relationship—if you let it.
Do you have any relationship issues that stem from the TV? What are they, and how do you deal?
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Review: Holiday Classic WHITE CHRISTMAS Takes the Stage At Shaw Festival
The Shaw Festival is presenting their joyous version this year on the Festival stage and the result is pure technicolor heaven.
by Michael Rabice Nov. 29, 2022
Christmas traditions may come and go, but watching the film WHITE CHRISTMAS has always been an obligatory part of the holiday season for me. And for the past 20 years or so, audiences can experience Irving Berlin's classic live on stage. The Shaw Festival is presenting their joyous version this year on the Festival stage and the result is pure technicolor heaven.
The Shaw Festival began presenting holiday shows with A CHRISTMAS CAROL, HOLIDAY INN and now can add WHITE CHRISTMAS to the roster. The production values and talent is universally at a high level, and I believe some of the best dancing ever to grace that stage is being seen in Allison Plamondon's exquisite choreography.
The action begins on the battlefield of World War II in 1944 and two GI's present a Christmas show for the troops. Flash forward to 1954 and those two are now theatre stars. They cross paths with a sister act and through a series of hijinks they are all on a train to Vermont and are producing a Broadway show at an Inn in 5 days!
Jeff Irving is Bob Wallace, the sensible level headed one, who sings with a thrilling voice and dances just as well. Kevin McLachlan is the playboy, suave dancing man Phil Davis. Always looking for his next girl, he falls head over heels in love with half of the sister act Betty, played by Mary Antonini. Meanwhile Alexis Gordon is the no nonsense other sister Judy, whose statuesque presence and throaty singing voice command attention.
When McLachlan and Antonini pair up to dance, we are instantly thrown back to the MGM musicals of old. The two glide lithely in "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing." But the Act II opener "I Love A Piano" nearly stopped the show as the duo again takes center stage. This song, along with others, has been interpolated from The Irving Berlin songbook in addition to the familiar movie score of WHITE CHRISTMAS. It begins gently, adds a bunch of chirping chorines, ala Busby Berkeley, and morphs into a glorious tap dance number that sails along an onstage keyboard floor and up and down a staircase. The choreography is complicated, yet looked effortless
In ACT II Bob and Judy eventually fall in love, just like the other pair. Ms. Gordon looks and sounds drop dead gorgeous as she sings the torch song, "Love You Didn't Do Right By Me," as Mr. Irving sings the Berlin hit "How Deep Is The Ocean" in pensive counterpoint.
Jenni Burke near steals every scene she is in as the wise cracking Innkeeper Martha Watson. Her larger than live personality and smile landed every joke. Her singing voice was the huskiest gravel this reviewer has every heard, yet she knows how to sell a number. Her rendition of "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" truly exuded joy. When she paired up with the two gals in "Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun," the trio proved the power of a sensible woman.
David Alan Anderson is General Henry Waverly, the commander of the troops who makes a major life change when he opens the Vermont Inn. Full of bluster and authority, it proved the butt of many jokes from Martha. His visiting young granddaughter Susan (played by Payton Mills) got her chance to shine in the spotlight as she attempted to join the show. Her singing and dancing were right on par with the rest of the pros on stage.
Director Kate Hennig never takes the show too seriously and the light handed touch was appreciated. This isn't Shaw or Chekhov we're talking about! Some comic elements with the slower than molasses stage hand Ezekiel Foster garnered multiple laughs as played by Drew Plummer. The large ensemble sang and danced their hearts out. Each member was clearly given an individual personality, which made the number "Snow" more jubilant as everyone was crammed on a train heading to Vermont.
The entire cast looked smashing in the multiple costumes designed by Judith Bowden. The fashions of the 1950's evoke such a sense of nostalgia for that simpler era, but always looked classy, even when dressed down. High waisted trousers, pleated skirts and a myriad of patterns and colors lit up the stage. The purist in me did miss the long red velvet gowns for the ladies in the finale as they reprised "White Christmas," but that's a minor quibble.
Music direction by Paul Sportelli was crisp and his orchestra played the score with clarion sound.
I'm all for keeping this gem of a production in the Shaw Festival's holiday rotation. This year I'll skip watching that famous film with Bing Crosby, Vera-Ellen, Rosemary Clooney and Danny Kaye. This production was more than enough to keep a smile on my face for the season,
WHITE CHRISTMAS runs through December 23, 2022 at the Festival Theatre of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Contact shawfest.com for more information.
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Deze soort is endemisch op het Afrikaanse eiland Sao Tomé in de Golf van Guinee. Op het eiland is deze dwergooruil ruim verspreid en komt vooral voor in de primaire en ongestoorde secundaire regenwouden tot 1500 meter hoogte, maar niet op koffie- en cacaoplantages. Schattingen over het aantal exemplaren lopen uiteen van 250 tot 1500, de vogel staat daarom als "kwetsbaar" op de lijst van de IUCN.

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The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles and tendons that surround the shoulder joint, providing strength and stability. Above the rotator cuff there is a bursa, or sac of tissue, that covers and protects the rotator cuff as it comes into close contact with bones around the shoulder. When the rotator cuff is injured or damaged it can lead to inflammation of the bursa (bursitis), causing pain and loss of motion. Thickening of the rotator cuff and its bursa can lead to an impingement syndrome where the tissues impinge against the bones around the shoulder. This can cause pain and further damage to the rotator cuff.
While some rotator cuff injuries occur in younger people secondary to trauma, most injuries result from aging and degeneration of the cuff tissues. Damage to the rotator cuff can vary from microscopic tears to large irreparable tears. The symptoms of rotator cuff tears include pain, weakness, restricted motion, catching, locking and a feeling of instability. Rotator cuff pathology ranges from a normal, asymptomatic aging process to endstage arthritis and instability caused by the absence of the rotator cuff.
arm is loaded, such as picking up a stack of plates out of a cupboard. Overhead activities (pitching, throwing, tennis, or racquetball) commonly worsen symptoms.
How is rotator cuff pathology diagnosed?
History and physical examination are the best way to initially evaluate rotator cuff pathology. It is important for the doctor to differentiate shoulder pain that may not be coming from places other than the shoulder, such as from the neck or even the heart. On the exam, pain can be provoked by overhead maneuvers, and there may be weakness of the shoulder muscles. Although plain X-rays do not show the rotator cuff muscles, they are helpful to look for calcifications, arthritis, or bone problems such as spurs that can cause rotator cuff tears. MRI is the most utilized imaging method to diagnose rotator cuff tears. Exams can be used to look for tears, inflammation of tissues and to help determine the size and quality of the tear, which helps direct proper treatment. Injections and even arthroscopy may be used to diagnose rotator cuff tears.
What are the rotator cuff treatment options?
Alterations in activities and learning to use the shoulder in a safer, more comfortable manner are important. Physical therapy may help improve mobility and strengthen shoulder muscles. Anti-inflammatory medications and injections are used for pain relief and to decrease inflammation. If these treatments fail, then surgical intervention is a reasonable option. Arthroscopy is most often the surgical treatment of choice to remove inflamed bursa and impinging bone spurs. The end of the clavicle (collarbone) may be removed if it has impinging spurs. Often rotator cuff tears can be repaired with arthroscopic techniques. Other tears require a larger incision and surgical exposure. Some large tears, particularly those associated with resultant arthritis, simply cannot be repaired and require major surgical options such as joint replacement surgery.
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Hundreds protest in Times Square demanding removal of Ilhan Omar
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People are voicing their opinions about a terrible antisemite in Congress. Publicly – at a protest in Times square! But will this lead to any real change?
Protest in Times Square
Having a protest in Times Square is pretty common. It is the perfect location to get people's attention. And especially when it is an issue like this one, it is important to get EVERYONE'S attention.
The protestors called for Ilhan Omar's removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee. They held signs that listed a website: "IlhanMustGo.com," and "Ilhan Omar endangers America and Israel!" The group's mission was to put up a billboard requesting her removal. Although they did not succeed in getting city approval, they had a truck with the billboard instead.
Those Who Support Omar…
Ilhan Omar is an antisemite. That is so clear, it is absurd when people say otherwise. She has said completely antisemitic comments because she IS an antisemite! Omar has compared Israel to Iran. She has said that Israel hypnotizes the world.
And then you have people who say, "I believe that Representative Omar is a Progressive champion. She fights for justice and liberation for all of us…I think that the folks across the street have a vile, racist, Islamophobic agenda." That could not be farther from the truth. Ilhan Omar fights for her radical beliefs. That is all. And the "folks across the street" are not Islamophobic. They are not against Muslims. They are against RADICAL Muslims who are trying to take over the United States. That is something that EVERY American should be against.
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10.3390/rs13091683
Menon, N.
George, G.
Ranith, R.
Sajin, V.
Murali, S.
Abdulaziz, A.
Brewin, R. J. W.
Sathyendranath, S.
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Citizen Science Tools Reveal Changes in Estuarine Water Quality Following Demolition of Buildings
Nandini Menon
Grinson George
Rajamohananpillai Ranith
Velakandy Sajin
Shreya Murali
Anas Abdulaziz
Robert J. W. Brewin
Shubha Sathyendranath
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Nansen Environmental Research Centre India, Amenity Centre, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Madavana Junction, Kochi 682 506, Kerala, India
Fishery Resources Assessment Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Abraham Madamakkal Road, Kochi 682 018, Kerala, India
CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre Kochi, Kochi 682 018, Kerala, India
Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn TR10 9FE, Cornwall, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, Devon, UK
Academic Editor: Hatim Sharif
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(9), 1683; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091683
Received: 19 February 2021 / Revised: 23 April 2021 / Accepted: 25 April 2021 / Published: 27 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation and Sustainable Development in Marine and Freshwater Systems)
Turbidity and water colour are two easily measurable properties used to monitor pollution. Here, we highlight the utility of a low-cost device—3D printed, hand-held Mini Secchi disk (3DMSD) with Forel-Ule (FU) colour scale sticker on its outer casing—in combination with a mobile phone application ('TurbAqua') that was provided to laymen for assessing the water quality of a shallow lake region after demolition of four high-rise buildings on the shores of the lake. The demolition of the buildings in January 2020 on the banks of a tropical estuary—Vembanad Lake (a Ramsar site) in southern India—for violation of Indian Coastal Regulation Zone norms created public uproar, owing to the consequences of subsequent air and water pollution. Measurements of Secchi depth and water colour using the 3DMSD along with measurements of other important water quality variables such as temperature, salinity, pH, and dissolved oxygen (DO) using portable instruments were taken for a duration of five weeks after the demolition to assess the changes in water quality. Paired t-test analyses of variations in water quality variables between the second week of demolition and consecutive weeks up to the fifth week showed that there were significant increases in pH, dissolved oxygen, and Secchi depth over time, i.e., the impact of demolition waste on the Vembanad Lake water quality was found to be relatively short-lived, with water clarity, colour, and DO returning to levels typical of that period of year within 4–5 weeks. With increasing duration after demolition, there was a general decrease in the FU colour index to 17 at most stations, but it did not drop to 15 or below, i.e., towards green or blue colour indicating clearer waters, during the sampling period. There was no significant change in salinity from the second week to the fifth week after demolition, suggesting little influence of other factors (e.g., precipitation or changes in tidal currents) on the inferred impact of demolition waste. Comparison with pre-demolition conditions in the previous year (2019) showed that the relative changes in DO, Secchi depth, and pH were very high in 2020, clearly depicting the impact of demolition waste on the water quality of the lake. Match-ups of the turbidity of the water column immediately before and after the demolition using Sentinel 2 data were in good agreement with the in situ data collected. Our study highlights the power of citizen science tools in monitoring lakes and managing water resources and articulates how these activities provide support to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets on Health (Goal 3), Water quality (Goal 6), and Life under the water (Goal 14). View Full-Text
Keywords: water quality; mini Secchi disk; Vembanad Lake; demolition waste; citizen science water quality; mini Secchi disk; Vembanad Lake; demolition waste; citizen science
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Menon, N.; George, G.; Ranith, R.; Sajin, V.; Murali, S.; Abdulaziz, A.; Brewin, R.J.W.; Sathyendranath, S. Citizen Science Tools Reveal Changes in Estuarine Water Quality Following Demolition of Buildings. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1683. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091683
Menon N, George G, Ranith R, Sajin V, Murali S, Abdulaziz A, Brewin RJW, Sathyendranath S. Citizen Science Tools Reveal Changes in Estuarine Water Quality Following Demolition of Buildings. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(9):1683. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091683
Menon, Nandini, Grinson George, Rajamohananpillai Ranith, Velakandy Sajin, Shreya Murali, Anas Abdulaziz, Robert J.W. Brewin, and Shubha Sathyendranath. 2021. "Citizen Science Tools Reveal Changes in Estuarine Water Quality Following Demolition of Buildings" Remote Sensing 13, no. 9: 1683. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091683
Dr. Menon is Principal Scientist and Deputy Director, Nansen Environmental Research Centre India. Doctorate in Marine Biology from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. She has twenty years of post-doctoral research experience and nineteen years of teaching experience, has been conducting various national and international projects including EU-FP7 and H2020 as PI and Co-I, organised many international workshops and one international winter school. As a member of NANO (NF-POGO Alumni Network for Oceans), she is the Indian co-ordinator of projects funded by NANO. Her research interests include marine ecosystem, marine optics and primary productivity studies
Dr. Grinson George is Principal Scientist, Fishery Resource Assessment Division of ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi with PG in Fisheries Resource Management and Ph.D in Marine Science, Dr. George works on Marine fisheries resources using RS, GIS, numerical modelling and oceanographic observations. He was part of Chlorophyll based Remote Sensing Assisted Indian Fisheries Forecasting System and GIS based fishery resources assessment in Indian EEZ, National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture and coordinated the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship by the Govt. of India where he collaborated with Prof. Trevor Platt, FRS of PML, UK. At present, he is serving deputation as the Senior Program Specialist at SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka
Ranith. R received his Ph.D. in Ocean Science and Technology from centre of advanced studies in marine biology, Annamalai University, India. He is currently a Scientist at Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India). There he is working on research works addressing marine ecosystem issues and mitigation through geo- spatial techniques. He has about ten years of research experience in the field of marine ecosystem studies specialized on interaction models and ecosystem conservation. His research interests include geo-statistical modelling, prediction models, marine ecosystem studies, remote sensing and data analysis.
An advanced PADI certified underwater diver with about 3 years of experience in working with marine ecosystem studies. He completed his masters degree in Marine Biology from Pondicherry university Port-Blair campus.
Is a Junior Research Fellow in a DBT funded project - "Pathways of Dispersal of Cholera and Solution Tools (PODCAST) at Nansen Environmental Research Centre India. Formerly worked as social worker for paediatric oncology specifically for Retinoblastoma at Sankara Nethraleya Eye Hospital (SNEH), Chennai- being as a representative of NGO 'Aroh-Giving hope' for 3 months (August - November, 2019). Master's in Social Work from Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur (2019) and Qualified UGC NTA - NET in the subject Master of Social Work for Assistant professor on December 2018. Graduated in B.sc Microbiology (2014-17) from Bharathiyar University
Dr. Anas is an Environmental Microbiologist / Biotechnologist with PhD in Environmental Biotechnology (2006) from CUSAT, India and postdoctoral research in Nanobiotechnology from AIST, Japan. He is Principal scientist at the CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) now. He is in charge of the Microbial Reference Facility maintained at CSIR-NIO. He is subject Expert (Marine Microbiology) for India, contributing to the Second Cycle of UN Regular Process for Global Reporting Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment. He is the Indian project leader of DST-NERC sponsored REVIVAL project and DBT-NERC-JST sponsored PODCAST project. His research interests are microbiology and biogeochemistry of tropical estuaries, mud banks, open ocean and coral reefs. He serves the society through regular training programs; technology transfer of products isolated from sponges and mentorship of biotechnology start-ups.
Dr. Robert Brewin is a lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He is specialized in satellite oceanography with a keen interest towards phytoplankton studies, optics and citizen science. He did his Ph.D. in marine remote sensing from the University of Plymouth. He worked for 8 years as a marine scientist in the remote sensing group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and for the UK National Centre for Earth Observation.
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Jennifer Rubin: Hillary Must Stop Peace With Iran at All Costs!
Written by Daniel McAdams
After anxiously and incessantly angling for a hardcore neoconservative to take the Republican presidential nomination, the Washington Post's online blogger Jennifer Rubin has made the long journey home. Rebuffed by Republican voters who selected Donald Trump as their candidate, Rubin's gunpowder breath is now desperately seeking Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's ear.
Her message? This damned Iran deal is improving US/Iran relations and that is completely intolerable. "Hillary: Please bomb something over there," Rubin screeches, in her latest installment of the neocon chronicles.
Why is Rubin so hot and bothered? Well, Secretary of State John Kerry has dared to encourage some business investment in Iran after the nuclear deal has begun paying dividends in more stable relations. Doing business is always preferable to sanctions and blockades because it makes war less likely. Each side has too much to lose when there are economic interests at stake so each side will act with more caution. As when a Chinese incident with a US spy plane led the damaged US plane to land in China -- both sides realized that economic relations were sufficiently important that the potentially volatile situation needed to be carefully walked back from the brink of conflict.
War kills economic opportunities for the average people on both sides, but it also produces unique financial opportunities for the specially connected. Like the people around Jennifer Rubin.
Rubin is given a little corner of Washington's "paper of record," but she is either so ill-formed when it comes to the basic situation in Syria that one wonders why she has such a platform when surely there are plenty of better-informed high school students who could fill the slot...or she is purposely obfuscating from her little perch in which case the Washington Post is a witting party to her deception.
For example she writes this:
This week we have also learned that as many as 100,000 Iranian-backed militia members are fighting in Iraq...
But she does not inform her readers that these Iranian militia members are in fact fighting ISIS in Iraq. In other words, they are helping us defeat our sworn enemy. While Washington is pained to admit it, even John Kerry said not long ago that having so many additional fighters taking on ISIS in Iraq is "helpful" to America's efforts to defeat ISIS.
Rubin would clearly prefer an ISIS victory to accepting the assistance of an Iran that also views the establishment of an anti-Iranian jihadist Caliphate in its backyard an existential threat.
Again Rubin plays fast and loose with the truth when she writes:
Russia is expanding its alliance with Iran and influence in Syria in unprecedented ways. Russian planes are now taking off directly from Iran to bomb Syrian targets...
What she does not tell us once again is that those Russian planes are bombing ISIS and al-Qaeda (those guys who attacked us on 9/11). Does anyone else wonder why she objects to the Russians bombing ISIS and al-Qaeda? Particularly as the US seems to be letting them get away at every possible opportunity.
What is to be done, in the mind of Rubin?
[R]ather than pleading with Russia, we can make clear that we will be establishing a new policy of direct action against the Assad regime, including establishment of safe havens. Vladimir Putin has had a risk-free policy of aggression up to now; that should change.
So, Rubin would have the US attack a Syrian government that has fought for five years against a foreign, radical jihadist insurgency and directly confront a Russia that has the same enemy in the process.
Who's side is she on? Ours or the terrorists'?
Evidently we can partner with Stalin to defeat Hitler but we dare not partner with Putin to defeat ISIS and al-Qaeda. The neocons are clearly high on their own vapors. Rubin is first in line for neocon bong hits.
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Bats Lead in U.S. Rabies Risk
Bats are responsible for roughly 7 in 10 rabies deaths among people who are infected with the rabies virus in the United States, possibly because people may not know of the risk bats pose, according to the Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The large percentage of deaths tied to bats is particularly striking since bats account for just a third of the 5,000 rabid animals reported each year in the U.S. Rabid dogs that people encounter while traveling overseas are the second-leading cause of rabies cases in Americans.
The U.S. averages 1-3 human cases of rabies a year now, down from 30-50 cases per year in the 1940s. This decrease is largely due to routine pet vaccination and availability of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which combines rabies vaccine and rabies immune globulin to prevent infection after exposure to the virus. Each year, about 55,000 people in the U.S. seek PEP after a potential rabies exposure. Rabies is nearly always fatal if people don't get rabies PEP before symptoms start.
The U.S. rabies landscape has shifted dramatically during the past 81 years. Before 1960, bites from rabid dogs caused most human rabies cases in the U.S. Mass pet-vaccination programs and leash laws enacted in the 1950s significantly reduced rabies in dogs. As dog rabies declined, rabies in bats, raccoons, foxes, and skunks became more apparent. These animals have remained the primary hosts of the virus in the U.S., although any mammal – including unvaccinated dogs and cats – can get rabies if bitten by another animal that is rabid. Some animals that people may think spread rabies – like opossums and squirrels – rarely do.
Robert R. Redfield, M.D., CDC Director
"Reducing rabies in dogs is a remarkable achievement of the U.S. public health system, but with this deadly disease still present in thousands of wild animals, it's important that Americans are aware of the risk," said CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. "Rabies is almost universally fatal, and preventable if people know what to do if bitten or scratched by an animal."
Protecting against rabies
Staying away from wildlife, especially bats, is key to preventing rabies in people. Bats carry rabies virus in every U.S. state except Hawaii, and can spread the virus year-round. However, anecdotal case reports suggest that people may not be fully aware that bats pose a rabies risk – and so they may not seek life-saving rabies PEP if they are bitten or scratched by a bat. If people wake up with a bat in the room, CDC recommends that they assume they may have been exposed to rabies and see a healthcare provider right away to determine if they need to receive PEP for rabies.
Dr. Emily Pieracci, D.V.M., CDC veterinarian
"Bats play a critical role in our ecosystem and it is important people know that most of the bats in the U.S. are not rabid," said Emily Pieracci, D.V.M., a CDC veterinarian and lead author of the Vital Signs. "The problem comes when people try to handle bats they think are healthy because you really can't tell if an animal has rabies just by looking at it. The best advice is to avoid contact with bats – and other wildlife – to protect yourself from rabies."
Travelers need to remain vigilant
Americans who travel internationally should research the rabies risk at their destination, especially the risk from dogs, which still carry rabies in many countries around the world. Globally, rabid dogs cause about 98 percent of the 59,000 human deaths from rabies each year. CDC recommends travelers avoid animals, have a plan to get care if they are scratched or bitten, and have travel health insurance to pay for treatment should they need it. Some travelers may also want to consider pre-exposure vaccination depending on their specific travel plans. More information is available on CDC's Travel Health website.
Imported dogs pose a risk as well. CDC estimates more than 1 million dogs enter the U.S. annually, and 107,000 are imported from countries where rabies in dogs is common. Since 2015, three rabid dogs are known to have been brought into the U.S., posing a risk to people and pets who came in contact with them. Due to the robust U.S. public health surveillance system, these cases were rapidly identified and rabies didn't spread. Emergency efforts to respond to rabid imported dogs cost more than $200,000 per occurrence, but are necessary to prevent cases of rabies in people and potential reintroduction of the virus into the U.S. dog population.
To read the Vital Signs report, visit: www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns. For more information on rabies, please visit www.cdc.gov/rabies.
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Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte
Naples | Italy
The Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, located in a former palace built for Bourbon rulers of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily, is one of the largest museums in Italy. It offers a survey of Italian painting from Neapolitan and other schools from the 13th through the 18th centuries as well as collections of arms, armor, gold, silver, porcelain, and Ancient Roman sculptures. European masters such as El Greco, Caravaggio, Titian, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, and Botticelli are well-represented, but it also boasts a sizable permanent collection of contemporary art that includes large-format advertising posters from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and sculptures by Vincenzo Gemito.
The Museo di Capodimonte was founded in 1758 to display Charles VII's extensive art collection, most of which he inherited from his mother, Elisabetta Farnese. The museum's holdings were further enhanced by donations of art from churches in Naples and throughout southern Italy. Given its former status as a royal residence, many of the rooms, such as the chinoiserie-bedecked Salottino di Porcellana, are works of art in themselves.
For a slight fee, a shuttle bus takes visitors to the Museo di Capodimonte, which sits atop of the hill of Capodimonte, from the Naples city center. Museum visitors can also enjoy the Royal Forest of Capodimonte, a former royal hunting preserve that offers five major walking paths and dozens of sculptures and fountains.
(Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
Pope Paul III with his Grandsons, 1545-46
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. Photo: Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte.
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Thu.-Tue., 8:30am–7:30pm 1st floor
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Visitors should be aware that each room has different hours. Visitors wishing to see the Botticelli room, Borgia Collection, Armory, 19th c. painting, Mimmo Jodice photography, Contemporary Art galleries, and Manifesti Mele must make reservations at least 48 hours in advance.
Admission (includes shuttle to and from museum and museum entry):
Adults: 12 €
18-25 years: 8 €
Under 18: Free
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49ers will use practice fields again today
Aug 4, 2015 at 8:19 AM • --
According to San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Tomsula, the team will once again practice on the team's practice fields located behind their headquarters in Santa Clara.
The field at Levi's Stadium has once again come under scrutiny with the sod coming loose during practices that took place on Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday, the team moved their practice to the practice fields, which are located across the street from the stadium.
Last year, Levi's Stadium had the same issue during training camp and preseason. Levi's Stadium houses numerous events outside of 49ers practices and games. Numerous concerts and other sporting events take place on the field. The 49ers plan to re-sod the field following Taylor Swift concerts that take place in mid-August.
Jim Tomsula on #KNBR says the 49ers will be on their practice fields today and on the Levi's field Wednesday. #turf #grass
— Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) August 4, 2015
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The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Divisional round to advance to the NFC Championship Game next weekend, winning in a 19-12 bout after holding their opponent scoreless over the last 11 minutes of the game. However, their win came without a sack from their star defensive end Nick Bosa, who has now gone without a sack in two consecutive weeks for the first time since Weeks 16 and 17 of the 2021 season, playoffs included. Bosa had only gone three games without a sack in the regular season, but has now missed a sack in two consecutive games, including a zero-pressure game against the Seahawks last weekend. But, zero sacks don't mean zero impact, and Bosa believed that his performance was a good one following San Francisco's
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Director Kevin Smith
Starring Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Will Smith, Raquel Castro, Jennifer Lopez
When was the first time you ever heard Jason Mewes yell the immortal line 'Snoochie Boochies'? Five years ago? Ten? Funny, wasn't it? And that same unmistakable patois continued to be funny down the line, through five whole movies, but each and every time you heard it, the novelty began to wear thinner. Pretty soon, it only raised a smile - even tried and tested dick jokes were no longer belly laugh material. Eventually, you saw someone a good ten years younger than you quoting the same stoner dialogue, and you eventually realised... hey, I've grown up. And you know what? Kevin Smith has grown up too.
Jersey Girl is Kevin Smith trying to mature as a filmmaker. Gone are Jay and Silent Bob. Gone is the Quick Stop. Gone are the Jaws references, the fart jokes and the Cheech and Chong humour. If ever there was a bold move by a director, this is it - alienating your entire core audience by making a movie about the trials and tribulations of parenthood has to go down as either the bravest decision or the stupidest decision of Smith's life. Right from the outset, it's clear that this is a very personal movie - never the most imaginative soul in the industry, it's clear Kevin can only write what he relates to, and seeing as he's become a father in the last few years, it's obvious that what's written comes directly from his own experiences (in the same way that writing about pissed off convenience store clerks came naturally to him for obvious reasons).
It's difficult to judge Jersey Girl on its merits, because it's essentially an extremely formulaic movie, unoriginal, predictable and afraid to tread new ground. At no moment does the movie ever shock or surprise you, and it seems very content to tell a simple story in a simple fashion. However, what it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in charm, and this is mostly down to leading man Affleck. The Chin has long since proved he's capable of holding a movie together, but he's on particularly fine form here, showing a more sensitive side that complements his incessant mugging that passes for physical comedy - don't forget, it always helps reading words from the pen of Kevin Smith. Still, no matter how well he plays the parent, the first quarter of the movie proves he's always better playing the obnoxious asshole.
Smith also lucked out with the casting of the titular Jersey Girl, namely Raquel Castro, who looks all the world like a seven year-old J-Lo. She's got a toothless grin that's impossible to resist, and her scenes with Daddy Affleck and love interest Liv Tyler are suitably fluffy to the point of vomitus. In fact, that seems to be a running theme throughout the entire movie - walking the well-worn romantic comedy path, but stopping short just before you roll your eyes and stick your fingers down your throat. A particularly sappy ending may have you cringing (all it needs is an ethereal J-Lo smiling down from heaven giving her ex-hubby the thumbs up), but there's genuine heart and soul in the performances from all involved.
So, brave or stupid? It's a difficult call to make. You get the feeling that Kevin Smith only really made this movie to make a point and prove to himself he wasn't a one-trick pony - in that sense, he succeeds. However, what he's achieved isn't particularly impressive, and is only marked above your generic romantic comedies because of some occasional witty dialogue and some familiar New Jersey faces. Jersey Girl can be considered a success then, if only by Smith himself - the rest of us are happy to sit and wait for Kevin to get used to fatherhood and start being a geek again.
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Viral infection in acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Jun 15;183(12):1698-702. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201010-1752OC. Epub 2011 Feb 25.
Sharon Chao Wootton 1 , Dong Soon Kim, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Eunice Chen, Joyce S Lee, Jin Woo Song, Jin Won Huh, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Charles Chiu, Homer Boushey, Lisa H Lancaster, Paul J Wolters, Joseph DeRisi, Don Ganem, Harold R Collard
1 UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201010-1752OC
Rationale: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive, uniformly fatal interstitial lung disease. An acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is an episode of acute respiratory worsening without an identifiable etiology. Occult viral infection has been proposed as a possible cause of acute exacerbation.
Objectives: To use unbiased genomics-based discovery methods to define the role of viruses in acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Methods: Bronchoalveolar lavage and serum from patients with acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, stable disease, and acute lung injury were tested for viral nucleic acid using multiplex polymerase chain reaction, pan-viral microarray, and high-throughput cDNA sequencing.
Measurements and main results: Four of forty-three patients with acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis had evidence of common respiratory viral infection (parainfluenza [n = 1], rhinovirus [n = 2], coronavirus [n = 1]); no viruses were detected in the bronchoalveolar lavage from stable patients. Pan-viral microarrays revealed additional evidence of viral infection (herpes simplex virus [n = 1], Epstein-Barr virus [n = 2], and torque teno virus [TTV] [n = 12]) in patients with acute exacerbation. TTV infection was significantly more common in patients with acute exacerbation than stable controls (P = 0.0003), but present in a similar percentage of acute lung injury controls. Deep sequencing of a subset of acute exacerbation cases confirmed the presence of TTV but did not identify additional viruses.
Conclusions: Viral infection was not detected in most cases of acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. TTV was present in a significant minority of cases, and cases of acute lung injury; the clinical significance of this finding remains to be determined.
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / virology
DNA Virus Infections / complications
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / etiology*
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / physiopathology
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / virology
Respiratory Tract Infections / complications
Torque teno virus
Virus Diseases / complications*
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Tag Archives: Narration
Across the Great Describe
Posted on October 20, 2016 by Reps Admin
Interpret or Describe?
by Cannon Schmitt
The essay opens with a page spread from Alison Bechdel's 2012 graphic memoir, Are You My Mother? Cannon Schmitt then begins:
What do we require of these pages? Or, to anthropomorphize and so shift the emphasis: what do they require of us? Such questions are at once theoretical and methodological, and the potential answers are so varied that reducing them to any binary between x or y way of proceeding would clearly be insufficient. Nonetheless, at present one pair of options stands out among others: should we interpret or should we describe? Is our task as readers, viewers, critics, scholars, and theorists the interpretive one of assigning or discerning meaning, crafting a reading, making the object of our attention speak its hidden truth? Or is it, on the contrary, the descriptive one of limning all the details, redoubling the object in our commentary on it, refusing the obviousness of the obvious by exhaustively accounting for what is to be read or seen?
I write "on the contrary" as though interpretation and description were opposites, somehow mutually exclusive. This is indeed how they figure in much recent debate. To take only one example, useful because especially explicit: in a 2010 article in differences, Ellen Rooney states categorically that "description as a mode of reading doesn't work at all." Attacking the "surface reading" advocated by Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus in the introduction to their special issue of Representations "The Way We Read Now," Rooney claims that such an approach—and, by clear implication, any similar descriptive method—naively "dreams itself free of . . . the conflicts that emerge when description is defined as always already a matter of interpretation." But it's superfluous to quote from the body of the article because all we really need to know appears in its title, which exhorts us not, as the state motto of New Hampshire has it, to "Live Free or Die," but rather to "Live Free or Describe." For its opponents, description equals death: death of critical responsibility, death of political engagement, death of relevance.
We have to go back the better part of a century to find someone with a comparably virulent antidescriptive stance. In his now-classic 1936 essay "Narrate or Describe?" the Marxist philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukács codified the aesthetic superiority of what he called narrating to describing. Although the distinction sounds properly narratological, as if it could be arrived at with recourse to categories of analysis such as narrative voice or focalization, in Lukács's idiosyncratic usage it has to do with something more elusive, namely a writer's stance toward a fictional world. Novelists narrate when they present a world in flux, riven by forces of change—change, moreover, in which the novelist and her or his narrator have a vested interest. Of necessity, then, narration is committed to action (including inner action: epiphany or disillusionment, for example). It also links every detail in a novel to the fate of that novel's characters. Narration admits of no filler. Description, by contrast, is all filler. Novelists describe when they enumerate the details of a world in which those details do not finally matter. Description treats as mere backdrop or setting that which, in narration, would be freighted with consequentiality. As a result, description amounts to nothing more than a kind of "still life."
Narrating and describing, as Lukács elaborates them in connection with fiction, are far from perfectly analogous to the critical approaches of interpreting and describing. Nonetheless, the overlap is significant enough to be instructive. To begin with, Lukács associates description as a fictional mode with death, just as present-day detractors (and even some proponents, including Heather Love) do with description as a critical mode. If his condemnatory labeling of the world rendered via description as "still life" isn't clear enough on this front, we need only consider in addition the assertion that, in the work of Émile Zola—for Lukács the quintessential practitioner of novelistic description—the problems and contradictions that vex a living reality are "simply described . . . as caput mortuum of a social process." Latin for "dead head," caput mortuum was originally an alchemical term used to designate, per the OED, "the residuum remaining after the distillation or sublimation of any substance": in its current, figurative usage, "worthless residue." Thus, in "Narrate or Describe?" narration and novelistic description admit of the same relation Love has posited between interpretation and critical description: that of "the fat and the living" to "the thin and the dead."
Animated, living narration; static, dead description: a stark opposition. But even as he wields it in the service of a partisan history of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary production (on which more below), Lukács can find no novelist who only narrates or only describes. Despite the either/or choice of its titular question, that is, "Narrate or Describe?" answers with a both/and: narration and description require each other. I call attention to this apparent contradiction not as an example of faulty logic or inconsistent positions but instead as a useful model for how we might understand the related opposition between interpretation and description. The point is not that we cannot distinguish between the two. It is, rather, that they depend on and implicate each other in ways that render jettisoning either untenable. That no critical description can purify itself of interpretation is hardly news: such antidescriptive absolutism is now so widespread in the humanities as to constitute a kind of truism. But the inevitability of interpretation's reliance on description has found few standard bearers. In what follows I make the case for that reliance by way of Lukács, Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), and, finally, those two pages from Are You My Mother? with which I began. Continue reading …
This essay is a contribution to our special issue "Description Across Disciplines" edited by Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best. You can read the introduction to that issue here.
CANNON SCHMITT, Professor of English and Associate Director of the PhD program in English at the University of Toronto, is the author of two books, Darwin and the Memory of the Human: Evolution, Savages, and South America (2009; paperback reprint 2013) and Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (1997), and co-editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (2008). His essays have appeared in Representations, Victorian Studies, ELH, Genre, and elsewhere. He is now at work on the sea in Victorian fiction and the possibility of literal reading.
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The Uncial Letter
Heroes come in all sizes and shapes and genders. They might be clad in shining armor or crinolines, spacesuits or wimples, bobby sox or sneakers. But the ones who helped settle the American West hold a special place in our hearts.
Perhaps it's because we watched a lot of westerns in our childhoods. From Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers to John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, in theaters and in front of the TV at home, we watched, mesmerized, as the hero on a horse vanquished the bag guys and (usually) rode into the sunset, with or without the maiden fair.
Of course, not all westerns had to do with cowboys. There were miners too, and railroad builders, and riverboat gamblers, and settlers, and mountain men, and… and…
A couple of our favorite westerns often get overlooked when we talk about our titles. Mostly because their authors are no longer around to remind folks about their books. We haven't forgotten them, though, and we hope you haven't either.
The Bitterroot Trail, by James W. Johnson, was first published back in 1935. It went out of print a few years later, but eventually the author's grandsons decided it was too good a story to be forgotten. We were honored and delighted to be offered the chance to re-issue it. Here's the story:
Bob Bainbridge found a gold nugget the size of his thumb. Now everyone in Idaho Territory wants to take it, but Bob is out to bring justice to the Territory.
Men with dreams of gold flocked to the strikes in Idaho Territory in the early 1860s. Some were lucky, but only a few people managed to hang onto their fortunes. The Plummer Gang jumped claims, robbed miners, and murdered anyone who got in their way. Until Pokerface Bob Bainbridge showed up, seeking the man who'd ruined his sister--and out for personal revenge.
From the saloons of Oro Fino to the tent cities of the Boise Basin, Bob follows the iniquitous gang, determined to bring law and order to the Territory and to save the woman he has grown to love from a fate far worse than death -- at the hands of Plummer himself. Only incredible courage and steely determination will win the day.
When Return to Four Corners appeared in our submissions inbox, we were initially skeptical. Another "classic" western (they are few and far between), but written in first person and in the vernacular. Would anyone want to read it? Did we?
We decided to give it a chance, and from the first page we were enchanted. LeRoy Williams could have been sitting across the room, telling his story in a deep voice colored by his Texas drawl. But we were quickly drawn into the story and the narrator became Will Ballard, speaking from the past:
The War is over, but some battles remain...
Will Ballard fought for the South, but he's not ready to go home when he walks away from Appomattox. Old wounds still fester and only time will heal them.
He joins a wagon train heading West, and finds a ready-made family. When events drive him away, he becomes a cowpuncher, just in time to fight land grabbers and a rancher who figures his land is more important than men's lives. Before he can make up his mind to go home, he's got himself a job building a railroad. All goes well until the carpetbaggers set their sights on it, and once more he's adrift.
On the move again, he hires on with a freighter and finds a temporary home on the seat of a wagon. Hard work and friendship finish his healing, and it's finally time for him to go home. Trouble is, those men in their fancy black suits are still grabbing land in the South and West. It's more than Will can take, and he's not shy about saying so.
Eventually he fights his way back to Four Corners, only to discover the same land grabbers and carpetbaggers at work, and a pretty girl who thinks highly of him. There's only one thing for Will to do: hold onto his home, keep the land, marry the girl. And it ain't gonna be easy.
We hope you'll read and enjoy these two grand epics. In fact, now that we've reminded you, perhaps it's time we went back and reread them too.
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