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Global MA Spotlight: Nathan Webb
Every so often, the College of Arts and Sciences highlights one of its Global MA students from International Relations. Nathan Webb, who is originally from Waco, Texas, has always held an interest in international relations. However, recent world events such as the Syrian conflict and the resulting refugee crisis turned what was once a hobby…
Global MA Spotlight: Samantha Hernandez
Every so often, the College of Arts & Sciences highlights one of its Global MA students from International Relations. Samantha Hernandez is originally from the Bronx, NY, USA and is of Honduran descent. She became interested in international relations during her undergraduate years, when she took a course focused on diversity and politics. Her interest continued to grow after she…
Webster Athens Participates in the 1st Annual Iraqi-European Business & Investment Forum
Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susie Michailidou, Admissions Director and HPIR Instructor Antonia Dimou, and Head of HPIR John Nomikos participated in the first "Annual Iraqi – European Business & Investment Forum" on April 21, 2016, in Athens, Greece, with the support of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, the Annual Iraqi-European Business and Investment Forum. The Forum emphasized…
Professor Daniel Hellinger Lectures at Webster Athens
Professor Daniel Hellinger visited Webster Athens on April 24-29, 2016. During his visit, he delivered a lecture to Webster Athens faculty staff and students titled: "Cuba: Reform or Transition?" Hellinger, an expert on Latin American Affairs elaborated that reforms in Cuba, were supposed to ignite economic growth to reinforce the social programs that guarantee social…
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BRAIN Think Seriously About Europe
Dear Neighbour
Written by Nadya Sporysheva & Elena Sermaksheva
Photo: Emily Volbert / www.youthmedia.eu, (by-nc)
Just like with the Matroshka doll: There is a litte Russia - Belarus - almost inside of it. Not quite.
Russian Letter
Dear Elena,
Russian people know almost nothing about their western neighbour. During history lessons at school all of us are told that Belarus is a former Soviet republic and that nowadays it remains our strategic partner in terms of international relations. In Russia, many of us have heard about the project of the Union state of Russia and Belarus. Some of us even know that although only about 10% of the total Belarusian population are Russians, almost everyone there communicates in Russian, at least at home.
I don't think Russians really perceive Belarus as their neighbour. They are far more aware of the similarities between Russians and Belarusians than the differences. For example, both Russians and Belarusians are Slavic nations; Russian is a national language in Belarus and is used by many people there. But despite these similarities, Belarus is an independent state, and of course it has some special characteristics of its own because of this. I mean, people in your country are trying to save and develop their national language and traditions. For them their differences from Russians are obvious, for people here, they are not. Few Russians are aware of the national identity of Belarusians.
The territory of modern Belarus was periodically divided between Russia and Poland. In the 20th century Belarus became part of the USSR. I guess that was one of the most dramatic periods of your history because the creation of the new Soviet state populated by Soviet people badly affected your national identity. Still, for about 200 years in total (the Soviet period and before that the Russian Empire) our people lived in one country and only for the last 20 years has Belarus been independent. So we really must have a lot in common.
Nadya Sporysheva
is a third-year student at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She studies international relations and economics. Her major is German economics. Nadya was one of the winners of the Russian History Competition "A Man in History. Russia - The 20th Century" in 2007 with a work about repressions in the USSR in the 20th century.
That is why I appreciate the experience of visiting Belarus. I was there this summer and I would say that there are a lot of traits typical of this country and its inhabitants which we cannot get acquainted with by staying in Russia.
People in Belarus respect the places where they live. Cities in Belarus are much cleaner than in Russia. This applies not only to the capital but also to the regional centres, small towns and even villages as well. There is an old proverb that says: cleanliness doesn't mean that people sweep very often, it means that they don't litter. I guess this is quite true for Belarus and its citizens. In the underground there is nearly as much advertising as in Moscow but I have not seen any ads posted without permission which is typical of the trains in the Russian capital. I think this proves that Belarusians really try to take care of the place they live in.
Another interesting issue I noticed is TV in Belarus. In our country such programs usually focus on negative information, for example, catastrophes and terrorist attacks. In Belarus they are devoted to issues which are important for common people without any political tinge. For instance, one of the news items I saw dealt with new methods people in the agricultural sector use to improve productivity. I wonder if this is always the case with TV in your country or whether I just happened to see these news items.
The widespread stereotype that the income level of Belarusians is lower in comparison with Russia is false, in my view. Maybe salaries are not very high, but a lot is done to improve the way of life. The construction sector is highly developed and mortgage terms are favourable for buying apartments. Maybe you know that the modern symbol of Moscow is a huge business centre called "Moscow-City", whereas the most famous contemporary building in Minsk is that of the National Library. This detail is also important. This means that getting knowledge is more important for your people than consumption. Moreover, the authorities realise this fact and try to create new opportunities for academic work.
The majority of us believe that your country is one of the poorest in the whole of Europe and that potatoes are the main product people produce and consume there.
I could list many more differences of this kind between Russia and Belarus but the conclusion is obvious. I believe that governments, at least in European countries, tend to take different measures aimed at improving their citizens' lives. Russia has more opportunities because it is objectively one of the richest countries in the world. Still Belarus is far better at using its opportunities. In my view it depends mainly on people and their attitude to the environment. Consumerism is not typical of Belarusians as they think about their future. Many people in Russia speak about creating an innovative economy. In your country much more is done in this respect although it is harder due to lack of people, territory and resources. I am not sure whether it is wholly due to common people but still we can learn a lot from you.
By now Russians just have few stereotypes concerning Belarus. For instance, the majority of us believe that your country is one of the poorest in the whole of Europe and that potatoes are the main product people produce and consume there. Of course, this is a kind of joke for me personally but many Russians really think so. I mentioned clean cities above – our people think that Belarusians live in a country where littering is strictly punished. But I guess that such laws are similar to those in Russia.
Moreover, some people here believe that Belarusians are envious of Russian wealth. That is why they have chosen their unique way of development and try to find a balance between Russia and the EU. I am not sure this is true, because according to my experience people in Belarus are mainly hard-working and not envious at all. Perhaps you could comment on this?
I hope that your response to this letter will help me better understand your country. It is quite important because Russians can really learn a lot from the experience of our closest neighbour. The main issue is that we must think more about our future, try to save more for our children and create an atmosphere which is comfortable for living.
Greetings from Moscow and looking forward to hearing from you!
Nadya.
Photo: Katsiaryna Syramalot / www.youthmedia.eu, (by-nc-nd)
"I think we are more patient during life than Russian people", a summer scene in Belarus.
Belarus' Answer
Dear Nadya,
Thank you very much for your letter, I read it with great interest. In my turn I will try to answer the questions posed by you.
Russia and Belorussia... Union State... History... it is very difficult to gather all my thoughts together. Now we actually know very little about it all. Many people do not know the history of their families, nor that of the state as a whole, not to mention the stories of other states.
In your letter you said that the Belarusian and Russian peoples have much in common, because for a long time they formed part of one state, the USSR. But I do not agree with you here, because in principle, our people have never been one nation. The fact that we lived in one country does not mean that we were united. When we will look back on our history, only the last 80 years are peaceful, but the rest of the time we fought, only under the current situation it is hushed up.
And as for the Union State, many people only know the name of this political project - the Union of Belarus and Russia. By and large our people do not think of it as something real. Some people even, for fun or seriously, call this union "the inflated lion", a myth that is felt merely "above".
It seems to me that for a Union it would have been necessary to create a common currency. Sometimes there were attempts to introduce one, but the parties had disagreements and so it came to nothing.
And by the way, I don't think that the Soviet period had a negative effect on the identity of the Belarusians, but the Russian Empire had a more lasting one. Namely the Russian Empire began to "purposefully stifle" the national consciousness of the Belarusians. An example is the legend of Susanin, who was celebrated for leading a group of anti-Russian "Poles" deep into a forest, where they died. But if the story is true, the victimes were citizens of the Rzeczpospolita, a union of many nationalities - so they were probably our ancestors. The Russians wanted us to see the Rzeczpospolita as an enemy, when in fact it's part of our heritage.
And if for Russian people Alexander Suvorov is a national hero, for the Belarusian nation he is more of an "executioner". When Russia suppressed the Belarusian revolts led by Kalinovsky and Kostyushko, over 100 thousand people were killed, mainly Belarusians and Poles.
All these stories are basically historic facts, but they are differently presented in historical sources and can be treated in many different ways. Therefore it can be difficult to draw definite, objective conclusions from all this.
It is insulting that in Russia people consider Belarusians to be envious of Russian wealth.
Russian and Belarusian people were always different from each other. And historically, Poles, and today Lithuanians are closer to us than Russians. During the 14th century parts of today's Poland, today's Ukraine and Belarus made up the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The ancestors of the Belorusian people were a kernel of this state and its statutes are written in an old Belarusian language.
Some believe that for Russia Belarus was always a buffer zone.
Elena Sermaksheva
studies in her fourth year at the International Sakharov Ecological University in Minsk. She participated in the project "Chernobyl – memory for the future". As a member of the Belorussian Scouts Association she regularily spends her summers working in the summer camps on the Neman River.
Today, our peoples - Belarusians and Russians - differ both in mentality and in language. Concerning mentality we are more measured and quiet and more tolerant to other people, faith, and religion than the Russians. And I think we are more patient during life than Russian people. When it comes to language, Ukrainians are closest to us in this sense. For example, for a Belarusian arriving in Ukraine, it is possible to talk safely in the Belarusian language and not to be afraid that people will not understand us. But, unfortunately, in Russia almost nothing of our Belarusian speech will be understood.
It is insulting that in Russia people consider Belarusians to be envious of Russian wealth and suggest that that is why we have chosen such a path of joint development. I believe that each of our countries is self-sufficient and envies the other – there simply is no sense in that; especially because our own history isn't less rich.
I was in Russia last winter. Yes, the country is huge, but people remain people, sociable, benevolent. And exceptions – they after all always have existed and always will.
As a whole, it seems to me, people are adjusted to each other not aggressively, and are even friendly with each other. I think this goes both for Belarusians and for Russians. Many of us are connected not only through the idea of the Union State, but through a large number of relatives – Russian people on Belarusian soil, and Belarusian people on Russian soil.
If we want to call ourselves citizens of the world, it is necessary to respect any culture in the world, even a small tribe living deep in the woods.
Greetings from snowy Minsk!

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Our dear colleague Julia gave her own site a fresh look early in 2014. Don't let all these business names confuse you — we're all collaborators/colleagues/co-conspirators and we just love working together.
This site was fun to do because Julia and I really got to collaborate on it – especially when it came to the navigation, which, for a vertical-scroll site, can be a real challenge in small screens like phones. We solved that problem by not using the scroll for the small devices, and instead using a more traditional presentation of separate pages. Despite that, no content is ever actually duplicated. +1 more for reducing data entry. See it in action here.


The time from which linux has been introduced there has been a conflict between the Windows users and Linux users as they are directly not supporting file sharing within themselves.
For this purpose we are using the Samba file and printer sharing, it integrates with CIFS tools to mount the windows partition.
So lets start with installing samba and configure it.
A router so that both of the systems gets connected to each other.
Note: This post can be followed in virtual systems too such as VMware or Virtual box.
it will ask you for your account password enter it and after analyzing it will ask you for uninstalling the samba, press 'y' (without quotes) and press Enter it will remove it.
this is a GUI utility to configure Samba.
well this is required to mount the windows shares so ensure it is installed!!!
In the "Access" tab for a small duration click on "Allow access for everyone"
Now open "Preferences" on the top click "Samba users"
In "Windows username " enter the username of the windows account from which you want to mount the shared folder.
Select a folder right click>properties>sharing in advanced sharing mark the check box "share this folder"
In permissions click "full control" apply it and close now you can see "shared" tag on it.
if that windows system is under some domain name you can add domain to the command.
Now you can see that the windows share has been mounted.
This will unmount the folder!!!
Same you have to do with the unmount script do the same!!!
So guys i hope you might have successfully mounted and unmounted the shared folders plus learned a bit of shell scripting.
NOTE: If you are experiencing "denied access or permissions denied" error just check are you using the "sudo" keyword before the command its like ordering your subordinate with a higher designation. Sudo makes it possible for you when you normally can't.
Still you have any doubts or experience any problems please leave comments and i promise i will definitely help you.


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CFP: Global Classics and Africa
Submitted by Erik Shell on Monday, September 16, 2019 - 1:52pm
The Classical Association of Ghana
2nd International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG)
8th to 11th October 2020
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Theme: Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future
The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.
One of the fields of study singled out in this process of Africanization was Classics. Classics was believed to serve the interests of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Part of the agenda of this Africanization was to highlight African contributions to world civilization and to show that the 'Western' world could not lay claim to any superior heritage. As part of restitutive measures in the field, scholars have begun exploring the idea of 'Global Classics', showing how the Classics connects with the broad spectrum of humanity and society. While there is evidence to show that this kind of link has been explored since (or even before) the independence of African nations, it has begun to garner attention across the world. Yet, there are still places in Africa and other continents where Classics continues to be inward-looking and does not open itself to interdisciplinarity, collaborations, nor to other civilizations besides the Graeco-Roman world.
In the present context of globalization, and the decolonization and Africanization of education in Africa, how might we account for the role of Classics in Africa, and to what extent can the idea of 'Global Classics' be the way forward? We seek papers that explore these questions, from the earliest presence of Classical scholarship (broadly defined, and including archaeology, literature, material culture, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc.) in Africa, and project what the future holds for Classics in Africa. We also welcome papers that draw lessons from non-African contexts. Papers may explore any of the following, as well as related, themes:
academic freedom and politics
African studies and global history
Africanists/African-Americanists and the Classics
art, museums, and architecture
citizenship, migration, and cosmopolitanism
classical connections with cognate and non-Classics disciplines
comparative cultural reflections
decolonization, pedagogy, and curriculum development
economy, trade, and diplomacy
geography, environment, and development
globalization, capitalism, and education
race, ethnicity, and identity
science, technology, and society
war, peace, and democracy
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers to iccg@ug.edu.gh by December 15, 2019.
We hope to send notifications of acceptance by January 31, 2020. Details of registration, travel, and accommodation will be communicated later. For enquiries, please email Gifty Katahena (kemgift@gmail.com) or Michael Okyere Asante (kwadwoasante1@gmail.com).
Gifty Etornam Katahena, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Peter K. T. Grant, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Michael K. Okyere Asante, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Daniel Orrells, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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CFP: "Transitions of Power"
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CFP: Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII 2020
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NEH Grants for Classically Themed Projects (January, 2020)
Below is a list of the most recent NEH grantees and their Classically-themed projects. The NEH helps fund a number of SCS initiatives, and their support affects the field of Classics at a national and local level.
Nathanael Stein (Florida State University) - "Causation and Explanation in Aristotle"
Marcus Folch (Columbia University) - "A Cultural History of Incarceration and the Prison in Greece and Rome"
Alexander Jones (New York University) - "Reconstructing the Daily Ancient Babylonian Chronology in Synchronization with the Proleptic Julian Calendar"
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In Memoriam: Keely Lake
(The website for Keely Lake's In Memoriam can be found here)
Keely K. Lake, 48, passed away on January 15, 2020, at the age of 48.
She was the daughter of James and Dorothy (Burcham) Lake, born on December 8, 1971. She had recently moved back to Hot Springs to care for her father.
Keely graduated from Hot Springs High school in 1990, the University of South Dakota with a BA in Classics in 1994 and the University of Iowa with a PhD in Classics in 2001.
She was a visiting guest professor at Gettysburg College in 2001 and Professor of Classical Greek and Latin at Wayland Academy from 2002 until 2018.
She was teaching online courses for Montclair State, Wayne State University and One Schoolhouse.
She was an active member of the Vergilian Society, several Classic related boards and organizations and was a reader/table leader for standardized AP exams in Latin.
Keely was an avid gardener, enjoyed cooking, reading, traveling, and collecting books. She also traveled extensively which was a passion of hers.
She is survived by her father, James Lake; and her precious cats, Penelope and Gemini. She is preceded in death by her mother.
Visitation services will be held 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2020, at Chamberlain McColley's Funeral Home in Hot Springs, SD.
View full article. | Posted in In Memoriam on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 9:53am by Erik Shell.
CFP: "Transitions of Power" for SAGE Business Cases
The Ancient Leadership collection within SAGE Business Cases explores leadership in Classical history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture in a way that is engaging and useful for business students and instructors at the undergraduate and graduate level. This project is a chance for those of us who work in the ancient world to experiment with a very mainstream method of leadership pedagogy and hopefully to teach a wider audience about the central importance of the humanities for leadership study and training. We expect that each of the case studies will illustrate the ways in which the humanities makes important–if not unique–contributions to the study of leadership and the training of leaders:
View full article. | Posted in Calls for Papers on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 10:19am by Erik Shell.
The Theory and Practice of Cosmic Ascent: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Trinity College, Dublin
19-20 June, 2020
Conference Sponsors: Trinity College Department of Classics, and The Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, Trinity College, Dublin
Conference Organisers: Professor John Dillon (Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin) and Nicholas Banner (Trinity College, Dublin)
Date: 19-20 June, 2020
Submission Deadline: 13 March, 2020
Confirmation Date: 01 April, 2020
One of the most striking tropes in the history of western thought is the account of cosmic ascent; we find narratives of humans ascending to the stars and beyond in a vast array of sources from among the earliest written accounts of western literature, through antiquity, and up to (at least) the High Middle Ages. From the Hellenistic period onward, Mediterranean religions and philosophies (understood broadly) looked increasingly to a model of human ascent as a primary locus for spiritual achievement; however, the ways in which such ascent was conceptualized vary enormously from tradition to tradition (we might compare e.g. Jewish apocalyptic texts with the ascent-accounts of Platonist philosophers, or Hermetic with Sethian ascent-accounts), and even from thinker to thinker (we might contrast e.g. Plutarch with Plotinus or St Paul with Clement of Alexandria).
View full article. | Posted in Calls for Papers on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 9:31am by Erik Shell.
Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2020
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary, September 2–4, 2020
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2020, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in a variety of periods, places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. It is not possible to present via Skype.
Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Shelley Haley: Part II
Our second interview in the Women in Classics series is with Shelley Haley, Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. This is the second of a two-part interview with Prof. Haley, which picks up at the point when she decided to apply to graduate school to study Classics.
CC: How did you decide to apply to graduate school?
This was a very turbulent time in American history. I was fed up with the United States of America, absolutely fed up. I remember the conversations we used to have about the women's movement. This was back in the dark ages. There were three or four white women on my floor in college having a deep discussion, wringing their hands and saying, "But how, how, how are we going to have a family and a career? How?" In my head I was just frustrated. My mother, my grandmother, her mother before her, all of them always had to work, and always had family. It can be done. I think that was my first introduction to black feminism, and to the line that divides it from white feminism. I had had enough.
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Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with SCS President-Elect Shelley Haley: Part I
Our second interview in the Women in Classics series is with Shelley Haley, Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. She was born in upstate New York and earned her B.A. from Syracuse University in 1972. She received her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1977, both from the University of Michigan. An expert on the figure of Cleopatra, Dr. Haley has discussed the subject on both the BBC and the Learning Channel. Her publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin's Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (1995) and numerous articles on the role of women in the ancient world and on race in the discipline of Classics.
View full article. | Posted in on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 4:47pm by Claire Catenaccio.
Conference: CIcero Awayday
First USA Cicero Awayday
Saturday April 18, 2020, 8am-5.45pm
Gibson Room, First floor Cocke Hall
Light breakfast and coffee in Gibson Room
8:50 - 9:00 am
First session (Chair TBD)
Ben Watson (University of Oklahoma): "A New Commentary on Cicero's Divinatio in Caecilium"
9:45 - 10:30 am
Gina White (University of Kansas): "Emulation and Moral Development in the De Officiis"
Second session (Chair TBD)
Amanda Wilcox (Williams College): "Cicero on Paternal Authority and the Domus"
Peter White (University of Chicago): "The Mirage of the Tirocinium Fori"
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Francesca Martelli (UCLA): "Historical Irony in the Ordination of Cicero Ad familiares 10-12"
Spencer Cole (University of Minnesota): "Cicero and Populism, Then and Now"
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"Whose Heritage is it Anyway?": Local Responses to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Age of UNESCO
UT Antiquities Action 2020 Annual Symposium
Keynote speaker: Yvonne Therese Holden, Director of Operations, Whitney Plantation
UT Antiquities Action invites the submission of abstracts for its 5th annual symposium, to be held on Saturday, the 4th of April, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Homer in Sicily: An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites
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Syracuse, Sicily, 12-15 January, 2021
With a post-conference tour of Greek Sicily, 16-18 January
Homeric Thrinacia – our Sicily – is the legendary home of the Cattle of the Sun, the Cyclops, the Laestrygonians, Aeolus, and close neighbor of Skylla and Charybdis. Samuel Butler, in the nineteenth century, memorably theorized that the Odyssey's author was a young Sicilian woman, glimpsed in the figure of Nausicaa. Otherwise, surprisingly few scholars have explored Sicily's association with the Homeric epics, the Odyssey in particular. The goal of this conference is to bring scholars from a variety of disciplines to Siracusa to discuss Homer's epic vision and to visit the archaeological traces of the mythic places and beings of the Odyssey.
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As the ACCC drags Google to court, should Aussie startups be taking notes?
Stephanie Palmer-Derrien / Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Right Click Capital partner Benjamin Chong.
The Australian consumer watchdog is suing Google, alleging the US tech behemoth engaged in "false or misleading representations" on Android devices, regarding users' personal location data.
Specifically, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges that when users set up their accounts, Google did not disclose that location data would be collected, kept and used when the 'web and app activity' setting was switched on. The watchdog claims users would have assumed that switching off the 'location history' setting would stop Google from collecting location data.
"Many consumers make a conscious decision to turn off settings to stop the collection of their location data, but we allege that Google's conduct may have prevented consumers from making that choice," ACCC chair Rod Sims said in a statement on Tuesday.
It's a landmark case, and the first serious swing at the global tech conglomerates following the ACCC's Digital Platforms Enquiry.
But, while some in the Aussie tech space will simply enjoy watching Google squirm, the case may well mark a change in the tide. Anything that affects big tech companies is likely to trickle down to small tech companies, too.
Speaking to StartupSmart, M8 Ventures founder Alan Jones says as far as he's aware the startup community isn't following this case particularly closely, "except with a little gravitorial combat spectator, ghoulish interest in the outcome."
"A lot of us work in parts of the startup industry where Google, Facebook and all of the tech giants have significant influence on how we acquire our customers and how much it costs us to acquire a customer," he explains.
At the same time, many startups are either competing with some of the services those tech giants provide, or worrying the day will come that they are. There's always a risk that the gargantuas could move into their space and "crush us", Jones notes.
So, for now at least, startups are largely observing with interest and "looking to see Google shed some blood over this", he adds.
"They're hoping there will be a spectacle to watch."
That said, there are folks in the startup space who may well be keeping a closer eye on developments, including legal counsel and chief operating officers, for example, at scale-ups.
These are companies that already have a strong customer base, and which are making money.
"Google has a lot of customers in Australia and is making a lot of money selling ads that are further targeted according to the data they've been capturing," Jones says.
If you're a scale-up that also has a significant Australian customer base, "maybe it's time to start paying closer attention to what your startup is doing with user data".
M8 Ventures founder Alan Jones. Source: supplied.
Google as a utility
When it comes to responsible data protection, Benjamin Chong, partner at Right Click Capital, tells StartupSmart he sees the need for a "three-pronged approach".
First of all, "there needs to be a base level of education", he says.
It's important for users to understand what data is theirs, and what it could potentially be used for.
Then, there's an onus on the platform or service itself to help users "make informed choices" when they're using it, and a responsibility for the regulator to enforce this. Service providers such as Google are becoming "like utilities", Chong explains.
"You have to make use of them, you've got no choice. It's crazy not using a Google Maps or equivalent to be able to find where something is, or not using a search engine to be able to locate information."
This case could be a turning point in the conversation, he suggests. It's feasible that in the future, clarity around data use will be front of mind for consumers, and therefore it should be for startups, too.
"I think the best practice is to have clarity with your users," Chong says.
"We've heard for a long time that data is the new oil," he adds.
But, just as oil companies face regulation around pollution and protecting the environment, mining of data needs to be controlled, too.
"Users need to have an education so that they're able to make informed decisions, and then they need to have access to tools in order to know what people are storing, and have the right to delete such things," Chong argues.
For startups, data privacy should be high-priority from the offset, Jones says.
"I think it should definitely influence how they plan to gain user consent to do this and how they inform the user of what they intend to do with the data," he says.
Privacy policies — and sometimes terms and conditions in general — can be an afterthought for tech founders.
"It needs to come further to the fore," Jones says.
Even though, no matter how simple they are to understand, many users still won't read such policies, "we need to show that we've made them easy to understand, and specific, and current and up to date", Jones explains.
"It's really not good enough to start with an MVP when it comes to a privacy policy," he adds.
Every user you acquire is subject to those terms. And while you can update them later, it's often tricky to get users to consent to something new.
"Better to start at the beginning with a good set," Jones says.
That said, this is by no means an insurmountable hurdle. Of all the things founders should be thinking about right off the bat, getting your terms and conditions straight could, potentially, be an easy one to cross of the list.
All the industry needs, Jones says, is a plain-English, straightforward, open-sourced templates for terms-and-conditions documents, that can be easily customised.
"We can solve a lot of the problems here by publishing open source templates for others to follow," he says.
A Faustian bargain
This ACCC-Google debacle arrives at a time when data and privacy is particularly topical.
It comes in the same week that Peter Dutton's Department of Home Affairs suggested using facial recognition artificial intelligence technology to verify the age of those viewing pornography online — a measure that was quickly shot down and widely criticised.
There's a shift in sentiment here, Chong says.
"There's been a real 'aha' moment that we do not want a situation in Australia like what is happening in Hong Kong, where to protect our privacy we need to walk on the streets with face masks," he says.
There are many Aussie expats in Hong Kong, he explains, and a dawning realisation that "we don't want all our faces in these databases that people without a proper court warrant are able to search".
Tech companies have a role to play in developing technology responsibly. And, if they want to grow into a trusted brand, they may have to.
"With education we can give autonomy to the user. And then, the more transparent an organisation is the greater the level of trust," Chong says.
Jones also expresses concern about the direction in which facial recognition technology is going.
"I personally am greatly, deeply concerned about the way facial recognition data capture is being rolled out, how it's being shared among multiple agencies, how it's very likely to be also shared with private enterprise, and how it's very likely not to have any safety controls to prevent stalking and privacy invasion," he says.
But, as far as he's concerned, he's still in the minority.
"I think there's a general uptick in people's level of concern about it, but I think we're still a long way away from the average Australian deciding to take action," he explains.
"They're broadly aware of the terms of the Faustian bargain they've made."
So far, the general population is not quite outraged enough to reach a tipping point and to take real action, he suggests.
"There's a tremendously frustrating aspect of Australian culture, which is resignation," he adds.
"We're not a great nation when it comes to acting on things."
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is anyone growing this vegetable? Would love to get a root or cutting.
there was someone on another board growing these in texas. never got a reply. This is my favorite vegetable.
Looks like you have Coccinea grandis or indica. They reproduce better from a stalk than from seed.
Actually, Trichosanthes dioica, pointed gourd, is different than, Coccinia grandis, tindora. Tindora is certainly common enough in Texas, California, and Florida. But I have never seen the pointed gourd in the US. Like tindora it is propagated from cuttings. I would certainly like to find it though.
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MegaFon and NEC test AI for planning and maintenance of transport network resources
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MegaFon PJSC and NEC Corporation have announced the successful completion of AI technology field tests in Russia-based MegaFon's live network in order to improve the efficiency of planning and maintenance of transport network resources.
Tests were conducted in MegaFon Ural's network from October to November 2017, where NEC's AI algorithms carried out analysis of 150 radio links that are considered the most critical from a network construction standpoint.
During the verification tests, NEC and MegaFon jointly confirmed the effectiveness of the two key features, "Demand Forecast" and "Preventive Maintenance," using NEC's AI technologies, "NEC the WISE".
Demand Forecast enables timely planning of transport network resources through accurate prediction of network traffic. During the tests, this service boasted an accuracy of over 97% for traffic prediction against actual traffic. This enables more efficient planning of transport network capacity expansion and helps to reduce expenses for unnecessary infrastructure, while also reducing losses from untimely procurement of equipment.
The Preventive Maintenance feature provides optimal maintenance schedules according to packet loss prediction. The feature accurately predicts packet loss figures several months in advance for each network device and identifies those that are likely to cause disruptions in services. By leveraging this service, MegaFon will be able to prioritize the maintenance of potentially faulty devices.
"Our partnership with NEC aligns with our goals of efficiently improving the planning and maintenance of networks, which is becoming increasingly complex," said Anton Sherbakov, technical director, MegaFon Ural. "Through analytics of big volumes of data with NEC's AI technologies, 'NEC the WISE,' we have verified that significant improvements can be achieved for the planning and operation of transport networks, resulting in more effective use of resources and providing the highest quality services to millions of subscribers."
"We are very pleased to see our services streamline and optimize MegaFon's network without the need to expend additional resources," said Mr. Hiroshi Kawada, managing director, CJSC NEC Neva Communications Systems. "We aim to enhance our partnership with MegaFon and to continue delivering the latest innovations to the entire operator network."


In 2013 Incisive Media began launching edition-based apps for the majority of the print brands into the iTunes and Google Play Newsstands. This enabled our customers to download issues to their tablets and smartphones, to read on the go, both online and offline, wherever and whenever they required.
These apps have been a successful addition to the product portfolios, achieving thousands of downloads and significant sponsorship and advertising revenue, but customer feedback told us that there was also a need for an app that provided more regularly updated content and worked offline.
So, this year we've worked with our partner Kaldor to develop an app which takes content from our website content management system database and publishes it to the app every 15 minutes.


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What is Laptop Radiation?
Jacob Queen
Laptop radiation comes in a couple of very different forms. First of all, laptops produce internal heat because of the computing processes going on, and this is called thermal radiation. Secondly, there is the radiation that comes from an electromagnetic field (EMF), and laptops, like any other electronic device, also produce an EMF. Sometimes laptops create significantly more electromagnetic radiation than most electronic equipment because of the wireless Internet technology they use. There are experts who worry that laptop radiation could lead to illnesses, but there is also a lot of scientific skepticism about these concerns.
It's important to use a laptop on a table as often as possible.
One danger that is generally better established is the potential of thermal radiation burns from laptops. Basically, it is generally possible for people to be injured by leaving laptops on their laps for too long. Laptops get fairly hot sometimes, and experts suggest there are actual cases where this has led to injuries. One way for people to avoid this is to use their laptops on some other kind of surface, and many people do this already.
Laptops can produce more electromagnetic radiation than other equipment because of the wireless Internet technology they use.
Another potential danger from thermal laptop radiation is lowered sperm count. There is some evidence showing that sperm may die out when a man's testicles become too warm. If a man sits a laptop over his genital area for a long time, the heat could potentially cause this problem, and there are some case studies suggesting that it may happen in some instances.
The electromagnetic laptop radiation is the variety that people are often the most worried about. This type of radiation can potentially cause cancer or radiation poisoning, but the doses required are considered very high. Most experts suggest that laptop radiation levels never get high enough to cause these dangers, but some people don't trust these findings. The fact that people often keep laptops very close to their bodies is one of the reasons that some have become particularly concerned about potential dangers.
Wireless technology in general has caused a lot of concern for some people because of the radiation it produces. For example, there have been some publicized studies suggesting cell phones might cause brain cancer, but these have been heavily disputed, and many scientists don't believe they are accurate. Laptops with wireless Internet have caused similar concerns, although many people are more worried about the potential for cancer in the reproductive organs when it comes to laptop radiation.
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What if I have my laptop on my stomach for at least 12 hours a day?
One such study recently published (2012) can be found in the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's journal, Fertility and Sterility, vol 97 issue 1, "Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wifi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation".
Nice job at keeping it relatively "even" on both sides, but the side saying that the electromagnetic radiation coming from laptops is dangerous have essentially zero good studies to offer as evidence just tiny studies. It would have been nice to hear some more skepticism on these claims in your article.
The part about the internal heat radiation was good and informative.


Here you will find past program updates for the LRP. These updates were previously posted as news items on the main LRP web page but have since been moved here for archiving.
The OPA has now completed its evaluation of all Qualification Submissions and has determined the final list of Qualified Applicants. See further details.
The OPA has posted revised materials for the LRP I RFQ including an Addendum to the LRP I RFQ, updated Prescribed Forms, and updated Transmission Availability Tables (TAT Tables). See further details.
The OPA posted final materials for the first request for qualifications phase of the Large Renewable Procurement (the LRP I RFQ), including the final LRP I RFQ document, an updated procurement schedule and new Prescribed Forms.
The comment period on the Draft Request for Qualifications (LRP I RFQ) closed on May 2, 2014. The OPA is now reviewing all submissions made and is working towards finalizing the LRP I RFQ.
When the final LRP I RFQ is posted LRP subscribers will be notified via email. Interested parties should subscribe to the LRP subscriber list to ensure they are kept aware of any updates relating to the LRP.
Consistent with the Minister of Energy's March 31, 2014 Large Renewable Procurement direction, on April 2 the Minister requested that the IESO work with the OPA to study the impact of intertie capacities to support demand and reliability requirements from a power system planning perspective. The IESO and OPA were directed to produce a joint draft report by June 30, 2014, with a final report to follow shortly thereafter, that will explore the potential benefits and challenges associated with out-of-province generation.
In preparation for the Large Renewable Procurement (LRP) program, the draft Request for Qualifications (LRP I RFQ) has been posted for review and comment.
The OPA received a direction from the Minister of Energy on March 31, 2014 on the large renewable procurement (LRP). The draft RFQ materials are expected to be posted shortly. Stakeholders who have subscribed for LRP updates will be notified when the materials have been posted.
On February 28, 2014, the OPA submitted a report to the Minister of Energy that included the OPA's final recommendations on the development of a new process to procure large renewable energy projects.
The OPA's interim recommendation report highlights the preliminary ideas for the development of a competitive process for large renewable energy projects. The report was filed with Minister of Energy on August 30, 2013.


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The History of Quiz Marketing
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Quizzes are having a moment. With changes to data laws and marketing toolkits, the quiz is showing its true value as a lead generator and a way to learn about customers sustainably.
However, this is not the first time the humble quiz has made an appearance; it's just the latest and greatest iteration of a trend that keeps coming around through the decades. Let's look back on the phases of quiz marketing and where we're at today.
Phase 1: Magazine quizzes (1900?–1999)
While quizzes have been around since ancient times (literally), let's begin with the magazine era. Magazines like Cosmopolitan printed quizzes on full-page spreads, asking questions like "How hip are you?"
These quizzes had a similar effect to what comic strips did for newspapers. Kids and adults alike purchased magazines for the quiz content and then went on to read more in-depth articles.
Quizzes were a sales tool for promoting magazines, and they'd often be called out on the covers.
Phase 2: Viral internet quizzes (1999–2007)
The second generation of quiz marketing was much like the first, but online. Companies like tickle.com would hire psychologists to write quizzes like "What color are you?" and host them online.
Unsurprisingly, these quizzes went immediately viral and drove millions of visits to the sites that hosted them. It was a costly endeavor, though, because you needed both an expert quiz writer and a programmer to make the quizzes from scratch in those days.
(From tickle.com—acquired by monster.com—circa 2007)
Phase 3: Social media quizzes (2007–2015)
The next time quizzes made a shift was with the introduction of social media. When social platforms came on the scene, people thought everything would change; in some ways, they were right. A whole generation of quiz-building software came online, and people could make and host quizzes directly on social media platforms.
Back in the day, before all the privacy laws, Facebook would allow people to create and host quizzes directly on Facebook, and once again, the same types of quizzes that appeared in the magazines and online went viral.
This minted a whole wave of quiz marketing that lived on social media. However, this wave came to an abrupt halt with the Cambridge Analytica meltdown and all of the restrictions that came out of that.
Phase 4: Connected quizzes (2014–2020)
Quizzes went into somewhat of a dormant phase after the social media slowdown. For a while, they defaulted back to Phase 2. Quizzes still went viral online, but by then, they were somewhat played out.
The next turning point came when email marketing programs and advertising platforms began opening up their APIs so marketers could connect a quiz to their email list and, once given consent, remarket to people who have taken the quiz.
This inspired a renewed interest in creating quizzes, and big brands jumped on board to build out personalized experiences using quizzes, showing massive return on investment.
Interact was the first mover on the market, launching in August of 2013 with an integration to Mailchimp and Aweber. Today, we have hundreds of integrations and continue to build more.
Phase 5: Human/AI quizzes (2020–Present)
The latest phase of quizzes is the connection of data from the previous four phases about which quizzes perform well, combined with the writing expertise of today's foremost quiz experts.
What that looks like
In practice, the way data and human creativity collide is through the proliferation of quiz templates. These are written by the best writers in the world, so people get the benefits of human creativity cross-checked with the data Interact has compiled from more than 50,000,000 leads generated through our platform.
Generational improvements
The major change is in the time it takes to build and launch a quiz. Modern marketers want fast-launch quizzes, something they can have up and running in hours, not days or weeks.
However, creating a quiz from a blank page can take about 90 days, considering all the resources that need to be gathered. But with a quiz template, people can launch a quiz on their site in four to six hours.
Interact is leading the wave for a second time, having created more than 800 quiz templates so far, with hundreds more releasing each quarter.
Conclusion: The quiz has value in each generation
It's fascinating to see how quizzes have been utilized from the days of magazines to a cross-up between artificial intelligence and human creativity. In each phase, the quiz has inherent value because it pulls people in and makes them want to engage, and that value has adapted to the changing times.
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General Mills Names New Chief Brand and Disruptive Growth Officer
Doug Martin will have accountability for consumer brand experience and activations and focus on building modern brands.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — On Dec. 17, General Mills announced Doug Martin as chief brand and disruptive growth officer, effective Jan. 3, 2022. In addition to his current role as chief disruptive growth officer, Martin has overseen brand experience since July 2021. Martin will continue to report to Dana McNabb, chief strategy and growth officer, and oversee the company's global brand building capability, as well as its emergent business innovation.
In his new role, Martin will have accountability for consumer brand experience and activations and focus on building modern brands, in addition to driving future long-term growth through General Mills' corporate venture capabilities.
"Combining brand and growth leadership enables us to drive relevance with existing consumers and unlock new audiences through innovation," said Dana McNabb, chief strategy and growth officer at General Mills. "With his extensive experience in building iconic brands, his expertise in creating value through understanding and solving consumer problems through bold innovation, and his proven ability to foster a culture of inclusion, Doug is an incredible asset to our organization. I'm thrilled to see him leverage his deep business experience to further operationalize our brand experiences and take our marketing and disruptive innovation efforts to the next level."
During his 15-year tenure at General Mills, Martin has held positions of increasing responsibility across the Snacks, Cereal and Dairy operating units. Most recently, he served as president of General Mills' North America Dairy operating unit, where he had responsibility for business and brand growth across brands like Yoplait and Liberté and led successful innovations like the launch of Oui by Yoplait. Martin joined General Mills in 2006 in the brand management function as an associate marketing manager in the organic food division.
"The past two years have been a time of unprecedented disruption, and I've been incredibly proud of how our teams at General Mills have risen to meet that challenge," said Doug Martin. "The pandemic showed us just how critical we are to our consumers. As we head into the future, we have the opportunity to become even more important in their lives, as we solve problems and deliver joy through our brands. We'll continue to learn, experiment and iterate with new brands and business models—and this is what excites me about the next era of growth for General Mills."
Martin holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School at UCLA.
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Cuil (udtales "cool") er en internet-søgemaskine, lanceret den 28. juli 2008 af en gruppe tidligere Google-ansatte via selskabet Cuil Inc. Den nye søgemaskinen er baseret på et bredere søge- og indexeringskoncept end Google, og selskabet bag Cuil meddelte under sin lancering, at søgemaskinen allerede ved sin lancering havde indekseret mere end 120 milliarder websider, og at den dermed allerede fra day one var verdens største!

Cuil er grundlagt og udviklet af de tidligere Google-ansatte, Anna Patterson, Russell Power og Louis Monier samt af Tom Costello, der bl.a. har arbejdet for IBM. Cuil adskiller sig først og fremmest fra Google ved ikke udelukkende at være funderet på keyword-baseret indeksering, men på en bredere indholdsmæssig indeksering baseret på indeksering af større tekstenheder eller hele sider. Denne form for indeksering skulle give bedre og mere relevalte resultater af søgninger med Cuil end det eksempelvis er tilfældet med Google, hævder bagmændene bag Cuil

Cuil hævder derudover at opretholde et højere sikkerhed omkring privatlivsinformationer end Google ved ikke at gemme logs med informationer om tidligere søgninger eller IP-adresser.

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Archive for the 'Mathias Enard' Category
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants
Mathias Enard's Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, newly translated by Charlotte Mandell, is strikingly different from both Zone and Compass in form, the loquacious title signalling a more taciturn narrative, broken into numerous short chapters. Thematically, Enard continues to explore links between East and West as the novel recounts a plausible visit to Constantinople by Michelangelo to design a bridge, a bridge that becomes a physical symbol of the desirability and difficulties of unifying the two cultures.
Michelangelo's commission is believable because he is motivated by both his irritation with Pope Julius and his rivalry with Leonardo da Vinci, who has already submitted a design though without ever travelling to the city. Currently employed by Julius, he feels neglected and undervalued:
"The idea of having to humiliate himself once more before the pontiff whips him into a frenzy."
Da Vinci, he knows, is widely regarded, like himself, as a genius. When he arrives at his studio in Constantinople he is presented with a model based on Leonardo's drawings:
"Michelangelo the genius walks over to the project of his famous elder; he looks at it for a minute, then, with a broad swipe, propels it to the bottom of the pedestal."
Finally, there is the fact he is offered a fortune if the work is completed.
The novel is largely told in short chapters focusing on Michelangelo; also included, however, are his letters, and a few chapters from the point of view of an Andalusian singer whom he becomes enamoured of. The structure partly echoes Michelangelo's struggle to envisage the bridge:
"For now, the matter of the city is so obscure to him, he doesn't know what tool to use to attack it."
He spends his time drawing – he "knows that ideas come to you through drawing" – including a drawing of an elephant he gives to the poet who has been assigned as his companion, Mesihi. The short chapters also parallel the way in which characters reach out to each other but fail to connect. Mesihu is one example, developing a love for Michelangelo which he knows is not reciprocated:
"Mesihi sense that Michelangelo does not look at him with the same warmth that Mesihi feels for the Florentine."
Michelangelo has his own infatuation, a singer whose performance entrances him, while leaving him uncertain whether it is a man or a woman:
"If it's a woman's body it's perfect; if it's a man's body Michelangelo would pay dearly to see the muscles of his thighs and claves stand out, his bone structure moving, his shoulders animating his biceps and pectorals."
It is the singer's voice which opens the novel, addressing Michelangelo and suggesting he both longs for and resists union:
"Your fear and confusion propel you into our arms; you want to nestle in there, but your tough body keeps clinging to its certainties: it pushes desire away, refuses to surrender."
The use of 'our' (and the placing of this chapter at the beginning without context) ensure that this can be read as applying to the East in general. The bridge-building between characters is not the only example in the novel; Michelangelo is portrayed as in need of bridges within himself. The singer refers to him as having "one foot in day and the other in night." Later we are told:
"Michelangelo is searching for love.
Michelangelo is afraid of love just as he's afraid of Hell."
That the novel ends in violence and confusion, that the bridge which was finally built was destroyed in an earthquake, suggests that making connections without misunderstandings and weaknesses is not easy, but the novel itself is a powerful example of Enard's ability to yoke the unexpected together. If you have yet to read him, perhaps daunted by the length of his two most famous novels, Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants is a sharp, swift entry point to one of the today's most vital writers.
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"There's no such thing as chance, everything is connected," says Sarah, the object of Franz Ritter's unrequited love in Mathias Enard's Compass, the now shortlisted (and possibly favourite for the prize) International Man Booker novel. And, indeed, Compass is a finely woven network of connections, particularly those between East and West. Set in Vienna, a city which was once seen as a gateway between those two compass points, the novel is, like Zone, a stream of consciousness tour de force, occurring during the long, dark night of the day Ritter is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease:
"…today, when a compassionate doctor may have named my illness, declared my body officially diseased, almost relieved at having given my symptoms a diagnosis – a deadly kiss – a diagnosis we'll need to confirm while beginning a treatment, he said…"
Ritter's single night, in which he staves off death through flooding his mind with his life, is, of course, a nod towards the West's central Eastern text, One Thousand and One Nights; others have also pointed towards Enard's debt to Proust in its unspooling memories, who, Ritter points out, was influenced himself by the Arabian tales. Connections from East to West form the basis of Enard's novel: Ritter himself is a musicologist with an interest in Oriental music; Sarah, a scholar of the Orient; his happiest memories are of their time together in Syria. It would not be fanciful to suggest that their relationship provides an echo of Europe and the Middle East. The novel is more essay than story, however, and Enard's work seems, at times, to encompass any Western artist who has flirted with the East, as well as being an 'off-campus' novel of academics in the wild.
The timeliness of Enard's novel has already been widely discussed: the East is no longer seen as a source of inspiration and collaboration but, once again, a threat. By reminding us of the fascination of Western artists with the Orient, particularly classical composers, Enard reminds us that each culture has often enhanced the other in a riposte to growing intolerance on both sides. This requires considerable erudition which Enard does not seek to hide, but this, too, is a response to a society living reflex to reflex in the moment, and with scant regard for knowledge in any form – a post-history, post-expert society. At times the novel, quietly spoken as it is, feels like an Enlightenment howl of rage and despair.
The danger is that for every reader attracted by the learning on show, others will be intimidated, but, as with Zone, Enard is always readable, creating that ideal balance between refusing to talk down to the reader while never seeming to show off. Ritter's humanity is always placed before his knowledge, in particular those moments of failure with Sarah which continue to haunt him:
"If I had dared to kiss her under that improvised Palmyran tent instead of turning over scared stiff, everything would have been different."
Ritter and Sarah's relationship (such as it is) grounds the novel, but its evident refusal to flourish ensures that the narrative (such as it is) doesn't suffer from tension which might make Enard's detours frustrating. This allows him, like a tour guide, to assume we know the history and focus on the interesting anecdotes and local colour.
"The important thing is not to lose sight of the East," Ritter tells himself, and that is the novel's message for us. It's a determination that finally rewards him with "the warm sunlight of hope." We can only pray we are as lucky. Compass is a novel that is profoundly of its time because it is out of it, and it would be a worthy winner.
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Mathias Enard's Zone was originally published in France in 2008, and then translated into English by Charlotte Mandell for US imprint Open Letter in 2010; it has taken until 2014 for a UK appearance thanks to Fitzcarraldo Editions. It has the happy distinction that two of its most note-worthy features are obvious without the necessity of reading: that it is over 500 pages long, and that those 500 pages consist of one sentence – or, to express it differently, the first full stop appears at the end. (Well, that is if you exclude the sections of a novel being read by the protagonist which are punctuated conventionally). That 500 page sentence tells the story of Francis Mirkovic, a spy with a suitcase full of secrets which he is transporting from Milan to Rome to sell. Retirement, a woman, and a new identity await.
Zone's stream, of consciousness places it firmly in the modernist tradition, and Enard is not afraid to use the same Homeric echoes as Joyce – the 24 sections of Zone mirroring the 24 books of the Iliad. As early as the first page he mentions "the sound of two bronze weapons clashing", and Achilles is one of a number of reoccurring military figures:
"…Rome, rotting flamboyant corpse of a city, you understand too well the fascination it can exercise over certain people, Rome and the suitcase I'm going to hand over there the time I'll spend there maybe the choice has been made the choice has been made ever since the goddess sang of the wrath of Achilles son of Peleus, his warlike choice…"
Heinrich Schliemann, the 19th century archaeologist who believed he had discovered the location of Troy also features, in a novel designed for (I would never be so cruel as to suggest with) Google. Whereas Joyce used Homer to counterpoint his quotidian content, Enard uses him quite differently, to create a sense of southern Europe and northern Africa – an area known in intelligence circles as the Zone – perpetually at war
Zone is littered with historical figures, including writers such as Ezra Pound and Malcom Lowry. To suggest these are tributes may not be entirely accurate: Lowry is pictured drunkenly strangling his wife; Pound (who also provides an epigraph) is, of course, noted for his fascism as much as his Cantos. Fascism looms large in the novel, not only because Nazism is inescapable in any examination of 20th century atrocities, but because Mirkovic has his own dark past, fighting in the Balkans. On one occasion, in his new job as a 'civil servant', he recognises one of his old commanders at a war crimes trial:
"I left Bosnia on February 25th, 1993, I had gotten there from Croatia in April 1992, and after a few months stay on the front near Mostar I joined Tihomir Blaskic in central Bosnia… I felt bad when I saw him in the midst of that multilingual administrative circus… in countless witnesses and hours of atrocities while I knew perfectly well who had committed them, I could see again the places, the flames, the battles, the punitive expeditions…"
Fascism seeps through the novel, from historical figures such as Millan-Astray, founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion and a supporter of Franco, to the (presumably) fictitious, like Harmen Gerbens, the ex-SS officer whom Mirkovic finds in Cairo, and whose file is the first to enter his suitcase. The atrocities are unending and unrelenting, recycled through history and involving Mirkovic (and his parents) as both witnesses and participants. This does, of course, make the novel remarkably mono-tone; even the extracts from the novel Mirkovic is reading, though written conventionally, treat of the same topic being the story of a Palestinian woman who loses her lover and comrade in fighting against the Israelis. Enard's intention seems to be to present our worst aspects, unleavened by hope or humour, in a novel that feels like a weapon itself.
This is emphasised further by the novel's circular nature: the madman in Milan asking for "one last handshake before the end of the world" replaced by the man he imagines will offer him "one last smoke before the end of the world." Is escape for Mirkovic really possible? Is escape for any of us?
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Dr. Sadia Yasser is a board-certified neurologist, with fellowship training in neurophysiology. Dr. Yasser completed her residency in Neurology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Neurophysiology fellowship at University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. Dr. Yasser has been providing neurological care to her patients since 2010. She was appointed as a chief resident during her residency training and hold various awrads during her residency training.
Francisco J Rodriguez has been in the Medical Field since 1986, and he has vast experience in Medical Management. He is a Foreign Medical Graduate. He graduated from The National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a Certified Medical Office Manager, Certified Medical Coder and a Certified Medical Insurance Specialist. He is one of the a few people with three certification in the Medical Management field in the State of Texas.


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House. Probably C15 altered C17. Timber-frame with brick infill and some stone walling. Plain-tile roof with brick central ridge stack. Stack on projecting lean-to. Hall-house with open hall remaining. Single storey, cellar and attic. 4-window range of 1- and 2-light leaded casements. Plank doors to centre left and right. Lean-to projecting forward on left. Cellar door to right. Two 2-light dormers with partly leaded lights. Stone walling on right end below tie beam and 2-light leaded casement above. Small casements to rear. Irregular square-panel framing. Interior noted as having stack inserted C17 into possible smoke bay, arched-brace collar-truss roof with coupled rafters and cusped windbraces.
2. Circa 1600. Timber frame and painted brick on stone rubble base, the right-hand end wall of rubble with timber framed gable above; 1 storey and attic; 2 casement windows with leaded lights; simple doorway with nail studded plank door; 2 gabled dormers; sprocket eaves; old tiles.


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The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Headquarters building is home to the largest utility company in the Washington Metropolitan area. The building is a landmark along the I-95 corridor between Baltimore and Washington DC. The sheer size of this new headquarters office building at 300,000 square feet was challenging to place on the 12-acre site. The project included site plans for the new building and parking facilities, grading and sediment control plans, extensions of the water and sewer mains, storm drainage, and stormwater management. Soltesz also provided ALTA and topographic surveying services and as-built drawings.
Soltesz capitalized on the existing site conditions maximizing the availability of acreage for the building footprint while being sensitive to the environmental impact concerns. For example, the stormwater management pond designed to meet the needs of the additional impervious runoff also serves as a passive recreational amenity as a one-acre lake with fountains.


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Get to know Australia's Isabella Clarke
Posted 02 October 2017 at 13:29 CEST
Isabella Clarke is 13 years old and will represent Australia at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest held on Sunday 26 November in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her Junior Eurovision entry is called Speak Up! We caught up with the singer as she makes her final preparations ahead of the competition.
When it was announced that Isabella would represent Australia at Junior Eurovision she called it a "dream come true" and is excited to take to the stage. "I'm also looking forward to visiting Georgia for the first time and meeting all the other performers and I hope I do my family and Australia proud," she said.
Isabella speaks up
Isabella's song for Junior Eurovision is called Speak Up! "The meaning of the song is about speaking up and voicing your opinion, believing in yourself. Especially being young women or young girls, being able to say what you want to say in life," said Isabella.
When asked about life in Australia the young singer states that she feels lucky to live there. "You can go to the beach and within a day's drive you can go to the rainforest. Everyone in Australia is so friendly, it's such a multicultural country and so diverse."
Speak Up! will be premiered in the coming weeks!
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Isabella speaks up for Australia
— 1 year ago
Countdown to Tbilisi: All about Australia
Isabella speaks up: First live performance of the Australian entry!


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Morris Rudnick Dry Goods
140-142 Laurens Street SW
FAMILIES:
As an infant in 1890, Morris Rudnick (1889-1943) immigrated with his family from Tiekten, Russia to the United States. By 1911, Morris had settled in Aiken and formed a partnership with George Payeff (1886-1960) called Famous Bargain Store. Unfortunately, the business was forced into bankruptcy. With credit extended from the Rubin family of Columbia, Morris Rudnick was able to start up a new enterprise. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Morris Rudnick conducted business variably under the names M. Rudnick and S. Rudnick (presumably after his wife, Sophie Halpern Rudnick (1886-1965). In late May 1919, under the name S. Rudnick, Morris Rudnick purchased the Lupo Building for $10,000 (an advertisement from 1922 places M. Rudnick in the Lupo Building, demonstrating that S. Rudnick and L. Rudnick, in this case, were the same person). In July 1922, S. Rudnick purchased for $6,500 a profitable wooden stand on Laurens Street previously used by Carrol's barber shop. Morris Rudnick occupied himself in general retail until around 1928 when he announced that henceforth his mercantile focus would be on furniture.
Main Image: Advertisement for S. Rudnick, 1917. Reprinted from the Aiken Standard, December 12, 1917.
Advertisement for M. Rudnick, 1922. Reprinted from the Aiken Standard, September 20, 1922.