As wildlife biologists, we work with wildlife on a daily basis. So, what do we do on a day off? Why, go look for more wildlife, of course! We took off Friday morning to meet our good friend, Mary, in our backyard playground, Yellowstone National Park. While the summer in Yellowstone is fascinating and unique with it's bubbling hot pots and active geysers, for us, winter is the season of the wolf. By Thanksgiving, most of the roads are closed to wheeled traffic and, while Old Faithful will see numbers of visitors traveling to it by snow coach, the northern entrance to the Park via Gardiner, has few tourists and is our easiest access to the wolf packs and the bighorn sheep – the two species we were off to find. Today I'll tell you about our morning.
Those who aren't familiar with Yellowstone National Park tend to think of it as a zoo. They believe that one can just show up and the wildlife is everywhere for you to see, whether you're looking for them or not. While that is true for some of the wildlife much of the time (you can be sure to see vast herds of bison in Hayden Valley in August and there's almost always at least a few elk wandering around Mammoth), even Yellowstone wildlife is just that – wild, and not always available to the casual onlooker. But if you know where to look, how to look and when to look, then finding the harder-to-spot species like bears and wolves becomes easier. Still not guaranteed, but easier. For us, fall and winter are the time we go to visit the wolves. While we periodically see them in the summertime, the winter is the easiest time to find and observe them.
We left our motel rooms around 6am and headed out to the Lamar valley. And we weren't disappointed. A wolf pack was lounging around in the aspen about a quarter of a mile south of the road. Out came the spotting scopes and the binocs and we all settled down contentedly to watch the wolves acting like, well sort of like dogs all having a grand social time. Not a surprise, of course – dog and wolf behavior have a lot in common, since that's where our dogs descended from long ago. But all the same, there is something enthralling about seeing some of those same behaviors we see in our canine buddies acted out by the wolf – an animal that embodies the very essence of wildness. We had been watching the wolves for about an hour when one of them sat down, pointed his muzzle skyward and began to howl. Within seconds, the rest of the pack all added their voices to the first. And moments later, from the other side of the valley, unseen wolves responded and the valley echoed with the ululating songs. I put down my binoculars, sat back, closed my eyes and let the sounds wash over and around and through me. Not a bad way to start out a Thanksgiving weekend. Not a bad way at all.
Craig: Today we broke ground, literally, for our second Bison Quest cabin. The upper few inches of the soil are now frozen and it required a pick to break a crack in the soil wide enough to get the tractor's loader bucket below the frost line. Once through the frozen soil, the tractor's hydrolics did all the work. This cabin will be 20×17 feet (our other cabin is 18×15 feet). We had 1280 linear feet of logs delivered last week for the new cabin.
I worked late today until it was dark (about 6 PM), and when coming up from camp, Venus and Jupiter were a dazzling sight low in the southwest. In our solar system these are the biggest (Jupiter) and brightest (Venus), and they are side by side. If you have not seen this, it is worth a view. Although the 2 planets appear close, Venus is to the left of the sun, maybe 50 million miles or so away, while Jupiter is way out behind the sun maybe 400 or 500 million miles away. Venus is on the move and is changing position in relation to Jupiter each night. Jupiter appears higher in the sky than Venus because its orbital plain is different than that of Venus. A few years ago when Venus was a morning star, I did an experiment to see if Venus (about -2 magnitude) could be viewed with a telescope during the day. To my surprise, I had no problem seeing Venus 3 hours after sunrise. A few days ago I tried the same thing with Sirius, the brightest star in the northern hemisphere (about -1 magnitude), and it was faintly visible when the sun was illuminating Six Mile Mountain, but I don't think Sirius would be visible in full sun light like Venus. However, at night through the telescope, Sirius is a brilliant blue-white star.
Pam: You know, there's a saying that "in nature nothing ever goes to waste". We set our remote camera up at some deer remains on the ridge for 36 hours and had some good chuckles over the results. We got 523 pictures (the camera will take one picture/minute) and 500 of them were full of Magpies. Now, I love Magpies – they are gorgeous and fascinating and smart. But 500 pictures!! Anyway, the other 20 or so pictures were of a Golden Eagle, Rough Legged Hawk, and a few Ravens. We're setting the camera up again today and I'll post our results later in the week. It's kind of like Christmas – you never know what you're going to get!
Welcome to Wild Echo Bison Reserve and our Bison Quest Adventure Vacations. While our website (and we) have been around for a few years, the idea of a blog is a new one. Well, maybe not a new idea, but certainly a new idea for me. With my "love" for computers (that, for those who know me, is using extreme sarcasm), the idea of actually subjecting myself to this hateful task on a regular basis is intimidating, to say the least. But in the end, the desire to share what we have here, to make a difference in our exciting, awesome and incredible wild world around us in even a small way, is overwhelming. So here I am. With a blog.
We're always being asked how, and why, Bison Quest was started. I'll talk about the "how" some other time, but the "why" seems as good a way to introduce us as any. We – all of us- live in a fascinating and intricately connected world, but I'm often amazed, and dismayed, at how little of it most of us understand. Or are even aware of. And, if we aren't aware of it, then how can we save it? How can we save us? And that, in a nutshell, is why we wanted to bring Bison Quest into existence. Because Craig and I want to share the natural world with those of you who live in worlds of concrete and steel and asphalt, but know that there's more to life than that. To those of you who know that this world around you is worth exploring and understanding – indeed, is critical that it be understood. Because, in the end, what happens to this complicated world outside of our cities and towns, is where the future lies for all of us.


As you may have already gathered, the latest iteration of Android (4.0.4) has begun trickling out to the international version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S devices, among others.
I say trickling, because many users have yet to receive the OTA update notification on their device. No need to panic, however, since there's a quick and easy way for you to hop from version 4.0.2 to 4.0.4 in a few easy steps – details of which can be found below.
Before you can begin, you'll need to check your device's codename to ensure it's compatible with this particular update. Your device absolutely must be the GSM version (not the Verizon Galaxy Nexus) with the product code name 'yakju'.
If your device has the name 'yakjuxw', 'yakjusc' or any other such name, then do not proceed, as you risk messing your device up. In order to ascertain which device you are using, grab the GN Official Update Checker from the Google Play Store.
You also should be running stock Android 4.0.2 (ICL53F) as opposed to a custom ROM, and you will of course need Android SDK installed.
With the formalities behind us, let's begin.
Step 2: Unlock your bootloader. If you're not sure how to, then check out this post.
Step 3: Download the Android 4.0.4 update from Google from here, and the latest ClockworkMod recovery image from here.
Step 5: Boot your device up into bootloader mode. This is achieved by powering off your device, and then powering back on whilst holding the volume up and down buttons together, followed by pressing the power button.
Step 6: Connect your device to your computer, and open a command prompt or terminal. Locate your fastboot folder, ensuring your ClockworkMod image is also inside that same folder.
Step 7: Type: fastboot-windows.exe boot recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img in the command line.
Step 8: Utilizing the ClockWorkMod recovery menu option to flash a zip file from the SD card, select your OTA .zip.
And that – as they say – is that. You can now enjoy Android 4.0.4 on your GSM Galaxy Nexus!


Below is a table with the full moon calendar dates for 2017.
All dates and times are in UTC time.
You can see the full moon calendar for 2017 here.
This the calendar moon table I was looking for. You might want to add information on how to convert the UTC time to local time.


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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
By William Hazlitt
In secret, and be safe ? aye, or aloud ?
wishes ? so I do not mention
Tiberius or Sejanus ? Yes, I must,
If I speak ont. 'Tis hard, that. May I think,
And not be rack'd ? What danger is't to dream?
Talk in one's sleep, or cough? Who knows the law ?
May I shake my head without a comment ? Say
It rains, or it holds up, and not be thrown
Upon the Gemonies? These now are things,
Whereon men's fortunes, yea, their fate depends :
Nothing hath privilege 'gainst the violent ear.
No place, no day, no hour (we see) is free
(Not our religious and most sacred times)
From some one kind of cruelty; all matter,
Nay, all occasion pleaseth. Madman's rage,
The idleness of drunkards, women's nothing,
Jesters' simplicity, all, all is good
That can be catch'd at."
'Tis a pretty picture; and the duplicates of it, though multiplied without end, are seldom out of request.
The following portrait of a prince besieged by flatterers (taken from Tiberius) has unrivalled force and beauty, with historic truth.
« If this man
Had but a mind allied unto his words,
How blest a fate were it to us, and Rome?
Men are deceived, who think there can be thrall
Under a virtuous prince. Wish'd liberty
Ne'er lovelier looks than under such a crown.
But when his grace is merely but lip-good,
And that, no longer than he airs himself
Abroad in public, there to seem to shun
The strokes and stripes of flatterers, which within
Are lechery unto him, and so feed
His brutish sense with their afflicting sound,
As (dead to virtue) he permits himself
Be carried like a pitcher by the ears
To every act of vice; this is a case
Deserves our fear, and doth presage the nigh
And close approach of bloody tyranny.
Flattery is midwife unto princes' rage:
And nothing sooner doth help forth a tyrant
Than that, and whisperers' grace, that have the time,
The place, the power, to make all men offenders !"
The only part of this play in which Ben Jonson has completely forgotten himself, (or rather seems not to have done so), is in the conversations between Livia and Eudemus, about a wash for her face, here called a fucus, to appear before Sejanus. Catiline's Conspiracy does not furnish by any means an equal number of striking passages, and is spun out to an excessive length with Cicero's artificial and affected orations against Catiline, and in praise of himself. His apologies for his own eloquence, and declarations that in all his art he uses no art at all, put one in mind of Polonius's circuitous way of coming to the point. Both these tragedies, it might be observed, are constructed on the exact
principles of a French historical picture, where every head and figure is borrowed from the antique ; but somehow, the precious materials of old Roman history and character are better preserved in Jonson's page than on David's canvas.
Two of the most poetical passages in Ben Jonson, are the description of Echo in Cynthia's Revels, and the fine comparison of the mind to a temple, in the New Inn; a play which, on the whole, however, I can read with nc patience.
I must hasten to conclude this Lecture with some account of Massinger and Ford, who wrote in the time of Charles I. I am sorry I cannot do it con amore. The writers of whom I have chiefly had to speak were true poets, impassioned, fanciful," musical as is Apollo's lute;"> but Massinger is harsh and crabbed, Ford finical and fastidious. I find little in the works of these two dramatists, but a display of great strength or subtlety of understanding, inveteracy of purpose, and perversity of will. This is not exactly what we look for in poetry, which, according to the most approved recipes, should combine pleasure with profit, and not owe all its fascination over the mind to its power of shocking or perplexing us. The Muses should attract by grace or dignity of mien. Massinger makes an impression by hardness and repulsiveness of
manner.
In the intellectual processes which he delights to describe," reason panders will;" he fixes arbitrarily on some object which there is no motive to pursue, or every motive combined against it, and then by screwing up his heroes or heroines to the deliberate and blind accomplishment of this, thinks to arrive at " the true pathos and sublime of human life." That is not the way. He seldom touches the heart or kindles the fancy. It is in vain to hope to excite much sympathy with convulsive efforts of the will, or intricate contrivances of the understanding, to obtain that which is better left alone, and where the interest arises principally from the conflict between the absurdity of the passion and the obstinacy with which it is persisted in. For the most part, his villains are a sort of lusus naturæ; his impassioned characters are like drunkards or madmen. Their conduct is extreme and outrageous, their motives unaccountable and weak; their misfortunes are without necessity, and their crimes without temptation, to ordinary apprehensions. I do not say that this is invariably the case in all Massinger's scenes, but I think it will be found that a principle of playing at cross-purposes is the ruling passion throughout most of them. This is the case in the tragedy of the Unnatural Combat, in the
Picture, the Duke of Milan, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, and even in the Bondman, and the Virgin Martyr, &c. In the Picture, Matthias nearly loses his wife's affections, by resorting to the far-fetched and unnecessary device of procuring a magical portrait to read the slightest variation in her thoughts. In the same play, Honoria risks her reputation and her life to gain a clandestine interview with Matthias, merely to shake his fidelity to his wife, and when she has gained her object, tells the king her husband in pure caprice and fickleness of purpose. The Virgin Martyr is nothing but a tissue of instantaneous conversions to and from Paganism and Christianity. The only scenes of any real beauty and tenderness in this play, are those between Dorothea and Angelo, her supposed friendless beggar-boy, but her guardian angel in disguise, which are understood to be by Deckar. The interest of the Bondman turns upon two different acts of penance and self-denial, in the persons of the hero and heroine, Pisander and Cleora. In the Duke of Milan (the most poetical of Massinger's productions), Sforza's resolution to destroy his wife, rather than bear the thought of her surviving him, is as much out of the verge of nature and probability, as it is unexpected and revolting, from the want of any circumstances of palliation leading to it. It

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New Lord of the Rings site aims to please masses
Site relaunches amid unprecedented Internet interest
By Matthew Broersma | January 12, 2001 -- 10:59 GMT (02:59 PST) | Topic: Networking
The promotional website for the most eagerly awaited fantasy film of the new millennium Lord of the Rings was relaunched by New Line Cinema early Friday, in anticipation of the first episode's debut later this year.
The new site, which includes cast interviews, a shop, a community and other features, coincides with the launch of the first Lord of the Rings trailer in UK and US cinemas. The movie's Web site broke all download records last June with the launch of an Internet-only preview trailer, which was downloaded 1.7 million times on the first day. The previous record was held by a trailer for George Lucas' Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Beginning Friday the new cinema trailer will open for New Line films Lost Souls in the UK and Thirteen Days in the US. Fans are expected to go to both films for the trailer, and then walk out before the film, as they did with the Phantom Menace preview. Enthusiastic fans working for cinema houses have already posted reviews of the trailer on sites such as TheOneRing.net.
Although the first instalment of Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, is not due for release until December 2001, anticipation on the Internet has already reached unprecedented levels with both promotional and unofficial Web sites documenting the progress of filming in New Zealand.
The second part of the JRR Tolkien trilogy, The Twin Towers, will be released in 2002 and the conclusion, The Return of the King, a year later.
The trilogy has cost £137m and boasts a star-studded cast including Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf the wizard, Sean Bean as Boromir and Cate Blanchett as Galadriel.
Will Knight contributed to this report.
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Postcards from the Transition
Postcards from the Transition.
Winds of Change, Africa
The Fall of the Wall
Balkan Turmoil
Pillars of Hercules
Boardwalk Towns
Iceland and Faroes
Ceuta (Spain)
Contiguous US
South Central Alaska
South East Alaska
Iceland, Greenland & Scotland 2017
9/11, a
9/11, Kosovo and Slovakia
Suzi and I were in Kosovo on 9/11, 2001. I wrote these letters in the aftermath of 9/11. I am putting them in the "Winds of Change" category because the events of 9/11, and the response, affected a change in all of our lives.
Prishtina, Kosova
Yesterday afternoon, as we were wrapping up our class, Emine's cell phone beeped. She's our translator. It was a text message "Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon." I wrapped up the class as a sad faced hotel porter with a handlebar moustache guided me to a chair in front of a large screen TV in the hotel bar, his hand softly on my shoulder, just in time to see a tower of the World Trade Center collapse, live on TV. Television had created a world community
That evening the usual corso, or promenade, along Mother Therese Boulevard was very thin as Kosovars watched the events on TV. Then an extraordinary thing happened. Kosovars, without prompting, carrying candles and flowers began walking to the top of Dragadon Hill to where the US Office, what passes for an Embassy here, sits. The US Office was under increased security lockdown, with US troops forming a perimeter around the facility. When people in homes saw their neighbors walking up the streets they joined them. By 2 AM a local TV station had a crew on the hill and Kosovars, seeing the candles and flowers on TV, joined in large numbers. Student Radio started playing classical music. People placed candles around the perimeter and laid flowers in front of the soldiers.
Wednesday morning we were approached by people recognizing us as Americans. "Please accept our thoughts and sorrow." "America stood by Kosova, now we will stand by you," "Kosovars understand terror, and we want you to know that we are with you."
There was a vigil scheduled on Mother Therese Boulevard for three PM. I announced to the class that we would dismiss class early because "Being reporters you will want to cover this."
A reporter replied. "Not only because I am a reporter, but because I am a man who wants to express my feelings for America."
The vigil was a most moving experience. We joined the crowd walking up Mother Therese Boulevard and folded into a group of students heading toward the National Theater. We passed the monument to a fallen KLA fighter who held an American flag in his bronze hand. The crowd grew to thousands, quiet and respectful. The street was full. We passed a group of nurses dressed in white carrying red flowers. In front of the National Theater hundreds of people carried American flags. Someone had printed posters with the American Flag that said "Amerike, e ndajme dhembjen me ty!" (America, we are with you!) signed "The people of Kosovo." On the stairs of the theater the American and Albanian flags flew together over a banner saying "Stop Terrorist In the World." (sic) There are so many mental snapshots; a boy holding a candle in one hand and a pole with a large American flag the other; an Imam in a turban holding a "We are with you" poster standing with a woman holding a small American flag; an Imam and Nun standing together on the top steps of the theater.
About half an hour into the vigil a group of young men started chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A." Others in the crowd hushed the men. An older man started a speech denouncing terrorists and bringing the wrath of Allah on them. Again the crowd quieted him. This was a vigil, not a demonstration. At about 3:45 the crowd quietly disbursed. Some of the buildings along Mother Therese Boulevard had rows of candles in front and up the steps into apartments.
The mood was somewhat broken when we walked into the Grand Hotel. A bombastic version of "God Bless America" was on the PA system. While I appreciate the sentiment, I've never really liked that song, perhaps because I've never really liked Kate Smith. But the kindness, the love, the support shown to us these last two days is something I will never forget
Rich McClear
Prizren, Kosova
Each morning my email box has messages of condolence, support or solidarity from some colleague or friend; they've come from Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Turkey, Britain, and Germany. The Grand hotel has set up a table in the lobby with a book on it and a large American flag standing next to it. For four days a small but a constant line of people stands waiting to sign the book of condolence. The book will be given to the US Office (Embassy). The perimeter of the US Office is now guarded by a UN unit rather than American troops. A tank, painted white, stands in front of the entrance and the UN troops with the blue beret are from Jordan.
Friday at noon Kosova joined the rest of Europe in three minutes of silence. Kosovars do not often wear watches and, like their Albanian cousins, are not known for punctuality. But, without signal, people walking on the streets just stopped, usually with hands clasped before them, and stood silently, then, about three minutes later, again, without signal people just started walking again.
We are now in Prizren. To get here from Prishtina we had to drive through country that saw some of the heaviest fighting and worst destruction of the Kosovo war. We passed within two kilometers of Racak, the town where a major massacre took place. It was this action by Serbs that caused the West to notice. While far fewer people died in the Racak massacre than in the World Trade Center bombing the percent of the population effected was much higher. Parts of the road are still lined with signs with the skull symbol that tells us mines have not been cleared. Every few hundred yards is a monument to a fallen soldier or murdered civilians.
As we drive, Faik, a man in his 50's, tells us, through his son, about what happened to him. He and his wife were taken out of their cars and beaten. His younger brother was killed, his nephew still has a bullet in his knee, but worst, his 92-year-old mother died of exposure in the mountains after they had to flee their home. He said, married 75 years, 11 children, and none of us could do anything. She died over two days.
Racak
He is not telling us this to evoke sympathy, but to give sympathy, because he is also talking about the Trade Center bombing. His story, and the way these villages have risen again is a sign of hope for all of us. At the fork where the road to Racak turns off someone has placed two crossed American flags with a tourist poster of New York, showing the Brooklyn Bridge and the two towers of the Trade Center. Flowers surround the monument.
Slovakia is dealing with the attacks on the World Trade Center differently than the way Kosovo did. While there is the wall of flowers and candles at the US Embassy, the conceptual artists have taken over much of the response. In the main square a big poster reads, "We are all in the same boat." Near it are several huge boats made of stiff folded paper and tables with construction paper. The poster invites everyone to take a piece of construction paper, fold it into a paper boat, write a message on it and put it into one of the big boats. Thus the big boats are filled with smaller, brightly colored paper boats with messages like "I Love You," or "With deepest sorrow." The artists want to fly the paper boats to New York and float them down the Hudson. It's a charming idea, and the tables are full of kids, and not a few adults, folding boats.
The second piece of conceptual art is in the Medieval City Hall Arcade. Booklets made up of crinkled paper, the type that you used to type on and then could erase, hang from strings from the arches of the arcade. The paper has veins of blue running through it. The booklets hang in bunches, one booklet above another, with a pencil dangling below, held by a string. The display is called "Letters to heaven." The sign invites folks to write letters to those killed or missing in the US or to their families. The display is striking; the booklets almost look like clouds of white with blue sky breaking through hanging in the arches. The booklets will be displayed at the World Bank in Washington.
The tragedy and the potential US reaction to it are still what people here in Europe talk about. That includes making jokes. Every time, in my memory, when there's been a disaster black humor follows quickly, almost as a catharsis. When the Challenger went down, when the car bomb hit the Marine base in Lebanon, whenever, there has been black humor. In the age of email it usually comes quickly. It was 16 days before I got my first email humor about the WTC and Pentagon attacks. It wasn't black, "Punish the Taliban. Send their women to college."
There IS black humor circulating in Europe. I debated sharing it with you because I don't want to needlessly cause hurt. But on reflection I will pass these on because they reflect thought here.
The first bit in Kosovo was a composite photo of a 767 flying into the glass "skyscraper" that houses KEK, the Kosovo Electric Kompany. The second was a notice "Bin Laden Airlines flies you directly to your office." Finally, and I suppose you need to know a little about Albanians to fully appreciate this. "The first lesson of the World Trade Center? NEVER get to work on time."
But the disasters have also engendered serious conversation. It affected Eugene from Kosovo greatly because "I wanted to believe that there was one place on this planet where people were safe and happy." The terrorists have taken that from him.
I'm looking at my own sense of loss. Suzi and I have lived in the "Former Evil Empire" on and off for 8 years. We are used to tapped phones, recorded conversations, stuff gone through, and controls with ID cards. We have developed defense mechanisms. But we always knew that there was a place we could go where we believed our Email was relatively secure and where the government could not tap our phones without a judge's order, where we could say what we wanted without looking over our shoulders. Now Presidential spokesman, Ari Fleischer, says that all Americans "have to watch what they say and watch what they do."
I've been careful of what I've written in these letters because I know my email is likely read by officials in Serbia, Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo. But there was always freedom at home, where I did not have to "Watch what I say."
We must all speak freely now. We have to be more open and honest with ourselves and must expose ourselves to opinions in this world that we find offensive if we are to get through this. We have to be informed and weigh every possibility. We must not live in fear of terrorists or of our own government. I've met many people in the region who refused to live in fear, who chose to live in truth. Some paid a fearful price. To honor them we must continue to speak openly. Ben Franklin said, "Those would surrender liberty for security deserve neither."
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Fastest-ever molecular imaging reveals reaction crucial for vision
Every process that sustains life is carried out by proteins, but understanding how these complex molecules do their jobs depends on learning the arrangement of their atoms -- and how this structure changes -- as they react. No imaging method for observing molecular movement in such detail and speed had been available, until now.
A team of biochemists and physicists, led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Imperial College London, have documented for the first time the fundamental processes of a chemical reaction unfolding in real time. They captured images -- 25 trillion per second -- of a tiny crystalized protein as it reacted to light.
This allowed them build up a picture of what the protein was doing every few femtoseconds -- quadrillionths of a second. The results are published today (May 6, 2016) in the journal Science.
Previously, scientists had relied on a method called X-ray crystallography, which could only take a static image of a protein. Now, they have been able to build up a series of crystallographic snapshots into a molecular movie over extremely short timescales.
Study co-author Dr Jasper van Thor from Imperial's Department of Life Sciences said: "Usually, we can only image the structure after the reaction, and infer what has happened. This is the first time we have been able to image crystal structures on timescales where the proteins are still undergoing the reaction.
"What happens during these timescales determines the outcome of the reaction, so knowing exactly what's going on is vital. Previously our information and images of how the reactions work have been based on theory and spectroscopy. Now we can see it in reality."
The team studied a yellow dye molecule at the centre of a light-sensitive protein that undergoes a shape shift as it interacts with a photon, a particle of light. The basic biological process they observed is similar to how the human eye's retina responds to light.
Using the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray Free Electron Laser in California, the team fired intensely bright pulses at the protein, snapping images every few femtoseconds as the photon reaction progressed. Crucially, the result was enabled by careful tailoring of the visible light pulse, which is necessary with very bright and very brief pulses.
Dr van Thor said: "We are working in interesting regimes that are new to crystallography, where the properties of the visible pulse matter most."
Next, the researchers will work on getting femtosecond details in order to actively control the dynamics. This could ultimately allow scientists to intervene in the process of protein functions by using light.
Now that the technique has been proven to work, the team hope it will start to be applied across molecular biology to unravel the mechanisms of all of proteins' crucial reactions for life.
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SKID ROW's Dave "The Snake" Sabo – Opening the Pressure Valve
Posted on July 29, 2014 by Erika Thomas
Youth Gone Wild, I Remember You, 18 And Life; what powerfully written and performed songs from a debut album that was released 25 years ago this year by Skid Row. David "The Snake" Sabo and Rachel Bolan met 28 years ago as mere young men at the age of 20 and 21. This multi-platinum American rock band from Toms River, New Jersey originally contained band members Dave "The Snake" Sabo (guitar), Rachel Bolan (bass), Scotti Hill (guitar), Rob Affuso (drums), and Sebastian Bach (vocals). As of 1999, vocals are carried by Johnny Solinger with Robert Hammersmith on drums since 2010. Just in the first ten years of their career, Skid Row had sold 20 million albums worldwide and had become a well-known name for hard pounding rock with extreme vocals.
On a crisp fresh day just outside of East Troy, Wisconsin, Snake Sabo seems a bit sleepy as he says hello. "I'm doing really well, my brain isn't working properly yet as I've not had any coffee so I'm dragging a bit." As the guys rest during their afternoon, they are always ready and pumped for each and every show. "Our entire day basically consists of everything that leads up to the show. The show is the most important thing and that's the reason we are out here; to bring our music to people who are thankfully still want to hear it. The fact that we are able to still go out and do this every day is completely amazing. I don't know how other bands feel, but we don't take anything for granted. We are really extremely conscious to the fact that this is a privilege and not a birthright. To be able to play music for a living is such a gift and I don't believe that gets lost in any of us ever. We are so humbled by the fact that people will pay money to buy a ticket to come see us play. That's such a great feeling to know you have connected with people in a way to lay money out. What an amazing compliment so that's why it's important for us to go out and perform at the highest level every night," exclaims Sabo.
The band is currently on tour in America after being across the pond in Europe and Japan. "Touring is extremely important as well to us since it is what we do for a living and we honor it as a gift. We've been to Australia and New Zealand as well. Rachel and I met 28 years ago and started this band and it's something to behold that we are still together after all this time." Remembering the past years, Sabo reflects on memories and feelings of which he is sure is felt by all young teens, male or female. "It's so difficult to comprehend. Again, when we began writing this last EP, we had conversations among ourselves to get to the root of why we started doing this in the first place. It's one of those things where you go back to where you were a 16 year old kid and what meant the world to you; which was picking up a guitar and standing in front of a mirror and pretending to be Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhoads. This was the only way we knew how to express ourselves. Be it we were socially awkward or we didn't know how to release our emotions about things that were affecting us as teenagers. Things that were affecting us then may seem trivial now as adults but as a 16 year old kid it's life and death man; it's just so impactful. One of the things we realized is that the problems or the issues we struggle with and face now in this stage of adulthood is vastly different but that impact is still the same. The feeling is still the same inside as what that 16 year old kid was feeling. Our release was music; it was our pressure valve that we could open and music made it all make sense and we realized that is still the case today. So basically the essence of what we are is still that 16 or 18 year old kid that uses music as a prime form of expression in our lives. When we got back to that, when we stripped away the layers of the daily life struggles to get to the essence, a light switch went on, the valve opened and it just flowed. Everyone was very much on the same page throughout the entire process from the moment we sat down to start writing to mastering the record. This EP was by far the most fun I have ever had making a Skid Row record. We got back to the basics. We shut off the cell phones, grabbed a bunch of beers, got in the room with a couple of guitars and just started talking and jamming and throwing things out to each other. It was such an amazing experience to do that with the guy that's your best friend."
When Skid Row began 28 years ago in New Jersey, they played all around the area and into New York, priding themselves on their stage presence and their ability to capture the audience with their energy. "We built our reputation on playing live. We've always been the underdog throughout the history of the band. Even starting out in the clubs in New Jersey and even so going out on tour with the all the tours we did, we were always known as the underdog for a myriad of reasons. We took really kindly to that and it inspired us and it continues to inspire us. We built our reputation upon our live shows and with that we've maintained a level for ourselves that people can rely on and know they are going to see a great show. For me personally it would be the same thing. This is my vehicle, this is my outlet. I was asked not to long ago if I was ever going to do a solo record and I was like 'WHY? Why would I do that? I have Skid Row!' I can't imagine writing a record without writing it with Rachel. It just doesn't compute with me. I mean who knows? It may happen somewhere down the line, but it's not something I am pursuing for sure." Sabo and Bolan are just a year apart in age and have known each other more than half their lives. "Writing songs with Rachel and getting to express them with Skid Row is extremely satisfying. What keeps us going is the fact of wanting to create better music; it's what we do and it's why we keep going. I want to become a better guitar player every day. Do you know I sit down with my guitar every single day of my life because I want to be a better player, but also because I love the feeling that it brings me. It's so wonderful to be able to have that after all this time. Gosh I began playing guitar 35 years ago. Most people lie about their age…not me man, I'm proud of my age and my accomplishment. It's a testament to my life. If I weren't a musician, I seriously do not know what I would have done with my life. Maybe something to do in sports, like a pro wrestling manager," he says laughing. "No, I would have to go back to music, it would always be music." As he has spent the past almost three decades with his best friend and band, Sabo states what he feels he will be doing the next decade or two. "20 years from now I will still be the same idiot I am now with just a few more miles under my wheels and hopefully wiser. My life is filled with laughter. I'm a really lucky guy and laugh my ass off every day. I have amazing friends, an amazing family and I'm so really lucky to get the things I wanted out of life and even get some things I didn't even know I wanted and to be blessed with. I'm here for the long haul! I really thought I would be gone a long time ago, but by some miracle I'm still here and I have committed myself into living in the here and now."
To date, the band has released five full length albums, an EP, a compilation album and a live album. When Screamer and Sabo began discussing the word 'album' it opened an entire time capsule for both. The lateral cut discs have been around since the late 1800's, but what we knew as the album was a piece of black vinyl inside a cardboard jacket. If you were lucky enough to purchase a live or double album, the jacket would open up with a phenomenal poster or photo montage and even better, the lyrics so you wouldn't be guessing as you sang along. The plethora of information included on the album jacket not to mention the artwork on the cover was something the yesterday generation looked forward to almost as much as the black vinyl inside. "I still purchase vinyl as much as I can. It's an experience all in itself and there's an entire generation of people that wouldn't even understand that experience, but that's just the way life goes. The smell and the anticipation of when it came out, but for me I still cherish those memories. In fact I just bought a bunch of vinyl when we were in Italy and brought them home and will continue to do so. I'm still thankful that we have a delivery system to deliver music to people in some way shape or form. The only thing is I don't know if music means as much to the general public as it once did and that's a bummer to me. Music has been the fabric of my life. I grew up in a house that was filled with music and it was great to be a witness to that; to me it was the greatest education in the world. I feel bad that it's not as important to the people as it once was. Music directed our lives; it was the soundtrack to everything that we did. Often times it's awesome to hear a song you've not heard in a while and it transports you back to another place and time. That's irreplaceable and I just don't know if it's that impactful now. I'm not saying there isn't great music out there; there is and always will be great music because there are great artists. I just don't think it means as much as it used to," he says with a hint of disappointment.
Part two of the trilogy titled Rise of the Damnation Army will be released on August 5. Sabo exclaims he along with Bolan and the rest of the band about being over the top pleased. "We are proud of everything we've done. I am very proud of every piece of music we've ever touched. It's humbling and awe inspiring when we get the positive reviews. I still get such a thrill when we make a connection with people with what we create. That's another thing about being in the here and now. We didn't sit down to write all three EP's at the same time. We have broken it down to write and record part one and now again for part two and will do the same when we do part three. We want to keep it fresh, exciting and raw and I believe that's exactly what we've done. As for touring, we're heading back to Europe for a big music festival in Poland on July 31st; sort of a Polish Woodstock if you will…about 450,000 people. We've been rehearsing and it feels really good and hopefully people will respond in kind to it." The band will return to the US to tour on the trilogy throughout the rest of 2014 and into April or May of next year. Fans have not heard any of the new tracks as of yet, so Poland will get the first taste of the new music that is raw, gut busting rock you would only expect from Skid Row. The band has toured the world many times over the past 28 years, Sabo states his appreciation for the fans and for his favorite city to play in. "We are going to tour until we can't stand up anymore. It's what we do; it's our life! It means the world to us and it's first and foremost to create music and I'm thankful we still have people who want to still hear us and see us play. I love going back to New York City, it is my most favorite place in the world. We've been so lucky to see this awesome world many, many times, but you just cannot match the electricity and energy of New York. But then again I'm biased as I grew up 45 minutes outside of New York City; nothing compares."
Closing out a wonderful afternoon with Snake Sabo, we found him to be even more connected to his music and his belief of self and what he would offer any rising artist. "Regardless of what people may tell you, always remain true to your inner self. Don't sit there and listen to those that say you have to write this way or for this genre, you have to write for yourself. In the end if you're a top 40 song writer, then that rules. Don't do it unless it's what you're doing for you. If you're true to yourself, then you will never be disingenuous to your art. If it always remains pure from your spirit, your heart and soul then everything else is left up to the universe and there's nothing more you can do. For me I find that way more gratifying and if people connect with it then people are connecting with something that's the true essence of your soul and your spirit. That's the greatest pay off in the world and I cannot imagine doing it any other way to be quite honest. I also think the thing with music, is you have to love it and have a respect for it. If you are doing it strictly to make money, then so be it. That's a completely different way of thinking that I'm not accustomed to. I believe you need to love this be at your absolute best and everything else will follow."
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Lucky is back with another adventure - or rather, misadventure. I loved the premise of this one - magicians and aliens. It was completely different from anything I've ever read, and it certainly kept me guessing. It was interesting and mysterious, and a lot of fun.
Lucky continues to grow on me. She's tough and no-nonsense and independent. I like that other 'regular' characters are developing too - Miss P, Mona, The Big Boss, as well as others. They're such a big part of the story that it's nice to see them evolving alongside Lucky.
I really wasn't happy with how the Teddy storyline played out. It was upsetting, but it was also kind of all over the place. Lucky said how she'd loved him and given him her heart, but then she was over it, but then she wasn't. She was so heartbroken, yet she has two other guys who she could potentially hook up with, and yet the Teddy relationship isn't 100% over from the sounds of it. There are too many love interests - I can handle the occasional well-done love triangle, but a love quadrangle? I just think Lucky needs to get her head and heart together and figure things out before rushing into anything. I fear we're heading into Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum territory where she just needs to make up her mind without wasting the reader's time by stringing us along book after book.
Besides the tangled romances, my only real complaint is the same thing I mentioned in my reviews for the first two books - there are too many characters and almost too many subplots. It's hard to keep everyone and everything straight. By the third book in, I have all the regulars figured out, but there are a lot of regulars, so when you throw in new people - and a lot of new people at that - it makes my head spin just trying to remember who's who.
Overall, I'm still enjoying this series. Despite its issues, it's actually one of my favourite series, and one that I always look forward to reading. I can't wait for the next installment to see what happens!
Have you read any of the Lucky O'Toole books? What did you think? Do you enjoy mysteries?
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Which BMW M3 is Best BMW M3? The Question That Defines Five Generations
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I was walking into the office today when my boss Patrick George swung down from the ceiling, capturing me with a weighted net. "I WILL NOT PICK!" I howled. "YOU HAVE PUT THIS OFF LONG ENOUGH," he howled back. "WHICH M3... IS THE BEST M3?"
We have five strong contenders. Well, I mean, uh, we have five M3s. I get the feeling that, you know, maybe one of them isn't going to be on everybody's wish list. Anyway, one through five are as follows:
BMW E30 M3
The icon. The legendmaker. The car that was actually just a kind of hasty response to the Mercedes 190E Cosworth. (Ignore that last part, BMW people.)
Light and good-handling with a high-revving S14 four-cylinder up front rather than the top road trim straight six, the original E30 M3 was a homologation special in a way no future M3 would be.
The first modern M3. Bigger. Closer to the regular 3 Series, particularly in that it came with a straight six. This was the S50, though in various forms depending on where you bought your car. This was the trouble that kept the E36 down for years: the American-market E36 was famously watered-down compared to what you'd get over in Europe, and the car got a bit of a soft reputation.
Now, though, people are coming to appreciate the car, something of a goldilocks for size, power and complexity. Go to any trackday or drift event anywhere in the world and spot three of these things driving hard.
The end of an era. This is the one that people like to point to as the perfect M3. The last pure M3. The last simple M3. The last [insert nostalgic adjective here] M3.
This was the last one with a naturally-aspirated straight six, the utterly alluring S54, with individual throttle bodies from the factory and a near-perfect 333 horsepower. You find tons with manuals still around. They look absolutely gorgeous.
The V8 M3, the blasphemous one, the wicked brother, and my personal favorite. This is the fattest M3 and at the time seemed like the greatest leap away from those light, E30 roots. Twice the cylinders! What a bastard.
But the more you look at it, the more appealing the E90 generation (particularly the under-the-radar sedan) looks. Its S65 V8 also has individual throttle bodies from the factory. It also revs sky high, well over 8,000 RPM. It also has a near-perfect 414 horsepower (aka 420 PS). And it's not actually much heavier or complex than the "pure and simple" E46 it replaced. Oy, my nostalgia is getting the better of me.
BMW F80 M3
The most capable M3 and M4. This is the one that marked the return to the straight six, if nothing else. Rather than sing with natural aspiration, the current M3 is turbocharged, muffled, and utterly planted. It steamrolls the road ahead of you. According to Patrick, it's one of the most capable track cars he's ever driven. According to me, it's one of the most boring road cars I've ever been in.
But we'll all probably be waxing romantic about it in a couple years, reminiscing of the days before the M3 was a GranCoupeActiveXBlueHybrid. That's what always happens to BMWs.
Which M3 is your favorite M3? Where do you fit in all the weird editions, like the E36 Lightweight, the E46 CSL, the E90 CRT and whatever else you pulled off of Wikipedia? Please email tips at jalopnik dot com with your hottest takes, particularly if your favorite M3 is an E36 with a 1JZ swap.
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4 Winter Solstice Rituals From Around the World
Members of the Shakti Sings choir sing as druids, pagans and revelers gather in the center of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England to celebrate the 2016 winter solstice.
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By Melissa Chan
Thousands of people around the globe will herald the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, with centuries-old rituals like soaking in fruit-filled baths and dressing up as a devilish folklore legend that punishes naughty children around Christmas.
The solstice, which falls on Dec. 21 this year, marks the first day of winter. It starts the moment the Northern Hemisphere is pointed at its farthest distance from the sun. The winter solstice is considered a turning point in the year in many cultures. The sacred day is also called Yule to pagans celebrating the birth of the new solar year, according to Circle Sanctuary, a prominent pagan group in America. Dozens of pagans and druids head to Stonehenge, an iconic site in England, to pay tribute to the sun during the solstice.
Here are some of the ways people celebrate the winter solstice around the world:
Getting scared by Krampus in Austria
A member of the Haiminger Krampusgruppe dressed as the Krampus creature, an Austrian winter solstice ritual, lets himself be touched by onlookers prior to the annual Krampus night in Tyrol on Dec. 1, 2013.
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Hordes of revelers descend on Hollabrunn, Austria each year during the winter solstice to watch a swarm of people dressed like Krampus — the half-demon, half-goat counterpart to Santa Claus — terrorize and tease the crowd in horned masks, fur body suits and whips. "It is weird, but it's fun," said Natalie Kononenko, a professor and Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography Arts at the University of Alberta in Canada.
Krampus is a figure that punishes bad children by whipping and snatching them, according to Germanic folklore. The traditional Krampus run in Austria is believed to ward off bad spirits near the winter solstice, but it is also a source of local entertainment, Kononenko said. Last year, the creatures wielded torches, charged at delighted guests and jumped over security gates to lightly whip people, according to footage from the Associated Press.
While many of the costumes include giant horns, sharpened teeth and mangled faces — features that might be considered nightmarish to an ordinary person — the Krampus run annually amuses those in attendance. "It's sort of like Halloween," Kononenko said. "You get to dress up in these really disgusting costumes. You get to do stuff you don't normally get to do."
This year's family-friendly Krampus run in Hollabrunn's main square takes place Dec. 16. "To be really afraid again and experience evil with fun is the motto," its organizers wrote on the event's website.
Taking in a once-in-a-lifetime sight in Ireland
People gather for sunrise at Newgrange on the morning of the winter solstice on Dec. 21, 2014.
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Dozens of people, lucky enough to be selected through an annual lottery, get the chance to stand inside the Newgrange monument in Ireland and absorb the first rays of the day as they fill the ancient chambers during the winter solstice.
Newgrange is a burial mound in Ireland's Boyne Valley that is over 5,000 years old. The Stone Age monument contains a 62-foot passage that leads into a chamber that is aligned with the sun as it rises during the winter solstice, according to its website. Between Dec. 19 and Dec. 23 around dawn, sunlight pierces through the top of the chamber and slowly illuminates the room for about 17 minutes.
More than 32,500 people applied for a spot inside the chamber this year, according to Newgrange's website. Only 60 of them were picked from the lottery to partake in this winter solstice ritual.
Soaking in baths full of fruit in Japan
A pair of adult capybara and three babies take a yuzu-yu, or a hot bath with yuzu citrus fruits, a winter solstice ritual in Japan.
Noriaki Sasaki—The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
In Japan, people traditionally soak in hot baths with the yuzu citrus fruit to welcome the winter solstice and protect their bodies from the common cold. During last year's solstice celebration, children from a local preschool shared a dip in a traditional yuzu tub in the city of Toyooka as dozens of the yellow yuzu fruits surrounded them on the surface, according to Japan's daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Similarly, the bath has become custom for animals in some Japanese zoos. Photos from the local media show Japanese macaques, hippos and capybaras enjoying fruit-filled baths last December in their enclosures at the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden and the Izu Shaboten Zoo.
In Korea, good luck on the solstice is associated with red bean porridge. Koreans will often make the dish both to eat and spread around the house to keep evil spirits away, according to Seungja Choi, a senior lector of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Besides its believed spiritual benefits, Choi said, the meal also contains a lot of nutrition. "If you eat this, you get healthy," she said.
Catching the sunrise at Stonehenge
The sun makes a brief appearance through clouds as druids, pagans and revelers gather in the centre of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England for the 2015 winter solstice.
England's famous Stonehenge lures thousands of visitors during the summer and winter solstices. Revelers gather at the prehistoric site of ancient stones in Wiltshire to sing, dance, play instruments, kiss the stones and do yoga as they wait for the sun to rise. The iconic Stonehenge is known for its precise alignment with the sun's movement and may have been a sacred place of worship and celebration for solstices for thousands of years, according to English Heritage, which manages the popular destination.


of children 9 to 11 years old!
Passport: Skills for Life develops the coping strategies and social skills of elementary school children in order to equip them with skills to better cope with everyday challenges.
The easy to use turnkey aspect of the programme is exceptional and makes it easy to deliver.
I get stressed a lot, but now I know what to do.
There is now a climate of trust in and out of class, the children were respectful of others during the sessions.


Look who's back! Wow, we've been gone for a hot minute. That's not exactly true. The Beer Dads have been working on things, just not been producing this podcast. Beer Dad Paul got a new job and had to acclimate himself to it. Beer Dad Jon hired a new Director of Marketing and Communication for the non-profit he is the director of, and Beer Dad Tim's "Pilot" got a new job as a Director of Marketing and Communication for a non-profit. Let's say the last two certainly have something to do with each other. But, we have missed doing the show. It still may take us a bit to really crank things back up but we're getting there.
So, this episode, we return in a big way. We do another live remote. This time we do it at Willows Bistro where Chef Travis Myers put on a culinary spectacle with a bit of beer, which is, incidentally, one of our favorite things, I mean we are The Beer Dads, right? The beer of the evening was local beer darlings, Wise Man Beer. You can read Beer Dad Tim's assessment as he pulled double duty for the night: hosting as a Beer Dad and documenting as The Man Who Ate the Town. But, the food was great and the beer plentiful. On the podcast, we also talk about The Beer Dads Do Asheville, a brief recap of our trip to Asheville over this past weekend, which we all returned from Sunday afternoon before the podcast recording/beer dinner. We also hear from Lele Nguyen who is the GM of Willows Bistro, Scott McWhorter of Wise Man Brewing, and of course, Chef Travis.
We're glad to be back.
Our beer this week is all about Wise Man Brewing.
The show was is usually recorded but was produced at Test Pattern Studios. Test Pattern is located at 701 N Trade Street in good ol' WSNC. Check out the Test Pattern page for more on their happenings.
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2014 will ring in hundreds of new laws. Over the next five days we will recap 25 of them. Some you may have heard about, others you may be just learning about now. Follow the links to read the law in its entirety.
SB 1587 (PA 98-569) – Creates the Freedom From Drone Surveillance Act. The bill specifies that law enforcement may not use drones to gather information, and may only use them in certain specific circumstances, such as when law enforcement has obtained a search warrant, to search for a missing person, or to counter a high risk of terrorist attack by a specific individual or organization when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security determines that credible intelligence indicates that there is a risk.
SB 1639 (PA 98-509) – Also known as the "Puppy Lemon Law," SB 1639 provides certain remedies to a customer who purchased a dog or cat that possesses or has died from certain diseases, illnesses or conditions, if within 21 days of the date of sale, a licensed veterinarian states in writing that at the time of sale the animal was unfit for purchase due to illness or disease. The bill gives pet shops a procedure to contest the remedy. The bill requires pet shops to give every customer; prior to the time of sale; a copy of the store's warranty, refund and return policy, and must give the customer an explanation of the remedy provided for customers who have purchased an animal with a congenital or hereditary disorder.
SB 1756 (PA 98-350) – Prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. The bill requires sellers to verify that a buyer is over 18.
SB 2306 (PA 98-501) – Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to distinguish between protection of personal social networking sites and an employer's right to monitor a professional social networking account: such as instances in which an insurer or investment advisor is required by state or federal law to comply with specific requirements related to its communications with the public in order to protect investors and consumers.
SB 2356 (PA 98-511) – Raises the speed limit on rural Illinois interstates to 70 miles per hour. The bill excludes certain urban and suburban counties from the higher speed limit. SB 2356 also reduces the number of miles over the legal limit a vehicle must be traveling in order to constitute a serious traffic offense.


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Help make NIH-funded research findings freely available to everyone!
September 12, 2007 Ian Hamilton Open Access
Back in July, the House of Representatives passed a bill that requires all the NIH-funded research to be made freely available to the public within at most 12 months subsequent to publication.
The equivalent bill has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this summer and will be up for vote in the Senate very soon! In advance of this important vote, The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has issued a Call for action:
"As the Senate considers Appropriations measures for the 2008 fiscal year this fall, please take a moment to remind your Senators of your strong support for public access to publicly funded research and – specifically – ensuring the success of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy by making deposit mandatory for researchers.
Earlier this summer, the House of Representatives passed legislation with language that directs the NIH to make this change (http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/release07-0720.html). The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar measure (http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/release07-0628.html). Now, as the Appropriations process moves forward, it is critically important that our Senators are reminded of the breadth and depth of support for enhanced public access to the results of NIH-funded research. Please take a moment to weigh in with your Senator now."
Read the rest for talking points and the contact information of your Senators, then do your part and contact them! And spread the word – by e-mail, posting on your blog or website, on forums and mailing lists. Let's get this bill passed this month and thus ensure that taxpayer-funded research is freely available to its funders – the taxpayers.
This needs to be done no later than Friday, September 28, 2007, when the bill is slated to appear in the Senate.
Graham Steel says:
ATA webcast on public access and patient advocacy
Released 20th September, this can be found here


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10 free online films for dance fest
A scene from Abbey, a dance film exploring the expression of protest and how it pertains to authenticity in allyship.
A 70-MINUTE compilation of 10 American dance films will be screened free online under the umbrella title USA Dance on Screen, as part of the 22nd Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience. The programme is supported by the USA Consulate in Durban.
The festival, digital this year, is presented by the Centre for Creative Arts on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It runs free of charge from August 25 to September 6 with an array of dance works.
USA Dance on Screen, one of the programmes on offer, has been curated by Lauren Warnecke, Peter Chu, Rachel Miller and Tara Aisha Willis. All four of the curators are from the US and have especially teamed for the Jomba! screen dance programme which will stream live at 7pm on August 30 and September 6. Bonus materials will be available on the Jomba! website.at jomba.ukzn.ac.za.
"When seeking films for this project, we consciously sought out films which showcased a varied American experience, both culturally and stylistically" says the curatorial statement from the curators. "Our intentions were to give a voice to those who are often unheard from and to present films that have artistic integrity, show a variety of movement styles and explorations, and have multiple ways in which an audience might "read" them. Overall, we chose films that spoke to the multitude and variety of American communities, cultural experiences, sexual orientations and gender identities to give Jomba! audiences a taste of the diverse landscape of American dance-makers."
The programme features the following films:
Memory Keep(H)er acts as an archive to hold memories of the filmmaker's grandmother growing up in Crockett and Huntsville, Texas.
Pull Up explores the expression of protest and how it pertains to authenticity in allyship. It is an examination of accountability, education and a commitment to progression.
Separate Sentences explores the generational impact of incarceration and the toll on families and communities. Cast members are "Bay Area" performers, some of whom have been incarcerated or are family members of people who are incarcerated.
Abbey depicts the interior life of a sheltered young Filipina, alone in a university dance setting in middle America. Sakamoto and Carlos collaborated in an effort to bear witness to, and portray, Carlos's tenuous liminality as a stranger in a strange land.
Bound is a dance film in three parts as the dancers move through different relationships to an object – books – the symbolism inherent in the physical relationship vacillates as well.
About Inertia is a slow-motion, acrobatic Breakin' movie that echoes the struggle for balance when the world is flipped on its head. When being in motion becomes a state of constant regression, being at rest can feel like incredible progress. This is a meditative reflection on the effort and endurance that is demanded on the road to recovery.
Uprooted uses contemporary and Mid-Michigan site-specific dance, metaphor and movement to address issues of immigration, migration, and displacement to a soundtrack of local immigrant stories that narrate their relationships to the concept of "uprooted."
subMERGE is set on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles – a sixteen-mile corridor that spans across ethnicity and cultural and economically diverse communities in LA. The site is the echo of this film.
Supreme Love is a celebration of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme with live jazz and tap dance. Supreme Love displays the spiritual, artistic and historical values that infuse human life. Its expresses true life through the art of tap dance.
Revel In Your Body is a film with stunning choreography in slow motion, amidst an open blue sky and industrial playground, which reveals the joy of flight on wheels. This film originated as a creative concept when the dancers shared online a slow-motion iPhone video of them jumping on a trampoline while strapped into their wheelchairs.
Access components for Revel in Your Body take an insider approach for the blind and non-visual or deaf and hard of hearing experience of the film. Audio describer and captioner, Cheryl Green, has composed an aural and captioned experience that, along with music and text description, creates an emotional arc with space for mystery. Rather than describing only what the dancers are doing, the description takes you inside how the movement feels. The film can be experienced with Audio Description, captioning, or both simultaneously.
Posted in DanceTagged Centre for Creative Arts, Durban dance, Jomba!, Lauren Warnecke, Peter Chu, Rachel Miller, Tara Aisha Willis, US dance films
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Iceland Blog: A Week Together in early July in Siglufjordur
Our collaborative explores life, landscape, multi-species culture in Iceland, which is at a crossroads. We met in Siglufjordur, the farthest northern town in Iceland, and stayed together in a four-bedroom house close to the center. Daylight was unceasing during early July, so we often worked into the morning on projects, starting to dye wool at 1am.
The land is sinking nearby Siglufjordur; the rhythmic sound of the chanted epic poetry (rímur) reminds us of the Islamic call to prayer; striking deep purple lupine planted in the 40s is displacing native flora; the ground near Siglufjordur may actually be floating on permafrost and melting; whaling continues; fish farms are on the rise; many said the US had a detrimental effect on Iceland with 55 years of military presence at Keflavik; herring were responsible for a flourishing of the Icelandic economy until the herring moved away; every rock and place has a name and many have a story.
We didn't know each other, so we conversed for hours during our week together. We swam in the Arctic, hiked, learned about local plants, birds, ate dinner with local artists, discussed issues with locals in hot pots. We each are creating projects, directly inspired by those we met, or by a plant, or a feeling going barefoot, or by encountering a sheep. A balance becomes apparent in the process of connecting to a place and collaborating. Our relation to ourselves, to each other and to the place/people/beings are intersect, entwine and we find what emerges. All of us are driven by grief, outrage, and terror for the loss, the unraveling of life systems, and engaging in this collaboration is vulnerable, delicate and calls on the same skills as cohabitating well with other species. I think we were each drawn to this collaborative to grapple collectively with questions about sharing land and seascapes with other beings.
Being human within the natural world without exploiting or destroying other life forms may require a different inner stance, a different worldview. Where positive cohabitation among diverse species exists, "correspondence", as anthropologist Tim Ingold describes it, may be a perceptual quality local community members are attuned to. In other words, correspondence may correspond to cohabitation; they may co-mingle and co-arise.
What is correspondence? Anthropologist Tim Ingold develops what he calls correspondence in his The Life of Lines, drawing on Heiddeger's phenomenology and the spatial philosophical work of Peter Sloterdijk. Ingold's correspondence unravels the solidity of the world, the static, separate, discreteness of objects within separate boundaries to reveal an ontology of movement, becoming, meshworks of lives intertwined, shaping each other. Correspondence is an intermingling of lines, knots and blobs; the blobs cannot exist independently of the lines. In other words, our ties to others sustain us. The focus goes deeper than form and content, to material and force.
"Inanimate" forms are no longer objects but are active participants in the meshwork. Originating from medieval Latin, correspondence comes from the verb 'correspondere' which means 'cor'- together, 're'-again, and 'spondere'-to pledge (Oxford Dictionary). To pledge together again means aligning oneself to the other. Individuals are not isolated, but exist through alliances of various inanimate and animate beings.
Here are a few of our projects:
A written piece dealing with themes from an interview with a bus driver about his previous work as a fisherman and relations with orcas on fishing boats
Mapping the locations of native plants within the landscape near Siglufjordur and mapping the psychic connections to these species in dreams, memories, experiences, value and meanings, aesthetics.
Studying experiences and perception of the ocean and whales in the context of continued whaling
An artwork on themes of Icelanders connection to sheep, landscape and dreaming
Video on walking barefoot
Body positions, yoga poses in response to land and seascape features
A written piece on the separation between nature and culture, developing a critique of ecology and other historical ways of conceptualizing nature out of that separation.
A native plant plot
Stay tuned for our first Storied Seas Journal, coming in late autumn, 2017.


Last Saturday a group of these merry fanatics gathered at the Bill Good Day Park in Torch Lake. They were checking out the terrain, deciding whether there would be enough space for a regatta, taking a few lazy recreational swoops. Winter people bond quickly, and a reporter trundling across the ice in her Yak-Trax was welcomed to the party.
That being said, what they do after strapping on helmet and ice picks is to lie on their backs in those little wooden boxes and fly across the ice at up to five times the speed of the wind, maneuvering their craft using the same principles that apply in conventional sailing. The helpful how-to stories on their website include Rescue throw bags, Holes in ice, Broken screw extraction, and Quick and dirty claws.
Richards likes ice boating on Torch Lake. The ice is good, parking and access are convenient at the Day Park, and a nice warm café with clean bathrooms is just a short hike away at Sonny's Torch Lake Market. "More women would get into this sport except for the potty problem," she laughs. Richards knows a lot about ice boating history and recommends some good websites.
If the weather cooperates, the ice boats will be back in Antrim County this weekend, either on Torch Lake or Elk Lake, for the annual Fun Regatta. If the thought of broken screw extraction and quick and dirty claws doesn't scare you, you can learn more at the Grand Traverse Ice Yacht Club website.
Please send me information regarding any ice boat racing on Torch Lake.
Hi, Bob. Everything I know is in the stories here. You might follow the link to the Grand Traverse Ice Yachting Club to find people who actually do this stuff.