Our post title suggests a relationship between cycles of global climate and their effects on humanity. This proposal is true in a powerful way. Long term earth temperatures cycle between warmer and cooler. On a short time scale, daily and seasonal temperature changes impact what we wear, what activities we enjoy, when we take vacations, and dozens of other choices. On a longer scale some observers may notice that winters are warmer than they were in our youth. Truly long term cycles are more difficult for our contemporary population to identify and appreciate. For example, Earth experienced the Medieval Warm Period from 950-1250 AD and the Little Ice Age from 1300-1850 AD. Even more fascinating are exceedingly long term glacial events and ice ages of earth's history. People are more immediately impacted by short term changes in temperature, falling short of an in-depth understanding of how changing dynamics of climate—temperature and precipitation—have impacted humanity over thousands of years.
One example of lack of understanding of climate dynamics relates to the rise of civilization about 10,000 BC. Glacial episodes on Earth in the past 2.5 million years have been ubiquitous. Widespread continental glaciers have covered broad regions that are ice free today. Northern North America and Northern Europe have been overlain by thick ice sheets periodically during the Pleistocence—the last 2.5 million years until 11,000 years ago. Following glacial advances, our planet experiences warmer interglacials during which glacial ice melts and retreats. Presently we live in an interglacial epoch called the Holocene. Essentially, the major effects of the most recent Wisconsin glacial stage are behind us even with the presence of current ice caps at the North and South Poles and in Greenland. Therefore, Earth is still considered to be in the last stages of an Ice Age. Another major glacial advance is possible at some point in the distant future.
The rise of civilization owes more to the demise of the Wisconsin glacial event than any other factor. In terms of the history of humanity, civilization arose following the Wisconsin with surprising rapidity. Our recent blogs describe a more urban, sedentary culture and the rise of farming in association with civilization's emergence around 10,000 BC. In the many tens of thousands of preceding years, progress of human achievement as we comprehend it, was glacially slow. Some believe true humanity would have progressed beyond the hunter/gatherer stage long before.
We quote from the 10-year update of Who Was Adam, an RTB Press 2015 volume co-written by Reasons to Believe scholars Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross: "The descriptions of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2-3) and of Noah's flood (Genesis 7-9) imply that both events occurred during an ice age. The last ice age event took place 13,000—112,000 years ago, so it is reasonable to assume both Noah and Adam might have lived within this period, or Noah only during the last ice age but Adam and Eve during the preceding one…" The preceding one refers to the Illinoisan glacial stage within our current ice age. It occurred 140,000—235,000 years ago, the third of four glacial stages during the 2.5 million year Pleistocene geological epoch.
Many questions recur as we study the issue of dates for the origin of humanity. We wonder why these fully human men and women did not advance beyond a primitive culture for tens of thousands of years. We may also wonder about the existence of primitive cultures in our modern time. There exist a number of uncontacted indigenous peoples in various countries, mainly in jungles of South America, Africa, and Indonesia. They are fully human but resist contact with the outside world. Their lives have not advanced far beyond Paleolithic cultures of humans long before the human embrace of agriculture about 10,000 BC. Uncivilized and uncontacted does not diminish their full humanity. This phenomenon may help us understand that fully human men and women existed and survived during the harsh and changing conditions of the ice age prevailing during most of the lengthy human habitation on this planet. They survived but did not thrive.
In our youth we learned from Scripture about the creation of the universe, Earth, and living things including humanity in the Image of God. The Bible contains minimal information about timelines and details of creation and the events leading to Noah's flood. The human authors of the Old Testament chose mainly to detail the calling and events of the Chosen People about 2,000 BC beginning with the patriarch Abraham in Genesis 11. Accurate interpretation of Scripture is a responsibility we share with trusted scholars. Skilled scientists help us discover historical geological and archeological facts. We are thankful to our Creator for the skills of both theologians and scientists.
Before we launch into continuing discussion of the startling sudden shift of society toward agriculture about 10,000 BC, accelerating human society toward what is termed the rise of civilization, I digress with a few personal observations of the remnants of glaciation in the area where I grew up and later lived and worked. These memories not only demonstrate the reality of past Pleistocene glaciation but also provide awareness of past glacial events as they clarify geologic phenomena still evident today. Past and present observations are tantamount to an educational "field trip." Nothing reinforces book learning and class discussion better than in-person visits to sites where historic events occurred.
My childhood in central New York State provided many remnants of earth's last continental glaciation. At the time I was unaware of glacial history in my home town region. In nearby Syracuse, there was a ski area and country club called Drumlins. As a child I did not understand its geological significance, or any details of my home town area's glacial heritage even though the last continental glacier had retreated from the region only yesterday in geological terms. Years later I discovered how the country club acquired its name.
My brother became interested in model airplane building in his teen years. Some of his large glider models were capable of moderately long flight. As a young observer three years his junior, I "helped out" several times as he launched his gliders from the highest hills in our neighborhood. What were these glider-launching venues? Later I discovered the launch hills were drumlins, deposits of sediment formed in elongated north to south teardrop shapes under the slowly south-flowing ice sheet perhaps 15,000 years ago. The ice sheet flowed over glacial till, unsorted deposits of sediment, molding them into long, tapered hills blunt on their northern end and tapered at their southern terminus. These childhood glider launching venues seldom exceeded 50m in elevation.
The Seneca River flowing through our village was the main drainage of the famous Finger Lakes of New York State and became my personal favorite site for carp fishing. These elongated lakes were also generally north/south oriented, formed by the glacial ice sheet slowly following and deepening previously existing stream valleys. The largest finger lake is Seneca Lake, 618 feet deep. At 427 feet elevation, the bottom of Seneca Lake is actually below sea level. Giant lake trout and brown trout inhabit the deep lake. My parents knew personal friends with a home on Seneca Lake during my childhood. Watkins Glen State Park was the nearby site of a beautiful hanging valley waterfall, the stream bed having been "left hanging" by the passage of forceful glacial ice. When we visited our family friends I was unaware we were treading on ancient glacial topography.
Some of our family's favorite summer visits were stops at Fair Haven Beach State Park on the shores of Lake Ontario, less than an hour away from our home. Lake Ontario is one of five Great Lakes. These are the largest glacial lakes in the world. The Great Lakes did not exist when the Rise of Civilization commenced in Mesopotamia and other places in the Old World. In 12,000 BC most of the drainage and meltwater from the continental ice sheet in northern North America flowed south and west toward the Mississippi River. But by 4,000 BC the present Great Lakes drainage patterns became established as the ice sheet melted. The water then began to flow northeast following the present St. Lawrence River. This exceedingly brief narrative does not begin to relate the complexity of events in North America after the Wisconsin glacier began its demise.
Since I moved away from Central New York state in the early 1950s, I have become aware of additional phenomena in the US Northeast and Midwest as a result of the former presence of the Wisconsin ice sheet. Not ten miles from the school district where I formerly taught, I recently visited a surreal glacial "leftover" in a place called Pyramid Mountain County Park in Morris County NJ. Tripod rock has a mass of 160 tons. It rests on three much smaller rocks as though suspended several feet above ground. It is a glacial erratic carried and dropped by the mighty ice sheet perhaps 18,000 BC, transported from an unknown location farther north. I enjoyed telling my former students that our school building rested on land almost exactly at the Wisconsin glacier's southern-most edge. We wondered whether the ice began at one definite spot, or if a few snowbanks began to appear here and there as one hiked from south to north.
What was life on Earth like during the Wisconsin ice age? The Genesis account of man's experience details mainly events of the past several thousand years. But prior to the few thousand years recorded primarily from around time of Abraham, we have a sparse record of human life. We count many contemporary benefits of the Wisconsin glacier event, including (1) melting ice bringing nutrient-rich alluvial soil to the plains (2) melting glaciers, especially in the Himalayas, bringing water to the Earth (3) human migration, facilitated with the creation of land bridges during long periods of low sea level (4) melting glaciers forming an abundance of fresh water lakes (5) glacial retreat forming deep, safe harbors (6) retreating ice sheets leaving behind spectacular scenery.
We close with one more personal memory of the lingering benefit of the last Ice Age. Northern New Jersey is the home of The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in southern Morris County. The melting ice sheet left a moraine (sediment deposited at the edge of a glacier) to plug normal drainage from the watershed. Glacial Lake Passaic formed. The remaining swamp is now but a 12 square mile remnant of the Wisconsin glacier which covered the area with a thick ice sheet only 15,000 years ago. It now functions as a habitat for 244 species of birds and other diverse wildlife. The swamp acts as a natural water filter and provides a hiking site. I organized several after-school bus trips to the swamp for our hiking club.
Our enthusiasm for our contemporary agricultural bounty is well merited. We offer thanks to God for record breaking 21st century crop production and its fascinating diversity. The quality and abundance of fresh and frozen fruits, vegetables, and meats in our modern food stores have inspired my personal tongue in cheek characterizations of supermarket visits as "worship experiences." Compared with food shopping in the mid-20th century or earlier, we are startled by progress in agriculture and agricultural technology.
We recently posted about the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century, credited with saving humanity from widespread hunger and famine. The Agricultural revolutions of the 16th-19th centuries helped trigger the Industrial Revolution and resulted in enhanced human population growth. Much farther back in human history we call attention to the Neolithic Revolution of approximately 10,000 BC. It is also known as the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. Humanity transitioned from a hunter-gatherer society to an agriculture based society. The move toward agriculture resulted in a human population explosion. Humanity's population may have expanded by a factor of ten.
The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution overlapped with the melting of the last great ice sheet about 12,000 to 10,000 BC. The last advance of glacial ice is called the Wisconsin glaciation event, the last of four major glaciation events of the Pleistocene, or Quaternary geologic era which began about 2.58 mya. Earth is still in a late stage of the Ice Age. We are currently in an interglacial stage with another glacial advance possible for our planet in the far distant future.
In our last post we referenced humanoid creatures, defined as having an appearance resembling that of a human. They appeared 2.3 mya. These include many species of creatures that evolutionists wish to include on the human evolutionary tree. Even evolutionists make a distinction between ancient hominids falling far short of full humanity and fully modern humans. Ancient hominids used simple, undifferentiated tools. For many eons, however, there was little advance in their tool making technology.
From 500-200,000 BC evolutionary scientists have described archaic homo sapiens as our immediate predecessors. From 150-120,000 BC the more advanced and well publicized homo sapiens neanderthalensis appeared and roamed the earth. Finally, anatomically modern humans appeared at roughly 140,000 BC as contemporaries of Neanderthals. Some scientists call modern humanity homo sapiens sapiens to distinguish them from Neanderthal homo sapiens and other homo sapiens species now extinct.
We mention two brief preludes to large-scale agriculture mentioned in the paragraph above. First there was Kebaran culture from 18000 to 12500 BC. Several thousand years before there was a small scale attempt to cultivate wild cereals along the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Kebarans were highly nomadic. Then there appeared the Natufian Culture, characterized by descendants of the earliest farmers on our planet from 12,500 to 10,800 BC. Natufians were protoagrarian hunter/gatherers. They appeared during the Mesolithic, a short period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic. These two groups existed prior to the Neolithic—The New Stone Age. In the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution which followed, man learned to selectively alter plants to benefit humanity. Artificial selection has been a way of life in human agriculture since the Neolithic Revolution.
Wondrous progress occurred in human culture approximately 10,000 BC. These changes are associated with what has been termed "The Rise of Civilization" especially in the area of Mesopotamia. A significant segment of the human population began to assume an increasingly urban, agriculture-based, sedentary society. This marked the transition from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age. The term Neolithic is another term for the New Stone Age. Before discussing the changes of The Rise of Civilization, we briefly survey the human experience in the several tens of thousands of years prior to 10,000 BC.
In the time interval from approximately 50,000 BC to 10,000 BC humanity experienced a substantially superior technological advance compared with the primitive stone tool technology in the many previous eons of humanoid life going back over two million years. A Wikipedia article entitled "Paleolithic" states, "About 50,000 years ago there was a marked increase in the diversity of artifacts. For the first time in Africa bone artifacts and the first art appear in the archeological record. The first evidence of human fishing is also noted, from artifacts in places such as Blombos Cave in South Africa. Firstly among artifacts of Africa, archaeologists found they could differentiate and classify those of less than 50,000 years into many different categories, such as projectile points, engraving tools, knife blades, and drilling and piercing tools. The new technology generated a population explosion of modern humans….." Many additional sources tell us of increasingly sophisticated art production and the appearance of musical instruments. Sometimes this dramatic advance is termed The Cultural Explosion. This explosion is likely the result of an act of a supernatural intervention. The "Image of God" became evident in many ways.
Upper Paleolithic societies before 10,000 BC were primarily hunter/gatherer societies. Domestication of plants and animals was not generally part of their life styles but one exception may have been the domestication of wolves. Assuming that Adam and Eve were created and lived during this time, we are aware that preliminary agriculture, proto-farming, existed with Cain and Abel according to the Genesis scripture account. Widespread proliferation of agriculture would wait until the Neolithic period.
The Rise of Civilization corresponded with the onset of domestication of plants and animals. Domestication signifies a substantial degree of human influence over the care of the plants and animals surrounding us. Were we to observe plant and animal life twenty or thirty thousand years ago, we would be startled. Without the startling changes brought about by plant and animal domestication, our contemporary culture would be very different. Humanity's nutritional welfare would be severely limited by lack of food resources owing to significant reductions in human-managed agricultural diversity and productivity.
Modern manifestations of hunter/gatherer societies are currently restricted to primitive or indigenous tribes, some of which have resisted contact with the outside world. It is interesting to note that people of modern uncivilized primitive cultures possess full humanity. Likewise, the people of the Upper Paleolithic were fully human. Evolutionary theory posits a slow acquisition of human traits. The so-called "Cultural Explosion" manifests rapid advances counter to the evolutionary paradigm.
In future posts we will offer additional commentary on the phenomenon of domestication. The changes in living things as a result of domestication are a result of permanent genetic modification short of transition to a novel species. Agricultural scientists are unable to produce a new species. However, they have discovered ways to modify current species of both plants and animals to make them serve humanity in diverse ways, primarily with increased and diverse food production. We propose that the Creator of All Things has provided living things with the ability to modify their genetic traits without producing a new species. The Creator has also gifted humanity with the ability to accomplish this modification.


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The Apple fan boys could not win the battle here so the samsung fanboys think that they could give it a shot here.Let me remind all the Samsung fanboys that SAM Sung while Nokia is still singing.I would pay Samsung owners my money to shove their phones up their arses where it rightly belongs.I wouldnt take a samsung phone for free let alone buying it even if it had a 2.9ghz or higher processor.
Samsung has a young App Market for BADA which is also young & very immature. Also just because the clock speed of the CPU wave is one thousand million cycles/instructions per second, this does not neccessarily translate to faster compute performance if you read my latter explanation to learn something good.
The wave maybe a good device but the extra CPU performance is required because Android BADA needs it along with the extra I/O resources etc...Android & BADA require more power than S^3, S^3 needs a lot less powerful CPU. It's what type/spec & how the CPU achieves the process.
The N8 for instance has a GPU which has scored higher benchmarks than the Samsung Wave, Galaxy S. The N8 won't be just some dissapointing device. It will achieve most multimedia objectives with no sweat & it will do them better than any other phone.
800x480 means nothing except a super high resolution on a screen smaller than 4.0" you can discern what you are looking at without zooming in. No you need a 640x360 resolution so you can have true native 16:9 standards & actually see what you are looking at on the web page in orientated widescreen mode. you need a bigger screen to discern the benefits of 800x480 even then it's too small, uses more energy, req more GPU power, CPU power to upscale everything.
what does engadget prefer before the first iphone announced?
the only thing missing on n8 is 3G LTE network,if n8 could have 3G LTE(DL 100mbps / UL 50mbps) then it would rule the market forever.Otherwise N8 is just perfect,hey what will you do with it if you own it,play next gen game on hd plasma tv,watch on demand web tv,take yourseft high quality pics and vids,surf the web,list is endless and of course show off to other phones what n8 can do.Definately buying n8.
new sample photos from n8!!!
look at the amasing quality..yet still not the final version..
clock speed of the N8 is 680 MHz.
Okay, here is what i found searching more info on net. Cant say if they r genuine or not. Symbian^3 has backward compatibility; means apps from previous version ie s60v5 will work on it! Next, only nseries sets will ditch symbian not the x or c series; means n8 is not at the dead end. Next, both meego n symbian^3 r based on "qt"(??), so bifurcation of platform in nokia won't prove to b a hurdle for apps developers; plus, with symbian^4 due, it means,again, n8 will not be left alone, stranded. And lastly, few of the game developers have reportedly extended their support to n8(g.loft n ea for eg); means games will come, (but still keeping my fingers crossed). Hope those info r not hoax coz i m surely getting n8 by the year end.
For those people who r groaning about slow processor on n8. Google it. N8 is 180% faster than n97, and 30 odd % faster than google nexus.
Well, i m planning to buy this phone. But few serious doubts....firstly, jus read that after n8, all nseries will feature meego n not symbian. That means, will i b left stranded at the dead end of symbianOS? And risk having paucity of apps n games?
Though i dont care about games,aft my n95 let me down seriously, but if n8 turns out to be lone model flashing symbian^3 ,then it will b a real misery.
Found demo of 3d asphalt5, nfs shift, but after ngage2 fiasco, its real difficult to trust symbian.
Engineer Man, 04 Aug 2010Good Phone. Unmatched by any possible standards Apple could only dream over. Nokia N8 vs Iphon... moreengineer man, every touchscreen phone that released after the iphone gets compared to it. be it any htc, samsung or nokia product. Now that tells us something about the iphone doesnt it ??
Engineer Man, 04 Aug 2010HAHA just as Microsoft wouldn't want WinME on their track record. Nokia would do well to hide ... moreand still people are doing the same. I really hope that N8 lives upto the expectations !! :) i would only like to say that i am definitely keeping an eye on N8.
You guys are still believing this is good phone compare it with other phones in market.they are plenty of 1 ghz phones but Nokia stil sticking with low end processor for high end phones.Nokia is finished.many symbian forum owners are closing their sites cursing the company.Nokia n8 sure will flop just like Nokia x6 which was overhyped and failed just play asphalt 4 game in that mobile it is worse than java game of low end mobiles.nokia marketed that phone at high end but it is terribly flopped .don't think of n8 and waste your time go and see features of Samsung wave.it is whole better than this phone.advice from proud owner of Samsung wave.


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The UCD Smurfit Executive Development Digital Strategy & Leadership Programme takes place from September 19th to 21st. The course will address competition from new players with new business models; identify how their current source of advantage can be extended into the digital future; scale their current advantages with the deployment of digital tools; and develop a toolkit that facilitates deeper conversations among management teams about the competitive imperative that is digital business.
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St. Kilian (bis 1929 Raasen) ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Schleusingen im Landkreis Hildburghausen in Thüringen.

Geografie
St. Kilian liegt am Südhang des Thüringer Waldes überwiegend in Tallage am Breitenbach, der südlich des Ortes in die aus Erlau kommende Erle mündet.

Geschichte
St. Kilian wurde 1187 erstmals als Kapelle zu Erla, die zum Kloster Veßra gehörte, urkundlich erwähnt. Sie befand sich beim Dorf Raasen, am Breitenbach gelegen, und entwickelte sich zu einem Kirchhügel mit Chorturmkirche, Pfarrhaus, Spital und weiteren Nebengebäuden sowie mit einem Friedhof. Bis 1815 gehörte der Ort zum hennebergischen bzw. kursächsischen Amt Schleusingen und gelangte dann an den Kreis Schleusingen der neugebildeten preußischen Provinz Sachsen, bei dem er bis 1945 verblieb. Im Jahre 1929 wurde der Gutsbezirk St. Kilian in das Dorf eingemeindet. Dabei erhielt die Landgemeinde Raasen den neuen Namen St. Kilian.

Am 3. Oktober 1991 wurde St. Kilian in die Gemeinde St. Kilian eingegliedert. Diese wurde am 6. Juli 2018 nach Schleusingen eingemeindet.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

 In St. Kilian steht eine gleichnamige Kirche aus dem Jahr 1690.

Verkehr
Direkt durch St. Kilian führt die Friedbergbahn nach Schleusingen und Suhl, welche 1997 stillgelegt wurde. Jedoch plant ein Museumsbahnverein, die Strecke im Museumsverkehr zu befahren. Der nächstgelegene regulär bediente Bahnhof befindet sich in Suhl und bietet nahezu stündliche Verbindungen nach Erfurt sowie Meiningen und Würzburg.

St. Kilian ist mit den umliegenden Orten über ein beschildertes Radwegenetz verbunden. Nachdem die alte Verbindung im Zuge der Vergrößerung des Behälterglaswerkes unterbrochen wurde, besteht seit Mai 2020 ein neuer Radweg entlang der L 3247 nach Schleusingen.

Der Ort ist mit zwei Haltestellen in das Netz des WerraBus, einer Marke der RBA Regionalbus Arnstadt GmbH, integriert. Die Haltestelle Abzweig St. Kilian befindet sich dabei einige hundert Meter vom Ortskern entfernt an der L 3247. Regelmäßige Verbindungen bestehen auf folgenden Linien:
 200 Suhl–Hirschbach–Erlau–Abzweig St. Kilian–Schleusingen–Gottfriedsberg–Hildburghausen (stündlich, am Wochenende zweistündlich) → in Suhl Anschluss an den Regionalexpress von/nach Erfurt
 201 Suhl–Altendambach–Hirschbach–Erlau–St. Kilian–Breitenbach–Schleusingen (dreistündlich, kein Wochenendverkehr)
 203 Suhl–Hirschbach–Erlau–Abzweig St. Kilian–Schleusingen–Ratscher–Waldau–Schönbrunn–Masserberg (zweistündlich, Mo–Fr)

An der südlichen Flurgrenze führt über die Talbrücke St. Kilian die A 73. Über die nahegelegenen Anschlussstellen Schleusingen und Suhl-Friedberg besteht Anschluss in Richtung Erfurt/Schweinfurt und Coburg/Nürnberg.

Persönlichkeiten
 Ernst Heß (1880–1945), kommunistischer Widerstandskämpfer gegen das Naziregime

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Hildburghausen
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Hildburghausen)
Gemeindeauflösung 1929
Geographie (Schleusingen)
Kilian (Heiliger) als Namensgeber

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Il bivacco Biagio Musso (3.664 ) si trova alle pendici del Grand Combin nel comune di Bourg-Saint-Pierre (canton Vallese) anche se è di proprietà del CAI, sezione di Chivasso.

Caratteristiche ed informazioni
Si trova su un dosso roccioso del cosiddetto Plateau du Couloir e sotto il Grand Combin de Valsorey.

Accesso
Si può salire al bivacco partendo dal rifugio Franco Chiarella all'Amianthé in circa tre ore oppure dalla Cabane de Valsorey in circa due ore.

Dal rifugio Franco Chiarella all'Amianthé si tratta di salire al Col d'Amianté (3.308 m), poi di traversare in alto il ghiacciaio del Mont Durand per arrivare al col de Sonadon (3.504 m) e, infine, di salire sulla spalla rocciosa dove si trova il bivacco.

Dalla Cabane de Valsorey si tratta di risalire il Glacier de Meitin.

Ascensioni
 Grand Combin de Grafeneire - 4.314 m
 Grand Combin de Valsorey - 4.184 m

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Queen and Country
August 1, 2021 Edward Staskus 1 Comment
William Murphy was a shrewd careful man who knew how to get things done. It was why Prince Albert sent him to Prince Edward Island on the American-built clipper ship Antelope of Boston to kill the man who had tried to kill his wife. It didn't matter that he was an Irishman sent to gun down an Englishman. When it came to killing each other the Irish and English were good at it.
"Either bring the evil-minded blackguard back to be hung or put him in the ground where you find him and spare us the trouble," the consort to Queen Victoria said.
He nearly lost his chance when he stepped out of the long boat landing him on the north coast of the island too soon for comfort and almost drowned. The water was deeper near the shore of the cove than anyone thought. He sank to the bottom not knowing how to swim and only made it back up on the back of one of the sailors who knew how to at least dog paddle.
The man he was after was Thomas Spate, a disgruntled veteran of the Crimean War. When he was awarded the Crimea Medal, he threw it away. When he was one of the first soldiers to receive the Victoria Cross for bravery in action during the Battle of Balaclava, he thought about throwing it away, too, but kept it. He wore it every day pinned on his coat over his heart.
During the war Queen Victoria knitted woolens for the troops and inspected military hospitals, wearing a custom-made red army jacket. When the war ended, she threw a series of victory balls in her new ballroom. Tom Spate watched from outside, driving himself crazy. He was alone and down on his luck. He blamed everybody except himself for the bad things that happened to him. He walked incessantly, from one end of London to the other. He goose-stepped up and down Hyde Park. Small groups gathered to watch the performance. Queen Victoria saw him often enough to become familiar with him, although she never approached or spoke to him.
During one of his walks around London he spied Queen Victoria and Prince Albert outside Cambridge House. As their carriage left, it came to a stop outside the gate. Tom Spate had taken to carrying two old-fashioned flintlock coat pocket pistols. They were always loaded. He walked up to the carriage and pulled them out of his coat. He straightened one arm and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. He brought the other pistol to bear and pulled the trigger. It misfired. He had just enough time to strike his monarch on the head with the butt of one of the guns before Prince Albert lunged at him, shoving him away from the carriage. Men on the walk swarmed the would-be assassin and beat him almost to death.
Queen Victoria stood up in her carriage and proclaimed in a firm voice, "I am not hurt," even though she was gushing blood from a deep gash on her forehead. The blood was lit a violent red on her yellow crocheted shawl.
Tom Spate was arrested imprisoned tried convicted and sentenced to transportation and twenty years hard labor in the penal colony on Tasmania. There was no appeal. There was no changing anybody's mind.
"I would have had the rascal drawn and quartered," Prince Albert complained, speaking his mind.
When he escaped his jailers and disappeared, Prince Albert summoned Bill Murphy, a mercenary who it was said always got his man. He told his monarch's man as much. It took more than a year, but in the spring of 1859, he was making his way soaking wet up the hill from the cove to the village of North Rustico. He knew where Tom Spate was and knew he could take his time. He needed to get out of his sopping clothes. He needed a hot cider and dinner. He needed a good night's sleep in a feather bed on dry land that didn't heave-ho all night long. He found the only boarding house in North Rustico and took a room.
Bill Murphy's man was living on the far side of the Stanley River, nine miles northwest up the coast. The Irishman grew up calling miles chains. His man was 720 chains away. It would take him about three hours to walk there on the coastal footpath. He had no intention of dragging anybody back to England in chains. "Jesus and Mary chain," he grumbled. He had every intention of collecting his bounty.
Tom Spate lived in a rough-and-ready hut he had thrown together, living in it with his new wife and new baby. He had no land to farm and no craft to make his way. He made his way by operating a ferry service from one side of the Stanley River to the other. In the winter he closed it down when the water froze, and folks either walked or ice skated across. In January the ice got thick enough that horses and wagons could cross. He bought ice skates, carved sticks with a curve at the bottom, and made homemade pucks. His wife rented them to youngsters with eggs, butter, salt cod, and potatoes in hand in trade for playing shinny on the ice. It was a game of fast skating and trying to hit the puck between two sticks of wood marking the goal.
Most of North Rustico was Acadian French, and Catholic like Bill Murphy. The north coast was the religious center for the church. St. Augustine's had been built twenty years earlier. It boasted an 80-foot-high front tower. A man could see everything from the top of it. The harbor was filled with boats and the fishing was good. There were cattle and horses grazing and fields of turnip and cabbage.
Piles of mud dotted the fronts of fields. On his way to make Tom Spate meet his maker, stopping to rest, he asked a passing man what it was.
"It is mussel mud," the man, a farmer, said. "The land needs lime to breathe new life into it. We use the mud from bays and riverbeds. It's filled with oyster shells."
He didn't ask why they called it mussel mud instead of oyster mud. "Do you dig it up?" he asked.
"We go out in canoes at high tide and dam up a small space so we can dig it from the bottom. When we are full, we go back and unload it at low tide."
"It sounds like a great deal of work."
"It is, but without the mud we would starve on the farms, both man and beast. I couldn't keep one horse but for it. Your cow needs at least a ton of hay to survive the winter. We have been doubling our harvests with the mud. We will have more of it soon."
"How's that?"
"We have got a man engineering a mechanical digger to harvest the mud in the winter through holes in the ice and carry it across the island by sleigh. There's talk that we will be able to increase our crops of hay five and ten times. And then there's the ice besides. We cover it in sawdust and put it into an icehouse, and we can preserve foods that would go bad in the summer's heat."
Bill Murphy parted with the farmer, shaking his hand. He liked what he heard about mussel mud. It was a sunny day and the uplands looked fine to him.
When he got to the Stanley River, he rang a bell hanging from a post. Tom Spate's face appeared at a window on the other side. He waved and the next minute was guiding his flatboat across the water, using a rope anchored to oak trees. He pushed with a pole along the riverbed. Bill Murphy paid him his two pennies and put his back to a pillar as Tom Spate pushed off.
Near the middle of the river the Irishman felt for the sidearm in his pocket. He carried the new Beaumont-Adams percussion revolver. The cylinder held five rounds, just in case, although he knew he wasn't going to miss his man with his first shot. He intended to be standing face to face with him when he dispatched. He walked up to Tom Spate.
"Thomas Spate, I have a message for you from your queen," he said.
Tom Spate's face went white as a corpse when the barrel of the gun pressed into his chest, pressing against his Victoria Cross.
"For God's sake, I have a wife and child."
"For crown and country," Bill Murphy said and pulled the trigger. The bullet rocketed out of the barrel, hitting and driving the medal into Tom Spate's heart, smashing the spirit and strength out of it, and putting an end to the unhappy war veteran's life.
Bill Murphy stood over him and decided in a moment of keenness that he was going to stay on Prince Edward Island. There was nothing in Ireland or the rest of the United Kingdom for him other than more killing and waiting for the day he would be the one killed. He had neither wife nor family. He would find a colleen here, he thought. He would have sons. He would raise horses fed with abundant hay grown in the good graces of mussel mud. He didn't love his fellow man, but he loved horses.
He bent a knee and using both hands widened the hole in Tom Spate's chest. He stuck his fingers into the man, feeling for the bullet and the medal. He couldn't find the bullet at first but found the Victoria Cross easily enough. He yanked out the medal cast from the cascabels of two cannons captured from the Russians at the siege of Sevastopal. He searched some more for the bullet until he found it. He washed the blood on his hands off in the river water. He kicked the body off the ferry and into the river. It bobbed and started floating out to the ocean.
He poled the ferry to the side he had come from and walked back to North Rustico. In his room he packaged the bullet the medal and a letter in a stout envelope. The letter didn't have a word in it about what he had done, only asking for land on the shoreline where he had landed, and the right to name the cove "Murphy's Cove."
He posted the letter in Charlottetown, paying an extra penny to make it a "Registered Letter." It would sail on the Gazette to Liverpool the next week. He hoped to have a reply by the fall. In the meantime, he would start building a house on the western side of the cove. The land might already be owned by somebody, but it was nearly all forest. Whoever the landlord was, it was still waiting for a tenant, or the man in the moon. When and if he showed up, Bill Murphy was sure he could set him straight.
He sat in his room and fired up his Meerschaum pipe. When he was young and poor, he smoked spone. It was coltsfoot mixed with wild rose petals. Now he carried good tobacco in his purse. The smoke curled up from his Irish clay. The kitten he had brought back with him from the no-contest on the Stanley River watched the smoke, avid and curious.
"All the old haunts and the dear friends, all the things I used to do, the hopes and dreams of boyhood days, they all pass me in review." It was a song they still sang in military barracks. He had been dragooned into the army while a lad after being plied with drink by a sergeant in a pub. He took the "Queen's Shilling" and there was no going back, especially after he deserted and went to work for himself, plying his trade.
The only window of his room faced west. The setting sun slanted in, warming his face. When he was done with his pipe he would go downstairs for haddock, potatoes, and beer. Until then, he would smoke and let his plans unwind themselves in the back of his mind.
Queen Victoria and Prince Consort, 1859. Painting by George Houseman Thomas.
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Feed Your Head
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I was in my early 20s in 1973 the first time I visited Lake View Cemetery. I was in the back seat of a 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 convertible. Bill Neubert was driving, and his wife Bonnie was beside him. Everybody called Bonnie Buck, although I called her Bonnie. It was a mid-summer day, warm bright breezy. The top of the car was down. Bill stopped in front of an old headstone. We got out of the car and walked up to it.
The name on the grave was Louis Germain DeForest. The dates were 1838 – 1870.
"He was the first guy buried here," Bill said.
Captain Louis Deforest was from Cleveland, one of ten children, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and went home after Johnny Reb gave it up. He married Theresa Luidham before the war, got her pregnant during the war, and again after the war. Back in Cleveland he went into the jewelry business. The sparkle didn't last long. He died at the age of 31.
Two sites in the graveyard were on the National Register of Historic Places, the second one added that year. I didn't know much about places with a past. I had enough trouble making sense of the present. Bill filled me in, even though he wasn't interested in historic places. He was more interested in the flow of history.
Bill and Bonnie were mimes clowns comedians, putting on shows around town, working out of town when they got offers. They were a few years older than me, friends of my roommate Carl Poston. That Saturday morning Carl begged off messing around town, leaving me the odd man out. Bill and Bonnie made me feel at home. Bill didn't act or look anything like Humphrey Bogart, but he talked just like him. We drove to Little Italy and had pastries and coffee. Back in the car they both dropped acid and asked me if I wanted to try it.
"Sure," I said.
They didn't call it LSD. They called it Uncle Sid. It was the first time I took acid, and a half hour later was finding it and everything else incredibly interesting. Everything seemed fresh and bright. Uncle Sid wasn't the disheveled uncle with yesterday's stogie trying to take your picture with his $5.00 Instamatic. He was my best friend that day.
The Jefferson Airplane released 'White Rabbit' in 1967. "One pill makes you large and one pill makes you small, feed your head, feed your head," Grace Slick sang her eyes full of stars.. My head was full to the brim the rest of the day. Everything was freaky but beautiful. No matter what it was, it all felt looked smelled sounded new. My eyes stayed wide open like a baby's all day long.
"What's it like to be a child?" asked Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College in London. "That sense of wonder, that sense of awe is what you certainly see with psychedelics. Sometimes it's framed in a sort of mystical or spiritual way. But it's interesting if you look at some literature, someone like William Wordsworth, who talks about the infant state as being a kind of heavenly state where we're closer to what you would call God."
LSD was first synthesized in 1938 in Switzerland. It was introduced as a psychiatric drug in 1947 and marketed as a psychotropic panacea, "a cure for everything from schizophrenia to criminal behavior, sexual perversions, and alcoholism." The abbreviation LSD is from the mouthful of the German word lysergsäurediethylamid. The drug was brought to the United States by the CIA. The spy agency bought the world's entire supply for a quarter million dollars and promoted its use in clinics, research centers, and prisons. They administered it to their own employees, soldiers, doctors, prostitutes, the fruity, the mentally ill, the down and out, and plain folks to study their reactions, usually without those given the drug knowing what they were taking. The idea was that LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano.
Lake View Cemetery is a garden graveyard straddling Cleveland, East Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights. It was founded in 1869. It was where the city's wealthy buried themselves during the Gilded Age. There are many lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums. Little Italy up and down Mayfield Rd. was settled by stone masons from Italy who came to America to make monuments for God's 280 acres. Many of the monuments they made were symbols. It's better to be a symbol than a monument. Pigeons do bad things to monuments.
In the 1960s Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Timothy Leary got their hands on LSD and started advocating it to the counterculture. It was supposed to be the drug of choice for consciousness expansion. Owsley Stanley got the blotter rolling in San Francisco. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters popularized it during their road trips, giving it away to anybody who wanted it. Nick Sands created Orange Sunshine, the most pure, highest-quality LSD made at the time, better than the CIA's. In 1966 the Psychedelic Shop opened, selling acid over the counter. It was legal as cookies and milk. If you were a gal, wearing a pants suit was problematical, but not downing the hallucinogenic.
Bill drove his Olds 88 to Section 9 on Lot 14, to the marble gravestone of Francis Haserot and his family. The bigger than life tomb marker was "The Angel of Death Victorious." The angel's wings were outstretched, and she held an extinguished torch upside-down. I stepped up to her and saw what looked like black tears dripping from her eyes and down her neck. I wasn't unnerved, but rather impressed with the sculptor's skill, until I realized it was a result of rain and aging bronze.
W. H. Auden wasn't impressed with LSD. "Highly articulate people under it talk absolute drivel," he said. After he tried it, he reported, "Nothing much happened but I did get the distinct impression that some birds were trying to communicate with me." The Beatles jumped on the bandwagon with 'Day Tripper' in 1966 and 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' in 1967. "The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away," said George Harrison. "I had such an incredible feeling of well-being."
Not everybody was all in. "We don't take trips on LSD in Muskogee, we are living right and free," Merle Haggard sang on 'Okie from Muskogee.' Living free in the home of the brave is one thing. Living right is in the eye of the beholder. The city is on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. It is home to a museum of Native American history and the USS Batfish, a WWII submarine with an onboard museum. Between 1858 and 1872 the Texas Rangers and U. S. Cavalry battled Creeks Kiowa Comanche Native Americans in more than a dozen major engagements, eventually wearing them down, rounding them up, and telling them to stay the hell on the reservation. In the 1970s the Batfish stayed becalmed bewildered on the river, many miles from its native ocean hunting grounds.
After we left Haserot's Angel we drove to the Garfield Memorial. It's the final resting place of assassinated President James Garfield, who was from nearby Mentor. The memorial is built of Ohio sandstone in a combination of Gothic, Byzantine, and Romanesque styles. It took five years to build and was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1890. James Garfield, and his wife, Lucretia, are entombed in the crypt.
The circular tower is 180 feet high. We stood on the broad front steps and looked up. Before we went in, we gave the once-over to the bas-reliefs depicting President Garfield's life and death, which included more than one hundred life-size figures. Inside was a gold dome and a statue of the main man. Below the Memorial Hall were two bronze caskets and two urns, the urns holding the ashes of the presidential couple's daughter and her husband. I followed Bill and Bonnie up a stairway to a balcony with a view of Lake Erie. We stayed for a half-hour, taking a long gander at the downtown skyline before we left. It was like IMAX a year before IMAX happened, but without the motion sickness.
"My feelings about LSD are mixed," said Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. "It's something that I both fear and love at the same time. I never take any psychedelic, have a psychedelic experience, without having that feeling of, I don't know what's going to happen. In that sense, it's fundamentally an enigma and a mystery to me."
"The function of the brain is to reduce available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world" said the Czechoslovakian psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. "LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience."
When he was dying of cancer Aldous Huxley asked his wife to inject him with LSD. The drug has analgesic properties for the terminally ill. When the acid trip was over so was his trip on earth. He died that night. The doors of perception closed on the man who wrote "The Doors of Perception." Two years later Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek named their new band The Doors.
In no time LSD was scaring the bejesus out of Washington D. C. They thought it was undermining American values and undermining the war effort in Vietnam. The Air Force might have dropped puff powder bombs of it on Charlie instead of napalm to keep the dominoes in place, but they didn't. It was made illegal in the late 1960s. It was classified as a substance with no legitimate medical use and a lack of accepted safety. The DEA said it had a high potential for abuse. Although the drug had never caused any documented deaths, that was that. If you wanted to be in the sky with diamonds, once you landed your next bus stop might be prison.
After we left Garfield's Memorial, we left the Olds 88 where it was and set off on foot. The memorial is on a hill which is the boneyard's high point. We rambled downhill in the sunshine, making our way on twisty paths, stopping at the graves of Charles Brush, Elroy Kulas, John D. Rockefeller, and Garrett Morgan.
Charles Brush was an inventor with fifty patents to his name. His arc lights were the first to illuminate Cleveland's Public Square. When he later sold his company, it merged with the Edison Electric Co. to form General Electric. Elroy Kulas was the president of Midland Steel from the day it was organized in 1923 until his death in 1952. He was one of the driving forces behind the city's steelmaking. During World War Two he built hulls for tens of thousands of M4 Sherman Tanks. The Nazis had a low opinion of them, but in the end the Sherman's played chin music with the Panzer's, blasting them to kingdom come. The Kulas Auditorium at the Institute of Music is named after him.
We found John D. Rockefeller's grave without any problem. It was at the base of an almighty obelisk. We didn't stay long, only long enough to pay our respects to the Age of Oil. John D. was a son-of-a-gun, bleeding anybody everybody who crossed him bone dry. It was how he made it to the top of the world, making himself the richest man in the world. He gave it away at the end so no one would spit anymore when they heard his name.
Garrett Morgan founded the Cleveland Call newspaper for the Negro community. He patented a breathing device that was used in 1916 during a mining disaster in gas-filled tunnels under Lake Erie to rescue workers and bring back those who died. Twenty-one men died. He and his brother rescued two of them and recovered four dead. He developed the modern traffic light and was the first black man in town to own a car.
We went full flaneur hoofing it around the garveyard, spending all day there. By early evening we were dog tired and coming down fast from the LSD. We needed bread and water. We hopped into the Olds 88 and drove down to Little Italy. Instead of bread and water we had espresso, ham sandwiches, and biscotti.
When Bill and Bonnie dropped me off back home it was nighttime. I ignored the mail, fed Ollie my Siamese cat, who was meowing up a storm, brushed my teeth, and got into bed. Ollie jumped up and got comfortable beside me.
I had spent the day with the dead but felt incredibly alive. More than one hundred thousand men women and children are buried in Lake View Cemetery, their eyes closed forever. My eyes had never been more open. I didn't drop much acid after that, and when I did, stuck to small doses. I didn't think it was especially dangerous, but it is unpredictable stuff that can go wrong, like kids one minute are laughing their heads off and the next minute bawling their eyes out.
I thought maybe I would take it again when I was dying, like Aldous Huxley, and go out on a high note.
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Sports colours were awarded to those boys who excelled at the relevant sport. They were awarded by the games master usually during a school assembly. Colours were awarded permanently and would be held for as long as the boy was at the school.
The names of all boys who had been awarded colours were shown on the colours boards. These were in the small corridor inside the Tower (for Rugby and Hockey) and on the Cricket pavilion wall for cricket colours.
Boys who had been awarded colours were identifiable as follows;
Rugby – a corbie badge was sewn onto their First XV rugby jersey
Hockey – a corbie badge was sewn onto their First XI hockey jersey
Cricket – a colours cap was awarded (this was the red school cap with white marking)
The sports photos show the colours on the journeys.
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1925 T. McArdle (c), H. Doherty, R. McKillop, T. White, W. McLean, J. Eaves, M. Carty, D. Duffy, J. McCombes
1926 J. Eaves (c), R. O'Connor, W. McLean, G. Carruth, J. McCombes
1927 R. O'Connor (c), J. Carruth, H. Boultwood, W. Young, J. Dunn
1928 J. Dunn (c), H. Boultwood, J. Carruth, W. Young, D. Matheson, E. Froes, I. Kennedy, G. Whitehead, D. Carruth
1929 D. Matheson (c), D. Carruth, G. Whitehead, J. Birnie
1930 G. Whitehead (c), J. Brusey, J. Birnie, J. Harrower, P. Shiel, E. Herraghty, J. McLaughlin, J. O'Hara, P. Byrne
1931 J. McLaughlin (c), P. Byrne, J. O'Hara, P. Shiel, J. McFall, P. Reilly, J. Foy, J. Stephen, P. Murphy, B. Beers, D. Kelly
1932 P. Byrne (c), J. Stephen, J. Foy, P. Reilly, B. Beers, D. Kelly, M. Walsh
1933 P. Byrne (c), J. Rogers, J. Lewis, R. Phoenix, J. Jennings, A. Macdonald
1934 R. Phoenix (c), J. Barry, J. Rogers, M. Reilly, J. MacLennan, W. Mackay, G. Bartlett
1935 W Mackay (c), P. Mohan
1936 P. Mohan (c), M. Loftus, W. Christopher, F. Taylor, A. MacQueen
1937 M. Loftus (c), W. Christopher, A. MacQueen, D. Barry, R. Levack, H. Curran, E. MacQueen, W. Kelly, W. MacDonald
1938 R. Levack (c), W. MacDonald, F. MacQueen, H. Curran, O. Walsh, J. Laverty, A. Watson, F. Sutherland
1939 F. Sutherland (c), T. Crawford, P. Barry, O. Flynn, V. Birch, J. Dalgleish
1940 R. McLernan (c), R. Anderson, J. Dalgleish, R. Di Rollo, N. McGregor
1941 R. Di Rollo (c), N. McGregor, J. Dalgleish, N. Baird
1942 N. Baird (c), M. Keegan, M. Couttie, J. Harris, I. Di Rollo
1943 I. Di Rollo (c), D. Atkinson, K. Murray, T. Herd, D. Korczynski
1944 D. Atkinson (c), K. Murray, D. Korczynski, J. Locke. P. Crossan, J. Marin, C. Hall
1945 C. Hall (c), C. Di Giacomo, A. Greco
1946 D. McKay (c), A. Greco, H. Cardosi, M. Crawford, J. Korczynski
1947 M. Crawford (c), J. Caruana, D. Dando, J. McEachin
1948 J. Caruana (c), L. Murray, R. Baird, J. Malone, C. Barrett
1949 J. Malone (c), L. Caruana
1950 J. Malone (c), L. Caruana, F. Whitehurst, R. Seed, F. Chapelle, R. Duncan, T. McLaughlin
1951 F. Whitehurst (c), T. McLaughlin, R. Duncan, B. Paton, V. Macari, A. Haworth
1952 F. Whitehurst (c), R. Duncan, B. Paton, V. Macari, P. Mooney, A. Haworth
1953 P. Mooney (c), W. Mackenzie
1954 G. Martin (c), R. Swift
1955 R. Swift (c), K. Deady, J. Kelman, R. Beith
1956 J. Kelman (c), A. Duncan, M. Cipolato, C. Dunn
1957 A. Duncan (c), C. Dunn, M. Cipolato, E. Di Rollo, B. Spary, G. Dupuis
1958 M. Cipolato (c), I. Daly
1959 R. Sinclair (c), I. Macdonald, J. van Bavel
1960 J. van Bavel (c), I. Atkinson, R. Godfrey, G. McGlynn
1961 G. McGlynn (c), A. Young
1962 H. Shannon (c), J. Marshall, A. Burns
1963 R. Drummond (c), P. Perrin, I. Campbell, W. Chisholm, R. Cardosi
1964 J. Slight (c), H. Walker
1965 J. Edgar (c), D. Shannon, C. Campbell
1966 D. Haworth (c), P. Diviani
1967 A. Cousland (c), P. Doyle, K. Janik
1968 P. Doyle (c), C. Donne, C. Grieve
1969 P. Doyle (c), P. Greco, J. Doyle, V. Chlebowski
1970 J. Doyle (c), V. Chlebowski, J. Edgar, B. Lanni, P. Dalton
1971 J. Edgar (c), P. Dalton, B. Lanni
1972 M. Doyle (c), R. Grant, M. Copolla, G. Squires, M. Mortali
1973 J. Collins-Taylor (c), S. McRory, C. Wilson
1974 C. Wilson (c), I. Sunderland, C. Grant, M. Dalton, P. Squarey
1975 P. Murray (c), L. Vallot, S. Ross
1976 L. Vallot (c), D. Sullivan, A. Sabin
1977 C. G. Bryce (c), A. L. Basigara
1978 B. P. Robinson (c), J. P. Stephenson, D. P. Cardiff
1979 P. Vallot (c), T. Welsh, D. J. Blanchard, P. O'Shea, G. A. J. Semple, D. A. Ogilvie, N. R. Robertson
1980 D. A. Ogilvie (c), I. S. Phillips, A. W. McLaughlin, J. D. Kiwanuka, A. M. Mungavin, A. N. Blanchard
1981 A. W. McLaughlin (c), L. Kelly, T. R. Welsh, P. R. Westcott, D. G. S. Nkhoma, J. D. Kiwanuka, D. Boyle
1982 J. D. Kiwanuka (c), D. Boyle, D. G. S. Nkhoma, A. J. O'Sullivan, S. P. Kiwanuka, M. J. Mungavin, P. R. Protte
1983 M. J. Mungavin (c), D. G. S. Nkhoma, C. MacLellan, A. J. Meldrum
1984 P. F. Bennett (c), S. D. Murphy, J. K. Knox, R. L. Giulianotti
1985 E. Brogan (c), R. L. Giulianotti, C. Keaney
1986 M. A. Giulianotti (c), C. Smith, M. Waugh, S. Risi, J. B. Dunn
1987 A. MacMaster (c), M. S. Masini, M. J. Hughes
1988 M. J. Hughes (c), R. Brown, G. M. P. Lappin
1989 M. A. J. Robson (c), V. Igoe
1990 M. J. Lynas (c), J. H. M. Gray
1991 S. Rhodes (c), D. F. M. Gray, M. P. Byrne, C. Murray
1930 G. Whitehead (c), J. Brusey
1931 P. Murray (c), P. Reilly, P. Byrne, J. Stephen, B. Beers, J. O'Hara, J. McLaughlin
1932 J. Stephen (c), B. Beers, P. Reilly, P. Byrne, J. Paterson, J. Lewis, H. Lyall
1933 H. Lyall (c), J. Lewis, P. Byrne, S. Bartlett, J. Barry
1934 S. Bartlett (c), J. Barry, H. Lyall, J. Rogers, R. Phoenix, W. Mackay, T. Barry
1935 T. Barry (c), A. MacQueen, L. Lyall, E. Taylor, P. Mohan
1936 T. Barry (c), F. Taylor, A. MacQueen, W. Young, P. Mohan, M. Loftus, R. Levack
1937 A. MacQueen (c), R. Levack, M. Loftus, G. Davidson, F. MacQueen, O. Walsh, W. MacDonald, W. Christopher, W. Kelly
1938 O. Walsh (c), F. MacQueen, W. MacDonald, V. Birch, R. Anderson
1939 V. Birch (c), R. Anderson, F. Sutherland, R. McLernan, P. Barry, C. van Zeller, R. Smith
1940 R. Anderson (c), R. McLernan, H. MacDonald, T. Sutherland, R. Di Rollo
1941 H. MacDonald (c), R. Di Rollo
1942 R. Baird (c), J. Harris
1943* colours were not awarded
1944 R. MacGrath (c), I. Di Rollo, K. Murray, D. MacFarlane, P. McGregor
1946 C. Hall (c), C. Di Giacomo
1947 M. Crawford (c), T. McGregor, J. McClusky, D. Dando
1948 J. Caruana (c), R. Baird, S. Tyskinski, M. Kerrigan
1950 K. Smith (c), L. Caruana, T. Eastham
1951 F. Whitehurst (c), J. Malone, R. Seed, P. Laing
1952 F. Whitehurst (c), B. Paton, R. Duncan
1953 F. Whitehurst (c), R. Duncan, B. Paton, R. Chisholm
1954 G. Martin (c), P. Smith, M. McCabe
1955 G. Martin (c), K. Deady, A. Fava
1956 K. Deady (c), G. Davidson, R. Beith, P. Gordon Smith, A. Duncan
1957 P. Gordon Smith (c), A. Duncan
1958 A. Duncan (c), E. Di Rollo, I. F. Macdonald, I. Daly
1959 I. Daly (c), M. Cipolato, I. F. Macdonald
1960 I. F. Macdonald (c), N. C. Taylor, M. Turnbull
1961 R. N. Godfrey (c), J. G. van Bavel, B. J. Mathieson
1962 H. G. Young (c), P. C. Bayliss, A. J. Burns
1963 J. P. Marshall (c), R. C. Drummond, A. J. Burns, H. D. Shannon, P. R. Perrin
1964 R. C. Drummond (c). P. R. Perrin, E. F. Foley, D. I. Colquhoun
1965 J. H. T Slight (c), I. S. Brown, P. J. Diviani, D. M. Waters
1966 T. J. Murphy (c), D. Shannon, C. T. Campbell
1967 D. L. Haworth (c), P. J. Diviani, H. E. Murphy, J. A. MacBride
1968 P. Doyle (c), P. Greco, H. E. Murphy, J. A. MacBride, K. Janik, A. D. M. Cousland
1969 P. Doyle (c), P. Greco, A. Cunningham, W. Chapman
1970 P. Greco (c), G. J. Lumsden, W. M. Chapman, J. Doyle, D. M. Allison, R. Mazzoni
1971 J. Doyle (c), G. J. Lumsden, W. M. Chapman, F.A. Partridge, J. J. Murray, H. P. MacDonald
1972 D. W Butchart (c), K. Slowey, M. M. McLoughlin
1973 G. S. Squires (c), A. J. Whitehead
1974 D. l. Campbell (c), M. G. Chapman, P. M. Couttie
1975 P. M. Couttie (c), C. V. Grant
1976 L. Vallot (c), S. L. Ross, A. J. Sabin, D. R. Milne, C. A. Job
1977 L. Vallot (c), A. J. Sabin, G. A. Hay
1978 C. G. Bryce (c), A. L. Basigara, V. J. Gram-Hansen
1979 V. J. Gram-Hansen (c), B. P. Robinson, A. V. Campopiano, D. A. Seed, A. H. Nicol
1980 J. T. Welsh, A. V. Campopiano, I. S. Phillips
1981 A.V. Campopiano (c), T. L. Kelly, I. S. Phillips, D.A. Ogilvie, A. M. Mungavin, T. R. Welsh, P. N. Bettosi
1982 T. L. Kelly (c), R. Welsh, P. R. Westcott, E. E. Ogilvie
1983 D. K. Kiwanuka (c), D. G. Nkhotna, P. E. Bennett
1984 D. G. Nkhoma (c), P. F. Bennett, J. K. Knox, P. T. Mattison
1985 P. F. Bennett (c), R. L. Giulianotti
1986 R. L. Giulianotti (c), M. A. Giulianotti, S. Phillips
1987 M.A. Giulianotti (c), A. O. Knox
1988 M. J. Hughes (c), M. S. Masini
1989 M. J. Hughes (c), G. M. Lappin
1990 M. A. Robson, F. Igoe, M. Byrne
1991 M. P. Byrne (c), J. H. Gray, M. J. Lynas, D. E. Gray, C. Murray
1923 R. McKillop (c), B. O'Callaghan, T. McArdle, A. MacDonald
1924 T. McArdle (c), R. McKillop, B. O'Callaghan, A. MacDonald, T. White, D. Gargan
1925 T. McArdle (c), R. McKillop, B. O'Callaghan, T. White, D. Gargan, J. McLean
1926 T. McArdle (c), R. McKillop, W. McLean, G. Carruth, H. McDonnell
1927 J. McCombes (c), G. Carruth, J. King, H. Boultwood
1928 H. Boultwood (c), J. Carruth, J. Dunn, J. Birnie
1929 H. Boultwood (c), J. Dunn, J. Carruth, J. Birnie, J. Richardson
1930 J. Birnie (c), J. Brusey, D. Carruth, J. Harrower, J. O'Hara
1931 J. Birnie (c), J. Brusey, J. Harrower, J. O'Hara, J. McLaughlin, P. Murphy
1932 P. Murphy (c), O'Hara, J. McLaughlin, M. Walsh, H. Lyall
1933 M. Walsh (c), H. Lyall, J. Rogers, J. Lewis.
1934 H. Lyall (c), J. Rogers, J. Lewis, W. MacKay, J. Barry
1935 J. Rogers (c), MacKay, J. Barry, T. Fletcher
1936 T. Fletcher (c), W. MacKay, W. Young
1937 T. Barry (c), W. Young, G. Davison
1938 M. Loftus (c), G. Davison, A. MacQueen, O. Walsh
1939 O. Flynn (c), W. MacDonald, V. Birch, R. Anderson
1940 V. Birch (c), O. Flynn, R. Anderson, H. MacDonald, P. Barry
1941 R. Anderson (c), H. MacDonald, J. Dalgleish
1942 R. Baird (c), H. MacDonald, J. Dalgleish, L. Baxter
1943 R. Baird (c), G. Harris
1944 R. Magrath (c), I. Di Rollo, K. Murray, P. McGregor
1945 D. Atkinson (c), K. Murray, J. McCormick, A. Korczynski, C. Hall
1946 C. Hall (c), D. Mckay, M. McCormack, J. McCluskey
1947 M. Crawford (c), J. Korczynski, D. Gordon-Dando, J. McCluskey, T. McGregor
1948 M. Crawford (c), J. McCluskey, T. McGregor, M. Kerrigan, R. Baird
1949 L. Murray (c), M. Kerrigan, R. Baird
1950 K. Smith (c), Rankin, D. Grant
1951 A. Moore (c), F. Whitehurst, F. Chapelle
1952 A. Moore (c), F. Whitehurst
1953 F. Whitehurst (c), Paton, V. Macari
1954 G. Martin (c), G. Davidson
1955 G. Martin (c), G. Davidson, K. Deady, A. Duncan
1956 G. Davidson (c), K. Deady, P. Kelly, A. Duncan
1957 A. Duncan (c), B. Spary
1958 A. Duncan (c), J. Spary, I. Daly, L. Paterson
1959 I. Daly (c), L. Paterson, I. Macdonald
1960 J. Macdonald (c), M. Turnbull, M. Coppin
1961 J. van Bavel (c), R, Godfrey, M. Coppin, H. Young
1962 H. Young (c), M. Coppin, R. Drummond, H. Shannon, V. Di Rollo
1963 R.C. Drummond (c), H.D. Shannon
1964 R.C. Drummond (c), J. H. T. Sleight
1965 J. H. T. Sleight (c), N. Johnston Stewart, H. Anderson
1966 D. M. Shannon (c), D. L. Haworth, M. J. Lynch
1967 D. L. Haworth (c) + others (not known)*
1968 A. O. Lane (c), J. A. MacBride
1969 H. D. S. Gillies (c), A. St. C. Cunningham, F. A. Partridge, V. T. Chlebowski, M. C. Chilver-Stainer
1970 J. Doyle, P. Greco, F. A. Partridge, V. T. Chlebowski, assumed names from sources
1971 J. Doyle (c), F. A. Partridge, V. T. Chlebowski
1972 K. Slowey (c), S. Barry, R. Bailey
1973 not known
1978 C. G. Bryce (c), A. L. Basigara, M. Horne, B. Robinson, D. King
1979 B. Robinson (c), D. King
1980 R. Delvecchio (c), A. Campopiano
1984 H. Eaton (c)
The cricket colours were not updated in the cricket pavilion after 1965. The additional names have been kindly provided by John Murray. Further details to be added are welcomed.


Thanks for your question, Ronald. We'd be glad to clarify. Though you are able to negotiate non-TD checks by visiting a TD Store, you must be an account holder to do so. Additionally, the account that the check is being cashed against must have enough funds to cover the total amount of the check until the funds are verified. If you or your friend have any additional questions, we recommend reaching out to a TD Store near you directly. To take a look at TD Stores and their hours please visit http://bit.ly/TDStores. We hope this helps, Ronald and have a good day.


This has to be one of the best "laptop lifestyle" case studies I have ever heard.
Let me introduce you to Michelle Dale. She is the founder of Virtual Miss Friday, a virtual assistant service and training company.
Michelle has been traveling all around Europe since 2005. She has three children (or should by the time you listen to this – she was pregnant with her third when we did the interview), and her kids have lived in a different city in Europe for each year of their lives so far.
Michelle makes $30,000 a month in service billings for her virtual assistant company, and makes as much as $30,000 on top of this each time she does a launch of one of her training programs. She also has a consistent stream of income coming from ongoing sales of her information products when she is not doing launches.
Michelle is a graduate of my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs, and I have to say one of the best members who came out of my programs in terms of results.
Today she has a blog and sells SEVEN different training programs – one for each type of information product format I taught in Membership Site Mastermind – from courses to subscription programs.
Amazingly enough, she built all of this while traveling and raising a family.
Michelle is a high school drop out. She worked jobs, got into buying and renovating properties and then decided she wanted to travel.
She sold everything she had, paid off all her debts and left the UK with £10,000, which she promptly lost on a property investment deal gone bad in Egypt.
Michelle was "trapped" in Egypt due to not having enough money to leave, so began researching internet business options. This is when she came across my blog EJ, as well as many other different ways to make money.
She decided to try virtual assisting as her first path to an income stream. She hacked together a website using Dreamweaver and Frontpage software, slowly built up her clientele and also met her future husband and became pregnant, all while living in Egypt for two years.
From there Michelle capitalised on her success, growing the services business to well over six figures a year.
Due to being asked so many questions about what she does, she decided to create a training program to teach others how to become virtual assistants.
Following the plan I outline in Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind, Michelle had a great first result. She launched a blog, built an email list of 500 people and then announced her first training program.
She decided to offer seven trial spots for free to test her program out. She sent out an invite to her list and 34 people applied. She selected the seven free trial members and offered the rest of the people who applied the option to take the program for $1,000. She promptly made $19,000, a great first result!
Since then Michelle has gone on to build a true lifestyle business empire, and lives what you might say is an ideal life. She runs her business with her husband, she has a blog, an email list of people who love her products, a services business, and gets to live in a different city in Europe each year, all while raising her kids.
This is a truly inspiring story, which I know will motivate you to work towards your own success.
If like Michelle you want to shortcut the process to create your blog, build an email list and launch your own digital products, my Blog Mastermind (how to start your blog) and Membership Site Mastermind (how to create and sell digital products) programs are available.
Great Mentor Yaro!!! I also prove of the internet lifestyle. I can say it over and over again that anyone applying Yaro's blogging strategies will certainly get an incredible and consistent earning. I've grown my blog http://www.victoryakpomedaye.com using some his wisdom and strategies. Thanks and enjoy Michelle.
Great interview and many useful tips for wannabe lifestyle entrepreneur.
We are of course carefully following the likes of you and I know it will pay off at the end.
While it is a truly inspiring story, I can't help but wonder how moving so much is going to effect her children when they are older?
It's not that fast, one new city each year. I suspect things will change once the children start attending school, unless Michelle and her husband intend to do home schooling.
Hi Dean, this is a really great question. We're currently in Greece where we've been for around 18 months, (although for 4 months earlier this year we went back to Egypt to spend some time) and my 5 and 6 year old have also been enrolled in a local all Greek School for a year, where they now speak fluent Greek essentially making them bilingual, in fact they choose that language to speak to each other at home instead of English.
My next baby is due any day now, so we'll be here for a while longer and we tend not to plan to far ahead and live in the present taking the decisions we feel are best for us as a family at the time. We don't know what will happen from here, and we're okay with that, our kids have had a very full life, they are confident, make friends easily and do all the things other kids do, just in a different language 🙂 They have been living like this since they were born, so don't know any different and this is the norm for them, I think maybe if they had been in one place for a while and we suddenly sprung a life change on them the case would be different, but I can only speculate on that.
Oh my goodness, loved listening to all the details in this story. Thanks Yaro for asking such great questions and being so curious about all the ins and outs of it. Very cool. One of the things that really stuck with me is how Michelle talked about gathering testimonials and using proof to basically be the foundation of her sales process and conversions. Reflecting on when I first stumbled on Michelle's site through a Google search 18 months ago, I realize now what a super quick process it was between reading a few of her posts and then feeling compelled to buy the first one of her programs. I wasn't sitting on her email list for months gradually building trust, it was almost instantaneous – a week or less. It's occurred to me now just how powerful this is. When you do really good work, that genuinely helps people, that they rave about, and you structure it and explain it clearly, there is your sales copy write there!
I'm glad you liked it Danielle! I agree, you don't need lengthy sales copy when you can engage people with your blog content, podcasts and/or videos. I also find it easier writing blog posts than long sales pages, as I think most bloggers do!
Listening to the interview with Michelle is on my 'to do' list for this week.
I also like the comment (and your reply Yaro) made by Danielle about long sales copy versus proof/verification via testimonials posted on the blog.
As a copywriter who defends 'long copy' Danielle makes a good point too solid to ignore.
PS About the new beta version of your blog layout Taro – like it! Using ALL the page with lots of white space looks super impressive.
Absolutely tremendous. Love it too, how you share Michelle's situation in Egypt. Oftentimes we find ourselves when we feel most desperate. In a split second, that desperation changes to clarity.
I've been traveling the world for 3 years straight now. Writing these words from an ocean front home in Savusavu, Fiji, with a million dollar view of the Pacific, nestled some 30 to 40 meters above the ocean. Crazy. Down the road we have maybe the top resort on earth, Jean Michel Cousteau's wonder, and our island has been rated the 2nd most peaceful on earth (what's #1 I wonder lol).
The point is, Michelle rocked it out because you followed a smart strategy. We went to Bali 3 years ago with some savings, but lost it all along the way. We found ourselves in Laos, with virtually no cash in pocket – and I do mean NO CASH or money whatsoever – and that's when the light bulb clicked.
After that, we woke up, got clear on the audience we wanted to reach, and the money started flowing in when we opened our minds up and attracted a target audience who resonated with our products and services.
Michelle's case is all the more amazing in that she's raised a family, and she's pulling in some $30K a month. I love her lifestyle, because I've been traveling through SE Asia, Peru, Costa Rica, and now Fiji, for a few less years….but it's what I do, the internet lifestyle bit. No other way to live.
The fantastic point is dead on too; sales flow to the passionate person who builds connections, targets their audience, and creates truly awesome things which flow from their passion. Another thing I've learned while island-hopping.
Awesome Yaro. Must tweet material, and I'll certainly get in touch with Michelle too.
It sounds like you're leading a pretty great lifestyle yourself! Michelle's story is really amazing. Her kids are certainly not having the typical upbringing.
Mr. Yaro, Continues to be such an inspiring story. Certainly validates your material in a powerful way!
Fantastic interview again Yaro, good to see you are still delivering quality!
I'm really happy to hear your story Michelle. I can also relate to the kind of freedom you're enjoying- the freedom to work on your own hours which really makes it flexible to plan your day for other activities as well. I don't get tired, I often take long breaks and holiday whenever I want. And of course, since its your own business you are more motivated to work. Also, outsourcing is a goldmine, I love it!
What an amazing post – she has done so well considering she was stuck in Egypt!
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Great to see you here Naomi, and yes Michelle's story is inspiring!
Is she providing virtual assistant service or she just blog about virtual assistant service? Can I have her email address?
Great interview and many useful tips, Thank you for your post.
These are stories that motivate me to persist in digital marketing despite the difficulties and barriers that present themselves every day to someone who is a beginner like me, Yaro.
It was very good for me to read this case study this Thursday morning here in Brazil. Today he had left the bed extremely unmotivated and ready to abandon everything.
Thank you very much for the excellent article!
I'm really happy to hear your story Michelle. I can also relate to the kind of freedom you're enjoying- the freedom to work on your own hours which really makes it flexible to plan your day for other activities as well. I don't get tired, I often take long breaks and holiday whenever I want. And of course, since its your own business you are more motivated to work. Also, outsourcing is a goldmine, I love it! Really inspiring! Thanks a lot for this wonderful interview!


At BuyTricycle we are a family run business, from answering emails and phone calls to building, shipping and all the other bits that run a business! We all have our specialities and one of those is building bicycles & tricycles, so if you choose to order your tricycle ready built, you will not be disappointed with how well it has been put together, unfortunately we only offer our build service locally.
All our tricycles come with instructions & tools for building and are usually delivered the very next day after ordering!
Rest assured if you order from us you will receive not only a great tricycle but also great customer service and after-care help (should you need it), we answer all emails within hours! (9am-6pm) and sometimes after 6pm! So you really do receive our extra time. We look forward to your custom and getting you on the road with 3 wheels!
We first started selling tricycles after unsuccessfully trying to buy a good quality trike for a reasonable cost, after failing to do so, we thought others must be having the same problem. We located some quality suspension tricycles and they literally flew off the shelf, with loads of happy customers and we haven't stopped since.


Abstract: 近年來,室內定位已成為一個熱門話題。大部分的室內定位的方法需要另外架設基礎設施或額外的訓練來實踐。雖然傳統的行人航位推算系統(PDR)不需要額外的花費及訓練就可以實作在行動裝置上,但它會在短時間內迅速積累誤差,使得結果不被接受。為了解決這個問題,我們提出了基於超音波的合作式行人航位推算系統(UCPDR)。UCPDR的主要思想是結合超音波測距和附近的行人的位置信息,並使用機會式卡爾曼濾波器來改善PDR的準確性。為了評估UCPDR的可行性,我們在iOS平台上實作UCPDR系統,而實驗結果表明,UCPDR能夠透過鄰居的位置信息將誤差限制在4公尺內,也證明UCPDR系統的定位精准度優於PDR系統;Indoor localization has become a popular issue in recent years. Most of the indoor localization approaches either require the availability of an infrastructure or the additional training efforts. While traditional pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) system can be implemented on mobile devices without additional cost and training, it accumulates errors quickly and leads to unacceptable results after a short period of time. To address this issue, we propose the ultrasound-based collaborative pedestrian dead reckoning system (UCPDR). The main idea of UCPDR is to exploit nearby pedestrians′ location information by ultrasound ranging and apply the opportunistic Kalman filter to improve the accuracy of PDR. To evaluate feasibility of UCPDR, a prototype is built on the iOS platform. The conducted experiment results shows that UCPDR is able to limit the localization error within 4m after a long period of time through the help of neighbors′ location information. Our UCPDR prototype always achieves a better localization accuracy than the traditional PDR system.


We show that multimarket contact facilitates tacit collusion in the US airline industry using two complementary approaches. First, we show that the more extensive is the overlap in the markets that the two firms serve, i) the more firms internalize the effect of their pricing decisions on the profit of their competitors by reducing the discrepancy in their prices, and ii) the greater the rigidity of prices over time. Next, we develop a flexible model of oligopolistic behavior, where conduct parameters are modeled as functions of multimarket contact. We find i) carriers with little multimarket contact do not cooperate in setting fares, while carriers serving many markets simultaneously sustain almost perfect coordination; ii) cross-price elasticities play a crucial role in determining the impact of multimarket contact on collusive behavior and equilibrium fares; iii) marginal changes in multimarket contact matter only at low or moderate levels of contact; iv) assuming that firms behave as Bertrand-Nash competitors leads to biased estimates of marginal costs.
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Q: How do you use rbind to combine and export 4 csv files? Just a heads up that I am very new to coding; sorry if this seems very rudimentary! I have tried looking this up and watching tutorials and still am not figuring out what's wrong. I have 4 csv files that all have the same column names. I am trying to merge them all into one combined spreadsheet by stacking them all together (because the column names all match) using rbind() in RStudio.
However, it doesn't seem to work.
Here is the code I have:
merged = rbind(inspections.0,inspections.1,inspections.2,inspections.3,inspections.4)

write.table(merged,file = 'inspections_all.csv',sep = ',', row.names=F, col.names=T)

When I run the code, it displays "> write.table(merged,file = 'osha_inspections_all.csv',sep = ',', row.names=F, col.names=T)
Error in is.data.frame(x) : object 'merged' not found"
I have spent over an hour trying to figure this out and am just very lost on what the problem is. Is the issue with rbind()? Or is the issue with the way I am using write.table()?
I would appreciate any help if possible! Thanks so much!

A: What about this:
merged <- do.call("rbind", list(inspections.0,inspections.1,inspections.2,inspections.3,inspections.4))

Check dimensions:
dim(merged)

And export:
write.table(merged, file = 'inspections_all.csv', sep = ',', row.names=FALSE, col.names=TRUE)

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Daily, weekly, seasonal and interannual variability of CO2, CO, CH4 emissions from fires in North America and its impact on atmospheric chemical composition
Document Type: Conference Proceedings
Author(s): Wei Min Hao; C. E. Gonzalez-Vicente; Jose German Flores Garnica; Brian J. Stocks
Cataloging Information
MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Emissions and Smoke
Fire Behavior
Region(s):
Northern Rockies
Record Maintained By:
FRAMES Staff; https://www.frames.gov/contact
Record Last Modified: December 13, 2016
FRAMES Record Number: 2433
Biomass burning is an important source of many atmospheric greenhouse gases and photochemically reactive trace gases. Considerable research has been conducted to understand the emissions of these compounds and aerosol particles from biomass burning in the tropics. However, there are limited data available on the spatial and temporal extent of biomass fires and associated CO2, CO, and CH4 emissions in North America. The information is essential for quantifying the North American terrestrial carbon budget and the biogeochemical cycles of these trace gases. We propose to develop a daily emissions inventory of CO2, CO, and CH4 from biomass fires in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with a 1-km x 1-km resolution for seven years from 2001 to 2007. This interdisciplinary project will be accomplished using a variety of approaches. MODIS data from Terra and Aqua satellites will be used to detect fire locations and map burned areas. We will validate MODIS algorithms for fire detection and burned areas in different ecosystems in Canada and Mexico. Emissions of CO2, CO, and CH4 will be measured from 30 experimental fires and 10 wildfires in semiarid, temperate, and tropical ecosystems in Mexico. We will develop daily, weekly, seasonal, and interannual variability of CO2, CO, and CH4 emissions from biomass burning in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Biomass burning sources will be compared with the sources of fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes for CO2, CO, and CH4 emissions in various regions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The results will reduce the uncertainty in the emissions of these compounds from biomass burning in North America and are critical for developing an effective carbon management policy. We will study the effects of long-range transport of smoke plumes on atmospheric chemical composition. Carbon monoxide, CO2, and CH4 concentrations downwind from large fires will be investigated using the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model and the estimated emission rates of these trace gases every 6-8 hours from large fires in North America in May and June 2003, when the COBRA mission was conducted. Model-computed CO, CO2, and CH4 concentrations will be compared with previous, independent measurements during the COBRA mission. In addition, the daily emissions inventory in North America and emission rates every 6-8 hours for selected large fires in North America will be provided to the science teams of the ICART2 field campaigns, including the NASA INTEX-NA component, in the summer of 2004. ICART2 is an International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation. We will also study atmospheric CO, CO2, and CH4 levels downwind from selected large fires and verify our estimated emission rates during the ICART2 campaigns.
Online Link(s):
Link to this document
Hao, Wei Min; Gonzalez-Vicente, C.E.; Flores, Jose German; Stocks, Brian J. 2005. Daily, weekly, seasonal and interannual variability of CO2, CO, CH4 emissions from fires in North America and its impact on atmospheric chemical composition. North American Forestry Commission, Atmospheric Changes and Forests Working Group; April 2005.