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Monkey Meat (2022)
Reprints Monkey Meat #1-5
Written & Illustrated by Junji Ba
To quote Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!, “All the food is poison.” One thing I’ve learned while living in The Netherlands is that society doesn’t have to have a constant flood of food recalls as they are in the United States. You ensure that by being very strict about what is and isn’t allowed for consumption and then enforcing those regulations. The United States essentially decided to hand regulatory power for meat packing plants to the companies themselves. Between the nightmarish working conditions that have a severe psychological impact on the workers, the cruel treatment of animals, to the chemicals & toxins allowed into America’s meat, it’s no wonder public health is dismal. Sinclair Lewis’s The Jungle had an impact in its time, but it’s clear that effect has faded. Now, there seems to be a story every few days about children (often migrants) being found working in meat packing plants doing work that has driven adults to suicide and death.
Junji Ba is a Senegalese comics writer/artist who speaks to his upbringing in a part of the world ravaged by Western colonialism and its partner in crime, capitalism. Ba found inspiration to make his own comics growing up by reading works like Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, the Japanese manga Shaman King, and what is most visually evident in his style, The Gorillaz. The art is intentionally busy, with kinetic energy exploding off the page. Characters are hyper-stylized, reminding me of Cartoon Network fare from the early-mid 2000s. There’s also liberal use of in-universe advertisements presented as if they are ads found in a comic book, all centered around products made by the Monkey Meat Corporation.
Monkey Meat is an anthology set in a shared universe, where Monkey Meat Island is the home of the aforementioned company. It’s meant to be placed in a developing nation where the factory city is nestled safely behind the walls of a compound. Beyond that is a vast jungle where the company harvests its main product. This is where it gets complicated because it gets incredibly chaotic between the rotating central character aspect and Ba’s particular style of storytelling. There’s Lug, a massive brute who the company has exert its will on tribes & revolutionary movements that rise up. He’s reluctant to do it, but as the story progresses, you learn why he seems to be in their servitude.
The Monkey Meat Company is the clear villain of the whole piece and goes to comically absurd lengths to exercise their will, including chasing down someone dead to the afterlife and coercing God into a contract to give them the soul back. That soul becomes part of a new line of drinks called Soul Juice which ensures one of their lackeys can never find peace in death.
While Ba’s art is playing things for comedy somewhat, it’s truly a horror story because food manufacturers aren’t too far off from being this fucking awful. Coca-Cola hired literal death squads to enforce their will in Columbia, plus they invented Fanta to keep making a profit in Nazi Germany despite pulling Coke products from Europe. Mars, Nestle, and Hershey’s all continue to use child slave labor to harvest cocoa despite “pledging” to drop the practice years prior. Nestle has gone further by expanding their bottled water production by buying up freshwater rights throughout the United States. Their leadership has made it clear that they do not see clean water as a human right.
People in nations like Senegal are routinely forced into slave labor or what would be considered adjacent to slavery legally. Their homelands are stripped of valuable resources that the people are not allowed to profit from by a foreign corporate entity that has used another nation’s military to enforce their rule. Most people in the West live in ignorance of these facts, and honestly, I’ve found most people you tell just come up with excuses not to care. As long as a Westerner is distracted with treats and entertainment, they simply can’t be bothered to give a fuck about people struggling to provide them with that contentment. Having a voice like Ba’s in comics is vital. Superheroes are fun, and I enjoy funny books, but if you are an adult, it’s time to grow up and do a deep examination of how your life is made and what it is on the backs of slaves on the other side of the world. Their struggle is my struggle, and if I must make do with significantly less, that is simply what must be. None of us are free until all of us are free.
While I found Monkey Meat chaotic, it was still an enjoyable read. I would like to see Ba hone his narrative down more and find a way to keep the energy but deliver a funny & moving story about the ravages of colonialism. Monkey Meat can be extremely on the nose, which knowing American audiences, you sort of have to be. Subtlety is something the average comics reader just ain’t great at. Look at every superhero movie ever made with its sledgehammer of themes being spoken out loud. If you’re looking for a different perspective and a comic book that has a style that blends familiar imagery with an original take, Monkey Meat certainly does the job. It’s a loud, angry, funny scream into the void against the devils who feed us poison.


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What To Consider When Buying A Portable AC Unit
The best way to cool a home is with central air. However, there can be many reasons for why this might not be practical and why you may instead need to cool your home with a portable air conditioner. With many portable AC units on the market, it is necessary to choose the one that will cool your space the most effectively at the lowest cost.
The degree to which your portable air conditioning unit cools an area is based in BTUs. The more BTUs, the larger the area that the air conditioner will be able to cool. You will need 8,000 for 200 square feet, while you will need 14,000 BTUs for 500 square feet. However, the more space that the unit cools, the more expensive it will be. If you want to cool your entire home, a different type of unit may be better. Residential cooling services can help you assess the size you need.
Another cost to consider is the amount of electricity that will be used by the unit. If you are worried about how much the unit will cost in terms of energy efficiency, look at its Energy Efficiency Ratio (ERR). This is an assessment of how many BTUs are generated for each watt of power. The higher the ERR, the more energy-efficient the unit.
Decide whether you would like hookups for a drainage hose or if you would like a reservoir that must be emptied periodically. Some units will evaporate much of the water as exhaust, which reduces the number of times that you will need to dump water from the reservoir.
Portable AC units generate noise. They are louder than other units because the entire body is housed within your living space. However, some units are quieter than others. Look up the decibel level to determine how loud a particular unit is.
There are some portable AC units that double as dehumidifiers and heaters. This can be beneficial because it saves the amount of space that needs to be taken up and also saves you from purchasing a portable heater.
Some portable units are larger than others, which can make it more difficult to move them. For those who only intend to use the portable unit for one room, this isn't a problem. However, if you plan to drag your AC from the living room to the bedroom, decide how much weight you are willing to carry around.


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Hosted by Emily and Shane from the KSCW Crew, "The Weekend Crew" is a local, half hour show about local stuff. On it, Shane and Emily highlight everything from great places to eat, cool places to shop, exciting events, and much more, all right here in the community!
Plus every show has a healthy dose of humor. Emily and Shane produce hilarious fun videos of their adventures as well- from pranks they play on coworkers to action thrillers about a stuffed killer pink bunny.
Between letting you in on the best places to go to around town, giving you the low down on the new movies coming out locally in theaters, and keeping you updated on events and fun things to do in the community, "The Weekend Crew" truly is a local show about local stuff.

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text: 'There's a song on Robert Forster's latest record called I Love Myself and I Always Have. "I hold myself in high regard," he sings in his tender deadpan way. "And loving yourself shouldn't be that hard." He's knows it's funny, but he's not joking. ...'


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What You Should Know About Great Carpentry
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If you may be re-coating a current accomplish, be sure that the top is clean and free from any wax or oils. Then, allow it to dried up entirely, and lightly scuff the outer lining by using a 220-grit sandpaper in order that the finish you will be applying will have one thing to carry on.
Examination the hue of the stain well before undertaking the total spot on a lot more visible locations. Hardwood is rarely expected, so a spot might not appearance how you will expect or want it to when placed on the wooden you are using. When you check the blemish inside a area that’s not effortlessly noticeable, you avoid developing a task prove terribly.
Will you hate these bubbles that kind when using joints substance in your drywall? You will find a simple strategy that skilled drywallers use to prevent this annoying issue. Include several drops of plate soap for your joints ingredient and you will probably be recognized with bubble cost-free joints ingredient.
You wish to are aware of the distinct characteristics of your wooden you’re likely to use, especially just before the yellowing method. Wood that may be color quality is not high quality. On the flip side, hardwood that is certainly stain class will mark greater. Particleboard and veneer differ from the other person. Veneer doesn’t always absorb an adequate amount of the mark, and particleboard over-absorbs it. Any project will end up better should you get the best hardwood.
You can make your own personal router basic making use of quarter-in . acrylic, which can be easy to obtain at a redecorating center. This particular selfmade router basic is stronger and a lot more trustworthy in comparison to the sort that comes with a router. You will definitely get a much better and much more precise directly edge due to the superior power and balance on this fabric. Use the base that was included with your router as being a routine to produce your own personal durable router basic having an acrylic sheet.
When you are new at wood working and beginning to gather your instruments, obtain basic tools to start with. Consider your hands in a few projects to make sure you would like to keep on prior to deciding to spend money on high-priced instruments. It will save you money and have higher quality resources once you buy used resources.
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Today’s “sentencing” of Vladimir Kara-Murza is a momentous and historic event. For the first time in post-Soviet Russia, an opposition politician has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for legal political activity that does not even appear to be formally criminal. This time, the Putin regime did not bother to falsify even an outwardly plausible criminal case, preferring instead to accept the politically motivated interpretation of the defendant’s activities as “high treason.
This “verdict” became the final point in the long process of fascization of Putin’s regime, which is now taking on an absolutely total character. Any form of open dissent, be it criticism of the authorities themselves, or the criminal war unleashed by them, is declared the gravest of all crimes. Hence the exorbitantly long prison sentence imposed on Kara-Murza, a term of imprisonment that exceeds the penalties for most real criminals – murderers, bandits, drug dealers, and rapists. The term, in fact, equated to life imprisonment, given Vladimir’s state of health and the situation in Russian camps and prisons.
But it is also clear that all the prison terms so generously handed out to the opponents of Putin’s regime will in fact amount to a lifetime of imprisonment for the regime itself. Our comrades in arms, thrown into the dungeons of Putin’s executioners, will remain there as long as Putin himself and the totalitarian system he created remain in power. The downfall of the regime would also mean the destruction of its repressive system. With the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners and their rehabilitation. Everything possible must be done to ensure that this moment comes as soon as possible!
While remembering the victims of repression, it is important not to forget the executioners! We declare openly and directly that none of those who have become cogs of Putin’s punitive system will escape responsibility. All those involved in the political persecution of the opposition, from simple investigators to the judges of the highest instance who confirm the convictions, will be identified and put on our “Putin List”, with subsequent inclusion in the sanctions lists of the countries of the Free World. And after the imminent collapse of Putin’s regime, they will stand trial and receive just punishment. There will be no statute of limitations for such crimes!
It should be noted that Judge Podoprigorov and Prosecutor Loktionov, in prosecuting Kara-Murza, are already on the Magnitsky list in the US, which does not exempt them from other forms of liability for prosecuting a person who is known to be innocent. Sanctions in other countries and a court verdict in a future free Russia await them.
In the meantime, we demand the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza and other political prisoners! Freedom to political prisoners!
Free Russia Forum


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AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – The Aviano Saints landed another blow against Italy’s former football juggernaut Saturday with a stunning 24-18 overtime win over visiting Naples.
Nathan Sevigny forced extra time with a tying field goal as regulation expired, and Mike Trujillo completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Perran to deliver Aviano’s euphoric victory over last year’s Division II runner-up.
Though it took late heroics to finish off, the Saints got their upset bid rolling early when Jamal Thomas ran the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown. Thomas scored again minutes later on a touchdown reception from Trujillo.
Naples scored twice in rapid succession after halftime to trim the deficit to 15-12.
Wildcat quarterback Ty’Rick Riggins squeezed into the end zone from short yardage to put Naples up 18-15 in the game’s final minute. But Sevigny’s kick kept the Saints alive.
Both teams missed field goal attempts in the first overtime period.
The win was Aviano’s first of the season on its last opportunity. It’s not enough to alter the locked-in Division II South playoff picture, however, as 2-3 Naples will claim the region’s fourth and final spot ahead of one-win Aviano and Schweinfurt-Bamberg. The Wildcats’ reward is a trip to four-time defending Division II champion and undefeated North top seed Bitburg.
Trujillo starred on both sides of the ball for Aviano, completing 9 of 11 passes for 213 yards and leading the Saints defense with eight tackles. Perran had his own iron-man stat line with five receptions for 149 yards along with five tackles and an interception.
English rushed for 64 yards and touchdown to lead Naples; Zane Zimmerman led the Wildcat defense with five tackles.


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Scholars have identified that it is important to develop SME growth theory around growth-as- a-process and how-firms-grow. Based on a literature review of growth in six top entrepreneurship journals a conceptual model was designed. By means of in depth interviews with CEOS of gazelles and non-gazelles a model for organic growth as a process was designed. Nine factors that correlate with organic growth were identified and grouped into three constructs: growth intention, giving organizational direction and staff motivation.
"DEVELOPING AN ORGANIC GROWTH MODEL FOR SMES: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF GROWTH FACTORS AT GAZELLES AND NON-GAZELLES IN THE NETHERLANDS (INTERACTIVE PAPER),"
Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 34
, Article 22.
Available at: https://digitalknowledge.babson.edu/fer/vol34/iss5/22

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An introduction to preflighting using Adobe Acrobat
Creative and design
Here, Del Williams, a technical writer based in Torrance, California, looks at new substrate options and tools that enhance graphic appeal and streamline the creative process. He chats with Alan Jameson, Senior Manager of the Design and Prototyping Team at Avery Products Corporation. While graphic designers work with a variety of visual media, designing printed … Read more →
Create opportunities with customers by making their PDFs interactive.
Mohawk, North America’s largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing, has announced a comprehensive new printed tool designed to serve as a hands-on resource for the creative community. A Maker’s Field Guide to Texture and Color “will serve to inspire and educate printers, designers and end users, … Read more →
Adobe has launched major updates to its flagship Creative Cloud tools and services including new features in Adobe’s flagship applications, performance enhancements across Creative Cloud (CC), and updates to Adobe Stock – including deeper integration within CC and the addition of an all-new Premium collection of high-quality stock content. Aimed at inefficiencies that slow down … Read more →
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The remarkable story behind Canada’s first JETVarnish 3DS
Sappi North America, a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper and packaging products, has called for its 2016 Ideas that Matter grant proposals, inviting designers to show the world how design, specifically print, can play an important role in changing our lives for the better. Sappi established the Ideas that Matter grant program 17 … Read more →
GPA, a U.S.-based market leader in substrate solutions for offset, digital and wide-format printing, has kicked off its 2016 Print & Design Contest. Now in its 11th year, the contest recognizes outstanding printed pieces for their excellence and creativity combined with the use of GPA substrates. Entries will be accepted through to October 31, 2016. … Read more →
Markzware (Santa Ana, California), a leading developer of print, publishing and file conversion software, has announced a new Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) version. The popular Adobe InDesign plug-in now has QuarkXPress 2016 (also known as QXP v12) support. Q2ID is available for Mac and Windows platforms for InDesign CC 2015, 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5 and … Read more →
On March 11th, 2016, fourth-year students from Graphic Communications Management at Ryerson University hosted their annual Business Plan Expo.

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by Pastor Robin Fish
2 Peter 1:5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge.
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Here St. Peter takes up the admonition, that they should demonstrate their faith by good works. Since such great blessing is bestowed upon you through faith (he would say), that you really have all that God is, do this in addition: be diligent, that is to say, not sluggish; in your faith supply moral excellence; that is, let your faith break out before the world, so as to be zealous, busy, powerful, and active, and to do many works; do not let it remain idle and unfruitful. You have a good inheritance and a good field, but see to it that you do not let thistles and weeds grow upon it. Discrimination or knowledge is, in the first place, something which one should manifest in outward conduct, and the morality of faith, in accordance with reason. For we should bridle and check the body, to the end that we may be sober, vigorous, and fitted for good works. We should not torture and mortify ourselves as some famous saints have done. For though God is likewise opposed to the sins that remain in the flesh, yet does He not require that for this reason you should destroy the body. Its viciousness and caprice you should guard against. Still, you are not to ruin or injure the body, but give it its food and refreshment that it may remain sound and in living vigor. In the second place, discrimination, here, means that one should lead life deliberately, and act with discretion in regard to outward things, such as food and things of that sort; that one should not act in these things without thinking, and that he should give his neighbor no provocation.
Holy Father! Thou hast taught meI should live to Thee alone;Year by year Thy hand hath brought meOn through dangers oft unknown,When I wandered, Thou hast found me;When I doubted, sent me light;Still Thine arm has been around me,All my paths were in Thy sight.

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Chef Cole Cooking with White Wine
Food And Wine
Executive Chef Cole Dickinson was recently approached to participate in a recent article on FoodandWine.com written by Jillian Kramer. The piece, “The 5 Best White Wines for Cooking,” features chefs’ takes on their favorite white wines to use in the kitchen including Champagne, Chardonnay, Sauternes, Chablis, and Marsala. Chef Dickinson was quoted for his use of Champagne.
Champagne isn’t just for celebrating. Cole Dickinson, executive chef of Layla at MacArthur Place, says that one of his “go-to” cooking wines is champagne. He says, “A dry brut is a great baseline for a lively champagne butter sauce served over just about any type of fish.” That’s because, as Dickinson explains, “the liveliness of the dry sparkling wine offsets the richness of the butter and fattiness of the fish,” and he recommends turbot and salmon. The key to using champagne in cooking, he says, “is to use a dry sparkling wine, and use it within a few days of opening.” Plus, Dickinson adds, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a good cooking champagne. “Most decent bottle of bubbles will do the trick,” he says.
Cooking with Additional White Wines: In Chef Cole’s Own Words
Cooking with good wine might sound like sacrilege in wine country, but starting with good wine is a must for great results (you get out what you put in!). I don’t use wine heavily in my cooking, as my approach tends to favor purity — letting the natural flavors of the ingredients shine through.
Some dishes of course call for white wine, like our soupe de poisson served with grilled sourdough, garlic aioli, and rouget. I use Chablis in the broth for its crisp but not-too-distracting acidity, low alcohol and clean minerality that accents the seafood flavors. Or I’ll substitute with a Picpoul for its citrusy brightness that plays well with the zesty garlic aioli and salinity of the broth.
On a more playful note, I love cooking with Mirin, an off-dry Japanese rice wine. Our Mirin-pickled cucumbers are an essential component in the new poke dish I’m developing for Layla, as the sweetness of the Mirin balances the umami notes in the soy for the perfect alchemy of flavors. The trick with Mirin is not to overdo it; a little goes a long way.
Last but not least, I’m a fan of Late Harvest Riesling for creating unique, flavorful and refreshing notes in desserts. I’m working on a new dish for Layla, a Persian love cake with a Late Harvest Riesling and rose water lucette jelly. The floral and honey notes of the Riesling interplay beautifully with the rose water and warming spice notes in the cake. It’s the ultimate elixir.
Executive Chef Cole Dickinson
Chef Dickinson comes to MacArthur Place most recently from Acacia House at the Forbes 4-star Las Alcobas Resort in Napa Valley, which was recently named one of the Bay Area’s best 100 restaurants by the San Francisco Chronicle. As a protégée of Chef Michael Voltaggio, Chef Dickenson worked first at Charlie Palmer’s Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg followed by Voltaggio’s Hemisphere at the Greenbrier in West Virginia and then at The Bazaar by José Andrés in Beverly Hills.
His professional experience also includes work with some of the world’s most highly lauded chefs and restaurants including Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in London; Laurent Gras’ 3 Michelin star l2o in Chicago and with Wolfgang Puck in Hollywood. Dickinson has competed in and won Food Network’s “Chopped” and has been recognized as a StarChefs “Los Angeles Rising Star Chef,” an Eater “Young Guns” winner, and has also been named one of Zagat’s “30 Under 30.”
Award-winning Chef Cole Dickinson will serve as executive chef, overseeing all food and beverage operations including Layla, The Bar at MacArthur, The Porch, weddings and social events, poolside dining, and the hotel’s in-room dining program.

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"Sad Girl" was a surprise song for me. It popped out while I was trying to write a "happy song" for a friend who worries that my writing focuses too much on the bad events of my life. I think it turned out playfully optimistic for a song with such a candid view of my true feelings. And I'm unusually pleased with how well that one idea sums me up as a person.
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The oven is a device that generates heat and keeps it inside a compartment, which is used to roast, heat, grill food, etc. French door ovens are the latest devices created to facilitate these tasks in the kitchen.
Ovens have evolved over the years, and the energy needed to power them has also been changing, from the first ovens that used wood combustion, to the electric ones that are the most used today.
Types of ovens
This type of oven is lit with wooden trunks, is not very used nowadays, although some establishments bet on it, since it can give a unique flavor to the food.
Gas Combustion Ovens
This type of ovens is fueled with natural gas, which is usually an advantage in some places where it is easy to get but is somewhat complicated to obtain in locations where excessive consumption of this fuel is expensive or restricted.
This is one of the most used types of ovens, both for its easy use and the fact that it is very handy; you have to plug it into the electric current to have a full-powered oven.
The dream of many people is to reform their kitchen and turn it into a pleasant, modern and elegant space, and still many people have a doubt about to buy or not, a french door oven.
6 reasons why you should buy a French Door Oven
These ovens have an innovative style thanks to the particular system of opening doors, which works easily and comfortably because you can open both doors simultaneously with just one hand.
Besides, some of these ovens are digital and have internal lighting, which allows you to observe the entire cooking process of the food without open the doors.
This type of ovens works with different temperatures, depending on the brand and design, which can vary from 90º to 450ºF, making it easier to cook different kinds of food.
The space inside these ovens can vary from about 32 to 42 liters. Usually, these models can double their capacity and comes with two grids designed to cook two recipes at the same time.
4.Power and Energy consumption efficiency:
The power of these ovens can vary from 250W to 1500W, making an efficient operational process with less electrical consumption, saving you time and energy consumption.
These ovens can roast, toast, defrost, dehydrate, and cook by turbo convection, which allows you to cook or brown food faster and more evenly.
These devices perform the cooking process in approximately 60 to 90 minutes. Some of these ovens have an intelligent automatic shutdown system, which prevents the device from overheating and the food from exceeding the necessary cooking time.
If you feel interested in buying a french door oven for the reasons explained in this article, we invite you to check the different models available in the market through our website.


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Kerry Washington Leads Off The 2017 SAG Awards With A Message For Those Telling Her To Shut Up!
The SAG Awards always bring something fun with their “I am an actor” speeches.
2017 also brought the drama as Kerry Washington led off with an important statement:
“A lot of people are saying right now that actors should keep our mouths shut when it comes to politics. But the truth is, no matter what, actors are activists because we embody the humanity and worth of all people.”
Hell yeah, gurl! Speak your peace!
Read more: http://perezhilton.com/

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Importance: Few studies have analyzed associations between sociodemographic factors and neovascular glaucoma (NVG) outcomes.
Aim and background: To determine the potential impact of sociodemographic and economic factors on the NVG tube shunt surgery outcomes.
Design: Retrospective, single-center, comparative case series.
Participants: Consecutive patients who underwent tube shunt surgery for NVG and had ≥6 months of follow-up.
Materials and methods: Regional average adjusted gross income (AGI) was determined by cross-referencing self-reported residential zip codes with average AGI per zip code supplied by the Internal Revenue Service. Two groups were created: (1) lower-income: individuals from neighborhoods with the lowest 10% of AGI (near the United States poverty line), (2) higher-income: the remaining 90% of individuals.
Main outcome measures: Visual acuity (VA), intraocular pressure (IOP), and glaucoma medication number at 6 months and the most recent visit.
Results: The mean annual AGI in the higher-income group (130 patients) was $69,596 ± 39,700 and the lower-income group (16 patients) was $27,487 ± 1,600 (p < 0.001). Age, sex, distance to the clinic, language, and all baseline clinical variables (including VA and IOP) were comparable between groups. Lower-income was associated with non-white race (81.3 vs 52.3%; p = 0.024). At month 6, VA in the lower-income group [median: HM (20/70–NLP)] was worse than the higher-income group [median: CF (20/25–NLP)] (log MAR VA: 2.32 ± 0.8 vs 1.77 ± 1.1; p = 0.02); these trends persisted through the most recent visit (p = 0.043). Follow-up IOP and medications were similar between groups.
Conclusions and relevance: Lower-income may be associated with worse VA outcomes following NVG tube shunt surgery.
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Score the 11" x 4 1/4" Thick Whisper White cardstock at 5 1/2" and burnish your score line.
Glue down the 4" x 5 1/4" So Very Vellum DSP to the center of the cardbase.
To watercolor, the 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" paper, add water to the Aqua Painter and brush the water over the paper making sure you don't have pools of water on the edges if you do the dab it off with a paper towel. Add a couple of drops of re-inker to the acrylic block and add 3 or 4 drops of water and mix well to dilute the ink. Now brush the ink onto the watercolor paper. Once done adding ink, blot the excess ink off with a paper towel and let dry.
Punch out the tulip flowers from the Pleased As Punch DSP sheet and add dimensionals to the back of them. Stamp the tulip stem and leaves on to the watercolor paper with Old Olive ink and then adhere the tulips to the watercolor paper.
Glue the watercolor paper to the 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" Pleased As Punch DSP and attach this layer to the left side of the vellum layer using dimensionals.
Stamp your sentiment in the same color as the vellum, then adhere to the bottom right corner of the watercolor paper using dimensionals.
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Eidon wrote a beautiful short piece with two different arrangements. I wondered if I could make a third arrangement.
The classical tale behind a Japanese pop song.
Some observations on the Nobel lecture of Yasunari Kawabata
The short story of a whimsical music collaboration.
On the origin and meaning of a Shinshū Buddhist hymn which I encountered in Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station.
On the origin and meaning of this chant, common in Japanese Buddhism.
After spending nearly six years reading Murakami's 1Q84 in Japanese, I finally finished it. What did I learn?
In one of the final chapters in 1Q84, a character tells an intriguing story about Carl Gustav Jung. I went looking for the story behind the story.
A very short story for the Fifth Annual Kyoto Writing Competition.
On the symbolism of puppets in Ghost in the Shell anime series.
Some years ago I photographed musicians in a festival float in Kyoto on the eve of the Gion Matsuri. I finally turned it into a drawing.
The many layers behind the theme song of the Ghost in the Shell anime 'Innocence'.
A tale of a shop with a strange name, the planets, and the days of the week.
Some observations on reading Japanese: reading aloud and reading without subvocalising.
A few tips to get off to a good start with vegan cooking.
A look at why the 'Little People' in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 say 'Ho ho'
Why do Tengo and Fuka-eri repeat one another so frequently?
A story of counting systems, a mathematics treatise and buddhist scriptures, with a supercomputer and a samurai.
Some years ago I saw a a traditional dance performance in Kyoto on the eve of the Gion Matsuri. I finally turned it into a drawing.
Quick and Tasty recipes don't use onion. There is no special reason, I just prefer ginger. So let's make the case for ginger.
Why even 5 minutes per day is enough to get you there.
Some thoughts on a recent study saying that we need to eat ten portions of fruit and vegetables per day.
Quick an Tasty Cooking is one year old!
There are many, many varieties of rice. Here are five types that I like.
Why it is hard, and what you can do to make it easier.
Simple and effective design.
Peer into the fridge, see what you can make.
Discovering Murakami in Japanese, and a Zen cookbook.
Cooking food in the microwave has many advantages.
What we can learn from a Zen Buddhist cookbook.
Some of the qualities of a geek boffin are transferable to cooking.
With these tips, making tasty meals will be a breeze.
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Quadra Island Clam Gardens. Source: Groesbeck et al. PLOS-1, 2014.
Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre and Discovery Passage SeaLife Society present:
1. Sea Level History of the Discovery Islands.
Daryl Fedje, University of Victoria
2. Quadra Island’s Ancient Clam Gardens.
Dana Lepofsky, Simon Fraser University
Monday, June 16th | 7 pm Quadra Island Community Centre
So I usually limit my announcements of public talks to those happening in the Victoria backyard of Blog World Headquarters but it so happens there is one exceptional one coming up on Quadra Island, where I’ll be spending the next week. The talk, actually two talks, will focus on two archaeological projects underway up there. The poster advertising the talks is here, or you can read more below.
Posted in Archaeology, Northwest Coast, Vancouver Island
Tagged aquaculture, Archaeology, Campbell River, clam gardens, clams, Discovery Islands, mariculture, Quadra Island, sea level history, SFU, shellfish, uvic
Clam garden in southern Haida Gwaii. Note the rock wall forming the flat terrace feature.
Transforming the Beach, Transforming our Thinking: Ancient Clam Gardens of Northern Quadra Island, BC.
Michelle Puckett (presenter) and Amy Groesbeck, Dana Lepofsky, Anne Salomon, Kirsten Rowell, Nicole Smith and Sue Formosa
Tuesday, May 20th, 7:30pm at the University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room B129. All welcome, free.
SFU graduate student Michelle Puckett (formerly UVIC’s own) is giving the May ASBC Victoria talk – “clam gardens”. These intertidal features have taken NW Coast archaeology by storm over the last 15 years or so. Each one is a deliberate alteration of the beach in order to enhance shellfish productivity. Hundreds of these are now known, and as archaeologists’ eyes become more tuned to this site type I expect hundreds more to be recorded. Being, in effect, a kind of mariculture or aquaculture, these are important not only to our understanding of long term histories on the coast (they challenge the anthropological type “hunter-gatherer”) but they will also become important in land claims, I am sure. Click below to read the abstract and bio for this talk.
Posted in Archaeology, fieldwork, Northwest Coast, Technology, Vancouver Island
Tagged aquaculture, clam gardens, clams, Intertidal, mariculture, Salish Sea, SFU, shellfish, traditional use, uvic
Screenshot of iPINCH website
I’ve posted a couple of times (1, 2) on the proposed, callous use of a seated human figure bowl as a reality TV show prop. Well, worse than a prop, since the idea is to auction off this sensitive cultural property in pursuit of TV ratings and the advertizing dollars which follow. It’s sort of unfathomably insensitive and stupid, doubly maddening since it’s the CBC, a crown corporation and an entity which really should know better.
Anyway, there’s an interesting and insightful essay by Emily Benson on the IPinCH blog which adds a lot of thoughtful commentary and context for this issue:
The example of the seated human figure bowl and media discussions around it, reflect a broader set of questions and issues related to historical and contemporary relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada. This case reflects the importance of challenging both public and anthropological conceptions regarding the treatment of Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage. Explicitly recognizing the relationship of descendant communities to their ancestral /sacred sites and objects, and their rights regarding their cultural heritage, are fundamental to doing so. Key to shifting these perspectives are recognizing the significance of cultural heritage sites and objects to living peoples, and their rights to make decisions regarding their heritage.
It’s part of IPinCH‘s* occasional series “Appropriation of the Month” – most entries are not about the NW Coast but nonetheless many readers here will find a lot of food for thought over there. I particularly encourage you to go over and leave some comments on the bowl issue!
Posted in anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, First Nations, history, Northwest Coast
Tagged appropriation, CBC, ethics, four rooms, iPinch, Reality TV, SFU, Stone Bowls
Sisiutl for Sale
I was browsing to price out some used skiffs, and look what I found – a custom built archaeological research vessel — only $99,000. (I wonder what she cost to build?) The listing is here, with a PDF backup for posterity here.
I don’t have any memories of the Sisiutl — never stepped on board — but I know she is close to the hearts of many SFU faculty and former students.
Posted in Archaeology, fieldwork, history, Northwest Coast, Teaching
Tagged Archaeology, boats, fieldwork, research, SFU, Simon Fraser University, Sisiutl
SFU Archaeology instructor Rudy Reimer holds a small replica of the handmade bentwood boxes that will be used to store ancestral Aboriginal remains. Source: SFU flickr stream.
There have been several newspaper stories recently noting the impending repatriation and reburial of human remains excavated from the famous Namu village site of the Heiltsuk Nation, on the central coast of B.C. For example, here is one from the Vancouver Sun (PDF), another from the Globe and Mail (PDF) and a media release from Simon Fraser University itself, whose archaeology department conducted most of the excavations at this large site in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly under the direction of Roy Carlson. As ever, each newspaper source contains slightly different information.
Posted in anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, First Nations, Northwest Coast
Tagged Heiltsuk, human remains, Namu, reburial, repatriation, SFU, Simon Fraser University
Gwayasdums house under construction 1899. Source: SFU.
The Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies is part of the Department of Archaeology and First Nation Studies at Simon Fraser University, although it is physically located in downtown Vancouver. It currently shares space with the Bill Reid Gallery on Hornby St., near SFU’s Harbour Centre Campus. They have a website that looks to be growing fast with some good content – and despite the name of the centre, it is not only about Haida Art, or even just about Art:
A major activity of the Centre is to visually document through photographs, drawings and other works, the depth and richness of Northwest Coast Art in the hundreds of communities in which monumental architecture and sculpture were recorded.
I’ll point out a few highlights and make some comments “after the jump”
Projectile points and other artifacts from Lasqueti Island.
So many of the Gulf Island of the BC Coast are essentially unknown to archaeologists. This goes for the larger ones as well as the small: I’d count Lasqueti, Hornby, Texada, Saturna, and Prevost Islands among those, while even major islands like Mayne Island and Quadra Island are often known only from one site, dug long ago.
This doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any work, or that there aren’t interesting and revealing collections of archaeological material already in existence. So it is great to see that Dana Lepofsky of SFU has put together a small web site on the archaeology of Lasqueti Island. She deftly combines some ethnographic and traditional practice information with a series of photographs of private collections of artifacts. Among these are projectile points apparently assignable to the Charles Phase, which dates around 5400 to 3600 years ago. Also note the beautiful ground stone adze or chisel in this picture: the luminous green nephrite (B.C. “jade”) would have been imported from the Central Fraser River, probably no closer than the Hope area. This flaked and ground sandstone club is an unusual find, probably used in hunting or fishing, but perhaps also in warfare.
If you click the photographs, then a window will open; if you click the “image details” link on the pop-up window then you will be taken to more information about that photo, if available. There are also two PDFs linked, one to the role of herring in traditional subsistence, and another on mapping a fishtrap. These stem from Lepofsky’s ongoing work (and excellent website) in Tla’amin territory on the Sunshine Coast (previously), where she will be running an archaeological fieldschool again this summer. While this only scratches the surface of Lasqueti Archaeology, it does point to the usefulness of looking at what citizens have picked up over the years as a guide to some of the time depth and activities of an area.
Sadly, of course, some of the artifacts picked up may have resulted from, or even caused, unnecessary disturbances to the archaeological record. Lepofsky provides a helpful “call before you dig” article as well – specific to Lasqueti yet applicable elsewhere. In typical Dana fashion, as a Lasquetian herself, the number to call is her own!
Lasqueti Island intertidal fishtrap. Photo: Dana Lepofsky.

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Meeting scheduled for Monday, July 8 at 7:30pm
Hesperia just celebrated their annual Family Fun Fest with lots of folks taking part in the variety of activities and an epic fireworks display. There’s a lot of community spirit in the village that straddles the county lines of Newaygo and Oceana. They love their high school sports, the local library and enjoy the many other gifts small town Michigan living can bring.
But they can’t seem to get enough Village Council members together to hold a meeting these days.
As we have reported previously, two council members, Mike Maynard and Gerald Derks have not shown up since the scheduled assembly in March. Village President Mike Farber has called several meetings to order over the past months only to see them end with the council falling short of the requisite numbers needed to hold a meeting.
“It’s frustrating,” said Farber. “They are keeping us from moving forward as a town. Fortunately we have a great staff. Our clerk, office personnel, the police chief, our public works, they’re all doing an outstanding job despite the issues on the council.”
Recall language for one of the two in absentia members has apparently been accepted.
Until further action is taken or a change during the November elections occurs those who attend tonight in hopes of seeing a meeting take place could continue to come away disappointed.

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Race Parsons poured in 18 points and four 3-pointers, grabbed 12 rebounds, and dished four assists to lead his current team -- South Sevier -- to victory at the home of his future team -- SUU. Austin Clark and Patrick Baker combined to add 24 points in the Rams' winning effort.
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By Will Higginbotham
Jefa Greenaway will never forget the first time he heard his father’s voice. It was in 2017, when he was watching a documentary about Indigenous Australians’ fight to be recognised in the country’s Constitution.
“It was poignant, surreal,” Greenaway recalled. “In one word: emotional.”
In the film, his father, Bert Groves, an Indigenous man and a civil rights activist born in 1907, recounts how he was prevented from pursuing an education because of the size of his skull, a victim of phrenology, the pseudoscience that lingered in Australia into the 20th century.
Now 53, Greenaway was just a baby when his father died, leaving him to be raised in Australia by his German mother. Yet his father’s values – such as championing Indigenous rights and valuing education – were inculcated in the young boy.
Greenaway is today one of what he estimates to be fewer than 20 registered Indigenous architects in Australia. He’s also a leading proponent of what is known as “Country-centred design”, which brings an Aboriginal worldview to building projects.
“People like Jefa are rare,” said Peter Salhani, an Australian architectural journalist who has admired Greenaway’s work in Melbourne for some years. His projects, Salhani said, “are unquestionably of the Indigenous voice — we need that now more than ever”.
For many Indigenous Australians, the land they were born on or belong to holds a spiritual importance. When people talk of “Country”, they do not mean just physical land and waterways, but a belief system in which everything is animate and there is no division between humans, animals, buildings, plants, rocks, water and air.
One goal for the design approach that embraces this worldview is to reveal what was found on a site before European settlement and to do so in a way that puts the environment first.
One of the best examples of a Greenaway project reflecting these values is an amphitheatre and plaza connecting the University of Melbourne — where the architect studied — with Swanston Street, regarded as the city’s civic spine. Taking a seat under a baby gum tree, Greenaway pointed to mudstone tracery on the ground of the amphitheatre that snaked around clusters of native plants and into the interiors of buildings.
“This represents a creek that was once here,” Greenaway said. For millenniums, it was an aquatic highway for migrating eels before it was channelled into a stormwater drain. Today, the occasional eel is found disoriented in ponds at the university, lost as it seeks to continue its migration route.
Less an aesthetic and more of a different approach to the building process, Country-centred design starts with an Indigenous architect leading the project and collaborating with the local Indigenous community. Greenaway described it as “co-design”.
Country-centred design also puts sustainability at the fore, seeking to give back to the land, not take from it. “It’s how we’ve always done it,” Greenaway said, referring to Indigenous cultures.
Indigenous Australians are better represented across much of the creative sector, from music to the visual arts to theatre and literature, than they are in architecture, which remains, according to Greenaway, “something of a last bastion”.
“There is a residual feeling that architecture is not for us because it has been complicit in colonisation,” he said. “Now that we have more voices contributing to this space, in the next few years, we’re going to really shift the idea of what design and architecture can do for the community.”
A short tram ride from the amphitheatre is the first project where Greenaway tested his design ideas: Ngarara Place at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
What one notices first is the small scale. Ngarara Place is made of a segmented garden bed with native plants, each section representing one of the six or seven seasons observed by the Kulin Nations, the Indigenous people who inhabited the area. It also has a fire pit for smoking ceremonies, a timbered amphitheatre and an installation of contemporary Indigenous art.
Ngarara means “gathering” in the language of the traditional custodians of this land, and the site is “activated”, Greenaway says, when used in ceremonies or even when students are just sitting about.
“It still surprises me that this little place accelerated interest in these concepts,” Greenaway said as he looked over the site. “It sort of changed the conversation and had this ripple effect.”
Before Ngarara Place, his firm, Greenaway Architects, which he founded with his wife, Catherine Drosinos, worked almost exclusively on residential projects. Today, he’s involved in larger public projects, reflecting a growing appetite for this design in mainstream Australia.
In New South Wales, major infrastructure projects must now have Indigenous design considerations, and there are mandatory credits in Indigenous design to earn an architecture degree in Australia.
“We have reached a level of cultural maturity where we can now have these conversations,” Greenaway said. Asked about the referendum last year that failed in its effort to give Indigenous Australians a Voice to parliament in the form of an advisory body, Greenaway said there were still reasons for optimism.
“I’m encouraged because there is a very strong appetite to engage with Indigenous culture and to find pathways towards reconciliation,” he said.
In Melbourne’s central meeting point, Federation Square, stands the Koorie Heritage Trust, a cultural centre celebrating south-east Australia’s First Nations heritage. Greenaway recently finished an interior fit-out of the building, spread over three levels. The overhead lighting layout speaks to Indigenous astronomy, nearby concrete columns evoke scar trees, and graphics on walls symbolise a smoking ceremony.
Many items in the cultural collection were housed in drawers that invited people to open them, but there was a lack of informational panels. When this seeming omission was pointed out, Greenaway smiled.
“You’re coming at it from this Western mindset of what a cultural collection should be,” he said. “What this is is an invitation to be active, not passive, to go up and start a conversation” with museum staff members.
When Greenaway was a student, he was the only Indigenous person in his class studying architecture at Melbourne University. Today, he estimates there are 70 to 80 Indigenous students enrolled in design and architecture degrees across the country.
Many of these students know Greenaway as an accessible mentor.
He co-founded a nonprofit – Indigenous Architecture and Design Australia – to support Aboriginal people pursuing design careers, and to help them navigate an industry still adapting to Indigenous design thinking. He also recently co-wrote the International Indigenous Design Charter, a global blueprint for working with Indigenous knowledge in commercial design practice.
His focus on Aboriginal ecological and ancestral narratives makes him a pioneer whose projects are “inherently political”, said Alison Page, a Dharawal and Yuin woman and the co-author of First Knowledges Design, a book that discusses Indigenous architecture in contemporary Australia.
His approach, Page said, has helped pave the way for other projects to grapple with the legacy of injustices stemming from the history of Indigenous and colonial encounters.
“Designing in this way, you start to reveal stories and narratives,” she said. “Some of them can be hard to face, but they’re part of the truth of a place. That sort of truth telling is not too far away now.”
Up next for Greenaway Architects will be a national first: a college at the University of Technology Sydney designed specifically for First Nations students.
From the steps of Melbourne’s war memorial, the Shrine of Remembrance, the views over the city are dramatic. While the cityscape from this vantage is dominated by skyscrapers rising over Victorian-era boulevards, Greenaway’s projects lay subtly and intimately at ground level.
Greenaway said his goal had been to create places “encoded with meaning, but never showy” and to “embed a layer in Melbourne’s urban fabric that gave agency to First Nations Peoples”.
Asked about his future aspirations, he said: “My hope, really, is that through our practice, we’ve started to chart a new direction around design equity, to ensure that the voice of the voiceless is normalised within design practice in Australia, but also beyond.
“It’s starting now, but we’ve got to keep up the momentum.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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The LF ANALYSER ME3830B is a low-frequency measuring device with digital display for simple and quick detection of electrosmog caused by low-frequency alternating electric fields and magnetic fields. Its high detection radius of 16 Hz – 100 kHz makes it unique. Ideal for beginners!
The LF-ANALYSER ME3830B is a straightforward Electrosmog is a colloquial term for all emissions from electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields. More measuring device for the low-frequency range (LF). It is reliable and greatly facilitates the detection of magnetic alternating fields and electric alternating fields. It’s a highly valuable tool to identify a restful sleeping place or a healthy workplace.
The measurable Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. It is a physical measurement that is important for describing periodic processes, such as vibrations. More range of the LF Analyser ME3830B extends from 15 Hz to 100 kHz (100.000 Hz). The measuring range for electric field strength ranges from 1 to 1999 V/m (volts per meter). The measurement range for magnetic alternating fields ranges from 1 to 1999 nT (nanotesla).
LF Analyser ME3830B, a powerful detector for low-frequency electrosmog
The analyser captures the entire low-frequency spectrum with its very wide frequency range from 16 to 100.000 Hz (100 kHz). Starting with deep railway power frequencies of 16,7 Hz, over the usual 50 Hz household power supply frequencies, up to problematic harmonics (Dirty Power) from switching power supplies, pre-control units of LED lamps, dimmers, energy-saving lamps, or consumer electronics. The fact that the meter recognizes Dirty Electricity (dirty power) without complicated settings is a clear advantage!
Because of constant new developments in the industry, like induction cookers, wireless chargers, light bulbs with built-in electronics, etc., the application area for this low-frequency measuring device grows larger every day. It’s the ideal device for everyone who prefers to measure themselves rather than relying on manufacturers and operators’ statements.
Is it impossible to estimate how far the high-voltage line in the neighbouring street actually radiates or where exactly the electrical lines in the flat are laid? It often starts with small things that you don’t think about, like the radio alarm clock on the bedside table and its strong EM fields. Is the Euro flat plug “correctly” in the socket, or am I exposing myself to unnecessarily high electric fields just because the switch integrated into the electrical line only switches single-phase?
Every household and office hides everyday sources of radiation. The LF ANALYSER ME3830B provides clarity!
New dimensions and price range in low-frequency electrosmog measurement
Due to the simple operation with only two switches, this measuring device is suitable for measurement beginners. One switch for turning on and off (with or without acoustics) and a second switch for choosing between alternating electric field measurement (V/m) and magnetic field measurement (nT).
The analyser ME3830B can be used both potential-bound and potential-free. It’s always an advantage when both measurement methods are possible, as this particularly increases flexibility in application. Numerous low-frequency devices measure only the electric field against earth potential. This is a problem because the quality of the earth must be determined first. With potential-connected devices alone, no statement can be made about the effectiveness of Shielding is the protection from the effects of external fault zones and environmental influences (on a person's health most of the time). More (since these are connected to the same potential as the shielding). The display logically remains at zero, even if in reality, there may still be a significant residual field. A complementary check, potential-free over 3 axes, is therefore very advantageous, and we expressly recommend it.
The measuring device is operated with a conventional 9-volt block battery and is ready for use immediately. The field probes (low-frequency antennas) are built into the device, so it does not need any protruding parts.
The analyser reliably captures the existing fields and displays the field strength on a large, 4-digit display in the units common to us, Tesla or in this case nT (nanotesla) and V/m (volts per meter). Building biology already speaks of a strong anomaly here. From 100 nT or from 5 V/m (potential-bound) or 1.5 V/m (potential-free), a strong burden on the body becomes apparent. Above 500 nT or above 50 V/m (potential-bound) or above 10 (potential-free), the emissions are considered extreme in terms of building biology.
The WHO classifies magnetic alternating fields from 300 – 400 nT as potentially carcinogenic! Studies attribute oxidative stress, the formation of free radicals, and a decrease in melatonin to electric alternating fields already from 20 V/m.
Delivery contents of the LF ANALYSER ME3830B
- Measuring device
- Grounding is an electrically conductive connection with the electric potential of the ground. More cable
- Detailed user manual with neutral background information
- List with guideline values and comparison values according to the standard of building biology measurement technology
Who the LF Analyser ME3830B is suitable for and why we chose it!
As a successor to the Pocket PF5 Meter, it was important to us to have a measuring device that has a digital display to be able to read clear measurement values and can be used both grounded and ungrounded. This model is once again ideal for beginners or anyone interested in simply measuring how much each device emits. Want to know the exposure to low-frequency electromagnetic smog in your home, or the strength of exposure from high-voltage lines or the railway track next door? Then this analyser might be worth a closer look. An ideal device for quick and informative control measurements.
Our focus with the LF Analyser ME3830B is the layman, the beginner who takes the first steps in detecting EMF burdens. For measurement technicians and building biologists, the market offers numerous reliable measuring devices, and almost all are priced at or above € 1,000. We were mainly looking for a simple measuring device with which our customers can check the quality and performance of shielding measures themselves.
Trust is good and important, no question about it. Nevertheless, we recommend that everyone who wants to invest valuable euros in shielding materials also checks the result themselves. The LF ANALYSER ME3830B can be a good tool for this.
- The device presents the overall exposure directly in units that are consistent with the building biology standard values, eliminating the need for further calculations.
- It has the capability to measure both magnetic and electric fields with the use of methods that are recognized by science. This is achieved with high sensitivity (display resolution: 1 nT or 1 V / m).
- The “Geiger counter effect” assists in the detection of areas experiencing heightened low-frequency radiation.
- The comprehensive measurement instructions provided enable users to conduct meaningful EMF measurements, even in the absence of technical knowledge. This instrument assists in identifying sources of LF pollution, even those that may not be immediately noticeable.
- The manual also incorporates recommended limit values based on the building biology SBM standard. This provides a significant benchmark for determining the extent of an individual’s exposure to EMF pollution.
Technical data of the LF Analyser ME3830B
- 4-digit, large digital display
- Frequency range: 16 Hz – 100 KHz (compensated, better than -2 dB)
- Measurement range: Electric field strength: 1 – 1999 V/m
- Measurement range: Magnetic flux density (one-dimensional): 1 – 1999 nT
- Accuracy: +/- 2 %, +/- 14 digits @ 50/60 Hz
- E-field sensor for electrical LF alternating fields
- H-field sensor for magnetic LF alternating fields (one-dimensional)
- Audio analysis: Field strength proportional audio signal (with “Geiger counter effect”, switchable)
- Signal evaluation: RMS
- Power supply: 9-Volt battery, average operating time: 24 to 36 hours (depending on operating mode) | Low-Batt.-display | Auto-Power-Off function
- Warranty: 2 years
- Size (mm): 180 x 70 x 30 (LxWxH)
- Weight: 170 g | 210 g with battery


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THREE-PIECE girl band Revival triumphed at the Chipping Norton Battle of the Bands to win the chance to play at the Cornbury Music Festival in July.
The group, Hannah Mitchell, 15, Katie Ware, 14, and Emma Pascoe, 14, impressed the judges with their upbeat pop covers and were a popular choice with the audience at Chipping Norton School.
Festival director Hugh Phillimore said the decision was unanimous: “Revival were the best rehearsed, most fun and, for me, are exactly the sound of the summer that the Cornbury Music Festival audience will appreciate.
“This is the sixth year we’ve been working with Chipping Norton School supporting the Battle of The Bands, offering work experience to students and awarding music prizes for the feeder primary schools.
“We very much appreciate the support we, too, have had from the local community over the years and we now feel truly embedded in the local culture.”
Chipping Norton School’s Jazz Band will also be performing at the festival, which runs from Sunday July 4 to Sunday, July 6.
- For tickets and information see cornburyfestival.com or call 0844 338 0000.


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We are very happy to announce the launch of a video series devoted to Vernon Lee: https://thesibylblog.com/2017/04/20/web-documentaire-exclusif/. This is the culmination of years of selfless work by Professor Sophie Geoffroy (Université de La Réunion).
The Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society Presents Its Second Annual Day Conference: “Æsthetics and Form in Victorian Art, Literature, and Culture”
Lake Shore Campus, Klarcheck Information Commons, 4th floor
28th October 2017, 8:30am-5:30pm
Introductory Speaker: Dr. Florence S. Boos, (University of Iowa)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Caroline Levine, (Cornell University)
“It is not enough that it has the Form, if it have not also the power and life. It is not enough that it has the Power, if it have not the form. We must therefore inquire into each of these characters successively; and determine first, what is the Mental Expression, and secondly, what the Material Form.” John Ruskin, The Nature of Gothic IV.183.
From A.W.N. Pugin to William Morris, the Victorians were profoundly influenced by a shared æsthetic belief in the reciprocal relationship between the work of art and the society that produces it. If thinkers like Ruskin interpreted the work of art as a means of understanding society, how did the form of the work of art influence the nature and content of that work, and by extension society itself? How did Victorian artists, authors, and critics engage with questions of interpretation, as well as the nature and function of the work of art? What is the relationship between genre, form, and content in the 19th century? How did ideas of form change with the development of new forms and new kinds of media, as well as Victorian reinterpretations of older ones? Finally, how do our own understandings of and theorizations about the nature of the work of art and of interpretation affect our readings of Victorian art, media, and culture?
The Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society solicits paper proposals addressing these questions. We welcome the research of professors, academics, independent scholars, and graduate students. Possible CFP categories include, but are not limited to the following: Nineteenth century, Gothic and the Neo-Gothic, Realism, Æstheticism and the fin-de-siècle, Periodicals, Journalism, Ephemera, Æsthetics, Textual Studies, Queer theory, Women and Gender Studies, Art History, Marxist theory, Narrative theory, Post-colonialism, Religious studies, Theology. In the weeks and months ahead, more details will be forthcoming on our website: http://lucvictoriansociety.wix.com/lucvs .
Please send abstracts no longer than 300 words to email@example.com no later than 1st June 2017.
Lydia Craig firstname.lastname@example.org
LUCVS member, Graduate Student Instructor, Department of English, Loyola University Chicago, Crown Center for the Humanities, 1001–25 W. Loyola Avenue, Chicago, IL 60626
Call for Submissions: The 2017 VanArsdel Prize
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for this year’s award competition is 1st May 2017. The winner will receive $500 and publication in the spring 2018 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. For more information, see http://rs4vp.org/vanarsdel-prize. Submissions may be sent to Alexis Easley, VPR editor, email@example.com.
The North American Victorian Studies Association will again be awarding the Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies, which carries an award of U.S.$500. Anyone, regardless of NAVSA membership status, is free to nominate or self-nominate an essay. Essays are due no later than 26th May 2017. For further information, please go to: www.navsa.org/prizes-grants/donald-gray-prize/ . Please contact Deborah Denenholz Morse if you have any questions and to submit an essay: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing announce that their book of the month is Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris by David Charles Rose. This is available from the publisher at less than half price until 28th February. For information on how to order, please click here.
I am posting the CFP for a new Feminist Modernist Journal–spanning 1870-1970. Please click the link below. I know many of you will be interested in this journal which invites submissions on literature, culture and art concerning the New Woman, Decadence and other late-Victorian phenomena.
Prof. Cassandra Laity
Editor, Feminist Modernist Studies (FMS; Routledge; 2017–)
Currently, Visiting Scholar
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
We are seeking essays for a special issue of Victorian Poetry devoted to the theme of “Gender and Genre,” which will appear in Summer 2019.The critical recovery of once-neglected women poets that took place at the end of the twentieth century changed the landscape of Victorian Studies. Literary-historical accounts of Victorian poetry, once dominated by men, were revised and enriched as the scope and variety of women’s achievements came to light. That feminist undertaking has been further advanced by scholars who reveal fresh aspects of the poetic landscape by juxtaposing men’s and women’s writing. This special issue seeks to build on such cross-gender projects by calling for essays that construct dialogues between works by male and female Victorian poets who write in the same genre. How does gender shape formal and thematic approaches to specific genres – to (for instance) the lyric, the epic, the dramatic monologue, the modern ballad? By nature, this project is exploratory, experimental, and diagnostic; it requires a choice of poems that aspire to stand as representative as they open new lines of thinking about gender and genre. How exactly to bring women poets into contention has been a contested area not only logistically, given the competition for space in curricula, but also theoretically. Is it possible to map some of the territories that define the nature of (for example) female-authored lyric or epic poems, identifying those territories as exclusively feminine? Would these poems, when placed alongside lyrics or epics written by men, give rise to an entirely different understanding of the strategies and resources of such forms thereby illuminating the vexed question of the gendered nature of writing? Conversely, are certain crucial preoccupations common to men and women, effectively sidelining gender as a primary consideration in analyzing genre? These are questions that contributors might address, but we welcome all approaches. Essays should be 20-25 pages in length and should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Early expressions of interest and proposals of topics are welcome. The deadline for submission of essays is 18th September, 2017.
The latest Robert Louis Stevenson Newsletter can now be opened, printed and downloaded from
I want to announce the newly launched MOSHER PRESS website to The Oscholars. The URL is www.ThomasBirdMosher.net. I think some members of Oscholars might benefit by knowing of its existence. Perhaps in some way you might post this information for your members. As you may know, Mosher was an advocate for Oscar Wilde here in America, publishing his poetry at a time other publishers were shying away from publishing Wilde.
[Posted 28.iv.2016 from VICTORIA]
The catalogue of books owned by Robert Louis Stevenson is available at
It has been created as part of the New Edinburgh Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson, which has a blog at https://edrls.wordpress.com/
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From: William S. Peterson <email@example.com>
We’re happy to report that our digital catalogue of William Morris’s personal library https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/ now has now more than 1,600 entries, some of which contain multiple titles. We are indicating the present locations of books whenever possible, and we are also making a conscientious effort to record any provenance information that may be available. We’re still not sure how many titles we will eventually be able to identify, but our rough guess is that the figure will be something like 2,300. So far we have posted entries for about 373 fifteenth-century titles and 215 sixteenth-century titles, but we have also been surprised by how many nineteenth-century books Morris owned.
We welcome suggestions, corrections, and new information.
Bill and Sylvia Peterson
Just a note to say that my collection of mostly Wilde, Pater, Matthew Arnold, Carlyle and J. H. Newman texts has moved from www.victorianprose.org to http://www.victorianprose.blogspot.com. You can also locate the collection by visiting my website at www.ajdrake.com/wiki and checking the Archive Menu/Dossier & Archive section.

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There’s a new way to wakeboard that doesn’t involve a boat or a lake, but it’s one hell of a rocky ride…
It’s not often that extreme sports champions get scared, but the unique marriage of white water and wakeboarding at Red Bull Up Stream has some of the best in the world trembling in their bindings.
When the event starts in Slovenia on September 12, contenders will be pulled by a cable the wrong way up a fast-moving torrent of water while dodging rocks and pulling tricks – not quite the usual day out on the lake, then. The Sava river, where the event is held, is so demanding that it will be home to the wild water kayaking world championships next year, and certainly isn’t the usual habitat of Europe’s wakeboarding elite.
“The first time I tried wakeboarding on rough water like this last year was pretty much the first time anyone had tried it,” says Robert. “When we came to the spot, I have to admit I was scared – I didn’t know what to expect, as it’s not a place anyone would wakeboard. I mean – it’s an artificial kayak course. And the white water was pretty white.”
But after a few falls in practice, the live battle saw international wakeboarders rise to the challenge in front of more than 1,500 spectators, and this year promises to be even bigger and better. Among those strapping up for the ride are three-time wakeboarding world champion Bernard Hinterberger and current European champion Dominik Gührs. They will be joined by world-class US riders Adam ‘A-Train’ Errington and podium regular JD Webb.
“The list of riders is really nice this year,” says Robert, “and we really thought about the course – it will be great.
“It’s going to be much smoother and longer than last year, and so much easier to make nice tricks. The rock side of the course will be smoothed out so we can ride it better, and there’s going to be a kayak that riders can just jib or whatever. And we’re going to have a little slider which goes straight up and down and kind of looks like a roof.”
Robert says the contest is also spreading the word about wakeboarding in Slovenia as people get inspired watching the pros’ high-octane rock wrangling.
“I’ve been wakeboarding for eight or nine years now,” he says, “and I’ve been national champion for years now, but that’s not a huge accomplishment here – there aren’t many riders in Slovenia! I love the fact that people started understanding what wakeboarding is – not in the usual way, as this is a really extraordinary contest. But people hear about it and go to try wakeboarding, and that’s really special to me.”


Veterans ensure Durham win again
Experienced duo Dale Benkenstein and Paul Collingwood helped Durham overcome a brief scare to record their fourth successive LV= County Championship victory with a six-wicket triumph over relegation-threatened Worcestershire.
Coming together on 35 for four, with their side in pursuit of 151, the veterans shared an unbroken stand of 119; Benkenstein finished unbeaten on 62 and Collingwood reached 53.
They took full advantage of Worcestershire's lack of support for Alan Richardson, who took the three wickets to fall this morning after Durham resumed on three for one.
Keaton Jennings coped comfortably with Chris Russell's big swingers, but for the second time in the match he was bowled through the gate when playing forward to a ball which did just enough off the pitch.
Following a brief delay due to rain, Ben Stokes got off the mark first ball when he turned Richardson behind square for four.
It seemed Durham were worried about further showers as Mark Stoneman took three fours off Russell in the next over; back-foot shots either side of the wicket were followed by a square drive.
Stokes then drove Richardson to the extra-cover boundary before trying to pull a ball that was too full for the shot. He fell lbw for eight and Richardson won another leg before verdict soon after when Stoneman missed with an attempted drive wide of mid-on and departed for 22.
Russell was replaced by Gareth Andrew and the batsmen were able to continue collecting boundaries, while concentrating on keeping Richardson out at the other end.
Collingwood opened his account with two drives for four off Andrew, the second one all-run after Russell had flipped the ball back an inch from the rope.
When Richardson rested with 3-25 from 12 overs it became plain sailing and 15 came off the second over of off-spin from Moeen Ali.
Durham needed just 30 more at lunch and Benkenstein completed only his second half-century of the season from 75 balls before cutting Moeen for the winning boundary.
Worcestershire picked up just three bowling points and are level at the bottom of Division One with Lancashire, while Durham now appear virtually safe in fifth.