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A common misconception is that pure light is white. A sunbeam through a window in a room during the day, or the beams spreading from a car's headlights at night, are due to the light interacting with a surface or fine air particles. An example of pure light without geometric "rays" or "beams" is a full moon on a clear night. The sun's reflection gives us the light by the silvery moon, but nowhere can rays of pure light from the sun be seen in the night sky.
I liken this aspect of pure light somewhat to pure consciousness. Consciousness is perhaps beyond the temporal and spatial in another realm or dimension – not localized in the brain – and cannot be directly detected by the external senses. When consciousness interacts with brain matter, suddenly ideas, images and sounds "appear," seemingly out of nowhere.
Goethe intently studied the coloured fringes that appear through a prism. He concluded that the condition of the famous ROY G BIV spectral colours of the rainbow that alight is but a special, isolated case. A few examples of coloured fringes as viewed through a prism are shown in Figures 1 to 4. Figure 5 shows how coloured fringes actually emerge from a prism contrasted against an erroneous educational depiction.
>> Light emitted through a colourless, transparent medium first manifests as white. As the medium becomes denser and the transparency decreases, the light darkens to hues of yellow, orange, and red. The sun takes on these hues depending on whether it's overhead or near the horizon where the atmosphere is thicker. At the extreme end of densification and opacity, light is shut out to black.
>> Darkness illuminated through a colourless, transparent medium first manifests as black. As the medium becomes denser and the transparency decreases, the darkness lightens to hues of violet, indigo, and blue. The black night sky becomes modified by the sun's daytime illumination and displays a range of these hues, from dark blue overhead to light blue near the horizon. At the extreme end of densification and opacity, darkness is diminished to whiteness.
Colour bands occur through a prism due to a mingling of these polar forces. Reviewing Figures 1 to 5(b), you can see how these phenomena arise along edges between light and dark. As a band of light or dark becomes narrowed, the primal colours unite to form secondary colours of green or magenta.
A prism isn't the only condition for the polar opposite coloured bands to appear. In the seventeenth century, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, a mathematician and physicist, studied coloured fringes that developed when a very narrow beam of sunlight was projected along the edges of small objects. He noted that the shadows cast were "always bluish at the side which is nearer the [central] shadow and reddish on the further side." Polar colour effects can be seen when looking at a light through a feather or reflected from a compact disc (See Figure 6). The media may differ, but a similar dynamic and complex interaction occurs between the light and the darkness.
Analytical science has classified several different technical cases where colours can arise, such as refraction, diffraction, dispersion, scattering, and interference. The scientists then hypothesize beneath what our senses confront to try and find a common microscopic entity or element that is the cause – whether it be a particle, a wave, wave-particle duality, or some other mysterious entity or process not yet dreamed up. The theories and mathematics are impressive, but the knowledge of light and colours studied in this materialistic manner is a disjointed venture that dissects and deadens nature.
For holistic science, whether one calls it refraction or diffraction, it's all a distraction. Goethe studied the phenomena on their terms at the sense level and had no interest in abstract concepts or theoretical causes added beneath the phenomena. He strove to identify the common conditions where colours arise in nature, and his approach provides coherence, relationships and unity. It truly is in tune with the Tao.
With all the theoretical struggles in physics over the past three centuries, vision science continues to be based mainly on the Newtonian model of optics and colours. The eye is studied as an "object," artificially disconnected from the human soul and spirit. The industry believed they discovered a physical defect (progressive myopia), where in fact – like the spectrum supposedly split apart by the prism – they actually manufactured the condition and foisted it upon an unsuspecting public. What's myopic is the old science itself, unable to see where it's gone astray. A more holistic and Taoist approach to the study of light, colour and human vision is long overdue.
There is a part 2 https://southerncrossreview.org/74/tao-colors-2.html but it's late here so i'll read it tomorrow as it's bound to have more useful info in it to aid our research.
Chris, I got in touch with Doug Marsh of the Tao of Colors... had bumped into that website independently and found it very useful. He gave me some more references to add to the study.
4. When opacity rules, then we have to use the observations of Edwin Babbitt... more oxidized states are redder, less oxidized states are white blue or green.
6. When passed through a series of glass slabs, light both refracts and reflects. These two parts are called "linearly polarized"
I was discussing the nature of an "image" with Zach a while back... basically, how can ALL the photons of a landscape fit through a pinhole lens? Easy to reproduce--take a piece of cardboard and stick a pinhole in it. Place a white sheet behind it and it acts like a lens, casting an image on the sheet.
I suspect that "light" is different from an "image" (even if the image is a ray coming through a slot of white light). Images act like holograms--not a group of individual photons. This may explain why boundaries "blur" into colors... the interference pattern is being interfered with by the prism. Interference patterns are created by a differential, so the sharper the change, the sharper the pattern. Subtle changes in color will not be apparent as splitting into offset colors.
If you pass an image through a prism, like a photograph from a slide projector, what happens?
bperet wrote: If you pass an image through a prism, like a photograph from a slide projector, what happens?
The exact same thing happens as when you look at an image through a prism, except that the red and blue edges are reversed.
If I look at an image of a white elephant on a black background through a prism, let's say the reddish portions occur on the top, and the bluish at the bottom. When the same image is projected through a projector and passed through a prism, on the screen the white elephant will have blue portions at the top, and red at the bottom. Except for this all the other features are identical. Other colors except black and white are also shaded in a similar way.
Here's another one for you... I was using my prism for those experiments in the book you loaned me and placed the prism on the page (C)... when you do that, the black/white edges remain sharp with no colors, either in the "direct view" (A, looking down at an angle) or in its reflection (B, looking horizontally at the back edge).
I can understand why the parallel planes of the sides of glass do not cause splitting, so why am I getting a clear image through a prism, where every distance and angle through the medium is different? However, if I lift the prism off the page, then the colors start to show up.
This would seem to indicate that the thickness of the medium that light traverses is irrelevant and the color is a result of some kind of diffusion of the atmosphere between image and prism.
Color, being an angular velocity, is easily modified by other angular velocities or rotational vibrations. Photons can change color "on the fly," so there is no such thing as a "pure ray" of color--pass it through a strong magnetic or electric field, or too close to an atom, and it will change color.
Photons encountering a rotational equivalent space (or time) will cause the angular velocity (color) of the photon to shift in a single direction, as though it was changing frequency.
Photons encountering a rotational vibration (field) will split into two rays, as the vibration is a birotation with oppositely-directed rotations--this will cause half the photons to accelerate a rotation and the other half to decelerate, demonstrated by the Zeeman effect.
The photon, being a quaternion structure, exhibits dimensional effects. Blue/Cyan and Red/Yellow are 1-dimensional, "electric" rotations, demonstrated by electric arcs (high voltage=blue/cyan, high current=red/yellow).
Green/Magneta, being in a plane orthogonal to the real axis (black/white), is a 2-dimensional "magnetic" rotation. This is demonstrated by the green color associated with strong, magnetic phenomenon, such as tornadoes and the aurora borealis.
Because any scalar location can have TWO rotating systems present (as Larson uses in his atomic system), photons can exist in pairs, the dual-quaternion, similar to Cooper pairing of electrons.
The maximum displacement of a photon is 1 unit for a single rotating system, or 2 units for a dual. This means that the photon has no equivalent space or equivalent time that extends past the unit space or unit time boundary (per Larson, BPOM on interatomic distances, the ln(2) =0.7, and it needs to be at least 1.0 to have an equivalent presence).
The wavelength of a photon is the diameter of its unit space boundary, which makes it appear to be a particle.
bperet wrote: Here's another one for you... I was using my prism for those experiments in the book you loaned me and placed the prism on the page (C)... when you do that, the black/white edges remain sharp with no colors, either in the "direct view" (A, looking down at an angle) or in its reflection (B, looking horizontally at the back edge).
That is because a prism requires TWO refractions at DIFFERENT angles for color to arise. If you put the prism ON the paper, then the first refraction (air-prism) is removed, and it is just as if you had painted that surface of the prism. The only refraction is at the other surface of the prism (prism-air). It is just like a raised coin in a glass of water.
If you use a rectangular slab, there are two refractions, but they are not at an angle. So colors don't show up.
Doug Marsh wrote: The combination of reflection and refraction is certainly taught when a beam enters a flat surface such as water from the air above. Yet the potential significance of this basic concept seems to be ignored in the prism. The refracted beam through the prism is usually assumed to be the original beam simply being bent as it enters and emerges from the prism faces. It's typically depicted that way in artists' renditions for textbooks. The inherent assumption is that the exiting beam is the same intensity, and the "white" has magically split into the colours of the spectrum. Yet if the intensity of that coloured beam is only 72% of the original beam, how then can the Newtonian camp argue that those coloured "rays" constitute the whole of the original beam?
Are these two variables of reflection and light intensity simply a coincidence with regard to spectral colours, or is there a definite correlation that is a causal factor in coloured fringes developing? It would be nice to see some future research along those lines.
Does the spectrum only appear with vapor or gas states as one side of a boundary?
The other thing I am looking at is transparency. Different wavelengths are transparent to different types of material; many materials that stop visible light are transparent to X-rays, and some that pass visible light stop RF. Any info on how transparency works?
I would assume X-rays are spatially displaced, since atoms are temporally displaced and space-to-time constitutes motion. It would be the presence of spatial rotation in the atoms that would block X-rays. If that is the case, then the noble gasses should be completely transparent to X-rays, since they have no spatial displacement.
RF travels through the air, but is blocked by most many materials, including water (except at very low frequencies--ELF range--where it is transparent). This would indicate a temporal displacement--but cannot be just that, otherwise even ELF would be blocked.
Looking for the conditions that allow photons to pass through various types of matter (and antimatter).


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The birth of Dhaka Translation Fest (DTF)
Dr. Rashid Askari
Authors, poets, critics and translators from Bangladesh and beyond participated at the Dhaka Translation Fest 2018
The idea of holding the Dhaka Translation Fest (DTF) 2018 was not all that calculated. To begin with, it sprang from a casual adda of a trio of writers, poets and translators--Dr. Bina Biswas from India and Dr. Gaurango Mohanto and I from Bangladesh. Later we added some urgency to it and shared it with some eminent authors, poets, critics and translators from Bangladesh and beyond like Hayat Saif, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Kaiser Haque, Fakrul Alam, Hasan Azizul Haque, Selina Hossain, Kamal Chowdhury, Dr. Partha Banerjee, Dr. Alka Kurian, Nabina Das, Abhijit Mukherjee, Chandra Gurung and a few others like Ahsan Habib who too fanned the flame of holding the fest without delay. And in its wake, the Dhaka Translation Fest (DTF) 2018 saw the light of day on one fine October morning on the historic premises of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. We know it should have been held a month back on or around 30 September in conformity with the International Translation Day. The idea of celebrating the international translation day was first launched in 1991 by International Federation of Translators (IFT) to express solidarity with the world translator community with a view to promoting the translation profession and thereby mutual cultural understanding. This was later fully vindicated by a UN General Assembly resolution passed on 24 May 2017 that declared September 30 'International Translation Day' to mark the death anniversary of the Bible translator St. Jerome and to recognize the role of professional translation in promoting social, cultural and linguistic integration.
That the DTF took place is our pride and joy. It turned a rendezvous for writers, poets, translators, critics and publishers from Bangladesh, India and beyond. The speakers, moderators, panellists, discussants were persons of great presence and the festival premises was vibrant during different events of the celebrations. There were lively discussions on issues of translating different genres of literature, exchanges of views on the nuts and bolts of translation strategies and skills, problems of untranslatability, fears of transgression and the ultimate promise and compromise of translation as the spirit of the fest.
The DTF charter heralds its motto: 'unite thru translation.' It seeks to define a new role of translation as a tool of bringing together human beings by breaking social, political, cultural and linguistic barriers. It leads us to the envision of a humanitarian world to live in, which is achievable by, among other things, the unification of cultures and societies through numerous works of translation. The act of translation, that had, since the times of the translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, been a matter of individual endeavour, is now a matter of greater interest and moral obligation. The postcolonial literary and cultural consciousness advocates the interpretation of one's own culture to be done by themselves and the acceptance of others' on the same footing. This leads to mutual understanding and unification of cultures, societies and languages.
And to this end, literatures of the world are in urgent need of robust translation. Translation can be an ideal vehicle for increasingly crossing national, cultural and linguistic boundaries. On this account, the DTF can be considered as the start of something new and big in context of the translator community of Bangladesh and South and Southeast Asian region. Though translation festivals are not something of a rarity and many countries have already held or are holding translation fests or stuff like that [Mention may be made of the Japan Translation Federation (JTF) Translation Festival 2017], it has not yet assumed considerable importance and extension especially the way DTF aims for a greater cultural unification. And hence, the end to signify the process of unification and extension well justifies the means of holding the DTF 2018. It is a landmark step to organize the festival accommodating a constellation of connoisseurs of translation from home and abroad.
As for myself, I am absolutely delighted to be a part of the team that has been able to organize such a big event. It is the first of its kind in context of Bangladesh and will, I believe, thrive in this region and the globe as well by popular demand. It's a fairly acknowledged fact and also the motto of our festival that the world can be united through translation too. A literary translation may be used as a vehicle for the unification of the literatures and thereby of cultures of a greater region or of the globe. Anthony Burgess' view on translation testifies to it. As he puts it, "Translation is not a matter of words only, it's a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." This has been proved over the ages in the history of literature and translation. Had there been no translation, the world would have not been familiar with the popular stories of the Bible in Hebrew, the humorous and entertaining morality tales of Aesop's Fables in Greek, the colourful animal fables of Panchatantra in Sanskrit, the bawdy and moving stories of Boccaccio's Decameron in Florentine, the frame narratives of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English, the stories of adventure, magic, love and betrayal of the Arabian Nights in Arabic, The twisted and gory Fairy Tales by Grimm Brothers in Danish, the Children's and Household Tales by Anderson in German, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in English, and the Bengali parable collection Dhakurmar Jhuli (Grandmother's Bag of Stories) and a hundred and one other stories from world literature like these.
If there was no translation, how could we be able to read the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorpheses, Valmiki's The Ramayana, Ved Byasa's The Mahabharata, Dante's Divine Comedy, Firdawsi's The Shahaname, Shakespeare's great tragedies, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Michael's Meghnad Badh Kavya. Tagore's Song Offerings?
How have we known the Big Three on the Greek literary scene--Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles; the Springs of Roman Wisdom-- Caesar, Cicero, Horace and Seneca; the flowers of ancient Indian literature--Kabir, Kalidasa, Galib and Amir Khusrow; the three pillars of Persian mysticism-- Rumi, Hafez and Khayyam; the Five Russian Masters --Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov & Gorky; the Two Absurdists—Albert Camus and Frantz Kafka without recourse to works of translation? Besides Paulo Coelho, Anne Frank, Jostein Gaarder, Patrick Suskind, Tove Jansson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lu Jiamin, Orhan Pamuk or Haruki Murakami would have remained ever inaccessible to global reading public without translation. Translation, therefore, gives wing to literature and helps find new ways of reaching out to an even wider global audience. In addition to this, not only the works of literature but also writings of any kind travel better around the world in translation and involve a medley of languages, cultures, and peoples.
Despite the increasing integration and interdependence in both local and global life in this era of globalization, there are also undercurrents of disintegration and decay towards the pursuit of happiness. Despite all its dazzling successes, the 21st century reaches a crucial juncture where moral values are fast deteriorating, hatred rules the roost and people suffer at the hands of orthodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, religious militancy and fanaticism threatening world peace. To cushion human beings against the worst effects of all these manmade threats, we should cultivate the virtues of forbearance and mutual tolerance. Peaceful coexistence should be the most important aspect of a secular society. 'Live and let live'- is the key to the conservation and protection of a peaceful milieu and to achieve this, translation works can play a pivotal role. The DTF strongly holds this view and looks forward to the unification of human societies and cultures through the proliferation of translation, translators and enthusiasts.
Dr. Rashid Askari is a writer, columnist, fictionist and vice chancellor, Islamic University Bangladesh. Email: rashidaskari65@yahoo.com
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The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is one of the most frequently performed operas written by Gilbert and Sullivan, and widely considered their most successful work. It has been translated into numerous languages, adapted countless times, and continues to be boundlessly entertaining over one hundred years after its opening. It was featured in the 1978 film Foul Play, and is the setting for the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy.
Story Synopsis
Before the action of the opera begins, Nanki-Poo has fled from the court of his father, the Mikado of Japan, to escape marriage with an elderly lady, named Katisha. Assuming the disguise of a musician, he has then fallen in love with a fair maiden, Yum- Yum; but he has been prevented from marrying her by her guardian, Ko-Ko, who wishes to marry her himself. Ko-Ko, however, has been condemned to death for flirting; and, when Act I opens, Nanki-Poo is hastening to the court of Ko-Ko in Titipu to find out whether Yum-Yum is now free to marry him.
From Pooh-Bah (a corrupt and proud public official) and Pish -Tush (a noble man), Nanki-Poo learns that Ko-Ko has, instead, become Lord High Executioner, thus preventing the sentence of decapitation from being carried out. Ko-Ko is, in fact, Roing to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon.
Everything seems to be going well for Ko-Ko, but suddenly a letter comes from the Mikado ordering him to execute somebody or else lose his position of Lord High Executioner. He is in a quandary to find someone to execute, when Nanki-Poo appears, bent upon suicide because he cannot marry Yum-Yum. By conceding to him the right to marry Yum-Yum for a month, Ko-Ko persuades Nanki-Poo to be the subject for the public execution when that month is up. There is general rejoicing in this apparent solution to the problem, marred only by the unexpected appearance of Katisha, in quest of the vanished object of her affections, Nanki-Poo. She is driven away, but threatens to go to the Mikado about the matter.
Act II opens with Yum-Yum preparing for her marriage with Nanki-Poo. As all are singing a "merry madrigal", Ko-Ko comes in with the news that he has just discovered a law stating that when a married man is executed his wife must be buried alive. To save Yum-Yum from that fate, Nanki-Poo decides to kill himself at once. But this again throws Ko-Ko into a quandary to find some one to execute (especially as he has heard that the Mikado is at that moment on his way to Titipu). Nanki-Poo magnanimously offers himself for immediate decapitation, but Ko-Ko is unable to perform the act without some practice.
Another way out of the difficulty presents itself: Ko-Ko has Pooh-Bah make a false affidavit that Nanki-Poo has been executed, and bids Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum leave the country.
The Mikado soon appears. Ko-Ko thinks that the object of this visit is to see whether the execution has taken place. He accordingly produces the affidavit and describes with gusto the execution. But the Mikado has actually come at the prompting of Katisha in search of his lost son. When the fact tran spires that the person whom Ko-Ko has supposedly executed is really the Mikado's son, Ko-Ko and his accomplices are declared guilty of "compassing the death of file Heir Apparent". The only hope for them is to admit the falsehood of the affidavit and produce Nanki-Poo alive. But, as Nanki-Poo has already married Yum-Yum and so cannot marry Katisha, Katisha will surely insist on the execution of Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko solves the problem by offering his hand to Katisha ; and* after he sings her the ballad of "Willow, tit-willow," she accepts him as the son of the Mikado.
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Masters Week Obituary
Posted on April 17, 2013 by David Owen
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One of the best things about working on my book The Making of the Masters was getting to know Kathryn Murphy, shown in her home in the photo above. She first worked on the tournament, as a secretary, in 1962, and she became an indispensable assistant to Clifford Roberts, Augusta National's co-founder and the tournament's original chairman. She knew an extraordinary number of Masters facts, and if I suddenly wondered about something truly obscure, such as who had teed off fourth in the sixth Masters, she knew exactly where to look it up. She loved the tournament, and she loved the club, and neither would have been the same without her.
Murphy had many opportunities to observe Roberts. She told me that she would sometimes find him hunched over his desk on autumn afternoons, working in the gloom. She would flick on the lights, and he would straighten up in his chair but show no other sign of having noticed the change. She always kept a stenographer's pad next to the phone by her bed at home, because there was no telling at what hour he might call to dictate a letter.
Among her many contributions to my book was her insider's perspective on the conclusion of the 1968 Masters, when Roberto de Vicenzo signed his scorecard for one stroke more than he had actually shot, and was kept out of a playoff with Bob Goalby. A few sportswriters and others have alleged that Roberts must not have wanted a foreigner to win, and had therefore made a ruling that gave the green jacket to an American. But the ruling was the only one possible under the Rules of Golf at that time, and it was made not by Roberts but by the tournament's chief rules official, Isaac Grainger, who was a past president of the U.S.G.A.
Furthermore, as Murphy told me, the idea that Roberts had been out to get de Vicenzo was absurd, since it was partly at Roberts's urging that he had come to play in the Masters in the first place, in 1950. (That year, his manager wrote to accept his invitation to compete in "the Annual Teacher's Competition" — a mistaken retranslation from a Spanish version of the invitation.) The two men were close friends, Murphy said, and de Vicenzo and his wife often spent Masters week in the home of Wilda Gwin, who was another of Roberts's secretaries. De Vicenzo's birthday fell on Masters Sunday in 1968, and the tournament staff, with Roberts's assistance, planned a surprise party for him. Murphy told me that she remembered sadly throwing away the birthday cake when it became clear that holding the party would now be impossible.
Roberts always held a dinner for the tournament winner at the end of each Masters, and Murphy told me that that night he broke convention by inviting de Vicenzo to attend as well. She said that Roberts worried that the outcome had harmed both men—by depriving de Vicenzo of a shot at the financial bonanza that followed a Masters win and by overshadowing the spectacular charge that Goalby had made in his own final round. Like all Masters winners, Goalby received a silver cigarette case on which had been engraved the signatures of all the players in the field. Murphy said that Roberts quietly had an identical box made for de Vicenzo, as a private acknowledgment of his ordeal, and that he asked J. Richard Ryan, the attorney who handled the club's television and movie contracts, to offer his services to both men as an agent—an occupation that had just begun to have an impact among the better players on tour. He especially hoped that Ryan could help de Vicenzo make up for opportunities he had foregone.
This year, Murphy visited the club twice during Masters Week, spent time with her family, including a great-grandson, and threw a weekend Masters party. She watched the final round on TV, and was delighted when Adam Scott won. About two hours later, she died, at the age of eighty-one.
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In this course we will study techniques for creating effective visualizations based on principles from graphic design, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. The course is targeted both towards students interested in using visualization in their own work, as well as students interested in building better visualization tools and systems.
In addition to class discussions, students will complete visualization design and data analysis assignments, as well as a final project. Students will share the results of their final project through both interactive demos and a poster session.
There are no prerequisites for the class and the class is open to graduate students as well as advanced undergraduates (by permission of instructor). Basic working knowledge of, or willingness to learn, graphics/visualization tools (e.g., D3, Vega, HTML5, OpenGL, etc) and data analysis tools (e.g., R, Python, Excel, Matlab) will be useful.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, E. Tufte. Graphics Press, 2001.
Optional: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, 2nd Edition. Scott Murray, O'Reilly Press. (Read Online!) Code examples available on GitHub.
REQUIRED Chapter 1: Graphical Excellence, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.
REQUIRED The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations, Shneiderman, Proc. IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, Boulder 1996.
Optional The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space. Stuart Card and Jock Mackinlay. IEEE InfoVis 1997.
Optional Levels of Measurement, Wikipedia.
Optional On the theory of scales of measurement. S.S. Stevens.
REQUIRED Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases. Stolte, Tang, and Hanrahan. IEEE TVCG 2002.
Optional Multidimensional detective. A. Inselberg. InfoVis 1997.
REQUIRED Postmortem of an Example, Jacques Bertin.
Optional Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire. Ben Shneiderman.
REQUIRED Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics. K. Wongsuphasawat, D. Moritz, A. Satyanarayan & J. Heer. OpenVis Conf 2017 Presentation.
Optional Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics. Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat & Jeffrey Heer. IEEE InfoVis 2016.
Optional Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design. Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock. ACM CHI 2010.
Optional Animation: Can It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, v57, p247-262. 2002.
Optional Smooth and Efficient Zooming and Panning. Jack J. van Wijk and Wim A.A. Nuij. IEEE InfoVis 2003.
Optional Adaptive Composite Map Projections. Bernhard Jenny. IEEE InfoVis 2012.
REQUIRED Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data. Danny Holten. InfoVis 2006.
Optional A Comparison of the Readability of Graphs Using Node-Link and Matrix-Based Representations. Ghoniem, Fekete, Castagliola. Information Visualization 2005.
Optional ManyNets: An Interface for Multiple Network Analysis and Visualization. Freire et al. ACM CHI 2010.
REQUIRED Chapter 10: Information Visualization for Search Interfaces, in Search User Interfaces. Marti Hearst. 2009.
REQUIRED Chapter 11: Information Visualization for Text Analysis, in Search User Interfaces. Marti Hearst. 2009.
Optional Mapping Text with Phrase Nets. Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas. InfoVis 2009.
Optional GraphScape: A Model for Automated Reasoning about Visualization Similarity and Sequencing. Younghoon Kim, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jessica Hullman, Jeffrey Heer. ACM CHI 2017.
REQUIRED A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation. Tamara Munzner. IEEE InfoVis 2009.
Optional Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks. Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer & Tamara Munzner. IEEE InfoVis 2012.
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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 5:1. "Ashdod." One of the five Philistine satrapies, about thirty-two miles north of Gaza, and about a mile from the sea. It is now the little village of Esdûd.
1 Samuel 5:2. "Dagon." One of the chief Philistine deities. "With regard to the image of Dagon, compounded of a man and fish, i.e., of a human body with head and hands, and a fish's tail, see Stark's Gaza and Layard's Nineveh, where there is a bas-relief from Khorsabad, in which 'a figure is seen swimming in the sea, with the upper part of the body resembling a bearded man, wearing the ordinary conical tiara of royalty, adorned with elephant's tusks, and the lower part resembling the body of a fish.' (Starke.) As the bas-relief represents (according to Layard) the war of an Assyrian king with the inhabitants of the coasts of Syria, most probably of Sargon, who had to carry on a long conflict with the Philistian towns, more especially with Ashdod, there can hardly be any doubt that we have a representation of the Philistian Dagon here. This deity was a personification of the generative and vivifying principle of nature for which the fish, with its innumerable multiplication, was specially adapted, and set forth the Giver of all earthly good." (Keil.)
1 Samuel 5:4. "The word were is not in the original, and would be better omitted; the head and palms of Dagon, being cut off, were lying on the threshold. Here was the miracle, and it was very significant. It was done by the Divine power. The head and palms of Dagon, the chiefest of his members, the emblems of his strength, were lopped off." (Wordsworth.) "Only the stump," etc. Literally, "only Dagon, the fish (from dag, a fish), the ignoblest part, was left." (Wordsworth.)
1 Samuel 5:5. "Therefore neither the priests—tread on the threshold," etc. "Cf. Zephaniah 1:9. 'On the same day will I punish all those that leap on (or over) the threshold.' No doubt this phrase was intended (perhaps with some irony) to describe the worshippers of the Philistian Dagon." (Hobson.)
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—1 Samuel 5:1-5
THE FALL OF DAGON
I. God works in silence and in secret against false systems of religion to give men a public and sudden proof of their folly. Dagon's downfall took place in the secrecy of the night: when daylight came, his destruction was made apparent. God's kingdom of nature, and His kingdom of grace, are alike in this, that neither "come with observation" (Luke 17:20). All the winter nature seems to be at a standstill, but all the time secret preparation is going on beneath the ground and within the plants for the outburst of life and beauty in the spring. And in His spiritual kingdom there have often been times and seasons in which there has seemed to be hardly any true religious life left in the world, when solitary believers in God here and there have been ready to exclaim with the prophet of old, "I, even I only, am left" (1 Kings 19:14). But it has often been found that such seasons of darkness have been followed by a day in which the truth of God has won great victories in the hearts of men, giving proof that His spirit has been, during all the long night, working silently and secretly in men's hearts. So it was before the downfall of Paganism after the coming of Christ, and before the overthrow of the Papal tyranny at the time of the Reformation. When the pious Israelite lay down that night and thought of the sacred ark of the covenant in the house of Dagon, he must have been ready to exclaim with the dying wife of Phinehas, "The glory is departed from Israel." But God at that very hour was working in secret, and was dealing a heavy blow at the idolatry of the Philistines.
II. Even miraculous evidence does not always suffice to bring men to acknowledge God. Experience of the fallacy of the advice of a quack is the surest way, we think, to lead men to put faith in the advice of a skilful physician; and when men have had the powerlessness of the gods whom they worship proved to them by unmistakable evidence, we should expect them to be ready to embrace a religion based upon supernatural evidence if history and experience did not testify to the contrary. Dagon testified by his first fall that "an idol is nothing in the world" (1 Corinthians 8:4). But it brought no conviction into the minds of the Philistine priests. They "set him in his place again." His second fall upon the threshold seemed to tell them that he was only fit to be trodden under foot, yet they venerated the spot upon which he fell. But the Philistines were not more unwilling to receive evidence of the truth than the majority of mankind. Israel was formed into a nation by miraculous power, and sustained miraculously for forty years, and over and over again were delivered from their distresses by miraculous interposition, yet God's testimony concerning them is, "Ephraim is joined unto idols" (Hosea 4:17). The Son of God Himself proved that He came from the Father by His "mighty works," but they made no impression upon the mass of the Jewish people. A delusion proved is not a delusion abandoned. And Our Lord Himself tells us the reason why. It is because "men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil" (John 3:19).
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
1 Samuel 5:1-5. Dagon before the ark, or heathenism conquered at the feet of the living God.
1. In the domain of its power—its own abode (1 Samuel 5:1-2).
2. Through the secret demonstration of the power of the Lord (1 Samuel 5:3-4).
3. Amid the destruction of its power and glory—the face, as a sign of its worthless glory and vain beauty, struck down to the earth; the head also, as the seat of the wisdom which is alienated from God, and opposed to God; the hands, as a symbol of the powers of darkness which work therein, cut off (1 Samuel 5:3-5). The fall of heathenism.
1. It is thrown down before the power of God, manifesting Himself as present in His Word (the law and testimony in the ark).
2. Its power broken and destroyed through the secretly working power of the Spirit of God.
3. Ever a more and more glorious revelation of the power of God, which casts down heathenism in the light of the day of salvation.—Lange's Commentary.
Where God comes with His ark and with His testimony, there He smites the idols to the ground; idolatry must fall where His gospel finds a place.—Berlenberger Bible.
If men' did not mistake God, they could not arise to such heights of impiety; the acts of His just judgments are imputed to impotence. Dagon had never so great a day, so many sacrifices, as now that he seems to take the God of Israel prisoner. Where should the captive be bestowed, but in custody of the victor? It is not love, but insultation, that lodges the ark close beside Dagon. What a spectacle was this, to see uncircumcised Philistines laying their profane hands on the testimony of God's presence! to see the glorious mercy-seat under the roof of an idol! to see the two cherubims spreading their wings under a false god! O the deep and holy wisdom of the Almighty, which over-reaches all the finite conceits of His creatures, who, while He seems most to neglect Himself, fetches about most glory to His own name! He winks and sits still on purpose to see what men would do, and is content to suffer indignity from His creature for a time, that He may be everlastingly magnified in His justice and power: that honour pleaseth God and men best, which is raised out of contempt.… If the Israelites put confidence in the ark, can we marvel that the Philistines did put confidence in that power, which, as they thought, had conquered the ark? The less is ever subject unto the greater; what could they now think, but that heaven and earth were theirs? Security and presumption attend ever at the threshold of ruin. God will let them sleep in this confidence; in the morning they shall find how vainly they have dreamed! Now they begin to find they have but gloried in their own plague, and overthrown nothing but their own peace.… Dagon hath a house, when God hath but a tabernacle; it is no measuring of religion by outward glory.—Bishop Hall.
The foolish Philistines thought that the same house could hold both the ark and Dagon, as if an insensible statue were a fit companion for the living God. In the morning they come to thank Dagon for the victory, and to fall down before him before whom they thought the God of Israel was fallen; and lo! now they find the keeper flat on his face before the prisoner. Had they formerly, of their own accord, with awful reverence, laid him in this posture of a humble prostration, yet God would not have brooked the indignity of such an entertainment. But seeing they durst set up their idol cheek by cheek with their Maker, let them go read their folly in the temple floor, and confess that He who did cast their god so low, could cast them lower. Such a shame doth the Lord owe all them which will be making matches betwixt Him and Belial. Yet they consider not, How should this god raise us who is not able to stand or rise himself? Strange they must confess it, that whereas Dagon was wont to stand, and themselves to fall down; now Dagon was fallen down, and themselves stood, and must help up with their own god. Yea, their god seems to worship them on his face, and to crave that succour from them which he was never able to give them. Yet in his place they set him again, and now lift up those hands to him which helped to lift him up and prostrate those faces to him before whom he lay prostrate. So can idolatry turn men into the stocks and stones which they worship: "They that make them are like unto them." But will the Lord put it up thus? No, the next fall shall burst it to pieces; that they may sensibly perceive how God scorns a competitor, and that there is no agreement betwixt Him and idols. Now, what is the difference between the Philistines and the Papists? The Philistines would set God in the temple of idols; the Papists would set idols in the temple of God. Both agree in this, that they would make God and idols agree together.—T. Adams.
1 Samuel 5:3. Because you have broken your purpose, do not allow it to go unmended. Even the heathen, with so base a conception of divinity as Dagon was, when Dagon fell to the ground, lifted him up again and put him in his place. When, not your idol, but your bright ideal, falls to the ground, though its head and its feet be broken, lift it up and put it in its place again. Because you have broken faith and fealty to that which you meant to be, and meant to do, it is no reason why you should not swear again, and again go forward.—Beecher.
1 Samuel 5:4. The prevalence of idolatry in the heart of man. Dagon has still his temple there. The great idolatry of mankind is self.… Christ is the true ark of the covenant, and when He takes possession of the temple of man's heart, then the Dagon of the place is dethroned; it loses its head and hands, its carnal wisdom and carnal works, at the very threshold of the sanctuary, but still the stump is left; however powerful the principle of indwelling grace may be, there is still the remnant of indwelling sin. And while we might unfeignedly desire that even the stump of sin and self were gone, we may well be thankful if no more be left.… We know not whether the priests of Dagon erected another idol upon the stump of the broken one; but this we know, that many idols are contending for the throne of man's heart, and when one Dagon is deposed, he leaves his stump upon which another is quickly raised. But the same Almighty grace which cast down one shall triumph over all. The covenant ensures the death of sin, the life of grace, and the crown of glory, and when grace has brought you to glory you will rejoice to all eternity, that "only the stump of Dagon was left."—Fenn.
1 Samuel 5:6. "He destroyed them." From 1 Samuel 6:4-5; 1 Samuel 6:11; 1 Samuel 6:18, where, besides the votive offering referring to the bodily disease, a second, the golden mice, is expressly mentioned, it is clear that, in addition to the corporal plague, another, a land-plague, had fallen on the Philistines. "He destroyed them" (like "destruction" or "desolation," in Micah 6:13, used of persons) denotes a wasting of the land, that is, of the produce of the fields, as the support of human life, by mice which "destroy the land" (1 Samuel 6:5). (Erdmann.) "We must go to the East for parallels to these ancient plagues. A parallel to this plague of mice is furnished in the recent history of Ceylon. In 1848, the coffee-crop of that fertile island was utterly destroyed by mice, and the people, losing their staple harvest, were reduced to the most terrible misery and want." (S. Cox.) "Emerods." "The disease we call bleeding piles," a disease very common in Eastern lands, where the extreme heat induces indisposition to exercise, and the liver is very apt to grow sluggish and weak. The word is vernacular English for the Greek compound from which we derive the technical medical terms, "hemorrhoids, hemorrhage," which designate a flow of blood. (S. Cox.) "The heathen generally regarded diseases affecting the secret parts of the body as punishments from the gods for trespasses committed against themselves." (Jamieson.)
1 Samuel 5:8. "Let the ark of the God of Israel," etc. The princes of the Philistines probably imagined that the calamity which the Ashdodites attributed to the ark of God, either did not proceed from the ark, i.e., from the God of Israel, or if actually connected with its presence, simply arose from the fact that the city itself was hateful to the God of the Israelites, or that the Dagon of Ashdod was weaker than the Jehovah of Israel; they therefore resolved to let the ark be taken to Gath in order to pacify the Ashdodites." (Keil.) "Gath." Also one of the five Philistian satrapies. Its site is not accurately known, but it is generally identified with the modern Tell-es-Sâfieh, 10 miles east of Ashdod, and about the same distance S. by E. of Ekron. (See Smith's Biblical Dictionary.)
1 Samuel 5:10. "Ekron." Another of the princely cities, now Akir.
1 Samuel 5:12. "The cry of the city went up to heaven." "The disease is attended with acute pain" (Jamieson).
Note.—This chapter, with the following, strikingly illustrates the non-missionary character of the old dispensation. For centuries the Israelites were near neighbours of the Philistines, and had some acquaintance with their political and religious institutions. Yet the Philistines had at this time only a garbled and distorted account (1 Samuel 4:8) of the history of the Israelites, derived probably from tradition, and seemingly no particular knowledge of their religion, nor did the Israelites ever attempt, though they were in the times of Samson and David in close connection with Philistia, to carry thither a knowledge of what they yet believed to be the only true religion. This religious isolation was no doubt a part of the Divine plan for the development of the theocratic kingdom, guarding it against the taints of idolatry, and permitting the chosen people thoroughly to apprehend and appropriate the truth which was then to go from them to all the world. But if we look for the natural causes which produced this isolation in ancient times, we shall find one in the narrowness of civilisation of ancient times, where the absence of means of social and literary communication fostered mutual ignorance and made sympathy almost impossible, and another in the peculiarly national local nature of the religion of Israel, with its central sanctuary and its whole system grounded in the past history of the nation, presenting thus great obstacles to a foreigner who wished to become a worshipper of Jehovah. (Amer. Tranr. of Lange's Commentary).
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—1 Samuel 5:6-12
THE JUDGMENTS UPON THE PHILISTINES
I. When judgment begins with the people of God it is certain to extend to the ungodly. If a human king is just he will visit his own family with punishment if they break the laws of his kingdom. But the very fact that he does so is a pledge that he will not spare the rest of his subjects if they are found guilty. Judgment will begin where transgression ought, least of all, to appear, and where, if it appear, it ought to be least tolerated; but should the same sins be committed by others, it may be regarded as certain that it will extend to them also. God deals with men as a good king and father deals with his children. He will certainly inflict chastisement upon those who are most nearly related to Him by moral character, but He will not spare those who are utterly ungodly. God's ancient people, at this period in their history, needed chastisement, and they had it. He avenged the dishonour which had been done to His name by those whom He "had nourished and brought up" as His children (Isaiah 1:2) by a heavy visitation. But He did not spare the more guilty Canaanites. When judgment "begins at the house of God," the question forces itself upon the mind, "Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" (1 Peter 4:17-18).
II. When the ungodly have been used as instruments of Divine chastisement, they are chastened themselves to teach them that they were not chosen for their moral excellence. Sometimes delay takes place in the execution of a criminal, not because there is any reason to show him favour, but that he may be used to bring others to justice. When he has been used for this purpose he finds that the same law which convicts them punishes him also. It is often so in the righteous government of God. He selected Nebuchadnezzar to be His battle-axe when Israel needed chastisement, but he was but a reprieved criminal, and when he had fulfilled the Divine purpose he was made to feel that it was so. Here the Philistines were made the instruments of God's judgment upon His people, but they soon found that they had not been selected for this work because they were held in favour by Jehovah. The hand of God upon them soon taught them that they also were under His displeasure—that God had, in the language of the prophet, taken "the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of His fury, and put it into the hand of them that afflicted Israel" (Isaiah 51:22-23).
III. There may be an admission that God has smitten without true repentance. The Philistines confessed that the hand of Jehovah was sore upon them, and upon their god, but it led to no investigation into His claims to their homage—to no change in their disposition towards Him. Pharaoh acknowledged that "the Lord was righteous, and that he and his people were wicked" (Exodus 9:27), but his admission had no effect upon his conduct. Saul admitted that God had forsaken him, and was visiting him for his sin, but he turned not to Him who had smitten him, but, in direct opposition to the Divine command, sought counsel of a witch. Many men in every age are compelled to acknowledge that God is visiting them, yet they will not turn to Him in repentance. They may cry to God in their despair, but they give evidence that it is not sin that troubles them, but the punishment of sin. Like the Philistines, they would be rid of their suffering, but they are not willing to give up their Dagons, and to give glory and render obedience to the Lord of hosts.
1 Samuel 5:6. The hand of the Almighty, which moved them not in falling on their god, falls now nearer on their persons, and strikes them in their bodies which would not feel themselves stricken in their idol. Pain shall humble them, when shame cannot.—Bp. Hall.
1 Samuel 5:7. They should have rather parted with their sins than with the ark, and have said unto their sins "Get thee hence," as Isaiah 30:22. What have we to do any more with Dagon who cannot save himself, much less us, from the Divine vengeance? Wicked men are glad upon all occasions to be rid of God and His ark, His ordinances, which they, Philistine-like, have rather as prisoners than as privileges.—Trapp.
The emerods were not a disease beyond the compass of natural causes; neither was it hard for the wiser sort to give a reason of their complaint; yet they ascribe it to the hand of God: the knowledge and operation of secondary causes should be no prejudice to the first. They are worse than the Philistines who, when they see the means, do not acknowledge their first Mover, whose active just power is no less seen in employing ordinary means than in raising up extraordinary; neither doth He less smite by a common fever, than by an avenging angel.—Bp. Hall.
1 Samuel 5:10. The struggles of the Philistines against Jehovah tended only to bring the ark nearer to its own home, and to bring more evils on its enemies. The sufferings of Ekron were worse than those of Ashdod, and the sufferings of Gath were more grievous than those of Ekron. So all the assaults of the enemies of the faith against the ark of Christ's church will serve only to bring her nearer to her heavenly and eternal home.—Wordsworth.
Thus they send the plague of God up and down to their neighbours. Wicked men use to draw others into partnership of their condemnation.—Trapp.
1 Samuel 5:11. When man's heart will not give up its worthless idols, though God's hand draw it to Himself by affliction and suffering, then the distance between him and the God that offers to be with him becomes greater in proportion to the severity and painfulness of the suffering felt by the soul alienated from God and devoted to idolatry. We shall at last desire to be entirely away from God, as the Philistines at last resolved to carry the ark over the border, that they might have nothing more to do with the God of Israel, while, on the contrary, the ark should have warned them to give glory to the God of Israel, who had so unmistakably and gloriously revealed Himself to them.—Lange's Commentary.
God knows how to bring the stubbornest enemy on his knees, and make him do that out of fear which His best child would do out of love or duty … It is happy that God hath such store of plagues and thunderbolts for the wicked: if He had not a fire of judgment, wherewith iron hearts might be made flexible, He would want obedience, and the world peace.—Bp. Hall.
1 Samuel 5:12. The cry that ascends to heaven over sufferings and afflictions that are the consequences of wickedness, is by no means a sign that need teaches prayer; it may be made wholly from a heathen point of view. The cry that penetrates into heaven is "Against thee have I sinned," and is the expression of an upright, earnest penitence, which is awakened in the heart by the chastisement of God's hand.—Lange's Commentary.
Exell, Joseph S. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 5". Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary. https://studylight.org/commentaries/eng/phc/1-samuel-5.html. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1892.


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HIV, Hep A, B or Death.. no line not crossed in dentistry out of pure greed.
This blog has spent the last four years trying to drive home the fact that dentistry in the 21st Century is based on greed with little sign of healthcare considered before treatment. (no, not everyone) but it is becoming the norm. So much so that madness as reported here has become acceptable. The ADA and most of its members has remained silent. This is yet another black mark on what was once a noble profession.
There are over 1100 blog posts here about the corners that are being cut and those who are cutting them. Yet, today I continue to have to report crap like this! Why? Why does everything lead back to Colorado? This time, Stein's Oral and Facial Surgery and Dr. Stephen Stein.
DENVER -- Patients of a Highlands Ranch and Cherry Creek dentist were advised Thursday to be tested for HIV, hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C.
CALL7 Investigator John Ferrugia began asking questions of the state health department early Thursday and the department made its investigation public Thursday afternoon.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued the advisory urging anyone who was a patient of Dr. Stephen Stein, who practiced oral surgery at his practice in Highlands Ranch and Cherry Creek, may have been exposed if they received intravenous medications, including sedation, under Stein's care between September 1999 through June 2011.
The health department said patients may be at risk if they were seen by Stein during the 12-year period and at these locations:
- September 1999 to June 2011 at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery, 8671 S. Quebec St., #230, Highlands Ranch, Colo. 80130
- August 2010 to June 2011 at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery, 3737 E.1st Ave., Suite B, Denver, Colo., 80206. Patients were also seen at this location by Stein under another name, New Image Dental Implant Center.
The health department said there have been no specific infections linked to these offices, so far.
Investigation Found That Injection Needles Were Reused
The department began its investigation following a report of unsafe injection practices. Upon investigation, it was determined syringes and needles used to inject medications through patients' IV lines were saved and used again to inject medications through other patients' IV lines. This practice has been shown to transmit infections.
The investigation continues. State health officials are working with health officials at Tri-County Health Department and Denver Public Health due to the locations of Stein's practices in those counties.
Practice Closed, Stein Not Practicing
Stein Oral and Facial Surgery is closed. Stein entered into an Interim Cessation of Practice Agreement with the Colorado State Board of Dental Examiners at the Department of Regulatory Agencies on June 24, 2011, and currently is not practicing.
In the original action from 2011, the state found "the public health, safety or welfare imperatively requires emergency action." Because of privacy issues, the state won't release details about the complaint to Call7.
Maulid Miskell, DORA Program Director, says that the agency continued to investigate Stein's practice. In April 2012, the agency notified Colorado Public Health about the Stein possibly reusing needles on patients.
"It's related but unrelated. It's hard to talk about. I can't go into detail, but the information provided to them, as soon as we found out about that information, it was timely reported to them," Miskell said.
Under this agreement, Stein can hold a dentistry license, but he cannot practice because no final action has been taken in the 2011 complaint.
The Highlands Ranch office was purchased by another oral surgeon in September 2011. State health officials have determined that the reuse of needles and syringes on multiple patients in Dr. Stein's offices did not continue past June 2011.
8,000 Letters Sent Out To Former Patients
CALL7 Investigator John Ferrugia reported that 8,000 letters have been sent out to former patients of Dr. Stein. The letters should be received within the next few days, the health department said.
However, records may be incomplete, so any patients who remember receiving IV medications, including sedation, at one of Stein's offices between the dates listed contact their health care provider to be tested as a precaution.
Patients who are uncertain if they received IV medications should also be tested.
Patients who did not receive IV medications do not need to be tested. Members of the public can call 1-877-462-2911 or visit http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ for more information.
People infected with viruses such as HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C may not have symptoms for many years, so it is possible patients might have been infected and not know it. Even though patients who may have been exposed may not feel ill or remember getting sick, they should get tested. Although testing cannot determine where or how someone was infected (at Stein's offices or from another exposure), it is important to know so treatment can begin.
Health providers who test Stein's former patients are being asked to report any tests positive for HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C to their county health department or the state health department and to specify the patient was tested as a result of unsafe injection practices at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery. HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are reportable conditions in Colorado, meaning they must be reported to public health authorities.
Former Patient "Angry," Felt "Instant Denial"
Shannon Stamey saw Stein for a dental implant in 2008. She found out about the potential health scare when she read it first on the 7NEWS Facebook page.
"I got on Facebook and saw on 7NEWS that Dr. Stephen Stein's patients should be tested for HIV and Hepatitis," said Stamey. "I immediately, actually, began shaking. I was with my young son. I talked with my husband on the phone. But definitely, instant denial."
Stamey has a weakened immune system and because she receives blood transfusions every three weeks, she already gets tested for HIV and Hepatitis.
"They just tested me in May and said I'm in the clear, most likely, because this was four years ago," said Stamey. "I'm just very angry for everyone else who has to go through this. I definitely can't imagine waiting to go into a doctor's office and get tested and waiting for those results. That would be very stressful."
She also doesn't understand how this could have been going on for 12 years with no one coming forward.
"How could people working in the office not say anything? And I just don't understand why. I mean, I don't know if it was a money thing? I don't think syringes cost that much," said Stamey. "I don't really understand how someone could do that or why you would do that and why no one would speak up for 12 years."
More Info: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/dc/Epidemiology/dentistFAQs.pdf or call 1-877-462-2911.
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In 1978, RSCN established Azraq Wetland Reserve to conserve the uniquely precious oasis located in the heart of Jordan's eastern desert, between a limestone desert in the west and a basalt desert in the east. It has an area of 74 km2. It is distinguished by lush marshland and natural water collections that form glittering pools and streams, giving Azraq its name, which is the Arabic word for "blue".
In 1977, the Ramsar Convention declared Azraq Oasis and the adjacent mudflat (Qa) as a major station for migratory birds on the African-Eurasian flyway. A variety of birds flock to the reserve each year, stopping for a short rest along their migration routes, staying for the winter, or breeding within the wetland. The Azraq wetland is the only oasis in the Arabian Desert with a self-replenishing system that has allowed it to sustain itself throughout the years. In 2018, the reserve joined the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.
Unfortunately, the wetland suffered an environmental disaster because of abuse and overuse of water from the Azraq Basin. Due to excessive pumping of water from the oasis to large urban areas and the illegal drilling of artesian wells for agricultural purposes, water levels have steadily dropped over the course of 50 years, starting to decrease significantly in 1981 and reaching alarming rates in 1993. These high levels of water extraction resulted in the extreme depletion of this natural oasis, drying up massive areas of invaluable wetland equaling over 25 km2. In 1992 the main springs which were feeding the wetland had dried out and water level reached a depth of 12 meters below ground level. The water body that used to be a thriving ecological hotspot has dwindled alarmingly to cover 0.04 % of the area it used to cover in the past; the effects of which can be clearly seen in declining numbers of birds stopping over in Azraq wetland on their migratory route.
Before water pumping dramatically increased in the 1980s, the oasis provided a sparkling blue jewel in the desert, attracting up to a million migrating birds at one time, as it marks one of the major bird migratory routes. At times, an upwards glance at the Azraq sky would find it teeming with masses of birds, blocking out the light of day. By 1993, the extraction of water was so great that no surface water remained and the oasis's ecological value was virtually destroyed.
With international support, RSCN began a rescue effort in 1994 and managed to restore a significant portion of the wetland, and aims to increase depleted water levels by 10 percent. So far, this target has not been achieved due to continued water pumping, lack of manpower, and a lack of experience in wetland management. However, thanks to RSCN's efforts, many birds for which Azraq was once renowned for are coming back, and special boardwalks and bird hides have been constructed to enable visitors to observe and enjoy them.
Azraq Wetland Reserve is a location of rich biodiversity, containing Azraq Killifish Aphanius sirhani, the only true endemic vertebrate species of Jordan. In addition to two-thirds of the bird species records in Jordan, with 350 species of migratory and resident birds. There are also more than 133 species of plants, and there are more than 163 species of invertebrates, 18 species of mammals, 11 species of reptiles, 15 species of dragonflies, and two types of amphibians.


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Phenylacetaldehyde is an organic compound used in the synthesis of fragrances and polymers. Phenylacetaldehyde is an aldehyde that consists of acetaldehyde bearing a phenyl substituent; the parent member of the phenylacetaldehyde class of compounds. It has a role as a human metabolite, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolite, an Escherichia coli metabolite and a mouse metabolite. It is an alpha-CH2-containing aldehyde and a member of phenylacetaldehydes.

Phenylacetaldehyde is one important oxidation-related aldehyde. Exposure to styrene gives phenylacetaldehyde as a secondary metabolite. Styrene has been implicated as reproductive toxicant, neurotoxicant, or carcinogen in vivo or in vitro. Phenylacetaldehyde could be formed by diverse thermal reactions during the cooking process together with C8 compounds is identified as a major aroma–active compound in cooked pine mushroom. Phenylacetaldehyde is readily oxidized to phenylacetic acid. Therefore will eventually be hydrolyzed and oxidized to yield phenylacetic acid that will be excreted primarily in the urine in conjugated form.

Natural occurrence
Phenylacetaldehyde occurs extensively in nature because it can be biosynthetically derived from the amino acid phenylalanine. Natural sources of the compound include chocolate, buckwheat, flowers, and communication pheromones from various insect orders. It is notable for being a floral attractant for numerous species of Lepidoptera; for example, it is the strongest floral attractor for the cabbage looper moth.

Uses

Fragrances and flavors
The aroma of pure substance can be described as honey-like, sweet, rose, green, grassy and is added to fragrances to impart hyacinth, narcissi, or rose nuances. For similar reasons the compound can sometimes be found in flavored cigarettes and beverages.

Historically, before biotechnology approaches were developed, phenylacetaldehyde was also used to produce phenylalanine via the Strecker reaction as a step in the production of aspartame sweetener.

Polymers
Phenylacetaldehyde is used in the synthesis of polyesters where it serves as a rate-controlling additive during polymerization.

Natural Medicine
Phenylacetaldehyde is responsible for the antibiotic activity of maggot therapy.

MAOI
Theoretically, hydrazone formation and subsequent reduction of the phenylethylidenehydrazine gives phenelzine.

Preparation
Phenylacetaldehyde can be obtained via various synthetic routes and precursors. Notable examples include:
 Isomerization of styrene oxide.
 Dehydrogenation of 2-Phenylethanol over silver or gold catalysts.
 Darzens reaction between benzaldehyde and chloroacetate esters.
 Wacker oxidation of styrene.
 Hofmann rearrangement of Cinnamamide (aka (2E)-3-Phenylacrylamide).
 Oxidation of Cyclooctatetraene with aqueous Mercury(II) sulfate.
 Strecker degradation of phenylalanine.

Reactivity
Phenylacetaldehyde is often contaminated with polystyrene oxide polymer because of the especial lability of the benzylic alpha proton and the reactivity of the aldehyde. Aldol condensation of the initial dimer gives rise to a range of Michael acceptors and donors.

References

Insect pheromones
Aldehydes
Phenyl compounds

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That doesn't mean the workers in charge of preparing a surface that's championship-sufficient were free from challenges.
The host Minnesota Vikings came close to reaching the big game, for one.
When they beat the New Orleans Saints with that last-play touchdown pass in the divisional round on Jan. 14, the NFL would have normally already been in takeover mode of the stadium by then. The victory by the Philadelphia Eagles over the Atlanta Falcons that weekend was a big help for the league's exhaustive operations; it sent the Vikings on the road to face the Eagles for the NFC title rather than hosting another postseason game at their not-yet-2-year-old home.
"That would've really pushed us back and crunched the time," said Ed Mangan, the NFL's field director. "We've had a few other teams in the past that got close, so you always start out with a 'what if.' You have a Plan A, a Plan B and a Plan C, and you have a backup plan for each one of those. So you're always prepared for it."
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