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Vacheron Constantin Égérie Self-Winding: All-Gold, Off-Beat Elegance
December 14, 2020 /0 Comments/in Highlights, Ladies watches, Vacheron Constantin /by Martin Green
With the Égérie collection, Vacheron Constantin created a very tempting assortment of watches appealing to contemporary women. While the design of the Égérie is rooted in tradition, these watches always come with a little twist. In the case of the new Égérie Self-Winding, quite literally as the crown is at two o'clock with the date of this self-winding model occupying the same corner of the dial. While also available in steel, Martin Green thinks that the pink gold version on a gold bracelet is an especially precious proposition.
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What We Liked And What We Didn't Like At The 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, Plus How Well Our Panel's Forecasts Did (Spoiler Alert: Not Very)
November 17, 2020 /3 Comments/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Round Table, Bovet, Bulgari, Greubel Forsey, H. Moser & Cie, Kari Voutilainen, Parmigiani, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Van Cleef & Arpels /by Elizabeth Doerr
Our Quill & Pad panelists discuss the virtual evening of the 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève and what we thought of the big night's winners. Plus we reveal how good (or poor) our predictions were.
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Complete List Of Winners At The 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG): The Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept Takes The Aiguille d'Or And Lots Of Surprises (To Say The Least)
November 13, 2020 /6 Comments/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Bovet, Greubel Forsey, Parmigiani, Piaget, Tudor, Vacheron Constantin, Van Cleef & Arpels /by Elizabeth Doerr
The Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept took the Aiguille d'Or grand prize at the 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, where there were many surprises and many well earned awards. Check out the complete list of laureates here and let us know what you think about the night's winners and losers.
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The Naked Watchmaker Deconstructs 71-Year-Old Vintage Vacheron Constantin World Time Pocket Watch (Video)
November 7, 2020 /0 Comments/in Highlights, Video, Vacheron Constantin, Vintage /by Elizabeth Doerr
Our friends at The Watches TV entertained a visit from Peter Speake, The Naked Watchmaker, as he took apart a Vacheron Constantin world time pocket watch from 1949 – a feat firmly categorized in the "don't do this at home" rubric. This World Timer is 71 years old, displays the time in 41 reference cities, is housed in a yellow gold case, and is completely original with all of its original parts and even the dial.
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Our Predictions In The Calendar And Astronomy Category Of The 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG): We See A Good Moon A-Rising
October 20, 2020 /2 Comments/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Round Table, Chopard, IWC, Parmigiani, Sarpaneva, Vacheron Constantin /by Elizabeth Doerr
The GPHG Calendar and Astronomy category emphasizes astronomical and/or calendar complications included in men's watches. Sorry, ladies' watches, you don't seem to count here. The six nominated watches cover quite a wide gamut of styles, complications, and price categories. And our panelists' picks for winner cover a rather wide gamut as well.
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Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin Skeleton (Video)
October 18, 2020 /0 Comments/in Highlights, Video, Vacheron Constantin /by Elizabeth Doerr
The Watches TV visited Vacheron Constantin's Geneva boutique to talk with the brand's style and heritage director Christian Selmoni, who provided the story of the new Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin Skeleton, which you can watch in this aesthetic five-minute video.
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3 New Tourbillons From Watches & Wonders 2020: A Pursuit Of Personal Passion
September 1, 2020 /0 Comments/in Highlights, Laurent Ferrier, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin /by Martin Green
Here are three intriguing tourbillons by Laurent Ferrier, Vacheron Constantin, and Piaget from the digital Watches & Wonders 2020 fair that particularly caught Martin Green's critical eye.
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Top 10 Thinnest Mechanical Wristwatches: 8 Modern Record Holders And Their 2 Historic Rivals
August 23, 2020 /7 Comments/in Highlights, Bulgari, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin /by Joshua Munchow
We are living in the modern race to the thinnest, and as records are set we have a bumper crop of incredibly thin watches that prove this competition may not be over yet. To celebrate the awesomazingness of these watches, Joshua Munchow has compiled a list of the top 10 thinnest mechanical watches, including a pair of historical pieces.
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Hot Air Magic: How Wristwatches And Hot Air Balloons Soar Upward – Reprise
June 13, 2020 /1 Comment/in Watch Brands & Horology, Highlights, Tutima, Vacheron Constantin /by Jan Lidmaňský
Strong stories and captivating histories constantly seduce watchmakers to create various special editions, and ballooning is one of those adventurous feats that has captured some horological imaginations. Here Jan Lidmaňský highlights a few watch brands that have floated through the sky, both literally and figuratively.
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3 Scintillating Watches For 2020 Highlighting Just How Much Difference Diamonds Can Make
May 25, 2020 /0 Comments/in Highlights, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin /by Martin Green
Diamond-set watches can be objects of art, Martin Green argues. And here he highlights three 2020 launches that caught his eye with their scintillating fire and great use of the precious stones.
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Dr. Gopal Achari came to Canada from India in 1989. Dr. Achari is a professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Engineering. He uses technology to remediate environmental contaminants. His works have had significant impact on aboriginal and agricultural communities affected by wastewater produced by industry. On a global level, his work is valuable to rapidly developing countries such as India and China.
Dr. Achari is the recipient of a multitude of awards from related professional bodies, including the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta's (APEGA) 2011 Environment and Sustainability Award.


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Det Kongelige Søkort-Arkiv, grundlagt 1784 for at udarbejde søkort, toningstegninger mv. over de danske farvande, var en dansk flådeafdeling med ansvar over for den danske regering og dermed den danske flåde.

Arkivet blev ved en kongelig resolution oprettet den 25. oktober 1784. Arkivets første direktør var kaptajnløjtnant Poul de Løvenørn, der selv ledede søopmålingen. 1790 købte Søkortarkivets navigationsdirektør Andreas Louss monopol på at fremstille søkort over de danske sunde og bælter. Søkortarkivet har foruden at udgive søkort over danske, færøske, islandske og grønlandske farvande, udgivet fyrlister, lodshåndbøger m.m. og har siden 1827 udgivet tidsskriftet Efterretninger for Søfarende med oplysninger om søafmærkningens aktuelle tilstand, farer for sejladsen med mere.

1. april 1973 blev Søkortarkivet – sammen med Fyrvæsenet, Lodsvæsenet og Redningsvæsenet – en del af det nyoprettede Farvandsvæsenet, der fortsat publicerer Efterretninger for søfarende, fyrlister m.m., mens fremstilling af søkort og lodshåndbøger nu varetages af Geodatastyrelsen.

Ifølge kongelig resolution af 1816 har ophavsretten på statsligt fremstillede søkort ingen udløbsdato. Ifølge § 92 i den gældende ophavsretslov er denne resolution stadig gyldig.

I 1873 fik Søkortarkivet egen bygning (dog delt med DMI) på Toldbodvej (nu Esplanaden) nr. 19 ved Kastellet i København tegnet af arkitekt Vilhelm Petersen i en historicistisk efterligning af italiensk renæssance. Bygningsens vinduer er blevet ændret.

Søkortansvarlige før 1784
 1689-1723 Jens Sørensen

Direktører for Søkortarkivet

 1784-1826 Poul de Løvenørn
 1826-1853 C.C. Zahrtmann
 1853-1888 Hans Peter Rothe
 1889-1898 C.F. Wandel
 1899-1909 Gustav Holm
 1909-1919 Christian Bloch
 1919-1933 H.O. Ravn

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I did not think that I will meet India today evening only after reaching here. Last time I visited Tajikistan in 2014 but I could not have a meeting with the Indian community and so it felt like my visit was somewhat incomplete. Therefore when I came this time, even though the duration of my visit is very small, I came here today and I will leave tomorrow, I requested Somnath Ji, even if this is a short visit, to please make arrangements for at least one program with the Indian community. And I am very happy to come here and seeing a glimpse of whole India here in the auditorium.
We all were very happy with the Hindi of the stage compere but when Vidya Amrit welcomed us in Sanskrit, we all were pleasantly surprised. Such flawless diction, such a sweet voice, I believe that everyone present in the auditorium was mesmerized.
After that 'Vaishnav Jan Te' was presented and before that there was this welcome song which is the most popular welcome song of India.
But such a beautiful presentation with such a flawless diction and with the same melody, and after that presentation of 'Vaishna Jan Te' really was wonderful.
I would like to give you an information that this year we have started 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi and Prime Minister had a wish that all the countries in the world should sing 'Vaishnav Jan' in their own language with the same melody.
We have received this song from 124 countries which includes the song from Tajikistan also. Our Official Spokesperson is present here and I would like to request him that he must include today's recitation in that song and when it is broadcast by Doordarshan then it must include today's recitation of 'Vaishnav Jan' by Ameena.
After that even though the Tajik kids were singing the song, 'We have given our heart and we shall give our lives too for our nation' but we all were having goosebumps. We all were remembering our countries, it was meant for every individual and their country.
Tajikistan children were singing for Tajikistan, Indian children were crooning remembering India.
Only if every child and every person has this feeling in themselves that 'We have given our heart and we shall give our lives too for our nation.' Its presentation just delighted the whole auditorium.
After that we had two dance performances. One was based on Ravindra Sangeet and other was Kathak presentation of Krishna Raas. I can only say that those presentations can really be categorized as unprecedented.
Whenever we talk about Central Asia we say that our relations with Central Asia are centuries old, be it cultural or historical. But today I would like to say one more thing, our relations are not only age old but they are eternally fresh also.
Today these children showed us that our centuries old relations are moving ahead with an eternal new energy. And the biggest example of this was given by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is the only Prime Minister of India who has covered all the five countries of Central Asia in one visit only. He visited Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. He is the first prime minister to visit all five Central Asian countries in one go.
I have also visited all the five countries and everywhere, these countries which were a part of Soviet Union, when I witness the love and respect for India and Indians, it overwhelms me. All the children who have come here to study this year and earlier also must have felt it. And not only the politicians, Bollywood also plays a very big role in this.
There is this incident which I cannot forget, it happened many years ago. I came to Moscow with our Speaker's delegation and we were walking on the road. I was wearing a Saree and had put dot on my forehead, a lady approached me and said, India-India, I said, Yes, India. And she straightaway started singing 'Main Aawaara Hoon' song of Raj Kapoor.
I called the Ambassador there to find her residence as she had already left. I said find her residence and please give her this gift on my behalf, a gift was then delivered to her at her residence.
This feeling of kinship and love that Central Asia has for India that did not develop without a reason. It developed because our family values and our culture are similar to each other. It is because of those family values that these countries find kinship with India and similarly India does for them.
The children who have come here for studies definitely must be sensing it but those who have been here since so many years for business or who have come here to teach must also be feeling the same.
I would like to say that the India's relations with these countries reached a new high during the tenure of present government and in future it will go even higher.
If you look at it, so many high level visits have happened in such a short time. The Prime Minister had been here, the President returned from here just a day back and this is my second visit. Apart from this, the ministers from other ministries of India have also come here.
It tells us, Central Asian countries which includes Tajikistan, what is the importance of Tajikistan for us, these countries are very important countries for us. And therefore the happiness that I felt after coming here, I don't have words to explain that. I am taking that feeling back with me because that feeling can be experienced only, it cannot be explained.
Somnath Ji, I am very grateful to you. My congratulations and best wishes to all the children who made these presentations.
We would definitely like to have a photo session with these artists. I know that people present in the auditorium would later scramble for selfie. We are sitting here, it would be better if we can call them on stage row by row and click photograph here only so that they will get easily get a photograph which will also be a souvenir for them.
Disclaimer: EAM's Speech was delivered in Hindi. This is an approximate translation of Speech.


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[14] Working drawing for a glazed door
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as above, The Countess of Pembroke, Door, bead (11 times), A, A, A.A. full size, (feint pencil) Lady Pembroke / wished to know / whether a / Book case might / not be cut into / the Wall to / correspond. I made / enquiry of Mansfield / and he says it cannot / --- --- be therefore / only a Blanlk / The old Material Lady / Pembroke desires might / be saved on the (?) --- ----- / to use them at Richmond , (very feint pencil) (illegible) / --- the Plate ---- which will /be when the Rooms are fitted / up completely
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The reference to materials being saved for Richmond is to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, London for which Soane carried out work in 1788 (q.v.). 'Made enquiry of Mansfield' refers to George Mansfield, surveyor in Soane's office, 1797-1800 who appears to have made all the drawings catalogued here.
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Takeda Group Begins Manufacturing COVID-19 Plasma Treatment Ahead of Approval | Top News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Takeda Pharmaceutical Co-led group that is developing a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 has started manufacturing while the late-stage trial to determine whether it works is ongoing, Takeda Chief Executive Christophe Weber said on Monday.
The group, known as the CoVIg Plasma Alliance, enrolled its first patient in the Phase III trial on Friday after months of delays. It aims to enroll 500 adult patients from the United States, Mexico and 16 other countries and hope to have results by the end of the year.
"The likelihood it works is very high," Weber said in an interview. "And that's why we have launched a campaign in order to accelerate the donation of convalescent plasma to manufacture and produce this product."
The alliance, which includes CSL Behring, Germany's Biotest AG and other companies, is testing a hyperimmune globulin therapy, which is derived from blood plasma of
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Abbott Wins U.S. Emergency Use Authorization for New COVID-19 Antibody Test | Top News
(Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for its lab-based COVID-19 antibody blood test.
The test, AdviseDx, can be used to identify a type of antibody called Immunoglobulin M (IgM) in blood samples to determine if someone has been exposure to the novel coronavirus, potentially indicating a recent or prior infection.
Abbott has already received emergency use authorization for seven tests, including molecular tests, a rapid antigen test and another test which can detect a type of antibody called IgG.
The FDA's emergency use authorization allows the use of unapproved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases with no adequate or approved alternatives.
IgG is longer lasting in the body after an infection, but IgM is more useful for determining a recent exposure to the coronavirus as these antibodies become undetectable
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As Globe Gallops Into Vaccine Trials, Insurers Remain Unfazed | Top News
By Noor Zainab Hussain, Carolyn Cohn and Ludwig Burger
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The world is racing towards a vaccine in record time, stirring public concerns about safety to the extent that nine leading developers have felt compelled to issue a pledge to uphold scientific standards and testing rigour.
Yet, while more than 40 experimental COVID-19 vaccines are being tested on humans, the insurance companies with decades of experience in assessing the risks of clinical trials don't see anything to be unduly concerned about.
Executives at insurer Allianz and brokers Gallagher and Marsh, among the leading players in clinical trials insurance, told Reuters that premiums had only marginally increased so far in the current pandemic.
They argued there was little structural difference to trials carried out in the past, despite drugmakers around the world competing to shatter the fastest time in history for developing a vaccine, which stands at around four
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UK Study Tests if BCG Vaccine Protects Against COVID | Top News
LONDON (Reuters) – The widely used BCG tuberculosis vaccine will be tested on frontline care workers in Britain for its effectiveness against COVID-19, researchers running the UK arm of a global trial said.
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, used to protect against tuberculosis, induces a broad innate immune-system response and has been shown to protect against infection or severe illness with other respiratory pathogens.
"BCG has been shown to boost immunity in a generalised way, which may offer some protection against COVID-19," Professor John Campbell, of the University of Exeter Medical School, said.
"We are seeking to establish whether the BCG vaccine could help protect people who are at risk of COVID-19. If it does, we could save lives by administering or topping up this readily available and cost-effective vaccination."
The UK study is part of an existing Australian-led trial, which launched in April and also has arms in the Netherlands,
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U.S. COVID-19 cases top 50,000 for 3rd straight day
Oct. 10 (UPI) — For the third-straight day, the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the United States topped 50,000, a level not seen since August, U.S. officials said Saturday.
Data the Johns Hopkins University global tracker showed there were 57,420 new cases and 990 deaths Friday in the United States. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has had 7.7 million confirmed cases and at least 214,000 deaths.
An updated model released Friday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine, projects 394,693 deaths in the United States by Feb. 1. The model predicts that U.S. daily deaths will peak at 2,300 in mid-January with 116,000 hospital beds needed by Jan. 22. Daily U.S. deaths are around 1,000 this month.
Expanding the use of masks from the United States' current rate of 69% to about 95% — the rate
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U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 50,000 for 3rd straight day
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U.S. COVID-19 Cases Hit Two-Month High, 10 States Report Record Increases | Top News
(Reuters) – New cases of COVID-19 in the United States hit a two-month high on Friday with over 58,000 infections of the new coronavirus reported and hospitalizations in the Midwest at record levels for a fifth day in a row, according to a Reuters analysis.
Ten of the 50 states reported record one-day rises in cases on Friday, including the Midwestern states of Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio. Wisconsin and Illinois recorded over 3,000 new cases for a second day in a row – a two-day trend not seen even during the height of the previous outbreak in the spring, according to Reuters data.
The Western states of Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming also reported their biggest one-day jumps in cases, as did Oklahoma and West Virginia.
Nineteen states have seen record increases in new cases so far in October. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2SFLb7o)
Amid the resurgence in cases across the nation,
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U.S. Signs Agreement With AstraZeneca to Develop, Supply COVID-19 Antibody Treatment | Top News
(Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday signed an agreement with AstraZeneca Plc
worth $486 million to develop and secure supplies of up to 100,000 doses of COVID-19 antibody treatment, a similar class of drugs that was used to treat President Donald Trump.
The U.S. health agency will provide the funding to AstraZeneca for two Phase 3 clinical trials under operation Warp Speed, which is aimed at speeding up treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.
One trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the experimental treatment to prevent infection for up to 12 months, in about 5,000 participants, while the second trial will evaluate post-exposure preventative and pre-emptive treatment in roughly 1,100 participants.
AstraZeneca said it plans to supply up to 100,000 doses starting towards the end of 2020 and the US Government can acquire up to an additional one million doses in 2021 under a separate agreement.
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What We Know – and Don't Know – About Trump's COVID-19 Illness | Top News
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump revealed early on Oct. 2 that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, but several questions about the course of his illness remain unknown. The following is some of what is known and what is still unclear about the president's bout with COVID-19.
Who infected President Trump when?
These are both questions that have not been answered as the White House has repeatedly refused to say when the president last tested negative for the coronavirus – information essential to tracing the timeline of when and where he was likely infected.
Health experts say the timing of his positive test results suggest he likely contracted the illness in late September. On Sept. 26, Trump hosted a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden to announce his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. The mostly outdoor event was attended by more than 100 people, most not
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Regeneron Antibodies in Demand After Trump Treatment, Doctors Seek More Data | Top News
(Reuters) – Patients are asking to join clinical trials of antibody-based COVID-19 drugs after U.S. President Donald Trump was treated last week with an experimental therapy from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, and on Wednesday he promised to make it free to Americans while touting its benefits.
Medical experts said more data is needed to assess the treatment's efficacy before wider use should be allowed.
Trump was discharged from the hospital late on Monday, just a few days after being diagnosed with COVID-19 that caused enough lung inflammation for blood oxygen levels to fall.
According to his doctor, blood tests on Monday detected infection-fighting antibodies, which a Regeneron spokesperson said were probably from the treatment.
In a video shot outside the White House, Trump credited the Regeneron therapy for his feeling much better than when he was first diagnosed and said he would push for emergency use authorizations (EUA) of that treatment
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Fitness Coalition, LI Law Firm Spearhead Lawsuit Against Cuomo
Summit, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine to Develop Saliva Tests for COVID, Head & Neck Cancer
Zoom is releasing a new tool to let paid users charge for admission to online events like conferences or fitness classes
Man yanks out two teeth with rusty pliers after he couldn't book dentist appointment
Man who couldn't see a dentist pulls out own teeth
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Australia worst among G20 when it comes to action on climate change, report finds
Australia the only country to receive a rating of 'very poor' in a majority of categories in Climate Transparency scorecard
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Australia was rated by Climate Transparency as being the worst country for action to combat climate change before the G20 summit in China. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
Australia is the worst country among the G20 when it comes to action on climate change, according to a comprehensive assessment before the G20 summit in China.
Under China's leadership, this weekend's G20 in the eastern city of Hangzhou has had a strong focus on climate-related issues.
By analysing the policies and actions of each of the 20 countries, which together produce 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, Climate Transparency produced a report, scorecard and series of country profiles detailing their findings, revealing Australia was not pulling its weight.
Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years'
On the scorecard, Australia was the only country to receive a rating of "very poor" in a majority of categories.
Australia was given the worst possible rating of "very poor" for its performance on emissions trends, carbon intensity, share of renewables in its energy supply and overall climate policy.
It was rated as "poor" in every other category: for its energy intensity, share of coal in energy supply and electricity emissions intensity.
Alvaro Umaña, co-chair of Climate Transparency and a former Costa Rican environment minister, said: "The G20 has proven that it can be nimble and take action on economic issues, so we are looking to these countries to do the same for the climate."
Along with half the other G20 nations, Australia's 2030 emissions reduction targets committed to at Paris – making up Australia's intended nationally determined contribution – were given the worst possible rating of "inadequate".
However, none of the 20 nations' commitments were labelled as "sufficient" or "role model", with the remaining 10 scored as "medium".
The report notes that if every country emulated Australia's level of ambition, global warming would likely exceed 4C.
It also said that Australia's currently implemented policy measures were not set to achieve even those inadequate targets and instead would rise to about 27% above 2005 levels by 2030, rather than the targeted 26 to 28% below 2005 levels.
The report comes one day after Australia's Climate Change Authority produced its long-awaited "special review", recommending that the country should institute two emissions trading schemes.
The review also highlighted that Australia's current policies were not able to achieve the existing inadequate targets. But the report was heavily criticised by commentators – and also by two of the authority's members – for not making recommendations about how the country can meet international obligations to do its part in keeping global warming "well below" 2C.
Australia's support for financing the transition to renewable energy was rated as "medium" by Climate Transparency, noting there had been "prolonged policy uncertainty resulting from volatile political support for substantive climate change policy".
Investors controlling $13tn call on G20 leaders to ratify Paris climate agreement
Those findings are expected to be underlined in another report being released on Thursday by WWF France and WWF China arguing that a global energy transition is already under way and the G20 countries need to simply accelerate action towards that goal. WWF Australia will say the report serves as a wakeup call for Australian policy makers.
Last week international investors controlling $13tn worth of funds urged the G20 to accelerate investment in clean energy, saying countries that ratified the Paris agreement early would benefit by attracting investment in low-carbon technology.
Those calls were particularly timely, coming as the the Australian parliament considers the effective abolition of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, and one day after Guardian Australia revealed that new uncertainty had already caused at least two renewable energy projects to be suspended.


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This morning, I went to my daily writing practice with a hard task, that of speaking about the retirement of my good friend and colleague Twila Papay. What to say? How to characterize her work here at Rollins? How to be honest about my experience with her and true to my admiration of her? In five minutes. I am humbled by this task, and I do not take it on lightly. There is something important here for all of us to consider.
As you know, last year I "retired," though I don't like to use that word: at the time, I called it a "re-direction," and I think that's a good word for what many of us do after retirement. The past year has been one of the most creative years of my life, and one of the most professionally fulfilling. I am most definitely not retired. I'm more deeply engaged in my calling, my dharma, than I ever thought possible.
And, like me, those of you retiring today have had the pleasure of planning for and anticipating your retirement, of getting your affairs in order, of fore-warning friends and family that you are now on the loose, so to speak. Twila, as many of you know, was forced into retirement. Forced by an insidious medical condition that does not allow her to lead the active life she has been accustomed to. Surprised by a life circumstance she could not have anticipated or planned for. She no longer enjoys the vibrant and engaged life she was leading just one year ago. I am told that she has good days and bad days, and while often quite clear about what has happened to her, she is often confused.
So, sadly, this is one retirement that we cannot celebrate. This is one retirement that forces us to think anew about what life can be and should be when we step away from a life of full-out dedication to a profession.
There really are a lot of varying notions about the word "retirement." And let me warn those of you retiring today: you'll come up against them almost every day this first year out of the gate. Catch me after lunch, and I'll give you some of the more ludicrous and annoying responses I've had from people. But most of you in this room will begin to craft another useful life. Some of you will continue to work and to create, simply re-directing your energies toward new projects. Some of you will learn how to relax. Some will give more attention to family and relationships. Some will seek adventure or design a life of deeper service.
I am experiencing the joy of re-directing my energies and my interests to a new audience, and I've never been happier or more fully engaged in life. And so with sadness I stand here to honor a friend and colleague who is not going to have the opportunity to say these words at the end of her first year of retirement. But then, maybe I reveal my own bias about what retirement is supposed to be. We err when we think we have control over what we'll actually be doing--a decade from now, a year from now, a week from now. And we are mistaken to think that in order to grow more fully into who we are supposed to be (to follow our dharma), the outer manifestation of life has to look a certain way. For no matter what the outward form a life takes, the lessons go on. The spiritual teacher Ram Das suffered a horrible stroke ten years ago, making his life quite difficult and his speech slurred, and his life mission in doubt. And yet, he says today that the stroke was the greatest spiritual gift of his life. We must be careful about judging the way Life shows up for us.
So, instead of being sad for what Twila is experiencing, I want to hold the belief that Twila can move into a new way of learning about who she is and what she is all about. And that she will continue to give new lessons to us, too. Always a teacher first, Twila would want us to learn from her.
When Ed Cohen asked me to speak for Twila today, I told him I could not. I teach a yoga class on MWF at noon, and I thought that was a good excuse to decline the invitation. But the real reason I declined is that I was afraid. What can be said about such an unexpected turn in life that leads a colleague down an unimagined path? And then, there is the uneasy relationship that Twila and I had for probably the first decade of my life here at Rollins. There was tension, and I'll just leave it at that. And while I came eventually to understand some of the reasons for the uneasiness between us, the years lost between us will always be a regret for me.
And that's what I really want to say about Twila, her retirement, and the goodness that she leaves with us here at Rollins. Somewhere along the way, we both felt regret for the odd and uneasy alliance that existed between us. And at some point, I'm still not quite sure when, Twila and I healed that uneasiness. And I choose that word very carefully. The tensions between us, the disagreements on academic issues, the personality conflicts that riddled our interchanges were healed by a conscious decision we both made to stop. We had a hard conversation one night after class, and we decided this: to begin to appreciate the good that we knew existed in each other; to recognize the high goals we shared for our students and our writing program; and to accept and appreciate the very different skills and offerings we each brought to our job. We decided to let each other be her best self. And to praise that as often as we could.
And this is important, though I know it's going to sound hokey to a group of academics: but let me say it again. We decided to praise each other as often as we could. So for more than ten years now, Twila and I have most often started our conversations with compliments. With noticing something that the other did that we admired or appreciated. With pointing out a good idea that was put forth at a meeting, or observing a kind gesture made toward a student. We kept doing this, at first awkwardly, but by the end of my career here, quite joyfully. And this conscious practice of giving appreciation began to change our work and our relationship. We learned to like one another a lot. We learned to let the one with the better idea take the lead in a project or task. We stopped fore-fronting the complaints we had about each other and instead focused on the skills and talents that clearly existed.
And we got better. We worked better. We were happier.
Don't misunderstand. This was no sappy-syrupy make-over of a professional relationship, with Twila and Lezlie skipping across Mills Lawn together in giddy happiness. Twila and I still disagreed. We fell into the old pattern of wanting the other to be more like ourselves. We were sometimes snippy, and one of us often became defensive. But these moments of annoyance no longer marked the tenor of our relationship. We learned that no single stance in life gives any of us a 360 degree view of a situation or a problem. The position from which we view the world gives each of us only a thin sliver of data. We benefit when we put those slivers of viewpoint together to create a greater range of vision.
Twila is a very smart woman and highly accomplished in her discipline, as her extensive vita reveals. She came to Rollins in 1985 and has served in every arena that the academic life requires. She was a teacher, a writer, a scholar, an advisor, a servant to the institution—full out. The energy she brought to her work was astounding to me. Many of you have experienced that energy, having served on committees with her, team-taught with her, collaborated with her, and benefited from her intelligence, reasoning power, her organizational skills, and her almost maniacal attention to detail and duty. Those remarkable qualities come and go for Twila now. But the qualities of the heart remain steady. There is still much for Twila to experience and enjoy as she takes this unexpected journey.
And to contribute to her joy, we honor her here today. We publicly thank her for her dedication and her enormous contributions to Rollins College, the English Department, and the Writing Program. And to solidify this honor, we announce today that henceforth, the "Best English 140 Essay" prize, awarded each year to a student in the first-year writing program, will be called "The Twila Yates Papay Award," furthering her legacy here at Rollins.
To conclude, I urge us all to consider the life-lessons that Twila is addressing: —that we keep asking ourselves "what do we live for? what is important?" —that we learn to appreciate each other, especially when we disagree — and that we keep the phrase memento mori in our hearts. Remember that you will die. But before you die, your life will surprise you, and take you places you didn't expect to go. How will you be with that turn of events?
And as Ram Das has taught us, remember also, it's all good; each path, no matter the challenges it presents, is yet another opportunity to wake up.


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From Kelly: The website is amazing! Thank you to the Committee for all your hard work in getting us together again! How can it be 20 years?
have three boys - Matthew (9), Will (6) and Robert (4). We've lived in Mass. for the past 9 years. We do get back to NJ often since we still have family in the area. In fact, we were on LBI last week and passed the neon signs of the Kenilworth Inn from the GSP!
I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone I've lost touch with.
I live in south Jersey with my husband and my little girl who is 2. I still have family in Cranford. It's nice to go back once in a while and reminisce.
Sorry I won't be making the trip to the reunion.
From Dan: Living in Picturesque Denver, PA in Lancaster County. Have an almost-6-year-old daughter, Emma who reminds me every day that I still have much more to learn in life. I work outside of Philly doing homeland security and emergency planning consulting. Sounds much cooler than it is, but it's paying the bills!
From Jeff : 20 years have gone by already! In that time I got my degree, met my wife at college, been married for 12 years, have two children, son Connor (4) and daughter Keira (1). Been employed with an environmental consulting firm for nine years. Don't know if I will make for the reunion yet...will try.
This reunion should be fun and FUNNY!!!


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ANIMATED ARGUMENT
Mark Fiore is a good political cartoonist who becomes excellent in animated form - especially when he's taking on the topic of Voluntary Regulation, i.e. how the meat industry gets to regulate itself. The cartoon's funny and makes its point well, but I can't help underscoring the fact that Fiore considers it common knowledge that the USDA is simply a tool of the meat industry rather than any kind of government watchdog.
BUNCH OF @#$%&!! TURKEYS
The USDA, a.k.a the meat industry's PR agency, has once again pulled off a great coup - this has made barely a blip in the news: That ol' JL Foods listeria recall from the beginning of the month - you know, the one for a measly 200,000 pounds? Well, testing from that plant's production has confirmed listeria ON the poultry products and the recall has been expanded to 4.2 million pounds - in other words, the entire summer's production of turkey products. Scroll - and scroll, and scroll - through this list of the varieties suspected of having the deadly, feces-based bacteria on them and you will be entertained or aghast, or both. Think about it: This is one of the plants that they actually caught. Happy Thanksgiving dinner!
KINDLER, GENTLER SLAUGHTER
Michael Pollan, of "Botany of Desire" fame, has written a thoughtful essay in The New York Times Magazine attempting to resolve the fact of animal slaughtering's unnecessary cruelty with the fact that we enjoy eating animals - at least, some of us do. For the first half of the article Pollan looks at the issue with eyes wide open and sees how lame the pro-meat arguments are, even going so far as to point out that any rationalization for eating meat, no matter how clever, is still a rationalization. Then in the second half he proceeds to provide just such a rationalization, and one which, unfortunately, makes him look like a complete idiot.
In a nutshell, Pollan's brilliant, unheard-of solution is to ignore factory farming, hope it will go away, and eat animals slaughtered personally by an old-fashioned, down-home farmer. This section is so rife with nonsense it's hard to restrain oneself from a point-by-point, but I'll limit it to two things: One, Pollan, who has in previous pages noted AR activists' ability to counter his knee-jerk arguments - because they've been around this issue and heard them all before - thinks he has come up with something the activists have never considered: How happy barnyard animals are to be frolicking in a cute little farm and how terrible it would be to deny them this happiness by not breeding more of them for slaughter. He goes so far as to claim AR activists - stuck in their urban ivory towers - have never seen animals in this state, a hilariously stupid blunder considering the traffic at animal sanctuaries, whose only difference from the environment Pollan lauds is the lack of slaughter in those animal's day planners.
The other point is that Pollan, ignoring the economics of the global situation, pretends that eating only organic and free-range animals is somehow a solution to a life-or-death ethical question. Not only is this bogus, it's been severely undercut by two news stories that appeared shortly after his essay: People buying "organic" beef at an upscale organic-food chain in New York found that they had been swindled into buying cruddy USDA-grade IBP beef because the store had cunningly switched labels; and a UK study found that chickens who spend more time frolicking outdoors are twice as likely to carry Campylobacter, a major - if not THE major - source of food poisoning. Oh well... time to think up another rationale.
DID SOMEBODY SAY... BANKRUPTCY?
All right, that's a little inflammatory, but then so is the practice of quickly cooking burgers, by its very nature. The point is, the epic deflation of McDonald's as bastion of rapacious capitalism, and all-around cultural battering ram, continues apace. The company closes restaurants, lays off workers, lowers prices even more absurdly, yet still gets panned by analysts as well as American consumers, who mostly continue to buy while asleep... but as they wake up, are picking places with more and better choices.
As for French consumers, of course, they simply go ahead and burn the damn place to the ground. Chacun a son gout, I guess.
GET-TOUGH AGRICULTURE DEPT.
On FRIDAY, *cough* at the same time Wampler was re-opening its listeria-outbreak-linked plant here, and the USDA was finalizing a presentation promising War on Listeria - just like the venerable War on E.Coli about three months ago - frustrated USDA inspectors were walking out of the old ConAgra plant in Greeley, CO, forcing the plant to close by their action. What plant was this? Why, the same one that cause the huge, second-biggest-ever recall in July due to, that's right, E.Coli! AFTER the huge recall, the plant had already been cited another 19 TIMES for fecal contamination. As the Denver Post explained in its opening sentence, "The federal government shut down the former ConAgra beef plant in Greeley on Friday after repeatedly finding feces smeared on meat over a period of several months." Don't worry, though, "smear" tastes fine once you cook it.
Really, though, what the hell kind of War is this? Why wasn't the plant closed after its FIRST infraction, post-recall? That's recidivism, isn't it? OK, so they give it another chance to really clean up its act. So why didn't the SECOND citation trigger some kind of stronger action? The THIRD? FOURTH? FIFTH? etc. etc. and etc.! How can anyone take this "agency" seriously?
UPDATE: Tuesday morning, the Denver Post reported that the plant is now reopening, and attempted to answer the number question above (though not, alas, the "seriously" question). An interesting fact I overlooked in the original shutdown story is that the whole thing was timed to coincide with a three-day weekend for the company, so it lost almost no production time. As one inspector said, "It just seems too perfectly planned." I guess that's how it is when you have the USDA as your PR agency. At least they can do something right.


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The Ruinous Myth of Inspiration
Got your attention with that title? Excellent, because I'm serious.
Inspiration is a myth.
Not the exhilarating surge an artist feels on seeing a bird burst through a bank of mist in the early morning, ribbons of water-vapor giving it a heartbeat's sun-speckled veil, nor the solemn determination of a writer staring out at the fields of Prokhorovka, seeing the T-34s driving into the teeth and claws of the Panzerwaffe, hearing shells' hard clangs and cracks as they glance off or gouge through, and swearing this story will come next, nor that of the musician listening to wind's soft sighs through autumn trees and writing a spring-song in sudden defiance. This inspiration is real, sort of; we'll come back to it later.
It's just not the kind we hear about. The kind we hear about is how, supposedly, Isaac Newton developed the Theory of Gravity the moment an apple fell from a tree and hit him, with not a word given to the hundreds of hours he doubtless spent observing, documenting, meditating, writing and rewriting both before and after that fateful moment–if it ever even happened. I use Newton's example because this ridiculous idea isn't new. We've been saddled with the stupid goddamned thing since the dawn of creativity itself. I guaran-goddamn-tee you that one of our early hominid ancestors, when the spear was first invented 1.7 million or more years ago, looked at Gluk Who-Makes-Spears and said, "Ah! Genius idea! Must have inspire! Why me never think of that?"
Because, Ugnak, you literal dumb ape, Gluk was the one who spent hours hefting various branches, getting a feel for the hardness and grain of different woods, seeing which trees splintered on impact and which held firm, and decided to take his flint handax and file down the sturdiest branches he'd found. He was the one who eventually discovered, while investigating his new creation's properties, that it could be hardened by fire provided it wasn't allowed to burn too long. You just sat around thinking about sex all the time and idly wishing you could think of cool things. You ass.
Obviously this isn't the real story either–the real story took vastly longer across millions more years of evolution, tool-making, and steady brainpower upticks until we reached Peak Human. Except, we haven't: science says our brains are still evolving. The fact that they're evolving at a rate we can measure in the limited time since we've become able to analyze evolution and brain growth is absolutely insane. I promise you it's not because of "inspiration"–not the inspiration that comes from a bunch of people sitting on their thumbs doing sweet FA, anyhow.
Let's come back to one of my opening examples. When the artist talks about that bird piercing the fog earlier as she sketches it out, she crystallizes it so naturally that her friends believe she's just "a natural talent". After all, it seems fluid and natural, so that's how it must be! Right?
Ffft.
The truth is that it takes a level of skill and visual brain development a layperson can scarcely understand just for her to freeze that mist-busting bird in her mind. She's not a camera–she only gets the one instant to process it. But because they haven't put in the effort to make this possible for themselves, her friends assume it must not be possible for them at all. Now, I've talked about this before. Natural talent exists. It has to, or there's no way that a jackass like myself, who actively refused to learn the rules of English grammar until this year–I needed them for tutoring work–could have internalized their exact functions by osmosis without know the actual rules and out-written countless people who genuinely studied.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm the bad guy. But I digress.
This advantage of mine didn't start out fully-fledged. It didn't begin with yours truly able to analyze a sentence for slant-rhymes to refine its sound, or provide a small thesis on the ways that a certain protagonist's dialogue is a call-back to the magnificent heaviness of Gothic literature. It took me twenty-six years to reach the point I can do these things at a pin's drop–note my use of possessive tense to maintain grammatical correctness while removing "of" and "the" from "at the drop of a pin," itself of course modified from "at the drop of a hat" just because I felt like it. I needed no time to plan this paragraph, nor consult a book for all that text-dissecting (hey look! Another slant-rhyme).
That doesn't mean I "got inspired". It means I've practiced writing so many times that my very-conscious decisions take place faster than a blink, fast enough that the uninitiated think this must be inspiration or natural talent or "the subconscious" (another dangerous idea for a later date.) I was inspired when I started writing this a few days ago. I had to leave it for a tutoring shift that day. It'll be 11 AM EST (ideally) when I post this. Right now it's 9 AM. My sleep cycle's still off from DMing a campaign session this past Sunday and staying up 'til 5AM after. I haven't fully rehydrated yet, which means I also haven't had coffee. I'm not inspired, just tired.
Full rhymes are hazardous because they feel tacky in many contexts, but you can get away with one if it just crops up on its own.
Neither I nor any other creator has ever been inspired all the way through a piece. In fact, my moment of inspiration for The Necromancer and the Revenant came way back in the murky depths of 2016. Having written up an incredibly bland male necromancer as a possible contribution to my cousin Eric's universe, I was mulling the scene over one day. I don't remember whether I was debating how well the name worked, but I guarantee you it was something like that–not that I just mentioned the name in idle conversation and then said, as I realized in my quiet contemplations: "Grada could be either a male or female name. I should try rewriting this necromancer as a woman."
That was it. That one simple change ultimately spiralled into the creation of the entire North Tonnish culture, with its blend of Chinese and Celtic overtones (bogs? Animist overtones? A perception among the outside world that these people are lunatic barbarians? All checkmarks), its overbearing matriarchs and own internal mythos. This was the moment of inspiration, sure. As I said, it happened two years ago. I didn't finish The Necromancer and the Revenant until my total breakdown while working retail. Up until then, I worked when I was inspired. I'd occasionally have this or that idea about the book and decide to write about it.
In August 2017, I stopped waiting for inspiration to help me. I rammed a spear through the lazy fuck's chest, cut his throat and bled him dry.
Obviously, with that kind of wrathful energy, I finished the first draft in a couple of months. It clocked in at around 103,000 words, but has since been lost–I didn't think to rename the Word document before I started on V2. I could've done it in one month (I was writing a minimum 5,000 words a day, peaking at 10,000 some days), but I was also reconstructing my identity after a near-total mental collapse and needed off-days, so I think I did just fine. This is also why I don't feel any guilt for "failing" NaNoWriMo. I basically just did my own, but ahead of schedule.
Even NaNoWriMo is, to me, a flagrant belch-knell from the rotund heap that is Inspiration Culture. Think about it: the implication is that writers, instead of writing consistently throughout the year whenever they have time, should seek to create everything in some sudden, mad burst. These are great when you get them, but they are not a sustainable writing model. The first thing I saw from all the writers who completed NaNoWriMo was:
"Okay, I finished my book, time to get published!" STOP. You know, I know, Uncle Sam and the disapproving ghosts of writers past all know that you didn't revise that goddamn thing! It's chock-full of unnecessary details, inefficient prose, and who knows how many ideas that just don't work. You can write a book twenty times, but only submit it to an agent once. Once they refuse it, that's it–that manuscript no longer has a chance with them. Even this comes from the myth of Inspiration: the idea that we must hurl books out there in amidst this heady rush or we'll never get them out at all.
We return, once again, to those oh-so-pretty starter examples. You'll see the artist gushing over the finished sketch, but not the dozens of times she swiped this or that part of the pad clean. You won't hear her suppressing a growl or feel the flash of irritation she does when she realizes that the line of the bird's beak is just slightly out-of-sync with its body, and it's subtly but clearly ruining the scene's motion. The writer will be the worst: he subsists on capturing moments anyway, so even he probably talks too much about his trip to Prokhorovka, and not the thirty-odd times he rewrote Hauptmann Becker's introduction because holy fuck, it's not easy writing a sympathetic Wehrmacht character who is nonetheless an accurate depiction of the bigotry and cruelty which were far more common on the Eastern Front than most of us like to acknowledge.
Run-on sentences are generally bad writing, but can be effective when consciously used to convey breathlessness, frustration, and difficulty.
The musician, at least in this instance, is likely to come closest to conveying the real process. It's hard for her to speak about the song she wrote without explaining why she feels the sounds she chose form the best counterpoint to that autumn gust. But odds are pretty damn high that not one of them is going to tell you what you really need to hear: even the inspiration they did receive wouldn't exist without painstaking ages' thought, study, rethinking and polishing.
There's only one way to grow a mind, and that's by pushing it over time. Your brain doesn't suddenly grow a new set of connections bestowing you with the mystic power to art good. When I say inspiration is a myth, that's what I really mean. Oh, sure, we all have inspired moments–which we are only able to have because we've spent years cogitating on our skills.
I can craft an entire scene from looking at shadowy fields through a car window on a nighttime drive because I've practiced the process so much. I've extrapolated characters from actions and vice-versa so many untold thousands of times over the years that counting them is absolutely impossible. I've written and discarded more stories than I will ever publish, I've mercilessly carved my peers' work and my own like a surgeon whose whole life knows two forces: perfectionism and abject, unreasoning hatred.
If you want to see the perils Inspiration Culture creates for young artists, just look at any given young artist. You'll see so many of them convinced that they can't do this or that because they're not inspired. When they don't feel joyful about their own work, they believe it must be because it's bad. They'll start and stop so many different things, always hoping that this time the excited spark will survive… and it never does. In order to start a fire, you need more than a spark. You need tinder and fuel, and so many days the winds will be high and the rains heavy, and you must shield that little light with all your body, kindling furiously until at last it catches.
Sometimes it blows out minutes later. But not always. Not every time.
We teach creators that inspiration is this incredibly delicate thing caressed into life by the most carefully-curated circumstances. Will those circumstances make it easier? Well, maybe. But the effort wasted trying to figure out exactly what those circumstances are is effort that could've gone into the art itself. Also, the first sentence of this paragraph could easily be read as a phallic metaphor, and I'm consciously choosing to run with it. Unreliable, troublesome and ludicrously overhyped? Yep, that sounds like a penis alright.
But even that is a calculated move on my part to bring down the tone of this highbrow dialogue and keep you all engaged with a little humor. I know that I need to do this, despite my eyes stinging, despite my muzzy-headedness, despite the fact that while focused, I'm not emotionally engaged here, because I studied writing. I didn't study my feelings about the writing, I didn't study my friends' feelings about the writing, I looked at the writing in raw mechanical terms. I learned the cathedral-arch concepts every writer's needed since they were first introduced, and applied them a little better to each new story I wrote. I considered the sounds, definitions and implications of this word and that. I examined every character, asked myself where they came from, what they'd been through, and which parts of them I wanted to transcend both their origins, and how those traits fit into the themes, the worldbuilding, and the plot itself. In most cases, I even try to keep the color balance of individual scenes in mind.
You may be thinking all this sounds horridly industrial, and if that's the case you're wrong. I cannot properly convey to you the snarls, the hair-pulling, the desk-beating, and the thousand sledges to the soul that I've experienced to achieve what skill I have in writing. Somehow Inspiration Culture has convinced us that it's nobler, more heroic, more–Irony incoming–inspiring for someone to effectively sit around for ages complaining about having no idea how to move forward, then suddenly pull the right idea from the ether, than it is to grind away with grim determination, with solemn fury, because this matters more deeply than light and feeling and breath.
Inspiration Culture puts creators in a place where they can only evaluate their work based on how it makes them feel. You may all recall a little something called bias, and that we also all tend to have it towards our own work. You may also realize that constantly turning to one or more completely-impartial writers asking, "Hey does this work? Hey, does this work? Hey, does this–" is not a viable writing strategy, nor can an artist constantly ask multiple friends if her lines are good. Sooner or later, we have to learn the skills on our own. Inspiration Culture teaches creators that instead of putting their emotions aside and evaluating the work for its true quality, they should expect to be immediately struck dumb with its wonders.
I hated every draft of The Necromancer and the Revenant up until somewhere around version 2.36. Also, yes, I have version numbers for my novel. Now, if I was still entrenched in Inspiration Culture, if I was still convinced that the work could only turn out well if I had Athena herself descend from Olympus and bop me on the head with her spear, saying, "Cullen Edward McCurdy! You are now inspired–here is the story you will write with me as your patron!"–then I'd have trashed The Necromancer and the Revenant half a year ago.
While working on version 2.43 recently (having thought of a few more tweaks to make after months sans revisions), I experienced a sudden, startling notion: "This book is actually amazing. I can't believe I wrote this." It turned out that despite having had no inspiration to speak of since 2016, despite having written the entire novel and all its revisions–which add up to several novels more in effort, though not length–with almost robotic analysis, I still produced something excellent, something I genuinely enjoy reading through. It turned out that inspiration had no bearing on the book's final quality.
It took four years of college to beat the stupid out of me on this one. If there's one unique benefit to learning an art via college, it's that you don't have the option of waiting for inspiration. You have a deadline, you have a certain topic and amount of work you must turn in, or else you fail the course. Sooner or later you either learn discipline–which is vastly better than inspiration in every way–or you learn defeat.
Through all these things together, it finally comes about that a creator starts experiencing something like what we call inspiration. It still isn't. The truth is that when I listen to a new song and envision a whole sequence of events to go with it, when a musician later reads the story I wrote and crafts an entirely different song about it, when an artist uses that song to fuel her webcomic (this has never happened, but hey–it's not impossible either!) every single one of us is doing it with a mind and skills honed by huge amounts of painful work. Just as a powerlifter is able to lift a thousand pounds once only because he's lifted lesser weights a hundred thousand times, creators are only able to glimpse "inspiration" because of all the deeply uninspired grind they subject themselves to.
Inspiration is a myth, and we have far more fascinating ones to make real.
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Wimbledon's Russia Ban Is a Huge Net Loss
A spectator holds a Russian flag during a tennis match between Russia's Daniil Medvedev and Croatia's Marin Cilic during the 2021 Wimbledon.Alberto Pezzali/AP
Wimbledon, England's historic tennis competition, announced Wednesday it would ban players from Russia and Belarus. The ban had been foreshadowed last month when British sports minister Nigel Huddleston suggested that Russians be barred from the tournament unless they provide "some potential assurance that they are not supporters of Putin."
The announcement followed several other sporting bans put in place since Russia invaded Ukraine in February: FIFA, soccer's global governing body, suspended Russia from all international competitions, while the Boston Marathon barred runners from Russia and Belarus, which Russian leader Vladimir Putin has used as a staging ground for his attack on Ukraine.
Now, I can understand the impulse to show solidarity with Ukraine and, certainly, to target punishment at Putin and his cronies—people like Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. But there is something almost dystopian about assigning collective guilt to all Russians. Only hours after the invasion started, antiwar protests broke out across Russia, including in Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg. In just one day of protests, roughly 5,000 Russians were arrested.
Among those challenging Putin's war: the same athletes Wimbledon plans to ban. Take Russian tennis star Andrey Rublev, who wrote "No War Please" on a television camera after a competition. His countryman Daniil Medvedev, formerly the No. 1 ranked player in the world, called for "peace all over the world" after the invasion. Do those statements meet Wimbledon's standard? What does?
Even if Rublev and Medvedev had kept silent, is it really fair for Wimbledon to assign them blame? Any person with loved ones in an authoritarian country understands the risks of speaking out. It takes bravery to resist an autocratic thug like Putin, but most people aren't in a position to compromise their family's safety. When I reported on protests against the Chinese government during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, I was surprised to hear some debate among activists over the wisdom of speaking out. Not all protesters expected athletes to risk their personal safety to challenge China's increasingly repressive state.
The best way to deny legitimacy to authoritarian rulers is not to demand loyalty tests from their residents, but to demand that corporations stop whitewashing the regime's excesses. When Olympic sponsors trip over themselves to not condemn China's human rights abuses or FIFA grants a World Cup bid to a petrostate using slave labor, it does far more harm than a single Russian athlete staying quiet about Putin.
The sporting world is awash with corruption and skullduggery. The way to change that isn't through blanket bans, but in denying the financial benefits and prestige that come from giving authoritarian governments a spot at the table in the first place.
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