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The trick to this recipe? Homemade chicken broth. You won't believe the flavor it gives a seemingly simple dish like this barley risotto (which might otherwise be somewhat unremarkable). We've been stashing the carcasses of rotisserie chickens in the freezer, and when we're up to three or so we break out the stock pot and get a boilin'. If you've never made homemade chicken stock before, it's really quite simple. We first like to saute some veggies in a bit of olive oil (onions, carrots, celery, garlic), then deglaze it with a bit of Madeira wine. Add in the chicken remains, some bay leaf, whole peppercorns, fresh thyme, parsley stems (or any other fresh herbs/herb stems you have), and a bit of salt. Fill with water, and boil away for 2-3 hours or until your entire house smells DIVINE. Strain, and allow the broth to cool before skimming off as much fat as you can (if you refrigerate it this will be much easier). We then measure it out into 1/2, 1, and 2 cup portions and freeze it for later use. We haven't bought chicken broth in almost a year. And if we keep buying and saving the bones from rotisserie chickens, I don't see us doing so anytime in the near future.
With the rich flavors of homemade chicken broth reduced down and completely absorbed into the barley, you'll forget that this meal is actually healthy for you. It's that good. I mean, technically our homemade broth is probably not the low-fat broth called for in the recipe, but boy is it worth it.
Just make sure you plan ahead for this one. Ever made risotto before? Yeah… add 20 minutes to that. The barley really cooks at its own pace, ours took a good hour before all the liquid was absorbed, and even then it was still a wee bit al dente. Do yourself a favor and get the risotto going first, THEN tackle the roasted tomatoes and eggplant, the opposite order of what the recipe originally says to do.
Makes 4 servings. Recipe from Cooking Light.
Combine broth and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan; bring to a simmer (do not boil). Keep warm over low heat.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion to pan; saute 4 minutes or until onion begins to brown. Stir in barley and garlic; cook 1 minute. Add wine; cook 1 minute or until liquid almost evaporates, stirring constantly. Add 1 cup broth mixture to pan; bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Cook 5 minutes or until liquid is nearly absorbed, stirring constantly. Add remaining broth mixture, 1 cup at a time, stirring constantly until each portion of broth mixture is absorbed before adding the next (about 40 minutes total). Barley will be tender but still slightly al dente.
Meanwhile, Combine eggplant, tomatoes, remaining 2 tablespoons oil, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a bowl; toss to coat. Arrange mixture in a single layer on a jelly-roll pan. Bake at 400° for 20 minutes or until tomatoes begin to collapse and eggplant is tender.
Gently stir eggplant mixture into barley, along remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and salt to taste. Top with cheese, basil, and nuts.
Love this idea. Not a fan of eggplant but it sounds wonderful!
I tried making barley risotto once and it was a disaster. But this recipe gives me hope that it is possible to have delicious barley risotto! Which is good considering I've got tons of barley in my cupboard.
Ahhhh, homemade chicken soup! Grandma would be proud!
i have always wanted to try risotto with barley… hard to get motivated with how much time you say it takes!
Barley risotto is really tasty made in the slow cooker. And easy! Virtually no hands-on time.
This risotto looks so great and so unusual! Will certainly give it a try! Thanks for sharing :-) Great blog.
MMMMMMMM,…what a lovely & tasty looking dish!!


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NIRAS nominates Ronni Lundoff Stenløkke as the young FRI consultant 2019
Each year the Danish Association of Consulting Engineers, FRI, grants the award to a young engineer who has leadership potential and has contributed with something extraordinary. This year NIRAS nominates Ronni Lundoff Stenløkke for his efforts in projecting the complex steel structures at DOKK1 in Aarhus, Denmark, and for his efforts in Conceptual Engineering.
Already from the first day that Ronni entered the NIRAS office as a newly graduated engineer, he has proven to be a progressive person.
Ronni is graduated with a MSc in Engineering from Aarhus University in Denmark and has been working in NIRAS since 2011. He is an expert in designing load-bearing structures and has, in addition to several competition projects, projected e.g. the complex steel structures at DOKK1 in Aarhus and the Vendsyssel Theatre and Experience Centre. Also, he has been a part of many different projects for Aarhus Festival and the Capital of Culture in 2017.
This year Ronni has been involved in a greater construction work at Oslo Plads in Copenhagen, a prestige project for Grundfos in Bjerringbro and several competition projects. Currently, he is working with a complex hotel superstructure and is examining how a building can be constructed partially under sea level.
Ronni also acts as an external examiner for Aarhus University School of Engineering and has most recently been a supervisor at a workshop on 'Integrated interdisciplinary design process'.
Floating steel structures of 900 tons
Ronni is, among other things, nominated for his efforts in projecting the complex steel structures at DOKK1 in Aarhus. The immediate impression that is given to the visitors of the spectacular building is the large 'floating' roof slab which is coated with expanded metal.
The steel structure which forms the framework in the roof slab weighs 900 tons in total – and the roof slab itself is comparable to 20 large single-family houses that are mounted 24 metres above ground.
'Ronni's efforts have helped conduct the steel construction in such a way that it reinforces the overall architectural expression of the building. Despite Ronni's modest experience at that time, I remember him as a solid project partner who was able to come up with proven solutions to the issues encountered with the project. The project greatly benefited from his interests and skills in 'art engineering' which could complete the narrative architecture of a project,' says Klaus Petersen, Managing Partner at PDplus Advisers.
During the project design of DOKK1, Klaus acted as the project manager and director for the architectural company Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
The originator of Conceptual Engineering
The talented young engineer is also nominated for being the originator of Conceptual Engineering – a holistic thinking in which the engineer contributes with a conceptual approach in the early project stages, using the digital tools of Computational Design.
Ronni's thinking behind this concept is that engineers must be able to not only solve a design problem but also work with projects proactively and have the courage to question the ideas behind a design. The main objective is to improve and optimize the working methods of engineers in order to turn architectural visions into reality as well as provide realistic and buildable solutions.
When making the right decisions already in the early stages of a construction work, all changes and redesigns can be avoided. This creates value for the customer and thereby business opportunities. For this reason, Ronni has drawn up a strategy and action plan. He is now responsible for this area and has a number of employees under his wings.
Next generation consultancy
Head of Department Henrik Als Andersen and Business Manager Morten Reher-Langberg have conducted the employer's contribution to the nomination. They point out that Ronni is someone who takes the initiative for development.
'Ronni is an open and pleasant person. He is committed, creative, innovative and likes to work across different areas. Also, customers appreciate that he always thinks ahead. In NIRAS we have a payoff that goes: 'Next generation consultancy'. Ronni is definitely the quintessence of that,' says Henrik Als Andersen.
Vivid collaborations
Ronni is in great demand both in-house and out-of-house – particularly in the early project stages. If he receives a complex task he sets out to solve it right away.
Many customers and cooperation partners – notably architects – have expressed that it is a pleasure to work with a design engineer who is not afraid of taking action in the early project stages. Ronni is the one who always finds a solution when a customer or an architect says: 'We would like a structure that floats over the sea.'
Passion for cultivating potential
Ronni has leadership potential, and in 2016 he spent 12 months attending the company's leadership development program. Throughout the program, Ronni improved his leadership skills in both personnel, sales and project management and earned praise from educators, managers and other attendees.
'Ronni exhibits a deep personal commitment and is very enthusiastic about cultivating his potentials, developing professional skills and creating integrated collaborations, exploring and utilizing both human and digital methods in an optimum manner. There is no doubt that Ronni is one of the brightest brains in the consultancy sector. It will be exciting to follow him in the future,' says Morten Reher-Langberg.
The winner will be awarded on March 7, 2019
The winner will be named at the FRI Annual Meeting on March 7, 2019. Aside from the honour, the prize consists of the participation in the FIDIC Young Professional Management Training Program.
Top 5 will all be nominated at the European competition EFCA Young Professionals where young advisors from all over Europe will compete with each other.
What is FRI?
The Danish Association of Consulting Engineers (FRI), founded in 1904, is a trade association of Danish consulting firms.
Henrik Als Andersen

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Some small, seemingly insignificant trip ups jump into your mind right when you need some self esteem and magnify themselves to remind you of your awkwardness. That kind of stuff can trouble you for days... or longer. Then again, other small, seemingly insignificant events can make your whole week and randomly illuminate your mind like a brilliant sunset. It would be so nice if the latter outnumbered the former.


Talking about money seems to be a topic so often avoided in our intimate relationships. Culturally we have often been taught more often than not that it is taboo to ask about money. We have learned to never ask someone how much rent they pay, or what they make at their job, or what they are saving for. Money is seen as private, so we don't ask about it and we don't talk about it. However, money cannot be avoided. We make money at our jobs, we need money to pay rent and bills, and we need money to do the things we want to do. In many ways, our lives revolve around money, making it even more imperative that we learn how to talk about it openly- especially with our partners.
In couples therapy, part of my job is to help couples learn how to be more comfortable when speaking on the topic of finances. Below are some important steps that can help in making the topic of money one that can be talked about more openly and freely.
Financial Wealth Manager and 'Profit Boss' radio host Hilary Hendershott has spoken a lot about our 'money operating system' or "MOS". These MOS are the beliefs that we have come to have surrounding money. Some common "MOS" include the belief that 'there is never enough money', 'there is always enough money', 'money is bad', 'money gives me value', 'spend now, worry later' etc. We have all grown up differently and been taught different things about money. This greatly impacts how we view and spend money as we get older, as well as how comfortable (or not comfortable) we may be when talking about money. It is important to begin to learn and have a deeper understanding of you own money operating system. Not uncommonly, we often pair up with someone who has different beliefs about money, spending, and saving than we do. Being able to first learn to identify and talk openly about our own MOS and then learn to listen to our partner's experience with money is an important step for being able to then get on the same page about finances.
This next step is important! Often couples get engaged and married and have never talked about what their financial future will look like together. Will we combine finances? Who will pay for what? If I make more, do I pay for more? Will we have a joint credit card? Joint savings? Is my debt now our debt? Do you get access to my trust? What if I want a prenup? These are extremely important questions to address when approaching marriage or combining finances. Often these questions around money can be charged, and often carry with them a lot of emotions. This is normal! Money is a complicated topic and can have many feelings attached, including shame, stress, anxiety and worry. Being able to acknowledge these and navigate them when talking about money is where therapy can be super helpful. Ask the important questions that need to be asked in order to get on the same page with your partner.
As individuals, we often have our own thoughts about spending, saving and budgeting. These are important topics to talk about with your partner, especially if you are going to be combining finances in any way. Is saving a priority? Do we want to buy a house or rent? Do we want to have kids? Do we want to take vacations? Sitting down and talking about what goals you have financially and what those goals will cost is important. This also involves being able to budget together and look at how much money is coming in and going out each month. Having mutual goals surrounding what you want life to look like together can be helpful when carving out where money will be going.
As mentioned- talking about money is hard and something we often have not learned to do well. Couples therapy is a wonderful place to start to explore and talk about this crucial and inevitable topic between partners. When you learn to more openly talk about and navigate the topic of money together, you will be setting yourself up for less stress and better communication in the future.


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Hot, Steamy Microbial Love: An Archaeal Duo Surprises the Scientific Community Yet Again
Home / Hot, Steamy Microbial Love: An Archaeal Duo Surprises the Scientific Community Yet Again
There is a hot little microbe called Ignicoccus hospitalis ("the friendly fire sphere") who lives in the turbulent, oxygen-free, hydrothermal vents in the North of Iceland; conditions very much like those on ancient Earth. But it doesn't live alone.
l. hospitalis, as it's affectionately known to the microbiology crowd, has a committed relationship with an even smaller microbe, Nanoarchaeum equitans ("The riding dwarf") which has the puniest genome known and, without the genes to do very much itself, depends entirely on I. hospitalis for just about everything it needs. Much is being learned about this microbial odd couple because both thrive in temperatures up to 100oCentigrade in Harald Huber's oxygen-free, sulfur-rich biotope at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
Archaea Are Among the Most Ancient Life Forms on Earth
And Then There Are Bacteria and Eukaryota
And Now for the Big Surprise – I. hospitalis Has an Energized Outer Membrane
An I. hospitalis – Like Archaeon May have been Ancestor to a Eukaryote
Ignicoccus hospitalis and N. equitans are both Archaea, a group that includes many heat-loving microorganisms and likely descended from the first living creatures on our world; in fact, Dr. Huber thinks that N. equitans is a particularly primitive life form, possibly even a living fossil, around from the very beginning of life on Earth. Archaeons, named after the Archaean era which began about 3,800 to 2,500 million years ago, are ancient microbes with the extreme survival skills.
The other two life forms or "domains," according to evolutionary biologists, are Bacteria and Eukaryotes. Archaea and Bacteria, although very different, are often lumped together as "Prokaryotes;" making some scientists extremely unhappy. Norman R. Pace from the University of Colorado in Boulder, for example, says "the prokaryote notion distorts and misleads," because the three domains Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota are distinct forms of life evolving from a Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). The term prokaryote is outdated, Pace stresses, left over from a time when people thought all tiny microbes were bacteria. In the 1970s Carl Woese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign changed all that when he and his colleagues discovered that a group of bizarre microbes were fundamentally different than Bacteria and named them Archaea.
James A Lake from the University of California in Los Angeles has a slightly different slant on the matter. He and a number of other researchers including Martin Embley from Newcastle University in the UK, say new biochemical data support the "eocyte hypothesis" which acknowledges a eubacterial LUCA but holds that Archaea evolved from it and Eukaryotes arose from a branch of the Archaea: the Eocytes, which is another name for Crenarchaeota and that brings us back to I. hospitalis which is quintessentially crenarchaeal.
Dr. Huber and his scientific team led by Ulf Küper recently discovered that unlike any other Archaea or Bacteria, and a goodly number of each are known; I. hospitalis keeps its energy-making apparatus in an outer membrane and produces the energy in its periplasm. "Granted, this is the hyperthermophile who helped shatter the ancient belief that life at high temperatures is not plossible, thus hardly a conformist," says Moselio Schaechter from the University of California at San Diego. "But this most recent discovery is, to say the least, unexpected."
The energetic business-end of both archaeons and Bacteria is usually the membrane closest to the microbe's information processing and protein biosynthesis, or the "cytoplasmic membrane." Both processes demand a lot of energy and making it right where the action is works well for most microbes.
But somehow Ignicoccus evolved differently than all other archaea; somewhere along the line it developed an inner and outer membrane enclosing a huge compartment dubbed, for want of a better term, a "periplasmic space." And, importantly, its separation of energy production and genetic material is more like that of a eukaryotic cell; which leads Dr. Huber to speculate that if eukaryotes did arise from an Archaean ancestor then an organism like I. hospitalis is an ideal candidate for such an ancestor, providing energy and other metabolites to an incorporated symbiont without requiring multiple cell membrane interactions.
Furthermore, the need for easy energy transfer from an Ignicoccus to a nanoarchaeon like N. equitans may have even driven the evolution of the larger partner's novel architecture. Or, perhaps a dwarf Archaeon just saw an opportunity and grabbed it. "Archaea are full of surprises, as would be expected from organisms with such extreme survival talents," according to Dr. Schaechter, who believes there are many more surprises in store.
Picture key: Ignicoccus hospitalis in cross section. The energy-making enzyme in the outer membrane, OM; the inner membrane, IM; cytoplasm, C; and intermembrane compartment, IC.
Küper U, Meyer C, Müller V, Reinhard R, Huber H: Energized outer membrane and spatial separation of metabolic processes in the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Ignicoccus in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2010, volume 107; pp. 3152-3156.
Junglas B, Briegel A, Burghardt T, Walther P, Wirth R, Huber H, Reinhard R: Ignicoccus hospitalis and Nanoarchaeum equitans: ultrastructure, cell-cell interaction, and 3D reconstruction from serial sections of freeze-substituted cells and by electron cytomography in Arch Microbiol 2008, volume 190; pp. 395-408.
Pace, Norman R: Problems with "Prokaryote" in Journal of Bacteriology 2009, volume 191, pp. 2008-2010.
Pace, Norman R: Time for a Change in Nature 2006, volume 441, p. 289.
Cox CJ, Foster PG, Hirt RP, Harris SR, Embley TM: The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes in PNAS 2008, volume 105; pp. 20356-20361,
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Category Archive 'Ferguson'
Streaking, But No Silence, at Harvard
Ferguson, Harvard, Harvard Crimson, Media Bias, Michael Brown, Primal Scream, The Left
"Dean of College Rakesh Khurana attempts to gain the attention of the participants of Primal Scream by climbing onto the shoulders of a Primal Scream runner Thursday in Harvard Yard. Other students organized a protest in response to recent police brutality [in Ferguson, Missouri] that attempted to delay the start of the run."
Primal Scream is a fairly recent (streaking era) Harvard tradition in which, on the last night of reading period, just before final exams start, Harvard students run naked across and then around Harvard Yard.
This year about 30 left-wing holier-than-thous tried to arrange a four-and-a-half minutes of silence prior to the Primal Scream naked run to protest the shooting of poor Michael Brown. Unfortunately, the more typical drunken and unruly Harvard students, bent upon streaking, objected to interference with the naked run, and proceeded to defy them, initiating the run, and chanting "USA!, USA!" while running.
The lefties grew angry and tried to block the naked runners, chanting "Black lives matter!", while runners responded with obscenities and "USA!", while ignoring them.
A number of Harvard administrators turned up to assist the protestors (not to run naked), and the best moment of comedy occurred when Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana climbed atop the shoulders of a naked young man, bullhorn in hand, tried, but failed, to persuade the crown to bow to the wishes of the leftie bedwetters,
Harvard Crimson:
Members of the protest said that they were upset by the reactions of the student streakers.
Amanda D. Bradley '15, who helped organize the protest, said that while she did not know the intentions of the primal screamers, she felt disgusted by what they were chanting.
"For people to say black lives matter, and for the crowd to shout back 'U.S.A.,' which is upholding a system that is oppressing black people, I think that that is problematic," she said.
Sasanka N. Jinadasa '15 said she was appalled by what she called a disrespect both for Khurana and the protestors.
"I think that for many students of color, particularly black students, there's always a fear of what white retaliation looks like," she said, citing obscene gestures and language toward protesters.
Keyanna Y. Wigglesworth '16, another protester, said she was "disturbed" and "angered" by reactions to the protest, especially from those in the front of the crowd of streakers who she believed could hear the calls for silence.
But, never fear, the pinkos at the Crimson were never going to let it be said that the left was defeated by youthful high spirits. It was all really a misunderstanding, you see.
Skip L. Rosamilia '17, a Primal Scream participant, said that he could not hear or see through the crowd of streakers.
"I'm sad because it…look[ed] like there was one group who was for [the demonstration] and a huge group that wasn't, and I don't think that was the case," he said, calling the interaction between the protest and the streakers a "huge egregious misunderstanding."
Khurana also said many runners told him that they would have joined the protesting students if they had known about the demonstration.
"I think what it was, is just…a tight physical space and a relatively loosely structured event without actually clear planning," Khurana said, noting that it was difficult for him mediate between the two groups of people.
Some students voiced similar concerns before the demonstration on the Facebook post for the event, saying that the protest would be disruptive to the College tradition of Primal Scream and potentially would risk student safety. As a result, organizers posted an update on the protest's Facebook page saying that they had changed the nature of the protest from a die-in to a moment of silence out of safety concerns and in an effort to preserve the Primal Scream tradition.
Though Walker, one of four principal organizers of the protest, acknowledged Thursday afternoon that there "was some confusion as to what was going on and not a lot of individuals knew what was happening," he said he thought the protest was a success.
"The event was successful because it started a conversation in communities that haven't been talking about this."
"Use the Whole Damned Egg!"
Ferguson, Humor, Racial Politics, Saturday Night Live
"A St. Louis news station reconsiders its morning programming in light of the Ferguson riots." Not actually aired by SNL, allegedly because it was too long. Right.
Via Vanderleun.
No Mother Should…
Ferguson, Michael Brown, Satire
Today's Poem
Ferguson, Michael Brown
"I Hate Criminals, But I Hate Liberals More."
Ann Coulter, Ferguson, Liberals, Media Bias
Ann Coulter:
The riot in Ferguson reminds me, I hate criminals, but I hate liberals more. They planned this riot. They stoked the fire, lied about the evidence and produced a made-to-order riot.Every other riot I've ever heard of was touched off by some spontaneous event that exploded into mob violence long before any media trucks arrived. This time, the networks gave us a countdown to the riot, as if it were a Super Bowl kickoff.
From the beginning, Officer Darren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown wasn't reported like news. It was reported like a cause.
The Cops Should Have Shot Lots of Them
Crime, Ferguson, Racial Politics
In particular, that Papa John's Pizza Manager was foolhardily courageous. She should have armed herself.
the Archives of Never Yet Melted in the 'Ferguson' Category.


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John Henry Noyes Collier (* 3. Mai 1901 in Brixton, Lambeth, London; † 6. April 1980 in Pacific Palisades, Kalifornien) war ein britisch-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt ist er vor allem durch seine makaber-phantastischen Kurzgeschichten und Grotesken. Einige seiner Werke sind der Science-Fiction zuzurechnen.

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John Henry Collier war der Sohn des kaufmännischen Angestellten John George Collier (1852–1939) und von Emily Mary, geborene Noyes (1865–1939), einer Kindergartenlehrerin. Er besuchte keine Schule, abgesehen von einer kurzen Zeit Vorschulzeit, sondern wurde von seiner Mutter und dem Schriftsteller Vincent Collier, einem Onkel väterlicherseits, zuhause unterrichtet.

Mit zwanzig Jahren war er entschlossen, Schriftsteller zu werden, zog 1921 nach Pimlico und begann sich in der literarischen Szene Londons zu bewegen, wo er zahlreiche Partys besuchte und die Bekanntschaft der Geschwister Sitwell, von E. M. Forster und Wyndham Lewis machte. 1931 erschien eine Sammlung seiner Gedichte aus dieser Zeit unter dem Titel Gemini, Collier war zu dieser Zeit allerdings schon zum überzeugten Prosaisten geworden, wie er in einem Vorwort klarstellte.

Als solcher hatte er bereits mit seinem ersten Roman His Monkey Wife (1930) Anerkennung gefunden. Der Roman handelt von Alfred Fatigay, der von der belesenen Schimpansin Emily zur Heirat verführt wird. Weitere Romane und Erzählungen folgten, in denen Collier sich einen Ruf als Autor gewagter, oft satirischer, mit phantastischen Elementen spielender und auf eine Pointe ausgelegter Geschichten erwarb.
In dieser Zeit entstand auch Tom's A-Cold (1933), ein postapokalyptischer Roman, in dem Englands Bevölkerung durch eine große Katastrophe dezimiert ist und die Überlebenden in die Barbarei zurückgefallen sind. Später wollte Collier jedoch von diesem "Jugendwerk" nichts mehr wissen. 1931 erschien The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey, eine von Collier herausgegebene populäre Ausgabe von John Aubreys Brief Lives.

Im Jahr 1935 ging John Collier nach Hollywood, wo er für RKO Pictures eine Reihe von Drehbüchern schreiben sollte, als erstes das für Sylvia Scarlett (1935), eine romantische Komödie von George Cukor mit Katharine Hepburn und Cary Grant in den Hauptrollen.
1936 heiratete er die Schauspielerin Shirley Lee Palmer und kehrte im Sommer des Jahres nach England zurück, wo er für Robert Flaherty ein zusammenhängendes Drehbuch für Filmmaterial aus Indien schreiben sollte, das dann Grundlage für den Abenteuerfilm Elefanten-Boy (1937) wurde.
1938 unternahm das Ehepaar Collier eine Reise durch Europa und fuhr anschließend in die USA, wo Collier einen Vertrag mit dem New Yorker geschlossen hatte und in der Folge eine Reihe seiner bekanntesten Kurzgeschichten erschienen. Vom New Yorker nicht angenommene Storys publizierte er in einer Reihe anderer Zeitschriften, darunter Argosy, Bystander, Harper's Bazaar, Lilliput, and Tatler.

Im Dezember 1941 wurde Collier amerikanischer Staatsbürger. Von 1941 bis 1953 lebte er in Hollywood und schrieb Drehbücher, unter anderem für Her Cardboard Lover (Regie: George Cukor, 1942), Holy Matrimony (1943), Deception (mit Bette Davis, Regie: Irving Rapper, 1946) und Roseanna McCoy (1949).
Collier soll Jack Warner den Vorschlag gemacht haben, den Roman African Queen von C. S. Forester mit Bette Davis und Cary Grant in den Hauptrollen zu verfilmen. Das Drehbuch ist erhalten, wurde aber nicht verwendet und Collier erscheint nicht in den Credits, dennoch soll er am Ertrag beteiligt worden sein.

1943 ließ Collier sich scheiden und heiratete 1945 Margaret Elizabeth Eke, von der er sich 1952 scheiden ließ. 1954 heiratet er Harriet Hess Pollack, mit der er 1958 einen Sohn hatte.
In den 1950er Jahren ließ er sich in Grasse in Südfrankreich nieder, schrieb weiter Kurzgeschichten und arbeitete an Drehbüchern, unter anderem an einer Filmfassung von Miltons Paradise Lost, die er für sein wichtigstes Werk hielt aber nie realisiert wurde.

1951 erschien Fancies and Goodnights, eine Sammlung makabrer Geschichten, für die er 1952 den International Fantasy Award erhielt. 1975 erschien der John Collier Reader, eine von Collier selbst zusammengestellte Sammlung seiner Werke mit einem Vorwort von Anthony Burgess, der His Monkey Wife, zwei Kapitel aus Defy the Foul Fiend und 47 Kurzgeschichten enthielt.
Insgesamt verfasste Collier 125 Kurzgeschichten, von denen 107 erhalten sind, von diesen sind 14 bislang unpubliziert und 28 nur in Zeitschriften erschienen.

1979 kehrte er nach Kalifornien zurück, wo er im folgenden Jahr an einem Schlaganfall starb. Bei seiner Bestattung am 13. April 1980 meinte der Schriftsteller Paul Jarrico, es sei oft schwer zu entscheiden gewesen, ob John Collier "ein boshafter Teufel in Gestalt eines englischen Gentleman oder ein englischer Gentleman in Gestalt eines boshaften Teufels" gewesen sei. Zu dem Aspekt des britischen Gentlemens gehörte auch das Understatement, so sagte Collier in seinen späten Jahren über sich, dass er sich manchmal wundere, als drittklassiger Schriftsteller so lange als zweitklassig durchgegangen zu sein.

Bibliografie

 Romane
 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp (1930; auch: His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp, 2000)
 No Traveller Returns (1931)
 Full Circle (1933; auch: Tom's A-Cold)
 Defy the Foul Fiend, or The Misadventures of a Heart (1934)
 Variation on a Theme (1935)
 Witch's Money (1940)

 Sammlungen
 Gemini (1931)
 Green Thoughts (1932)
 The Devil and All (1934)
 Presenting Moonshine (1941)
 The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories (1943)
 Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales (1945)
 Fancies and Goodnights (1951; auch: Of Demons and Darkness, 1965)
 Pictures in the Fire (1958)
 Of Demons and Darkness (1961)
 The John Collier Reader (1972)
 The Best of John Collier (1975)
 Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 (2012)
 Green Thoughts & Other Stories (2016)
Deutsche Sammlung:
 Blüten der Nacht : Befremdliche Geschichten. Rowohlt (rororo 1324), 1970, ISBN 3-499-11324-4.

 Kurzgeschichten

1931:
 Green Thoughts (in: Harper's Magazine, May 1931)

1934:
 After the Ball (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 The Devil, George, and Rosie (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 Halfway to Hell (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 Hell Hath No Fury (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 Deutsch: Hölle, wo ist dein Sieg? Übersetzt von Erik Simon. In: Peter Haining (Hrsg.): Gefährliche Possen. Heyne SF&F #5909, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13343-9.
 The Possession of Angela Bradshaw (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 The Right Side (1934, in: John Collier: The Devil and All)
 Deutsch: Die richtige Seite. Übersetzt von Erik Simon. In: Peter Haining (Hrsg.): Scheibenwahn. Heyne SF&F #9037, 1999, ISBN 3-453-15602-1.

1935:
 The Monster of the Deep (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, April 1935)

1938:
 Midnight Blue (in: The New Yorker, January 22, 1938)
 Deutsch: Mitternachtsblau. In: Almut Gaugler (Hrsg.): Nervenkitzel. Deutscher Bücherbund #1733, 1977.
 Wet Saturday (in: The New Yorker, July 16, 1938)
 Little Memento (in: The New Yorker, September 17, 1938)

1939:
 Witch's Money (in: The New Yorker, May 6, 1939; auch: Witchs Money, 1965)
 Back for Christmas (in: The New Yorker; Oct 7, 1939)
 Rope Enough (in: The New Yorker, November 19, 1939)
 Bottle Party (1939)

1940:
 Another American Tragedy (in: The New Yorker, June 1, 1940)
 The Chaser (in: The New Yorker, December 28, 1940)
 Deutsch: Ein Schluck zum Nachspülen. In: Gänsehaut. Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #472, 1964.
 Evening Primrose (1940)
 Deutsch: Wir, die Schaufenster-Puppen. Übersetzt von Ingrid Neumann und Birgit Bohusch. In: Helmuth W. Mommers und Arnulf D. Krauß (Hrsg.): 21 Grusel-Stories. Heyne Anthologie #21, 1966.
 Thus I Refute Beelzy (1940)
 The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It (1940)
 Deutsch: Muskatnuß gibt die Würze. Übersetzt von Ingrid Neumann. In: Helmuth W. Mommers und Arnulf D. Krauß (Hrsg.): 22 Horror-Stories. Heyne Anthologie #26, 1967.
 Witch's Money (1940)
 A Word to the Wise (1940)
 Deutsch: Ein Wort der Warnung. Übersetzt von Michael Windgassen. In: Jack M. Dann und Gardner R. Dozois (Hrsg.): Magische Katzen. Heyne (Allgemeine Reihe #9790), 1996, ISBN 3-453-09316-X.

1941:
 Bird of Prey (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Collaboration (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 The Frog Prince (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 If Youth Knew, If Age Could (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Mary (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon! (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Old Acquaintance (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Sleeping Beauty (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Special Delivery (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Squirrels Have Bright Eyes (1941, in: John Collier: Presenting Moonshine)
 Incident on a Lake (in: The New Yorker, July 26, 1941)
 Great Possibilities (in: The New Yorker, October 25, 1941)
 Meeting of Relations (in: The Yale Review, December 1941)

1942:
 De Mortuis (in: The New Yorker, July 18, 1942); erschienen auch in Pictures in the Fire. 1958.
 Deutsch: Arbeit im Keller. Übersetzt von Ingrid Neumann. In: Helmuth W. Mommers und Arnulf D. Krauß (Hrsg.): 22 Horror-Stories. Heyne Anthologie #16, 1965.
 Deutsch: De Mortuis. Übersetzt von Susanna Rademacher. In: Mitternachtsblaue Geschichten. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1967; auch in: Jutta Schmidt-Walk (Hrsg.): Das Rowohlt GRUSEL Lesebuch. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-15206-1, S. 42–50.
 Meeting of Relation (1942)
 Deutsch: Treffen von Verwandten. In: Gerhard Rump (Hrsg.): Anabis 4. 1962.

1943:
 Ah, the University! (1943, in: John Collier: The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories)

1945:
 Gavin O'Leary (1945)

1951:
 Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early? (in: The New Yorker, April 14, 1951)
 Interpretation of a Dream (in: The New Yorker, May 5, 1951)
 The Lady on the Gray (in: The New Yorker, June 16, 1951)
 Cancel All I Said (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Fallen Star (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 In the Cards (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Over Insurance (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Pictures in the Fire (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Season of Mists (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Spring Fever (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 The Steel Cat (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Three Bears Cottage (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Without Benefit of Galsworthy (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)
 Youth from Vienna (1951, in: John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights)

1956:
 The Tender Age (in: The New Yorker, March 10, 1956)

1958:
 And Who, with Eden (1958, in: John Collier: Pictures in the Fire)
 Mademoiselle Kiki (1958, in: John Collier: Pictures in the Fire)
 Think No Evil (1958, in: John Collier: Pictures in the Fire)

1960:
 Softly Walks the Beetle (in: Playboy, January 1960)
 Man Overboard (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1960)
 Deutsch: Mann über Bord. Übersetzt von Birgit Reß-Bohusch. In: Terry Carr und Martin H. Greenberg (Hrsg.): Traumreich der Magie: Höhepunkte der modernen Fantasy. Heyne SF&F #4254, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31262-7.
 Born for Murder (in: Keyhole Mystery Magazine, June 1960)

1961:
 Not Far Away, Not Long Ago (1961, in: Don Congdon (Hrsg.): Tales of Love and Horror)

1972:
 A Dog's a Dog (1972, in: John Collier: The John Collier Reader)
 A Matter of Taste (1972, in: John Collier: The John Collier Reader)
 Son of Kiki (1972, in: John Collier: The John Collier Reader)

1975:
 Asking for It (in: Playboy, January 1975)

 Sonstiges
 The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey (populäre Ausgabe von John Aubreys Brief Lives, 1931)
 Just the Other Day : An Informal History of Britain Since the War (britische Zeitgeschichte, 1932, mit Iain Lang)
 Milton's Paradise Lost : Screenplay for the Cinema of the Mind (Drehbuchentwurf, 1973)

Literatur
 Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn: Reclams Science-fiction-Führer. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6, S. 104.
 John Clute: Collier, John. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 3. Auflage (Online-Ausgabe), Version vom 4. April 2017.
 Chris Gilmore: Collier, John (Henry Noyes). In: David Pringle: St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. St. James Press, New York 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5, S. 120–122.
 Marvin S. Lachman: John Collier. In: Bernard Benstock, Thomas F. Staley: British Mystery Writers, 1920–1939. Dictionary of Literary Biography Bd. 77. Gale, Detroit 1989, ISBN 0-8103-4555-2, S. 83–86.
 David Langford: Collier, John. In: John Clute, John Grant (Hg.): The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Orbit, London 1997, ISBN 1-85723-368-9.
 Matthew McFall: Collier, John Henry Noyes. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 ff., , Version vom 3. Oktober 2013.
 Matthew McFall: John Collier (1901–1980): Life and Works. Dissertation Oxford University, Oxford 1998.
 Betty Richardson: John Collier. Twayne's English authors series 367. Twayne, Boston 1983, ISBN 0-805-76853-X.
 Donald H. Tuck: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1, S. 108 f.
 Paul Theroux: Sunrise with Seamonsters. A Paul Theroux Reader. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1986, ISBN 0-395-41501-2, Kap. His Monkey Wife.

Weblinks

 John Collier in Fantastic Fiction (englisch)
 John Collier in der Science Fiction Awards+ Database
 John Collier in der Fancyclopedia 3 (englisch)

 John Collier: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Vols' defense again hit with injuries, yielding big plays
AP Sep 21, 2017 at 12:33p ET
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) This pattern is growing all too familiar for Tennessee's defense.
One year after injuries and big plays made it tough for Tennessee to stop anyone late in the season , the Volunteers find themselves again dealing with those same issues.
Tennessee lost its Southeastern Conference opener 26-20 to No. 20 Florida by allowing a tiebreaking 63-yard touchdown pass as time expired. That stunning finish wounded the pride of a defense that already had taken plenty of lumps this season.
"That's been our Achilles heel for the year-and-a-half that we've been here," said defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, who joined Butch Jones' Tennessee staff last season. "We don't just give up big plays. We give up catastrophic-type plays."
That defense gets a chance to bounce back and regain some confidence Saturday when the Vols (2-1) host Massachusetts (0-4) before resuming conference play.
"We very well understand this is probably the best defense we'll play all year – talented at every position and also very deep," UMass quarterback Andrew Ford said.
That depth has taken plenty of hits already.
Tennessee lost its top returning linebacker when Darrin Kirkland Jr. suffered a season-ending knee injury last month. Todd Kelly Jr., the Vols' top tackler last season, hurt his knee as well and is out indefinitely. Injuries also have sidelined linebackers Austin Smith and Cortez McDowell plus safety Evan Berry.
The same situation befell Tennessee last year, when injuries decimated the defensive line and caused cornerback Cam Sutton to play just seven games and linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin. Sutton was drafted in the third round and Reeves-Maybin was taken in the fourth round.
All those injuries may be having an impact late in games. Tennessee has allowed just 20 first-half points but has given up 54 points after halftime, including two overtime touchdowns in a season-opening victory over Georgia Tech .
"I don't think it's a fatigue thing," defensive end Darrell Taylor said. "I think it's just a matter that we've got to focus the whole game, make sure we sustain that focus throughout the game."
Shoop said, "I don't want to make any excuses" when he's asked about the injuries, but he acknowledges that this run of misfortune has caught him by surprise.
"I've never experienced anything like this," he added. "And I don't think there's anything I can pinpoint it in, or I'd suggest something to Coach. It's not strength training. It's not nutrition. We're doing the right things. Everything's been kind of a fluky thing."
The big plays Tennessee has allowed can't be considered fluky. They're happening far too often.
Tennessee's 2016 defense gave up 19 plays from scrimmage of 40-plus yards, according to cfbstats.com . Arkansas was the only SEC team to allow more gains of at least 40 yards.
In the fourth quarter of the Florida game, Tennessee gave up a 72-yard run along with the game-winning 63-yard touchdown.
"Offensively, you can play 55 bad snaps and three good snaps and score 21 points," Shoop said. "Defensively you can play 55 great snaps and three bad snaps, and you stink."
Tennessee did make a remarkable recovery at the end of the 72-yard run, as cornerback Justin Martin chased down Malik Davis and forced a fumble that resulted in a touchback. Tennessee's had plenty of other remarkable individual performances from defensive players thus far.
Linebacker Daniel Bituli has an SEC-leading 33 tackles , including 23 against Georgia Tech. Rashaan Gaulden has shown this defense can create big plays rather than allowing them, as he forced a fumble to spark the comeback against Georgia Tech and had an interception that led to a game-tying field goal against Florida.
Now they need more guys to step up.
"I think we'll be able to handle it," Taylor said. "We know what we need to do."
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Google-China: Implications for Cyber-security -- Part VI "Security is Google's Achilles Heel" Series
The theft of Google's source code is the under-appreciated and under-reported new development in Google's big announcement of Google's "new approach to China" and its apparent decision to withdraw its business from China if China continues to insist that Google censor search results for in-country Chinese.
Google: "In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google." [Bold emphasis added]
Per the original WSJ story: "Much of the data stolen from Google was its "core source code," Mr. Mulvenon [director of a national security firm] said. "If you have the source code, you can potentially figure out how to do Google hacks that get all kinds of interesting data." Among the data, would be the information needed to identify security flaws in Google's systems, he said." [Bold emphasis added](Sources of the quote are here, here, and here, but curiously the quote is no longer part of the current WSJ story, which now excludes it.)
Arguably the theft of "source code" (or master key) for the single largest repository of sensitive private information in the world, Google's servers, is a very big deal worthy of much more attention in the press and blogosphere for two big reasons:
I. Security is not a high priority at Google:
An examination of Google's own public representation of its corporate philosophy and design principles shows security/safety is simply not a priority for Google.
Google's management philosophy/priority of "innovation without permission" rejects the need for normal corporate management, accountability, and internal controls obligations, all of which are critical for large organizations serious about protecting security/privacy.
Google's goal to "make the Web faster" prioritizes speed and efficiency ahead of security and privacy which generally slow things down, because consumer security/privacy protections are not efficient from an engineering perspective. Google on its website philosophy statement says: "Google believes in instant gratification."
Google's approach to email makes gmail a particularly prime target for hackers, because it is free, has near unlimited archival storage, and employs a business model that has automated robots that read all emails (gmail and others involved in a gmail email string) surveiling for the usage of particular keywords.
In short, the combination of Google's extraordinary success and its cavalier approach to security in practice, unnecessarily puts an enormous number of people at an enormous amount of risk.
II. Google's security vulnerabilities have long been known and gone largely unaddressed.
Greg Conti, author of the 2009 book "Googling Security: How much does Google know about you?" was very prescient about the likelihood of the current alleged China cyber-attack on Google.
From page 19 of "Googling Security:"
"One common vulnerability could cause catastrophic destruction. Even if computers have been succesfully secured against traditional network attacks, attackers are increasingly attacking applications, particularly browser software and email applications. By creating specially crafted web pages and emails, attackers can successfully compromise many systems. Although they are hardened against attack, web browsers and email applications are still vulnerable. New attacks occur with disturbing regularity.
The end result of these vulnerabilities is that it is almost impossible for you, your employer, and online companies to provide impervious protection against attack; therefore, your data is at risk. No one is immune, even Google. If anything, Google is an even bigger target because of the amount of data it has."
In sum, if Google really cared about the security of its users, Google would be spending much more time, resources, effort, and PR, than they do now on cyber-security and protecting its users and their sensitive private information from known, serious, and growing cyber-security threats.
It is particularly disturbing how Google's "new approach to China" largely distracts user and media attention from the incident's important implications for cyber-security and the security/safety of its users.
Previous parts of the "Why Security is Google's Achilles Heel" Series:
Part I: "Why security is Google's Achilles heel"
Part II: "Google values security much less than others do"
Part III: "Google: "Security is part of our DNA" (Do Not Ask)
Part IV: "Why Security is Google's Achilles Heel"
Part V: "Google Apps Security Chief is a magician/mentalist"


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Following Hassan Nasrallah's speech where he claimed to have acquired 'highly accurate' missiles, Netanyahu warns Israeli response to Lebanon terror group's aggression will be on an 'unimaginable' scale; prime minister also stresses importance of security cooperation with Russia following downing of plane.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Tuesday to Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's threats, warning that a devastating Israeli retaliation would follow if the terror group decides to launch an attack on Israeli territory.
"If they confront us, they will suffer a crushing blow the levels of which they cannot imagine," exclaimed the prime minister during an event at the Prime Minister's Office.
Netanyahu's statement comes as a response to the Hezbollah leader's remarks, made earlier in the day, boasting that the group possesses "highly accurate" missiles despite Israeli attempts to prevent it from acquiring such weapons.
"I heard the arrogant words that came from the Hezbollah chief. This comes from the same man who said after 2006 that if he had known what Israel's response would be to the abduction of three of our soldiers, he would have thought twice about doing it," Netanyahu vented.
The prime minister also addressed the downing of a Russian plane, which was initially attributed to the IDF.
"Regarding our relations with Russia, I spoke with President Putin on the eve of Yom Kippur, and expressed regret for the loss of 15 Russian air crew members, whose plane was shot down by the Syrian army," stressed Netanyahu.
Netanyahu then underlined the importance of preserving the security cooperation between the two states.
"It is very important to preserve the security coordination between Israel and Russia, which is why I decided to send Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin to Moscow with a dual-purpose of continuing to protect our citizens and to continue the security cooperation between the two countries," the prime minister concluded.
On Thursday afternoon, Hassan Nasrallah spoke in a televised speech to supporters commemorating Ashoura, one of the most important religious holy days for Shi'ite Muslims.
"No matter what you do to cut the route, the matter is over and the resistance possesses precision and non-precision rockets and weapons capabilities," Nasrallah said, addressing Israel in the broadcast speech while claiming that he was not speaking from a bunker.
"They laugh at me and say I am threatening from a bunker. I am obviously not inside a bunker. I am in a specific place and the fact that I am here giving a speech proves that you are trying day and night to kill me and are only failing," he said.
"The Israelis are angry and worried that their efforts are failing," Nasrallah said at the opening of his remarks.
"Israel is scared of every war. They understand that a war against us will have numerous consequences in the region. Their weak points are exposed and they know about our strength," he declared.
"In 1973, the war was on the front at a time when people in Tel Aviv would drink coffee and read the papers. Now, everything is different. I say to Israel: be careful. Everything you have done up until this point is finished … Israel understands that war cannot be won with technology. The human element will decide the war," Nasrallah said.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, has played a critical role in supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad during Syria's seven-year-long civil war.
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TPC Profiles - Mac Gay: Local Renaissance Gentleman, Poet & Scholar
Award-winning poet enjoying the accolades of his latest work w/ a new one in the offing
"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow"
-- T.S. Eliot
"Such is the Duality of the Southern Thing"
- Drive-By Truckers
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TPC Profiles - Mac Gay
Mac Gay
The story of Mac Gay - poet, professor & man of many talents - is a fascinating one of a true renaissance man & jack-of-all-trades. A fellow resident of the Historical North Covington community, it is the distinct pleasure of Yours Truly, TPC Editor MB McCart, to do a feature profile piece on this righteous dude. Mac is a truly a unique fella. A Character's Character, if you will. A synergy, or perhaps a synchronicity, of many attributes that seems to somehow define...something. I'm not exactly sure what that something is, but I know it is something, and that it's important.
My first memories of Mac Gay were at Newton Co. High School in the early 90's when I was a student there. I never had him as a teacher, though, but my brother & several of my friends did. Mr. Gay was different. For one thing, apparently he would sometimes cuss in class. That was a big deal & naturally scored him major points with a lot of high schoolers. Later, my brother would tell me that Mac taught high school classes more like a college professor. One of my best friends in school told me that the man was obviously brilliant, but maybe a little crazy.
A few years later is when I actually got to know Mac. At that time he'd moved on from teaching & was working in construction. I'd see him a good bit when he would swing by Bess's Place to eat. I always enjoyed seeing him & talking with him. He was different, marched to the beat of his own drum. I liked that. And now, after having been neighbors with him for over a decade, that impression has only grown.
But enough about my personal recollections.
Mac, as mentioned, is a man of many talents. Originally a student & later a teacher of science, Mac would eventually get his MFA & now teaches English at the Newton campus of Georgia State University. He is also an award-winning, published poet. His most recent offering - Pluto's Despair - is a wonderful chapbook that contains 25 poems. More on that in just a bit...
Mr. Gay originally matriculated at Tennessee Tech where he played football for a year before taking two degrees from the University of Georgia. Poetry was always a passion of his but something he didn't really pursue until later in life. The journey of how he got from there to the here & now is the really good part.
For many years Mac was a big fan of drinking. A long-time drunk, in his own words, it made for some interesting adventures. Truman Atkins, Principal of Newton Co. High back in the day, was apparently, like many of us, a big fan of Mac's, and seemed to always be understanding when the call would come from jail explaining why a certain science teacher wouldn't be making it in that day (*ed.note: I definitely got the impression this happened more than once...).
Later, after he'd gotten out of teaching and was doing a few different things, he felt compelled to complete a "spiritual journey" - hiking the Appalachian Trail. The saga that lasted 4 months & 9 days was a major, epochal event for the professor & seemed to be a reboot & battery recharge for the next chapters in his life.
A few years later is when he got into jazz piano. I'd heard accounts from the time that he was really quite good. He mainly played w/ a bass player doing standards, most often over in Olde Town Conyers. I actually remember thinking at the time - and the legend grows...
As Mac & I discussed, poetry is unlike any of the other arts. With poems, you're just out there in front of God & everybody. No musical accompaniment; no oils, paints or canvas. It's just your words & oftentimes it's not very many words that you're working with. It takes a certain bravery, and certainly a honed skill-set. Mac went on to say that he's been writing poetry for so long that he will very occasionally sometimes even have a rhyme or two here or there.
Pluto's Despair, published by Kattywompus Press out of Sommerville, MA, is a true work of art. It's magnificent. Mac's third published book, it has been very well-received by the poetry world (and yes, there is a poetry world out there).
Leon Stokesbury, award-winning poet, had this to say:
" From out of rural Georgia comes a mind that sees at once both the horror & the comedy of the human condition. The best poems of Mac Gay's fine & funny book seem like little lightning bolts that stopped just before they hit the ground."
Yes, Leon! That's what I was trying to describe at the top of this piece. Thanks.
Let's get into some of the poems.
The boy in "The Boy" is made head of the Boy's Studies Program which includes courses like Stone Skipping 101 & Cane Pole Fishing in Small Ponds. Things are going great. "Yet somehow things went south: At 21, for some odd reason, they gave him socks, shoes, and a tie, and the transfer - a demotion to the Division of Man."
The eponymous poem of this collection is really the pièce de résistance.
"...nowhere near the largest,
certainly the most distant,
the most cryptic and aloof,
secluded in the hinterlands,
enigmatic as Salinger."
"Bipolaresque" speaks to the "downside of this cursed manic-depression."
"Doppler Effect" is another of my favorites that perfectly analogizes the aging process to that particular phenomenon, though defining the source & the observer in the effect could be another discussion for another day.
The last one I'd like to share with you is one I'll print in toto & that was showcased by North of Oxford. "Closure" is a piece that deals with one the overarching themes of many of Mac's works - his late father.
That's what Dad always wanted.
"Close the door behind you," he'd snap,
or "Did you take out the trash?" The man
hated loose ends, any task dragging
from one day into the next. "You
finish your algebra?" he'd fling at me
blind from behind his newspaper.
Or "Let's finish trimming these hedges
before darkness takes us over."
(Nothing was worse than uneven
Red-tip Photinias.) But the thing
he hated most was getting old:
"Old men are like broken tools
or leaky buckets," he said,
"or the invisible man in the movies,
just fading and fading until he'd
have to wrap himself with rolls of gauze
just so folks would know he was still there."
So Mom took some comfort later
from his bad good luck. That
Sunday morning he left with Bo
to put a neck yoke on the crazy cow
that kept jumping over the fence.
He aimed to be through before church,
and he was, almost: unconscious
as a stone by noon, but
his dawdling heart kept
beating till half past five.
On the heels of the success of his most recent work, Mac will have a new one out next March - Ghost Hunt. And vist Kattywompus Press to purchase a copy of Pluto's Despair.
I'd like to thank Mac for agreeing to let me interview him for this piece. It was truly my pleasure, and the "interview" really just turned out to be one of the best & most enjoyable conversations I've had in quite some time. He really is a cool fella. And like my high school buddy said back in the early 90's - he's definitely brilliant, and maybe a little crazy. And that, to me, is a good thing.
As always, thanks for reading.
Very Truly Yours,
ToNt0 Network
Marshall "M.B." McCart is a jack-of-all-trades, amateur philosopher & theologian, and a semi-professional ant-hill kicker that resides deep in the heart of the Georgia Piedmont. A man perhaps of some talents, McCart claims mastery of none. At his core, he seeks to explain the peculiar essence of "The Esoteric South" while maybe sometimes thinking about the meaning of life.
In his spare time, McCart is the Editor-in-Chief of The Piedmont Chronicles, dabbles in Real Estate & Real Estate Instruction, plays Americana music & is a business manager & independent contractor.
A proud father & husband, he likes to cook & is an enthusiast of UGA athletics, Led Zeppelin & Hunter S. Thompson.
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utchat
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In ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, the utchat (also spelled udjat) was a sacred symbol in the form of an eye. It was often put on amulets. The eye was a complex symbol in Egyptian thought, with many mythic associations. The right eye, called the Eye of Re, symbolized the sun, while the left eye, called the Eye of Thoth, symbolized the moon. Taken together they were the eyes of Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, and an aspect of the sun god Re.
The utchat had various roles in Egyptian mythology. In one myth, Horus's eye was ripped from him during his battle with Seth, the evil god of darkness, but it was healed and restored to him by Thoth. This restored eye, an aspect of the Eye of Re, was considered to be the utchat and had extensive powers. In some versions of the myth, Horus then gave the Eye to his father, the dead Osiris, who had been killed by Seth before Horus was born. The Eye in its form as the morning star gave Osiris the power to restore himself and become king of the underworld (Duat). In another myth, Re sent the goddesses Hathor and Sekhmet out into the world in the form of his Eye to kill the disobedient humans. The goddesses went on a rampage in which the slaughter was so severe that most of humanity was wiped out before they were stopped. In still another story, the Eye of Re, in the form of the goddess Tefnut (moisture), vanished altogether and was returned only after diligent prayer and supplication.


"Dad, there's your favorite word again," my son calls out, a tad cynically, when we are driving to school listening to NPR and a reporter uses the word innovation. I am aware that my son, and others, believe this word has become too much of a buzz-word and perhaps a fad, too often so broadly defined that it becomes generic, empty in content, and devoid of true significance.
But, I refuse to be deterred.
Like Tom Friedman in the New York Times, President Obama, and many others, I think the word and the concept capture and describe something both wonderful and incredibly important in our world today– and in fact, more important than ever before in our fast-changing times. Educational innovation, and, more importantly, educating students to be innovative, are the intertwined twin concepts I spend the most time trying to learn about more deeply, understand better, write about more often, and implement more effectively.
Looking back, I recognize now that the slogan change made in my first months (2009) at my school, St. Gregory, by the Board of Trustees and myself, came too soon and too abruptly, without enough preparation and inclusion, and I regret the rushed process. But, nevertheless, I love the phrase which adorns our website, brochures, and advertisements and which looms large on the walls of our major meeting areas: Creating Leaders and Innovators.
Creating Leaders and Innovators stood proudly tall in foot-large letters high up on our gymnasium wall in 2010 when Tony Wagner, Ph.D., visited our school and spoke beneath this banner to an audience of nearly 500 about the educational change our fast-changing world demands and how we can bring about this change.
So it should be no surprise that I am greatly enthusiastic about Dr. Wagner's forthcoming book, (April, 2012),Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. I think every 21st century educator who seeks to strengthen our national and global future by teaching our students to be more creative and successful problem-solvers should put this book on the very top of their must-read list for 2012.
Wagner, in introducing his topic, made reference to the new book from Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to be Us, and shared Friedman's view in that book that in the future there will be only two categories of successful people, creative creators and creative supporters.
In doing so, I found a stunning pattern I did not expect—every one of these super-innovators can identify a teacher who inspired them and helped set them on their course, but these teachers were always outliers, out of the norm, eccentrics, distinctly different from most of the other teachers. Just as importantly, these outlier teachers had a set of qualities strongly in common with each other.
The 5 fundamental constants of the outliers: (paraphrased).
1. They presided over a classroom culture not of individual achievement, but instead collaboration. It is remarkable the extent to which we find again and again that innovation is deeply rooted in the power of collaboration, and we must resist the myth that inventors are creative by being solitary, uniquely creative, individual geniuses.
2. Their teaching practice was one not of specialization but instead entirely multi-disciplinary—that is the norm of teachers who cultivate innovative mindsets among our students. The classrooms where they were wide-ranging, covering many topics and subjects, without regard for narrow disciplines or boundaries.
4. They promoted the value not of consuming, but creating. Their classrooms were places where students worked hard, and were serious about producing genuine, concrete, meaningful product.
5. They employed not extrinsic, but intrinsic motivation with their students.
Again, as above, I should reiterate that how eager I am to see the book, and how much inspiration and information I think we will find in it. This is just a sneak peek which I hope will whet your appetite as it has mine.
1. It seems to me that every school-leader who cares about cultivating innovative mindsets and creating innovators should take Wagner's counsel and check our leadership carefully: are we aware of who the "outliers" are on our faculties? Do we have enough of them? Are we recruiting them, and are we protecting them? Are there enough opportunities for them to "break-out" and innovate?
2. We should ask about our students: do they have enough opportunities to take risks, and learn from failure and by trial and error? Are we asking them often enough, and pushing them vigorously enough, to generate and produce real product, to create rather than consume?
3. Collaboration is essential: Dr. Wagner emphasized this repeatedly in his presentation, and certainly Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation, agrees. But how do we distinguish, and help students distinguish, between quality and mediocre collaboration, and how do we help them develop the skills of effective collaboration that stimulates and supports innovation?
The recent and important book Academically Adrift provides research findings that students are more successful demonstrating the thinking skills evaluated on the Collegiate Learning Assessment (the CLA, the exact counterpart and analogue to the secondary school critical thinking assessment, the CWRA) when they study alone than when they study collaboratively. These findings don't dictate to me that we should abandon collaborative learning environments, but that we need to work harder to help them be effective and powerful learning experiences for our students.
4. Schools will always need to review the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and seek to find the best and ideal blend; Tony's important research here again underscores that we should be wary of the extrinsic and promote as best we are able the intrinsic. A recent Atlantic magazine article by Lori Gottlieb, How to Land Your Child in Therapy, seemed to suggest that schools should not hesitate to award and reward highly accomplished students, because it is useful for the other students to realize their limitations early and not be deprived important life lessons of disappointment. But it is the award recipients, we can see from many research studies, who can be deprived their own sense of intrinsic motivation when we grant them awards and shower them with praise: my concerns and hesitations about the culture of "award-giving" in schools is based more on what awards do to the winners than what they do to the losers.
My thanks go to Tony Wagner and to EdLeader21 for the fine webinar. Readers can expect to find more here about this new book after its publication.


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TRACKLIST: Slaughterhouse – 'Welcome To: Our House'
By Jonathan Hailey
Hip-Hop supergroup Slaughterhouse will be dropping their Shady Records debut album Welcome TO: Our House on August 28th. Though many are expecting a seriously lyrical album from the group signed to Shady Records, they are finally showing the fans what other rappers will be unleashing lyrical gems on the project.
During a recent interview, Eminem,who appears on three songs, talked about how involved he has been concerning Slaughterhouse's project. He said, "This has been a pet project for me. I've been executive producing, producing, co-producing, mixing—very hands-on with it and just really involved. I think that this is one of those things that hip-hop needs right now."
Joe Budden, Crooked I, Royce Da 5'9, and Joell Ortiz are joined by Skylar Grey, Cee-Lo Green, B.o.B., and Busta Rhymes all lend their talent to the rap group's album. Will you be picking up a copy of Welcome To: Our House when it drops August 28th?
Check out the tracklist below.
1. "The Slaughter (Intro)"
2. "Our House" — feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey
3. "Coffin" — feat. Busta Rhymes
4. "Throw That" — feat. Eminem
5. "Hammer Dance"
6. "Get Up"
7. "My Life" — feat. Cee Lo Green
8. "We Did It (Skit)"
9. "Flip a Bird"
10. "Throw It Away" — feat. Swizz Beatz
11. "Rescue Me" — feat. Skylar Grey
12. "Frat House"
13. "Goodbye"
14. "Park It Sideways"
15. "Die"
16. "Our Way (Outro)"
17. "Asylum" — feat. Eminem
18. "Walk of Shame"
20. "Place to Be" — feat. B.o.B
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UX/UI Improvements & how to design the best Homepage for healthcare?
We have an instance of Jive that we rolled out to our physicians a year ago and are currently working hard to drive adoption.
One major thing that we've heard over and over is: "it's too hard to learn how to use." We're providing training & have training videos, but everyone wants it to be intuitive...which is understandable.
Do things like remove the ability to create groups - what other features of jive did you reduce?
What other UX enhancements have you made?
What kinds of processes brought you to your current homepage? The feedback we've gotten is our homepage is too cluttered... so not sure how to help here. People also really love left hand navigational elements, but the Activity feed creation doesn't allow us to do that, which has been a barrier.
Re: UX/UI Improvements & how to design the best Homepage for healthcare?
The suggestion of removing the ability to make groups makes me wonder how many different places users have to navigate through currently. Sometimes it's user-created groups, and sometimes it's too big a space structure to start with - I encounter a lot of communities that are too confusing because there are just too many places, which is really unnecessary and can easily be condensed down. That statement makes me wonder if that might be the case. Another healthcare community I worked on had such a complicated space structure - within each product space there were several subspaces, that didn't need to be separated out for any real reason. For example, they had one subspace that existed for the sole purpose of displaying the other subspaces in the product space, in a single widget.
They say that people like left-hand navigation elements, but the Activity stream doesn't work with that. One of my best recommendations for communities is to have a few standard elements that are the same from page to page. For example, ALWAYS put your calls to action in the top right corner, so that when the user learns and finds them on one page, they automatically know where to find it in all the other pages, too. When I'm making a fairly standard, out-of-the-box Jive community, I usually put the calls to action in the upper right hand corner, with any kind of sub-navigational elements or additional spaces right underneath that. Really, the key is consistency - if they can, as much as possible, follow a similar template from page to page, users will begin to know where to look for things even when they've arrived at a space they've never been to before.
Let me know if you have another questions or if you want to discuss more.


When Jamie Summitt welcomed her son, Noah, into the world in February, she wanted only the best for her newborn. Three months wiser and after brush with what she said the seedier side of tech, she feels like she "failed him."
The 24-year-old said she made a creepy discovery around 5:30 p.m. on May 30 when she says the lens on the $40 baby monitor started moving without command.
"We were out in the other room eating dinner, and I could hear the mechanic sound of it, but nobody sitting there was moving it," she told ABC News.
Jamie and her husband, Kevin, said they rushed over to the bedroom where Noah was sound asleep in his bassinet and stood there aghast as the monitor's lens swiveled on its own.
"I looked down and it was moving away from the bassinet and over to my bed, then stopped and panned quickly back over to where he was sleeping," Jamie Summitt said. "I said, 'Oh my god! Grab it and unplug it. Go grab it.'"
The baby monitor, which featured an infrared night-vision function, nanny motion detection and had a hi-resolution lens that rotates 360 degrees, was a gift from her parents, who bought it online back in April, Jamie said.
Jamie said the microphone also seemed extra sensitive.
"I could hear Noah's diaper crinkling and know he was waking up," she said.
ABC News' attempts to reach the manufacturer and reach the online retailer were unsuccessful.
A 2015 study conducted by tech security firm Rapid7 found that a number of internet-connected baby monitors had subpar security.
"Overall, we did find some devices that had some very easy-to-exploit issues," Mark Stanislav, the study's author, told ABC News.
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, a non-profit representing approximately 250 manufacturers of prenatal to preschool products in the country, sent a statement noting that many of today's baby monitors have encryption capabilities.
"Monitors that do not rely on their own networks and instead are connected through a home's router require strong home password and security settings to reduce the risk of vulnerability," the statement reads.
Jamie said she and her husband tried to protect the device as best they could. They followed directions to pair the gizmo to their smartphones and home Wi-Fi by entering the factory password and then updating it with one that they chose.
They said they were prompted to reset the password multiple times and required to update the WiFi address whenever she took the monitor to her parents' home.
It wasn't turned on all day or night, either, Jamie said, adding, "We only used it when Noah was sleeping."
Like many new parents, Jamie wanted peace of mind whenever Noah napped.
"I'm a first-time mom, and so I'm terrified he's going to die when he's sleeping," she said.
And when her husband had to return to work from paternity leave, the monitor let him spend time doting on his son remotely.
"He hated to go back to work, and leaving us so he would log on and looked at him and watched him while he worked," said Jamie.
Whenever the device shifted around, Jamie said she thought her husband was adjusting the view by scrolling with his mobile phone using the device's app.
"Every time the camera changed positions, I assumed it was my husband," she said.
After the moment when they suspected that the device may have been compromised they immediately unplugged it, stashed it in a drawer and called the police.
Jamie said the police officer told the couple to try to turn the device back on and utilize the app to see determine if whoever may have been watching them would attempt to move the lens again.
But the monitor simply stopped working.
"He tried to use it and access the security settings and it completely locked us out with a message saying 'Insufficient Permission,'" she said.
Now, Jamie suspects the hacker "heard everything" and "saw the officer."
The couple didn't provide a police report, and attempts to speak with officials at the North Charleston Police Department were unsuccessful.
Days since, Jamie said she feels violated because she breastfed, coslept and bonded with her child in an intimate way, thinking she was doing so in private.
"Those bonding feelings of just me and him together -- it's supposed to be me and him in those sweet moments," she said. "It makes me kind of sick to think what kind of stuff the person may have seen and still could be out there. I'm supposed to protect my son and I feel like I failed him."


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Humans of Messiah: First-Year Edition
by The Pulse | Sep 4, 2019 | Student Life | 0 comments
By Charmaine Lim, SBM Editor-in-Chief
The First-Year students of 2019 arrived on campus on Friday and began settling into their new rooms. As everyone worked on unpacking, we asked them to respond to a series of randomly selected questions. Here's some of what the Class of 2023 had to say.
What was the weirdest experience you had this summer?
Delaney Reed
"I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, and I had a grown man pretend to drown and try to get me to save him."
What's a random thing you carry with you all the time?
Brooke Seaburg
"Probably mints."
Hannah Carns
"I'm always like a grandma. I always carry those little mint candies. I'll always have a peppermint or some sort of lozenge in case anybody wants to ask me how old of a soul I am."
If you were a color, what would you be and why?
Nick Minich
"I would probably pick yellow because it's a happy color and I always try to be happy."
What is the dorkiest or nerdiest thing you enjoy?
Matthew Eells
"I like really long, deep conversations about music theory. I'm not a music major, I just really enjoy music."
What's are you least looking forward to this semester?
Sarah Nagengast
"8 A.M. classes."
Maria Stoltzfus
"Probably just the stress of figuring out my routine and how to do things."
If you could see any artists play on campus, who would you want?
Ethan Miller
"August Burns Red."
Josiah Provan
"I really like Mumford & Sons, but I don't think there's any chance of getting them to come here. I really like Rend Collective as well."