There are more than 15 student organizations associated with the College of Human Sciences. Many of these are specifically related to majors and study options, while some are college-level organizations, and others are honor societies. Each has a designated faculty member serving as an advisor as well as elected student officers within the club. Joining a student organization can allow you to participate in professional development activities, build lasting friendships with fellow students, and begin a process of networking that will lead you to a more successful college experience and help launch your career.
AAFCS-OSU is an organization for all undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Human Sciences. The group addresses critical topics and makes informed decisions challenging society regarding individual, family and community well-being, relationships, and resources.
The Ambassadors are College of Human Sciences students engaged in strategic leadership teams that focus on peer mentoring and instruction within orientation courses; connecting with alumni, donors, and friends; and articulating the Human Sciences undergraduate programs to prospective students.
Scholar Leaders assist incoming students in developing leadership qualities that support their career objectives. This group interacts with faculty, staff and alumni and prepares students to compete for leadership awards.
Student Council promotes involvement within the college and on the OSU campus. The group supports the work of the CoHS student organizations, encourages interaction between faculty and students, and coordinates activities with other university groups and Student Councils. The Council consists of executive officers, activity chairpersons, and organization representatives.
New students at OSU in the College of Human Sciences have a living learning community housing option. This community, named The PETE Project, is in suite style living on the first floor of the Village Human Sciences building. Student Academic Mentors (SAMs) live on the same floor with first year students to help mentor them through the beginning of their OSU experience.
College honor organizations are designated for students who excel academically and meet certain requirements. These organizations have elected officers and usually meet once a month.
Kappa Omicron Nu's mission is "empowered leaders for Family and Consumer Sciences." Their purposes are to promote graduate study and research and to stimulate scholarship and leadership toward the well-being of individuals and families throughout the world.
Membership: Invitations are sent to students with 45 hours or more in a declared major in Family and Consumer Sciences, in the top 25% of their class, with a 3.2 GPA or better, and graduate students who have completed half of their program with a 3.5 GPA. (Transfer students must complete two semesters at OSU prior to being invited to join).
Phi Upsilon Omicron recognizes and promotes academic excellence in all areas of Human Sciences. Members develop professional and personal leadership qualities and provide service opportunities to the community and college.
Membership: Invitations are sent to students who have completed 45 hours and have a GPA of 3.0 or above.
This honor society recognizes and honors excellence in the field of gerontology and aging. It promotes friendship, scholarship, professionalism, and services to older persons. The organization is open to students and professionals with an interest in gerontology/aging studies and related fields.
Membership: Undergraduates must have a GPA of at least 3.3 and graduate students must have at least a 3.5 GPA to be eligible for membership.
This student chapter is recognized by the American Society of Interior Designers and promotes the profession of interior design, exposes students to the professional community, and explores the variety of careers available in the field. Membership is open to any student majoring in interior design or a related design discipline.
This is the student chapter of a professional organization which promotes the profession of facilities management, encourages professional development, and introduces students to the philosophy and practice of facility management. Membership is open to any student with an interest in facilities planning and management or large-scale commercial interior design.
Students with a major or minor in apparel merchandising, interiors merchandising, or apparel design and production are invited to join. MADA helps members understand the various career areas, promotes fellowship among students and faculty, and represents DHM in the college. Leadership opportunities are offered through officer elections and committee membership.
The U.S. Greening Building Council (USGBC) is committed to a sustainable future for our nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving buildings. The USGBC has student chapters for young leaders to come together and participate in green building experiences on their own campuses through service initiatives. The OSU USGBC Chapter is open to all students at OSU, and currently has a diverse membership from various schools and departments, such as Agriculture, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Engineering. The organization provides valuable services such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Workshops that help students to take the LEED Green Associate examination.
The Early Childhood Education club was founded during the Fall 2005 semester. Students majoring in HDFS with an option in Early Childhood Education are encouraged to join. The club's purpose is to provide opportunities for students to interact with others pursuing early childhood certification and to further professional growth as teachers of young children.
The Family and Consumer Sciences club was founded during the Spring 2014 semester. Students majoring in HDFS with an option in Family and Consumer Sciences education or extension are encouraged to join. The club's purpose is to provide opportunities for students to interact with others pursuing teaching certification and to further professional growth as teachers of students grades six through 12 or at the county level as an extension educator.
All students interested in families and children, majoring or minoring in HDFS are invited to join this organization. The HDFS Club helps students explore opportunities by providing occasions for interaction with a variety of professionals, faculty members and career advisors. This organization enhances a student's college experience through contact with other students who have similar interests.
This departmental club assists students in getting a start in their profession. Club members develop professional and social competencies and establish networks, while providing services to the department, community, and campus. Members are in a variety of majors including dietetics, pre-med, and foods and nutrition (emphasis nutrition and exercise). Any student with an interest in nutrition, foods, and health is welcome to join.


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Now You See It: Neuroscientists Reveal Magicians' Secrets
By Wynne Parry 2010-12-05T08:00:12Z
Magicians create illusions by taking advantage of how we perceive stimuli and process information. For example, a dove fluttering from a hat can be used to draw an audience's attention away from the actual trick.
(Image: © Dreamstime.)
NEW YORK — There is a place for magic in science. Five years ago, on a trip to Las Vegas, neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde realized that a partnership was in order with a profession that has an older and more intuitive understanding of how the human brain works. Magicians, it seems, have an advantage over neuroscientists.
"Scientists have only studied cognitive illusions for a few decades. Magicians have studied them for hundreds, if not thousands, of years," Martinez-Conde told the audience during a recent presentation here at the New York Academy of Sciences. [Video: Your Brain on Magic]
She and Macknik, her husband, use illusions as a tool to study how the brain works. Illusions are revealing, because they separate perception from reality. Magicians take advantage of how our nervous systems — our eyes, sense of touch, minds and so on — are wired to create seemingly impossible illusions.
After their epiphany in Las Vegas, where they were preparing for a conference on consciousness, the duo, who both direct laboratories at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, teamed up with magicians to learn just how they harness the foibles of our brains. Their discoveries are detailed in their new book, "Sleight of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions" (Henry Holt and Company, 2010).
The psychological concepts behind illusions are generally better understood, but they treat the brain as something of a black box, without the insight into brain activity or anatomy that neuroscience can offer, they write.
Tricks from neuroscience
Individual tricks may take advantage of any number of neurological phenomena, like our neurons' energy-saving practice of adapting to a stimulus to create the illusion that something, which a magician may have furtively moved, is still in place. Magicians may exploit our visual system's dependence on contrast to make objects appear to disappear or appear out of nowhere. Or they may divert our attention. Magicians don't limit themselves to one method at a time, and often, play multiple techniques off one another, Martinez-Conde said.
"We are beginning to suspect the way this works in the brain is [that] the total is more than the sum of the parts," she said.
In particular, magicians are masterful manipulators of attention, which can be misdirected overtly, by directing the audience to look away from the location where the trick actually occurs, or covertly, by a more subtle manipulation. Cognitive scientists have also discovered means of sneaky misdirection. In a short video clip, a researcher, posing as a student on a college campus, asks a professor for directions. While the two are talking, others carrying a door walk between them, the first lost student is replaced by a second lost student, and the professor continues talking to the new person without realizing the switch.
This is the result of change blindness, Martinez-Conde explained. As long as the person who was replaced fit into the same category — both appeared to be students — it was unlikely the professor would have noticed the switch that took place during the brief interruption, she said.
Paying attention to one thing means the brain must shut out other information, also a phenomenon ripe for exploitation. In fact, a neuron activated by a stimulus will inhibit its neighbors, preventing them from sending signals related to other stimuli; this phenomenon is called lateral inhibition, Macknik said.
The Standing Wave
As a graduate student, Macknik took on the role of a magician, though he didn't think of it that way at the time, when he discovered an illusion called the Standing Wave. [See it here]
It is composed of a three flickering bars: A target bar is surrounded by two other bars, one on either side. As the three bars move closer together, the target bar becomes invisible, at least to the conscious brain.
The retina, however, continues to perceive all three. This happens because of lateral inhibtion: Neurons responding to the two outer bars suppress the signal for the target bar, effectively erasing the image of the target from the brain of the spectator.
"You don't see it because the information doesn't make it to the parts of your brain that are conscious," he said in an earlier interview. "This is very similar in many ways to what magicians do with misdirection."
Only 0.1 percent of the human retina offers high-resolution vision — with about half the primate brain dedicated to processing visual information anything more would create a cumbersomely large brain — and we turn this spotlight on whatever we're focused on at the moment, according to Macknik. As the Standing Wave demonstrates, our attention spotlight allows us to be deceived.
Attention is crucial
Magicians' eyes can also be deceitful. Since humans are social individuals, and our eyes are drawn to follow others' gazes, a phenomenon known as joint attention. A magician can use joint attention to his or her advantage by looking up from a trick to meet a spectator's gaze, and so taking the spectators attention off the trick itself temporarily, Macknik said. (Macknik notes we can separate the focus of our attention from our gaze, an ability that allows us to deceive others into misinterpreting the focus of our attention.)
There are many ways magicians misdirect attention. A dove released from a hat is a distraction we can't ignore, or magicians can deceive our sense of time by separating the method from the magical effect, or they can use social cues and even comedy.
"One of the things magicians discovered before neuroscientists did is that humor suppresses attention," he told the audience. "None of you will be surprised by this… but try to find something in the neuroscience literature that says humor suppresses attention."
A magician has three basic techniques: optical, mechanical and psychological, according to David Kaye, a children's magician who performs as "Silly Billy," and who attended the presentation.
"I think that a lot of the joy of being a magician is understanding what's going on in the brain, at least for me," he said. But Kaye noted that magicians usually stop at the psychological level, while Martinez-Conde and Macknik went deeper, into the wiring of the brain.
"It's always interesting to learn more about why this works," he said.
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You can follow LiveScience writer Wynne Parry on Twitter @Wynne_Parry.

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My 2019 (Semi-)Hiatus
A photo from our contract rally at
Rutgers-Newark, April 2019
As J's Theater readers--if there still are any!--may have noted, last year (2019) was a very lean one in terms of my presence here. I believe I managed six entries (with perhaps double that still in draft mode), and that was pushing it. One, which I only recently published, featured a review I undertook for Art in America on last year's Whitney Biennial, which I found fascinating on multiple levels, in contrast to many mainstream critics, including one who summed it for me at lunch late in the year, as "predictable." As it turns out, it was anything but--and, as I argued in that piece, really multiple Biennials, including one transformed by the protests that not only the Biennial's artists, but outside activists, supporters and artists, and the Museum's staff, launched. To be able to watch it unfold and write about it was a pleasure, but alas, I had almost no time to focus on it here. I also had no real time--or rather no time to focus--to complete memorials to figures who have been incredible important to me, whom we lost in 2019, and I am thinking in particular of Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall (who was one of my favorite teachers in grad school), and Ernest J. Gaines, among many others. They are but a few of the people who left this human plane last year, and perhaps at some point I can either finish my mini-tributes and turn those live or write new ones this year. We will see.
My day jobs are, as readers know, a writer, and a professor of English and African American and African Studies (AAAS). Over the last six years (roughly since 2013), however, I've also served first as Acting Chair and then full-time Chair of AAAS, a post I have enjoyed deeply, but which also has entailed a very different level and kind of time commitment, since chair duties, I had to learn quickly, run every day of the week and all year long, and involve all kinds of matters, from curricula to student needs and concerns to staff and faculty personnel issues to other kinds of university service to general administration to tasks defying categorization.
What I also learned was that there often is little training, except on the job, for the challenges that present themselves. Soliciting the advice of one's peers, especially other chairs or former chairs, and colleagues, listening to them carefully, addressing pressing and longer-term issues, and encouraging and engaging not only in an ethos but a practice of collaboration are all key, but administrative duties can be very stressful, and run along timelines parallel to but different from those of the academic year. Add this to my regular (teaching, mentoring, advising, my own life and writing) and irregular duties (letters of recommendation, tenure, judging panels, etc.), and it's fair to say that my blogging has been one major area to suffer some of the the greatest blows as a result.
This past fall was also a particular challenge because, on top of everything else, I was serving on four search committees. Serving on one search committee is a high hurdle; four is almost impossible to describe, though I grasped why I was asked to serve, and was cognizant throughout of what my presence could help to effect and why I committed to each. I can say, breaking no confidences, that each went quite well, and 2020 should bring good news to my institution and some excellent people who, I hope, will be wonderful leaders in their various ways and invaluable colleagues. That, as all such work tends to be, is the hope and goal, making people, programs and departments, the institution itself, better and stronger than they were before, with added benefits not yet foreseen but which will redound and resonate long after the moment of the work has ended. That is the core of so much of what we do in life, though, isn't it, or at least hope to?
2020 brings a competitive leave sabbatical--courtesy of several fellowships I received in 2018--so I hope to be able to post here more often. I have been thinking quite a bit about how blogging has changed in the 14 (soon to be 15!) years since I began this blog, and though I am ever more convinced that we live in an increasingly post-literate, let alone post-post-modern world, where the power of the regime of images grows ever stronger, the role of the oral has become more central and dominant, public prose is transforming into a shadow of itself, and social media's forces and forms are reshaping not only language as an exterior medium but our interiorities in ways we have not fully recognized or reckoned with, I do believe there is a place for this blog and others, even if it ends up looking somewhat different than it did in the past, so I will strive to post semi-regularly here, even if, as I have at times, primarily with quotes and notices from others, including citations of and links to blogs I still follow, like Keguro Macharia's, to name one of my favorites and one of the very best. (And speaking of which, his remarkable study Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora is now out from NYU Press!)
So, here's to 2020, more blogging (I hope), and the excitement to come!
Labels: 2020, administration, blogging, hiatus, New Year, news, post-literacy, post-modernism, teaching, writing
Happy New Year / 2020
At the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Manhattan, NY (photo @ C)
Buon Anno e tanti auguri
Kull 'aam wa-antum bikhayr
Aliheli'sdi Itse Udetiyvasadisv
Na MwakaMweru wi Gikeno
Feliĉan novan jaron
聖誕快樂 新年快樂 [圣诞快乐 新年快乐]
Bliain úr faoi shéan is faoi mise duit
Nava Varsh Ki Haardik Shubh Kaamnaayen
Mwaka Mwena
Pudhu Varusha Vaazhthukkal
Afe nhyia pa
Ufaaveri aa ahareh
Er sala we pîroz be
Manigong Bagong Taon sa inyong lahat
Feliç Any Nou
Yeni yılınızı kutlar, sağlık ve başarılar dileriz
نايا سال مبارک هو
Emnandi Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo
Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Chronia polla
Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Kia pai te Tau Hou e heke mai nei
Shinnen omedeto goziamasu (クリスマスと新年おめでとうございます)
IHozhi Naghai
a manuia le Tausaga Fou
Paglaun Ukiutchiaq
Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
(International greetings courtesy of Omniglot and Jennifer's Polyglot Links; please note a few of the phrases may also contain Christmas greetings)
A Tale of Two Exhibitions: The 2019 Whitney Biennial
Earlier this summer, I had the immense pleasure of viewing the 2019 Whitney Biennial, which is still running, for a few more weeks (until September 22, 2019), at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. It was not only a better show than the 2017 installment, I thought, but in essence two different exhibits in one, I ultimately argued, in a review now out for Art in America. The second of the two exhibits became possible, however, only after the Whitney resolved a festering crisis that had underpinned the exhibit--and the institution itself as a whole. In fact, the revolt that occurred, creating the new exhibition, necessitated that I rewrite the laudatory first review I'd drafted.
The qualitative differences between the two exhibits, whether visually evident or not, resonate throughout the work on display, throughout the museum's spaces itself, as a shift in ethos and an aura, however temporary. I won't replay my entire essay, which underwent a great deal of editorial distilling (so many thanks to Will Ratik and his editorial team at Art in America), so here is the link to the full essay, "The Whitney Biennial: A Tale of Two Exhibitions," and a paragraph from it, in which I argue for further action by the exhibits artists and, I would assert, artists working in all media, including literature.
I believe we are at the moment when the artists should be encouraged to actively trouble the "circuits of valorization," as prior generations of artists have done. I say trouble rather than disrupt, since the latter term has taken on particular connotations in the language of neoliberal capitalism, particularly in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. But what might the effects be of such a troubling on the lives and careers of today's artists, especially those who, like many of this year's biennial participants, come from groups, intersectionally understood, that have been traditionally excluded from participation in exhibitions such as this, as well as from elite art schools and institutions, and from the global gallery, art fair, and auction networks? What would more extensive rethinking, dismantling, and transformation of those circuits look like? How much energy and effort can and ought they expend in understanding and critiquing the ecosystem in which they are working? From an ethical standpoint, can they forgo such an undertaking, whatever the cost?
If you can, please see the exhibit before it goes, and do leave your thoughts on the Biennial and my review in the comments section if you'd like.
Labels: American art, art, art criticism, Art in America, contemporary art, criticism, critique, revolution, Warren Kanders, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum
American Academy of Arts & Letters Ceremonial 2019 & Award
Six years ago, back in 2013, I blogged about attending the American Academy of Arts & Letters' annual Ceremonial award celebration. I was the guest of a friend and colleague, Dorothy Wang, who was a guest of an award-winner, the poet Joanna Klink, and though I had seen some of its award winners and awards I'd seen listed over the years, I had no idea about the organization or where it headquarters were located, let alone about its awards. In fact, I often mistook it for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which is located in Cambridge, not New York; they are two similar but distinct organizations. The latter encompasses the sciences and is more of a scholarly honors organization, while the latter primarily focuses, as its name suggests, on arts and letters.
Aububon Terrace (photo by C)
In my previous post, I gave a potted history of the AAAL:
It's an august institution too: a closed honor society of 250 members selected and elected by standing members without outside nomination, it grew out of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, founded in 1898, consisting eventually of 200 members, from which the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a smaller and more elite sub-organization of 50 of the most eminent figures in their fields, emerged in 1904. US President William Howard Taft signed a Congressional act that incorporated the Institute of Arts and Letters in 1907, and the Academy in 1916. In 1976 the two organizations merged, and in 1993, all 250 members merged into one entity now known as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
I also mentioned some of its members and the day's award-winners, a few like my former graduate school professor and thesis advisor E. L. Doctorow no longer with us, so won't recapitulate that earlier blog post, but I will say that uncanny pleasure of once again attending a Ceremonial up at Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights, this year, as a recipient, having received the Harold T. Vursell Award in Fiction. This award is given to a writer specifically based on the quality of their prose. (!) J's Theater readers will note my often baroque stylings (and typos, forgive me) here, and perhaps ponder why I was designated a recipient of this prize, but it was primarily for Counternarratives, in which my rhetorical and syntactic play was, I think it fair to say, at its most daring, and so I took the honor as an affirmation of what I attempted in that book, though I also think it's probably not wrong to suggest that all of my published books have in them some sort of experimentation when it comes to prose or verse, and that when it works, it is at least distinctive if nothing else.
As an award recipient, I was invited to a pre-Ceremonial reception and luncheon, which C attended with me, as did my New Directions editor and publisher, Barbara Epler, and I had the opportunity there to tell Jamaica Kincaid once again how much of a fan I was and am. Her prose, as well as her inventiveness as a storyteller and novelist, have been among many powerful influences on my own work. I also had the opportunity to chat with a few fellow award winners or new members, including poets Aracelis Girmay, fellow former Dark Room member Natasha Trethewey, Marilyn Chin, Claudia Rankine, and Grace Schulman, and fiction writers Alice Hoffman, Lorrie Moore and my collegue Jayne Anne Phillips, who was elected to the AAAL a few years ago. After the luncheon, as before it, C and I viewed some of the art and literary materials, by members and recipients on display.
One of the more fascinating rooms featured the photos of all the prior and present members, lined up in rows in stall-like spaces. The original members were, unsurprisingly, all white men, a great many of them legendary names in American culture, which got me wondering who had not been a member yet produced work that today we hold in high esteem (F. Scott Fitzgerald, to name one, Ernest Hemingway to name another); on the other hand, many of the names would not register at all to contemporary sensibilities. At a certain point, a few white women's faces pop up, and then, slowly, the further we progressed into the 20th century, there were more white women, a few black writers, like W. E. B. DuBois (was he the first?) and Langston Hughes, and then black classical composers and jazz musicians, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American writers' portraits appear (see the photos below). The Academy's members still strongly reflect the upper reaches of the preponderantly New York-and-northeastern based world of architecture, visual arts, literature, and European-American art music, but the awardees have begun to diversify somewhat more, or so I was told. Certainly this year's winners were more racially and generationally diverse than I recall from 2013.
In one of the rooms featuring paintings
bequeathed by American Impressionist
F. Childe Hassam (photo by C)
One of the rooms in the American Academy
headquarters (photo by C)
Members and honorees assembling on stage
(photo by C)
Once the Ceremonial began, I took my numbered seat on the stage, between Jamaica Kincaid and poet D. A. Powell, also a prize recipient; to his left sat our presenter and a member of the committee that selected us, poet Henri Cole. A row behind me sat Eileen Myles, among others. A number of illustrious members, like sculptors Martin Puryear and Richard Hunt, whom I mentioned in my prior post, and honorees like Meredith Monk and Thelma Golden, were seated in the front row. This year's recipient of the Gold Medal for Literature, the Academy's highest honor, Toni Morrison, and the Gold Medal for Art, Lee Bontecou, were unable to attend, and so were fulsomely lauded by their presenters. One highlight of this year was the Blashfield Lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici, once a controversial figure in the American classical music world and now a venerable and venerated elder. Del Tredici's lecture, "The Task of Gayness," explored his coming into his own in his field, and out as a gay man, with humor and concision. Were he to write a memoir, I'd most certainly buy it.
A photo of me walking to receive
my award from Henri Cole (photo by C)
Receiving my award from Henri Cole
At the conclusion of the awards ceremony, which ran roughly an hour, another reception unfolded, on a bright and sunny but thankfully not hot afternoon, which afforded us an opportunity to speak with more writers, editors, artists, and others in attendance. It was, all in all, a lovely afternoon, and many thanks to the Academy jury for the award!
Labels: American Academy of Arts and Letters, fiction, Harold Vursell Award, Langston Hughes, literary awards, poetry, prose
My Appearance on State of the Arts NJ
Last fall, Susan Wallner of the wonderful TV program State of the Arts New Jersey contacted me about possibly producing a short clip about my work and me. I am always a bit wary about such efforts, as I would always rather have my work do the speaking for me, but since there was a possibility that SOANJ would feature my students, teaching and Rutgers-Newark, I thought I'd go along with it. The filming occurred in early November, and again in late February, and I can say without hesitation that Susan and her crew were a pleasure to work with, from start to finish.
Many, many thanks to them and everyone at State of the Arts New Jersey who made this possible. Many thanks also to superb critic and writer Julian Lucas, and to Poet Laureate of the US, Princeton professor, poet extraordinaire, and my former Dark Room Collective compatriot Tracy K. Smith for their kind, insightful comments on my work and me. Also a very hearty thank you to my MFA students, who agreed to be filmed, and sparkled (as they always do) on camera, and to everyone at Rutgers-Newark who greenlighted the filming.
I am so shy and self-conscious I could not initially bear to look at it (I needed but did not get a haircut before the February filming), but C told me it came out very well, and pointed out that Susan and her team had even threaded a Bob Cole tune through the video, a lovely touch, of course, and tribute to one of the artistic figures I explore in Counternarratives. The show aired last week, and though we've been DVRing the episodes and keeping an eye out for it, we also missed its debut airing! Here, for those who do not regularly watch State of the Arts New Jersey, is the short video. Enjoy!
Labels: Bob Cole, Counternarratives, PBS, Rutgers Newark, State of the Arts New Jersey, students, Susan Wallner, teaching, video
14th Blogiversary
Photo by Lamont Hamilton
Fourteen years ago, on February 27, 2005, I began blogging at J's Theater. I was regularly reading the blogs of friends and writers, artists, political commentators, and others I'd never met but felt a desire to be in conversation with, and so I started this blog. I viewed it as a creative and cultural space, with far less emphasis on politics and responsive to the news cycle--which has sped up incalculably more these days now that Facebook and Twitter have taken off--than it has assumed at various points. More than anything, however I wanted it to be a site where I could try thoughts and ideas out, imperfect as they might be, without the usual concern of perfection or even the struggle, customary as well, to get them into print. (My entire writing career has entailed a struggle to get my work into print.)
From writing about poetry and poets, like Jay Wright, as I did in my first post, to my life and experiences at the university (which has become a new university over the years I've blogged), to reviews of books and films, to snippets about Black history, art and culture, and history, art and culture over all, to translations from Portuguese, Spanish, French, and, I sometimes am amazed to admit, Dutch and German, to posts about rugby, track and field and other less popular (in the US imagination, at least) sports, my iPhone and iPad sketches, and on and on, J's Theater has provided an ideal space for me to explore, (mostly--haha!) pressure-free, as I see fit. It also has served as a site of documentation at times for cultural activities, and especially was so during my decade in Chicago, which wasn't even a decade ago but feels like a lifetime has passed between then and now.
I've repeatedly debated whether to keep blogging or to quit. One great frustration after the earliest years (2005-2008 or so) was the sharp drop off in comments, which were for a while replaced by spam, which disappeared (thanks, Blogger?), only to reappear in recent years with a vengeance. It thankfully is very easy to delete these days, but that requires its own dedicated attention. Far more pressing were my academic responsibilities, which have grown to include 12-month administrative duties that devour more mental space and energy than I ever imagined. I don't think it's any surprise that before this year, 2014, the first year I became a department chair (acting during that year) and 2017, just before my last sabbatical, saw the fewest posts. It was not for lack of interest, but time and vigor.
Not so long ago, we were told that blogging was dead. No one blogged, everyone had moved to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. And Tumblr, which was and is a blogging platform that in essence mostly deprioritized words. (It also has banned not just pornography, but nudity in general, that's another matter.) And Instagram, which is all pictures (for the most part). And Snapchat, of course. Now there's Tiktok, and other walled gardens. One thing I loved and still do about blogging (though to its credit, Twitter also is almost fully public) via Blogger, WordPress and similar sites is that whatever you published was and remains visible to all; a private company does own this platform, but the blog remains more a public square-style venue than many other options out there. For good and ill, of course. The dazzlingly brilliant Kegur'o M, who continues to blog at Gukira: Without Predicates, is a stellar example of the good that can come from a blogger at the top of their game.
But that public aspect is one that I cherish, and one reason I hope to continue blogging. I also wish some of my old blogging friends, many listed on the blogroll to the right, and other bloggers I never interacted with but who've given up blogging, would start up again. No shade against Medium, but before ideas are fully polished, why not bounce them off readers on a blog? You can always--well, so far--revise as you go.
Labels: arts, black people, blog, blogiversary, concepts, culture, fiction, Gukira, ideas, Jay Wright, Keguro Macharia, news, poetry, politics, thought
It has been a while since I posted anything beyond holiday greetings; the end of last year was particularly busy and the new one is turning out to be even more so. Nevertheless, here are some photos from the end of 2018, and, I hope, a sign of more new posts to come.
"Little Favela": Graffiti on a construction barrier
surrounding part of NYU's campus,
Silver Towers in the background
In the downstairs sanctum (I got permission before taking the photos)
at James Laughlin's home in Norfolk, CT, with first
editions of countless New Directions Books
(Daniel Javitch, a longtime NYU professor and Laughlin's
son-in-law, is the on the right)
"All Those Ships That Never Sailed," one of
my favorite Bob Kaufman poems, which I recited
many years ago at a remarkable tribute to Kaufman
that the Dark Room Collective held for him in
Cambridge; this was the first poem he recited
after ending his multiyear vow of silence
"My heart is in my / pocket
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy,
from Frank O'Hara, "A Step Away
from Them," Lunch Poem (New
Directions, 1954)--probably the
edition depicted here
The beautiful Norfolk, CT public library's interior
The Richardsonian Romanesque exterior of the
Construction in Jersey City, or Can They
Fit Yet Another Glass Tower into a Tiny Footprint?
At Newark Airport (when the metaphor
becomes the objective correlative, just saying)
On the campus of the University of Virginia,
where I read in the fall, and where I spent
two eventful years in the early 1990s
Workers spiffing up the walkway
on the Lawn dorms, University of Virginia
Updating the Lawn walkways to make them
disability-compliant
The walkway into my former workplace
building at U.Va., Bryant Hall (the English
Department has since moved to a newer,
larger building)
The rear of Bryant Hall, where, on my first day back in 1993,
the professor in the office next to mine learned I was
the new employee and loudly proclaimed, "It's Hell!"
There are signs and warnings that we should always
pay attention to, and that most certainly is one....
A fascinating exhibit on a historical homesite owned by
free African Americans in the very area near where
part of U.Va.'s campus now sits
More images from the exhibit about this
free Black family
Artifacts from the era
More about the history of the area,
racial relations, and the University of
Virginia in the exhibit, U.Va.
Sculpture in front of the New Orleans
Mercer Street, West Village
Workers, at night
The fields and treeline near
Meadow House, James Laughlin's
estate, in Norfolk, CT
through a windowscreen
At the new World Trade Center
stop on the 1 (I think), with its graphic
white wall
A talk at the New Orleans Museum of Art,
during the ASAP/10 Conference, New Orleans
One of the striking art works on exhibit,
"Eleventh," 2018, by Lina Iris Viktor, 24 carat gold,
acrylic, ink, gouache, copolymer resin,
print on matte canvas,
With my formers Northwestern colleagues, Brian
Edwards, now a dean at LSU, and Andrew Leong,
now at the University of California-Berkeley
Some of the books on display at the
ASAP Conference
Daphne Brooks delivering her keynote
at the ASAP Conference in New Orleans
In Brooklyn, near Pratt Institiute
C, in Manhattan
Outside the Leslie-Lohman Gallery,
The Trump balloon sculpture at the Downtown for
Democracy Protest Factory event, at
Jeffrey Deitch in SoHo
Dale Peck, reading at the Downtown for
Democracy Protest Factory event he organized, at
The deflated Trump balloon
Remember the 2018 elections?
They turned out pretty well,
all things considered.
Tisa Bryant, delivering the Leslie Scalapino Lecture
in Innovative Poetics, "In Search of a Free
State: Black Womanhood in the Archive
of Dreams," at Pratt Institute
At the University of Iowa, participating
in a conversation on translation with Bruna
Dantas Lobato and Katrina Dodson
(amazing translators!)
So bizarre; New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was on
my flight to Newark but it turned out she was headed
to Anaheim (or somewhere near there in southern California),
yet for some strange reason she was allowed to
board our plane, and had to be escorted off when
she realized she was headed in the wrong,
completely opposition direction
Eric M. B. Becker of Words Without Borders
in conversation with Brazilian journalist Isabel Lucas
on her multi-genre book Journey to the Heart
of the American Dream: America By the Book
at the Pessoa International Festival, NYC
Signing the Swedish contract for
Counternarratives (the translation
will soon be done!)
At the Fire Ball 2018: "Wakanda Forever," in Newark
On the 1 Train, with a "Respect" sign
honoring Aretha Franklin, at Franklin Street
With the fellows in the 2018-19 Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council program, where I gave a talk
on the Emotional Outreach Project
In the studio of the one of the artists
n the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council's fellowship program
The Oculus and atrium,
at the World Trade Center, NYC
Lower Manhattan, with One World Trade Center,
with seagulls in the foreground, in Hoboken
Robert DeNiro, introducing Angie
Thomas's The Hate U Give
People feeding the gulls and other seabirds,
at the Hoboken Station
A homeless encampment (under that black
cloth), downtown Jersey City
(luxury towers are just steps away)
Late winter Washington Square Park
Scrumptious homemade butternut
squash soup (with lots of grated cheese!)
for cold December
C making pasta at home (it
was absolutely delicious)
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CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it received an order for a C600 microturbine to upgrade an office tower in downtown Melbourne, Australia.
Optimal Group, Capstone's Australian distributor, secured the order, which is expected to be commissioned later this year. This continues the combined heat and power (CHP) momentum in Australia and comes on the heels of a January order for a C600 microturbine and a C800 microturbine to upgrade a major building in the Sydney Central Business District (CBD).
The natural-gas-fueled C600 microturbine will be installed in a combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) application to provide on-site primary power, hot water recovery and cooling to the Melbourne office tower every day of the year. The trigeneration project will ensure the office tower is highly efficient while also providing the building owner a significant economic benefit.
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Los Angeles Health Care Facilities to Implement Clean and Green Energy Production with Capstone CHP technology.


US joint base Andrews, the military facility near Washington that is home to the President's plane, was placed on lockdown today due to reports of a gunman at large.
Base officials issued an all-clear message for the base after about an hour, but said in Twitter messages that a medical centre at the facility remained on lockdown.
A US defence official said a second sweep was being conducted at the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility out of "an abundance of caution". There had been no reports of gunfire or casualties.
Base officials said earlier that the military installation had been scheduled to conduct an active shooter exercise, but that there was a report of a "real-world" gunman at large at the medical center.
President Barack Obama, who flies out of Andrews on Air Force One, was not scheduled to use the base today. US Vice-President Joe Biden was scheduled to depart from Andrews during the morning for a trip to Ohio. He was now holding at his official residence in Washington, his spokeswoman said.
"First responders are on-scene now," base officials said on Twitter. "Due to the serious nature of this report, the base is reacting to ensure the safety of all personnel."
No other details were immediately available, and base officials did not return calls for comment. Prince George's County police directed questions to the base.
The US military has been on high alert for possible attacks at US locations after incidents such as the July 2015 shooting rampage that killed five service members at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the 2009 shooting at a US Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, in which a gunman killed 13 people.
Homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson, asked about the Andrews incident during testimony before a Senate committee, said there was an unfolding situation at the base and that he might have to leave the hearing at some point to monitor the situation.
The base in Maryland is the primary military air installation in the Washington, DC area, and is located about 15 miles (24 km) from the White House.
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Very low-stress ZnO films have been deposited using HiTUS for applications in Acoustic Wave Sensors, this enables biosensing devices to be deposited with extremely high sensitivity
HiTUS-deposited high-mobility cuprous oxide has been produced for use as an absorber layer in solar cells.
Publications utilising HiTUS include:
F.M. Li, R. Waddingham, W.I. Milne, A.J. Flewitt, S. Speakman, J. Dutson, S. Wakeham, M. Thwaites. Low temperature (< 100 °c) deposited P-type cuprous oxide thin films: Importance of controlled oxygen and deposition energy. Thin Solid Films. 520 (2011) 1278–1284. doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2011.04.192.
F.M. Li, B.C. Bayer, S. Hofmann, J.D. Dutson, S.J. Wakeham, M.J. Thwaites, W.I. Milne, A.J. Flewitt, High-k (k=30) amorphous hafnium oxide films from high rate room temperature deposition, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 (2011) 1–4. doi:10.1063/1.3601487.
Y.Q. Fu, J.K. Luo, N.T. Nguyen, A.J. Walton, A.J. Flewitt, X.T. Zu, Y. Li, G. McHale, A. Matthews, E. Iborra, H. Du, W.I. Milne. Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications. Prog. Mater. Sci. 89 (2017) 31–91. doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2017.04.006.
G. Rughoobur, M. Demiguel-Ramos, J.M. Escolano, E. Iborra, A.J. Flewitt. Gravimetric sensors operating at 1.1 GHz based on inclined c-axis ZnO grown on textured Al electrodes. Sci. Rep. 7 (2017) 1–9. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01545-2.
K.M. Niang, B.C. Bayer, J.C. Meyer, A.J. Flewitt. Highly stable amorphous zinc tin oxynitride thin film transistors under positive bias stress. Appl. Phys. Lett. 111 (2017). doi:10.1063/1.5004514.
A.J. Flewitt, J.D. Dutson, P. Beecher, D. Paul, S.J. Wakeham, M.E. Vickers, C. Ducati, S.P. Speakman, W.I. Milne, M.J. Thwaites. Stability of thin film transistors incorporating a zinc oxide or indium zinc oxide channel deposited by a high rate sputtering process. Semicond. Sci. Technol. 24 (2009). doi:10.1088/0268-1242/24/8/085002.


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Nowa Wieś Prudnicka (dodatkowa nazwa w j. niem. Neudorf, ) – wieś w Polsce, położona w województwie opolskim, w powiecie prudnickim, w gminie Biała. Historycznie leży na Górnym Śląsku, na ziemi prudnickiej. Położona jest na terenie Kotliny Raciborskiej, będącej częścią Niziny Śląskiej.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do ówczesnego województwa opolskiego.

Według danych na 2011 wieś była zamieszkana przez 209 osób.

Geografia

Położenie
Wieś jest położona w południowo-zachodniej Polsce, w województwie opolskim, około 10 km od granicy z Czechami, w zachodniej części Kotliny Raciborskiej, tuż przy granicy gminy Biała z gminą Strzeleczki. Należy do Euroregionu Pradziad. Od północy sąsiaduje z rezerwatem wodno-leśnym Urszulanowice. Ma charakter rolniczy.

Środowisko naturalne
W Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej panuje klimat umiarkowany ciepły. Średnia temperatura roczna wynosi +8,3 °C. Duże zróżnicowanie dotyczy termicznych pór roku. Średnie roczne opady atmosferyczne w rejonie Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej wynoszą 614 mm. Dominują wiatry zachodnie.

Nazwa
W Spisie miejscowości województwa śląsko-dąbrowskiego łącznie z obszarem ziem odzyskanych Śląska Opolskiego wydanym w Katowicach w 1946 wieś wymieniona jest pod polską nazwą Nowa Wieś. 9 września 1947 nadano miejscowości nazwę Nowa Wieś Prudnicka. 24 listopada 2008 wprowadzono dodatkową nazwę wsi w języku niemieckim – Neudorf.

Historia

Wieś została założona w 1300 pod łacińską nazwą Nova Villa.

Według urbarza z 1758, Nowa Wieś Prudnicka należała do dóbr zamku w Chrzelicach. W 1794 w centrum wsi ustawiony został dzwon. Służył on do ostrzegania mieszkańców w przypadku pożarów i innych wypadków, a także był używany w celach rytualnych – bił z okazji świąt religijnych i śmierci mieszkańców.

Wieś posiadała swoją własną pieczęć, która przedstawiała w polu wspiętego lwa zwróconego w prawo na kartuszu, po obu stronach kartusza wysokie kłosy, a w otoku napis: NEUDORFF: GEM: SIGEL: / NEYSTAETER CREYS.

Według spisu ludności z 1 grudnia 1910, na 355 mieszkańców Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej 11 posługiwało się językiem niemieckim, a 344 językiem polskim. Po I wojnie światowej we wsi powstał pomnik upamiętniający mieszkańców wsi, którzy zginęli podczas niej.

W 1921 w zasięgu plebiscytu na Górnym Śląsku znalazła się tylko część powiatu prudnickiego. Nowa Wieś Prudnicka znalazła się po stronie wschodniej, w obszarze objętym plebiscytem. Do głosowania uprawnione były w Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej 243 osoby, z czego 175, ok. 72%, stanowili mieszkańcy (w tym 169, ok. 69,5% całości, mieszkańcy urodzeni w miejscowości). Oddano 240 głosów (ok. 98,7% uprawnionych), w tym 240 (100%) ważnych; za Niemcami głosowało 212 osób (ok. 88,3%), a za Polską 28 osób (ok. 11,6%).

18 lipca 1939 wieś ucierpiała w wyniku gradobicia. Deszcz i grad zniszczyły okoliczne pola i łąki.

W latach 1945–1950 Nowa Wieś Prudnicka należała do województwa śląskiego, a od 1950 do województwa opolskiego. W latach 1945–1954 wieś należała do gminy Gostomia, a w latach 1954–1972 do gromady Gostomia.

Mieszkańcy
Miejscowość zamieszkiwana jest przez mniejszość niemiecką oraz Ślązaków. Mieszkańcy wsi posługują się gwarą prudnicką, będącą odmianą dialektu śląskiego. Należą do podgrupy gwarowej nazywanej Podlesioki.

Liczba mieszkańców wsi
 1845 – 209
 1855 – 209
 1933 – 348
 1939 – 341
 1998 – 219
 2002 – 190
 2009 – 209
 2011 – 209

Zabytki
Zgodnie z gminną ewidencją zabytków w Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej chronione są:
 kapliczka
 szkoła, nr 31

Gospodarka
We wsi rozwinięta jest hodowla bydła i trzody chlewnej. Miejscowi rolnicy sprzedają zboże w Prudniku i Głogówku.

Kultura
W Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej działa Niemieckie Koło Przyjaźni (Deutscher Freundeskreis) – oddział terenowy Towarzystwa Społeczno-Kulturalnego Niemców na Śląsku Opolskim. We wsi znajduje się świetlica środowiskowa, w której odbywają się zajęcia dla dzieci i młodzieży. W 1991 w Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej został założony dziecięcy zespół wokalno-taneczny "Źródełko" ("Quellchen"), a w 1995 powstał zespół śpiewaczy "Neudorfer" dla dorosłych mieszkańców.

Religia

Katolicy z Nowej Wsi Prudnickiej należą do parafii św. Jana Chrzciciela w Solcu (dekanat Biała). We wsi została wzniesiona tzw. "grota lurdzka".

Przypisy

Biała (gmina w województwie opolskim)

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What determines the location of a capital. The case study of Ankara, Turkey.
When you look at an atlas, you will see that a lot of capitals in the world are located on or near the coast, but some are located inland although those countries have sea shores. What factors are involved in selecting the location of a capital? Obviously, they could be for the convenience of transportation, climatic environment, political inevitability and so forth. So, from this point, we would like to take a closer look at a particular country: this time, Turkey and its capital Ankara, which is the second largest city after Istanbul.
Turkey with a population of about 76 million (2012) lies at a geopolitically important region where Europe meets Asia. The country has been a critical NATO member especially during the cold war era, facing then Warsaw Pact countries across the Black Sea. For some time, Turkey has been endeavoring to become an EU member. Due largely to this geographical standing, Turkey's history abounds with different cultural heritages: from Greco-Roman empires to the Byzantine Empire, and to the Ottoman Empire.
During the Roman period, Ankara was called Ancyra and became the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia. Then a few centuries later, the Roman Emperor Constantinus founded the capital of the East Roman Empire, which was called Constantinople (later to become Istanbul) as the center of Christian faith, at a vulnerable place facing the Bosporus strait that is the only connecting point between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Constantinople flourished for nearly ten centuries, but was finally conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th Century and was renamed Istanbul as its capital and the center of Islam culture. The Ottoman Empire managed to exist until the end of World War I, when the Turkish empire which had allied with Germany and Austria was defeated and most of its territories were occupied by allied forces. At that time, the Turkish nationalists based in Ankara took the offensive and deposed Ottoman Khalif and set up a republic instead. They established their capital in Ankara. Why didn't they stick to Istanbul as their capital? Perhaps they thought Ankara would be a better place to implement radical political agenda, such as secularism, nationalism, and republicanism.
So, to the question, "why Ankara is the capital of Turkey," the answer is straightforward: it was chosen politically as such. Ankara, which is located more or less in the center of the country, has been developed as a modern city with a population of approximately 4.4 million (2013), whereas Istanbul is flourishing as an exciting cosmopolitan city with a population of more than 14 million (2013).
the first President of Turkey and "the founder of the Republic of Turkey".
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What do you mean, Gemz?
This is probably a stupid question, will the user base need to re-create our accounts?
No. It will be using the existing database when it gets launched "live." Currently it is using a snapshot of the database as of a few weeks ago. But none of the data from the dev site will be moving to the live server.
Basically I'm just trying to find bugs on the new site right now. Potential security issues or odd bugs or anything like that. It's a test run, so to speak. Feel free to use it and try it out. If you find things you don't like or are broken, let us know. Some things are under construction (it is a dev site after all) but still definitely open for being used.
more or less a flashy 'netnexus' logo.
Considering there is a 99% functional development site that could go live today, but we want to make sure other affairs are in order, I don't quite understand the pessimism, but given the track record of NN... I won't argue it.
With that being said, why wouldn't you want it to happen? I'm curious if the sarcasm is meant to be a motivator or apathetic or one day you want to use it as an "I told you so" moment if it plays in your favor? What if NN turns into doing exactly what it says it will now? The history is what makes this place great, but also what kills its progression.
TL;DR - Big difference between a promise and a screenshot than a production-ready, functional prototype.
Heh, I've been able to say 'I told you so' for the past dozen or so projects, I'm really not concerned with it. And none of them ended up giving me any kind of 'favor', lol. If I end up being 12/13, then oh well. It is apathy, I could not care less if it happens or not. If it does, great, if it doesn't, well, that's just more of the same.
Noone can resist their childhood. Not even my little elmo.
I knew Elmo was down with the site re-launch. Pretty much twitterpated.
I, for one, welcome our new layout overlord.
I just want some damn people to play Nations so I have a reason to be here every day.
Blake! Do you think those darn puppies are still alive? It has been about eight years or so.
I like to think that they look exactly the same still. Perma-puppies.
I still remember the first time I played TL back in...2000? Site looked different back then!


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Environment & Climate Issues
deadly virus killing key marine species
Thread: deadly virus killing key marine species
Ass in a Hat
The cause? Climate change of course.
Melting Arctic sea ice could cause the spread of a deadly virus to marine mammals - CNN
Melting Arctic sea ice has opened new pathways for Arctic and sub-Arctic species to interact, and that contact has introduced a potentially deadly virus to mammals in the Northern Pacific Ocean, according to a new study in Scientific Reports.
...two new channels linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between Russia and Alaska. Animals who live there are interacting for the first time, creating a reservoir of the deadly pathogen Phocine distemper virus.
The virus, also called PDV, was first identified in European harbor seals, killing thousands in 1988 and again in 2002. It reemerged in 2004, but this time in northern sea otters in Alaska.
It was surprising that the disease jumped to a different species in a different ocean, said study author Tracey Goldstein, associate director of One Health Institute at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
I'm not at all surprised by this. Just more evidence that climate change is real and it will wreak havoc across the globe.
"Donald Trump is Jesus to followers of Jesus who reject the actual teachings of Jesus."
Found on twitter
Re: deadly virus killing key marine species
Maybe. This is highly speculative and studies following the outbreak among European harbor seals in 1988 determined that this virus is actually native to the Arctic.
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Originally Posted by calamity
I'm surprised anyone trusts what CNN says.
The left says the right is full of racists and bigots and have no tolerance. Nobody from the right organizes interference with gay pride parades, or other leftist events. The left however always has a group interfering with events organized by the right. Who are the tolerant ones I ask? Most certainly not the left.
Well, at least you didn't blame God, like some do, for humans getting cancer...
"For whoever becomes ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." Mark 8:38


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Photo by Paul Stone
Ninja Thyberg - "I've been very interested in porn as a topic.''
Ninja Thyberg
Ninja Thyberg's films revolve around themes such as power, sexuality and group dynamics. In 2012 Ninja won the inaugural New Talent Award, which consists of $300,000 in production support from the Pixel Film Festival in Lund. Thyberg's short film "Pleasure" was the only Swedish film shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. The film, which is about behind-the-scenes of a porn movie, won the Canal+ Award.
Tell me about your background. Where you are from?
I'm from Gutenberg, and I started making films between high school and university. I wanted to be a photographer, and I had also wanted to become a dancer, because I had been dancing for almost all of my life. I was taking photos, and then I realized that with moving images I could combine movement and rhythm with pictures and composition. That was when I fell in love with filmmaking. I felt that film media was so powerful and I could have a big influence on people. That's when I decided to go to film school. First, I did a two-year preparation at the university level. After that, I made a few short films, and my films got into festivals. Then I made a film called Afro, which won a prize called the New Talent Award. The prize was funding to make another short film.
What festival was that?
It was the Pixel Film Festival in southern Sweden. I lived there for a while.
When did you realize that you wanted to be a director?
Well, I went to film school, but I couldn't see myself as a director in the beginning, because first of all, all of the directors that I knew were men, and then I also thought that somehow you had to be some kind of genius. When I started to understand the process of making films, I got dizzy just thinking about all of the things you have to know and the decisions you have to make. I also felt scared of being in a situation where I might never get employed. You have to create your own work, and you have to create your own career. So, that scared me, and in the beginning I was sure I didn't want to be a director, but I didn't know what part of filmmaking I wanted to do. So, I thought maybe editing, or maybe I should be a production designer. But after a while I realized that I was so engaged in telling the stories that I wanted to tell. So, I made some films in the first semester of school. I made one quite long fifteen-minute film. I did everything myself – I wrote the script, directed and produced. I did everything in the beginning.
What was the name of that film?
The title was Egalias High School. It's a comedy, and it's kind of a parody of the American high school genre. But I never understood that I was directing it even though I had such a clear idea on how I wanted everything. It wasn't until afterwards that I realized okay, this is directing. I'm actually directing this.
Let's talk about your film Afro.
Afro was the first film I directed outside of school. I had a decent budget.
What was the hardest part about making Afro?
It was so hard. I think I learned a lot about the process.
Technical problems?
No, my own emotional process, because after a while, when I started editing it, I just felt like it was a disaster. I can't do anything with this. What have I done? I just felt like it was so bad. I had to keep pretending that it was going to be a film, but I was so sure that this would never be a film. That was also how I felt when we were shooting. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. I could feel the panic inside, and that was the worst. Nobody knew that I felt like that. I was able to keep my confidence on the surface. Even though I was totally panicked, I worked it out somehow. After that I had so much more confidence. I gave the material to a friend of mine who is an editor. He didn't make that many changes. He edited it in a way that was quite similar to what I had in mind when I wrote the script, and all of a sudden I really liked it. And now I'm really proud of it.
What inspired you to make the film Pleasure?
Well, I've been very interested in porn as a topic, and I've worked on it from many angles. As a sixteen-year-old I was like an anti-porn activist. I worked with the topic for a long time, and I wrote an essay on porn when I started gender studies. I studied youporn.com, which is one of the biggest porn sites, and I watched the 20 most viewed clips, and I measured different things. I made a qualitative study. I had to watch a lot of porn while I stayed at my mother's house, and that was really awkward. I got interested in some of these female porn actresses, because they do things that are more athletic than sexual and push the boundaries of their bodies. They do stuff that is extremely painful and at the same time have to look at the camera and beg for more, and they have to be believable. I admire these women for their strength. I think it's really complex, and it's not an easy subject to just have one opinion. It was the complexity of that that I wanted to show in the film.
Jenny Hutton stars in Pleasure.
What is the film about?
It's about a young woman who is in porn, and she hears that another porn actress is going to do a double anal penetration, which is quite hard. The male actors she does scenes with are very impressed with the other porn star. She understands that this is someone who needs to be really strong and tough to be able to perform this kind of thing. One of the things I wanted to show in the film was the people behind the porn stereotypes, because they are so extreme, and they are also dehumanized in many ways. I wanted to make them human. What happens in between takes? How do they rehearse? What do they say to each other in the morning when they meet? How do the directors talk to the actors? I got very curious about those details.
What do you hope to get out of this experience at Sundance? Is the film screening at other festivals?
It had a world premiere in Sweden a year ago, and then it went to Cannes. It already had the international premiere, and it's been to Europe. Hopefully, because this is the American premiere, it will be screened at other American festivals. That would be awesome.
I'm developing a feature-length film script, which is also about porn. It's not really an extension of the film, but that was the idea from the beginning. I wanted to make Pleasure as a debut. It's about a Swedish girl who is an up-and-coming porn star in LA. It's a coming-of-age story.
A scene from the short film Pleasure.
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Q: cannot access nodeJS REST API on google cloud ubuntu 16.04 instance but I can ping on the public IP successfully I have a Ubuntu 16.04 instance on google cloud and I can ping the instance with it's public IP, I'm trying to run a nodeJS backend REST-API on it.. I have successfully check API on my local machine, along with mongoDB.
In terminal connection I can see nodeJS my server (API) is running, but I cannot access to it. I have try API calls by using web browsers and postman, but it giving following error after few seconds delay "Could not get any response - There was an error connecting to :" how to solve the issue and what might be the cause for this problem.

A: You need to open the necessary port in firewall rules section
Go to -> Cloud console -> Networking ->  VPC networks -> Firewall Rules
Click create Firewall rules, Add a name, keep the rest in default and in the source ip ranges add 0.0.0.0/0 and in the Specified protocols and ports add tcp:<"your app port">

A: In addition to Kalana's answer, you should also add http-server in target tags.

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Q: Value breaks outputted HTML in XSLT template I'm pretty new to XSLT, and I have trouble with the following:
I would like to have this output:

The First Firm

            Adress:

            The First Firm

            Some Adress 123

            Redegørelser og Rapporter/The First Firm/Miljøredegørelse-2011.pdf

The Second Firm

            Adress:

            The Second Firm

            Some Adress 123

My XML looks like this (the first 3 lines is stripped - the editor didn't like them):
    <Template>
        <loop name="Rows">
          <item>
             <loop name="Row">
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>FirmName</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value>The First Firm</Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>0</Column.Count>
                </item>
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>FirmAdress</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value>Some Adress 123</Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>1</Column.Count>
                </item>
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>Miljoredegorelse</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value>Redegørelser og Rapporter/The First Firm/Miljøredegørelse-2011.pdf</Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>2</Column.Count>
                </item>
             </loop>
          </item>
          <item>
             <loop name="Row">
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>FirmName</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value>The Second Firm</Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>0</Column.Count>
                </item>
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>FirmAdress</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value>Some Adress 456</Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>1</Column.Count>
                </item>
                <item>
                   <Row.ColumnName>Miljoredegorelse</Row.ColumnName>
                   <Row.Value></Row.Value>
                   <Row.Count>0</Row.Count>
                   <Column.Count>2</Column.Count>
                </item>
             </loop>
          </item>
       </loop>
    </Template>

And the XSLT:
<xsl:param name="numcolumns" select="3" />
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Template" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Template">
    <xsl:call-template name="MemberList" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="MemberList">
    <xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Rows']/item[((position() - 1) mod $numcolumns) = 0]">
            <xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::*[position() < $numcolumns]">

                        <xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Row']/item">
                            <xsl:if test="Row.ColumnName='FirmName' and string-length(Row.Value)!='0'">
                                <xsl:apply-templates select="Row.Value" />
                            </xsl:if>
                        </xsl:for-each>

                            <xsl:text>Adress: </xsl:text>

                            <xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Row']/item">
                                <xsl:if test="Row.ColumnName='FirmAdress' and string-length(Row.Value)!='0'">
                                    <xsl:apply-templates select="Row.Value" />

                                </xsl:if>
                            </xsl:for-each>

                            <xsl:attribute name="class">
                                <xsl:text>downloadsection</xsl:text>
                            </xsl:attribute>
                            <xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Row']/item">
                                <xsl:if test="Row.ColumnName='Miljoredegorelse' and string-length(Row.Value)!='0'">
                                    <xsl:apply-templates select="Row.Value" />
                                </xsl:if>
                            </xsl:for-each>

            </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

The output breaks when i'm outputting the Row.Column "Miljoredegorelse" from the second firm.
The Row.Value is displayed correctly  - but somehow the
 afterwards doesn't get out. The first div
 is made selfclosing somehow and looks like
.
Why is that happening? Can someone help me understand?

A: That looks right to me.  Your if condition is testing for
Row.ColumnName='Miljoredegorelse' and string-length(Row.Value)!='0'

and in the example XML you've posted the Miljoredegorelse for the second firm has an empty Row.Value, thus failing the right hand side of the and.  Thus there are no matching items, no child nodes get output inside that div, so the serializer produces an empty element.
If you're producing HTML output then you might get better results if you add
<xsl:output method="html" />

to your stylesheet.  Depending on the processor this might make it use

 instead of
 for empty elements (both forms are identical in XML/XHTML).

A point of style, instead of
<xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Row']/item">
  <xsl:if test="somecondition">

you can merge the if test into the for-each select expression
<xsl:for-each select="loop[@name='Row']/item[somecondition]">

Technically this is not 100% identical but the difference is only apparent if you use the position() function inside the body of the for-each, which you are not doing here.
If the only thing inside the for-each is an apply-templates then you could go even further and eliminate the for-each as well:
<xsl:apply-templates select="loop[@name='Row']/item[
       Row.ColumnName='Miljoredegorelse' and string-length(Row.Value)!='0'
     ]/Row.Value" />


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