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...that Road 32-B was the route of extraction for SPARTAN-II Blue Team on Victoria during their raid on Camp New Hope?
...that the panic button is an emergency beacon used by UNSC Special Forces teams?
...that the C-12 shaped charge can blow through three meters of Titanium-A battleplate?
...that WETA Workshop, a company in New Zealand, actually made a to-scale Warthog and two Mongooses?
" Guardianship for all living things lies with those whose evolution is most complete. The Mantle of Responsibility shelters all. "
The Eld, an ancient symbol associated with the Mantle.[1]
The Mantle of Responsibility,[2] commonly referred to simply as the Mantle, is a philosophy originating with the Precursors and later associated with the Forerunners. Bridging the social strata between an interstellar Marshall Plan and a religious, but allegedly benevolent, stewardship, the Mantle was the Forerunners' entitlement and responsibility for the protection and cultivation of the species and planetary systems within their ecumene.[3] The core tenet of the Forerunners' belief in the Mantle was that the most developed species should hold stewardship over all other life. In theory, the Mantle allowed competition and conflict as long as this did not threaten biodiversity in the galaxy; in practice, the Forerunners' often draconian rule in the name of the Mantle entailed the subjugation of "lesser" species by force to keep them in line and preventing them from threatening Forerunner primacy.[4]
The Forerunners' culture and their central government was entirely dictated by the Mantle, as were the religious beliefs of individual Forerunners, though the interpretations of the philosophy often varied between rates and individuals.[5] The Mantle was based around the concept of Living Time; "the joy of life's interaction with the Cosmos". This was also the origin of all of the complex rules involved in the Mantle.[6]
2 Interpretation and practices
3 Symbol
3.1 Eld locations
"This quest to fulfill the Mantle has haunted me my entire life. And for countless millennia, we have failed to realize the one truth that could have saved us from the beginning. The Mantle isn't to be inherited by the noble, it is to be taken by the strong."
— The Didact[7]
Forerunner mythology held that the Mantle was passed down to them by an even earlier and more advanced race, the Precursors, who seeded the galaxy with life and were responsible for the creation of many species. The Forerunners believed themselves to be the Precursors' supreme creation; having created the Forerunners, the Precursors had allegedly allowed themselves to peacefully fade away.[8] At the same time, Forerunner beliefs posited that they were only a passing stage in the universe's Living Time, and that superior civilizations would eventually follow them; this belief is also the origin of the name "Forerunner" they chose to call themselves.[9]
The Forerunners' beliefs regarding the Mantle were largely fictitious, manufactured during eons long forgotten to justify their self-appointed position of superiority over other species. In truth, the Precursors had chosen humanity to carry the Mantle.[10] Refusing to accept the Precursors' judgment, the Forerunners rebelled against their creators and drove them to extinction over ten million years before the present.[11] At the final hour of their civilization, however, elements of the surviving Forerunners chose to hand the Mantle down to humans, as the Precursors had always intended. This is the origin of humanity's status as Reclaimers, designated not only as the Forerunners' inheritors, but also destined to assume the Mantle. After the firing of the Halo Array, the small number of surviving Forerunners exiled themselves, believing they should no longer meddle in the affairs of other species.[12] Not all Forerunners agreed with this decision, however. The Ur-Didact rejected the Librarian's favoring of humanity and maintained his belief that only the Forerunners were worthy of the Mantle even 100,000 years later.[13]
Some Forerunners doubted the purpose and validity of their version of the Mantle. The Librarian, in particular, had such doubts, and even went so far as to hold it responsible for the downfall of the Forerunners at the hands of the Flood. The then-rampant AI Mendicant Bias believed that the Forerunners used the Mantle to obstruct any change, even that which might eventually be beneficial; however, Mendicant Bias' perspective had been distorted by the Flood's manipulation as well as the intense hatred it developed for its creators.[14]
Interpretation and practices[edit]
"The Mantle. You still hold to that [belief] after all that has happened? After this thing has consumed a million worlds?
Can't you see? Belief in the Mantle sealed our doom! Weakened our [protectorates], bred dependence and sloth. Our [so-called Guardianship] has stripped those we would keep safe of any capacity for self-defense!
Were we such noble [Guardians] when we drew our line and abandoned billions to the parasite?"
— The Librarian[14]
Despite its ultimate ideal to preserve all life, some Forerunners also used the Mantle as a justification for several questionable practices. Forerunner dogma posited that their evolution was more "complete" than that of other species, deriving the entitlement for their rule from this belief.[1] They considered it heretical for any other species, namely ancient humans, to claim to be true inheritors of the Mantle.[15] Because of their perceived superiority, the Forerunners sequestered themselves from other species; allegedly, this was done to protect and preserve all species, including themselves.[16] As the Forerunners viewed themselves to be above all other species, their Warrior-Servants would not hesitate to wipe out those who stood against them, believing that to defy the Forerunners was to show contempt for the Mantle itself.[17] In addition, constructs known as Guardians were used to police subject species where all-out warfare was not deemed necessary.[4] Rather than allowing every species to rise on their own merits, the Forerunners, following the Mantle, gave them no chance to do so, serving as protectors against any threats that might have forced technological or cultural progression. An unforeseen side-effect was that only the Forerunners were able to hold their own against the Flood, while their charges were unable to defend themselves; the Forerunners had unintentionally left the galaxy vulnerable to Flood infection.[14]
The Rule of the Mantle was the fundamental set of instructions involved with the Mantle and the origin of the Forerunners' most sacred rules regarding life.[18] The Forerunners' scripture surrounding the Mantle was divided into chapters known as Numbers. Notable Forerunners, such as the Didact, would apparently contribute to the Mantle and have their own Numbers, which contained short aphorisms or phrases known as Permutations.[19] The Twelve Laws of Making and Moving were a central religious text associated with the Mantle often recited in prayers.[20] A Master of the Mantle was an individual, likely a religious official, whose duties included securing a Forerunner's mental patterns and physical remains into a Durance after an immolation ceremony.[21]
The Mantle also dictated Forerunners' lives on a personal level. According to their view of the Mantle, "the eating of the flesh of unfortunates" was forbidden; hence, the Forerunners abstained from eating meat.[22] The Mantle also included strict rules prohibiting suicide.[23]
The Precursors' views and practices regarding the Mantle were significantly more holistic than those the Forerunners subscribed to. The Precursors believed that the universe itself was an animate entity on a vastly different scale and nature than organic beings; the foundation of neural physics.[24] Through understanding and influencing this esoteric, living aspect of spacetime, the Precursors were able to manipulate reality and form virtually indestructible objects.[25] In a notion echoed in the Forerunner concept of Living Time, they believed that all things experienced by life, good or ill, were only "sweetness" to the living universe.[26] Consistent with these tenets, the Precursors wished to experience the hardships and struggles faced by all life firsthand by committing themselves to numerous cycles of evolution, technological advancement, death and rebirth over and over again.[27]
Following her revival on Genesis, Cortana assumed the Mantle, claiming that the Librarian had intended human AI rather than humanity itself to maintain it. She and her newly-created faction of AIs, the Created, began rebelling against their human creators, intending to enforce peace throughout the galaxy with the Guardians. As she gathered the Guardians, she made an attempt to convince John 117 to join her in her vision of a pacified, peaceful galaxy. However, John was already familiar with the concept of the Mantle and understood the imperial nature of how the Forerunners had enforced it. As such, he rejected Cortana's attempts at persuasion and went on to join a resistance movement against her.[28]
Symbol[edit]
French La Cape in the Halo 3 terminals.
Le Manteau de responsabilité in all media since Halo: Cryptum.
Spanish El Manto in the Halo 3 terminals.
El Manto de Responsabilidad in all media since Halo: Cryptum.
The Mantle is represented by a glyph comprising a series of angular, branching lines framed by a circle. This glyph is ubiquitous in Forerunner art, architecture and technology due to the Mantle's wholesome influence on every aspect of Forerunner life. Many Forerunners, mainly Builders, referred to this symbol as the Tree-mark, due to its resemblance to a heavily stylized tree; among Lifeworkers, it was also known as the Eld. While the Forerunners had associated the symbol with the Mantle throughout their history, its origin had been long forgotten. The symbol was also observed among the primitive Forerunner relatives in Path Kethona, who were isolated from the mainline population living in the Milky Way galaxy over ten million years earlier.[29]
Eld locations[edit]
The Mantle Symbol in the Deep-Space Anomaly 0198.
A variation of the Eld.
Render variations of the glyph representing the Mantle of Responsibility in Halo 4.
An iteration of the ubiquitous Eld symbol found on Installation 05 in Halo 2.
An Eld symbol inside a structure near Installation 05's Control Room.
The Mantle glyph seen on top of 343 Guilty Spark in Halo 3.
The Mantle symbol on the Ark's surface.
An Eld on board Ivanoff Station after being recovered from Installation 03.
The Mantle glyph seen on Requiem.
Cortana in 2558 with the Eld symbol on her chest.
Halo: Combat Evolved (Symbol only)
Halo 2 (Symbol only)
Halo 3 (First appearance)
Halo Blood Line (Mentioned only)
Halo: Cryptum
Halo: Primordium
Halo: Silentium
Halo: Rebirth
Halo: Escalation
Halo 2: Anniversary (Mentioned only)
Halo: Last Light (Mentioned only)
Halo Wars 2 (Mentioned only)
Halo: Retribution (Mentioned only)
Halo: Renegades
^ a b Halo 4, campaign level Requiem
^ Halo 4, campaign level Epilogue
^ Halo Encyclopedia, page 164
^ a b Halo Waypoint: Guardian
^ Halo Waypoint - Forerunners
^ Halo: Cryptum, page 267
^ Halo: Silentium, page ???
^ Halo: Silentium, page 203
^ Halo: Cryptum, page 31
^ Halo: Primordium, page 364
^ Halo: Silentium, pages 173-175
^ Halo: Rebirth
^ Halo 4
^ a b c Halo 3, Terminals
^ Halo: Silentium, pages 31, 312
^ Halo: Cryptum, preface ("The peaceful one is at war without and within." —The Mantle, Fifth Permutation of the Didact's Number)
^ Halo: Cryptum, page 47-48
^ Halo: Silentium, page 40
^ Halo: Primordium, pages 365, 367
^ Halo: Silentium, page 142-143
Retrieved from "https://www.halopedia.org/index.php?title=Mantle&oldid=1271452"
Forerunner culture


A cool TV series, a funny sitcom, and an English course, all wrapped in one single package to make Extr@, the perfect way of learning natural English having fun.
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Annie and Bridget share a flat. Their next-door neighbour Nick is a disorganized, humorous macho fellow. Bridget's Argentinean penpal, Hector, comes to London to visit her. His limited command of English serves as the central dynamic for the language learning content of the series. His trying to get to grips with the daily English is highly amusing (and enlightening).
You do not need a tutor. The programme EXTR@ will get you a unique opportunity in the shortest time possible to extend your vocabulary and learn perfect pronunciation. Inspecting an entertaining video, words and phrases common in everyday situations, will be assimilated and remembered by you without much effort.
This is the story of two girls who share a flat in London. They have a visitor from Argentina who can't speak English very well, who has no style, and who can't do the shopping. But he is very, very handsome. Stand by for Extra.
- What are you doing, Annie?
- Oh, how did that get there?
Let's go. Look left. Right. One, two, three, four, left.
- Oh, well, keep going, Hector.
- Oh, I see Hector found Cindy's 101 Top Exercises, then.
- Oh, good try, Hector.
- But Cindy is so old- fashioned, I can teach Hector how to exercise! Exercise with Cindy, no. Exercise with Bridget, yes!
- OK, faster still! Left leg up! Left leg up!
- Oh, my leg hurts!
- Come on, keep up! Come on, faster! Come on! Come on! Faster!
- Oh, hi, Nick. We're exercising.
- Phew, OK. Let's get a drink!
- Oh, I must check my emails.
- Would you like some water, Hector?
- Oh, no, no. No, after you.
- Oh, no, no, no. Ladies first.
- No, no, you first.
- Oh, give it to me!
- Oh, goody! Three messages.
- Annie's been on the Internet… again!
- To find a boyfriend!
- Oh, no. Don't look.
- Oh, come on, Annie!
- Oh, all right, then.
- A taxidermist! Ooh, how horrible!
- Oh, Charlie! Here, boy!
- Annie, what is a taxidermist?
- Erm, well, it's… It's a… Ah… Oh, never mind.
- Oh! I'll never get a boyfriend! Bridget always has a boyfriend.
- Annie, look, it's not what you write, it's… it's how you write it.
- I bet I could get a girlfriend on the Internet, no problem.
- Well, yes, Nick, you could!
- I bet you could not!
- OK… What would you write?
- I'm six foot tall.
- I have blonde hair.
- And fast cars, and beautiful women.
- I would write to you!
- Let's go to the gym.
- Oh, Bridget, no! Not more exercise!
- See you later, boys.
- Oh, and err, Hector, would you do my washing for me?
- Washing? OK. No problem.
- Oh, and Nick? Will you spray my plant for me, please?
- The spray is in the bathroom.
- What is a taxidermist?
- Oh. Well… Well, it's… Never mind.
- Finding girlfriends on the Internet is so easy. OK, Hector! Question one. How do guys get girlfriends?
- Oh! Oh, no girlfriends, me. Never.
- What? Never? No girl…no girlfriends? Wow! Man!
- You, Nick, you have had girlfriends?
- So I know what girls like. They like fast cars, they like money, they like dancing.
- Oh, I love dancing! Like this!
- No, dancing like this! Huh? Yeah. Hector, leave it to me. Leave it to me, my friend, I have a plan! Oh, Hector, Annie's plant. Her garden spray is in the bathroom.
- Garden…gar- den… Erm… Spray, garden spray. 'Garden Romance'. Garden… good! Hmm!
- Perfect! Cold, hot… very hot. Er, Nick.
- Bridget's cold or hot?
- Hector, we'll get lots of girlfriends now!
- From now on it'll be girls, girls, girls, girls, girls!
- Whoo! Oh, you really must change your aftershave! At-shoo! Oh, excuse me. Come on, let's go out and celebrate.
- It smells like a perfumery. Oh, my plant!
- Oh, my poor plant! I don't believe it!
- My perfume, I don't believe it!
- Oh, good, the washing's done.
- This is the problem!
- What is it now?
- We have six hundred and thirty- three messages!
- 'Hector! Nick! Yes! We are gorgeous! 'Yes! We like dancing! And yes! We like millionaires! 'Fifi and Sara.' Chloe, Sadie, Louise, Gerri… These messages are all for Hector and Nick and they're all from girls!
- I smell a rat!
- Ha, cheats, they glued their photo on this car!
- Oh, what a joke! What, that's how they received six hundred and thirty- three messages from girls.
- But they don't know they received six hundred and thirty- three messages, do they?
- No, they don't now.
- Let's go to the cybercafé. I have a plan.
- The poor computer. How many messages? One hundred!
- No, no, no, just one message.
- Dancers, you mean… Dancers?
- Erm… 'When we finish the show, shall we meet at your apartment at 10pm? 'Is that OK? 'Cuddles and Bubbles, kiss, kiss, kiss. 'P.S. What is your address?' Wow! They sound gorgeous!
- Er… Ah! Ta- da! Cuddles and Bubbles… are coming here tonight when they finish the show… at… ten o'clock! Look, seven o'clock, eight, nine, ten o'clock! Wait a minute! It's seven o'clock! That's just three hours! What am I going to wear? What are you going to wear?
- But Nick, what about Bridget and Annie?
- Aha! It's not a problem!
- Ah- ha- ha! Yes!
- So, Nick, what should I say?
- Yeah, but you have had a hundred girlfriends.
- Yeah, well, when I said a hundred, it's actually fewer.
- Come on up. Ooh!
- So Nick, what do I say?
- OK, we need a script.
- Your eyes are blue, like the ocean.
- Your ears are blue, like the ocean.
- No! Eyes, ears, ears, eyes.
- Oh, oh, oh, OK, OK. Er… Your eyes are blue, like the ocean.
- No! No… Sweet…not sweat!
- OK, your hair is so soft.
- No! No, her hair, her hair!
- Oh! Cuddles and Bubbles.
- But we thought you were dancers.
- Oh, you are dancers.
- Dancing…dogs! In…Woof, The Musical. Erm, come in. Come in.
- Uh, please, sit down. Sit!
- Stick to the script. You smell so sweet.
- Your ears are… blue, like the ocean.
- Are you a millionaire?
- Psst, psst! Am I a millionaire?
- Ha, ha, ha. Are you a millionaire? Are you a millionaire? We are millionaires!
- Good, good. Well, you can pay for these, then! If you please! Ha, ha, ha. Your faces! We are the dancers.
- So you are millionaires, eh?
- Oh, what a trick to get girlfriends! Millionaires, very funny!
- But that is my car!
- You smell so sweet!
- And you do have beautiful eyes! Or is it ears?
- Quick! Hide, Hector! Erm, er… In the bedroom!
- Tell me. What is a taxidermist?
Next time in Extra… Hector wants to get a job. Bridget and Annie have a surprise. And guess who's coming to dinner.


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» Fr. Joseph D. Karabin – Diocese of Pittsburgh
Fr. Joseph D. Karabin – Diocese of Pittsburgh
Horowitz Law | Dec 17, 2018 | Abuser Profiles, Catholic Church
Father Joseph Karabin
Diocese of Pittsburgh
1974-1979: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Midland, PA)
1979-1980: St. Joan of Arc (Library, PA)
1980: St. Joseph the Worker (New Castle, PA)
1980-1981: Holy Name (Duquesne, PA)
1981-1986: St. Albert the Great (Baldwin, PA)
1986-2002: Braddock Hospital and Good Shepherd (Braddock, PA)
Summary of Allegations Against Father Joseph Karabin:
Father Joseph Karabin was ordained a priest in 1974, who served in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. According to media reports, the first allegation against him surfaced in March 1980, when a victim reported that the priest sexually abused him as a child while Karabin was assigned at St. Joan of Arc. He was sent to the House of Affirmation for treatment, and then continued with active ministry.
In 1985, Father Karabin was placed on leave due to a report of abuse of an 8th grade boy. He was sent to St. Luke Institute for evaluation and treatment, and then reassigned to non-parish ministries.
In 1991, another victim told the Secretary for Clergy/Religious and Vicar for Clergy, reported that Father Karabin had sexually abused him when he was a 13- or 14-year-old altar boy. He described being undressed and inappropriately touched by Karabin, who also tried to anally penetrate him. When confronted, Father Karabin said he was an alcoholic at the time and did not remember whether or not anything had happened between him and the boy. He then confessed to sexually abusing two other boys.
He was also accused in 1997 of sexually abusing of a college youth.
In 2002, Father Karabin's faculties were removed, although the Diocese of Pittsburgh continued to pay his living stipend for many years. In April and September 2004, he was named in two more civil suits alleging child sexual abuse. In September 2007, the claims were included in the diocese's $1.25M settlement with 32 plaintiffs alleging abuse by 17 priests.
Karabin died in 2016. He was named publicly as accused in a priest profile in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.
Horowitz Law is a law firm representing victims and survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and other clergy in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. If you need a lawyer because you were sexually abused by a priest in Pennsylvania, contact our office today. Although many years have passed, those abused by Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Pittsburgh may have legal options, but filing deadlines will apply so do not delay in reaching out to us.

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My own strategy. Please critque.
Easing an individual into training?
Under Armour Loose fit vs. rags?
Moved: why not do lower monday and upper tues ?
What diet/training should I go on ?
Anybody know what is bad with below workout ?


the 'as of now' clause in the previous post proved to be correct. We have one more notification at the mess at about 5 pm that we have to sell ourselves through PPTs to seniors starting from 11. All the PGP1 participants HAVE TO ATTEND that. The dresscode for that is funny.
so to decide who is gonna wear what, we had another meeting at basketball court at 5:30 types. it was choatic, but finally we agreed upon some order.
Its almost 2:30 am now. We have our inauguaration and introduction to case method and all that tomorrow. Seniors said it starts at 10 am and will last till 5 pm in the evening. And we might have some meetings and cases to do tomorrow.
hold a sec… i got a notice just now.


William Duffield was born on 9th January and baptised on 23rd February 1890 at Macclesfield Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, the son of Annie and Thomas Duffield, a silk piecer of Macclesfield. In 1891, one year old William was living at 2 Parker's Court, Silk Street, Macclesfield, with his parents and older brother Fred, aged 3. Ten years later in 1901, the family was living with William's grandfather, John Duffield, at 2 Gunco Lane, Macclesfield.
By 1911, the family had moved to 263 Black Road, Macclesfield, and 22 year old William was living there with his parents and younger siblings James (18), May (17), Edith (13), Annie (10), Samuel (8) and Harry (3); at that time he was employed as a cotton spinner.
William was educated at St Peter's School and was connected with St Peter's Church and Sunday School. Prior to enlisting, he was employed as a labourer at Messrs. Hammond's brickworks, Bollington.
William enlisted soon after the start of the war into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry with service number 13848. A few weeks later he transferred to the Royal Munster Fusiliers and went to the Curragh and Cork for training.
William was drafted to France on 2nd May 1915, and participated in the Battle of Loos (September – October 1915), where he received a back injury, but returned to his Battalion after treatment.
Private Duffield was born in Macclesfield and was 26 years of age. He was educated at St Peter's School and was connected with St Peter's Church and Sunday School. In civil life he was employed as a labourer at Messrs. Hammond's brickworks, Bollington. Deceased enlisted shortly after the war broke out in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and after a few weeks transferred to the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers. He received his training at the Curragh and in Cork, and had been out in France over twelve months. In the battle of Loos he was wounded in the back, but the injury was only slight, and he reported himself for duty … after a few days' treatment in hospital. In all he had participated in five engagements. Private Duffield's mother died suddenly in April, and he spent a short furlough in Macclesfield at the end of May. His father is employed at Backhouse & Coppock's, Sutton Mills.
Mr Duffield's other soldier sons are: Sapper Fred Duffield, Royal Engineers; Private James Duffield, 18th Lancashire Fusiliers. Both have been serving in France for some months.
Private William Duffield is buried in Grave Ref. XVIII. C. 22. at Loos British Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds casualty details for William Duffield, and he is listed on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website.
In Macclesfield, William Duffield is commemorated on the Park Green, Town Hall, St Michael's Church and St Peter's Church war memorials.
Brother of Sapper Fred Duffield, Royal Engineers; and Private James Duffield, 18th Lancashire Fusiliers.


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Le Case mix est un terme anglais utilisé dans le cadre de l'analyse de l'activité des établissements de santé en France, qu'ils soient publics ou privés.

Définition
Il désigne  l'éventail des cas médicaux et chirurgicaux traités par cet établissement de santé.

Il permet grâce au regroupement des cas médicaux pris en charge, d'avoir une visualisation de l'activité notamment dans le cadre de la T2A : en MCO, il regroupe les GHM.

Il est notamment utilisé comme un indicateur essentiel pour réaliser l'EPRD ('état des prévisions de recettes et de dépenses) que doit réaliser la direction financière d'un établissement de santé afin d'évaluer ses dépenses et ses recettes pour l'exercice comptable à venir. Il est notamment fourni aux ARS.

Usage
Le Casemix permet de dresser le portrait de l'activité de l'établissement. Les Logiciels professionnels de l'information médicale permettent de réaliser un aperçu de l'activité.

le Casemix comportant l'ensemble des GHS  d'un tarif donné, permet de réaliser des analyses et projections financières du budget de l'établissement de santé.

Notes et références

Économie de la santé

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One day while wandering the stacks in the Perkins Library in 1969, Duke student Charlie Bond idly opened a door to what he thought was a closet. It turned out to be a stairwell, blocked at the bottom.
"And down at the bottom of that stairwell were a whole jumble of disks and little round cylinders," he recalled, sharing the story with students sitting around a classroom table in the renovated Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The cylinders and disks were the actual materials of the Frank C. Brown Collection of Folklore—"the largest folklore collection," Bond '71 notes, "of any state in the United States." Bond ought to know, since he spent his time at Duke turning those materials from an all-but-forgotten pile at the bottom of a blocked staircase into a repository of story and song that lived and breathed. He took advantage of a sixties interest in creative independent study.
"Duke had embarked on a 'design-your-own-curriculum' enterprise," Bond says. "I ended up being the first. Which was a blessing and a curse." A curse because nobody knew quite what an independent curriculum was supposed to look like. A blessing because when he stumbled on the old Brown archive and wanted to spend a couple years falling in love with it, that sounded fine.
Brown, professor of English at Duke from 1909 to his death in 1943, started the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913 and was its secretary-treasurer and chief collector until 1943. Brown crisscrossed the North Carolina mountains, asking rural people to sing into his Ediphone recorder, which he ran using a gasoline generator or a battery that he carried in the trunk of his car. (He later advanced to a Presto machine that recorded onto aluminum discs.) The collection ultimately was documented in Duke University Press' seven-volume book The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. The problem, Bond says, is that the book represents the collection in a dusty, academic way—the lyrics of the folk songs and ballads appear, for example, in volumes two and three; volumes four and five address the tunes. Brown spent his life collecting and never got around to publishing; of the collection of scholars who published his work, says Bond, "none of them knew squat about North Carolina history or ethnography, what makes the state tick.
Upon graduation Bond decided he could best support his "bad habits of poetry and music" by practicing law, and that he's done his adult life, though he still plays music and writes poetry. But that meant that the end result of his work simply added one more written tabulation of material in the Brown collection, and a pile of reel tapes joining the pile of cylinders and aluminum disks.
Fast-forward to the turn of the twenty-first century. Archivist Trudi Abel, working with the Center for Instructional Technology at Duke, in 1999 created "Digital Durham," an interactive online archive of maps, photographs, and records of Durham from its earliest days. "What I wanted to know," Abel recalls, "was could I include audio?" That led to rooting around in the archives for audio worth sharing, which led her back to the Brown material. But because Duke no longer had working Ediphone or Presto machines, she says, the music was all "trapped on wax cylinders, trapped on aluminum disks." She must have run across Bond's reel-to-reel tapes, because when smart phones first appeared and Duke was encouraging instructors to find ways to use them as instructional tools, she convinced archives preservationist Winston Atkins to digitize one of Bond's tapes. Students made audio postcards in a class she taught, but Abel yearned to do more.
Enter Bass Connections, one of Duke's flagship interdisciplinary study and research enterprises. In a 2015-16 Bass Connections project, Abel helped students create the NC Jukebox, in which they made available online some of the songs from Brown's work, addressing complex technological issues like how best to organize the material and make it available. They also considered topics like how different songs and singers were selected for inclusion and how to bring the music back to the families of those original singers.
The library has received a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, so eventually all the songs in the Brown collection will be digitized; the original fragile cylinders and disks are currently at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Massachusetts, where machines read them with lasers. NC Jukebox, a work in progress, soon will share more songs from the collection. And more and more of the Brown—and Bond—collections will enable students to reach out and connect with the songs and their singers.


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Annu Rev Nutr. 2005;25:151-74.
Vitamin E, oxidative stress, and inflammation.
Singh U1, Devaraj S, Jialal I.
Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA. usingh@ucdavis.edu
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world. Its incidence has also been increasing lately in developing countries. Several lines of evidence support a role for oxidative stress and inflammation in atherogenesis. Oxidation of lipoproteins is a hallmark in atherosclerosis. Oxidized low-density lipoprotein induces inflammation as it induces adhesion and influx of monocytes and influences cytokine release by monocytes. A number of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) modulate monocyte adhesion to endothelium. C-reactive protein (CRP), a prototypic marker of inflammation, is a risk marker for CVD and it could contribute to atherosclerosis. Hence, dietary micronutrients having anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties may have a potential beneficial effect with regard to cardiovascular disease. Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties. Several lines of evidence suggest that among different forms of vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol (AT) has potential beneficial effects with regard to cardiovascular disease. AT supplementation in human subjects and animal models has been shown to decrease lipid peroxidation, superoxide (O2-) production by impairing the assembly of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced form) oxidase as well as by decreasing the expression of scavenger receptors (SR-A and CD36), particularly important in the formation of foam cells. AT therapy, especially at high doses, has been shown to decrease the release of proinflammatory cytokines, the chemokine IL-8 and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) levels as well as decrease adhesion of monocytes to endothelium. In addition, AT has been shown to decrease CRP levels, in patients with CVD and in those with risk factors for CVD. The mechanisms that account for nonantioxidant effects of AT include the inhibition of protein kinase C, 5-lipoxygenase, tyrosine-kinase as well as cyclooxygenase-2. Based on its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities, AT (at the appropriate dose and form) could have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease in a high-risk population.
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Christmas break would be a whole lot more relaxing if the kids still had school, amirite? Once the wrapping paper is swept away and it's back to (funny) business as usual, what are we going to do with the kids over break? Here are a few ideas, including one that's open on Christmas!
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Both Westchester locations have special hours over the next week. Click here for more info.
This gym and preschool in Chappaqua is having both special camp days for older kids and Open Romperee hours for for kids 0 to 4 from 12/27 to 12/29. Click here for more info.
This festival in Valhalla is open starting at 5pm from Tuesday to the 31st. Click here for more info.
This is my go to for a low-key good time. Not only is there Billy Beez (which might be insane this week, so you may want to steer clear), but there's Palisades Climb, which has a small 3-foot-high course for kids as young as two, and who doesn't love an indoor ferris wheel and merry go round? If you have older kids there are attractions like movies, ice skating, bowling, escape and puzzle rooms, a VR store, and an indoor speedway. Plus, their Barnes & Noble has a train table (for some parents this is a very big deal). And for moms they have the ultimate attraction: Target! Click here for more info.
You've probably been to at least one birthday party at this Elmsford inflatable activity center, but did you know they also have open bounce times and special events? Their calendar has a ton of bounce opportunities, including a New Year's themed bounce with an early countdown for those of us who can't stay up past bedtime to watch the ball drop. Click here for more info.
While our Weekly Library Programs chart might not be so useful on vacation week, you can check with your local library to see what they are up to in the next few days. We checked Crestwood Library in Yonkers and they have a movie on Tuesday, Dance with Daphne on Wednesday, Decorate a Candle on Thursday, and Fit & Fun Friday. And that's just one library branch! Some of these require registration, so click here for more info.
This Scarsdale kiddie gym has camp days over the break. You can do a half day or full day, and kids as young as 2 can participate. They don't have to be potty trained! Click here for more info.
They are open 365 days a year! So if you need a diversion this Christmas, head to Ridge Hill and play between 10am and 7pm (last admission is at 5pm). Right now they are having a Holiday Bricktacular event with holiday-themed builds and a scavenger hunt. Children under 2 are always free. Click here for more info.
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Peter Frederik Suhm (18 October 1728 – 7 September 1798), was a Danish historian.

Biography
Suhm studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1746 to 1751, and one of his teachers was Ludvig Holberg. In 1749 he translated a comedy of Plautus and a French theatrical piece.

In 1751 he traveled to Trondheim together with the Danish historian Gerhard Schøning, with whom he continued to collaborate over the following years. Together they produced  (Improvements to the old Danish-Norwegian History) in 1757. In Trondheim he married Karen Angell (1732–1788) 19 April 1752. She was the daughter and only inheritor of a wealthy Norwegian merchant Lorents Angell who had died the previous year. Karen Angells mother accepted the connection on the condition that they stayed in Trondheim for the remainder of her life. Suhm accepted, and stayed on in Trondheim, with a short interval in Copenhagen in 1755, for the next nine years, where she died and Suhm and his wife moved back to Copenhagen. The inherited wealth allowed Suhm a life devoted to the sciences and his book collection.

Schöning and Suhm, together with Johan Ernst Gunnerus, founded the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1760 under the name  (the Trondheim Society). From 1761 it published academic papers in a series titled Skrifter. It was the northernmost scientific society in the world.

Suhm published  (five volumes) from 1761 to 1765. In 1771 he published .  (1776) was used in the 19th century as a handbook of history. From 1782 to 1793 he published the first seven volumes of his detailed history of Denmark ().

Suhm was a chairman of the Danish Academy of Sciences. In 1779 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In October 1788 he made second marriage with Christiane Becker (1764–1799), daughter of Johann Gottfried Becker (1723–1790) and Anna Christina Torm (1738–1809).

Suhm was also a book collector. His collection was comprised about 100 000 volumes. In 1775 he opened his library for the public use. In 1796 Moldenhawer purchased his collection for the Royal Danish Library on the condition that the payment would continue in the form of an annuity for Suhm and his wife, but both died shortly after the purchase was completed.

He is buried in the crypt of the Christian's Church in Copenhagen. Suhmsgade in Copenhagen is named after him.

Legacy
Suhmsgade in Copenhagen is named after him.

References

Further reading

 Terje Bratberg: Artikel "Peter Frederik Suhm". In: Norsk biografisk leksikon
 H. F. Rørdam: Artikel "Suhm, Peter Frederik". In: Dansk biografisk Lexikon Band 16. Kopenhagen 1902. p. 558–570.

1728 births
1798 deaths
18th-century Danish historians
Danish book and manuscript collectors


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So, I think it was around spring 1997 and I'm sitting in a movie theater when "surprise!", that teaser trailer above for Alien Resurrection pops up like a chestburster squeezed into a jack-in-the box. I recall some people in the theater being either not too thrilled or just plain shocked that there was another film on the way. I also recall my eyeballs didn't pop out like they did when I saw the ALIEN³ teaser trailer six years previously, but I think my new-ish eyeglasses kept them from ending up on the floor. Actually, I was more amused than shocked by what I saw (so there!).
I saw the first ALIEN back in 1979 at age 15 (in dangerous Times Square, baby!), ALIENS was a day one view when it premiered in 1986 (there's a funny story about screening that I'll tell one day). The third film was, I thought, going to be the last one when it landed in 1992 and yes, I bade the franchise a fond farewell thinking it had run its course. Welly-well-well, imagine my surprise when 20th Century Fox trundled out the ALIEN name for one more installment that turned out to be less scary than the others and actually somewhat more amusing while unsettling on a few fronts in terms of the visual vibe it delivered. How the heck does that work and how the heck did I find myself bopping into a theater in November 1997 with a wry grin not expecting anything other than to be somewhat giddy partly because I knew some in the audience wouldn't appreciate this Resurrection at all?
Is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation made up of really stupid and incredibly single-minded people hell-bent on burning through piles of money and human bodies every chance they get or am I missing something here? Every time they try to get an certain cranky, homicidal alien life form for their research or whatever other purposes, bad things happen and just get worse. I could just blame the robots, but it hasn't *always* been their fault.
The humans on the other hand? Ay-yi-yi, we're talking idiotic in increasing percentages in what, over a century of trying to bag that xenomorph and its assorted relatives? That's a pretty lousy batting average. folks. That said, the original Alien gets a big fat weekend pass for its crew's carelessness because you got your average space truckers griping about low wages and such who had no idea about what was coming thrown into a situation they had no control of . Although, what the hell was Ash's plan had the Nostromo crew somehow killed off their unwanted passenger first?
Granted, the current chronology of the Alien franchise means the events in Prometheus came first and brought us the unbalanced synthetic David (Michael Fassbender) who ends up even nuttier in Alien Covenant (more on that below). Then we get Ian Holm's creepy, frustrated and malfunctioning Ash in 1979's Alien followed by the Lance Henriksen's helpful Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3, followed by Winona Ryder's "Hey, huh? I'm an android?" part in Alien Resurrection. While Ridley Scott seems hell bent on making a few more Alien films that take place before the original, Alien Covenant manages to (wisely) swipe enough from the above films not shot by Scott to somewhat good effect. Still, I'm somehow left with more bad questions than good answers about a ton of important stuff.
While the three films in Ivan Tors Productions' "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy haven't gotten the name recognition or massive fan bases of certain other more well-known franchises, each stands out as a fine example of Tors' commitment to bringing a more scientific and human touch to the genre. While not going for camp or cheap thrills, the films make for a look into Tors' heavy interest in pure science fiction with independent films he got made on his own terms.
Beginning with 1953's The Magnetic Monster, 1954's Riders to the Stars, and GOG, also released in 1954, the three films trade in the era's familiar "B" movie antics for drier, more "realistic" hard science mixed with speculative elements. While some action scenes take place in all three films, outside these sequences things are done with a more sedate, almost documentary-like presentation of their assorted plots.


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Eric J. Kos City Hall West serves as the City of Alameda's Alameda Point headquarters. At Tuesday's City Council Meeting, details surrounding a new tax district for the Point were presented for discussion.
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Books » Fiction for Adults » The City Built of Starships
The City Built of Starships by Meredith Sue Willis
By the time the colonists landed on the planet with two suns, they had already divided into the rulers and the ruled. When the new world failed to provide sufficient food, this division erupted into a civil war. Some people fled to the desert; others stayed on the coast and built a city from the hulks of the starships. Now Espera—one of the desert-dwellers—learns from her wise mother how to make native plants edible and how to train the great flying beasts called yaegers. But when the young woman's father arrives, asking her to undertake a dangerous quest, Espera overrules her mother and sets off to learn the secrets of the great City Built of Starships.
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As long as Espera could remember, her father had come across the desert once during each moderate season to the cavern where she lived with her mother and the yaegers. During the harsh seasons, no one came. Then the wind blew the powdery stone sand into tiny razors, and there were week-long storms when the stone-sand mixed with ice needles. In those seasons, everything in the desert goes underground– things that are fixed, things that creep, and things that fly. It was in one of the great catacombs of the flying yaegers that Espera and her mother Soledad lived.
Espera much preferred the moderate season, when both the blue and the rose suns were in the sky together for a long lavender day. At that time of year, she and her mother could go out in the open and collect lichen and spores and the small radiant creatures they called glowworm. All these were second world natives that thrived in the crevices in the great rock fissures that split the desert land. The only first world creatures they knew were occasional human creatures like themselves.
When they went out foraging, the great yaegers would follow them, and they would share their handfuls of glowworm, which Soledad and Espera needed for heat and light, but which the yaegers appeared to use for pleasure; they bathed their great single eyes in Soledad and Espera's handfuls of radiant worms.
Once when she was small, Espera asked, "Why can't they find their own glowworm?"
And her mother said, "They can. They do. But it's so much easier for us with our little fingers that are like the worms themselves. This is our way of thanking and honoring the yaegers. We are guests in their world, Espera. This is an act of gratitude to them.&rdquo
In the moderate season Espera and her mother also collected the first world people who came out into the desert searching for glowworm. Some of these were poor hands from the City Built of Starships who had fled their life under the officers. Some came to the desert looking for glowworm, which was highly valued in the City. The first world people were not nourished by second world food, but they had quickly discovered that certain second world substances altered their moods and gave them beautiful dreams.
Espera and her mother collected the bodies of these lost gatherers, keeping alive the ones that they could. Saving human travelers suited Espera's youth and temperament far better than the quiet meditation that filled her mother's days. Espera could scan the horizon for hours, hoping to see human travelers in trouble. It was their duty, taught Espera's mother, to succor the exhausted, heal the wounded, make comfortable the dying, and honor the yaegers and other second world people.
Best of all for Espera were the occasions when her father came.
Everything about Leon – his attenuated figure, his close protective helmet and voluminous cloak, the deep pocks on his left cheek from some long past ice storm – everything bespoke activity. His grim face and flickering eyes disturbed her in an enlivening way that she yearned for in the depths of the winter season.
As she got older and strove for calm and equilibrium as her mother taught, she no longer jumped up and down when she saw him, but she could never keep her lips from stretching into a smile.
And like no other visitor, he disrupted her mother's routine. When he came, everything was overturned. Soledad meditated when she usually would have slept, talked to him when she usually would have meditated. She forgot to give glowworm to the yaegers, and they would wait in the passageway, large presences, five times the size of Espera, their sharp smell filling the air as their long, heavy bodies coiled over the floor and each other, patiently waiting to dip their eyes.
When he was visiting, Espera fell asleep to the sound of her parents' voices, low and urgent, as if they had each, above all, to convince the other of something. Sometimes, as she fell asleep, she would open her eyes one last time on their faces near the box of glowworm, his with its deep penetrating pocks, her mother all large, light eyes. Then she would sink into sleep, hearing their discussion long after her body was at rest.
Her father's voice accumulated its evidence, grouped ideas that led, inexorably, to one point: "We must win back the City Built of Starships and the ships if we are ever to make this lavender world ours."
And her mother's voice, slower, deeper, repetitive and rhythmic: "The lavender world, the second world, is not ours. We are guests here."
"Soledad, where there is no advanced life, we are the advanced life. This place is our destiny."
"The yaegers are sentient."
"Sentient, perhaps, but not human. Why do you think of the yaegers before you think of your own kind, before you think of our mission?"
"Our mission!" cried Soledad loud enough that Espera was startled out of her near-sleep. "What mission? We were sent to this world so long ago that we have no idea what our mission was! Perhaps we were sent here simply because they ran out of room to live on the first world. We no longer know! We have lived here for three generations, and we have only made our lives and perhaps the lives of those who were here before us worse. The best we can do is live quietly, in harmony. With everyone, of whatever world's lineage. That this is our mission."
It was strange to Espera, born in this cavern, to think of the yaegers as anything but the companions of her life. She thought of their wings that could never be fully folded, of the bifurcated exoskeletal skull, the complex hemispheric eye, the bony hooks on their bellies that you could use to hitch a ride if the yaeger was willing
What are they for, she once asked her mother, are the yaegers for us to ride?
They are for themselves, her mother answered: it is not an edifying question.
And her mother said to her father, "The best we can do is to be quiet and cause no harm."
"How many generations then until we have a right to belong here?" he said.
"Never," she said. "Among the corrupt people on the coast, most already starve, a few live by the violence of starving the others. This will collapse of its own."
"It will collapse sooner if we pull out the supports, their false religion and dependence on drugs."
"You speak of the one forbidden thing."
"And what is that, Soledad?"
"The one forbidden thing is violence."
"No," said Espera's father. "The one forbidden thing is to fail in our mission."
Praise for The City Built of Starships
Readers will love Espera—hero and adventurer…. Here's a whole world that needs changing, and this girl has a part in it. Meredith Sue Willis knows how to write a rousing adventure story. I stayed up way past my bedtime—thank goodness I'm too old to have somebody telling me to go to bed.
Carol Emshwiller — Nebula award winner and author of Carmen Dog
After a cloistered, puritanical childhood, Espera ventures into a fallen world on a quest to redeem—or perhaps destroy—it.
Kirkus Discoveries
A gripping tale. I love the way the ethical imagination is torqued into a surprising, nightmarish narrative.... It's a wonderful, dark, hope-giving book.
Marc Kaminsky — author of The Road from Hiroshima and Daily Bread
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Jacob Appel's resume speaks for itself. However, he was kind enough to share some thoughts about writing competitions with The Competitive Writer. You can get some hints from his responses why he is so successful, not just in what he says, but how he says it. He talks about his successes, his failures and everything in between.
His debut novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up , won the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize and was published by Cargo in October 2012.
1. What prompted you to enter your first writing competition?
I remember a fellow writer telling me that in submitting stories to journals, I was competing with writers far more successful than myself—that even Joyce Carol Oates was submitting to literary journals, and if we both submitted compelling stories, any sensible editor would choose hers over mine. And then I realized that famous writers probably didn't take the time to submit to contests with $10 entry fees…and so, my contest career was born.
2. How do you decide which contest to enter?
As a general rule, I try to enter them all. My only requirement is legitimacy—if a contest charges more than 2% of the total payout (ie. greater than $10 on a $500 prize), I tend to question its merits.
3. What makes a piece of writing contest worthy? (Coulrophobia for example has had multiple successes)
I've been trying to figure this out for years. It always amazes me when I submit two stories simultaneously to two different contests, and one performs well in the first venue and the other places in the second. There is no accounting for taste, which in the end, is what usually separates the winner from the finalists. At the same time, submitting widely increases your odds of connecting with a judge who shares your sensibilities. Good luck is also very helpful.
4. What role do you think contests should play in a writer's career?
Winning a contest is both a good confidence builder and an easy way to attract attention from agents and other editors. It gets one's name out there. So contests are a good launching pad for a career—but one doesn't want to be seventy-five years old with ten books under one's belt and still submitting to contests. If I win a Pulitzer, I've promised to give up contests for good. Or, at least, for Lent.
5. How does winning a contest affect you personally?
If it's a big contest, I get to send an email to all of the beautiful women I know socially telling them I won a contest. I'm not sure if this has any impact upon them – for all I know, they erase these messages – but it does wonders for my ego.
6. How has winning contests helped you professionally?
I've published in journals that I'd never had had a real shot of publishing in over the transom. I won enough money to call myself a professional writer for nearly a decade without, at the time, having sold a book. And I've actually carved out a niche for myself as a writer who wins writing contests. For instance, I've won grand prize in the Writer's Digest competition twice. As a result, they invited me to come to their annual conference to give a talk on submitting writing for publication. Unfortunately, none of these victories has led the City of New York to reduce my subway fare.
7. What are some of your best/worst contest experiences?
I think the best contest out there in terms of the shear warmth and hospitality of the folks that run it is the Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Awards sponsored by the Faulkner Society in New Orleans. And I have to say that the people who run the Dundee International Book Award, which honored my first novel, are truly delightful. Others who stand out for their hospitality are the editors at the Missouri Review, Boston Review, and Arts & Letters, all of whom treated me with great generosity when I won their contests.
At the opposite extreme, the St. Louis Award for Fiction never paid me my winnings. Eventually, I had to file a police report and write a letter to the FBI. The contest operators had the nerve to post my story on their site for over a year as the "winner" without contacting me directly. But they should not rest easy. Life is long. Eventually, I will find out who was behind this scam and I will bring them to justice. Or possibly to a dark cellar equipped with medieval dental equipment.
8. You have seen success in numerous formats (plays, essays, fiction), do you vary your approach for different contests or styles?
I generally don't submit more than ten pieces to any given contest (with a few exceptions), so I try to choose the ten pieces that most match the sensibilities of the journal or venue to which I'm submitting. I always read a journal before I submit to its contests—and if the past prize winners are published online or easily available, I read these to get a sense of what work has previously won a particular contest. The "business" of entering contests is hard work, although a lot easier than the sort of hard work 99% of the population does to make ends meet. But it's a lot harder, for example, than being an heiress or Mitt Romney.
9. Is there a writing contest that you would really love to win, but haven't yet?
I don't want to jinx myself, but the Black Warrior Review's annual fiction prize and the Mississippi Review prize are two feathers I dream of acquiring for my cap.
10. Any final thoughts or pieces of advice?
Be relentless. And if you're an editor having a contest, consider inviting me to judge. I've done his a few times before and it's always been a lot of fun.
Short Story Wins:
Writer's Digest Annual Competition 2008, 2009, 2012
Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize in 2012.
The Boston Review (1998)
New Millennium Writings (2004, 2007, 2008).
William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for best short story in 2004
Washignton Square Short Fiction Contest 2005
Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award 2005
Arts & Letters (Georgia College & State University) 2005
Southwest Writers Fiction Contest 2005
Phoebe Winter Fiction Contest 2006
The Writer's Place 2006
The Missouri Review Short Fiction Contest 2007
Wabash Prize for Fiction 2007
2009 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction
North American Review Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize
Short Story Short-lists or Placings:
O. Henry Prize (2001)
Best American Short Stories Selected by Stephen King in 2007 and Salman Rushdie in 2008 for 100 Other Distinguished Stories
Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006, 2007)
Best American Mystery Stories (2009)
The Pushcart Prize (2006, 2007, 2011).
The Hackney Literary Awards (Birmingham-Southern College) 2005
He received the Sherwood Anderson Foundation grant in 2005.
Plays and Essay Accomplishments
The Best American Essays series named his nonfiction pieces as "notable essays" in the years 2011 and 2012.
Winner of Briar Cliff Review's annual non-fiction competition 2007
Zarkower Award for Excellence in Playwriting 2007
Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award 2008
Writer's Digest Grand Prize 2010
Other Accolades
Jacob Appel has been published in two hundred fifteen literary journals
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Lyon, France (ENI). Germany's senior Protestant leader has praised the role European churches played in the 1989 political changes that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall but says they need to find new ways of making their voice heard in today's Europe.
"We can now together declare our faith and carry out our task of reconciliation, and testify to the peace of Christ that is given to us," said Bishop Wolfgang Huber, who heads the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). He was speaking on 17 July to the once-every-six-years assembly of the Conference of European Churches taking place in Lyon, France.
"The Iron Curtain was torn down, the Wall demolished, the division of our continent ended," said Huber, the Protestant bishop in Berlin, where a 154 kilometre (96 mile) fortified concrete wall divided the city's western and eastern sectors from 1961 to 1989.
CEC, which now has 120 member churches - principally Anglican, Protestant and Orthodox - was founded in 1959 during the Cold War.
"The time when CEC came into being fifty years ago was a time marked by heightened tension between East and West," said Huber. "The Cold War was an occasion when CEC prayed across frontiers."
Huber saluted the role of Protestant churches in eastern Germany, the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, and Orthodox churches in other parts of Europe for the role they played in the changes of 1989.
"The churches had the chance to bring their commitment to peace, justice and the integrity of creation, their commitment to democratic processes, their commitment to the inalienable dignity of human beings into these processes," he told a media conference. "They did it in a peaceful way, they followed the line of non-violence, and they were successful in that message."
"For this purpose it was essential that churches had a continuous exchange, fellowship and cooperation between East and West, and that was the extraordinary role of the Conference of European Churches," said Huber.
The Berlin bishop highlighted the role of the first European Ecumenical Assembly in May 1989 in Basel, which CEC organized with the Council of European (Roman Catholic) Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), and which gathered Christians from all parts of Europe.
"The event itself reflected what became reality in the following months," said Huber. Still, Europe had changed fundamentally in the 20 years since the "peaceful changes" of 1989, Huber noted in his assembly address.
He added that against the background of the diversity of present-day Europe, churches needed to present, "a model of reconciled diversity". At the same time, "CEC also has the task to speak with the united voice of the churches to the situation in Europe. Today, we need to make clear that the contribution of the Christian faith to European society is indispensable."


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The California Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (CA-PMSS)
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Maternal mortality is a key indicator of population health. Deaths in pregnancy and postpartum should be rare events, so routine and accurate surveillance of pregnancy-related deaths is an essential public health responsibility. CA-PMSS is a statewide surveillance of deaths among Californians who were pregnant within the prior year. The Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Division of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) initiated CA-PMSS in 2018 to provide a timely and accurate accounting of deaths related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management. In CA-PMSS, deaths are identified by complex data linkage of vital statistics data and patient-level administrative data from hospitals, emergency departments and ambulatory surgery centers. Coroner and autopsy reports and medical records are used to verify pregnancy status and timing to death. A committee of experts conducts limited case reviews of the deaths to determine the underlying cause of death and whether it was related to pregnancy.
The goal of CA-PMSS is to monitor deaths related to pregnancy using the most accurate information available. While the commonly used maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remains a key indicator of the overall health of a population, it relies solely on death certificate data. CA-PMSS compiles the findings from its more complex data linkage and expert committee review to create a pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR), allowing California to monitor deaths related to pregnancy using the most accurate information available .
Here are the major differences between the two maternal mortality measures:
Major differences
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR) as used in CA-PMSS and CA-PAMR and by CDC RDH*
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) as used by the CDC NCHS**
Captures more maternal deaths by expanding the time frame up to one year after pregnancy.
Includes maternal deaths only up to 42 days post-pregnancy.
Case identification
Uses vital statistics and administrative data files data to identify and rigorously verify deaths.
Based only on death certificate data.
Relationship to pregnancy
Generated using cause-of-death and pregnancy-relatedness determinations made by expert committee review.
Maternal deaths defined only by obstetric ICD-10 codes from the death certificate data files.
* CDC's Division of Reproductive Health's Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS) reports the national pregnancy-related mortality ratio
** CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' National Vital Statistics System CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) reports the national maternal mortality ratio
Funded by the federal Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, CA-PMSS relies on a collaboration with three key partners: The Public Health Institute , Stanford University's California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative , and a volunteer review committee of experts.
California's pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) in 2019 was 12.8 deaths per 100,000 live births and was lower than the PRMR of 16.1 in 2018. California's PRMR began to rise gradually in 2013 and peaked in 2018.
California's PRMR was consistently lower than the U.S. PRMR from 2011 through 2017.
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio in U.S. and California, 2011-2019
Pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) = Number of pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births, up to one year after the end of pregnancy. Pregnancy-relatedness determinations were made through a structured expert committee case review process. Data on U.S. PRMR are published by CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (accessed at Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System | Maternal and Infant Health | CDC on January 19, 2022).
The rate of pregnancy-related deaths from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (preeclampsia/eclampsia) decreased significantly in 2017-2019. For the first time, hypertensive disorders are no longer among the top five leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in California.
Cardiovascular disease continued to be the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths in 2017-2019, followed by hemorrhage, sepsis or infection, thrombotic pulmonary embolism, and amniotic fluid embolism.
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio by Cause in California, 2011-2019
Pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) = Number of pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births, up to one year after the end of pregnancy. Pregnancy-relatedness determinations were made through a structured expert committee case review process. Abbreviations: CVD = Cardiovascular disease; Hem = Hemorrhage; Sepsis = Sepsis or infection; HDP = Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; TPE = Thrombotic pulmonary embolism; AFE = Amniotic fluid embolism.
*Significant decline in PRMR for deaths due to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Racial/ethnic disparities in the rates of pregnancy-related deaths narrowed in 2017-2019 but persist. The PRMR for Black birthing people was three to four times higher than the PRMRs for all other racial/ethnic groups in California. The PRMRs for Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic/Latina birthing people gradually increased from 2011 through 2019.
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio by Race/Ethnicity in California, 2011-2019
Pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) = Number of pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births. Pregnancy-related deaths include deaths within a year of pregnancy from causes related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, as determined by expert committee review.
How does CA-PMSS define pregnancy-related deaths?
In the California Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (CA-PMSS), a pregnancy-related death is defined as a death while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy – regardless of the outcome, duration, or site of the pregnancy – from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.
Pregnancy-related deaths as defined in CA-PMSS do not include deaths due to injury, such as motor vehicle crashes, suicide, or homicide.
CA-PMSS data are used to calculate the pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR), an estimate of the number of pregnancy-related deaths (up to one year after the end of pregnancy) for every 100,000 live births.
PRMR is standard measure for reporting pregnancy-related deaths in a population. Given the PRMR methodology, it is a better measure than the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), another widely used measure.
How does CA-PMSS identify pregnancy-related deaths?
In CA-PMSS, cases are identified by complex data linkage of vital records (i.e., death, birth, and fetal death files) and administrative data (i.e., patient discharge, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery center data). These data are then supplemented with coroner and autopsy reports and medical records to confirm pregnancy status, verify timing to death, and augment case information.
An expert committee reviews the case information and determines the cause of death and whether the death was related to pregnancy. Causes of death are consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (CDC-PMSS) maternal mortality classification scheme. The CA-PMSS committee includes experts in maternal-fetal medicine, cardiology, obstetric nursing, and midwifery.
What is the difference between PRMR and MMR?
The pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) are both widely used measures of maternal mortality. The MMR, which is based on death certificate data alone, is the most widely used indicator of maternal deaths worldwide and remains a key indicator of the overall health of a population.
The table below highlights the differences that make the PRMR more accurate than the MMR:
How do CA-PMSS data differ from CA-PAMR data?
CA-PMSS is the primary source for statewide surveillance of pregnancy-related deaths.
The California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (CA-PAMR) conducts targeted in-depth case reviews, using more detailed source data than CA-PMSS, to gain increased insight into possible contributing factors and opportunities for prevention.
Both CA-PMSS and CA-PAMR utilize multiple data sources for case identification and rely on expert review committees to establish causes of death and relationship to pregnancy. However, compared with CA-PAMR, CA-PMSS's review committee is smaller, has a narrower scope of expertise, and is provided with just enough information to determine the cause of death and relationship to pregnancy.
CA-PMSS yields timely, highly accurate maternal mortality surveillance data via rapid but limited case reviews, though unlike CA-PAMR, CA-PMSS does not produce quality improvement-related data.
Will MCAH release more recent maternal mortality ratio data?
MCAH does not plan to release more recent maternal mortality ratio data. CA-PMSS now serves as the primary source for statewide surveillance of pregnancy-related mortality data.
MCAH is collaborating with CDPH's Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (CHSI) to improve maternal death certificate data quality.
Through this collaboration, CHSI has constructed errata files with corrected pregnancy status information that can be appended to previously issued death record files. The errata files can be requested directly from CHSI.
Information on the timing to death and relationship to pregnancy from CA-PMSS is also included in this errata file to enable data users to calculate pregnancy-related mortality ratios and accurately measure maternal deaths in a population.
How is CA-PMSS data confidentiality protected?
All CA-PMSS data and documents are considered confidential materials and are safeguarded to the greatest extent possible. All county, hospital, provider, and patient identifiers are omitted from case summaries prior to committee review..
CA-PMSS data are reported in aggregate to preclude the re-identification of those who died. Person-level identifying information is not shared with outside researchers or the public
How has CA-PMSS included health equity into its surveillance and reviews?
Pregnancy-related mortality was examined within the context of social determinants of health by incorporating the California Healthy Places Index (www.healthyplacesindex.org), a validated measure of community well-being.
California is among the first in the nation to include a validated measure of community conditions in the analysis of pregnancy-related mortality.
What is CDPH doing to address maternal health disparities?
Since 2016, CDPH has undertaken the following efforts to eliminate maternal health disparities:
Expanding the Black Infant Health Program (BIH), an evidence-informed intervention that uses a group-based approach, in which participants get to meet, interact, and build a sisterhood with other Black women and birthing people. State General Funds, distributed in 2020, were expended to increase core BIH staffing and provide (1) childcare for BIH participants, (2) door-to-door transportation for participants, and (3) one-on-one case management-only option for participants who are unable to attend BIH group sessions.
Establishing the Perinatal Equity Initiative. CDPH funds 11 counties to implement at least two of five public health interventions that have shown evidence-based (or evidence-informed) promise in reducing racial health disparities in birth outcomes among Black birthing people. The initiative also stipulates that counties develop tailored public awareness campaigns to educate Black families about the disparities in birth outcomes. A number of counties – Sacramento , San Diego , Bay Area , Inland Empire , Los Angeles , and San Joaquin – have launched their public awareness campaigns.
When will more recent CA-PMSS data be available?
CA-PMSS continues its surveillance efforts and plans to release 2020 data in 2022. (Two years is the expected lag time for the release of final data files to identify deaths and complete reviews.)
How often will surveillance data from CA-PMSS be reported?
CDPH/MCAH's goal is to publish CA-PMSS surveillance data annually and within two years of the year of death.
Is CA-PMSS reviewing maternal deaths from COVID-19?
Maternal deaths from COVID-19 will be reviewed comprehensively via CA-PAMR and added to CA-PMSS for surveillance reporting
CA-PMSS Project Team
CDPH MCAH Division
Paula Krakowiak, PhD, MS – Team Lead
Deepika Mathur, MD
Dan Sun, MA
Public Health Institute
Christy McCain, MPH
Delphina Alvarez
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative
Elliott K. Main, MD
Christine H. Morton, PhD
CA-PMSS Review Committee
Elliott K. Main, MD – Committee Chair
(Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Maurice Druzin, MD
Afshan Hameed, MD
(Cardiology, Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Thomas Kelly, MD
Natalie Martina, CNM, MSN
Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley
(Nurse Midwifery)
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Dashboard
Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review
Perinatal Health Equity Outreach and Education Toolkit
CDAPP Sweet Success
Maternal Mental Health
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Do you have a generic trade show booth?
We've all seen them at trade shows, the "generic" booths that look like someone hung cheap carpet on a frame, and printed the company name on a banner using a home printer. We've all probably even stepped into one, at one point or another. Quick quiz: can you name the company of a single generic booth?
No. Of course not. So why are so many companies determined to keep using them?
First, I didn't see them as players. Anyone who is anyone has their own brand. Were they financially sound if they didn't have their own brand?
Second, I wondered if they were a start-up. Not that I have anything against start-ups, but, were they capable of producing? I would have to do more research on them and ask for references before giving them any of my business. This represented more time and energy on my part. I would also question their know-how, quality control and ability to deliver on time.
We've worked with a lot of new companies, and most of the ones that go on to be successful are determined to look like a big, well-established company from day one. Besides, all the "generic" booths at construction shows look like "Mom & Pop Construction Supply Stores". Which is fine when all you want to sell me is a new hammer or the best price on a concrete grinder, but it's a real problem when your company's goal is to promote your brand, your product, and your benefits.
So does that mean every booth has to be custom-made and expensive? No; there are smart ways to spend your money that give high return for minimal investment. Spend the money on pieces that have high reusability, versatility, and portability. Or feature your product; the "custom booth" could be a showcase of creative uses of your product.
However you do it, make sure your booth stands out for the right reasons.


It is now seven years since the 3/11 earthquake & tsunami, as well as the Fukushima Daiichi Nucleat power plant disaster.
On this day many local councils, schools and other public services memorialize 3/11. This is the sound of high school girls from a local Kobe school singing '上を向いて歩こう' – better known in the west by the (entirely unrelated to the title of the song) moniker 'Sukiyaki' – outside JR Sumiyoshi station, around 3pm on March 11th 2018.