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As part of my scholarly work, I have published some few papers and presented a fair number more. While the published papers are in publication and should be read where they are published, and the presented papers may or may not be under revision to be sent off for publication, so that they ought not to be made available in full, abstracts for them can easily be posted for public viewing.
Each abstract, linked below, is presented with the title of the paper, a brief description of the paper's context (in italics), and the abstract itself. Many of the abstracts are reposted from an earlier online venture I maintained all too abortively; they are presented here for ease of reference, and that they are reposted is noted in their description.
"Closed-Lipped Howls"
"A Divergent Medievalism in Robin Hobb's Farseer and Tawny Man Trilogies"
The Establishment of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur as the Standard Text of English-Language Arthurian Legend
"Keeping It Old-School on the New Faculty Majority"
"Knighthood Continued"
"Laying Down the Law in the Pendragon RPG"
"The Malorian Kay as Fredalian Figure"
"Manifest Destiny and Other Western Ideas in Robin Hobb's Soldier Son"
"Manifestations of English Arthurian Legend in the Farseer and Tawny Man Trilogies of Robin Hobb"
"Martial Methodology in Malory"
"Moving beyond Tolkien's Medievalism: Robin Hobb's Tawny Man and Farseer Trilogies"
"No Advice Sans Knowledge"
"Royal Evils in Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy"
"A Tacit Satire in Stansby's 1634 Le Morte d'Arthur"
"Tales after Tolkien: Shakespeare in Robin Hobb."
"Unchurched: On the Relative Lack of Religion in Tolkienan-Tradition Fantasy Literature"
"Which Way I Fly Is Middle-earth; Myself Am Middle-earth"
"White Hats for White Plumes: The Western as Arthurian Romance Reimagined"
Geoffrey B. Elliott
The following abstract was submitted to the South Central Modern Language Association conference in 2009, and was accepted. As I recall, the paper for which it is an abstract was presented in the Fantasy and Science Fiction panel.
The abstract has appeared in other online venues.
The hybridization of humans and wolves appears in folktales and literatures across cultures and centuries. In many cases, the hybridization occurs within a single entity, as in the werewolf of European folklore or the gestalt creature of science fiction fame, and in just as many cases, the hybridized human/wolf is featured in an antagonistic role.
Contemporary fantasy fiction demonstrates movement in the lupine/human hybrid away from the commonplaces of single-body and antagonist. The Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies of Robin Hobb, the Wheel of Time cycle of the late Robert Jordan, and the Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin all feature bonded humans and wolves, each partaking in some measure of the nature of the others while remaining separate beings, and each figured as a protagonist or as the principal protagonist—although it cannot be said that the characters in question are accepted in their societies. Notably, all three authors portray their human/wolf bonds as psychic projections; dream, sensation, and thought are shared between wolf and man, and in some cases those projections cross the border between life and death.
In all three cases, the projection of wolf into man and man into wolf serves to engage and subvert the traditional Western European association of the wolf with savagery; while the animals remain animals and the humans human, the humans are more bestial and the animals more humane than is often depicted.
Below appears the abstract I submitted to the Tales after Tolkien panel at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies. After drafting the paper, I realized that my idea was not the best to advance, but I did not have the time to make what occurred to me to be the best case. Revisiting the paper hopefully corrected my earlier errors.
The main thrust of modern fantasy literature, beginning with Tolkien, presents a vision of what Douglas A. Anderson calls in his introduction to Tales before Tolkien heroic romance, acting in a tradition embodied in the medieval Arthurian narratives up to and including Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Although there are a number of prominent exceptions to the prevailing trend of fantasy literature (J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series comes to mind), a large portion of fantastic narratives occur in a common setting. The usual milieu is a feudal society with few gradations either of nobility or of the non-noble classes, in which a few sizable states enact conflict through armies generally reflecting Western Europe at approximately the time of the High Middle Ages. Tolkien's Middle-earth corpus presents such a milieu, as do such popular fantasy arcs as that of Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, and George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire.
Although Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy deploys a number of the "standard" features of the common modern fantasy literature setting, it displays deviations from those features in several regards. Notable among them is the depiction of cultures deriving from other parts of the medieval than the most commonly evoked Continent of the Crusades, particularly that of the Out Isles. Presenting such a culture and its interactions with the "more advanced" society of the Six Duchies, one largely in line with civilizations typical of modern fantasy literature, affords Hobb's series a more nuanced and more authentically medieval setting than those of many of her contemporaries.
The abstract below is of my doctoral dissertation, The Establishment of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur as the Standard Text of English-Language Arthurian Legend, which is held in the Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It also appears in Worldcat and is available at ProQuest as an open-access document; I believe in collegiality and the dissemination of knowledge, although I do expect to be cited if you use materials I put together.
The status of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur as the canonical iteration of Arthurian legend in English is not in question. It is, however, insufficiently examined, with past explanations for its canonicity lacking detail and glossing over social, historical, and textual circumstances. Investigation of those circumstances reveals that for seven key editions of Malory's text—Caxton's 1458, de Worde's 1498 and 1529, Stansby's 1634, Chalmers's 1816, Haslewood's 1816, and Southey's 1817—a confluence of editorial and printerly social stature, social contexts amenable to the materials discussed in Malory, and paratextual features provided in the editions positioned Le Morte d'Arthur such that it could be taken up by scholars and writers engaged with Victorian neomedievalist tropes as the standard text of English-language Arthuriana.
The following abstract was submitted to the South Central Renaissance Conference in 2007, and it was accepted. I forget what panel it was on.
The dragons featured in Beowulf and in cantos xi and xii of Book I of The Faerie Queene are eerily similar in the threats they pose to admirable kingdoms, their physical attributes, weaknesses, and the manner in which they die—at the hands of armor-clad noble-class warriors who are themselves similar in equipment and temperament and whose fights follow oddly similar paths. Though the correspondences between the dragons and dragon-slayers in the two works are not wholly exact, they are quite close, and that proximity invites explication; little if any work has been done comparing these aspects of the two English-language epics, let alone the more fantastical elements in them.
Through examination of the characteristics of the dragons in Beowulf and Book I of The Faerie Queene, albeit in a limited manner, the depth of their correspondence to one another becomes apparent, and invites speculation as to the source and results thereof. The source may possibly be that Spenser was in some way familiar with Beowulf, though that is highly unlikely. Far more likely, even certain, is the implication of the correspondences between the Anglo-Saxon and early modern works; the existence of a distinct tradition of dragons in English-language literature, a tradition which extends from the Beowulf poet through Spenser to Tolkien and on into contemporary fantasy works, most of which are in English and nearly all of which reference, directly or obliquely, the works of Tolkien.
The following abstract is slightly adapted from one submitted in response to a call for papers for the edited collection Ballad of the Lone Medievalist. The submission was accepted, much to my delight.
I am not the only medievalist in my English department at a Big 12 school—there is one other, tenured—but I am the only one in my area of the medieval, Middle English, and the only one among the contingent faculty. Typically assigned to teach first-year writing, literature surveys, and technical writing, I am only rarely in the position of having my areas of strength represented on program-standard syllabi. To help me remain grounded in the medieval in my teaching—which is one of the few ways contingent faculty can integrate their fields into their daily work—I deploy several strategies, which vary by the class taught.
After offering a brief introduction laying out my situation so that its generalizability can be assessed, I offer strategies for integrating the medieval into classes where it typically does not appear:
Introduction to Literature (in which assigned texts and prescribed syllabi tend to have a presentist bias)
Each has met with no small degree of success in my own classrooms, with a number of the faculty where I have taught showing marked interest in the strategies. I expect that my fellow members of the precariat will be able to use or amend my strategies for their own situations, helping them to consolidate the work done for pay with the work done in the discipline, which is too often too little rewarded.
The paper for which the following abstract was written was presented at the 2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Scholars such as Badenhausen, Herman, and Smuts contend that the early Stuart dynasty in England largely rejected the chivalric forms and ideas that had pervaded Elizabethan England. The notion has something of common sense about it, given the emergent Commonwealth government and its concomitant rejection of older ideals of monarchal power. There is also some indication from the 1634 Stansby edition of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur that the chivalric code had fallen into disrepute. Some historical and textual evidence, however, strongly suggests that knightly conduct was not as soundly rejected by Stuart England as is often supposed; much in Stansby's text and its historical context addresses an ongoing chivalric rhetoric that extends at least to the execution of Charles I.
The abstract below derives from the presentation I gave at the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies as part of what had been expected to be a roundtable and became more of a traditional paper session. It seemed to go over well.
Role-playing games (RPGs) are generally neo/medievalist, following the ur-example of the genre: Dungeons & Dragons. Greg Stafford's Pendragon RPG moves to be more deliberately medievalist, ostensibly going back to various medieval treatments of Arthurian legend (with some notable exceptions) for its inspiration and the context of its mechanics. One area in which it does so is in its presentation of legal codes and structures, albeit a presentation markedly truncated and brief against the demonstrated fixation on law and proceedings among earlier English readerships. While many of the errors and omissions that can be identified in the game's presentation owe to the demands of the RPG environment, and they can in large part be forgiven therefore, there remains a danger in a medievalist work that purports to be trying to "get it right" not doing so, especially given the continuing misapprehension and misappropriation of neo/medieval/ist ideology by groups deserving opprobrium.
The abstract below was submitted for the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies. After some irregularity, it was accepted, and the ensuing paper was presented on the Le Morte Darthur session at the conference. It seemed to be well received.
In a 2011 College English article, James Fredal expands on the ideas voiced by Harry G. Frankfurt in a 1986 Raritan piece and a 1995 monograph of the same name. Deviating from others in the field, he defines a particular social discursive construct—bullshit, abundant in public and private dialogue—in terms of its abusive power relations. He asserts that bullshit is commonly an utterance that reflects the utterer's perception of superior enough status to set aside sincere cooperation, whether by offering it insincerely or by being overtly abusive.
Sir Kay the Seneschal, as he appears in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, serves as an exemplum of Fredal's idea. In his many abusive comments, many of them offered in what can only be called a sarcastic tone, he evidences the abuse of power—and ultimately undeserved power—that typify the utterances Fredal labels in his article. Examination of how his snarkiness functions can serve to offer firmer concepts of both sarcasm and how it interacts with the pattern Fredal establishes.
The following abstract was submitted to the South Central Modern Language Association conference in 2010. It was presented on the Re-Creations of the American West in Popular Culture Special Session.
In her Soldier Son trilogy, Robin Hobb establishes a fantasy milieu powerfully evocative of the American West during the late nineteenth century. Although the correspondence between her series' nation of Gernia and the expanding United States is incomplete, it is explicit enough that it allows for the formation of a Tolkienan "inner consistency of reality," one especially suited to an American audience and one which allows for postcolonial examination and critique of such dominant cultural attitudes as manifest destiny. This is particularly true of the first volume in the trilogy, Shaman's Crossing, in which the primary features of the milieu are established, including its geography, history, and principal conflicts in which it is involved.
The following abstract is for my MA thesis, which is held in the Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Fantasy literature currently suffers the general disdain of the academic community, which tends to view it as escapist, puerile nonsense. Fantasy literature, however, is every bit as subtle and nuanced as the genres of literature more commonly accepted by the academy as meriting critical consideration; it is fully capable of addressing the same issues, exhibiting the same qualities, and supporting the same sorts of readings as other forms of literature.
A critical reading of the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies of Robin Hobb serves as a case study in support of the viability of applying critical techniques to fantasy literature. Such a reading, in this case analyzing the texts through a structuralist, intertextual approach, reveals Hobb's texts to be reliant on selective inclusion of tropes present in Arthurian literature to negotiate the escapist nature of fantasy fiction and thereby foster Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief" through establishing a Tolkienan "inner consistency of reality." Coupled with brief suggestions of other critical approaches which Hobb's texts support, the application of a structuralist, intertextual method to the texts suggests that they have literary merit in the traditional academic sense of the term. By extension, the successful application of critical theory to any fantasy text suggests the "literariness" of the genre as a whole.
The following abstract was submitted to the South Central Modern Language Association conference in 2007, and was accepted. The paper for which it is an abstract was presented on the Old and Middle English panel.
Malory's iteration of Arthurian legend is perhaps the best-known to the general public and likely the most referenced work of Arthuriana. Accordingly, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention on a variety of subjects ranging from gender studies to the manner in which the chivalric code functions as a semiotic system for the interpretation of late medieval society. Certainly, the text of Le Morte does a great many things; among others, it tells many delightful stories, provides insight into a nuanced and seemingly unstable warrior ethos, and, perhaps most importantly, forms the basis for a number of other, later publications.
While these things are true and have been studied in great detail, Malory's text does do one thing that has received little if any recent critical attention; it provides, if perhaps only in a cursory and superficial way, a sort of instruction manual for knightly combat. Though the explicit combat scenes in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur are oftentimes repetitive, they are repetitive in certain particulars which, taken together, can be read as forming a method for the exercise of martiality.
While such an interpretation may not be the most fashionable, it would not fail to fit with the prevailing socio-political system in force during the middle and late 1400s, nor does it fail to fit with the author's own aptitudes, if Vinaver's introduction to Malory's works is to be believed. War and the warrior ethos have already been demonstrated to have had a pivotal role in the historical events and literature of the time; examining the manner in which literature presents and prescribes the manner of executing it can only enrich current understanding.
I was fortunate enough to be able to get a chapter accepted to a publication edited by Helen Young of the Tales after Tolkien Society. The abstract below is what got me accepted.
Although Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy deploys a number of the "standard" features of the common modern fantasy literature setting (what may loosely be termed the Tolkienan tradition), it displays deviations from those features in several regards. Notable among them is the depiction of cultures deriving from other parts of the medieval than the most commonly evoked Continent of the Crusades, particularly that of the Out Isles. The society Hobb depicts therein initially appears, and can be argued, to appropriate the Nordic cultures frequently represented in Tolkienan-tradition fantasy literature (notably in the Rohirrim in Tolkien's Middle-earth and the Greyjoys in Martin's Song of Ice and Fire). Upon closer examination, however, the Out Islands echo more clearly the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada.
The detailed depiction of features of cultures from outside those employed by the Tolkienan tradition merits study not only in itself and in its offering a more nuanced and therefore more authentic vision of the medieval than many of Hobb's contemporaries, but in terms of what it indicates about the readership of mainstream English-language fantasy literature. That the mention of a raiding island culture in a fantasy series immediately brings to mind traditional depictions of Vikings—and even prompts formal argument in favor of that impression—bespeaks a decidedly Northern- and Western-European-centric bias, one likely to be present also among other academic readers and the more general fantasy readership. Recognizing and negotiating that bias allows for a broader conception of what fantasy literature can do—and, as fantasy literature is often the avenue through which readers begin to investigate the medieval, it allows for a broader conception of what the medieval can be, helping to promote a cross-cultural understanding increasingly valuable in an increasingly interconnected and pop-culture-saturated world.
The chapter follows up on a line of inquiry initially advanced during the Tales after Tolkien sessions at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Baldesar Castiglione's Il Cortegiano concerns itself primarily with identifying and explicating the qualities necessary in an advisor to rulers. Much of the text discusses academic study and forms of etiquette as well as the necessity of sprezzatura, and rightly so. However, what is often overlooked in the text is the importance of military proficiency to a ruler's advisor; many, if not most, of a ruler's duties touch on or directly employ martial activities, and advisors cannot advise on subjects in which they have no knowledge. Castiglione recognizes this in his work, portraying it as one of the most important sets of knowledge an advisor can have.
This abstract was written for a conference I could not pass up–Evil Incarnate: Manifestations of Villains and Villainy. The paper was presented at Case Western Reserve University in July 2014.
Fantasy author Robin Hobb is noted for attention to the mundane details of her fictional milieus and the nuance with which she treats the favorable and unfavorable aspects of her characters' psychologies and actions. Her Farseer novels serve as prime examples of her ability to shade both heroism and villainy, presenting both as inherently human and eminently understandable even as she embeds them in the usual fantastic constructions of eldritch energies, supernatural creatures, and the relics of ancient civilizations.
One of the major antagonists of the series, Regal Farseer, is depicted in such a way. Hobb portrays the usurping king as an almost psychopathic figure for much of the series before revealing him to be fundamentally childish and spoiled, almost a figurehead for other actors of greater cunning but less scope and a conduit through an ultimately greater antagonist revealed in the larger narrative arc of which the Farseer novels are part. Doing so reinforces the banality of evil and serves to remind readers that, even amid the most fantastic constructions, that it is the unquestionably petty, myopically, understandably human that fosters most of the anguish and suffering in the world.
Below appears the abstract I submitted to the English I: Old and Middle English panel at the 2014 South Central Modern Language Association conference held in Austin, Texas.
While the most famous and most heavily studied editions of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur are the 1845 Caxton and the Winchester MS, they are far from the only versions of the text to have appeared in late medieval and early modern England. The last of them was the 1634 Stansby edition of the text, after which no further full edition was published until the Regency—yet the Stansby edition is relatively little studied. Most commentaries on it follow both Barry Gaines and Tsuyoshi Mukai in asserting that the work is a low-quality production, at odds with Stansby's usual quality of work, and they largely set it aside in favor of "better" pieces.
Comments by David R. Carlson, however, and consideration of Stansby's prior work and cultural context suggest that there may be reasons other than the usually asserted inattention and haste for the perceived low quality of the publication. It is possible to read the features of the 1634 Malory, both the paratextual and the textual, as offering a quiet satire on the topic of the monarchy. Doing so is more consistent with Stansby's avowed tendencies to land himself in legal trouble and the awareness of station and situation that typifies much of his other abundant printing-house production than the common reading of the 1634 edition as riddled with errors only.
Below appears the abstract I submitted for a Tales after Tolkien Society panel at the 2017 Southwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The abstract has appeared in other online venues, notably here.
The proposed paper seeks to explicate the use in Robin Hobb's Elderlings corpus of features of character common in certain of Shakespeare's fool characters, notably Touchstone of As You Like It and Feste of Twelfth Night. (Other fools in the Bard's corpus may also be invoked.) An explication of parallels among the characters will speak directly to the enduring social cachet of the Bard and to a particular type of trickster figure that the Bard and Hobb both instantiate, pointing out yet another way in which the literatures of past centuries can be made to speak to current situations.
It also extends the work of the Tales after Tolkien Society in a more general sense. The Society is dedicated to examining the continuing medievalism of works of popular culture, looking at how the medieval continues to manifest in mainstream works, following a pattern prominently evidenced in Tolkien. As a post-Tolkien author—and one who credits Tolkien with influencing her approach to literature in a contribution to Meditations on Middle-earth—Hobb's work is ripe for treatment by the Society. In refiguring Shakespearean characters, her work moves forward from Tolkien's medievalism as it is itself a movement forward from Tolkien.
Below appears the abstract I submitted to the Tales after Tolkien panel at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies. I presented the paper, and it was well received.
Fantasy literature is perhaps the genre of fiction that most frequently and most prominently refigures the medieval. The main thrust of fantasy literature, that following in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien, tends to neglect or minimize one of the defining features of Western European medieval culture: religion. While priests and faiths are present in the inheritors of the Tolkienan tradition, and scholarly attention has been paid to the religious overtones embedded in a number of key fantasy works, centralized, international, and (nominally) monotheistic churches are largely absent. There are other organizations that take something resembling the cultural place of The Church in medieval Europe within various fantasy milieux, admittedly, such as Jordan's Aes Sedai or Kerr's dweomer-workers. Their treatment, however, and the absence of major international religious powers suggests that Tolkienan-tradition fantasy literature assumes an audience distrustful of major religious structures—an attitude not inconsistent with the literary audience of the Middle Ages so often invoked by fantasy literature.
The following abstract was submitted to the South Central Modern Language Association conference in 2011 as part of the Borrowings from the Past: Reception Studies Special Session. Since I chaired the panel, the abstract was in no danger of being rejected. It had previously been accepted at another conference, but could not be presented due to scheduling conflicts.
Much of the scholarly attention which has been devoted to Tolkien since the publication of The Lord of the Rings has focused on the Northern European derivation of the characters, cultures, and terms in his works. Certainly, the author's own comments regarding his articulation of language in the works—notably Appendix F in Lord of the Rings and several of the author's notes which appear in "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan" in Unfinished Tales—and his own professional background substantiate such an approach. Too, the assertions of such critics as Lin Carter support the Northern sources of Tolkien's work.
While assertions of Northern European derivation of the Middle-earth corpus are valid (even the name "Middle-earth" evokes images of Odin and Thor), a number of other critics, such as John Gough, Kathleen E. Dubs, and Kathleen O'Neill, postulate that Tolkien's works operate in a more Christian than Northern Pagan mode. Such critics, while not inaccurate in their assertions, have yet to adequately explore what may be one of the strongest parallels between Christian theological writings and parts of the Middle-earth corpus; the correspondences between Milton's Paradise Lost and Tolkien's creation narratives are prominent, but largely unexplored. Conducting such an exploration would serve to more fully ground Tolkien's work in the English Christian context others have asserted as being present.
While its appeal has waxed and waned, the myth of the American cowboy is one that endures in the United States, continuing to appear in print and on screens big, small, and digital. Although individual depictions vary, some common features of the paragon of the Western man appear across decades and in the works of various authors and other artists. The cowboy is of European descent, most commonly of English extraction (although he necessarily associates with people of other ethnic backgrounds), frequently coming from a landed background and having military or militaristic experience. He is indelibly associated with life on horseback, and commonly carries weapons for use at long range and in close quarters. More to the point, he lives according to a strict code of honor, demanding self-reliance and grit in fighting and holding those who are less able to protect themselves in high regard; his honor calls for the cowboy to "ride for the brand," being loyal even to the point of death to the landed owner of a particular mark or to the land and mark itself.
In this, the American cowboy is markedly similar to the knight of Arthurian romance. Not only is he akin to those who sit at the Round Table in his surface features, but in many cases, his narrative patterns follow those employed by Malory, the Gawain-poet, their forebears, or their Victorian medievalist successors, following a single character for a time in additive adventures that end up repeating their own tropes again and again. His appearances in the writings of such authors as William W. Johnstone exemplify the parallels neatly, demonstrating that the Arthurian knight continues to be refigured and reappropriated in the early twenty-first century.
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Welcome, Again, to Elliott RWI! – Elliott RWI says:
[…] Abstracts […]
In Response to David Graeber – Elliott RWI says:
[…] spent a fair amount of time reading up on and contributing to the study of bullshit–such as this piece and some panels I've chaired–the piece immediately attracted my attention. One of the […]
In Response to Christian Smith – Elliott RWI says:
[…] I have some pseudo-scholarly interest in the topic. Indeed, I've written on the subject in presented work and in one blog post or another. And I was not displeased to find the wide-ranging definition of […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 23: Assassin's Apprentice, Chapter 23 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] generic expectations in offering Regal's gloating as he makes to subdue Fitz in the baths. I have noted some of Regal's more "normally" evil tendencies before, and I recall a 2007 course paper I wrote treating antagonist oration of the kind Regal indulges in […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 37: Royal Assassin, Chapter 12 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] an assassin more or less precludes that, and I've discussed the topic at some length elsewhere–so a less-than-upright action may be in character, but I do not want to defend even a […]
[…] of the court and his treatment of both Shrewd and Kettricken. It points to the kind of thing I've discussed about Regal elsewhere, and if it is the case that none of the royals are exactly "good," some of them at […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 79: Assassin's Quest, Chapter 20 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] broadly, I've argued that Hobb borrows freely from fools in Shakespeare in informing her own Fool, and the kind of […]
[…] is one that is thus governed. The wry humor in the Fool turning to puppet-making seems in line with the Fool's literary antecedents, certainly, and something that fan-artists such as Michelle Tolo, above, take advantage of in their […]
A Rumination on Tolkien – Elliott RWI says:
[…] materials and criticism (not least in support of my abortive academic efforts, such as this), I know better than to call myself an expert on the matter. I am happy to contribute from time to […]
A Rumination on #WhanThatAprilleDay 2020 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] given up the search for tenure-line work, but I still taught part-time and did some small work to incorporate the medieval into that teaching. Now, though, even that work is set aside, even if I still present a conference paper now and […]
Still More Idle Musing on Recent Writing Work – Elliott RWI says:
[…] with course papers that became conference papers, a publication that later became a blog post, and my master's thesis.) I know it annoyed some of my high school and earlier teachers, who would see me with some […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 192: Ship of Destiny, Chapter 13 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] the former is not. And, recall, I grew up in small-town Texas–for good and ill.) I've noted that in other work–and I'll get to that work, worry not–Hobb makes much use of […]
[…] think that such attitudes are regarded as favorable, but I do think that Kennit expands upon some ideas that are present in Regal Farseer. I acknowledge the difficulty and presumption in conducting psychoanalytical readings of characters […]
A Rumination on Vacation – Elliott RWI says:
[…] part of the institution–as well as to go into the Edith Garland Dupré Library and find both my master's thesis and my dissertation. Even better, both showed that they'd been checked out, and more than […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 227: Fool's Errand, Chapter 7 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] After all, even a beloved pet commands no small devotion, and Nighteyes is more than a pet to Fitz; the two are more a hybrid being than two separate entities, and it makes sense for people to try to save parts of themselves as well as those whom they love. […]
About a Classroom Activity – Elliott RWI says:
[…] and explain from the text why the answer they give is an appropriate answer. Now, I've published on the topic of the assignment before. And, again, I've used it in my classes for years, both […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 230: Fool's Errand, Chapter 10 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] a scholar of Arthurian literature, still, and of Malory, still, I am attuned to such references, as I've demonstrated. I note, though, on this rereading that Fitz himself seems to fit the criteria, if only as loosely […]
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Some Notes about Reliability of Sources – Elliott RWI says:
[…] An example of such a piece for Malory's Sir Kay might be found in Fredal (2011). His piece does not directly engage with Kay, or with Arthuriana at all, but it does offer a useful rubric of measurement–and that rubric might then be applied to how Kay acts in Malory. (I did this, in fact, at a 2016 conference.) […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 275: Golden Fool, Chapter 25 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] as a stereotypical "feudal" court, following common patterns of structure and intrigue (per my thesis). The Outislands follow another, more nuanced social structure (per this chapter), and the Mountain […]
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 277: Golden Fool, Chapter 27 and Epilogue – Elliott RWI says:
[…] that people will find things to occupy such hours of leisure as they can find, it is the case that those who vie for favor will attempt to emulate the tastes and patterns of those whose favor they se…, and it is the case that those who seek to elevate themselves will often make a show of what they […]
Another Rumination on Some Old Writing – Elliott RWI says:
[…] such example inheres in the image above, which is the slightly-edited typescript of a conference paper I gave some years ago, when I was still at work on my dissertation and still held the […]
Welcome, Once Again, to Elliott RWI – Elliott RWI says:
A Robin Hobb Rereading Series: Entry 329: Dragon Keeper, Chapter 14 – Elliott RWI says:
[…] of those in power giving lip-service to standards of politeness or outright using them as abuse, with which idea I've done some work; Detozi's outright citation of "official capacity" comes off as a sneering […]


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The year 2020 is hosting two solar eclipses and four lunar eclipses, hence, a total of 6 eclipses. They will all affect different places, as mythological beliefs say. Get the answer to all your questions about these eclipses here. Like, what should we do to avoid the malefic effects of the eclipse (Grahan Dosha)? What precautions should be taken during an eclipse? How to nullify the influence of Sutak? And so on.
Before we take you to the do's and don'ts let us first learn about the Solar and Lunar eclipses.
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The very first Solar eclipse of 2020 will occur on 21 June. The speciality of this is that it will be an annular Solar eclipse. In this, the Moon, instead of blanketing the entire Sun, will cover only its centre. As a result, the Sun appears as a bright ring, with the Moon's black shadow in its middle. This solar eclipse can be seen in India, Southeast Europe, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Africa, and most of North America and South America. This is a significant eclipse from India's perspective, and since it is visible in the country, thus its sutak will also be valid here.
First Solar Eclipse 2020
Date Solar Eclipse Begins Solar Eclipse Ends Type of Eclipse
21 June 2020 From 09:15:58 Till 15:04:01 Annular
The second and last Solar eclipse of 2020 will occur on 14-15 December. This will be a total eclipse, in which the Moon will completely cover the Sun. It will be visible over the southern part of the African continent as well as most of South America, areas of Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Antarctica.
Second Solar Eclipse 2020
14-15 December 2020 From 19:03:55 Till 00:23:03 Total
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As mentioned above, this year will witness four lunar eclipses, all of which are Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. A Penumbral Lunar eclipse corresponds to the time when the Moon passes through the penumbra of the Earth; thus, subtly dimming the lunar surface. The Sun's light falling on the Moon gets cut-off during this eclipse making the latter look like it is slightly in the shadows. Information about all four eclipses is given below:
First Lunar Eclipse 2020
Date Lunar Eclipse Begins Lunar Eclipse Ends Type of Eclipse
10-11 January 2020 From 10:37 Till 02:42 Penumbral
The first Lunar Eclipse of the year 2020 will fall on 10 January. It will be visible only in some parts of Europe, India, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Second Lunar Eclipse 2020
5-6 June 2020 From 23:16 Till 02:34 Penumbral
The Second Lunar Eclipse of the year 2020 will occur on 5 June. This will be visible in Europe, India, as well as parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Third Lunar Eclipse 2020
5 July 2020 From 08:38 Till 11:21 Penumbral
The Third Lunar Eclipse of 2020 will occur on 5 July and will be visible over parts of America, Southwest Europe, and Africa.
Fourth Lunar Eclipse 2020
30 November 2020 From 13:04 Till 17:22 Penumbral
The fourth and the last Lunar Eclipse of the year will fall on 30 November 2020. It will be visible in some parts of Asia, Australia, Pacific Ocean, and America.
Learn About Lunar Eclipse 2020 in Detail, Here.
Sutak During Eclipse
It is believed that, during the solar and lunar eclipses, there is a specified inauspicious time, called Sutak Kaal. Anything done during this time offers only negative effects and adverse results. As a result, many tasks are considered forbidden in this Kaal. However, several remedies performed in Sutak Kaal ensures that its harmful effects do not impact our lives.
When Does Sutak Start?
The Sutak period is associated with doing or not doing specific tasks. The duration between one sunrise and the other is divided into 8 Prahars. These eight prahars together come up to a total of 24 hours. Thus, one prahar is of approximately 3 hours.
If the Solar or Lunar Eclipse is visible, then the Sutak Kaal is said to be valid in that area; otherwise, it is considered void. The Sutak Kaal is of 4 prahars in a Solar Eclipse and thus begins precisely 12 hours before the eclipse. On the other hand, it is of 3 prahars during a Lunar Eclipse. Hence, the Sutak Kaal commences precisely 9 hours before the Lunar Eclipse. In both cases, the Sutak ends as the eclipse ends.
These Tasks Are Prohibited During Sutak:
Do not commence any new task in this period, because this is not an auspicious time for the beginning of anything new.
Cooking and eating are prohibited during Sutak Kaal.
Using a knife or scissors is also inauspicious.
Going to the loo is also not considered auspicious during the Sutak. Hence, one should try and be done with nature's call before it begins.
One should not touch the idols of Gods and Goddesses during this time.
Libidinous activities should be avoided during Sutak.
Cleaning one's teeth, combing hair, etc., are also considered inauspicious.
Always Do These Things During Sutak:
Do yoga and meditation to escape the malefic effects of Sutak. This is one of the best remedies because it gives you mental strength.
Exercising is very beneficial during Sutak Kaal as it keeps you physically fit and healthy.
Worship God during Sutak. One can pray to Lord Sun (Surya Deva) during the Solar Eclipse, and Lord Moon (Chandra Deva) or Lord Shiva during the Lunar Eclipse.
In the Sutak period, light clay lamps (diya) while worshipping God and chant the mantras associated with them.
Once the Sutak ends, purify your home by sprinkling Ganga Jal (water from the holy Ganges) everywhere and mopping the place.
Eat fresh food after Sutak ends.
However, if food has already been cooked before Sutak, do not waste it either. Put in Tulsi (Basil) leaves in the meal to purify it.
Special Instructions For Pregnant Women:
A new life forms in the womb of pregnant women. Therefore, they should take special care during an eclipse, to keep their baby safe from the negative aspect of Rahu and Ketu. They should avoid tasks like sewing, weaving, embroidery, etc. because it is said that not doing so can adversely affect the baby's body parts.
One should chant the following mantras during the eclipse. Doing so will negate the adverse effects of the eclipse.
Mantra For Solar Eclipse
ॐ आदित्याय विदमहे दिवाकराय धीमहि तन्न: सूर्य: प्रचोदयात
oṃ ādityāya vidamahe divākarāya dhīmahi tanna: sūrya: pracodayāta
Mantra For Lunar Eclipse
ॐ क्षीरपुत्राय विद्महे अमृत तत्वाय धीमहि तन्नो चन्द्रः प्रचोदयात्
oṃ kṣīraputrāya vidmahe amṛta tatvāya dhīmahi tanno candraḥ pracodayāt
About Solar Eclipse
The Solar Eclipse is an astronomical event. For any eclipse to occur, the three celestial bodies; the Sun, Moon, and Earth, need to fall in a straight line during their respective revolutions. During a Solar Eclipse, the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth. As a result of this, it obstructs the light of the Sun from reaching Earth. Additionally, if the Moon completely covers the Sun, then that event is known as a Total Solar Eclipse. A Solar Eclipse always falls on an Amavasya (New Moon).
Let us take a glimpse at all types of Solar Eclipse:
When the dark silhouette of the Moon completely covers the Sun, obstructing its bright light, then it is known as a Total Solar Eclipse. During this event, it allows only a faint corona to be visible of the Sun, outside the Moon.
When the Moon can cover the Sun's bright light only partially, then that event is called a Partial Solar Eclipse. It is virtually unnoticeable due to the Sun's brightness.
Annular Solar Eclipse
When the Moon is unable to cover the Sun completely, yet screens its entire centre, then that event is called an Annular Solar Eclipse. During this, the Sun is visible as a bright ring, outside the dark silhouette of the Moon.
About Lunar Eclipse
Astrology says that the demon Rahu-Ketu is responsible for the Lunar and Solar eclipse. However, Astronomy has proven that when the three celestial bodies, Sun, Moon, and Earth, fall in a straight line and the shadow of one falls on another, then it causes an eclipse. In the same vein, when Earth gets in the centre of the Moon and the Sun during their respective revolutions, then it obstructs the light of the Sun, stopping it from reaching the Moon. As a result, when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon, due to the Sun being behind it, a Lunar Eclipse occurs. A Lunar Eclipse always falls on a Purnima (Full Moon). Let us take a glimpse at all types of Lunar Eclipse:
Total Lunar Eclipse
When the Earth's dark shadow completely covers the Moon, then this event is known as a Total Lunar Eclipse. At this time, the Earth is obstructing the Sun's bright light from reaching the Moon.
Partial Lunar Eclipse
When the Earth's shadow is able to cover the Moon only partially, then that event is called a Partial Lunar Eclipse.
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
When the Moon passes through the penumbra part of the Earth's shadow, there is a slight dimming of the lunar surface. This event is called a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse.
Mythological Tale Associated With Eclipse
Mythology suggests that the eclipse occurs because the head and body of a demon, Rahu and Ketu respectively, are taking revenge on their enemies, the Sun and the Moon. There is a story behind the beginning of their enmity. It is said that centuries ago, the Samundra Manthan (Churning of the Ocean) was going on between the Devas (Gods) and Asuras (Demons). As a result of this churning, 14 gems came out of the Kshirasāgara (Ocean of Milk). One of these 14 gems, was the Amrit – the nectar of immortality.
When the Gods and the Demons started fighting to drink the nectar, the Demons were able to snatch the urn (Kalash) of Amrit from the Gods. If the demons drank the nectar, then that would be extremely dangerous for the Universe. Therefore, to stop them, Lord Vishnu took the form of a beautiful apsara (nymph) named Mohini. Vishnu Ji, in his Mohini avatar, charmed the demons and made them agree to the condition that both the parties will drink the nectar.
However, when Mohini went around offering a drink to both the Devas and Asuras, very cunningly, she offered Amrit to the Devas and wine to the Asuras. At this time, on discovering his ploy, a demon named Swarbhanu sat with the Lords to drink the nectar. As soon as his chance to drink came, the Lords Sun and Moon recognised him and pointed him out to Lord Vishnu.
As soon as he learned the truth, Lord Vishnu immediately used his Sudarshana Chakra to cut off the demon's head. However, by then, Swarbhanu had already taken a gulp of the Amrit, which was enough for him to become immortal. Despite the nectar though, his body was now cut into two – his head had come apart from the body. As a result, his head was now called Rahu, and his body, Ketu.
It is believed that Rahu and Ketu take revenge on their enemies, the Sun and the Moon, by putting an eclipse on them.
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When lawyers see a statement like "fish live in water, therefore I must visit the North Pole", they call it a non sequitur; literally "it does not follow".
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This abysmal ignorance should alarm us all. Whether or not we get involved with NAFTA is not a matter for Mr. Lekstrom to decide but happens automatically when you ship power over the border.
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Rafe Mair, a broadcaster and former Social Credit cabinet minister, initially wrote this column for Save Our Rivers.
Rafe you are my favourite former Socred minister.
BChydro has contracted to buy that power at an average cost to the taxpayer of 12 cents a kwh over the next forty years and as Rafe states must export basically all of it.
With the going wholesale rate at 3 cents, mass produced solar PV at 1 cent, generation 3.5 nuclear at 2 cents,solar boiler at 3 cents, and ten year down the road pulse nuclear at .5 cents, who is the Gordo going to sell this 12 cent a kwh power to.
With 40 billion in taxpayer commitments to pirate power and likely another 40 billion over the next 4 years with Gordo and gangs reelection, the taxpayer is at risk to losing almost the entire 80 billion dollars.
Makes one look back with nostalgia at the mere 200 million fast ferry loss. Those were good times.
Plutonic CEO Donald McInnes was caught with his pants down lying about his companies political contributions to the BC Liberals.
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The Court of Appeals for Washington D.C. upheld the controversial health care law, AKA "ObamaCare" as being constitutionally sound on November 8th. It found that Congress did overstep its authority by requiring that citizens have health insurance of pay a fine, beginning in 2014.
This is the second court to uphold the law. The Supreme Court could decide very soon whether to hear appeals of its own.
Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter said that opponents who say the individual mandate provision exceeded Congress' power "are simply wrong." "People who make a decision to forego health insurance do not opt out of the health care market," she wrote. "Their action is not felt by themselves alone. Instead, when they become ill or injured and cannot pay their bills, their costs are shifted to others. Those costs - $43 billion in 2008 alone - are borne by doctors, hospitals, insured individuals, taxpayers and small businesses throughout the nation."
Over 48 million Americans do not have health insurance; in other terms more than 18%.


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Macron re-elected for second term as French president
Emmanuel Macron has won a second term as French president, according to the full results released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday's run-off election, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.
Macron, the candidate of his La Republique En Marche! Party, received 58.6% or 18,779,809 votes.
Turnout was 72.37%, according to the ministry, the lowest since 1969.
Macron entered a special area prepared for his speech in front of the Eiffel Tower accompanied by Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
"Merci," he began, thanking his followers in his victory speech.
"A majority of you have chosen to place your confidence in me for another five years," he said, adding, "I know what I owe you."
"After five years of transformations, happy and difficult hours, this day of April 24, a majority of you have chosen to trust me to preside over our Republic for the next five years.
"I know that many of our compatriots voted for me today not to support the ideas I hold, but to block those of the far right. I want to thank them here and tell them that I am aware that their vote binds me for years to come," he said.
"Today, you have chosen a humanist project, ambitious for the independence of our country, for Europe, ambitious in its values, social and ecological, a project based on work and creation.
"This project, I want to carry it with force for the years to come, taking into account the opposition that has been expressed and with respect for differences."
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Awesome Friday! » Blog Archive The first 'Aquaman' trailer (and poster) is kinda great! - Awesome Friday!
Look, all the DC movies except Wonder Woman have sucked to some degree, but I kind of liked Justice League, and in particular I liked Jason Momoa as Aquaman in Justice League. So seeing Momoa in this trailer seeming to maybe have the time of his life? Kinda cool. He seems to really want to the thing to work and he seems to really enjoy the whole experience, which I love.
Seeing the vibrant undersea world of Atlantis, and the bright, weird characters who live there is kinda cool too! James Wan is a great director, having helmed some of the best horror movies in recent memory as well as one of the biggest and best regarded entires in the Fast & Furious franchise, Furious 7. He definitely has the chops to take on the material, story wise and effects wise, and I'm very excited to see what he's created here.
Look, I am moderately hyped for this movie. It looks like it might be a ton of fun. I guess the only way we'll find out is to see it when it premieres in December.


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Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Interview with Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers; Exploding Head & In Your Heart (mp3s)
by Landry on August 11, 2009
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I just got off the phone with Oliver Ackermann, singer and guitarist for Brooklyn-based, notoriously loud, dark and hard ambient experimental rockers, A Place To Bury Strangers, who recently signed to Mute Records. In addition to leading APTBS, Oliver is a former member of Skywave and the inventor of Total Sonic Annihilation, his first effects pedal in a line that can be found at his site, Death By Audio.
LW: Hey Oliver, how's it going?
OA: Doing great, how are you?
LW: I'm fine thanks. Lemme see, I'm not sure exactly where to start…..I was just reading up about your pedal company, Death By Audio. Did that pre-date A Place To Bury Strangers (APTBS)?
OA: Yeah, I started that company when I was living in Virginia. I was in a band called Skywave. I just started building effects pedals to create sounds I wanted that I couldn't get anywhere else.
LW: That's cool.
OA: Yeah…
LW: I haven't had the pleasure yet of listening to your new, upcoming record, Exploding Head. I hear you intended to make (fumbling around for the exact words), to quote, "the craziest, most fucked-up recording ever." Do you feel you succeeded in that?
OA: (Casually) To some degree. I think it's got a nice balance. It's definitely the most clear stuff we've ever recorded. It's a bit of a rollercoaster ride.
LW: Can you describe that – the rollercoaster ride?
OA: Well, my friend was saying it takes his head, goes over it, covers his eyes….you know, a ride. More than our 1st album, it flows from beginning to end as an album. From the get-go, it shoots off, does loop-de-loops. (Laughing) Like a rollercoaster ride.
LW: You guys were recently signed to Mute. How has that gone?
OA: Fantastic. Mute is an amazing label. They let us do what we want to do. That's what I was afraid of, signing with a bigger label, unlike the indie labels I've been with. But they've been great. They're like a big indie.
LW: APTBS has a reputation for being loud. Is that something you're proud of?
OA: I don't really care. We like a volume that's pleasing to us. Maybe that's louder than usual.
LW: Can you tell me about your band name? A great Pitchfork review mentions it's linked to the Gospel of Matthew as well as Aleister Crowley. What is the meaning?
OA: It's all a little bit of a blur. Our old drummer came up with the name. He didn't really ever mention its origins, but I think he was just into reading Aleister Crowley. I think it's just a cool name.
LW: Very cool. So, you're gearing up for tour. Are you in Brooklyn now?
OW: Yeah, we're in Brooklyn now, for 2 days. Thursday we go to France, then Belgium, then Reading and Leeds….
LW: And then back to the states…
OA: Then back to this country for a bunch of dates all over.
LW: I see you'll be at the Echo in Los Angeles. That's where we are. Maybe a smaller venue for you…
OA: Aw, yeah. It's really fun to be in an intimate setting. I mean, if people come…
LW: I'm sure it'll be full for you guys.
OA: Yeah. When things get crazy and blown up, it's almost like you're playing by yourself.
LW: Alright. Well, what can I expect from your show at the Echo, then?
OA: (Enthusiastically charged) You can expect it to be the most crazy, fucked-up thing you'll ever see!
…laughs on both ends of the line….
LW: Nice to talk to you, Oliver. Thank you for your time.
OA: Oh, yeah….take it easy.
Exploding Head [mp3]
In Your Heart [mp3]
Exploding Head Tracklist:
It Is Nothing
Lost Feeling
Keep Slipping Away
Smile When You Smile
Everything Always Goes Wrong
Exploding Head
I Live My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart
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Thursday 16 March, and another fantastic day at CSW61. Following yesterday's successful Soroptimist International event, Opening the Door to Economic Empowerment for Women and Girls (click HERE to read the story), today began with the Informal NGO Morning Briefing, organised by NGO CSW/NY with H.E. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women and Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women.
Ambassador Patriota noted that this year had seen an increase in the number of NGOs at CSW61 and he spoke of this years' primary theme and how the subject matter helps us focus on key aspects and areas of concern. Whilst economic empowerment in the changing world of work is a goal in itself, it is also a channel and a bridge to the achievement of many other goals.
Ambassador Patriota, Chair of CSW61, following the Morning Briefing of NGOs, with a group of Hong Kong delegates.
Ambassador Patriota said reality emerged from the round tables on Monday, showing real concern for the gender pay gap in the private sector. He spoke of task forces trying to establish better standards and formulas, as well as interesting ideas for incentives to give to businesses that meet high standards in achieving gender equality, such as seals of approvals, awards and possible champions of equal pay and work of equal value, within the industry. He said that alliances between NGOs and this sector were important.
Ambassador Patriota said throughout his chairmanship it had been a pleasure to work with civil society, youth representatives, to further the engagement of men and boys and the HeforShe campaign, in the collective struggle towards an equal, just, prosperous and happy society. He believed that the topic would not loose significance in the coming years, because of the growing understanding of how this will benefit society. He went on to thank the attendees for their cooperation and their inspiration.
At the Soroptimist Morning Briefing, Linda Witong, Consultant to SI Advocacy spoke of her work on the Soroptimist comments on the shortened text of the Draft of the Agreed Conclusions, now reduced to twenty-seven pages. The Zero draft on the main theme 'Women's Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Work' started with four pages in September 2016. Following comments of some 45 states/governments and multiple NGOs, including Soroptimist International, it exploded to some 79 pages.
The afternoon parallel event It Starts With Safety: Adding Girls To The Global Agenda, stressed the necessity of conversation about the importance of youth leadership in achieving the Global Goals, and promoting the safety of women and girls everywhere.
The event was moderated by Daniela Ligiero, Chief Executive Officer of Together for Girls, a global public-private partnership, dedicated to ending violence against children, especially sexual violence against girls. The panelists, all women, gave impressive presentations, notably Hamna Tariq, (third left), a gender activist and women rights leader in Pakistan.
The speakers were Sandy Clark, Chief Development Officer, Sarah Webb, Program Director, Asia & Latin America and Dr. Usha Maharjan, Country Director, Nepal. Sandy introduced the DfG sanitary kits which have now reached over 300,000 girls. Each kit gives girls 180 days over the course of 3 years. Three years can make such a difference to a life; a girl will gain back 180 days of school; a woman will go 36 months without work interrupted and women and girls will regain their dignity.
Dr. Usha talked of the situation for many girls and women in Nepal and her inspiration for joining Days For Girls; she talked of the beauty of Nepal and the Nepalese people, however she told us that menstruation was considered a curse, that women and girls were deemed 'untouchable' and she talked of a heinous tradition that sees menstruating women banished to a 'shed' with little ventilation, snakes, put at risk of death and "treated worse than cattle". She told us her mother used to say "if you have stumbling blocks you can use these as stepping stones" and she believes that through education these women and men can cross the river of ignorance towards dignity and confidence.
Sarah Webb spoke of the Enterprise model and the importance of self sustainability. With 870 Chapters there has been an explosion of people around the world wanting to be part of Days for Girls and to help in some way. Chapters and Teams are the volunteer heart of Days for Girls and the force that has enabled them to reach over 100,000 women and girls in 75+ nations. All volunteer groups start out as Teams and these Teams and Chapters sew, raise awareness and funds, and facilitate transport kits to areas in need. A Center is the hub for a country and it is here that the DfG kits are made with local materials, and Trainers study their training programmes. DfG Enterprises are groups that finish sewing pre-cut kits made by Centers, and sell them in their communities. Ambassadors are the final piece; these individuals support both their families and their communities by providing vital health information and by selling DfG kits. Donors ensure the model can be replicated anywhere, providing vital support, through sponsoring kits, making training possible, and ensuring Days for Girls has the team necessary to reach Every Girl. Everywhere. Period.


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Seed Colour Variation, Dormancy, And Seed Banks In The Bull Thistle, Cirsium Vulgare (savi) Ten
Colleen Doucet
The bull thistle, Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. is listed as a noxious weed in Ontario and in Australia. It is widespread and found in many disturbed habitats such as roadsides, quarries, construction sites and pastures. Successful weeds are considered to demonstrate, among others, the following features: the production of a large number of small seeds, long-lived seeds, the presence of an efficient dispersal mechanism, and self-compatibility. Although seed production is substantial and Cirsium vulgare is self-compatible, the species has several characteristics that should constrain its demographic success. Seed dispersal is limited and in past studies, this species had been dismissed as only having a persistent seed bank at depths of 15 cm. Furthermore, seeds do not show innate dormancy and are capable of germinating under light or dark conditions. I have shown that seeds can acquire an induced light requirement for germination under certain simulated overwintering conditions. Furthermore, this species is capable of forming a persistent seed bank at a depth of 3 cm or at the soil surface in highly vegetated areas. This is fortuitous, since the bull thistle, a monocarpic perennial, cannot reproduce in arable situations where the soil is cultivated on a yearly basis. Preliminary observations of unusually coloured (black) seeds from some populations in southwestern Ontario led to the development of the present investigation. Genetic polymorphism for seed colour is described for the first time. Most plants produce the typical seed as characterized in the literature, yellow or gray with longitudinal dark striae. Black-seeded plants were observed in three of the four populations surveyed in southwestern Ontario. The frequency in these three populations ranged from 1.2% to 8.3%. Chemical assays showed that the total phenolic content is not associated with seed colour, but only black seeds contain tannin. Black seeds may act as allelopathic agents. Preliminary experiments show that extracts from black seed coats may inhibit germination and reduce the germination rate in other plant species.
Doucet, Colleen, "Seed Colour Variation, Dormancy, And Seed Banks In The Bull Thistle, Cirsium Vulgare (savi) Ten" (1996). Digitized Theses. 2690.


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