In the past, most companies, managed their own payrolls. Through the years, however, many have switched to outsourced providers who can handle this difficult and time-consuming work. As a result, companies have been able to save a substantial amount of money by avoiding having to use employees to accomplish these tasks. Choosing the right accountant or payroll provider will require some investigation and research, however, here are a few things to look for in a payroll provider and some questions to ask before choosing one.
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The amount of players leaving college early to pursue a professional career is directly proportional to the average NFL rookie contract: As the amount of money increases, the amount of players who declare for the NFL Draft also increases.
As more players decide to leave college early and pursue a professional career, we are still left shocked. Is it ill-advised to skip out on your college degree to take a shot at the pros, or will it even matter, because you're obviously destined to be the nation's new football superstar?
A lot of the time, players assume that they will play football for many years and make a lot of money, making it worth skipping out on a college degree. While this does happen often, there are a few examples of players who seemed to make the wrong decision.
Vince Young, former Heisman Trophy runner-up and national championship-winning quarterback for the Texas Longhorns, declared for the NFL Draft after his junior year in college. After winning the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award, it appeared that Young had made the right decision.
Six years later, Young found himself without a job in the NFL and eventually returned to the University of Texas to fulfill his degree requirements.
Young did some amazing things in college, but it never seemed to pan out the way he thought it would later on down the road in his NFL career. Should he have waited and gained his degree while still under scholarship so that he would have something to fall back on? Does any young-adult football superstar have the mental strength and maturity to decline the possibility of a multimillion-dollar contract?
While the normal case is for a player to leave college too soon, there are also players who hurt their stock by staying too long.
Matt Barkley, former starting quarterback for the Trojans of Southern California, decided to stay in college for his final year to earn his degree and take a shot at the BCS National Championship.
While his intentions were good, the Trojans finished the season with an embarrassing 7-6 record. Barkley wasn't even able to finish the season, as he was injured late and did not return for the Sun Bowl, which they lost.
After Barkley's junior season, analysts were predicting for him to be taken No. 1 overall in the upcoming draft. After staying for his final season and getting injured, he was finally drafted at No. 98.
You could argue that if Barkley would have elected for the draft after his junior season, he would probably be starting for an NFL team right now. Instead, he finds himself third on the Philadelphia Eagles' depth chart, with little chance to earn the starting job any time soon.
There is also another type of player who decides to leap from college football into the pros: the player who has no choice.
Terrelle Pryor, former quarterback sensation for the Ohio State Buckeyes, found himself in the midst of a heated NCAA investigation that pertained to improper benefits. It was believed that Pryor received money to purchase a car while in school, which is certainly against NCAA protocol. He was also thought to have taken free tattoos for the exchange of autographs and memorabilia.
After receiving a lengthy suspension, Pryor decided to leave the school and take his chances in the NFL. He was eventually taken by the Oakland Raiders in the NFL Supplemental Draft. To the surprise of most, Pryor actually earned his starting spot on the Oakland roster and now is essentially putting up some pretty hefty fantasy numbers. I believe it is safe to say that most did not see this coming.
At the end of the day, how are athletes supposed to figure out if they should stay or go? In my opinion, it comes down to this: Do you still have room for improvement in your collegiate career? Then stay. Is there any slight possibility of your stock decreasing by your decision to stay? Then go.
Also, if you can, follow in the footsteps of some current college athletes and get your degree by the end of your third year in school. After all, nobody wants to be regarded as the former NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year who might have to file for unemployment.


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{
    internal class HelpSubcommand : Command, ISubcommand
    {
        private readonly SubcommandSet mSubcommands;

        internal HelpSubcommand(SubcommandSet subcommands)
        {
            mSubcommands = subcommands;
        }

        public string Description
        {
            get { return "Print this message."; }
        }

        public string Name
        {
            get { return "help"; }
        }

        public override int Run(string[] args)
        {
            int maxLength = mSubcommands.Max(cmd => cmd.Name.Length);

            ErrorOutput.WriteLine("Usage: {0} SUBCOMMAND ...", ProgramName);
            ErrorOutput.WriteLine();
            string format = "  {0,-" + maxLength + "}    {1}";
            foreach (ISubcommand subcommand in mSubcommands) {
                ErrorOutput.WriteLine(format, subcommand.Name, subcommand.Description);
            }

            return ExitSuccess;
        }
    }
}

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Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults
Masahiro Kitamura, Kazunori Ikebe, Kei Kamide, Yasuyuki Gondo, Motozo Yamashita, Masahide Takedachi, Takenori Nozaki, Chiharu Fujihara, Satoru Yamada, Yoichiro Kashiwagi, Koji Miki, Tomoaki Iwayama, Kodai Hatta, Yusuke Mihara, Yuko Kurushima, Hajime Takeshita, Mai Kabayama, Ryousuke Oguro, Tatsuo Kawai, Hiroshi Akasaka
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Yasushi Takeya, Koichi Yamamoto, Ken Sugimoto, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Yasumichi Arai, Yukie Masui, Ryutaro Takahashi, Hiromi Rakugi, Yoshinobu Maeda, Shinya Murakami
歯学研究科・歯科学専攻
Periodontal disease and arteriosclerotic disease are greatly affected by aging. In this study, the association of conventional risk factors and periodontal disease with atherosclerosis was longitudinally examined in Japanese older adults. Subjects in this study were 490 community-dwelling septuagenarians (69–71 years) randomly recruited from the Basic Resident Registry of urban or rural areas in Japan. At the baseline examination, all subjects underwent socioeconomic and medical interviews; medical examinations, including examinations for carotid atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia; and conventional dental examinations, including a tooth count and measurement of probing pocket depth (PPD). After 3 years, 182 septuagenarians who had no atherosclerosis at the baseline examination were registered and received the same examination as at the baseline. In the re-examination conducted 3 years after the baseline survey, 131 (72.0%) of the 182 participants who had no atherosclerosis at the baseline examination were diagnosed with carotid atherosclerosis. Adjusting and analyzing the mutual relationships of the conventional risk factors for atherosclerosis by multiple logistic regression analysis for the 171 septuagenarians with a full set of data, the proportion of teeth with PPD ≥ 4 mm was independently related to the prevalence of atherosclerosis (odds ratio: 1.029, P < 0.022). This longitudinal study of Japanese older adults suggests that periodontal disease is associated with the onset/progression of atherosclerosis. Maintaining a healthy periodontal condition may be an important factor in preventing the development and progression of atherosclerosis.
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Periodontal Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Atherosclerosis Medicine & Life Sciences 75%
Carotid Artery Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences 32%
Tooth Medicine & Life Sciences 28%
Dyslipidemias Medicine & Life Sciences 12%
Japan Medicine & Life Sciences 10%
Diabetes Mellitus Medicine & Life Sciences 10%
Kitamura, M., Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., Gondo, Y., Yamashita, M., Takedachi, M., Nozaki, T., Fujihara, C., Yamada, S., Kashiwagi, Y., Miki, K., Iwayama, T., Hatta, K., Mihara, Y., Kurushima, Y., Takeshita, H., Kabayama, M., Oguro, R., Kawai, T., ... Murakami, S. (2021). Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults. Odontology, 109(2), 506-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10266-020-00567-z
Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults. / Kitamura, Masahiro; Ikebe, Kazunori; Kamide, Kei; Gondo, Yasuyuki; Yamashita, Motozo; Takedachi, Masahide; Nozaki, Takenori; Fujihara, Chiharu; Yamada, Satoru; Kashiwagi, Yoichiro; Miki, Koji; Iwayama, Tomoaki; Hatta, Kodai; Mihara, Yusuke; Kurushima, Yuko; Takeshita, Hajime; Kabayama, Mai; Oguro, Ryousuke; Kawai, Tatsuo; Akasaka, Hiroshi; Takeya, Yasushi; Yamamoto, Koichi; Sugimoto, Ken; Ishizaki, Tatsuro; Arai, Yasumichi; Masui, Yukie; Takahashi, Ryutaro; Rakugi, Hiromi; Maeda, Yoshinobu; Murakami, Shinya.
In: Odontology, Vol. 109, No. 2, 04.2021, p. 506-513.
Kitamura, M, Ikebe, K, Kamide, K, Gondo, Y, Yamashita, M, Takedachi, M, Nozaki, T, Fujihara, C, Yamada, S, Kashiwagi, Y, Miki, K, Iwayama, T, Hatta, K, Mihara, Y, Kurushima, Y, Takeshita, H, Kabayama, M, Oguro, R, Kawai, T, Akasaka, H, Takeya, Y, Yamamoto, K, Sugimoto, K, Ishizaki, T, Arai, Y, Masui, Y, Takahashi, R, Rakugi, H, Maeda, Y & Murakami, S 2021, 'Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults', Odontology, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 506-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10266-020-00567-z
Kitamura M, Ikebe K, Kamide K, Gondo Y, Yamashita M, Takedachi M et al. Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults. Odontology. 2021 4;109(2):506-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10266-020-00567-z
Kitamura, Masahiro ; Ikebe, Kazunori ; Kamide, Kei ; Gondo, Yasuyuki ; Yamashita, Motozo ; Takedachi, Masahide ; Nozaki, Takenori ; Fujihara, Chiharu ; Yamada, Satoru ; Kashiwagi, Yoichiro ; Miki, Koji ; Iwayama, Tomoaki ; Hatta, Kodai ; Mihara, Yusuke ; Kurushima, Yuko ; Takeshita, Hajime ; Kabayama, Mai ; Oguro, Ryousuke ; Kawai, Tatsuo ; Akasaka, Hiroshi ; Takeya, Yasushi ; Yamamoto, Koichi ; Sugimoto, Ken ; Ishizaki, Tatsuro ; Arai, Yasumichi ; Masui, Yukie ; Takahashi, Ryutaro ; Rakugi, Hiromi ; Maeda, Yoshinobu ; Murakami, Shinya. / Association of periodontal disease with atherosclerosis in 70-year-old Japanese older adults. In: Odontology. 2021 ; Vol. 109, No. 2. pp. 506-513.
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Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong
Limei Wang*, Hans LADEGAARD
This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China, Putonghua (P) and Cantonese (C). P is a typical H-variety, promoted by the government and used as a lingua franca throughout China; C is the local L-variety but it also has some prestige and is used in all domains. The focus of our questionnaire study was twofold: to analyse possible gender differences in perceptions and reported use, and to compare results from P-speaking newcomers, who have moved to Guangzhou from other parts of China, with responses from local C-speaking adolescents. Our results suggest that Guangzhou is a reasonably stable diglossia where P and C serve different functions, for newcomers as well as locals, and therefore both varieties appear to be indispensable. However, there are also indications that P promotion is beginning to have an effect in Guangzhou; our female participants seem to be leading on in a gradual change towards increased use of P. Thus our results support the trend reported in numerous sociolinguistic studies of a female preference for the prestige standard variety of a language.
Language Awareness
https://doi.org/10.2167/la425.0
Language and gender
Language attitudes
Putonghua and Cantonese
Reported language use
10.2167/la425.0
Dive into the research topics of 'Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Putonghua Arts & Humanities 100%
Language Attitudes Arts & Humanities 87%
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Prestige Arts & Humanities 44%
China Arts & Humanities 41%
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Wang, L., & LADEGAARD, H. (2008). Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong. Language Awareness, 17(1), 57-77. https://doi.org/10.2167/la425.0
Wang, Limei ; LADEGAARD, Hans. / Language attitudes and gender in China : Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong. In: Language Awareness. 2008 ; Vol. 17, No. 1. pp. 57-77.
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Wang, L & LADEGAARD, H 2008, 'Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong', Language Awareness, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 57-77. https://doi.org/10.2167/la425.0
Language attitudes and gender in China : Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong. / Wang, Limei; LADEGAARD, Hans.
In: Language Awareness, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2008, p. 57-77.
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N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank the China Scholarship Council for a scholarship awarded to Limei Wang, and a Visiting Research Fellowship, also awarded to Limei Wang, by the University of Southern Denmark, both of which made the research project reported in this paper possible. We also want to thank Brian Bekker Hansen who has been responsible for the statistical tests, and the editor and two anonymous reviewers of Language Awareness who provided constructive criticism and suggested improvements on an earlier version of this paper.
N2 - This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China, Putonghua (P) and Cantonese (C). P is a typical H-variety, promoted by the government and used as a lingua franca throughout China; C is the local L-variety but it also has some prestige and is used in all domains. The focus of our questionnaire study was twofold: to analyse possible gender differences in perceptions and reported use, and to compare results from P-speaking newcomers, who have moved to Guangzhou from other parts of China, with responses from local C-speaking adolescents. Our results suggest that Guangzhou is a reasonably stable diglossia where P and C serve different functions, for newcomers as well as locals, and therefore both varieties appear to be indispensable. However, there are also indications that P promotion is beginning to have an effect in Guangzhou; our female participants seem to be leading on in a gradual change towards increased use of P. Thus our results support the trend reported in numerous sociolinguistic studies of a female preference for the prestige standard variety of a language.
AB - This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China, Putonghua (P) and Cantonese (C). P is a typical H-variety, promoted by the government and used as a lingua franca throughout China; C is the local L-variety but it also has some prestige and is used in all domains. The focus of our questionnaire study was twofold: to analyse possible gender differences in perceptions and reported use, and to compare results from P-speaking newcomers, who have moved to Guangzhou from other parts of China, with responses from local C-speaking adolescents. Our results suggest that Guangzhou is a reasonably stable diglossia where P and C serve different functions, for newcomers as well as locals, and therefore both varieties appear to be indispensable. However, there are also indications that P promotion is beginning to have an effect in Guangzhou; our female participants seem to be leading on in a gradual change towards increased use of P. Thus our results support the trend reported in numerous sociolinguistic studies of a female preference for the prestige standard variety of a language.
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Wang L, LADEGAARD H. Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong. Language Awareness. 2008;17(1):57-77. https://doi.org/10.2167/la425.0


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Human Waste and Wasted Humans: Flotsam and Jetsam in the Anthropocene
Kevin MacDonnell
Posted on July 8, 2019 by Kevin MacDonnell
Slaves in the Hold of the Albanoz (1846) by Lt. Francis Meynell © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1973, the Zoe Colocotroni, an oil tanker commissioned by Mobil Oil Company, ran aground off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico near Bahía Sucia. Before seeking outside help, the ship's captain, Anastacios Michalopaulos, frantically ordered the crew to jettison over 37,000 barrels of crude oil—approximately 1.5 million gallons—into the ocean. Dumping the oil lightened the ship enough to free it from the sand and allowed Michalopaulos successfully to deliver the payload, while absorbing only a partial loss (the Colocotroni had been transporting 187,670 barrels altogether). The surrounding environment experienced more than a partial loss and the resulting disaster is part of a long history of environmental degradation in the Caribbean; one that dates back to the "ecological maelstrom" unleashed on the region in the eighteenth century amid the heyday of sugar cultivation and the dawning of the Anthropocene [1]. Flora and fauna from the reef and nearby mangrove swamps suffered extensive damage as the oil slick quickly spread, eventually covering a four-mile stretch of coastal waters. Puerto Rico's Environmental Quality Board established that in total the spill cost approximately $6 million (equivalent to roughly $35 million in 2019) in damage and clean-up efforts and resulted in the deaths of over 92 million marine organisms [2].
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion washing up on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge (2010) by Jereme Phillips
Like many man-made environmental disasters, the Colocotroni spill is remembered today as a freak accident aggravated by human error; an exception rather than the rule of oceanic commerce. It would be more appropriate, however, to locate in this incident something emblematic about maritime trade in the Anthropocene; the proposed geological epoch in which human activity has emerged as a "geophysical force on a planetary scale" [3]. Indeed, that it was petroleum—the cornerstone resource of the industrialized world—washing over the beaches and forests of a Caribbean island, ground zero for European imperial expansion, alerts us to the intersecting legacies of colonialism, capitalism, and ecological destruction underpinning Michalopaulos's actions. To label the Colocotroni spill as a mere externality, then, would be to ignore the ways in which the indiscriminate dumping of cargo into the sea has historically been employed in the service of modern political and economic regimes. Tempting as it may be to attribute the disaster in Bahía Sucia to a simple miscalculation made in a moment of panic, we ought instead to identify in Michalopaulos's decision to jettison the ship's crude oil stores a specific, historically situated strategy of Anthropocene colonialism [4].
One of the major contributions of social scientists and humanists working in waste studies has been their recognition that the things we throw away say as much about who we are as the things we preserve [5]. This insight invites us to study the flotsam and jetsam cast off ships like the Colocotroni not as unfortunate byproducts of maritime trade but as tools enabling capital accumulation and colonial expansion. Given how voluminous marine debris has become in the world's oceans, a new approach that takes flotsam and jetsam more seriously as material actors is surely needed. Cargo dumped from seafaring vessels—both intentionally and unintentionally—has in fact become so common that it now amounts to a stratigraphically legible form of human activity. While industrial manufacturing, nuclear testing, and factory farming have become the de facto symbols of the Anthropocene, numerous geologists, paleontologists, and environmental historians have stressed the importance of commercial shipping (and ballast shipping in particular) in producing the stratigraphic signature of this human age [6]. In addition to the lifeforms jettisoned by ballast tanks, the plastic, metallic, and organic flotsam and jetsam routinely cast off cargo ships, cruise liners, and sailboats are now visible in the fossil record in and around busy ports and heavily trafficked shipping lanes throughout the world.
Jonah Cast into the Sea (17th Century) by Dominicus Custos
Flotsam, jetsam, and lagan have existed for as long as people have been sailing. Before the practice appeared in the stratigraphic record, accounts of sailors dumping cargo in order to save ships in distress or in danger of sinking appear in the written record dating back to the Book of Jonah. It is within the lexicon of colonialism, though, that these concepts take on their modern character. Heightened interest in these terms was due in large part to the massive expansion of commercial shipping between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, when the extraction and transportation of resources from colonial outposts back to Europe increased exponentially. As more and more ships began transporting commodities to and from Europe's colonies, there was a corresponding increase in shipwrecks, attacks, and other accidents, filling the Caribbean with commodities, raw materials, and trash lost from these vessels and necessitating clearer parameters regarding how to define these objects and to whom they belonged. Unsurprisingly, then, the Oxford English Dictionary dates the first recorded use of "jetsam" to 1491, on the eve of American colonization, while "flotsam and jetsam" first appear alongside one another in The Interpreter (1607), John Cowell's early law dictionary [7]. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, flotsam and jetsam appeared frequently in legal treatises, dictionaries, and pamphlets, emerging as concepts of immense social consequence within contemporary debates on property, ownership, and appropriation that would support the advancement of colonialism.
Implicitly included in these debates on property were the enslaved Africans whose bodies occupied a position as prime movers of the colonial economy. Throughout the nearly four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade, the millions of men, women, and children subjected to the horrors of the Middle Passage were as expendable as any other commodity. This became increasingly true at the turn of the eighteenth century when a "pricing revolution" in the marine insurance markets resulted in increasingly widespread use of insurance underwriters on commercial voyages [8]. Whereas flotsam and jetsam had long symbolized outright losses for stakeholders, lost cargo that had been properly insured could now be written off, leaving sailors more inclined to part with their commodities—human beings notwithstanding—if circumstances required.
Frontispiece of The Interpreter (1607) by John Cowell
When it comes to the jettison of insured cargo, there is no more shocking case than the events that unfolded aboard the slave ship Zong some two hundred years prior to the Colocotroni's spill in Bahía Sucia. The Zong, another cargo ship—this one transporting 442 enslaved Africans—was en route to Jamaica from Accra (in what is now Ghana) when it mistakenly overshot its destination, adding nearly two weeks to the voyage. Overcrowded and running low on drinking water, the crew convened and determined that "part of the slaves should be destroyed to save the rest" [9]. Beginning on the night of November 29, 1781, the ship's captain, Luke Collingwood, ordered the crew to jettison a total of 132 men, women, and children over the course of two weeks, while an additional 10 jumped overboard in an act of courageous defiance. Having insured the slaves for £30 each, the crew claimed to have determined that the best option was to ensure that the majority of the slaves onboard made it to market by "destroy[ing]" all but whom their rations could support, and then filing insurance claims on those losses. However, dating back to the abolitionist Granville Sharp, critics of the Zong massacre have noted that the ship may in fact have had enough water to make it to port, leading to speculation that the crew simply jettisoned the sick and dying because their deaths on board would not be covered by the voyage's insurance policy. The massacre, then, was carried out, according to Sharp, in an effort to "throw the loss upon the insurers, as in the case of Jetsam" [10]. A well-publicized court case followed, but at stake in the case was only the validity of the insurance claims made by the ship's owners. The murdered were, as Christina Sharpe has noted, merely committed to the official historical record as lost property—as jetsam [11].
"The Slave Ship" (1840) by J. M. W. Turner
In her reading of "The Slave Ship," J. M. W. Turner's painting inspired by the Zong massacre, Sharpe notes that Turner's decision to leave the ship unnamed "refuses to collapse a singularity into a ship named the Zong; that is, Turner's unnamed ship stands in for the entire enterprise" [12]. The generic quality of the painting Sharpe identifies is important in the context of this piece, for while the Zong is often invoked as a disturbing outlier, the jettison of enslaved passengers was standard operating procedure in the transatlantic slave trade. Like the Colocotroni, the massacre that took place aboard the Zong was no mere accident, nor was it simply the act of a psychopathic crew. Rather, both events present us with instances of the same deliberate strategy of the colonial economy; in each case, a manufactured loss that ultimately engendered a profitable return.
Separated by two centuries, the incidents that occurred aboard the Colocotroni and the Zong might appear unrelated if not for their shared production of oceanic waste in the form of the petroleum and human cargo jettisoned from their respective holds. It is possible to imagine the sea floor along the heavily trafficked shipping routes of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea littered with a combination of human and nonhuman remains jettisoned from the countless slave brigs, container ships, and oil tankers that have passed through those waters. That this emblematic form of human activity in the Anthropocene was also employed as a deliberate strategy of the transatlantic slave trade calls to mind the notion of a "Plantationocene" popularized by Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway; a term used to highlight the radical transformation of land into "extractive and enclosed" plantations through the use of "slave labor and other forms of exploited, alienated, and usually spatially transported labor" [13]. The pairing, moreover, affirms Kathryn Yusoff's contention that the onset of the Anthropocene cannot be distinguished from the institution of slavery. Yusoff focuses on the "grammars" of extraction that enable industries like slavery and surface mining–and colonialism and geology more generally–but these entwined logics also remained in place when it came to disposing of the commodities produced by these systems [14]. The intersecting histories of environmental degradation and racial violence that have come into focus in the work of environmental justice scholars and activists come together yet again when we consider how, why, and under what conditions flotsam and jetsam are produced; when we interrogate what or who is expendable within the extractive logics of the Anthropocene.
[1] Philip D. Morgan, "The Caribbean Islands in Atlantic Context, circa 1500-1800." The Global Eighteenth Century. Ed. Felicity Nussbaum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 57.
[2] Commonwealth of Puerto Rico vs. The SS Zoe Colocotroni, 456 F. 1327 (District of Puerto Rico 1978).
[3] Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 20.
[4] My use of "strategy" here is borrowed from Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.
[5] See Zygmunt Bauman, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity, 2004; Vittoria di Palma, Wasteland: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015; Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010; William Viney, Waste: A Philosophy of Things. London: Bloomsbury, 2004; Traci Brynne Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
[6] For a discussion of the relationship between commercial shipping and the onset of the Anthropocene, see J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016; N. Neeman, J. A. Servis, and E. Naro-Maciel, "Conservation Issues: Oceanic Systems." Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Vol. 2. Ed. Dominick A. DellaSala and Michael I. Goldstein. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017. 193-200; James Syvitski, Jan Zalasiewicz, and Colin P. Summerhayes, "Changes to Holocene/Anthropocene Patterns of Sedimentation from Terrestrial to Marine." The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate. Ed. Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Mark Williams, and Colin Summerhayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 107.
[7] "flotsam, n." OED Online. March 2019. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.rice.edu/view/Entry/71946?redirectedFrom=flotsam (accessed March 28, 2019); "jetsam, n." OED Online. March 2019. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.rice.edu/view/Entry/101177?redirectedFrom=jetsam (accessed March 28, 2019).
[8] See A. B. Leonard, "The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance," working paper presented to the Economic History Association, Sept. 2012, http://eh.net.eha.system/files/Leonard.pdf (accessed 3 June 2019).
[9] Testimony of James Kelsall, National Maritime Museum (NMM) REC/19 (formerly MS 66/069); quoted in Andrew Lewis, "Martin Dockray and the Zong: a Tribute in the Form of a Chronology." Journal of Legal History 28.3 (2007): 364.
[10] Granville Sharp, Memoirs of Granville Sharp. Ed. Prince Hoare. London: Colburn, 1820. Appendix viii.
[11] Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
[13] Donna Haraway, "Anthropocene, Capitolocene, Plantationocene, Cthulucene: Making Kin." Environmental Humanities 6 (2015): 162.
[14] Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Posted in Announcements, Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene Cultures | Tagged Anthropocene, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, J. M. W. Turner, Seafaring, Slavery, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Waste |
The New Volcanoes of Industry
Seth Reno
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Seth Reno
Over the past forty years or so, climate researchers have written of the "human volcano" when discussing air pollution and carbon emissions. As early as the 1970s, industrialized nations were spewing so much soot and ash into the atmosphere that the effects imitated a volcanic eruption. In the early twenty-first century, this phenomenon has intensified with the global increase in coal burning resulting in stratospheric pollution previously only seen from volcanic activity. Here's the connection scientists are making:
When major volcanic eruptions occur—such as Tambora in 1815, or Krakatoa in 1883, or Mount St. Helens in 1980, or Mount Pinatubo in 1991—huge clouds of sulphur and volcanic ash enter the atmosphere and stratosphere, traveling around the globe and causing air quality issues, crop failures, and global temperature changes. But the eruption ends, and, while volcanoes can cause severe environmental damage, the most common eruptions affect Earth's ecosystems for only few years. However, unlike an actual volcano, the so-called "human volcano" continues to increase steadily over time. There is no end to the eruption—industrialized nations continue to erupt, slowly and without pause. So, while a volcanic eruption is more catastrophic and destructive in the short term, the human volcano can be more long-lasting, producing what climate scientists call "global warming." Humans, in other words, have become a geophysical force of nature akin to volcanoes.
Rob Wood's depiction of the Tambora eruption in 1815
Humans' ability to modify Earth's ecosystems in this manner is a hallmark of the Anthropocene. Literally meaning "The Age of Humans," the Anthropocene is the proposed name for our current geological epoch, beginning when human activities started to have a noticeable impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. Nobel-prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the term in 2000, writing that the Anthropocene refers to "the present, human-dominated, geologic epoch, supplementing the Holocene," and his writing has spurred nearly two decades of debate among scientists and humanities scholars, with most scholarship centered on defining the characteristics of the Anthropocene and in establishing its dates [1]. Crutzen initially proposed that the Anthropocene began with the Industrial Revolution, citing James Watt's patent of the steam engine in 1784 as a possible marker, while other scientists have since argued for the "Orbis spike" of 1610 or the "bomb spike" of 1964. The later date has recently emerged as the frontrunner for the dating of the Anthropocene [2].
Photograph of industrial pollution in the twenty-first century
However, the human-volcano effect directs our attention back to the eighteenth century as marking the emergence of the Anthropocene. This human volcano, it turns out, is not unique to our contemporary moment: the practice of comparing human activity to volcanoes is part of a literary tradition that began in Britain in the eighteenth century. Poets, painters, and scientists were fascinated by volcanoes, due in large part to the dual developments of geology and industrialization, as well as the high number of major eruptions during this period, most notably Vesuvius in 1737, 1760, 1767, 1779, and 1794; Laki in 1783; and Tambora in 1815. Eighteenth-century geologists argued that volcanoes played a vital role in the formation and evolution of Earth. The violent eruptions of volcanoes and subsequent processes of erosion, decay, and rejuvenation not only imagined a geological time scale for the first time—that is, "deep time"—but also made volcanoes a major attraction for natural historians and tourists alike. At the same time, a range of authors began using volcanic language and imagery in the earliest depictions of industrialization, which was quickly reshaping the landscape and geography of Britain. This conflation of human and geological phenomena depicts humanity as a geological force in a new geological epoch.
One representative example of the many eighteenth-century poets that fused geological and industrial imagery is the relatively unknown priest and poet John Dalton, who marvels at England's quickly-changing landscape in his 1755 Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, at their Return from Viewing the Mines near Whitehaven. In the eighteenth century, Whitehaven was a major coal-mining town in northwestern England, and industrial tourism was common at this time—people were obsessed with new industrial technology. In his humorous poem, Dalton depicts the ladies' tour as a kind of epic-to-the-Underworld narrative, drawing on classical mythology and tropes, but he also supplies real scientific and cultural knowledge about volcanoes and industrialization through a series of extensive footnotes, which were written by his friend, Dr. William Brownrigg. In the poem's opening stanza, Dalton describes Whitehaven's coal mines as volcanoes:
Welcome to light, advent'rous pair!
Thrice welcome to the balmy air
From sulphurous damps in caverns deep,*
Where subterranean thunders sleep,
Or, wak'd, with dire Aetnaean sound
Bellow the trembling mountain round,
Till to the frighted realms of day
Thro' flaming mouths they force their way;
From bursting streams, and burning rocks,**
From nature's fierce intestine shocks;
From the dark mansions of despair,
Welcome once more to light and air! [3]
Several words and images here reference volcanic eruptions: "sulphuruous damps," "subterranean thunders," "Aetnaean sound" (reference to Mount Etna), "trembling mountain," "flaming mouths," "burning rocks." The sights, sounds, smells, and effects of the coal mines parallel those of volcanoes. The footnotes are also quite suggestive. In the first footnote, the author writes of the "dreadful explosions" in the mines, which are "very destructive," "bursting out of the pits with great impetuosity, like the fiery eruptions from burning mountains" (pp. 1–2). He here refers to natural coal-seam fires, which can burn for thousands of years, but which can also be started by human causes, such as accidents and explosions in mines. In the second footnote, he explains that these unintended fires "burn for ages" (p. 2)—an exaggeration, of course, but one that implicitly links the long, slow progress of a geological age with the experience—and projection—of humans' imagined geologic imprint.
These volcanic similes and metaphors continue throughout the poem. Dalton references the "perpetual fire" of industry (l. 44), as well as the "hissing," "moaning," and "roaring" of the "fire-engines" and other modern inventions, all of which produce substances akin to volcanic lava:
But who in order can relate
What terrors still your steps await?
How issuing from the sulphurous coal
Thick Acherontic rivers roll?* (ll. 87–90)
Dalton depicts water pumped from the mines as a kind of hellish water, or lava, akin to the fiery water of Acheron in Hades. In a footnote, he explains the pumping process in more detail, offering a vision of anthropogenic lava: "The water that flows from the coal is collected into one stream, which run towards the fire-engines. This water is yellow and turbid, from a mixture of ocher, and so very corrosive, that it quickly consumes iron" (p. 8).
Newcomen steam pump by Louis Figuer, 1868
Dalton's Descriptive Poem indicates the trajectory of scientific poetry throughout the eighteenth century. The structure of the poem, which alternates between poetry and extensive scientific footnotes, not only anticipates the style made famous by Erasmus Darwin nearly four decades later but also points toward a confluence of scientific and literary writing on volcanoes and industry. Poets and geologists alike wrote extensively of volcanoes and industrialization, often at the same time. For example, the first English translation of Italian geologist Francesco Serao's Natural History of Mount Vesuvius was extracted and written about extensively in a 1747 issue of the Gentleman's Magazine and in subsequent issues throughout the 1750s and 1760s. Focused mainly on the 1737 eruption of Vesuvius, this text exemplifies the kinds of descriptions typical in volcano writings, with an emphasis on fire, heat, smoke, clouds, thunder, earthquakes, and a transformation of the surrounding landscape. Significantly, he frequently compares volcanic activity to human effects: he repeatedly refers to underground volcanic fires as "furnaces"; compares volcanic vapors to those in coal mines; and writes, "The Noise of our Vesuvian Thunder was momentaneous, like the Discharge of a Cannon fir'd at Sea" [4].
Scientist and explorer Sir William Hamilton also focuses on volcanic-industrial connections in his popular and widely-read Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos (1773). Like Serao's text, Observations was extracted and reprinted frequently in literary magazines. At one point, Hamilton compares the smoke and ash of Vesuvius to the fog of London: "it was impossible to judge the situation of Vesuvius, on account of the smoak and ashes, which covered it entirely . . . the sun appearing as through a thick London fog" [5]. As we know now, London's famous fog was mostly the result of suspended particulate matter: soot, smoke, and dust caused from coal burning. In 1825, Charles Lamb would call this "the 'London particular,' so manufactured by Thames, Coal Gas, Smoke, Steam, and Co" [6]. These kinds of scientific-industrial comparisons were widespread in scientific writings: perhaps most famously, the geologist James Hutton presents Earth as a "machine" modeled on the steam engine in his Theory of Earth (1788).
Title page of Hamilton's Observations
By the early nineteenth century, the volcanic-industrial tradition had become "common place" in British writing, as Lord Byron observes in Don Juan (1824) [7]. Scientists such as Humphry Davy, James Smithson, and Luke Howard began to argue explicitly that industrial emissions had atmospheric effects similar to those of volcanic eruptions. In 1804 the editors of the Edinburgh Review expressed amazement that such a connection had "so long eluded observation" [8]. Howard, writing on London in 1812, referred to the chimneys of the city as a collective "volcano of a hundred thousand mouths" [9]. In 1820, the poet James Woodhouse wrote of the "new volcanoes" in Birmingham and Wolverhampton [10]. This literary trope of referring to the "new volcanoes" of industry continues throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a 1902 issue of the Illustrated London News, the thousands of chimneys that reach into the sky above Britain's capital are referred to as "London volcanoes," and today, climate researchers continue to write of the "human volcano" [11].
Vesuvius Eruption in 1767, Plate 1, Observations
In the twenty-first century, humans have supplanted volcanoes as a major catalyst of climate change. The last five years (2014–2018) were the hottest years on record globally, owing almost entirely to the human-volcano effect. While this warming trend is recent, the connections among industrialization, volcanoes, and climate change are not. These connections, which both signal and describe the Anthropocene, form a tradition in eighteenth-century British writing, pointing to 1750 as the dawn of the Anthropocene.
[1] Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, "The 'Anthropocene,'" IGBP Newsletter 41 (2000), p. 17.
[2] For a concise yet comprehensive overview of these debates, see Jeffrey Davies, The Birth of the Anthropocene (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016), esp. chapter two. Also see Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin, "Defining the Anthropocene," Nature 519 (2015): 171–80.
[3] John Dalton, A Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, at their Return from Viewing the Mines near Whitehaven (London, 1755), ll. 1–12.
[4] Francesco Serao, The Natural History of Mount Vesuvius (London, 1743), p. 64.
[5] Sir William Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos (London, 1774), p. 31.
[6] J. C. Thompson, Bibliography of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb: A Literary History (London: J.R. Tutin, 1908), p. 88.
[7] Lord Byron, Don Juan, 13.282.
[8] Quoted in G. M. Matthews, "A Volcano's Voice in Shelley," ELH 24, no. 3 (1957), p. 197.
[9] Luke Howard, The Climate of London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 203.
[10] James Woodhouse, The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus, in The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse, ed. R. R. Woodhouse (London, 1896), p. 25.
[11] Illustrated London News (15 March 1902), p. 17.
Posted in Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene Cultures | Tagged Anthropocene, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Industry, poetry, Tambora, Volcano |
Napoleon, an English Poet, and the Gas Lighting of London
Cynthia Williams
Posted on April 9, 2018 by Cynthia Williams
"Chinese Pagoda and Bridge, in St James's Park" (1820) by Edward Wedlake Brayley
Almost before the ink was dry on the Treaty of Fontainebleau in April of 1814, people of all stations and occupations—including allied generals, monarchs, and heads of state—converged on London to celebrate Napoleon's defeat with a panoply of special events: processions, dinners, balls, performances, worship services, and much, much more. As Edward Orme reported in his souvenir Historical Memento, especially creative were the uses of light [1]. Illuminations were staged in a wondrous variety of places, from banks and parks to the Houses of Parliament; amid the countless candles, oil lamps, torches, and fireworks blazed the efforts of the Gas Light and Coke Company. This young enterprise had just launched an ambitious and truly transformative infrastructure project: installing gas lights on the streets of London. Seven years earlier, Pall Mall had been the first street anywhere in the world to be lit with gas, and now, with legislation permitting bold and extensive excavation, the company eagerly contracted with the government to participate in the grand celebrations of Napoleon's exile (Conlin 7) [2, 3]. Undaunted by issues of scale, their pièce de resistance was the Chinese bridge and pagoda erected in St. James Park, which included 10,000 gas flames. Within a year the company had laid thirty miles of gas pipe in the city (Conlin 7) [2]. By 1826, "fifty-three British cities had gas mains," and the pace picked up from there (Flanders 219) [3]. It's hard to overestimate the impact of gas lighting on London, "the first city to establish uniform lighting as a civic obligation" (Flanders 219) [3]. After all, as Jonathan Conlin reminds us, lighting was not simply an incidental feature of the public sphere; it actually helped to create the public (13) [2].
Felicia Hemans's poem "The Illuminated City" (1826) is said to have been inspired by just this coincidence: the celebrations of 1814 and the installation of gas lights in London [4, 5, 6]. Although Hemans's body of work fell out of favor at the end of the nineteenth century, during her lifetime this enormously popular poet was understood to speak for all of England. As scholar Tricia Lootens has put it, "[f]ew poetic careers can have been more thoroughly devoted to the construction of national identity than was that of Felicia Hemans" (239) [7]. So it's not surprising to read her poem "The Illuminated City" as referencing the incorporation of gas lighting into a civic celebration that helped recalibrate English identity for a post-war paradigm. While the text does not name London (opting instead for allusion, which is typical of Hemans's work), the spectacle of the "royal city" evokes a key moment in English national, imperial, and even (we inhabitants of the Anthropocene might say) planetary history.
In a sensory-rich opening stanza, fire blazes from an array of sources. In the hills, hamlets, forests, and especially the city, "festive light" shines from "lamps [. . .] upon tower and tree"; pillars are "wreath'd with fire"; spires resemble "shooting meteor[s]"; silhouetted buildings sparkle in "the clear dark sky." Through its comprehensive reach, this vista takes in and stabilizes all the varied elements of the landscape; thus, the glow of victory unifies. Soon, however, the poetic speaker realizes that these illuminations might succeed too well. The "bright lamp's glare" is so "dazzling" that he becomes blinded, and so light itself casts a figurative shadow. As the poem explains, these many forms of light prevent us from apprehending vital truths about the cost of war. Life's "deep story" can only be encountered in those places beyond the glare of gas lamps and fireworks. A foreshortened line of sight replaces the vista, and we are denied access to scenes that the poet values as true. Elaborated through five stanzas, the play of light and dark insists on the limits of vision. Thus, in the end, Hemans's poem resists any straightforward reading of brightly lit pageantry the likes of which the summer of 1814 offered. Her rendition of the spectacle suggests an attendant crisis of perception, an intimation of persistent illegibility—blind spots, as it were. Occlusion becomes an important dynamic in her poem of post-war illumination.
Felicia Hemans (1837) by W. E. West
A similar crisis of perception also operates in a second, admittedly minor Hemans poem, "The Curfew Song of England" (1834) [8]. This text memorializes a much earlier iconic moment in English history, when William the Conqueror decreed that all his subjects return home at the sound of the bell and extinguish every light. Here the affront is not the blaze that prevents perception, but instead the prohibition against candle, lamp, rushlight, and most importantly the fire in the hearth. In "The Curfew Song," the fire doused on the order of a foreign oppressor becomes part of the nation's cultural inheritance. Here, once again, the effect is to obscure the sight the poet claims to want to illustrate, for the text peremptorily snuffs out several scenes in quick succession. As in "The Illuminated City," then, the obstructed view is integral to the telling of the national tale. Both texts present moments around which English identity is presumed to cohere, and in both cases, representation is compromised through an important point of tension: artificial light and its control.
"A Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall Mall" (1809) by Thomas Rowlandson
So the centrifugal force in Hemans's body of work—her thematic interest in emigration and military service, her popularity at the farthest Anglophone reaches—is complemented by this additional dynamic. Illumination and its opposite (extinction) are expressions of power with rather complex implications. In "The Illuminated City," even with lamps and pillars and spires aflame, the full truth of national life remains obscured. New technologies might well overreach, unintentionally limiting the vision of the poetic speaker. Left unacknowledged are the vulnerabilities of the nation that the blaze is meant to celebrate.
Plate V from A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light (1815) by Fredrick Accum
Susan Wolfson has recently explained that in the work of Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and other Romantics, the "macro-discharge of lightning communicated the bold, risky spirit of the age" (757) [9]. That Promethean spark offered a kind of electrical sublime. In fact, the image was current enough that Byron's imitator William Sotheby described Napoleon's first defeat as Britain's "lightning stroke" (as cited by Wolfson, 760) [9]. Quite differently, in "The Illuminated City," light is neither natural nor instantaneous. Thus, perhaps it presages a much more sustained and comprehensive gamble. On the occasion of Napoleon's exile to Elba, when England stood at the verge of its fossil-fueled acceleration, the woman whose "mind [was] national property" reckoned with the promise and failings of the moment [10]. Hemans, who, according to her contemporary Jane Williams, unified readers "in the most distant and alienated colonial settlements and in the old home of the British race" (Wolfson 602) [11], anxiously assessed the implications when bright lights obscure sober reflection—when the spectacle of national belonging overpowers and occludes. In both "The Illuminated City" and "The Curfew Song of England," describing what cannot be seen certainly poses a compositional challenge for the poet, but how she stage-manages sources of light is far more than an aesthetic concern. In these texts, Englishness is associated with the coercive control of artificial light. The expanding networks of gas evoked by "The Illuminated City" reify a pervasive alienation and displacement that have become ever more symptomatic of the Anthropocene. Speaking of our own day, Jonathan Crary has argued that we in the twenty-first century encounter increasing "institutional intolerance of whatever obscures or prevents an instrumentalized and unending condition of visibility" (5) [12]. It would seem that Felicia Hemans has foreshadowed this state of affairs.
[1] Orme, Edward. Historical Memento Representing the Different Scenes of Public Rejoicing, which took place the first of August in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London in Celebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814, and the Centenary of the Accession of the Illustrious House of Brunswick to the Throne of these Kingdoms. London, 1814.
[2] Conlin, Jonathan. "Big City, Bright Lights? Night Spaces in Paris and London, 1660-1820." La Sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières: Modèles et Espaces de Sociabilité. Ed. Valerie Capdeville and Eric Francalanza. Editions Le Manuscrit, 2014.
[3] Flanders, Judith. The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes. Atlantic, 2014.
[4] Susan Wolfson, for example, makes this connection in her edition of Hemans's work. See Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials. Princeton UP, 2000. 420.
[5] Gary Kelly associates illuminations in the poem with a different expression of power, when mobs would coerce homeowners to light their windows to show partisan support. See Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters. Ed. Gary Kelly. Broadview, 2002. 345.
[6] "The Illuminated City" was published first in Monthly Magazine as part of a new series in November 1826 (515).
[7] Lootens, Tricia. "Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine 'Internal Enemies,' and the Domestication of National Identity." PMLA 109.2 (March 1994): 238-253.
[8] Hemans, Felicia. "The Curfew Song of England." The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans Complete in One Volume with a Memoir, by Mrs. L. H Sigourney. Phillips and Sampson, 1853. 613-614.
[9] Wolfson, Susan J. "'This is my Lightning' or; Sparks in the Air." SEL 55 (Autumn 2015): 751-786.
[10] Review of The Siege of Valencia by Felicia Hemans. See British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review 20 (July 1823): 53.
[11] Jane Williams wrote an entry on "Felicia Dorothea Hemans" for The Literary Women of England, published in 1862. Wolfson includes extensive passages in her collection (602).
[12] Crary, Jonathan. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. Verso, 2013.
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Austen and the Anthropocene
Kent Linthicum
Posted on January 23, 2018 by Kent Linthicum
"Jane Austen Populaire 3" (2016) by Eymery. Wikimedia Commons.
Modern adaptations of Jane Austen's works rarely emphasize climate change. The intrigues of Austen's protagonists are capacious enough to accommodate murder mysteries, high school dramas, and even zombies. Yet climate fiction, or "cli-fi," has yet to re-imagine Longbourn, Mansfield Park, or Donwell Abbey. While those adaptations would be welcome, they may not be necessary, as Austen's works might already show the traces of the human modification of climate. Austen's fictions and, more broadly, works of British literature from the long eighteenth century come from a significant moment in history: the start of the Anthropocene.
Since at least the early twentieth century, scientists and scholars have noted the increasing ways humanity has altered the environment. In 2002, Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen argued,
It seems appropriate to assign the term 'Anthropocene' to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene — the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia. The Anthropocene could be said to have started in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when analyses of air trapped in polar ice showed the beginning of growing global concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane. This date also happens to coincide with James Watt's design of the steam engine in 1784. [1]
Crutzen is not the first scholar to call for a geologic period defined by human activity. He is not even the first person to coin the term "Anthropocene." But Crutzen's call galvanized scholars and the public. Now a piece of geologic jargon is a growing field of study across disciplines and even has entered the public sphere, earning attention from The Economist, The Guardian (twice), and The New York Times.
The dating of the Anthropocene (i.e., when this new epoch begins) is a point of disagreement among scientists, social scientists, and historians. Crutzen argues that 1784 should be considered the inception of the epoch. Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin argue that the beginning of the Columbian Exchange, in the 1600s, should mark the start of the Anthropocene [2]. Recently, Colin N. Waters and his colleagues have argued the starting date for the Anthropocene should be in the mid-twentieth century because of the dramatic evidence of humanity's effects on the environment, such as a radical increase in carbon emissions and the traces of nuclear weapons use [4]. Unsurprisingly, the dating of the Anthropocene is a political act: who is to blame for the widening gyre of climate change? [5]. Is the developed world to blame? The West? The United States of America? The wealthy? Those question are significant, but for The 18th-Century Common let us focus one suggestion put forward by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz in The Shock of the Anthropocene (2016). These authors wryly note that the Anthropocene might be better labeled the "Anglocene," given that the United Kingdom and the United States together produced more carbon dioxide than the rest of the world combined before the twentieth century (116) [6]. The United Kingdom, and England specifically, are a significant locus for the Industrial Revolution and therefore carbon dioxide production. As E. A. Wrigley shows, the English and Welsh consumption of energy, especially coal, increased rapidly from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century [7]. The advent of steam engines, thanks to efforts of engineers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, help drive this widening hunger for coal.
An Atmospheric Engine from A Course of Experimental Philosophy (1734) by John Theophilus Desaguliers, vol. 2, Plate 37. Wikimedia Commons.
The Newcomen atmospheric engine was one of the first successful steam engines. Invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, the engine was both simple and complex. Water was heated with coal to create steam. The steam would rise, entering the chamber under the piston and pushing the piston up. Then the steam was cooled rapidly, creating a partial vacuum, causing the atmospheric pressure to push the piston down. The Newcomen engine was primarily deployed to pump water out of mines although it was used in a few other industrial and civic applications. At coal mines the Newcomen engine facilitated a positive feedback loop: miners could mine coal to fuel the engine, which allowed them to drain inaccessible areas of the mine, which allowed them to mine coal to fuel the engine, and so on. Coal became self-propagating as burning coal allowed the mines to extract more coal. And even though the Newcomen engine was quite inefficient, the collieries used coal they would otherwise be unable to sell. The Newcomen engine helped make coal even more accessible to both miners and consumers.
Extracting the coal was not enough though; it needed to be moved to the consumer. Coal was transported by roads, then ships, then canals, then railroads. Turnpikes made it easier to transport coal overland, ultimately to rivers or the coast. Ships moved coal from the north of England towards the south, although threats from foreign navies and privateers made overland transport more attractive. Some of the first canals were built to facilitate the movement of coal, like the Sankey Canal, which connected collieries in St Helens with the River Mersey and thus manufacturers in Lancashire. In some cases the infrastructure started at the pit mouth and extended out, like the first railroads. This is not to suggest that all infrastructure served coal, other commodities and people also drove these innovations. Eventually though infrastructure, especially the railroad like its progenitor the Newcomen engine, became inextricably linked to coal.
"Viaduct across the Sankey Valley" (1831) by Thomas Talbot Bury. Wikimedia Commons.
At the same time, manufacturers were beginning to adopt new mechanical modes of production. Famously, Richard Arkwright helped create a new system of water- then steam-powered textile manufacturing. James Watt's improvements upon Newcomen's engine, specifically adding a separate condenser, greatly improved efficiency. These revolutions in industry do not indicate the embeddedness of coal in British society though; Newcomen and Watt merely found a new way to utilize a fuel that was already in widespread circulation. Due to a perceived wood scarcity in the Early Modern period, inhabitants of London began burning coal to heat their homes (Cavert 18-22) [8]. Additionally, even though most coal use was domestic in the Early Modern period, it was burned for a range of industrial applications: iron, salt, glass, bricks, pottery, beer. Coal was important enough that as the British fought in the War of Spanish succession, Queen Anne articulated only two significant policy positions for the new session of Parliament in November 1703: a further recruitment of sailors for the Royal Navy and a reduction in the price of coal to keep London from experiencing unrest (Cavert 143). Coal was increasingly integrated into the British economy throughout the long eighteenth century.
Coal does not seem to play a large role in any of Austen's works, although I would suggest the fossil fuel is like Sir Bertram's plantation and its slaves in Antigua: unseen but still significant. Coal does make a brief appearance in Mansfield Park (1814). Late in the novel, when Fanny has been sent back to her parents, she is welcomed by Mrs. Price, who understandably wants to make her daughter comfortable after her long journey,
"Dear me!" continued the anxious mother, "what a sad fire we have got, and I dare say you are both starved with cold. Draw your chair nearer, my dear. I cannot think what Rebecca has been about. I am sure I told her to bring some coals half an hour ago. Susan, you should have taken care of the fire." (Austen 257) [9]
Mrs. Price's request for coal is innocuous: the fire is low and needs more fuel. But Austen does not often mention what is being burned in the fireplaces her protagonists gather around. Her acknowledgement of coal here is telling. The mention of coal is likely not to highlight that the Prices are using coal. Coal was burned at all social strata. The wealthy just burned more coal, burned less noxious coal, and burned other fuels too (Cavert 26-27). Rather, Austen likely is drawing the reader's attention to the fact that the Price's daughters have to attend to the fire, rather than the servants at Mansfield Park, and that the daughters have failed in that task, again unlike the mostly unseen servants. In twenty-first century terms, Mrs. Price is telling her daughters to turn the thermostat up now that company is over. This moment is one of Fanny's many significant interactions with fire throughout the novel. The warmth of a fire or the lack thereof is a metonym for her feelings of comfort: the excitement of planning the Lover's Vows in a cozy fire-warmed room (Austen 101), the sadness of being denied a fire in her room by Mrs. Norris (106), the joy of being granted a fire by Sir Bertram (202), and ultimately sitting without a fire in Portsmouth (270). Her relationship to warmth, fuel, and heat—an aesthetic motif which coveys her social desires—is predicated on a developing carbon infrastructure, an infrastructure that was already obscured because of how commonplace it was.
"'Am I to understand' said Sir Thomas, 'that you mean to refuse Mr. Crawford?'" (1908) by C. E. Brock. Wikimedia Commons.
Jane Austen's works ultimately are not climate fiction. Her novels and the works of other British writers in the long eighteenth century though do merit examination as existing among the first texts of the Anthropocene or proto-Anthropocene. Those works are the product of British cultures which were being transformed by the expansion of coal usage. Concurrently, these British cultures were impelling and impeding the expansion of coal use: driving miners deeper into the ground while also decrying the costs to the environment and people. The ultimate definition of the Anthropocene will likely rest with future geologists and stratigraphers. The evidence for an Anthropocene that begins in the middle of the twentieth century is fairly persuasive. Although, as Matt Edgeworth and his colleagues argue, selecting a single moment of time for the inception of the Anthropocene is difficult due to the ways that sediments are deposited, shifted, and altered over time through geologic and anthropomorphic forces [10]. But in Jane Austen's world, England and zones connected to England through political, military, or commercial reach were already dependent on fossil fuel use. Now is the time to re-evaluate the ways eighteenth-century cultures and peoples acknowledged or ignored this energy transition, the promethean steps of a species-cum-geologic-force.
[1] Crutzen, Paul J. "Geology of Mankind." Nature 415.6867 (2002): 23.
[2] Lewis, Simon L. and Mark A. Maslin. "Defining the Anthropocene." Nature 519.7542 (2015): 171–80.
[3] Waters, Colin N. et al. "The Anthropocene is Functionally and Stratigraphically Distinct from the Holocene." Science 351.6269 (2016).
[5] Malm, Andreas, and Alf Hornborg. "The Geology of Mankind? A Critique of the Anthropocene Narrative." Anthropocene Review 1 (2014): 62–69.
[6] Bonneuil, Christophe and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Shock of the Anthropocene. Trans. David Fernbach. London: Verso, 2016.
[7] Wrigley, E. A. "Energy and the English Industrial Revolution." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences 371.1986 (2013).
[8] Cavert, William M. The Smoke of London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.
[9] Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Ed. Claudia Johnson. New York: Norton, 1998.
[10] Edgeworth, Matt. "Diachronous Beginnings of the Anthropocene: The Lower Bounding Surface of Anthropogenic Deposits." The Anthropocene Review 2.1 (2015): 33–58.
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Basseterre, St. Kitts – October 2, 2012 – In another pioneering move, telecommunications provider LIME, today announced that St. Kitts and Nevis will achieve 4G technology before the end of this year, becoming the first to offer 4G voice and data technologies in the Federation.
In the initial phase, a number of cell sites in the commercial centers and highly populated areas in St. Kitts and Nevis will be upgraded to 4G. These sites will cover the Basseterre, Cayon and Sandy Point areas in St. Kitts and Charlestown and Gingerland areas in Nevis.
For LIME Customers, this means that people with 4G enabled devices in and around these areas will be able to access super-fast data transmission speeds. Such devices include the Samsung Galaxy SIII, BlackBerry Bold 9900, the Apple iPhone 4S and the Huawei Mi-fi E586, all of which are available at LIME's retail stores in Basseterre and Charlestown.
According to Lake, the ground work has already begun and things have been progressing smoothly.
4G networks give customers higher data speeds compared to EDGE and 3G. It will allow faster connections, quicker browsing and file downloads as well as super-fast access to apps. It will enhance the mobile lifestyle and experience that people require today.
LIME already offers 4G in Barbados, Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands as well as key commercial districts in Jamaica. St. Kitts and Nevis will be the first country in the OECS to get this advanced mobile technology.


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Feeding San Diego awards $25,000 to nine community partners serving seniors
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Feeding San Diego awarded $25,000 in grant funds this month to nine community partners serving seniors in San Diego County. This is part of Feeding San Diego's Feeding Seniors initiative, which provides healthy meals to nearly 5,000 food-insecure seniors through strategic partnerships every week.
Focused on improving the impact and reach of services offered to vulnerable seniors in our community, Feeding San Diego selected nine community partners to receive grant awards. These organizations include Special Delivery, Alpha Project, Community Resource Center, Mountain Health and Community Services, Hope Through Housing, First Congregational Church of Ramona, Bread of Life, Ruth Anointed World Ministries, and City Heights Community Development Corporation.
According to projections from the California Department of Finance, the state's senior population is growing faster than any other age group and is forecasted to reach 13.5 million by 2060 (from 5.5 million in 2016). This rapid growth of the senior community is adding significant stress to the existing network of senior services and facilities. In addition, Feeding America's recent annual report series on the state of senior hunger states that 5.5 million individuals, or 1 in 12 seniors, were food insecure in 2017. In fact, the current number of seniors who are food insecure is more than double what it was in 2001. Moreover, older adults and seniors face a harsh and unfair choice every month: purchasing food versus paying rent, healthcare and other utilities.
The details of community partner approved grants are as follows:
Special Delivery received a grant of $6,500 towards staff funding.
Alpha Project received a grant of $4,200 for the purchase of a freezer.
Community Resource Center received a grant of $3,431 to be used towards the purchase of equipment such as Fitbit trackers, water bottles, ramp, and tote bags.
Mountain Health and Community Services received a grant of $2,966 for the purchase of a cooler.
Hope Through Housing received a grant of $1,900 for the purchase of shelving, chest freezers and wheeled coolers.
First Congregational Church of Ramona received a grant of $1,600 for dry goods to support a senior mobile home.
Bread of Life received a grant of $1,600 for the purchase of a freezer.
Ruth Anointed World Ministries received a grant of $1,548 for the purchase of an iceless cooler.
City Heights Community Development Corporation received a grant of $1,255 towards the purchase of iPads.
Over the past two weeks, Vince Hall, CEO of Feeding San Diego presented checks to:
Erik Tilkemeier, Director of Economic and Urban Development, City Heights Community Development Corporation, on July 22.
John Van Cleef, Executive Director of Community Resource Center, on July 25.
Bob McElroy, CEO of Alpha Project Alpha Project, on July 29.
CNN Hero, Ruth Henricks, the Executive Director of Special Delivery San Diego, on August 2.
"We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to award these funds to nine deserving organizations and support their missions to better the lives of seniors in San Diego County," shared Vince Hall, CEO of Feeding San Diego.
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