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Report of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting, San Luis Obispo, California, September 8-11, 2004

Report of the Sixty-Seventh Annual MeetingSan Luis Obispo, California September 8–11, 2004 Jim Keese, APCG 2004 Conference Coordinator The 67th Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers was held on the campus of Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, September 8–11, 2004. Approximately 200 attendees enjoyed brilliant weather in the mid-80s on California's central coast. The Business Building complex was the meeting site and offered spectacular views of two of the Morros (Cerro San Luis and Bishop's Peak). The conference opened with tributes to Bill Loy (given by Alexander Murphy) and Tom McKnight (given by Lay Gibson). The opening session was titled "Conserving Open Space and Resources on the Central Coast." Neil Havlik (City of San Luis Obispo), Dan Berman (Morro Bay National Estuary Program), and Kara Blakeslee (American Land Conservancy) spoke on greenbelt land acquisition, watershed management, and conserving the 82,000-acre Hearst ranch. Four field trips highlighted the open spaces and the varied coastal and rural landscapes of the region. Jennifer O'Brien led a trip to the Hearst Castle, San Simeon, and Ragged Point. Jorge Lizarraga and Bob Hoover took a group to Mission San Antonio, which also included a transect of the Santa Lucia Range, a drive down the southern Big Sur coastline, and lunch at the former Hearst hunting lodge (which was designed by Julia Morgan). Cal Wilvert led a trip that blended themes in physical and cultural geography, with stops at the Pismo Dunes and the town of Guadalupe in the Santa Maria Valley. The final trip, led by Jim Keese, traveled through the emerging wine region of Paso Robles and explored the theme of the Spanish imprint on California and the new grapescape. Field-trippers returned to the Thursday evening dinner and reception on the creekside terrace at Novo Restaurant, adjacent to Mission San Luis Obispo and the city's world-famous farmers' market. Friday and Saturday featured 81 papers and 10 posters in 19 sessions. The quality of the papers was outstanding, and participation by students was high. The President's Plenary Session was titled "Major Directions in the Future of Population Geography of the Pacific [End Page 126] Coast." David Plane moderated a panel that included James Allen (California State University, Northridge), Patricia Gober (Arizona State University), and Waldo Tobler (University of California at Santa Barbara). At the President's Reception on Friday evening, AAG President Victoria Lawson gave an update on AAG issues. At the Saturday banquet, 101 participants were treated to a full-service dinner in the Garden Room at the fabulous Madonna Inn. APCG President David Plane enlightened and entertained us with his Presidential Address on "The Conditions of Coastality." The geographers at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, wish to thank the APCG and everyone who attended for the opportunity to host the 2004 annual meeting. We were honored to be chosen, and it was a pleasure for us to show off a place that we hold so dear. We look forward to seeing you at the 2005 meeting in Tempe. Respectfully submitted, Jim Keese, APCG 2004 Conference Coordinator Copyright © 2005 University of Hawai’i Press

Tacrolimus Ointment, Alcohol, and Facial Flushing

A 56-year-old patient was treated with 0.1 percent tacrolimus ointment because of rosacea that had been aggravated by prolonged use of topical corticosteroids. After two weeks of treatment, she had an unprecedented episode of facial flushing during an evening reception where alcoholic beverages were served. The patient agreed to undergo a test to see whether the reaction could be reproduced in a clinical setting. After one week of twice-daily application of 0.5 g of 0.1 percent tacrolimus ointment on the face, she ingested 0.05 liter of white wine. The images show the patient before exposure to alcohol (Panel A) and . . .

Friday Evening Receptions: A Courtyard of Miracles Open to the City

A formed in 1990 represents one of the various welcoming activities offered by the day center (DC) of the Lugano sector, which encompasses 120,000 inhabitants. The sector, however, carries out its activities mainly in the city's public places and suburbs on Friday afternoons and evenings. This is one of the most critical periods of the weekly schedule, when the demands of our psychiatric clientele are often particularly urgent and importunate. The came to be called the group since its main focus is actually the youth population with major mental problems, specifically, problems of withdrawal and social isolation, with characteristics of what has come to be called the new chronicity. Some of the clients wanted to present the youth in their own original way, and hence made a video document that expresses the following:

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

The forty-ninth annual convention of RMMLA will be held 19-21 October 1995 at the Ridpath Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Central Washington University is the host institution. Grant Smith, local arrangements chair, also arranged the very successful conference in 1985. RMMLA will be meeting concurrently with Northwest British Studies and Northwest Eighteenth-Century Studies. David Bevington, the banquet speaker, will address the relation between politics and art in his talk “James I and Timon of Athens” A Central Washington University will sponsor a Thursday evening reception at which the Madrigal Singers from Washington State University will perform.

Conference and International Symposium on Radionuclide Metrology and its Applications - ICRM'95

15–19 May 1995, Paris, FranceFirst AnnouncementThe next biennial conference of the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM) will be held at the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche in Paris, from 15 to 19 May 1995. The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information on techniques and applications of radionuclide metrology, and to encourage international co-operation in this field.TopicsThe main topics covered by this conference are alpha-particle spectrometry beta-particle and gamma-ray spectrometry life sciences low-level measurements radionuclide metrology techniques nuclear decay data.These topics may include, for example, source preparation techniques, reference materials and calibration standards, detector development, liquid-scintillation counting, internal gas counting, surface contamination monitoring and new methods.RegistrationA registration fee of 1500 FFr (including VAT) will apply to this meeting. For those paying the registrationfee by 1 March 1995, it will be discounted to 1300 FFr. The fee includes the right to attend the conference and Monday evening reception; documentation, including book of abstracts; refreshments and lunches; copy of symposium proceedings.The fee should be paid in FFr by credit transfer, eurocheque or cheque made payable to "DAMRI" and marked on the back ICRM'95.Registration forms can be obtained from the local organizing committee at the following address:Secretariat ICRM'95, LPRI, BP 52, 91193 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. Fax: (33) 1 69 08 95 29, Telex: ENERG X 604 641 F MRI+, E-mail: ICRM@BABAORUM.CEA.FR

Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

The Overseas Doctors Training Scheme was established by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in August 1989. Feedback from trainees placed in post has indicated that their early experience in the UK could have been eased had they been able to attend an induction course which addressed their specific needs. In response to this the Overseas Liaison Committee decided to hold their first induction course on 27 and 28 January 1992 for all the sponsored trainees commencing in post in February. Fourteen doctors attended this course which consisted of a series of short seminars on a variety of subjects together with a talk from trainees already in post and an evening reception.

Report of the South Central Modern Language Association

The 1982 meeting of SCMLA will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on 28–30 October. The newly renovated Gunter Hotel will be the principal convention facility, with the El Tropicano providing overflow lodging. Both hotels are close to the famed Riverwalk, and they promise to be exciting locations for conventioneers. A number of San Antonio institutions will be cohosting the meetings; cochairpersons of the local arrangements committee are Alan Craven (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio) and David Middleton (Trinity Univ.). A Thursday evening reception at the Institute of Texan Cultures will be one of the highlights of the meeting in a city that represents a unique cross-fertilization of cultural influences. Persons interested in attending the convention will receive packets after sending dues for 1982 ($8) to Paul A. Parrish, SCMLA, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843.

The Fifty-sixth Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting

The Radiological Society of North America celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of Roentgen's discovery of “the rays” with its own Fifty-sixth Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 1970. Interest was high from the start. The aisles of the exhibits were crowded from their opening at 10:00 a.m. Sunday until the guards called “Everybody out!” at the close of the week. In all, 7,478 persons were registered, a gain of 1,049 over the 1969 Meeting. To these registrants the Society through its various committees presented 200 fulllength papers and 59 Work-In-Progress communications, 87 refresher courses, 96 scientific exhibits, and 103 technical exhibits. There is space here to name only a few of the highlights of the meeting. The Sunday evening film interpretation session was once more well-attended, with all seating and standing room taken. The difficult diagnostic exercises were directed by Charles E. Shopfner, M.D., and his associates in detection were Byron G. Brogdon, M.D., N. Thorne Griscom, M.D., John A. Goree, M.D., Manuel Viamonte, Jr., M.D., James L. Quinn, III, M.D., and Anthony Lalli, M.D. Last year's informal round table for senior radiology residents was so successful in facilitating a dialogue between students and leading teachers and practitioners in the field that it was repeated. Attendance was limited to approximately 25 students for each course, and no person could attend more than a single session. This year's teachers were: Ernest H. Wood, M.D., Neuroradiology; Edward B. Singleton, M.D., Pediatric Radiology; Herbert L. Abrams, M.D., Angiography; Giulio J. D'Angio, M.D., Rx Tumors of Infants and Children; Alexander Gottschalk, M.D., Nuclear Medicine; Milton Elkin, M.D., Genitourinary Radiology. In commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Roentgen's discovery, the Society scheduled a special event on Monday afternoon on American Radiology, Then and Now, with Howard P. Doub, M.D., Editor Emeritus of Radiology, presiding, and Emanuel R. N. Grigg, M.D., acting as Moderator. Other participants included Malcolm A. Bagshaw, M.D., W. Edward Chamberlain, M.D., Benjamin Felson, M.D., Gwilym S. Lodwick, M.D., Russell H. Morgan, M.D., E. James Potchen, M.D., Eugene P. Pendergrass, M.D., Leo G. Rigler, M.D., and Manuel Viamonte, Jr., M.D. The New Horizons for Radiologists Lecture was presented by Harry V. Gelboin, Ph.D., from the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda, Md. His title was Carcinogenesis, the Environment, and Gene Action. The Annual Oration was given this year in honor of Charles M. Gray, M.D., the 1962 President of the Society. The Orator, introduced by our President, John R. Hodgson, M.D., was William B. Seaman, M.D., who spoke on Radiology of the Colon—New Perspectives, Old Problems. Another event, always of interest, was the awarding of the Gold Medal. This year it was given to Cesare Gianturco, M.D., of Urbana, Ill. Still another special event was the Tuesday evening reception for members and guests.

Dickens's Household Words on American English

IN HIS American Notes (1842) Dickens had centered his interest so largely on the crudity of American manners and the primitive conditions of travel, on the sad state of politics and the vicious press, and, in particular, on the foul blot of slavery, that he had devoted but passing attention to the idiosyncrasies of American use of English. The few comments on American pronunciation and usage had been incidental, made rather as observations or good-humored ridicule than as indignant censure. American Notes had remarked, for instance, on the peculiar American pronunciation of the words route and prairie. It had commented on such Americanisms as the use of plug for a quid of chewing tobacco, the use of lumber for timber, the odd use of levee for an evening reception. It had pointed out the lack of distinction in American speech between the terms right away and directly. Predictably, the indiscriminate use of the word fix to refer to everything from the tailor's measuring a pair of pantaloons to the doctor's restoring a patient to health had come in for comment. Some ridicule of pretension in language had been implied in the explanation that Americans used the term compensation to refer to the wages of a public servant and that they called a city what would in English be called a town or village. The American's use of Go ahead for the Englishman's All right seemed to Dickens expressive of the 'national character of the two countries.'

The Commission on History of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History

The IX Conference of Mexican, Canadian and United States Historians took place October 27-29, 1994 in Mexico City. The central theme, "The History of Three Nations. Mexico-United States-Canada," was organized around four plenary sessions, "The Construction of Space," "Political Culture and Institutions," "Sociocultural Change and Continuity," and "Economic Structures and Change." Luis Gonzailez y Gonzailez, one of Mexico's most eminent historians, presided over the conference as president. The sixty-eight round tables and panels took place in nine separate locations situated in historic buildings in Mexico's historic colonial center including the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de America, the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, and the Museo Nacional de las Culturas. Delegates received opportunities to visit many restored colonial buildings, some of which are not generally open to the public. There was an evening reception at the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, and a closing concert in the Recinto Parlamentario of the National Palace. Although some of the organizers had expressed concerns that delegates might experience difficulties moving from one session to the next, there were very few problems connected with traffic or distance. Some delegates could not immediately locate colleagues scattered throughout downtown hotels, but most historians expressed high enthusiasm for the different locations and praised the organizers on the Mexican Organizing Committee. Many North American historians relived earlier experiences as researchers at the Archivo General when it was situated in the National Palace or later in the Palacio de Comunicaciones which today is the Museo Nacional de Arte. They visited restaurants that they had not frequented for years-such as the Caf6 Tacuba where nothing much had changed except the prices-and searched for bookshops, bars, and other formerly essential facilites.

Opening of the New Museum of Practical Geology

IT is now announced that the new Museum of Practical Geology will be formally opened next July. Advantage has been taken of this to arrange a joint celebration of the centenary of the Geological Survey and the opening of the new Museum. In the new Museum at South Kensington ample accommodation has been provided to display the exhibits in a building specially designed to meet modern museum requirements. New material has been acquired from many sources and the extent and scope of the exhibits has been enlarged. For the past three or four years, geologists of the Survey and Museum have been mainly engaged in rearranging and bringing up to date the collections, their normal field work being subordinated to the needs of the Museum. At the back of the Museum new offices have been provided for the Geological Survey, together with modern laboratories for the prosecution of petro-logical and mineralogical research. Enlarged accommodation has been provided for the Library and collection of maps which, as in the past, will be available for consultation by the public. The Museum is to be opened by the Duke of York on July 3. On July 4 there will be a morning reception of delegates to the Centenary, followed by an address by the Director of the Survey on the history and functions of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. On the evening of July 4 there will be an evening reception by H.M. Government. Excursions to several of the classic areas of British geology follow immediately after the meetings. It is expected that a large and representative gathering of geologists from all parts of the world will be present for the celebration.

The 250 th Anniversary of the Royal Society

THE celebrations in connection with the 205th anniversary of the Royal Society opened on Monday last with an evening reception of the delegates in the rooms of the Society. On Tuesday there was a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey at noon; a formal reception of the delegates and presentation of addresses in the library of the Royal Society in the afternoon, and a banquet in the Guildhall in the evening. Yesterday visits were paid to places of interest in London; a garden-party was given by the Duchess of Northumberland at Syon House and a conversazione was held at Burlington House at night. To-day further visits are being paid to places of interest, and fellows of the Society and the delegates are being entertained by their Majesties the King and Queen at a garden-party at Windsor. The following is a list of the delegates from foreign countries and the British Dominions beyond the seas:—