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Tumor heterogeneity

DNA samples extracted from solid tumors are rarely completely pure. Stromal or other normal cells and distinct subclonal tumor-cell populations are typically present in a sample, and can confound attempts to fit segmented log2 ratio values to absolute integer copy numbers.

CNVkit provides several points of integration with existing tools and methods for dealing with tumor heterogeneity and normal-cell contamination.

Estimating tumor purity and normal contamination

A rough estimate of tumor purity can usually be obtained using one or more of these approaches:

  1. A pathologist can visually estimate the purity of an sample taken from a solid tumor by examination under a microscope, counting stromal and neoplastic cells.
  2. If the tumor is belived to be driven by a somatic point mutation, e.g. BRAF V600E in melanoma, then that mutation is assumed to be fully clonal and its allele frequency indicates the tumor purity. This can be complicated by copy number alterations at the same site and whether the point mutation is homozygous or heterozygous, but the frequencies of other somatic mutations in the same sample may resolve this satisfactorily.
  3. Larger-scale, hemizygous losses that cover germline heterozygous SNPs shift the allele frequencies of the same SNPs as they are present in the tumor sample. In a 50% pure tumor sample, for example, these SNP b-allele frequencies would shift from 50% to 67% or 33%, assuming a diploid sample (i.e. 1 of 2 copies from the normal sample and 0 or 1 of 1 copy from the tumor, depending on whether the variant allele was lost or retained). The general calculation is a bit more complicated than in #1 or #2, and can be done similarly for copy number gains and homozygous deletions.
  4. The log2 ratio values of CNAs in a tumor sample correspond to integer copy numbers in tumor cells, and in aggregate these log2 values will cluster around values that indicate subclone populations, each with a given ploidy and clonality. For example, a single-copy loss in a 50% pure tumor sample will have 3/4 the coverage of a neutral site (2/2 normal copies, 1/2 tumor copies), for a log2 value of log2(.75) = -0.415. This calculation can also be generalized to other copy number states.

Software implementations of the latter three approaches can be used directly on DNA sequencing data.

Inferring tumor purity and subclonal population fractions from sequencing

While inferring the tumor population structure is currently out of the scope of CNVkit, this work can be done using other third-party programs such as PureCN, THetA2, PyClone, or BubbleTree. Each of these programs can be used to estimate tumor cell content and infer integer copy number of tumor subclones in a sample.

PureCN accepts CNVKit’s .cnn and .cnr files directly as input, and is recommended.

Using CNVkit with THetA2

CNVkit provides wrappers for exporting .cns segments to THetA2’s input format and importing THetA2’s result file as CNVkit’s segmented .cns files. See the commands theta and import-theta for usage instructions.

After running the CNVkit Copy number calling pipeline on a sample, and calling SNVs jointly on the tumor and normal samples, generate the THetA2 input files from the .cns and .vcf files:

cnvkit.py export theta Sample_T.cns reference.cnn -v Sample_Paired.vcf

This produces three output files: Sample_T.interval_count, Sample_T.tumor.snp_formatted.txt, and Sample_T.normal.snp_formatted.txt.

Then, run THetA2 (assuming the program was unpacked at /path/to/theta2/):

# Generates Sample_T.BEST.results:
/path/to/theta2/bin/RunTHetA Sample_T.interval_count \
    --TUMOR_FILE Sample_T.tumor.snp_formatted.txt \
    --NORMAL_FILE Sample_T.normal.snp_formatted.txt \
    --BAF --NUM_PROCESSES `nproc` --FORCE

Finally, import THetA2’s results back into CNVkit’s .cns format, matching the original segmentation (.cns) to the THetA2-inferred absolute copy number values.:

cnvkit.py import-theta Sample_T.cns Sample_T.BEST.results

THetA2 adjusts the segment log2 values to the inferred cellularity of each detected subclone; this can result in one or two .cns files representing subclones if more than one clonal tumor cell population was detected. THetA2 also performs some significance testing of each segment representing a CNA, so there may be fewer segments derived from THetA2 than were originally found by CNVkit.

The segment values are still log2-transformed in the resulting .cns files, for convenience in plotting etc. with CNVkit. These files are also easily converted to other formats using the export command.

Adjusting copy ratios and segments for normal cell contamination

CNVkit’s call command uses an estimate of tumor fraction (from any source) to directly rescale segment log2 ratio values, and SNV b-allele frequencies if present, to the value that would be seen a completely pure, uncontaminated sample. Example with tumor purity of 60% and a male reference:

cnvkit.py call -m none Sample.cns --purity 0.6 -y -o Sample.call.cns

The call command can also convert the segmented log2 ratio estimates to absolute integer copy numbers. If the tumor cell fraction is known confidently, use the -m clonal method to round the log2 ratios to the nearest integer copy number. Alternatively, the -m threshold method to applies hard thresholds. Note that rescaling for purity is optional; either way, integer copy numbers are emitted unless the -m none option is used to skip it.

cnvkit.py call -m clonal Sample.cns -y --purity 0.65 -o Sample.call.cns
# Or, if already rescaled
cnvkit.py call -m clonal Sample.call.cns -y -o Sample.call.cns
# With CNVkit's default cutoffs
cnvkit.py call -m threshold Sample.cns -y -o Sample.call.cns
# Or, using a custom set of cutoffs
cnvkit.py call -t=-1.1,-0.4,0.3,0.7 Sample.cns -y -o Sample.call.cns

Export integer copy numbers as BED or VCF

The export bed and vcf commands emit integer copy number calls in the standard BED or VCF formats:

cnvkit.py export bed Sample.call.cns -y -o Sample.bed
cnvkit.py export vcf Sample.call.cns -y -o Sample.vcf

If the .call.cns files were generated by the call command, the integer copy numbers calculated in that step will be exported as well.


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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Pentagon is moving to get three of the four combat brigades requested by commanders into Afghanistan by summer, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as he traveled here to meet with military leaders.

In his most specific comments to date about how soon he will meet the call for up to 20,000 more troops in Afghanistan, Gates said he will not have to cut troop levels further in Iraq to free up at least two of those three brigades for Afghan duty.

At the same time, Gates said a key "course correction" in the Afghanistan war for the administration of President-elect Barack Obama will be to build up the Afghan army and better cooperate with Kabul on security operations.

"I think there's a concern on the part of some of the Afghans that we sort of tell them what we're going to do, instead of taking proposals to them and getting their input and then working out with them what we're going to do, so it's a real partnership," Gates told reporters traveling with him to Afghanistan. "That's an important aspect of this, that I think we need a course correction."

Gates met on Thursday with Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and with U.S. troops in Kandahar.

McKiernan told reporters after the meeting that he believes the U.S. and its allies need to make a sustained commitment of troops over the next three or four years. He would not say whether that would be at the expected level of close to 50,000 U.S. troops - the current total plus the additional 20,000 he has asked for.

Asked about where additional troops might be deployed, he said, "I think the area that we need to increase our security presence the most in this country is in the south and southwestern parts." Kandahar is in the south of Afghanistan.

Standing outside the headquarters of Regional Command South in Kandahar, Gates said, "This is a long fight, and I think we're in it till we are successful along with the Afghan people."

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Gates' stop in Afghanistan was designed initially as a farewell tour to visit troops as he prepared to leave office. But that changed when he was asked to stay on by Obama.

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Happy Monday Everybody!

Usually I'm the type of girl that would stick to the products/style/food that I have tried and loved. I'm extremely "risk averse" especially when it comes to food- I can eat the same thing over and over again. While I was living in London the ONLY thing that I would order whenever I go to an Indian Restaurant - Garlic Naan with Butter Chicken or Keema Mutter. Had that for 3 years and I gotta say - no regrets ma friends no regrets at all.

However, when it comes to beauty products, I always feel like I've got to try everything and I mean every. damn. thing. My oh so rationale boyfriend would always say and I quote "quya you only have one face, you can't possibly try everything" and my reply to him was - CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

I began my quest to try as many beauty products that I can get my hands on- for the sake of science (read: how I convinced my financial advisor boyfriend before every single purchase). So here's part 1 of some of the disappointing products that I have tried.

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Hat - The Pirelli Calendar 1985
  • The Pirelli Calendar 1985
    Graham Smith, born 1939
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The Pirelli Calendar 1985

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  • Place of origin:

    Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    1984 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Graham Smith, born 1939 (designer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Nylon net with velvet appliqué

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Mrs Wenda Parkinson

  • Museum number:

    T.480 to B-1985

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

This hat was designed by the milliner Graham Smith for the 1985 Pirelli calendar and features the famous tyre tread pattern of the Pirelli P6 tyre. The calendar was introduced by the Pirelli tyre company in 1964 as a trade publication featuring women in 'glamour' photographs and it quickly became a cult item.

Each year the company chooses one of the world's top photographers to shoot the calendar. In 1985 the theme of the calendar was 'Fashion' and photographer Norman Parkinson shot models Iman and Anna Andersen wearing accessories and clothes featuring the tyre tread pattern.

Known for his mastery and superb millinery technique, Graham Smith was a fitting choice to create the hats for this Pirelli shoot. Smith studied at Bromley College of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to Paris to work for the house of Lanvin-Castillo, then later returned to London where he worked for Michael of Carlos Place. In 1967 Smith set up his own business in Mayfair, becoming one of Britain's leading milliners.

Physical description

Small black percher hat 'Pirelli Calendar 1985' with a deep snood-style veil in black net with velvet appliqué. With two hat pins.

Place of Origin

Great Britain (made)

1984 (made)

Graham Smith, born 1939 (designer)

Materials and Techniques

Nylon net with velvet appliqué

Object history note

Registered File number 1985/1213. This hat was specially commissioned for the Pirelli calendar 1985 and was photographed by Norman Parkinson. It was featured on the back cover, modelled by Anna Andersen.
Gallery label text for Fashion Tracks exhibition:

Designer Clothes for the 1985 Pirelli Calendar
In 1983 Martyn Walsh the Art Director and Designer of the Pirelli Calendar suggested to Pirelli UK Ltd that they revive the famous Pirelli Calendar and as an innovation incorporate a fashion show using the P6 tyre tread as the decorative theme. Fourteen leading British Designers were invited to make clothes and accessories using the tyre tread design. These commissions represented a significant break-away from the traditional Pirelli Calendars and resulted in an unusual and stylistically powerful collection. The dramatic photographs were taken by Norman Parkinson. At the Calendar launch the collection was auctioned for charity and later the owners generously gave these unique works to the V&A.
The Mannequins and display are by the Creative Team of Adel Rootstein Hopkins Ltd.
The display will be in the Dress Collection from 5th November 1986 to Autumn 1987. It is divided into two parts, one on either side of the Dress Collection at the entrances from Rooms 21 and 47 respectively.

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Small percher hat 'Pirelli Calendar 1985' and two hat pins, designed by Graham Smith, Great Britain, 1984

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Attribution note: Specially commissioned for the Pirelli calendar 1985

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Nickel & Dimed

With the economy still foundering, unemployment high, natural gas shortages looming, and the cost of basic necessities still rising, large numbers of Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to survive. Yet for those still enjoying middle-class comforts, their neighbors' poverty is as invisible and foreign as the slums of Calcutta.

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Dee Covington as Barbara
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In an effort to bring the shocking reality of the underbelly of American capitalism to the consciousness of her fellow citizens, social critic and activist Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to discover first hand what it's like to try to hold down two minimum wage jobs in order to live in substandard housing and have enough left over to fill your stomach once a day.

The result was Ehrenreich's book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, the first best-seller dealing with our nation's poor since Michael Harrington's Poverty in America, in the late '60's. Recently, the book's popularity has been redoubled with a stage adaptation written by American theatre legend Joan Holden, former principal playwright for the San Francisco Mime Troupe (1970-2000).

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Maintaining a breakneck pace throughout, Curious Theatre Company's production follows Barbara as she bounces from waitress to cleaning lady to hotel maid to nursing home attendant to discount store stocker in search of the secrets used by 32 million Americans surviving on less than $12,000 a year. What she finds is that there are no secrets, just a system rigged to maintain the cycle of poverty. "The less you have," she tells us, "the more everything costs."

Dee Covington, as Barbara, moves seamlessly between actor and narrator, now entwined in the daily indignities of her hand-to-mouth wage-slavery, now the detached analyst sharing her observations with the audience. Her impoverished co-workers are really philanthropists, she muses, because their willingness to give away their labor for a song is what affords the rest of us such cheap goods and services. Warm-hearted, shrewd, and vulnerable, Covington hooks us into her daily drama, then leaves us hanging in the wind when there's not enough money, food, or shelter on which to get by.

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Gwen Harris, Dee Covington,
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Director Chip Walton's multi-talented cast works as hard behind the set as they do on stage, popping up as co-workers, customers, patients, and bosses as quickly as they can move out one door and in the other. Kendra Crain is especially poignant as the ambitious half-starved newly-pregnant house cleaner, fighting a reaction to the nasty chemicals with which she works, afraid to quit because her boyfriend is out of a job. Christopher Leo's many characterizations range from an irrepressible immigrant cook to a refugee from Jersey pretending to be making it. Billie McBride shines as a veteran waitress and a compassionate Mall-Mart co-worker. Gwen Harris tugs at our heartstrings as the arthritic cleaning woman and the elderly maid who feels like she has it made when she's given her own room and TV. Laura Chavez's single mom, frantically calling her kids on her breaks, takes us to the brink.

This array of characters represents the experience of a hefty share of the American workforce: interviewed by computers, urine-tested, questioned over any deviation from the desired behavior of a corporate automaton, without health insurance, and often restricted from even drinking water on the job. Such treatment at the hands of fellow human beings is acceptable, we're told by one of the characters in the play, because anyone who works hard enough can make it in America; therefore, those that don't make it get what they deserve (How so-called Christians reconcile such a system with the teachings of Jesus is beyond me!). At the bottom of this socio-economic fallacy is a misconception of how capitalism works: it is a sophisticated, large-scale Ponzi scheme that must expand in order to survive; self-interest rules; and there is necessarily an under-class at the bottom of the feed chain. Here, even Ehrenreich's well-meaning efforts to increase the minimum wage miss the mark — when those at the top take more than they need, the system cannot sustain a living wage for all its workers.

Maintaining a difficult balancing act, Joan Holden's savvy adaptation avoids preaching by dramatizing the facts, which are argument enough against a system that dehumanized boss and worker alike. The moody, interstitial music composed by Lee Stametz and executed brilliantly by Denver's guitar avatar, Neil Haverstick, keeps us on the edge of our seats. Michael Duran's flexible, functional set, and Janice Benning Lacek's bright costumes, keep the focus on the performers.

Curious Theatre Company's regional premiere of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America runs through October 25th. 303-623-2349.

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Water Greets Land And Brings a Gift

November 14, 2016

As a child I was fascinated by seasonal floods in Amazonia, where rainforest over millions of acres is flooded by many feet of water. Fish swimming among trees in the forest seemed totally bizarre to that child.

Today I walked the road at Greenhead Slough, where Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, working with local and state partners, recently replaced a tide gate with a bridge, restoring tidal hydrology to several streams and associated floodplains.

Three Chum salmon in the stream, two to the left, one to the right. All have begun to lose skin, hence the whitish appearance on their sides.

Tides are very high and low now—a spring tide cycle, which occurs twice each month when the moon is full or new. I saw a near-full moon two days ago. On this full moon cycle, the local floodplains, marshes, and in some cases associated forests, are flooded at each higher high tide every 24 hours.

Chum salmon came back to their natal streams this season in large numbers. Commercial fishermen caught their quota, and still the salmon kept coming. Last year, refuge stream walkers did not see any chum or coho salmon. This year, chum have returned to all the streams they monitor. Today I saw two streams with chum in them, splashing as they mated and dug out redds to lay eggs. There were dead fish too; I could smell the dead fish as I approached.

Banana slug and fungi:  which one to eat first?

For the next generation of salmon this is good news:  the bodies of their parents fertilize the streams, tree roots pick up and share nutrients, and animals drag dead salmon off to eat and spread them up slope into the forests. For other salmon species, there is better news:  chum salmon smolt (return to salt water) when they are very small, so they are good food for other salmon species that smolt when larger in size. Seeing many adult chum salmon breeding this fall is a strong indication that other runs of other species will be plentiful four years hence, and their adults will be numerous, large, healthy, and strong.

Forest underwater:  nutrients, fish, organics surge in with the water across the forest floor.

There was also water among the trees in several areas, taking me back decades in memory to that child, seeing photos of fish swimming among Amazonian trees. Marine anadromous fish not only give us pleasure in fishing for them, livelihood for commercial fishermen, and food for bald eagles, bears, and other animals, they give the forests important nutrients, including calcium, nitrogen, phosphorous, and other minerals. It’s a magnificent sight to see the fish, but the implications that carry forward for future health of both forest and fish runs are also important. When we see a healthy run like this, we see the future of both forest and fish in their presence.

Rough Skinned Newt walking on a floodplain surface, among deep elk footprints.

The weather was wet, a mild day with light rain, though the wind rose as the hours passed and another storm approached. Rough Skinned Newts and Pacific Banana Slugs were out moving around, well sheltered from the sun by the clouds and rain. Thinking about the movement of nutrients from fish to soil to fungi to trees, I realized that these nutrients reach the slugs too, and any insects that feed on plants or fungi, and also newts. There's a bit of ocean in all of those species in a fish-healthy forest.

Looking over the highway and across Bear River, salt water floods the marshes and streams from forest edge to forest edge.

At high tide, there is a large sheet of water from the highway west across Bear River and its associated marshes to the Porter Point peninsula. With dikes gone, with hydrology restored, the winter high tides sweep across the entire landscape, just as they did more than one hundred years ago. Water greets land again, and brings a gift of fish.

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

What is the Value?

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" The value of a person should be seen
in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.  "

Albert Einstein

“ How people treat you
is their karma;
how you react
is yours. ”

 Wayne Dyer

" The great part of the miseries of mankind
are brought upon them
by false estimates they have made
of the value of things.  "

Benjamin Franklin

“What is a cynic?
who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.”

 Oscar Wilde

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" How do you measure
your value? "
Loretta Lynn

What is the value-
- of a person
you do not know?

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Monday, October 8, 2012

A Moment Held

A   L   O   H   A  !

 “ If you run from me,
 I will chase you,
and I'll find you....”
Jeaniene Frost

" It's wonderful
 to climb
 the liquid mountains
of the sky. "

Helen Keller

 Towers come in all sizes

“ I held a moment
 in my hand,
 brilliant as a star,
fragile as a flower,
 a tiny sliver
of one hour.
 I dropped it

Ah! I didn't know,
I held

opportunity. ”

 Hazel Lee

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Monday, October 5, 2015

Compassion Cure

A  L  O  H  A !

" Compassion will cure
 more sins than
                             Henry Ward Beecher

" True benevolence, or compassion,
 extends itself through the whole
of existence and sympathizes with
the distress of every creature
capable of sensation. "
                 Joseph Addison

“ He could tell by the
way animals walked
that they were keeping
 time to some kind of music.
Maybe it was the song
in their own hearts
that they walked to. ”
              Laura Adams Armer

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Tower Rainbow

A  L  O  H  A !
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" The goal isn’t to
make something
everyone will love; the
goal is to get
excited, and make a
thing where something
wasn’t before. "
                      Wil Wheaton

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Sharing with the Herb Club

Earlier this year, a few of us folks, from the beekeeping club, and I decided it would be fun to get together monthly to explore herbal type things. Everyone invited just whoever else we thought might be interested and we have a nice little group now.We are just a little rural group of folks and our group isn’t anything formal of anything, but loads of fun. When we first started, we would each research an herb and at the meeting we would give a little talk about what we found out and give hand outs to each other. When the weather got nicer, we went for woods and fields walks identifying the wild medicinal and food plants in our area. With the nights coming so soon, we have moved back inside, and this meeting they asked me to demonstrate making salves. I have a new camera, and so my brother and I aren’t too good with it yet, but you will get the idea:) I chose to demonstrate how to make two different salves, one a pine salve and the other rose.

At home I prefer to work with oils and herbs I have allowed to infuse in a sunny window for 6 weeks+,  but for the demonstration, I just put the rose buds in oil and let them gently infuse for awhile in one pot, on top of a canning ring, in another pot with some water in it. A homemade version of a double boiler. In the other double boiler arrangement, I started some collected pine sap in a bit of olive oil.

After the pine pitch and the rose had infused awhile, I melted some beeswax, in the same fashion, and slowly incorporated it into the strained oils.

The next picture I am demonstrating how I tell whether I have enough or too little wax in the final product. I just take a dab out and put it on my glass cutting board, (a plate would work), and feel it. It is all a matter of personal preference actually. Some folks might prefer it softer, more like an ointment consistency, some firmer. Jill, in the red, was so cute taking notes and thinking I had a formula! I think I successfully demonstrated that one doesn’t have to have a certain precise recipe. The folk method I use has consistently made good, fragrant, useful salves:) It is no big deal if the salve is too thin or too thick, just a matter of using a bit more oil, or a bit more wax.

Oils are nice and I frequently just use rose oil and others at home, but salves are nice and less messy for throwing in my purse or using with children:) I felt good to be able to share that working with herbal oils and salves is something any of us can do:)

We sure had a good time, and next month will be great. Steve is going to share with us how to process our horseradish! I will share with you afterwards:)

Love and hugs to all who visit Comfrey Cottages

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

All About Thyme

Just thought I might share this in case some of you are unfamiliar with Susan Wittig Albert’s newsletter All About Thyme. It is free and gets delivered weekly right to your inbox:) Susan is the author of many of my favorite books including The China Bayles mystery series, The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and a wonderful series of Victorian/Edwardian tales she and her husband wrote under the pen name of Robin Page. Here is a link for the mystery partners page. It is a joy to just explore all the links here! Where else can you enjoy a tea party with either China Bayles and friends, or Beatrix Potter and her friends? LOL  Make sure and sign up for her e-letter if you haven’t already. And the Book of Days is just a must and great fun to read each days entry throughout the year! Have any of you started reading her new series the Darling Dahlia’s yet? You can also register your book reading club with Susan and get the benefits of having her suggest questions and other ideas as your group reads each book. Also, your club will be eligible for free book drawings, book marks, recipes, herbal hints and other goodies sent out for you to distribute to your group. Comfrey Cottage reading club is registered!

September was an Apple-y kind of Month!

One of the things that always says fall is here to me is apples. My brother Eric and I have a friend in our beekeeping group, Rick Camp, who owns an apple orchard farm not too far from us. One Saturday we decided to go our and watch Rick, with the help of his family, make apple cider. Now Camp Grove Orchard apple cider is the best cider I have ever had in my life folks, so I was real excited about this! LOL Rick and Tammy’s orchard is located down a picturesque country road located at Roseville,IL.

Camp Grove Orchard

373 105th St.
Roseville, IL 61473
Warren County
Phone: (309) 774-4244
Open: September - November; Wednesday/Thursday 5-7pm, Friday 1-7pm, Satruday/Sunday 10-5pm
Directions: East of Roseville 6 miles on highway 116 then 3 miles south on 105th St.
Description: Apples, Cider, Honey, Pumpkins & Gourds

They have so many types of apples!

Apples: Yellow Delicious, Red Delicious, Arkansas Black, Jonagold, Jonamac, Jonalicious, Winesap, Empire, Paula Red, Rome, Ida Red, Jonathan, Suncrisp. Coming soon: Honeycrisp, Snow Sweet, Jonared, Fuji, Gala, Sweet Sixteen, Granny Smith, Candycrisp, Lindamac, Smoothie.

The whole family is just as nice as can be and let us wander around the orchard checking it all out. Here are some pictures of the apple cider press in operation,

The apples to be pressed are first put in this big vat of water with a bit of bleach in it. I do the same thing before I process my apples.

Then they are drained and loaded on the conveyor belt

The machine then mashes them all up, separating the bulk from the juice. Rick then takes stacks of the bulk and puts it in a wheelbarrow to be used as compost.

The strained off juice is piped to big stainless steel storage vats to be then bottled

The amount of moisture in the air from all this processing surprised me, although it shouldn’t have, as I get the same effect in my kitchen while processing fruit!

Eric and I then walked around exploring their orchard and their beehives. There were some old apple trees that were just growing the way you normally see an apple tree, but the new ones they have planted, were all espaliered.

It was great fun learning how apple cider is made and best of all… I took home a couple gallons of this tasty cider and a couple pounds of their honey:)

Basket Making Video Using Tulip Poplar

One of my facebook friends, Plantain Patch, shared this wonderful video. Doug Elliott shows us how to use Tulip Poplar,Liriodendron tulipifera, to make our own baskets! Now if you are unfamiliar with Doug Elliott, I highly recommend his books. They are just a joy to read! He is down to earth and full of useful and fun information on a huge variety of natural subjects. The book he wrote, Wildwood Wisdom is one of my all time favorites.

When Plantain shared about these baskets, I was immediately interested. You might remember I shared earlier this year about this trees medicinal uses. We have a huge one overhanging our yard, and this year I have found a couple saplings started from it. Making these baskets don’t look hard at all and when my saplings are bigger I am going to give it a go. Who knows, I might find a sapling to use soon during one of my woods rambles:) Will share about it when I do get to make my own baskets. Enjoy the video!


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'Fantastic Beasts 2' First Look Coming Soon

Wizards are returning to the big screen once again!

With Justice League getting released this weekend, marking Warner Bros. biggest movie of the year, it would make sense for the studio to roll out trailers for some of next year's big releases. That's certainly happening, as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 is teasing its first look this Thursday.

The DC film opens in theaters on Thursday night, and the Fantastic Beasts Twitter account revealed that something special from the Harry Potter spinoff sequel will be accompanying its release.

"Wands at the ready," said the tweet. "On 11.16.18 the Fantastic Beasts story continues. Check back tomorrow for more Magic in Progress."

Thursday marks exactly one year from the release of the film, so it would make sense for the first look to come this week.

David Yates is returning to helm the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel, with a script written by franchise creator J.K. Rowling. Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Johnny Depp and Zoe Kravitz are all returning for the second film, and the film Jude Law will be making his franchise debut as a young Albus Dumbledore.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 will hit theaters on November 16, 2018.


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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Is DC Rebirth doomed from the start?

Well the initial first issues for DC Comics "Rebirth" publishing effort have begun dropping and already cracks appear to be evident. Does this signal inherent problems with such ongoing rebranding efforts in order to periodically prop up sales, or is is just a bump in the road that will soon right itself? We have to wait and see!

No matter which options proves accurate, several things must be pointed out. Namely that titles initially shipped twice monthly is not the best way to treat your loyal customers. It is gouging the admittedly small fanbase, but price gouging nonetheless. This needs to stop! Of course in order to pull off this increased frequency multiple artists for some series is the method DC Comics has chosen to achieve this end. To me this makes it much more difficult to get a feel for the relaunched titles as the cohesion necessary to make a better monthly comic will be harder to discern given disparate art styles. This needs to stop!
DC comics chose to kill off the New 52 version of the Man of Steel who has been carrying the torch over the last five years, and now the pre-Flashpoint Superman exists alongside Clark Kent apparently, having survived the Flashpoint event living in hiding under an assumed named with his wife Lois Lane and their son Johnathan. “Pre-Flashpoint” or “Post-Crisis” Kal-el take your pick, but he doesn’t wear the classic suit and other than a color tweak, his costume mirrors his recently deceased namesake, but with blue boots instead of red. Because that makes so much better sense?

 Adding insult to injury, there is also an entirely different New Super-Man over in another book and he is Chinese. Lex Luthor is also Superman over in Action Comics and Lois Lane (or some alternate version of Lois) is now Superwoman. You can’t make shit like this up; unless (I suppose) you can?
Strangely some promoted series like Super Sons and Justice League have also just disappeared from upcoming solicitations. Further evidence of trouble or simply one of those things, who knows? Whether DC Rebirth will ultimately be perceived as the afterbirth that lived is a discussion for one year hence.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

The Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware will hold a comedy competition on September 19th at 7PM. The first 25 comics/groups that apply by e-mailing will perform.

Secret Pants' web video Bush or Batman is sweeping the globe as we speak, getting linked at a bunch of places and killing it on Digg.

The new National Lampoon Comedy House held the preliminary round of their "Make Us Laugh: Give Us Your Best Joke" open-mike comedy contest this Tuesday the 22nd and the finale is set for October.

Already the new club has already created some fever, be it on the Internet. According to the Philadelphia Magazine blog, "going out to see stand-up just isn’t something that ranks too high on most of our lists." Uh, ok. [Via Shecky Magazine]

The Sixth Borough have been introducing you to the neighborhoods of Philadelphia starting with East Falls and Mount Airy. Info is also up about their Fringe show, "World Crisis".

More Fringe news: on Tuesday, September 9th, Don Montrey will host The Unofficial Late Night Cabaret, a night of comedy and other business at The Khyber. No word on the lineup yet, but we hear it's going to be big time.

The whole Fringe schedule is up here with details on live performances by Illegal Refill, The N Crowd, Rare Bird Show, Meg & Rob, the highly anticipated Walking Fish Theatre 24 Hour Comedy Marathon and more. We'll have our essential and comprehensive guide to comedy at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival up in a few weeks.

Remember: whenever you see someone wearing the Groucho glasses and mustache or anything else funny, let us know at comicvsaudience AT gmail DOT com.

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Local Mayors Frustrated with METRO Planning

To all COLA LO Members,

This week it was reported that a large group of local mayors have formed a group to address their concerns regarding METRO and its planning requirements.   The group is lead by Tualatin Mayor Lou Ogden.

While Mayor Hoffman embraces METRO requirements others are fairly frustrated by their direction and limitations on local cities.

The article:  Frustrated Mayors  includes details and a partial listing of members of the group.     It provides for interesting reading to contrast with LO's current approach toward METRO.   Its widely interpreted that Mayor Hoffman and the current council have embraced all the METRO mandates and actually passed programs that are more restrictive than those required such as Sensitive Lands Ordinance, Tree Code, and others.

Please notify all members, contacts, and friends.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

San Diego Street Scene (Friday) at the Gaslamp, 9/19/08

TV On The Radio

The notes I heard from
The parking lot were full of
Truth, goodness and light.

Cat Power

Smokey vocals on
A back-alley stage made the
Night a bit colder.

Power-packed quartet
Reaffirmed that tubas are
Really un-sexy.

Sorry, Jane, but I
Just don't give two shits about
This band. I tried, though!

The man knows how to
Play to his audience, and
Pulled the rock guns out.

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Grade 8: Renaissance Debates

As described in previous posts, here and here, our grade 8’s have been working through a study of the Italian Renaissance, examining the conditions that existed, and then making comparisons with life in contemporary Calgary.

In order to help bridge the gap between the Italian Renaissance and contemporary Calgary, we made use of a number of local experts on various topics including arts, religion, science, technology, education and communication.
Some of the experts who worked with our kids over the last month included:
Taco van Leperen, Programmer for Smart Technologies
Pedro Sabarita, Former Calgary Art Gallery Owner, Energy Consultant
Stuart Crichton, C.A., Vice President Kinnear Financial Limited
Geoffrey Pradella, Vice President, Public & Government Affairs Calgary Chamber of Commerce
Dave Robinson, VP and Chief Geologist Temple Energy
Allan Dyer, Calgary Science Centre
Tod Hirsch, Senior Economist ATB Financial
Brian Pincott, City of Calgary Alderman for Ward 11
Rob Anders, MP Calgary West
Laurence Abbott, University of Alberta Instructor, PhD Student
Steven Engler, Professor Mount Royal University
Garry Mckinnon, Education Professor, University of Calgary
Terry Rock, Calgary Arts Development
David Scott, MEd, Humanities 8 Instructor Calgary Science School
Gord Ferguson, Sculpture Program Head, Alberta College or Art and Design
Keith D’Eall, Pastor, Varsity Bible Church
Zak Paschak, Alderman Candidate for Ward 8, Calgary
The students collected information from these experts on wikis, which allowed students to share their research and findings on their own specific topics with all the students in the class. This is where wikis can become a powerful tool in the classroom, allowing students to collaborate and share their research from a variety of topics. You can view one of the class wiki pages here.
Using wikis in this way creates a knowledge building environment in the classroom, where students “participate in the creation or modification of knowledge – knowledge that lives ‘in the world’ and is available to be worked on and used by other people.” (Scardamalia) The tool provides a platform for the work to be public – and in this particular project, that public audience was both other students in the class as well as experts across the city.
After completing the interviews with experts and documenting the results, the students participated in a final horseshoe debate as a way to synthesize the many parts of the project, including the findings on both the Renaissance and the conditions in Calgary.
The format of horseshoe debate we used was developed by the Galileo Educational Network. In these debates, students participate with 12-13 students at a time. Students sit in a horseshoe shape; their placement is random, not related to which side of the argument they are on. Each student delivers their 3-4 min opening speech, and all the speeches are delivered before students begin to respond to each other. This is a great opportunity to practice close listening and note taking during the debates.
After the opening speeches are all delivered, the second half is the open debate. Here students have the opportunity to earn extra points, by (1) asking other students thoughtful questions, (2) responding to questions, or (3) providing additional evidence in support of questions and arguments. This third element allow students to support other students who have taken their side of the debate, and to earn points for bringing forth specific supporting evidence. The debate facilitator moves around the horseshoe debate in order, allowing all students to contribute.
Leading up to the debates, teachers assisted the students in building effective arguments, supporting their ideas with specific details, and incorporating sources of knowledge into their speeches. One approach to designing clear and well supported arguments is the “Rule of Three” where students use a framework of (1) stating, (2) explaining and (3) supporting their arguments. Teaching materials on the rule of three are given below.
After completing the first draft of their speeches, students had the opportunity to peer edit as well as practice their speeches at home, before the final debates.
This is the rubric designed by Galileo for the Horseshoe Debates, with information on the Rule of Three and practicing their debate speeches at home:
Here’s some sampling of the audio from the Renaissance Debates:
Finally, here’s one of the opening speeches written by the students:

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Friday, January 24, 2014

When the cost is great, He is greater still.

It's been a long few days.

It's been a different few days than we thought.

It's been raw, emotional, numb  . . .yet even sweet.

Sweet because of so many of you.

Tears have come because of what we are walking and the ache it brings.

Yet tears have just as often come because of the countless messages, texts, emails and calls from the body of Christ.  You have stood with us so beautifully.  Cried with us.  Prayed for us.

We have been loved as extravagantly as we grieved.

There are no words.

In some of my weakest moments when all I could do was sit on our stairs and cry . . .I have felt held.

I have seen God provide for our girls beyond what we could have hoped.  And oh they have been a blessing amidst it all.  To still hear their giggles and have their hugs.  To see them moving forward  amidst the questions and prayers for "baby brother" reminds us to do the same.

I have felt the prayers as Ryan and I have stood in this together, hurting, but so thankful to have each other amidst it all.  I told him I am beyond thankful to be married to be a man who is willing to say "yes" to God even when it opens us up to be vulnerable and is willing to love deeply enough it leaves us open to grief.  We have felt His grace in the moments He reminds us this hasn't broken us and He whispers we will be ok.

The last 24 hours especially have been a whirlwind.  Some things happened in birth mom's life that left a window of hope that a last minute phone call might still come and allow us to go and bring home our son before events would transpire that could not be reversed.

While we don't know 100% that it all has moved forward in a way that would permanently close this door to us, based on our last connection with her, that is our assumption and the way we are moving forward in our hearts.

Would we love a phone call tomorrow proving us wrong?  Yes.

But we aren't expecting it.

We have been thankful, so, so thankful, that birth mom has continued communicating with us through this all despite disconnecting from some others during it all.

It is how we found out baby boy was born.  7 lbs, 5 oz and 20 inches long and came a day earlier than planned when birth mom's water broke.

We even were sent a picture.  It broke us to see but I will forever treasure it.  I have said over and over that to not have that picture would be a million times harder than it was to receive it.

I will be honest and share that this story has progressed in a way we wouldn't have hoped.  It is hard to see the better in this as events have unfolded in birth mom's life and this baby boy's life.

But God continues to challenge me not to doubt that His love for this mama and baby go far deeper than our own.  He has challenged me what it means to hold things loosely.

These have been times in the past day I have wanted to fight for what felt like ours.  And yet God had begun weaving a different story.  And instead of grabbing tight He was telling us to love extravagantly and give our support where it felt most hard to do.

This is not where we would choose to end up.  That has been clear every time I step over a packed suitcase or walk by the crib in our room.

Yet I am firmly clinging to the truth that God did not bring us here to abandon us.

I look over every single day of our adoption journey since that first day we moved forward a little over 3 years ago . . . .and I wouldn't go back for a second even knowing where we stand today.

God has gloriously wrecked us, is still wrecking us, but in a way I pray leaves us more moldable and usable to Him.

We are holding tight to the promise that He sees a bigger picture than we can right now.

We are holding tight to the promise that He is the redeemer of broken things.

Please keep praying.

There are sweet moments amidst it all.  Precious moments.  Times where laughter and nonsense conversations are such a gift and friendship a blessing. Life can feel sweetly almost normal. And there are moments that are raw and tender and often unexpected and the tears flow.  We are trusting God to just continue to carry us through those waves that will inevitably still come and to continue writing our family's story as only He could.

And as He does, this is the cry of my heart.

Thanks for standing with us.

Sarah said...

prayers!! Thanks for sharing your vulnerability with us.

Lot's of Love,

emilykate said... sorry.

J Gutwein said...

This story may always bring tears, but it is also creating a person that I can tell you realize is deep & moldable :). Opening ones heart aka parenting is so painful & beautiful, right?! He & this family will always be a little bit yours.. When you are ready give me a call :)..


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Weather 2040 Poster Contest

weather 2040 poster contest

The Weather Channel, Optimum Community and the American Meteorological Society are challenging students in grades 3 - 8 to submit a poster that captures your vision of what weather will be like in the year 2040.

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Troubles In The Alternative Energy World

Another blow to Al Gore's dreams of alternative energy. Here are some passages from an editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal entitled "The Brewing Tempest Over Wind Power."

The Obama administration has made the increased use of wind power to generate electricity a top priority. In 2009 alone, U.S. wind generation capacity increased by 39%. But more wind power means more giant turbines closer to more people. And if current trends continue, that spells trouble.

In 2007, a phalanx of wind turbines were built around Charlie Porter's property in rural northern Missouri. Soon, Mr. Porter began to have trouble sleeping. So did his wife and daughter. The noise, he told me, made sleeping almost impossible. "We tried everything—earplugs, leaving the TV station on all night." Nothing worked. Late last year he moved his family off their 20-acre farm.

Mr. Porter's story is no isolated event. Rural residents in Texas, Maine, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France and England have been complaining about the noise from wind turbines, particularly about sleep deprivation. Dozens of news stories—most of them published in rural newspapers—have documented the problem.

Doctors and acoustics experts from the U.S. to Australia report a raft of symptoms that they blame on wind turbine noise, including sleep disturbance, headaches and vertigo. Dr. Nina Pierpont, a pediatrician in Malone, N.Y., has studied 36 people affected by wind turbine noise since 2004 at her own expense. The people she interviewed were widely dispersed; they lived in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland and Italy. She found that the collection of symptoms she calls "wind turbine syndrome" disappeared as soon as people moved out of their noise-affected homes and into new locations at least five miles from any turbines.

The wind lobby has publicly rejected these claims. In December, the American Wind Energy Association in conjunction with the Canadian Wind Energy Association, issued a report titled "Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects: An Expert Review Panel." It declared: "There is no evidence that the audible or sub-audible sounds emitted by wind turbines have any direct adverse physiological effects." It also suggested that some of the symptoms being attributed to wind turbine noise were likely psychosomatic and asserted that the vibrations from the turbines are "too weak to be detected by, or to affect, humans."

Yet the report also noted that in "the area of wind turbine health effects, no case-control or cohort studies have been conducted as of this date." True enough—but it means there are no studies to prove or disprove the case. It also says that "a small number of sensitive people" may be "stressed" by wind turbine noise and suffer sleep deprivation. But who gets to define "sensitive" and "small number"? And if turbine noise and sleep disturbance aren't problems, then why are people in so many different locations complaining in almost identical ways? Such questions are only going to be pressed with more urgency in the future.

By 2030, environmental and lobby groups are pushing for the U.S. to produce 20% of its electricity from wind. According to the Department of Energy, meeting that goal will require the U.S. to have about 300,000 megawatts of wind capacity, an eightfold increase over current levels. Installing tens of thousands of new turbines inevitably means they'll be located closer to populated areas.

It doesn't look good for wind power, does it? Guess somebody better phone Boone Pickens to break the bad news to him.

Meanwhile, on the other flank, Democratic Senators in West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan banded together to put EPA head Lisa Jackson on notice that they plan to strip her agency of the ability to regulate carbon.

In a move that shows economics trumping junk science, the Senators from these coal-producing states are pushing back against their own party's administration's attempt to set rules on carbon emissions, regardless of the fate of the cap and tax legislation now stalled in the chamber.

Looks like sanity and common sense may be catching up with the wacky left-wing premature push to abandon fossil-fuel based activity and bet the ranch on alternative sources, among them, wind.

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Monday, January 3, 2011

The Rise and Fall of an Aircraft Carrier CO

Read a pretty good discussion of the issue and watch the video here, on Information Dissemination

Here's what I wrote in the comment section:

I had hoped not to spend too much time on this, but a phone call from my brother raised the question, and now that I've formed an opinion, I'll share it with whomever might be interested.

1. Galrhan does a fantastic job of providing context to the situation. Big E was in the yards a long, long time, and bringing a Dinosaur like that out and getting it up to operational speed is a Herculean task, one that would stress the abilities of any leadership team. Captain Honors was confronted with the task of motivating a crew that had long since ceased to see itself as a sea-going concern, and he clearly resorted to some of the more theatrical elements of leadership in the hope of creating that motivation. Leadership without some sense of theater is sterile and does not elevate the performance of subordinates.

2. Some of this stuff is genuinely funny, and as a red-blooded American guy (and former SWO), I say "bravo". There was creativity and bawdy humor laced throughout what I watched and sitting here at my computer desk, I was roundly entertained.

3. I got the jokes--and that's the problem. What we see here is inside Navy baseball at the major league level--and if you're not "read in", all you see is hostility to homosexuals (not homophobia, as I saw no fear), frat boy treatment of women, and sexual innuendo. Stuff that our increasingly "disconnected from all things military" American public finds discontinuous with their image of the military, and all of which they are quite comfortable with having had exterminated from THEIR workplaces. Taking this and showing it on Youtube et cetera is quite shocking to folks who simply don't do what the Navy does.

4. But none of this should be surprising. In the absence of complaints from the crew, Captain Honors should have had the sense not to make videos like this. He's been through all the training, he's seen the Navy dragged through the mud post-Tailhook. He knows that the past twenty years have been about professionalizing and diversifying the Navy workforce to the extent that yes--it looks much more like what the Youtube crowd watching at home looks like. Putting aside the offense that everyday Americans are taking at what is portrayed in these videos, the likelihood that crewmembers in ENTERPRISE would be made uncomfortable by the videos seems self-evident. That they registered their complaints with Captain Honors and he did nothing to censor his behavior raises questions about his judgment and fitness for duty at more senior levels, let alone that one he was at.

5. Most distressing to me, where was the Captain? I can assure you, if either of my XO's was routinely making video content for "enjoyment" by the crew, I would have had an interested eye cocked to the monitor simply out of curiosity. Had content like this been produced, I'd have had their asses.

So--should Captain Honors be fired? No. He should be reprimanded, and he should stay in command. ENTERPRISE CO's don't grow on trees and that ship has important business to attend to.

But they need to speed up whatever pipeline his relief is in, because when the deployment is over, Captain Honors should seek other employment.

BigFred said...

He's a year group 83 guy, which would have made him a senior LT during Tailhook, whether he was there or not. To riff from my friend Lex, Carrier CO, Deep Draft survivor, Nuclear Power School Graduate, Squadron XO/CO, TopGun graduate, (end riff) and the best he can come up with is Dick Jokes? Everybody on the ship has access to site TV. No one on the embarked staff, or more pointedly the CO chose to speak out and say, "Smart Huskies do not do that." Admiral, Chief Staff, CAG, CO? Buehler?

I want to say it was SECNAV O'Keefe who held a press conference and told Congress and the public that "We get it. Our behavior was inappropriate." Apparently the XO did NOT get it, and more shockingly maybe never did, and neither did anyone senior to him on the ship.

Fire him? No. Relieve him as soon as you can get someone through the pipeline? Yes. I am anxious to see what CFFC does with this one.

Dan said...

No wonder you guys always kick our asses on the "Go Navy, Beat Army" videos that get shown during the Army-Navy Game.

"The Hammer" said...

Speaking as an outsider, a disinterested observer, a veteran of the military in a different time and place...are you friggin' kidding me? This guy is a Captain, a bird Colonel, and he's making a comedy video?
I know times change but familiarity STILL breeds contempt. A commanding officer is a commanding officer, not a Vegas lounge act. Even Elmo Zumwalt would kick this guy's ass.
I know you guys think this is just good clean fun and maybe I just don't get it, but it breaks a lot of rules. I'm not sure it's conducive to proper military discipline.
God knows I'm the last person who should be lecturing anybody on decorum and propriety but damn, for a guy with that kind of rank, this is beyond the pale.

The Conservative Wahoo said...

No one is disagreeing with you, Hammer.

Anonymous said...

Two years from now there will be sailors marching in San Fran's gay pride parade placed somewhere between the Dykes on Bykes and transvestites dressed as nuns. The mainstream media will hail them as heroes.

Tempest in a teapot.

Bill said...

A circle jerk of the dunning kruger effect.

NavyAustin said...

Big Fred - Interesting you brought up the famous "We get it" line. That was a direct - delayed, but direct - response to Rep. Pat Schroeder's comment that "The Navy doesn't get it."

Which it didn't, at Tailhook. Or in the NIS (pre-NCIS) investigation of Tailhook, which put blinders on themselves to limit their investigation so much that they found nothing - leading DoDIG to come in and find everything.

In a way, this is the same problem. IF there was any investigation or action taken 4 years ago (and there will surely be a look back), doing nothing then is coming back to bite them now. For these videos, a castigation, reprimand, some sort of paper trail and apology 4 years ago would have showed that "The Navy" did something. He could have gone on and this would have been behind them.

Instead, he thumbed his nose at "the gutless" and chastised those who might take offense. When you openly mock people who might complain, it does have a chilling effect - except for those people who decide to call the DoD IG Hotline or the news.

Had there been one crow-eating video, where he had said, "You know, shipmates, it was pointed out to me from above and below that I was out of line. I didn't set the example I should have. I was trying to have some fun, but that shouldn't come at someone else's expense. I'll leave the humor to the professionals, and I offer my sincere apologies to those I've offended."

Now, the Navy has no real choice but to can him.

BigFred said...

NavyAustin, I should have amended the post to say that, thanks for making me look smarter than I am (even though you and Patsy Schroeder are from the same state...). What scares me is this guy, having gone through the "Hey, where did you get those ribbons mounted..." training, clearly did not get it, or somehow forgot. To quote Chevy Chase in "Fletch", maybe you boys need a little refresher course. So the IKE CO as an outlier?, no problem. What disturbs me is the groundswell of support that he has gotten on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. In the blogosphere, some guys who have about the same street creds as the recently departed are openly supporting him, and I have to say that like the Washington Post, "If you don;t get it? You don't get it."

So he does not get it, and a lot of guys who look like him apparently don't get it. I am NOT equating this to TAILHOOK by any means, as a guy who may or may not have made LT(jg)/O2 on time anyway if you bet the over under, but my promotion WAS delayed by Big Navy until I signed a statement saying I was not at TAILHOOK 1991. I refused out of principal, as we were in the Red Sea when it happened, to which XO Branum broke me and my spirit by making the alternative to not signing so painful as to make it no choice. I did make a video tape on that deployment, a la "COPS", which got me some black marks, but if you played that on CNN today? It would be boring.

Gays are a safe minority to abuse. They come in both genders, and the full spectrum of color, creed, religion, and ethnicity. So replace gayboy with "chink" or "mullion", or any other just up to the line but not over it derogatory term, and how would this play? Not well. OK, so I have quoted a Navy training film; a movie; and a radio ad, CW should give me a t-shirt.

As the esteemed Dr.Preble asked us for advice today on his article (he of the great St. Thomas USVI gin purchase which allowed Navy Austin to say "Mix me a drink that will make me cough! quote" many years ago), which may be on CNN later, on a ship you cannot turn the channel. The ship is the channel. On a carrier, the XO is the guy who gets it done. He may be MORE in touch with the day-to-day operations than the CO. To use that bully pulpit to spew this mung, as the #2, as the face of the ship, in a position of authority, in the penultimate position of authority in a city of 5 thousand people, is flat wrong.

"The Hammer" said...

I just heard on the radio they relieved the poor bastard. That's a damned shame. The guy was obviously a quality individual but got himself in trouble acting the fool (I can relate). I'm sure the Navy is like the Army, they take care of their own, but all bets are off if you embarrass the service. Bad business all around.

Anonymous said...

Meh...I guess that I am one of those who simply do not get it. Was the XO's performance worthy of an Oscar, no, but I certainly do not see the derailing of a 30 year military career.

I don't understand a lot about the Navy. Heck, I do not understand movie night, Sailors serving food to officers and a list of items to long to list here, but I appreciate the Navy for what it does. I do not understand the XO's movie clips, but it probably works when most Sailors only see the XO when he is bringing down the hammer or inspecting their spaces. I thought that the jokes were pretty obvious here.

I get all of the second guessing now about how "that was dumb", but guess what? So is having separate chow halls for different ranks, blueberry camouflage uniforms and unarmed quarterdeck watches, but everybody excepts those as 'the way we do business.'

The Navy is large and I suppose that there is another carrier CO ready to jump in this guys place, so while we are at it lets start looking back through all CO's histories and see if any of them participated in any crossing the line ceremonies. I suppose that stuff was dumb as well.

Has the day when a ships CO literally made national policy in foreign waters or on a foreign shore gone forever? Can the Navy (Blue Water) Navy even function as a warfighting machine anymore. Combat is tough. People curse, spit and yell. "Die m'f'er die" is not some sort of anti PC insult, but the ditty yelled while firing a .50 cal to ensure that one fires the appropriate burst of 'lethal' ordnance.

The Navy is running short of warfighters and I am not sure that seeking out you tube videos to fire ships commanders is the best way to select commanding officers. Or maybe we really think that this guy is the only guy who stared in an 'XO Video.'

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Antique Craft Techniques Makes Roads Safer

The City of Clayton, MO has turned back the clock to make its streets safer for pedestrians. At crosswalks throughout the city's central business district the city is installing a three-quarter inch overlay of BrickPrint from Traffic Calming USA to slow traffic and draw attention to where pedestrians cross.

The high-tech material in BrickPrint is installed using age-old work practices reminiscent of blacksmithing. Glyn Owen, vice president of operations for Traffic Calming, described the BrickPrint material as essentially molten brick. The material includes recycled glass, sand, and 25-30 percent granite stone flecks. Special equipment heats it to 400 degrees Fahrenheit to melt it.

The key to working with BrickPrint is the same as the key to working with iron: keeping it hot enough mold into shape. The installation crew from Traffic Calming use hot spreaders - thick metal rods with flat surfaces welded onto their ends - which they warm in a heat box under the blast of a propane torch, much like a blacksmith might heat his metal before working it. One worker fills a battered bucket with the molten BrickPrint material and pours a line of it across the crosswalk. Another worker grabs a hot spreader and uses it to smooth out the material. He has scant minutes to work before the material cools too much to work with it. As soon as the spreader cools, he trades it in for another hot one. As he finishes each line of material, the guy with the bucket pours another one. A third worker throws sand across the top of the material so a fourth worker can hand stamp a brick pattern into it with metal mold.

Owen said it takes about three hours to install a complete crosswalk. The material dries in one hour and comes with a three-year guarantee.

Bob Phillips, regional sales manager for Traffic Calming USA, said the material will not delaminate as did some thinner overlays applied in St. Louis in the 1980s. Since it goes on at 400 degrees, "it melts the layer of asphalt below it and bonds to it," he said. The color is mixed throughout the material so it will not wear off.

Phillips added that the company has different formulations for different climates to better resist both cracking and softening.


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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Mexican Baked Tilapia

What better way to kick start the new year with a fresh, healthy dinner full of bright and colorful ingredients and something that gives a huge burst of flavor?!

Luckily, this dinner is just that.

I love tilapia but it can be soo boring sometimes.  It is oh so healthy for you but without some tasty ingredients to help add some flavor, it can be oh so... blah.

I made sure to include a variety of flavors within this dish, hence the tilapia needed some help.  With the addition of spicy chipotle peppers, sweet corn, zesty lime, and fresh cilantro, this tilapia is brought onto another level.  (I mean, it better be -- it's 2013, people!)

The tilapia is brushed with a spicy marinade, and then placed on top of a gorgeous bed of fresh vegetables.  Wrap it up like a present in tin foil and allow it to bake for a short (or what can be verrry long, if you're impatient like me ;) ) 20 minutes! And wa lah! You have an amazingly tender and flaky piece of fish that has soaked up all of the delicious juices of the marinade and vegetables and leaves a sweet, salty, spicy, mouthwatering scent in your nose, which will trigger your body into something I like to call "devour-mode"...

Just remember to breathe in between bites! ;)

2 tilapia fillets, patted dry
Kosher salt
1 TBS butter, softened
1/4 tsp lime zest
1 lime, juice
2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, seeded and chopped
1 clove garlic, minced

1 cup corn kernels
1/2 16-oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 small red onion, minced
2 green onions, chopped
1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, seeded and chopped
1/2 packed cup cilantro, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 lime, juice
1/4 tsp Kosher salt
1/4 tsp Pepper

Aluminum foil

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.  Pat each tilapia fillet dry with a paper towel.

Salt and pepper both sides of each tilapia fillet.

In a small bowl add butter, lime zest, lime juice, peppers in adobo sauce and garlic.  Mix together with a fork.

Over a sink, carefully drain the lime juice out of the bowl.  Rub the marinade on each tilapia fillet (only one side of each fillet, not both.)

In a bowl, combine corn, beans, onion, green onion, chipotle pepper, cilantro, garlic, lime juice, salt, and pepper.  Mix together!

Lay out two long pieces of tin foil on your counter.  About a foot to 14-in long each.

Divide the corn and bean mixture evenly onto middle of each piece of aluminum foil.  Top the mixture with the fish-- marinade side up.

Carefully wrap the tinfoil and corn and bean.  I do this by folding in the shorter sides (left and right) first, then rolling the top and bottom in towards the fish to create a little package.  Place on cookie sheet.

Bake for 15-20 minutes until fish flakes when poked at with fork!!  Chop some fresh cilantro and top fish.  Enjoy!!

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