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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 9, 2018 file photo, Hua Qu, the wife of detained Chinese-American Xiyue Wang, poses for a photograph with a portrait of her family in Princeton, N.J. Iran's foreign minister says a detained Princeton graduate student will be exchanged for an Iranian scientist held by the U.S. Mohammed Javad Zarif made the announcement on Twitter on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. The trade involves graduate student Xiyue Wang and scientist Massoud Soleimani. Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly "infiltrating" the country and sending confidential material abroad. His family and Princeton strongly denied the claims. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister said Saturday a detained Princeton graduate student will be exchanged for an Iranian scientist held by the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions.
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the announcement on Twitter. The trade involves graduate student Xiyue Wang and scientist Massoud Soleimani.
"Glad that Professor Massoud Soleimani and Mr. Xiyue Wang will be joining their families shortly," Zarif wrote. "Many thanks to all engaged, particularly the Swiss government."
In his tweet, Zarif confirmed rumors that had been circulating for days that a deal was in the works to free Wang.
There was no immediate acknowledgment of the trade by the U.S. Lawyers involved in the cases could not be immediately reached. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly "infiltrating" the country and sending confidential material abroad. His family and Princeton University strongly denied the claims. Iran has detained dual Iranian nationals and those with Western ties in the past to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations.
Tensions have been high between Iran and the U.S. since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in May 2018. In the time since, the U.S. has imposed harsh sanctions on Iran's economy. There also have been a series of attacks across the Mideast that the U.S. blames on Iran.
Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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When Angele Jurgelaityte knocked on her aunt's door in late September 1941, Ona Kreivenas lived on a farm near Alvitas, where she taught school, and had on her hands a growing family. There were three children and an infant. Mindaugas, Carmen, Ramute, and Gema, the new baby come into being a year earlier, were not any of them older than Angele. Even Mindaugas, the eldest, was three years younger than their thirteen-year-old cousin from Gizai.
Alvitas is a village on a lake of the same name. It is on the main road. There was a parish church built of stone, an elementary school, more than thirty houses, and almost four hundred inhabitants.
When Ona came to the front door, she was by herself. She had lost her husband a year earlier. She had since that day become a stern woman. "She was pretty, like a doll, but I was afraid of her. I broke a dish once and was scared to death of what she would say when she found out." Her aunt bid hello to the teenaged girl, who she had been half-expecting, if not warmly, at least with a measure of relief.
Angele had spent the day walking to her aunt's farmhouse from her family's farm, where she decided she could no longer live with the stepmother her father had married the month before, six months after her mother's death. She left three brothers and a sister behind.
"He was a police chief," she about her uncle, Jonas Kreivenas. "The Russians deported him. He didn't do anything bad. It didn't matter, they just took him away."
The Russians started planning mass arrests and deportations the year before, in 1940, after the Red Army occupied Lithuania and the adjacent Baltic nations. Jonas Kreivenas was one of the first arrested in 1940. They targeted government officials, nationalists, the well-to-do, Catholics, policemen, and anyone they decided was an "anti-Soviet element."
If you were a party member, you were going to prosper, rather than get sent to Siberia.
"I had a friend not far from our farm whose father was a blacksmith, who didn't read or write. When the Russians came, they threw out the mayor, in the town where they lived, and made him the mayor, because he was a Communist. Everyone high up, they threw out."
The mass arrests began a year later the night of Friday June 13 as NKVD troops fanned out across the country, scooping up men and entire families, carrying them to Vilnius. Nearly twenty thousand Lithuanians were forcibly marched into the boxcars of seventeen trains on Thursday June 19 and railroaded to the far end of Russia. Three days later the German army invaded Lithuania, the Luftwaffe catching the Russian air force unaware on the ground and destroying it. By mid-week the new Wehrmacht had swept the old Soviet resistance aside.
The Russians were out. The Germans were in. "The Germans weren't good, but life was better for us. At least they didn't deport us. Most of us hated the Russians."
An independent Lithuanian government was put in place, but it shortly became clear that the German military held all the power. Lithuanian Jews began to bear the brunt of the occupation. They were forced to wear yellow stars and their money and property was taken away.
That spring, before Jonas Kreivenas was taken away by the Russians, he had gotten everything he needed to build an upstairs indoor bathroom, lumber, tiles, fixtures, a sink, and a bathtub. It was going to be his summer project. When the war came back to Lithuania three summers later, in 1944, the second floor was still torn up, and the bathroom was still not a bathroom.
"The rooms were never finished upstairs."
Jonas had started work on his bathroom, working in his spare time, walls and floors opened, but everything was still in boxes stacked up in corners. Ona hoped against hope for her husband's return. The house was brick, fitted with large front windows, four rooms on the ground floor, a kitchen and dining room, and two bedrooms. The second floor was a floor.
"They lived on a farm that wasn't big, but a little bigger and much nicer than my father's. It wasn't primitive," said Angele.
"Everyone had either a large farm or a small farm, although almost everyone had small farms. Mamyte had a larger farm. She sometimes had men come and do work, but I still ended up having to work much harder than I ever did at my family's farm."
There was a cellar where they kept canned food and apples for the winter. There were chickens, cows, two work horses, a horse for riding, and lots of pigs. "She had a herd of them. Mamyte had a pig killed when we needed one, and we ate them."
She had to feed the pigs while they lived and fattened.
"We kept a big pot in the kitchen where I boiled potatoes for the pigs every day. I had to bring all the water in from the well, not just for the pigs, but for everything."
Earlier in the summer, within days of the Red Army's collapse, the Einsatzgruppen followed the German army into Lithuania, their mission to liquidate Jews. Synagogues were set on fire and thousands of Jews killed in the streets. The Germans claimed rioting was a menace to public order and rounded up the country's Jews, isolating them in ghettos to "protect them."
By the end of the next summer Angele was still working hard but tired of being a hired hand. "I was young, and I had a lot of energy. I didn't get tired. I watched the kids. Carmen was my best friend. I loved Gema the most. Ramute cried too much. She bent her fingers backwards until they hurt, and then started crying, saying that her hand hurt. I had to work all the time."
She worked from before sunup to sundown. "I was the cook and made soup every day. I made the beds and I had to work all around the farm." She washed dishes and put them away. She washed clothes by hand and hung them on a line outside to dry. She washed the kids, keeping them clean.
"I was her sister's daughter, but I was her house maid, too."
She made the fire that had to get going every day. She carried coal inside and knocked ice off the stairs in wintertime. Mindaugas was a strong boy and helped as much as he could. Carmen helped, too. Ramute was too small to do much and Gema was too small for anything. Ona went to town to teach school every day. In the summer she worked in the fields. Everybody did what they could.
One day when she was on the second floor, Angele overheard through an open window her aunt talking to a man in the front yard about that spring's seeding.
"I have a servant, but she's still young, and only so good to me," said Ona.
She realized her aunt was talking about her, about her being more a servant, less a niece. "I promised myself from that moment that when I grew up, I would never be anyone's servant, that no one would ever say that about me again."
She put feed and water out for the chickens. She gathered eggs early and often. She collected them twice a day, so they stayed clean. It kept the chickens from eating them, as well. She herded cows to their milking stalls. She wore knee-high boots when walking knee-deep in pig mire. She put pebbles in the manger with the oats so the horses wouldn't eat too fast. She mended fences the best she could when the pigs and cows bumped into them.
She and her father were sitting together under a gathering summer dusk in Gizai one day. "My father always called me Aneluke." He told her his plans for the future. "Aneluke, when I die, I am going to leave the farm to you."
Her aunt talked to her about vocational classes at a nearby farm school, where she could learn animal husbandry, vegetable production, and seasonal planning.
But after working on her father's farm, and then working on her aunt's farm, she had made up her mind farming wasn't in her blood. "I didn't like animals, and I hated the ground, the earth. I was never going to grow up to be a farmer."
She was fourteen years old. She didn't say anything to her father, but she told her aunt no.
When Angele's grandfather died, Ona and her children went to Gizai for the funeral, but Angele had to stay behind and watch both the baby and the farm. "I was so unhappy," she said.
She thought about her future, even though she was in the between of the war going on all around them. She thought about meeting boys. She thought about changing her name.
"I never liked my name. That's why my father called me Aneluke."
Her youngest brother didn't like his name, either. Even though he been christened Mindaugas, after the legendary king, he changed it. When he told everybody far and wide young and old his new name was Jozukas, everybody went along with him, and he became Jozukas from then on.
She made friends with a boy she met at a dinner at a neighboring farm. They sat next to each other and talked. "I liked him, but one day Mindaugas and I were going to Vilkaviskis in the buggy when I saw him on the road. He was on a bike and a girl was walking beside him, walking towards us. They were holding hands. After that, I didn't like him at all."
No matter that the farmhouse remained unfinished, her aunt decided to wire up the farm. Although electricity was available in the cities, voltage drops over distance often made rural electrification impossible, or simply too costly. When farmers had the chance to tap into a network, they often jumped at the chance.
Their fertile croplands paved the way out of the dark for the Kreivenas family.
Ona arranged for the work to be done, making plans through her relations. They found an electrician for her. "Mamyte sent me to Vilkaviskis, to pick him up, the electrician from Kaunas, who was coming on the train."
Vilkaviskis, on the banks of the Seimina River, is almost fifty miles northwest of Alytus. After she hitched up one of the horses to their wagon, it took her and Mindaugas all day to get there. They skirted the ruins of the Jewish quarter. That night they slept in the wagon, and the next morning set off for home, taking the electrician with them.
"He was hard to understand," she said about him. Lithuanians from different regions of the country have accents and often have their own way of saying things. "There was a man from Zemaitija once, we could hardly understand what he was saying. They drop the endings of their words."
Until 1941 Vilkaviskis had a large Jewish community. That summer SS death squads, helped by Lithuanian collaborators, killed more than three thousand Jews. It was virtually every single one of them in the town. The SS tore down and destroyed their homes afterwards. In 1943 more Jewish ghettos were demolished, and the living transferred to concentration camps. When the war ended almost all of them weren't alive anymore.
The genocide rate in Lithuania, where anti-Semitism had been endemic for generations, was more than 90%, one of the highest in Europe.
There was a severe shortage of sugar throughout Europe, disrupted by worldwide conflict and blockade. The German military needed it to support its armed forces and its war effort at home. Sugar beet planting in Poland and the Baltics was ramped up. In 1942 more than 20% of Lithuanian farmers, the most ever, cultivated sugar beets. Production was expected to increase by 25% in 1943. Potatoes were in high demand. Grain was in high demand. The Axis paid in Reichsmarks, better money in Europe than anybody else's.
Ona Kreivenas invested her bounty in electrification.
"The electrician put in wires and lights. The black box was in the kitchen." They were warned to never touch it. "We didn't have to use oil lamps anymore. We were so happy."
Carmen, Ramute, and Angele slept in the dining room, an improvised bedroom in the four-room house. To the left of the foyer was the kitchen and to the right was the dining room. Ona had the large bedroom and Mindaugas the small one. At the back of the house stairs led to a root cellar.
"We read books at night until mamyte told us lights out. She was a strict mother. We would always turn the light off right away. She knew when we did because she had a blinking light in her room which told her when the lights had been turned off. We pretended being quiet until we knew she was asleep, and then turned the light back on so we could read some more. After we got tired of reading, we turned the light off and talked until we finally fell asleep."
In March 1943 the German authorities closed the Academy of Education and all Lithuanian schools of higher education. Ona taught grade school and wasn't affected. She continued going to work. Everybody was uneasy. The war on the Eastern Front wasn't going well for the Germans. The Wehrmachct was losing the ability to mount offensive operations.
"I couldn't go to school because I had to work so much. I finished six grades, and I wanted to learn, so mamyte found a tutor for me. I went to her house for two years, studying high school."
She wanted to be somebody other than a maid or farmhand.
Two months later in May the Gestapo outdated Lithuania's local electorates. In September the last Jews in the ghetto of Vilnius were dragged out to the streets. Those who could work were sent to labor camps. The rest were shot.
When the New Year 1944 came, news was broadcast that Antanas Smetona, the first and last president of independent Lithuania, who fled his home and country in 1940, had died in a house fire in Cleveland, Ohio. His death closed the chapter on the interwar years, when Lithuania had been free and clear.
"We had a radio and listened to the news every day. We knew it was bad for the Germans. We knew the Russians were coming back." Everybody was worried and scared about the return of the USSR. "We all knew something bad was going to happen."
In early August 1944, the German army was driven out of most of Lithuania by Soviet forces and Russian hegemony was re-established. They were the same days of the war that marked the Battle of Normandy in the west, which soon led to French liberation and independence.
"When the Russians came, it all happened in one day. We got our wagon, the horses, the four children, and a cow. We needed the cow and left as fast as we could."
They and hundreds of other families camped at a large farm only a few miles from the East Prussian border, biding their time. When the Red Army again pushed west in September, and what was left of the German army fled before them, the refugees crossed the frontier.
"We got across the border into East Prussia at night. It was a wet cold night. There wasn't a single border guard. Nobody else in my family, none of my brothers and my sister, nobody, made it out before the border was closed by the Russians."
She was free for the moment in German land, but her family kinsmen friends and the rest of the country stayed under the callused thumb of Moscow for the next nearly fifty years.
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Children are innocent young souls. It is because of this innocence that we need to protect them, care for them, and teach them about the ways of the world. It is also important for parents to teach them how to be better people.
A couple checked on their son one night to find him sleeping with his pet fish. The shocking sight made the parents realize just how innocent their son was and that there were some important life lessons they had to teach him.
Tori and Corey Hamlin had bought their young son, Everett, a gold fish and a tank with colorful lights. Everett loved looking at his pet gold fish, Nemo, every day. He always made sure that the tank was be clean and that it had all the trimmings and decor that would make Nemo happy.
One day, while the family was preparing for the evening, Everett got busy. He grew tired of just watching Nemo so he approached the tank and opened the lid. He had a hard time doing it, so his parents heard a loud crash.
But when his mother asked if something had happened, Everett said it was nothing. Unbeknownst to mom Everett had taken out Nemo from his tank and carried him to bed because he wanted to pet him. He thought that Nemo must have been lonely in his tank so he wanted to give his little pet a hug, keep him company through the night.
While on the way to the bathroom, just 10-15 minutes later Tori checked on her son with her husband. It was then that she noticed the lid on the fish tank missing! But even crazier was the fact that she couldn't find the fish inside the tank. Confused, she asked her husband to check on the fish with her, which is when he noticed what his son was cradling in his hand. Nemo.
The shocked couple woke up their son to explain to him that Nemo was gone because fish needed to stay in the water. He said that he just wanted to pet his fish and that he didn't mean it. They had a lengthier talk in the morning. Everett was calmer, but he was still very upset over losing Nemo, whom he loved very much and had since he was a baby.
Tori and Corey realized how innocent their little boy really was and they also realized that this was one of those unavoidable moments when a child learns what it means for someone—or something—close to them to pass away. They got Everett another fish, and the boy promised he wouldn't touch it.
He realized that it was much better to appreciate his fish inside the tank than to touch them and put them at risk.


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It's been a while since we got to roam the booths and gawk at the incredible rigs featured at Overland Expo, one of our favorite annual trade shows. Thankfully, the Expo series is back in full swing this year, with three shows happening across the country. The events bring together overland-vehicle builders and enthusiasts looking to buy their next adventuremobile, and they never fail to spur ideas on how to make current ones better.
If you're into adventure rigs, the expo can be overwhelming—your head feels like it's on a swivel for the duration of the weekend, and just when you think you've seen all there is to see, you find something else to drool over.
Last month's event in Loveland, Colorado, was the first Overland Expo Mountain West, and while it was considerably smaller than the flagship Overland Expo West that takes place each year in Flagstaff, Arizona, there was still plenty to admire. Instead of focusing on the coolest rigs at the venue, I went on a search for the best new gear that will work for anyone, no matter what kind of setup you've got. Here are of my favorite finds.
You likely know Dometic for its excellent powered coolers (I've run the CFX3 55IM in my camper for years), but the brand is stepping up its camping and outdoor-living game even more. The Dometic Go collection includes furniture, storage solutions, lighting, and a fantastic hydration system, all designed to make packing for camp and staying out longer easier.
Dometic's camp table ($200), chair ($150), and bench ($100) seem incredibly sturdy but fold down small enough to fit into the trunk of a car. There's even a personal 12-volt camp heater ($80) that can double as a seat heater if your vehicle doesn't have one. The new Pac H50 Hard Storage aluminum case ($150) houses removable, soft-sided inserts to help keep your gear organized and protected, and you can even get an insulated one if you want to keep snacks cool on the drive. The collection will be available in spring 2022.
The hydration-jug and water-faucet combo is the crown jewel of the Dometic Go collection, and I think it deserves its own mention. Here's why: when it comes to camp comfort, the two biggest game changers are refrigeration and running water. After playing hard in the outdoors all day, coming back to enjoy these two simple necessities goes leaps and bounds toward feeling like a human. This pairing makes such comforts more accessible to everyone.
The faucet has a built-in, rechargeable battery that powers the pump, an LED light for nighttime use, and a magnetic base that allows it to adhere to other surfaces. That means you can turn the back of your car into a mobile kitchen and have running water for washing your hands, dishes, or whatever else wherever you are—no hand-pumping needed—just by tapping the top of the faucet. It pairs with the 11-liter hydration water jug, which is easy to pack (it'll fit behind your vehicle's wheel well) and carry to the campsite. Two openings help facilitate easy cleaning.
The Overland Expo shows aren't just about looking at new camper and adventure-rig options; they're also a great resource for DIY-oriented folks to generate ideas on how to build out their own rig. Steelhouse Fabrication, a new company out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is aiming to make building out your own camping trailer or Sprinter van easier than ever with its innovative line of camp-kitchen modules. The concept is simple: buy a 6-by-12-foot cargo trailer, then purchase one of Steelhouse's Culinary units and $650 dinette sleeper, and you've effectively got a fully outfitted camper for less than $8,000. In a world of $30,000 teardrop trailers and $80,000 off-road travel trailers, that's an incredible bargain.
The Culinary module is designed to be completely modular, and it's easily removable should you need to use your cargo trailer for hauling. It can hold up to five gallons of fresh and gray water, utilize a 56- or 100-amp-hour lithium battery, 90-watt solar panel, and a 1,500-watt inverter; it also has a sink, LED lighting, two or three shelves, and USB charging ports and outlets, depending on how you configure it. If you're looking to build your own camper and you're on a budget, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better or simpler turnkey solution.
We've written about Pakmule before, and the benefits of carrying extra gear behind your rig versus up on a roof: it's more convenient, keeps your center of gravity lower, and lets you haul heavy stuff like firewood or a loaded cooler.
The problem with a hitch-mounted carrier like Pakmule's is that you can't use a hitch-mounted bike rack—but the Bike Bit changes that. It's a welded, fork-style mount that attaches to the Pakmule and lets you load bikes directly on it. There are options for road or mountain bikes, and you can fit up to four at a time. The real beauty of it, though, is that you don't have to choose between carrying a cooler and bikes, and with some creative arranging, you can haul all of your gear down low via your vehicle's hitch, where it belongs.
Chances are you already use some kind of mapping app for human-powered adventures like mountain biking or hiking, but OnX Off Road is the best navigation app I've used that's specifically for off-road driving. When you open the app, a Nearby Trails section pops up and lists various options in your area, along with a technical rating and detailed information.
While it's not brand-new, the company recently added 3D mapping features to its desktop site and for iOS users, which is incredibly helpful when you're planning your route and trying to visualize what a trail will look like. (I learned that firsthand while en route to Overland Expo Mountain West this year, driving trails in the mountains while towing my teardrop trailer.)
One of the most popular pieces of gear at Overland Expo wasn't a part for your rig but a giant wipe for cleaning yourself at camp. Credit the 90-plus-degree heat and dusty campground for making it so popular at the show, but anyone who's taken a "shower" with baby wipes in the past will appreciate the Shower Pouch.
Its size—two feet by one feet—means you can wash hard-to-reach places, like the middle of your back, and wipe your whole body down with just one cloth. It also has several fancy ingredients, like witch hazel water, organic white willow bark extract, and tea tree leaf oil, to leave you feeling refreshed and smelling good at the end of a long day. And the Shower Pouch is reusable; its makers suggest throwing it in the washing machine when you get home and then reimagining it as a cloth to wash your dishes, clean your car, or anything else you can think of.
If you're not familiar with Step 22 Gear, the brand makes some of the nicest bags and organizational tools for overlanding and general adventure travel that I've ever used. Its booth was full of cool products, but my favorite is the Pangolin tool roll. I've been testing it for the past several months, and it's become one of the essential items I keep in my truck at all times.
Made from 1,000-denier nylon, it's built to last; better yet, it ensures that all my tools can be found in the same place. That proved useful at the expo when my camper's awning bent from severe wind and I needed to fix it quickly. At 2.4 pounds, this tool roll is lighter than a standard toolbox, and all of its pouches and organizational units are modular, so you can customize it depending on what tools you want to carry.
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That's me inside an Olafur Eliasson installation in the Margulies Collection. The work is titled Your Now is My Surroundings. A door inside the gallery leads you outside to a deep and narrow box of a space. The high walls are covered with mirrors above eye level that reflect the viewers' image infinitely. The skylight above is only covered by a drainpipe construction in a zigzag pattern that resembles water waves. It lets the air in. The sky is like a bright canopy on top of a dark box. Inside the installation you feel like you are immersed in the depths of the ocean looking up to the sky above. The day I was there it was a bright sunny day with few clouds. On a rainy day you could probably feel like you were lost deep in the dark ocean (and wet!).


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      [ <EMRI_PS_JOB_DATA_record> ]
      { <other_records> }
       <page_offset_records>

<other_records> ::= <page_content_records> |
      <font_definition_records> |
      <font_offset_records> |
      <EMRI_DEVMODE_record> |
      <EMRI_PRESTARTPAGE_record>

etc.
I know that text in [ ] means 'optional', but what does text in { } mean?
Is it perhaps a more general convention of writing documentation like this?
This is the link with the full syntax:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231157.aspx

A: After a more thorough search in MSDN, I found out that this is Extended Backus–Naur Form (EBNF) notation. As a result an expression in { } means an expression repeated zero or more times.

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Q: How to reformat long date to short version in Excel I have column with dates in format
2017-12-05 12:16:20

I´d like to change the format to
05.12.2017

I tried it via right muse button > Format Cells > Date but even if I tried all short date versions my tables remain the same.

A: Format Cells, Custom, Type: dd.mm.yyyy
below, I pasted "2017-12-05 12:16:20" into cells A1 and A2, and reformatted A2 by entering "dd.mm.yyyy" in the "Type:" box in the "Format Cells" Custom dialog.


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Biweekly Discussion Thread #8
Forum » Forum Discussion / Library Universe » Biweekly Discussion Thread #8
Started by: destinysday
Date: 29 Oct 2022 13:16
Reflecting on your own works
destinysday 29 Oct 2022 13:16
Hello, Wanderers'!
It's been a while, but we're jumping right back into it. A continuation of our last thread, we're doing biweekly discussions on the Library, her stories, authors, artists, and everything in between!
This week, our prompt is:
How do you interpret your own work? Do you find it useful to analyze your own stories, or not? Why? Do you ever find yourself discovering something new about your past writing, either through someone else's interpretation, or through your own realization?
—submitted by LAN 2D
Discuss! And remember: if you have an idea for a discussion prompt, submit it here and it may be used in future threads!
Unfold Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by destinysday, 29 Oct 2022 13:16
Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8
meltedbee 29 Oct 2022 16:29
I typically interpret my own work as sort of an attempt to capture a particular feeling or memory, especially in the Arsonist's series. This is because my memory is terrible and the past exists to me like a series of photos originally from a photo book in order that fell to the ground and scattered. Therefore, I need to orient myself in time by writing. Therefore, most of my stories can be interpreted through the lens of trying to capture a particular emotion.
I thought other people might not get so much out of my stories, I was pleasant surprised by Stygian Blue's amazing interpretation of my contest piece, Rust. This interpretation was definitely much more optimistic than what I had in mind, but honestly I like it better than my own.
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Unfold Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by meltedbee, 29 Oct 2022 16:29
Vishardsh 29 Oct 2022 18:51
I usually have a very strong idea of what idea or interpretation I'm trying to convey to the reader and if I don't then I usually try to work out what my writing could mean and lean on that a little more heavily. Sometimes I start with an interpretation I'd like my readers to leave with and build the story around that, which is what I did for A Disease of the Flesh.
Honestly I don't usually end up with a different interpretation when going back to my own work. Rounderhouse did have an interesting interpretation of A Disease of the Flesh, though, "the first casualty of an apocalypse is always our trust in one another, and that's the thing that ends up killing us". That was a cool angle to see- I had the Captain kill off crewmates (sus) because he represents clinging to an old way of life at the expense of the new. It's weird that my writing means things I didn't think of when writing it. Weird but cool.
Unfold Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by Vishardsh, 29 Oct 2022 18:51
Din-Bidor 31 Oct 2022 15:29
I have a lot of range with my works. Some don't necessarily have any deeper meaning: they're just a way of expressing some tropes or ideas in sci-fi and fantasy that I love and like to give my own twist to.
However, I think some of the underlying elements of my "deeper" works include a continous struggle against the past and how the actions of others influence your own- part of the Latin American experience and how being born and raised in a region where foreign powers cause suffering for their own goals shapes your class and racial conscience. I use some stories to vent frustration, resentment and other grievances I have against the injustices that my people have suffered through their history… or just my own personal experiences as a young adult.
Other times I simply wish to make character studies: delve deeper into the psyche and motivations of characters that have so far showed up solely on plot-driven stories as a way of making them more three-dimensional and relatable.
Unfold Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by Din-Bidor, 31 Oct 2022 15:29
QuestioningEspecialy 06 Nov 2022 02:49
How do you interpret your own work?
That's a tricky question since I usually write stories while knowing full well what's going on. In the case of things I (as the author) don't even know, I guess I end up in the reader's shoes wondering this and that while trying my best to make sense of things. Including but not limited to considering contrasting possibilities. 🤔
Do you find it useful to analyze your own stories, or not?
Oh, hell yeah. I analyze things by default, so of course I'm gonna do it to my own work and justify it.
Why [is it useful]?
Because it builds the world, scene, and characters the work is set in and involves. Thus, allowing me not only flow more naturally while writing but also make sense of it all. Otherwise, there'd likely be a lot more plot holes and whatnot.
Do you ever find yourself discovering something new about your past writing, either through someone else's interpretation, or through your own realization?
Totes, but mostly through someone else's interpretation. And that's a great example for why I prefer not to explain my work. Sometimes, readers have more interesting interpretations than I did as the bloody author. 😅
Unfold Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by QuestioningEspecialy, 06 Nov 2022 02:49
Crow-Cat 07 Nov 2022 23:40
I don't think most of my written works are old enough to properly analyze; there isn't much to look back on as I still remember what was going through my head as I wrote it. And it's hard to really take much away from them on my own, besides the failings of the piece and what I could've done better. One exception is this unfinished story I wrote in middle or high school about extradimensional pirates; there's a part where the captain is angrily ranting/yelling about something, and the descriptions of his bodily gestures and movements felt very vivid and fun to read.
Analysis and comments from someone else, on the other hand, is what usually causes me to look at my stories in a new light. Prismatrix01 left a comment on "Me, My Sword, and I", saying that the overall theme of "being more than what you're made for" is similar to The Iron Giant, which hadn't even considered before but agree wholeheartedly! (I also didn't realize MMSaI even had a theme). A lot of the comments on "A Hole Dug With a Rabbit's Foot" also caused me to look at the whole article differently: Maxyfran73 described the story as unfocused but that it felt earned, which caused me to reflect on the way I handled all the moving parts of the piece; LAN 2D and swordlover87 said the setting feels very well lived-in, and that made me think about how I view fictional settings in the first place. And there was something this one person said about it in a discord server, that really… it made me actually like what I wrote:
"surreal, and atmospheric; almost like a fever dream but enjoyable"
Something about this… it reminded me of another author's works, specifically the way they made me feel while reading them. Maybe I'm arrogant for seeing this comment as an indirect comparison, but if I'm able to create something that has a similar effect on people, it makes me want to continue writing for as long as I can.1
Oh! Actually, looking back on Rabbit's Foot, the time constraint of the contest really made the piece better than it otherwise would have been; forced me to shorten certain parts or remove others that would've ended up just being fluff.
1. And looking back at the other comments, I guess I made that impact for some of them as well.
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Unfold Re: Biweekly Discussion Thread #8 by Crow-Cat, 07 Nov 2022 23:40
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The article is based on the results of the PROFIT project collected during research conducted in Italy by the research team from University of Padova. It summarizes main findings from all qualitative research stages: interviews with parliamentary politicians, who are in charge of creation and implementation of social policy; group interviews with local stakeholders who are responsible for the social affairs in towns under study and in-depth interviews with young adults who are end-users of the social policy. The authors also make an attempt to present some recommendations for policy makers, based on the research outcomes.


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Fund trustees with the pupils at the Steele Memorial prior to the school visit to the Somme Centre.
Senior pupils of Ballycarry Primary School have visited the Somme Centre in Co Down as part of their studies.
The trip was sponsored by the General Sir James Steele Memorial Trust Fund and prior to travelling from the village the pupils laid a wreath in memory of the village general at his memorial on the amenity green.
Ewan McKeaveney lays a wreath at the General Steele Memorial on behalf of Ballycarry Primary School.
Chairman of the General Steele Trust Fund, Dr. David Hume MBE, briefly addressed the group on the life and times of the wartime general, who was born in Ballycarry in 1894.
He said it was appropriate that the visit was occurring close to the 75th anniversary of the D Day Landings, which General Steele had helped to plan.
Fellow trustees Rev. Dr. John Nelson and Mrs. Carla McKeaveney were also present at the short ceremony, after which the children spent an enjoyable day at the Somme Centre in Conlig.
The General Steele Trust Fund decided two years ago to directly sponsor an annual trip by the primary school, as well as remaining open for applications from individual young people who had engaged in work within communities.
General Steele with Field Marshal Montgomery reviewing troops.
In the past the Trust has sponsored young people from the village who have been engaged in community outreach work in Peru and India.
General Sir James Steele officially opened Ballycarry Primary School in 1953.
In a distinguished career, General Steele also become Commander-in-Chief and High Commissioner in Austria in 1946 and the following year Adjutant-General to the Forces, a role which saw him partly manage the Army's transition from war to peace. He remained mindful of his origins and his final wish was that his remains were to be returned to rest in the small village of Ballycarry.


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At once, surprised there's not more that the relatively high number of international schools in Zurich, according to the latest Mercer study contributes significantly to the world's second-highest quality of life in the city. If you look in the forums of Zurich Expats, you will find more complaints about the deficit orientation of the local schools: It advises to private school; in particular, "the sec" has a bad reputation.
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Project acronym CentSatRegFunc
Project Dissecting the function and regulation of centriolar satellites: key regulators of the centrosome/cilium complex
Researcher (PI) Elif Nur Firat Karalar
Host Institution (HI) KOC UNIVERSITY
Summary Centrosomes are the main microtubule-organizing centers of animal cells. They influence the morphology of the microtubule cytoskeleton and function as the base of primary cilium, a nexus for important signaling pathways. Structural and functional defects in centrosome/cilium complex cause a variety of human diseases including cancer, ciliopathies and microcephaly. To understand the relationship between human diseases and centrosome/cilium abnormalities, it is essential to elucidate the biogenesis of centrosome/cilium complex and the control mechanisms that regulate their structure and function. To tackle these fundamental problems, we will dissect the function and regulation of centriolar satellites, the array of granules that localize around the centrosome/cilium complex in mammalian cells. Only recently interest in the satellites has grown because mutations affecting satellite components were shown to cause ciliopathies, microcephaly and schizophrenia. Remarkably, many centrosome/cilium proteins localize to these structures and we lack understanding of when, why and how these proteins localize to satellites. The central hypothesis of this grant is that satellites ensure proper centrosome/cilium complex structure and function by acting as transit paths for modification, assembly, storage, stability and trafficking of centrosome/cilium proteins. In Aim 1, we will identify the nature of regulatory and molecular relationship between satellites and the centrosome/cilium complex. In Aim 2, we will elucidate the role of satellites in proteostasis of centrosome/cilium proteins. In Aim 3, we will investigate the functional significance of satellite-localization of centrosome/cilium proteins during processes that go awry in human disease. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the proposed research will expand our knowledge of the spatiotemporal regulation of the centrosome/cilium complex and provide new insights into pathogenesis of ciliopathies and primary microcephaly.
Centrosomes are the main microtubule-organizing centers of animal cells. They influence the morphology of the microtubule cytoskeleton and function as the base of primary cilium, a nexus for important signaling pathways. Structural and functional defects in centrosome/cilium complex cause a variety of human diseases including cancer, ciliopathies and microcephaly. To understand the relationship between human diseases and centrosome/cilium abnormalities, it is essential to elucidate the biogenesis of centrosome/cilium complex and the control mechanisms that regulate their structure and function. To tackle these fundamental problems, we will dissect the function and regulation of centriolar satellites, the array of granules that localize around the centrosome/cilium complex in mammalian cells. Only recently interest in the satellites has grown because mutations affecting satellite components were shown to cause ciliopathies, microcephaly and schizophrenia. Remarkably, many centrosome/cilium proteins localize to these structures and we lack understanding of when, why and how these proteins localize to satellites. The central hypothesis of this grant is that satellites ensure proper centrosome/cilium complex structure and function by acting as transit paths for modification, assembly, storage, stability and trafficking of centrosome/cilium proteins. In Aim 1, we will identify the nature of regulatory and molecular relationship between satellites and the centrosome/cilium complex. In Aim 2, we will elucidate the role of satellites in proteostasis of centrosome/cilium proteins. In Aim 3, we will investigate the functional significance of satellite-localization of centrosome/cilium proteins during processes that go awry in human disease. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the proposed research will expand our knowledge of the spatiotemporal regulation of the centrosome/cilium complex and provide new insights into pathogenesis of ciliopathies and primary microcephaly.
Project acronym COSMOS
Project Computational Simulations of MOFs for Gas Separations
Researcher (PI) Seda Keskin Avci
Summary Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are recently considered as new fascinating nanoporous materials. MOFs have very large surface areas, high porosities, various pore sizes/shapes, chemical functionalities and good thermal/chemical stabilities. These properties make MOFs highly promising for gas separation applications. Thousands of MOFs have been synthesized in the last decade. The large number of available MOFs creates excellent opportunities to develop energy-efficient gas separation technologies. On the other hand, it is very challenging to identify the best materials for each gas separation of interest. Considering the continuous rapid increase in the number of synthesized materials, it is practically not possible to test each MOF using purely experimental manners. Highly accurate computational methods are required to identify the most promising MOFs to direct experimental efforts, time and resources to those materials. In this project, I will build a complete MOF library and use molecular simulations to assess adsorption and diffusion properties of gas mixtures in MOFs. Results of simulations will be used to predict adsorbent and membrane properties of MOFs for scientifically and technologically important gas separation processes such as CO2/CH4 (natural gas purification), CO2/N2 (flue gas separation), CO2/H2, CH4/H2 and N2/H2 (hydrogen recovery). I will obtain the fundamental, atomic-level insights into the common features of the top-performing MOFs and establish structure-performance relations. These relations will be used as guidelines to computationally design new MOFs with outstanding separation performances for CO2 capture and H2 recovery. These new MOFs will be finally synthesized in the lab scale and tested as adsorbents and membranes under practical operating conditions for each gas separation of interest. Combining a multi-stage computational approach with experiments, this project will lead to novel, efficient gas separation technologies based on MOFs.
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are recently considered as new fascinating nanoporous materials. MOFs have very large surface areas, high porosities, various pore sizes/shapes, chemical functionalities and good thermal/chemical stabilities. These properties make MOFs highly promising for gas separation applications. Thousands of MOFs have been synthesized in the last decade. The large number of available MOFs creates excellent opportunities to develop energy-efficient gas separation technologies. On the other hand, it is very challenging to identify the best materials for each gas separation of interest. Considering the continuous rapid increase in the number of synthesized materials, it is practically not possible to test each MOF using purely experimental manners. Highly accurate computational methods are required to identify the most promising MOFs to direct experimental efforts, time and resources to those materials. In this project, I will build a complete MOF library and use molecular simulations to assess adsorption and diffusion properties of gas mixtures in MOFs. Results of simulations will be used to predict adsorbent and membrane properties of MOFs for scientifically and technologically important gas separation processes such as CO2/CH4 (natural gas purification), CO2/N2 (flue gas separation), CO2/H2, CH4/H2 and N2/H2 (hydrogen recovery). I will obtain the fundamental, atomic-level insights into the common features of the top-performing MOFs and establish structure-performance relations. These relations will be used as guidelines to computationally design new MOFs with outstanding separation performances for CO2 capture and H2 recovery. These new MOFs will be finally synthesized in the lab scale and tested as adsorbents and membranes under practical operating conditions for each gas separation of interest. Combining a multi-stage computational approach with experiments, this project will lead to novel, efficient gas separation technologies based on MOFs.
Project acronym EmergingWelfare
Project The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an "Emerging Markets" Welfare State Regime
Researcher (PI) Erdem YORUK
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), SH3, ERC-2016-STG
Summary This research project aims to identify a new welfare regime in emerging market economies and explain why it has emerged. The project will compare Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey to test two hypotheses: (i) emerging market economies are forming a new welfare regime that differs from liberal, corporatist and social democratic welfare regimes of the global north on the basis of extensive and decommodifying social assistance programmes, (ii) the new welfare regime emerges principally as a response to the growing political power of the poor as a dual source of threat and support for governments. Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, the project follows a multi-method strategy that combines state-of-the-art computer-based protest event data collection techniques, macro-historical methods, quantitative data analyses and qualitative content analysis. The project will radically expand the literatures on welfare regimes, welfare state development and contentious politics, by challenging the existing paradigms dominated by structuralist perspectives, a myopic focus on Western countries, and limited data collection and analysis techniques. This project is genuinely innovative, unprecedented, ground-breaking, ambitious and high-risk/high-gain in three ways: (i) it re-shapes the welfare regimes literatures as the first study to classify and explain welfare systems of emerging markets as a new welfare regime and (ii) the project demonstrates a causal link between changes in grassroots politics and welfare policies and challenge the structuralist preponderance in the existing welfare state development literature (iii) it makes a prodigious contribution to our empirical knowledge on contentious politics in emerging markets by creating the first cross-national databases on protest event, employing state-of-the art computer methods, such as natural language processing and machine learning, on newspaper archives.
This research project aims to identify a new welfare regime in emerging market economies and explain why it has emerged. The project will compare Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey to test two hypotheses: (i) emerging market economies are forming a new welfare regime that differs from liberal, corporatist and social democratic welfare regimes of the global north on the basis of extensive and decommodifying social assistance programmes, (ii) the new welfare regime emerges principally as a response to the growing political power of the poor as a dual source of threat and support for governments. Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, the project follows a multi-method strategy that combines state-of-the-art computer-based protest event data collection techniques, macro-historical methods, quantitative data analyses and qualitative content analysis. The project will radically expand the literatures on welfare regimes, welfare state development and contentious politics, by challenging the existing paradigms dominated by structuralist perspectives, a myopic focus on Western countries, and limited data collection and analysis techniques. This project is genuinely innovative, unprecedented, ground-breaking, ambitious and high-risk/high-gain in three ways: (i) it re-shapes the welfare regimes literatures as the first study to classify and explain welfare systems of emerging markets as a new welfare regime and (ii) the project demonstrates a causal link between changes in grassroots politics and welfare policies and challenge the structuralist preponderance in the existing welfare state development literature (iii) it makes a prodigious contribution to our empirical knowledge on contentious politics in emerging markets by creating the first cross-national databases on protest event, employing state-of-the art computer methods, such as natural language processing and machine learning, on newspaper archives.
Project acronym INFIBRENANOSTRUCTURE
Project Fabrication and characterization of dielectric encapsulated millions of ordered kilometer-long nanostructures and their applications
Researcher (PI) Mehmet Bayindir
Host Institution (HI) BILKENT UNIVERSITESI VAKIF
Summary The objective of this project is the realization of a radically new nanowire fabrication technique, and exploration of its potential for nanowire based science and technology. The proposed method involves fabrication of unusually long, ordered nanowire and nanotube arrays in macroscopic fibres by means of an iterative thermal co-drawing process. Starting with a macroscopic rod with an annular hole tightly fitted with another rod of another compatible material, by successive thermal drawing we obtain arrays of nanowires embedded in fibres. With the method, wide range of materials, e.g. semiconductors, polymers, metals, can be turned into ordered nanorods, nanowires, nanotubes in various cross-sectional geometries. Main challenges are the thermal drawing steps that require critical matching of the viscoelastic properties of the protective cover with the encapsulated materials, and the liquid instability problems and phase intermixing with higher temperatures and smaller feature sizes that require high thermal and mechanical precision. Initially, fabrication by drawing will begin with soft amorphous semiconductors, phase change materials, polymers of interest in high temperature polymers, followed by a wider range of materials, low melting temperature metals, metals and common semiconductors (Si, Ge) in silica glass matrices. In this way nanowires that are ordered, easily accessible and hermetically sealed in a dielectric encapsulation will be obtained in high volumes. Potentially, these nanowires are advantages over on-chip nanowires in building flexible out of plane geometries, light weight, wearable and disposable devices. Ultimately, attaining ordered arrays of 1-D nanostructures in an extended flexible fibre with high yields will facilitate sought-after but up-to-now difficult applications such as the large area nanowire electronics and photonics, nanowire based scalable phase-change memory, nanowire photovoltaics, and emerging cell-nanowire interfacing.
The objective of this project is the realization of a radically new nanowire fabrication technique, and exploration of its potential for nanowire based science and technology. The proposed method involves fabrication of unusually long, ordered nanowire and nanotube arrays in macroscopic fibres by means of an iterative thermal co-drawing process. Starting with a macroscopic rod with an annular hole tightly fitted with another rod of another compatible material, by successive thermal drawing we obtain arrays of nanowires embedded in fibres. With the method, wide range of materials, e.g. semiconductors, polymers, metals, can be turned into ordered nanorods, nanowires, nanotubes in various cross-sectional geometries. Main challenges are the thermal drawing steps that require critical matching of the viscoelastic properties of the protective cover with the encapsulated materials, and the liquid instability problems and phase intermixing with higher temperatures and smaller feature sizes that require high thermal and mechanical precision. Initially, fabrication by drawing will begin with soft amorphous semiconductors, phase change materials, polymers of interest in high temperature polymers, followed by a wider range of materials, low melting temperature metals, metals and common semiconductors (Si, Ge) in silica glass matrices. In this way nanowires that are ordered, easily accessible and hermetically sealed in a dielectric encapsulation will be obtained in high volumes. Potentially, these nanowires are advantages over on-chip nanowires in building flexible out of plane geometries, light weight, wearable and disposable devices. Ultimately, attaining ordered arrays of 1-D nanostructures in an extended flexible fibre with high yields will facilitate sought-after but up-to-now difficult applications such as the large area nanowire electronics and photonics, nanowire based scalable phase-change memory, nanowire photovoltaics, and emerging cell-nanowire interfacing.
Project acronym METARNAFLAMMATION
Project The RNA bridge between IRE-1 and PKR leading to metaflammation: discovery and intervention in atherosclerosis
Researcher (PI) Ebru Erbay
Summary A close functional and molecular integration between metabolic and immune systems is crucial for systemic homeostasis and its' deregulation is causally linked to obesity and associated diseases including insulin resistance, diabetes and atherosclerosis and known as cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS). Metabolic overload initiates a chronic inflammatory and stress response known as metaflammation and promotes the complications of CMS. The precise molecular mechanisms linking metabolic stress to immune activation and stress responses, however, remain elusive. Earlier studies demonstrated metabolic overload stresses the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and activates the unfolded protein response (UPR). ER is a critical intracellular metabolic hub orchestrating protein, lipid and calcium metabolism. These vital functions of ER are maintained by a conserved, adaptive stress response or UPR that emanates from its membranes. ER stress has emerged as a central paradigm in the pathogenesis of CMS and its reduction prevents atherosclerosis and promotes insulin sensitivity. However, a clear understanding of how metabolic stress is sensed and communicated by the ER is fundamental in designing specific and targeted therapy to ER stress in CMS. This application will investigate the ER stress response that can sense excess lipids and couple to inflammatory and stress responses, and whether its unique operation under metabolic stress can be suitable for therapeutic exploitation in CMS. This proposal tackles the unique modes of operation of two important players in the ER stress response that are coupled by metabolic stress, inositol-requiring enzyme-1 (IRE-1) and double-stranded RNA-activated kinase (PKR), by taking advantage of chemical-genetics to specifically modify their activities. When completed the proposed studies will have shed light on a little explored but central question in the field of immunometabolism regarding how nutrients engage inflammatory and stress pathways.
A close functional and molecular integration between metabolic and immune systems is crucial for systemic homeostasis and its' deregulation is causally linked to obesity and associated diseases including insulin resistance, diabetes and atherosclerosis and known as cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS). Metabolic overload initiates a chronic inflammatory and stress response known as metaflammation and promotes the complications of CMS. The precise molecular mechanisms linking metabolic stress to immune activation and stress responses, however, remain elusive. Earlier studies demonstrated metabolic overload stresses the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and activates the unfolded protein response (UPR). ER is a critical intracellular metabolic hub orchestrating protein, lipid and calcium metabolism. These vital functions of ER are maintained by a conserved, adaptive stress response or UPR that emanates from its membranes. ER stress has emerged as a central paradigm in the pathogenesis of CMS and its reduction prevents atherosclerosis and promotes insulin sensitivity. However, a clear understanding of how metabolic stress is sensed and communicated by the ER is fundamental in designing specific and targeted therapy to ER stress in CMS. This application will investigate the ER stress response that can sense excess lipids and couple to inflammatory and stress responses, and whether its unique operation under metabolic stress can be suitable for therapeutic exploitation in CMS. This proposal tackles the unique modes of operation of two important players in the ER stress response that are coupled by metabolic stress, inositol-requiring enzyme-1 (IRE-1) and double-stranded RNA-activated kinase (PKR), by taking advantage of chemical-genetics to specifically modify their activities. When completed the proposed studies will have shed light on a little explored but central question in the field of immunometabolism regarding how nutrients engage inflammatory and stress pathways.
Project acronym NEGOTIATINGMODERNITY
Project "Negotiating Modernity": History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe
Researcher (PI) Balázs Trencsényi
Host Institution (HI) CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY SOFIA
Summary The principal aim of the Project is an unprecedented synthetic volume on the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. It is not meant to be compartmentalized according to national sub-chapters but based on a diachronic analysis especially sensitive to transnational discursive phenomena (e.g. the ideological traditions transcending national borders such as liberalism, socialism, conservatism, federalism), and being equally open to supra-national and sub-national (regional) frameworks, where different national projects were interacting. The project entails the task of "redescription" and conceptual transfer, i.e. finding a regional and trans-culturally acceptable set of analytical categories, as well as new knowledge-production – answering questions about the basic components of European political thought, formulated on the basis of a regional and trans-regional comparative analysis. It also necessitates the "trading" of concepts: both in the direction of inserting specific historical experiences and analytical categories into European circulation, and also testing the value of the interpretative models linked to such notions as "populism". The project thus aims neither at a compendium of case-studies nor at a deductive Area Studies-type of approach that tends to eliminate differences to forge a general narrative. What it seeks to produce instead is a cross-cultural "synthesis"– the work of a compact team of multi-national composition, skilled in comparative research and drawing on the recent upsurge of transnational historiography. By shifting the reference point of historical thinking from the "West" to the cross-European experience with a special emphasis on East-Central Europe, in other words, the project seeks to rethink the history of the "negotiation of political modernity," moving from "moral ethnocentrism" and oversimplification towards a more encompassing notion of what constitutes the European intellectual heritage.
The principal aim of the Project is an unprecedented synthetic volume on the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. It is not meant to be compartmentalized according to national sub-chapters but based on a diachronic analysis especially sensitive to transnational discursive phenomena (e.g. the ideological traditions transcending national borders such as liberalism, socialism, conservatism, federalism), and being equally open to supra-national and sub-national (regional) frameworks, where different national projects were interacting. The project entails the task of "redescription" and conceptual transfer, i.e. finding a regional and trans-culturally acceptable set of analytical categories, as well as new knowledge-production – answering questions about the basic components of European political thought, formulated on the basis of a regional and trans-regional comparative analysis. It also necessitates the "trading" of concepts: both in the direction of inserting specific historical experiences and analytical categories into European circulation, and also testing the value of the interpretative models linked to such notions as "populism". The project thus aims neither at a compendium of case-studies nor at a deductive Area Studies-type of approach that tends to eliminate differences to forge a general narrative. What it seeks to produce instead is a cross-cultural "synthesis"– the work of a compact team of multi-national composition, skilled in comparative research and drawing on the recent upsurge of transnational historiography. By shifting the reference point of historical thinking from the "West" to the cross-European experience with a special emphasis on East-Central Europe, in other words, the project seeks to rethink the history of the "negotiation of political modernity," moving from "moral ethnocentrism" and oversimplification towards a more encompassing notion of what constitutes the European intellectual heritage.
Project acronym NOVELNOBI
Project Novel Nanoengineered Optoelectronic Biointerfaces
Researcher (PI) Sedat Nizamoglu
Summary Interfacing with neural tissues is an important scientific goal to understand cellular processes and to combat nervous-system related diseases. Nanotechnology has a significant potential for the development of new neural interfaces. The atomic-level design and control of the nanostructures for neural interfacing can revolutionize the junction between neurons and nanomaterials. In this project, we propose a totally new approach for understanding fundamental requirements and from this knowledge designing customised nanomaterials with optimised characteristics. These will be used to develop and demonstrate unconventional neural interfaces that are ultimately designed, controlled and constructed at the nanoscale. Hence, the key objectives of this proposal are: (1) to use quantum mechanics in a new way to control and explore the neural photostimulation mechanism, (2) to explore, design and synthesize new biocompatible colloidal nanocrystals for neural photostimulation, to overcome the limitations in terms of toxic material contents (e.g., cadmium, lead, mercury, etc.), (3) to demonstrate novel biocompatible neural interfaces with exciton and quantum funnels, and plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced spectral sensitivity and dynamic range. This new approach from quantum mechanical design to nanocrystal assembly will enable exploring, tuning and controlling the underlying physical mechanisms of neural photostimulation. Furthermore, the biocompatible nanomaterials will result in a more reliable nanobiojunction. The funnel and plasmon structures will lead to unprecedented spectral sensitivities and dynamic ranges that are far beyond the state-of-the-art optoelectronic interfaces. The project is therefore expected to have high impact and may herald a new paradigm in neural interfacing. NOVELNOBI is expected to attract significant attention of researchers from diverse fields such as photonics, nanomaterials, photomedicine and neuroscience.
Interfacing with neural tissues is an important scientific goal to understand cellular processes and to combat nervous-system related diseases. Nanotechnology has a significant potential for the development of new neural interfaces. The atomic-level design and control of the nanostructures for neural interfacing can revolutionize the junction between neurons and nanomaterials. In this project, we propose a totally new approach for understanding fundamental requirements and from this knowledge designing customised nanomaterials with optimised characteristics. These will be used to develop and demonstrate unconventional neural interfaces that are ultimately designed, controlled and constructed at the nanoscale. Hence, the key objectives of this proposal are: (1) to use quantum mechanics in a new way to control and explore the neural photostimulation mechanism, (2) to explore, design and synthesize new biocompatible colloidal nanocrystals for neural photostimulation, to overcome the limitations in terms of toxic material contents (e.g., cadmium, lead, mercury, etc.), (3) to demonstrate novel biocompatible neural interfaces with exciton and quantum funnels, and plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced spectral sensitivity and dynamic range. This new approach from quantum mechanical design to nanocrystal assembly will enable exploring, tuning and controlling the underlying physical mechanisms of neural photostimulation. Furthermore, the biocompatible nanomaterials will result in a more reliable nanobiojunction. The funnel and plasmon structures will lead to unprecedented spectral sensitivities and dynamic ranges that are far beyond the state-of-the-art optoelectronic interfaces. The project is therefore expected to have high impact and may herald a new paradigm in neural interfacing. NOVELNOBI is expected to attract significant attention of researchers from diverse fields such as photonics, nanomaterials, photomedicine and neuroscience.
Project acronym REM
Project Resonant Electromagnetic Microscopy: Imaging Cells Electronically
Researcher (PI) Mehmet Selim HANAY
Summary Microfluidics technology has been quite successful in fabricating small, low-cost devices with excellent analyte handling capabilities. However, the main detection paradigm in microfluidics has still been optical microscopy — which is a bulky and expensive technique. A chip-scale detection scheme that can provide multidimensional information is much needed for the widespread adoption of lab-on-a-chip technology. So far, successful capacitive and resonant electrical sensors have been deployed in the field; yet the focus of these sensors has been to obtain the electrical volume or location of a particle — which constitutes only a limited piece of information about the analytes. Here we propose to redesign and utilize resonant electrical sensors in a radically different way to obtain images of cells in a microfluidic channel. The technique proposed can also multiplex on-chip cytometry greatly, accomplish low-cost and high-throughput single-cell transit-time characterization, obtain not only the electrical but also the geometrical size of analytes, determine the dielectric permittivity of analytes, in addition to capturing 1D profile or 2D images of cells. At the basic science level, the project will enhance our understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic fields and living matter at the single cell level and may provide new insights on cell motility, growth and mechanics.
Microfluidics technology has been quite successful in fabricating small, low-cost devices with excellent analyte handling capabilities. However, the main detection paradigm in microfluidics has still been optical microscopy — which is a bulky and expensive technique. A chip-scale detection scheme that can provide multidimensional information is much needed for the widespread adoption of lab-on-a-chip technology. So far, successful capacitive and resonant electrical sensors have been deployed in the field; yet the focus of these sensors has been to obtain the electrical volume or location of a particle — which constitutes only a limited piece of information about the analytes. Here we propose to redesign and utilize resonant electrical sensors in a radically different way to obtain images of cells in a microfluidic channel. The technique proposed can also multiplex on-chip cytometry greatly, accomplish low-cost and high-throughput single-cell transit-time characterization, obtain not only the electrical but also the geometrical size of analytes, determine the dielectric permittivity of analytes, in addition to capturing 1D profile or 2D images of cells. At the basic science level, the project will enhance our understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic fields and living matter at the single cell level and may provide new insights on cell motility, growth and mechanics.
Project acronym UrbanOccupationsOETR
Project Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, 1850-2000
Researcher (PI) Mustafa Erdem Kabadayi
Summary This project aims to overcome historiographical and disciplinary limitations in social and economic history, historical geography and urban studies for the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The chosen long-term Ottoman/Turkish perspective is intended to facilitate comparative approaches so as to overcome the limitations of national historiographies. By extending the analysis up to 2000 the project also challenges the disciplinary divide between economic history, economics and urban studies in research on Turkey. To pursue these multiple goals the project will adopt both an inter-disciplinary approach and a comparative perspective. Throughout the project the focus will be on the dynamics of industrialisation, urbanisation and their accompanying changes in occupational structures and residential and migration patterns. To be able to contextualise and compare changes in occupational structure and urban growth trajectories across time and space, solid and detailed datasets of occupational structure and historical demographics for a very large part of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century and for the entire Turkey in the 20th century will be constructed. This project is an attempt at bringing Ottoman/Turkish history into the newly emerging field of digital humanities. It will use advanced techniques of spatial data and multiple correspondence analysis in conjuncture to answer long debated research questions and to formulate and work on new ones by taking an unprecedented step forward toward establishing a digital research infrastructure for the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. This project will re-define industrialisation in its connection with urbanisation from a spatiotemporal analytical perspective for Anatolia and the Southeast Europe to ask time and space specific questions about, simultaneity and geographical convergence of Eurasian economic development since 1850.
This project aims to overcome historiographical and disciplinary limitations in social and economic history, historical geography and urban studies for the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The chosen long-term Ottoman/Turkish perspective is intended to facilitate comparative approaches so as to overcome the limitations of national historiographies. By extending the analysis up to 2000 the project also challenges the disciplinary divide between economic history, economics and urban studies in research on Turkey. To pursue these multiple goals the project will adopt both an inter-disciplinary approach and a comparative perspective. Throughout the project the focus will be on the dynamics of industrialisation, urbanisation and their accompanying changes in occupational structures and residential and migration patterns. To be able to contextualise and compare changes in occupational structure and urban growth trajectories across time and space, solid and detailed datasets of occupational structure and historical demographics for a very large part of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century and for the entire Turkey in the 20th century will be constructed. This project is an attempt at bringing Ottoman/Turkish history into the newly emerging field of digital humanities. It will use advanced techniques of spatial data and multiple correspondence analysis in conjuncture to answer long debated research questions and to formulate and work on new ones by taking an unprecedented step forward toward establishing a digital research infrastructure for the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. This project will re-define industrialisation in its connection with urbanisation from a spatiotemporal analytical perspective for Anatolia and the Southeast Europe to ask time and space specific questions about, simultaneity and geographical convergence of Eurasian economic development since 1850.
Project acronym VASCULARGROWTH
Project Bioengineering prediction of three-dimensional vascular growth and remodeling in embryonic great-vessel development
Researcher (PI) Kerem Pekkan
Summary Globally 1 in 100 children are born with significant congenital heart defects (CHD), representing either new genetic mutations or epigenetic insults that alter cardiac morphogenesis in utero. Embryonic CV systems dynamically regulate structure and function over very short time periods throughout morphogenesis and that biomechanical loading conditions within the heart and great-vessels alter morphogenesis and gene expression. This proposal has structured around a common goal of developing a comprehensive and predictive understanding of the biomechanics and regulation of great-vessel development and its plasticity in response to clinically relevant epigenetic changes in loading conditions. Biomechanical regulation of vascular morphogenesis, including potential aortic arch (AA) reversibility or plasticity after epigenetic events relevant to human CHD are investigated using multimodal experiments in the chick embryo that investigate normal AA growth and remodeling, microsurgical instrumentation that alter ventricular and vascular blood flow loading during critical periods in AA morphogenesis. WP 1 establishes our novel optimization framework, incorporates basic input/output in vivo data sets, and validates. In WP 2 and 3 the numerical models for perturbed biomechanical environment and incorporate new objective functions that have in vivo structural data inputs and predict changes in structure and function. WP 4 incorporates candidate genes and pathways during normal and experimentally altered AA morphogenesis. This proposal develops and validates the first in vivo morphomechanics-integrated three-dimensional mathematical models of AA growth and remodeling that can predict normal growth patterns and abnormal vascular adaptations common in CHD. Multidisciplinary application of bioengineering principles to CHD is likely to provide novel insights and paradigms towards our long-term goal of optimizing CHD interventions, outcomes, and the potential for preventive strategies.
Globally 1 in 100 children are born with significant congenital heart defects (CHD), representing either new genetic mutations or epigenetic insults that alter cardiac morphogenesis in utero. Embryonic CV systems dynamically regulate structure and function over very short time periods throughout morphogenesis and that biomechanical loading conditions within the heart and great-vessels alter morphogenesis and gene expression. This proposal has structured around a common goal of developing a comprehensive and predictive understanding of the biomechanics and regulation of great-vessel development and its plasticity in response to clinically relevant epigenetic changes in loading conditions. Biomechanical regulation of vascular morphogenesis, including potential aortic arch (AA) reversibility or plasticity after epigenetic events relevant to human CHD are investigated using multimodal experiments in the chick embryo that investigate normal AA growth and remodeling, microsurgical instrumentation that alter ventricular and vascular blood flow loading during critical periods in AA morphogenesis. WP 1 establishes our novel optimization framework, incorporates basic input/output in vivo data sets, and validates. In WP 2 and 3 the numerical models for perturbed biomechanical environment and incorporate new objective functions that have in vivo structural data inputs and predict changes in structure and function. WP 4 incorporates candidate genes and pathways during normal and experimentally altered AA morphogenesis. This proposal develops and validates the first in vivo morphomechanics-integrated three-dimensional mathematical models of AA growth and remodeling that can predict normal growth patterns and abnormal vascular adaptations common in CHD. Multidisciplinary application of bioengineering principles to CHD is likely to provide novel insights and paradigms towards our long-term goal of optimizing CHD interventions, outcomes, and the potential for preventive strategies.


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Canada and the World, Ep. 26: Foreign policy in an age of flux
A new podcast series from OpenCanada.org and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
https://soundcloud.com/canada-world/foreign-policy-in-an-age-of-flux
Authors of a recent piece on teaching in the Trump era join podcast host Bessma Momani to reflect on recent changes in international affairs and the challenges they present to educators and students in the field. What are the implications for how we tell the story of Canada? Where is the interest in foreign policy in academia? Has it changed? How do publications, teaching strategies and materials change over time and when should they? This episode traces the connections between the making of Canadian foreign policy itself and promoting an understanding of the subject at home.
Bessma Momani is a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She's also a non-resident senior fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. and a Fulbright Scholar. She has been non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and a 2015 Fellow at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She's a frequent analyst and expert on international affairs in Canadian and global media.
This week's guests
Heather Smith is a professor of global and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia and visiting scholar at Dalhousie University.
Jean-Christophe Boucher is a research director at the Centre Interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Québec et du Canada. His main research interests and publications have focused on peace and security studies, Canadian foreign and defence policies, quantitative analysis and methodology.
Wilfrid Greaves is an assistant professor of international relations at the University of Victoria. His research principally examines the intersections between security theory and environmental politics with focuses on
Canada and The World is produced and edited by Matthew Markudis. Each episode can be found oniTunes and other podcast applications.


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