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"A Touch of Pan"
November 8, 2021 marzaat
This week's work of weird fiction being discussed over at LibraryThing has another appearance by Pan.
It's not surprising, with his mystical interests and reverence for nature, that Blackwood's Pan story is the closest of any I've looked at so far in returning to Pan's pagan origins. It uses Pan as a metaphor for the joyless, hypocritical nature of the English upper class and contrasts it with pure love and sex and nature. One suspects it expresses something of Blackwood's views on such matters.
Review: "A Touch of Pan", Algernon Blackwood, 1917.
The story starts with our protagonist, Herber, remembering the difference between an idiot and a lunatic. The idiot acts on instinct not reason. The lunatic is "out of relation with his environment". He contemplates that he has fallen in love with an idiot, one possessed of "a kind of sheer natural joy". Herber was born into "an artificial social clique", but he loves nature and not fancy houses.
His family probably wouldn't say his love was an idiot, but they probably think "she is not all there". Heber has only seen the woman in question twice and never spoken to her, but the air of joy she radiates evokes a "sense of awe" in him. The values of civilization are not hers. Her awareness of other people is like that a dog or bird – some people are kind, some aren't. Heber's values match hers. Her family, given her oddity, are ashamed of her, make excuses for her, and neglect her. She dresses like she's 16, but she's probably 19. Her sister has married well, but her family considers the girl's marriage prospects doubtful. Mere chorus-girls have a better chance to get married than her given her demeanor and dress.
Her parents throw a house party
of that up-to-date kind prevalent in Heber's world. Husbands and wives were not asked together. There was a cynical disregard of the decent (not the stupid) conventions that savoured of abandon, perhaps of decadence.
That linking of civilization with decadence will remain throughout the story. Herber hates these parties full of pretentious people who treat their servants badly, and he finds their sexual mores repugnant, but he goes hoping to see the girl.
He goes outside into the night to get away from the party. Significantly, there is a statue of a satyr on the lawn, and by it is Elizabeth. He greets by her name and notes she is out at dusk like a wild animal. Elizabeth is "pure and natural" and apart from her opposites in the house. He finds out that she has actually been waiting ten minutes for him.
She gestures for him to take her shoes off. She says the people inside don't want him. She does.
Then we find out that Herber is actually engaged to a woman inside. He says he only came to the party to see Elizabeth, and Elizabeth says she asked her mother to invite him. With Elizabeth, Herber feels like he's been swept away from the guests inside. Elizabeth tells him she's younger than him, but it doesn't matter. Their ages are close enough.
Herber gets near enough to Elizabeth to see a pool of water and a pine grove reflected in her eyes. "In the heart of the wood dwell I" says Elizabeth. And she says it again, repeating it like "some delicious runic verse". Then Herber realizes Elizabeth's thought is of the wood. They are kindred spirits in their love of nature and disdain for civilization.
He begs her to take him with her "before we forget to be happy, or remember to be wise again". Her scent is of a "young, spendthrift life". She tells him to meet her in the darkness "when the moon puts a shadow on the statute".
The dinner gong goes off, and Herber goes inside. Inside Heber meets his cousin who is helping his fiancé, Hermione, enjoy a "final fling". Herber regards his cousin, who complains he's bored with all the millionaires about and isleaving in the morning, as a being without joy and unnatural.
At about midnight, Herber goes to bed, disgusted.
The abandoned moral attitude, the common rudeness, the contempt of all others but themselves, the ugly jests, the horseplay of tasteless minds that passed for gaiety, above all the shamelessness of the women that behind the cover of fine breeding aped emancipation, afflicted him to a boredom that touched desperation.
Feeling like an idiot, he goes out to the lawn where Elizabeth is waiting. "Now you are anointed with the Night", she tells him. "You are forgotten of the world", and she asks him to kiss her. He says they will play forever "the game that was old when the world was young".
Elizabeth is already shoeless and barelegged. They race off into the night, and Herber notices she wears skins of "tawny color". He notices that, in her hair, are two small horns. He tweaks them, and feels "wild and reckless". He feels the prodigal, creative power of Spring. He and Elizabeth are free as when "Pan leaped through the roses in the month of June".
They come to a spring. Then Elizabeth is whirled off Heber's shoulders by a dozen arms. She is taken into "the heart of the jolly, careless throng". In her place, Heber sees another figure, "fairer still" with grapes between her breasts. She embraces him, and he flings her off, and she lands into a group of "bigger figures" who seize and kiss her. They are satyrs, it seems, and she is a nymph.
A figure dancing past says they have arrived in the "valley of delight". It salutes "Life! Abundant life!". The figure grabs three nymphs to himself. An orgy ensues, but Heber thinks, that despite the "untamed riot", there is a strange innocence and purity about it.
Heber catches up to Elizabeth again. She tells him "He is coming!". They hear a footfall.
. . . He came with blessing. With the stupendous Presence there was joy, the joy of abundant, natural life, pure as the sunlight and the wind. He passed among them. There was great movement—as of a forest shaking, as of deep water falling, as of a cornfield swaying to the wind, yet gentle as of a harebell shedding its burden of dew that it has held too long because of love. He passed among them, touching every head. The great hand swept with tenderness each face, lingered a moment on each beating heart. There was sweetness, peace, and loveliness; but above all, there was—life. He sanctioned every natural joy in them and blessed each passion with his power of creation. . . . Yet each one saw him differently: some as a wife or maiden desired with fire, some as a youth or stalwart husband, others as a figure veiled with stars or cloaked in luminous mist, hardly attainable; others, again the fewest these, not more than two or three—as that mysterious wonder which tempts the heart away from known familiar sweetness into a wilderness of undecipherable magic without flesh and blood. . . .
Pan touches them both, and now they both have horns.
Elizabeth suggests she and Heber look in on what's going on in the house "where life hangs like a prison", where it's ugly and unnatural, where there's only guilt and shame.
Through the windows, Heber sees what the civilized breed of women are.
"He watched them manoeuvring with the men; heard dark sentences; caught gestures half delivered whose meaning should just convey that glimpse of guilt they deemed to increase pleasure. The women were calculating, but nowhere glad; the men experienced, but nowhere joyous. Pretended innocence lay cloaked with a veil of something that whispered secretly, clandestine, ashamed, yet with a brazen air that laid mockery instead of sunshine in their smiles. Vice masqueraded in the ugly shape of pleasure; beauty was degraded into calculated tricks."
This is what generation after generation of "careful breeding" has wrought. They see various couples pair off. Elizabeth remarks that the women don't even know how to be undressed properly.
They decide to follow a couple who go outside. They are Hermione and Heber's cousin.
"Oh, Pan", says Elizabeth, "We will follow them. We will put natural life into their little veins!". "Or panic terror", replies Heber.
Imbued with some supernatural power, they can't be seen by the couple, but their presence can be felt.
We get a long conversation as the cousin expresses his love for the woman and regret she is to be married. Clearly, he wants to have sex with her in the woods. Hermione. "knowing the moves in the game". says the cousin doesn't love her but she does feel safer with him. But she also says that she will be freer after she marries, implying that she expects little attention or sex from Heber.
But the felt presence of Heber and Elizabeth makes her more uneasy. She wants to go to a room in the house. The cousin gets cross after all this reluctance, says Hermione gives him the creeps. He seems to be feeling uneasy but misattributing the source. Eventually, they go inside, "afraid, ashamed".
A rushing sound is heard in the woods. It sweeps
out the artificial scent and trace of shame, and brought back again the song, the laughter, and the happy revels.
The story concludes:
The trees stood motionless again, guarding their secret in the clean, sweet moonlight that held the world in dream until the dawn stole up and sunshine took the earth with joy.
Significantly, we don't know if Elizabeth and Heber will be hornless when the sun comes up. Are the horns real or a metaphor for their possession by the spirit of Pan? Will they become joyful lovers in our world or somehow remain in Pan's realm.
Blackwood, of all the authors I've read recently with Pan stories (E. M. Forester's "A Story of a Panic", Saki's "The Music on the Hill", and E. F. Benson's "The Man Who Went Too Far"), most emphasizes the sheer abandon Pan represents and the purely pagan celebration of nature and rejection of civilization. Forester's Pan may reveal nature's secrets, but the abandon of worshipping Pan is muted in that story compared to Blackwood's. Saki has the pagan worship of Pan but mostly emphasizes the perils of interfering in it sacrifices to a fertility god, but Blackwood goes into the details of it and its nature worship and the orgies of nymph and satyr. Benson's story centers on the pursuit of joy, but Blackwood's is more detailed in the ecstasy of joy.
And Blackwood most explicitly links Pan with sex and is the only Pan story of that group to involve lovers.
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The Federation of Wholesale Distributors is warning that the extension of VAT on to basic foodstuffs is a real danger, following new reports on the Chancellor's plans for the Budget on April 17. Speculation began when the International Monetary Fund suggested eliminating VAT exemptions on food and children's clothes would help the government raise cash without direct tax increases. Such a move would also bring the UK into line with the other members of the EU, all of which tax food. FWD director general Alan Toft warned despite promises that Labour would never extend VAT on to basic foodstuffs, Railtrack type u-turns were possible, and he called for a copper-bottomed guarantee on the point from the Treasury. Toft said: "If VAT were extended to the basics, it would seriously disadvantage the independent retailer. The superstore corporations would be adding VAT to a packet of tea retailing at 85p whereas the independent would be adding the same percentage to a retail price of 93p. "The federation is anxious that a Euro enthusiast such as Tony Blair will seek to raise his continental profile by bringing the UK into line with the rest of the EU with VAT on food. "The chattering classes in the media over the weekend raised the subject again on the grounds that the Treasury will avoid increased duties on petrol, tobacco or alcohol because these are now so high." Martin Paterson, deputy director general of the FDF, said: "The loss of zero rating would be bad for consumers and bad for the industry. "It would seriously affect lower income families who buy a greater proportion of these goods, and make it more difficult for them to maintain healthy and nutritious diets." VAT rates in the rest of the EU vary with some charging less for food than other goods  such as Italy with rates of 20% and 4%  and others such as Denmark were everything is rated at 25%. Toft said in a typical wholesale company about 40% of turnover would not be subject to VAT, with the rest accounted for by tobacco, alcohol and impulse products. {{NEWS }}
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Swinford GAA Weekly News
March 18, 2015 Douglas Kelly	Leave a comment
This weeks draw for Swinford GAA 50/50 draw was held in the WhiteHouse on St. Patricks Day and Ger Ward of Doontas, Killasser won €1,003.00. The winning ticket was sold in Melletts Bar. Draw Envelopes are available in all business premises for the next draw in Melletts on 24th March. Tickets are also available online through www.swinfordgaa.ie Since the inception of the draw over €30,000 has been given out in prize money and the Club has purchased much needed equipment for all our teams and are building a fund for future development of our facilities. None of this could have been done without the support of the entire community and this is greatly appreciated. Draw envelopes are now also available at 3 for €5.
Topaz Cash for Clubs
Topaz are running a promotion for all clubs at the moment giving the opportunity to win thousand of Euro for the Club. You can pick up a card and begin to collect stamps at Gavaghans Mace & Topaz. The Clubs registration code is 10431.
Swinford GAA will be holding its annual dinner dance and awards night in the Gateway Hotel on Easter Sunday night. Music on the night will be provided by Galway band Fraggle Rock. Tickets are available from club officers.
Michael Walsh Cup
We play Castlebar Mitchells on Friday 20th March at 8pm in Castlebar and if we get a result we will be away to Hollymount in the quarter final on Sunday 22nd March at 12pm. Full details will be on our facebook, twitter and website.
Swinford minor team play Knockmore at Robert McCallion Memorial Park on Sunday 22nd March at 12pm in Round 2 of the minor league. Details will be posted on our facebook, twitter and website. On Sunday 29th March we are away to Charlestown Sarsfields in Round 3 at 12pm.
Under 14 League
Swinford U14's play their first league game on Thursday 26th March at Robert McCallion Memorial park against Aghamore. Details will be posted on our facebook, twitter and website.
On Tuesday 31st March at 7pm our Under 16 team start their league campaign away to Cill Chomain. Any changes will be posted on our facebook, twitter and website.
County Board Draw
Swinford GAA Club have launched their club draw for 2015. The annual subscription remains at €150. The club draw is again structured this year to ensure each subscriber is getting value for their money and you will be entitled to the following for your €150 investment in the club;
1. Club Membership – €20
2. Entry to Swinford home League games
3. County Board ticket – €100, which has a prize fund of €90,000 and
4. An entitlement to purchase an All-Ireland Senior Football final ticket should Mayo reach the final in 2015.
The officers of the club have decided to restrict the numbers in the draw this year to 130 people in order to limit the ticket demands placed on it should Mayo again reach the All Ireland final in 2015.
Please contact any club officer as soon as possible if you are interested in purchasing a ticket as we expect to sell the allocation within a couple of weeks.
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Czechs awarded Chilean Order
Two Czechs were awarded the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins by the State of Chile a few days ago. The order is given to foreigners who have given outstanding services to the Chilean state in the humanities, culture, or science. Milan Stuchlik, who received the award in memoriam, and his wife Jarka Stuchlikova worked as anthropologists in Chile for years and Milan Stuchlik founded the Department of Anthropology at the university in Temuco. But the most interesting part of their work in Chile, says Jarka Stuchlikova was with the Indian Mapuche tribe. By Olga Szantova.
"We lived in a little market town in the middle of the reservation. It was a kind of wonderful life. No electricity, no water."
How old were your children?
"They were three and four. They were like little Mapuche."
What is the position of Czech anthropology compared to results achieved in other countries?
"Well, the current teaching of anthropology at Charles University I think pays attention mostly to the Roma minority in Slovakia and Bohemia. This is our different social group in our country. Anthropology these days is different, because it is mixed with sociology and with other branches - social psychology and other social sciences. So people go to urban societies as well, working there as anthropologists. Milan actually started this science here in Prague in the 1960s, because this science wasn't supported by the state, because the official ideology was that Marx-Leninism explains everything, every part of human behavior. So social anthropology and sociology was just kind of frowned upon. And Milan went to do the research because there was an exchange program between the universities, the university in Chile and Charles University in Prague and one anthropologist went to Prague and he went to Chile. So this was a kind of an exceptional program, exceptional lucky chance for him."
How interested are Czechs in South American Indians?
"Because Czechs are squeezed between the mountains in the middle of Central Europe, they are attracted by anything exotic. They would go anywhere. I'm quite pleased now because people go to very far away countries like Borneo, Nepal, Australia, South America. They are not ordinary tourists going to lie on the beach. They go and explore, which is wonderful."
Do you think this is one of the ways, or an effective way of fighting xenophobia?
"I think those people with xenophobia go nowhere and they have no experience of other races, other people. I thin those people who go are youngsters, who are interested in the world and my big hope is when they become mature people, xenophobia will disappear. Hopefully."
Author: Olga Szantová
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It took a while, but Hot Wheels has released its own artificial intelligence package. It's similar to Anki's, in that it's a slot-cars-without-the-slots toy set, but it's both less "intelligent" and more open-ended than Anki's system. It's also not entirely original: It uses technology from Real FX, an erstwhile Kickstarter project that launched its own racing system last year. To the Real FX platform, Hot Wheels has added redesigned controllers and swappable car shells.
First, the similarities between this system and Anki's: Both use specially encoded tracks and infrared sensors under each car to guide the vehicles around the course. In Hot Wheels AI, you can race against the "computer" or another human; in the computer-driven mode, the cars will just stay on the road no matter what.
Like the second-generation Anki Overdrive package, Hot Wheels' tracks are modular, and you can piece together your own courses out of 20 included pieces. The modular track mats are made out of vinyl-treated paper, and they slot together with little paper tabs. That makes them more finicky than Anki Overdrive's magnetic snap-together tracks, and it takes significantly longer to set up. There are also no sick jumps built into Hot Wheels' modular tracks.
But unlike Anki's system, the AAA-powered Hot Wheels cars come with their own AA-powered remote-control units. You don't use a smartphone app to control the cars, and you can drive them around like traditional RC cars when they're off the track. They're a lot bigger than Anki's cars—as well as traditional Hot Wheels cars—and they have a top speed of 5mph.
The AI in these cars is limited to their ability to read the track in real-time, as well as some digital weaponry you can use to sabotage your opponent. Unlike Anki's cars, they don't know competing cars' positions on the track, but you can launch virtual oil slicks and missiles to disrupt cars in front of you. The system also keeps tracks of each lap as you complete it, and a speaker in each controller barks out your position in the race and your fastest lap times.
There are three driving modes to choose from. The easiest is a no-brainer Beginner mode that keeps your car on the road no matter what, and at snoozy low speeds. Advanced mode involves more user input and higher speeds, and an Expert mode unlocks the cars' top speeds and forces you to take complete control.
Anki's system tries to be like a real-world video game, while this Hot Wheels system is more like a pair of easily controlled R/C cars with video-game-like elements thrown in. But the Hot Wheels system may have a longer shelf life thanks to the cars' standalone R/C skills: The included remotes offer simple left/right thumbstick controls, as well as triggers for forward and reverse.
You'll also pay less compared to Anki's Overdrive Starter Kit. For $100, the Hot Wheels AI package includes two cars, 20 pieces of track, and a pair of controllers. It's slated to launch in October.


This is a beautiful love story...At first, i thought...What is going on ?
It is encouraging to know couples who treasure their time together and in doing so take care of their families well being.
We need a date night soon! That was the perfect one...lovely dinner, romantic movie, ahhhhh!
Glad you had a great time. Thanks for the heads up on the movie!!
I want to see that. My daughter said it is good. Gotta love date nights!
Such a perfect little date! I am really excited to see the movie!
Glad you had a great time. It is so good to see couples who enjoy being together.
That looks like a beautiful date night!!!
Cause we don't watch tv I am so out touch with new movies...I need to watch trailors on apple.com more often...looks trés romantique!!!
What a lovely date night!!! The film looked soo good too!! I am a BIG fan of romances!!! Well done both of you for looking after each other - is great to hear today!!!
I want to see that film, but I'm probably expecting Robert Pattinson to be the same as Edward Cullen. Glad you had a lovely date.
How lovely ma belle... isn't it wonderful going out with your loved one after all the years that you've been happily together?! Keep it up!
What a wonderful date!!! Many more to you my friend!
Robert is not like in New moon....Love the movie...There is a twist in the movie...Won't tell you. Wait for the end of the movie... Thank you for all the comments. You are the bests!
Nice post...thanks for the review on the movie...I have heard mixed reviews...glad to hear he is different from Edward in New Moon.


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Aftershocks Rock Indonesia After Massive 7.9 M Quake Earlier, Calls for Calm
March 2, 2016 · Earth / Weather Changes · 0 Comments
Strong aftershocks continued to rock Indonesia on Thursday after a massive undersea quake sparked fears of a region-wide disaster similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people.
An aftershock of 5.6 magnitude, and at a shallow depth of 10 kms (six miles), struck on Thursday morning about 784 kms (487 miles) south-southwest of the Sumataran island port of Padang, the same area as Wednesday night's 7.8 magnitude quake, said the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
There were no reports of deaths or damage to buildings from the overnight undersea quake, which caused panic in Padang as people tried to reach higher ground when a tsunami warning was issued. No tsunami occurred.
With a series of aftershocks through the night and Thursday morning, Indonesian authorities called for calm.
The National Meteorological Agency said there were six aftershocks of decreasing strength during the night.
"We do not believe that there will be an earthquake of greater strength," it said on its Twitter account. "And so residents are urged to keep calm and not be taken in by rumours."
The TV One channel cited the National Disaster Mitigation Agency as saying that there no reports of any casualties and the situation in the Mentawai chain of islands off Sumatra was safe.
Fears ran high on Wednesday evening when it was reported that the tremor had measured 8.2 and authorities issued tsunami alerts. TV reports said patients at hospitals in Padang were evacuated and there were traffic jams as panicking residents tried to leave.
However, the USGS revised the magnitude down to 7.8 and within two hours of the quake striking the tsunami warnings were cancelled. USGS said the epicentre was 808 km (502 miles) southwest of Padang.
Indonesia, especially Aceh on the northwest tip of Sumatra, was badly hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
A 9.15-magnitude quake opened a fault line deep beneath the ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, triggering a wave as high as 17.4 metres (57 feet) that crashed ashore in more than a dozen countries to wipe some communities off the map in seconds.
The disaster killed 126,741 people in Aceh alone, and a total of 226,000 people.
Indonesia straddles the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
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The Blue Route
International literary journal for undergraduate writers
Recurring Dreams of Family Dis-Union
Flip the Switch
ghost in girl costume
Ascent of The Blind: Climbing in Guilin
small and tasteful
Grandma Velma
Before the Show Began
The Yellow Bucket
Legumate
Aging, As It Goes
The Shedding of Salmon Skin
Her Old Self
Picasso's Muse
Stability Through Motion
Concussed
Moths Beat Themselves to Death Against the Lights
County Road 4760, Winnsboro, TX
For Emma, Forever Ago
I Confess to Enjoying the Shame of our Brother, Mr. Nip
Reason No. 37 I'm Not A Dentist
Every Poem Used To Be a Love Letter
Literacy Test
Etiquette For Life
A Scooter Named Desire
The Color of Memory
Dog Food or Glue
our hunting cabin up north
Lights in Motion
a poem about oranges
Gypsy Sister
For the Presumably Homeless Man Peddling Harvard T-Shirts on Boston Common After Dusk
Forsythia (For Portland, ME)
Arizona Diner
The Alluring Aroma of Memories
Broken Sestina
How To Lower Your Own Gun
Culpable Spontaneous Expulsion
bevi troppo
Farly Katz, Cartoonist / Cowboy
The Ballerina
Hubble's Constant: J.C. Mason, Captain, S.S. Sultana, Watches the Sun
I say we because
Every City Knowing Itself as the City of Lovers
Winterizing the Rose Bush
Kora, After Her Mother's Diagnosis
Haiku Series I
Parting the Sand Sea
The man at the bottom of the glass
Venom Song
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Widener Seniors Attend 2019 AWP Conference in Portland
On March 27, four Widener English majors–all Blue Route staff members–and two faculty members traveled to Portland, Oregon to attend the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. Along with nearly 12,000 other writers, readers, editors, and publishers, the team enjoyed three amazing days of panels, networking opportunities, enlightening readings and keynotes speeches, and of course, the pacific northwest! Read on for a few words from all four senior English majors about their time in Portland!
Kelly Bachich
Carlie and I signed up for an hour of manning the FUSE table in the book fair section of the conference. While we were setting up, Carlie nudged me and said, "Kelly, doesn't that dog on that poster over there look just like the one you wrote about in Historical Fiction class?" Low and behold, I look over and the juxtaposing booth is sporting a poster of Laika, the space dog from the Sputnik II mission that I had just written about the week before coming to AWP. Naturally, I had to go over and investigate. I asked the woman working the booth why Laika was on the poster and she informed me that their book press had published an author who just wrote a biography on Laika. Not only were they selling copies, but he would be there signing them in an hour!
I purchased the book and stood waiting in line, mustering up the courage to ask the author, Kurt Caswell, if I could send him my short piece to read. I am a pretty confident and outgoing person but, for some reason, the minute I was next in line I almost chickened out. I told him about the poster and why I had to buy his book and meet him to tell him that I had also just written about Laika. He handed my book back to me after a really great conversation about Laika and I knew my window to ask him to read my story had closed. Then, to my complete shock, he asked me to send him my story to read and even gave me his personal email to send it to. I was elated.
Later that night, Rohan met a panelist named Shayla Lawson who wrote a poetry chapbook mixed with Frank Ocean songs and got us invited to a "battle of the bands" where she performed her work with her band. One of the opening acts, however, incorporated the song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie into his piece. The minute I heard the lyrics my head snapped over to look at Carlie who was already staring at me, mouth agape. "Space Oddity" is also an integral part of my short story about Laika. In a three-page story there is not much room and for two major aspects to crop up so blatantly at AWP had to be a sign for me to continue working with that piece. AWP is an invaluable resource for English and creative writing majors, it is a hub for creative minds and a space where we can feel important and bond with other professionals.
Vita Lypyak
The first panel I attended at AWP was one of my favorites. It was titled "Translators Are the Unacknowledged Ambassadors of the World," which is a play on the famous Percy Bysshe Shelley quote, "women are the unacknowledged poets of the world." I speak two languages besides English, so languages and translation is something that always interested me. The final panelist opened my eyes to the Iranian culture and the struggles associated with translating Iranian literature to English. Unlike the first two panelists, she explained that Iran, as a nation, hinders its own artist by utilizing strict censorship and even executing writers. As a whole, this panel made me understand the crucial role translators have in the dissemination of literature. It helped me understand that translating is also a form of creative writing; a translator has to not only present the same meaning of the original work, but also closely match the same style.
In a sense, translators are poets and makers of things, too; they give readers access to things they could have never reached, due to a language barrier. AWP features a lot of intellectually stimulating and educational panels, which are great, but they can also cause a lot of mental fatigue. By attending poetry readings and readings of other kinds, it really helps your mind slow down and recharge, at least that was my experience. At "A Wild Girls Poetry Reading," I was particularly moved by one poet, who wrote a collection of poetry where she was attempting to deal with the grief associated with her younger brother's suicide. The stories she told the audience and the poetry she read were so raw and they made me empathize with her so much. I attended this reading on the first day and I could not stop thinking about her work. Her words impacted me the entire trip to the point that on the last day, I went and bought her book. I had to or I would never forgive myself. After I purchased it, I sat outside and read it from cover to cover, and her words continued to move me.
Rohan Suriyage
I decided to go to Page Meets Stage, a reading that is a yearly tradition at AWP. This was the best decision I made throughout the time of the conference. The reading consisted of five poets reading and performing poems after one another, "popcorning" in order and choosing what to perform based on what was read before them. The panel was led by Taylor Mali, four-time poetry slam champion and arguably the most famous American spoken word poet, and consisted of other notable poets like Anis Mojgani, Mark Doty, and Shayla Lawson. For the whole hour I just sat there, mouth agape, at the incomparable stage presence and refined performing art they all shared with the room. When it was time for Shayla Lawson to read, she prefaced her poems in explaining they were all from a book of poems inspired by Frank Ocean, an R&B artist and one of my main artistic inspirations. When Shayla finished performing "Strawberry Swing" from her poetry book I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean I struggled to retrieve my jaw from the floor and knew I had to speak to her after. Upon the panel's conclusion I was able to do so.
We talked about Frank and our common interests, and after we spoke, she invited me to come to a reading she was orchestrating in downtown Portland. Of course, I obliged and I ended up going after the last of the panels of the day. In the library room of the Heathman Hotel, I heard Shayla and 4 of her colleagues read marvelous poetry. All of them are part of an association of writers called the Affrilacians, about 2,000 southern writers strong (per Facebook). Two of them I met and spoke with, published poet and educator Mitchell L.H. Douglas and former Kentucky poet laureate and educator Frank X Walker. Both were incredibly down to earth men who gave me insight on getting published and furthering my education, and I thank them for that. To whoever made the decision to take me as one of the students to go on AWP this year: thank you. Thank you. What I owe you can never be repaid. This was a span of days I can't see myself ever forgetting, a span of days I firmly believe will prove to be important as I further my writing career.
Carlie Sisco
One of the panels I attended was titled "8 Techniques Guaranteed to Take Your Script to the Next Level." Using examples of films such as "Juno," "Star Wars: A New Hope," "Pulp Fiction," and "Little Miss Sunshine" among others, this panel offered techniques relative to character, scene structure, descriptions, and dialogue. Though I do not write screenplays myself, I have always loved reading the screenplays to my favorite movies and television shows. It makes a very visual experience feel like reading a book. This panel demonstrated the ways in which some screenwriting techniques have the ability to transcend into fiction writing, because, even if I am not worrying about camera angles, it is still storytelling. Screenwriting can sound like a novel just as a novel can read like a screenplay.
Something that stood out to me in particular had to do with a tip on character development: "we watch movies because we want to connect with our characters." Is that not the same for fiction writers? Shouldn't I also be focusing on want versus desire, asking emotional questions in scenes, considering symbolism and foreshadowing, making my language visual or finding imaginative ways to introduce my characters? Isn't it good advice regardless of the medium to think about increasing tension and suspense by slowing down, using misdirection to reveal information, or revealing my characters through their actions? I chose to go to a variety panels on screenwriting and playwriting not because I want to try my hand at either one, but because I know that the techniques between them and fiction writing are interchangeable. I also know that films and television serve as my influence, the driving force that compels me to provide visual detail and intricate characters. I would not have been able to explore what that means to my writing or how related the two mediums are had I not been given this opportunity. My path may not have been the one most fiction writers would typically take, but I think that is what was so amazing about AWP at the end of the day. I was able to find what interested me and gained insight from an influencing medium all while taking my own unique path.
by Carlie Sisco
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged AWP, Books, Creative writing, Poetry, short stories, Undergraduate Writing, Widener University, Writing on April 19, 2019 by carlieelizabeth24.
Community Bridge Bridges Community
Lately, there's been a huge push on our campus to connect the city of Chester and Widener University through art…we love it! Staff member Kelsey Styles tells more about the latest of such events, Boundaries and Bridges, which seeks to both strengthen the art and cultural presence in the city, as well as connect the university to the city.
On November 13, students, faculty, and professors of Widener University meshed with members of the community on the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge as part of the much larger Boundaries and Bridges project.
John Carr performs a song for Devon Walls' promotional Boundaries and Bridges video.
The hum of engines pulsed in the background, but that did little to deter performers as they stood in front of Devon Walls' camera and read their work or talked about their projects or sang songs inviting change. Some cars honked up at them, but that only encouraged the crowd. To Walls, a Chester artist, their noise promotes notice. It means people are wondering why so many individuals are hanging out over Interstate 95.
At the end of the event, attendees dance and have fun as part of a larger celebration.
The Walnut Street Bridge doesn't connect the communities between Widener and Chester—it separates them. The highway whirring underneath acts as a wall between one group and another. The goal of Boundaries and Bridges is to mend these two broken worlds through art, because art is the medium connecting all living things.
Artists collectively share canvases to create a joint masterpiece as a symbol of what the Boundaries and Bridges program aims to do.
The program truly kicked off the Friday previous when an information session was held discussing what the program planned to do after it received a Catalyst Grant from the Barra Foundation, which "works to advance Greater Philadelphia's culture of innovation." The goal of Boundaries and Bridges is to both strengthen the art and cultural presence in the city, as well as connect the university to the city.
Blue Route staff member Kim Roberts takes her turn with a brush.
Widener student, children, and members of the community all worked to create a new piece of art.
To find out more, like the Boundaries and Bridges page on Facebook, or visit The Artists Warehouse on 515 Avenue of the States in Chester. It's time to move with the movement, cross that boundary, and build a bridge. What is your university doing to spread the arts around your community? Comment and let us know!
By Kelsey Styles '17, originally published on The Blue&Gold
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged arts, boundaries and bridges, chester, community, outreach, Widener University on November 19, 2015 by erirving.
Lots of Important Stuff…READ THIS!!!
And just like that, you're back on campus like you never even left…happy new school year everyone! On behalf of the whole Blue Route staff, I'd like to wish all our contributors and followers a successful start to the new semester! A lot of exciting things are happening on our tiny campus in the new future including a new submission period for our next issue (see details here) and best of all, the 2015 FUSE Conference (check it out here)! The blog staff will be bringing you all the latest updates of conference preparation/journal publication, so do not hesitate at all to contact us with any questions. And please, take literally 3 minutes to like us on Facebook (The Blue Route), follow us on Tumblr (wublueroute), and keep up to date with us on Twitter (wutheblueroute). And while you're at it, go follow all the undergraduate literary journals you can find on social media! There are so many amazing things being created and discussed by students in these publications…they all deserve to be supported.
Written by Emma Irving
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged FUSE, FUSE 2015, Social Media, Undergraduate literary journal, Undergraduate Writing, Widener University on August 25, 2015 by erirving.
Issue 23 is live! December 16, 2019
House of Leaves Makes for Perfect October Reading October 4, 2019
FUSE Conference at Widener University August 6, 2019
We're Open for Submissions for Issue #23 August 5, 2019
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Author Insight: Ralph Waldo Emerson March 15, 2019
2019 Oscar-nominated Films Based on Best-selling Books February 24, 2019
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Updated on : Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 10:44 PM IST
UK approves use of Pfizer; first country in the world
By Aditi Khanna
This is historic: UK has become the first country – much ahead of the US -- to approve the use of Pfizer vaccine for mass inoculations.
About 800,000 doses — enough to vaccinate 400,000 people because it is administered in two shots — will be made available in Britain 'from next week'.
The British regulator said the jab, which claims to offer up to 95 per cent protection against Covid-19, is safe for roll out. The nod came as England came out of its second national lockdown and shops reopened for 'wild Wednesday.' The regulator insists that despite the fast-track approval, the vaccine had been assessed 'with meticulous care' and 'no corners had been cut'.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the "fantastic" news and confirmed that the vaccine will be made available from next week. "It's the protection of vaccines that will ultimately allow us to reclaim our lives and get the economy moving again," Johnson, a COVID-19 survivor, said.
The vaccines require two doses 21 days apart, with strong immunity response kicking in after seven days of the second dose. The UK regulator said it will continue to monitor the data on a rolling basis once the vaccines are deployed among the British public.
"I am thrilled. Help is on its way. We can see the dawn. Let's redouble our efforts to follow the lockdown rules," said UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
The priority groups which will receive the vaccine include care home residents, health and care staff, the elderly and the clinically extremely vulnerable. Teachers, soldiers, and bus drivers could be first in line for the vaccine once all over-50s and 'at-risk' have been inoculated.
The vaccine is already on its way to Britain: the first lorries loaded with doses have left Belgium, the Daily Mail said.
While Britain, which broke away from the European Union's regulatory orbit to approve the shot early, has leapfrogged over other countries, it will have no effect on the distribution of the hundreds of millions of doses that other wealthy countries have procured in prepaid contracts.
It also offers little relief to poorer countries that could not afford to buy supplies in advance and may struggle to pay for both the vaccines and the exceptional demands of distributing them, reports the New York Times.
The global race to develop a vaccine has just started: Around the world, researchers are testing 57 vaccines in clinical trials, and nearly 100 others are being tested in animals or cells. China and Russia have already approved vaccines without waiting for the results of the Phase 3 trials, which experts say pose serious risks.
The Pfizer vaccine in particular also poses challenges of transportation and storage because this must be done at -70C. To keep doses of the jab at this ultra-low temperature, they needs to be packaged with dry ice and placed in a special transport box the size of a suitcase. Around 50 hospitals are on standby and vaccination centres in venues such as conference centres are being set up, with military personnel being deployed to assist with the logistics.
Serum Institute Fire: Rs 1,000 cr loss at Pune's Manjari plant; non-Covid supply lines will be hit; probe will reveal sabotage or mishap
Hank Aaron, baseball's one-time home run king who challenged racism, dies at 86


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The Davidson correction is an energy correction often applied in calculations using the method of truncated configuration interaction, which is one of several post-Hartree–Fock ab initio quantum chemistry methods in the field of computational chemistry. It was introduced by Ernest R. Davidson.

It allows one to estimate the value of the full configuration interaction energy from a limited configuration interaction expansion result, although more precisely it estimates the energy of configuration interaction up to quadruple excitations (CISDTQ) from the energy of configuration interaction up to double excitations (CISD). It uses the formula

where a0 is the coefficient of the Hartree–Fock wavefunction in the CISD expansion, ECISD and EHF are the energies of the CISD and Hartree–Fock wavefunctions respectively, and ΔEQ is the correction to estimate ECISDTQ, the energy of the CISDTQ wavefunction.  Such estimation is based on perturbation theory analysis. Therefore, CISD calculations with the Davidson correction included are frequently referred to as CISD(Q).

Application
The Davidson correction is very popular due to its low computational cost. The correction improves the contribution of electron correlation to the energy. The size-consistency and size-extensivity problems of truncated CI are alleviated but still exist. In small molecules, accuracy of the corrected energies can be similar to results from coupled cluster theory calculations.

The Davidson correction does not give information about the wave function. Therefore, it cannot be used to correct wave-function-dependent quantities such as dipole moment, charge density and vibronic couplings. Analytical gradients for Davidson corrections are in general not available in quantum chemistry programs.

As with other perturbative approaches, the Davidson correction is not reliable when the electronic structure of CISD and the reference Hartree–Fock wave functions are significantly different (i.e. when  is not close to 1). This happens when multi-reference character is significant or when CISD is used to calculate a state that is not the reference state, for example, an excited state or a state with different spin multiplicity.

Size-consistency and size-extensivity problem

Davidson correction improves both size consistency and size extensivity of CISD energies.   Therefore, Davidson correction is frequently referred to in literature as size-consistency correction or size-extensivity correction.

However, neither Davidson correction itself nor the corrected energies are size-consistent or size-extensive.   This is especially the case in larger molecules, where contribution from higher than quadruple excitations becomes more significant.

Corrections for Multi-reference CISD
Similar corrections exist for MR-CISD energies, including multi-reference Davidson correction, Pople correction, and others.  These methods can be used to correct excited state energies.

See also
 Configuration interaction
 Electron correlation
 Size consistency
 Size extensivity

References

Computational chemistry

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"A landmark in the social history of the nation."
Posted on March 20, 2010 by Betty Londergan
A turn of the century class at University Settlement
That's how Franklin D. Roosevelt described University Settlement House www.universitysettlement.org during his Presidency, and for good reason. Started in 1886 by three progressive reformers in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, University Settlement served thousands of immigrants, struggling to survive in their newly adopted American home.
A new generation of University Settlement kids
The settlement ideal was to provide a community center where immigrants could take courses in politics, learn English, play basketball, or simply escape the rigors of urban poverty. University Settlement has a long history of progressive firsts: establishing the first public bath, first kindergarten, and first Head Start program. It also has an illustrious roster of alumni and staff, including the Gershwin brothers, a former mayor, senator and governor, the founder of the NAACP, a Pulitzer Prize winner, New Yorker columnist, founder of the New Republic, and tangentially, the entire Schall family (which I luckily married into).
Bucolic Mt. Beacon - back in the day
In fact, a member of my husband's family has served on the board of University Settlement for the last 40 years. The love affair began back in 1966, when first Ellen, then Richard, Larry (my husband) and Steve Schall spent the summers of their teenage and young adult years as counselors at University Settlement's summer camp, located at the bucolic foot of Mount Beacon, 60 miles north of New York. For generations of inner-city children since 1910, the camp provided the first ecstatic experience of nature and open space, as well as teaching messages of hope, tolerance and community.
The inimitable Pete Seeger
During my husband's time, the campers were an incredible mix of kids of diverse incomes, races and ethnicities, living in what was still a 100-year idealist experiment in community living, and Pete Seeger, who lives in Beacon, always dropped in for a visit and sing-along. The experience and idealism represented by the University Settlement camp profoundly affected and shaped the Schalls, and decades later, all three of Larry's kids also spent their summers in Beacon as campers and counselors. Unfortunately, the camp was forced to close this decade due to financial pressures, but happily the sale of land to the New York State Parks & Recreation Department allowed University Settlement in Manhattan to flourish.
A new sports fan of University Settlement
A pioneer in social services for almost 125 years, it continues to serve 20,000 people in its diverse community with programs in child care, pre-school, housing assistance, mental health, college and career prep, crisis intervention, seniors and the arts, as well as innovative new partnerships with the YMCA at the new Houston Street Center and The Door, one of New York's leading youth development agencies.
The incomparable Rhoda
University Settlement was particularly beloved by my mother-in-law Rhoda who passed away in October, 2009, and a fund was created in her memory. My $100 today goes to Rhoda Schall's favorite cause, the first and best University Settlement in America.
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Thomas Schultz
Somerset House East Wing
London, WC2R 2LS
102 Bd Carl-Vogt
Genève, CH - 1205
Online Dispute Resolution: The State of the Art and the Issues
E-Com Research Project of the University of Geneva, December 2001
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 02 May 2006
Thomas Schultz, a bc, Dirk Langer and Vincent Bonnet
King's College London, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Geneva - Faculty of Law and University of Geneva
Online dispute resolution, online arbitration, online mediation, online negotiation, cybercourts
Investment Arbitration: Promoting the Rule of Law or Over-Empowering Investors? A Quantitative Empirical Study
European Journal of International Law, 2014, Forthcoming, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2014-16
Thomas Schultz and Cedric G. Dupont
King's College London and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
international law, investment arbitration, foreign investment, empirical studies, investment law
Online Arbitration: Binding or Non-Binding?
ADR Online Monthly, November 2002
Online dispute resolution, cyberspace, Internet, e-commerce, arbitration, non-binding arbitration, self-enforcement, effectiveness
Online Dispute Resolution: An Overview and Selected Issues
Economic Commission for Europe, June 7, 2002
Online dispute resolution, cyberspace, Internet, e-commerce, online arbitration, non-binding arbitration, online mediation, online negotiation, self-enforcement,
Against Consistency in Investment Arbitration
The Foundations of International Investment Law: Bringing Theory into Practice, Z. Douglas, J. Pauwelyn, and J.E. Viñuales (eds.) (OUP 2014). , King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2013-3
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2019
investment arbitration, international investment law, rule of law, jurisprudence
Electronic Communication Issues Related to Online Dispute Resolution Systems
The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, 2002
Thomas Schultz, Vincent Bonnet, Karima Boudaoud, a bc, Jürgen Harms and Dirk Langer
King's College London, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Geneva and University of Geneva - Faculty of Law
Online dispute resolution, online arbitration, online mediation, online negotiation, cybercourts, videoconferencing
The State, a Perpetual Respondent in Investment Arbitration? Some Unorthodox Considerations
THE BACKLASH AGAINST INVESTMENT ARBITRATION: PERCEPTIONS AND REALITY, pp. 577-602, Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Liz Chung, and Claire Balchin, eds., Kluwer Law International, 2010
Mehmet Toral and Thomas Schultz
University of Geneva and King's College London
investment arbitration
Online Dispute Resolution Systems as Web Services
ICFAI Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Vol. 3, July 2004
Vincent Bonnet, Karima Boudaoud, MIchael Gagnebin, Jürgen Harms and Thomas Schultz
University of Geneva, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, University of Geneva and King's College London
Online disupte resolution, online arbitration, online mediation, online negotiation, technology, computer science, modelization
Human Rights: A Speed Bump for Arbitral Procedures? An Exploration of Safeguards in the Acceleration of Justice
International Arbitration Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 8, 2006
Arbitration, human rights, online arbitration, sports arbitration, speed, online dispute resolution, dispute resolution, due process
An Essay on the Role of Government for Odr: Theoretical Considerations About the Future of Odr
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): Technology as the 'Fourth Party', 2003
ODR, ADR, online dispute resolution, dispute resolution, cyberspace, Internet, cyberspace regulation, e-commerce, ecommerce, trust, laissez-faire, government, computer mediated communications, CMC
Does Online Dispute Resolution Need Governmental Intervention? The Case for Architectures of Control and Trust
North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 6, p. 71, 2004
The Lex Sportiva Turns Up at the Turin Olympics: Supremacy of Non-State Law and Strange Loops
JusLetter, April 20, 2006
Sports, sports law, lex sportiva, doping, drugs, International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Code, legal systems
Ebay: A Legal System in the Making?
Revue du Droit des Technologies de l'information, Vol. 22, No. 27, 2005
eBay, online dispute resolution, cyberspace, Internet, SquareTrade, reputation, enforcement, private legal systems, legal pluralism
The Roles of Dispute Settlement and ODR
ADR IN BUSINESS: PRACTICE AND ISSUES ACROSS COUNTRIES AND CULTURES, Vol. 2, pp. 135-155, K. Arnold Ingen-Housz, ed., Kluwer, 2011
online dispute resolution, dispute resolution, non-state law, transnational law, roles of dispute settlement, arbitration, meditation
Why Being Law Matters
Chapter 1 of Transnational Legality: Stateless Law and International Arbitration (Oxford University Press 2014), King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2014-27
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 May 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2014
concept of law, implications of legality, stateless law, international arbitration, international law
The Rise of a Third Generation of Arbitrators? Fifteen Years after Dezalay and Garth
Arbitration International, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2012
Thomas Schultz and Robert Kovacs
King's College London and University of Geneva
international arbitration, arbitrators, sociology
Some Critical Comments on the Juridicity of Lex Mercatoria
Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. 10, p. 667, 2008
international arbitration, transnational law, lex mercatoria, Lon Fuller, legal philosophy, concept of law
Online Dispute Resolution (Odr): Dispute Resolution and Ius Numericum
Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques, Vol. 48, p. 153, 2002
Online dispute resolution, cyberspace, Internet, e-commerce, arbitration, non-binding arbitration, mediation, negotiation, self-enforcement, effectiveness, private legal systems
The Use of Information Technology in Arbitration
JusLetter, December 2005
a bc and Thomas Schultz
affiliation not provided to SSRN and King's College London
Arbitration, information technology
Arbitral Decision-Making: Legal Realism and Law & Economics
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2015, Vol 6, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2015-28
arbitration, decision-making, legal realism, law and economics, adjudication
Types of Political Risk Leading to Investment Arbitrations in the Oil & Gas Sector
Journal of World Energy Law & Business, Vol 8, 2015, Forthcoming., King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2015-36
Cedric G. Dupont, Thomas Schultz, Melanie Wahl and Merih Angin
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), King's College London, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
foreign investment, arbitration, political risk, bad governance, economic hardship, economic nationalism
The Networked Regulation of Cyberspace
Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques, Vol. 55, No. 31, 2005
Cyberspace regulation, Internet regulation, legal theory, strange loops, tangled hierarchies
The Law is What the Arbitrator Had for Breakfast: How Income, Reputation, Justice, and Reprimand Act as Determinants of Arbitrator Behaviour
in J.C. Betancourt (ed.), Selected Topics in International Arbitration – Liber Amicorum for the 100th Anniversary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Oxford University Press, 2014), Forthcoming., King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2014-36
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2014
Political Risk and Investment Arbitration: An Empirical Study
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2016, Forthcoming, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2016-03
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2015
Cedric G. Dupont, Thomas Schultz and Merih Angin
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), King's College London and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
foreign investment, arbitration, political risk, bad governance, economic hardship
The Three Pursuits of Dispute Settlement
CZECH (& CENTRAL EUROPEAN) YEARBOOK OF ARBITRATION, Vol. 1, p. 227, 2010
role of dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation, negotiation, settlement, rule of law, justice, satisfaction of the parties, Owen Fiss
International Arbitration Scholarship: Forms, Determinants, Evolution
in Stavros Brekoulakis, Julian Lew, and Loukas Mistelis (eds), Evolution of International Arbitration, Kluwer, 2016 Forthcoming, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2015-48, TLI Think! Paper 03/2015
arbitration, scholarship, ideas, concepts, paradigms
Comity and International Courts and Tribunals
Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2017, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-24
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2017
Thomas Schultz and Niccolò Ridi
King's College London and King's College London, Dickson Poon School of Law
comity, international courts and tribunals, international adjudication, coordination of legal regimes, public international law, private international law, deference, legal obligation, non-interference, multiple proceedings, respect and recognition, precedent, cooperation
Navigating Sovereignty and Transnational Commercial Law: The Use of Comity by Australian Courts
Journal of Private International Law, Volume 12, Issue 2, August 2016., TLI Think! Paper 11/2016, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2016-14
Thomas Schultz and Jason Mitchenson
King's College London and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Comity, private international law, transnational law, territoriality
Secondary Rules of Recognition and Relative Legality in Transnational Regimes
American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 56, 2011
transnational law, legal philosophy, relative legality, secondary rules of recognition, arbitration
The Concept of Law in Transnational Arbitral Legal Orders and Some of its Consequences
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2011
international arbitration, transnational law, concept of law, Lon Fuller, private legal systems, justice, rule of law
Internet Disputes, Fairness in Arbitration and Transnationalism: A Reply to Dr Hörnle
International Journal of Law and Information, Forthcoming
international arbitration, transnational law, fairness, online dispute resolution, online arbitration, due process, meta-justice, UDRP, ebay, consumer protection, lois de police
Towards a New Heuristic Model: Investment Arbitration as a Political System
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2016, vol. 7, Introduction to Special Issue "Empirical Studies on Investment Disputes", C. Dupont and T. Schultz eds., Forthcoming, TLI Think! Paper 05/2016, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2016-06
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016
Cedric G. Dupont and Thomas Schultz
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and King's College London
investment arbitration, political system, David Easton, empirical studies
Balancing of Interests: Reflections on the Notion of Interest
Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, Vol. 3, pp. 299-312, 2003
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 May 2006 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2013
Balancing of interests, concept of interest, legal theory, methodology in adjudicative decision-making, norms and facts
Connecting Complaint Filing Processes to Online Resolution Systems
Commercial Law Practitioner, Vol. 10, p. 307, 2003
Online dispute resolution, complaints management, consumers, case filing, filing forms
Private Legal Systems: What Cyberspace Might Teach Legal Theorists
Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 10, No. 151, 2007
cyberspace, transnational law, private legal systems, ebay, UDRP, concept of law
Shakespearean Legal Thought in International Dispute Settlement
King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-01
Thomas Schultz and François Ost
King's College London and Saint-Louis University, Brussels
International dispute settlement, Shakespeare, international law, arbitration
Postulats De Justice En Droit Transnational Et Raisonnements De Droit International Privé. Premier Balisage D'Un Champ D'Études (Postulates of Justice in Transnational Law and Private International Law Reasoning. A Few Simple Points)
MELANGES EN L'HONNEUR DU PROFESSEUR JEAN-MICHEL JACQUET (Marcelo Kohen and Dolores Bentolila eds, 2013), 417-431
Transnational law, private international law, legal positivism, Kelsen
Legitimacy Pragmatism in International Arbitration: A Framework for Analysis
in Jean Kalicki and Mohamed Abdel Raouf (eds), Evolution and Adaptation: The Future of International Arbitration (ICCA Congress Series No. 20, Wolters Kluwer, 2019), King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-25
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 May 2018 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2018
arbitration, legitimacy, pragmatic philosophy, political system
The Ethos of Arbitration
The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, Forthcoming, King's College London Law School Research Paper 2019-23
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
arbitration, ethos, decision-making, arbitrators
Life Cycles of International Law as a Noetic Unity: The Various Times of Law-Thinking
in L. Pasquet, K. Polackova Van der Ploeg, and L. Castellanos Jankiewicz (eds), International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques, Springer, 2017 Forthcoming., TLI Think! Paper 55/2017, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-09
international law, time, noetic, thinking about law, law-making, phenomenology
Réguler Le Commerce Électronique Par La Résolution Des Litiges En Ligne (Regulating E-Commerce Through Online Dispute Resolution)
Brussels, Bruylant, 2005
Number of pages: 695 Posted: 15 Oct 2014
How Conceptions of Justice Associated with the Nation-State Obstruct Our View on Possibilities of Transnational Commercial Law
(2014) 25 King's Law Journal 349-369. , King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2015-09
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2015
Comity in US Courts
Northeastern University Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2017, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-11
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 12 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2017
Comity, Private International Law, Transnational Law, Territoriality, Foreign Relations Law
Do Hard Economic Times Lead to International Legal Disputes? The Case of Investment Arbitration
Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 19, issue 4, 2013, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2013
investment arbitration, financial crisis, international law, political science, political economy
Non-Analytical Obstacles to Stateless Law
(43) North Carolina Journal of International Law (2017), King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-40
law without the state, paradigms, pursuits in the definition of law
Dispute Resolution at the America's Cup
JusLetter, September 2005
Arbitration, dispute resolution, sports, America's Cup
Rediscovering the Principle of Comity in English Private International Law
26 European Review of Private Law (2018), King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-13
comity, private international law, conflicts of law, English law
How Comity Makes Transnationalism Work
Comity, Jessup, Transnational Law, Private International Law
Comity: The American Development of a Transnational Concept
Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume 18 (2016/2017), pp. 211-244 , King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-28
comity, conflicts of law
Scholarship as Fun
aesthetics of legal scholarship, Pierre Schlag
Arbitration Literature
in Thomas Schultz and Federico Ortino (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, OUP 2019 (Forthcoming), King's College London Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
international arbitration, scientometrics, scholarship, academic literature
La Comity Dans L'Histoire Du Droit International Privé (Comity in the History of Private International Law)
Journal du Droit International, 2012, Vol. 139, N°2, pp. 571-595
Thomas Schultz and David Holloway
King's College London and University of Essex - School of Law
comity, private international law, public international law, history of international law, conflicts of law
Double Jeopardy? The Use of Investment Arbitration in Times of Crisis
investment arbitration, economic crises, legitimacy of arbitration
Les Origines De La Comity AU Carrefour Du Droit International Privé Et Du Droit International Public (The Origins of Comity at the Crossroads of Private and Public International Law)
The History of Comity
Forthcoming, Jus Gentium – Journal of International Legal History, vol 5, 2019
comity, history of conflicts of law, sovereignty
Carving Up the Internet: Jurisdiction, Legal Orders, and the Private/Public International Law Interface
European Journal of International Law (2008), Vol. 19 No. 4, 799-839
Sailing Away from Judicial Interference: Arbitrating the America's Cup
International Sports Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 27, 2006
Investment Arbitration and Political Systems Theory
in Thomas Schultz and Federico Ortino (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, OUP 2019, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1484, King's College London Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2020
Cedric G. Dupont, Thomas Schultz and Jason W. Yackee
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), King's College London and University of Wisconsin Law School
investment arbitration, systems theory, regimes dynamics
A Wig for Arbitrators: What Does it Add?
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Thomas Schultz and Clément Bachmann
hybrid commercial courts, arbitration, judges, social representation, social inequalities, market of dispute resolution
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Editorial: The Evolution of International Arbitration as an Academic Field
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2015, Vol 6
arbitration, research


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"Five things serve as a cure for the heart: a thoughtful reading of the Qur'an, an empty stomach, night vigil prayers, supplications in the early morning and keeping the company of the righteous"
Sidi Ahmad al-Khawwas
The story of Dala'il al-Khayrat
Dala'il al-Khayrat, the most celebrated manual of Blessings on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) in history, was composed by the Sufi, wali, Muslim scholar of prophetic descent, and baraka of Marrakesh Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d. 870/1465).
What is Imaan-e-Kaamil — Perfect Imaan — ??
In the present era, It is really being felt that people must get aware of the Value of Iman and to know what Iman really is?
A brief Life Sketch of Qutb-ul-Awliyya Imam Shaykh Abul Hasan Ash Shadhili
May his soul rest in peace: Rahmatullahi Alayhee Wa Quddas Allahahu Sirrahu
Taken fromThe Mystical Teachings of al-Shadhili from Ibn al-Sabbagh's Durrat al-Asrar wa Tuhfat al Abarar translation by Elmer H. Douglas sections from the book about his Life
Pictures from the Imams resting place in Humaythra
Hazrat Mujaddid Alf-e-Saani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi Alaihir raHmah [URDU]
Foundation of the Spiritual Path
By Sidi Ahmad Zarruq
Translated by Hamza Yusuf


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Denmark: Keolis grows its bus operations in Northern Jutland
Keolis has been awarded a bus contract worth €190 million by Nordjyllands Trafikselskab (NT), the public transport authority of the Northern Jutland region in north-western Denmark. The contract will start in August 2021.
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Norway Launch of a large 100% fossil-free bus network in Bergen to reduce CO2 emissions by 85%
On 1 December 2020, Keolis began operating a new fossil-free bus network in Bergen, providing city residents and visitors with a sustainable shared mobility solution under a contract with public transport authority (PTA) Skyss.
"Reinventing Mobility": Meet Keolis Group CEO Marie-Ange Debon at the 2020 Paris Conference
On the second day of the 2020 Edition of the Paris Conference, Keolis Group Executive Chairwoman Marie-Ange Debon will take part in a roundtable discussion on the theme "Reinventing Mobility" alongside RATP President & CEO Catherine Guillouard and Michelin Chairman Florent Menegaux. The discussion will be held virtually on Tuesday, November 10 at 11:00 AM (CET).
Keolis extends its footprint in the US with a new bus contract in Southern California
On 1 October 2020, Keolis Transit America (KTA), Keolis North America's subsidiary, started operating the Victor Valley network in San Bernardino County, Southern California, for which the contract was awarded by Victor Valley Transit Authority (VVTA) on 13 September 2020.
Sweden: Keolis launches a new 5G autonomous electric vehicle trial in Stockholm
On 24 September 2020, Keolis, in partnership with Urban ICT Arena, Telia, Ericsson Intel and T-engineering, launched a new autonomous self-driving, electric minibus trial in Stockholm, Sweden, using 5G technology to remotely control and supervise the vehicle. This trial aims to explore the safe introduction of self-driving autonomous electric vehicles in complex urban areas with a view to optimising route planning and traffic.
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On 4 October 2018, Keolis and about fifteen partners launched an ideation programme lasting several months with the support of the Liberté Living-Lab. The approach is part of the Group's strategy of open innovation to co-build tomorrow's mobility solutions with stakeholders from different backgrounds.
Eight months of collective ideation
On 4 October, Keolis and Kisio Digital took part in the kick-off of an open innovation initiative launched by the Liberté Living-Lab, a space for work, experimentation and sharing dedicated to 'Tech for Good' located in the heart of Paris. The programme began with a day of ideation to come up with the themes and issues that will be addressed during the Smart Mobility programme. Until June 2019, the Group and its digital subsidiary will, along with about 15 partners – companies, start-ups, public stakeholders and researchers – be actively involved in an open innovation programme focusing on smart mobility. The programme includes ideation workshops, the acceleration of concrete projects, fields of research and a cycle of conferences. Keolis' participation in this ground-breaking initiative is part of its innovation policy, which builds on partnerships with numerous start-ups, research labs such as the Ivado in Montreal, universities and major industry stakeholders in France and internationally.
A programme of open innovation to reinvent mobility
The programme focuses on electrical and sustainable mobility and the traces of mobility with discussions on Open Data, accessible electrical terminals and offers of multimodal digital solutions and a focus on the Ile-de-France (Greater Paris) region.
Actors in mobility face many changes today:
A new field of possibilities opened up by technology: e.g. electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, artificial intelligence, 5G.
Mobility that is less and less linear: rapidly evolving behaviours and types of use, more flexible workplaces, increasingly varied transport options with the use of soft modes and journeys that are becoming multimodal.
Strong environmental pressures: e.g. pollution, air quality, fighting global warming, reducing noise pollution.
Increasing regional constraints: e.g. overcrowding of urban centres, loss of resources for rural areas, low emission zones.
All these issues mean questioning our perceptions of mobility and imagining new services and economic models.
The major milestones of the Smart Mobility programme
November 2018: datathon
January 2019: hackathon to identify concrete, promising projects for mobility
February – April 2019: prototyping and accelerating a project in the Liberté Living-Lab; in vivo tests in partner organisations
May 2019: assessment and sharing of experiences
June 2019: closing of the collective
Events and conferences will be held throughout the entire programme
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