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Frederic Edwin Church American 1826-1900
Detail from: Heart of the Andes , 1859
Oil on canvas
Inspired by the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humbodlt ( 1769-1859), Church traveled to South America in 1853 and 1857. Heart of the Andes was synthesized from scores of pencil and oil sketches Church made in Ecuador and represents the full climatic range—from tropical to temperate to fridgid—Humbodlt had observed there a half century earlier. The painting’s original presentation accommodated both its wondrous botanical detail and its continental sweep: Church displayed it in a massive windowlike frame ( now lost) and advised visitors to view it through opera glasses, the better to share the artist’s adventure. It now appears in a frame designed by Church for another painting.
Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909
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From the placard: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Calcite boxwork from Wind Cave, southern Black Hills, western South Dakota, USA (public display, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA).
Boxwork is a scarce cave feature characterized by a network of intersecting veins projecting from cave walls or ceilings. Boxwork veins are typically composed of calcite, but quartz and gypsum boxwork have also been reported. Wind Cave in South Dakota’s Black Hills is the best locality on Earth for seeing abundant, well-developed cave boxwork. Prima facie, boxwork appears to be “just” the result of differential dissolution of intensely fractured-and-veined limestone during cave formation. Research by karst workers has shown that boxwork at Wind Cave (and other localities) has a complex origin, and requires the original presence of carbonate and sulfate sedimentary rocks (see Palmer, 2007).
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Synthesized from:
Palmer, A.N. 2007. Cave Geology. Dayton. Cave Books & Cave Research Foundation. 454 pp.
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George Knapp was a Massachusetts engineer who became President of Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company of Chicago in 1893. A few later, he came across calcium carbide, which could be used to produce acetylene, used in lighting (especially for miners) and welding. In 1892 T. L Willson had found a way for it to be synthesized in an electric arc furnace, making it cost efficient, and Knapp quickly purchased the patent. With his friend Cornelius Billings, who succeeded Knapp as president of Peoples, Knapp founded Union Cabride and by 1904 had a massive factory in Michigan. The company was a success, making Knapp exceedingly wealthy. That same year, heavily overweight and with diabetes, Knapp was advised by his doctor to move to California. Eventually he moved with his family to Santa Barbara, building several house. The most famous one, called Knapp's Castle, was located here with with five bedrooms, five fireplaces, a guest house, servant's quarters, and a superintendent's house. Knapp later became interested in philanthropy, creating Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Knapp Hospital in Crescent City.
Los Padres National Forest, Santa Barbara, California
Conglomerate & sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
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(Synthesized from info. provided by several geologists during the 2003 Annual Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists):
The Lower Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation is a 10-15 meter thick, ledge-forming, erosion-resistant unit. The Sharon is paleovalley-filling in places, so it is thicker than 10-15 meters in some spots. The jointing patterns of the Sharon Formation allow for 3-D examination around large blocks of outcrop - can see the 3-D architecture of sedimentary structures. The Pottsville Group lies over a major unconformity, which was formed by eustatic sealevel fall & erosion. The Sharon Formation is the basal unit of the Pottsville sediments over this unconformity. In terms of the tectonic setting, this is in the Appalachian Foreland Basin. What influenced sedimentation and sediment supply of the Sharon Formation during the Early Pennsylvanian? Probably a migrating forebulge and Early Pennsylvanian climatic changes. The Sharon is correlatable with the Olean Conglomerate in Pennsylvania. Both the Sharon and the Olean are time-equivalent to the Tumbling Hill Member & the Huylkill Member of the lower Pottsville Formation of central Pennsylvania (both of those members are below the major unconformity in Pennsylvania, unlike in northeastern Ohio). The Sharon Conglomerate/Formation & the Olean Conglomerate were deposited under strong north-to-south paleoflow conditions.
About twelve lithofacies can be seen in the Sharon Formation in the Akron, Ohio area. The Sharon Formation is dominantly conglomerate and sandstone, with lots of sedimentary structures. It is light on fine-grained materials. The Sharon has horizontally bedded gravels, cross-bedded gravels (including trough and tabular cross bedding), deformed/overturned cross-bed sets, basal scours up to 2 meters deep (but typically 0.5 to 1 meter deep; scours are backfilled by dune/bar back migration), whole channel fills, chute fills, and gravel bar platform deposits (usually 1-2 meters thick in the Sharon; these include bar head deposits, bar core deposits, bar tail deposits, and bar margin deposits - can usually use the presence of imbricated clasts to ID bar-head & bar-core portions of gravel bar platforms, but in the Sharon, clasts are mostly spheroidal, so it is difficult to tell specific portions of gravel platforms here). In the gravel-rich Sharon deposits, get calculated average bankfull depths of 2.1 meters, 19.9 meter average paleochannel widths, and 34.3 meter maximum paleochannel widths. Get different numbers for the sandy Sharon deposits. The Sharon is typically more conglomeratic at the base & more sandy near the top. The Sharon’s interpreted depositional environment is gravel & sand bedload streams. Paleovalleys underneath the Sharon Formation were formed when the subsidence rate was greater than the sediment supply. Paleovalley backfilling (i.e., Sharon deposits) occurred when the subsidence rate was less than the sediment supply. The change in fluvial style seen in Sharon deposits is probably due to filling & overtopping of paleovalleys.
Beds of the Sharon Formation are usually cliff-forming. The Sharon in the Akron area consists of quartz-pebble conglomerate & quartzose sandstone & pebbly quartzose sandstone & sandy quartz-pebble conglomerate & some lenses or thin intervals of granulestone. The basal Sharon is conglomeratic - the “lower conglomerate”. An “upper conglomerate” can be seen in places - it is usually quite thin (1-2 pebbles thick in places), and in some places, it splits into two horizons; in some places it’s not there at all. Pebbles are almost entirely white vein quartz, with an uncertain source from the north. Detrital muscovite in the Sharon has been dated to about 370 and 406 Ma (Devonian), so the source area includes Acadian Orogeny materials. The Sharon has relatively common cross-bedding, with a few overturned cross-beds visible in areas. Abundant iron oxide staining is present in the Sharon sandstones, with a variety of morphologies - this can weather out as resistant ridges or as 3-D surfaces. Many vugs have thick goethite linings. Many goethite-stained quartz pebbles are present. Seeps & springs occur sporadically along the sandstones of the lower Sharon Formation in places. These spring waters have widely variable pH and TDS (total dissolved solids). Some dry springs are present - conduits without water emerging. A few places in basal Sharon strata have obvious rip-up shale clasts, derived from uppermost Meadville Shale beds (below the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity). One outcrop is known with many Meadville Shale clasts mixed in with Sharon quartz pebbles - this appears to represent paleobank failure of Meadville material during near-earliest Sharon deposition.
The outcrop shown above is at Virginia Kendall Ledges in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Virginia Kendall Ledges is an isolated platform of Sharon Formation, surrounded by a lower land surface of Lower Mississippian Cuyahoga Formation shales & siltstones & sandstones. The lower Sharon Formation at this site is quite pebbly - many pebble-filled channelform features are present. Upon 3-D examination of their architecture, these are not channels or chutes, but are interpreted by Professor Neil Wells as bar confluence scours with subsequent pebble fills. The edges of the Virginia Kendall Ledges platform have large Sharon blocks separating from the rest of the platform. Abundant overturned recumbent cross beds are present - some of the world's best developed and best exposed examples. The mechanism by which crossbeds get overturned seems straightforward (unidirectional shear by fluvial currents), but the cause is not clearly understood - some cohesive agent may be required? Someone suggested biomats. Some of the scour pits in this area seem to have fairly steep margins - perhaps whatever cohesive agent was responsible for simple deformation of crossbeds was also responsible for overly steep, stable margins of depressions/chutes/channels/scours.
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Stratigraphy: Sharon Formation (also known as Sharon Sandstone or Sharon Conglomerate or Sharon Member), lower Pottsville Group, upper Lower Pennsylvanian
Locality: Virginia Kendall Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, north of Akron, northern Summit County, northeastern Ohio, USA (~~vicinity of 41° 13' 44.76" North latitude, 81° 30' 37.76" West longitude)
Kofi Delali Nutsukpo, Ghana.
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: A. Jarvis (CIAT/CCAFS)
Bhaṅgṛā Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ, بھنگڑا (Hindi: भांगड़ा, Urdu: بھنگڑا; pronounced [pə̀ŋɡɽaː]) is a form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Bhangra began as a folk dance conducted by Punjabi people to celebrate the coming of Spring, or Vaisakhi.The specific moves reflect the manner in which villagers farmed their land. This musical art further became synthesized after the partition of India, when refugees from different parts of the Punjab shared their folk dances with individuals who resided in the regions they settled in. This hybrid dance became Bhangra.The dance started from just one move and evolved later on. It has been popularized by Punjabi artists from the Sikh community, with which it is now commonly associated.[1] Today, bhangra survives in different forms and styles all over the globe – including pop music, film soundtracks, and even collegiate competitions.
FOV: 5" wide
Home made fluorescent paint made with synthesized fluorescent minerals combined with white glue and water and painted on charred wood.
Contains:
Willemite (FL+PHOS Green >UVc)
Calcite (FL Green,Red >UVb,c)
Sphalerite (FL+PHOS Orange, Blue-green >UVabc)
Scheelite (FL Blue >UVc)
Powellite (FL Yellow >UVbc)
Shown in phosphorescent state after exposure to UVabc light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosporescent
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Obtained from the basement lab. Thanks to Gordon Czop for synthesizing the scheelite and powellite.
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A native of Reggio Calabria, Boccioni studied art through the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, beginning in 1901. He also studied design with a sign painter in Rome. Together with his friend Gino Severini, he became a student of Giacomo Balla, a divisionist painter. In 1906, Boccioni studied Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles in Paris. During the late 1906 and early 1907, he shortly took drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. In 1901, Boccioni first visited the Famiglia Artistica, a society for artists in Milan. After moving there in 1907, he became acquainted with fellow Futurists, including the famous poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The two artists would later join with others in writing manifestos on Futurism.
Boccioni became the main theorist of the artistic movement. He also decided to be a sculptor after he visited various studios in Paris, in 1912, among which those of Braque, Archipenko, Brancusi, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and, probably, Medardo Rosso. While in 1912 he exhibited some paintings together with other Italian futurists at the Bernheim-Jeun, in 1913 he returned to show his sculptures at the Gallerie La Boetie: all related to the elaboration of what Boccioni had seen in Paris, they in their turn probably influenced the cubist sculptors, especially Duchamp-Villon.
In 1914, he published Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) explaining the aesthetics of the group: “While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.” He exhibited in London, together with the group, in 1912 (Sackville Gallery) and 1914 (Doré Gallery): the two exhibitions made a deep impression on a number of young English artists, in particular C.R.W. Nevinson, who joined the movement: others aligned themselves instead to its British equivalent, Vorticism, led by Wyndham Lewis.
Mobilized in the declaration of war, Boccioni was assigned to an artillery regiment at Sorte, near Verona. On 16 August 1916, Boccioni was thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and was trampled. He died the following day, age thirty-three.
TT-502 tuner module used in home made digital audio amplifier. Complete construction details are available at elect.wikispaces.com/Digital+audio+amplifier+with+PLL+syn...
Kofi Delali Nutsukpo, Ghana.
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: A. Jarvis (CIAT/CCAFS)
Nick Goldman (EMBL-EBI) was introduced by Ewan Birney (EMBL-EBI), and gave a great talk on how he and others had been able to encode digital information (text, sound and images) into synthesized DNA (i.e. not in a living organism!) and then extract those data again with only a few errors.
From a back-of-the-napkin idea to a real, working proof-of-concept, this whole story is fascinating and entertaining
Read the paper in Nature: Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA
Not the most awesome sketchnotes I've ever made. I was sitting on the floor, to start with (dead legs!) and I wasn't entirely sure who would be speaking! Oh, the tribulations. Anyway, this is one of those that works around clockwise from 12 o'clock...
Mohammed Assaduzzaman, Bangladesh.
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: A. Jarvis (CIAT/CCAFS)
(Left to right) Charles Mutai and Stephen King'uyu from Kenya.
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: V. Atakos (CCAFS)
Agate-filled geode from the Eocene of Mexico. (Jeff Smith collection)
This agate nodule is from Mexico's famous Las Choyas Geode Deposit. At this locality, geodes occur in structurally-folded, rhyolitic volcanic tuffs (ash flow tuffs) of Middle to Late Eocene age (~35 to 44 Ma). The geodes were originally cavities in the rhyolitic rock. These cavities (lithophysae) formed before the rock completely lithified. The original ash flow deposit had some subspherical structures known as spherulites, composed of glassy to cryptocrystalline material (many felsic extrusive igneous rocks have these). Expanding gases in the spherulites destroyed the material, resulting in empty spaces. In the near-latest Eocene (~35 Ma), regional rhyolite dome intrusions resulted in hot groundwater percolating through the rocks, leaching out silica and precipitating quartz in the lithophysae/cavities.
About eighty percent of the geodes mined at this site are solid agate/quartz nodules.
Locality: Las Choyas Geode Deposit, northern Aldama County, north-central Chihuahua State, northern Mexico
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Info. synthesized from:
Keller (1977) - Quartz geodes from near the Sierra Gallego area, Chihuahua, Mexico. Mineralogical Record 10: 207-212.
Smith (2010) - The Las Choyas Geode Deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico. Rocks & Minerals 85: 112-122.
Synthesize Her performs at The Holland Project in Reno.
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Sphæræ: an inflatable multi-dome pavilion
Concept and design Cocky Eek
A Synergetica Lab and ArtScience Interfaculty co-production
As part of the Studiolab open call, "Synthetically Yours", the ArtScience Interfaculty and Synergetica Lab present a series of multi-sensory performances and installations in the context of synthetic biology. Transpiring inside *Sphæræ*, these spherically projected artworks evoke the transformation of prebiotic conditions into the complex behavior and dimensionality of synthesized living cells.
credit: Cocky Eek
This is a photograph of a three-dimensional lattice composed of polyacrylate. It was printed with a custom-made 3D digital light projection (DLP) printer, designed by Monoware for UT's Page laboratory, using visible light. A novel chemical photocatalyst synthesized in the lab was dissolved in a liquid resin, causing polymerization (solidification) when excited with visible light. This catalytic system and process allows us to realize complex solid objects from simple liquid starting materials.
In this photo the 3D printed lattice is fluorescing under longwave ultraviolet light due to the BODIPY catalyst being "trapped" in the solidified resin. To read more about the chemistry showcased in this photograph, read the research group's publication (pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.0c07136).
— Lynn Stevens, Chemistry Graduate Student
Agate-filled geode from the Eocene of Mexico. (Jeff Smith collection)
This agate nodule is from Mexico's famous Las Choyas Geode Deposit. At this locality, geodes occur in structurally-folded, rhyolitic volcanic tuffs (ash flow tuffs) of Middle to Late Eocene age (~35 to 44 Ma). The geodes were originally cavities in the rhyolitic rock. These cavities (lithophysae) formed before the rock completely lithified. The original ash flow deposit had some subspherical structures known as spherulites, composed of glassy to cryptocrystalline material (many felsic extrusive igneous rocks have these). Expanding gases in the spherulites destroyed the material, resulting in empty spaces. In the near-latest Eocene (~35 Ma), regional rhyolite dome intrusions resulted in hot groundwater percolating through the rocks, leaching out silica and precipitating quartz in the lithophysae/cavities.
About eighty percent of the geodes mined at this site are solid agate/quartz nodules.
Locality: Las Choyas Geode Deposit, northern Aldama County, north-central Chihuahua State, northern Mexico
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Info. synthesized from:
Keller (1977) - Quartz geodes from near the Sierra Gallego area, Chihuahua, Mexico. Mineralogical Record 10: 207-212.
Smith (2010) - The Las Choyas Geode Deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico. Rocks & Minerals 85: 112-122.
As America warms to renewable energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is creating technologies that efficiently tap natural resources to deliver power for the nation. One potential advance in geothermal energy involves a PNNL-developed material, synthesized nanoscale metal organic heat carriers. The material, shown in the colorized image, is designed for the more efficient conversion of heat extracted from geothermal sources to electricity. It promises improved cost effectiveness and could expand the range of geothermal resources suitable for economic power production or waste heat recovery. The Geothermal Technologies Office, within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, funds the research. The material was developed at PNNL and characterized at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science national scientific user facility located at PNNL.
Research team members: Satish Nune, Pete McGrail, Jeromy Jenks and Paul F. Martin of PNNL’s Energy and Environment Directorate; and Sachin Jambovane and Arun Devaraj of PNNL’s Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate.
The image was captured with a scanning electron microscope at EMSL and was colorized by Arun Devaraj.
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"A Voice In The Desert", 2012, by Roberto Pugliese as part of "Data Deluge" at Ballroom Marfa
Robert Pugliese
A Voice in the Desert, 2012
Steel, speakers, aluminum cables, audio wire, computer, custom software
10 x 10 x 26 feet
Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa
Courtesy of the artist
The sculptural "bio-acoustic" installations of artist Roberto Pugliese explore the phenomena of sound and the relationship between man, art and technology. In a work commissioned for the exhibition, Pugliese has created an outdoor sculpture that transforms Marfa’s current weather conditions—temperature, humidity, wind speed, barometric pressure—into digital sound.
Variously arranged within large steel frames that evoke the Minimalist forms of Donald Judd, the audio speakers emit what Pugliese describes as a “sound-carpet,” which is synthesized by software that collects real-time weather data from the Web. The program for A Voice in the Desert was created using Max, a visual programming language for music and multimedia, and MSP, a Max add-on that allows digital audio signals to be manipulated in real-time.
Data Deluge, March 3 – July 8, 2012
Curated by Rachel Gugelberger & Reynard Loki
Photograph(s) by Fredrik Nilsen
Courtesy of Ballroom Marfa
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The KOM League
Flash Report
for
Week of May 17 thru 23, 2015
Due to lack of input from readers and too much output in my yard and garden this week, this report will be much briefer than past issues.
Bulletin: I interrupt this report for a late breaking story that came to my attention at the time the Columbia, Mo. Tribune hit the street on Friday afternoon May 15. I will carry the article in next week’s Flash Report. If you want a preview of it you can go to this site: www.columbiatribune.com/arts_life/community/pick-up-timel...
Ever since that report appeared in the evening edition of the Columbia Tribune my telephone has been ringing and books have been flowing out the garage door like hot molten lava going downhill. (But it is a small flow). I am going to have some great and unlikely tales about the people who showed up to claim their prize in my next report. As I attempt to reduce the stack of books in my garage I’m reminded of the legendary stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee. When asked why she didn’t bare all she replied “If you give it away you can’t sell it.” In that spirit my saying is “If you can’t sell your published books, give them away.”
With the “Midweek Missive” being sent last week I’m about out of anything of significance to report. The primary reason for sharing the May 12th information was to let Lilburn Smith’s friends know of his passing. I had planned to share his full obituary in this issue but what was released through Internet sources was pretty sparse. So, if you need to know more about him get in touch and I will either give you a response or find someone who can.
Another reason for sending out the May 12th report was to see if I could find more information on Jack Lee Dorrell. I didn’t mention him by name for a reason. That being, I didn’t want to influence anyone with what they might wish to share. I had heard some conflicting stories over the years with regard to his life. Fortunately, some of the tales I heard were not true. Here is a quote from the previous Flash Report and I’ll go from there. “Look the photo over ‘real good’ and let me know who you think the Yankees signed. The third guy signed, and not in this photo, inked his contract in 1954. That one is pretty easy. Another hint about probably the least identifiable was that in 1952 he was one of the top 48 high school football players in the State of Kansas. I probably just gave you the hint that makes him identifiable to most of the readers. And, if you haven’t figured it out by now his dad was born at Ash Grove, Mo. in 1884. He was a widower by 1915. He was a miner who moved to Prosperity, MO (between Carthage and Joplin) where he took unto himself his second wife that was where his son was born in 1933. (Later found the son’s birth place as Picher, OK) Daddy was 49 when the future Whiz Kid was born. The young man’s dad died in Baxter Springs in 1949. Okay, that is enough of the hints about the young men Tom Greenwade signed out of Baxter Springs, Kansas. I’m working on a story for the next Flash Report and I thought maybe someone would like to fill in the blanks.”
Coming in as the first guess as to who the third Baxter Springs Whiz Kid was receiving a “significant” bonus from the Yankees was from Bob Mallon. He was Mantle’s roommate at Independence in 1949. Here was his guess. “Was the other boy named Deatherage? Mantle got 1500.00 dollars. I'll guess the other boy got 6000.00 dollars. In reply to that guess I stated “Abner Edward Deatherage was a Joplin High athlete but never played for the Whiz Kids. He became a foreign service agent.”
Next up in answering the quiz regarding three Whiz Kids getting bonuses to sign with the Yankees came from Don Steele. He wrote “Hello John...Would one of Greenwade’s signees be Jack Dorrell? Well, of course he hit the nail on the head.
Ed reply
I was looking at some old Joplin Globe stories and I figured out Jack Dorrell got more money to sign with the Yankees than either Mickey Mantle ($1,500) or Ralph Terry ($2,000). I know that he died around age 30 in Baxter Springs. Do you know what he did after high school and that one season in minor league baseball? I wonder if he worked in the mines around there? You guys had a great football season in 1952. Carthage (MO) used to play Baxter Springs, once in a while, in football. I don't recall if those two teams played each other that year or not.
Steele’s reply:
Jack died at the age of 31 due to a blood clot after a surgery at Baxter Memorial. He had married a daughter of one of the owners of Root Mfg. and became a salesman for that company.
We did have a great season in 1952 going undefeated. Our only blemish was a tie with Carthage. We had beaten them the prior year 12-6. Guess who caught the winning TD!
Jack was my best friend in school and was truly sorry to lose him.
Ed reply:
Thanks for that update. I never knew what happened to Jack. Some of the guys had asked me about him and I just didn't know anything.
Congratulations on that winning catch even though it was against Carthage. I remembered that Carthage Tigers always had its hands full when they played your Baxter Springs Lions.
Comment:
With the issue on Jack Lee Dorrell resolved I went directly to another question I’ve never been able to figure out about another Whiz Kid team member from 1948, Gene Linderman-Lindenman?? This note was sent to Don Steele. “If Gene was Linderman's middle name his first name was Floyd. He had a sister named Nellie and two other brothers one of which was Albert. Do any of those names ring a bell? Another interesting item is that Jack Dorrell and his family lived on the 600 block with the Linderman family in 1940. One was at 607 and the other 615. That family must have included Gene. I did verify that Jack Dorrell was born in Picher, OK by virtue of the 1940 Federal Census.
Steele’s reply:
I remember Gene, but no one else in that family. My memory keeps telling me that Gene spelled his last name Lindenman. I will try to research that further and get back to you.
Ed reply:
There was a Juanita and a Richard Lindenman in the 1941 Baxter Springs Yearbook. On the same page was Robert Steele Jr. That was their sophomore year. (A quick errata note was sent. “That was Floyd Steele Jr. in the 1941 yearbook.)
Steele’s reply:
Floyd was our oldest brother. He graduated in 1943 and entered the Navy, serving on the U.S.S. Hornet. He is now 89 years old. I would ask him if he knew Richard Linderman, but unfortunately has severe dementia.
Ed reply:
Juanita was the sister of Richard Lindenman. She died in Bartlesville, OK in 2002.
For what it’s worth, which isn't much, the Joplin Globe always spelled the name, Linderman. They had him in an article from August 21, 1948 as being one of the Whiz Kids who went to see the Red Sox and Yankees play the Browns on the 18th and they saw a doubleheader with the Yankees on the 19th. That was the trip where Jim Kenega started climbing the side of the YMCA in St. Louis claiming he was “Spider Man” and in the process had Barney Barnett very upset. I do have a photo of the group who made that trip and they posed in front of the YMCA which was directly behind the centerfield wall at Sportsman’s Park.
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Another former Whiz Kid responded with his wife doing the computer work.
John: Both of my computers are down. One is in the shop & the other one I am dealing with (very slowly). 1949 Mickey, 1954 Ralph Terry signed with Greenwade. Wylie signed in 1947. Billy Joe Pace & Bennie Lee signed with Miami Owls soon after. Babe Garrison (pitcher). Seven signed professionally that he knew from the Whiz Kids.
I’ll get back to you as soon as I get up and rolling. Mary Ann Pitts—Riverton, KS
Ed reply:
Also Jack Dorrell signed with the Yankees in 1953. The first Whiz Kid to sign was Jackie Moore with Miami in 1946. Of course Ray, Roy and Max Mantle signed after playing for the Kids and Tri-State Miners. I think Ben Craig played a couple of weeks in the Sooner State League, didn't he? Also, Jim Kenaga played for about seven years in the Big State and Sooner State leagues.
The Pittsburgh Pirates tried to sign Nick Ferguson after he moved to San Diego, from Commerce, OK, but they were going to send him to Bartlesville and he didn't want to return to Oklahoma so he didn't sign with them.
The whole point of my inquiry was to learn little bit more about Jack Dorrell. I think he was 30 years old when he died. I've been trying to figure out what he did in the 10 year period after he played minor league ball with Owensboro, Kentucky and Joplin in 1953. (That was determined in my correspondence with Don Steele)
Billy Joe Pace and Bennie Lee signed with Miami in 1950. George Garrison pitched for Miami in 1951 when I was the batboy at Carthage. Garrison also played for Miami in 1950. Out of that group of fellows only George Garrison survives. He lives in Joplin and the last time we spoke I found out he spends part of each Sunday in Webb City where he attends church services.
When Mickey Mantle went to Coffeyville, KS on the night of his high school graduation, Wylie Pitts was back with the Whiz Kids. Tom Greenwade was there to ink Mantle to a Yankee contract and was shocked to see Pitts wasn’t playing professional a baseball that season. As it turned out Mantle had a good night at the plate in that “last look see” before being signed but Wylie Pitts had a better one.
Comment:
This story was found on the Internet regarding Ralph Terry www.agg.com/media/interior/publications/baseball49th.pdf It is mostly accurate but some obvious errors such as Tom Greenwade being called “Greenway.”
One thing to which I’d take exception is the spelling of Tom Greenwade’s name and also the lack of any mention of Terry’s days with the Whiz Kids and also at Independence. I’ve spoken with Terry a number of times and his Whiz Kid experience was very important in his life. I guess it proves that it depends upon who is doing the interview and writing the story on what gets reported. At the time of Mickey Mantle’s funeral Ralph Terry picked up Barney Barnett Jr. at the Lowell, KS nursing home where Barney was living and they drove to Dallas. On the way home they stopped at the old Whiz Kid ball park for a moment of remembrance and the shedding of a few tears.
Still on the topic of Mantle et. al.
John, still have Mantle Pins? I can't find the address to send the ten dollars
Ed reply:
I can solve that dilemma.
John G. Hall
1709 Rainwood Place
Columbia, MO 65203
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Lilburn Smith remembered:
I DO REMEMBER THE NAME LILBURN SMITH FROM 1948 WHEN HE AND HARLAND (Coffman) PLAYED IN INDEPENDENCE. Donna Coffman—Topeka, KS
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A few people I’ve known weren’t connected to baseball
A note to a friend in Texas who lived near a guy I saw mentioned on the Internet this past week. “ I just saw the obituary of a guy I got to know in Round Rock, Texas. It was the obituary of Johnny Gimble. He was a great guy. I was talking about him this past week with the columnist who was interviewing me for a story. Then, a couple of days later I found that Gimble had “graduated” to another realm. Gimble was the kind of guy who didn't let fame and talent go to his head.” www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=John...
Friend’s reply:
I saw that in the paper today. A fiddler. Sorry, Dave—Austin,TX
Tying the loose ends.
A note was received from a lady by the name of Connie Ward stating that her husband, Jim, would take one of those Mantle books because he was interested in the subject. On the other hand Connie claimed to want the book because of the author and she wished to learn more about Baxter Springs, KS.
It is doubtful that Connie has or ever will see the bright lights and skyscrapers of the old mining town. Going back in history was family by the name of Nealy and one of the Nealy girls became my grandmother. She married Geddes Hall at the turn of the 19th century and they moved about from such places as Ford County, Kansas to Delta, Iowa and to many of the mining communities of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas. They never “stooped” so low as to live in Oklahoma. Ha!! ha!!
In this section of the report I’ll attempt to synthesize every thing contained in the rest of it. Back in the mid 1920’s my paternal grandparents were pretty much Baxter Springs residents. In 1931 my grandfather was suffering from a mine related lung disease and after a trip to a hospital in Topeka went back to Baxter Springs and died. My grandfather, Geddes, was the great grandfather of the lady I mentioned earlier, Connie Ward. Connie’s father (son of Geddes) passed away in 1919 in a mine accident while he was oiling the machinery on the surface. At barely age 18 he was too young to do a dangerous task. The machine he was oiling caught his clothing, pulled him inward and took his life. Connie’s father was just an infant at the time and never knew his father, Harry.
Are you still with me?
Like my second cousin, Connie, I lost a Hall family member way too early. By 1930 my dad was still living in Baxter Springs and didn’t leave there until his father died, in 1931. At that time he moved my grandmother and Connie’s great grandmother (same person) to Carthage.
All things in research will take you to places you never imagined. The KOM league has been the basis of all my research in the past 20 years. One day I was searching for former members of the 1946 Miami, OK Blues and the trail of a member of that Miami team pointed directly to Baxter Springs. In looking up the ancestry of the person I’ll call William Jackson Moore, since that was his name, caused me stop and glare at the Census page where his name was contained on the 1930 Census. I had seen thousands of pages of Census records but not many so fully filled out and with such great handwriting. When I determined Moore was the fellow who played for Miami I looked at the top of the page to see who had done such a great job of filling out the form. It read “Cecil C. Hall.” Other than seeing his signature on a couple of documents in the past I had never witnessed his penmanship. I can assure you that I don’t possess the same skill daddy did.
Now, this is a shaggy dog story so stay with me. Connie’s father, Ernest Hall, left the area after hid dad, Harry, was killed and moved back to the small community where Ernest’s mother, Bryna, had been raised. It was a place actually called Competition, Missouri.
Over the years, when I was a kid growing up in Carthage, cousin Ernest (21-years my senior) was connected with the Federal Narcotics Agency, the forerunner to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and going between investigations in Oklahoma and Kansas City would stop for a visit. Cousin Ernest and I never talked about that affiliation. However, in recent years I was contacted by former Iola Indian, Bill Ashcraft, and in comparing notes both he and another former KOM leaguer Bernard Leroy Coulter had worked in the DEA with cousin Ernest.
Well, that is part of the story as to how I can locate information if I have any questions. In the case of Jack Dorrell and Jim Linderman I made contact with Don Steele. He played his high school sports at Baxter Springs, KS and then attended Joplin Junior College. While there he played on the same basketball team with Eddie Nealy from Webb City, MO. Eddie’s father was the brother to my grandmother Minnie B. Hall.
When I want to know something about Eddie’s college days I ask Don Steele. Like many of my cousins, I never got to know Eddie real well but saw him play basketball against Carthage during my days in junior high. I must say that I didn’t get the writing skills from my father or my athletic ability from Eddie.
However, he did pass along those genes to son Eddie Jr. who plied his skills with Kansas Sate University and later with the Chicago Bulls during the heyday of the era that included Michael Jordan.
Now you know how I obtain reliable information. It all reverts to Baxter Springs, Kansas. By the way my mother and dad made the trek by streetcar from Carthage to the Kansas mining town for their wedding
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Going way back
From time to time, like most of the time, I’ll mention amateur teams around SW Missouri, NE Oklahoma and SE Kansas. Those teams were loaded with players who went on to professional baseball careers and other significant fields of endeavor. The Baxter Springs Whiz Kids are now well known to this readership. I suspect Yours truly has written more about that team than anyone.
In the era of the Whiz Kids there was a team out of Treece, Kansas called “The Tri-State Miners.” Many of the guys who played for the Whiz Kids also saw action with the Miners.
When word got out that there were some cheap Mantle books to be had I had a call (not Hadacol) from Grove, Oklahoma. The caller introduced himself as Dewayne Treece. I chuckled and remarked, “That is a pretty famous name.” Dewayne said that his ancestors had founded that mining town which for the readers in “far away” places sits on the Oklahoma-Kansas border and is a “twin city” to the recently condemned and vacated, Picher, OK. In a recent Flash Report I mentioned Jack Johnston whose father, “Rattler,” founded the Tri-State Miners before turning it over to Jack McGoyne, who, when he was playing, was a baker for Junges Bakery in Joplin. (Junge’s was the bakery that introduced “Bunny Bread” to the grocery stores of the area. Bunny Bread was an instant hit with the homemakers who would stand in line waiting for the truck to arrive each morning.. The bread came to the stores, (Safeway, where I worked) still warm, and could only be stacked two rows high. The real reason for that was due to the amount of air in the bread but you would never have convinced the ladies standing in line that was what made it so soft.)
Dewayne recalls attending many games in 1950 when Joplin was in the Western Association and Mantle was playing shortstop for that club. He recalled one game where the home plate umpire was a bit “questionable” on some strike calls. The batter happened to be Mantle and the first pitch was out of the strike zone in his estimation. The second pitch was even worse, in Mantle’s opinion. Dewayne recalled that Mickey’s dad, Mutt, had told his son never to argue a pitch call. So, according to Dewayne, Mantle glared at the umpire. On the third pitch Mantle hit a ball over the flag pole in centerfield.
Of course, if anyone saw Joplin play in 1950 they would recall Lou Skizas for two things, being able to hit hard line drives and then having a “ceremony” before stepping into the batters box. He had to enter between the umpire and catcher for starters and then slip his hand in his back pocket before hitting. There are a lot of stories about that but one of my readers was the batboy for Independence, KS in 1949 when Skizas showed up there, about a month into the season, and the other batboy was at Kansas City when Skizas showed up there. So, if Dan Dollison and Jim Jay wish to comment about their memories of Skizas I’ll share them in this forum in upcoming issues.
Other stories about Ralph Terry, Ken and Cletis Boyer and Sherman Lollar wound up in Dewayne’s conversation with me. But, I don’t have the space for all that. However, he did inject the names of Bobby Cox and Jim Beauchamp and a banker from Grove, OK. Bobby Cox hired Jim Beauchamp as a coach with the Braves. That led to the banker being allowed in the Braves clubhouse and being treated like royalty. Beauchamp had KOM league ties through his uncle, Herschel Beauchamp, who was a co-founder of the KOM league and President of the Miami, OK baseball team in 1946.
During the 1951 season Jim Beauchamp saw KOM games at Miami, Ralph Terry attended a few at Bartlesville, OK and as a batboy for Carthage that year I didn’t realize that two of the young men viewing those games would have big league careers and the only games at the “top of the heap” I’d ever get into would be by virtue of paying the price of admission.
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About out of stuff to report.
The following article is one I found tucked away on the Internet that I had written about a decade ago. For those of you who are new to the Flash Report you may find some of this material of interest. And, then again, maybe not. The following article was written to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the KOM league. This is the 70th year of the league’s founding and next May 1 will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first year of operation.
Glimpses of Baseball
By John G. Hall
Friday September 15, 2006
September 6, 2006 was a day when the pick-up truck was pointed Southwest and the occupants took a 225 mile trip from Columbia to a destination to relive some memories of a part of history that began in 1946.
With the cessation of hostilities of World War II, the minds of Americans again returned to baseball, apple pie and Chevrolets. The years of ration stamps and cities devoid of young males had come to an end. Many of the young men returned to the United States to pursue their aspirations of playing baseball. The places where those dreams could be pursued were in leagues that spanned classifications including: D, C, B, A, AA, AAA and the Majors.
The landscape of minor league baseball stretched from border to border and coast to coast. The "D" leagues were found in towns with populations ranging from 10,000-15,000. One such Class D league sprang up in 1946 and included the towns of Carthage in Missouri; Iola, Chanute, Iola and Pittsburg in Kansas, along with Miami and Bartlesville in the Sooner State. In 1947, the towns of Ponca City, Oklahoma and Independence, Kansas were added to the league and, with the Brooklyn Dodgers sending players to Ponca City and the New York Yankees sending peach-faced boys to Independence, some great baseball players called the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri (KOM) league, home for their initial year in the game.
From that humble beginning, 32 (later found two more) young men worked their way to the top of the baseball ladder: the Major League level, which in that era was limited to 400 players. One of those 32 was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame--Mickey Charles Mantle.
Many of the aspirations of young ballplayers of the 1946-1952 era were interrupted due to another armed conflict and three lost their lives on the battlefield called Korea. Many of the 1588 young men who didn't make it to the Major Leagues played the game for another decade or so and found their way to the higher classifications of baseball.
As with all dreams they come to an end and reality sets in. In a twelve year effort, Yours Truly has attempted to locate the young men who wore the uniform of a KOM League team, even if it was only for one day. At the present time, 1225 (number has increased to about 1450 since that time) of those former players have been contacted or their fate determined.
Learning of the post baseball lives of those formerly young men has precipitated the publishing of three books, a newsletter that has been published for 12 years and a KOM League Internet Flash Report that is published probably far too often for those on the receiving end.
One of the most popular functions of the past dozen years is the gathering of former players, their families, friends and former fans. These functions have been held around the Northeast Oklahoma, Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri area where the KOM league teams competed. This past weekend, the beautiful surroundings of Precious Moments in Carthage, Missouri were the site billed as the 60th Anniversary celebration of the league. It was also stated that it would be the final event.
For an event that was supposed to start on Thursday, it was my decision, as coordinator of the event, to get there before anyone else and get the "loose ends" handled. Upon my arrival at the Precious Moments headquarters, I was shocked to find 17 people in town one day ahead of any planned events.
Those early arrivals had come from Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, California, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Their first clamor was "Where are we eating?" So, an unscheduled dinner was quickly set up and a weekend of fun began.
This writers affiliation with the KOM league was that of a batboy. Only 10 years of age when I first took on the job of visiting team batboy at Carthage, it was my job to look after the wants and needs of the ballplayers. It was only poetic justice that as I entered the motel in Carthage I found a number of the guys and gals refusing to go to their rooms. A snake had been spotted inching its way along the wall to the rooms in the 100-190 section. With my room assignment of 163, I assumed I would have to do my St. Patrick or Steve Irwin impersonation and rid the motel of at least one snake. Since it was only about a foot long, it was presumed that there were more from where that one emanated.
Throwing caution to the wind the snake was captured, placed in a baseball cap and escorted outside. Upon release, it curled up in a knot and then sprang for freedom as it straightened out its body. Everyone speculated as to what kind of snake it was. Not one person guessed right. It was a Great Plains Rat Snake. Needless to say, no one in rooms 100-190 slept too soundly the first night.
On Thursday the crowd gathered from across the United States and by mid-afternoon over 100 people were registered representing 20 states. The usual cast of characters showed up with a few new faces. One person getting a lot of attention was the last St. Louis Cardinal manager to lead the team to a World Series title -- former manager Whitey Herzog.
Herzog looked much younger than his 75 years on this planet would indicate. He was there with former Kansas City and New York Yankee second baseman, Jerry Lumpe. Lumpe and Herzog had played for the 5th Army team at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri in 1953 and that club eventually went on to win the National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita, Kansas. Three other former players on that Ft. Leonard Wood team and their wives attended the reunion.
Registered at the reunion were eight men who were former major leaguers. To recite their names to baseball fans of this era would bring blank stares. However, these names: Bill Virdon, Bob Speake, Boyd Bartley, Gale Wade, Cloyd Boyer and Joe Stanka were known to fans of the 1940s, 50s and even into the 1960s.
In the environment of the KOM League reunions, however, the fellows who only played one year and that at the Class D level are held in as high esteem as the guys who "made it all the way."
Walking through the reunion venues a lot can be learned about the success of the baseball players. On their fingers are World Series rings and around the necks of some of the wives hang a World Series ring altered for necklace apparel.
Over the course of the many reunions, one of the impressive things is the number of couples who have been married to the same partner for 50 to 60 years. These are people of great moral character. Over the years a large number of the former players have provided constant care for their disabled spouse. They took their wedding vows seriously and never complained.
In their days in the KOM League many of the players dated the local girls. Each went their separate ways and yet, when the wives of the players pass away or the husbands of the former local girls go to the great beyond, it is not uncommon for Yours Truly to receive a call from each of those groups asking about their former boy and girl friends. Time changes a lot of things, but it doesn't erase memories.
KOM League reunions follow a fairly predictable format. There are initial greetings, a lot of eating, sight seeing, shopping, more eating and finally the final banquet. At the final banquet, it is never known in advance what the entire program will be. As the reunion, organizer great attempts are made to give it some structure but old baseball players can decimate the best laid plans.
On Saturday evening, I arrived at the Precious Moments eating establishment to find a couple of the fellows selling raffle tickets. When I inquired as to what they were doing, I was informed it was none of my business. Later in the evening, the drawing for the prize was made. The winner was Bill Clark of Columbia, Missouri, but I was handed an envelope stuffed full of money instead. From the raffle, the fellows had collected more than $1,000.
To say the least, I was speechless and that is a difficult thing for me to be. What Clark had won through the raffle was a baseball lamp. The lamp's pedestal was constructed of ash, the same lumber used in the manufacture of baseball bats. The pedestal was an exact replica of home plate. The supports for the lamp were three miniature Louisville Slugger bats with a former KOM leaguers name on each--Mickey Mantle. A set of baseball spikes was placed on the home plate with an official National League baseball signed by three former KOM leaguers who attended the reunion--Bill Virdon, Gale Wade and Bob Speake.
Speaking of Speake, I couldn't speak at that moment and signaled the Miller Bluegrass band to continue to "pick and grin." In my most valiant effort, I was attempting to delay the inevitable--my final statement. At the close of the musical portion of the reunion, Joe Stanka, former Chicago White Sox hurler and later the first American to star in the Japanese Major Leagues, stepped forward.
In 1951, when I was the Carthage Cubs batboy, Stanka and his manager, George Scherger were two fellows the Carthage fans "loved to hate." Stanka came to the front, turned to the audience and encouraged them to stand and give the old batboy the longest and loudest ovation they had ever given anyone in their lives. That was a nice gesture on his part but way too embarrassing for the recipient of the accolades.
With the applause concluded, it was time to utter the last words of that reunion. After a couple of futile attempts at getting the words out, they finally came. My concluding remark was, "As a young man I went in search of my heroes and I found you."
posted by John @ 8:03 AM
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Subject: Payne, Eugene H
Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011
Parke, Davis & Company
Type: Black-and-white photographs
Topic: Chemistry
Women scientists
Antibiotics
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2148]
Summary: left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011). Payne was the first person to use chloromycetin on humans and Rebstock, the leader of the Parke-Davis Research Laboratories team, was the first person to synthesize the drug
Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
Entry in category 1. Object of study; Copyright:
CC-BY-NC-ND: Jan Warncke
The image was acquired with a Nikon D810, 105 mm, f/13, 1/250 s, ISO 200, using two external flashes.
High concentrations of precipitated DNA become visible to the naked eye as a white substance, appearing like a cloud or a thread made of many strings.
DNA encodes the information needed by cells to synthesize proteins. By genetically modifying DNA, additional features can be added to proteins, allowing for example their visualisation in the cell. DNA as shown in the image is given into cells, which then read the DNA and produce the respective protein. By doing this, I try to understand how proteins of the malaria parasite alter the host cell, the human red blood cell.
Each time I can see DNA with my eyes, I am amazed. Being the biological information storage system, this molecule gives and determines life in a very literal way.
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A spatially resolved Fourier Transform infra-red spectroscopic image depicting the broad spectral absorbance (3 - 330 um) of a suspended multi-walled carbon nanotube film (25 nm diameter, 500 µm long) synthesized via thermal chemical vapor deposition and mechanically extruded to form free-standing aligned nanotube arrays.
Per the NMAAHC website:
"The NMAAHC’s highly symbolic presence on the National Mall is matched by the symbolism of the building itself. Lead designer David Adjaye and lead architect Philip Freelon, together with their architectural team Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, won the international competition in April 2009 to design and deliver the museum to the people of the United States. Groundbreaking on the five-acre site took place in February 2012, with the museum opening on September 24, 2016.
The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, Adjaye grew up as a citizen of the world; he has lived in Egypt, England, Lebanon, and Tanzania; and has visited all 54 independent nations of Africa. Freelon is the leading designer for African American museums today. And before his death in February 2009, J. Max Bond Jr. designed African American historic sites, museum, and archives around the world. As a result, the architects have synthesized a variety of distinctive elements from Africa and the Americas into the building’s design and structure.
By wrapping the entire building in an ornamental bronze-colored metal lattice, Adjaye and the other architects pay homage to the intricate ironwork that was crafted by enslaved African Americans in Louisiana, South Carolina, and elsewhere."
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Conglomerate & sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
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(Synthesized from info. provided by several geologists during the 2003 Annual Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists):
The Lower Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation is a 10-15 meter thick, ledge-forming, erosion-resistant unit. The Sharon is paleovalley-filling in places, so it is thicker than 10-15 meters in some spots. The jointing patterns of the Sharon Formation allow for 3-D examination around large blocks of outcrop - can see the 3-D architecture of sedimentary structures. The Pottsville Group lies over a major unconformity, which was formed by eustatic sealevel fall & erosion. The Sharon Formation is the basal unit of the Pottsville sediments over this unconformity. In terms of the tectonic setting, this is in the Appalachian Foreland Basin. What influenced sedimentation and sediment supply of the Sharon Formation during the Early Pennsylvanian? Probably a migrating forebulge and Early Pennsylvanian climatic changes. The Sharon is correlatable with the Olean Conglomerate in Pennsylvania. Both the Sharon and the Olean are time-equivalent to the Tumbling Hill Member & the Huylkill Member of the lower Pottsville Formation of central Pennsylvania (both of those members are below the major unconformity in Pennsylvania, unlike in northeastern Ohio). The Sharon Conglomerate/Formation & the Olean Conglomerate were deposited under strong north-to-south paleoflow conditions.
About twelve lithofacies can be seen in the Sharon Formation in the Akron, Ohio area. The Sharon Formation is dominantly conglomerate and sandstone, with lots of sedimentary structures. It is light on fine-grained materials. The Sharon has horizontally bedded gravels, cross-bedded gravels (including trough and tabular cross bedding), deformed/overturned cross-bed sets, basal scours up to 2 meters deep (but typically 0.5 to 1 meter deep; scours are backfilled by dune/bar back migration), whole channel fills, chute fills, and gravel bar platform deposits (usually 1-2 meters thick in the Sharon; these include bar head deposits, bar core deposits, bar tail deposits, and bar margin deposits - can usually use the presence of imbricated clasts to ID bar-head & bar-core portions of gravel bar platforms, but in the Sharon, clasts are mostly spheroidal, so it is difficult to tell specific portions of gravel platforms here). In the gravel-rich Sharon deposits, get calculated average bankfull depths of 2.1 meters, 19.9 meter average paleochannel widths, and 34.3 meter maximum paleochannel widths. Get different numbers for the sandy Sharon deposits. The Sharon is typically more conglomeratic at the base & more sandy near the top. The Sharon’s interpreted depositional environment is gravel & sand bedload streams. Paleovalleys underneath the Sharon Formation were formed when the subsidence rate was greater than the sediment supply. Paleovalley backfilling (i.e., Sharon deposits) occurred when the subsidence rate was less than the sediment supply. The change in fluvial style seen in Sharon deposits is probably due to filling & overtopping of paleovalleys.
Beds of the Sharon Formation are usually cliff-forming. The Sharon in the Akron area consists of quartz-pebble conglomerate & quartzose sandstone & pebbly quartzose sandstone & sandy quartz-pebble conglomerate & some lenses or thin intervals of granulestone. The basal Sharon is conglomeratic - the “lower conglomerate”. An “upper conglomerate” can be seen in places - it is usually quite thin (1-2 pebbles thick in places), and in some places, it splits into two horizons; in some places it’s not there at all. Pebbles are almost entirely white vein quartz, with an uncertain source from the north. Detrital muscovite in the Sharon has been dated to about 370 and 406 Ma (Devonian), so the source area includes Acadian Orogeny materials. The Sharon has relatively common cross-bedding, with a few overturned cross-beds visible in areas. Abundant iron oxide staining is present in the Sharon sandstones, with a variety of morphologies - this can weather out as resistant ridges or as 3-D surfaces. Many vugs have thick goethite linings. Many goethite-stained quartz pebbles are present. Seeps & springs occur sporadically along the sandstones of the lower Sharon Formation in places. These spring waters have widely variable pH and TDS (total dissolved solids). Some dry springs are present - conduits without water emerging. A few places in basal Sharon strata have obvious rip-up shale clasts, derived from uppermost Meadville Shale beds (below the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity). One outcrop is known with many Meadville Shale clasts mixed in with Sharon quartz pebbles - this appears to represent paleobank failure of Meadville material during near-earliest Sharon deposition.
The outcrop shown above is at Virginia Kendall Ledges in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Virginia Kendall Ledges is an isolated platform of Sharon Formation, surrounded by a lower land surface of Lower Mississippian Cuyahoga Formation shales & siltstones & sandstones. The lower Sharon Formation at this site is quite pebbly - many pebble-filled channelform features are present. Upon 3-D examination of their architecture, these are not channels or chutes, but are interpreted by Professor Neil Wells as bar confluence scours with subsequent pebble fills. The edges of the Virginia Kendall Ledges platform have large Sharon blocks separating from the rest of the platform. Abundant overturned recumbent cross beds are present - some of the world's best developed and best exposed examples. The mechanism by which crossbeds get overturned seems straightforward (unidirectional shear by fluvial currents), but the cause is not clearly understood - some cohesive agent may be required? Someone suggested biomats. Some of the scour pits in this area seem to have fairly steep margins - perhaps whatever cohesive agent was responsible for simple deformation of crossbeds was also responsible for overly steep, stable margins of depressions/chutes/channels/scours.
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Stratigraphy: Sharon Formation (also known as Sharon Sandstone or Sharon Conglomerate or Sharon Member), lower Pottsville Group, upper Lower Pennsylvanian
Locality: Virginia Kendall Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, north of Akron, northern Summit County, northeastern Ohio, USA (~~vicinity of 41° 13' 44.76" North latitude, 81° 30' 37.76" West longitude)
Gabrielle Kissinger, Lexeme Consulting.
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: A. Jarvis (CIAT/CCAFS)
I walked around the Penang Chinatown and Little India. There was a Chinese Opera in one Temple.
Chinese opera of the Peking variety is a difficult abstract art which synthesizes music, drama, dancing, and acrobatics along with very elaborate costumes and a minimum of props, according to traditions and customs dating back as far as the twelfth century. Very early in their training Chinese opera performers begin specializing in one of the four principal types of roles: sheng (.....), tan (.....), ching (.....), and chou (.....). It should be noted that, at least theoretically, any of these character roles can be portrayed by persons of either gender. The male roles, sheng, are divided into mature, young, and militant or martial, personality, and social position ranging from common to royal. The hsiao sheng is usually a young scholar or a lover; the wu sheng, a fighting or military man; the lao sheng or hsu sheng, an aged man; the hung sheng, a red-faced aged man. The militant or martial males are skilled in the art of kung fu.
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The showcase continues to be an amazing success and we're aiming to make next year's Showcase even better! The 2009 Showcase will take place over TWO NIGHTS in the HISTORIC KIMO THEATER in downtown Albuquerque. The 2009 show will continue to feature an art show in the adjoining Kimo Theater gallery space.
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Geeta Chandran (Delhi) - Bharatnatyam - 20 October 2010 (Wednesday)
Geeta Chandran has been trained by eminent Bharatanatyam gurus, including Smt Swarna Saraswathy and Guru KN Dakshinamurthi Pillai. She has ably synthesized her eclectic training to present unique dance presentations in which she skilfully weaves abstract notions of joy, beauty, values, aspiration, myth and spirituality. Celebrated for her composite understanding of Bharatanatyam, Geeta is also an accomplished Carnatic vocalist. She is known for her work in television, film and theatre as also in dance education, activism and journalism. She is the founder-president of Natya Vriksha where she teaches and promotes Bharatanatyam. She is also the artistic director of the Natya Vriksha Dance Company, which has travelled all over the world with its superb dance presentations. Geeta has received many prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Padma Shri.
Presentation
In Revision, her presentation for the evening, Geeta Chandran and her Natya Vriksha Dance Company present a selection of classical numbers from the Bharatanatyam repertoire. It is suffused with the dancer’s focus on choreographic processes of intent, content and context. The intent is to celebrate the pristine classicism of Bharatanatyam. Through her Thanjavur bani, Geeta uses the adavu as the basis of her revision. This basic unit of Bharatanatyam is cast and recast in prismatic formations. The content remains the classical. The traditional Mallari, Alarippu, Padam and Tillana form the basis of Geeta’s revision. The context is what’s been altered. Since a solo dance is transformed into a group experience, the inter-body connections create new contexts for movement. There is also the context of the space in which the pieces are being performed. The grandeur of the dance has been re-contextualized for the Purana Qila monument.
The Mangrove Tunicate, Ecteinascidia turbinata, is a reasonably common Ascidian found in mangroves and shallow reef habitats in the tropical Western Atlantic. A promising anti tumor compound has been isolated from this organism. However, much of what I've read seems to suggest a struggle with both an inability to harvest enough of the tunicates to derive the needed volume of the compound, and the inability to completely synthesize the compound in the laboratory. However, this source seems to suggest that successful synthesis is ongoing at this point:
"The mangrove tunicate produces a compound called ecteinascidin-743 (ET-743, also known as trabectedin), which has gained attention for its anti-cancer properties (eg. Carballo et al. 2000). Although clinical trials support its effectiveness in reducing various solid-type tumors, the size and abundance of this ascidian make large-scale production of ET-743 difficult and costly. Approximately one metric ton of E. turbinata must be collected and extracted to produce one gram of the cancer-fighting agent (Proksch et al. 2003). In recent years, the medical industry has been producing trabectedin through semisynthesis (Cuevas & Francesch 2009), currently eliminating the need for the original natural product. Trabectedin, marketed under the brand name Yondelis, is the first marine anticancer agent approved in the European Union for use in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) (Cuevas & Francesch 2009). In the United States, the drug is undergoing clinical trials where it has been shown to reduce or stabilize the growth of STSs, including leiomyosarcomas and liposarcomas (Amant et al. 2009, Schöffski et al. 2008)."
(from Smithsonian Marine Station)
It is significant that this marks the first marine organism yet to yield a pharmaceutical compound effective in cancer treatment.
Opening scene
It is late in the 22nd Century. United Planet cruiser C57D a year out from Earth base on the way to Altair for a special mission. Commander J.J Adams (Leslie Neilsen) orders the crew to the deceleration booths as the ship drops from light speed to normal space.
Adams orders pilot Jerry Farman (Jack Kelly) to lay in a course for the fourth planet. The captain then briefs the crew that they are at their destination, and that they are to look for survivors from the Bellerophon expedition 20 years earlier.
As they orbit the planet looking for signs of life, the ship is scanned by a radar facility some 20 square miles in area. Morbius (Walter Pigeon) contacts the ship from the planet asking why the ship is here. Morbius goes on to explain he requires nothing, no rescue is required and he can't guarantee the safety of the ship or its crew.
Adams confirms that Morbius was a member of the original crew, but is puzzled at the cryptic warning Morbius realizes the ship is going to land regardless, and gives the pilot coordinates in a desert region of the planet. The ship lands and security details deploy. Within minutes a high speed dust cloud approaches the ship. Adams realizes it is a vehicle, and as it arrives the driver is discovered to be a robot (Robby). Robby welcomes the crew to Altair 4 and invites members of the crew to Morbious residence.
Adams, Farman and Doc Ostrow (Warren Stevens) arrive at the residence and are greeted by Morbius. They sit down to a meal prepared by Robbys food synthesizer and Morbius shows the visitors Robbys other abilities, including his unwavering obedience. Morbius then gives Robby a blaster with orders to shoot Adams. Robby refuses and goes into a mechanical mind lock, disabling him till the order is changed.
Morbius then shows the men the defense system of the house (A series of steel shutters). When questioned, Morbius admits that the Belleraphon crew is dead, Morbius and his wife being the only original survivors. Morbius's wife has also died, but months after the others and from natural causes. Morbius goes on to explain many of the crew were torn limb from limb by a strange creature or force living on the planet. The Belleraphon herself was destroyed when the final three surviving members tried to take off for Earth.
Adams wonders why this force has remained dormant all these years and never attacked Morbius. As discussions continue, a young woman Altaira (Anne Francis) introduces herself as Morbius daughter. Farman takes an immediate interest in Altaira, and begins to flirt with her . Altaira then shows the men her ability to control wild animals by petting a wild tiger. During this display the ship checks in on the safety of the away party. Adams explains he will need to check in with Earth for further orders and begins preparations for sending a signal. Because of the power needed the ship will be disabled for up to 10 days. Morbius is mortified by this extended period and offers Robby's services in building the communication facility
The next day Robby arrives at ship as the crew unloads the engine to power the transmitter. To lighten the tense moment the commander instructs the crane driver to pick up Cookie (Earl Holliman) and move him out of the way. Quinn interrupts the practical joke to report that the assembly is complete and they can transmit in the morning.
Meanwhile Cookie goes looking for Robby and organizes for the robot to synthesize some bourbon. Robby takes a sample and tells Cookie he can have 60 gallons ready the next morning for him.
Farman continues to court Altair by teaching her how to kiss, and the health benefits of kissing. Adams interrupts the exercise, and is clearly annoyed with a mix of jealous. He then explains to Altair that the clothes she wears are inappropriate around his crew. Altair tries to argue till Adams looses patience and order Altair to leave the area.
That night, Altair, still furious, explains to her father what occurred. Altair takes Adams advice to heart and orders Robby to run up a less revealing dress. Meanwhile back at the ship two security guards think they hear breathing in the darkness but see nothing.
Inside the ship, one of the crew half asleep sees the inner hatch opened and some material moved around. Next morning the Captain holds court on the events of the night before. Quinn advises the captain that most of the missing and damaged equipment can be replaced except for the Clystron monitor. Angry the Capt and Doc go back to Morbius to confront him about what has occurred.
Morbius is unavailable, so the two men settle in to wait. Outside Adams sees Altair swimming and goes to speak to her. Thinking she is naked, Adams becomes flustered and unsettled till he realizes she wants him to see her new dress. Altair asks why Adams wont kiss her like everyone else has. He gives in and plants one on her. Behind them a tiger emerges from the forest and attacks Altair, Adams reacts by shooting it. Altair is badly troubled by the incident, the tiger had been her friend, but she can't understand why acted as if she was an enemy.
Returning to the house, Doc and Adams accidently open Morbius office. They find a series of strange drawings but no sign of Morbius. He appears through a secret door and is outraged at the intrusion. Adams explains the damage done to the ship the previous night and his concern that Morbius was behind the attack.
Morbius admits it is time for explanations. He goes on to tell them about a race of creatures that lived on the planet called the Krell. In the past they had visited Earth, which explains why there are Earth animals on the planet. Morbius believes the Krell civilization collapsed in a single night, right on the verge of their greatest discovery. Today 2000 centuries later, nothing of their cities exists above ground.
Morbius then takes them on a tour of the Krell underground installation. Morbius first shows them a device for projecting their knowledge; he explains how he began to piece together information. Then an education device that projects images formed in the mind. Finally he explains what the Krell were expected to do, and how much lower human intelligence is in comparison.
Doc tries the intelligence tester but is confused when it does not register as high as Morbius. Morbius then explains it can also boost intelligence, and that the captain of the Belleraphon died using it. Morbius himself was badly injured but when he recovered his IQ had doubled.
Adams questions why all the equipment looks brand new. It is explained that all the machines left on the planet are self repairing and Morbius takes them on a tour of the rest of the installation. First they inspect a giant air vent that leads to the core of the planet. There are 400 other such shafts in the area and 9200 thermal reactors spread through the facilities 8000 cubic miles.
Later that night the crew has completed the security arrangements and tests the force field fence. Cookie asks permission to go outside the fence. He meets Robby who gives him the 60 gallons of bourbon. Outside, something hits the fence and shorts it out. The security team checks the breach but finds nothing. A series of foot like depressions begin forming leading to the ship. Something unseen enters the ship. A scream echos through the compound.
Back at the Morbius residence he argues that only he should be allowed to control the flow of Krell technology back to Earth. In the middle of the discussion, Adams is paged and told that the Chief Quinn has been murdered. Adams breaks of his discussions and heads back to the ship.
Later that night Doc finds the footprints and makes a cast. The foot makes no evolutionary sense. It seems to have elements of a four footed and biped creature; also it seems a predator and herbivore. Adams questions Cookie who was with the robot during the test and decides the robot was not responsible.
The next day at the funeral for Chief Morbius again warns him of impending doom facing the ship and crew. Adams considers this a challenge and spends the day fortifying the position around the ship. After testing the weapons and satisfied all that could be done has, the radar station suddenly reports movement in the distance moving slowly towards the ship.
No one sees anything despite the weapons being under radar fire control. The controller confirms a direct hit, but the object is still moving towards the ship. Suddenly something hits the force field fence, and a huge monster appears outlined in the energy flux. The crew open fire, but seem to do little good. A number of men move forward but a quickly killed.
Morbious wakes hearing the screams of Altair. Shes had a dream mimicking the attack that has just occurred. As Morbious is waking the creature in the force field disappears. Doc theories that the creature is made of some sort of energy, renewing itself second by second.
Adams takes Doc in the tractor to visit Morbius intending to evacuate him from the planet. He leaves orders for the ship to be readied for lift off. If he and Doc dont get back, the ship is to leave without them. They also want to try and break into Morbious office and take the brain booster test.
They are met at the door by Robby, who disarms them. Altair appears and countermands the orders given to Robby by her father. Seeing a chance Doc sneaks into the office. Altair argues with Adams about trying to make Morbius return home, she ultimately declares her love for him.
Robby appears carrying the injured Doc. Struggling to speak and heavy pain, Doc explains that the Krell succeeded in their great experiment. However they forgot about the sub conscious monsters they would release. Monsters from the id.
Morbius sees the dead body of Doc, and makes a series of ugly comments. His daughter reminds him that Doc is dead. Morbius lack of care convinces Altair she is better off going with Adams. Morbius tries to talk Adams out of taking Altair.
Adams demands an explanation of the id. Morbius realizes he is the source of the creature killing everyone. The machine the Krell built was able to release his inner beast, the sub conscious monster dwelling deep inside his ancestral mind.
Robby interrupts the debate to report something approaching the house. Morbius triggers the defensive shields of the house, which the creature begins to destroy. Morbius then orders Robby to destroy the creature, however Robby short circuits. Adams explained that it was useless; Robby knew it was Morbius self.
Adams, Altair and Morbius retreat to the Krell lab and sealed themselves in by sealing a special indestructible door. Adams convinces Morbius that he is really the monster, and that Morbius can not actually control his subconscious desires.
The group watch as the creature beings the slow process of burning through the door. Panicked Morbius implores Altair to say it is not so. Suddenly the full realization comes, and he understands that he could endanger or even kill Altair.
As the creature breaks through Morbius rushes forward and denies its existence. Suddenly the creature disappears but Morbius is mortally wounded. With his dying breath he instructs Adams to trigger a self destruct mechanism linked to the reactors of the great machine. The ship and crew have 24 hours to get as far away from the planet as possible
The next day we see the ship deep in space. Robby and Altair are onboard watching as the planet brightens and is destroyed. Adams assures Altair that her fathers memory will shine like a beacon.
FOV: 5" wide
Home made fluorescent paint made with synthesized fluorescent minerals combined with white glue and water and painted on charred wood.
Contains:
Willemite (FL+PHOS Green >UVc)
Calcite (FL Green,Red >UVb,c)
Sphalerite (FL+PHOS Orange, Blue-green >UVabc)
Scheelite (FL Blue >UVc)
Powellite (FL Yellow >UVbc)
Shown under UVabc light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosporescent
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Obtained from the basement lab. Thanks to Gordon Czop for synthesizing the scheelite and powellite.
..Fluorescent Art\Fluorescent Paint\Trees
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Jointed sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
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(Synthesized from info. provided by several geologists during the 2003 Annual Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists):
The Lower Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation is a 10-15 meter thick, ledge-forming, erosion-resistant unit. The Sharon is paleovalley-filling in places, so it is thicker than 10-15 meters in some spots. The jointing patterns of the Sharon Formation allow for 3-D examination around large blocks of outcrop - can see the 3-D architecture of sedimentary structures. The Pottsville Group lies over a major unconformity, which was formed by eustatic sealevel fall & erosion. The Sharon Formation is the basal unit of the Pottsville sediments over this unconformity. In terms of the tectonic setting, this is in the Appalachian Foreland Basin. What influenced sedimentation and sediment supply of the Sharon Formation during the Early Pennsylvanian? Probably a migrating forebulge and Early Pennsylvanian climatic changes. The Sharon is correlatable with the Olean Conglomerate in Pennsylvania. Both the Sharon and the Olean are time-equivalent to the Tumbling Hill Member & the Huylkill Member of the lower Pottsville Formation of central Pennsylvania (both of those members are below the major unconformity in Pennsylvania, unlike in northeastern Ohio). The Sharon Conglomerate/Formation & the Olean Conglomerate were deposited under strong north-to-south paleoflow conditions.
About twelve lithofacies can be seen in the Sharon Formation in the Akron, Ohio area. The Sharon Formation is dominantly conglomerate and sandstone, with lots of sedimentary structures. It is light on fine-grained materials. The Sharon has horizontally bedded gravels, cross-bedded gravels (including trough and tabular cross bedding), deformed/overturned cross-bed sets, basal scours up to 2 meters deep (but typically 0.5 to 1 meter deep; scours are backfilled by dune/bar back migration), whole channel fills, chute fills, and gravel bar platform deposits (usually 1-2 meters thick in the Sharon; these include bar head deposits, bar core deposits, bar tail deposits, and bar margin deposits - can usually use the presence of imbricated clasts to ID bar-head & bar-core portions of gravel bar platforms, but in the Sharon, clasts are mostly spheroidal, so it is difficult to tell specific portions of gravel platforms here). In the gravel-rich Sharon deposits, get calculated average bankfull depths of 2.1 meters, 19.9 meter average paleochannel widths, and 34.3 meter maximum paleochannel widths. Get different numbers for the sandy Sharon deposits. The Sharon is typically more conglomeratic at the base & more sandy near the top. The Sharon’s interpreted depositional environment is gravel & sand bedload streams. Paleovalleys underneath the Sharon Formation were formed when the subsidence rate was greater than the sediment supply. Paleovalley backfilling (i.e., Sharon deposits) occurred when the subsidence rate was less than the sediment supply. The change in fluvial style seen in Sharon deposits is probably due to filling & overtopping of paleovalleys.
Beds of the Sharon Formation are usually cliff-forming. The Sharon in the Akron area consists of quartz-pebble conglomerate & quartzose sandstone & pebbly quartzose sandstone & sandy quartz-pebble conglomerate & some lenses or thin intervals of granulestone. The basal Sharon is conglomeratic - the “lower conglomerate”. An “upper conglomerate” can be seen in places - it is usually quite thin (1-2 pebbles thick in places), and in some places, it splits into two horizons; in some places it’s not there at all. Pebbles are almost entirely white vein quartz, with an uncertain source from the north. Detrital muscovite in the Sharon has been dated to about 370 and 406 Ma (Devonian), so the source area includes Acadian Orogeny materials. The Sharon has relatively common cross-bedding, with a few overturned cross-beds visible in areas. Abundant iron oxide staining is present in the Sharon sandstones, with a variety of morphologies - this can weather out as resistant ridges or as 3-D surfaces. Many vugs have thick goethite linings. Many goethite-stained quartz pebbles are present. Seeps & springs occur sporadically along the sandstones of the lower Sharon Formation in places. These spring waters have widely variable pH and TDS (total dissolved solids). Some dry springs are present - conduits without water emerging. A few places in basal Sharon strata have obvious rip-up shale clasts, derived from uppermost Meadville Shale beds (below the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity). One outcrop is known with many Meadville Shale clasts mixed in with Sharon quartz pebbles - this appears to represent paleobank failure of Meadville material during near-earliest Sharon deposition.
The outcrop shown above is at Virginia Kendall Ledges in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Virginia Kendall Ledges is an isolated platform of Sharon Formation, surrounded by a lower land surface of Lower Mississippian Cuyahoga Formation shales & siltstones & sandstones. The lower Sharon Formation at this site is quite pebbly - many pebble-filled channelform features are present. Upon 3-D examination of their architecture, these are not channels or chutes, but are interpreted by Professor Neil Wells as bar confluence scours with subsequent pebble fills. The edges of the Virginia Kendall Ledges platform have large Sharon blocks separating from the rest of the platform. Abundant overturned recumbent cross beds are present - some of the world's best developed and best exposed examples. The mechanism by which crossbeds get overturned seems straightforward (unidirectional shear by fluvial currents), but the cause is not clearly understood - some cohesive agent may be required? Someone suggested biomats. Some of the scour pits in this area seem to have fairly steep margins - perhaps whatever cohesive agent was responsible for simple deformation of crossbeds was also responsible for overly steep, stable margins of depressions/chutes/channels/scours.
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Stratigraphy: Sharon Formation (also known as Sharon Sandstone or Sharon Conglomerate or Sharon Member), lower Pottsville Group, upper Lower Pennsylvanian
Locality: Virginia Kendall Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, north of Akron, northern Summit County, northeastern Ohio, USA (~~vicinity of 41° 13' 44.76" North latitude, 81° 30' 37.76" West longitude)
Phi is part of a series of interactive installations called Enigmas, whose poetic audiovisual systems perform aesthetic operations reflecting the issues raised by authors such as Flusser, Bergson and Gibson. The artwork uses webcams for a real-time sensing of the variance and invariance of light in the exhibition area. All the data collected through this process is translated into monochromatic lines and synthesized sounds.
credit: tom mesic
This 2-day workshop brought representatives from countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to share their experiences in developing plans for the agriculture and livestock sector, in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify future research and capacity needs for national adaptation plans (NAPs). The workshop discussed lessons from the CCAFS’ report, “Meta Synthesis of National Adaptation Plans and Policies: West and East Africa and South Asia,” testing an analytical framework to measure country needs and progress. The key audience included national-level adaptation and agriculture decision-makers.
More information on the CCAFS report can be found here: New report highlights lessons from national adaptation planning .
Photo: V. Atakos (CCAFS)
bioLogic is growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin in the era where bio is the new interface. Natto bacteria are harvested in a bio lab, assembled by a micron-resolution bio-printing system, and transformed into responsive fashion, a “Second Skin”. The synthetic bio-skin reacts to body heat and sweat, causing flaps around heat zones to open, enabling sweat to evaporate and cool down the body through an organic material flux.
credit: Rob Chron
Synthetic Fluorescent Minerals: Hot Rocks Group 1 - UVab
Fluorescent minerals synthesized by heating rocks and additives using a MAPP gas torch.
Contains L to R:
Aluminum Sulfate on Calcite (FL Red, Blue >UVab)
Barite soaked in Zinc Chloride (FL Yellow orange >UVab)
Zinc Metal burned with Sulfur on Barite/Fluorite (FL Green, Yellow, Orange, Blue >UVab)
Barite/Fluorite donated by Polman Minerals.
Shown under UVab light.
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Key:
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FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosporesces
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:"
18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Penso che questa foto sintetizzi il concerto, favoloso!, di Elisa dove c'era proprio tutto oltre alla sua stupenda, bellissima voce che sarebbe già di per se bastata.
Spettacolo, artisti, ballerini, inventiva, scenografie...e una carica pazzesca!!
Grazie Elisa!! E' stata una super serata!! Grazie ai miei amici che l'han resa ancora migliore.
*Starlight*
p.s.:Martix !! appena trovo un video che non faccia venire il mal di mare lo posto, intanto eccoti le foto :))))!...
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I think that this photo synthesize the wonderful (!) concert, of Elisa where there was everything and more in add to her beautiful, extraordinary voice that alone would be suffice always .
Spectacle, artists, dancers, invention, scenographic..and an incredible energy!!
Thanks to Elisa!! It was a super evening!! Thanks to my friends to make it more special.
*Starlight*
Sorry for absence, many problems altogheter...! :((...now I pass by. Ciaoo!!
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FINAL CAPTION: One of the world's pre-eminent organic chemists, Larry Overman came to UCI in 1971. Behind him is a model of one of the thousands of compounds synthesized in his lab that could be a starting point for possible cancer treatment.
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