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Summer Break Fun Race #2 - Canam66 @ Riverside Ca
Started by Pepe Higdon, Jul 03 2018 10:17 PM
#1 Pepe Higdon
Pepe Higdon
Location:Daytona Beach, Florida
My revered team leader and I were discussing car choices recently for the upcoming Riverside CanAm race. As modest as are my accomplishments in the '67 GPL F1 cars, they are even more dubious in the cars scheduled for next Saturday's race. I scanned the choices of the memorable drivers of that era. Andretti (check). Donohue (check). Revson and Posey (check). Gurney (check). And then I saw a name I hadn't seen in forever: Masten Gregory.
Back in the day I was a close friend of Bill Scott, a world champion Formula Vee driver. After his career behind the wheel he settled in as the owner of Summit Point race track in West Virginia. He prevailed upon me for a few seasons to write an article several times a year for the track's magazine. In the spring of 1986, apparently inspired by a notice of Gregory's death in November of the year before, I wrote the following story. [Anticipatory apology to Don Dodge: I know in the first paragraph following I'm insulting your home town, but I was young and stupid in those days and used whatever material I had to make bad jokes.]
Summit Point Racetrack Magazine – May, 1986
I never met him and now that he's dead I probably never will. We didn't hang out in the same places. He was from Kansas City and I'm not — even if I were, I wouldn't admit it. He was too modest to have appreciated that attitude.
We did, though, have something in common: we could both crash cars with contemptuous ease, he at 130 mph in a Maserati at Nurburgring and I at 20 mph in a Nash Ambassador in the Zayre's parking lot. And while everyone in the entire known world expected him to die in tiny, flaming shards before this thirtieth birthday, he fooled them all and croaked a few months ago with a mundane heart attack at the age of 53. In the course of his uncommon life, he had outlived nine generations of multi-lived cats and 82 percent of the Flying Wallendas. He was Masten Gregory, King of the High-Speed Crashers.
He had earned his money the old-fashioned way: he inherited it. He was 19 and had one-fifth of an insurance company in his hip pocket. He could now afford his hobby of hopping up wrecks and re-wrecking them at speed. In his first two years of motoring, he spent about $50,000 — that at a time when you could buy an entire race track for $75. He got a Ferrari for $11,000 at one point, decided it wasn't up to form and sold it for $4,000. Recalcitrant cars would be stuffed in planes and flown to heavyweight tune-up artists around the country. He bought faster cars, smashed them at higher speed and bought more. One, a C-type Jaguar, he crashed and watched burn. Before the day was out, he bought another.
His wife, Louella, began her own career of sitting by the telephone, waiting for the call from the morgue.
Kansas City began to look small. Europe beckoned. Barely old enough to drink vin superieur, he packed up his growing family in 1954 and took off. At an age when you and I were worrying about financing a tank of gas, Masten was negotiating with Signor Ferrari dirrectamente. He would become one of Ferrari's best customers.
Without factory support or much experience in megaboom horsepower cars, Masten took to the continental courses with fearless abandon. He seemed not to appreciate the fundamental physical forces which tended to shove his car outward in corners. As a result, he rose quickly to the top of the Formula One Landscaper's Hit List as he mangled bushes, slaughtered shrubs, and felled small trees on tracks all over Europe. It made him only go faster. By 1957 he had made it to fifth place in world championship points. He was beating the factory teams.
Stirling Moss expected Gregory to die in every start. "I tell him this to his face. I've said to him, 'Masten, you're going to kill yourself.' He acts as if he doesn't even hear me." But maybe Masten did. He apparently began to realize that sooner or later he was going to crump so horribly that not even his own marvelous luck would prevail. The obvious answer was not to be in the vehicle when it (inevitably) left the pavement. And thus, in 1959 at Silverstone, was born the Masten Gregory Leap.
He was in a Jaguar, blazingly fast and wildly out of control as usual, when the car decided to commit suicide. It aimed itself straight for a wall at better than 80 miles per hour. Masten considered the possibilities. If he stayed in the car, he would surely die, though it probably wouldn't hurt much; if he exited, it would plainly hurt like a bitch, but he might live. He popped his belt, slid up onto the top of the seat, and walked off the edge of the car. A split second later it slammed into the wall and immediately descended into Metal Hell, belly-up with little "X" marks where its headlights used to be. Masten walked away without a nick. No one could believe it. This, after all, was Silverstone, not Lourdes.
Louella couldn't believe it either. She grabbed the kids, caught the next plane back to Kansas City, and divorced him, perhaps on grounds of his raving madness.
Later that summer at another English track, he walked out of another car. It blew up; he broke his leg. In Caracas he took a corner at 350 percent beyond the Mortal Danger Zone, bounced off some sand bags, and became airborne. While the car began to bank for a landing, Masten was unbuckling and trying to get out. Something caught, trapping him. The car plonked down with its feet in the air. Masten kicked open the door and crawled away unhurt.
Still he went faster. The next summer at Le Mans he was clocked on the Mulsanne straight at 178 mph. People had previously believed that irreversible nosebleed would occur at such speeds. The year after that, having crashed in virtually every corner at Nurburgring over many years, he won the 1,000 kilometer race.
And then, having gone fast enough for long enough, he quit. Maybe he began to see a skull and crossbones where his tach used to be; maybe he heard the conductor coming down the aisle, punching tickets and playing "Taps." He'd had more years and more crashes than any other driver then living. Masten hadn't beaten Moss often, but he had proven him wrong.
He retired in Europe. He had no real friends and his family was a memory. Of the last years of his life I know nothing. I have heard he got into diamond trading in Belgium. It would have suited his style. Perhaps he sat alone by a fire on a winter's night, rolling the gems around in his palm, the fire reminding him of the many cars he had incinerated, the facets reflecting light spears and memories of slewing past the Hippodrome Café on the Mulsanne at four in the morning, probably sideways and undoubtedly reaching for the harness release.
A small step for Masten; a giant leap for mankind.
Edited by Pepe Higdon, 03 July 2018 - 10:32 PM.
#2 Donnie Yourth
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Gregory's Lotus 19 arrives in the paddock at Mosport for the Player's 200, Spring, 1962. Of course, he won! I shot this with a very basic Kodak camera that was hopeless for on-track action shot but passable for static images. In the Fall, he returned to win the Grand Prix!
Thanks so much for posting the article, Pepe. A fine read of one of my heroes.
#3 Bo Bruce
Bo Bruce
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what an incredibly entertaining piece!
i remember Masten from back in the day, one of the few American racers ~ tho never to make many racing top spots, or articles in the mag's.
Bob/Pepe, more please ~
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#4 JMF
That's an interesting story, Bob. I didn't know much of it, though he was one of the first racing drivers I read about. All I could remember was he was a decent international driver from the US, he and Jochen Rindt were the last drivers to win the 24 Hours of Lemans in a Ferrari, and that the $11,000 Ferrari he bought was probably a 250 Testa Rossa that would have been worth a fortune had he kept it. I didn't know he was a crash king.
Thanks Bob.
Greg Taber
#5 Aljones
Aljones
It reminds me of one boss I had when I was a teenager, he was like a little over 30 years old with a wife and 2 young kids;
His hobbies where motocross in the summer and snowmobile racing in the winter; in both discipline he managed to hurt himself pretty bad at least once a season !
I do not know what made him realize that he better find more suitable hobby like playing chess or similar in 75-76 he raced in the "Volant Quebecois" serie that used identical Honda Civics, the car was brand spanking new for about 2 hours, enough time to reach Mont Tremblant race track for practice only to roll over in the first fast corner !
As a side note he was team mate with Gilles Villeneuve at Alouette snowmobile racing team in early 70's
Edited by Aljones, 06 July 2018 - 06:58 AM.
" Racing is Life, everything else is just .... waiting "
Let's see, how could the start of the race gotten any worse? I'm not sure there is a way. It looked like Greg slowed dramatically to avoid rear-ending Yannick, lost it, and wound up heading in the right direction in the middle of the track but lacking any measurable speed. Lowery and Simpson got by the dead-in-the-water Taber without incident, but Enrique Farina wasn't so lucky. He pounded Greg on the right side, then retired moments later.
At the same time that was happening, Claudio appears to have tapped Daniel Down in the rear, causing Dan to spin. The whirling Down and the miscreant Navonne ended up on the right side of the track. To avoid that pile, Alain dove to the left and in the process took out Doni, who, to his credit, had been on the brakes from the moment the Navonne/Down accident began. It wasn't enough. Yourth retired after being shoved off the track to the left.
So the middle of the pack, now consisting of Claudio, Alain, and Andrew, all got by the almost immobile Taber, but the backmarkers Bob Holada and your faithful scribe were about to put the final icing on this shit cake. Bob and I got by Dan, who was still pointing the wrong way on the track. I was accelerating after T1, one second directly behind Bob. Suddenly I saw him heave to the left, attempting to miss Taber. He didn't altogether make it, but miraculously was able to continue. Not so fortunate was your miserable Pepe. The first time I was aware of Greg's green car (my view of him being blocked by Holada's car), I was doing 102 mph. I assumed he was going about the same. Nope. He was doing 6 mph. I nailed him dead-center one second later, never even having had a chance to touch the brakes. Smoke began to pour from the engine of my formerly valuable car. I crept around the track cautiously, pitted, and did my SHFT-R to rejoin the race. Not so fast, Pepe! This is Pro level, remember? Fuck me . . .
One-quarter of the field slain in battle within the first 20 seconds. Is that some sort of a record?
#7 Bob Simpson
Bob Simpson
The Answer Man
VOR Admins
Location:Ottawa
Zowie! I forgot that the race was Pro Damage mode. I would have been more careful otherwise.
Yes, the start was a disaster but Michael and I were very lucky. I also cashed in on Yannick spinning, then crashing as well as Michael having engine or low fuel trouble to come home in 1st place.
We need more of these season-break races to re-appreciate the dangers out on the track.
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#8 GrandPrixYannick
GrandPrixYannick
Location:Netherlands
Interests:GPL, I think?? :)
Gah, what a throwaway...
I got pole by over an second in a car which I thought was more of a midfield car, despite 5 gears and good BHP (well, turns out it is best of the rest).
Neither was I much aware of what others were driving, but seeing Michael drove the 289 cu. McLaren (one of the worst) and Greg in a 333 cu. (???) McLaren, maybe I picked a somewhat overpowered car.
At T1 I noticed Greg spinning behind me, but didn't take the time to look at the replay to figure out what happened.
Apart from being slow due to taking the inside line at the entry, I don't know why.
Later in the first sector I hit some tyres and spun around letting Bob and Michael through.
I got the lead back after they made their mistakes and basically the race was already mine to take.
Unfortunately I managed to mess up by going a little too much on the inside of T1, clipping the tyres, spinning into the inside of the bridge and get violently flung to the other side, with one wheel less.
Way to throw away coins.
Well, that said, Targa will be a no-go for me because I'm attending a festival.
"Grand Prix Legends is a drug. I am addicted to it."
- Based on a quote of Harry Schell
#9 MGL66
MGL66
Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
GrandPrixYannick, on 07 July 2018 - 01:15 PM, said:
My rationale for car choice was that since the grid would consist of everyone including g1s, I would drive either the 289 McLaren or the Genie, just to even out the spread a little bit. But there were no restrictions, so there was no wrong choice. If you drove a car you liked, then you made the right choice!
But the 289 really was laughably slow in a straight line, I can tell you that! Under normal circumstances I was topping out at approximately185mph at the end of the straight. Some other cars were about 20mph faster!
What happened to me during the race I still haven't figured out. I ran low on fuel with 4 laps left and dashed into the pits for a refill. I don't think my calculations were incorrect, though. I think I noticed something different that went wrong, but I'll elaborate on that when I write my report.
#10 JMF
Pepe Higdon, on 07 July 2018 - 10:07 AM, said:
put the final icing on this shit cake.
That's an excellent description! My apologies Pepe. And apologies to Enrique too. He didn't deserve such a crappy fate.
I expected that situation about as much as Pepe expected that he'd be too fast at some point. Yannick often surprises me by how fast he starts. This time I was surprised by how slow he was. I was down 50hp and using a 4 speed versus 5 speed transmission. I expected he'd start much better than me. You can hear me lift quickly to set the car on the correct line. After that initial lift, I could have easily kept the pedal to the floor. Instead I'm lifting a second time to avoid hitting Yannick. I had enough time to keep thinking, "is he ever going to quit slowing?" I guess the answer was, once I get sideways.
I didn't panic but I couldn't figure out what to do with my feet once I lost it. It probably would have helped if I could have accelerated in a straight line once I was facing the right direction. I did try to steer away from the cars I could see in my mirror.
I was luckier than Masten. Being nailed by Pepe at a 90mph difference in speed, should have been the end of my day. I didn't think the car that hit me would survive. And unfortunately for Pepe, it didn't. I thought it might have been Doni that hit me because of his early exit but at the same time I never would have expected Doni to hit me so hard. It's a shame to see Doni's fortune was no better than Enrique's. After Pepe's "nudge", I slid on my top and barrel rolled several times to miraculously land on my wheels. Surprisingly the car didn't feel bad. It had suffered damaged but I didn't realize it until much later in the race.
I never took a good look at Alain's car but I did see a lot of it. I thought he was driving Gurney's car. He was running away from me on the straights with me in the slipstream. After a couple of laps behind Alain, I thought I should have started from the back with one of the fastest cars. At least then I could have passed and I might have avoided the lap 1 mayhem. It wasn't until several laps after I got past Alain that I realized my engine was suffering. Instead of 193 mph, I was only hitting 186 mph on the straight. No wonder I couldn't gain anything on Bob or Micheal. I sure tried.
I looked into the history of this race. I didn't realize I was driving about the same spec car as Gregory's. And I didn't realize his car is one of my favorites in the mod. I hoped I would get Gregory's car, the blue McLaren with green stripes. It's the coolest looking car in the mod in my opinion. Nope, I got the John Cannon car. One of the first cars out of the race. I did get some of the Masten Gregory luck. I survived a horrific wreck that gave me a handicapped car that was slow. Masten was out of the race after 20 laps for being too slow.
I was enjoying the driving until I realized how slow my car was. After that, the only fun was seeing how much easier the car was to drive with a little less power.
Congrats Bob and Micheal! I wish I'd have had a chance to try to catch you two.
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#12 bobho-in
bobho-in
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Location:Fort Wayne IN.
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Collision on the opening lap messed up my steering just enough that I never felt confident . Managed 22 of 24 laps. Great mod that wasn't on my harddrive till last week.
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
#13 Aljones
What a mayhem at the start ! Even though I slowed down a lot before the first corner, because Greg was sideways and not moving; I proceed to go around the left side then heard a car coming, I was already beside Greg when Doni hit me; I am truly sorry that it ended his race but I had nowhere else to go ? going around to the right would have meant an off road excursion to the beach
Then I braked too late in the dip before the left hand corner and spun; I just couldn't find first gear and was hit broad side since I was a sitting duck in the middle of the track ! I felt like a deer pin by headlights !
From then on I tried my best with a crippled car to stay ahead of Greg and Andrew and was relieved to finish fourth...
On a side note, just bought last friday a Logitech G920 coming from a G27, I loved the pedals, much more precise especially the brake feel but the shifter from the G27 does not work anymore in GPL ? anybody knows a workaround ? had to go back to paddle shift, not so easy after about 14 years with a shifter just hate sequential gearbox....
#14 MGL66
We 4 D1 drivers didn't distinguish ourselves at the start.
First Enrique crept off the starting grid by inadvertently engaging 1st gear before the green flag. If he had completed the first lap, he certainly would have been declared "DQ" for jumping the start. Given how difficult it is to launch his two-geared machine from a standing start, I would have lobbied the virtual Steward to just ignore it, but ....
Then, as has already been described, Greg spun avoiding Yannick. I, then Bob and Claudio made it through OK, but several others didn't.
Then Yannick spun in the Esses. I, then Bob squeezed through before Yannick could get himself pointed in the right direction.
Then I ran wide at Turn 8 allowing Bob, Yannick, and Claudio through. Four D1 drivers at the front of the grid, four botched first laps.
Then yesterday I watched the British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park and though "well, maybe we're not so bad, after all."
Anyway, the race that followed was interesting and fun, especially the first half following Claudio. I could catch him through the twisty bits, but at the first hint of anything straight, he was away like a bullet. The only way I was going to get, and stay, past him was if he made a mistake early in the twisty bits, allowing me to open up a lot of space before Turn 8. After Turn 8 I was hopeless. It was actually quite shocking to see the distance he could put on me on that long straight. Rather than find the experience frustrating, though, I found it quite exhilarating. Claudio's car was heavier and much more powerful -- clearly a greater challenge to drive -- but as long as he could keep his mistakes minimal, there wasn't much I could do to seriously challenge him. Eventually, by about lap 11, he made a couple mistakes that allowed me to pass and stay past.
By that time, after leading early, Bob had already dropped behind me and Yannick was in front. Then on lap 18(?) Yannick met with misfortune and I inherited the lead. I felt confident of the win. The car felt great (despite a surprising number of damage reports) and my gap to Bob in 2nd was big and growing.
Then on lap 20, my engine started sputtering while exiting Turn 8. At first I thought it was engine damage but in fact it was fuel starvation: a fact made crystal clear by the fuel pressure gauge. How could I have so badly miscalculated the fuel load? I've sputtered approaching the checkered flag, but never 4 laps before it. I needed a couple viewings of the replay to figure out how it happened. The slipstream in the CanAm66 mod is pretty extreme. All those early laps exiting Turn 8 in Claudio's slipstream saw me pulling about 150-200 extra revs at the end of the straight. Alone, I topped out there at 7250 revs and 185mph. If any car was in front of me, though, I reached 7450 revs and 191mph. All those extra revs ate far more fuel than I had calculated for, hence I ran out of fuel early.
(In hindsight, what surprises me most about the effect of the slipstream is that I was only ever close to Claudio at the very beginning of the straight. By the time we both upshifted to 2nd [or certainly 3rd] gear, he was already so far in front of me that I would have assumed that I was well out of his slipstream. Apparently I was wrong, but I'm not sure about what -- either lower gear/lower speed slipstream has a much greater effect on revs reached at the end of the straight than I thought, or the effect of ultra high-speed slipstream is pretty extreme in CanAm66, such that you feel its effect from a car very far in front. Compare any lap when I am behind Claudio to any lap when I'm alone and you'll see what I mean. Whenever he's anywhere in front of me, no matter how far ahead, I'm pulling extra revs and going much faster by the end of the straight.)
So I pitted for a refill and completed the final 4 laps to finish 2nd. Glad this was just a "fun race," or I might be mildly irritated! But I am glad to have learned something from the experience. This was my first CanAm66 race. I won't underestimate the effect of the slipstream again. Thanks for a fun and productive race, guys.
Good luck to you all at Targa. Two more intrepid Honey Badgers than I will be there to make fools of themsel ... I mean, compete. I, meanwhile, need to turn my attentions to brno49 and several other late season tracks on which I've never driven.
Edited by MGL66, 09 July 2018 - 11:59 AM.
JMF, on 07 July 2018 - 08:04 PM, said:
Am I reading this correctly? Look at that entry list! Thirty-eight cars actually raced, 5 additional cars showed up intending to race but failed to either start or qualify, and an additional 26 cars submitted entries but didn't show up! That makes 43 cars that actually took to the track that weekend out of 69 total entries received.
Can you imagine a GPL starting grid of 38 cars?
You read it correctly Michael.
54 cars started the 1967 24 Hours of Lemans. 59 cars started the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, and 58 cars started the 12 Hours of Sebring. 71 cars started Nurburgring 1000 Kilometres. And 63 cars started the Targa Florio in 1967. They had some huge fields back then. That's one of the things that always intrigued me about places like Targa and Le Mans. There were so many different cars to see.
#17 Bo Bruce
there were years in the 60s at Indy that there would be over 100 entries... and cost -just to enter- was 1500 (small now, but then, substantial..maybe 10,000 today?) many cars were there for "just in case" - others for parts, and a few, come 'bump day' would go to some unsigned driver to attempt to qualify. of course only 33 would start, but now there are rarely more than 33 (35 this past May)
I have a question regarding our CanAm66 race that relates to GPL in general. It's not really important, but this weekend's race has me asking.
We had three drivers in our race who were assigned car numbers for which my install of CanAm66 did not have the related mips. Alain (driving Penske #25), Claudio (McLaren M1B #91) and I (289 McLaren Mk.2 #86) all drove the generic car skin with no number.
My question is -- how does a server assign car numbers for any given mod? In original GPL a server will assign only numbers 1-20 (except for #4, which is reserved for the server itself). How does a server know that in the CanAm66 mod it must assign numbers like 43, 66, 98 ... and why would Bo's server have assigned 3 numbers which my install of GPL did not have mips for? Did anyone else show Alain's, Claudio's, and my cars without numbers?
It's not important in the scheme of things, and it's an easy problem to fix after the fact, anyway. I've already fixed the problem with respect to our just concluded race. I created the necessary files to give us three guys our assigned numbers, so the replay looks proper. If any of you want those files, I will post them for you.
Anyway, just curious.
i'm only guessing Michael, but possibly a patch? if i downloaded one, i don't remember doing it, but i do try to d'load and install those things when they show up
#20 Bob Simpson
Same here - No numbers on those cars.
I searched for an update that would be related to online numbers, but couldn't see anything. Reinstalling the mod also didn't change anything. I guess it must be an oversight. You might post your files in the CA66 mod forum at
http://srmz.net/inde...p?showforum=188
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Ballet Palm Beach's 'Nutcracker' blossoms in new Kravis staging
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Lily Ojea Loveland in The Nutcracker.
Not all that long ago, Ballet Florida had established a tradition of an elaborate and beautiful production of The Nutcracker that audiences here looked forward to each Christmas season.
That company is long gone, and along with it the Marie Hale version of Tchaikovsky's ballet, which had a wonderful bit of stage business at the end with Marie and The Nutcracker Prince disappearing at the end in a sleigh. Since then, lovers of tradition and this work have seen the Miami City Ballet production, which this year has been completely redone and will come to the Kravis a few days after Christmas.
But this year, another production with roots in a smaller theater has brought a production to the Kravis Center: Ballet Palm Beach, the Palm Beach Gardens-based dance school and troupe that has been getting bigger and better each year, in part because its founder, Colleen Smith, has made a point of creating interesting and original ballets for her young charges to bring to life.
Getting the opportunity to be at the Kravis led Smith to rethink her production, returning to the E.T.A. Hoffmann fairy tale that is the source of the story and recasting the dances to take advantage of a much larger stage than the Eissey Campus Theatre, where her Nutcracker has been seen in the days after Thanksgiving. For this debut week of the Ballet Palm Beach Nutcracker, the four performances moved to the first week of December; I was there for the final performance Dec. 3.
Two production aspects above all define this Nutcracker, which it should be said at the outset is delightful, engaging and is always the case with Smith, surprisingly sophisticated considering that so much of what she does has to involve children. And that's the first thing: Smith has a fertile and vivid imagination, and she comes up with good dancing and charming stagecraft at all times.
The second important thing about this Nutcracker is its star, Lily Ojea Loveland. She has always been an excellent dancer, and for close to 10 years she has been giving back to the company where she was trained, anchoring its story ballets and enabling Ballet Palm Beach to do more than just its educational mission. In this Nutcracker, she is in her element, able to dance locally on a large stage in front of a 2,100-seat house, and it gave her performance a kind of radiance and fulfillment that was plain to see and feel.
In this version, Loveland dances Marie in both acts, which works beautifully not least because this mother of two young children looks youthful enough to pull it off but because it helps her get across the message of Marie's first entry into the world of adulthood and real romance. Deftly supported by Steven Melendez of the New York Theatre Ballet, Loveland missed not a step of an elaborate and difficult series of dance moves that had every leap, fish dive and pirouette it needed to be a showcase for her as well as engaging retelling of this classic story. She was a perfect joy to watch.
Melendez was an expert partner but he also had a fine variation of his own; he is light on his feet and his long, lean frame gives him a sense of ebullience that makes him a natural stage star. Tyveze Littlejohn, who danced the lead in Ballet Palm Beach's Gatsby, was a rock-like partner for a wonderfully lithe Madeleine Miller in the Arabian dance, and underneath a great-looking costume (credited to a four-person team of Paige Sleva, Revelle Milligan, and Lisa and Karen Roraff), a swaggering Mouse King.
Smith's understanding of children and her feel for how they shine on stage was especially clear to see in the work of the mice during the battle scene with the toy soldiers. These mice were rambunctious kids, always trying something mischievous; they were as wiggly as the soldiers were crisp. While some productions have more menacing rodents, these were more like Disney cartoons, and it was thoroughly charming.
Similarly cute business came with the Chinese dance, which featured an impressive Aaron Melendrez dancing and waving two swords, and children dancing with a gorgeous paper dragon. Smith also had two of Mother Ginger's children refuse to return underneath her capacious dress at the end of the dance, dashing offstage on their own in impudent but cheering style.
There were also good solo contributions from Reinhard von Rabenau of the Minnesota Ballet in a powerful Trepak, Danielle Glynn as an elegant Dew Drop Fairy, and Brittany Bonefas as a strong lead Mirliton. Ensemble dancing revealed Smith's skill at corps discipline, with the Snowflakes (led by Miller) and Flowers giving the Act II proceedings a feeling of warm formality.
Sean McLelland's set was relatively spare but most effective, with an evocative snowy forest and a big moon in the sky making a lovely transition from the Stahlbaum dining room. Everything, especially the costumes, looked fresh and new, and the whole production was intelligently lit by Chris Pennington.
This was a distinctive Nutcracker that embodied all the strengths of a canny choreographer and a lead dancer who has long deserved to be better-known. Like all Ballet Palm Beach productions, it uses all of its dancers, from the tiniest to the special guests, effectively and smartly, and stands fair to be a repeat favorite at the holidays from audiences well outside its usual attendees.
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Vacuum pump (34322 views - Mechanical Engineering)
A vacuum pump is a device that removes gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity.
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2.1 Positive displacement pump
2.2 Momentum transfer pump
2.3 Regenerative pump
2.4 Entrapment pump
2.5 Other types
3 Performance measures
6 Hazards
The predecessor to the vacuum pump was the suction pump, which was known to the Romans. Dual-action suction pumps were found in the city of Pompeii.[1] Arabic engineer Al-Jazari also described suction pumps in the 13th century. He said that his model was a larger version of the siphons the Byzantines used to discharge the Greek fire.[2] The suction pump later reappeared in Europe from the 15th century.[2][3][4]
By the 17th century, water pump designs had improved to the point that they produced measurable vacuums, but this was not immediately understood. What was known was that suction pumps could not pull water beyond a certain height: 18 Florentine yards according to a measurement taken around 1635. (The conversion to metres is uncertain, but it would be about 9 or 10 metres.) This limit was a concern to irrigation projects, mine drainage, and decorative water fountains planned by the Duke of Tuscany, so the duke commissioned Galileo to investigate the problem. Galileo advertised the puzzle to other scientists, including Gaspar Berti who replicated it by building the first water barometer in Rome in 1639.[5] Berti's barometer produced a vacuum above the water column, but he could not explain it. The breakthrough was made by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643. Building upon Galileo's notes, he built the first mercury barometer and wrote a convincing argument that the space at the top was a vacuum. The height of the column was then limited to the maximum weight that atmospheric pressure could support; this is the limiting height of a suction pump.[6]
In 1654, Otto von Guericke invented the first vacuum pump and conducted his famous Magdeburg hemispheres experiment, showing that teams of horses could not separate two hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated. Robert Boyle improved Guericke's design and conducted experiments on the properties of vacuum. Robert Hooke also helped Boyle produce an air pump which helped to produce the vacuum. The study of vacuum then lapsed[dubious – discuss] until 1855, when Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump and achieved a record vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr). A number of electrical properties become observable at this vacuum level, and this renewed interest in vacuum. This, in turn, led to the development of the vacuum tube.
In the 19th century, Nikola Tesla designed an apparatus that contains a Sprengel pump to create a high degree of exhaustion.
Pumps can be broadly categorized according to three techniques:[7]
Positive displacement pumps use a mechanism to repeatedly expand a cavity, allow gases to flow in from the chamber, seal off the cavity, and exhaust it to the atmosphere. Momentum transfer pumps, also called molecular pumps, use high speed jets of dense fluid or high speed rotating blades to knock gas molecules out of the chamber. Entrapment pumps capture gases in a solid or adsorbed state. This includes cryopumps, getters, and ion pumps.
Positive displacement pumps are the most effective for low vacuums. Momentum transfer pumps in conjunction with one or two positive displacement pumps are the most common configuration used to achieve high vacuums. In this configuration the positive displacement pump serves two purposes. First it obtains a rough vacuum in the vessel being evacuated before the momentum transfer pump can be used to obtain the high vacuum, as momentum transfer pumps cannot start pumping at atmospheric pressures. Second the positive displacement pump backs up the momentum transfer pump by evacuating to low vacuum the accumulation of displaced molecules in the high vacuum pump. Entrapment pumps can be added to reach ultrahigh vacuums, but they require periodic regeneration of the surfaces that trap air molecules or ions. Due to this requirement their available operational time can be unacceptably short in low and high vacuums, thus limiting their use to ultrahigh vacuums. Pumps also differ in details like manufacturing tolerances, sealing material, pressure, flow, admission or no admission of oil vapor, service intervals, reliability, tolerance to dust, tolerance to chemicals, tolerance to liquids and vibration.
Positive displacement pump
A partial vacuum may be generated by increasing the volume of a container. To continue evacuating a chamber indefinitely without requiring infinite growth, a compartment of the vacuum can be repeatedly closed off, exhausted, and expanded again. This is the principle behind a positive displacement pump, for example the manual water pump. Inside the pump, a mechanism expands a small sealed cavity to reduce its pressure below that of the atmosphere. Because of the pressure differential, some fluid from the chamber (or the well, in our example) is pushed into the pump's small cavity. The pump's cavity is then sealed from the chamber, opened to the atmosphere, and squeezed back to a minute size.
More sophisticated systems are used for most industrial applications, but the basic principle of cyclic volume removal is the same:
Rotary vane pump, the most common
Diaphragm pump, zero oil contamination
Liquid ring high resistance to dust
Piston pump, fluctuating vacuum
Scroll pump, highest speed dry pump
Screw pump (10 Pa)
Wankel pump
External vane pump
Roots blower, also called a booster pump, has highest pumping speeds but low compression ratio
Multistage Roots pump that combine several stages providing high pumping speed with better compression ratio
Toepler pump
Lobe pump
The base pressure of a rubber- and plastic-sealed piston pump system is typically 1 to 50 kPa, while a scroll pump might reach 10 Pa (when new) and a rotary vane oil pump with a clean and empty metallic chamber can easily achieve 0.1 Pa.
A positive displacement vacuum pump moves the same volume of gas with each cycle, so its pumping speed is constant unless it is overcome by backstreaming.
Momentum transfer pump
In a momentum transfer pump, gas molecules are accelerated from the vacuum side to the exhaust side (which is usually maintained at a reduced pressure by a positive displacement pump). Momentum transfer pumping is only possible below pressures of about 0.1 kPa. Matter flows differently at different pressures based on the laws of fluid dynamics. At atmospheric pressure and mild vacuums, molecules interact with each other and push on their neighboring molecules in what is known as viscous flow. When the distance between the molecules increases, the molecules interact with the walls of the chamber more often than with the other molecules, and molecular pumping becomes more effective than positive displacement pumping. This regime is generally called high vacuum.
Molecular pumps sweep out a larger area than mechanical pumps, and do so more frequently, making them capable of much higher pumping speeds. They do this at the expense of the seal between the vacuum and their exhaust. Since there is no seal, a small pressure at the exhaust can easily cause backstreaming through the pump; this is called stall. In high vacuum, however, pressure gradients have little effect on fluid flows, and molecular pumps can attain their full potential.
The two main types of molecular pumps are the diffusion pump and the turbomolecular pump. Both types of pumps blow out gas molecules that diffuse into the pump by imparting momentum to the gas molecules. Diffusion pumps blow out gas molecules with jets of oil or mercury, while turbomolecular pumps use high speed fans to push the gas. Both of these pumps will stall and fail to pump if exhausted directly to atmospheric pressure, so they must be exhausted to a lower grade vacuum created by a mechanical pump.
As with positive displacement pumps, the base pressure will be reached when leakage, outgassing, and backstreaming equal the pump speed, but now minimizing leakage and outgassing to a level comparable to backstreaming becomes much more difficult.
Regenerative pump
Regenerative pumps utilize vortex behavior of the fluid (air). The construction is based on hybrid concept of centrifugal pump and turbopump. Usually it consists of several sets of perpendicular teeth on the rotor circulating air molecules inside stationary hollow grooves like multistage centrifugal pump. They can reach to 1×10−5 mbar (0.001 Pa)(when combining with Holweck pump) and directly exhaust to atmospheric pressure. Examples of such pumps are Edwards EPX [8] (technical paper [9]) and Pfeiffer OnTool™ Booster 150.[10] It is sometimes referred as side channel pump. Due to high pumping rate from atmosphere to high vacuum and less contamination since bearing can be installed at exhaust side, this type of pumps are used in load lock in semiconductor manufacturing processes.
This type of pump suffers from high power consumption(~1 kW) compare to turbomolecular pump (<100W) at low pressure since most power is consumed to back atmospheric pressure. This can be reduced by nearly 10 times by backing with a small pump.[11]
Entrapment pump
An entrapment pump may be a cryopump, which uses cold temperatures to condense gases to a solid or adsorbed state, a chemical pump, which reacts with gases to produce a solid residue, or an ion pump, which uses strong electrical fields to ionize gases and propel the ions into a solid substrate. A cryomodule uses cryopumping. Other types are the sorption pump, non-evaporative getter pump, and titanium sublimation pump (a type of evaporative getter that can be used repeatedly).
Venturi vacuum pump (aspirator) (10 to 30 kPa)
Steam ejector (vacuum depends on the number of stages, but can be very low)
Pumping speed refers to the volume flow rate of a pump at its inlet, often measured in volume per unit of time. Momentum transfer and entrapment pumps are more effective on some gases than others, so the pumping rate can be different for each of the gases being pumped, and the average volume flow rate of the pump will vary depending on the chemical composition of the gases remaining in the chamber.
Throughput refers to the pumping speed multiplied by the gas pressure at the inlet, and is measured in units of pressure·volume/unit time. At a constant temperature, throughput is proportional to the number of molecules being pumped per unit time, and therefore to the mass flow rate of the pump. When discussing a leak in the system or backstreaming through the pump, throughput refers to the volume leak rate multiplied by the pressure at the vacuum side of the leak, so the leak throughput can be compared to the pump throughput.
Positive displacement and momentum transfer pumps have a constant volume flow rate (pumping speed), but as the chamber's pressure drops, this volume contains less and less mass. So although the pumping speed remains constant, the throughput and mass flow rate drop exponentially. Meanwhile, the leakage, evaporation, sublimation and backstreaming rates continue to produce a constant throughput into the system.
Vacuum pumps are combined with chambers and operational procedures into a wide variety of vacuum systems. Sometimes more than one pump will be used (in series or in parallel) in a single application. A partial vacuum, or rough vacuum, can be created using a positive displacement pump that transports a gas load from an inlet port to an outlet (exhaust) port. Because of their mechanical limitations, such pumps can only achieve a low vacuum. To achieve a higher vacuum, other techniques must then be used, typically in series (usually following an initial fast pump down with a positive displacement pump). Some examples might be use of an oil sealed rotary vane pump (the most common positive displacement pump) backing a diffusion pump, or a dry scroll pump backing a turbomolecular pump. There are other combinations depending on the level of vacuum being sought.
Achieving high vacuum is difficult because all of the materials exposed to the vacuum must be carefully evaluated for their outgassing and vapor pressure properties. For example, oils, greases, and rubber or plastic gaskets used as seals for the vacuum chamber must not boil off when exposed to the vacuum, or the gases they produce would prevent the creation of the desired degree of vacuum. Often, all of the surfaces exposed to the vacuum must be baked at high temperature to drive off adsorbed gases.
Outgassing can also be reduced simply by desiccation prior to vacuum pumping. High vacuum systems generally require metal chambers with metal gasket seals such as Klein flanges or ISO flanges, rather than the rubber gaskets more common in low vacuum chamber seals. The system must be clean and free of organic matter to minimize outgassing. All materials, solid or liquid, have a small vapour pressure, and their outgassing becomes important when the vacuum pressure falls below this vapour pressure. As a result, many materials that work well in low vacuums, such as epoxy, will become a source of outgassing at higher vacuums. With these standard precautions, vacuums of 1 mPa are easily achieved with an assortment of molecular pumps. With careful design and operation, 1 µPa is possible.
Several types of pumps may be used in sequence or in parallel. In a typical pumpdown sequence, a positive displacement pump would be used to remove most of the gas from a chamber, starting from atmosphere (760 Torr, 101 kPa) to 25 Torr (3 kPa). Then a sorption pump would be used to bring the pressure down to 10−4 Torr (10 mPa). A cryopump or turbomolecular pump would be used to bring the pressure further down to 10−8 Torr (1 µPa). An additional ion pump can be started below 10−6 Torr to remove gases which are not adequately handled by a cryopump or turbo pump, such as helium or hydrogen.
Ultra high vacuum generally requires custom-built equipment, strict operational procedures, and a fair amount of trial-and-error. Ultra-high vacuum systems are usually made of stainless steel with metal-gasketed vacuum flanges. The system is usually baked, preferably under vacuum, to temporarily raise the vapour pressure of all outgassing materials in the system and boil them off. If necessary, this outgassing of the system can also be performed at room temperature, but this takes much more time. Once the bulk of the outgassing materials are boiled off and evacuated, the system may be cooled to lower vapour pressures to minimize residual outgassing during actual operation. Some systems are cooled well below room temperature by liquid nitrogen to shut down residual outgassing and simultaneously cryopump the system.
In ultra-high vacuum systems, some very odd leakage paths and outgassing sources must be considered. The water absorption of aluminium and palladium becomes an unacceptable source of outgassing, and even the absorptivity of hard metals such as stainless steel or titanium must be considered. Some oils and greases will boil off in extreme vacuums. The porosity of the metallic vacuum chamber walls may have to be considered, and the grain direction of the metallic flanges should be parallel to the flange face.
The impact of molecular size must be considered. Smaller molecules can leak in more easily and are more easily absorbed by certain materials, and molecular pumps are less effective at pumping gases with lower molecular weights. A system may be able to evacuate nitrogen (the main component of air) to the desired vacuum, but the chamber could still be full of residual atmospheric hydrogen and helium. Vessels lined with a highly gas-permeable material such as palladium (which is a high-capacity hydrogen sponge) create special outgassing problems.
Vacuum pumps are used in many industrial and scientific processes including composite plastic moulding processes, production of most types of electric lamps, vacuum tubes, and CRTs where the device is either left evacuated or re-filled with a specific gas or gas mixture, semiconductor processing, notably ion implantation, dry etch and PVD, ALD, PECVD and CVD deposition and so on in photolithography, electron microscopy, medical processes that require suction, uranium enrichment, medical applications such as radiotherapy, radiosurgery and radiopharmacy, analytical instrumentation to analyse gas, liquid, solid, surface and bio materials, mass spectrometers to create a high vacuum between the ion source and the detector, vacuum coating on glass, metal and plastics for decoration, for durability and for energy saving, such as low-emissivity glass, hard coating for engine components (as in Formula One), ophthalmic coating, milking machines and other equipment in dairy sheds, vacuum impregnation of porous products such as wood or electric motor windings, air conditioning service (removing all contaminants from the system before charging with refrigerant), trash compactor[citation needed], vacuum engineering, sewage systems (see EN1091:1997 standards), freeze drying, and fusion research. In the field of oil regeneration and rerefining, vacuum pumps create a low vacuum for oil dehydration and a high vacuum for oil purification.[12] Especially in the field of transformer maintenance, vacuum pumps play an essential role in transformer oil purification plants which are used to extend the lifetime of transformers in the field.[13]
Vacuum may be used to power, or provide assistance to mechanical devices. In hybrid and diesel engine motor vehicles, a pump fitted on the engine (usually on the camshaft) is used to produce vacuum. In petrol engines, instead, vacuum is typically obtained as a side-effect of the operation of the engine and the flow restriction created by the throttle plate, but may be also supplemented by an electrically operated vacuum pump to boost braking assistance or improve fuel consumption. This vacuum may then be used to power the following motor vehicle components:[14] vacuum servo booster for the hydraulic brakes, motors that move dampers in the ventilation system, throttle driver in the cruise control servomechanism, door locks or trunk releases.
In an aircraft, the vacuum source is often used to power gyroscopes in the various flight instruments. To prevent the complete loss of instrumentation in the event of an electrical failure, the instrument panel is deliberately designed with certain instruments powered by electricity and other instruments powered by the vacuum source.
Old vacuum-pump oils that were produced before circa 1980 often contain a mixture of several different dangerous polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are highly toxic, carcinogenic, persistent organic pollutants.[15][16]
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Q: error while creating a function similar to strcmp() I created a function that works like strcmp() - called compareString. First if else condition checks if two strings are of equal length. The for loop checks if each element of array a and b are equal and it stops after whole string is checked [ by condition i the if condition should check till countString(a)-1
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A: Your code needs some restructuring.
bool compareString(char a[], char b[]) {
    // strings not the same length, return false
    if (countString(a) != countString(b)) {
        return 0;
    }
    // we call this before the loop so we don't call it multiple times
    int len = countString(a);
    for (int i = 0; i < len; i ++) {
        // strings have differing characters, return false
        if (a[i] != b[i]) {
            return 0;
        }
    }
    // we haven't returned false yet so they're the same
    return 1;
}

Remember that when you call return, the code stops running immediately and exits out of the function.

A: The logic that should be used is
1.Read two Strings
2.Obtain the length of both the strings
3.If
     Length of two strings are not equal then return mismatch
  else
     Compare character by character of both strings
                     * if character not same
                        Return mismatch
                    * else
                         Return string matches

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'I can no longer just do nothing': Santa Fe High School student activist adjusts to life at UT
Undeclared freshman Kennedy Rodriguez received a call from her friend warning her to not go to school during the Santa Fe High School shooting in May. Rodriguez co-founded Orange Generation to increase awareness of gun violence and raise money for victims and their families of the Santa Fe Shooting.
Photo Credit: Juan Figueroa | Daily Texan Staff
Published on September 6, 2018 at 12:50 am
By Megan Menchaca
Like many students, undeclared freshman Kennedy Rodriguez spent her senior year enrolled in dual credit classes in a community college before she attended UT.
Because of this, Rodriguez attended high school later in the day. She would have likely been sitting in one of those dual credit classes on the morning of May 18, 2018, if her community college had not wrapped up for the spring semester. At 7:30 a.m. that morning, Rodriguez was still getting ready for school when she got a call from one of her friends.
"She was just like, 'Please don't come to school,'" Rodriguez said. "She said, 'I have a feeling that there is an active shooter,' and I immediately called my best friend. I was worried about her because I knew she was there that day."
By the time her best friend finally answered the phone, the eighth deadliest school shooting to take place in the United States had already begun at her school, Santa Fe High School.
"I could hear people screaming and it was just chaos in the background," Rodriguez said. "It was really, really scary. For the rest of day, I was just watching the news and I was just completely emotionally unavailable."
Less than four months after the shooting, which killed 10 people and injured 13 others, Rodriguez is now attending classes at UT. She said she often thinks about what she would do if a shooter came into one of her classes.
"I was sitting in my literature class last week and my initial thought was like, "Okay, what if something were to happen? Where would I go?'" Rodriguez said. "I don't really think a lot of people think about that on a daily basis."
Selina Eshraghi, one of the organizers of March for Our Lives Austin, said she reached out to victims of the Santa Fe shooting, including Rodriguez, because she understands the effects gun violence could have on a person.
"I know that the recovery process is incredibly difficult emotionally," said Eshraghi, a chemical engineering and radio-television-film sophomore. "I gave Kennedy a lot of advice about coming to campus as a freshman, especially as she's trying to get involved with all of the gun violence prevention efforts that have been happening here in Austin."
Rodriguez previously attended the national March for Our Lives event in Washington D.C and co-organized a demonstration during the National School Walkout. In the days following the shooting, Rodriguez co-founded the Orange Generation to increase awareness of gun violence and raise money for the Santa Fe victims and their families.
"We picked the name Orange Generation because orange is the color for gun violence and because the all of the co-founders realized that most of us were born around the time when the Columbine shooting happened," Rodriguez said.
Kelly Choi, one of the co-founders of the Orange Generation, lived in the Houston area and became friends with Rodriguez shortly after the shooting. The two quickly realized they would both be attending UT in the fall.
"Because of a horrible tragedy, we went from being strangers to friends to classmates," said Choi, an English and government freshman. "Right now, we're still trying to adjust to the whole college life … and our activism has kind of been taking a step back. But whatever we do, however this activism goes, we will still continue to be friends no matter what."
Despite still being slightly intimidated by the differences between the size of the University and the small town where she grew up, Rodriguez said she hopes to continue advocating for gun violence prevention efforts in her new "second home."
"A lot of people in their day-to-day lives become really desensitized to school shootings, especially when (they are) not happening close to them or to them," Rodriguez said. "I know that for a lot of people in Santa Fe, I'm not necessarily doing the things that they would have chosen to do, but I know that I can no longer just do nothing."


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Lunch with Warren Buffett goes for $2.3 million
By Ananya Bhattacharya, CNN Money
Published Jun 8, 2015 9:20:36 AM
New York (CNNMoney) — Talk about a rich meal.
The winning bid on Friday to have lunch with Warren Buffett was a whopping $2.35 million from Chinese gaming company Da Lian Zeus Entertainment.
Each year, Buffett auctions off an invitation to lunch on eBay. The proceeds go to GLIDE, a charity that runs a number of anti-poverty programs in San Francisco.
Last year, Singaporean businessman Andy Chua paid $2.2 million to dine with Buffett. The highest price ever paid for this power lunch was $3.5 million by an anonymous bidder in 2012.
The winner can bring along up to seven friends. They typically dine at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York City. Since 2004, Alan Stillman, founder of Smith & Wollensky, has donated at least $10,000 each year to GLIDE to host the lunch.
"The divides are getting bigger between the haves and have-nots. Mr. Buffett inspires others who have the means to help bridge that divide," said Janice Mirikitani, co-founder of GLIDE.
Many bidders hope of striking a special jackpot: the chance to work with Buffett. However, in all these years, former fund manager Ted Weschler is the only person who went on to work for Berkshire Hathaway after he won two consecutive auctions, spending nearly $5.3 million.
Most winners may not have the same fate but they are more than satisfied with the worldly advice they get from Buffett.
Over the past 15 years, Buffett has helped raise over $20 million for GLIDE.
Buffett joined Bill and Melinda Gates to start the Giving Pledge in 2010. Hundreds of billionaires have committed to giving away most of their money either during their lifetimes or in their wills.
This story was first published on CNN.com, "Lunch with Warren Buffett goes for $2.3 million"


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The FDA could allow Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies to offer therapeutic psychedelic treatments as early as summer.
Illustration of Françoise Bourzat, an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, who leads magic mushroom pilgrimages to Mexico for "shamanic counseling."
Illustration: Chelsea Anspach
Mind Shift
Don Lattin Don Lattin | April 26, 2019 | Story News and Features
Northern California has long been a mecca for psychonauts seeking higher consciousness via the wonders of modern chemistry, but there hasn't been this much excitement around here since the heady days of the Summer of Love.
Those leading a decadeslong crusade to decriminalize the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs are poised to open their first clinic this summer in San Francisco, where patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder will be able to legally and openly hire specially trained therapists to lead them on healing journeys with MDMA, the psychoactive drug better known as ecstasy.
Advocates for the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs and "sacred plant medicines"—such as magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea brewed from two Amazonian plants—are following the path blazed by the robust cannabis trade, which, thanks to state-by-state campaigns to decriminalize medical marijuana, opened the door to legalized recreational pot. "It's a fundamental human right to explore your own consciousness," says Rick Doblin, executive director of the Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. "What I'd like to see is licensed legalization."
Doblin has spent over 30 years and raised more than $30 million to fund clinical trials that were so successful, the Food and Drug Administration designated MDMA as a "breakthrough therapy" to help treat war veterans, victims of sexual abuse and others struggling with the aftershocks of severe emotional trauma. Psychedelic therapists see MDMA as an "empathogen" because of its ability to chemically activate the brain in a way that reduces fear and anxiety while increasing feelings of empathy, euphoria and compassion. That state of mind has proven to be fertile ground for those seeking psychological healing.
Two local clinics, one at UCSF and the other at San Francisco Insight and Integration Center, are already working with volunteer research subjects for the final round of clinical trials needed before the FDA reclassifies the banned drug and gives MAPS permission to market it as a legal medicine. That could happen by late 2021, but FDA rules could let MAPS begin offering the therapeutic treatment as early as this summer under "expanded access" rules allowing "compassionate use." Doblin and company are now working to train a small army of MDMA guides.
Meanwhile, other foundations and would-be drug companies are sponsoring clinical trials in the U.S. and Europe using psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, which, like LSD, acts more like a classic hallucinogen. That research, including work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and New York University in Manhattan, is designed to rebrand psilocybin as medicine therapists could use to treat depression, alcoholism or other forms of substance abuse. But those trials are not as far along in the lengthy and costly approval process needed to transform an illegal drug into a therapeutic medicine.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have also studied the mystical feelings of oneness and divine connection that many healthy people experience with a safe, well-intentioned psychedelic journey. A clinical trial of 36 volunteers who'd never previously tripped found that more than two-thirds of them rated their psilocybin session as "among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lifetimes."
Others seeking psychological healing and spiritual insight via psychedelics—but who don't want to violate U.S. drug laws—are not waiting around for the government's permission. They're flocking to places like Mexico, Jamaica, Brazil, the Netherlands or Peru, where psychedelic tourists can legally participate in therapy sessions or shamanic circles with magic mushrooms, peyote or ayahuasca. Françoise Bourzat, who offers "shamanic counseling" out of offices in Noe Valley and on the Peninsula, has been leading magic mushroom pilgrimages to Mexico for the past 20 years. She works with medicine women of the Mazatec tribe in Huautla de Jiménez, a town in the state of Oaxaca. The mushroom cult in that remote village was "discovered" in a famous 1957 Life magazine profile of the healer María Sabina, who blended shamanic rituals and Catholic devotional practices.
"Taking a pill at Johns Hopkins is different than being on the land of the Mazatec," Bourzat, whose book, Consciousness Medicine ($17.95, North Atlantic Books), will be released in June, says from her home, a cozy hideaway in the hills just north of La Honda, the San Mateo County town made famous in the 1960s as the headquarters for Ken Kesey and his LSD-fueled Merry Pranksters. "It's not just going to a place where mushrooms are legal," the French-born guide says of her Mexican sojourns. "It's understanding their culture, eating their food, walking on their trails. It's going to the church where the priest eats the mushrooms and understands the overlap between Christianity and mushroom spirituality."
Those wanting a more first-world psychedelic vacation are booking retreat space in Amsterdam, where a growing number of expats are taking advantage of a loophole in Dutch law that allows the sale of "magic truffles." These vegetative chunks of mycelium are not technically mushrooms, which were banned in the Netherlands in 2008, yet still contain psilocybin. In the Netherlands, truffles are openly sold as recreational drugs or as fuel for more therapeutic or spiritual journeys.
Daniel Shankin (Sitaram Das), a Marin County leadership coach and meditation teacher who helps people prepare for psychedelic trips and works with them to integrate the experience into the rest of their lives, was planning on taking a group of 10 people to the Netherlands this spring. While the organizers of the Dutch retreat business working with him call their weekend sessions "truffles therapy" retreats, Shankin stresses that his pilgrimage is not for people with serious mental illness. "I'm not a therapist," he says. "I slide psychedelics under the umbrella of meditation—not the other way around. … We hope to give people a chance to explore psilocybin in a safe, comfortable and almost luxurious way."
Closer to home, Shankin offers "psychedelic integration and spiritual coaching" through a business called Tam Integration. It's not a place to take drugs, he says, but a space to "talk about the experience in a way that is high-minded and spiritually relevant. We want to provide tools to go into nonordinary states and maintain a grounded, heart-centered awareness," he says, "to have better control over our mind when the stakes are high."
Originally published in the May issue of San Francisco
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Dr. Peter Donnelly, President and CEO of Public Health Ontario, addresses a media briefing on COVID-19 provincial modelling in Toronto, Friday, April 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Projections show between 3,000 and 15,000 could die from COVID-19 in Ontario
Dr. Peter Donnelly, say data paint a stark picture of the gravity of the situation facing the province
Apr. 3, 2020 12:30 p.m.
The steps the Ontario government has taken so far to limit the spread of COVID-19 have likely saved tens of thousands of lives, public health officials said Friday, but even with further action the death toll could reach as high as 15,000.
Projections released by the province showed 100,000 Ontario residents could likely have died over the full course of the pandemic if the province hadn't implemented measures such as widespread closures of businesses and schools in order to promote physical distancing.
As it is, the figures estimate thousands of people could still die without more aggressive measures in place.
Dr. Peter Donnelly, president of Public Health Ontario, said the data paint a stark picture of the gravity of the situation facing the province — and the need for ongoing action.
"If we do everything that we can think of — everything that already has been done stays in place, all of the other measures that are being considered put in place — then I think we could reduce the death toll in Ontario to somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000," he said. "Where we end up depends on all of us."
According to the projections, Ontario would have seen 300,000 cases of COVID-19 by the end of April had nothing been done. Current measures in place will likely bring that number down to 80,000, while further measures could lower it to 12,500.
Similarly, the number of deaths would have hit 6,000 by month's end with no measures, Donnelly said. Staying the course is projected to reduce the death toll by April 30 to 1,600, and keep it as low as 200 with even tighter restrictions than are now in place.
Donnelly and other officials offered suggestions for such measures. Those included reducing the list of essential businesses that are currently allowed to operate, imposing entry restrictions on some communities including First Nations, providing more protection for seniors and tightening guidance on physical distancing.
Donnelly said the projections, which are far from set in stone, span the full course of the outbreak. He said that could last as long as 18 months to two years if second and third waves of the virus are considered.
The number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Ontario continued their upward trajectory on Friday, though those figures were eclipsed by the surge in cases that are now considered resolved.
The province reported 462 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 3,255. Deaths climbed by 14 for a total of 67 provincewide.
Those figures did not include four new deaths at a central Ontario nursing home, the scene of one of the largest outbreaks in the country.
Twenty of the roughly 65 residents of Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, Ont., have died in recent weeks. At least 24 staff members at the facility have also tested positive for COVID-19.
The province has reported numerous outbreaks at long-term care facilities across Ontario.
But the number of resolved cases also surged significantly, climbing more than 30 per cent to 1,023 from 831 on Thursday.
Michelle McQuigge and Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press
Inmate at Okanagan Correctional Centre tests positive for COVID-19
Don't stop going to the doctor, just do it virtually: B.C. association
VIDEO: Seal hunting a fish off Dallas Road sparks social media debate
Lake Country looks at big-ticket projects
Bottom Wood Lake Road construction projects are the biggest investments
Several 'owners' claim lost North Okanagan dog as theirs
'Dumped' dog being kept in foster care until rightful owner can provide evidence of ownership
COVID-19 exposure at Enderby elementary
Member of school community tests positive for virus


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