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Daily Archives: May 8, 2017
New technology in the war against mosquitoes: Ascension eyes spraying with drones; Lafayette uses drones to scout … – The Advocate
Posted: May 8, 2017 at 12:10 am
That buzzing you hear from the ditch may soon not only be the beating wings of flitting mosquitoes but the propellers of a large, flying mosquito killer.
In Ascension Parish, officials are close to buying a new aerial drone able to fly, hover and spray up to 20 pounds of chemicals at a time in hard-to-reach areas where mosquitoes breed.
And in Lafayette Parish, a private mosquito control company is using drones to scout for breeding sites.
David Matassa, Ascension's director of mosquito control and brother of Parish President Kenny Matassa, said the drone can spray with a precision that would allow parish workers to save on cost and limit environmental impact compared with more broadly applied aerial methods. The drone, for instance, could be used to spray a ditch along a heavily traveled road with no shoulder that's traditionally been unsafe and hard to spray.
"This is the state of the art. This is the turning corner of mosquito control as far as programs in the country going toward this type of technology," David Matassa said.
While a parish worker is still in training and working on licensing requirements with the Federal Aviation Administration, Matassa said, the drone, which will cost $5,000 to $8,000, could be flying parish skies in time for the peak mosquito season.
The remotely operated drone won't replace the trucks and planes that already spray periodically through the parish and which kill the adult mosquitoes.
The drone, which can spray 80 acres in a days work, will be used to kill larvae growing in standing water, taking out the next generation of mosquitoes before they take flight.
Thats actually one of the most important things you can do to control the population of mosquitoes, is larvicide, he said.
Technology pioneered by the U.S. military to observe the battlefield and, later, to kill militants, remotely controlled aerial drones are being envisioned in a growing number of civilian applications, from Amazons promises to revolutionize delivery with its Octocopter to experiments to use drones to monitor Gulf Coast hurricanes.
In the Gulf South, mosquito control remains a public health concern as the flying blood-suckers pose a disease risk to the population, including West Nile and Zika virus.
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Tiny aircraft equipped with cameras may soon be snooping around abandoned lots and overgrown
The drone that Ascension Parish is looking at buying a circular, tail-less craft with eight mini-props and a tank on the bottom had its origins in remote-control helicopters developed to spray terraced rice paddies in the hillsides of Japan, China and southeast Asia where it is difficult to bring in land-based spray equipment.
Logan Noess, one of the owners of Maverick Drone Systems of Savage in Minnesota, said those early craft, developed about 15 years ago, cost around $100,000. The latest version costs 10 percent of those early craft. The cheaper variety has drawn the interest of local governments, including Ascension Parish, he said.
Noess, whose company is a U.S. dealer for the Chinese-built craft, a DJI Agras MG-1, said his company recently conducted a series of demonstrations in eight to 10 Louisiana parishes following a national conference of mosquito control officials.
We were just spraying water out in fields, and from everything we have seen, it should work great, he said.
Matassa, who went to that conference and witnessed a demonstration, speculated that Ascension may be the first in the state to use a drone for aerial spraying but likely wont be the only one for long. He said he has spoken with other program directors, and many are eyeing drones for similar uses.
I guarantee you within a few years, most all (mosquito control) programs will have them, Matassa said.
Matassa said the drone can fly a few hundred feet high and 8,000 feet over land in a few minutes. While the drone could be outfitted with cameras, parish officials plan to focus on the spray technology, he said.
The contractor who handles mosquito control for Lafayettes City-Parish government already uses smaller, cheaper drones but for a different application.
Glenn Stokes, owner of Mosquito Control Contractors Inc., said he uses a few $1,500 drones outfitted with surveillance cameras to look for hard-to-access breeding sites, including the parishs more than 1,000 residential and commercial detention and retention ponds, but he does not yet use drones for spraying.
Because of the expense, that would require a change in the City-Parish contract, he said.
The drones have a great potential, and I think you know they will be more and more in use, and at some point in time, thats going to be in the future, they could actually replace inspectors, Stokes said.
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Tiny aircraft equipped with cameras may soon be snooping around abandoned lots and overgrown
The use of camera-outfitted drones by businesses, law enforcement and even Stokes operation has generated privacy concerns, however. Stokes said his company only looks into the yards of homes that are abandoned or for which the company has received permission, though he said a major public health scare could result in broad surveys of breeding locations.
Its a delicate line, Stokes said of the use drones and privacy rights.
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Book review: ‘Wanderers’ looks at space exploration from various points of view – Florida Times-Union
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THE WANDERERS
Author: Meg Howrey
Data: G.P. Putnams Sons, 384 pages, $27
The framework for Meg Howreys The Wanderers is space exploration, specifically the effects on three space travel veterans and those closest to them of an elaborate 17-month earthbound simulation of travel to Mars and back.
When you evaluate whether this novel would be a good choice for you, do something that will gain or lose it a lot of this is something I might enjoy points, depending on your perspective and mood. Assume, whatever the Martian motif or cover blurbs may suggest, that the book is NOT sci-fi or anything much like it. Instead, its literary fiction whose space-travel theme provides some special tools for examining human personality, identity, and relationships. Also, assume it is NOT plot-driven: the narrative framework IS the plot, and everything else is the exposition and evolution of the characters.
A few years into the future, privatization of space exploration is the accepted reality. The moon is an immediate target for mining, but the president of multinational Prime Space Inc. has his sights set on a crewed mission to Mars. Primes immediate project is to recruit primary and backup three-person crews for the fully automated craft, and quickly plunge the primary crew into a simulation so intense that even space veterans, as the crew all are, will not be able to find anything unrealistic about it.
Prime Space has opted for a three-person crew of American, Japanese, and Russian space travel veterans. They havent worked together before, but Prime Spaces personality-matching algorithms have been working overtime to pick a crew that will be compatible and complementary.
American Helen Kane is the ultimate astronaut, a technically ultra-qualified pragmatist who has worked hard to adapt her personality to politically or personally complex situations. In her 50s, she is thrilled and relieved to have an opportunity to return to outer space. Yoshihiro (Yoshi) Tanaka, the youngest crew member, is adaptable and has an artistic sensibility. Sergei Kuznetsov is a decisive character with a big personality. Perhaps to highlight what a capable three-way match Prime Space has pulled off, each of the crew is fluent in the native languages of the other two.
The story is told from seven points of view, those of Helen, Helens adult daughter, Yoshi, Yoshis wife, Sergei, one of Sergeis adolescent sons and a Prime Space family liaison employee. The daughter, the wife and the son each have developing life narratives apart, if not wholly detached, from what is happening with the Mars simulation.
Some of the individual chapters covering the non-crew characters read like stand-alone short stories. The narratives, in and out of the simulation, have themes that mirror each other: the limits of love, boundaries between human and artificial intelligence, and differences between the outwardly perceived and inner selves. The characters sometimes verge on becoming human-bodied avatars for specific character traits, but the author keeps them relatable.
If youre looking for a nail biter, this is not your book. If youre open to a space themed, humane and generally hopeful thought-provoker about humans on and potentially off of the home planet, give it a try.
Anne Payne organizes the Jax Freestyle Book Club for Real Readers at meetup.com.
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aligarh: Aligarh’s answer to minority tag is nanotech, solar research … – Economic Times
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Aligarh, May 7 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), a nearly 100-year-old institution born out of the independence movement and the quest to modernise Muslim education, has often been a victim of minority politics that attracted negative media attention. But what is little known is the kind of path-breaking research the institution is doing in the areas of nanotechnology and solar energy.
The AMU has taken up fresh scientific research projects, including on how to solve the water crisis using nanotechnology and recycle waste water using an eco-friendly and low-cost methods?.
And its outgoing Vice Chancellor, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah, a former deputy chief of the Indian Army, hopes the it will be "among the top 200 universities in the world by 2020" when it celebrates its centenary.
"The AMU has a very bright future," the retired general, the elder brother of Bollywood veteran Naseeruddin Shah, told IANS in a wide-ranging interview at his office, speaking about the university, how it is striving to be at par with modern educational institutions and, of course, allegations of financial impropriety against him.
"We need to encourage good quality research in applied sciences as well as the social science and we are doing that," Shah said.
He said the university has taken up a project on desalinating sea water or brackish water using nanotechnology that would bring a "sea change in Indian coastal cities" and provide low-cost drinking water.
"The project will ensure India has sufficient resources of quality and quantity of potable water," he said.
He said AMU scientists have achieved "significant success" in recycling waste water by using the novel concept of plant technology, also called "anaerobic digestion" -- a process of using micro-organisms to break down biodegradable material substances.
The Safeguarding Water resources in India with Green and Sustainable technologies -- Swings -- project is financed under the joint EU-India research funding to find low-cost and sustainable solutions for waste water treatment.
The university has successfully piloted the project on its campus and has built a plant that treats the wastewater generated on the campus.
Shah said the university's? scientists were also involved in harnessing solar energy for automobiles and the "purpose is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels".
"They are doing research on solar power for automobiles. Once the project is complete, we will be able to charge your car (a hybrid or electric) battery in 20 minutes which otherwise takes six hours," said Shah, whose term ends in the middle of this month.
While the thrust in its image makeover is on good scientific research, the Vice Chancellor said the management has also been trying to "battle a misconception" that AMU breeds fundamentalism.
"To a large extent, perceptions have changed but we are also proud of our Muslim ethos," he said about the varsity that has an exclusive Olympic-sized swimming pool for women students, as also a separate horse riding club for them.
For those Muslim men and women who pass out from madrassas, the university has introduced a concept of a bridge course to enable their admission in regular university courses and integrate them into the mainstream with modern education.
"Earlier, they were admitted only in theology, Arabic, Persian and Urdu. But we wanted them to get admitted to any course.
"We made them do this one-year bridge course. People later qualified for Mass Communications, English Honours and other subjects because of the solid potential these guys gain from memorising the Quran in madrassas," said Shah, himself a madrassa pass-out.
"I felt madrassas were being demonised all over the world and in our country also you hear a lot of rubbish about them. After all, these are educational institutions."
The university is facing another challenge in a legal battle on its minority character, challenged by the government in the Supreme Court. It is feared this may close the doors of modern liberal education for thousands of poor Muslims.
Shah said AMU, which has "contributed a great deal towards the empowerment of Muslims in India, must stay as a minority institution...till the situation of Muslims is corrected".
"At the moment, Muslims in India are the worst off, worse than the Dalits. We don't need reservations. We need your affirmative actions in education.
"Because of poor schooling, Muslim children kind of fall behind. They have bread and butter issues, so they don't qualify for institutions of higher education."
Shah's tenure ends on May 16 and the battles at the university, which has 1,400 teachers and 2,000 non-teaching staff, has been "tougher" than those he fought as a soldier in the Indian Army.
"Here you have everyone posing as a friend but there are only a few real friends," he said, lamenting how he was accused of financial, administrative and academic irregularities.
"I was alleged to have bungled 120 crore (of rupees)," he said, adding he has replied to all the allegations that were made by a "set of people" who were upset because he wanted to discipline them.
"There were some teachers who were never taught and indulged in politics," he said, alleging that they were behind the campaign against him.
(Sarwar Kashani can be contacted at sarwar.k@ians.in)
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WW3 arms race: Russia leading ‘HYPERSONIC’ arms race with unstoppable missiles – Daily Star
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RUSSIA is ahead in the "hypersonic" arms race with the US as its deadly unstoppable missiles near deployment.
Scientists claim Putins "hypersonic" nukes are "far more advanced" than the US equivalent.
Russia's cutting-edge Sarmat missiles are due to enter into service as soon as 2018.
The new missile will be twice as light as the Voyevoda it replaces and will also be lightning-fast in comparison.
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Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?
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The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun
The results are better than those of the US
The improved performance of the new missiles will mean they are capable of penetrating the high-tech US THAAD missile defence system.
"The results are better than those of the US," director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch Vasily Fomin said on Wednesday.
Fomin also claimed that Russia's missiles were capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.
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While Alexei Leonkov told the Sputnik news agency: "The missile system which is about to enter into service is a fifth generation system.
"Its characteristics are so impressive that our opponents have reason to be afraid of it.
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As Donald Trump has promised to start an arms race, we take a look at the futuristic weapons being developed for the US military.
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The Lockheed Martin HULC is an exoskeleton that allows soldiers to carry loads of up to 200lbs for long distances
"They will fly to their target at hypersonic speeds performing maneuvers so that the existing American missile defense system would be incapable of intercepting them."
Leonkov also said the new missile would have a range of 11,100 miles, meaning they could easily strike US cities from Russian soil.
The news will come as a massive blow to Donald Trump as it was revealed yesterday that North Korea also possessed missiles capable of breaching the THAAD defence system.
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Molly at the Marriott: Inside America’s Premier Psychedelics Conference – New York Times
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New York Times | Molly at the Marriott: Inside America's Premier Psychedelics Conference New York Times Rather than rock stars, scientists from schools like Johns Hopkins and N.Y.U. were the main attraction, bringing evidence to the medical case for psychedelics like psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) to assuage end-of-life anxiety, to ... |
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Are psychedelics the new medical marijuana? – ABC10
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Are psychedelics the new medical marijuana? (May 7, 2017)
When I woke up yesterday morning, I opened the door of my bedroom and walked out to a balcony overlooking the Pacific. I waited to catch a glimpse of the dolphins I had seen the day before and moved on to my meditation ritual.
That was the closest Id get to a mystical experience at the Ibogaine Institute on the coast of Rosarito, Mexico. Upstairs, on the third floor of the house, a man and a woman I had met the day before were laying in a blacked-out room, entering their seventh hour of soul-searching hallucinations. In the house next door, six people had just emerged, changed they said, from a different journey, under the influence of yet another hallucinogen.
Kim, who'd been upstairs, is a 29-year-old with the face of a teenager who has been addicted to heroin for seven years. Just like Colin, also undergoing the Ibogaine treatment in the same room, Kim suffered an accident and became dependent on prescription painkillers. When doctors wouldnt prescribe them anymore, she turned to black market pills. She received a settlement from the accident and said she spent the $90,000 on pills. Finally, she turned to the cheaper alternative, heroin.
Just like Colin, Kim said other programs would detox her on Suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, which also has a high risk for addiction and dependence. She said those programs crowd people into bunk beds and although they teach the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, she never even got past the first step. As other addicts I interviewed told me, you become dependent on the Suboxone and the Methadone and you cant really function.
Kim says the Ibogaine Institute doesnt seem like any other 30-day program because they actually work on whats wrong, on the problem of why you use in the first place. She hopes after her treatment, she can return to Connecticut to be a mother to her 6-year old son, now in custody of Kims mom.
The institute offers 7 and 30-day programs to chronic relapsers of drug addiction, PTSD patients, and other disorders. Treatments for addiction begin with Ibogaine, a natural African psychoactive drug, and end with Ayahuasca, a popular South American plant-based hallucinogen.
Scott, the founder of the Ibogaine Institute who says he owes his years of recovery to Ayahuasca, says up to 70 percent of people who have gone through his treatments have stayed sober. According to a 2014 study looking at relapse rates after other residential treatments, 29 percent of people who are opioid dependent will remain abstinent after a year.
Scott says the Ibogaine helps fight cravings and they also integrate heavy doses of therapy, meditation, exercise and a nutritional diet to help people craft a foundation for daily life.
By the end of the treatment they are no longer physically dependent on the heroin, says Scott, who has also integrated the wisdom of 12-steps programs into the treatment. Once the bell has been rung, its impossible to un-ring it. Theyre coming face to face with parts of themselves that they had been unwilling to look at, and because of the journey they are in, theres nowhere to run. We are integrating pieces of ourselves that are at war with each other and once those pieces integrate, it is a lot easier to experience and be able to keep on the path.
He said the reason he's in Mexico is to gather enough evidence to build enough of a case to show the results of the treatment and with that, push for federal agencies to regulate Ibogaine and allow its controlled use in the U.S.
I met Scott at the Psychedelic Science Conference in Oakland where scientists, patients and casual users convened to discuss the benefits of psychedelic drugs and the need for drug policy reform.
I also met Dr. James Fadiman, who is running one of the largest studies on microdosing with LSD.
The major benefit seems to be that theres an improved equilibrium of systems throughout the body, which is why it seems to affect so many different systems," he said.
That sounded to me like a sort of panacea cure for all ailments and it wasnt too far from what Ayelet Waldman told me when I interviewed her at home.
Following Dr. Fadimans guidance, Waldman did a 30-day micro dosing experiment to treat a severe mood disorder and reported her experience in her book, A Really Good Day.
I just wanted to relieve the intensity of my depression and I was profoundly depressed, even suicidal when I started the experiment." she said. "I just wanted to feel better so I said to myself okay you can break the law for 30 days.
She said the treatment helped her more than any antidepressant ever did and it did so without the gnarly side effects. Microdosing doesn't make you hallucinate, as you are only taking between 5 and 10 percent of a typical dose. Ayelet says if the drug wasnt illegal, she would still be microdosing.
LSD and Ibogaine are not the only psychedelics making a comeback and seeking legitimacy in science and health. Magic mushrooms, MDMA, Ayahuasca, and psilocybin, among others, are being studied for their potential benefits to treat a number of illnesses and mental disorders. However, they are all Schedule I drugs which, according to the DEA, are drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies or MAPS, sponsors research on psychedelics and helps scientists navigate the complex pathways of regulation. They are currently conducting one of the most advanced and promising studies in psychedelics by treating PTSD patients with MDMA, also known as Molly.
We found that (MDMA) almost doubled the effectiveness of the treatment," said AllisonFeduccia, a researcher at MAPS. "People who were in the MDMA group had significant reductions in their PTSD symptoms two months after completing of the sessions and then also we followed up with them 12 months later and found that 67 percent of participants at that point no longer met criteria for PTSD.
MAPS enrolled 107 subjects across six different study sites in the U.S., Canada and Israel, treating different kinds of PTSD. One study specifically enrolled veterans firefighters and police officers.
Its really a long-term durable effect that we see with this treatment is quite promising," saidFeduccia."This is a very difficult condition to treat with the current medications and therapy available."
MAPS is entering Phase III of clinical trials. If they prove the medical benefits, a cost they estimate will surround 20 million dollars, they can apply for the drug to get rescheduled by the FDA and MAPS will be able to produce it. That doesnt mean Molly will be available to anyone, it would only be part of medical treatments.
Some drug policy advocates say this kind of progress, while good, is not enough to deal with the ill consequences of the war on drugs. Representatives from the Drug Policy Alliance and other advocacy groups stand by the notion that people who want to get high will get high. They also say prohibition creates enormous profits for organized crime groups, endangers the lives of black market drug users, generates violence in the streets and the countries where drugs are produced and has resulted in the mass incarceration of millions of Americans.
Hamilton Morris is the host of Hamiltons Pharmacopeia, a show about drugs on VICELAND. He said he sees freedom of consciousness as a basic human right.
I favor a sort of cognitive liberty stance that people should be able to have the freedom to alter their consciousness with whatever they wish," he said. "Even if it is harmful, even if it is damaging, I think the damage of prohibition I think is far greater than the small number of people that are being helped using these things in a therapeutic way in a clinical trial.
Ethan Nadelmann, who just stepped down as Director of the Drug Policy Alliance says, although Jeff Sessions will make it difficult for psychedelics to reach the level of acceptance that medical marijuana has in the past few years, the overreach by the Federal agencies might push for states to fight back and defend their own progressive policies.
I think the popular consciousness is not there is yet," he said. "We just begun to do some public opinion polling on it where you now have 90 percent of Americans believing that marijuana should be legal for medical purposes, which is up from 60 percent 20 years ago. On psychedelics, there's a growing awareness. But it hasn't penetrated the mass consciousness yet.
That means lobbying and the alternative drug policies that may follow are still long ways away. But for addicts, vets, and people suffering from disorders who could find help in these drugs, the stakes are as high as their very survival.
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OH to NY to AL: Claude Lawrence Cornett – Patheos (blog)
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Larry Cornett has worked tirelessly on and for the Craft for almost 40 years. The story of his work, spread over at least four states, stitches together many strands of the tapestry, yet he has never received nor, I think, wanted any great measure of public acclaim. Here is the beginning of the story he sent me on Nov. 15, 2009. Larry is rather ill right now. He deserves and needs your thoughts.
I was born on August 28, 1947, and raised as a Presbyterian. In the early 1960s, in high school in Chesterland, Ohio, I was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, through which I made contact with people with diverse religious philosophies. In 1962, in 10th grade, I became interested in the philosophy of world religions, especially those that did not claim to be the one and only true way and which were not into personality cults. I had rejected the Christian view of an all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent deity and the simultaneous existence of evil. Nevertheless, I sensed that something interconnected everything and loved Nature.
In 1965, I went to Purdue University to study physics and became active in the Peace Movement as well as the counter-culture. I discovered the mystical implications of quantum mechanics in the spring of 1968, noticing that the mathematics of quantum mechanics describes reality as waves that are interconnected everywhere and that change states everywhere all at once. This implied non-localized connections in reality, which fit into Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist Eastern philosophy, including the writings of Alan Watts and Swami Vivekananda. My main difference from most of the Eastern philosophies was my attitude that, if we are one with the universe, why not enjoy it and use the connection for healing and improving life on this planet? I also considered the concept of non-localized consciousness not centered in people or specific organisms to be plausible, and discovered that things happened when ancient Gods and Goddesses were invoked in ritual.
By the fall of 1968, I had experienced somepsychokinetic control of candle flames, knew the power of chants at changing consciousness, was hosting informal shamanic rituals in my apartment; and became active in the Reformed Druids of North America, by whom I was initiated.
After getting my B.S. in Physics in 1969, I went to the University of Chicago to go for a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics. However, in February 1970, I was arrested at my physical for passing out literature advocating a choice of draft resistance, desertion, joining the American Servicemens Union, etc., for getting other people taking their physical at the time to also pass out the literature, and for almost starting a riot. The day I was arrested, I dropped out of graduate school to work full time as the Indiana Regional Coordinator for the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. I decided that, even if I could prove mathematically a cosmological theory of physics describing how the universe operates and its relationship to consciousness, it would not stop the war in Vietnam or make the air safe to breathe. After the Vietnam Moratorium Committee went bankrupt, I went to the University of Cincinnati, starting in June 1971, and got an M.S. in Air Pollution Control Engineering in 1972.
I didnt pursue formal magical studies from 1971 until 1979 (although I did continue to follow developments in theoretical physics related to cosmology, consciousness, and the fundamental nature of the universe). I also continued to do informal rituals with friends with the objective of exploring consciousness, sometimes under the influence of entheogens (a practice I had been performing since 1967).
In 1978, Larry, Ian Corrigan, and C.C. Rosencomet (Jeff Rosenbaum) were among the founding member of the Chameleon Club at Case Western Reserve University. They organized the first Starwood on July 24 26, 1981. It began as a weekend festival and grew over the years to a six-day event. Attendance grew from 185 in the first year to peak at around 1800 people in 2002. In 1983 Chameleon Club members founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE), which took over the Starwood Festival, and began the Winterstar Festival as well, on February 9-12, 1984, at Burr Oak State Park in Glouster, OH. The Chameleon Club also considers itself an extended family in the style of the Merry Pranksters; its members can be found from Cleveland to New Orleans, from California to New York.
I got heavily involved with studying magic and organized Paganism again in 1980, when, on a hunch, I went to the Pan Pagan Festival, where I felt I had finally reconnected with the tribe I was part of in the late 1960s; and I learned I had been a Pagan for at least seventeen years without knowing it. I re-experienced some of the power of the Goddesses and Gods and Pagan magic. At a NROOGD circle, I found myself thrust, within minutes, into a state of mind that I had only achieved on very rare occasions while meditating on entheogens, and the results were clearer, more controlled, and without any entheogenic assistance.
Those experiences motivated me to start seriously studying magic again and to make conscious Paganism a major part of my lifestyle. I was living in Dayton, Ohio, at the time, and became an apprentice with Circle, from whom I received much useful guidance. At Samhain 1980, I performed my first full-scale, solitary, Wiccan-style ritual- invoking a God and a Goddess at each quarter. The next day, I led a successful Wiccan- style exorcism with friends (the house I lived in was haunted by a lost spirit, and we helped her find her way to the Summerland).
At Yule 1980, I connected with Amaranth Energies, a Dayton coven at the time, and found that six of the eight Gods and Goddesses that I had invoked at Samhain were also the ones invoked at the quarters by this coven. However, the High Priestess (Prudence Priest) and the High Priest of Amaranth Energies moved to California a few months later; I didnt know about her NROOGD connection until years later. The one other remaining member of the coven (Pasha) and I kept the Dayton Amaranth Energies coven going strong. We did many powerful workings, including Wiccan Shamanic work with the spirits of the land.
In 1981, I was about to be laid off in Dayton; so I worked a spell to find a job in a cosmopolitan area, as a cone of power launched at an extremely powerful bonfire drum/dance and chant circle Saturday night at the first Starwood Festival. When I returned from Starwood, I found a letter waiting for me, about a job interview in New York City. I went to the interview and got the job within three days.I worked solitary most of the time for the first three years in New York City, although I did attend classes and participate in rituals of the Circle of Naught in upstate New York, worked with a Cherokee medicine man, and traveled to Wisconsin a few times for Circle Apprenticeship training.
In 1982, I started to publish an International Calendar of Pagan Festivals that were two days or longer; it continued until 2000. I also published a local calendar of Pagan workshops and events in the New York City area, as an activity of the Atlantic Pagan Council.
Larrys Calendar of Events was one of the most important Pagan publications during the 1980s and 1990s; in those days before the Internet, it was a major resource for keeping track of what other Witches and Pagans were doing.
By 1984, I was active in the Coyote Medicine Society, and connected with Isaac Bonewits and his newly organized Ar nDraiocht Fein Druid Fellowship, as well as Coven Marasmius, a NROOGD coven led by Sally Eaton, in which Isaac was also involved. At last, I had found groups in New York City that performed rituals in the forest and actively worked with Nature Spirits. By August 1985, I had been initiated into Coven Marasmius by Sally Eaton, into ADF with Isaac Bonewits, and into Amaranth Energies by Prudence Priest (the original high priestess). By that time, the Atlantic Pagan Council was dead, but I continued to publish the International Calendar of Pagan Events and a local calendar on my own.
My job situation changed, and I found myself in living in Birmingham, Alabama, for almost a year. I had two Birmingham subscribers to the International Pagan Events Calendar when I moved there, and they introduced me to some of the local Pagan community. I called a party and ritual in Birmingham to celebrate the defeat of the Helms Amendment and to empower Pagan freedom; more than 20 Alabama Pagans came. Before long, I and several people who attended the party had organized a networking and ritual group called Pagan Web. Soon, we had a functioning coven and were often up in the hills of Alabama (weather permitting) working with the Goddess, Gods, nature spirits, etc., at full moons, new moons and Sabbats.
Larrys life in Virginia will be covered in Volume III.
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Maybe you take with me Maybe you stay tonight And close your eyes And follow follow me
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ORANGEBURG COUNTY PROPERTY TRANSFERS – The Times and Democrat
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The following property transfers are on file at the Orangeburg County Courthouse.
Steven M. Wolfe and Lucretia Wolfe to Walter M. Tobin and Pamela J. Tobin, TMS 0324-20-15-010 and TMS 0324-20-15-021, Vance Township, $20,000.
James Judy to Fitzgerald Williams, TMS 0172-12-03-002, $4,500.
Michael Berry and Tamekia R. Berry nka Tamekia Green to Marion J. Kennedy Jr., TMS 0254-00-02-063, $8,000.
Farmers and Merchants Bank of South Carolina to Holseberg Properties, LLC, TMS 0332-00-04-004, $235,000.
Bryan D. Williams to Jimmy Branch Agriculture Services LLC, TMS 0036-00-07-031 and TMS 0036-00-07-032, Hebron Township, $5.
JG, LLC to Cassidy Smith, Gary Herron and Jayne Herron, TMS 0142-16-04-003, $147,855.
Ryan R. Phillips to Laura B. Phillips, TMS 0151-12-01-012, TMS 0151-11-01-002 and TMS 0151-11-01-001, $5 love and affection.
Shannon K. Gibson and Marcia Gibson to Patrick S. Bedford, TMS 0110-00-04-003, $205,000.
Barney M. Houser to Charles L. Williams and Stella Williams, TMS 0097-00-06-057, $8,500.
Daniel Athell Stillinger Jr., Donna S. Rabon, and Mark D. Stillinger to Jessica S. Mooney and Gail R. Stillinger, TMS 0099-00-01-012 po, $5.
Sandra Holman Thompson to Charisse L. Holman, TMS 0243-00-02-011, Middle Township, $5 love and affection.
C. Daniel Development, LLC to Kishia S. Horry, TMS 0151-08-11-003, $147,000.
John Jasina III to Mohammad Z. Bsat and Astrid Beckers, TMS 0142-06-11-023, $152,000.
Cheryl H. Repas to James Franklin Hardister and Susan Dixon Hardister, TMS 0324-15-05-027, $165,000.
Elvera A. Takacs to Wayne N. Holbert and Carolyn A. Holbert, TMS 0324-15-01-015, Vance Township, $177,500.
Mike R. Harley and Shirley E. Harley to Douglas E. Edwards, TMS 0125-00-04-001, $5.
Robert D. Wells to Douglas E. Edwards, TMS 071-00-03-039, Willow Township, $5.
Marion W. Moultrie to James Matthew Summers, TMS 0225-00-02-020, Branchville Township, $5 and other valuable consideration.
Shirley Simmons to Michael B. Keitt, TMS 0243-00-02-011, Middle Township, $5 love and affection.
Ruth G. Kennedy to Candice Michelle Griffith, TMS 0111-00-15-035, $145,000.
R. K. Zeigler Construction Company, Inc. to Paragon Development of SC LLC, $9,500.
First Providence Baptist Church to Dantzler Farm Properties, LLC, TMS 0300-00-02-006, $5 and other valuable consideration.
Shirley Simmons to Michael B. Keitt, TMS 0243-00-02-011 po, Middle Township, $5 love and affection.
Ruth G. Kennedy to Candice Michelle Griffith, TMS 0111-00-15-035, $145,000.
R.K. Zeigler Construction Company, Inc. to Paragon Development of SC, LLC, TMS 0175-09-03-015, $9,500.
First Providence Baptist Church to Dantzler Farm Properties, LLC, TMS 0300-00-02-006, $5 and other valuable consideration.
Debbie H. Felder to Tamara J. Jackson, TMS 0150-05-00-006, Limestone Township, $5 and other valuable consideration.
Henry M. Crosby Sr. and Margaret B. Crosby to Henry M. Crosby Jr., Thomas A. Crosby and Glenda C. Austin, TMS 0103-00-02-052, Union Township, $5 love and affection.
Lavander Oliver aka Lavande Oliver to Theresa Pou, TMS 0116-00-06-025, Elizabeth Township, $5 love and affection.
William L. Brannen to Billy Lee Toole, TMS 0012-14-02-001, Goodland Township, $5 and other valuable consideration.
Jessica V. Lee to Adam Bernard Fogle and Tiffany Johaunn Fogle, TMS 0125-12-03-007, TMS 0125-12-03-008, and TMS 0125-12-03-009, Zion Township, $5 and the exchange of property.
Ester J. Fairey to John A. Abraham, TMS 0174-10-03-002, $58,000.
P&P Properties, LLC to Joe F. Singleton and Evelyn M. Singleton, TMS 0173-10-12-021, $34,000.
W.H. Rhame, aka Wilton H. Rhame Jr. to Bruce Jenkins, TMS 0330-00-06-003, Holly Hill Township, $4,000.
John Michael Neese to Jennifer Deshane and Jeremiah Cooper, TMS 0066-00-02-063, $99,000.
M.L.P. Properties, LLC to Khushi Investments, LLC, TMS 0339-17-15-001, $100,000.
Eutawville Community Funeral Home, Inc. aka Eutawville Community Funeral Home to C&RL, LLC, TMS 0303-00-01-088, TMS 0303-00-01-087 and TMS 0303-00-01-086, Elloree Township, $10.
B. Renee Sweatman to John H. Mears and Lois A. Mears, TMS 0361-14-01-010, $215,000.
Joseph L. Johnson and Mary J. Johnson to Oliver Wilson aka Oliver C. Wilson, TMS 0362-00-03-066, $48,400.
Carl Bryant Mabry to Carl Bryant Mabry and Mary Cassandra Mabry, TMS 0148-00-02-012, $5 love and affection.
Jacob Jenkins and Evelyn Jenkins to Pheophilus H. Glover, TMS 0173-06-17-009, $140,000.
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