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Book of Haikus
Jack Kerouac
Penguin Books, New York (USA), 2003.
200 pages

As it tends to be the case with Jack Kerouac, the book is wildly irregular. In this case, however, it is partly to blame on the editor, Regina Weinreich, who pretty much gathered all of Kerouac's haikus on this volume in spite of the warnings by some peers (she admits that much in the introduction) that the quality of the poems from his manuscripts was quite disparate. Thus, we go from the almost sublime (and definitely closest to the ultimate intention of this form of poetry) of the following poem:

Useless, useless!
  —heavy rain driving
Into the sea

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 8)

...to the plain whimsical, bordering on the ridiculous:
The earth winked
   at me —right
In the john

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 10)

And, of course, Kerouac being Kerouac, and this being a book on haikus, there had to be a half-ass poem supposedly inspired by Buddhism (although, as it tends to happen with plenty of other "buddhist" things written by members of the Beat Generation, one always gets the feeling that it is never nothing more than a very superficial approach to the spiritual teachings of that tradition):
Peeking at the moon
 in January, Bodhisattva
Takes a secret piss

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 20)

In spite of it all, the book is quite good. It does offer a nice selection of poems that, overall, fit into the general description of what a haiku is, although in an obviously Westernized form. And this is perhaps one of Kerouac's best achievements (i.e., contributing, with other members of his generation, to the transmission of this form of poetry to a completely different cultural background, transplanting it and modernizing it).

Towards the end, there is even an homage of sorts to Basho:

"The old pond, yes!
 —the water jumped into
By a frog"

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 158)

The volume begins with a good introduction by the editor, who tells us about the importance of the haiku in Kerouac's work, where does it fit, and also teaches us the basics about this genre. Among other things, we learn the differences between haiku and senryu:

Haiku's sister genre, senryu, is defined as following the same form as haiku, but where the latter deals with Nature, senryu is specifically about human nature and human relationships and is often humorous. Technically, haiku contains a seasonal reference; senryu does not. Unlike the more demanding haiku, senryu can employ what Kerouac saw as "poetic trickery": simile, metaphor, and personification. That Kerouac often wrote his haiku indenting at the second line, as Blyth did for senryu, indicates his understanding of the distinction.

(Regina Weinreich, introduction to Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. XXIX)

In any case, many of the poems included in this volume are not haikus in the traditional sense of the term. Kerouac himself referred to them as pops, indicating his intention to write something different and new, although definitely inspired by the traditional haiku form. It seems clear that Kerouac was experimenting when writing most of these. The flash-like nature of the haiku, the sudden "englightenment" (in the sense of a sudden communion with the impermanence of things), the short, edgy and revealing thoughts are all there, but the form is quite modern, irreverent even. As long as one does not have an almost dogmatic admiration for the tradition, Kerouac's haikus are fine. Some of them are truly inspiring, while others are obviously fickle and capricious. Like I said, the overall quality is quite inconsistent.

On the sidewalk
  A dead baby bird
For the ants

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 119)

Autumn nite
   —Lucien leans to Jack
on the couch.

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 130)

Puddles at dusk
  —one drop

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 135)

Lilacs at dusk
  —one petal

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 136)

September raindrops
   from my roof—
Soon icicles

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 139)

Ah, the crickets
  are screaming
at the moon

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 140)

Bach through an open
 dawn window—
the birds are silent

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 146)

Men and women
 Yakking beneath
the eternal Void

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 154)

Two clouds kissing
   backed up to look
At each other

(Jack Kerouac: Book of Haikus, p. 165)

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Today the greatest differences in the way of life in Iran come with the generational gaps. Many older people tend to be fairly conservative as life is focused on the home and family. Going out with friends is uncommon and religion is the center of the world for many of these people. On the other hand much of the younger generation enjoys going out with friends and have a much more active social life.

No matter the differences, life in Iran is centered on religion. The weekend is Thursday afternoon and Friday, which aligns with Islam's holy day on Fridays. The five daily prayers also tend to dictate the daily routine for nearly everyone. Even the people that aren't overly religious must at least nominally observe these prayers when in the workplace to avoid ostracism.

The workplace does generally have a somewhat regular routine though as most Iranians generally begin work at the same time each morning, usually between 7:30 and 9:00 am. However, the seasons, heat, and day of the week can mean some people work until about noon while others take a long lunch then work until 6:00 pm.

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Iran is a very well educated country, particularly in the larger cities, and there is a thriving student life in many large cities. While there are restrictions on drinking alcohol and dating (as well as touching anyone of the opposite sex), socialization is common amongst friends and there is an active night scene filled with students and young people talking over coffee, perhaps a glimpse of the future.

Identity in Iran is somewhat in flux at the moment and has been over the past couple centuries. Throughout history Iran (and formerly Persia) has been a very diverse country so there was a clear distinction between a national identity and an ethnic one. This political identity included all people no matter their ethnicity, language, or culture; however the new government is slowly changing this definition as being a Muslim is now seemingly a necessity to being a citizen of Iran and as a religious state, to be "Iranian" now means being both a citizen of Iran as well as a Muslim.

Nearly everyone also identifies in a secondary way, which is based on ethnicity. The largest of these ethnic groups are the Persians, but there are dozens of minority groups, which together form about a third to half of the population. While these people generally identify by their ethnicity, most of these ethnicities are also tied to a language, history, and culture.

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Smart Drilling Services Limited (SDS), a company based in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, Nigeria is mired in a deep corporate scandal, with most of its directors taking desperate steps to push out one Ukpai I. Ukpai, the company’s chief executive and one of its two co-founders. An investigation by SaharaReporters revealed that the corporate conspiracy against Mr. Ukpai began after he accused the company’s chairman, one Bart Nwibe, as well as other directors of engaging in illicit actions that raised questions of conflict of interest.

Mr. Ukpai, who returned to Nigeria after some years of working and living abroad, teamed up with Bart Nwibe, who is currently the Managing Director of Segofs Energy Services Limited, to found SDS in 2012. Segofs is an oil-service company specializing in directional drilling and the installation of pressurized habitat offshore while SDS focuses on such areas as directional survey and measurement while drilling.

The company’s initial three-man board, which included one Ben-Chika Uzoagu (who is currently an executive director at Segofs), appointed Mr. Ukpai as the MD, while his co-founder, Mr. Nwibe, assumed the position of Chairman. SDS was for eleven months officially run out of Mr. Ukpai’s residence, before the company relocated to another business address within the industrial area in Port Harcourt in 2013.

Our investigation revealed that the corporate strife began at the firm shortly after its revenue profile slowly began to rise, spurred by third-party contracts with some oil firms including Nigerian Petroleum Development Corporation (a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), Conoil, and Orient Petroleum. SaharaReporters’ sources revealed that, in 2013, Mr. Ukpai crossed the chairman of the SDS board, Mr. Nwibe, after he wrote an email to the SDS board alleging that three board members’ dealings with a third-party contractor constituted a conflict of interest. Incensed by his position, the three directors began to plot the MD’s marginalization and removal from the board.

Further, the source revealed to SaharaReporters that, in 2014, the MD again stood against an even more scandalous scheme by the firm’s chairman and three other directors. Mr. Nwibe, who once ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Representatives, and his cohorts sought to use a company they owned, OILER Limited, to buy and supply gyro and its running gears to SDS. Mr. Ukpai was convinced that the directors’ action was illegal, since it amounted to taking undue advantage of their positions. At the time, SDS was expecting a third-party wells survey contract with the NPDC, with expected invoice of over one million dollars. Despite Mr. Ukpai’s contention that the directors’ scheme violated corporate governance practices and Nigeria’s corporation laws, the majority of directors backed the chairman, forcing the MD to settle for negotiating a reasonable rate for the OILER loan with dubious interest rates and terms forced on SDS by the Nwibe-led board. OILER Ltd, which is owned by Mr. Nwibe and three other directors, eventually supplied the gyro to SDS.

Mr. Ukpai’s resistance to their acts of corporate impunity infuriated Mr. Nwibe and the other directors. SaharaReporters obtained documents that demonstrated an escalation of hostile moves and high-handed measures by the Nwibe-led board to frustrate Mr. Ukpai, to usurp his executive functions, to strip him both of his salaries and sweat equity, and to orchestrate his ouster from a company he co-founded.

Even though he runs Segofs Limited, Mr. Nwibe and other board members loyal to him, several of them staff of Segofs he had handpicked, approved the transfer of executive functions to him and to themselves, a clear violation of Nigeria’s corporate law. SaharaReporters discovered that the affairs of SDS are now run and directed from the offices of Segofs Limited, with Mr. Nwibe calling the shots along with two non-executive directors, Ben-Chika Uzoagu and Uche Ejiogu.

Our source, who is conversant with events at SDS, further disclosed that other board directors, namely Uzo Ibemesi and Timothy Okeke, have sided with Mr. Nwibe. However, the source identified Mr. Nwibe and two non-executive directors, Ben-Chika Uzoagu and Uche Ejiogu, as the ringleaders of the reprisals against Mr. Ukpai.

Over the embattled MD’s objections, the highhanded board conspired to distribute Mr. Ukpai’s executive functions, telling him that he should merely oversee technical tasks. Our source informed us that Messrs. Nwibe and Uzoagu had at some point also conspired with the manager of Diamond Bank (Aba Road, Port Harcourt branch) to change the names of signatories on the company’s bank account without the knowledge of the MD. Unfortunately on that occasion, the company’s check bounced as a result of signature irregularities.

Our investigations also revealed that Mr. Nwibe unilaterally authorized the purchase of two refurbished cabins from the US at a cost of $180,000 for SDS. Experts conversant with the industry informed SaharaReporters that the purchase represented a typical squandering of funds, insisting that cabins of much better condition could have been purchased in Port Harcourt at no more than $20,000 apiece. Mr. Nwibe has recently also approved the shipment of the company’s tools abroad on suspicious motives.

From our investigations, while Mr. Ukpai is the third largest shareholder in SDS and co-founder, he has been effectively sidelined at the company and the board where he is outnumbered 1-5 by the Nwibe-led group. In fact, as a lawyer who reviewed documents for SaharaReporters remarked, Mr. Nwibe and his cohorts’ design appears to be to use Segofs to swallow SDS.

With the majority of the board hostile to him, Mr. Ukpai has faced a series of reprisals. In early 2014, the board fraudulently approved the appointment of Uche Ejiogu as a “supervising director.” The so-called “supervising director” has retained his job at Segofs, a fact that amounts to a grave breach of corporate practices. Our source disclosed that Mr. Ejiogu has been positioned simply as a tool to hijack much of the SDS MD’s functions.

Our investigation revealed that, from June 2014, SDS Limited’s board meetings have appeared targeted at Mr. Ukpai. Mr. Nwibe and his group have also taken to calling numerous “emergency” board meetings where the sole purpose was to effectuate new plots against the company’s MD.

The board meetings have pushed through an illegal organogram that rendered the MD’s office a sinecure, and threatened him to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to gag him from revealing the board’s illegal and fraudulent activities. At one board meeting, the MD was told that the company no longer had money to pay his salaries. Some documents obtained by SaharaReporters pointed to a plot to resolve at an imminent emergency board meeting that Mr. Ukpai’s sweat equity, which was deemed paid for, had been withdrawn. Another agenda of the forthcoming emergency board meeting is to finalize the scheme to push Mr. Ukpai out of the board. Documents at the disposal of SaharaReporters point to self-dealing by Mr. Nwibe, Ben-Chika Uzoagu, and Uche Ejiogu as far as SDS operations go.

Mr. Nwibe unilaterally appointed a relative of his to serve as the SDS’s auditor, and the auditor wrote a report claiming the company had earned virtually no after-tax revenue. On the basis of the controversial report by the Nwibe-chosen auditor, the company claimed it was in no position to pay performance-based compensation to the MD as per his contract terms. Our investigations revealed that Mr. Ukpai’s official driver had been fired. In addition, his salary has been withheld since September 2014, with the company freezing his allowances since July 2014.

An insider source revealed that, sometime in late 2014, the police visited SDS and Segofs to interrogate Mr. Nwibe, Ben-Chika Uzoagu, Uche Ejiogu, and one Justus Elijah, described as an errand runner for the Nwibe group. Our source said petitions to the Inspector General of Police regarding the shady affairs of the board members had triggered the police visit. However, the official outcome of the police investigation has yet to be unveiled.

After reviewing documents related to the affairs at SDS, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria told SaharaReporters that he hoped that officials of Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as well as law enforcement agencies should investigate what he called “a corporate culture of impunity and a cesspool of illegalities being perpetrated by men who apparently think they can make their own rules as they please.”

Also an expert in the oil industry told SaharaReporters that the scandalous affairs at SDS require the attention of the Nigerian Content Development Board as such impunity could discourage other entrepreneurs and professionals especially those from the diaspora interested in investing in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Student Life: New student space to meet changing needs

Wanted: a name for a new space.

Last week SAIS Europe inaugurated its new "anti-library" -- a spanking new space where students can study in groups, brainstorm while sipping coffee and scribble equations on the walls.

The brainchild of last year's class, the room meets the changing demands of today's graduate students, who often work in groups, with a tablet in one hand and a bite to eat in the other.

Modular furniture and fast computers
It also underscores the sense of community at SAIS.

Students can still find hushed silence in SAIS Europe's library. The new space, shaped during weeks of pounding and painting this summer, replaces the former dimly lit student lounge with a brighter area featuring a 55-inch flat TV in one section and tables and chairs on wheels in the other.

SAIS students no longer have to jostle for space in Giulio's bar when studying in groups. They can merely take a new set of stairs up to the study space -- which so far has no name.

Suggestions for a name are welcome.

Announcing the treasure hunt winners
Last Friday's inauguration featured a treasure hunt organized by the pre-term Italian language teachers. Students who took Italian classes in pre-term were divided into groups, each named after an Italian cheese: the Mozzarelle, Provole, Caciotte, Pecorini, Gorgonzola and Taleggi.

The teams had to explore Bologna and engage with locals in Italian to find the hidden hints. The competition ended in the new space with each group singing a song they composed on the fly -- in Italian, certamente. The winners walked away with traditional Italian food products.

The room was created in response to a request by students for a space of their own where they can meet, discuss and brainstorm.

Write to your heart's content -- on the walls. It's erasable.
Students from the class of 2013 contributed ideas and helped design the space to meet students' needs.

The administration listened and then acted. Alumni from the class of 1981 made the project financially possible. Very special thanks to them for their effort, dedication and commitment to the Bologna Center.

The new study space takes the place of the old computer lab, which no longer suited today's needs. Now students who leave their laptops at home for the day can use eight desktops with high-definition streaming. Those with laptops, tablets or smartphones can tap into SAIS Europe's wireless network.

The summer renovation also produced a new classroom that is adjacent to the new study space, as well as a fresh language lab.

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Anonymous said...

This new room could be named "IL Room", which stands for International Lounge Room. You can also read it emphasizing the Italian article "il" before the English word "room", just a way to underline that SAIS Europe is based in Bologna - Italy.

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The discussion surrounding Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid continues to rouse important conversation about war, its impacts and how we might go about doing development differently.

This insightful recent interview with The Agenda’s Steve Paiken is a must watch.

For those  of you who are auditory learners, be sure to listen to this interesting interview with Anna Maria Tremonti on The Current.


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Here is another of my builds. This one started life a a late model Cinelli Supercorsa road frame. The bike was sent off to the builder with instructions to install S&S couplings and Stainless track ends and repaint the frame to the color you see. Chris King h/s and Phil Wood bottom bracket, Nitto Pearl Road Stem and Nitto Track drop bars and Campy Brake lever and Chorus front Brake and Chorus TI seat post, Shimano 105 cranks and Campy Pedals, Phil Wood h/f hubs laced to Open pro's and Brooks BRG Professional Saddle round out the ensemble. This bike was made to be used as a traveling bike and it breaks down into various component pieces and fits into a divided padded bag that I made out of some Heavy Levi Jeans material that I sewed up into the desired shape, and which protects the bike during shipment. The Couplings do not add hardly any weight and there is absolutely no change in the feel of the bike from the original configuration as to flex. It was an interesting solution to the problem of traveling with your fixed gear bike without going to the hard case and all the attendant issues of what do you do with the case after you arrive.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A Prayer For Owen Meany

Recently I bought a book based on another author's "The Book that Changed Me" comment in the Sunday paper. I am a sucker for first lines and paragraphs and this line from A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John John Irving reeled me in:

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

The first line was not misleading. I loved the story. But I hated the physical book. My husband bought it for me last month (back in the days when we had a local bookstore - 3rd largest city in NSW and now not a bookstore in sight!) - the problem is it is a small paperback format. The print was so tiny my glasses strained to breaking point and the binding was so tight it was uncomfortable to hold open to read.

I am one of those people who will buy both paper books and e-books. I will always buy paper books for the look and feel, and to have my favourites on the shelf where I can see and touch them. But I will never buy a book like this again.

But it's not all doom and gloom. It's a wonderful story and story will always survive in some form or another.

Jeffery E Doherty said...

I know, I was visiting last weekend and stood in front of the empty bookshop feeling really sad.

We still have a local bookstore in Bathurst. I hope is stays that way.

I'm not an e-book fan (that might change if I buy an iPad) give me paper or audio. I listened to a sample of White Crane - I don't know if I can get past the american accent of the reader though.

AJ Barnett said...

Bookstores are rather special. The very smell of them is exciting. I too am not a fan of reading off a screen. The magic is somehow missing - but I guess I'll go with the flow eventually.

A good review, Thank you.

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San Francisco Bayview Opera House Completes Renovations

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco’s Bayview Opera House marked the completion of renovations to the historic building this weekend with a celebration of the efforts of Habitat for Humanity.

The organization started fixing up the inside and outside of the 124-year-old building in mid-November, part of its new Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.

“When they first came in here, I said Habitat, don’t you build single family homes,” said Bayview Opera House Executive Director Barbara Ockel.

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But Ockel was told that Habitat was expanding to rehabilitate community facilities in its mission to improve the overall quality of life in neighborhoods.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for us to do what Habitat does very well which is build and to partner with fantastic community-based organizations,” said Habitat for Humanity’s David Burnett. “Then the organizations can devote their resources to their programming.”

The improvements included painting inside and out, painting of the entire exterior fence and the construction of redwood planter boxes that are used in gardening classes for children.

“We had gotten a quote for the paint job before,” said Ockel. “It was $30,000 and that’s not counting the fence painting and the planter boxes.”

The Bayview Opera House was the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative’s first project. It expects to give makeovers to 250 more community buildings and homes by 2020.

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Not all data is created equal. In this article Werner Hopf, CEO of Dolphin, explains the different value certain data types have in your organization and how prioritizing them can improve your overall BI strategy.

The promise of never-before-seen insights and previously unattainable analytics is a driving factor behind the rapidly evolving proliferation of big data. Senior decision makers from across the business unit — from finance and marketing, to product development and sales, and all the way up to the C-suite — are enthusiastic, excited, and empowered by the business opportunities offered by big data.

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October 8, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Tampa Museum of Art

Tampa Museum of Art

For more than a decade, New York-based video artist Janet Biggs has explored the tense relationships between athleticism and human ambition, individualism and community, and free will and control. Her work has focused on sports and natural environments and has ranged from the claustrophobic pool with synchronized swimmers to the vast expanse of the High Arctic. Biggs’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Oceania. This exhibition is organized by the Tampa Museum of Art and is the first full survey of the artist’s career.

Janet Biggs, Fade to White (video still), 2010.
Courtesy Conner Contemporary.
Copyright Janet Biggs.

The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company

September 17, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Ringling Museum of Art

Ringling Museum

Celebrating our fascinating circus heritage, The Amazing American Circus Poster showcases 80 brilliantly colored, boldly bombastic posters advertising the feature attractions from all corners of the globe and peerless performers of the big top. The Cincinnati-based Strobridge Lithographing Company was one of the country’s leading printers for the circuses. Their posters were unrivaled in their artistry and provide us with a detailed portrait of the American circus in its Golden Age, when it was unrivaled as the premiere entertainment institution in the country.

The Amazing American Circus Poster exhibition was organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: “Because democracy demands wisdom.”


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Tuesday, 27 May 2014

life lately - overdoing it in Nottingham

The week started off pretty rubbish. I was feeling rough with hayfever and Hugo was under the weather as the result of his jabs. We picked ourselves up for a lovely day out at Swithen's Farm and then headed off to Nottingham for a long weekend on Thursday while Adi did a few evening shifts in a row.

I keep saying this and never learn, but I overdid it again.

On Thursday we headed straight from Babybuds down the (very slow) M1 to Maggie's to visit my old colleagues, then on to my Nanna's, followed by my brothers. I finally ended up back at my mum and dads but it meant we'd missed Hugo's normal bedtime. I don't see a problem with that on the odd occasion, but I want to stick to a routine as much as possible. It's amazing how tiring it is simply lifting Hugo in and out the car, especially while trying to dodge some heavy downpours!

Saturday was similarly tiring, I visited my oldest friend Rebecca on Blake Road, headed straight over to my grandparents picking dad up on route and arrived back at Hunky Dory for an evening with Layla and Rich.

Sandwiched in the middle was a trip to Loughborough with mum. She's been making significant improvements so I took her out for the first time in weeks so that she could return something to a shop. I'd always had Loughborough in my mind as a lovely little small town but I was very wrong. Like most small towns, it's struggling. We did manage to pick up a couple of cheeky charity shop bargains though (my new favourite pastime).

Being away is more tiring because Adi isn't around to help with any of the feeds in the night and as much as my parents offer to help, I don't like to put that on them when they are working so hard or ill. I also feel like I need to see everyone every time.

(19th - 25th May)

where I live - Swithen's Farm

I'd been desperate to go along to our local farm since we moved. Adi and I had popped in for some breakfast while exploring the area but we didn't get to see the animals. For some reason I felt like we needed an excuse to return in the form of a small child.

Last Wednesday I met Adi's mum and our nephew Thomas at Swithen's. It is one of the rare family places that is non-commercial as it's still somewhat undiscovered, plus it's only a five minute drive from us. I love it!

We had breakfast in the cafe. Besides feeling a little odd eating meat before going to see the animals on a working farm, it was good to be supporting a local business and eating local produce (the meat was scrummy).

Once fed and Thomas had enjoyed a few rides on the static train ride (the first time he'd braved one) we set off in search of the animals. Bev pushed Hugo around so I was able to explore with Thomas. He loved it and got so excited about the various animals, making all of the noises!

It was free to go around the farm and along with all of the normal farmyard animals (sheep, lambs, pigs, cows, donkeys, goats, ponies, horses, ducks, chickens and geese) there were the additions of llamas, alpacas and meerkats! Farms have certainly got fancy pants since my childhood! It was one thing remembering what noises all the farm animals make but how do you do an alpaca?!

It seems that we arrived when all of the animals were pretty excitable.. Thomas was oblivious to the number of animals on top of each other, while I was amused but also felt awkward invading their privacy.

We didn't feed the animals as we hadn't noticed the food on sale until the end, but we'll be back and I'm sure Thomas will be brave enough. I on the other hand will leave it to him! As much as I love animals I've never enjoyed it when they lick me - hence keeping my distance from dogs and horses, even though I appreciate them from a distance and am quite happy stroking them.

Before we left Thomas had a play in the playground and the playgym, with added entertainment from some hyperactive sheep jumping around on the loose!

I really want to go regularly to buy fresh meat from the farm shop. On the way out I realised there is another entrance right near our local supermarket, so I must head up there first.

Monday, 26 May 2014

Hugo's first jabs

Last Tuesday I walked down to the doctors to give Hugo his first jabs. I was a lot calmer building up to it than I thought, but it turned out to be the worst day I've had so far. He was in his happy morning mood smiling away and I was looking directly into his eyes smiling back at him when the nurse put the first needle in his thigh. I felt absolutely awful, like I'd tricked him. His face went from smiling, to shock and then a crumpled cry.

His cry was a proper pained cry, unlike anything I've heard before. I settled him down and then he started again, as if to say 'no but it really does hurt'. The second jab set him off again, but I was able to soothe him okay with some of his bottle and a cuddle on my chest.

We took a long walk home along the river to explore a new end of the village and connect it together. He slept all the way home and for a while in the pram after, but when he waked the pained cry started again. I settled him on my chest again and he wouldn't settle for the rest of the day unless he was asleep on me.

He was much better that evening when Adi was home but he was still out of sorts. The next day he slept a lot while we wandered around Swithen's Farm, but later on I realised he hadn't pooed and was getting frustrated. All afternoon he was writhing around with moans and cries, but like the day before, just before Adi came home he pooed and was fine for the evening!

The struggle with pooing lasted for another week, as did a snotty nose and generally being out of sorts. After the first poo he didn't go for another two days and I could tell he was unhappy with constipation. I tried giving him water and fruit juice to help relieve him, but nothing worked. When he eventually did poo it was very thick and harder than normal. That seemed to unblock him and the next day he did an explosion! Mum and Dad hadn't noticed as he was happily playing on his mat, but I got there just in time to get the babygrow off him and get him in the bath before anything was ruined - apart from his babygrow which was binned! Thankfully we weren't out and he wasn't in a lovely outfit!

I'm absolutely dreading the next jabs. It feels like he's only just back to his normal self and they are going to come up so fast. I wanted Adi to come with me but it's the one day of the month he can't choose his own shift. His mum is away and mine will be working, so it looks like I'll have another difficult day. I'll make sure to prepare food beforehand this time (making tuna sandwiches with one hand while a baby is attached to me is quite a feat!)

Sunday, 25 May 2014

the routine - a few weeks on

Starting a routine when we did was the best thing we've done so far! Any sooner and it just wouldn't have worked, when he was a teeny tiny newborn he was sleeping more sporadically and it made sense for him to be downstairs with us in the evening until we went to bed.

We started the routine just as he was able to take a little more food and sleep for longer stints. For the first week he was going down between 10pm - 12pm and waking twice during the night. We managed to put him down while he was awake to fall asleep on his own a couple of times but it was hit and miss. The difficult part of the routine was transferring him from me to the crib without him waking, and I knew that I didn't want to keep this up. We thought that the cold crib unsettled him after being in warm arms, so we decided to introduce the grobag (a sleeping bag for babies) - he was just big enough for it.

The grobag is now my best friend! I put him down to sleep every night in his grobag and he'll settle himself to sleep without any cries!

After a week we were able to move forward the time we put him to bed by a couple of hours, so he was going down between 8pm and 9pm. This was because we could see the signs of him getting tired such as rubbing his eyes and felt able to put him to bed upstairs and use the monitor to watch him. As he was now sleeping less in the day and more alert we could make sure he was tired out without having to go for a walk in the evening. We also tried blacking out the room by putting towels over the curtains (we do have a blackout blind to put up, but that's on a long to do list for when Adi's off work!).

He'd wake about 3 times during the night at first and this gradually reduced to twice and now it's often once. On an average night he'll sleep for up to 6 hours, then wake after another 3 hours and then will go down for another couple.

Due to introducing the bottle and starting a routine Adi has done some night feeds so I've had more sleep and enjoyed a couple of baths without having to jump out to see to Hugo! Bottle feeding definitely has it's upsides!

Thursday, 22 May 2014

the little things - reaching two months

Ten little things from the last couple of weeks:

1. Smiles, smiles, smiles! The smiles were less frequent before but now he doesn't stop! The bigger smiles I give the bigger smiles I get! He also responds to my voice and movement - the higher the pitch the bigger the smile. Sometimes I'll turn to face him and he'll just have been staring smiling at me - it's a wonderful feeling!

2. When I say smile, I don't just mean a visual thing as it's usually accompanied by lots of gurgles and coos. Some of them sound like a cats meow. He also pants and squeals in excitement when he's smiling in response to something.

3. Seeing his tongue move lots makes me so glad I sorted the tongue tie! He copies your tongue when talking and tries to chat back to us making different noises.

4. He loves being laid down and will kick his legs about and pant with enjoyment. It's especially good if something is over his head that he can look at - either me, a rattle or things hanging from his playgym.

5. We've learned lots of nursery rhymes and songs at baby groups which Hugo loves me singing back to him. I'm gradually getting to know the words and movements but it doesn't really matter as Hugo just loves any sound and movement I make - the higher the pitch the better.

6. He's a bit wriggly when being held unless he's fast asleep. He prefers beings laid down or sat upright. It's getting harder to hold him up for long periods as he's getting heavier, but he can now sit against something with just a little security from me at the side to make sure he doesn't fall! When he is sleepy or relaxed enough for cuddles he's been more willing to be on my chest than before.

7. His poos are settling down to one or two a day. He's most wriggly and frustrated before a poo and at his happiest after! They no longer make a sound but the smell is much stronger so I'm able to change him straight away. There have been a couple of times when he's been constipated so I've used water to get things moving again.

8. He's way more alert and is awake for most of the day and will sleep more at night. Because he's alert he'll easily be startled by a big noise but won't be too bothered and doesn't notice it a second time.

9. His hair seems to have stopped going lighter and is gradually getting thicker. He had flakey skin on his head a couple of weeks ago but it's all smooth again now.

10. He doesn't like things over his head when getting dressed. He doesn't cry but will wriggle and moan a bit. Although I didn't want to dress him just in blue, there's not been many other options and to be honest, he really suits blue! I end up putting him in the same outfits that I love over and over and some things will hardly be worn!

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

life lately - sunshine and smiles

I noticed a huge change in Hugo this week with lots and lots of smiles. Because of all of the groups we've been going to I had lots of new songs in my head so I was singing constantly! The more singing I did, the more smiles I got, so Hugo was incredibly smiley and responsive to me :)

It had been sunny all week but by the weekend the weather was incredibly hot and it was the first time Hugo experienced proper heat. He was a bit hot and bothered and over tired as we'd packed so much in but coped remarkably well.

Here's the other bits from this week:
My friend Frankie popped over on Tuesday evening with the new man in her life Tom. They are making plans to move to London this summer which is kind of odd, as we're switching places. I'm really envious at all the possibilities that lie ahead of her as she makes the move. London was home to some of the best years of my life and all the advice I could offer is enjoy it. It's probably not forever, so you just have to go with it while you can. It's a shame that one of my friends is leaving Leeds as I arrive back, but on the upside Frankie won the award of the most visits to our home (hotel) while we were in London, so I'm sure I can pay her back!

Adi was off on Friday and the sun was beaming so I took him along to St Aidan's for a picnic. It was his first visit and apart from lots of midges, I think he appreciated it like I did. Because of not working I've had the opportunity to do so much more than him which feels strange. I want to fill him in on all of my experiences and take him to the best bits.

It was lovely having some quality time together, but it was short lived because we were heading off to help Adi's brother and sister in law move house. The weather wasn't ideal (sweat inducing) but better the sun than rain I guess. We emptied the van and cars pretty quickly and were able to use the van to move some garden furniture to ours which was a bonus before Friday night fish and chips.

Sunday was spent with my sister. It was so good to have some time just the two of us (well with Hugo too). Since moving away from London we do less as friends and more as sisters with other family members/ husbands around. While that's great too, it's sometimes good just to be the two of us. We went to Temple Newsam which you can read here, and came home for a BBQ with Adi. I also developed hayfever. I blame the beautiful blossom.

(16th - 18th May)

life lately - productive mornings and 'play'dates

Productive mornings:
The week started rather too early for me with a 8.45am doctors appointment for Hugo's 6-8 week check. I met my new lovely, young, attractive, male doctor who was completely smitten with Hugo! He was being such a show off, smiling and gurgling while the doctor did all of his checks (some of which usually upset babies). It got me thinking, the doctor may be ideal for Hugo, but I failed to ask the odd post-pregnancy recovery question I had about myself (something about his charm must've made me forget). Safe to say I'll be requesting some female nurse appointments if needed!

Despite it being a struggle, it turns out that getting up and out early made me re-discover some hours in the day. I headed straight off to Mothercare and Morrisons and was home before lunch. Being productive on a Monday morning set me off in the right way for the week ahead and I don't think I stopped from that point onwards.

I put the finishing touches to the nursery - painting the shelving unit that my dad had fixed and putting the cotbed together. The cotbed sort of takes over the entire room (as expected) and Hugo looks absolutely tiny in it! It's not going to be long until he'll be sleeping in the nursery though. I'll put up another post with pictures of the finished room soon!

Later in the week I had a couple of days painting and gardening in-between Hugo duties. I was able to prep and paint the skirtings, do a first coat on the walls of the dining room and finish a patch in the garden. Prepping is the worst part of decorating as it's so unrewarding, just like weeding is not my favourite thing to do in the garden, so it wasn't much fun. It was also a struggle to decorate with Hugo around so the next coat may not be for a while!

Adi's mum came over on Tuesday with my nephew Thomas. It was our first proper playdate with the cousins (yes I know Hugo is far too little for proper playdates, but it's cute to think of them playing together). I'd purchased a golf and cricket set the day before from a pound shop which occupied Thomas for a while (£2 well spent) and then we headed to the park. I made the mistake of being a big kid myself and going on the slide which Thomas loved, so I had to keep going on it again and again! I also had to lift him up each time because the bottom step is ridiculously high up which was exhausting! It's been lovely seeing more of Thomas and for him to become more familiar with Adi and I. We'll continue to have frequent playdates and it'll not be long until Thomas and Hugo will be playing together. In the meantime Thomas loves stroking his cousin 'Hoolio' and giving him kisses - too cute.

I headed in to Rothwell on Wednesday and Thursday for meet ups with NCT girls. It's amazing how much difference a few weeks can make for babies! Hugo looks so grown up compared to the younger ones and it made me realise just how much he's changed already. A couple of weeks on at babybuds made such a difference too, Hugo was more alert and taking in his surroundings. There's just one or two more births to go now until all of the NCT group have had their babies!

On Friday we made it down to Methley Mites, the mums and tots group in the village. Our neighbour had offered to take us along when Hugo was born and I finally felt able to commit to a 9.30am meeting! The group was really welcoming and it was great to start meeting people in the village. It's funny that without realising it, Hugo's already meeting babies that could potentially be his school friends and more.

The group is a registered charity so the leader jumped on my experience as a fundraiser. Although it's early days I do feel like I should get involved so watch this space..

(12th - 16th May)


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I recently purchased an olimex easyweb 3 and wanted to get it working.

However, I had no luck whatsoever with any of the software listed on the olimex site. Only 1 builds with mspgcc, and that didn’t work.

I had heard good things about uIP and was happy to find that there was a port for my board by Paul Curtis of Rowley Associates.

There were 2 problems with this.
1. It was for an old version of uIP (0.9).
2. It was for some expensive IDE that Rowley Associates sell.

So I set about modifying Curtis’ port to work with my compiler and uIP version.

To get a cross compilation environment set up, I basically followed this rather helpful guide from linuxjournal.com.

Unfortunately the versions provided by cdk4msp (the prebuilt binary packages of mspgcc, etc) were rather old. This seemed to cause problems with a particular part of the http server code from uIP (something bizarre to do with initializing structures which only occurred when -fpack-struct was enabled (turning it off is also likely to be a bad move)).

These problems aside, cdk4msp seems to provide me with something that can build software for the msp430 and download it successfully.

I decided to remove the majority of the stuff from Curtis’ package and get it down to the very simplest working system. Instead of httpd (which has some problems with my version of mspgcc), I decided to use uIP’s “hello world” application which listens on port 1000 and does little.

Other than deleting lots of files, the first change was to the makefile. Basically just modifying it to build the correct files, to be aware of some changes to the layout of uIP between 0.9 and 1.0 and to use the mspgcc compiler.

A small change was required at the end of cs8900a.c to make it declare the interrupt service routine in the way that mspgcc expects. Also, in the same file, the declaration of InitSeq needed fixing (I have no idea why it was broken).

With this done, I built and downloaded (following the linuxjournal guide) the thing to the board. It responded to ARP requests (which is further than I got with the demo program), but would not respond to pings or tcp connections.
After a lot of debugging and confusion, I eventually found that the problem was caused by the ethernet chip being initialised with 1 mac address and uIP returning a completely different one to ARP requests. I have modified main.c, so this no longer occurs.

With this fixed, the program works, responding to pings and accepting tcp connections to port 1000. :D

The code

A copy of the code can be found here. A binary (named uip) is included for your convenience.
This code should work fine on an easyweb2, also.
This program uses the ip You may modify this in main.c. The MAC address is set in uip-conf.h.
You will need uIP version 1.0 (or possibly later) and the mspgcc compiler.
Unpack uIP and then unpack my code as a subdirectory of the uIP directory.

What next?

My next project will probably involve writing an application to run on uIP that will allow me to read and write the gpio pins over the network (and possibly read the ADC too). This could be useful for all kinds of projects.

I might even write an htcpcp server for it… lol.

For help and support (not guaranteed in any way), either comment here or email me at the address below.

Purchasing the board

The board can be ordered directly from olimex, or from coolcomponents.co.uk (seems to be cheaper, if you’re in the uk).

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Rolling Stones: Under Review - 1967-1969

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The Rolling Stones Under Review 1967 - 1969 is a 90 minute documentary film reviewing the music and career of the band during, arguably, their most creative period. In the second half of the 1960s the sound of the Stones changed dramatically, ... Full Descriptionwhile concurrently Jagger and Richards songwriting hit an all time high. These advances didnt just affect The Rolling Stones forever, they changed Rock n Roll forever too. This DVD includes rare musical performances (many never before available on DVD), and obscure footage, rare interviews and private photographs of and with the band. It also contains contributions from; 1960s NME editor and friend of the band, Keith Altham; Village Voice music

This exhaustive look at the Rolling Stones provides fresh insights into the band's multi-decade spanning career by focusing on an important two-year period. The documentary offers the opinions of journalists and music experts, interviews, and never-before-seen material from 1967 to 1969


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Changes in the Annulment Process, October 2015

THE APPEAL to the ROMAN ROTA to challenge the decision by the First Instance Court

Pope Francis wrote a “Post- Synod Letter (2015), "Amoris Laetitia” (Latin for “The Joy of Love”). Included in this document are new changes to the annulment process. The new changes appear to simplify the annulment process for Rome. Save Our Sacrament has hope that these changes will be beneficial to Respondents in the long-term. But it will take a while for the Tribunal system to work out the glitches that have resulted from these new changes. In both the local and Appeal processes some changes that could make the annulment process even more difficult for the Respondent.

Two Changes are:
1. Before 2015 a Respondent, who wanted to Appeal the local tribunal’s decision to annul, was required to pay $1000. As of October, 2015 there is no financial cost to Appeal the First Court decision, which is beneficial to the Respondent. But that means less $ coming in to the tribunal system. All Roman Catholic Church offices are financially less secure after being legally bound to compensate for their abuse of children during the Priest-pedophile Scandal starting in 2000.

2. A second change in 2015 urges Respondents to submit their Appeal not to the Roman Rota but to the local Bishop. With no $ coming in to the tribunal for Appeals, are those men going to work "for free" to validate your sacrament? We think not. We have worked for two decades with Respondents throughout the World and we are life-long Catholics. It seems clear to us that the local Bishop, who is most often untrained in Canon Law, will not want the extra duty of deciding if a marriage sacrament is ‘worthy’ of an Appeal or not. Any Appeals to the local bishop will be handed off to priests in the tribunal office who have already declared that a Respondent’s sacrament was not valid. The Bishops ‘new’ Appeal-team will simply repeat the original decision, invalidating the sacrament for a second and final time. Obviously this not beneficial to the Respondent.

SOS continues to advise Respondents to Appeal to the Roman Rota, which is still your right despite what the local tribunal may tell you.

Further information about the Pope's changes can be read via Google:

Links re "Amoris Laetitia” (Latin for “The Joy of Love”)

AMORIS LAETITIA, "The Joy of Love" can be ordered via Amazon or read online (all 264 pages) › va › dam › pdf › documents
Mar 19, 2016 -AMORIS LAETITIA. Of the Holy Father, Francis. To Bishops, Priests, and Deacons

In Amoris Laetitia, Francis' model of conscience empowers Catholics

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Articles About the New Changes

Synod offers striking softening to remarried, proposing individual discernment
Joshua J. McElwee | National Catholic Reporter Oct. 24, 2015

Included in this article: “Catholic teaching says that acts of governance in the church can take place either in an internal or external forum. The Internal Forum is the forum of conscience, where a decision is made in private counseling with a priest without a formal decree or any sort of publicity. The Synod offers an important softening to remarried, proposing individual discernment. Pope Francis concluded the Synod saying to the bishops “The Synod experience … made us better realize that the true defenders of doctrine are not those who uphold its letter, but its spirit; not ideas but people; not formulae but the gratuitousness of God’s love and forgiveness”.

Pope Francis’ Annulment Reform
by Andrea Gagliarducci
 June 13, 2016
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Annulment Process to Be Less Costly, with 'Correct Simplicity'
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Pope reaffirms annulment reforms as they come into effect
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Before the Pope’s Letter
Synod document from the October 2015 Synod of Bishops
The entire document can be accessed via Google at :

This final Synod document deals with many issues families face throughout the world. The bishops attending the October 2015 Synod wrote that they give Pope Francis the final say on the document and asked "humbly” that he consider writing a document of his own about the family. Which he did (above).
Each of the 94 paragraphs of the document were adopted by those attending the Synod, with the required two-thirds vote.


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Comments on: Why everyone’s an armchair psychologist a blog of The Menninger Clinic Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lisa Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:02:29 +0000 Hi Dr. Allen,

Love reading about mentalizing. Hoping you can help me here. From the example above, I’m not sure why the non-mentalizing child would pick the blue cabinet. For that matter, I’m not sure why if the child picked the green cabinet, that would indicate the child was mentalizing.

As far as I’m concerned, if the child picked the blue cabinet, that would be called *mind reading*. Did I miss something from the example? Please help.

By: Sarah Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:09:53 +0000 Dear Dr. Allen,

Do you have plans for writing a book about mentalizing for educated laypeople-like Coping With Trauma? I’ve read the Handbook that you wrote a chapter in and also Mentalizing in Clinical Practice (I hope I have that title correct)? Also, the other day, a professor asked me, what is the difference between identification and mentalizing. I was presenting a thesis idea that the Nazis couldn’t mentalize. I explained the theoretical basis of mentalizing-attachment, etc. But, an entire group of people-not all had been traumatized or probably couldn’t mentalize in other arenas of their lives. Clearly, it’s different but I can’t quite articulate it. Also, the “bystanders” were not mentalizing either. I read an article you wrote about evil. But, were they evil to begin with? Or, what shut off their mentalizing capacities. Perhaps, it’s the object or subject (group or person) who is to be mentalized. They didn’t want to keep the victim’s mind in mind?


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The big news is that Python 2.6a1 and Python 3.0a3 have been released. I had not realized how many entries there now were in 2.6's NEWS file! And 3.0 in a way subsumes 2.6's entries and then tacks on its own. Anyway, have a look. Obviously realize that neither are near their final versions. 3.0 still has stuff going on and 2.6 still has a bunch of stuff from 3.0 that needs backporting.

On the stdlib reorganization front I announced that March 15th is the deadline to propose new packages. As of right now it looks like there will be six new packages (only five are listed in PEP 3108 as the details of a proposed url package is still being worked out). Probably once this is settled I will move on to module deletions. That will be interesting. =)


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Taking A Music Class In High School Improves Teen Language Skills, May Boost Academic Performance

"Musical training in high school boosts a person’s language skills, and may improve academic performance." continues Medical Daily.

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Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University School of Communication, has produced a multitude of studies showing the importance of sounds and hearing when it comes to development. In children, she recently told NPR that reading begins not with our eyes but with the way our ears, and brains, analyze and codify speech sounds — this developmental facet holds true in a person’s teens, too. According to a new study from Kraus, musical training in high school can strengthen a teen’s hearing and language skills, and improve academic performance.

From birth until a person’s mid-20s, the brain undergoes constant development. In adolescence especially, the brain goes through a period of maturation in which the number of synapses in gray matter drops. Despite losing neurons, however, the brain is becoming more efficient. Certain regions mature faster than others, with the ones responsible for the most basic processes, such as processing information and motor control, going first. While genetics plays a role in how the brain matures, life experiences do as well, according to the National Institutes of Health.

It’s for these reasons that musical training improves teens’ development. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involved 40 freshman high school students who either attended music classes for two to three hours each week or joined a junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), which emphasized fitness. It found that those who learned music experienced faster maturation in the brain’s response to sound, and heightened sensitivity to details in sound. While all students showed improvement in language skills necessary for reading, it was those who underwent musical training that performed the best three years later.

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Lamarckian Mechanism in Ciliates

A group of scientists … has uncovered a new biological mechanism that could provide a clearer window into a cell’s inner workings…..What’s more, this mechanism could represent an “epigenetic” pathway — a route that bypasses an organism’s normal DNA genetic program — for so-called Lamarckian evolution, enabling an organism to pass on to its offspring characteristics acquired during its lifetime to improve their chances for survival.

Giardia surfaces are known to adapt to a host’s immune response, and pass this on to daughter cells during cell division. That would be a system of Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characters. Cultural process pass on biologically critical information, again, in a Lamarckian system. Prions may represent yet another system of Lamarckian inheritance.

This new research also addresses methods of controlling cellular processes and cellular retention vs loss of DNA during development. The work will be coming out in the next issue of Nature, but for now we have the press release.

Princeton biologists Laura Landweber, Mariusz Nowacki and Vikram Vijayan, together with other members of the lab, wanted to decipher how the cell accomplished this work, which required reorganizing its genome without resorting to its original genetic program. They chose the singled-celled ciliate Oxytricha trifallax as their testbed.

Ciliates are pond-dwelling protozoa that are ideal model systems for studying epigenetic phenomena. While typical human cells each have one nucleus, serving as the control center for the cell, these ciliate cells have two. One, the active nucleus, contains the DNA needed to carry out all the non-reproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism. The second, the germline nucleus, like humans’ sperm and egg, is home to the DNA needed for sexual reproduction.

When two of these ciliate cells mate, the active nucleus gets destroyed, and must somehow be reconstituted in their offspring in order for them to survive. The germline nucleus contains abundant DNA, yet 95 percent of it is thrown away during regeneration of a new active nucleus, in a process that compresses a pretty big genome (one-third the size of the human genome) into a tiny fraction of the space. This leaves only 5 percent of the organism’s DNA free for encoding functions. Yet this small hodgepodge of remaining DNA always gets correctly chosen and then descrambled by the cell to form a new, working genome in a process (described as “genome acrobatics”) that is still not well understood, but extremely deliberate and precise.

Landweber and her colleagues have postulated that this programmed rearrangement of DNA fragments is guided by an existing “cache” of information in the form of a DNA or RNA template derived from the parent’s nucleus. In the computer realm, a cache is a temporary storage site for frequently used information to enable quick and easy access, rather than having to re-fetch or re-create the original information from scratch every time it’s needed.

“The notion of an RNA cache has been around for a while, as the idea of solving a jigsaw puzzle by peeking at the cover of the box is always tempting,” said Landweber, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. “These cells have a genomic puzzle to solve that involves gathering little pieces of DNA and putting them back together in a specified order. The original idea of an RNA cache emerged in a study of plants, rather than protozoan cells, though, but the situation in plants turned out to be incorrect.”

Through a series of experiments, the group tested out their hypothesis that DNA or RNA molecules were providing the missing instruction booklet needed during development, and also tried to determine if the putative template was made of RNA or DNA. DNA is the genetic material of most organisms, however RNA is now known to play a diversity of important roles as well. RNA is DNA’s chemical cousin, and has a primary role in interpreting the genetic code during the construction of proteins.

First, the researchers attempted to determine if the RNA cache idea was valid by directing specific RNA-destroying chemicals, known as RNAi, to the cell before fertilization. This gave encouraging results, disrupting the process of development, and even halting DNA rearrangement in some cases.

In a second experiment, Nowacki and Yi Zhou, both postdoctoral fellows, discovered that RNA templates did indeed exist early on in the cellular developmental process, and were just long-lived enough to lay out a pattern for reconstructing their main nucleus. This was soon followed by a third experiment that “… required real chutzpah,” Landweber said, “because it meant reprogramming the cell to shuffle its own genetic material.”

Nowacki, Zhou and Vijayan, a 2007 Princeton graduate in electrical engineering, constructed both artificial RNA and DNA templates that encoded a novel, pre-determined pattern; that is, that would take a DNA molecule of the ciliate’s consisting of, for example, pieces 1-2-3-4-5 and transpose two of the segments, to produce the fragment 1-2-3-5-4. Injecting their synthetic templates into the developing cell produced the anticipated results, showing that a specified RNA template could provide a new set of rules for unscrambling the nuclear fragments in such a way as to reconstitute a working nucleus.

“This wonderful discovery showed for the first time that RNA can provide sequence information that guides accurate recombination of DNA, leading to reconstruction of genes and a genome that are necessary for the organism,” said Meng-Chao Yao, director of the Institute of Molecular Biology at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. “It reveals that genetic information can be passed on to following generations via RNA, in addition to DNA.”

The research team believes that if this mechanism extends to mammalian cells, then it could suggest novel ways for manipulating genes, besides those already known through the standard methods of genetic engineering. This could lead to possible applications for creating new gene combinations or restoring aberrant cells to their original, healthy state.

  1. #1 John S. Wilkins
    January 7, 2008

    I tire of the use of “Lamarckian” in modern press releases and book titles. Lamarck held that somatic traits acquired during the lifetime of a (multicellular, as we would now say) organism were passed on after a process of a “feu ethere” or vital fluid making the changes. The inheritance of non-genetic factors is no more Lamarckian than the lack of observable relativistic effects makes something Newtonian. Lamarck had no concept of genes, and no understanding of anything like the Weismann Barrier, which follows him by a century or so.

    The idea that ciliate changes to the cell surface can be inherited is no more Lamarckian than the acquisition of maternal antibodies in placental mammals. That there are non-genetic inheritance pathways doesn’t make them Lamarckian, it makes them non-Weismannian.

    Sorry, personal bugbear in play.

  2. #2 OneRandomScientist
    January 8, 2008

    I’ve read the article, and I find it hard to justify the use of the word “Lamarckian” when the epigenetic information is being stored in nucleic acids (and I agree with the previous poster that I find the word distasteful in general). If I remember correctly, the mechanism is barely epigenetic in the sense that changes in the DNA will change the cell’s RNA, and that change will then propogate…genetically.

    It’s fascinating, though…I think it’s supposed to be a defense against transposons and the like? Since the germline nucleus isn’t transcribed, it’s resistant to selfish genetic elements. The macronucleus, which is destroyed, destroys all of the transposons with it.

  3. #3 Greg Laden
    January 8, 2008

    Well, you’re both wrong, and a couple of curmudgeons to boot. This is not “not-Lamarckian” because Lamarck didn’t know about genes and had other wrong mechanistic ideas …. by that logic you could not use the term “Darwinian” because Darwin had equally unformed ideas about genes mechanistically. This is, rather, not-Lamarckian because the experiments do not demonstrate that altered information is not passed on.

    It is, however, interesting because it is an alternative transmission pathway than what one would expect using the bacteria-human model biases.

    Jeezh… glad you guys never met Mendel, we’d be nowhere…!

  4. #4 OneRandomScientist
    January 8, 2008

    Heh, sorry to be such a frump. I just envision armies of ID proponents pointing to the resurgence of Lamarckism as evidence that genetics is full of it. ::shudder::

  5. #5 Colugo
    January 8, 2008

    Suggestion for “Lamarckian”: A phenotypic novelty (either in kind or degree) that appears during the life cycle of an individual due to an interaction of that individual with the environment that is transmitted to the next generation (there is a correlation between parental novelty and progenitor trait).

  6. #6 Colugo
    January 8, 2008

    “progenitor trait.” Gack. I mean “descendant trait.” That wasn’t a typo; that was a brain blip.


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Unless and until new pollution control technologies are invented, the commercial development of synthetic fuels from coal and oil shale will create massive environmental problems. These include air pollution, groundwater contamination, and huge toxic waste disposal problems. A single commercial plant for synfuels could generate from 20 to 60 thousand tons of solid waste a day. Yet in a frantic response to the oil crisis in the 1970s, Congress appropriated $17.7 billion not for research, but for the immediate commercial development of synthetic fuels.

Despite the huge subsidies available, private industry has become less and less interested in developing synthetic fuels, because they cannot be produced cheaply enough to compete with other energy sources in the foreseeable future. Unfortunately the Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC), which was set up by Congress to spend the money, has responded by indiscriminately funding the few remaining synfuel proposals, regardless of merit. By providing up to $3 billion for a single synfuels technology, the SFC is promoting far larger projects, with far greater environmental damage, than are needed to test their technical and economic feasibility.

This vote was on the Bradley-Nickles amendment to eliminate $9 billion of the SFC's remaining $13.3 billion spending authority. After the House had cut $5 billion from the SFC, the synfuels industry agreed to a similar cut in the Senate. But Bradley and Nickles joined environmental groups in urging that another $4 billion should be cut. Under this amendment, the SFC would have been left with $4.3 billion, which is still a much larger subsidy than the federal government provides for conservation and renewable energy resources.

The Bradley-Nickles amendment was rejected 37-60; October 3, 1984. YES is the pro-environmental vote. (Bradley-Nickles amendment to the fiscal 1985 Continuing Appropriations bill, H.J. Res. 648.) The Reagan Administration opposed the amendment. In the end, Congress cut about $5.4 billion from the SFC.

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So I have had a student teacher in my room for the last couple of weeks.  Friday is her last day so I made her a sign to hand on her door for her classroom.  I am so proud of her!!  Good luck Lauren!

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Saturday, July 23, 2011

At Camp Again! AMAZING!!

Sorry for the lack of posts.  It has been a busy month.  I just got back from spending the week at Camp Copass in Denton, Tx. with our church.  We took 142 kids grades 3rd-6th.  I was fortunate enough to be counselor to 6th grade girls and it was amazing.  These were a truly a great group of young ladies and I can't wait to see how God continues to work in their lives.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Anniversary Present

This Friday will be my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary.  What an amazing couple!!  We are having them a surprise dinner with a few other surprises once they get there.  Here is the present that I made them.
My husband had the camo vinyl and the frame was on sale at Michaels for $5.00.  I used Opposite Attracts Cricut Cartridge.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

My "Junk" Book

So have you all seen the "Smash Books" that are the new rage.  Well I always keep a small spiral with me and decided to decorate it a little to make my own version of the smash/junk book.  We are trying to buy a new house so I figured what  a great way to keep our journey into this new chapter or our lives.

The notebook was a gift from a friend.  The papers are from Artful Delight month club.  Reality is done in Thickers, and the other things are just scraps I had laying around.  Inside I am putting pictures, ideas and web addresses of the things we see that we need, like and LOVE!  I am so excited about having it around!!


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Today we are releasing the 2nd Layout for this month from our Guest Designer, Karen.   This layout along with the other projects are hanging up on the wall to the right of the door as soon as you walk into Scrapper's Playground. Please feel free to ask any of our Staff for information on the products that were used on these projects.

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11X11- Trail Mix Cabin Fever – I tore the edges

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1)      On Trail Mix #14601831 paper adhere 5X7 Trail Mix Meadow in top left-hand corner

2)      To the right adhere a 4X6 journaling card and use for title

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1)      Adhere 11 ½ X 11 ½ - Bazzill Hillary Cardstock on top of Chocolate Cream Cardstock

2)      Adhere 11X11- Trail Mix Cabin Fever on top of Hillary Cardstock

3)      Mat 2 photos on Chocolate Cream Cardstock using Tiny Attacher

4)      Adhere 2 matted photos on the 11 ½ X 4 ¾   - Trail Mix Meadow

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Embellish both pages with 3X5 journaling cards, letters and stickers.

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Welcome Spring (Said Imaginisce!)

Hi SP Bloggers -- After such a gorgeous weekend, how could we think of anything BUT springtime!  (Although as I'm typing that, the wind is howling and the temp is dropping.) Putting that aside, however, that made me pull out one of the recent "paper lines of the week" -- Welcome Spring by Imaginisce. It's such a happy mix of papers that can be used for so many different types of scrapbook and card projects. We paired it up with some of the new burlap Petaloo flowers and butterflies.

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