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This chapter investigates examples of literary case studies by Alfred Döblin, a medical doctor and a main representative of the 1920s ‘New Objectivity’ aesthetic movement in Weimar Germany. Like fellow poet Gottfried Benn, Döblin brought his professional expertise in medicine to bear on his literary projects. Whereas his contemporaries were preoccupied with questions of social justice, Döblin was particularly interested in gender relations and the nexus between sexuality and crime, and used literature as a metaphorical laboratory to explore shocking and topical themes of the day. With his realistic case studies based on trials and his own expert knowledge of psychiatry, sexology and psychoanalysis, Döblin strove to bridge the gap between highbrow literature and the new empirical life sciences, as well as between his medical practice and his love of literature. His work demonstrates both the benefits and limits of the case study genre as a vehicle for transporting new forms of knowledge. While his attempts to refashion the literary case study as a crime novel by incorporating the latest theories about the human psyche and female homosexuality were of limited success, he achieved greater success with Berlin Alexanderplatz, a modernist novel about crime and sex in the metropolis.
This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany, and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and always alert to the radical implications of their engagement with the genre, the six chapters scrutinise the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Oskar Panizza and Alfred Döblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen, and New York psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. There result important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers, and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity—from readers who self-identified as masochists, to conmen and female criminals. Where previous accounts of the case study have tended to consider the history of the genre from a single disciplinary perspective, this book is structured by the interdisciplinary approach most applicable to the ambivalent context of modernity. It focuses on key moments in the genre’s past, occasions when and where the conventions of the case study were contested as part of a more profound enquiry into the nature of the human subject. | <urn:uuid:991e177b-2ada-4a5c-919f-80254a772852> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Alison+Lewis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953897 | 572 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Challengeing Words In The Article The Hindu | 28 Feb 2018
1)Effusive (adverb) (असंयत): adju-di-kate
Meaning – showing or expressing gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner/expressing a lot of emotion
Synonyms – gushing, gushy, unrestrained, unreserved, extravagant, fulsome
Antonyms – restrained,moderate,sober
Example – The boy was effusive in his praise of the judges who awarded him the trophy.
2)Adrift (adjective) (भटकते हुए): ad-rift
Meaning – without purpose, direction, or guidance/failing to reach a target or winning position/(of a boat or its passengers) floating without being either moored or steered/
Synonyms -afloat, directionless, aimless, disoriented
Antonyms – purposeful, stable, determined, anchored.
Example -The scientist published the report about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel with no definite goals.
3)Frosty (adjective) (ठण्डा,रूखा): fros-ti
Meaning – a cold and unfriendly attitude
Synonyms – unfriendly, unsympathetic, inhospitable, unwelcoming, forbidding, hostile
Antonyms -warm, friendly, sympathetic, welcoming
Example – Someone will likely become frosty towards you if you are someone they do not like, and they will treat you with unkindness.
4)Entourage (noun) (घेरा): an-too-raz
Meaning – a group of attendants, associates or followers/a group of people attending or surrounding an important person.
Synonyms – staff, retinue, company, cortège, suite, attendant, escort
Antonyms – leader
Example -The famous businessman is always accompanied by an entourage that consists of his bodyguards, doctors, lawyers, and advisers.
5)Scramble (verb) (संघर्ष): es-cram-bal
Meaning – struggle or compete with others for something in an eager or uncontrolled and undignified way/a difficult or hurried clamber up or over something.
Synonyms – jostle, scuffle, scrimmage, tussle, struggle, contend
Antonyms – concord, harmony, peace
Example – The firms scrambled to win public-sector contracts.
6)Icy (adjective) (बहुत ठंडा,बहुत रूखा): i-c
Meaning – very unfriendly; hostile/very cold
Synonyms – unfriendly, unwelcoming, inhospitable, hostile, forbidding
Antonyms – friendly, amiable, favorable
Example -She looked at him with an icy glance.
7)Penultimate (adjective) (अंत से पहले): penal-ti-mate
Meaning – right before the final one; second last/something that is right before the last item in a series.
Synonyms – next to last, penult
Antonyms – First,foremost,initial
Example – The author should have ended the series with the penultimate novel instead of closing out the hero’s tale with this poorly written story.
Idioms and Phrases
8)Put off (phrasal verb) (स्थगन):
Meaning -to delay doing something, especially because you do not want to do it
Synonyms – adjourn, postpone, hold off, reschedule.
Antonyms -carry out,continue,accomplish,achieve
Example -You can’t put the decision offany longer of choosing your career.
9)Back to the drawing board (phrase) (फिर से शुरू करना):
Meaning – used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised/Revising something (such as a plan) from the beginning, typically after it has failed
Synonyms – begin again, make a fresh start
Example – The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training.
10)The final straw (phrase) (असहनीय, सीमा):
Meaning – The last in a series of negative actions or events that makes the situation no longer tolerable
Synonyms -intolerable, limit, enough, unacceptable
Example – I’m already fed up with your selfishbehaviour, Riya, but if you disappointed me this time, well that will be the final straw!
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Plants annual, sometimes short-lived perennial in tropics and subtropics, glabrous. Stems erect, simple or with lateral branches (especially distally), 0.2-1 m. Leaves: petiole 1/2-11/2 as long as blade; blade rhombic-ovate or ovate, 1-7 × 0.5-5 cm, base rounded, cuneate, or attenuate, margins entire, plane, apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate, mucronate. Inflorescences slender spikes aggregated into elongate terminal panicles, also from distal axils, green, leafless at least distally. Bracts of pistillate flowers ovate to lanceolate, 1 mm, shorter than tepals. Pistillate flowers: tepals 3, narrowly elliptic, obovate-elliptic or spatulate, not clawed, ± equal, 1.2-1.7 mm, apex rounded or nearly acute, mucronate or not; style branches erect; stigmas 3. Staminate flowers inconspicuous, mostly at tips of inflorescences; tepals 3; stamens 3. Utricles ovoid to compressed-ovoid, 1-1.6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding tepals, prominently or faintly rugose, indehiscent. Seeds black or dark brown, subglobose to thick-lenticular, 1 mm diam., minutely punctulate, rather dull. Flowering summer-fall. Fields, railroads, lawns, gardens, waste areas, other disturbed habitats; 0-1000 m; introduced; Ala., Ariz., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Mass., Mich., Miss., N.Mex., N.Y., N.C., Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.; native to South America; introduced in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
Monoecious; erect, to 1 m; lvs broadly ovate or rhombic- ovate, 3-7 cm, often retuse, acute or rounded at base; thyrses few or several, the lateral ascending, not much shorter than the terminal, forming a panicle 1-2 dm; bracts much shorter than the fls; sep of the pistillate fls 3, oblanceolate, shorter than the fr, acute; fr compressed-obovoid, 1.5 mm, very rugose when dry, indehiscent; seed orbicular, sharp-edged, 1 mm; 2n=34. Probably native to tropical Amer., now a pantropic weed and occasionally adventive in our range.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
A gentle inland path, and a coastal path
|Length||150km (93 miles)|
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OS Explorer Maps :229, 236, 250 (Peddars Way) 250, 251, 252 (Norfolk Coast Path)
The Peddars Way is a 74 km (46 mile) trail in Norfolk (East Anglia / Eastern England) which follows an old Roman Road north from the Suffolk border to the sea. It is an inland lowland path. At its end at the Norfolk coast, it links with the start of the Norfolk Coast Path.
The Norfolk Coast Path is 72 km (45 mile) trail along the north Norfolk Coast, mostly along quiet beaches and sand dunes with low cliffs at the start and finish. Do get a guide book as the unofficial 'low water' beach route via the barrier islands is much more interesting than the official inland 'high water' route which detours inland much of the time.
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Calm In Seoul As The North Korea Question Grows More Urgent
North Korea's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile this week has led to global furor and in some cases, fear. But not in North Korea's neighbor to the south.
On the bustling sidewalks near Seoul's Yonsei University, packs of students stream in and out of skincare stores, dessert cafes and coffee shops. College senior Esther Bang has caught up on the headlines and knows that North Korea's recent launch was considered successful. But beyond that, she seems unconcerned.
"I think it's just, like, a whatever attitude that we are having," Bang says.
Even a North Korean milestone — launching a missile that could threaten the South's long time ally, the United States — isn't enough to rattle people here or shake up any routines.
"It's so common for us to hear this news, and this type of conflict has been going on for like 40, 50 years," she says.
South Korea has lived under the threat of attack by its hostile northern neighbor for decades. It has a desensitizing effect.
"So this is not an unusual situation for most South Koreans to deal with," says North Korea researcher Bong Yong Shik of the Asan Institute, a Seoul-based think tank. He says the relative calm may actually be helpful during a time of heightened geopolitical tension.
"The calmness pervasive among South Koreans can be a good asset for the leadership," Bong says. "But that does not mean South Koreans do not care about what kind of North Korean policy South Koreans should make. They do care about national security policy."
South Koreans elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, in May. With Moon at the helm, Bong says there are growing calls for diplomatic overtures to Pyongyang — especially since other options — like a military strike — could be catastrophic.
"There's growing support in favor of giving diplomacy a chance in South Korea, of course in China and even in the United States," Bong says.
While the United States has not been willing to meet with North Korea unless Pyongyang agrees to put de-nuclearization on the table, Moon has a less ambitious short-term goal. He has said he's willing to talk to North Korea — even if it's just to get to a freeze — a pause — of Pyongyang's nuclear program.
"Maybe a pause as a short-term solution is possible," says former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry, who recently met with North Koreans in back-channel conversations. She says for talks to get somewhere, the U.S. and its allies would have to be prepared to give something up.
"A pause could be possibly on [the table]," she says, "but that would mean for us to accept North Korea as a nuclear state, and that's very important for the North Koreans."
This type of question — de-nuclearization versus a pause or freeze — is something workaday Koreans like Lim Sang-woo say they are happy to leave to the policy-makers.
"My friends, we never debate about that, because for us, that topic is not that popular," Lim says.
It's not that he's unaware of the consequences of something going wrong on the Korean peninsula. "If they try to attack Seoul by missiles, maybe Seoul will be devastated. But not only Seoul," he says.
Being under an existential threat for so long means you learn to live with it.
"If you come here, it's not that dangerous a place, I think," says Lim.
In this busy city, all the talk of a North Korean threat is just part of the daily noise.
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Have you ever wondered why you yawn? Have you ever started yawning the minute you see someone else doing it? Yawning is a common bodily function that we don’t pay too much attention to until we yawn at the wrong time or in the wrong place. To some extent yawning remains a mystery, but here is what scientists do know about it.
Yawning can be contagious. The mere suggestion of it – like reading this – may cause you to yawn, or you may do so when you observe another person yawning. (This well rested writer started yawning while writing this.) We’re not the only ones who do that. Chimpanzees and members of the wolf/dog family experience contagious yawning, too. Scientists think that yawning spreads because we feel empathy towards those we know – and those who are yawning.
A study posted in the research journal PLOS One seems to support that theory. Researchers showed one group of chimpanzees a video of a second group of chimpanzees yawning. The results of the study showed that chimps were more likely to yawn when they were familiar with the chimps they observed yawning, indicating that empathy may play a role.
However, another study published in PLOS One contradicted that finding. In fact, researchers discovered no connection between contagious yawning and empathy or time of day. They did, however, find that older people were less like to “catch a yawn” from others.
Suffice it to say that more research is needed to understand why yawns spread between humans, chimps, wolves and dogs.
What causes yawning?
The causes of yawning remain theories as well, but scientists do have some thoughts on the matter.
A change of physical or mental activity: It’s commonly held that if you yawn you must be tired or bored. You might be surprised to learn that a yawn causes the heart rate to rise quickly. Scientists believe that yawns may actually help us to change our physical or mental state from one of alertness or high activity to a quieter, less active one. For example:
- A yawn could indicate that the body is tired and ready to sleep.
- It could mean that the brain is becoming bored and is moving from a state of attentiveness to one of daydreaming or distraction.
- After playing sports or exercising a yawn could indicate that the brain is transitioning to a lower state of activity.
More oxygen for the body:
Yawning may simply be a different type of breathing for the body. A yawn takes in lots of air and causes the heart to beat faster. As a result, the body takes in more oxygen. Researchers think that yawns may occur when the body knows it needs fresh oxygen in the blood.
Air conditioning for the brain
Believe it or not the best temperature to cool an overheated brain and the body’s circulatory system is about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers theorize that yawns tend to occur more often at that temperature so the body can take in perfectly heated and cooled air. The heart beats faster during a yawn and that causes blood and spinal fluid to circulate through the body, cooling down the brain.
An evolutionary cell phone:
Some scientists believe that our earliest ancestors may have used yawns to communicate to fellow human beings before speech was developed. They could have informed others that the yawner was bored, sleepy, becoming less active or more aggressive by showing teeth.
As you can see, there are no hard facts about the causes of yawning or why they are contagious. As a result, there really is no way to know how to prevent them. Suffice it to say that a good night’s sleep and stimulating activities may prevent yawns, and you can always look away when you see someone else beginning to yawn so you won’t catch it! | <urn:uuid:5525de06-5b3e-4b13-8faa-2a81af926b49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bergerhenryent.com/why-do-we-yawn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958192 | 858 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Expert gardeners may have spent more than half a century developing their skills but you are never to old to start, nor are you too old to learn easier and simpler ways to enjoy your gardening.
Bending and kneeling may get a bit harder as you age but there are ways to overcome mobility restrictions like padded kneelers with good handles.
Waterlilies Viewed through my cataracts?
Tools as You Age
- You are not going to double dig acres of ground so get a spade to suit. A small stainless steel blade lifts less but will not over tax the muscles and still get most jobs done at a steady pace. Mud wont get claggy and stick the blade so you only lift it once.
- I have very useful smaller forks and a trowel on long handles. They are easy to obtain and save your back. You can also fashion your own dibbers and gadgets
- A two wheeled barrow is lighter for pushing than a traditional one wheeler.
- Use large pots and containers to reduce watering and put them on casters for moving around or better still leave them in a permanent spot.
The Illustrated Practical Guide to Gardening for Seniors: How to Maintain Your Outside Space with Ease Into Retirement and Beyond by Patty Cassidy from Amazon
Easier Gardening as You Age
- This above book shows how easy it is for seniors to carry on gardening, into and way beyond retirement.
- It looks at different kinds of homes and the gardens they provide, assessing the location, local climate and soil type and evaluating problems such as arthritis and loss of balance.
- The book also outlines the importance of taking care of your body, summarizing the safety issues, what to wear, warm-up exercises and equipment to make the garden easy to access for unsteady feet or wheelchairs.
- Included is a directory that profiles the many planting choices available, each with a difficulty rating and a hardiness category.
- Gardening for Seniors is packed with projects, garden plans and step-by-step sequences.
- Easier gardening will appeal to active gardeners in their early retirement through to those with more limited abilities, showing how, by adapting garden activities and the tools employed, the joy of gardening will remain undiminished.
Plants and Planting as You Age
- Avoid fast growing shrubs that need pruning and regular spraying. I prefer small rhododendrons to roses for this reason.
- Aim at your senses by placing plants where you will get the most reaction from those you still have in full working order.
- Design and implement your gardening to impress others and they will stop and talk.
- Cajole a relative or pay someone to do the heavy yards (landscaping, tree lopping, hedge trimming or whatever you struggle with).
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If you like the idea of getting a dog but need a bit of reassurance that you are doing the right thing – read on.
There are, of course, loads of other pets to choose from, but few are likely to integrate into and become part of your family like a dog will.
Statistics show that dogs are the most popular pet both in the UK and in the U.S, and there are many reasons why. Here are 6 reasons why dogs make great family pets.
They will keep you active
Dogs love running around and being outdoors. The breed and age of your dog will dictate how active they are, but generally, every dog likes going for a walk or playing fetch. A dog is a great way to get you and the family out and about more and will help to increase your activity levels.
If you are want to go running with your dog or head out for exceptionally long walks, then it’s important to get a breed that can cope with it. Huskies, Weimaraners, and Hungarian Vizslas are just a few of the breeds that will handle lots of activity and which have high endurance levels.
They are great with children
If you have children, a dog will make a fabulous pet. Not only will they become wonderful companions for your kids, but owning a dog will also help to teach children about responsibility and routine. Kids of all ages can help to feed your dog, take it for walks, and they can also assist with aspects of grooming too.
Dogs will spend hours playing if they are given the chance, so it’s also a great way to keep your kids occupied whilst you get on with other things. Regardless of the age of your kids, a dog will become a fundamental part of your family very quickly, and a friendship like no other will be formed.
Dogs are well catered for
The dog industry is worth millions, so you should never encounter issues when searching for dog-related products or services. Whether you need a dog food delivery, an overnight dog sitter, or even a bit of a doggy pampering session, there are companies out there that will accommodate. There are also pet insurance companies like Bivvy, that can give your pets a health policy similar to what you have for yourself, but much cheaper.
If you work regularly, you should be able to find dog walkers in your area that will come to your home and take your dog out for walks every day. Many dogs don’t like being left alone for any length of time, so it’s a great way to ensure that your dog is getting the company and the exercise that it needs. It’s never a good idea to leave a dog unattended all day, so it’s important to have someone available to help when and if you need it.
A better social life
Believe it or not, owning a dog is a great way to meet friends and become more sociable. You only need to look at the plethora of dog owners who congregate regularly at the park every morning to see how sociable it can be.
Many people meet like-minded dog owners when out for walks or via local dog-walking groups. There are also online groups where you can arrange doggie play dates and group activities for your beloved pooch.
Dogs are extremely loyal
Whether you own a Doberman or a Poodle, a dog will do everything in its power to protect you. When a stranger comes to visit or the doorbell rings, many dogs will automatically bark or growl. This is their way of protecting their owners and letting strangers know that they are there. A dog will always be loyal to its owner and look out for them whenever they feel they need to.
Love and affection
If you want a pet that makes you feel loved, then a dog will not disappoint. Not only are they great fun to be around, but they will bring love to your home that cannot be equalled. A dog will sit on your lap whilst watching television, and many of them love getting cuddles or having their tummy tickled. They will greet you when you come home after a long hard day at work and will be over the moon to see you each morning when you wake.
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Blancett Model 1100 Turbine Flow Meter
The Blancett Model 1100 Turbine Flow Meter is designed to meet the demands of the most rigorous flow measurement applications. Originally developed for the secondary oil recovery market, the Model 1100 is an ideal meter for liquid flow measurement on or off the oilfield. The meter features a 316 stainless steel housing and rotor support, CD4MCU stainless steel rotor, and abrasion-resistant tungsten carbide rotor shaft and journal bearings. These materials help the meter to maintain accuracy and mechanical integrity when measuring the corrosive and abrasive fluids found in many industries.
Fluid entering the meter first passes through an inlet flow straightener that reduces its turbulent flow pattern. Fluid then passes through the turbine, causing the turbine to rotate at a speed proportional to fluid velocity. As each turbine blade passes through the magnetic field generated by the meter's magnetic pick-up, an AC voltage pulse is generated. These pulses provide an output frequency that is proportional to volumetric flow.
- Accuracy: ±1% of reading for 7/8" and larger meters; ±1% of reading over the upper 70% of the measuring range for 3/8", 1/2" and 3/4" meters
- Repeatability: ±0.1%
- Operating Temperature: -150 °F to +350 °F (-101 °C to +177 °C) standard; Temperatures to +425 °F (+232 °C) with high-temp pick-up
- Turndown Ratio: About 10:1
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How Taylor Swift’s Career Beginnings Foreshadowed Her Move to Pop, Continuing Country Influence
Today, Taylor Swift is a global pop superstar who headlines stadium shows and moonlights as a country hitmaker, to the tune of Sugarland's "Babe" and Little Big Town's "Better Man." But back in the late 2000s, she was a country superstar with big-time pop aspirations — and the drive, confidence and ambition to make her dreams come true.
"Oh, I'm just a girl / Trying to find a place in this world," Swift sings in "A Place in This World," a yearning song from her 2006 self-titled debut album. "Maybe I'm just a girl on a mission / But I'm ready to fly."
Truer words were never sung: Swift was just 16 when her debut record was released, but she had been working for years before that, after discovering a LeAnn Rimes album and falling for country music. "All I wanted to hear from then on was country," Swift told Rolling Stone in 2009. "I loved the amazing female country artists of the '90s — Faith [Hill], Shania [Twain], the Dixie Chicks — each with an incredible sound and standing for incredible things."
All of those artists were still topping the charts in the years directly before Swift entered the country music scene. But the gender parity that country music had been working toward at the end of the '90s had decidedly regressed: In 2003, the Dixie Chicks' one-week stay at No. 1 with "Travelin' Soldier" was the only time women topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart that year ... and the subsequent years weren't much better. In 2004, only four women reached No. 1 on that chart, representing just eight weeks in total, while 2005 saw three women top the chart for a total of six weeks.
The artists, both male and female, who did hit No. 1 on the charts early in the '00s tended to be familiar names: With the exception of new acts such as Gretchen Wilson, Rascal Flatts, Darryl Worley, and Big and Rich, chart-toppers included perennial big-sellers Garth Brooks, George Strait, Tim McGraw and even Elvis Presley. Newer artists had to fight for a spot at the table.
Swift's grounding was in country, but her tastes were holistic, which helped her see how needed her voice was.
On the album side, things started to shift in 2005 and 2006: A trio of music reality show veterans — Nashville Star's Miranda Lambert, and American Idol's Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler — released their debut albums and landed at No. 1 on the charts. This new wave of burgeoning superstars built on the empowerment foundation honed by '90s women, but spoke to situations relatable to younger country fans: deadbeat ex-boyfriends, for example, and the power of female friendship. Lambert and Pickler were steering their narratives from the songwriting side, too: The former wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her first album, Kerosene, while the latter received writing credits on half of her debut, Small Town Girl.
So, when Swift's debut arrived in 2006, she was in good company, with strong peers and collaborators, including her early co-writing partner Liz Rose. However, her approach was unique in that she was creating music teenagers could relate to that didn't pander to them or their feelings. It helped, of course, that Swift was the same age as many of her fans — and was also a fan of artists such as Dashboard Confessional, The Academy Is …, Boys Like Girls and Ryan Adams, just like they were. Her grounding was in country, but her tastes were holistic.
Perhaps even more important, Swift's broad tastes helped her see how needed her voice was. She brought a mature perspective — and a uniquely young, female perspective — that filled a void in not just country music, but music in general. Her music was entirely relatable to anyone navigating normal (and very specific) teenage concerns — and also to anyone who so acutely remembers the sharp emotional vulnerability of that time.
Taylor Swift Through the Years
On Swift's self-titled debut album, "Should've Said No" features a protagonist who's angry with someone who cheated on her — and clearly has no desire to take them back — while "Tied Together With a Smile" is about "a gorgeous, popular girl in high school," Swift told Entertainment Weekly in 2007. "Every guy wanted to be with her, every girl wanted to be her. I wrote that song the day I found out she had an eating disorder. There are a couple songs on the album like that, that are just watching other people and making observations."
Despite writing about serious topics, Swift was keenly aware that she didn't want to be pigeonholed as someone strictly focused on a younger demographic — or someone whose age should be the focal point. "I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that," she told EW. "So we’ve never hidden the fact that I’m 17, but we’ve never wanted it to be the headline. Because I want the music to win."
In fact, Swift acknowledged that her age could be seen as a detriment: "I think the actual truth of the matter is that being 17 has been sort of an obstacle, just in proving yourself to radio and proving yourself to middle-aged people listening to the radio," she noted. "It’s just a number on my birth certificate. But I’m very respectful of that number, you know?"
From a business standpoint, Swift was certainly savvy beyond her years. In 2009, she talked to Rolling Stone about cutting ties with her initial label, RCA Records — who wouldn't commit to anything but a one-year contract — and signing with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records. "I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one,” she said. “I thought, 'What’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? What’s been done a million times?'"
She elaborated on the decision — and her ambitions — to EW: "I didn’t want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart. And I knew that had to be my writing," Swift explained. "Also, it was a big, big record label with big superstars, and I felt like I needed my own direction and the kind of attention that a little label will give you. I just did not want it to happen with the method of, 'Let’s throw this up against the wall and see if it sticks, and if it doesn’t, we’ll just walk away.' I wanted a record label that needed me, that absolutely was counting on me to succeed. I love that pressure."
The move, and Swift's stubbornness, paid off handsomely, Borchetta tells Rolling Stone: "Taylor and I made an aggressive deal on the back end," he admits. "I’ve written her some very big checks."
Swift always understood that representation is vitally important to inspire and empower others, and the results of that commitment have made country music a much more vibrant place.
Such sharp acumen gave Swift a self-assured edge that's often been maligned (or misunderstood), although it also distinguished her as a thoroughly modern artist: an internet- and industry-savvy musician who was protecting her own self-interests and career, and was in control of where she was headed. For young women looking to go into music, Swift was an aspirational figure.
Swift's ... er, reputation only increased with her sophomore effort, 2008's Fearless, which launched five mainstream top 40 hits, including three that reached the Top 10, including the No. 2 "You Belong With Me" and No. 4 "Love Story." Fearless made her superstar dreams come true: The album was certified diamond and spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard Top 200 and 35 weeks at No. 1 on the country charts. It was also the best-selling album of 2009, with a staggering 3.2 million copies sold during that year alone.
With those kind of numbers, Swift was obviously not just speaking to her loyalists, but a huge crossover audience. And her willingness to take risks was also key; after all, the week Fearless was released, CMT aired an episode of Crossroads featuring Swift and Def Leppard, an interesting and boundary-pushing pairing that nevertheless showed she wasn't afraid to try and reach more people.
However, collaborations such as that one presaged the modern country world, where elements from pop, hip-hop, rock 'n' roll and even electronic music are all integrated with traditional sounds. It's no accident that the pop mix of "Teardrops on My Guitar" is so seamless, or that "Love Story" fit so easily on crossover radio. Swift knew early on that country could be a springboard for anything she wanted it to be.
Above all, Swift's first two albums helped usher in a mainstream country music boom. Even if she leans more pop than country these days, her legacy can be seen in the dozens of women who have found success in her wake — women who don't hesitate to make country music in whatever form they see fit. Swift always understood that representation is vitally important to inspire and empower others, and the results of that commitment have made country music a much more vibrant place.
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What does a scout jamboree have to do with name tags? Well…
Glen Jean, West Virginia – The story starts in London, 1920. The first World Scout Jamboree was held from 30 July 1920 to 8 August 1920 and was hosted by the United Kingdom at Kensington Olympia in London. Since then, the jamboree has been held in various places around the world. But, the last time it was in the US was in 1967. This year, that all changed!
Albin Dearing, BSA Contingent Troop 315 Assistant Scoutmaster, explains, “The first World Scout Jamboree was organized by the Boy Scouts Association in London. With exceptions of the war years, it has been held every four years in different parts of the world. The 2019 World Jamboree will be held at the Bechtel Summit Reserve in West Virginia. Over 45,000 scouts representing 152 countries will be attending.”
“Troop USA 315 is a temporary troop of 36 scouts and four adult leaders put together for the purpose of attending the 2019 World Scout Jamboree hosted this year in West Virginia,” said Dearing. “The donation towards our name tags will allow the scouts to learn each other’s names faster as they make new friends and relationships.”
The World Scout Jamboree is above all an educational event that brings together the world’s young people to promote peace and mutual understanding and to develop leadership and life skills.
The 24th World Scout Jamboree will feature the hallmarks of past world jamboree programs, such as the Global Development Village, special sustainability initiatives, and the socialization elements that allow participants to make lifelong friends from around the world.
From astronauts to a local scouts, everyone is having fun with scouting activities. Even name tags get a place in this year’s scout jamboree!
Dearing said, “Our troop will be part of the USA Contingent going to the 2019 World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia in July. 36 scouts and four adult leaders will be part of our Troop USA 315. Since scouts from multiple local units will be coming together for this adventure, we decided the other day to get the boys name badges.”
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Dearing is proud to be a part of the scouting tradition. “We are Boy Scout Troop USA 315 from the Great Trail Council in Ohio,” he said. “The three primary aims of scouting for today’s youth are growth in moral strength and character, participating citizenship and development of physical, mental, and emotional fitness. The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.” | <urn:uuid:fd720ef0-457d-4a4d-bf47-1f8c6de5d602> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nametag.com/nametagexperience/world-scout-jamboree-name-tags | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.926638 | 661 | 2.3125 | 2 |
John is a Professor of Soil Science who works on the importance of soils for the functioning of our planet, their degradation and interaction with water quality and the future sustainability of agriculture. He is at home in the field, lab and is also interested in the ways in which we use models to simulate soil processes. He is one of the founding Executive Editors of the European Geosciences open access journal SOIL that emphases the role soil plays in many disciplines. His track record mixes fundamental and applied science, critical to the impact of his work in both the scientific and policy arenas.
Jess is a Professor of Sustainability and her work sits at the intersection between systems engineering, environmental sciences and business. She is interested in how we can improve our capacity to manage and invest in soils to enhance their sustainability and delivery of vital food, water and carbon services. Jess uses computer modelling to predict how soils will respond to climate change, pollution, and changes in land use and practice, and is interested in how we can draw on the revolution in digital technologies and data sciences to transform our understanding and management of soils.
Jess leads a diverse £16M research and innovation portfolio including projects on soil sustainability, food systems and net-zero solutions. She is an appointed member of the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs Nutrient Management Expert Group and is Director of the Centre for Global Eco-innovation at Lancaster University.
Emma is a PhD researcher whose current work focuses on developing new techniques for monitoring phosphorus in freshwater rivers. Specifically, she is interested in exploring the use of DGT passive samplers as water quality monitoring tools. She hopes to improve the understanding of the DGT devices’ field capabilities and demonstrate the ways in which passive sampling can be used to identify potential pollution problems before they become significant issues.
Emma is funded through the Centre for Global Eco-innovation and has been able to conduct her research across the country with the help of her project partners; Northumbrian Water Limited, Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd., the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Environment Agency, and the Rivers Trust.
Rosanne is an ecosystem ecologist and is interested in the impacts of global change on plant-microbial-soil systems. Her PhD research focuses on the role of changing snow cover and precipitation regimes on carbon cycling and microbial function in mountain soils. Previously at home in boreal peatland research, Rosanne is sharing her love of moss and peat with the Sustainable Soils group.
She is part of STARS CDT, and is jointly based between Lancaster Environment Centre and The James Hutton Institute.
Hongmei is a research associate who works in the NERC funded “LOCKED UP” project with Nick Ostle, Jeanette Whitaker, and Niall McNamara. Her work focuses on the biotic and abiotic drivers underlying the resilience and persistence of soil organic matter under land-use and climate change. She has a broad interest in belowground processes especially the root ecology and the linkages between plants and soils.
Jenny is a PhD student working on the development of an integrated phosphorus modelling system to help make more efficient use of phosphorus fertilisers and minimise diffuse phosphorus pollution of watercourses.
She grew up on a dairy farm in Cheshire so, agriculture and its sustainability are something that she has always been passionate about. As a qualified nutrient management adviser and after working with farmers and land managers as an agricultural consultant, she was drawn back to research. Resource protection and nutrient management within productive agricultural systems have since become the main focus for her research and career aspirations.
Rose is a PhD student working on land use change in semi-arid forest ecosystems. Her research focuses on the effects of deforestation and grazing on carbon cycling and soil greenhouse gas emissions in the Gran Chaco in Argentina. She is particularly interested in how soil chemical and biological properties can interact with each other under widespread forest clearance, and how this may continue to change and affect the climate in the future.
This work is part of the NERC funded CDT STARS, and involves collaborations with Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria and Instituto Ecologia Regionale in Tucuman, Argentina.
Tommy is a Masters by Research student working on a collaborative project between the Centre for Global Eco-innovation (CGE) and Will & Al’s Natural Plant Food Company, a small business in Cumbria which manufactures biofertilisers through anaerobic digestion of crop residues. This research will assess the nutrient footprint and potential economic opportunities of biofertilisers and examine their ability to boost soil organic content and plant growth.
Tommy completed his undergraduate degree at Lancaster University in Earth and Environmental Science, where he spent a year studying at the University of Iceland. His dissertation analysed seasonal and temporal trends in soil CO2 in Northeastern USA, using large datasets from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
Mengyi is a research associate in the Department of Maths and Stats at Lancaster University. She is interested in developing and applying statistical methods to environmental data. It all started with her PhD at the University of Glasgow where she developed a model to explore the spatiotemporal patterns in the remote sensing lake temperature and chlorophyll data. During her time at the British Geological Survey, she worked alongside the hydrogeologists in the Survey to explore the data of the groundwater systems. Both works fall into the theme of harnessing the power of a large data set to improve our understanding of the environment.
Mengyi is currently working on the Signals in the Soils project, where statistical models and machine learning tools are used to investigate the temporal dynamics and dependences between various soil time series from ground based sensors.
Cristina is a soil scientist at Lancaster University and the James Hutton Institute (JHI) interested in the sustainable management of soil and water in agricultural systems. Previously a SHui research technician in LEC investigating the impact of cover crop mixtures under-sown in maize on soil structure and water retention in Cumbria, she is now a PhD student. Her research, funded by JHI and the Perry Foundation, focuses on the effect of cover crop diversity on soil-associated agroecosystem services under varying water availability.
Roisin is a PhD student working on urban soils and ecosystem services. Her research focuses on urban soil carbon, the effect of soil sealing by pavements and roads on soil carbon and the distribution of carbon down the urban soil profile. She is also interested in how urban soil supports the provision of ecosystem services in cities. Roisin’s previous work as a landscape architect and in an environmental charity feeds into her interest in how ecosystem services are being used in research, NGOs and consultancy. She is particularly interested in getting ecosystem services into planning policy as a force for protecting urban ecosystems and their functioning, and creating more sustainable cities.
Florian is a post-doctoral research associate at Lancaster University. His research interests include urban agriculture and food systems, sustainable agriculture and agro-ecology, and nature-based solutions.
Florian is currently part of the Rurban Revolution project, an interdisciplinary project investigating the transformative potential of urban greening and food growing. His research focuses on the food production potential of urban agriculture and the agronomic suitability of different urban spaces (e.g. rooftops, façades, indoor spaces, etc.). He is also interested in understanding the impacts of urban agriculture on the delivery of ecosystem services in urban environments.
Nhu is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD researcher, as part of the SOPLAS project (ESR5). Her research focuses on method development for microplastic measurement in soils, specifically by using fluorescence microscopy-based and spectroscopy techniques.
Nhu received her master’s degree in chemistry from Umeå University, Sweden. During her master thesis, she worked with bacterial biofilms in soils and sediments to study the effect of mercury exposure on their growth and mercury methylation mechanism by the biofilms. She has experiences working with vibrational spectroscopies, microscopies, and other analytical techniques such as gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy.
Helena is a Waitrose CTP PhD student researching cover crops to reduce soil erosion in Spanish orchards. She is interested in sustainable agriculture, its impacts on the environment and society. Specifically, her focus is on the use of plant traits to identify the most effective plants to be used as soil loss reducing cover crops in hillside orchards, and the barriers farmers face when implementing this soil management practice. This project has included working in the field, lab, and greenhouse both in Lancaster and Spain, in addition to a questionnaire.
Emilee is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Researcher working on the SOPLAS project. Her keen interest in soil and water quality stems from being raised in rural Idaho. Her current research focuses on the interactions between microplastics and soil, specifically the transportation of microplastics from agricultural soils to freshwater ecosystems.
Prior to coming to Lancaster University her research focused on using stable isotopes to measure denitrification rates in agricultural soils, groundwater and streams. Emilee has also been involved in several science education research projects and outreach programs. She is passionate about finding ways to communicate science to the general public.
Hannah is a PhD student with an interest in sustainable agriculture, specifically the role of phosphorus and sustainable nutrient management. Her PhD research focuses on the sustainable use of phosphorus under soybean crops. The project is in collaboration with Corteva Agriscience, who is funding the project, working on the development of an integrated crop phosphorus modelling approach that can be applied to soybean cropping systems, with fieldwork being completed here in Lancaster and also in Iowa, USA.
Louise is a research technician for the Shui Soil and Water Management project. Louise collects samples from the field and undertakes laboratory work to create soil moisture release curves for different soils utilising Meters Hyprop and WP4C equipment. Louise also helps PhD and undergraduate students set up their experiments and collect their samples. Louise previously undertook a masters by research looking at the wet canopy evaporations of deciduous trees on the edge of stands through rainfall events, modelling and how it relates to natural flood management. She has also worked for the RSPB as senior administrator for the north west area working to protect our environment through commenting on planning permission applications, and supporting the area team.
Victoria is an environmental modeller with a research focus on sustainable land management. As part of the Soil Value project she is currently developing biogeochemical models to assess the impacts of land use change and management strategies on the long-term sustainability of these systems.
In December 2019 Victoria also joined the Ensemble project, investigating ways that digital technologies can support environmental research and communication. Currently she is using virtual labs as a means to enable collaborative model application and integration of data analytics and machine learning techniques.
Carmen is a soil scientist interested on developing sustainable and climate resilient agroecosystems. Her area of research is focused on understanding plant and soil interactions in relation with soil organic carbon storage, water, and nutrient cycling in grassland systems. She has an especial interest on assessing the potential of more biodiverse agricultural systems to increase plant productivity while maintaining or enhancing soil functionality and health.
Carmen is currently working as a Research Associate at Lancaster University on the Restoring Degraded African Landscapes (ReDEAL) project, funded by the UK government BBSRC, as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund.
Gareth is a field technician on the NERC funded Signals in the Soil project, which aims to detect soil degradation and restoration through a novel coupled sensor and machine learning framework. His job includes the deployment and maintenance of environmental monitoring systems and recording field measurements to aid a better understanding of soil surface and sub-surface processes. Interests include soil hydrology, soil health, photogrammetry, mapping and natural flood management.
Signals in the Soil is a new international programme between UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food & Agriculture.
Dan Evans holds a 75th Anniversary Research Fellowship as a Soil Scientist at Cranfield University. His passion for soil science developed throughout his STARS CDT PhD. Based in the Sustainable Soil group at Lancaster, he conducted the first isotopic measurements of soil formation in arable contexts, and produced the first globally-relevant estimates of soil lifespans. He also became interested in the intersections between soils and urban life, through co-leading a global workshop and exhibition on the managing soils for healthy urban environments, and joining the Rurban Revolution project to assess ecosystem service delivery in urban spaces.
As part of his Fellowship, Dan is leading both fundamental and applied research into the extent to which saprolite (the weathered bedrock directly underlying soils) can support and boost soil functioning, particularly in contexts where soils are shallow, such as eroding hillslopes and urban areas. He is also working with industry to design innovative methods of generating soil and soil functions from saprolite in degraded contexts. In addition, Dan has recently contributed to a Welsh Government review on soil formation, and he is currently leading a GCRF project with collaborators in Brazil, studying heavy metals in saprolite, and applying UAV techniques to detect and measure saprolite erosion and deposition.
Gabriel is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Lancaster
University. His area of research includes landscape ecology, Geographic
Information Science (GIS), and agricultural systems. He is specifically
interested in the development of spatial and statistical models and their
application to the understanding of processes affecting natural systems and
biodiversity. His research also seeks to offer management strategies for the
mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in smallholder production systems.
He is currently part of a team working on the BBSRC’s funded
ReDEAL project – “restoring degraded African grasslands” and he is working on
the integration of soil properties and multifunctionality into management
Dmitry has a background in applied mathematics and started his career as an aerospace scientist. He subsequently developed an interest in sustainability, and has worked on a range of projects with partners from academia, the private sector and UK Government. His contributions include scenario and uncertainty analysis of Arctic climate feedbacks and of soil carbon sequestration potential in the UK (as part of the Soil Value project), as well as estimates of UK’s electronic waste flows to aid recycling. Most recently, Dmitry has been working with the Small World Consultancy on assessing decarbonisation and carbon sequestration options for UK businesses. | <urn:uuid:0f133f5f-2c6c-4a50-b54a-7c81354f1055> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sustainable-soils/meet-the-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944445 | 3,054 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Every entrepreneur who is looking forward to start something fresh will have so many ideas bubbling all over his head which he would have bottled thinking of pulling one after the other when required. This gathering of ideas is one of the most important parts as brain storming and finally settling for the best one will automatically take us a step closer to success. Now when you are all geared up with ideas and plans and are in the verge of telling people that you are planning for a start up. The natural reaction that is expected out of them is sincere happiness and you do get it for your ideas.
So under similar circumstances, what will be the reaction if you are informing people that it is going to be a lean start up instead of a normal one? No! They are not happy, no motivation or encouragement from their side and the response is not that kind. Now this happens because a lot of people out there do not actually understand a Lean start up and they are not aware of its advantages over the normal one. In most cases, people have the misconception that Lean means a business which is not started with enough financial back up.
Now the real difference between a start up and lean start up is that the latter is very cheap. When in a lean start up you don’t have to look for investors in the first place, you could just sit and think about ideas and plan for your build phase. Also this is faster, as you already have had the time to filter ideas and now will be working on the ones which would result in a yield. It yields results straight away, and you know the direction in which you are travelling and nothing comes as surprise here.
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The Distortion of A Jet By Coil Inserts
Hoang, Huy T.
Rahai, Hamid R.
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Journal of Fluids Engineering vol. 124 no. 2 (2002)
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Results of experimental investigations of the effects of distortion caused by coil inserts on a turbulent jet are presented. The coils have different wire diameters with constant pitch spacing. The ratios of the coil wire diameter to the tube inside diameter, d/D, are 0.06, 0.08, 0.11, 0.13, and 0.16 and the ratio of the pitch spacing to the tube inside diameter, p/D, is 1.2. Results show that the coil inserts enhance the mixing process. At the jet - outlet, mixing enhancement is increased when d/D < 0.1. However, further downstream, the highest mixing is achieved for the coil with the largest d/D ratio. Results suggest that the streamwise vortices generated by the coil inserts are the mechanism behind the high entrainments and the mixing process.
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Impulse control, an emergent function modulated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC), helps to dampen risky behaviors during adolescence. Influences on PFC maturation during this period may contribute to variations in impulse control. Availability of omega-3 fatty acids, an essential dietary nutrient integral to neuronal structure and function, may be one such influence. This study examined whether intake of energy-adjusted long-chain omega-3 fatty acids [eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) + docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)] was related to variation in impulse control and PFC activity during performance of an inhibitory task in adolescents (n = 87; 51.7% female, mean age 13.3 ± 1.1 years) enrolled in a longitudinal neuroimaging study. Intake of DHA + EPA was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire and adjusted for total energy intake. Inhibitory control was assessed using caregiver rating scale (BRIEF Inhibit subscale) and task performance (false alarm rate) on a Go/No-Go task performed during functional MRI. Reported intake of long-chain omega-3 was positively associated with caregiver ratings of adolescent ability to control impulses (p = 0.017) and there was a trend for an association between intake and task-based impulse control (p = 0.072). Furthermore, a regression of BOLD response within PFC during successful impulse control (Correct No-Go versus Incorrect No-Go) with energy-adjusted DHA + EPA intake revealed that adolescents reporting lower intakes display greater activation in the dorsal anterior cingulate, potentially suggestive of a possible lag in cortical development. The present results suggest that dietary omega-3 fatty acids are related to development of both impulse control and function of the dorsal anterior cingulate gyrus in normative adolescent development. Insufficiency of dietary omega-3 fatty acids during this developmental period may be a factor which hinders development of behavioral control.
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Prevalence of smoking and perceived health problems among male population of Dharan municipality
Keywords:Cough, Smokers, Smoking, Troubled breathing
Background: Smoking accounts for 8.8% of annual deaths worldwide. It is practiced by about a third of world population aged 15 years or older. About 73% of these smokers are in developing countries with overall prevalence in Nepal ranging from 25% to 73% in adult men.
Objectives: To assess the prevalence of smoking among the male population, identify the perceived health problems, association between smoking status and selected variables and association between smoking status and existing health problems among respondents.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using systematic random sampling among male population of Dharan municipality. The sample size was 180.
Results: This study revealed that the prevalence of smoking was 41.7%. Sixty eight percentage of the respondents had started smoking at the age of 11 to 20 years and most of them initiated smoking due to peer pressure. Forty three percentage of former smokers and 52% of current smokers had experienced different kinds of health problems like cough and troubled breathing which they perceived as smoking related. A total of 64% of former smokers had quitted smoking due to health problems. Respondents with low educational status were more smokers (p<0.05), those who were unemployed and if employed then unskilled/semi skilled workers were more smokers (p<0.01). Current smokers experienced more health problems like cough and troubled breathing than non smokers (p<0.01).
Conclusion: This study shows that young people are more vulnerable to start cigarette smoking so there should be frequent positive reinforcement of antismoking campaign focusing more on youth and as well the smoking advertisements should be discouraged.
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Victoria: With weeks of fire season remaining, and forecasts for continued hot, dry conditions that carry the risk of further lightning strikes, the provincial government has requested assistance from the federal government for its firefighting efforts.
“This is an urgent situation, and the safety of British Columbians is our highest priority,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. “Due to the increase in the number of wildfires affecting communities and the extreme wildfire behaviour we are seeing, we’re asking for federal assistance for additional resources that may be needed to protect the public, property and infrastructure.”
As of the morning of Monday, Aug. 13, there were 27 evacuation orders affecting approximately 3,100 people (1,537 properties), in addition to 43 evacuation alerts impacting approximately 17,900 people (8,909 properties).
More than 3,400 dedicated wildfire personnel are responding to some 600 wildfires currently burning in all areas of the province. This includes BC Wildfire Service crews, contractors, municipal firefighters, industry personnel and out-of-province crews from throughout Canada, as well as Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.
“We’re bringing in the additional resources we need to keep people and communities as safe as possible,” said Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. “I thank the federal government and the Canadian Armed Forces for their assistance, and also ask British Columbians to do their part by following burning bans to prevent human-caused fires.”
The Province of British Columbia is requesting:
• Two hundred self-sufficient personnel to perform the mop-up and patrol of contained fires, under the supervision of the BC Wildfire Service. The BC Wildfire Service will provide the required personal protective equipment, firefighting equipment and incremental training as required for these tasks.
• Heavy-lift aircraft to reposition wildfire crews and equipment to new fire starts that threaten communities. These aircraft will assist with the resupply of existing operations (fire camps, air bases, etc.), which will permit BC Wildfire Service aircraft to be directed to the firefighting effort from resupply tasks.
• Aircraft for emergency transport of injured personnel and to help evacuate people in remote areas, should evacuation routes be compromised.
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I’ve witnessed this new idea spreading and growing in the past two years or so. There are religious people who strongly believe that aliens are demons — and they are correct. Some aliens are indeed demons, but not in the religious sense.
Allow me to explain.
Mankind’s story actually begins back when we existed in non-physical form, on a non-physical planet, but I think it’s gonna be easier to understand if I begin the narration in the Sumerian times.
The Hidden History of Our Species
2. The following historical accounts were passed down to us in the form of clay tablets, from the Sumerian civilization, which sprouted some 6,000 years ago, in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, in today’s Iraq.
The Sumerians describe in great detail how a species of Tall White “gods” came to Earth from another planet, in search of gold, a metal that they could spray as a fine dust (nanoparticles) into their atmosphere in order to repair it.
They called these “gods” the Anunnaki, which literally translated as “Those who from the heavens to Earth came”.
At first, the Anunnaki brought with them their own slaves to mine the gold, but because the work was hard and seemingly endless, the slaves took arms against their rulers. Unfortunately for everyone, most of the slaves were killed in the revolt.
The Anunnaki rulers had to come up with a solution, and decided to genetically engineer a species of slaves, by combining their DNA with that of a native primate. The new species had to be intelligent enough to operate the machines, but also stupid enough to accept the heavy duty work without revolting.
What followed was a laborious process of trial and error and it lasted for a very long period of time. During this time, numerous versions of humans have been brought into existence, and we are only the final version of those previous prototypes, the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
It’s worth noting that we are not necessarily better than the previous versions, but we are overall better suited to serve our makers — because that is why they went through the trouble of genetically engineering us, in the first place: to use us as slaves. You can read more on the subject HERE.
For example, Homo erectus, which had more primate genes than Anunnaki genes, was better suited as a species to survive the crude conditions of our planet. They could navigate harsh landscapes without needing to cover their soles and palms for protection, climb trees and forage for food with ease, and their fur offered them protection from both the sun and the cold.
But they were not intelligent enough to operate advanced machinery, nor where they strong enough for heavy duty labor.
Probably the best overall human slave species ever created by the Anunnaki were the Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals) and the Homo Sapiens Denisova (the Denisovans). Both species had bigger skulls and larger brains than us, which made them more intelligent.
They were also better suited to live independently on Earth, being overall tougher. Their skulls were thicker and their bone density was greater. They were basically stronger and more intelligent than Homo Sapiens.
Of course, modern science can never accept this statement as true. According to Darwin‘s “survival of the fittest”, the fact that we are here and the above two species are extinct can only be the result of our superiority — which was not the case.
In fact, the Neanderthals and Denisovans were most probably wiped out by their makers because they were too intelligent and too strong for their purpose as obedient slaves.
So, up until the Neanderthals and the Denisovans we can observe a continuous effort from the Anunnaki to improve their creation, and then a sudden downgrade to us, the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The Anunnaki Creation Story: The Biggest Secret in Human History (Documentary)
Back to the origins
As I’ve stated in the beginning of this article, mankind’s story actually begins back when we existed in non-physical form, on a non-physical planet.
1. The first accounts on the origins of mankind come from the WingMakers, which presented themselves as a future aspect of the human species. Basically us, from the future.
According to them, the group of aliens that was later identified as the Anunnaki had indeed come to Earth in search for gold, but they first came here much-much longer than it is stated in the Sumerian tablets. Back then, the Earth was in the process of becoming solid and it was inhabited by us, as non-physical beings.
Those were the original Atlantean times, and first Atlanteans were non-physical beings.
The original Anunnaki were also non-physical and they needed gold because it modulated the frequency of their body, so it was an essence to their species. It held a property that was vital to their survival, similarly to how food is to us now.
After negotiating an agreement with the Atlanteans, they’ve started taking gold away from our planet.
In time, the Earth began to materialize more and more, basically solidifying. And the gold with it. The mining of the gold would soon become impossible for the Anunnaki, since their bodies, just like ours, were etheric, whilst the gold was turning into a dense, physical, state.
So that’s when the Anunnaki asked for help from the Atlanteans, as well as other alien species to create a physical vehicle that could be used to mine for gold.
The Anunnaki had some kind of a falling out with the Atlanteans, or maybe they never really cared for them in the first place, and began to conspire with the other alien species against them.
The Anunnaki already had a human body, and only needed to power it with a life source or a soul.
Since the Atlanteans were intimately involved in the creation of this planet from the very beginning, they were naturally interested to experience life on it as solid beings. So they agreed to try on the human vehicles/ suits/ bodies.
The bodies were outstanding and performed really well, so, at first, they really enjoyed the experiment of living on Earth as physical beings, but with each new incarnation, the Anunnaki were secretly downgrading the human bodies. At the same time, with the help of the other alien species, they’ve started designing a prison for the non-physical Atlanteans.
By the time that the final version of the prison was completed, the human vehicles provided to them were only a fraction of what they’ve used to be.
These bodies were smaller, weaker, and almost entirely disconnected from the Source, which meant that they were now depended on physical food for survival. And with no knowledge of who they once were, the Atlanteans became hopelessly enslaved, both in physical and non-physical forms.
They could now be used as slaves by the aliens.
It was then decided that some of the Anunnaki should also incarnate on Earth, in order to rule over the Atlanteans, but they would use the original human bodies.
These Anunnaki presented themselves as mankind’s creators, using a made up story — the one that I have presented in the previous chapter — and started using us for slave labor, whilst continuously adjusting our bodies in accordance to their needs.
Exposing the Alien Enslavers
The most visible aliens involved in our enslavement are the Anunnaki but, as I’ve already mentioned, there were other alien species that worked in close collaboration with the Anunnaki, such as the Short Greys, the Reptilians and a non-physical species that our ancestors called the Archons.
The Reptilians have originated in another universe that has achieved completion. Which means that an entire Universe has mastered all lessons and challenges, and evolved beyond physicality, duality, polarity, and many other concepts that we cannot even imagine, let alone understand.
The Reptilians had evolved into the ultimate warrior species. Standing at 11-13 feet tall and having a natural armor of scales, as well as strong muscles, strong jaws with sharp teeth, and claws on their feet and hands, these predator carnivores are the ultimate killing machines.
Couple their physical strength with a large brain, as well as opposing thumbs, and you will understand why they became virtually unstoppable.
But because of the path of extreme violence that they chose to follow, a decision was made that they would never become hosts for souls. There were simply no lessons to be learned by a consciousness accommodating their bodies, and no prospect whatsoever of spiritual evolution.
Entire planets and their native species have been completely wiped out by the Reptilians, until — and I don’t have detailed information on this chapter — they’ve somehow made a pact with the aforementioned Archons.
The Archons are non-physical beings believed to reside in the lower fourth dimension. They are parasitical in nature and feed off of negative energy generated by their hosts. Reptilians could never be hosts for souls, but they could be hosts, in a sense, for something much darker: the Archons.
Because the Reptilians don’t have souls, they are basically disconnected from the Source energy, so the Archons could not feed off of them directly, but they could feed off the negative energy generated by the species’ tormented by the Reptilians.
For this to make sense, you have to understand that all beings that have souls attached to their bodies (including human beings) are connected to the Source, from where they get un-polarized energy. It is up to the beings to polarize the energy, and use it to their needs. Positively polarized energy can be used as a source of food, and there are human beings that are able to live without eating physical food. You can read more on the subject here, here, here, and here.
The Archons not only use this negatively polarized energy as fuel, but they also get high on it. And, in return for the services provided by the Reptilians, the Archons share some of the thrill with them.
Their strategy was to basically hook the Reptilians on the “drug”, and the two species became inseparable allies.
That’s when the Reptilians’ way of conduction war shifted from total annihilation to enslavement and brutal torturing of prisoners.
(When beings with souls are tortured, they involuntarily give a negative polarity to the energy that they receive from the Source. That’s why, for example, serial killers receive so much pleasure from abusing and torturing their victims. Their non-phisical, parasitical, attachments feed off of that energy, and share a portion of the thrill with them.)
When their universe achieved completion, this cold blooded — both literally and metaphorically — species of ultimate warriors has been sent to our newly-birthed universe. Immediately, they’ve crowned themselves as supreme rulers of this universe — owners, if you will.
Ever since, many species in our universe have been enslaved by the Reptilian/Archonic alliance, including our species. In time, some of the species have decided to fight back, and that is most probably how the Galactic Federation came to be.
The negative energy that we generate daily as a result of hate, death from conflicts, torture, famine, sufferance, etc., is being used to both power the Matrix prison, as well as to feed our prison guards.
You should also know — and I wasn’t sure if I should mention this at all, — that there endless human farms (very similar to our animal farms) in the underground bases where these Reptilians live.
And since you’ve come this far, I encourage you to press play and listen to what these whistleblowers have to say about how we are being used as food for these aliens, and how they use the secretion of our adrenal glands to basically get high. And since some of our world leaders are intimately involved with the alien agenda, they are also hooked on this traceless drug, called adrenochrome. Maybe worse than all, this drug is harvested from children that are being systematically tortured:
According to sources in the enlightened community, the only way to escape from the grip of the Archons, is collective spiritual evolution. If we evolve spiritually and raise our vibration beyond their frequency of control, then we will stop generating negative energy and the Archons will be depraved of their food source.
But we should be aware that this also means that we will deprave the Reptilians of their powerful drug, which means that both species will fight with everything that they’ve got to prevent this from happening.
Earth is one of the last planets in our universe that they still control, since most others have already evolved beyond their frequency of control, and this is where they’ll make their last stand. According to Alex Collier, they are aware of this and have prepared accordingly.
Luckily, the Galactic Federation is here, and it’s ready to step and help us when the time comes. They are already heavily involved in our awakening and they are focused on helping us to achieve enlightenment.
It’s also important to know that only about half of the humans alive today have souls attached to their bodies. Since the Anunnaki decided to retreat into the shadows and let their minions rule over us (a.k.a. the “royals”), it has always been like that. The other half are human bodies, not human beings, and their purpose is to maintain the status quo — keep things as their masters want. So, even though they look just like us on the outside, they are nothing like us on the inside. They have no consciousness and no prospect of spiritual evolution. They are empty vessels, remotely controlled by the Anunnaki in accordance to their needs.
The Short Greys are some of the most underestimated aliens by the awakened community. Because they don’t have an imposing stature or a fierce appearance, we are very dismissive of them, which is a grave mistake, since they are just as dangerous as any of the above species.
The Short Greys are master geneticists and master mind controllers. They are extremely intelligent (beyond anything we can imagine), telepathic, they can manipulate matter, the space-time fabric, and they can even access multiple dimensions.
Are Aliens Demons?
Mankind’s first religions have started as dark cults of worship and ritual sacrifice, dedicated to our enslavers, who were worshiped as “gods”. Some of them, such as the physical Anunnaki, where worshiped as living gods, and all had temples dedicated to them.
Others, such as the Reptilians and the Greys, were worshiped as “gods of the underworld”. They were the ones who demanded the constant human sacrifices (especially children).
The main role of the first priests, which was to conduct these human sacrifice ceremonies and bring the fresh blood (filled with the secretion of the adrenal glands) and the still beating hearts of the victims, to their Reptilian “gods”, which would pick up these offerings from specially designed chambers that connected their world to the outside world. Often, the Reptilians would require live babies to be brought to them as well.
You have to understand that Reptilians and humans are not compatible at all, since we cannot stand the way they look or smell, and because they are cold blooded creatures, they require large amounts of external heat, which we would not be able to tolerate either.
According to alien contactees, such as Alex Collier, as well as numerous people that had Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kinds, the Reptilians give off a really bad body odor, which can be compared to rotten eggs or sulfur.
While delivering the live babies or the blood and organs of the victims, many of the priests caught glimpses of these “gods of the underworld”. Just imagine yourself being in a dark room with these massive predators, which smelled of rotten eggs.
Imagine catching a glimpse of them devouring a human baby, or listening to their screams as they fought over the fresh blood and the organs of the victims. That’s precisely how the darkest stories of the underworld started, and why priests were the ones propagating them.
And that’s also the reason why we have so many statues depicting reptilian humanoids, present day dragon statues around the world, legends of reptilian demons (including the legend of Saint George and the Dragon), as well as paintings of devils/demons that are depicted as reptilian in appearance. It’s also important to know that, at least in some languages, devil and dragon were synonymous.
So, yes, the Reptilian aliens are the ancient “demons”, “devils” and the “gods of the underground”. Also, referring to other malevolent aliens as “demons” can be accepted, since they are also intimately involved in the enslavement of our species from the very beginning.
But it is false that all aliens are demons. There are multiple benevolent species of extraterrestrials who suffered a similar fates as ours at the hands of the Reptilians and their allies, and they can truly be regarded as our Universal Family.
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Because we do! This hot, sun-filled summer has lead our garden here at Middleground farms to BOOM with fruit and vegetables. We have more produce than we know what to do with! Our tomatoes, (even after following the planting instructions to a T), grew in such abundance that they are toppling over the tomato cages and it looks more like a tomato forest than a garden.
This was our first year planting on the farm. The amount of fruit and veggies we are yielding is a pleasant and welcome surprise. Good news, our soil is clearly extremely fertile! These are all lessons to take with us for planting next year… when we’ll still be eating squash from this year.
Welcome to Fruit Heaven
Coming up on Sunday, August 9th, the Kitchen will be teaching a class completely centered on the bountiful fruit of the Willamette Valley. This is the perfect time of year to learn all about fruit preservation and how to best utilize fresh fruit in your meals! Join us for class and leave with jam-making skills, delicious fruit pie recipes, and several savory fruit options! Click here to register.
Classes for Your Young Chef
The Kitchen is excited to host a series of four classes for kids ages 8 to 13 centered on true farm-to-table cooking!
What better way to learn where food comes from than a local farm? Kids will collect eggs direct from the chicken and learn several ways to prepare them, they’ll learn how to make cheese from fresh milk, and pick fruits and vegetables straight from the garden and turn them into meals for the whole family to enjoy! Kids are encouraged to discover their own culinary talents while also learning basic kitchen skills at the same time. Help your child prepare to be the next master chef!
Camp begins Monday, August 10th through Thursday, August 13th. Classes are 9:30 am to 12:30 pm daily. Sign up here!
Our farm is growing… with “Tiny” Chickens
Okay, so they’re actually regular chickens, but our youngest farmers (twin toddler girls, Ava and Cami) have taken to calling them tiny chickens ever since we got our new flock of future egg layers. We currently have a brood of hens that provide a varied and plentiful supply of nutrtitous eggs for us here at Middleground Farms. In the late spring, we added another dozen baby chicks to our growing farm family—which already includes five goats, twenty chickens, and a llama named George. These young ladies are quickly on their way from “tiny” chickens to becoming full-on egg laying hens.
Coming soon to our farm family….pigs!
Upcoming Food Festival
Coming up in mid-September is an amazing food festival here in Portland! Feast Portland is a four-day all-out food fest for experienced foodies and hungry patrons alike. Hosting many popular chefs and restaurants from around the country, attendees of the festival can sign up to take classes from their favorite chef, taste samples of local delicacies, or enter the drink tank and learn all about the area’s many celebrated wines, beers, and other alcohols. The options are endless for Feast Portland, just be sure to come with an empty stomach!
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Cartesian Double Categories with an Emphasis on Characterizing Spans
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In this thesis, we introduce Cartesian double categories, motivated by the work of Carboni, Kelly, Walters, and Wood on Cartesian bicategories. Moving from bicategories to the slightly more generalized notion of double categories allows us to set the whole theory inside the welcoming 2-category of double categories, and to overcome technical problems that were caused by working with left adjoints inside a general bicategory. Cartesian double categories that are also fibrant are of particular interest to us. After describing some important properties of Cartesian and fibrant double categories, we give a characterization of the double category of Spans as a Cartesian double category. Lastly, we talk about profunctors and give a potential framework for their characterization as Cartesian double categories. | <urn:uuid:1babe299-3dbb-4be9-9203-23e60cd63db9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dalspace-dev.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/74133 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.883598 | 189 | 1.5625 | 2 |
We know that not all students thrive or reach their full potential in a traditional comprehensive school. The CCUSD iAcademy offers a blended learning model that incorporates both online and offline learning experiences. The goal is to accommodate different student needs, interests, and learning styles, while honoring the unique needs of our community.
This presentation will provide an overview of the web-based programs that will serve students in grades kindergarten through 12th-grade. These include: a comprehensive home schooling curriculum for grades K-12; World Languages for K-12, High School AP courses, and High School Credit Recovery.
6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, September 12, 2013
6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, October 3, 2013
6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, October 17, 2013
CCUSD iAcademy is located between Farragut Elementary School and the Culver City Middle School at 4601 Elenda Street – in Culver Park Annex Room 6 (building closest to Farragut) – in Culver City.
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HERAT -- Afghans are prepared to vote this Saturday (October 20) to choose their representatives for the next Wolesi Jirga (the lower house of parliament).
More than 2,500 candidates contesting for 249 seats campaigned for 20 days between from September 28 and October 17 followed by a two-day silent period before the vote. Candidates are not allowed to campaign two days before election day, according to the elections law.
The Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) have prepared a plan based on which security will be provided to nearly 5,100 polling stations across the country.
Ghazni and Kandahar are the only two provinces that will not have elections due to security concerns and will be held at a later date yet to be scheduled.
President Ashraf Ghani, with a request from the Independent Election Commission (IEC), postponed elections in Kandahar Friday (October 19) for at least one week after the provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq was killed in a shooting, Ghani's office said in a statement Friday.
The IEC would announce a new date for elections in Kandahar, said the statement.
Nearly 9 million Afghans, including 3.5 million women, have registered to vote on Saturday. In Herat Province alone, around 550,000 people have registered to cast their ballots.
The IEC has given credentials to at least 18 civil society organisations, 28 political parties and 36 media outlets in order to monitor the electoral process.
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By Anna Nguyen,
Japan is one of the most powerful countries in the world as it is the third largest economy, following the United States of America and China. Despite its high ranking regarding their financial status, Japan ranks low in the Global Gender Equality Ranking of the World Economic Forum (121st out of 153 countries). It is surprising to see a developed country amongst the lowest places regarding gender equality in this era. Nonetheless, there have been efforts to eliminate it but the Japanese leadership still has a more conservative point of view regarding the matter. Thus, a new five-year gender equality plan was drafted in the end of December because the desirable target was not reached by the end of 2020.
The most recent attempt to empower women in Japan was firstly introduced in 2013 by the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe under the “Womenomics” policy. The aim was to promote more women to get into the workforce and more specifically in government’s positions. It is worth-mentioning that the Japanese are strongly influenced by the Confucian tradition which emphasizes gender norms and division. Thus, this new policy was quite progressive for them regardless of the criticism that Japan faced by international organizations that fought for gender equality. Precisely, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed their unease regarding Japan’s family system. The fact that the women’s empowering policy was introduced by the Prime Minister encouraged a public discussion about the reasons why women are underrepresented in the Japanese workforce. The most common reason was that the Japanese culture sees very highly of the family values meaning that individuals are expected to put their families’ interests above their personal ones. Therefore, women are anticipated to take care of their families and their houses and resign of their career aspirations.
Due to the fact that the target was not reached, the Japanese government, under the leadership of Mr. Yoshihide Suga, drafted a new plan on late December. The new plan urges for a new society that will not be gender biased by the 2030s. It was disappointing for the Japanese when the initial target of 30 percent of the workforce to be represented by women was not reached, as some people were expecting taking into account the Japanese’s bond to traditions and customs. One of the suggestions included in the plan is the legal revision of the capability of married couples to have different surnames since Japan is one of the fewest countries in the world that does not allow the latter. However, in 2015 the Japanese Court rejected such initiative and stated that “the family system is rooted in the history and culture of each country and international comparisons which ignore it are meaningless”. It is believed that letting women maintain their maiden names can facilitate their career’s evolution while having to change their surnames hinders their success. Nonetheless, the revision of this provision should be carefully examined as such change might have an impact on the sense of family unity. This issue has ignited a tense debate between the ruling party of Japan and the opposition party which stands as an obstacle in the progress of the eradication of the gap between the two genders. Even the Prime Minister who initially showed his support publicly, in an interview on December asked to “take things slowly” regarding this matter seeing his party almost split because of it. Eventually, the plan of the goal’s postponement was adopted in late December but the proposition about the surnames after marriage are still under discussion.
Japan is one of the most advanced and powerful countries in the world and is admired by other countries, still has its flaws and one of them is about the issue of gender equality. Generally, women are underrepresented in the Japanese workforce and especially in the Japanese government. Mr. Suga’s cabinet of 24 members, includes only 2 female ministers. Japan is aware that the target of 30 percent is far from being achieved but are still trying. However, in order to reach any related target, traditions and values have to be re-examined, which is a difficult task to fulfill. It shall not be forgotten that Japan, and Asia in general, sees highly of family values and are somehow more patriarchic. Therefore, this case refers to a radical change of the values’ foundation of the Japanese culture, a process that will take time to finish. Hence, gender equality in Japan is once again postponed.
Garcia, G. (2020). 6 years after Japan launched its “Womenomics” policy is it working? Available here.
Siripala, T. (2020). Japan’s new gender equality policy takes a step back. Available here.
The Japan Times. (2020) Opposition party pushing divided LDP over separate surnames in Japan. Available here.
The Japan Times. (2020). From bad to worse: Japan slides 11 places to 121st in global gender equality ranking. Available here.
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A: Is there any water in the refrigerator?
A: Where? I don’t see it.
B: In the cells of the eggplant.1
Was “there is water in the refrigerator” true?
We can use systematic rationality more effectively—in science, engineering, management, and policy—by investigating this question, and the problems and opportunities that exploration reveals.
What do “truth” and “belief” mean? That sounds like a typical ivory-tower philosophical puzzle. Most such questions can’t be answered, and “correct” answers, if they existed, wouldn’t make any practical difference. However, wrong ideas about “truth” and “belief” have large practical consequences, so getting a better understanding is important.
In practical terms, the meanings of “truth” and “belief” seem obvious enough. The sentence “HIV causes AIDS” is true because its meaning corresponds to reality: HIV does cause AIDS. Believing it means that you think the world is that way.
Rationalists may describe rationalism as a commitment to trying to believe only true statements. Irrationalists and anti-rationalists dismiss truth: either because true facts contradict their ideological agendas, or out of plain ignorance. Meta-rationalism defends “truth” against irrationalists, but rejects “truth” as misunderstood by rationalists.
Believing true things matters. “HIV causes AIDS” is true, and figuring that out saved tens of millions of lives. Some politicians, religious leaders, and “alternative medicine” advocates said they “didn’t believe” HIV causes AIDS. On that basis, they blocked HIV prevention and treatment, causing hundreds of thousands of horrible, unnecessary deaths.
Near the end of this book, we’ll find that the sense in which “HIV causes AIDS” is true is more complex, strange, mysterious, interesting, and consequential than you’d probably think. I’ll explain the relevant biology in detail—and I suspect you will be surprised! There are practical public health consequences to the unexpected sense in which “HIV causes AIDS” is true.
So… was there water in the refrigerator?
The answer can only be “It depends on who is asking, and why.” In what sense is “yes” true or false?
“In what sense?” is a characteristically meta-rational question. “Yes, there is water: in the cells of the eggplant” is true in some sense—probably not a useful one, although that depends on the asker’s purpose and the context. (Maybe they are going to clean the fridge with a chemical that would react violently with even the water in the cells of the eggplant.) It’s false in another, probably more relevant sense: something to drink.
Rational methods are often the best way to find truth. Recovering accurate, effective senses of “truth,” “belief,” and “rationality” requires major re-thinking, and much of The Eggplant is about that.
Our aim is not to undermine truth, to declare that it is “socially constructed” and therefore a matter of arbitrary tribal opinion, but to rescue it by giving a more detailed and accurate understanding than is possible in the rationalist framework.
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Abstract: The present study investigated fear-potentiated startle and autonomic learning in brain-lesioned patients in a classical fear-conditioning paradigm. Startle blink and skin conductance responses of 30 patients who underwent unilateral temporal lobectomy because of drug-resistant epilepsy were compared with those of 32 healthy controls. As expected, temporal lobectomy patients showed a general impairment in fear conditioning relative to controls. This impairment did not differ with respect to the affected hemisphere. Moreover, while fear-conditioned startle potentiation in healthy controls was independent of contingency awareness, skin conductance discrimination was only observed for those participants who correctly recognized the stimulus contingencies. Patients who acquired a declarative memory of the contingencies also showed intact skin conductance discrimination but failed to exhibit fear-potentiated startle. The present findings support a two-levels-of-learning account of human fear conditioning and also demonstrate that the amygdala is crucially involved in fear learning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) (from the journal abstract)
Keywords: fear conditioning; unilateral temporal lobectomy; conditioned startle potentiation; autonomic learning; brain lesions; skin conductance responses; startle blink responses; drug resistant epilepsy; Conditioned Fear; Epilepsy; Psychosurgery; Startle Reflex; Autonomic Nervous System; Eyeblink Reflex; Skin Resistance; Treatment Resistant Disorders
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Frankfort KY is a short drive from Butler County.
Architecture, American History, and Amusement: A day trip to Frankfort Kentucky.
May 9, 2021 at 7:36 p.m.
Daytrip: Destination: Frankfort, Kentucky.
As Spring fades into Summer and local schools take summer breaks, families across Butler County will begin to explore sites and cities located nearby. This week, in our day trips from the Butler County Connect series, we travel to the state capital of Kentucky, Frankfort Kentucky.
This sleepy little Kentucky city boasts a population of slightly over twenty-five thousand people. Founded in 1792, Frankfort was named after Stephen Frank. Mr. Frank was killed by the Indians as he was making salt near a ford on the Kentucky River. Over time the name morphed from Frankford to the name we call Kentucky’s capital city today, Frankfort.
Kentucky State Capitol building. Photo credit E. Todd Fowler
A trip to Frankfort Kentucky would not be complete without taking a walk around and touring the inside of the state capitol building. After five years of construction, in 1910, the Beaux-Arts architecture style grand structure was dedicated and opened to the public. The building houses all three branches of the Kentucky state government. The grounds and landscaping are maintained with impeccable attention to detail. While near the Capitol building be sure to walk by the east lawn, and view the Kentucky Governor's mansion. Both buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Kentucky Governor's Mansion. Located on the east lawn of the Capitol grounds. Photo credit public domain.
The Frankfort Cemetery is the final resting place of Daniel and Rebecca Boone, seventeen former Kentucky governors, and a vice president. The Kentucky Military Memorial is a notable monument located in the cemetery. This monument pays homage to Kentucky’s war heroes. The view from Daniel and Rebecca Boone’s gravesite encompasses all of Frankfort. A stop at the historic gravesite is a must for all first-time visitors.
Frankfort Cemetery gravesite of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. Photo credit E. Todd Fowler
It takes about two hours to drive to Frankfort. The city is full of historical markers making it easy to learn the rich American history Kentucky is known for from the comfort of your vehicle. There are city parks, local museums, and a quaint downtown area to stroll and enjoy. There is plenty to do and see while in Frankfort Kentucky. | <urn:uuid:afe5b118-215a-42a7-8062-0d9c9b5b90d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.butlercountyconnect.com/news/2021/may/09/architecture-american-history-and-amusement-a-day-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941994 | 511 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Triple-digit heat index forecast for Montgomery County
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Montgomery County and most of Middle Tennessee are under a triple-digit heat index warning through at least Wednesday.
The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat alert early Monday morning that will continue through Wednesday afternoon.
According to the alert, the heat index for the area “will climb into the 100-105 degree range each afternoon ... through Wednesday” as “an upper level ridge builds into the area.”
The Salvation Army at 210 Kraft St. has said it will open its doors for use as a cooling shelter during the week if the heat index climbs over 100 degrees.
The NWS also warns that there won’t be much relief overnight this week, with the overnight lows not falling below the mid-70s on Tuesday and Wednesdays mornings in many areas, “especially” west of the Cumberland Plateau.
Middle Tennessee residents are urged by the NWS to take precautions against heat-related illnesses if they have to be outside Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
“Drink plenty of fluids and seek shade whenever possible. Also, remember that temperatures can soar inside vehicles — beat the heat, check the backseat,” the NWS alert warned.
Given the recent extreme heat conditions across the state, the American Red Cross also has issued a reminder for Tennesseans to stay safe when the temperatures rise.
The Red Cross suggests people:
•Never leave children or pets alone in a vehicle.
•Slow down, take frequent breaks and drink more water than usual.
•Wear loose, light clothing.
•Take frequent breaks and use the buddy system if working outdoors.
•Check on family, friends and neighbors who might be more likely to be affected by heat.
•Bring animals indoors if possible, or at least ensure they have adequate shade, airflow and water.
Additionally, the Humane Society has several tips and suggestions for pet owners to keep their furry friends safe and healthy in the summer heat, including:
•Watch the humidity, as high humidity makes it difficult for animals to cool themselves down.
•Limit pet exercise on hot days.
•Don’t rely on fans to cool pets off, as animals respond to heat differently than humans.
•Add ice to your animal’s water when possible.
•Keep an eye out for signs of heatstroke, such as heavy panting, glazed eyes, rapid heartbeat, difficult breathing, lethargy, lack of coordination, profuse salivation or vomiting, and a deep red or purple tongue.
Counties included in the heat alert are: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, De Kalb, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Macon, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Overton, Perry, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson and Wilson.
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Representational Picture shows Chhou dancers of Saraikela-Kharsawan district in Jharkhand,India
Ambassador to India Richard R.Verma on Wednesday opined that tourism is equally critical to India’s economy and Prime Minister Modi’s goal of creating jobs for the nearly one million Indians who enter the workforce every month.
Referring to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)’s organised event,he said that the travel and tourism sector contributed $120 billion or 6.3% to India’s GDP, which supported approximately 37 million jobs.
“If the right investments are made, tourism has the potential to support 46 million jobs in India by 2025”,said the U.S. Ambassador to India at Hotel Hyatt in New Delhi while speaking on “Deepening People to people Ties:Tourism in U.S.-India Relations”.
The event was organised by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce(IACC).He thanked IACC for taking the initiative to organise it recognising the importance of travel and tourism between the U.S. and India not only as an economic engine,but as a key facilitator of people-to-people ties.The event was attended among others by Additional Secretary UP Singh, Mr. Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, Isabel Hill from the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office. | <urn:uuid:b49da698-d3fa-42d1-8f8d-b23de8c4158d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jharkhandstatenews.com/article/top-stories/1061/tourism-can-back-46-million-jobs-in-india-by-2025-says-u-s-ambassador | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942989 | 296 | 1.710938 | 2 |
▲ Moorim Paper, a company known for environment-friendly paper manufacturing will host an event that hands out DIY potted plants to mark Arbor Day.
The completely biodegradable potted plant kit uses natural moss contained in a pulp mold to encourage people to have a more tactile experience in thinking about nature.
Moorim Paper, a company specializing in environment-friendly paper manufacturing (CEO Dogyun Lee) will hold an event that hands out ‘Neoforet DIY Biodegradable Potted Plant Kit’ for free.
The event of handing out potted plants on Arbor Day in April has been an annual event for several years now, with each year featuring a special theme such as ‘plants that purify fine dust particles in the air’ or ‘environment-friendly paper pots for plants’. The event has given citizens much joy in caring for plants as well as raising awareness of the preciousness of nature, and has become one of the leading tree or plant-related events by Moorim.
This year’s event features the Neoforet DIY Biodegradable Potted Plant Kit’ with a ‘topiary pot’ that gives you a chance to touch natural moss with your hands to make the experience more tactile.
Of particular note is the fact that all components of the kit, from the packaging to the pulp mold container are made of biodegradable, environment-friendly paper. The pulp mold and paper, made by Moorim, have also received official certification from FSC.
A whimsical touch has also been added to cheer up spirits that have been downtrodden due to the pandemic. Various ornaments have been included in the kit to allow each owner to create a potted plant of one’s own.
The free give-away of Neoforet DIY biodegradable potted plant kits will continue throughout April 22. Those who wish to receive a kit can submit their application online through the brand page of Neoforet, Moorim’s brand for environment-friendly paper: www.neoforet.co.kr. A total of 300 participants will be chosen through a raffle and receive one kit each via post. | <urn:uuid:dce56e7d-4358-40e1-81bf-31c172f05f77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moorim.co.kr:13002/bbs/board.php?tbl=monews_en&mode=VIEW&num=22&chr=eng&category=&findType=&findWord=&sort1=&sort2=&page=1&conarea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952027 | 461 | 1.726563 | 2 |
In class on Monday evening, the discussion of discrimination and harassment focused primarily on race. One colleague did briefly bring up sexism, speaking about how she is often complimented on her appearance and dress, while males in her lab are complimented on their performance. While I have no answer for overcoming racism, sexism, ageism, etc. after Tim Wise’s presentation on 11/2/15 I’ve been thinking about the role of humor in bringing attention – and possibly change – to these issues.
The first example I have seen recently is a movement called #CoverTheAthlete. It’s purpose is to get media outlets to treat female athletes in a manner similar to their male counterparts, rather than focusing on their looks and love life. To get their point across, the group asked male athletes questions which are commonly posed to female athletes. Watch for yourself!
The second example is a parody account on Twitter called @manwhohasitall: “Top tips for men juggling a successful career and fatherhood.” This account turns advice given to women (sometimes exaggerated) around to be directed at men in order to make the point for how ridiculous it seems. It also re-frames common quotes about women in the workplace to be about men.
What do you think – Will humor help, hurt, or do nothing to help decrease various -icisms?
The article goes on to provide an overview of Mr. Alda’s acting career and long-held interest in science. In recent years these two aspects of his identity have merged together with the formation of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. The mission of this center is to use theater improv. techniques to train scientists to better communicate their work with people outside of their discipline. I agree wholeheartedly that this is important to do. However, I disagree with the notion which often emerges that ‘if someone doesn’t understand what an expert is saying, it’s because the person talking/teaching/etc didn’t explain it well enough’. Just because we don’t ‘get something’, doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t explained well, our teacher isn’t good, or so on. It just means we don’t get it! Could it have been explained differently? Possibly. But, perhaps we just don’t have enough knowledge at the time to fully understand the information presented. At a surface level, we can likely appreciate and comprehend the work of another researcher, or at least understand why it is important, just as young Alan could describe a flame and its properties. Can we understand the nuances of an experts’ work? Highly unlikely. Not because they did not explain it well, but because we don’t have much, if any, education in that area.
It seems that may have been the case with 11 year old Alan’s inquiry about a flame. At the end of this article the reporter asks how he would now answer his own question of “What is a flame?”. Mr. Alan’s response: “It’s oxidation, actually”.
Tomorrow night in the Preparing the Future Professoriate class we are participating in a “Communicating Science” workshop. While this workshop will focus on improvisation games to increase oral communication skills, another area for science communication I believe is important is via social media. Here are a few:
1. Communication is your responsibility. Who is the ultimate “consumer” of your research? For many of us, if we get down to it, the ultimate mission of our work is to positively impact people in some way. Unfortunately, researchers rarely communicate the findings of their work to the lay population. Manuscripts published in traditional scientific journals are often locked behind paywalls. Those that are freely available via Open Access platforms and publishers are still rarely accessible since the discipline specific jargon is a barrier for anyone not in that specific field.
2. It’s where the people are. Especially young people. About half of young Americans get their news from…Facebook. Yup, Facebook! I heard someone (I forget who now) say, “If you’re trying to communicate, but you’re not on social media, you’re like a tree falling in an empty forest – yes, you’re making noise, but no one is listening”. So get on-line and get in to the conversation!
3. Unqualified people are the go to source. Not to name names on this one, but folks with a large social media presence tend to be used frequently as a source for nutrition information [my field], despite lack of qualifications and accuracy of information. I imagine this is the case in other disciplines as well. Scientists need to be out there on these social media networks to help spread accurate information and correct misconceptions.
4. Increase the spread of your research.The more your work is promoted via social media channels, the greater the likelihood of it: being shared with those who will benefit from the findings; picked up by media sources; and cited by other scientists. And really, who among us doesn’t want to increase our h-index?
Personally, I’m drawn to Twitter as my main channel for communicating research and nutrition/exercise information via social media. This is partly because of the brevity of this channel (combined w/ my current lack of time to blog more about my field) and ability to link to outside content. However, the primary reason I utilize Twitter is because the majority of conversations on food, diet, health, and nutrition topics occur on Twitter. Therefore, for my field, using Twitter makes the most sense.
What social media channel is the most heavily utilized in your field of study? Do you have accounts you regularly maintain for professional purposes on social media channels? If not, what hesitations do you have about doing so?
In theory, I agree with the concept of the “Open Access” movement. In reality, this push for open access seems to have resulted in an exponential increase in predatory journals and publishers. One just needs to look at the history of Beall’s List to see this in action. In only 5 years, the number of potential possible, or probably predatory scholarly open-access publishers has increased from 18 in 2011 to 693 as of this past January. Furthermore, in just 3 years, the list of potential, possible, or probably predatory scholarly open-access journals has increased from 126 in 2011 to 507 as of this past January.
For our Open Access Journal blog prompt, I selected one from Beall’s list. The International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences (IJFANS), sounds scholarly enough, and would likely not seem suspect to the general public. It may very well be legitimate, but since it is on Beall’s list, that is concerning.
Where Is the Journal From?:The Editor in Chief of the IJFANS is a professor at the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. The Managing, Associate, and Assistant Editors are all from institutions in India. I looked up the Editor in Chief from the University of Oslo, and he does indeed work at this institution. However, when I searched for the Managing Editor, my computer gave me a scary-looking warning and emitted a loud and startling beeping noise warning me to NOT proceed to the webpage. This was concerning, so I stopped my investigation of the editorial board there! More over, the managing editor has only 3 publications which are indexed on PubMed, which further increases my doubts about this open access journal.
What are the Purpose, Goals, and Scope of the Journal?: The Aim & Hope of the IJFANS is…“To publish research articles in rapidly developing field of Food Sciences and Clinical Nutrition… Aim of IJFANS is to publish review and research articles in rapidly developing field of Food Sciences and Clinical Nutrition…The journal aims to cover the latest outstanding developments in the field of Food Sciences and Clinical Nutrition specifically in their respective following branches.”
How Does the Journal Address/Explain Open Access? How (if at all) does it position itself within the open access movement?:“This journal is an online journal having full access to the published review and research papers. Manuscripts submitted to the editor are first reviewed by journal’s reviewer and, if necessary, by other experts. All review and research articles will be subject to thorough and fair review by the Editors….As this is an open access journal and if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors has to pay US dollar $100 or Euro 80 (Foreign Authors) or Rs. 3500 (Indian Authors) per article towards processing and publishing may be intimated within one week from the date of manuscript submission. The modes of fee payment will also be intimated in the acceptance letter”
Basically, this journal only briefly addresses the Open Access portion. Apparently, so long as you pay, your article can be published within a week of submission. This is a prime example of the downside to the push for open access, more predatory journals! Several times a week I get email solicitations to submit papers for publication in these open access journals. While I recognize them as being predatory thanks to VT librarians presenting on this topic in my department seminar, I worry that other researchers may not be aware of this trend. In addition, I’m concerned that the public will not distinguish between high-quality open access journals and those which are predatory.
What experiences with predatory journals do you have?
For our assignment to blog about a case of research misconduct listed on the Office of Research Integrity‘s website, I selected a case from 2012 in which former University of Kentucky researcher, Eric J. Smart was found to have falsified and fabricated data included in several manuscripts and grant applications. Through their investigation, ORI determined that in many of the reports, Dr. Smart presented data from mice that never existed in the laboratory at the time the research was supposedly conducted. What I find most intriguing about this is that Dr. Smart was not the sole author of these manuscripts. Several individuals share authorship, yet others listed appear to still have their jobs. While specifics of the investigation were not available, I wonder why other people listed as authors were seemingly not involved with the data collection (aka the lack thereof) to call out this out, as well as why they were not punished as well.
More concerning than the individual cases of research misconduct are the implications for the fields of study as a whole. For instance, the papers which were retracted following the 2012 closing of the investigation were primarily published in the early 2000s. That is 12 years of this data potentially being cited as correct and having implications for medical practice and additional research questions. Furthermore, it is likely that research dollars were wasted in an attempt to replicate the findings of this group without success. While sanctions need to occur when research misconduct is detected, arguably more important is the creation of procedures which prevent deceit from occurring in the first place.
What policies and procedures are in place in your lab group or department which limit the chance of research misconduct occurring?
In addition to being a PhD candidate, I am first and foremost a Registered Dietitian. As such, I have agreed to abide by the Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics set forth by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This code consists of 19 principles, grouped in to 5 categories: Fundamental Principles; Responsibilities to the Public; Responsibilities to Clients; Responsibilities to the Profession; and Responsibilities to Colleagues and Other Professionals.
Like most documents guiding ethical conduct I have come across, upon reading the Code Of Ethics for my profession, it is easy to endorse and agree that they should be followed. However, in practice, there is a lot of gray area between “right” and “wrong”. This can lead to confusion and disagreement regarding the course of action which should be taken. For example, consider this case study (obtained from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Ethics Resource page) specific to the dietetics field:
A skilled long-term facility patient with severe dementia tells a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) that she no longer wants to be fed via her gastrostomy feeding tube. She has no advanced directive. The resident’s daughter wants her mother to be fed. What is the RDN’s role in this situation and what should be done?
Even without being in my field, I am certain most of you will realize the potential issues (both ethical and legal) involved, and appreciate the challenge of applying the Code of Ethics in this situation.
Principle #12 states: “The dietetics practitioner practices dietetics based on evidence-based principles and current information”. I’ll assume the RD followed this principle while making the initial recommendation for feeding tube placement and use. However, Principle #9 states, “The dietetics practitioner treats clients and patients with respect and consideration”. This principle is further clarified by:
a. The dietetics practitioner provides sufficient information to enable clients and others to make their own informed decisions.
b. The dietetics practitioner respects the client’s right to make decisions regarding the recommended plan of care, including consent, modification, or refusal.
Thus, while continuing with the feeding tube is likely the most evidence-based decision for the client’s nutritional status and overall health, the RD must also take the patient’s wish and quality of life/comfort in to consideration. Further complicating the issue: the resident has severe dementia, so may not be viewed as capable of making this decision for herself; and no advance directives are available.
In this case we see a clashing of the principles listed in the Code of Ethics. There is not a clear answer about how the RD, along with the rest of the medical team and the patient’s family should proceed.
I bring this situation up not to ask you to evaluate it and determine what you would do, but rather to provide one of many real-world examples in which applying professional Codes of Ethics is not straightforward.
I’d love to hear about similar shades of gray in your fields as they relate to your ethical obligations.
It seems the case that faculty are often put in a position where they are expected to be a jack of all trades and a master at each. Certainly an ambitious and unattainable goal given the multitude of responsibilities faculty (particularly those with dual research and teaching roles at institutions like Virginia Tech) face. The reading about Dr. Bonnie C. Yankaskas fighting demotion after a data security breach associated with Unit 2 in our Preparing the Future Professoriate class brought to light an unfortunate case study where requiring faculty to be experts in (seemingly) everything is potentially problematic. The write-up doesn’t provide enough information for a true judgement call to be made about the degree to which this researcher and others involved should each be held accountable for a hacker accessing research study files that contained personal identifying data of participants, and likely all are partially responsible. However, as principal investigator, the ultimate responsibility for everything related to a study does fall on her. To me, this seems unfair that researchers should also be expected to be IT experts as well, and that perhaps more indirect funds should be allocated to funding research-related IT personnel.
Thoughts? How is data security handled in your respective labs?
I have to admit that I get annoyed with the faculty bashing that seems to occur, and in my opinion, started to surface in last week’s class. The view of many seemed to be that good researchers tend to neglect their teaching responsibilities and not put time in to their courses and students. While that may be true for some professors, I doubt it represents the majority of faculty juggling significant teaching and research loads.
A study out of Boise State (an institution classified as a doctoral university) found that faculty spend a majority of their time teaching and in meetings. A much smaller amount of time that we likely expect is spent on research-related tasks.
As someone who has been fortunate enough to teach my own courses during my time as a PhD student, I can attest to how time consuming it can be. Class sessions need to be developed, tweaked, and delivered several times a week; assignments need to be graded and reviewed; and student emails and meetings attended to. These deadlines are consistent and immediate. This tends to result in research-related tasks being pushed to the back-burner (or even moved totally off of the figurative ‘stove’).
While there will certainly always be room for improving teaching skills (and research abilities!), my wish is that as future faculty we work to acknowledge and appreciate the time professors put in to teaching (often at the expense of their research responsibilities), rather than bashing faculty we believe did not do us justice when we were students in their courses. For those holding this view that researchers do not devote enough time and effort to teaching, I imagine it will change once you get experience on the other side of the desk!
Agree? Disagree? I’d up for dialoging on this topic!
I started reading the book Academic Duty by Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University. He begins by describing Academic Duty as the counterpart to “Academic Freedom” – which traditionally refers to the “insulation of professors and their institutions from political interference”. While I see the importance of this, particularly in the past, this is not how I would have defined academic freedom if given the chance.
So, how would I define it? Well, I would probably first, jokingly (though, not really joking) repeat a line I heard a faculty member tell me once.“Academic freedom is the flexibility to decide which 90 hours a week you work”. And seemingly, I am not alone in having my initial thought be related to the often loose and undefined start and stop point of working. Dr. Kennedy goes on to write that “Indeed, academic freedom connotes loose structure and minimal interference. There are no time clocks and few regulations about the direction of effort or even about the locations at which it is to take place”.
Perhaps this seemingly “easy life” of working when you want and sometimes from where you want is what draws some people in, and makes some students enroll in doctoral programs. Undoubtedly, like in any similar field, some people will take advantage of this and actually work very little. However, I perceive those as being the minority of faculty members. More often than not, academe seems to be full of passionate, intrinsically motivated, “do-ers”. So while we may spend a day working in our pajamas from home (umm…welcome to every Sunday of my life…okay, and a few Tuesdays thrown in for good measure!), we usually are working much more than folks on the outside of the ‘ivory tower’ would think. Beyond that, when I think of life as a faculty member, I am drawn to the quote, “To Whom Much is Given, Much is Expected”. With this freedom, comes a whole lot of responsibility (or “duty” as Dr. Kennedy prefers to call it). But, that is a topic for another blog (or several).
How would you define “academic freedom”? Is this part of what drew you in to higher education to begin with?
My undergraduate education took me from Massachusetts out to the University of Wyoming – a land grant institute, and the only 4-year university in the state. Without several in-state universities or professional sports teams competing for the affection and loyalty of residents, there was strong support for, and pride in the University nestled in Laramie, WY. Despite the massive land area of the state, the connection to being “Cowboy Tough”, having “Poke Pride”, and a “Get ‘Er Done” attitude united everyone. In turn, the University was also committed to serving the residents and taking care of the beautiful, wide open spaces and jagged mountain peaks that make up landscape of Wyoming. While some mission statements seem to be just documents no one pays much attention to, at the University of Wyoming, themission statement(last updated in 2009) seems to be embraced and acted upon daily from the administration and extension agents, to the faculty and students.
University of Wyoming Mission Statement (March 2009)
The University of Wyoming aspires to be one of the nation’s finest public land-grant research universities. We serve as a statewide resource for accessible and affordable higher education of the highest quality; rigorous scholarship; technology transfer; economic and community development; and responsible stewardship of our cultural, historical, and natural resources.
In the exercise of our primary mission to promote learning, we seek to provide academic and co-curricular opportunities that will:
Expose students to the frontiers of scholarship and creative activity and the complexities of an interdependent world;
Ensure individual interactions among students, faculty, and staff;
Nurture an environment that values and manifests diversity, free expression, academic freedom, personal integrity, and mutual respect; and
Promote opportunities for personal growth, physical health, athletic competition, and leadership development for all members of the university community.
As Wyoming’s only university, we are committed to outreach and service that extend our human talent and technological capacity to serve the people in our communities, our state, the nation, and the world.
While I don’t recall ever actually reading this Mission Statement until this assignment for the Preparing the Future Professoriate Course at Virginia Tech, based on my 5 years there, I would have correctly identified several components of it! The feature that most sticks out to me is the dedication to the primary mission of educating students (and in an affordable manner!). There were stickers that faculty and administrators often had displayed in their office saying “Students: The Reason We’re Here”. Supporting that primary mission is a dedication to research, outreach, and service – with a specific emphasis on responsible stewardship of natural resources.
As I apply for postdoctoral research training positions and faculty jobs, I think that I would be very happy ending up in a land grant institution like Wyoming (and Virginia Tech). However, I am also eager to see what other options exist and am considering research specific institutions as well. This assignment related to Mission Statements came at a perfect time for me as examining the Mission Statements may help educate me as to the environment and culture that could be experienced at a research-intensive campus. To compare what I know (land grants in small towns), with what I only have a small taste of (research universities in a more urban environment; e.g.- time spent at the University of Houston) I sought out the Mission Statement for theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham– one of the places I am investigating for postdoc training. Since I haven’t yet stepped foot on UAB’s campus, I can’t speak to if and how their mission statement is embodied and expressed.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Mission Statement
UAB’s vision is to be an internationally renowned research university — a first choice for education and health care.
UAB’s mission is to be a research university and academic health center that discovers, teaches and applies knowledge for the intellectual, cultural, social and economic benefit of Birmingham, the state and beyond.
In the past year, UAB has produced groundbreaking discoveries and innovations, delivering on our promise of “knowledge that will change your world.” Our overarching mission pillars embody our commitment to educate, advance research and discovery, care for the sick, respond to the needs of our community and use knowledge to establish Alabama as a progressive economic center that can change the world. We are investing in mission-critical infrastructure and institution-wide initiatives that under-gird the support of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community. Every school and department is identifying top priorities and actively collaborating to achieve them. We are aligning our greatest strengths for the benefit of UAB, Birmingham, Alabama, and beyond.
Overarching Mission Pillars
I Provide education that prepares diverse students to lead, teach, provide professional services and become the prominent scholars and societal leaders of the future.
II Pursue research that benefits society, delivers new treatments and cures for serious diseases, spurs innovation and expands UAB’s capability to continually discover and share new knowledge.
III Deliver the highest quality patient care that reflects our ability to translate discoveries into revolutionary therapies in one of the nation’s largest academic medical centers.
IV Encourage partnerships that improve education, health, economic prosperity and quality of life through service at home and around the globe.
V Foster and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship that contributes to the economic development and prosperity of the city of Birmingham, the state of Alabama and beyond.
The thing that sticks out to me in this mission statement, which clearly differs from Wyoming, is that the primary mission and overarching vision are to be a top-notch research institution and academic health center. This is expected as I knew they were different institutions from the onset. Other notable features of UAB’s mission statement is the focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. Furthermore, while providing education is a priority to both institutions, the nuances differ. UAB seeks to educate diverse students who will go on to contribute to the university’s main missions of research and providing world-class medical care, while Wyoming is focused on providing primarily undergraduate education. The biggest similarities between the two mission statements is that both institutions seem devoted to connecting with -and improving – their local community and state. As someone who loves participating in community service work, this similarity makes me feel confident that [should I move to Birmingham] I will be able to put the knowledge I have and work I do to use in my immediate surroundings through programs and events UAB is involved in.
I’m curious – have you been a student at, or worked at institutions of higher education which differ in their “label” [e.g. – small liberal arts vs. community college vs. whatever]? If so, how were their different purposes and missions seen and felt on campus? What similarities did you find between them? | <urn:uuid:2eb2820b-59c5-49e1-a8f9-50e9a42c3bdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/gedivts13/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958768 | 5,478 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A large observational study published in CNS Drugs sheds light on serious adverse effects of the ‘gold standard’ antipsychotic Clozapine. Researchers reviewed reports submitted over a 22-year span of patients on Clozapine reporting Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility (CIGH).
“Clozapine’s advantages come at a cost, with an array of problematic adverse effects of which CIGH is on of the most serious,” the researchers write.
Clozapine is currently the ‘gold-standard’ for people diagnosed with “treatment-resistant Schizophrenia.” However, this drug comes with numerous side-effects. Among many others, one side effect previously reported by MIA includes the development of a stutter, which can be eliminated with a reduction in dose of the drug or by increasing dosages in smaller increments. The authors of the present study focus on clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility (CIGH) defined as “. . . an acquired state of delayed transit through the gastrointestinal tract . . . Resulting from the drug’s pharmacological actions on the nervous system”.
Previous studies have demonstrated that clozapine “. . . Has potent effects on the mammalian colon, inhibiting neurogenic and, at higher concentrations, myogenic contractions, profoundly disrupting gastrointestinal motility.” Further, between 50-80% of clozapine-treated patients have unambiguous evidence of CIGH.
From the period of 1992-2013, all reports of CIGH were examined to identify demographics, risk factors, and outcomes related to serious of life-threatening CIGH and to calculate the proportion of clozapine prescribed patients reported as having CIGH-type adverse drug reaction (ADR). Data were extracted from the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre and the Australian TGA. The study aimed to identify cases where clozapine was the causal element impacting the development of severe gastrointestinal hypomotility events. Data were analyzed for the variables age, gender, clozapine dose at onset of symptoms, duration of clozapine treatment before onset of CIGH, symptom onset date, clinical details of presentation, outcome and treatment, and other medications.
A total of 160 patients were included and were categorized as non-fatal cases (n= 131) and fatal cases (n = 29). ADR’s reported included: constipation (non-fatal = 62, fatal = 8), gastrointestinal hypomotility (non-fatal = 4, fatal = 0), fecal impaction (non-fatal = 13, fatal = 3), Ileus (non-fatal = 5, fatal = 3), paralytic ileus (non-fatal = 14, fatal = 1), Ogilvie syndrome (non-fatal = 2, fatal = 0), small bowel obstruction (non-fatal = 9, fatal = 1), pseudo small bowel obstruction (non-fatal = 1, fatal = 0), large bowel obstruction (non-fatal = 0, fatal = 1), intestinal obstruction (non-fatal = 54, fatal = 8), intestinal ischemia (non-fatal = 5, fatal = 5), megacolon (non-fatal = 8, fatal = 3), bowel perforation (non-fatal = 5, fatal= 6). Moreover, 42 (26%) were reported as recovered and 89 (56%) were reported as “unknown” or “not yet recovered”, 29 (18%) died from suspected CIGH.
The authors highlight that from the time clozapine entered the New Zealand market, 7691 people were started on the drug, of which .47% developed serious CIGH, and in Australia 35,441 individuals were prescribed clozapine and .35% developed severe CIGH. The researchers point out that these are likely underestimated due to under-reporting. Moreover, information provided on CIGH was poor with little if any reference to CIGH monitoring or treatment. The prevalence of serious CIGH was found to be 37/10,000, and the authors call for regulators and manufacturers to update their guidance to reflect current knowledge and risk.
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Most Marc Chagall paintings seem to carry a certain fanciful style, and Violoniste Bleue is no exception. With its outdoor setting, floating objects, and vibrant, swirling colors, this painting is classic Chagall.
As is common with many Chagall works, Violoniste Bleue features the protagonist floating against the night sky. This, coupled with his body posture and the birds flocking to him presents a very festive atmosphere. The town below lends images of a French market in the evening with wandering minstrels and plenty of good food.
As noted above, Chagall frequently raises characters up into the sky, as if halfway to heaven, in an attempt to make them appear more important, and perhaps cast them in a more favorable light than the rest of the painting. You will note that Chagall has effectively observed the properties of the moonlight in Violoniste Bleue, and the violinist appears to be accurately lit which acts as a perfect metaphor for the high regard of the musician. This accuracy is something that is not always present in many Marc Chagall paintings.
Keen observers will recognize the townscape below as one that has been featured in countless other Chagall works. Who can blame him for using this setting again and again? The moonlight casts a favorable glow over the buildings and provides an outstanding frame for his work. This location is the Jewish village that he lived in for four years after leaving Russia. It is during this period that many Chagall aficionados believe his best work was done.
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Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her US counterpart Antony Blinken have sharply condemned Russia's nuclear threats to the United Nations.
Russia has repeatedly used "reckless nuclear rhetoric" jeopardizing efforts of the past 50 years to contain nuclear weapons around the world, Baerbock said at the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. With Ukraine, Russia attacked a country without nuclear weapons, "brutally violating" earlier promises.
Blinken accused Russia of "dangerous nuclear saber-rattling." "There is no place in our world for nuclear deterrence based on force and intimidation or blackmail. We must stand together to oppose it."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, has asserted that he has no intention of starting a nuclear war. "We assume that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it must never be started," he wrote in a message to the conference participants published on the Kremlin's website.
In doing so, he countered growing fears since the beginning of the war that Moscow might use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Shortly after the attack on the neighboring country, Putin put the Russian nuclear forces on increased alert. Now he stressed that Russia is fulfilling and will continue to fulfill its obligations as a founding member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
UN chief warns of nuclear danger
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is in a "time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War". "Humanity is in danger of forgetting the lessons forged in the terrible fires of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". The world is just one misunderstanding or miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which is more than 50 years old and to which 191 countries have joined, forms the basis for nuclear disarmament worldwide. It states that only the US, Russia, China, France and the UK can possess nuclear weapons. The four other suspected nuclear powers India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have either not joined the treaty or have withdrawn from it. The aim of the treaty is to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, promote nuclear disarmament and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
A review of achievements is planned every five years. The tenth review conference was supposed to take place in 2020, but was postponed due to the corona pandemic and will now run until August 26. Nuclear disarmament had already faltered before Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine. Now the reduction of the nearly 13,000 nuclear weapons worldwide is becoming even more difficult.
deterrence and disarmament
After her arrival in New York, Baerbock nevertheless advocated concrete disarmament steps. At the same time, however, she acknowledged German participation in nuclear deterrence. "Russia's brutal war of aggression makes it clear that nuclear weapons are unfortunately a bitter reality," she said. "The commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear deterrence are not contradictory in these times."
Germany does not have any nuclear weapons itself. However, according to expert estimates, up to 20 US nuclear bombs are stationed at the Büchel air base in Rhineland-Palatinate, which are to be used by Bundeswehr fighter jets in an emergency. Germany is participating in NATO's nuclear deterrent.
In view of the tensions and stalled negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, also called on Tehran in his speech: "We need access that is appropriate to the breadth and depth of this nuclear problem." Only then will the IAEA be able to "give the necessary and credible assurances that every activity in the Islamic Republic of Iran serves peaceful purposes."
Iran ready to resume nuclear talks
Negotiations on reviving the 2015 agreement between Iran and the six contracting parties - China, Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia and the USA - have been stalled since March. However, Iran signaled on Monday its willingness to resume nuclear talks. "We have received important messages in the last few days (...) There is indeed a possibility for new negotiations soon," said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani in Tehran.
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|Country||People's Republic of China|
|• Total||1,666 km2 (643 sq mi)|
|• Density||370/km2 (950/sq mi)|
|Time zone||UTC+8 (China Standard)|
|Yiyang County, Henan|
|Hanyu Pinyin||Yíyáng Xiàn|
Yiyang is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang city, Henan province, China, historically called Shou'an County (simplified Chinese: 寿安县; traditional Chinese: 壽安縣). Fuchang County of the Tang and Song dynasties was located in Yiyang. In 1072 Fuchang was merged into Shou'an, and in 1186 Shou'an was renamed as Yiyang.
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The very first Laptop networks ended up committed Specific-objective techniques such as SABRE (an airline reservation technique) and AUTODIN I (a defense command-and-Command technique), both of those created and carried out in the late fifties and early nineteen sixties. From the early nineteen sixties Laptop brands experienced begun to make use of semiconductor technologies in professional solutions, and both of those traditional batch-processing and time-sharing techniques ended up in place in many large, technologically Superior organizations. Time-sharing techniques allowed a pc’s sources to generally be shared in quick succession with many customers, biking in the queue of customers so promptly that the computer appeared committed to each consumer’s duties Regardless of the existence of many others accessing the technique “at the same time.” This led to the notion of sharing Laptop sources (known as host computer systems or just hosts) above a whole network. Host-to-host interactions ended up envisioned, coupled with entry to specialized sources (such as supercomputers and mass storage techniques) and interactive entry by remote customers to the computational powers of your time-sharing techniques located somewhere else. These Concepts ended up initial recognized in ARPANET, which established the first host-to-host network relationship on Oct 29, 1969. It had been produced with the State-of-the-art Research Projects Company (ARPA) on the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPANET was one of many initial basic-objective Laptop networks. It related time-sharing computer systems at government-supported investigate web sites, principally universities in America, and it before long grew to become a crucial piece of infrastructure for the computer science investigate Neighborhood in America. Instruments and programs—such as the uncomplicated mail transfer protocol (SMTP, normally generally known as e-mail), for sending brief messages, as well as file transfer protocol (FTP), for for a longer period transmissions—promptly emerged. To be able to reach Price tag-helpful interactive communications involving computer systems, which typically talk in short bursts of knowledge, ARPANET employed The brand new technologies of packet switching. Packet switching usually takes large messages (or chunks of Laptop facts) and breaks them into scaled-down, workable parts (called packets) that will journey independently above any out there circuit to the concentrate on destination, wherever the parts are reassembled. As a result, unlike common voice communications, packet switching will not need a single committed circuit involving each pair of customers. Business packet networks ended up introduced in the nineteen seventies, but these ended up created principally to provide productive entry to remote computer systems by committed terminals. Briefly, they changed extended-length modem connections by less-expensive “virtual” circuits above packet networks. In America, Telenet and Tymnet ended up two this kind of packet networks. Neither supported host-to-host communications; in the nineteen seventies this was still the province on the investigate networks, and it might stay so for many years. DARPA (Defense State-of-the-art Research Projects Company; formerly ARPA) supported initiatives for ground-based mostly and satellite-based mostly packet networks. The ground-based mostly packet radio technique provided cellular entry to computing sources, when the packet satellite network related America with several European international locations and enabled connections with extensively dispersed and remote locations. Together with the introduction of packet radio, connecting a cellular terminal to a pc network grew to become possible. Even so, time-sharing techniques ended up then still far too large, unwieldy, and expensive to generally be cellular and even to exist outdoors a climate-managed computing setting. A solid motivation Therefore existed to attach the packet radio network to ARPANET so that you can permit cellular customers with uncomplicated terminals to entry enough time-sharing techniques for which they had authorization. Likewise, the packet satellite network was employed by DARPA to link America with satellite terminals serving the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, and Italy. These terminals, however, had to be connected to other networks in European international locations so that you can get to the finish customers. As a result arose the necessity to connect the packet satellite Web, in addition to the packet radio Web, with other networks. Foundation of the online world The web resulted from the effort to attach many investigate networks in America and Europe. Initially, DARPA established a application to analyze the interconnection of “heterogeneous networks.” This application, known as Internetting, was based upon the recently introduced principle of open up architecture networking, wherein networks with outlined conventional interfaces would be interconnected by “gateways.” A working demonstration on the principle was prepared. In order for the principle to work, a completely new protocol had to be created and designed; without a doubt, a technique architecture was also expected. In 1974 Vinton Cerf, then at Stanford College in California, which author, then at DARPA, collaborated with a paper that initial described such a protocol and technique architecture—specifically, the transmission Command protocol (TCP), which enabled different types of machines on networks all over the globe to route and assemble facts packets. TCP, which at first integrated the online world protocol (IP), a worldwide addressing mechanism that allowed routers to receive facts packets for their top destination, shaped the TCP/IP conventional, which was adopted with the U.S. Department of Defense in 1980. From the early eighties the “open up architecture” on the TCP/IP approach was adopted and endorsed by many other scientists and sooner or later by technologists and businessmen world wide. From the eighties other U.S. governmental bodies ended up greatly associated with networking, such as the Nationwide Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Power, as well as Nationwide Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Even though DARPA experienced played a seminal function in making a small-scale Edition of the online world amongst its scientists, NSF labored with DARPA to extend entry to the whole scientific and educational Neighborhood and to help make TCP/IP the conventional in all federally supported investigate networks. In 1985–86 NSF funded the first 5 supercomputing centres—at Princeton College, the College of Pittsburgh, the College of California, San Diego, the College of Illinois, and Cornell College. Inside the eighties NSF also funded the development and operation on the NSFNET, a national “spine” network to attach these centres. From the late eighties the network was running at an incredible number of bits per second. NSF also funded many nonprofit local and regional networks to attach other customers to the NSFNET. A couple of professional networks also began in the late eighties; these ended up before long joined by others, as well as Business Internet Trade (CIX) was shaped to permit transit targeted traffic involving professional networks that if not wouldn’t have been allowed around the NSFNET spine. In 1995, soon after intensive assessment of the problem, NSF made a decision that support on the NSFNET infrastructure was not expected, due to the fact numerous professional vendors ended up now prepared and capable to fulfill the requirements on the investigate Neighborhood, and its support was withdrawn. 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As a writer, feedback is always important.Grammarly Premium Discount Code… However it’s vital for any feedback to consider the factors behind the writing, or why the text was written in the top place.
It seems to be making a conscious effort to turn their AI editor into something more human with these customized goals.
Here’s how to make complete use of this feature.
When you open a new document, you can change the settings so that you set composing goals based upon:
Intent (notify, explain, encourage, tell a story).
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Let’s speak about a few of these settings and why I believe they are so important.
Audience: Your audience is vital when identifying the delivery of your content. Utilizing jargon and highly technical, industry-specific words can be incredibly beneficial when your audience are specialists in the field. It can be exceptionally jarring when they’re the general audience.
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While their personalized feedback algorithms aren’t perfect, it’s interesting to see that there’s a development towards turning a simple grammar check program into an all-around text analyst.
It’s the closest thing you can get towards having a real-life writing coach talking about the subtleties of language as you review your writing.
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It doesn’t work with the whole suite, covers Word and Outlook, the places where it will do the most great. For Mac users, it deals with Word alone.
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Consider this situation– You paste a ton of research study material onto a document to work with later on. As quickly as you dispose because text, your editor will start lagging so severely it becomes nearly unusable.
While the workaround is as simple as making corrections as you move along, it isn’t constantly useful. Remedying as you go can significantly slow down an author’s momentum– not precisely perfect.
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From a letter to Malcolm Cowley. Faulkner published three of his most famous novels over a span of three years—The Sound and the Fury in 1929, As I Lay Dying in 1930, and Light in August in 1931. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and ten years later bought a house in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he enjoyed horse riding and fox hunting. He died in Byhalia, Mississippi, at the age of sixty-four in 1962.
I saw the Life with your Hemingway piece. I didn’t read it, but I know it’s all right or you wouldn’t have put your name on it; for which reason I know Hemingway thinks it’s all right, and I hope it will profit him—if there is any profit or increase or increment that a brave man and an artist can lack or need or want.
But I am more convinced and determined than ever that this is not for me. I will protest to the last: no photographs, no recorded documents. It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago and, like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books, and he died. | <urn:uuid:31cfe3ad-a097-4032-a86b-cb90d62afa79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/william-faulkner-writes-his-epitaph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975833 | 324 | 2.15625 | 2 |
This is good news for the troubled birds and we do get to see the Wood Storks out in the creek. It is also hard to believe but grateful that they have made such a recovery in the last about 4 years. The second article is at the bottom of this page from 2009 about the trouble the some birds and Wood Storks are or were in.
Wood storks are again calling the South Carolina coast home
No more than 15 years ago, it would have made a bird watcher’s week to see the seldom-seen wood stork.
Today, a daily siting is not unusual.
That development pleases watchers, environmental agencies and wildlife experts who are happy to see wood storks — and in large numbers — calling the South Carolina coast home.
As the population has grown in recent years, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has launched a new wood stork study — part of a collaborative project throughout the Southeast — to learn more about their movements, demography and longevity, according to a DNR release.
“These studies are important to help us track the movement of the birds,” said Ken Scott, vice president of the Fripp Audubon club and a frequent birder. “We are trying to find out where the wood storks go and which ones come back for nesting.”
DNR has banded more than 50 wood storks with easy to spot orange bands with black numbers. It is asking people who see the such storks to report the sightings as part of the project.
Scott said he has called in several sightings in the past month and knows others in the club have, as well.
Just last year, the birds were listed as a federally protected endangered species, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed in December to change that status to “threatened.”
The growing number of wood storks indicate a healthier environment, Scott said.
Pete Richards, president of the Fripp Audubon club, said the birds are a great success story, especially in Beaufort County along the barrier islands. While he doesn’t have specific local numbers, he says wood stork numbers from the club’s annual Christmas Bird Count have continued to rise.
The protected habitat here provides wood storks with perfect nesting and feeding grounds and have been a key factor in their growth.
“This data that the DNR is collecting is really important to see trends and any issues these birds are facing and then develop strategies to address them,” Richards said. “It’s important to ensure these birds can continue to live, survive and thrive.”
Older Story below about the trouble they were in….
Brown pelicans, wood stork and other coastal birds at risk, new study says
March 23, 2009
Pollution, climate change and energy production are contributing to steep declines in marsh and coastal bird populations, according to a new government report.
The first-of-its-kind report chronicles a four-decade drop in many of the country’s bird populations. The report says the drop in numbers has been caused by a variety of factors, including suburban sprawl, the spread of exotic species and global warming.
Hamilton Davis of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League said most of the zoning in the state encourages sprawl and policies must be created to use land efficiently.
He said progress is being made in Beaufort County, where local leaders have updated comprehensive plans to include progressive land planning tools, such as stormwater controls that can reduce pollution.
“They are still in implementation stages, but they are infinitely better than they were in the past,” he said. “And the benefit is preservation of wetlands and open spaces and generally less growing in a way that has fewer negative impacts on our natural resources.”
The report also shows that conservation efforts can work. Birds that live in wetlands and the nation’s waterfowl have rebounded over the past 40 years, a period marked by increased efforts to protect wetlands.
Across the country, energy production is playing a role in bird populations. Birds collide with wind turbines and oil and gas wells, and studies have shown some species will avoid nesting near those structures. The U.S. State of Birds report, released Tuesday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, was requested in October 2007 by President George W. Bush.
Environmentalists and scientists say the report should signal to the Obama administration to proceed cautiously as it seeks to expand renewable energy production and the electricity grid on public lands, and tries to harness wind energy along the nation’s coastlines.
In South Carolina, offshore wind is gaining traction as a potential source for energy, said Davis, who sits on a governor-appointed committee to study the resource’s potential.
“We need to be wary of where we will put those wind farms,” he said, adding that if wind farms are out of birds’ migratory patterns, there is less chance of harming them.
Barry Lowes of the Hilton Head Island Audubon Society said harnessing wind is a better option for birds than pollution that can come from coal-fired plants.
Lowes said everyone needs to be aware of what a declining bird population means for the ecosystem.
“We’ve got to understand we are right in the middle of it, and whatever happens to them will happen to us too,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
BIRDS IN TROUBLE
• Clapper rail
• Whooping crane
• Seaside sparrow
• Piping plover
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From the northern to southern ends of California, a very diverse group of farmers/ranchers attended the HMI Whole Farm/Ranch Business Planning workshop at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, California starting in September and concluding in mid-October taught by a team of Certified Educators including Richard King, Rob Rutherford, and Calley Hastings. Limited to 30 participants, the workshop was sold out. The five sessions covered whole farm/ranch goal setting and decision-making as well as financial planning, marketing, and business planning with time built in to learn the process, work on exercises leading toward a sound financial plan for the coming year, and learn from each other as well as the instructors.
The Holistic Management framework for decision-making includes successfully managing income and expenses as well as building healthy land and fostering effective relationships among the people involved. In this workshop participants learned a step-by-step financial planning process that helps people who raise products or provide services from the land be successful at living the kind of life they value. They also learned that holistic financial planning includes successfully managing their human relationships as well as their money.
For the Marketing and Business Planning sessions, Calley Hastings used her family’s farm business as an example. She shared how the family has made decisions along the way and used their holistic goal to guide them as they have grown from a small diversified farm to a goat dairy producing goat’s milk caramel sauces for national distribution. Building on this example, farmers then reflected on marketing decisions in their own businesses and ran those decisions through the Holistic Management testing questions.
Additional time was spent looking at key components of a marketing plan and how each aspect, like understanding your demographic and thinking about your competition, help to inform your overall marketing strategies and budget. The marketing plan is just one element to the business plan, which can help guide how your business grows and can be used to leverage capital for your business. On the second day, participants looked at a sample business plan and went through each component to understand what was involved. They worked in small groups to understand each aspect of the plan and then presented to the whole group using the sample business plan along with an example from their own farms.
Overall the farmers involved in these sessions were exposed not only to effective marketing techniques and strategies, but more importantly, ways to think through how you develop a marketing plan for you business that is based on solid information and sound decision making. They also saw how a business plan weaves together many of the elements they had been working on in the previous classes and helps provide a road map for your business to follow. While every farmer brought something different to the table, they all left with lots more questions and ideas from their fellow classmates on how to move forward with their farms.
Participants ranged from those who are direct marketing through farmer’s markets, farm store, etc. to others who are selling through commercial channels. Many described this series as a ‘great’ or ‘awesome’ workshop. There seemed to be a lot of excitement about the potential within the group to stay in touch and engage in further conversations and learning.
Our thanks to the TomKat Ranch for providing a great location and for being gracious hosts. Also, thanks to the Christiano Family Fund, an advised fund of the Community Foundation for San Benito County, for providing funding for this program, and to the San Francisco Foundation, a donor-advised fund, for funding scholarships.
Here’s what the participants had to say:
I learned how to quantify/identify my values and apply them to business practices and decisions.
It helped me develop a more comprehensive approach to planning.
Everything I learned will help me be a better farmer.
I learned the practical considerations of other ranchers and land managers and how to apply general principles to specific farm/ranch cases.
I need to put actions into a holistic context before jumping in.
I learned ways to convince other decision makers to get on board.
I learned the difference between the way I have been operating vs. the way I could be operating.
I learned how in depth financial planning has to be.
Planning for profit was one of the most useful things taught.
I learned the tools to prioritize & budget complex systems, making the complex clearer.
I learned the difference between drawing profit vs. building net worth, and also how effective brainstorming can be for idea generation.
This all takes a lot of time but I think it’s worth it!
I learned why the process is structured/ordered the way it is, and how to replan when things don’t go according to plan.
I was reminded to pay myself first.
Evaluations showed the following results:
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Ambassador Ted Osius has granted part of the US’s biggest cultural preservation aid package to Vietnam in a recent visit in Hue.
He gave US$700,000 to the managers of the Trieu temple, which was built in 1804 as a main part of the Hue Citadel, a world heritage site.
That is the second grant from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation for the former capital city. A fund of $29,000 was granted in January 2014.
“Culture protection is not just about preserving achievements from the past but also to tell our stories to our children,” the ambassador said in fluent Vietnamese during the two-day visit that ended Friday.
“My family is here together as I want my son to understand what I learned 20 years ago, that Vietnamese heritage sites are world’s treasures.”
US ambassador Ted Osius tries making a paint mixture for restoring wooden parts at the temple. Photo credit: VnExpress
Osius joined local leaders to tour the temple, which is under restoration, and burn incense sticks on the altars
The temple worships ancestors of Vietnam’s last ruling family, the Nguyen Dynasty.
He also talked to workers at the site about preservation works.
The ambassador, who took the position last November, on Thursday joined local chefs in making bun bo Hue, the city’s signature spicy soup with rice noodles and beef. He finished all the steps of the complex cooking himself.
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Summit Trend in the News: Organized Religion Jumps into Wellness
Renewed faith: Finding solace in spirituality (during Coronavirus) – Wunderman Thompson
COVID-19 has closed churches, mosques and temples worldwide, but it’s certainly not stopped people from seeking solace in prayer and meditation. Looks at the data on how more people are praying more; how religious leaders are getting into public health; how churches are “streaming faith” during COVID-19, including prayer as meditation; and how spiritual wellness beyond religion is also surging.
Faith & Fitness: You see so many announcements about churches combining faith and wellness. Churches in Florida offer everything from “Crossfit Savior” to “Holy Yoga” classes. Synagogues are melding strength training and worship service and offering “Torah Yoga.” More churches are building full-blown wellness centers, offering everything from dance to boxing classes to the whole community.
What is the state and role of faith in the Coronavirus crisis? Is the wellness movement a modern “faith”? – Global Wellness Institute, Q&A with Martin Palmer
The GWI interviewed Martin Palmer, a renowned thinker on the role of spirituality in human culture and president of FaithInvest, on what the COVID-19 crisis teaches us about the positive role of faith in human lives and what we lose in a world without faith. He also discusses how the future is new “faith narratives” beyond the old traditions, positing that the wellness movement is, in many ways, “a new faith.”
‘Radical’ pace of modern life is fuelling disease, Pope warns – Telegraph
Back in 2018, the Pope addressed the uptick in chronic diseases by highlighting the dangers of modern vices, such as smoking, alcohol and environmental toxins. Speaking at the Vatican, he advocated for preventative lifestyle changes, including physical activity, proper diet, and “respect for the ‘health codes’ practiced by the various religions.” | <urn:uuid:f152ec00-4ba7-48ea-8675-61a4c99a7f78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.globalwellnesssummit.com/trendium/trend-new-developments-are-happening-between-faith-and-wellness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934384 | 430 | 1.742188 | 2 |
I would love to say I have fond memories of teaching the recorder at school – that listening to an hour of six-year olds tooting away to Away In a Manager gets me warm and fuzzy. But that would be a lie. Anyone who has sat through a recorder concert will know that it takes nerves of steel and ear plugs – very, thick ear plugs.
Of course that may be true but the recorder remains one of the best instruments to learn to read music on. I do have warm memories of my own lessons playing the recorder and was delighted to find I can still play London’s Burning (except for the last night – please leave me a comment if you know what it is!)
My eldest is five and therefore the perfect age to start to learn an instrument. This set is perfect for her as it comes with everything you need to start to learn. It is also packaged like a toy and not something serious and boring. While some people would argue that you don’t need to market everything is gender colours this does make the set more appealing – it’s definitely much prettier than the brown one I had growing up. There are also fun stickers to personalise your recorder great for if a few children all have the same one.
The set comes with:
- High quality three-piece coloured Princess descant recorder.
- Recorder cleaning rod and carry bag with drawstring.
- Themed fingering chart with handy ‘Starting to Play’ tips.
- 60 peel-able themed stickers with which to decorate the recorder and music.
- Easy to understand ‘Starting to Play…’ tutor book and CD to begin playing straight away.
- It is suitable for ages 4+
I was lucky enough to be sent not one – but TWO princess recorders for the twins. Although they are younger than the recommended age – they still had lots and lots and lots of fun playing the instruments The good thing about recorders is that you just have to pick them up and blow – you don’t have to learn a tricky technique to play them. So they are perfect for toddlers as well.
So just for a special treat here are the twins playing their own special rendition of Twinkle twinkle. Let me know how long you can listen without turning off. I can manage 3 seconds!
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — There’s a disease that’s spreading amongst certain trees in Rhode Island, and experts are worried about the impacts it will have on forests across the state.
Beech leaf disease was first identified in Ohio in 2012, according to University of Rhode Island plant scientist Heather Faubert. Since then, it’s spread to a number of states, including Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut.
“This is a bad one,” Faubert said of the disease. “I’m not fond of this disease. It’s pretty horrible.”
Faubert said the disease first arrived in Rhode Island back in 2020.
There is currently no known solution to prevent it from spreading, according to Faubert.
“Our beech trees are in peril,” she said. “They really are in jeopardy.”
So what’s spreading the disease? Faubert said Nemotodes are to blame.
“Nemotodes are microscopic worms,” she explained. “Most live in the soil, but there are some that can live in leaves.”
While the worms are small, Faubert said their lasting impacts are easy to see.
“Almost all beech trees in Rhode Island are infected,” Faubert said. “I’ve never seen anything move that quickly.”
Early signs of beech leaf disease include dark striping on the leaves. The leaves will eventually wither and turn yellow before falling to the ground.
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Faubert said as a result of the disease, infected trees use excess energy to try and regrow their leaves. That excess energy can wind up killing them over time, she added.
Beech trees can be found all over Rhode Island, but they’re especially prevalent in the southern part of the state.
Faubert said 40% of trees in Ashaway alone are beech trees. The thought of losing all of them, she said, is devastating.
“I feel like this is the worst insect or disease problem we’ve had in our trees,” Faubert said.
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On 21.5.2013 the European Commission has issued a new Communication on the need to broaden the migration-development nexus. You may find it here http://www.eunomad.org/images/Communication_CE_maximising_the_development_impact_of_migration.pdf This was done as a contribution for the
After more than two years working on the AMITIE project, we tried to realized an hard goal: summarize the key ideas of the project in a few-minutes-video… and it worked well! You can judge it by yourself… This infographic is showing and exemplifying how migration is a rich, multi-face
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Wound Management: Principles and Practices
- 出版商: Pearson FT Press
- 出版日期: 2019-11-18
- 售價: $2,620
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,489
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 99998
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0135232562
- ISBN-13: 9780135232569
For physical therapy education programs covering wound management; and for clinicians (including PT, PTA, OT, and nursing) involved in treating patients with, or at risk for, open wounds or lymphedema.
A complete practical guide to wound care, for both learners and practitioners
Wound Management: Principles and Practices is the most thorough, up-to-date practical learning resource on wound management for physical therapy students and general practitioners. It's been cited as the reference text for preparing students to pass the Certified Wound Specialist Certification exam. Opening with the basic science of wounds and wound healing, Myers then presents the nuts and bolts of wound examination and intervention and, finally, detailed information for managing various types of wounds. Integrated case studies prepare students to make sound clinical decisions for holistic care interventions. The 4th edition includes the most current wound care information available.
Betsy Myers, DHS, MPT, OCS, CWS, CLT, is an assistant professor of physical therapy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a staff physical therapist at Saint Francis Health Care System. Dr. Myers received a master's degree in physical therapy from Northwestern University in 1992 and a doctorate of health sciences from the University of Indianapolis in 2013. She is a certified wound specialist and a certified lymphedema therapist. She is also an orthopedic certified specialist and an advanced credentialed clinical instructor.
Dr. Myers has worked in a variety of clinical settings within regional healthcare systems, including acute care, transitional care, a rehabilitation unit, wound care clinic, general outpatient care, sports medicine, aquatic therapy, work hardening, and a diabetic foot clinic. She joined the outpatient physical therapy staff at Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in September 2008, where she continues to work on school breaks.
In addition to Wound Management: Principles and Practice, Dr. Myers has authored two chapters in the Integumentary Essentials: Preferred Physical Therapist Practice Patterns. She has given numerous local, regional, and national presentations, and teaches several continuing education courses on wound management, lymphedema, oncology, and orthopedics.
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Rev. Margaret Minnicks is an ordained Bible teacher. She writes many articles that are Bible lessons.
The Bible tells us not to worry about anything. We know we should not worry. So, why do we worry? How can we not worry when we have failing health or not enough money to pay our rent? How can we keep from worrying when everything seems to be going wrong?
We know worrying is energy wasted, but we still worry. How do we stop worrying?
The number one reason for not worrying is because God commanded us not to worry. In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:24-35, Jesus clearly taught that we should not worry about anything.
Jesus told us not to worry about our life, what we will eat or drink or what to wear. That's because life is more than food, and the body is more than the clothes that we wear. Then Jesus gives an illustration of the birds of the air that do not sow or reap or store food away in barns. On the other hand, God feeds them. If God takes care of the birds of the air, He will take care of us because we are more valuable to Him. Besides, we cannot add a single hour to our life by worrying.
Jesus also gives an illustration about the clothes we wear. He used the flowers of the field to prove that they do not work or spin clothes together. They look better than King Solomon would look when he dresses up.
Jesus says that God clothes not only the flowers but also the grass of the field. Even though the glass lives for such a short time, it serves a purpose and God clothe it while it is alive.
Jesus concludes His teaching by saying we shall not worry about what we should eat, or drink or wear. The pagans do those things, but Christians don't have to because God knows what they need. Even so, Christians must participate in their own blessings by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, according to Matthew 6:33. When we do that, all the things we need will be given to us. Therefore, we are commanded to not worry about tomorrow.
Nothing to Worry About
Paul assures us in Philippians 4:19 that we have nothing to worry about because God will supply our every need.
If you have nothing to worry about, then why do you worry? Since God is in charge of supplying your every need, don't you think it is pointless to worry? Jesus tells us not to worry about the following things:
- what to eat
- what to drink
- what to wear
How to Stop Worrying
Worrying is the opposite of trusting God. When you worry, you are saying God is not in control. When you focus on your problems, you give energy to them. When you turn your attention to God, you will find peace instead of worry.
Instead of worrying about what you cannot do on your own, focus on what God can do. Therefore, give God first place in your life. That means turning everything over to Him.
A very good way to stop worrying is to replace worry with something else. In Philippians 4:6, Paul tells us to turn our worries into prayers. He encourages us to pray more and worry less. In Philippians 4:9, he says not to worry about anything, but to pray about everything. In other words, replace worry with prayer.
Whenever you feel a worry coming on, stop and pray about the thing that is causing you to worry.
Worry Interferes with Your Relationship with God
You should trust God to handle all of your situations. When you worry, you become consumed by fear. It certainly will interfere with your relationship with God.
You should never let your worries about tomorrow affect your relationship with God today.
|Results of Worry|
Damages your health
Brings on fear
Consumes your thoughts
Negatively affects the way you treat others
Reduces your ability to trust God
Interferes with your relationship with God
Keeps peace away
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)
Other Reasons Not to Worry
Worrying doesn't add anything to our lives. Jesus asks, "Who of you can add a single hour to his life by worrying? Worry doesn't add to our lives; however, it might take away from it, according to Luke 12:25. Worry does no one any good.
When we let God know we are worried, He soothes us. David tells God in Psalm 94:19, "When I worried about many things, your assuring words soothed my soul."
Paul contends that our troubles are light and temporary. He states, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Corinthians 4:17).
God's peace should control us instead of worry, according to Colossians 3:15. Let the peace of God guard your heart against worry.
We can enjoy God more and be at peace when we are not worried. Therefore, God commands us not to worry.
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‘The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.’ Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime.
H.P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature.
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Good News Translation
And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.
Revelation 17:15 And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues.
Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
Psalm 65:7 Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,
Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .
Isaiah 8:7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks.
Isaiah 28:2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.
Isaiah 59:19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:
ContextThe Woman Persecuted
…14And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. 16And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.…
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.
And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.
And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
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Creating robots that see the world like humans has been a challenge for scientists. While computer vision has come a long way, these systems are still easy to fool. So, why not give robots superhuman perception to compensate? MIT’s Fadel Adib created a robot that uses radar waves to find its target, allowing it to see through walls.
The robot, known as RF-Grasp, has traditional cameras for object recognition. The camera is mounted to the bot’s mechanical grasper, giving it a good view of anything the hand might be trying to pick up. However, what if the target is in a box or under something else? Radio waves can pass through the obstacle, and RF-Grasp can use the reflected signal to spot its target.
To accomplish this, Adib and his team used radio frequency tags, not unlike the ones used to identify pets or open secure doors. The reader sends out RF pings, which power and modulate the tag’s circuits. The reflected signal can provide data, but in this case, it’s being used to track the physical location of the tag.
For the purposes of testing RF-Grasp, the team deployed a small, focused RF reader next to the robot. The reader scans for RF tags in its field of view, and then feeds that data into the robot’s computer vision algorithm. So, when told to pick up an object it cannot see, RF-Grasp relies on the RF pings to seek out the target. When it’s uncovered the object, the robot is smart enough to give more weight to the camera feed in its algorithms. The team says merging data from the camera and RF reader into the bot’s decision-making was the most challenging part.
Compared with robots that only have visual data, RF-Grasp was much more efficient in laboratory tests involving picking and sorting objects. It has the ability to remove clutter from the environment to find its target, guided by RF data that tells it where to dig. For example, it can remove packing material from a box to find something at the bottom. Other robots just don’t have this extra layer of guidance.
This technology could lead to robots that can find objects no matter where they’re hidden. Lost your keys? Just fire up the RF-Grasp Mk V and it’ll figure out which pocket of which coat they’re in. A more realistic application is in the warehouse industry. Robots like Boston Dynamics’ Stretch can pick up and move heavy boxes, but only if they’re visible and regularly shaped. A robot with RF sensing could sort through a messy shelf to find specific objects, not unlike a human. We could be one step closer to eliminating human labor in these environments.
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NASA Probe Stows Huge Asteroid Sample for Return to Earth
Following the recent successful touch and go operation, NASA has reported a sizeable sample of the asteroid has now been locked away in the probe's sample return container.
Parker Solar Probe Detects Radio Emission in Venus’s Atmosphere
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Australia under attack: Investing in victory
Percy Spender was Treasurer in the Menzies Government in early 1940 when he and his department created a plan for raising money to pay for the war effort by encouraging Australians to “invest in victory” by purchasing war savings certificates. The issuing of these certificates enabled the government to borrow money from the Australian people.
The loans supplemented the government’s war budget and their purpose was to reduce inflation by soaking up money unable to be spent on scarce consumer goods.
Certificates bought during the war were expected to mature from 16 shillings to £1 in seven years. By 1942 the sale of war savings certificates was a major source of revenue for the government. Australians were encouraged to invest during victory loan drives.
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Minimum Wage Increases Are Now In Place
A number of states rang in the New Year with pay increases for minimum-wage workers, while others plan to implement raises as the months go on. According to reports from The Hill, a total of 26 states will see minimum wage increases that go into effect during 2022. Twenty-two of those states implemented hikes effective Jan. 1, while increases in New York began one day earlier.
In addition to state-wide mandates, 56 separate cities and counties are increasing minimum wage — 35 of which went into effect on Jan. 1. Payroll analysts say the increases are a step toward ensuring a living wage for workers.
Although the nation will experience widespread hikes, the actual rates of minimum wage will fluctuate. According to The Hill reports, the highest increase was in West Hollywood, California, where hourly pay for hotel workers, specifically, went up to a minimum of $17.64. Meanwhile, the state as a whole saw an increase to $15 an hour, but specified the requirement for businesses with 26 or more employees.
Parts of New York State, including New York City, also went up to $15 an hour, but didn't specify increases based on company size. According to reports, the minimum wage in 10 more states will reach $15 within the next few years after scheduled pay increases are completed. Those states include Maryland, Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.
Experts expect that by the end of 2022, the minimum wage in 49 states and municipalities will meet or exceed $15.
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During a season of profound depression and discouragement, Luther wrote his most famous hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” which picks up on themes in Psalm 46. It’s not that God makes everything smooth and easy. But God is “a bulwark . . . our helper amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.” . . .
We don’t defeat evil by trying hard or thinking right thoughts. “Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing.” And why can we be bold and confident? We have “the right man on our side . . . Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is he . . . He must win the battle.” Ours is to follow, join, and be caught up in the wake of what he is doing.
—James C. Howell, Unrevealed Until Its Season: A Lenten Journey with Hymns (Upper Room Books, 2021)
What hymn or scripture helps you get through tough times? Join the conversation.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
—Psalm 46:1 (NRSV)
Prayer for the Week
O God, we give you thanks for hymn writers of the past and present. Help us to always have a song of praise on our lips and in our hearts, especially in times of trouble. Amen.
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What is Lent? When is Lent? Why do we set it apart? Learn more about this special season by reading Lent 101.
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Feb 20: Trinity Forum, Alienated America
Join the Trinity Forum and Pepperdine University School of Public Policy's American Project for an Evening Conversation on "Alienated America" with journalist and author Tim Carney on the release of his new book, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse , with a response from Anne Snyder. This fascinating discussion will delve into the ways in which our social fabric is increasingly riven not only by economic strains, but the weakening of the moral, religious, and social institutions that helped form and reform individual and civic character—and engage the possibilities for re-energizing the organizations and institutions that help form character, instill hope, and reweave our civic Fabric.
Join us on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST), at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for this not-to-be-missed conversation! Our program will begin with light appetizers and drinks at 6:30 p.m., followed by remarks and audience questions.
This event is held in partnership with the Trinity Forum as part of their continuing series on the "Moral Sense in Politics and Policy."
About the "Moral Sense" Speakers Series: For the past seven years, the Pepperdine School of Public Policy has collaborated with Washington, DC's Trinity Forum in hosting twice-annual speaking events that look at the intersection of virtue and public policy. The phrase, "moral sense" is borrowed from one of the SPP founders—the late Dr. James Q. Wilson—who felt that effective public leadership demanded a more humanistic approach based in a rigorous liberal arts education.
Pepperdine alumni can register for free by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org.
Non-Pepperdine guests, please register here .
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A New Random Keys Generator Depend on Multi Techniques
Engineering and Technology Journal,
2015, Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 427-442
AbstractA stream cipher is a symmetric cipher which operates with a time-varying transformation onIndividual plaintext digits. By contrast, block ciphers operate with a fixed transformation on large blocks of plaintext digits. Where in the operation of Key generator is using the LFSR to generate random keys where the shift register is controlled by an external clock. At each time unit, each digit is shifted one stage to the right. The content of the rightmost stage is output. The new content of the leftmost stage is the feedback bit, st+L.
this paper presents design and implementation system of keys generator with nonlinear random of output keys and large moment bits, this system consists of three part from registers , logical circuits and search algorithm using AI work in parallel time to find the result, the LFSRs in registers part (left and right of system)can generate huge moment of bits and pass in randomness test, those bits by the logical circuit and search algorithm convert from linear to nonlinear to get more difficult in break secret keys, finally, the keys can be used in stream cipher or in block cipher methods.
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Brisance // is the shattering capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure. The term can be traced from the French verb "briser" (to break or shatter) ultimately derived from the Celtic word "brissim" (to break).
Brisance is of practical importance for determining the effectiveness of an explosion in fragmenting shells, bomb casings, grenades, structures, and the like. The sand crush test and Trauzl lead block test are commonly used to determine the relative brisance in comparison to TNT (which is considered a standard reference for many purposes).
The value of brisance depends on the application. At one extreme, if an explosive is to be used for propulsion, e.g. by driving a piston or a bullet, brisance is likely to be undesirable, because the objective will be to move the load, not to shatter it or the engine or firearm, nor to produce a loud report. Such propulsive charges are designed to burn controllably, such as carburetted fuel/air mixes in vehicle piston engines, or nitrocellulose fibres or grains of controlled textures in firearm cartridges.
For certain types of blasting, such as for quarrying slate, in which the objective is to loosen the product from surrounding rock with as little damage as possible, one needs no more brisance than is necessary to split off the desired product profitably, without unacceptable waste. For this purpose blasting powder of low brisance is necessary.
Fragmentation occurs by the action of the transmitted shock wave, the strength of which depends on the detonation pressure of the explosive. Generally, the higher this pressure, the finer the fragments generated. High detonation pressure correlates with high detonation velocity, the speed at which the detonation wave propagates through the explosive, but not necessarily with the explosive's total energy (or work capacity), some of which may be released after passage of the detonation wave. A more brisant explosive, therefore, projects smaller fragments but not necessarily at a higher velocity than a less brisant one.
Notably brisant explosives
One of the most brisant of the conventional explosives is cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (also known as RDX or Hexogen). RDX is the explosive agent in the plastic explosive commonly known as C-4, constituting 91% RDX by mass.
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- "Explosives – Compounds". Global Security.
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Effect and the beneficial properties of hydrogen peroxide for the person
Hydrogen peroxide is a well – known antiseptic agent, which is not intended for internal use. But for some reason many people believe it is useful and effective cure for oral. Online you can find a lot of "interesting" and "informative" articles from so-called healers (doctors will not name them) who talk about the need for acceptance of peroxide inside for the treatment of many diseases, and even cancer. In this article, we discussed the beneficial properties of hydrogen peroxide to humans, the indications and contraindications to its use, the possibility of ingestion.
The description of the drug
Hydrogen peroxide can safely be called the most popular and commonly used antiseptic with which they treat wounds and inflammatory diseases of the skin and mucous membranes.
When hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with damaged skin or mucous membranes, it foams, forming a loose active oxygen. Due to this cleansing wounds from pus and dirt. Also, the foam accelerates stop minor bleeding originating from the damaged capillaries.
Indications for use drugs:
- Purulent wounds on the skin and mucous membranes.
- Stomatitis and gingivitis.
- Inflammation visible mucous membranes.
- Minor bleeding from damaged capillaries on the skin (for example, abrasions).
- Nosebleeds. In this case, the peroxide wetted bandage, which is used for tamponade of the nose.
Contraindications to the use of:
- Individual intolerance to the drug or its components.
- Decompensated severe kidney damage and liver failure of these organs.
- Dermatitis herpetiformis.
- Hyperthyroidism – thyroid disease, accompanied by increased production of its hormones.
Is it possible to take the drug inside
Our people, unfortunately, love to experiment with my health. Due to low confidence in doctors and medicine in General, they are looking for on the Internet, listen to the recommendations of "experts" who don't have a minimal knowledge of the body. To one of these "legendary" recommendations is welcome peroxide inside.
Unfortunately, many do not mind the possibility of taking the drug inside is not designed for this. The action of hydrogen peroxide in the body is harmful. This, at first glance, safe drug, may cause a large number of acute pathologies and intoxications.
Positive effect of hydrogen peroxide on the human body can only be subject to its external use according to instructions. This preparation is intended for local use.
Hydrogen peroxide in the human body results in the release of large quantities of atomic oxygen. It reacts with gastric juice, when this chemical reaction occurs at the gas outlet.
The resulting atomic oxygen affects the whole body. These bubbles of oxygen are able to be transported by the blood throughout the body. In severe cases, the intoxicated person develops a gas embolism is a lethal condition.
In the case of reception of hydrogen peroxide in a large breeding poisoning is unlikely. But good for the body no will. Hydrogen peroxide for oral administration are not a positive influence.
Reception of hydrogen peroxide in high dilutions, though not leads to poisoning, but also is a dangerous method of treatment. Man, believing in this method of therapy, after reading online that it will help him to get rid of many diseases, stops taking medication prescribed by a doctor, and uses peroxide. The result is a progression of the disease.
Symptoms of poisoning peroxide
Poisoning develops peroxide when used in its undiluted, concentrated form. Symptoms occur almost immediately after ingestion.
The main clinical manifestations of intoxication with hydrogen peroxide include the following symptoms:
- pain in the oral cavity, esophagus and stomach. This symptom develops as a result of burns of the mucous membranes;
- nausea with possible subsequent vomiting;
- rapid breathing, shortness of breath. The person becomes difficult to breathe. This symptom may be the first indication of gas embolism;
- redness of the skin may be cyanotic (bluish) skin on the neck and face;
- palpitations, tachycardia;
- feeling of General weakness, anxiety;
- may appear dizziness, headache;
- disturbance of consciousness.
Upon the occurrence of a gas embolism develop acute chest pain, the person loses consciousness. This may occur convulsive generalized seizures resembling epilepsy.
First aid in case of poisoning peroxide
Poisoning with hydrogen peroxide refers to a deadly state. Gas embolism can result in death in a short period of time.
In the first place, in case of the use of peroxide inside, you should immediately call the ambulance. Before the arrival of doctors try to help poisonedman.
The basic components of first aid:
- Let him chug a liter of plain water at room temperature. Then she needed to vomit. To trigger a gag attack is possible by pressure of the fingers on the tongue root. This procedure will help to wash out the stomach and out the greater part of the peroxide.
- Look in the home medicine Cabinet medicines from the group of sorbents. It can be activated carbon, APSCO, POLYSORB, enterosgel. Let the patient make the sorbent, adhering to the recommended instructions of a dosage.
All further assistance will be provided to the ambulance. They will hold hospitalization of victim in toxicology or intensive care unit. Duration, amount of treatment and prognosis will depend on the severity of the patient's condition, the degree of destruction of the body, the amount of alcohol consumed peroxide and its concentration.
Hydrogen peroxide is a great remedy for local use. It can be used for cleansing wounds from pus, dirt, removing local inflammation and stop capillary bleeding. Taken orally this substance is absolutely contraindicated. Peroxide can cause acute poisoning and lead to gas embolism and death. Do not self-medicate with this drug, relying on the questionable advice of experts. Only a qualified medical care provided by physicians, can help in the treatment of diseases. | <urn:uuid:2d34b0d7-4fba-498f-8136-fa368e9762c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://poisoning.vsebolezni.com/polza-i-vred/preparaty/polza-i-vred-perekisi-vodoroda.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.906618 | 1,301 | 3.375 | 3 |
Rockbridge County Fair Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a List of Premiums, Rules, and Regulations booklet for the first annual Rockbridge County Fair, which took place in Lexington, Virginia on September 20-23, 1921.
- Rockbridge County Fair Association (Organization)
Conditions Governing Use
The materials from Washington & Lee University's Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Alexander Orchard.
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As people are living longer, the 65-plus age group is forming an increasingly large proportion of the population, and, fortunately, societal attitudes towards sexual functioning for ageing adults are gradually changing.
People who were sexually active younger people in the relatively sexually liberated 1960s and 1970s are now in or entering their retirement years, and are taking with them their established patterns of sexual attitudes and behavior.
Studies indicate that about half of people over 60 enjoy sexual activity at least once a month, and many would prefer to have sex more often than this. But many older people have internalised society's anxieties and misconceptions about how ageing may affect sexual desire and ability.
Although the normal ageing process does produce sexual changes, these are not as extreme as they are often believed to be, and many older couples adjust successfully to these changes by slightly modifying their love-making practices.
Health problems that can affect sexuality do increase in later life, but even the most serious conditions shouldn’t stop you from having a satisfying sex life. It is important to understand and know what to expect about how ageing affects your sexuality in order to dispel unwarranted fears and learn to deal with them.
Older men and sexual changes
Changes in sexual physiology that you can expect with ageing can affect both erectile function and ejaculation. These changes don't mean you have to stop having sex, however. It will probably take you longer to attain a full erection or the erection may not be as firm or as large as in earlier years.
You may need more direct manual stimulation from your partner to become fully aroused and erect. Try incorporating a lubricated hand massage into foreplay. If you're not fully erect enough to enter your partner, have your partner manually guide your penis.
You may not experience as much warning time before ejaculation, and when you do ejaculate, you will probably release less sperm less forcefully. The loss of erection after orgasm may be more rapid or it may take longer before an erection is again possible.
The majority of men with erectile dysfunction (impotence) are over 65, but the condition is not caused by ageing itself. It is more correct to say that erectile dysfunction is caused by health conditions such as vascular, endocrine or neurological disorders, prostate problems or diabetes. Effective treatments for this condition do exist and should be discussed with your doctor.
Certain kinds of surgery and medication may also interfere with sexual function. Many medications that older people use, such as antihypertensives, tranquilizers and antidepressants, can adversely affect erectile function and libido. Don't resign yourself to adverse affects - many can be alleviated. Work with your health professional to find a solution.
Older women and sexual changes
In women, the physiological effects of ageing on sexual function are primarily caused by post-menopausal hormonal changes. This usually does not mean decreased desire and ability to become aroused, however. And for many women, post-menopausal changes are offset by the freedom to enjoy sex without worrying pregnancy.
The rate and amount of vaginal lubrication decreases in most women, and vaginal tissue may become thinner and less elastic. The associated discomfort that you may experience during intercourse might reduce your sexual desire. Consult your gynaecologist about vaginal pain. Treatment may simply involve using an over-the-counter vaginal lubricant.
Water-based lubricants like KY jelly can also be applied to your partner's penis to ease penetration. Also discuss the possibility of hormone replacement therapy with your doctor: this may improve your general health in addition to relieving bothersome post-menopausal sexual symptoms.
You may also experience a reduction in the size of the clitoris, vulva and labia as a result of thinning fatty tissue. If the "hood" that covers the clitoris thins, the clitoris may become overly sensitive to pressure that was previously experienced as pleasurable. Discuss this with your partner. A simple lessening of pressure or less direct and prolonged stimulation may solve the problem. | <urn:uuid:3befdbf1-aca3-4d53-90af-b28af7dff689> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news24.com/health24/Sex/Relationships/Too-old-for-sex-Dont-let-society-dictate-20120721 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960553 | 814 | 1.875 | 2 |
Steve Eason reviews Red Star Over Russia and Not Everyone will be Taken into the Future by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, both at Tate Modern.
Red Star over Russia
Many of the left will be familiar with west London based author, designer, photographer David King from the books: “Red Star Over Russia”, “Russian Revolutionary Posters” and more recently “The Commissar Vanishes”. This show manages to cram an extensive sample of David’s extensive collection of posters, photographs and design work into a surprisingly small space. Lefty friends will be pleased to see the exhibition is more sympathetic to the October Revolution than this year’s exhibition at The RA.
Opening with a poster captioned: “With a united front we will overcome obstacles in building socialist industry in villages” a wall is filled with wonderful posters in all the languages in regions under soviet control. Almost before I had time to take in the posters, I turned to see a pop up book of a parachutist, designs by El Lissitzky and copies of “Russia Today” looking like a Soviet version of Picture Post.
But what I was most interested in were the photographic prints, many of these were clearly recently made copies of copies, but “Preparing for May Day in the railway worker’s club 1929” looked original, authentic and unaltered. It was a shock to see up close, how brutally crude the cropping, hand retouching and colouring of the Stalinist era really was. Photographers were literally made into illustrations – examples were the world-famous picture of Lenin speaking to soldiers departing for the Polish front in Teatralnia Square, Moscow – later cropped to remove Trotsky and Kamenev and of course “The Commissar vanishes”.
A central theme was Stalinism and the table with portraits of those purged and disappeared was at the centre of the show – don’t forget to open the drawers for more detailed books.
Not Everyone will be Taken into the Future
An entirely separate show of some of the installation work and paintings by Ukrainians Ilya and Emilia Kabakov is well worth visiting next. An installation of a tube train takes its title “Not Everyone will be taken into the Future” from an essay written in 1983 and asks “what will happen to these works tomorrow”… “Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album)” is a personal installation by Ilya that seems almost endless. Not surprisingly, Lenin and Stalin feature in some of the collages: Lenin in “The Appearance of Collage No.10” and Stalin in “The Four Paintings about Sun No. 4”, both by Ilya and Emilia.
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Used a lot during the Civil War. He was a stereotypical minstrel show character, history described here. Also used to describe segregationist laws in the south, but I recently read about a bus driver who was fired for using the term to describe a black person.
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- Starts at: 10:00h
- Fee: €100,-/€75,- (regular/student)
- Venue: T.M.C. Asser Instituut & Festival location
- Organiser: T.M.C. Asser Instituut & Movies that Matter
R.J. Schimmelpennincklaan 20-22
2517 JN The Hague
International law has been subject of many documentary films. Court proceedings, prosecutors, victims, defence teams, defendants—they all have made their appearance on screen. The 2019 Movies that Matter Festival in the Hague is no exception, with documentary films such as The Trial of Ratko Mladić and a separate Camera Justitia award for films on law and justice. But what do we see when we watch documentary film on law and justice? How is justice, how is law portrayed on screen? How do editing, narrative, and music affect how we feel and think about the law? Which ethical dilemmas arise when films portray victims and perpetrators?
The Asser Institute and Movies that Matter are co-organising a workshop on documentary film and international law. It uniquely combines lectures in critical theoretical analysis of human rights documentary film at the Asser Institute with a practical experience at the Movies that Matter Festival, one of the largest human rights film festivals in Europe. The workshop equips the participants to critically review and discuss the portrayal of international law in documentary film.
The workshop is linked to the festival competition programme Camera Justitia on law and justice. More information about Camera Justitia can be found here.
2-Day interactive programme
On the first day, Prof. Werner and Dr Stolk familiarise the participants with the general concepts common to film theory, human rights and international law. Their lectures address the historical relation between the field of film making and human rights/international law and their mutual interest in e.g. objectivity, truth, authenticity, evidence, authority and responsibility. In the afternoon, we will explore how documentary films construct narratives and arguments about international law. The lecturers will discuss different styles, storytelling devices and formal techniques. In the evening, participants can directly apply what they have learned during a screening of the documentary The Trial of Ratko Mladić by Henry Singer and Rob Miller at the Movies that Matter festival.
On the second day, we will analyse and discuss the film watched on the previous day. Rob Miller, one of the directors of The Trial of Ratko Mladić will join to explain the film making process and answer questions. In the afternoon, participants join the Camera Justitia Masterclass at the festival. In this Masterclass, prominent international lawyer Colleen Rohan will talk about her work as defence counsel before the international criminal tribunals, illustrated by film excerpts. In the evening, participants are invited to the Camera Justitia Night, a thematic evening programme on law and justice. This night is visited by many filmmakers as well as professionals from the international institutions in The Hague.
This workshop is open for everyone who has interest in either film or international law and justice or both. No previous expertise required to attend. The lectures and topics discussed are meant to cater to both legal and creative audiences.
About the teachers
The workshop is taught by Dr Sofia Stolk (Asser Institute/Movies that Matter) and Professor Wouter Werner (VU Amsterdam). Dr Stolk has been the coordinator of the Camera Justitia programme of Movies that Matter in the past years. In addition, she has published on the relationship between film, art and international law. Professor Werner was member of the jury of the Camera Justitia Award in 2017 and has published several articles on the relation between documentary film and international criminal law. Both share experience in teaching film and international law.
Wednesday 27 March – Lectures and Film Screening
10:00-16:00: Lectures at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut (including lunch) by Prof. Wouter Werner and Dr Sofia Stolk
17:30: Dinner at Festival location
19:00: Screening documentary The Trial of Ratko Mladić at the Movies that Matter festival
Thursday 28 March – Film Review and Masterclass
10:00-13:00: Evaluation The Trial of Ratko Mladić and meet & greet with director Rob Miller
16:00: Camera Justitia Masterclass by Colleen Rohan about ‘defending international criminal cases’
18:00: Dinner at Festival location
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In the Sati Khand of Rudra-Samhita, Narada enquires lord Brahma about the reason, why lord Shiva married Sati, inspite of being a ‘yogi’. He also requested Brahma to tell, how Sati became the daughter of Daksha Prajapati and in her next birth as Uma the daughter of Himalaya. How did Uma get lord Shiva as her husband?- asked Narada
Lord Brahma narrated the following tale-
“A girl by the name of Sandhya manifested from my being. I was amazed by her heavenly beauty. Right then a divine entity appeared before me, whose beauty could not have been matched even by the deities. He was Kamadeva- the god of love. He influenced me to such an extent that I forgot that Sandhya was my daughter and got infatuated by her.”
“When Rudra came to know about my lust for Sandhya, he admonished me and ridiculed about my character. I felt ashamed. But I also became jealous of Rudra. I decided to influence him with
the power of infatuation, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts. I remembered lord Vishnu and he tried to make me understand about the futility of my attempts, as according to him (Vishnu), Rudra was beyond the reach of any human emotions.”
“But I instructed my son – Daksha to help in the procreation of a girl child from the womb of Ashwinivirini. Thus Sati was born. Sati later on became famous of Uma and got Rudra as her husband on account of her tremendous penance.”
“Though Rudra was free from all kinds of attachment, but still he became so influenced by the desire for procreation that he married with Sati. He enjoyed a blissful married life for a very long time.”
“Rudra father in law, Daksha in his arrogance started condemning his son in law -Rudra. Once, Daksha organised a grand yagya ceremony. He gave invitation to everybody except Rudra and Uma. Despite of Rudra’s disinclination to allow Sati to go to her father’s yagya, She insisted and ultimately she was successful in convincing Rudra, to allow her to go.”
“When Sati reached there, she was not given respect by her father Daksha. Not only this, Daksha made fun of Rudra. Feeling dishonored, Sati gave up her life by jumping into the sacrificial fire.”
“When Rudra got the news of Sati’s death he became extremely furious. To take revenge, he created Veerbhadra from his locks of hair. Veerbhadra went to Daksha place and destroyed his oblation site. He severed Daksha’s head. All the deities became afraid and prayed to Rudra, to have mercy. Rudra then brought back Daksha to life and helped him the accomplished of the still incomplete Yagya. The site where Sati had died later on became famous as Jwalamukhi devi.”
“The same Sati in her next birth was born as Parvati to Himalaya. By her tremendous penance she again got lord Shiva as her husband.
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Sprouts Oats Cutlets is very easy and nutritious snack with goodness of oats and sprouts. It is a perfect tea time snack and also a nutritious after-school snack for kids. It is rich in fiber and a significant source of protein and carbohydrates.
Sprouts contain a significant amount of protein and dietary fiber, as well as vitamin K, folate, vitamin C, vitamin A. If you are looking for weight loss diets with good taste, then sprouts can replace them all. Whereas Oats are loaded with dietary fiber and have a range of healthy cholesterol-lowering properties.
Whole Green Dal Sprouts – 1 cup
Roasted Oats – 1 cup
Finely chopped onion – 1 medium
Finely chopped garlic- 2
Finely chopped coriander leaves – 1/4 cup
Finely chopped green chilly – 1
Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
Sabzi masala or pav bhaji masala – 1/2 tsp
Crushed Roasted Peanuts – 3 tbsp
Salt to taste
Oil for shallow frying
For Serving :
Thick curd – 1 cup
Chaat masala – 2 tbsp
Green Chutney or Sauce – 1/2 cup
- Microwave sprouts with 1/2 cup of water for 5 mins. Drain off the water. Let the sprouts cool. Then slightly chopped or grind boiled sprouts.
- Microwave roasted oats with 1 cup of water. Let it cool completely.
- Mix ground sprouts, microwave oats, and other above ingredients (except oil ) to make a soft dough. Keep it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Now apply little water on your hands. Take some lemon size portion and make cutlets.
- Heat little oil in pan and place cutlets in a pan.
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Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas (Robert Hugill)
- Editor: Robert Hugill (submitted 2015-01-01). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 157 kB Copyright: CC BY ND
- Edition notes: Original composition by Robert Hugill.
First published: 2008
Description: Original composition by Robert Hugill setting the Latin verses from Tobias 12 and Psalm 8 which form the Introit for Trinity Sunday.
The motet is set for four part unaccompanied choir (SATB) and is part of Robert Hugill's sequence of motets Tempus per Annum setting the Latin introits for all the Sundays in the church's year and for major feasts.
Original text and translations
| Latin text
Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas, atque indivisa Unitas:
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And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Mark 1:10–11, KJV)
When God opens the heavens, the earth flourishes, but when He closes them, the earth withers. This remarkable metaphor of earth-heaven interaction is an excellent image of how the spiritual atmosphere over us determines the course of our lives.
Before proceeding any further, let us examine the physical basis of this metaphor. As with any biblical imagery, God uses natural things we know to describe spiritual truth. The figure of open heavens is that of rain falling from the clouds in the atmosphere upon a piece of farmland. The physical atmosphere is the physical heaven or the first heaven. In this first heaven, rain clouds form in the first layer of the atmosphere( troposphere) and then falls on the earth. Furthermore, when rain falls—open heaven— the vegetation blossoms. But when rain does not fall, a closed heaven, the farmland is scorched, and the vegetation withers.
The interaction of the physical heaven and the earth is an image of how the spiritual atmosphere around us determines our earthly lives. In this metaphor, the physical atmosphere of heaven is a figure of the heaven where God dwells—or third heaven. The rain symbolizes the blessing which proceeds from God and causes His people to flourish on earth. The farmland or the trees represent our lives: spiritual lives, ministries, bodily and mental health, families and other relationships, provisions, businesses, careers, etc. As trees, we flourish under an open heaven of God’s blessings but wither under a closed heaven.
So when God opens the heavens, rain from heaven falls upon the earth and enriches it with the River of God( Ps. 65:9). And when this River that is full of water flows, the trees grow healthy green leaves and produce abundant fruit. What is this rain that falls from God’s presence and enriches the earth? In Mark 1:10-11, two different activities occurred when God opened the heavens over Jesus. First, the Spirit came down. Then, the voice of God was heard. These two blessings, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, encapsulate the rain from heaven that make people’s life flourish on earth.
God opened the heavens over your life the day you received Jesus as your Savior and Lord. On that blessed day, God spoke to you and placed His Spirit in your heart. Therefore, you are, by default, under an open heaven as a Christian. But whether you will live in that open heaven is determined by your relationship with the Spirit of God and His Word: how you yield to the Spirit’s leadership and live by the Word.
Is it possible to be under open heaven as a Christian but live as though under closed heaven? ( Gal. 5:25)
Apply the Word
There is a spiritual atmosphere that conditions our lives. You create an atmosphere of clouds full of rain over your life whenever you spend time in God’s presence praying and feeding on His Word, yield to His Spirit, or obey His Word in any area of your life. And when these clouds are complete, they empty themselves as rain in your ministry, health, family, etc. Sadly, some Christians are walking with empty clouds over their heads while struggling hard with their strength to make things work for them. Walk under an open heaven!
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Chess has the benefits of increasing cognitive perception, reasoning capability and it will heighten the children's ability to concentrate on a particular task and/or function. In addition, chess teaches responsibility, planning, social skills and how to be a good sport. Winning and losing is a life lesson that every child must learn in order to integrate effectively into society and groups responsibly with an excellent attitude.
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Can you watch movies on OverDrive?
If your digital library offers streaming videos, you can borrow and watch free shows, movies, and more. Depending on what device you’re using, videos will play either in the OverDrive app (on Android, Chromebook, iOS, and Fire devices) or right in your web browser.
How do I watch movies with my library card?
The first step, of course, is to have a valid library card for your local branch or county library system. Then find out which apps your library supportslike OverDrive, Hoopla, and Kanopyand download them so you can start streaming from the available video library.
Can you borrow movies on Libby?
We don’t have plans to add streaming video to Libby. If you’d like to borrow and watch streaming videos, we recommend using the OverDrive app or your library’s OverDrive website.
How do you sync OverDrive between devices?
The easiest way to get activity to sync between the OverDrive app on two different devices is to create an OverDrive account, and sign into each app with the same OverDrive account, instead of your library card. This will sync up the activity.
Can I have OverDrive on 2 devices?
You can sign into the OverDrive app on up to six different devices (Android, Fire tablets, Chromebook, iOS, or Windows 8/10) at a time using an OverDrive account, Adobe ID, or your library card.
How do I authorize a device on OverDrive?
How to authorize and deauthorize an ereaderConnect your ereader to your computer.Open ADE on your computer.Click on your ereader under “Devices.”Select Device Options, then Erase Device Authorization. Click Erase Authorization to confirm.
Can you have more than one library on OverDrive?
Have more than one library card for ebooks? Searching each one’s Overdrive page for a book would be maddening, but fortunately overdrive.com allows for simultaneous searching across multiple libraries: Create an account at Overdrive.com. On the “Libraries” settings page, find and save each library you have a card for.
How do I log into OverDrive?
How to sign into the OverDrive app with a library cardWhen you open the OverDrive app for the first time, select Sign up (or Sign in).Select Sign up using library card (or Sign in using library card).Search for your library by name or location.Select your library once you find it. Enter your library card information, then click Sign in.
How do you check out books on OverDrive?
How do I check out titles from OverDrive? Click on a title’s cover. If the title is available, click “Borrow.” If you are using the Libby app, your title should load immediately. If you are using the OverDrive app, go to your “Loans” page and select a download format.
Which is better Libby or OverDrive?
Libby is a fast and attractive digital browsing experience. Libby is great if you just want to download a book to your Android or iOS phone or tablet. OverDrive is the “classic” app, and is compatible with more devices, including Kindle Fire, Macs, PCs, and Windows mobile devices.
How do I make my OverDrive ebooks forever?
The trick is super simple. Before OverDrive reaches back through the ether to reclaim their content, throw your device into airplane mode. This works for any ereader, tablet, or smartphone.
How do I borrow an ebook on OverDrive?
How to borrow and enjoy titles in the OverDrive appInstall the OverDrive app from Google Play or the Amazon Appstore and sign in.Add your library to the app and open its digital collection.Find an available title in your library’s collection and tap Borrow. Choose a lending period for the title (if available).
How do I install OverDrive?
How to install OverDrive for Android if you don’t have the Google Play Store or Amazon AppstoreGo to overdrive.com/apps/overdrive.Select download for Android OS 5.0 (or newer) at the bottom of the page.Review the license agreement and tap I Agree to download the installation file.
Can I borrow eBooks from any library?
You can borrow eBooks from most public libraries and read them on your Kobo eReader. Most public libraries use a service called OverDrive to catalogue and manage eBooks. These instructions will guide you on how to borrow eBooks from your local library using OverDrive.
Can I borrow from other libraries with OverDrive?
You can borrow titles from any library as long as you have a library card for it. Select a library from the list to visit their collection. To sign into a partner library, select your normal library from the drop-down on the sign-in page, then enter your normal library card and PIN (if required).
How do I add more libraries to OverDrive?
How to add a libraryIn the OverDrive app, tap the icon in the top-left corner to open the Home menu.Tap Add a library.Enter your library’s name, city, or postal code in the search box, then tap Search.Tap your library.
How long can you borrow a book on OverDrive?
You can borrow eBooks and Audiobooks from Overdrive or Libby for 7 days, 14 days, or 21 days. It’s your choice! You can also set a default lending period for all items in a given format.
How do I use library in OverDrive?
How do I start using OverDrive Read? To get started, open your web browser and borrow a title that’s available in the OverDrive Read format from your library. Then, click or tap the Read now in browser button to begin reading it immediately using OverDrive Read.
How do I use OverDrive?
The OverDrive app is available for Android, Chromebooks, iOS, Fire tablets, and Windows 8/10.Install the OverDrive app from your device’s app store or from overdrive.com/apps/overdrive. Open the OverDrive app and follow the prompts to sign in (or sign up) using your library card or a free OverDrive account.
What devices are compatible with OverDrive?
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Financial Aid, Debt Management, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Post-College Effects of Merit-Based Aid (An NBER Working Paper)
By: Judith Scott-Clayton & Basit Zafar | National Bureau of Economic Research | August 2016
In this paper, the authors utilize two complementary quasi-experimental strategies to identify causal effects of the WV PROMISE scholarship, a broad-based state merit aid program, up to 10 years post-college-entry.
The Missing Manual: Using National Student Clearinghouse Data to Track Postsecondary Outcomes (An NBER Working Paper)
By: Susan M. Dynarski, Steven W. Hemelt, & Joshua M. Hyman | National Bureau of Economic Research | October 2013
This paper explores the promises and pitfalls of using National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data to measure a variety of postsecondary outcomes.
By: Judith Scott-Clayton & Sandy Baum | The Hamilton Project | October 2013
In this discussion paper, the authors propose three major structural reforms to the Pell Grant program.
By: Susan Dynarski & Daniel Kreisman | The Hamilton Project | October 2013
In this discussion paper, the authors propose a better model of student loan repayment.
The Economic Benefits of Attaining an Associate Degree Before Transfer: Evidence from North Carolina (CCRC Working Paper No. 62)
By: Clive Belfield | Community College Research Center | July 2013
Using data on credit accumulation, award receipt, and earnings, this paper examines whether it is better for students to earn an associate degree before transferring to a four-year college.
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In this article, the authors review what is known, and just as important, what is not known, about how well various student aid programs work.
By: Susan Dynarski, Judith Scott-Clayton, & Mark Wiederspan | National Bureau of Economic Research | January 2013
In this paper, the authors provide a five-year retrospective of what has changed in the financial aid application process, what has not, and the possibilities for future reform.
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This bibliography is a list of recent studies on the rate of return to college in the United States.
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Mario Draghi was formally sworn in as Italy's new prime minister on Saturday, following weeks of instability in the eurozone's third-largest economy.
The respected economist credited with saving the monetary union in 2012 now faces a major challenge in turning around Italy's devastated economy, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take hundreds of lives each day.
Here are the top issues Draghi will have to tackle as prime minister:
Italy is currently in its worst recession since World War II, brought about by the pandemic. But growth was already moribund before the coronavirus crisis, exacerbated by the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the eurozone after Greece.
Italy's gross domestic product fell by a staggering 8.9 percent last year, according to preliminary data, after it became the first European country to face the full force of Covid-19.
Draghi will have to tackle Italy's worst recession since World War II. Photo: AFP
A nationwide lockdown in March and April paralysed much of the country's economic activity, as did new restrictions imposed at the end of the year to confront a second wave of the virus.
Shuttered businesses have thrown waves of people out of work, even before a freeze on job dismissals is due to end next month. Around 426,000 people have lost their jobs since February 2020, with disproportionately high numbers of women and the young.
Draghi will be able to turn to the more than 200 billion euros ($242 billion) in grants and loans expected in Italy as part of the European Union's recovery fund.
But the previous government collapsed in a dispute over how to spend the windfall, with conflicting demands for immediate stimulus measures and long-term structural reforms.
Rome has until April to submit a spending plan for the EU funds to Brussels.Italy's economy is weighed down by longstanding structural issues, from low labour productivity and choking red tape in public administration and the courts to low foreign investment and an underperforming educational system.
After a promising start in December, Italy's vaccination programme has slowed, a trend politicians have blamed on supply shortages. Only 1.2 million people have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, out of a population of 60 million, according to health ministry data Friday.
Over 92,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Italy, which has seen more than 2.6 million of cases of coronavirus.Draghi will be charged with accelerating the pace of vaccinations while trying to impede transmission of new strains of coronavirus already appearing across the country.
“We need quick decisions because the course of the virus and its variants are certainly not slowing down for a government crisis,” said the independent health think tank GIMBE on Thursday.
Draghi secured the support of most Italian political parties, after the Giuseppe Conte's centre-left coalition collapsed. Photo: AFP
Draghi's priorities will become harder to execute if he faces the same internal dissent that brought down the last government under Giuseppe Conte.
For now, he has behind him a coalition of virtually all of Italy's parties in parliament, from the left-leaning Democratic Party to the far-right, populist League led by opposition leader Matteo Salvini.
He personally enjoys robust popular support, with 62 percent of Italians showing confidence in the leader, according to a survey in La Stampa daily conducted February 5.
READ ALSO: How are Italy's prime ministers chosen?
But experts warn his political capital could soon wane, particularly if he begins to push through reforms opposed by trade unions and others.
“Politics, like nature, moves in cycles: honeymoon, plateau, decline,” wrote political risk consultancy Policy Sonarin a note published Thursday.
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This stunning animated feature, decades in the making, is based on a 10th century Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, widely known throughout Japan; it is the oldest extant Japanese narrative and an early example of proto-science fiction. The film is directed by Isao Takahata, a longtime collaborator with Hayao Miyazaki who brought us such masterworks as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. The hand-drawn animation evidences a true reverence for the natural world and for the beauty that shines through the exquisite imagery of streams, birds, plants, trees, sky, and cherry blossoms.
While he is working in the forest, Okina (English voice by James Caan) the Bamboo Cutter finds an exotic little being who emerges from the inside of a bamboo shoot. He is awed by her beauty and convinced she is a Princess. He carries her home in his palm where he and his wife (Mary Steenburgen) watch her transform into a human baby. This childless couple marvel at her energy and her antics as she crawls and very quickly walks. Children in the community call her "Little Bamboo." Every time she laughs she seems to have a growth spurt!
The Princess (Chloe Grace Moretz) loves to run like a frisky horse with her long hair blowing in the wind. She is a free spirit whose playful nature finds a natural and creative expression with her peasant friends, especially Sutemaru (Darren Criss), a handsome boy. They are both curious and adventuresome, deriving great pleasure from their harmony with the forest and its surrounding milieu.
When Okina discovers gold in a bamboo stalk along with lovely silks, he takes these gifts as a sign from Heaven that he should move to the capital where the Princess can become what she was meant to be — a rich and powerful woman. They take up residence in a mansion and hire Sagami (Lucy Liu), a strict and pompous governess, to teach the Princess the ways of court etiquette.
During this transitional phase of her life, the Princess grows restless and yearns for the forest and the freedom to romp in the natural world. After she is given the name "Kaguya" by a wise courtier, word spreads throughout the kingdom about the Princess' striking beauty. But she is not impressed with the many suitors who come to win her hand in marriage, not even the Emperor.
Although The Tale of Princess Kaguya ends on a somber note, this enlightening animated parable underlines the truth of Ralph Waldo Emerson's aphorism: "It is a happy talent to know how to play." Inside us all is a child who remembers the vitality and pleasure of play. More than any film we have seen in years, this one taps into those experiences from our youth when we felt as free and buoyant as the wind. The Tale of Princess Kaguya also reveals that play is a pathway to laughter. The joy that emanates from the laughter of this enthusiastic character soothes our souls.
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Parenting Tips, Info, & Advice
Leading by the Power of Our Example
When President Biden gave his victory speech on November 7, 2020 and again when he addressed the nation at his Inauguration last week, he said “We will lead not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.”
The power of our example. Wow.
It’s a powerful statement for the leader of the free world, but as he was speaking, all I could think was “what a powerful statement for a parent.”
Do you lead your family and parent your children using the power of your example? Or do you rely on the example of your power?
Culturally, I think we are conditioned to think we have to overpower our children—to win over them rather than to win them over. We are told that we need to be the boss, that we need to make them behave, and that they will only respect us if we demand it.
But stop for a minute and think about that.
Is that really how we want our kids to live?
Is that really how we want to parent?
Is that really cementing the type of relationship we want to have with them?
Imagine for a moment that you had a boss like that (as some of you may). A boss who was constantly looking to prove that they were more than you. A boss who was committed to being right and proving you wrong. A boss who demanded respect but didn’t give it. A boss who who took credit for the good things you did. A boss for whom you did work not because you were empowered and committed to the cause, but because you were fearful of the consequences. And a boss who did not make space for mistakes and the growth that stems from them.
I wouldn’t want to work for that boss.
And your kids don’t either.
So how can we parent using the power of our example rather than the example of our power?
Here are some thoughts from the trenches:
We can learn to regulate our emotions. Problems and behavior issues don’t always need to be addressed in the moment. There is a lot of power in waiting until everyone is calm so that we can decide how to respond rather than react. If we are yellers, we can teach ourselves to be more mindful in the moment so that yelling doesn’t become our go-to strategy for being heard or gaining compliance. Learning techniques to regulate our own emotions puts us in a better position to teach those skills to our children.
We can learn to make good, heartful repairs. Few things are as useful in relationships as knowing how to say “I’m sorry,” and few things are as powerful in our parenting as letting our children hear us admit we screwed up. A meaningful repair has three key components: we have to RECOGNIZE the mistake we made and take responsibility, we must RECONCILE by apologizing from the heart, and we RESOLVE the problem by working together on a respectful solution.
We can build a culture of mutual respect and appreciation. What if rather than demanding respect simply because we are their parent, we flipped the script and decided that our children are deserving of respect and kindness simply by virtue of the fact that they are human. Families that regularly cultivate mutual respect for one another routinely see fewer behavior issues in need of correcting; after all, it we tend to be kind and respectful to those who are kind and respectful of us.
We can give credit where credit is due. Too many of us have our egos wrapped up in our parenting: when they fail at something, we feel as if we have failed. And when they succeed, we love to take the credit. But leading by the power of our example means giving credit where credit is due and letting them celebrate their own successes.
We can provide encouragement and empowerment. When we allow children to make mistakes in a variety of contexts, and allow those mistakes to be opportunities for learning, we open the door to some really cool stuff! By praising effort rather than outcome, we empower our children to solve their own problems. And when we connect with them before correcting them, we invite them into constructive self-evaluation rather than destructive self-judgment. Unburdened by shame, children can use a mistake to launch them to their next success.
The skills that serve us well as stand-out leaders in the workplace, and exemplify what President Biden was referring to when he suggested the U.S. should lead by the power of its example, are really not that different from the strategies that allow our families to thrive with love, joy, and connection.
Are you relying on a show of power with your children? Are you leading with fear? Or are you traveling on a different road?
In the words of our president, “without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.”
We all have the power to choose each day how we want to show up for our children.
Are you choosing unity? Are you showing up as the example your children deserve?
As we embark as a country under new leadership, I wonder…maybe it’s time we do the same at home?
Christy Keating is a certified parent coach, positive discipline educator, and motivational speaker. She is the founder and CEO of The Heartful Parent Collective, which includes Heartful Parent Coaching, Savvy Parents Safe Kids, and Heartful Parent Academy.
The mother of two amazing daughters, Christy strives to build a happier, healthier world - one child, one parent, and one family at a time.
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Articles of jewelry not intended to be worn by the living but with which the dead was buried, as in ancient Egypt.
In Egypt, during the VIth Dynasty (c. 2400 BC - c. 2250 BC) and the XVIIIth Dynasty (c. 1552 BC - c. 1296 BC), the scarab, which had significance as to resurrection and immortality, was often so interred, especially the heart scarab. Some such articles were made of thin gold sheet to cover parts of the dead body, e.g. the eyes, mouth, ears, breast, navel, pudenda, some being in the form of the part to be covered; these were produced in many eastern Mediterranean regions, such as Egypt, Cyprus, the region near the Black See, and the Palestinian-Phoenician coast.
Related to these burial articles was the gold death mask for covering the face. Many pieces of this type were made of gold pre-Columbian jewelry. In very ancient China, from the 4th/3rd Millennia BC, various articles of jade were interred with the dead, each having some ritualistic significance, e.g. the PI and the Huang. The most imposing were the funeral suits such as those made of 2690 pieces for Prince Liu Sheng and of 2160 pieces for his wife, Princess Tou Wan, from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8), found in 1968 on their bodies in their tomb in the district of Hopei; the pieces of jade were sewn together with gold and silver thread.
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Choosing the Best Sex Research Topics: Research Papers Tips and Tricks
The recently introduced Gender Studies course has made quite a number of students search desperately for research topics about sex. This is an important class as it teaches young people about various aspects of sexual life through the study of the sexual behavior of young adults in the United States and other countries of the world.
In many cases, disciplines like psychology, sociology, and nursing study sex-related issues, which means that your research paper on sex should be in APA style and contain the following elements: the title page, outline, introduction, methodology, findings, discussion, and bibliography.
The goal of this article is, therefore, to suggest ways of coming up with sex research topics, as well as suggest 55 topic ideas.
The List of Interesting Sex Research Paper Topics
Teachers do not always assign specific sex research topics, which is great. However, it is not easy to select an interesting problem without someone else's help, which is why we've put together some tips that will help you choose the right topic.
Sit down with your friends or family members and discuss all kinds of topics related to sex and gender studies. Make sure you note down every single idea suggested, so you end up having a long list of interesting and research-worthy topics. Stay up to date. Follow social media and news channels to know which of the topics related to sexual education might be interesting for your audience.
- Check information availability.
Make sure that your topic can be researched using trusted sources, and that you have access to the necessary study materials. Do not forget that you will have to provide some quotes in your work to prove the thesis statement.
- Avoid sensitive topics.
Yes, it is hard to avoid sensitive or provoking ideas when it comes to selecting a topic for this kind of paper. Try to pick an issue that will not provoke subjective opinions. Support everything that you say with in-text citations from credible and up-to-date sources.
- Discuss the choice.
Once you are ready with the list ofsex research paper topics, ask your teacher to have a look at it and recommend you the best one. Discuss the final choice with them.
- Philosophy of sex.
- Gay youth.
- Sexually transmitted diseases.
- The consequence of early pregnancy.
- The relationship between early sex and bad habits.
- The geographical locations of people who are being trafficked most of all.
- The causes of trafficking.
- The consequences of sexual trafficking.
- Discussing sex trafficking.
- Places where people for sex trafficking are taken from.
Sex, race, class
- The difference in human sexual experiences.
- Organizational communication and sex.
- Having access to civil/participative liberties helps to learn more about sex.
- Conflicts between public and private domains.
- The role of gender in non-profitable organizations.
- Global justice & women.
- Feminist opinion on the pornographic films.
- Marriage & civil unions.
- The role of feminism in modern politics.
- The impact of feminism on family structure.
Sex work stigma
- Testing stigma as sex work researchers.
- Critical analysis of the sex work-related stigma.
- Prostitution stigma.
- The effect of prostitution on working conditions.
- High-cost of the stigma attached to the sex work industry.
Religion and sex
- The role of religion in reproduction.
- The role of gender in the Islamic religion.
- The way sex is viewed in Christianity.
- Human rights and religion.
- Sexuality as a new area of research.
- The issue of sexuality within the therapeutic encounter.
- Factors that influence professional practice in sexuality.
- The effectiveness of sex therapy.
- The findings of research on human sexuality.
- Sex therapies for the male population.
- A paper on sex crimes.
- Sex offender registry.
- Sex offender treatment and therapy.
- Criminal justice and sex.
- Managing high-risk offenders.
- The way sexual minorities changed the concept of family.
- Reasons for the same-sex marriage.
- How same-sex couples divide their roles.
- Gay marriage and its impact on culture.
- Social media and same-sex marriage.
Anthropology: sex and gender
- Studies of female population and sexuality.
- The impact of stigma on mental health.
- Collective objectification in women's rugby culture.
- The perception of modern gay relationships.
- Formation & fragmentation of gender and race.
- Historical and scientific perspectives of homosexuality.
- Causes of premarital sex among teens.
- The suppression of sexuality in different theories.
- Gay porn and intimacy.
- Consequences of premarital sex.
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Traditionally, toys imitate life. Many toys are meant to be instructive, helping children grow mentally and physically. For centuries, toys on wheels that can be pushed or pulled have fascinated children. Here you see large wheeled toys that include a wheelbarrow, scooter and a pull cart. The wooden ocean liner and yellow airplane were made for children during the 1930’s as part of President Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Projects Authority) to put people to work.
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St Benedict of Nursia in Italy was born in the last quarter of the fifth century and died in the middle of the sixth. By the time of his death he had laid the foundation for Western Monasticism and was later canonised as the Patron Saint of Western Europe. He wrote the Rule of Benedict that has been adopted by countless Christian religious communities (both male and female) throughout the world; indeed the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfiled, with whom we have so many links, has the charism of “the Benedictine.” It possesses the unique spirit of balance, moderation and reasonableness. As I look at my bookshelf I notice that I have a sizeable collection of writings and prayer books written by Benedictines; Cardinal Basil Hume, David Foster, Abbott Parry, Estha De Waal and Andrew Clitheroe to name but five.
St Benedict established the sevenfold Offices (or services) of the Church that Benedictines use even to this day; these are Vigils, Lauds, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers and Compline with of course Holy Communion that normally occurs at midday. I have always been attracted to the monastic way although it has never been my vocation; perhaps as a consequence of growing up in an Anglo – Catholic area of Oxford near a Monastery and also working as a helper in a convent with a sweet Nun and very godly woman, Sr Norah Moran whose profession Cross I was given when she died. She was quite a character and used to burn leaves in the garden of her convent, much to the consternation of her wealthy and middle class neighbours, and thereby challenging the Police to come and arrest her! In an increasingly (can it get even more) busy, hectic, noise filled, image driven world more and more people are looking to the Rule of St Benedict ( and others such as St Francis) to provide balance to their existence.
Ash Wednesday will soon be upon us and it is right that we try to impose upon ourselves some discipline or other that will assist us in growing in the Faith. One ideal way would be to pop onto Amazon and purchase David Foster’s (OSB) book Reading with God in which he explains and illuminates Lectio Divina – Reading with God. This is not some mad cap lunacy but what he describes as “Praying with the Bible.” To quote the fly leaf, “Following St Benedict’s opening command in his rule to ‘listen’, attending to the word of God through the printed text Lectio Divina is an art that helps us listen to God in a world in which we are surrounded by a cacophony of sound and noise.”
When reading the Bible St Benedict encourages a formula that leads to engagement:
- Discernment – what are the practical needs and demand of my life?
- Decision – a choice of what God’s will is in my life insofar as my conscience understands
- Action- faithful action
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The award is given annually for the best fictional representation “of human and machine intelligence forming and thriving in a cooperative peer relationship.”
Previously, Wake, the first volume in Sawyer’s trilogy, was nominated for the Hugo Award (2010), and all three volumes in the trilogy separately won Canada’s top SF award, the Aurora, for Best Novel of the Year (2010-2012).
The WWW trilogy deals with the World Wide Web gaining consciousness, a fact that first becomes apparent to blind teenage math prodigy Caitlin Decter.
“Traditionally,” says Sawyer, “science fiction only offered three scenarios for how the advent of artificial intelligence might go. There was the Terminator scenario, in which the machines eliminate us; the Matrix scenario, in which they subjugate us; and Star Trek’s ‘Borg’ scenario, in which they absorb us. I felt it was important to portray a fresh, win-win version in which humanity survives the coming Singularity with our liberty, individuality, and dignity intact.”
In announcing this year’s win, David Miller, president and co-founder of MIFRE, said, “The WWW trilogy was exactly what we had hoped to find: a story that demonstrated the positive cooperation between humans and conscious machines, for the benefit of all. We enjoyed what was a fascinating possible origin story for machine intelligence, and particularly appreciated how it demonstrated that its relationship with the human race could become a mutually beneficial partnership. We feel that the future depends on our ability as a civilization to be welcoming and respectful as the existence of conscious machines looms as a near certainty.”
Robert J. Sawyer, who lives in Mississauga, Ontario, has previously won all three of the world’s top science-fiction prizes for best novel of the year: the Hugo Award, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Sawyer is a member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor given by the Canadian government. He will be a Guest of Honor at the Chengdu Worldcon in 2023.
What if there was no one new Doctor? With a quick narrative device to produce an unstable regeneration, you could have a new high-profile Doctor every week. Suddenly it’s possible to hire Hugh Grant, Judi Dench or Riz Ahmed at the Tardis controls, when you only need to persuade them to do a few weeks’ filming – rather than a three-series commitment. Plus, you get all the publicity of the reveal of a new Doctor, over and over again.
(2) LET’S YOU AND HIM FIGHT. Rosemary Jenkinson is missing the old verbal slapfights between literary writers: “A Room with a Feud” in The Critic Magazine. Well, we still have plenty in genre, but if they stopped would you miss them?
Oh, where to find the fabulous spats that used to enliven every writers’ circle? It’s no coincidence that the drab rise of cancel culture has contributed to the demise of colourful literary disagreements. In my own case, my publisher, Doire Press, rescinded their offer to publish my debut novel after I wrote an article contending that Northern Irish authors should focus on contemporary matters rather than the Troubles. As the Sunday Independent rightly questioned in the aftermath, “Is the Irish literary world really so fragile and full of itself that it can’t cope with the odd dose of healthy impertinence?”
Many of the writing greats enhanced their reputations with a critical bon mot. As the poet and critic Dorothy Parker vaunted, “The first thing I do every morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue,”…
…Naturally, no one wants to see hatchet jobs on writers, but one can’t help wondering where the entertainment is in a bland anodyne literary world. Many writers don’t have the robust constitution to engage in the art of the literary skirmish, but the difficulty for the few who do is that those they write about are likely to claim victim status….
(3) SAWYER HEALTH UPDATE. Robert J. Sawyer told Facebook followers in a public post today that he tested positive for Covid-19, but has “no symptoms to speak of.” Best wishes for him to continue feeling well.
…”Russian warship, f***k you…!” was the response to demands to surrender given to Russian naval forces by Ukrainian border guards stationed on Snake Island early in the war. The Ukrainian marine who uttered the phrase, Roman Grybov, was present at a ceremony issuing the postage stamp along with the illustrator….
Acclaimed screenwriter Damon Lindelof learns that several members of his family tree died in the Bialystok ghetto during the Holocaust on Tuesday night’s episode of the celebrity genealogy show “Finding Your Roots.”
With help from the archives at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum, the “Finding Your Roots” team found six pages of testimony detailing the fate of a branch of Lindelof’s family.
Lindelof, who created HBO’s 2019 “Watchmen” series and co-created “Lost,” reads from the show’s compiled pages about his family tree, repeating “circumstances of death: ghetto Bialystok” after several relatives: his great-granduncle — the brother of his great-grandmother — and his wife and their four children.
I’ve always been a fan of ghost stories. As a kid, I loved horror movies and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and H. P. Lovecraft; later on, I discovered movies like The Innocents (based on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw) and The Haunting (adapted from Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House). As a ghost historian and editor, I’ve discovered dozens of brilliant tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; these are stories that remain relevant, entertaining, and frightening….
Future Tense is asking Sec. Pete Buttigieg what role imagination plays in managing a federal department as sprawling and impactful as the Department of Transportation. We’re also asking three of our accomplished Future Tense Fiction authors to talk about how they see their work inspiring visions of futures that might come to pass.
Tochi Onyebuchi, @TochiTrueStory; Author, How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary, Future Tense Fiction Author, Goliath
Moderators: Paul Butler, President, New America; Ed Finn, @zonal; Founding Director, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University
(8) MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE ASHBY. [Item by David Grigg.] Christine Ashby, long-time Australian fan, died at home on Tuesday 29 March 2022. She was 70 years of age. She is survived by her husband Derrick Ashby.
Christine was a member of the Monash University SF Association, alongside such well-known names as John Foyster and Carey Handfield. After graduating as a lawyer she began work as a solicitor and developed considerable expertise in legal costings.
She was involved in organising and running several Melbourne SF conventions in the 1970s and 80s and was the Guest of Honour at Q-Con in Brisbane in 1973. She and Derrick were members of ANZAPA for many years.
Christine was Treasurer of two Worldcons: Aussiecon in 1975 and Aussiecon Two in 1985.
Outside of fandom, Christine served for several years on the board of the Paraplegics and Quadriplegics Association of Victoria and for a short while was its Chairperson.
(9) MEMORY LANE.
2007 — [Compiled by Cat Eldridge.] Fifteen years ago, a special citation went to Ray Bradbury from the Pulitzer Board for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.
But the Pulitzer Board doesn’t give out such an Award without picking a specific work and this is the full language of their announcement:
Bradbury came of age as a writer before the postwar ascendancy of the paperback book as a publishing medium. Instead, during the Golden Age of Science Fiction, short stories published in pulp magazines like Astounding Science-Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories stood at the forefront of the field. As such, many of his novels are actually “fixups”—a term coined by SF legend A.E. van Vogt to describe novels assembled from previously published short stories that were buttressed with new interlinking material.
Culled from Bradbury’s late 1940s output, The Martian Chronicles is a sweeping account of the colonization of Mars amid nuclear war on Earth. Its literary structure (patterned after Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio) earned plaudits from such notable critics like Christopher Isherwood, who read the book after a fortuitous encounter with the younger writer (and fellow Angeleno) at a bookstore. In his review, Isherwood deemed Bradbury “a very great and unusual talent,” a tastemaking assessment that charted the course of the rest of his career.
(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born April 16, 1905 — Charles G. Finney. Writer and Editor. It’s rare that I pick writers whose main accomplishment is one work which has defined them, but his one such work is, well, phenomenal. His first novel and most famous work, The Circus of Dr. Lao, was a Hugo finalist at Loncon II and won one of the inaugural National Book Awards, the Most Original Book of 1935; it is most decidedly fantasy. Ray Bradbury liked the novel so much that he included it as the headline story in his anthology The Circus of Dr. Laoand Other Improbable Stories; it is said that the carnival in his Something Wicked This Way Comes is modelled upon The Circus of Dr. Lao. (Died 1984.)
Born April 16, 1917 — William “Billy” Benedict. Singled out for birthday honors as he was Whitey Murphy in Adventures of Captain Marvel. Yes, that Captain Marvel. Back in 1942, it was a 12-chapter black-and-white movie serial from Republic Pictures based off the Fawcett Comics strip. You can watch the first chapter, “Curse of The Scorpion,” here. (Died 1999.)
Born April 16, 1921 — Peter Ustinov. I’ve done his Birthday in the past and profiled his extensive genre work there but I’m going to limit this write-up to just one role he did. In half a dozen films, he played Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, first in Death on the Nile and then in Evil Under the Sun, Thirteen at Dinner (a television film), Dead Man’s Folly (another television movie), Murder in Three Acts (yet another television movie), and finally in Appointment with Death. An impressive take on that role indeed! (Died 2004.)
Born April 16, 1922 — Kingsley Amis. So have you read The Green Man? I’m still not convinced that anything actually happened, or that rather everything including the hauntings were really in Maurice Allington’s decayed brain. I’m not seeing that he did much else for genre work other outside of The Anti-Death League and The Alteration but he did write Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure under the pseudonym of Robert Markham and his New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction which was published in the late Fifties sounds fascinating as he shares his views on the genre and makes some predictions as there’ll never be a SF series on the boob tube despite there already being so. (Died 1995.)
Born April 16, 1922 — John Christopher. Author of The Tripods, an alien invasion series which was adapted into both a excellent radio and a superb television series. He wrote a lot of genre fiction including the Fireball series in which Rome never fell, and The Death of Grass which I mention because it was one of the many YA post-apocalyptic novels that he wrote in the Fifties and Sixties that sold extremely well in the U.K. The film version would be nominated for a Hugo at Noreascon I, a year where No Award was given. (Died 2012.)
Born April 16, 1962 — Kathryn Cramer, 60. Writer, editor, literary critic. She co-founded The New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988 with David G. Hartwell and others, and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. She edited with her husband David G. Hartwell Year’s Best Fantasy one through nine, and Year’s Best SF seven through seventeen with him as well. They did a number of anthologies of which I’ll single out The Hard SF Renaissance and The Space Opera Renaissance as particularly superb. She has a most excellent website Kathryncramer.com.
Born April 16, 1975 — Sean Maher, 47. Doctor Simon Tam In the Firefly ‘verse. And Dick Grayson (Nightwing) in a staggering number of animated DCU films, to wit Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin, Batman: Bad Blood, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Batman: Hush and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. He showed up on Arrow as Shrapnel in the “Blast Radius” and “Suicide Squad” episodes. He also had a one-off on Warehouse 13 as Sheldon in the “Mild Mannered” episode.
(11) COMICS SECTION.
The Flying McCoys illustrates a problem caused by something you can easily understand Superman wouldn’t know he was doing.
(12) A FAN FUND AUCTION OF YESTERYEAR. Fanac.org’s video time machine has returned from 1976 with a clip from the first MidAmeriCon.
MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention, was held in Kansas City in 1976. In this very short video excerpt from the Fan Funds Auction at Big Mac, auctioneer Rusty Hevelin shows just how far fans will go to be supportive of the Fan Funds. In this clip, it’s not books or vegemite up for bid, but currency. The second item is the one to watch, with Rusty skillfully extracting bids from the crowd. You’ll also see fellow auctioneer jan howard finder making a brief appearance…
This video is brought to you by the FANAC Fan History Project, with video from the Video Archeology project (coordinated by Geri Sullivan, with technical work by David Dyer-Bennet).
… Was it strange to go from being the only child on the set of Temple of Doom to being constantly around other young actors while making The Goonies?
It was weird, because coming off of Indiana Jones … I got all the attention versus being on a set with six other kids, and honestly they were all hams! [Laughs] They really knew what they were doing. So I found myself constantly having to fight for attention. But that was very familiar to me, because I grew up in a big family and that’s what my home was like. I got some great friendships out of that movie, including Jeff Cohen, aka Chunk. He’s my entertainment lawyer and we’re great friends, as I am with Sean [Astin] and Corey [Feldman]. We’re Goonies for life…
(14) NOSFERATU. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In the Financial Times behind a paywall, Nigel Andrews reflects on the centennial of F.W. Murnau’s great horror film Nosferatu.
The film’s poetry of terror comes from real locations, mostly shot in daytime. Cityscapes: the unforgettable, hollowed-out tenement building (filmed in Lübeck) in which the vampire finds his last-act townhouse. Nature: dark monuments and bristling forests. castles: the stone arches and beetling walls of Nosferatu’s Carpathian home. Those arches become a master touch. In shot after shot, Max Shreck’s hideous Count, dressd to kill and made up likewise, emerges from the inverted U of dark tunnels or from frame-fitting Gothic doorways, like a creature serially birthed or rebirthed from vertical coffin-wombs.
Schreck was a distinguished stage actor made out for the movie. The nightmarishly thin body (for which he dieted), with long arms and extended fingers,is crowned with a rat-toothed bat-eared head, bald and cadaverously thin. The dark, hollowed eyes are a premonitory rhyme with the Lübeck buildings. The frock coat is like a sartorial shroud, which seems sewn straight on to the skin. Sometimes he wears a skewy turban-style nightcap: a touch of bleak farce among the grand guignol.
The lunar dust that sold today is a rare exception to the rule, a quirk due in part to a combination of fraud, mistaken identity, and a series of legal disputes….
(16) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In Jurassic World Dominion, two generations of cast members unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill.
From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures.
[Thanks to Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Andrew Porter, David Grigg, Michael Toman, Cat Eldridge, and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Patrick Morris Miller.]
(1) I’M JUST A POE BOY. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In the Washington Post, Andrea Sachs writes about the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, which opened in April 1922. The museum has as official greeters two black cats, Edgar and Pluto. The museum will celebrate its centennial on April 28 with an UnHappy Hour, where guests will cosplay characters from the 1920s, with music by “local surfrock band The Embalmers.” And if your kids are bored, they can leap into a coffin! “Why you should visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond”.
… From “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe’s acclaimed poem, we know that birds can speak. If the Enchanted Garden at the Poe Museum in Richmond, which celebrates its centennial this year, had a voice, it might have a choice word to say as well.
“Evermore,” the bricks from the Southern Literary Messenger building, the writer’s former office, would utter. “Evermore,” the ivy clipped from his mother’s grave would whisper. “Evermore,” the copy of the bust of Poe would intone, before asking after the original plaster statue of his head. (Rest easy, Mr. Poe. After police recovered the stolen object from the bar at the Raven Inn in 1987, it has been living safely and soberly inside the museum’s reading room.)To be sure, 100 years is not forever, but for a museum dedicated to a 19th-century American author who wades in the dark recesses of the human psyche, it comes close….
It only took THIRTY-FOUR YEARS, but SFWA is FINALLY changing its name to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (instead of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America). Text of a letter I sent to the SFWA FORUM on February 25, 1988:
At the SFWA meeting during the Brighton WorldCon [in August 1987), Charles Sheffield proposed changing the name of our organization from the Science Fiction Writers of America to the Science Fiction Writers Association. Why? He said the current name was insulting to overseas members. I agree, but, as I pointed out at that meeting, you don’t have to be separated from the United States by an ocean to feel excluded by the present name.
Now Joel Rosenberg has written to the FORUM (Number 104, page 33), again talking about American vs. overseas members. Let’s put this to rest. Canadians do not live overseas from the States, and they certainly do not consider themselves Americans, any more than the other non-U.S.-residents of North and South America do.
There are 21 Canadians in SFWA, making us by far the largest non-American nationality. I can’t speak for my compatriots, but I dislike SFWA’s current name and I object to having my country fall between the cracks of this debate….
(3) UNMET TWAIN. [Item by Cora Buhlert.] Here’s a very good article on Ukraine and Russia and why both countries are different by Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov: “Ukranians Will Never Be Russians” in The Sunday Times.
… Ukrainians are individualists, egoists, anarchists who do not like government or authority. They think they know how to organise their lives, regardless of which party or force is in power in the country. If they do not like the actions of the authorities, they go out to protest. Therefore, any government in Ukraine is afraid of the street; afraid of its people.
Russians loyal to their authority are afraid to protest and are willing to obey any rules the Kremlin creates. Now they are cut off from information, from Facebook and Twitter. But even before they believed the official TV channels more than the news from the internet.
In Ukraine, about 400 political parties are registered with the Ministry of Justice. This only once again proves the individualism of Ukrainians. Not a single nationalist party is represented in the Ukrainian parliament. Ukrainians do not like to vote for either the extreme left or the extreme right. Basically, they are liberals at heart.
In the 1920s and 1930s peasants were sent to Siberia and the Far East as a punishment for not wanting to join collective farms. Ukrainians are not collective, everyone wants to be the owner of his own land, his own cow, his own crop. Looking at this history, they can safely say: “We and the Russians are two different peoples!”…
(4) MOORCOCK. “Dangerous Visions: Final Programmes and New Fixes: A conversation with Michael Moorcock” is a conversation between Michael Moorcock and Mike Stax from the symposium presented by City Lights in conjunction with PM Press on February 26 and 27, exploring the radical currents of sf. It happened during the celebration of the US launch of the book Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre.
Rogues in the House, as the title may suggest, is a sword-and-sorcery focused podcast. We explore everything from Conan the Cimmerian to Elric of Melnibone, and we aren’t afraid to dive into adjacent genres and topics. Masters of the Universe, Willow, and the Witcher tend to simmer in our soup as well.
We call ourselves half-baked experts and usually place fun in front of fidelity, though we do do our homework.
Tomorrow’s World visits the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio dedicated to the production of cutting edge electronic sound effects, soundscapes and electronic music for use in BBC television and radio programmes. Pioneering sound engineer Delia Derbyshire – who, along with colleague Dick Mills, realised Ron Grainer’s famous Doctor Who Theme at the Radiophonic Workshop – shows how electronic sounds are produced, and demonstrates some of the processes and techniques used in the workshop to build these sounds into otherworldly scores for the likes of Quatermass and the Pit
(7) END OF AN ERA. The Tellers of Weird Tales blog pays tribute to the late Marvin Kaye, who edited the magazine from 2012 to 2019: “Marvin Kaye (1938-2021)”.
…Marvin Kaye was certainly multitalented. He had an admirable career, the kind that few men or women born in later decades have been able to attain. We should be thankful to him–and his wife–for bringing so much back from the past and placing it before us so that we might all enjoy it once again.…
(8) WILLIAM HURT (1950-2022) Actor William Hurt, whose first film was Altered States, and who gained fame in non-genre roles such as his Oscar-winning performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman, died March 13. Variety’s tribute includes Hurt’s late-career genre work.
…More recently, Hurt became well known to a younger generation of movie lovers with his portrayal of the no-nonsense General Thaddeus Ross in 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk.” He later reprised the role in “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Black Widow.”
…After appearing on stage, Hurt secured a lead role in “Altered States,” playing a troubled scientist in Ken Russell’s offbeat film, a notable entry in the body horror genre.
… A rare attempt at popcorn entertainment with 1998’s big-screen adaptation of “Lost in Space” was a modest hit, but didn’t earn enough money to spawn a franchise and Hurt looked miserable throughout the movie.
He also appeared in the TV mini-series version of “Dune,” in Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and in M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village.”…
(9) MEMORY LANE.
1987 — [Item by Cat Eldridge] The history of Roger Zelazny’s Hugos is quite fascinating, both ones he actually won and the ones that he got nominated for but didn’t win.
His first was a nomination at Pacificon II at “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” which was followed by a nomination at Tricon for “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” and a win for …And Call Me Conrad (also known as This Immortal) in a tie with Dune.
At NyCon 3 the next year, two of his novelettes woulde to get nominated, “For a Breath I Tarry” and “This Moment of the Storm” as did his “Comes Now the Power” short story.
Baycon would see him win the Hugo for Best Novel for Lord of Light and get a nomination for the “Damnation Alley” novella. The novel version of Damnation Alley would come after Baycon.
Jack of Shadows would get nominated at the first L.A. Con. Doorways in the Sand got that honor in MidAmeriCon where his “Home is The Hangman” novella won a Hugo.
At Chicon IV, “Unicorn Variation” wins the Best Novelette and at ConFederation, “24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai” would win Best Novella. The next year at Conspiracy ’87, “Permafrost” would get a Hugo for Best Novelette, his final Hugo.
(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born March 13, 1928 — Douglas Rain. Though most of his work was as a stage actor, he was the voice of the HAL 9000 for 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel. He’s in Sleeper a few years later as the voices of the Evil Computer and Various Robot Butlers. (Died 2018.)
Born March 13, 1933 — Diane Dillon, 89. With husband Leo Dillon (1933 – 2012), illustrators of children’s books, and paperback book and magazine covers. Over fifty years they created more than a hundred genre book and magazine covers together as well as considerable interior art. They were nominated for Best Professional Artist at St.Louis Con and Heicon ’70 before winning it at the first Noreascon, and The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon was nominated at Chicon IV for Best Related Non-Fiction Book. She and her husband would get a much deserved World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Born March 13, 1951 — William F. Wu, 71. Nominated for two Hugos, the first being at L.A. Con II for his short story, “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium”; the second two years later at ConFederation for another short story, “Hong’s Bluff”. The former work was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode of the same name. He’s contributed more than once to the Wild Card universe, the latest being a story in the most excellent Texas Hold’Em anthology five years back. Though definitely not genre in general, The Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American Fiction, 1850-1940 is decidedly worth reading.
Born March 13, 1956 — Dana Delany, 66. I’ve come today to praise her work as a voice actress. She was in a number of DCU animated films, first as Andrea Beaumont in Batman: The Mask of The Phantasm, then as Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series, Superman: Brainiac Attacks and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. (That’s not a complete listing.) Remember that Wing Commander film? Well there was an animated series, Wing Commander Academy, in which she was Gwen Archer Bowman. And though definitely not genre or even genre related, I must single out her role in Tombstone as it is a most excellent film indeed.
Born March 13, 1966 — Alastair Reynolds, 56, As depressing as they are given what they lead up to, the Prefect Dreyfus novels are my favorites of his novels. That said, Chasm City is absolutely fascinating. His present novel in the Revelation Space series, Inhibitor Phase, was damn great.
Born March 13, 1968 — Jen Gunnels, 54. Writer and genre theater critic, the latter a rare thing indeed. She does her reviews for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction and New York Review of Science Fiction. With Erin Underwood, she has edited Geek Theater: Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Plays. She’s also an editor at Tor these days where her writers are L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Richard Baker, Kit Reed, Emily Devenport, and F. Paul Wilson.
… But I also believe what he said implies that fantasy would not have mattered without Tolkien. If so, this deserves rebuttal. So here goes.
The modern fantasy genre does NOT all come from Tolkien, and it would have arrived even without him. In fact, it already had. And pre-Tolkien fantasy matters.
To set the stage, early fantasists Lord Dunsany, William Morris, George MacDonald, and H. Rider Haggard were writing long before Tolkien. Tolkien himself read and loved many of these authors and his work bears their influence. As it should; much of their work is great.
Sword-and-sorcery existed long before The Lord of the Rings (1954) and even The Hobbit (1939). Starting in the late 20s and early 30s, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, and Fritz Leiber produced an amazing body of work that attracted fanbases in pulp magazines Weird Tales and Unknown….
(12) ABOUT OUR PARTNERS. In the Washington Post, Homer Hickam says we will have to work with the Russians at the International Space Station for now, but we should “proceed on our own to carefully resolutely work to decommission” the station. “Our space partnership with Russia can’t go on”.
…In nearly every arena, the Biden administration has imposed harsh sanctions on Russia. The space station should not be immune. It’s time to end our well-intentioned partnership with Russia — even if, as seems almost certain, it would mean the early closing and decommissioning of the space station.
The realpolitik of the International Space Station is that it is not only a symbol of cooperation between us and the Russians, but it also provides a certain amount of diplomatic leverage. The fact is, Russia needs the ISS a lot more than we do.
When the space station began continuous occupancy in 2000, we wanted to learn how to build large structures in space and get experience with lengthy spaceflight. These goals have been accomplished, and now the station is approaching obsolescence, its recently planned life extension to 2030 notwithstanding. With our flourishing commercial space companies, who are already cutting metal on their own future space stations, plus our federal government’s Artemis moon program, the United States is entering a new golden age of space exploration. The Russians, meanwhile, are stuck in the past with antiquated spacecraft and nowhere to go except the ISS.
If we are truly determined to stop Putin’s brutal war, we have to use every lever we’ve got. Unhappily, that includes the space station….
However, a comment from “BilTheGalacticHero” challenges some of Hickam’s facts:
This is a shockingly ignorant and contradictory opinion piece by Homer Hickam. The US commercial spaceflight industry is almost wholly dependent on the ISS for business. No companies are “cutting metal” on commercial space stations. Studies are just now starting. Axiom is creating a module for the ISS but obviously that’s different. On one hand Hickam says we should ditch the station and on the other he says we should keep the station and ditch the Russians. Which is it? Ditching the station is the worst option by far. With proper planning the other ISS partners could operate the station without the Russian segment but that’s not something that can happen overnight. In addition, the Cygness rebost hasn’t happened yet and Cygness alone cannot maintain long term ISS attitude control.
(13) HELLO MY BABY. Saturday Night Live explains why The Princess and the Frog was so bad it ended up on Disney Minus.
Native women have been hyper-sexualized throughout American history, and the consequences have been devastating. Recently, Marvel Comics introduced a new character named Princess Matoaka. Instead of taking the opportunity to show a brave strong Native women, they really let us all down.
[Thanks to Martin Morse Wooster, John King Tarpinian, Andrew Porter, Cora Buhlert, John A Arkansawyer, Michael Toman, Cat Eldridge, and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day David Shallcross.]
Canadian sf author J. Brian Clarke (1928-2022) has passed away at the age of 93 reports Robert J. Sawyer, who received the news from Clarke’s son James.
Clarke was the author of 20 published short stories, many of them published in Analog. His first two sales – “Artifact” and “The Ambassadors” were to John W. Campbell and appeared in 1969. Most of the others were sold to Stanley Schmidt, including the stories in Clarke’s popular “Expediter” series. The second story in the series, “Earthgate,” was selected for The 1986 Annual World’s Best SF edited by Wollheim and Saha. The last of nine published stories in the series, “Flaw on Serendip” was nominated for the Aurora Awards in 1990.
Clarke also produced a pair of fix-up novels compiled from works in two different series, The Expediter (1990) and Alphanauts (2006).
Alphanauts won the inaugural A. E. Van Vogt Award given by the Winnipeg Science Fiction Association. Robert J. Sawyer, in his introduction to Alphanauts, said of Clarke’s fiction —
He writes about scientists and engineers, about people who think and do, about problems that have to be solved and the men and women who roll up their sleeves and get the work done. His characters are the kinds of scientists-as-heroes that our real world inexplicably lacks but that were the mainstay of the Golden Age of science fiction.
J. Brian Clarke was a member of SFWA, and SF Canada, as well as a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, and a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – My review of this novel was decidedly mixed and frustrated, and as I wrote there, I found the actual experience of reading it rather challenging. But as I come to close out the year, I can’t help but appreciate this effort, perhaps the first novel to not only address climate change but imagine how we might go about dealing with it, and what will be required to accomplish this. It’s not a perfect novel, but it might be a necessary one.
(2) ATOP MOUNT TO BE VIEWED. Abigail Nussbaum did a separate “Best TV of 2021” post for Lawyers, Guns & Money.
…I take two lessons from the state of the TV medium in 2021. The first is that this was the year that taught us the difference between “expensive” and “good”. So many shows came out the gate this year with stratospheric production values, huge names before and behind the camera, and stunning locations, but still felt as if little or no thought was given to creating coherent, satisfying stories. The Disney+ MCU shows are exhibit A of this phenomenon: five very different shows with unbelievable budgets and star-studded casts, none of which quite managed to stick the landing. But other streamers fell into the same trap. Apple TV+ produced an eight-episode adaptation of The Mosquito Coast that shot in the desert on the US-Mexican border and in picturesque locations in California and Mexico, but apparently no one involved considered that audiences might be put off if the central family didn’t even reach the Mosquito Coast until the season finale. Netflix poured millions upon millions of dollars into comic books adaptations like Sweet Tooth and Jupiter’s Legacy, while seeming to have skimped on the scripts. (To be fair, Jupiter’s Legacy also looked like ass; I really hope there was some serious money-laundering going on because otherwise I just can’t explain it.)
The short answer is that it’s inspired by other giant balls whose function was to indicate time. I say “was”, because the purpose of a “time ball” is now pragmatically obsolete, and almost all of these are gone. But one of the very earliest time balls, atop the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, has been dropped each and every day since 1833. It is raised halfway up its post a few minutes prior, to give notice, and then it is dropped at exactly the stroke of 1 P.M. Bongggg!
(4) CALMING THE DISCOURSE. [Item by Olav Rokne.] In an excellent, free Patreon post, Hugo-finalist fan writer Jason Sanford examines the troubling trend of targeted harassment campaigns against creators and pundits within the SFF genre, and asks how we as a community can do better. “Genre Grapevine on SF/F Abuse and Harassment Campaigns”.
…I’ve been on the receiving end of these mass harassment and abuse campaigns. When you’re subjected to harassment and abuse your world compresses to a single, painful point, like a black hole that traps you against your will. Nothing you say or do makes a difference. People can tell you the harassment and abuse is unjustified and that you did nothing wrong. But none of that matters.
Because in the end you are merely a convenient target for people who are deliberately refusing to see you as human….
(5) SAWYER Q&A. Host Mary Ito, previously with the CBC and TVOntario, interviews Robert J. Sawyer for The CRAM Podcast ~ Extraordinary Ideas Unleashed.
We all wonder about our future – post pandemic. And it’s something sci-fi writer Robert Sawyer thinks about a lot. His writing has captivated audiences with explorations of alternate worlds. Hear what one of Canada’s most fascinating big thinkers has to say about OUR world, and the transformation it’s undergoing. His audio series “The Downloaded” about a metaphorical post pandemic world will be available Fall 2022 on Audible. Robert Sawyer’s most recent book is “The Oppenheimer Alternative.”
(6) FREE TAFF BOOK. Ah! Sweet Laney! The Writings of a Great Big Man is the latest addition to TAFF’s library of free downloads. The reissue of Robert Lichtman’s and Pat Virzis’s compilation of Francis T. Laney’s other fanwriting (i.e. not Ah! Sweet Idiocy!) That will be a very familiar name if you happen to have just read about 1940s LASFS in Bixelstrasse. The collection is available in multiple formats at the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund’s website, where they also hope you’ll make a little donation to the fund.
Though best remembered for his infamous 1948 memoir and polemic Ah! Sweet Idiocy! (also in the TAFF ebook library), Francis Towner Laney also published much other notable work in his own and others’ fanzines. In addition to a generous helping of Laney’s best writing other than Ah! Sweet Idiocy!, it includes a new introduction by Robert Lichtman and memoirs of “FTL” by Robert Bloch, Charles Burbee, Terry Carr and Jack Speer.
This first ebook edition is produced with the kind permission of Robert Lichtman and the welcome support of Pat Virzi, who provided the text in PDF format, now also available at Bill Burns’s eFanzines.com. The PDF download button above gives this 10Mb PDF (with all print layout, artwork, photographs etc) rather than the usual quick-and-dirty conversion from ebook format.
(7) SLF NEEDS GRANT JURORS. The Speculative Literature Foundation announced on Facebook they need jurors to read applications for the A.C. Bose Grant.
Ideally, we’re looking for people who are well read in science fiction, fantasy and horror, but we’d also like a mix of readers, writers, librarians, teachers, editors, etc. who are capable of judging literary quality in a work. The honorarium is $25.
Please note: We’d love to have South Asian and South Asian diaspora jurors for the AC Bose Grant, but it’s not a requirement.
Please contact Catherine (firstname.lastname@example.org) for more information.
Sir Julius Vogel Award nominations for the 2021 calendar year are now open. The nomination period will close at 11:59pm on 31st March 2022. The SJV awards recognise excellence in science fiction, fantasy, or horror works created by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents, and first published or released in the 2021 calendar year. Anyone can make a nomination and it is free!
(9) TANGLED WEBS. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] This Spider-Man blooper reel dropped two days ago. I thought what was most interesting was how much of the Spider-Man: No Way Home sets were real and what was CGI.
(10) BETTY WHITE. Actress Betty White died today, a few weeks short of her hundredth birthday. The New York Times obituary is here: “Betty White, a TV Fixture for Seven Decades, Is Dead at 99”. Although White performed a vast number of roles in her long career, only a few were genre. She was a Woman in Window encountered by the Dynamic Duo in Return to the Batcave (2003). She did voice work in several animated Christmas movies, and also on the Hercules TV series (1999), The Simpsons (as herself, 2007), The Lorax (2012), SpongeBob SquarePants (2016), and as a toy tiger named Bitey White in Toy Story 4.
Betty White, who created two of the most memorable characters in sitcom history, the nymphomaniacal Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and the sweet but dim Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls” — and who capped her long career with a comeback that included a triumphant appearance as the host of “Saturday Night Live” at the age of 88 — died on Friday. She was 99.
(11) MEDIA BIRTHDAY.
1931 — [Item by Cat Eldridge.] Ninety years ago, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian premiered. The screenplay was by Samuel Hoffenstein and Percy Heath. It starred Starring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart. It was a box office success making on piece three million on a budget of a million dollars. Critics loved it, and March won the award for Best Actor, sharing the award with Wallace Beery for The Champ. It has a most excellent eighty percent rating among audience reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes.
(12) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born December 31, 1937 — Anthony Hopkins, 84. I think one of his most impressive roles was as Richard in The Lion in Winter but we can’t even call that genre adjacent, can we? Well, we can as it’s alternate history. He was, during that period, also King Claudius in Hamlet. I’ll say playing Ian McCandless in Freejack is his true genre role, and being Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a plum of a genre role. It’s a better role that he as Odin has the MCU film franchise. What else to note? What have I missed that I should note?
Born December 31, 1943 — Ben Kingsley, 78. Speaking of Kipling, he voiced Bagherra in the live action adaptation that Disney did of The Jungle Book. He was also in Iron Man 3 as Trevor Slattery, a casting not well received. He’s The Hood in Thunderbirds (directed by Frakes btw), Charles Hatton in A Sound of Thunder and Merenkahre in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, the third of three great popcorn films.
Born December 31, 1945 — Connie Willis, 76. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for her work, a feat that impresses even me! Of her works, I’m most pleased by To Say Nothing of the Dog, Doomsday Book and Bellwether, an offbeat novel look at chaos theory. I’ve not read enough of her shorter work to give an informed opinion of it, so do tell me what’s good there. She’s very well stocked at the usual suspects and a number of her works qualify as Meredith moments.
Born December 31, 1949 — Ellen Datlow, 72. Let’s start this Birthday note by saying I own a complete set of The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror which yes, I know it was titled The Year’s Best Fantasy for the first year. And I still read stories from them from time to time. If that was all she had done, she’d have been one of our all-time anthologists but she also, again with Terri Windling, did the Fairy Tale and Mythic Fiction series, both of which I highly recommend. On her own, she has the ongoing Best Horror of Year, now a decade old, and the Tor.com anthologies which I’ve not read but I assume collect the fiction from the site. Speaking of Tor.com, she’s an editor there, something she’s also done at Nightmare Magazine, Omni, the hard copy magazine and online, Sci Fiction webzine and Subterranean Magazine. And yes, she won a number of Hugos for her editing including one this year which she richly deserved.
Born December 31, 1953 — Jane Badler, 68. I first encountered her on the Australian-produced Mission Impossible where she played Shannon Reed for the two seasons of that superb series. She’s apparently best known as Diana, the main antagonist on V, but I never saw any of that series being overseas at the time. She shows up in the classic Fantasy Island, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, Bitch, Popcorn & Blood and Virtual Revolution.
Born December 31, 1958 — Bebe Neuwirth, 63. Ok she’s had but one television SF credit to her name which is playing a character named Lanel in the “First Contact” episode of the Next Gen series during season four, but I found a delightful genre credential for her. From April 2010 to December 2011, she was Morticia Addams in the Broadway production of The Addams Family musical! The show itself was ongoing up until the Pandemic started.
Born December 31, 1959 — Val Kilmer, 62. Lead role in Batman Forever where I thought he did a decent job, Madmartigan in Willow, Montgomery in The Island of Dr. Moreau, voiced both Moses and God in The Prince of Egypt, uncredited role as El Cabillo in George and the Dragon and voiced KITT in the not terribly well-conceived reboot of Knight Rider. Best role? Ahhh that’d be Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Nope, not even genre adjacent but I really, really love that film.
(13) JOINING GENRES. Clarion West will be offering a free online discussion – “Fantastic Intersections: Speculative Fiction and Romance” — on January 29, 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Pacific. The participants will be Zen Cho, S. A. (Austin) Chant, C. L. Polk, KJ Charles, and L. Penelope, moderated by Rashida J. Smith. Register at the link.
From the sublime and magical to the stirring and steamy, storylines centering BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ characters are flourishing in the romance and speculative genres. We’ll tackle the nuance of building romance into the plot vs. romance as the plot, the role of the HEA or HFN in representation, and the future of the fantastic in romance.
…The story drove me on, because I wanted to read it all and find out what really happened. There is a central mystery to it – the opening cinematic sets it up beautifully. Why did the Blessed Isles fall? What is the Harrowing? You get some solid answers by the end. It’s like reading a novel while playing it as well. It was an experience I very much enjoyed. In addition to the main story there were the individual tales of each of our six main characters as well as bits of lore featuring dozens of other characters, some related and some not, that you just find as you explore the world….
… Anchoring the success of these films were the layered human performances amid all the green-screen effects. Here are a dozen actors who especially delivered depth within their superhero universes…
4. Margot Robbie (‘The Suicide Squad’)
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in 2021’s “The Suicide Squad.” (Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
Playing the relentlessly resourceful Harley Quinn,Robbie is reliably the most electric presence in DC’s sprawling team-up movies, dropping coy one-liners with as much force as her violent blows. She again steals entire scenes in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” and with each own-the-screen DC outing, including “Birds of Prey,” she proves that her radiant Harley could carry solo movies in between the “Suicide” squadfests.
(16) WITH SHARP, POINTY TEETH. [Item by Michael Toman.] Have to wonder what, say, Dylan Thomas, (“A Bright Child From Wales!”) would have done with this Late-Breaking Holiday News Update. “Bloodthirsty, ‘Psycho’ Squirrel Attacks 18 in Small Town Christmas Rampage” reports Newsweek. Will there be a movie from some of the Folks at The Asylum, the ones who gifted us with the “Sharknado Franchise?” Or maybe this needs to become an Uncuddly, Unwarm, Unfuzzy Picture Book? “What a world, what a world!”
A Welsh town is being held in the grip of fear by a most unusual source, a grey squirrel that is attacking residents.
Wales Online reported that the serial squirrel has indiscriminately attacked pensioners, pets, and children, jumping at people taking out the garbage, and been chasing after people down streets as they flee.
(17) DIANA GALLAGHER VIDEOS. Fanac.org’s Edie Stern introduces these Eighties recordings of Diana Gallagher singing filksongs.
Diana Gallagher is now known primarily for her science fiction media novels. However, especially early in her fannish career, she also impressed as a filk songwriter/performer, and a fan artist. She received several Pegasus Awards, as well as the 1988 Fan Artist Hugo Award. As her songs often show, Diana was also an avid supporter of the space program. She passed away in December 2021.
This recording was made in our living room in the early 1980s. At that time, she was a member of the local science fiction group, and an avid filker. She was our friend. This recording is excerpted from a longer filk recording, and features her performances of five songs (of which 4 were written by her). Many thanks to our Filk Consultant, Eli Goldberg and to our Sound Editor, Luke Bretscher for their help with this recording.
Here are links to all five videos — 1. Planetbound Lovers (0:05) 2. Following (2:52) 3. Free Fall (5:23) 4. Starsong (7:30) 5. Mary O’Meara (10:12)
(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In “Honest Game Trailers: Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl,” Fandom Games says this Nickleodeon smash compilation is meant for gamers who ask, “Say, what would happen if Garfield fought SpongeBob?” and that Nickelodeon is basically a network for “not so nuanced sex jokes and covering kids in sludge.”
[Thanks to Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Olav Rokne, Daniel Dern, Andrew Porter, Michael Toman, and Cat Eldridge for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jon Meltzer.]
(1) OMENANA. The new issue of Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine is available to read online. The tri-monthly magazine takes submissions from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.
Omenana is the Igbo word for divinity – it also loosely translates as “culture” – and embodies our attempt to recover our wildest stories. We are looking for well-written speculative fiction that bridges the gap between past, present and future through imagination and shakes us out of the corner we have pushed ourselves into.
(2) WINNIPEG WORLDCON BID. The Winnipeg in 2023 Worldcon bid will hold a “Question Time” Zoom session on Sunday, July 25, at 1:00pm CDT. The session will also be streamed live on their YouTube channel.
We will start off with standard questions and then take submitted questions. Questions may be submitted via our social media accounts , Discord server and our “Contact Form“. During the session, questions may be submitted through Zoom and YouTube chat. As with all “Question Time”, moderation will be applied.
(3) SUMMIT MEETING. There’s a photo on the Chicago Worldcon Facebook page showing that Chicon 8 Chair, Helen Montgomery, and DisCon III Chair, Mary Robinette Kowal, “met up in DC yesterday for convention strategizing. They have Plans with a capital P for their attendees!”
Sources say that Outlier Society has hired a writer who is currently working on the script, though we were unable to ascertain their identity. Though it was initially unclear whether the Val-Zod project would be a movie or a limited series, sources have since reached out to clarify that as of right now, it is, in fact, being written as a limited series that Jordan will produce and possibly even star in, though he has yet to officially commit on the latter front.
As previously reported, J.J. Abrams and his company Bad Robot are set to produce a Black Superman movie for Warner Bros. that is expected to follow the Kal-El/Clark Kent version of the character. Though Clark Kent is traditionally depicted as white in the DC comics, the character will be played by a Black actor in the Bad Robot movie, which will likely be directed by a Black filmmaker, as Abrams is simply expected to produce. Author and cultural critic Ta-Nehisi Coates is already hard at work on the script for that project.
While Jordan did work with Warner Bros. on developing a Black Superman movie at one point, he recently shot down rumors that he would star in Abrams’ new film, saying “I’m flattered that people have me in that conversation. It’s definitely a compliment, but I’m just watching on this one.”
The question is, why?
A recent editorial penned by Jamie Broadnax for Black Girl Nerds provides some context and prompted Collider to do some digging, as Broadnax’s sources told her that “Jordan has not wanted to engage in conversations about racebending Kal-El for the same reasons many of the fans are pushing back on the current Warner Bros. re-imagined version of Clark Kent, but that he would be interested in engaging on a Black Superman project centering on the Val-Zod storyline.”
(5) CANADIAN SFF HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES. Stan Hyde, the late Monica Hughes, and Jean-Louis Trudel are the 2021 inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame reports Robert J. Sawyer. He and Carolyn Clink, along with fellow jurors Clint Budd, Marcie Tentchoff, and Chris Sturges, made the selections. Here are excerpts from the citations (full text at the link).
Stan Hyde is an exemplar of passionate, lifelong devotion to SF&F fandom and fan activity, specifically in the areas of club organization, writing, film media, and model kit making, painting, and collecting.
Stan is also noted for the numerous articles he has written for G-Fest, a magazine devoted to the topic of Godzilla, about whom Stan is a world-renowned expert and recognized as such by Toho Studios where he is always welcome. (He visits once every two years on average.)
Monica Hughes (1925-2003), an Officer of the Order of Canada, wrote about 40 books including more than 20 that ISFDB covers as speculative fiction novels. Although she spent a large part of her life writing, she was almost fifty when her first book was published (Gold-Fever Trail: A Klondike Adventure, a Canadian historical novel.) …Invitation to the Game (Toronto: HarperCollins, 1990) won the Hal Clement Award as the year’s best science fiction novel for young adults.
Jean-Louis Trudel holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and the history and philosophy of science. Since 1994, he has authored (alone or in collaboration with Yves Meynard as Laurent McAllister) three science fiction novels published in France, four fiction collections, and twenty-six young adult books published in Canada…. He has received several literary distinctions, including the “Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique québécois” in 2001 and several Prix Aurora Awards.
Can anyone explain how there’s a hole in the Earth — the kind that supernaturally swallows up hapless Los Angeles residents and spits them out in the frightening primeval past? That’s just the first mystery launching with NBC’sLa Brea, the highly awaited sci-fi series that’s set to make its TV debut this fall….
On the other side of the time warp are Gavin’s wife and son, all while a “disparate group of strangers” work alongside the family’s stranded half to “uncover the mystery of where they are and if there is a way back home,” according to NBC’s earlier series description. Are all these stuck strangers merely the random victims of fate, or might they be connected by something deeper?
Bob Gale is asking fans not to be too hard on Netflix for a censored version of Back to the Future: Part II, which was streaming for a short while.
Fans of the series were irate when they discovered a tiny portion of the 1989 sequel was changed, poorly. It has since been replaced with the standard version. The alteration happened when Marty (Michael J. Fox) finds the Oh La La magazine within the sports almanac dustcover. The moment was cut short, with the cover of the magazine edited out.
Gale, the screenwriter of the beloved trilogy, explained what happened and why it was not Netflix’s fault.
(10) PATRICIA KENNEALY-MORRISON (1946-2021). Author Patricia Kennealy-Morrison died a few days ago reported Liz Williams on Facebook. She wrote eight books and a collection of short stories in her genre series The Keltiad. She also wrote the Rennie Stride mystery series. She was a widely-read rock journalist, and widow of the late Jim Morrison of The Doors.
(11) MEMORY LANE.
2003 – Eighteen years ago at Torcon 3, Neil Gaiman wins a Hugo Novella for Coraline. (Other nominated works were “Bronte’s Egg” by Richard Chwedyk, “Breathmoss” by Ian R. MacLeod, “A Year in the Linear City” by Paul Di Filippo, “The Political Officer” by Charles Coleman Finlay and “In Spirit” by Pat Forde.) It also won a Nebula, a Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book and a BSFA Award for Short Fiction, along with a Stoker for Superior Achievement in a Work for Young Readers. It would become an animated film written and directed by Henry Selick, and both musicals and operas were based off it.
(12) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born July 24, 1878 — Lord Dunsany whose full name and title was a jaw dropping Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany. So ISFDB lists him as genre for the Jorkens body of work among works. H’h. Gary Turner, who some of you will recognize from Golden Gryphon Press and elsewhere, reviewed The Collected Jorkens: Volumes One, Two, and Three for Green Man, so I’ve linked to the review here. They also list The King of Elfland’s Daughter which I’m going to link to another review on Green Man as it’s a audio recording with a very special guest appearance by Christopher Lee. (Died 1957.)
Born July 24, 1916 — John D. MacDonald. Though better known for the Travis McGee series which I really like, he wrote three genre novels of which I think the best by far is The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything. He also wrote some sixty genre short stories, many of them collected in End of The Tiger which is available from the usual digital suspects. (Died 1986.)
Born July 24, 1936 — Mark Goddard, 85. Major Don West, the adversary of Dr. Zachary Smith, on Lost in Space. Other genre appearances were scant. He played an unnamed Detective in the early Eighties Strange Invaders and he showed up on an episode of The Next Step Beyond which investigated supposed hauntings as Larry Hollis in “Sins of Omission”. Oh and he was an unnamed General in the Lost in Space film.
Born July 24, 1951 — Robert Hood, 70. Australian horror writer who won a William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review for “Weight of Water: Vengeance from Beyond the Grave?” and another Atheling for “Divided Kingdom: King Kong Versus Godzilla”. The latter is included in David Brin and Leah Wilson’s King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape. He won a Ditmar for his Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales collection, and an Australian Shadows Award for his Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories.
Born July 24, 1951 — Lynda Carter, 70. Wonder Woman of course. But also Principal Powers, the headmistress of a school for superheroes in Sky High; Colonel Jessica Weaver in the vampire film Slayer; Moira Sullivan, Chloe Sullivan’s Kryptonite-empowered mother in the “Prodigy” episode of Smallville; and President Olivia Marsdin In Supergirl. She has a mid credit appearance in Wonder Woman 1984 as Asteria.
Born July 24, 1964 — Colleen Doran, 57. Comics artist and writer. The work she’s done includes Warren Ellis’ Orbiter graphic novel, Wonder Woman, Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans, the “Troll Bridge” by Neil Gaiman and her space opera series, A Distant Soil. She also did portions of The Sandman, the “Dream Country” and “A Game of You”. She’s tuckerized Into Sandman as the character Thessaly.
Born July 24, 1971 — Patty Jenkins, 50. Director of Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984, she appears in Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics as herself in ‘The Truth About Wonder Woman’ episode. She’s the director and producer of the forthcoming Star Wars film, Rogue Squadron. She’ll also be directing Gal Gadot in Cleopatra.
Born July 24, 1981 — Summer Glau, 40. An impressive run in genre roles as she’s was River Tam in the Firefly series and of course the Serenity film, followed by these performances: Tess Doerner in The 4400, as Cameron in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Bennett Halverson in Dollhouse (is this worth seeing seeing?), Skylar Adams in Alphas, and Isabel Rochev who is The Ravager in Arrow. Her latest role is Miss Jones (The Water Wu) on The Wu Assassins series.
(13) COMICS SECTION.
Speed Bump introduces a familiar character whose phone asks a well-known question.
Science Fiction was extraordinarily popular in the 1940s and 1950s — and so were books about U.F.O.s. Coverage of mysterious objects in the night sky was plentiful in The Times, too. On July 6, 1947, the front page featured an article headlined “Flying Saucers Mystify Experts; May Be Prank of Nature.” Two days later, a follow-up appeared, also on the front page, with a more provocative headline: “‘Disks’ Soar Over New York, Now Seen Aloft in All Colors.” It should perhaps come as no surprise that those years saw the Book Review filled with ads looking to sate this interest in the extraterrestrial and dystopian.
(16) LOOKS FAMILIAR. [Item by David Doering.] Surely this design is no accident! Whoever designed this high school in PA deserves a medal. (Or at least a Hugo.) I wonder if the school mascot is the Falcon??
(17) NOLAN APPRECIATION. Mr. Sci-Fi, Marc Scott Zicree, in “Logan’s Run Writer Passes Away”, remembers the help William F. Nolan gave him when Zicree was researching his Twilight Zone book.
…And he was an astonishing man. He was basically — the great thing about Bill Nolan was not only was he very articulate and very enthusiastic but he had kept notes on everything and recordings on everything and so he knew an enormous amount about Charles Beaumont and Ray Bradbury and all of these characters who were central to what i was working on but also central to science fiction…
(18) TALK TO THE DOCTOR. Louis Moorhouse, a blind fan who’s been raising money for Living Paintings, to make a set of Touch to See books about Doctor Who, interviews Tom Baker in this YouTube video.
Blind Doctor Who super fan meets one of his heroes, Tom Baker, thanks to inspirational fundraising campaign. Louis,19, from Bradford, has been blind since he was 18 months old. A few weeks ago, Louis launched a fundraising campaign on Crowd Funder in an attempt to raise £15,000 to make it possible for a charity, Living Paintings, to make a set of Touch to See books which will bring him and other blind and partially sighted people closer to the incredible world of Doctor Who. Having blasted through his first fundraising target Louis is now looking to raise an incredible total £25,000 to support the charity that has helped him since he was two years old. Louis says of his motivation to carry on with the campaign:“Living Paintings has had such a hugely positive impact on my life, from the first time I received a book and found out what Thomas the Tank Engine looks like (until then I had no idea what a train with a face could possibly mean), to helping me learn to read and express myself. I wouldn’t be who I am today without this wonderful charity and I hope people continue to support me on this journey so I can help other children facing the struggles I overcame with their help.” Louis and Living Paintings have been overwhelmed by the support shown by the Doctor Who community and this week he met one of his favourite ever Doctors on Zoom, the wonderful Tom Baker.
(19) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. This is a NASA video that dropped on July 14 about June flybys of Jupiter and Ganymede.
[Thanks to Andrew Porter, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, Jannie Shea, David K.M. Klaus, David Doering, Michael Toman, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to contributing editor of the day Tom Becker.]
(1) BEYOND “MY BAD”. In this video Cat Rambo offers pro tips about “How to Screw Up”. Which maybe you thought you already knew how to do, right? That’s probably true. Cat’s advice is really about what to do afterwards.
(3) WOMEN’S PRIZE. [Item by Cora Buhlert.] The shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, an important UK literary award, has been announced. Piranesi by Susannah Clarke is one of the finalists. Another finalist is at least borderline SF and yet another is a crime novel: “Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees” in the Guardian. The winner will be announced July 7, and receive £30,000.
(4) DOCTOR WHO BLOG TOUR. Titan Comics’ Doctor Who: Vol. 1: Alternating Current blog tour will be visiting File 770 on May 24 to share an art preview.
(5) NO STARTING GATE. In “The Art of Worldbuilding In Media Res” on CrimeReads, Nicole Kornher-Stace recommends novels by Lauren Beukes, Hannu Rajanemi, and Stephen Graham Jones for readers who want to start their novels with an action scene without a lot of backstory about how the world you are creating operates.
…Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians starts practically in the middle of a parking-lot bar brawl, full of asides about events and characters that will make no sense to you until you get further in, but you’re being reeled into the story one sucker-punch of a sentence at a time. You don’t care that you don’t understand yet. You don’t need to. You’re immersed, and you realize distantly that you have no idea who or what is being referenced in some of these asides, but by that point you’re in it up to the eyeballs, and the only way out is through….
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
I don’t remember my dino chronology to know off-hand whether this is era-ologically inaccurate (were they all contemporaneous and in the Jurassic), but do we care?
I have several High Seas shirts already, they’re well made and worth the price.
I’d sent this to Robert J. Sawyer, since he’s a dinophile (or at least knowledgeable about ’em), for interest, along with my comment that I didn’t know enough to be sure whether the shirt was, chronologically, inaccurate/misleading. Here’s his reply, which he OK’d to use:
Robert J. Sawyer: “Very cool! They aren’t all contemporaneous, sadly. Triceratops (lower left) is the very end of the Cretaceous, for instance. But it’s a great-looking shirt!”
(8) NEW ATTITUDE. Here’s an art piece of Guilala, the kaiju in 1967’s The X From Outer Space — as a muppet. The artist is Melanie Scott/
Whatever’s happening underground at Hawkins, it definitely looks sinister… but then again, didn’t it always? Netflix is seemingly hinting that new evils are brewing for Stranger Things 4, and they’re unfolding mostly out of sight, inside the secret government lab that formerly served as Eleven’s supernaturally cold childhood home.
From his time drawing the iconic Milestone Media hero Static Shock while a junior at New York’s School of Visual Arts to his work on the genre-defining EarthX for Marvel in the late 1990s to his recent DC work with writer Kurt Busiek on Batman: Creature of the Night and the upcoming Batman/CatwomanSpecial, Leon brought his unmistakable take to everything that he touched.
DC executives and talent alike shared their thoughts across social media at the news of his passing. DC publisher and chief creative officer Jim Lee offered high praise for Leon, saying, “One of the greatest artists of our generation, he was also one of the nicest and most talented creators one could be lucky enough to have met.”…
(11) MEMORY LANE.
1971 –Fifty years ago, Mary Stewart won the first Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for The Crystal Cave. The other nominated works were The Marvellous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander, Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz and Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny. She would later win another Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for The Hollow Hills novel. These would be her only genre awards.
(12) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
Born May 6, 1915 — Orson Welles. Certainly the broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” in 1938 was his pinnacle of genre success but he also did for the Federal Theatre Project the 1936 adaptation of Macbeth with an entirely African American cast. That was known as the Voodoo Macbeth which might give you an idea of what he did to it. He would later do a more straightforward film of Macbeth. And of course he made a most excellent radio Shadow as well! (Died 1985.) (CE)
Born May 6, 1923 – Gordon Davies. Ninety covers for us; some other work e.g. the Eagle Annual. Here is the Nov 52 Authentic. Here is Earthlight. Here is Space Cadet. Here is C. Brown ed., Alien Worlds. Here is M. Ashley ed., The History of the SF Magazine pt. 4. (Died 1994) [JH]
Born May 6, 1927 – Gerard Quinn. Fourscore covers, two hundred eighty interiors. Here is Gateway to Tomorrow. Here is Jack of Eagles. Here is a drawing that appears to have been auctioned at Loncon I the 15th Worldcon. Here is the Nov 61 New Worlds. Here is the Apr/May 82 Extro. Our Gracious Host’s appreciation here. (Died 2015) [JH]
Born May 6, 1946 — Nancy Kilpatrick, 75. Fangoria called her “Canada’s answer to Anne Rice”. I do recommend the anthology she edited Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper as it’s a most excellent horror collection. She’s exceptionally well stocked at the usual suspects. (CE)
Born May 6, 1950 – Craig Strete, age 71. Six novels, threescore shorter stories for us; eight other novels. Did this cover for Red Planet Earth 2 while editor. First place in the 1984 Dramatists Guild – CBS New Plays Program. Sometimes uses the name Sovereign Falconer; he is Cherokee. [JH]
Born May 6, 1952 — Michael O’Hare. He was best known for playing Commander Jeffrey Sinclair on Babylon 5. Other genre appearances were limited — he played Fuller in the 1984 film C.H.U.D, was Jimmy in the “ Heretic” episode of Tales from the Darkside and appeared as a thug on the subway train in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. And yes he’s one of many Babylon 5 actors who died well before they should’ve. (Died 2012.) (CE)
Born May 6, 1955 – Barbara McClintock, age 66. Half a dozen covers for us. Here is The Red-Eared Ghosts. Here is a Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (who, I respectfully suggest, deserves study, even with our modern reservations, however late we have been with them, in hand). Various books and prizes; five NY Times Best Books, two Time Best Books. Sets and costumes for the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Twelve Dancing Princesses. Illustrated for Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock. Website. [JH]
Born May 6, 1962 – Kamil Vojnar, age 59. Threescore covers. Here is Killing Time. Here is Flying in Place. Here is Others of My Kind. [JH]
Born May 6, 1969 — Annalee Newitz, 52. They are the winner of a Hugo Award for Best Fancast At Dublin 2019 for “Our Opinions Are Correct”. And their novel Autonomous was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel while winning a Lambda Literary Award. They are also the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction, ”When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis”. (CE)
Born May 6, 1983 – Ingrid Jonach, age 38. One novel for us; three others. “Once you finally understand that the world is round, there is no way to make it flat again.” [JH]
While Dilbert has (theoretically) found a cure to racism.
Danish cartoonist Wulffmorgenthaler’sMay 3 has Sauron visiting a construction side. Translation to English: “Hm… Well, I know art deco is beautiful, but we were thinking more like gothic and black for my tower…” Lise Andreasen says, “I love the orc driving The Eye around.)”
Channeling Loki himself, Disney+ decided to pivot without warning by moving the debut of the character’s Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show up two days to Wednesday, June 9. In fact, all episodes of Loki will now premiere on Wednesdays, instead of the usual Friday window that was reserved for WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Tom Hiddleston confirmed the news during a special video announcement that begins with an epic display of famous Marvel props: Iron Man’s helmet, Cap’s shield, and, of course, Thor’s hammer.
“Look, I’m sorry to interrupt,” Hiddleston says, abruptly cutting off the noble montage. “It’s just I’ve noticed that in these long superhero montages, Loki tends to get a bit left out, even though, arguably, he’s incredibly heroic himself [as well as] cunning and charming. I could go on, but maybe … why don’t I just prove it to you? Wednesdays are the new Fridays.”
Take a look at our ultimate trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022), the trailer features footage from ‘The Batman Official Trailer’ as well as from previous Batman films and contains scenes that resonates with the actual plot for ‘The Batman’
(16) COMICS/GAME CROSSOVER. Here’s a clip promoting Batman’s entry into Fortnite.
Featured in the new Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point comics, Grab the Batman Zero Outfit in the Fortnite Shop now!
(17) A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY. Mike Dunford, a lawyer who does law streams on Twitch called The Questionable Authority, did a lawstream about the time Star Wars tried to sue the original Battlestar Galactica series for copyright infringement. The discussion of the lawsuit itself is here if people are interested. The stfnal part starts 50 minutes in. He created a cool intro to his talk:
Inspired by the displays of science fiction like the holodeck from Star Trek and the Princess Leia projector from Star Wars, a BYU electrical and computer engineering team is working to develop screenless volumetric display technologies. Led by Dan Smalley, BYU professor of electical engineering, the team uses laser beams to trap and illuminate a particle and then to move the particle and draw an image in mid-air. “Like a 3D printer for light,” these displays appear as physical objects to the viewer and, unlike a screen-based image, can be seen from any angle. In this demonstration of the technology, the team shows how they’ve created tiny animations of battle explosions and other images created completely with laser light. Smalley also provides an update on new research that shows how to simulate virtual images in a volumetric display (research published in the April 6, 2021 issue of Scientific Reports).
(19) VIDEO OF THE DAY. Cat Rambo has lots of other good advice, in this video about “5 Tips for Story Submissions.”
I’ve talked before about sending out fantasy and science fiction story submissions. Here’s five tips (well, four and a half, really) about what to do once you’ve submitted a story.
[Thanks to Andrew Porter, John King Tarpinian, Cora Buhlert, John Hertz, Dann, Mike Kennedy, JJ, Lise Andreasen, David Doering, Ben Bird Person, Cat Eldridge, Jennifer Hawthorne, Martin Morse Wooster, and Michael Toman for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Peer.]
(1) CHANGING OF THE GUARDIAN. Lisa Tuttle has taken the handoff from The Guardian’s SF/Fantasy reviewer Eric Brown who ended his fifteen-year run in January. Tuttle’s first genre round-up will appear in The Guardian’s books section on Saturday, February 13.
In the wake of Gina Carano’s controversial social media posts, Lucasfilm has released a statement Wednesday night, with a spokesperson saying “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Carano played bounty hunter Cara Dune on the first two seasons Lucasfilm and Disney+’s The Mandalorian, and it looked like we’d be seeing more of her. It appears not….
Following competitive bidding war, Apple Studios has landed Dolly, a new feature film with Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh attached to star with Vanessa Taylor and Drew Pearce Penning the script. Insiders close to the project stress the project is not greenlit at this time as the script still needs to penned and a director still needs to be attached. Insiders go on to add that the package caught the interest of a total of four bidders that included multiple studios and another streamer with Apple TV+ emerging as the winner earlier this week.
The film is a sci-fi courtroom drama in which a robotic “companion doll” kills its owner and then shocks the world by claiming that she is not guilty and asking for a lawyer. The film, which is inspired by Elizabeth Bear’s short story of the same name, has elements of both classic courtroom drama and sci-fi….
Time travel is a genre unto itself, one that spans sci-fi, mystery, fantasy, history and more. But there are distinct categories of time travel narratives, each with its own set of rules—and each with a different baked-in outlook.
Getting to a taxonomy of time travel stories, the first question is—who or what is actually time-traveling? Because while the first stories we think of involve spaceships and Deloreans, the oldest time travel stories are stories about…
1. SEEING THE FUTURE
In these stories, it is actually INFORMATION that travels through time. And this might be the most scientifically plausible form of time travel, one that is already happening all the time on the quantum level….
(5) WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Robert J. Sawyer tells Facebook readers that 26 years ago Ace Science Fiction thought they were going to land a contract with Lucasfilm to produce a trilogy of novels outlining the origins of the alien races from the Star Wars universe:
Ace editor Ginjer Buchanan approached me to write those books, and before the license was finalized I produced an 11,000-word outline and also the first 11,000 words of the manuscript of volume one. But the deal fell apart — yes, they’d get a Lucasfilm license, but, no, I couldn’t use any of the actual STAR WARS races, and so I walked away. Since I was never paid for the work, I posted the material on my website as fan fiction.
(6) THE WORDS OF SFF. In the February 6 Financial Times, book columnist Nilanjana Roy discusses the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction website.
Skipping from ‘ecotopia’ (first used back in 1975) to ‘Frankenstein complex ‘(coined by Isaac Asimov in 1947 to describe the anxiety and distrust held by humans towards robots), a living history of science fiction began to take shape in my mind. The HDSF records language coined by eminent figures from the realms of literature and science, but also long-forgotten hacks who wrote stories for the pulps…
…The HDSF is full of surprises, even to an unabashed sf fan. Many entries are older than I imagined: ‘teleport’ might seem like a word dreamt up in the 1950s, for instance, but the first recorded instance comes from an 1878 mention in the Times Of India: ‘The teleport,.an apparatus by which men can be reduced to infinitessimal (sic) atoms, transmitted through the wire, and reproduced safe and sound on the other end!’ While “infodump” was first used in a 1978 conference on science.
(7) BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. Someone who dismissed the Locus Recommended Reading List as “useless” was pointed at the “Tangent Online 2020 Recommended Reading List” which contains these introductory remarks by Dave Truesdale:
… Looking at short fiction over at least the past 10 years, a general observation can be made. It would appear that Woke Culture is as pervasive and cancerous as it has ever been for at least the past 10 years. The dearth of true originality when it comes to political or socially themed short fiction is becoming more and more apparent to those of us who have observed and studied the field for decades. Political Correctness has now infiltrated the field like a metastazing cancer, to the point where long time readers are beginning to voice complaints. The complaints arise not from what is published in the magazines or some of the original anthologies, but what is not being published. Identity Politics and the Cancel Culture have inserted themselves into the field to the extent that not only magazine fiction editors, but other areas of the SF field are bowing to intimidation and peer pressure to conform to the total obeisance the Woke doctrine demands….
When Marvel Comics first launched the character of Black Panther, it was in the July 1966 issue of “Fantastic Four.” As explained in this exclusive clip from the upcoming Disney Plus documentary “Marvel’s Behind the Mask,” premiering Feb. 12, the character of T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, was presented just like any other Marvel superhero — attention wasn’t paid to the color of his skin, but rather to the supreme quality of his abilities.
“The first Black superhero, Black Panther, comes out perfect,” says writer-director Reginald Hudlin, who wrote a run of Black Panther comics in the 2000s. “He’s this cool, elegant, handsome guy who’s just got it on lock.”
But as the clip also demonstrates, there’s one essential element of Black Panther that was glaringly incorrect: His skin is grey, not brown.
…Rather than shy away from its less than admirable history, the “Behind the Mask” filmmakers say Marvel’s executives were on board with a warts-and-all look at the company’s efforts with representation. “They were complete partners,” says Gary. “They accepted the fact that we were going to make some things uncomfortable.” The company even opened up its vault so the filmmakers could access the full range of its history.
“There were certain things that we needed to scan that weren’t part of the digital history, that were important to the storytelling,” says Simon. “We needed to get that older imagery out of the vault.”…
1971 — Fifty years ago at Noreascon I, Fritz Leiber wins the Hugo for Best Novella with “Ill Met in Lankhmar”, one of his Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser tales. It was originally published in the April issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The other nominees were “The Thing in the Stone” by Clifford D. Simak, “The Region Between” by Harlan Ellison. “The World Outside” by Robert Silverberg and “Beastchild” by Dean R. Koontz.
(11) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
Born February 11, 1898 – Leo Szilard. Vital in the Manhattan Project; first to connect thermodynamics and information theory; filed earliest known patent applications for the electron microscope, the linear accelerator, and the cyclotron (but did not build all these, nor publish in scientific journals, so credit went to others; Lawrence had the Nobel Prize for the cyclotron, Ruska for the electron microscope). Present when the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved in the first nuclear reactor; shook Fermi’s hand. Credited with coining the term “breeder reactor”. Half a dozen short stories for us. To him is attributed “We are among you. We call ourselves Hungarians.” (Died 1964) [JH]
Born February 11, 1910 — L. T. C. Rolt. English writer whose enthusiasm for heritage railways is writ large in his 1948 Sleep No More collection of supernatural horror stories which tend to be set in rural railways. (Simon R. Green may be influenced by him in his Ghost Finders series which often uses these railways as a setting.) Some of these stories were adapted as radio dramas. Sleep No More isavailable from the usual digital suspects. (Died 1974.) (CE)
Born February 11, 1915 – Mabel Allan. Four novels, one shorter story for us; a hundred seventy books all told, some under other names; some in series e.g. a dozen about Drina Adams who at age 10 wants to be a ballerina and finally is. Here is the Mabel Project for reading MA’s books in chronological order. (Died 1998) [JH]
Born February 11, 1920 – Daniel Galouye. (“Ga-lou-ey”) Navy pilot during World War II; journalist; New Orleans fan who developed a pro career. Half a dozen novels, five dozen shorter stories. Guest of Honor at Consolacon, DeepSouthCon 6. Interviewed in Speculation. Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award. (Died 1976) [JH]
Born February 11, 1926 — Leslie Nielsen. I know the comic, bumbling fool who delighted generations of film goers. But his first starring role was as Commander John J. Adams in one of the finest SF films of all time Forbidden Planet. I am most decidedly not a fan of his later films but I think he’s brilliant here. (Died 2010.) (CE)
Born February 11, 1939 — Jane Yolen, 82. She loves dark chocolate so I send her some from time to time. She wrote me into a novel as a character, an ethnomusicologist in One-Armed Queen to be precise in exchange for finding her a fairytale collection she wanted. Don’t remember now what it was other than it was very old and very rare. My favorite book by her is The Wild Hunt which she’s signing a copy for me now, and I love that she financed the production of Boiled of Lead’s Antler Dance which her son Adam Stemple was lead vocalist on. (CE)
Born February 11, 1948 — Robert Reginald. He’s here because of two Phantom Detective novels he wrote late in his career which are most popcorn literature. (The Phantom Detective series started in 1936 so he used the Robert Wallace house name.) He has two series of some length, the Nova Europa Fantasy Saga and War of Two Worlds. Much of what he wrote is available from the usual digital sources. (Died 2013.) (CE)
Born February 11, 1950 — Alain Bergeron, 70. He received an Aurora Award for Best Short Story for “Les Crabes de Vénus regardent le ciel” published In Solaris number 73, and a Sideways Award for Alternate History for “Le huitième registre” (translated in English as “The Eighth Register” by Howard Scott). (CE)
Born February 11, 1953 — Wayne Hammond, 68. He’s married to fellow Tolkien scholar Christina Scull. Together they’ve done some of the finest work on him that’s been done including J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book and The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. (CE)
Born February 11, 1965 – John Zeleznik, age 56. A dozen covers, a score of interiors. Here is Find Your Own Truth. Here is The Heart of Sparrill. Here is his Rifts Coloring Book. Here is a Magic: the Gathering card. Ten years in Spectrum anthologies. Website. [JH]
Born February 11, 1970 – Reinhard Kleist, age 51. Half a dozen covers, as many interiors. Here is Asimov’s collection Azazel. Here is Das Böse kommt auf leisen Sohlen (German, “Evil comes on quiet feet” – more literally Sohlen are soles – tr. Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes). [JH]
Born February 11, 1975 – Kathy McMillan, age 46. Two novels for us, four others (one got an Indies Award); eight resource books for educators, librarians, parents. ASL (American Sign Language) Interpreter. Website says Author & Language Geek. [JH]
When I was a kid, my mother used to tell me Chinese folktales before bedtime. My mother is an immigrant. She was born in mainland China and eventually made her way to the United States for graduate school.
She told me those stories so that I wouldn’t forget the culture that she had left. Even though I hadn’t ever experienced that culture firsthand, she wanted me to remember it.
Of all her stories, my favorites by far were about Sun Wukong, the monkey king. Here was a monkey who was so good at kung fu that his fighting skills leveled up to superpowers. He could call a cloud down from the sky and ride it like a surfboard. He could change his shape into anything he wanted. He could grow and shrink with the slightest thought. And he could clone himself by plucking hairs from his head and then breathing on them. How cool was that?…
…Turns out, my mother was pretty faithful. As I read it, I realized that American superheroes hadn’t replaced Sun Wukong in my heart after all. Superman, Spider?Man, and Captain America were simply Western expressions of everything I loved about the monkey king….
(14) THE MILLENNIUM HAS ARRIVED. The thousandth book by a woman reviewed on James Nicoll Reviews: “Just Keep Listening”.
K.B. Spangler’s 2021 coming-of-age space opera The Blackwing War is the first book in her Deep Witches Trilogy. It is set in the same universe as Spangler’s 2017 Stoneskin .
Tembi Stoneskin was rescued from abject poverty when the Deep, the vast, enigmatic entity that facilitates transgalactic teleportation, took a shine to her. As long as the Deep retains its affection for Tembi, she will be an ageless Witch, stepping from world to world as it pleases her. There is little chance Tembi will alienate the Deep.
There is, however, every chance she will alienate her superiors in the Witch hierarchy. Youthful Tembi is that most dreaded of beings, an idealist….
(15) YOU DON’T HAVE TO DIAL M ANYMORE. In “The Rise of the Digital Gothic” on CrimeReads, Katie Lowe says many of today’s Gothic novelists are coming up with plots that involve apparitions or other supernatural phenomena coming out of characters’ smartphones.
…But for all that this new technology gives, there’s also the sense of our personal spaces—the physical homes we inhabit—seeming always invaded by others, both strangers and not. They wander through, startling us with questions as we brew our morning coffee; scanning our living rooms while we’re on Zoom; liking our family photos as we crawl into bed. Our daily lives are interrupted constantly by apparitions: by the voices and figures of people who simply are not there.
This is not, however, a state of being sprung entirely from the pandemic—nor is it unique to fiction. In her 2014 essay “Return of the Gothic: Digital Anxiety in the Domestic Sphere,” critic Melissa Gronlund observed similarities between recent work in the visual arts. She suggests that artists using “the Gothic tropes of the uncanny, the undead, and intrusions into the home” in their work are searching for “a way to wrestle with daunting, ongoing questions prompted by current technological shifts: How has the internet affected our sense of self? Our interaction with others? The structures of family and kinship?”
(16) MARS MERCH. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum told people on its mailing list that the limited edition Mars Perseverance merchandise collection will only be available until February 21. (Click for larger images.)
… Forbes reports that there are two methods of creating transparent aluminum in common use today. The first method involves taking a powdered aluminum-magnesium compound that is subjected to high pressure and heated, a method used by the US Military, specifically the US Naval Laboratory. This method produces a somewhat cloudy material that needs to be polished prior to use. An alternative method, which creates a slightly stronger and much clearer material, also exists. This end-product is called aluminium oxynitride, sold under the name ALON.
People accept that fantasy creatures like unicorns and dragons do not really exist, and it was that kind of categorical thinking that led many Looney Tunes fans around the world to assume that a Tasmanian devil is not a real animal.
They’d never seen one before. They’d never heard of one before. It must be a made-up animal!
When the cartoon devil called “Taz” was introduced in cartoons in the 1950s, creator Robert McKinson had no idea he would be creating so much confusion with his brand-new character, which he never foresaw becoming such an icon….
(19) THAT’S CAT. They’re everywhere – on these altered versions of book covers – like the ferocious feline on the front of Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace.
(20) VIDEO OF THE DAY. “Mask Up America” on YouTube is a PSA from WarnerMedia in which Wonder Woman, Harry Potter, and Humphrey Bogart urge you to wear masks.
[Thanks to Joel Zakem, Chris Barkley, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Danny Sichel, Iphinome, Michael Toman, Mike Kennedy, JJ, John Hertz, Andrew Porter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Andrew (not Werdna).]
… I have been appointed the new Division Head of the WSFS Division, which is the part of the Worldcon that admininsters the Hugo Awards, the Business Meeting which reviews the rules, and the Site Selection process for the 2023 Worldcon (currently contested between Chengdu, China and Memphis, Tennessee) – the three obligatory things that every Worldcon must do.
I was previously the Administrator of the Hugo Awards in 2017 and 2019, and one of the deputy administrators last year; and also Division Head for Promotions at the London Worldcon in 2014. I had not anticipated having any executive role this year, but life does not always work out as we expect.
The Hugos have had some reputational issues to deal with. Having fought off direct assault by ill-wishers in 2015 and 2016, some pretty significant mistakes were made more recently. Many of those were outside the immediate responsibility of the Hugo Administrators, including most notably the awful botching of last year’s Hugo ceremony and the Hugo Losers Party in 2019, and the hostile response from some in the community to the winners of the award for Best Related Work in both of those years (cases where I very much stand by the eligibility decisions that were made by teams that I was a part of).
I have made mistakes as well, and I hope that I have learned from them. In particular, it’s clear, not least from the problems that arose in the last few days, that the Hugos as a whole need to be less siloed and need to improve communication in both directions with the rest of the Worldcon and with the wider stakeholder community (as my work colleagues would put it). DisCon III had already started putting structures in place that would improve this side of things, and I look forward to working with those and building on them.
In the summer of 1982, Margaret Atwood walked into Bakka Books looking for a copy of “The Hobbit.” Robert J. Sawyer, the celebrated Canadian science-fiction writer who was then working behind the counter, couldn’t believe his luck.
“It was pretty amazing — she knew all about the store and how we specialized in fantasy and science fiction,” Sawyer recalls of his encounter at the bookstore when it was in its first home on Queen Street near John Street.
Atwood’s visit to pick up some Tolkien was a testament to the role the bookstore (now named Bakka-Phoenix Science Fiction and Fantasy Bookstore) plays in the literary community — not just in Toronto but beyond city borders too. On the cusp of celebrating its 50th anniversary, Bakka-Phoenix is the oldest sci-fi and fantasy specialty bookstore in the world. It’s long been a hub for aficionados of a genre that is rarely awarded more than a couple of shelves at most big-box bookstores. It’s the kind of bookstore that’s for fans of space operas and dystopian fiction, for readers hungry for the latest William Gibson saga and for those on the prowl for a rare Harlan Ellison story collection. “Bakka has always been a mecca to me,” says Sawyer.
Actor John Barrowman, who portrayed Captain Jack Harkness on Torchwood, has set off a Twitter frenzy with a post depicting a visit to a show landmark in Cardiff, Wales.
Barrowman posted a selfie in front of a shrine to the show’s Ianto Jones, who was Capt. Jack’s lover on the show and tragically died in his arms in a mini-series episode, Children of Earth.
On Friday, Barrowman paid an incognito visit to the impromptu shrine set up to honor the Ianto character in Cardiff, a site near where the series was filmed. The shrine is still very popular with fans 11 years after the television series death….
(4) EVERMORE PARK ALSO A COVID CASUALTY. [Item by David Doering.] As of yesterday, Evermore Park has cancelled any future performances at the park and has let the creative team go. Basically, the park will only be open for event rentals and strolling through. A sad loss due to Covid. Had it opened one year before or one year later, it might well have made it. “Evermore Park cancels winter production, dozens of employees laid off” at Yahoo!
Dozens of employees at Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove were laid off this week after it was decided there would be no winter-themed production, as well as other financial issues largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(5) A REAL FANNISH TED TALK.FANAC.orgwill host a fannish TED talk on Saturday, January 23 when author, editor, and past Worldcon chair Ted White will be interviewed by John D. Berry via Zoom. Time: 4 pm EST. Participants are limited. To get the Zoom log-in, please RSVP to email@example.com .
Ted White will be talking about his long history in fandom and some of the interesting people he has encountered along the way. Ted is considered by many to be the current patriarch of fannish fandom. He has been active since the very early 1950s, both publishing fanzines and in clubs from Virginia to New York. We have more different fanzine titles of Ted’s on FANAC.org than any other faned. In addition to the many titles he edited on his own, he has published many collaborative fanzines going back to the 1950s.
Ted has also chaired several conventions, including the 1967 Worldcon – the last Worldcon in New York. As a professional in the science fiction field, he has written stories, articles, and novels. He was the editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic magazines, and has written extensively about the music industry.
John D. Berry has known and worked with Ted for over 50 years so he knows the questions to ask. And Ted has said that no topic is off the table.
You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms of Maila Nurmi — a.k.a. Vampira — when she first appeared on late-night KABC-TV in the spring of 1954. But it didn’t hurt. She was tall, beautiful and frightening and she screamed like a banshee, climaxing each howl with a lewd lick of her full lips, which even in black-and-white glistened bloodily. Her pale body was almost a caricature of an hourglass figure, like one of those inexplicably bountiful women featured in the pinups of Joaquin Alberto Vargas, for whom Nurmi had modeled only a few years earlier. But what made Vampira most memorable was the jokes she slyly delivered at machine-gun speed: pop, pop, pop. She came heavily armed with oodles of sexy, macabre puns and she wasn’t afraid to use them.
In the early days, Vampira was asked by a Los Angeles Tribune columnist to tell a little bit about herself.
“There isn’t much to tell,” she said. “I was born in Lapland. … I have an owl for a house pet. I have a 19-inch waist, 38-inch bust and 36-inch hips. My earliest recollection as a child is that I always wanted to play with mice. I’m very anti-social. I simply detest people. I don’t like snakes; they eat spiders, and I’m very fond of spiders.” Asked how she felt about children, she didn’t miss a beat: “Oh yes … delicious.”…
Last year, Javicia Leslie was asked on a podcast what she wanted her next acting role to be.
“I said I wanted to be a superhero,” Leslie recalled recently toThe Washington Post.
In July, just two months after stating her desire, the star of “God Friended Me” and “The Family Business”answered the call to a bat-signal put up in the sky just for her — finding out she was the new star of the CW’s “Batwoman.” The announcement instantly made her the new face of the network’s successful tradition of televised superheroes….
… One norm going away is the trademark black eye makeup that every on-screen bat-hero since Keaton has worn under the mask — Rose eventually parted with itand Leslie will also decline.
“Being a woman of color, it was important that we didn’t black out my eyes,” Leslie said. “We wanted to play with light instead of playing with darkness to help accentuate me being a black woman in playing this role.”
Bob Suryan has passed away today. He was very active in the Seattle Astronomical Society, and Norwescon (including chairing a couple of the conventions). He loved history and folks enjoyed chatting with him about all sorts of things. He had his ups and downs with health over the years and about a week and half ago was admitted to the hospital due to lots of pain. Sadly this turned out to be stage four lung cancer.
(10) MEDIA BIRTHDAY.
January 17, 1992 — Freejack premiered. It starred Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay was written by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett (who was also the producer) and Dan Gilroy. We consider it to be very loosely adapted from Robert Sheckley’s Immortality, Inc. (Great work. The serialised version as “Time Killer” in Galaxy was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.) It was not at the time well-liked by either critics or reviewers, not is it currently liked among audience reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes as it is carrying a 25% rating and there’s a lot who have expressed an opinion — over fourteen thousand so far. (CE)
(11) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
January 17, 1899 — Nevil Shute. Nevil Shute. Author of On the Beach. It originally appeared as a four-part series, The Last Days on Earth, in the London weekly Sunday Graphic in April 1957. It was twice a film. He has other SF novels including An Old Captivity which involves time travel and No Highway which gets a review by Pohl in Super Science Stories, April 1949. There’s In the Wet and Vinland the Good as well. (Died 1960.) (CE)
Born January 17, 1923 – Alva Rogers. Changing the name of the prozine Astounding to Analog has been applauded by some; AR wrote a Requiem. Fan Guest of Honor at Westercon XV. Co-chaired Baycon, the combined Westercon XXI and 26th Worldcon, famous in song and story. Co-edited Rhodomagnetic Digest 62, its last issue; AR’s wife Sidonie wrote a profile of Al haLevy and AR drew one. After SR died, AR married Andi Shechter, famous in song and story. (Died 1982) [JH]
January 17, 1927 — Eartha Kitt. Though you’ll have lots of folks remembering her as Catwoman from the original Batman, she appeared in but four episodes there. Genre wise, she was in such series as I-Spy, Mission: Impossible, Matrix, the animated Space Ghost Coast to Coast and the animated My Life as a Teenage Robot. Film wise, she played Freya in Erik the Viking, voiced Bagheera in The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story and was Madame Zeroni In Holes. (Died 2008.) (CE)
January 17, 1931 — James Earl Jones, 90. His first SF appearance was in Dr. Strangelove as Lt. Lothar Zogg. And I think I need not list all his appearances as Darth Vader here. Some genre appearances include Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Flight of Dragons, Conan the Barbarian as Thulsa Doom and I actually remember him in that role, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, did you know the 1995 Judge Dredd had a Narrator? Well he’s listed as doing it, and Fantasia 2000 as well. (CE)
January 17, 1935 — Paul O. Williams. A poet who won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer for The Breaking of Northwall and The Ends of the Circle which are the first two novels of his Pelbar Cycle. I’ve not read these, so be interested in your opinions, of course. (Died 2009.) (CE)
Born January 17, 1952 – Tom Deitz. A score of novels. Guest of Honor at Phoenixcon 8. Gainesville State College faculty member of the year, 2008. Phoenix Award. Co-founded local SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) barony. (Died 2009) [JH]
January 17, 1962 — Jim Carrey, 59. His first genre film is Once Bitten whose content is obvious from its name and which get a mere thirty-nine percent rating among audience reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes. The ‘dorable Earth Girls Are Easy was next followed up by Batman Forever in which he played a manic Riddler that I rather liked, then there’s the The Truman Show which was way cool. So may we not talk about How the Grinch Stole Christmas? (SHUDDER!) We settled last year that we think that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is genre. And I think that I’ll stop there this time. (CE)
Born January 17, 1967 – Wendy Mass, Litt.D., age 54. Ray Bradbury volume for Authors Teens Love. Of course I put that first, what Website do you think this is? A score of novels for us, half as many others; nonfiction e.g. Stonehenge, John Cabot. Schneider Award for A Mango-Shaped Space. Has read The Phantom Tollbooth and The Secret Garden. [JH]
January 17, 1970 — Genndy Tartakovsky, 50. Like Romulan Ale, animation style is a matter of taste. So while I like his work on Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars, I can understand why many SW fans don’t as it’s definitely an acquired taste. He also is responsible for directing the animated Hotel Transylvania franchise. (CE)
Born January 17, 1971 – Nomi Burstein, age 50. Technical writer, freelance editor. Collects neologisms, e.g. jan howard finder’s “bytelock”. Fanzine, Burstzine (with husband Michael Burstein). Years of patiently fielding questions about Jewish observance. Co-founder (with MB) of the Society for the Preservation of Pluto as a Planet. [JH]
Born January 17, 1981 – Rachelle Rosenberg, age 40. Color artist for Marvel, e.g. this and this and this. [JH]
What was the difference between what you did the ’50s, versus when you were in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s?
The ’70s women were allowed — it was almost like there is was a relaxation of women and social behavior, and so that would affect their voices and the tone that they can take. Instead of it being kind of a higher and level [like in the ’50s]. The ’70s, even though it’s this really strange “Brady Bunch” aspirational time in sitcom land, women were able to have a bit more control, something that grounded them a bit more in their voice. Then as we got into the ’80s, there were the teachable moments, and how sincere everything was, that was really funny. And then as we move into the arts and into the ’00s and the 2010s, the sitcom becomes really cynical. The humor, like “Malcolm in the Middle” and “Modern Family” becomes incredibly cynical. And that’s what we found comforting for whatever reason as a society.
It was fun when we were in this boot camp to not only chart the physical changes, as tools, but to also [discover] what comedy was for that time. “Rosemary’s Baby” is a film and “Brady Bunch” is on television, it doesn’t make any sense to me. But for whatever reason, that’s what that’s what the consumer was watching at home.
When I set up Wizard’s Tower Press, one of the things I wanted to do was create a semiprozine for non-fiction. It turned out that there wasn’t a market for such a thing at the time, and it closed after 9 issues. Then last year I saw Nicholas Whyte bemoaning the lack of interest in the Fanzine category of the Hugos. I’d already come to the conclusion that I needed some form of discipline to ensure I made time to read and review books, so I decided to relaunch Salon Futura as a fanzine. Thus far it has worked in that I have read a lot more books. I figure that if I ever get on the Hugo ballot again there will be a flood of new people voting in that category to stop me winning, and that will be the other objective achieved.
(15) VINTAGE OPINIONS. Gilbert Seldes lectures on science fiction in this 1953 recording of a WNYC broadcast “Science fiction writing” from The NYPR Archive Collections.
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Seldes discusses the science fiction genre. He opens with a story about a science fiction story about the atomic bomb preceding the actual bomb, and the government’s response.
He speaks of the symbolism of the extraterrestrial as a symbol for invaders from behind the Iron Curtain.
Seldes notes that there is a lot of science fiction that he does not deem to be of good quality, but does speak very highly of Ray Bradbury and H. G. Wells
(16) CHINESE SFF MOVIE. The Shimmer Program announced “Another Chinese science fiction film, ‘The Soul’ has been released on big screen! The thriller is adapted from Jiang Bo’s story ‘The Soul Transplanting Skill’ and directed by Cheng Wei-hao.” (The Soul is not to be confused with Pixar’s Soul).
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Lise Andreasen, John Hertz, JJ, David Doering, Mike Kennedy, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Andrew Porter, Joe Siclari, Olav Rokne, and Michael Toman for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.]
(1) KGB. Fantastic Fiction at KGB virtual reading series hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Lauren Beukes and Usman T. Malik on Wednesday, January 20 at 7 p.m. Eastern. Check back at their website or social media to get the link when it drops.
Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, ex-journalist and sometime documentary maker who has written five novels, a pop history, a short story collection and New York Times best-selling comics. Her novel Zoo City won the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Shining Girls is soon to be a tv show for Apple with Elisabeth Moss, and won the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Strands Critics Choice Award among others. Her new book Afterland, about a world (almost) without men, is currently in development. She lives in Cape Town with her daughter.
Usman T. Malik
Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani-American writer and doctor. His fiction has been reprinted in several year’s best anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy series, and has won the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. Usman’s debut collection, Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, will be out in early 2021.
(2) COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER. In search of prospects to nominate for the video game Hugo, Camestros Felapton explores another game he hopes will meet his criteria of “look[ing] like they might be interesting/notable from the perspective of science fiction & fantasy as a broad genre” — “Review: Spiritfarer (Nintendo Switch)”.
…However, the game I will nominate in this category isn’t Hades but a game set in a quite different afterlife: Spiritfarer. The two games couldn’t be more different and yet both borrow Charon the Ferryman and Hades as characters from Greek mythology and both use (different) genres of game play to lead you to interact with a series of characters from whom you learn about their lives (and deaths) and your own characters back story. Spiritfarer has fewer murderous, laser firing crystal things though.
The genre of gameplay is resource management and exploration. You have a ship with a small number of passengers and you sail between islands collecting resources and improving your ship. It’s all presented as 2D animation largely moving horizontally.
…Alternately called cosmic horror or Lovecraftian horror, this brand of story is focused on unknowable and ancient terrors. While the genre’s most iconic monster, Cthulhu, slumbers in a lost underwater city, cosmic horror just as often directly lives up to its name and comes from the cold of space or is lurking in isolated areas like Antarctica. The genre has few real heroes, mostly focusing on people who are already deeply flawed or struggling before they confront these horrors. While they may be killed, the protagonists are just as likely to be rendered insane or somehow fundamentally transformed into something as equally unknowable and terrible as the unspeakable creatures they have encountered.
But how did cosmic horror seep into the mainstream of movies, TV, and games? Let’s trace that history from D&D to True Detective to Nicolas Cage and beyond…
Speaking of hell, a study in the August 3 issue of the journal CurrentBiology revealed that the vast majority of members of a species of beetle, Regimbartia attenuata, perform a literally death-defying feat after being swallowed by various species of frogs. The beetle apparently swims its little heart out till it pops out of the frog’s derriere. Because, as another axiom has it, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
To find out whether the insect’s passage was active or passive, researchers immobilized some beetles by coating them with wax before going into the mouth of hell, or rather, frog. None of these beetles survived. To paraphrase science-fiction legend Harlan Ellison (who definitely would have come up with this experimental protocol if he’d lived long enough): they really don’t want to open their mouths, and they must scream.
…The Milky Way has been around for billions of years. In that time, life has not only had had plenty of time to evolve to an advanced level and achieve heights of technology even our wildest sci-fi dreams couldn’t fathom, but also to destroy itself.
“We found [self-annihilation of complex life] to be the most influential parameter determining the quantity and age of galactic intelligent life,” the physicists said in a study recently published in Astrophysics of Galaxies.
There were three types of limitations for the existence of aliens that the team studied. They considered the possibilities of abiogenesis, how long it might have taken (or be taking) for an intelligent civilization to evolve, and chances of such a civilization crushing itself. Abiogenesis is the idea of life spawning from things that are definitely not alive.
…Loeb says there are two big details that suggest Oumuamua wasn’t just a comet, but rather a piece of alien technology. The first detail is the object’s dimensions, as it was determined to be “five to 10 times longer than it was wide.” Loeb argues the cigar-like shape isn’t typical for a natural space object.
But the theoretical physicist says the biggest detail that supports his theory is Oumuamua’s movement.
“The excess push away from the sun, that was the thing that broke the camel’s back,” he said.
Loeb explains that the sun’s gravitational force would cause a natural object to move faster as it approaches, and eventually push the object back, causing it to move slower as it moves away. Loeb points out that this didn’t occur with Oumuamua, which accelerated “slightly, but to a highly statistically significant extent” as it moved further and further away.
“If we are not alone, are we the smartest kids on the block?” Loeb asked. “If there was a species that eliminated itself through war or changing the climate, we can get our act together and behave better. Instead, we are wasting a lot of resources on Earth fighting each other and other negative things that are a big waste.”
(7) HEADLONG RETREAT. R.S. Benedict has posted a new episode of the Rite Gud podcast.”I talk to writer/artist Sloane Leong about SFF’s retreat into childhood nostalgia, and the beauty of mature fiction.” Listen here.
As the world looks grimmer and grimmer, Millennials and Gen Xers retreat deeper and deeper into childhood nostalgia. Adults dominate fandoms meant for children, like Steven Universe, Young Adult fiction, and My Little Pony. Within SFF, many writers, readers and editors have begun to treat all media as though it were meant for children: It must be didactic and escapist and safe. But there are still some of us who want art to treat us like adults.
In this episode, writer and artist Sloane Leong joins us to talk about the power of embracing your inner grownup.
(8) ROBERTS STILL ALIVE. People sent links to articles reporting the actress death, however, actress Tanya Roberts is still alive at this writing according to TMZ.
(9) JAEL OBIT. Artist Jael died November 17 reports Locus Online — Jael (1937-2020). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says Jael did covers for Baen and DAW, as well as magazines. Jael’s work received eight Chesley Award nominations between 1995 and 2002.
She also appeared in the Doctor Who episode Planet Of Fire, starring Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor.
Her agent, Thomas Bowington, said: “She really was Hammer’s number one leading lady and the technicolour queen of Hammer.
…Shelley was also known for TV roles in series including The Saint, The Avengers, The Borgias, Blake’s 7 and Crown Court, and later played Hester Samuels in EastEnders.
Robert J. Sawyer praised Shelley’s performance in Quatermass and the Pit (1967) on Facebook in which she”played a completely professional scientist, paleontologist Barbara Judd, the female lead, in one of the best science-fiction films ever made.”He also posted a great quote from Shelly:
“I adored science fiction. When I was a very little girl my father used to have all these science fiction magazines and we used to go through them together. My mind had been opened up to science fiction by my father so when I got these scripts it wasn’t `What’s this rubbish?’ It was ‘that’s interesting.'”
(11) MEMORY LANE.
1971 — Fifty years ago, Larry Niven’s Ringworld would win the Hugo for Best Novel at Noreascon I over Poul Anderson’s Tau Zero, Robert Silverberg’s Tower of Glass, Wilson Tucker‘s The Year of the Quiet Sun and Hal Clement’s Star Light. It would also win the Locus, Nebula and Ditmar Awards, and Locus would later include it on its list of All-Time Best SF Novels before 1990. It would spawn three sequel novels and a prequel series as well which was co-written with Edward M. Lerner. One film and three series have been announced down the decades but none to date have been produced.
(12) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
Born January 4, 1882 – P.J. Monahan. Newspaper cartoonist, illustrator in the “pulp” days (when our and other magazines were printed on cheap pulp paper). Thirty covers, twenty interiors. Here is Semi Dual, the Occult Detector. Here is Thuvia. Here is the 26 Jun 20 All-Story Weekly – weekly! How’d you like to be the editor of that? To show PJM’s range, here is the 1 Sep 12 Leslie’s, and here is a portrait of Pope Pius X. (Died 1931) [JH]
Born January 4, 1882 – Violet Van der Elst. Twoscore short stories, half a dozen collections, for us. Starting as a scullery maid, she developed cosmetics including the first brushless shaving cream – don’t say we’ve made no progress – and grew rich; fought against the death penalty, threw her money and her mind into it, lost both, barely lived to see it abolished. (Died 1966) [JH]
Born January 4, 1890 — Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Creator of the modern comic book by publishing original material in the early Thirties instead of reprints of newspaper comic strips. Some years later, he founded Wheeler-Nicholson’s National Allied Publications which would eventually become DC Comics. (Died 1965.) (CE)
Born January 4, 1904 – Dale Ulrey. Four covers, a dozen interiors. Also a comic-strip artist, notably Apple Mary, famous during the Depression, still running today as Mary Worth. Here is her Wizard of Oz. Here is an interior for Jaglon and the Tiger Fairies. (Died 1989) [JH]
Born January 4, 1927 — Barbara Rush, 94. She won a Golden Globe Award as the most promising female newcomer for being Ellen Fields in It Came From Outer Space. She portrayed Nora Clavicle in Batman, and was found in other genre programs such as the revival version of Outer Limits, Night Gallery, The Bionic Woman and The Twilight Zone. (CE)
Born January 4, 1930 – Ruth Kyle. Founding member of the Lunarians (New York club, famous in song and story). Hard-working Secretary of NYCon II the 14th Worldcon; married its chairman Dave Kyle; his tale of their honeymoon flight to Loncon I the 15th is here. Good cook, gracious hostess. Part of an adventure I had with Dave, see here (bottom of three). (Died 2011) [JH]
Born January 4, 1933 – Phyllis Naylor, age 88. A dozen novels for us; a hundred thirty all told; some 2,000 articles. Newbery Medal. Sequoyah Children’s Book Award. Mark Twain Readers Award. William Allen White Children’s Book Award. Kerlan Award. “What spare time? If I’m not writing, I’m thinking about writing.” [JH]
Born January 4, 1946 — Ramsey Campbell, 75. My favorite novel by him is without doubt The Darkest Part of the Woods which has a quietly building horror to it. I know he’s better known for his sprawling (pun full intended) Cthulhu mythology writings but I never got into those preferring his other novels such as his Solomon Kane movie novelization which is quite superb. (CE)
Born January 4, 1958 — Matt Frewer, 63. His greatest role has to be as Max Headroom on the short-lived series of the same name. Amazingly I think it still stands thirty-five years later as SF well crafted. Just a taste of his later series SF appearances include playing Jim Taggart, scientist and dog catcher on Eureka, Pestilence in Supernatural, Dr. Kirschner in 12 Monkeys and Carnage in Altered Carbon. His film genre appearance list is just as impressive but I’ll single out Supergirl, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Stand, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (oh do guess where he is in it) and lastly Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, a series of films that I really like. (CE)
Born January 4, 1960 — Michael Stipe, 61. Lead singer of R.E.M. which has done a few songs that I could argue are genre adjacent such as “Losing My Religion”. But no, I’ve got him here for being involved in a delightful project called Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. Lots of great songs given interesting new recordings. His contribution was “Little April Shower” from Bambi which he covered along with Natalie Merchant, Michael Stipe, Mark Bingham and The Roches. Fun stuff indeed! (CE)
Born January 4, 1981 – Sarah Crossan, age 40. Two books for us, seven others. Has read four each by Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, two by George Eliot. [JH]
Born January 4, 1985 — Lenora Crichlow, 36. She played Cheen on “Gridlock”, a Tenth Doctor story. She also played Annie Sawyer on the BBC version of Being Human from 2009 to 2012, and she appeared as Victoria Skillane in the “White Bear” episode of Black Mirror. (CE)
Born January 4, 1985 – Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe, age 36. A dozen covers. Here is Desert Stars. Here is The Sentinel. Here is Omni. Here is his page at ArtStation. [JH]
(13) THE SIGN OF THE Z. In the Washington Post, Michael Sragow notes the centennial of THE MARK OF ZORRO, the first Zorro movie. He notes that both Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger and Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster say that Zorro’s twin identity as the masked crimefighter and the foppish Don Diego as a precursor to Batman and Bruce Wayne and Superman and Clark Kent. In addition, Sragow sees Zorro’s secret lair as a precursor of the Batcave and Lolita Pulido’s ditching Don Diego for Zorro as Lois Lane favoring Superman over Clark Kent. “On Zorro’s 100th birthday, the father of swashbucklers and superhero movies is still relevant”
…Like Tennyson’s Sir Galahad, Zorro has the strength of 10 because his heart is pure. He’s also irreverent and mischievous. His sparkle exudes hipness: He embraces the New World’s egalitarian ethos while his enemies defend the feudal past.
Zorro lifted spirits in the 1920s. In the 2020s, his ebullience can generate ecstatic highs.
During Fairbanks’s previous run as the parody hero of contemporary action comedies like “His Picture in the Papers,” fans came to think of him as “Doug,” a tribute to his offhand elegance — like Fred Astaire’s, a triumph of talent and willpower. Doug transports this knockabout grace into “The Mark of Zorro.” With his light heart and “can-do” demeanor — qualities the world embraced as quintessentially American — Zorro soon dominated action-film iconography. Cinema would never be the same.
(14) ZOOMIN’ DOWN THE ROAD. “Movin’ Right Along With Kermit The Frog and Fozzie Bear” on YouTube has Kermit and Fozzie welcoming the new year with dreams of a road trip and showing they know how to use Zoom.
Canada! Perhaps best known to fans of British soap operas, for whom it serves as that mysterious land to the west to which characters vanish after their purpose on the show has been served. Of course, all that is needed to learn far more about Canada than you would ever need or want to know is to get trapped in a conversation with a Canadian, uninvited exposition concerning their homeland being as natural to the average Canadian as it is any given inhabitant of a fictional utopia confronted by a woken sleeper from the pre-utopian past.
One might reasonably expect that most SF touching on Canada was written by Canadians and the Canadian-adjacent. Perhaps it is. Quite a lot of it is not. Here are five examples of Canada and Canadians in science fiction, as seen by foreign eyes.
First on the list is Bob Shaw, who’s challenging because he lived and worked in Canada for a period.
(16) HOPE HE GETS HIS MD. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] The first baby of 2021 in one Alabama town has a possibly-unique name, Anakyn Gene Strange. Yeah, they changed the spelling of the first name a bit, but wouldn’t it be lovely if the young lad went into medicine. Think of it — Dr. Anakyn Strange. “‘The Force is Strong’ with Florence’s first baby in 2021”
Star Wars fans immediately know the reference when hearing the name Anakyn.
While it may not be spelled the same as it was in the series, Hope and Dusty Strange used the name on Florence’s first birth of 2021. Anakyn Gene Strange was born at 1:04 a.m. on January 1 at North Alabama Medical Center.
“There actually was a feeling of relief because 2020 was a horrible and challenging year,” she said. “It was the most pure way to start out the year.”…
(17) RAVENCON ANTHOLOGY KICKSTARTER. Michael D. Pederson, RavenCon 2022 chair, explains:
Being an April convention, we were forced to announce this year’s cancellation three weeks before the convention. Needless to say, after having spent 11 months buying supplies and paying fees for the con we didn’t have much (read: any) capital left after refunding the vendors. And we still needed to refund about a third of our attendees that wanted money. And now that we’ve had to cancel for 2021 as well, we’re really stuck for funds. So, we created an anthology, with story donations coming from many of our regular programming guests as well as a few of my old Nth Degree contributors. We’re using the anthology to raise funds through Kickstarter. We funded the entire project on our first day and hit our first stretch goal a week later. We’re working on a second stretch goal and expect to announce a third stretch goal later this week.
Who would have thought that “cologne” is such a complicated word to spell correctly? Or it just might be that many people really are enjoying the smell of large intestine…
(19) LONG PLAYING. And long ago. This interesting discovery is available at Archive.org – “A Child’s Introduction To Outer Space: Jim Timmens” (1959) – with songs performed by The Satellite Singers, and dramatic readings, and a credit on the album cover to Scientific Advisor Willy Ley who won one of the first Hugos in 1953.
(20) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In “Wonder Woman 1984 Pitch Meeting” on Screen Rant, Ryan George says that the reasons why Steve Trevor appears in Wonder Woman 1984 have really creepy implications and that it’s highly unlikely that Wonder Woman could make an escape from the Smithsonian by stealing a fully fueled airplane from the Air and Space Museum.
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Deficit Mode is a mode of operation of the Physical Unit that occurs when most of the available biological energy goes towards meeting unmet needs, protecting oneself from assault, and repairing damage caused by violence and neglect.
Abraham Maslow was aware of Deficit Mode, what he called Deficiency Motivation. "Most individuals, driven by unfulfilled needs for safety, respect, or esteem, construct value systems that express selfishness or anxiety about others; but those who are satisfied in their basic needs "can devote [themselves] to higher gratification [and are] more identified with humanity than any other group yet described."
A physical unit in deficit mode creates conditions to support immediate satisfaction of needs.
When a physical unit enters deficit mode, lower centers in the brain preempt higher centers and take over control, assuming the power to drive the organism towards immediate needs gratification.
In an ideal situation, deficits are acute and satisfaction of needs proceeds as the normal and conscious result of daily activities of the individual and the social and economic networks. When ideal situations do not apply, daily deficits occur and may even accumulate over time.
When faced with chronic deficit, chronic assault, and chronic need to heal, all body systems, and all available energy resources, eventually turn towards satisfying unmet needs, defense, and healing. If you are thirsty and have not had a drink of water for two days your physical unit will do nothing but seek out fluids. The longer you go without fluids, the more desperate will your gratification activities become. Eventually you will devote all available bodily resources to the task of satisfying your need for water. The exact same dynamic applies to unmet psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs. These are real needs just like the need for water and when they are unmet the body devotes more and more of its resources to increasingly desperate attempts to meet the needs.
Chronic deprivation of needs leads inevitably to neurosis, psychosis, and even physical illness.
In serious cases of chronic deprivation and assault, the physical unit becomes disconnected (see Connection). In addition, higher cognitive functions, in particular self-awareness, are disabled. The disabling of self-awareness is a survival mechanism that allows the organism to pursue defense and gratification activities without concern for [Alignment]]. Serious long term assault and deficit may lead to Sociopathy
It is important to emphasize that even though chronic deprivation can lead to psychopathology, even sociopathy, we should not view the energetic focusing and lack of self-awareness that develops as pathological. Energetic focusing and the disconnection of the higher brain faculties is an adaptive response to survival exigencies naturally selected. [expand]
It needs to be said that even though the deficit mode of the physical unit is a natural result of environmental pressures, all personal, social, economic, and political efforts should be directed towards ensuring the physical unit never enters into deficit mode. [expand]
Petey Stevens was aware that unmet needs "close" or "shut down" and individual. "If a baby's caretakers are not available to the baby because of death or another absence such as work, are not supportive, or are abusive because of emotional immaturity or immorality, the baby grows up with negative 'charge' and self-destructive beliefs attached to his or her communications. The ... person is "shut down" or closed" to his or her soul's feelings or truth."
- Maslow quoted in Edward Hoffman, The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow (New York: McGraw Hill, 1999), 4395.
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An abundant 19.3-kDa Helicobacter pylori protein has been cloned, and the sequence is homologous with a ferritin-like protein produced by Escherichia coli K-12. Homologies are also present with a number of eucaryotic ferritins, as well as with the heme group-containing bacterioferritins. All amino acids involved in chelation of inorganic iron by ferritins from humans and other higher species are conserved in the H. pylori protein. Consistent with the structural data indicating an iron-binding function, E. coli overexpressing the H. pylori ferritin-like protein accumulates almost 10 times more nonheme iron than vector controls, and the iron-binding activity copurifies with the 19.3-kDa protein. Immunoelectron microscopy of H. pylori, as well as of E. coli overexpressing the H. pylori gene, demonstrates that the gene product has a cytoplasmic location where it forms paracrystalline inclusions. On the basis of these structural and functional data, we propose that the H. pylori gene product (termed Pfr) forms the basis for a second class of bacterial ferritins designed to store nonheme iron. | <urn:uuid:c398e9d5-f782-4011-b99e-4f77ca51c238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://profiles.wustl.edu/en/publications/paracrystalline-inclusions-of-a-novel-ferritin-containing-nonheme | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.905204 | 282 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Today’s digital palette cleanser is bought to you courtesy of Cassini and a small icy moon filled with intrigue.
As we constantly check the news sites for updates on the minutia of our daily lives, refresh our social media feeds, and ponder the existential dread that seems to be flooding our immediate future with increasing volume, it’s nice to find little islands of tranquility that appear out of nowhere. Today, I found that island in a beautiful processed image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus by the incredibly talented Kevin Gill, who works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
In his tweet, Kevin simply describes this view as “solitude” and that’s pretty damn near perfect. In this image, the beautifully back-lit plumes are visible with the tenuous E-ring of Saturn creating an atmospheric backdrop.
Enceladus is a fascinating moon. During the NASA Cassini mission, which ended its glorious 13-year reign in Saturn orbit in 2017, the spacecraft became intimately familiar with the icy moon and its famous geysers. After flying through the plumes of water vapor, it became clear to mission scientists that not only does this 313 mile wide icy marble have an extensive subsurface liquid water ocean, that ocean contains organic molecules that could hint at astrobiological possibilities.
It’s sometimes nice to escape to Saturn orbit every now and again, so be sure to check out Kevin’s awe-inspiring Flickr album for more.
Don’t forget your spacesuit: Complex lifeforms, such as humans, would not survive on many of the worlds we thought would be interstellar tropical getaways
Worlds like Earth may be even rarer than we thought.
We live on a planet that provides the perfect balance of ingredients to support a vast ecosystem. This amazing world orbits the Sun at just the right distance where water can exist in a liquid state—a substance that, as we all know, is an essential component for our biology to function. Earth is also an oddball in our solar system, being the only planet where these vast oceans of liquid water persist on its surface, all enshrouded in a thick atmosphere that provides the stage for a complex global interplay of chemical and biological cycles that, before we industrialized humans came along, has supported billions of years of uninterrupted evolution and biological diversity.
Humans, being the proud intelligent beings that we profess to be, are stress-testing this delicate balance by pumping an unending supply of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Being a potent greenhouse gas, we’re currently living through a new epoch in our planet’s biological history where an exponential increase in CO2 is being closely followed by an increase in global average temperatures. We are, in effect, altering Earth’s habitability. Well done, humans!
While this trend is a clear threat to the sustainability of our biosphere, spare a thought for other “habitable” worlds that may appear to have all the right stuff for complex lifeforms to evolve, but toxic levels of the very chemicals that keep these worlds habitable has curtailed the possibility of complex life from gaining a foothold.
Welcome to the Not-So-Habitable Zone
Habitable zone exoplanets are the Gold Standard for exoplanet-hunters and astrobiologists alike. Finding a distant alien world within this zone—a region surrounding any star where it’s not too hot and not too cold for water to exist on its surface, a region also known as the “Goldilocks Zone” for obvious reasons—spawns a host of questions that our most advanced telescopes in space and on the ground try to answer: Is that exoplanet Earth-sized? Does it have an atmosphere? What kind of star is it orbiting? Does its system possess a Jupiter-like gas giant? These questions are all trying to help us understand whether that world has the Earthly qualities that could support hypothetical extraterrestrial life.
(Of course, there’s the debate as to whether all life in the universe is Earth-life-like, but as we’re the only biological examples that we know of in the entire galaxy, it’s the best place to start when pondering what biological similarities extraterrestrial life may have to us.)
The habitable zone for exoplanets is a little more complicated than simply the distance at which they orbit their host stars, however. Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, can extend the area of a star’s habitable zone. For example: If an atmosphere-less planet orbits beyond the outermost edge of its habitable zone, the water it has on its surface will remain in a solid, frozen state. Now, give that planet an atmosphere laced with greenhouse gases and its surface may become warm enough to maintain the water in a liquid state, thereby boosting its habitable potential.
But how much is too much of a good thing? And how might this determination impact our hunt for truly habitable worlds beyond our own?
In a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers have taken another look at the much-coveted habitable zone exoplanets to find that, while some of the atmospheric gases are essential to maintain a temperature balance, should there be too much of the stuff keeping some of those worlds at a habitable temperature, their toxicity could curtail any lifeforms more complex than a single-celled microbe from evolving.
“This is the first time the physiological limits of life on Earth have been considered to predict the distribution of complex life elsewhere in the universe,” said Timothy Lyons, of the University of California, Riverside, and director of the Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center.
“Imagine a ‘habitable zone for complex life’ defined as a safe zone where it would be plausible to support rich ecosystems like we find on Earth today,” he said in a statement. “Our results indicate that complex ecosystems like ours cannot exist in most regions of the habitable zone as traditionally defined.”
Carbon dioxide is an essential component of our ecosystem, particularly as it’s a greenhouse gas. Acting like an insulator, CO2 absorbs energy from the Sun and heats our atmosphere. When in balance, it stops too much energy from being radiated back out into space, thereby preventing our planet from being turned into a snowball. Levels of CO2 have ebbed and flowed throughout the biological history of our planet and it has always been a minor component of atmospheric gases, but its greenhouse effect (i.e. the atmospheric heating effect) is extremely potent and the human-driven 400+ppm levels are causing dramatic climate changes that modern biological systems haven’t experienced for millions of years. That said, the CO2 levels required to keep some “habitable” exoplanets in a warm enough state would need to be a lot more concentrated than the current terrestrial levels, potentially making their atmospheres toxic.
“To sustain liquid water at the outer edge of the conventional habitable zone, a planet would need tens of thousands of times more carbon dioxide than Earth has today,” said lead author Edward Schwieterman, of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. “That’s far beyond the levels known to be toxic to human and animal life on Earth.”
From their computer simulations, to keep CO2 at acceptable non-toxic levels, while maintaining planetary habitability, the researchers realized that for simple animal life to survive, the habitable zone will shrink to no more than half of the traditional habitable zone. For more complex lifeforms—like humans—to survive, that zone will shrink even more, to less than one third. In other words, to strike the right balance between keeping a hypothetical planet warm enough, but not succumbing to CO2 toxicity, the more complex the lifeform, the more compact the habitable zone.
This issue doesn’t stop with CO2. Carbon monoxide (CO) doesn’t exist at toxic levels in Earth’s atmosphere as our hot and bright Sun drives chemical reactions that remove dangerous levels of the molecule. But for exoplanets orbiting cooler stars that emit lower levels of ultraviolet radiation, such as those that orbit red dwarf stars (re: Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST-1), dangerous levels of this gas can accumulate. Interestingly, though CO is a very well-known toxic gas that prevents animal blood from carrying oxygen around the body, it is harmless to microbes on Earth. So it may be that habitable zone exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs could be a microbial heaven, but an asphyxiation hell for more complex lifeforms that have cardiovascular systems.
While it could be argued that life finds a way—extraterrestrial organisms may have evolved into more complex states after adapting to their environments, thereby circumventing the problems complex terrestrial life has with CO2 and CO—if we are to find a truly “Earth-like” habitable world that could support human biology, these factors need to be considered before declaring an exoplanet habitable. And, besides, we might want to make the interstellar journey to one of these alien destinations in the distant future; it would be nice to chill on an extraterrestrial beach without having to wear a spacesuit.
“Our discoveries provide one way to decide which of these myriad planets we should observe in more detail,” said Christopher Reinhard, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-leader of the Alternative Earths team. “We could identify otherwise habitable planets with carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide levels that are likely too high to support complex life.”
Earth: Unique, Precious
Like many astronomical and astrobiological studies, our ongoing quest to explore strange, new (and habitable) worlds has inevitably led back to our home and the relationship we have with our delicate ecosystem.
“I think showing how rare and special our planet is only enhances the case for protecting it,” Schwieterman said. “As far as we know, Earth is the only planet in the universe that can sustain human life.”
So, before we test the breaking point of our atmosphere’s sustainability, perhaps we should consider our own existential habitability before its too late to repair the damage of carbon dioxide emissions. That’s the only way that we, as complex (and allegedly intelligent) lifeforms, can continue to ask the biggest questions of our rich and mysterious universe.
I, for one, welcome our new Mars desert-dwelling overlords.
It’s a question I’ve been pondering for some time: if we discover microbes eking out an existence on Mars, what might they be called? At first, I presumed it would be a variation on how we designate microbial names on Earth. Something like Staphylococcus aureus but swap out the “aureus” for “ares” (Greek for “Mars”, the god of war) or … something.
As you can see, biology isn’t my strong suit and butchering Latin and Greek is all in a day’s work. So, feeling out of my depth, I decided to leave that thought alone and file the idea under “Interesting, But Needs More Research.” That’s where the topic stayed for a while; I wanted to wait for a related piece of science to appear in a journal that could be a catalyst for my question. And last week, that research surfaced. I saw my opportunity.
Searching for Martians on Earth
The Atacama Desert is an amazing place. Having visited the ESO’s Paranal Observatory and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in 2016 as a lucky member of the #MeetESO team, I have first-hand experience of that extreme and breathtaking region. While driving between sites, we’d often go for hours without seeing any vegetation or life of any kind. Atacama is the driest place on Earth; its salty, parched soil is bombarded by ultraviolet radiation, and the core of the desert doesn’t receive rain for decades. But just because life isn’t obvious in the arid ‘scapes, that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The flora and fauna that does call Atacama their home are very specialized in finding ways to thrive. On the smallest life scales, for some microbes that means living underground, which makes them very interesting organisms indeed.
The research was driven, in part, to develop techniques for robotic missions to the Red Planet that will seek out alien bacteria that may be holed up in an underground colony. Remember, Mars has the same land area as Earth, so there’s a lot of real estate to search for microscopic lifeforms. Sure, scientists are smart and can narrow down potentially-habitable regions that they can drop a life-seeking robot on, but once landed on that toxic soil, what kind of methodology should they use to look for these hypothetical bacteria? The Atacama Desert makes for a decent analog of Mars; it’s very dry and its soil is laced with toxic perchlorate salts, so if microbes on Mars bear any resemblance to the nature of microbes in the Atacama, scientists can take a stab at predicting their behavior and guide their Mars rovers to the most likely places where they might be hiding.
Researchers already know that bacterial life occupies even the harshest Atacama regions, but according to team leader Stephen Pointing, a professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, the microbes we are familiar with are common species that live on the surface, using sunlight for energy. But Pointing isn’t so interested in what’s on the surface; his rover is fitted with a drill and extraction system that can take samples of soil from underground. During the campaign, Pointing’s team made some compelling discoveries.
“We saw that with increasing depth the bacterial community became dominated by bacteria that can thrive in the extremely salty and alkaline soils,” he told me. “They in turn were replaced at depths down to 80 centimeters by a single specific group of bacteria that survive by metabolizing methane.”
These subsurface microbes are known to science — they have been found in deep mine shafts and other subterranean environments — but they’ve never been found living under the surface of the world’s most arid region. They’ve also fine-tuned their evolution to specifically adapt to this harsh environment. “The communities of bacteria that we discovered were remarkably lacking in complexity, and this likely reflects the extreme stress under which they develop,” said Pointing.
The biggest discovery made during this research was that the subsurface colonies of bacteria were very patchy, said Pointing, a factor that will have ramifications for the search for their Martian cousins. “The patchy nature of the colonization suggest that a rover would be faced with a ‘needle in a haystack’ scenario in the search for Martian bacteria,” he said.
Desert Planet Survivor
This research is a fascinating glimpse into how Earth-based environments are being used to better understand how alien bacteria may evolve in their native environments. But the desert-thriving, methane-munching bacteria of the Atacama may also inspire their name — should they be discovered one day.
Pointing explained: “The way we assign Latin names to bacteria is based on their evolutionary relationship to each other and we measure this using their genetic code. The naming of Martian bacteria would require a completely new set of Latin names at the highest level if Martian bacteria were a completely separate evolutionary lineage — that is they evolved from a different common ancestor to Earth bacteria in a “second genesis” event [and not related to Earth life via panspermia]. If we find truly “native” Martian bacteria I would love to name one, and call it Planeta-desertum superstes, which translates in Latin to ‘survivor on the desert planet.'”
So there we have it, an answer to my question about what our Martian neighbors might be called, if we find them: Planeta-desertum superstes,the desert planet survivor.
New models trying to infer the geology of potentially habitable moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn hint at surprisingly cool, geologically inactive worlds, the opposite of what a diverse alien ecosystem would need
Imagine a spaceship finally landing on Europa and slowly drilling into the ice. After weeks of very careful progress, it pierces the moon’s frozen shell and releases a small semi-autonomous submarine connected to the probe with an umbilical to ensure constant communication and a human taking over in case of an emergency. Much of the time, it will chart a course of its own since piloting it with an hour long delay between command and response would be less than ideal. It navigates through the salty ocean, shining its light on structures never before seen by a human eye, making its way deeper and further into the alien environment to find absolutely… nothing at all.
That’s the sad scenario proposed by a team of geologists who crunched the numbers on the four leading contenders to host alien life in our outer solar system: Europa, Ganymede, Titan, and Enceladus. According to their models, looking at gravity, the weight of water and ice on the rocks underneath, and the hardness of the rocks themselves, these moons would be more or less geologically dead. Without volcanoes or sulfur vents, there would be very little in terms of nutrient exchange and therefore, very little food and fuel for an alien ecosystem more complex than microbe colonies.
Of course, these results are a pretty serious departure from the hypotheses commonly held by planetary scientists that the gravity of gas giants cause tidal kneading inside their moons, citing Io as an example. According to the researchers’ model, only Enceladus would be a promising world to look for life, as evidenced by the plumes breaking through its icy crust, spraying organic material into space. The reason why the numbers are different, they say, is because its core is likely to be porous, meaning its ocean would be heated deep inside the moon, fueling geysers and churning organic matter while effectively making the little world a ball of soggy slush.
Since these findings are so different from what’s implied by observations, the researchers aren’t in a rush to publish them are are soliciting other scientists’ opinions to make sure they have a complete picture, and lead investigator Paul Byrne grumbled about his disappointment with what the models indicate. That said, while he’s hoping to be proven wrong, we shouldn’t forget that these are alien worlds and while we’ve spent decades studying them, our knowledge came in bursts. Simply put, we might know a fair bit but far from everything and disappointing surprises may lurk under their icy surfaces and subterranean oceans.
When rains came to one of the driest places on Earth, an unprecedented mass extinction ensued.
The assumption was that this rainfall would turn this remote region of the Atacama Desert in Chile into a wondrous, floral haven — dormant seeds hidden in the parched landscape would suddenly awake, triggered by the “life-giving” substance they hadn’t seen for centuries — but it instead decimated over three quarters of the native bacterial life, microbes that shun water in favor of the nitrogen-rich compounds the region has locked in its dry soil.
In other words, death fell from the skies.
“We were hoping for majestic blooms and deserts springing to life. Instead, we learned the contrary, as we found that rain in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert caused a massive extinction of most of the indigenous microbial species there,” said astrobiologist Alberto Fairen, who works at Cornell Cornell University and the Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid. Fairien is co-author of a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports.
“The hyperdry soils before the rains were inhabited by up to 16 different, ancient microbe species. After it rained, there were only two to four microbe species found in the lagoons,” he added in a statement. “The extinction event was massive.”
Climate models suggest that these rains shouldn’t hit the core regions of Atacama more than once every century, though there is little evidence of rainfall for at least 500 years. Because of the changing climate over the Pacific Ocean, however, modern weather patterns have shifted, causing the weird rain events of March 25 and Aug. 9, 2015. It also rained more recently, on June 7, 2017. Besides being yet another reminder about how climate change impacts some of the most delicate ecosystems on our planet, this new research could have some surprise implications for our search for life on Mars.
Over forty years ago, NASA carried out a profound experiment on the Martian surface: the Viking 1 and 2 landers had instruments on board that would explicitly search for life. After scooping Mars regolith samples into their chemical labs and adding a nutrient-rich water mix, one test detected a sudden release of carbon dioxide laced with carbon-14, a radioisotope that was added to the mix. This result alone pointed to signs that Martian microbes in the regolith could be metabolizing the mixture, belching out the CO2.
Alas, the result couldn’t be replicated and other tests threw negative results for biological activity. Scientists have suggested that this false positive was caused by inorganic reactions, especially as, in 2008, NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander discovered toxic and highly reactive perchlorates is likely common all over Mars. Since Viking, no other mission has attempted a direct search for life on Mars and the missions since have focused on seeking out water and past habitable environments rather than directly testing for Mars germs living on modern Mars.
With this in mind, the new Atacama microbe study could shed some light on the Viking tests. Though the out-gassing result was likely a false positive, even if all the samples collected by the two landers contained microscopic Martians, the addition of the liquid mix may well have sterilized the samples — the sudden addition of a large quantity of water is no friend to microbial life that has adapted to such an arid environment.
“Our results show for the first time that providing suddenly large amounts of water to microorganisms — exquisitely adapted to extract meager and elusive moisture from the most hyperdry environments — will kill them from osmotic shock,” said Fairen.
Another interesting twist to this research is that NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity discovered nitrate-rich deposits in the ancient lakebed in Gale Crater. These deposits might provide sustenance to Mars bacteria (and may be a byproduct of their metabolic activity), like their interplanetary alien cousins in Atacama.
As water-loving organisms, humans have traditionally assumed life elsewhere will bare similar traits to life as we know it. But as this study shows, some life on Earth can appear quite alien; the mass extinction event in the high deserts of Chile could teach us about how to (and how not to) seek out microbes on other planets.
Fortunately for life on Earth, our planet has an ozone layer. This high-altitude gas performs an invaluable service to biology, acting as a kind of global “sunscreen” that blocks the most damaging forms of ultraviolet radiation. Early in the evolution of terrestrial life, if there were no ozone layer, life would have found it difficult to gain a foothold.
So, in our effort to seek out exoplanets that are suitable for life, future telescopes will seek out so-called “biosignatures” in the atmospheres of alien worlds. Astrobiologists would be excited to find ozone in particular — not only for its biology-friendly, UV-blocking abilities, but also because the molecule’s building blocks (three oxygen atoms) can originate from biological activity on the planet’s surface.
Recently, two exoplanets have taken the science news cycle by storm. The first, Proxima b, is touted as the closest temperate exoplanet beyond our solar system. Located a mere 4.22 light-years from Earth, this (presumably) rocky world orbits its star, Proxima Centauri, at just the right distance within the habitable zone. Should this world possess an atmosphere, it would receive just the right amount of energy for any water on its surface to exist in a liquid state. As liquid water is essential for life on Earth, logic dictates that life may be possible there too.
Whether or not Proxima b has the right orbit about its star is academic; there are many other factors to consider before calling it “Earth-like.” For starters, habitable zone exoplanets around red dwarfs will be “tidally locked.” Tidal locking occurs because red dwarf habitable zones are very close to the cool star; so to receive the same amount of heating as our (obviously) habitable Earth, habitable exoplanets around red dwarfs need to cuddle up close. And because they are so close, the same hemisphere will always face the star, while the other hemisphere will always face away. These strange worlds are anything but “Earth-like.”
Also, Proxima Centauri is an angry little star, blasting its locale with regular flares, irradiating its interplanetary space with X-rays, UV and high-energy particles — things that will strip atmospheres from planets and drench planetary surfaces with biology-wrecking radiation. As I’ve previously written, Proxima b is likely a hellhole. And things don’t bode well for that other “habitable” exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, either.
It’s a Trap
But let’s just say, for astrobiology-sake, that a tidally-locked world orbiting a red dwarf does host an atmosphere and an alien biosphere has managed to evolve despite these stellar challenges. This biosphere is also pretty Earth-like in that oxygen-producing lifeforms are there and the planetary atmosphere has its own ozone layer. As previously mentioned, ozone would be a pretty awesome molecule to find (in conjunction with other biosignatures). But what if no ozone is detected? Well, according to Ludmila Carone, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, and her team, not finding detecting ozone doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not there, it’s just that the atmospheric dynamics of tidally-locked worlds are very different to Earth’s.
“Absence of traces of ozone in future observations does not have to mean there is no oxygen at all,” said Carone in a statement. “It might be found in different places than on Earth, or it might be very well hidden.”
Earth’s ozone is predominantly produced at the equator where sun-driven chemical reactions occur high in the atmosphere. Atmospheric flows then transport chemicals like ozone toward the poles, giving our planet a global distribution. When carrying out simulations of tidally-locked worlds, however, Carone’s team found that atmospheric flows may operate in reverse, where atmospheric flows travel from the poles to the equator. Therefore, any ozone produced at the equator will become trapped there, greatly reducing our ability to detect it.
“In principle, an exoplanet with an ozone layer that covers only the equatorial region may still be habitable,” added Carone. “Proxima b and TRAPPIST-1d orbit red dwarfs, reddish stars that emit very little harmful UV light to begin with. On the other hand, these stars can be very temperamental, and prone to violent outbursts of harmful radiation including UV.”
So the upshot is, until we have observatories powerful enough to study these hypothetical exoplanetary atmospheres — such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) or the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — we won’t know. But modelling the hypothetical atmospheres of these very alien worlds will help us understand what we will, or won’t, see in the not-so-distant future.
“We all knew from the beginning that the hunt for alien life will be a challenge,” said Carone. “As it turns out, we are only just scratching the surface of how difficult it really will be.”
The day before Cassini plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere, dramatically ending 13 years of Saturn exploration (and nearly two decades in space), I was sitting on a bench outside the Von Karman Visitor Center on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in La Cañada Flintridge with Linda Spilker, who served as the mission’s project scientist since before Cassini was launched.
“I feel very fortunate to be involved with Cassini since the very beginning … and just to be there, to be one of the first to see SOI [Saturn Orbital Insertion] with those first incredible ring pictures,” she told me. “I love being an explorer. I worked on the Voyager mission during the flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; that sort of whet my appetite and made me want more, to become an explorer to go to the Saturn system.”
Spilker especially loved studying Saturn’s rings, not only from a scientific perspective, but also because they are so beautiful, she continued. “It’s been a heartwarming experience,” she said.
But Cassini’s “legacy discovery,” said Spilker, was the revelation that the tiny icy moon of Enceladus is active, venting water vapor into space from powerful geysers emerging from the moon’s “tiger stripes” — four long fissures in the moon’s south pole. After multiple observations of these geysers and direct sampling of the water particles during flybys, Cassini deduced that the icy space marble hides a warm, salty ocean.
“What Cassini will be remembered for — its legacy discovery — will be the geysers coming from Enceladus with the ocean with the potential for life. It’s a paradigm shift.” — Linda J. Spilker, Cassini project scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Sept. 14, 2017.
Alongside Jupiter’s moon Europa, Enceladus has become a prime destination for future explorations of life beyond Earth. Its subsurface ocean contains all the ingredients for life as we know it and Cassini was the mission that inadvertently discovered its biological potential. So now we know about this potential, Spilker is keen to see a dedicated life-hunting mission that could go to Enceladus, perhaps even landing on the surface to return samples to Earth.
As Enceladus is much smaller and less massive than Europa, its gravity is lower, meaning that landing on the surface is an easier task. Also, the radiation surrounding Saturn is much less aggressive than Jupiter’s radiation belts, meaning less radiation shielding is needed for spacecraft going to Saturn’s moons.
But if we ever send a surface mission to Enceladus (or any of the icy moons in the outer solar system), the planetary protection requirements will be extreme.
“If any life were found on these moons, it would be microbial,” said Larry Soderblom, an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission. “Some [terrestrial] bacteria are very resilient and can survive in hot acid-reducing environments. They can be tenacious. We have to make sure we don’t leave any of these kinds of Earthly bacteria on these promising moons.”
Soderblom has a unique perspective on solar system exploration. His career spans a huge number of NASA missions since the 1960’s, including Mariner 6, 7, 9, Viking, Voyager, Galileo, Magellan, Mars Pathfinder, the Mars Exploration Rovers, Deep Space 1, to name a few. While chatting to me under the shade of a tree on the JPL campus, he pointed out that the outer solar system was seen as a very different place over half a century ago.
“When I started to explore the solar system as a young guy just out of graduate school, our minds-eye view of the outer solar system was pretty bleak,” he remembered. “We expected lifeless, dead, battered moons with no geologic activity.”
After being involved with many outer solar system missions, this view has radically changed. Not only have we discovered entire oceans on Enceladus and Europa, there’s active volcanoes on Jupiter’s tortured moon Io, an atmosphere on Titan sporting its own methane cycle and surface lakes of methane and ethane. Other moons show hints of extensive subsurface oceans too, including distant Triton, a moon of Neptune. When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, the robotic spacecraft didn’t see a barren, dull rock as all the artistic impressions that came before seemed to suggest. The dwarf planet is a surprisingly dynamic place with a rich geologic history.
Sending our robotic emissaries to these distant and unforgiving places has revolutionized our understanding of the solar system and our place in it. Rather than the gas and ice giant moons being dull, barren and static, our exploration has revealed a rich bounty of geologic variety. Not only that, we’re almost spoilt for choices for our next giant leap of scientific discovery.
Missions like Cassini are essential for science. Before that spacecraft entered Saturn orbit 13 years ago, we had a very limited understanding of what the Saturnian system was all about. Now we can confidently say that there’s a tiny moon there with incredible biological potential — Enceladus truly is Cassini’s legacy discovery that will keep our imaginations alive until we land on the ice to explore its alien ocean.
For more on my trip to JPL, read my two HowStuffWorks articles:
Orbiting the ringed gas giant Saturn, Titan is the only moon in the solar system that sports a thick atmosphere. Although the moon is extremely cold, its atmosphere is very dynamic; exhibiting seasons, precipitation and even creating vast seas.
Although this may sound very much like Earth’s atmosphere — where water evaporates from the oceans, condenses as clouds and precipitates as rain, forming rivers that flow back into the oceans — Titan’s atmosphere is dominated by a methane cycle, not a water cycle.
This may sound like the antithesis of Earth’s life-giving chemistry, but astrobiologists have been gradually finding clues to Titan’s habitable potential and today (July 28) scientists have announced the confirmation of a key molecule that could be the proverbial backbone to a weird kind of “alternative” alien life on Titan — based not on liquid water, but on liquid methane.
“The presence of vinyl cyanide in an environment with liquid methane suggests the intriguing possibility of chemical processes that are analogous to those important for life on Earth,” said astrochemistry researcher Maureen Palmer, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Palmer is lead author of a study published in Science Advances describing the detection of vinyl cyanide (also known as acrylonitrile) at Titan using the awesome power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
Previous observations of Titan’s atmosphere by NASA’s Cassini mission and chemical modeling of the moon’s surface have hinted that it is the ideal environment for vinyl cyanide to form. But it was only when analysis of archived data collected by ALMA between February to May 2014 was carried out that its presence was confirmed. And there appears to be a lot of the stuff.
So what is vinyl cyanide and why is it so important?
The molecule (C2H3CN) has the ability to form membranes and, if found in liquid pools of hydrocarbons on Titan’s surface, it could form a kind of lipid-based cell membrane analog of living organisms on Earth. In other words, this molecule could stew in primordial pools of hydrocarbons and arrange itself in such a way to create a “protocell” that is “stable and flexible in liquid methane,” said Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University) who, in 2015, was a member of the team who modeled vinyl cyanide and found that it might form cell membranes.
“This is a step forward in understanding whether Titan’s methane seas might host an exotic form of life,” Lunine, who wasn’t a member part of the team that announced today’s results, said in a statement.
Life As We Don’t Know It
When studying Titan’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere, ALMA detected three unambiguous millimeter-wavelength signals produced by vinyl cyanide that originated from 200 kilometers above Titan’s surface. It is well known that the moon’s atmosphere is a vast chemical factory; the energy of the sun and particles from space convert simple organic molecules into more complex chemistry. These chemicals then cycle down to Titans rich hydrocarbon surface.
But speculating about life on Titan is a hard task. The moon’s atmosphere is often compared with that of early Earth’s, but there are some huge differences. Titan is crazy-cold, averaging around 95 Kelvin (that’s an incredible -178 degrees Celsius or -288 degrees Fahrenheit); at no time in history has Earth’s atmosphere been that cold. Also, it’s thought that early Earth had large quantities of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, Titan does not. As for water? Frozen. Oxygen? Forget about it.
So this research underpins our quest to find the chemistry of life as we DON’T know it, using the building blocks that follow the pattern of life that we do know, but swapping out key components (like water) to see if an analog of life’s chemistry can under very alien conditions.
“Saturn’s moon, Enceladus is the place to search for life like us, life that depends on — and exists in — liquid water,” said Lunine. “Titan, on the other hand, is the place to go to seek the outer limits of life — can some exotic type of life begin and evolve in a truly alien environment, that of liquid methane?”
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I tried to make as many photos as possible to make a detailed tutorial.
We need: wool of colors for making the animal, a ...
We will need:
fabric for the romper and the ears;
padding polyester or hollow fiber;
for decoration: cotton lace, satin ribbons, semicircle beads and so on;
a needle, thread, scissors, a pencil, glue;
plastic buttons (for attaching the arms);
a plastic nose (not necessary). ...
I offer to your attention an Easter tutorial. We've made very many toys with my child and they've brought our friends much joy! A toy took us 10 minutes maximum (without preparing the materials).
Treat your car guys — present such a Valentine, it will perfectly fit in your car and home interior! The wheel-like base can be bought or made out of rubber, papier-mache, etc.To make one, follow the pics below:
To decorate your house for Easter and make it spring, bright and warm, I bring to your attention a DIY on felting a cute Easter couple of Bunnies.
These two are 12 cm height. I hope they will adorn your house and create a festive spring mood.
1. Wool of different colors (white and brown ...
The glorious Easter is comming, and each family has its secrets and ways of decorating Easter table. I suggest you sewing an Easter Bunny that would serve a nice table decor.
I used the following materials and tools:
1. Cotton fabric for the body.2. Threads to match the fabric.3. Embroidery floss ...
Spring has struck me with such a simple and funny hat idea. The main charm is that they are perfect for a "pen test". This cap of fleece is perfect for a cold spring.
The best part of the process is the muzzle (perhaps only for them I started the cap). Buy acrylic paint for printing on ...
I wanted to share an idea of making Easter cookies or gingerbread.
- cookie or ginger dough
- white and pink icing
- confectionary or textile bag
1. Insert stick in a cookie or gingerbread and bake it in the oven at 180 degrees. Get 'tanned' blanks. ...
Today I'm going to sew wonderful bright Bunnies for Easter.
So, how to create a miracle:
Print and cut out the pattern of the size you want.
Transfer the pattern to fabric and cut out with scissors, leaving 1-1.5 cm for seam allowance.
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Industries all across the world are implementing artificial intelligence to make their operations more efficient and make smarter business decisions for maximum growth. Adopting artificial intelligence for claims adjusting process can not only help adjusters close claims faster and more accurately but also help enhance the customer experience for policyholders. Let’s have a look at how artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize claims adjusting.
Table of Contents
- What is artificial intelligence?
- AI and insurance
- AI and claims adjusting
1. What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is the process by which machines are able to mimic human intelligence and engage in complex problem-solving that typically requires human intervention. AI has taken great strides over the decades and is used in virtually thousands of operations and processes across industries. From healthcare to automotive to finance, and cybersecurity, AI is being used to provide business solutions for a variety of obstacles.
2. AI and Insurance
The insurance industry, today, is developing new strategies to tackle operational challenges. This involves combining technological advancements with analytics to derive actionable insights that can help bridge the gaps to deliver better products and services to customers. In a customer-centric environment, insurance carriers rely heavily on their ability to provide valuable services to their customers and this includes maintaining an efficient workflow where every aspect of claims management is optimized and automated.
Claims management is at the forefront when it comes to technological innovation and transformational programs that insurance carriers have started to undertake will increase the levels of automation in claims in a decade.
3. AI and claims adjusting
Claims adjusters today face a lot of hurdles when it comes to adjusting. Whether these are communication gaps between adjusters and IA firms or operational challenges when it comes to inspecting properties. In order to tackle these challenges, implementing artificial intelligence is an extremely efficient way to optimize workflows. Let’s have a look:
Better claims organization
Claims adjusters deal with a high volume of claims every day and one of the most challenging aspects is managing multiple claims simultaneously. With the help of artificial intelligence, IA firms can effectively assign claims to adjusters with particular specialties. As adjusters specialize in auto, property, and medical claims, IA firms will be able to segregate claims and assign them to adjusters with specific skill sets. This will lead to an increase in accurate inspections and will also help close claims faster.
Effective CAT management
During the CAT season, a high number of claims adjusters are deployed across the country due to a large volume of CAT claims arising out of the annual hurricane season. For IA firms, the major challenge during the CAT season is the effective and timely deployment of adjusters to multiple property sites.
With the help of AI, claims adjusters can assess the severity of claims and the priority a particular assignment deserves, thereby, reaching the most severely disrupted loss sites first. Not only will this help provide effective claims adjusting services to policyholders but will also reduce the deployment time for CAT adjusters.
Enhanced safety for adjusters
Adjusters are not alien to occupational hazards that are involved in claims adjusting. Not only CAT inspections but claims which involve roofing inspections pose a safety risk for claims adjusters. With the implementation of AI, technology claims adjusters can effectively undertake roofing inspections without directly getting exposed to dangers. Properties that are not structurally sound can be inspected with the help of drones.
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Talk in English - US at Day Camp 4 Developers: Beyond Performance
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Over the years, software teams have questioned if PHP is a good choice for building web services. In this talk, I will show how we use PHP on the backend for Glu Mobile’s flagship mobile game Design Home, enabling it to regularly rank amongst the top free mobile games – both in downloads and grossing. We will deep dive into the thought processes, development, and integration strategy, and study a few real-life cases to show how to use PHP in the right way to build and maintain reliable, high-performance backends. | <urn:uuid:81af5f15-e413-46dc-9ce7-19dacc88f6d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joind.in/event/day-camp-4-developers-beyond-performance/high-performance-web-services-with-php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.869451 | 213 | 1.539063 | 2 |
How To Get Grammarly On Google Docs: Grammarly is a cloud-based inputting aide that immediately checks your created messages for spelling, grammar, spelling, clarity, and interaction errors. With Grammarly, you can identify and fix errors using artificial intelligence. A replacement is located if one is located. Across a large range of categories, it can recognize and deal with mistakes. Grammarly offers a variety of valuable attributes along with reviewing your writing. There is a complimentary variation readily available for individuals. Companies can additionally buy a premium version.
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Grammarly for Business?
While the majority of people make use of Grammarly to proofread their individual writing, services should most definitely take into consideration purchasing Grammarly for Business. The software application provides a collection of writing tips that are customized to details purposes. It provides pointers on every little thing from spelling as well as design to exactly how to utilize words and also mention resources ultimately. It can also provide you suggestions on moral writing techniques. Right here are some of the benefits of Grammarly for Company. Here’s just how it functions:
Grammarly for service comes with an enterprise-level admin control panel, analytics to check use, and also streamlined payment. With its innovative functions, you can quickly share and collaborate with your group. With this item, you can create the best document with less effort as well as improve your interaction skills. Grammarly for business is offered for Mac, Windows, and Android, so it can be made use of on any one of these platforms. You can likewise utilize the application to edit and check your files from anywhere.
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For individuals with hectic timetables, grammarly can conserve time. The program flags sentences that are also long or as well obscure as well as suggests much more simple words. You can also see your rating in the upper-right edge and also obtain recommendations in various shades based upon your degree of strictness. Grammarly is an excellent means to stay clear of writing in a casual tone and also maintain your composing brightened. Yet it can additionally catch some errors that you would certainly never ever observe without its help.
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Our country has a vast knowledge base of Ayurveda, importance of which is realized in the recent years. The conventional drug delivery system used for administering the herbal medicine to the patient is traditional and out-of-date as it reduces efficacy of the drug. If the novel drug delivery technology is applied in herbal medicine, it may increase the efficacy by reducing the side effects of various herbal compounds. This is the basic idea behind incorporating herbal drug in novel method of drug delivery. This article summarizes various nanoparticulate technologies that have been studied for the delivery of herbal medicines and which are gaining more attention for improved therapeutic response.
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Definition or Meaning - What is SAP TDMS?
Full form or SAP TDMS stands for (Test Data Migration Server), with the emerging online techniques business is booming at a very high platform and so are the needs to run the business. SAP, as the name implies, is a system that provides users with a business application to manage data more accurately. SAP (TDMS) enables to create stable and flexible non-production system wherein data is extracted from SAP production phase to utilize it in the test environment for development, training and maintaining quality. The TDMS tool is very quick and extracts data from a production to a non-production environment with high speed and efficiency.
SAP TDMS (Test Data Migration Server) Features
- Data Transfer Criteria
- Data Privacy
- Data Consistency
- System Shell Creation
- Time-based reduction
- Object-based reduction
How SAP TDMS restrict data to be migrated?
- The data can be restricted to master data and customizing settings - ideal for setting up training systems as it reflects your own requirements
- Data can be restricted to a specific organizational structure, such as company code, resulting in a very trim development environment.
- Data can be restricted to a specific time frame. You specify the start date; the end date is always the current date. This ensures that processes transferred to the nonproduction system within the chosen time frame are complete and can be fully processed.
SAP TDMS (Test Data Migration Server) Challenges
Today there are various challenges which a customer is encountered with while deploying SAP. Corporations are in great pressure to cut cost, minimize risk and control change by accelerating and increasing the availability of their SAP landscape due to increased production and managing storage space.
- Changing market conditions, restructuring activities, and mergers and acquisitions often result in the creation of new SAP Landscapes.
- Complex authorization concept should be implemented as in test system data is very sensitive.
- Mechanism should be adapted to the object does not loose their history when transferred from production.
- Objects are not transported to development system for testing and corrections.
- Complex authorization concept is not followed as we deal with sensitive data in test system.
Benefits Using SAP TDMS (Test Data Migration Server)
- Increased work quality with reduced total cost.
- Helps corporation to create and refresh a quick non-productive system.
- Reduces the disk space decreasing the data volume in test, training system and development.
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Every year, in many parts of the world, far too many moms and babies die of preventable causes. This gift will save lives by providing malaria medications, antibiotics and other important medicines, as well as supplies such as stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs and delivery tables. Give moms and their babies the gift of health and hope for a thriving life together.
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Gizmos - EVA - Adriana Silestre
Created on June 25, 2021
I am a math and science teacher to intermediate students in grades 7&8.
of top paying jobs,
require STEM education
rate that STEM occupations are growing compared to non-STEM occupations
of companies in biotech sectors reporting a lack of qualified
STEM employment growth since 1990 (from 9.7M to 17.3M)
STEM is an economic driver which presents many opportunities. We need to prepare the next generation to meet those opportunities.
Since 1990 STEM employment has grown 79% (from 9.7 million to 17.3 million)
Why STEM simulations?
Simulations allow students to manipulate variables and witness the effects in real time; whereas nonsimulation experiments can take days, weeks, or months to collect data, analyze the results, and form a conclusion.
Simulations for STEM learning in K-12 classrooms are by and large associated with improved learning outcomes for students, especially when focused on achievement outcomes and when compared to more traditional lecture and textbook-based instruction.
D'Angelo, C., Rutstein, D., & Harris, C. (2016)
ExploreLearning Gizmos is the world’s largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12.
- Provides curriculum-based STEM learning simulations for the classroom
- Has over 400 math and science Gizmo simulations.
- Helps teachers take advantage of research-proven instructional strategies and build 21st Century skills for students.
- Runs on PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, iPads, and Android Devices.
Fun and easy to use, Gizmos help students develop a deep understanding of challenging concepts through inquiry and exploration. Students use Gizmos to interact with and explore hundreds of math and science topics ranging from heredity to trigonometry. Teachers use Gizmos as dynamic "what-if" tools to help students move beyond memorizing to true understanding.
ExploreLearning Gizmos Simulations
- Carl Frischkorn, and
- David Shuster Ph.D who is currently the president at Explore Learning
Cambium Learning is acquired by Veritas Capital
Cambium Leanring Group is listed on NASDAQ (ABCD)
Explore Learning becomes part
of Cambium Learning group
by Veritas Capital
Merged & Aquired
Merged and Acquired in 2018 by Veritas Capital, shareholders received USD$14.50 for each share of Cambium stock.
Veritas Capital is a leading private equity firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions, to government and commercial customers worldwide, including those operating in the aerospace & defense, healthcare, technology, national security, communications, energy, government services and education industries. Veritas seeks to create value by strategically transforming the companies in which it invests through organic and inorganic means. For more information on Veritas Capital and its current and past investments, visit www.veritascapital.com.
provides digital education solutions to school districts, educators, students and parents. The Company’s solutions target preK-12 literacy, science, math and intervention and serves approximately 75% of US school districts in all 50 states and customers in over 170 countries.
ExploreLearning Gizmo Profile
STEM Education gap
STEM is hard to learn, hard to use, hard to create lessons, lack of experiential learning opportunities.
STEM educational simulation for science and math that is engaging, easy to use and learn, as well as easy to implement by teachers.
World’s largest library of online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12
Correlation to curriculum expectations and textbooks
Immediate student feedback, assessment and reporting.
New STEM Cases, providing students real-world problems.
Students learn through inquiry and exploration.
Student google doc explorations guide ready for use with the Gizmo
Exceptional support for teachers
Runs on PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, iPads, and Android Devices.
The impact of COVID-19 on education will undoubtedly change learning forever. In a year that saw PreK-12 digital curriculum spend exceed $13.1B and the percentage of schools and districts now issuing personal computing devices jump to 87%
“Looking ahead, we’ll continue to emphasize our core elements of simplicity, certainty and now to ensure all educators and students feel seen and supported.”
John Campbell, CEO of Cambium Learning Group.
As an Educational Venture Analyst for Explore Learning Gizmos, I recommend investing in Cambium Learning as the company continues to grow, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for online applications and simulations.
If interested in investing please contact
Barbara Benson CFO of Cambium Learning.
As a Science and Math teacher I am always looking for ways to promote critical thinking skills and provide my students with experiential learning opportunities that keep them engaged. STEM education requires a hands-on learning experience that can be achieved through simulations. I have been using GIZMOS for a few years now, and I have never even looked at the company that created it or the story behind it. I just know that my students enjoy using it, it develops critical thinking skills, supports STEM learning, it is easy to use as a teacher and my board has purchased the licenses for us to use. GIZMOS was the first educational application that came to mind when thinking about the EVA as I wanted to learn more about it as a venture. Throughout this EVA, I gained so much perspective about GIZMOS from the venture, business and investing side. I didn’t know that GIZMOS was invented more than 20 years ago, as it is so relevant and current to me. I learned how the business grew, it was traded in the NASDAQ market, and later on acquired by a private equity firm.
In my upcoming venture pitch my focus is on STEM applications for education, it was interesting to complete this EVA not only to learn about GIZMOS but also about its competitors and the ideas that are possible, such as Lab4u- an app envisioned by a Chilean and a Colombian developers to use cellphones as sensors for lab experiences. I also reviewed their venture profile and journey and
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When the ground seems to be falling away beneath us, we need solid ground to stand upon. We’re tempted to cling to fixed rules and structures to give us a sense of security, but these are a poor substitute for what really matters. In the book of Galatians, we find ancient wisdom that can help us thrive in anxious times so that we can experience the freedom Jesus gives.
Most of us do our best to avoid thinking about death, and if we’re honest, we’re often in denial. Yet facing the hard truth that we are going to die can enable us to live fully in the time we have — and to allow Jesus to transform our life before and beyond death.
As children, we naturally feel like life is all about us. If we’re honest, many of us also feel that way as adults. But Jesus teaches us that our lives are not about us, but something much greater. In today’s message, Pastor Mark shares why this is good news, and he interviews Acts 2 member Jenny Herzberger about what she has learned since her cancer diagnosis nearly ten years ago.
We want our lives to matter, and we desperately try to prove to others that they do matter. We want to be seen as important, but seeking importance actually takes us further away from true greatness. This week, we explore the liberating truth that we are not that important, and why that’s actually good news.
Did you know that gratitude can improve not only your happiness, but also your resilience, relationships, and health? We were made for gratitude, and we thrive when we practice it.
Our country, our community, our families, and especially our children have a loneliness problem. There is only one way to escape the loneliness trap, and that is forgiveness. When forgiveness stops, community stops, but when forgiveness thrives, community thrives. | <urn:uuid:76879139-f9f7-4241-bd8f-4655592f828a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acts2umc.org/sermon-messages/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951453 | 397 | 1.851563 | 2 |
For more than a century, retailers have mounted holiday window displays to capture the attention of passersby — to transport them to a world of holiday magic and make-believe. In order to keep the audience spellbound, each scene is carefully constructed, like a mini-Broadway show, complete with scenery and a storyline.
The tradition of holiday windows began in the early 19th century. David Mcdermid, who teaches visual merchandising at Seneca College, says that when companies started making larger panes of glass, it became possible for stores “bring the outside in and the inside out” as a way to attract customers.
For the past eight years, Spaeth Design, a New York-based company, has transformed the Queen St. W. windows of the Hudson’s Bay flagship store in Toronto into a winter wonderland complete with mechanized characters. Spaeth also makes displays for American retail giants Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.
Larger electronic displays grew in popularity during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, when it became a tradition for families go downtown on weekends and peer through frosty windows at the wonders inside. Spaeth Design president Sandy Spaeth says modern-day people are drawn to the windows out of nostalgia. She’s seen everyone from little girls to leather-clad bikers gasping with glee at the beautiful scenes.
One scene at the Bay that never fails to draw squeaks and squeals of delight features two families busy with last-minute preparations on Christmas Eve. Upstairs, a father puts finishing touches on the tree while the mother prepares cookies and milk for Santa. Meanwhile, a family of mice tuck themselves into matchbox beds in their cosy home in the floor. Every detail from upstairs has its counterpart downstairs, from an easy chair made of a broken saucer to postage stamps as art on the walls.
The scenes may look traditional but they’re powered by the latest technology. Electric motors drive more than a dozen figures and objects to bring each window to life. In one scene, two elves thump their tiny spoons against the table, impatient for the holiday feast to begin. Spaeth says that one year, when the company got the display back for repairs, they found dents in the table — so the engines in the little mischief-makers had to be dialed down a bit.
Mcdermid describes the Hudson’s Bay design as “very Canadian and very traditional.” While the store has become a focal point in Toronto for festive decorations, Holt Renfrew, Harry Rosen and Le Chateau are among other retailers that go all out when it comes to decking the halls. | <urn:uuid:106efb9d-e7f9-4470-a5bc-dd39c76fab3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/12/02/how-holiday-window-magic-is-made-at-hudsons-bays-flagship-store.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947354 | 560 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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Maid. For instance, Madam, my name is Finch-Betty Finch. I don't whistle the more for that, nor long after canary-seed while I can get good wholesome muttonno, nor you can't catch me by throwing salt on my tail. If you come to that, hadn't I a young man used to come after me, they said courted me-his name was Lion, Francis Lion, a tailor; but though he was fond enough of me, for all that he never offered to eat me.
Maid. No great harm if you had. You'd only have bought a pig in a poke-and what then? Oh, here he comes creeping
Enter MR. H. abject.
Go to her, Mr. Hogs-Hogs-Hogsbristles, what's your name? Don't be afraid, man— don't give it up-she's not crying-only summat has made her eyes red-she has got a sty in her eye, I believe—(going).
Melesinda. You are not going, Betty? Maid. O, Madam, never mind me--I shall be back in the twinkling of a pig's whisker, as they say.
Mr. H. Melesinda, you behold before you a wretch who would have betrayed your confidence-but it was love that prompted him; who would have trick'd you, by an unworthy concealment, into a participation of that disgrace which a superficial world has agreed to attach to a name-but with it you would have shared a fortune not contemptible, and a heart-but 'tis over now. That name he is content to bear alone-to go where the persecuted syllables shall be no more heard, or excite no meaning-some spot where his native tongue has never penetrated, nor any of his countrymen have landed, to plant their unfeeling satire, their brutal wit, and national ill manners-where no Englishmen (Here MELESINDA, who has been pouting during this speech, fetches a deep sigh). Some yet undiscovered Otaheite, where witless, unapprehensive savages shall innocently pronounce the ill-fated sounds, and think them not inharmonious.
Mr. H. Who knows but among the female natives might be found
Melesinda. Sir! (raising her head.)
Mr. H. One who would be more kind than -some Oberea-Queen Oberea. Melesinda. Oh!
Mr. H. Monomotopa (musing).
Melesinda. How fortunate that the discovery has been made before it was too late! Had I listened to his deceits, and, as the perfidious man had almost persuaded me, Belvil. Heyday, Jack! what means this precipitated myself into an inextricable | mortified face? nothing has happened, I engagement before hope, between this lady and you? I beg pardon, Madam, but understanding my friend was with you, I took the liberty of seeking him here. Some little difference possibly which a third person can adjust-not a word. Will you, Madam, as this gentleman's friend, suffer me to be the arbitratorstrange—hark’ee, Jack, nothing has come out, has there? you understand me. Oh, I guess how it is-somebody has got at your secret; you haven't blabbed it yourself, have you? ha ha ha! I could find in my heart-Jack, what would you give me if I should relieve you?
Mr. H. No power of man can relieve me (sighs); but it must lie at the root, gnawing at the root-here it will lie.
Mr. H. Or what if I were to seek for proofs of reciprocal esteem among unprejudiced African maids, in Monomotopa?
Belvil. No power of man? not a common man, I grant you: for instance, a subject— it's out of the power of any subject.
Mr. H. Gnawing at the root-there it will lie. Belvil. Such a thing has been known as a name to be changed; but not by a subject— (shows a Gazette).
Mr. H. Gnawing at the root-(suddenly snatches the paper out of BELVIL'S hand)—ha' pish! nonsense! give it me-what! (reads) promotions, bankrupts—a great many bankrupts this week-there it will lie. (Lays it down, takes it up again, and reads.) "The King has been graciously pleased”—gnawing at the root-"graciously pleased to grant unto John Hogsflesh," the devil-" Hogsflesh, Esq., of Sty Hall, in the county of Hants, his royal licence and authority"—0 Lord! O Lord!" that he and his issue" me and my issue-"may take and use the
Belvil. It is true what my friend would
surname and arms of Bacon "-Bacon, the surname and arms of Bacon-" in pursuance of an injunction contained in the last will and testament of Nicholas Bacon, Esq., his late uncle, as well as out of grateful respect to his memory: "-grateful respect! poor old soul-here's more-" and that such express; we have been all in a mistake, arms may be first duly exemplified"-they ladies. Very true, the name of this genshall, I will take care of that-"according to tleman was what you call it, but it is so no the laws of arms, and recorded in the longer. The succession to the long-contested Herald's Office." Bacon estate is at length decided, and with it my friend succeeds to the name of his deceased relative.
Mr. H. "His Majesty has been graciously pleased
1st Lady. I am sure we all join in hearty congratulation—(sighs).
Belvil. Come, Madam, give me leave to put my own interpretation upon your silence, and to plead for my friend, that now that only obstacle which seemed to stand in the way of your union is removed, you will suffer me to complete the happiness which my news seems to have brought him, by introducing him with a new claim to your favour, by the name of Mr. Bacon. (Takes their hands and joins them, which MELESINDA seems to give consent to with a smile.)
Mr. H. Generous Melesinda! my dear friend-"he and his issue," me and my issue! -O Lord!
Belvil. I wish you joy, Jack, with all my heart.
Mr. H. Bacon, Bacon, Bacon-how odd it sounds! I could never be tired of hearing it. There was Lord Chancellor Bacon. Methinks I have some of the Verulam blood in me already.—Methinks I could look through Nature-there was Friar Bacon, a conjuror, -I feel as if I could conjure too
Enter three Ladies, being part of those who were at the Assembly.
Old Lady. We have been so concerned— (seeing him)—Mr. Hogsflesh
Mr. H. There's no such person-nor there never was-nor 'tis not fit there should be surname and arms "
2nd Lady. And wish you joy with all our hearts—(heigh ho !)
Old Lady. And hope you will enjoy the
1st Lady. Hope you intend to stay
Mr. H. Ladies, for your congratulations I thank you; for the favours you have lavished on me, and in particular for this lady's (turning to the old Lady) good opinion, I rest your debtor. As to any future favours— (accosts them severally in the order in which he was refused by them at the assembly)—Madam, shall always acknowledge your politeness; but at present, you see, I am engaged with a partner. Always be happy to respect you as a friend, but you must not look for anything further. Must beg of you to be less particular in your addresses to me. Ladies all, with this piece of advice, of Bath and you
Your ever grateful servant takes his leave. Lay your plans surer when you plot to grieve;
See, while you kindly mean to mortify
1st Lady. My dear Melesinda, how do you And gall yourself. For once you've been mistaken;
2nd Lady. How do you do? We have Your shafts have miss'd their aim-Hogsbeen so concerned for you flesh has saved his Bacon.
You will smile to see the slender labours of your friend designated by the title of Works; but such was the wish of the gentlemen who have kindly undertaken the trouble of collecting them, and from their judgment could be no appeal.
It would be a kind of disloyalty to offer to any one but yourself a volume containing the early pieces, which were first published among your poems, and were fairly derivatives from you and them. My friend Lloyd and myself came into our first battle (authorship is a sort of warfare) under cover of the greater Ajax. How this association, which shall always be a dear and proud recollection to me, came to be broken,-who snapped the three-fold cord,-whether yourself (but I know that was not the case) grew ashamed of your former companions,- -or whether (which is by much the more probable) some ungracious bookseller was author of the separation,—I cannot tell;— but wanting the support of your friendly elm, (I speak for myself,) my vine has, since that time, put forth few or no fruits; the sap (if ever it had any) has become, in a manner, dried up and extinct; and you will find your old associate, in his second volume, dwindled into prose and criticism.
Am I right in assuming this as the cause? or is it that, as years come upon us, (except with some more healthy-happy spirits,) Life itself loses much of its Poetry for us? we transcribe but what we read in the great volume of Nature; and, as the characters grow dim, we turn off, and look another way. You yourself write no Christabels, nor Ancient Mariners, now.
Some of the Sonnets, which shall be carelessly turned over by the general reader, may happily awaken in you remembrances, which I should be sorry should be ever totally extinctthe memory
"Of summer days and of delightful years-"
even so far back as to those old suppers at our old ***** ** Inn,-when life was fresh, and topics
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