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Q: How does std::sort work for list of pairs? Why does this:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

vector<pair<int, string>> list;

int main() {
    int one = 1, two = 2, three =3, five =5, six = 6;
    string bla = "bla";

    list.push_back( pair<int, string>(two, bla));
    list.push_back( pair<int, string>(one, bla));
    list.push_back( pair<int, string>(two, bla));
    list.push_back( pair<int, string>(six, bla));
    list.push_back( pair<int, string>(five, bla));

    sort(list.begin(), list.end());

    for(auto item : list) {
        cout << item.first << endl;
    }
}

work as intended? output is:
1
2
2
5
6

How std::sort gets how to sort my int-string pairs? How to make it do so for some class of mine as pair first? Is there a way to sort by second using std::sort?

A: There is one "obvious" ordering of product types induced by the respective orderings of the components, and that is lexicographical order:
(a, b) < (c, d)  <=>  a < c || (a == c && b < d)

This is the ordering used by operator< of std::pair. In your example, since all the first components are distinct, the ordering happens to be equal to the ordering of the first component. It gets more interesting if you have multiple occurences of the same value in the first component, in which the second component is used to break ties.

How to make it do so for some class of mine as pair first?

You just have to define operator< for your type. But keep in mind that the second component will be considered if necessary and you might not want that overhead.

Is there a way to sort by second using std::sort?

Yes, just use a custom comparator functor. You can always do that if you don't want to use the default operator< for sorting.

A: Since operator< is defined for std::pair and it is based on std::pair::first and then std::pair::second (lexicographical), so your code is working as the standard. To sort it based on the second part of the std::pair you can try this:
std::sort(list.begin(), list.end(), [](const std::pair<int, string> &x,
                                       const std::pair<int, string> &y)
{
    return x.second < y.second;
});

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Minority initiatives build campus connections
A few days before Move-In Day in late August 2019, about 25 freshmen and their families began a journey to pioneer a new initiative aimed at recruiting and empowering minority students to become deeply rooted in the campus community during their time at UM.
These students became the inaugural members of the new four-year Montevallo M.A.D.E. initiative, which stands for "Minorities Achieving Dreams of Excellence."
During their first few days in the residence halls, the M.A.D.E. participants heard from multiple speakers, had a chance to become familiar with the campus and completed icebreaker activities to get acquainted with the group of peers who will be traveling through the program with them over the next few years.
"The overall goal of Montevallo M.A.D.E. is to assist incoming minority students with the transition into Montevallo and then to offer them support while they are here," said UM Director of Executive Affairs and Liaison to the Board of Trustees Dr. Kristalyn Lee. "That will lead to timely graduation and them being prepared for their next steps after graduation. We want to support them from the time that they're admitted students to the time they graduate."
Lee, Student Diversity Recruitment and Relations Coordinator Jason Perry '18 and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Dr. Sierra Turner are working together to implement and continually develop the M.A.D.E. program as it grows.
During the academic year, Lee, Perry, Turner and alumni mentors will work closely with students in the program to ensure they are meeting their academic goals, developing strong social and leadership skills and successfully adjusting to the rigors of college life.
The freshmen who entered the program with the current academic year will become mentors for next year's M.A.D.E. participants, and the program will continue to grow as each new class is added.
During a student's junior year, the program will focus on internships and soft skills development, and senior year will focus on securing employment after graduation. One of the major focuses of M.A.D.E. will be ensuring the students feel plugged in to and involved in the UM family, which often correlates with academic success.
"That's why programs like M.A.D.E. are so important because they provide the academic, professional and social skills they need to not only come to college, but to persist and graduate," Turner said. "It's especially important that when students get on campus they get involved in the surrounding community. We want to help students make those connections. All of this is a very deliberate design to help students engage with what's happening on campus. We want them to feel connected to Montevallo."
Perry said M.A.D.E. is seeking to make potential students more aware of the diverse, inclusive and welcoming atmosphere long present on the UM campus.
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Focused on the big picture
Montevallo M.A.D.E. is the latest program spearheaded by the UM Diversity and Inclusion initiative, and is a component in a larger initiative to recruit, retain and serve all minority students at Montevallo.
As a first-generation college graduate and Montevallo's chief diversity and inclusion officer for more than a year, Turner said she knows firsthand the importance of creating a welcoming, inclusive culture for all students on a university campus.
The University continually gathers feedback from UM's minority students and uses the information to develop programs aimed at meeting their needs and helping them to be as connected as possible to the University.
"One of the biggest things we did was the campus climate survey we did during the spring semester last year. The responses we got were really helpful in understanding the dynamics of the campus," Turner said, noting surveys were distributed to UM students, faculty and staff. Using the information from those surveys, we've been trying to come up with different programming that we feel will address some of those issues or meet the needs of some of the students."
Using this feedback, the Diversity and Inclusion Office has developed multiple programs to help achieve the University's diversity goals.
Meet Me at Montevallo is a program aimed at bringing students from inner-city school systems to Montevallo for a day to experience what it's like being a college student. Each fall, the program focuses on high school seniors and seeks to familiarize them with UM faculty, staff and current students. Spring sessions are aimed at high school juniors and focus on explaining the resources available to UM students.
Montevallo is developing a similar program for Hispanic students called Descubrimos Juntos, which means "We discover together" and will offer Spanish-language tours of campus.
Turner also oversees a program offering scholarships to Birmingham City Schools valedictorians and salutatorians and administers the gown lending project, which helps to ease the financial burden of purchasing a graduation cap and gown for low-income, first-generation college students.
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Q: below=of node behavior weird I wish to draw nodes line exactly below previous line, but below example looks weird.
\documentclass[convert={outfile=\jobname.png}]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,chains,positioning,scopes,quotes,patterns}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    >=stealth',
    node distance=0 and 0,
    block/.style={draw,on chain,minimum size=1.4em},
]

{[start chain=C1]
 %Y
   \node[block] (N0) {Y};
   \foreach \i in {1,...,39} {
       \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,10)==0?1:0}
       \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
           \pgfmathsetlengthmacro\j{\i-10}
           \node[block,below=of N\j] (N\i) {Y};
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,10)>7?1:0}
            \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {Y};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   % U
   \node[block,below=of N31] (N41) {U};
   \foreach \i in {42,...,50} {
       \ifnum\i>48
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {U};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   \node[block,below=of N41] (N51) {U};
   \foreach \i in {52,...,60} {
       \ifnum\i>58
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {U};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   %V
 \node[block,below=of N51] (N61) {U};
   \foreach \i in {62,...,70} {
       \ifnum\i>68
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {V};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   \node[block,below=of N61] (N71) {U};
   \foreach \i in {72,...,80} {
       \ifnum\i>78
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {V};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
}

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Output:

The U,V lines looks good but the Y lines not as expected.

A: Use \pgfmathtruncatemacro\j{\i-10} instead of \pgfmathsetlengthmacro\j{\i-10}. The former will give you a decimal number, so below=of N\j becomes e.g. below=of N1.0, and the .0 is read as the anchor.
\pgfmathtruncatemacro gives the integer value.

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,chains,positioning,scopes,quotes,patterns}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    >=stealth',
    node distance=0 and 0,
    block/.style={draw,on chain,minimum size=1.4em},
]

{[start chain=C1]
 %Y
   \node[block] (N0) {Y};
   \foreach \i in {1,...,39} {
       \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,10)==0?1:0}
       \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
           \pgfmathtruncatemacro\j{\i-10}
           \node[block,below=of N\j] (N\i) {Y};
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,10)>7?1:0}
            \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {Y};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   % U
   \node[block,below=of N30] (N41) {U};
   \foreach \i in {42,...,50} {
       \ifnum\i>48
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {U};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   \node[block,below=of N41] (N51) {U};
   \foreach \i in {52,...,60} {
       \ifnum\i>58
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {U};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   %V
 \node[block,below=of N51] (N61) {U};
   \foreach \i in {62,...,70} {
       \ifnum\i>68
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {V};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
   \node[block,below=of N61] (N71) {U};
   \foreach \i in {72,...,80} {
       \ifnum\i>78
            \node[block,pattern=north west lines] (N\i) { };
       \else
           \pgfmathparse{Mod(\i,2)==0?1:0}
           \ifnum\pgfmathresult>0
               \node[block] (N\i) {};
           \else
               \node[block] (N\i) {V};
           \fi
       \fi
   }
}

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


I've just returned from the most amazing place. I'm not talking about Hawaii, where I spent the holidays with my daughters, my sister and my ex-husband -- though it was lovely, and all the more so because of the foot of snow that's greeted my return to New York. I'm talking about the week I spent unplugged, away from email, social media and TV. Occasionally unplugging from all our devices and techno-distractions is one of those seemingly small adjustments that actually have the power to transform the way we see the world, live our lives and interact with the people who matter most to us. The unplugged version of myself was better able to give these things my full attention -- which, as Daniel Goleman says, is "a form of love." And I was able to remember, to paraphrase Louis C.K., that no device or screen can match the HD quality of the actual world.
I don't want to give the impression that I was experiencing some unplugged paradise. Like any deliberate change in your life, unplugging is a process. Some things made it easier, like the fact that our Huffington Post offices were open on only two days out of the week that I was unplugged. And the fact that I spent a good part of the week putting the final touches on my Third Metric book, which has a lot to say about the value of unplugging and recharging. And some things made it harder, like being in a beautiful, scenic place that called out to be photographed many times a day. And the fact that my unplugging experience gave me ideas for stories about unplugging -- which I was then tempted to email to HuffPost editors with lots of enthusiasm and exclamation points. But I didn't.
One of my favorite definitions of mindfulness comes from Mark Williams, a clinical psychology professor at Oxford, who says that it "cultivates that ability to do things knowing that we're doing them." In the course of my unplugged week, I was very aware of being unplugged. And that awareness has made me more mindful about technology's role in my life, even now that I'm fully plugged in again.
Almost immediately, I was floored by the realization of just how much my phones had become almost physical extensions of myself. During the week, I was constantly reaching for my phone out of habit. Sort of like a phantom limb, only in my case it was a phantom BlackBerry.
It wasn't just my body. My mind was also racing with thoughts about my connectivity-related habits. I found myself thinking about my inbox. Was it piling up? Was I missing emails of earth-shaking consequence? By unplugging now, was I simply adding to my future stress by saving up emails I'd have to respond to later? It was a great relief to know that I had an away message explaining that I was on a digital fast, so at least I wasn't going to be insulting everyone I knew and loved by not promptly responding.
Since I was traveling with my daughters and my ex-husband, I had their (very different) tech habits all around me to consider. For my ex-husband, who hates phones, unplugging comes naturally. But my older daughter Christina is an Instagram devotee who kept instagramming photos and showing them to me. I was dying to re-gram them! But I didn't. It was like having an angel on one shoulder and a devil (with an iPhone) on the other. When we were surrounded by gorgeous views, I felt the tug of my old habits -- I wanted to snap photos and tweet them, post them on Facebook, etc., etc., etc. I had pre-scheduled several inspirational quotes to run on my social media accounts while I was away and unplugged, but a big part of me wanted to share my real-time experiences.
In fact, I found that pre-scheduling inspirational quotes to run while I was unplugged did not work very well, because many of my Facebook friends and Twitter followers thought I was breaking my fast and got very upset with me, as I found out during the one hour a day I had allowed myself to check in with the office on the days the office was open. This is one of the most endearing things about going public with a challenge, as I had found out in 2011, when Cindi Leive and I had taken a similar pledge about sleeping more. The whole world suddenly becomes your babysitter, conspiring to make sure you honor your commitment.
Unplugging meant rediscovering and savoring the moment for its own sake. Which is to say, taking in a view without tweeting it. Eating a meal without instagramming it. Hearing my daughters say something hilarious and very shareable without sharing it.
My unplugging protocol also raised a few questions. For example, during the hour of office check-in each day I had allowed myself, what happens if your daughter walks in the room and wants to chat? Do you add some time to the hour? Is that cheating?
Even though the unplugging portion of the Unplugging Challenge is over, we will continue to examine the benefits and challenges here on HuffPost. Mika Brzezinski and Cindi Leive, my partners in the Challenge, will be blogging about their own unplugging experiences, and on Thursday, the three of us will be on Morning Joe to talk about how it went and what we learned, and yes, own up to the times we fell short. On HuffPost, we'll be continuing the conversation on our dedicated section Screen Sense, including through partnerships with organizations like National PTA, whose president, Otha Thornton, recently wrote about how limiting time on digital devices can help families make the most of their time together.
If you joined us in the Unplugging Challenge, please let us know in the comments section how it went and what the experience taught you.


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Doctor Who: from wizard to superhero
The early Doctor Who (canonical incarnations one to seven - from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy) was a wizard - but the revived Doctor Who is a superhero.
This shows itself in many way, but mostly in relation to sex: a wizard is celibate and asexual - the revived Doctor is sexually-interested and sometimes has girlfriends - even a wife.
Obviously a wizard cannot be married!
Think of the great wizards: Merlin, Gandalf, Dumbledore, Getafix...is it imaginable that any had a wife?
Equally, they cannot have a girlfriend nor indeed any kind of sexual infatuation; and if they do, then they will be punished and lose their powers - if they do not repent.
Think Merlin and Nimue - which got him imprisoned in an oak tree/ crystal cave; think Dumbledore and Grindlewald - which led to the death of his sister but then repentance.
The new Doctor Who is all about smutty innuendos, snogging, declarations of undying love to (serial) companions, besotted companions, and so on - that is the stuff of superheroes.
The sex prohibition for wizards is absolutely non-negotiable, because we are dealing with an archetype: a basic, universal, fixed, symbolic figure.
However, in making the Doctor a sexual being, he has changed archetype: the revived Doctor Who is now a warrior, not a wizard - because the superhero is a version of the warrior archetype.
Warriors are, of course, exactly the kind of people to have a string of (ahem) 'girlfriends' and to become the objects of sexual infatuation like the revived Doctor.
So with the revived Doctor Who we have gone from Merlin to Lancelot, from Gandalf to Boromir, from Dumbledore to Sirius Black, and from Getafix to Asterix (sort of...).
A poor exchange, in my opinion.
Posted by Bruce Charlton at Wednesday, February 05, 2014
TE said...
It seems moderns just can't relate to a sexually disinterested character, unless he is old or nonhuman. I was also annoyed that the new Sherlock Holmes (both Hollywood movie and BBC TV show) is a sexual being when a key part of Sherlock Holmes' character is his lack of interest in sex despite being otherwise Bohemian.
Samson J. said...
It seems moderns just can't relate to a sexually disinterested character
A perennial favourite topic of mine - not sex per se, I mean, but the question of why we can't have literature, movies, platonic friendships, etc., without sexuality clouding the picture. At my former blog I had an interesting (to me) post about the character of Boromir and whether or not it was believable that he was celibate for his whole life. Perhaps, perhaps not - but it's striking that I feel the need to ask the question.
The Continental Op said...
Maybe God has given our society in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. There is precedent.
SFG said...
"It seems moderns just can't relate to a sexually disinterested character."
Wisdom, there. He's got to be secretly gay, or something like that, but the idea that one might actually have other preoccupations is not believable.
I do wonder what young magicians get up to before they become wizards. Too much Dungeons & Dragons, perhaps. ;)
But more apropos of Dr. Who (yes, you've got me on this one, sorry):
1. You can partly blame Russell T. Davies, who was gay and inserted a lot of that in there.
2. They're working a lot harder to appeal to women (somewhat successfully, I find). As a result, you need romance subplots, and the Doctor can't get married or he'd be tied down.
3. Nerdy fanboys (or shall we say introverted young men?) are still a huge part of the audience, so there's always something juvenile about the relationships.
This is part of the reason I believe they added the elf woman to 'The Hobbit' movies. Every show must have an overtly sexual component. Even, maybe especially the Disney tv shows.
Epicurean non-celibate wizards:
Cornelius Agrippa
most Renaissance magicians
Celibate wizards:
Comte de St.Germain
Married wizards:
Apuleius
Dubious cases that require more research:
Norse magicians
Mahometan magicians
some ancients such as Apollonius of Tyana
Note that many wizards have also been priests (whether Christian or otherwise).
I don't think wizards were always celibate. I think wizards are a subtype of shamans, and shamans often engage in temporary celibacy, and some shamans are permanently celibate.
David stanley said...
I have hardly watched the programme since the days of Tom Baker but does anyone else agree the age of the actor playing the doctor seems to go down slightly with each regeneration. Maybe this is just the effect of my own ageing in relation to the doctors age. William Hartnell,Troughton and Pertwee were grandad figures. The recent versions appear to be quite young men. Perhaps it reflects the collapse in authority of older men in society. I am surprised there is no campaign for an Asian female lesbian Doctor Who. That's my prediction.
@voc - Thanks for that contribution - but you cannot refute my point because it is based on archetypes, not empirical data!
(And, of course, I claim infallibility on the subject of archetypes.)
@DavidS - Maybe, but the next Doctor is Peter Capaldi, who is 55 (i.e. in the last quarter of a Biblical lifespan) and therefore older than Hartnell (although he doesn't look as old).
Capaldi has something special as an actor, and is capable of becoming the best Doctor since Tom Baker, in my opinion - but it all depends on the scripts...
Personally, I would like to see a Doctor with a long grey (or white) beard...
@SFG,
"Nerdy fanboys (or shall we say introverted young men?) are still a huge part of the audience"
These are precisely the people who should understand and relate to sexually disinterested / celibate / asexual men. That's what they are themselves! Not always by choice, but often enough.
Albrecht said...
Of course Dr. Who is a player.
In contemporary society there is an unstated but well-enforced standard that every single individual (even fictional figures) must have a "sex life." There are perhaps no more despised figures today than the spinster and the openly celibate male (especially if he is avowedly so). On such people it is permissible to dump any amount of scorn and contempt. Even the child molester, though still officially censured, is afforded grudging acknowledgement of his having sexual "needs" which he is compelled to "fulfill", however "inappropriately."
A man may even seduce and marry a child whom he raised as if he were her father (that he was not her father by law is another token of our moral disorder) and still be lionized as the greatest auteur of the age. Were he to declare himself to be not "sexually active" (even when pushing eighty) his smelly oeuvre would instantly plummet in critical esteem to the level of the gutter, where it belongs.
I have it on good authority that these days sexual peer pressure on girls begins in earnest around age twelve. All manner of modes of "sexual expression" are taught to children by the school "authorities" themselves. Those who can't readily attract attention from the opposite sex are encouraged to engage in dangerous and unsanitary para-sexual activities with others of the same sex. All sex is good and all MUST partake. (Pregnancy and birth, however, are evil.)
Sixty years ago, Elvis was barely fit for TV. Today, his words might as well be engraved over the school house door: "If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair."
Arakawa said...
@bgc
A long, white beard? Naaw, that would make it way too obvious....
@David
I once saw one of those inane Tumblr petitions calling for the next Doctor to be, and I quote, "a ginger woman of colour"... does that count?
Personally, I can kind of see how a female Doctor-type character might work -- at a first approximation, the result would probably resemble Miss Marple with a sonic screwdriver. But I don't think the Tumblr punters would be very happy with that picture. Certainly, the celibate archetype would be even more of a must. I would point out that, if hypothetically we make it the Doctor as opposed to just a different character, it probably requires angelic levels of celibacy for a character to come across as sufficiently androgynous (in behaviour, not appearance) or de-sexualized to switch from male to female and have the audience believe that the change is organic (to the degree of a regeneration) and they're still the same person.
A young, sexualized lady Doctor, on the other hand, would be... a barrel of groans. Not to mention that there's been no shortage of interesting female characters and interesting female Time Lord characters, and interesting female characters who drive a TARDIS and know enough wizardly technical mumbo-jumbo to outwit the evil aliens, already on the show, and more can always be added... what does making the good Doctor another one of these actually add to the concept, besides political signalling?
I suppose ironically, the people who ideologically are the first to clamour for a female Doctor, are probably the least likely to produce a concept of the character that would actually begin to work.
Thinking about this some more in terms of archetypes....
The celibate wizard archetype is someone who acquires supernatural gifts, the price for which is celibacy; in some sense, this symbolizes a 'pure', intellectual existence detached from the life of the body (this is even more clear with the Doctor, because his 'magic' is ostensibly based on science and technology, rather than supernatural charisma over spirits and forces; although in reality he demonstrates such charisma by being able to (implausibly) talk his way out of any situation.)
Logically, this is a bargain that could be made by either a man or a woman. However, it's interesting that all the enchantresses in the Arthurian legends are, on the contrary, sexual archetypes; they're generally seductresses, and their charisma is founded on their sexuality (and their ability to harness it towards a goal -- which is probably the characteristically feminine part of the equation), and definitely *not* from an intellectual detachment from it to the extent of becoming an asexual / angelic being!
(The deep connection between a wizard and an angel -- both are celibate or virginal, both exercise a power over reality -- was aptly drawn by Tolkien, with Gandalf the Grey, of course!)
So in terms of archetypes, the real opposite part to the celibate wizard, would then not be Nimue or Morgan, but something like the prophetesses at Delphi. That's nearest the same idea -- a celibate existence, in exchange for superior power or insight into reality. Have the character employ that insight proactively, in the style of a lady detective like Ms. Marple, and you're getting close to a Doctor-type character. Obviously there are differences, but there is significant overlap where the Doctor's main weapon is already not courage or cunning, but the ability to pull back to understand a situation, and the motivations of the people involved, and solve things by either negotiation or a small, precise technical intervention.
Actually, the real question here is not how a lady Doctor could be made to halfway-work by taking lessons from fictional female detective characters; the question is: why do female detective characters work quite well already? My only answer so far is to refer back to the Sibyl or Cassandra archetype, but that's probably not the best or only answer....
@SFG
"I do wonder what young magicians get up to before they become wizards. Too much Dungeons & Dragons, perhaps. ;)"
Obviously, young magicians are the ones who are too socially inept to pursue the joys of young love, so they don't bother at all, and spend all their time indoors studying complicated spellbooks. Terry Pratchett got this mostly right, I think :-P
In real life, these types of people become computer programmers, which amounts to the same thing.
@Ara - Great comments.
Just to note all archetypes are of a specific sex, and are not symmetrical.
As well as the seductive enchantress, there is, of course, the classic witch - an ancient crone.
But one element yet unconsidered is that the Doctor is a time Traveller - he needs to be travelling. I don't think the Sibyl/ Witch works as a perpetual traveller - the sibyl or witch I conceive of as fixed - she is rooted, always in the same place; and you travel to her (she does not travel to you).
I think this is something deep to do with female wisdom.
"But one element yet unconsidered is that the Doctor is a time Traveller - he needs to be travelling. I don't think the Sibyl/ Witch works as a perpetual traveller - the sibyl or witch I conceive of as fixed - she is rooted, always in the same place; and you travel to her (she does not travel to you)."
Excellent point -- I would largely agree. But that is partly because I write (badly) to let off steam, and one of my characters follows the schtick I outlined above; and, un-coincidentally, the exact trait you describe of being stationary seems to come out organically, both in the sense of being associated with a specific location, and in the deeper sense of having an invisible but well-defined jurisdiction or territory, and concerning herself only with things that intrude on it. So we seem to be thinking broadly about the same thing.
A different archetype that fits here (strangely enough), in terms of combining power and wisdom with a stationary attitude, is that of a dragon guarding its hoard.
(It's an open question as to whether my writing is at all good. Thankfully, the matter of publication, if it ever gets as far as that, is quite easy to solve -- throw the result out as a $3 ebook and then listen to the sound of crickets.)
Ultimately, the ideas I've been describing are probably valid, but glomming them onto the existing character of the Doctor is a thoroughly artificial idea by this point in the show's development.
"Just to note all archetypes are of a specific sex, and are not symmetrical."
It occurs to me that, indeed, while the logic of celibacy as a way to attain an intellectual/angelic/'higher' existence is something that works for either sex, celibacy itself operates differently in the two cases.
i.e. perhaps while the end state is the same (this, I think, is what St. Maximos the Confessor refers to when he speaks of 'overcoming the division' between male and female), the starting points are obviously very different; and because no one (particularly if we consider the more morally ambivalent wizarding trade, rather than the monastic one!) achieves perfect sublimation, the emphasis and traits that are practical/easy to attain ends up being different between the two sexes.
As another wizardly connection, reading up on the topic shows that Jung draws a specific link between sublimation and alchemy. That's fairly apt; it especially captures the fact that the reason the wizard is slightly unnatural is that he tries to attain the angelic estate under his own power, and as an end in itself, rather than it being a possible incidental byproduct of the pursuit of theosis.
That also explains why the wizard is borderline-acceptable in the Christian worldview, or at least the Arthurian worldview, to the extent that Christian knights can make use of Merlin's talents without being guilty of the sin of consorting with sorcerors (i.e. guilty of deviltry), which is held to be a deeply unnatural sin -- unlike a conjuror of devils, the wizard's abilities are not devilry, they rely primarily on a state of being that is not just morally acceptable, but even actively good in a sense, indeed very few people are capable of it; but it was just not meant to be pursued as an end in itself, the way the wizard pursues it, and like any other thing being made an end-in-itself this can result in a subtle spiritual peril.
(This, I think, is different way of looking at things than CS Lewis' theory that the wizard consorts with spirits, which was once "acceptable", but since then things have become more "polarized".)
I don't know for certain. All of these comments are just thinking aloud.
Robert Brockman said...
Without sex we cannot have more wizards.
The problem with sexuality in the modern Dr. Who is that the Doctor is being "paired up" with modern humans, with a fraction of his capabilities and knowledge.
A proper mate for the Doctor would have to be a Time Lady, like Romana. Unfortunately, this wouldn't play to the female audience, which desires the fantasy that a supremely powerful man would find someone like them interesting.
@RB - I understand that the recent storyline about the Doctor's 'wife' River Song was of this type. I found it very unconvincing indeed - but then I never liked the actress playing RS.
Wm Jas said...
I think of Faust (decidedly non-celibate) as the archetypal wizard -- but I suppose he is a fundamentally different type from Gandalf, Dumbledore, and company. Vulture's mix of sexual and non-sexual wizards could be a sign that he is conflating two different archetypes: the Merlin-type wizard and the Faust-type magician. (Certainly Agrippa, Dee, and company belong to the latter type.)
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Nursing as a Career Provides an overview of nursing as a career. Retrieved on June 21, 2004, www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/CertificationandAccreditation/AboutNursing.aspx
ANA Staffing Survey Press Conference Remarks of Mary Foley at National Press Club Feb6, 2001. Retrieved on June 21, 2004, www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/MediaResources/PressReleases/2001/StaffingSurveyPress.aspx
NursingWorld OJIN Nursing Around the World Japan - Preparing for the Century of the Elderly.Primomo,J. (May 31, 2000): Nursing Around the World: Japan - Preparing for the Century of the Elderly. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing . Vol. 5, No. 2, Manuscript 1. Retrieved on June 21, 2004, www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/OJIN/TableofContents/Volume52000/No2May31/JapanElderlyCentury.aspx
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The Nursing Shortage: Is this Cycle Different? Issue of the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing devoted to the nursing shortage. Retrieved on June 21, 2004, www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/OJIN/JournalTopics/NursingShortage.aspx
NursingWorld OJIN-Keynotes of Note An Integrated Analysis of Nurse Staffing and Related Variables Effects on Patient Outcomes Curtin, L. (September 30, 2003) "An Integrated Analysis of Nurse Staffing and Related Variables: Effects on Patient Outcomes" Online Journal of Issues in Nursing . Retrieved on June 21, 2004, www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/OJIN/KeynotesofNote/StaffingandVariablesAnalysis.aspx
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AACN - Media Relations-Nursing Shortage resource. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), a national group representing baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs site that features information links about the nursing shortage. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm
Ethics Frame. Site by the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) that presents a series of articles related to ethical issues. Several papers deal with workforce issues. Retrieved on June 22, 2004 from: http://www.cna-nurses.ca/pages/ethics/ethicsframe.htm
The Impact of the National Nursing Shortage on Quality Cancer Care Oncology Nursing Society's position statement on the nursing shortage. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.ons.org/publications/positions/NursingShortage.shtml
Press Kits, Nursing Shortage Poses Serious Health Care Risk: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care's (JCAHO) site that details information on nursing shortage and solutions. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.jcaho.org/news+room/press+kits/nursing+shortage+press+kit.htm
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. (2002). Health care at the crossroads: Strategies for addressing the evolving nursing crisis. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: www.jcaho.org/about+us/public+policy+initiatives/health+care+at+the+crossroads.pdf
Nursing Transforming Care at the Bedside To offer solutions to nursing shortages, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is work together with nursing leaders and hospitals on ways to develop work settings of hospitals. Links to publications and research on topic. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.rwjf.org/research/researchByArea.jsp?title=Nursing:+Transforming+Care+at+the+Bedside&id=000010
RCN News & Press article RCN warns 'don't be complacent, the nursing shortage is not sorted': Press release by the Royal College of Nursing (Septemebr 2003) about the nursing shortage. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.rcn.org.uk/news/display.php?ID=747&area=Press
Health Care's Human Crisis. Kimball, B. & O'Neil, E. (2002). Health Care's Human Crisis: The American Nursing Shortage. Princeton, NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved on June 21, 2004 from: http://www.rwjf.org/news/special/nursing_report.pdf
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Pan American health Organization. Deyal, T. Hasta la vista, PARADISE!Perspectives in Health Magazine The Magazine of the Pan American Health Organization. Volume 8, Number 2, 2003. Retrieved June 15, 2004 from: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/Number17_article5_1.htm
Nursing and Midwifery Services at the World Health Organization. Nursing site at WHO. Retrieved June 15, 2004 from: http://www.who.int/health-services-delivery/nursing/
International Council of Nurses Federation that was founded in 1899 brings and that brings together nurses' associations from over 120 countries. Active in promoting practice, regulation and welfare of nurses worldwide. Retrieved June 15, 2004 from: http://icn.ch/
International Council of Nurses ICN Workforce Forum Reykjavík. Report by the Icelandic Nurses Association (August 2002). Includes data from numerous countries. Retrieved June 15, 2004 from: www.icn.ch/forum2002overview.pdf
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Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care. Report from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on nursing. (March 2004) Retrieved on June 21, 200 from: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/nursestaffing/nursestaff.htm
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BHPR (Bureau of Health Professions) A National Agenda for Nursing Workforce Racial/Ethnic Diversity is a work that outlines issues of diversity in nursing and suggests a national program to begin to address lack of diversity in nursing. Retrieved on June 21, 200 from:http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/nacnep/diversity.htm
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In West Virginia Coal Country, Farmers Get Creative To Bridge The Fresh Produce Gap : The Salt At least a quarter of people in West Virginia struggle to afford groceries. In one county, two farmers are finding new ways to help their neighbors sell the food they grow and eat more healthfully.
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Joel McKinney stands beside a hydroponic tower that is part of his farm outside the Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank. Roxy Todd/West Virginia Public Broadcasting hide caption
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Joel McKinney stands beside a hydroponic tower that is part of his farm outside the Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank.
In coal country, thousands of miners have lost jobs. While there aren't any easy solutions, in West Virginia, two farmers are doing what they can to keep wealth in their community and provide healthy food to more people.
In the parking lot of the Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank in McDowell County, squash and basil are growing in 18 tall white towers without any dirt. It's a farming method called hydroponics. The vegetables sprout from tiny holes as water and nutrients flood the roots.
Joel McKinney built this hydroponic garden because it produces a lot of food yet takes up just a little space.
"So like for right here I can grow 44 plants, whereas somebody growing in the ground can only grow four," McKinney says. "So I want to do as much vertical space as I can and really amaze people with the poundage of food, because I'm growing up instead of out."
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With so many coal miners out of work now, the number in need of food has soared.
McKinney's mother, Linda, who runs Five Loaves and Two Fishes, sometimes brings food directly to people's homes — especially if she hears there are children going hungry.
"And when you take them food, you will find out it's not just food that they need," Linda McKinney says. "There are a lot of individuals that are so desperate. These individuals are just surviving."
Farmer Sky Edwards has tried to start a farmers market in McDowell County, W.Va., but so far it hasn't been successful. So he travels 60 miles round trip each week to sell vegetables in Bluefield, W.Va., where residents have more cash to spend on groceries. Roxy Todd/West Virginia Public Broadcasting hide caption
Farmer Sky Edwards has tried to start a farmers market in McDowell County, W.Va., but so far it hasn't been successful. So he travels 60 miles round trip each week to sell vegetables in Bluefield, W.Va., where residents have more cash to spend on groceries.
In this West Virginia county, many have given up trying to find a job. And the unemployment rate is almost three times the national average.
This is a major problem, says John Deskins of West Virginia University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research. He says McDowell County has had an economic collapse comparable to the Great Depression.
"We're talking about tremendous, tremendous losses in a relatively short time frame," he says. "We've seen major declines in coal production, major declines in coal employment. But then that spills over into the rest of the economy, right? These coal mining jobs are good, high-paying jobs."
Families have to make choices: Do they pay rent or buy fresh food?
Bradley Wilson teaches geography at West Virginia University, and he says at least a quarter of people in the state struggle to afford groceries.
"In places like McDowell, that's compounded by a lack of access to the very kind of food environment necessary to live that healthy lifestyle as stores like Walmart disappear, or businesses close up shop because the population is declining," Wilson says.
Walmart closed its supercenter in McDowell County this past January. Many residents now have to travel over an hour to buy groceries. Not all of them own a car.
"And even when they go grocery shopping at the beginning of the month, they have to pay somebody to take them," says farmer Sky Edwards.
He has tried to start a farmers market in McDowell, but so far it hasn't been successful. So he travels 60 miles round trip each week to sell vegetables in Bluefield, W.Va., where residents have more cash to spend on groceries.
Kristin McCartney is a registered dietician who works with the Family Nutrition Program out of West Virginia University. She says poor access to grocery stores is one reason so many West Virginians eat unhealthy diets. But it's not the only challenge in encouraging better eating habits.
"There's still a struggle in West Virginia to get people to eat vegetables. We're one of the lowest states [in terms of] vegetable consumption," says McCartney.
That's why, at the market in Bluefield, Edwards often shares cooking tips with customers. Late this summer, I watched as he explained a recipe for roasted squash to a customer.
Edwards has also bought a truck to start a mobile farmers market in rural McDowell. He wants to make it easier for people in his community who don't have cars to access fresh produce. He's also planning to accept food stamps at his truck when it gets up and running.
"You have to make it easy for people to eat better," he says.


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Canterbury's History and Heritage – exciting developments.
Sheila Sweetinburgh
20th October 2018 22nd October 2018
Before I get to the main events of the last week, I thought I would mention three events next month that either the Centre is organising/co-organising (with Kent Archaeological Society) or in which Centre staff are involved. In terms of the latter, Dr Martin Watts will be giving two talks as part of the '100 Years since Armistice' event that will be taking place on Friday 9 November. The programme of talks, music and readings will begin with a reception from 10.00 and will conclude by 17.00, participants having a final chance to view the exhibition in the corridor outside Powell Lecture Theatre. If you would like more details, please call 01227 922994. Regarding the former, I am among the speakers at the 'Exploring Kentish Naming Practices' all-day conference on Saturday 17 November. As regular readers of the blog may have guessed medieval pigs will feature in my talk! For details of the programme, please refer to the webpage at www.canterbury.ac.uk/kent-names or email artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk or phone 01227 782994. Tickets are selling very well, so please if this looks interesting, do have a look and book. Then on Tuesday 27 November at the Becket Lecture, Dr Rachel Koopmans (York University, Toronto) will speak on 'Fake or Fortune? The curious case of Thomas Becket's pilgrims in Canterbury's stained glass' in the Powell Lecture Theatre, Pg09 at 6.30pm – all welcome for what will be a fascinating talk.
Running through the week, on Monday Professor Jackie Eales and I attended a meeting of the Public Engagement Stakeholders group in Canterbury, which as you might guess from the title is intended to bring together the various cultural and heritage organisations in Canterbury and further afield with representatives from the universities. This was the group's second meeting and this time was chaired by Professor Mike Weed from CCCU. There was some interesting discussion, but perhaps the most useful section was Lisa Carlson's presentation on the development strategy she and her colleagues at the Canterbury BID have produced after consultation with various interested parties.
Looking north from close to St Martin's to St Augustine's and then the cathedral
Keeping on the theme of heritage, I attended a meeting chaired by Jackie Eales on Tuesday concerning how Canterbury Christ Church and others intend to celebrate Canterbury's thirty years as a UNESCO World Heritage site – collectively St Martin's church, St Augustine's Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. This is something Mike Butler, formerly of CCCU, is very keen to promote, believing that this is a golden opportunity to bring the three parts together to enhance understanding and appreciation of the global importance of Canterbury's role and place in the development of Christianity. Indeed, the HLF project on Canterbury as 'England's Crucible' back in 2010 which he led did just that, and it is good to know the booklets produced as part of that project are still available. In 2019, the Centre's contribution to this celebration will be a weekend conference on the 24 and 25 May. Jackie has already found several international speakers and she is actively filling in the rest of the programme that may include tours led by Canterbury Archaeological Trust and a visit to the cathedral archives, as well as a series of talks. Others from CCCU who may organise complementary events are Dr Jane Lovell (Tourism), Professor Peter Vujakovic (Geography) and Dr Bob Bowie (Education).
Later on Tuesday it was the first of this term's staff-postgraduate History seminars. These are open to staff, students and the public as part of the university's knowledge exchange initiative, and on Tuesday it was the turn of Dr David Grummitt (Head of the School of Humanities). David gave an extended presentation of his paper at the Fifteenth Century conference at Reading last month. For those who would like to see a report on this, please see: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/showcasing-medieval-canterbury-more-tv-coverage/
As I said before, the incident at the Rosiers is a fascinating violent culmination of various disputes between the civic authorities and Christ Church Priory (a change from the authorities' other principal 'foe', St Augustine's Abbey). While David was talking, I was reminded of Rebecca Warren's MA dissertation from 2010 where she had discussed this and other 15th-century civic-Church disputes and had concluded, as David did, that 'the civic authorities employed a number of negotiation strategies, many of which were typical of other towns in similar circumstances; the implication is that they were fully aware of conflicts taking place elsewhere.' Where David and Rebecca differ to a degree is in their reading of the civic authorities' desire to use the legal processes of the King's Bench, David seeing the senior officers as more willing to do this because they included several London-trained lawyers among their membership. At times during the 15th century their confidence was well founded, but due to an unforeseen unfortunate set of circumstances this did not quite materialise as the civic authorities had hoped in the early years of the 1500s.
Professor Louise Wilkinson introduces Dr David Grummitt.
David's paper generated considerable discussion among his interested audience. As well as matters relating to the authorities' use of the royal law courts, several people were keen to ask whether he saw evidence of the city forming alliances with other religious institutions; what relations were like between the friaries and the city; what relations were like on a personal level between senior civic officers and various abbots and priors, and did he believe such incidents should be seen as evidence of anticlericalism in the city (something proposed by Peter Clark in English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution, albeit for a slightly later period in Canterbury's history). Like Rebecca, David pointed out that the wills of the senior city officers of this period are orthodox in their piety and that many included bequests to named monastic and other clerics, as well as to the monasteries as a whole, which suggests that these senior townsmen were perfectly capable of 'compartmentalising' such matters. Canterbury is not alone in this and Dr Mark Merry, for example, found this same phenomenon at Bury St Edmunds in the later Middle Ages when he was working on his doctorate. However, David did think the presence of these common lawyers in Canterbury with their London and Kent gentry connections may have meant the city was in some senses more ready and able to embrace the religious/legal changes of the late 1520s and 1530s. He may be right, although I'm not so sure having looked at the 'promotion' of the St Thomas Pageant and other civic concerns of the early 16th century, as well as the depositions collected by Cranmer in the early 1540s, which means Rebecca and I are in greater agreement on this point. Nonetheless, it was excellent to hear David's analysis and like his previous work on rhetoric and the use of language in 'Deconstructing Cade's Rebellion: discourse and politics in the mid fifteenth century' (2006), I shall look forward to seeing this in print.
David Grummitt discusses civic-Church relations in 15th-century Canterbury
Moving on to Thursday, it was the second in the Centre and Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust autumn lecture series. Like David's talk, this attracted a good-sized audience of staff, students and members of the public. As Dr John Williams (chairman of FCAT) said in his introduction, it is a very opportune moment to hear Dr Andrew Richardson's (Canterbury Archaeological Trust) assessment of the excavation finds accumulated by the Trust over more than forty years; and how this great collection can be deployed in the future more effectively for research, teaching, conservation and perhaps ultimately display for a part of the collection (allowing that some is already currently loaned to the city's museum service for display at The Beaney and Roman Museum). For early next month the Trust's vast collection (except for that held in Dover) will be moved from Kingsmead and other stores to a newly-adapted, much larger store in the old Adscene and associated buildings in Wincheap. This is a very exciting development and is the brain-child of Professor Paul Bennett (Director of the Trust and Visiting Professor in the Centre).
Andrew Richardson introduces the range of finds held by CAT
Consequently, Andrew started by showing the current state of the Trust's storage facilities, as well as offering an idea of the scale and diversity of the Trust's finds collection which is staggering in its size and complexity. Andrew was also keen to highlight that it is not solely the physical finds that matter, but that context is equally important, and thus the vital nature of accurate recording and the photographic record. He was also keen to point out that it is not only the 'bling' that is valuable, indeed what may appear at first sight rather mundane can be extremely useful if, for example, it provides evidence of local manufacture or particular trade routes. Equally environmental samples may provide evidence of diet, the health of a population and other vital clues about past communities. Nevertheless, Andrew had picked out several photos of items that he said would be in his 'top ten', and he thinks the Trust's most significant find so far is the Dover Bronze Age boat, not least because of the number of publications, conferences and exhibitions it has generated in Kent and in Belgium and northern France.
In addition to showcasing the breadth and depth of the collection, Andrew was keen to highlight the great work done by Trust staff and volunteers respecting washing, cataloguing and caring for these finds. He also described the process whereby certain assemblages were analysed by specialists outside the Trust, as well as mentioning the team employed directly by CAT, including himself as the small finds expert. As he said, he and the others will benefit from this move because apart from anything else they will be together in the one pleasant building for the first time, which should make working more agreeable and ultimately far more efficient. Thus, Andrew finished on a very upbeat note, and, while he is well aware that there may be teething problems at first, this is an extremely exciting and welcome development which has the potential to transform what might be called the post-excavation part of the Trust's work.
Andrew Richardson shows the new finds store
Finally, I thought I would just mention that last night I gave a short presentation to members of OHSCA (Oaten Hill and South Canterbury Association) and the public after OHSCA's AGM. This comprised an examination of people and places in late medieval Ridingate Ward. Consequently, we looked at the vastness of this ward, which is not widely known, before turning to look at who lived there and what they did for a living. I also mentioned some of the criminal activities recorded in the local courts, including the medieval form of fly-tipping, and an apparent case of fencing stolen goods that involved among other items two tails – sold on to a skinner living next to St George's church. However life was not solely work, and we explored leisure pastimes before investigating the relationship between various people and the churches in the ward that had parochial responsibilities – St Mary Bredin, St Sepulchre's nunnery and St Lawrence's hospital (St Edmund Ridingate having ceased to function by this time).To finish, I offered those interested the opportunity to look at four wills made by people from the area, including a local widow and Alice Colman of St Lawrence's hospital. Several people took up the offer and we concluded with a short impromptu palaeography lesson.
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I had chemo last Monday. Every three weeks, indefinitely.
Last Wednesday, I went to a yoga class and ran into one of my regular instructors in the studio's lobby. She asked how I was doing. "Okay, just a little exhausted from chemo this week," I told her. "Oh, is this just maintenance stuff?" she asked me. "Sort of like that," I replied. Most people don't understand that my hair could be growing, I could be in remission, and still need chemo. Most of the time, I don't get into it.
Until scientists find some better detection methods and can tell me definitively that there are no breast cancer cells left, I will probably be on some sort of drug to keep this at bay -- just in case. As well as I'm doing right now, I am not willing to risk taking this safety net away, even if I have been flattened -- crushed -- by the fatigue of it.
Fatigue can be confused with tiredness. Everyone gets tired. In fact, it is an expected feeling after certain activities or at the end of the day. Usually, we know why we're tired and a good night's sleep will solve the problem. Fatigue is less precise, less cause-and-effect. Fatigue is a daily lack of energy; an unusual or excessive whole-body tiredness, not relieved by sleep. It can be acute (lasting a month or less) or chronic (lasting from 1 month to 6 months or longer). Fatigue can have a profound negative impact on a person's ability to function and quality of life.
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF - sometimes simply called "cancer fatigue") is one of the most common side effects of cancer and itstreatments. It is often described as "paralyzing." Usually, it comes on suddenly, does not result from activity or exertion, and is not relieved by rest or sleep. It may not end - even when treatment is complete.
What I'm on is not as harsh as the toxic chemo-chemo I used to be on. This is no Taxotere or Carboplatin. But it is still cumulative (or I am just getting older and less adept at recovery). After 14 months of Kadcyla and almost three years since my diagnosis, I am wiped out.
I don't have the words for how tired this chemo makes me. I was never much of a morning person before cancer, but now I am groggy until mid-afternoon. I am cranky and ornery and feel decades older than my thirty-five years. I feel like I'm moving through mud. I am irritable and short-tempered and I cry at the slightest frustrations because I don't have the energy for a more measured reaction.
Anemia isn't to blame; my blood counts consistently look okay, which was confirmed again this morning. I'm getting what most experts say is enough sleep per night: about 7.5 hours, give or take, depending on steroids or Quinn's sleep gymnastics or my anxiety levels. It's too hot to hike, but I'm still making it to a fairly intense yoga class three times a week, most weeks. (Though sometimes I think I go to yoga to spend most of my time in child's pose, resting on my sweaty mat.) I finished my 39.3-mile walk.
Am I overdoing it when I feel well? Is it being a parent to the energizer bunny? Is it the heat of the Phoenix summer? Am I not drinking enough water? Enough coffee? And the worst: is the cancer growing again?
I'll feel better in a couple of days. I'll make it to yoga again this evening and spend less time in child's pose than I did last Wednesday. Quinn and I will have the day together tomorrow, inventing new ways to beat the heat (I'm thinking ice-skaing lessons for both of us might be in order soon). We'll go to California for Chris's 20-year high school reunion.
And then I'll have a week and a half of feeling nearly normal before this cycle begins again. Just enough time to almost forget how sluggish I'm feeling now.
Are you sidelined by chemo-related fatigue? How do you combat it? What other side effects do you take on in order to keep on keepin' on?
The fatigue is intense. Thank you for this enlightening post on the subject. Your yoga teacher was pretty unknowledgeable and/or insensitive about what you are going through.


I have a feeling I'm either really really close or really really far to a proof of concept that we can take a data served from a CKAN API and serve it up as a recline.js generated map.
The data jquery is for 'bus' and it seems to work.
I will be brushing up on my jquery so I can better handle this API. But I am grateful for Alan's help because it was important for me to know that to make such a map was possible. Thanks Alan!
Thanks to Art R. I now have a proof of concept that uses just the Leaflet.js and not recline. Looking back at it all, I can see that recline.js wasn't really necessary. Still, it was a useful exercise.


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BY Catherine Lambert, Herald Sun
THE therapeutic effect of Come From Away is experienced by many of its audience members.
For Australian couple Iain and Julia Campbell, of St Hubert's Island in New South Wales, that effect was even more powerful.
The pair were among the 6579 passengers who were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, at the time of the September 11 attacks.
Not only is their story re-told with great accuracy in the hit show, but the emotion and sentiment they experienced is also captured perfectly.
"You can't do anything but give that show a standing ovation," Iain says.
"The writers, David and Irene, are genius to create something so entertaining that hits all the marks in terms of the great human tragedy, but also the wonderful generosity and love of the people of Newfoundland."
They were on a flight from Heathrow to Chicago with about 300 other passengers when the captain announced the plane would have to land in Newfoundland. They had to stay on the plane for 26 hours before being allowed to disembark, descending to Newfoundland six hours after the plane had taken off.
The airconditioning broke, it was hot and uncomfortable.
"When we were allowed to disembark, I started to have a sense of how many planes were there because we had no clue there were so many by just looking out the window of our own plane," she says.
"At that stage we had found out about the terrorist attack because the pilot put us through to the BBC radio and we listened to the ghastly descriptions."
Scenes from the Broadway musical, Come From Away, now showing in Melbourne. Picture: PATRICK GEE
As they left the plane and rode on a school buss to the Salvation Army church in the small town of Gambo, the full impact of the crisis they were living through started to take effect. At the church, Iain slept on a pew and Julia lay on an army stretcher.
Added to their stress, their son had a surfing accident in Indonesia where a staph infection threatened to be leading to an amputation. The town folk took pity on them, as they did on all their `guests', and took them to a private home where the people were away so it was vacant. "They gave us underwear, socks, clothing and they were cooking food in their own homes, paying for it and bringing it to us," she says.
"Tables were laden with masses of food and in the private house we had a shower and slept in the bed. The owners weren't there but they trusted us. It was extraordinary."
Her most treasured memento is a hand made quilt made by one of the co-ordinators at the Salvation Army church. She had used it to keep warm during her five night stay in Gambo.
"As I was leaving, I gave the quilt back to her but she wouldn't accept it and insisted I take it home," she says.
"That's why Iain and I just kept looking at each other during the performance we saw of Come From Away, knowing how right they had everything. We were blown away by it and really think it was cathartic for both of us."
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Venus had a wet,
volcanic past
Covered in oceans, continents and flowing lava, Venus may have once been more like Earth's twin than its evil step-sister, say planetary scientists.
Venus is sometimes nicknamed Earth's twin because the two planets share a similar size, gravity and bulk composition. But with a thick cloak of sulphuric acid clouds and a surface pressure nearly one hundred times that of Earth, it is far from hospitable. Planetary scientists believe that a young Venus once possessed Earth-like oceans, which evaporated into space to leave a barren landscape.
Earth and Venus are similar in size, but appearances can be deceiving. Image: NASA/JPL.
Thanks to ESA's Venus Express satellite, the first map charting the planet's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths, and comprising over one thousand individual images, gives scientists another tool in the quest to understand how the two planets evolved so differently.
Radar has been used in the past to penetrate Venus's thick cloud cover that prevents visual observations of the surface, but the new Venus Express map is the first to hint at the chemical composition of the rocks. The data suggest that the highland plateaus are ancient continents created by volcanic activity and were once surrounded by oceans.
"This is not proof, but it is consistent," says Nils Müller at the Joint Planetary Interior Physics Research Group of the University Münster and DLR Berlin, who headed the mapping efforts. "All we can really say at the moment is that the plateau rocks look different from elsewhere."
The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) onboard Venus Express measured the difference in emissivity – the amount of absorbed infrared energy radiated into space – of different types of rocks, during night-time flybys of the planet's southern hemisphere. These observations, conducted at a wavelength of one millimetre, are very sensitive to temperature and can be used to identify the compositions of different rocks. In all images variations of just three to twenty degrees Celsius were noted, instead of the large temperature difference expected from active lava flows.
The first temperature map of the planet's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The map is centred at the south pole and the temperatures range from 442°C (red) to 422°C (blue). The temperature difference is key to understanding whether Venus is volcanically active today. Image: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA.
"Venus is a big planet, being heated by radioactive elements in its interior," says Müller. "It should have as much volcanic activity as Earth." Indeed, some areas do appear to be composed of darker rock, which hints at relatively recent volcanic flows.
Both Russia and America sent probes to Venus during the 1970s and 80s – Venera and Pioneer, respectively – that sampled rocks made of basalt. Basalt is formed from cooling lava erupted by volcanoes, and, as is the case on Earth, where magma up-wells along ocean ridges to make new oceanic crust.
In contrast, the new map of Venus reveals lighter coloured and older rocks with characteristics similar to Earth's granitic continents. Granite is created when basaltic rocks are forced down into the fiery interior of the planet by the process of plate tectonics, which builds and destroys the Earth's crust in an endless cycle. Water combines with the basalt to form granite and the mixture is reborn through volcanic eruptions.
"If there is granite on Venus, there must have been an ocean and plate tectonics in the past," says Müller. Conclusive evidence, however, will only come from sending a lander to the highland plateaus to directly sample the composition of the rocks there.
The results are reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research.


In 1925, after the death of her husband William, Luella Hannan founded the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation to serve aged persons in Detroit. Today, celebrating over 90 years of service to older adults, Hannan's reach extends into the city's tri-county area.
During its first five decades, Hannan provided comprehensive lifetime assistance to hundreds of low-income seniors living in their own homes. Then in 1971, the Foundation built Hannan House, a four-story licensed home for the aged to provide an affordable living environment that promoted independence. In that same year, The John Scudder Foundation for Old People merged with the Hannan Foundation. Founded in 1925 from a bequest by John Scudder, its purpose was also to aid seniors. Since its 1931 incorporation, it has operated with the same board of trustees and staff as the Hannan Foundation.
In 1993, Hannan conducted a comprehensive study of Detroit seniors living in the central city. The results indicated that the single-room housing provided at Hannan House was no longer in demand. Instead, the study showed that access to services was a major problem for seniors. In response, and after consultation with senior service experts, the Foundation converted Hannan House into a centralized location for seniors to access services to meet their medical, social, financial and housing needs.
In 2017, the Hannan Foundation established a separate 501 C 3, Hannan Center, to house the programs of the Foundation. Over 92 years since its founding, Hannan continues to initiate, operate and support a number of programs and services in areas such as advocacy, creative aging and service coordination/case management.
The vision of Hannan Center is that seniors are respected, valued and empowered to reach their potential and connected to a community of their choice.
Commitment to Healthy Aging - Hannan Center is committed to enriching the lives of seniors, enabling them to find fulfillment and meaning in their lives, and helping them to reach their potential.
Empowerment - Hannan Center empowers and enables seniors to make informed choices, advocate for themselves and advance the interests they most value.
Respect - Hannan Center values the life experiences and recognize the inherent dignity in each person the foundation serves.
Innovation - Hannan Center is a leader that pursues novel and creative approaches to enrich the lives of people as they age.


A volunteer firefighter and the former mayor of Cape May, N.J., called for help last Wednesday night after he heard a distress call on his scanner.
The Press of Atlantic City reports that Bob Elwell said he heard a woman screaming in the background, which convinced him the call was no hoax. A 37-foot sailing vessel named Wildcat had reportedly beached within walking distance of Elwell's home. The couple aboard said they were sailing from Maryland to Staten Island, N.Y.
By the time the Coast Guard arrived on the scene, the local fire department had brought the two safely ashore after responding to a phone call from Elwell, who said he was first on the scene.
Though the couple was unhurt and their yacht salvaged, Elwell wondered why he and his fire crew beat the Coast Guard to the rescue. The Coast Guard said it had launched a rescue boat, but aborted the attempt when it learned the fire department was on the scene.