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5 Cheap Vacation Destinations to Make the Most of Your Summer
By Claire Lampen
There is so much to consider when planning a vacation.
Vacation deals shift with the tides, which can be tricky for for those of us who'd really like to go see some tides but lack the extra cash. Flight prices will be different depending on innumerable variables, including where you live and what time of day it is, and driving will prove prohibitively expensive for some and a breeze for others. The cheapest vacations are likely to be those taken closest to home, which isn't the most exciting prospect for those looking to get away.
That's why sites like Expedia and Kayak and, surprise surprise, Cheap Flights are useful — they sort deals of the day and allow you to set price alerts for airfare dips. Airbnb, where legal, is another helpful tool for scaling back rooming expenses.
Cutting the cost of air travel is half the battle for most people in search of, for example, a tropical getaway, but no matter where you're going, your point of departure of course will play a decisive role in the price of the vacation. With that in mind, the following vacation destinations won't be cheapest for everyone, but all things considered, they're pretty damn cheap for the good time you're getting in return.
1. Key West, Florida
Wish you were here? Yeah, you do. ventdusud/Shutterstock
If you are looking to see the most possible cats for the fewest possible dollars, Key West is the destination for you. U.S. News and World Report ranked the Florida island fifth on its list of cheap vacation ideas, especially for travelers looking to vacation between March and August. Key West is walkable, its dining options skew casual, and while it's not known for its beaches (there are better ones in Florida), it has them, and walking on beaches is free.
Kitties on the grounds of the Ernest Hemingway House Wilfredo Lee/AP
But perhaps most importantly, Key West is home to the Ernest Hemingway Home where, for the reasonable price of $13, you can immerse yourself in a jungle of six-toed cats, thought to be descendants of Papa Hemingway's pet cat, Snow White. History, sand, fun, sun, extraneously-toed cats — all in all a pretty neat package.
• Cheap hotel ideas from Trip Advisor
2. Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images
Both the U.S. News and World Report and Bankrate name Yosemite as their No. 1 cheap destination, possibly because a car's worth of people can gain entry for seven days for a grand total of $30. As with any budget trip, it's best to plan for the off-season, when rooms drop as low as $40 or $60 per night. Or, visitors can camp, paying a nightly $12 to $26 for a plot. You can bring your own food and drink and enjoy some deeply impressive natural wonders. Also, the Obamas loved it.
• Cheap hotel ideas from Hotels.com
Go see the sloths of Costa Rica. Rodrigo Arangua/Getty Images
Airfare might put this destination outside the reach of some travelers, but readers who live in Tampa, for example, might find flights for eminently reasonable prices. It all depends from where and when one wants to fly. Anyway, according to Lonely Planet, visitors will find cost-effective vacation locations on Costa Rica's Caribbean side, packed with free activities and well-priced restaurants. Aquatic athletes will enjoy the surfing opportunities, the lazier traveler will enjoy flopping for free on a selection of beaches and most reasonable humans should enjoy a trip to the sloth sanctuary, which costs just $30 for two hours.
• Cheap itineraries on Tripmasters
4. Badlands National Park
Or, go see the heads of some presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. AP
More than just an amazing song, South Dakota's Badlands are home to Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse memorial and the spaghetti western-style town of Deadwood — and are a steal of a stay, with camp sites starting at $18 per night and the opportunity to bring one's own food. The many tourist attractions housed within the national park's Black Hills borders make it an excellent choice for those in search of cheap vacations, especially those who aren't so into roving cats but are very into buffalo — the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in Badlands offer some 600,000 acres for the animals to graze.
5. Quebec City, Canada
Boat sails by Quebec City's Chateau Frontenac — this could be you! AFP/Getty Images
Europe is tough to do on a shoestring for those traveling from the U.S. and converting dollars to euros. As an alternative, Lonely Planet suggests Quebec City, a Canadian solution for Francophiles with limited funds. Hostels can be booked on the cheap, while cathedrals, battlefields and the harbor-side old quarter offer cost-free activities for visitors on a budget. For those who prefer international parks, Jacques Cartier National Park offers ample opportunities for lovers of winter sport, while Montmorency Forest promises excellent moose watching. And while dining can be expensive in Quebec City, it doesn't have to be — there are plenty of contemporary restaurant options for affordable eats.


"Theoretical Study of the Binding of Silane (SiH4) with Borane (BH3), D" by Peng Xu, Mark S. Gordon et al.
Equilibrium structures and energies of gas-phase molecular complexes SiH4···BH3, SiH4···B2H6, and SiH4···BCl3 were determined using second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set, with and without explicit core electron correlation. Single-point energies were calculated for the MP2-optimized structures using MP2 with the aug-cc-pVQZ basis set and using coupled cluster theory (CCSD(T)) with both the aug-cc-pVTZ and the aug-cc-pVQZ basis sets to extrapolate to the complete basis set (CBS). Partition functions were calculated using the harmonic oscillator/rigid rotorapproximation at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory. The explicit core electron correlation is demonstrated to have significant impact on the structures and binding energies and binding enthalpies of these complexes. The binding enthalpies were obtained at various temperatures ranging from 0 K to the dissociation temperatures of the complexes. The potential energy surfaces of the three complexes were explored, and no transition states were found along the pathways from separated species to the complexes.
Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116 (2012): 11668, doi:10.1021/jp306765b. Copyright 2012 American Chemical Society.
Xu, Peng; Gordon, Mark S.; and Nguyen, Binh, "Theoretical Study of the Binding of Silane (SiH4) with Borane (BH3), Diborane (B2H6), and Boron Trichloride (BCl3): The Role of Core–Electron Correlation" (2012). Chemistry Publications. 609.


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Evanston plans to cut up to half of city committees in consolidation efforts
Daily file photo by Marissa Page
The Harley Clarke Citizens Committee, assembled last year to address the future of the Harley Clarke Mansion, is one of 46 city committees. Evanston officials are planning to downsize the number of committees in an effort to streamline decision-making.
Robin Opsahl, Reporter
City officials began the process of consolidating its 46 committees and commissions this month, hoping to cut the number of committees down by as much as half.
City Council's Rules Committee discussed consolidation at their meeting Jan. 4 after hearing an annual report on the city's boards, commissions and committees. City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the goal of consolidation is to make sure citizens volunteering are getting good use out of their time and able to actively participate in community processes.
"Some committees are just reading reports and not getting to recommend anything to Council, and that's frustrating," Bobkiewicz said. "We want committees that can be as action-oriented as possible."
Bobkiewicz said the process of consolidation would center around finding overlap between different committees and combining them without removing any community voices. Cities of similar size, such as Madison, Wisconsin and Pasadena, California, often have about 20 committees, but often don't have as much community engagement as Evanston, Bobkiewicz said.
"We have between 350 and 400 people serving on boards and commissions in Evanston," he said. "A lot of committees means a lot of people get heard. But we have to make sure we aren't wasting their time."
Although the number of committees allow for more voices in government, it also makes it harder for people to work effectively, especially in areas of overlap between committees, said Oscar Murillo, an International City/County Management Association local government management fellow in Evanston.
"When you have so many commissions and boards it's a little more difficult to get people to commit to doing things when others are trying to do the same actions," he said.
Murillo also said the number of committees presented a transparency issue for Evanston. With so much work being done over the span of so many groups, what actions the boards are taking or recommending to the council can become inaccessible for the community.
Currently, Bobkiewicz and city officials are working on a report to present to the council on what the various committees do, and possible plans for which committees could be combined. After that, the process of implementation, which could take up to a year, would begin with recommendations from the council and the public.
Martha Logan, the city's community engagement manager, said although she hasn't heard much from community members about this process yet, getting feedback will be crucial in the process.
"The initial plan being worked on is just the first step," Logan said. "After that, getting a community perspective is key, especially from residents that are very active."
A plan for consolidation and implementation of Evanston committees will be presented in March, Bobkiewicz said. A more comprehensive look at what committees will be affected and how many will be outlined in the report at that meeting.
"We aren't doing this to devalue work community does," Bobkiewicz said. "It's just to make the hard work as meaningful as possible."
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Students educated on alcohol safety
According to campus police, there have been 350 alcohol-related in the past three years
Lauren Cole, Staff Writer
On Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m., the ladies of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (SGR)
partnered with Francis Marion University's (FMU) campus police in Leatherman
Science Facility (LSF) to help raise awareness of the effects of alcohol consumption.
Sponsored by SGR, the Turn Down! For What?? event allowed students to learn
about the risks, health issues and laws concerning excess alcohol consumption both
on campus and off campus.
Jasmine Green, senior psychology major and SGR vice president, said that this was
the second alcohol awareness event they have hosted on campus. Green said that
next year, the sorority will do another event that will also include information about
recreational drug use.
Victoria Moulterie, senior mass communications major and SGR president, said that
she wanted the opportunity to share some statistics and facts with the students at
FMU after writing a report on alcohol poisoning on other college campuses.
"I had just been hearing the phrase 'turn up' so often that I decided to approach
campus police and do an event called 'turn down, for what' to show what the risks
are of being turned up," Moulterie said.
Moulterie also said that the purpose of the event was to raise awareness of heavy
alcohol consumption in the college community. The event was also intended to
debunk alcohol related myths and to show how drinking effects decision making.
Alcohol impairs the central nervous system leading to several health risks and
academic risks. Alcohol can also take away the ability to focus on work and can
result in a poor GPA.
Moore said that there have been over 350 alcohol related incidences on the FMU
campus in the past three years. He said that the key to drinking responsibly was to
pay attention to serving sizes on alcohol containers and to not exceed the
recommended serving sizes.
"Drinking is a big thing on the FMU campus and a lot of people do get in trouble for
alcohol related incidences," Moulterie said. "We wanted to create awareness of
drinking habits and how it can lead to alcohol poisoning."
"Campus police are more informative [than guest speakers from the community]
because they deal with alcohol related incidences first hand and have seen the bad,
legal and medical sides of alcohol poisoning," Moulterie said.
Moore described different scenarios he had encountered with intoxicated students
on campus. "If you find your friend passed out drunk, do not leave them to sleep it
off," Moore said. "They could easily cut off their airway leaning on things [sinks or
trash cans] for support or asphyxiate on their own vomit. Seek medical attention
immediately if you suspect someone may be suffering from alcohol poisoning."
At the event, information was distributed addressing the current alcohol related
laws in South Carolina as well as at FMU, and campus police passed out copies of
the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy that contains a breakdown of
all campus crimes committed since 2010. All of the information is available for
students in the campus police office located near LSF and The Grille.


IRVING, Texas – The Charlotte women's tennis program had two of its players earn All-Conference USA postseason honors, as announced by the league office Friday afternoon. Representing the 49ers on the third-team singles squad were freshman Tai Martin and junior Macy Vonderschmidt.
It marks the first time in program history two players were tabbed to the All-Conference USA Teams in the same season, while it marks the first year since 2013 in which multiple Niners were selected to the postseason all-conference squads when the program still competed in the Atlantic 10.
Martin, a Weston, Florida, native, becomes only the fifth freshman in school history to receive all-league accolades and the first since Vonderschmidt (2014). She entered the program as a highly-ranked recruit and made an immediate impact.
She opened her collegiate career at the No. 1 singles position, a spot she held through eight dual matches before ending the campaign at No. 2. She started the spring season with back-to-back straight set wins and captured five straight-set triumphs overall in dual match play. She grabbed a straight-set No. 2 slot victory in Charlotte's lone regular-season Conference USA contest versus Marshall March 25. She made a splash during the fall tournament campaign, winning her flight with a 4-0 record at her first collegiate event, the CofC Invitational, on her way to winning the first five matches of her career. She also played at No. 1 doubles with junior Victoria Pahlett all spring.
Vonderschmidt, who hails from McKinney, Texas, garners her third-straight All-Conference USA Team plaudit. She is one of only four players in school history to be named to three postseason all-league squads and the only one of the quartet to earn the honors from Conference USA. Only one of other four players, Ana Spivakovsky, started her run like Vonderschmidt as a freshman.
She capped her junior campaign by collecting the lone 49ers' singles point in the 2016 Conference USA Championships contest versus Louisiana Tech April 21 with a straight-set triumph as the first match to finish. She also was among a winning doubles pair with senior Tyler Baker in the meeting, helping Charlotte corral the point and 1-0 lead heading into singles action.
Vonderschmidt closed the season by winning each of her last four decisions, including consecutive shutout wins in matches against Lenoir-Rhyne April 10 and at UNC Greensboro April 15. She registered straight-set victories in each of her spring triumphs, including a neutral-site decision versus Creighton March 7 during a Spring break trip to Florida. She joined Baker as the Niners' winningest doubles tandem.


Tokyo is simply one of the world's most fascinating cities of the world. Not only does it offer some of the most modern and advanced technological innovations but it also shows you a completely different side of it full of shrines and little snippets of how Japan used to be in the past.
Japan's capital is truly one of the most crowded cities in the world and it just introduces you to a place where you can always find something interesting to do.
From its amazing food to the world-famous sites and attractions, Tokyo is truly a city worth visiting. Here are some of the top 10 things you should do while visiting.
If you want to see something different from the crazy everyday rhythms of the life in the city, the Meiji Shrine will truly help you find a serene and quite place to visit on your journey.
Built and dedicated to the late 19th-centure Emperor Meiji who opened Japan to the West, this shrine is just a beautiful spiritual place that is not that big or a tourist trap.
Before entering the old temple to pray, you are able to wash your face and mouth at the cleansing station's communal water tank and you will also be able to write little wishes on a small piece of paper which you can tie on the prayer wall of the shrine, just like the locals do.
If you're lucky, you might even come across a traditional wedding through the courtyard which will just allow you a peak into Japan's traditions and beautiful traditional dresses. You might also want to keep in mind though that during New Years, this beautiful shrine can gather a crowd or a million if not more people who wish to celebrate together.
Did you know that Japan has created something similar to the Eiffel Tower of Paris? Indeed, this incredibly tall structure actually stands 13 meters taller that the actual Eiffel Tower and it remains one of the most amazing things to witness in Japan.
You can actually even go to the observatory which has been built on the tower, where you will be able to be 150 meters above the ground and observe the beauty of Tokyo for high above. Sadly, the 250m special observatory is not available to the public due to renovations, but you will still be able to see a lot from that big of a height.
The Tokyo Tower truly is the most amazing attraction you will be able to spot from all the rest of the observatories in Tokyo and it is truly glorious to look at even during the night.
If you have ever been intrigued by Japan's favorite sport and wanted to know more about it, this is the best chance for you to do so. You truly won't be able to understand the character and intensity of this sport until you get to witness it in person.
You can watch Sumo wrestling practice at the Hakkaku Sumo Stable in Tokyo but you will have to know that this is not a fun game. This is a serious tradition and the fights are legitimate so you will have to be respectful to the people and serious about the situation in order to truly enjoy this incredible sport.
This is probably one of the most common things you have seen in movies and videos about Tokyo. The Shibuya Crossing is one of those things that are always on every visitor's "to-do-list" and so it should be on yours too.
Not only is this perfectly organized but chaotic crossing fun to watch but it also shows a lot about how in order everything in Japan is. After you cross this awesome crossing yourself, you can easily take a break at the Starbucks nearby and get a better look at it from their 2nd-story window.
One of the things that are very popular about Tokyo's nightlife definitely has to be its Karaoke places. Karaoke plays a very important role in the Japanese culture and it's something that you can often see presented as a fun activity in many animes.
Tokyo is truly full of all different kinds of Karaoke places where you will be able to even rent a room for you and your friends to have fun, eat, drink and sing to your heart's content.
Kimonos are some of the most beautiful pieces of clothing in the Japanese culture, Traditionally worn by all women on special occasions, they each have unique colors and patterns in order to fit the person's likings and can truly be an awesome thing to try while visiting Japan.
There are actually a couple places where you will be able to try on a Kimono in Tokyo and you can ask a tour guide to help you even find a tour where you will be able to for example walk the streets of Asakusa in a Kimono for a truly unique Japanese experience.
Whether you are a cat lover on not, this is definitely a thing that you have to try and which can possibly help change your attitude regarding these furry creatures. Cat cafes are actually a very common thing in Tokyo.
They are essentially exactly what you are imagining; a café where you can have a nice cup of coffee and at the same time play with a couple cute kitties. If you give it a go, you might even come across a dog café and even a cute café where there are also hedgehogs!
Located just a little bit out of town, the Ramen Museum is pretty much an accurate representation of how Tokyo used to look in the 60s. Not only will you be able to go through the various narrow streets of "old Tokyo" but you will also be able to have a selection of amazing ramen restaurants at your fingertips.
There are quite a few things you can see and learn while visiting this place, but most importantly you will be able to taste and enjoy some traditionally cooked ramen.
Japan is surely known for its crazy technological innovations and one of the most fascinating ones has to be the vending machines. No matter where you come from, you have definitely come across the original vending machines which serve snacks and sometimes even warm and cold drinks.
Japan has simply taken this to a whole new level and even offers restaurants which solely work with vending machines serving anything from ramen, to milkshakes to even grilled sandwiches and you should definitely not leave Japan without visiting one.
Another thing that you should definitely give a try is spending a night in a capsule hotel. This is something that you should definitely avoid though if you are afraid of small spaces as this is essentially and small-sized pod which allows you to get a night's rest without having to worry about spending too much on accommodation.
One of the most popular capsule hotels in Tokyo is Capsule Net Omotenashi, so you should definitely give this awesome invention a try and see if this might be a great way for you to travel on a tighter budget.
There are truly so many things to see and do while staying in Tokyo that no matter how long you stay you will wish you had a few days more. These 10 things will definitely make your trip to Tokyo a memorable one and have you wanting to come back for more!
Which one are you the most excited to try while being in Tokyo?
Preston Felix is a graphic designer, traveler and freelance writer for Rewarded Essays. He is passionate about covering topics on blogging, traveling, business writing and self-improvement.


How a brilliant marketing move led to the slaughter of thousands of pink river dolphins.
There are many local legends about the magical powers possessed by botos, or the pink river dolphins of the Amazon.
Don't swim alone, parents warn their children, or a boto will kidnap you and take you to the underwater city of Encante. Look one in the eye and you'll have nightmares for the rest of your life. Leave your wife unattended at night and a shape-shifting dolphin, disguised as a handsome man, will seduce and impregnate her. Yikes.
River dolphins playing with a seed.
Folklore like this has long protected these South American river dolphins.
People are both reverent and also little afraid of the creatures, which can grow more than eight feet long. So killing or eating the world's largest freshwater cetaceans has long held a powerful taboo. Unfortunately, those protections seem to be breaking down. Botos are now being killed by the thousands for a ridiculous reason: Fishermen are slaying them to use as bait for a type of catfish absolutely no one wants to eat.
The catfish in question is called Calophysus macropterus—known as "water vultures" in Brazil because they eat dead flesh.
Unsurprisingly, because of this reputation, the catfish are considered revolting. Nevertheless, fishmongers have managed to create a market for the meat over the last decade thanks to an age-old branding trick: They simply changed the name.
Hey, it worked for Chilean sea bass, dried plums, and soy milk—why not the water vulture? Sure enough, these days in the city of Manaus, frozen water vulture fillets sell like hotcakes under the name douradinha, with consumers none the wiser.
To prove there was something, ahem, fishy going on, Haydée Cunha, a biologist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, tested DNA taken from fillets at six Brazilian markets.
Each claimed to be douradinha or one of several other made-up kinds of fish. Genetic analyses revealed that 60 percent of the fillets were actually from water vultures. Cunha, whose research is published in this month's issue of the Journal of Heredity, also discovered that discarded catfish stomachs contained the flesh of botos.
Clearly this is a case of grievous consumer deception—but why murder a legendary dolphin as part of the fraud? Especially when doing so is punishable by two to five years in prison, fines, and the forfeiture of your boat under Brazil's Environmental Crime Law?
Because boto meat is stinky—really stinky—and the reek, or pitiú, is the key to catching loads of catfish.
Water vultures will bite on myriad types of bait, he says, such as other catfish, cattle guts, or pig fat, but the fishermen are adamant that dead dolphins catch the most water vulture per pound.
In fact, the practice is now so entwined with the douradinha industry that some fishermen have started to specialize as dolphin hunters, selling 200-pound boto carcasses to the catfish fishermen for $50 a pop. That one carcass is apparently enough bait to catch more than a metric ton of catfish in a single night.
Haydée Cunha's genetic analyses revealed that fillets claiming to be douradinha were actually from water vultures.
Trapping the dolphins isn't particularly challenging—fishermen simply target lagoons where females nurse their calves, says Cunha.
Once they're cornered, the hunters encircle the dolphins with nets and harpoon them. There's even some graphic video of hunters butchering a pregnant female (warning: not for the faint of heart).
In 1994, scientists started traveling the central Amazon to see if they could pin down how many botos are out there and what may be hurting their populations.
From small fishing villages to larger cities, the researchers found permanent boxes built into the riverbank where catfish are lured with bait and then trapped. Interviews revealed that not only was the use of dolphin bait common, but some communities routinely killed hundreds of botos each year. The city of Tefé alone is responsible for killing some 1,650 dolphins annually.
Meanwhile, standardized visual surveys have revealed that the Amazon river dolphin population has been dropping by about 10 percent each year since 2000.
The decline, says Cunha, is "three times the highest sustainable rate." How much of this is a direct result of the catfish trade is difficult to measure, especially since dams and other forms of development have been disrupting the dolphin's habitat. The boto also competes with fishermen for fish, bringing them into conflicts that can end in death.
Interestingly, what may end up saving the dolphins is that water vultures are even more revolting than Brazilians realized—they are full of mercury.
A 2014 study found that the average total mercury concentrations in water vultures caught in Brazil and sold in Colombia (where the douradinha industry has now spread) exceed safety limits set by the World Health Organization. As top predators, dolphins also accumulate high levels of mercury in their meat.
Worse still, some Brazilians don't get to choose whether they dine on water vulture. One processing-plant owner cited in Cunha's paper says that he's sold douradinha—at an excellent price point—to the state of Amazonas. That means the mercury-laden catfish has likely found its way onto the plates of public school kids, hospital patients, prisoners, and the army.
Blessedly, there is some good news.
Thanks to Cunha's smoking-gun genetic evidence, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Fisheries kicked off a temporary moratorium on fishing for and selling water vultures. The ban went into effect this past January and is supposed to last for five years, at which point the government may reopen the fishery as long as dolphins aren't used as bait.
Cunha says regular DNA analysis of catfish stomachs will be crucial to make sure fishermen don't go back to their dolphin-killing ways.
Meanwhile, enforcing the moratorium for the next half-decade is a whole other ball of pig fat. "Dolphins and caimans [which are also used for bait] are easily available," says Cunha. "And although killing them is illegal, there is no surveillance in the vast Amazon." Still, unless they want to enter into a neurotoxin nightmare, they should beware the boto.


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Bringing sexual health awareness to API celebrations
By Marnette Federis • May 24, 2012
Students at a San Jose college celebrated Asian American Heritage Month with song, dance performances and activities meant to increase awareness about sexual health.
Getting information out to this ethnic group is important, according to advocates, because the topics are taboo.
"From my experience, as an Asian American, these are topics we don't about, it's hush, hush," said Ethan Giang, an HIV program specialist with the Asian Americans for Community Involvement, a group within the Asian HIV/AIDS Collaborative of Santa Clara, which sponsored the San Jose event. "HIV, sexual health and homophobia it's all a part of that."
Overall, the number of Asian and Pacific Islanders who are newly infected by HIV is small compared to other ethnicities—2 percent for Asians and 1 percent for American Indians and Native Hawaiians in 2009. In comparison that same year, 44 percent of new HIV infections were among African Americans, 20 percent Latinos and 32 percent among whites.
The event, held at Evergreen Valley College in south San Jose on May 10, is just one of dozens that was held around the world as part of National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19.
At one table, students created cards with messages of hope for those who are living with HIV. At another table, students played a trivia game about HIV. Others held up signs about why they think it's important to talk about the virus. Outside an assembly hall, students lined up to get free, confidential Rapid HIV Testing.
Organizers said the event was meant to be interactive and encourage people to talk about HIV and sexual health.
"We want it to be more engaging, since we are focused on raising awareness," said Giang.
But public health workers and advocates say the infection rates within Asian and Pacific Islanders are increasing. In Santa Clara County, public health workers say the number of Asians and Pacific Islanders who are now being treated for HIV has risen.
"The percent of patient population of [Asian and Pacific Islander] descent was 4 percent and in the last 4 or 5 years it has doubled to 9 percent," said Dena Dickinson, who manages the Ira Greene Partners in AIDS Care and Education Clinic, Santa Clara County's main HIV/AIDS provider. "It's out there, it's people who are immigrating in, but it's also people who have been here for awhile, men and women."
Advocates say current infection numbers also may not reflect a clear picture about Asian and Pacific Islanders since testing rates within the group is the lowest out of any other ethnic groups. Over two-thirds of Asians and half of Pacific Islanders have never been tested for HIV. And for those who are living with the virus, one out of three don't know that they are infected.
"It's not just somebody else's disease it's very present in the [Asian and Pacific Islander] community," said Dickinson. "We really have to stop thinking about, it's this group or that group. It's really everybody."
One reason why many in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities are not getting tested is from fear of finding out results, said Jane Dalugdugan, a program manager with the San Francisco-based Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center. The fear of bringing their families shame is another stumbling block.
"If the results are positive, [they fear] they may lose their family, that their family may disown them … and that they may lose their friends," said Dalugdugan.
She adds that misconceptions about the disease are rampant in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. According to surveys her organization has conducted, many believe those living with HIV shouldn't be allowed to teach or prepare food at a restaurant, Dalugdugan said.
"We found it's important to end stigma within our community, talking about the facts about HIV, promoting people getting tested, creating communities for those living with HIV [and connecting them with other] Asian and Pacific Islanders they can relate to," said Dalugdugan.
Talking about HIV and sexual health within the group is more important today, advocates say, with the latest U.S. Census revealing that Asian Americans is the fast growing minority in the country.
"There's no reason not to get tested," said Supriya Rao, a clinical quality coordinator with the Santa Clara Public Health. "You can do it anonymous, it can be done in 20 minutes, and all the test counselors are trained to handle people from different cultures."
One project that is aiming to combat stigma in the community is called Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Communities. The project, which is part of a national initiative, is a three-day workshop where people living with HIV tell their stories through audio, images and music. The narratives are compiled together and shown at community events across the Bay Area.
Nathan Manuson, a Filipino-American gay man who is living with HIV, was among those who participated in the workshop. He narrated a story about a close friend who died of AIDS, unable to tell anyone about what he was going through.
"So I hope that me sharing my story, [it] will change the community's way of thinking," said Manuson.
Culture is also a thread that runs through some of the stories.
Melenie Eleneke, who is transgender and Native Hawaiian, was among the participants living with HIV. She says that the workshop forced her to remember parts of her Native Hawaiian ancestry that she had since forgotten—that she comes from a long line of women healers. Focusing on this part of her story, Elenke says she has been able to accept and forgive herself for her actions and move forward.
"Maybe a part of my story can resonate with someone who cannot take accountability for their behavior and their actions and cannot forgive themselves," said Elenke.
Advocates said they hope the stories will touch many in the Asian and Pacific Islander community and feel connected with the people who are telling their stories—helping them become less fearful about getting tested or about disclosing their status.
Project organizers are planning to bring the workshops to other cities around the Bay Area and incorporate stories not just from HIV patients but also family members, friends and those who care for someone living with HIV and AIDS.
by Marnette Federis, California Health Report

Bringing sexual health awareness to API celebrations

by Marnette Federis, California Health Report
May 24, 2012

Students at a San Jose college celebrated Asian American Heritage Month with song, dance performances and activities meant to increase awareness about sexual health.

Getting information out to this ethnic group is important, according to advocates, because the topics are taboo.

"From my experience, as an Asian American, these are topics we don't about, it's hush, hush," said Ethan Giang, an HIV program specialist with the Asian Americans for Community Involvement, a group within the Asian HIV/AIDS Collaborative of Santa Clara, which sponsored the San Jose event. "HIV, sexual health and homophobia it's all a part of that."

Overall, the number of Asian and Pacific Islanders who are newly infected by HIV is small compared to other ethnicities—2 percent for Asians and 1 percent for American Indians and Native Hawaiians in 2009. In comparison that same year, 44 percent of new HIV infections were among African Americans, 20 percent Latinos and 32 percent among whites.

The event, held at Evergreen Valley College in south San Jose on May 10, is just one of dozens that was held around the world as part of National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19.

At one table, students created cards with messages of hope for those who are living with HIV. At another table, students played a trivia game about HIV. Others held up signs about why they think it's important to talk about the virus. Outside an assembly hall, students lined up to get free, confidential Rapid HIV Testing.

Organizers said the event was meant to be interactive and encourage people to talk about HIV and sexual health.

"We want it to be more engaging, since we are focused on raising awareness," said Giang.

But public health workers and advocates say the infection rates within Asian and Pacific Islanders are increasing. In Santa Clara County, public health workers say the number of Asians and Pacific Islanders who are now being treated for HIV has risen.

"The percent of patient population of [Asian and Pacific Islander] descent was 4 percent and in the last 4 or 5 years it has doubled to 9 percent," said Dena Dickinson, who manages the Ira Greene Partners in AIDS Care and Education Clinic, Santa Clara County's main HIV/AIDS provider. "It's out there, it's people who are immigrating in, but it's also people who have been here for awhile, men and women."

Advocates say current infection numbers also may not reflect a clear picture about Asian and Pacific Islanders since testing rates within the group is the lowest out of any other ethnic groups. Over two-thirds of Asians and half of Pacific Islanders have never been tested for HIV. And for those who are living with the virus, one out of three don't know that they are infected.

"It's not just somebody else's disease it's very present in the [Asian and Pacific Islander] community," said Dickinson. "We really have to stop thinking about, it's this group or that group. It's really everybody."

One reason why many in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities are not getting tested is from fear of finding out results, said Jane Dalugdugan, a program manager with the San Francisco-based Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center. The fear of bringing their families shame is another stumbling block.

"If the results are positive, [they fear] they may lose their family, that their family may disown them … and that they may lose their friends," said Dalugdugan.

She adds that misconceptions about the disease are rampant in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. According to surveys her organization has conducted, many believe those living with HIV shouldn't be allowed to teach or prepare food at a restaurant, Dalugdugan said.

"We found it's important to end stigma within our community, talking about the facts about HIV, promoting people getting tested, creating communities for those living with HIV [and connecting them with other] Asian and Pacific Islanders they can relate to," said Dalugdugan.

Talking about HIV and sexual health within the group is more important today, advocates say, with the latest U.S. Census revealing that Asian Americans is the fast growing minority in the country.

"There's no reason not to get tested," said Supriya Rao, a clinical quality coordinator with the Santa Clara Public Health. "You can do it anonymous, it can be done in 20 minutes, and all the test counselors are trained to handle people from different cultures."

One project that is aiming to combat stigma in the community is called Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Communities. The project, which is part of a national initiative, is a three-day workshop where people living with HIV tell their stories through audio, images and music. The narratives are compiled together and shown at community events across the Bay Area.

Nathan Manuson, a Filipino-American gay man who is living with HIV, was among those who participated in the workshop. He narrated a story about a close friend who died of AIDS, unable to tell anyone about what he was going through.

"So I hope that me sharing my story, [it] will change the community's way of thinking," said Manuson.

Culture is also a thread that runs through some of the stories.

Melenie Eleneke, who is transgender and Native Hawaiian, was among the participants living with HIV. She says that the workshop forced her to remember parts of her Native Hawaiian ancestry that she had since forgotten—that she comes from a long line of women healers. Focusing on this part of her story, Elenke says she has been able to accept and forgive herself for her actions and move forward.

"Maybe a part of my story can resonate with someone who cannot take accountability for their behavior and their actions and cannot forgive themselves," said Elenke.

Advocates said they hope the stories will touch many in the Asian and Pacific Islander community and feel connected with the people who are telling their stories—helping them become less fearful about getting tested or about disclosing their status.

Project organizers are planning to bring the workshops to other cities around the Bay Area and incorporate stories not just from HIV patients but also family members, friends and those who care for someone living with HIV and AIDS.

This article first appeared on California Health Report and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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In 1956 Kornberg isolated the first DNA polymerizing enzyme, now known as DNA polymerase, which he identified as the mechanism for DNA replication.
Arthur Kornberg was the youngest son of three boys born to Joseph and Lena (nee Katz) who married in 1904 and emigrated to Brooklyn New York in 1900 from Austrian Galicia (now part of Poland). Kornberg's father could speak at least six languages but had no formal education. He was a tailor who specialised in making cloaks. For almost 30 years Kornberg's father worked as a sewing machine operative in the sweat shops of the Lower East side of New York. Driven away from working in sweat shops due to poor health, Kornberg's father later opened a small hardware shop in Brooklyn. It was in this shop that Kornberg had his first taste of work. From the age of 9, he began regulary assisting and serving customers. This he did in between school work. Later Kornberg also worked in a men's clothing shop while attending college. The little that he earned was a vital supplement to the family's income which was hit hard by the Great Depression. In 1939 Kornberg's mother died from a spore infection after a routine gall bladder operation. This inspired Kornberg to have a lifelong fascination for spores. In 1946 Kornberg married Sylvy Ruth Levy, a biochemistry graduate whom he had met at the University of Rochester and became better acquainted with when Sylvy began working at the the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. They had three sons Roger, Thomas and Kenneth. After 40 years of marriage Sylvy died from a rare neurological disorder. Following this Kornberg married Charlene Walsh Levering. He was to marry again after Charlene's death. His third wife was Caroline Frey Dixon. She survived him.
From early on Kornberg was a high achiever and he skipped several grades at primary school. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School at the age of 15. In 1933 he began studying at the City College of New York (CCNY) and graduated four years later with a BS in chemistry and biology. Kornberg briefly considered an academic career in the field, but given the hardships he and his family experienced as a result of the Great Depression decided medicine would provide a better livelihood. In 1937 Kornberg was accepted to study medicine at the University of Rochester. He was one of only five students out of 200 CCNY premedical students to gain acceptance to medical school that year. Kornberg was awarded an MD in 1941. Kornberg completed his medical training in 1942 having spent a year as an intern at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.
Following his internship, Kornberg served as a navy doctor on a US Coast Guard vessel in the Caribbean. This he did as part of his World War II military service. Expecting to remain on duty at sea for the duration of the war, Kornberg's career took an unexpected turn in 1942 when Robert Dyer, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, came across an article Kornberg had written while a medical student. In the article Kornberg outlined some findings he had made as a result of measuring bilirubin levels in his and fellow students' blood. Kornberg had in part been inspired to conduct the project because he suffered from mild jaundice. His research indicated that high levels of bilirubin frequently occurred as a result of a reduced capacity to excrete it, a syndrome now recognised as a benign familial trait called Gilbert's disease. Dyer was particularly interested in Kornberg's findings because he was trying to understand an outbreak of jaundice among service members who had been inoculated with the new yellow fever vaccine. Impressed by Kornberg's article, Dyer arranged for Kornberg's transfer to the NIH. Once at NIH Kornberg did not pursue jaundice as a research topic and instead began investigating rats rats who appeared to developl folic acid deficiency after receiving sulpha drugs. Bored by the feeding of rats, Kornberg soon developed an interest in enzymes, and in 1946 moved to Severo Ochao's laboratory at New York University Medical School where he speant a year learning techniques for enzyme purification. This he did while taking summer courses at Columbia University to boost his knowledge of organic and physical chemistry. Following this, he spent 6 months in the laboratory of Carl and Gerri Cori at Washington University in St Louis to enhance his biochemical skills. From 1947 to 1953 Kornberg became chief of the Enzyme Section within the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases at NIH. During these years he became particularly adept at identifying and purifying enzymes and discovered several enzymes instrumental to metabolic respiration cycles. Such work helped awaken his desire to find enzymes that help assemble DNA. Between 1953 and 1959 Kornberg headed the Department of Microbiology at Washington University in St Louis. In 1959 he became chair of the new biochemistry department at Stanford University School of Medicine. On moving to the department Kornberg took many of his Washington University faculty and staff and built a tight-knit research group around identifying and delineating the workings of various enzymes involved in DNA replication. He continued conducting full-time research at the department into his eighties. In addition to his academic work, Kornberg helped found the DNAX Institute Molecular and Cellular Biology in 1980.
Kornberg is most well known for his discovery and purification of DNA polymerase from Escherichia coli, an enzyme that he and his colleagues demonstrated was instrumental in the synthesis of DNA. Published in 1956, this work established for the first time that DNA replication was driven by an enzyme. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for this achievement. Subsequently Kornberg and his colleagues discovered enzymes responsible for DNA repair and rearrangement and others responsible for the start and elongation of DNA chains and chromosomes. This opened the avenue to manipulating DNA, thereby paving the way to the development of recombinant DNA technology and the engineering of genes and chromosomes. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Kornberg was awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1951), the National Medal of Science (1979) and the Gairdner Foundation Award (1995). He was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1957 and the Royal Society of London in 1970.


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Q: How to create an automated email in several languages (multipart/alternative)? I need to send automated emails to customers whose language I am not sure about.
90 % are french and would probably not be able to read mails in english.
The other 10 % would probably be able to read in english and clearly not in french.
I don't know what their language is.
I investigated the multipart/alternative that looked promising, give the mailer several variants and he selects the best one.
( see: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt )
Unfortunately no mailer seems to care about that, they always show the last part...
did someone manage to make multi-lingual mail with automatic selection of the best version for the users?
Is there some kind of trick to know?
Do you have another solution?

A: The common solution that I am aware of for such bi-lingual emails is to write them like this:

For the English version, see below
<The text of the message in the local language>
==============
<The text of the message in English>

This way, you don't depend on the capabilities of the mail software of the recipient.
The reason for putting the local language first is because that is what the majority of the recipients will understand best (why bother writing a local language version if everybody understands the English version well enough).
UPDATE: If you are sending emails in HTML, also consider the use of language attributes, as explained in the answer by Matt.

A: We send bilingual emails in the format

*** La version française [follows] ***

English text here

*** English version precedes ***

Texte français ici

Use of the lang attribute will allow a screen reader to correctly toggle between pronunciations; use of headings will allow a screen reader to jump to the relevant version of the email (both assume support in mail client).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/global-attributes.html#common.attrs.lang

A: There is now a MIME multipart type especially for this purpose: multipart/multilingual, defined in RFC 8255. I do not know how well supported this type is by mail clients, although I have found at least one that supports it: NeoMutt. However, because of the fallback for unknown multipart types to multipart/mixed, it should be possible to already compose such mails and either have them supported correctly, or displayed in a way equivalent to what is described in the answers by Matt and Bart, if mail clients follow the standards…
To get a feel for this, let us consider an example from the RFC (somewhat simplified by me):
From: Nik@example.com
To: Nathaniel@example.com
Subject: Example of a message in Spanish and English
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2017 20:55:00 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/multilingual; boundary="01189998819991197253"

--01189998819991197253
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This is a message in multiple languages.  It says the same thing in each =
language.  If you can read it in one language, you can ignore the other =
translations. The other translations may be presented as attachments or =
grouped together.

Este es un mensaje en varios idiomas. Dice lo mismo en cada idioma. Si puede =
leerlo en un idioma, puede ignorar las otras traducciones. Las otras =
traducciones pueden presentarse como archivos adjuntos o agrupados.

--01189998819991197253
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Language: en
Content-Translation-Type: original
Content-Disposition: inline

Subject: Example of a message in Spanish and English
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="72530118999911999881"; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0

--72530118999911999881
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello, this message content is provided in your language.

--72530118999911999881
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello, this message content is provided in
your language.

--72530118999911999881--

--01189998819991197253
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Language: es
Content-Translation-Type: human
Content-Disposition: inline

Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Ejemplo_pr=C3=A1ctico_de_mensaje_?=
=?UTF-8?Q?en_espa=C3=B1ol_e_ingl=C3=A9s?=
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="53011899989991197281"; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0

--53011899989991197281
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hola, el contenido de este mensaje esta disponible en su idioma.

--53011899989991197281
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hola, el contenido de este mensaje esta
disponible en su idioma.

--53011899989991197281--

--01189998819991197253--

This results for some clients I tested follows below; they are not terribly encouraging. But first I'd like to note that for all these clients, when a 'message' attachment is opened, they do more-or-less the right thing. (One problem being with this example that the Date, From, and To headers are missing in the encapsulated messages. That can be fixed by the sender.)

*

*Trojitá (decent):

*KMail (cannot deal with more than one multipart/alternative?):

*Outlook Web Access (ignores the inline directive…):

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Works of art are no longer stolen from museums: they are stolen on the Internet
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Using blockchain, it is possible to guarantee the authenticity of a work and sell it on the Internet with some ease … but stealing it and making money from it is even easier
Hollywood movies have taught us that the theft of works of art requires a team (of beautiful people, if possible), a lot of coordination and complicated choreography hung from cables inside museums.
In the world of digital art, the requirements seem much simpler. The "heist of the century" is happening in plain sight, in real time and fueled by the fever of a type of cryptographic technology known as 'NFT'.
Thanks to a peculiar system of identification of works of art, it is possible to sell tweets, memes, songs, videos and digital illustrations at astronomical prices and even if you are not the one who created them. You can grab a picture from the internet, flout copyright, and hopefully sell it for a buck.
BY A HANDFUL OF TUITS
Several artists are discovering that their creations are being auctioned without their permission on websites such as OpenSea or Nifty Gateway, often associated with other authors or uploaded by bots that crawl Instagram and other social networks in search of photos and videos to offer in exchange for cryptocurrencies.
The last to sound the alarm, last week, was actor William Shatner, known for his role as Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series and who in June 2020 sold a collection of iconic images from his career using NFTs as a certificate of authenticity.
An automated account on Twitter, @tokenizedtweets, has started selling the tweets posted by the actor without his permission. "I am very shocked by these theft of content and images that I upload. The authors, actors, model photographers, etc. must start to worry," he explained in a tweet.
Similar accusations have started to circulate in the Instagram comments of various illustrators and photographers. Some have even closed public access to their profiles for fear that someone would copy their illustrations and sell them as originals on one of these new websites.
Other artists are discovering their names associated with works for sale in which they have not collaborated. This is what happened to Simon Stålenhag, known for art books like Tales of the Loop. A "fan" created and sold a Marble Card, an NFT-based trading card "game" that transforms website URLs into digital collectibles, with the author's official website address.
BUT WHAT IS AN NFT?
But we go in parts. What is an NFT? An NFT, acronym in English for non-fungible token or "non-fungible representation", is a type of cryptographic identifier that represents a unique element in a chain of blocks or blockchain, which can be defined in turn (and very broadly) as a decentralized and publicly distributed database.
These types of chains are what make the secure and decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies possible, since they serve as a public record of the different transactions carried out, preventing, for example, that someone can use the same currency twice to buy two different things .
In the case of NFTs, the entries in their blockchain are referred to as "non-fungible" because they are not interchangeable with each other. A bitcoin, for example, can be substituted for any other bitcoin. Its value is the same. An NFT no, it represents something unique.
This nature has made NFTs the ideal vehicle for certifying digital items as originals, and one of the fields where their application is obvious is in the world of digital art.
A traditional work of art (a painting, a sculpture …) can be forged, but sooner or later an expert eye will discover that it is a copy. It is impossible for a forger to use the same pigments, the same canvas or the same stone as the original. Even the most meticulous forger sooner or later finds physical limits that prevent an exact copy of a piece.
In the world of digital art, however, making an indistinguishable copy of the original is trivial. It is enough to duplicate the 1's and 0's that define its existence. NFTs solve this problem by creating a verifiable digital shortage, that is, a non-centralized system with which it is possible to verify that a song, digital illustration or video is the original song, illustration or video and not one of the billions of perfect copies of the same ones that circulate on the network.
EVERYTHING PROTECTED BY BLOCKCHAIN
The idea of using blockchain to give authenticity to a work of art is not new, but it has become enormously popular in recent months thanks to the appearance of websites such as Foundation, Cent or Nifty Gateway that simplify the auction process of these NFTs since A traditional auction house, Christie's, decided to auction a digital work by artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, using this system in late February.
His illustration Everydays: The First 5000 Days, eventually sold for $ 69 million and shook the foundations of the world of collecting, which until now had paid only tangential attention to the world of blockchain.
Since the end of 2020, all kinds of digital goods have been sold using this system, from video clips of historical sports games to photos, memes or even tweets. Jack Dorsey, founder and current president of Twitter, sold the NFT of his first tweet just over a week ago, for example, for $ 2.5 million.
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Bob Dylan's Best Songs: Blind Willie McTell (recorded May 5, 1983)
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Egil Mosbron
Kurt Loder: I heard an outtake from the Infidels sessions called Blind Willie McTell. Is that ever going to come out? It's a great song.
Bob Dylan: I didn't think I recorded it right. But I don't know why that stuff gets out on me. I mean, it never seems to get out on other people.
~Kurt Loder interview 1984
[Blind Willie McTell] He was just a very smooth operating bluesman. His songs always reminded me of… As trains, but that 's just my hang up, you know, trains. And his vocal style, and his sound seems to fit right in with that lonesome sound. His kinda, you know, Ragtime… kinda thing on a 12 string guitar, so it made everything he did sound, you know, give it a little higher pitch. You know, you could probably call… You could probably call… you could probably say he was the Van Gogh of Blues. You could probably say he was the Van Gogh of the country Blues.
~Bob Dylan (Eliot Mintz Interview, March 1991)
Released version:
Unreleased "electric" version:
This is the spookiest important record since 'Heartbreak Hotel', and is built upon the perfect interweaving of guitar, piano, voice and silence—an interweaving that has space for the lovely clarity of single notes: a guitar string stroking the air here, a piano note pushing back the distance there. And if anything, the still-unreleased performance is even better, for its more original melody (less dependent upon the conventional 'St. James' Infirmary' structure) and its incandescent vocal, which soars to possess the heights of reverie and inspiration. No-one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell, but no-one can write or sing a blues like 'Blind Willie McTell' like Bob Dylan.
~Michael Gray (The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia )
An unmistakable masterpiece, one of the true high points of Dylan's astonishing career as composer and performer..
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986 )
"Blind Willie McTell" is a song by Bob Dylan, titled after the blues singer Blind Willie McTell. It was recorded in 1983 but left off Dylan's album Infidels and officially released in 1991 on the The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991. The melody is loosely based on "St. James Infirmary Blues". For the song, Dylan, seated at the piano and accompanied by Mark Knopfler on the twelve-string acoustic guitar, sings a series of plaintive verses depicting allegorical scenes which reflect on the history of American music and slavery. Each verse ends with the same refrain: "Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell".
Known studio recordings:
Studio A – Power Station Studios, NYC, April 11, 1983 – 21 takes
Studio A – Power Station Studios, NYC, April 18, 1983 – 2 takes
The "Electric version" is probably from this session.
Bob Dylan (vocal, harmonica, keyboards & guitar), Mark Knopfler (guitar), Mick Taylor (guitar), Alan Clark (keyboards), Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Sly Dunbar (drums).
Produced by Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan.
Studio A – Power Station Studios, NYC, May 15, 1983 -2 takes
Released on "The Bootleg Series Volume 3" 26 March 1991.
Bob Dylan (vocal & piano), Mark Knopfler (guitar)
"Blind Willie McTeII" is a stunningly brilliant composition that we could analyze needlessly and ecstatically for hours, the heart of this masterpiece is its performance. All the effort of composition is mere preparation for this moment. This is the antithesis of silence. This is that human act so linked with and perhaps even more courageous than seeing;
this is the holiness that Dylan perceives in the old blues singer, and by extension perhaps in all of humanity, though we most of us or all of us fall short; this is speaking.
First known live performance:
Du Maurier Stadium
It has been performed 226 times live, last known performance: June 17, 2017 (Dover, Delaware)
Top year's 2013 (51 times), 2011 (17 times) & 1997 (17 times)
Bob Dylan plays 'Blind Willie McTell' for Martin Scorsese — Jan. 12, 2012
For many people, 'Blind Willie McTell' is Dylan's one indisputable masterpiece of the early eighties. It has become one of those songs which has taken on a life of its own. Yet for eight years it was another of those bootleg-only must-haves he'd been producing since day one. When it was finally released on The Bootleg Series, already a legend in its own lunchtime, it was still not in the form that the artist himself preferred. The acoustic versus electric argument still rages…
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008 )
The English ballad 'The Unfortunate Rake'; its many variants, including the cowboy ballad 'The Streets of Laredo'; the black standard 'St. James Infirmary'; and Blind Willie McTell's 'The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues': all these related songs end up wondrously transmuted into Dylan's 1980s masterpiece 'Blind Willie McTell'.
What all these songs do is allow some articulation of a fundamental human problem: how to face death.
Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, "This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem"
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
Hear that undertaker's bell
Nobody can sing the blues
There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
Well, God is in His heaven
And we all want what's His
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
Reflecting the song's self-conscious setting – the Saint James Infirmary – he can 'hear that undertaker's bell'.
To reinforce that sense of impending doom, and to give this song about the blues the requisite setting, Dylan has gone back to a familiar practice, taking a tune from some traditional 'fare thee well'. He twice alludes to his debt to 'St james Infirmary' in the song's lyric: first, in the opening couplet, where he suggests the coming darkness will spread 'all the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem' (the original St james Infirmary was in New Orleans). He also sings, in the final couplet, of 'gazing out the window of that old St james Hotel', which shows a knowledge of the song's history- the infirmary often being called a hotel ('hotel' meaning 'hospital' in French). He thus emphasizes that the narrator is singing his own version of 'St james Infirmary'..
Live versions
I started playing it live because I heard the Band doing it. Most likely it was a demo, probably showing the musicians how it should go. It was never developed fully, I never got around to completing it. There wouldn't have been any other reason for leaving it off the record. It's like taking a painting by Manet or Picasso – goin' to his house and lookin' at a half-finished painting and grabbing it and selling it to people who are 'Picasso fans.'
~Bob Dylan (Rollingstone interview Sept 2006)
Here are 7 wonderful live versions:
Filene Center
Wolf Trap Farm Park For The Performing Arts
Vienna, Virginia
Bournemouth International Centre
Bournemouth, England
Manchester Evening News Arena
Hollywood Palladium Theater 12 January 2012 (Video)
HMV Hammersmith Apollo
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Borntolisten @ Facebook
Bob Dylan posts @ borntolisten.com
MusicThisDay.com
Music lists @ MusicThisDay.com
Karl Erik's expectingrain.com
Olof's "Still On The Road"
Michael Gray – The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
Clinton Heylin – Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008
Paul Williams – Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986
Olof's – Still On The Road
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RealBBrothers says:
I always liked to think (and apparently I was way off) that the St. James Hotel reference was to the Mississippi River hotel in Red Wing, Minnesota, certainly one of the finest old boutique hotels in the area and where Dylan would have stayed if lodging there was required.
Mark T says:
I never knew about the "electric" version. Incredible! Thanks!


After meeting in Medical school at The University of Southern California, it took awhile for the Nancy & Nick to realise they had some true chemistry. Nevertheless, their love found it's way and their friendship blossomed into a relationship after all. With this in mind, it was SO fitting that their unity ceremony was a real chemistry experiment that turned bright pink when two clear liquids were mixed into a unity beaker.
The couple chose to get married at THE LANGHAM HUNTINGTON PASADENA after being sold on its elegant vibe with a beautiful ceremony and reception space. "The Viennese Ballroom where we hosted our reception has an arching ceiling with gold accents that reminds me of old European luxury. Also, we liked that they had a 10 course Chinese banquet to honour our heritage." bride Nancy tells us. Preferring a clean and elegant look with modern touches, they went with a fresh green & white colour palette with touches of gold. They also added in a few surprising elements to incorporate their personalities.
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My favourite ceremony site at The Langham Huntington Pasadena wedding venue is the Horseshoe Garden. I was so happy to learn that Nancy and Nick had chosen such a breathtaking location. The gardens have a beautiful view of the open garden with the Langham architecture in the background. Twin staircases encompassed the scene."
HOW DID YOU MEET? We met in our first year of internal medicine training. I came right up to him and asked if he was a senior resident because I thought he looked really confident. He was actually there for his first week just like me. He thought it was cute that I was flirting with him.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROPOSAL: Nick is what one might refer to as a "foodie" - a French foodie, to be specific. He's willing to jump out of his comfort zone and try new and exciting dishes. On his first date, he brought Nancy to a restaurant where they tried escargot. On the day Nick proposed, he brought Nancy back to that original restaurant to share a meal. After dinner, they drove to the Getty Villa in Malibu, but instead Nick detoured at the top of Topanga Canyon, overlooking the San Fernando Valley where both Nancy and Nick grew up. With flowers, beautiful music, cake, a heartfelt tablescape, and a nice low dip, Nick proposed to Nancy in the hope that she would say yes. Spoiler alert - she did! They celebrated the unforgettable moment with family who had been hiding and enjoyed champagne and cake.
TELL US ABOUT FINDING YOUR WEDDING DRESS: I was procrastinating with wedding planning, and my mom and sister insisted that I seriously get a move on. We booked three bridal shops while I was in town attending another wedding. I never made it to the last shop because I found the dress of my dreams at the second location. It was a mermaid dress with intricate beading that I never would have picked out for myself, but mom and sister know best. It fit me perfectly. I just knew. Wedding dress shopping was the easiest part of wedding planning for me.
DID YOU HAVE ANY DIY ELEMENTS? Not really. Nick and I are left brain people, which means we excel at reasoning and logic. Not so much artistry. But we did incorporate our nerdy side into our unity ceremony by performing a chemical reaction. We mixed two clear liquids that turned magenta upon combining to represent our colourful lives together.
DESCRIBE YOUR WEDDING FLOWERS: Our wedding flowers were organic, elegant, natural, and memorable.
FAVOURITE DETAIL OF THE DAY: When my bridesmaid put on their gold chiffon dresses by Amsale, they looked stunning. Everyone looked luminous and elegant. I thought I did such a good job picking out the dresses, but then I realised my girls made them look beautiful!
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE OUT TO A COUPLE PLANNING THEIR WEDDING? Don't sweat the small stuff. There are so many details when it comes to wedding planning that it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. At the end of the day, all that matters is you get to marry your best friend. Also make the wedding your own, and don't let family or friends get into your head. Every decision should be between you and your future husband.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT? I kept teasing my husband about crying when I walked down the aisle or during our first look. I joked that we should have the best man carry an onion. As it turned out, he held it together pretty well, but I was very emotional and shed some tears during our vows. I liked that it was spontaneous, heartfelt and touching.
ANY OTHER DETAILS THAT HELP TELL THE STORY OF YOUR DAY? We tried to infuse our personalities into the day by including some of the things we love best. There was an ice cream cart and dessert station for me because everyone knows I have an insatiable sweet tooth. Our MCDJ performed magic for Nick. We had signature drinks titled "STEMI" for me and "Code Blue" for my husband to represent our jobs as cardiologist and critical care doctor. We played as much of the Beatles as possible. They were singing when I walked down the aisle and during our first dance.
TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR HONEYMOON: We went to Maui for one week. This was both our first times. It was a perfect choice because it was easy to balance activities with rest and relaxation. I loved swimming with green sea turtles, sharing a couples' massage at the Grand Wailea, hiking the Pipiwai Trail, and eating all of the local delicacies. The best memory was meeting our favourite celebrity chef, Sheldon Simeon of Top Chef Charleston, at his restaurant opening, which landed on the same week we were in town. How fortuitous!
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD CHANGE OR DO DIFFERENTLY? I was pretty nervous about the weather. There was thunder and lightning the night before the big day, and showers on the morning itself. My friends and family tried to reassure me and said that rain was good luck. In the end, they were right. The rain broke just in time for our ceremony, leaving behind a dreamy sky.
A big thanks to Southern California wedding photographer MANDY FORD for sharing this beautiful Pasadena wedding with us. As a film hybrid photographer with a light and airy aesthetic, Mandy is deeply passionate about her craft and has documented weddings and love stories in beautiful spots through the United States. "This means I shoot both digital images and medium format film to achieve my aesthetic. Film, to me, achieves a soft, classic colour range that can't be emulated with a digital camera alone. I strive for a level of quintessential, authentic romance in my work - so you end up with photos as remarkable as you are, with an experience to match." You can see more of Mandy's work in our vendor guide.


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Home > Programs in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 9:17 a.m.Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library [1]Tenley-Friendship Library [2]Anacostia Library [3]Capitol View Library [4]Benning (Dorothy I. Height) Library [5]Francis A. Gregory Library [6]
Programs in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom represents a pivotal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. By the 1960s, racial, social and economic unrest had reached a boiling point. As a result, a coalition of leaders from the "Big Six" and civil rights, labor and religious organizations planned a peaceful protest in Washington, D.C. in order to influence the federal government to end discrimination, provide the disadvantaged with opportunities for work, establish a $2.00-an-hour minimum wage and to grant self-government to the District of Columbia.
An estimate of more than 200,000 diverse people gathered on the National Mall, hearing one of the most profound orations in American history, Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Has Dr. King's vision of an integrated society -- his "Beloved Community" -- been realized? According to many social commentators, American has come a long way; however, many issues continue to plague the nation and have a disproportionate impact on poor and working class people.
Are you interested in an examination of the legacy of the March, a discussion of the relevance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a talk highlighting the contributions of female activists, a lecture about the role of master strategist Bayard Rustin and the LGBT Community, and more including a photographic exhibition, stories of those who attended the March and musical concerts?
If so, join us beginning in late July through August for a series of exciting commemorative programs [10] at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and selected neighborhood libraries. You do not want to miss these programs designed to promote reading, personal growth and life-long learning.
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THE THING is better than PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
TEMPLE OF DOOM definitely sucked (but you can't put all the blame on Mrs. Spielberg).
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SHANGHAI—A Sichuan Airlines flight made an emergency landing in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu on May 14 after a windshield on the right side of the jet's cockpit broke off, China's aviation authority said.
The flight, Sichuan Airlines 3U8633, left the central Chinese municipality of Chongqing on May 14 morning and was bound for the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the authority said.
Pictures published by state-run newspaper Chengdu Economic Daily showed the plane missing one of its cockpit windows and damage to its cockpit controls.


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Q: Custom model binder does not work at nested property (ASP.NET Core MVC 2) I'm trying to write a custom datetime model binder that is used to convert a posted string with format "dd/MM/yyyy" to a valid date on server (server date format is "MM/dd/yyyy". My source code looks like below:
View Model
TestViewModel.cs
namespace AcaraDataRequestApplication.Models
{
    public class TestViewModel
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public FirstNestedViewModel FirstNested { get; set; }
    }

    public class FirstNestedViewModel
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public SecondNestedViewModel SecondNested { get; set; }
    }

    public class SecondNestedViewModel
    {
        public string Code { get; set; }

        [Required]
        //[CustomDateTimeModelBinder(DateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy")]
        [ModelBinder(typeof(CustomDateTimeModelBinder))]
        public DateTime ReleaseDate { get; set; }
    }
}

As you can see, I'd like to bind value for the ReleaseDate property from form posted data using a custom datetime model binder (Posted date format: dd/MM/yyyy and server date format bases on current culture setting, in my case is MM/dd/yyyy).
Custom Model Binder
CustomDateTimeModelBinder.cs
public class CustomDateTimeModelBinder : IModelBinder
{
    public Task BindModelAsync(ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
    {
        if(bindingContext == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(bindingContext));
        }

        if(bindingContext.ModelType != typeof(DateTime))
        {
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        string modelName = GetModelName(bindingContext);
        ValueProviderResult valueProviderResult = bindingContext.ValueProvider.GetValue(modelName);
        if(valueProviderResult == ValueProviderResult.None)
        {
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        bindingContext.ModelState.SetModelValue(modelName, valueProviderResult);

        string dateToParse = valueProviderResult.FirstValue;
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(dateToParse))
        {
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        DateTime dateTimeResult = ParseDate(bindingContext, dateToParse);

        if(dateTimeResult == DateTime.MinValue)
        {
            bindingContext.ModelState.TryAddModelError(modelName, $"The value '{dateToParse}' is not valid.");
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        bindingContext.Result = ModelBindingResult.Success(dateTimeResult);

        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

Basically, the logic of the custom model binder is convert the posted string with format dd/MM/yyyy to a valid date on server (server date format: MM/dd/yyyy). It means that the posted string value: "27/06/2018" will be converted correctly to June 27th 2018 on server.
CustomDateTimeModelBinderAttribute.cs
namespace AcaraDataRequestApplication.ModelBinders
{
    public class CustomDateTimeModelBinderAttribute: ModelBinderAttribute
    {
        public string DateFormat { get; set; }

        public CustomDateTimeModelBinderAttribute() :
            base(typeof(CustomDateTimeModelBinder))
        {
        }
    }
}

This attribute inherits the ModelBinderAttribute, it allows me to decorate directly the attribute at property level instead of using the ModelBinder attribute.
CustomDateTimeModelBinderProvider.cs
namespace AcaraDataRequestApplication.ModelBinders
{
    public class CustomDateTimeModelBinderProvider : IModelBinderProvider
    {
        public IModelBinder GetBinder(ModelBinderProviderContext context)
        {
            if(context.Metadata.ModelType == typeof(DateTime))
            {
                return new CustomDateTimeModelBinder();
            }

            return null;
        }
    }
}

This provider help me to register the custom datetime model binder at application level if necessary
View
DateOnNestedModel.cshtml
@model TestViewModel

@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Date On Nested Model";
}

<form asp-controller="Home" asp-action="DateOnNestedModel" method="post">

        Choose a date

            <input type="text" class="form-control" asp-for="FirstNested.SecondNested.ReleaseDate">

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</form>

@Model?.FirstNested?.SecondNested?.ReleaseDate.ToString()

@section Scripts
{
    @Html.Partial("_DatepickerScriptsPartial");
}

On the Razor View, I have only one date field using bootstrap datepicker that displays a date with format: dd/mm/yyyy. (Please note that if the Razor view contains all fields corresponding to the TestViewModel then my custom datetime model binder can run normally. But if the Razor view contains only one date field then my custom datetime model binder does not run).
Controller
HomeController.cs
namespace AcaraDataRequestApplication.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        public IActionResult DateOnNestedModel()
        {
            return View();
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public IActionResult DateOnNestedModel(TestViewModel viewModel)
        {
            if(ModelState.IsValid)
            {

            }

            return View(viewModel);
        }
    }
}

Demo
Case 1: Custom datetime model binder does not run
On the screen, I choose "27/06/2018" for the date field and click on Submit button but on the server I realized that the code of custom datetime model binder does not run when debugging.
Screen
viewModel.FirstNested.SecondNested.ReleaseDate not bind when debugging
Case 2: Custom datetime model binder run normally when I register the model binder at application level
Startup.cs
public class Startup
{
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddMvc(options =>
        {
            options.ModelBinderProviders.Insert(0, new CustomDateTimeModelBinderProvider());
        });
    }
}

TestViewModel.cs
public class SecondNestedViewModel
{
    public string Code { get; set; }

    [Required]
    //[CustomDateTimeModelBinder(DateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy")]
    //[ModelBinder(typeof(CustomDateTimeModelBinder))]
    public DateTime ReleaseDate { get; set; }
}

I did similar steps as the Case 1 and this time, I realized that the code of custom datetime model binder ran when debugging.
viewModel.FirstNested.SecondNested.ReleaseDate bound when debugging
Case 3: Custom datetime model binder run normally when I bind additional field named TestViewModel.FirstNested.SecondNested.Code
Startup.cs
public class Startup
{
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddMvc(options =>
        {
            //options.ModelBinderProviders.Insert(0, new CustomDateTimeModelBinderProvider());
        });
    }
}

TestViewModel.cs
public class SecondNestedViewModel
{
    public string Code { get; set; }

    [Required]
    //[CustomDateTimeModelBinder(DateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy")]
    [ModelBinder(typeof(CustomDateTimeModelBinder))]
    public DateTime ReleaseDate { get; set; }
}

DateOnNestedModel.cshtml
@model TestViewModel

@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Date On Nested Model";
}

<form asp-controller="Home" asp-action="DateOnNestedModel" method="post">

        Code
        <input type="text" class="form-control" asp-for="FirstNested.SecondNested.Code" />

        Choose a date

            <input type="text" class="form-control" asp-for="FirstNested.SecondNested.ReleaseDate">

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</form>

@Model?.FirstNested?.SecondNested?.ReleaseDate.ToString()

@section Scripts
{
    @Html.Partial("_DatepickerScriptsPartial");
}

On the screen, I input "Abc" for the code field and choose "27/06/2018" for the date field and click on Submit button but on the server I realized that the code of custom datetime model binder ran normally when debugging.
Screen
viewModel.FirstNested.SecondNested.ReleaseDate bound when debugging
Questions
Could you please help me to find out a reason why the custom date model binder does not run in the case 1 above?
Many Thanks