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1) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century
Snyder, Timothy
#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 79 week(s).
[2021] First graphic edition. Ten Speed Press 127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
2017 Tim Duggan Books 126 pages : 16 cm.
2017 OverDrive Crown English
The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
2) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
van der Kolk, Bessel
#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).
Book, CD audio book, eAudiobook, eBook
2014. Viking xvi, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm English
℗2014. Unabridged. Gildan Media 13 audio discs (16.3 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. English
2015 OverDrive Blackstone Audio, Inc
2021 OverDrive Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
3) White fragility: why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism
DiAngelo, Robin J
Book, CD audio book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kit
[2018] Beacon Press xvii, 169 pages ; 23 cm English
[2018] Unabridged. Beacon Press Audio 5 audio discs (6 hr., 22 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
2018 OverDrive Unabridged Beacon Press English
2018 OverDrive Beacon Press English
[2018] Beacon Press 1 bag ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. English
"In this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial...
4) Braiding sweetgrass
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
2013. First edition. Milkweed Editions x, 390 pages ; 23 cm. English
"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
5) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Vance, J. D
Book, CD audio book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kit, Large Print
2016. Blackstone Audio 6 audio discs (6 3/4 hr.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. English
[2016] First edition. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 bag ; 30 x 44 cm. + # books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. English
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
6) My own words
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
2016. Simon & Schuster xix, 371 pages 24 cm. English
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law...
7) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood
Noah, Trevor
Book, CD audio book, eBook, Playaway
Overton High - Teen Biography 2 available
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2016. First edition. Spiegel & Grau x, 288 pages ; 25 cm. English
2016 Unabridged. Brilliance Audio, Inc 7 audio discs (528 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
16 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
2016 OverDrive Random House Publishing Group English
[2016] MackinVIA Spiegel & Grau 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) English
PLA B Noa Noa
[2018] Unabridged. Findaway World, LLC 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. English
"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison . . . 'Born a Crime' is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story...
8) The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle
#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 217 week(s).
2010 Distributed by Perseus Distribution xi, 290 p. ; 24 cm. English
p2012 Unabridged. Recorded Books 11 sound discs (13 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
2020 OverDrive The New Press English
Argues that mass incarceration of African- and Latino Americans in the United States is a form of social control, and contends the civil rights community needs to become more active in protecting the rights of criminals.
9) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption
Stevenson, Bryan
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Available at another branch (library use only)
2014 Unabridged. Random House Audio 9 sound discs (660 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
[2014] Spiegel & Grau 1 bag (black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. English
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
10) The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
Wilkerson, Isabel
#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 55 week(s).
c2010 1st ed. Random House x, 622 p. ; 25 cm. English
p2011 Brilliance Audio 19 sound discs (22 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
11) Sapiens: a brief history of humankind
Harari, Yuval N
#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 127 week(s).
2015. Harper 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. English
p2015 Retail ed. Tantor Media, Inc 13 sound discs (15.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
"One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition."--
12) Minority leader: how to lead from the outside and make real change
Abrams, Stacey
2018. First edition. Henry Holt and Company xxiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm English
"Minority Leader is a guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, slated to become the first black female governor in the U.S. Networking, persistence, and hard work are the crucial ingredients to advancing a career, but for people like Stacey Abrams, and many in the New American Majority, it takes more than that to get ahead. Stacey, who grew up in a working poor family in Gulfport, Mississippi, rose from humble roots...
13) So you want to talk about race
Oluo, Ijeoma
2018. First edition. Seal Press v, 248 pages ; 24 cm English
[2018] Unabridged. Blackstone Audio, Inc 7 audio discs (approximately 7.7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
2019 OverDrive Basic Books English
"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions,...
14) The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America
Rothstein, Richard
2017 OverDrive Liveright English
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection
One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction
Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)
Finalist • Los Angeles Times
15) My grandmother's hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies
Menakem, Resmaa
#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).
2017. Central Recovery Press xx, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm English
"The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies....


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Luxury Perth Bed and Breakfast To Assist WA Economy Rebuild
March 13, 2017 Bed and Breakfast
It's a historical fact the the strength of the WA economy has always been based around the mining industry. Lets face it, when the mining industry is booming, jobs are created, which means an increase in workers who head to WA. These workers need somewhere to call home, and of course spend their hard earned on living expenses. This means an increase to local Perth business which translates into a thriving economy.
In current times, whilst the future of the mining industry continues to look bleak, Western Australia will need to look at other economic sectors to stimulate growth, with one significant area being tourism. It is in this area that local businesses such as Trigg Retreat bed and breakfast can significantly contribute in the future growth of WA.
The team at WA today have detailed a report that indicates how the future of WA's economy can in fact be lead by tourism.
Both sides of mainstream politics have identified WA's tourism sector as a key driver for the future of WA's economy.
It's an obvious choice – tourism directly employs around 97,000 people in the state (comparable with mining), and brings in millions of visitors whose spending money trickles down to almost every level of the economy.
And while the CEO of WA's Tourism Council Evan Hall reckons tourism's impact could multiply many times over if the right moves get made in the next couple of years, he's quite sober about where the sector is placed right now.
"The mining years left WA out of sync with the rest of the nation. When mining was big in WA the majority of our visits in that period came from over east and were very much business focussed and we added hotel capacity to take that and focussed on business travel."
"Now that mining's dried up those business visitors aren't coming. At the same time the focus on business travel in the past years has seen us drop our competitive edge in leisure travel.
New statistics from Tourism WA – the government body for the sector – show for the Year Ending September 2016 there was a 0.4% increase in visitors from the eastern states, though business visitors have dropped compared to 2015.
Those who are coming are also spending more – an average of $113 a night for a $1.419m spend, up 13.8 per cent with a 9.6 per cent increase in visitor nights.
If you build it they will come… hopefully
Elizabeth Quay. The new Perth Stadium. Revitalised terminals at Perth Airport. Win or lose, the great legacy of the Barnett Liberal government will be the multi-billion dollar investments it made in new infrastructure.
But for the Evan Hall, these impressive dividends of the mining boom are white elephants if they don't put bums on seats.
"Tourists are not going to come to WA and Perth for a hotel room in the city and an ice cream down at Elizabeth Quay. They will come for events and for our beautiful natural environment.
"We've got better air links with the new airport and the stadium and the quay are big drawcards – particularly the stadium. It's a game changer. But we have to use them properly."
Events are the watchword for the tourism sector right now – hence the widespread applause when it was announced Chelsea F.C. will play an exhibition match at Perth's new stadium with all its extra seats and the nerves over whether the Eagles and Dockers will even play there.
The tourism sector sees the stadium as a gateway for WA, bringing in overseas and interstate visitors who will watch a match or attend a concert there, then spend a few days or a few weeks splashing their money around the state.
Figures from Tourism WA show that there's been a 13.3 per cent increase in visitors to WA from China, a 31 per cent rise in Malaysian visitors and 17.7 per cent increase from the USA.
So it's clear that, stadium or not, people are coming to WA.
But while the coming stadium could be a great boost to those visitor numbers, Mr Hall reckons there's a well-established but long-neglected piece of infrastructure that could help turbocharge the tourism sector.
"The Perth Convention Centre is just sitting there. It hosts some events but to be blunt it's nowhere near big or good enough. It needs expansion in terms of floor space and modernisations.
"While our centre hasn't had an upgrade in years, every other Australian capital city has invested huge amounts into their convention centres. Adelaide has doubled its capacity, Sydney is opening up a new facility at Darling Harbour, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, all huge markets for conventions.
"If we upgraded the Perth Convention Centre and truly integrated it with Elizabeth Quay – God knows why it's not – then we could hold all kinds of events at a higher level right the year around and get more high yield people into Perth and then into the rest of WA. We are at least three years behind every other Australian city."
But even if WA were to host more international events and attract more visitors from over east and other countries, Mr Hall reckons the sector will still struggle to grow unless it's given a freer hand.
Cattle class to first – upgrading WA's travel experience
Earlier this year a major new tourism initiative for WA was announced – sea plane flights from Perth's Swan River all the way down south to Margaret River.
International visitors can now fly into Perth, board the sea plane and be whisked away to one of Western Australia's most idyllic tourist destinations.
But Evan Hall said getting this idea off the drawing board and into the air was a byzantine process of paperwork and box ticking that will make your head spin.
"Right up until the day before we launched this thing we had to get Australian Navy divers out to check the piles on the pier it would be loading passengers from.
"To get any tourism project approved right now we have to go through nine different government agencies – and if just one of them says no, for any reason, you're sunk.
"Then you've got to get signs off from stakeholders, councils, the list just goes on and on. No one can just simply say yes and get things done."
The Tourism Council represents over 1,300 stakeholders from the smallest bed and breakfast in a country town to major travel businesses. The uniform complaint they have is to get anything done there's a labyrinth of skull numbing regulations to navigate that that kills more ideas than it nurtures.
"Perth does plenty of business every day, business travel, meetings, but we don't have one proper helicopter pad. The Swan River sits over a huge natural aquifer with hot springs. Where are the beauty treatments and spas? The surf park? The sea plane?
"Balance has to be preserved and there are good regulations that protect what we have. But things have gone too far. Make no mistake, we are competing for visitors. We need to get an edge. "
Where the bloody hell are ya?
WA is home to some of the world most beautiful beaches, finest wines, the most spectacular natural attractions and warm, friendly people who want visitors to come.
Promoting it to tourists should be a no-brainer. And the way ahead is pretty clear according to the Tourism Council – cut the red tape to foster innovation, put more events on to raise visitor numbers and shout about it all from the rooftops.
"We have great things in Perth and WA all ready to go, but we are not promoting them at anywhere approaching a level that will give us better results and allow us to grow," Mr Hall warns.
"We need to identify our markets again – in China, Indonesia, over east – put together packages and flog them hard. Get events in, get people to see them and then book them into more activities and stays.
"To do that we need steady budget so we can market right and compete properly. Funding has been incredibly inconsistent for the sector. Right now we don't know year to year what our budget will be. It puts us at a huge disadvantage."
Tourism is a growing, vibrant sector that is important to WA's economy, with growth occurring is sub sectors like the perth bed and breakfast market.
Fair cop, it will never have the enormous economic impact mining has had in WA. But Mr Hall predicts it could be bigger and better if the very least we do is promote it more.
"Our message has to be that WA is open for business and we want you here. We have great nature, amazing food and wine, beautiful places to come and enjoy. Lately we've just forgotten to tell it."
Article Source http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-election-2017/the-future-of-was-economy-tourism-can-lead-the-way-20170215-guduyc.html
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What's Next – Not quite Post Pandemic
March 15, 2021 By Bob Petersen
Temporary studio at the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center was the home of Indian Country Today. This week the news program moves into a regular studio at Arizona PBS. (Mark Trahant photo)
Sometimes a call for patience can be tough.
In Phoenix, Arizona, the team that produces the television version of Indian Country Today has been eager to get into the studio to produce a better version of the show.
This whole enterprise is a pandemic special.
Last March we started producing Zoom calls and Facebook live reports and discovered that we had a significant audience. At the time ICT was a digital publication but we had also planned on a weekly broadcast. So we started to interview key people about what was going on … the first episode was asking reporters what was going on what they saw. Then Dean Seneca, an expert in infectious disease. Then we started doing it everyday.
Within a week the programs were 26 minutes and 46 seconds … this is the PBS standard for a half-hour show. The program was carried by FNX: First Nations Experience … and we were producing a daily news report. Last summer we created a temporary studio at the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center.
A lot has happened since then. We never could have pulled this off without the pandemic. Normally we would have needed millions of dollars in equipment and people in order to produce a broadcast quality program. But the pandemic was an excuse to do it differently. We could interview people on Zoom. We used a home office or living room as a studio. We showed that the content, Native American stories, was worthy of a national audience.
Today we are carried daily or weekly by many public television stations across the country (and in Australia.) As they say … check your local listing. More are being added regularly.
March 15 was supposed to be our first day in a new studio at Arizona PBS. But late last week there was a COVID-19 report in our building. So we all went home again. I recorded Monday's show in my living room, a full circle.
The good news is the test was a false positive — our show will debut in the studio later this week.
That's really cool because there is so much news going on now. Soon we will be able to say, Madam Secretary, as Rep. Deb Haaland is confirmed as the Secretary of the interior. And the new American Rescue Plan Act has so much to unpack because it's the most significant investment in tribal communities in the history of our country,
But the lesson here is worth heeding. Even though we have plans … even though we want life to return to normal … we still live in a moment of caution.
When the pandemic began we did not let going home limit our imaginations. We can still balance innovation with safety.
As we begin the "what's next?" portion of this story, this experience, is a lesson here for us all.
Filed Under: Trahant Reports Tagged With: Pandemic
Red Summer
June 1, 2020 By Bob Petersen
A century ago the United States was finally free from the Great War and dealing with day-to-day waves from a flu pandemic.
The country was also tested by unresolved questions about racism and violence.
Tested and largely failed.
This week marks the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre.
Trahant Reports · TR060120Tulsa
The headlines from summer of 1919 almost seem familiar today. Riots in Washington, D.C.; Knoxville, Tennessee; Longview, Texas; Phillips County, Arkansas; Omaha, Nebraska and – most dramatically – Chicago. The spark was racial strife.
Even the pandemic, the flu, had a racial framework because hospitals were segregated and African Americans had to seek care at black-owned institutions.
That era was known as the "Red Summer. There were public murders and lynchings carried out on streets across the country, dismissed as riots. That story conflicted with the story that America was telling the world that the post-World War I-era notion that America was making the world safe for democracy.
And, if the Red Summer was not enough … on May 31, 1921, stirred by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, known as the Black Wall Street, was attacked and demolished.
"A mob destroyed 35 square blocks of the African American Community during the evening of May 31, through the afternoon of June 1, 1921," said a report on the event by the state of Oklahoma in 2001.
Hundreds of whites were deputized and participated in the violence, even providing firearms and ammunition to people, all of them white, who looted, killed and destroyed property. Officials may have blamed African Americans for the "race riot." But the community and the Red Cross labeled it a massacre from the start.
No one was ever prosecuted or punished for the violent criminal acts.
Human Rights Watch published a report Friday that called for reparations. Finally.
"The Tulsa Race Massacre and surrounding events led directly to the loss of hundreds of lives, loss of liberty, substantial personal and business property loss, and damage to objects of cultural significance. Compounding inequalities stemming from the massacre led to lower life expectancy, increased need for mental health services, loss of economic opportunity, and other harms to community members over decades … Yet the victims of the massacre have yet to receive an effective remedy."
Filed Under: Trahant Reports Tagged With: Crisis, Pandemic, Racism, Riots
Data – What's the Story?
April 27, 2020 By Bob Petersen
The numbers are stark.
Last week Navajo Nation health officials reported six new deaths Friday and 180 new cases of COVID-19. That adds up to 1,590 known coronavirus infections across the Navajo Nation and some 58 deaths.
That topline number places the Navajo Nation at 45 out of 55 states and territories, ahead of ten other jurisdictions.
What's the story behind the data?
Trahant Reports · TR042720DATA
The state and territory data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention includes three columns: Column A for the state or territory (which should include tribal nations, by the way); the number of confirmed cases; and the number of deaths. But if you insert a new tab, a filter for population, then the story grows even more significant.
Welcome to the world of the denominator. As one source put it: ''Physicians lie awake at night worrying about numerators. Epidemiologists lie awake at night worrying about the denominators'
As Indian Country Today's Jourdan Bennett-Begaye reported "denominators are key" to understanding the big picture of COVID-19 in Indian Country.
What population is counted determines our understanding about how widespread the disease is and where it will go next.
Take the Indian Health Service "service population" at 2,562,000. That means the reported infection rate is 0.08 percent. But if you calculate based on the IHS user population of 1.662 million, then the rate is 0.12 percent.
But that's only the reported cases. We know this disease can be without symptoms and we don't have enough testing to know how many people are really infected,
And that will be a much larger number.z
If you use the World Health Organization framework and the IHS service population that means we will eventually reach 5,778 cases and 275 deaths.
But numbers again are different if the 2010 Census with the American Indian and Alaska Native population at 5.2 million is used. Then the Indian health system could expect 12,017.2 cases and 572 deaths.
But all of that changes if a different denominator is used. The problem here is that we know the Census undercounts Indian Country. We don't know by how many people, though.
This is when that number is absolutely critical.
I am Mark Trahant
Filed Under: Trahant Reports Tagged With: CDC, Corona, COVID-19, government, IHS, Indian Health Service, Navajo, Pandemic
The corona virus pandemic is like nothing we have experienced before. The virus is new — and something we humans have no protection against — and so governments around the world including tribal governments are still trying to figure out how to respond.
Why don't people believe? Why the business as usual? And what will it take to change behavior?
Consider this math: California has a model that projects 25 million of its citizens will be infected by the virus over the next 8 weeks. That works out to 62.5 percent of the population.
And if California is a bellwether — as it often is — that means that out of 3 million people some 1.8 million people in Indian Country.
The World Health Organization and the CDC say mild cases account for 75-to-80 percent of the total. This is harsh, but that model means that about 500,000 people in Indian Country will get seriously ill or will die.
"It's unfortunate that people are not taking this serious. Maybe it would be mass casualties that would really open people's eyes," Dean Seneca, executive director of Seneca Scientific Solutions. He told Indian Country Today and worked for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support for more than 18 years.
Seneca knew the U.S. was going to face a pandemic, and especially when China had more than 20,000 cases.
It is a hard thing to do to shut down everything. No visiting. No shopping. Just sit and wait.
And here's the thing. We may have to do this for weeks if not months.
In California normally congested freeways are wide open and city streets are mostly empty.
Clearly life is not normal. Yet a lot of people still are living in denial.
Sunday night Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, White Earth, announced on her Instagram page that she lost her brother to the pandemic.
"Almost exactly two months after we buried our dad, my brother Ron passed on Saturday," she wrote. "To many, he'll be a statistic: Tennessee's second COVID-related death. But to me, I'll remember a loving, older brother, uncle, father, and husband."
Flanagan said several weeks ago her brother was diagnosed with cancer. "His immune system was compromised and he contracted COVID-19," she wrote. "He fought as hard as he could but it was simply too much for his body. THIS is why we must #StayHomeMN."
She wrote that someone feeling well could still be carrying the virus … "then you walk past the next Ron, my big brother, in public.
The new normal. I am Mark Trahant.
Filed Under: Trahant Reports, Uncategorized Tagged With: Coronavirus, distancing, Healthcare, Indian Health, Pandemic, quarantine, self isolation, social, social distancing
There is nothing more important now than good science — and that means washing your hands often, staying at home and avoiding people.
Our ancestors have faced smallpox, influenza, and war. Now our generation is looking at a pandemic that is disrupting our daily lives.
Things that we take for granted are on hold. Visiting friends, even family. Going to work. Or watching our favorite team or musicians.
The coronavirus spreads by contact, so when you meet someone who has the virus, they are likely to spread it. The math says that everyone who carries the disease will likely pass it along to at least two others. That's a lot of people. And what makes this even more nasty is that you can spread this disease before you're sick. So the idea of … if you are sick, stay home … is less relevant. We also know that coronavirus spreads more easily than the flu. Think of it as an infectious pneumonia.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic is new in so many ways, one that's particularly dangerous for elderly people or those with chronic health conditions such as diabetes.
But the biggest concern is human behavior. Can we all adjust, quickly, so that we don't spread it on? Can we stay home? Away from people? And this is the big one: Can we wait in line for medical help?
So we have been trained to go to the doctor when we are sick. We want to get fixed up as soon as possible. That's normal.
Perhaps we even had contact with someone who tested positive.
Yet we should wait.
If we get sick, go to bed. Most people get fever and cough, sometimes fatigue or shortness of breath, and then recover in about two weeks. About 15 percent of the cases develop into pneumonia. The symptoms usually start slowly and often worsen as the illness goes on.
So if you are running a fever, experts say, assume that you have coronavirus. Stay home. Yes there will be a growing number of tests available but those should be reserved for patients who are high risk. Most of us should just go to bed and stay there until it passes.
The alternative is the entire medical system will be overrun and none of us will get the care we need.
This is not in our nature. We want to get healed. Now. But this is different. We should call the doctor — and even seek help if we can't breathe.
This pandemic is different because we can control the outcome. We can shut down life — for a bit — and then limit the damage from this disease.
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Q: Connecting to remote master on standalone Spark I launch Spark in standalone mode on my remote server via following next steps:

*

*cp spark-env.sh.template spark-env.sh

*append to spark-env.sh SPARK_MASTER_HOST=IP_OF_MY_REMOTE_SERVER

*and run next commands for standalone mode: sbin/start-master.sh sbin/start-slave.sh spark://IP_OF_MY_REMOTE_SERVER:7077
And I try to connect to remote master:
val spark = SparkSession.builder()
  .appName("SparkSample")
  .master("spark://IP_OF_MY_REMOTE_SERVER:7077")
  .getOrCreate()

And I receive the following errors:
ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: Service 'sparkDriver' failed after 16 retries!

and warnings:
    WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7077. Attempting port 7078.
.....
    WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7092. Attempting port 7092.

A: I advise against submitting spark jobs remotely using the port opening strategy, because it can create security problems and is in my experience, more trouble than it's worth, especially due to having to troubleshoot the communication layer.
Alternatives:
1) Livy - now an Apache project! http://livy.io or http://livy.incubator.apache.org/
2) Spark Job server - https://github.com/spark-jobserver/spark-jobserver
Similar Q&A: Submitting jobs to Spark EC2 cluster remotely
If you insist on connecting without libraries like Livy, then opening the ports to ensure communication is required. The Spark network comm docs: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/security.html#configuring-ports-for-network-security
Since you're not using YARN (per your Standalone design), the prior link to YARN remote submission may not be relevant.

A: The Spark Documentation says

spark.driver.port

(random)    Port for the driver to listen on. This is used for communicating with the executors and the standalone Master.

spark.port.maxRetries

16  Maximum number of retries when binding to a port before giving up. When a port is given a specific value (non 0), each subsequent retry will increment the port used in the previous attempt by 1 before retrying. This essentially allows it to try a range of ports from the start port specified to port + maxRetries.

You need to ensure that the Spark Master is running on remote host at port 7077.
Also the firewall must allow connections to it.
AND
Also, you need to copy core-site.xml file from your cluster to HADOOP_CONF_DIR, so that Spark service can read hadoop settings, such as the IP address of your master. Read here for more..
Hope it helps!

A: The spark-jobserver seems very tempting but has some issues.
I'd recommend the "hidden" spark REST api!
It's not documented but it's super easy and much more comfortable,
Unlike jobserver which requires maintenance (another thing you need to worry about and troubleshoot - and it has it's problems)
Also you have great library for that -
https://github.com/ywilkof/spark-jobs-rest-client

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Glacial History of the North Atlantic Marine Snail, Littorina saxatilis, Inferred from Distribution of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages [PDF]
Marina Panova,April M. H. Blakeslee,A. Whitman Miller,Tuuli M?kinen,Gregory M. Ruiz,Kerstin Johannesson,Carl André
Abstract: The North Atlantic intertidal gastropod, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792), exhibits extreme morphological variation between and within geographic regions and has become a model for studies of local adaptation; yet a comprehensive analysis of the species' phylogeography is lacking. Here, we examine phylogeographic patterns of the species' populations in the North Atlantic and one remote Mediterranean population using sequence variation in a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (607 bp). We found that, as opposed to many other rocky intertidal species, L. saxatilis has likely had a long and continuous history in the Northwest Atlantic, including survival during the last glacial maximum (LGM), possibly in two refugia. In the Northeast Atlantic, several areas likely harboured refugial populations that recolonized different parts of this region after glacial retreat, resulting in strong population structure. However, the outlying monomorphic Venetian population is likely a recent anthropogenic introduction from northern Europe and not a remnant of an earlier wider distribution in the Mediterranean Sea. Overall, our detailed phylogeography of L. saxatilis adds an important piece to the understanding of Pleistocene history in North Atlantic marine biota as well as being the first study to describe the species' evolutionary history in its natural range. The latter contribution is noteworthy because the snail has recently become an important model species for understanding evolutionary processes of speciation; thus our work provides integral information for such endeavours.
Insights into the role of differential gene expression on the ecological adaptation of the snail Littorina saxatilis
Mónica Martínez-Fernández, Louis Bernatchez, Emilio Rolán-Alvarez, Humberto Quesada
BMC Evolutionary Biology , 2010, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-356
Abstract: Among the 99 transcripts shared between ecotypes, 12.12% showed significant differential expression. At least 4% of these transcripts still displayed significant differences after correction for multiple tests, highlighting that gene expression can differ considerably between subpopulations adapted to alternative habitats in the face of gene flow. One of the transcripts identified was Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit I (COI). In addition, 6 possible reference genes were validated to normalize and confirm this result using qPCR. α-Tubulin and histone H3.3 showed the more stable expression levels, being therefore chosen as the best option for normalization. The qPCR analysis confirmed a higher COI expression in SU individuals.At least 4% of the transcriptome studied is being differentially expressed between ecotypes living in alternative habitats, even when gene flow is still substantial between ecotypes. We could identify a candidate transcript of such ecotype differentiation: Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I (COI), a mitochondrial gene involved in energy metabolism. Quantitative PCR was used to confirm the differences found in COI and its over-expression in the SU ecotype. Interestingly, COI is involved in the oxidative phosphorylation, suggesting an enhanced mitochondrial gene expression (or increased number of mitochondria) to improve energy supply in the ecotype subjected to the strongest wave action.Unravelling processes that underlie population divergence is a crucial step towards elucidating the origin and maintenance of biodiversity [1], and towards understanding the genetic basis of speciation, which is one of the most fundamental goals in evolutionary genetics [2]. However, there is still much to be learned about how divergent populations adapt to different environments under the effect of natural selection, which ultimately may evolve into biological species [3]. The new "omics" technologies, despite being very young, can contribute to this since they have taken
Population differences in susceptibility to stress in Littorina saxatilis from metal contaminated and uncontaminated sites in the Isle of Man
DAKA Erema Ransome,
DAKA,Erema,Ransome
Abstract: The population of the intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis from Laxey estuary in the Isle of Man is exposed to mine-related contamination of Zn (and is tolerant to Zn and Pb) compared to those of Castletown, Derbyhaven, Peel and Ramsey.Toleranc
Habitat Choice and Speciation [PDF]
Sophie E. Webster,Juan Galindo,John W. Grahame,Roger K. Butlin
International Journal of Ecology , 2012, DOI: 10.1155/2012/154686
Abstract: The role of habitat choice in reproductive isolation and ecological speciation has often been overlooked, despite acknowledgement of its ability to facilitate local adaptation. It can form part of the speciation process through various evolutionary mechanisms, yet where habitat choice has been included in models of ecological speciation little thought has been given to these underlying mechanisms. Here, we propose and describe three independent criteria underlying ten different evolutionary scenarios in which habitat choice may promote or maintain local adaptation. The scenarios are the result of all possible combinations of the independent criteria, providing a conceptual framework in which to discuss examples which illustrate each scenario. These examples show that the different roles of habitat choice in ecological speciation have rarely been effectively distinguished. Making such distinctions is an important challenge for the future, allowing better experimental design, stronger inferences and more meaningful comparisons among systems. We show some of the practical difficulties involved by reviewing the current evidence for the role of habitat choice in local adaptation and reproductive isolation in the intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis, a model system for the study of ecological speciation, assessing whether any of the proposed scenarios can be reliably distinguished, given current research.
Abstract: The role of habitat choice in reproductive isolation and ecological speciation has often been overlooked, despite acknowledgement of its ability to facilitate local adaptation. It can form part of the speciation process through various evolutionary mechanisms, yet where habitat choice has been included in models of ecological speciation little thought has been given to these underlying mechanisms. Here, we propose and describe three independent criteria underlying ten different evolutionary scenarios in which habitat choice may promote or maintain local adaptation. The scenarios are the result of all possible combinations of the independent criteria, providing a conceptual framework in which to discuss examples which illustrate each scenario. These examples show that the different roles of habitat choice in ecological speciation have rarely been effectively distinguished. Making such distinctions is an important challenge for the future, allowing better experimental design, stronger inferences and more meaningful comparisons among systems. We show some of the practical difficulties involved by reviewing the current evidence for the role of habitat choice in local adaptation and reproductive isolation in the intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis, a model system for the study of ecological speciation, assessing whether any of the proposed scenarios can be reliably distinguished, given current research. 1. Introduction The role of divergent natural selection in speciation has been widely studied in recent years [1]. There is now broad acceptance that selection of this type can lead to the evolution of reproductive isolation, even in the face of gene flow [2]. Nevertheless, significant controversy remains. Is "ecological speciation" really distinct from other modes of speciation [3]? Why does reproductive isolation remain incomplete in some cases but not in others [4]? Do chromosomal re-arrangements [5] or divergence hitchhiking [6] help to overcome the antagonism between selection and recombination? What is the role of the so-called "magic traits" [7]? "Habitat isolation" is one part of the ecological barrier to gene exchange between species that includes effects due to local adaptation, competition, and choice [8]. In this paper, we will focus our attention on habitat choice, discussing the nature of its role in ecological speciation and the potential contribution towards reproductive isolation of various forms of habitat choice. We define habitat choice as any behaviour that causes an individual to spend more time in one habitat type than another
Can sexual selection and disassortative mating contribute to the maintenance of a shell color polymorphism in an intertidal marine snail? [cached]
E. ROLáN-ALVAREZ, M.SAURA, A. P. DIZ, M. J. RIVAS, M. ALVAREZ, B. Cortés, A. de COO, D. ESTéVEZ, L. IGLESIAS
Current Zoology , 2012,
Abstract: Littorina fabalis is an intertidal snail commonly living on the brown algae Fucus vesiculosus and showing frequent shell-color polymorphisms in the wild. The evolutionary mechanism underlying this polymorphism is currently unknown. Shell color variation was studied in mated and non-mated specimens of this species from different microareas in one locality from NW Spain, in order to estimate sexual selection and assortative mating that may (still) be operating in this population. The analyses across microareas allowed us to investigate frequency-dependent selection and assortative mating components, mechanisms that could maintain the polymorphism. The presence of shell scars caused by crab attacks, an environmental variable not related with sexual selection or assortative mating, was used as experimental control. This study provides new evidence of significant disassortative mating and some degree of sexual selection against some shell colors, supporting the results found 21 years ago in a similar study, i.e. in the same species and locality. The similarity of these estimates during the studied period suggests that this experimental approach is consistent and valid to be extended to other populations and organisms. In addition, sexual selection and assortative mating estimates did not change across microareas differing in shell color frequencies, suggesting than the polymorphism can not be maintained by a frequency-dependent (sexual selection-based) mechanism. Our main hypothesis is that negative assortative mating could contribute to the maintenance of the polymorphism, perhaps by males showing distinct female color preferences when searching for mates [Current Zoology 58 (3): 460–471, 2012].
Radiating on Oceanic Islands: Patterns and Processes of Speciation in the Land Snail Genus Theba (Risso 1826) [PDF]
Carola Greve, France Gimnich, Rainer Hutterer, Bernhard Misof, Martin Haase
Abstract: Island radiations have played a major role in shaping our current understanding of allopatric, sympatric and parapatric speciation. However, the fact that species divergence correlates with island size emphasizes the importance of geographic isolation (allopatry) in speciation. Based on molecular and morphological data, we investigated the diversification of the land snail genus Theba on the two Canary Islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Due to the geological history of both islands, this study system provides ideal conditions to investigate the interplay of biogeography, dispersal ability and differentiation in generating species diversity. Our analyses demonstrated extensive cryptic diversification of Theba on these islands, probably driven mainly by non-adaptive allopatric differentiation and secondary gene flow. In a few cases, we observed a complete absence of gene flow among sympatrically distributed forms suggesting an advanced stage of speciation. On the Jandía peninsula genome scans suggested genotype-environment associations and potentially adaptive diversification of two closely related Theba species to different ecological environments. We found support for the idea that genetic differentiation was enhanced by divergent selection in different environments. The diversification of Theba on both islands is therefore best explained by a mixture of non-adaptive and adaptive speciation, promoted by ecological and geomorphological factors.
Stable Suppression of Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity during Anoxia in the Foot Muscle of Littorina littorea and the Potential Role of Acetylation as a Novel Posttranslational Regulatory Mechanism [PDF]
Ali Shahriari,Neal J. Dawson,Ryan A. V. Bell,Kenneth B. Storey
Enzyme Research , 2013, DOI: 10.1155/2013/461374
Abstract: The intertidal marine snail, Littorina littorea, has evolved to withstand extended bouts of oxygen deprivation brought about by changing tides or other potentially harmful environmental conditions. Survival is dependent on a strong suppression of its metabolic rate and a drastic reorganization of its cellular biochemistry in order to maintain energy balance under fixed fuel reserves. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a crucial enzyme of anaerobic metabolism as it is typically responsible for the regeneration of NAD+, which allows for the continued functioning of glycolysis in the absence of oxygen. This study compared the kinetic and structural characteristics of the D-lactate specific LDH (E.C. 1.1.1.28) from foot muscle of aerobic control versus 24?h anoxia-exposed L. littorea. Anoxic LDH displayed a near 50% decrease in (pyruvate-reducing direction) as compared to control LDH. These kinetic differences suggest that there may be a stable modification and regulation of LDH during anoxia, and indeed, subsequent dot-blot analyses identified anoxic LDH as being significantly less acetylated than the corresponding control enzyme. Therefore, acetylation may be the regulatory mechanism that is responsible for the suppression of LDH activity during anoxia, which could allow for the production of alternative glycolytic end products that in turn would increase the ATP yield under fixed fuel reserves. 1. Introduction Lactate dehydrogenase catalyzes the reversible conversion of pyruvate to lactate, with the concomitant oxidation of NADH to NAD+. Under anaerobic conditions, LDH becomes an important enzyme due to its ability to regenerate NAD+ and allows for continued carbon flow through the glycolytic pathway to support anaerobic ATP synthesis [1]. This process can be especially important in those organisms that are exposed to hypoxic or anoxic conditions for extended periods of time and require energy balance to be maintained solely through the functioning of glycolysis. Littorina littorea are marine molluscs that are native to the intertidal zones of the Atlantic coast of Europe (from Scandinavia to Spain) and have been introduced to the east coast of North America as well as several other locations around the world. Changing tides frequently expose these gill-breathing snails to prolonged oxygen deprivation at low tide [2]. Moreover, environmental conditions, such as high salinity, predation, or water pollutants can cause the snails to shut their shell openings, which over an extended period of time can also generate an anoxic exposure [3, 4]. In order to survive
The evolution of reproductive isolation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, the freshwater snail Physa
Robert T Dillon, Amy R Wethington, Charles Lydeard
Abstract: Here we report the results of no-choice mating experiments yielding no evidence of hybridization between gyrina and any of four other populations (pomilia, carolinae, Philadelphia acuta, or Charleston acuta), nor between pomilia and carolinae. Crosses between pomilia and both acuta populations yielded sterile F1 progeny with reduced viability, while crosses between carolinae and both acuta populations yielded sterile F1 hybrids of normal viability. A set of mate-choice tests also revealed significant sexual isolation between gyrina and all four of our other Physa populations, between pomilia and carolinae, and between pomilia and Charleston acuta, but not between pomilia and the acuta population from Philadelphia, nor between carolinae and either acuta population. These observations are consistent with the origin of hybrid sterility prior to hybrid inviability, and a hypothesis that speciation between pomilia and acuta may have been reinforced by selection for prezygotic reproductive isolation in sympatry.We propose a two-factor model for the evolution of postzygotic reproductive incompatibility in this set of five Physa populations consistent with the Dobzhansky-Muller model of speciation, and a second two-factor model for the evolution of sexual incompatibility. Under these models, species trees may be said to correspond with gene trees in American populations of the freshwater snail, Physa.Although the evolution of reproductive isolation has been a focus of intense interest since the birth of the Modern Synthesis, its quantification is often not a trivial exercise. Among animal taxa, most research effort has focused on Drosophila [1,2], birds [3,4], amphibians [5,6], and fish [7,8]. In gastropod mollusks, the mechanisms of reproductive isolation have been elucidated only in the marine prosobranch snail Littorina [9,10], opisthobranch sea slugs [11], certain terrestrial (stylommatophoran) pulmonates [12,13], and in the freshwater (basommatophoran) pulmonates that
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase regulation in the hepatopancreas of the anoxia-tolerant marine mollusc, Littorina littorea [PDF]
Judeh L. Lama,Ryan A.V. Bell,Kenneth B. Storey
PeerJ , 2013, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.21
Abstract: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) gates flux through the pentose phosphate pathway and is key to cellular antioxidant defense due to its role in producing NADPH. Good antioxidant defenses are crucial for anoxia-tolerant organisms that experience wide variations in oxygen availability. The marine mollusc, Littorina littorea, is an intertidal snail that experiences daily bouts of anoxia/hypoxia with the tide cycle and shows multiple metabolic and enzymatic adaptations that support anaerobiosis. This study investigated the kinetic, physical and regulatory properties of G6PDH from hepatopancreas of L. littorea to determine if the enzyme is differentially regulated in response to anoxia, thereby providing altered pentose phosphate pathway functionality under oxygen stress conditions. Several kinetic properties of G6PDH differed significantly between aerobic and 24 h anoxic conditions; compared with the aerobic state, anoxic G6PDH (assayed at pH 8) showed a 38% decrease in Km G6P and enhanced inhibition by urea, whereas in pH 6 assays Km NADP and maximal activity changed significantly between the two states. The mechanism underlying anoxia-responsive changes in enzyme properties proved to be a change in the phosphorylation state of G6PDH. This was documented with immunoblotting using an anti-phosphoserine antibody, in vitro incubations that stimulated endogenous protein kinases versus protein phosphatases and significantly changed Km G6P, and phosphorylation of the enzyme with 32P-ATP. All these data indicated that the aerobic and anoxic forms of G6PDH were the high and low phosphate forms, respectively, and that phosphorylation state was modulated in response to selected endogenous protein kinases (PKA or PKG) and protein phosphatases (PP1 or PP2C). Anoxia-induced changes in the phosphorylation state of G6PDH may facilitate sustained or increased production of NADPH to enhance antioxidant defense during long term anaerobiosis and/or during the transition back to aerobic conditions when the reintroduction of oxygen causes a rapid increase in oxidative stress.


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The 1890 Travel Blogger: Wonderland
(There were no travel bloggers in 1890. There were no blogs. No Web. But there were more and more people in America ready to do some traveling and looking for places to go. So if there was such a thing as a travel blog in the last decade of the 19th century, this is what I think it might have looked like.)
2. Wonderland
It was 18 years ago in 1872 that Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating Yellowstone National Park. And it was at the same time that the Helena Daily Herald christened this massive expanse of one-of-a-kind natural oddities Wonderland.
Moose habitat
Depending on who you talk to, the creation of Yellowstone as a national park was intended to preserve this scenic Wonderland for all Americans, to protect it from commercial exploitation and to act as a reservation for the park's wildlife, including buffalo, bears, elk and antelope. But others say the idea came from Jay Cooke as a way to load the potential visitors onto his Northern Pacific Railway. Whatever the reason, Yellowstone exists today at the edge of wilderness and civilization, a place that can still be discovered and explored.
It presents a collection of natural wonders that can be seen nowhere else in the world. There is the scenic beauty of stops like the Yellowstone Grand Canyon but there is also an unending array of geysers, springs, and boiling mud pots, many in striking colors and surrounded by unusual rock formations. Sights like these, as you might imagine, are unpredictable. One of Yellowstone's geysers goes off only once every fortnight. Old Faithful, on the other hand, got its name by being just that and putting on a show on a regular schedule for all visitors.
A trip to Yellowstone is both vigorous and invigorating. If you are coming from the east coast the most popular route is to take the Northern Pacific to Livingston, Mont., and to change there for a spur route to Cinnabar, Mont. At Cinnabar you can board a stage coach for the 8-mile ride through the northern entrance of the park to the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. If you're coming from the West you can take the Utah and Northern Railway to Monida, Mont., then take a stage coach through the West entrance.
At the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel you can book 5 days of lodging, meals and transport through the park for $40. Travelling within the park is on horse-drawn wagons, each with four horses and capacity for 11 passengers.
Some visitors will rent a wagon and camping equipment in Montana and explore the park at their own pace, often with guides and servants. Others choose to explore on horseback. The Northern Pacific publishes the Wonderland guides which include information about Yellowstone's attractions and maps.
In addition to the famous Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, a new hotel, the Lake, recently opened near Yellowstone Lake. And the soon-to-be Fountain Hotel is under construction near Old Faithful. For the campers there are tent camps at the Norris Geyser Basin and the Upper Geyser Basin. President Chester Arthur choose to camp on his tour of Yellowstone in 1883.
The Paint Pots
Yellowstone is a vast territory and many of the attractions are quite far apart. It is more than 30 miles from the Mammoth Hot Springs to Yellowstone Canyon and almost 40 miles to Old Faithful. Coach tours of the park may cover as much as 40 miles a day. In the last decade, the Army Corps of Engineers has built some new roads and made getting around the park a bit easier. Since 1886, Yellowstone has been managed and maintained by the U.S. Army.
While many come to Wonderland to see the sights, others see it as a path for restoring physical and mental health. One well-known German doctor prescribes its spring water, because of its arsenic content, as an effective treatment for nervous disorders. Others cite the healthfulness of the sulphuric smell that pervades much of the park. And of course we all understand the restorative value of camping.
At this early stage of its existence as a national park, Yellowstone remains an adventure, a way for travelers to imagine themselves on a Lewis and Clark expedition. It is a place to feel free and explore.
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28 Responses to The 1890 Travel Blogger: Wonderland
Ken- Years ago I visited Yellowstone National Park and will never forget seeing "Old Faithful" for the first time. I can see it in my head. It is truthfully a breathtaking experience to see nature at its best. Great photos
jacquiegum says:
This was such an entertaining look back at how tourism used to be. I can only imagine staying at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel for $40.00/day and touring in a horse drawn wagon! I think I'd actually like that! I love that you included these beautiful photos in black and white…it rae;lly enhanced the throw back feel of the writing:)
patweber says:
Oh to go back in time to see the Wonderland! I wonder – were we more thoughtful about the environment or did we just have less to trash it with? Were we more grateful for making the long trip safe and sound or do we think less about being grateful for how far are travel ability has advanced.
lenie5860 says:
Ken, aren't we fortunate that people had the foresight to designate certain areas as National Parks where we can still see a moose or a bear (not that I'd want to get to close) but just the idea that this still exists is wonderful. I do wonder though about people exploring the Park on horseback, didn't they ever run into problems doing that. Not much protection there.
Doreen Pendgracs says:
Yellowstone is such a remarkable place. I've never seen it in black and white! Thanks for posting those pics, Ken, and for your informative post.
I've never been to Yellowstone so I was interesting to experience it from an 1890s perspective. I love that you used to be able to plan an entire vacation for $40 (which surely was a lot of money). I'm one of probably the few people in this day and age who has traveled to somewhat far away vacation destinations by train. It is fun to think that is how everyone traveled in those days.
I love traveling by train but have never taken a really long trip. Usually just New York to Washington or Boston.
revelbos says:
Beautiful photos Ken. Visiting Yellowstone National Park is a dream of mine because of what an iconic landmark it is. I had no idea the park stretched so many miles! i'm sure every step along the way is truly memorable.
I was there in the Spring and was staying near Jackson, Wyo. I entered the park from there and kept going from one thing to the next. By the time the day was done I was shocked to realize I was in Montana and more than 3 hours away from my hotel. Must be bigger than some of the smaller states.
Michele Harvey says:
A brilliant post. What a creative idea to write this as a historical travel piece. 5 days of lodging, meals and transport through the park for $40! According to an inflation calculator, $40 of 1890 dollars would be worth: $1,052.63 in 2014. Interesting stuff!
At $1,000 for 5 days that's still a pretty good bargain.
Susan Cooper/findingourwaynow.com says:
What a cool and creative way to write the post! For a second there I forgot and that the hotel was still $40 a night and thought Where do I sign up?! Lol. Love the black and white pictures too. It would have been fun to visit and tour Yellowstone as they did back then.
Catarina Alexon says:
Like your way of approaching bloging from a historic perspective. If I'm not mistaken I visited Yellowstone national park when I was nineteen. Great photos. Can't help wondering what the place looked like in the 1890s.
Very cool perspective Ken. Brings up all sorts of questions including the one in my head now about time travel 🙂 I would love to spend $40 and see the park in its youth.
What a unique look into Yellowstone! Although I have to admit that part of what I love about the park is all the amazing colors in the rock and water formations. I guess you'd just have to visit to see for yourself, back in 1890!
I also like the black and white photos: do they date to the late 19th century or are they of more recent vintage?
In getting to Yellowstone from Southern California, was it really necessary to go all the way up to Montana?
I think I'll pass on the arsenic-containing water.
I took the photos within the last year and converted to black and white for this post.
Edward Reid says:
Yellowstone might very well be my second big trip behind the Northern Great Lakes. I too really like some of the natural beauty on display in both areas. Your post is a great reminder.
ramonamckean says:
Wonderful place (I've been there) and wonderful blog of Yellowstone National Park! The animals must love the place too.
Krystyna Lagowski says:
Fabulous photos, together with your sparkling prose, I felt like I was right there! Wouldn't it be a thrill to experience it like the pioneers did? So smart of the Park to make that possible. As if there wasn't enough to make it an unforgettable experience!
William Rusho says:
Can you imagine seeing this back in the 1890's. It had very little roads with man's influence limited on it. Not so sure about the arsenic spring water.
Safariontheblog says:
Never been to Yellowstone! But it looks like such a remarkable place. Love the black and white photos. Thanks for posting the pics, Ken, and for your informative post.
Jason @ TheButlerJournal.com says:
I have never been to Yellowstone before. I need to add it to my bucket list.
Jeri Walker-Bickett (@JeriWB) says:
The three summers I spent working in Yellowstone have thoroughly acquainted with its many wonders… some of the best ones not accessible from roadside either. Just imagine being one of those early visitors. What a trek to get there. I've been reading the book Death in Yellowstone on and off for a couple of months now and it's hard to imagine all of the geyser basins without their wooden boardwalks or all the signs that warn visitors not to feed animals and to stay on designated paths. We sometimes scoff at that, but as more and more people flood the parks, it's more important than ever that visitors realize the wild is still wild.
Laurie Hurley (@LaurieHurley) says:
Great pictures. I like the black and white effect – transported me back to the 1800's. Proud to say I've been to the places you wrote about. Living in California, it's relatively easy to get there and they are just as beautiful today as they were back then (Minus all the tourists, of course!)
Rose Mary Griffith says:
I lived in Red Lodge, MT for ten years–it's the northeast entrance to Yellowstone Park. Journeys there were always precious and full of light–from Old Faithful to Lake Hotel. Thanks for the trip in time, Ken.
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Clutch return to recording studio
By Terry M. King on	 October 19, 2021 Recording studio
(hennemusic) Clutch shares a social media update on their plans to record new music. "The new album starts today," the band wrote on Oct. 15 as part of an Instagram repost of some fan-filmed footage from a recent show. "Stay tuned!"
Earlier this month, the Maryland lineup postponed the last three shows of a fall leg of their 30 Years of Rock & Roll U.S. tour after revealing that members of the band's "tour camp" had been tested positive for COVID-19.
On the road thirty years after their formation in Germantown, MD in 1991, the series saw frontman Neil Fallon recognize the milestone in his career. "We thought to ourselves that sometimes when a band celebrates their birthday," Fallon told a crowd in Reading, Pa. Last month, "you expect there to be, for example, a sort of nostalgic retrospective / walking in the past… no thanks We thought the best thing to do was write another rock and roll record; this fall we will be recording it, "he continued, adding : "We're going to test a song on you now" as the band launched into the first live of a new song, "Boss Metal Zone".
Clutch also road tested a few other new tracks during the race, including "Strive For Excellence", "Nosferatu Madre" and "Slaughter Beach". See the Instagram post here.
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My esteemed partner wrote awhile ago about Budweiser's summer offering in the latest can technology. In an attempt to bring culture to their customers they developed the bow-tie can. Budweiser bragged about the 16-step process to create a can that mimics their bow-tie shaped logo and quietly admitted that their customers would be paying equal or greater expense to purchase 0.7oz less than a normal can.
It was a triumph of beer drinking technology that solved an age-old problem beer drinkers didn't even know they had. Sales in Budweiser rocked toward inconceivable record-breaking highs, the people rejoiced, and the engineers at Budweiser were recognized with a nobel prize.
Or not. Mostly people yawned and wondered what the hell is wrong with Budweiser. We called them out for making people pay more for less.
It seems Newcastle decided to throw their hat in the ring of public "stupid marketing" shaming with the following tweet.
I can't say I blame them. The idea is clearly a marketing scheme to fool their mindless customers buying into a can style rather than the quality of the contents the can stores. While it was probably a neat achievement for the engineering department to make a bow-tie can it certainly wasn't something the market was demanding.
And what's the point of being the little guy if you can't poke fun at Goliath once in awhile. Not that I expect Budweiser to stop these sorts of promotions I certainly love the immediacy of social networking to less us collectively laugh out loud at the complete failure of these sorts of technical "achievements". Bravo Newcastle, bravo.
Also send me a case of your beer in cans! I haven't seen any in the Blind Tiger Podcast's neighborhood yet.


As the weather in Sydney heats up, so do the risks around fires in Sydney Olympic Park.
Making sure our residents, workers, visitors, wildlife and Parklands are safe has always been a priority, and this is intensified during fire season.
Our Fire Risk Management Plan identifies the risks that the Park faces and sets out a continuous program of coordinated treatments to reduce these fire risks. Some of these treatments include hazard reduction burning, slashing, removal of fuel loads and community education.
Let's continue to work together to manage fire risks and keep our Park safe during the 2016 Summer Fire Season.
Thanks for your feedback, Jenny. Sydney Olympic Park Authority sweeps the streets and roads under its control, however some roads are the responsibility of City of Parramatta Council. To report areas that need attention, you can contact enquiries@sopa.nsw.gov.au if the area is within Sydney Olympic Park or City of Parramatta Council (http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au/home/contact_us) if it is within an adjacent suburb.


Since the Scrum Coaching Retreats started in 2011, they have become widespread, with six happening in 2015. The idea was started and driven forward by a group of volunteer Certified Scrum Coaches, working closely with Scrum Alliance®. The event has grown organically and now involves small teams all over the world organizing these events, with support and sponsorship from Scrum Alliance.
It is not a conference, as there are no sessions or speakers. It is Agile Coaches working in Scrum teams, diving deep into topics that they are interested in.
The collaboration begins before the event itself, as attendees start to discuss, online, potential topics that they would like to work on at the event. This sets up the first session, where attendees form teams around topics that they are passionate about. New ideas will emerge, people will change groups, topics will be merged and split differently, but eventually small teams will start to form. The teams will then craft a vision that focuses them on the value that they want to deliver, select a product owner and ScrumMaster, and start to create a product backlog. Sound familiar?
The rest of the retreat is divided into sprints, each sprint starting with planning, and then the teams will do some work. Sometimes the value is in the shared learning as they go much deeper into a topic than you would, say, at a conference workshop or Open Space session. Sometimes the teams will produce artifacts and material that will have value to them and others long after the retreat has finished. At the end of each sprint, the team will have the opportunity to showcase what they have delivered at a sprint review and get feedback. The sprint then finishes with each team holding a retrospective.
The Retreats are for anybody who uses coaching within an Agile environment. Attendees range from new ScrumMasters to experienced Agile coaches, product owners, and managers.
For me, the format provides a wonderful opportunity to grow yourself as a coach by learning from your peers, as well as a chance to be part of growing the wider Agile coaching community.
As I was looking back at some Retreat photos from London 2014, I was struck by how many people I had met at the event that I have since worked or collaborated with. These events are a great networking opportunity, allowing you to make lasting connections that go beyond merely exchanging business cards.
At the start of the retreat, teams are formed. We have noticed that many teams struggle at first, especially in the first sprint. As coaches, this is a wonderful reminder of the journey that teams go through as they begin to try to work together for the first time, when they have not yet built an environment of trust. We have found that the Retreat format provides a great balance between the short sprints where the teams can really focus and the slack time that is built into the schedule. This balance allows the teams to move very quickly from their initial struggles as they form to a point where they are a real team delivering valuable outcomes.
It reminded us that living in and working in a Scrum team, delivering results, isn't always smooth and it isn't always easy. It challenged the coaches to "eat our own dog food" and folks grew as a result.
The slack time is very important. This includes the breaks, open space sessions, and the opportunity to be at rest or unwind with other coaches in the bar in the evening. This time outside the sprints is important; it allows time for thinking, and thinking done with other coaches willing to listen in a relaxed and respectful environment can be a powerful thing.
The groups I worked with during the retreat came up with so many important issues and ideas that we passionately wanted to address. We came up with some great ideas during the retreat, and I thought about these discussions many times afterward, some even directing my business decisions.
The excellent venue added to the whole experience, enabling us to be truly Agile during our retreat, with my team choosing to work outside in the relaxing, inspiring gardens and sunshine (with the occasional rugby professional passing by on their way to training!).
This retreat even resulted in a selection of videos.
One specific topic that was discussed at the 2013 Chandler SCR was behavior change, individual as well as organizational (collective of culture, structure, process/policies, and people). Since then I've explored this topic at depth from different perspectives — still learning. It has helped me personally and professionally.
Build coaching capability in the organizations where we work?
So come, and be part of all of these opportunities at a future Scrum Coaching Retreat. To find out more, see this list of upcoming events. More retreats will be added to the list regularly.
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Victorian greyhound trainers suspended after allegedly using possums as live bait
ABC Radio Melbourne
By Kristian Silva
Posted Tue 12 Nov 2019 at 11:25pm Tuesday 12 Nov 2019 at 11:25pm Tue 12 Nov 2019 at 11:25pm , updated Wed 13 Nov 2019 at 2:24am Wednesday 13 Nov 2019 at 2:24am Wed 13 Nov 2019 at 2:24am
Opponents of live baiting say the illegal method boosts dogs' prey drive, making them run faster. (AAP: David Moir (file picture))
abc.net.au/news/greyhound-trainers-suspended-after-allegedly-using-live-bait/11699434
Three Victorian greyhound trainers have been suspended after allegedly using possums as live bait, but the head of the sport insists the illegal practice is not widespread.
Animal cruelty charges are expected to be laid against three greyhound trainers
The unnamed trainers are alleged to have used live possums to "blood" greyhounds
Greyhound Racing Victoria says most trainers are doing the "right thing"
Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) and the RSPCA are continuing to investigate the matter and are expecting to lay animal cruelty charges.
"We haven't laid charges yet. They are suspended. The next step is to put together what we've found and basically chase this matter down to its fullest extent," GRV chief executive Alan Clayton told ABC Radio Melbourne.
Mr Clayton would not reveal the names of the trainers involved or how they were caught.
"We found the matter using our intel capability. We've got a combination of intel, analysts, covert [workers], and we use all of that and more in the context of the work that we do."
The stood-down trainers have now been banned from entering any greyhound property or clubs.
If found guilty, they face life bans from the sport and criminal convictions.
Do you know more about this story? Email kristian.silva@abc.net.au
Live baiting 'completely unacceptable': minister
Mr Clayton said it was "abhorrent" if trainers used animals on lures, a practice known as "blooding" that often resulted in dogs mauling them to death.
"Most greyhound trainers are actually doing the right thing and they're using synthetic lures," he said.
"We've promoted an ethical industry, we've increased our capability in integrity and animal welfare."
Victorian Racing Minister Martin Pakula said he was encouraged that racing integrity officials had discovered the alleged cruelty, instead of the tip-off coming from activists or journalists.
"The test is can you detect them, can you catch them, can you charge them and can you rub them out?" he said.
"I don't think five years ago greyhound racing had the capacity to do those things. Now it does.
"If the allegations are right, it's cheating in the form of cruelty to animals. It's completely unacceptable."
'Where there's money involved, people will try to cheat'
Watch Four Corners' 2015 expose, Making A Killing
The suspensions come four years after the national greyhound racing industry was rocked by an animal cruelty scandal, with trainers exposed for using live rabbits and pigs used as lures.
Dozens of trainers were caught up in the scandal and industry-wide reforms were promised by the sport's organisers.
The NSW Government announced a ban of greyhound racing in the state in 2016, but reversed its decision four months later after sustained pressure from the racing industry and its supporters.
Julia Cockram, from the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds, said blooding increased dogs' "prey drive" and made them race faster.
"I'm not surprised at all that it's happening behind closed doors," she told ABC Radio Melbourne.
"I'm pretty sure its much more widespread than three individuals in the industry."
Mr Clayton said he did not believe the method worked, but acknowledged: "in any industry or sport where there's money involved, people will try to cheat".
He said the greyhound industry was committed to the welfare of the animals, including re-homing them after their racing careers ended.
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"A lot of people are a bit scared": Concern over greyhound industry reforms
The live-baiting scandal that ended NSW greyhound racing
Piglets, possums and rabbits used as live bait in secret greyhound training sessions
Live rabbits allegedly used as lures at Victorian greyhound racing track
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Q: Graphing a function?
How can you have a function on the $x$ and $y$ axis?
I thought graphing functions worked like this: You have a variable on one of the axis, and a function of the variable on the other axis. How can you graph two independent functions of a  common variable on the same graph?

A: You can also have parametric function $(x(t),y(t))$. For instance, the circle is expressed as the following:
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And this figure is two dimensional.
This is one other way to interpret the "classical" way to plot a graph, as you wrote in your question.


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An artist's home bursts with his creative works
For "artist in residence" Michael Terenik, there is no more illustrative expression of his creative skills than his Cape May Court House home.
by By Catherine Laughlin, For The Inquirer
Throughout the dwelling is a mix of his rich paintings, quirky sculptures, and edgy woodworking. Collections of found pieces inhabit rooms, lending added texture and distinctive styling. His artistry abounds.
"When we moved into the house, it was a blank canvas," he says.
Terenik, 49, came to art at an early age. He was born to Russian immigrants. His father, Dimitri, a college professor who escaped execution in Russia for denouncing communism, encouraged him to draw and write poetry and music. At age 10, he took classes at the Barn Studio of Art in Millville, where he was born and raised.
He later majored in advertising design and illustration at the Hussian School of Art in Center City. After college, Terenik lived in San Francisco, where he was an art dealer for the San Francisco Art Exchange, and where, he says, he received his "master's" in life.
In 1993, after the Berlin Wall fell, he painted murals on the walls of a technology plant in the former East Germany.
The 5,000-square-foot Cape May Court House home, built 11 years ago for Terenik, his wife, and their four children, rests on a quiet street with sweeping back views of high grass, soaring birds, and a bike trail that extends to the Cape May Zoo.
Surrounding meadows evoke memories of his youth, growing up on a farm with chickens, vegetable beds, and fruit trees, and inspire his landscape works.
"I love having nature all around. The sunsets are beautiful," he says.
With its light-brown siding and red shutters, the home's exterior retains a certain traditional look, but is by no means stodgy.
Inside, the first floor was dramatically angled so the kitchen and breakfast area could be positioned to the left and away from the other living spaces, adding visual interest. A high-top table perches in the breakfast area, beneath a collection of Terenik's still lifes, including those of onions, pheasants, and banjos.
In the nearby family room, seven of his works - including an image of a pitcher and flowers, an abstract, and a collection of seashells - hang above chocolate-colored leather chairs and a sofa. Terenik designed the base of the 120-gallon aquarium with pieces of zebrawood, bloodwood, and birch.
He also crafted a low-rise end table out of walnut and reclaimed pine he found alongside a road.
"I'm always picking up things that can be used in my art," he says.
The mix of rustic and fabulous continues in the office off the foyer. A desk and chair occupy one wall. A camel-hued piano is juxtaposed between two open-shelved, floor-to-ceiling wall units Terenik built and filled with perfectly scaled pieces of colorful glassware, masks, and pottery made by the ancient Anasazi people.
"And this piece I found around here at an estate sale," Terenik says, referring to a plate etched by Peruvian artist Antonio Olave Palomino.
The dining room, with paints and brushes staged neatly on shelves, was converted into Terenik's art studio. It can easily be called the bird room, because many of the hanging images are large, close-up canvases of different species.
In particular, there is a 5-foot-by-4-foot oil of an in-flight eagle against a background of deep blues, reds, and greens. To get the composition right, Terenik says, some paintings take months, even years to complete.
"I think I've been working on this for about five or six years," he says.
Nearby are a sculpture fashioned out of a trumpet, glass, and reclaimed wood and a narrow table made from driftwood found along the Delaware Bay shore after Hurricane Sandy.
Terenik's ideas and influences extend to the rear of the home, where modern settees decorate the expansive deck and pergola he built.
At one end of the yard is an in-ground pool, framed with bricks found at an abandoned job site.
One level down from the deck, he built a pizza oven, encased in stone, and a full-service kitchen constructed with mahogany, maple, and ipe woods. That's where he hatches together Mexican and Italian recipes.
Terenik also makes three-dimensional outdoor signs for businesses through his company, Avalon Sign & Design.
"Live, love, cook, and create. That's basically my feeling about our house," he says. "I never want to leave it, especially when I have my family with me."
By Catherine Laughlin, For The Inquirer


Abstract A comprehensive study of the CO2 corrosion of carbon steel (X-65) at low partial pressures of CO2 is reported in this paper. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Raman spectroscopy (RS), synchrotron radiation-grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (SR-GIXRD), and electrode kinetic studies have confirmed that chukanovite, magnetite and siderite are the main corrosion products at low partial pressures of CO2. Chukanovite forms predominantly in the presence of CO2, while magnetite was found to be the major corrosion product in the absence of CO2, although the majority of previous work based on conventional ex-situ materials characterization techniques has implied that siderite is the main corrosion product. Here, it is shown that the nature of corrosion products is strongly dependent on the experimental conditions at low pressures of CO2, which has not been elucidated in previous studies. Accordingly, this study has made a significant contribution to identifying the true nature of corrosion scales formed at low partial pressures of CO2 allowing the development of effective anti-corrosive agents for the control and prevention of carbon steel corrosion at low CO2 partial pressures.
GB/T 7714 Alam, Muhammad Tanzirul,Chan, Emilyn Wai Lyn,De Marco, Roland,et al. Electrochemical and Surface Analysis Studies on the Carbon Dioxide Corrosion of X-65 Carbon Steel[J]. ELECTROANALYSIS,2016,28(12):2910-2921.
APA Alam, Muhammad Tanzirul,Chan, Emilyn Wai Lyn,De Marco, Roland,Huang, Yanliang,&Bailey, Stuart.(2016).Electrochemical and Surface Analysis Studies on the Carbon Dioxide Corrosion of X-65 Carbon Steel.ELECTROANALYSIS,28(12),2910-2921.
MLA Alam, Muhammad Tanzirul,et al."Electrochemical and Surface Analysis Studies on the Carbon Dioxide Corrosion of X-65 Carbon Steel".ELECTROANALYSIS 28.12(2016):2910-2921.


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