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Head upwards and grab onto the large sphere pull stars. After you go through the first three, then the regular ones will pop up again, so head right through this area. When you land on the platform at the end, dodge the bug creatures or explore this area by going underneath it. Up on top, free all four Toads in the crystals, though make sure you don't break the one with a Goomba inside. Once you free the Toads, the Toad Brigade ship will come. Jump onto it, go on the other side then go through the sling star.
You'll now land on a platform. Go straight, and you'll notice that the debris around you will form more platforms. What you have to do in this general area is collect all five silver stars, which will thus bring out the power star for the level.
After you go straight, head left onto the greenish part. Jump over the gap that appears and collect the first silver star on the brownish/orange platform. Head back and go the opposite way and head up the blue stairs to the right. Get the silver star up here, then head back down in the middle and head upwards.
When you go up, the platforms will get smaller, so be cautious! Head left when you go as far as you can then head up, making sure you go along with the winding path. There's a silver star to the left of you and one right ahead, so get both of those then return back to where you were on the small green platforms and head right this time and then up. Once you get to the red platforms, jump on them then the other. Collect the final silver star then return back to beginning of this area to claim the power star!
Kill the Goombas and get the extras if you wish. Go over to the lever and spin attack it, which will cause the bridge to drop, thus giving you access to the other airship. Head over the bridge and you'll see two cosmic MIPS jumping around. To get the 1-up mushroom to the left, either jump and spin or long jump. And to get the coins above to the right, just jump up high and spin. Head over to where the box is then jump and spin to break it. A sling star will be released, so go through it.
On this airship you'll find a few Goombas and a Koopa Troopa shell, not to mention a Magikoopa and a few chests. Right at the beginning you can spin on the wheel which will cause it to rise, giving you access to the ? box above it. There are also two crystals here which have Toads in them. If you want, free them, though it's only optional. Grab the Koopa shell and fling it at the chest near the front of the ship. A launch star will be released from it, so go through!
On this airship, you'll land on a dock above the ship. Head left then long jump and grab the pull star above the chimney. Head inside it to get a whole bunch of star bits, and once you're done you can return back to the airship by using the sling star. Free the Toads here then grab one of the Koopa Troopa shells and fling it over to the opposing enemies who are ejecting flaming projectiles. Once you've killed both of them, the bridge will drop. Go across it and through the sling star. This is the boss' ship, so get ready!
She'll start by shooting fireballs and Koopa shells your way. When she shoots a Koopa shell your way, grab it quickly by spinning next to it and then send it her way. You'll know what she shoots out by the color of the the trail. If it's green, it's a shell though if it's red, then it'll be a fire ball. After a few shots, she'll summon a couple Magikoopas. Rid of them by either spinning near them or jumping on top of them so that you can focus solely on the paramount threat. Once you hit her again, she'll die and the power star will be released from her wand. Get it and end the level.
You'll land on a rock type planet. Head forward and kill the bugs here. Eventually you'll come across a Toad who is stuck to a sling pod. Grab the sling pod and send him where ever you want - it really doesn't matter. Now jump on the sling pod and aim yourself to the platform ahead. After that, go on the other sling pod and launch yourself to the ship. On top of this ship is a Life Shroom, so be sure to get that. Launch yourself to the next planetoid and then finally you'll come in view of a planet that is covered in web. Launch yourself that way and the fight will start against the boss.
The boss will be in the middle of the entire stage the whole time. You're allowed to go around the entire stage, and you'll clearly notice the sling pods. Grab onto them and shoot yourself through the bosses bulbous things that are jutting out of its body. The large one is the one you want to hit, as it'll flip him over. When this happens, launch yourself through all three weak-points that are clearly visible. After doing so, you'll have to repeat the process once more.
When fighting him, make sure you avoid his acid he spits out. If you can't manage to grab onto one of the sling pods, then take note that there are some platforms that'll give you a little boost. Make sure when slinging yourself across the stage that you don't crash into one of these platforms, as it'll destroy it completely. If you're running out of health, then just use the pointer to grab some of the coins out of the sling pods, then head over and grab it.
After you've killed the boss, a star will be revealed in the middle of the platform. Use the sling pod and aim yourself at it to get it.
Once you've gotten all of the stars, head back to the beginning and collect the power star!
Then go up some more and collect 10 more purple coins. Head back down, then left and finally up again to get 10 more. Head left again to get 10 more purples. Head left again and jump over the gap to get the last set, which will cause the star to appear. Go back to to the beginning and get the star before it's too late!
Go onto the planet and you'll probably see the Hungry Luma, though clearly you don't have enough yet. Break the crystals that are around here to get some more and go inside the planet to get yet more. Make sure you don't go through the launch star, because if you do you'll have to start the level over! Once you've found enough, go back to the Luma and feed it 50 star bits.
Once you do, it'll transform into a wooden Yoshi head (awesome!). Spin through the new pink launch star to get there. Once you do, you'll be greeted by about 20 or so Goombas! Kill them all, and if you wish perform some combos which is always fun! Often times red steam will be released from the Yoshi's nostrils, and it'll harm you if you get in its way. Once you've killed all of the Goombas, then the star will appear, grab it to end the level.


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Welcome back to the Tracy’s New York Life podcast. This podcast features excerpts from my life in New York City. Some readers are curious about my journey to New York City because I didn’t always live here. I grew up in Berks County, Pennsylvania, but I lived in Philadelphia for several years, and then in Atlanta for more than a decade before moving to New York. I guess I saved the best for last.
My move to NYC was unexpected. As I said in the first episode, I had given up on ever living in New York, and then destiny took over.
In the second episode, I dig a little deeper into the how, why, and timeline of moving to NYC. Life’s twists and turns aren’t always expected or positive, but we have the ability to try and take a misfortune and turn it into an accomplishment, and that’s what my husband Mike and I attempted to do. Since I had longed to live in New York since I was a child and had previously failed more than once trying to move, I consider getting to NYC one of my greatest accomplishments.
I hope you enjoy the second Tracy’s New York Life podcast, “Never Say Never.” Click the arrow to the left below and listen. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes too!
Did you miss the first podcast? Listen to “Chances Are.”

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28 RIVERFRONT acres with a POND in South Fork. Vacation rentals are OK! This parcel has a domestic well, water hydrant, and electric plug-in already in place for your RV. Developed gravel roads lead to several sites where you can build your dream home on the banks of roughly 1/2 mile of the Rio Grande River in this private, quiet, easily accessible haven. Three entrances allow for easy access from either end or the middle of the property. (See plat photo, the red X denotes an entrance.) The pond is roughly 1 acre and there are multiple, convenient building sites. While currently zoned residential, this would make a great place for a retreat property with cabins, tiny homes or yurts. County approval would be required, of course, but this parcel is outside of the city limits of South Fork. While adjacent to, this parcel is not included in Del Rio Ranchettes. Please take a moment to watch the drone video in the virtual tours section of the listing. Please note: The official address for this property is 0 Hwy 160 Del Norte. However, this property is definitely in South Fork. There are at least two other parcels with the address 0 Hwy 160 South Fork, so I've created an estimated address of 27000 US Hwy 160 for this parcel.
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Report Shows Personal Income In The Ohio Valley Declined Between July and September
A new federal report shows that West Virginia and Kentucky saw the country’s sharpest declines in personal income last quarter. Alana Watson explains the losses are tied to the pandemic and declining support from the coronavirus relief act.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis says personal income decreased in every state in the third quarter of 2020, which includes the months of July, August, and September. West Virginia and Kentucky saw the largest declines.
Income in West Virginia declined by almost 30 percent and Kentucky by 24 percent. Ohio’s personal income declined by 16 percent.
Personal income had increased in the second quarter from April to June due to the government’s economic support during partial COVID-19 shutdowns.
Matthew von Kerczek is an economist for the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He says the reduced COVID-19 aid from the CARES Act was one of the leading contributors to the decline in the third quarter.
“In the second quarter, the CARES act boosted personal income by about 3 trillion dollars. In the third quarter it’s just over 1 trillion dollars," Kerczek said.
Von Kerczek says there was a partial rebound in earnings in the third quarter due to the gradual reopening of the economy.
The final 4th quarter report will be released in March 2021.

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Leaders Narberth go on the road face Bonymaen, which means a quick return to Parc Mawr for Otters full back Adrian Killa, who played at scrum half for Bony last season.
Pontypool, in second place after defeating Aberavon on Saturday, will have a difficult match at Pandy Park, Tondu, where the home side are always difficult to beat.
Pontypool, like Naberth, have won all their four matches so far, but will be without skipper Mark Jones, who is out with a broken arm.
Cross Keys, also unbeaten after three wins and a draw, will have a tough task as they meet fellow Gwent club Tredegar, who are another tough club to beat at home.
Bedwas, after impressive wins at Carmarthen and Newbridge, will entertain Llandovery in what should be an entertaining match at Central Park, while Rumney will be hoping to record their first win of the season as they play host to Beddau for the first time in a league meeting.
Whitland meet Llanharan, who have already won twice under their new coach Dennis John, and Carmarthen Quins should overcome an improving Treorchy side.
Aberavon coach Chris O'Callaghan will be keen to see the Wizards back on the winning trail at home to Glamorgan Wanderers and Blackwood meet Newbridge in what is likely to be a keenly-contested local derby.
Divison 1 Fixtures. 24th Septemeber
Aberavon v Glamorgan Wanderers;
Bedwas v Llandovery;
Blackwood v Newbridge;
Bonymaen v Narberth;
Carmarthen Quins v Treorchy;
Rumney v Beddau;
Tondu v Pontypool;
Tredegar v Cross Keys;
Whitland v Llanharan.
Despite drawing with Ireland in the opening round of the RBS 6 Nations, Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards believes the championship 'is still in our hands' as he prepares his side to face Scotland at Principality Stadium tomorrow.
Meet the members of the WRU's inaugural Youth Board - after an online selection process which saw a host of high calibre candidates submit video applications the WRU has made its first 15 appointments.The board is made up of individuals aged between 16 and 21, and will meet for the first time at Principality Stadium on Monday 15th February.
The Wales Women's team headed to Dare Valley Country Park on a team bonding exercise as the entire squad got together for the very first time in preparation for this season's Six Nations championship which kicks off on Saturday with a clash against defending champions Ireland, in Donnybrook.
Wales Head Coach Warren Gatland discusses his team selection for the opening round of the RBS 6 Nations where he leads his side against Ireland, on Sunday. As WRU TV's Luke Brodley discovers, Gatland is fully aware of the challenges the defending champions pose


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So, technically, I'm domestically disabled. Translation: I am not very talented at household chores including gardening, cleaning, laundry and cooking. Especially cooking. But I'm TRYING. Especially now that I'm married.
Helping me out with that one: Produce Palace International Market. Thank goodness for Mr. & Mrs. Katz (the owners) and Joe (the manager) ... not to mention the rest of the staff. I go in with a recipe that I found on Pinterest, and not only do they help me find everything I need, they also give me some advice on how to cook it and not burn down my house in the process.
Bonus: The BEST prices on produce, meats, deli items, baked goods, etc. that I've EVER seen. Seriously. I was blown away. Think of this way: You're getting the quality and variety that you see at all the upscale markets around town at a FRACTION of the price. It's unreal. I went to TOWN shopping in this store.
So ... to celebrate me (finally) learning how to cook, I wanted to share with you what I'm going to be makin' this Father's Day Weekend. Steal the recipes, please!
All of the ingredients for these recipes can be found at Produce Palace International Market.
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As seen during the November 1st 2023 edition of AEW Dynamite, Tony Khan revealed that tickets for AEW All In 2024 at Wembley Stadium will become available on December 1st. After his announcement, a press release was sent out and fans took notice that world champion MJF was not included in it despite numerous wrestlers being mentioned. As previously noted, MJF’s contract is up in 2024 and he has teased that there will be a “bidding war” for his services.
Here is the full All In press release…
Following the Massive Success of “AEW: All In London,” AEW Returns to Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 25
– Tickets for “AEW: All In London” On Sale Friday, Dec. 1; Pre-Registration Available for Early Access —
November 1, 2023 – During tonight’s live episode of “AEW: Dynamite” from Louisville, Ky., AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that tickets for the second “AEW: All In London” will go on sale to the general public on Friday, Dec. 1, at 9 a.m. BST via Ticketmaster.co.uk. The highly anticipated event will take place at iconic Wembley Stadium on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024.
Fans can pre-register now for early access to purchase tickets for AEW’s return to Wembley Stadium by visiting www.ticketmaster.co.uk/AEWWembley2024. Pre-registered access and priority presales will take place beginning Monday, Nov. 27 just prior to the general on sale.
Ticket information will be sent via email to registered fans only.
AEW’s return to the UK comes on the heels of its spectacular debut of “AEW: All In London” this past August, when more than 80,000 fans from over 70 countries converged on Wembley Stadium to witness a thrilling night of match-ups featuring the biggest names in wrestling today. With 81,035 tickets sold, the epic show shattered the world record for the largest ever paid attendance at a professional wrestling event.
‘AEW: All In London’ permanently etched AEW in the history books, setting the world record for most tickets sold for any show in the history of professional wrestling ” said Tony Khan.
“Wembley Stadium also holds a special place in my heart as l’ve now been there as part of three different sports properties, and have witnessed over 80,000 fans in the stands for all three. In addition to Fulham earning two promotions with playoff wins at Wembley Stadium, and the Jaguars winning our ninth ‘home’ game there a few weeks ago, l’ll remember the thunderous cheers from the crowd during ‘AEW: All In’ for the rest of my life.
“Stay tuned for more updates this month ahead of the general public on sale on December 1, and reminder to pre-register on November 27 for access. I can’t wait to return to Wembley Stadium for our second London show next August, which will be even bigger and more spectacular for fans in attendance and those watching around the world.”
“AEW: All In London” will feature the biggest names in professional wrestling from a roster that includes stars such as Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, “Hangman” Adam Page, Adam Copeland, Saraya, Christian Cage, Adam Cole, FTR, Bryan Danielson, Kris Statlander, Orange Cassidy, Miro, Dr. Britt Baker, Hikaru Shida, Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs and many more. Additional information and matches will be announced in the near future. The event will be produced in conjunction with Live Nation Entertainment.
“AEW: All In London” continues the legacy of Khan family properties enjoying signature moments in the iconic venue. Shahid Khan is Chairman of Fulham Football Club, which earned promotion to the English Premier League with playoff wins at Wembley Stadium in both 2018 and 2020. He is also owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who have regularly hosted a home game at the stadium since 2013 and will return once again in 2024 for the franchise’s tenth home game overall at Wembley.


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Mobile World Congress was quite a show. Check out our round up of the best MWC 2019 had to offer.
The Axon 10 Pro 5G marks first phone from ZTE to feature 5G capabilities. It's expected to launch later in the first half of 2019.
Remember when smartphones cost $200 and it was all you ever needed? What happened? We discuss how the industry has evolved and where it may go in 2019.
Qualcomm just unveiled its newest high-end mobile chipset. It's called the Snapdragon 855 and it will power most flagships coming next year.
California-based startup, Royole unveiled the world's first foldable smartphone called the FlexPai. The device is already available for pre-order.
Today's edition of In Brief shares information about the Pixel 3 wireless charging capabilities, Xiaomi unveils the first phone with 10GB of RAM and more.
The new plans introduced by Metro by T-Mobile late last month are now live and customers can start signing-up for them via the official website.
In today's edition of In Brief, Verizon launches its 5G Home service, Google releases the October security update, and more renders show up for upcoming devices.
The basics about 5G and what exactly it is, how it will help, and when we should all expect to see it. 5G is coming ready or not.
This time on In Brief, Matt, Andrew, and Donovan talked about the LG G7 ThinQ, T-Mobile's UnCarrier Next program, the Moto Z3 and its 5G Moto Mod, and our thoughts of Android 9 Pie. Check it out!
Sprint and LG announced this week they plans to release the first 5G smartphone in the US sometime in the first half of 2018.
Motorola's latest phone is exclusive to Verizon and promises ultra-fast LTE speeds in the forthcoming 5G era. Here's our review of the Motorola Moto Z3.
Motorola's latest, the Z3, is the first phone to support 5G network speeds but it comes with a catch. Here's what to know about the Verizon exclusive phone.
Hello Moto! New video teaser indicates the Moto Z3 will go official on August 2, during an event at Motorola's headquarters in Chicago.
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Tempeh Picadillo Recipe
By Batch Cooking Club
🔪Prep Time: 15 minutes
👩🍳Cook Time: 35 minutes
1 Tbsp olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, seeded and de-ribbed and chopped
1 jalapeño, seeded and de-ribbed and minced
4 roma tomatoes, chopped
1 cup Yukon gold potatoes, chopped (about 1 large or 2 small)
2 8-oz packages tempeh
1 Tbsp cumin
1 Tbsp oregano
¼ tsp chili powder
½ tsp paprika
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp freshly ground pepper
1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 cup vegetable broth
½ cup tomato sauce
¼ cup chopped cilantro
1In a large skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the garlic, onion and peppers. Cook for 5 minutes until the onion is translucent. Stir in the tomatoes and potatoes.
2Crumble the tempeh into the skillet with the vegetables.
3Stir in the cumin, oregano, chili powder, paprika, salt, pepper and cider vinegar. Stir well and add the vegetable broth and tomato sauce.
4Cover and cook for 25 minutes or until the liquid is mostly absorbed.
5Remove from the heat and stir in the cilantro.
6Gluten Allergy? Use a chickpea tempeh that is gluten-free or substitute 1 14-oz package of tofu.
7Soy Allergy? Replace the tempeh with two cans of your beans of choice or a soy-free tempeh. Finely chopped seitan can also be substituted.
8Spoiler Alert: Tempeh Picadillo will stay fresh in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for a week.
9Batch it up!: Tempeh Picadillo is a Mexican-inspired recipe that can be used as a taco, burrito or enchilada filling.
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Stephanie Dreyer (owner of Batch Cooking Club) is a plant-based meal planning expert. Her recipes and meal planning advice have been featured in several publications and online media outlets, including VegNews magazine and VegNews.com, Chickpea magazine, MensHealth.com, Parade and Thrive Global.
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I’ve never been good at introductions because when they’re needed, I seem to forget every single interesting thing about myself. But I guess we’ll start with the basics. My name is Maria, and I am a twenty year old student from England. I study history at the University of Oxford and live in Brighton, but I was born in Russia and moved to the UK around ten years ago. I’m a vegan foodie (as you can probably tell by this blog), a lover of long walks and somewhere awkwardly between extrovert and introvert. Veganism and healthy eating are a huge part of my life, given that both have helped me overcome an unhealthy relationship with food. Finding balance took a lot of time and patience. But, as with many things in life, hard work proved 110% worth it! Whenever I’m not in the kitchen or working in my room, you’ll often find me at the gym, or at the grocery store looking for inspo for my next recipe.


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While many banks are still highly focused on MiFID II, it is time to start planning ahead for the upcoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation. The case for proactive action is simple: the FRTB can result in substantial punitive capital charges and the implementation of the apparatus needed to lessen its effects will require a large effort on the part of the banks.
Day 1 of GreySpark’s existence began in the corner of a shared office space in Finsbury Square, otherwise known as “the shoebox”. The Partners walked to PC World on Moorgate, bought a couple of laptops, set up the phones and started making the first calls. Eight years later, and now with a global footprint, we fondly look back on what we have achieved and look ahead to a bright future.
The broker community and asset managers let out a collective sigh of relief last week as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a number of “no-action” letters to address clashes between the US government and the upcoming MiFID II regulations.
Retail investment is undergoing a shift away from managed equity funds and towards index tracking passive funds and exchange-traded funds. Passive funds charge their clients lower fees than managed funds, mainly due to the simplicity of their operations, the buying power they can exert on their brokers and the lack of the requirement for brokers to provide research offerings. By focusing on following their indices and reducing commissions for re-balancing trades, passive funds are becoming increasingly attractive investments.
Just three months remain before the rollout, on Jan. 3, 2018, of one of the EU’s most ambitious, yet controversial packages of financial reforms: MiFID II. Right across the bloc, firms are in full implementation mode, despite some requirements still being poorly understood or lacking clarity and key pieces of market infrastructure still being designed.
Although cryptocurrencies are becoming increasingly buzzy across the financial sector, there is a lack of consensus within Asia as to the viability of the technology.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been popularised in fiction for decades, but it wasn’t until the mid-1950’s that the concept of Machine Learning (ML) was introduced to develop efficient AI algorithms.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, examining the development of Australia’s payments infrastructure from 1960 to 2017.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, assesses nine technology vendor solutions that target the buyside multi-asset order and execution management system (OEMS) space.
In recent years, the cloud computing services space has increased the variety and maturity of its solutions for the financial services sector. A key focus of cloud providers is to facilitate a DevOps environment for their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clients. As a result, the appeal of cloud technology solutions in terms of cost efficiencies and technological and business flexibility to firms across the financial services sector is increasing.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, examines the market data end-user API abstraction layer that financial institutions can utilise to overcome proprietary market data vendor technologies. The chief focus of the report is the maturing open source initiative called OpenMAMA, which provides the API source code.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, examines the impact to-date of a collection of EU regulations posing a series of operational and business model challenges for the buyside industry in the region and globally. Specifically, the report argues that buyside firms should proactively implement regulatory changes to their businesses on a global basis and manage the compliance processes on an ongoing basis.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, details the advent of robo-advisory services in the investment management space.
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, assesses seven technology vendor solutions that address market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and counterparty risk in the capital markets space. The vendors reviewed in the report are: Calypso, Imagine Software, Murex, MSCI, Orchestrade, Prime Analytics and The Technancial Company.
A new report from GreySpark Partners shows that financial firms cannot afford to relax their vigilance against cyber-attacks on any level. Providing impenetrable cyber-security in today’s vast and interconnected electronic financial services industry is a nearly impossible task, and instituting measures that provide the required level of protection is putting security teams under significant pressure. However, cyber-security is not just an IT issue and it increasingly involves business-side managers, who are becoming more instrumental in focusing investment in financial institutions.
A new report from GreySpark Partners examines strategies that investment banks can use to assess the impact of the second iteration of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on the profitability of their trade execution businesses.
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Best Christmas album 2011: Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler’s This Is Christmas
- Malcolm Jack
- 13 December 2011
Justin Bieber, She & Him, The Wurzels and Glee also reviewed
Now more than ever the discerning music fan has about as much reason to look forward to Christmas as a poor Primark employee looks forward to the stampede of burly, booze-breathed horrors thundering through them at opening time on Boxing Day en route to the super-discounted pants. Although, as a sprinkling of genuinely very good festive releases from the likes of Low, Bright Eyes and Sufjan Stevens have proven over the years, there are occasional crackers to be pulled from among the usual blizzard of over-sincere schmaltz, novelty nonsense and TV talent show turkeys, and this season’s no exception.
Beginning a round-up working on a rough scale from bah-humbug to yo-ho-ho, it’s the Glee cast’s latest dispatch of cash-in Christmas crap, Glee the Music: The Christmas Album Volume 2 (Epic) ●, and Justin Bieber’s Under the Mistletoe (Mercury) ●, a set that will leave some young ladies puckered with joy and the rest of us harbouring a burning wish that we could have been the one to break the hopefully still raw news to the precocious wee cheeser that Santa’s not real. Should either of these yuletide hot logs turn up in your stocking this December 25th, lament not – where once such records were for life and not just for Christmas, now you can have them sold on Amazon by December 26th. Yo-ho-ho.
Seasonal standards sung in a jaunty West Country farmer accent? No, it’s not Mumford and Sons’ Christmas album, god for-fucking-bid, but The Wurzels’ The Wurzels Christmas Album (CIA), which gets a charitable ●●● because it’s that time for goodwill to all men etc (except Mumford and Sons), and because we’ll take an album suitable for kids’ parties above one sung by an overgrown child any day. That means you actress-singer lady Zooey Deschanel, and She & Him’s nauseatingly twee A Very She & Him Christmas (Domino) ●●, deluxe editions of which come with an exclusive pair of mittens and a winter cap. What’s that you can taste? Yes, it’s yesterday’s mince pies.
Tis the season to be jolly, however, and for that reason we’ll pick Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler’s This Is Christmas (Infectious) ●●●● as our festive favourite – even if they did maddeningly decide against putting this album out under the laughing-all-the-way moniker ‘Sleigher’, and even if they do look so pint-sized adorable in their knitwear and cosy hats on the cover sleeve it’s frankly a bit disgusting. The fun’s turned up to 11, on an album mostly of originals warmly embracing styles from Spector pop for rocking to in your socks, to twinkling electronica and cuddly fireside duets. Would any other indie power couple have imagined the comic book horror rock of ‘Zombie Christmas’ (‘I don’t wanna have my last noel, we’d better kick those zombies back to hell’), or mixed and matched Christmas legends to come up with the resplendently nonsensical ‘Jesus the Reindeer’? It all adds up to an album with the rare distinction of being one you might even dig out again next December.

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Swamps can protect against climate change, if we only let them
It can be hell finding one’s way across an extensive boggy moor—the partially dry, rough ground and the absence of any landmarks let the eye rove helplessly into the monotype distance. Everything undulates, the rise and fall share the same muted palette, and the senses dull. But a swamp is different: in it, in addition to water, there are trees and shrubs, just as reeds and rushes are the hallmarks of a marsh. Although water and squelch are everywhere in a swamp, there are landmarks—downed trees or jagged stumps, a tenanted heron nest, occasional islands of high-ground hardwood stands, called “hammocks” in the South. Yet the swamp traveller goes not in a straight line but slouches from quaking island to thick tussock to slippery, half-submerged log. Even with G.P.S. technology, big swamps are places to get lost, and in the past many people with a reason to melt out of sight—Native Americans threatened out of their territory, runaway slaves, Civil War army deserters, moonshiners, and bloody-handed murderers—have hidden in them. For a few seconds, I once considered hiding in a swamp myself.
When I was ten years old, my family lived in a rented house in Rhode Island. Saturdays were free time, and I sometimes went to a nearby swamp. A fishermen’s path circled the swamp. Far out in the water stood the unreachable hulk of a dead tree—branchless, tall, white, and with a large hole near the top. I had somewhere read that great blue herons nested in such snags, and that in one swamp a man had brought a ladder, placed it against a tree, and climbed up to look into a heron nest. The heron stabbed him in the eye as he came level with the nest, and the man, his eye and brain pierced, fell dead from the ladder. I wanted to see if there was a heron nest in this local swamp’s dead tree—perhaps even a live heron, perhaps even the remains of a ladder, perhaps even a sun-bleached skull nearby. When I got to the swamp, I saw a small raft and a pole lying on the bank. There was no one around. I pushed the raft out into the tawny water, got on board, and began poling toward the snag. I was halfway there when I heard furious shouts and screams. Looking back, I saw the two worst boys at my school jumping up and down on the bank and hurling futile clods of mud. I had stolen their raft. After a quick look for a hiding place, I changed direction and took an oblique route to the farthest shore, where I pole-vaulted onto firm land, found the path, and rushed away from the scene of the crime. It was some time before I noticed that I was still carrying the raft pole, and I leaned it helpfully against a tree before continuing home.
Many modern Americans do not like swamps, herons or no herons, and experience discomfort, irritation, bewilderment, and frustration when coaxed or forced into one, except for a few, like my mother, for whom entering a swamp was like plunging into a complex world of rare novelties. My mother’s hero was Henry David Thoreau, the enigmatic New England surveyor-naturalist-essayist. Thoreau has been called the patron saint of swamps, because in them he found the deepest kind of beauty and interest. He wrote of his fondness for swamps throughout his life, most feelingly in his essay “Walking”: “Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were proposed to me to dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide for the swamp.” He went so far as to describe his dream house as one with windows fronting on a swamp where he could see “the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.”
Many people vaguely understand that wetlands cleanse the earth. In fact, they are carbon sinks that absorb CO2, and they are unparalleled in filtering out human waste, material from rotten carcasses, chemicals, and other pollutants. They recharge underground aquifers and sustain regional water resources, buffering the excesses of drought and flood. In aggregate, the watery parts of the earth stabilize its climate.
Wooded swamps are at the end stage of a fen-bog-swamp succession, legacies of the Ice Age, when the melt started the sequence by first creating stupendously huge lakes. Lake Agassiz covered more than a hundred thousand square miles of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Lake Missoula covered about three thousand square miles of what is now Montana; its repeatedly bursting ice dams and cataclysmic floods spread through Idaho and Washington and created bizarre giant ripples as the long-ago gushers scoured out the channelled scablands of eastern Washington. The melt turned much of the North American continent into wet ground, with long chains of swamps gouged by no-brakes glaciers that plowed across the terrain. Burly new watercourses captured smaller streams and made deltas and estuaries.
In the nineteenth century, the United States enlarged in a fever of land acquisition: the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, involving eight hundred thousand square miles from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, doubled the size of the country; in 1819, the Adams-Onís Treaty added Florida and part of Oregon; five hundred and twenty-five thousand square miles of Texas were annexed in 1845; the Oregon Treaty, in 1846, enrolled the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Great oceans and lakes framed the country, and the interior roiled with tangles of rivers like unspooling silver ribbons. All that territory had once held a wealth of wetness—scientists have estimated that approximately two hundred and twenty-one million sopping acres existed in the early seventeenth century, much of it swamps—and two hundred years later many swamplands remained. As the United States pushed its borders, its population leaped from 7.2 million people in 1810 to 12.8 million by 1830, almost doubling in twenty years. The welcoming arms of open immigration became the hallmark of America, and that reputation lingers in global memory, despite today’s more painfully stringent reality.
The original occupants of the continent knew the rivers and swamps, the bogs and lakes, as they knew the terrain and one another. But for most English settlers and European newcomers nature consisted of passive and inanimate substances and situations waiting to be used to human advantage. Preservation and care of nature were not what they had come for.
The first generations of overseas settlers concentrated on claiming the easiest farmland near the shore and in the river valleys. To their mind, there were no local resources. Everything had to be imported or reinvented. As invaders, they had constant battle with Indigenous people who defied them. It was not until the Revolutionary War ended and the Indian Wars devolved into treaty-making that the population noticeably increased and a need for more farmland brought settlers into the upland forests. The growing scarcity of good farmland revived old stories of swamp and marsh drainage. Farmers already knew that a wagonload of “muck” from a nearby swamp would enrich the soil, renewing yields that had weakened over the years. In addition, during the Civil War, moving heavy guns and personnel through swamps was incredibly difficult; soldiers often resorted to laboriously clearing bypass routes. One of the men wrote of wading through knee-deep and deeper mud in North Carolina after the battle of First Gum Swamp: “The brambles [were] thick and thorny, the water coffee-colored, alive with creeping things, the air heavy with moisture and foul odors.” These memories persisted. Across the country, the ongoing stories of vile adventures in the muck made it clear to military, government, and citizenry that something had to be done about the swamps so universally detested. Everywhere there were horrendous mixtures of fen, bog, swamp, river, pond, lake, and human frustration. This was a country of rich, absorbent wetlands that increasingly no one wanted.
After a rainstorm, any curious child who drags a stick obliquely away from a rivulet sees the rivulet forsake its original channel and follow the stick’s trail; the stick dragger has discovered the principle of drainage. It is this innate existential curiosity that has led humans to commit unthinking malfeasances against the natural world. Farmers grew up with shovel in hand ready to cut drainage ditches. The government was solidly on the side of drainage to increase land area, in part for incoming immigrants. In 1849, Congress passed the first of several swampland laws that turned federal wetlands over to the individual states with the right to dispense those water-sodden acreages for purposes of drainage. These laws perpetuated the myth of endless land free for the taking, and showed an inability or an unwillingness to observe changes in nature over the seasons and years.
By the nineteen-eighties, roughly half of America’s wetlands had been wiped out. Aerial photography made wetland size estimates possible, and in 1990 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a study showing that since the sixteen-hundreds the country’s treasury of wetlands had shrivelled to a hundred and three million acres, and that some states had lost almost all their original wetlands.
The single-minded desire for more agricultural land linked to automation and the transfer of field labor from human to machine, along with the growing customer base of non-farming populations for cheap foods and grains, has come with a terrible cost. Between 2004 and 2009, another sixty-two thousand three hundred acres of wetlands disappeared to agricultural interests and housing developers. And more continue to disappear because of sediment-deposition patterns; fertilizer runoff; spilled and leaking chemicals; increasing floods, storms, droughts, and fires; and today’s rising sea level.
Rising sea level is both subtle and blatant: we hardly notice it until a storm brings vast flooding. For example, at Naval Station Norfolk, in the Hampton Roads region—a natural roadstead channel of deep water in Chesapeake Bay, fed by the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth Rivers—seawater is now swelling up at an unprecedented rate. The environmental writer Jeff Goodell visited the station and wrote, “There is no high ground on the base, nowhere to retreat to. It feels like a swamp that has been dredged and paved over—and that’s pretty much what it is.”
It is in and around wetlands that the greatest blossoming of biodiversity has occurred—it is not too much to say that we owe our existence to this planet’s wetlands, including fens, bogs, and swamps. Our wholesale destruction of wetlands for the sake of a few decades of growing wheat, rice, soy, and palm oil has been breathtakingly short-sighted. Once again, we are shocked into recognition that most of us live only for the moment.
The great Southern coastal swamps of the United States were and are treasures of the natural world. Some have been exploited and damaged beyond recognition; some are still rich and wonderful, preserved as wildlife refugia or parks. Visitors can share the amazement and delight of the botanist William Bartram, whose exploratory travels in Georgia and Florida between 1765 and 1776 yielded writings and drawings that show a wild, tropical South—warily sensitive Seminoles, violent and crafty alligators, exquisite unnamed flowers, masses of bayonet-like grasses, colossal black oaks. Every fly-fisher will appreciate his description of the mayfly hatch:
Innumerable millions of winged beings, voluntarily verging on to destruction, to the brink of the grave, where they behold bands of their enemies with wide open jaws, ready to receive them. But . . . gay and tranquil each meets his beloved mate in the still air, inimitably bedecked in their new nuptial robes. What eye can trace them, in their varied wanton amorous chaces, bounding and fluttering on the odiferous air!
Bartram was the son of the Philadelphia Quaker John Bartram, who had been appointed Botanist for the American Colonies by George III. John Bartram made the country’s first botanical garden on his Philadelphia property. Father and son often went on botanical expeditions together. One such was to Georgia’s lower Altamaha, where in 1765 they first discovered the Franklinia, in a sandhill bog. This small, beautiful tree is now extinct in the wild but continues to delight American gardeners, who grow specimens all descended from those few seeds collected by William Bartram on his Georgia travels. Thinking of the Bartrams, I once planted the closely related Stewartia in my garden, while I was living in Port Townsend, Washington; it grew handsomely but did not flower during my time there.
A valuable medicinal plant was the Bartrams’ second find. “It grows twelve or fifteen feet high,” William Bartram wrote, “with large panicles of pale blue tubular flowers, specked on the inside with crimson.” This was Pinckneya pubens, the Georgia “fever tree,” a natural source of quinine used by Native Americans to treat tick fever, muscle cramps, parasites, and malaria.
At times, the travels were dangerous or pestiferous, as when Bartram fell asleep next to his campfire to enjoy “but a few moments, when I was awakened and greatly surprised, by the terrifying screams of Owls in the deep swamps around me . . . which increased and spread every way for miles around, in dreadful peals vibrating through the dark extensive forests.” This past spring, in New Hampshire, I heard amorous owls similarly whooping and caterwauling in the woods. One of Bartram’s more admirably descriptive passages pinpoints the belligerence of the “subtle greedy alligator”:
Behold him rushing forth from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail brandished high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder. When immediately from the opposite coast of the lagoon, emerges from the deep his rival champion. They suddenly dart upon each other. The boiling surface of the lake marks their rapid course, and a terrific conflict commences. They now sink to the bottom folded together in horrid wreaths. The water becomes thick and discolored. Again they rise. . . . Again they sink.
The American biologist and ornithologist Brooke Meanley, who died in 2007, knew intimately every swamp corner that the Bartrams had visited two centuries earlier. He spent most of his professional life in the Southern swamps. Born in Maryland in 1915, and educated at the University of Maryland, Meanley worked as an ornithologist for the Department of the Interior. In his work, he took thousands of pictures of swamp habitats and birds—including many that no longer exist.
During the Second World War, he served for four years, and was stationed in Georgia, rehabilitating returning soldiers with damaged bodies and psyches. His way was to take the jittery men on hikes and bird walks through nearby forests and swamps. One can only guess how many bird-watchers and amateur naturalists found mental balance and lifelong interests in the natural world through these expeditions. Certainly they learned from him that cutting old-growth forests removed vital bird habitat.
Meanley’s years in and around the Southern water lands are encapsulated in his book “Swamps, River Bottoms and Canebrakes.” I had never heard of the Slovac Thicket until I read Meanley’s description: “For its size, the fourteen-acre Slovac Thicket, located in the heart of the Grand Prairie near Stuttgart, Arkansas, packed the most wildlife excitement per acre that I have ever known.” It’s a good bet that a sky totally black with twenty million birds, such as he saw and photographed that day, cannot now be seen.
Swamps and birds go together; when the swamp disappears, so do the birds. The New World warblers (a.k.a. wood warblers), a group of about fifty small passerine birds that migrate from South and Central America to the boreal forests of Alaska and Canada, were Meanley’s favorites. Many are brightly colored, and their complicated high-pitched songs are difficult to hear. They flicker and flit through branches and reeds like sunlight on a windy day and are a challenge to see. In a perfect world, a warbler can live for a decade, but in the world of predatory house cats, wind turbines, and enormous glass buildings a warbler is lucky to live two years. Meanley found that the bottomlands of the I’On Swamp, in South Carolina, were a choice habitat for the Bachman’s warbler, once the seventh most common migratory bird, annually flying up from Cuba to breed in the blackberry swamps and cane thickets of the Southeast United States. The swamp, named for a landowner, Jacob I’On, was the hunting ground for an early American ornithologist, the Reverend John Bachman, who in 1833 first found the songbird. His friend John James Audubon listed the warbler in his “Ornithological Biography.” As other wetlands were drained and cut, warblers found a refuge in the I’On. Meanley counted himself fortunate to have twice seen a Bachman’s warbler in his lifetime—in 1958 and 1963. In his day, he knew that the species was near extinction. It has not been seen since 1988 and is now presumed to have joined the passenger pigeon and the ivorybill.
For Meanley, the prince of Southern swamps was the Okefenokee, which contained up to twenty-five feet of peat deposits, and was once a haunt of the ivorybill. In describing the swamp’s charms, he wrote that it had everything: “The live oak hammocks, alligators and large wading birds, and the legends. In my judgement it is the most picturesque swamp in North America.” It was, he observed, a mosaic of lakes, shrub bogs, and cypress heads and bays, and though much of its cypress had been cut in the early twentieth century, fifty years later, when he was back in the Okefenokee, lusty regrowth allowed him to say that the swamp “looks today as it did when it was the stronghold of the Seminoles and Creeks.”
When I was in my twenties, my then husband and I sometimes vacationed in the Georgia islands—St. Simons or Sea Island—and we went once to the Okefenokee for a motorboat outing. For hours, we prowled the dark water at low speed, bathed in the damp, heady Southern air that always made me happy when I stepped off the plane into its distinctive perfume. I could not count all the wading birds that stalked in the shallows like tall, aloof models. We glided past cypress and their peculiar pointy knees. Our guide said the knees breathed for the cypress. He pulled up to a small island and waved his hand with a grandiose gesture at the mossy ground. I stepped out of the boat and felt the ground move in an undulating roll. It was a mat of sphagnum moss, and although some people say it is like walking on a waterbed, its billowy heave seemed to me more like a wave of dizziness before you pass out—a very slow falling sensation although you remain upright.
My most intimate swamp experience came one summer when I lived in a remote and ramshackle house in Vermont with a beaver-populated swamp half a mile down in the bottomland. I went to the swamp almost every day by a circuitous route through the woods, passing a patch of pitcher plants and two or three sundews, across a brook, following the beavers’ tree-drag ruts to an old stick dam. There were trout in this swamp and beautiful painted turtles. I watched the amazing acrobatics of dragonflies with disbelief that they were actually doing what I saw them do. Even when I sat on the back porch high above the swamp I thought I could catch the green smell of bruised lily pads.
Once, after weeks away, I came back to the house in the late afternoon. I had started reading Norman Maclean’s story “A River Runs Through It” on the plane ride home and decided to read to the end before I went inside the house. It was an utterly quiet, windless day, the light softening to peach nectar. I read the last page and its famous final line, “I am haunted by waters.” I closed the book and looked toward the swamp. Sitting on a stone wall fifteen feet away was a large bobcat who had been watching me read. When our eyes met, the cat slipped into the tall grass like a ribbon of water, and I watched the grass quiver as it headed down to the woods, to the stream, to the swamp.
After the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-06 and the Erie Canal’s gradual opening from 1825 onward, the country’s swelling population pushed into the new Western territories. The Great Black Swamp, a product of the excess of mire left over from the glacial melting of the Ice Age-era Lake Erie, and which covered much of Ohio and parts of Michigan and Indiana, inspired visceral revulsion. The Black Swamp froze itself blue in winter and simmered under the summer sun. It was forty miles wide and a hundred and twenty miles long, an elm-ash watery woodland well stocked with snakes, wildcats, moose, birds, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and unnamed demons, immovably in the way of all who were trying to go west. Travellers forced to splash through swamps under attack from blackflies, no-see-ums, and deerflies, or to make long, tiresome detours around watery areas, complained vociferously and called to the heavens for drainage.
By the eighteen-fifties, farmers noticed that raised stream banks in parts of the swamp were made of dry black soil. They picked up handfuls of it, rubbed it between their fingers, felt the friability and tensile strength, judged its tilth. Then they cut down the stream-bank trees, plowed and planted, and harvested tremendous crops. They said what every farmer in newly opened peatland has ever said as they gathered the first harvests: “This is some of the most productive soil on earth.” Other farmers noticed, and since stream-bank acres were limited, a few men with experience in wet soils tried drainage with ditches and tiles. Excited by their success, the farmers attacked the Black Swamp; a mad make-your-own-land rush was on. In the eighteen-eighties, an Ohio man, James B. Hill, frustrated by the slow work of laying drainage tiles, invented a machine he called the Buckeye Traction Digger. Every farmer wanted one, and the Black Swamp began to dry out.
Pro-drainage legislation helped the process along, and woe betide the landowner who resisted his neighbor’s drain work. In 1915, Ben Palmer of Minnesota wrote a legal guide to drainage. Chapter 4—“Drainage Legislation and Adjudication”—explains, “Thirty-six states of the Union have now enacted general drainage laws for the purpose of providing the legal machinery which is necessary if drainage work involving any considerable amount of land is to be successfully carried on.”
By the early twentieth century, only a pinch of the original Black Swamp still existed—the rest was “some of the most productive soil on earth.” It was taken as a stroke of luck that drainage tiles could be made from the clay deposits beneath the good peaty soil—in a way, the Black Swamp paid for its own annihilation. But a few generations later the productive soils were depleted; the nutrients in organic soils will disappear when they are not replenished. Manure grew scarce as tractors replaced horses. The farm world welcomed synthetic fertilizer. Time passed, and the Maumee River, which drains the Ohio cropland watershed, became a major source of pollution in Lake Erie. I was once on a train that stopped for hours on a bridge over the Maumee River to let freight traffic through. There was no sign—frothy scum, iridescent gloss, or bright algae—to show that just below the train flowed Lake Erie’s poison enemy.
Aside from the joys of draining, there was another pot of gold at the end of the swamp: fortunes for the nineteenth-century woodland owners and professional timbermen who cut down the wetland forests not only of Ohio but of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and any other state north or south that had swamp forests—taking irreplaceable giant elm, ash, oak, birch, poplar, maple, basswood, hickory, and chestnut.
Ohio residents, by and large, did not appear to miss their state’s swampland. Sharon Levy, a science writer who specializes in water and wetland issues today, wrote of the mark the Black Swamp made on Ohioans:
The tough people who conquered the Great Black Swamp did so at great personal expense, and they’ve passed down a deep and abiding loathing of wetlands. They are considered a menace, a threat, a thing to be overcome. These attitudes are enshrined in state law, which makes impossible any action, including wetland restoration, that slows the flow of runoff through those miles of constructed drainage ditches—the very conduits that, after each heavy rainfall, deliver thousands of metric tons of phosphorus and nitrogen to the Maumee, and onward into Lake Erie from which millions of people drink.
One authority on water, William Mitsch, has suggested that if ten per cent of the old Black Swamp soils were allowed to become wetlands again they would cleanse the runoff, yet Ohioans remain powerfully anti-wetland. Even private efforts to restore small wetland areas are met with neighbors’ complaints about noisy frogs and fears of flooding. Still, despite all odds, there exists the Black Swamp Conservancy, a land trust that oversees twenty-one thousand acres of wetlands. Hundreds of active Black Swamp Conservancy members are doing their best to restore and protect remnants of this great swamp. Can they persevere?
My mother’s favorite book when she was a teen-ager, in the nineteen-twenties, was one that she loved for its swamp setting, Gene Stratton Porter’s “A Girl of the Limberlost.” The Limberlost Swamp is in northeast Indiana, forty miles west of the Great Black Swamp. Porter’s home was near the Limberlost, which, though small at thirteen thousand acres, was still a diverse and complex system of streams and ponds eventually draining into the Wabash River. The Limberlost was made up of timber, reeds, sphagnum moss, orchids, sundew, pitcher plants, and grasses that nurtured great crowds of waterbirds and migratory birds, snakes, frogs and other amphibians, deer, muskrat and beaver, mink, and an encyclopedia of insects, including rare moths and butterflies.
There are at least two and probably more stories of how the name Limberlost originated. In one, a man named James Miller, so physically agile he was called Limber Jim, was hunting in the swamp. He became hopelessly lost, walking in deadly circles before he began to blaze trees in a straight line. His friends found him and referred to the swamp ever after as the place where Limber was lost. Another story refers to Limber Jim Corbus (what is it with these flexible Indiana men?), who also set out for a day’s hunt in the swamp and became lost, but blazed no trees and was never found.
Despite being considered a “nature” novel, “Girl of the Limberlost” is the usual American story of taking from nature for personal gain. The book champions its heroine, Elnora, who collects the chrysalides of moths, then raises, kills, and mounts them. After her miserable first day in high school, where she is scorned as an out-of-fashion backwoods hick, she sees a placard in the local bank window offering cash for moths, cocoons, and pupa cases. Elnora needs money to buy the kind of nice clothes and cosmetics that will let her join modish high-school cliques and pay for her books. She describes her moths to the placard’s writer, who tells her, “Young woman, that’s the rarest moth in America. If you have a hundred of them they are worth a hundred dollars according to my list.” Elnora is on her way to wealth, a career, a rich husband, and all the rest of it, thanks to the corpses of the Yellow Emperor moth.
Against Porter’s protests, the Limberlost was ruinously drained for farmland by steam-powered dredges between 1888 and 1910. But in the nineteen-nineties Indiana readers who treasured Porter’s book bought some of the original swamp acreage and, with help from several conservation groups, started restoring the swamp by removing drainage tiles. As the water deepened, they planted native sedges, grasses, trees, and water plants. Today, a small piece of the Limberlost exists again, serving as a tourist attraction and a home to muskrats, ducks, herons, turtles, fish, and insects. The Yellow Emperor moths are still around.
It is an important decision to restore even a small piece of wetland that has been severely mauled—once land is apportioned to owners, there can be no easy path to restoration of a natural habitat. Bogs and swamps take thousands of years to build up and develop; humans and their machinery can wipe out those centuries in a few months. But once a few interested people put on their boots and go into the damaged wetland, and once their curiosity is aroused about how the water moves, and what plants, amphibians, and birds formerly thrived in their local remnant swamp, they are hard to stop. There is unequalled joy in restoration.
Mangroves are marine trees. They grow in brackish and saline water along Southern and tropical shores—their splayed-out roots resemble the “cages” that supported Victorian hoop skirts—and they form peat. Their specialized home ground, such as Florida’s Everglades, is smelly and muddy. There are roughly sixty species of mangrove, mostly found in Asia, and the strongest forests are those of mixed species. Mangrove swamps have been called the earth’s most important ecosystem, because they form a bristling wall that stabilizes the land’s edge and protects shorelines from hurricanes and erosion, and because they are breeding grounds and protective nurseries for thousands of species, including barracuda, tarpon, snook, crabs, shrimp, and shellfish. They take the full brunt of most storms and hurricanes, and generally survive—but not always. Hurricane Irma, in 2017, hit the mangroves of Big Pine Key, in Florida. While shrubs came back after a time, the mangroves did not. Some saw the cause of mangrove death as trapped standing salt water, but others thought that the storm surge had plastered a very fine coating of sediment on the vital aerial roots, which dried into a choking hard sealant.
Mangrove leaves fall into the water and, as they decay, become the base for a complex food web benefitting algae, invertebrates, and the creatures who feed on them, such as jellyfish, anemones, various worms and sponges, and birds. The peat that mangroves form is especially soft and deep, ideal for clams and snails, crabs and shrimp. The mangrove’s roots filter out harmful nitrate and phosphate pollutants. The tangled branches above the water make a safe habitat for literally thousands of species of insects that attract birds. They offer resting places for migrating birds and nesting places for others, including kingfishers, herons, and egrets. Monitor lizards, macaque monkeys, and fishing cats on the hunt prowl the branches. Below the water, the knots of interlaced roots protect tiny fish from the ravenous jaws of larger fish, and even manatees and dolphins take refuge in these swamps. Mangroves interact with coral by trapping muddy sediment that would smother the reef, while the offshore reef protects the mangroves and seagrass beds from pummelling waves. Structurally, mangroves form an enormous hedge that extends down into the water and high above it. They are a major part of the “blue carbon” group that absorbs CO2, which also includes the salt marshes, seagrasses, and beds of kelp and other seaweeds.
With all these virtues, it would seem that mangroves must be the most valued trees on earth. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Although climate researchers see mangrove swamps as crucially important frontline defenses against rising seawater and as superior absorbers of CO2—they are five times more efficient than tropical forests—they are in big trouble, and mangrove removal is a constant threat.
In 2010, a count showed that about fifty-three thousand square miles of mangrove forest protected the earth’s coasts. But six years later thirteen hundred square miles of mangroves had been lost to palm-oil and rice farms and shrimp aquaculture. In some cases, mangrove forests have been removed to make room for shrimp ponds; in other cases, the shrimp ponds are set back from the mangroves, but the released effluents and pollution still damage and degrade the mangrove forest by changing the water’s salinity, altering the mangrove’s ability to take in nutrients. The consequence is slow death for the mangroves.
Many countries have tried to master the complexities of mangrove restoration, with mixed results. Choice of the right site and a mutually beneficial mix of species is critical. Some well-intentioned restorers planted greenhouse-raised single-species saplings in mudflats that mangroves had never grown in, or that were exposed to erosion and strong waves. Yet mudflats have a low oxygen supply because they are constantly wet, and mangroves need to breathe.
A different approach was that of the Florida biologist, ichthyologist, and wetlands ecologist Roy (Robin) Lewis III, who worked out the details of effective mangrove restoration. Repetitive observation can unravel the mysteries of events and processes. Lewis, who was born in 1944, was still a graduate student when he began working in mangrove swamps. “I spent a decade working in the mangroves before I started to have an understanding of what was going on,” he once remarked. He dedicated years to puzzling out the rhythms of mangrove happiness. He observed that, in the natural order, when a mangrove tree died, plentiful seeds from nearby healthy mangroves floated in and rooted themselves. The problem with many restoration attempts was location. Just any random part of a shoreline would not work. The flow of water had to be correct. Mangrove roots need to be sometimes wet and sometimes dry. Lewis worked out a wet-dry ratio of thirty to seventy. “They have a short period of wetness, and then they have a long extended period of dryness, and those alternate daily,” he told a reporter for the Smithsonian Institute. “That’s the secret: you’ve got to replicate that hydrology.”
His first trial of this theory came in 1986, with thirteen hundred acres of damaged and dead mangroves half smothered in dirt and weeds on a flat site near Fort Lauderdale. After several years of experiment and study, Lewis brought in earth-moving equipment to create a gentle slope of land that would allow the natural tidewaters to ebb and flow. Then he waited. The tides brought mangrove seeds that took root, and five years later three local species of mangroves were growing. Fish moved into the sheltering roots, and the birds followed. No mangrove saplings were hand-planted; all the new trees grew from waterborne mangrove seeds. Lewis’s way of working with nature—observation and study, planning and patient waiting—has become the gold standard for restoration.
It is usual to think of the vast wetland losses as a tragedy, with hopeless conviction that the past cannot be retrieved. Tragic, indeed, and part of our climate-change anguish. But as we learn how valuable wetlands are in softening the shocks of the changing climate, and how eagerly the natural world responds to concerned care, perhaps we can shift the weight of wetland destruction from inevitable to “not on my watch.” Can we become Thoreauvian enough to see wetlands as desirable landscapes that protect the earth while refreshing our joy in existence? For conservationists the world over, finding this joy is central to having a life well lived.
It is of course possible to love a swamp. I remember another small and nameless Vermont larch swamp, which could be reached only by passage through a dark and gloomy ravine that I thought of as the Slough of Despond.
At the bottom of the ravine ran Jacobs Chopping Brook. The flurried, emotional water of the brook contrasted with the black glass disk of swamp water that seemed made to reflect passing clouds but under rain showed itself as dimpled pewter. It has been fifty years since I last saw it, but it is still with me.


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“Meatless Monday” is back!
As part of the national “Healthy Monday” campaign, the Get Fit Club and Morrison’s Healthcare are arranging for all Med Center Health hospital cafeterias to offer “Meatless Mondays.” What does this mean? This means for each meal on Monday there will be an entrée that is meatless.
Why go meatless?
Hundreds of studies suggest that diets high in fruits and vegetables may reduce cancer risk. Both red and processed meat consumption are associated with colon cancer. Recent data from a Harvard University study found that replacing saturated fat-rich foods (such as, meat and full fat dairy) with foods that are rich in polyunsaturated fat (such as, vegetable oils, nuts and seeds) reduces the risk of heart disease by 19%. A recent study from Imperial College London also found that reducing overall meat consumption can prevent long-term weight gain and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Meatless Mondays also has environmental benefits by reducing your carbon footprint. It is estimated the meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide…far more than transportation. The water needs of livestock are tremendous, far above those of vegetables or grains. An estimated 1,800 to 2,500 gallons of water go into a single pound of beef! Soy tofu produced in California requires 220 gallons of water per pound. It also can cut fossil fuel demand.
Why on Monday? For most of us the week begins on Monday. On Monday, we move from the freedom of the weekend back to the structure of work or school. We set our intentions for the next six days. We plan ahead and evaluate progress. From an early age, we internalize this rhythm. Studies suggest we are more likely to maintain behaviors begun on Monday throughout the week — that makes Monday the perfect day to make a change for your health and the health of our planet. Monday is the call to action built in to every calendar each week. If this Monday passes you by, next week is another chance to go meatless!


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PARIS, April 19 (UPI) -- Alexandria Shipyard in Egypt has started construction of the first DCNS-designed Gowind 2500 corvette to be built in the country.
The cutting of steel took place late last week and was witnessed by officials of the Egyptian navy and technical assistance and management teams of DCNS, a French company.
Under a 2015 contract, DCNS is to provide the Egyptian navy with four Gowind 2500 corvettes. One is now under construction in France; three others are to be built in Egypt by Alexandria Shipyards under a technology transfer provision of the award.
DCNS has sent supervision and technical assistance teams to Alexandria for the construction of the three corvettes. It also provides training of Egyptian shipyard staff at DCNS' site in Lorient, France.
Gowind 2500 corvettes are 335 feet long, have a speed of 25 knots and a maximum range of 4,500 miles at a speed of 17 knots.


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Men have a higher risk of death than women if they contract the new strain of coronavirus, Chinese researchers concluded in the largest study on the outbreak to date.
In research published Monday, analysts studied 72,314 patient records from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The records detailed 44,672 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, 16,186 suspected cases and 889 cases where the carrier of the coronavirus displayed no symptoms. Patients were categorized into three groups depending on whether their symptoms were mild, severe or critical.
The vast majority of confirmed cases were recorded in people ages 30 to 69, according to the research. Most of those diagnosed with the coronavirus — formally named COVID-19 — had reported “Wuhan-related exposures,” while 81% of the confirmed cases were classified as mild.
According to the findings, just 4.7% of the confirmed cases had reached “critical” status, meaning patients had exhibited symptoms like respiratory failure, septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction or failure. However, half of the cases categorized as critical had turned fatal, the data showed.
The CCDC data also suggested that fatality rates were higher among men than women. Officials recorded a 2.8% fatality rate for male patients versus 1.7% for women.
Male patients accounted for 22,981, or 51%, of the total confirmed cases, while the coronavirus had been confirmed in 21,691 female patients as of Feb. 11, when the data collection ended.
Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology, said Tuesday the statistical difference in the sexes may not be because of biology.
“It might be down to the sort of men and women included in the analysis; it might be the patients’ exposure to situations that would put them at risk — it might not be an underlying biological reason,” he told CNBC. “You have to be able to exclude all sorts of other social factors in order to be able to say there’s a real biological difference — it could be down to circumstance.”

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While events in the past year have left some hoping for a “return to normal” in the coming months, others must continue to cope with a very different day-to-day life, including those affected by the consequential uptick of mental health crises. So how do we collectively and individually begin to confront the reality of our situation and move forward? This is perhaps the overwhelming question weighing on the protagonist of Emily Austin’s debut novel, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.
Enter Gilda, a twenty-something atheist lesbian plagued by morbid anxiety. Bystanders diagnose her with “thinking too much” or imposter syndrome, while multiple visits to the emergency room with an aching chest leave her with empty referrals to psychiatrists. Gilda then stumbles upon a flyer (“ARE YOU FEELING LOW?”) for free mental health support and visits the listed address, where her attempt to seek help inadvertently lands her a job as the receptionist of a local Catholic church. What’s more, the former elderly receptionist, Grace, may have been murdered and Gilda herself becomes tangled in the mystery.
The story unfolds through Gilda’s macabre, yet darkly humorous interior monologue as she helplessly attempts to make others happy despite her own declining mental health. To do so, she must pretend to be an antitype of herself: a normal, church-going, heterosexual young woman. But on the inside, Gilda cannot help but fixate on the pain and death surrounding her; the thought of fortuitously causing others any inconvenience or harm is debilitating. Austin skillfully writes in short bursts with restrained, mordant prose to produce a breathless quality analogous to the character’s frequent panic attacks.
Between catching up on the Bible and hiding her new girlfriend from Catholic churchgoers, Gilda adopts her late predecessor Grace’s persona via the church email to delay sharing the news of Grace’s death with her old friend, who is unaware that the former receptionist has vacated her role. Gilda is soon enmeshed in a blanket of associative guilt and clues which prompt her to undertake an amateur investigation of Grace’s death. To justify the absurdity of both her existence and her situation, Gilda reasons: “Of course I’m a fraud. The fact that I’m able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I’m a con artist. Aren’t we all con artists?”
Indeed, as Gilda becomes mired in a facade, a feeling of detachment overcomes her emotions and her relationships. Austin establishes a motif of an inanimate gaze that follows Gilda’s intrusive thoughts about death throughout the novel, such as when she first begins to take notice of her younger brother’s “glazed over” expression or while staring into her own “lifeless eyes” in the mirror. The colorful bunnies which decorate the cover of the novel are, in fact, a reference to Gilda’s first encounter with death at age ten when she discovers her beloved pet bunny Flop dead in his cage, “Eyes wide open. Dead.” This image parallels the all-seeing gaze of Jesus situated in the church in a crucified state. Austin does not shy away from the irony of her protagonist’s unraveling in a long-standing religious institution that is supposedly designed to provide support, comfort, and meaning to human mortality. Many of Gilda’s actions create a self-imposed martyrdom, resulting in her double life.
Yet despite brushing away piles of dishes and forgetting to reply to text messages in her depressed state, Gilda’s most endearing quality is her active perception of the troubles and feelings of those closest to her. She is desperate to protect the fragile thread which connects her to her nuclear family. Her volatile younger brother, Eli, is a borderline alcoholic and artist whose identity and work are often obtuse to their parents. Gilda, of course, can see what her parents cannot: Eli’s troubles can’t be resolved by turning the other cheek. It’s worth noting, however, that all of the supporting characters are rendered in Gilda’s perspective, so her parents and other characters, with some exceptions, lack the idiosyncrasies which might make them more three-dimensional. The same could be said of the setting of the novel, which holds few signifiers of place.
Nevertheless, Austin’s limited descriptions also allow Gilda’s story to be an accessible, though exceptional, scenario for the novel’s audience. In both fiction and reality, choosing to be blind to certain issues for the sake of maintaining routine is a common response to unmet expectations, sudden changes, and other disturbances. The need for normalcy is to ignore everything until it goes away. Gilda is certainly guilty of this need, and the liberties she takes with her own identity to maintain her dual selves eventually leads the police to implicate her in the murder investigation of Grace’s death. Even Gilda admits she can’t blame her parents for their deliberate ignorance, noting “I understand wanting to pretend everything is okay when it is not.”
Ultimately, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is about the fragility of being human and surviving in a world that can sometimes feel overwhelmingly sad and troubled. The close of the novel may leave readers on a hopeful note, but there’s little to suggest all the loose ends in Gilda’s life have been or could be tidied. “Normal” must then account for the things that occupy our everyday life, including our mortality and livelihoods, and the things which threaten and define them. Austin’s timely debut reassures its readers that having a big heart and being vulnerable in a fear-inducing world is neither a crime nor a sentence.
by Emily Austin
Published July 6, 2021
Caitlin M. Stout is a writer mostly found in Chicago. She holds an MA in Writing and Publishing and a BA in English from DePaul University. Her fiction has appeared in Motley. She is the managing editor of Arcturus, as well as a daily editor at the Chicago Review of Books. You can find her on Twitter @caitlinmstout.

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adidas and Pharrell Williams are back with a new version of NMD Hu. The suitably-titled “Inspiration Pack” borrows from a global perspective, with sneakers highlighted by the fan-favorite adidas NMD Hu silhouette. Expressed in four bold colourways, Power Blue, Clear Blue, Black, and White, each sneaker in the collection features a printed collar, designed to evoke traditional East African weaving techniques incorporated with cultural keynotes from both Asia and East Africa.
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|Location: Heard Farm is located on Pelham Island in west central Wayland on the south side of Pelham Island Road. It is bounded on the east, south and southwest by the floodplain of the Sudbury River and part of the Great Meadows National Wildlife
Refuge; on the west by the marshland of Heard's Pond, a Great Pond of Massachusetts; on the north and northwest by private property.
Access: The public entrance to Heard Farm is at the end of Heard Road, off of Pelham Island Road. At the end of Heard Road is the public parking lot for this area.
General Description: Heard Farm consists of 85 acres of extremely diverse land, including corn and hay fields, abandoned fields at different stages of reforestation, pastures, orchards, meadow and woods. Due to the relative flatness of the land gently sloping to the Sudbury River, broad expanses of land and water are within view much of the year. The soils of the Farm are reputed to be the richest in Middlesex County, with little evidence of bedrock. There is one dug farm pond and several other depressions, which are wet most of the year. The marshlands that border much of Heard Farm are one of finest migratory bird areas in New England.
History: The original inhabitants of Pelham Island were Indians from the Nipmucks, of the Algonquin tribe. Pelham Island was not one of the original Sudbury plantation grants purchased by the group of "Watertowne" residents who wanted to found a colony westward. It was a separate grant given to Herbert Pelham, first Treasurer of Havard College, a friend and supporter of the colony, who willed the land in 1672 to his son Edward, of Newport, Rhode Island. The farming Heard family and their descendants grew in number and prominence in the town over the years and Pelham Pond became Heard's Pond and Pelham Island became Heard's Island. However, in more recent years, Heard's Island was reverted back to Pelham Island. Over the years, the farm was divided and sold off. In 1941 and 1953, Samuel A. Cutler bought portions of the
land and used it as a dairy farm until 1966, at which time it was rented to the Watertown Dairy for the raising of corn. When development of the area was proposed in 1970, the Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT) purchased it to preserve the area for conservation and open space. The town of Wayland purchased the land from SVT in 1973 with financial assistance from the Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and the State of Department of Natural Resources. It is managed by the Wayland Conservation Commission and was designated "Heard Farm Conservation Area" in recognition of the significant role of the Heard family in the early history of the Island and Wayland.
Natural Habitat/Wildlife: Heard Farm Conservation Area is well known within the birding community. The following birds have been spotted at this area: Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed Hawk, Merlin, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Downy Woodpecker, North Flicker, Blue Jay, American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Eastern Bluebird, American Robin, Great Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, American Goldfinch, Muted Swan, Wood Duck, Mallard, North Harrier, Tree Swallow, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird and Common Grackle. Various species of butterflies, such as Orange Sulphur and Clouded Sulphur, Spiced Swallowtail, Cabbage White, Summer Azure, Pearl Cresent, Red Admiral and Little Wood Satyre inhabit this area. Amphibians, such as Spring Peepers and Wood Frogs and mammals, such
as Red Fox, are often seen and heard here as well. Heard Farm also provides a rich variety of plant life, including Jewelweed, Daisy Fleabane, Purple Loosestrife, Black-eyed Susan, Late Goldenrod, Rough-Stemmed Goldenrod, Spotted Joe Pyeweed, Blue Verbain, Evening Primrose, Field Thistle, Pokeweed, Sweet Pepperbush, Rough Cinqfiol, Creeping Weed Sorrel and Common Mullien.


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