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Maureen Rouhi – The Editor's Blog Just another C&ENtral Science weblog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:09:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Royal Encounter in Thailand Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:04:05 +0000 ]]> PACCON 2012). Organized by Chiang Mai University and the Chemical Society of Thailand, PACCON 2012 attracted about 1,400 participants and featured a keynote lecture by Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol and three plenary lectures (including one by yours truly).
Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol formally opening PACCON 2012

Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol formally opens PACCON 2012. Courtesy of Chiang Mai University.

The organizers structured the conference around the theme “Chemistry Beyond Boundaries” to highlight chemistry’s interface with other disciplines and how the combinations are expanding scientific horizons.  Consistent with the theme, 36 invited talks and dozens of oral presentations were delivered in multidisciplinary sessions such as Chemistry for Global Warming, Green Energy & Environment; Chemistry for Health Science & Technology; Chemistry for Engineering & Industry; Chemistry for Materials & Nanotechnology; and Chemistry for Spa & Cosmetics.  Four poster sessions accommodated scores of poster presentations. Princess Chulabhorn set a high bar for the scientific talks by giving the audience a flavor of the work at the natural products institute she founded, the Chulabhorn Research Institute, in Bangkok. First she gave a detailed account of CRI’s work, spanning almost a decade, on a group of bioactive natural products called lamellarins. According to the princess, the contributions of CRI to the body of knowledge about lamellarins include synthesis, profiling of biological activity, and structure-activity relationships. Then she also discussed CRI’s work on natural products from food plants, marine organisms, and microorganisms. Surprisingly, at the end of her lecture, the princess apologized for taking off her shoes for the lecture, which I and others didn’t notice and wouldn’t have known otherwise. It seems that taking off one’s shoes in front of others is considered impolite in Thailand. She explained that she has an injured femur that is taking long to heal. She left the conference on a wheel chair. Later, I found that she came to the conference door also on a wheel chair but came to her feet to enter the conference hall. The presence of Thai royalty made the first morning of the conference highly unusual. Everyone who wanted to attend the opening ceremony needed to be in the conference hall by 8 AM and were “advised to complete their personal business” before entering the hall as “opportunities to leave after 8 AM will be restricted.” Participants also were asked to “sit politely and refrain from talking off your shoes or sitting cross-legged” and refrain from asking questions after the princess’s lecture. Photography was banned; only the entourage of official photographers could take photos. While everyone waited, those of us who were to receive plaques from the princess were rehearsed on the proper way to curtsy or bow, to extend the hand to receive the plaque, and to exit. After the princess had delivered the lecture and left the hall, participants were still unable to leave the conference hall. We were asked to wait until the princess’s party had left the premises, about an hour’s worth of waiting because the princess was to have lunch first. No one complained; everyone took the inconvenience in stride. Thailand after all is a kingdom, and the princess is a member of the royal family. Plus this crowd of chemists seems genuinely pleased that Thailand has a princess who is an accomplished chemist. What other royal family can claim that distinction?

C&EN's Rouhi accepts a plaque from Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol. Courtesy of Chiang Mai University.

CPhI Lite Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:25:15 +0000 ]]> CPhI Worldwide is taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany. Senior Correspondent Ann Thayer, Senior Editor Rick Mullin, and I have been in the city since Monday to attend this annual conference on pharmaceutical ingredients held in Europe. C&EN's formal coverage will include a news item from Thayer in the Oct. 31 issue and a review from Mullin in the Nov. 14 issue. To whet your appetite for my colleagues' stories, here are some tidbits from my roamings and company visits in Frankfurt's massive Messe. First stop: Evonik, where Jurgen Krauter, vice president of communications, told me how the company hopes to change its image from old industry to provocative. The latest pharma brochure, "We love your problems," features some offbeat photos, including of someone that reminded me of Lady Gaga:
Evonik's Lady Gaga

Evonik's Lady Gaga

  Evonik seems to be serious in thinking out of the box in its messaging. Here's an ad on a taxi:
Evonik ad on taxi

Evonik message on a Frankfurt taxi

  Next: Roquette, where Sophie Chesnoy, pharma project development and marketing manager, briefed me on the company's advances in formulations. One technology Roquette is touting is called Kleptose, cyclodextrins that, among other uses, masks the bitterness of APIs by trapping the molecules inside the cyclodextrin helix. When a tablet is in the mouth, only the cyclodextrin contacts the taste sensors, Chesnoy explained.   On my way to my third stop, I chanced upon David Ager and Andre H.M. de Vries, of DSM. I noticed a prominent embellishment on the DSM logo, as shown in this photo of the logo embroidered on Ager's green DSM shirt:
DSM's new look

DSM's new logo

The logo looks like a hat of multicolored feathers to me. Dave dutifully pointed out that in the middle of the colored arcs is the hexagon, an icon of organic chemistry. Dave also called my attention to the new tag line: Bright Science, Brighter Living. Sounds like they're making light bulbs, I thought. DSM's marketing and communications director, Guy Tiene, explained that DSM is moving away from an image of industrial, heavily petroleum-based chemistry to life sciences, and the logo aims to send the message of novelty, freshness, health, and sustainability.     My third stop was AllessaChemie, where I met Thomas Buttner, the president and CEO, and Michael Hassler, director of marketing and business development for exclusive synthesis. Both conveyed confidence in the company's growth despite the economic unease especially in Europe.  They credit three factors for the steady course the company is now taking after the economic downturn of 2008: a good management team, a good workforce, and an owner who is not out for quick money in the next quarter. That owner is Karl-Gerhard Seifert. When he retired at age 55, he told me, he could choose to play golf or build a company. He chose the latter, turning 25,000 euros in 2001 to a multi-million-dollar business today. Next up was Hovione, where CEO Guy Villax told me that the economic unease in Europe is not yet having a significant effect on the API business, "because at the end of the day, people will have to keep taking their medicines." Others at CPhI corroborated AllessaChemie's and Hovione's reading of the business climate. Manoj Mehrotra, vice president and head of Dr. Reddy's Custom Pharmaceutical Services suggested business is good enough that he can aim to grow sales by almost 300% in five years. Stuart Needleman, president of scientific operations at Aptuit, said he has no worries about the economy. "The APIs are coming back," he says, adding that "anyone who says business is great is lying. It's not great, but it's trending in the right direction." Aptuit CEO Timothy Tyson predicted "significant growth in 2013." AMRI's U.S. manufacturing plants are full, churning out APIs and intermediates, said Mark Sawicki, vice president for business development in Europe. "We're not back where we were in 2008, but we're getting there," he said. Outsourcing of manufacturing to China is turning around, he noted. Big pharma  now realizes that only turn-the-crank type, well-established synthesis can be done well in Asia. Anything that requires people to troubleshoot and work through problems doesn't work in Asia. Even a stranger--a CPhI visitor who purchases APIs--I sat with on a lunch counter thought the crowd in CPhI 2011 was more upbeat than in recent years. That corroboration gives me confidence that the business executives who talked to me aren't just putting on a brave face.]]>
Two Harpswell alumni move on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:03:02 +0000 ]]> here; to meet some of the science majors at the Harpswell dorms, go here) The two young women are now teachers at the Jay Pritzker Academy, located near Tachet village in Siem Reap. JPA is a pre-K-to-12, English-language college-preparatory school with a goal of enabling all its graduates to qualify for admission in U.S. universities. Students at JPA come from the surrounding poor communities. They receive free education, uniforms, books, materials, three meals a day, and even hygiene kits. Suon and So have a special mission at JPA. They are helping the first batch of college-bound JPA students prepare for the Cambodian national college entrance exams. As JPA director and principal Hedi Belkaoui explained, even though the school’s goal is to prepare all students to be admissible to U.S. colleges and universities, JPA needs to prepare for the possibility that some students won’t make the cut. Students therefore need also to be admissible to Cambodian universities as a backup plan. Instruction in JPA is in both English and Khmer. But the Cambodian national college entrance exam is only in Khmer. JPA therefore needs to ensure that students, especially those who would like to apply for admission to science degrees, have the same mastery of subjects in Khmer as they do in English. Suon and So are teaching chemistry, biology, math, and physics in Khmer to JPA’s eleventh-grade students. Suon and So fulfill their roles at JPA with seriousness, confidence, and discipline, but also with joy in helping  Cambodian children from poor families take advantage of unique opportunities similar to what they themselves  enjoyed through the Harpswell Foundation. Already they are manifesting the leadership potential that got them admitted to the Harpswell dorms in the first place. ]]> Young Cambodian women’s aspirations–in their own words Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:05:35 +0000 ]]> CHORN SOKUNTHEARY is a fourth-year biology major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She is the oldest of four sisters. Cambodia has a lot of environmental problems, she says, including people just cutting forests to make way for farms. “We need to learn to protect nature to avoid disasters,” she says. “People living in rural areas depend on the forests and rivers. If the forests and rivers have problems, those people cannot make a living.” Chorn wants to be a teacher or to work with environmental organizations. She has an internship with the nongovernmental organization Culture & Environment Preservation Association. She is working with ethnic groups living in the forests near the Mekong River who may be threatened by Laos’ plan to build a hydroelectric power plant on the river BUT KANHA is a fourth-year chemistry major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She is the sixth child in a family of seven, the youngest among four sisters. All her older sisters are farmers. While in 10th grade, But's interest in chemistry was sparked by a "nice and kind teacher" who inspired her to aspire to become her school's top student in chemistry. "Everything around us is all chemistry," But says. Green chemistry fascinates But. She wants to learn ways to reduce chemical hazards in products, to recycle waste, and to protect the environment and natural resources. "People in Cambodia don't like products made in Cambodia because the quality is not good," she says. She hopes to help improve the quality of Cambodian products so that "people will want to use them and will not have to spend their money outside the country." KIM SOKNGIM is a fourth-year mathematics major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She is one of five children of rice-farming parents in Kandal Province. From June through August 2011, she participated in an intensive English program in Logan, Utah. After she completes her bachelors degree in math in 2012, she will apply for admission to a graduate engineering degree in the U.S. Kim's dream is to be a civil engineer, to help build Cambodia's infrastructure. She laments the poor condition of roads, bridges, schools, and manufacturing facilities in her country. She also decries the destruction of forests in Cambodia and is concerned about the impact of climate change on farmers. She says Cambodian farmers are "feeling the temperature increase and need more water for their farms." PHAUK KIMSAL is a fourth-year chemistry major specializing in biochemistry. She attends the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She believes that Cambodia can develop through science, just as many developed countries have. She is the youngest of eight children of rice farmers in Kompong Thom Province and one of a few Harpswell residents with several family members who have higher education. A brother-in-law who studied chemistry and now has a good job at the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia strongly influenced her decision to study chemistry. A brother is studying for a master's degree in mathematics in Thailand. One sister also went to college and is now an English teacher. Right now Phauk is an intern at a water supply facility, learning how to make water clean and running analyses for water quality. HUN LINA is a fourth-year student at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia, where she is studying chemical engineering and food technology. She comes from Oddor Meanchey Province, the oldest of six children. Her father is a nurse; her mother raises pigs and makes rice alcohol for a living. Hun says her mother encouraged her to go to college. "I have nothing to give you so you have to study so that your future will be brighter. My life is difficult because I'm ignorant. If you don't want to face problems [as I did], you have to study," Hun recalls her mother's advice. Hun would like to find ways to preserve food so that the abundant produce from the provinces can be available all year round and farmers can earn more from their labors. CHHON SOPHEA is a fourth-year biology student at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She is concerned about loss of biodiversity caused by rapid destruction of forests to make way for farming. She hopes to be able to discover new species in Cambodian forests before they are forever lost. She sees herself working with conservation organizations in Cambodia. TONG SOTHIDA is a fourth-year math major, another of the few Harpswell residents whose parents have had higher education. Her mother teaches physics and chemistry, and her father teaches history and geography. She says her parents want her to teach mathematics after she graduates from college, but she would like to continue her education in the U.S. or Singapore to pursue a master’s degree. One unique aspect of the Harpswell dorm is community living, Tong says. Residents need to do housework in addition to mastering their majors, learning English, and discussing Cambodian current events. Furthermore, older residents assist the younger ones, especially in their major fields. For example, Tong teaches math in the dorm. LOV KIMSRUNG is a fourth-year computer science major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She is the youngest of five children; her father sells construction materials and her mother owns a small business; neither of her parents have a college education. Lov says her father strongly discouraged her from going to college. “Women should stay home and just take care of the family. College is a waste of time,” Lov recalls her father saying. But a cousin and two brothers supported her, Lov says, telling her parents that “she’s smart; why don’t you let her find her future?” KHOEURN KIMLEANG just graduated from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and food technology. In November, she will begin her studies for a master’s degree in environmental engineering at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. In the meantime, Khoeurn is working on a United Nations Industrial Development Organization project to promote clean and sustainable production practices in Cambodian industries. For example, she has helped Ly Ly Food Industries, a Cambodian manufacturer of snack foods, reduce the amount of waste in their production by modifying the shape of the mixing vessel. The change reduced the waste from 40-50 kilograms per day to only 10-15 kilograms per day, saving about $800 per day in cost of ingredients. ]]> 1 Dorm Life Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:13:44 +0000 ]]> lunch and dinner three meals each day of the week. Everyone has cleaning assignments, ensuring that common areas are maintained and kept clean. Residents manually wash their own clothes. Tap water can stop running at any time; water for bathing is tepid at best. Residents must be inside the premises by 8 PM. Sounds like a place the average student in the developed world won't go near. Yet the young women who live here consider themselves extremely lucky and privileged.

Dishwashing is one of many chores assigned to residents.

In this dorm, they take part in regularly held English classes, current events discussions based on news from the Cambodia Daily, and leadership training right where they live, for free. They have access to a library, to the Internet, and to resident teachers. It's a dream place for anyone with high aspirations but whose college education was never a certainty in the first place for financial reasons. Classes for the 2011-2012 school year have not yet begun, yet the dorm is bustling. Many residents are here, using vacation time to continue studying English or take part in internships. And residents call each other sister and treat each other as sisters in the best sense of the word. The dorm transforms its residents, many of whom come from farm families in far-flung provinces of Cambodia. As Rous Sreypov tells me, "I have changed a lot since I lived in Harpswell. I have confidence, I can say what I think." Rous' parents, who are farmers, studied only until seventh grade. She is about to begin her second year studying economic development. Like many of the residents I spoke to, Rous sees herself as a potential leader in Cambodia's development. The vision imposes responsibilities that may seem enormous but all residents embrace, such as older residents sharing time and knowledge to help younger residents, especially those studying in their same field. "Harpswell does not require us to do this," says Chhon Sophea, a biochemistry major at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. "We're sharing out of love; we are doing this by ourselves."

Resident studying at the facility's computer room.

Residents discuss news from the Cambodia Daily on the patio of the Teuk Thla facility.

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Recycler At Heart Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:09:39 +0000 ]]> In addition to the daily sorting for recycling of paper, plastic, and glass that happens now in many homes and places of business, twice a year, I go through closets, shelves, and storage bins to declutter. Anything that is usable goes to Purple Heart or Goodwill. Not much goes to landfills. Multiply the personal acts of recycling by millions and add the efforts of commerce and industry and the results can be staggering. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the amount of municipal solid waste generated in the U.S. rose by 60% from 152 million tons in 1980 to 243 million tons in 2009, but the amount disposed of in landfills fell by 10% from 135 million tons in 1980 to 121 million tons in 2009. The amount recycled soared 465% from 14.5 million tons in 1980 to 82 million tons in 2009. As this week’s cover story by Senior Editor Melody Bomgardner drives home, recycling and reusing can only grow, spurred not only by monetary incentives and environmental, health, and safety concerns but also by the growing scarcity of nonrenewable raw materials and the widening embrace of product stewardship, especially of consumer electronics. Bomgardner suggests that the ethos of eschewing waste is penetrating ever deeper in a reverse supply chain involving resellers and recyclers, not only creating profit centers but also pushing materials makers to design for recyclability, an effort that can involve complex research and development. An example of that complex R&D is the story by Assistant Managing Editor Amanda Yarnell about efforts to adjust a widely practiced recycling step—removing ink from office paper, newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other printed material—to the changing nature of the ink that must be removed. The process to deink paper printed conventionally with oily inks is well established, but with the rise of digital printing, which uses many water-based inks, the process is no longer fully adequate. Thus, chemists and engineers are looking for other ways to deink paper, for digital inks that will work with today’s deinking chemistry, and even for ways to make paper easily deinkable. The investments to make products recyclable aren’t trivial, but as Bomgardner and Yarnell suggest in their stories, they can and do yield good returns. That just confirms what I learned as a child: Recycling = money.]]> Values Worth Defending Tue, 24 May 2011 09:33:00 +0000 ]]> Serageldin addressing the National Academy of Sciences

Serageldin addressing the National Academy of Sciences on May 1. Credit: National Academy of Sciences

At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences early this month, Ismail Serageldin received the academy’s most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, which honors “extraordinary use of science for the public good.” Serageldin is the founding director of Egypt’s New Library of Alexandria. I did not know of Serageldin but became curious after someone raved about the speech he gave at the award presentation on May 1. When I found the speech on the NAS website, I understood why: Here is a citizen of the biggest country undergoing wrenching change during the "Arab Spring" calling on the youth of the Arab world to embrace the values of science. With permission from Serageldin, here are extended excerpts: “Today there are those who fear that the Arab Spring will give way to the Islamist winter. … Yes, Islamist sentiment is rising, and zealotry is expanding in parts of the public realm. But the defense against extremism is not by censorship or autocracy; it is by embracing pluralism and defeating ideas with ideas. “Science has much to say … about the kind of values that we must adopt if our societies are to be truly open and democratic. … To the Islamists, who yearn to return to their particular vision of the Muslim past, we say, there is a great Arab and Muslim tradition of science and tolerance … that must be revived if the Arab World, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, will indeed join the ranks of the advanced societies of our time. Rejecting politicized religiosity and reviving these traditions would promote the values of science in our societies. … “To the youth … we say, remember science and the scientific method, for it is scientific insight and knowledge that gives birth to technology. We must be the producers of knowledge, not just the consumers of technology. That will not happen unless we open our minds to science and the scientific approach and open our hearts to the values of science. … “[T]he enterprise of science requires the adoption of certain values: Truth, honor, teamwork, constructive subversiveness, engagement with the other, freedom, imagination, and a method for the arbitration of disputes. The values of science are adhered to by its practitioners with a rigor that shames other professions. … “Any scientist who manufactures his data is ostracized forever from the scientific community. She or he may err in interpreting the data, but no one can accept fabrication of data. … “Scientists reject plagiarism. To give each his or her due is essential, a sentiment well captured in Newton’s statement that … ‘if I have seen farther than most, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.’ “Teamwork has become essential in most fields of science. And the essence of teamwork is to ensure that all the members of the team receive the recognition that they deserve. “Science advances by overthrowing the existing paradigm, or at least significantly expanding or modifying it. Thus there is a certain constructive subversiveness built into the scientific enterprise, as a new generation of scientists makes its own contribution. … [C]onstant renewal and advancement … requires tolerant engagement with the contrarian view, accepting to arbitrate disputes by the rules of evidence and rationality. “Science requires freedom: Freedom to enquire, to challenge, to think, to imagine the unimagined. It cannot function within the arbitrary limits of convention, nor can it flourish if it is forced to shy away from challenging the accepted. “The content of scientific work is what is discussed, not the person who produced it, regardless of their nationality or the color of their skin or the god they choose to worship or the ethnic group they were born into or their gender. These are societal values worth defending, not just to promote the pursuit of science, but to have a better and more humane society. These are the central core of universal values that any truly modern society must possess. …” Well said, Dr. Serageldin. Thank you for reminding us of the preciousness of the values we sometimes take for granted.]]>
CSI: Dognapping at Sandia Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:52:47 +0000 ]]>

Kids enter the magic show room after receiving lab coats and safety goggles

Bill Hammetter, AML's manager for ceramic processing and inorganic materials, instructs kids to don their lab coats.

With kids properly garbed for a chemical magic show, AML researcher Bernadette Hernandez-Sanchez welcomes them and introduces the warm-up act of four demonstrators competing for the best magic trick: Sarah Hoppe mixes rainbow water, Diane Dickie performs clock reaction, Alia Saad creates fake snow, and Kari Monroe makes elephant toothpaste. Then must come the main event, but Lucy, the chemical magic dog is missing. AML scientist Tim Boyle suspects that one of the visiting kids kidnapped Lucy. This amateur video captures the program up to this point. Beware: Many parts are jumpy and can make you dizzy. To determine who took Lucy, every boy and girl must give a fingerprint, a footprint, and a voice sample.

Fourth grader talks into a microphone for voiceprinting

The data are compared with the fingerprint, voiceprint, and footprint gathered from the crime scene, and all kids are exonerated. But where is Lucy? Tim Boyle asks the kids to investigate the case of the missing dog. But first they must take an oath to be sworn in as junior scientists.

Junior scientists' oath

The enthusiasm at swearing-in, led by University New Mexico chemistry professor and Sandia scientist Richard Kemp, is ear-piercing: Now the junior scientists are ready to examine the evidence at the crime scene.

The crime scene

The lab has four suspects, and the junior scientists must figure out whodunit by examining the evidence at six science stations. Using what they are told about the suspects and what they learn at each station, they associate each piece of evidence to all likely suspects. Eventually, they nail the culprit from the preponderance of evidence correlating with him or her. Here are some scenes from the science stations. At the Powder Lab, they examine the white powder at the crime scene, they prepare a material called Yuck, and they learn about non-Newtonian fluids, which behave like a solid when something hits them with force but like a liquid when handled gently.

Powder Lab

Making Yuck

At the pH Station, they examine the yellow spill at the crime scene, use cabbage juice as pH indicator, and learn about acids and bases.

pH Station

Using cabbage juice to learn about pH

At the Glow Station, they test the notecard from the crime scene for hidden messages and see how the colors of rocks and minerals change when samples are illuminated with UV or "black" light.

Glow Station

Revealing hidden messages

At the Nano Station, they learn what "nanometer" means and figure out that the purple liquid in the crime scene is nanogold. They learn that nanogold has a different color because when particles are very small, their physical properties change. They also learn that many items of daily life contain nanomaterials.

Undergraduate Cory Zarick explaining the meaning of nanometer

High school senior Clement Jose at the Nano Station

At the Magnet Station, the kids examine the key in the crime scene, learn about magnetism, and observe a metal levitating when placed in the magnetic field of a supercooled superconductor.

Testing for magnetism

At the Fiber Station, the kids examine the pieces of string in the crime scene, learn the differences between synthetic and natural fibers, and see how weird ice cream and other common foods look when viewed from a scanning electron microscope.

Postdoc Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick at the Fiber Station

Using a microscope for fiber forensics

After gathering the forensic results, the kids, with the help of grownups, correlate their findings with the known characteristics of each suspect. They declare as the culprit the suspect to whom they associate the most evidence. The culprit then returns Lucy to the lab and all the kids get to meet her.

Everybody loves Lucy

All's well with Lucy, and with the kids, who cap their stint as junior scientists investigating a crime with liquid-nitrogen-prepared ice cream, prepared with the help of ACS President Nancy B. Jackson, herself a scientist at Sandia.

Leigh Anna Ottley and Nancy Jackson preparing ice cream with the help of liquid nitrogen

The fun-filled two hours pass quickly, to the delight and relief of the many volunteers who made possible the dog days at Sandia's Advanced Materials Laboratory. A few of the almost 100 volunteers for the weeklong outreach program are pictured here:

Volunteers Galore: Back row, from left: Sarah Hoppe, Janelle Branson, Kyle Fenton, Bill Hammetter, Tim Boyle, Clement Jose, Rick Kemp, Rick Muller, Chris Larsen, and Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick; middle row, from left: Kristen Meyer, Diane Dickie, Patrick Burton, Derek Wichhart, Leigh Anna Ottley, and Marie Parkes; front row, from left: Ray Trowbridge, Bernadette Hernandez-Sanchez, Jeff Salzbrenner, Cory Zarick, Alia Saad, and Thu Doan; on pedestal, Lucy

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Jobs Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:56:23 +0000 ]]> the lead story of C&EN’s annual employment package, Senior Editor Susan Ainsworth surveys the employment landscape for chemists and finds reasons to believe that bleakness is giving way to a few rays of hope. Even though the outlook is tepid, chemists can take solace that the massive downsizings of the past few years seem to be waning. This year’s survey coincides with the ACS Virtual Career Fair on Nov. 2–3. At this event, Ainsworth and C&EN Editor-in-Chief Rudy Baum will discuss the job prospects for chemists and how to prepare for what’s ahead. You can join them and participate in the rest of the fair by registering at Coincidentally, as we were producing this week’s issue, I attended a career symposium at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Mole Day, Oct. 23. The event, organized by the Younger Chemists Committee of the ACS Wisconsin Section, attracted 138 postdocs, graduate students, and undergrads, as well as one high school student. They came from Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. They listened to a mix of speakers, including me, who brought perspectives from industry, academia, government labs, and alternative careers. Speakers emphasized the same themes: A chemistry education can be forged into many career outcomes; the paths to satisfying careers are varied; good communication skills and lifelong learning will open windows when a door shuts. Emily Wixson shared that her fondness for people, language, and communication marries well with her love for problem solving, experimentation, and observation—skills that a chemistry education cultivates—in her role as a senior academic librarian at UW Madison’s chemistry library. Yet she is among many science librarians who don’t have a science degree. Early in her career, she realized that her English degree would not be enough to maintain a science librarianship career so she took various science courses, including chemistry. “A chemistry degree opens the door to most science library positions,” she said. When teaching high school chemistry didn’t work out for Brittland DeKorver, she channeled her B.A. in chemistry into an unusual position at UW Madison’s Institute for Chemical Education. As an outreach specialist, she coordinates after-school science clubs, plans outreach events such as National Chemistry Week, and advises a student organization that is devoted to informal science education. In explaining the challenges of her job, she said, “Imagine explaining chemical concepts to a seven-year-old, who doesn’t have the vocabulary or the ability to think in the abstract.” Steven Sobek, laboratory director for the Bureau of Laboratory Services, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection, brought welcome news: “There will be jobs opening for analytical chemists in government labs in the next four to six years because of many staff retiring.” Offering encouragement in the midst of the difficult job market, Sobek said, “Skills learned in the sciences—mathematical reasoning, problem solving, logic, and understanding the complex—are transferable” to numerous positions. But to compete effectively, he added, job seekers “must also develop the soft skills of communicating and collaborating.” And Victoria Sutton, an intellectual property associate at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, emphasized that federal internship programs, such as the Emerging Leaders Program of the Department of Health & Human Services and the Presidential Management Fellows Program, can lead to government careers. The students I spoke with said they appreciated hearing about the many ways chemistry-educated people work. The different perspectives, they said, will help them plan the next step in their education. They praised the symposium organizers—UW Madison chemistry graduate students Benjamin Bratton, Michelle Cooperrider, Christine McInnis, Danielle Stacy, Eugenia Turov, and Gene Wong—for an informative and engaging symposium. For everyone, participating in the symposium was a good way to spend Mole Day in Madison.]]> 5 Kudos for Career Symposium of YCC Wisconsin Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:53:56 +0000 ]]> YCC symposium organizers

Symposium organizers (from left) McInnis, Wong, Bratton, Cooperrider, Turov, and Stacy take a break from serving lunch to get a group photo. Courtesy of Christine McInnis

Snack time

Participants during afternoon snack. Courtesy of Christine McInnis

Participants at the networking dinner. Courtesy of Christine McInnis


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

In Which I Give You Three Things You Want! Maybe.

Sorry, I can't supply you with an iPad, a million dollars, or a puppy. But if you want . . .

  • To hear some of my thoughts on marketing, Shelli interviewed me over at Market My Words.
  • To contribute to a conversation about the editor/author relationship, Sara Lewis Holmes and I will be chatting in person (for the first time ever!) this weekend, and we're collecting Myths about said relationship that we can Bust in person on stage. If you'd like to offer one up, head over to Sara's blog by Saturday morning.
  • To laugh hard, visit -- some of the worst, most vulgar, and also most hilarious Facebook conversations you can imagine (recommended by Jennifer Crusie).
For everyone in New York this weekend for SCBWI National, I won't be there -- I'm sitting in the JetBlue terminal at JFK right now to fly to Austin for their SCBWI conference -- but I recommend both this list of things to do in the city, and the Kidlit Drink Night that Betsy is hosting tomorrow. Party on, dudes.

  1. Is there a place to find out what upcoming conferences you'll be attending? I'd love to go to one!

  2. I was looking forward to meeting you (finally) at our SCBWI Spring Mingle in Atlanta, GA next month. But, alas, the finances aren't going to be there. Happy traveling!

  3. I hope you are enjoying Texas! When will you come to Rome? Meanwhile, you nee to update your list of things to do in NYC. The Donnell library closed in August, 2008. I think the Pooh toys are now (temporarily) at the MidManhattan branch (5th Ave, south of 42nd... across from the Main Research library.

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Every parent really wants to make their own child's celebration one that is exciting and fun. However, not every parent possess the time or even know-how to plan as well as execute an ideal party Body that will stick out in your children's memory being an event to keep in mind. If you are experiencing ways to help make your boy or even girl's large bash unforgettable, or just not have the time to try everything yourself, you might want to consider the benefits of hiring a expert event preparing service that are experts in children's events.

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Adrienne Luce Named Director of the Claremont Museum of Art as Part of Broader Expansion

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The Claremont Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrienne Luce as director of the Claremont Museum of Art. Adrienne is an experienced nonprofit arts leader who received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and has spent twenty years working in the arts. Her appointment is part of the Museum’s overall expansion plans. In Spring 2022 the Museum will debut two new stunning galleries that will more than double the current exhibition space. Under Adrienne’s direction, the expanded museum will be a catalyst to spur creative thinking, engagement and innovative programming for the broader community.

“I am humbled and honored to join the Museum and to partner with such an outstanding board of directors. Together we will bring the vision for the Museum to fruition and, in doing so, inspire audiences through the power of art, enrich the community and the cultural vitality of the region, and preserve Claremont’s rich artistic legacy.” —CMA Director Adrienne Luce

“We are thrilled to have Adrienne as our director.  She is a proven leader who will continue to build relationships in the community and across arts organizations, and elevate the profile of CMA to realize our mission and vision for the future.” —CMA Board President Elaine Turner

More About Adrienne Luce

Adrienne comes to the Museum having spent nearly a decade at The J. Paul Getty Museum. As an education specialist, she oversaw the design and delivery of arts education programs that doubled attendance to serve 80,000 students and teachers per year. As a digital communications manager, she increased the museum’s reach on social media to more than 3 million followers. She currently serves as the executive director of the HMC Architects Designing Futures Foundation where she has overseen the investment of $1.4 million to 100+ nonprofits. Most recently served as the executive director of the Brentwood Art Center where she led her team to achieve record attendance and revenue and successfully transitioned the organization’s programs online during the pandemic. Adrienne worked as a consultant for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and as the executive director of the California State Summer School Arts Foundation. She graduated from Arizona State University with a double major in Art History and Fine Arts. Adrienne has served on numerous nonprofit boards including Inner-City Arts, MOCA Contemporaries, and the Craft Contemporary Craft Council. She currently serves on the LA County Department of Arts and Culture Funders Council.

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More walls, for more art, more programs and more people

As the Claremont Museum of Art enters its sixth year occupying two rooms of the Claremont Depot, the Museum is renovating the remaining spaces into galleries and a community room. The original, historic Santa Fe Depot will be transformed into a vibrant cultural destination in the heart of the Claremont Village.

The adaptive reuse of this historic building has been a very successful public/private partnership with the City of Claremont, Metro, and the generous support of CMA members and friends throughout the local area.  The CMA Board of Directors is immensely grateful to the city of Claremont for its support and for undertaking the mandated seismic and accessibility work on the eastern end of the Depot with funding approved by Metro with the Museum as the tenant. The Claremont Depot is part of Metrolink’s rail network, and it will be part of Metro’s Foothill Gold Line system in the near future. Further, Metro has made it a priority to support art in public spaces at each of its rail stops, which is why the Metro Board found it appropriate for Prop C funds to be utilized at the Claremont stop to support retrofitting and safety.

With a fund-raising goal of $300,000 for this final phase of the renovation, the Museum has raised over $120,000 over the past two years in a quiet phase of the “Imagine More Museum” campaign to turn the two most eastern rooms into galleries. The new galleries are expected to open with a major exhibition of the Museum’s permanent collection in April 2022.

With high ceilings and expansive wall and floor space, the new galleries will more than double CMA’s exhibition and educational opportunities and allow the Museum to showcase a mix of art, sculpture and media to inspire art lovers of all ages. As the “Imagine More Museum” fundraising campaign moves forward, the final piece of the expansion, the addition of a glassed-in Community Room will begin. It will reshape the West Portico into a venue for smaller programs, art classes, and special events.

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Local architect, John Bohn, of JBohn Associates, is heading up the project with contractor Darin Ross, of Ross Construction. Bohn has worked with the CMA Board of Directors since the Museum moved into the Claremont Depot in 2015. He developed the plans to renovate and restore the Atrium and add a “second skin” to the former Foothill Transit Office to turn it into a gallery, without impacting the original walls of the interior of the historic building.

The same care and attention to detail are being followed in remodeling the final two rooms in the Depot into galleries. The original, rare 100-year-old plank cedar flooring in the old bike room was saved, and, after milling and sanding, it is being reinstalled in gallery 3 and stained. The adjacent room, the old luggage room, which had a cement floor will now have Douglas fir flooring stained to match the cedar in gallery 3. The original ceilings in both rooms are also being retained and track lighting will be hung from the ceiling in the two new galleries. The construction is expected to be completed by late October.

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Mountain View Lodge (Tillie Spencer Novella Book 2)

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After his mother’s death, Coll MacPherson returns to the mountains of North Carolina to work for his aunt and uncle. His part-time position at Mountain View Lodge will allow him to hone his photography skills, and hopefully forget the woman who broke his heart. When Uncle Richard asks for Coll’s help to turn an unused storage building into a shop that would feature local art and artists, Coll figures things can’t get any better—until he meets Autumn Nichols.

Always the bridesmaid and never the bride has been Autumn’s mantra for the last few years. After three failed relationships, she’s convinced God is trying to tell her something. If she can just get through her best friend’s wedding, Autumn can focus on building her graphic design business while leaving all thoughts of love and marriage in the past—until she meets Coll MacPherson.

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Lighting of the Village - Traditional Christmas Celebration

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Punta Gorda, FL—Fishermen’s Village will herald in the Holiday Season with their spectacular   “Lighting of the Village” Saturday, November 13!!!  This celebration is the official kick off
of the annual “FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS”, a display of more than ONE MILLION LIGHTS and themed decorations. Local residents and visitors will enjoy beautiful traditional themed holiday décor and lights both inside and outside Fishermen’s Village.

Festivities begin at 5:00 p.m. as Santa arrives at the Village front entrance courtesy of Punta Gorda Fire Chief Ray Brigg’s Antique Fire Truck! Santa will be welcomed by the Suncoast Brass Heralding Trumpeters!   Beginning at 5:15 pm, an official ribbon cutting ceremony will take place with Santa and local dignitaries.  This year’s ribbon cutting will include a special vocal performance by Singer Isabella Stefania.  As the ribbon is cut, visitors will witness the reveal of the annual Lighting of the Village!   The Lee County Pipes and Drums Band will then parade through the Village, followed by a rousing performance in Center Court.  Other festivities include live music/dancing with the Shane Duncan Band, pictures with Santa and The Grinch (bring your camera!), Festival Glitter & Tattoos by Star Valle, Balloon Creations by Jeff the Juggler, and complimentary refreshments courtesy of Village Merchants.  Festivities continue through 9 pm.
YOUR ADMISSION:  Patrons are being asked to bring toiletries and hygiene items to be donated to “Share The Blessings Ministry”, an all-volunteer, nonprofit charity benefiting those in need in Charlotte County.  Their mission is to provide hygiene, cleaning and non-perishable food items which serve over 500 individuals and 150 families each month.

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        The Harry Chapin Mobile Food Pantry will continue to be in Punta Gorda on the 4th Thursday of each month until further notice, offering healthy foods for the needy. The next date is Jan. 25.
         The mobile pantry, assisted by volunteers from St. Vincent de Paul, Sacred Heart Conference, will be located in the Sacred Heart Church parking lot, 211 W. Charlotte Avenue, from approximately 10 a.m. to noon, or until the food runs out.
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         The Harry Chapin Food Bank solicits, collects and stores quality food for distribution to families in need through a network of nonprofit agencies in Lee, Collier, Hendry, Charlotte and Glades counties.  These agencies, including St. Vincent in Punta Gorda, provide food to thousands of people monthly.
           St. Vincent is an international Catholic lay organization founded in 1833 to serve the poor, regardless of religious affiliation. It provides food, clothing, home furnishings, and financial assistance to individuals and families in need.
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We will endevour to keep our service going to provide for your dental health.

Our Croydon dentists provide family orientated dental care offering advice and treatment in all areas of dentistry. We would love you to come and visit us. Dentistry should be a live long committment to quality smiles.

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Speaker: Chris Jelenewicz, P.E., FSFPE

Organization: SFPE International

Topic: Proliferation of Structural Fire Engineering

Abstract -- Despite its merits, the application of structural fire engineering remains relatively limited. Presently, the vast majority of structures are designed to resist fire exposure in accordance with standard fire resistance requirements. As an alternative approach, structural fire engineering explicitly evaluates the demand and capacity of structural systems under fire loading in a similar manner as other design loads are treated in structural engineering practice. This emerging field of structural fire engineering is fast approaching a “renaissance period” with recent and prospective releases of industry-consensus standards that help to consolidate the knowledge database. These standards pertain directly to structural fire engineering practice by providing guidance on the evaluation of fuel loads, fire exposure, thermal response of structures, and structural system response to fire effects. This presentation will discuss how these standards will serve to cultivate the future proliferation of structural fire engineering.

BIO -- Chris Jelenewicz, P.E., FSFPE

Chris is the Technical Director at SFPE. He serves as the Technical Editor of SFPEs Fire Protection Engineering magazine and Associate Editor of SFPEs Journal Fire Technology. He is responsible overseeing SFPE’s technical activities. Chris was featured in hundreds of articles and broadcast interviews, including the New York Times, CBS Nightly News, Public Television, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Philadelphia Daily News. Chris has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in fire protection engineering and a Master’s in Management from the University of Maryland. He is an SFPE Fellow and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in its inaugural year from the University of Maryland’s Department of Fire Protection Engineering. Chris is a licensed engineer in the States of California and Delaware.

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The intention to write a text may be born from various motivations. For visual artists, the verbal language is not the first medium of expression. Consequently, the artists writing can be situated as a space between ideas and creation.

The compiled material of words is where the intention of creation leaves traces, where the creation process is being analyzed. It is a collection of everyday thoughts, an imprint of an operating thinking. It is a place for general wonderings on Art or intimate dialogue.

Therefore, writings can take different forms: essays, personal thoughts, poems, diaries, manifestos, articles, thesis…

This bibliography doesn’t pretend to be comprehensive. It aims to consider some interesting examples regarding the wide range of forms and contents of artists’ writings.

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CAGE, John, X, writings ’72-’89, Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

Using mesostics, John Cage tries in this book to “find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them”.

KAPROW, Allan, Essays on the blurring of art and life, University of California press Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993.

Allan Kaprow can be seen as a theorist. This collection of essays written over four decades analyses and criticizes Art and its conception as an ideology, but also considers it inside society and humanity.

LEWITT, Sol, Paragraphs on conceptual artArtforum, June 1967.

“These paragraphs are not intended as categorical imperatives, but the ideas stated are as close as possible to my thinking at this time. These ideas are the result of my work as an artist and are subject to change as my experience changes.” (Sol Lewitt)

PENONE, Giuseppe, Respirer l’ombre, Paris, ENSBA, coll. Ecrits d’artistes, 2009.

“Respirer l’ombre” is a precise diary of a dialogue between artist and nature, through gestures. This collection of thoughts must be read in the light of his artworks.

WALL, Jeff, Selected essays and interviews, MOMA, 2007.

Jeff wall was a prolific writer. His art historical training background is clearly present in his work and writings. Dealing with a variety of subjects, this collection of critical essays and interviews is an important guide to his universe.

NONAS, Richard, Get out/stay away/come back, A propos de la sculpture et de la sculpture en œuvre, DijonPresses du Réel (bilingual), 1995.

This book can be seen as a work of art. According to Richard Nonas, “This book is a drawing. It is a drawing of what sculpture and its making are. It is a drawing of what sculpture can do, what it is for, what its power and limits should be. It is a drawing of the gap between ideas, and the things we make because of them. It is a drawing of the gap between a world and our views of it. It is a drawing of crossings attempted; spans holding and collapsing. It is a drawing of that repetitive process.”

BEUYS, Joseph, What is art? Conversations with Joseph Beuys, Clairview books, 2004.

This conversation is the out come of a one-day-event which took place in 1966. It started with a short introduction by Beuys himself, titled “What is art?” Then, enhanced by questions and contributions of the participants, this dialogue is developed around central themes and concerns which appears in Beuys’s works of art.

LE CORBUSIER, Talks with students, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.

In this book, Le Corbusier speaks to students as an experienced architect. Through a mutual inspiring exchange, they broach the future of architecture and the profession. “Talks to students” is also the opportunity for Le Corbusier to expose his theory concerning architecture and urbanism in general.

TARKOVSKY, Andrei, Sculpting in time, University of Texas Press, 1989.

“Sculpting in time” is not just about Tarkovsky’s filmmaking method. In this book, subjects like visual creativity, art in general, stand alongside biography anecdotes or interrogations on the specificity of cinema.

BRESSON, Robert, Notes on the cinematographer, Green Integer, 1997.

“Notes on the cinematographer” is a collection of fragmentary phrases, maxims, quotations, questions and aphorisms written by the French film maker between 1950 and 1974. Strong ideas are, here, shortly formulated. All the notes are related to cinematographer and more particularly to the creation work of Bresson itself.

KANDINSKY, Wassily, Concerning the spiritual in art, Dover publication inc., Coll. Dover books on art history, 1977.

Kandinsky’s theory of painting strongly influenced the development of modern art. The “spiritual revolution in painting” reconsidered the artist’ creation process, his responsibility, but also discusses psychology and language of colors and forms.


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Kneeling: Donald H. Tennent
Standing (L. to R.): Hugh Courtney, Roy Schroeder, Tony Johns, Charles Motley Jr. and my grandfather - Fred "Bam" Hernandez

The Crew flew from Miami on 22 February 1944 to Karachi in a C-54 cargo plane of the Air Transport Command. There were aluminum bucket seats with the backs to the sides of the plane with cargo lashed to the floor between the seats. Their stops included: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Georgetown, Guiana; Natal, Brazil; Ascension Island; The Gold Coast, Africa; Khartoum, Sudan; Masirah Island (off of Oman and finally Karachi, India on 27 February 1944. Karachi was the main assignment and relocation base in the CBI for the 10th Army Air Force.

Surviving Members of B-24 "Crew 67 '(circa 1996):

Donald H. Tennent, Roy Schroeder, Hugh Courtney, John M. "Jack" Conrad
(Not pictured: Norman Long)
Harold West, Tony Johns, Charles Motley, Jr. and Edward Moss

Harold A. West - Killed In Action, July 13, 1944 in China

- killed while with another crew, in the crash of B-24 44-40573, the "Esky II", while attempting to take off from Chenkung airfield on mission of 13 July 1944.

Charles F. Motley, Jr. - August 8, 1970 in Dallas County, TX.

Edward L. Moss - September 24, 1977 in Kannapolis, NC.

Tony R. Johns - August 28, 1995 in Mattoon, IL.

Norman P. Long - November 2, 2001 in Reading, PA.

Donald H. Tennent - April 24, 2002 in Albuquerque, NM.

Roy C. Schroeder - July 20, 2006 in Green Township, OH.

John M. Conrad - May 16, 2007 in Fairbury, NE.

Hugh Courtney - March 29, 2010 in Monroe, NY.

Rest In Peace, Gentlemen

(Photo Courtesy of Hugh Courtney/Jeff McNamee)

Left-Right: Donald Tennent, Frederic Hernandez, Jack Conrad, Norman Long
Unknown, Hugh Courtney, Edward Moss, Roy Schroeder, Harold West, Unknown

Back, Left-Right: Unk., Unk., Unk., Unk., Roy Schroeder, Hugh Courtney, Norman Long
Front, Left-Right: Donald Tennent, John Zehren, Frederic Hernandez

Donald Tennent

Donald Tennent - Casper, WY

Left to right: Donald Tennent, Unknown, Robert S. Mitchell

Left to right: Donald Tennent, Robert S. Mitchell

Hugh Courtney (New York)

Jack Conrad (Nebraska) with Tom Collins at top right photo

Robert S. Mitchell, Jack Conrad, Tom Purl

Tony Johns, Engineer

Tony Johns, Fred Hernandez, Unknown -China, 1943

Norman Long (New York)

Roy Schroeder

Left to right: Robert Crosson, Donald Tennent, John Folander, John Zehren
(I.D. Courtesy of Joe Zehren)

Flight Logs of John Zehren - 1944

Recollections of Robert Crosson

Letting off a little steam. Unk., Squadron Officer of 492nd BS, Donald Tennent

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Joe Crookston in Concert

What: Cornell Folk Song Society Concert
When: Saturday, September 27, 2008
Where: 165 McGraw Hall,
Cornell University
How Much: $15 advance / $17 door / usual discounts

No web photo available; the entire web site is one big flash animation.

Lucky for us, Joe Crookston is now based in Ithaca, where he wows appreciative crowds, but his star shines far more widely. He was one of the Top 3 Most-Wanted Artists at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and part of the Falcon Ridge Preview Tour, and a finalist in the John Lennon, Mountain Stage, and Great American Song Contests.

His latest CD, Able Baker Charlie and Dog, shot to #1 on the acoustic folk radio charts. His first recording, Fall Down as the Rain, was named by Performing Songwriter Magazine as a 2004 "TOP-12-Do-It-Yourself" and gets lots of airplay across the country, including National Public Radio features. Inspired by Woody Guthrie, Joe has made brilliant use of a Rockefeller grant to travel New York State collecting stories and working with their tellers to create "Songs of the Finger Lakes."

His music is, "Simultaneously sacred, celebratory, artful, and solidly grounded in tradition," says the Seattle Folklore Society. A serious craftsman, he has followed his father's encouragement to work with his hands (and heart) in metal and wood. This charismatic, good-souled gypsy with Hungarian roots really percolates on guitar, fiddle, and clawhammer banjo, and has a fine voice. His approach to music making is both deep and lightly playful. He's full of zest, mischief, and inner calm.

Victory Music Review says: "Joe's songs are powerful, simple, distilled lyrical paintings weaving together cycles of life and decay, cycles of joy and pain, and eventually they thread the needle through all of us...."

Note the early start for an opening act by Glass of Water, the stunning a cappella duo of Sophia Smith-Savedoff and Emily Steele Hurst. Their voices meld and diverge with clarity and beauty on wisely chosen songs from the Appalachian and shape note traditions to contemporary poetry.

Tickets are available at Ludgate Farm Market, Ithaca Guitar Works, Greenstar Co-op, Small World Music, Bound for Glory, and, if any are left, at the door. You may also order tickets online and by mail: SASE to CFSC, PO Box 481, Ithaca, NY 14851.

(Margaret Shepard and John Henderson)

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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Jack Ciattarelli: Ubiquitous AND Inimitable!

Jack Ciattarelli travels everywhere.

He affably meets with anyone and everyone and his easy smile is an instant door opener and ice breaker.

Marvelously approachable, he's also tireless. He listens, he commiserates, he offers practical, real-life solutions to the sorts of problems that New Jersey and its citizens are facing every day.

Unlike Phil Murphy, he doesn't issue pronouncements from on high or lecture or pontificate. He's also not abrupt with people. There's not even a hint of arrogance about him and he's not the least bit short-tempered. Sure, he's smart, successful, accomplished. And, as an aspiring governor, he even looks the part. But none of that seems to matter to him as he's refreshingly unselfconscious.

So, he's focused not on himself but on others and on tomorrow and on building a better tomorrow for the countless New Jerseyans he's meeting every day -- day in and day out, hour after hour and minute after minute.

And here's the most important thing that he leaves with everyone he meets: credibility. This guy is Jersey through and through. He's authentic, he's believable. And he's offering the sort of hope that the people of this state have been thirsting for -- the sort of hope they haven't felt in a long time.

There's an exuberance about this man and his campaign that is irresistible.

Avanti, Jack! AVANTI!

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Designed by Isaac Bickerstaff
Players 3-4
Length 30 min.
Extra Material None

Manipulate the cards in this trick-taking game to take as many tricks as you can, while avoiding the cursed suit.

Remove the Pawns and Courts from the deck.

Remove the 6 Aces from the deck and shuffle them together to form a draw pile. Do the same with the 6 Crowns.

Shuffle the remaining cards together and deal them out evenly to all players. The player on the dealer's left deals the first trick.

Game play

Flip over the top cards of the Ace and Crowns decks. The Ace card will determine the cursed suit, and the Crown card will determine the trump suit.

When a player leads a trick, he determines at that time which of the two suits on the card will be the suit led. Players who follow must play a card with that suit, regardless of whether or not it appears on the top or the bottom of the suits on the card. If a player does not have this suit in his hand, he may play any card he wishes. The highest card in the suit led wins the trick, unless trump has been played to the trick; in this case, the highest trump in the trick takes the trick. The situation may arise where a player follows suit and plays trump at the same time; in this situation, count the trick as having been trumped, even if this happens on the first card played to the trick, and the player does not declare that suit as the lead.

Players may not lead either the trump suit or the cursed suit until those suits have been broken by another player playing the suit as part of following a trick, or as a result of being void in the led suit.

Players should book their tricks as they win them.

At the end of the hand, players score 1 point for each trick they took, and -1 point for each card in the cursed suit that they took. Net out the scores and keep track of each player’s score.

Provided it is not the end of the game, the player on the previous dealer's left shuffles the number cards and deals the next hand.

The game ends when one player reaches -13 points. The player with the highest score wins.

Poison Nonesuch

In the The Decktet Book, the game appears as Poison Nonesuch. It works the same, except that it is played for exactly six hands and ends when the Ace and Crown piles are exhausted.

Thanks to P.D. Magnus for support and feedback on this design.

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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Add Sparkle to Your Holiday with Kirklands

Kirkland's has always been one of my go-to places for beautiful home décor.
Whenever I walk into any of their stores I know that I will be wowed by their displays.
I normally decorate with traditional red, green, and white, holiday décor, but this year I was hoping to go into a different direction but I didn't know where to start.
As I was searching for inspiration I found a collection at Kirkland's called Majestic Metallics that caught my eye.
This pillow was the first thing that I was drawn to.
I adore reindeer décor and couldn't pass up this fun pillow!
(Santa's Reindeer Pillow)
The warm gold lettering and muted tones were exactly the look I was going for.
I carried on with the look with this shimmering candle.
(Glittered Champagne Twig Candle)
The soft muted gold and silver glitter add a little sparkle to my room. The flickering light from the candle really warms up the space and makes it cozy and inviting for my guests too.
So now that I have my color pallet down,  I need to bring in some natural elements to balance out the room, and there's no better way than to add a Christmas wreath.
(Metallic Antler Wreath)
The rustic look of the pine cones and antlers mixed with the metallic balls and leaves tie everything together, and the fact that it is not real means I wont have to worry about it dyeing in the middle of the Holiday season!
A nice wreath like this is an investment because it can be used year after year in my holiday décor.
Then of course this gorgeous JOY sign.
I can't wait to prop it up on my mantel, or how about hang it by my front door instead?
Hhhmmm.......the possibilities are endless with a piece like this!
(Gold JOY Wood Plank Plaque)
These were just a few of my favorite pieces form the gorgeous Majestic Metallics line.
The muted tones mixed with the sparkle create a warm and inviting look that I want for my home this year.
There are so many ways to decorate for the Holidays that I can be frustrating. I turned to Kirkland's for inspiration because they make decorating so easy by creating different looks for your Holiday décor:

 My favorite style is the Majestic Metallics....what is yours?

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Monday, 13 February 2012

Even greyer

Worse than a traditional nightmare laced with sweating horror, are dreams of incompetence; futile improvisation that goes on and on; the impossibility of mollification; the imminence of confrontation and retribution; a 3 hour exam on a literary subject in which I’d spent months working on the wrong book, and taking twelve puppies into work where every colleague observed silent disapproval rather than, as I'd hoped, being seduced by puppiphilia. I led the doglets through the stainless steel corridor of a steaming kitchen to an annexe where they dug their muzzles into a row of bowls meant for the institution’s approved dog pack. But being pups they couldn’t eat. Returning with the intention of getting hot water and a pestle I was berated by a sensible long suffering head of catering for letting them eat food reserved for approved adult dogs. I was agreeing with all she said until I woke, a placatory rictus still on my face. These dreams are of course about death for which, having never done it, I’m unrehearsed. This morning I made a perfect bacon and egg sandwich. A fresh egg needs to be done in the American way – ‘over easy’; frying and flipping it in the pan without breaking so its soft when laid on the bacon but not so runny it bursts over my hand when I bite into it.
Long ago in America I watched a young man in front of a big hot plate preparing these things for a packed fast food place with such craft and quiet pride. It was perhaps the first lesson I had in America about the value of work - any work. This time after earlier mistakes I got it just right.
It’s not a photogenic snack but it's delicious - the food of labourers allowed to keep chickens and pigs and make their own bread.
After breakfast I went down to Ipsos harbour with Mark, met up with his brother Paul, and after I’d bailed out rain from the depression in Summersong's cockpit cover they clambered in to peer at the old rusty Yanmar; more particularly at the space into which they might fit a replacement engine.
My friends on Summersong
“Dry as a bone in there and plenty of room for working”
They were optimistic the job wasn’t so complicated if I or they could find the engine needed – reconditioned, delivering over 15hp, with properly organised electrics. By the time they’d done their inspection rain was approaching, the wind slapping running rigging, even on stretchers, against the mast, a whining wind blowing up 5 to 6 from south south east. How I longed to be out there sailing, close reefed, no engine, but it'd be truly unseamanlike for someone like me, whatever my past experience, to go out from Ipsos without a completely reliable engine with the power to get in and out of harbours and get me around in the calms. Paul drove me home.
Last night the electricity shut down in the village. Mark – I was again his and Sally’s supper guest – peered through their door over the island.
“It’s gone out everywhere. Corfu town too.”
We’d wondered if this might be a gesture by the power-workers, given strikes on Friday and Saturday. The breaks in power had been intermittent all day, as likely caused by lightning with a few minutes’ pause as new relays switched in on the mainland.
Democracy Street
Rain, thunder and lightning roamed day and night, water rippling down the streets and into the storm drains. Now and then hailstones beat a tattoo on roofs and shutters, piling on the floor of the balcony.
From our balcony
Their house cosy with plentiful candles, Mark, gazing beyond the spacious porch said
“There are lights over to the west” proving the point.
The power came on again but we lost WiFi for a few minutes. As I said goodnight the house lights stayed on, but street lights were out – on a separate supply which also powers the pumps that bring water to the village. Back at 208 I nudged our largest bowls below the gutter pipes; rainwater for washing and flushing; prepared night lights, candles and matches and a small propane stove. I’ve got bottled water for tea – and wine to drink. Reminded by loss of water and power, something familiar at this time of year, Sally and I had been discussing how we’d all experience shortages in the ‘crisis’ – the winter weather’s not unfamiliar but now it's got the feel of a dirge, stirring apprehensions. The strikes – not unfamiliar over the last few years – had this week seen people emptying supermarket shelves
“Being on an island, that happens quickly. Supplies can’t get here from the mainland.”
“I tried to put fuel in a can at the petrol pumps yesterday” said Mark, “for the boat. But they’d only let me fill the car.”
I was told of a couple trying to withdraw much needed savings, told by a bank in town they could have only the interest on their investment. Not just in Greece. An Englishman with a Greek mortgage on a house in the village had phoned a friend in Greece to say he could no longer afford the monthly payments and must, after ten years, allow foreclosure on his dream. Paul told me last night – I have neither TV nor radio – that Prime Minister Papademos spoke somberly “on all channels” of a moment midnight Sunday when the country might or might not default, that she mustn’t; that if she did everyone would find it difficult to get fuel and medicine and other “essentials”.
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There were a hundred at the seed-sharing meeting at Ano Korakiana's Agricultural Co-op. People gathered there from four-o-clock milling around a square of tables displaying free sample seeds and vine cuttings. I collected tomatoes, marrow and pepper planning to take them for our allotment in England. There were many familiar faces, more people I knew. People greeted one another, waved, shooks hands, sometimes hugged.
Chairs were laid out in rows. At five the meeting began. As usual I had to follow the sound more than the meaning, as a succession of people spoke briefly about the principles of seed-sharing, an initiative only a few years old in Greece, begun in a village in the north; in Drama, 100 miles east of Thessaloniki. All ages were here, animated, engaged, and once the meeting opened to the floor...
Sebastianos Metallinos, Σεβαστιανός Μεταλληνός, opens the meeting
...full of questions and statements and rebuttals mixed with approval and disapproval, especially for a local elected politician from the town.
"We've heard enough from you" said one woman, to clapping.
Asking a few people afterwards as we enjoyed free cheese pies, salad and wine, I had the impression younger people were keener on organic farming than the older, some of whom, with longer experience of the labour of agriculture, favoured the idea of GM crops because they didn’t need insecticide and lasted longer in storage. Others argued equally fervently that organically cultivated crops tasted better and could be grown without insecticides. But don’t we know the labour entailed growing your own vegetables, let alone ones for the market without the use of pesticides.
Γένεσις 3.19: Ἐν ἱδρῶτι τοῦ προσώπου σου φάγῃ τὸν ἄρτον σου ἕως τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι σε εἰς τὴν γῆν ἐξ ἧς ἐλήμφθης ὅτι γῆ εἶ καὶ εἰς γῆν ἀπελεύσῃ
I said to one of the organisers of the meeting how impressed I was by the turn-out and their interest.
“It’s one good thing about the crisis” he said “people enjoy coming together.”
[Back to the future: 1 Apr'12 ~ Last November, French authorities lifted a longtime ban that prohibited French farmers from planting MON810, a move that spurred nationwide backlash and protest.]
I met Sophia joined by her husband Nico
“Come to lunch tomorrow. See you around 2”

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I’ve begun reading Little Dorrit. Being a 'classic' there’s 40 pages of learned introduction which I almost wanted to tear out to get started though I was happy with Dickens’ own tongue-in-cheek preface – just a page and a half, but at last the first line ‘Thirty years ago Marseilles lay burning in the sun one day’ but even here there are numbered superscripts leading to 20 pages of ‘explanatory notes’ e.g Re 'over 30 years ago.' ‘The book was written in 1855, the setting is 1826 see note 133.’ I’m no better informed. Tear those out too, get on with the story. This will engage me until I’m on my way back to England.
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At Sophia’s and Nico’s for lunch I again met their son Adoni and was introduced to his fiancée Georgia. As we sat down for lunch the electric, off all morning, came on. They’ve a gas cooker so food was prepared. We ate and drank and talked over village wine, tasty rice and meat, fresh brown bread, stark white feta, which I’ve learned much better how to mix with whatever one’s eating and like it  all the more. Later, sweet Greek cakes and then skirto. Georgia and Adoni will be wed in a church near the city centre on 21 April. I talked of our expected grandson. We pondered ‘the crisis’, the danger for all Europe, Sunday night's predicted ‘zero hour’. Having no TV or WiFi I won’t know the news until Monday.
“Are you going to the meeting about the music school in the bandroom at 5.00?” asked Nico
“Oh can I go?”
“Of course”
I was there at five, rain pouring down the street. Unlike the Carnival meeting at the end of January, there was a paper containing an annual report, an agenda, a committee assembled behind a table, chairs opposite in rows. The meeting lasted three hours, I wilted a little half way through but most of the time was riveted as the sounds went to and fro between committee and floor, between the committee and across the floor, young and old, men and women, one moment quiet, the next in verbal dueling that would rise in loudness and tempo accompanied by animated but often graceful gestures as others joined in, to fall into silence as one person held the meeting, to finish or be interrupted.
Once or twice tempers rose, one woman was near to tears, then sobriety would return, people grinning, shaking heads, pursing lips, conferring with one another, occasionally wandering outside for a smoke or fresh air. Some would raise their hands to speak, and stand when speaking, others simply joined the fray. It was more Beethoven than Mozart. Five young children were there behaving impeccably for the whole meeting. What was agreed or not agreed and what is to be made of it for the future of Ano Korakiana’s rich music will filter through but I was delighted to have been there seeing a village at work. Afterwards Forte, Lefteri and I wandered home in the rain along an unlit street. Thought their power was back on, the light timers were out of kilter. They’d been on throughout the day on Sunday.
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Commentary with links on 13 Feb news in Greece from Corfu Blues 'What else can one post?' asks Jim Potts.
Owing to the crisis Ano Korakiana's  Carnival King announces to his beloved subjects that on 26 February this year he will arrive in our village on foot

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  1. Whilst the rest of the news is grim, the bacon and egg sandwich made me feel very hungry.

    Virtual food.

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