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This is a list of notable female mixed martial arts fighters in alphabetical order.

A
  Mariya Agapova - (UFC, Invicta)
  Jessica Aguilar - (UFC, Bellator, WSOF)
  Hitomi Akano - (M-1, Strikeforce, Pancrase, JEWELS, Smackgirl, Invicta)
  Alexandra Albu - (UFC)
  Irene Aldana - (UFC, Invicta)
  JJ Aldrich - (UFC, Invicta)
  Reiko Amano
  Alyse Anderson - (OneFC)
  Megan Anderson - (Invicta, UFC)
  Jessica Andrade - (UFC)
  Nina Ansaroff - (UFC, Invicta)
  Viviane Araújo - (UFC)
  Glena Avila
  Julia Avila - (UFC, Invicta)
  Diana Avsaragova - (Bellator)

B
  Jorina Baars - (OneFC)
  Maycee Barber - (UFC, Legacy)
  Shayna Baszler - (EliteXC, ShoXC, Strikeforce, Invicta, UFC)
  Diana Belbiţă - (UFC)
  Amanda Bell - (Invicta, Bellator)
  DeAnna Bennett - (Invicta, UFC)
  Julia Berezikova - (M-1, SFL)
  Lucie Bertaud - (Bellator, Titan FC)
  Jemyma Betrian
  Erin Blanchfield - (UFC, Invicta)
  Arlene Blencowe - (Bellator)
  Mara Romero Borella - (UFC, Invicta)
  Poliana Botelho - (XFC, UFC)
  Amber Brown - (Invicta, KOTC, Pancrase)
  Annalisa Bucci - (KOTC, Bellator)
  Alexandra Buch - (JEWELS)
  Julia Budd - (Bellator, Invicta, Strikeforce)

C
  Priscila Cachoeira - (UFC)
  Joanne Calderwood - (UFC, Invicta, CWFC, SFL)
  Cynthia Calvillo - (UFC, LFA)
  Gina Carano - (EliteXC, Strikeforce)
  Ariane Carnelossi - (UFC)
  Cortney Casey - (UFC, XFC)
  Alex Chambers - (JEWELS, Invicta, UFC)
  Liz Carmouche - (UFC, Strikeforce, Invicta, Bellator)
  Macy Chiasson - (UFC)
  Jennifer Chieng -  (Bellator, Invicta)
  Katlyn Chookagian - (UFC, CFFC)
  Monika Chochlikova - (Bellator)
  Hannah Cifers - (UFC)
  Jasminka Cive - (KSW, Invicta)
  Heather Clark - (UFC, Bellator, XFC)
  Marloes Coenen - (DREAM, Strikeforce, Invicta, Smackgirl, Shooto, Bellator)
  Mayra Conde - (Smackgirl)
  Alexa Conners - (Invicta)
  Amanda Cooper - (UFC, Invicta)
  Bethe Correia - (Jungle Fight, UFC)
  Tracy Cortez - (Invicta, UFC)
  Kim Couture - (Strikeforce, XFC)
  Ashley Cummins - (Invicta)
  Kailin Curran - (UFC)
  Cris Cyborg - (EliteXC, Strikeforce, Invicta, UFC, Bellator)

D
  Sarah D'Alelio - (Invicta, BAMMA USA, Pancrase)
  Aisling Daly - (Invicta, Bellator, Cage Rage, CWFC, UFC)
  Cindy Dandois - (UFC, Invicta, Rizin FF, PFL)
  Sunna Davíðsdóttir - (Invicta)
  Alexis Davis - (UFC, Strikeforce, Invicta)
  Jillian DeCoursey - (Invicta)
  Jéssica Delboni - (Invicta)
  Mackenzie Dern - (Legacy, UFC)
  Shana Dobson - (UFC)
  Julia Dorny - (IMMAF)
  Emily Ducote - (Bellator, Invicta)
  Milana Dudieva - (UFC, Invicta)
   Faith Van Duin - (Invicta)
  Jessamyn Duke - (UFC, Invicta)
  Norma Dumont - (UFC)

E
  Stephanie Eggink - (Invicta, XFC)
  Lisa Ellis - (Smackgirl, Invicta, Bellator, DEEP, UFC)
  Bolormaa "Esui" Erdenebileg - (JEWELS)
  Jodie Esquibel - (Invicta, UFC)
  Carla Esparza - (UFC, Invicta, Bellator, XFC)
  Sijara Eubanks - (UFC, Invicta)
  Ashlee Evans-Smith - (UFC, WSOF)
  Tonya Evinger - (EliteXC, ShoXC, Invicta, Titan FC, UFC)
  Jessica Eye - (UFC, Bellator)

F

  Genah Fabian - (PFL)
  Melinda Fabian - (UFC)
  Stamp Fairtex - (OneFC)
  Kalindra Faria - (UFC)
  Christine Ferea - (Invicta)
  Jan Finney - (Strikeforce, ShoXC, KOTC, PFC)
  Manon Fiorot - (UFC)
  Stephanie Frausto - (Bellator, Invicta, TPF)
  Jinh Yu Frey - (UFC, Invicta, Rizin FF, Road FC)
  Ania Fucz
  Megumi Fujii - (Sengoku, Bellator, JEWELS, Shooto, Smackgirl, VTJ)
  Emi Fujino - (Sengoku, JEWELS, Smackgirl, WSOF)

G
  Cláudia Gadelha - (UFC, Invicta)
  Sheila Gaff - (M-1, CWFC, UFC, XFC-i)
  Priscilla Hertati Lumban Gaol - (One FC)
  Gabi Garcia - (Rizin FF)
  Stephanie Geltmacher - (Invicta, Bellator)
  Alexa Grasso - (UFC, Invicta)
  Alida Gray - (WSOF, Invicta)
  Minna Grusander - (Invicta)
  Ediane Gomes - (KOTC, Invicta)
  Pearl Gonzalez - (UFC, Invicta)
  Zoila Frausto Gurgel - (Invicta, Bellator, Strikeforce, TPF, RFA)

H
  Claire Haigh
  Seo Hee Ham - (UFC, Smackgirl, DEEP, JEWELS, Road FC, One)
  Ayaka Hamasaki - (JEWELS, Rizin, Invicta, Shooto)
  Kay Hansen - (UFC, Invicta)
   Janay Harding - (Bellator)
  Heather Hardy - (Bellator)
  Kayla Harrison - (PFL)
  Takayo Hashi - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, Strikeforce, Invicta)
  Angela Hill - (UFC, Invicta)
  Itsuki Hirata (One)
  Felice Herrig - (UFC, Bellator, XFC)
  Munah Holland - (Bellator, Invicta)
  Holly Holm - (Bellator, Legacy, UFC)
  Barb Honchak - (Invicta, KOTC, UFC)
  Ikuma Hoshino - (Smackgirl, Shooto)
  Yumiko Hotta - (DEEP, VTJ)

I
  Daria Ibragimova - (Invicta)
  Mai Ichii - (DEEP, JEWELS, Smackgirl)
  Mizuki Inoue - (JEWELS, DEEP, Invicta)
  Kikuyo Ishikawa - (JEWELS, Pancrase)
  Saori Ishioka - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, Pancrase, DEEP)

J
  Sharon Jacobson - (Invicta)
  Virna Jandiroba - (UFC, Invicta)
  Joanna Jędrzejczyk - (UFC, CWFC)
  Adrienna Jenkins - (WEC, HOOKnSHOOT, Bellator)
  Liana Jojua - (UFC, Kunlun)
  Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger - (UFC, Invicta, RFA, KOTC)
  Ana Julaton - (OneFC, Bellator)

K
  Emily Kagan - (UFC, Invicta)
  Mari Kaneko - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, DEEP)
  Katja Kankaanpää - (CWFC, Invicta)
  Anita Karim - (OneFC)
  Nadia Kassem - (UFC)
  Sarah Kaufman – (Invicta, KOTC, PFC, Strikeforce, UFC)
  Julie Kedzie - (KOTC, ShoXC, Strikeforce, EliteXC, UFC)
  Amanda Kelly - (CWFC)
  Pannie Kianzad - (UFC, CWFC, Invicta)
  Denise Kielholtz - (Bellator)
  Ji Yeon Kim - (UFC)
  Kyoko Kimura - (Pancrase)
  Justine Kish - (RFA, UFC)
  Asami Kodera - (Smackgirl, JEWELS)
  Syuri Kondo - (UFC)
  Yuuki Kondo - (Smackgirl)
  Karolina Kowalkiewicz - (UFC, Invicta, KSW)
  Rena Kubota - (JEWELS, Rizin FF)
  Yana Kunitskaya - (Invicta, UFC)
  Mina Kurobe - (JEWELS, Shooto)

L
  Aspen Ladd - (Invicta, UFC)
  Lina Länsberg - (UFC)
  Alejandra Lara - (Bellator)
  Tara LaRosa - (Invicta, Smackgirl)
  Andrea Lee - (Invicta, LFA, UFC)
  Angela Lee - (ONE)
  Victoria Lee - (ONE)
  Katharina Lehner - (Invicta, Bellator)
  Amber Leibrock - (Invicta, Bellator)
  Lei'D Tapa - (Rizin)
  Valérie Létourneau - (UFC, Bellator)
  Becky Levi - (DEEP)
  Su Jeong Lim
  Juliana Lima - (UFC, Invicta)
  Ariane Lipski - (UFC, KSW)
  Loma Lookboonmee - (UFC, Invicta)
  Amanda Lucas - (DEEP)

M
  Ilima-Lei Macfarlane - (Bellator)
  Angela Magaña - (UFC)
  Veronica Macedo - (UFC)
  Valesca Machado - (Invicta)
  Tomo Maesawa - (JEWELS, Rizin)
  Jennifer Maia - (Invicta, Cage Warriors, UFC)
  Bea Malecki - (UFC)
  Randa Markos - (RFA, UFC)
  Christina Marks - (UFC)
  Miranda Maverick - (Invicta, UFC)
  Elaina Maxwell - (Strikeforce)
  Gina Mazany - (UFC)
  Sabina Mazo - (UFC)
  Molly McCann - (UFC, Cage Warriors)
  Liz McCarthy - (Invicta)
  Danni McCormack - (Bellator)
  Leah McCourt - (Bellator, Cage Warriors)
  Sara McMann - (Titan FC, Invicta, UFC)
  Kaline Medeiros - (Bellator, Invicta)
  Vanessa Melo - (UFC)
  Randi Miller - (Invicta)
  Reina Miura - (DEEP, Rizin)
  Roxanne Modafferi - (KOTC, Strikeforce, Cage Warriors, Shooto, Smackgirl, JEWELS, Invicta, UFC)
  Yasuko Mogi - (Shooto, Smackgirl, JEWELS)
  Marina Mokhnatkina - (Fight Nights Global, Bellator)
  Nicco Montaño - (UFC, KOTC)
  Janaisa Morandin - (Invicta)
  Sarah Moras - (UFC, Invicta, CWFC)
  Peggy Morgan - (Invicta, UFC)
  Maryna Moroz - (UFC, XFC-i)
  Jamie Moyle -  (UFC, Invicta)
  Lauren Mueller - (UFC)
  Lauren Murphy - (UFC, Invicta)
  Serin Murray - (Smackgirl)

N
  Mika Nagano - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, DEEP)
  Jujeath Nagaowa - (OneFC)
  Miriam Nakamoto - (Invicta)
  Rose Namajunas - (UFC, Invicta)
  Michelle Nicolini - (OneFC)
  Agnieszka Niedźwiedź - (Invicta, Cage Warriors)
  Talita Nogueira - (Bellator)
  Sakura Nomura - (JEWELS)
  Amanda Nunes - (Invicta, Strikeforce, UFC)

O
  Saori Oshima - (Shooto, Jewels)
  Ann Osman - (OneFC)
  Rachael Ostovich - (Bellator, UFC, Invicta)
  Lena Ovchynnikova - (Bellator, SFL)
  Hatice Ozyurt - (Bellator, BAMMA)

P
  Raquel Pa'aluhi - (Invicta)
  Stephanie Ielö Page
  Si Woo Park - (Road FC, Jewels)
  Julianna Peña - (UFC)
  Jessica Penne - (Invicta, Bellator, UFC)
  Raquel Pennington - (Invicta, UFC)
  Viviane Pereira - (XFC-i, UFC)
  Elizabeth Phillips - (UFC, Invicta)
  Ritu Phogat - (OneFC)
  Livia von Plettenberg - (Invicta)
  Vanessa Porto - (Invicta, Jungle Fight, Bellator)
  Lucie Pudilova - (UFC)
  Debi Purcell - (KOTC, ShoXC, Smackgirl)

R

  Jessica Rakoczy - (Bellator, TPF, UFC)
  Germaine de Randamie - (UFC, Strikeforce)
  Alyona Rassohyna - (OneFC)
  Bec Rawlings - (UFC, Invicta)
  Elena Reid - (Bellator)
  Marion Reneau - (UFC, TPF)
  Amanda Ribas - (UFC)
  Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc - (Invicta)
  Angela Rivera-Parr
  Gillian Robertson - (UFC)
  Irina Rodina
  Cassie Rodish - (Invicta)
   Karina Rodríguez - (Invicta)
   Marina Rodriguez - (UFC)
  Montana De La Rosa - (UFC, Legacy)
  Jessica Rose-Clark - (UFC, Invicta, Titan)
  Ronda Rousey - (KOTC, UFC, Strikeforce)
  Montserrat Ruiz - (UFC, Invicta)

S
  Aya Saeid Saber - (OneFC, Kunlun)
  Sumie Sakai
  Colleen Schneider - (Strikeforce, SFL)
  Sarah Schneider - (Invicta, PFC)
  Lacey Schuckman - (Strikeforce, Invicta, Cage Warriors)
  Sabriye Şengül - (Bellator)
  Rosi Sexton - (Bellator, ShoXC, UFC, CWFC)
  Marina Shafir (Invicta)
  Antonina Shevchenko (UFC)
  Valentina Shevchenko (UFC, Legacy)
  Satoko Shinashi - (Shooto, Smackgirl, DEEP, RoadFC)
  Dayana Silva - (Bellator)
  Mayra Bueno Silva - (UFC)
  Tessa Simpson - (Invicta)
  Leslie Smith - (Invicta, Bellator, UFC)
  Tiffany van Soest - (Invicta)
  Pam Sorenson - (Invicta, KOTC)
  Simona Soukupova - (Invicta)
  Ketlen Souza - (Invicta)
  Livia Renata Souza - (Invicta, UFC)
  Lisa Spangler - (Invicta)
   Felicia Spencer - (Invicta, UFC)
  Christine Stanley - (Invicta)
  Julija Stoliarenko - (UFC, Invicta)
  Tatiana Suarez - (UFC)
  Naho Sugiyama - (Invicta, JEWELS)
  Shizuka Sugiyama - (JEWELS, DEEP, Rizin)

T

  Chommanee Sor Taehiran
  Yoko Takahashi - (EliteXC, Smackgirl)
  Yasuko Tamada - (JEWELS, Shooto, Smackgirl, DEEP, Invicta)
  Keiko Tamai - (Smackgirl, ShoXC)
  Jennifer Tate - (ShoXC)
  Miesha Tate - (UFC, Strikeforce)
  Danielle Taylor - (UFC, KOTC)
  Lauren Taylor - (UFC, Invicta, Legacy)
  Tharoth Sam - (OneFC)
  Herica Tiburcio - (Invicta)
  Tecia Torres - (UFC, Invicta)
  Jeet Toshi - (OneFC)
  Erin Toughill - (Smackgirl, PFC)
  Yuka Tsuji - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, DEEP)
  Charmaine Tweet - (Invicta)

V
  Paige VanZant - (UFC, Invicta)
  Kerry Vera - (Bellator, Strikeforce)
  Ana Carolina Vidal - (Invicta)
  Polyana Viana - (UFC)
  Ketlen Vieira - (UFC)

W
   Brogan Walker-Sanchez - (Invicta)
  Michelle Waterson - (UFC, Invicta, Strikeforce, KOTC)
  Emily Whitmire - (UFC)
  Danyelle Wolf - (UFC)
  Wu Yanan - (UFC, Kunlun)

X
  Xiong Jingnan - (OneFC, Kunlun)

Y
  Megumi Yabushita - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, Pancrase, Shooto)
  Yoko Yamada - (Smackgirl, JEWELS)
  Mei Yamaguchi - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, VTJ, DEEP, OneFC)
  Hiroko Yamanaka - (Smackgirl, JEWELS, Invicta, Strikeforce)
  Yan Xiaonan - (UFC, Road FC)
  Miyuu Yamamoto - (Rizin)
  Duda Yankovich - (Invicta)
  Ashley Yoder - (Invicta, UFC)
  Kaitlin Young - (Invicta, EliteXC)
  Shanna Young - (Invicta, UFC)

Z
  Denice Zamboanga - (OneFC)
  Alesha Zappitella - (Invicta)
  Cat Zingano - (Invicta, UFC)
  Weili Zhang - (UFC, Kunlun)

See also
List of male mixed martial artists
List of undefeated mixed martial artists
List of female boxers
List of female kickboxers
Ultimate Fighting Championship Pound for Pound rankings

Female mixed martial artists
Female mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists, Female

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'A geography of racism': internal orientalism and the construction of American national identity in the film Mississippi Burning2005In: National Identities, ISSN 1460-8944, E-ISSN 1469-9907, Vol. 7, no 3, p. 265-285Article in journal (Refereed)
This article examines the contribution of the film Mississippi Burning to theconstruction of American national identity within the context of the discourse of internal orientalism. This discourse consists of a tradition of representing the American South as fundamentally different from the rest of the United States, and an important strand of this tradition involves construing 'the South' as a region where racism, violence, intolerance, poverty and a group of other negative characteristics reign. In contrast, 'America' is understood as standing for the opposite of these vices. Mississippi Burning continues this tradition by creating a 'geography of racism', juxtaposing the brutality ofwhite Southerners with the morality of two FBI agents sent to Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers. A variety of the film's devices, includingthe comparison between the racist white Southerners and the FBI agents, reproduces anAmerican national identity that stands for tolerance, justice and peace.
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UNITED NATIONS, January 25, 2012 (AFP)
UN envoys on Wednesday raised growing fears over 'revolutionary brigades' in Libya accused of causing a surge in post-Kadhafi unrest and holding thousands of people in secret detention centers.
But UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said NATO should disclose what measures it took to avoid civilian deaths in the airstrikes it carried out before the downfall of Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi last year.
Pillay and the UN special representative in Libya, Ian Martin, expressed concern about the revolutionary brigades that fought Kadhafi's troops but have not been brought under control by the interim government.
Martin said fighting in the Libyan town of Bani Walid this week — at one stage blamed on Kadhafi loyalists — had been caused by a clash between local people and a revolutionary brigade unit.
He said the brigades were also responsible for fatal clashes in Tripoli and other towns this month.
"Although authorities have successfully contained these and other more minor incidents that continue to take place across the country on a regular basis, there is the ever present possibility that similar outbreaks of violence could escalate," Martin told a UN Security Council meeting on Libya.
The government is struggling to reintegrate tens of thousands of militia fighters from the anti-Kadhafi revolution into the army and police.
Pillay also raised fears about the brigades because of the light and heavy weaponry they have built up.
The UN human rights chief said she was "extremely concerned" about thousands of detainees held by the brigades, many of them from other African countries who are accused of being Kadhafi loyalists.
Libya's UN envoy Mohammed Shalgham admitted at the meeting that the government did not know where all the detention centers are.
Pillay said her department had received "alarming reports" of torture and ill-treatment in the centers that UN staff had been able to visit.
Russia and China have accused NATO of over-stepping UN resolutions on Libya with their airstrikes last year and called for a UN-mandated inquiry into the attacks.
While the western powers who carried out the attacks insist they were legal and NATO made every effort to avoid civilian casualties, Pillay said there were "outstanding questions regarding possible civilian deaths resulting from NATO operations."
She said a UNHCR inquiry was investigating allegations "and any findings it reaches will be important in shedding light on the extent to which NATO forces took all feasible measures to protect civilians in all their military operations.
"Information so far indicates that NATO made efforts to keep civilian casualties at a minimum but where civilians have been killed and injured, the alliance should disclose information about all such events and about remedial actions undertaken," Pillay said.
The New York Times said this month that its investigations had shown that there were at least 40 civilian deaths from NATO air attacks, and possibly more than 70.


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How a global COVID-19 pandemic made us rethink philanthropy
From converting auto-rickshaws into ambulances to setting up COVID-19 care helplines, many individuals became philanthropists through such acts, and we became more accustomed to giving without reservation.
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August 5, 2021 2:42:40 pm
The pandemic has caused many philanthropic organizations to create emergency funds and rethink grant-making procedures to get money into the hands of non-profits quickly.
By Shekhar Mehta
We have been living through trying times since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2019. From education, to work, to social engagements, all aspects of our lives changed in unprecedented ways, and it seems that these societal changes will continue, now that the third wave of coronavirus is expected to hit later this year. The nature of philanthropy also underwent a shift, as philanthropists went above and beyond to support charities.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, charitable citizens– in individual and collective capacities– not only offered financial support, but also came up with unique, creative ideas to provide help to India's most vulnerable populations. From converting auto-rickshaws into ambulances to setting up COVID-19 care helplines, many individuals became philanthropists through such acts, and we became more accustomed to giving without reservation.
A trend of 'giving' more
Although India has faced earthquakes and tsunamis, COVID-19 has been one of the largest crises we've ever had to address. Yet, one of the silver linings of the pandemic is the generosity of people who offered both financial and in-kind help. Notably, as per the recent World Giving Index report, India has risen to become the world's 14th most charitable country, as a result of monetary contributions made by philanthropists, corporations, non-profits, and individuals.
In terms of in-kind support, the power of networks has proven invaluable as they allow communities to rapidly respond to an issue by identifying areas of intervention and deploying resources accordingly. For instance, in March 2020–when people were losing their jobs and depression was on the rise, Rotary Club of Bombay set up a free counselling hotline United Well-Being Volunteers together with Poddar Foundation. To date, the helpline has enrolled and trained 700 volunteers, who along with 50 professional counsellors to help people cope with anxiety and other trauma caused by the lockdown.
The pandemic has seen a rise in collaboration between donors, central and state governments, NGOs and other institutional bodies, resulting in the co-creation of scalable solutions to complex issues that emerged at different stages. For instance, Rotary clubs across India offered unwavering support of central and local government efforts to provide medical equipment, food, masks, sanitizers, and other relief materials to flatten the COVID-19 curve in respective states, under the guidance of Rotary India's Covid Task Force. These Good Samaritans across cities continue to stand in solidarity with the government and support its efforts to immunize and safeguard citizens from the deadly infection by setting up of COVID-19 care centres, vaccine centres, oxygen plants and securing and distributing oxygen concentrators. Above and beyond addressing the coronavirus pandemic, governments in developing countries are increasingly realizing that they must accelerate these partnerships to not only strengthen India's response, but also to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on literacy, healthcare, and nutrition.
Even as mitigation efforts continue, long-term recovery goals are also a priority, and Rotary has contributed more than US$37 million in COVID specific grants to fund relief and recovery efforts as well as prepare for potential future strains and ongoing coronavirus impacts.
How obstacles became opportunities-virtual support
From combating illiteracy to improving sanitation, concerned citizens never shy away from offering a helping hand. However, the coronavirus crisis forced us to come up with news ways to offer support, and virtual service in a digital world has flourished.
While thousands of volunteers do step out of their comfort zones to help those in need in person, many mobilise the power of social media by contributing to non-profits to keep the fight on.
The pandemic has caused many philanthropic organizations to create emergency funds and rethink grant-making procedures to get money into the hands of non-profits quickly. For instance, Rotary adapted quickly and expanded existing grant structures so that members could more quickly access resources to take on projects that help their communities address the impacts of COVID-19, and staff have prioritized COVID-19 grant applications to approve them as quickly as possible.
The role of philanthropy in the years to come
Although the coronavirus has negatively impacted the world—and we are still enduring the pandemic—the past year has proven the value of philanthropy. As the continued risk hovers above us, we're yet to see how philanthropy will continue to progress, but I am hopeful that all facets of society will continue to respond with benevolence and compassion.
(The author is President of Rotary International. The article is for informational purposes only. Views expressed are personal and do not reflect the official position or policy of the Financial Express Online.)
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Q: Imaginary part of a product of N complex numbers What is the general formula for the imaginary part of a product of $N$ complex variables?
To be specific, let $a_j, b_j$ be real numbers, then what is
$$
\Im \left(\prod_{j=1}^N (a_j+ib_j)\right)
$$
For $N=2$ it's simply the sum cross terms and for $N=3$ there's one $b_j$ multiplying two $a_j$ subject to permutations of $\{1,2,3\}$ as well as the term with all $b_j$. So it seems like neglecting minus signs it's a sum of terms that permute amongst $\{1,2,…,N\}$ with an odd number of $b_j$. If $N$ is odd then there will be a term with all $b_j$.
What is the general form in a compact expression?

A: You could convert your complex numbers from rectangular to polar and then use Euler's Formula to get it in the form $r*e^{i\theta}$. From there, the formula is then:
$$e^{i*k}*\prod_{l=1}^N r_l$$
where $k=\sum_{l=1}^N \theta_l \mod 2\pi$.

A: Multiply it out, and use the fact that $i^k=\begin{cases}1,&\text{ if }k\equiv 0\pmod 4,
\\i,&\text{ if }k\equiv 1\pmod 4,
\\-1,&\text{ if }k\equiv 2\pmod 4,
\\-i,&\text{ if }k\equiv 3\pmod 4,\end{cases}$
to see that
$\boxed{\begin{align}\Im \left(\prod_{j=1}^N (a_j+ib_j)\right) &= \sum_{\substack{X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\;\,\lvert X \rvert\text{ is odd}} \left((-1)^{\frac{\lvert X \rvert-1}{2}}\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right)
\\&=\sum_{\substack{\;X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\lvert X \rvert\equiv 1 \!\pmod{\!4}} \left(\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right)\quad-\sum_{\substack{\;X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\lvert X \rvert\equiv 3 \!\pmod{\!4}} \left(\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right).
\end{align}}$
Here $\lvert X \rvert$ denotes the cardinality of $X.$

By the way, here's a similar formula for the real part:
\begin{align}\Re \left(\prod_{j=1}^N (a_j+ib_j)\right) &= \sum_{\substack{X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\;\lvert X \rvert\text{ is even}} \left((-1)^{\frac{\lvert X \rvert}{2}}\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right)
\\&=\sum_{\substack{\;X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\lvert X \rvert\equiv 0 \!\pmod{\!4}} \left(\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right)\quad-\sum_{\substack{\;X\subseteq \lbrace 1,\dots,N\rbrace}
\\\lvert X \rvert\equiv 2 \!\pmod{\!4}} \left(\prod_{j\not\in X}a_j \prod_{j\in X}b_j\right).
\end{align}

A: Using Euler's formula, when $\text{z}_\text{n}\in\mathbb{C}$:
$$\text{z}_\text{n}=\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|e^{\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+2\pi k_\text{n}\right)i}=\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|\cos\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+2\pi k_\text{n}\right)+\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|\sin\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+2\pi k_\text{n}\right)i$$
Where $|\text{z}_\text{n}|=\sqrt{\Re^2[\text{z}_\text{n}]+\Im^2[\text{z}_\text{n}]}$, $\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})$ is the complex arugment of $\text{z}_\text{n}$ and $k_\text{n}\in\mathbb{Z}$.
So:
$$\Im\left[\prod_{\text{a}=\text{n}}^{\text{M}}\text{z}_\text{a}\right]=\Im\left[\prod_{\text{a}=\text{n}}^{\text{M}}\left(\Re[\text{z}_\text{a}]+\Im[\text{z}_\text{a}]i\right)\right]=\Im\left(\text{z}_\text{n}\times\text{z}_\text{n+1}\times\dots\times\text{z}_\text{M}\right)=$$
$$\Im\left(\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|e^{\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+2\pi k_\text{n}\right)i}\times \left|\text{z}_{\text{n}+1}\right|e^{\left(\arg(\text{z}_{\text{n}+1})+2\pi k_{\text{n}+1}\right)i}\times\dots\times\left|\text{z}_\text{M}\right|e^{\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{M})+2\pi k_\text{M}\right)i}\right)=$$
$$\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|\left|\text{z}_{\text{n}+1}\right|\times\dots\times\left|\text{z}_\text{M}\right|\times\sin\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+2\pi k_\text{n}+\arg(\text{z}_{\text{n}+1})+2\pi k_{\text{n}+1}+\dots+\arg(\text{z}_\text{M})+2\pi k_\text{M}\right)=$$
$$\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|\left|\text{z}_{\text{n}+1}\right|\times\dots\times\left|\text{z}_\text{M}\right|\sin\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+\arg(\text{z}_{\text{n}+1})+\dots+\arg(\text{z}_\text{M})\right)$$
So, we get:
$$\color{red}{\Im\left[\prod_{\text{a}=\text{n}}^{\text{M}}\text{z}_\text{a}\right]=\left|\text{z}_\text{n}\right|\left|\text{z}_{\text{n}+1}\right|\times\dots\times\left|\text{z}_\text{M}\right|\sin\left(\arg(\text{z}_\text{n})+\arg(\text{z}_{\text{n}+1})+\dots+\arg(\text{z}_\text{M})\right)}$$

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LOUISIANA MOBILIZES: Eastern Units
On two occasions early in the war (April-August 1861 and March-April 1862) Louisiana provided two bulk waves of units/recruits to the war effort. The first concentration, from the outbreak of war through July of 1861, was the scramble to reach Virginia "before the war was over." The second mobilization of Louisiana units came to meet U.S. Grant's quick strike at Corinth, Mississippi. In both situations, Louisiana mobilized thousands of men and quickly sent them to the front. The first of these mobilizations has been best documented by Terry L. Jones' Lee's Tigers. Jones' book is about the Louisiana units that fought in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. This post is by no means ground breaking but I noticed that the majority of our units were mobilized and pushed into action to meet these two events (Jump to Virginia and Grant's threat of Corinth).
Two calls for volunteers came in April of 1861. To meet the call, Louisiana organized and sent a multitude of units to Virginia: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 14th Regiments; Wheat's 1st Special Battalion, Dreaux's 1st Battalion, Coppens' Zouaves Battalion, Bradford's 3rd Louisiana Battalion, and a collection of independent companies that were eventually formed into Waddell's 4th Louisiana Battalion and St. Paul's 7th Louisiana Battalion. Topping off the list were four batteries of the Washington Artillery. The exodus of Louisiana units to Virginia began in early April of 1861 and continued until early August of 1861. The height of movements east was during May-June. Below is a chronological list of when units were mustered into Confederate service and then when they departed for Virginia.
UNIT Acct. into Service Ordered to, or Left for Va
Dreaux's 1st Bn. April June 15
Coppens' Zouave Bn. early April June 1
1st Louisiana April 28 April 29
Washington Artillery May 26 May 27
2nd Louisiana May 11
5th Louisiana June 4 June 5
Wheat's 1st Special Bn. June 5 June 13
8th Louisiana June 15 June 22
9th Louisiana July 6 July 13
10th Louisiana July 22
14th Louisiana ("1st Polish") June 16
3rd Louisiana Bn. ("2nd Polish") June 16 August 25
The exodus of Louisiana units to Virginia began in early April of 1861 and continued until early August of 1861. The height of movements east was during May-June.
It looks as though the average trip from the Camp Moore-New Orleans region was a 5-7 day trip. The route was pretty routine: North through Jackson and Grenada, Mississippi; Grand Junction, Tennessee and then east to Corinth, across northern Alabama and to Chattanooga; northeast through Knoxville and Bristol and then to Lynchburg. From there units either went on through to Manassas or east to Richmond. The exception was the trip of Dreaux's and Cozzens' Battalions from Pensacola, Florida.
The 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Regiments and Wheat's Battalion were sent to Northern Viriginia. These units formed the basis of what became the Taylor-Hays 1st Louisiana Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. Eventually, Wheat's Battalion was disbanded in August of 1862 and disbanded to its sister units. Also, the 5th Louisiana regiment was attached following the Seven Days Campaign. The 9th and future 14th Regiments jumped a around a little bit but by October 1862 the 1st Louisiana Brigade took shape (one it kept until May 1864): 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Louisiana Regiments.
The 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 10th Regiments, along with Coppens' and Dreaux's Battalions, were sent to Southeast Virginia/Peninsula region. St. Paul's Battalion was originally sent to Northern Viriginia but then joined the Louisiana units on the Peninsula. This collection of units formed the basis of the eventual 2nd Louisiana Brigade. It was the Peninsual group that faced the biggest changes in organization due to the multiple battalions. In May 1862, Dreaux's Battalion was disbanded with one company joining the 1st Louisiana and a large group forming Fenner's Louisiana Battery. Several officers from Dreaux's unit made their way back to Louisiana where the found higher comissions in new regiments being formed for a new concentration out west (i.e., Captain Stuart Fisk becoming the new Colonel of the 25th Louisiana). Bradford's 3rd Battalion and St. Paul's 7th Battalion were combined on August 1st to form the 15th Louisiana Infantry. From October 1862 until May 1864 the 2nd Louisiana Brigade was organized as: 1st, 2nd, 10th, 14th and 15th Louisiana Regiments.
Of all the Louisiana units sent to Virginia Waddell's 4th Battalion became the exception. Itwas not a unit sent from Louisiana to Virigina. Instead, it was created in Viriginia from a collection of miscellanious companies that had arrived from Louisiana. It was created in Richmond in July and never joined the units in Viriginia was part of the future "Lee's Tigers" Louisiana Brigades. Instead, it served briefly in Richmond, then to the east coast and evnetually was transferred west were it was ultimately ordered to Gibson's Louisiana Brigade of the Army of Tennessee in November of 1863.
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Linda March 11, 2010 at 6:30 PM
thanks for posting this--it's very informative
FortyRounder March 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM
Was Coppens' battalion the same unit as the New Orleans Zouave Battalion? In doing research for a college paper I uncovered newspaper articles about the departure ceremony for the latter. According to the Daily Picayune "all the respectably-connected young men of the city" were joining it. (This makes me doubt that it was Coppens' group! I'm sure there was more than one Louisiana Zouave battalion.)
FortyRounder March 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM
From the articles you've linked here, it seems that the unit whose flag ceremony I read of was indeed the Fourth Company of Coppens' Zouaves.
Stuart Salling March 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Yes, you are correct FortyRounder. Sorry for the late reply.
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Fullback Jack Wighton has been dropped from the Canberra Raiders side to play the Brisbane Broncos on Saturday night after pleading guilty to assault charges dating back to the 2018 pre-season.
Wighton pleaded guilty to two assault charges on Thursday in the ACT Magistrates Court and a charge of publicly urinating after an incident at a Canberra nightspot in February.
The Canberra Times reported seven other charges were withdrawn when he appeared before Magistrate Bernadette Boss.
Late Thursday the Raiders issued a statement saying Wighton would not take part in the round 16 Telstra Premiership game at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. The club's board will convene to decide any further action.
"The Raiders will consult the NRL and are mindful that Jack was today referred to the Galambany Court next Wednesday 4th July," the club said.
"The Raiders Board will consider the matter further in the light of the Galambany Courts decision next week."
No other comment was made due to the matter now being before the courts.
It is likely Brad Abbey will come into the Raiders side at No.1.
Wighton returned to Canberra from a pre-game camp in Sanctuary Cove before this Saturday night's clash with the Broncos so he could attend court.
He answered charges stemming from an incident outside a Canberra nightclub on February 3, when he was accused of allegedly assaulting three people in the city's centre.
The 25-year-old initially pleaded not guilty when he firts fronted the ACT Magistrates Court in April.
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Leave a Comment / Daily Current Affairs, Editorial Simplified, GS Paper 2, International Relations / By Harit Mehta
On Wednesday, the Union Cabinet approved an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Bangladesh on the withdrawal of 1.82 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water from the Feni river by India for a drinking water supply scheme for Sabroom town in Tripura.
Feni river and dispute –
The Feni river, which forms part of the India-Bangladesh border, originates in the South Tripura district, passes through Sabroom town on the Indian side, and meets the Bay of Bengal after it flows into Bangladesh.
According to the Indian government press release, there has been no water-sharing agreement between the countries on the Feni previously.
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Other projects on the Feni –
In Tripura, a 150-metre long, 4-lane bridge across the Feni is being built between India and Bangladesh, where the river forms the border between the two countries. It is expected to be completed by March 2020 at an estimated expenditure of Rs 73 crore.
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The expanded range can operate in water depths from 1m to 300m, handling soils ranging from soft sand to clays with shear strength of 300kPa.
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Job creation will drive next phase of reforms
By IANS | Last Updated at August 01 2016 14:16 IST
On the 25th anniversary of India's economic reforms, a general consensus seems to have emerged within the country and without that the next phase reforms must address what has so far eluded agreement among the principal stakeholders: land and labour. Make in India will not happen if these two main factors of production remain entangled in political one-upmanship.
The government has made some overtures in the domain of land reforms, but the issues surrounding it have not yet fully crystallised. Unless there is clarity and consensus around land reforms, including land acquisition for implementing government's industrialisation and infrastructure development projects, the vision of converting India into a global manufacturing hub will remain unrealised. It is essential to pursue efforts towards a comprehensive land reforms policy relentlessly to bring the matter to a satisfactory conclusion.
In the field of labour, the exercise for rationalisation and consolidation of labour laws undertaken by the government in the last two years has suddenly taken a breather. Despite earlier attempts to push the agenda forward, the feeling that the main stakeholders were not taken fully on board has provoked angry reactions among the major trade unions, which have threatened a nationwide strike in September. Recognising the possible implications of unilateral action, the Prime Minister has reportedly decided to proceed more cautiously in future by taking the workers' representatives into confidence.
Industry lobby FICCI had set up a special tripartite group to consult the stakeholders and make suitable recommendations for the government's consideration. As convener of the special group, I held extensive consultations and submitted my report making a host of recommendations. Among other things, I advocated gradualism and proposed an incremental approach to labour law reforms in place of the wholesale reforms that were being attempted.
There really is no alternative to dialogue, compromise and consensus in the realm of social re-engineering. The efforts may appear tardy and frustrating at times, but sustainable results can be achieved only if we are able to hone the strategy of tactical retreat with a view to eventually finding the winning formula that will be acceptable to all.
The rolling back of government's publicly announced EPF policies earlier this year is a case in point. The massive street protests in Paris in April and May 2016 against the French government's labour reforms that were perceived as pro-capitalist portend social unrest that may become intractable if such sensitive matters are not handled with understanding and empathy.
The fact that recent amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act encountered widespread criticism from academia, social activists, international organisations like Unicef and others exposes the absence of broad-based dialogue and consensus building that is the cornerstone of progressive and sustainable labour reforms architecture.
Despite all the wishful rhetoric over the last two years of the present government, it is now common knowledge that enough jobs — especially decent quality jobs — are not getting created in the economy, particularly in the organised manufacturing sector. The government would do well to ensure that the frustrations of youth poised to enter the job market are effectively contained. Towards this end, the recent announcement about massive injection of funds for skilling and re-skilling potential job seekers is most opportune.
The concerned department and agencies of the government must quickly respond by setting up capacity and infrastructure to absorb the funds and put them to best advantage. The youth are impatient and care must be taken to ensure that the burning embers are not allowed to be stoked by "indosceptics" who have a problem for every solution.
Clearly, job creation is the single most important direction to follow in the next phase of reforms. If adequate numbers of jobs are available in the marketplace, the resistance to labour reforms on the part of the traditional trade union movement will surely mellow.
Meanwhile, the government should re-establish confidence and trust among employers' and workers' representatives by organising impartial and meaningful tripartite consultations on labour reform proposals that are doable. There is no point in biting off more than you can chew. The priorities and pace of reforms must be carefully calibrated so that the achievements can endure in the long run.
The government has three more years to go in its first term. There is sufficient time to readjust the trajectory so that results start showing before it must inevitably return to the hustings. Alarm bells are not ringing just yet, but a gentle reminder is not out of order.
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Posted byEmily Wrayburn August 28, 2017 Posted inMonday MusingsTags:#loveozya, australian authors, canberra, canberra writers festival, ellie marney, jaclyn moriarty, sarah schmidt, will kostakis, writers festival, writing
This weekend, I hung out at the Canberra Writer's Festival, as both a visitor and a volunteer. The volunteering role basically involved sitting at a desk in the foyer of the National Library and telling people where the Conference Room and the Theatre are located, though I did get to make awkward small talk in the lift with Richard Fidler as I led him and his publisher to our artists' green room.
It's the other two days of the festival that I want to talk about, as they're the days where I attended some of the events, and came away feeling inspired. I didn't really take any notes so I'm probably going to forget all sorts of things, but I'll try my hardest to cover all the best bits.
Friday – Finding Inspiration in Found Objects – Workshop with Kaaron Warren
This was the only writing workshop I was able to attend over the weekend, though I would have loved to attend some more. Kaaron Warren is an Australian horror and crime author who has written three novels, several novellas and sold over 100 short stories. She takes inspiration from random objects she sees on the street, such as a half-full plastic cup of beer sitting on top of an electricity meter box, or jigsaw puzzle pieces scattered on some gravel. She had a whole slideshow of photos of found objects, and got us to scribble some notes about each one (in the notebooks that she made us from old encyclopedias!). Then as a group, we started developing stories from just one (the cup of beer to be precise).
When we read out our stories at the end, what was most interesting was the way no two stories were alike, though most had come from the same photograph. I think that was the point that Kaaron was making. A found object can lead you almost anywhere. This was especially good for me, as I've essentially been trying to use found objects (or found photos from the Internet) as prompts for my Short Story Saturday posts. It was good for me to have confirmation that this is a good way to go about improving my craft.
I also loved the variety of ages in the group. They varied from a school group, all aged around 16-17, through to a few people my age, to retirees who were interested in writing memoirs for their grandchildren. I spoke to a couple of students in the tea break and they were both able to speak intelligently about writing. We talked about the difficulties of trying to put your writing into a genre box (and whether or not you should) and the macabre enjoyment we take from getting our audiences attached to characters only to kill them off.
Also, there was delicious fruit cake.
The Importance of Australian YA – a conversation with Jaclyn Moriarty, Ellie Marney and Will Kostakis
L-R: Jaclyn Moriarty, Ellie Marney and Will Kostakis
Ahhh, this panel gave me all the feelings! Ellie Marney is the instigator of the #LoveOzYa hashtag, which I totally thought was just a hashtag that you could add to reviews of Australian YA books. How wrong I was! So in 2015, the Australian Libaries and Information Association (ALIA) released the top 10 books in various categories that were borrowed in Australian libraries. In every category, at least 80% were by Australian authors. Every category, that is, except for YA, where there were only two. The others were all American books, and many had major movie adaptations. The purpose of the #LoveOzYA movement is to foreground Australian YA authors for Australian YA readers.
One of the major themes throughout this talk was how important it is for Australian kids to see themselves represented. So many of the books we read (I'm just as guilty of this as anyone else) depict American or British landscapes, characters and experiences, and there's something about reading something uniquely Australian that strikes a chord. Jaclyn Moriarty described the reaction her young son had when reading about a character whose father lived overseas and whom he never saw, and how it made him feel better about being in the situation. She also described reading Ellie Marney's most recent book and being moved by a description of a garden with Australian foliage, when we're so used to reading about rolling green fields and fir trees (or similar).
Will Kostakis spoke about the plurality of the Australian experience – his experience growing up in a migrant Greek community and how there is such a huge opportunity for these different experiences to be depicted in YA. He also talked about how much he loves Australian swearing. We do manage it in a way quite unlike the rest of the world.
It also struck me how much these authors appreciated each other's work. Ellie quoted another author who said "You don't do any damage to your own career by lifting another author up" and that was exactly what they were doing. They clearly all admire each other's work, and that was so great to see. It made me really want to be a part of that community.
At the end, they took questions, and I asked them how they respond to those who don't see writing YA as "real" writing, but rather a stepping stone to writing "proper" (read: adult) fiction. They pointed out that writing for teenagers is incredibly hard, and we agreed that a lot of people don't give teenagers credit for both their intelligence and cynicism. They are a tough crowd and they will call you out on your inauthenticity. Will also pointed out the fact that a large proportion of people reading YA are not actually young adults. While there is often a bottom age limit on YA Sarah books, eg. 12+, 15+, there is that + sign, and it is not just about "writing for kids" but finding that truth that resonates with so many other people. Jaclyn also told a story about receiving a letter from a 13-year-old girl who said "Whenever I feel sad, I hug one of your books". If that's not the definition of being a real writer, I don't know what is.
Careful with the Axe – Sarah Schmidt in conversation with Sulari Gentill
Sarah Schmidt (left) and Sulari Gentill
Schmidt released this year a book called See What I Have Done, based on the Lizzie Borden murders. She described the way Lizzie came to her in a dream after she read a pamphlet about the trial, saying "I've got to tell you something about my father. He has a lot to answer for." It was fascinating listening to her talk about the way her characters had a presence in her life over the 11 years (!) she wrote the book, and how Lizzie in particular spoke to her. She also talked about the various iterations of the book, how she originally had the Borden house as one of the point-of-view characters, and another character who could turn into other people, but these were vetoed by her agent as being "too post-modernist".
I found what she said about her research methods quite interesting. She wanted the story to tell itself, and only really researched what she had to in order to tell that story. She talked about a moment when she had needed her characters to make toast, but knew they didn't have a modern toaster. She said she got on Google, searched "nineteenth century toaster" and then said "Yeah, that'll do." This is probably an exaggeration of what really happened, but given that it's very close to my own research methods, it was comforting to know that authors who go on to be internationally successful do the same! One audience member asked her how she reconciled writing fiction with writing about someone who was a real person, and she said the fact that she was taking some liberties with the facts actually helped her do that. She makes no claims to be a historian, and lets most of the criticism from the hard-core Lizzie fanatics (of which there are apparently many) slide.
So that was my weekend, and I was already having withdrawal symptoms by the time I got home. One day I will make it to the bigger writers festivals in Sydney and Melbourne but until then, I am glad that Canberra finally has its own!
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Ríona O'Inabha says:
Will Kostakis is amazing to listen to. He was at the Bendigo Wrtiters Festival as well and though I haven't yet read any of his work, I could listen to him talk for hours. 🙂
Emily Wrayburn says:
I haven't read anything of his either (in fact, I hadn't actually heard of him before the talk), but I totally agree. I'm going to try to check out his work soon.
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Weezelle says:
What a great weekend! Is Jaclyn Moriarty from the same gene pool as Cassie and Liane – totally amazing if she is. Really liked the insight into Sarah Schmidt's writing/ researching technique – I could adopt some of that!
She is Liane's sister, and they have a third sibling (I think her name's Nicola) who is also a writer. As far as I know, Cass Moriarty isn't a relation, though. It was a really great weekend, and I totally agree – I am definitely adopting some of that technique!
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HBO commissioned a bunch of hip hop heads to put together a mixtape based on the hit series (it was a book series first!) Game of Thrones.
Especially tracks 6 and 9.
Remember the TV show Better off Ted? Solid show, untimely demise.
A few years ago, Birgette Andersen and Marion Frenz of the University of London published a study (available through Industry Canada) titled "The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada".
It's a short and fascinating read, and found that, contrary to popular belief, peer-to-peer file sharing increases purchases of CDs.
Our review of existing econometric studies suggests that P2P file-sharing tends to decrease music purchasing. However, we find the opposite, namely that P2P filesharing tends to increase rather than decrease music purchasing.
half of a CD. We are unable to find evidence of any relationship between P2P filesharing and purchases of electronically-delivered music tracks (e.g., songs from iTunes).
The fact that this focuses mostly on CD purchasing, and discerned no impact on electronic purchasing is demonstrative of how dated the study may be. I would be interested to see an updated survey and study, since iTunes/electronic purchasing is rapidly expanding.
Greatest commercial ever? Yup! Hearing RZA scream "and the BORDERS" is a surprising effective advertising technique.
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Okay, not really. But Shortz and a fan got into a little spat over the definition of the word "illin'" and it's inclusion as a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle. For those of you who don't know him, Shortz is the NYT crossword editor, and seems to be a pretty nice guy.
The divisive clue, 28-down, read, "Wack, in hip-hop," and the correct answer provided was ILLIN.
UPDATE: Colbert had a field day with this, and invited Mike D from the Beastie Boys up to discuss. According to Mike D, Shortz is wrong.
Don't get me wrong, Chris Brown is an awful human being, but a ton people have been giving the cover treatment to his track Look at Me Now. I can't even say that I like the original that much, but I get a big kick out of the covers. It might just be the idea that these random people (granted, Karmin is getting a bit famous now) are surprisingly talented. But regardless, I present to you two of my favourites so far.
Check out this pretty serious mashup. They had me when they mashed the Theme from Shaft and the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Don't hold back, just push things forward from Ithaca Audio on Vimeo.
First Healthcare, Now Twitter. Well Played, Obama.
Proving once again the irresistible allure of Barack Obama, Twitter has announced they will scrap the 140-character tweet limit for the President's upcoming Twitter town hall.
Now let's see if he can use that mojo to raise a more important limit: the debt ceiling.
I kind of like this idea. For those of you who don't know what the Internet Archive does, they're stated mission is to offer access to a "non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages." An ambitious goal, no doubt.
Thus, as they scan these books, they also want to archive a hardcopy of the same volume for the future. In an age where traditional publishers are hurting, and ebook sales are starting to surpass traditional book sales, I think this is a noble goal. I love the tactile feeling of a physical book, even though I tend to favour my ebook reader these days.


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By Danielle Steel
Category: Women's Fiction | Contemporary Romance
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Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world—from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex–Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own: investigating damning allegations involving the Vice President of the United States, Tony Clark.
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Go 'Over the Edge' in Cape Coral for Heights Foundation
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Local celebrities will go Over The Edge for The Heights Foundation on Saturday from 2-5 p.m. at The Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village.
The rappelling fundraiser, benefiting The Heights Foundation and The Heights Center, will support The Heights Center's School Success program for at risk children in the Harlem Heights neighborhood. On Sunday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., 80 individuals who have raised a minimum of $1,500 each will have the opportunity to rappel. The event is free for spectators and open to the public.
Celebrity rappellers include: Honorary Chairs, Dede D'Arcy and Ron Agypt, top fundraisers from 2015 Over The Edge event; Gina Birch, award-winning radio and TV personality; · Peter Busch, NBC-2 anchor; Representative Heather Fitzenhagen, Florida House of Representatives; Jason Gunter, Ironman; Jeff Harvey, American Ninja Warrior competitor; Cindy McCurry-Ross, executive editor of The News-Press and news-press.com and regional editor for the USA Today Network – Florida; Major Kathy Rairden, Lee County Sheriff's Department patrol commander and Nicholas Schmidt, owner/operator, Old Soul Brewing, U.S. Army Veteran, Afghanistan and Iraq.
"In recognition of Veterans Day, our first celebrity to rappel will be Nicholas Schmidt, a decorated U.S. Army Veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq," said Kathryn Kelly, President and CEO of The Heights Foundation. "We thank and honor Nick and all who have served honorably in the military."
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[26] FALL 2015
Waking Up, Windy Night in Summer, Robert Bly
For Kathmandu, John Roche
The Bronx 1965, Doug Holder
A Poem for Naipaul, Samartha Vashishtha
In the thin hour, Angele Ellis
Hey. Wait Til You Get Old…, Marie Sheppard Williams
Nothing Ever Dies, M.J. Iuppa
Of My Poetry Class, Keshab Sigdel
Before Making Decisions, Suman Pokhrel
Carpe Diem, Adiós, Tony Press
Want, Krishna P. Sharma
Door, Tanka Upreti
I don't know much of Route 66, Timothy Stobierski
Popocatepetl, Eric Chandler
The Unbelievable, Rajkumar Shrestha
Transposition, Elaine Wong
About Me, Robin Stratton
Storm Island, Thomas R. Smith
Silent Truth, Gopal Lahiri
Niantic, Jules Nyquist
Irony, David Ishaya Osu
River, Bhisma Upreti
Untitled, Simon Perchik
Fiery Spikes, Sunil Sharma
Circular Logic, D.A. Gray
The Sun I Can't See, Aileen Bassis
Aging, Rasaq Malik
A Meditation, Jenny Hockey
Moss-covered Tombstones, Pam Parker
At Your Cottage, William, L.B. Chhetri
Robert Bly was born in Madison, Minnesota in 1926. He attended Harvard University and received his M.S. from the University of Iowa in 1956. As a poet, editor, and translator, Bly has had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry. His many books of poems include, most recently, Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life(White Pine Press), Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems (W. W. Norton) and Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (W. W. Norton). His book The Light Around the Body won the National Book Award in 1967. As the editor of The Fifties and The Sixties, he introduced many European and South American poets to readers in the United States. He is also the author of a number of nonfiction books, including The Sibling Society and the bestselling Iron John: A Book About Men. His honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Ruth.
Aileen Bassis is a visual artist in Jersey City working in book arts, printmaking, photography and installation. Her artwork can be viewed at http://www.aileenbassis.com She's exploring another creative life as a poet. Her poems are published currently and upcoming in Blue River Review, Gravel Magazine, Haggard and Halloo, the Literary Bohemian, River Poets Journal, Milo Journal, Red Branch Journal, Specs Journal, Spillway, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Amoskeag.
Eric Chandler is a husband, father, and pilot who cross-country skis as fast as he can in Duluth, Minnesota. Susan Solomon, editor of Sleet Magazine, nominated his creative non-fiction story "Chemical Warfare" for a 2016 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in The Talking Stick, O-Dark-Thirty, Aqueous Magazine, Great Lakes Review, and Northern Wilds, to name a few. Visit ericchandler.wordpress.com for links to his published fiction, non-fiction, books, and poetry.
L.B. Chhetri is the author of the poetry collection Bheed Ma Harayeko Manchhe and two short story collections Trishanku Ko Deshma and Indramaya Ko Deshmaa. A retired professor of Tribhuvan University, Chhetri is the president of Kavidada Literary Society Chitwan, and Chief Editor of Charaiveti Literary Fortnightly.
D.A. Gray spends his time as a full-time graduate student at Texas A&M in the spring and fall, and as an MFA candidate at Sewanee School of Letters in the summer. Gray originally hails from Western Kentucky but, after retiring from the U.S. Army, now resides in Central Texas.
Gray has published one book of poetry, Overwatch(Grey Sparrow Press, November 2011.)
His work can also be found in Grey Sparrow Journal, Appalachian Heritage, Poetry Salzburg, The Good Men Project, O'Dark Thirty, 94 Creations, Kentucky Review and Spark: A Creative Anthology. His work will also be found in upcoming issues of The Sewanee Review and War, Literature and the Arts.
Angele Ellis watched Buddhist monks dance under a theatre marquee featuring her haiku, after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers' G-20 Haiku Contest. Her poetry, fiction (including excerpts of novels in progress), and reviews have appeared in fifty publications and ten anthologies. She is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press); which poems won her an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors' Choice Chapbook). She lives in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Friendship.
Jenny Hockey was among the winners of a New Poets Award from Newcastle's New Writing North in 2013 and has published poems in anthologies and magazines such as The North, Magma, Dreamcatcher, Iota and Orbis. She is also a long-term member of Sheffield's Broomspring Writers and Tuesday Poets.
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He recently won the Allen Ginsberg Community Service Award from the Newton Writing and Publishing Center in Newton, Mass. In Sept. 2015 he received a citation from the House of Representatives of Massachusetts for his work as a poet, publisher, editor, and professor. Holder's latest book of poetry is Portrait of an Artist as a Young Poseur (Big Table Publishing.) His work, both poetry and prose, has appeared in: The Boston Globe, Rattle, Café Review, the new renaissance, Poesy and others. He teaches writing at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
M.J. Iuppa lives on Red Rooster Farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Most recent poems, lyric essays, and fictions have appeared in the following journals: Poppy Road Review Black Poppy Review,Digging to the Roots, 2015 Calendar, Ealain, Poetry Pacific Review, Grey Sparrow Press: Snow Jewel Anthology, 100 Word Story, Avocet, Eunoia Review, Festival Writer, Silver Birch Press: Where I Live Anthology,Turtle Island Quarterly, Wild Quarterly, Boyne Berries Magazine (Ireland), The Lake, (U.K.), Punchnel's, Camroc Review, Tar Clementine Poetry, PostcardRiver Poetry, Corvus Review, Poetry &Prose, among others. She is the Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program at St. John Fisher College. You can follow her musings on art, writing and sustainability on mjiuppa.blogspot.com
Gopal Lahiri was born and grew up in Kolkata, India. He is a bilingual poet, writer, editor, critic, and translator and widely published in Bengali and the English language. His English volumes of poetry include Silent Steps, Living Inside, Tidal Interlude and four print on demand books at Lulu.com. His translation works, (English to Bengali) Not Just Milk and Honey, (published by NBT, India), is a collection of short stories of Israel and is widely acclaimed. He was an art and culture critic in The Telegraph, Kolkata.
Anthology appearances (among others) includes National Treasures, Indus Valley, A posy of poesy, Concerto, Poet's paradise, My dazzling Bards, The Silence within, Indo-Australian Anthology, Homebound, The Dance of the Peacock, Illuminations, Inklink, Poets International. Jorasanko, and Epitaph. His works have been featured in many journals of Indian Literature, Taj Mahal Review, CLRI, Haiku Journal and electronic publications such as Arts and Letters, Underground Window, Muse India, Poetry Stop, Debug, and East lit. He has jointly edited the anthology Scaling Heights.
He currently lives in Mumbai, India and can be reached at glahiri@gmail.com and gopallahiri.blogspot.com.
Rasaq Malik is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Connotation Press, Heart Online Journal, Jalada, Saraba, Kalahari Review, African Writers, New Black Magazine, Sentinel, and elsewhere. He is presently awaiting the publication of his debut poetry collection.
Jules Nyquist is the founder of Jules' Poetry Playhouse in Albuquerque, NM where she leads writing classes and invites visiting poets to share their work. She received her MFA from Bennington College, VT and her two previous books of poems, Appetites (2012) and Behind the Volcanoes (2014) both from Beatlick Press, were finalists in the NM/AZ Book Awards. Her website is www. julesnyquist. com
David Ishaya Osu (b. 1991) is a Nigerian poet. He has had poems featured in literary publications such as: Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka, Birmingham Arts Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Watershed Review, The Missing Slate, Acumen Literary Journal, The Kalahari Review, Porter Gulch Review, Akitsu Quarterly, and elsewhere. David is a board member of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, and he is currently polishing his debut poetry book. He is obsessed with poems, pictures, and plays; and he is in love.
Pam Parker lives in suburban Milwaukee, WI while her heart bounces around the world to many favorite places: New England, Scotland, Paris, and Prague among them. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and received awards from the WI Broadcasters Association, the WI Academy of Sciences & Letters, and the WI Writers Association. Links to some of her publications can be found at pamwrites.net. She is co-editor with Kathy Lanzarotti of Done Darkness, an anthology of writing about life beyond sadness, forthcoming in 2015 from Orange Hat Publishing.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, free e-books, and his essay titled "Magic, Illusion and Other Realities," please visit his website at http://www.simonperchik.com
Suman Pokhrel is the author of two poetry collections, Mutuko Dhadkanbhitra (Within the Beats of Beat-less Heart) and Jeevanko Chheubaata (From the Bank of Life), and a collection of songs, Hazaar Aankha Yee Aankhama (Thousands of Eyes onto These Eyes). Pokhrel's poems are published in various poetry journals and anthologies nationally and internationally. He was awarded the prestigious SAARC Literary Award in 2013 and 2015.
Tony Press lives near San Francisco, tries to pay attention, and walks the old streets of Oaxaca, Mexico, as often as he can. His short story collection, Crossing the Line, will be published by Big Table Publishing in early 2016.
John Roche is an Associate Professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD from SUNY Buffalo, studying with Robert Creeley and John C. Clarke. His first two full-length poetry collections were On Conesus (2005) and Topicalities(2008), both from FootHills Publishing, Kanona, NY. His 2011 poetic memoir, Road Ghosts, is available from theenk Books through http://www.spdbooks.org/ Albuquerque's Beatlick Press published an anthology of 120 poets called Mo' Joe (2014), inspired by his Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet (FootHills, 2012.) Mo' Joe was a finalist in the 2014 Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards and was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. Roche also edited the collection Uncensored Songs for Sam Abrams (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008), co-edited an anthology of poetry by inmates at Auburn Prison, and edited Martha Rittenhouse Treichler's Black Mountain to Crooked Lake: Poems 1948-2010, with a Memoir of Black Mountain College (FootHills, 2010.)
Rajkumar Shrestha is a Nepali and Hindi poet, born in 1987 in New Delhi, India where he lives. He graduated in Arts from Delhi University and has been published in various journals, newspapers, and anthologies in India and Nepal. He has translated and published a poetry book from Nepali to Hindi.
Krishna P. Sharma was born and raised near Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Nepal. He began his professional career as a journalist from The Rising Nepal where he worked for eight years before joining The Washington Post in March 2006. He also reported to the BBC Nepali Service from Washington D.C. during the formative years of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
While continuing his non-profit think-tank "Vision for Nepal Foundation" (VIFON), Sharma also served as a language expert for the U.S. government. Sharma hosts a weekly TV talk show "American Conversations." While in Nepal, Sharma also co-edited Of Nepalese Clay, a scholarly literary journal of the Society of Nepali Writers in English (N-WEN) of which he was the vice-president. His works are published in national and international newspapers and journals across the world, including The Financial Times.
Sunil Sharma, a college principal from Mumbai, is also a widely published Indian critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist, and fiction writer. He has already published three collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction, and one novel, and co-edited five books. His six short stories and the novel, Minotaur, were recently prescribed for the undergraduate classes under the Post-colonial Studies, Clayton University, Georgia, in the U.S. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets' inaugural Poet of the Year award, 2012. Sharma edits the online journal, Episteme: http://www.episteme.net.in
Keshab Sigdel is a poet, essayist and a literary translator. He has to his credit two poetry collections Samaya Bighatan (2007), and Six Strings (co-authored anthology, 2011). He is a lecturer at Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University. He is also the vice-president of the Society of Nepali Writers in English, founding member of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, Hong Kong, and an editor of a literary journal Of Nepalese Clay. His poems are published in literary journals Snow Jewel (USA), Sijo Saing'hwal (South Korea), Naya Gyanodaya (India), Sanskritc Khabar (India), The Art of Being Human (Canada), The Independent(Bangladesh), Kampala Poetry Anthology (Uganda) among others. He is also the recipient of literary awards Bhanubhakta Gold Medal (2014) and Srijanshil Pratibha Puraskar (2015).
Thomas R. Smith is the author of seven books of poetry; Keeping the Star, Horse of Earth, The Dark Indigo Current, Winter Hours, Waking Before Dawn, The Foot of the Rainbow, and The Glory (forthcoming in 2015 from Red Dragonfly Press). He has edited several books, including What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread: Poems by Alden Nowlan and, most recently, Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer. He is a poetry instructor at the Loft Literary Center and lives in River Falls, Wisconsin with his wife Krista. He posts essays and poems on his web site at http://www.thomasrsmithpoet.com
Tim Stobierski is a freelance writer and editor and is currently an Associate Editor of books at The Taunton Press. His poetry, essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including The Hartford Courant, Grey Sparrow, and H_NGM_N. His first book of poetry, Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer, was published by River Otter Press in 2012.
Robin Stratton is a writing coach in the Boston area, director of Newton Writing & Publishing Center, Acquisitions Editor at Big Table Publishing Company, and Managing Editor of Boston Literary Magazine.
Bhisma Upreti is a poet and essayist. He has published six books of poems and eight books of essays. He won first prize from the National Poetry Competition organized by the Nepal Academy. His works have been translated into English, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Serbian, Slovenian, and German and have appeared in various international journals and anthologies such asGrey Sparrow (USA), Skeleton (USA), Bridge of Fate (USA), The Art of Being Human, volume 5, 9 and 10 (Canada), Bouquet (Japan), Our Voices (India), The Nepalese Verses (Bangladesh), Kathmandu Kathmandu (Germany), The Enthusiast (England) and others. He is a joint secretary of the Nepal Chapter of PEN International. He works at Central Bank of Nepal (Nepal Rastra Bank); and lives in Kathmandu with his family.
Tanka Upreti is a prominent poet from Nepal. He has four volumes of poetry to his credit: Anubhutika Aksharharu, Sabdaharuko Nepathya, Gajur Pagliera, and Niguroko Kharani. A Senior Producer at the Nepal Television, Upreti has been awarded with the Best Documentary Producer in the Asia Pacific region by ABU, UNDP, and MTV Asia and Best Documentary Director in MTCP-2010. He has also been nominated as an International Scholar by London Metropolitan University. He is also a recipient of National Fine Art Journalism Award.
Samartha Vashishtha(b. 1983) has published two poetry volumes in English—Anhadnãd (2000) and Shadows Don't Live In Walls(2004), besides poems in leading literary magazines, both in Hindi and English. His first volume of poems in Hindi, titled Sapne Mein Piya Pãni (सपनेमेंपियापानी), is due for publication soon.
Marie Sheppard Williams has lived and worked in Minnesota all her life. Currently she cohabits with a very large orange cat named Albert Einstein and is at work on a new poetry collection. She has won many awards for her writing, including two Pushcart Prizes and a Bush Artist Fellowship. Among her publications are The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped, The Weekend Girl, The Soap Game, Stories from the Child, Us, and The Best Cat, a book of poems by Sheppard Williams with illustrations by her daughter, Megan Williams. All her works may be obtained at Amazon.com
Elaine Wong lives and teaches in San Antonio, Texas. While the Alamo City is her fourth home after Taipei, Hong Kong, and Vancouver, B.C., it is the original home of her poetry writing—it all started there. In addition to formal matters, she is interested in exploring cross-linguistic creativity between English and Chinese. Her poems and translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, TAB, The Taipei Chinese Pen (forthcoming), Voices de la Luna, and other publications.