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Emil's Berlin in Translation
How can you translate a book that is deeply rooted in a particular time and place? This question crops up time and again in translation, and is one that every translator of "Emil und die Detektive" has to try and answer.	By Fiona Money
The city of Berlin plays a prominent role in Kästner's novels. Source: WikiCommons.
Diese Autos! Sie drängten sich hastig an der Straßenbahn vorbei, hupten, quiekten, streckten rote Zeiger links und rechts heraus, bogen um die Ecke, andere Autos schoben sich nach. So ein Krach! Und die vielen Menschen auf den Fußsteigen! Und von allen Seiten Straßenbahnen, Fuhrwerke, zweistöckige Autobusse! . . . Und hohe, hohe Häuser.
Das war also Berlin.
Motor cars rushed past with horns honking and screeching brakes. They signalled right-hand turns and left-hand turns, and swung off down side streets while other cars came swooping up behind them. The noise was indescribable, and on the pavements crowds of people kept hurrying by. Out of every turning vans and lorries, trams and double-decker buses swarmed into the main thoroughfare. . . And all the buildings stretched up and up into the sky.
So this was Berlin!
(Eileen Hall)
This is the Berlin that the titular character of Erich Kästner's classic children's book Emil und die Detektive encounters when he first arrives, a heady tumult reflecting the vibrance of the city in the 1920s. Much as these '[hastige] Autos' and 'hohe, hohe Häuser' were a break with the previous pace of life, Kästner's book also broke with the general trend of children's literature at the time, which was mostly moralistic or fairytales far removed from everyday life. His Emil deals with the real Berlin of the time, and its characters – and not just the unprincipled ones! – unashamedly speak their local dialect.
This, then, is what the various English translators who have tackled the book came up against, a question which crops up time and again in translation. How can you translate a book so closely connected to a particular time and place? How do you let young English readers understand Emil's world without losing the specificity that is part of the original's charm?
It didn't take long for Emil to be translated into English. The book was published in 1929, and the first English editions appeared in 1930 (USA, May Massee) and 1931 (UK, Margaret Goldsmith). The most common version in print in Europe today is the 1959 translation by Eileen Hall, although it does now share the stage with a 2007 translation by W. Martin. Hall's translation is generally more fluent than her predecessors', but it retains one significant feature – the way the slang used by both Emil and the gang of children he meets in Berlin is conveyed.
Da wär ich dir kolossal dankbar
I'd be most frightfully grateful
(Goldsmith)
I'd be awfully glad
(Hall)
In Kästner's work, Gustav and his gang speak with a distinct urban vernacular. The most obvious British equivalent – given the Berlin setting – would be London Cockney. Both Goldsmith and Hall, however, opt for an upper-middle class, public school register. This immediately places the book in a comfortable tradition of English children's books, 'domesticating' it by aligning the speech with that of authors such as the incredibly prolific Enid Blyton (whose books are full of 'lashings of pop' and 'jolly good fun'). This is what readers at the time would have expected – and almost entirely misses the mark of Kästner's deliberately lower register.
Hall does do a deft job of finding strong alternatives for Kästner's speech, replacing it with specifically British slang and adding in colloquial phrases elsewhere if there is no fitting replacement for something specific. While the phrase '[nennen wir] uns alle von morgen ab nur noch Moritz' is simply conveyed with 'we shall be disgraced', for example, Hall turns 'schon sieht er auch' into 'he'll spot you sure as eggs is eggs'. For all its deftness and internal consistency, however, the choice of the upper-middle class register ignores the way Kästner breaks with the tone of contemporary mainstream children's literature. The concrete setting and urban slang of his everyday characters were startingly different – and Hall's slang is not.
Donnerwetter noch mal . . . gibt's in Berlin famose Eltern!
My word, parents in Berlin are jolly decent.
Berlin parents are so cool!
(Martin)
The above example again shows Hall's public school approach, which paints over Kästner's choice of social milieu with a broad upper-middle class brush. Having discussed this already, however, it's time to take a look at the 2007 translation. Martin makes a very dramatic departure from his predecessors. The register is more in line with the spirit of the original; the modern terms, on the other hand, clash with the book's clear time period and jar in a more obviously glaring way than Hall's. The setting and storyline clearly belong to an earlier time, but the characters speak like modern children. Where Hall blurs Kästner's evocation of place and class, Martin stumbles over aligning the speech with the time period.
Kästner's speech in Emil is not the only quagmire in which translations have foundered. The book is also firmly set in a very real Berlin, with specific street names and concrete amounts of money exchanged (and, of course, lost). Hall's use of upper-middle class slang takes a step away from Kästner's original tone, and she takes a further step in her use of pounds and shillings rather than marks and her renaming of some of the minor characters to better suit English pronunciation, such as Mittenzwey becoming Mittler. Martin's translation then goes ahead and unmoors the original completely.
Herr Grundeis
(Massee)
Mr Grundeis
Mr Groundsnow
Massee, the original US translator, retains the German place names and even the German titles, providing a short explanation at the front of the book (letting her readers know, for example that Herr is Mr); Hall copies over many of the place names or translates them slightly, rendering Kaiserallee as Kaiser Avenue and Trautenaustraße as Trautenau Street. Martin, however, puts much more into English, such as the literal translation of Herr Grundeis as Mr Groundsnow; even Emil Tischbein becomes Emil Tabletoe. This makes many of the meanings of the original names clear to English readers, or conveys a similar effect, but it does so in a haphazard way – many of the other names remain inexplicably in German – and creates further tension with the book's clear Berlin setting. Emil Tabletoe from New Town does not convey such a distinct German flair as Emil Tischbein from Neustadt.
Translation is always about negotiation, and this is in great evidence in all the English translation of Emil. From Hall, who metaphorically moves the book halfway to England with her upper-middle class slang, to Martin, who hits the right register but the wrong time period, each translator finds their own balance between the specificity of the original and the demands of their (young) English-speaking readership. It is also likely that this kind of discussion is one that hits closer to home with adults than children; given the book's enduring popularity in English, British children are still easily absorbed in a story filled with any kind of slang when it comes alongside Kästner's unerring ability to convey the joy of the young detectives tackling their own adventure and triumphing. And as long as Emil continues to be retranslated and republished, readers worldwide will continue to share in that triumph.
Erich Kästner/W. Martin: Emil and the Detectives. (Original title: Emil und die Detektive)
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The dialogical construct of enthymematic understanding.
The enthymeme traditionally has been examined only as individual oral and written texts. Most scholarship looks at examples abstracted from their sociocultural context. In order to arrive at a more complete and organic understanding of the enthymeme, I explore the intertextual processes by which written and oral enthymemes evolve into new enthymemes for new written and oral texts. In their processes of making meaning, readers use texts to develop new enthymemes, and in the enthymemes' ever-evolving nature readers draw on social assumptions from other texts. In this dissertation I consider the enthymematic nature of intertextual processes to arrive at a broader understanding of the social construction of discursive structures. By applying social construction theory to the intertextual enthymeme, I focus on six contexts in which enythmemes are seen as discursive structures inscribing consensus because the elided assumptions of enthymemes are satisfied by the intertextual network of experiences and correltation shared by readers, writers, speakers and hearers.


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A committed serial killer using religious and dogmatic motives as the main reason for his crimes. A small town police woman dealing with the unusual problem of murder in her sleepy little burg. An unseasoned detective out to make good in a unwelcoming principality many miles from the big city. A desperately undermanned and underfunded department trying to find the answer to a series of sensational events.
If you took the basic B-movie thriller The Calling and passed it through a sieve, you'd end up with parts of Seven, more than a smidgen of Fargo, a decent dose of Hot Fuzz (sans the humor), and about a dozen other police procedurals. This means the resulting movie is both redundant and reassuring, never failing but also never fully realizing its crime spree potential.
Oscar winner Susan Sarandon plays Detective Hazel Micallef, a Canadian "sheriff" with a few dozen personal demons to contend with. Near crippled with a bad back, she self medicates with booze, prescription drugs, and a less than secret affair with a married man. She's even got a suicide attempt on her record, which makes her misanthropy all the more potent. After discovering the near decapitated body of an elderly woman, Hazel believes she has a serial killer on her hands.
Of course, no one else, including fellow Detective Ray Greeen (Gil Bellows) or recent Toronto transplant Ben Wingate (Topher Grace) agree. Eventually, we learn that a religious nut named Simon (Christopher Heyerdahl) is behind the crimes. Believing he's doing God's work and wooing victims with promises of herbal healing, his arcane methods, buried in ancient Christian ritual, eventually force Hazel to confront her own suffering.
If The Calling were a mere paperback potboiler, a page-turner that takes over one's summer reading agenda with reckless abandon (it is based on a book by Inger Ash Wolfe), it would definitely have a "leave the lights on" impact. Staged in stark, snowy silence and overflowing with sinister serenity, there hasn't been this kind of allegorical bifurcation of good vs. evil in a seemingly tranquil town since David Lynch unleashed Frank Booth on the poor people of Lumberton.
Take David Fincher and force him into the white-out conditions of this Great White North locale and you'd have something similar. In the mind, where the brain can do the casting, set up the characterizations, and deal with the plot contrivances, this story would sell. On the big screen, however, it merely limps along, lacking any real verve or cinematic scope.
First time feature film director Jason Stone has cast aside his previous comedy credits (he was one of the minds that inspired the Seth Rogen/James Franco/ Jay Baruchel meta movie This is the End) to try his hand at wintery noir, and thanks to the stellar cinematography of David Robert Jones, we can almost feel the seasonal chill. Snow covers everything, while barren tree limbs slowly sway in the breeze.
Unfortunately, the story Stone chooses to tell is so common, so locked in a post-modern murder mystery ideal where the killer is revealed 20 minutes in, that we aren't engaged in the investigation and never once feel a sense of dread. Instead, we wait for the eventual plot point puzzle pieces to fall into place so that Sarandon gets her character study redemption and all is set right in the non-religious world.
Another issue are the crimes themselves. They are often quite gruesome, and yet Stone finds a way to drain the shock value out of them. During one investigation, Sarandon discovers a man's stomach among a pack of hungry dogs. When the camera finally settles on the scene, one pup appears to be snacking on what looks like a dirt-covered begging treat. Because our killer is so sedate, so spiritually tied to his terrorizing, we feel more flustered than fearful.
Had either the story or its teller had anything new or novel to say, The Calling would have been considered a decent thriller. As it stands, it's all suspense-less smoke and minor-key mirrors.
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Full title:COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. TAYLOR
Court:Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Date published: Aug 22, 1941
122 F.2d 714 (3d Cir. 1941)
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Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Appeal from the United States Board of Tax Appeals.
Petition by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to review decision of the United States Board of Tax Appeals redetermining a deficiency in the tax imposed by the Commissioner upon William H. Taylor.
Decision of the Board reversed, and cause remanded, with direction.
Michael H. Cardozo, IV, Sp.Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Sp. Ass't. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for petitioner.
C. Brewster Rhoads, of Philadelphia, Pa. (John F. Headly, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for respondent.
Before BIGGS, MARIS and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
The respondent taxpayer seeks to avoid the impact of a very recent decision of the United States Supreme Court. In 1934 he created a trust for the benefit of his four nephews and nieces. By its terms it provides life estates in choses in action in the named children with powers of appointment and remainders over. The provisions relevant to the principal case read:
United States v. Pelzer, 312 U.S. 399, 61 S.Ct. 659, 85 L.Ed. 913; cf. Ryerson v. United States, 312 U.S. 405, 61 S.Ct. 656, 85 L.Ed. 917; Welch v. Paine, 1 Cir., 120 F.2d 141; 17 Words and Phrases, Perm. Ed., Future Interests, p. 870, 1941 Supp. p. 70; Gift Tax, What Constitutes "Future Interests," 112 A.L.R. 1452; 124 A.L.R. 877.
"(a) Trustees shall divide the principal of this Trust into four equal shares, said shares being represented respectively by the four children of Settlor's brother, John M. Taylor, to wit: Priscilla Taylor, Ellis Taylor, John M. Taylor, Jr., and Diana Taylor (each child representing one share), and thereupon:
"I. Trustees shall hold for the use and benefit of each child of John M. Taylor aforesaid the share of principal represented by such child, and shall pay the net income therefrom to such child for his or her life; provided, however, that the income which may become payable under the terms hereof to any minor child of said John M. Taylor shall be accumulated by Trustees for such child and paid over to such child when he or she shall attain the age of twenty-one years, unless in the opinion of Trustees, in their sole discretion, such income or accumulated income should at any time during the minority of such child be needed for his or her proper education or support, in which event Trustees shall apply any part or all of such income and/or accumulated income, as Trustees in their sole discretion may deem expedient, for the education and support of such child during his or her minority.
"II. (c) Trustees shall hold the shares of minors in whom the principal shall have vested, during their respective minorities, and during such time shall apply the income therefrom for the education and support of the respective minors." Trust, Exhibit No. 2, Petitioner's brief, pp. 21, 22.
The respondent claims the statutory deduction on these gifts. The Treasury has refused to allow it on the assertion that the gift comes within the exception rather than the rule. It calls the trusts "future interests in property" and relies on the Supreme Court case above cited in support thereof.
26 U.S.C.A.Int.Rev.Acts, page 585.
We think the Government's position is clearly correct. It is true that the life estate in the instant case vests immediately and the accumulation is thereafter, whereas in United States v. Pelzer some accumulation (10 years' worth) occurs before the vesting. That fact may, as counsel contends, make the gifts in the latter case contingent. That difference is not, in our view, a distinction and for a simple reason. The respondent is trying, we think, to change the law by transposition and interpolation. He asks us to make the statute read "interests vested in the future." We find no warrant for so doing. The expression has two equally well-established and well recognized meanings among those learned in the law. Its earlier use is in the connotation of conveyancing. The books, texts and reports devote thousands of pages to intricate discussions of the various kinds of estates. The Restatement of Property alone has already devoted two volumes of 530 and 865 pages each to the codification of the law of future interests and we understand that a third similar volume is in preparation.
312 U.S. 399, 61 S.Ct. 659, 661, 85 L.Ed. 913.
1 and 2 Restatement of the Law of Property (American Law Institute) §§ 153-240; 3 and 4 Restatement of the Law of Property (American Law Institute) §§ 241-369.
On the other hand, the phrase is employed in an entirely different sense. It is used in the grammatical interpretation of the adjective. The leading modern authority on the subject, Professor Simes, makes this quite clear in the first section of his text book. In speaking to the subject of "What Is a Future Interest," he says:
"The term `future interests' is comparatively new in legal literature. Littleton, Coke, and Blackstone speak of reversions, remainders, and other specific interests, but do not use the term `future interests.' Blackstone uses the term `estates in expectancy.' 2 Blackstone's Comm. 163.
"A future interest may be described as an interest in land or other things in which the privilege of possession or of enjoyment is future and not present. The one essential is the possibility of future enjoyment." 1 Simes, Law of Future Interests, § 1, pp. 2, 3 (italics ours).
To what extent this definition must have been in the legislative mind is manifest from the identical language of the Congressional Committee's Report cited by Mr. Justice Stone in United States v. Pelzer, supra.
"The term `future interests in property' refers to any interest or estate, whether vested or contingent, limited to commence in possession or enjoyment at a future date. The exemption being available only in so far as the donees are ascertainable, the denial of the exemption in the case of gifts of future interests is dictated by the apprehended difficulty, in many instances, of determining the number of eventual donees and the values of their respective gifts." H. Rept. No. 708, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 29; S.Rept.No.665, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 41. (Italics ours.)
Cf. Article XI of Treasury Regulation 79, 1933 and 1936 editions.
The propriety of including the trust of the principal case within the definition is apparent in another aspect. Future interests are largely significant in the law because of a policy against the dead hand. The courts appraised the gift of prophesy and considered that one generation should not attempt economic control over another. We need not contemplate here all phases of that general policy. The rule against perpetuities is the most famous example. It is not the only one. An entire chapter of Professor Gray's book is concerned with the policy of our exact trust. That specific emanation had, as is known, its origin in the will of the notorious Peter Thellusson and the so-called Thellusson Act which expressed the English Parliament's distaste for what Peter had done. Fourteen American jurisdictions have limited the period during which one may direct the accumulation of income. Among them happens to be Pennsylvania. The provision just cited appears under the heading "Perpetuities" and it seems to us hardly consistent to argue that a trust whose regulation is required because of a policy against future interests should be called for taxing purposes by another name.
Accumulations of Income at Common Law, 54 Harvard Law Review 839, 841.
Gray, The Rule Against Perpetuities, Chapter 20, Accumulations.
Thellusson v. Woodford, 4 Ves.Jr. 227 (Ch. 1799), aff'd, 11 Ves.Jr. 112 (H.L. 1805); cf. Hargrave, The Thellusson Act (1842) 1-39; Barry, Mr. Thellusson's Will, 22 Virginia Law Review 416; 2 Simes, Law of Future Interests, § 588; Leach, Cases on Future Interests, 2d Ed. 1940, 815.
39 40 Geo. III, c. 98 (1800).
Accumulations of Income at Common Law, 54 Harvard Law Review 839; Simes, Statutory Restrictions on the Accumulation of Income, 7 University of Chicago Law Review 409; Accumulations — Direction to Accumulate Income from Large Estate for Perpetuities Period Held Invalid, 40 Columbia Law Review 1430; cf. Chaplin, Accumulation — Death of the Minor, 14 Cornell Law Quarterly 289.
20 P.S.Pa. § 3251.
The Commissioner very fairly concedes that a stipulation based on an interpretation of then existing law necessitates the allowance of one $5,000 exclusion. The decision of the Board allowing the other three exclusions is reversed, and the cause is remanded with direction to reassess in accordance with this opinion.
MARIS, Circuit Judge (dissenting).
I am unable to agree that the interests which the nephews and nieces of the respondent received under his deed of trust were future interests within the meaning of Section 504(b) of the Revenue Act. Accordingly I think that the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals holding that the gifts in trust for the four nephews and nieces were gifts of present interests and allowing four $5,000 exclusions in respect of them, was right and should be affirmed.
The case, in my view, is clearly distinguishable from United States v. Pelzer, 312 U.S. 399, 61 S.Ct. 659, 85 L.Ed. 913, and Ryerson v. United States, 312 U.S. 405, 61 S.Ct. 656, 85 L.Ed. 917, upon which the petitioner relies. In the Pelzer case income was directed to be accumulated for ten years and then distributed to a class the members of which could not be ascertained until that time. In the Ryerson case insurance policies on the life of the donor were transferred in trust upon terms under which the beneficiaries were ascertainable only upon the happening of one or more uncertain future events, survivorship of one or more persons at the death of the donor. In neither case was there a definitely ascertained beneficiary of the income at the time of the gift or any provision for present distribution or use of that income.
In the case before us the respondent made a direct and absolute gift of present income to his nephews and nieces. In the case of each of the beneficiaries who was a minor, and all four of them were, he empowered his trustees to apply to the proper education and support of the minor during his minority so much of his income as was needed for that purpose and to accumulate the balance for distribution to him upon reaching his majority. While the accent in the respondent's deed is on the accumulation rather than the disbursement for the minor's education and support, the effect of the gift, it seems to me, was substantially the same as in the ordinary case of an absolute gift of income to a minor. The minor being under a legal disability to receive it directly, the income in every such case must be expended for his benefit either by a guardian appointed by a court for him or by a trustee designated to do so by the donor. In either case it becomes the fiduciary's duty to expend only so much of the current income as may be needed for the minor's proper education and support and to accumulate the balance until he comes of age.
It is suggested that the minors may receive the present benefit of only such income as the trustees in their sole discretion think proper to use for their education and support. But the discretion vested by the respondent in his trustees was not an arbitrary one. It was conferred upon them solely for the benefit of the minors and, if abused, would doubtless be subject to control by the appropriate tribunal. We must, therefore, assume for the purposes of this case that the minor beneficiaries here involved will receive present benefit from the respondent's gifts to them insofar as they may need it for their education and support. I, therefore, conclude that the gifts to them were present gifts within the meaning of the Revenue Act.
In my view the case is indistinguishable in principle from our case of Commissioner v. Krebs, 3 Cir., 90 F.2d 880. I think that Welch v. Paine, 120 F.2d 141, recently decided in the First Circuit, is distinguishable on its facts. Insofar as its reasoning may be extended to the facts of this case, however, I think it wrong and I should decline to follow it.
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Mustang Boys Soccer Back in Finals
May 22, 2008 11:12 AM by Mike Hume
While the George Mason High School boys varsity soccer team emerged from their Bull Run District regular season schedule with an unbeaten mark of 10-0-0, they were not untested during that stretch. Tuesday night in the district tournament semifinals, the Rappahannock Panthers relentlessly challenged the Mustangs, giving the defending district champions all they could handle at times. However, just as in the regular season, Mason earned the win, 3-1, and advances to host Thursday night's final against Clarke County.
Both teams seemed tentative to start the match, with neither side mustering much in the way of scoring chances. That changed at the 17-minute mark, when Mason broke the scoreless tie on a goal by sophomore Teddy Rueckert.
The Mustangs' Nick Smirniotopoulos sent the ball into the box from the right side with a bicycle volley. Rueckert corralled it and fired it off a defender and into the goal.
The goal was the first solid offensive change of the game for either team, but the chances began to open up for Mason in the minutes following that first strike. However, Rappahannock's keeper kept Mason off the board for the remainder of the half.
Three minutes after the first goal, Smirniotopoulos unleashed a left-footed shot that was snuffed out after a dive, followed by another rush down the right side two minutes later that resulted in a Smirniotopoulos shot that struck the outside of the net.
Smirniotopoulos' best chance of the first half came at the 24-minute mark when he controlled the ball at the left side of the box and shot the ball to the goal's far side. The shot seemed destined for the upper-right corner of the goal, but he was again stymied by the keeper, who snared it with a fully-extended, diving grab.
Smirniotopoulos finally broke through seven minutes into the second half, breaking past a pair of defenders and placing the ball in the net to give the Mustangs a cushion. Mason would need that margin, as their two-goal lead was short-lived.
Less than a minute after Smirniotopoulos' goal, the referee signaled for a penalty against the Mustangs inside the goal box, giving the Panthers' a free kick against Mason freshman goalie Tyler Back. Back sprawled to his left to stop the initial shot, but couldn't cover up the loose ball in time and Rappahannock pushed it over the line to make the match 2-1.
"We still don't know what the call was," Mason Head Coach Art Iwanicki said after the game. He jokingly added, "We're going to have to go upstairs and check the video tape for further review."
Iwanicki ended the night in good spirits thanks to an insurance goal by senior Matt Gresko in the final 10 minutes of the match. Smirniotopoulos perfectly bent a head-high cross to a streaking Gresko. Gresko met the ball in full stride and launched it with tremendous force past the keeper on the short side for the goal.
Prior to that final nail in Rappahannock's coffin, the Mustangs had to be sharp to stave off the Panther attack, rejuvenated in the wake of their goal. After seeing his shutout streak end at four games, Back was poised in his first varsity postseason match, confidently handling several long-distance scoring chances by Rappahannock. A rocket shot from 45-yards out seemed destined to sneak under the top bar, but Back managed to tip the shot over the goal and out of bounds.
"He's grown an awful lot during this season and he's an integral part of this team," Iwanicki said. "The boys are all confident in him."
The Mustangs, who already secured a berth in the Region B tournament thanks to their regular season title, meet Clarke County at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 22 in the Bull Run District finals. The Eagles were 4-3 winners over Madison County on Tuesday.
A win Thursday would give Mason a home match on Monday in the opening round of the Region B Tournament, while a loss would send them on the road to Wilson Memorial.
Should the Mustangs win their opening round match in regionals, they are expected to receive a significant boost in their semi-final game next Wednesday with the return of senior striker Antonio Randrianasolo. Previously it was thought that Randrianasolo was lost for the season after suffering a fractured heel in the final home game of the regular season on May 9. Now, after a second series of X-rays revealed that he had no fracture after all, he's set to begin training again on Friday.
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Upcoming DC Comics 'Wonder Women Of History' Includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib
updated September 9, 2020
DC Comics is releasing a new graphic novel honoring the "Wonder Women of History," including 17 female "real-world heroes."
Among them are 'leftist darlings' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, and former presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The novel's list of "Wonder Women of History" also includes Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, superstar Beyonce, alternative comedian Tig Notaro, and tennis prodigy Serena Williams as well alongside other social justice activists.
Although Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have appeared in several comic books before, it's their first time getting featured in a major comic book publisher like DC.
According to Games Radar, "Beyoncé, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Serena Williams, and more will be spotlighted by DC as in the upcoming anthology "Wonder Women of History." Taking a cue from its popular superhero Wonder Woman, DC will spotlight 17 real-world heroes in the fields of science, social justice activism, politics, sports, and entertainment."
"Wonder Woman has been an inspiration for decades, and while not everyone would choose her star-spangled outfit for themselves, her compassion and fairness are worthy of emulation," the official DC website notes.
The anthology consists of 17 individual stores, including tales of the mentioned real-word heroes following Diana's (Wonder Woman's) principles, beliefs, and work in different fields, including science, social justice activism, diplomacy, etc.
The novel has an all-female creative team, led by a well-known author Laurie Halse Anderson. Each entry into the anthology will be written and drawn by a group of female-identifying and nonbinary individuals.
DC's newest graphic novel, the "Wonder Women of History" anthology, will hit comic book stores in early December.


My significant other and I will be in paris beginning May 20ish and will be there for 3-4 weeks (we have our tickets for arrival and departure and are now doing the next level of planning). I say 3-4 weeks because we may drop down to Pompeii for a bit but we are flexible depending on what we want to do.
So, we are intermediate Tango dancers (4 years and counting) and I see that there are resources on the web as to what classes/milongas (Tango social dancing) are available. But, other than the location and dates/times they don't provide much info on expected skill level of dancing, traditional/nuevo, safety of the neighborhood. Or are there other resources I may have overlooked?
Is there a Parisian or other other there who would be willing to share info?


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European MPs want EU to become serious about linking Corona virus payments to human rights
Political leaders in the European Parliament will insist that the EU's massive budget payouts be dependent on countries meeting human rights and media freedom standards, they said on Wednesday.26 August 2020. Targeted, but not named, were Hungary and Poland, countries that receive massive subsidies from the EU budget, but flout calls by Brussels to meet commitments on fundamental freedoms.
"The time has come to accelerate the fight against the erosion of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in the very heart of the EU," said the letter, signed by leaders from the centre-right, centre-left, centrist and green parties.
The letter was addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, as well as Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the commission, the EU's executive arm that hands out the cash. Unless there are changes, the European Parliament has already vowed to veto the multi-year, one-trillion-euro budget — along with a massive pandemic recovery fund — that was thrashed out between heads of government at a summit in July.
Parliament members are due to sit down with representatives from the member states on Thursday to seek a compromise, with MEPs insisting on stricter conditions around civil rights. The summit deal in July was seen by some as not putting enough pressure on countries to respect core EU values, especially after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed a "huge victory" against conditionality after the talks.
In their letter on Wednesday, the MEPs insisted that EU member states approve a parliament proposal from April 2019 which would firmly link EU spending to the rule of law, which they vetoed at the time. Without its formal approval, "it will be impossible for us to move forward" on the EU budget, the group leaders said.
The EU budget is deeply intertwined with the 750 billion euro post-virus recovery fund, that parliament does not have a say over. But given the historic recession afflicting Europe, member states are under huge pressure to implement the plan and the budget as soon as possible, hopefully by the end of the year.
Recent events in Hungary and Poland suggest the countries have little intention of addressing EU concerns over attacks on media freedom, LGBTI rights and the independence of the courts. A day after the summit in July, the editor of Hungary's top independent news site was fired, seen as another sign of the Orban government's attacks on opposition media. In Poland, the UN's AIDS programme this month voiced deep concern about the "intensifying persecution" of LGBTI people, as well as crackdowns on human rights defenders.
Top Euro MPs to Merkel: No EU budget without rule of law
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Tags: budget, Covid-19, EU, freedom of the press, Hungary, linking aid, MEPs, Poland


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You are here - Welcome to LSE > Calendar > Research > Course guides > MA501 Research Student Seminar
Research Student Seminar
Dr Christoph Czichowsky COL 3.11, Prof Jozef Skokan COL 3.04, Prof Julia Boettcher, Dr Ahmad Abdi and Prof Johannes Ruf
This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in Mathematics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Other members of the research community are welcome to attend.
The seminars range across many areas of pure, applied and financial mathematics. The emphasis is on topics in discrete mathematics, algorithms, operations research, game theory, financial mathematics and control theory. The seminars are regarded as an important part of research students' formal training and they will all be expected to attend and contribute. Throughout the academic year, students are also invited to give presentations.
There are additional reading groups aimed at students working in financial mathematics and discrete mathematics. These are compulsory for students working in this area but other students of the MPhil/PhD in Mathematics are welcome to attend.
PhD Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation (MA501.1): 11 one-and-a-half-hour seminars in the MT and LT. 7 one-and-a-half-hour seminars in the ST.
LGSMF Portfolio Optimisation Seminar (MA501.2): 11 three-hour seminars in the LT. 7 three-hour seminars in the ST.
Financial Mathematics Reading Group Seminar (MA501.3): 11 three-hour seminars and 11 one-hour seminars in the MT and LT. 7 three-hour seminars and 7 one-hour seminars in the ST.
Discrete Mathematics Reading Group Seminar (MA501.4): 11 three-hour seminars in the MT and LT. 7 three-hour seminars in the ST.
Approximately 80-90 meetings of between 1 and 3 hours throughout the MT, LT and ST, dependent on speakers. See http://www2.lse.ac.uk/maths/Seminars/Research_Seminars.aspx for schedule and more details.
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Total students 2020/21: 3
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My EDC is a SOG Flash II (assisted opening)- very well made and takes and keeps a super sharp edge. VERY happy with it.
I carry a full size 1911 in a custom cross-draw holster (very comfortable in the car).
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June 30th was a very HOT but beautiful day for this bride and groom's wedding. Nostrano Vineyards is a great and relatively new location, with many elements to work with from a photography perspective. We started the day shooting the boys in his home nearby, and after they all got G-Shock watches as their gift from Adam, we headed up to Nostrano.
The girls got ready in the tasting room, and we did a first look with Dayna and Adam just outside the building. When talking to Dayna about her wearing her glasses here and there, she was like, "well I can just put them in my pocket!" …in her dress! How cool is that?
We walked around a bit for portraits, and ceremony was under the beautiful big willow tree. Reception was in the barn, and it looked great in there! We took the couple out for some sunset photos, and the light was just perfect. Before we ended for the night, Natalie just had to take them out to the vineyard for a nighttime shot, and we all were very happy with how it turned out. Congrats to Dayna and Adam, you had a great day!


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Man builds device to remove algae
A North Fort Myers man is taking matters into his own hands when it comes to blue-green algae covering his canal, Mon...
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A North Fort Myers man is taking matters into his own hands when it comes to blue-green algae covering his canal, Monday.
Gary Scicluna is a retired hydraulic engineer. He's been dealing with foul-smelling algae in the canal in back of his house for weeks, and says the oder is unbearable. He's also concerned because he doesn't know what health effects exposure to the algae could have on humans long term. That's why he's building a device to help skim some of the algae out. "The concept is to be able to skim the water and catch it, keep it into as big a clump as we can and get it back out to the river to keep the canals clear," Scicluna said.
The skimming tool he created is made of simple materials: foam pool noddles and wood. He plans to build it big enough to cover a canal, and attach a fine net underneath to catch as much algae as possible. "I'm going to do a small test with it, then I will enlarge it, make it full scale, use the outriggers on my boat to tie from each end in hopes of being able to cover a wide canal in one sweep," said Scicluna.
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All Signs Point To Roman Reigns And The Rock WWE Dream Match Finally Happening
By Inside The Ropes. Published 27th September 2020.
For years, wrestling fans have wondered if The Rock would come back to WWE.
Facing Roman Reigns has long been the rumour and now, more than ever, the stars appear to be aligning.
Since The Big Dog returned to WWE at SummerSlam, the company has got the jolt it badly needed. SmackDown ratings have been up on average and fans have got excited about Reigns' character for the first time in years.
Part of that is down to Reigns's alliance with Paul Heyman. That's the kind of fantasy booking most fans wouldn't have thought WWE would have actually done, but now that they have the angle is firing on all cylinders.
Reigns takes on Jey Uso at Clash of Champions in one of the hottest Universal title angles since its inception back in 2016. The core of the story revolves around Reigns being the Tribal Chief to the Samoan Dynasty.
The five-time world champion wants to show that he is the dominant star from one of the most fabled and sacred production lines in wrestling history.
His new heel persona has shown him to be ruthless thus far and even his real-life cousin in Jey Uso shall not be spared. But what if it took another real-life cousin in The Rock to stop him?
The Great One quietly retired from wrestling in an interview a couple of years ago, but in a YouTube video he released earlier this week, Rock suggested if he did return it would be to face Reigns.
Paul Wight Recalls Confronting WWE Writers – "Who The F**k Wrote Me War And Peace?"
John Cena On Why WrestleMania 34 Was One Of His Favourite Experiences Ever
Finn Balor Returns To Monday Night Raw
"Feels like the one that would make sense [for WrestleMania], right, would be Roman [Reigns]," he said. "In terms of box-office draw.
"I would be honoured not only to share the ring with Roman and to go back to WWE. But of course, I would be honoured to raise his hand in that one."
Reigns has talked about his dream of facing The Rock in the past and brought it up on the day WrestleMania 37 was announced for Los Angeles.
The newly-built SoFi Stadium stadium in Inglewood, California than can hold 100,000 people sounds about the right kind of stage for the highest-grossing star in Hollywood – two years running now – to make his WWE return against his cousin, doesn't it?
Roman Reigns has said he wants it. Rock has finally admitted he wants it. Everyone we've spoken to in WWE believes this is the direction the company is heading in too.
While much will be dependent on whether WrestleMania 37 goes ahead full steam ahead with full capacity, all the right noises are being made for it to finally happen.


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Those of us who spend any significant amount of time watching online video are likely smitten with the inspirational TED talks. But what do we know about the local TEDx events? I am glad to report that they are equally enchanting and offer great lessons in experiential marketing.
Everything there was intentional—from the event logo, stage design, and curated art to the bands playing, sponsors, and the organic soy milk offered along with the coffee and tea. Those elements came together to build a holistic experience that helped attendees truly connect with the content and people around us.
Such sense of purpose is what transforms an OK event into a fantastic performance. It conveys a strong message that lingers even after one leaves the event. Here, I will point out six elements of the TEDxSomerville (TEDxVille) event and present how they came together to build a memorable experience.
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Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (englischer Originaltitel The Very Hungry Caterpillar) ist ein Bilderbuch des deutsch-US-amerikanischen-Kinderbuchautors und -illustrators Eric Carle, das im Jahr 1969 erstmals im Verlag Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg (Oldb) erschien. Nach der Insolvenz des Stalling-Verlags kaufte der Gerstenberg-Verlag die Rechte an dem Kinderbuch. Es wurde in 64 Sprachen übersetzt; mehr als 50 Millionen Exemplare wurden verkauft (Stand 2019).

Inhalt
Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte einer Raupe, die aus einem Ei schlüpft und sich eine Woche lang durch viele Lebensmittel frisst. Am Ende der Woche ist sie dick und rund, verpuppt sich und wird zu einem Schmetterling.

Die Buchseiten haben Löcher durch die Bilder, die teilweise durch mehrere Seiten hindurchgestanzt sind, um zu veranschaulichen, wie sich die Raupe durch die Nahrungsmittel hindurchfrisst.

Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem Ei, aus dem eine Raupe schlüpft, die alles Mögliche frisst, um größer zu werden. Auf jeder Buchseite ist ein Tag dargestellt:
Am Montag fraß sie sich durch einen Apfel, aber satt war sie noch immer nicht.
Am Dienstag fraß sie sich durch zwei Birnen, aber satt war sie noch immer nicht.
Am Mittwoch fraß sie sich durch drei Pflaumen, aber satt war sie noch immer nicht.
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Sie frisst jeden Tag mehr; am Samstag frisst sie verschiedenste menschliche Lebensmittel und fühlt sich danach schlecht. Am Sonntagmorgen frisst sie nur ein grünes Blatt und da geht es ihr viel besser. Dann frisst sie nichts mehr, sondern verpuppt sich und schlüpft nach zwei Wochen als Schmetterling.

Rezeption
Die Raupe Nimmersatt, erschienen am 20. März 1969, war nicht Carles erstes Buch, brachte ihm aber den Durchbruch und ermöglichte es ihm, seine Arbeit als Werbegrafiker aufzugeben. Es erfreut sich weltweit enormer Beliebtheit und wurde nach Aussagen des Verlagshauses Gerstenberg (des späteren Verlegers der deutschsprachigen Fassung) über 50 Millionen Mal verkauft. Charakteristisch für die Buchgestaltung sind die Stanzlöcher. Die mit der Zahl der Früchte zunehmende Breite der Buchseiten war zum Erscheinungsdatum ein Novum.

Auf die pädagogische Eignung von Carles Bilderbüchern, darunter die "Insekten-Trilogie", zu der neben The Very Hungry Caterpillar auch The Very Busy Spider (Die kleine Spinne spinnt und schweigt, 1984) und The Very Quiet Cricket (Die kleine Grille singt ihr Lied, 1990) gehören, wurde mehrfach hingewiesen.

Im Jahr 1999 erklärte der spätere US-Präsident George W. Bush Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt zu seinem Lieblingsbuch und sagte, das Werk habe ihn beim Heranwachsen beeinflusst. Als das Buch 1969 erschien, war Bush bereits 23 Jahre alt.

Ausgaben
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (deutsche Fassung), Stalling, Oldenburg, ISBN  3-7979-2181-0.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (deutsche Fassung), Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN  978-3-7979-2181-9.
 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (deutsch-englische Ausgabe), Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 3-8067-5055-6.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein Malbuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 3-8067-5121-8.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Pappbilderbuch und Holzspielzeug). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 3-8067-5060-2.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Pop-up Buch). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 978-3-8369-5223-1.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein Fingerpuppenbuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 978-3-8369-5345-0.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein Badewannenbuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 978-3-8369-5354-2.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Buggybuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-8369-5447-1.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein kleines Spielbuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-8369-5761-8.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein Fühlbuch. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-8369-5769-4.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Mein kleines Leporello. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-8369-5803-5.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Deutsche Ausgabe in Braille. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-8369-5147-0.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Deutsche Ausgabe in Braille [Vollschrift] und in Schwarzschrift. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-8369-5972-8.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Wir feiern 50 Jahre Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt. – Deutsche Jubiläumsausgabe. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-8369-6000-7.
 Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt – Danke. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-8369-6001-4.

Literatur
 Viktor Christen (Hrsg.): Ein Künstler für Kinder: Eric Carle. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1989, ISBN 3-8067-4999-X (Jubiläumsausgabe zum Anlass des 60. Geburtstages von Eric Carle und des 20. Geburtstages seiner Kleinen Raupe Nimmersatt. Festschrift, die Autobiographie von Eric Carle übersetzt von Sabine Hindelang).

Weblinks
 Lesungen von Eric Carle. Eric Carle liest aus seinem Bilderbuch Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt. In: die-kleine-raupe-nimmersatt.de. Gerstenberg Verlag (Videos)
 Die große Karriere der "kleinen Raupe Nimmersatt". In: ndr.de. 19. März 2019 (mit Audio: Jens Krause: "Raupe Nimmersatt", 1:15 Min., Reihe: Die "60-Sekunden-Zeitmaschine")
 Ute Wegmann: Vor 50 Jahren. Das Kinderbuch "Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt" erscheint. In: Deutschlandfunk. 20. März 2019 (Audio; 5:00 Min.)

Einzelnachweise

Bilderbuch
Fiktives Tier
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Englisch)
Kinderliteratur
Literarisches Werk

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Geek Grotto - Get Your Geek On!: Confirmed: Abrams to direct Star Wars Episode VII!
Confirmed: Abrams to direct Star Wars Episode VII!
It was a late night confirmation from Disney, but JJ Abrams will direct the new Star Wars Movie!!! In my opinion, Abrams did a FANTASTIC job rebooting Star Trek, and MI:Ghost Protocol was a great movie as well, so I am VERY excited for this! During the Hobbit we were treated to a 9 minute Star Trek: Into Darkness trailer which also looked awesome, so what can Abrams bring to Star Wars? I say everything Lucas failed to bring to the prequels!


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NY Zone of Danger | Can You Recover Damages?
Mr. Bovson's car broke down on the Parkway. He pulled the car over to the side and when to the rear of the car. His wife and child remained in the car. A car driven by Mr. Scanperi struck the back of Bovson's car causing grievous injuries to Mr. Bovson who was pinned between the two cars and less severe injuries to his wife and child. Although neither the wife nor child actually saw the collision both were instantly aware of the impact and the fact that their husband and father must have been injured, and each, thereafter, saw the injuries he suffered.
That the defendant though his negligence put you in danger of death or injury. In other words, it was possible that you could have been involved in the accident along with your loved one.
That you are contemporaneously aware of the death or serious injury of an immediate family member. For example, in Bovson, a wife and daughter knew their husband/father was involved in an accident when it happened, even though they physically didn't see it, because they both heard and felt the impact of the defendant's car hitting their car where their husband/father was located.
The person who is injured must be an immediate family member. That means the person injured must be your mother, father, son, daughter, brother or sister. In New York, to date, no other familial relationships are recognized in a Zone of Danger action. For example, a fiancee is not an immediate family member, even if the accident happens on the way to the wedding.
You have to show a physical or psychic/emotional injury as a consequence of having witnessed the accident. You have to prove through admissible medical evidence, that witnessing the serious injury or death of your immediate family member has caused you harm.
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Home climate Role aerosols play in climate change unlocked by spectacular Icelandic volcanic eruption
Role aerosols play in climate change unlocked by spectacular Icelandic volcanic eruption
Image courtesy of Anja Schmidt / University of Leeds.
A spectacular six-month Icelandic lava field eruption could provide the crucial key for scientists to unlock the role aerosols play in climate change, through their interactions with clouds.
An international team of climate scientists, led by the University of Exeter, have meticulously studied the effects that the 2014-15 eruption at Holuhraun, in Iceland had on cloud formations in the surrounding region.
They found that the 2014-15 Holuhraun fissure eruption, the largest since Laki which erupted for eight months in 1783-4, emitted sulphur dioxide at a higher rate than all 28 European countries added together causing a massive plume of sulphate aerosol particles over the North Atlantic.
As would be expected, these aerosols reduced the size of cloud droplets, but contrary to expectations did not increase the amount of water in the clouds.
The researchers believe these startling results could significantly reduce uncertainties in future climate projections by outlining the impact of sulphate aerosols formed from human industrial emissions on climate change.
The pioneering study is published in leading scientific journal, Nature, on Thursday 22 June.
Dr Florent Malavelle, lead author of the study and from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter said: "The huge volcanic eruption provided the perfect natural experiment in which to calculate the interaction between aerosols and clouds.
"We know that aerosols potentially have a large effect on climate, and particularly through their interactions with clouds. However the magnitude of this effect has been uncertain. This study not only gives us the prospect of ending this uncertainty but, more crucially, offers us the chance to reject a number of existing climate models, which means we can predict future climate change far more accurately than ever before."
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Aerosols play a pivotal role in determining the properties of clouds as they act as the nuclei on which water vapour in the atmosphere condenses to form clouds.
Sulphate aerosol has long been recognised as the most significant atmospheric aerosol from industrial sources, but other natural sources of sulphate aerosol also exist, including that formed from sulphur dioxide release as a result of volcanic eruptions.
The 2014-15 Holuhraun eruption is thought to have emitted between 40,000-100,000 tons of sulphur dioxide every single day during its eruptive phase. Using state-of-the-art climate system models, combined with detailed satellite retrievals supplied by NASA and the Université libre de Bruxelles, the research team were able to study the complex nature of the cloud cover formed as a result of the eruption.
They found that the size of the water droplets produce was reduced, which in turn led to cloud brightening – which results in an increased fraction of incoming sunlight being reflected back into space and, ultimately, providing a cooling effect on the climate.
Crucially however, these aerosols had no discernible effect on many other cloud properties, including the amount of liquid water that the clouds hold and the cloud amount. The team believe the research shows that cloud systems are "well buffered" against aerosol changes in the atmosphere.
Professor Jim Haywood, co-author of the paper and also from the University of Exeter added: "Explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions are very different. The massive explosive eruption of Pinatubo in 1991, which injected aerosol to altitudes of 25km+ into the stratosphere, has been the go-to event for improving our model simulations of the impact of explosive volcanic eruptions on climate.
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"Now volcanoes have provided a new clue in the climate problem: how aerosols emitted at altitudes similar to those from human emissions impact the climate. Without a doubt, the effusive eruption at Holuhraun will become the go-to study in this regard."
Strong constraints on aerosol-cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions, Nature (2017). DOI :10.1038/nature22974
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MU Students Bring 'Hope' to Wabash
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Manchester University students are helping to provide hope at 85 Hope, a free clinic based in Wabash at the Wabash Friends Church located on State Road 13. Currently, the clinic serves residents in Wabash County that don't have health insurance. Eligible families are invited to fill out forms to attain cards in order to receive the medical help they may need.
Typically one night a week, the clinic hosts healthcare providers from the surrounding ar-ea who volunteer their services.
Beginning in the spring of 2016, recent MU graduate Salwa Nubani worked with biology professor Dr. Kristin Short on a collaboration between MU students and 85 Hope. "Salwa had a dream that the Manchester students who were planning to go into healthcare could give back to the community by helping at a free clinic," said senior Cally Miller in an email. " After a lot of trips to 85 Hope in the spring of 2016, we discovered that their greatest need would be for a student intern to help them in clerical needs, [and] a community wide education program talking about their key issue for the year, diabetes."
After Nubani graduated, Yafet Leake stepped into the role as the intern at 85 Hope to assist the clinic with their needs. While Leake became the intern, Miller became the student coordinator who oversees the Diabetes Education Initiative. "Dr. Short and I have worked extensively with 85 Hope, the Purdue Extension, Parkview Health and students to teach five community sessions on diabetes," she said. "We have also collaborated with students and professors from Manchester University School of Pharmacy. They have helped us a great deal in each session, especially with foot checks and a detailed session on all of the diabetes medications. Some of the topics we are teaching include how diabetes works, medication monitoring, foot care, nutrition, exercise and goal setting."
One of the main goals for the Diabetes Education Initiative is to promote awareness. "We try to help people with diabetes and their families and friends to feel more knowledgeable about their health," Miller said. "We want the people who come to our class to feel encouraged, supported, and to learn something as well. We want them to learn facts and info, but to also feel like some-one really cares.
"I decided to get involved because I have a passion for helping people feel empowered, and also for helping the underserved," Miller continued. "I believe that educating people about their health gives them a new platform to be an advocate for themselves, and I think that is exciting."
While the collaboration gives students unique opportunities to practice what they've been taught, students also gain valuable experience. "I have realized the importance of community education, and it has given me perspective on what level of detail will be needed if I teach health to patients as a physician in the future," Miller said." It is a whole different ball game to teach about a health condition in a general setting versus in a scientific, academic setting. I hope that the people who come learn more about diabetes, and, if they are in need of medical care, that they become aware of the services that 85 Hope provides."
One of the most challenging parts of volunteering for the clinic as an educator is the motivational factor. "Helping come up with creative ideas to help students find a platform to teach old material that a lot of diabetics already know in a new and creative way, so the material will really sink in." Miller said.


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Bhopal: Enforcement Directorate seeks details of crorepati clerk Hero Keswani from EOW
During a raid at upper division clerk's residence in August this year, a sum of Rs 86.73 lakh kept in several bags was found.
RAJESH THAKURUpdated: Friday, December 02, 2022, 11:18 PM IST
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Bhopal(Madhya Pradesh): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought details from Economic Offences Wing (EOW) about the raid conducted at the house of an upper division clerk (UDC) in August this year, official sources said on Friday.
The EOW sleuths raided the house of an assistant grade-II, Hero Keswani, posted to the medical education directorate in the Bairagarh area.
When the EOW team reached Keswani's house, he created a high drama trying to commit suicide by consuming some poisonous substance. The members of the team admitted him to Hamidia hospital, Bhopal.
Director General of EOW, Ajay Sharma, told Free Press that during the raid a sum of Rs 86, 73, 500 kept in several bags was found. Those bags were hidden in various places of the house, Sharma said.
The team has also ferreted out gold and silver jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh, the officer said.
He further said the police came to know that the amount had been withdrawn from a bank, so the EOW wrote a letter to the bank to provide the details about the money.
Now that the ED has taken over the case, it sought details from the EOW.
Sources said that the money found in Keswani's house had been withdrawn from a cooperative bank in Bhopal during the corona pandemic. The cash contains currency notes of Rs 500 denomination.
A slip on one of the packs of currency notes contained the name of the bank, sources said, adding that a sum of Rs 4 crore had been withdrawn from the bank in several instalments. Keswani was appointed at a salary of Rs 4,000 a month, and he is earning Rs 50,000 a month.
Nevertheless, the property and the cash found in his residence were disproportionate to his known sources of income, sources in EOW said.
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The good old days were horrible
by Sean McLachlan on Oct 12, 2010
Ah, Merry Olde England! A time and place with happy people, clean streets, and scenes that looked just like they do on BBC historical dramas.
Premodern England was a grim place of death, filth, and general misery. Actually that can describe pretty much everywhere in the nineteenth century, but the town where the Brontë sisters lived was especially nasty. Some authors write novels to escape reality, and the Brontë sisters had a lot to escape from. Two of their sisters died in childhood thanks to the neglectful conditions at their boarding school. Then the Grim Reaper took the remaining sisters and their brother one by one.
This may have been due to the horrible health conditions in their town of Haworth, Yorkshire. At a time when all towns were unsanitary, Haworth took the prize. Haworth stands on the side of a steep hill with much of its water supply coming from natural springs near the top. Also near the top of the hill is the town graveyard. So crowded was this graveyard that the coffins were often buried ten deep. Water flowing through the graveyard contaminated the public pumps and ensured a steady supply of more dead bodies, which would rot, seep their juices into the water supply, and start the cycle anew. The Black Bull pub contributed to this by using this spring water to brew its own beer. One wonders what it tasted like.
%Gallery-104759%This wasn't the only spring in Haworth, but the locals managed to ruin the others by placing open cesspools next to the pumps. Although the connection between cleanliness and health was only imperfectly understood, Patrick Brontë, local clergyman and father of the Brontë sisters, realized a place where 41 percent of the population died before age six had some serious issues. In 1850 he brought in Dr. Benjamin Babbage (son of Charles Babbage, who built the first computer) to make an inspection. Babbage was horrified at what he saw and his damning report of the local squalor made reformers take notice. If it wasn't for Babbage, Haworth probably wouldn't get so many tourists. People tend not to like smelling open cesspits and drinking decayed bodies while on vacation.
If natural causes didn't bump you off, the Haworth poisoner might do it for you. John Sagar ran the local workhouse, the place where the poor were forced by law to live. There they were underfed, overworked, and slept in rat-infested little rooms as a punishment for the cardinal sin of poverty. Sagar was a "short, dark, vulgar-looking man" who only had one arm, which he used to beat his wife Barbara mercilessly. Everyone was too afraid of him to come to her aid. When she finally died it wasn't by beating, but by arsenic poisoning. Sagar was the obvious suspect. Questions were also raised about the deaths of their nine children. Yet Sagar got off due to lack of evidence, and he lived to the ripe old age of 78, a small miracle considering the conditions of the town. Strangely, his is one of the only graves in the cemetery that shows signs of weathering. Some locals say nature is serving justice where the courts did not.
Links to the eerie past still linger. On some old buildings, strange stone faces stare out onto the street. They look like ancient Celtic stone heads, but researcher John Billingsley says they were a continuing folk magic custom that experienced a rebirth of popularity in the area in the 17th and 19th centuries. They were used to ward off evil, and as late as 1971 a head was placed over the front door of the Old Sun Inn to stop a haunting. It's said to have worked! If you had witch trouble you could also carve a "W" into your door frame, or put pins into a bullock's heart and bury it beneath the floorboards. Special witch bottles could be used to trap witches. I've seen pinned hearts and witch bottles at the West Highland Museum in Ft. William, Scotland, and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, so the practice was widespread
With all the death and tourists, it's not surprising that Haworth is full of ghost stories. Not only did I stay in a haunted hotel room, but every single bar I drank at or restaurant I ate in had a resident ghost. Phantom drinkers, gray ladies, even haunted carriages all prowl Haworth at night. There are deeper mysteries than ghosts, however. Witchcraft and folk magic abounded. Fear of witches was so great that local "cunning man" Old Jack Kay, a contemporary of the Brontës, would lift curses for a price. He also told fortunes and could show you your future spouse in a mirror or bowl of water. He and other "cunning men" brewed cures for the sick. Some were herbal medicine that might have been effective, while others had dubious ingredients. The urine of a red cow supposedly cured cancer. I suppose it would be unscientific to dismiss red cow's urine as a cure for cancer with testing it, but good luck getting volunteers for the clinical trial.
So the next time you're in some charming historic locale, think back on how things used to be, and be thankful that they're not like that anymore!
Don't miss the rest of my series on Exploring Yorkshire: ghosts, castles, and literature in England's north.
Coming up next: Hiking the Yorkshire moors!
A special thanks to local historians Steven Wood and Philip Lister for all the great stories that contributed to this article, and all the great ones I couldn't fit in.
This trip was sponsored by VisitEngland and Welcome to Yorkshire, who would have a lot less to brag about if Dr. Babbage hadn't fixed a few things.
Three nights in a haunted hotel room
by Sean McLachlan on Oct 8, 2010
The best thing about being an agnostic is that you don't have to live your life fearing the unknown. The worst thing is admitting the possibility that there might be something to fear after all.
Instead of pretending to have all the answers, my belief system ranks things in order of likelihood, and ghosts are pretty far down the list. Not as low as Santa Claus or the "we never landed on the Moon" conspiracy theory, but a poor ranking nonetheless. So when I heard that my hotel room in England was supposedly haunted, my only thought was that I'd bagged a good story for Gadling.
Unlike a lot of supposed hauntings, this one's actually based on a true story, related to me by local historian and folklorist Steven Wood.
Back in 1906, Haworth, Yorkshire, was holding its annual gala. Like in other years, brass bands played, entertainers wowed the crowd, and food stands sold all sorts of delicacies. This year, however, the people of Yorkshire had been promised something special. Lily Cove, a famed "aeronaut", was going to do a death-defying parachute jump from a balloon. This was only three years after Kitty Hawk, so nobody in the area had ever seen an airplane, and balloons were a rarity too. Seeing a lovely lady jump from one and land safely was something of a miracle.
Lily Cove stayed at The Old White Lion Hotel in Room 7, the very same room I had. While waiting for a day with good weather the glamorous aeronaut made many acquaintances in town and became very popular.
On June 11 the weather was fair and thousands gathered to see her performance. After she and her manager Captain Frederick Bidmead checked the balloon, she secured herself to a trapeze hanging from the bottom. The balloon soared into the air with Lily waving to the crowd with a handkerchief. The idea was that once she got to a good altitude, Lily would leap from the trapeze and a ripcord would open up her parachute. She'd then float gracefully to earth.
The balloon floated over the fields. After it got up to about 700 feet Lily jumped. The parachute opened as planned, but one witness saw Lily shrugging her shoulders and a moment later she detached from her parachute and plummeted to the ground. Farmers rushed to the spot, but she was dead. Her broken body was carried back to her room, my room, and laid out until a coffin could be made for her.
The whole town went into mourning. Captain Bidmead, a veteran of 83 parachute descents, said he might never fly again. At the inquiry he gave the opinion that she'd deliberately separated herself from the parachute. He suggested that because she was drifting towards a reservoir and didn't know how to swim, she decided to get to the ground early. She must have thought she was much lower than she was and could land without injury. Others said she committed suicide, but there seemed no reason for this. The court ruled that Lily Cove died of "misadventure." Parliament soon banned parachute performances so such a tragedy would never happen again.
According to local ghost story collector and guide Philip Lister, it wasn't long before guests began reporting strange happenings in Room 7. Some woke up with a start, thinking they were falling through the air. Others saw an attractive young woman standing at the foot of their bed. The sightings have continued to the present day, and everyone in Haworth knows of Room 7's reputation.
I didn't hear any of this until I had spent my first night in the room. Tired from a day's travel from Madrid, I slept fine, although I woke up once, glanced at the clock, saw it was 4:10, and went back to sleep.
The next day one of my travel companions told me my room was haunted. She started telling me the story but I stopped her. I didn't want to be subject to suggestion. I wanted to test Room 7, and not have my own mind play tricks on me. The conversation turned to ghosts stories in general, and over the course of the day four of my nine travel companions told me they'd seen ghosts at least once in their lives. I was amazed. These educated, quite sane travel writers were telling me in all seriousness that they'd seen spirits. Nearly half of our group had a story to tell, and I didn't even get around to asking all of them! Apparitions from the beyond are more common than I supposed.
The second night I slept fine again, although I briefly woke up again shortly after 4am. I think it was 4:08, but I was too sleepy to be sure.
By my third night I'd heard the whole story. I even went on a ghost tour, which I'll describe in my next post in this series. So when I tucked myself in I knew just what had occurred to that poor woman who had stayed in my room. Once again I saw nothing, except I briefly woke up and looked at the clock.
It was 4:11 in the morning.
Waking in the middle of the night isn't unusual for me, but I never wake up at the exact same time three nights in a row. Is this significant? Well, by the third night I was wondering if I would again awake shortly after four, so that might have been autosuggestion. The time seems to have nothing to do with the haunting, since Lily did her ascent at seven o'clock in the evening.
So was Lily Cove waking me up? Probably not. The tricky thing about ghosts is they're unprovable. Even if I'd awoken to see a spectral woman at the foot of my bed, that wouldn't prove anything except I had a weird experience that could have been a hallucination. Yet ghost stories are found throughout history and in most if not all cultures. We seem to need ghost stories. That doesn't necessarily mean there's life beyond death or that dead people occasionally come back to scare the crap out of the living, but it does show ghosts are a part of the human experience. What they signify is something we'll probably never know, and not knowing is far more interesting than pretending you have all the answers.
Don't miss the rest of my series Exploring Yorkshire: ghosts, castles, and literature in England's north.
Coming up next: The good old days were horrible!
This trip was sponsored by VisitEngland and Welcome to Yorkshire, who really should have put someone more impressionable in Room 7.
The Purgatory Museum
by Sean McLachlan on Sep 14, 2010
I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
A rectangular slab of wood bears two burn marks–one in the shape of a cross, the other resembles a human hand. Nearby are other items–a shirt, a prayer book, a pillow–all with burns that look like they've been made by fiery fingers.
I'm in Rome's smallest and strangest museum, the Piccolo Museo del Purgatorio, the Little Museum of Purgatory. Housed in the church of Santo Cuore del Suffragio, which is dedicated to relieving the souls tortured in Purgatory, it stands barely ten minutes' walk from the Vatican. Small it certainly is, just one long case along a single wall, but the questions it raises are at the center of an increasingly acrimonious debate that's dividing Western civilization.
Purgatory is a halfway point between Heaven and Hell, a place for the souls of people who lived good enough lives to avoid eternal damnation, but not quite good enough to join the angels. In Purgatory these souls suffer torment for enough time for their sins to be forgiven, a sort of celestial spanking with no Child Protective Services to intervene.
But there is hope. Prayers by the living can reduce a soul's time in Purgatory. Faithful relatives offer up prayers or even pay for entire masses to be said for the departed. Others neglect this spiritual duty, and it is said that sometimes a tormented soul will return to Earth and ask for help.
During the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries these visitations happened fairly often and took on a common pattern. A spirit would appear to a relative or friend, reveal it was in torment, and ask for prayers to shorten its time in the cleansing fires. As proof that the spirit had been there, it would touch its burning hand to a nearby object. These events were one of many types of miracles common in the Catholic world such as apparitions of the Virgin Mary and bleeding statues of Jesus.
The Purgatory Museum collects these soul burns and tells their story. The hand and cross that I am seeing was left on a table by Fr. Panzini, former Abbot Olivetano of Mantua. In 1731 he appeared to Venerable Mother Isabella Fornari, abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of St. Francis in Todi. He appeared to her on November 1, 1731 (All Saints Day) and said he was suffering in Purgatory. To prove his claim, he touched his flaming hand to her table and etched a burning cross in it too. He also touched her sleeve and left scorches and bloodstains.
%Gallery-101999%I have to admit I'm skeptical. I am an agnostic, and while I can't disprove the existence of some sort of deity, I'm having trouble believing this story. The hand doesn't look quite right. I take several photos, including the negative black and white image shown here. On this image details become clear that aren't easily spotted with the naked eye. The burnt hand and cross are made up of a series of circular patterns as if they were made with some sort of hot poker. Other objects, whose images and stories can be seen in the attached gallery, appear more convincing but could still easily have been made with a bit of flame and ingenuity.
This doesn't dissuade the two guys I'm seeing the museum with. They are a devoutly Catholic gay couple here in Rome on pilgrimage, something I find far more mysterious than a few burns on a nightcap. They go from object to object with wonder in their eyes. Looking at that same hand they don't see its shape as odd, and they don't see the circular patterns that make it up as a sign of forgery. A burning hand, of course, would have flames coming out of it, which would distort its shape and lead to some areas of the imprint being more scorched than others.
And that, I realize, is what the Purgatory Museum has to teach. For the faithful, it is yet more proof of Divine Judgment. For an atheist, it is proof of the gullibility of religious people and the nasty web of lies that supports organized religion. For the agnostic standing between two fundamentalisms, it proves nothing. Personally I think these objects are the products of overzealous fraudsters wanting to make converts by any means necessary, yet debunking them doesn't disprove the existence of spirits any more than showing there's no life on Mars would disprove the possibility of aliens on other planets.
As I stand there wondering where the whole debate over religion is going to lead, an attractive young American nun walks in, hands me a pendant of the Virgin Mary, and hurries off before I can ask her what the Latin inscription says. This sort of thing happens a lot in Rome. The inscription reads, "O MARIA CONCEPITA SENZA PECCATO PREGATE PER NOI CHE RECORRIAMO A VOI" and bears the date 1850. Translation, anyone?
So I leave the same as I entered, "knowing" nothing but insatiably curious about everything. That's a pretty good place to be, I think. Walking down the nave I see one of the gay Catholics gazing upon a reclining figure of the crucified Jesus. His face is transfixed with reverence, wonder, and sadness as he bends down and kisses the statue's feet. His visit to Rome will be very different than mine.
This starts a new series called Vacation with the Dead: Exploring Rome's Sinister Side. I will be looking at the Eternal City's obsession with death, from grandiose tombs to saints' relics, from early Christian catacombs to mummified monks. Tune in tomorrow for The Tombs of Rome!
Welsh lighthouse plans statue for local ghost
by Sean McLachlan on Aug 5, 2009
Caretakers of an historic 17th century lighthouse in northern Wales are planning to erect a statue to a famous resident–the ghost of a former lighthouse keeper.
Locals and holidaymakers have had numerous sightings of the man standing atop the old lighthouse, pictured here. He is described as wearing old-fashioned clothing and is sometimes seen quite clearly during broad daylight. The building has been locked and unused for a century.
Now Talacre Beach Leisure Group who own the building and the beachfront property around it, want to erect a stainless steel statue to the ghostly figure. Because the lighthouse is a listed historic building, they have to make an application to the local county council, who appear to be enthusiastic about the idea.
Hey, in these hard economic times, anything that helps bring in tourists can't be all bad.
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Cornell researchers engineer a biohybrid composite material that mimics natural tissue
Producing biomaterials that match the performance of cartilage and tendons has been an elusive goal for scientists, but a new material created at Cornell demonstrates a promising new approach to mimicking natural tissue.
The results were published July 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and provide a new strategy for synthesizing clinical solutions for damaged tissue.
Tissue has to be soft enough to bend and flex, but durable enough to withstand prolonged loading – for example, the weight a knee tendon must support. When tissue wears out or is damaged, collagen hydrogels and synthetic materials have the potential to serve as replacements, but neither alone possesses the right combination of biological and mechanical properties of natural tissue.
Now, Cornell researchers have engineered a biohybrid composite material with the essential characteristics of a natural tissue. The material consists of two main ingredients: collagen – which gives the material its softness and biocompatibility – and a synthetic zwitterionic hydrogel, which contains positively and negatively charged molecular groups.
"These charge groups interact with the negatively and positively charged groups in the collagen, and this interaction is what enables the materials to dissipate energy and achieve high levels of toughness," said Lawrence Bonassar, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor in Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and co-lead author of the study.
The biohybrid composite approaches the performance of articular cartilage and other biological tissues, possessing 40% more elasticity and 11 times the fracture energy – a measure of durability – of the zwitterionic material by itself.
Nikolaos Bouklas, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-lead author of the study, said the material's biocompatibility means it can recruit cells and keep them alive.
"Ultimately, we want to create something for regenerative medicine purposes, such as a piece of scaffold that can withstand some initial loads until the tissue fully regenerates," Bouklas said. "With this material, you could 3D print a porous scaffold with cells that could eventually create the actual tissue around the scaffold."
In addition, the biohybrid material is self-assembling once the two ingredients are mixed, Bouklas said, creating "the same interconnected network of collagen seen in natural cartilage, which otherwise would be extremely hard to produce."
The research brought together four research labs from three different departments thanks to a seed grant from the Cornell Center for Materials Research. The collagen used in the biohybrid composite had already been under development in Bonassar's lab, while the zwitterionic hydrogel was developed by the study's co-authors Robert Shepherd, associate professor in the Sibley School, and Emmanuel Giannelis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
The study's authors are continuing to research the material and the molecular processes behind its synthesis. Bonassar said the material is well suited for the type of bioprinting pioneered in his lab, and the authors have begun experimenting with using it as a 3D-printing material.


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"JD, he gave me my first music industry job, he believed in me," Lil Jon told Arsenio. "I was just a DJ in the night clubs. We used to see each other out all the time and one day he said 'I see you everywhere and you out. I'm starting this record company, So So Def and I want you to be an A&R'…I worked with him for seven years and I gained so much knowledge. I remember going to his house and he played me Xscape's first single and I thought it was TLC."
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