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April 2018 (Volume 27, Number 4)
For SHE's a Jolly Good Fellow?
By Kerstin Nordstrom, Jacinta Conrad, Karen Daniels, Jennifer Ross
In October, APS announced its 2017 Fellows. As mid-career women physicists who hope to one day be named Fellows, we despaired that several of our Units had no women Fellows in 2017. We asked each other: Was it a fluke? Was it true in other Units? For other underrepresented groups? We show that APS Units do award proportionally fewer Fellowships to women, and propose actions that we can take to work towards a less biased process for groups underrepresented in physics.
Our own Units were not unique: zero women were selected in 42 of 97 opportunities in the Units over the last three years. Small-number statistics are often faulted for a lack of representation of women: zero is a common outcome. And while regression to the mean yields symmetric distributions for large samples, small samples (such as Fellowship allocations) exhibit long-tailed, asymmetric distributions [1]. Accounting for the range of outcomes thus requires inspecting the distributions rather than the means.
(a,b) Probability distributions of the number of women Fellows expected for (a) n = 5 selections from a population with 23% women (GSOFT 2017) and (b) n = 10 selections from a population with 13% women (DAP 2017). Arrows indicate the number of women Fellows selected by GSOFT and DAP in 2017. (c) Percentage of Units with at least five Fellow slots classified as under/over-performing. (d,e) Probability distributions of the number of women Fellows from each Unit with (d) five and (e) six Fellow slots. APS data (red) are compared to the expected number of women Fellows assuming the percentage of women members is 10% (dark blue) or 15% (light blue).
For example, the Topical Group on Soft Matter (GSOFT) has about 23% women, and selected zero women for 5 Fellows slots in 2017 (Fig. 1a). In an unbiased selection [1], zero is a common outcome (27%). 73% of the time, however, there should be one or more women, with 33% of the outcomes corresponding to two or more women. Further, GSOFT has selected zero women several years in a row, which is statistically unlikely for repeated unbiased selections.
Because women are the largest underrepresented group within APS, constituting 14% of APS members in 2016 [2], a statistical analysis was possible. We hope that our findings spur similar analyses along other lines. For instance, we observed that Fellows with names of Chinese origin were also underrepresented.
We examined three years of data, excluding students and Fellows from our calculations. We include Divisions or Topical Groups, but not Forums [3]. For a given Unit and year, we compared the number of female Fellows to a null model: random sampling of the Unit population. We then analyzed each Unit's performance—over, under, or neutral—in selecting women (Fig. 1c), determined by median values and likelihoods generated by the model [4]. To be fair to Units with small allocations, we discuss only Units with five or more Fellow slots.
The ratio of under- to overperformance was 3:1 for Unit selections in 2017, prompting our concern. In contrast, 2015 and 2016 had roughly equal numbers of under- and overperformance. This makes the three-year total roughly equal, with a slight edge to underperformance.
While this may appear reassuring, we found other disturbing patterns in the data. Many (9 of 19) Units never overperformed in these three years. Half of the overperformance can be attributed to just three units—the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) [Fig. 1b], the Division of Physics of Beams (DPB), and the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF)—which overperformed in at least 2 of 3 years. In contrast, four units—the Division of Biophysics (DBIO), the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP), the Division of Polymer Physics (DPOLY), and GSOFT—underperformed in at least 2 of 3 years. These include units with both higher (DBIO) and lower (DNP) percentages of women members: more women in the field does not necessarily lead to more or fewer women Fellows. Further, there appear to be overperformers who wash out the underperformers, but in an equitable system every Unit should strive to be fair to its own members.
Next, we compared distributions of selections of five and six Fellows across Units (2015-2017) to the null model for two scenarios (Fig. 1d,e) spanning best and worst-cases [5]. Although the small dataset is sensitive to noise, this exercise nonetheless reveals interesting features.
In selections of five Fellows (Fig. 1d), one data point corresponds to N = 3 women: the Topical Group on Magnetism (GMAG) 2016 selection. All other selections involve zero or one female Fellows; N = 2 is expected once or twice but does not appear. Based on GMAG's selection history and the estimated likelihood of the N = 3 selection, this may reflect a concerted effort to nominate women. Without this point, the data would show underrepresentation in the tail of the distribution (N ≥ 2), and overrepresentation of N = 1.
In selections of six Fellows (Fig. 1e), women are overrepresented at N = 0 and N = 2, underrepresented at N = 1, and N = 3 is expected to appear once in this sample but does not. This suggests that some Units may intentionally overcompensate, though this should not be viewed negatively: nominated candidates met qualifications for Fellowship, and APS has a mission to promote a diverse membership.
We conclude that, overall, there is a subtle but pervasive bias against women being selected as Fellows. Effort by one Unit may counteract the lack of effort of another, but does not fix the issue for women who aren't members of those Units. Through conversations with colleagues, we identified two types of biases at work:
Accumulation of individual biases: Units should both under- and over-perform, so why do we commonly observe underperformance? Nominators may not think of women or may not acknowledge their own potential for bias—no one is truly objective. Committees may stop after selecting one woman per year, without searching their networks for other qualified women. This might be surprising when mid-career women serve in the Unit leadership, indicating that high-level service [6] may not alone raise visibility.
Systemic biases: Cultural biases often lead women to be primary caregivers, and thus make career compromises such as reduced travel. This could make women less visible to their community, even with a strong publication record. Likewise, women may wait for the "right" year to apply for Fellowship: either willingly holding off to feel assured of success, or unwillingly, told to wait. Finally, support for women faculty often drops dramatically at mid-career [7], the key time for Fellowship nominations.
We therefore recommend actions by individuals, departments, Units, and APS elected leaders to counteract biases. These actions must be taken by allies to benefit members of underrepresented groups, as well as those at the intersection of different groups. This problem cannot be tackled only by underrepresented physicists, since it disproportionately adds to their workloads and would further contribute to the sense that they are outsiders.
Individual actions: Any active APS member can nominate! Sponsors should collect at least two letters of support from high-stature persons in the field who can compellingly champion the nominee's Fellowship. For those wishing to nominate a member for Fellowship, please visit the APS Fellowship Nomination Guidelines page for guidelines. Potential Fellows must be APS members as of January 1 of the year prior to nomination; maintaining membership is important for those who wish to be considered.
Department actions: Departments should nominate their senior women for Fellowship. Many departments have awards committees to assemble nominations of mid-career faculty for Fellowship. Because departments are stakeholders in the success of their faculty, increased departmental involvement reduces the chance that less-visible nominees are overlooked. Ensuring that their senior women are recognized as Fellows sends a strong message that departments value and respect women.
Unit Fellowship Committee actions: Annually, each Fellowship Committee should discuss the APS guidelines for nominations, which advise on fair and rigorous practices. Committee members should not assume that they understand the requirements. Fair outcomes are more likely when guidelines are established prior to evaluation. One Committee member should be assigned to oversee the diversity aspects of the nomination process. This person should be respected, and should not necessarily be a member of an underrepresented group.
Unit leadership actions: Each Unit's leadership should view canvassing for candidates as part of its charge, yet Fellowship committees are often formed too late to contribute substantially. Early on, Unit leadership should act on carryover nominations and request a list of senior women physicists in the Unit who are not Fellows. Working from a list is less likely to amplify unconscious biases. Leaders should hold their Fellowship Committees accountable by training in best practices, examining the nominee list, and completing the final selection report required by APS. After the nomination season, each Unit should present the statistics of nominees to their members and Executive Committee. Units should manage the turnover in committee membership because a rotating chair may not have a chance to promote cases from prior years, and a junior chair may have difficulty in requiring actions by senior Fellows.
APS actions: APS leadership has a responsibility to act, and APS staff have been working to improve the diversity of nominees and recipients. Much effort has concentrated on junior members, rather than those who are post-tenure. APS should publicize summary statistics to help Units gauge their performance. The APS Committee on Fellowship could consider additional slots for Units that perform well by metrics like ours. Indeed, APS previously offered an additional Fellow slot to Units that put forward international candidates. We propose a similar mechanism to encourage women and minority Fellows.
The APS Council recently reduced the number of Fellow slots because previous allocations were based on the total membership (now almost 40% students). This will further strain the selection process and may be a reason that fewer women were 2017 Fellows. Taking the actions we recommend will help prevent underrepresented groups from being further marginalized. We hope that this will energize physicists at all levels to combat bias and recognize excellence through Fellowship across a diverse membership.
Kerstin Nordstrom is assistant professor of physics at Mount Holyoke College. Jacinta Conrad is associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston. Karen Daniels is professor of physics at North Carolina State University. Jennifer Ross is associate professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The authors thank Marcia Gumpertz, Scott Franklin, Chad Higdon-Topaz, Dean Lee, and Eric Weeks for insightful comments.
1. aanandprasad.com/diversity-calculator
2. go.aps.org/2FPhQTv
3. Forums account for only 10% of Fellows and are too different from Divisions and Groups to apply our analysis, though their gender breakdown is even more skewed against women.
4. For methodological details visit: tinyurl.com/apsfellows
5. go.aps.org/2HwgMRG. Women received 10% and 15% of PhDs in 1990 and 2003 (a rough approximation of a "mid-career" range).
6. aps.org/publications/apsnews/201707/backpage.cfm
7. doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1411337
The Back Page is a forum for member commentary and opinion. The views expressed are not necessarily those of APS. APS News welcomes and encourages letters and submissions from APS members responding to these and other issues. Responses may be sent to letters@aps.org
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Its funny how something you happen to hear by chance sets off a chain of thought which leads to you linking in your mind something that happened a long way away to something much more local which is just what happened to me recently.
I had the radio on and someone was recounting how a terrible event had taken place on some ground where people were going about their business completely unaware of what had happened in that place so long ago.
Along with two old friends I had taken a trip to London and we had chosen to go by train from our local station which is named Castle Station due to the fact it is situated on what was the site of Northampton Castle, the Castle is long gone but the events that took place there are well documented.
After we had purchased our tickets and were deciding on a plan of action I wondered how many of my fellow travellers were aware that in 1612 the Northampton Witch Trails were held very close to where they were now going about their various business and as these people thought about the journey ahead, perhaps about people who would meet them at their destination in the same place others hundreds of years before had contemplated their own particular fate.
Six of these unfortunates were accused two of them being Mother and daughter Agnes and Joan Browne, their misfortune was to offend in some way a gentle lady one Elizabeth Belcher and her Brother William Avery, Elizabeth apparently took a dislike to Joan, who knows what lead to this probably something quite petty, but Elizabeth accused Joan of putting a curse on her. Miss Belcher fell ill and her Brother was dispatched to lift the curse but he testified that as he tried to approach the cottage of the two accused he was held back by an invisible force.
The two women were incarcerated for some time before being hanged in what is now Abington Park, which again is the last place you would expect such things to have taken place with children playing and their parents relaxing in what is a beautiful park in the middle of the town.


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The fabulous thing about these slides is that they can be used as warm-weather slippers for around the home, but double as fun summer footwear (with massive novelty factor) for special occasions.
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Ty Slides are the not the only newness to arrive in the world of Beanie Boos, some Christmas-themed characters have also just come to town, and be warned - these are ridiculously cute. In fact, it's very hard to choose between them.
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As you may have guessed by now (especially if you see my Facebook updates), I'm continuing my listing streak with The Etsy 365 Project in some form or another.
I don't know if I have another 365 days in me, but maybe I can break it down into more manageable, bite-size pieces. Maybe 90-day increments? That will get me through the lean winter months and just before yard sale season hits.
Some days were harder than others. There were plenty of times the hours would get away from me and it would be 11:30pm with no listing.
On those days, I KNOW if there had not been a public announcement (and expectation!) of a listing I would NOT have posted anything. "Oh, I'll just do it tomorrow". And you know how that goes.
So having that commitment be a public thing was definitely important.
Summer vacation was an especially difficult time. We were gone for almost a week junking in Bouckville, with an unprecedented week at the beach both before and after with only a pitstop home in between. I needed to have almost 3 weeks of listings ready to go every day. That was hard.
The holidays were also difficult, mainly because I was trying to list my Christmas items into my Christmas shop, and those listings wouldn't count as part of my Etsy 365 Project. Add in all the other holiday stuff, and that was really tough too.
My first listing of The Etsy 365 Project (2013); sold three months later.
This challenge is for 90 days. I will probably reup after that 90 days expires, and then maybe I'll take the summer off. We'll see how it goes.
My first listing of the Christmas Countdown Challenge 2013; as yet unsold.
I actually listed 505 new items during my 2013 challenges (365 in my regular shop + 140 in my Christmas shop), plus relisted many items (those figures are not available from Etsy).
How did that translate sales-wise? Here are the stats. My genius boy helped me with the percentages (click on image to enlarge) but this is by no means scientifically accurate -- some variables are missing. But it gives you an idea of how it worked for me if you're thinking of giving it a try. Comparing the numbers from 2012 and from 2013 in my Vintage Junk shop, the views increased by 88%, the favorites increased by 300%, and, most importantly, the sales increased by 66%!
In a little over four months, my new Vintage Christmas shop had 40% of the views my three year old Vintage Junk shop had in all of 2012, 110% of the number of favorites, and 52% of the sales!
I'm not really sure what it all means. All I know is I sold more this year than I did last year. A lot more.
So I'm going to keep going.
If you're thinking of giving a project like this a try, here are some tips that worked for me.
Make it public. Knowing I HAD to list -- since I was both posting it weekly on my blog and daily on Facebook -- made it happen.
Picture this. I took as many photos of as many items on nice bright days as I could. Then I could edit them late at night or whenever, and always had some on my computer for that last minute listing.
Copy and paste. I didn't have many similar items, but if you do, it is easier to make one listing and then copy it and change it accordingly. I still have boxes of sewing patterns I hope to be able to use this technique on.
Stock up. If you find yourself with the time to do more than one listing a day, continue to make those additional listings and save them as drafts. You will be so grateful on those days when it's 11:30pm and you haven't listed yet. Or the kids are sick. Or you're sick. Or you have a work deadline. Or when all of those things happen at once!
So who's with me this year? Anne of Kitschy Vintage is doing it! Who else has made the commitment?
This may have been the most difficult week of The Etsy 365 Project. With all of the holiday preparations going on, I really struggled for the time to list, and I didn't want to list any Christmas items in my regular shop.
This red and green tablecloth would be perfect for the holidays, without any holiday icons.
… and other paper ephemera.
Although I had plenty of Christmas items photographed and ready to go, there was simply no time to do it all. So this week the Christmas Countdown is completely empty! Which I'm ok with, as I am at listing #133 and met my Christmas Countdown 119 challenge.
The Etsy 365 Project -- Week Fifty!
Looks like green was my theme this week -- just in time for the holidays! I reluctantly listed this teal green metal tape measure from the late 1800s and it sold likethat!
The third reluctant listing. This cute little green stool is painted with chalkboard paint on the top for all of your holiday messages. Sigh.
These items weren't green but the props in the photo were. Set of antique German tin molds.
An antique wedding dress on yet another dress form (I need to stop collecting these). The dress has been on this form forever, but I never really cared for it. The dress, not the form. So it's selling, along with the provenance -- attached is a letter from the woman who made it for her wedding in 1917.
345 Antique Tape Measure Green Metal Fabric 1800s SOLD!
More green! And another reluctant listing. I love the antique teardrop shaped ornaments best of all. The pink are my favorite, although these green are gorgeous!
This Italian glass angel was found in a pile of junky Christmas stuff. I really didn't think much of it until my research discovered that they are selling for upwards of $30 on ebay. Sold in days, so don't overlook those hidden gems!
Mr. VJIMT found this for me the other day at an indoor flea market. Another hidden gem; it is made in Germany. The head and hands are wax, and the wings are real feathers! Another big seller on ebay.
128. Vintage Angel Blown Glass Italy Ornament SOLD!
Caught up! And only two more weeks to go in The Etsy 365 Project!
This is one of my favorite pedestal cake plates because of the sweet doggie image -- I think it's some kind of a pointer? Anyway, I haven't really listed any of these on Etsy, but figured this one needed a broader audience to find its rightful owner. So on to The Etsy 365 Project it goes!
I thought about keeping this necklace and earring set for myself, especially for a holiday outfit, but it is little too short for my tastes. Love the color though!
Speaking of color, I couldn't believe my eyes when I found this bright and vibrant tablecloth at a flea market. It was just tossed on a table, and amazingly, only has a small dirt smudge on it. And the original manufacturer sticker.
I love these boxes of old thread. Not sure why; I'm not much of a seamstress.
This was a piece of an old framed mirror that had seen better days. We salvaged the top part. It sold fast!
Here's another excavator that came from my son's room. Even though it's missing its rubber on the wheels and the chain on the crane, it also sold within days of listing.
343. Vintage Architectural Salvage Wood White Shabby SOLD!
344. Vintage Tonka Orange State Hi-Way Dept Crane SOLD!
I was able to list lots of Christmas items this week -- lIke this set of glittery Putz houses, made in Czechoslovakia.
These little flocked birds are so sweet!
A choirboy ornament from Japan.
I think this sequined ornament represents the dancing Cossacks in the Nutcracker. What do you think?
122. Vintage Christmas Angel Tree Topper Gold Japan SOLD!
I'm still a couple of weeks behind on the recaps, but should be all caught up by the end of this week. These December listings seem to be the hardest, what with all the other holiday things going on. At some point I will need to go shopping -- somewhere other than flea markets!
I found this antique "A Christmas Carol" book last year but never listed it. This edition brought good money on ebay; I'm hoping for something similar!
I thought about selling the pages of this French dictionary individually, but that just seemed wrong since the book was in good condition. Someone else must have thought so too; it sold quickly.
Bright, vibrant graphics on this "Storm King" sheet music.
This blue excavator has been in my son's room since he was little. We used vintage trucks to decorate, since that was his thing back then. Not so much anymore, so off it goes (don't worry, there are plenty of others).
336. Antique French Dictionary Book Heath 1000+ Pages SOLD!
I didn't list much by way of Christmas this week -- mostly this lot of vintage snow flake (and other) boxes; two have sold.
108. Vintage Christmas Mica Snow Flake Box Penguin SOLD!
110. Vintage Christmas Snow Mica Flake Box Box Graphics SOLD!
I am behind on my weekly updates but not on my daily listings! Let's catch up with Week #47 of The Etsy 365 Project.
This little aqua teapot is so cute. Too bad it's missing its lid. But still!
Sweet little Brownie Starflex camera and flash in its original box.
And how adorable is this little Boston Terrier (?) figurine planter?
330. Vintage Banner Haddonfield New Jersey Pennant SOLD!
Got my Christmas listing mojo back this week and was able to put up a lot of old inventory. The color wheel was one of the few "new" items listed.
This blow mold Santa is a cookie jar!
Adorable little set of wooden angel ornaments, made in Japan.
Those dang elves are everywhere! This one is a door hanger.
100. Vintage Reindeer Figurine Porcelain Japan SOLD!
More clocks and cameras listed this week on The Etsy 365 Project! I especially like the face on this one. It's dated 1931, and made in Canada.
A Brownie Reflex camera, from the 1940s.
A Polaroid, from the early 1960s.
Anybody know a "Betty Anne" who would enjoy this tin?
317. Vintage Kodak Duaflex Camera Kodet Lens SOLD!
I slacked off a bit with the Christmas listings -- only listed one item, but what an item! Styrofoam, glitter, and mercury glass vintage kitschy craftiness at its best. Sold within minutes of my posting to Facebook!
098. Vintage Christmas Tree Craft Handmade Unique SOLD!
Wow -- things are starting to fly out of my Etsy shops! I sold some big stuff -- a vintage aluminum Christmas tree that went to Canada; some heavy stuff -- both of these gorgeous framed in rounded glass religious prints; and some international stuff -- two cameras, one to London and the other to France.
This game, however, has been languishing for months. I decided to sell the pieces individually instead of just one big set. Let's see how that works.
I found a stash of cameras hidden underneath some Shiny Brites, so they were listed as well.
A few nice pottery finds made their way into the shop too. This atomic-shaped mid century ashtray is a lovely combination of aqua and teal.
This incomplete Lusterware tea set is a beautiful periwinkle blue and peach.
My research of this luminous Waterbury clock led me to the haunting history of the "Radium Girls", of which I am now obsessed. Do you know their story?
312. Vintage Kodak No 2 Hawkeye Camera SOLD!
I found a giant box of vintage blow molds at our school's annual Christmas bazaar. My volunteer shift hadn't yet started and fortunately I was able to scope out the yardsale section of the event. These elves (gnomes?) are almost all gone. The box also held snowmen and Santas.
This pretty tablecloth by Fallani and Cohn sold quickly too.
092. Vintage Gnome Blow Mold Elf Blowmold Light SOLD 5!
096. Large Vintage Tablecloth Christmas Wreath SOLD!
It's fast and furious now! We are in prime holiday shopping season so you know what I'll be doing these next few weeks.
I'm curious as to what's going to happen on January 1, 2014. Will I be exhausted from the daily listings? Numb? Depressed? And more importantly, should I do it all over again?
An undated set of framed child silhouettes. I always feel like I should remove the backs of framed items to try to find a date. But those old nails are so off-putting I never do.
A gorgeous electroplated Victorian-era teapot. I love the patina and wouldn't polish it a bit. How about you?
Rustic primitive blue wall hook.
Handmade vintage illustration of the Sacred Heart.
I barely had this gorgeous camera listed when it sold to the United Kingdom. A photographer friend wanted the other (#308) when she saw the posting go up on my Facebook page, so that's probably the quickest two sales I've made. Glad I found the hoard of cameras I had; the rest will go up next week.
308. Vintage Argus Camera C3 Brick Two Tone Tan SOLD!
309. Vintage Camera Kodak Junior 620 Six 20 Case SOLD!
On to the Christmas shop. Here are a bunch of plastic reindeer picks.
A pretty and sparkly plastic tree topper, made in Italy.
I love the color and graphics of this old box of Christmas lights. The lights themselves look pretty hazardous!
I found a few Putz churches and houses I had from last season. A few of them could use some TLC, especially this really large church. But it's musical, and I'm sure someone crafty will fix it right up.
080. Vintage Santa Snow Globe Shaker Mica Kitsch SOLD!
081. Vintage Reindeer Picks Gold Fawn Deer NOS SOLD!
We hit item number 300 on the Etsy 365 Project this week! I can't believe there are less than 65 days to go.
I love brown transferware and have a few pieces, although I don't know the best way to display it. So this one's listed.
I also listed this huge soft green enamel tea kettle, even though I wanted to keep it. Our kitchen is yellow and red, and the green just doesn't work. Although I do love the color; maybe this is the impetus to get rid of the yellow and start a jadeite collection!
I have a bunch of these Handwork Kunstlerschutz German animals and started listing them individually. This guy's my favorite.
297. Vintage Religious Print St. Therese of Lisieux Mary SOLD!
Lots more Christmas stuff listed but I really, really need to list like five items a day to catch up on all of my holiday inventory before the retail season is in full swing.
I have three of these adorable wreaths but am only listing two; the third has a reindeer without any antlers so I'll just keep that for myself!
This Santa sugar container was originally part of a stacking set -- the creamer is his body -- his eye blinks when you look at it from a different angle.
This red flocked Santa, reindeer, and sleigh is complete in its original box. More kitschiness!


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Voyaging with Wagner
We live two lives. Everyone does, although we seldom acknowledge it.
The first is the life we know daily, the ordinary life filled with people and things. It is the life of work and fast foods, traffic and journalism. It is a loud, swarming stage, with 7 billion competing egos jostling for their air.
In such a life, it is easy to become submerged, easy to lose our way. The demands of survival and success blind us to the larger, more important issues.
Which is why that second life is so very important. That is the life we recognize when we are alone at night under the starry sky. In this second life, the 7 billion disappear, and we are conscious of only two players: ourselves and the universe — the single, moving, conscious point on the infinite ground.
We become aware in a way we cannot during busier times, that the universe we live in is intensely beautiful and awesome and is driven by a power we cannot conceive of — and what is more, we are a part of it and have been given the chance to participate.
In the first life, we are never more than an extra in a crowd scene, but in the second life, we are each the protagonist in our own autobiography.
Or more exactly, we are each the hero of our own existence.
It is this second life that animates one of the most extraordinary works of art ever conceived, one so huge, multifarious, demanding and overwhelming, that only a few people are willing to invest themselves in it. Those who do, tend to become unbearable to those who have not. They become Wagnerites.
In one way of looking at it, the history of art is a vast pendulum that swings back and forth between works created out of the friction between peoples, on a personal, familial, tribal or national level. The individual and his place among human society. The other extreme is art that examines the individual and his place in nature and the universe. We move from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth, from The Marriage of Figaro to the Symphonie Fantastique. One shouldn't have to choose, but the fact is, one's Zeitgeist chooses for you which paradigm will be most valued during your lifetime.
It is this second life that animates Richard Wagner's 15-hour quartet of music dramas, The Ring of the Nibelungs. The massive theater-and-music work tells the story of the creation and death of the universe, and the human actions that animate it. If you are looking for a concise story with a coherent plot, turn instead to Bizet or Puccini; Wagner focuses directly on that inner life that pivots under the constellations.
That is why so many people love his music, and why just as many hate it. The Ring is populated with gods and heroes. La Boheme is populated with people. La Boheme is — on the surface, at least — about the first life; The Ring is unapologetically about the second.
There is, in some cultures, the idea of "The Long Man," that is, the individual seen as the summation of history: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny — the one life contains all life.
So that Wagner's retelling of all of history is also the birth and death of each individual consciousness.
Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas, begins with Eden, a perfect paradise in which the creatures who inhabit it are perpetually in touch with the radiance of nature. The beginning of the opera — and of the cycle — is unprecedented in music history.
It begins with the watery creation of the world, and the composer wrote it in the key of E-flat. The opening of the first of the Ring operas is one of the most astonishing stretches of music in all of history. Wagner holds onto a single E-flat major chord for a full four-and-a-half minutes — 136 bars, longer than some Mozart symphony movements. That is an eternity in music without a change.
It begins in the basses with a deep fundamental note, which breaks slowly into a rising arpeggio on the E-flat chord and slowly speeds up to a crescendo of runs and arpeggios — an immense pile of busy-ness, but without any of the forward sense of motion that harmonic progression provides.
In this, Wagner has provided a musical metaphor of the Hindu concept of maya, or illusion. He had been reading Indian philosophy — albeit in the very German version of Schopenhauer — and his illustration of the idea is perhaps the clearest in art.
Before consciousness, it is said, the mind is like a placid lake reflecting the sky perfectly. But such a state is impossible, for a breeze is inevitable, and it breaks up the surface into ripples and waves, and the sky — eternity — is then reflected individually in every wavelet. Such is creation in Hindu philosophy, where we are all fragmented into individuals by the accident of the animating wind. But the fragmentation is an illusion — maya. The busy play of the world is just a trick; eternity itself is unchanged.
So Wagner shows the indestructible and unmoving E-flat spinning out into a busy surge of notes, building the world into existence.
The idea came to Wagner while he was drowsing, dreaming he had fallen into a rushing stream of water.
"The rushing sound formed itself in my brain into a musical sound, the chord of E-flat major, which continually re-echoed in broken forms," he wrote. "These broken chords seemed to be melodic passages of increasing motion, yet the pure triad of E-flat never changed, but seemed by its continuance to impart infinite significance to the element in which I was sinking.
"I awoke in sudden terror from my doze, feeling as though the waves were rushing high above my head. I at once recognized that the orchestral overture to the Rheingold, which must long have lain latent within me, though it had been unable to find definite form, had at last been revealed to me. I then quickly realized my own nature; the stream of life was not to flow to me from without, but from within."
"Within" — That's the second life.
In one of the most prodigious imaginative feats in history, Wagner then managed to create most of the remaining 15 hours of music in his Ring from the initial 4 1/2 minutes of arpeggio — fragmenting it further, turning it upside down and inside out, to generate most of the melodic ideas in his epic.
So that, just as all scales and harmony in Western music are generated through overtones of the fundamental bass note, so all of Wagner's universe likewise grows from that one, deep vibration.
That "radiance of nature" is also the gold at the bottom of the Rhine river. The three nixies who "guard" the gold sing its glories.
It is the "visionary gleam" of childhood that Wordsworth elegized in his Intimations ode.
It is Nature, unsullied by greed and striving, which is the philosophical ground of The Ring. And it is Nature that is disturbed by the theft of the gold by a dwarf, who gives up any hope of love in order to possess the treasure and its power.
So, love and power are the two poles of the moral universe in The Ring, and they play out against each other for the remaining three operas.
And in the end, the gods die and the world is engulfed in fire and flood. All that survives, at the final notes of the fourth opera, Goetterdaemerung, is the high, hanging violin melody that we have come, in all those hours of music, to associate with the redemptive power of love. It is the final word on life, history and the cosmos, and just as the world is destroyed it provides the hope of the next creation, just as our children provide a hope against our own deaths.
This is more than an entertainment: Wagner is trying to say something genuine about existence and to the extent we are open to his music and ideas, we will value them.
In the second life we all lead, the same two forces play out: career versus family, law versus justice, greed versus generosity, selfishness versus universal love. In each case, the first binds us in pain and frustration and the second redeems us through a connection to the transcendent.
Such an ambitious aim in art is held in great suspicion these days, where too easy a transcendence turns quickly into sentimentality. And a great deal of what followed Wagner is mawkish. We are much more comfortable now with a skeptical irony. After all, Wagner's grandiosity fed into the rise of Nazism in Germany. Wagner was, after all, Hitler's favorite composer.
(Wagner, himself, was an awful man. A ridiculous anti-Semite, a ruthless user of women and patrons, and more than comfortable living the high life on other peoples' money. Take my word, you wouldn't have liked him.)
But Hitler looked for the Germanness in The Ring and ignored the humanness. The narrowness of his ideology is the very thing Wotan, the chief god in the operas, comes slowly to understand is the cause of human misery.
We are all, if we are truly sentient beings, on something like Wotan's learning curve.
There is a great deal in The Ring. It is the single most compendious work of art in European history. Wagner manages to take on rapacious capitalism, national identity, Schopenhauer, Hinduism, mythology and the role of the artist, among other things. There are as many interpretations of The Ring as there are hearers. And that is as it should be.
There are Freudian interpretations, Jungian ones, Marxist readings and neo-Feminist glosses.
Yet, it all comes down, in the end, to an awakened awareness of our second life.
The Ring has its faults; it is not a perfect work of art. It is sometimes dull for stretches as bits of plot are rehashed. Like Rossini said, there are some great moments and some tedious quarter-hours.
And in some sense, it is quite silly to take all this seriously. With its dragons and horn-helmeted Valkyries, its gods and dwarfs — to say nothing of its 200-pound sopranos — it can be hard to see past the adult fairy tale aspect. To some, it is as tedious as a musical version of Tolkien.
Yet, the music itself, underlying and amplifying the experience of The Ring, reawakens in us our awareness of our second life, which is ultimately the source of all that is good in life for ourselves and those we love.
Finally, as the critic Longinus says, all great works of art are flawed and we should always prefer flawed greatness to perfect mediocrity.
And make no mistake, The Ring is truly great.
A SHORT RETELLING OF THE RING — SO FAR
Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is a four-opera monument to myth, history and psychology. First performed in 1876, The Ring was designed to be played on consecutive days as a single, 15-hour unit, broken up into these four operas, or "music dramas" as Wagner called them:
Das Rheingold — In this prelude to the main story, Wotan, the chief of the Viking gods, gains and loses the gold stolen from the Rhine River. The gold confers power on its possessor; unfortunately, it has been cursed and it also confers death. To retrieve the gold for himself, Wotan concocts an elaborate scheme, which plays out in the subsequent operas.
Die Walkuere — Because he is bound by his own laws not to get the gold himself, Wotan fathers a hero, Siegmund, to do it for him. Siegmund falls in love with his own sister, Sieglinde, and Wotan, again bound by law, is forced to kill Siegmund, but Wotan's daughter, Brunnhilde — who is a Valkyrie, or divine warrior maiden — saves Sieglinde and her unborn child. For her disobedience, Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep on a mountain surrounded by fire.
Siegfried — Sieglinde's child, Siegfried, is raised in the forest by a dwarf. The hero kills the dragon that guards the gold and climbs the mountain and awakens Brunnhilde. Wotan's plan seems to be working, except that Siegfried isn't really interested in the gold.
Goetterdaemmerung — The title translates as "The Twilight of the Gods" and shows the sad end of Wotan's plan. Siegfried is drugged by the evil half-dwarf Hagen — who also wants the gold — so that he forgets Brunnhilde and plans to marry Hagen's sister. Brunnhilde feels betrayed and joins with Hagen to kill Siegfried. When she realizes that Siegfried had been tricked, she sings one of the most difficult 20 minutes in opera, and in remorse for her part in the murder, rides her horse into the hero's funeral pyre, igniting the final conflagration that destroys both the world and the gods. Wotan's plan has failed, but Wotan has achieved something more valuable than the gold: Wisdom. As the opera closes, hints of the redemptive power of love suggest that the world can start over again with a fresh beginning.
To unify the sprawling story, Wagner used repeated musical phrases — called leitmotivs, or leading musical ideas — and developed them symphonically over the 15 hours. The music expresses the emotions and thoughts of the characters — sometimes hidden — and the music changes as the characters grow and the plot thickens, helping the audience keep track of what is happening.
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Tongjiang is een stad in de provincie Heilongjiang van China. Tongjiang, gelegen in de prefectuur Jiamusi, telt ongeveer 170.000 inwoners. Tongjiang is ook een arrondissement.

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The article "Enough" got me thinking of all the violence around our area. We live in the quiet city of La Mirada, about 40 minutes from Los Angeles. But sooner or later there is going to be violence here, too. This article made me realize that anything can happen anywhere. This article also taught me to be safe more often and not be stupid all the time.
I was touched by the article "Enough" because it reminded me of when I used to live in Norwalk. All of the drive-bys and stuff, the shootings and too many murders happened.
This article also reminded me of my brother. He was involved in gangs and violence and was always getting in trouble with the cops and my parents. As a little girl, I didn't know what to do as I watched my brother get beat up by gangs. I sometimes cried while I watched. I remember my brother always telling me, "Baby, go back inside." My brother means the world to me because he's my only brother and I would give my life for him.
After we moved to La Mirada it's been peaceful and quiet. No robberies. Now my brother's a well-behaved man. He's married, going to college and has twin babies on the way. He's really smart now. Since we set foot in La Mirada he's changed. He's a good influence in my life.
I really like the article "Enough." My cousin Jackie lives in East L.A., an area known for kids dropping out and getting pregnant. That's probably why she got pregnant at 14. One time I slept over at her house for two days and by 8 p.m. everything grew dark and all I heard were gunshots, dogs barking and people cussing. About half an hour later, I went out to see a bunch of boys getting out of a car. They beat up a teenager and took him with them. I don't know what could have happened to him, but I do believe Christina Quarles was right in her story, when she said that bad things happen everywhere. I think my cousin was affected by the other kids dropping out and getting pregnant at a young age.
I think the article "Enough" was very sad. We need to get rid of the gangs. We need to stop all the shoot-outs, drive-bys and murders in the bad cities. We need to stop the gangs in L.A., Compton, everywhere. We need to stop all of the gangs in the United States. If we can do that then everyone won't have to fear coming out of their homes and ending up dead somewhere. Everyone will live in a more peaceful place.
I have been around death. Somebody in my family died because of your war. I cry because of death and you have caused more than 3,000 deaths. Think about how many people you have made like me. I'm lucky, I have a great life. But war and death still affect me. Think about the wounded, the men and women without legs and arms who are still scared. You have made a big mistake.
The article "The courage to be shy" was my absolute favorite. They boy in the story relates to my life. Paul was always a shy person and when I read about making the phone call it reminded me of myself. I don't like talking on the phone at all, unless it is one of my best friends. I do not call people and when I do I say very little.
The article reminds me of a time when I really liked this girl. I thought she was the nicest person and had the best personality. That girl was very pretty but that was just an extra good thing about her. I used to accidentally run into her in the hallways and walk her to her next class. Whenever I was right next to her, I would barely talk because, like Paul, I thought I was going to say the wrong thing. After reading this article, it made me realize that you can always try to do things and that you shouldn't be afraid to say things.
Also, I was very lazy and once I read the part where Paul said that he had a homework plan and that it was helping him, I thought about it and said t myself, "I really want to graduate this year." So lately, I've been doing all of my homework and trying not to get distracted.
I have been shy all my life. When I went to someone's house I would just sit on the chair until someone came and told me that we had to leave. Even when we had to go to a relative's house who I knew really well, I still wouldn't say anything except "hi" and "bye." I'm still shy, but not as shy as I used to be. Sometimes when I go to parties with my three older cousins, I just sit in a corner and don't do anything except watch my cousins dance with their girlfriends or watch other people dance. Sometimes I talk to people who I don't know and most of the time I'm too shy to talk to people who I already know. That's weird isn't it? Well, I'm getting less shy every day and it's actually cool to talk to others and not be shy or nervous wondering what they're thinking about you.
When I was in the Philippines, I was loud and fun to be with. But when we came here to America I became shy. My classmates didn't even talk to me, because they thought I was boring. Then I realized that it's been a long time since we came here and I still didn't have a single friend. To make friends, you have to be fun and especially not be shy. I tried not to be shy, so I talked to my classmates. (I was nervous that day.) They said "hi" back to me and we started a conversation. I learned that being shy means you don't have friends and that not being shy is the best way to make friends.
I could relate to this article very much. I'm a quiet and shy girl. Well, I'm not really shy. When I was in the Philippines I was really outgoing and very friendly. But when I came here, I became quiet and shy, just like Paul (who wrote the story). When I'm in my classes, I don't talk to anyone. I just like doing work and nothing else. So when I look at people who are not afraid to express themselves, I feel jealous. But now that I'm in eighth grade, I decided to overcome my shyness and try to be friendlier and get out of my own little world. Now I'm not that shy anymore and I participate in class. I feel great since I can express myself.
Sometimes I feel very shy. It's hard for me to meet new people because they are going to walk out of my life sooner or later. It's hard to watch people go, especially for stupid reasons. When I lose a friend I feel like I lost a piece of me. I also hate changes, because when things change it means that life is flying by really fast. And when you grow up it feels like it only took two minutes to reach that age. The important thing is to live your life the way it is, because there is no better life. Life is life, and you should never look back.
After reading the story "I don't need 'em" I felt like I needed to take a look at my life and be grateful for what I have. This story really gave me the opportunity to humble myself and thank God that my family loves me and takes care of me.
This story is about Shimia's life growing up without parents and a family that cares about her. Despite that, she stays positive throughout. She has really inspired me to be thankful for what I have and to be more determined to actually be someone when I grow up. I really admire Shimia for being so optimistic through such tough times.
This story made me realize how important my family is. Even though my sister and I fight a lot, there is still love in our relationship and I think that is important. I believe that everyone should have a close relationship with his or her parents. I would not be able to handle not having a mom and dad and never seeing them. I would feel devastated to know that I lived my life without my real parents and had to stay at a foster home not being able to talk about my feelings with my loved ones. Without family, people would be lost and would feel that they have no hope or future. My family is my influence in life and they guide my steps as I grow older. I think that everyone deserves a good family and a good life.
The article "I don't need 'em" made me feel sorry for this girl. I can't imagine what she or any other foster kid would feel when they finally meet their real family. I felt so bad when I read this and heard that her family didn't really care about her. My feelings changed when I read about auntie Doe Doe. I felt so happy for her. This young girl has made me think about others instead of myself. She also showed me my list isn't that bad.
Could I be Rose Queen?
I was very interested in the "Could I be Rose Queen?" article because I am going to attend one of the schools eligible for the Rose Court. I am going to attend Marantha High School in Pasadena. This article inspired me to at least try to run for the Rose Court. If I run for Rose Queen I would like to break the stereotype of only smart, pretty girls becoming Rose Queen. I might not be the prettiest or the smartest girl, but I can try.
Reading the newspaper gives us ideas about how other countries are struggling around the world and how they are trying to fix problems and also other things that they're doing. In addition to this, newspapers can also be useful in other ways like improving our spelling and grammar. Reading the newspaper can also help us do better in school in many ways, because people can learn new vocabulary. Therefore, I believe that by reading a newspaper you can learn many things.
I strongly disagree with the writer about Evanescence's new CD, The Open Door. I think the change in the band's music is awesome, because it has given more feeling to the songs. I also did not like when the writer mentioned that "it sounds like someone scratched a chalkboard" when describing Amy Lee's voice. When I listen to it, her voice sounds full and strong. I would definitely recommend Evanescence's new CD to anyone and everyone.


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See, feel, immerse yourself in colour
Pamela Buxton
Sumptuous colours and luxurious materials saturate the senses at this V&A show
Installation view of The Fabric of India at the V&A. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Fabric of India is pure colour therapy. From the stunning poppy-patterned carpet at the entrance to the designer saris at the end, the V&A's new exhibition is saturated in rich colours, lively pattern and exquisite detailing. When I emerged from the museum afterwards, South Kensington seemed markedly pale and drab by comparison, despite the Indian summer weather.
The exhibition has a very wide scope, exploring not only the materials and processes of handmade textiles in India but their roles in religious devotion, as objects of wealth and power, and in international trade. Exhibits range from ancient fragments of patterned textiles several thousand years old right up to some amazing contemporary expressions by Indian fashion designers.
Houndstooth sari by Abraham and Thakore double ikat silk Hyderabad 2011. Credit: Photograph courtesy of Abraham Thakore
Rabari childs jacket cotton embroidered with silk Kutch 20th century. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wall hanging detail cotton appliqué Gujarat 20th century. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Muslin border embroidered with beetle wings probably Hyderabad 19th century. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wall hanging detail cotton appliqué Gujarat for the Western market ca. 1700. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ajrakh inspired jacket by Rajesh Pratap Singh digitally printed linen New Delhi 2010. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Floorspread painted and dyed cotton Coromandel Coast ca. 1630. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
I certainly learnt a great deal about the intricate, often ancient processes behind the 200-plus exhibits, from different types of fabric through to dyes and dyeing, patterning, stitching and other embellishment. Film footage is interspersed with the raw materials and finished textiles to great effect. The silk worm story is particularly engaging – incredible that it can take up to 4000 cocoons to make just one silk shawl. The richness of detail and material is evident throughout.
Aside from the sheer virtuosity of the textiles on display and the stories of how they were worn and used, the exhibition is fascinating for its account of their international popularity. From centuries before the Europeans established their own trade routes, Indian textiles were traded as far afield as Africa, the Middle East and Japan. Indeed in Ancient Greece and Babylon, the word India was shorthand for cotton. We learn of the northern European craze for 'chintz' in the 18th century that had society ladies sporting Indian bandannas as traditional motifs were reinterpreted for a new audience.
Richly coloured saris. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Gorgeously decorated fabric is used in many different ways. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation at the show. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A relatively small but important section looks at how the textiles took on a political significance when cheap imported textiles produced in Lancashire mills threatened the livelihoods of countless thousands of spinners and weavers in India. There were mass spinning protests and Indian nationalists incorporated the spinning wheel into their flag. Mahatma Gandhi himself learned to spin.
Post-independence exhibits consider attempts to protect and nurture the hand-made textile traditions. Creations by contemporary fashion designers bring the subject right up to date with some intriguing takes on the traditional sari, including Kallol Datta's Suicide Print, and, at the beginning of the show, Manish Arora's fabulous satin, silk and vinyl butterfly dress.
Gitta Gschwendtner has done a great job on the exhibition design, starting at the entrance set piece where thick red cords spread out from the exhibition title lettering above visitors' heads. More red threads – symbolic of Indian textiles - are used vertically to create a red-lined passage to navigate the potentially awkward transition to the second series of exhibition spaces, as well as on a map to illustrate trade routes. The atmosphere is enhanced by a specially commissioned soundtrack by composer Jason Singh. A treat in autumn, this colour shot will be even more of a tonic in the depths of a cold English winter.
The Fabric of India, October 3 – January 10. Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London
Jason Singh
Kallol Datta
Gitta Gschwendtner
The right type: Design Museum celebrates Margaret Calvert's work
Three woofs for Kenya Hara's Architecture for Dogs exhibition at Japan House
Art show brings hidden homelessness into focus


So I have a confession to make. Sometimes...I contemplate quitting writing. I think about people who are not authors, who work their M-F jobs and have weekends off and I think about all the things they can do that I don't have time to do because I am writing this chapter or editing and revising this chunk...But then when I think about their activities and free time, it doesn't seem anywhere near as interesting to me as what is going on in this or that story. SO I pick up my pen, laugh at my silly idea of quitting, and get back to "work"
How could I possibly quit? I didn't quit when it was much much harder...how in the world could I quit now, when I am so much closer to the next chapter of my life...what if tomorrow everything changed but I quit today and missed it all?
One tid bit I will share from the conference (more's coming), is the bit that was hit home most often and by the most people....if you can walk away from it...do. If you can't...then you're a writer and welcome to the world. Once you are in this world...you are in it for the duration. Just as there is no crying in baseball, that is no quitting in writing.


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2022 will see historic high farm incomes in US
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the subsequent surge in grain and livestock prices are predicted to drive U.S. farm incomes to historic highs this year
The agency forecasts net farm incomes, a broad measure of profits in the agricultural economy, to rise to $160.5 billion in 2022, from $141.0 billion last year, an increase of $19.5 billion
The agency said that a proportion of the growth in the crop sector was due to sales of corn, soybeans and wheat, while livestock cash sales receipts were also expected to jump
WASHINGTON D.C.: The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that as producers are benefitting from high global grain and oilseed demand due to tight supplies, the subsequent surge in grain and livestock prices are predicted to drive U.S. farm incomes to historic highs this year.
The agency forecasts net farm incomes, a broad measure of profits in the agricultural economy, to rise to $160.5 billion in 2022, from $141.0 billion last year, an increase of $19.5 billion.
The agency said that a proportion of the growth in the crop sector was due to sales of corn, soybeans and wheat, while livestock cash sales receipts were also expected to jump nearly 31 percent to $256.0 billion.
Adjusted for inflation, net farm incomes in 2022 would be at its highest level since 1973 and net cash farm incomes at its highest level on record, the agency added.
However, the agency stressed that production costs are up considerably, with almost all categories of expenses predicted to be higher in 2022, most notably feed, fertilizers, lime and other soil-related inputs.


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Lovers or not, like your kids or not, this Please Hold Hands Revolving Door Warning suggests that keeping in touch is appropriate for traversing the moving portal. But in an emergency there is a fail safe device in the form of a cutoff swith above and beyond the Revolving Door Warning. I might have signed that a bit too, but you get the idea from the Emergency markings alone. Seen at King of Prussia Mall, Philadelphia. I observed customers using singly and in groups and it worked perfectly. Though I did not observe one instance of Revolving Door Warning hand holding. Consider this Please Hold Hands Revolving Door Warning from various distances in the gallery of images.
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For all humanity: The legacy of Apollo
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Sex and robots: The future of human intimacy?
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
The true cost of university finance
How Romania's strays became a brutal business
Forest Green Rovers: Eco-friendly football
Casting call: The vulva diversity project
Social justice: Good or bad?
The fashion industry's skate culture obsession
Egyptian fashion designer you didn't know about
Make-up bans: Rebellion or individuality?
Subverting feminism with pink tulle
Natural wine culture
The future you
Why are there so few women chefs?
Jerk and Jollof: Breaking down barriers
The woman behind the man
Tinder safety
Polyamorous and proud
'My child saved me from domestic abuse'
What if your car could evolve with you?
Driver to Drone: Are flying taxis the next big thing?
Are electric cars the way to go?
Pollution in paradise: The mission to save the turtles
Our plastic problem
Oslo: Fluctuating climates and costs
Dark Tourism: Holidays in Chernobyl
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Freya Starr
Ana Pallares begins every painting with a quote.
First comes the idea, a feeling or thought – perhaps she will lock eyes with a stranger in the street for a moment, or be hit with emotion while sitting on the beach. Then comes the quote, she puts it to words. Finally, Ana conceptualises the image and begins drawing.
"I try to materialise and put out my feelings and thoughts so I can see them properly and model them," she explains: "So I'll get the feeling in my head but I can play with it on the canvas and make it my own somehow.
"I select a character in terms of what I feel in the moment, for the initial sketch that is." Pallares, is by any stretch, a precocious young talent. At just 26, she has widely exhibited in both solo shows and residencies across London and her home country Spain to great acclaim. This month has seen her fourth independent exhibition at the Hundred Years Gallery in Hackney.
Colour, text and pattern are combined for effect [Marcin Sz]
We meet on a chilly Sunday morning at the small and charming space where Pallares perches on a large sofa by the window. Surrounding her are her paintings, covering the adjacent walls.
Her work is visceral, loud, in your face and exploding with raw emotion. The paintings have a restless energy about them – bright acrylic faces and figures seem to literally burst off the canvas and call to the viewer. Often shocking, often funny, these paintings confront such themes as pain, love, sex and death unflinchingly.
"The drawing is very spontaneous but the details are not," Ana says, pointing to a large canvas work. "The details are very organised. It might seem confusing sometimes but they are there for a reason. So if I choose blue and orange, the other has to be yellow and purple."
She motions to two adjacent skulls on the canvas behind her and tells us: "the process is actually quite mathematical."
With each narrative of worry, sadness or even terror however is an undercurrent of humour. A 'tragic humour', as she puts it, that provides, even in the darkest moments, and edge of self-deprecation. Colour too bursts from each canvas, an almost paradoxical element to the often heavy subject matter.
"I've always been attracted to colour, I can't explain it. It's just natural to me. It's the same reason there's little space on the canvas. You see I am painting to be a mirror of my mind and mind is full of thoughts Everyone I guess but I don't think there's a lot of space in my mind. So consciously or subconsciously I cannot leave a lot of space."
Ana's work is deeply personal and tackles her worries and beliefs [Marcin Sz]
Pallares, who hails from Barcelona admits she has been drawing her whole life. As a child, she cut figures out of magazines, creating characters and comic stories for them. An interest in painting however began as a teenager while studying the history of art during school. This coincided with a difficult period of her life, but through her artistic flair she found a safe space.
"For so many years of my life, I felt so isolated. I had friends and a supportive family, I'm very lucky. But isolation is not always in terms of being alone," she says.
"You can be surrounded by people and still feel alone. I felt super misunderstood, and it led to me to a state where I needed to connect with reality or connect with others. I think through art is my way of doing it. I'm so happy when others can connect with the feelings in my paintings, that's the point."
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Ana's grandmother [Marcin Sz]
The artist's earliest inspirations were rockstars and later painters like Basquiat, who Pallares found allies in. "I see a lot of honesty in their work. I like to see the heart of the artist or their passion. There are some contemporary artists where I look at their work, and I feel so empty.
"Kurt Cobain, for instance, he was so full of life and rage, and he had so many brave things to say – he was not scared, and Basquiat too. Every time I see one of his paintings, I feel the energy," she smiles.
Montse Gallego, director of the Hundred Years Gallery and Pallares's representative in London, saw the young artist's talents from the beginning. "Almost everyone feels stopped by her work; there is no person who passes by with indifference. In that way we can say she not only has potential as someone who makes art but as something that touches our subconscious," he said.
Eternal Life: the thin line between life and death' is certainly the artist's most personal set of work to date. Its central theme of death was inspired by her grandma's recent passing and the journey of self-discovery that resulted. The two were incredibly close, and Pallares' grandmother acted as a confidante in times of need.
"In my past, I've seen death all around. I worry a lot that the people in my life, something's going to happen to them. What I've learnt through the death of my granny is that there is something positive about it. The thing is without death, there is no life.
"There was an occasion where I was so sad over the death of my granny, but I was thankful I was able to spend these moments with her and her knowledge. You can cry – I did cry, but I thought, let's make something beautiful out of this, let's celebrate this person who we were so lucky to have in our lives."
The progression of not only Pallares' skill but her emotional realisation is apparent. The top floor of the gallery, which houses her previous work, presents some jarring imagery. Burial of my Youth, painted in 2013, shows the artist's imagined own burial scene, her parents at her side.
The exhibition focuses on shifting opinion to more acceptance of death [Marcin Sz]
"In burial, for instance, there was youth, and maybe it was crazier," Pallares explains. "The ones I'm doing now, I think are more mature. I'm more aware of what I want to say and how to say it," she continues.
In the gallery's basement level stands Pallares's most recent works, which embrace the natural process of death with maturity and confidence.
A large painting reads 'THE QUEEN IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN' in a gorgeously psychedelic piece which features exhaustive details of words and print that go to form a woman's face and presents a message of hope.
Gallego agrees, as a mentor and friend, she is seen and exponential growth in her prodigy's talent. "It's an irrational thing. She's progressing and at the same time, she is presenting without any kind of shame, without any kind of fear."
Pallares nods, in the last year, she has strived to make beauty out of hardship. "I know in the future, sometimes it will be good, and sometime it will be bad, but art will be there for me.
"I want to take my destruction and make something productive out of it. You still have to struggle with this, but you are smarter, somehow creating this art out of it in the battle.
"Your demons use you and put you in bed, but you can use them somehow and win the fight with them."
All images courtesy of Marcin Sz, with special thanks to Montse Gallego at the Hundred Years Gallery .
Edited by Franziska Eberlein, Kesia Evans & Oliwia Dworakowska.
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Lokysta je řeka v Litvě, v Žemaitsku. Pramení necelý 1 km na sever od města Laukuva. Zpočátku teče směrem severozápadním, po 2,5 km se stáčí na jihozápad a po dalším 1 km na jihovýchod, kříží silnici č. 197 Kryžkalnis - Kaunas ("Stará žemaitská magistrála"), potom se pozvolna stáčí na jihozápad, kříží dálnici A1 Klaipėda - Vilnius, začíná poněkud více mírně meandrovat a stáčí se na jih. U vsi Nevočiai protéká Nevočiajským rybníkem, dále protéká západní částí okresního města Šilalė, kde se kříží se silnicí č. 164 Šilalė - Kvėdarna, stáčí směrem západním, teče podél silnice č. 165 Šilalė - Pajūris - Vainutas, po několika km se od ní ponenáhlu odklání směrem západoseverozápadním, začíná postupně více meandrovat a vlévá se do řeky Jūra u vsi Kirnės jako její levý přítok. Název řeky Lokysta je zmiňován od roku 1394.

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That's how corporate Yahoo likes to refer to its staff members, but when I was growing up in the South, being called a "yahoo" wasn't a compliment. Somewhere between a flake and a yokel is how I'd have defined it, if asked — a hapless fool, a few steps behind the rest.
To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices. Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo, and that starts with physically being together.
Marissa Mayer must have anticipated the storm of criticism that would follow as the country's most visible dual player in both the chief executive and mother roles, a C.E.O. many had hoped would forge new ground in the intersection between work and family. Instead, she has apparently taken away workplace flexibility formally, and even grasped at that beloved perk of the white-collar job: the ability to wait at home for the cable guy.
Why? Research has found that both men (PDF) and women want workplace flexibility, and both are more satisfied when workplaces have flexible policies in place. Employers often assume that workers offered workplace flexibility will take advantage of it in the negative sense; but research, again, hasn't supported (PDF) that assumption. In fact, in a study (PDF) published the same day as Yahoo issued its memo (but which was widely reported earlier), call center employees at a company in China randomly assigned to work from home were both more efficient and more satisfied.
All of this has been said before, and can't be unknown to Yahoo, which presumably has its reasons for eliminating full-time work-from-home positions — among them, perhaps, appealing to Wall Street. The new policy is already getting some favorable reviews in the business press.
But it is the one-size-fits-all subtext of the memo — Kara Swisher of All Things D reports that "numerous sources told me that the decree extends to any staffers who might have arrangements to work from home just one or two days a week," and that "one top manager was told that there would be little flexibility on the issue" — that's disturbing, and even more than that, it's the memo's presumed source.
Many parents hoped for better things from Ms. Mayer, who persuaded Yahoo to hire her while pregnant. And while she doesn't seem to have missed a beat after the birth of her young son, she presumably has a solid understanding that family life comes with unexpected demands. Those unexpected demands are cushioned by the presence of a staff for someone like Ms. Mayer, but for most parents, they're not entirely absorbed — and Ms. Mayer is clearly intelligent enough to know that not everyone can have the house manager wait for the delivery of the new water heater.
If offering full-time work from home positions doesn't work for Yahoo, so be it. But in so adamantly pulling even the simplest uses of flextime off the table, Ms. Mayer is letting the side down — and by side, I don't mean women and mothers. I mean every parent who has ever left a sick child watching television with a phone and a set of numbers on the coffee table, and every adult child who has left a parent in a doctor's office awaiting test results while rushing back to work.
Of late, as the conversation has shifted to one of workplace balance for all; as men have joined in, as high-profile workplaces like McKinsey have begun to recruit women who left to start families back to the fold, it has felt as if things were beginning to change for working families. Yahoo's tone-deaf memo isn't just a blow to flextime and to working parents. It's a move in the wrong direction by someone who might have led her company the other way, and while that move would have been just as wrongheaded coming from a male C.E.O., it would have felt more like business as usual and less like business going backward.


For this week's six, I've chosen another snippet from my work in progress, SILVER LININGS. My previous posts from this WIP are here, where Parker has just walked into Billie's life again after being away for a decade. Annabelle and May are Billie's great-aunts.
Here are my six. There are a couple of scenes between this excerpt and last week's.
When Billie entered the room, Annabelle grinned conspiratorially at May. Just as Billie was about to ask what was going on, a movement caught her eye - it was Parker.
What were her great-aunts plotting now? And why was Parker crouched by the wall?
Thank you for stopping by to read my Six Sentence Sunday post.
Check out the Six Sentence Sunday website to find links to more author blogs and snippets! The other writers who participate in this are fabulous and talented - so check them out!
Um, yes, yes, yes! Lol!
I love Annabelle and May! They clearly know what they're doing here.
LOL! Okay that is just TOO good! What a fun six!
I love the aunts, and it sounds like she's being treated to a pretty impressive view! Great six!
Oh, this is a whole lot of fun! What a lucky girl. Great six, Lorraine.
LOL!!! Loved that last part! Great 6!
Haha! Good read...great place to stop, too!
Sounds like her thoughts are going someplace she doesn't want them to.
Thanks. All is good - just a little chaotic. ;) I can't believe we get possession of our new place in two weeks!


This conversion of 26.68 kilometers per square second to decimeters per square second has been calculated by multiplying 26.68 kilometers per square second by 10,000 and the result is 266,800 decimeters per square second.
how many bytes is 3,845 kilobytes?
how many millimeters per square second is 9.4 decimeters per square second?
how many miles per liter is 8,073 gallons per 100 miles?
how many bits is 70.11 kilobytes?


What then, keeps you up at night?
And I, of course, thought of something rude.
I don't know why that is. I mean, I'm not a teenager anymore. Rather an almost forty-year-old woman.
But I still manage to misread signs wherever I go, and not because I'm dyslexic. Although, two of my children are. They have inherited that from their father and not from me.
I know I'm not dyslexic because my misreading always shows me to be a fantasist. Or immature. Take your pick. Like I notice the swear words in wrongly broken down syllables or the other day, I read on my site the number 5 from my stats, then the word million from a post title and lobbed them together with the word views (at least also from stats) and, of course, gave myself a near heart attack from the sheer excitement of the moment.
Not only because my highest hitting post so far has only 106 hits. But the million part would also be in numerical form, wouldn't it?
What keeps me up at night (and in this context I mean actually being up, as in not having gone to bed) is the fact that my mind ping pongs awake the moment all the children are, finally, off to sleep.
And once I'm in bed, I'm kept awake both by the not-so-gentle snores of my husband and the ramblings of my incessant mind.


The soothing beige and white interior is simply decorated with sepia photos. A few trendy gimmicks may appear, like liquid pizza or red pepper that looks like a perfectly laid egg, but both are as tasty as they are amusing. An antipasto of carciofi stufati, artichokes with fresh black truffles and sage, has prime ingredients but a bit bold to give the 'choke much breathing room. Unmissables: aromatic primo of Flan Royal alle erbe con polenta morbia e tartufo nero, deliciously fragrant with herbs that let the black truffles do their magic. Also, risotto made from sweet and hot peppers cooled down with a bit of mint. The stinco di agnello was beautifully seasoned. Tender braised lamb came with two superb sauces, one herb and the other a traditional rich brown sauce. The filet of venison with red mirtilli berries and pumpkin puree is another treat. Antipasti and primi range €10-15, meat dishes €18-24, or a three-course meal with cheese or dessert runs €45-55, an especially good value when costly ingredients like truffles come into play.


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Teacher's Pet
By Jeff Erno
Release Date Jan 7, 2015
Type Novellas
File Formats epub, mobi, pdf, zip
Full Nelson: Book Three
Detective Chris Nelson faces another murder investigation. This time the victims are educators—a college professor and a high school teacher—and both are gay. Jared Bressman, the first victim, is found strangled in his apartment. A few days later, Stephen Hayes is found in his home, a victim of the same type of assault. Chris must piece together the clues to find a connection—if there is one—between the murders and stop the killer before he strikes again. Once he discovers that the killer also has a link to someone close to him, Chris races to beat the murderer to his final victim.
Cover Artist: L.C. Chase
Series Full Nelson | Book Three
Genres Gay / Romantic Suspense
Newest Most Positive Most Critical Sort
Review of Teacher's Pet
By Wicked Reads
on Apr 2, 2015 09:04
The first chapter of this book threw me quite a bit. A lot actually. Mr. Erno goes into significant detail about the procedures of investigation and Chris's job as a police detective. Had this been the first book in the series it would have made sense to do that as an introduction to the character, but as Teacher's Pet is the third book in the Full Nelson series, it just seemed out of place. Now that I've got that out of the way, I will say that the rest of the book flowed smoothly and kept me glued to my Kindle until 1am because I had to know what happened.
The book opens with Chris receiving a call from his husband Ethan who has just learned that a close friend has been arrested for murdering his boyfriend, who is a colleague of Ethan's. Despite the conflict of interest, Chris is assigned the case and he sets out to find the killer. Mr. Erno brings his ever present talent to Teacher's Pet and proceeds to lay false trails and present plausible explanations as decoys while Chris works doggedly to find the person responsible for the deaths of not one, but two gay teachers. When the connection between Ethan and the second teacher is found, Chris's determination increases even more as the case hits way too close to home. Not surprisingly, I didn't know who the killer was until Mr. Erno decided it was time for that reveal.
While the author has been consistent with how well-crafted the police drama aspects of this series have been, I haven't always been impressed with the sex scenes. In Secrets I felt like they had been added just so the book could be categorized as an M/M romance. In Glitter the cutaway sex scenes were more consistent with the way scenes in the book as a whole seemed to jump around, or I was more accustomed to the author's writing style. However, in Teacher's Pet, the sex scenes flowed with the storyline, complementing it rather than interrupting it. Because they flowed, they felt more natural, and subsequently hotter than those in the previous books in the series. The special announcement that Chris and Ethan made at end was a perfect way to wrap up the book while leaving the door open for a sequel. While it's awful to wish for death, Chris is a homicide detective and I can hardly wait to see what he encounters next.
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Reviewed by Angela at Crystal's Many Reviewers!


The Second Noble Truth page is up. Considering the subject, it is quite short but I hope I have got the basic ideas across. The Second Noble Truth, or source of suffering, is an interesting subject and something that requires meditating on. May you benefit from the document provided .
Anyway, read and comment as you will.


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Q: How to remove specific characters from strings in sql I've got a table with a column. I want to change a part of some strings in the column.
Input
6|Drivers Manuals
BH-EB531
TRST-BACMN-
Desired output
Drivers Manuals
BH-EB531
TRST-BACMN
Below was the code I tired to execute
 select REPLACE(REPLACE(COL, '6|', ''),'-','') FROM Table

Output
Drivers Manuals
BHEB531
TRSTBACMN
the script need to remove '6|' and last character only if it was '-'
Can any one help me to achieve desired output

A: SELECT (
        REPLACE
                (CASE
                    WHEN RIGHT (COL, 1) = '-'
                        THEN LEFT(COL, LENGTH(COL) - 1)
                    ELSE COL
                END, '6|', ''
                )
        )
FROM Table

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David Adedeji Adeleke otherwise known as Davido has approached the overall population to petition God for him as he sets out on a 'noteworthy' melodic venture.
Artist Davido has quite recently uncovered he's going to discharge the greatest hit and highlight in his music vocation.
The artist while sharing the uplifting news on his page, additionally asked his fans to appeal to God for him as what is coming will change his life without a doubt.
"Keep me in your petition I may have quite recently recorded the greatest element of my profession that can actually change my life and furthermore I at long last got a discharge date for 'NWA BABY'… clear your playlist!! Daddy coming!!" he posted on Twitter.
2017 was the time of the dad of two as he discharged four straight hit tracks sequentially and he shut the year with a sold-out show at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos.


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Fake donation site set up for lone plane crash survivor
by: Sylvia Masters
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Saturday's plane crash brought about many emotions.
Unfortunately, con-artists take advantage of tragic incidents like this one by creating fake donation web sites.
Sharane Gott, with the Better Business Bureau of Acadiana, said, "Such a horrible event. Everybody's heart is just full of emotion and scammers take advantage of that."
And they've already begun.
The website Gogetfunding.com looks legitimate. But, a con-artist used the name and picture of crash survivor Wade Berzas to create a fake page with a $5,000 goal, it says will go to medical expenses.
"If it's on a GoFundMe site, eventually you will be able to know, but there's no magic wand," explained Gott. "Now, if it's not on GoFundMe, which is an accredited business that you can trust, then I would say be very cautious."
Berzas' family has said they did not authorize the site, nor do they know where it came from.
Meanwhile, there is a legitimate GoFundMe page set up for the ground survivor from the plane crash, Danielle Truxillo Britt. As of this afternoon, it has received almost $30,000, more than its $2,000 goal.
Gott said, "Most people respect GoFundMe, so what happens is crooks use part of that to get that legitimacy. To get that credibility, and then we don't read the whole thing or we don't mouse over to see what the exact website is and so we don't really know.
As of this evening, the web site asking for donations on Gogetfunding.com for Wade Berzas has shut down.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- Last week, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his coronavirus relief package with $1,400 stimulus checks for most Americans. This week, the country will move one step closer to seeing that proposal become an action plan as Biden and two new Democratic senators from Georgia take office.
Once that happens, Democrats will be in control of the presidency and Congress -- giving the $1.9 trillion plan a good chance for passage.
IRS delays start of tax season to Feb. 12
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- The IRS will open tax-filing season on Feb. 12, delaying the start of tax season by about two weeks, the agency announced on Friday.
The tax season normally starts in late January but was delayed due to outgoing stimulus payments and changes to tax laws.
Third stimulus check: Here's when you might get a $1,400 direct payment
WILMINGTON, Del. (NEXSTAR) — President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan Thursday that included $1,400 checks for most Americans.
On top of $600 provided in the most recent COVID-19 bill, the checks would bring the total to the $2,000 that Biden has called for.


Dr. Kennecke's areas of expertise include neuroendcrine tumors (NETs), gastroenterology, oncology, and rectal cancer. He is passionate about finding new therapeutics for patients with neuroendocrine tumors. Dr. Kennecke has served as a member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, CTG GI Site Committee and the Neuroendocrine Tumor Task Force of the NCI GI Steering Committee.