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an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established.
an unowned or unclaimed tract of usually barren land.
an indefinite or ambiguous area where guidelines and authority are not clear: a no man's land between acceptance and rejection.
(in tennis, handball, etc.) the area of a court in which a player is at a tactical disadvantage, as the area of a tennis court about midway between the net and the base line.
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no kidding, no longer, no love lost, no man can serve two masters, no man is an island, no man's land, no matter, no matter how you slice it, no news is good news, no offense, no one
Origin of no man's land
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50
British Dictionary definitions for no-man's-land
no-man's-land
land between boundaries, esp an unoccupied zone between opposing forces
an unowned or unclaimed piece of land
an ambiguous area of activity or thought
Word Origin and History for no-man's-land
also no man's land, "terrain between front lines of entrenched armies," 1908, popularized in World War I; in use from at least early 14c. as Nonemanneslond, an unowned waste ground outside the north wall of London, site for executions. No man (Old English nanne mon) was an old way of saying "nobody."
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This section of the site is about Telephony, the sending of audio data over a variety of technologies.
The Asterisk RPMs page contains details of the Asterisk RPM repository for CentOS/RHEL 6 & 7 hosted here.
The Philippines Numbering/Dial Plan page contains information about the numbering system in the Philippines along with an Asterisk dialplan extract that can be used to implement PSTN connectivity using Asterisk in the Philippines, this page has been created due to the lack of publicly provided information by the telcos in the Philippines and the NTC, the telecommunications regulator in the Philippines.
The Asterisk SIT detection page contains information on and a proof of concept implementation of SIT (Special Information Tone) detection in Asterisk in the app_dial dialplan application that allows the detection of SIT in early media provided through any technology. Asterisk currently is only able to do limited in-band progress detection on DAHDI channels, in most cases this is not a problem as most progress feedback is provided out of band, however, in the PSTN early media is used in many cases to provide user friendly messages as to why a number cannot be reached and access to the PSTN is more and more being provider over VoIP. The result being that an Asterisk based PBX, if placing a call without a person receiving the early media, will wait until it's timeout is reached or the remote end terminates in the event of an unreachable number. As there are many potential situations the could lead to a call being placed without someone receiving early media, this has a significant potential to cause problems. E.g. a call is routed to someone's desk and their home phone with a fall back to voicemail in the event of a call going unanswered, due to a network problem, the call can not reach the home phone so the provider delivers a message with SIT as early media, the caller will have to wait for the call to timeout before being passed to voicemail. The proof of concept provided is similar to something I wrote a few years ago that was in production handling approximately 100000 calls per day, but as I had to reimplement the solution here from scratch, this code has not had anywhere near as much testing.
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His eminence with Zamanan discussed developments of regional and international political issues and the bilateral relations.
His eminence stressed the importance of adopting dialogue to discuss unsettled issues, noted that new Iraq is an Iraq reconciled with all on the basis of mutual interests.
His eminence indicated Iraq's need for reconstruction support, pointed out the importance of the national majority during the current phase to produce a strong government, able of providing services and reinforced by a practical program and a clear timeframe, and above all monitored by a national opposition bloc.


The latest statistics from the Real Estate Institute of Victoria prove the current strength of the local market. The Ballarat real estate market grew by 12% in the 2018 calendar year, easily one of the most impressive councils in Victoria, continuing in the December quarter at 1.7% for the City of Ballarat.
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Neuperlach Süd è una stazione della Metropolitana di Monaco di Baviera, che serve la linea U5; funge anche da interscambio con la rete ferroviaria. È stata inaugurata il 18 ottobre 1980.

La linea S7 della S-Bahn di Monaco di Baviera ferma anche a questa stazione, e continua poi verso sud. La stazione conta tre banchine: due per la U-Bahn (Metropolitana) e una per la S-Bahn, permettendo l'interscambio tra i treni.

La stazione si trova su di un ponte che sovrasta Carl-Wery-Straße ed è una delle poche stazioni della Metropolitana di Monaco di Baviera che si trova sopra il livello del suolo. Le due entrate si trovano ad est e ad ovest di Carl-Wery-Straße. L'uscita est porta verso il Centro di Ricerca e Sviluppo della Siemens, che è stato il maggiore contro di ricerca in Europa, con 14.000 dipendenti agli inizi degli anni novanta. La stessa uscita conduce anche verso un grande parcheggio, mentre l'uscita ovest porta verso i capolinea degli autobus.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Stazioni della metropolitana di Monaco di Baviera

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Opinion Financial aid
Student Loan Forgiveness Is Not Divine
Until we change our beliefs about the nature of poverty, we will end up in circular arguments about whether someone deserves $10,000, $50,000 or whatever in debt relief, William G. Tierney writes.
William G. Tierney
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In 1711, the Enlightenment poet Alexander Pope famously wrote, "To err is human, to forgive divine." Pope's point was that human beings should aspire to do as God does and forgive sinners. We forgive an individual or group because they have done wrong -- even if they do not deserve forgiveness. To forgive someone does not mean to excuse the individual of the wrongs they have committed. Although the forgiven benefit by having their crimes and sins absolved, the emphasis is on the goodness of the forgiver. Those who forgive exemplify the best in society.
In higher education these days, it seems we hear the term "forgiveness" most frequently around a financial issue: student indebtedness over college tuition. We regularly speak and read in the news media about "student loan forgiveness," which would enable individuals not to have to repay federal student loans they borrowed for their postsecondary education. Roughly 43 million Americans have student loans; the average student loan debt is close to $40,000, and more than 2.5 million borrowers owe at least $100,000.
Policy makers have been on different sides of the issue. President Biden has recommended that $10,000 of a student's loan amount be forgiven annually for national or community service; Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer have argued for $50,000 of loan forgiveness. Republicans are generally against forgiveness. And within those continuing debates, people have made various arguments about specifically whose loans should be forgiven and how much of them. For example, some have pointed out that those who could most benefit from loan forgiveness are African Americans and Latinos. Others assert that those who accumulate the largest loans are medical students who will be able to repay their loans without any significant harm.
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All those arguments, however, are fundamentally wrongheaded.
Let me share a personal story. A young fellow whom I have mentored visited us recently with his new bride. Gustavo (a pseudonym) grew up in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles with his mom. During high school he worked 15 hours a week bagging groceries and gave the money to his mother to help augment her salary; she worked full-time at a grocery store. He was a good student, and even though he went to a historically low-college-going high school, he was admitted to a University of California campus. He was good in math, and I encouraged him to major in a math-related field. He graduated from the university, subsequently earned a master's degree in teaching and was involved in Math for America.
For the last several years, Gustavo has taught eighth-grade math in a K-12 school where very few students are "college material." His students love him, and before the pandemic hit, he arrived early for work and left late so that he could tutor students one on one to help reduce their math anxiety. Over the last few years, he has had approximately twice as many students who are working at grade level as the average for his school. He also coaches a long-distance running club for his institution. He has enrolled part-time in a doctoral program and will complete his doctorate in about one year.
Gustavo and his new wife have all the enthusiasm and excitement of any new couple. They are in love, they intend to start a family and they eventually want to buy a house. In many respects, they are living the American dream. The dream Gustavo is living is also a life that, as a society, we should admire: he has worked hard, he has played by the rules, he personifies integrity, he is a Latino man teaching in a field where there are too few men of color and he is a good teacher.
The failure of the American dream, however, is that he has accumulated $90,000 in loans, of which about $60,000 is education-related debt. As a society, the citizenry is in the position of forgiving some, or all, of Gustavo's debt.
But what has he done that requires forgiveness? Why are we even in the position of forgiving him? He has no sins to confess, and he has done nothing for which we should be magnanimous.
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The only error that he has committed is that he was born into, and grew up in, a poor family. Poverty ought not require forgiveness. Indeed, the society that has enabled individual indebtedness is the one that should seek expiation. Gustavo, by the way, does not seek forgiveness for those loans that he has accumulated on his own, such as buying a new car. He is beginning to realize, however, that without some form of loan eradication, he will be unable to buy a home and raise a middle-class family.
A New Mind-Set Is Needed
Some will suggest that we ought not quibble over a word. Who cares if a loan is "forgiven" as long as the individual no longer has any debt? That is the same sort of thinking that defines undocumented students as illegal aliens, as if they are from another planet, and LGBTQ individuals as homosexuals in need of psychiatric help. Language both constitutes and is constituted by the culture in which we live. To suggest that the poor need forgiveness is to maintain the relations of power that benefit some and marginalize others like Gustavo.
In American society, we still have a mind-set that we hold the power to forgive people for their poverty, as if the poor created the conditions in which they were born and live. Until we change our beliefs about the nature of poverty, we will end up in circular arguments about whether someone deserves $10,000, $50,000 or whatever in debt relief.
Such thinking should be anathema in a democracy that holds that through individual initiative and hard work a person will thrive. Gustavo and countless others like him have done precisely what the American credo has set out: work hard, play by the rules, give back to the community and you will be able to share in the American dream. No one should have to be forgiven for that.
William G. Tierney is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, founding director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and author of Higher Education for Democracy: The Role of the University in Civil Society (SUNY, 2021).
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I once had a teacher who said his friend who spent time in russia swears up and down that pickle juice is the best remedy for a hangover, but given that I'm not into drinking I've never really been in a situation where I'd be testing that theory.
What? Huh. Drinking pickle juice straight-up would probably make me want to vomit while I'm feeling well, much less hung over.
I've never tried it, but pickle juice is basically salt water, so I can see how it would help with dehydration. Similar to a sports drink (my go-to hangover cure).
aw yeah, lamb intestines. That'll fix me right up.
I've always found that port serves as an excellent fast-track to hell the following morning.
Okay, maybe that gin. But just the one.
this thread makes me look like an alcoholic.
It makes you look like you have no tolerance.
I really don't anymore. Thanks, rowing!
I had it when everyone was raving about it. Jesus that was awful.
Oh yes. Original four loko was my first alcoholic beverage, as horrible as that sounds for people with livers and common sense.


With winter almost behind us, we can begin to look forward to the joys of spring. Easter is a time of new life and there is no place quite like a farm to see this happen. New-born calves are taking their first tentative steps on spindly legs, our chicks are beginning to hatch from their protective eggs, and our lambing season is now upon us, bringing with it a harmony of tiny bleats to the farm.


Sgt. SCHRADER was born at Rimbey, Alberta on June 29, 1929 to Lawrence and Annie SCHRADER. He attended Rimbey High School and worked on the family farm and in a Creamery. He was engaged in the Force as a Recruit Special Constable at Edmonton, Alberta on June 10, 1948 and posted to Depot Division for Basic Recruit Training. On August 31, 1948, he was discharged as a Recruit Special Constable and engaged as a Constable as part of Troop #2. He received additional training at Rockcliffe, Ont.
He served at Weyburn, Broadview, Castlegar, B.C., Cranbrook, B.C. Regina Town Station, North Portal, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert.
While stationed at Moose Jaw, on April 24, 1953, Sgt. SCHRADER married Constance Freida Bohn at Broadview, Sask.
On October 10, 1954, twins Diane Lynn and Lawrence Philip were born On October 6, 1956, twins Barry James and Garry Robert were born. On September 22, 1959, son, Terrance David was born.
He was promoted to Corporal on May 1, 1960 and Sergeant on May 1, 1967.
In 1970, Sgt. SCHRADER was the 2 i/c of Prince Albert Detachment.
The death of the two policemen rocked the Prince Albert community. Both of them were well liked and highly regarded. Sgt. SCHRADER was a kind and gentle family man who left behind his wife, Constance, and five children, including two sets of twins. Both policemen served most of their careers in Saskatchewan. A joint Prayer service was held in Prince Albert on October 13, 1970. A joint funeral service with full military honours was held at the RCMP Depot Chapel on Wednesday, October 14, 1970 by Archbishop C. Jackson. They were buried side by side (plots 219 (SCHRADER) and 220 (ANSON) at the RCMP Cemetery at Regina.


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Mohd Aiman Afif bin Md Afizul (born 18 February 2001) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Malaysia Super League club Kedah Darul Aman.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Kedah Darul Aman
 Malaysia Super League runner-up: 2021, 2022

References

External links

2001 births
Living people
People from Kedah
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian footballers
Kedah Darul Aman F.C. players
Malaysia Super League players
Association football midfielders
Competitors at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games competitors for Malaysia


Sports bar/restaurant on Clark St?
Law Order filming today on Montague St?
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New yahoo group for future JCondo owners in DUMBO.
Impact of closing Adams street service road?
Empty storefronts on Henry St.


I have no nostalgia for my childhood. I don't remember it well — maybe less than I should — and I don't miss it or long for it. I am in fact, grateful it's over, as I don't recall it being particularly fun or easy. As far as I can tell, childhood is a pretty scary time, with little control over your life, little understanding of what's happening and why, and much to be afraid of (both real and unreal terrors).
I have certainly met people who think of their childhoods fondly, describe them as "happy" even. Childhood is itself an odd thing, since it is both shared and so particularly ours. Think about the strangeness of the word — it can be both plural and singular, general and individual. Who else has the body memory of a little you? And yet, even memory might be a composite, reconstructed from the stories and memories of others. The news cycle also reminds us that childhood is a political reality — it has been under attack at the borders of this country for some time now. It is also a historical reality — childhoods change all the time. They have changed even within the past 10 years.
This issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal explores these different ways of understanding what childhood is. Margaret Hagerman presents her research on how children learn about race and racism in our current political and historical moment. Edith Sheffer translates an entire file from the archives of the Third Reich, revealing how a child in the 1940s was diagnosed, classified, and placed. From a more personal perspective, Michelle Cruz Gonzales considers belonging to Indian Club in elementary school. Weike Wang writes about a mother debating which version of Cinderella to show her child. Katherine J. Chen thinks about her name and the impact it had on her throughout her life. E.C. Osondu's short story deals with alien babies, and that horrible day when the space ship finally comes to pick them up.
This issue is not exactly for children, but for those who were children, which is to say, all of us. There are so many reasons to return to that time, whether we cherish it or think of it wearily, whether we really remember it or not.


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JTT, New York, Point of View, 2021
Nottingham Contemporary, U.K. Diane Simpson: Sculpture, Drawing, Prints, 1976-2014; 2020
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Diane Simpson Cardboard-Plus, 1978-1980; 2020
Whitney Biennial, 2019
Architecture in Motion, 2019
Herald St, London, U.K., Diane Simpson, 2018
JTT, New York, Diane Simpson: Samurai, 2016-2017
Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, Diane Simpson, 2016
MCA/Chicago, Window Dressing, 2016
ICA/Boston, Diane Simpson, 2015-2016
Herald St, London, Diane Simpson and Leslie Vance, 2015-2016
Visual Conversation with Vincent Fecteau, 2015
Broadway Windows, NYU, New York, Window Dressing, 2014
JTT, New York, Diane Simpson, 2013
Retrospective Exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, Diane Simpson: Sculpture + Drawing 1978 - 2009, 2010
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, Window Dressing, 2007-2008
Sculpture and Drawings 1996-2009
Sculpture and Drawings, 1979-1996
DIANE SIMPSON
1971 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1978 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
ONE and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Point of view, JTT, New York
Diane Simpson Cardboard, 1978-1980, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Diane Simpson: Sculpture, Drawing, Prints 1976-2014, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson, Frye Museum, Seattle WA
Architecture in Motion, Performance, Minneapolis, MN
Architecture in Motion, Performance, Chicago IL
Diane Simpson, Herald St, London, UK
2016 Diane Simpson: Samurai, JTT, New York
Diane Simpson, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago (catalog)
Diane Simpson, Window Dressing, Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago
2015 Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (career survey - catalog)
Lesley Vance and Diane Simpson, Herald St, London,UK
Lui Shtini and Diane Simpson, Silberkuppe, Berlin,DE
2014 Window Dressing, NYU Broadway Windows, New York
2013 Diane Simpson, JTT, New York
2011 Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2010 Chicago Cultural Center (30-year retrospective - catalog)
2008 Alfedena Gallery, Chicago
2007 Window Dressing, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2006 Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
2005 I space, Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003 Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2001 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan (catalog)
1999 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
1995 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
1992 Dart Gallery, Chicago
1983 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1980 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1979 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York
Looking Back/The 12th White Columns Annual; Curated by Mary Manning; White Columns Gallery, NY
Annotations and Immprovisations; Curated by Kristen Becker; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse In Chicago Art- Collection of Christopher Slapak and Michael Robertson, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Off Road II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout, Belgium
Making Knowing Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art
Duro Olowu: Seeing ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Travels to FRAC Lorraine Metz, France and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
Herald St/Museum St, London UK
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Objects Like Us, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Wiggle Wiggle, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
The House of Fame, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK
Gray Matters, Organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Art Center, Columbus Ohio
The Idea of a Boundary,Ten women artists undeterred by boundaries, Organized by Jackie Im, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, San Francisco, CA
These Are Flat Things And Things Which Are Not Flat, Organized by Katarina Burin, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, UK
See sun, and think shadow, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection , The Hessel Museum at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell, Chicago
Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York
About Face, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Bonsai #5, Maccarone, New York
Over & Under, organized by Matt Keegan, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Off Broadway, organized by Nairy Baghramian, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp, Diane Simpson, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
All Summer In A Day, Matt Conners, Kristan Kennedy, Owen Kydd, Diane Simpson, Erika Verutti, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Displayed, Anton Kern, New York, Curated by Matthew Higgs
My Hand Is My Bite, Monique Meloche, Chicago, Curated by Dan Gunn
What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC, curated by Olivia Kohler-Maga
Seeing Is A Kind Of Thinking/A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Julia Rodriques Widholm
INsideOUT, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois;
Concurrent, Traveling four-person exhibition: University of Tennessee; William Patterson U.; Lehigh U.; Bradley U.; West Virginia U.; Bucknell U. (catalog)
Begin Again Right Back Here, White Columns, New York City, guest curator, B.Wurtz
Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
curated by Staci Boris
Black & White, Linda Ross contemporary/Art+Projects, Huntington Woods, Michigan
The Art of Containment, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, Raye Bemis, Michele Feder Nadoff, Diane Simpson
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (catalog)
curated by Sean Ulmer
Art in Chicago: 1945-95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (catalog)
curated by Lynne Warren
Imagining Form, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, guest curator, Victor Cassidy
100 Artists, 100 Years, Art Institute of Chicago, guest curator, Katharine Kuh (catalog)
New Dimensions: Volume and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
curated by Pauline Saliga
SELECTED REVIEWS:
Jeffrey Kastner, Diane Simpson at JTT, Art Forum, December 2021
Andrea K. Scott, Diane Simpson: Samurai, 4 Columns, January 6, 2017
Roberta Smith, Diane Simpson at JTT, New York Times, December 23, 2016
John Yau, The Beauty of Absent Bodies, Hyperallergic, October 9, 2016
Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic:
http://hyperallergic.com/302237/whimsical-art-deco-inspired-window-designs/
Amy sherlock, Contemporary Art Daily:
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/02/diane-simpson-lesley-vance-at-herald-st/
Tessa Paneth-Pollak, Big Red and Shiny:
Sartor Resartus: Diane Simpson at the ICA, Boston
Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/12/19/diane-simpson-show-ica-superb/yQnIqbtiU9R8U2mRQnmrsM/story.html
Roberta Smith, NY Times:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/arts/design/tracing-diane-simpsons-structural-evolution-in-boston-exhibition.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
Holland Cotter, NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/arts/dance/diane-simpson.html?ref=design&_r=0
Andrew Russeth, Gallerist, NY:
http://galleristny.com/2013/11/diane-simpson-at-jtt/
Lumi Tan, Art Forum:
http://artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=43994&view=print
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine:
http://nymag.com/arts/all/to-do-2013-11-11/
2019 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2018 Graham Foundation Research Grant
2010 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grant
2007 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council
1993/94 Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts Midwest/NEA
1980 Walter M. Campana Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
1978 E. Garrison Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
James Thompson Center, Chicago: The Illinois Collection
Kadist Foundation, Paris, FR; San Francisco, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago
Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
M. Woods Museum, Beijing
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER:
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University at Indianapolis
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Noddingham Contemporary, Nottingham, U.K.
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago
JTT, New York
Herald St, London, UK
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W: J. Quintana (10-7) L: H. Bailey (9-8)
11:20 AM PT12:20 PM MT1:20 PM CT2:20 PM ET14:20 ET18:20 GMT2:20 11:20 AM MST1:20 PM EST1:50 PM VEN22:20 UAE1:20 PM CT, August 7, 2019
Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Attendance: 41,179
Happ's slam leads Quintana, Cubs over Athletics 10-1
By MATT CARLSON
CHICAGO (AP) Ian Happ and Jose Quintana are both locked-in right now, and that's good news for the Chicago Cubs.
Happ hit his second career grand slam, Quintana tossed two-hit ball through seven innings to win his sixth straight decision and the Cubs ripped the Oakland Athletics 10-1 on Wednesday.
Kyle Schwarber hit a three-run homer, Victor Caratini connected and Javier Baez kept up his latest hot streak with two hits and two RBIs as the Cubs responded with a rout of their own after Oakland pounded them 11-4 on Tuesday night. NL Central-leading Chicago took two of three from the A's and won its fifth in six games.
"Pretty much the exact opposite of the game we played yesterday," manager Joe Maddon said. "Quintana was primarily responsible for that. Of course Happ and Schwarber did their share."
Quintana (10-7) allowed one run, struck out seven and walked none. David Phelps and Pedro Strop each followed with a scoreless inning to wrap up a three-hitter.
Even the normally low-key Quintana was upbeat about his outing.
"I felt really good," Quintana said "My command was amazing. It was a first pitch for strikes most of the time and I changed speeds really good."
Happ, recalled from Triple-A Iowa on July 26, went deep for second time in three games against Oakland as he made his first start at second base in nearly two years.
"The at-bats have been really good," said Happ, who is 8 for 25 (.320) in 12 games since being called up. "I feel comfortable up there and just want to keep that rolling."
Baez was replaced at shortstop by David Bote in the eighth after fouling a pitch of his left leg in the seventh, but Maddon said the All-Star should be all right even if the ball "got him pretty good."
Last year's NL MVP runner-up, Baez is batting .478 (11 for 23) with nine RBIs in a six-game hitting streak.
The Athletics got their only run off Quintana in the fourth when Marcus Semien led off with a double and scored on Matt Olson's sacrifice fly. Oakland lost for just the third time in its last 10.
"Quintana out there today was really good," Oakland third baseman Matt Chapman said. "He was deceptive, threw strikes, worked quick. He kept guys off balance."
A's starter Homer Bailey (9-8) set down nine of the first 10 hitters before Chicago scored five runs in the fourth. The right-hander yielded seven runs in 4 2/3 innings in his fifth start since arriving in a arriving in a trade from Kansas City on July 14.
Baez singled in Chicago's first run in the fourth to tie at 1 before the Cubs loaded the bases with one out. Batting left-handed, the switch-hitting Happ stroked Bailey's first pitch into the left-center bleachers to make it 5-1.
Baez singled in another run off Bailey to start Chicago's four-run fifth. With two runners on, Schwarber muscled his 26th homer, an opposite-field shot to left-center, off reliever Lou Trivino to make it 9-1.
Caratini homered off Blake Treinen in the eighth.
CUBS LAND LUCROY
After the game, Joe Maddon said the Cubs signed catcher Jonathan Lucroy. The 10-year-veteran and two-time All-Star is expected to join the team in Cincinnati on Thursday.
The 33-year-old will pair Caratini behind the plate to help plug a gap created when All-Star Willson Contreras suffered a right hamstring strain on Saturday. Contreras is expected to miss four weeks.
Lucroy was designated for assignment by the Angels last Friday, then cleared waivers and was unconditionally released by Los Angeles on Wednesday. In a corresponding move, Chicago optioned catcher-infielder Taylor Davis to Triple-A Iowa.
HAPP-Y RETURN
Happ's first grand slam was as a rookie on June 13, 2017, against the Mets at New York.
TRAINER'S ROOM:
Athletics: Manager Bob Melvin said LH starter Sean Manaea (left shoulder surgery) might start playing catch Wednesday after he experienced soreness in a rehab start at Triple-A Las Vegas on July 30. Manaea is expected to make at least one more start in the minors. . C Josh Phegley (left thumb contusion) could start playing catch again Wednesday or Thursday. He's eligible to come off the 10-day IL Aug. 8.
Cubs: Baez crumpled when he fouled a pitch of his left leg. After a trainer attended to him, he finished the at-bat and ran gingerly to first base as he grounded into a double play.
Athletics: Following an off-day, the A's head across town to start a three-game series against the White Sox on Friday afternoon. Oakland RHP Mike Fiers (10-3, 3.46) faces Chicago LHP Ross Detwiler (1-2, 5.72). Fiers is 8-0 with a 2.26 ERA in 16 starts dating to his no-hitter on May 7 vs. Cincinnati.
Cubs: LHP Cole Hamels (6-3), 2.84) looks to stay on track against Reds LHP Alex Wood (1-0, 3.18) at Cincinnati on Thursday. Hamels pitched five shutout innings versus Milwaukee last Saturday in his return from a five-week stint on the IL, and is 2-2 with a 1.07 ERA in his last seven starts.
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The most talked about game in years is about to debut… Well, not really, actually. The folks over at Polyphony Digital see it fit to just keep teasing the automotive gaming public with video after video, after video. But this one, however, is more than a tease, it's a revelation. Gran Turismo 5 will easily be the best car game of all time.
The video has pretty much everything we needed to see to make us waiting for GT5 just a little bit easier. Not only does the trailer entitled "Nights" have everything from NASCAR to actual night racing, as well as gratuitous amounts of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG action and Ferrari 458 Italia beauty, along with some great racing footage.


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When both Salomon Rondon and Ayoze Perez left the club at the beginning of the season, Newcastle United lost their two top-scorers from the previous campaign.
Those departures left new manager Steve Bruce with Yoshinori Muto, Dwight Gayle, and Joselu at the club – all three short on Premier League goals in their careers.
After signing Joelinton and moving Miguel Almiron into a more advanced role, Bruce sanctioned the exit of Joselu, who joined La Liga club Alaves.
Although he wasn't massively successful at St James' Park – scoring only seven goals in 52 games, the Spaniard has sparkled in his first few outings for the La Liga club, scoring twice in his three appearances.
The Magpies haven't exactly hit the ground running so fat this season, and have failed to score more than once in a single game, only scoring three goals in their first four outings – the second-worst record in the Premier League.
With Gayle and Andy Carroll still injured and out of action, the responsibility to come off the bench and affect games has fallen on the shoulders of Muto.
Joselu would have been ideal for Newcastle at this moment in time, especially after the 29-year-old has earned the man of the match award on two separate occasions so far this season [WhoScored].
When comparing the Spaniard to Muto and Almiron via WhoScored, it is clear that Bruce could have made a mistake in letting the forward leave the club.
The 29-year-old has achieved a superior match rating compared to the Newcastle duo in his first three games, with Muto showing little to no threat when coming off the bench in games.
Joselu is the only one of the three to score this season and gets himself into better goalscoring opportunities, as he has averaged 1.7 shots on goal – almost more than the two Newcastle men combined.
As a playmaker, Almiron is expected to complete more dribbles and deliver more key passes than the two out-and-out strikers, but the only stat that counts as a forward is your goal tally, and the Magpies' men are struggling.
Joselu's shining start could more than prove that Newcastle could live to regret selling the Spaniard as he continues to shine early on in La Liga.


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Ever since Tesla's inception, Panasonic has been the automaker's only approved battery supplier when it comes to its electric vehicles.
Panasonic is currently deploying new production lines at Tesla Gigafactory 1 to get to 35 GWh of battery cell production by the end of the year.
Panasonic's battery cell production at Tesla Gigafactory 1 has emerged as a bottleneck in Model 3 production as Tesla managed to fix its own production issues.
Panasonic, Tesla's exclusive battery cell supplier for electric vehicles, is planning to increase battery cell production by 30% by the end of the year at Tesla Gigafactory 1.


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A Sensible Guidance: UK Attorney General Says School Pupils Are Legally Their Biological Sex
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Schools are a key battleground in identity politics. It is refreshing to see some common sense from the Attorney General.
Solidarity with the Silenced: The Case of Eoghan Harris
Mark Dooley June 3, 2022
Free societies need people like Eoghan Harris—courageous contrarians who defy the culture of amnesia. Such people are the vanguard of memory, reminding us that liberty is a precious but fragile asset that we must not take for granted.
Sweden: Ethiopian Family Members Arrested for Suspected Honor Killing
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The Swedish Police Authority, between 2019 and 2021, registered some 4,500 honor-related crimes.
Iran: Protesters Chant "Death to Khamenei" Over Building Collapse that Killed 34
In the wake of a building collapse last week that killed 34 people and injured 37 others, incensed protesters took to the streets chanting anti-government slogans, including "death to Khamenei."
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'Wag the Dog' and 'Donnie Brasco' star Anne Heche removed from life support
By Scottie Andrew and Chloe Melas, CNN
(CNN) — Anne Heche, a captivating actress whose versatility propelled an admirable career in television and film for four decades, is no longer on life support.
"Anne Heche has been peacefully removed from life support," a representative for the actress' family told CNN on Sunday evening.
Heche's car crashed into a Los Angeles home and caught fire on August 5. After the crash, Heche suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury," depriving his brain of oxygen, among other serious injuries from the accident, his family and friends said in a statement to CNN.
Heche, an award-winning actor, appeared in films like the 1998 remake of "Psycho" and the romantic comedy "Six Days Seven Nights" alongside Harrison Ford. She also directed a segment of a 2000 HBO film "If These Walls Could Talk 2" and in her 2001 memoir she revealed her lifelong struggles with mental illness after being abused by her father.
In 1987, Heche made her television debut in the soap opera "Another World", a role for which she won a Daytime Emmy. After leaving the show, she began her film career, appearing in acclaimed films such as "Donnie Brasco" and "Wag the Dog."
When Heche and Ellen DeGeneres started dating in 1997 — around the same time DeGeneres dated in real life and on her titular sitcom — they quickly became one of the world's most famous same-sex couples. . The two separated in 2000.
Last year, Heche told Page Six that her relationship with DeGeneres had resulted in her losing roles, calling herself "cancel culture's patient zero."
Still, she said, she saw herself as "part of the change" that helped normalize same-sex relationships in the mainstream culture.
"I'm part of it," she told Page Six. "It's a badge of honor."
In her 2001 memoir, "Call Me Crazy", she said her father sexually abused her as a child and she suffered from mental illness for much of the first 30 years of her life. She told CNN's Larry King in an interview that year that her personality had fragmented between herself and a personality she had invented as a child to accommodate abuse.
"I had to go through a lot of life to get to where I am now," she told King. "I had to see some truths and get over the shame, and I'm so grateful for every step I took. I don't think I could have dealt with it sooner."
In 2004, Heche appeared on Broadway in "Twentieth Century," for which she was nominated for a Tony. In recent years, Heche has returned to television, appearing in series like "The Brave," "Quantico," and "Chicago PD." In 2020, she participated in the 29th season of "Dancing with the Stars".
Heche's peers in Hollywood responded to news of his accident with support. Her ex-partner and 'Men in Trees' co-star James Tupper, with whom she shares one of her two sons, wrote on Instagram: "Thoughts and prayers for this lovely wife, actresses and mother tonight Anne Heche . We love you. "
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The most prolific shooter in NBA history made just three of his 20 three-point attempts through two-and-a-half games of the Western Conference Finals.
But great shooters always find a way out of slumps, and great doesn't even begin to describe Stephen Curry's third quarter Sunday night. The Warriors' superstar point guard dazzled Oracle Arena to the tune of 18 points on perfect seven for seven shooting in the third quarter en route to a game-high 35 points, and the Golden State Warriors blew out the Houston Rockets 126-85 to take a 2-1 series lead in the Western Conference Finals.
The first half featured a lot of missed shots…
Houston scored eight of the first 12 points, with four apiece coming from Clint Capela and Trevor Ariza. The Rockets set a variety of perimeter screens trying to get Curry isolated defensively, and it led to multiple high-quality looks around the run. The Warriors came right back with a 9-0 run ignited by a three from Curry. Klay Thompson then finished a layup off the dribble and Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala both scored at the rim off Houston turnovers to go up 13-8.
The two teams remained locked within a couple of possessions before the hosts surged ahead on an 11-0 run to close the quarter. Houston didn't score for the final 4:04 of the quarter — most of which was played without James Harden — and trailed 31-22 at the end of one period.
The Rockets' cold shooting carried over to the second quarter. The Rockets missed several good looks at the rim and shot an abysmal six of 20 from the floor, which left them in a world of hurt. While both teams struggled from deep in the first half — the Rockets were four for 15, the Warriors four for 18 — it was the shooting inside the arc that was the difference. The Warriors shot 16 for 29 from two while the Rockets were 11 for 38, with lots of those misses in the paint. The hosts led 54-43 at the break.
The Rockets and the Warriors both struggled from the field in the first half. (via nba.com)
The Warriors' incredible third-quarter dominance continues, thanks to Stephen Curry…
The Warriors have been the league's best third-quarter team for four consecutive years, and they very much looked the part in the opening minutes of Sunday night's third period. The Warriors went on a 10-0 run to open the second half, and the Rockets countered with a 10-2 run of their own. Golden State finished the period on a 22-14 run behind Curry's absolutely sterling performance. The shoulder shimmies and the screams to the crowd were reminiscent of the form that made him a back-to-back MVP.
.@StephenCurry30 ERUPTS to drop 18 of his 27 PTS in the 3rd quarter alone! #NBAPlayoffs | #DubNation pic.twitter.com/wxNDXHMgR3
— NBA TV (@NBATV) May 21, 2018
The Warriors led 88-67 at the end of three and cruised home from there, outscoring the Rockets 38-18 in the final quarter to deal them their worst playoff loss in franchise history. It's also the largest postseason win in Warriors franchise history.
The Rockets need more out of James Harden and Chris Paul…
Paul and Harden — the backcourt duo that powered the Rockets to the league's best record behind isolation-heavy offense — combined for just 33 points on 32 shots. That's simply not good enough to beat or even play with the defending champs. Paul is now five for 20 from deep this series and Harden is 10 for 30. That's a major issue for a team that runs the most isolation-heavy offense in NBA history. On the other end, there were multiple lapses during the game's decisive third quarter. Shaun Livingston blowing by Harden for an emphatic dunk early in the fourth was emblematic of the game as a whole.
Shaun Livingston with the handle and slam!#DubNation 97 | #Rockets 75
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Houston head coach Mike D'Antoni admitted his team was "soft," and against the Warriors, soft is not an option.
The Houston bench needs to be more consistent…
The Rockets count on their guards heavily to be able to beat their man and score or distribute in a variety of ways. Harden and Paul were terrific at that all year, and role players such as defensive standouts Trevor Ariza and PJ Tucker, terrific scorer Eric Gordon and incredible athlete Gerald Green have fit their exact roles well alongside the All-Star guards. But those four combined to shoot just 11 for 34. Gordon, who was outstanding in the Game 2 victory, shot three for 14 and was a game-worst minus-33. Green was just three for 10. Luc Mbah a Moute was minus-28 in just 15 minutes of game action. The Rockets need better contributions from everyone. It starts with Harden and Paul, but it finishes with the role players being better, too.
D'Antoni could have some interesting decisions ahead of himself as well. He has plenty of intriguing options off his bench. Joe Johnson's been an elite one-on-one scorer his entire career, and even at an advanced age, he proved he can swing games as recently as last year's playoffs. Ryan Anderson, who was part of the rotation for almost the entire season before an ankle injury, could also provide some value as a pick-and-pop guy. Where Johnson and Anderson would fit defensively, though, remains a tough question to answer, especially against a team as versatile as the Warriors.
When the Warriors play like this, they're near impossible to beat…
The Rockets certainly did not play well in this game. They missed open shots, were lackadaisical with the ball and struggled defensively. But that's not to take anything away from Golden State, which was (and for the past three years now, has been) terrific.
While the Rockets dribble a lot trying because of the individual talent they have, the Warriors whiz the ball around despite the individual talent they have. All five starters scored in double figures, and Livingston had 11 off the bench. Only two players — Draymond Green and Nick Young — shot worse than 40 percent from the field, and yet both players had important impacts on the game: Green recorded a double-double (10 points and 17 assists) while also dishing out six assists and providing his always-terrific defense. Young hit a big three — his only field goal of the night — shortly before the first-quarter buzzer.
But more than that, the Warriors move the ball smartly, and their off-ball movement is ingenious. Curry, whose three-point totals either already have or soon will shatter league records, had struggled mightily up until the third quarter. But instead of hoping to get his rhythm back by chucking up long shots off the dribble, he used screens and backdoor cuts to free himself and got to the basket off the dribble. When he began to get his flow back, that's when the threes started falling. And that's when this game was, for all competitive purposes, over. The Warriors are incredibly talented, and when that talent is struggling, they're smart enough to know how to fix what's not working. Credit Steve Kerr, his staff and his high basketball IQ players for that.
Turnovers have told the story so far this series…
The Rockets turned the ball over 20 times, which led to 28 Warriors points Sunday night. The Warriors, meanwhile, had just eight turnovers resulting in eight points for the Rockets.
The issue of turnovers has been a major deciding factor during this series. In Game 1, the Warriors won the turnover battle 16-9 and the points off turnovers battle 17-9. In Game 2, the Rockets flipped the script, winning the turnover battle 15-14 and the points off turnovers battle 15-12.
Game 4 is Tuesday night at 10 p.m. ET…
The Rockets will need their stars to step up in Game 4 if they want to even up the series. The Warriors, meanwhile, are going to be near impossible to beat if Curry's second half is a sign of things to come. The win Sunday night also makes it 16 playoff home wins in a row for the Warriors, the longest in NBA history, so a Houston win will not come easily in any way.
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Rabindranath Tagore, Biography, Rabindranath Tagore Quotes, Rabindranath Tagore Career, Awards, Achievements.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, and a painter. He was the youngest of the siblings born to Debendranath Tagore who was a touch bearer of the Brahmo Samaj. This new religious group was very popular in nineteenth-century in Bengal which revived the unique monistic pillar of Hinduism as described in the Upanishads.
He received his education at home and at the age of seventeen went to England for higher studies, which had remained incomplete.Later in addition to his multifaceted literary engagements, he handled the family estates, a project which introduced him to humanity and diverted his interest in social reforms. He also established a trial school at Shantiniketan where he implemented Upanishadic concepts of education. From time to time he took part in the Indian nationalist movement but in his own non-sentimental. Gandhi, the father of modern India, was his ardent friend. Tagore was conferred knighthood by the ruling British Government in 1915, but after some years he repudiated the honour showing his protest against British rule in India.
Tagore got his initial success as an author in his native place Bengal. But after the translations of a few of his poems,Tagore became popular in the West. He reached greater heights when he went to different continents on lecture tours.For the entire world he was transformed into the voice of India's spiritual inheritance; and for India, particularly for Bengal, he proved to be a living legend.
Although Tagore wrote in all literary domains, his first love was poetry. He wrote fifty volumes of poetry in Manasi (1890). He is the writer of many volumes of short stories and a few novels, like Gora written in 1910, Ghare-Baire in the year 1916 , and Yogayog which he wrote in the year 1929 are a few of them. In addition, he also penned dance drama, musical dramas, essays of all natures, travel accounts, and two autobiographies also. On autobiography he wrote in his youth and the other just before his demise in 1941. Tagore also left several painting and songs whose music was composed by Rabindranath Tagore himself.


Mr. Rindo stops for a quick refuel during the wind-assisted return trip.
Christmas morning in Tokyo … cold (around 0 C, or 32 F degrees) but dry, a "green" and not a "white" Christmas, like on the other side of the island of Honshu. Not a national holiday here, just a normal Saturday with most people rushing to complete their year-end business before everything shuts down for 4-5 days around the New Year, plenty of trucks on the main roads. So with some family activities planned for late afternoon and evening, and mid-day Sunday, there was no reason not to get up early and squeeze in a ride. Ludwig was also of a similar mind.
I don't ride often with Tom S. or Manfred/Ludwig, since they usually go at a pace that is just enough faster than me to prove uncomfortable after the first 30-60 minutes. But they each have cyclocross bikes for winter, with heavier frames and thicker tires, and now that I've gotten a bit faster, I can usually keep up on the flats. It helps if, as in this case, they have ridden within the past day or two (Ludwig on Thursday) and so do not have completely fresh legs, and it also helps if I well-rested, also the case yesterday. So the ride went fine. Of course, Ludwig waited for me at the top of the steeper hills … but he did not wait as long as he once might have needed to.
We met at 7:25AM at the end of the gravel stretch of Tama Cycling path, about a kilometer north of the Odakyu Line bridge over the Tamagawa. We planned to do the Kobu Tunnel — repeating my ride of last week — but then, instead of returning over Wada (the "Ura Wada" climb), to try a "reverse Bijo Tani" — a trip over the forest road (Rindo) that departs just down the valley from the base of Ura Wada, and climbs from around 200 meters elevation to above 650 meters elevation, then back down to meet Rte 20 on the back side of Otarumi; then the shorter, much gentler climb over Otarumi and down to Takao before the last leg home .. with a 2PM target and 3PM hard deadline for me. The amount of climbing was boosted slightly by taking a different route — Akigawa Kaido — to Itsukaichi. Some of this road, out of Hachioji, was a bit narrow and heavily traveled, but it gradually cleared up and the last 5-10 km were very nice, as it climbs a gradual slope then crests at a tunnel entrance. It passes through the wide and little used tunnel and descends into Itsukaichi, and is a nice change from the usual trip up the Tamagawa and out the main road to Itsukaichi.
The sunlight helped to keep the cold tolerable most of the way to Itsukaichi. But as soon as we started into the Akigawa valley and hit long, uninterrupted stretches of dark shadow, still just after 9:00AM, it got fricken' (or is that "fracken" or maybe "effing"?) cold. I wished I had a face mask, even though I was working hard and climbing gradually. Eventually, the steeper climb up to Kobu Tunnel seemed to do the trick, and the warm sun on the Uenohara side felt glorious.
Ludwig followed me down the descent from Kobu Tunnel and was just behind me at the bottom, but I did not hear him screaming for me to take a left turn onto a small road about 100-200 meters AFTER the turn off for the golf course hills, and I continued along Rte 33. After climbing up most of the next gradual hill, I looked back. No Ludwig. The last time I was certain I had seen him was about 1 km before the bottom of the descent. Had he flatted? Crashed? He had said he slipped on a descent riding his cyclocross Red Bull on Thursday, and had the scratches on his cycling wear to show for it, and he noted that the "Bull" does not handle as well on turns as his Canyon. I turned around, went to the bottom and started back up the lower part of the climb to Kobu. My phone rang just about as I got to the last place I was sure I had seen him. …. He was already well on the way to Uenohara proper, on the other road, and we agreed to meet at a Daily Yamazaki on Rte 33 on the way into town. Next time I will try his alternate route — an older, quiet road just across the river from Rte 33 — almost no traffic, and less up and down, probably, than Rte 33, which climbs well above the other road, then descends and drops down to cross the river, and climbs briefly into the town.
At the Daily Yamazaki on Rte 33 in Uenohara — the rare convenience store that combines a decent selection, and comes complete with a nice wooden bench, and a view of Mt. Fuji!
A turn at the signal just after the Daily Yamazaki led us away from Rte 20 and over a nasty, short and steep little hill, past the Uenohara Junior High School, then over toward the base of Ura Wada. We miss a turn and end up taking a footbridge and cutting through a field to get to a driveway to Rte 522.
The climb to Bijo Tani from Rte 522 side is varied, with some traffic on the lower stretches — mini postal delivery vans, onsen food/supply deliveries, a short steeper stretch at the bottom followed by some gradual, almost flat (in comparison) sections. Eventually, you pass the last onsen and farms, and get to a stretch where the road turns directly into and up the hill. The pavement changes from the usual smooth dark asphalt to a coarse surface of cement with embedded rocks in a lighter shade. I've seen this road surface before — on parts of one of the nasty, steep roads from Agano (Rte 299) up onto the Green Line and Takayama temple in Chichibu, and on the steeper parts of the climb to Nenogongen. This is the road surface used when cars would otherwise slip and slide downhill, or maybe when asphalt would droop and slide down out of the mold before it hardened. I associate this concrete with grades well above 10%, and this was no exception, as we gained 70 meters elevation in about a 500 meter stretch. Ludwig waited for me at the top. We dismounted at the gate and continued onto the closed Rindo.
At the top of he nasty little hill in Uenohara, before the climb toward Bijo Tani.
Near the top of the climb to Bijo Tani — nice vistas to the West.
These forest routes expand the ride alternatives in our area dramatically. They have no (or very little) traffic, offer great views, and nice training opportunities (especially steep climbs). But just looking at a map does not really tell you whether you will find a beautiful, deserted, paved road, or a gravel road covered in rocks from a landslide. This requires some patience and experimentation. For a few of Mr. Rindo's posts, see here, or here, or here.
The descent down the other side to Koshu Kaido (Rte 20) is deserted, behind the gate much of the way, but lacks any of the gradual flatter stretches — relatively steep the entire way. Only try this if you have plenty of brake pad left. Road construction has been completed on the steepest stretches since I rode this with MOB back in 2008, so there was only a little debris to avoid on the descent.
Compared to last weekend, almost an hour shorter "elapsed time", but 13 km more/24 minutes more on the bike — so 1:20 less resting time, and an additional 300+ meters of climbing. And a much zippier climb the 2.8 km up to Kobu tunnel. — the only section where I got a directly comparable split time.
Thank you for the kind words, and company, David.I really like these winter rides. Far less traffic in the mountains, crisp air with nice views. Of course not the time to push up the hills too hard, to save one's lungs for warmer times. This limits a bit what one can do in winter, and so I'm happy to do more social loop rides than I usually do, even if it comes at the expense of exploration. Yesterday, we were still able to combine both.The first photo of you climbing comes from that short, steep (12 percent) pass between Uenohara and the two convenience stores we usually frequent after coming down from Wada. Unfortunately, it does not seem to have a name, but is worth adding to our Wada routes, providing for an alternative to the golf course hills.Bijoutani is the name of the last onsen up that valley from the Fujino/Wada side. It looks quite nice, but also old and I cannot figure out where the actual onsen is. I also wonder why there can be so many onsens in this valley but never a scent of sulphur… The highest point of the rindo continuing beyond Bijoutani Onsen is 100m altitude meters below Myouou Toge (明王峠). MOB and I hiked this up on my only other trip over this rindo, which was also the virgin ride for my cyclocross bike.
Nice ride guys. Now that the road between Fujino/Bijotani and the top has been repaired, it makes sense to ride down towards Bijotani.The actual onsen in Bijotani is hidden in a non-descript small building on the right side of the road up a small slope coming into the village just before the left turn to the river crossing with embankments but no actual bridge:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=1&source=embed&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114271664828116296116.0004430d2c34bc277ff33It would be interesting to ride up that road and see how far one could get.Hiroshi told me about Bijotani some years ago, I did it once on my own and one time with David and time with Ludwig as he wrote, me on the Bad Boy and we continued to make th long climbs ultimately leading us to route 76 and Tanzawa lake.I just read another mail from Ludwig – I wouldn't underestimate the number of rindos that still exist somewhere there and are waiting to be discovered.Happy X-mas and a splendid new year on the rindo trails.
That link takes me straight to Tama Center…Here is the link to the Onsen:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=35.637671,139.165599&daddr=&hl=en&geocode=FafJHwIdn39LCA&mra=prev&dirflg=w&sll=35.637828,139.167295&sspn=0.004831,0.006899&ie=UTF8&ll=35.638002,139.165975&spn=0.004831,0.010986&z=17I have covered almost all rindos reachable from Tokyo, at least if you don't count dead-end rindos. I'm constantly on the outlook for more, searching hiking maps, googlemaps and satellite images, as well as taking photos when I pass rindo entrances. I know of a few that I still want to do, and probably a few more will turn up eventually, but I'm pretty sure I have done most. I just don't blog about them sufficiently to convey how many I have already "discovered".Anyone challenging me to a rindo I have not done yet, or don't even know of??
Manfred:Unfortunately, your Google Maps link is to Ryokan Hime-tani (Princess Valley Inn — 旅館姫谷), which is a hot spring inn on the climb over the other side of the pass — what I've called "Ura Bijo Tani" in the post. Bijo-tani Onsen (Valley of the Beautiful Ladies Onsen — 美女谷温泉) is on the route up from Koshu Kaido (Rte 20), with signage on Rte 20 pointing up the hill, and is on the right side as you climb, just above the Chuo Kosoku Doro. You can see the Bijo-tani Onsen marked clearly on Google Maps — just a few hundred meters above the Chuo-Kosoku — when you set Google Maps at the highest level of resolution. A few more errors like that and the judges may need to reconsider your title as Mr. Rindo. Except that the title fits so well, they are unlikely to take it away.Best,David L.
And a merry Xmas and happy New Year to Positivo Espresso UK and each of its members!I've got my Joe Friel book, and I'm reading about periodization and peaking, lactate thresholds and not overtraining, so I'll do my best to optimize my training and peak for Transalp. I want to start in Sonthofen this time 5+ kg lighter than last time, so I don't ride backward through the group going up the hill that first afternoon, and don't hold back MOB too much.For now I'm just having fun — Thursday will join the first leg of Froggy's crazy plan for a 2-day winter ride from Tokyo through Yamanashi, Nagano (really, really cold!), Aichi, Gifu and on to Kansai. Then on January 2 the Ekiden ride. Then on January 9 my first (200km) Brevet of the year. Then in mid-January I will take a break to get the titanium pins taken out of my now-healed left elbow. So I want to have some base built up if I cannot ride mid/late January or part of February when the weather here is at its crappiest.


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Meynil History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Meynil is an ancient Norman name that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Meynil family lived in De Grente-mesnil, from Grente-mesnil (now Grandmesnil) in the arrondissement of Lisieux, Normandy.
"Hugh de Grente-mesnil, a brave Souidler," fought stoutly at Hastings, and "was that day in great peril: his horse ran away with him, so that he was near falling, for in leaping over a bush the bridle rein broke, and the horse plunged forward. The English seeing him ran to meet him with their hatchets raised, but the horse took fright, and turning quickly round brought him safe back again." [1]
"Two years after the battle he was appointed, with Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, William Fitz Osbern, and others, one of the Justiciary of England during the King's absence in Normandy. He was Viscount of Leicestershire and Hampshire, and according to Domesday, held one hundred and four Lordships, of which two-thirds, with the Honour of Hinckley-in right whereof he was Lord High Steward of England-were in Leicestershire. He lived to be a very old man, and in 1094, 'being grown aged and infirm, he took upon him the habit of a Monk; and within six days afterwards departed this life, whereupon Bernard and David, two Monks of St. Ebrulfe's ' (a Norman monastery he had restored and endowed), 'having seasoned his Corps with Salt, and wrapped it in an Hide, conveyed it to Normandy, where it was honourably buried on the South side of their Chapter-house.' " [2]
Early Origins of the Meynil family
The surname Meynil was first found in Derbyshire during the reign of Henry II where "one of the most ancient possessions was Langley-Maynell, in that county, an estate which remained in the family till the end of the fourteenth century. A younger son at this period was seated at Yeaveley, his grandson at Willington." [3]
Confirming this early origin, another source notes: "The manor took its name of Meynell from an ancient family who possessed it so early as the reign of Edward III. and from whom it passed, by successive female heirs." [4]
But in 1669, Isaac Meynell, citizen of London bought the manor back from William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, only to have his only daughter and heiress convey the lands to the Cecils who again sold the lands back to another branch of the family of Meynell. By far the strongest branch of the family was found later in Staffordshire at Hore-Cross. [5]
The parish of Sowerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire was home to yet another branch of the family. "This place, at an early period, was the property of the Lascelles family, who in the reign of Elizabeth granted it to the Meynells, whose descendant Thomas Meynell, Esq., is now lord of the manor." [4]
Early History of the Meynil family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Meynil research. Another 299 words (21 lines of text) covering the years 1295, 1322 and 1336 are included under the topic Early Meynil History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Meynil Spelling Variations
Endless spelling variations are a prevailing characteristic of Norman surnames. Old and Middle English lacked any definite spelling rules, and the introduction of Norman French added an unfamiliar ingredient to the English linguistic stew. French and Latin, the languages of the court, also influenced spellings. Finally, Medieval scribes generally spelled words according to how they sounded, so one person was often referred to by different spellings in different documents. The name has been spelled Meynell, Meynill, Meynil, Menel, Mannell, Maynell, Maynall and many more.
Early Notables of the Meynil family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Meynil family
To escape the political and religious persecution within England at the time, many English families left for the various British colonies abroad. The voyage was extremely difficult, though, and the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving. But for those who made it, the trip was most often worth it. Many of the families who arrived went on to make valuable contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families reveals a number of immigrants bearing the name Meynil or a variant listed above: Conrad Mennell, who arrived in Baltimore in 1831; R. Mennell, who was naturalized in Pennsylvania in 1852; Christopher Meynell, who arrived in America in 1678.
The Meynil Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Deus non reliquit memoriam humilium
Motto Translation: God hath not forgotten the humble.
^ Wace, Robert, Roman de Brut England: 1155. Digital
^ Cleveland, Dutchess of The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages. London: John Murray, Abermarle Street, 1889. Print. Volume 2 of 3
^ Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
^ Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
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Balaji Srinivasan: How To Build Your Own Country in the Cloud
In 2013, the serial entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan gave a widely discussed talk at the tech incubator Y Combinator on a paradigm derived from the work of political economist Albert O. Hirschman. There are two basic paths to reform, he explained: You can speak up and remake a system from within ("voice") or you can simply leave and build something new that might one day takes its place ("exit").
That latter concept is the framework through which Silicon Valley tends to solve problems, and it captures the worldview of Srinivasan, whom venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says has "the highest output per minute of new ideas of anybody I've ever met in my life."
In his new book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country, Srinivasan makes the case for migrating much—though not all—of our lives onto the internet while changing how we get together in meatspace. Ever-improving digital tools give humans an unprecedented and always-accelerating ability to create opt-in, fully voluntary communities where people choose to meet, work, live, and love.
From existing, terrestrial countries that are attracting immigrants with the promise of a better standard of living to blockchain communities that draw participants by laying out clear-cut, contractual rules, responsibilities, and obligations, Srinivasan articulates a future that is profoundly democratic and consensual—thus liberating us from a status quo in which self-determination is little more than a pipe-dream.
Raised in suburban Long Island, Srinivasan holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He co-founded the genetic testing firm Counsyl and served as the first chief technology officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange. He's been a fierce critic of the FDA, which might account for his being short-listed to head up the agency under President Donald Trump.
"What if this coronavirus is the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years?," he tweeted in January 2020, as Vox and mainstream outlets were busy attacking Silicon Valley venture capitalists for taking the crisis too seriously. "It would accelerate many pre-existing trends," he wrote, "border closures, nationalism, social isolation, preppers, remote work, face masks, distrust in governments."
I talked with Srinivasan about The Network State, the rise of China as a tightly centralized global power, and the future of freedom both online and offline.*
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Think Tank is kind of like Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare written by guys who want to explore the politics and moral issues of destroying your enemies with groundbreaking technology. Though it's far from Image Comics' best-selling title, I have to believe it's one of its best. What makes this one-shot Fun With PTSD essential reading is just how sophisticated, relevant, and poignant the story is.
Without giving too much away, Think Tank: Fun With PTSD is a one-shot comic book about a government scientist named David Loren who attempts to cure the PTSD of a friend who is a Navy SEAL. Loren is the funny and rascally kind of genius, but the seriousness of the situation takes the story into some affecting places.
There have been a few stories in print and on-screen that address PTSD, but Think Tank is unique in that it examines the biological aspects of the disorder. Scientists have known (or at least suspected) for a while that there is a biological component to PTSD. I'm a veteran who doesn't have PTSD (most don't), and I volunteered to be in the control group for a study on PTSD's affect on the physical brain way back in 2007.
Hawkins and Ekedal take time in the story to explain a lot of the science. This is one of the reasons to love this series: it treats the reader like he or she is smart. If we're honest, most current science fiction treats you like you're a reasonably intelligent eight-year-old. In explaining the science, these creators take a serious look at the issue and its solutions. And a tangible solution makes for great storytelling because it gives our protagonist a concrete goal.
So even if you don't want a moving story that takes a serious look at PTSD that's respectful of America's veterans, you actually get a quality science fiction story, where real, relevant science fuels the story, as opposed to the science fantasy that audiences usually get. And if you don't want a quality science fiction story, you get an emotional story about the effort a person will give to save a friend in need. And if you don't want any of that, Ekedal's ink-wash is gorgeous.
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BROWNSBURG, Ind. (Oct. 13, 2015) – As a standout collegiate sprinter, Antron Brown never looked to the runners in lanes next to him. His mental blinders would keep him focused 100 percent on the reaching the finish line as quickly as possible.
That is the 2012 NHRA Top Fuel world champion's approach to this weekend's NHRA FallNationals at the Texas Motorplex near Dallas, and it will be for the following two races in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship playoff.
What the Matco Tools' "Tools for the Cause" Top Fuel dragster team has accomplished through 21 events this year is out of the minds of Antron, crew chiefs Brian Corradi and Mark Oswald with assistant Brad Mason and the Matco crew.
Antron's has a career-best seven event wins this year that has moved his career total to 54 including 38 in Top Fuel since joining the category in 2008. Don Schumacher Racing's Matco team set the Top Fuel elapsed time record of 3.680 seconds in August at Brainerd, Minn., when it also produced its first 330-mph run. The team takes a 44-14 record in eliminations to Dallas where he won his first NHRA Wally trophy in 1999 while competing in the Pro Stock Motorcycle category.
The Matco team won two weeks ago near Reading, Pa., to become the first nitro team in the nine-year history of the six-race playoff to win the first three Countdown titles and arrives at the Motorplex with a 94-point lead over Don Schumacher Racing teammate Tony Schumacher.
"It was huge for us to get that win there," he said of the track near his hometown of Chesterfield, N.J., where he won for the first time. "You know, this year has been kind of crazy because we've been winning at the tracks that we normally don't win at. Our team is just in that element right now where we've got that full mindset of focus where we've been hungry all year long, and we've been in attack mode. We've been attacking every race.
"What we tend to do is just focus on the things that are right in front of us.
"You're only going to be as good as what you've prepared yourself to be. There's no magic switch to switch on. There's no extra adrenaline to kick up here. You've got to go in there already ready like you've been practicing all year for this, and that's what our team has been doing.
"The higher stakes, if you've prepared yourself for it, you're able to handle and adapt to it a lot quicker and better. We go out there and do what we know how to do and prepare for it before it comes."
He has added motivation this weekend to race all four rounds on Sunday to bring more attention to his pink Matco Tools' "Tools for the Cause" dragster to further awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness month and Matco's program to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen foundation. His rail is adorned with the names of 262 people submitted by Matco Tools distributors, employees and field personnel affected by breast cancer.
"My mother-in-law is a breast cancer survivor, so this cause is very close to my family. I am so honored to take the names of 262 fighters down the track with me this month."
ANTRON BROWN, Matco Tools' "Tools for the Cause"/U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster
Last weekend at Reading, Pa: Qualified No. 12; won in championship round against Tony Schumacher
A year ago at Dallas: Qualified No. 13; lost in first round to Shawn Langdon
Career at Dallas: Wins 2 (1999-PSM; 2012-TF); Runner-up 0; Poles 0
Pts Events Wins Rup Semi Qtr 1st rd Poles DNQ W/L
2015 1st 21 7 2 4 3 5 5 0 44-14
CAREER 331 54 42 67 86 78 42 3 561-274
Best Time, Speed: 3.680 sec.-first ever 3.6 (2015, Brainerd); 330.88 mph (2015, Brainerd)
2015 NHRA MELLO YELLO STANDINGS – Countdown to the Championship
(Official after Reading; 3 of 6 in Countdown, 21 of 24 overall; DSR drivers in CAPS)
DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND
1. ANTRON BROWN (7) 2432 —–
2. TONY SCHUMACHER (3) 2338 -94
3. Brittany Force 2238 -194
4. Larry Dixon 2234 -198
5. Richie Crampton (4) 2187 -245
6. JR Todd (1) 2181 -251
7. Shawn Langdon (1) 2177 -255
8. Doug Kalitta (2) 2173 -259
9. Steve Torrence (1) 2160 -272
10. Dave Connolly 2158 -274


Just watched Warhorse here. I have to say that I was really swept away. Amazingly retro, totally unfashionable, ridiculously sentimental, and gloriously unrealistic! But any film that portrays what seems to be Dartmoor as if we're watching Gone With The Wind - even down to the fiery red sky, everything backlit, over-scored, with a horse and a boy and soldiers returning from a long war ... Well screw it! I'm manipulated and loving every minute of it.. I suspect only Spielberg could get away with this. Joy!
The response to this movie is split cleanly down the line of those who have seen the stage show, and those who haven't... Every single person who has seen the amazing puppetry in the NT show tends to hate the sentimentality of the movie, but those who haven't are more open to it. I thought the stage show was completely extraordinary so I'm dreading the movie.
The stage show sounds wonderful. Yes, I suspect you really won't like the movie. I found myself both cringing at the cheesiness and swept away at the same time. It was a very strange emotion. Like Hugo (to a degree) Spielberg seems to have made this for himself ... The difference is how different he is to Scorcese.
The Stage show is simply breathtaking, because inanimate puppets are given life through the most extraordinary puppetry... and somehow that life seems MORE real, so you completely invest in the animals as characters. If the show comes to SF you should make a point of seeing it, it's completely unique.
Sounds wonderful. I'd be interested to know how the movie came about.
Went to see this last night. Eugh. I'm so sentimental I can cry at a hovis ad, but this just left me feeling marginally nauseous, without even the hint of a tear in my eye. I actually wanted them to shoot the bloody horse, look after some PEOPLE and be done with it. Whereas the stage show had me weeping near uncontrollably. This movie was like being mugged - emotionally. And what was with the whole Gone WIth The Wind riff? Wha...? The Manchester audience sat baffled and unmoved. You could hear a muttered shrug of 'it were ok. Looked very nice.' on the way out.
And when the line: 'I bid twenty six of your English pounds!' was spat out by the evil horse eating butcher from Cambrais Gail and I laughed out loud. Presumably Steve decided francs were just a step too far for American audiences to understand. Lol.
I'm surprised you even went to see it and made it to the end of the movie. As for being moved, like I said, I was most definitely cringing as I was being manipulated - and that's new for me. Afterwards, I just felt affection for the old warhorse who'd made it.
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Unexpected New Findings on STEM Gender Bias
By Ted Smillie on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015
Features in QESP Newsletter Volume 27 , Issue 12 - ISSN 1325-2070
Our earlier articles about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) were from research funding, gender bias and outright sexist points of view. Now an October 13, 2015 article in The Conversation highlights some unexpected new findings on STEM gender bias. The author is by David Miller, Doctoral Student in Psychology, Northwestern University and the article, Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions , starts with a summary of an experiment on gender bias in 2012 which shook the scientific community. The 2012 study showed that science faculty favour male college graduates over equally qualified women applying for lab manager positions. However, though the study was rigorous, many didn't believe it.
"This report is JUNK science. There is no data here," said one online commenter. Others justified the bias saying, "In every competitive situation, with a few exceptions, the women I worked with were NOT competent."
The new Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) study starts by assessing the original study. The researchers recruited 205 people from the general public and 205 Montana State University tenure-track faculty, who read and then evaluated the abstract of the 2012 study. There was evidence of male bias against the research quality of the abstract, for STEM faculty, but not for gender bias toward the abstract's authors. The study notes that "This lack of author gender bias replicates prior research. Both experimental and real-world data typically show little to no gender bias in peer review. However, notable exceptions are sometimes found."
The unexpected element of the research findings came from a third study which asked participants to read an abstract that either reported bias favouring men or reported no bias. The findings were that "women rated the quality of the research higher when the abstract showed bias than when it didn't. Men showed the reverse pattern. So both genders were biased, but in opposite directions."
The article notes that studies have found mixed evidence of gender bias. "For instance, the paper notes an experiment showing bias against female psychology tenure-track applicants. But experiments conducted 15+ years later show opposite results. In fact, several studies show a preference for female applicants in real-world faculty searches, not just hypothetical ones."
In an important section headed Communicating controversial research with caution, the article gives the 2014 example where "Cornell University professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci wrote a New York Times op-ed about their 67-page review of literature on women in academic science. The NYT wrote the headline "Academic Science Isn't Sexist," which ignited understandable outrage." For more details, see Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions
The article suggests that while the findings of the new study are a concern, it is also a concern if the evidence of gender bias is overhyped. "Overhyped claims could make these fields unattractive to women or even make people less likely to believe evidence of bias when it does exist." The author concludes that "Progress in science requires actively engaging in and learning from debate with others, even if we may find their views offensive. Civil discussion can be challenging with controversial topics such as gender bias. But, to flourish, the science needs the debate."
David Miller's warning about communicating controversial research with caution seems particularly relevant in light of an October 21, 2015 article in The Conversation by Cornell University Professors of Human Development, Stephen J Ceci and Wendy M Williams, who featured in the above NYT example of the sensationalistic headline. In the October 21, 2015 article, Women preferred for STEM professorships – as long as they're equal to or better than male candidates, the authors report that since the 1980s, hiring audits at universities show a preference for hiring women for entry-level professorships in STEM.
The authors carried out a recent experiment to find out why academic faculty preferred women. They describe previously published national research which asked 873 science and engineering faculty across the US "to rank three hypothetical applicants for entry-level professorships, based on narrative vignettes about the candidates and their qualifications." That previous research "found that both female and male faculty strongly prefer (by a 2-to-1 margin) to hire an outstanding woman over an identically outstanding man." The authors note that "these experiments were not designed to mimic actual academic hiring" and "looked at typical short-listed candidates – who are extremely qualified – at the point of hiring."
The recent experiment used the same methods, finding that "faculty of both genders and in all fields preferred the applicant rated the most outstanding, regardless of gender." The authors' interpretation of the results is that "women who are equal to or more accomplished than men enjoy a substantial hiring advantage." However, they acknowledge that women still face unique hurdles in navigating academic science careers, giving links to evidence of this. They conclude that "Sex biases and stereotypes might reduce the number of women beginning training for the professorial pipeline, but when a woman emerges from her training as an excellent candidate, she is advantaged during the hiring process."
However, an August 5, 2015 article in The Conversation by 6 Cornell Professors and Associate Professors (all female) has doubts about the value of hypothetical experiments. In Let's face it: gender bias in academia is for real, they note that "the study in question "controlled for," and thus eliminated, many of the sources of bias, including letters of recommendation and teaching evaluations that disadvantage women in the hiring process. Furthermore, only one-third of faculty who were sent packets responded. Thus, the audit study captured only some of the voices that actually make hiring decisions. "
The authors give examples of gender bias throughout the hiring process and note that for a female candidate who is invited for an interview, the bias does not end. They are clearly outraged that the study goes so far as to blame women's underrepresentation in the sciences on "self-handicapping and opting out" of the hiring process. Their conclusion is that "the battle against sexism in our fields has not been won, let alone reversed in favor of women. We must continue to educate hiring faculty, and even the society at large, about conscious and unconscious bias."
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Milk from cows kept in sheds is depleted of vitamins and the cancer-fighting CLA that helped to make this a fitness food.
It is time to stop the rot! The campaign for real food begins with us, whether we shop at farmers' markets, organic suppliers or at supermarkets. We Want Real Food sets out what we can do to win the fight back for food that will stop us damaging our healthy lifestyles - in fact, a fight for real food. So dig deeper and get more from your food. For more information on the We Want Real Food Book and Campaign click on the menuor any of the links below.
From our hearty milk soup to our "meal in a bowl" Chunky Vegetable, all milk products share a common theme: good, simple food, pure organic ingredients, delicious real food home-made tastes.
Milk providers have a passion for good food and a passion for life. They are what we eat and we'd rather be naturally pure and tasty than hydrogenated and modified. Everything they make is designed to make eating better a little bit easier for you - food that's convenient doesn't have to be full of junk.All are organic and help towards your 5-a-day fruit and veg. Most are packed with vegetables. Many are also naturally low in fat, dairy-free and wheat-free. Their heart and soul go into milk products.
In the past 50 years vegetables on sale in the UK have lost 24% of their magnesium, 27% of their iron and 46% of their calcium. Beef has fewer of the omega-3 fats that once made it a healthy food.
Dairy farmers could improve herd health and productivity while reducing production and vet costs, through the use of a a new generation of pedometers.
The school meals service has an important role to play in the development of social skills and the formation of good eating habits in young children. This has positive effects in the longterm, including the benefits of a healthier population.
Research indicates that children who eat a nutritional meal during the day, maintain higher levels of concentration and demonstrate increased learning. In addition, the type of food and drink consumed can impact on behavioural patterns.
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