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Jehovah (Yehovah), the Hebrew name of the Supreme Being. The pronunciation and derivation of this name are matters of controversy. The Jews of later periods, either from religious awe, or from a misunderstanding of Ex. xx. 7, Lev. xxiv. 16, abstained from pronouncing it, and, wherever it occurred in reading, substituted the word Adonai (the Lord), unless it followed that word, when they substituted Elohim (God); and it is now generally believed that the interlinear vowel signs attached to the Hebrew tetragrammaton Yhvh belong to the substituted word. The practice antedates the Greek version of the LXX., who everywhere substitute Many believe Yahveh or Yuhaveh to be the original pronunciation ; but even Gesenius admits that " those who regard Jehovah as the true pronunciation are not without some apparent grounds." The name is derived by some modern critics from names of Egyptian divinities, supposed to have been nationalized by Moses; by others it is compared with the Jove of the Romans. Its resemblance to two other Hebrew words for the Divinity, Jah (Yah) and Ehyeh, in part strengthens and in part weakens these suppositions, which have been exhaustively treated by Tholuck (Literarischer Anzeiger for May, 1832; translated for the "American Biblical Repository," No. xiii., pp. 89-108). What is certain is the connection of the word, in its original or adapted form, with the Hebrew root havah or hayah, to be, and its meaning throughout the Scriptures "the Being" or "the Everlasting."
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Our latest work for Google helped launch their wonderful series of Android Developer Stories in Southeast Asia.
The first film was made with Singapore-based travel app Wego.
The story focuses on Wego’s growth with its Android app which launched in early 2014 and now 62 per cent of their user base is using Android.
We interviewed super-chilled co-founder and CEO Ross Veitch and the great Wego team at their office over in Shaw Tower on Beach Rd, where Click2View founders Neal Moore and Simon Kearney used to kick around in the BBC and Infocus Asia offices back in the day.
Wego’s chief product officer Graham Hills, lead Android engineer Sohaib Muhammad, Android designer (and we learned published travel writer) Herajeng Gustiayu and VP for mobile Honey Mittal were all great talent – even though they thought otherwise at the start.
We were able to report in the film that Wego increased user retention by 300 per cent after adopting Android’s material design. Uninstall rates dropped by 25 per cent and their overall ratings went up.
“The most important thing that we’re proud of is that our app ratings went up from 3.7 out of 5, which is pretty average, in the space of less than a year, we’ve improved that to 4.32,” Mr Mittal said.
“To grow your app ratings while scaling, while still getting millions of new users seems to be some of the best in the industry.”
The film garnered 15,000 views in the first month and continues to perform well.
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This December, delegates from both developed and developing countries will gather in Paris for what promises — one way or another — to be the most historic set of climate negotiations the world has ever seen. The stakes could not be higher. According to the best available science, we must be on a downward emissions trajectory worldwide by 2050, in order to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius and protect ourselves from climate change’s worst impacts. Most believe we have only a decade in which to take the actions that would put us on this path.
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The ending date for national targets is catching attention. Most countries’ goals have been centered on the year 2030. This is the year, for many, that they expect to have reduced emissions 25% or more from current levels — and the primary reason experts argue that these targets will not be enough. If a country sets a goal for 2030, it is likely that 2030 would also be the first year they would think about revisiting and strengthening that goal. Since greenhouse gases are persistent and can stick around in the atmosphere for long periods of time, goals that can be revisited earlier are more likely to be effective. If you hear environmental advocates call for 2025 targets, this is why.
Momentum is already building, and what happens in Paris won’t stay in Paris.Jurisdictions that have set climate goals know from experience that setting an initial goal is the first step in a process of rapid decarbonization. California, which passed its landmark Global Warming Solutions Act in 2006, recently adopted Senate Bill 350, which significantly increases the adoption of renewables and building energy efficiency, making its already unilateral targets even more ambitious.
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One Thing: Surface Tension (or What Holds an ‘Us’ Together)
by Arun Nedra Rodrigo
“The villager’s concern is not only with what substances enter the ür (town/village) and affect its inhabitants but with the effect of these alien substances on the substance of the ür itself. Concern with the effect on the quality of the soil substance of the is understandable given Tamil beliefs that the soil substance is ultimately mixed with the bodily substance of the ür’s inhabitants.” [1]
Waves crash and pull away on screen while spectral figures play a game of catch with the sea, casting out objects that may or may not return. This shot is supplanted by clips of Google Translate rebounding words and phrases—from a simple noun, “flower,” to evocative phrases like “conceiving of longing as the outcome of a wish”—back and forth between English and Tamil, changing form and meaning as they do. On a table, a series of newspaper clippings refer to, among many things, the arrival of two boatloads of Tamil refugees in Newfoundland in 1986, and arising from the ground, a dune of wet sand bears a life-sized impression of the hull of the lifeboat that brought them.
“Surface tension” references the invisible bridges that water molecules create between particles of sand that allow it to become soil. The molecules remain invisible yet shape the visible. These invisible bridges, here, can be read as a metaphor for the covenants that shape human relations, including abstract concepts like community, ownership, belonging and nation. Through Surface Tension (or What Holds an ‘Us’ Together) (2019), Joshua Vettivelu underlines a colonizing extractive practice by foregrounding land, to interrogate and shift the ways it is viewed. They draw the viewer into a meditation on the idea of terra nullius (nobody’s land) and the imprint of multiple arrivals on Indigenous lands.
Along with the 1986 event, Surface Tension spans, in its trajectory, the first point of contact between English settlers and Indigenous peoples on Beothuk territories in 1497; the arrival in Vancouver of the Ocean Lady in 2009 and the MV Sun Sea in 2010, both of which transported Tamil refugees; the gruesome 2018 murder of the Tamil refugee Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam (who arrived on the MV Sun Sea) and, tethering the project directly to the present, disparaging online commentary on the waste of resources on the exhibition as well as on the Tamil refugees.
Settler incursions into Indigenous lands were first legitimized by ontotheologically derived European international trade laws which endowed the settlers with the freedom to extract from terra nullius, the right to a free market and the right to enter into a “just war” with the Indigenous people who resisted them.2 The desire of the settler to extract resources from this so-called nobody’s land, for the benefit of their own nations and empires, became codified into an international network of juridical and cultural practices that reified the settlers’ claims in relation to the ownership of land (material/territorial resource), the enslavement or murder of Indigenous people (labour resource) and the enforcement of religious conversion (spiritual resource). The normalization of such extractive rights and freedoms, which enriched the colonizing nations, would continue well into the legislation of the Indian Act in Canada and would be key in shaping the settler mindset.
It is precisely this long, self-endorsing3 practice of extraction that would instill a kind of impunity in settlers regarding refugees. For example, though rights were extended to the refugees who arrived in 1986, they were denied to the refugees who arrived in 2009 and 2010; the former were framed as desirable immigrants (potential model minorities), and the latter as undesirable immigrants (terrorists and suicide bombers). Surface Tension reveals the capricious nature of extractive power, which endows only those deemed worthy with rights, and follows the trajectory of that power to the moment when Kanagaratnam was deemed unworthy and denied those rights to the point of death. Suspected of having links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, he was criminalized by the state and rendered vulnerable to isolation, exploitation and predation. His murder and the subsequent difficulties in identifying his tortured body are excruciatingly emblematic of the rights and resources his murderer could access, and which Kanagaratnam was denied.
Notably, the Harper government’s vitriolic outbursts against the 2009 and 2010 refugees—which were predicated on arguments that they were undocumented immigrants who would be stealing Canadian jobs, despite the large numbers of invisible migrant labourers who grow and cook our food—starkly contrasted to the welcoming and healing ceremonies carried out by Indigenous Elders of the Coast Salish territories, and the public declarations of support from members of the Wet’suwet’en and Anishinaabe nations. As Kailey Bryan, curator of Eastern Edge Gallery, intimates: “Through imagined bodies and visceral consequences … we reflect on who receives the benefits of empathy. How is the ‘us’ that delivers that empathy constituted?”4 For those refugees, reaching land from the sea meant reaching safety, but that safety becomes a mirage when the haven reveals its own violence and erasures, and when a refugee is ultimately driven to his death.
Surface Tension is an intervention in the forces of extraction in its manifold iterations. It renders tangible the bonds between human beings, in order to observe the moments when those bonds fail us. Relational bonds shift, change and express themselves in means outside their own framing. In creating a work that will deteriorate and lose definition over time, Vettivelu explores the possibilities of a nonextractive cultural practice that returns the land to its natural state. In a coda indicating the temporality of extracting and own.ing meaning altogether, the materials used in Surface Tension have since been dismantled for use in gardens and in the construction of furniture for farmers and artists in the local community.
By: Arun Nedra Rodrigo
Published: Autumn 2019
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Arun Nedra Rodrigo is the founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium at York University, and the quarterly bilingual literary event the Tam Fam Lit Jam. She is a published poet, translator and academic, an arts educator and organizer of community work- shops and cultural events.
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IT in the '80s with AndyImtech
by Kelly Fine (Spiceworks)
on Jul 23, 2013 at 14:48 UTC
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The 1980s saw the rise of MTV, shoulder pads and Rubiks Cubes. The Berlin Wall fell, Muhammad Ali retired and someone shot J.R. Mario and Luigi took the gaming world by storm, and IBM released the 5150 personal computer.
Its okay if you missed it; “don’t have a cow.” AndyImtech is here to bring everyone up to speed on IT in the 1980s in this Q and A.
IT in the ‘80s with AndyImtech
By Andy Cippico
Photo credit: John Derosa
Where did you work, and what were some of your responsibilities?
Having trained in electronics, I started off repairing dot matrix printers at an IT technology startup company in Hampshire, England. The printers were called Base 2 and were very ‘nuts & bolts,’ with some interesting ways of catching fire. I remember a guy being flown over especially from the States to give me one-to-one training on them. I worked in a chaotic and dingy little workshop and worried how it might have looked to him, but he was very gracious and helped me tremendously. We also sold the Ohio Superboard (single board computer) and latterly the first Epson dot matrix printers.
Fault-finding was always done at a component level. This was before the days of surface mount technology and everything was repairable using an oscilloscope, a solder-sucker and a soldering iron. Speaking of which, my abiding memory of the time was the constant smell of solder. We had to make our own cables from scratch and there’s not much I can’t tell you about RTS, CTS and Xon/Xoff for an RS232 connector – not that you generally need to know nowadays. Back then, every task was a bit like pioneering. If you wanted to connect a PC to a printer there was no Internet to refer to and everything was achieved by sheer hard work and mistakes. It made for a good grounding in IT.
What sort of projects were you working on, and how did those projects change throughout the decade?
My first few jobs didn't involve a lot of project work. We were essentially a box-shifting operation with little or no day-to-day tools that required an IT infrastructure, let alone planning any projects to put any in. As I climbed the career ladder that changed slightly but I was always someone who relished getting their hands dirty rather than sitting round a table talking projects.
As for technological advances, back then you didn't so much have an IT Department, rather an IT Workshop. Imagine Doc Emmett Brown’s lab from Back to The Future and that’s pretty much how it started out. Over the years computing became slicker and less of a pioneering exercise. Solder-pocked benches gave way to shiny desks and the coke and pizza became a panini and skinny latte. The repair process became mundane and less challenging. To fix a system you’d pick a new board or part from a neat array of storage racks and then chuck the old part in the bin. I suppose it made for a quick turnaround but a bit of my technical soul died.
What was the IT experience like?
As I alluded to before, a lot of the time you were pioneering, or at least that’s the way it seems now. At the time you just had to make it work because you didn’t know any better. Systems were primitive by today’s standards. There was no Plug ‘n Play. If you wanted two systems to talk you’d get the technical manuals out, compare pin-outs and make a corresponding cable, swear, beat your head against the desk, then try again.
Photo credit: Phrontis
What hardware were you using?
It was a long time ago, but the few names I can remember have mostly gone to the wall now. There were some printers that became our staple sales: Base 2, Sekosha GP80, Anadex, Epson MX-80, Juki.
There were various computers: Ohio Superboard, Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II, DEC Rainbow, Fujitsu FM-8 and Osborne 1. Then came the IBM PC, which changed everything and bought about the World As We Know It.
What innovations most impacted your work?
If you were asking about the 90s then ‘the internet’ would be my obvious answer, but back in the 80s the closest we got to sharing information on a seamless basis was the early LANs. I started off with IBM’s ‘broadband’ system that ran over co-ax. I was always stunned by the power that flowed down that cable. I once inadvertently connected two LAN segments by simply holding the two cable ends in close proximity.
The other significant innovation was the PC hard disk drive. In 1983 when I saw the first IBM PC HDD with its capacious 10MB of space I remember thinking that I’d never manage to fill it. What a wondrous piece of hardware that was. No more floppy-swapping. The high failure rate wasn't as wondrous, though.
The internet was in its very earliest stages in 1989. Did you see it affect your work at all?
I was working at Microsoft at the time and guess which company was lagging behind in the Internet arena? Yep. The first time I saw the Internet was in 1992. Some Microsoft colleagues had cobbled together a kind of intranet and we used IE 1.0 beta to browse it. Nestled among the internal hyperlinks were some external ones and thus Pandora’s Box was opened. Life is unthinkable without it now.
Photo credit: Ruben de Rijcke
Did the IBM 5150 Personal Computer (1981) and the rise of the PC change your workflow? If so, how?
The IBM PC changed everything, despite costing the same as a small family car. It was the first big-name manufacturer to create a cohesive personal computing platform with eyes firmly set on businesses. The hardware also looked like the kind of kit you’d trust. The beige and corporate look started a trend that lasted years. On a purely personal note, one seminal event was the arrival of the IBM ATX keyboard. Without sounding like a misty-eyed geek, what a great keyboard that was. With a clicky and positive action, it set the standard for all keyboards to come. How sad has my life become when I have moments of reverie for a keyboard?
Did you ever foresee the massive changes in computing ability in modern IT?
This is an interesting question. I guess the short answer is no. The early years were a constant eye-opening procession of toys and discoveries. Nowadays I just blindly accept the leaps and strides the computing industry has taken. Innovations and technologies just don’t faze me anymore. I guess we just accept that the next product will be wonderful and life-changing. Jaded? Probably.
Was there any innovation that you were surprised to see take off, or similarly, surprised to see become obsolete?
There were many technologies that never made it properly to the mass market. I was fascinated by the concept of bubble memory, but that never made it. Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3 were spreadsheets that were huge at the time but where are they now? The same goes for Novell Netware and Wordperfect. And let’s not mention the Paperless Office.
What was the single biggest change in the field, in your opinion?
There have been so many developments over the last 33 years but I guess the biggest change has been that of physical to virtual computing. I love the way you can squeeze every ounce of performance out of your expensive tin. Change happens so quickly now and there’s so much of it. I struggle to keep up. Also, what started out as a niche hobby for a few of us all those years ago has become mainstream in the hands of almost everybody. My teenage kids have no appreciation of the blood sweat and tears that produced their surgically-attached smartphones.
What did your friends and family think you did? How did you explain your job?
During those early years very few people apart from businesses and the most ardent geeks owned computers. Sure there were home computers available but they were only glorified games consoles. No one really did anything serious on them. Many of my friends had proper jobs and didn’t really ‘get’ computers. My family was just happy that I had a job. As for war stories, I didn’t really have any accessible anecdotes I could tell after getting back home from a long day. When describing me, the phrase ‘he does something with computers’ normally summed it up for most people that knew me.
Photo credit: Andy Cippico
Outside of IT, what were some hobbies you had in the 80s? What was your prized possession?
Apart from messing with computers my other passion was (and still is) listening to and performing music. I have a treasured Gibson Les Paul Custom that I bought for peanuts in the mid-eighties and used extensively in various bands throughout the years. Oh how I wish I could give up the comparative drabness of my day job and play in a jobbing band. I don’t necessarily want to be a rock star but the thrill of playing live is a drug I just can’t kick.
I’d be quite happy never to press another key, swipe a screen, listen to another whiny user, work through the night for no recognition or pretend to care about someone’s lost data. Ever again. Gimme a guitar and a band and I’m happy to kiss those 33 years of my life good riddance.
Having said that, it would be great to see everyone’s smartphone videos of my gig posted on Youtube. See? You can’t get away from it.
What was IT like in the 80s for you? Let us know in the discussion, and stay gnarly!
Edited Jul 23, 2013 at 15:00 UTC
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Jim1214 Jul 23, 2013 at 14:54 UTC
HA! I read "IT in the 80's with AMERITECH" ! I was in kinda early, started Free-lancing in IT around 1988. Oh, The Days of BBS's, XMODEM and 1200 baud !
Nic (Spiceworks) Jul 23, 2013 at 16:04 UTC
So much nostalgia :)
Shawn @ Dell Jul 23, 2013 at 16:07 UTC
Reverse-engineered cpu's that gave way to the landslide of pc-clones and the ever-growing capacities of hard drives.
We also handled software issues too... Lots of them.
-shawn
Larry7505 Jul 23, 2013 at 16:47 UTC
In the 80's I worked as a field technician repairing dot matrix and thermal printers. Then I moved to copiers and laser printers. I worked for Canon at the time so I got to work on the first laser printers. My recollections of home computing was purchasing and learning on a Vic 20 with no storage. They only offered a tape drive for the Vic 20 and I could not afford that. I spent my time learning basic and creating small programs that I had to write down on paper so I could recreate it the next time I turned it on.
Shane M Jul 23, 2013 at 17:47 UTC
IBM PCs? You rich so-and-so's. We had to make do with Amstrad PC1512s and an Apple IIe.I did get the boss to spring for the two floppy version of the Amstrad though!
Dennis3774 Jul 23, 2013 at 19:19 UTC
Brings back some memories. I owned that Epson MX-80, which I bought with an Epson PC that ran at both 4.77 and 10 MHz. I got the PC, CGA monitor and printer for $1600 on payroll deduction. I was living large!
Jul 23, 2013 at 19:23 UTC
I had a client that still used 1200 baud to dial in to weather stations because they did not want to update their infrastructure. And this was last year until I gave up consulting for the corporate world. Nextel was one of the few carriers to still transmit through their cellphones a low enough baud for a modem to catch the data packets.
Digitala wrote:
I had a client that still used 1200 baud to dial in to weather stations because they did not want to update their infrastructure.
One of the big decisions in the 80s. Go for a 300/300 modem or a 1200/75? If you weren't really uploading, then the 1200/75 was the better choice :)
JorgeSosa Jul 23, 2013 at 20:20 UTC
Since I wasn't alive until the end of the 80's I can't say much. However this thread is pure gold!
Fred_DCC
In the late 80's I was a field Technician for an Electronic Dartboard manufacturer. I still remember the days of smelling that good ole Solder and cleaning out my Solder sucker after repairing a circuit board. Using the TRS-80 and the BASIC Language. Brings back a ton of memories.
RoguePacket Jul 23, 2013 at 22:18 UTC
'Tis like hearing about the land before time!
Berbe Jul 24, 2013 at 10:52 UTC
In the 80's I was just a teenager, amazed by everything !!! But I love reading your adventures.
ivanidea
I remember in 1980 having a simple computer with a B&W screen and a cassette drive. The printer was an old noisy teletype machine, and the only graphics it printed were in ASCII.
1989, we had a colour screen, hard disk drives, 3.5"FD and a colour dot matrix printer which could sort of print colour photos!
This is a great read, thanks for the history, though I don't remember much of the 80's I do remember the hardware from the time. I still have an old Tandy I tinker around with occasionally.
Scott696d
I remember etching my own PC boards as well. My dad had the Commodore 8032 with dual floppies (he worked at the university and got it through a grant somehow) and I programmed so much in BASIC back in the day. Now almost everyone uses OOP and while I can read it and fix it I don't enjoy the challenge of programming that I used to. I remember having the 15" wide-carriage dot-matrix printer (you know - for legal forms) and the word processor that got me through college I typed in from Compute! magazine. Oh yeah, the memories :-)
Kelly Fine (Spiceworks) wrote:
...before the days of surface mount technology and everything was repairable using an oscilloscope, a solder-sucker and a soldering iron....
Wasn't working professionally at this time, but do recall these "wizards" of electronics (& masters of the lost art of soldering!).
Ross42.
Ummm i wasn't born until the late 80s so i can't really say anything =P
Poblano
Steve1959 Jul 25, 2013 at 15:14 UTC
Ahh yes ... The 80's back then there was mostly serial connections to any printer . A bit later parallel technology came out. One had to decide between staying with a CPM operating system or going with the new fangled MS-DOS system. Later came windows 3.1 which changed everything in the PC world. Basic and Cobol, and Fortran were the main programming languages along with Digital's VAX OS. Mainframe systems like HP2000/3000, Digital VAX and IBM370 were the new technologies. A 30 Mb hard drive was considered huge and 4-8 Mb of ram was standard on a PC.. Software keys were often a hardwired device that plugged into the 25 pin serial port on the back of the PC Token ring and Star networking technologies were the talk of the IT department.
Kelly you brought back some great memories of frustration trying to get short haul modems to talk to each other! Thanks for the write-up!
Steve1959 wrote:
IBM CICS, VAX, reel-to-reel tapes. Ahh, good times! Of course, for those too young, the 30 mb harddrive and 4-8 MB RAM reference the Windows 3.1 days, circa 1992-1995. Prior to Window 3.1 you had all the fun with DOS and its 640 kb memory limitation. You had to figure out some devious way of addressing higher memory.
Terry4178 Jul 25, 2013 at 17:04 UTC
I started in 1983 in electronics, but was always messing with computers, i remember building a zenith 8088 cpu from a kit. Programming my commodore 64 by typng in literally page after page of numbers, then compiling it so i could play some 8 bit game.
Getting a job working on computers, because "its electronic, let the electronics guy work on it" I still have the passion, but learning the everchanging technology is getting harder. At least some of the underlying concepts are still true, whether its a 5Mhz 8088 or a icosa-core [ i looked up the biggest i coudl find :) ]
Ah the memories you brought back.
BillMSTI Jul 25, 2013 at 19:40 UTC
Ahh, the paperless office... They promised us we would have that by now, right along side the Jetsons anti-gravity car parked above our driveways... Great article!
PolarPeter
Aug 20, 2013 at 15:39 UTC
I went to College (Tech) 1981 and they had just installed in our class about a dozen keyboards....no monitors but one dot matrix printer that the whole class of 40 shared. You typed in your login, a few keystrokes and a couple of minutes later your assignment would print out on the dot matrix printer.
Then we would figure out the answers....a,b,c,d...type them in and the mark would come out on the printer again....after it thought about it for 5 minutes or so depending on how many students were working at a time.
I believe the price was $300,000 for the system.
As I took this Electronics Training course part of it for over a month, we had to learn Boolean Algebra as well as how to troubleshoot logic tranistors/IC's. They had no sight/inclination of how things are now.
One of the Instructors was making home made Satellite dishes....10-13 feet in diameter. He quit his Government job to do that full time as he was making a killing selling them for around $15000 dollars per household. Lots of people were buying them as HBO,Cinemax, The Movie Channel, etc were all free to get.
Scrambling started to happen a few years later but it was still several years "in the clear" before everything was Scrambled. The first was the VideoCipher Descrambler, then came the VideoCipherII. At the time they said there was no way possible that the scrambled signals could ever be broken....took about a month or so to break it. At the time I believe it cost around $1200-1500 to buy the chipped boards.
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ASHRAE installed its 2018-2019 president, executive committee officersanddirectors during its Annual Conference in Houston, which was held June 23-27. Charles Gulledge III, a Senior Mechanical Engineer for Environment Air Systems, LLC located in High Point, North Carolina was elected Treasurer.
ASHRAEs 2018-2019 president is Sheila J. Hayter, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE. During her inaugural presidential address, Hayter announced her terms theme will be Building Our New Energy Future. The theme focuses on the important role buildings will play in our energy future as the traditional electrical grid continues to evolve toward a smart grid with advances in renewable energy.
Elected officers who will serve one-year terms are as follows:
President-Elect:Darryl K. Boyce, P.Eng., Fellow Life Member ASHRAE, assistant vice president, facilities management and planning, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Treasurer:Charles E. Gulledge III, P.E., Member ASHRAE, HBPD, senior mechanical engineer, Environmental Air Systems LLC, High Point, N.C.
Vice President:Julia A. Keen, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, BEAP, HBDP, professor, Architectural Engineering & Construction Science Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.
Vice President:Malcolm Dennis Knight, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, BEMP, owner, Whole Building Systems, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Vice President:Michael C. A. Schwedler, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE,applications engineering manager, Trane, La Crosse, Wis.
Vice President:Farooq Mehboob, P.E., Fellow Life Member ASHRAE, principal consultant, S. Mehboob & Company Consulting Engineers, Karachi, Pakistan
We are extremely proud of the service Chuck provides to this important HVAC Industry Society of Engineers and that our company is able to help play a role in his contribution, stated Brian Evans President & CEO Environmental Air Systems.
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Center For Talent Africa
AP AWARDS 2017
JOS TALENT
MEC INC
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Welcome to Center For Talent Africa
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Our team is a group of vibrant professional people passionate about the progress and development of the Nation and Africa at large. Fighting for the hard working individuals, companies, institutions and others voice to be heard.
Musicians Educational Consult International is an organisation under Center for talent Afirca, whose goal is to develop, train, mentor, and create opportunities for young talent in Africa. To visit our page click http://mecinternational.org
Do you have talent to showcase to the world? Then this is the opportunity for you where ever you are. You stand the chance to win a Car if you Nigeria, Cash and LED TV. Where ever you are, you can be part of this program.
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This is an African program for children between the ages 5 and 17. Our goal is discover and develop talent.For more information and update on programs. Click on www.mecstalentedkidz.com or email:mecint.ng@gmail.com
What does the awardee receive?
The awardee will receive national recognition in all of MEC INC media, including print and on-line publications, an opportunity to be a feature blogger on the best bloggers platform in Ghana, south Africa, Abidjan, Kenya, Nigeria and other part of the world. One complimentary registration to attend the, First edition of AP awards magazine (travel and lodging not included) where they will receive the award in front of royal and other special dignitaries in Ghana and other part of the world.
Who is eligible to submit a nomination for an award?
Award nominators must be African and other International bodies who have contributed to the development of the Nations (Africa)
Where ever you are, you can be part of this program.
JosTalent is brought to you by Musicians Educational Consult International (MEC INC) for every one who has talent between the ages 5 to 70, purposed for all kinds of talent, Magic, comedy, math, science, sports, any thing TALENT. Believe in your self and believe in what you can do and come out of the box too showcase your God given TALENT for a Car, cash with lots of prizes.
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Award entries are vetted and then shortlisted by The Board Members of MEC INC (AP Awards 2017)Four winners per nominee is then selected from the shortlists by an Awards Committee drawn from MEC INC Advisory Board. The make-up of this panel is anonymous and changes from year to year.
Who is eligible to receive an award?
Award nominees are not required to be Ghanaians only but for international students and companies who have shown outstanding performance in the development of the Nation. The Staff, Board of Directors, and Advisory Council members of MEC INC (AP Awards) are not eligible to receive nominee awards with the exception of the Prestigious Honoring Awards.
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Facebook Chief Calls for Better Cyber Security in Emerging Markets
Lee Hazell+
Facebook’s security chief has called for improved cyber security practices around the world, with the current defences in emerging markets vulnerable to attack.
Speaking at Las Vegas’ Def Con cyber security conference, Alex Stamos put pressure on the internet industry – including Facebook and its peers – to make more effort when it comes to improving cyber security “beyond the one per cent” that it currently caters for. He pointed the finger at cyber security start-ups in particular, stating that they focus too much on wealthy Western enterprises rather than solutions that will benefit people around the globe.
The former Yahoo executive has made the headlines in the past for his criticism of the US National Security Agency and is known for speaking his mind. He is now urging others to join him by building security solutions to protect people who do not have the benefits of the most up to date technology.
In an interview with the Financial Times at the event, Mr Stamos was outspoken is saying that the private sector, particularly big technology companies, was not doing enough to address the global threat of cyber attacks across the globe. “We can’t say you are only safe if you are on the latest phone in a country with a great human rights record,” he asserted.
Facebook has started its own initiative – internet.org – which will aim to get more people in less developed countries online. Securing this network is one of the social media giant’s top cyber security priorities at the moment, the FT stated.
Emerging markets are using devices and operating systems that, unlike the majority of those used in the First World, are not suitably protected from cyber crime. Mr Stamos, who is only six weeks into his new role at Facebook, explained that the company now has an “obligation” to overcome this problem and create new cyber security solutions targeted at these emerging markets and the technologies they are using.
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Calendar, September
Revision as of 21:48, October 16, 2019 by David the Wavid (Talk | contribs)
Events Edit
Coronation Street history Edit
1963 - Dennis Tanner saves Sheila Birtles when she attempts suicide.
1970 - Annie Walker becomes legal landlady of the Rovers when the court transfers the licence to her from her deceased husband Jack.
1981 - Bert Tilsley is caught by the DSS earning an income while claiming the dole.
1987 - Alec Gilroy gives Bet the Rovers as a wedding present.
1991 - Liz McDonald tells Jim that she is pregnant.
1992 - Rita Sullivan is accused by Ted's family of only marrying him for his money.
2007 - Carla Connor gives potential customer Tony Gordon a tour of Underworld.
2016 - Beth Sutherland is arrested for bigamy after her son Craig Tinker reports her to the police. Pat Phelan is taken into questioning on suspicion of planning a fraud.
Real world Edit
2007 - First appearance of Tony Gordon.
2010 - The Road to Coronation Street, a dramatisation of the pre-production of Coronation Street is first broadcast on BBC4.
Episodes Edit
Episodes were broadcast on 16th September on the following years:
1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
1970s - 1970, 1974
1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
2000s - 2001, 2002 (I) (II), 2005 (I) (II), 2007
2010s - 2010, 2011 (I) (II), 2013 (I) (II), 2015, 2016 (I) (II)
15th September Dates
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Indie Country: Nikki Lane
by steve ‐ October 11, 2017
photo: Artist Website
Watch emerging Country Music artist Nikki Lane's top music videos and discover a new independent country artist.
Nikki Lane grew up in South Carolina and now resides in East Nashville as a Singer and Songwriter. She grew up influenced by Dustry Springfield, Dolly Parton, and Loretta Lynn and other classic country artists. Watch music videos for three of her top songs including: “All or Nothin”, “Right Time” and “Jackpot”.
Nikki Lane “All or Nothin” (Live Performance in Nashville)
Nikki Lane “Right Time”
Nikki Lane “Jackpot”
Nikki Lane has released 3 Country Music albums including:
Highway Queen (2017)
All or Nothin’ (2014)
Walk of Shame (2011)
Her latest album Highway Queen is poised to be Lane’s mainstream breakthrough. About the album, Lane stated, “Am I excited to spend years of my life in a van, away from family and friends? No, but I’m excited to share my songs, so they’ll reach people and help them get through whatever they’re going through. To me, that’s worth it.”
Remember to “share” this with other Country Music fans.
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New Nokia phones arrive in Egypt next April - Daily News Egypt
Business New Nokia phones arrive in Egypt next April
New Nokia phones arrive in Egypt next April
Nokia has announced the launch of four new smartphones, adding them to its award-winning smartphone portfolio, including the Nokia 8 Series, Nokia 7 Plus, the new Nokia 6 and the Nokia 1 each phone is robust. In addition to the launch of these new Android-enabled smartphones, Nokia will re-launch the legendary Nokia 8110 with …
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Nokia has announced the launch of four new smartphones, adding them to its award-winning smartphone portfolio, including the Nokia 8 Series, Nokia 7 Plus, the new Nokia 6 and the Nokia 1 each phone is robust.
In addition to the launch of these new Android-enabled smartphones, Nokia will re-launch the legendary Nokia 8110 with 4G capability as well as modern applications such as Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Search, Facebook, and Twitter.
Designed to provide the best content, the phone’s screen features a modern, rugged design, which makes the Nokia 7 Plus phone the hero of Nokia’s smartphone portfolio. The phone combines innovative optical devices with imaging algorithms and captures the most accurate moments during photography to produce natural images with all the details a user needs. The handset features dual optics and a dual-back sensor supported by ZEISS optics, providing 12-megapixel wide-angle angles and a 13-megapixel secondary camera with 2x optical zoom to zoom in on the moments the user wants.
The phone features a six-inch high-resolution 18:9 screen, which enhances screen performance and makes it ideal for browsing, as well as social media, gaming, and entertainment with more content in the same display as the traditional 5.5-inch display. The 7 Plus will be in Egypt by mid-April 2018 at EGP 7,750.
The new phone delivers more powerful performance and sports new features within a more and compact design. It is 60% faster than the previous version and is supported by Zeiss optics, has a fast USB-C charger, and a more compact screen that fits to the phone’s frame.
The new Nokia 6 comes with a solid aluminium design and an 11-hour, two-colour polishing process. By unifying the 2.5D curved screen and Corning Gorilla damage-resistant glass, the new compact and refined Nokia 6 frame is built to last forever.
Engineers have integrated the Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor to deliver fast performance.
The new Nokia 6 will be launched in Egypt by mid-April 2018 at EGP 4,750.
Nokia 1 offers a major breakthrough in the availability of technology for all, offering all the basics of smartphones. Nokia’s cheapest smartphone will be launched in Egypt by mid-April 2018 at EGP 1,450.
Re-launch of Nokia 8110
This year marks the re-launch of the new Nokia 8110 phone with a new look
The smartphone uses a familiar user interface and is easy to use for answering and ending calls.
It also provides easy access to Goole Play to download all your favourite apps like Google Assistant, Google Search, Google Maps, Facebook, and Twitter, and for sending and receiving email, transferring contacts, and syncing your calendar and Gmail.
The Nokia 8110 will be available in Egypt by mid-June 2018 at EGP 1,450.
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$31.00 Million in Sales Expected for Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ARWR) This Quarter
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Brokerages forecast that Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ARWR) will report $31.00 million in sales for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals’ earnings, with the lowest sales estimate coming in at $20.00 million and the highest estimate coming in at $42.00 million. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals posted sales of $34.66 million in the same quarter last year, which indicates a negative year over year growth rate of 10.6%. The company is expected to announce its next quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 6th.
On average, analysts expect that Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals will report full-year sales of $86.87 million for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $53.00 million to $128.00 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts anticipate that the firm will report sales of $75.08 million, with estimates ranging from $40.00 million to $116.30 million. Zacks’ sales averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that cover Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals.
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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARWR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 25th. The biotechnology company reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.14 by ($0.03). The business had revenue of $43.29 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $36.97 million. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals had a return on equity of 32.30% and a net margin of 40.27%.
Several research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Robert W. Baird raised shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $39.00 to $70.00 in a research note on Monday, November 25th. BidaskClub upgraded shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 9th. B. Riley reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $83.00 price target (up from $59.00) on shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in a research note on Wednesday, November 27th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $50.00 price objective (up from $24.00) on shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in a report on Tuesday, November 19th. Finally, S&P Equity Research restated a “buy” rating on shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in a report on Tuesday, November 26th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $72.80.
Shares of ARWR opened at $67.77 on Tuesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $50.25 and its 200 day moving average price is $34.28. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has a 12-month low of $10.41 and a 12-month high of $73.72. The firm has a market cap of $6.44 billion, a P/E ratio of 98.22 and a beta of 1.98.
In other Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals news, CEO Christopher Richard Anzalone sold 4,250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $29.00, for a total transaction of $123,250.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 2,146,153 shares in the company, valued at $62,238,437. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Michael S. Perry sold 85,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $30.00, for a total transaction of $2,550,000.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 121,000 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,630,000. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 288,071 shares of company stock valued at $10,518,443 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 4.80% of the company’s stock.
Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC increased its stake in Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals by 96.2% during the 3rd quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 1,020 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $29,000 after buying an additional 500 shares during the period. Acadian Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals during the second quarter worth $34,000. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in the second quarter valued at $368,000. Pearl River Capital LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in the second quarter valued at $111,000. Finally, Riverhead Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in the second quarter valued at $148,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 70.39% of the company’s stock.
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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc develops medicines for the treatment of intractable diseases in the United States. The company's pipeline include ARO-AAT, a RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic candidate for the treatment of liver diseases associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency; ARO-APOC3 to treat hypertriglyceridemia; ARO-ANG3 to reduce production of angiopoietin-like protein 3; ARO-ENaC to reduce production of the epithelial sodium channel alpha subunit in the airways of the lung; and ARO-HIF2 for the treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
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Dark Armada, a Star Trek fan production, is one of the few semi-professional science-fiction film productions in The Netherlands.
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Final episode released
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Landing of the Batavia (Nova-class)
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Here's some artwork celebrating 10 years of Star Trek Dark Armada! 10 years ago we started working on something that seemed impossible to make.
"Almost Time" released
Check out the new vignette for Star Trek Dark Armada titled "Almost Time". And don't forget to watch the end credits for some sneak peeks to our upcoming episode "Out Of Time". Thanks for watching!
Nightfall released
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Our goal is to gain more experience in film making, to keep reaching a higher level and to continue producing these episodes with the quality and passion you've come to expect from us. And of course to keep Trekkin'!
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These Are The Voyages...
episode 0 - September 2006
This episode was intended to be a 'test episodes' rather than an actual episode for the series. It was a test to see what it would take to make a short episode using green screen/keying technology and what improvement would have to be made to master this technique.
Worst Nightmare
episode 1 - March 2009
Richardson and Katina find the U.S.S. Batavia at drift in space as they return from a shuttle mission. The crew seems to have disappeared..
Choices, Part One
episode 2 - October 2009
In "Choices, part one" the crew of the Batavia discovers a situation with planet Y'nok that took place in the past. How is this related to the current volatile situation?
Choices, Part Two
episode 3 - February 2010
While Batavia's Warp drive is disabled, Ensigns Belissa and Robberts are on their way to the colonist in distress. What will they discover and what will the Batavia find when she eventually catches up?
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CREAL Picks up $7.4 Million in Funding for Its Light-field Tech
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When we caught up with CREAL and its light-field tech at CES 2020 this week, the founders also filled us in on the latest happenings with the company, including the closure of a recent funding round which, between investments and grants, brought in $7.4 million.
CREAL is building a novel light-field display for AR and VR headsets which promises to make virtual imagery more natural by more accurately modeling the way that light from the real world actually interacts with the human eye. At CES 2020 this week we saw the latest progress the company has made toward shrinking its hulking prototype down to size.
We also learned that, as of last month, the company quietly secured an additional ~$7.4 million in funding to continue development of the tech.
The bulk of the funding comes from a Series A financing round in which CREAL raised 4.3 million CHF (~$4.41 million). The round was led co-led by Swiss investment firms Investiere and DAA Capital Partners, with participation by tech entrepreneur Ariel Luedi and existing investors from SICTIC.
CREAL also picked up 2.5 million CHF ($2.56 million) as a grant from the European Innovation Council, and another 500K CHF ($514K) as a subsidized loan from the Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique.
As a ‘deep tech’ startup working on a technology as intangible and difficult to explain as light-fields, it’s impressive that CREAL has managed to convince investors of the value of its tech. The new funding will greatly extend the CREAL’s runway.
At CES 2020 this week, CREAL founders told Road to VR that the company doesn’t intend to create or market a light-field headset itself. Instead it plans to be a creator and licenser of the technology, and work with partners who want to use the tech in their own headsets. CREAL says it’s already sending development kits to select partners which are interested in the light-field display.
Following the static-mounted demo we saw at CES 2020 this week, CREAL believes that it will have its first head-mounted prototype working within the next six months. The goal is to bring the tech down to size, first to fit into VR headsets, and then eventually AR glasses.
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"League Sources" Say Karl-Anthony Towns Is A Donkey
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All the reporting about the souring of the relationship between Jimmy Butler and the Timberwolves points to fit issues between Butler, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Andrew Wiggins. Butler’s “honest conversations” with Wolves brass led in short order to a trade request, and a list of preferred trade partners that suggested Butler was prioritizing teams with major cap flexibility for his next destination. That or he’d lost his mind.
Cap room is nice. It allows a team like, say, the Brooklyn Nets to make a maximum contract offer to the kind of player who might not otherwise have much interest in joining their organization. Someone like, say, an All-NBA wing shopping for his last chance to play for a contender during his prime years. But the Nets, Knicks, and Clippers will for sure not be the only teams with enough flexibility to make sure Butler is paid like a king in what is shaping up to be another big free agency summer in 2019, when Butler’s current contract runs out. What gives? Well, here’s some of what gives:
This is pretty great. The Clippers are currently an also-ran. They’re deep with rotation-grade wings and swingmen, but have exactly zero stars, and the chances of them landing a “second star” in free agency all come down to how successfully they pitch free agents like Kawhi Leonard next summer. But the Clippers would kill—they would trade every player on their roster and several draft picks, and possibly their own children—to land a player with as attractive a combination of youth and size and skill and efficiency and raw productivity as Karl-Anthony Towns. Only restricted free agency will keep Towns from being one of the two or three most targeted free agents next summer, when his rookie contract runs out.
Towns was Rookie of the Year in 2016; he was an All-Star in 2018; he was also third-team All-NBA in 2018. He is A Star. The league and the basketball universe are almost unanimous on that one. It would seem Jimmy Butler and “league sources” are the last remaining holdouts. Very helpful and not at all deliberately hostile and rude for them to make their feelings known.
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The Lord’s final, for so long a highlight of the cricketing summer. An event where county cricket has its day in the spotlight at one of the finest sporting theatres there is.
In recent years T20 Finals Day may have usurped it as the premier attraction on the calendar, but there is no doubt for many players and supporters a day out at Lord’s remains one to be cherished.
Therefore, it is unfortunate the final this Saturday between Somerset and Hampshire will be the last of its kind before the showpiece event moves to Trent Bridge.
A special venue itself, but there is little doubt from 2020 onwards these finals will not feel the same.
With this in mind, we here at Deep Extra Cover have taken a look back at eight of the best finals to be held at the Home of Cricket.
2017 – Nottinghamshire 298-6 beat Surrey 297-9 by four wickets
A match which will forever be remembered as Alex Hales’ final. The England international recorded the highest individual one-day score at Lord’s to take his team to victory.
Hales’ 187 came off just 167 balls and included 20 fours and four sixes. It was the perfect example of how to conduct a run chase. Initially, it looked as if Hales might run out of partners in Nottinghamshire’s pursuit of 298 as they fell to 150-5, but Chris Read provided able support with 58 as the Outlaws eventually cantered towards their target.
Earlier in the day, Mark Stoneman impressed for Surrey, scoring 144 but it was not enough to stop them falling to a third successive defeat in a One-Day Cup final.
2015 – Gloucestershire 220 beat Surrey 214 by six runs
Quite how Surrey managed to lose this one is a question which will haunt their fans for years to come. Jade Dernbach’s hat-trick helped him to figures of 6-35 as Gloucestershire posted a modest total, thanks mainly to the retiring Geraint Jones’ half-century.
In reply, Surrey looked on course for a comfortable win at 143-2, but from the moment Kumar Sangakarra lobbed a Jack Taylor full toss straight into the hands of Will Tavare at mid-on, it was all Gloucestershire.
The Surrey tail capitulated under severe pressure from the Gloucestershire attack, David Payne bowling a brilliant final over, taking the last two wickets, as the West Country outfit won their first trophy in 11 years.
2012 – Hampshire Royals 244-5 beat Warwickshire Bears 244-7 by losing fewer wickets
Between 2010 and 2013 matches in domestic one-day competition were contested as 40 overs per side, meaning finals at Lord’s had a slightly different feel to them, but they were no less entertaining. In 2012 Hampshire met Warwickshire in an instant classic.
Requiring one to win off the final ball, Neil Carter was unable to get any bat to Kabir Ali’s delivery allowing Hampshire to emerge triumphant by virtue of losing fewer wickets. A disappointment for the Bears, especially with England international Ian Bell in their side, who made a fluent 81.
Chris Woakes almost saw them over the line with 24 off 16 deliveries but was starved of the strike in the final over, as Hampshire fans celebrated a famous win. A match which exemplifies what Lord’s finals are all about.
2006 – Sussex 172 beat Lancashire 157 by 15 runs
When you only post 172 in a 50-over game, then victory is pretty unlikely. And that is how Sussex would have felt when they were dismissed for the score against Lancashire back in 2006.
Sajid Mahmood took 3-16, and it was only really Yasir Arafat and Michael Yardy that added any respectability to the score, both contributing 37. Lancashire looked odds on favourites to win the title, but James Kirtley had others ideas, ripping apart the Red Rose’s top order. He removed Mal Loye, Nathan Astle and Stuart Law cheaply, leaving Lancashire reeling at 27-3.
Batsmen continued to fall and, despite Dominic Cork’s 35, Lancashire were all out for 157. Kirtley trapped Murali Kartik LBW to bring up his five-wicket haul. A quite incredible turnaround and a Lord’s final for the ages.
1993 – Warwickshire 322-5 beat Sussex 321-6 by five wickets.
Often described as ‘the greatest final’, this match can be described by just about every superlative in the book. In the modern day, having to chase down 322 to win would not strike fear into any side but back in 1993 Warwickshire would have been considered rank outsiders at the halfway stage.
This after David Smith’s wonderful 124 and useful half-centuries from Martin Speight and Neil Lenham had put Sussex in a commanding position. Their good day continued when both Warwickshire openers fell quickly.
The Bears recovered somewhat to 93-3, and that was when Asif Din came to the wicket to play the match-winning innings. His 104 off 106 balls to put Warwickshire on the brink. Though he did fall with 16 still required.
Two runs were needed off the last ball and, with Dermot Reeve stuck at the non-strikers’ end on 81, Roger Twose struck the winning runs. If we get as good a final as this at Lord’s on Saturday, then we will be in for a treat.
1989 – Warwickshire 211-6 beat Middlesex 210-5 by four wickets
Without a trophy for nine years, Warwickshire entered the 1989 NatWest Trophy final as underdogs against a star-studded Middlesex outfit but ended the victors through Neil Smith’s heroics in the final over. He struck a six, the only one of the match, and then hit the winning runs as bowler Simon Hughes slipped on the Lord’s surface.
Middlesex’s total of 210 was perhaps a tad under par. Mike Gatting revealed after the loss he would have hoped for 220 as, despite a sixth-wicket partnership of 62 between Paul Downton and John Emburey, the Middlesex captain had to settle for a score of 210.
They did start well with the ball as Angus Fraser reduced the Birmingham outfit to 26-2. Middlesex took three more wickets as Warwickshire got stuck in a rut at 122-5 but up stepped Dermot Reeve and Asif Din for the match-winning partnership of 69. Reeve was eventually run out for 42, a dismissal which saw Smith arrive at the crease, and the rest is history.
1985 – Essex 280-2 beat Nottinghamshire 279-5 by one run
Quite often in a Lord’s final winning the toss and bowling has proved to be a successful option for captains. Although this was not the case for Clive Rice when he put Essex into bat back in 1985. Graham Gooch and Brian Hardie put on 202 for the first wicket as Essex batted their way to an imposing 280-2, Hardie reaching three-figures.
In reply, the Nottinghamshire opening pair of Chris Broad and Tim Robinson impressively added 143 runs of their own. Both were out quickly thereafter as the Trent Bridge side fell to 214-4. But Derek Randle was still at the crease, carrying the hopes of the Nottinghamshire fans in attendance.
18 were needed from the final over and, incredibly, Randall brought that equation down to two off the last delivery. But he was out to the final ball by Derek Pringle, caught by Paul Prichard, Nottinghamshire agonisingly short of their target.
1981 – Derbyshire 235-6 beat Northamptonshire 235-9 by losing fewer wickets
This final took place in the first year of the NatWest Trophy, and what a way to round it off as Derbyshire won their first ever trophy in one-day cricket. Mind you, they could not have done it by a closer margin. Northamptonshire, who had made the final by beating Lancashire by one wicket, started well, entering the lunch break at 133-1.
However, Derbyshire fought back. Allan Lamb was fabulously run out by Geoff Miller and, although Geoff Cook went onto make 111, Derbyshire were well and truly in the game. They began their chase excellently as John Wright and Peter Kirsten both posted half-centuries, but the momentum swung when they were both victims to Neil Mallender in the same over.
Regular wickets continued to go down, leaving Derbyshire needing 19 from the final two overs. The equation was reduced to six off the last over, and Colin Tunnicliffe’s scrambled single in the dark off the last ball was enough to give Derbyshire the win, just.
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Enjoy Cambodia in style! This 14 day tour will bring you to some of the most beautiful place in the country. From Siem Reap of the World famous Angkor city to charming Battambang and Phnom Penh to stunning beach of Sihanoukville… The great combination of heritage and nature is to bring you a memorable holiday.
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Experienced English speaking guide
Private boat trip as per tour
Meals as stated in the itinerary (B: Breakfast/L: Lunch/D: Dinner)
All sightseeing tickets
Tissues and water on coach
International flights & departure taxes if any
Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
Peak season or public holidays surcharge if any
Other services not mentioned above
DAY 1: PHNOM PENH ARRIVAL (L/-)
Pick up from the airport and transfer to the hotel. Lunch. In the afternoon, visit the Royal palace. The palace was opened in 1870 under King Norodom, and now contains the Royal residence, the Throne hall, the Silver pagoda, and other buildings. The Silver pagoda (Wat Preah Keo Morokat) is one of the city’s most visited sites and offers a display of priceless Buddhist and historical objects. The Pagoda draws its name with more than 5,000 silver tiles, which cover the floor in the temple. The building serves less as a functioning shrine, no monks currently reside here, than a repository of cultural treasures such as the famous Emerald Buddha and many other valuable statues and Toul Sleng prison museum (also known as S21). Dinner on your own.
Overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh.
DAY 2: PHNOM PENH – BATTAMBANG (B/L/-)
Breakfast at hotel.
08:00 Pick up at your hotel and depart for Battambang by an overland transfer (290 km. 4-5 hrs drive). Stop at the Silversmith village, see the pottery manufactories in Kompong Chhnang and visit also a fish market. Lunch on road. Arrive in Battambang, and check-in at the hotel. Walk through the town to discover its beautiful colonial architecture. Dinner on your own.
Overnight at hotel in Battambang.
DAY 3: BATTAMBANG (B/L/-)
08:00 Drive along the picturesque Sangker river to the Wat Slaket pagoda, the residence of the provincial Buddhist patriarch. Continue to visit Wat Ek Phnom. Visit a market where Prahoc, the Cambodian fish paste, is made. Visit the Provincial museum (closed on Saturdays / Sundays) and the local market. Lunch at a local restaurant.
Then drive to Phnom Banon, with its five sandstone towers on top of a hill and enjoy a magnificent view of the surrounding plains until sunset. The same afternoon, you are also enjoying bamboo train with a great experiences of sliding on this funny train. Dinner on your own.
DAY 4: BATTAMBANG – SIEM REAP BY SPEEDBOAT (B/L/-)
08:00 Travel by speed boat to Siem Reap along the Sangkar river; enjoy unspoiled landscapes and traditional daily-life scenes. Crossing Cheur Khmao Pagoda, also known as the “Black Wood Pagoda”, in Bak Prier floating village. Also cross the Biosphere Reserve and the floating villages of Prek Tuol. Picnic lunch on board.
Continue by boat across the Tonle Sap lake to the Chhoeung Kneas floating village. Arrive at Siem Reap port and transfer to Siem Reap. In the afternoon, we use tuk tuks as our transportation to take us to visit Les Artisans d’Angkor – Chantiers Ecoles” of Siem Reap. Dinner on your own.
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap.
DAY 5: SIEM REAP CITY (B/L/-)
06:00 Early morning, you will visit the sunrise at Angkor Area – the idea is to view the reflection of amazing Angkor temple in the morning sun. Return to the hotel for breakfast.
After that, you will start your full day visit, firstly with the sightseeing tour of Angkor area. We will spend a full day exploring the wondrous ancient ruins with the South Gate of Angkor Thom, which is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, the impressive Bayon temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant terrace, the terrace of the Leper King. Lunch at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, discover the world’s wonder site—Angkor Wat, the magnificent temple that was built in 12th century and it is the largest first Hindu and Buddhist temple complex and the largest religious monument in the world. You will stroll around this massive edifice, seeing the many galleries with colums, libraries, pavilions, courtyards and ponds full of water reflecting the towering temple. Dinner on your own.
08:00 Heading out of town, we make our way by travelling on a newly paved road to the intricately carved and well preserved temple of Banteay Srei. Along the way we briefly stop at the Preah Dark village and we follow this with a visit the Banteay Samre temple adorned with impressive relief-depicting scenes of Vishunu as well as Krishna legends. Lunch at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, visiting the jungle covered temple of Ta Prohm that is an incredible sight. There are enormous big trees and gigantic creepers which embrace themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man’s creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature and we also explore the surrounded temples if time permits. Dinner on your own.
DAY 7: SIEM REAP – BENG MELEAR (B/L/-)
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:00 Visit the Roluos Group. The monuments of Rolous, which served as the capital of Indravarman I (reigned 877-89). Preah Ko was erected by Indravarman I in the late 9th century dedicated by the King to his ancestors in 880. Visit Bakong, the largest and most interesting of the Roluos group temples, with the active Buddhist monastery just to the north of the east entrance. Lolei was built on an islet in the center of a large reservoir (now rice fields) by Yasovarman I, the founder of the first city at Angkor. Lunch at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, continue to visit Beng Mealea temple before continuing to Siem Reap, the little- explored temple of Beng Mealea that is waiting to be rediscovered by the adventurous travelers. The sprawling jungle temple covering over one square kilometer is largely over-run by vegetation. Constructed in a distinct Angkor Wat style, Beng Melea preceded and may have served as a prototype of sorts for Angkor Wat. Back to Siem Reap and transfer to hotel. Dinner on your own.
DAY 8: SIEM REAP – KOMPUNG THOM (B/-/D)
In the morning, be free at own leisure in Siem Reap or do the shopping at the local market. Lunch on your own.
13:00 Drive to Kompung Thom province – Kompung Thom is a province located at the central point of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The province has a total land area of 15,061km2 divided into 8 districts, 81 communes and 737 villages. The total population is 576,805 people (110,334 families, women approximately 51%). The province has a road network which links from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap on National Road 6, and separates Preah Vihea province from National Road 64 in a distance of 126 km. Dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight at hotel in Kompung Thom.
DAY 9: KONPUNG THOM – PHNOM PENH (B/L/-)
08:00 Departure for a discovery of Sambor Prei Kuk’s temples, certainly the most beautiful examples of the art Pre-Angkorian of the 7th century. Lunch in Kompung Thom, then continue your way to Phnom Penh. Upon arrival, check in the hotel. Dinner on your own.
DAY 10: PHNOM PENH – SIHANOUKVILLE (B/L/-)
08:00 This morning you will explore the National Museum’s collection of Khmer art, which displays over 5,000 objects including statues and other artifacts from Angkor Wat. Then, go on with visit to the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek-both grim reminders of Cambodia’s bloody past under Pol Pot. It is almost inconceivable to confront the nature of true evil here in this gentle land, but the Buddhist memorial at Choeung Ek, commemorates the 1.7 million victims of the 1975-79 Pol Pot regime. This excursion may prove distressing for some. It is, however, an important piece of this country’s historical and cultural puzzle. Lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer to Sihanoukville. Dinner on your own.
Overnight at hotel in Sihanoukville.
DAY 11: SIHANOUKVILLE (B/-/-)
Breakfast at the hotel – Free and relax at the beach. Lunch and dinner on your own.
DAY 14: PHNOM PENH – DEPARTURE (B/-/-)
Breakfast at the hotel – Transfer back to Phnom Penh International airport with only your driver for your departure flight.
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Cloud Config File Downloads
Setting up CJOC
Client Masters
Shared Configurations
Shared Slaves
Cluster Operations
Update Centers
CJOC Cloud Config
Jenkins Master01
Jenkins Slave01
Welcome to the DevOps Library! This is Samantha, and today we're going to set up Cloudbees Jenkins Operations Center, or CJOC for short. If you've never heard of it, the CJOC is used for managing multiple Jenkins Masters. It makes it much easier to scale Jenkins horizontally, as it makes it possible to share build nodes between masters. You can also enforce security compliance, manage update centers, setup single sign on, and monitor the everything all from the CJOC. Sounds pretty cool huh? It is, trust us!
Alright, let's go ahead and get started! First, let's talk about some new Jenkins terminology related to Operations Center. You'll typically have at least one Operations Center Server, ideally in HA mode. This server is a special type of Jenkins instance that acts as a central authority over your entire Jenkins environment. It's also what we'll be setting up in a few minutes.
Next, we have client masters. A client master is just a normal Jenkins master that we've joined to our Operations center cluster for management purposes. These masters can then use normal slaves, shared slaves, or a shared cloud.
Shared slaves are exactly what they sound like, slave nodes that are available for any master to use.
A shared cloud is used to spin up temporary slaves when demand exceeds what's available from the shared slaves.
Next, we have folders, which behave a bit differently than the folder's you would normally associate with Jenkins. When it comes to Operations center, folders are used for scoping the availability of resources. For example, you could have a folder with credentials, shared slaves, and a shared cloud. Each of those items would then only be available to other items within the same folder or same subfolder.
Lastly, we have Sub-licensing. Normally you have to worry about keeping each master licensed, but with CJOC, it includes the ability to generate sub-licenses for all client masters within the CJOC cluster.
Alright, that's enough terminology for now. Let's go ahead and create our Operations Center Server! First, we'll start out with a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 server. If you'd like to cheat a bit, you can use our cloud config file HERE, which configures everything for you automatically.
If you'd like to do it by hand, the first thing that we need to do is to add all of the keys and repositories for installing Jenkins & Java. Just copy and paste the following lines:
add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
wget -q -O - http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/jenkins-operations-center/1.625/debian/cloudbees.com.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/jenkins-operations-center/1.625/debian binary/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins-oc.list
Then run an apt-get update.
Once that finishes, let's install Java by running:
apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -y
After Java finishes installing, we're now finally ready to install Jenkins Operations center. To do so, run:
apt-get install jenkins-oc -y
Nice job!! That's all that we needed to do to setup CJOC. Now let's open up a web browser and go to the IP address of the VM, on port 8888. You will need to sign up for a trial license if you don't have an enterprise license yet.
After licensing the server, we need to configure the Jenkins URL before doing anything else. Go to "Manage Jenkins", followed by "Configure System". You should see a line titled "Jenkins URL" near the bottom of the page. If you've set up a DNS name for the CJOC server, you can use that here, otherwise just leave it as is and click save.
Alright, we're finally ready to add some client masters. If you already have some masters available feel free to use them, otherwise you can use our two cloud config files below to spin up some new ones.
After the masters come up, we need to add them to Operations center. On the JCOC web interface, select "New Item". Then type in a name for the master, and select "Client Master" for the item type. On the configuration page, we'll stick with the defaults. Before we move on though, let's talk about what a few of the settings are used for.
The "On-master executors" setting is used to force a set number of executors. From a security and performance perspective, we highly recommend checking the "Enforce" box and setting this to zero, as every job should be running on slaves, not masters.
Another useful setting is the "Master Owner" configuration. This lets you specify an email address or a list of addresses that are notified anytime the master goes offline.
The licensing section is helpful is well, as you can have operations center take care of the licensing on your masters, as well as telling them to use a specific Jenkins update center, which works sort of the same way that a WSUS server works on Windows. Alright, go ahead and click save.
On the next page, type in the URL of the Jenkins master, then click "Push configuration". Within a minute or so, you'll be redirected to the master you're trying to add. Now click "Join Operations Center" to complete the process.
Perfect!! Go ahead and go through the same steps to add the other one. Once you're finished, the CJOC should look something like this. Great job! At this point, it's really up to you on how you configure it, but we'll run through some of the most commonly used features.
First, let's talk about "Shared Configurations". You know how on each master, there's a "Configure System" section with a ton of settings? A "Shared Configuration" is used to configure those settings once, and share them across your masters.
Let's try it out. We'll set up a shared configuration that ensures the latest version of Java is installed on all of our masters. Click "New Item", type in a name, then select "Miscellaneous Configuration Container". On the next page, click "Add Snippet". We'll go with "Tools Installation", followed by "Add Tool". Select JDK, give it a name, and select which version you'd like to use. Once you have the settings that you'd like, hit "Save".
At this point, every one of our masters will now ensure that the latest JDK is installed, pretty cool huh? If for some odd reason you have a master that should NOT share configurations, you can always opt out on its individual system config page.
Alright, next we have "Shared Slaves". Don’t worry, they’re super easy to setup, and if you’ve already set up a slave before feel free to skip ahead. Basically we just follow the same steps that we'd normally do to set up a slave, but do it from the CJOC.
Jenkins Slave01 Cloud Config
Just like everything else so far, the first step is to go to “New Item”. Next, name the agent, and select “Shared Slave” as the item type. Alright, now that we’re on the configuration page, a lot of these settings are environment specific. We tend to use one executor per core, but it’s really up to you.
For the FS root, make you’ve already created the directory on your slave server. If you use our slave.yaml cloud configuration, be sure to specify /Jenkins as that’s the directory we typically use.
After you’ve added a host and credentials, click “Save”. Great job!!! We now have a slave that any of our masters can use. We do have a bit more to cover, but if you’d like to take a break to try it out go ahead!
Ok, we’re almost finished, but we have two more features we’d like to cover, Cluster Operations and the Update Center Plugin.
A “Cluster Operation” is a new item type that lets you perform maintenance on a variety of items, including client masters and update centers. They’re not nearly as complicated as they sound, but they are pretty powerful! Let’s try setting one up for restarting all of our masters. Click “New Item”, name it “Restart All Masters” and select “Cluster Operations” as the item type.
Alright, there are three important parts of an “Operation”. The first is the type of operation, which can be either “Client Master” or “Update Center”. Because the operation we’re setting up affects masters, select “Client Master”.
Secondly, we need to choose how to target the masters. We’ll select “From Operations Center Root”, that way it selects all of them. You can optionally specify a filter if you’d like to get a bit more granular than the list of target sources.
Third, we need to specify what steps the operation should actually take. For this operation, select “Restart Now”, then save the operation.
Great job!! You’ve successfully set up a cluster operation. If you’d like, you can run it now and both of our masters will be restarted immediately.
Pretty cool huh?
Well, we’re finally almost finished, we have one final topic to cover, Update Centers! An Update center is created the same way everything else was created, just go to New Item, name the Update center, and select “Update Center” as the job type. You’ll then need to select a plugin versioning strategy, signature provider, upstream source, and any maintenance tasks that you’d like.
The plugin versioning strategy can be set to explicit or implicit publishing. Explicit means that the update center won’t publish any versions of a plugin until the administrator specifically chooses a version, while implicit defaults to publishing the latest version of each plugin.
You can usually just leave the signature provider as is. For the upstream source we recommend selecting “Jenkins Enterprise by Cloudbees”, unless there’s a specific reason to include experimental plugins. Go ahead and hit save.
That’s it for the update center, but do note, you will have to configure the masters to point to the update center. Once that’s complete you’ll never have to worry about someone installing a plugin that hasn’t already been approved. You can do it manually, or by using the update center installer plugin.
Well, that was a pretty long lesson! We covered a ton of material, great job following along! We set up a Jenkins Operations Center, two masters, a shared slave, a cluster operation, and an update center, all in a single lesson!
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Startseite The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches
The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches
Simone Korff Sausse, Regine Scelles, Valerie Sinason
This publication brings together eleven articles on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philosophy. The authors all have practical experience in the field and most are clinicians sharing a common psychoanalytical epistemology.
The diverse nature of their contributions opens a window onto the mental life of people affected by various deficiencies, be they cognitive, motor, sensory or even multiple, and of those close to them, at all ages.
The work provides English-speaking readers with an insight into the way French authors raise the relevant issues, elaborate theories relating to clinical disability management and implement innovative practices.
Each of the authors develops an original approach, affording recognition to the subjectivity and inter-subjectivity of the disabled person and those dear to them, intimating that the disability (as with all human experience) is all about the relation existing between the person concerned and their life story, and also their relations with others--with the society and culture in which the condition emerges and evolves throughout life.
Categories: Psychology
Verlag: Karnac Books
Melanie Klein Revisited: Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children
Karnac Books
Susan Sherwin-White
Конечные поля в телекоммуникационных приложениях. Теория и применение FEC, CRC, M-последовательностей
ИНФРА-М
Власов Е.Г.
Sprache: russian
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THE CLINIC OF DISABILITY
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THE CLINIC OF
Psychoanalytical Approaches
Simone Korff Sausse and
Régine Scelles
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First published in 2017 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2017 to Simone Korff Sausse and Régine Scelles for the
edited collection and to the individual authors for their contributions.
The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work
have been asserted in accordance with §§77 and 78 of the Copyright Design
and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78220 445 9
Edited, designed and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd
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email: studio@publishingservicesuk.co.uk
Printed in Great Britain
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ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION by Valerie Sinason
Virility, masculine identity, and disability
Pierre Ancet
The traumatic effects of encountering disability:
the bond and psychic transmission put to the test
Albert Ciccone
Cultural interpretation of disability
Charles Gardou
Prediction, disability, and genetics
Marcela Gargiulo
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The psychoanalytical approach to disability
Simone Korff Sausse
The normality of the abnormal: disability, norms,
and normality
Roger Salbreux
The enigma of disability: talking about it with children,
listening to them, letting them talk to each other
Bodies lost and bodies gained: the major periods
in the history of disability
Henri-Jacques Stiker
Prenatal diagnosis and handicap
Sylvain Missonnier
Your child is a vegetable! Ethical requirements for
all clinical practices in dealing with severe disability
Georges Saulus
Adolescence: psychic process or a mere stage in biology?
Denis Vaginay
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Pierre Ancet is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay
Saint-Cloud and Doctor of Philosophy (ethics and philosophy of
sciences). He taught philosophy and psychology at the University of
Toulouse-Jean Jaurès for six years before becoming lecturer in philosophy at the University of Burgundy in 2006 and researcher at the Centre
Georges Chevrier (CNRS – University of Burgundy Joint Research
Centre). He also acts as Director of the University for All, Burgundy,
and is Vice-President Delegate for Cultural Policies at that University.
He has published many works, either alone or in collaboration, on
philosophical and disability related themes, especially in situations of
caring between disabled adults and professionals.
Albert Ciccone is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Professor of
Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology at the University LumièreLyon 2. He is founder and President of ALPACE (Association Lyonnaise pour une Psychanalyse À partir de la Clinique de l’Enfant). He
is a trainer member of CPGF (Collège de Psychanalyse Groupale et
Familiale) and FFPPEA (Fédération Française de Psychothérapie
Psychanalytique pour l’Enfant et l’Adolescent), a member of the EFPP
(European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), and the
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AIPCF (Association Internationale de Psychanalyse de Couple et de
Famille). He is a founding member of SIICHLA.
Charles Gardou is an anthropologist, professor at the University
Lumière Lyon 2, and lecturer at the Institut de Sciences Politiques
in Paris. Charles Gardou conducts research into human diversity
and vulnerability, and their multiple expressions. He has published
twenty works with Editions Érès, where he created and directed the
“Knowledge of Diversity” Collection including the titles La société
inclusive, parlons-en, Fragments sur le handicap et la vulnérabilité, and
Pascal, Frida Kahlo et les autres, as also Quand la vulnérabilité devient
force, and a trilogy sub-titled Variations anthropologiques.
Marcela Gargiulo, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and lecturer and
researcher at the Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis Research Laboratory (EA 4056), Paris Descartes University.
Since 1992, she has worked at the Institute of Myology and the
Genetics Department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where she is
head of the psychology team, providing psychological consultation to
patients suffering from genetic diseases. Her main research interests
lie at the crossroads between clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, and
ethics. She is a founding member of SIICHLA.
Simone Korff Sausse is a psychologist–psychoanalyst, member of
the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and Emeritus Lecturer at the
Psychoanalytical Studies Faculty at the University Denis Diderot,
Paris 7. She has conducted studies into the psychoanalytical approach
in care for disabled children and their families, then into the creative
process in artists. She is a founding member of SIICHLA (Séminaire
Universitaire International sur la Clinique du Handicap).
Sylvain Missonnier has university training in philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. He is especially interested in early prevention and has worked in maternity units, with very young children
in paediatrics, and in medical and psychological centres. He is
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University Paris Descartes,
attached to the Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis Research Laboratory (PCPP EA 4056). He is a psychoanalyst
and a full member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris,
Co-President of IVSO (Institut du Virtuel Seine Ouest) and former
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President of the French group of the World Association for Infant
Mental Health www.psynem.org/Hebergement/Waimh_France
(WAIMH France). He is also a founding member of the scientific
committee and editorial board of the monthly review Le Carnet Psy
and webmaster of its website. He is a founding member of SIICHLA.
Roger Salbreux is a child psychiatrist in Paris. He has worked in
the field of disability, mainly on the topic of those with intellectual
deficiencies, and the psychopathology of children suffering from
epilepsy and cerebral palsy. He was behind the creation of research
associations in these fields and directed the first large-scale epidemiological survey on early childhood disabilities. Having observed that
detection of such situations was occurring too late, he contributed
significantly to the creation of early medico-social action centres
(CAMSP). He is a member of the National Disability Consultation
Council and of the editorial committee of the review Contraste. He has
written many articles on prevention in the field of disability and is a
founding member of SIICHLA.
George Saulus is a psychiatrist having followed a postgraduate
course in philosophy. For many years, he has worked as a physician
and psychiatrist with severely disabled children, adolescents, and
adults, their families, and teams of professionals. He specialises in
questions relating to the epistemology of psychopathology. He also
works on institutional dynamics and has published many articles on
the ethics relating to situations of severe disability.
Régine Scelles is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology at the University of Paris West Nanterre la Défense. She works
in a department providing early help to disabled children and has
considerable experience working in disabled people’s own domestic
environments. She has conducted research into the family and, more
specifically, siblings, adolescents, and adults facing disability. She has
published works on the family and multiple disabilities and is a
Henri-Jacques Stiker is Director of Research (historical anthropology of infirmity) at the Identités, Cultures, Territoires Laboratory,
University Denis Diderot, Paris VII. He was guest lecturer for three
years at EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) for
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three years (1996–1999) and also taught disability studies in the USA
for three years (1999–2001). He is senior editor of the review ALTER,
the European Journal of Disability Research (published by ElsevierMasson). He has many publications to his name on the history of
disability, art and disability, and fundamental works on anthropology
and disability.
Denis Vaginay is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and works both in
specialised institutions and in private practice as a clinician and
trainer. He has conducted and published research works on mental
disability, especially on psycho-affective development and sexuality
and also on interactions between social groups and the intellectually
deficient subject when identity and sexuality come into play.
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Valerie Sinason
Over the past fifty years, there has been an international transformation in the understanding of intellectual disability. Children and
adults deemed ineducable, unworthy of democratic life and experiences, confined to appalling modern-day “oubliettes”, hidden away in
hospitals, silos and isolated rural areas have slowly regained and
expressed their personhood and started to enter community life and
consciousness. This progress is slow, uneasy, and fraught with
discomfort. It can be set back at any moment due to war, economic
problems, or fears of national and personal identity. The meaning of
difference and human identity exercises every country and there is
a deep reluctance to include all facets of the human condition as well
as fear. However, the increased awareness of social handicapping
processes, stigma, abuse, and poverty has aided this slow but inspiring development.
Psychoanalysts have played a significant direct part in this as well
as through the applications other professions have made of psychoanalytic thinking. In the past quarter century, Dr Johan de Groef (1999),
a Belgian psychoanalyst and former medical director of Zonnelied, a
residential centre for adults with an intellectual disability, took the lead
in gathering European colleagues together. At different times, Dietmut
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Niedecken, Evelyn Heinemann, and Christian Gaedt (1995, 2001) came
from Germany, Brett Kahr, Judith Usiskin, and I came from the UK,
Johan de Groef and Joost Demuynck came from Belgium, and Claude
Boukobza, Colette M. Assouly-Piquet, Cecile Herrou, Claire Morelle,
Monique Schneider, Regine Scelles, and Simone Korff Sausse came
from France. Through these connections came links with South Africa
(Professor Leslie Swartz) and America (Richard Ruth).
What we all shared was a passionate commitment to this work
and a realisation that there should be access to psychotherapy for children and adults with a disability. We all accepted that disability
involved processing chronic loss, trauma, and mourning (Frankish,
1989a,b; Hollins, 2000; Korff Sausse, 1996; Sinason, 1994) that, despite
improved conditions, was an internal and external hurdle to be dealt
with. We agreed that mortality, loss, sexuality, and dependency
became key issues in negotiating disability (Blackman, 2003; Hollins
& Sinason, 2001; Korff Sausse, 1996; Niedecken, 2003) We also all
agreed, and continue to agree, that children and adults with disabilities could make use of psychoanalytic treatments (Beail et al., 2005;
Corbett et al., 1996; Frankish, 1989a,b; Gaedt, 1995). In my own work,
I examined the way the concrete organic impairment was dealt with
defensively by the creation of a secondary handicap in which there
was an exacerbation of symptoms in order to hide the shame of
feeling different (Sinason, 1994).
In gathering together psychoanalysts and psychologists across
Europe and holding regular shared meetings, it became apparent that
there was a far larger number of interested French colleagues than
from other countries. We all found this hard to make sense of initially.
Was there a generational transmission of the principles of the
French revolution? Could it be that the rights of the disabled to egalité
were more intellectually and emotionally ingrained? Did this fuse with
the brilliance of Maud Mannoni, who died at the age of seventy-five in
Paris (15 March 1998) and brought concerns of disability to Lacan and
the French psychoanalytic movement?
Maude Mannoni was born in Belgium, spent some of her childhood in Ceylon, studied criminology, but then became a psychoanalyst, the first to be appointed by the Belgian Society. One of her
training cases was a child with an intellectual disability, a topic
usually excluded from analytic thinking. Her important link to
France came first from her significant encounters with the “French
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Winnicott”, François Dolto, and then her psychoanalyst, Jacques
Lacan. Her famous book, L’enfant arriéré et sa mère (The Backward
Child and His Mother) (1964), was praised by Lacan in his lectures
(1994, p. 238) and meant that the significant interest in Lacan and his
thinking in France was expanded intellectually and philosophically to
include thinking about intellectual disability, even if it did not include
In 1996, when de Groef brought us all together for a three-day
conference, we were all thrilled to be told he had a message from
Mannoni, which was published in his book. Her question (de Groef,
1999, p. 6) was “about their claim for the right to be different. How can
we give them the means to live without requiring that they be socially
rehabilitated?” Mannoni would have loved British author Jeanette
Winterson’s seminal autobiography with its magnificent title, Why Be
Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Winterson, 2012)
Mannoni was profoundly affected by her multi-cultural experiences and the way she gained or lost languages according to what was
expected her. This capacity to understand the meaning of words and
communications from her own lived experience fitted with Lacan’s
interest in language and the meaning of speech for the disempowered.
However, within the last two decades, the French beacon for
theory and practice has come from the wonderful collaboration
between two women professors, Simone Korff Sausse and Regine
Scelles. Korff Sausse is a psychoanalyst and doctor of clinical psychology who has been a professor at the University of Paris VII, and
Scelles is a professor at Rouen University, and a director of dialogue.
She is a founder member of the Seminaire Inter-universitaire
International sur la Clinique du Handicap (SILCHA), and the remarkable spread of disability research and interest in French universities
comes from this.
As an English psychoanalyst who has been working in this field
for over three decades, I have been amazed at the level of interest in,
and the depth of knowledge held within, SILCHA. To see hundreds
of psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, anthropology students and
professionals attend SILCHA meetings when the theme is disability
and psychoanalysis or applied psychoanalysis is truly to experience a
cultural difference. It is the owning of this subject within the university system that is so remarkably different. While there have been
universities in the UK that developed a significant expertise because
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of the influence of key figures (Professors Joan Bicknell and Sheila
Hollins at St Georges, Professor Nigel Beaill at Leeds), SILCHA represents a major inter-university powerhouse of thought and research.
Language is not only a crucial issue in working with the disempowered; it links to the politics of publishing. Whose voice is communicated where? It is only recently that I have been able to read the
work of Dolto, for example. English audiences are largely monolingual
as we have the luxury of knowing that, partly because of America
and Australia and the history of the Commonwealth, our language is
spoken in many countries. Scandinavian professionals know they have
to publish in English to gain an international reputation, as few English
speakers are proficient in their languages. Although French is popular
as a second language in UK schools, it is rarely of a level that enables
access to academic books. Therefore, we have to be grateful to our
French colleagues for translating their work themselves, and to Karnac
for deciding to provide access to this thinking.
English readers accessing this book are gaining many privileges.
It not only allows us to be educated in major advances in this field
by the writers of this book, but it is also a chance to appreciate the
intellectual, philosophical, and psychoanalytical thinking that can
happen when a culture has been established which welcomes such
thought.
While there have been individual edited books published in the
UK by psychoanalytic psychotherapists (e.g., Simpson & Miller, 2004),
they have needed to educate a therapeutic audience unused to dealing with loss, trauma, abuse, and delinquency when combined with
case material derived from children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Owing to the lack of emotional understanding on this
subject, most have needed to include a psychoeducational role, focusing our analytic or applied analytic thinking on key points in order to
establish baselines. Corbett (2015) might be pointing to the UK future
in that, in writing for an already specialised forensic audience, he is
able to let his thinking soar.
This, therefore, is a book I would like to have written, which now
I do not have to write!
I do not mean this in an imitative way. Not being philosophically
trained or brought up in French intellectual and clinical culture, I
found issues in this book that were a feast to me and a source of
further inspiration and curiosity which I have not, and would not
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have, written about or thought about before. What I mean is that this
book takes certain concepts for granted and can, therefore, proudly
and profoundly activate or sustain a high level of thinking. For example, I and others in the UK have written briefly about the way parents
who have a child with a disability can feel injured over their procreative process and feel that their masculinity or femaleness is damaged
in some way. Here, such a theme is taken further and expanded by
useful questions that invite dialogue.
For example, Pierre Ancet, lecturer in philosophy at Dijon
University, starts the first chapter, “Virility, masculine identity, and
disability” with the question “What exactly is masculinity, when not
equated with virility?” Instead of a few lines, a substantial chapter
unpacks this painful and crucial subject, helpfully accompanied by
something reminiscent of a Socratic dialogue.
And so it continues. There are eleven chapters written by key
influential thinkers and practitioners.
Dr Albert Ciccone, psychoanalyst at Lumiere-Lyon University,
looks at the bond and psychic transmission created by disability. Dr
Charles Gardou, anthropologist from Lyon University, looks at the
cultural interpretations of disability. Dr Marcela Gargiulo, lecturer in
the Laboratory of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, Paris
Descartes University, examines genetic science and the impact of testing and diagnosis. Professor Korff Sausse provides a detailed psychoanalytic approach to disability. Dr Roger Salbreux, a child psychiatrist,
looks at the normality of the abnormal and interrogates that paradox.
Professor Régine Scelles focuses on the theme of talking about disability to children and aiding children to talk about it. She looks at the
emotional hurdles that have to be overcome in dealing with this.
Jacques Henri Sticker, from Diderot University’s department of
Identity, Culture and Territory, provides a historical account of major
periods in the history of disability. Dr Sylvain Missonnier, from the
University of Paris Descartes, looks at prenatal diagnosis, and legal
and professional issues. Dr Georges Saulus, psychiatrist and philosopher, raises the ethical issues connected to severe disability—“Your
child is a vegetable”—while Denis Vaginay concludes with an examination of adolescence and disability.
Each chapter has a significant amount of useful references, many of
which will be new to a UK/English-speaking readership. There might
be some initial narcissistic twinges that some ideas that have been
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accepted in the UK are not referenced and that the main UK-known
references are the major psychoanalysts (Freud, Klein, Winnicott),
rather than disability therapists. However, the politics of translation go
both ways. Our work has not been translated into French and
SILCHA’s work has not been translated into English. Korff Sausse is
one of the few French thinkers on this subject, outside of Mannoni,
whose work has been published in English. However, there then
comes the pleasure in consensus, in realising that thinkers from
another culture working with similar populations have come to the
same conclusions. Moreover, even when there are shared ideas, the
ways of expressing them are different and the theories used are different, even if overlapping.
In reading this book, I also experienced an unexpected pleasure in
thinking about the English language. There were English words I read
which I did not recognise and, on looking them up in a dictionary,
found they were correct. In trying to find appropriate words for
French words that are unique the translators have enlarged our
knowledge of language.
So, instead of “le miroir brisé”, or the small national mirror, we find
a whole mirror of our French twin, who, with commitment, passion,
and rigour, actively reflects back, validating our impressions and
appearance and enlarging our perspective. This is a seminal piece of
work that is essential for all the multi-disciplinary groups working
with disability.
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evaluation of the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy with
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Blackman, N. (2003). Loss and People with Learning Disabilities. London:
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Corbett, A. (2015). Disabling Perversions. London: Karnac.
Corbett, A., Cottis, T., & Morris, S. (1996). Witnessing, Nurturing, Protesting:
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Virility, masculine identity,
and disability
Introduction: virility and masculinity
hat exactly is masculinity, when not confused with virility?
Can one be manly without being virile, or should the very
image of virility be revised in order to integrate it within
new forms of masculinity? These questions are not anodyne, since
they relate to sexual identity, a part of identity that is socially
constructed in a deployment of sexuality. Masculinity–virility intervenes therein not in the sense of sex, as a descriptive concept (“a male
individual”), but in the sense of gender (“a real man”), which is an
evaluative and prescriptive notion: “being a man” means having to
show muscle power, strength, daring, or even aggressiveness. These
characteristics, to which must be added genital potency, are traditionally attributed to the male. Virility places individual masculine identity within the dimension of social gender and its attributes. This issue
can thus be seen to affect all men, not just physically disabled man,
supposedly devoid of virility. Many men would like to correspond
to the virile heterosexual ideal of the dominant male, but many of
them must content themselves with being merely male individuals.
Each man will probably admit that he possesses only some of the
characteristics of virility. How then could such relative virility be
denied to men with disabilities? Is it not possible to play a masculine
role (e.g., sexually or in the workplace) without having the stereotypical attributes of virility? Are not modern-day fathers themselves far
removed from the traditional image of the father (Korff Sausse, 2009),
in a masculine role that is, therefore, also accessible to a disabled man?
Virility, rivalry, and seduction
It would be easier to put virile values into perspective if they were not
so strongly associated with domination: domination over a female
partner, but, above all, supremacy over male competitors. Virility is
created in and by rivalry, for which the mere love of a woman
(whether mother or lover) cannot compensate. The feeling of being
virile is largely linked to self-confidence, as a man among men. The
foils of virility, such as “doddering old man”, “the disabled man”, or
“the gay man/the queer” can never be seen as competition, but each
in a different way. Their only link is to be perceived as being beneath
any conceivable form of rivalry. Such individuals are attributed the
position of neutered males, not as asexual beings, but, rather, as emasculated by their supposed weakness.
The fact still remains that heterosexual virility can also be tested
through female desire, and that such desire may focus on someone
theoretically excluded from male rivalry. The disabled man can prove
himself there, just as any other man may, by such qualities as steadfastness, temperance, the ability to listen, and might perhaps succeed even
better than many men, in terms of being attentive to his partner.
When questioned about representations of virility, Zig Blanquer, a
consultant and trainer with a degenerative illness that has slowly
caused him to become quadriplegic, remarked that most disabled men
whose muscular capacity is impaired do not have deep voices,
but rather a quiet, almost inaudible, even reedy, voice. Because of this,
we tend to focus more on the eyes, on visual communication, which is
not generally a male strong point (the male gaze is more circular, more
sweeping, whereas the female gaze is more settled, more focused).
Similarly, the male body must be fully present, with a presence which
resolutely occupies space, whether through posture or gesture. A man
will often sit on a sofa and spread out his arms and legs, thus occupying more space. We lack the opportunity to occupy space in this
way, confined as we are to our wheelchairs. It seems to me that this
particular spatial concentration of disabled men, their way of not
“gesticulating” in space allows them to acquire instead an acute
consciousness of space, paying great attention to others. (Personal
interview)
The perception of space and the perception of others in space
become particularly acute. The motionless body fills this space with
intensity, through the face and the eyes. The gaze can be a way of
touching other people, a form of contact in its own right for someone
who can neither caress with his own hand nor draw nearer with his
own body. Many men with disabilities have developed this capacity
to caress with their eyes and with their smile, a quality that is often
overlooked in masculine seduction, yet is essential to it.1 The discussions I have had on this subject with Marcel Nuss are extremely
revealing: his considerable disability (quadriplegia related to infantile
spinal muscular atrophy) does not undermine his potential for seduction, or women’s perception of his virility.2 Indeed, the strength of
character, the determination, courage, and certainty of creating desire
and giving pleasure that fall within the definition of manhood may
very well exist in the absence of muscle power. Virility also involves
assertiveness, which is not only the fact of imposing oneself on others:
regarding sexuality, says Marcel Nuss,
everything depends on your attentiveness, your way of being present
and open with your partner, not on your way of doing things. No
physical ability is required in order to give and receive, rather than
merely take and wait. And such giving and receiving can be
completely successful, whatever the disability. Whatever the circumstances, everything is a matter of attention and intention, not of what
passes for performance. (Ancet & Nuss, 2012, p. 74, translated for this
edition)
The “feminine”3 perception of virility must, therefore, involve
greater attention to the qualities of presence, commitment, and sensitivity than a “masculine” viewpoint could foresee, even in the domain
of seduction, where norms function to the highest extent. This does
not prevent men from seeking to establish their identity through a
stereotyped virility, which presents the normative advantage of
anchoring the individual in the group.
Learning to be virile
The virility of the “male” is perceived as that by which it is possible
to measure up to each other “man to man”. Whoever refuses to join
in, who recoils or who cannot participate is no longer included in the
virile connection that unites a group of men through latent antagonism. The education of young boys is conditioned from the outset by
the non-choice that orientated rivalry represents. This rivalry is generally reinforced by the idea that physical strength is needed to reduce
the other to silence in a group of men (but there are also symbolic
ways to reduce others to silence, which would be the form of domination preferred by intellectuals).
How does this belief in a normalising virility develop? It exists in
our societies in many mono-gendered spaces that Daniel Welzer-Lang
has termed “the house of men”, in reference to the anthropological
research of Maurice Godelier (2004). Among many peoples, the separation of the sexes is very strong, and there are specific places either
for men or for women, which are prohibited to the other gender. There
are also places in our society where boys are initiated among men into
virility (e.g., school playgrounds, gyms, sports clubs, pubs, and stadiums), and socialised within the hierarchical picture of male–female
relationships, where femininity (of which a part could also belong to
men) becomes the negative central pole, the inner enemy to be fought
against:
The education of men is socialisation to gender violence, against
women, but also and primarily against weak, fragile boys, who
become scapegoats, a fate that threatens any man who is not overtly
virile. But the homophobic socialisation of boys is also a form of
violence against oneself, so that the body becomes what is expected of
one of the lads. In this house-of-men, one learns how to exclude sensitivity, gentleness, and empathy, while also learning how to fight to be
the strongest, the best, and the first. And woe to those who reject the
codes of virility! They are downgraded from the group of men, and
are regarded as women, or their symbolic equivalents, the homosexuals. (Welzer-Lang, 2009, p. 49, translated for this edition)
These sites of homophobic socialisation are often centred either
around athletic performance, the capacity for action, or verbal agility,
which are all areas likely to exclude, for one reason or another, those
boys with disabilities who might be tempted to frequent them (or is it
a form of prejudice to affirm that?). Rivalry sporadically plays a part,
in the form of peaks of contained aggressiveness: a quick rush of physical aggression, resulting in a virile struggle, where two forces agree
to be measured against one another; a sharp rise in verbal aggression,
which one must be able to answer without fear, and especially without fearing to get drawn into the game of one-upmanship. This might
eventually lead to mutual esteem between those partners capable of
measuring up to one another. In fact, those who enter these places of
rivalry are individuals who are not only able to react, but who also
implicitly agree to measure themselves against others, sporadically.
On this basis, a virile agreement is established, based on relationships
of domination that are pacified, at least temporarily; privileged places
for the expression of a libido dominandi that takes many forms throughout one’s lifetime.
In such contexts, the disabled boy is summed up by his physical
weakness, his “natural” disabilities being supposed to exclude him
automatically from the “competition”. It seems difficult to accept that
he may enter, as others do, into adolescence, the age of male rivalry,
of confrontation with the world, of the physical risk-taking particularly prevalent among boys (Le Breton, 2007). It seems clear to parents
that their child will not be able to enter these zones of competition,
where it is no longer possible for them to protect him from this
symbolic or real violence.
In general, the boy learns his social role at an early age, from his
parents and the people around him, through the remarks made to
him, people’s attitude towards him, and any encouragement he
receives. He quickly learns that it is good to be aggressive, “not to let
himself be trifled with”, “to have character”, to impose his will, to be
noisy, never to show pain or fatigue, to have a “virile” scatological
vocabulary. He must be a “man” and not be tied to his mother’s apron
strings or behave like a “little girl”, or he risks being disqualified as a
male. (Le Breton, 2007, p. 65, translated for this edition)
The author adds a social aspect to the attributes of manhood: the
femininity of a man might be accepted in bourgeois circles or among
the wealthy, but not among the lower social classes, or in inner city
areas, where “an insecure boy, in any situation of exclusion, tends to
cling to models of virility that he will caricature” (Le Breton, 2007, p.
67, translated for this edition). His quest for limits and virile identity
can take various forms: “dangerous games, drunkenness, speeding,
whether on a bike or by car, suicide, delinquency, physical violence,
contempt for women, etc. . . .” (Le Breton, 2007, p. 67, translated for
this edition).
Driving at speed, or physical challenge, must, therefore, be part of
the construction of masculine self-identity. But can one take risks to
demonstrate one’s virility, when one is dependent? Physical disability
creates many more risks and, at the same time, the impossibility of
taking risks as other adolescents do, due to the permanent presence of
adults. One of the challenges for carers today is that of letting young
people with disabilities refuse help, encounter difficulties, and be
faced with their inability to accomplish what they desire, even when
the outcome seemed obvious to adults even before the attempt. This
confrontation with real life (even without genuine life-threatening
risk) is present more or less patently among all adolescents. The
ability to accept one’s choices with complete self-awareness is not
unthinkable, and neither is autonomy, if we regard it in the etymological sense (ability to create one’s own standards of life), and not as
the ability to cope alone in life by living “just like everyone else”. But
this path requires us to renounce the stereotypes of virility, which are
generally a condition for inclusion in a group of young men, and in
that way achieving an identity that is recognised by one’s peers
(unless, yet again, we are labouring under our own illusions, while
disability might, in fact, be perceived by the peer group as one of those
extreme experiences so sought after today by adolescent groups).
The next stage in the classic recognition of male identity is the
socially recognised union with a woman, then access to fatherhood
and parenthood (with the paternal authority that springs from this).
Yet, even as we discover the modern-day father, who also adopts some
more traditionally feminine values, it seems that men with disabilities
must still remain dependent (even in their own representations) on
the traditional figure of the Father.
However, this fundamentally dominant figure is not necessarily
linked to an incarnation: the statue of the commander is not to be
touched. Immaterial, it resists even death, and haunts with over-
whelming power those who suffer its yoke. Why should authority still
be associated with physical power? We will explore these issues
through our previously mentioned discussions with Marcel Nuss.
Paternal virility and paternal authority
When asked about risk-taking and fatherhood, Marcel Nuss told us
that, in his case, the two things were interdependent: at the age of
twenty, he had chosen to remain hospitalised (for life, as he then
thought) in an intensive care unit, in order no longer to be dependent
on his parents. This was, for him, a way of entering the adult world.
In fact, this decision allowed him to meet his first wife and have children with her.
Curiously, the plain fact of being married and becoming a father
was not enough for his virility to be recognised, which meant that he
ran the risk of internalising this refusal:
Regarding the qualities required for one to be virile, life has taught me
that it is the gaze fixed upon you at a given moment that will reveal
your virility or extinguish it. You cannot declare yourself virile; you
either become virile or you don’t; it is a slow, contextual, and cultural
He adds, regarding the function of authority that fathers are
thought to possess,
How many times have I heard, particularly when my children were
very young, that in my state of complete physical dependence, it was
impossible for me to have any authority?
This is a false premise. For if there is one thing that disability has
taught me, it is that authority is a matter of presence and not of physical strength. It’s not the scary people—those who represent a threat,
or a potential danger—who possess authority, but rather those who
“impress” others by their force of persuasion.
Authority is a fundamental part of what we are, not what we do
(along the lines of “I will hurt you if . . .”). Consequently, one does not
need to compel by force, but rather to convince by experience; it is
necessary to convince others that you are in the right, rather than
compelling them by the principle that “might is right”.
Finally, there can be no good authority without a minimum of trust,
and, therefore, freedom. All existence is built on experience, whether
good or, sometimes, bad. Confidence in others, trust in life, and selfconfidence are essential to living and loving well. Furthermore, good
authority must be able to teach its neighbours, whoever they may be,
to be self-confident.
A person who knows how to inspire respect and give confidence has
authority, even if that person is disabled. (personal interview)
The role of father figure can, therefore, be played by a disabled
person, even more so when we think of the role of modern-day
fathers, which involves listening and understanding, traditionally
assigned to the maternal figure (Korff Sausse, 2009, p. 93). Why
should disabled men need to be castrating fathers instilling fear,
unyielding judges bearing the Law and the word, when so many contemporary fathers are no longer like that? Neither must there be any
question of reducing the disabled father to a permissive and fragile
father, which he certainly is not, but to perceive the difference
between the image of the Father, with its normative constraints, and
the reality of fatherhood as it exists today.
Sexuality and reproductive power in question
Although he has had two children with his first wife, Marcel Nuss has
often faced doubts as to his paternity, with many people questioning
the fact that he could really be sexually active (“How did he ever have
children?” sniggered an applicant for a position as carer during a job
interview with him (Nuss, 2008a). Others, despite the fact that they
know him well, still wonder if he can really have sex. Sexual power is
always linked to the image of physical domination by the male, the
domination of an active man over a passive woman . . . and it is far
from common knowledge that a quadriplegic can have a fulfilling sex
life when there is no rupture of the spinal cord.
The reasons for this denial of sexuality are probably also related to
the fear of engendering and reproducing disability,4 especially among
the parents of disabled young men. These parents might themselves
have experienced, at the birth of their children, a sense of procreative
failure and guilt for having engendered disability. Fear is, therefore,
associated with sexuality and procreation (as if they were necessarily
related to one another), and the disabled man inherits much of these
parental representations, which he encounters when he considers
becoming a father himself.
For you can never become a father alone, without being part of a
lineage. A man disabled from birth has to solve a problem of lineage
from the outset, especially because of the cultural importance attached
to resembling one’s parents. The disabled son is an unrecognisable
descendant, whom some parents even refuse to consider as their son,
because they cannot see themselves in him. There was not reproduction in the strictest sense, but the engendering of an individual
marked by difference. It is difficult to identify with this son, to survive
through him, because he does not resemble his parents closely
enough. This individual, who is less than a man, and only anecdotally
sexual (with a penis serving merely as an indicator, like hair colour)
will never attain a satisfactory phallic potency. He will not readily be
able to take the place of a father whose physical abilities will always
be greater than his own, even when he reaches adulthood. Worse still,
sometimes the son is not even expected to live as long as his father.
Under these conditions, the position of the Father is unassailable: he
will always dominate you, and might even outlive you.
Negative sexual identity
People with disabilities are often placed in an intermediate status
between children and adults, as if we expected them to recognise their
inability to have a “serious” form of sexuality, marking their sexual
identity. For a disabled person, the issue of homosexuality, bisexuality, or transsexuality seems minor, because sexuality itself is not
equated with the real possibility of constructing self-identity, as identity is systematically brought down to the fact of being disabled, as if
this were the only vector of individual identity (Korff Sausse, 1996;
Nuss, 2008b). It is, therefore, far from certain whether we are
concerned to the same extent by the homosexuality or bisexuality of a
disabled person.
In the case under discussion, negative sexual identity is a more
meaningful concept, since individuals are purely and simply denied
the possession of a “real” sexual identity. The homosexual person may
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certainly sometimes be cast in a stereotypical and undervalued sexual
identity, but although there is negativity, there is less often in our
society the pure and simple negation of adult homosexual identity. In
contrast, disabled people are sometimes asexual (considered as
disabled, rather than male or female), and very often desexualised, as
if their genital and reproductive power did not exist.
The risk of these representations, for the subject, is the early internalisation of negative sexual identity, where self-awareness of one’s
potential for seduction would come far too late (or never), as one
would never have recognised in oneself the capacity to demonstrate
virile potency. It seems that, whatever the situation, everything still
remains to be done: it is necessary to rebuild, restore, and repair; or,
even better, to explore other ways, other means. This can obviously be
interpreted both in the physical and psychological sense. The idea is
to create this construction of identity outside the normative networks
largely internalised by the subjects.
This constantly renewed self-construction can be perceived positively, by reference to contemporary philosophy, where authors such
as Michel Foucault (1976, 1984) or Judith Butler (1990, p. 23, 2008,
p. 255) criticise the idea of “sexual identity” that could reveal selfidentity. Fixing sexual identity can only take place at the expense of
rigidification, which the subject is not required to undergo. Foucault
would certainly have been interested in the idea of a subject for whom
sexuality itself had been denied from the outset. It is precisely this
form of negation that is at work in the case of the disabled person: not
merely access to a “masculine” or “feminine” identity (which, incidentally, would make little sense to Foucault), but access to the recognition of sexuality in itself, under various conditions serving to indicate
the case regarding each individual.
Hetero-sexual virility reifying identity
What is important for Foucault is not to claim an identity, which
appears reifying, closed in on itself, but, rather, to claim a sexual
creation at odds with the forms of identity produced by our scheme
of sexuality. Sexuality, as it exists and develops, is more important
than the “real” sexual identity of each individual, because that identity is illusory, unless some distance is maintained in relation to it:
if identity becomes the major problem of sexual existence, if people
think that they have to “disclose” their “own identity”, and that this
identity must become the law, the principle, and the code of their existence; if the question they perpetually ask is: “Is this thing consistent
with my identity?”, then I think they will go back to a form of ethics
very close to traditional heterosexual virility. (Foucault, 1984, p. 1558,
translated for this edition)
Heterosexual virility seems to be a source of identity frozen in
ethics, understood here as the way you lead your life. It is traditional
for the man to embody “the law, the principle and the code of existence” in his own identity, and for the man to embody that which has
no flaws, and that which lasts. This virility of reference is highly
normative; it imposes both the rule and the law in society, and within
the family. We understand that any flaw in this heterosexual virility
can be daunting. However, by thus fossilising identity, do we not miss
what makes human identity, which is the ability to be oneself through
the quest for one’s self?
Now the disabled person, even more than an ordinary person, is
assigned a fixed identity. A disabled person is more clearly subjected
to the norms that constitute each subject. Judith Butler adopts Michel
Foucault’s notion of subjection, in both senses of the term subject
(autonomous subject, and subject submitted to power). Each subject
denies this subjection; he refuses it, turns against it, but cannot escape
it. For, to rip away these internalised norms would be to tear off one’s
own skin. They are part of identity (and, notably, sexual identity).
Release, by moving out of a place to which one has been assigned,
cannot be thought of without intense guilt, because there has been
self-construction within these norms. The place one occupies is a place
that has been assigned and accepted, without any feeling of deprivation. What one is deprived of is thought of as inaccessible, and it is not
perceived as a loss or deprivation, but as something that it is shameful to want, or illusory to desire. We might well perceive that reality
itself is also essentially the result of a social construction, yet it
requires a great deal of work on oneself to realise that we are not
organically or naturally fated to accept this or that condition. Feminism has shown this by denouncing the idea of any inability in women
(to exercise parental authority or to manage the housekeeping money)
based in nature on any organic condition. In addition, one may
wonder if the incapacity of any person, disabled or not, might not
also have a strongly normative aspect, through which it is not even
possible for them to consider (their own sexual pleasure, or their own
identifying worth, for example).
Reflecting on heterosexual identity and the forbidden nature of
homosexuality, Butler notes that this ban masks that which it causes
to be lost, so that the loss is not represented as such (by foreclosure).
She compares this to the phenomenon of melancholy in the Freudian
sense, where the object is lost and with it the consciousness of the loss,
not without a strong internalisation of the object in the form of identification (Butler, 1997, pp. 132–137).
According to Butler, subjects do not desire in relation to what they
are naturally destined to desire, but they internalise what they do not
have the right to desire (male individuals when one is a boy, for example). Gender is based on what is forbidden. And this prohibition
becomes part of the very identity of the subject, through that which
may not be desired. Sexual identity is, therefore, built on the condemnation of some possibilities of love. One is a man in so far as one does
not desire another man. Therefore, the fact of desiring another man
calls into question the fact of being a man, as Butler says, “if one is a
girl to the extent that one does not want a girl, then wanting a girl will
bring being a girl into question” (Butler, 1997, p. 136).
We could say, by drawing inspiration from these analyses, that the
disabled subject has been led to internalise that he does not really have
the right to desire, or that he does not have the right to be fully a man.
He is socially tolerated, in that a portion of his virility is condemned,
because of a limitation seen as biological, or as “natural”. In fact, it is
the internalisation of the forbidden and the identification with the inaccessible figure of the stereotypical virile man that creates this impression of a form of nature against which it would be pointless to fight.
The renewed creation of sexual identity
according to Michel Foucault
Faced with these limitations of sexual identity, Michel Foucault
considered, in his later works, a continuous creation of identity,
creation where one becomes man without rite of passage, without
recognition of social status as a virile individual, without claiming a
“core identity” to reveal and on which one may rely. The only nature
available to us is a force, and this force has no form or scripted destiny.
Force is not to be found in stability, but in diversion and in play.
Playing is not a sign of inconsistency: you can play very seriously. Play
must be interpreted both in a playful and a mechanical sense: there is
“play” in the machine, in the mechanics of norms. And playing this
game acts as a dynamic and protean force. In this sense, if I am me, it
is because I invent myself, and not just because I claim a form of heroism leading to self-discovery, the truth about oneself, which is, according to Foucault, connoted from a virile heterosexual perspective,
because it bears a code of existence reifying identity.
Identity is, thus, seen by Foucault as being more related to the
uniqueness of the individual (the character of being unique). However,
if by identity we mean the characteristic of remaining the same over
time, then “the relationships that we must maintain with ourselves are
not relationships of identity; they are rather relationships of differentiation, creativity, and innovation” (Foucault, 1984, p. 1558, translated
for this edition).
These aspects of Foucault’s reflection seem particularly important
for that which is automatically set outside the norm, since identity is
not to be sought following a norm which structures the relationship
with oneself, on the model of the statue of oneself. It matters little that
one has not the stature required by the image of heterosexual virility:
there might be, there must be, other forms of self-acceptance under the
rules of play, of the play that one gives to the norms without plunging into uncertainty or guilt. Thus, there may develop forms of male
seduction and forms of modern-day fatherhood that are not traditionally associated with virility. They can only be validated subjectively by noting their already very real social existence.
These other forms of the masculine can play on the creation of self,
through the recognition of one’s own power of seduction, through
forms of existence that are not predictable in advance, since they originate in self-presence and presence for the other. They are the generally forgotten values of virility and masculine seduction. But what
better guides may be found with regard to shared pleasure and selfdiscovery?
Virility, as an attribute of one’s personal identity and in its power of
seduction, is not based, as some common misrepresentations would
have it, on a bodily condition. Rooting the concept in muscular and
genital power is an illusion wherein one’s view can become sidetracked in seeking to relate that dimension of virility with some
primordial sexual potency, echoing an anatomic and physiological
vision of how the male body should be. Now, such masculinity can for
no man be considered to be a stable identity, no more so, indeed, than
belonging in a clear-cut manner to the female or male gender. To a
heterocentric vision of sexuality, there needs to be added the denunciation of a vision that would in some way seek to validate sexuality
by reducing it to a form of naturalism, blurring the differences
between sexual attributes and gender attributes, and confusing the
power of seduction with physical integrity in the sense of being free
from any form of invalidity.
We are not confronted here by claims to a form of identity that
would appear to be reifying, closed in on itself, but, rather, a claim to
sexual creativeness that makes a radical break with the identityrelated forms generated in our general arrangement of sexuality by
the irruption of a body considered to be different. This body, considered to be devoid of the power of seduction, incapable of acting genitally, and precluded from procreation, breaks in to bring into question
all our perceptions of what a sexually attractive man should be, sexually proficient and able to become a father.
This calling into question of a form of identity seen to be invariable over time brings to the fore an identity that is granted to us
only on a temporary basis and that can be withheld, but that we
can also denounce. It then fits into a game scenario where there is
both a playing out and play in the sense of freedom of movement in
the machine, in the mechanics of social norms. This play is not the
sign of inconsequentiality: one can be highly serious about a game, as
Foucault insisted, on condition that its full force and proteiform
vitality are safeguarded against any attempt to finally freeze identity
and recognise oneself in it. By this token, the identity of being disabled
before that of being a man then appears no more than one possibility
with regard to one’s identity, as being liable to change as one lives out
one’s life. Identity thus construed then becomes no more than a
temporary process intended to boost the efficacy of one’s quest for
social relations and the pursuit of contacts conducive to sexual pleasure.
There are many valued male roles in which some form of indirect
seduction occurs, but from which virility is abstracted: priests gratify
by the quality of their presence. They are supposed to be understanding, caring, sedate, and devoid of sinful passions. The seduction
exerted by a disabled man is somewhat similar, as there is no risk of
seeing him throw himself physically at the other person. It is a way
of letting the other person approach at the pace of their own desire,
something rarely accepted by the majority of men. Note that in the
erotic fantasies presented here, it is almost as though sexuality was
as forbidden for the disabled man as it is for the Catholic priest, as if
acting on such impulses involved a powerful transgression.
Marcel Nuss’s power of seduction has been confirmed to me by
many women . . . including my own wife, who did not hesitate to
describe him as more virile than me . . . But, curiously, the narcissistic ways in which I tried to reassure myself were directly based on
stereotypes of (muscular) virility and not on the presence of the other
person. This personal example marks the imposition of gender and
its normative character, to which we all fall victim, as we have constructed our identity through such normative references.
This perception is “feminine” to the extent that it is mainly present
among women (but not exclusively female). A man may also possess
this sensitivity to the presence of the other through the gaze.
Even solicitude and care might participate in the desexualisation
of the disabled, who are considered, against all evidence, as latent
children, sometimes even as asexual, even though many people with
intellectual disabilities use sexual behaviour as a means of expression
(behaviour that is often repressed by society, which fails to notice
that such behaviour is one of the few ways the disabled have of
clearly demonstrating their intentions). Many authors have emphasised the fears related to the sexuality of people with disabilities, and
the subsequent denial of their sexual power as a source of pleasure,
of their reproductive capacity, and of their adult genitalia.
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The traumatic effects of encountering
disability: the bond and psychic
transmission put to the test
ncountering their child’s disability represents an especially
traumatic experience for the parents. For the subject primarily
concerned, the child, discovering their disability is also potentially traumatic.
In this chapter, I consider the traumatic effects of encountering the
disability from the perspective of the bond and psychic transmission.
I investigate the effects of failure in transmission as induced by the
disability, as well as the specific features of bonds and transmissions
that it generates, permits, or reveals over time.
The term disability here includes the somatic, cognitive, relational,
and psychic fields. Clearly, each situation poses specific problems that
have to be differentiated, but I attempt to distinguish and cover a
certain number of sufficiently common issues.
First, I describe the effect of the break in filiation, the effect of the
primal disappointment, with the host of violent feelings that accompany it (guilt, shame, and hatred), and also the effect of sudden and
early psychic separation.
I then consider the various effects of transaction and transmission
that this experience generates from the defensive adjustments it
imposes. The effects of secondary symbiosis, with its different figures
(incestuality, idealisation, destructiveness, and tyranny) are described.
The deployments of transmission fantasies, with their functions of
exculpation (innocentation), of reconstitution of the genealogy, and
appropriation of the traumatic experience are also highlighted. I then
concentrate on the affects of guilt and shame the trauma mobilises,
and the psychic work these affects produce. I consider transmissions
of the affects of guilt and shame, with the “affect bearing” function the
child can fulfil. I stress the repetitions of the primal disappointment
the disability imposes. Finally, I envisage the disability as an attractor,
for the child as for those around it, of transmissions, identifications,
and conflicts relating to oedipal, but also and above all, archaic and
narcissistic, issues.
I describe the imago encroachment processes at work in these
different bonds, and the way in which the child struggles with its
parental imagos in those transactions and transmissions.
The effect on filiation, narcissism, and parenthood
Break in filiation
Disability defies genealogical bonds. It causes a fracture or a break in
filiation. This traumatic shock above all affects the narcissistic aspects
of the bond of filiation.
We are aware of the narcissistic issues any child bears. As Freud
(1914c) so clearly put it, one of the essential functions of any child
involves reviving and ensuring immortality for the parental narcissism of which he or she is both depository and bearer. “His Majesty
the baby”, in Freud’s words, has to accomplish all the dreamt desires
the parents were unable to achieve. Immortality of the ego, undermined by reality, thus finds a place of refuge in the child. The parents’
love, so touching and so child-like, is nothing other, says Freud, than
their narcissism reborn.
Disability disrupts this hope of narcissistic immortality. Thus, disability also causes a break in what Aulagnier (1975) described under
the terms of a “narcissistic contract”. The narcissistic contract, as a
formation of an unconscious link, binds the child to the parents, to the
previous generations, and, more particularly, to the entire social
group. It prescribes the mission the newborn bears with it, meaning
THE TRAUMATIC EFFECTS OF ENCOUNTERING DISABILITY
that of ensuring continuity of the generations in exchange for recognition by the new arrival’s group.
The disability causes a sudden, radical, and unforeseen break in
this narcissistic contract, or compromises its emergence. The child, too
clearly differentiated from its ascendants, too much in a situation of
otherness, finds itself in a condition of “degeneration”, meaning in a
traumatic separation from its generational or genealogical lineage. Of
course, not all disabilities have an equivalent impact. There are ways
more or less permitted by the (social) group of derogating from that
narcissistic contract. There are deviations or singularities that are
more or less tolerated, more or less capable of being subsumed in
narcissistic contracts. It is, for example, much easier to be recognised
and confirmed by social discourse as the parent of a child affected by
a chromosome abnormality than be admitted as parent of a psychotic
child—and the same applies to the child himself.
The trauma affects not only narcissism, but also the deepest layers
of human identity. The disability poses the question of our very
belonging to the human species; it attacks the feeling of humanity and
leads to an experience felt of strangeness, of non-humanity. How can
a seriously disabled child, affected in its intellectual and mental capabilities, in its ability to communicate and relate, be recognised as fully
human, that is, endowed with psychic qualities, with a psychic life?
This experience of strangeness, of non-humanity of the child, imperils the identification of the parents with their own humanity. The child
affected by a disability (especially when of a serious nature) provokes,
makes fragile and even disqualifies parental humanity.
Primal disappointment
This fracture, or traumatic break, in filiation generates (while also
being the very result of) an effect of disappointment for which I have
adopted the term primal disappointment (déception originaire in
French, 1997).
Such a disappointment reflects the narcissistic wound experienced
in a context of sudden disillusion. It causes a feeling of collapse, of internal disaster, that requires a reworking of things equivalent to a work of
mourning, but different from such work in that, first, the object has not
been lost, and second, that the traumatic event is persecutory by its
omnipresence: the disability is still there, ever visible, constantly recalling the original catastrophe.
The origin affected by disappointment concerns a child’s coming
into the world, but also the desire to have a child, the origin of that
desire, and the origin of identity, that of the child as also that of the
parent, the origin of the feeling of humanity. The origin is marked by
the trauma, the wound, disqualification, and disappointment.
The primal disappointment, whose corollary will be despair, is
condemned to repeat itself inexorably. Indeed, the parents, through
their implicit expectations, through their illusory hopes that they
necessarily keep alive, are brought to place the child in a persecutory
situation of repetition of the disappointment. Moreover, each singular
event, each modification, each change (of school, of institution, of
carer), each new separation, each stage in the path of life, will always
summon the original traumatic experience (“You always have to start
off again from scratch” is the way parents often put it). The least problematic event recalls the traumatic origin, takes you back to the point
of the primal disappointment.
The repetition of disappointment, of the wound, will lead the child
to interiorise the image of a disappointed, hurt, and forlorn parent and
to identify with such an imago, or to develop defensive attitudes
against such a perception.
Sudden psychic separation and parental psychological prematurity
The encounter with the disability, in so far as it imposes a traumatic
experience of otherness, generates an effect of sudden and early
psychic separation.
We are familiar with the conceptions of Frances Tustin (1981), who
considers the autistic child to be “psychologically premature”, a child
who lived the experience of psychic separation too early, before their
psychic apparatus could contain, tolerate, and metabolise such a trial.
It can be said that, in the case of a traumatic encounter with the child’s
disability, it is the parents who find themselves in this condition of
“psychological prematurity”. The parents go too early through the
experience of psychic separation with their child, who too soon
becomes another, a stranger. The disability asserts otherness in too
early, too violent, and too absolute a manner.
Parenthood, just like the child’s subjectivity, develops through a
gradual work of mourning and disillusionment from an experience of
primary illusion. The child gradually separates out and individualises, the parents too. The primary illusion is necessary to establish
the first bonds of attachment, the first intimate forms of communications, the first experiences of understanding of the child by the
parents.
The non-establishment or the sudden break in that illusion,
through the experience of psychic separation that the disability
imposes, will lead to the parents attempting to retrieve that primary
illusion, by reconstructing the postnatal symbiotic matrix. However,
that (secondary) illusion will then be defensive, as it will contain the
knowledge of otherness, of the sudden and early separation, and it
will be there to serve at all costs in maintaining the symbiosis, the nonseparation, so as to avoid the return of disintegrating effects due to the
traumatic experience of absolute otherness.
Thus, it already involves a defensive measure against the trauma
of encountering the disability.
Defences and rearrangements.
Effects on the bond and transmission
Secondary symbiosis and its forms
The effect of traumatic otherness and the testing of the narcissistic
aspects of the filial bond that the encounter with disability produces
will lead to the parents or the family arranging and maintaining a
state of secondary symbiosis with the child, to attempt to retrieve the
primary illusion suddenly wiped out by the primal disappointment,
and to struggle against the effects of catastrophic separation that the
disability imposes. This symbiosis can take different forms, or find
expression along the lines of certain of its aspects, all of which are
interconnected.
Narcissistic bond and incestuality
In the sealing of this secondary defensive symbiosis, the fantasy that
drives the parent or the family is a fantasy of reintroduction of the
child into the womb, into the family uterus, for it to be repaired, but
also for it to repair the family womb, for it to reconstitute the narcissistic completeness of the family body that became shattered.
The symbiotic nature of the parent–child bond, as generated by the
disability, accounts for the hypertrophy of the narcissistic dimension
of the bond of filiation (Guyotat, 1991). It also bears witness to incestuality in the sense in which Racamier (1992, 1993, 1995) talks about it
the incestuality that is one of the figures of symbiosis (Ciccone, 2009a;
Ciccone & Ferrant, 2009).
Thus, for example (and here is a clue to that narcissistic filiation),
one can frequently observe situations of “abduction” of the child
affected by a disability: the child might be abducted by the mother,
enclosed in a position of child-of-the-mother, with exclusion and
disqualification of the father and the paternal lineage (we shall look at
an example later on); the child can also be taken by, or given to, its
grandmother (often on the maternal side), who “sacrifices” herself to
raise the child, to protect the mother from mental collapse, from
melancholic destructiveness. While the child is sometimes “given” to
the grandmother, it is sometimes the entire family that finds itself thus
looked after, or even accommodated, by the grandparents.
While the disabled-child-of-the-mother bears witness to the narcissistic dimension of the bond of filiation, he or she also testifies to the
oedipal problem that sometimes comes in to mask that narcissistic
conflation. If the mother’s status is borne by the fantasy I mentioned
of the reintroduction of the child into the womb, that parthenogenetic
status can also be defensive against a position of the child from the
guilty infantile oedipal scene. The disability reactivates and feeds
incestuous fantasies (the child given to the grandparents, for example,
is thus designated as fantasmatically incestuous). He or she represents
the expiatory punishment of the guilt-laden desire, the fault, the transgression.
The transgression also concerns the child’s desire; in other words,
the desire to take the parent’s place. The disability answers in fantasy
to the transgression. It represents the sanction against the desire to
evince the parent, to kill them fantasmatically, and confirms the prohibition of parenthood or sexuality, the latter being reserved, in the
(infantile) oedipal logic, to the previous generation (“I’m quite right to
think that I’m not entitled to have children like my parents; only they
have the right to do so . . .”; the parent who again becomes a child (of
its parents) shows their debate with such a fantasy).
If incestuous fantasies are mobilised, if the child becomes a “child
of sin”, a “child of shame”, we could also say that the disability
authorises the incestuous fantasy or incestuous act as soon as it represents the measure of retaliation against guilty, transgressive desires. It
enables the deployment of the incestuous fantasy or the incestuous act
as, through the disability itself, the sin has already been expiated.
Because the sin has been punished, expiated, the disability authorises
the incestuous or incestual desire that the symbiotic bond comes in to
wipe away (and that the sense of shame—as will be seen later—comes
in to keep).
The narcissistic bond is maintained by the special relation to time
that the disability imposes: time stands still; that child will be a child
forever. One of the first questions that any parent asks when discovering the disability is: “What will become of him (her) when I’m no
longer there?” The child is immediately placed in the situation of a
child the parent will keep forever. Such a link, marked by pain, can
also take on a form of sensual enjoyment, and the child can become
an object of such enjoyment.
Let us recall how Racamier (1995, p. 41) thought of incestuality: the
incestual is a “moral incest”, it goes beyond the sexual and describes
a link in which the other is a utilitarian narcissistic object, an “object–
non-object”, forbidden from its own desire, an idealised fetishist
object that must idolise the subject, and an object of enjoyment.
Incestuality, figure of symbiosis, is frequently accompanied by
forced identifications, imago encroachments (Ciccone, 1999, 2012),
which will generate possible generational upheavals: the child will be
strongly identified with an imago, with an ancestor bearing a stigma,
an imago that will encroach on, and alienate, the child’s identity. That
forced search for identification in part responds to the break in the
bond of filiation, to the break in the genealogical link, as generated by
the disability. Such an encroachment sometimes concerns a heroic,
grandiose imago, with the disability fostering idealisation, which is
also a characteristic of incestuality.
Idealisation
During consultations, a young child affected by cerebral palsy was
consistently interested in the figurine of an animal with a broken leg.
His mother systematically pushed that figurine away to suggest other
toys. She often talked of her own grandfather, a heroic figure who
had lost an arm in the war and managed to overcome that handicap,
had built his own house, etc. Whenever the child slumped over the
table, the mother called on him roughly to “Sit up straight!”
It can be said that this mother projected on her son the image of
the heroic, grandiose grandfather. What she was putting off by pushing away the figurine with the broken limb was the very image of the
disability. But the child was unable to honour such a contract: “keeping up straight”, like the mother’s grandfather. What had to be
upheld, kept up straight, was also the mother (both outwardly, preventing her from becoming depressed, avoiding disappointment, and
the mother within her, maintaining the idealisation).
I stated earlier that the trauma can be considered as an experience
that takes on the appearance of a punishment, a retaliation, and that
these latter paradoxically authorise transgression. However, while
they authorise that transgression, they also authorise idealisation.
Idealisation is both an effect of the trauma and a defensive measure
against the trauma. Many children affected by disabilities become
idealised, mythical, messianic, saviours of the family that becomes
invested by a narcissistically redemptive mission: that of saving a
disabled child, then all disabled children. Similarly, many children,
confronted by their powerlessness, develop fantasies of omnipotence.
One could liken that idealisation of the child, or even sometimes
that exhibition, to those ancient practices of exposure. In ancient
Greece, deformed new-born infants were exposed, that is, abandoned
in some place far away from the community. They were exposed to the
gods, handed over to nature and divine powers. Those who survived
exposure were transformed from malevolent beings into heroes
(which is what appears to have happened with Oedipus, according to
certain interpretations of the myth). So it can be seen that while the
disability relates to monstrosity, inhumanity, and the malevolent, it
also approaches the divine.
The path towards idealisation is so often and so readily opened up
before the child affected by a disability. As a result, the latter might
show himself to be all-powerful and tyrannical.
Destructiveness
While the bond with the child affected by a disability is often of
symbiotic nature, the figures of symbiosis being found there, one can
frequently see in such bonds the work of destructive symbiosis. The
child, for example, is all the more idealised in that it is disinvested; the
parental discourse stating unfailing attachment and love is contradicted by attitudes or acts revealing denied hostility; in the place of
that impossible separation there comes in rather a disproportionate
remoteness, a brutal, urgent, and unexpected setting aside.
In the figure of destructive symbiosis, each mutually destroys the
other. “With every day that goes by, a bit of me dies”, said a mother
of a seriously encephalopathic child.
Another figure of symbiosis or an effect of symbiosis (and/or incestuality) is tyranny (Ciccone, 2007b; Ciccone & Ferrant, 2009).
Clinical treatment of disabled children often shows a development
of tyrannical bonds. The child is in the position of a tyrant, of omnipotence within a family whose guilt and despair prevent any position
of organisational authority. Alternatively, then, the child might himself be tyrannised, sometimes by an older brother or sister, who takes
advantage of parental ambivalence. As another option, hatred
towards the child might be strongly counter-invested in positions of
overprotection, of symbiosis that poorly mask the underlying ambivalence and tyrannical destructiveness.
Élisa is a two-year-old girl for whom a diagnosis of a chromosomal
abnormality was revealed at the age of one year. Where initially she
was a calm baby, “in a world of her own”, as her mother put it, but
who posed no particular problem, from when the diagnosis was made
she became bad-tempered, prone to bouts of anger, hitting herself,
and hitting her mother at the slightest contradiction.
The mother did not accept the diagnosis, became depressed, felt
guilty, and herself was beset by a feeling of shame, a feeling that she
could come to grips with only extremely furtively and painfully.
Here is a fairly typical sequence of interaction that can be
observed.
The mother talks about her pain and weeps. The child, previously busy
with a game, approaches and tries to clamber up on to her knee. The
mother then pushes her away. The child, with a toy in her hands, makes
as if to break it. “Don’t make me angry!” cries the mother. The child
breaks the object. The mother scolds her. The child shouts. The mother
pulls the child towards her, vigorously, and continues to scold her while
consoling her at the same time, folding her arms around her roughly. And
the child bites her breast. The mother pushes her back again, complains
of her daughter’s tyranny, regrets the absence of the father, who is never
there. And when he is there, Élisa only has eyes for her father: “When
her father’s there, I don’t count any more”, says the mother.
This banal sequence reveals some common elements in clinical
experience of disability: the painful experience of loss and disappointment mother and child experience; the affects of guilt and shame
mobilised by the trauma; the child’s quest, her attempt to revive the
object, and the maternal demand for narcissistic reparation (the
mother asks to “count” as someone, she who has been disqualified in
her function and in her parental identity); the difficulty in containing
the child’s violence and the maternal response that, under the effect of
guilt and hostility, intertwines both reprimand and rough consolation.
We could say that, by acting in such a way, the mother, while
complaining of the child’s violence, is at the same time telling the child
herself how to behave in the same manner, mistreating her, and
roughly taking her in by biting her (Ciccone, 2003).
The tyranny exercised by so many children can obviously be
explained by the encounter with a collapsed and wounded environment, and by the necessity, among other things, of reanimating the
object, which leads, in particular and paradoxically, to repeating the
destruction, as in the logic of the antisocial trend Winnicott (1956)
talks about.
The quest for the object is, of course, accompanied by enjoyment:
exultation at the confusion of the powerless object faced by the
imposed tyranny, and enjoyment through the feeling of revenge that
such a defeat of the object procures the subject.
The failure of the object, of the environment in its containing and
transforming function of violent pulsionality, clearly maintains the
child’s tyranny. This failure is, in part, brought about by effects of guilt
(especially when combined with other factors) in so far as the reality
of the anomaly, of the infirmity in the child, confirms a parental
fantasy of having damaged the child. The parent cannot then exert
ordinary authority as she feels guilty of being violent, “bad”, if she is
firm or if she sets limits, if she sets prohibitions. Thus it is that she will
let the child deploy a violent and tyrannical form of self-assertion.
That “dysfunctional authority”, as Carel (2002) put it, will produce
effects of generational inversion. This can be seen in the way the
parent announces authority, as through the expression: “Don’t get
cross!” used by the mother of Élisa, as mentioned above. Thus, the
parent does not set a limit to contain the child’s pulsionality, but,
rather, asks the child to contain her own, not to arouse her anger,
meaning to be an adult, a parent for her, the parent-child. This configuration favours, or bears witness to, the incestuality characteristic of
tyrannical bonds.
While the tyrannical bond is marked by incestuality, it is also an
attempt to treat incestuality, to resist it. The tyrannical child, for example, is often a child who is struggling against a parental, narcissistic,
and oedipal seduction, while also realising, in the same movement,
the incestuous desire of possessing the object for his own enjoyment.
Tyranny produces incestuality, but also responds to incestuality, to
enjoyment, to the narcissistic possession and use of the child by the
parent. Indeed, the hold on the child’s body, as can be observed, for
example, in re-educational and functional demands, the investment of
the child as a body to be repaired (even if such actions are, of course,
necessary), can lead the child from babyhood to actively resist, to
openly and tyrannically struggle for an appropriation of his or her
own body, then later to lay claim to the disability in a provocative
A deaf child, for example, whose mother wanted him to let his hair
grow to hide his hearing aids (signs of the narcissistic wound, of
shameful humiliation) demanded of his mother not only that he be
allowed to have his hair cut, but also for her to buy him fluorescent
red hearing aids . . .
Here, for the child, there is a reversal of the humiliation, of the
shame and the narcissistic wound, in phallic exhibition (Ciccone &
Ferrant, 2009).
Tyranny is a method for treatment of the despair, the powerlessness, and the humiliation with which the trauma is confronted.
Projective identification
Symbiosis is a stage of the bond constituted by the work of projective
identification. The encounter with the disability exacerbates the need
(on the parent’s side) to resort to identificatory projective processes.
“She’ll never be able to do without me,” said the mother of a small,
seriously encephalopathic girl. “I’m everything for her and she’s
everything to me. I am her and she is me. I’m her angel. ’Cos she can’t
defend herself, she can’t talk or move. I do it for her. I think for her. I
understand everything about her, I know her by heart. I know what
she desires . . .”
Maintaining this symbiotic illusion, this conviction of clairvoyance,
through the massive utilisation of projective identification processes is
intended to avoid the mourning due to sudden and traumatic separation, to the traumatic effects of absolute otherness.
The transmission fantasy
While the encounter with disability represents a present traumatic
experience, it also provides an opportunity for revelations on past
traumas with which it will connect up, that it will bring back into one’s
memory, awaken, and revive. The present trauma produces a reinvestment of past traumatic experiences, whether real or imaginary,
buried or forgotten, traumatic experiences belonging to the subject’s
or the family’s history. Such traumas can, indeed, belong to the
parent’s childhood history: real events or traumas related to infantile
(including oedipal) fantasies that reality has not sufficiently denied.
They might also belong to prehistory: such and such a child with an
infirmity will recall such and such an ancestor bearing a particular
stigma.
This connection of the present and the past, especially when it calls
up an ancestor, leads to the deployment of transmission fantasies
(Ciccone, 1999, 2012). This involves built or reconstructed, conscious
or unconscious scenarios in which the subject designates themselves
as the inheritor of a psychic content handed down by another,
whether contemporaneous (in an inter- or trans-subjective link) or
ancestral (in an inter- or trans-generational genealogical link).
Such a fantasy has several functions. First of all, it has a function
of exculpation (the subject has nothing to do with it, since the trouble
comes from an ancestor). The transmission fantasy also has a function
of representation or inscription of the subject in generation—the child
subject with the disability, but also the parent subject from whom the
child came. Indeed, the disability produces an effect of “degeneration”, as I stated above, placing the child in a position of absolute
otherness. Finally (and this function results from the two previous
ones), the transmission fantasy has a function of subjectivation, of
appropriation by the subject of a foreign traumatic history—in the
same movement leading the subject to dispossess itself of it.
Thus, while the disability defies genealogical ties, while it causes a
break in the bond of filiation, it also and simultaneously makes possible the suture of that break. Such and such a child is “late” in developing, as is remarked to his or her parents: yes, but “his uncle or
great-grandfather . . . walked and talked very late,” they answer. The
infirmity is, thus, both recognised and denied. The child is recognised
by those close to him as both a stranger and yet one of them. The
transmission fantasy, thus, has a paradoxical effect, an effect of transitionalisation. It recovers the context of transmission and reorganises
it, in a work of reconstruction aiming to preserve the genealogy, the
generational.
Needless to say, transmission fantasies act independently of the
existence of hereditary biological processes, even if biological heredity can act as a support or an ingredient in the construction of such
fantasies, and can represent the bodily and event-related correlate of
such fantasies whose issues concern the place of the subject in generation and genealogy, as also the treatment of contemporary traumatic
A large number of examples could be cited to illustrate and highlight the deployment of transmission fantasies. Here is one of them.
This involves a child, Arnaud, and his family. Arnaud was two years old
when I met him for the first time. He suffered from a mental seizure in
the first months of his life. This was well stabilised by the appropriate
antiepileptic treatment and did not block his psychomotor and intellectual development. But the encounter with the “disability” was especially
traumatic, above all for the mother, Ms T, and, before the wound and
the maternal collapse, the child took on an omnipotent, sadistic, and
tyrannical position towards the mother.
Very quickly, during psychoanalytic family therapy, the aetiological
question came up, with a strong element of anxiety and guilt. Arnaud’s
maternal grandfather had a mentally ill aunt. She had been hospitalised
for twenty years and died of cachexia, in a psychiatric hospital, fifty years
before. This story was shameful and remained a matter of taboo in the
family. When Arnaud had his problems, Ms T’s mother remembered that
her step-parents had told her of this story. She looked into the matter
and thus found out the context surrounding that person’s death. The
step-parents told her that the aunt had fallen from her bicycle when she
was eighteen years old and that everything had stemmed from that.
The family then wondered whether Arnaud had something to do with
this story, whether that great-great-aunt had not herself been epileptic
(hence the cycling accident), and so on. This was reinforced by the fact
that Arnaud closely resembled his maternal grandfather. And, on a regular basis, as the sessions went by, there emerged behaviour patterns and
traits of character interpreted by the family as behavioural responses or
traits of character of the grandfather.
On the father’s side, after a period of denial, we were to learn of the
death some years previously of a seriously disabled cousin (also hidden
away) placed in an institution unbeknown to all those close to him.
To summarise, transmission was, thus, a way of seeing things that
was very much invested in by the family. The question of heredity was
central, informed by the mental illness of the mother’s great-aunt and
the infirmity of the father’s cousin.
Moreover, Arnaud’s illness started (as recounted in family history)
when his mother, suffering from angina, passed it on to him, after which
he started having convulsions.
The (conventional) perception of things we see here at work thus
concern heredity, madness, shame, and guilt (due to the contamination).
During a session, Ms T spoke about another major character: her father’s
maternal grandmother. She had brought up Ms T’s father, who had been
rejected by his parents. Ms T’s great-grandmother had very dark skin,
like Ms T’s father and Arnaud. When Arnaud was born, “he was black”
and Ms T asked, “Where did he come from to be black like that?”
Moreover, Arnaud had a mark at the bottom of his back, a “characteristic of people from the south”. This all goes back to the “invasion of the
Huns”, said Ms T. Now, the maternal grandmother of Ms T’s father was
from the south. Ms T said she had to work out a family tree. She had
never taken such an interest in genealogy until Arnaud came along.
Because with Arnaud, “plenty of genes came back”.
Finally, I should mention the ties between Ms T and her father,
described as being extremely eroticised: she was “cuddly” with him,
sitting on his knees even when grown up, until she met her husband.
Indeed, her father took it extremely badly that she should turn away
from him to get married.
I shall just make a few comments concerning this example. First,
to note how resorting to the transgenerational represents a process of
exculpation: the subject is not concerned—it all comes from an ancestor. It all amounts then to the “genes”, a past history of phantasm and
subjects not to be evoked, a matter for embarrassment, associated with
madness and shame. That embarrassment is tied up with a guilty
primitive scene: the (original) fantasy is, in effect, a fantasy whereby
a rape handed down the stigma. The “mark” that comes from the
invasion by the Huns is handed down by an ancestor (the grandfather’s grandmother). The mark leaves with it the stigma and the
“genes” bring into the phantasm the primitive guilt of the founding
act: the inaugural act of rape.
The (primitive, oedipal, and incestuous) scene of guilt is echoed
back into phylogenesis, is transferred into a prehistoric time, into the
genealogical.
Resorting to the transgenerational, thus, signals a need for exculpation, faced with the forms of guilt the disability (including maternal oedipal guilt) reawakens. But it also represents a defence against
doubt as to filiation (“Where did he come from?” wondered the
mother): the community of behaviours, the community of symptoms
reconstructed between the child and one (or more) ancestor(s) place
the child in the genealogical tie. The “stigma” is, then, paradoxically,
a suture in the break in the bond of filiation.
The deployment of fantasies of transmission thus represents a way
of repairing the break in the bond of filiation. Through these fantasies,
the subject appropriates or attempts to appropriate the traumatic
event, becomes subject of the strange history that imposes itself so
brutally on him, and all this in the same movement that leads him to
relinquish or evade it.
The construction of the transmission fantasy is supported by a
process of imago encroachment. The encroachment of parental perceptions on the physical space of the child, the child’s “identificatory
seizure”, the forced identification of the child with the ancestor,
through channels of projective identification, answer to that need to
build a fantasy of transmission that both restores the bond of filiation
and treats the oedipal guilt that the traumatic encounter with the infirmity comes in to revive, a disability coming to the fore itself as the
dramatisation of a measure of retaliation.
The work of guilt and shame: the fantasy of
guilt and the effects of shame
Guilt and the fantasy of guilt: subjectivation of the trauma
While the fantasy of transmission has an effect of appropriation and
subjectivation of the traumatic event, another fantasy also has that
effect and that function: this involves what I have termed the fantasy of
guilt.
The encounter with the disability generates feelings of guilt, as we
have seen. With the previous example, I evoked oedipal infantile guilt.
Several aspects of guilt are mobilised. Several forms of the feeling of
guilt produced by the disability can be enumerated.
The encounter with disability first produces a form of guilt we
could call “post traumatic”, guilt to which one readily has access, often
consciously: guilt at having given life to that child, of having imposed
on it an existence imagined as being lifeless or devoid of hope, guilt,
too, in not having been able to avoid the disability, the accident, and
guilt at having desired the death of the child. But that guilt will connect
with older and much more unconscious forms of guilt.
Old forms of guilt “already there”, as we might say, are senses of
guilt due to the ambivalence (fear of destroying the loved object) and
the much more primary (cf. Roussillon, 1991) guilt due to the experience of only being able to create a poor, unsatisfactory world, and of
being inherently bad. Such forms of guilt are dramatically confirmed
by the encounter with disability, by bringing into the world a child
that is “damaged”, disappointing, “bad”; they will give its most
dramatic impact to that experience, and might generate melancholic
or masochistic processes.
Let us also note the guilt, or even the shame, relating to the sexual
scene that any pregnancy reveals or exhibits, and that also see these
things potentially confirmed by the trauma that begetting a child with
a disability represents.
Thus, from these different forms of guilt, we may see develop in the
parents what I call a fantasy of guilt. Even when the aetiology is known
and recognised, the question of guilt nevertheless remains unresolved.
Indeed, the parents will wonder what they did for such a tragic and
unfair event to happen to them. They will then seize on these guilts,
whether old, current, or renewed, to build a fantasy of guilt.
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Observing Writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting
Eva Lindgren (Editor), Kirk P.H. Sullivan (Editor)
Observing writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting is a timely volume appearing twelve years after the Studies in Writing volume Computer Keystroke Logging and Writing (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006). The 2006 volume provided the reader with a fundamental account of keystroke logging, a methodology in which a piece of software records every keystroke, cursor and mouse movement a writer undertakes during a writing session. This new volume highlights current theoretical and applied research questions in keystroke logging and handwriting research that observes writing. In this volume, contributors from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, modern languages, and education, present their research that considers the cognitive and socio-cultural complexities of writing texts in academic and professional settings.
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Notes on Contributors xiii
Researching Writing with Observational Logging Tools from 2006 to the
Eva Lindgren, Yvonne Knospe and Kirk P.H. Sullivan
Combining Keystroke Logging with Other Methods: towards an
Experimental Environment for Writing Process Research 30
Åsa Wengelin, Johan Frid, Roger Johansson and Victoria Johansson
Using HandSpy to Study Writing in Real Time: a Comparison between
Low- and High-Quality Texts in Grade 2 50
Rui A. Alves, José Paulo Leal and Teresa Limpo
Analysing Keystroke Logging Data from a Linguistic Perspective
Mariëlle Leijten, Eric Van Horenbeeck and Luuk Van Waes
Writing and Rewriting: the Coloured Numerical Visualization of
Keystroke Logging 96
Hélène-Sarah Bécotte-Boutin, Gilles Caporossi, Alain Hertz and
Christophe Leblay
Empowering Automated Writing Evaluation with Keystroke
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Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen
Progression Analysis: Working with Large Data Corpora in Field
Research on Writing 143
Daniel Perrin
A Tutorial Introduction to Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) for
Keystroke Logging Data 163
Sebastian Wallot and Joachim Grabowski
Fluency in L1 and FL Writing: an Analysis of Planning, Essay Writing and
Final Revision 190
Esther Odilia Breuer
The Effect of L2 Proficiency Level on Composing Processes of EFL
Learners: Data from Keystroke Loggings, Think Alouds and
Questionnaires 212
Gulay Tiryakioglu, Elke Peters and Lieven Verschaffel
Metaphorical Language in Second Language Learners’ Texts: Additional
Baggage of the Writing Journey? 236
Ha Hoang
Observing Writing and Website Browsing: Swedish Students Write L3
Yvonne Knospe, Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Anita Malmqvist and Ingela
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Using Keystroke Logging to Capture the Impact of Cognitive Complexity
and Typing Fluency on Written Language Production 285
Michelle Aldridge and Lise Fontaine
Aligning Keystrokes with Cognitive Processes in Writing
David Galbraith and Veerle M. Baaijen
Anticipation of Audience during Writing
Markus Linnemann
Revising at the Leading Edge: Shaping Ideas or Clearing up Noise 346
Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum, Hanna Outakoski and Kirk P.H.
Sven Strömqvist
Figures and Tables
Print screen of the Project Tab 54
Print screen of the Upload Tab (the sample shown was written in Portuguese
and participant’s signature was masked) 55
Print screen of the Analysis Tab 56
S-notation (basis for automated Linguistic Analysis) 76
Output of Linguistic Analysis (represented in Excel) 77
Effect on sentence position and revision on initial word pause length 82
Word initial pause length for each word category in the Dutch and English
Texts 84
Proportional increase of initial word pause for each word category (English
versus Dutch) 84
Initial pause duration for three-word constituents in Dutch and English
Initial pause duration for two-word constituents in Dutch and English
S-notation representation 103
Genetic representation 104
Scriptlog linear representation 105
Graph representation 106
Timeline representation (Wengelin, et al., 2009) 107
Progression diagram 108
LS graph 108
GIS software representation 109
AFP software 110
InputLog temporal representation 111
Progressive visualization 112
The editing interface of CyWrite 133
Evaluating temporal accuracy of keystroke logging 134
Progression graph from the Leba writing process 152
The dramaturgical pattern of the Idée suisse case story showing the
suspense dynamics 153
The main menu of the www.news‑writing.net repository 157
Phase-space reconstruction through the methods of time-delayed
embedding exemplified by a swinging pendulum. a) A pendulum driven
with constant amplitude. b) One-dimensional measurement of the
pendulum’s angular velocity as a time-series. c) Time-delayed embedding
procedure, where a time-delayed copy (lower panel) is retrieved from the
original time-series of angular velocity (upper panel). d) When the original
time-series and its time-delayed copy are plotted against each other, one
obtains the phase-space dynamics of the pendulum, i.e., a two-dimensional
plot reflecting the relation between the pendulum’s angular velocity (e.g., xaxis) and the pendulums position (e.g., y-axis) that describes the pendulum’s
dynamics. 166
RPs of data a) from the perfect pendulum, b) the pendulum when noise is
added, and c) when the pendulum data is shuffled. Compared to the perfect
pendulum a), the RP of the noisy pendulum b) still exhibits a striped pattern
of recurrence, but the stripes are jittery. When the pendulum data is
randomized c), then the RP exhibits a speckle of individual, randomly
distributed recurrences, no stripes are observed anymore, and the temporal
structure apparent in a) and b) has been destroyed. 167
RP of the noisy pendulum data together with the magnification of a sub-plot
of the RP (7×7 = 49 data points). Dark dots are recurrent points, while white
space marks the absence of recurrences. In addition to the overall number of
recurrent points (REC), diagonally adjacent points (marked by grey dotted
lines) provide further information about the temporal structure in a timeseries, and are the basis for calculating the RQA measures of DET, meanL,
and maxL 168
Example time-series of keypress interval typing data from six participants,
three of which copy-typed a text they could not understand—a), c), e)—
while the other three copy-typed a text in a language that they could
comprehend—b), d), f) 171
Mutual information plot from the CRP toolbox, revealing the first local
minimum to be at lag 1, yielding an estimate for the delay parameter of d =
False-nearest neighbour plot from the CRP toolbox, revealing the first local
minimum around a lag of 7, and further viable minima between lags 9 and 11
for the estimation of the dimensionality parameter m 174
Example of renormalization of the data: a) phase-space with two time-series
that possess the same sequential dynamics, but different absolute values,
which would require very different radius parameters r to capture their
aspects of their temporal structure. b) phase-space of the same time-series
after normalization by Euclidean norm. Now, the time-series occupy very
similar neighborhoods in phase-space. 175
Recurrence analysis mask from the CRP toolbox 177
Recurrence plot mask from the CRP-toolbox 178
RPs of the same time-series with the same delay, normalization, and
embedding dimension parameters, but with varying radius parameters: a) r
= 0.3, REC = 0.3%; b) r = 0.8, REC = 3.2%; c) r = 1.2, REC = 11.8%; d) r = 2.0,
REC = 45.4%; e) r = 4.0, REC = 90.8%. While a percentage of recurrent points
of REC = 0.3% is too low a), percentages of recurrence REC = 45.4 are
potentially too high d) and REC = 90.8% is definitely too high e) for the
proper calculation of recurrence variables. 179
Pausing and execution 197
Number of characters final text 198
Percentage of characters that were deleted in planning and in
formulating 199
Characters per burst per participant 200
The linear logging file of a high L2 proficiency student in Inputlog 218
A graphical representation of a high L2 proficiency writer’s L1 composing
process 222
A graphical representation of a low L2 proficiency writer’s L1 composing
Reported thoughts in the production of different types of metaphors 245
Distribution of switches, or movement, between the main document and
online sources for the seven writers 264
Mia’s distribution of switches between her main document and online
sources 267
Ida’s distribution of switches between her main document and online
Sara’s distribution of switches between her main document and online
Henry’s distribution of switches between his main document and online
Hilda’s distribution of switches between her main document and online
Per’s distribution of switches between his main document and online
Tom’s distribution of switches between main document and online
Writing model after Hayes (2012, p. 371) with our adaptions in red 279
Model of the text production process from Chenoweth and Hayes (2003,
p. 113) 307
Frequency distribution of between-word intervals (after loge
transformation) for a single writer 314
ACT R-model of cognition (Anderson, 2007) 333
Writing task: “Frederike”-condition 337
Differences in pause times in msec of different linguistic locations in
function of experimental condition 339
Descriptive statistics for all measures across low- and high-quality
Zero-order correlations between all variables across low- and high-quality
A time-based comparison of the writing process in Dutch and English
(pause threshold 2000 ms—geometric means) 79
A product/process comparison of the writing process in Dutch and English
(pause threshold 2000 ms—geometric mean) 80
A comparison of the pausing behaviour at different pause locations in Dutch
and English at different pause thresholds (geometric mean) 81
Number of different word categories selected for the Dutch and English
Multilevel analysis including word characteristics (based on logarithmic
converted pause data) 86
S-notation’s main symbols 102
Main symbols of genetic linear representation 104
Summary of visualizations (linear) 113
Summary of visualizations (non-linear [X-,Y-axis]) 115
Likert-scale questions in the usability questionnaire 135
Evaluation of the temporal accuracy of keystroke logging 136
Summary of usability questionnaire 137
Excerpt from the annotated code list (www.news‑writing.net) 149
Nomenclature of the Idée suisse corpus 150
Set of text production criteria for the self evaluation of newswriting in
convergent media 159
Names and definitions of four RQA measures of temporal structure 168
REC, DET, meanL, and maxL for the three pendulum time-series 169
Analysis of RQA and other variables from the copy-typing experiment 182
Correlation between RQA and other measures of the copy-typing
Tasks for the writing sessions 196
Burst ends (Median) 201
Mean occurrences of L1 and L2 composing processes (Inputlog data) 220
Mean occurrences of L2 composing processes by high and low L2 proficiency
students (Inputlog data) 221
Mean occurrences of L1 and L2 composing processes (think aloud
data) 226
Mean occurrences of L2 composing processes according to L2 proficiency
levels 227
Distribution of different metaphor types and their pausing patterns 244
Writing data for all participants (percentages in brackets indicate the
relation to the overall writing time of the respective student) 262
Percentage of source use for each interval of the writing session 264
Illustration of Ida’s results when searching with the Swedish words alkohol,
åldersgräns and chansen 269
Illustration of Sara’s results when searching for the Swedish word för and
the English phrase in favour of 270
Illustration of an overly-long search process 272
Illustration of a search to confirm the gender of the German word
Alkohol 272
Illustration of a back translation search 273
Illustration of Henry’s use of searching to find solutions to perceived
problems in his German text 273
Illustration of how Hilda changed her search terms to find the best
translation 274
Illustration of Per’s attempts to work with Google Translate at sentence
Text length and complexity for the copying tasks 292
Distribution of pauses by location in copying and writing tasks 293
Distribution of pause length in copying and writing tasks 294
Distribution of pauses in easy and difficult copy task 294
Distribution of pauses according to grammatical units across the easy and
difficult copy task 295
Pause length across easy and difficult copy task 295
Location of pause in easy and difficult writing task 296
Pause length across easy and difficult writing tasks 296
Pause location for the higher vs. lower keyboard efficiency group in both
copy tasks 297
Pause location for the higher keyboard efficiency group in the easy vs.
difficult copy tasks 297
Pause location for the lower keyboard efficiency group in the easy vs.
Pause location in the difficult task, higher KE vs. lower KE 298
Pause length for the higher keyboard efficiency group in the easy vs. difficult
Pause length for the lower keyboard efficiency group in the easy vs. difficult
copy task 299
Summary of principal component analysis with varimax rotation for 2 factor
Estimated means and confidence interval as a function of condition and
linguistic category 339
Number and percentage of revision types as a function of the
condition 340
Mean and standard deviation of the types of revision per 100 typed
Descriptive characteristics of Johan’s fluency 353
Revisions per word and character in the final texts in North Sámi, Swedish
and English 355
Open and closed revisions distributed over North Sámi, Swedish and
Summary of revisions at the leading edge 357
Open revisions at the sub graphemic level per language 358
Revisions at the graphemic level distributed over types of revision and
language 359
Michelle Aldridge
is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at
Cardiff University. Her research interests are in cognitive and forensic linguistics. She is collaborating with Lise Fontaine in the Cardiff Keystroke project and
with the Cardiff Forensic linguistic team; her interest here is with the experiences of vulnerable witnesses (particularly children, rape victims and people
with a disability) within the legal system. She is involved in police investigative
interview training and has organized conferences in child language acquisition,
forensic linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Contact: aldridgem@cardiff.ac.uk
Rui A. Alves
is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Porto. His main research interests are the cognitive and affective processes in writing, which he
studies using especially on-line methods and logging tools. He is also interested
in literacy instruction, literacy development, and learning disorders. He serves
in several editorial boards and is associate editor to the journals Reading &
Writing and Culture & Education. Currently, he is also chair of the COST Action
IS1401, European Literacy Network. Contact: ralves@fpce.up.pt
Veerle M. Baaijen
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Information
Sciences and the Department of Dutch Language and Culture at the University
of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her primary research interests include cognitive models of writing, writing-to-learn, cognitive processes in writing and text
production processes. Other lines of research include literacy and writing education. Contact: v.m.baaijen@rug.nl
Hélène-Sarah Bécotte-Boutin
is a Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics at Polytechnique Montréal and
holds a M.Sc. in business analytics from HEC Montréal. Her research interests include graph theory, mathematical modeling, data analysis and business
analytics. She is a student of the GERAD research group since 2011 and of the
research group TERs at Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS-CNRS)
since 2013. Contact: Helene.Becotte@gerad.ca
has been the head of the Centre for Writing Competency at the University
of Cologne since 2007. Her focus in writing research lies on L2/FL writing, as
well as on writing under specific cognitive conditions. Contact: ebreuer1@unikoeln.de
Gilles Caporossi
is holder of a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Polytechnique Montréal. Since
2003, he is professor at HEC Montréal in the department of decision sciences.
His research interests include graph theory, algorithmic and artificial intelligence. He is member of the GERAD, group for research in decision analysis
since 2004, of the international academy for mathematical chemistry since
2010 and he is was associated to the research group TER s at Institut des Textes
et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS-CNRS) in 2012. Contact: gilles.caporossi@hec.ca
is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Iowa State University.
He works in the field of computer-assisted language learning. His research
addresses the urgent societal need of improving language learning, teaching,
and assessment practices by taking advantage of new technological opportunities. Contact: evgeny@iastate.edu
Lise Fontaine
is a Reader in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy
(ENCAP) at Cardiff University. She lectures mainly on functional grammar,
word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Her research interests include functional grammar theory and, more specifically, the study of
referring expressions and writing processes. She is the author of Analysing
English Grammar: A systemic-functional introduction, CUP (2012) and coeditor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 2nd ed. OUP (2018).
Together with Michelle Aldridge, she has set up the Cardiff Keystroke project
which aims to better understand how typing influences writing processes. Contact: FontaineL@cardiff.ac.uk
Johan Frid
is a researcher and developer in speech and language technology in the Lund
University Humanities Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden. His primary focus
is on the development of methods, resources and tools for computer-based
language processing. Frid has extensive experience of working with linguistic data in combination with machine learning and is the main developer of
the current version of ScriptLog, a tool for writing research. Contact: johan.frid
@humlab.lu.se
is Associate Professor in Psychology in the Southampton Education School,
University of Southampton, UK. His main research interests are on the psychology of writing and the development of understanding through writing. This
involves basic research into the cognitive and social processes involved in writing, and is focussed on the development of a dual-process model of writing.
Insights from this model are applied to research into the teaching of writing; the
use of writing as a tool for learning; the effects of dyslexia on writing; and the
therapeutic effects of expressive writing. Contact: D.W.Galbraith@soton.ac.uk
Joachim Grabowski
is Professor for Educational Psychology and Associate Professor for German
Linguistics at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. His research interests
relate to writing processes and writing didactics and the related cognitive and
linguistic abilities. Contact: grabowski@psychologie.uni-hannover.de
Alain Hertz
is holder of a diploma in Mathematical Engineering, Alain Hertz obtained
a Ph.D in operations research at the École Polytechnqiue Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2001, he is Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He is also member of the multidisciplinary GERAD research group that includes nearly sixty researchers and
experts in operations research and discrete mathematics. He is the author of
more than 200 scientific publications His main research domains are combinatorial optimization, graph theory, algorithmics, and the development of decision aid systems for scheduling and distribution problems. Contact: alain.hertz
@gerad.ca
holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington,
where she currently teaches on the English for Academic Purposes and Writing
Programmes. Her research interests are metaphor, bilingual figurative thinking, second language writing, and teacher autonomy and agency. Contact:
ha.hoang@vuw.ac.nz
Roger Johansson
is an Associate Professor in Psychology, Lund University. In his research, he has
mainly worked on the relationship between eye movements, attention, memory and mental imagery. In particular, he has studied eye movements during
reading and writing processes, using eye tracking as a primary tool. Contact:
roger.johansson@psy.lu.se
Victoria Johansson
is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature
at Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests include language production in writing and speech, with special focus on writing development in a
lifelong perspective. She has further engaged in methodological development
for investigating writing processes, including working with keystroke logging
in combination with eye-tracking. Contact: victoria.johansson@ling.lu.se
Yvonne Knospe
holds a PhD in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. She is currently a postdoc researcher in special education and teaches German at Umeå University,
Sweden. Her research interests include writing instruction, writing strategies
and writing development in the contexts of foreign language learning and special education. Contact: yvonne.knospe@umu.se
José Paulo Leal
is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department of the Faculty
of Sciences of the University of Porto. He is affiliated with the Center for
Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), an R&D unit of INESCTEC
Research Laboratory, where he is an effective member. His main research interests are technology enhanced learning, web adaptability, and semantic web.
Other lines of research include the development of software for collecting
data and managing experiments in cognitive processes in writing. Contact:
jose.p.leal@inesctec.pt
is Adjunct Professor at the School of Languages and Translation Studies at
Turku University, Finland. His research interests include textgenetics with a
particular focus on revision during writing and professional writing. He is
also leading of research group TERs at Institut desTextes et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS–CNRS). In collaboration with Gilles Caporossi, he developed the
keystroke logging software GenoGraphiX, based upon a transposition of graph
theory. Contact: christophe.leblay@utu.fi
Mariëlle Leijten
is a Professor in Professional Communications, affiliated to the Department
of Management at the University of Antwerp. Her research focusses on cognitive writing processes, writing and digital media, more specifically analyzing
online writing processes in professional organizations via keystroke logging.
To observe writing processes she developed Inputlog, together with Luuk van
Waes. Contact: marielle.leijten@uantwerpen.be
Teresa Limpo
is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences. Her major research interest lies in the study of cognitive and
motivational processes in writing. Specifically, she has been studying the interaction among transcription, self-regulation and motivation, and how these processes influence writing quality throughout schooling. She has also developed
evidence-based writing interventions to promote key writing skills in schoolaged children. Contact: tlimpo@fpce.up.pt
is a Professor of Language Teaching and Learning at the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include curriculum, multilingualism, and literacy with a particular focus on writing, revision during writing, and writing development across languages. Other lines of
research include participatory research designs with schools and communities
as well as large register data studies of the relationship between school achievements, linguistic background, socio-economic factors and future life chances.
Contact: eva.lindgren@umu.se
is Assistant Professor for Primary Education at the Faculty of Educational
Sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau. His research interests include
research focusing on the development of education in heterogeneous learning groups, language for education in non-language subjects, and cognitive
processes of writing and reading. Other fields of research include language
assessment, curriculum-based measurement, and quantitative research methods. Contact: mlinnemann@uni-koblenz.de
Anita Malmqvist
is Emerita Professor of German at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research in
the area of Language Teaching and Learning mainly focuses on the development of writing in a third language, both in secondary and tertiary educa-
tion, especially teacher education. Over the years she has been deeply involved
in language teacher education and in-service teacher training. Contact: anita
.malmqvist@umu.se
Hanna Outakoski
is Senior Lecturer in Sámi Studies at the Department of Language Studies at
Umeå University, Sweden, and an international research fellow at four Nordic
universities. Her research focuses on writing and writing education in schools
and in teacher education in indigenous contexts in Sweden, Norway and Finland. In her publications she has explored writing and fluency across three languages, time and space in teachers perception of Sámi language and education,
and opportunities for children to learn minority Sámi languages in majority
language contexts. Contact: hanna.outakoski@umu.se
is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director at Zurich University of Applied
Sciences, President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics
AILA, and Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and the
de Gruyter Handbook of Applied Linguistics series. His areas of research are
media linguistics, methodology of applied linguistics, text production research,
and analysis of language use in professional communication. Daniel Perrin
worked as a journalist and writing coach and is still engaged in training and
coaching communication professionals. Contact: daniel.perrin@zhaw.ch,
www.danielperrin.net
Elke Peters
obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics in 2006. She is an associate professor at the KU Leuven. Her research interests are vocabulary acquisition and
instructed second language acquisition. She has published in international
journals (Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching). Contact: elke.peters@kuleuven.be
is Professor of General Linguistics and Language Learning at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. Between 2009 and 2015 he was
Pro Vice-Chancellor of research for Lund University. He has been a pioneer
in the development of the keystroke logging software Scriptlog and has published numerous studies in the fields of writing, writing development, speech
and writing and language development. Contact: sven.stromqvist@ling.lu.se
is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests lie at the nexus of linguistics, cognition
and education, and include writing processes, the teaching of writing, multilingualism, doctoral studies, and forensic linguistics. Together with Coppélie
Cocq, Kirk has recently edited the Studies in Writing volume, Perspectives on
Indigenous Writing and Literacies. Contact: kirk.sullivan@umu.se
Gulay Tiryakioglu
is doing research on the writing processes in the Centre for Research in Terminology and Translation at the Faculty of Linguistics, University of Lyon/France.
Her research interests lie in writing process research, L2 writing, multilingual writing, cognitive-linguistics, L2 writing instruction, bilingualism, foreign
language acquisition, English as a Foreign Language teaching. Contact: Gulay
.Tiryakioglu@univ-lyon2.fr
Eric Van Horenbeeck
is the technical coordinator for Inputlog at the University of Antwerp. He
received a PhD in computational linguistics on a novel algorithm for semantic
analysis of unstructured data. Together with Tom Pauwaert he translated the
S-notation markup rules into a computer module. This allows the reconstruction into words of characters and their revisions and ultimately the linguistic
analysis of the text production. Contact: eric.vanhorenbeeck@uantwerpen.be
Luuk Van Waes
is a Professor in Professional Communication, affiliated to the department of
Management at the University of Antwerp. He has been involved in several
writing studies with a special focus on the influence of digital media on the
organization of (professional) writing processes. To observe writing processes
he developed Inputlog, together with Mariëlle Leijten. He is also the (founding)
editor of the ‘Journal of Writing Research’. Contact: luuk.vanwaes@uantwerpen.be
Ingela Valfridsson
is a Senior Lecturer in German Language and Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research focuses on writing development in a foreign language, multilingualism and implicit vs. explicit learning. She is engaged in
language teacher education and in-service training. Contact: ingela.valdfridsson@umu.se
Lieven Verschaffel
obtained in 1984 the degree of Doctor in Educational Sciences at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Since 2000 he is a Professor in Educational Sciences
at that same university, with a main interest educational psychology and more
particularly learning and teaching in specific domains such as mathematics,
languages, history, and music. Lieven Verschaffel is a member of the editorial
board of numerous international journals in the domain of learning and teaching. Contact: lieven.verschaffel@kuleuven.be
Sebastian Wallot
got his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (OH),
USA, in 2011. Since 2016 he is working as senior research fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. His research interests
include dynamic systems analyses with application in psychology, naturalistic
language processing, and joint action research. Contact: sebastian.wallot@aesthetics.mpg.de
Åsa Wengelin
is a Professor at the Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
In her research, she has focussed mainly on the writing processes of writers of
different age groups with and without language disabilities. An important part
of her research has involved development and evaluation of methods, techniques and tools for writing research. In particular, she has been interested
in the combination of keystroke logging and eye tracking. Contact: asa.wengelin@svenska.gu.se
Asbjørg Westum
is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Languages at Jönköping University, Sweden. Her research interests lies mainly in the field of language and culture,
where she is currently investigating the emerging learned language in Swedish
religious texts of the late Middle Ages. Her more recent interests include adultbackground refugee education and literacy development, and North Sámi
school children’s writing in Sami, English, and the national majority language
(Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish). Contact: asbjorg.westum@ju.se
Researching Writing with Observational Logging
Tools from 2006 to the Present
It is 13 years since the volume Computer keystroke logging and writing: methods
and applications (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006) was published in the Studies in
Writing Series. The volume provided the reader with a fundamental account of
keystroke logging, a methodology in which a piece of software records every
keystroke, cursor and mouse movement a writer undertakes when writing on
a computer to a logfile. These recordings allow detailed analysis of the pauses,
movements and revisions made during writing.
Since 2006, research using keystroke logging has increased dramatically and
there has been a move from using keystroke logging to describe writing to using
it to understand writing from both cognitive and sociocultural perspectives.
This development has gone hand-in-hand with improvements in keystroke logging software, the development of digital tools used for the recording and analysis of handwriting, and the advances in combining these logging technologies
with eye-tracking, speech recognition and other technologies. These developments have created new opportunities for research into writing with keyboard,
pen and paper, and speech. Thus, for example, although computer keystroke
logging and digital tools for recording handwriting have primarily been used
for cognitive writing process research in which the logged events are interpreted as traces of cognitive activities, they are increasingly being used in educational settings as tools to enhance individual writer reflection and to stimulate pair, and classroom discussion to help construct knowledge about writing
from socio-cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives. These developments are
reflected in this new volume, Observing writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging
and Handwriting, that focuses on theoretical and applied aspects of keystroke
and handwriting logging research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives,
including computer science, education, linguistics, psychology, multilingualism studies, and neuroscience in a range of academic and professional writing
settings.
Before we describe the contents of this book, we provide an overview of
writing research that has used digital keystroke logging and handwriting logging tools between 2006 and 2018. The purpose is to provide the reader with a
recent account of the kinds of questions researchers seek to answer with the
help of digital keystroke and handwriting logging tools. Even though we con-
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ducted a systematic literature search, it is likely that research conducted during
the period 2006 and 2018 has been missed during our search. Equally, the list of
cited works relating to each topic we discuss should be viewed as examples of
research rather than an exhaustive list of all research on a topic. The overview
is organised into seven themes: tool development, processes in writing, writing development and education, writing difficulties, writing in first, second,
and foreign languages, writing in the workplace, and translation. Many studies
would fit into more than one of these themes, but for simplicity during the clustering of the literature found during our systematic literature search, we placed
most studies in only one theme. Additionally, we acknowledge that some
studies, which use digital tools such as screen recording (Gánem-Gutiérrez &
Gilmore, 2017; Seror, 2013; Sabbaghan & Maftoon, 2015) or multiple draft analysis software (Lardilleux et al., 2013) could have been included in our systematic
review. However, we decided only to include studies using designated keystroke
and handwriting logging tools and/or the data these tools generate. Therefore,
studies using other tools are not included in the overview of writing research
with digital tools from 2006–2018 that we present in this chapter.
Overview of Writing Research with Digital Tools from 2006–2018
In this section we present an overview of writing research that has used digital
tools to observe writing since the publication of Computer Keystroke Logging:
Methods and Applications (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006). Other recent summaries
with similar, but not the same, objectives that may also be of interest to the
reader include Abdel Latif (2008), Van Waes et al. (2012, 2015), and Leblay and
Caporossi (2014). In order to enhance the readability of this overview, we refer
to publications with three or more authors as ‘first author et al.’
Since 2006, the tools presented in the volume Computer Keystroke Logging:
Methods and Applications (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006) either have ceased to
exist (e.g., JEdit) or have been developed further, and new tools have emerged.
Keystroke logging tools have become more stable and today they include more
data analysis functions than in 2006. For example, today’s automated analyses
include fluency analysis (Van Waes et al., 2009; Van Waes & Leijten, 2015) and
source use analysis (Leijten et al., 2014).
Increasingly, keystroke logging software has been combined with other data
collection methods. The most common tool that is used in combination with
keystroke logging to collect data about the writing process is eye-tracking,
researching writing with observational logging tools
which has been used to study aspects of reading during writing (Carl, 2012;
Johansson et al., 2010; Wengelin et al., 2009). Other software currently used
in combination with keystroke logging to investigate writing include speech
recognition software (Leijten et al., 2010; Luyckx, 2010), linguistic analysis software (Macken et al., 2012; Leijten et al., 2012; Leijten et al., 2015) and automated
feedback software (Chukharev-Hudilainen, this volume, pp. 123–140). Recently,
Schneier and Kudenov (2017) explored whether keystroke logging could be
combined with mobile devices to investigate the synchronous processes of discursive interaction through such devices.
Today, most tools include functions to create detailed visualisations of the
writing process. In 2007, Lindgren et al. used Geographical Information Systems to develop the LS-graph in which information about the writing process
is layered in order to view a text’s development both in time and in writing
space. This graphical representation of the writing process was implemented
as part of Inputlog by Leijten and Van Waes (2013). Other visual representations have also been developed, for example, Caporossi and Leblay’s (2011, 2015)
dynamic representation of the writing process based on Graph Theory. As well
as in combination with other tools, keystroke logging data has also been utilised
as a starting point for elicitation of complementary introspective data, such as
in stimulated recall (Weder, 2010).
In the area of tool development for the logging of handwriting, several programs have been developed over the past 13 years that capture handwriting,
for example, HandSpy (Alves et al., this volume, pp. 50–70; Monteiro & Leal,
2013) and Ductus (Guinet & Kandel, 2010), and tools that combine the logging of handwriting with other tools such as eye tracking, for example, Eye and
Pen (Alamargot et al., 2006). As handwriting logging programs also generate
large amounts of complex data, researchers have also developed analysis tools.
One example is the analysis tool MarkWrite that was developed by Torrance,
Nottbusch and Simpson for use with GetWrite and other handwriting logging
software (see https://github.com/isolver/OpenHandWrite/wiki).
Processes in Writing
Much keystroke and handwriting logging is concerned with the cognitive demands and processes of written language production. The majority of the studies in this area that we found during our systematic literature review of work
published since 2006 are experimental, and they are almost evenly divided
between studies using keystroke and handwriting logging tools, with some
researchers combining their data collection with eye-tracking (e.g., Chuy et
al., 2012; Maggio et al., 2012; Lambert et al., 2011; Nottbusch, 2010; Van Waes
et al., 2010). The studies investigate how logging measures can be aligned with
cognitive writing sub-processes, how these sub-processes are coordinated and
distributed, and the role cognitive demands and motor skill play in text production. For example, Baaijen et al. (2012) reflected on keystroke logging procedures and measures, and whether and how they might align with underlying cognitive activities. Similar general reflection and discussion about how
and whether, the interplay of pauses and motor execution periods can be
aligned with the cognitive sub-processes have been presented for keystroke
writing (Alves et al., 2008) and handwriting (Chenu et al., 2014; Olive et al.,
Turning to more specific aspects of processes in writing, the relationship
between pauses and lexical characteristics in university students’ writing was
explored by Medimorec and Risko (2017), and systemic functional linguistics
was used by Bowen (2017) to investigate university students’ unfolding texts,
meaning-making and revisions and by O’Donnell (2013) to investigate his own
text development. A number of studies have considered how keystroke logging measures are associated with text quality (Zhang & Deane, 2015; Zhang
et al., 2016); interestingly decreased transcription fluency has been shown to
have positive effects on cognitive processing and text quality for some writers
(Medimorec & Risko, 2016; Medimorec et al, 2017). Further, keystroke logging
measures have been used to explore how the execution of different writing
processes is affected by varying degrees of cognitive load. This has been done
through manipulation of task complexity and input mode, and measurement
of lexical and syntactical complexity and error span (Leijten et al., 2010a, 2010b;
Nottbusch, 2010; Nottbusch et al., 2007; Quinlan et al., 2012; Sahel et al., 2008;
Van Waes et al., 2010; Will et al., 2006), and reading during writing (Torrance et
al., 2016a).
Many studies have investigated motor processes; these are the physical acts
of typing and writing by hand. For example, Alves et al. (2007) investigated
typewriting motor skills, and an interesting cluster of papers has looked children’s transcription skills. Alves and Limpo (2015) researched children’s handwriting from a developmental perspective, Grabowski et al. (2010) researched
children’s graphical to linguistic processing when writing by hand, Kandel et al.
(2009), and Kandel and Perret (2015a, 2015b) researched children’s processing
of linguistic units, and Maggio et al. (2012) children’s cognitive processes when
writing by hand.
The importance and impact of motor execution skills when adults are writing by hand or using a keyboard have also been investigated. A number of
studies have explored how orthographic processing (of e.g., regular/irregular or
frequent/ infrequent words, words with doubled letters, particular bigrams or
graphemes) and motor execution interact with fluency when writing by hand
(Kandel et al., 2010; 2011, 2013, 2014; Lambert et al., 2011; Roux et al., 2013; Sausset
et al., 2013; Spinelli et al., 2012). Similar topics have been investigated for typing,
for example, Grabowski (2008) examined students’ keyboard skills, Wallot and
Grabowski (2013) used intervals between keystroke presses to study the impact
of task on typewriting dynamics, and Usoof and Lindgren (2008) investigated
whether the fluency of transitions between keystrokes could be used to create
unique typing ‘fingerprints’. The role of working memory capacity in writing
has been considered in studies such as Chuy et al.’s study (2012) of high and
low-capacity writers and their writing from external sources, in Olive et al.’s
(2008) study of the engagement of verbal, visual and spatial working memory
in writing, in Van Genuchten and Cheng’s (2010) study of chunks, in Van Der
Steen et al.’s (2017) study of hand versus keyboard essay writing by graduate
students with different working memory capacity, in Luria and Rosenblum’s
(2012) study of the effects cognitive load, in terms of time pressure, on motorskill performance, and in Chukharev-Hudilainen’s (2014) study of spontaneous
written communication and pausing.
Writing Development and Education
One area in which digital writing logging tools have been frequently used is
the study and support of the development, teaching and learning of writing.
Hyland (2015) highlighted the value of keystroke logging for these fields:
Keystroke recording can provide information about what learners or experts focus on when composing, how they interact with online resources,
the way they go about revising, how they develop content, and how their
production processes develop over time. Interestingly, the method also
has potential pedagogic uses, not only in offering teachers a diagnostic
instrument to help monitor students’ writing development, but also in
developing learner autonomy and helping them to notice their own language performance. (p. 118)
One approach to studying writing development is to use a cross-sectional
design in which writers of different ages are included. Johansson (2009) used
such a cross-sectional design to study the relationship between speech and
writing, and analyse how the various groups in her study paused. Alamargot
et al. (2010) used a similar cross-sectional approach that included professional
writers in addition to children and students to trace the development of expertise in writing by hand. Lindgren et al. (2012) also included expert writers’ in
their keystroke logging study that investigated how knowledge telling, knowledge transformation (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987) and knowledge crafting
(Kellogg, 2008) played out in relation to reader adaptation in 10-year old, 14year old, and expert writers’ writing products and processes.
Other studies have focused on the relationship between product, process,
and writing development. For example, Gnach et al. (2007) explored the potential for gaining insights into primary school children’s writing processes when
using computers through a combination of product and process analysis,
Asker-Árnason et al. (2008) investigated whether using keystroke logging process and product data could be used for assessing children’s writing, and von
Koss Torkildsen et al. (2016) used keystroke logging to study how writing process factors may predict story quality in primary school children’s writing. Similar studies have been run with secondary school aged students. For example,
Groenendijk et al. (2008) considered how the writing processes relate to the
product in the creative writing of secondary school children’s poetry.
Observing writing as an element of writing education research has become
more common since Sullivan and Lindgren (2006) (see Becker-Mrotzek el al.
[2016] for an recent overview of theories, methods and research in the teaching and learning of writing). For example, Fidalgo et al. (2008) have studied the
effect of writing strategy instruction; Groenendijk et al. (2013) have researched
the effect of observational learning on students’ creative writing products, processes and motivation, and Klemm (2011) considered product, errors, feedback,
and revision processes from a language teacher’s perspective in his explorative
study of university students learning to write academic texts in L2 German. Further, how students work with tools for writing, such as corpora (Pérez-Paredes
et al., 2011), how students reason while writing (Franklin & Hermsen, 2014),
how different learning styles affect the writing process (Van Waes et al., 2014),
and the relationship between writers’ reported writing styles and how writers
distribute processes such reading the assignment and planning (Tillema et al.,
2011) have also been examined by observing writing with keystroke logging.
A common use of handwriting logging tools is to study the writing of young
children who have not yet mastered the keyboard; middle-school children’s
handwriting and keyboard writing skills were explored by Grabowski et al.
(2007) who concluded that this age group needs more training in typing. The
general relationship between young writers’ handwriting processes and products has been the focus of a number of studies (e.g., Alves et al., 2012; Alves
et al., 2015), while other studies have focused on specific aspects such as the
acquisition of syllable oriented programming strategies (Vilageliu & Kandel,
2012), automatisation of letter production (Kandel & Perret, 2015) and spelling
(Pontart et al., 2013).
Writing Difficulties
Another research field, in which the logging of writing has become an established data collection method, can be broadly described as writing difficulties. This area comprises studies investigating the writing processes of writers
with either a specific cognitive or physical impairment, such as participants
with aphasia (Behrns et al., 2008, 2010), autism (Stirling et al., 2009), dementia (Van Waeset al., 2017), developmental coordination disorder (Prunty et al.,
2013, 2014; Rosenblum & Livneh-Zirinski, 2008), dyslexia (Afonso et al., 2015;
Beers, 2017; Sumner et al., 2014; Wengelin, 2007), hearing impairment (AskerÁrnason et al., 2012; Van de Weijer, 2018), specific reading and writing difficulties (Johansson et al., 2008; Wengelin et al., 2014), learning impairment (Connelly et al., 2012), or after brain surgery (Antonsson et al., 2018). The logging file
and the final text are the main data sources used for analysis (e.g., Torrance et
al., 2016b). Although the final texts can be analysed linguistically, the process
measures of both keystroke (see Afonso et al., 2015; Asker-Árnason et al., 2012
for research on pausing, and Behrns et al., 2008; Stirling et al., 2009 for research
on productivity and deletions) and handwriting logging (Connelly et al., 2012;
Prunty et al., 2013, 2014; Sumner et al., 2014; Rosenblum & Livneh-Zirinski,
2008) can indicate with which aspects of writing the writers in difficulties are
struggling.
Writing in First, Second, and Foreign Languages
Keystroke logging has been acknowledged as a valuable tool to research the
characteristics of writing processes in foreign languages (Ortega, 2009). This
research has been conducted in multiple settings with participants with a variety of first and second language (L1/L2) combinations. Most commonly, a formal L2 learning situation has been investigated (mainly with English as L2),
either at university level (Breuer, 2014, 2015; Chan, 2017; Choi, 2016; Dich & Pedersen, 2013; Kowal, 2014; Nie, 2014; Pastuhhova, 2015; Rahmanpanah & Tajeddin,
2015; Xu, 2011; Xu & Ding, 2014; Xu & Qi, 2017) or in a school environment (Lindgren et al., 2008a; Spelman Miller et al., 2008; Stevenson et al., 2006; Tillema,
2012). Exceptions to the formal L2 learning situation include the trilingual adolescents in Outakoski’s study (2015) and the explicit reference to an L3 setting
in Kowal (2011) and Knospe (2017).
In order to characterise L2 composing comprehensively, a number of studies have included measures of text production and disruptions (Breuer, 2015;
Lindgren et al., 2008a; Nie, 2014; Spelman Miller et al., 2008), while others have
focused on a detailed analysis of one component, such as fluency (Kowal, 2014;
Palviainen et al., 2012; Révész et al., 2017), pauses (Outakoski, 2015; Mikulski
& Elola, 2011; Pastuhhova, 2015; Xu & Ding, 2014; Zulkifli, 2013), and revisions
(Barkaoui, 2016; Kowal, 2011; Stevenson et al., 2006; Rahmanpanah & Tajeddin,
2015). To enhance our understanding what observed variances in process measures interact with, other variables, such as the L1/L2 condition (Barbier et al.,
2008; Breuer, 2014; Lindgren et al., 2008a; Stevenson et al., 2006; Tillema, 2012),
language proficiency (Barkaoui, 2016; Kowal, 2011, 2014; Nie, 2014), time allocation (Xu & Ding, 2014), text quality (Tillema, 2012) and task type/complexity
(Barkaoui, 2016; Cho, 2018; Jung, 2017; Révész et al., 2017) have been investigated through statistical correlation. Further, a number of studies complement
keystroke logging with other data collection methods, such as think-aloud protocols (Stevenson et al., 2006; Tillema, 2012), retrospective recall (Choi 2016;
Rahmanpanah & Tajeddin, 2015, Révész et al., 2017), screenrecording (Xu &
Ding, 2014), and within a triple-task design (Barbier et al., 2008).
Among the reviewed studies, only Zulkifli (2013) used handwriting logging.
She investigated how pauses in handwritten copying of sentences can help to
differentiate writers’ language proficiency and their strategy use. Finally, within
the field of second and foreign language writing, observation of keystroke logging has not been restricted to the research of cognitive processes and the
composition of foreign texts, but its potential role as a learning tool has been
discussed (Lindgren et al., 2008b; Spelman Miller et al., 2008; Rahmanpanah &
Tajeddin, 2015), for example, for raising students awareness of different aspects
of their writing, and facilitate reflection on one’s writing processes.
Writing in the Work Place
Observation of writing in the workplace is when the writing of professional
writers is logged in authentic situations, for example journalists at work in a
newsroom. In contrast to much keystroke logging research that has a strong
focus on the individual writer, Van Hout and Macgilchrist (2010) used a combination of frame analysis, ethnography and writing process analysis to explore
work-place discourse in the newsroom, and Perrin (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015) explored the multimodality of the newsroom and the ways in which professional
writers create an individual stance in the newsroom. Other aspects of professional writing that have been observed and researched with keystroke logging
include writing from multiple sources and text reproduction (Haapanen &
Perrin, 2017; Leijten et al., 2014; Van Hout et al., 2011; Perrin, 2003), and professional writers’ error correction (Leijten et al., 2010, 2011) and revision (Robert &
Van Waes, 2014; Robert 2014, Haugaaard, 2016), including in combination with
speech recognition (Leijten, 2007; Van Waes et al., 2013; Remael et al., 2014).
Translation from one language into another language requires the translation
of the ideas expressed in a text in one language into a text expressing these
ideas in the other language. As the product of translation is a text, researchers
are able to use keystroke logging to study cognitive aspects of the translation
process (Alvstad et al., 2011; Göpferich & Jääskeläinen, 2009; Hansen 2008) and
combine keystroke logging with eye-tracking to be able to investigate the reading of both the text to be translated and the translation in progress in relation
to translation process (Göpferich, 2008; Jakobsen, 2011; Alves et al., 2009). The
complexity of coordinating reading and writing during translation has also
been investigated by Dragsted and Hansen (2008) and Dragstedt (2010), and
the relationship between the translation process, the writing of the translation, and the final product, the translation in the other language, has been
investigated in similar ways to that used to research the this relationship in written text production research by among others Alves et al. (2010), Carl (2009),
Dragsted (2012), Göpferich, (2010) and Schrijver et al. (2016). More specifically,
pauses in translation processes have been studied by Immonen (2006) and
Kruger (2016), revisions by Alves and Vale (2017), Bangalore et al. (2015), da
Silva et al. (2015), Fougner Rydning and Lachaud (2010) and Schrijver et al.
(2011, 2012), cognitive effort during translation by Hanoulle et al. (2015) and
Shreve et al. (2010), and decision-making processes during literary translation
by Kolb (2011). Keystroke logging has also been used in research into translation tools, including human-computer interaction aspects (Bundgaard, 2017;
Daems et al., 2017a, 2017b; Robert et al., 2017) and cognitive ergonomic aspects
in the workplace (Teixeira & O’Brien, 2017). In the field of translation teaching
and learning, translation styles (Carl & Jakobsen, 2009; Dragsted & Carl, 2013),
metalinguistic awareness (Ehrensberger-Dow & Perrin, 2009), the impact of
training (Massey & Ehrensberger-Dow, 2011; Schrijver, 2014) and peer-based
reflection (Lindgren et al., 2009, 2011) have been explored.
This Volume
The overview of writing research with digital tools from 2006–2018 presented
in the previous section shows that the use of observational logging tools has
contributed substantially to our knowledge about writing and how writers
orchestrate their writing. In particular, cognitive aspects have been in focus,
which is not surprising given that the tools were developed to investigate cognitive processes in writing. However, the tools are increasingly being used to
explore socio-cognitive and sociocultural aspects of writing.
The fifteen chapters and the coda of this anthology are grouped into themes:
tool development (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5); discussion of how the extremely
rich (big) data digital logging tools generate can be analysed quantitatively
(Chapters 6 and 7); foreign language writing (Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11); cognitive activities and their representation in logfiles (Chapters 12, 13 and 14);
and the future (Coda). Although we have grouped the chapters in this way,
we decided not the have sections in this anthology as there is much overlap between the themes and many of the chapters could have been placed in
another theme.
The first five chapters explore the theme of tool development. Åsa Wengelin, Victoria Johansson, Roger Johansson and Johan Frid (Chapter 1) review
studies that have combined keystroke logging with other methods and discuss
how different combinations can contribute to answering different research
questions, before they proceed to present a study in which they combined
keystroke logging and eye tracking with the triple task paradigm in order to
investigate the possible reactivity of the use of eye-tracking technology and
the new functionalities of ScriptLog that allow such experimental settings.
Rui A. Alves, José Paulo Leal and Teresa Limpo (Chapter 2) contribute to
the development of tools and introduce Handspy, a new handwriting logging
instrument. After overviewing previous handlogging tools, they explain the
technical components and functions of HandSpy. They describe the procedure of data collection with Handspy and examine the tool’s validity with
of a study about children writers’ fluency and text quality. Mariëlle Leijten,
Eric Van Horenbeeck and Luuk Van Waes (Chapter 3) describe the recently
added linguistic analysis function of the keylogging software Inputlog. They
combine a linguistic perspective on composition with insights from cognitive
process research on writing. With a study with L1 and L2 writers, they illustrate how automatized linguistic analysis opens up the possibility to relate
pauses to linguistic units beyond the character-level and conclude their contribution to this volume with a discussion how automatized linguistic analysis
can further writing research. Hélène-Sarah Bécotte-Boutin, Gilles Caporossi,
Alain Hertz and Christophe Leblay (Chapter 4) consider visual representation of writing process data. Taking a genetic criticism approach, they reflect
on the necessity to visualise the evolution of the text in time and space. They
compare how different writing logging tools and their analysis functions visualize large amounts of time-oriented data and discuss the advantages of using
coloured numerical visualizations of revision data to increase our understanding of the complexity of writing. Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen (Chapter 5)
investigates the possibilities of enriching product-oriented automated writing
evaluation (AWE) tools with keystroke logging technology for the use in edu-
cational settings. He reports the results of his on-going work on the prototype
CyWrite, specifically aspects relating to design principles, accuracy and usability.
In the next two chapters the focus turns to the theme of how to analyse
the extremely rich data that logging tools provide. Daniel Perrin (Chapter 6)
illustrates how large corpora of data can be managed within the multi-level
approach of progression analysis (Perrin, 2003). Drawing on data from a professional writing case study, he provides a detailed description of the processing,
organization, and exploitation of keystroke logging and complementary data to
manage and understand the emergence of text in a dynamic context. In their
contribution, Sebastian Wallot and Joachim Grabowski (Chapter 7) present
the non-linear time-series analysis method Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) (Webber & Zbilut, 1994), which is capable of quantifying global typing
patterns. They offer a detailed account of the practical application of this tool
by using a data set of 30 participants’ typing in their L1 and in a language
unknown to them. Based on these descriptions, they discuss the additional
value of RQA for broadening our understanding of the effect of comprehension
on general typing patterns.
The next four chapters contribute to the research field of foreign language
writing. Esther Breuer (Chapter 8) investigates the impact of different planning strategies on fluency in L1 German and L2 English. In her analysis, she
distinguishes measures for different stages in the writing process and demonstrates how particular strategies can have different effects in native and foreign language. Gulay Tiryakioglu, Elke Peters and Lieven Verschaffel (Chapter 9) focus on the relationship between language competence and composing processes. In their study with L2 learners, they combine keystroke logging,
think-aloud protocols and questionnaires, and compare the conditions L1 versus L2 and L2 high versus L2 low proficiency. Ha Hoang (Chapter 10) considers the use of metaphorical language in L2 writing and her study combines
keystroke logging with stimulated-recall interviews. By analysing pauses, which
co-occur with the composition of metaphors, she investigates whether the use
of metaphorical language places a high cognitive load on L2 learners. Further,
Hoang studies writers’ motives for using different kinds of metaphors. Finally,
in this theme Yvonne Knospe, Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Anita Malmqvist and Ingela
Valfridsson (Chapter 11) present a study in which the use of online sources of L3
writers in a school environment is investigated by combining keystroke logging
and screen-recording. By logging writers’ switches between the writing environment and the web browser, they shed light on the impact of digital resources
on writing processes in the FL learning context and describe individual writers’
online source strategies.
Cognitive processing during writing is the particular focus of the four chapters of the next theme. Michelle Aldridge and Lise Fontaine (Chapter 12) ask
whether typing fluency is affected by the cognitive complexity of a writing task.
For their study, high- and low-skilled typists carried out two copy and two writing tasks with varying degrees of complexity. The keystroke logs were analysed
regarding pausing behaviour and error occurrence, contributing to our understanding of the role of typing/motor skills for writing fluency in relation to the
cognitive demands of writing. In the next contribution by David Galbraith and
Veerle M. Baaijen (Chapter 13) the problem of how we can align measures of
logging with underlying cognitive processes is approached. They discuss that
writing bursts can be different in character depending on the kind of pause
preceding them, and therefore aggregated measures across logs need to be discussed critically. Using mixture models, they present an analysis procedure to
account for the different cognitive processes, which keystroke measures can
capture. Markus Linnemann (Chapter 14) then turns the focus towards how
writers pay attention to their intended reader during writing. He uses cognitive architecture and the ACT-R-model (adaptive control of thought) to explore
when and why the intended reader is anticipated during writing. He uses the
model to outline explanations for pause times and revision processes in text
production regarding the intended and anticipated reader. In the final contribution to this theme, Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum, Hanna Outakoski
and Kirk P.H. Sullivan (Chapter 15) continue to explore the concept of precontextual revision (Lindgren & Sullivan, 2006), or revision at the leading edge
of on-going text production. That is, the point in writing where new text is created and where internal text, concepts as well as form, becomes externalised.
They closely examine one writer’s revisions in six texts written in three languages and suggest an understanding of revisions at the leading edge as open
or closed depending on writers’ linguistic opportunities to continue the current
idea after a change has been made to the text—language mediates the function
of revision as open or closed.
Finally, Sven Strömqvist pulls the chapters together in the Coda, where he
looks ahead from current research, including the contributions in this volume,
and suggests possible future directions for writing research using observational
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This is a master course given in Moscow at the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry of the National Research University Higher School of Economics by Valery Gritsenko, a professor of University Lille 1, France. Jacobi forms are holomorphic functions in two complex variables. They are modular in one variable and abelian (or double periodic) in another variable. The theory of Jacobi modular forms became an independent research subject after the famous book of Martin Eichler and Don Zagier “Jacobi modular forms” (Progress in Mathematics, vol. 55, 1985) which was cited more than a thousand times in research papers. This is due to many applications of Jacobi forms in arithmetic, topology, algebraic and differential geometry, mathematical and theoretical physics, in the theory of Lie algebras, etc. The list of mentioned subjects shows that my course might be useful for master and Ph.D. students working in different directions. Motivated undergraduate students can also study this subject. To follow the course one has to know only elementary basic facts from the theory of modular forms (for example, the paragraphs 1-4 of the chapter VII of Serre’s “A Course in Arithmetic” are enough). The main hero of the course is the Jacobi theta-series. Using it we will construct a lot of concrete examples of Jacobi forms in one or many abelian variables, in particular, Jacobi forms for root systems. For some of you, who will be successful with the theoretical exercises of the course, I am ready to formulate research problems for Master or Ph.D. thesis. (Ph.D. support might be available at CEMPI in Lille or at the Faculty of Mathematics of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow) Do you have technical problems? Write to us: coursera@hse.ru
The Weil representation and vector valued modular forms. Jacobi forms of singular weight
This module is devoted to very useful notion of the Weil representation and vector-valued modular forms. In this module we also define Jacobi forms of singular weight. Also there is a peer review in the end of this module.
The Weil representation11:58
The Weil representation (part 2)15:49
Jacobi forms of singular weight14:03
Jacobi forms of singular weight (part 2)15:34
Jacobi forms of critical weight15:34
Jacobi forms of critical weight (part 2)12:14
Valery Gritsenko
[MUSIC] So now I would like to give you the answer on the question on Jacobi forms. Of singular weight. For the latest D8. Using the method which I would like to describe, you can solve this equation not only for D8, but for any root lattice, Dm. By definition Dm, this is the lattice. The maximum even sub lattice of the Euclidean lattice zET m, the lattice of all vectors, X1. XM, Zed m with even sums, with even sum of [INAUDIBLE] A simple exercise to find The lattice, modular DM means the discriminant group of this lattice. This discriminant group contains four element. 0, the vector E1, plus minus E1 + E2 plus Over 2. Here I used the standard basis of the lattice Zed m. Or in accordance, I can write it using the same as follows. 0, 1, 0, 1 and then + -1, 1 and so on. 1 over 2. So we have four vectors. I denote them as h0, h1, h2 for plus and h3 for minus. Now we have to calculate the matrix U(T) in the presentation, this matrix is very simple. This is diagonal. E phi i (h,h) for all h in the discriminate group. In our case, this is a falling diagonal matrix. 1,-1,1,1. This is the case of the lattice D8. For the lattice u(s), the calculation is a little bit more complicated. So we have here one-half Then in the first line, we have for 1 in the first column. For 1, we have 1 units on the main diagonal and -1 in all other places. And we're looking for common eigenvectors of these two matrices. Then I have common eigenvectors. The first one, 1, 0, 1, 0. The second, 0, 0, 1, -1. It follows then we have two Jacobi forms of singular weight for the lattice D8. The first function. Corresponds to the vector D1. This is the Jacobi theta series with characteristic h0, characteristic 0 + The Jacobi theta series with characteristic h2 corresponds to these two units. The second function, the function psi for the lattice D8, we can get this function taking the second vector. Have two [INAUDIBLE] coordinate, so we have theta D8H h2- theta D8, h3. Now we have to compare this function with two examples we constructed before. So we have two function. The Fourier coefficient of the second function starts with one and for the second function, we start with this trivial coefficient zero. Analyzing the first Fourier coefficient, you see that the first formula gives us the Jacobi theta series for the lattice E8. And the second, The function D8. You have to check only the signature here in principle. But I hope that the signature as a sign plus is correct in this formula. So you see, using the same method, you can analyze any lattice. So we'll have a lattice, we have to find the matrices of the wider presentation for the two generators of the group and then we have to find the common vectors. But you can have common vectors with different eigenvectors. It means that in some cases, you get Jacobi modular forms of singular weight with some character. We had this ethic for the latest A1. Second example, the lattice A1 or this is read as Eichler- Zegie Jacobi series is exactly Jacobi form of single weight one-half, because the rank of this lattice is equal to one one-half, but also the index one-half, with multiply system and a character of the Heisenberg group. So, this is Jacobi form of single weight but with non character. In one variable for the full modular group, we have the second function, which is our notation. With Eichler we use this notation. Theta is three-half. This is Jacobi form of weight one-half and index three-half. With the falling multiply system of 4 the 24, and the formula was for this, so three-halfs to zeta. This is theta times theta to zeta over theta zeta. This is the so called Quintuple Product. It's very easy to prove that these function are the only Jacobi forms of singular weight for the full and modular group. This is what we know about the singular weight. But, what about the next weight? [SOUND] So, we fix the lattice. L of rank n0. Then, the minimal possible weight k = n0 over 2 is singular. The next weight, this is n zero plus over 2, plus one half. This weight is called critical. This is the next possible weight. And this is the first possible weight for parabolic Jacobi form, because for the case of single weight Jacobi modular form. This is the sum with some constant coefficient ch. Of the Jacobic theta series. It follows that a Fourier coefficient of this function, l in the lattice, is not 0, then 2n minus l to the square is equal to 0. This is the main property of Jacobi form of single weight. One can say that the Jacobi form of single weight is a generalization of a constant. If we consider a constant as modular form of weight zero, the hyperbolic index of all Fourier coefficient of Fourier. Modular form of single weight, the hyperbolic is equal to 0. So this function is never parabolic. Or, it's better to say this function is anti-cusp, anti-parabolic. But the critical weight is the first possible weight where a Jacobi cast form could exist. But in the case of Heigler zageer, we have the following remarkable theorem of Nils Skoruppa is true. This now classical result of Nils Skoruppa. He proved this, I think, in '86 in his PhD. And he proved that the space of Jacobi form of weight 1 and index m, this is the case of Eichler Zegier is always trade though. Therefore there are no Jacobi forms of critical weight in the case of Eichler Zegier. And what about the case of Jacobi form in many variables? [SOUND]
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Second Woman Carrying Gene-Edited Baby In China: Report
By Hela On February 11, 2019 In AIDS No Comments
A researcher who claimed to have created the world’s first genetically-edited babies will face a Chinese police investigation, state media said Monday, as authorities confirmed that a second woman fell pregnant during the experiment.
He Jiankui shocked the scientific community last year after announcing he had successfully altered the genes of twin girls born in November to prevent them from contracting HIV.
He had told a human genome forum in Hong Kong that there had been “another potential pregnancy” involving a second couple.
A provincial government investigation has since confirmed the existence of the second mother and that the woman was still pregnant, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The expectant mother and the twin girls from the first pregnancy will be put under medical observation, an investigator told Xinhua.
The provincial government probe found He had “forged ethical review papers” and “deliberately evaded supervision,” according to Xinhua.
He had “privately” organised a project team that included foreign staff and used “technology of uncertain safety and effectiveness” for illegal human embryo gene-editing, it said.
Investigators told Xinhua that the scientist was “pursuing personal fame” and used “self-raised funds” for the controversial experiment.
Eight volunteer couples — HIV-positive fathers and HIV-negative mothers — signed up to He’s trial, investigators found, with one couple later dropping out.
Immediate Backlash
Details of the experiment — which has not been independently verified — triggered an immediate backlash from the global scientific community and the Chinese government ordered a halt to He’s research work days after it was publicly announced.
Such gene-editing work is banned in most countries, including China.
He will be “dealt with seriously according to the law,” and his case will be “handed over to public security organs for handling,” Xinhua said.
Speaking at the genome summit in Hong Kong in November, He said he was “proud” of altering the genes of the babies, given the stigma affecting AIDS patients in the country.
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mrs. Marcus Aaron, n.d. [postmarked April 6, 1923]
Aaron, Fannie
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Am extremely busy, but a 12 hr. sleep last night revived me a lot. Love, Fannie[This side of card is for address] Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Williams, Ellen -- to mother, Jan. 1866:
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Vassar College Po'keepsle Jan. 9th 1866 Dear Mother. I am so tired I can hardly sit up this evening but I know you will be anxous to hear of my welfare so I will exert myself to write a few words at least. You will of course e'er this imagine we are here all right without further information on my part. We suceeded very well in making all the changes and hardly suffered from the cold at all. The only place where I was really uncomfortable was in crossing the river. We reached...
Show moreVassar College Po'keepsle Jan. 9th 1866 Dear Mother. I am so tired I can hardly sit up this evening but I know you will be anxous to hear of my welfare so I will exert myself to write a few words at least. You will of course e'er this imagine we are here all right without further information on my part. We suceeded very well in making all the changes and hardly suffered from the cold at all. The only place where I was really uncomfortable was in crossing the river. We reached Newburgh about eight o'clock this morning and found the Hudson solide with no means of taking us across. So we had to walk. Mr Bartlett bundled Mollie and I up so we did not feel the cold very much but we were very glad to reach the station at Fishkill. Mr Bartlett rode out to the College with me but did not stay promising to come again soon. The girls seem delighted to see me. Jennie got here this morning and Nellie that evening. We are having a very unfortunate time here at present which I have been almost inclined to think is because I said so much while home about the delightful way in which the building was heated. The very cold weather and direction of the wind has changed all that and our rooms in common with all the rest Is below freezing temerature. The girls are allowed to go wherever they can make themselves comfortable and 1 am now in the library and Emily studying near. They hope to have it arranged in a few days so that we may be more comfortable but as it now is it add still more to the lonesome, homesick feeling which I will this once at least confess to be very strong. Oh Mother I can hardly realise yet that I have left you for so long except by the choking sensation which has been in my throat all day and whichwould show itself through my eyes sometimes. But I am going to try and stand it six months more though I believe if you should say the word I should be strongly tempted to come home at the end of the five weeks, when the half year will close. Many of the girls think of leaving then I believe if possible. But I might better be in bed than writing what I suppose will do me no good and make you feel worse. I have beea studying this after- noon and expect to go in my classes though 1 can't expect my lessons will be very well prepared for X am so tired that I must go to bed now. I hear Anna Dickinson lectured in P— last week so X shall be disappointed in that. Please send that Photo of myself which I promised Mary Cornell as I forgot it and she has asked for it. Please write soon and as much as you can for my letters will be my greatest consolation. Love to Aunt Emily and all enquiring friends and believe Your ever loving daughter EUen Mollie wanted me to send ever so much love to you all when I wrote.
Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, April 21,1921
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have the honor to announce an A in my midsemester in Spanish and a flunk on the last ten-minute Monday written in Ec. Most of the "good" members of the class flunked it. That is not to be taken seriously. Millsy seemed much amused when I told him after class I hadn't been able to figure the answer to the question out yet. I went to the Amalgamation Meeting last night. We reduced the nominees for the big offices for next year to two, listened to...
Show moreDear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have the honor to announce an A in my midsemester in Spanish and a flunk on the last ten-minute Monday written in Ec. Most of the "good" members of the class flunked it. That is not to be taken seriously. Millsy seemed much amused when I told him after class I hadn't been able to figure the answer to the question out yet. I went to the Amalgamation Meeting last night. We reduced the nominees for the big offices for next year to two, listened to songs for Alma Maters to replace the awful old one, and discussed the possibility of having our meals served decently. I worked on history for three hours yesterday afternoon. That is the first real work I have been able to accomplish. I am gradually getting caught up with my work. I am eagerly awaiting your Princeton letter, Pete. If you haven't written it yet, please write it. How long does your vacation last? Love, Fannie Hamburger AaronDear Mother; Will you please ask the doctor to give me something effective for my bowels as soon as possible. I have been trying Maltine + Cascara + vaseline, vegetable pills, + what not, ever since I am back, and with no effect. It makes me feel like the dickens and good for nothing all the time. R.S.V.P. as soon as possible. Mother
Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, December 12,1920
December 12, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It was certainly great to see '20 back for First Hall Reunionr yesterday. Tfey seemed to feel the same way about it. I was very much disappointed in the play. It was Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell". I did not care particularly for the play and I did not think that the acting was very good, either. We had debate practice all Friday evening and all yesterday morning. We have it this afternoon again. I cut chapel this...
Show moreDecember 12, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It was certainly great to see '20 back for First Hall Reunionr yesterday. Tfey seemed to feel the same way about it. I was very much disappointed in the play. It was Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell". I did not care particularly for the play and I did not think that the acting was very good, either. We had debate practice all Friday evening and all yesterday morning. We have it this afternoon again. I cut chapel this morning and spent the morning in bed trying to selep[sic] and rest up a little for tomorrow. It's a great life! I spent the afternoon in the libe yesterday, working on the weeks English. I am strongly tempted to cut lab tomorrow afternoon. Four classes and lab is a little too much to go through and expect to feel fresh that evening. Please preserve the enclosed clipping in alcohol. I want it back. Love, Fannie[ca Dec 1920] Dear Mother, I think it will be a very good idea to get the brief case for Father. I have been wondering what to get, and hadn't thought of anything so far. I like to vary it occasionally, and not get books every year. And I do want to get him something, because he is such a kid about his birthday. Can you attend to it at home? I imagine you can do better than I can here--besides which I am some rushed. R. S. V. P. Did you get Lester's note sent through me?Fannie Hamburger Aaron-------------------------—-------------TREAS. Mother Mother[enc for ca Dec. 1920]
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May, Deborah -- oral history, July 9, 2015
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, n.d. [postmarked November 6, 1922]
[Addressed to Hotel Traymore, postmarked 6 Nov 1922] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'm suited. What do you take me for, Father--handing out M. Coue to me. I read quite a bit of his stuff last year--maybe the book you are sending--I shall see what it is anyhow. He belongs to the school that believes that hypnotism is possible to normal people, but the other French school believes that it is possible for abnormal people only. I belong to the latter class--of thinkers, not of people....
Show more[Addressed to Hotel Traymore, postmarked 6 Nov 1922] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'm suited. What do you take me for, Father--handing out M. Coue to me. I read quite a bit of his stuff last year--maybe the book you are sending--I shall see what it is anyhow. He belongs to the school that believes that hypnotism is possible to normal people, but the other French school believes that it is possible for abnormal people only. I belong to the latter class--of thinkers, not of people. However, I'll read it with an open mind, as you say. I shall say, "Day by day, in every way, I am growing more and more conceited". The parlor is not pretty. I did not take cold. A. Kabet answered the note in which I finally informed him that we would do nothing about the debate. He seems to think this is to be a correspondence--I do not think so, and it takes two to make a correspondence! The picture is Caroline Whitney's mother. I guess she comes by her college stump-speaking naturally. Love, FannieA CONNECTICUT YANKEE FOR CONGRESS: MRS. JOSEPHA WHITNEIY, Daughter of Simon Newcomb, the Astronomer, Who Has Won the Nomination to Represent Her State in the House of Representativs (Times Wide World Photos.)
Macmahon, Edna Cers, 1901-1983 -- Memorial Minute:
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/ ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of...
Show more/ ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of community service by sharing with neighboring farmers helpful information from her careful reading of agricultural bulletins. A favorite teacher persuaded her to change her original plan of going to a normal school; instead, she entered Radcliffe at age l6, working her way through college. A seminar with Frederick Jackson Turner inspired her life-long fascination with the influence of the frontier and of geographic mobility upon American history. At age 20 Edna began graduate work at Bryn Mawr On the Susan B. Anthony scholarship. The next summer, in 1922, she met her d d. . future Vassar colleague, Margaret MYBPS» when they b°th le 1S°“SSl°n ' d t Br Mawr. groups at the School for Women Workers in Industry hel a yn ' Ph'l d l hia when they learned that Y°u"8 "°men °n Strlke at a 1 a e P _ - ' 11 they decided Clothing factcry were being arrested illega Y» . - - ‘ themselves arrested at to provide publicity bY getting -2- the strike site. With support from a young male friend from an Old Philadelphia family, they began interviewing the strikers On the picket line. The police hustled them off to the city jail where they briefly sharéd a Qell next ta a young woman who called out cheerfully: "What are you in for? shoplifting?" The venture ended with a double standard in sentencing which left them furious; their male friend was fined, but the future Vassar economists were let off with nothing but an admonition. In 1923 Columbia University appointed Edna as the first woman to hold its Gilder Research Fellowship. At Columbia she studied under Wesley Clark Mitchell, pioneer institutional economist, whose course on economic theory provided the framework for her thinking about economics. From her studies with Mitchell and with two other famous institutionalists, Thorstein Veblen and John R. Commons, she drew the lesson that economists should be critics and shapers of the societies they study. In 1924 she accepted a fellowship from the newly-founded Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, an experiment in studying at the intersection of theory and public policy. She received her Ph.D. in 1930 with a doctoral thesis on labor injunctions. While working toward her doctorate, she investigated child labor in Maryland and Delaware canneries for the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor. She also worked for the District of Columbia Consumers‘ League in 1926 as it brought pressure for the enforcement of District laws on maximum hours for women. In 1927, while employed by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, she began a study of immigrae tion which continued subsequently for the Council on Foreign Relations. But with teaching her long—term goal, she was glad in 1929 to become an _3_ inst - G ructor of economics at Hunter College. In that Year Edna married Arth P ' ' ur Ihlttler Ma°mah°n» then associate professor and subsequently Eaton pr°feSS°r °f Publi¢ administration a t Columbia University They had two chil ' dreni Gail» now livin ' g in Austria wh h ' ~ ere er husband is a diplomat, and Alan, now a physigigt at the University of Texas. During their childhood, the family lived in Croton where Edna helped run a cooperative school inspired by what remains durable in John Dewey's theories of education. She also ran an annual plant sale for the school notable for the stream of varied advice that accompanied her sales as she visualized each purchaser's plot, its probable disadvantages of soil or shade, and the owner's probable lack of time or knowledge. In later years members of the Vassar community would benefit from Edna's advice on gardening and from the well—developed aesthetic imagination which informed it. That imagination could be seen in the gardens and houses she arranged, and especially in the beloved cottage at Lake Awosting with its wonderful relating of domestic comforts, works of craftsmanship, and the natural beauty of the setting. While still at Croton in the late l93Os, Edna began to travel for research and for consulting assignments. In 1941-42 she served as Director of Research for the Division of Minimum Wage and Women ln h d d Industry of the New York State Department of Labor and also ea 8 . . . O . . . Off‘ f Price the EcQnQmlCS unit in the Consumer Division of the lce 0 Administration. Ed . . d the Vassar fagulty in 19142. At that time the Vassar na ]Oln8 . . - d . t Qf a joint department, economics an economics department was par -u_ sociology, which would shortly become the economics, sociology, and anthropology department-—B.S.A. Edna found the philosophy of the department to her liking. Abstract theory was not for her——she always regarded economic problems in the context of the overall problems facing a society. She described the introductory course in an article for the Alumnae magazine in l9H9: The teaching of economics at Vassar has always been directed, rather deliberately, toward a broad understanding of the economy as a whole, and to analysis and discussion of the major economic issues which confront our society. The introductory course, in particular, frankly aims to equip students to exercise their responsibility as citizens intelligently rather than to provide a mastery of economic principles. This does not mean that theory is neglected, but that it is constantly taught in relation to concrete problems to which it is applicable. The emphasis necessi- tates a continuous search for ways of making theory a more practicable tool in the analysis of current problems. Under Edna's influence the department introduced an introductory interdisciplinary course for the joint department, a course which flouished for a number of years. Economists, sociologists, and anthropologists together prepared the year—long introductory course and a required senior seminar. Students majored in one discipline. _5_ Edna's Special fields -'th' - wi in economics reflected her philosophy- consumer economics ' Amerwo ' ' 0 _ an economic histor ' Y» economic development. Her students were ' - - » ln the Vassar tradition, encoura ged to go to the original sources and th 9 ese sources were often Opepatin ' - - 8 lnstitutions in the community Field tri ‘ - ps to farms and factories were a re gular Part of Economics lO5 and Poughkeepsie residents were surveyed on a variety of topics. In the mid l96Os Edna worked with other faculty in the development of an interdisciplinary course on the river and its impact on those living around it. Her participation in the course was inspired by her long observation of the Hudson and her concern for it before "ecology" became a popular term. A late colleague said he always wanted to follow Edna around with a tape recorder for she was a veritable fountain of ideas. But she was interested primarily in people and in doing. Although she published several journal articles, she never found enough time for her own research, especially for her study of Poughkeepsie shoemakers which was in advance of its time in methodology. Her tracing of craftsmen over time through census and city directories anticipated by more than a decade the historical social mobility studies which became important in the 1960s and 70s. Edna retired from Vassar in 1966, but continued her teaching in the . . . H l d extensive State University of New York for three years er a rea y V _ . . ' sed. She had been activity in the community beyond the College lncrea t t f Dutohess Community College from its founding in 1957, a rus ee o _ _ . - ' d in its formative period. playing 3 ma]OP role in setting policy ur 8 ard for seventeen YEBPS, until 197a‘ She served on the BO ’”!‘\$4'- ~ 161 In government, she served on the Advisory Committee to the Consumer Counsel to the Governor of New York and, in Dutchess County, on its comittees on tax policy and on economic opportunity. Politically, she was an active member of the League of Women Voters and of both the Vassar Democratic Club and the Dutchess County Women's Democratic Club. She delivered countless addresses to community groups, ranging from the Dutchess County Council on World Affairs to the Newcomers’ Home Bueau Club, from the Anti-Defamation League to the YWCA, and from the Poughkeepsie Business and Professional Women's Club to the Dutchess County Grange Tax Comittee. The topics of these talks expressed the range of her concerns: consumer economics, anti-poverty programs, county planning for water and land development, integration and quality in education, and travels with her husband in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Also expressive of her concerns was her membership in the Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting. Bowdoin Park, on Poughkeepsie's bank of the Hudson, is an abiding embodiment of Edna Macmahon's care for the land and for the people of the place where she lived for nearly three decades. There, the Edna Maemahon Trail for the study of nature commemorates her leadership in reclaiming an abandoned waterfront for the use of the community. 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Griffin, Charles Carroll, 1902-1976 -- Memorial Minute:
Olsen, Donald, Campbell, Mildred, Clark, Evalyn, Havelock, Christine, Marquez, Antonio
[After 1976]
dl l Jl»).L»7' ,.Ll' f , 5 '4‘; ’-'Yé§ _‘ V 1.; 7 ' ‘ . ,1,-" 1"‘ fl < i . > V .;!r;_?=¢\- v R ,§§, At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-six, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Charles Carroll Griffin was born on May 24, 1902, in Tokyo, where his father was Professor of Economics at the Imperial University. His family returned to the United States in 1913, settling in...
Show moredl l Jl»).L»7' ,.Ll' f , 5 '4‘; ’-'Yé§ _‘ V 1.; 7 ' ‘ . ,1,-" 1"‘ fl < i . > V .;!r;_?=¢\- v R ,§§, At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-six, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Charles Carroll Griffin was born on May 24, 1902, in Tokyo, where his father was Professor of Economics at the Imperial University. His family returned to the United States in 1913, settling in Westboro, Massachusetts. Charles attended Harvard, receiving his B.A. in 1922. Then, seeking horizons beyond the academic, he was off to South America for seven years, two in Argentina and five in Uruguay,'in the employ of the National Cement Company. He returned home with an interest in Hispanic American culture and a knowledge of the Spanish language that were to last him the rest of his life. Beginning graduate work at Columbia, he also served as an instructor in Spanish there in 1930. His next venture the following year was as a Research Associate of the Library of Congress, to go to Madrid, where, enrolling at the Centro de Es- tudios Hist6ricos~~at that time perhaps the most significant concentration of liberal intellectuals in the Republic—-he supervised the transcription of historical documents in the Archives of Seville and Valladolid. The next year he was again at Columbia where in 1933 he was awarded the M.A. Nineteen thirty- four brought two important personal events: marriage to Jessica Frances Jones, a graduate of Reed College, and the acceptance of an instructorship in history at Vassar. The early forties brought a period of great concern in the United States for closer relations with Latin America. Men who knew the field were in demand, and Charles Griffin was ready to supply the need. In 1940 he went as exchange professor to the Universidad Central in Caracas, Venezuela, the first United States citizen to serve under the program set up by the Buenos Aires Convention for International Cultural Relations. A letter written later by the Director of the university to our ambassador pointed out that "Dr. Griffin's lectures W€re the first ever given in a school of higher learning in Venezuela . . . regarding the discovery, the conquest and the colonization of North America.” An article in a Venezuelan magazine in 1941 characterized him not as the typical "fat, red—faced North American", but as an aristocratic Castilian: until one heard his "slight Anglo—Saxon accent", one might have mistaken the tall, slender professor for a resident of Burgos or Segovia in a play by Lope de Vega or Calderbn. It might have added, "or a portrait by El Greco." Charles came back to Vassar in 1941, as associate professor; but was off again in February 1943 to the State Department in Washington, where he served as Assistant Chief of the Division of Liaison and Research in the Office of American Republics Affairs. He returned to Vassar in 1944, this time to a full- professorship. Charles served as visiting professor at many places including Columbia, Oé» _, r. I. C, -2- Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Wisconsin, and at the Universidad de Chile. But happily for Vassar he always returned here where his own course in South American history had entered the curriculum, a break—through in the tradition that most history offerings should deal with our European background and the United States. For years it was traditional that every member of the department should teach the one introductory course offered, a survey of European civilization. Charles later regaled his younger colleagues with accountsci'his struggles to cope with "all those popes and emperors." Although most of his teaching at Vassar was in United States political and diplomatic history, his scholarly work lay entirely in Latin America. At in- tervals he represented the United States as forwarder of pan-American affairs, in Chile in 1950 and in Ecuador in 1959, in l962 at the Salzburg Seminar on American Civilization, and as delegate to the Conference on Contemporary Latin American History at Bordeaux. He published four books on Latin American history (one with a Spanish translation, one written in Spanish and published in Ca- racas), and was contributing author to five others. (A selective bibliography is appended to this Minute.) In addition he contributed articles to practical- ly all the scholarly periodicals in his field, and also to the more general historical journals. His last major scholarly achievement was as editor-in- chief of Latin America: A Guide to Historical Literature (1971), the first inclusive bibliography in that field. His place as leader among Latin American historians was recognized first by appointment to the Board of Editors of the Hispanig American Historical Review, and as Managing Editor from 1950 to 1954. In 1970 the Conference on Latin American History gave Charles its "Distinguished Service Award", in the form of a handsome plaque which, characteristically, he kept trying to hide from view. Few of his colleagues or students at Vassar were aware of the extent of his scholarly activities or of his international reputation. "Charles is such a modest chap," wrote his chairman on one occasion, "that it is only when one digs it out of him that it becomes evident" how extensive his achievements and honors were. Self—doubt, humility, and an awareness of his own frailties made him wonderfully understanding of the anxieties of others, and made him the best of all people to turn to for sympathetic advice. Countless colleagues, friends, and students could say, with Sarah Gibson Blanding, ". . . when things got really tough I could always talk with Charles and knew without any doubt I was getting the best and most unbiased opinion possible. Of all my colleagues I counted on him the most." At Vassar Charles served four terms as chairman of the history department. For the last two years before his retirement in 1967 he was first Acting Dean of Faculty and then Dean of Faculty. He felt a deep commitment to the local community outside the college, and took an active part in politics. Among other activities he served on the Dutchess County Committee of the Democratic Party and as Director of the Dutchess County Council on world Affairs. In 1968 he became the first Executive Director of the Associated Colleges of the Mid-Hudson Area, and from 1968 to 1970 served on the Board of Trustees of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Marist College, and in 1969 became secretary of the Board. But it was as a member of this faculty that we knew Charles best. For him, loyalty to Vassar was no mere catch—phrase, but involved him in genuine financial, ///“ / /:>8 I3? and perhaps even professional sacrifice. He turned a deaf ear to offers to return to the State Department at a salary far above anything Vassar could give him. He did the same to other attractive offers from the Rockefeller Foundation, Stanford, U.C.L.A., and Cornell because, to quote a letter from his chairman to President Blanding, "of his interest in working at an institu- tion in which he believed as heartily as he does believe in what we try to do at Vassar." In February 1950 Miss Blanding wrote him while he was Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, enclosing a new contract, saying, "I hope like fury you are going to feel like signing. We have missed you and . . . have kept our fingers crossed wondering if Wisconsin was going to wean you away from us. As you can see, we have jumped your salary . . . which I am sure is not as much as Wisconsin could pay you [in fact, Vassar's new offer was only two-thirds what Wisconsin was paying him], but is all we can stretch at the moment." Charles happily accepted the economic sacrifice and returned to Vassar. He, of course, would not have called it a sacrifice. He had abundant ex- perience of great universities, and none of them gave him the intense intellectual and emotional satisfactions that Vassar did: students who delighted in and responded to his broad-ranging intellect and provocative, questioning teaching; colleagues who could be waylaid for speculative discussion or riotous argument; department, comittee, and faculty meetings in which he could observe the wit and cantankerousness, wisdom and perversity, mental agility and abnormal psy- chology of his colleagues. He took affectionate delight in displays of insti- tutional absurdity and human folly, which Vassar offered in prodigal abundance. Charles never forgot what it had been like to be a young, inexperienced instructor, ”. . . Newer and younger [faculty] members . . . instinctively feel him to be their friend,” his chairman once wrote. One of them later recalled: "I first knew Charles at a crucial time in my life—-at the beginning of my career. He quickly became for me a kind of mentor, such as I had never in graduate school . . . By watching him in action in faculty meetings . . . talking to him at faculty tea, or simply chatting with him on an evening . . . I got some idea of what it meant to be a scholar, a teacher, and a man of integrity. Charles and I had our differences--we really were not very much alike——but his example for me was central to my life." Charles came to Vassar at a time when, as he recalled three decades later, "the college . . . was more self—contained than it is today." The Vassar comunity dominated the social as well as the professional lives of a large proportion of the faculty. Depending on their tastes, they used it as a vast salon in which to hammer out their ideas in friendly yet critical company, as a stage on which to develop and display their eccentricities, or a kind of en- counter group in which to express their inner hostilities and aggressions. Charles did his best to maintain the notion of the faculty as an intellectual community even into the fifties and sixties, when outside at“factions, whether professional or personal, were drawing the attention of both zaculty and student body away from the college. It was a mystery how Charles managed to produce the extraordinary bulk of his publications and pursue his professional activities on top of a heavy teach- ing load. For he always seemed to be found in the back parlor of Swift, in the Retreat, or at faculty tea, engaging in anecdote or argument, covering every -4- subject under the sun. ". . . His intellectual curiosity was insatiable, as his fund of knowledge was almost fathomless," one colleague recalls. ". . . What I think of most in connection with him was not just his helpfulness and companionability," writes another, "but those glorious, continuous, shimmering days and nights we all had at Raymond Avenue. That for me was the Golden Age . . . we all belonged to Charles's extensive, amusing, and beautifully domestic- ated world." Charles played an active role in Vassar politics, serving on most major committees, and as president of the local chapter of the A.A.U.P.; in the 1930's he was much involved with the Teachers‘ Union. He firmly believed in maintain- ing the authority of the faculty as a corporate body, and in seeing that the body exercised its powers wisely and responsibly. when Alan Simpson was inau- gurated as President, Charles spoke in the name of the faculty. "The Faculty of Vassar College has never been a placid, harmonious body," he warned the new president. "Because of our nature as questioners, our training as critics, and our diverse associations and interests we are likely to provide opposition as well as support to your endeavours." Charles spoke often in faculty meetings, and one never could be sure in advance what stand he was going to take on an issue. while his commitment to basic principles—-academic freedom, faculty power, individual liberties--never faltered, he embodied the definition of an intellectual as one who is continual- ly and systematically questioning his own opinions. He belonged to no camp, and voted and acted as his conscience and intellect directed. Impressive as he was in faculty meeting, Charles was at his best in a small group, late at night. He delighted in the varieties of human nature, the in- tricacies of thought, and the techniques of politics. But above all he loved conversation. For him, as for Dr. Johnson, conversation offered the best alle- viation for the pain of existence. It was his chief joy, a means of adding to his stock of knowledge, of encountering new ideas--the more subversive and he- terodox the better--and of savouring the pleasures of articulate sociability. Of colleagues in other disciplines he could ask a simple, sincere, and yet so basic a question that one found oneself rethinking ideas long taken for granted. Charles was a moderate historical relativist, for whom the conviction that absolute certainty was an imposible ideal was.not a depressing, but an ex- hilarating belief. For he enjoyed the process of debate more than he cared about the outcome. But while pragmatic and flexible in his approach both to questions of historical truth and educational policy, he never abandoned his moral convictions for the sake of expediency. Intensely sensitive to personal attafiksv he 8¢ted a¢¢0rdin9 to his conscience as chairman, as dean, and as individual, never swerving from what he was convinced was his duty for the sake of popularity or a quiet life. President Simpson has summed up the qualities for which we loved Charles: "A dearer man we never knew--gentleman, scholar, wit. I never saw him without thinking of the motto of New College, Oxford——‘Manners makyth man‘. He was . . . a model of good sense, good-heartedness, and fidelity. when I asked him for help he always replied that he would do anything for Vassar—-and did so." -5- Respectfully submitted, ,\ ..1 . _ Donald Olsen, Chairman Q ’ ), ~c , / _.' / ¢ , ‘ _,, 1',‘ /{/,» . .' / \ , , / I '/’-»»1,‘(-"// ~ ,.“/ ~" rt 4, , j M " .>~'L, ( J‘.-1, Mildred Cani'pbe 11 .'/ I 22,,/;j£, J Evalyn Clark ..-/c’. " - - ‘" ,-‘W. V \ A/~" ' - ~ / Christine Havelock A 1./1. ‘:1/1 4 Antonio Marquez / /0 /// _6_ ¢v'¢~€¥¢z»/>1 C-_C, > Bibliographical Note His publications include The United States and the Disruption of the §panish Empire, 1810-1822 (1937), Latin America T1944); The National Period in the History of the New World (1961, with Spanish translation in 1962), and Los Temaspsociales y Economicos de la Epoca de la Independencia (published in Caracas in 1961). He edited and contributed to Concerning Latin American Cu1tur§_(l940), and contributed chapters to Ensayos sobre la Historia del Nuevo Mundo (Mexico, 1951), a commemorative volume in honor of Emeterio Santovenia (Habana, 1958), Conocimento z_desconocimento en las Americas (1958), to vol. XI of the new edition of the Cambridge Modern History on Latin America, 1870-1900 (1961), and to A.P. Whitaker, ed., Latin America and the Enlightenment (1961). In addition he contri- buted articles to the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Haryland Historical Magazine, the IntereAmerican Quarterly, Revista de Historia de America, Boletin de la Academia de Historia (Caracas), Cahiers d'Histoire Mondiale, and the Vene- zuelan RevistafNaciona1 de Cultura. His last major scholarly achievement was to edit the bibliographical volume, commissioned by the Library of Congress, Latin ‘ America: A Guide to Historical Literature (1971). 17 I W ' 7 " 'J—.
Vance, Gertrude (Pratt) — to [unknown], n.d.
Vance, Gertrude (Pratt)
G. Pratt 22-1 The ^Freshman Serenade Group of girls come walking across the campus and gather in a “hushed” mass in front of Josselyn. The bell rings, the song-leader springs for the steps, and a cheer bursts forth. Then lights go out and heads appear ^with suspicious alacrity at darkened windows The light in the hand of the leader flashes and the eagerly expectant listeners hear the new song [crossed out: which has been written] to them. An organized [cheer?] comes from the serenades ...
Show moreG. Pratt 22-1 The ^Freshman Serenade Group of girls come walking across the campus and gather in a “hushed” mass in front of Josselyn. The bell rings, the song-leader springs for the steps, and a cheer bursts forth. Then lights go out and heads appear ^with suspicious alacrity at darkened windows The light in the hand of the leader flashes and the eagerly expectant listeners hear the new song [crossed out: which has been written] to them. An organized [cheer?] comes from the serenades [crossed out: and] scattered applause and laughter [crossed out] from the windows [crossed out: while several] mingle with conflicting cheers. The crowd below breaks up [crossed out: and the girls] with a rush of scampering footsteps. [crossed out: and dissappears around the corner of the building and H… to ….] .049285 This is .49285 where I helped 49.285 [M?] S. with her math. Gertrude Pratt Vance all 1913-1914
André Wechel, 1535-1573 -- window photograph:
Wechel, André
Window currently located at End window -- North wing
Window originally located at End window -- North wing
John Skot, 1530 -- window photograph:
Skot, John
Window currently located at First Floor -- Northeast wing
Window originally located at North wing -- Third window
Aaron, Fannie -- to [family], n.d. [postmarked December 12, 1920]:
Love, Fannie. All well. Won't write today
Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, March 22,1921
March 22, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Before I forget, Thursday is Lucy's twenty-first birthday. I think she would appreciate it very much if you were to congratulate her, Pete. Please don't forget to deposit the money for me, Father. The reason I think of it again is that Lucy promised me to tell me what books she wants for her birthday. I ate lunch with her today and spent a solid hour talking to her. I got a business letter from her Father encolsing a five-dollar bill...
Show moreMarch 22, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Before I forget, Thursday is Lucy's twenty-first birthday. I think she would appreciate it very much if you were to congratulate her, Pete. Please don't forget to deposit the money for me, Father. The reason I think of it again is that Lucy promised me to tell me what books she wants for her birthday. I ate lunch with her today and spent a solid hour talking to her. I got a business letter from her Father encolsing a five-dollar bill and asking me to order a corsage for her. I couldn't spend all his money. I could only spend four. The only other possibility was to suspend one lonely little two dollar orchid in the cneter, and somehow or other, that didn't sound artistic to me. I have gotten more dope about Wellesley. The girls cannot get over the way they were treated. One thing certainly struck me funny, and that was that most of the audience wear evening dress and that they all come out in it every Saturday night! Some dudes' institute. And to think that we are starting a campaign here trying to make people wear decent dresses to dinner Friday nights instead of sloppy sport clothes. It wasn't a question of Wellesley's dropping out of the league of their own volition if they did not win anything this year. It is part of the constitution that any college that does not win one debate in four years must drop out, and they have an unbroken record of three years behind them. So this year, they started out an intensive campaign for debate. No girl who had not been recommended by the faculty could try out, and hence it was a very much coveted honor. No girl could work on committee who had not been so recommended. The committee spread debate literature broadcast and everybody in the place was reading about immigration. The debaters had to read about ten books on the general subject! Their course in immigration was given by Fairchild. Etc. etc. So we can almost be kind-hearted enough to be glad they won. Is it true that you had to pay fifty cents admission? In previous years they could never get an audience, so I hear. What did you think of the delegation when they walked in? Don't you think they were a pretty good-looking bunch. They said they marched in singing, "Down the future's cloudy way". Did you see our time-keeper. She was chairman of our class debate. Really, I don't know what my letter will be like when I haven't any debate news to write. I went to bed at eight-thirty last night, incidentally, slept two hours in the afternoon, and got up at five this morning to study for the chem midsemester. It was "rather worse". No letter from home since Saturday. I am anxious to hear how you are, Mother.
John Burroughs Journal, 1894 (January - July)
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
January 17, 1894 - July 24, 1894
17 Read of Frank Bolle's death this morning. Was much shocked. Saw him once, Dec. 1892 and liked him Something clean-cut and pleasing about him -- red hair and sandy complexion Some of his out-door sketches interest me, and some do not. He was hardly a poet, or thinker. -- Write what you feel, not merely what you think. One may think anything and everything; he can only feel certain things. What he feels is vital to him. When I think I grope, and do not always know where I stand. What I...
Show more17 Read of Frank Bolle's death this morning. Was much shocked. Saw him once, Dec. 1892 and liked him Something clean-cut and pleasing about him -- red hair and sandy complexion Some of his out-door sketches interest me, and some do not. He was hardly a poet, or thinker. -- Write what you feel, not merely what you think. One may think anything and everything; he can only feel certain things. What he feels is vital to him. When I think I grope, and do not always know where I stand. What I feel I see, and what I see I feel.Clear and sharp this morning, like Nov. Ground bare; grass yet quite green. Mercury down to 24 degrees this morning. 18 Mild with SW wind. Julian and I have our first skate on the river; ice less than 2 inches. 19 Like an April morning, clear, still, mild; raindrops hanging to the limbs and grapevines. Objects steam in the sun like a morning in summer. Sounds very noticeable. Rumbling of wagons, barking of dogs heard from over the river. Very few birds this winter, except crows. Now and then a large flock of goldfinches. Few English sparrows. On anopen winter like this the birds disperse over the open country. A deep snow would drive them about our habitations. 20 A bright and beautiful day. How naked the world seems, no snow, no verdure, no clouds. A fine skate on the river; condition all perfect, a glare of ice, a medium temperature, and a still air. Not a breath of wind. I fly up and down like a bird. At night, Julian and I skate an hour by moonlight, a rare treat. How we dash off into the dimness over the black smooth surface. -- These days I am hacking away at my Whitman matter, cutting, burning, rewriting. My matter mproves under my heroic treatment, but I doubt if I can make it worthy the subject. Health not very good past two weeks. 21 Mild, overcast, with sprinkle of rain in P.M. Signs of fog. The steam from the passing train swells and increases and stretches far behind in a long, tapering window. 22 Cleared off in the night as silently as usual. The weather is in a most gentle and placid frame of mind this winter. The storms sprinkle a little, or spit a little snow and then fold their tents like the Arabs and steal away. Fog this morning. P.M. Clear, warm, still likeIndian summer -- insects dancing in the air -- a day to walk through the fields and stand long by the bars, or lean upon the wall and look long and long over the brown, weedy lifeless fields. Almost brings the bees out of the hive. 24 Another attempt at a rain from the South, with only a slight sprinkle. Mercury up to near 50 degrees. 25 Cold wave last night, clear and lovely today, but sharp. Julian and I go to Black Pond skating; fly like birds over the glassy surface -- a fine time. Not a speck of snow to be seen. 26 Mercury down to 12 degrees this morning. 27 Winter again. The snow came like thief in the night, about 5 or 6 inches, and is still at it, from the North, which means that the storm clouds really came up the coast. 28 Bright and lcear adn sharp. Mercury down to 10 degrees this morning. The large opening on the river in front closed up this morning. -- That Death awaits you and me and all men is of little account. But that the race is to become extinct, that the earth is to grow old and die, and the sun itself wither like a leaf and be blown about the barrens of infinite space -- this strikes one dumb, and paralyzes the soul -- this is the abyss of science into whic e cannot gaze. What bow of promise spans it? That the very soil which hold out dead must become lifeless meteoric dust! Human monuments must perish, but the solar system is to be disrupted. How many times may this have happened in the past eternities! I see no reason to doubt that this game of the gods may not have been played over and over, and that even you and I may, in effect, have lived many times on other worlds, and may live again. The same results, culminations, must go on forever and ever. When great clock runs down, it will wind itself up again and strike the same hours as before.-- Forty years ago was my last winter at the old school-house in West Settlement. Of my schoolmates at that time I recall eleven who are dead, Walter Elliott of Bovina was teacher. In the spring of 1854 I left home to teach school in Olive; taught there fro mApril to middle of Sept. at 10 or 12 dollars a month and boarded around. Went to Ashland to school in Nov.; lefft there in Sprinng and went to Jersey in April in search of school; failed; came home and stayed all summer, working and studying. After haying started for Jersey again; stopped in Olive to visit; was again hired to teach same school at 20 dollars a month; taught till spring. In spring (April 20) went to Cooperstown seminary. Left therein July; worked in haying and went West in Sept. Tom Kniffin with me. Stopped at Dr. Allaben's in Polo. Engaged the school there and taught till spring of 1957. Came back home in April; stayed home till June or July when I engaged to teach at High Falls in Ulster County. Was married that fall September 13. Taught till spring. In July went to Rosendale to teach. Got interested in a patent buckle; threw up the school and went to Newark, N.J. Buckle failed and engaged school in Jan. 1859 at East Orange. Taught there about 2 years. In fall of '60 took the school at Marlboro on Hudson; taught there till spring of '62. Went home in April. Stayed all summer. In fall went to Olive to study medicine with Dr. Hull; heard of a school atButtermilk Falls, secured it, and went there to teach probably in Jan. 1863. Taught there, and began there the study of birds and flowers, stimulated to the latter by Prof. Eddy. Taught there till fall of '63 (made the Adirondack trip in August of that year) when I threw up the school and went to Washington (in October). On Jan. 4, 1864 I was appointed to a clerkship in the office of Comptroller of Currency. Continued a cleark till Jan 1, 1873 when I left W. and came to Middleton, N.Y. as Receiver of the Wallkill Nat. Bank. Wound up the affairs of the bank in 3 or 4 years. In Aug. '73to about '85. Built my house in '73 and '74, moved into it late in Nov. '74. -- Capt. Steven Burroughs was born in Bridgeport, Conn. in 1729. Died in 1817. A man of unusual mental endowments, ship-builer and astronomer: said to have invented the system of Federal Money. He had 4 brothers, Eden, John, Edward, and Ephraim. The latter was my great-grandfather, his son Eden was my grandfather. Ephraim died in Stamford, in April 1818, and nwas buried there in a field which is now under cultivation. He was born near Bridgeport (Conn.) about 1735. He hadsix sons and several daughters. His sons were Eden, Curtis, William, David, Daniel, and Ephraim. Eden, father's great uncle, was the father of Stephen, the notorious. Eden was a Presbyterian minister. 30 More snow, pretty heavy, about 10 inches now on the ground. Weather mild. 31 Bright, mercury 40 degrees. Feb. 1 Showing again this morning. Storm center seems south of us. Ver deliberate, evidently means business. -- Snow turned out only about an inch of hyperborean chaff. 3 Mild, overcast, mercury 42-- How common in literature is the sin of over-writing. It strikes one as vulgar, like over-dressing. The piece has a studied, formal, artificial air. Simple things must be simply said -- all things must be as simply said as possible. A man must work a long time to get out of the ambition of writing of inflating and bedecking what he has to say. I think this was at times or of the sins of Franis Parkman. I judge so from extracts I have seen of a sealed paper, giving an account of his life, which he left with a friend, and which was opened after his death. It is full of the balancing of period and is more like an amateur than like a master. 5 Cold wave; down to 2 degrees above this morning, clear and still. 6 Down to zero this morning. Bright and still all day. Had a skate on the river. -- In saying that Homer and the Bible are not literary, I mean they do not savor of literary or artificial culture, or of conscious literary art. They savor more of the larger culture of life and nature. From this point of view Tennyson is more literary that Wordsworth, Longfellow that Bryant. Milton than Shakespeare, the later novelists than Scott and Fielding. There is a deeper seriousness in Wordsworth than in Tennyson, in Whittier than in Lowell, a More profound humility and religiousness. It is not mrerely the seriousness of the scholar, the poet, it is the seriousness and humility of the man. I would have the unadulterated man, or human, flavor always predominate, as it does in the greates works. The Bible was not written with a view to literary edification as The Princess was, or Maud, or the Fable for Critics were; but for moral and spiritual edification. The literary spirit must always walk behind the spirit of universal love and sympathy, the spirit of man as man and not as a literary expert.8 Milder, a thaw at hand. -- Just finished A Window in Thrums, a delicious piece of work -- would rather have written it than all Mr. Howell's or James have written. How one loves these characters! because the author himself loved them. If Mr. Mowells only had this girft of love! P.M. Thermometer up to near 59 degrees. Bees out of the hive. 9 Snowing, moist and heavy. Mercury up to 36 degrees. 10 Deeply saddened by the death of Archdeacon Ziegenfusz, a man I had come to love. Only a few weeks ago he was here and passed the day in this room with the rest of the "Gang" as he called them -- the picture of health and good nature. His chances of long life seemed vastly better than m own. His wife died only a few weeks ago, and this calamity seemed to have broken him up and killed him. He was a man to love for his genial good-fellowship, as well as for his fine mind and character. I feel a keen sense of personal loss. Going over to the station last night I said to myself, Here have I lived in this place 20 years, and am not yet wonted to it. Twenty years of youth here, and these hills and valleys and river would seem like a part of myself; now I look upon them with alien, reluctant eyes. I seem only a camper for a day and a night. So much more plastic and impressionable are we in youth! As manhood is reached we begin to harden, and by and by our affections will not take on new shapes at all. 13 The boss snow storm of the winter so far, nearly a foot of snow, much drifted. Mercury down to 18 degrees, began yesterday afternoon. -- Attended the funeral of Ziegenfuss yesterday. A great crowd. Saw the body in the morning, looked like life -- never saw Death counterfeit Sleep more perfectly. No emaciation, no pain. His old mother came while I was standing near. Dear old woman! how her heart was wrung! how I wanted to comfort her! How the past must have come like a flood upon her! She remembered him as a babe in her arms, as a child by her side, as a ladwith his books and playthings, as a youth going out into the world, as a young man entering upon his career. How pathetic, how overwhelming! Oh, the inrrevocable past! Bishop Potter spoke well -- a metropolitan man, stamped with the air of a great city. Conventional, precise, dignified, clean-cut. Not a large, homely, original nature, but a fine-trained talent -- an epitome of better New York. Ziegenfusz himself was a true democrat. I loved him much and shall always carry a sweet remembrance of him. How mysterious, I heard several say, that such a man should be taken; the bishop said so, too. It is mysterious when weLucky if here and there on a writer's page we catch the scent of fresh new soil. Once in a while Carlyle, Goethe, Arnold, go in to the and we are exilarated, dilated; and then, again it is scratch, scratch. Rocks and stones with Carlyle and hard-pan with Goethe, or roots and weeds with Arnold. 15 More snow, 5 or 6 inches, this morning; half leg deep now. The cloud cows have had good grazing lately; they pour down their milk like cows in June. Well, they went dry early in the fall, and it is time. As the sun comes North he drives the hot moist air of the tropics before him, and we get the benefit. -- I never read a newspaper but I way, What a poor editor I shold make, according topresent standards. Nine-tenths of this stuff I should leave out. It is useless for a newspaper to try to be a private correspondent of every man woman and child trying to tell them the news about the people they know, and the matters they are concerned in. It should aim only at real news, important news for all, and when there is no news, it shold print a smaller sheet, just as it prints a larger sheet when there is extra news. Printing the same number of columns daily shows the absurdity of the whole business. If there is real news one day, and noe the next, then chaf must take its place, and readersbe robbed of their time. Does any same man more than glance at the editorial page? He knows before hand that he will find no honest, disinterested discussion there, but only lis and make-believe. 17 Cold, cold 8 degrees or 10 degrees below this morning, yet the air looks as innocent and genial as in summer; a soft, bluish haze veils everyting. Sun bright, sky blue, the steam whistles have that split shrill minor character of every cold weather. 18 Rain this morning from the south, mercury 40 degrees. Truly a weather spasm. The grip of Winter is not sure when these happn. P.M. cleared off; mercury 5024 Very cold. 10 degrees below this morning. Bright sunshine all day. Mercury only 2 degrees above at noon. Ice-men on the river suffer much. 25 Still colder, 14 degrees below this morning. But now at 10 A.M. temperature recovering rapidly. A storm evidently approaching. The past week has been free from storm. Cold wave began on Wednesday, the 21st. 26 A driving snow storm from the North -- that is from the South -- mercury about 15 degrees. Winter grown robust and desperate in his last days. -- Took down Carlye's Past and Present last night and leafed it over for half an tasting it here and there. I was glad I did not feel abliged to read it again. It is hard reading. I confess I did not want to be bruised and bumped about by a ride over this rough road. Run the eye over the page and bumped about by a ride over this rought road. Run the eye over the page and see how rought and thorn it looks, and it feels no less so to the mind. The great classical turnpikes, how different! In Carlyle's prose, at its worst, as in Browning's poetry, the difficulties are mechanical; it is not in the thought; it is in the expression. There is fire and intensity about it, but a blow with a club will make you see stars, or a sudden jolt give you a vivid sense of real things. Oh, do level and roll your road a little, Mr. Cor I fear travellers upon it in the future will be few. we do not want it made easier, but simply do not want to be bruised. Carlyle will never be forgotten; he is one of the few monumental writers but probably he will be named and referred to oftener than he is read. A book that one cannot read a second or third time -- A man's private storms and whirlpools and despairs and indigestino ought to appear in his work only as power, or light, or richness of tone. It is near 50 years since Past and Present was written, and none of its dire prophecies have yet come true. Yet I love this Scotch Jeremiah as I love few men. 29 Four or five inches of snow yesterday. Mercury down to 8 degrees this morning. -- Milton's poetry, for the most part, is to me a kind of London Tower filled with old armor, stuffed knights, wooden chargers, and the emblems and bedizzlements of the past. Interesting for a moment, but dead, hollow, moth-eaten. Not a live thing in one of his poems that I can find. Yes, there is a nightingale and a few flowers, and a human touch, here and there. But half a dozen pages would hold all that any man need read. The "Sampson" is said to be in the Greek spirit, but what business find he, a Puritan of Cromwell's time, writing in the Greek spirit?Why did he not write in his own spirit, or in the Puritan spirit? the 17th Century spirit? What business had he masquerading in this old armor? He put no real life under these ribs of death. His "Paradise Lost" is a huge puppet show, so grotesque and preposterous that it is quite insufferable. Milton seems to have been a real man, but he stands there in English literature like a great museum of literary archeology. He seems to have had no experiences of his own, and rarely to have seen the earth and sky, or men and women with his own natural eyes. He saw everything through the classic eyes of the dead past. Who reads him? Professors of literature, I suppose. He was a great craftsman no doubt, but he has been of no service to mankind, except a literary service; he has helped us to realize the classic spirit of letters, and the absurdity of the old theological dramaturgy. He spoke no word to any man's real moral or spiritual wants. March 1 Welcome, thrice welcome the first day of the almanac's spring! Bright and warm, a sap-day. May tempt the bees out by and by. Mercury down to 25 degrees last night. Snow a foot or more on the ground. Ice-men at work on the river, with 10 or 11 inch ice, half of it snow-ice. 2 Warm with signs of rain. Light shower in P.M. Wind shifting to N.W. and cooler. 3 Warm and clear, a day without a cloud, a real blue day. Stiffened up a little last night. but hardly touched freezing-point. Gentle breeze from the North. No spring birds yet. River opened last ight. 4 Sunday, Still bright and sprin-like. The spring birds this morning; bluebirds before sunrise, and robins and purple finches a little later the latter singing in chorus. The perfection of sap-weather. Snow running very fast. 5 Clear and warm, snow runs rapidly. 6 The bright spring days continue. Mud and slush very bad. But little frost at night. 9 Fine spring days, without a break till today. Snow nearly all gone. Excellent sap-weather. Sparrows in song. Turtle-dove on the 6th. Clouds today and sprinkles of rain in P.M. Gilchrist came last night on his way to Vassar. Rather too good an opinion of himself and work. 10 Still warm with sunshine. never remember ten days of March in succession so spring-like. Down to freezing only two or three nights. Near 60 degres some days. G's lecture at Vassar not a success, and I told him so. 11 Sunday. Cloud and fog this morning, but no frost. Sunshine in P.M. River opened night of the second.12 A little frost last night, calm and cool this morning. No wind yet this spring. Only a little floating ice on the river. Can the spark be said to sleep in the flint or the steel? No, only the condition of the spark sleeps there. The spark, the fire, sleeps in the arm, or inthe power that brings the flint and steel in collision. The motion, the force is converted into heat. 18 Sunday. The end of another week of remarkable March weather, April weather, in fact. In the past twenty years I remember nothing equal to it. Sunshine most of the time, and only a little frost. Showed on Thursday about 1 1/2 inch; all gone by 3 on Friday and mercury up to 55. On Friday my four friends from Poughkeepsie came up and spent the day. A pleasant time again. Yesterday Julian and I spent the day over by Black Creek after ducks. Killed no ducks but had a delightful day. Many signs of life in the air and water -- two or three kinds of butterflies, weveral moths, and occasional piping frog, insects in the air, newts and water bugs in and on the water, nuthatches calling, sparrows and robins and bluebirds everywhere. Not a breee stirring. Black Creek like glass as we floated or paddled up and down its length. Only a few ducks here and there. Only a few patches of old snow in the woods. Roads getting dry and vineyard calls us to work.My new man, Auchmoody, moved in yesterday. Buds of the soft maples swelling perceptibly. Saw my first snake and did not harm him. P.M Mercury up to 64 degrees, too warm. Hazel in bloom. Bees carry in pollen. Crocuses piercing the turf. Julian and I walk along the creek and back on RR. Arbutus buds swelling. Phoebe bird today. Standing after night fall now anywhere on the lawn one hears a slow stirring or rustling in the leaves and dry grass. It is made by large earth worms coming up out of their burrows and ruching out over the ground, whetlere for feeding or breedingI know not. My boy calls them "night walkers". In summer he hunts them at night to make bobs of. They are very sly and jerk swiftly back in their holes on the slightest sound. I suppose they feed your footsteps on the ground. 19 Warmer and warmer, up to 69 degrees. A sprinkle of rain in P.M; the fairest April weather. The little piping frongs in full chorus tonight; the whole tribe in full cry, also clucking frogs and the long-drawn Tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r of the toad. 20 Cooler this morning, north wind. 22 Another big storm flashed in the pan. The fourth or fifith storm that had started from the West failed to reachus. Only a little dash of rain and mist and fog. Warm this morning, like lat April; grass greening and the plow at work. A cold wave said to be coming. No rain to speak of in over a month. -- A passage omiited on second thought from my essay in last Critic on the Sapphic Secret. "Discursive and experimental writers like Mr. Thompson and myself - the mere nibbling mice of Criticism, shoud temper their wrath when they sit in judgement upon the great ones -- the lions who make the paths through the jungles of the world. It is no fault of theirs that they are not micebut is it not a fault of ours that we do not see them to be lions?" 23 Rain set in P.M. and continued all night. Julian and I spend the day at Black Pond and Creek after ducks. See a few but no shot. Cook and eat our dinner on the miniature island, 8 x 10, near outlet of lake. Very pleasant time. The first warbler singing in the trees near us. J. has his new canvas canoe. 25 Overcast, storm threatened. 26 A white-was of snow this morning. All gone at night but getting colder. 27 A cold wave, down to 20 degrees this morning. Begin foundation of fruit house. A typical March day fo the chilly sort. 28 Like yesterday, with wind shifting to southerly in P.M. A storm approaching. How true it is that we want something untamed and untamable in a poet -- a strain of the original savage man. It is this salt that gives the tang to his poetry and that keeps it. No matter how great his culture and refinement if he only strikes back through it to his original uneducated nature and draws from that. He must be a poet before he has ever seen or heard of poetry. No doubt we strike here on one source of weakness of much modern poetry -- it does not smack at all of the soil, or simple, unlettered, human nature. The singers are poets mainly after what books and art ahve done for them. Their works are an intellectual and not an emotional product. Even in such a poet at Lowell, the original man is deeply overlaid iwth the scholar, and with literature. Which shall lead -- the emotional and intuitive nature, or the reasoning, intellectual nature? 31 Wonderful Aurora last night, beyond any I have ever before seen. Once while a boy I saw someting approaching it. The wonder of this display was that it made a complete circle all around the horizon. We stood in the midst of a greattent of streaming aurora. The ghostly flame shot up from north, east, south, west, and came to a focus just a few degrees south of our meridiam never before have I seen it rise up from the south. The apex of this tent was the scene of constantly shifting and vanishing forms of light. It was fairly apochryphal. At times it seemed as if the heavens opened at this point and troops of angels and winged horses came straight toward us. A pencil like Dore's would have caught many suggestions. Sometimes the electric clouds would gather at this point liek foam over the point of escaping fluid and whirl about. Sometimesthere would be curious openings through it where the black sky and the stars would appear. A deep crimson flush would appear here and there near the horizon and spread upward to the zenith. at 8:30 the motion of the streamers was hardly perceptible, but at 8:45 they were leaping up and very rapidly, the sublty impulses traveling up precisely like flame; and such ghostly flame! Never was anything more spectral and unearthly then the whole display. It was a wild dance of many-colored sheeted ghostly forms! What an impression such a phenomenon must have made upon rude primitive man. I myself could hardly keep down an emotion of superstitous fear.A warm fine day with summer clouds and wind. Work all day on the new foundation walls of barn. April 1 Warm and breezy; mercury about 50 degrees in morning. Grass quite green and all buds swelling. The spring three weeks ahead of time. Hepatica today out probably a day or two. 2 Bright, dry, cold. A day to burn brush and rubbish. 3 My 57th birthday. Clear, sharp, dry; mercury down to 20 degrees this morning. The sky so clear and dry that the cold air falls down upon us. House painters here this morning. Julian resumes scool. Settle up P.O matters with S. Health good, spirits ditto.8 Sunday. Ground white with snow this morning. We had an April March now we are having a March April. The week has been rather cold, quite a freeze two or three nights. -- What a difference between the artist's interest in a picture, and the public's interest! The people are interested in the picture, in what it tells them, in the subject, in what they see in it that agrees with their experience, or their ideals. The artist is interested in the art of the picture, the drawing, the coloring, the handling -- in the form and not in the substance. Which is right? The artists do not much respect the popular verdict. An artist will greatly admire a portrait that is not a good likeness, while the first thing that the layman demands is that it be like the original. If it is not like, he has no further interest in it. It is the old story of art for art's sake, and not for what it tells. The professional view of a doctor whom he met rubbing his hands with delight because he had just been called to a chase of some kind or other that was "beautiful" -- just according to the books, every feature was perfect. The book or the picture that has not something besides its art to recommend it, will not carry very far. -- Prof. Huxley says the ethical process and the cosmic process are at war -- the former combats the latter. And yet if your ethical process is not in keeping with the laws of nature, if it be not really founded upon the cosmic order, will it last? will it carry? Can the settled order of the Whole be combatted? Do we combat it in setting up the moral order? Certainly not. The conflict is not fully cleared up by Husley. Our benevolence, our humanity prompts us to interfere with the law of natural selection, the survival of the fittest in seeking to prolong the lives of the unfit. We do prolong them, but evidently to the detriment of the stock. Moral value, moral goodness -- what are they? Are they founded in the constitution of things? Self-denial, self-sacrifice, heroism, mercy, forgiveness, etc. are these things contrary to the eternal verities? Man confronts Nature and puts her under his feet, but only within certain narrow limits. He does not make the tide rollback, but he utilizes it, rides it. He cannot change the nature of lightning, but he can use it, control it, (not tame it.) We say Man tames the lightning, or tames the elements, but that is only a figure of speech. They are untabalbe. He measured them and adjusts his wants to them. He tames the animals; he subdues them. He tames them his own animal nature; he lets the ape and tiger ide. The cosmic process of course includes man and lass his doings, since he is part of the cosmos, and the ethical process is at war with the cosmic process only as the lever is at war with gravitation. A new element is introduced, the will of man, which sorks upon and uses the old order. Man uses Nature and is part ofher unconsciously, while the animals do not. He is an animal plus a developed (more or less) moral consciousness. By reason he uses Nature. (The lamper-eels use Nature also when they go up stream for the stones which the current helps them float down to their nest.) The moral order is opposed to the animal order -- is not that about all? Must think further on this matter. Is the ethical process analogous to the cultivating and improving of the surface of the earth -- draining, clearing, shaping, fertilizing? Is the farmer at war with Nature? In one sense; but unless Nature favors him, where is he? 9 Windy, chilly. Froze some last night. Sheets of snow all day yesterday and a very chilly air. -- Dick Martin just dropped in to show me a handful of young 'possums, very young -- 16 of them -- likely newly-born mice. The mother was picked up dead on the RR, head and one leg cut off and these young were in her pouch each clinging to its teat dead. The connection seems almost as vital as when they-- When I am flollowing my plow over a refractory piece of ground, and see it dip in here and come to the surface there, now and then the turning of the soil fairly, but as often only making a mark, I say that while that is not good plowing it is about as good as the best writing, so rarely do even the best authors more than turn up fresh soil here and there -- a steady uniform furrow, opening up virgin soil -- who turns it? We arewere in the mother's womb. They are born in about two weeks after gestation begins, and placed by the mother in her pouchm where they fasten upon the teats. The teats, Dick says, are long and slender like a little skunks, 'possums, muskrats, woodchucks, and foxes. The red foxes seem to be run down by the fast night trains. 11 Forty years ago to-day -- how appalling that sounds! -- I began my first school, Tongore, Ulster County. A driving snow storm from the North. Winter again in earnest. Moved the wagon-house today, and now call it the fruit house.12 Five or six inches of wet snow yesterday. Flurries of snow in the air this morning, with north wind still blowing very chilly. Mercyry a little above freezing. -- Some natures are essentially moral, the categories to which they refer all things are those of good and evil; others are intellectual; their categories of reference are those of the true and the false; still others are esthetic; they see only the beautiful and ugly, only poetry or prose. 15 Lovely day, the world flooded with light; warm, dry, north wind. A luxury to be out doors. Fine yesterday also, with some cloud. drive to Sherwood's in PM.-- How curious, almost startling, the thought or discovery that there is such a thing as light or sound -- these two universal phenomena that play such a part in our lives. That they are sensations -- merely, physiological effects of vibrations in the ether. But what causes the vibratons in the ether that causes our sensations of light? some material force certainly. The same with sound; the waves are there, if the ear is not. Light effects even the rocks. So there is an influence, an emanation from the sun or the lamp which is real, and which makes the conditions for the sensation we call light. There is such thing as sweet or sour, hot or cold; these are sensations. The universe is an illusion, a creation of our own after all. 17 The fourth of the charmed days. Bright, dry and warm. The yellow redpoll warbler today. Walk up to the creek for suckeys but get none, but how beautiful the full, clear, cold stream rushing along in the sunlight! Began plowing vineyard to-day. 20 Two days of cloud and blue vapor -- veiled, soft, quiet, moist orodous April days. 21 Shower with thunder last night, and light rains during forenoon. Bright and warm in PM, and rain again at sundown. 22 Rain with thunder in morning and cooler. Misty all forenoon. The April drought fairly broken.Notes for an April poem: The soft maples are crimson and the buds of the elm swarm like bees in the branches, The bee comes home with golden thighs from the willows, and honey in her bag from the arbutus. School children pass with their hand full of hepaticas and arbutus. The newly-lpoughed fields glow like the breasts of robins. I walk in the new furrow in the stron sunlight till it is photographed upon my spirit. The farmer strides across the brown field scattering the seed oats at steps alternate. The sparrow, the robin, the jay, have nest-material in their beaks. The kinglet pipes his fine lyrical strain in the evergreens -- he flashes his ruby crown to his mate. The white-throat sings on his way northward. Long and long the highhole calls fro mthe distand field. The first swallow laughs down to me from the sky. From the marshes rise the shill, infantile chorus of the little piping frogs. From the trees above them comse the o-ka-lee of the red-wing. The song of the toad tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r is heard in the land. The first dandelion lies like a gold coin upon the greening turf.Something delicate, prophetic, spiritual is in the air. The bud-scales are falling from the buds -- some are fragrant and gummy. The light shower fills the air with wild perfume, The bluebird lifts and flickers to his mate his cerulean wing, In the twilight the robin-racket is prolonged and intense, The cow bird sits beside his dusky mate on the top of the tree and pumps up his liquid, glassy notes. In the leafless woods the pedestrian partridge beats his drum -- his own inflated breast. Amid the alders in the moist bottoms, the marsh marigold have the effect of coined sunshine. Here and there is the moist bottoms, the marsh marigolds have the effect of coined sunshine. Here and there is the tree-dotted landscape, the greening rye fields delight the eye. Ere the month is ended the shad-blow makes a white mist, here and there along the forest borders.27 A week of fine April weather, slowly warming up till to-day it is nearly summer heat. Again the maples have shaken out their fringelike blossoms, again the cherry trees are white. Season much earlier than last. A few days ago the air was filled with a dleicious wild perfume, a pungent, stimulating, bitter-sweet odor. I could not trace it to its source. It seemed to be general and to fill all the air. Was it from the just-bursting buds of the sugar maples? I know of no toher likely source. Tops of the trees over in Langdon's woods just faintly etched in opening leaf-buds. Currants blooming. On the night of the 24th went to Kingston to hear and see Ingersoll Much stouter and redder than when I saw him last May; much too much belly. Can drink whiskey, he says, but not wine. Wine makes him throb and throb. He ate his supper in his room after the lecture; drank iced-milk and iced-water freely. Lecture full of telling points, much sound argument, and many eloquent passages. He said, in talking with me in his room, that he was by no means sure that immortality was desirable; he would name conditions before accepting it -- unconditional immortality he would refuse.28 A lovely day, feminine day, veiled, tranquil, almost voluptuous. Mercury at 78. A little rain in afternoon. -- Had a glimpse of father the other night in my dream; we were at the table and a plate of trout was passed around, and I was father pick out the big one, as I have so often seen him do. I smiled in my sleep. 29 Clear and cooler, with North wind. 30 The last of the April days, clear, warm, still, with just a tinge of vapor in the air -- the beginning of brided veil ofSummer. Cherry and plum trees in bloom; pear trees spring and apple trees showing the pink. Carpenders began the new barn t0-day. May 1st May day shads in warm soft, wind southerly, wide hazy clouds in the sky. Wood thrush to-day in my grounds. The first big run of shad yesterday. 2. Hot and dry -- 88 degrees in shade to-day. Apple trees leaping into bloom. 3d Cooler this morning; North wind. Leaves half out; a tender mist of green over Langdens woods. Grass and grain need rain.-- In P. library I glance over Mr Grosses "Note on Walt Whitman" in the New Review for April. Must read it at my leisure some time. Gross is a very clever, but a very small critic and man -- has spent his days in overlading and sorting and inspecting the small potatoes of Enlish literature (and no literature has more small potatoes) How much he knows about [crossed out: English lit] said literature that is not worth knowing that it would be a mere weariness to know. He is a man of details and of deft careful workmanship, but entirely superficial. You never strike a great thought or a fresh thought in his workand his criticisms compare with Arnold's, or Scherer's as a vine compares with a tree. The professional critic, if he be not a large nature, can make nothing of Whitman. A man like Gosse, trained in the schools and overtrained is in literature, much like the orthodox theologian in religion. How the latter snorts at the idea that there can be any religion outside the church, the dogmas, the forms, the Bible etc. The former in the same way snorts at the idea that there can be any poetry outside of or in opposition to the rules and models and schools. He sees nothing but a barbarous, unregenerated poetic nature in W.W. Mr G. thinks the secret of W's attraction for certain minds is that they see themselves in him etc. Well, a poet in which such men as Stevenson Symonds, Emerson, Thoreau and others see themselves, must be something and somebody to be sure. In Mr Gosse's poems we see only little Mr Gosse. When we can all see ourselves in him [crossed out: we] he will have increased immeasurably in size and importance. 10 Lovely May days without a break, nearly summer tem-perature. A brief shower on Sunday the 6th getting pretty dry. Showy orchis in bloom and fringed polygala. Leaves all out. Trees clad in their under garments, tho' some of the maples look fully clad. Go to N.Y. to-day to attend Authors Club dinner at night. 12. Back home to-day from N.Y. Still dry and warm. Apple bloom all gone. The last run of shad (apparently) in the river. Was greatly shocked on my arrival home to learn of the sudden death of my neighbor Mr Hathaway yesterday morning. While I was at the authors club, speaking or eating and making merry, he was struggling with death. He has been my neighbor there under the hill for 10 years and I shall miss him much. I could almost look down into his chimney and I shall greatly miss the smoke from his fire going up into the air on winter mornings, and his friendly voice and manner. A blameless, good natured, rather intelligent man, without childrenwith a wife fearfully neat. A deacon in the church, a cooper by trade, and in all ways a kind and brotherly man. My last word with him or vision of him was last Friday the 4th of May. He had lived many years in Brooklyn working at his trade. Came here 10 years ago to look after the big ice house. Age, 67. To-day is his funeral day (Sunday 13th) -- The [crossed out: onl] main difference between a precious stone and a common stone is not in the substance, but in the arrangement -- the crystalization. In substance the charcoal and the diamond are one, but in form how widely they differ. This crystalization is not an easy thing. It requires almost an eternity of time. 19 Weather the last week warm and dry till last night, when a fine shower fell, nearly one inch of water. 19 Go home on morning train take up some shad; reach home at noon. How green and fresh the old spot looks, how the bobolinks sing. all are well. Stay home till Wednesday, the 23d Wind and light rain till last day, the bright and warm. I go fishing over in Meeker's Hollow; take 33 trout to the song of bobolinks. A hot pull home at 12. Take a few trout from West Settlement stream on Monday. Return home in afternoon. 24. Began raining last night from a depression in Va, yesterday, and has rained steadily all day. No let-up for a moment. Easily an inch of water has fallen. Grape arms 2 feet long and begin-ning to break some. 25 Rain continued all day and all last night, and is still at it; threatening to be a regular debauch of the rain godsStill my drains are not running. The earth was very thirsty. Grape arms dropping off this morning. -- Slow rain nearly all day. -- I do not seem to have made any proper record of my visit home from the 19th to the 23rd. Heavy East wind with light rain most of the time. I strolled about in the usual way, listening, looking for something I could not find. I sat for an hour or more on two occasions on the top of the hill above the house looking over in West Settlement and listening to the shore larks singing far above me. Twice after supper I walked out on the hill and looked long and long off east into Montgomery Hollow and trying to conjure up the old days I poked about the grave yard on the hill and found the grave of Obadiah Scudder, 1804, the oldest date I could find. I watched the boys draw dung and tried to get up courage to takea hand in, but could not. One afternoon I went down into the hemlocks and wandered along the little stream, all much changed since my boy hood. How green and fresh the country looked, with a sort of pathos over all, the pathos of my vanished youth. 29. The big rain of the season thus far yesterday; began about 2 P.M. and rained nearly all night, nearly 2 inches of water in 10 hours, drains all running this morning; broke the grape arms badly. I find they break less in stony, gravelly soil; the worst breakage is in the soft sandy soil. Bright and cool to-day. 31. Another rain set in last night from the N.E. a hell of rain seems imminent. The locusts have dropped their bloom. Daisy has come again and clover. June 1st June comes in like a huzzy, cold and sour-- clouds with spurts of rain. 3d A fine day at last but very cool. Dr Bucke and wife here. The 17 year locusts are coming out think in places. 4 Rain again last night and this morning. Clearing off is no good any more. Before you can turn around the rain is upon us again. It is "water affirmative" as Goethe says. No matter where the wind is it rains. Where two or three clouds are gathered together it rains. This is the third week of rain every day but one. 5th Threatens rain again. Coldand sour. We go to West Point. Actually clears off in P.M. and we have a fine day. 6 Cold and sour again threatening rain. Hellish weather, worse than in England. Barn not yet finished. Straw-berries just ripening a little. A cold wave coming from the N.W. with frosts in its course. In P.M. walk over to the weasel swamp. Find three interesting things -- The 17 year locusts coming out all along the borders of the woods; some little bushes loaded with them. Under certain trees find their little earth mounds [crossed out: thick] many of them yet sealed up, or with only a peep hole in them. Saw a little moth that evidently imitates bird droppings on the leaves. When disturbed it would fly a few rods and alight on [crossed out: the]a broad green leaf, spreading itself out perfectly flat, simulating the droppings of a bird. It was yellowish with a faint dark brown etched upon its wings. It would not move till touched. I have read of a moth or butterfly found on some island of Oceanica that exactly mimmicks the excrement of a bird upon a leaf -- this of course for protection. Found the nest of the worm-eating warbler beside the path in the edge of the woods. As I came along down the path on my return a small brown bird started up from the ground a few feet from me. From the glimpse of it I had, I took it to be the oven bird. Looking to the spot [crossed out: from] whence it started I saw another bird with a striped head standing on the edge of a nest in the side of the bank with the droppings of one of the young birds, whose heads I saw beneath her, in her beak. My appearance upon the scene was sudden and the mother bird was surprised while waiting upon her young. She stood motion-less, half turned toward me and kept the white mass in her beak, neither of us stirred for a minute or two, when I withdrew and sat down a few paces away. The male bird now became quite uneasy and flitted from bush to bush and uttered his alarm chip. The mother bird never stirred. I could see her loaded beak from where I sat. In two or three minutes she dropped or otherwise disposed of her unsavory morsel, but kept her place above her young. Then the male bird, seeing that was the game, quieted down also and dis-appeared from view. After long waiting I approached the nest and pausing 10 feet away, regarded it some moments. The bird never stirred. Then came nearer, and when I sat down within 4 or 5 feet of the nest the parent bird flew out upon the ground 3 or 4 paces from me and began trying that old confidence game of the birds upon me. She was seized with incipient paralysis, she dragged herself about in the ground, she grieved and tottered and seemed about ready to go all to pieces. [crossed out: The male now sudden] seeing this game did not work she began to use her wings and to scold sharply. The male now suddenly appeared upon the scene, and, ture to his name had a worm in his beak. Their scolding brought avireo upon the scene, which they seemed to regard as an intrusion. The nest was composed mainly of dry leaves. The young were probably a week old. I shall visit them again. 7. Cold and sour; almost a frost last night. No heat since April. We greatly overdrew our a/c in that long succession of bright mild days in March and April. 9 Weather still fair and beginning to warm up. Nearly 80 to-day. Grape arms have broken very badly this year. Met poor old Mrs Green last night trudging down from Esopus to take train here to go to Newburgh to see her son fatally hurt on the R.R. Poor old mother, I could have wept with her. Son a worth-less fellow, hard drinker, better dead than alive, but his mothersheart could not give him up easily. There were tears on her brown wrinkled face as we talked. It was very hard for her she said, so old, so much trouble, so much hard work as she had seen. [???] children, a drinking husband and sons, poverty and yet the old woman tries to keep up a cheerful front, and has preserved a certain innocence and sweetness. The methodist dominie went down and prayed beside her son; went on purpose, she said. "It was showing him a good deal of respect" said she, and she was touched by it. Probably the first mark of respect the poor devil had ever seen. I have known her for 20 years and yet she cant get my name right; calls me Mr Burrell generally. As she stepped along alertly to get on the train I saw how pinched and crooked her old back looked, bet. 70 and 80 10 No clouds to-day. Summer heat over 80. A lovely June day. Walked to the woods. Found nest of water thrush, and came near another, the brood had flown. Locusts in full chorus to-day. How warm and fragrant the breath of the meadow I passed through. A very little grape bloom to-day under the hill. 11. A still dim day of great heat, 90 in shade. 12 Still very hot; sky veiled with vapor or smoke till noon. Go to Vassar. A heavy shower at 6 1/2 P.M. 13. Hot, with streaks of sunshine cooler in evening. 14. Bright, cooler; grapes blooming. 21. Very warm the past ten days, from 80 to 90. Light thunder showers. Grapes done blooming yesterday, except a few stragglers, about the same as last year. Currants earlier. The 17-year cicadas humming and flying everywhere. Buildings at last finished and painted. 23. Heat continues, 92 to-day on north end of house. Began the currants. I do not remember such a hot June. July 1st No let-up in the heat, from 86 degrees to 91 degrees every day. Only light dashes of rain; getting dry. Finished currants yesterday, about 4 tons. Prices low.2d Mercury 90 degrees to-day. Start for Snyder Hollow, Julian and I. Reach Larkins about 10 A.M. Stay there in the camp till Friday the 6th A delicious time -- never had better, Julian a good camper out. Great pleasure in being with him in the woods and teaching him wood craft. Took [crossed out: ???] and ate about 90 trout from 5 to 10 inches. Began to get cooler on the 4th. Stopped at Phoececia and caught 2 fine rainbow trout. In the ice-cream saloon the boy asked us, "Will you have it in brick or in bulk?" "If the bricks are bulky," I said "We will have it in 'brick'"? "But what is the difference?" "In the brick it is all in a cake, and in bulk it is shovelled out.""'Shovelled out sounds good", we replied, "we are very hungry for cream;" we will try it both ways" which we did, and liked the shovelled out plates the best. Reached home Friday night. 10. Very cool for past few days and very dry; things begin to suffer much for want of water. 12 Start for Adirondacks to-day on invitation of Mr Chubb. Very hot. Stay at White Hall over night. Reach the Willey House in Keene Friday P.M. Stay one week. Very cool and delightful. The grandest mountain view I ever saw.Like the Chubbs much. Give a talk on Nature in Parlors on Saturday night, and one on Whitman on Sunday night. On Monday we climb Hurricane Mt. The view amazing for extent and sublimity. Meet Prof Davison and some of his philosophers; the Prof. an old time student and thinker -- lives on the past. Nothing new or vital in him. (The new is always vital, and the vital is always new). Return home Friday the 20th; heat terrible -- 94 in the cars all day, 96 in Albany and Troy stations. Very dry, -- a light rain last Sunday the 15th. 22d Cool and cloudy, about 1/2 ich of rain last night.Strays the drouth, but does not cure it. Grapes and all things suffering. A summer of great heat and dryness so far. -- I can well understand the feelings of the old Romans that prompted them to thrash and flog their gods when things went wrong with them. I never knew of a god that did not deserve flogging every day in the year. Take the god of rain, for instance. What a mess he makes of it, always drowning some part of the country and burning up some other part. 24. Cloudy, misty, getting hot. A hot wave near by no rain to speak of. Getting ready to go out to old home, Julian and I.
Founder's Day -- 1924 (8 of 10)
Founder's Day Plays -- 1921 (5 of 12)
from Olive L. Huntley, 5 Dec 1862
Huntley, Olive L.
Letter of application
New Woodstock Dec. 15th Mr Matthew Vassar Dear Sir It is not often that I venture unintroduced, into the presence of an entire stranger; but in consideration of the magnificent gift you have recently bestowed upon the women of our land, I am encouraged to address you upon a subject which, for years, has been to me, one of absorbing interest. I am the third of four sisters, between the ages of twenty two and thirty, in a family of twelve children- ten of whom are still living- who from our...
Show moreNew Woodstock Dec. 15th Mr Matthew Vassar Dear Sir It is not often that I venture unintroduced, into the presence of an entire stranger; but in consideration of the magnificent gift you have recently bestowed upon the women of our land, I am encouraged to address you upon a subject which, for years, has been to me, one of absorbing interest. I am the third of four sisters, between the ages of twenty two and thirty, in a family of twelve children- ten of whom are still living- who from our childhood have for (…)writing to you is to ascertain upon what terms we may become members of this Institution. It has ever been our intention to devote ourselves to teaching, if we can secure a thorough education to prepare us for that important work, and we feel that no place could be found more desirable for obtaining that preparation, than the Vassar Collegiate Institute. Pardon me for taking so much of your time; my earnest desire to secure this object is my apology. Will it be too much to ask you to answer the question I have proposed? Whether we can enjoy the advantages of this noble Institution or not, permit me with all fine women of our land, to thank you warmly for the kindly interest you have manifested in the intellectual and (…) training of our sex; assuring you that thousands of the sons and daughter of our land will yet bless the memory of him whose Christian kindness has prompted this noble enterprise. On behalf of my sister and myself Yours very respectfully Olive L. Humtleyhoped at some future day to enjoy the educational advantages, we so highly prized: but although poverty has never been our portion, yet our parents have never felt able to incur the necessary expense. The advertisements of the different institutions of learning, which have roughly met our eye, have been perused with a longing to share their benefits, which only those, similarly situated can fully understand. Some time since, a matter of the Vassar Collegiate Institute, when in process of erection, attracted our attention, and (…) new hopes; but, ignorant of the plans upon which it was founded, we supposed its advantages were far beyond our reach, and relinquished it with a sigh: hoping a way might yet be opened for the accomplishment of our long-cherished desire. Last evening an Article in the Female Advocate and Guardian caught our eye, which led us to hope that here might be found that which we had so long sought in vain. My object in1862 Olive L Humtley New Woodstock Madison Co. NY Decb 5th Answered 21 Decb wishes to enter as pupil
Anthony, Susan B. -- to My Dear Friend, Feb 6, 1899
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 25 West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1341 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL PORTER AVERY, 1341 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors: LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. SARAH B. COOPER, San Francisco,...
Show moreHonorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 25 West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1341 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL PORTER AVERY, 1341 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors: LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. SARAH B. COOPER, San Francisco, Cal. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Feb. 6, 1899 My Dear Friend Dear Ellen wrote me of the sad bereavement that has come to you and your dear wife- it is too cruel- but there is no escape from the inevitable- Your hearts must ache to the breaking- nevertheless- you were so happy telling me of your blessings in your precious wife & darling babies- last fall when you so lovingly escorted me to the R. R. Station- You have drank of the cup of sorrow before- and proved you had philosophy & strength to endure it- and so both you & your dear one will be equal to this added grief!! With best love & deepest sympathy Susan B. AnthonyCopy Alma Lutz Collection National-American Woman Suffrage Association Office of the President, Rochester N.Y., Feb. 6, 1899 My Dear Friend Dear Ellen wrote me of the sad bereavement that has come to you and your dear wife- it is too cruel- but there is no escape from the inevitable- Your hearts must ache to the breaking- nevertheless- you were so happy telling me of your blessings in your precious wife & darling babies- last fall when you so lovingly escorted me to the R. R. Station- You have drank of the cup of sorrow before- and proved you had philosophy & strength to endure it- and so both you & your dear one will be equal to this added grief!! With best love & deepest sympathy Susan B. Anthony
Aaron, Fannie -- to Father and Mother, May 10,1920
May 10. Dear Father + Mother, I moved home today. I'll try it and see how it works. I found a note on my door from Eleanor Wolfe - sorry to have missed me. It took a while for it to down who she was - but the address Park Ave., helped. Nothing new in classes, except that I got a C+ on that math makeup quiz. It's time for me to wake up. Mlle. C. says she will certify that I don't need [a2nd] year foreign language. Hurrah! I don't think those were the glasses, Mother. There...
Show moreMay 10. Dear Father + Mother, I moved home today. I'll try it and see how it works. I found a note on my door from Eleanor Wolfe - sorry to have missed me. It took a while for it to down who she was - but the address Park Ave., helped. Nothing new in classes, except that I got a C+ on that math makeup quiz. It's time for me to wake up. Mlle. C. says she will certify that I don't need [a2nd] year foreign language. Hurrah! I don't think those were the glasses, Mother. There should be 2 pairs specs. at home. Medicine + laundry O.K. Love; FannieMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Streett, Laura -- oral history, December 10, 2014:
Field of study: history and library science. Current occupation: Vassar College Archivist. Grew up in Troy, NY; undergraduate at SUNY New Paltz, graduate studies at the University of Maine; worked at Smith College and Cornell University before coming to Vassar. Keywords: LGBTQ, oral history, New York, history, Smith College, Vassar history, women's history, feminism, lesbian fashion, archives, marriage, family dynamics.
Anthony, Susan B. -- to Miss Booth, Jan 22, 1888
Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement. International Council of Women Assembled by the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION of the United States, To be held at Washington, D.D., March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayettville, N. Y., Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H....
Show moreFortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement. International Council of Women Assembled by the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION of the United States, To be held at Washington, D.D., March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayettville, N. Y., Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Jan 22, 1888 My Dear Miss Booth Yours of the 16th made feel both very happy & very sad- - Glad because you expressed so much sympathy with our great undertaking- and very sorry because you cannot give us the paper on Journalism- We have not yet found any one who will- but am hope some one will feel moved to say yes very soon- I hope you & Mrs Wright will both be able to steal away the week of the Council- - At any rate to be with us on Monday April 2d when we hope to see organized a promising International Council- - Well officered- & well started for good & useful work- And to accomplish this- we shall you & the like of you You will- I am sure give a mention of the Council in the Bazaar- Perhaps we ought to put an advertisement in both the Bazaar & Weekly!! Do you think so?- or will both contribute good items- for our good works sake. Very Sincerely yours & Mrs. Wright Susan B. Anthony Copy Alma Lutz Collection Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement. International Council of Women Assembled by the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION of the United States, To be held at Washington, D. C., March 25 to April 1, 1888 Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Jan 22, 1888 My Dear Miss Booth Yours of the 16th made feel both very happy & very sad- - Glad because you expressed so much sympathy with our great undertaking- and very sorry because you cannot give us the paper on Journalism- We have not yet found any one who will- but am hope some one will feel moved to say yes very soon- I hope you & Mrs Wright will both be able to steal away the week of the Council- - At any rate to be with us on Monday April 2d when we hope to see organized a promising International Council- - Well officered- & well started for good & useful work- And to accomplish this- we shall you & the like of you You will- I am sure give a mention of the Council in the Bazaar- Perhaps we ought to put an advertisement in both the Bazaar & Weekly!! Do you think so?- or will both contribute good items- for our good works sake. Very Sincerely yours & Mrs. Wright Susan B. Anthony
Vance, Gertrude (Pratt) — to mother, n.d.
3. Dear Mama I got your dear letter this A.M. Who is the Mr. Gregory who was killed by auto. You are a perfect dear to send the cake I told Margie about it & she said it would be fine. In thought of the [nabisco’s?] myself we could mix them with the cake. I have one package that I [bought?] from home & we might get another. We are going to have a punch bowl & cups from the place we [got?] the ice cream when you were here & then we will make the punch with lemons ourselves &...
Show more3. Dear Mama I got your dear letter this A.M. Who is the Mr. Gregory who was killed by auto. You are a perfect dear to send the cake I told Margie about it & she said it would be fine. In thought of the [nabisco’s?] myself we could mix them with the cake. I have one package that I [bought?] from home & we might get another. We are going to have a punch bowl & cups from the place we [got?] the ice cream when you were here & then we will make the punch with lemons ourselves & get a bottle of marachino[sp:maraschino] cherries to put in it. then we will have a supper dance & serve & after that just let people help themselves to punch like a reg. dance. We had snow up here yesterday & today is very cold & snow still on the ground. Do tell me what you want for Xmas. I dont want you to get any big things for my room like a lamp as we must have one at home before I have one & my light here is excellent. We might [buy?] ^ some of yours & my Xmas present s together & then we would get what we wanted although the things you get for me are always perfect. One thing I would like is a watch ribbon with a little silver “slide” & clasp. I have just thought you may be in N.Y. if I should phone so I guess I wont any way dont stay home for it as I can decide about the pictures & I will get them as cheap as I can but if you think they are really good we might as well get at least 3 expensive ones as it would be a shame to loose them. Love from your little Goo.
Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, n.d. [postmarked April 16, 1920]
Dear Mother, You told me sure I could call up whenever I want to, so I shall do so next Sunday before temple, between 9 + 10. Do not be worried. I feel so perfectly rotten, and goodness knows, I am obeying the doctor's instructions. I want to speak to you to get some advice, so that you can ask the doctor if he has any suggestions about what I should do. I thought it was the railroad trip, but it is already Friday morning + there is no improvement. Per-haps I ought to get treatment from...
Show moreDear Mother, You told me sure I could call up whenever I want to, so I shall do so next Sunday before temple, between 9 + 10. Do not be worried. I feel so perfectly rotten, and goodness knows, I am obeying the doctor's instructions. I want to speak to you to get some advice, so that you can ask the doctor if he has any suggestions about what I should do. I thought it was the railroad trip, but it is already Friday morning + there is no improvement. Per-haps I ought to get treatment from that Poughkeepsie doctor. I ought not to go on like this, I am afraid the whole darn thing is coming back again. Don't be angry - I want to know what you have to say about it. If I had gone to the [Herfelz consent], I would have spent the $2.88. Fannie
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Arygll Light Infantry : 'Assault at Arms,' Sept. 23, 1890
File contains a printed programme of an Assault-at-Arms or public demonstration of various military exercises for the benefit of the Officers' Mess of the 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry on 23 September 1890.
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Mining asbestos : Ponton papers
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Mining : Ponton mining papers, Lake Township
File contains manuscript and completed printed indentures, typescript memoranda, and manuscript correspondence relating to the purchase and sale of mining lands and interests by William Nisbet Ponton in Lake Township. Also present is a printed poster concerning lands in Lake Township at public auction under power of sale at Belleville in June, 1886.
William Nisbet Ponton : official appointment as Honorable Lt. Colonel of the Argyll Light Brigade
File contains a completed printed Ministry of National Defence certificate of appointment of William Nisbet Ponton as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Argyll Light Infantry On 1 October 1928
W.W. I : Ponton letters
File contains a typescript copy of a letter from Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton to Hon. Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence, 17 June 1915 concerning a presentation of regimental colours by the 39th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Also contains a letter from Lt. Col W.N. Ponton, 10 June 1915 to the Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Artillery, British Expeditionary Force seeking information on the status of Driver Rufus Gulliver. Also present is a printed business card for W.N. Ponton, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Belleville.
W.W. I : military letters 1915 re: lack of contact, missing men
File contains typescript correspondence between Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton and the Canadian Department of Militia and Defence concerning requests for accurate lists of casualties among Canadian soldiers serving with the British Expeditionary Force. Includes a letter of complaint dated 13 July 1915 by Lt. Col. Ponton regarding the failure of the department to provide notification of the hospitalization of his son, Capt. H.D. Ponton.
Militia letters : received by Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton
File contains three manuscript letters received by Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton : a) 29 April 1901, received from Andrew Thompson concerning a militia speech given by the correspondent. b) 8 February 1901, received from E.B. [Edwards?] regarding the submission of suggestions by Lt. Col Ponton to the Government of Canada for changes to the militia. c) [undated] from G.G. Stone of Militia and Defence, Canada offering thanks for a performance of the Deseronto Band before members of the Department of Militia and Defence, Canada.
Argyll Light Infantry, 15th Battalion : Smoker, March, 1899
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning a 'smoking' concert held in honour of the Argyll Light Infantry in March, 1899.
Arygll Light Infantry : commission to Captain Wm. N. Ponton, 1884
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Military : letters from soldiers slated for South Africa, 1900
File contains typescript and manuscript correspondence and completed applications of Belleville men enlisting in the Canadian Regiment for service in the Boer War. Also contains typescript copies of reports on the preparations of the Argyll Light Infantry for departure for South Africa. Also present is a printed poster with photographs of a soldier demonstrating the semaphore alphabet and numerical signs ca. 1900.
Military programme : Dominion Day, 1896
File contains original manuscript and typescript copies of correspondence and ledger sheets relating to the planning and execution of the Dominion Day Military demonstration and parade In Belleville, for which Lt. Col W.N. Ponton served as an organizer.
Hastings Reserve Militia : recommendations for appointments, 1870
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Marshall, James, Grand Trunk Railway Brigade : letter re: medal, 1903
File contains a typescript letter dated 22 June 1903 from the Medals Claim Board of the Canadian Militia Quarters to Lt. Col. William Ponton concerning an application for a medal for James Marshall, Grand Trunk Railway Brigade.
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“Homeoprophylaxis, the homeopathic vaccine alternative, prevents disease through nosodes.”
Published Monday 04 April 2016
Yes, this is exactly the claim I found on this website entitled ‘ALL NATURAL IDEAS. WAYS TO LIVE A HEALTHY LIFE NATURALLY. Here we learn that “All Natural Ideas is a site is designed to provide simple ideas on how you can live a more natural and healthy life. Lisa is the mastermind behind All Natural Ideas. She is a full-time engineer who has become passionate about sharing information on how to live a healthier life by following a natural based diet low in carbohydrates.”
But Lisa does not just do ‘low carb’, she recently also ventured into the realm of immunisation – but, as conventional immunisations are not ‘natural’, it had to be ‘homeopathic immunisations. This is what she writes:
Homeopathic immunizations… is increasing in popularity. Parents like the idea of protecting their child from disease without potentially toxic vaccine ingredients…
Critics contend that no conclusive double-blind, randomized controlled trials have proven, in general, homeopathy’s efficacy, as well as homeopathic immunizations. But proponents of homeoprophylaxis contend that conventional vaccines are also lacking in critical scientific studies that prove the long-term safety of pharmaceutical-grade vaccines.
Dr. Isaac Golden is a homeopath and earned the first ever PhD in homeopathic research from a mainstream Australian University. Golden has been a pioneer in the field of homeopathic prophylaxis since 1984. His research website, offers historical evidence, epidemic studies, and his own 20-year study of over 2,000 children whose parents used his prophylaxis program, the latter of which, Golden concluded, proved over 92% effective at preventing disease…
Homeopathy is a holistic form of medicine. Rather than a conventional doctor spending little time with a patient analyzing symptoms, homeopathy is considered effective when administered by a classically-trained homeopath, who will meet with the patient for well over an hour, getting the whole picture of the patient (hence ‘holistic’) , i.e. diet, stress levels, and many other factors.
About 200 years ago, Hahnemann developed an immunization based on his ‘like treats like’ principle, for scarlet fever. Homeoprophylaxis, the homeopathic vaccine alternative, prevents disease through nosodes.
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Yes, homeopaths tend to promote a whole lot of untruths to advise their patients against immunisations and instead recommend homeopathic immunisations or ‘homeo-prophylaxis’. This normally entails the oral administration of homeopathic remedies, called nosodes. Nosodes were added to the homeopathic Materia Medica only in the 1830s and are not in agreement with Hahnemann’s like cures like theory. Nosodes are potentised remedies based on pathogenic material like bodily fluids or pus. In 2015, the Canadian Paediatric Society issued the following caution: ‘There is scant evidence in the medical literature for either the efficacy or safety of nosodes, which have not been well studied for the prevention of any infectious disease in humans.’
There is no good evidence that any form of homeoprophylaxis is effective. After conventional immunisations, patients develop immunity against the infection in question which can be monitored by measuring the immune response to the intervention. No such evidence exists for homeopathic immunisations. More importantly, there is also no clinical data to show that homeoprophylaxis might work.
Despite this lack of evidence, some homeopaths – particularly those without medical training – continue to recommend this form of quackery. The promotion of this approach constitutes a serious risk for public health: once rates for conventional immunisations fall below a certain threshold, the population would lose its herd immunity, subsequently even those individuals who were immunised are at risk of acquiring the infection.
I am afraid, there can be only one conclusion: Homeoprophylaxis is dangerous charlatanry.
Posted in alternative medicine, bogus claims, charlatan, children, commercial interests, evidence, homeopathy, immunisation, medical ethics, prevention, quackery, vaccination
30 Responses to “Homeoprophylaxis, the homeopathic vaccine alternative, prevents disease through nosodes.”
Richard Rawlins on Monday 04 April 2016 at 17:59
As with so many (all?) homeopathic claims, Lisa’s is full of logical fallacies and inaccuracies. I’ll deal with just one, to set the record straight:
Lisa says: “About 200 years ago, Hahnemann developed an immunization based on his ‘like treats like’ principle, for scarlet fever. Homeoprophylaxis, the homeopathic vaccine alternative, prevents disease through nosodes”
One of the first books Hahnemann wrote was on secrets which would prevent and cure an epidemic of scarlet fever which was killing hundreds of children in Germany. With the purchase of his book and its secret, came “a little powder free of charge which contains enough to render several thousand people immune from scarlet fever.” It did no such thing, but as it contained minute amounts of belladonna, Hahnemann had a run in with the medical authorities.
Hahnemann next claimed to have discovered a ‘new salt’ which he sold at £7 per kilogram. Chemists then identified this was in fact salt of boric acid worth forty pence a kilo (today’s prices). They were not amused, but Hahnemann proclaimed “I am incapable of wilfully deceiving. I may however, like other men, be unintentionally mistaken.”
Too right. What a shame Lisa did not know of this before she put her website together. Or perhaps she did and intends defrauding patients. How can we tell?
Acleron on Tuesday 05 April 2016 at 11:10
So even Hahnemann discarded the individualisation that homeopaths prize so greatly when money was to be made.
Yakaru on Monday 04 April 2016 at 18:44
This business with nosodes is stupid even by homeopathic standards. I suspect they were invented by someone who wasn’t smart enough to realize it is the exact opposite of homeopathy, and no one else was sharp enough to realize either. 150 years later and they still haven’t figured it out.
Guy Chapman on Monday 04 April 2016 at 21:24
Of course this is based on the wibbbling of “Dr”. Isaac Golden, whose testimony was such a powerful factor in the Homeopathy Plus! case in Australia (see http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/homeopathy-plus-director-fran-sheffield-banned-from-promoting-vaccines-20151013-gk8ic7.html).
Thanks to Golden, Fran Sheffield and Homeopathy Plus! were banned from advertising nosodes…
Truth Seeker on Wednesday 06 April 2016 at 15:52
This today on the BBC website, seems Australia is fertile ground for quacks.
Lisa on Wednesday 06 April 2016 at 15:59
I’m not a proponent of homeoprophylaxis. In fact, all three of my children have been fully vaccinated according to our pediatricians recommendations. Many in the natural health community have been looking to vaccine alternatives so I offered to do research. There are known toxins in regular vaccines and alternative scheduling is one option as is using homeopathic immunizations. I am not convinced that the small amount of pathogen in the nosodes are enough. That is why my own children have been vaccinated.
Frank Odds on Wednesday 06 April 2016 at 17:35
@Lisa
Thank you for a sensible decision. Your children may grow up to thank you, too.
“There are known toxins in regular vaccines” And a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It’s not the “toxin” that matters: it’s the dose. There are safe levels for every known poison; do you imagine that the folk who develop vaccines would knowingly include poisons at levels even approaching danger?
Do you realize that coffee is sometimes decaffeinated with dichloromethane (methylene chloride), and it is also used in a number of other food products and pharmaceuticals. Methylene chloride is paint stripper. Read a list of the known toxic effects of paint stripper. You wouldn’t want to swallow that, would you? Yet you probably do; within safe limits.
The ‘Natural Health Community’ you mention has its heart in the right place but not its head. ‘Natural’ is not necessarily good: think of gluten, phalloidin, poison ivy. To die of infectious disease is ‘natural’: to prevent death from infectious disease by vaccination is unnatural. Congratulations on your ability to use your head and do the unnatural thing for your children.
Mike on Saturday 23 February 2019 at 18:45
Coffee isn’t injected directly into your bloodstream and through the blood brain barrier like the neurotoxin in vaccines. Your comment is irrelevant.
Frank Odds on Saturday 23 February 2019 at 22:29
Goodness me, you really don’t have a clue! Most vaccines are injected into the muscles, not the veins. That way they get into the lymphatics and are taken up by dendritic cells where they stimulate an ideal immune response. And IV injections don’t push stuff past the blood-brain barrier any more than components of the food you eat that are absorbed into the bloodstream make them pass the blood-brain barrier. And I presume by ‘neurotoxins’ you’re talking about thimerosal, which has been taken out of most vaccines even though it has never been shown to do any harm in the trivial amounts vaccines used to contain.
Apart from the stinking pile of total horseshit in your comment, you do the anti-vax movement a favour by revealing its base in flagrant ignorance and denial of reality.
sherin on Monday 11 March 2019 at 15:08
Aluminum is another neurotoxin which has trrrible consequences on health. Can you state the amount of aluminum given in a child vaccine compared to one given To an adult? Bc there’s no way a baby and adult should be given the same amount and that not have horrible effects on that tiny body.
Edzard on Monday 11 March 2019 at 15:10
I think you are mistaken on several accounts.
Frank Odds on Monday 11 March 2019 at 18:09
@sherin
Fine question. “Bc there’s no way a baby and adult should be given the same amount and that not have horrible effects on that tiny body.” Great point: I doubt that the manufacturers of vaccines have ever thought of that. [warning: that was sarcasm.]
Just for background; babies are born with aluminum already present in their bodies, probably from their mother’s bloodstream. Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth’s crust and we’re exposed to it all the time. It’s there in drinking water and most foods, and its salts are components of various food additives and medicines such as antacids. And of course we ingest it from foods cooked in aluminum saucepans.
According to the FDA, “It has been estimated that the daily aluminum intake for man from all dietary sources can range from 10 to 100 mg per day…these amounts are less than those needed to produce toxic responses in experimental animals.” Compare those numbers — 10 to 100 mg per day with the amounts of aluminum in vaccines.
From UK data the aluminum content of vaccines is less than 1 mg per dose, as foillows:
6-in-1 vaccine: Infanrix Hexa (0.82 milligrams)
PCV (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine): Prevenar 13 (0.125 milligrams)
MenB vaccine: Bexsero (0.5 milligrams)
Pre-school Booster vaccines: Repevax (0.33 milligrams), Infanrix IPV (0.5 milligrams) and Boostrix-IPV (0.5 milligrams)
HPV vaccine: Gardasil (0.225 milligrams)
Teenage Booster vaccine: Revaxis (0.35 milligrams)
HepB vaccine: HBVaxPro (0.25 to 0.5 milligrams, depending on which version of HBVaxPro is given)
The jury is still out on whether aluminum exposure is a risk factor for neurological disease. Against all this information, your comment that “Aluminum is another neurotoxin which has trrrible consequences on health” is just a little bit over the top.
BTW, I’m no particular expert on vaccines, but I found all the above data in 15 minutes of judicious googling. I know the anti-vaxx websites that seem to have been scaring you tell a different story, but now you have the facts at your fingertips, I invite you to reconsider the reality.
Acleron on Wednesday 06 April 2016 at 17:57
@Lisa The manufacturers of homeopathic preparations of infectious materials contend that they need not bother with quality control to test for safety because there is nothing in their preparations. That’s not just too little, that is absolutely nothing at all.
The preservatives and adjuvants present in vaccines are in quantities far too small to be toxic and most are in amounts far smaller than found in the environment.
Homeopathic immunisation does not exist, there is no such thing.
Advising parents to forego vaccination is to advise them to be irresponsible towards their children.
DavidP on Friday 08 April 2016 at 02:11
I’ve recently seen several claims that the Cuban government uses homeopathic nosodes to manage its leptospirosis epidemics. There is a report in “Homeopathy” about an intervention in 2007-2008, which I have seen criticised in several places, such as https://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/much-ado-about-nothing/
Does anyone know whether homeopathic nosodes have been used by the Cuban government to manage leptospirosis since then?
Alan Henness on Friday 08 April 2016 at 16:44
As far as I can determine (when I investigated this a couple of years ago), it’s not been used again. There was talk by Isaac Golden of further trials of “Dengue, Hep A, pneumococcal disease, leptospirosis, influenza and an infection causing conjunctivitis”, but I’ve not seen anything published.
There was this: A Reevaluation of the Effectiveness of Homoeoprophylaxis Against Leptospirosis in Cuba in 2007 and 2008 but it doesn’t add anything to their flawed trial.
Roland Gilmore on Friday 31 March 2017 at 09:13
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain uses homeopathic remedies.
Alan Henness on Friday 31 March 2017 at 16:28
Roland Gilmore said:
Just two questions for you:
1. How do you know?
2. What do you believe that means, if true?
Woo Fighter on Friday 31 March 2017 at 17:31
Except when she or her husband are facing REAL medical conditions. Then they use the best real doctors, medicine and hospitals available in Great Britain.
Maybe she’ll pop a sugar pill for the sniffles.
Greg on Friday 31 March 2017 at 19:32
Let’s get this one straightened out: there is no such thing as homeoprophylaxis.
Alan Henness on Saturday 01 April 2017 at 10:30
Is the National Center for Homeopathy wrong, then?
Greg on Sunday 02 April 2017 at 06:21
Alan Henness on Sunday 02 April 2017 at 10:34
@Greg
Well, you said there was no such thing, yet this large trade body says there is (and there are many, many more like them) and now you’re saying they’re not wrong… Can you clarify?
@Alan
This topic is too complex to discuss on this (sceptics) website.
Edzard has mentioned that homeopathy is diverse:
http://edzardernst.com/2016/12/when-sceptics-or-skeptics-criticise-homeopathy-they-are-often-wrong/
Edzard on Sunday 02 April 2017 at 11:55
come on, give it a try!
Being complex doesn’t mean it can’t be discussed easily and here’s as good a place as any to do so.
However, we all know homeopaths are not known for their consistency of ideas and they contradict themselves frequently: homeopathy is a delusion and I suppose it’s inevitable some will add other delusions on top of it.
Thank you Alan: you proved the point:
‘we all know homeopaths are not known for their consistency of ideas and they contradict themselves frequently: homeopathy is a delusion and I suppose it’s inevitable some will add other delusions on top of it.’
And you supposed I was going to discuss this topic with you?
The only reason for contributing to this site is not to share information that takes years to learn, it only to occasionally point out when the topics lead the sublime to the ridiculous.
I proved no point of yours: you have not yet provided any backing for your assertion about homeoprophylaxis yet I have provided evidence it is one of the many contradictory beliefs held by a number of homeopaths.
Lou Brown on Sunday 17 February 2019 at 09:20
As a nurse I deplore the pseudoscience behind homeopathic immunizations. Those who peddle these immunizations are out to make a buck but never see the real harm that it is causing the public, especially I infants and children. Vaccines are safe,we now have a measles and mumps outbreak because if lack of proper immunizations.
Edzard on Sunday 17 February 2019 at 09:51
thank you; I agree whole-heartedly
DC on Sunday 17 February 2019 at 15:01
“Vaccines are safe”
Well, usually.
“A vaccine, like any medicine, could cause a serious reaction. But the risk of a vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.”
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
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My controversial, contemporary retelling of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 Lippincott version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I really hope you enjoy it.
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Odious John Galliano Fired From Dior
I never met John Galliano. Nope, never met him. If I looked for him on FB, if he was even on FB, we would probably have buddies in common but to my recollection I have never actually pressed the flesh with John Galliano.
Love, love, love his women’s wear, never cared for the men’s line.
John Galliano! The man is a fucking genius and a total KNOB. He just did that gay, alcoholic cliché thing of totally sabotaging his entire career.
A genius, iconoclast, nihilist…alcoholic.
An alcoholic knob. I mean…he just flushed that amazing career down the toilet.
He will lose everything.
Why do drunk, powerful people start in on the jews? Mel Gibson..remember his anti-Semitic rant on the PCH outside Moonshadows bar?
In a brief statement, Dior said because of his “odious behavior” Dior has sidelined Galliano and initiated proceedings to fire him.
I just LOVE the word ‘odious’.
Galliano, in the video I saw of him in that super cool Parisian bar La Perle on the Rue Vieille du Temple…apart from looking totally PISSED (drunk) he reminded me of David Bowie playing the alien with no finger nails Thomas Jerome Newton in the Man Who Fell To Earth.
Lonely, beautifully dressed, politely out of control.
With great poise he told the people he was insulting that their ancestors should have been ‘gassed’.
Unlike Mel Gibson who was screaming anti-Semitic insults at the only jewish cop in the LAPD.
John…darling…lovey, you’ve come so far. Humble beginnings…your dad was a plumber. Want a solution? Want to deal with your grandiosity? Go to AA. You don’t want to end up dead like Alexander McQueen or Isabella Blow? Do you?
Go to AA based rehab. FAST.
Alcoholics Anonymous was designed for people like you.
You probably don’t even remember your rant.
A sober speech by Christian Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano and a finale bow of applauding, white-robed seamstresses and craftsmen bookended today’s Dior fall-winter fashion show, which went ahead under the shadow of the anti-Semitic outbursts that led to the ousting of its couturier, John Galliano, earlier this week.
“It has been deeply painful to see the Dior name associated with the disgraceful statements attributed to its designer, however brilliant he may be,” Toledano said, in the only reference to Galliano, never mentioned by name. “What happened last week has been a terrible and wrenching ordeal for us all.
“So now, more than ever, we must publicly re-commit to the values of the House of Dior.”
The show, held in a giant tent in the gardens of the Rodin Museum, had little of the usual front-row hoopla, but the usual thumping music and army of models.
“What you are going to see now is the result of the extraordinary, creative, and marvelous efforts of these loyal, hardworking people,” Toledano said of Dior’s teams and studios.
As reported, Galliano is to stand trial this spring in a French criminal court on a charge of public insult after three people filed complaints alleging Galliano hurled racist and anti-Semitic remarks at them.
Galliano has apologized “unreservedly” for his behavior in causing any offence, assured “anti-Semitism and racism have no part in our society” and reiterated he denies the claims made against him and has commenced proceedings for defamation and threats made against him.
PARIS — The show must go on.
That seems to be the mantra at Christian Dior SA, which is soldiering ahead with the Dior fashion show today despite John Galliano’s dramatic ouster over anti-Semitic outbursts.
It is expected to be a straightforward affair, with little of the usual celebrity hoopla. News organizations have been instructed that photographers will have no access to backstage or the front row. That hasn’t stopped what Dior’s public relations battalion describes as “overwhelming” demand for invitations. (For more on the Dior brand, see page 6.)
According to sources, the attendance of luxury titan Bernard Arnault — typically flanked by glamorous Dior ambassadors such as Charlize Theron and French government figures — is not assured, owing to the tug of other business obligations.
Meanwhile, the John Galliano fall collection is to be presented on Sunday in its appointed time slot, but in a different format and venue. Sources said plans for a runway spectacle in landmark Left Bank brasserie La Coupole have been changed in favor of a tableau vivant format in a hôtel particulier. The designer will not be present.
Dior, which controls the John Galliano company, has yet to disclose its intentions for the business, now that its namesake designer is to stand trial this spring in a French criminal court on a charge of public insult after three people filed complaints alleging Galliano hurled racist and anti-Semitic remarks at them.
If found guilty, he could face six months imprisonment and a fine of 22,500 euros, or $31,207 at current exchange, according to the Paris public prosecutor. Galliano has apologized “unreservedly” for his behavior in causing any offence, assured “anti-Semitism and racism have no part in our society” and reiterated he denies the claims made against him and has commenced proceedings for defamation and threats made against him.
Dior initially suspended Galliano from his duties on Friday and then ousted him on Tuesday amidst the mounting allegations and an explosive video depicting the maverick designer saying in a slurred voice, “I love Hitler.” Dior condemned the statements made in the video and commenced termination procedures.
Galliano, a London-born wunderkind who was the creative architect of Dior’s rejuvenation, has been its couturier since 1996. Succession rumors continue to swirl in the hothouse atmosphere of Paris Fashion Week.
It is understood Dior is in no hurry — and is legally unable —to name a successor until it has completed its procedure to terminate Galliano’s employment.
Under French employment regulations, the procedure to terminate employees can go quickly for what is known as faute grave, a serious misdemeanor. If the reason for termination concerns a personal matter or incident off the company clock, it can take several weeks.
According to sources, Arnault’s various advisers are pitching a variety of candidates, among them Haider Ackermann, Hedi Slimane and Givenchy’s rising star, Riccardo Tisci.
Delphine Arnault, deputy managing director at Christian Dior and the daughter of the billionaire LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman, is said to be a champion of Tisci. In a splashy cover feature in Madame Figaro magazine in January, Tisci coaxed Arnault to be photographed among five women said to be under his spell. (The others were Liv Tyler, Isabelle Huppert, Vahina Giocante and Lou Doillon.)
“There won’t be any choice for quite a while,” said one source familiar with the French luxury group. “They’re receiving offers.”
It is understood overtures have been made recently to Ackermann as a possible candidate for Dior, or to succeed Tisci at Givenchy, should he be moved over to Dior.
Approached at the Ann Demeulemeester show Thursday, Anne Chapelle, chief executive officer and owner of Bvba 32, which controls the Haider Ackermann brand, declined to comment, saying the focus for now should remain on Ackermann’s own show, scheduled for Saturday. Asked whether the designer would contractually be free to work for another house, should he be offered a role, Chapelle replied: “Everybody is free.”
As principals at LVMH hunt for a successor to Galliano, some are hoping to make a profit from their final decision. PaddyPower.com, the British online betting site, has odds on Stefano Pilati (11-8) or Hedi Slimane (9-4) getting the top job. The odds are lower, however, for Tisci (3-1). Meanwhile, Nicolas Ghesquière, Kris Van Assche and Roland Mouret are all tipped at 4-1. Alber Elbaz trails them with odds of 6-1. The site specifies that all bets apply “To the next permanent, top Dior Creative Director after John Galliano.” The person must be confirmed as a permanent appointment by the ceo of Christian Dior.
Dior Fires Designer John Galliano Over Anti-Semitic Remarks (towleroad.com)
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François BRUNET, Professor of American Studies at Université Paris-Diderot and member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of American Studies, and, for the last nine years, Director of the Collège Franco-Britannique of the Cité Universitaire Internationale, died suddenly last Christmas night, leaving his wife Lilli and four children. He was 58.
François was admired and loved by all his colleagues and students, both for his uncommon intellectual profile and scholarly productions and for an endearing personality betrayed at all times by the special spark in his very dark intense eyes, a spark one could not help associating with his interest in photography. His death put an untimely end to an improbable, unusual career, crowned by his election at the Institut Universitaire de France.
An ex-student of the École Normale Supérieure, one of the very rare laureates of the redoubtable Agrégation de Grammaire, he specialized in Classics, taught Latin and Greek ; he also spoke Russian from his adolescence on. Insatiably curious of all things (his delightful collection of odd postcards was impressive, he co-edited a dictionary of English and American slang…), he early became interested in American literature and photography, wrote a doctoral dissertation (1993) on the pictures taken by early scientific expeditions in the American West by O’Sullivan and Watkins. The important exhibition he organized in 2007 at the Musée d’Art Américain in Giverny was fed by this research.
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We deeply mourn the loss of a generous friend and dedicated scholar. Where are your wit and your wonderful sense of humour, François, now that we need consolation?
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Successful in vitro fertilization pregnancy and delivery after a fertility-sparing laparoscopic operation in a patient with a papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from a mature cystic teratoma
Kirim Hong, Anthony Kyung Woo Han, Mi-La Kim, Bo Seong Yun, Hye Sun Jun, Seok Ju Seong, Jeong Yun Shim
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5653/cerm.2018.00304
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Hong, Han, Kim, Yun, Jun, Seong, and Shim: Successful in vitro fertilization pregnancy and delivery after a fertility-sparing laparoscopic operation in a patient with a papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from a mature cystic teratoma
Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine 2019;46(3):140-145.
Published online: August 12, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5653/cerm.2018.00304
Kirim Hong1 , Anthony Kyung Woo Han1 , Mi-La Kim1 , Bo Seong Yun1 , Hye Sun Jun1 , Seok Ju Seong1 , Jeong Yun Shim2
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Pathology, CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul, Korea
Corresponding author: Mi-La Kim Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, 566 Nonhyeon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06135, Korea
Tel: +82-2-3468-3676 Fax: +82-2-558-1112 E-mail: mila76@naver.com
Received June 7, 2019 Revised July 10, 2019 Accepted July 12, 2019
Copyright © 2019. THE KOREAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Malignant transformation of ovarian mature cystic teratomas is rare, and papillary thyroid cancer occurs in 0.1%–0.3% of ovarian teratomas that undergo malignant transformation. We describe a case of successful in vitro fertilization pregnancy and delivery after a fertility-sparing laparoscopic operation in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from a mature cystic teratoma.
Keywords: Malignant transformation; Mature cystic teratoma; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Pregnancy
Mature cystic teratomas (MCTs) are the most common type of ovarian germ cell tumor. Approximately 1%–2% of mature teratomas undergo malignant transformation [1,2]. The frequency of histologic detection of thyroid tissue in ovarian MCTs is less than 20% [3]. Most reported thyroid cancers in MCTs were related to struma ovarii, which contains more than 50% thyroid tissue. Struma ovarii is a type of mature teratoma constituting 2%–5% of all teratomas, and it becomes malignant in less than 5% of cases [4,5]. However, papillary thyroid cancer arising from an MCT is rare, with an estimated incidence of 0.1%–0.3% of all MCTs that undergo malignant transformation [6].
The treatment of thyroid cancer in an ovarian MCT is not well-defined because of its rarity [7-12]. Most reported patients have been treated with hysterectomy with unilateral or bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (USO or BSO), fertility-preserving USO, or cystectomy, with or without total thyroidectomy [7-12]. There is no previous report of subsequent pregnancy after a fertility-preserving operation in a patient with this rare tumor. Herein, we describe a case of successful delivery after a fertility-sparing laparoscopic operation in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from an MCT.
A 28-year-old, nulliparous woman was referred under the diagnosis of a left ovarian mass. Her menstrual cycle was irregular (interval, every 60–90 days; duration, 7 days), and she had experienced dysmenorrhea and heavy menstrual bleeding. She had no remarkable medical, surgical, or family history. During the pelvic examination, a movable, non-tender left adnexal mass measuring about 4 cm was palpable. Pelvic ultrasonography showed a left ovarian dermoid cyst measuring 4.0×2.9 cm, and the right ovary had a polycystic appearance (Figure 1). The cancer antigen 125 level was 10.5 IU/L (normal range, 0–35 IU/L), and the serum anti-Müllerian hormone level was elevated, at >20.0 ng/mL (normal range, 0.14–12.6 ng/mL).
The patient underwent single-port access laparoscopic enucleation of the left ovarian cyst without spillage of the cyst content (Figure 2A-C). A diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (measuring 0.7 cm) arising from the MCT was determined after pathologic evaluation (Figure 2D). To examine metastatic lesions in the abdominal cavity, abdominopelvic computed tomography (CT) was performed, and the scan was negative for metastasis (Figure 3). A sonogram of the thyroid gland showed two small, benign nodules with seven small cysts without enlargement of the thyroid glands, which indicated a benign thymus. The results of the thyroid function test (TFT) were within the normal range. Since the patient wanted to preserve her fertility, she decided to undergo fertility-preserving single-port access laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy and washing cytology without thyroidectomy. The pathologic examination indicated that the tumor in the left adnexa had been completely resected. The results of washing cytology were negative for malignancy.
Six months later, a positron emission tomography (PET)-CT scan showed no evidence of strong focal fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake that would suggest a malignant lesion or metastasis; there was only mild heterogeneous FDG uptake in the right ovary and uterine cavity, which was considered to reflect physiologic uptake. The tumor markers and results of TFT were also within the normal limits. The presumed stage was International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage Ia. Therefore, further postoperative adjuvant treatment was not necessary.
Since the patient’s menstrual cycle was still irregular due to known polycystic ovarian syndrome, she was referred to our fertility center to undergo assisted reproductive technology. After clomiphene citrate with timed coitus failed twice, she underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF). In her first IVF cycle, recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone (Follitrope 150 IU; LG Chemical, Seoul, Korea) with a starting dose of 150 IU was injected on menstrual cycle day (MCD) #3, and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (Cetrotide; Merck Serono, Darmstadt, Germany) was added on MCD #8. On MCD #10, when the leading follicles reached 19 mm in diameter, ovulation was triggered by an injection of 250 μg of recombinant human chorionic gonadotropin (Ovidrel; Merck Serono). The oocytes were retrieved 36 hours later. In total, 27 oocytes were retrieved and 12 were discarded. After ovum pick-up, the patient experienced moderate ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome; therefore, embryo transfer was postponed, and all embryos were frozen (four morulae and 10 blastocysts were frozen, while one embryo at the cleavage stage was discarded). In the next menstrual cycle, two blastocysts were hatched, thawing embryo transfer was performed, and she successfully conceived dichorionic diamniotic twins. Her delivery was successful through a cesarean section at 37 weeks of gestation. She was followed up for 59 months after the fertility-preserving laparoscopic operation and had no evidence of recurrence.
Teratomas are derived from all three embryonic germ layers: ectodermal tissue (skin, hair, and sebaceous glands), mesodermal tissue (bone, cartilage, muscle, heart, lymph cells, and spleen), and endodermal tissue (digestive tract, pancreas, liver, and thyroid); all of these constituents have the potential to undergo malignant transformation within a tumor [1,2,6]. Additionally, most patients with malignant transformation of a teratoma are incidentally diagnosed postoperatively during pathologic review.
As the number of reported patients with a thyroid carcinoma arising from an ovarian MCT is very limited, treatment modalities are not well-described. Most reported cases of thyroid cancers in MCT are related to struma ovarii. Diverse treatment strategies have been reported, ranging from conservative surgery with the goal of preserving fertility to radical surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy with or without thyroidectomy [7-15]. Malignant struma ovarii commonly arises in the fifth decade of life; therefore, the mainstream treatment modality is hysterectomy with BSO [7-15]. Thyroidectomy, radioiodine treatment, and suppressive thyroid-stimulating hormone treatment are recommended as adjuvant therapy of struma ovarii [4,7-12,15]. However, adjuvant therapy remains controversial [7-15].
Similar to other ovarian tumors, teratomas can spread directly to other regions, such as the peritoneal cavity, omentum, and opposite ovary, as well as distant sites. However, with papillary thyroid carcinoma, metastasis to the regional and paraaortic lymph nodes is expected [15]. Devaney et al. [14] reported the prognosis of 13 patients with malignant struma ovarii; 11 patients had papillary carcinomas, two had follicular carcinoma, and no patients underwent additional treatment postoperatively. No recurrence was reported during the 7-year follow-up period. Some authors have suggested 131I treatment when a patient’s serum thyroglobulin level is >10 ng/mL, because 98% of patients with thyroid cancer with a serum thyroglobulin level <10 ng/mL are free of disease [15].
If residual malignant disease or distant metastases exist postoperatively, total thyroidectomy and radioablation with 131I is possible [8-10]. In patients with recurrent or metastatic disease, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and thyroid suppression are possible treatments [7-12]. In patients with no invasion or metastasis, the prognosis of malignant struma ovarii is good [12]. Since our patient had never conceived a child, we decided to perform a fertility-preserving operation. According to a case series, papillary thyroid carcinoma of thyroid tissue in an ovarian teratoma (excluding struma ovarii) had not been reported until 2012 [10]. In that review, only seven patients who underwent conservative treatment, such as tumor resection or USO, were selected, and there were no patients with a subsequent pregnancy [10]. Recently, Iwahashi et al. [16] reported a case of live birth after fertility-sparing surgery of papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from a MCT. In their case report, a 30-year-old multiparous woman conceived her second child naturally and delivered 2 years after fertility-sparing surgery. There was no evidence of recurrence in 6 years of postoperative follow-up. Unlike the reported case, our case is the first report of successful delivery after a fertility-sparing laparoscopic operation using IVF in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from an MCT.
In the earlier literature, hypotheses were proposed regarding the origin of epithelial ovarian cancer (not in germ cell tumors). According to the incessant ovulation hypothesis, ovulation itself causes recurrent minor trauma of ovarian epithelial cells. During the repair process, aberrant repair leads to malignant transformation [17]. In gonadotropin hypothesis suggests that high levels of circulating gonadotropins produce high levels of estrogen or estrogen precursors and stimulate ovarian surface epithelial entrapment in inclusion cysts, and proposes that proliferation of these inclusion cysts with dysplasia can cause malignant transformation [18]. Therefore, concerns were raised regarding the possible ovarian cancer risk associated with the use of ovarian stimulating drugs for infertility. Rizzuto et al. [19] reviewed 182,972 patients in 11 case-control studies and 14 cohort studies, and found no convincing evidence of an increase in the risk of invasive ovarian cancer during fertility drug treatment, although an increased risk of borderline ovarian tumors was observed. In our case, during the first surgical procedure, there was no spillage of cyst content, and in the subsequent fertility-sparing operation, there was no residual tumor. Six months after fertility-sparing surgery, there was no evidence of residual or recurrent disease on PETCT. The patient tried to conceive in a relatively short interval of 6 months after fertility-sparing surgery, starting with two cycles of clomiphene citrate with timed coitus, and in her first IVF trial, she became pregnant and successfully delivered healthy twins. Fertilitysparing operations are desirable for women who have a low-grade disease and wish to conceive. However, a future study with a longer follow-up is needed to evaluate the safety of this conservative treatment, the most appropriate interval of the pregnancy trial (including IVF procedures), and the safety of ovarian-stimulating drugs in terms of ovarian cancer risk.
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Conceptualization: MLK, BSY. Software: AKWH, KH, BSY. Data curation: KH, JYS. Formal analysis: MLK, SJS. Methodology: MLK. Investigation: HSJ, SJS. Supervision: MLK, BSY, SJS. Writing - original draft: KH. Writing - review & editing: MLK, BSY, HSJ, SJS.
Preoperative transvaginal ultrasonographic findings. (A) The right (RT) ovary was normal-to-large in size with multiple small follicles. (B) The left (LT) ovary showed a mixed echoic cyst measuring 4.0 × 2.9 cm, suggestive of a dermoid cyst.
Initial single-port access laparoscopic findings. (A) Preoperative findings of the uterus and right ovary. (B) Preoperative findings of the left ovary. (C) After enucleation of the left ovarian cyst, there was no spillage of the left ovarian cyst content. (D) Papillary thyroid carcinoma arising in a mature cystic teratoma (H&E, × 200). Multiple papillae and follicles are shown, lined by tumor cells with optically clear nuclei and irregular nuclear membranes.
Postoperative computed tomography scan findings. (A) On the axial view, both ovaries were prominent, without a definite focal lesion. (B) On the coronal view, there was no evidence of distant metastasis or significant lymph node involvement in the abdomen and pelvis.
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Tension pneumothoraces not responding to needle thoracocentesis
R Jones,
J Hollingsworth
Accident and Emergency Department, Aintree University Hospital Trust, Lower Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK
Correspondence to:
Mr R Jones, 34 Heathfield Road, Liverpool, L15 9EZ, UK;
robinski{at}doctors.org.uk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.19.2.176
tension pneumothorax
needle thoracocentesis
A tension pneumothorax is a life threatening condition in which there is a large rise in intrathoracic pressure on the side of the affected hemithorax. This condition may rapidly lead to death.
Prompt treatment of the condition is required and most of the texts on the treatment of patients with this condition suggest that the pressure is released by the placement of a large bore trocar and cannula through the second intercostal space at the mid-clavicular line on the affected side.1 This procedure is intended to be diagnostic and temporarily therapeutic, relieving the pressure enough to “buy time” while preparations are made for placement of a chest drain.
We report three cases of tension pneumothorax that were not responsive to needle decompression. We believe that these cases illustrate a potential problem with needle decompression that may lead the less experienced practitioner to doubt their diagnosis with possible dire consequences for the patient.
An 18 year old man was admitted to the emergency department after crashing his car into a shop window. He had been trapped at scene by the displaced steering wheel, which was pressing against his chest. On arrival in the department he was complaining of severe left sided chest pain and difficulty in breathing. The patient was in severe respiratory distress and further examination revealed a resonant left hemithorax with absent breath sounds. A diagnosis of a left sided tension pneumothorax was made and a 14 gauge cannula was placed in the left second intercostal space in the mid-clavicular line. There was a small release of air, which stopped almost immediately, and the patient's condition continued to deteriorate. A scalpel and a pair of clamps was then used to rapidly blunt dissect through the 4th intercostal space in the mid-axillary line to create a thoracostomy. This resulted in a large rush of air and an immediate improvement in the patient's condition. A size 28 French gauge chest tube was placed through the thoracostomy and connected to an underwater seal. The patient made an unremarkable recovery.
A 35 year old woman was admitted to the emergency department with a history of shortness of breath and left sided chest pain of two hours duration. On examination she was conscious and alert and appeared to be in pain. She had a resonant left hemithorax with decreased breath sounds. A chest radiograph revealed a moderate left sided pneumothorax with no evidence of mediastinal shift. Some 1500 ml of air was aspirated with a needle aspiration set (14 gauge cannula) through the second intercostal space. A follow up chest film showed a near complete resolution of the pneumothorax. Symptomatically the patient also felt better. However, about 20 minutes after the aspiration of the pneumothorax the patient's pain returned and she developed severe respiratory distress. She had a resonant left sided hemithorax with absent breath sounds. Two attempts at immediate needle decompression with a 14 gauge cannula (second intercostal space, mid-clavicular line) were made, both without success. An immediate blunt dissection left thoracostomy (mid-axillary line, 4th intercostal space) was performed with immediate pressure release and rapid resolution of the patient's symptoms. Subsequently a size 28 French gauge chest tube was placed. The patient made an uneventful recovery.
An obese, 58 year old man with known chronic obstructive airways disease presented to the emergency department with severe dyspnoea of acute onset. On arrival he was in extremis with absent breath sounds over the right hemithorax, which was resonant to percussion. He had a sinus tachycardia of 130 beats per minute and a systolic blood pressure of 80 mm Hg. A diagnosis of a right sided pneumothorax (probably under tension) was made and a needle thoracocentesis was performed in the second right intercostal space at the mid-clavicular line using a 14 gauge cannula. Aspiration of air with a syringe confirmed correct positioning in the pleural space but on removal of the syringe there was no audible hiss of escaping air from the cannula. In view of the severity of the patient's condition an immediate thoracostomy was performed in the right second intercostal space at the mid-clavicular line. The anterior approach was considered necessary as, because of his distressed state, the patient was gripping the trolley sides making access to the lateral chest wall impossible. As the parietal pleura was traversed by blunt dissection there was an immediate escape of air under tension and a rapid improvement in the patient's condition. A size 32 French gauge chest tube was subsequently placed through the thoracostomy site and the patient went on to make an uneventful recovery.
These three cases show the potential for failure of needle thoracocentesis in the management of a tension pneumothorax. Failure of the procedure may be attributable to a number of factors:
The cannula may be of insufficient length to pass through the full thickness of the patient's chest wall. This has been described previously.2–4 In all three of the cases we describe the cannulas used were of sufficient length to pass through the full thickness of the chest wall. In two of the three cases there was initial removal of air from the pleural cavity. In the remaining case the chest wall had previously been successfully traversed by an intravenous cannula of the same size and length that was used for the attempted treatment of the tension pneumothorax.
If air leaks from the lung faster than it can escape through the cannula the patient's condition will continue to deteriorate.5
Tissue/blood blockage of the lumen of the cannula. All three cannulas used in these cases were examined and no such blockage was found.
The high intrathoracic pressure present in a tension pneumothorax results in compression of the chest wall tissues. This may actually facilitate thoracostomy but may also be sufficient to kink or compress the flexible plastic cannulas, which are normally used for vascular cannulation.
In conclusion, in the cases we have described there was no evidence to suggest that the failure of the cannulas was attributable to plugging of the lumen, inadequate length or insufficient rapidity of air exit. It is possible that the nature of the device used predisposes it to kinking after it has passed through the chest wall and the trocar has been removed. We suggest therefore that in the diagnosis and initial treatment of tension pneumothorax use of a rigid device similar to an intraosseous needle may prove to be more reliable than intravenous cannulas, which, after all were not designed to traverse the thoracic wall. One author recommends using the trocar of a 14 gauge intravenous cannula.6 However, we feel that this is probably too sharp to be left in situ.
In the absence of a blunt ended rigid device designed to treat tension pneumothoraces, needle thoracocentesis using large bore intravenous cannulas remains the treatment of choice for the initial management. These cases however show that there is a potential for failure of the procedure. If the procedure has failed and the practitioner strongly suspects the condition is present a further attempt at needle thoracocentesis (in the same or a different site on the chest wall) is not an unreasonable action. For the more experienced practitioner immediate thoracostomy with subsequent chest drain placement is a rapid and safe alternative.
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Empirical SCOTUS
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2018 Term, justices, Nominations, Votes
The Big Business Court
Posted by Dr. Adam Feldman on August 8, 2018 August 8, 2018
The current Supreme Court is unabashedly friendly towards big business. How friendly? If the Court’s trajectory continues, perhaps as friendly as any Court dating back to the Lochner-era where laissez-faire policies exuded from the Court’s rulings. Prominent scholars, most notably Epstein, Landes, and Posner found empirical support for the proposition that the current Court is more pro-business than previous constructions (that study was recently updated through the 2015 term). This post uses data from the 2015 through 2017 terms to add to this discussion. In particular it seeks to locate the trajectory of the Court with the possible addition of Judge Kavanaugh to the Court for the 2018 term. Although the Court’s right and left sides found themselves on opposite ends of business rulings during the 2017 term, we might expect an even stronger pro-business Court next term with the addition of another likely predictably pro-business justice in Kavanaugh.
The Last Three Years
Not that Kennedy tended to clash with conservative positions in business rulings. On the contrary, Kennedy authored many decisions that enhanced the power of businesses including the Court’s decision giving corporations First Amendment free speech protection in Citizens United v. FEC. Still for the 2015 through 2017 terms, Kennedy was less pro-business than several of his conservative counterparts.
This figure was created by coding all of the Court’s 2015 through 2017 orally argued cases as focused on a business interest or not and then narrowing the scope to cases that pitted a clear business interest against a contrary interest, thus excluding cases with dueling business interests. 66 cases met the narrowed criteria which underlie the construction of the figure above.
The next figure examining majority opinion authorship in pro/ani business decisions corroborates this account of greater recent conservative support for business interests.
Three of the more more conservative justices — Roberts, Alito, and Gorsuch only authored pro-business majority opinions during this period within this set of cases. Kennedy was actually the only conservative justice to author more anti than pro-business opinions during this period.
An Even Bigger Push for Business
While the Court continued its pro-business trajectory during the past three terms it also increased its pro-business momentum over this period. This increase is evident based on the Court’s fraction of pro-business rulings. The following figure looks at the number of cases the justices heard across the 2015 through 2017 terms that contained pro and anti business interests as well as the percentage of these decisions that were pro-business.
Although the Court heard fewer business-related cases in the 2017 term the Court heard fewer total cases last term as well making the downshift in business cases more proportional to the Court’s actual merits docket. With this curtailed caseload the Court ruled a stagering 81.25% of time in favor of pro-business interests. Even in the few cases where the Court ruled against business interests, the downstream effects are not going to necessarily negatively impact business interests in the aggregate. One example of this is the Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair. Although the Court’s immediate holding was in favor of giving states the ability to tax out of state businesses, the repercussions of this decision may well be to enhance competition by leveling the advantage out of state businesses had over businesses located within states.
Major Interests
Since the stakes in these cases are quite large for formidable entities, the parties bring out some of the top Supreme Court advocates to support them in these matters. The list of repeat attorneys in this set of cases from 2015 through 2017 is a veritable who’s who of the Supreme Court bar.
Many of the most notable appellate attorneys now in practice argued several of these cases with Paul Clement in the lead followed by fellow veteran Supreme Court veteran attorneys Carter Phillips, David Frederick, and Seth Waxman. While several other big firm attorneys top this list, the list also includes a handful of attorneys from smaller appellate boutiques including Peter Stris and Daniel Geyser from the Los Angeles based firm Stris & Maher (Geyser has since started his own boutique Geyser PC) and Thomas Goldstein, a named partner from the D.C. area firm Goldstein & Russell.
Amicus support for positions in these cases is another indication that these outcomes matter to a variety of interests. Many of these cases had over ten merits amicus briefs while several had 20 or more. The cases with the top number of cumulative merits amicus briefs supporting petitioners’ or respondents’ positions in this set of cases are displayed below.
The two cases with the most merits amicus briefs were the Friedrichs and Janus decisions which both looked at forced union dues. Several patent-related cases, Oil States and Impressions Products also made the top of the list along with two other cases from this past term — Wayfair and Epic Systems. As these cases already make up a large portion of the Court’s docket, we may expect to see an even greater influx of similarly minded petitions as the Court moves policy in an even more favorable direction for big businesses.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed by the beginning the the 2018 term we can expect the Court to be even further inclined towards ruling in favor of business interests. The first indication of this is from the first figure in this post that shows Kennedy was on the lower end of support for business interests over the last three terms for the conservative justices on the Court.
Furthermore, while the Court sided with pro-business interests more last term than it has in previous terms, many of these were decided based on close votes. The following figure shows the difference in majority and minority votes in this set of decisions for the past three terms (the row labeled “1” is for cases decided by a single vote).
The justices decided eight business-related cases last term by one vote. That was compared to one such decision in both the 2016 and 2015 terms. While not all of the decisions were based on close voting decisions in the past several terms, we may expect more hotly contested cases on the horizon, especially if the Court’s liberal and conservative justices continue to rule in divergent directions.
With this increased polarity, Kavanaugh will in all likelihood provide greater support for pro-business interests. How do we know this? The best signs are from his written opinions while on the D.C. Circuit. His opinions in the following cases are not only examples of his positions, but cumulatively show a propensity to rule in big businesses’ favor. These cases constitute the set of pure business cases as coded for a previous post.
In the case Wu v. Strombler, Kavanaugh ruled in favor of Carlyle Capital which was accused of making material mistatements and ommissions to investors about the sale of securities.
Kavanaugh ruled in favor of Exxonmobile in Metroil v. Exxonmobil, where Exxon was accused of violating state and federal laws by selling a station leased and operated by Metroil to Anacostia.
Kavanaugh wrote the majoirty opinion in Stilwel v. Office of Thrift Supervision, where the D.C. Circuit upheld a regulation that allowed subsidiaries of mutual holding companies to limit minority shareholders to 10% of the subsidiary’s minority stock in order to prevent minority holders from taking advantage of voting rules regarding stock benefit plans.
In Pirelli Armstrong Trust v. Raines, Kavanaugh wrote for the majority holding in favor of Fannie Mae in a case dealing with serious of accounting failures reported in corporate earning restatements. Kavanaugh’s opinion upheld that District Court of D.C.’s ruling against allowing shareholder derivative suits filed against Fannie Mae’s directors.
In Doe v. Exxonmobile, Kavanaugh dissented in favor of Exxon in a suit where Exxoon was sued under the Alien Tort Statute for aiding and abetting Indonesian officials’ abusive behavior towards Indonesian citizens.
While Kavanaugh was consistently on the pro-business side of these decisions, not all decisions divided the panels ideologically. Several judges appointed by Democrats sided with Kavanaugh’s decisions listed above including both Garland and Edwards in Metroil. This is likely a similar orientation to what Kavanaugh will find on the Supreme Court if he is confirmed — the liberal and conservative justices often rule in the same direction in these cases even though that pattern was inconsistent last term.
Although the Court still has a little less than half of its 2018 docket to fill, many cases on the horizon will juxtapose pro and anti-business interests. Attorneys in several of these cases are listed in the attorney figure above further amplifying this trend of repeat attorneys in this set of cases. These cases include:
Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Servicewhich looks at a business interest contrary to an endangered species designation.
New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira which deals with an exemption from the Federal Arbitration Act.
Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v. Devrieswhich is a products liability case.
Virginia Uranium v. Warren which looks atfederal versus state regulations on uranium mining.
BNSF Railway Company v. Looswhich looks at the applicability of taxes on lost time payments.
Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.comwhich examines when the registration of a copyright claim is complete.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrechtwhich deals with a failure to warn claim.
Apple v. Pepper which focuses on consumers’ right to sue a deliverer of goods for antitrust damages.
Lamps Plus v. Varela which looks at whether the Federal Arbitration Act precludes a state law interpretation of an abitration agreement.
Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, another Arbitration Act case where the Court will look at when a court can decline to enforce an arbitration agreement.
Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USAwhere the Court will look at questions surrounding when a sold item can be properly patented.
Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Commisionwhich examines whether a misstatement claim can be repackaged into a fradulent-scheme claim.
From the previous figure of repeat player attorneys , the following attorneys are already counsel of record in the list of cases above (the numbers in parentheses indicate whether these attorneys are already listed in more than one of these cases): David Frederick (3), Shay Dvoretzky (2), Kannon Shanmugam (2), Peter Stris, , Carter Phillips, and Andrew Pincus. Clearly the trend of big name attorney representing and opposing business interests will continue unabated.
The convergence of the factors described above almost ensures the likelihood that a large portion of the Court’s docket will be filled with cases implicating businesses’ interests. If Kavanaugh is confirmed we can expect the pro-business direction of the Court’s rulings to continue and even to increase in momentum. With five solid conservative votes on the Court, the conservative justices will have more control over the Court’s docket as they can predict their desired outcomes each time they congregate as a united front. If they do so they will have great leeway in case selection and in defining the Court’s direction moving forward be it in favor of pro-business interests or otherwise.
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NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship is the annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. It has been played annually since 1972; prior to then, all teams competed in a single class.
Men's Division II Soccer Championship
Number of teams
Charleston (WV) (2)
Most successful club(s)
Southern Connecticut
The most successful program has been Southern Connecticut State, with 6 national titles.
The current champion is Charleston (WV). The Golden Eagles won their second title in 2019, defeating Cal State Los Angeles in the final, 2–0.
1 Format
2 Champions
3 Teams ranked by titles
4 Schools ranked by number of appearances
5 Former Division II Champions now in Division I
FormatEdit
The Division II tournament is structured around four unbalanced Super Regionals from the eight NCAA regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West). At least two and as many as six teams from each region are selected with no automatic qualifiers given. The selection criteria used is similar to that used in Division I, although one difference is that the RPI is replaced with the Quality of Winning Percentage Index, a more subjective measure. In 2016, the tournament field consisted of a 38-team, single-elimination tournament.
The first two rounds are played on campus sites with the highest seed usually hosting the regional semis and finals. The winners of each region meet in the third round and/or quarterfinals, with the host being determined by specific criteria or, failing that, geographical rotation. The final two rounds are played at a predetermined site. The 2016 semifinals and final, for example, were held at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri and hosted by the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and the Kansas City Sports Commission.[1]
ChampionsEdit
References = [2][3]
Semifinalists/Third Place Match
Details SIU Edwardsville 1–0 Oneonta State Cal State Chico & Baltimore
Details Missouri–St. Louis 3–0 Cal State Fullerton Adelphi 1-0 Baltimore
Details Adelphi 3–2 Seattle Pacific UDC 5-3 Eastern Illinois
Details Baltimore 3–1 Seattle Pacific Adelphi 9-1 UW–Green Bay
Details Loyola (MD) 2–0 New Haven Cal State Chico 3-2 (2ot; PK) Missouri–St. Louis
Details Alabama A&M 1 2–1 Seattle Pacific New Haven 3-2 (2ot; PK) UW–Green Bay
Details Seattle Pacific 1 1–0 (3OT) Alabama A&M Eastern Illinois 2-1 So. Conn. State
Details Alabama A&M 2 2–0 Eastern Illinois Seattle Pacific 1-0 (2ot) So. Conn. State
Details Lock Haven 1–0 (OT) FIU Cal State Chico 2-1 (ot, PK) So. Conn. State
Details Tampa 1 1–0 (OT) Cal State Los Angeles So. Conn. State 3-1 Missouri-St. Louis
Details FIU 1 2–1 So. Conn. State Missouri–St. Louis & Oakland
Details Seattle Pacific 2 1–0 Tampa Oakland & So. Conn. State
Details FIU 2 1–0 (OT) Seattle Pacific New Haven & Missouri-St. Louis
Details Seattle Pacific 3 3–2 FIU NYIT & Davis & Elkins
Details Seattle Pacific 4 4–1 Oakland Bridgeport & Davis & Elkins
Details So. Conn. State 1 2–0 Cal State Northridge Missouri-St. Louis & Tampa
Details Florida Tech 1 3–2 Cal State Northridge So. Conn. State & Oakland
Details New Hampshire College 1 3–1 UNC Greensboro Cal State Hayward & Gannon
Details So. Conn. State 2 0–0 (4OT, PK) Seattle Pacific Gannon & Florida Tech
Details Florida Tech 2 5–1 Sonoma State Cal Poly Pomona # & Franklin Pierce
Details So. Conn. State 3 1–0 Tampa Oakland & Seattle Pacific
Details Seattle Pacific 5 1–0 So. Conn. State Florida Tech & Gannon
Details Tampa 2 3–0 (2OT) Oakland Seattle Pacific & So. Conn. State
Details So. Conn. State 4 2–0 USC Spartanburg Mercyhurst & Cal State Bakersfield
Details Grand Canyon 3–1 Oakland Lynn & So. Conn. State
Details Cal State Bakersfield 1–0 Lynn Truman State & So. Conn. State
Details So. Conn. State 5 1–0 USC Spartanburg Mercyhurst & Seattle Pacific
Details So. Conn. State 6 2–1 (2OT) Fort Lewis Charleston (WV) & Barry
Details Cal State Dominguez Hills 1 2–1 (4OT) Barry East Stroudsburg & Lewis
Details Tampa 3 2–1 Cal State Dominguez Hills Dowling & SIU Edwardsville
Details Sonoma State 4–3 SNHU Central Arkansas & Mercyhurst
Details Lynn 1 2–1 Cal State Chico Findlay & Dowling
Details Seattle 2–1 SIU Edwardsville UNC Pembroke & Dowling
Details Fort Lewis 1 3–1 Franklin Pierce Lynn & SIU Edwardsville
Details Dowling 1–0 Fort Lewis Lincoln Memorial & West Florida
Details Franklin Pierce 1–0 Lincoln Memorial Montevallo & Midwestern State
Details Cal State Dominguez Hills 2 3–0 Dowling Tampa & Northern Kentucky
Details Fort Lewis 2 1–0 Lees-McRae Le Moyne & Lewis
Details Northern Kentucky 3–2 Rollins Dowling & Midwestern State
Details Fort Lewis 3 3–2 Lynn Franklin Pierce & Millersville
Details Lynn 2 3–2 Saginaw Valley State Simon Fraser & Mercyhurst
Details SNHU 2
2–1 Carson–Newman Rockhurst & Simon Fraser
Details Lynn 3 3–2 Charleston (WV) Colorado Mesa & Quincy
Details Pfeiffer 4–0 Cal Poly Pomona Charleston (WV) & Rockhurst
Details Wingate 2–0 Charleston (WV) Rockhurst & UC San Diego
Details Charleston (WV) 2–2
(2OT, PK) Lynn Cal Poly Pomona & Rockhurst
Details Barry 2–1 West Chester Cal Poly Pomona & Fort Hays State
Details Charleston (WV) 2–0 Cal State Los Angeles Indianapolis and Lynn
# = Later vacated by NCAA.
Teams ranked by titlesEdit
1 Southern Connecticut 6
2 Seattle Pacific 5
3 Fort Lewis 3
Lynn 3
6 Alabama A&M 2
Cal State Dominguez Hills 2
Charleston (WV) 2
Florida International 2
Florida Tech 2
Southern New Hampshire 2
Schools ranked by number of appearancesEdit
See also: NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Tournament appearances by school
1 Seattle Pacific 35
2 Southern Connecticut 31
3 Tampa 24
4 SNHU (N.H. College) 22
5 East Stroudsburg 19
6 Franklin Pierce 19
7 UMSL 17
8 Lynn 15
Mercyhurst
9 Oakland 14
10 Cal State Dominguez Hills 13
Dowling
Former Division II Champions now in Division IEdit
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Year moved
Current Conference
SIU Edwardsville 1972 1973, 2008[a 1] Mid-American Conference[a 2]
Loyola (Maryland) 1976 1979 Patriot League
FIU (Florida International) 1982, 1984 1987 Conference USA
Grand Canyon 1996 2013 Western Athletic Conference
CSU Bakersfield 1997 2006 Western Athletic Conference
(Big West Conference in 2020)
Seattle 2004 2008 Western Athletic Conference
Northern Kentucky 2010 2012 Horizon League
^ SIUE returned to Division II from 1996 through 2007.
^ SIUE is a full member of the Ohio Valley Conference, which sponsors soccer for women only. The school houses both men's soccer and wrestling in the MAC.
In addition to the above schools, Alabama A&M moved to Division I after winning Division II titles in 1977 & 1979. However, it discontinued its men's soccer program after the 2010 season.[5]
Adelphi also moved to Division I in 1976, after winning the Division II title in 1974, but returned to Division II in 2013.[6]
List of NCAA Division II men's soccer programs
NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Tournament appearances by school
NCAA Men's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division III)
NCAA Women's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
NAIA national men's soccer championship
Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
^ "https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2016-11-07/division-ii-mens-soccer-championship-field-announced". NCAA & Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Retrieved 4 December 2016. External link in |title= (help)
^ "Division II Men's Soccer Championship History" (PDF). NCAA. April 21, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
^ "DII Men's College Soccer - Home - NCAA.com". NCAA.com.
^ http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec2/sponsorship
^ "Alabama A&M to drop men's program". socceramerica.com.
^ "Adelphi Men's Soccer To Reclassify To Division II Beginning Fall 2013 - Adelphi University". Adelphi University Athletics.
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The “Thomas Had Never Seen Such Bullshit Before” meme emerged from a still image of Thomas that was taken from an episode of the popular children's preschool animated series. The online community has been adding captions to the image to express their distaste of current events or actions.
The episode, “Thomas in Trouble”, aired on December 18, 1984 in the UK. In the scene from which the still image is taken, a police officer asks Thomas to halt. His face clearly showed that he was upset by the request that was made. Where the caption 'Thomas Had Never Seen Such Bullshit Before' originated from is still unknown. It seemed to have stepped into the limelight at the start of August 2019 by Tweeter @DocSpaceman_MD.
The still image of an angry Thomas the engine, without the trending caption, has been used by the online population since 2015. It was also listed that year in a group of what were considered the golden standard of macro images. By the end of August 2019 the meme had gained popularity amongst Reddit users. Reddit user Cyberostrich added his own caption, "When you tell a third grader that there are numbers below zero", and received 22,000 upvote points and more than 70 comments within a few weeks.
A couple of days later, Reddit user ShadowRedditer submitted his version of the meme with the caption "When u finish 1st place, but then the teacher says 'u are all winners". This post earned over 80,000 upvote points and over 200 comments from the Reddit community. Its popularity continued to gain momentum into the first week of September 2019. Reddit user ham_salsa posted his version with a caption that reads "When the teacher won't round my 58 to a 94". This submission received over 20,000 upvote points and 100 comments in just a few days.
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Trump says US will talk to Britain after Iran seizes oil tanker
President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs for travel to Bedminster, New Jersey, from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on July 19, 2019. (Reuters)
Reuters, Washington Friday, 19 July 2019
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would talk to the United Kingdom after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.
Trump made the comments to reporters outside the White House. The Revolutionary Guards said Iranian maritime authorities had requested the capture of the tanker for “not following international maritime regulations.”
The incident risks further inflaming tensions between Tehran and the West, which have been increasingly strained since the United States withdraw from a nuclear deal with Iran and imposed sanctions.
Trump said he had also told Republican Senator Rand Paul he could get involved with Iran talks.
Paul had made a proposal to talk to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to US media, but Trump said on Thursday he had not appointed him to any such position.
On July 4, British naval forces seized an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar on suspicion of smuggling oil to Syria and breaching European Union sanctions.
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Eating chicken means eating arsenic
# Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
“We have guests for dinner. Wife, please make them delicious chicken curry with arsenic in it. No? Then let’s take them out to have tandoori chicken – with arsenic.”
These are not lines from the latest Bollywood murder mystery script. This is reality. Arsenic is that deadly element which has killed many a character in plays, movies and novels. What is hidden is the arsenic in our daily consumption.
Arsenic is of two kinds – organic and inorganic. Inorganic arsenic compounds are much more harmful for humans than the organic kind (which is also harmful). They react with the cells in the body, displace elements from the cells, and change the cells' function.
For example, cells use phosphate for energy generation and signalling, but one form of arsenic, known as arsenate, can imitate and replace the phosphate in the cell. This impairs the ability of the cell to generate energy and communicate with other cells. It changes the functioning of 200 + enzymes. Which means that it becomes a deadly poison.
The toxicity of arsenic has been described as far back as 1500 BC in the Ebers Papyrus. Acute arsenic poisoning can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, watery diarrhoea containing blood, cardiac problems, destruction of red blood cells, vertigo, delirium, shock, coma and death.
But it is the long-term exposure of low amounts of arsenic you should really worry about. (The rest of the world has banned arsenic as a chemical to prevent the insect infestation of wood used in building. However, it is still used in India for wood preservation.) We are exposed to it through milk, apple juice and wine (the FDA found high levels of inorganic arsenic in 83 brands of wine).
But most of all, it is present in the many types of meat that we consume, especially fish, shellfish and chicken. Low doses of arsenic cause far less severe symptoms. But that doesn’t mean that the body is not being slowly and systematically destroyed by chronic poisoning, even if the compound is weakly toxic.
Arsenic is related to Vitamin A deficiency, heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, lung, bladder and skin cancers and kidney / liver disease. Long-term exposure to arsenic can lead to skin changes (darkening or discoloration, redness, swelling and skin bumps that resemble corns or warts). Whitish lines may appear in the fingernails.
Both sensory and motor nerve defects can develop. Other problems are lactic acidosis. Arsenic blocks potassium going into the cells and low potassium increases the risk of experiencing a life-threatening heart rhythm problem, neurological disturbances, high blood pressure, central nervous system dysfunction, anaemia.
Epidemiological studies have suggested a correlation between chronic consumption of arsenic and the incidence of Type 2-diabetes. Pregnant women who eat arsenic may have babies with low birth weight and size. Early signs are headaches, confusion and drowsiness. You are eating it every time you eat chicken.
Since the 1940s, chickens have been fed arsenic to promote growth and weight gain with lower feed. It means that you can feed the battery cage chicken less food and the chicken will grow just as big. This saves money for the poultry owner. The drug Roxarsone and Nitarsone makes the chickens grow bigger faster and gives their unhealthy and diseased grey battery cage skin an artificial pink colour to make them look healthy.
The makers of Roxarsone, Nitarsone and the American Food and Drug Administration justified and allowed its use on the grounds that the arsenic used was organic. However, they were proved wrong by a 2011 study at Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future which analyzed hundreds of chicken breasts sold in grocery stores in 10 cities across the USA.
The study showed that Roxarsone turned immediately into carcinogenic inorganic arsenic in chicken bodies. Further, when this chicken was killed and cooked, the levels of inorganic arsenic increased to dangerous levels.
According to a 2006 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 70 percent of the 8.7 million chickens, bred for the food supply, ate feed containing Roxarsone. Johns Hopkins immediately asked the FDA to protect public health by withdrawing its approvals of all arsenic-based drugs, and Congress to pass legislation to permanently ban all arsenic-based drugs from food animal production.
Some US poultries voluntarily removed it in broiler production in the US (no ban has been put). After growing concerns about cancer, Pfizer announced, in 2011, that they were not going to market it in the US any more. However, the company continues to sell Roxarsone and Nitarsone abroad. While animal feed, with arsenic-containing compounds, was always banned in the 25 countries of Europe, UK, Japan. Many countries in Asia, Canada and Australia continue to allow it in animal feed.
Roxarsone and Nitarsone are used massively by Indian poultries. In fact, a simple search for arsenic based farm feed throws up 22,300 sellers and distributors across the country. You can look it up under poultry and animal feed, broiler feed, broiler growth promoter.
One Roxarsone ad reads “Established in the year 2010, we are able to offer a wide range of products such as Poultry Feed Additive and Wood Preservative. We have a huge clientele based across the world. Some of our major clients are from the countries like Latin America, Middle East, South America, South/West Europe, South East Asia, Central America, Australia, Malaysia & Indian Local Market.”
More and more people are consuming chicken now, without realizing the presence of deadly arsenic inside it. As per the Global Agricultural Information Network, the consumption of processed chicken in India is rising at 15-20% per year. Statistics of the Indian Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries show that an estimated 238 crore chickens were slaughtered in 2016-17 in India.
A study conducted in Kolkata, by the West Bengal University of Fishery and Animal Sciences, showed the dangerously high level of arsenic in chicken, mutton and egg samples. The study covered poultry and other farms in eight villages in the Deganga block of North 24-Parganas. It showed that poultry products from the area contained five times more arsenic than the permissible levels. 60% of Kolkata’s chicken and egg supply came from North 24-Parganas.
“We found that broiler chicken produced in the poultry farms had an arsenic content of 0.77 ppm and eggs had an average arsenic content of 0.38 ppm. Both are much higher than the permissible limit. The authorities need to crack down on the poultry farms immediately," said the senior researcher at WBUFAS.
It is not just chicken eaters who are at risk, but each one of us. Chicken faeces are commonly used as fertilizer on croplands. The bacteria present in chicken litter, and in the soil, converts the excreted organic arsenic into its inorganic form. Research from the University of Alberta, published in Science of the Total Environment, found that arsenic from the feed transferred easily from chicken bodies to poultry litter.
Because poultry litter is commonly used to fertilize soil, it can lead to increased concentration of arsenic in plants grown in soil fertilized with chicken manure, generating public health issues (Rutherford et al., 2003). 70-90 percent of arsenic in poultry litter becomes water soluble, meaning, it can readily migrate through soils and into underlying groundwater. Poultry litter containing arsenic is also fed as a protein source to beef cattle. So, the legal practice of feeding arsenic to poultry can add to the arsenic contamination of other foods as well.
Arsenic use promotes antibiotic resistance. Infectious disease concerns are heightened by the fact that poultry producers routinely use feed additives that include both antibiotics and arsenic components. Doctors, and the entire medical fraternity, need to take a lead in this campaign demanding poultry raised without the use of arsenic. The FSSAI and the Drug Controller must withdraw its approval of arsenic feed additives as an unnecessary public health risk. Europe shows us it is possible to raise poultry without arsenic.
The only possible method for control is to ban farm feeds and other products with arsenic. This should cover not just the hugely popular Roxarsone and Nitarsone but Arsanilic Acid, Carbarsone and other related compounds. Ensuring compliance to such a ban is possible through stringent monitoring standards, by regularly testing chicken meat and eggs and inspecting pharmaceutical factories. There cannot be negotiation on how much, or which kind, of arsenic humans can consume, when we need not consume arsenic at all.
To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in, www.peopleforanimalsindia.org
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Enjoy Jatayu-Ravana fight in 6D at Jatayu Rock soon
From the ground as one climbs up and reaches the fifth floor, he returns to present era through the eyes of the Jatayu.
# Story: Rathish Ravi | Photo: C R Girish Kumar
Jul 22, 2019, 01:30 PM IST
Rajiv Anchal near Jatayu Rock
Kollam: An audio visual museum and a movie featuring the stories of Ram regime is gearing up for display at the Jatayu Nature Park at Chadayamangalam. Director Rajiv Anchal is trying to recreate the Tetra Yuga with its animals, birds, flowers and trees.
There will be five storeys for the museum. The palace of the Janaka king will be recreated. From the palace, the views of both inside and outside world can be enjoyed. The museum is constructed in such a way that the visitor also turns as Tetra Yuga person.
From the ground as one climbs up and reaches the fifth floor, he returns to present an era through the eyes of the Jatayu.
Through the left eye, one can see the Arabian Sea on the west and through right eye one can see the nearby sights. Under one of the wings is the multi-dimensional theatre arranged. 8-minute long movie will be shown here which can be enjoyed simultaneously by 32 people. The movie based on Jatayu – Ravana fight also imparts the experience of flying up in the air where the fight is staged.
The movie will play scenes from Ravana kidnapping Sita and taking her in the Pushpaka Vimana, Jatayu rushing to Sita’s rescue, the battle between Jatayu and Ravana and finally Jatayu’s death with the blessings of Ram.
A visitor will know everything about Jatayu rock without the help of a guide. A VFX studio has been set up at Vazhuthacaud for the construction of movie and museum.
Rajiv Anchal said that the museum and movie will be opened to the public by February 2020.
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Memorable Movies
How 'Tremors' Graboids Work
by Robert Lamb
Senior Staff Writer Robert Lamb
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"Tremors" is one of those rare monster movies that delivers on all counts. You get thrills, laughs, memorable performances and -- most important of all -- an original, well-executed monster.
When I first set out to write about the movie's graboid sandworms, I actually intended to limit them to a single page in a list of subterranean movie monsters. But the more I reacquainted myself with the creature and boned up on its life cycle, the more I realized they really deserved their own article.
So there you have it. Graboids. As with my other movie monster articles on gremlins and xenomorphs, the real-world science examples should remind you that no matter how inventive we get with our imagined creatures, nature generally has us beat for all-out weirdness.
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Grazier, Kevin Robert. "The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe." Smart Pop. Dec. 11, 2007.
Laing, Jemima. "Did prehistoric worms turn up in the sands of Torbay?" BBC - Devon. March 23, 2009. (Sept. 4, 2012) http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2009/03/23/worms_torbay_feature.shtml
Parker, David B. "Sacred place vs. recreational space: Outdoors buffs sometimes miss the meaning of American Indian sites." National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. March 19, 2003. (Sept. 4, 2012) http://www.nathpo.org/News/Sacred_Sites/News-Sacred_Sites52.htm
Sanders, Robert. "Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report." UC Berkley. March 24, 2005. (Sept. 4, 2012) http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml
Schultze, H-P. "The late Middle Devonian fauna of Red Hill I, Nevada, and its paleobiogeographic implications." Vertebrate Paleontology. 2010. (Sept 4, 2012) http://vertebratepaleontology.biodiversity.ku.edu/late-middle-devonian-fauna-red-hill-i-nevada-and-its-paleobiogeographic-implications
"Scientists search for Mongolian Death Worm." Mongbay. May 3, 2005. (Sept. 4, 2012) http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0503-rhett_butler.html
Smithsonian Institution, department of paleobiology. "The Devonian Extinction." (Sept. 4, 2012) http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/devonian4.html
Taylor, Christopher. "Most Unbelievable Organisms Evah!" Catalogue of Organisms. Feb 10, 2009. (Sept. 4, 2012) http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2009/02/most-unbelievable-organisms-evah.html
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Mesut Ozil back to his best against Villa | Stats Analysis
EPL Index > Arsenal > Mesut Ozil back to his best against Villa | Stats Analysis
After an abysmal performance in midweek vs Borussia Dortmund and not achieving a league win since the opening day, Arsenal needed a win against an in form Aston Villa in the worst way. The Gunners put in their most convincing performance of the season with a very comfortable 3-0 win. This match had probably the craziest three minutes and twelve second period of the season with Arsenal killing the game off with three goals in just under three minutes.
After coming in from Real Madrid for £42.5m on transfer deadline day last summer, Mesut Ozil has had an up and down time at Arsenal. The most expensive German of all time has come under a lot of criticism in his time in England. Whilst a lot of the criticism has been over the top, he has struggled at times, but he showed the ability he has against Aston Villa. Ozil put in his best performance of this young season. Both he and his boss, Arsene Wenger, will be hoping that he can push on from this performance and show his real quality.
Ozil dictated the match completing 69 of his 75 passes against Villa which equates to a 92% pass completion percentage. Ozil grabbed his first assist of the season and created two chances. The German international finally got his first Arsenal goal away from the Emirates Stadium slotting the ball into the back of the net in the 32nd minute. The World Cup winner won his only attempted tackle and completed one of three attempted take ons.
Ozil has struggled to get started this season, but many will attribute that to the fact that he has been playing on the left. Arsene Wenger switched his system from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-1-4-1 meaning the German had been pushed out to the left. Ozil has taken criticism for his performances and Wenger has taken criticism for playing him wide. In this match, the Arsenal manager reverted to the 4-2-3-1 meaning the former Real Madrid superstar was put back in his normal position as a number 10. The former Real Madrid man was back at his best making his mark on this match.
Heat map courtesy of the Daily Mail’s stats zone.
Even when Ozil plays as a number 10, he tends to drift wide. The German always moves into the pockets of space to keep the attack balanced. He and Santi Cazorla swapped positions often so the German tended to drift left. That was evident on the second goal where Ozil drifted wide to receive a pass from Kieran Gibbs. After touching the ball off to Ramsey, the £42.5m man entered the space on the left of the penalty area and received the ball back from Ramsey. Ozil then delivered the killer ball to Danny Welbeck for his first Arsenal goal. That goal is a perfect example of how Ozil plays.
The flashpoint in the match was the first goal. This seemed to calm everyone down and was followed by two more goals in the next three minutes. The goal was a product of the class Arsenal possess. They just turned up the tempo of the passing and Villa couldn’t cope. It all started with Per Mertesacker giving the ball to Aaron Ramsey. The Welshman drilled the ball into Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. The Ox had a fantastic touch to give it off to new boy Danny Welbeck. As soon as the former Manchester United striker picked up the ball, Ozil went to make a run off the shoulder of former Arsenal center back Philippe Senderos. The Swiss centerback couldn’t pick up the run of the German before Welbeck played the his teammate in with a perfectly weighted pass. Ozil kept his cool and slotted the ball past American goalkeeper Brad Guzan to get the Gunners off the mark.
With Arsenal going into a difficult run off games, three points against Villa was vital for the them. The fact that all of their rivals dropped points made it a fantastic weekend for the club. They will hope to push on from this and beat their North London rivals Tottenham. If Ozil can replicate the form he showed against Villa, they will have a good chance of turning over Spurs for the fourth time in a row.
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Mesut Ozil Vs Aston Villa | Player Performance Analysis
Arsenal have been in very good form since their defeat on New Year's Day and looked to continue that against Aston Villa on Sunday. The Gunners did just that slaughtering the hapless and goalless Villa with a 5-0 win. Arsenal are one of the in form teams in the Premier League winning their last five games and this was one of their best performances of the season. While it is just Aston Villa and that must be kept in mind, …
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Arsenal have gone from favourites for the title to fighting for fourth place once again and questions continue to be raised about Arsene Wenger's future. They need a win this weekend, and a convincing one at that, to relieve any doubts that people have about them being able to qualify for the Champions League. The visitors on Saturday need points desperately as they fight for survival. Since they last played, both Sunderland and Newcastle are building momentum and Norwich need …
Arsenal Vs Norwich Preview | Team News, Stats & Key Players
After an unusually exciting international weekend for Scotland, Wales, and England, club football returns to the Emirates this weekend where Arsenal host Norwich City. The Gunners have enjoyed a great start to the season and, bar their opening day disappointment to Aston Villa, have continued their exceptional form in 2013. Only 4 defeats in 26 Premier League games this calendar year, with 1 in 7 this season, has improved the morale at Arsenal and seen them storm to the top …
Arsenal v Tottenham Preview | Team News, Key Men & Predictions
Arsenal come into this North London derby in need of a bounce back. They lost 3-1 to Liverpool last weekend and will need a good result to avoid going into the international break on a significant low. A loss to arch-rivals Tottenham would put a real sour note on the beginning of the season. They'll need to be at their best to avoid that result and keep themselves near the top of the table. Tottenham have struggled to begin the …
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Mitsubishi and OVO Energy drive sustainability ambitions with new collaboration
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK and OVO Energy announce a new partnership to help drive the decarbonisation of transport. Recognising that meeting the UK’s net-zero carbon commitment by 2050 will require collaboration and partnerships across industry, the two businesses have teamed up to offer innovative green solutions to their respective customers.
OVO Energy has already set ambitious goals, committing in Plan Zero to decarbonise its own operations and halve its members’ carbon footprint by 2030. It currently offers a one-stop zero carbon solution at home and on the road called EV Everywhere, with electric vehicle drivers able to choose from either a free Smart Charger or POLAR plus membership, with a two-year Fixed Energy plan with 100% green energy.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK, also known as The Colt Car Company, has been selling the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, the UK’s and the world’s best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle, since 2014 and believes that plug-in hybrid technology has an important role to play in the transition to decarbonised mobility. It provides drivers with their first experience of electric motoring while also greatly reducing road noise and improving air quality in urban areas when driving in electric mode.
A recent survey of Outlander PHEV drivers indicated that 90% of customers charge their vehicles at least two to three times per week to take full advantage of its 28 mile (WLTP) electric range.
The announcement is the first stage in the collaboration between Mitsubishi Motors in the UK and OVO Energy. More details of future initiatives will be announced in due course.
Tom Pakenham, Director of EVs, OVO Energy said: Electrifying transport represents one of the biggest opportunities for like-minded businesses to work together and offer competitive greener solutions to their customers.
“We’re delighted to partner with Mitsubishi Motors to explore innovative and exciting ways to benefit our customers and the environment.
Rob Lindley, Managing Director of Mitsubishi Motors in the UK, commented:
OVO Energy and Mitsubishi Motors are ideally matched because both companies offer their customers the ability to take practical steps towards a greener future in a useful and pragmatic way.
By joining forces, we will not only encourage even more people to accelerate their decarbonisation ambitions, we will also make it more convenient, affordable and practical for them to do so than ever before.
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Elizabeth Bales Frank
Welcome to the site of Elizabeth Bales Frank, MLIS, writer, culture vulture, Bardophile, and champion of the chance encounter.
History Dames
By Elizabeth Frank on March 9, 2015 | 1 Comment
Last night I went to the 92nd St. Y to see Hilary Mantel with Jeremy Herrin, who is the director of the upcoming Broadway production of Wolf Hall, in a conversation moderated by Candice Bergen, who wore bright red laces in her high-top sneakers. I was invited by my friend Leslie, who has invited me to at least a dozen things this quarter (she is quite the culture vulture) but due to my schedule of day job as a researcher, writing and grad school, I have always said no. Hilary Mantel was too good to pass up, however. And she did not disappoint.
I hadn’t planned to take notes, but she kept saying such interesting things. As a historical novelist myself (and yes, I realize what that sounds like, putting myself in the same paragraph with Dame Mantel), I have had a recent problem with two of my characters, Nick and Daisy, frisking around in the attic of my brain when I am meant to be doing homework. Where were they during winter break? (To be fair, during winter break, I was polishing the novel I am now trying to sell, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, and the characters barging into grad school studying are the fresher (in the sense that I haven’t been writing them for SEVEN YEARS), fiestier characters from Untitled Berlin Love Story.
“I had wanted to write about Thomas Cromwell for more than thirty years,” Dame Mantel said, which made me feel slightly better about my seven, and also prompted me to reach into my bag for a notebook and pen. We must remember when writing historical fiction, she said, that we are writing “characters who are ignorant of their own fate . . . [unaware that their choices] have cascades of consequences that go down through generations. They’re not people in history. They’re people in their lives.”
As a researcher, I was gratified to hear Dame Mantel state that the does her own research and has no assistants. “How do you know what you need to know until you come across it?” she asked, adding that research is “a devious process. I don’t see how you can delegate it. The research is just as creative as the writing itself.”
As for how she does what she does: “A novel is an inherently unpredictable thing.” and “I write in scenes and I put it together like a collage.” (She is currently writing the third volume in the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light.) When questioned about her “routine,” she said “I don’t really understand writing routines. I am writing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Nobody gives you a holiday. You take your sensibility with you everywhere.”
This was gratifying as well, since I remain bruised from an interrogation a couple of years back by a leader of a short-term workshop I was in, who demanded that I explain my “practice.” What room did I write in, did I write first thing in the morning, did I set aside a time every day? This same woman was initially delighted that I was going to start graduate school, but then horrified to learn that I did not intend to quit my job to do so. “When will you have time to write? You’re a WRITER!” How, um, I asked her, did she think I was going to pay for grad school without a job? “Can’t you get a grant? You’re a WRITER!”
She is a child of the 60’s but even so. In the 60’s, was there an abundance of grants which provided housing, food, medical insurance to women of an age more likely to have children in grad school than to be in grad school? But then, we were obviously of different mindsets. For one thing, the workshop was in “flash fiction,” which I don’t read, don’t understand and, as it became apparent, can’t write. For another, I don’t “practice” writing, as it is not law, medicine, or religion. I write novels. I take my sensibility with me everywhere.
And a novel is an inherently unpredictable thing.
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Project acronym 100 Archaic Genomes
Project Genome sequences from extinct hominins
Researcher (PI) Svante PÄÄBO
Host Institution (HI) MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Summary Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Project acronym 1st-principles-discs
Project A First Principles Approach to Accretion Discs
Researcher (PI) Martin Elias Pessah
Summary Most celestial bodies, from planets, to stars, to black holes; gain mass during their lives by means of an accretion disc. Understanding the physical processes that determine the rate at which matter accretes and energy is radiated in these discs is vital for unraveling the formation, evolution, and fate of almost every type of object in the Universe. Despite the fact that magnetic fields have been known to be crucial in accretion discs since the early 90’s, the majority of astrophysical questions that depend on the details of how disc accretion proceeds are still being addressed using the “standard” accretion disc model (developed in the early 70’s), where magnetic fields do not play an explicit role. This has prevented us from fully exploring the astrophysical consequences and observational signatures of realistic accretion disc models, leading to a profound disconnect between observations (usually interpreted with the standard paradigm) and modern accretion disc theory and numerical simulations (where magnetic turbulence is crucial). The goal of this proposal is to use several complementary approaches in order to finally move beyond the standard paradigm. This program has two main objectives: 1) Develop the theoretical framework to incorporate magnetic fields, and the ensuing turbulence, into self-consistent accretion disc models, and investigate their observational implications. 2) Investigate transport and radiative processes in collision-less disc regions, where non-thermal radiation originates, by employing a kinetic particle description of the plasma. In order to achieve these goals, we will use, and build upon, state-of-the-art magnetohydrodynamic and particle-in-cell codes in conjunction with theoretical modeling. This framework will make it possible to address fundamental questions on stellar and planet formation, binary systems with a compact object, and supermassive black hole feedback in a way that has no counterpart within the standard paradigm.
Most celestial bodies, from planets, to stars, to black holes; gain mass during their lives by means of an accretion disc. Understanding the physical processes that determine the rate at which matter accretes and energy is radiated in these discs is vital for unraveling the formation, evolution, and fate of almost every type of object in the Universe. Despite the fact that magnetic fields have been known to be crucial in accretion discs since the early 90’s, the majority of astrophysical questions that depend on the details of how disc accretion proceeds are still being addressed using the “standard” accretion disc model (developed in the early 70’s), where magnetic fields do not play an explicit role. This has prevented us from fully exploring the astrophysical consequences and observational signatures of realistic accretion disc models, leading to a profound disconnect between observations (usually interpreted with the standard paradigm) and modern accretion disc theory and numerical simulations (where magnetic turbulence is crucial). The goal of this proposal is to use several complementary approaches in order to finally move beyond the standard paradigm. This program has two main objectives: 1) Develop the theoretical framework to incorporate magnetic fields, and the ensuing turbulence, into self-consistent accretion disc models, and investigate their observational implications. 2) Investigate transport and radiative processes in collision-less disc regions, where non-thermal radiation originates, by employing a kinetic particle description of the plasma. In order to achieve these goals, we will use, and build upon, state-of-the-art magnetohydrodynamic and particle-in-cell codes in conjunction with theoretical modeling. This framework will make it possible to address fundamental questions on stellar and planet formation, binary systems with a compact object, and supermassive black hole feedback in a way that has no counterpart within the standard paradigm.
Project acronym 3D-REPAIR
Project Spatial organization of DNA repair within the nucleus
Researcher (PI) Evanthia Soutoglou
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
Summary Faithful repair of double stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) is essential, as they are at the origin of genome instability, chromosomal translocations and cancer. Cells repair DSBs through different pathways, which can be faithful or mutagenic, and the balance between them at a given locus must be tightly regulated to preserve genome integrity. Although, much is known about DSB repair factors, how the choice between pathways is controlled within the nuclear environment is not understood. We have shown that nuclear architecture and non-random genome organization determine the frequency of chromosomal translocations and that pathway choice is dictated by the spatial organization of DNA in the nucleus. Nevertheless, what determines which pathway is activated in response to DSBs at specific genomic locations is not understood. Furthermore, the impact of 3D-genome folding on the kinetics and efficiency of DSB repair is completely unknown. Here we aim to understand how nuclear compartmentalization, chromatin structure and genome organization impact on the efficiency of detection, signaling and repair of DSBs. We will unravel what determines the DNA repair specificity within distinct nuclear compartments using protein tethering, promiscuous biotinylation and quantitative proteomics. We will determine how DNA repair is orchestrated at different heterochromatin structures using a CRISPR/Cas9-based system that allows, for the first time robust induction of DSBs at specific heterochromatin compartments. Finally, we will investigate the role of 3D-genome folding in the kinetics of DNA repair and pathway choice using single nucleotide resolution DSB-mapping coupled to 3D-topological maps. This proposal has significant implications for understanding the mechanisms controlling DNA repair within the nuclear environment and will reveal the regions of the genome that are susceptible to genomic instability and help us understand why certain mutations and translocations are recurrent in cancer
Faithful repair of double stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) is essential, as they are at the origin of genome instability, chromosomal translocations and cancer. Cells repair DSBs through different pathways, which can be faithful or mutagenic, and the balance between them at a given locus must be tightly regulated to preserve genome integrity. Although, much is known about DSB repair factors, how the choice between pathways is controlled within the nuclear environment is not understood. We have shown that nuclear architecture and non-random genome organization determine the frequency of chromosomal translocations and that pathway choice is dictated by the spatial organization of DNA in the nucleus. Nevertheless, what determines which pathway is activated in response to DSBs at specific genomic locations is not understood. Furthermore, the impact of 3D-genome folding on the kinetics and efficiency of DSB repair is completely unknown. Here we aim to understand how nuclear compartmentalization, chromatin structure and genome organization impact on the efficiency of detection, signaling and repair of DSBs. We will unravel what determines the DNA repair specificity within distinct nuclear compartments using protein tethering, promiscuous biotinylation and quantitative proteomics. We will determine how DNA repair is orchestrated at different heterochromatin structures using a CRISPR/Cas9-based system that allows, for the first time robust induction of DSBs at specific heterochromatin compartments. Finally, we will investigate the role of 3D-genome folding in the kinetics of DNA repair and pathway choice using single nucleotide resolution DSB-mapping coupled to 3D-topological maps. This proposal has significant implications for understanding the mechanisms controlling DNA repair within the nuclear environment and will reveal the regions of the genome that are susceptible to genomic instability and help us understand why certain mutations and translocations are recurrent in cancer
Project acronym 4C
Project 4C technology: uncovering the multi-dimensional structure of the genome
Researcher (PI) Wouter Leonard De Laat
Host Institution (HI) KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW
Summary The architecture of DNA in the cell nucleus is an emerging epigenetic key contributor to genome function. We recently developed 4C technology, a high-throughput technique that combines state-of-the-art 3C technology with tailored micro-arrays to uniquely allow for an unbiased genome-wide search for DNA loci that interact in the nuclear space. Based on 4C technology, we were the first to provide a comprehensive overview of long-range DNA contacts of selected loci. The data showed that active and inactive chromatin domains contact many distinct regions within and between chromosomes and genes switch long-range DNA contacts in relation to their expression status. 4C technology not only allows investigating the three-dimensional structure of DNA in the nucleus, it also accurately reconstructs at least 10 megabases of the one-dimensional chromosome sequence map around the target sequence. Changes in this physical map as a result of genomic rearrangements are therefore identified by 4C technology. We recently demonstrated that 4C detects deletions, balanced inversions and translocations in patient samples at a resolution (~7kb) that allowed immediate sequencing of the breakpoints. Excitingly, 4C technology therefore offers the first high-resolution genomic approach that can identify both balanced and unbalanced genomic rearrangements. 4C is expected to become an important tool in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. Key objectives of this proposal are: 1. Explore the functional significance of DNA folding in the nucleus by systematically applying 4C technology to differentially expressed gene loci. 2. Adapt 4C technology such that it allows for massive parallel analysis of DNA interactions between regulatory elements and gene promoters. This method would greatly facilitate the identification of functionally relevant DNA elements in the genome. 3. Develop 4C technology into a clinical diagnostic tool for the accurate detection of balanced and unbalanced rearrangements.
The architecture of DNA in the cell nucleus is an emerging epigenetic key contributor to genome function. We recently developed 4C technology, a high-throughput technique that combines state-of-the-art 3C technology with tailored micro-arrays to uniquely allow for an unbiased genome-wide search for DNA loci that interact in the nuclear space. Based on 4C technology, we were the first to provide a comprehensive overview of long-range DNA contacts of selected loci. The data showed that active and inactive chromatin domains contact many distinct regions within and between chromosomes and genes switch long-range DNA contacts in relation to their expression status. 4C technology not only allows investigating the three-dimensional structure of DNA in the nucleus, it also accurately reconstructs at least 10 megabases of the one-dimensional chromosome sequence map around the target sequence. Changes in this physical map as a result of genomic rearrangements are therefore identified by 4C technology. We recently demonstrated that 4C detects deletions, balanced inversions and translocations in patient samples at a resolution (~7kb) that allowed immediate sequencing of the breakpoints. Excitingly, 4C technology therefore offers the first high-resolution genomic approach that can identify both balanced and unbalanced genomic rearrangements. 4C is expected to become an important tool in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. Key objectives of this proposal are: 1. Explore the functional significance of DNA folding in the nucleus by systematically applying 4C technology to differentially expressed gene loci. 2. Adapt 4C technology such that it allows for massive parallel analysis of DNA interactions between regulatory elements and gene promoters. This method would greatly facilitate the identification of functionally relevant DNA elements in the genome. 3. Develop 4C technology into a clinical diagnostic tool for the accurate detection of balanced and unbalanced rearrangements.
Project acronym 4PI-SKY
Project 4 pi sky: Extreme Astrophysics with Revolutionary Radio Telescopes
Researcher (PI) Robert Philip Fender
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Summary Extreme astrophysical events such as relativistic flows, cataclysmic explosions and black hole accretion are one of the key areas for astrophysics in the 21st century. The extremes of physics experienced in these environments are beyond anything achievable in any laboratory on Earth, and provide a unique glimpse at the laws of physics operating in extraordinary regimes. All of these events are associated with transient radio emission, a tracer both of the acceleration of particles to relativistic energies, and coherent emitting regions with huge effective temperatures. By studying radio bursts from these phenomena we can pinpoint the sources of explosive events, understand the budget of kinetic feedback by explosive events in the ambient medium, and probe the physical state of the universe back to the epoch of reionisation, less than a billion years after the big bang. In seeking to push back the frontiers of extreme astrophysics, I will use a trio of revolutionary new radio telescopes, LOFAR, ASKAP and MeerKAT, pathfinders for the Square Kilometre Array, and all facilities in which I have a major role in the search for transients. I will build an infrastructure which transforms their combined operations for the discovery, classification and reporting of transient astrophysical events, over the whole sky, making them much more than the sum of their parts. This will include development of environments for the coordinated handling of extreme astrophysical events, in real time, via automated systems, as well as novel techniques for the detection of these events in a sea of noise. I will furthermore augment this program by buying in as a major partner to a rapid-response robotic optical telescope, and by cementing my relationship with an orbiting X-ray facility. This multiwavelength dimension will secure the astrophysical interpretation of our observational results and help to revolutionise high-energy astrophysics via a strong scientific exploitation program.
Extreme astrophysical events such as relativistic flows, cataclysmic explosions and black hole accretion are one of the key areas for astrophysics in the 21st century. The extremes of physics experienced in these environments are beyond anything achievable in any laboratory on Earth, and provide a unique glimpse at the laws of physics operating in extraordinary regimes. All of these events are associated with transient radio emission, a tracer both of the acceleration of particles to relativistic energies, and coherent emitting regions with huge effective temperatures. By studying radio bursts from these phenomena we can pinpoint the sources of explosive events, understand the budget of kinetic feedback by explosive events in the ambient medium, and probe the physical state of the universe back to the epoch of reionisation, less than a billion years after the big bang. In seeking to push back the frontiers of extreme astrophysics, I will use a trio of revolutionary new radio telescopes, LOFAR, ASKAP and MeerKAT, pathfinders for the Square Kilometre Array, and all facilities in which I have a major role in the search for transients. I will build an infrastructure which transforms their combined operations for the discovery, classification and reporting of transient astrophysical events, over the whole sky, making them much more than the sum of their parts. This will include development of environments for the coordinated handling of extreme astrophysical events, in real time, via automated systems, as well as novel techniques for the detection of these events in a sea of noise. I will furthermore augment this program by buying in as a major partner to a rapid-response robotic optical telescope, and by cementing my relationship with an orbiting X-ray facility. This multiwavelength dimension will secure the astrophysical interpretation of our observational results and help to revolutionise high-energy astrophysics via a strong scientific exploitation program.
Project acronym AARTFAAC
Project Amsterdam-ASTRON Radio Transient Facility And Analysis Centre: Probing the Extremes of Astrophysics
Researcher (PI) Ralph Antoine Marie Joseph Wijers
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Summary Some of the most extreme tests of physical law come from its manifestations in the behaviour of black holes and neutron stars, and as such these objects should be used as fundamental physics labs. Due to advances in both theoretical work and observational techniques, I have a major opportunity now to significantly push this agenda forward and get better answers to questions like: How are black holes born? How can energy be extracted from black holes? What is the origin of magnetic fields and cosmic rays in jets and shocks? Is their primary energy stream hadronic or magnetic? I propose to do this by exploiting the advent of wide-field radio astronomy: extreme objects are very rare and usually transient, so not only must one survey large areas of sky, but also must one do this often. I propose to form and shape a group that will use the LOFAR wide-field radio telescope to hunt for these extreme transients and systematically collect enough well-documented examples of the behaviour of each type of transient. Furthermore, I propose to expand LOFAR with a true 24/7 all-sky monitor to catch and study even the rarest of events. Next, I will use my experience in gamma-ray burst followup to conduct a vigorous multi-wavelength programme of study of these objects, to constrain their physics from as many angles as possible. This will eventually include results from multi-messenger astrophysics, in which we use neutrinos, gravity waves, and other non-electromagnetic messengers as extra diagnostics of the physics of these sources. Finally, I will build on my experience in modelling accretion phenomena and relativistic explosions to develop a theoretical framework for these phenomena and constrain the resulting models with the rich data sets we obtain.
Some of the most extreme tests of physical law come from its manifestations in the behaviour of black holes and neutron stars, and as such these objects should be used as fundamental physics labs. Due to advances in both theoretical work and observational techniques, I have a major opportunity now to significantly push this agenda forward and get better answers to questions like: How are black holes born? How can energy be extracted from black holes? What is the origin of magnetic fields and cosmic rays in jets and shocks? Is their primary energy stream hadronic or magnetic? I propose to do this by exploiting the advent of wide-field radio astronomy: extreme objects are very rare and usually transient, so not only must one survey large areas of sky, but also must one do this often. I propose to form and shape a group that will use the LOFAR wide-field radio telescope to hunt for these extreme transients and systematically collect enough well-documented examples of the behaviour of each type of transient. Furthermore, I propose to expand LOFAR with a true 24/7 all-sky monitor to catch and study even the rarest of events. Next, I will use my experience in gamma-ray burst followup to conduct a vigorous multi-wavelength programme of study of these objects, to constrain their physics from as many angles as possible. This will eventually include results from multi-messenger astrophysics, in which we use neutrinos, gravity waves, and other non-electromagnetic messengers as extra diagnostics of the physics of these sources. Finally, I will build on my experience in modelling accretion phenomena and relativistic explosions to develop a theoretical framework for these phenomena and constrain the resulting models with the rich data sets we obtain.
Project acronym ACTIVATION OF XCI
Project Molecular mechanisms controlling X chromosome inactivation
Researcher (PI) Joost Henk Gribnau
Summary In mammals, gene dosage of X-chromosomal genes is equalized between sexes by random inactivation of either one of the two X chromosomes in female cells. In the initial phase of X chromosome inactivation (XCI), a counting and initiation process determines the number of X chromosomes per nucleus, and elects the future inactive X chromosome (Xi). Xist is an X-encoded gene that plays a crucial role in the XCI process. At the start of XCI Xist expression is up-regulated and Xist RNA accumulates on the future Xi thereby initiating silencing in cis. Recent work performed in my laboratory indicates that the counting and initiation process is directed by a stochastic mechanism, in which each X chromosome has an independent probability to be inactivated. We also found that this probability is determined by the X:ploïdy ratio. These results indicated the presence of at least one X-linked activator of XCI. With a BAC screen we recently identified X-encoded RNF12 to be a dose-dependent activator of XCI. Expression of RNF12 correlates with Xist expression, and a heterozygous deletion of Rnf12 results in a marked loss of XCI in female cells. The presence of a small proportion of cells that still initiate XCI, in Rnf12+/- cells, also indicated that more XCI-activators are involved in XCI. Here, we propose to investigate the molecular mechanism by which RNF12 activates XCI in mouse and human, and to search for additional XCI-activators. We will also attempt to establish the role of different inhibitors of XCI, including CTCF and the pluripotency factors OCT4, SOX2 and NANOG. We anticipate that these studies will significantly advance our understanding of XCI mechanisms, which is highly relevant for a better insight in the manifestation of X-linked diseases that are affected by XCI.
In mammals, gene dosage of X-chromosomal genes is equalized between sexes by random inactivation of either one of the two X chromosomes in female cells. In the initial phase of X chromosome inactivation (XCI), a counting and initiation process determines the number of X chromosomes per nucleus, and elects the future inactive X chromosome (Xi). Xist is an X-encoded gene that plays a crucial role in the XCI process. At the start of XCI Xist expression is up-regulated and Xist RNA accumulates on the future Xi thereby initiating silencing in cis. Recent work performed in my laboratory indicates that the counting and initiation process is directed by a stochastic mechanism, in which each X chromosome has an independent probability to be inactivated. We also found that this probability is determined by the X:ploïdy ratio. These results indicated the presence of at least one X-linked activator of XCI. With a BAC screen we recently identified X-encoded RNF12 to be a dose-dependent activator of XCI. Expression of RNF12 correlates with Xist expression, and a heterozygous deletion of Rnf12 results in a marked loss of XCI in female cells. The presence of a small proportion of cells that still initiate XCI, in Rnf12+/- cells, also indicated that more XCI-activators are involved in XCI. Here, we propose to investigate the molecular mechanism by which RNF12 activates XCI in mouse and human, and to search for additional XCI-activators. We will also attempt to establish the role of different inhibitors of XCI, including CTCF and the pluripotency factors OCT4, SOX2 and NANOG. We anticipate that these studies will significantly advance our understanding of XCI mechanisms, which is highly relevant for a better insight in the manifestation of X-linked diseases that are affected by XCI.
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Project acronym CHEMCHECK
Project CHECKPOINTS IN CHECK: Novel Chemical Toolbox for Local Cancer Immunotherapy
Researcher (PI) Martijn Verdoes
Host Institution (HI) STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
Summary Cancer evades the immune system by generating an immunosuppressive tumour-microenvironment through various mechanisms to enable unhampered growth. Recent breakthroughs in blocking one of these mechanisms – the so called ‘immune checkpoints’ – put cancer immunotherapy back in the spotlights. Although promising, clinical benefits of these checkpoint inhibitors as single treatment has been limited to a subset of patients and goes along with unwanted systemic autoimmune toxicity. I hypostasize, that attacking the tumour microenvironment from multiple immunological angles simultaneously by local, conditional, and multimodal immunomodulation will greatly improve success of cancer immunotherapy and patient wellbeing. To achieve this, I will develop a highly defined synergistic chemistry-based molecular therapeutic toolbox to specifically attack cancer, acting on effector T cells, macrophages as well as tumour cells simultaneously. In this highly multidisciplinary endeavour I will (i) generate novel multifunctional dendritic cell targeted anti-cancer vaccines to ‘educate’ the patient’s immune system to recognise the tumour, (ii) I will develop conditional, targeted immune checkpoint inhibitors to release the immunosuppressive break specifically within the tumour microenvironment without the risk of autoimmunity and (iii) I will generate chemical tools to locally eliminate the tumour-associated macrophages to tear down a major immunosuppressive barrier. I will do so utilizing the novel ModimAb technology which I developed to obtain functionalized antibody fragments. These individual therapeutic tools will allow me and my research team to explore uncharted tumour immunological territories in vitro as well as in vivo, greatly advancing the field of cancer immunotherapy. But above all, together they will form a highly dedicated symbiotic immunotherapeutic regime which will be extremely effective without systemic side effects, dramatically improving patient care.
Cancer evades the immune system by generating an immunosuppressive tumour-microenvironment through various mechanisms to enable unhampered growth. Recent breakthroughs in blocking one of these mechanisms – the so called ‘immune checkpoints’ – put cancer immunotherapy back in the spotlights. Although promising, clinical benefits of these checkpoint inhibitors as single treatment has been limited to a subset of patients and goes along with unwanted systemic autoimmune toxicity. I hypostasize, that attacking the tumour microenvironment from multiple immunological angles simultaneously by local, conditional, and multimodal immunomodulation will greatly improve success of cancer immunotherapy and patient wellbeing. To achieve this, I will develop a highly defined synergistic chemistry-based molecular therapeutic toolbox to specifically attack cancer, acting on effector T cells, macrophages as well as tumour cells simultaneously. In this highly multidisciplinary endeavour I will (i) generate novel multifunctional dendritic cell targeted anti-cancer vaccines to ‘educate’ the patient’s immune system to recognise the tumour, (ii) I will develop conditional, targeted immune checkpoint inhibitors to release the immunosuppressive break specifically within the tumour microenvironment without the risk of autoimmunity and (iii) I will generate chemical tools to locally eliminate the tumour-associated macrophages to tear down a major immunosuppressive barrier. I will do so utilizing the novel ModimAb technology which I developed to obtain functionalized antibody fragments. These individual therapeutic tools will allow me and my research team to explore uncharted tumour immunological territories in vitro as well as in vivo, greatly advancing the field of cancer immunotherapy. But above all, together they will form a highly dedicated symbiotic immunotherapeutic regime which will be extremely effective without systemic side effects, dramatically improving patient care.
Project acronym COSMIC
Project Commitment, maturation and infectivity of sexual stage malaria parasites in natural infections
Researcher (PI) Jan Teun Bousema
Summary Background: One of the major challenges for malaria control and elimination is the phenomenally efficient spread of malaria through sexual stage malaria parasites (gametocytes). The epidemiology and dynamics of gametocytes are poorly understood: it is presently unknown when commitment to gametocytes first occurs during infections and what intrinsic or extrinsic factors influence gametocyte production and infectivity to mosquitoes. I hypothesize that continuous early commitment to gametocyte production and the preferential sequestration of mature gametocytes in the subdermal vasculature are key to explaining the high efficiency of malaria transmission. Aim: This proposal has three main aims: i) to determine when commitment to gametocyte production first occurs during experimental and natural infections; ii) to delineate environmental triggers that stimulate gametocyte production in the absence and presence of treatment; iii) to quantify the differential distribution of parasite developmental stages in different compartments of the human bloodstream. Approach: We will use novel parasite stage composition assays in combination with epidemiological methods to determine the dynamics of gametocyte commitment and maturation during controlled malaria infections in malaria-naive volunteers and during naturally acquired malaria infections in cohorts exposed to malaria in Burkina Faso. A stage-specific immunohistochemistry assay will, for the first time, directly quantify malaria stage composition in the subdermal vasculature and mosquito bloodmeals and allow comparison with other compartments of the circulation. Importance and Innovation: This is the first study to comprehensively characterize gametocyte commitment, maturation and infectivity in experimental and natural infections. This proposal will provide insight in one of the most important questions for malaria elimination: what processes are responsible for the phenomenally efficient transmission of malaria.
Background: One of the major challenges for malaria control and elimination is the phenomenally efficient spread of malaria through sexual stage malaria parasites (gametocytes). The epidemiology and dynamics of gametocytes are poorly understood: it is presently unknown when commitment to gametocytes first occurs during infections and what intrinsic or extrinsic factors influence gametocyte production and infectivity to mosquitoes. I hypothesize that continuous early commitment to gametocyte production and the preferential sequestration of mature gametocytes in the subdermal vasculature are key to explaining the high efficiency of malaria transmission. Aim: This proposal has three main aims: i) to determine when commitment to gametocyte production first occurs during experimental and natural infections; ii) to delineate environmental triggers that stimulate gametocyte production in the absence and presence of treatment; iii) to quantify the differential distribution of parasite developmental stages in different compartments of the human bloodstream. Approach: We will use novel parasite stage composition assays in combination with epidemiological methods to determine the dynamics of gametocyte commitment and maturation during controlled malaria infections in malaria-naive volunteers and during naturally acquired malaria infections in cohorts exposed to malaria in Burkina Faso. A stage-specific immunohistochemistry assay will, for the first time, directly quantify malaria stage composition in the subdermal vasculature and mosquito bloodmeals and allow comparison with other compartments of the circulation. Importance and Innovation: This is the first study to comprehensively characterize gametocyte commitment, maturation and infectivity in experimental and natural infections. This proposal will provide insight in one of the most important questions for malaria elimination: what processes are responsible for the phenomenally efficient transmission of malaria.
Project acronym HEARTOFSTROKE
Project The heart of stroke: Pipes, Perfusion, Parenchyma
Researcher (PI) Jeroen Hendrikse
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), LS7, ERC-2014-STG
Summary My aim is to understand the cause of stroke in every single patient. Brain microinfarcts and macroinfarcts cause a major healthcare burden in Western societies both in terms of morbidity and costs. Cardiovascular thromboemboli from the heart, aorta and neck arteries are considered as the main cause. Still, the vast majority of brain infarcts are unexplained. In contrast to the thromboembolic explanation for brain infarcts, heart infarcts are known to be caused by local atherosclerotic plaque of the coronary arteries and impaired perfusion. This has led to successful preventive and therapeutic strategies against myocardial infarction. For brain infarcts, a blind eye is turned to local atherosclerotic plaque in the intracranial vasculature (Pipes) and impaired Perfusion as possible causes of macro and microinfarcts (Parenchyma). For the ‘3Ps’ (Pipes, Perfusion, Parenchyma) I have created new research fields based on innovative noninvasive arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI, perfusion reserve, perfusion territory and vessel wall MRI methods. In this project, I will go an important step beyond the state of the art by investigating the total intracranial burden of disease of these ‘3Ps’ and systematic evaluations in patients. Pipes: novel methods to visualise and characterise intracranial plaque including inflammatory plaque enhancement, intraplaque haemorrhage and calcification detection. Perfusion: novel methods to investigate hemodynamic impairment in areas with critically low perfusion with noninvasive arterial spin labeling MRI methods and perfusion reserve methods specific for each intracranial perfusion territory. Parenchyma: novel methods to detect microinfarcts. Technical innovations (Pipes, Perfusion) will be applied in synergy to explain micro and macroinfarcts (Parenchyma). Patient specific biomarkers will, similar to the heart, pave the way for designing preventive and therapeutic strategies aimed at reducing the burden of neurodegenerative diseases.
My aim is to understand the cause of stroke in every single patient. Brain microinfarcts and macroinfarcts cause a major healthcare burden in Western societies both in terms of morbidity and costs. Cardiovascular thromboemboli from the heart, aorta and neck arteries are considered as the main cause. Still, the vast majority of brain infarcts are unexplained. In contrast to the thromboembolic explanation for brain infarcts, heart infarcts are known to be caused by local atherosclerotic plaque of the coronary arteries and impaired perfusion. This has led to successful preventive and therapeutic strategies against myocardial infarction. For brain infarcts, a blind eye is turned to local atherosclerotic plaque in the intracranial vasculature (Pipes) and impaired Perfusion as possible causes of macro and microinfarcts (Parenchyma). For the ‘3Ps’ (Pipes, Perfusion, Parenchyma) I have created new research fields based on innovative noninvasive arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI, perfusion reserve, perfusion territory and vessel wall MRI methods. In this project, I will go an important step beyond the state of the art by investigating the total intracranial burden of disease of these ‘3Ps’ and systematic evaluations in patients. Pipes: novel methods to visualise and characterise intracranial plaque including inflammatory plaque enhancement, intraplaque haemorrhage and calcification detection. Perfusion: novel methods to investigate hemodynamic impairment in areas with critically low perfusion with noninvasive arterial spin labeling MRI methods and perfusion reserve methods specific for each intracranial perfusion territory. Parenchyma: novel methods to detect microinfarcts. Technical innovations (Pipes, Perfusion) will be applied in synergy to explain micro and macroinfarcts (Parenchyma). Patient specific biomarkers will, similar to the heart, pave the way for designing preventive and therapeutic strategies aimed at reducing the burden of neurodegenerative diseases.
Project acronym KILLCANCER
Project Nanobody-targeted photodynamic therapy to kill cancer
Researcher (PI) Sabrina Santos Oliveira
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Summary Current cancer therapies often fail to cure patients. Ideally, therapy should locally eradicate cancer and should be capable of inducing long term protection, through activation of the immune system. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment approach in which cancer cells are killed with compounds, named photosensitizers that are activated locally through light exposure. Importantly, PDT eradication of cancers commonly involves the immune system. However, current photosensitizers lack cancer specificity, which limits therapeutic efficacy and prolongs photosensitivity in patients. Recently, I have developed an improved version of targeted PDT that uses very small antibodies i.e. nanobodies that distribute homogenously, bind rapidly and specifically to cancer cells, and a photosensitizer that can be traced by optical imaging to guide the application of PDT. The aims of this proposal are to better understand and to advance nanobody-targeted PDT to ensure complete cancer eradication, and to facilitate its clinical translation. This will be achieved by: 1) Exploring the increased accumulation of photosensitizer through development of novel nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates to bind to cancer cells, cancer stem cells, and endothelial cells. These combinations will be evaluated for their efficacy in mice bearing human carcinomas; 2) Investigating the immune system activation to determine if, as other PDT, nanobody-targeted PDT triggers a systemic immune response, or if additional triggers are needed; 3) Studying the effect of nanobody-targeted PDT in dogs entering the veterinary clinic with oral or colorectal cancers. Treatment efficacy will be evaluated by monitoring cancer regression or disappearance. The outcome of this research will scientifically advance the new field of nanobody-targeted PDT, by providing essential information on its mechanism of action and the feasibility of this approach in human cancer patients, to ultimately improve current cancer treatment.
Current cancer therapies often fail to cure patients. Ideally, therapy should locally eradicate cancer and should be capable of inducing long term protection, through activation of the immune system. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment approach in which cancer cells are killed with compounds, named photosensitizers that are activated locally through light exposure. Importantly, PDT eradication of cancers commonly involves the immune system. However, current photosensitizers lack cancer specificity, which limits therapeutic efficacy and prolongs photosensitivity in patients. Recently, I have developed an improved version of targeted PDT that uses very small antibodies i.e. nanobodies that distribute homogenously, bind rapidly and specifically to cancer cells, and a photosensitizer that can be traced by optical imaging to guide the application of PDT. The aims of this proposal are to better understand and to advance nanobody-targeted PDT to ensure complete cancer eradication, and to facilitate its clinical translation. This will be achieved by: 1) Exploring the increased accumulation of photosensitizer through development of novel nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates to bind to cancer cells, cancer stem cells, and endothelial cells. These combinations will be evaluated for their efficacy in mice bearing human carcinomas; 2) Investigating the immune system activation to determine if, as other PDT, nanobody-targeted PDT triggers a systemic immune response, or if additional triggers are needed; 3) Studying the effect of nanobody-targeted PDT in dogs entering the veterinary clinic with oral or colorectal cancers. Treatment efficacy will be evaluated by monitoring cancer regression or disappearance. The outcome of this research will scientifically advance the new field of nanobody-targeted PDT, by providing essential information on its mechanism of action and the feasibility of this approach in human cancer patients, to ultimately improve current cancer treatment.
Project acronym MYELOMANEXT
Project Integrated next-generation flow cytometry and sequencing to uncover the pathway of curability in multiple myeloma
Researcher (PI) Bruno David Lourenço Paiva
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
Summary Multiple myeloma (MM) represents a unique model to investigate cancer stem cells (CSCs), circulating tumour cells (CTCs), and the mechanisms of malignant transformation and chemoresistance. Despite the substantial improvement in MM patients’ outcome, the vast majority of patients eventually relapse and the disease remains largely incurable. For those patients failing to achieve deep remissions, biologically targeted research on the ultra-chemoresistant minimal residual disease (MRD) clone may allow us to understand the cellular mechanisms driving chemoresistance, and design novel therapeutic to overcome; importantly, such effort should be equally performed on two additional key players: CSCs and CTCs. On the opposite side, it is unquestionable that a selected group of patients does experience long-term survival irrespectively of the depth of response achieved, but we fail to understand the mechanisms driving sustained disease control. Is it because of persistent residual benign clones? Is it because of immune surveillance? Here, we will integrate next-generation flow cytometry and sequencing to define i) the signature of CTCs and ultra-chemoresistant MRD cells, ii) the hierarchical place of putative CSCs, iii) the genomic landscape of benign vs. malignant clones; and iv) the role of immune surveillance to achieve functional cures. Hence, we will characterize for the first-time-ever the highly-professional subclones responsible for malignant transformation, disease dissemination, and dramatic relapses after optimal response to therapy. Noteworthy, the innovative approach of this scientific proposal strongly relies on the use and expertise of highly-sensitive next-generation flow cytometry, coupled with optimized DNA- and RNA-sequencing for low-cell-numbers, and prospective patient samples longitudinally available within the scope of well-controlled clinical trials. Herein, we believe that all requirements are met to conduct this ground-breaking research program.
Multiple myeloma (MM) represents a unique model to investigate cancer stem cells (CSCs), circulating tumour cells (CTCs), and the mechanisms of malignant transformation and chemoresistance. Despite the substantial improvement in MM patients’ outcome, the vast majority of patients eventually relapse and the disease remains largely incurable. For those patients failing to achieve deep remissions, biologically targeted research on the ultra-chemoresistant minimal residual disease (MRD) clone may allow us to understand the cellular mechanisms driving chemoresistance, and design novel therapeutic to overcome; importantly, such effort should be equally performed on two additional key players: CSCs and CTCs. On the opposite side, it is unquestionable that a selected group of patients does experience long-term survival irrespectively of the depth of response achieved, but we fail to understand the mechanisms driving sustained disease control. Is it because of persistent residual benign clones? Is it because of immune surveillance? Here, we will integrate next-generation flow cytometry and sequencing to define i) the signature of CTCs and ultra-chemoresistant MRD cells, ii) the hierarchical place of putative CSCs, iii) the genomic landscape of benign vs. malignant clones; and iv) the role of immune surveillance to achieve functional cures. Hence, we will characterize for the first-time-ever the highly-professional subclones responsible for malignant transformation, disease dissemination, and dramatic relapses after optimal response to therapy. Noteworthy, the innovative approach of this scientific proposal strongly relies on the use and expertise of highly-sensitive next-generation flow cytometry, coupled with optimized DNA- and RNA-sequencing for low-cell-numbers, and prospective patient samples longitudinally available within the scope of well-controlled clinical trials. Herein, we believe that all requirements are met to conduct this ground-breaking research program.
Project acronym NanoPaths
Project Identifying pathways of cellular nanoparticle uptake and early processing for novel nanomedicine applications
Researcher (PI) Anna Salvati
Host Institution (HI) RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
Summary Nanotechnology applied to medicine has opened tremendous opportunities for the design of devices capable of targeting cancer and other diseases, and to deliver therapies selectively to locations where drugs currently can scarcely arrive. Translation of nanomedicines to the clinic however still remains challenging and the mechanistic details of the pathways used by cells to internalize and process man-made nanoparticles are still poorly understood. NanoPaths aims to understand how nanoparticles are processed by cells and in particular (1) to disentangle the mechanisms they use to enter cells, and (2) discover whether highly curved nanosized objects can assist cell membrane curvature, thus play an active role in their internalization; (3) to isolate the structures in which nanoparticles are internalized, in order to understand early sorting by cells, and further characterise the machinery for internalization; and finally (4) to define heterogeneity in cell response to nanoparticles in all of these aspects due to population context (i.e. cell cycle, local cell density) and identify eventual rare-cell behaviours. Several methods to ensure quantitative nanoparticle-cell interaction studies and discriminate cell subpopulations have already been developed in my previous work and now allow me to ask these questions. These methods will be combined with novel approaches applied for the first time in this arena, such as the use of full genome screens to study uptake; single molecule fluorescence methods to understand the role of nanoparticle curvature; novel cell fractionation methods coupled to quantitative proteomics to identify key proteins involved in uptake and early sorting; individual cell analysis to address heterogeneity in cell response to nanoparticles and study rare cells of interest. By disentangling the pathways involved in nanoparticle uptake and early sorting, the knowledge gained with NanoPaths will allow guiding the design of successful nanomedicines.
Nanotechnology applied to medicine has opened tremendous opportunities for the design of devices capable of targeting cancer and other diseases, and to deliver therapies selectively to locations where drugs currently can scarcely arrive. Translation of nanomedicines to the clinic however still remains challenging and the mechanistic details of the pathways used by cells to internalize and process man-made nanoparticles are still poorly understood. NanoPaths aims to understand how nanoparticles are processed by cells and in particular (1) to disentangle the mechanisms they use to enter cells, and (2) discover whether highly curved nanosized objects can assist cell membrane curvature, thus play an active role in their internalization; (3) to isolate the structures in which nanoparticles are internalized, in order to understand early sorting by cells, and further characterise the machinery for internalization; and finally (4) to define heterogeneity in cell response to nanoparticles in all of these aspects due to population context (i.e. cell cycle, local cell density) and identify eventual rare-cell behaviours. Several methods to ensure quantitative nanoparticle-cell interaction studies and discriminate cell subpopulations have already been developed in my previous work and now allow me to ask these questions. These methods will be combined with novel approaches applied for the first time in this arena, such as the use of full genome screens to study uptake; single molecule fluorescence methods to understand the role of nanoparticle curvature; novel cell fractionation methods coupled to quantitative proteomics to identify key proteins involved in uptake and early sorting; individual cell analysis to address heterogeneity in cell response to nanoparticles and study rare cells of interest. By disentangling the pathways involved in nanoparticle uptake and early sorting, the knowledge gained with NanoPaths will allow guiding the design of successful nanomedicines.
Project acronym ORACLE
Project Origins of Alzheimer's disease across the life-course
Researcher (PI) Mohammad Arfan Ikram
Summary The origins of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain elusive. The long pre-clinical phase of AD is universally recognized, but it is not known when predisposition for AD develops nor when the first signs and symptoms become discernable. In this regard, an essential role is played by the ‘reserve’ capacity of the brain, which is built up in early life and acts as buffer against adverse risk factors later in life. However, life-time trajectories of build up and loss of reserve and its determinants remain poorly understood. In ORACLE, I aim to unravel the origins of AD by studying reserve across the entire life-span: from in utero to end of life. The underlying hypothesis is that etiologic factors exert their effect on the risk of AD during the entire life-span, through build-up and loss of reserve. Such life-course approach to study reserve is worldwide unique and constitutes truly ground-breaking research aimed at unraveling the earliest origins of AD. Key objectives are: 1) To study trajectories of reserve across the entire lifespan. 2) To study factors that shape reserve in early life. 3) To study factors that determine onset and early loss of reserve. I will compile a life-course cohort that consists of three population-based samples totalling 40,829 persons that together cover the entire life-span: children in Generation R Study (in utero – 18 yrs); parents in Generation R Study (18–45 yrs); and the Rotterdam Study (45 yrs – death). Reserve will be quantified structurally using imaging techniques that measure volumetry, perfusion and connectivity as well as functionally by measuring cognitive and non-cognitive brain functions. I will study genetic and non-genetic risk factors of AD and their effects on reserve. Results from ORACLE will provide ground-breaking new insights into the earliest origins of AD. In turn, these insights are of major importance to enable the early identification of persons at highest risk of AD and develop targeted prevention for these persons.
The origins of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain elusive. The long pre-clinical phase of AD is universally recognized, but it is not known when predisposition for AD develops nor when the first signs and symptoms become discernable. In this regard, an essential role is played by the ‘reserve’ capacity of the brain, which is built up in early life and acts as buffer against adverse risk factors later in life. However, life-time trajectories of build up and loss of reserve and its determinants remain poorly understood. In ORACLE, I aim to unravel the origins of AD by studying reserve across the entire life-span: from in utero to end of life. The underlying hypothesis is that etiologic factors exert their effect on the risk of AD during the entire life-span, through build-up and loss of reserve. Such life-course approach to study reserve is worldwide unique and constitutes truly ground-breaking research aimed at unraveling the earliest origins of AD. Key objectives are: 1) To study trajectories of reserve across the entire lifespan. 2) To study factors that shape reserve in early life. 3) To study factors that determine onset and early loss of reserve. I will compile a life-course cohort that consists of three population-based samples totalling 40,829 persons that together cover the entire life-span: children in Generation R Study (in utero – 18 yrs); parents in Generation R Study (18–45 yrs); and the Rotterdam Study (45 yrs – death). Reserve will be quantified structurally using imaging techniques that measure volumetry, perfusion and connectivity as well as functionally by measuring cognitive and non-cognitive brain functions. I will study genetic and non-genetic risk factors of AD and their effects on reserve. Results from ORACLE will provide ground-breaking new insights into the earliest origins of AD. In turn, these insights are of major importance to enable the early identification of persons at highest risk of AD and develop targeted prevention for these persons.
Project acronym REGMAMKID
Project How to regenerate the mammalian kidney
Researcher (PI) Nuria Montserrat Pulido
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA
Summary Kidney non-endocrine functions are primarily performed by millions of individual integral units called nephrons. Although the adults of simple vertebrates (fish, amphibians and reptiles) have the ability to regenerate entire nephrons by a process called “nephron neogenesis”, this capacity is absent in birds and mammals. In this regard we have observed, for the first time, that the murine neonatal kidney is able to generate new nephrons after the resection of the 20 per cent of the kidney mass. In the same manner, our recent published data on the generation of human kidney organoids ex vivo from kidney disease derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), demonstrates the suitability of iPS technology to establish an unprecedented platform for drug screening, disease modelling and kidney regeneration. Thus, with support from REGMAMKID we will carry out a dual strategy for kidney regeneration and therapy. For kidney regeneration, we will make use of our newly developed mouse model of neonatal kidney regeneration and identify the molecular and epigenetic drivers responsible for this process. For kidney therapy, we will generate specific kidney cell populations with therapeutic potential such as podocytes and tubular epithelial cells by combining emerging cutting-edge technologies from the fields of cellular reprogramming and pluripotent stem cells differentiation. Making use of the tools developed in REGMAMKID we will model two different genetic kidney disorders: one affecting the podocyte (Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome) and other leading to an excessive proliferation of tubular epithelial cells (Autosomal Dominant Polycistic Disease). These studies will significantly impact on our understanding of kidney disease and healing.
Kidney non-endocrine functions are primarily performed by millions of individual integral units called nephrons. Although the adults of simple vertebrates (fish, amphibians and reptiles) have the ability to regenerate entire nephrons by a process called “nephron neogenesis”, this capacity is absent in birds and mammals. In this regard we have observed, for the first time, that the murine neonatal kidney is able to generate new nephrons after the resection of the 20 per cent of the kidney mass. In the same manner, our recent published data on the generation of human kidney organoids ex vivo from kidney disease derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), demonstrates the suitability of iPS technology to establish an unprecedented platform for drug screening, disease modelling and kidney regeneration. Thus, with support from REGMAMKID we will carry out a dual strategy for kidney regeneration and therapy. For kidney regeneration, we will make use of our newly developed mouse model of neonatal kidney regeneration and identify the molecular and epigenetic drivers responsible for this process. For kidney therapy, we will generate specific kidney cell populations with therapeutic potential such as podocytes and tubular epithelial cells by combining emerging cutting-edge technologies from the fields of cellular reprogramming and pluripotent stem cells differentiation. Making use of the tools developed in REGMAMKID we will model two different genetic kidney disorders: one affecting the podocyte (Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome) and other leading to an excessive proliferation of tubular epithelial cells (Autosomal Dominant Polycistic Disease). These studies will significantly impact on our understanding of kidney disease and healing.
Project acronym STEMCARDIORISK
Project Stem Cells for Cardiac Arrhythmia Risk Assessment
Researcher (PI) Richard Paul Frank Davis
Host Institution (HI) ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN
Summary Among the most significant conceptual changes in stem cell biology of the past decade has been the use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for disease modelling and drug development rather than solely as therapeutics. One area of major interest in this context is that of arrhythmic disorders of the heart. Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of death among young people, with inherited forms affecting as many as 1 in 2000. Even more prevalent are acquired arrhythmias due to adverse responses to medication. These too have a significant heritable component. Although hundreds of mutations have been associated with both forms of arrhythmia, two outstanding issues remain: (i) it is difficult to prove the identified mutation is causal, and (ii) large differences in disease severity are seen even among patients with the same primary mutation. To date hPSC models of arrhythmogenic diseases exhibit the characteristic electrophysiological features of the respective disorders; however lack of appropriate controls and inherent variability between hPSC lines means that it is still unclear how well these models reflect the genotype-phenotype relationship. This proposal will combine hPSC disease modelling with recent advances in gene-editing, plus the wealth of genomic data associating genetic variants to disease phenotypes, to develop unique approaches that will 1) establish the sensitivity of these models and; 2) provide more accurate functional assessment of the contribution of individual variants to congenital and acquired arrhythmias. I believe that by creating panels of isogenic PSC lines differing exclusively at candidate genetic loci we can (i) predict the pathogenicity of variants; (ii) shed light on the mechanism underlying the disease phenotype, and (iii) improve individual risk stratification and patient-specific pharmacotherapy. This study will also offer a first entry into interpreting GWAS and capitalising on the value of the human genome sequencing projects.
Among the most significant conceptual changes in stem cell biology of the past decade has been the use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for disease modelling and drug development rather than solely as therapeutics. One area of major interest in this context is that of arrhythmic disorders of the heart. Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of death among young people, with inherited forms affecting as many as 1 in 2000. Even more prevalent are acquired arrhythmias due to adverse responses to medication. These too have a significant heritable component. Although hundreds of mutations have been associated with both forms of arrhythmia, two outstanding issues remain: (i) it is difficult to prove the identified mutation is causal, and (ii) large differences in disease severity are seen even among patients with the same primary mutation. To date hPSC models of arrhythmogenic diseases exhibit the characteristic electrophysiological features of the respective disorders; however lack of appropriate controls and inherent variability between hPSC lines means that it is still unclear how well these models reflect the genotype-phenotype relationship. This proposal will combine hPSC disease modelling with recent advances in gene-editing, plus the wealth of genomic data associating genetic variants to disease phenotypes, to develop unique approaches that will 1) establish the sensitivity of these models and; 2) provide more accurate functional assessment of the contribution of individual variants to congenital and acquired arrhythmias. I believe that by creating panels of isogenic PSC lines differing exclusively at candidate genetic loci we can (i) predict the pathogenicity of variants; (ii) shed light on the mechanism underlying the disease phenotype, and (iii) improve individual risk stratification and patient-specific pharmacotherapy. This study will also offer a first entry into interpreting GWAS and capitalising on the value of the human genome sequencing projects.
Project acronym TB-ACCELERATE
Project Integrating genomics, epidemiology and evolution to accelerate tuberculosis eradication
Researcher (PI) Iñaki Comas Espadas
Summary "When the scale of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic was highlighted by its declaration as a ""Global Emergency"" by WHO in 1993, it was envisaged that the efficient use of existing tools would result in a progressive decline towards eradication. This has not occurred. At the current pace of decline in TB incidence the Millennium objective to eradicate it by 2050 will not be met. Predictions of epidemiological models were inaccurate and current control programs and technologies have shown their limitations to control the transmission of the disease. To overcome these limitations we need a technological, methodological and conceptual leap forward that can reveal the unknowns of TB epidemiology. I propose whole genome sequencing (WGS) as the technology that can mediate this advance. While WGS has been applied mostly to retrospective datasets I propose to use it in prospective samples from a low-burden region at a population scale. Genome information will fill the gap between epidemiology and evolution to have a direct impact on public health. This will allow to develop innovative methodologies to describe transmission at an unprecedented resolution and as a consequence to differentiate among risks factors associated to the bacteria, the host, the environment and their interactions. Elucidation of these factors will lead to better models used to design new strategies and accelerate global TB eradication. In addition, I will show how the real-time integration of data in public eHealth systems combined with in situ interventions will accelerate TB eradication. The strength of the project resides in its multidisciplinary approach to TB epidemiology that will provide answers to yet-out-of-reach questions. It will lead to improving health status at the local level as well as to epidemiological and control programs at a global scale. In summary, the project will open new ways to foster the long sought outcome of the tuberculosis community: TB eradication."
"When the scale of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic was highlighted by its declaration as a ""Global Emergency"" by WHO in 1993, it was envisaged that the efficient use of existing tools would result in a progressive decline towards eradication. This has not occurred. At the current pace of decline in TB incidence the Millennium objective to eradicate it by 2050 will not be met. Predictions of epidemiological models were inaccurate and current control programs and technologies have shown their limitations to control the transmission of the disease. To overcome these limitations we need a technological, methodological and conceptual leap forward that can reveal the unknowns of TB epidemiology. I propose whole genome sequencing (WGS) as the technology that can mediate this advance. While WGS has been applied mostly to retrospective datasets I propose to use it in prospective samples from a low-burden region at a population scale. Genome information will fill the gap between epidemiology and evolution to have a direct impact on public health. This will allow to develop innovative methodologies to describe transmission at an unprecedented resolution and as a consequence to differentiate among risks factors associated to the bacteria, the host, the environment and their interactions. Elucidation of these factors will lead to better models used to design new strategies and accelerate global TB eradication. In addition, I will show how the real-time integration of data in public eHealth systems combined with in situ interventions will accelerate TB eradication. The strength of the project resides in its multidisciplinary approach to TB epidemiology that will provide answers to yet-out-of-reach questions. It will lead to improving health status at the local level as well as to epidemiological and control programs at a global scale. In summary, the project will open new ways to foster the long sought outcome of the tuberculosis community: TB eradication."
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Project acronym 2D-PnictoChem
Project Chemistry and Interface Control of Novel 2D-Pnictogen Nanomaterials
Researcher (PI) Gonzalo ABELLAN SAEZ
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA
Summary 2D-PnictoChem aims at exploring the Chemistry of a novel class of graphene-like 2D layered elemental materials of group 15, the pnictogens: P, As, Sb, and Bi. In the last few years, these materials have taken the field of Materials Science by storm since they can outperform and/or complement graphene properties. Their strongly layer-dependent unique properties range from semiconducting to metallic, including high carrier mobilities, tunable bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling or transparency. However, the Chemistry of pnictogens is still in its infancy, remaining largely unexplored. This is the niche that 2D-PnictoChem aims to fill. By mastering the interface chemistry, we will develop the assembly of 2Dpnictogens in complex hybrid heterostructures for the first time. Success will rely on a cross-disciplinary approach combining both Inorganic- and Organic Chemistry with Solid-state Physics, including: 1) Synthetizing and exfoliating high quality ultra-thin layer pnictogens, providing reliable access down to the monolayer limit. 2) Achieving their chemical functionalization via both non-covalent and covalent approaches in order to tailor at will their properties, decipher reactivity patterns and enable controlled doping avenues. 3) Developing hybrid architectures through a precise chemical control of the interface, in order to promote unprecedented access to novel heterostructures. 4) Exploring novel applications concepts achieving outstanding performances. These are all priorities in the European Union agenda aimed at securing an affordable, clean energy future by developing more efficient hybrid systems for batteries, electronic devices or applications in catalysis. The opportunity is unique to reduce Europe’s dependence on external technology and the PI’s background is ideally suited to tackle these objectives, counting as well on a multidisciplinary team of international collaborators.
2D-PnictoChem aims at exploring the Chemistry of a novel class of graphene-like 2D layered elemental materials of group 15, the pnictogens: P, As, Sb, and Bi. In the last few years, these materials have taken the field of Materials Science by storm since they can outperform and/or complement graphene properties. Their strongly layer-dependent unique properties range from semiconducting to metallic, including high carrier mobilities, tunable bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling or transparency. However, the Chemistry of pnictogens is still in its infancy, remaining largely unexplored. This is the niche that 2D-PnictoChem aims to fill. By mastering the interface chemistry, we will develop the assembly of 2Dpnictogens in complex hybrid heterostructures for the first time. Success will rely on a cross-disciplinary approach combining both Inorganic- and Organic Chemistry with Solid-state Physics, including: 1) Synthetizing and exfoliating high quality ultra-thin layer pnictogens, providing reliable access down to the monolayer limit. 2) Achieving their chemical functionalization via both non-covalent and covalent approaches in order to tailor at will their properties, decipher reactivity patterns and enable controlled doping avenues. 3) Developing hybrid architectures through a precise chemical control of the interface, in order to promote unprecedented access to novel heterostructures. 4) Exploring novel applications concepts achieving outstanding performances. These are all priorities in the European Union agenda aimed at securing an affordable, clean energy future by developing more efficient hybrid systems for batteries, electronic devices or applications in catalysis. The opportunity is unique to reduce Europe’s dependence on external technology and the PI’s background is ideally suited to tackle these objectives, counting as well on a multidisciplinary team of international collaborators.
Project acronym 2D-TOPSENSE
Project Tunable optoelectronic devices by strain engineering of 2D semiconductors
Researcher (PI) Andres CASTELLANOS
Summary The goal of 2D-TOPSENSE is to exploit the remarkable stretchability of two-dimensional semiconductors to fabricate optoelectronic devices where strain is used as an external knob to tune their properties. While bulk semiconductors tend to break under strains larger than 1.5%, 2D semiconductors (such as MoS2) can withstand deformations of up to 10-20% before rupture. This large breaking strength promises a great potential of 2D semiconductors as ‘straintronic’ materials, whose properties can be adjusted by applying a deformation to their lattice. In fact, recent theoretical works predicted an interesting physical phenomenon: a tensile strain-induced semiconductor-to-metal transition in 2D semiconductors. By tensioning single-layer MoS2 from 0% up to 10%, its electronic band structure is expected to undergo a continuous transition from a wide direct band-gap of 1.8 eV to a metallic behavior. This unprecedented large strain-tunability will undoubtedly have a strong impact in a wide range of optoelectronic applications such as photodetectors whose cut-off wavelength is tuned by varying the applied strain or atomically thin light modulators. To date, experimental works on strain engineering have been mostly focused on fundamental studies, demonstrating part of the potential of 2D semiconductors in straintronics, but they have failed to exploit strain engineering to add extra functionalities to optoelectronic devices. In 2D-TOPSENSE I will go beyond the state of the art in straintronics by designing and fabricating optoelectronic devices whose properties and performance can be tuned by means of applying strain. 2D-TOPSENSE will focus on photodetectors with a tunable bandwidth and detectivity, light emitting devices whose emission wavelength can be adjusted, light modulators based on 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides or black phosphorus and solar funnels capable of directing the photogenerated charge carriers towards a specific position.
The goal of 2D-TOPSENSE is to exploit the remarkable stretchability of two-dimensional semiconductors to fabricate optoelectronic devices where strain is used as an external knob to tune their properties. While bulk semiconductors tend to break under strains larger than 1.5%, 2D semiconductors (such as MoS2) can withstand deformations of up to 10-20% before rupture. This large breaking strength promises a great potential of 2D semiconductors as ‘straintronic’ materials, whose properties can be adjusted by applying a deformation to their lattice. In fact, recent theoretical works predicted an interesting physical phenomenon: a tensile strain-induced semiconductor-to-metal transition in 2D semiconductors. By tensioning single-layer MoS2 from 0% up to 10%, its electronic band structure is expected to undergo a continuous transition from a wide direct band-gap of 1.8 eV to a metallic behavior. This unprecedented large strain-tunability will undoubtedly have a strong impact in a wide range of optoelectronic applications such as photodetectors whose cut-off wavelength is tuned by varying the applied strain or atomically thin light modulators. To date, experimental works on strain engineering have been mostly focused on fundamental studies, demonstrating part of the potential of 2D semiconductors in straintronics, but they have failed to exploit strain engineering to add extra functionalities to optoelectronic devices. In 2D-TOPSENSE I will go beyond the state of the art in straintronics by designing and fabricating optoelectronic devices whose properties and performance can be tuned by means of applying strain. 2D-TOPSENSE will focus on photodetectors with a tunable bandwidth and detectivity, light emitting devices whose emission wavelength can be adjusted, light modulators based on 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides or black phosphorus and solar funnels capable of directing the photogenerated charge carriers towards a specific position.
Project acronym 2DNANOPTICA
Project Nano-optics on flatland: from quantum nanotechnology to nano-bio-photonics
Researcher (PI) Pablo Alonso-González
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO
Summary Ubiquitous in nature, light-matter interactions are of fundamental importance in science and all optical technologies. Understanding and controlling them has been a long-pursued objective in modern physics. However, so far, related experiments have relied on traditional optical schemes where, owing to the classical diffraction limit, control of optical fields to length scales below the wavelength of light is prevented. Importantly, this limitation impedes to exploit the extraordinary fundamental and scaling potentials of nanoscience and nanotechnology. A solution to concentrate optical fields into sub-diffracting volumes is the excitation of surface polaritons –coupled excitations of photons and mobile/bound charges in metals/polar materials (plasmons/phonons)-. However, their initial promises have been hindered by either strong optical losses or lack of electrical control in metals, and difficulties to fabricate high optical quality nanostructures in polar materials. With the advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their extraordinary optical properties, during the last 2-3 years the visualization of both low-loss and electrically tunable (active) plasmons in graphene and high optical quality phonons in monolayer and multilayer h-BN nanostructures have been demonstrated in the mid-infrared spectral range, thus introducing a very encouraging arena for scientifically ground-breaking discoveries in nano-optics. Inspired by these extraordinary prospects, this ERC project aims to make use of our knowledge and unique expertise in 2D nanoplasmonics, and the recent advances in nanophononics, to establish a technological platform that, including coherent sources, waveguides, routers, and efficient detectors, permits an unprecedented active control and manipulation (at room temperature) of light and light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, thus laying experimentally the foundations of a 2D nano-optics field.
Ubiquitous in nature, light-matter interactions are of fundamental importance in science and all optical technologies. Understanding and controlling them has been a long-pursued objective in modern physics. However, so far, related experiments have relied on traditional optical schemes where, owing to the classical diffraction limit, control of optical fields to length scales below the wavelength of light is prevented. Importantly, this limitation impedes to exploit the extraordinary fundamental and scaling potentials of nanoscience and nanotechnology. A solution to concentrate optical fields into sub-diffracting volumes is the excitation of surface polaritons –coupled excitations of photons and mobile/bound charges in metals/polar materials (plasmons/phonons)-. However, their initial promises have been hindered by either strong optical losses or lack of electrical control in metals, and difficulties to fabricate high optical quality nanostructures in polar materials. With the advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their extraordinary optical properties, during the last 2-3 years the visualization of both low-loss and electrically tunable (active) plasmons in graphene and high optical quality phonons in monolayer and multilayer h-BN nanostructures have been demonstrated in the mid-infrared spectral range, thus introducing a very encouraging arena for scientifically ground-breaking discoveries in nano-optics. Inspired by these extraordinary prospects, this ERC project aims to make use of our knowledge and unique expertise in 2D nanoplasmonics, and the recent advances in nanophononics, to establish a technological platform that, including coherent sources, waveguides, routers, and efficient detectors, permits an unprecedented active control and manipulation (at room temperature) of light and light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, thus laying experimentally the foundations of a 2D nano-optics field.
Project acronym 2DTHERMS
Project Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Researcher (PI) Jose Francisco Rivadulla Fernandez
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Summary Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Project acronym 3D-FIREFLUC
Project Taming the particle transport in magnetized plasmas via perturbative fields
Researcher (PI) Eleonora VIEZZER
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
Summary Wave-particle interactions are ubiquitous in nature and play a fundamental role in astrophysical and fusion plasmas. In solar plasmas, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations are thought to be responsible for the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. In magnetically confined fusion (MCF) devices, enhanced particle transport induced by MHD fluctuations can deteriorate the plasma confinement, and also endanger the device integrity. MCF devices are an ideal testbed to verify current models and develop mitigation / protection techniques. The proposed project paves the way for providing active control techniques to tame the MHD induced particle transport in a fusion plasma. A solid understanding of the interaction between energetic particles and MHD instabilities in the presence of electric fields and plasma currents is required to develop such techniques. I will pursue this goal through innovative diagnosis techniques with unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution. Combined with state-of-the-art hybrid MHD codes, a deep insight into the underlying physics mechanism will be gained. The outcome of this research project will have a major impact for next-step MCF devices as I will provide ground-breaking control techniques for mitigating MHD induced particle transport in magnetized plasmas. The project consists of 3 research lines which follow a bottom-up approach: (1) Cutting-edge instrumentation, aiming at the new generation of energetic particle and edge current diagnostics. (2) Unravel the dynamics of energetic particles, electric fields, edge currents and MHD fluctuations. (3) From lab to space weather: The developed models will revolutionize our understanding of the observed particle acceleration and transport in the solar corona. Based on this approach, the project represents a gateway between the fusion, astrophysics and space communities opening new avenues for a common basic understanding.
Wave-particle interactions are ubiquitous in nature and play a fundamental role in astrophysical and fusion plasmas. In solar plasmas, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations are thought to be responsible for the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. In magnetically confined fusion (MCF) devices, enhanced particle transport induced by MHD fluctuations can deteriorate the plasma confinement, and also endanger the device integrity. MCF devices are an ideal testbed to verify current models and develop mitigation / protection techniques. The proposed project paves the way for providing active control techniques to tame the MHD induced particle transport in a fusion plasma. A solid understanding of the interaction between energetic particles and MHD instabilities in the presence of electric fields and plasma currents is required to develop such techniques. I will pursue this goal through innovative diagnosis techniques with unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution. Combined with state-of-the-art hybrid MHD codes, a deep insight into the underlying physics mechanism will be gained. The outcome of this research project will have a major impact for next-step MCF devices as I will provide ground-breaking control techniques for mitigating MHD induced particle transport in magnetized plasmas. The project consists of 3 research lines which follow a bottom-up approach: (1) Cutting-edge instrumentation, aiming at the new generation of energetic particle and edge current diagnostics. (2) Unravel the dynamics of energetic particles, electric fields, edge currents and MHD fluctuations. (3) From lab to space weather: The developed models will revolutionize our understanding of the observed particle acceleration and transport in the solar corona. Based on this approach, the project represents a gateway between the fusion, astrophysics and space communities opening new avenues for a common basic understanding.
Project acronym 4SUNS
Project 4-Colours/2-Junctions of III-V semiconductors on Si to use in electronics devices and solar cells
Researcher (PI) María Nair LOPEZ MARTINEZ
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID
Summary It was early predicted by M. Green and coeval colleagues that dividing the solar spectrum into narrow ranges of colours is the most efficient manner to convert solar energy into electrical power. Multijunction solar cells are the current solution to this challenge, which have reached over 30% conversion efficiencies by stacking 3 junctions together. However, the large fabrication costs and time hinders their use in everyday life. It has been shown that highly mismatched alloy (HMA) materials provide a powerful playground to achieve at least 3 different colour absorption regions that enable optimised energy conversion with just one junction. Combining HMA-based junctions with standard Silicon solar cells will rocket solar conversion efficiency at a reduced price. To turn this ambition into marketable devices, several efforts are still needed and few challenges must be overcome. 4SUNS is a revolutionary approach for the development of HMA materials on Silicon technology, which will bring highly efficient multi-colour solar cells costs below current multijunction devices. The project will develop the technology of HMA materials on Silicon via material synthesis opening a new technology for the future. The understanding and optimization of highly mismatched alloy materials-using GaAsNP alloy- will provide building blocks for the fabrication of laboratory-size 4-colours/2-junctions solar cells. Using a molecular beam epitaxy system, 4SUNS will grow 4-colours/2-junctions structure as well as it will manufacture the final devices. Structural and optoelectronic characterizations will carry out to determine the quality of the materials and the solar cells characteristic to obtain a competitive product. These new solar cells are competitive products to breakthrough on the solar energy sector solar cells and allowing Europe to take leadership on high efficiency solar cells.
It was early predicted by M. Green and coeval colleagues that dividing the solar spectrum into narrow ranges of colours is the most efficient manner to convert solar energy into electrical power. Multijunction solar cells are the current solution to this challenge, which have reached over 30% conversion efficiencies by stacking 3 junctions together. However, the large fabrication costs and time hinders their use in everyday life. It has been shown that highly mismatched alloy (HMA) materials provide a powerful playground to achieve at least 3 different colour absorption regions that enable optimised energy conversion with just one junction. Combining HMA-based junctions with standard Silicon solar cells will rocket solar conversion efficiency at a reduced price. To turn this ambition into marketable devices, several efforts are still needed and few challenges must be overcome. 4SUNS is a revolutionary approach for the development of HMA materials on Silicon technology, which will bring highly efficient multi-colour solar cells costs below current multijunction devices. The project will develop the technology of HMA materials on Silicon via material synthesis opening a new technology for the future. The understanding and optimization of highly mismatched alloy materials-using GaAsNP alloy- will provide building blocks for the fabrication of laboratory-size 4-colours/2-junctions solar cells. Using a molecular beam epitaxy system, 4SUNS will grow 4-colours/2-junctions structure as well as it will manufacture the final devices. Structural and optoelectronic characterizations will carry out to determine the quality of the materials and the solar cells characteristic to obtain a competitive product. These new solar cells are competitive products to breakthrough on the solar energy sector solar cells and allowing Europe to take leadership on high efficiency solar cells.
Project acronym ADJUV-ANT VACCINES
Project Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Synthetic Saponin Adjuvants and Development of Novel Self-Adjuvanting Vaccines
Researcher (PI) Alberto FERNANDEZ TEJADA
Host Institution (HI) ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN BIOCIENCIAS
Summary The clinical success of anticancer and antiviral vaccines often requires the use of an adjuvant, a substance that helps stimulate the body’s immune response to the vaccine, making it work better. However, few adjuvants are sufficiently potent and non-toxic for clinical use; moreover, it is not really known how they work. Current vaccine approaches based on weak carbohydrate and glycopeptide antigens are not being particularly effective to induce the human immune system to mount an effective fight against cancer. Despite intensive research and several clinical trials, no such carbohydrate-based antitumor vaccine has yet been approved for public use. In this context, the proposed project has a double, ultimate goal based on applying chemistry to address the above clear gaps in the adjuvant-vaccine field. First, I will develop new improved adjuvants and novel chemical strategies towards more effective, self-adjuvanting synthetic vaccines. Second, I will probe deeply into the molecular mechanisms of the synthetic constructs by combining extensive immunological evaluations with molecular target identification and detailed conformational studies. Thus, the singularity of this multidisciplinary proposal stems from the integration of its main objectives and approaches connecting chemical synthesis and chemical/structural biology with cellular and molecular immunology. This ground-breaking project at the chemistry-biology frontier will allow me to establish my own independent research group and explore key unresolved mechanistic questions in the adjuvant/vaccine arena with extraordinary chemical precision. Therefore, with this transformative and timely research program I aim to (a) develop novel synthetic antitumor and antiviral vaccines with improved properties and efficacy for their prospective translation into the clinic and (b) gain new critical insights into the molecular basis and three-dimensional structure underlying the biological activity of these constructs.
The clinical success of anticancer and antiviral vaccines often requires the use of an adjuvant, a substance that helps stimulate the body’s immune response to the vaccine, making it work better. However, few adjuvants are sufficiently potent and non-toxic for clinical use; moreover, it is not really known how they work. Current vaccine approaches based on weak carbohydrate and glycopeptide antigens are not being particularly effective to induce the human immune system to mount an effective fight against cancer. Despite intensive research and several clinical trials, no such carbohydrate-based antitumor vaccine has yet been approved for public use. In this context, the proposed project has a double, ultimate goal based on applying chemistry to address the above clear gaps in the adjuvant-vaccine field. First, I will develop new improved adjuvants and novel chemical strategies towards more effective, self-adjuvanting synthetic vaccines. Second, I will probe deeply into the molecular mechanisms of the synthetic constructs by combining extensive immunological evaluations with molecular target identification and detailed conformational studies. Thus, the singularity of this multidisciplinary proposal stems from the integration of its main objectives and approaches connecting chemical synthesis and chemical/structural biology with cellular and molecular immunology. This ground-breaking project at the chemistry-biology frontier will allow me to establish my own independent research group and explore key unresolved mechanistic questions in the adjuvant/vaccine arena with extraordinary chemical precision. Therefore, with this transformative and timely research program I aim to (a) develop novel synthetic antitumor and antiviral vaccines with improved properties and efficacy for their prospective translation into the clinic and (b) gain new critical insights into the molecular basis and three-dimensional structure underlying the biological activity of these constructs.
Project acronym ANIMETRICS
Project Measurement-Based Modeling and Animation of Complex Mechanical Phenomena
Researcher (PI) Miguel Angel Otaduy Tristan
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS
Summary Computer animation has traditionally been associated with applications in virtual-reality-based training, video games or feature films. However, interactive animation is gaining relevance in a more general scope, as a tool for early-stage analysis, design and planning in many applications in science and engineering. The user can get quick and visual feedback of the results, and then proceed by refining the experiments or designs. Potential applications include nanodesign, e-commerce or tactile telecommunication, but they also reach as far as, e.g., the analysis of ecological, climate, biological or physiological processes. The application of computer animation is extremely limited in comparison to its potential outreach due to a trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency. Such trade-off is induced by inherent complexity sources such as nonlinear or anisotropic behaviors, heterogeneous properties, or high dynamic ranges of effects. The Animetrics project proposes a modeling and animation methodology, which consists of a multi-scale decomposition of complex processes, the description of the process at each scale through combination of simple local models, and fitting the parameters of those local models using large amounts of data from example effects. The modeling and animation methodology will be explored on specific problems arising in complex mechanical phenomena, including viscoelasticity of solids and thin shells, multi-body contact, granular and liquid flow, and fracture of solids.
Computer animation has traditionally been associated with applications in virtual-reality-based training, video games or feature films. However, interactive animation is gaining relevance in a more general scope, as a tool for early-stage analysis, design and planning in many applications in science and engineering. The user can get quick and visual feedback of the results, and then proceed by refining the experiments or designs. Potential applications include nanodesign, e-commerce or tactile telecommunication, but they also reach as far as, e.g., the analysis of ecological, climate, biological or physiological processes. The application of computer animation is extremely limited in comparison to its potential outreach due to a trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency. Such trade-off is induced by inherent complexity sources such as nonlinear or anisotropic behaviors, heterogeneous properties, or high dynamic ranges of effects. The Animetrics project proposes a modeling and animation methodology, which consists of a multi-scale decomposition of complex processes, the description of the process at each scale through combination of simple local models, and fitting the parameters of those local models using large amounts of data from example effects. The modeling and animation methodology will be explored on specific problems arising in complex mechanical phenomena, including viscoelasticity of solids and thin shells, multi-body contact, granular and liquid flow, and fracture of solids.
Project acronym APACHE
Project Atmospheric Pressure plAsma meets biomaterials for bone Cancer HEaling
Researcher (PI) Cristina CANAL BARNILS
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA
Summary Cold atmospheric pressure plasmas (APP) have been reported to selectively kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding tissues. Studies have been conducted on a variety of cancer types but to the best of our knowledge not on any kind of bone cancer. Treatment options for bone cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, etc. and may involve the use of bone grafting biomaterials to replace the surgically removed bone. APACHE brings a totally different and ground-breaking approach in the design of a novel therapy for bone cancer by taking advantage of the active species generated by APP in combination with biomaterials to deliver the active species locally in the diseased site. The feasibility of this approach is rooted in the evidence that the cellular effects of APP appear to strongly involve the suite of reactive species created by plasmas, which can be derived from a) direct treatment of the malignant cells by APP or b) indirect treatment of the liquid media by APP which is then put in contact with the cancer cells. In APACHE we aim to investigate the fundamentals involved in the lethal effects of cold plasmas on bone cancer cells, and to develop improved bone cancer therapies. To achieve this we will take advantage of the highly reactive species generated by APP in the liquid media, which we will use in an incremental strategy: i) to investigate the effects of APP treated liquid on bone cancer cells, ii) to evaluate the potential of combining APP treated liquid in a hydrogel vehicle with/wo CaP biomaterials and iii) to ascertain the potential three directional interactions between APP reactive species in liquid medium with biomaterials and with chemotherapeutic drugs. The methodological approach will involve an interdisciplinary team, dealing with plasma diagnostics in gas and liquid media; with cell biology and the effects of APP treated with bone tumor cells and its combination with biomaterials and/or with anticancer drugs.
Cold atmospheric pressure plasmas (APP) have been reported to selectively kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding tissues. Studies have been conducted on a variety of cancer types but to the best of our knowledge not on any kind of bone cancer. Treatment options for bone cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, etc. and may involve the use of bone grafting biomaterials to replace the surgically removed bone. APACHE brings a totally different and ground-breaking approach in the design of a novel therapy for bone cancer by taking advantage of the active species generated by APP in combination with biomaterials to deliver the active species locally in the diseased site. The feasibility of this approach is rooted in the evidence that the cellular effects of APP appear to strongly involve the suite of reactive species created by plasmas, which can be derived from a) direct treatment of the malignant cells by APP or b) indirect treatment of the liquid media by APP which is then put in contact with the cancer cells. In APACHE we aim to investigate the fundamentals involved in the lethal effects of cold plasmas on bone cancer cells, and to develop improved bone cancer therapies. To achieve this we will take advantage of the highly reactive species generated by APP in the liquid media, which we will use in an incremental strategy: i) to investigate the effects of APP treated liquid on bone cancer cells, ii) to evaluate the potential of combining APP treated liquid in a hydrogel vehicle with/wo CaP biomaterials and iii) to ascertain the potential three directional interactions between APP reactive species in liquid medium with biomaterials and with chemotherapeutic drugs. The methodological approach will involve an interdisciplinary team, dealing with plasma diagnostics in gas and liquid media; with cell biology and the effects of APP treated with bone tumor cells and its combination with biomaterials and/or with anticancer drugs.
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NeurIPS 2018 – Part 2/4 Visualization and ML
Published by Christopher Dance at 10 December 2018
Christopher Dance, Matthias Gallé, Sofia Michel
The Thirty-second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Highlights of what we saw at this year’s conference – Part 2/4
Visualization and ML (S. Michel)
Sofia was at the Monday morning tutorial on ‘Visualization for Machine Learning’ by F. Viégas and M. Wattenber from Google Brain where, given that the human visual system is really good at a few special tasks, the goal of this tutorial was to understand how data can be transformed into visual encodings that people naturally decode. The key questions was thus ‘How can we guide people’s attention to let their brain naturally interpret the visualization?’
Some of the take home messages she shared were:
– If the visualization happens on a computer then it’s crucial to make it interactive, following three principles: give an overview first, then filter and zoom and only then give details on demand.
– Colours play a key role in conveying a message. A useful tool to create colour palettes according to your purpose is ‘Colorbrewer
– For tables, the “remove to improve” principle can do magic. You might want to look at this not-so-recent but useful video: https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/clear-off-the-table
More specifically for machine learning:
– On the importance of visualizing training data there’s Google’s facet tool.
– Visualizations can help understand the behaviour of neural networks with examples for images that include https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2901, http://yosinski.com/deepvis, and http://brainmodels.csail.mit.edu/dnn/drawCNN/ and, for sequence-to-sequence models http://seq2seq-vis.io/
– Saliency maps (and their many variants) are interesting but often difficult to interpret
– Visualizing high dimensional data: beyond the linear PCA, the t-sne method is now very popular. One should however be careful with the importance of the perplexity hyper-parameter which can completely transform the results. In particular it determines or governs both the size of the clusters and the distance between them, which are therefore meaningless to the interpretation of the data. A better alternative to t-sne is UMAP which is faster and supposed to better capture the global structure. See UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction or https://www.math.upenn.edu/~jhansen/2018/05/04/UMAP/) —
Viégas and Wattenber insisted on how counterintuitive high-dimensional data can be. A rule of thumb is that, if you spot something interesting, then you should make sure the same phenomenon does not occur with a random baseline.
Why Deep Nets generalize and does back propagation work in the brain? (C. Dance)
The first session of Track 1 on Tuesday was a positive surprise as it had three papers that I found interesting and important.
Baldi and Vershynin from Irvine (http://papers.nips.cc/paper/7999-on-neuronal-capacity.pdf) considered the capacity of a learning architecture, defined as the log of the number of functions it can implement. The capacity of linear threshold gates has been known since the work of Zuev (1989), but Baldi and Vershynin prove simple formulae for the capacity of polynomial threshold gates and deep ReLU nets. The results show that shallower architectures have more capacity than deeper architectures with a similar number of weights. This is perhaps intriguing in the light of recent results (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03287) showing that some functions computed by deep networks can only be poorly approximated by shallow networks unless those shallow networks have exponentially-many more hidden units.
Liang and Li (http://papers.nips.cc/paper/8038-learning-overparameterized-neural-networks-via-stochastic-gradient-descent-on-structured-data) explore two well-known mysteries of deep learning: (i) the fact that over-parameterisation helps optimisation; and (ii) the fact that deep nets often generalise well even when they are so over-parameterised that they can fit random labels on the same dataset. The authors explain this “black magic” in a simple k-class classification setting, where each class corresponds to a mixture distribution having l components. Each of these components has a finite support and the closest pair of points from any pair of distinct classes is bounded from below. The authors explore classification with a ReLU network having a single hidden layer and a carefully-selected random initialisation, but pointed out that they would also be presenting results on networks having two or three hidden layers in the Integration of Deep Learning Theories workshop on the Saturday (see Saturday section below). Their key insight was that, the more we over-parameterise a network, the less likely the activation pattern for one neuron on one data point will change after a fixed number of SGD iterations. Liang and Li’s proofs can therefore work with a “pseudo network” which is just like the original ReLU network but it has fixed signs for its activations and is much simpler to analyse.
Finally, backpropagation has long been thought to be implausible in the brain and this fundamental issue in computational neuroscience is known as the synaptic credit assignment problem. In particular, backpropagation as used in deep learning relies on precisely clocked forward and backwards messages, yet the brain has continuous-time neuronal dynamics. Furthermore, backpropagation appears to require “weight transport” since the weights of one layer explicitly appear as a multiplicative factor in the weight update for the previous layer. In spite of these issues, Sacramento et al presented both mathematical models and observational data to argue that backpropagation is in fact plausible, at least in dendritic cortical microcircuits. The key to the model is to describe pyramidal neurons in terms of three compartments. Bottom-up and top-down connections converge on dendrites in different compartments corresponding to normal feedforward signals and to error signals.
Figure. Results for a ReLU network with a single hidden layer on synthetic data. (a) The test accuracy hardly changes as the number of hidden nodes varies over a wide range. (b) Consider the fraction of hidden nodes and samples for which the sign of the output after a given number of gradient iterations differs from the sign at initialisation. This fraction varies linearly with the number of gradient iterations, to a good approximation. (c) The distance of the trained weights from the initialisation is a decreasing function of the number of hidden nodes, for a given number of gradient iterations. (d) The accumulated updates to the weights have low rank. (By courtesy of Li and Liang, NeurIPS, 2018.)
Figure. Model of learning in a network of pyramidal cells and lateral inhibitory neurons. When a teaching signal is presented to the output layer, a prediction error is generated in layer 1. This error propagates to the soma, as shown by the purple arrow. This modulates the somatic firing rate, which leads to plasticity at the bottom-up synapses (green). (By courtesy of Sacramento et al., NeurIPS, 2018)
Advising policy makers, interpretability, parameterizing, RNNs, NMT and inference (M. Galle)
Edward W. Felten, from Princeton and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the Federal Trade Commission under the Obama administration, gave an invited talk on Tuesday morning on “Machine Learning Meets Public Policy: What to Expect and How to Cope“. The goal was to give scientists insights on how policy makers operate and some tips on how to interact with them. He insisted several times on the difference between science and politics, a world “where truth is not the ultimate trump card”, and starting from the observation that “democracy is not a search for truth, it is an algorithm to solve disagreement” modeling democracy as a toy mathematical model. This allowed to convey some messages under the disguise of mathematical results, including inconsistency and NP-hard results, concluding that locally this system looks irrational, but that scientists have to consider the broader picture in which legislators operate. His tips for interacting with them, included avoiding providing them only facts (too much information) and dictating the solution (nobody elected the scientists). He advocated for a multi-turn interaction, where the knowledge of the scientists should be combined with the knowledge and preferences of the politicians. Concretely, his tips were to (i) get their knowledge and preferences and (ii) structure the decision space.
After the keynote, Lage et al. explained “Human-in-the-Loop Interpretability Prior” where they tried to formalize an abstract definition of interpretability. The idea of combining automatic decision-making with human preferences is under-studied in the literature, partly because of costly evaluations and comparisons. In this paper, the authors find first a set of models that have high likelihood (P(X | M)), and then use humans to select a model with high interpretability prior (p(M)). Different proxies for interpretability (number of non-zero features, length of decision path, etc) lead to different results.
“Sparse Attentive Backtracking: Long-Range Credit Assignment in Recurrent Networks” presented by Ke et al., propose an alternative training method to learn different dialects of RNNs. Existing methods have problems with extremely long-term dependencies on the past. One of the reasons is that, in order to model the relationship to state n-k, the standard training procedure – backpropagation through time – has to go through all k intermediate past states. The alternative of Ke et al., includes an attention mechanism and only updating the top-k past states.
An attention mechanism was also central to “Layer-Wise Coordination between Encoder and Decoder for Neural Machine Translation” by He et al., which modifies the Transformer model so that each layer of the decoder is coordinated with the corresponding layer of the encoder. The intuition is that similar levels of semantic understanding in the decoder should attend to the same level in the encoder. The results on machine translation are impressive, showing an improvement of 2-3 BLEU points on standard benchmarks, with respect to baseline models.
The main idea behind “e-SNLI: Natural Language Inference with Natural Language Explanations” was explained as augmenting a natural inference dataset (given two pairs of sentence determine if they have a relationship of entails, contradicts or neutral) with explanations. The authors set up a crowdsource task asking annotators to provide a natural-language explanation for the relationship governing each pair. A proposed pipeline that first generates an explanation and then uses that explanation predicts a label obtains only slightly smaller overall accuracy than a direct prediction pair -> labels. The advantage of the proposed approach is that it allows to provide the explanation together with the label, a desired feature in many tasks where humans have to be convinced of the prediction.
Highlights of what we saw at this year’s conference – Part 1/4 Expo Day
Highlights of what we saw at this year’s conference – Part 3/4 Robotics and Optimization
Highlights of what we saw at this year’s conference – Part 4/4 Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
Christopher Dance
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Film - Feature | November 7 | 3:10-4:50 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“Set a tiny step into the future, the film has the inevitability of a common dream. . . . One of Bergman’s greatest films, [and] one of the least known” (Pauline Kael). Fleeing a civil war in their country, a couple (Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann), both musicians, retreat to a remote island to grow fruit and cultivate their mutual love. But war overtakes them, exacting its total surrender of... More >
Daze of Justice: November's Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | November 7 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Movies @ Moffitt is the student-to-student monthly documentary spotlight and viewing. M@M is free.
Daze of Justice is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia's killing fields, only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their... More >
Attendance restrictions: Must have a UCB student ID for entrance.
November Movie at Moffitt
Cine Latino: Trafficked in America
Film - Documentary | November 7 | 7-9 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
Speakers/Performers: Daffodil Altan; Andres Cediel
Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies
This new documentary by FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley , tells the story of a group of teenagers from Guatemala who are forced to work against their will at an Ohio egg farm. The film exposes the criminal network that exploits the minors, the company that profits off of them, and the U.S. government’s role in delivering the children into the hands of their... More >
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Adam Sandler threatens to make a movie that is 'so bad on purpose' if he doesn't win Oscar for Uncut Gems
Warning to Oscar voters: Give Adam Sandler the Best Actor prize, or he may take EW up on making Grown Ups 3: Fart Camp.
The morning after losing to Adam Driver at the Gotham Awards, Sandler appeared on The Howard Stern Show to promote his dramatic turn in Uncut Gems, an adrenaline-filled thriller from directors Josh and Benny Safdie. In the film, the comic stars as Howard Ratner, a gambling addict trying to dig himself out of a massive hole. The performance is drawing rave reviews, to which Sandler joked to Stern, “That’s shocking, right?”
During the interview, Stern pushed for the usually media-shy Sandler to step up his campaigning in pursuit of an Oscar nomination. The actor has already done more promotion than usual, including a rare profile in The New York Times. “I did like an asshole,” declared Sandler when Stern brought it up. “The Safdie Brothers and everybody worked so hard on the movie that I didn’t want to do what I usually do and just go, ‘Eh, I can’t help you out there.'”
Sandler admits that it would be a “funny big thing” if he scores his first Oscar nomination, saying that he’d be “there to win,” hence why he’d even ditch his famous casual look for a Nike tuxedo. But maybe more likely to get him that coveted trophy isn’t his performance or any interviews, but rather a threat.
“If I don’t get it, I’m going to f—ing come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay,” he jokes of his next movie. “That’s how I get them.”
It might already be working, as after the Stern interview it was announced Sandler was named Best Actor by the National Board of Review, giving him a leg up in the Oscar race.
Meanwhile, Rob Schneider and David Spade are waiting on standby, just in case.
Uncut Gems has a limited release on Dec. 13, and then hits theaters nationwide on Dec. 25.
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Pampa, the Panhandle, and more Failure to ID Idiocy
ExCop-Lawyer Uncategorized camera, Civil rights violation, Deputy Stokes, Failure to identify, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Gray County Texas, Law Enforcement, Officer Stokes, Pampa Texas, Photographer, Photography is not a crime, Police abuse, Police officer, Sheriff, Texas 7 Comments
Here we go again. Another Texas peace officer with no clue about what Failure to Identify, Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 38.02, actually says.
Andrew was taking photographs of the county courthouse and sees five police and sheriff squad cars on a stop, so he starts to film the scene from across the intersection. At about 0:55, a Pampa Police Department officer Herrera walks across the street and contacts Andrew. Their conversation goes well, clearly a consensual stop, and Andrew provides his name and date of birth on Officer Herrera’s request.
At 3:00 into the video, the traffic stop has concluded and Andrew starts to walk away, when he is confronted by Deputy Stokes of the Gray County Sheriff’s Office. Stokes, who has since become employed by the Pampa Police Department, immediately attempted to seize the photography equipment as evidence. Stokes refuses to get a supervisor on request, tells Andrew to stop talking, and threatens to arrest Andrew when Andrew points out that he has a First Amendment right to speak. When that happened, Stokes said that “I think I’ll make up stuff” and attempted to grab the camera from Andrew (at 3:50).
At about 4:20, the demand for ID begins by Stokes and he really shows his ignorance. First, as has been noted numerous times before, in Texas, under the Failure to Identify statute, one has to be under arrest to be obligated to provide their name, residence address, and date of birth to an officer. Otherwise, the statute merely makes it an offense to provide fictitious information.
At about 4:40, Stokes tells Andrew that he is not allowed to record peace officers in the public arena while they are conducting a traffic stop. Stokes is clearly out of his league here. It is well-established that the public have the right to videotape public officers in a public place. See Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 2011); ACLU of Illinois v. Alvarez, 679 F.3d 583 (7th Cir. 2012); Fordyce v. City of Seattle, 55 F.3d 436 (9th Cir. 1995); and Smith v. City of Cumming, 212 F.3d 1332 (11th Cir. 2000).
This did not start to calm down until Andrew asked the Pampa officers if he could press charges on Stokes for assault. At that point (7:50), the deputy was told to walk away by Officer Reynolds, who then talked to Andrew. Stokes comes back over and starts to question Andrew again, and this time tells Andrew that he has to answer Stokes’ questions (at about 10:10). This is obviously not true, and Andrew calls him on it. At this point, Andrew is allowed to walk away.
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When you are cycling along some of the tracks, particularly Green Bank, an east to west aligned track on the line of the Ringstead and Holme parish boundary, you can appreciate fine views over the rolling, open farmland which slopes down to the coastal plain to the north and up the slightly higher land to the south. It is easy to understand why this track is considered to be a prehistoric Ridgeway. The ride skirts the edge of Hunstanton Park that was formerly a medieval deer park, greatly enhanced during the 17th and 19th centuries producing the landscape visible today. A short diversion towards the end of the ride (10) takes you to St Mary’s Church in the grounds of Hunstanton Park, one of the largest churches in this part of Norfolk. Ringstead Downs Nature Reserve is the largest remaining area of unimproved chalk grasslands left in Norfolk. There are wonderful views from this nature reserve.
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FFIEC Issues Cyber Assessment Tool
Regulator: Tool to be Used in Cyber Exams in 2016 Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • July 2, 2015 10 Minutes
Tim Segerson
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council on June 30 released its much-anticipated Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, which is designed to help banking institutions of all sizes assess and identity risks and weaknesses in their cybersecurity preparedness programs.
And while use of the tool for now is optional, Tim Segerson, deputy director of the office of examination and insurance at the National Credit Union Administration, says regulators plan to incorporate the tool into their cyber exam processes as early as June 2016.
"There is no mandatory expectation for it right now," Segerson explains in this interview with Information Security Media Group. "Each regulator is addressing implementation based on each segment of the marketplace. ... But at the NCUA, by June 2016, we will likely incorporate the tool into our examination approach."
Other regulatory agencies also are expected to incorporate the tool into their examination processes as well, he says.
"We first wanted to give institutions a significant amount of time to get used to the tool, and get immersed in cybersecurity," Segerson adds.
The tool includes three main components:
A risk profile assessment, to help institutions understand how each activity, service and product can impact risk and affect inherent risk;
A cybersecurity maturity assessment, to determine an institution's cybersecurity maturity level; and
Interpretation and analysis assessment, to help institutions understand whether their inherent risks are appropriate, relative to their cybersecurity maturity.
The FFIEC also provides key steps for use and better understanding of the tool. These steps include:
An overview of cyber-risks and the cybersecurity assessment tool for CEOs and boards of directors;
A user's guide, which explains all aspects of the tool and how it can be used by institutions to interpret and analyze their internal cybersecurity assessments; and
An appendix section, which provides links to IT related handbooks and statements, mapping how the cybersecurity assessment tool aligns with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and a glossary of common cyber-related terms.
The assessment features aim to provide institutions with a repeatable and measurable process for measuring cybersecurity preparedness over time, the FFIEC says.
During this interview, Sergeson also discusses:
How regulators are approaching cybersecurity guidance and examination procedures differently than they have for traditional IT guidance and exams;
Why the so-called commoditization of malware and cybercrime tools is especially concerning for smaller institutions; and
Steps the FFIEC wants to see banking institutions take to ensure employees are well educated about emerging cyber risks.
At the NCUA, Segerson oversees the day-to-day operations of the office of examination and insurance and assists the director with implementation of agency-wide policies related to examinations, supervision and insurance, and guaranty-fund risk management. He joined the NCUA in 1992, and has worked as a problem-case officer, field supervisor, and as serving director of supervision and director of risk management within the office of examination and insurance.
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This Facebook post from May 13, 2014 claims to show how to identify "poisonous" and "non-poisonous" snakes.
AAP FactCheck examined a Facebook post by Prepper Discounters on May 13, 2014 of a diagram claiming to show how to identify “poisonous” snakes.
The drawn diagram shows the head and underside of a tail of two snakes. With arrows pointing to each characteristic, the diagram claims elliptical pupils, thermal sensing pits and a single row of scales on the underside of a snake indicate it is “poisonous”. The second diagram claims round pupils, no thermal sensing pits and two rows of scales on the underside of a snake show it is “non-poisonous”.
At the time of publication, the post had been shared 49,000 times, and attracted more than 540 comments and 1500 reactions. Prepper Discounters are an online store “providing basic essentials to maintain a normal lifestyle in the event of anything that disrupts our daily routine” based in Columbus, Ohio.
Snake catcher Rhys Chapman says the Eastern Brown snake and Coastal Carpet Python are proof the diagram is incorrect.
Pupils and pits on snakes both serve practical purposes unrelated to whether or not a snake is venomous. Elliptical pupils tend to be a trait of nocturnal snakes, while snakes active during the day have round pupils, according to an article on identifying venomous snakes published by McGill University in Canada.
The pits on a snake’s head are thermal sensors used to help find prey and regulate body temperature. While venomous “pit vipers” found in the US have these sensors, so do pythons, which are constrictors and not venomous.
The United States only has four types of venomous snakes. Three of those - rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths, also known as water moccasins - fit the diagram. However, the coral snake has round pupils and no thermal sensing pits.
Rhys Chapman, a snake catcher in Australia - home to many of the most venomous snakes in the world - told AAP FactCheck the diagram was not relevant outside a “specific region in the USA” and urged Facebook users not to be fooled. “The diagram is completely incorrect and not valid here in Australia, for starters snakes are venomous not poisonous,” he told AAP FactCheck.
Mr Chapman also provided AAP FactCheck with a photo proving the diagram wrong (pictured above). The photo shows a highly venomous Eastern Brown snake, which had round pupils and no thermal sensing pits, qualities the diagram claims make it non-venomous. It also shows a non-venomous coastal carpet python which has the physical characteristics the diagram claims are features of venomous snakes.
Richie Gilbert, a snake catcher from Queensland with over 80,000 likes on Facebook also debunked the image in 2015, around the time the picture first began to gain prominence. He implored users not to share it. “It seems this image was based on snakes for the USA although I'm not sure if it's even reliable for over there,” he wrote. “There is no one single rule that can help distinguish between venomous and non-venomous here in Australia.”
Based on this evidence, AAP FactCheck found the Facebook post claiming to demonstrate a method of identifying venomous snakes to be false. It applies only to American land snakes and contradicts the advice of snake catchers and professionals.
False - The Facebook post is false.
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L’Oréal Paris is Releasing a Makeup Collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld
The late designer initiated the partnership with the French brand and was able to complete the collection prior to his passing in February.
By Ashley Joseph
Karl Lagerfeld continues to serve up his signature Parisian-inspired style, even from beyond the grave. A cosmetics collaboration with L’Oréal Paris, initiated by the renowned designer before he passed away in February of this year, will come to fruition on September 27, on the eve of Paris Fashion Week. “For L’Oréal Paris, all of our fashion designer collaborations are an honour, but this one is particularly meaningful,” said Delphine Viguier, L’Oréal Paris global brand president. “While Karl upturned the hierarchy of the landscape to democratize fashion, L’Oréal Paris is committed to making beauty according to women’s own rules and desires.”
The collection will reflect Lagerfeld’s “iconic rock-chic style, fused with a sense of Parisian elegance that is both classic and effortless,” according to L’Oréal Paris. “This line of makeup truly reflects the Karl Lagerfeld brand universe and what Karl loved in makeup—he often used eyeshadows as colours in his sketches,” said Caroline Lebar, head of image and communication at Karl Lagerfeld. “Karl liked it when a collaboration resonated with his brand and would make a real impact to many people.” Along with the collection, the brand will also release a campaign inspired by some of Lagerfeld’s most iconic quotes. A preview of the shoot hints that model Liya Kebede could be the face of the collection, her eyes peeking out from behind a Karl X L’Oréal Paris branded newspaper.
The #KARLXLOREALPARIS makeup collection will celebrate Karl’s vision of beauty and his creative legacy. #LOrealParis and KARL LAGERFELD will reveal the exclusive collection this September during Paris Fashion Week. Stay tuned!
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“For the House of Karl Lagerfeld, it is an exciting moment to bring these two Parisian fashion icons together in one compelling collaboration, and bring it to life in such a cool way—and Karl’s way,” said Pier Paolo Righi, CEO of Karl Lagerfeld. Canadians can look out for the products on shelves and online in February of 2020.
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STIFF: Seattle True Independent Film Festival
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Submissions are now open for STIFF 2020! Submit your film early for the lowest rates and to qualify for early acceptance!
What is STIFF?
The Seattle True Independent Film Festival is a filmmaker-focused festival dedicated to finding today's emerging independent storytellers and helping them develop into the filmmaker that they want to become.
Where is STIFF?
The festival will be held at the Seattle Film Institute just north of the downtown Seattle core.
Why is STIFF?
In 2005, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival was started by a group of local filmmakers as a way to showcase independent films which were typically ignored by traditional "independent" film channels.
What types of submissions are you looking for?
The categories listed on this page indicate the genres we typically build film blocks around, but we are always open to screening quality content, even if it defies easy categorization. Feel free to submit anything you feel strongly that we should look at. If your submission can fit into more than one category, pick the one that you think it best represents and we will make sure that it is placed in an appropriate block if accepted.
What about emerging media projects?
After its first ten years of existence, STIFF began to incorporate projects such as virtual reality, augmented reality, video games, and other alternative media. In 2020, STIFF will return to its roots as a film-only festival. The proper presentation of both film and emerging media projects are equally demanding, and they have vastly different requirements and skill sets to present. In order to make sure that each is given the attention it needs, we have split them into two separate events. We will distribute more information about the emerging media festival as it becomes available, so be sure to follow us on social media and sign up for our newsletter.
How much does it cost to submit to STIFF?
The submission fees vary depending on the type of project. Please see the prices in the category listing on this page. The earlier you submit, the lower the submission fee, so make sure to enter your film before the next deadline passes. Submitting a film entitles you to a filmmaker festival pass, allowing you into any screening on a space available basis. We periodically run specials which discount the price of submission so keep an eye on your social media and newsletters.
If I don't get into the festival, can you tell me why?
As filmmakers ourselves, we understand the value of feedback. Please send an email to contact@trueindependent.org after the festival is over and we will be happy to provide feedback from our screening team.
STIFF is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless STIFF from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos.
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Excellent communication; personalized laurel banners... as my producer pointed out, you can tell a lot about a festival's integrity when they go that extra mile for their filmmaker submitters.
I look forward to submitting to them again...
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Narrative Feature FIlm
Narrative Feature Film- Fiction, creative non-fiction, fictionalized accounts of historical events etc with a runtime of 40 minutes or longer.
Standard: $112
Narrative Short Film
Narrative Short Film- Fiction, creative non-fiction, fictionalized accounts of historical events etc with a runtime under 40 minutes.
Documentary Feature Film
Non Fiction film intended to document some aspect of reality with a runtime greater than 45 minutes. Seattle Audiences Love documentaries. Our Documentary Programmer likes to create a program with a diverse range of experiences including Human Rights, Adventure, Biopic, Environmental, Consumerism, Experimental, Food, Travel, Politics and More. In Seattle Controversy SELLS! If you have a Doc you think most festivals would be 'Afraid' to program then
Documentary Short Film
Non Fiction film intended to document some aspect of reality with a runtime under 45 minutes. Seattle Audiences Love documentaries. Our Documentary Programmer likes to create a program with a diverse range of experiences including Human Rights, Adventure, Biopic, Environmental, Consumerism, Experimental, Food, Travel, Politics and More. In Seattle Controversy SELLS! If you have a Doc you think most festivals would be 'Afraid' to program then please submit it to us.
Storytelling using non-traditional narrative, filming techniques, editing and sound. We still want Experimental films to have a narrative. If your film has no narrative please use the Video Art category. Films should be 15 minutes or less (longer can still be submitted to the short or feature film categories)
Web Series/TV Show/Pilot- Film/Video that is designed to be part of an episodic series. Please only submit one episode that you feel best represents your web series/TV show.
Animated Short Film
Short films that are created using traditional and or digital techniques including stop motion and films that also contain live action where the animation is crucial to the story.
We want music video that have a strong narrative along with, or independent of the music. Films should be 15 minutes or less (longer can still be submitted to the short or feature film categories)
Video/Digital Art
Video art is for those short films/videos/digital art that contain no narrative or a very vague narrative. We usually display these in a gallery setting or at parties. Films should be 15 minutes or less (longer can still be submitted to the short or feature film categories)
More than 50% captured using a drone. Films should be 15 minutes or less (longer can still be submitted to the short or feature film categories)
Dance/Movement/Performance
STIFF is one of the few festivals to feature an entire program of Dance/ Movement/ Performance films. We love to see performance in a non-traditional environment. Films should be 20 minutes or less (longer can still be submitted to the short or feature film categories)
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CERES develops high-value products from forest biomass – forest sector’s share of GNP would double and climate would benefit, too
4.9.2018 / Article
Circular bioeconomy, Innovations
One of the first products of the new forest bioeconomy was the Woodcast splinting material, which has been taken into use in a large number of hospitals, for instance. The product is a good example of how to create more value in the forest-based production networks: its main raw material wood chips that would otherwise be used in production of lower value, and it is a very high value product with a global demand. Photo: Onbone Oy
Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are studying forest biomass to develop novel products which could double the value of Finnish forests by 2050. The Academy of Finland has selected the CERES project as one of its flagship projects and is financing it.
Last spring VTT studied how Finland could succeed in attaining its climate goals for 2050, by researching different pathways into the future. Of these, the CNS (Carbon Neutral Scenario) pathway would decrease Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than what is the average in the European Union. In the BioEco pathway the goals were, in addition to goals in the CNS pathway, low-carbon economy, better utilization of forest and agriculture biomasses and strict criteria for sustainability.
“In the BioEco, the goal is to minimize the use of biomasses for energy production and maximize their use in high value-added products based on new materials,” says Kristiina Kruus, Research Professor at VTT.
Numerous companies involved
The CERES flagship project will run for eight years. Its ideas are still a long way from practical implementation.
“They are visions, yes, but they will become real as we work on them. One of the reasons why I believe in this is that even at the stage of applying for finances, 20 different organisations committed to supporting the project,” says Kruus.
According to Kruus, the supporters include several important major companies, and, after the application was submitted, more have joined in. “Industry has shown great enthusiasm for the project, and this, of course, is a precondition for the project to result in actual production,” says Kruus.
The BioEco pathway would lead to the creation of novel industrial ecosystems. The role of the use of forest biomass in the national economy is illustrated by the fact that where the CNS would reduce the share of the forest sector of the national economy, the BioEco could even double the share by 2050.
The BioEco could also double the added value produced annually by the Finnish forest industry from the current sum of EUR 14 thousand million by 2050, provided that high-value bioproducts and the market for them develop sufficiently.
The new solutions would also create growth in the agricultural sector, though less than in the forest sector.
Novel factories to be seen
Instead of paper machines we will be seeing factories of a new kind. According to VTT, biomaterials are the plastics of the future, but they could also be much more.
New materials can be developed of lignin, for example, which is a component of wood and has traditionally been used in energy production. New materials based on lignocellulose could be used in household appliances, air and water purification systems, next-generation catalysts, ultralight transport devices and energy recovery systems, packaging, and clothing.
Ali Harlin, Research Professor at VTT, says that textile production, for example, requires many kinds of facilities. “One guess that has been expressed in public and can be argued for is that as soon as in 2030, pulp for textile production could be produced by two or three mills with a combined annual capacity of close to one million tonnes,” says Harlin. To provide a comparison, the annual pulp capacity of the Äänekoski bioproducts mill, opened in 2017, is 1.3 million tonnes.
Wood-based textile manufacturing technology developed at the VTT suits in recycling textiles as well. According to Ali Harlin, Research Professor at the VTT, capacity of textile recycling facilities in Finland could be some 20,000 tons annually in 2030. Photo: Saku Ruusila
Harlin thinks that one facility could focus on textile fibres. “Non-woven materials could be produced by several facilities, maybe 100,000-200,000 tonnes annually,” says Harlin.
The same new technologies can also be used for textile recovery. In 2030, one or two facilities would be needed for this purpose, says Harlin, with a combined annual capacity of 20,000 tonnes.
More value for forests
At the moment, forest biomass is only burned for energy in Finland if no other use is possible. Because the research project would increase high-value production, the share of wood for burning would also decrease. To compensate for this, the use of solar and wind energy would increase.
At the same time this would also increase the value of forests. VTT estimates that the value of forest and agricultural biomass could double by 2050, if utilized for high-value products.
The Academy of Finland has granted EUR 9.5 million for the first four years of the CERES research project. Continued funding for the four final years will be considered after an interim evaluation. The total funding needed for the project is EUR 24 million.
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This small town, deep in Finlands forests has developed a complete supply chain – while reinvigorating the local economy
St1 aims to increase its production of wood-based bioethanol 15-fold – by-products of forest industry replace fossil raw materials and increase carbon sink in agricultural lands
26.9.2019 / Article
Transparent, wood-based plastic is closer to production – Wipak and Woodly announce collaboration
Phasing out coal may lead to importing wood for fuel in Finland – gap between biomass supply and demand may widen considerably
Europe has the solutions for moving towards bioeconomy – the question is how to implement them
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Willow Grove Park
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Years ago on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pa there were 2 coasters that were big hits. One called the Little Scenic was a single car side friction coaster. The lift high was fairly tall the noise going up the high just added to ride. As the car climbed the hill bars were moved to the side and the snapped back into place after the cars was pasted, that was the Anti Roll Back for that coaster. It was nice slow beginning ride, just a little dip followed by level track, then another dip, after about the 3 dip, the track went into a very slight incline but still no dips. As it got to the big turn to come back youwere picking up speed and just before you arrived back at the station there were 3 bunny hills that you could actually hear the car leave the track,talk about "air time"! It hit the brake run and then you were back at the station.
The second coaster was the ALPS which had 2 brakemen riding on it. The, re were 2 long trains, each with I believe 5 or 6 cars, with 2 seats each for 4 per car. The ride was an out and back but when you came back you climbed another lift hill, that leveled off into a large helex inside and outside a concrete mountain, hence the ALPS. After 2 times around the mountain you came out and dropped down another hill, to ground level, this is where the brakemen came in, they would pull back on the brake handle to slow the train down so it didn't come down to fast, a few more smaller hills, back into the base of the mountain for the final break run and the out of the mountain into the station.
If there more adults on the ride than kids, the brakemen would let the train go full speed out of the mountain. Everyone would start yelling once at the top of the mountain, "No brakes, no brakes". Sometime it worked, some time it didn't.
Park closed and is now a shopping mall. Willow Grove Park was THEE park to go to in the Philly area.
Many thought that the Little Scenic was the best of the 3 coasters in the park, beating out the Thunderbolt which was the top coaster in the park.
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District Court imposes costs order of 7,000 ILS in favor of Gisha for its Freedom of Information petition for the publication of COGAT procedures
The Tel Aviv District Court ordered the petition deleted two years after it was filed. In the interim, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) published 80 procedures in Hebrew and 46 in Arabic, prompting the court to determine, on May 10, 2016, that the petition had achieved its purpose. In her judgment (Hebrew), Justice Orna Levy stated: “With all procedures having been posted to the temporary website, and the respondent having stated that a permanent website, where all procedures requiring publication will be posted, would be launched this coming August, the petition has exhausted itself, and I order it be deleted. On the issue of costs, there is no doubt that the petition, filed after previous communications were made to the respondent, has advanced the issue. The respondent’s sluggish and unnecessarily complex response, which caused proceedings to last two years, must be taken into account, on the one hand. On the other, the respondent’s contentions regarding difficulties it faced and its pertinent approach toward the petition must also be considered.” The justice ordered the state to pay Gisha 7,000 ILS in trial costs.
In January 2016, the justice had criticized the state (Hebrew) over the fact that due a malfunction in COGAT’s official website it had posted the protocols to a temporary website, whose address was not published. She stated that: “[The State] posted the protocols to an unofficial site that is not effectively accessible to the public, whose address is unknown, nor is it published by the respondents, and which is unreachable through any official website. It also appears that a link posted to a Facebook page is not enough. In addition, the respondents’ reply that the petitioner itself must see to it that the web address and the information on the site are disseminated is not a sufficient solution to the site’s inaccessibility.”
Still, though the state pledged (Hebrew) before the court that the permanent COGAT website would be launched in August 2016, it was only released in February of 2017 (Hebrew). At the moment, the website includes most of the protocols that were published before Gisha’s petition was filed and while it was pending. However, contrary to the statements made by the state (Hebrew), the website does not, as yet, provide online services to the Palestinian population and does not contain all the information it needs.
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Meet Park Seo-joon – Korean Actor From “Kill me, Heal me” and “She Was Pretty”
Published Tue Nov 19 2019 By Akki
The South Korean native, Yong-Gyu Park aka Park Seo-Joon is a renown actor with hit movies and series like; “She Was Pretty”. He was born on December 16, 1988, in Seoul, Korea. His sun sign is Sagittarius through his birth date and belongs to Asian ethnicity.
Here are 10 facts about Seo-Joon's life;
What's his Net Worth?
Park Seo-Joon is an actor, who has accumulated a whopping net worth of $5 million. His dedication and excellent work has supported major part of his income. He has appeared over 20 hit movies and TV shows including; Parasite (2019), which had a huge box office success of $107.49 million worldwide.
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House in Seoul
Seo-Joon lives in a luxurious condo located in Geumhodong, a neighborhood of Seongdong-gu in Seoul, Korea. The apartment is celebrity eco-friendly and his neighbor is Lee Kwang Soo and Jun Hyun Moo. According to the Korean realtor pages; the house in Geumhodong costs around $250,000.
Cars Collections
The millionaire, Yong-Gyu Park is passionate about luxury cars and has spent a huge amount of fortune on cars. The black-colored Maserati Quattroporte is one of his favorites from the collection. The car price range from $181,060 to $346,830 as stated in the Cars Guide.
Girlfriend - Park Min-young
The Beauty Inside actor, Park Seo-Joon heart has been taken by the charming princess Park Min-young. The duo's relationship started with a friendship and turned into a lovey-dovey couple over 3 years.
Even though, the pair doesn't want media attention over their personal life. The romance can be seen clearly on-screen, where they are co-stars from "What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim?".
Park Seo-Joon and Park Min-Young posing for a photo.
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Past Relationship
The dashing handsome star, Yong-Gyu Park was previously in a romantic relationship with South Korean actress, Baek Jin-hee in 2015. After their reel life romance and rumors, the world wasn't shocked by the news. The two shared the stage in Korean drama Pots of Gold.
At the time, Park and Baek were idol couples for newly lovebirds, where they used to do cute stuff like wearing match clothes in pubic.
Two Siblings - Both Brothers
Looking toward the family background of Park, he was the eldest son of his parents. He has two brothers, who are 3 and 8 years younger respectively. The bond between siblings is solid like a rock, where they've stood up together for one another.
Good Friend - Kim Ji Won
The Fight for My Way stars, Park and Kim Ji Won are good friends. Sharing the same platform and keen interest, the two met and got close to one another. Seeing the chemistry of the pair on-screen number of fans assume them to be the cutest couple of all time.
Body Measurement
The 30 years old actor, Park Seo-Joon is the man every single woman dreams about. He stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and weighs around 69kg (152 Ibs). His eyes color is brown and has black hair.
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Education - Alma Mater
Talking about the qualification of Seo-Joon, he holds a Bachelor's Degree in acting. He studied and got graduated from the "Seoul Institute of the Arts". He also attended An-Nam high school.
Like other Korean men, Park Seo-Joon also served in mandatory military service. In 2008, at the age of 19, he joined the troops and contributed until he got discharged in 2010.
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Star Wars Premiere at Petoskey Cinema
Beginning on Friday October 30th, 2015 at 4:30 PM you can purchase tickets from Petoskey Cinema for the premiere showings of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 17th, 2015. The Petoskey Cinema will have a 7:30PM and 10:30 PM showing that Thursday costing $15 per person per showing. The ticket purchase includes assigned seating, all you can eat soda, and all you can eat popcorn. For more information visit Petoskey Cinema website here.
To add to the excitement of the weekend the author, Adam Bray, will be on hand signing some of his Star Wars related books which he has authored. He has written such books as Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Star Wars Rebels: Visual Guide: Epic Battles, Star Wars: Ultimate Guide, and many more. He has written CNN, BBC, and Starwars.com. For more information about Adam Bray visit his website here.
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DragonCon 2014 Cosplay – Updated 8/25
Excited for Dragon Con as much as we are? A big part of Dragon Con is the amazing, unique, and skillfully crafted cosplay. He is a glimpse into what we are doing this year and have done in the past. For more information about Dragon Con visit Dragoncon.org
Again this year for Dragon Con I will be cosplaying as Robert Muldoon from Jurassic Park. Last year I went as Muldoon but combined elements of the video game Borderlands. This year I purchased a superior fitting hat then previous one. Also purchased a SPAS-12 shotgun seen in the sequence where Muldoon is hunting the escaped raptors. – Nate (8/01)
In addition to Jurassic Park cosplay I will be dressing as the 11th Doctor from Doctor Who and possible as a House Ravenclaw student from Harry Potter films and books. – Nate (8/22)
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Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer 2
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan.
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We have all seen Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and loved to hate Maleficent!
Here is the trailer!!!!
As an adult I do get nostalgic for Disney movies now and again, however halfway through I find I’m actually wanting the villain to win. Not sure what that says about me. I mean come on a King and Queen are so terrified harm will come to their daughter so they have her live with fairies for 16 years and on her 16th birthday, which is the day harm would come, they have her come back for a big freaking party. Yeah they deserved what they got.
Anyway, the trailer for Maleficent looks absolutely extraordinary. I’m not a huge fan of Angelina Jolie, but I feel like this part is her, yes I know I know low blow.
However as we all have been tricked many a time before with fabulous trailer for horrible movies, this trailer is stunning. The minute thirty second shows us Aurora as a child frolicking through a field of flowers, as a youth before pricking her finger, finally as a sleeping beauty. It also shows Maleficent hiding in shadows working her sneaky.
Below are some of my favorite shits from the trailer!
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Latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer
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DUMB Disclosure
February 8, 2015 Geopolitics101 3 Comments
To the Sheeple the possibility of living underground for the long term is nil. Yet, the corporatist Bloomberg just disclosed that it’s not only real, but more economical, too.
This answers the question whether the Denver International Airport Deep Underground Base and thousands of other military bases and underground cities really exist or not.
Adolf Hitler was known to have stashed gold bullion, gold teeth fillings and works of arts into abandoned salt mines all over Germany and neighboring countries.
More than that, do the glass tunnels in Mars proof of human existence in that red planet?
It wouldn’t be too farfetched to say that the lost gold at Fort Knox are already in these bases, although the shill known as Cobra would like us to believe that these hard assets are taken by his ET friends for safekeeping.
Welcome to SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City
More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in SubTropolis, an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields
Journey to the center of the earth—or at least, to EarthWorks, an educational program that schools students on the Midwest’s natural habitats in a 32,000 square-foot space in SubTropolis.
SubTropolis is down the road from an assembly plant at which Ford manufactures F150 pickups. This has attracted companies such as Knapheide, shown here, which manufactures steel bodies that get rigged onto Ford trucks.
The underground industrial park known as SubTroplis opened for business in 1964 in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo., attracting tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents. The walls, carved out of 270-million-year-old limestone deposits, help keep humidity low and temperatures at a constant 68 degrees, eliminating the need for air conditioning or heating.
Tenants have reported saving as much as 70 percent on their energy bills, says Ora Reynolds, president of SubTropolis landlord Hunt Midwest. Rents run about $2.25 per square foot, about half the going rate on the surface. “It’s also a question of sustainability,” says Joe Paris, vice president at Paris Brothers, a specialty foods packager that employs about 200 workers underground. In addition to Paris Brothers, 51 tenants have rented nearly 6 million square feet of space. Others include LightEdge Solutions, a cloud computing company that uses the mild climate to help cool servers, and an underground archive that contains the original film reels to Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz.
The U.S. Postal Service keeps hundreds of millions of postage stamps in an underground distribution hub at SubTropolis. There’s still plenty of space here, with about 8 million square feet of land to develop—almost 10 times the floor area of Kansas City’s tallest building. To reach capacity, Hunt Midwest may have to consider additional uses. Underground real estate has been used to grow mushrooms in Pennsylvania and vegetables in London. “We’ve talked about that,” says Reynolds. “We’ve talked about fish, too. For now, we’re trying to stick to what we’re good at.”
Photographs by Connie Zhou/Bloomberg Business
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Industrial chic: Subtropolis boasts 17-foot-high ceilings supported by rough-hewn columns. The 270-million-year-old limestone deposits are six times stronger than concrete, according to Hunt Midwest’s marketing materials.
The U.S. Postal Service uses Subtropolis as a distribution hub for postage stamps, storing hundreds of millions of stamps in the facility.
Subtropolis’s cool climate helped attract cloud computing company LightEdge, which has become the anchor tenant in what Hunt Midwest hopes will develop into a major data center.
Vanguard calls itself the most sustainable packaging company in North America.
The National Archives and Records Association keeps old tax records and federal court documents at the facility. Pick a fight with the Internal Revenue Service and the paper trail may lead to these shelves.
About 10 percent of Kansas City’s commercial real estate is underground, says Ora Reynolds, president of SubTropolis landlord Hunt Midwest. Landlords have made a cottage industry out of underground industrial space, thanks to rock formations near the Missouri River that allow trucks to drive into the old mines instead of tenants needing to use elevators to get things in and out.
Vanguard Packaging prints retail packaging and supermarket displays in its 500,000-square-foot space.
If you want to be updated about Subtropolis just follow them at https://twitter.com/subtropolis
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3 thoughts on “DUMB Disclosure”
I am not against living underground however I am against living in a big community that is underground! The possibility of someone saying ‘close the doors and turn on the gas’ would be very big and particularly if the whole show is organized by the Cabal. No thanks! DUMB!
Wearetruth555@gmail.com says:
This article is an obvious decoy. So you want us to believe the cabal built the dumb’s in the 60’s and now all of the sudden are now renting the space to the general public? The back stabbing comment on “cobra” is also clear sign of this articles hidden purpose. People look within yourself and see the where the real truth lays… its not here.
eClinik says:
From Cobra’s portal:
“In February 2012, the Resistance Movement [ETs] removed all that gold from the hands of the Cabal. This is the reason Fulford can not find real proof of any current gold vaults anywhere in Asia.”
http://2012portal.blogspot.com/2013/09/planetary-situation-update-new.html
RE DUMB Decoy, here’s the REN-TV documentary about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sVLCYMezi0
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Straddle Carrier 101
By Gerlinger Carrier | October 29, 2019
At Gerlinger, we’ve remained an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of straddle carriers by developing innovative technologies tailored to meet the demands of our customers, no matter how challenging a work environment. For over 100 years, Gerlinger carriers have remained the gold standard for the transportation of heavy/cumbersome loads by fusing form with function.
Of course, the fact that Gerlinger excels in designing and manufacturing this type of heavy equipment may not seem that impressive if you’re left wondering, “what’s a straddle carrier?”
Unless you’ve spent time at a steel mill, lumber yard, or refinery, you’ve probably never seen a straddle carrier at work. They don’t drive down the highway and Thomas the Train has yet to make friends with any, so don’t feel bad if you have no idea what role a straddle carrier performs at a worksite.
Fortunately, as an industry leader in the manufacturing of this line of heavy duty equipment, we have a pretty good idea of how to explain a straddle carrier to a new audience. Let’s take a look at what a straddle carrier does, what it looks like, and what role it can play in helping a business increase its bottom line.
Straddle Carrier 101: What is a straddle carrier?
Let us start by taking a look at the technical definition for a straddle carrier:
A self-propelled, non-road traveling vehicle that features a chassis positioned far above the ground. Chassis placement enables the vehicle to carry long and heavy loads beneath the chassis and between the wheels.
Okay, so what does all of that mean? Well, think of a straddle carrier like a truck that carries its load underneath its chassis rather than on top. For that to work, the primary body of the truck needs to sit far above the ground so that plenty of space exists for the cargo beneath. To make the necessary space, a straddle carrier looks like a truck that sits on stilts. Long legs with wheels touch the ground, while the cab and the driver of the carrier sits in an elevated position. Depending on the type of carrier, the distance between the ground and the to of the cab can range from between 8 ft. to over 17 ft.
Straddle Carrier 101: What is a straddle carrier used to transport?
Depending on the size and industry, a straddle carrier can transport everything from lumber to copper billets.
The very first models of straddle carriers developed by Gerlinger were for use in lumber yards for the transportation of bundles of lumber. Straddle carriers play an important role in other industries as well. In refineries, a straddle carrier can transport heat exchange tube bundles and other plant materials. In the metal industry, carriers work to transport raw material and, once processed, finished materials. In many ways, a straddle carrier can play the part of a Jack of All Trades in helping industry function.
Straddle Carrier 101: What are the benefits of using a straddle carrier?
Our innovative design at Gerlinger offers a number of advantages when compared to the use of a forklift to transport sideways loads that include:
Improved stability to transport loads longer than 60 ft. in length.
Tighter turn radius allows for improved mobility within industrial facilities.
Eliminates the need for counterbalance weights by straddling the loads, making the carrier far lighter than traditional forklifts.
Centered loads help to disperse the overall weight of the load to all four wheels, thereby decreasing the ground contract pressure.
Straddle carriers can typically lift twice their own weight.
So there you have it – a crash course on the straddle carrier. If you still have questions, please feel free to contact our team at Gerlinger or read more here. Our experienced sales force will happily provide any answers on how a Gerlinger Straddle Carrier is the right choice for your business.
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Fremington Trailblazers
Fun running club based in Fremington, North Devon
Club Training Calendar
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Happy Mondays Transition Group
Poundstretcher
Unit 5, John Penrose Way, EX31 3RY Barnstaple, Devon
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/happy-mondays-transition-group-2-2-2-2/
Our Monday group is mainly for Blue and Orange group members that run 5k in more than 30 minutes.
Or you could be coming back from injury, find the main coached session a bit daunting or just want to have a chatty, social run at a slower pace.
The group is not meant as a replacement for the Tuesday and Thursday coached session, but as a transitional group while you improve your running and build your confidence.
North Devon Relays – Round 2 – Fremington Trailblazers
Instow Cricket Club
Sandhills, Bideford EX39 4LF
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/north-devon-relays-round-2-fremington-trailblazers/
Fremington Trailblazers are hosting Round 2 of the North Devon Relays. We provide the buffet so please bring a plate of food each. Marshalls and runners required!
Parking is at the club or in the layby on the main road. Please keep to the right hand lane to reach the club.
Frankie’s Fours
Civic Centre, North Walk, Barnstaple, EX31 1EA
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/frankies-fours-2-2/
School Sports Day & BBQ
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/school-sports-day-bbq/
Keep an eye out for further details on the Facebook page.
Bampton to Tiverton Road Race
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/bampton-to-tiverton-road-race/
The scenic route follows country roads with views of the Exe valley from Bampton to Bolham where runners climb the steepest hill of the course. Runners pass the front lodge of Knightshayes Court then cross the bridge over the North Devon Link Road. The race finishes in Peoples’ Park, Tiverton which overlooks Tiverton Town Football club and is above Exe Valley Leisure Centre.
The race has an entry limit of 250, so make sure that you enter early to avoid disappointment. All race numbers are to be collected from Race HQ on the day from 8.45am. Entries on the day will also be available from this time subject to the race entry limit not being reached (there is an additional £2 fee for on the day entries).
Race HQ is at Tiverton Town Football Club, Bolham Road, Tiverton,EX16 6SG. There is free car parking at the football club and changing facilities and showers are also available.
From Tiverton Football Club you’ll catch a free bus to take you to the start at the White Horse in Bampton where the race will begin at 10.30am. Please ensure you arrive early to register in order to allow enough time to travel to Bampton.
A supervised baggage area is located at the Tiverton Town Football Club. Each runner will be issued with a bag with their race number on it so that they can wear their tracksuit to the start. A baggage bus will return these bags to the Tiverton Town Football Club where they will be removed and stored in the baggage area, from where they can be collected after the race.
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/happy-mondays-transition-group-2-2-2-2-2/
Club 5k Handicap
Beechfield Park
Beechfield Road, Fremington, Barnstaple, EX31 3DD
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/club-5k-handicap-2/
Pyramid Training
Tews Lane Playing Field
Tews Lane, Barnstaple, EX31 2JU
https://fremingtontrailblazers.co.uk/event/pyramid-training/
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Carestream showcases new radiography technologies at RSNA
par John R. Fischer, Senior Reporter | December 05, 2019
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Dual Energy technology
Carestream Health presented two new technologies this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.
One of them, its Dual Energy technology, is designed to produce soft-tissue-only X-ray images by removing bone structures, as well as corresponding bone-only images. The solution utilizes two filter materials to switch between high and low-energy exposures. The technology also delivers top image quality at an exposure equivalent to that of a standard, non dual-energy posterior-anterior chest radiograph.
“This way the radiologist can really look if they need to focus on something specific in the lungs,” Sarah Verna, worldwide marketing manager for global X-ray solutions at Carestream, told HCB News. “They have much better clarity by removing the bone structure or vice versa. With this, they have the same exposure as a general chest X-ray.”
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Dual-Energy is dedicated to chest exams at this point, with plans to extend its indications. It is expected to be available as an option on the DRX-Evolution Plus System in February 2020.
The company also introduced its Digital Tomosynthesis functionality, an upgrade option on the DRX-Evolution Plus System that uses a single sweep of X-ray exposures to acquire multiple projections, with dosage less than that of a CT and more than that of a general X-ray. Doing so separates the process of DT exposure acquisition from image volume formation, simplifying workflow and reducing exam time associated with traditional tomography by eliminating trial-and-error processes for locating anatomical regions of interest. In addition, post-processing generates as many DT slices as needed at varying intervals and thickness.
Digital tomosynthesis function
Such a capability, according to Carestream, is expected to help clinicians determine quick diagnoses in emergency situations, as well as relieve the burden of wait times for CT rooms, which are are often backed up. The DT functionality, however, should not be seen as a replacement for CT, but instead a tool that can be used in conjunction with it by offering easy use of a general X-ray room.
“If the patient is diagnosed with something and going under any treatments, this is a quicker exam. It takes as long as it does to perform an X-ray, as opposed to the time spent in a CT machine,” said Verna. “The doctor can follow up on the course of treatment with the patient, so maybe two or three months after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, if the doctor wants more scans to be taken, this might be an option instead of using CT and going through all that exposure.”
The Digital Tomosynthesis functionality can be performed on any body part. It is 510(k) pending and expected to be made available for use in early 2020.
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You are here: Home Page > Arts & Humanities > Music > Race & Ethnicity in Music > Bright Star of the West
274 Pages | 16 halftones, 32 music examples
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Bright Star of the West
Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
Sean Williams and Lillis S Laoire
American Musicspheres
Biography of one of the most important figures in Irish music in the 20th century
First study focused on sean-nos, a distinguished and beautiful repertoire and style
Unique exploration of gender and masculinity in Irish music
Winner of the Alan P. Merriam Prize of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of Joe Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-nós ("old style") singer. Born in 1919, Joe Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland became a democracy. He found work and relative fame as a singer in London before moving to Scotland. Eventually, like many others searching for greater opportunity, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a doorman while supplementing his income with appearances at folk festivals, concerts and clubs. As his reputation and following grew, Heaney gained entry to the folk music scene and began leading workshops as a visiting artist at several universities. In 1982 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Heaney America's highest honor in folk and traditional arts, the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship. Although Heaney's works did not become truly popular in his homeland until many years after his death, today he is hailed as a seminal figure of traditional song and is revered by those who follow traditional music.
Authors Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire address larger questions about song, identity, and culture. They explore the deep ambivalence both the Irish and Irish-Americans felt toward the traditional aspects of their culture, examining other critical issues, such as gender and masculinity, authenticity, and contemporary marketing and consumption of sean-nós singing in both Ireland and the United States. Comingling Heaney's own words with the authors' comprehensive research and analysis, Bright Star of the West weaves a poignant critical biography of the man, the music, and his continuing legacy in Ireland and the United States.
Introduction: Singing the Dark Away
Part One: Sean-nós Singing
1. Sean-nós Singing in Theory and Practice
2. The Performance of Sean-nós in Connemara
Part Two: The Iconic Repertoire
3. Singing the Famine
4. The Religious Laments
5. The Medieval Transformed
Part Three: Masculinity in a Musical Context
6. Irish Masculinities: The Irish Tenor and the Sean-nós Singer
7. Fighting Words, Fighting Music: The Performative Male
Part Four: Joe Heaney in America
8. The Irishman at the Threshold
9. The Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity
Guide to Pronunciation
Sean Williams is a professor of music, Irish Studies, and Asian Studies at The Evergreen State College. She has written and edited several books, including The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (2001) and Focus: Irish Traditional Music (2010).
Lillis Ó Laoire is an award winning Gaelic singer, scholar, and writer from the Gaelic speaking region of Donegal, Ireland. He teaches courses in Gaelic language, culture and folklore at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and his publications include On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland (2005).
"An engaging and exhaustive study of the historical developments and social realities that impacted Heaney's attitudes, performance styles, and his eventual rise to prominence as the sean-nós ("old-style") singer par excellence...an intimate and important look at the life of a major figure in Irish folk music. It is a significant work for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and scholars of Irish culture, and a fitting tribute to the life and art of Joe Heaney.: --Journal of Folklore Research
"In Bright Star of the West, Williams and Ó Laoire have written a text that contextualizes and gives further meaning to the music and life of Joe Heaney." --The New Hibernia Review
"Authors Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire [deliver] a book that is layered, beautifully non-teleological, and intimate, like loosely-sutured memories that do not strive to tell the complete social fact, but which instead subtly connect illuminating moments of performance and interpretation." --Ethnomusicology
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You are here: Home Page > Arts & Humanities > Religion > Islam > The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam
The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence
Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina
The Islamic regime that came to power after the 1978-79 Iranian revolution justified the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeni, and the Shi'ite imams in general, on the basis of the doctrine that the Islamic jurist is best suited to rule with justice in an Islamic country. Arguing that this concept has no apparent parallel in Sunni Islam, this study explores its origins in the Sunni/Shi'ite schism, which took place after the death of the Prophet, and traces its evolution to the present day. Sachedina presents the first in-depth analysis of an Islamic phenomenon of vital contemporary social and political importance.
The Islamic regime that came to power after the 1978-79 Iranian revolution justified the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shi'ite imams in general, on the basis of the doctrine that the Islamic jurist is best suited to rule with justice in an Islamic country. Arguing that this concept has no apparent parallel in Sunni Islam, this study explores its origins in the Sunni/Shi'ite schism, which took place after the death of the Prophet, and traces its evolution to the present day. Drawing on exhaustive research in the Islamic libraries of Iran and Jordan, as well as discussions with leading jurors and scholars in Iran, Sachedina presents the first in-depth analysis of an Islamic phenomenon of vital contemporary social and political significance.
"Makes a welcome addition to the growing literature on Shi'ite political thought. The author draws on an impressive body of legal works, both classical and more recent...in order to demonstrate the orthodox view of authority and its implications in the case of the Imam, the temporal ruler, and the jurist."--Journal of Religion
"A valuable contribution to Shi'i studies by an acknowledged expert in the field."--Journal of Near Eastern Studies
"Of the many studies [of the Shi'i branch of Islam] that have appeared in the 1980s, Sachedina's inquiry into the nature of leadership stands out for its profound grounding in the scholarship of the Shi'i theologians themselves."--Choice
"Its coverage is extensive, and its contains a considerable amount of information not previously available in English."--Middle Eastern Studies
"The work lucidly describes and interprets the complex developments within Shi'ite political jurisprudence from its early beginnings up to the present, leading to a clear comprehension of the current situation in Iran. It is particularly a boon for modern students of Islam since it sets Shi'ism and its relationship to political authority in clear daylight.--Fazlur Rahman, University of Chicago
"The problem of juridicial and political authority during the occultation of the Twelfth Imam is of central importance to Shi'ism. This is an exhaustive and judicious treatment of the theme, based on intimate and critical acquaintance with the primary sources. Another major contribution to Shi'ite studies by Abdulaziz Sachedina."--Hamid Algar, University of California at Berkeley
"The book is interesting on two counts: It traces the development in the Shi'ite jurisprudence which has now reserved for the clregy the authority that was the exclusive right of the 'infallible' Imam. Secondly, it addressesthe basic question as to the legality of the very existence of the strong Shi'ite clergy, pending the return of the 'infallible' Imam."--The Frontier Post, (Pakistan)
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Kirk Ludwig
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Nile Green
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Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd
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Magnus Marsden
Anscombe's Intention
John Schwenkler
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S. Sayyid
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One Sanctuary Beach Drive, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, 29455, USA
Kiawah Island is a golf resort I’m excited to visit. This huge development lies on a bridge-connected island just south of Charleston on South Carolina’s golden coastline. It became famous in the world of golf after hosting several major tournaments. There are five championship golf courses to play, each with unique challenges, designed by five of the biggest names in golf architecture.
The Ocean Course is the most prestigious, having been the site of the 2012 PGA Championship, which saw Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy raise up the Wanamaker Trophy. It was here that Bernhard Langer missed a crucial six-foot putt resulting in Europe handing back the Ryder Cup to the US in 1991, and the golf course where Irishmen Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley claimed the World Cup of Golf in 1997. It will be the site of the 2021 PGA Championship as well.
Indiana native Peter Dye and his wife Alice designed the Ocean Course in 1991, and it is known for being one of the toughest golf courses in the United States due to constant winds that blow over the layout as well as the fast greens and multitude of bunkers. There are views of the Atlantic Ocean along every hole here. The Ocean Course ranked No. 44 in Golf Digest’s list of the World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses – 2016-17.
Jack Nicklaus’ Turtle Point Course features three impressive oceanfront holes. The layout was renovated under the Golden Bear’s recommendations in 2016, adjusting greens, re-grassing fairways and tees with salt-tolerant Paspalum and rebuilding sand traps. Garry Player’s Cougar Point (redesigned in 1996 and set for renovation in 2017) has gorgeous views of the Kiawah River, a constant presence on the front nine. It provided locations for the famous golf movie The Legend of Bagger Vance starring Will Smith and Matt Damon. There is a mix of risk-and-reward par fives, par fours that will test you for distance and accuracy off the tee, plus tricky par threes.
Osprey Point was created by Tom Fazio, and his layout winds its way through saltwater marshes, lagoons and forests. You might see the odd alligator sunning itself on the banks of a water hazard here. With generous landing areas off the tee, most out-of-play areas on the left and few forced carries, this is a friendlier course for the high-handicapper. Across the river on Johns Island, you can play Oak Point, a course designed by Carolina native Clyde Johnston that was renovated in 2015 with Paspalum grass. Carts are available for afternoon tee times on all courses.
The mountain to climb here is the Ocean Course. The windy conditions, bunkering, and slick greens and distance from the tips will mean you’ll have to be in fine form to keep the score card respectable. The pro’s tips: employ a caddie and listen to the expert. “Pete Dye is a master of making the player look the wrong way. On the tee box, many of the holes look like there’s no place to land your drive but when you reach the fairway, you’ll see it’s 40-50 yards wide. Your caddie will know where to hit it.”
When to play: Year-round.
Par: All courses par 72.
Slope / Rating / Yardage
The Ocean Course: 144 / 77.3 / 7356 yards or 6726 meters
Turtle Point: 14 / 73.8 / 7061 yards or 6457 meters
Cougar Point: 137 / 73.3 / 6875 yards or 6286 meters
Osprey Point: 135 / 72.8 / 6902 yards or 6311 meters
Oak Point: 130 / 71.9 / 6701 yards or 6127 meters
The pro says:
“Don’t go for the miracle shot. If you hit it in the dunes, take your medicine and get it back into play. Miracle shots are extremely rare on The Ocean Course and more often mean you’ll be reaching into your bag for your next ball.”– Brian Gerard, Director of Golf, Kiawah Island Golf Resort
The resort experience:
Kiawah Island is about 45 minutes’ drive from the historic and beautiful Charleston, South Carolina. As well as being a special destination for golfers, Kiawah Island doubles as a tennis resort. It has two tennis centers, each with 12 courts and has also been ranked the No. 1 tennis resort nine times since 2016 by TennisResortsOnline.com. With plenty of calories burnt between golf and tennis it’s a good thing that Kiawah Island has 18 dining outlets to choose from, of varying price-point and specialty.
When it comes to accommodation, you can retire to The Sanctuary, a 255-room, five-star/AAA Five Diamond oceanfront hotel. That or choose one of the 450 luxury villas (one- to four-bedroom) or one of the 90 private homes to rent (three- to five-bedroom). With the warm South Carolina climate, I’m glad The Sanctuary has two outdoor pools and an indoor pool with Hyrdo Toning Fitness Classes. But you may just want to chill out on the highly-rated beach out front – just ask the concierge for a chair and umbrella.
Among the many plaudits Kiawah Island has earned: No 2 – Best American Beach Resort by Conde Nast Traveler in 2014 and No. 4 – Top Golf Resort in the World, by Andrew Harper Travel Readers’ Choice in 2013.
Dine and wine:
All the culinary options you could hope to find at one resort are here. I’m interested to see what a T-bone from a AAA Four Diamond/Forbes Four Star steakhouse tastes like. I’ll find out in The Ocean Room at the Sanctuary. Otherwise I could choose Tomasso for Italian, the Cherrywood BBW and Ale House, Southern Kitchen for some authentic southern cooking, the Atlantic Room for Seafood, or the Ryder Cup Bar for some pub ‘grub’. The list goes on.
The accommodation:
It is five-star luxury from the Stand Guestroom (520 square feet, 48 square meters) up. Even this basic option, with its light, classic interiors and elegant furniture, has a king-size bed, a balcony with ocean views, a five-fixture bathroom (including dual vanities, marble shower and deep bath tub), televisions and DVD/CD players. The Presidential Suite has 3000 square feet (279 square meters) and includes a marble-tiled foyer, dining room and two balconies.
The resort’s coastal position means that there are plenty of activities to enjoy on the water at the beach or in the marshland that wraps around the island. You can surf, kayak, mountain bike, fish or paddleboard. You can also choose to go boating or take a nature excursion. It’s hard to ignore the 24 tennis courts at the resort either. When you are exhausted, retire to the Kiawah Island Spa, which has been rated as one of the best in the United States by Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler. I think I’ll get a Body Rescue and Citrus Head-To-Toe Massage.
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Westhill Consulting Career and Employment Tips: Teaching English abroad "Under the Table" Without a Work Visa - What Does it Mean? There are thousands of Americans teaching English abroad in dozens of countries around the globe likeBangkok in Thailand, Jakarta in Indonesia, KL in Malaysia or Beijing in China. What do 90% of them have in common? In addition to enjoying the international adventure of a lifetime,they are teaching English "under the table." In other words they are not legally working in those countries with a work visa. This is commonplace, even routine, in dozens of countries around the world, but it is not technically legal. The first matter is to understand that there are different types of visas that you will use to teach English abroad and that regulations vary from country to country. Please refer to our article, "What is a visa and do I need a visa to teach English abroad?" source: http://www.westhillconsulting-career.com/blog/2014/03/28/westhill-consulting-career-employment-tips-teaching-english-abroad-table-without-work-visa-mean/ What does it mean to teach English abroad "under the table," without a work visa? Typically the following: You don't have official permission to work in that country. You are officially working illegally. You probably entered the country where you are teaching on a tourist visa (in many countries a tourist visa will enable you to stay legally in the country for 90 days) and in many cases, you will stay on and teach English on a tourist visa that has expired or lapsed (this will be the case in countries like Italy and Spain where tourist visas cannot typically be renewed). In such cases, you are not only working illegally, but you do not have a valid visa to legally be in that country either. In other cases, such as Argentina, you canrenew your tourist visa or get a new one before your original visa expires (example day 85 of your 90 day visa), often by leaving and re-entering t
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Faced with erratic weather, Pakistan farmers go organic
by Aamir Saeed,
Durez Khan inspects his organic wheat crop at his farm in Bhagwal, a village in Chakwal district in Pakistan’s Punjab province. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Aamir Saeed
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistani growers are turning to organic farming as a way to adapt to climate change, boost food security for their families and increase their income.
Durez Khan, 45, a farmer in the Chakwal district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has been cultivating organic wheat for the last eight years to cope with erratic weather, including lengthy dry spells, and to save money on fertilisers and pesticides.
“Organic farming ensures food security for my family besides getting a good rate for the spare wheat in the local market,” Khan, who owns about 10 acres of land, told Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
Indigenous seed used in organic farming “is more resilient to erratic weather than the hybrid seeds available in the local market,” he said.
At least 70 percent of Pakistan’s land is arid, with rainfall insufficient in some areas to grow crops without irrigation. The increasingly erratic rainfall is pushing a growing share of small farmers to organic farming as it requires a smaller cash investment and is producing good yields, farmers said.
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“If we have abundant and timely rainfall, the organic crops give around a 10 percent higher yield,” he said, adding that growing crops organically also helps increase soil fertility.
The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, a government organisation, is providing expertise, bio-fertilisers and seed to Pakistan’s growing number of organic farmers.
The organisation is especially focusing on small farmers in arid areas totally dependent on rain to produce crops.
Muhammad Farooq, a director at the National Institute of Organic Agriculture, said that many people believe introducing organic farming can cut yields, but in fact the opposite is proving true.
“Our research shows that organic farmers get better yields from their crops; therefore the area under organic agriculture is fast increasing,” he said.
In 2005, the total area under organic agriculture in Pakistan was 35,000 acres, which increased to 150,000 acres by 2010, he said. Today around 33 percent of farmers in Pakistan are doing some organic farming, he said.
Small land holders in the country cannot afford heavy doses of fertilisers and pesticides, so training them about organic farming just makes sense, he said.
EXPORT INCOME
Farooq said he believes increasing the amount of land being farmed organically in arid areas would increase production of crops like wheat and maize and boost farmer incomes. Organic farming has also boosted exports of organic cotton, dried and fresh fruit, rice and vegetables, he said, with those sales now standing at $100 million a year.
“Pakistan is self-sufficient in food production and can also earn foreign exchange by exporting organic products to international markets,” he said.
Nasar Hayat, an assistant U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation representative in Pakistan, told Thomson Reuters Foundation that his organisation supports organic farming and organic food globally as healthy, nutritious and helpful to subsistence farmers.
“If the Pakistani government supports organic farming and small farmers by offering some incentives, it will help boost food security,” he said.
RESILIENT LOCAL SEED
Organic farming could also help the country survive worsening impacts of climate change, he said, as it uses indigenous seeds that are more adaptable to the local environment.
“The indigenous seeds usually require less water to grow and prove to be resilient to severe weather conditions and diseases as compared to hybrid seeds,” he said.
He said organic farming in some cases may produce slightly lower yields but farmers still earn more as they do not pay for costly chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
According to a 2013 World Bank report, more than 60 percent of Pakistan’s population survives on less than two dollars a day, the international poverty line.
Critics of organic farming, however, say that it will not be able to produce sufficient harvests to meet growing demand in a world already facing food security challenges.
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Quality Control shares tracklisting for ‘Control the Streets Vol 2’ featuring Travis Scott, Meek Mill, and Young Thug
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Last night, Quality Control published the official cover art and tracklisting for its next compilation album: Quality Control: Control The Streets Volume 2, which is set to land August 16. That’s just three days away, everyone. Will the label be able to score another two-time platinum album as they did with Volume 1?
We’ll find out together. If you’re a fan of the Migos, and everyone else on the label roster, get in tune to pre-order. And now, here are some words from the official press release emailed me to me this morning by the label.
Quality Control Music artists on the release, both new-signed and established, include 24Heavy, City Girls, DJ Durel, Duke Deuce, Jordan Hollywood, Kollision, Layton Greene, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Marlo, Migos, Offset, Quavo, Stefflon Don, Takeoff, YRN Lingo and YRN Murk.
Featured artists include DaBaby, Dayytona Fox, Domingo, French Montana, Gucci Mane, Gunna, Mango Foo, Meek Mill, Megan thee Stallion, Mustard, Playboi Carti, PnB Rock, Renni Rucci, Rylo Rodriguez, Saweetie, Street Bud, Tay Keith, Tee Grizzley, Travis Scott, and Young Thug.
Billboard recently honoured Quality Control Music’s CEO Pierre “P” Thomas and COO Kevin “Coach K” Lee as Co-Executives of the Year in 2018’s R&B/Hip-Hop Power Issue, citing the company’s undeniable influences on the music industry. The Source named them #1 on the cover of their Power 30, Variety awarded them as the year’s top innovators, and Culture Creators honoured them for contributions to music.
Within six years, the Atlanta-based management company and record label has seen stratospheric success and has literally changed the culture. Still, the word most commonly used by Quality Control artists is definitely “family”. Operating as an independent, African-American owned label (partnered with Motown and Caroline distribution), Coach and P and a surprisingly small and dedicated staff have created a new blueprint for success at a time when the fans have the biggest voice in the industry.
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2020 Federal Data Strategy Action Plan
Agency CDOs discuss what's in the plan and how it will shift the data landscape across agencies.
Melissa Harris
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The Office of Management and Budget approved and released the Federal Data Strategy’s first-year action plan Dec. 24, marking a milestone in how agencies will implement the strategy within their organizations and in collaboration across the government in 2020.
Now that the action plan is out, agency co-leads of the strategy and agency chief data officers who helped develop and are implementing the plan provided insight about how it will help agencies navigate new data-driven requirements from policies such as the Data Accountability and Transparency Act and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, or Evidence Act.
What’s in the First-Year Action Plan?
The Federal Data Strategy Development Team released a draft of the action plan earlier in June and from there accepted public feedback to review and apply to the final action plan. Initially supposed to be released in September, the plan was delayed pending approval from OMB, according to Data Strategy Development Team Co-Lead and Small Business Administration CIO Maria Roat.
The final plan includes feedback from the draft action plan, which included 16 actions. The finalized version has 20 actions that agencies will have to complete throughout 2020.
The final actions are divvied into agency-specific and cross-agency categories. Of the 20 actions, there are six each agency will have to complete on their own, four that agency communities of practice and OMB will oversee, and 10 shared, interagency actions each helmed by an individual agency.
At the individual agency level, the final action plan calls for each agency to:
Identify data needs to answer priority agency questions by September 2020
Institutionalize agency data governance by first publishing data governance body materials documentation on their data sites by January 2020 then beginning enterprise-wide data governance activities by November 2020
Assess data and related infrastructure maturity by May 2020
Identify opportunities to increase staff data skills by July 2020
Identify priority data assets for agency open data plans by January 2020
Publish and update data inventories by July 2020
As each agency strives to complete these six actions over the next year, there will also be collaborative communities of practice actions, which largely touch on many preexisting initiatives, such as creating structure for cooperative data leadership and standardization. More specifically, the action plan states that these community of practices should:
Launch a federal CDO Council by January 2020 under the leadership of OMB
Improve data and model resources for artificial intelligence research and development by February 2020
Improve financial management data standards a key goal of the President’s Management Agenda by August 2020
Have the Federal Geographic Data Committee and OMB Federal Data Policy Committee integrate geospatial data practices into the federal data enterprise by December 2020
The final 10 actions in the first-year action plan are “shared solution actions,” or government-wide data services each led by a singular agency or small group of agencies. These final items call for:
The General Services Administration, OMB and the Office of Government Information Services of the National Archives to develop a repository of federal enterprise data resources — such as case studies, the data.gov schema, playbooks, requirements, tools and standards — by December 2020
OMB to establish a Federal Data Policy Committee by January 2020
GSA to develop a curated data skills catalog “of learning opportunities to help agencies develop competencies for managing data as a strategic asset” by November 2020
GSA to develop a data ethics framework “to help agencies systematically identify and assess the potential benefits and risks associated with data they acquire, manage and use” by December 2020
U.S. Census Bureau Federal Strategical Research Data Center Program Management Office to pilot a one-stop standard research application by March 2020
National Center for Education Statistics to pilot an automated tool for information collection review that supports inventory creation and updates by July 2020
GSA to develop and pilot an enhanced data management tool for agencies by September 2020
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology to develop data-quality measuring and reporting guidance by December 2020
GSA to develop a data standards repository by December 2020 in collaboration with OMB and the National Institute of Standards and Technology
With the expanded list of actions, which were included for clarity purposes, the overall content and activities in the final plan are almost identical to those in the draft.
“Many commenters provided feedback on the 16 actions included in the draft action plan, identifying opportunities for clarification and suggesting additional Actions to address identified gaps,” the document says. “The final action plan offers additional context, clarity and detail.”
Since June, 140 unique commentators from government agencies, academia and industry provided feedback on the data strategy website, and a collective 66 individuals offered comment at two forums in June and July.
Roat said that that the transparency that OMB and the data strategy development team maintained throughout the drafting and editing of the action plan minimized surprises for agencies or industry partners and enabled positive collaboration in finalizing the action plan.
Roat added that because of the nature of the project, she or the groups she collaborated with expected few changes in the final plan from the draft released in June.
“When you look at the federal government and how it manages data, getting us to be more consistent, making sure we’re protecting security, privacy, confidentiality — being able to do all of those things but being consistent across the federal government is really where we need to drive, and that’s where the strategy is going,” Roat said. The action plan "is a big step for the federal government, a positive one.”
Department of Commerce Chief Data Officer Ed Kearns added that the transparency behind the process of the action plan, and the Federal Data Strategy’s tenets, help agencies meet and even exceed the requirements of the DATA Act and Evidence Act, which require greater transparency in federal spending information and for agencies to increase data-driven decision-making.
“The compliance exercise is outlined by the Evidence Act,” Kearns said, adding that the Federal Data Strategy and action plan are “more aspirational" than the Evidence Act. "The target for the data strategy is definitely higher. Hopefully, as we implement this strategy, we will find ourselves needing to find the Evidence Act on our way to achieving the data strategy goals.”
What does federal leadership think?
Although the White House in January signed the Evidence Act — requiring all agencies to appoint CDOs to help agencies leverage data in their activities — the act did not provide guidance on where CDOs belong within their organizations or how to integrate data-driven governance into the business of government.
For agency CDOs, the ambiguous nature of their roles has created several challenges. Kearns and SBA CDO Emily Knickerbocker both said that some agencies are just coming to understand the value of data in their activities and have CIOs doubling as CDOs. Others are further along in tying data to mission, such as Commerce, which houses data-driven agencies like the Census Bureau and the Patents and Trademark Office, or have had well-established CDOs for years, such as Knickerbocker, who has been SBA’s CDO since 2017.
Despite these challenges, the data strategy’s action plan — which heavily emphasizes collaboration and transparency — have provided the guidance and tools agency CDOs and data scientists will need to get on the same page in leveraging data as an asset, according to Roat, Knickerbocker, Kearns and GSA CDO Kris Rowley.
“When you talk about the overarching governance — ethical governance, conscious design, learning culture, the security and the privacy, and all of those elements — to come together as a federal government and have consolidated principles for leveraging data as an asset, I think, was big to the federal government to come to an agreement on what those principles would be,” Roat said.
There were several elements of the action plan that CDOs Knickerbocker, Kearns and Rowley said they found particularly compelling and helpful to promote the collaboration and take the reins on data management with the increase in quantity and availability of data.
Rowley said that he looked forward to the formation of a Federal CDO Council, which he said will help different agencies and their CDOs get on the same page in their leadership functions, thereby enabling greater interagency cooperation.
“I would recommend that we primarily focus on the governance structure each agency is trying to roll out to make sure that we have some level of consistency around the authorities and responsibilities of CDOs,” Rowley said of the to-be CDO Council. “I know that it won’t be totally consistent because CDOs are being placed in different organizations across the government, but if we can establish some consistency of governance models, it will help us as we try to do interagency collaboration.”
Rowley added that as the data strategy brings CDOs together and encourages cross-agency collaboration, he envisions that agencies will also start to better underscore data quality across agencies.
“Bringing together agencies under a common Federal Data Strategy will drive greater emphasis on data quality and making sure that when we’re doing analysis that we’re using data to the greatest extent possible rather than rebuilding or recollecting data that we already have,” he said.
Knickerbocker and Kearns also see the action plan’s emphasis on a learning culture that cultivates staff data skills.
“There’s a lot of competition across all organizations to find people that have the right skills to help them analyze and understand the new and large amount of data that people are trying to leverage as an asset,” Knickerbocker said of current personnel challenges.
Kearns added that the government currently has many employees who could be considered data scientists, such as meteorologists or economists, and that developing a learning strategy to get current personnel who handle data trained to use data skills that the government will need in the future is also an element of the action plan he finds critical.
The action plan’s call to create a data ethics framework is crucial, Kearns said, as it will create a foundation to how government decides to utilize data.
Of all the items, however, identifying and forming open data plans and the collaboration and transparency required behind those processes, are the most exciting components of the action plan.
“The sharing of our data, the sharing of our software, sharing of our documentation — in a way that makes them even more valuable as an asset to the public, to industry, to academia, researchers and other federal agencies,” Kearns said. “Being able to share our data effectively is one of the biggest challenges that we’ve had across different communities and agencies, and I think this action plan is going to help us bring that to the next level.”
“A key component of the data strategy is promoting transparency,” Roat added. “I’ve always been really big on collaborating, sharing data.”
The action plan’s call to open and collaboratively leverage agencies’ wells of data will hopefully get agencies who are in different stages in the Federal Data Strategy’s implementation on the same page, Knickerbocker added. As agencies continue to collaborate under the guidance of the action plan, they can start to tackle individual data-driven projects within their own organizations.
How will the action plan impact individual agencies?
In addition to the broader benefits the Federal Data Strategy and its action plan will bring to federal agencies, the action plan will bring about specific data-driven projects.
Kearns touched upon data-backed projects at Commerce, which has agencies that maintain some of the biggest wells of data across federal agencies. The federal plan will preempt Commerce’s data strategy, which will set the guidelines for how the bureaus within Commerce will use and share data across the department.
“We’re not just independent bureaus and agencies,” Kearns said. “We do have important cross connections that, if we utilize them well, will benefit the American taxpayer by providing either our services for efficiency or providing data in such a way that they can be used more easily together.”
If Commerce can take census, economic and environmental data from its different bureaus and properly bring them together, not only agencies but also researcher and industry partners can conduct meaningful work with that information.
“It’s a very powerful tool for industry and researchers to start to understand how the economy is being influenced by things like climate change and by weather ... and respond to population changes and economic changes,” Kearns explained. “I think it’s going to help the Department of Commerce figure out how it’s going to lean into some of these partnerships with industry that I think are very valuable.”
GSA also has its own data-driven goals that the data strategy's collaborative aspects can help with. An initiative within GSA to bring its customer agency data together will allow the agency to interact with them and show the current state of their deliverables, Rowley said. The data-sharing and governance structure that the data strategy emphasizes will help GSA in this effort.
“Some of the initiatives are related to having more of a centralized investment strategy from a technology perspective of, 'How do we take a look at our enterprise infrastructure to better support these types of more centralized analytic capabilities?'” Rowley said. “I see the action plan and Evidence [Act] combined really helping to drive home a stronger governance structure, which in turn should help us make decisions on making the right type of investments.”
While Rowley sees how GSA can help its own mission and back-office functions for other agencies with the data strategy and action plan, the plan has helped SBA’s leadership continue to reinforce data-driven change within the organization — both for the agency itself and the small businesses it supports.
SBA has already started providing better data analytics tools for its personnel the past couple of years, Roat said. The agency also plans to develop a “360 lifecycle” of a customer — which will require much better understanding of data and how small businesses interact with SBA for aid.
“A small business may start out with counseling and then apply for a microloan, and then apply for a certification from SBA. The ability to have a 360-degree-view of the customer means having access to the common data across the agency and then using that data to inform decision-making and better serve small businesses,” Roat said.
With the expanded view, SBA will be able to be more predictive with its data so that it can accelerate how the agency helps its customers. As SBA comes to better understand its data, the agency can better plan its field offices and their resources across the country as they engage with small businesses, Roat added.
Not only will getting a better understanding of SBA’s data help the agency in its activities, but also it can help the small businesses that want to leverage the data that SBA would make more open under the Federal Data Strategy.
“Making data open by default is beneficial to industry partners and small businesses because it really democratizes the data,” Knickerbocker said. “It’s not just the people who are familiar with the data and put in a [Freedom of Information Act] request who are able to get access to the data. It’s everyone getting access at the same time.”
As excited as agency leadership may be for the opportunities and guidance within the Federal Data Strategy, the first-year action plan only scratches the surface in the long-term mission ahead.
Although much of the work will occur over the next year, executing the mission of the data strategy will take longer.
“It’s going to take multiple years,” Roat said. “There’s a long-term maturity to get the full value of federal data. It’s not just about the data itself, but about delivering a more consistent approach to federal data stewardship, use and access.”
In total, the Federal Data Strategy site states that the data strategy will take place over a 10-year period with a new action plan release each year to keep agencies on course throughout the decade. Future action plans will build on those of previous years.
Although 2020 and the years to follow may be “a little daunting,” as Kearns framed it, CDOs and other federal IT leadership across agencies realize the importance of creating a strategy and plan to maximize the possibility of government data. Kearns said that the data strategy has given agencies the opportunity to be aspirational in leveraging data as an asset, and the first-year action plan, in many ways, is a springboard in allowing agencies to shoot higher in its data-driven goals.
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Unwitting vs unwilling
Unwitting and unwilling are two words that are close in spelling and pronunciation and are often confused. We will examine the differing definitions of unwitting and unwilling, where these words came from and some examples of their use in sentences.
Unwitting describes an action that is done unintentionally, something done inadvertently. Unwitting also describes someone who is unaware of all the facts of a situation, someone who is not fully informed. The word unwitting is derived from the Old English word unwitende which means not realizing. The adverb form is unwittingly.
Unwilling describes someone who does not want to do something, someone who is unprepared to do something or reluctant to do something. The word unwilling is derived from the Old English word unwillende, meaning not willing. The adverb form is unwillingly.
Over the last few days, visitors to thousands of websites have unwittingly earned criminals money, by running software that generates virtual currency just quietly. (The New Zealand Herald)
Yet the combination of tactics revealed in the indictment, including the use of shell corporations and stolen IDs, deployment of virtual private networks to avoid online detection, and payments to unwitting Americans, suggests even a company as powerful as Facebook could struggle to stop such activities by itself as they happen. (Reuters)
No collusion, no effect on the election, and the only “real U.S. persons” the no-goodniks (to use Boris’ word) interacted with were “unwitting.” (The Boston Herald)
However, the board of directors of ICB is unwilling to buy shares of the Farmers Bank, owned by former minister MK Alamgir, as the directors think that it will be risky to pour funds into a troubled bank. (The Dhaka Tribune)
Tottenham Hotspur are unwilling to agree to Toby Alderweireld’s wage demands and have reached an impasse in negotiations with the Belgium international, whose situation is being closely observed by Manchester United. (The International Business Times)
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Israel Religious Soldiers Denied Permission for Beards
Religious Soldiers Denied Permission for Beards
By Ilan Erenbach
Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 7:14 pm | ח' תמוז תשע"ו
IDF soldiers davening during a break in training. (Abir/Flash 90)
A number of religious soldiers in the IDF have recently been denied permission by their officers to have beards, Arutz Sheva reported on Thursday.
Rabbi Avi Shayish, a divisional chaplain in the IDF reserves and the rabbi of Rehovot’s Orot Hanan group, blames the trend on the military’s decision to take away authority over beards from the IDF rabbinate.
“Sadly, a significant number of religious soldiers have been denied permission to grow a beard by their adjutant officer,” he said.
“About a year ago, the head of the human resources branch decided that soldiers are to be clean-shaven, and that permission to grow a beard would come from adjutant officers instead of the military rabbinate.
“It’s very problematic for an adjutant officer to decide which soldiers are actually religious and which are not,” he said. “They look at a military ID to see if he had a beard in the past, this isn’t a serious method.”
He acknowledged that there have been non-religious soldiers who tried to cheat the system, but that the military rabbis are much better equipped to discern the sincerely observant.
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World Huge Crowds March in Hong Kong, Piling Pressure on Leader
Huge Crowds March in Hong Kong, Piling Pressure on Leader
Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:53 am | י"ג סיון תשע"ט
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Protesters carrying umbrellas gather at Victoria Peak to stage a protest against the extradition bill in Hong Kong, Sunday. (Apple Daily via AP)
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, mostly in black, jammed the city’s streets Sunday in a march protesting the government’s handling of a proposed extradition bill.
The crowds, walking slowly and shouting “withdraw” and “resign,” spilled into the streets from downtown Victoria Park and began marching toward the Central district where the government headquarters is located.
The demonstrators carried banners demanding that Chief Executive Carrie Lam resign and drop the legislation completely instead of just suspending it as she announced Saturday.
Sunday’s march looked likely to match in scale the previous week’s march that brought as many as 1 million out to express their concern over the former British colony’s relations with mainland China.
Pro-democracy activists were calling for a general strike on Monday despite Lam’s decision to suspend work on the legislation. Some labor unions, teachers associations and other groups were planning boycotts of work and classes.
“We encourage all the public to carry on the campaign,” said Bonny Leung and other leaders of the pro-democracy Civil Human Rights Front.
Many opponents of the extradition legislation are urging Lam to step down and want her to drop the legislation, which many fear would undermine freedoms enjoyed by this former British colony but not elsewhere in China.
The communist government in Beijing issued multiple statements backing Lam’s decision, which she announced in a news conference Saturday.
The battle over legislation has evolved into Hong Kong’s toughest political test since the Communist Party-ruled mainland took control in 1997 with a promise not to interfere with the city’s civil liberties and courts.
Demonstrations on Wednesday turned violent, with dozens injured as police fought back with tear gas, rubber bullets and other forceful measures.
Lam has said the extradition legislation is needed if Hong Kong is to uphold justice, meet its international obligations and not become a magnet for fugitives. The proposed bill would expand the scope of criminal suspect transfers to include Taiwan, Macau and mainland China.
China has been excluded from Hong Kong’s extradition agreements because of concerns over its judicial independence and human rights record.
Lam has sidestepped questions over whether she should quit and said she still plans to seek passage of the proposed amendment. She also defended how the police dealt with the clashes with demonstrators.
But she said she was suspending the bill indefinitely. It was time, she said, “for responsible government to restore as quickly as possible this calmness in society.”
“I want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind,” she said. “We have no intention to set a deadline for this work.”
Many believe Hong Kong’s legal autonomy has been significantly diminished despite Beijing’s insistence that it is still honoring its promises, dubbed “one country, two systems.”
Prosecutions of activists, detentions without trial of five Hong Kong book publishers and the illegal seizure in Hong Kong by mainland agents of at least one mainland businessman are among moves in recent years that have unnerved many in the city of 7 million.
Hong Kong to Push Ahead With Bill That Sparked Huge Protest
Hong Kong Leader Under Pressure as Weekend Protests Loom
Hong Kong Lawmakers, Following China, Vote to Ban Ivory Sales
Protesters Out on Hong Kong Streets, Defying Beijing
Protesters Scuffle With Hong Kong Police, Gov’t Offices Shut
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ANOTHER HAMPSTEAD 'LUNG' UNDER THREAT FROM OVER-DE...
ANOTHER HAMPSTEAD 'LUNG' UNDER THREAT FROM OVER-DEVELOPMENT
Under threat: These lush, green gardens are home to a host of wild birds and other animals and an essential 'lung' just off the highly polluted Finchley Road. They would come under threat if Camden permits this unwarranted development. The already fatally-congested area would become yet more chaotic were HGVs to partially block off Arkwright Rd.
By Red Frogger
An ‘appalled' group of neighbours are battling against Camden Council’s planning department, who have, quite inexplicably, recommended approval for an application to build two, large, multi-million pound houses in the green back gardens of Arkwright Road, Hampstead.
The neighbours have protested about the projected 'serious and unwarranted' overdevelopment, density and overpowering nature of the proposed structures, and the resultant deprivation of daylight, amenity and privacy for their homes, as well as the huge impact on already heavily congested roads during any construction.
Camden’s proposed acceptance of the application is contained in a 53 page Draft ‘Members Briefing Pack’ which contains several serious misstatements of historic fact as to previous buildings in the area, and various inconsistencies and contradictions regarding Camden's own Planning Guidance and Policies.
Was this to go ahead, it would mean significant construction in a conservation area, against Camden Council’s own stated policy.
The developers have already had to withdraw their earlier application to build three houses in the face of some 80 objections by neighbours and local community organisations. Although these would be ‘luxury villas’, the applicants would pay Camden Council just £58k in affordable housing compensation as part of a 106 Agreement; a tiny fraction of the millions that would be made when these new properties are sold on.
They point out that the ribbon of gardens reaching down from Frognal to the Finchley Road is one of the last remaining green areas and animal habitats in the vicinity. Camden’s apparent siding with developers flies in the face of current global and national concerns about environmental impacts through loss of trees and green corridors. (This is not an urban brown field site).
Camden dismisses the point that granting the application would create a precedent for other neighbouring owners to follow suit; yet another application to build 9 flats in the nearby garden of 17 Frognal is already being considered by the Planning Department.
There are also complaints that the Council , while working in close association with the developers, has not provided proper community consultation with neighbours most closely affected by the proposals, nor have the developers themselves done so, despite stating that they had.
No date for a hearing has yet been set.
Summer Edition Takes Out BID
Dearest Hampster,
The new front cover of the magazine is such a closely guarded secret that we won't be publishing it online until publication day. So here's the contents page of the summer edition which will feature a jaw-dropper of a story on the incredible extortion racket that is the Hampstead Village Business Improvement District Ltd.
I've no problem calling it an extortion racket, because that's exactly what it is. And any lawyer who wants to make a case out of that had better look the up word extortion in a dictionary before sending any nasty letters.
Legal or not, we always new the BID was dodgy, and now we've seen it's income and expenditure for 2018/19 and its projected books for 2019/20 we can report exactly how dodgy. And the answer is very dodgy indeed.
The new Hampstead Village Voice will be out on the 1st of June 2019 and it pulls no punches.
Emmanuel 'Mustafa' Goldstein,
Editor in law suit (with dictionary).
WILLY TO REOPEN
by Emmanuel ‘Mustafa’ Goldstein
On the 14th of March, just three days before the recent Camden/BID v James McGrath court hearing, Camden Council closed down Mr. McGrath’s pub, the King William IV, after a surprise health inspection. The council’s reason? Alleged Mice.
Locals have confirmed that they've never once seen a mouse there and we concur.
The timing of the closure – just two weeks after a story broke in the Hampstead Village Voice revealing the council offered the pub a £5k rates credit – £2k of which was to be ‘offset’ against a BID bill in order to vacate the court hearing was, to say the least, curious.
It was to be a big weekend for the pub. The Six Nations, Cheltenham and, crucially for an 80-year-old Irish landlord, St. Patrick’s Day, all fell immediately after the Council’s enforced closure.
Is it beyond the realm of possibility someone with a vested interest - pardon the pun - might have ratted to the council about these alleged mice?
In any case, the pub has been thoroughly sanitised and reopens on Friday 22/03/19 after an enforced 8 day closure. And the Hampstead Village Voice says: Jimmy’s a local hero for fighting off these BID sheisters and standing up to the council.
If you’d like to read the full report and help support the Hampstead Village Voice, please feel free to join www.patreon.com/hampstead from only £2 a month.
CAMDEN COUNCIL | BID v KING WILLIAM TIMELINE
11/10/18: Camden | BID v King William Highbury Magistrates, first hearing: adjourned.
17/11/18: Camden | BID v King William Highbury Magistrates, second hearing: adjourned.
05/02/19: Camden writes to King William IV offering pay pub £5k ‘rates credit’ and offset £2k to pay the BID and vacate court hearing.
06/02/19: King William IV’s counsel writes to Camden declining its generous offer.
01/03/19: Hampstead Village Voice breaks story on Camden’s attempt to pay rates credit and vacate court hearing.
14/03/19: Camden inspectors close the King William IV due to alleged ‘mouse infestation’.
17/03/19: Camden Council | BID v King William IV court hearing takes place. Adjourned.
21/03/19: King William IV reopens after an enforced 8 day closure.
29/04/19: New date for court hearing. 10am. Highbury Magistrates’ Court.
Emmanuel ‘Mustafa’ Goldstein
WILLY’S LANDLORD: “I’D RATHER GO TO PRISON THAN PAY THE BID.”
This is the third occasion on which 80-year-old Jimmy McGrath, landlord of the King William IV has been dragged to Highbury Magistrates’ court and it won’t be the last.
He refuses to pay Hampstead Village BID Ltd's 'levy' on principle and is being seen by many businesses as a local hero - a martyr to the cause. He's certainly taking one for the team.
But the reason he might well win this case isn’t because the BID extorts money from the 70% of Hampstead businesses, schools and charities who didn’t vote for it; nor that Camden Council acts as debt enforcer for the private limited company – nor even that several businesses have complained of being repeatedly coerced and harassed by the BID’s unapologetic management.
These certainly are just some of the reasons he and an increasing number of 'hereditaments' – as the BID likes to call them – do not wish to pay it, and why on Monday the 17th of March 2019, he told the court: “I’d rather go to jail than pay the BID”.
District Judge Julia Newton couldn’t quite believe her ears: ‘I’m sorry Mr. McGrath, I couldn’t quite hear what you said. Could you please repeat it?’ Mr. McGrath did so unashamedly. “I’d rather go to jail than pay the BID.” It was quite a moment.
More eyebrows were raised too when, after nearly an hour of cross-examination, and already having read various documents, Camden’s tax officer, Charles Quick, admitted he couldn’t read the date on a document in front of him because he’d forgotten to bring his glasses.
But Mr. Griffiths was more interested in Camden's three-man legal team forgetting to bring along a crucial piece of evidence than their spectacles. The document in question? A legally binding information ‘insert’ sent out with all 241 BID invoices.
Before long the QC was to reveal, what might well be, the killer blow for Hampstead Village BID Ltd...
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Sorry darlings, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Writers have bills too!
Emmanuel 'Mustafa' Goldstein
Editor in public gallery.
Editor Gets Scrunched by BID Chairman.
The Autumn Edition 2018
Albeit the autumn issue focusses mainly on rubbish of the Veolese variety, there are also two exceptionally feisty reports on the Hampstead Village BID Ltd which, were you to ask local businesses what they thought of it, they'd almost certainly answer 'Rubbish!'
Well, at least 70% would. We know this because a) despite grandiose claims from Camden Cllr. Richard Olszewski in the Ham&Eggs that "a majority of businesses" voted for the thing, in reality only 30% of the eligible 243 businesses actually did and b) we conducted a poll of 100 businesses which resulted in over 75% being vehemently against the thing. And when I say vehemently, I mean as in Gauls versus Romans. So we can't wait for the next ballot now everyone knows what it does... or rather doesn't do.
You see, the main story in the current edition is about how a) the BID's chairman violently scrunched this magazine's editor's hand and phone in Back Lane last June and b) the whole BID thing is an utterly pointless exercise. Unless of course you're the BID's CEO who receives a stipend of up to £40k a year. What the chairman gets out of it other than getting to physically abuse local rag editors or going down in everyone's estimation is anyone's guess. Read on...
Editor (bruised).
The follow up story, which is almost certainly twice as good, is in the Hampstead Village Voice, at newsagents and splendid bookshops now for £2.
Awfully Sorry. Forgot All About This Blog.
The Summer Edition is still in the shops...
Howdy Hampsters,
Sorry! I actually forgot all about this blog thing and so neglected to report on arguably our best ever edition of the Hampstead Village Voice, still in newsagents now.
What with my band Ridiculous playing its debut gig at the Dublin Castle in June, the completion of my book The Joy of Addiction in July and all the legwork that accompanies said projects – not to mention getting the summer edition out – the blog has slipped down the old priority list somewhat.
And there was that Giles Coren purple patch in which your man got Rupert Murdoch to pay for our dinners at Café Hampstead and we both gleefully reviewed the restaurant. Giles in the The Times and moi in the Hampstead Village Voice. Happily, I also coaxed the Coren into writing the Forward to my book. Now all I need is a literary agent and a publisher. S'ppose I'll have to make some sort of effort to go and get one.
Equally happily, Mr. Coren sang the praises of your favourite local satirical rag in his piece so, seeing as it's raining, I'll stick a scanned version up here for the weekend in case you missed it.
He called my piece a "jolly read" and as usual his is too.
Ed/singer/author/tea person.
Gilesy baby does a little Hampy Voice service and writes a jolly piece.
Zoom in to read...
Note to Rupert Murdoch: to sue for copyright infringement, please send a postcard to:
1 London Bridge Place London SE1 9GF.
The Spring Edition Takes No Prisoners
The spring edition has a real humdinger of a cover story that exposes the Hampstead Village BID Ltd for forcing a much loved, state-funded institution into paying its gratuitous levy. Worse still, the BID forces the council to force this state funded institution into paying it. The Spy calls for an end to this nonsense and a change to the legislation that allows it.
Yet more of a coup, we welcome broadcaster, former MP and top writer Martin Bell as a regular columnist and he'll be sharing with us his most original View From The Burb.
And there's a rather special interview with song writing legend Ken Howard who penned songs for Elvis, wrote a BBC play about John Lennon and, rather handilly, lives downstairs from Hampstead Village Voice editor Emmanuel 'Mustafa' Goldstein.
We've top stories from renowned writers Red Szell and Charles Harris and there's the latest goss on Ye Old White Bear, Burgh House, The Ladies' Pond and Hampstead's splendid new jazz venue, Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club.
Mr. Goldstein indulges in a new column called Corporate Watchdog in which he exposes the deserving household names of corporate Britain with an iron fist: AA Home Insurance? You're Better Off With The Burglars pretty much does what it says on the packet.
With Klaus von Kunst rounding up the Arts scene, Carla Le Pond Antoinette deciphering transgender politik and the Ministry of Silly Names on page something or other... it's the issue that will have you wrapped in an enigma in a riddle in a mystery.
A Ghastly Hampstead Cosa Nostra?
Click on the story below and zoom in to read it.
I don't usually publish articles in the current edition of the Hampstead Village Voice online. After all, our struggling local newsagents need to make enough dosh to meet their bills. What they don't need is a sordid little mafia bullying them, breathing down their necks and forcing them to pay up wads of money when they don't want to. This is exactly what a company called Hampstead Village BID Ltd is doing. Worse still, this private limited company has somehow managed to use Camden's electoral system to win a rather dubious ballot, then recruit Scamden Council to act as its summons-wielding debt collector. It's all quite unspeakable.
There's also another story about all this in the FINANCIAL CRIMES section of the Autumn edition, but you'll have to go to a newsagent and spend a whole £2.50 to read it. Yet, unlike the BID Ltd, we are not forcing you to part with your money against your will. Read on and share so that businesses and general public alike might be made aware of this thoroughly despicable practice.
Toodle Pip and do we not like bullies!
Editor in hot pants.
PS. If you own a Hampstead business, have fallen victim to this reprehensible little mafia and want to be rid of it, you can email: goodbyebid@outlook.com where a band of like-minded businesses are getting together to fight it off.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH... OR DON'T
By Emmanuel 'Mustafa' Goldstein.
Pollution is the issue of the day, so pages 1 and 7 address it. I've actually taken to escaping London at every opportunity because coughing my lungs out is not what I signed up to when I was accidentally born in Islington then moved to Well Walk, aged one. Having been demoted to Arkwright Rd, the epicentre of that ridiculous school-run, well, it's positively Chokestead around here.
Ah, the Joy of Gridlock! Even the Heath seems to be overrun with parky-tractor-traffic these days. And if we can't even go on the Heath without a diesel exhaust in our faces then, yes, society has completely lost the plot.
It's one reason I'm encouraging people to vote for Tulip Siddiq (Lab) in this last-minute General Election: her opponent, Claire-Louise Leyland (Con) foolishly voted in favour of the Heath Dams and, in-so-doing, has placed herself firmly in that room, for which there is no key - because surely all true Heath loving Hampsteadites will have chucked it into the Ladies' Pond.
Talking of the Ladies Pond, one of its regulars Karla Le Pond Antoinette will be joining me on this blog from this day forth. Indeed, all being well, she'll probably completely colonise it. We need doers in this movement (Brian) and let's be honest, I've been neglecting my blogging duties of late. You may know Madame Antoinette from our Pond Life page and it cannot be a bad thing to have a little more feminine energy flowing through the Hampstead Village Voice's veins.
The new edition is in the shops and, befitting it's 10 year anniversary status, it's bigger and better than ever. But oh no! It now costs £2.50... then again, surely we're allowed to put the price up every ten years.
Editor voting for Tulip Siddiq.
WHOOPS! BRITS SEND MISSILE TO FLORIDA BY MISTAKE AND LONDON AIR UNBREATHABLE
So much for sensible EU directives
Dearest Hampsters,
If you can see this post through the London pollution then, may I ask, why isn't the Mayor of London doing what they do in Paris and order private citizens to stay out of their cars for a day? And why does the British government not apply EU directive 2008/50 which halts all major construction whilst air pollution is at a very dangerous level?
I'll tell you why. Because this country's full of selfish, ignorant, money-grubbing arseholes who put their comfort and industry before the breathing of fresh air, that's why.
"Children's lungs? Fuck 'em! We've got cash to make and huge SUVs to ponce about in!"
We may as well all be living in Trump's Brave New World... Oh shit, we are.
The good news is that the new Hampstead Village Voice is here to save our Hampstead spirits from the filth and corruption of Big Brother Trump and his new Airstrip One poodle Theresa Maybe.
If it's not too passé by then, we'll get Ken Pyne to sharpen his 'poodle bashing pencil' and furnish our new political correspondent Helmut 'Schmidty' Schmidt with a cartoon for the Spring edition, which will be out in May, Theresa.
That's if a Trident missile hasn't accidentally bombed Florida and caused all out war between Britain and the United States. Oh wouldn't that be a laugh! Imagine it: our armed forces accidentally bombing the USA.
As Mr. Withnail once famously yelped from the front seat of an old Jag, "Go and get your new Hampstead Village Voice now darlings... you haven't got a chance!"
Toodles!
Enemy of Big Brother.
WINTER EDITION AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!
HURRAH! The Winter Edition (HVV29) of the Hampstead Village Voice has, after much toil, flu and caffeine, been sent to the printers. Here's its intestines.... It should be out before the 1st of Feb 2017 if Trump's 'TOTALLY BIGLY DÉJÀ VU' (page 34) hasn't nuked us all by then.
Enemy of Big Brother - more than ever!
FOREIGN SALES SOAR!
The Winter 2016 Edition
Not content with spreading the gospel of the Hampstonian People's Un-popular Front to the exotic lands of Belsize Parkistan, Golders Green Already, Whampers and Al Highquaida, the Hampstead Village Voice is now available in, of all places, St. John's Wood A.K.A. The Wood of Singeon: the news-stand outside St. John's Wood tube station and the legendary Peirera News at 35 St. John's Wood High Street, to be precise.
Yes even the hearts and minds of The Wood are now to be conquered and the Hampstonian People's Un-popular Front will not rest until Big Brother's evil empire is quashed forever and Hampstonia can again be happy, joyous and free as it was during the Cold War. Oh, how we miss the cold war... You knew where you were back then. Duck and Cover and Mutually Assured Destruction all day long. Ay, them were't days!
Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein.
MINISTRY of SACRILEGE
Oh no! High Court Judge decides in favour of dams on the Heath. Is the Heath, to become a blasted building site for years? It's just un-fucking-thinkable! What fuck-wit of a judge would allow such a thing? Who are these utter cunts coming into Hampstead and fucking destroying it? Livid is too short a word. The world has gone mad. The last sacred thing left in Hampstead and they're going to fuck it up. I hope the ponds swallow up their fucking bulldozers and drown them! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30251356
Devistated.
Infamy, Infamy... They've All Got It In For Me!
We all need a little love. Even Traffic Wardens and editors of local satirical magazines. But, as Hymen Roth once said to Michael Corleone, "it's the business we're in."
I've experienced a spot of cut'n'thrust over the last 24 hours. Firstly, a Camden New Journalist was overly offended that I tweeted about his somewhat fantastic story claiming Arsenal could still come third in Group D, then some busy-body woman accosting me in Ellerdale Rd because I took a picture of some heavily trimmed trees, followed up by a string of rather rude and obnoxious emails from a fellow calling Hampstead Village Voice stories,'ignorant and unfounded,' yet refusing to say which stories.
Is it me or are the citizens of old Blighty getting a bit stressed out? Bitter and twisted, even? Please don't write in and say, 'it's you!' I might just have to run off to that hammock in the sun.
If I don't, the next Hampstead Village Voice will be out on Thursday 15th of January 2015.
Toodle-Pip!
E. M. Goldstein.
Andrews of Hampstead Sold to...
The first cover of the Hampstead Village Voice featured Andrews of Hampstead
From its website and having spoken to a rather pleasant, American spokeswoman, the new owners of Andrews of Hampstead, Lords of Notting Hill, looks more of a homeware than hardware store. Not a bad thing in itself, but we can expect it to be a rather high end version of a John Lewis-cum-Robert Dyas.
Lighting, vacuum cleaners and espresso machines rather than nails and screw drivers will be the order of the day. Yet there may be a DIY section with paint, locks and other twiddly bits if the website's anything to go by.
The bad news is, the company plans to call the shop, Lords of Notting Hill. Naturally Hampsteadites will not be too thrilled about that.
Being Hampstead's answer to John Mcenroe, the words, "you cannot be serious!" were the first to leave my lips.
After all, this is Hampstead and calling a shop Such and Such of Somewhere Else is hardly paying tribute to what's left of the old Stead.
Although we, the people of the Unpopular People's Front of Hampstonia are an understanding lot, we'd still respectfully ask Lords of Notting Hill to reconsider this somewhat ill-placed name change. Why not just Lords or Lords Homeware or even Lords Formerly of Notting Hill But Now Very Much of Hampstead (Ed. A bit of a mouthful that last idea).
Regular readers of the Hampstead Village Voice will be aware that Hampstead's identity is being unceremoneously eroded by various outside factors - Scamden Council, Tesco-Stressco and various unruly developers to name but a few - and yes, we locals do feel quite strongly about this. It's a bit of a dramatic cultural leap from 'Andrews of Hampstead.'
We wish the new shop well. Notting Hill isn't a dirty word per sé but for locals, it is probably the wrong one for a Hampstead shop and will make Heath Street feel just that little bit less Hampstead.
The reality is, the company is unlikely to change its brand name to suit little old Hampsers and so let's be thankful for small mercies. At least it won't be called Lords of Chelsea - now that would certainly have rubbed this traditionally Arsenal or Tottenham supporting area up the wrong way.
Viva Hampstonia, land of the not so free!
Editor in hot-pants.
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Restructuring of the Hampstead Village Voice
Mr. & Mrs. Patel of Fleet News
Dearest Hampstonian,
You may have noticed the Hampstead Village Voice has been conspicuous by its absence this summer. This is in some small part down to the imminent restructuring of the magazine to become bigger, better, cheaper and more available to all, in the somewhat distant future.
Naturally, various principles will have to be compromised in this ghastly restructuring, including the back page being sold to Tesco-Stressco for £1m an issue and lots of praise being heaped upon Scamden Council, the British Government, ghastly property developers, estate agents and the Corporation of London. The encouragement of lots and lots of generic supermarkets, mobile phone shops and leaf blowers too, especially on the Heath, will also come in handy -Ed. Don't forget, louder evermore screechy ambulance sirens!
Indeed, the Hampstead Village Voice will not rest until Pat of Polly's in South End Road is wearing a Sainsbury's uniform and the Patel's of Fleet Road (pic. above) are asking you if you have a Tesco Club Card.
10,000 copies!
But seriously folks, once the restructuring is complete, some 10,000 copies of Edition 21 ought to be out by late Autumn. Oh, alright then, Winter! Yes, 10,000 is to be our new circulation (Ed. He's actually serious), so be afraid Stressco, Painsbury, Scamden, Thieving Mobile, Über-developers and basement junkies et al, Be very afraid! -Ed. Don't forget the Himm&Heil!
In the meantime you can still purchase edition 20 of the Hampstead Village Voice from the lovely Mr & Mrs Patel of Fleet Road or any other half-proper Hampstead newsagent, Thornton's Budgens and Waterstones.
Love, peace and serene walks on the heath,
Emmanuel "Mustafa" Goldstein III
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Money, Law and Politics
Money, Law and Politics (LAWS70425)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5Not available in 2020
Money in politics raises profound challenges for democracies across the world: billion-dollar American presidential elections have led United States being branded the 'best democracy money can buy'; in Indonesia, the tactics of ‘money politics’ are regularly decried; and in Australia, unregulated political spending in federal elections raise concerns about the fairness of such contests.
What should be the role of the law in regulating money in politics? What should be the principles to determine the content and the limits of such law? What should be the respective roles of the legislature, executive and the judiciary in shaping such laws? And what should be the institutional framework for ensuring compliance with legal obligations?
This subject will adopt a cross-national approach to examining these challenging questions. It will examine the experiences of a range of countries including those from the Commonwealth (eg Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom), Europe (eg France and Germany), South-East Asia (eg Indonesia) and the United States. Taught by two leading experts in this field, the subject will draw out the tensions and dilemmas in regulating money in politics.
Principal questions examined include:
What are the regulatory challenges of money in politics?
What standards and principles should apply to the regulation of such money? Do these standards and principles vary according to particular national contexts? Is it meaningful to speak of international standards or international ‘best practice’?
How should political donations and campaign expenditure be regulated?
How should public funding of campaigns and political parties be provided?
What should be in the institutional framework governing the regulation of money in politics? Which branch of government should have the power to enact such laws? What institutions (eg electoral commissions; anti-corruption commissions) should be responsible for effectively enforcing such regulation?
A student who has successfully completed this subject will:
Have an advanced and integrated understanding of the key principles and theories relating to the regulation of political money in various countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and the United States
Be able critically apply these principles and theories to a range of contexts
Be able to be an engaged participant in debates concerning the regulation of political money
Undertake advanced research into the regulation of political money – such research is expected to demonstrate:
Expert cognitive and technical skills in researching this topic
A mastery of the complex body of knowledge relating to this topic
An advanced ability to communicate such knowledge.
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Heritage Church
(Tudor Oaks Senior Living Center)
S77W12929 Mc Shane Dr.
Muskego, Wisconsin 53150
Wednesdays/Thursdays/Fridays 1-4 PM
Fellowship Time
– 11:00 AM
Pastor's Mid-Week Bible Study (no class 3rd Tues of the month)
Stated Supply Pastor
Rev. Michelle Henrichs
As well as her part-time contract with Heritage, Rev. Michelle Henrichs currently pastors Withness Community, a New Worshipping Community in the Milwaukee Presbytery.
She graduated with honors from McCormick Theological Seminary in May 2013. Michelle has been married to her husband, Dave for 20 years and they have two teenage sons. She enjoys playing games and watching movies with her family, reading, running, cycling and yoga. You can find out more about her at www.lifeinthelabyrinth.com
Music Team Leader
Connie Fellows
Connie has been a youth leader, musician, arranger and special services coordinator at Heritage for more then 20 years. Starting fall 2017 she will be leading the music team coordinating all of our services.
Connie teaches middle school band at St. Anthony on the Lake School in Pewaukee, Holy Apostles School in New Berlin and St. Jerome School in Oconomowoc. She enjoys performing as much as possible, including playing her trumpet in a few concerts each year with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
Connie is married to Michael Krofta, the Band Director at Oconomowoc High School. They have two adult children, Ryan and Erin.
Pianist and Office Secretary
Heidi Surprenant
Heidi Surprenant is a musician, author and educator from New Berlin, Wisconsin. She teaches music theory at Alverno College in Milwaukee and serves as the organist/pianist for Heritage Presbyterian and Bethel Lutheran in Muskego. Together, Heidi and her husband Mike raised four amazing children, now grown and lovingly launched into the world.
Susan Fellows
Clerk of Session
Glenn Sheridan
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Get To Know: 5 Showcasing Artists From Colombia
January 23, 2019 Hayden Bagot
Colombia has been home to a thriving music scene for decades. More recently, Colombian music has gained a larger US audience with the recent pop-crossover success of reggaeton and latin trap hits like J Balvin’s “Despacito.” There is so much more to discover when it comes to Colombian music, and many of the artists in this new generation pay homage to the iconic regional sounds of that make up the country’s musical history, providing the listener with something both fresh and timeless. To get you started, we’re highlighting a selection of artists from Colombia that will be performing at the 2019 SXSW Music Festival in March. If you like what you’re hearing, check out the SXSW Schedule to see every Showcasing Artist announced so far.
Colombian Artists Spotlight
MONOPHONICOS (Bogota, COLOMBIA)
The group is led by Charlie Illera, AKA mambo Inspector (DJ-producer), and Sarah Sophia, AKA Sofy (lead vocals). Their music introduces the younger audiences to old latin rhythms like Bolero, Porro and Cumbias, and show the older generation more contemporary genres like house, global bass, hip hop, and moombahton.
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ALI AKA MIND (Bogotá, COLOMBIA)
ALI is an independent artist (Producer and MC) from Bogotá, Colombia. His influences vary from various genres from American rap artists such as Boot Camp Clik to the ballads of Julio Jaramillo, from the ideas of Eloy Alfaro to the poetry of Atahualpa Yupanqui. He has toured the world extensively and released 4 albums in his career, Rap Conciencia (2008), Palabras del Alma (2012), Mestizo (2014), and Sobreviviente (2016).
Mabiland (Medellín, COLOMBIA)
Mabiland is a 22 year old Colombian singer, songwriter, and rapper. She was born in El Choco, and now is based in the city of Medellín, where she has developed her career. With sold out shows in Medellín and Bogotá, she recently released her 2018 debut album 1995, which received positive press from Radiónica, Atonal (Spain) Shock, Variety (UK) Los 40, and more.
La Sonidera (Bogotá, COLOMBIA)
La Sonidera is an alternative party band from Bogotá. The band blends elements of disco, cumbia, and champeta to form a unique rhythm. With two studio albums and many well-received performances throughout Latin America, La Sonidera is ready to bring their carefree party vibes to SXSW 2019.
J.Patron (Bogota, COLOMBIA)
J.Patron is a Colombian-born artist currently residing in Coachella Valley, California. Broadcasting a hard-hitting mix of Latin trap, reggaeton, hip-hop, and cumbia, J.Patron is the most recent signing to Latin Grammy nominee El Dusty’s Americano Label. His forthcoming first release with the imprint, My American Dream & Colombian Fantasy, arrives in March 2019, showcasing a 5-track EP with production duties handled by perreo underground rising producer Deltatron. The record hones in on a sinister, dripping perreo take on dembow, marking a departure from J.Patron’s past focus on the on hip-hop and cumbia that defined his full length album debut Ilegales en Ferraris (2017). His forthcoming release translates J.Patron’s relentless, positive hip-hop bravado with narratives highlighting the unstoppable surge of Latinx artists into the mainstream.
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MONOPHONICOS – Photo by Ernesto Liennemann
ALI AKA MIND – Photo courtesy of the artist
Mabiland – Photo courtesy of the artist
La Sonidera – Photo by Hernando Gonzales
J.Patron – Photo by George Duchanes
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Love and Laughter (1-16-18)
Must have the phrase, “A fish may love a bird, but where would they live.” [Link to post.]
“YES!!!” Robin screamed and bounced in place. The late afternoon sunlight caused her red hair to glow like a flame. She hurriedly pulled Posie up from the ground where he knelt. A crowd of strangers around them cheered and clapped, tossing out congratulations. “Of course!” She wrapped her arms around him. Posie returned the hug for a second, then Robin felt him push her away gently. She noticed tears streaming out of his orange eyes.
“I’m so happy you said yes,” Posie said. He walked toward a nearby bench, leading her by the hand. They sat and he stared at a knot in the pier. “Now that we’ve gotten to this point, there’s something about me you have to know.” He looked up from the ground to meet her eyes. “I won’t bring any secrets into our marriage.” Robin nodded, and her heart overflowed with love. She needed to reveal her own secret too. She had been afraid he would reject her for it, but she felt now was the time.
“Okay. I have something to tell you too, after,” Robin said. She clasped her hands around his. “Go ahead.” Posie closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He breathed out.
“You know the tattoo on my back?” Posie asked. Robin nodded, she loved the tattoo. It was a beautiful orange and white koi fish with the number 50 on its scales. “I got it for my 18th birthday. Since then I noticed I had… powers.” Posie went quiet when Robin made sound. Her cheeks puffed out and her lips broke into a smile. She was losing a fight to hold in her laughter. “I know it sounds crazy. That’s why I asked you here, so I could prove it. I can talk to fish.” The damn broke and Robin guffawed at him.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAAAH” Robin doubled over on the bench, holding her stomach.
“Hey.” Posie said in a whisper. Tears gathered at the corner of his eyes. Robin grabbed his hand again, still laughing.
“No.hah. Wait,hehe.” She took a deep breath. “I believe you.” She touched brushed his chin to turn his eyes to her. “I really do believe you, it’s just so much funny happened at the same time. I couldn’t hold it in. I’m sorry.” A look of confusion clouded his orange eyes.
“If you believe me, what’s so funny?” She smiled brightly.
“Well, first of all, don’t be offended. But talking to fish? I wouldn’t call that ‘POWER'” She used air quotes while she giggled. “An ability maybe, but it’s way too useless to be called a power.” She squeezed his hand to reaffirm her love. “Second of all, I believe you, because I can do it too.”
“No way? You can talk to fish too?” Posie shrugged. “I believe you, mostly because you know how useless it is.” Robin shook her head.
“Sorry, I mean I can talk to animals too. Not fish, but birds. I got it the same way you did too. You know the robin on my butt?” Posie nodded and smiled.
“Yeah it’s cute. Wow, that’s a hell of a coincidence. I guess we’re meant to be together.” Posie reached his arm around Robin and pulled her closer to him on the bench, and chuckled. “That is pretty funny though.”
“Oh, there was a third of all too!” Robin smiled at him. “Something my dad used to say, and it just made me laugh. ‘A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?’ ” She giggled, and Posie joined in.
“How bout my nest?” he asked with a broad grin.
“Well duh. My apartment is way too small,” Robin said, then kissed him on the cheek.
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If you are using Oracle’s Siebel CRM Desktop applications, then you can implement CRM Desktop Single Sign-On. Continued use of this system implies consent to monitoring and an understanding that recording and/or disclosure of any data on the system may occur at In the Web SSO Configuration document, click Keys. Login to your account SSO sign in; Network Mapping results; About single sign-on (SSO) SSO enables users to access all of their enterprise cloud applications by signing in one time for all services. The Web SSO considerably reduces the risk of losing usernames, and limits the number of helpdesk calls for locked-out users. Applied to the Remote Desktop Service, SSO allows a user… What is Single Sign On (SSO)? To access any secured page in a web application, the user needs to authenticate and if the user want to access multiple web applications then the user have to login for each of those application individually. Login page for MySWC at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. Log In To Sign Up . Contact your manager if you do not know your User ID. Login. How to enable JavaScript in a web browser? To allow all Web sites in the Internet zone to run scripts, use the steps that apply to your browser: Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication is now required more than ever. The Single Sign-On is truly integrated from the office workstation PCs to the web. Sales number. Single Sign-On (SSO) is the technology that allows an authenticated (signed on) user to access other domain services without re-authentication. Once the SP generate a proper SAML authentication request, it retunes a HTTP 200 message back to the browser with a HTML Form plus a script that can be used to submit this HTML form the SSO Welcome to the new Single Sign On system. Manage your Verizon business account easily with the Verizon Enterprise account management center. Non State of Michigan employees must create a unique user ID. Welcome to PartnerPl@ce. Improve your end user’s digital experience. Avoid long wait times with the service desk by updating your email addresses in your contact info upon successful ESS login. net email can no longer be accessed by visiting this page. Argentina - Español; Australia - English; België - Nederlands; Belgique - Français; Brasil - Português; Canada - English; Canada Mt. About CAPAIAN UiTM (UiTM Single Sign On) CAPAIAN UiTM (UiTM Single Sign On) or WebSSO is a service which allows users to provide their username and password once to a trusted service and to have their identity securely, consistently and seamlessly provided to many web applications. Welcome to Members SSO Portal Enter your user credentials below to login. Please note there may be a delay in the availability of the detailed SSO reports in the e-File system. San Antonio College SSO | © 2019 Inc. The ACCESS CONTROL > Authentication page provides two types of Single Sign-On: Single Sign-On (SSO) Supports single and multiple domains. CloudAccess Web SSO is designed for the cloud as a multi-tenant, high performance and scalable system based on the latest SOA and web services technologies. One Secure SSO Portal for All Apps With OneLogin's single sign-on portal users only have to enter one set of credentials to access to their web apps in the cloud and behind the firewall – via desktops, smartphones and tablets. Enter one of the following. Web single sign-on (SSO) with SAML 2. The user always authenticates to the IdP, and the SP relies on IdP assertion to identify the user. In the case of RDWA, you are using your Username/Password when logging into the webpage and then when you click on an application it re-uses this for launching, assuming the Workspace is identical and the RDP file is signed properly. Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication is now required more than ever. In IDP Init SSO (Unsolicited Web SSO) the Federation process is initiated by the IDP sending an unsolicited SAML Response to the SP. Can you anyone pleas share me the step by step process to configure the SSO. The HTTP and HTTPS protocols in EFT provide the SAML 2. Click Next. Forgot Password This forgot password functionality is for business partners only. All replies. 3 styles with inline editable feature. Manage your business from anywhere with 8x8 Virtual Office Mobile Privacy| Legal terms| Cookies| Internet Security Guidelines Experian 2019. The network edge authentication feature, based on SAP’s web dispatcher and SAP Single Sign-On, provides integrated, simple, and secure web access control for SAP solutions by controlling access to on-premise systems from untrusted networks. A new single-sign-on authentication service, called UGA SSO, will be available July 20, 2019. Sso The Sso was an initiation rite practiced by the Beti of Cameroon in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Review the benefits of registration and find the level that is most appropriate for you. This article covers: Log in on the Web; Log in with the Zoom Client; Prerequisites. Rajasthan Single Sign-On uses scripting to enhance your browsing experience. The Dashboard is designed to make it easier for you to see and track progress in your academic career and access various student services. config file and select edit Alternatively, you may have mistakenly bookmarked the web login form instead of the actual web site you wanted to bookmark or used a link created by somebody else who made the same mistake. If you need to also tunnel some non-web traffic generated by this application, you can add an additional non-web application to the same UAG trunk, using, for example, the Generic Silent Client Application template. A security domain for the SP server with An SP Federation Server. My Account is now your online bill pay solution. GD's email-based password reset tool provides you faster service and is our primary means for helping you manage your ESS password. AWS Single Sign-On is a cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to all of your AWS accounts and cloud applications. If your account owner or admins have configured Single Sign-On (SSO) for your Zoom account, you can use SSO to login on the web and with the Zoom client. 0 and SAML 2. SSOs are displayed on map for 10 days after SSO ceased. And then see is your fixed FormLogin. The access to the services provided in this feature is defined by your System User Manager (SUM). com account with your WebEx/Spark email address, you can link your accounts in the future (which enables you to access secure Cisco, WebEx, and Spark resources using your WebEx/Spark login) ** Please do not bookmark this page! ** © 2018, FedEx Services — Content and format are subject to change Rajasthan Single Sign-On uses scripting to enhance your browsing experience. This site is best viewed in 1024x768 resolution Mt. When a user wishes to sign on to an application, the application directs the user's web browser to the Web SSO service, as shown in Figure 2. SSO allows users to sign in just once and have access to all of their authorized applications without keeping track of multiple passwords. Tableau Online Secure Login Page. 0 at their earliest opportunity. 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Iain Gould- Actions Against the Police Solicitor
The blog of a police misconduct claims lawyer.
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A Death In Custody : Police Negligence ?
There has been a considerable furore in the news media this morning regarding our new Prime Minister’s somewhat rambling speech about Brexit, delivered during his visit to a police training centre in Wakefield. Mr Johnson, who appears to think he has “The Churchill Factor” (as per the title of his biography of Britain’s most famous PM) certainly didn’t display it yesterday, in my opinion; whereas Winston said that he would ‘fight them on the beaches’, Boris, it seems, would rather be ‘dead in a ditch’…
Seeing Mr Johnson delivering that odd remark, whilst standing in front of massed ranks of Police officers, put me in mind of the distressing fate which did indeed befall Mr Patrick Maughan, whose family I acted for in a recent inquest.
Mr Maughan, who had a pre-existing history of epilepsy, alcoholism and early onset dementia and cognitive impairment from a brain injury sustained in 2008, was arrested by Officers of Norfolk Constabulary on 22 July 2018, on suspicion of a low-level offence of drunk & disorderly behaviour. He was taken to the Kings Lynn Police Investigation Centre (PIC) and detained there overnight. On being ‘booked in’ Mr Maughan informed the Police that he suffered from fits on alcohol withdrawal.
On 23 July, Mr Maughan was released from custody and never heard from again; on 24 July his body was discovered in a steep, water-filled ditch close to the PIC. An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) established that shortly following his release from custody on the morning of 23 July at 11.22 am, Mr Maughan became unwell and disorientated and that at 12.03 pm he fell from the grassy bank next to the bus stop adjacent to the PIC, into the ditch below, and tragically drowned shortly afterwards.
The Officer with responsibility for Mr Maughan’s welfare at the time of his release was the Custody Sergeant. The IOPC report raises concerns about the Sergeant’s decision to release Mr Maughan to make his way home alone and unaided, in an isolated and unfamiliar environment, despite the fact that the Sergeant was aware, or should have been aware, that Mr Maughan experienced fits following alcohol withdrawal, was an epileptic, and had not had access to his epilepsy medication. Furthermore, the Sergeant appears to have overlooked, or ignored, a clear entry in the Police National Computer (PNC) records for Mr Maughan stating that he suffered from ‘blackouts’. Mr Maughan himself, prior to his release from custody, had expressed anxiety that he had not had his usual epilepsy medication.
Nevertheless, the IOPC concluded, the Custody Sergeant did not ask Mr Maughan pertinent questions regarding any of these issues prior to his release, nor did the Sergeant consult with a Health Care Professional. During his subsequent Misconduct interview in November 2018, the Sergeant made the following comments regarding Mr Maughan which I consider to demonstrate a quite callous lack of concern towards him –
“If he’s able to go and get drunk and disorderly then, and he’s able to walk to the bus stop, then clearly what’s stopping him walking into town?”
It appears that at the time of his pre-release assessment, Mr Maughan was slurring his speech, but the Sergeant interpreted this as being part of Patrick’s “Irish brogue”.
The immediate surrounds of the Kings Lynn PIC are an isolated environment in which there are numerous water filled ditches and deep ponds which present risk to life and limb for vulnerable individuals. Mr Maughan’s only practical way of returning home that day was to use a bus, but at the time he was released, the next bus was not due for almost an hour. His last moments were caught on the CCTV camera of a nearby Agricultural warehouse (one of the few buildings in the vicinity). Patrick can be seen standing on the grassy bank next to the bus stop before wobbling forwards and backwards and falling over into the ditch. When his body was found the next day at the bottom of the ditch, his head and the upper half of his body were submerged in water.
The subsequent post- mortem report prepared for the coroner, remarked that the cause of Mr Maughan’s collapse was uncertain but highlighted the following issues –
Abnormalities in Mr Maughan’s heart could have caused a blackout
Mr Maughan was prescribed Epilim for his epilepsy. He was not given any of this medication whilst he was in Police custody.
Following on from the IOPC report, the matters highlighted above lead to a Misconduct Meeting in April 2019, at which the Custody Sergeant was found guilty of misconduct, and sanctioned with management action i.e re-training.
This is obviously a very sad case, in which it seems to me that numerous opportunities were missed to save Patrick’s life; in my opinion, given the medical issues which the Custody Sergeant was aware of, he should have known that it was unsafe to allow Mr Maughan to make his way home unaccompanied and/or arranged for Mr Maughan to see a doctor prior to his release from custody (who could have given him epilepsy medication). The Sergeant could also have consulted with Mr Maughan’s Social Worker. In fact, Patrick’s Social Worker was contacted by a Liaison and Diversity officer based in the PIC, who had also reviewed him prior to release. The Social Worker highlighted grave concerns about Mr Maughan’s ability to make his way home independently and the Liaison officer passed this information on to the Custody Sergeant with a request that the Officer go after Patrick, and bring him back to the safety of the PIC. Unfortunately, the Sergeant did not go out looking for Patrick until after he had collapsed into the ditch, and the officer returned to the PIC assuming that his former detainee had caught the bus.
In light of the above, I am now advising Mr Maughan’s sister in relation to her right to bring a claim for negligence and/or unlawful death contrary to Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, against Norfolk Constabulary.
Our Prime Minister is a wealthy and privileged individual who, despite his histrionic language, is highly unlikely to meet his end in a dirty, water-filled ditch; sadly, many other members of our society are much more vulnerable, and it precisely those individuals, beset by chronic health issues and cognitive and social problems, who deserve the highest standards of care from our Police Force. I do not believe that is what Mr Maughan received.
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First African Registered 787-9 Maiden Flight Delivers Cargo of Medical Aid
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DP World Sees Freight Terminal Container Volumes Rise Substantially This Year
Recovery in World Trade Leads to Increased TEU Globally
WORLDWIDE – DP World Limited reports it has handled 52.3 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first nine months of 2017, with gross container volumes growing by 10.0% year-on-year on a reported basis and 9.6% on a like-for-like basis, with the third quarter growth rates accelerating to 13.5% year-on-year on a reported basis and 13.3% on a like-for-like basis as freight volumes grow.
Is Plastic the Future for Carrying Freight Worldwide?
Could the Humble Wooden Pallet be a Thing of the Past?
UK – WORLDWIDE – One might imagine that with all the concerns surfacing at the moment it is perhaps not the best time to press for even wider use of plastic products. One company however is lobbying hard to promote the benefits of plastic pallets over their wooden forebears. Critics will say that wood is of course a natural product, a well-tested, recyclable product but supporters of the artificial alternative will point to the reusability, stackability and durability of the latest plastic models, plus of course the fact that in many modern markets, the requirement for treated dunnage in freight containers and trailers to avoid an invasion by non-indigenous species, renders the use of plastic as a simple guarantee of sterility.
Middle East Freight Forwarding and Logistics Courier Testing Electric Vehicles in Jordan Operations
Successful Trial will see Aramex Extend to Other Countries
JORDAN – MIDDLE EAST – Aramex is beginning a new program to test the viability of using cleaner vehicles in its operations with a trial of ten electric vehicles added to its fleet in Amman, Jordan. It comes as part of a longer term strategic move by the freight forwarding and logistics group to convert their entire fleet to electric vehicles, in order to reduce operational CO2 emissions and mitigate climate change.
Asian Container Shipping Lines to Start New Freight Service between Europe and Mediterranean
Evergreen, Cosco and YML Combine for Weekly Offering
NORTHERN EUROPE – MEDITERRANEAN – A group of Asian container shipping lines are creating a new joint operation to offer an express freight service between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Taiwan based Evergreen is teaming up with Cosco and YML (Yang Ming) to start the venture, to be branded the Europe - Med Express (EMX).
Are Road Haulage Operators Unfairly Treated as London Emission Charges Hit Freight Carriers?
Just How Accurate are the Standards Being Used to Judge Who Pollutes?
UK – With the inception in London today of the first stage of the toxicity or T-Charge there is evidence that the scheme may not be as balanced a measure as one might hope for. With the scheme graduating over the next few years to encompass a growing number of private cars and road haulage vehicles, from delivery vans to the largest freight trucks, how accurate are the standards which are being used as a measure of compliance and are the manufacturers being honest in their appraisal of new equipment or are we going to witness another Volkswagen emission scandal?
The Friday Freight and Logistics News Round Up Includes Help for Hurricane Victims
News Stories that Didn't Quite Hit the Headlines
UK – International maritime charity Sailors' Society has opened the doors to its new Southampton Seafarers' Centre at 108 East Street. The centre gives seafarers docking in the city's port, which handles around 14 million tonnes of cargo annually, the opportunity to access support services and free Wi-Fi. The charity's CEO, Stuart Rivers, said:
Cargo Air Line Starts New UK - Middle East - Asia Freight Service
CLA Utilising New 747-8 to the Full
UK – Dedicated freight airline CargoLogicAir (CLA) has launched its second new scheduled cargo service with a new weekly route connecting London and Frankfurt with Dubai and Hong Kong. Departing from London every Saturday, CLA's new Boeing 747-8 Freighter will offer customers 135 tonnes of cargo capacity per week from Europe to the Middle East and Hong Kong, and a direct Hong Kong-London Stansted service which arrives back into the UK every Monday.
Freight and Logistics Appointments and Departures This Week Include Sad News
From Engineers to Charities and Space Age Transport in the Global Notices
UK – The Society of Engineers (SOE) has announced the death of its Chief Executive, Ian Chisholm IEng FSOE FIRTE, following a short illness. Chisholm joined in 2001 as an Engineering Executive after spending over 20 years at Waltham Forest College, predominantly as a Senior Lecturer. In 2016, Chisholm became Chief Executive, building SOE into the influential organisation it is today.
JetPack Aviation Appoints Global Logistics Partner
New Transport Medium Looks to Expand around the World
US – WORLDWIDE – B&H Worldwide has been appointed as the Global Logistics Partner for JetPack Aviation, creator of the world's first turbine powered, backpack style JetPack, which made aviation history in late 2015 when CEO David Mayman flew around the Statue of Liberty to demonstrate the company's design and engineering capabilities. Nelson Tyler, JetPack Aviation's Principal Designer built the world's first civilian RocketBelt which was flown at the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
Logistics Outfit Chosen to be Freight Partner by World's Finest Chocolate
US Group is Shipping the Sweet Stuff
US – Redwood Logistics has been selected by World's Finest Chocolate (WFC) as its freight transportation management partner. As part of the partnership, Redwood has implemented a highly customized transportation management system (TMS) across World's Finest Chocolate's warehouse, shipping and tracking operations for increased efficiency and added business intelligence. Todd Berger, president and CEO, Redwood Logistics, said:
H.E.R.O. Awards are a Reminder of the Dangers Seafarers Face Daily
Bravery and Contributions to Rescue at Sea Rewarded
UK – WORLDWIDE – Just occasionally, amongst the standard press releases regarding new premises for a freight forwarding group, or revised road haulage regulations, we receive something that, when properly researched, conjures up genuine emotion. Such is the case when we investigated the stories behind the nominations for this year's H.E.R.O. Awards run by the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF), plaudits given to exceptional characters performing even more exceptional acts of selflessness in the field of maritime search and rescue.
European Freight, Shipping, Logistics and Trade Bodies Issue Demand that Politicians Clarify Brexit
Business Needs a Seamless Customs Transition to Avoid a Chaos
EUROPE – Some of the biggest EU business and trade bodies, which cover a whole host of economic activities and include most of the continent's leading representatives for the freight and logistics community have issued an open letter from Brussels strongly urging EU and UK negotiators to put legal certainty and predictability for business and trade at the top of their negotiating agenda.
Armed Guards Banned as Pirate Threat to Oil Tankers and Cargo Vessels Continues
Nigerian Navy Act Whilst Crew Detained in India Enter Fifth Year of Incarceration
WORLDWIDE – NIGERIA – INDIA – As the International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (ICC IMB) releases it latest piracy figures for the year so far, Intertanko and Bimco recently met with Rear Admiral Osondo, Nigerian Navy's Head of Standards and Transformation, who was directed to brief the Nigerian Chief of Naval Staff on issues related to security in Nigerian waters. In his briefing, the Admiral expanded on the steps taken by the Nigerian Navy to effectively police its waters, stating that they have started to station floating operating bases in the Niger Delta and, coupled with a new monitoring process supplied by the US Navy, are able to interdict pirates at a very early stage.
Major Liner Operator Adopts Freight Container Reuse System to Minimise Logistics Costs
Application Offers Greater Efficiency for Box Shipping Company
UK – Hapag-Lloyd has become the first ocean carrier in the United Kingdom to utilise the Avantida reUse container management services platform. The application is designed to integrate the re-use of import containers for export shipments, thereby decreasing overall associated logistics costs for carriers and transport companies whilst also reducing emissions and port congestion. Luc De Clerck, CEO at Avantida, said:
Swiss Logistics Giant Continues to Expand Rail Freight Element of its Multimodal Services
Extension of European - Asian Services Making the Most of the One Belt, One Road Policy
EUROPE – ASIA – Six months after launching its Eurasia Express rail service, freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel is continuing to expand its network. For the first time ever, the logistics company is offering shipments from northern China, Japan, South Korea and South-East Asian countries to locations in Europe utilising track borne cargo units in its multimodal operation.
Heavy Lift and Project Freight Airline Moves Another Huge Consignment
Four Freighters Utilised for Intercontinental Air Cargo Shipment
CANADA – TURKMENISTAN – Antonov Airlines, the Stansted based heavy lift and project cargo specialist which runs a fleet of freighters ranging up to the AN-225 'Mriya' with its unique 250 tonnes capacity, has completed the transport four compressor skids on behalf of Bolloré Logistics China from Calgary, Canada to Mary, Turkmenistan on one of its seven AN-124-100 aircraft.
European Ferry Companies Report Increased Multimodal Freight Demand and New Services Initiated
Two Lines Both Positive for the Future as Total Trucks Also Increase on Tunnel Shuttle Route
UK – SWEDEN – POLAND – FRANCE – Two European ferry companies continue to do well with reports that existing routes are registering higher volumes and new services are being opened to take up demand for multimodal freight. Meanwhile services on the Channel Tunnel shuttle services saw two record months in succession.
Maritime Community to Witness Protest Against Container Terminal Group Over Sacked Dockers
South African Port Sees a Storm of a Different Kind This Week
MADAGASCAR – SOUTH AFRICA – Having seen its port closed last week during inclement weather Durban's maritime community is about to witness a storm of a very different kind as representatives from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and other union bodies launch protests tomorrow at the African Ports Evolution conference being held there, against a large container terminal management group.
Road Haulage and Car Drivers Reminded Emissions Charge Goes into Effect in London from Next Week
All Motorists Should Check Vehicle Status Online to Ensure if Liable for Large Penalties
UK – Readers are reminded that as of Monday the 23rd of October, London's new Toxicity Charge (T-Charge) will be in effect. All drivers, including private motorists and those using road haulage vehicles are subject to the new charge which encompasses the existing Central Congestion Charging Zone and will apply to older cars, vans, minibuses, buses, coaches and heavy goods vehicles which do not meet with the EURO 4 standard for emissions.
Two Heavy Lift and Project Freight Forwarding Operations Cooperate
International Partnership for Oversize Cargo
NETHERLANDS – GERMANY – Heavy lift shippers and project forwarding outfits Jumbo and BBC Chartering have agreed to an exclusive strategic co-operation, the Global Project Alliance, effective immediately. The partners say the new co-operation between the two family-owned freight companies brings together established and reputed heavy-lift expertise and massive fleet capacity. Svend Andersen, CEO of BBC Chartering, said:
Freight and Logistics Companies Need to Update their IT Systems ASAP
Easy Fixes Available for WiFi Hack Threat
WORLDWIDE – The international freight and logistics community has been beset recently with issues concerning security in their computer infrastructure and in hackers exploiting holes in defences to wreak havoc. The costs of these has run into billions of dollars, with Maersk alone estimating that the company took a hit of $200-300 million from a ransomware attack in June of this year. Now experts are warning that a huge hole has been found in the security protocols that protect communications between all devices running on Wi-Fi.
New Manchester HQ Opens for International Freight Forwarder
Rhenus Logistics Plans for New Offerings from TriModal Site
UK – Following on from its takeover of Northampton-based RCS Logistics last week, freight forwarder Rhenus Logistics UK has opened its new headquarters and warehouse facility at Peels Ports Salford complex, near Irlam, Manchester. Whilst the £138 million Port Salford scheme is being completed it is being touted as 'Britain's First TriModal Inland Port'. incorporating as it does road haulage, rail freight and waterway connections via the adjacent Manchester Ship Canal.
Freight and Road Haulage Interests Get Their Say on Vehicle Emissions in City
Public Consultation Will Seek Opinions
UK – The Handy Shipping Guide has written in the past about consultancies in London to work out how bans on vehicles emitting higher levels of harmful gases and particles will affect the use of vehicles of all types. Now Oxford City Council is asking for freight operators and road haulage companies serving the city to have their say in a consultation into proposed plans to ban all vehicles which generate any emissions whatsoever that can be construed as harmful.
The Friday Freight and Logistics News Round Up
Our Weekly Compilation of Items from the Industry
UK – London-based spectacle and sunglasses manufacturer and retailer, Cubitts, has outsourced key parts of its UK supply chain to Berkshire-based Walker Logistics. Walker will initially be handling two parts of the supply chain; after receiving inbound product from the Far East, Walker will replenish cases and accessories to Cubitts' London shops in either component form or as complete kits that have been processed through Walker' s specialist re-work division.specialist re-work division.
This Weeks Appointments in the Global Freight and Logistics Industry
Who Has Come and Gone
US – The Greenbrier Companies have announced the death of A. Daniel O’Neal, a long-time member of the Greenbrier family having served the group for more than 30 years. O’Neal died at his home on October 10, at the age of 81.
Fuel Cell Heavy Freight Truck Starts Operations Soon
Battle for Next Gen Fuel Drive Heating Up
US – The Handy Shipping Guide has been tracking the battle between various truck manufacturers and technology developers to create the next generation of drive train and, more especially, what fuel source will be used by the road freight industry in the future. Everything from electric to biofuels and hybrid systems are being developed at break neck speed to try and corner a market that, as concerns on emissions and their effect on the global climate grow, will amount to trillions of dollars. Now one of the competitors is upping the ante by fielding their entry in actual freight haulage work.
BIFA Urges Freight Forwarders to Comment on Brexit Skills Gaps
Concerns that Future European Customs Requirements May Thwart Trade
UK – Members of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) are being urged to take part in a short survey designed to gain a better understanding of the scale of potential Customs procedure training that will be required post-Brexit within the freight forwarding sector.
Freight Body Calls for Twitter Views on HGV Driver Rest Facilities
Changes in Legislation Will Mean Fines from November
UK – Following the announcement in Westminster Hall that from November 1, 2017, HGV drivers are to be fined by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) if they take their full weekly rest break in their cabs, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) is calling for evidence from road users to help highlight the inconsistency in standards of rest facilities available to use across the country.
Freight Operations Partially Resume at the Port of Durban
Stranded Freight Vessels Recovered and Most Channels Now Cleared
SOUTH AFRICA – Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has announced that marine operations at the Port of Durban have partially resumed following disruptions caused by heavy storms on Tuesday, 10 October 2017, that saw several ships break loose from their mooring and run aground.
More Foreign Investment to Expand Logistic Facilities and Freight Berth at Port of Caucedo
DP World CEO and Dominican President Hold Talks
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem met with the President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, recently to discuss the expansion of the global group's Caucedo port operations, including expansion of its logistics park and quay side facilities to improve freight handling.
UK Warehouse Keepers Face up to the Challenges of Brexit and Free Trade
Round Table Discussions Precede Explanations Over Lunch
UK – The traditional United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) annual lunch yesterday, held at the House of Lords under the stewardship of the President Lord Brabazon, saw numerous members gather to hear a follow up to the intense round table discussion earlier in the day at which the Brexit debate was a major talking point. Since the Association has evolved to include membership from the wider world of commerce, particularly the retail sector with names such as Homebase and John Lewis signed up, there is a groundswell of opinion amongst those gathered to ensure that trade, and the way export and import commodities are treated with a special interest in the Customs status of freight entering storage facilities, is a priority.
Logistics Operator Wins Contract from Hungarian Motor Company
New Handling Facility Leads to Appointment
HUNGARY – Kuehne + Nagel has officially opened its new distribution centre near Budapest. The facility will provide next-day deliveries to Eastern Europe and offer significant lead time reductions to the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, Federal-Mogul Motorparts, a division of Federal-Mogul LLC, has agreed to a multi-year contract with the Swiss headquartered freight forwarding and logistics giant to operate its new automotive replacement parts distribution centre in Hungary.
Custom Organisation and Air Freight Body Integrate Electronic Communications
IATA and WCO Link to Simplify Logistics
WORLDWIDE – The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Cargo-XML messaging standard has been fully integrated into the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS), a risk assessment tool available to WCO member countries worldwide. Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's Director General and CEO, commented:
FIATA Young Freight Forwarder of the Year Award goes to Brad Davis
TT Club Sponsored Award won by Canadian Competitor
WORLDWIDE – One of the most keenly awaited moments at the FIATA Annual Congress is the announcement of the winner of the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year (YIFFY) Award, which celebrates the achievements of young freight forwarders in the industry who exemplify the education, skill, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to become outstanding in their field. This year was no exception as over 1,000 attendees at the Kuala Lumpur Congress congratulated Bradley Davis of Canada at the TT Club sponsored event.
Monopoly Concerns Over Maritime Industry Takeover if Two Biggest Players Merge
Singapore Authorities Query May Trigger Multi-Million Dollar Termination Fee
SINGAPORE – The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has raised its concerns on the proposed acquisition by Wilhelmsen Maritime Services (WMS) of sole control over the technical solutions business from Drew Marine. WMS and Drew Marine Technical Solutions (DMTS) are two of the largest players in the market of supplying chemical, gases, and welding equipment to the maritime industry leading to the anti-competition authority to believe that the merged entity will have a monopoly in the sector.
New Northern Logistics Centre for Automotive Freight Forwarding Group
Russian Controlled Supply Chain Outfit Opens in Liverpool
UK – Automotive freight forwarding specialist GEFCO UK has opened a new purpose-built logistics solutions centre in North West England. The facility, based in South Liverpool, provides storage and sequencing operations for tier one suppliers and OEMs in the region and is expected to create 100 jobs locally. Still perceived widely as French based operation GEFCO, formerly Groupages Express de Franche-Comte, was a subsidiary of Groupe PSA (Peugeot Citroen) which sold 75% of the company to state controlled Russian Railways in 2012.
No Freight Moving as Storm Causes All Port of Durban Shipping Activity to Cease
Torrential Rain and High Winds Bring Problems to South African Coast
SOUTH AFRICA – Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has issued an alert that all vessel movements have been suspended in the Port of Durban due to extreme weather. The conditions are also expected to disrupt freight operations at the Port of Richards Bay. Durban has been hit by torrential rain and high winds that have caused havoc across the city and for the busy harbour. Transnet also states that their marine services team and tugboats are assisting with several emergencies. These include the grounding of three vessels in the Port of Durban.
Will the Handy Shipping Guide Freight Directory Need to Add Yet Another New Country?
Appeal to the United Nations to Ratify Trashy Island Nation
PACIFIC OCEAN – Over five years ago we wrote an in depth look at how plastic waste is one of the greatest, and most insidious, threats to our planet. Since that time it seems that very little has been done to curb the vast amounts of rubbish adrift in the world's oceans, forming the giant gyres which, carried by oceanic currents, for a swirling mass of debris, a danger to both shipping and particularly to the life which relies on the clean waters to survive. Now a proposal to register one of these vast areas as an island nation is being lodged with the United Nations.
Mediterranean Shipping Company Enhances Container Freight Services Across the World
MSC Announces New Schedules Affecting Asia, Europe, Australia and Middle East Cargoes
AUSTRALIA – ASIA – EUROPE – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced enhancements to its container freight services with the addition of a new line connecting the Far East with the Red Sea, and a revision to its Australia Express Service (AES), which will see transit times to the North West Continent ports of Europe slashed, improving its current service offerings out of Australia and the Indian subcontinent.
Heavy Lift Air Freight Airline Introduces New European Cargo Services in Belgium
12 Weekly Capacity Offering to Attract Key Global Import and Exporter Trade
BELGIUM – Heavy lift air freight specialist AirBridgeCargo Airlines has introduced a new freighter call for Liege airport, one of the main cargo airports in Europe. Starting with its winter schedule, ABC will gradually increase its cargo capacity up to 12 flights per week, which the company says will create more opportunities for its customers in Asia, North America and Europe via its Boeing 747 fleet that provides up to 130 tonnes of capacity. Sergey Lazarev, General Director of AirBridgeCargo Airlines, said:
North American Rail Freight Giants Partner on IORY Intermodal Facility
Canadian Railways and G&W Expand Bulk Load Market Share
US – Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CPR) has announced a new partnership with Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) and Bluegrass Farms of Ohio that will open up the Ohio Valley to CPR customers and further extend the rail freight giant's reach into key North American markets.
Air Freight Conference Offers Logistics and Supply Chain Reps Forum on Autonomous Cargo Aircraft
Upcoming Event Will Examine Multiple Unmanned Flight Issues
ITALY – With the increased development of unmanned and autonomous freight modes prompting constant discussions about a technology which seemingly grows on a week to week basis, members of the international logistics Industry and supply chain will no doubt be interested in the upcoming Unmanned Cargo Aircraft (UCA) Conference, which will be taking place at Rivalta di Torino in Italy on November 23.
Logistics Company Sees Rally in Shares as New Funding and Management Team Acquired
Freight and Parcel Group Looking for Turn Around with New Team at the Helm
UK – The troubled few months endured by the DX Group seems to be resolving itself after Gatemore Capital Management, its main UK-headquartered investor, agreed to lead a £24 million financing for the logistics company. Details of the merger with John Menzies were published in June this year and Gatemore currently holds a 23.8% stake in DX, an freight delivery outfit which directly competes in the UK market with organisations such as the Royal Mail and DHL with parcel and logistics services. The news has seen DX shares rise by 15% in early trading.
Another Acquisition for Freight and Logistics Giant
UK Supply Chain Company Takeover
UK – German headquartered supply chain group Rhenus has continued its programme of acquisitions with the takeover of Northamptonshire based third party distribution and storage business RCS Logistics. As a subsidiary of Rhenus UK, RCS Logistics' directors Steve Gray and Richard Robinson will take seats on the Rhenus UK board, while all 135 RCS Logistics employees will remain with the business.
Ferry Group Names Latest Addition to RoPax Freight and Passenger Fleet
Lucky Competition Winner Gets Free Travel for Life
IRELAND – Anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of Irish literature will be familiar with the name of Irish Ferries latest vessel. The W B Yeats RoPax ferry emanates from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) yard with 2,800 lane metres for freight plus an additional dedicated car deck for 300 cars. The name arose after a competition to choose a favourite and has left one Leitrim resident particularly happy.
This Weeks Appointments in the International Freight and Logistics Community
New Jobs and Leavers
UK – Sad news starts this weeks round-up of freight industry appointments, with the announcement from Wincanton of the sudden death of its Chairman, Steve Marshall. Marshall had been chairman of the Chippenham-headquartered logistics company since December 2011 bought a wealth of senior business experience and wisdom to the role. Stewart Oades, Wincanton's Senior Independent Director, will assume the role of Chairman on an interim basis.
The Friday Logistics and Freight News Round Up
Some of the Stories That Have Not Been Covered This Week
UK – GB Railfreight (GBRf) has won a 12-month contract with J Clubb Ltd, the British-based aggregates and concrete company. The contract will see GBRf move ash from Cottam Power Stations in Nottinghamshire to the HH Celcon brick works in Borough Green, near Sevenoaks in Kent. John Smith, Managing Director at GB Railfreight said:
Rail Logistics Institutes Combine to Push Best Practice and Knowledge on Industry
CILT and RSA Hope to Further Influence and Development
UK – The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), has announced the successful merger with the Railway Study Association (RSA), with effect from October 6th. CILT and RSA will be joining forces to create an industry-leading forum for the rail sector, which will allow individuals and organisations to share best practice, knowledge and opinions relating to all aspects of the rail profession. Kevin Richardson FCILT, Chief Executive, CILT, said:
Tanker Operator Helps Hospital Ship Charity Celebrate Awareness Day
Mercy Ships Continues to Help Worlds Poorest People
WORLDWIDE – Concordia Maritime helped celebrate Mercy Ships Cargo Day on October 4 for the second year. Ship owners, brokers, charterers, port agents and marine transport companies were invited to participate and make a contribution to helping some of the poorest people in the world. Concordia Maritime also contributed last year when Mercy Ships Cargo Day was launched for the first time. Kim Ullman, President of Concordia Maritime, said:
Ekol Yalova Ro Ro Terminal Begins Operations
New Facility Aims to Relieve Istanbul Congestion
TURKEY – Ekol Logistics, which last year acquired a majority stake in the Port of Trieste, has begun operations at its new Yalova Ro-Ro Freight Terminal. The opening is the culmination of two-years of legal process and construction work and an investment of 40 million Euros. The official opening ceremony of Yalova will take place in the days ahead.
IATA Calls for Greater Cooperation Between Governments and Airlines Over Climate Change
Concerned Industry Will Suffer Otherwise
WORLDWIDE – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for greater urgency in the partnership between governments and airlines to keep aviation at the leading edge of industries in managing their climate change impact. The call came on the eve of the first anniversary of the historic global agreement on a Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) a global market-base measure scheme developed to achieve the global aspirational goal of carbon-neutral growth from 2020 onwards. Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's Director General and CEO, explained:
Benefits of Reopened Trafford Docks for Heavy Freight Demonstrated with Massive Delivery
Transformer Taken to Heart of City off Road
UK – Esprit Groups recently re-opened Trafford Docks in Manchester has seen the arrival of a 130 tonne transformer en-route from South Korea to Stalybridge. The transformer travelled 15,400 miles by sea, via Rotterdam, finishing up on the Manchester Ship Canal where it was shipped by barge into the heart of Manchester, leaving only 21 miles to travel by road.
Historic Hijack Aircraft Air Lifted Back to German Museum
Volga Dnepr Bring Home Somali Siege Boeing
GERMANY – WORLDWIDE – Two Volga-Dnepr Airlines freighters have completed an emotional homecoming to Germany of a Boeing 737-200 which was hijacked by terrorists in 1977. The former Lufthansa aircraft is to be fully restored and placed on permanent display in the Dornier Museum in the town on Friederichshafen.
Freight Body Calls for London Commissioner to be Appointed
FTA Says Needs Champion for Industry and Capitals Businesses
UK – The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is renewing its call for a Freight Commissioner for London, to ensure the city can keep trading effectively. The FTA says there is an urgent need for a strong voice to champion freight transport, following the success of the new Commissioner for Walking and Cycling. In its response to the Mayor's Transport Strategy, FTA reiterates its joint call, along with the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry, for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan make the appointment a priority and help to support London's businesses through the uncertainty of Brexit.
First LNG Container Ship Goes into Service in Europe
Time Lapse Video Reveals Conversion Process
DENMARK – THE NETHERLANDS – BALTIC STATES – POLAND – Container feeder operation Unifeeder says it has used the first vessel of its kind worldwide that has been converted to an LNG propulsion system. The conversion, undertaken for the ship's owners, Wessels Reederei GmbH can be viewed in a time lapse video made by the German company which illustrates clearly the type and extent of engineering work necessary. The 1,036 TEU vessel can be considered a prototype as she has 16 structurally identical sister ships, all suitable for similar adaptation.
Mining Company Conducts First Completely Unmanned Rail Freight Run
Successful 100 Kilometre Test for Rio Tinto Train
AUSTRALIA – One continuing theme which The Handy Shipping Guide has covered on many occasion are developments in, and the spectacular growth of, unmanned freight delivery methods, from road systems to aircraft and even ships. Now mining giant Rio Tinto has demonstrated the first fully autonomous rail journey at its iron ore operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia as the company progresses toward full commissioning of their AutoHaul project in late 2018.
Autonomous Cargo Ships Ride the Waves of Progress as Rolls-Royce and Google Team Up
Artificial Intelligence Literally Looks to the Horizon
FINLAND – WORLDWIDE – Rolls-Royce has signed a deal with Google to develop further its intelligent awareness systems which are currently making existing vessels safer and are a crucial step in making autonomous cargo ships a reality. The agreement, believed to be the first in the maritime sector, allows Rolls-Royce to use Google's Cloud Machine Learning Engine to further train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) based object classification system for detecting, identifying and tracking the objects a vessel can encounter at sea. Karno Tenovuo, Rolls-Royce, SVP Ship Intelligence said:
US Giant and Polish Parcel Delivery Service Combine to Improve Services for US Residents
Polonez Customers Can Now Use UPS Drop Points
US – POLAND – EUROPE – UPS and Polonez Parcel Service, a consumer-to-consumer consolidated shipping service into Poland and beyond, has announced an agreement that provides Polonez customers in the United States an easy parcel drop-off point at more than 8,700 UPS Access Points, including 5,000 'The UPS Store' locations. Polonez customers can now book their deliveries online and then drop off their pre-paid shipments at any convenient UPS Access Point location throughout the United States. The company's CEO, Tom Nightingale, said:
Charter Vessel Abandoned by Right Wing Group After Accusations of People Smuggling
Debacle of Anti Migrant Mission Prompts Actions from International Unions and Aid Agencies
SPAIN – EUROPE – NORTH AFRICA – The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) tells us it is assisting the crew of the vessel C Star, who have been abandoned unpaid in Barcelona by its charterers. The recent history of the vessel, now moored at Barcelona having rested off the coast there since 26 September is, to say the least, a chequered and interesting one. The charterers, a right wing group called Defend Europe, raised money for the venture via a crowdfunding appeal with the express purpose of sabotaging the vessels attempting to rescue refugees and migrants from sinking boats in the Mediterranean.
Major Truck Maker Introduces LNG Semi Trucks as Answer to Emission Issues
Volvo Believes Mixed Power Options are the Answer to Freight Requirements
EUROPE – Following the lead of its car making sister which announced all models will be environmentally friendly from 2019, Volvo Trucks is now introducing Euro 6-compliant heavy duty trucks running on liquefied natural gas or biogas. The new trucks, the Volvo FH LNG and Volvo FM LNG, can run on either biogas, which cuts CO2 by up to 100%, or natural gas which reduces CO2 emissions by 20% compared with diesel. This relates to emissions from the vehicle during usage, known as tank-to-wheel.
South Pacific Container Feeder Specialist Bought by Major Freight Shipping Line
French Box Carrier Buys Up Local Company
FRANCE – SOUTH PACIFIC – French container shipping line, CMA CGM has reached an agreement to purchase through its Australian subsidiary, ANL, the majority of the shares in New Zealand-based shipper Sofrana Unilines, a player in the Pacific Islands regional maritime freight trade, running feeder vessels from 500 to just over 1,000 TEU.
Port Looks to Expand Share of US Meat Exports to Asia with Construction of New Rail Spur
Oakland Continues to Expand Overseas Trade as Logistics Groups Build Distribution Centre
US – The Port of Oakland says its ability to serve its Far-Eastern markets with American farm produce have taken a great step forward with the confirmation that the Port's Commissioners have cleared the construction of an $11 million rail spur to Cool Port Oakland, a 280,000-square-foot temperature controlled freight distribution centre now under construction on 25 acres of Port property.
State Group Stifled Competition for Rail Freight and Fined Millions for Crudest of Tactics
How Do You Stop a Cargo Carrying Rival? Simple - Dig Up the Track!
LITHUANIA – EUROPE – Sometimes, a particular case in the seemingly never ending series of revealing tales of corruption, which all too often afflict the freight and logistics industry, fathers the thought that you simply couldn't make it up. In the latest case of unfair practice the European Commission has fined state-owned rail firm Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos geležinkeliai) a total of €27,873,000 for hindering competition on the rail freight market, in breach of EU antitrust rules, by physically removing a rail track connecting Lithuania to neighbouring Latvia! Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy summed up, saying:
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New Port Construction to Start in 2018
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Collapsed Rastatt Tunnel Reopens to Rail Freight after Seven Weeks of Chaos
Industry Bodies Call for Major Changes in European Infrastructure Management
EUROPE – After seven weeks of chaos on the European rail freight network caused by the collapse of a new rail tunnel at Rastatt as it was being excavated, this morning the critical line was reopened. The closure has had a terrible effect on rail freight across the Continent as the line is the key rail freight route between the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Germany, Switzerland and Italy. So serious was the back log that Rotterdam's Rail Service Centre had to severely restrict freight containers and semi-trailers from using their holding facilities as they were at capacity.
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Probate & Will Contests
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Roger Hawkes
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Jamie Kim
Betsy Wurdeman
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___Shoreline Office - 19944 Ballinger Way NE Suite #100 Shoreline WA 98155___ ____________Sultan Office - 423 Main Street, Sultan WA 98294____________
1 Family Law
2 Issues in Our Family Law Practice
3 Collaborative Law, a Less Stressful Alternative
4 Child Support and Child Custody
4.1 Issues in Child Support and Custody
4.2 Domestic Partnerships, Agreements and Breakups
4.3 Dissolution of Domestic Partnership Agreements is Similar to Divorce
4.4 Issues Related to Children in Domestic Partnership Dissolution
4.5 Divorce
4.6 More Than Counselors-at-Law
4.7 Issues in Divorce
4.8 Collaborative Law in Divorce
5 Dissolution FAQ's
5.1 What is spousal maintenance?
5.2 What if a spouse has misbehaved during the marriage, by gambling excessively, using drugs illegally, having an affair, or similar behaviors?
5.3 What does a court need to do in a divorce?
5.4 Is there a waiting period before a divorce can be final?
5.5 Can there be a legal name change in the process?
5.6 What is a “separate property”?
5.7 What is a “community property”?
5.8 How does a court divide property and debts?
5.9 What happens if my spouse does not respond to the petition for dissolution?
5.10 How is a parenting plan determined?
5.11 How is child support determined?
5.12 What role does domestic violence play in divorce?
5.13 What is collaborative law?
At our Shoreline, Washington, law firm, our lawyers focus on helping people get through very difficult times. We are known as caring attorneys who give our clients personal attention and a sympathetic ear while providing effective advocacy.
Family law matters include anything related to legal disputes and obligations within families. In many instances, these issues overlap with other areas of the law. For example, a person getting a divorce should consider revising his or her trust or will; all people with substantial assets or expectancy of receiving substantial assets should consider prenuptial agreements if they plan to remarry.
Same gender couples and some two gender couples can now register their domestic partnership and enjoy nearly all the benefits of marriage. Because our firm handles a wide range of legal issues, we are able to assist clients with family law problems that may arise as a result of other legal matters.
Issues in Our Family Law Practice
Our attorneys counsel and represent clients in matters such as:
Child support and child custody
Alimony (also known as maintenance)
Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements for marriage and domestic partnerships
Domestic partnership formation and break-up
Collaborative Law, a Less Stressful Alternative
We are strong proponents of collaborative law, an alternative dispute resolution method that can save people time and money. Equally important, people are more likely to abide by arrangements developed through the collaborative law process because they had a big part in developing the arrangements themselves. The process is less confrontational and usually less stressful.
Reducing anxiety and stress is an important consideration, because it helps family members deal with each other in a civil way once the issue is resolved. People do not have to contend with the anger and hurt feelings that are common after a traditional divorce or other hotly contested family law matter. Our lawyers can discuss your options and help you decide whether the collaborative approach is right for you.
Issues related to children can be highly contentious during divorce. Parents sometimes use their children to strike back at their spouses. This distracts from the most important consideration, the best interests of the children. Moreover, parents who fight over the children may find themselves saddled with custody or support orders that really do not meet their needs or those of their children.
At our Shoreline, Washington, law firm, the Hawkes Law Firm, our attorneys guide clients as they consider their options in child custody and support matters. We give parents the time they need to consider their options and help them understand the long-term consequences of their choices. We encourage them to use collaborative law or mediation to arrive at mutually agreeable outcomes that they can support and implement. And we are skilled enough at litigation tactics to utilize that dispute resolution mechanism to our clients’ advantage.
Issues in Child Support and Custody
We help parents resolve custody and support matters such as:
Developing parenting plans, which are detailed description of the child’s living arrangements, or residential schedules, and contact with the non-residential parent (visitation). If the parents can agree and the parenting plan is deemed to be in the best interest of the child, the court will usually approve it. However, if the parents cannot agree, the court will evaluate factors such as the strength of the parent-child relationship, the child’s relationship with siblings, the needs of the children and other matters that go into court-determined parenting plans.
Determining child support in Washington is accomplished by applying the state’s child support guidelines. The guidelines, also called schedules, take all sources of income into account and allocates support obligations to each parent based on a schedule. Even if the parents agree, the court is required to rule on child support to ensure that children will not become public charges.
Modifying or enforcing orders after divorce can involve parenting plans, child custody, spousal or child support, and property division. Issues in contested modifications often include charges of inadequate or inconsistent parenting. Modifications that affect the parenting plan are often the result of one parent seeking to relocate. Child support modification requests are often the result of job loss, illness or disability. In all these matters, our lawyers work hard to help parents develop solutions that are in the best interests of their children.
Domestic Partnerships, Agreements and Breakups
When a registered domestic partnership breaks up, the parties need to make the same choices as married couples do. Issues related to children, support and property must be resolved to dissolve a domestic partnership agreement.
At the Hawkes Law Firm, in Shoreline, Washington, our lawyers help people deal with the dissolution of domestic partnership agreements. We know this is a difficult time for our clients and we spend the time necessary to understand their concerns and discuss their options. Our clients include people in same-sex relationships, opposite sex couples, elderly people, couples with and without children and couples with special needs. In all cases, our lawyers provide a sympathetic ear and a caring response to clients’ questions.
Dissolution of Domestic Partnership Agreements is Similar to Divorce
Clients who are dissolving their domestic partnerships must deal with property and asset division as well as maintenance. They must make arrangements for visitation, parenting plans, child support and child custody. Although the issues are the same as in divorce, the details of each case can be very different. Our attorneys have the experience and knowledge to guide clients through domestic partnership breakup matters, however complex or unusual the case.
Issues Related to Children in Domestic Partnership Dissolution
Although most matters that arise in domestic partnership breakups are similar to those in divorce, issues related to children can be more complicated, especially in same sex domestic partnerships. The children may have been adopted, may be the biological children of one of the parents, or may have been conceived through a surrogate arrangement or other assisted reproduction method. Circumstances can make determining child custody and support more challenging. Our attorneys are highly knowledgeable about the legal issues involved in such situations and are able to counsel our clients on the best courses of action.
Divorce is almost always highly stressful, even if the parties think they are in agreement on most issues. Even though Washington is a “no-fault” state, there are still many matters to be resolved if the parties agree that their marriage is irretrievably broken.
More Than Counselors-at-Law
At our Shoreline law firm, the Hawkes Law Firm, our attorneys are strong advocates for our clients and their children. We are more than counselors-at-law — we provide a sympathetic ear and sound advice. We ensure that clients understand the long-term consequences of their decisions.
We do our best to help clients stay focused on the important issues rather than spending emotional energy on non-essential matters. In short, we guide clients through the process, giving them the help they need to move forward with their lives after divorce.
Issues in Divorce
The major issues in divorce are:
Development of parenting plans in support of custody arrangements
Division of assets and debts according to the community property laws that apply in Washington
Spousal maintenance (also known as alimony)
Modifications and enforcement of orders after divorce
Collaborative Law in Divorce
It is far better if the parties can agree on the issues above rather than letting the court decide for them. We encourage clients to employ approaches such as collaborative law or mediation that can help them develop proposals that meet their needs. The outcome of this approach is almost always better for everyone involved. Our lawyers help clients develop proposals that the court is likely to approve.
Dissolution FAQ's
What is spousal maintenance?
Spousal maintenance is financial support provided by one spouse to the other during or after a divorce, separation, or invalidity proceeding. The court must determine a number of factors, including the need of one party and the ability of the other party to pay, the length of the marriage.
What if a spouse has misbehaved during the marriage, by gambling excessively, using drugs illegally, having an affair, or similar behaviors?
Bad behavior does not usually affect how property and debts are divided. An exception to this general rule is when the misbehavior was intended to and resulted in the destruction of property or waste of community assets, by wasting money gambling excessively without the permission of the other spouse, for example, or lavishing gifts upon an extramarital lover without the spouse’s permission. Behaviors such as domestic violence, intoxication, emotional abuse can seriously affect a parenting plan, however.
What does a court need to do in a divorce?
The court needs to determine the following:
Should the parties be divorced? Washington is a “no fault” state and the court must determine that a marriage is irretrievably broken, and that more than 90 days have passed since the later of the filing of the Summons and Petition and the service on the opposing party.
Characterize and divide the assets and debts of the parties. The court must first determine what is separate and what is community, then make an equitable division of the assets and debts of the parties.
Parenting Plan. If there are minor children the court must establish a Parenting Plan which allocates when the children will be with each parent, makes decisions for the children and rules how minor disputes about the Plan are to be resolved.
Child Support. The court must establish support for the children pursuant to the child support guidelines.
Spousal Maintenance. The court must consider whether a party requires spousal maintenance.
Name Change. The court should consider whether either or both parties should be granted a name change.
Is there a waiting period before a divorce can be final?
The waiting period to finalize a divorce in Washington is 90 days after the Summons and Petition are filed and served on the other party. This is a minimum period and is intended to allow time for reconciliation between the parties. The process could take much longer if the parties have difficulty reaching an agreement.
Can there be a legal name change in the process?
Yes. Typically, if either party requests a name change, the request should be included in the petition.
What is a “separate property”?
Separate property means possessions or real estate that was owned before the marriage, or that was received during the marriage as a gift or inheritance, or that was purchased with separate property, and not commingled with community property
What is a “community property”?
Community property is all assets and debts, including wages and retirement that are acquired from the date of the marriage through the date of legal separation.
How does a court divide property and debts?
In Washington, in a divorce action the court has authority over both separate and community property. The court is required to determine what is separate property, what is community property, and then divide the property and debts justly and equitably. The division is not necessarily an equal division. The court uses a series of factors under Washington law, such as how long the couple were married, the nature and extent of community and separate property. If there are minor children, the economic circumstances of each party at the time the division is made, and other factors.
What happens if my spouse does not respond to the petition for dissolution?
This is called a default. If the other spouse never answers the Petition for Dissolution by filing response papers, default allows you to finish your case.
How is a parenting plan determined?
In general, all child custody decisions are to be based on “the best interests of the children.” The court looks at a number of factors including: limitations of a parent due to prior conduct or an impairment; agreements of the parties; the relative strength, nature and stability of child and relationship with each child; each parents past and future performance of parenting functions; the needs and developmental level of the children; and relationship with siblings and other folks.
How is child support determined?
Washington has adopted child support guidelines that must be applied in divorce and custody cases in which minor children are involved. Every child has the right to the support of both parents. Washington has adopted a schedule that takes into account the income of each parent from all sources including overtime pay and determines what support each parent is responsible for based on a table.
What role does domestic violence play in divorce?
As with so many issues involved in divorce cases, domestic violence may or may not play a significant role in the legal process depending upon the exact circumstances. This is especially true in cases involving child custody and visitation determinations.
What is collaborative law?
Collaborative law is an alternative dispute resolution process. In the collaborative law process parties to a divorce, and their attorneys, commit to an honest, open, cooperative resolution of all issues without going to court. In fact, the defining feature of collaborative law is that both parties and both attorneys agree in writing that they will not go to court except to enter the final decree of dissolution. Instead, they will provide open, informal, expedited discovery of all relevant facts and documents; they will participate in meetings and commit to bona fide negotiations. If either party or their attorney decides that the case should go to court, the attorneys are both required to withdraw from the case and any disclosures to that point cannot be used in the court case without permission from both parties. Collaborative law works best when both parties are on a relatively equal footing.
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The Bachelor 2014 Juan Pablo Week 3 Spoilers & Photos
Reality TVSpoilers
By Sandra McIntyre On Jan 15, 2014
This week on The Bachelor Juan Pablo his search for his one true love continues. Did you watch last week’s episode? We did and we recapped it right here for you. On this week’s show which airs January 20th, the women face-off on a soccerfield for Juan Pablo’s affection, love takes flight on the water, and one Bachelorette has an attack of an extreme anxiety.
Cassandra draws the first one-on-one date after deciding to stay and give love a chance with the dashing Juan Pablo and goes on a water adventure she won’t soon forget. Will the soccer world ever recover? A group of ten women get to share the Bachelor’s love of soccer, but when they are split into competing teams for his attention on the soccer field, the claws come out. Chelsie, who is afraid of heights, is pushed to the limit on the pivotal adrenaline date when Juan Pablo invites her to take part in a tandem bungee jump in Pasadena. The couple will be rewarded with a private concert by country music artist Billy Currington. And Juan Pablo surprises the women in the mansion by cooking them a classic Venezuelan breakfast. The jealousy between the bachelorettes grows as the Bachelor cancels the cocktail party in favor of a pool party, and the rose ceremony proves more challenging.
The youngest single mom, Cassandra, after anguishing about leaving her son behind, is rewarded with the first one-on-one date of the week. Juan Pablo takes the stunning former Detroit Pistons dancer on an oceanside ride in a super cool tricked out Jeep in Long Beach, California. But she is shocked when the Bachelor makes a sharp turn from the beach into the ocean and the vehicle is transformed into a water car. The couple spends a wonderful afternoon aboard a magnificent yacht and later, at Juan Pablo’s house, he cooks a romantic dinner for the two of them. Will sharing passionate kisses and a sexy salsa lead to Cassandra getting a rose? Or will she be sent home to be with her son?
Juan Pablo loves soccer, as the women are well aware, and now ten of them will attempt to show off their soccer skills when they arrive at the Stub Hub Center in Carson, California, the home of two-time Major League Soccer World Champions the Los Angeles Galaxy. After he demonstrates some of his signature moves while warming up with a few of the professional players, Juan Pablo splits the women into two teams and the ladies battle for his attention. But the real competition heats up at the after party when the women try to win the group date rose. Sharleen, Andi and Nikki all think their connections with the Bachelor are heating up, but are they?
The next day, Chelsie needs to face her fears as she learns her one-on-one date will be a tandem bungee jump with Juan Pablo off the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California. Will she be able to trust the Bachelor enough to take this leap of faith? Or will her fright squash the fun? Later, the traumatized bachelorette shares a romantic dinner with Juan Pablo at Pasadena’s City Hall. But to top it all off, the evening ends with the sexy couple dancing the night away to the songs of country music artist Billy Currington, who gives them a private concert. Will Chelsie need more courage to face the Bachelor’s decision on whether to give her a rose?
It’s the day of the rose ceremony, and an excited Juan Pablo heads to the mansion early in the morning to give the women a surprise. He cooks them a feast of a classic Venezuelan breakfast. But some women don’t have their “game face” on – which shakes one bachelorette’s confidence to the core. The Bachelor follows up the informal breakfast with another surprise: he is cancelling the cocktail party and putting an all-afternoon pool party in its place. The women clamor to get alone time with Juan Pablo with varying results. One woman is reduced to tears after a stressful day poolside and another emotional woman lets jealously get the better of her when she sees other bachelorettes who might have stronger connections with the Bachelor.
Juan Pablo finds it is not easy to decide who goes home, but at the end of the evening, 13 women remain on the journey to become his soul mate and, hopefully, future wife.
Don’t forget to tune in on Monday January 20th for our live recap!
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Sandra McIntyre
I am an avid soap fan and have been for many years. Some of my favorite soaps were Another World, Texas, and Santa Barbara. I love to spend time with my children and grandchildren. In my spare time, I enjoy reading as well as writing fan fiction. General Hospital’s Sam and Jason are one of my favorite couples of all time.
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Cameron Diaz Engaged To Benji Madden
By Roberta Ferguson Last updated Dec 19, 2014
Cameron Diaz is engaged to be married to Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, according to reports. The actress was seen showing off a huge diamond ring recently, giving way to rumors that Benji had proposed.
Cameron and Benji have been dating since earlier in the year and were recently said to have moved in together. They were reportedly bickering about her habits of being a germaphobe and she was allegedly miffed at him for being a huge slob.
The engagement rumors have come out after the duo has been dating for roughly seven years. A source revealed, “Everyone thinks it’s wild but are so happy for them. Benji always tends to fall in love easily, but this time it’s for real and he landed a great girl. They obviously both make each other incredibly happy and there’s nothing better than that.”
A friend of the couple revealed that they have Nicole Richie to thank for the pairing. Reportedly, the wedding is all Benji’s idea, as well. A pal said, “He is more traditional than her. She really doesn’t care about getting married but wants babies. He wants to get engaged and married first.”
Don’t be shocked if there is a baby in their future soon!
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Top 5 Anime by Hercule SSJ (Honey’s Anime Writer)
8:00 PM January 26, 2018
Honey's Anime
Anime Recommendations [Article Category]
Isekai Anime [Genres]
Dragon Ball, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! (KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!), Made in Abyss, Dragon Ball Z, No Game No Life, Monogatari Series: Second Season, Monogatari Series [Anime Title]
Hercule SSJ
Like just about every 90’s kid, I watched anime before knowing what it was. When catching the occasional anime shown on the Sci-Fi Channel back in the day, like Robotech, Macross and Project A-ko, it wasn’t anything unusual from the other cartoons I watched at the time. Then, like a wave it hit, the sudden rise of Toonami. Suddenly, I had to be home in the early evening to catch Dragon Ball Z, Outlaw Star and Gundam Wing. Oh what joyous days those were.
But still, you couldn’t really call me a fan of anime. Even though I went to my local comic shop and rented their imported and most likely bootleg subtitled Dragon Ball Z movies, I was still just a fan of those shows, not the greater collection of works. As I got older, even that appeal waned on me, and I didn’t even care to watch the final Main Buu arc when it finally aired. Somewhere along the way I got myself hooked on Cowboy Bebop and carried that weight, but it wasn’t until 2015 that I finally got won over by anime itself.
What I mean by this is I took an avid interest in which anime were coming out, which studios were producing them, and saw the value of subs over dubs. I had studied Japanese in middle school enough to understand the DBZ films that no subtitles existed for, and watching Attack on Titan spurred me towards a resurgence in anime. I was introduced to Shingeki no Kyojin as “Band of Brothers meets Spider-Man meets Godzilla”, and being a big fan of all three I couldn’t resist. Followed by a gift Crunchyroll pass and list of recommended watching, it didn’t take long for me to take that headfirst plunge. Now, here I am, writing for Honey’s Anime. It’s been a pretty interesting ride; here are some of my favorite gems from along the way.
5. No Game No Life
Aired: Apr. 2014 - Jun. 2014
Online, Blank is the name of a world-renowned group of gamers that are only known by their elite gaming skills. In reality, Blank is the sibling pair of older brother Sora and his younger sister Shiro. The two dominate every game they encounter, and life has lost all excitement. After beating the god of Disboard in an online chess match, he teleports them to the world of Disboard where every facet of life and politics is a game. There, the two master gamers find the challenge they were looking for in restoring the human race to a position of pride amongst the other warring races that share the world.
Opinions seem to be split over the art style of NGNL, but I found it really mesmerizing. It felt like a completely different world, and the audio design and soundtrack fit the visuals perfectly. Seeing the siblings enact perfect schemes using the strengths and weaknesses of each other was brilliant, and even if you knew the end result, it was exciting seeing just how Blank would come out on top.
I also find the seiyuu pairing of Matsuoka Yoshitsugu (Sora) and Kayano Ai (Shiro) to always be memorable. From Saekano to Pet Girl, whenever they are leads in an anime I always find it entertaining. I’ve rewatched NGNL a few times since I first saw it, and everytime, it makes the wait for a potential second season even harder. Aschente!
No Game No Life PV 2
4. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! (KonoSuba)
Aired: Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2016
On his way home from purchasing a game he was looking forward to, Satou Kazuma sees a girl in trouble. He pushes her out of the way and is run over, or so he thinks… In reality, he died from shock, and the girl was never in any danger at all. His death is such a spectacle, that the goddess in charge of his journey through the afterlife can’t help but laugh at his misfortune. When she offers him another chance at life if he slays the demon lord of another world, he accepts. When the snooty goddess tells him to pick any one gift or ability to aid him on his quest, he angrily chooses her. Now, the pair is trapped in a fantasy world straight out of an RPG, and the only way either of them can return to their lives is if they defeat the demon lord before he destroys the world.
I cannot tell you how dizzy I’ve gotten from laughing at this anime. It really slapped me in the mouth from holding an opinion that anime comedies just weren’t as funny to outsiders. Granted, by the time I watched Konosuba I had engrossed myself quite a bit, to the point that I recognized the tropes of hero versus demon king, Isekai, and the like; but the beauty of Konosuba is that it realizes what’s normal and what isn’t. For example, anyone who watches anime, is going to see their fair share of panty humor. Konosuba is no exception, and in fact, it goes to the Nth degree with Kazuma using his Steal ability. But it does so in a way that is so over the top that there’s no mistaking it, you don’t even have time to really process it, it’s just laugh out loud funny.
It also introduced me to the sadness of seeing a season cut short at only 10 episodes. The following season had 10 as well, and has produced a couple of OVAs, but this series needs more. The anime is just exceptional, despite the obvious budget constraints to the animation quality. I could watch this show as a motion comic, the voice acting was so on point, especially Satou Kazuma and his improvised lines muttered under his breath. I actually tried reading the manga of this when hearing it was getting adapted. It was devoid of any of the cues and comedic timing, to the point that I found it unrecognizable when I finally watched the anime. KonoSuba is that anime that, at least to me, proves comedy knows no bounds, regardless of the subject matter.
KonoSuba PV 2
3. Dragon Ball Z Kai
Aired: Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2011
Son Goku, the world’s strongest fighter, defeated Demon King Piccolo and saved the world years prior. After going missing for quite some time, his friends wondered what happened to him, only to discover that he now has a young son named Gohan. Their reunion is short-lived when their gathering is interrupted by a Saiyan space warrior named Raditz who claims he is Goku’s older brother. He kidnaps Gohan and forces Goku to slaughter the inhabitants of Earth or he’ll kill his son. Completely outmatched by Raditz’s strength, he only has one choice: turn to his once-feared enemy Piccolo for help. Now, Goku must defeat his brother, as well as protect Earth from an oncoming Saiyan invasion.
Dragon Ball Z Kai cut the original Dragon Ball Z from 291 episodes down to just 159. All the exciting moments without all the filler and drawn out confrontations. As I mentioned previously, I stopped watching by the time Toonami got into the Majin Buu arc. As a huge Gohan fan, SSJ2 Gohan vs Perfect Cell was the highlight of the series, and seeing the boring high school Great Saiyaman nonsense was pretty painful. Being able to watch the series minus those cringey moments was perfect. Had it not been for Kai, even with my nostalgia, I probably could not have put DBZ on this list.
Dragon Ball Kai Season 1 Trailer
2. Monogatari Series: Second Season
Aired: Jul. 2013 - Dec. 2013
Things have been pretty hectic for Araragi Koyomi upon entering his final year of high school. First off, he got bit by a vampire and temporarily became one, the side effects of which he’s still dealing with. Next, he befriended the smart, busty class president, but then she cut him in half when she became possessed by a bakeneko (demon cat). His kouhai became jealous of him getting his first girlfriend, causing her to attempt to kill him multiple times. Things just keep going from worse to worst for Ararararagi-san. Now in the 2nd season of the show, things are going to get more dreadful than they’ve ever been, with the vampiric high schooler traveling through time, battling zombies, and fighting a newly arisen god. Hopefully he has time to study!
I was introduced to the Monogatari series as a dare, honestly. My friend who gave me a Cruncyhroll pass didn’t think I would get past Nisemonogatari’s infamous tooth brushing scene, but recommended that I start with Bakemonogatari. I watched it, and was hooked on its mysterious storytelling, but confused by its art style. I was still new to anime, and wasn’t completely aware of Shaft’s subjective styling. Empty scenes, subtle juxtaposition - it took me a while to realize it was trying to convey scenes from a book rather than being a scene-driven anime. Either way, I enjoyed it.
With Second Season, the characters entered powerful new arcs. Some left, and some relationships changed forever. The thing that made me such a huge fan of Monogatari author NisiOisiN are his characters’ motivations. In every work, you understand the characters, what drives them and compels them to act. Even if you don’t agree with them, you understand why they’re acting in such a way. Either through narration of the protagonist or dialogue between characters, their reasoning comes out. His works always deliver an introspective look at human emotion, often with some of the most extraordinary supernatural situations acting as a backdrop. Monogatari has become one of my favorite series, and Second Season is arguably its high point.
Koimonogatari Official Trailer
1. Made in Abyss
Aired: Jul. 2017 - Sept. 2017
Growing up in an orphanage, Riko heard tales of her famous mother told by the inhabitants of Orth, and has made it her passion to become an explorer just like her. As a young red whistle Delver, she dives into the shallow layer of a pit known as the Abyss, like countless other brave souls. One day, after nearly losing her life, she is saved by a mysterious robot boy who she names Reg. His arrival coincides with news of her mother’s passing deep within the Abyss. However, the remnants she’s left behind lead Riko to believe that she is still alive, and waiting for her to descend. With newfound purpose and a powerful guardian in Reg, Riko decides to abandon her life in Orth and lead a perilous one-way journey to the very bottom of the Abyss in search of her mother.
By the time I’d watched Made in Abyss, I thought I’d seen it all. I understood anime, and what it could and couldn’t do. For better or worse, anime storytelling differs from other mediums. That’s not a bad thing, in fact it’s the reason why it hooked me so much after becoming fatigued with nearly every other form of entertainment. Made in Abyss, however, broke that misconception completely. Perfect worldbuilding, sympathetic characters, a masterful soundtrack, and beautiful animation. In a time where animators are overworked and underpaid, I thought there was no chance for something like this to exist outside of a Hayao Miyazaki’s work.
Riko and Reg faced many difficulties in Made in Abyss, and as a viewer, I thought I was okay with most of it. I was not. I didn’t think I could cry watching a cartoon or anime. In fact, I don’t think I’ve cried to anything on a screen since I was 10 years old. I cried three times in two episodes of Made in Abyss. It was heartbreaking, endearing, powerful and strangely uplifting at the darkest times. Its cute visuals dangerously belie the tragedy it contains, and if you aren’t expecting it, it will drag you into its depths without a moment’s pause.
Made in Abyss PV 2
I’ve watched a lot of different anime over the years, and hopefully I’ll watch some more amazing ones like these. A year ago, my Top 5 list would have probably looked a bit different, even though I’d have seen other anime on this list. Thinking back; as you age, you change, and for right now, these anime seem to mean the most to me.
Did you watch any of these? If so, let me know in the comments. I’d love to chat about them!
Author: Hercule SSJ
What happens when you give a Crunchyroll trial to a former Toonami kid who hasn't watched anime since Cowboy Bebop got dubbed? You get Hercule SSJ. Thanks to that, he's spent the last two years catching up on dozens of shows and manga he's neglected over the years. Has probably watched 60% of all harem ecchi in existence. Currently seeking series to fill the void left by Konosuba and One-Punch Man. Accepts NisiOisiN quotes as payment.
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‘The most amazing video of all time’ Ambrym volcano eruption!
‘The most amazing video of all time’
Ambrym volcano eruption caught on video!
With special temperature resistant suits, three reporters from New Zealand captured on video, 30 meters, the eruption of Ambrym volcano, located in the Pacific Ocean.
At that distance they managed to record ‘the most amazing video of all time’, according to Geoff Mackaley said, one of the reporters.
Mackley said from where they were located it was very hot and not having fire suits they would not have survived the feat already given more than 150,000 views on YouTube.
The bizarre images were captured in around 40 minutes.
Amazing video of Marum volcano lava lake (vanuatudaily.wordpress.com)
By hotdogfish • Posted in Education, Living • Tagged Ambrym, Geoff Mackley, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu, Video, Volcano, YouTube
Anonymous group canceles -Threat against Los Zetas!
We are sorry, say Anonymous
Anonymous group canceled announced reprisals against the Zetas cartel for being a very risky operation, and was informed through a press and social networks for different users.
After disappearance of one of its members in Veracruz, one of the members announced reprisals against the drug cartel “Los Zetas” with “Operation Cartel.”
However, because of the great risks involved in leaking information and to safeguard the integrity of persons adhering to the collective group of hackers decided to cancel the whole operation.
“Destroying # OpCartel because the lives of people who are not participating n can be at risk,” was published in the first text of the cancellation of the transaction, through Twitter account @ Sm0k34n0n.
Before this action the company and strategic intelligence analysis, Stratfor published an article about the “serious risk” involving actions of leakage of information about members of Los Zetas.
“Last October 6 Anonymous posted that they would inform on those who are members of Los Zetas” if Anonymous carries out its threat, it will almost certainly lead to death of the persons named as members of the cartel, whether or not the information published is accurate, “says the article by Stratfor.
In an interview with MILLENNIUM, two members of Anonymous, and Skill3r GlynissParoubek be contacted to explain the circumstances:
Why it was decided to cancel the operation “
We can not be reckless administrators to condemn to death those who participate, we have talked and discussed extensively by all and it was decided to remove it.
So why throw threats, “It’s very easy to make a video on behalf of Anonymous and launch air threats, but to think, plan and evaluate the pros and cons is another story,” they said.
What’s next ” “They continue other operations, but for now we hope to make clear that the cartel operation is false.”
Anonymous released a statement which is bounded on pages published names of officials involved in the cartel Los Zetas.
“Dear followers and supporters of this page (Anonymous). I hereby disclaims Mexico Anonymous entirely the responsibility of the news of hacking a page that is linked to alleged cartel zest”, is detailed in the text that circulated .
“Our struggle is not of this type and our ideals do not go with that operation. The note published by several electronic media is completely false. We ask for your support to spread this news,” concludes denying other media that published the page.
Finally hacktivists expressed what their official media to avoid rumors speaking:
How Anonymous is threatening a Mexican drug cartel (thenextweb.com)
Anonymous hackers threaten Mexican drug cartel in retaliation over kidnapping (telegraph.co.uk)
By hotdogfish • Posted in Crime Watch!, Mexican Cartels • Tagged Anonymous, Drug cartel, Los Zeta, Mexico, Stratfor, Twitter, Veracruz, YouTube
Who is behind the killings of Zetas?
Who is behind the killings of Zetas — another drug gang or agents acting on behalf of the government or military? An ad hoc group whose presence is being tolerated by authorities as well as the public?
Coastal Veracruz, the gateway to Mexico for centuries of immigrants from Europe and beyond, a laid-back beachfront vacation spot for legions of Mexicans, has in recent months become the latest state to be thoroughly sucked into the deadly and devastating drug war.
On Sept. 20, nearly three dozen half-naked bodies were dumped in broad daylight on a busy highway underpass in a well-to-do tourist area of the city of Veracruz. Fourteen more turned up a few days later — during a convention of the nation’s top state and federal prosecutors. Then, on Oct. 6, barely 48 hours after announcing a major security offensive, military and police found an additional 36 bodies, and 10 more turned up the following day.
In videotaped presentations, a group of masked men with military bearing has claimed responsibility for the spate of killings, portraying it as a cleansing operation. Many of the bodies had a “Z” for Zeta written on the back with ink marker, a witness said.
The mystery group announced that it was in Veracruz State as “the armed branch of the people, and for the people.”
“We are asking officials and authorities who support the Zetas to stop doing so, and let the armed forces know that our only objective is to finish the Zetas,” the spokesman for the group told the camera. “We are anonymous warriors, without faces, proudly Mexican.”
For years with the Zetas tightly in charge, and the public terrified into submission, the state had stayed relatively calm. But months ago, traffickers associated with top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman are believed to have moved in from the north with an eye toward seizing territory from the Zetas, who had long controlled Veracruz’s valuable routes for smuggling drugs, migrants and contraband.
The “Zeta killers” burst on to the scene shortly before President Felipe Calderon deployed fresh military forces into Veracruz this month.
Their sudden rise and the surgical precision with which the killers systematically picked off nearly 100 people in 17 days has led to conjecture among some people that they may be operating with implicit or direct support of the government or military. Some suggest that the June kidnapping, torture and killing of three marine cadets in Veracruz might have propelled the marine corps to begin acting outside the law. Officials dismiss such speculation, and others wonder why a group aspiring to be a clandestine death squad would post videos on YouTube.
Indeed, some point to Guzman’s Sinaloa network, and say the military look to the killings may be an attempt to deflect attention.
If that’s true, the Zeta killers would simply be the latest of the many cartel-affiliated paramilitary gangs that have been fighting in Mexico since the beginning of the offensive that Calderon launched against the cartels at the start of his administration nearly five years ago.
The Zetas themselves started as the private military arm of the Gulf cartel, hired gunmen recruited from army elite forces to fight and kill the cartel’s enemies. They evolved into a full-fledged trafficking cartel after splitting violently from their former patrons.
Vigilante gangs purporting to be defending society and working with some level of official complicity have frequently acted in Mexico in recent years. La Familia in Michoacan, which surged in Calderon’s southwestern home state in 2005, claimed that it was protecting residents from the Zetas.
In 2009, Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the affluent city of San Pedro Garza Garcia near the northern industrial hub of Monterrey, announced the formation of “intelligence squads” to “cleanse” his jurisdiction of criminals. One particularly notorious thug turned up dead in short order.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the expanding drug war since December 2006, when it began, according to government intelligence figures.
The government of Veracruz has sought to minimize the horror the state is living, or cast it as part of a broader national phenomenon for which local officials are not responsible.
Yet state officials have only exacerbated the uncertainty and suspicion by hiding information on new fatalities and claiming with excessive haste that most of the first batch of 35 dead were criminals. In fact, neither Gov. Javier Duarte nor state Atty. Gen. Reynaldo Escobar, who made those claims, had that information. The city’s top newspaper, Notiver, later reported that the majority did not have criminal records. Escobar has since been forced to resign.
“Where is the government? What is happening here? What is it all about?”
By hotdogfish • Posted in Mexican Cartels • Tagged Felipe Calderón, Gulf Cartel, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Los Zetas, Mexico, Veracruz, YouTube, Zeta
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Ahrar: “Four killed, Dozens Injured, Hundreds Kidnapped In October”
November 1, 2013 5:13 AM Saed Bannoura Human rights, News Report, Palestine 0
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights published its monthly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians, and said that soldiers killed four Palestinians, injured dozens and kidnapped 325 Palestinians.Ahrar said that the four slain Palestinians have been identified as Younis Radayda, 30, and Mohammad ‘Aasy, 28, from the central West Bank district of Ramallah, in addition to Abdul-Hafith Tayyem, 76, from the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and Ahmad Tazaz’a, 22, from Jenin.
It added that Israeli soldiers conducted frequent invasions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and limited invasions into Gaza, and that dozens of Palestinians have been injured during clashes with invading soldiers.
As for arrest campaigns, Ahrar said that Hebron was the most impacted as the soldiers kidnapping 90 Palestinians in October, then 43 in Nablus, 40 in Jerusalem, 33 in Ramallah, 29 in Jerusalem and historic Palestine, 26 in Qalqilia, 24 in Bethlehem, 22 in Jenin, 8 on Jericho and the Jordan Valley, 5 in Tulkarem, 3 in Tubas, and two, including a physically-challenged youth, in Salfit.
The Ahrar Center further said that the soldiers kidnapped 17 Palestinian children, below the age of 15, in addition to 17 Palestinians, including two women, who were kidnapped at roadblocks and border terminals.
Also among the kidnapped were three Palestinian journalists.
Head of the Ahrar Center Fuad Al-khoffash, said that the arrests also targeted a number of political leaders, and two legislators identified as Nazzal Ramadan and Maher Bader.
The report was published before an Israeli artillery shell killed, late on Thursday at night, a Palestinian fighter identified as Rabee’ Baraka, 22.
The attack took place in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
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Triviador fixed and Seal of Approval Reinstated
November 22, 2013 by Indie Gamer Chick 2 Comments
A quick update to Monday’s post about Triviador. The developers of the game quickly got in touch with me and assured me that they would get to the bottom of the problem. It would appear that they’ve fixed the majority of the problems and that Triviador is back to being the awesome Trivial Pursuit meets Risk game I fell in love with. I re-award it my Seal of Approval and have re-ranked it on the Indie Gamer Chick Leaderboard.
See, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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Triviador stripped of Indie Gamer Chick Seal of Approval
Update: Triviador is fixed and the Seal of Approval has been reinstated.
Well, this is a first. Last month, I reviewed a really fun Facebook game called Triviador, which I awarded the Indie Gamer Chick Seal of Approval to. I’ve never had to retract my Seal of Approval from a game after it won it. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to do so with Triviador. In November, the game received an update, taking it from its beta stage into a more polished, final version.
Unfortunately, the updated graphics are the only positive thing that came from the change over (and they’re not really that much better). Triviador is so full of glitches now that unfair losses or cheap wins earned when another player gets dumped out of the game are sometimes more prevalent than a fully functional round. The chief problem is disconnects. Triviador frequently hangs up and disconnects players. At least once every four games I was disconnected. On games where it didn’t happen to me, it would typically happen to one of the other players, which eliminates the thrill of victory and the entire point of the game all at once. This only happens during the fastest-finger tie-breaker questions, but it happens constantly. This problem also doesn’t seem to discriminate between different operating systems or web browsers. Often, the disconnects seem to be tied to using the premium boosters that you can either acquire through gameplay or purchase with real money. I spent $9 to buy a stockpile of parrot and telescope boosters, but the game most frequently locks up when attempting to use those. At the time I bought them, Triviador was stable and playable. I wouldn’t have bought them in the game’s current state. Nobody would have.
Such a shame. Triviador was a wonderful game. But the latest update is unstable. In a game where experience points are based around winning streaks, making sure wins and losses are achieved via fair means is very important. Unfortunately, those streaks are impossible to maintain because you’re unlikely to be able to play too many games before getting taken out via a disconnect. For this reason, I have to strip Triviador of its Indie Gamer Chick Seal of Approval and remove it from the Leaderboard. I have never seen a game so thoroughly ruined by an attempt at improving it in my life.
Triviador
October 16, 2013 by Indie Gamer Chick 6 Comments
Update 2: Triviador’s problems are fixed and the game’s Indie Gamer Chick Seal of Approval has been reinstated. Don’t fuck it up again, guys.
Update: Triviador updated in November, leaving its Beta stage of development. Unfortunately, the update has wrecked the game, causing numerous problems with disconnects for all players regardless of operating system or web browser. For this reason, I have to strip Triviador of the Indie Gamer Chick Seal of Approval at this time. The problem has been ongoing for weeks. The developers are not active in Social media and I can’t see any acknowledgement of problems. If the game is fixed, I’ll reinstate the Seal of Approval. For more details, read this follow-up notice. The review below is no longer accurate.
Triviador is a Facebook-based trivia game that seems to be permanently locked in a beta-stage. I discovered it Friday night while talking with DefunctGames.com owner Cyril Lachel about which board games could transition to Facebook the best. You would think stuff like Scattergories would be a perfect fit amongst the types of social-oriented, quick-and-simple to play fair you see on Facebook. You would be wrong. Hell, Facebook doesn’t even have a board game category. It does have Word & Trivia, which mostly contains knock-offs of Scrabble and its cousins. You’ll also find a lot of stuff based on game shows, though the Facebook versions are often so divorced from the play mechanics of the show that they’re unrecognizable. As if they’ve seen one episode of the show, years earlier, while under general anesthesia, and tried to create their own version based on that limited knowledge.
Owned.
So tracking down classic board games and game shows on Facebook was a bit of a bust, but then I found Triviador. Think of it as Risk meets Trivial Pursuit. At the start of the game, three players are randomly assigned a spot on the map for their castle to go. You then play four rounds to determine how many troops you get and where they start on the map. These rounds are played similar to the fastest finger questions from who Wants to be a Millionaire, only every answer is a number. After these four rounds play out, another three rounds of battles take place. One at a time, players choose a space adjacent to a space they occupy. A duel takes place featuring a multiple choice question, with the winning player taking over the space. If both answer correctly, it goes to another fastest finger question. If this is a draw as well, the first person to enter in the answer gets the space. During a final fourth round of duels, players can choose any space on the board. This is significant, because if you take over an opponent’s castle, they’re out of the game and you get all their points. It also sort of defeats the point of the first couple rounds, doesn’t it?
Castles require three “hits” to take over. I found the best strategy to be putting up a perimeter around my base and playing a defensive-oriented game, then taking over on points during the last round. For the most part, this served me well. The only time I really lost a game is when I was slow on the draw. Or when I didn’t read the questions right. Or when the game decided to troll me with an endless parade of questions related to operas or Broadway musicals. No, I don’t fucking know what year Frank Lloyd Wright was born, nor was I even remotely in the ballpark. Wasn’t that the guy who made The Sims? No? Shut up, Cathy? Okay.
Like I said earlier, Triviador is technically in beta right now, and has been for around two years. I didn’t really come across any glitches or issues, besides the whole “pick any space you want to attack, essentially nullifying the previous three rounds” bullshit. Mostly though, I marveled at just how dumb some people were. Get this: if you knock someone’s castle over, you occupy the space it stood on, which is now worth 1,000 points. If you lose a space, you lose that amount of points and the person taking it over gets them. So, let’s say we’re down to the very last question of the very last round. We’ll say the score is 3,000 to 2,000, with me in the lead. Now, you can go for my castle, which still has a full three hit-points left on it, or you can go for the space worth 1,000 points, of which you only need to beat me once. What do you do? Well, if you’re 90% of the mouth-breathers I played against, you go for the castle, giving me three chances to keep my lead instead of one all-or-nothing final question. But hell, sometimes the game could be tied and the person would still go for the castle, instead of any other piece on the board. Now, mind you, if I win the duel (instead of having us both miss the question), I get 100 points, which means I win. Meanwhile, a player who is out of contention to win has a man on the field who is worth enough points for my opponent to win the game, but he gets totally ignored.
I don’t know why that bugs me, but it does. I can forgive someone not knowing what the chemical symbol for Tin is or what year Phantom of the Opera debuted on Broadway. Quite frankly, I didn’t know them either. But the vast majority of players I encounter on Triviador didn’t have the slightest bit of common sense when it came to strategy. But, it was totally worth it for those nail-biting match-ups that the game sometimes produced. Heck, I even lost a couple and I’m still utterly addicted to Triviador. If you want to know where I’ve been over the last week, there’s your answer. I also never had to put a single dime into Triviador to binge-play it. You get five games at a time, with reloads coming pretty quickly. As you start to level up more, you’ll run out of the five freebie games quickly, but you practically trip over “bonus adventures” (I currently have a stockpile of 8 built up), and there’s multiple versions of the game that you can switch between on the off-chance that you completely run out of games but still want to keep going. Triviador is the first really good Trivia game on Facebook and worth your time. Hell, it’s worth it just to laugh at those people who think Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for assassinating President Kennedy.
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BTW, you can't play Addams Family on Pinball Arcade if you haven't already bought it, but Ghostbusters feels a lot… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 hours ago
Just game 2 and it's dad's. We paused it for like 3 - 4 hours. Icing doesn't work now :P https://t.co/cK3MlHnw9R 6 hours ago
Thy need to layth down. I was fine but had a tiny spell (unrelated to the game, I felt it coming on in a different room( 7 hours ago
Dude I am getting fucking annimurdlized here. https://t.co/ctVxQ7vYwv 9 hours ago
RT @IndieGamerChick: That's what needs to be reviewed, but still in a way that REALLY digs deep into the games. We'll be carrying over the… 10 hours ago
RT @IndieGamerChick: My father did NOT spend $500 because he thought Star Wars would be insanely crazy life-changingly awesomeballs. He bo… 10 hours ago
The reason to move the arcade stuff to The Pinball Chick site is because I can't review these cabinets via the same… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 10 hours ago
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