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The Debrief: James Hayward, Applied DNA Sciences
Applied DNA CEO Jim Hayward.
A new collaboration with a California-based training organization, which puts Applied DNA's proprietary genetic marking technology in front of thousands of U.S. police departments and private security firms, continues a 2015 hot streak for CEO James Hayward's Stony Brook-based biotech firm. Already this year the firm has notched a prestigious index listing, inked several professional team-ups and completed a corporate acquisition that opens its proprietary tech to several new vertical markets. In Hayward's words:
COLLABORATION EXAMINATION: We think this is very important. It's certainly strategic. We are working with police departments in Denmark and Sweden and close to 70 departments in the United States, and we're contemplating how to truly take the program national. To do that, we need the support of the police nationally. What's amazing is the enthusiasm, spreading from police chief to police chief in neighboring municipalities.
THEY NEED BADGES: In whatever municipality we work in, we train the police one by one. The police aren't the customer – the customer could be an insurance company or an individual homeowner. But in the event of a robbery, to track and return the marked items, we need the police to know how to recognize them, how to sample the DNA, how to send us samples through the chain-of-customer container and how to manage our expert witness documents. The infrastructure that makes it work requires the police.
WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: The integration of corporate acquisition Vandalia Research is going very well. We did our due diligence extraordinarily well and the integration team has done a superb job. Their technology will allow us to mass-produce specific DNA sequences and to produce longer DNA strands, which could be very useful to scientists working with gene therapies and developing vaccinations based on DNA.
GO TEAM: I'm very proud of our staff. As I have often said, if I have a skill, it's choosing my friends well. Our organization is hardworking and this team is extraordinarily motivated. For a startup to not be selling widgets but to be selling things that actually benefit communities – including our own communities – is very motivational.
SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS: I would say it's because we've "crossed the chasm." For disruptive technologies like ours, before you get to early adoption, you have to kind of cross the chasm of believers. We sell DNA as a safety concept, a security concept. It's something every fan of "CSI" has come to believe in, but when it comes to actually paying for it, you need strong proof that it actually does what we claim. After acquiring some wonderful partners and good customers, we've gathered some real momentum.
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Applied DNA is quite distinct from anything I've brought to market before. Our total addressable market is almost too large to calculate. Some estimate our platform as relevant to 10 percent of all global trade. That's a big number. The International Chamber of Commerce estimates just the anti-counterfeiting economy at $1.7 trillion. So we're facing an enormous total addressable market. That's very exciting.
MICROCAPPING IT OFF: Our focus is on our company's performance and on ensuring we offer the best return for our investors. The Russell Microcap Index listing was a happy consequence of that.
BUY IN: Our trading volume on a daily basis has gone up. The interest in our stocks has certainly been following an upward trend. You can't assign this to any single event. Our press releases have an impact. Our presentations at road shows have an impact. Sometimes, even when I present to a company in a sales effort, in a week or two we'll find that people in the room found the stock appealing enough to invest in it themselves.
DNA ALL THE WAY: Between Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor, Brookhaven National Lab, North Shore University Hospital … we are living in a DNA corridor that's probably unmatched anywhere in the world. The availability of superb tools and tremendous mentors and advisors can't be matched at any major university town in the world. Given Long Island's defense legacy and the applications for DNA regarding defense, this is the perfect place for us.
SEAWOLVES FOREVER: I've always felt like I've gotten in on the ground floor of the science in this community. I've been lucky that way. And I have always been committed to Stony Brook (University). I did my Ph.D. there. My daughter and my wife received their masters' degrees there. We live half-a-mile from the campus and participate in fine arts events, and we've been long-standing supporters of the school.
BEST DESTINY: If you look at the kind of research and academic resources we have in this community, you see that similar resources have spawned innovation hubs all over the country. Our community should be one of the leaders, if not the leader, for biotech. Long Island has struggled to do that. Nothing is ever easy, but we've created some great companies that have contributed significantly to the benefits of biotech and medicine elsewhere, and hopefully we'll create some more.
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succinct, enlightening, exciting!


I have a special little place in my heart for Smarties - not the American candy rolls you see during Halloween but the sugar-coated chocolate ones that are basically the European version of M&M's.
Growing up as a kid in Hong Kong, they were probably my favorite candy/chocolate after the Toberlone. I certainly enjoyed the taste but I think the colors - those bright yet pastel hues that make me think of Easter - appealed to me just as much. The ones we had in Hong Kong came in a round paperboard tube, with a little plastic pop top that I'd take on and off (I think the tops came in different colors too but I can't be sure now). I loved shaking my little tube around.
So I found myself with extra tubes of Smarties even after divvying up some of my stash, and thought it'd be fun to make some Smarties cookies. I've dubbed them "Smart cookies" but I'm certainly being tongue in cheek about the whole "smart" thing since we are talking candy in our cookies here (although you'll notice they're no longer made with artificial colors or flavors - that's something, right?). So we won't take the name too seriously; I wouldn't make these very often but I was in the mood to do something silly and fun. I made an oatmeal cookie dough and stirred in some Smarties as well as mini chocolate-chips (since my cookies are on the small side) to make these.
When I make oatmeal cookies, I generally go with this recipe that's chock full of oats and uses maple syrup to create a very chewy and yummy result. Once in a while, I also like to use this similar, slightly simpler recipe that I saw once on the show, Mad Hungry . This recipe also produces a tasty, chewy cookie.
With this recipe, you can get up to 24 cookies but it depends on the size you make them in. I generally prefer relatively small cookies, packing the dough into a small ice cream scoop. You can make yours bigger and just adjust the baking time up.
Start these by simply whisking the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt) together and setting it aside. Into the bowl of a standmixer, place a stick of room temperature butter along with 6 tablespoons, each, of brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix until just combined.
Then add an egg, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and 1/4 teaspoon of water. I confess I'm not sure about the purpose of the scant amount of water. I'm guessing the extra moisture helps in some way, maybe creating steam when baking? If someone knows what the water is all about, I'd love to know! In the meantime, I add the water since I don't want to mess with the good results I've gotten. Mix the wet ingredients into the batter before stirring in a cup of old-fashioned rolled oats.
For these "Smart" cookies, mix in 3/4 cup of Smarties and 1/4 cup of miniature chocolate-chips. For plain oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies, simply use a cup of (regular size) chocolate chips. I actually divided my batter in half and made both kinds.
I was shopping at Chelsea Market in NYC a few weeks ago and spotted some Callebaut semisweet chocolate chips, which I'd never seen before. I use their block chocolate very often but I've never seen chocolate chips. I decided to try them out here in my plain oatmeal-chocolate chip version. They are very good and the interesting thing is they do not hold their shape as much as other semisweet chocolate chips (their flatter shape helps), which I really like. They melt into the cookie dough and gives the effect of chopped chocolate, without the work. I'd definitely buy more of them again.
Drop generous scoops of cookie dough packed into a small ice cream scoop (about a tablespoon or so) and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 10-12 minutes until the cookies are slightly browned. The corners will be a bit more golden in color than the center, giving them a nice crispness around the edges, with a softer, chewier center. The smell of cookies baking in the oven is so fantastic!
Here are the "plain" oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies using the Callebaut chips. Notice how the chips have spread and melted into the cookies much like chopped chocolate would.
Not surprisingly, I have to tell you I preferred the basic oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies more than the "Smart" ones. My son, however, is one smart cookie (tongue in cheek again)! He devoured the "Smart" cookies readily.
These "Smart" cookies would be fun to make around Easter. Their color reminds me of another favorite, Cadbury mini eggs! It was funny when this cookie below inadvertently came out looking like an Easter egg!
Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in a small bowl.
In the bowl of a standmixer, beat the butter and sugar together until just combined. Then mix in the egg, vanilla extract, and water. Add flour mixture until just incorporated. Add oats, mixing for a few seconds until combined. Stir in the Smarties and mini chocolate chips.
Scoop cookie dough using a small ice cream scoop or by about tablespoonfuls, spacing about an inch apart, onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until cookies are lightly golden brown in color. Remove cookies from the oven. Let cool for two minutes before transferring to cooling racks.
*For Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, substitute the Smarties and miniature chocolate chips with 1 cup of regular size chocolate chips.


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UK: Refugee who fled racism in Palestine in court over throwing.... racist abuse
(Manchester) 39 year old Palestinian Riyad Hantouli, came to the UK in 2002 claiming asylum because he claimed he was racially persecuted back home. Since gaining asylum he has openly displayed the racist attributes which he claims he sought sanctuary.
After getting fired from his job in Jan, Hantouli continue to frequent the place, order drinks and refuse to pay. This took a nasty turn when after a barman refused to serve him Hantouli became angry and called him a "motherf***er", and said "I'll kill you". He continued to call him a "motherf***er" and spat straight into his face.'The following day, the defendant saw the same man getting out of a taxi and approached him, began calling him a motherfucker and assaulted him.
A few days later Hantouli went to a takeaway and asked for a chicken burger only to then claim his credit card was not working. The worker said he could pay next time but Hantouli then asked if he could be loaned £10 and when it was refused he ranted: 'Iranian b*****d, all you Iranian and Pakistanis are all the same. You are an Iranian b*****d you motherf***er. Iranians don't come into my shop'.
The same night an asian worker at another takeaway called police after Hantouli got some beer only to then threaten him saying 'You motherf***er I'm your boss, I'm paying your money. I'm going to damage your car and set the takeaway on fire.' Police were called and arrested him after he spat in the face of a customer.
Days later, Hantouli was arrestedagain amid fears he was armed with a knife after a taxi driver said he threatened by him having refused to pay his fare. Hantouli overheard shouting: 'motherf***er' at the cabbie driver as he was led away.
Then in February, officers were called out again when Hantouli refused to pay another taxi fare and he began spitting and swearing at them when was confronted. After being handcuffed and placed in the back of the van, he continued to spit and kick the door saying: 'I am going to remember you face, I am going to shoot you.'
Funny enough despite an impressive grasp of English, Hantouli requested the use of an interpreter in court which to express his remorse , where he was convicted of causing racially aggravated fear of violence, assault, theft and being drunk and disorderly for his penchant for racism he received a 20-week jail term suspended for two years and told to complete 200 hours of unpaid work. He was also banned from three takeaway restaurants under the terms of a restraining order.
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Our half day kindergarten program uses Abeka curriculum and begins with a traditional philosophy of education. The framework empowers teachers to focus students' attention on the material they need to learn, in a context and sequence that will help them learn it best. Teaching from a practical, traditional approach will develop your students intellectually. They'll be able to demonstrate appropriate grade level knowledge aligned with scope and sequence, achieve or exceed grade level expectations.
Letters and Sounds curriculum uses age appropriate phonics exercises to help your child associate pictures and words, enhance their vocabulary, develop reasoning and listening skills, and follow directions. Your child will apply his/her understanding of one and two vowel words, special phonics sounds, and blends to create words, finish sentences, solve puzzles, and color pictures. In the numbers and math curriculum your child will build a strong arithmetic foundation at this early age. Your child will learn numbers concepts from 1-100 and practical skills including telling time, bill and coins value, using the calendar, and much more. In social studies, your student will get introduced to simple geography concepts and the beginnings of American history. Your child will enjoy learning interesting facts from different countries, meeting children around the world, and understanding the roles of different community helpers.
pre-reading skills, phonics, math, handwriting, social studies, and science.
Footsteps for Fours prepares your preschool child for a lifetime of learning! Our curriculum helps prepare children for kindergarten by reinforcing their pre-reading, phonics, and letter recognition skills, and introducing them to math, social studies, and science through age-appropriate songs, rhymes, games, crafts, circle time for groups, and centers for each child. The curriculum also includes optional lessons for advanced children who are ready to read.
9:15 Circle Time - Calendar, seasons, weather, months, and days of the week. We sing songs, practice counting, and jump into our daily lesson.
9:45 Enrichment - We put our learning into action while completing work pertaining to that day's lesson. We may create an art project, practice hand writing, or complete a worksheet.
10:15 Centers/Outside Play - Theme and academic based centers designed to develop fine motor skills, creativity, and learning. Free choice time. Share, play interactively, compromise, and grow socially. As weather and time permits, our class will enjoy outside play to explore and further develop gross motor skills.
10:35 Snack - Our class will practice manners and serving others while we enjoy snack together.
10:55 Hand Writing - Pencil holding. Practice name, number and letter writing.
11:05 Story Time - We practice listening comprehension as well as settling our bodies after play. We also have a group learning game, writing practice with writing slates and working on patterning.
11:15 Journal Time - Early literacy. We will develop and build on the skill sets needed to be able to illustrate and orally tell a story.
11:25 Bible - Our class takes part in music by signing songs and learning new motions. We listen to and learn bible stories and also learn a new memory verse each unit.
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Stories from the March 3, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Washington Circle to be revamped
By Nick Marell March 2, 2008
Two city agencies have proposed major renovations to Washington Circle in order to make the area safer and more accessible for pedestrians. The National Parks Service and the District Department of Transportation presented a plan at a public meeting last month that will include more crosswalks and handicap ramps, chain link fencing to line the […]
In "OG Oyiborhoro: Leader of tomorrow" (Feb. 25, p. B3), The Hatchet erroneously reported that the Indian Students Association endorsed Oyiborhoro. The South Asian Society endorsed him. In "GW Brief: Ambassador of Afghanistan" (Feb. 25, p. A2), The Hatchet erroneously identified Ravidran Alfreds as a senior presidential fellow. He is a presidential administrative fellow. In […]
Professors call dorms home
By Amanda Dick March 2, 2008
As a political science professor living in International House, Steven Kelts said he sometimes gets funny looks when he walks into his building at 11 p.m. on a weekend. "A group of girls was standing in the lobby and admitting students into the building for a party, which they probably weren't supposed to be doing," […]
Seniors honored in win over Fordham
By Dan Greene March 2, 2008
One by one, over a succession of dead balls, they left the Smith Center court for the last time, hugging head coach Joe McKeown and a string of teammates on their way to the end of the bench. GW's quartet of seniors each received hearty applause as they departed the floor, not just for their […]
Men's basketball almost upsets Xavier
By Joanna Shapes March 2, 2008
CINCINNATI – Xavier head coach Sean Miller said his No. 9/11 Musketeers (AP, ESPN/USA Today) played their worst game in a year and a half in 66-56 win over the GW men's basketball team Saturday night. While Miller was visibly displeased after the game, he should not have been all that surprised. What Miller, and […]
Sex Column: "Binging on Boys"
We've got a secret surprise hiding under our covers this year. The Hatchet will bring you an anonymous columnist, Delilah, to report on sex at GW. Editor's note: Names have been changed to protect the naughty. The morning after my cowboy rumble, I quickly swooped my disheveled hair up into a ponytail and tiptoed down […]
Brett Kaplan: Working toward a new education
By Brett Kaplan March 2, 2008
The industrial revolution took hold of our economy and evolved over time. Such inventions as the steam engine, which powered railway transportation and shipping had miraculous effects. Around 1850, a light bulb was introduced, which provided the general population with access to safe indoor lighting. Then, in the last decades of the 1800s, the automobile […]
Monday Indoctrinate U Screening A screening of the award-winning documentary about the violations of freedom taking place on college campuses across the country. 9 to 11 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater, Third floor Sponsored by the College Libertarians Tuesday Third Annual Off-Campus Student Services Fair Sponsored by IKEA, the fair will feature all the tools needed […]
Professor laments D.C. housing costs
Housing costs are higher than ever, and as the possibility of a recession looms, affordable housing is a major concern for D.C. residents. Joseph Howell, a part-time professor in the honors program, started working to fix D.C.'s housing problem more than 30 years ago when he developed St. Mary's Court, an affordable apartment complex for […]
Staff Editorial: Standardize infomail service
The latest news release sent out across the GW Infomail system on Friday afternoon has called into focus the abuse and lack of standardization that borders on leaving this vital service meaningless. As this page has stated before, the Infomail service has an important role for our city campus but must be used prudently. In […]


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ICJ's Ruling Against Japanese Whaling
The world saw a win for whales last month as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in favour of Australia's case against Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters, in The Hague on March 31. 12 out of 16 judges in the ICJ ruled against claims that Japan's whaling was part of legitimate "scientific research", stating "that the special permits granted by Japan for the killing, taking and treating of whales in connection with JARPA II are not "for purposes of scientific research" under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. While Japanese officials accepted the ruling, the future of their whaling endeavours remain to be seen as not only are ICJ judgements not necessarily binding, there is no enforcing body, and Japan could also reapply under a different permit. Somewhat comforting though, is that Japan has confirmed that it will remain a member of the International Whaling Commission.
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The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
Publisher: H. G. Wells Library
This is H. G. Wells' 1910 dystopian novel, "The Sleeper Awakes".  A man sleeps for 200 years and wakes up in a transformed London to find that, due to the compound interest of his bank account, he is the richest man in the world. However, with his wildest dreams also come his gravest nightmares. A fantastic science fiction novel from the father of the genre, "The Sleeper Awakes" is highly recommended for those with a love of dystopian fiction and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' work. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). "The Father of Science Fiction" was also a staunch socialist, and his later works are increasingly political and didactic. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The son of a professional cricketer and a lady's maid, H. G. Wells (1866–1946) served apprenticeships as a draper and a chemist's assistant before winning a scholarship to the...
The Stranger is a 1942 novel by French author Albert Camus.
The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault\'s first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively.
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic novel by Oscar Wilde in 1890. Dorian Gray is the subject of a portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist fascinated and obsessed by Dorian's charm; he feels that the beauty of Dorian is suitable for the new mood in his art as a painter.
Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well". According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.
Charmingly Matched: A Pride and...
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A novel, a novella, and a bonus novelette! Indeed, there's something for every Jane Austen fan fiction lover in this charmingly matched book bundle.
Check your library! If either of these Darcy and Elizabeth love stories is not there, what better time than now to embark on your next romantic escape. Add Charmingly Matched to your growing collection of Pride and Prejudice variations today!
Impertinent Strangers
When an impertinent stranger is thrown into Fitzwilliam Darcy's path, he declares her tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt him. Yet, it is all he can do not to think of her.
Upon first making Mr. Darcy's acquaintance, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is quite fascinated with him. Then she discovers that the gentleman is haughty and above his company, and she wants nothing to do with him. Still, the prospect of spending time in each other's company is beyond their power to resist. Will Darcy and Elizabeth stop denying the truth to themselves and find in the other what's been missing in their lives?
Praise for Impertinent Strangers:
❝This variation was indeed different and fun to read. The things that happened - happened in opposite order of what usually happens in other variations. Very different and uniquely wonderful!❞
❝There is a beautiful reunion between the pair at Longbourn. Darcy's spoken word is sweet, romantic, and passionate. And his proposal is truly romantic! A great read overall.❞
Together in Perfect Felicity
Miss Elizabeth Bennet believes the state of matrimony is not something to be entered into lightly. She is determined to do anything rather than marry without affection. On the other hand, indulging her cousin's fanciful marital scheme is harmless enough. What does she have to lose? Other than perhaps, her heart?
Fitzwilliam Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by Elizabeth. Owing to the inferiority of her circumstances in comparison to his own, he makes up his mind to admire her from afar. The mind, however, does not always rule, especially in the game of love. Will Darcy lose his heart to Elizabeth, and in so doing, end up winning hers?
Praise for Together in Perfect Felicity:
❝I read this delightful story in a single evening and enjoyed every moment. It is wonderful how the original text and occurrences from P&P were weaves into this novel.❞
❝Different story. I liked it a lot. Highly recommend this book to a Jane Austen fanfic reader.❞
Bonus Novelette - A Night with Mr. Darcy to Remember
A titillating tale of two strangers in the night. Because now and then, a short and steamy romantic escape with our dear couple is what you're searching for.
Praise for A Night with Mr. Darcy to Remember:
❝The backstory was gripping, tugging severely on my heartstrings. The story had depth and thoughtfulness, in the short span of a novelette, which amazed me. It felt like nothing I have ever read before.❞
❝Very romantic and suggestive without graphic details. Loved Darcy!❞


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The Aftermath: Rebuilding Ourselves
There is nothing fascinating about a name that encourages others to prejudge you or attempt to define you without ever having met you. It's not fair, but research also shows that not only do people assume that T'Niqua and DeVonte' are Black, they assume that they come from low-income and poorly educated backgrounds. There's nothing wrong with wanting a name that sounds good, but names should also have meaning. Just about any book on names will tell you that names have impact on character, destiny, success and failure in one's life. So it's not an astonishing revelation when studies show that names like Amber and Joshua are granted job interviews, while names with odd spellings and pronunciations often get rejection letters or no response at all.
We Can Make Changes to Empower Ourselves
By Teri Miller Barker
Disinherited. Displaced. Discriminated. Disgraced. A dissed race. African Americans are stepchildren, trying to assimilate into a country where our roots are very shallow. It started over 550 years ago when we were abruptly torn from our homeland and brought to a foreign country in the grossest mode of exploitation imaginable. As precious cargo. Human cargo. Exchanged for ammunition, spices, or whatever good was needed at the time. Shipped here as a commercial product packed like sardines, sometimes lying in our own excrement. One can only imagine the sores, infections and diseases our people suffered as a result of traveling for several weeks under those conditions. We had the strength and resiliency to keep on keeping on despite the atrocities we witnessed or experienced day-to-day, year- to-year, for over 400 years.
Our tragic, involuntary disconnection from our culture and our lack of self-knowledge manifests as a deep, depressing, emotional wound that has yet to heal. There is so much self-destruction in the African American community. Although we get a significant amount of assistance from society, some of it is our own fault. Somewhere along the way, we dropped the ball. Somewhere between "We Shall Overcome" and "I'm a Survivor", we relaxed on our laurels. We forgot to tell our offspring the stories about our struggle because we became too comfortable and complacent with the achievements of our forefathers and mothers. We have relied on the schools' curriculum to include Black achievements each year in February, which only brushes the surface of our rich, deep history and contributions to this country and the world. There's an old adage that says 'until you tell your own story, it won't get told properly,' so we can't depend on others to be our storytellers. We have evolved from Negroes, to Colored, to Black, to Afro-American and African American. Some prefer to be called Americans of African descent. Regardless of the brand or label we carry, we have a past that we can be proud of. It's our present image that needs an extreme makeover.
Outside of Black-on-Black crime, high unemployment rates, and poor education – which are all interrelated, if you ask me – there are a couple of issues within our realm of control that we can resolve to give ourselves a facelift. One, we can stop degrading ourselves through our music. Particularly rap. I like some of it, especially the songs that sample Old School music. But here is where I get a little fickle - I like the music, but I don't like the lyrics 90% of the time. I'm tired of Black women being called hoodrats, bitches and ho's. Tired of our young girls being bombarded with messages that they have to drop it like it's hot, make it clap, touch their toes, or back that thang up to get a man. I'm tired of our men buying into the pimp, thug, gangsta and hustler mentality that is heavily promoted in our music and videos. With the pimp and ho themes dominating our! mainstream music, it's no wonder we have such high percentages of illegitimate births, single mothers heading households, and disproportionate representation in AIDS cases. Why do we think it's the norm to have casual, meaningless, premarital sex? Our men are conditioned to "hit it and quit it" and our women psych themselves into believing that they don't need a man, when in fact, we need each other. We're no longer the mothers and fathers of our children because we've allowed ourselves to be reduced to baby mamas and baby daddies. And it ain't cute, it's ignorant. I remember when that 'My Baby Daddy' song came out in 1997. It had a catchy, Old School beat, so I was really feeling the music, but I thought it would be, hoped it would be a novelty song that would be forgotten once it fell off the charts. But nooooooo, we had to embrace it, nurture it, raise it and commercialize it until it became an acceptable way to refer to parents in our communities. We have to get back t! o being responsible and respectable mothers and fathers to our babies.
Another thing we can do is stop giving our children ghettocentric names like T'Niqua, La-Quandria, DeVonte'and Raquan. Don't be mad at me for saying those names sound Black. We are good for expressing our creativity through names we give our children. Why? Because it sounds pretty or because it's a clever combination of the mother and father's names. When we do this to our children, we are, in essence, setting them up for difficulty in a life that's already guaranteed to be challenging. It's sabotage. They're defeated before they can even enter the game. Not trying to offend anyone who has given a child an unusual, difficult to spell, cumbersome to pronounce name, but I think you need to understand that as minorities, particularly Americans of African descent, we already have so much stacked against us, that we shouldn't make it easy to be stereotyped or categorized. Studies refer to those names as "exotic." Exotic is something that is strange. Strangely beautiful or strangely fascinating. There is nothing beautiful about made-up names with apostrophe's, and hyphens when they can impede yours or your child's ability to succeed in school or the workforce. There is nothing fascinating about a name that encourages others to prejudge you or attempt to define you without ever having met you. It's not fair, but research also shows that not only do people assume that T'Niqua and DeVonte' are Black, they assume that they come from low-income and poorly educated backgrounds. There's nothing wrong with wanting a name that sounds good, but names should also have meaning. Just about any book on names will tell you that names have impact on character, destiny, success and failure in one's life. So it's not an astonishing revelation when studies show that names like Amber and Joshua are granted job interviews, while names with odd spellings and pronunciations often get rejection letters or no response at all.
Black-on-Black crime, high incarceration rates, high unemployment rates, and poor education are challenges we face as a result of circumstance because, as the descendants of slaves and slave owners, we are here in America by default. There are civil rights organizations and churches that advocate for us through educational workshops, job programs, and grassroots involvement in our communities. However, the music we listen to and the names we give our children are not civil rights issues. There are changes we can make to empower ourselves and help improve our image. We can start by refusing to support and promote artists, music or videos that depict us as pimps, ho's and hustlers, and stop giving our children burdensome names that create hurdles in their pursuit of a better life.
Originally appeared in Blackonomics.


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Work burnout symptoms and what to do about them
Companies are facing an "employee burnout crisis." Franchise owners can identify warning signs and learn how to remedy them—for both staffers and themselves.
Nearly one in four full-time workers has reported feeling burned out at work "very often or always."
According to research, another 45 percent of respondents "sometimes" feel burned out.
Stress and exhaustion mustn't be downplayed or ignored, experts say. Magen Fox, brand manager of Five Star Painting, agrees. Burnout affects many facets of business, including productivity, marketing and hiring, she says.
Franchisees and managers can recognize the signs of burnout. They include:
Poor health, such as gastrointestinal disorders and coronary disease
Mental and physical exhaustion
Negative attitude
Lack of motivation for new projects
Disengagement and low productivity
When it's challenging to perform tasks that once were fulfilling, it's time to take stock, Fox says. "Dreading work on Monday mornings" could mean something is amiss. People who no longer look forward to projects or group interactions must "give themselves a way to grow and expand," she says.
Fox suggests that those struggling with burnout should take on a new project. "It can refresh and re-energize you," she says.
A dangerous industry
Exhaustion and anxiety can have serious unintended consequences in the home services sector. Fox says that if a technician isn't performing "to the fullest," it can be hazardous to the worker and homeowner. For instance, service reps who routinely work with poisonous products and dangerous equipment may be needlessly putting themselves and others in harm's way.
"If someone doesn't get enough sleep, they are more likely to have accidents on a job site or not safely operate equipment," Fox says.
Another consequence of burnout can be poor online reviews, which can hurt the technician and franchise.
"If someone isn't performing the job correctly or at their best, it can show up with negative online reviews and word-of-mouth marketing." Customers notice these things and spread the word, Fox says. The result? Limited business growth and struggles in hiring and retaining personnel.
Burned-out people may quit unexpectedly. Owners then have the time-consuming task of filling the position, Fox says.
Related: Take these 3 steps toward work/life balance- and business success
Turning off tech
Access to work 24/7 is problematic, Fox says. Work/life balance is difficult to achieve, especially for people who can check email via their smartphones. Fox suggests turning off the notifications, or "you'll wind up in your inbox." She says although technology enables us to work remotely, "you don't have to be working all the time when you're at your home."
Technology aside, Fox says it's essential that there's two-way communication between owners and their employees: "Employers need to take time to know employees and their goals." Help team members find a solution and move forward, she says.
Fox recommends using competitions or challenges to keep things interesting. Owners might hold a contest to see who can collect the most positive online reviews. Personal hobbies and activities are also crucial to overall physical and emotional well-being, Fox says.
These things can keep the day-to-day less mundane. A happy employee will stick with you and work harder for you, she says.
"Mental and physical health are paramount for a happy and reliable team," Fox says.
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Due to unanticipated levels of family chaos, your regularly-scheduled Anthurium update post is postponed.
Here is a photo of Sheba in its stead.
Yeah, this photo didn't really work.
I'm hoping to tie this Anthurium update to the stuff I've been learning from the new book about breeding them, but there's an awful lot of stuff in the book, and an awful lot of new stuff with the seedlings, so I wound up kind of overwhelmed. Possibly if I split it up into enough small posts, it'll be easier to do, though depending on your level of interest in Anthuriums that might be more than you really want to know.
But I do have to tell you some things, however I do it. So let's try jumping into that and see how it goes.
There are 432 Anthurium seedlings here, officially.
Of those, 58 (13%) have at least attempted to bloom at some point, and 40 (9%) have actually produced a mature inflorescence. Of the remaining 18 that have attempted to bloom but haven't actually bloomed, 14 are working on a bud now, and 4 produced a bud, aborted it, and haven't started a new one yet.
It's not clear how many seedlings have managed to be pollinated so far. It takes a long time for anything visible to happen to a spadix when pollination is successful. The F2 generation is definitely underway, though, thanks to #276 ("Zach Religious"). He was pollinated, he produced mature berries, the seeds were removed from the berries and sown on vermiculite, and 23 out of 24 seeds have germinated.
Seedlings from #276 ("Zach Religious"). These were sown on 15 May; the photo was taken on 7 June.
Barring catastrophe, we should be seeing the first blooms from this group in about November 2015.
#271 ("Wanda Reulthemal") has also definitely been pollinated, and has maybe 20 developing berries on a single spadix. She'll be up next.
In the last week, it's become clear that #239 ("Russ Teanale") and #247 ("Selma Carr") have been pollinated as well. Not only that, but it looks like every. Single. Flower. on their spadices is developing a berry, which will be fun when it comes time to pot them up. There also appear to be a few berries developing on #059 ("Bijoux Tuit"), #234 ("Ross Koz"), #245 ("Sawyer Ad"), #005 ("Chad Michaels"), #063 ("Audrey Quest"), and #273 ("Wes Coast"), though most of those look like they'll produce maybe ten seeds at most. Still, though, that's nine confirmed or likely pollinations, so the second generation will be getting a lot bigger soon.
Since the last Anthurium update, 11 seedlings have produced a first bloom. Some of these, like #232 ("Rhoda Badcek"), are perfectly adequate flowers but nothing we haven't seen before.
Anne just doesn't work for me because she's doing three things Anthuriums are not supposed to do at the same time. One, she's got thrips damage (the irregular brown patches on the spathe), though that's arguably my fault, not hers. Two, the spathe is small. Three, the spathe is also badly reflexed, which is a vocabulary word from the book. Most Anthuriums grown for indoor container cultivation will have spathes that are more or less upright and cupped around the spadix, when they first open. Your better varieties will stay that way as the blooms mature, too. Anne, on the other hand, flipped her spathe back away from the spadix almost immediately, much like a dudebro popping the collar on his polo, with similar consequences for her attractiveness. And I don't know what's going on with that spadix, but it's not helping the overall look.
Initially it was sort of a light peach (Colin is one of the three palest spathes so far, though that doesn't photograph well; anything too dark or too light gets its color adjusted automatically by the camera.) with a peach/orange spadix; it's aging into pink with an orange spadix, but I dig both versions.
It also makes no damn sense: the seed parent is the NOID purple. It's not even a nice pale lavender kind of purple; it's pretty dark. There is no way this color should be able to come from that color. (I'm going to try to explain that in Part 2. Emphasis on "try.") Regardless of how it got here, though, I like it.
We've also finally gotten a bloom from #231 ("Rhea Listick"), who had previously aborted her first attempt, right as it was ready to open.
Not a new color -- it's very similar to #035 ("Alyssa Edwards") -- but this is a color I like, so I suppose it was worth the wait. The spathe is smaller than Alyssa's, for now, but a lot of the seedlings produce larger blooms as they mature. Rhea also seems to be more blistered than Alyssa. Blistering is the quilted, lumpy texture on some spathes, where the major veins in the spathe are raised above the rest of the spathe. Blistering is for some reason very desirable in cut flowers, less so for potted plants. I can take it or leave it myself, though I notice that it seems to be related to the size of the flowers -- bigger spathes tend to have more blistering than smaller ones -- and it seems obvious enough why large spathes would be desirable.
and #244 ("Sara Problem") is a perfectly nice pink/pink, just like all the other perfectly nice pink/pinks. Except for some thrips damage.
#202 ("Mason Pepperspray") is pretty tiny. For a few days after it first opened, the spathe formed a nearly-perfect hemisphere around the spadix. That's flattened slightly with age, but the shape is still unusual. The color's gotten lighter with age as well. I'm less happy about that.
#110 ("Delta Badhand") is also very very small, and strongly resembles #116 ("Eileen Dover"), to the point where I wonder if both plants don't have the same parentage. (If they do, then they'd both be NOID purple x 'Orange Hot;' Delta's seed parent is the NOID purple and Eileen's is 'Orange Hot.') Unfortunately, I tore her spathe on the first day it was open, which I feel bad about.
Carmen has since relaxed a little, so the spathe is more of a straightforward heart shape than the tulip shape here. In the couple weeks since I took this picture, the main veins near the spadix have darkened up. The book has some really pretty examples of that sort of thing; I'd be happy to see more contrasting veins.
Carmen also illustrates our final vocabulary word, blush. Sort of. I found the book's explanation of blush difficult to parse. It's sort of an irregular splash of pink or coral color shading heavier toward the spadix, plus a darker version of the same color in the spadix. Blush isn't always visible when it's present: a coral blush will be hidden by a bright red spathe, and if the blush spreads far enough, it can be hard to tell the difference between a pink spathe and a white spathe with pink blush. It's also not clear how dark a spadix has to be before it qualifies as blush: I infer that if there's any red or orange in the spadix, then you have a blush regardless of what the spathe might look like, but what about pink?
In Part 2, I'll try to sum up what I understand about Anthurium genetics. So Part 2 is gonna be really, really short.
Not my own plants; this is the garden of the same person who had the yellow and blue Iris that I posted on Sunday. Regrettably, none of the photos accurately convey how many of them there were, all doing the visual equivalent of screaming their heads off. The display is kinda wonderful, though the one big failing of this particular kind of Papaver is how brief the blooming period is. Is someone working on breeding some that bloom longer? Or are there already some that bloom longer that y'all just haven't told me about?
Pretty cool, though still not as good as the baby Pegasus in Tipton.
I'm a little unsettled by the bird nest in the giraffe's neck. Birds will be birds, though. Probably unavoidable.
I tried googling to see if I could find out anything more about the piece, but nothing came up. Worse, I was pretty lost when we happened across this, so all I actually know about it is that it's in a pretty nice neighborhood in Iowa City somewhere. You'd think someone would have said something about a life-sized (?) giraffe in Iowa City before this. Maybe it's new. Maybe Iowa Citians are just that jaded about art. Maybe there was an even bigger rhinoceros two blocks away that hogs all the attention. It's a mystery.
I'm still trying to catch up with everything that's happened in the last few weeks. This is one of those things.
1) It just kind of came off spontaneously when I tried to adjust the stalk. (The stalk didn't actually fit into the shelf that the plant's been on since it came inside last fall, so from time to time I have to try to squeeze it back in there without breaking anything important.) It makes total sense that a pineapple's fruit would detach on its own, but for some reason this idea had never occurred to me before.
2) It smells so good. It's probably technically edible, but it's also very tiny, and not bred for taste ('Mongo' is an ornamental variety.), so I'm probably getting more from smelling it occasionally than I would from eating it once.
3) It's tiny, for a pineapple. The actual fruit, excluding the leaves, is only 2 1/2 inches (6.4 cm) long.
The plant is probably not going to go outside this summer, because I remember how exhausting and unrewarding it was to be moving plants in and out all the time last year. Not that it was going to produce fruit again right away anyway, but that's probably going to slow down the development of offsets.
So last year, as you'll remember, I got two stalks of Iris flowers, on the NOID blue-purple plants, and that was it. No other blooms, no other colors.
It's looking like that was mostly due to 2011's drought, because this year I got blooms on all the Irises except for the NOID blue-purple one.
'Reincarnation' bloomed last fall as well (it's a rebloomer), but I apparently didn't blog about that even though I took the pictures. Go figure.
I'm not sure I was aware, prior to hearing about 'Frivolous,' that yellow irises could be bright dandelion yellow, as opposed to pastel gender-neutral-nursery yellow. But they can. Oh, how they can.
Spotted here in town. There was also a completely unreal number of orange poppies1 in this yard, which may or may not get a separate blog post later.
This purple and white combo from the University of Iowa Hospital would have been much more impressive if I had been able to capture the whole planting at once. There were other priorities that day, though,2 so the above are the only two shots I attempted.
2 Neither I nor my husband were the patient, and we're both fine as far as we know. The explanation for what we were doing there is long and complicated, has an unclear diagnosis and an ambiguous prognosis, and isn't something I feel like sharing with the whole internet, so that's all the explanation you get.


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Hi all! Just a quick post about the Ice Cream Social at CosCol.
Hopefully next year, our themed costuming will be a little more cohesive. For whoever wants to join, there is a group of us planning on using the literary theme and making Professors of Hogwarts bustle gowns. Let me know if you want to join!
I took my Ravenclaw bustle gown out for another outing on Halloween. I wore it for most of the day just because (it made my trip to the bank, to pay my rent check, and to post my ballot more interesting), and then at night I hosted a Halloween game night for our board game group, and we wandered around Ballard afterwards. Luckily, one of our regular attendees is a photographer, and he was kind enough to snap some pictures for me. All photos in this post are by Richard Tran.
As those of you who have been reading this blog lately have noticed, a fair bit of work went into this gown. This was my first foray into Victorian bustle gowns (unless you count my Jane costume, which I don't). I attempted pleated trim (tedious, but pretty!), worked with rabbit fur for the first time (pretty sure I inhaled a fair bit of it), and learned that bustling a skirt is not as hard as it seems.
I'm really happy with this outfit, and I can't wait to wear it again at Costume College!
Steamcon was the weekend before last, and despite my work schedule, I was able to attend Friday and Saturday evening. Unfortunately, either all the panels took place Saturday morning or Sunday, or there just weren't any panels this year, because I wasn't able to attend any! I did, however, attend plenty of dancing, got a better understanding of how to play Whist, and danced some more.
On Friday, I went to the Welcome talk, then learned some Ballroom basics (which wound up being the exact same class I took last year), and bought a new felt hat blank. For dinner, I walked through the mall and the Disney store in costume (that always gets some fun looks), and after, went to a class on the cross-step waltz. That was nice, since that's one of the ones that has always thrown me off - for some reason, in the past, I've found it more difficult than normal waltzing. Most of the rest of the things going on that night involved loud and obnoxious music, so after waltzing, I settled down to a couple hours of Whist. I've only played once before, but now I really think I'm getting the hang of it. It's a fun game! For Friday, I wore my new Ravenclaw bustle - some pictures from the day are below, but I will have a proper write-up about it, with much better pictures.
I'm so excited for Steamcon this weekend!
And I put together a look for Saturday, too, so I don't have to commit the faux pas of wearing the same thing twice. I'm pairing my 18th c riding habit jacket with a lacy Victorian looking blouse (which I actually made into a fitted bodice today), and I'm bustling up the red riding habit skirt over my ruffly bustle petticoat. Hopefully the cream blouse won't clash with the white petticoat. All I have left to do on it is figuring out how to bustle the skirt so that it will be removable without any sign that I'd done anything to it, and add two more small h&e to my lacy blouse (I ran out). And I might go to Value Village and pick up one of their little topper hats, since I'm already quite fantastical looking in this outfit.
I also put together an Ikea dresser today. No more shoving clothes into jammed full plastic drawers!
I've also pleated up the wool for the sleeve hems, and attached a partial lining of the leftover pillow velvet to where it might show in the tail of the bodice. Now I need to stitch the pleats in place, attach the pleats, fur trim (and probably gold braid) to the sleeves, bind the bodice edges (I burned myself with the steam from my iron trying to make the binding tonight), figure out the stupid shirt collar I want, tie a tie (I'm terrible at it), attach the Ravenclaw patch I ordered on ebay due to laziness once it gets here, and sew on the hooks and eyes for the skirt and overskirt closure. Oh, and try everything on, and hope to God it fits! Have I mentioned that I'm wearing this Friday?!?!?!
On the other hand, while working on much of this project, over Thurs-Sat, I watched all eight Harry Potter films. Just in case you weren't aware, that's 19 2/3 hours of Harry Potter. I think I'm going crazy!!!
And this one is this year's pumpkin - it's a Mickey pumpkin!
And today, I made a Halloween-inspired craft -- fall critters out of egg cartons!
Why am I such a slow sewer? After work yesterday, I sewed together all my bodice pieces, then somehow turned my darts into a princess seam (not sure how I got that to work, and not sure if it's H/A that way, but it fit way better). I also drafted the skirts, and cut out the pieces for the overskirt. Today after work, I swung by Joanns (and bought way too much holiday stuff, considering I went in for 1.25yds of fusible interfacing), did the facing on my bodice, made all my buttonholes, and antiqued my too-shiny buttons. But that's it! And I've been going to bed way late because of it.
And working at a place that sells sewing machines always makes me hate on mine so much more. I am so not happy with my Emerald's buttonholes. I could have done them in less than half the time, and way neater on a Brother. I'm also not happy with my Brother serger's rolled hem, but there's no way I'm ever splurging for a Babylock.
I draped up the skirts of the bustle gown yesterday, mostly so I could see what it might look like, and figure out the trims. The primary fabric is a cotton homespun in navy and gold plaid. The hem of both the skirt and bustle gown are trimmed with pleated navy wool (6" on the skirt, and 3" on the bustle drape), gold/black ombre rabbit fur, and metallic gold braid. There is also a navy wool v. gold waterfall pleated section that's going to run down the back, to look like it's coming off the bodice. The bodice will be of the navy wool, most likely with plaid sleeves (though I haven't entirely decided on the sleeves), with a large loopy vintage lace at the sleeve hems. I'm going to base the pattern for the bodice off my Jane bodice, so hopefully my pattern won't need too much reworking. Now I just have to hope that I can finish all this in 2.5 weeks!
Oh, and Disney was lots of fun! And I'll try to post pics of the petticoat bustle and my mom's Edwardian jacket (both finished) soon.
I think I've gotten out of my sewing slump. My mom's jacket is just about done - all it needs is the binding hand-sewn down around the edges. And I've been working on the petticoat for my Ravenclaw bustle gown. Soooo many ruffles! I finished cutting out the pieces to be ruffled tonight, and it's over 10 yds. Tomorrow I hope to gather everything up and attach (I've already marked everything out, so maybe it will even go smoothly?) I just need to figure out if I want to do an actual hem on my bottom two ruffles (I ran out of selvage), or take the easy way out and just roll hem with the serger. Any opinions? - I'm leaning towards the latter, since just those two ruffles are over 4.5 yds.


Hi Rainbow, you'll soon suss out your favourites and fine tune your order. It will be interesting to see what you lose on 1000 -- with it being your first week I reckon you'll still have a good loss. The best tip I can give you is, with the weather being so cold, don't forget you can have your shakes hot as well as cold.
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What is the world coming to! While we were still coping from a psychotic dog-killer, this shocking new video has emerged that will make you cringe. A group of youngsters set a dog ablaze and no one came forward to the dog rescue. What's more, these guys even stayed back to film the whole incident. One of the residents recorded the terrible scene which later went viral on the social media.
The poor dog was seen running here and there in an attempt to save itself but all in vain. The people around can be seen laughing at the entire situation.
This incident comes across as pure evil and disgusting. It seems humanity is dead. Help us find the guilty, so that they can be punished.


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Off Chaffin's Bluff, January 25, 1865.
Sir: In obedience to orders this vessel got underway at 7 p.m. on the evening of the 23d instant and took her position in the first order of battle and proceeded down the river with the squadron.
The gunboat Nansemond was lashed on port beam abreast of shield; the steamer Torpedo on starboard beam abreast of shield, and the torpedo boat Scorpion on starboard quarter. As soon as the ship was underway the crew was called to quarters and every preparation made tor action.
Deeming it advisable in passing the enemy's batteries and pickets the guns were run and the port lids triced up, and all lights covered.
When just above Dutch Gap Canal, about 8:30 p.m., the steamer Torpedo grounded on south side and parted her lashings; the gunboat Nansemond was cut adrift and sent to her assistance.
At 10 p.m. the vessel had reached the head of Trent's Reach, not having been hit by any of the enemy's artillery.
At 10:40 p.m. anchored by a kedge from port quarter, while a boat was sent to make observations and cut away obstructions.
At 11 p.m. the Nansemond returned and was made fast on port beam.
About 12 the ship was found to have swung closer inshore and grounded; the kedge was immediately weighed and effort made to work off with the engine and use of gunboat Nansemond. Failing in getting the vessel off, the Beaufort was called to our assistance. All efforts to tow the ship off proving ineffectual, at 3:30 a. m. a kedge was taken out on starboard quarter, but came partly home when a Navy strain was brought on the hawser. In this condition it was decided to remain until the tide would enable us to get afloat.
January 24, about 12:30 a. m., the steamer Torpedo reported for orders.
At 7:30 a.m. received a shot on starboard side forward that started timbers on berth deck. Repaired the same as soon as possible.
At 8 a.m. pendant of starboard bow port was shot away. At 8:15 a.m. the pendant for port bow port was shot away. Repaired it, and triced up port again.
At 8:35 a.m. a heavy shell struck iron grating over gun deck, breaking it in and crushing timbers. Shored up timbers.
At 9 a.m. received a shot on starboard hawse pipe that loosened it.
At 9:15 a.m. exhaust pipe was shot away.
At 9:30 a.m. smoke came from shield deck. Water was thrown on and hose turned on it, which stopped the smoke.
At 9:35 a.m. the smokestack was hit by a shell. During all this time it had been frequently struck by fragments of shell and was completely riddled. Most of the stays were also carried away.
At 9:40 a.m. a heavy shot struck the ship, jarring her from stem to stern.
At 9:45 a.m. smokestack struck by another shot, and one struck shield forward that shook the vessel.
At 10 a.m. a heavy shot struck the knuckle forward on starboard side that broke off the iron.
At 10:10 a.m. smokestack struck twice.
At 10:15 a.m. struck by two shots, one hitting just over starboard bow port, the other over starboard broadside port.
At 10:17 a.m. smokestack, hurricane deck, and knuckle forward on starboard side all hit.
At 10:20 a.m. a shell struck and exploded in forward bow port, wounding one man.
At 10:20 three shots struck vessel in quick succession, one of which jarred the vessel from stem to stern.
At 10:30 a.m. a small shell struck starboard bow port, glanced inboard, struck starboard compressor of bow gun and exploded, wounding Lieutenant Mason, and 7 men slightly, filled gun deck with smoke. This shell passed entirely through starboard side of gun carriage before exploding. At 10:32 a.m. ship was found afloat, weighed the kedge; at 10:35 a.m. got underway, swinging ship. A heavy shell struck forward, glancing over shield and bursting near smokestack.
At 10:40 a.m. fragments of shell struck smokestack, two shells bursting over shield deck.
At 10:55 a.m. shell struck forward.
At 11:15 a.m. struck by a heavy projectile on port quarter, which broke the iron and crushed in the woodwork, bent stanchions inboard.
At 11:20 a.m. headed upstream.
At 11:30 a.m. a heavy shot struck on after part of shield between after center and port ports, breaking the iron and crushing the woodwork completely in, making a large hole through. One man was killed and 2 wounded by the concussion and splinters. Steamed up the river under heavy fire of the batteries and one monitor.
At 11:38 a.m. fired a second shell from the after gun at the turreted monitor.
At 12:15 p.m. came to anchor at Battery Dantzler, with starboard anchor.
Three men detailed from this vessel to go in torpedo boat Scorpion were blown overboard; two are still missing, supposed to have been killed. One was wounded, but swam to the ironclad Richmond. Up to this time the number of shots could not be noted, but the marks indicate upwards of seventy-two shots.
After anchoring at the battery, left quarters, cleared up ship, and landing the wounded and dead.
At 9:15 p.m. got underway in the second order of battle. At 9:40 p.m. rounded to, head upstream, about the head of Trent's Reach, keeping the ship under steam in the same position.
The pilots reported the escape of steam from escape pipe so badly blowing over and around the pilot house that they could not see to steer the ship. Made an effort to repair it. Observed the enemy had lighted a large Drummond light that reflected up Trent's Reach and on obstructions.
January 25.—At 2:45 a.m. steamed up river, went to quarters, ports triced up and guns run in.
As we steamed up river the enemy opened on us with heavy artillery and musketry, inflicting no damage.
Off Signal Hill two shots struck us, one from a light gun hitting the shield, and a very heavy one striking on port counter, jarring the ship greatly and knocking off the heads of a few bolts.
At about 5:30 a.m. the vessel grounded, upper part of Devil's Reach. I immediately got a kedge ready to send out, but at 5:50 a.m. the ship swung off.
When passing obstructions in Kingsland Reach, the ship struck one of the obstructions.
At 6:45 a.m. came to anchor below Chaffin's Bluff. The conduct of the officers and men has been all that could be desired. During the time we were under fire and receiving serious damage I found them all at their stations and cool and prompt in obeying orders.
I herewith enclose the surgeon's report.
P.S.—I neglected to mention that about 10:15 a.m. a double-turreted monitor, accompanied by a double-ender, made their appearance coming upstream. At 10:35 the monitor rounded to, head across stream, presenting broadside to us at a distance of 1 ,500 or 2,000 yards. The double-ender stopped a little below her. The monitor opened on us, and I am of the opinion that the two most damaging shots, one aft on port side of shield, and one between after port and port quarter port, were fired from the monitor.


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Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States)
This article is about the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For other countries, see Global strategic petroleum reserves. For unextracted, naturally occurring sources, see Oil reserves.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency fuel storage of petroleum maintained underground in Louisiana and Texas by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest emergency supply in the world, with the capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels (115,600,000 m3).[1] The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973–1974 oil embargo, to mitigate future supply disruptions.
The current inventory is displayed on the SPR's website.[2] As of February 1, 2019[update], the inventory was 649.1 million barrels (103,200,000 m3). This equates to about 35 days of oil at 2013 daily U.S. consumption levels of 18.49 million barrels per day (2,940,000 m3/d)[3] or 67 days of oil at 2013 daily U.S. import levels of 9.859 million barrels per day (1,567,500 m3/d).[4] However, the maximum total withdrawal capability from the SPR is only 4.4 million barrels per day (700,000 m3/d), so it would take over 150 days to use the entire inventory. At recent market prices ($69 a barrel as of December 2014),[5] the SPR holds over $18.0 billion in sweet crude and approximately $25.5 billion in sour crude (assuming a $15/barrel discount for sulfur content). The total value of the crude in the SPR is approximately $43.5 billion. The price paid for the oil is $20.1 billion (an average of $28.42 per barrel).[6]
Purchases of crude oil resumed in January 2009 using revenues available from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency sale. The DOE purchased 10.7 million barrels (1,700,000 m3) at a cost of $553 million.[7]
1.1 Existing
1.2 Proposed
1.3 Retired
2.2 Repletion and suspension
2.3 Emergency sales to Israel
2.4 International obligations
3 Limitations
4 Drawdowns
4.1 Petroleum sales
4.2 Petroleum exchanges and loans
The SPR management office is located in Elmwood, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans.
The reserve is stored at four sites on the Gulf of Mexico, each located near a major center of petrochemical refining and processing. Each site contains a number of artificial caverns created in salt domes below the surface.
Individual caverns within a site can be up to 1000 m below the surface, average dimensions are 60 m wide and 600 m deep, and capacity ranges from 6 to 37 million barrels (950,000 to 5,880,000 m3). Almost $4 billion was spent on the facilities. The decision to store in caverns was made in order to reduce costs; the Department of Energy claims it is roughly 10 times cheaper to store oil below surface with the added advantages of no leaks and a constant natural churn of the oil due to a temperature gradient in the caverns. The caverns were created by drilling down and then dissolving the salt with water.
Existing[edit]
Bryan Mound: Freeport, Texas. 20 caverns with a storage capacity of 254 million barrels (40,400,000 m3) with a drawdown capacity of 1.5 million barrels (240,000 m3) per day.[8][9]
Big Hill: Winnie, Texas. Has a capacity of 160 million barrels (25,000,000 m3) with a drawdown capacity of 1.1 million barrels (170,000 m3) per day. This facility is planned to be expanded by 250 million barrels (40,000,000 m3) with a new drawdown capacity of 1.5 million barrels (240,000 m3) per day.[9]
West Hackberry: Lake Charles, Louisiana. Has a capacity of 227 million barrels (36,100,000 m3) with a drawdown capacity of 1.3 million barrels (210,000 m3) per day.[9]
Bayou Choctaw: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Has a capacity of 76 million barrels (12,100,000 m3) with a maximum drawdown rate of 550,000 barrels (87,000 m3) per day. This facility is planned to be expanded to 109 million barrels (17,300,000 m3) with a new drawdown capacity of 600,000 barrels (95,000 m3) per day.[9]
Proposed[edit]
Richton, Mississippi: This facility, if built as planned, would have had a capacity of 160 million barrels (25,000,000 m3) with a drawdown capacity of 1 million barrels (160,000 m3) per day.[9] Former Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman announced the creation of this site in February 2007.[10] As of 2008, this site was facing some opposition.[11] According to the DOE: "Activities towards the goal of expansion of the SPR to one billion barrels, as directed by Congress in the 2005 Act, were cancelled in 2011 after Congress rescinded all remaining expansion funds."[12]
Retired[edit]
Weeks Island: Iberia Parish, Louisiana (decommissioned 1999): Capacity of 72 million barrels (11,400,000 m3). This facility was a conventional room and pillar near-surface salt mine, formerly owned by Morton Salt. In 1993, a sinkhole formed on the site, allowing fresh water to intrude into the mine. Because of the mine's construction in salt deposits, fresh water would erode the ceiling, potentially causing the structure to fail. The mine was backfilled with salt-saturated brine. This process, which allowed for recovery of 98% of the petroleum stored in the facility, reduced the risk of further freshwater intrusion, and helped prevent the remaining oil from leaking into the aquifer that is located over the salt dome.
Access to the reserve is determined by the conditions written into the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), primarily to counter a severe supply interruption. The maximum removal rate, by physical constraints, is 4.4 million barrels per day (700,000 m3/d). Oil could begin entering the marketplace 13 days after a presidential order. The Department of Energy says it has about 59 days of import protection in the SPR. This, combined with private sector inventory protection, is estimated to equal 115 days of imports.
The SPR was created following the 1973 energy crisis. The EPCA of December 22, 1975, made it policy for the United States to establish a reserve up to 1 billion barrels (159 million m³) of petroleum. A number of existing storage sites were acquired in 1977. Construction of the first surface facilities began in June 1977. On July 21, 1977, the first oil—approximately 412,000 barrels (65,500 m3) of Saudi Arabian light crude—was delivered to the SPR. Fill was suspended in Fiscal Year 1995 to devote budget resources to refurbishing the SPR equipment and extending the life of the complex. The current SPR sites are expected to be usable until around 2025. Fill was resumed in 1999.
Repletion and suspension[edit]
On November 13, 2001, shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush announced that the SPR would be filled, saying, "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is an important element of our Nation's energy security. To maximize long-term protection against oil supply disruptions, I am directing the Secretary of Energy to fill the SPR up to its 700 million barrels (110,000,000 m3) capacity."[13] The highest prior level was reached in 1994 with 592 million barrels (94,100,000 m3). At the time of President Bush's directive, the SPR contained about 545 million barrels (86,600,000 m3). Since the directive in 2001, the capacity of the SPR increased by 27 million barrels (4,300,000 m3) due to natural enlargement of the salt caverns in which the reserves are stored. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 has since directed the Secretary of Energy to fill the SPR to the full 1 billion barrels (160,000,000 m3) authorized capacity, a process which will require a physical expansion of the Reserve's facilities.
On August 17, 2005, the SPR reached its goal of 700 million barrels (110,000,000 m3), or about 96% of its now-increased 727 million barrels (115,600,000 m3) capacity. Approximately 60% of the crude oil in the reserve is the less desirable sour (high sulfur content) variety. The oil delivered to the reserve is "royalty-in-kind" oil—royalties owed to the U.S. government by operators who acquire leases on the federally owned Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. These royalties were previously collected as cash, but in 1998 the government began testing the effectiveness of collecting royalties "in kind"—or in other words, acquiring the crude oil itself. This mechanism was adopted when refilling the SPR began, and once filling is completed, revenues from the sale of future royalties will be paid into the federal treasury.
On April 25, 2006, President Bush announced a temporary halt to petroleum deposits to the SPR as part of a four-point program to alleviate high fuel prices.[citation needed]
On January 23, 2007, President Bush suggested in his State of the Union speech that Congress should approve expansion of the current reserve capacity to twice its current level.[14]
On May 16, 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said it would halt all deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve sometime in July. This announcement came days after Congress voted to direct the Bush administration to do the same.[15]
On January 2, 2009, after a sharp decline in fuel prices, DOE said that it would begin buying approximately 12,000,000 barrels (1,900,000 m3) of crude oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, replenishing supplies that were sold after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The purchase would be funded by the roughly $600 million received from those emergency sales.
On September 9, 2011, a Notice of Cancellation was published in the Federal Register after Congress rescinded funding for the expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, reversing the SPR expansion initiative previously directed under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.[12]
On October 20, 2014, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended reducing the size of the Reserve. According to the report, the amount of oil held in reserve exceeds the amount required to be kept on hand given the need for imported crude oil had decreased in recent years. The report said DOE agreed with the GAO recommendation.[16]
Emergency sales to Israel[edit]
According to the 1975 Sinai Interim Agreement signed by the United States and Israel, as a precondition for Israel's return of the Sinai Peninsula and its associated oil reserves to Egypt, in an emergency the United States was obligated to make oil available for sale to Israel for up to five years.[17] Israel has never used the agreement, however. The agreement was updated in 1979, 1994, 2004, and, most recently, in 2015 for a ten-year period.[18]
International obligations[edit]
As a member of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States must stock an amount of petroleum equivalent to at least 90 days of U.S. imports. The SPR contained an equivalent to 141 days of imports as of September 2016. The United States is also obligated to contribute 43.9% of petroleum in any IEA-coordinated release.[19]
Limitations[edit]
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is primarily a crude petroleum reserve, not a stockpile of refined petroleum fuels such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene. Although the United States maintains some extra supply of refined petroleum fuels, e.g., the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve and Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve under the aegis of the Department of Energy (DOE), the government does not maintain gasoline reserves on anything like the scale of the SPR. The SPR is intended to give the United States protection from disruptions in oil supplies. In the event of a major disruption to refinery operations, the United States would have to call on members of the International Energy Agency that stockpile refined products, and use refining capacities outside of the continental United States for relief.
There have been suggestions that the DOE should increase its supplies and stockpile both gasoline and jet fuel.[20] Some countries and zones have a strategic reserve of both petroleum and petroleum products. In some cases, this includes a strategic reserve of jet fuel.[citation needed]
Former Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman said that the Department would consider new facilities for refined products as part of an expansion of 1 to 1.5 billion barrels (160,000,000 to 240,000,000 m3).[citation needed]
Drawdowns[edit]
Petroleum sales[edit]
1985: Test sale - 1.1 million barrels (170,000 m3)
1990–1991: Desert Storm sale - 21 million barrels (3,300,000 m3)
4 million barrels (640,000 m3) in August 1990 test sale
17 million barrels (2,700,000 m3) in January 1991 presidentially ordered drawdown
1996–1997: 28 million barrels (4,500,000 m3) non-emergency sales for deficit reduction
July–August 2000: 2.8 million barrels (450,000 m3) to supply the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
September–October 2000: 30 million barrels (4,800,000 m3) in response to a concern over low distillate levels in the northeastern U.S.
2005 Hurricane Katrina sale: 11 million barrels (1,700,000 m3) - Katrina shut down 95% of crude production and 88% of natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico. This amounted to a quarter of total U.S. output. About 735 oil and natural gas rigs and platforms had been evacuated due to the hurricane.
2011 Arab Spring sale: 30 million barrels (4,800,000 m3) - non-emergency sale to offset disruptions caused by political upheaval in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East. The amount was matched by IEA countries, for a total of 60 million barrels (9,500,000 m3) released from stockpiles around the world.[21]
In December 2016, the DOE announced it would begin the sale of 190 million barrels (30,000,000 m3) in January 2017.[19]
Petroleum exchanges and loans[edit]
Note: Loans are made on a case-by-case basis to alleviate supply disruptions. Once conditions return to normal, the loan is returned to the SPR with additional oil as interest.
April–May 1996: 900,000 barrels (140,000 m3) lent to ARCO to alleviate pipeline blockage.
August 1998: 11 million barrels (1,700,000 m3) lent to PEMEX in return for 8.5 million barrels (1,350,000 m3) of higher-quality crude.
June 2000: 1 million barrels (160,000 m3) lent to Citgo and Conoco in response to shipping channel blockage.
October 2002: 296,000 barrels (47,100 m3) lent to Shell Pipeline Company in advance of Hurricane Lili.
September–October 2004: 5.4 million barrels (860,000 m3) lent to Astra Oil, ConocoPhillips, Placid Refining, Shell Oil Company, and Premcor after Hurricane Ivan.
September–October 2005: 9.8 million barrels (1,560,000 m3) lent to ExxonMobil, Placid Refining, Valero, BP, Marathon Oil, and Total S.A. after Hurricane Katrina.
January–February 2006: 767,000 barrels (121,900 m3) lent to Total Petrochemicals USA due to closure of the Sabine–Neches Waterway to deep-draft vessels after a barge accident in the channel.[22]
June 2006: 750,000 barrels (119,000 m3) of sour crude lent to ConocoPhillips and Citgo due to the closure for several days of the Calcasieu Ship Channel caused by the release of a mixture of storm water and oil. Repaid in early October 2006.
September 2008: 630,000 barrels (100,000 m3) lent to Citgo, Placid Refining, and Marathon Oil due to disruptions from Hurricane Gustav.[23]
August 2017: 200,000 barrels of sweet crude and 300,000 barrels of sour crude were lent to Phillips 66 due to disruptions from Hurricane Harvey.[24]
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^ Berthelsen, Christian (October 20, 2014). "U.S. Oil Exports Would Lower Gas Prices, Government Report Says". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
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Haven't take part in this event for the past 3 years and wasn't going to this year as well although this has traditionally been one of my favourite race. But ever since they moved the race from Sentosa to Changi, it has lost its glamour and uniqueness. The 3-in-1, road, trail, sand still attracts a lot of interest but the long boring stretch along Changi Coastal Road and the long run in the finish is a real put down.
Anyway, I managed to walk to the beach and positioned myself there. There was no way I was going to walk another 4km to the race site. Had some time to kill. Ate my breakfast and waited for the runners to appear.
The first lot was the increasingly common sighted Kenyans. Seriously I wonder why these people bother to travel all the way here to take part in these small events when the prize money is so small. And I heard the money is pooled and shared among the whole squad!
Then the bulk of the 10km came. There were too many of them and I soon gave up trying to snap individuals, choosing to just mechanically snap away. Not much of a challenge but hopefully participants who see their faces in the Running Shots facebook album or here will appreciate it.
Although the 10km runners were flagged off later, the timing of the flagged off resulted in the main body of the 21km running right smack into the slower 10km runners. Poor them. Having to struggle on the sand was bad enough but having to weave through the runners as well. Also because of this, I was not able to take many pictures of the faster 21km runners as they well sandwiched between all the 10km runners.
Photos can also be found on Running Shots Facebook page where there are more photos taken by friend, Marcus Lim.


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