Towards the end of 'Graphs' Moretti touches briefly on SF: neither Detective Fiction nor SF, he says, are included on his chart 'although both genres achieve their modern form about 1890 (Doyle, Wells) and undergo a major change in the 1920s, in step with the overall pattern.' Nevertheless, he concedes, 'their long duration seems to require a different approach.
Well, I've just published the result of several years work designed to argue the case that SF has enjoyed a longer duration even than Moretti is inclined to allow. Not that he takes an unusual position with regard to the genre. There are, in a nutshell, three main views as to when SF 'began': it began with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1818; it began with H G Wells Time Machine in 1895; it began with Hugo Gernsback's magazine Amazing Stories in 1926, and Gernsback's prosodically-hobbledehoy coinage 'scientifiction'. Moretti is arguing, broadly, that novel genres have about a quarter-century lifespan, which, even if we chose the latest possible starting place as a launching point, does indeed give SF a 'long duration'.
4. 1750s-1790s. The fantastic voyage as satiric-comic buffoonery (often with pointed political allegory); this is of course something already noticeable in Swift and Voltaire of course, but made much coarser, ruder and more obvious in : 'Sir Humphrey Lunatic', A Trip to the Moon: Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla (1764); Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769), William Thomson's The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions by the Man of the People (1783) and the two anonymous works A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air in an Aerostatic Globe (1784) and /i>A Voyage to the Moon, Strongly Recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom (1793).
12. 19teens-1930s. Gernsbackian SF: first phase of Pulp SF.
14. 1920s-1940s. Machinic Dystopia. [Yevgeny Zamiatin, We (1920); Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927); Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932); Rene Barjavel, Ravage (1943); Hermann Kasack, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (1946), George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four (1949)].
A couple of notes on this. Firstly, of course there's a lot of wiggle-room in these little categories. They've been subjectively arrived at; and are meant to identify the core vogues for their respective topics rather than the exhaustive categorisation of the field (so for instance, obviously, plenty of utopias were written after 1915; although I'd still argue that the immediate wake of Bellamy's book saw the real heart of the vogue). Secondly, I'm aware that were I to plot these out on a graph they'd look extremely like the graph in "Graphs" … Figure 9, to be specific. Make of that what you will.
But if Moretti is right then perhaps we need to be looking at SF not so much as a 'novelistic genre' and more as a cultural mode.
Off hand, this seems reasonable. One might make a similar case for detective fiction, that there are multiple subcategories waxing and waning over time.
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I think that my problem with this idea of vogues is approximately the same as the one I have with Moretti's genre cycles, and the way that e.g. "historical fiction" doesn't really disappear when it is supposed to. Once you reach the 20th century, there are so many works published that someone can do major work in a subgenre (or whatever you want to call it) that is not currently in vogue. They never really die out.
Examples off the top of my head: Iain Banks (space opera "Pulp SF" crossed with utopia), Mervyn Peake (gothic heritage, and yes if you read to "Titus Alone" then the series really is SF), John Crowley in his straightforward SF like _Engine Summer_ (Cambellian? it's a post-civilization-fall novel, which I associate with that era) plus the sort of unclassified by this system writers like Stanislaw Lem. I picked these people because I consider them to be some among the best writers in SF that weren't mentioned above; a system of subgenres or vogues or what have you that doesn't include them may still be good for some things (as Moretti wrote, a system that included 50% of the work would still be interesting), but there is still something odd about it.
Lots of names missing from this, of course, as Thomas and Rich point out. It's not exhaustive. In fact, it's not even indicative ... there are several other 'vogues' I could have added to it, including an 1850-1900ish vogue for Big Machine SF, which would include everything from Verne to Steam Man of the Prairies. Plus a New Space Opera category for the 90s and 00s; Musical SF (Pop from the 1960s to the 90s); Video games (80s to present). And so on. But I figured I'd spooled out a tedious-enough list of sub-categories.
I'd say this in my Moretti-ish defence. My first assumption was that you get 'clumping' because writers come up with cool new tropes which other writers then rush to utilize, until all the permutations have been exhausted and it dries up: like Sonnets in the 1590s, say; or Gothic in the late C18th; or (a more SF-y example) Time Travel. No-one had really thought of this before Wells; but it's a really neat idea, so after his book there are various imitations &c. &c. But--I don't think this really accounts for it. In the first instance people are still writing and filming time travel stories, some merely derivative others innovative (I've just read Baxter's new one, Transcendent) so the trope has hardly been exhausted. But secondly, more importantly, even though these forms may make appearances over really long time scales (if you count 'popping up from time to time' as making an appearance), they still exhibit the sort of generational clumping that F.M. is on about. Take utopias. People have been writing utopias ever since More coined the term in the early C16th. Fine: but even accepting that I think there are two demonstrable clumps of utopian cultural production, roughly around the time of the French revolution first off, and then in the wake of Bellamy's book at the end of the C19th. Suddenly everybody loves utopias, everyone's writing and reading them; and after a couple of decades it sinks back into the cultural background noise.
This, as far as I can see, is what Moretti is arguing with eg Silver Fork novels: it's possible to pick out such novels written in any decade of the C19th you like; but at the same time they had a distinct and prolific vogue in the 1820s and 1830s. And that's what's interesting.
Moretti's work on genre cycles is about 18th and 19th century British novels. I wouldn't simply extrapolate it to the 20th century. What's the 20th century data say?
OTOH, using very different empirical methodology, on different kinds of materials (e.g. music, poetry), Colin Martindale has discovered cycles over long periods of time.
The idea that cultural vogues spring up and then trail off seems pretty basic. If they don't spring up or if they last forever, we don't call them vogues. The more intriguing aspect of Moretti's chart of English novel genres over a century-and-a-half is, as he notes, the way that multiple vogues seem to trail off at the same time, making quasi-generational mega-clumps. That doesn't seem to be the case in this twentieth-century list. It's true that "Cozy catastrophes" and "Classic (i.e., 1950s) science fiction movies" both fade in the early '60s, but an awful lot of cultural vogues turned over around them—that would be a uncommonly well-recognized generational marker, no?
"But if Moretti is right then perhaps we need to be looking at SF not so much as a 'novelistic genre' and more as a cultural mode...."
Surely only when writing a history, though? There are other things that can be done with books besides graphing their categories. And why break out sf as a special case? In such a history, wouldn't all "novelistic genres" be treated as cultural modes?
Genre doesn't just consist of shared traits in texts, though. There is a sense in which "science fiction" as a genre only starts in the 1910s, since that's when it became delimited as a more-or-less continuous marketing category and community of readers and writers, ret-conning some earlier works with some shared traits into precursors or inspirations, with "fellow travelers" such as Aldous Huxley or Jack Kirby usually embarrassing one side or the other. On the genre-as-production side, I'd also suggest that literary sf has had more connection with literary fantasy and literary horror than with science fiction movies or superhero comic books.
Of course, you know all this, and none of it is meant to disparage your 400 page book, which I look forward to reading—congratulations, by the way!—but only to note that, given its terms, it could have been a 800 page book or a very different 400 page book.
...to note that, given its terms, it could have been a 800 page book ... It could indeed have been 800 pages. Perhaps it should have been. It was my publishers, not I, who decided on the shorter length. Nor, I could add, do I do any Moretti-ish stuff in the Palgrave History itself, except possibly by implication. The above post was spun off the event here.
This is not to disagree with what you say, Ray; which seems to me spot on.
I'm working on an article about Stapledon, who, along with Haldane and Bernal, would seem to require a "scientific romance" 20s-30s block, or are the numbers not there?
It's tricky: Stapledon (whom I rate as one of the very greatest writers to work in the genre, incidentally) didn't regard himself as an SF writer and wasn't received as such by most readers in the 20s and 30s: his SF rep built later, particularly in the 1960s. If anything I'd bracket him with the mystic/quasi-religious or even psychadelic sf of that decade. But it's a slightly random call.
Which of course is the problem with all these quasi-structuralist 'bracketings' and 'definitions'. They exist only in the tidy mind of the critic, not in the 'reality' of SF, which has always been enormously messy and complex and promiscuous. My take on the SF of the 19teens/1920s (for what it's worth) is that the two main genre manifestations were a sort of High Modernist SF, like Huxley or like Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus, on the one hand and the populist Pulp stuff of the magazines on the other. Stapledon, obviously, goes with the former crowd.
Absolutely fascinating material, Adam. Congratulations on what sounds like a wonderful volume. I hope I will be able to take a look at it.
...or (a more SF-y example) Time Travel. No-one had really thought of this before Wells; but it's a really neat idea, so after his book there are various imitations &c. &c.
This of course is travelling *backward* in time; my intuition is that this is an easier mental leap (since factual data about the past exist) than is the leap required to travel into the future.
I don't know Rudwick's book I'm afraid; but googling it just now makes me want to read it. It looks fascinating.
Time. My understanding here is that the key name is Charles Howard Hinton (1853-1907) who was either the first writer or the first Anglophone writer to conceptualise 'time' as a fourth dimension (in Scientific Romances 1884-5). Once you've done that, it's almost inevitable that people will start thinking 'but if we can travel up and down along length and left to right and back again along breadth, then mightn't we travel forward and backward along time?' Wells distinction is that he read Hinton and saw the potential; and then wrote a brilliant little story on the premise.
...a clever image of a *modern* geologist... Yes, there are lots of images like this from the C19th; both backwards in time and forwards (cartoons in Punch of evolutionary futures after the Darwin fuss). But these follow a pictoral logic at least as old as the Bayeux Tapestry [oh, much older, of course] in which events that happen at different times are all represented in the same visual field.
Many thanks for the Hinton reference - that looks very interesting.
I think you would enjoy the Rudwick book. If I remember correctly, he identifies one root of the illustrative tradition in geology as the "hexaemeral literature" - the body of works imaginatively describing the six days of creation.


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Stay halting lethal sea lion removal below Bonneville is denied
author: (reposted by) bitterroot
In his denial, the judge weighs "irreparable harm" effect on either pinniped or fish stocks with respect to the anticipated effect of removal or non-removal of the sea lions predating on an unknown/unpredictable number of ESA protected salmonids. Humane Society of the U.S. and other plaintiffs immediately take their request for a stay to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court
From Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin:
Judge Denies Stay Request To Halt Lethal Sea Lion Removal Below Bonneville Dam
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 (PST)
A federal court judge on Thursday denied a request that he put on hold state plans to begin in March trapping and removing salmon-eating California sea lions from below the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam.
At the end of hourlong oral arguments, U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman told the attorneys involved that "the balance of equity tips in favor of protecting the salmon run."
The killing of sea lions represents irreparable harm, one of the legal standards that must be present if a stay is to be issued. But the killing of salmon, by the big marine mammals, is also irreparable harm.
The heightened level of pinniped predation below the dam could potentially have dire consequences for upriver spring chinook salmon stocks, which include both hatchery produced fish and wild Upper Columbia and Snake River wild salmon that are listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to state officials.
While the sea lions take a relatively small percentage of the overall run below Bonneville, they could potentially wipe out uniquely evolved, wild tributary populations that are each species building blocks.
"There's nothing comparable" that could befall the California sea lions if the removal plan moves forward, the judge said. NOAA Fisheries in March of 2008 approved the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington's application under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to lethally remove sea lions, which congregate each spring below the dam to feast on salmon, steelhead and other stocks as they search for fish ladders.
The 5-year authorization allows the removal, lethal or otherwise, of up to 85 California sea lions, although NOAA officials have said it was doubtful that more than 30 could actually be removed annually. The candidates are "individually identifiable predatory California sea lions that are having a significant negative impact on the decline or recovery of ESA listed salmonids at Bonneville Dam," according to language in the MMPA's Section 120.
The agency in 2007 estimated that the total population of the United States stock of California sea lions is 238,000 and stable, if not growing. The stock has reached its "optimum sustainable population size, as defined by the MMPA, and carrying capacity for ocean and breeding conditions.
Agency documents and testimony say that the planned Columbia River removals won't have a significant effect on the California sea lion as a species because the population is large and robust.
On the other hand, many of the salmon populations are depressed and listed under the ESA. Congress amended the MMPA to add the lethal removal provision in response to a situation at Seattle's Ballard Locks in the mid-1990s in which sea lion predation helped push a steelhead stock over the brink to functional extinction.
"Congress has a slightly greater concern abut their loss," Mosman said of ESA listed salmon.
The Humane Society of the United States, which launched the litigation, said it would immediately take its request for a stay to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Its goal is to prevent sea lion removals while an appeal of an earlier Mosman decision is being heard and is decided.
The HSUS asked for, and got, expedited consideration of its stay request from Judge Mosman. It intends to make the same request of the appellate court.
Mosman in a Nov. 25 opinion and order ruled that the federal government complied with the law in granting permission for the lethal removals.
"Viewing NMFS's actions in light of the APA's deferential standard, NMFS properly evaluated whether individually identifiable pinnipeds were having a significant negative impact on the decline or recovery of salmonids," Mosman said. The judge said the lawsuit's legal bottom line hinged on the Administrative Procedures Act.
The APA requires that a challenged action be upheld unless it is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law."
An appeal of Mosman's November ruling was filed by HSUS in mid-December. The briefing schedule for the appeal set by the Ninth Circuit begins March 23 and stretches into May.
The HSUS, the Wild Fish Conservancy and individual plaintiffs on July 3 had asked the district court to set aside the NOAA approval.
HSUS during the litigation pressed the argument that NOAA have not proven the marine mammals were having a "significant" impact on listed fish, particularly when compared to other permitted causes of mortality such as harvest or the hydro system. Some level of mortality of ESA listed stocks is allowed under NMFS' biological opinion "incidental take statements" for the dams and state and tribal harvest.
HSUS also contended that the federal agency erred by failing to do an environmental impact statement as required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
But Mosman ruled that NMFS followed the proper legal course.
"MMPA section 120 addresses a relatively narrow interaction between two species -- pinnipeds and salmonids," Mosman's opinion says. "NEPA and the ESA, which generally provide broader frameworks for assessing the 'other reasons for the decline,' address different issues.
"As discussed above, because the inquires and factual circumstances are so different, the agency could reasonably conclude that an action is not significant for purposes of NEPA or the ESA but is significant for purposes of MMPA section 120," Mosman said in his Nov. 25 order. "Thus, even if NMFS had to consider 'other reasons for the decline,' its decision to authorize a lethal take of California sea lions under MMPA section 120 does not "fl[y] in the face of more than a decade of past administrative decisions" as HSUS had alleged.
"NMFS was not obligated to discuss and explain other decisions made under other statutory schemes. Given the factual circumstances, NMFS's decision was not inconsistent with previous decisions under other statutory schemes."
The NOAA approval was immediately challenged last spring in district court by HSUS, which also sought a preliminary injunction to prevent the states from implementing its sea lion removal plan. The injunction was denied April 16 by Mosman, but HSUS appealed the decision and sought an emergency stay in the Ninth Circuit. The appellate court granted the stay in part, prohibiting the lethal removal of California sea lions but allowing their capture and transfer to zoos.
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this is one of the tragedies of proper policy... desperate people trying to act like they are saving salmon by killing seal lions... who are the progenitors??? save the real salmon runs in south east alaska.. blockade cruisboats from dumping deoxygenated sewage....renegotiate the port fees,, dial down amount of boats... AND TAKE AWAY THE TAX BREAKS TO THE BONNEVILLE DAM SHAREHOLDER DIVIDEND...........
BLOCKADE THE DUMBASS KILLING THE SEA LIONS... BLAME THE ENERGY DEPT ACCOMODATION TO ENERGY CONSUMPTION MALFUNCTION
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Rich white guy bites rich white guy
The Trib's Jeff Oliver talked to a former Pirates stakeholder who had some interesting things to say.
One of the Pirates' former silent partners is speaking out.
A minority owner for nearly two decades before relinquishing his share last fall, Jay Lustig credited principal owner Bob Nutting for cleaning up the franchise's finances but said he is too "rational" to turn the club into a consistent winner.
Too rational? You have my attention. Go on...
"If you are a small-market franchise, if you want to win, you have to be willing to lose ... money," said Lustig, 58, a Rostraver money manager and businessman who also is board chairman of Adfitech Inc. "(Nutting's) problem is he is a rational owner in an irrational business.
"People say he is a cheap owner, but nothing is further from the truth. He allocates the money properly. He wants to make enough money to keep us from going into the red. He is running the business rationally, trying to make money. No small-market teams that win make money."
This might have some validity if it was in any way verifiable. I don't know if Tampa Bay or Oakland make money. Hell, I don't even know what constitutes a "small-market team" anymore.
I've long said that I don't think the current state of the Pirates is as much Nutting's fault as it is the guys he's hired. The current management team is a floundering group of whiny, petulant morons, and the people they've hired to run crucial segments of the organization are, to be polite, egregiously unqualified. I really do think it's possible to win on a low, tight budget. I don't think it's possible to do if you cut corners on scouting and player development, spend unwisely on major-league free agents and refuse to identify and buy low on others' assets and sell high on your own.
"(Nutting) cleaned up the finances and put the franchise on solid ground. ... Now did Bob Nutting and I have personality clashes? Absolutely. I've talked to him several times and tried to convince him that now is the time to sell to a multi-billionaire who is willing to come in here and spend more money and see if he can make the Pirates win.
This guy obviously has an ax to grind that may or may not stem from Nutting preventing him and the other shareholders from making a good deal of coin by selling at a certain time. And I'm fine with that. I wish more people with knowledge would speak out so we could get a clearer picture of just what the hell is going on in this organization.
"Last fall I finally realized that what I wanted wasn't going to happen. So I got out."
You noble steed, you.
Seven minority owners remain, Lustig said. The Nutting family owns about 80 percent of the franchise, he said.
"They've said publicly that they would like to own the whole thing themselves," Lustig said.
The idea that Nutting is realizing large profits each year is not true, Lustig said.
"Whatever we made in profit went back into the franchise," he said.
1) So for the second time in just over two-and-a-half years, we have an indication that the Pirates are doing exactly what they say they're doing; reinvesting profits in the franchise and not pocketing money, as people have alleged for year and stupidly still do. They're doing exactly what they say they've been doing. They're just doing it very poorly.
"The problem is, as a small-market franchise, the Yankees have $200 million more in television revenues over what we do. The Dodgers are fielding a team with a $250 million payroll, while ours is ($79.5 million). "It's not a level playing field. The only level playing field is the field itself."
Hey, this guy saw Moneyball...and walked out after the first half-hour. This is a false dilemma. Yes, baseball's economics are fucked, but we'll get back to that in a minute. I feel an analogy coming on.
Lustig, an avid golfer, likened the situation to golf.
"It's like we're all at Augusta playing in the Masters," Lustig said. "The small-market guys are teeing it up at the tips, and the big-market clubs are teeing it up at the red tees."
This is a perfect analogy because it reveals that they're all just whitey. As is true with most of history's great scuffles, this is a slap fight between rich white men, and the masses are the only ones hurting.
He said the time for a new owner may never be more ideal.
"But Bob Nutting told me something that his grandfather told his father and his father told him. And that's when the Nuttings own something, they own it forever.
Does that hold true for dead institutions, like newspapers and slavery?
Nobody is going to argue that Bob Nutting is a wonderful owner. But I don't buy for a second that it's impossible to win on the Pirates' operating budget, and I don't buy it because there are baseball organizations with similar financial circumstances which are in far better shape from top to bottom than are the Pirates. Oakland made the playoffs last year with the second-lowest payroll in baseball, and did so out of a tougher division than the NL Central. Tampa Bay won 90 games last year with virtually the same payroll as the Pirates, and nobody even goes to their stupid games. Cincinnati spent just $19 million more on their major league payroll than the Pirates did last year, and the Reds won 97 games. So I'm supposed to believe that if the Pirates just threw more money at the problem -- say, a $20 million augmentation to the big-league payroll -- they'd win 95?
Baseball's economics are totally fucked, but that doesn't preclude anyone from competing if they're smart in how they spend. The Pirates are the most poorly run organization in all of professional sports for a reason. Part of that is Nutting's fault. He's made bad hires who have, in turn, filled the organization with bad hires. But I don't doubt for a second that different, smarter, more qualified people with the exact same resources given to Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington could succeed in making the Pirates both successful and profitable.
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There is little doubt that anxiety is prevalent in today's world, and that students in school experience and are affected by anxiety. School is an evaluative experience and, as such, provides a wide variety of situations in which students are pressured to meet certain standards. Junior high school students, specifically, face an almost constant barrage of personal, social and academic situations new to them but with which they are expected to cope. Some students are able and willing to express their feelings of anxiety verbally to guidance counselors and others; some students exhibit these feelings physically in such activities as fidgeting, daydreaming or direct confrontation with the perceived threat. Still other students refuse to acknowledge their anxieties and either mentally or physically "drop out" of school. And, there are some students who appear to thrive on the daily challenges presented to them.
While there is much discussion, and even argument, relating to the purposes of education today, there does appear to be agreement that transmission of knowledge is and should be a major goal of education. Our school systems are judged on their ability to transmit knowledge primarily in terms of the academic achievement of their students. Academic achievement is primarily determined by the ability to perform, most often in the form of a written test. Many decisions affecting students are based on such performance; honors, program placements, career opportunities, college selection all reflect a student's achievement, as exhibited by his performance. Thus, if achievement is an important goal and if anxiety does exist, a further understanding of the relationship between these factors would be of value to educators in order to enhance the learning process.
In addition to their concern about performance levels, educators must also consider what kind of achievement is being measured. Marton and Saljo (1976) conclude that learning should be described in terms of content because there is great diversity in what is learned or how different students apprehend the Same information. Fransson (1976) states that for instructional purposes and for greater understanding of the learning process, a description of what a student learns is preferable to a description of how much he learns. In order to formulate such a description, one IDuSt consider the content of the learning. In addition, our society is becoming increasingly concerned with the school's ability to develop students who can comprehend and think in more than a literal fashion. Students who have been trained to acquire knowledge through analysis of data gathered from their environment appear to be better equipped to meet the challenges of our technological, rapidly-changing world than are those without this capability. One area of recent research in both psychology and education has focused on the relationship between anxiety and performance. The subjects in most of this research have been college students. Ninth grade students are quite different from college undergraduates in their developmental maturity. We need to know whether anxiety is as important a factor in performance with this age group as it is with older, more mature students.
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between anxiety and the ability of ninth grade students to process information found in differing content forms. Specifically, two differing anxiety levels were induced with two randomly assigned groups of ninth grade students at Julington Creek School through external stress stimuli presented by the researcher. Academic achievement was measured by student performance in a written test designed to measure ability to acquire facts, concepts, and generalizations after reading a passage of material of general interest.
Taylor, June C., "The Relationship Between Stress, Anxiety, and Forms of Content Learning" (1979). UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 4.


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"Improve your exposome!" This could be the new health slogan aimed at people suffering from acne, a common inflammatory disease1. This was confirmed by an analysis performed by an international team of experts, who have described the acne exposome in detail on the basis of the agreed recommendations of European dermatologists, and a bibliographic analysis of the major studies of this subject. The skin is one of the largest interfaces between the body and the external environment. As a true "barrier", its main task is to protect the host against external aggressions (environmental factors and pathogens) by means of the beneficial microorganisms present on its surface.
The work carried out identified six categories of factors liable to interact with the skin, the sebaceous glands, the immune system and/or the skin microbiota: nutrition, in particular dairy products and sugar-rich food products; certain drug treatments, especially hormone therapies; airborne, industrial and human pollutants such as cigarette smoke; climate conditions such as heat, light and UV radiation; behavior that harms the skin (use of unsuitable cosmetics, exfoliation, scrubs...) and finally various psychosocial and behavioral factors, including stress, sleep problems and lifestyle.
Provided that exposure to ultraviolet rays (UVA and UVB), known to activate sebum secretion, is avoided, probiotics seem to have a beneficial effect on acne lesions when they are used as supplements. The relationship between exposome, microbiota and acne remains to be further explored, but one thing is certain: preserving the diversity of skin microorganisms plays an important role in defending the organism against the activation of immune phenomena that triggers inflammation. Proper management of risk factors therefore appears an accessible means of preventing or limiting acne.
1. Acne results from an inflammation of the cavity where hair grows. It is associated with oversecretion of sebum and an imbalance of the skin microbiota.


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The other day myself, my family and some good family friends went to the coast to celebrate my sisters 22nd birthday!
We went on the train to Sheringham which is definitely a typically quaint British seaside town meaning it is extremely picturesque, even after going there pretty much every year with living so close. Although it looks like a a nice hot sunny day don't be fooled it was soooo windy making it feel quite cold, which called for a oversized comfy jumper.
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Trump Tower Fire That Killed Tenant Resulted From Power Strips Plugged Into Each Other, FDNY Says
Tom McKay
Apr 17, 2018, 10:30pm
The fire that raged through President Donald Trump's famous New York skyscraper and headquarters, Trump Tower, and killed residential tenant Todd Brassner on April 7 appears to have been the result of too many power strips, the New York Fire Department said today.
Firefighters on scene after a blaze destroyed a unit in Trump Tower on 7 April 2018. Photo: AP
According to the FDNY, fire marshals - the agency's police force handling serious fire investigations - have concluded that the blaze was accidental and caused by "sequenced power strips powering multiple components".
Per #FDNY Fire Marshals: Cause of the 4/7 fatal 4-alarm fire at 721 5th Ave Manhattan was accidental, electrical - sequenced power strips powering multiple components. Smoke alarm not present in fire apartment https://t.co/vS8XYE5o4A
— FDNY (@FDNY) April 16, 2018
Chaining power strips together can easily result in disaster, since they can overheat if they draw more power than they are certified to handle. In particular, fire officials tend to warn that devices such as space heaters or home appliances should not be plugged into cheap extension cords or power strips lest they start a fire.
Per the US National Fire Protection Association, cords and plugs were implicated in 10 per cent of overall home structure fires from 2010-2014, but 28 per cent of the 400 civilian deaths and 20 per cent of the 1180 civilian injuries that resulted from them. So this should be a reminder that plugging one power strip into another is not advisable, particularly when the intent is to connect more devices to the same outlet than could fit into one strip alone.
Investigators also determined that Brassner's unit did not have a smoke alarm, something required by city law of owners, though CBS News reported that there were detectors installed in the tower's heating and ventilation system that first notified them of the blaze.
The unit also lacked sprinklers. As the New York Daily News reported, nearly two decades ago Trump rallied against proposed city regulations that would require sprinklers in all residential buildings after 1998 saw two deadly blazes that resulted in the deaths of three firefighters and four tenants.
Trump argued sprinklers were too expensive to install in every structure, but he eventually backed off his opposition when city officials exempted buildings already constructed - such as Trump Tower - or with construction permits on file. Trump later installed sprinklers in some buildings, such as Trump World Tower.
According to CBS, the 67-year-old Brassner was an art collector who purchased his unit in 1996 and in recent years fell into poor financial and physical health. Bankruptcy documents say Brassner was "plagued with debilitating medical problems" that limited his ability to function.
Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2018
The president quickly - and apparently before the official determination - announced the blaze had been put out and thanked firefighters via Twitter, yet he has not tweeted about Brassner's death, CBS noted. The network added that Trump was not present during the blaze, nor were any family members:
President Donald Trump has an office and a penthouse home in the building, but he was not in New York at the time. The Secret Service checked the president's residence at some point and found that there was no fire damage.
[NBC/CBS]


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The effect of life story review on depression of older community-dwelling Chinese adults in Singapore: A preliminary result
S. E. Ng*, Adrian Tien, Jeff N.V. Thayala, R. C.M. Ho, M. F. Chan
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
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Ng, S. E., Tien, A., Thayala, J. N. V., Ho, R. C. M., & Chan, M. F. (2013). The effect of life story review on depression of older community-dwelling Chinese adults in Singapore: A preliminary result. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(3), 328-330. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.3851
The effect of life story review on depression of older community-dwelling Chinese adults in Singapore : A preliminary result. / Ng, S. E.; Tien, Adrian; Thayala, Jeff N.V. et al.
In: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 28, No. 3, 03.2013, p. 328-330.
Ng, SE, Tien, A, Thayala, JNV, Ho, RCM & Chan, MF 2013, 'The effect of life story review on depression of older community-dwelling Chinese adults in Singapore: A preliminary result', International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 328-330. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.3851
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Sections That Bring the Fan Spirit to College Baseball
By Jesse Goldberg-Strassler on February 15, 2019 in College Baseball, Features
Every baseball field has a distinct personality beyond its 60 feet, six inches to the mound and its 90 feet separating each base, shining with the life of its history, its environment, and its fans. This weekend marks the start of the 2019 college baseball season, and the most spirited and unique fan sections in the […]
Best Ballpark Improvement Over $1 Million: GCU Ballpark
By Kevin Reichard on November 16, 2018 in Awards, College Baseball
On a college campus committed to top-notch facilities, it's no surprise that a renovated ballpark should shine. With a fan-friendly design that also recognizes the program's rich history, GCU Ballpark, home of the Grand Canyon University Antelopes, is our choice for the Best Ballpark Improvement Over $1 Million in the 2018 Ballpark Digest Awards. (more…)
GCU Ballpark: An Oasis in the Desert
By Kevin Reichard on March 22, 2018 in College Baseball, Features, News, Visits
In college baseball, we're clearly in the midst of a facilities arms war, with programs upgrading new ballparks to attract the best players and coaches. With the new GCU Ballpark, Phoenix's Grand Canyon University has implemented a fine college ballpark that should please fans, players and coaches. (more…)
GCU Opens Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark
By Zach Spedden on February 20, 2018 in College Baseball, News
Grand Canyon University celebrated a milestone on Friday, when it debuted the results of a major overhaul to Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. (more…)


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President Mary looks back on club's 'most difficult' year
Outgoing president Mary Spinks, who handed over to Martin Trepte on Thursday, has led Maidenhead Rotary Club through what has to be one it's most unusual and difficult years.
Assuming the presidency part-way through the first Covid-19 lockdown, she has been acutely aware of the isolation caused by the pandemic and the need to keep the flame of fellowship alive during a year when most meetings took place by Zoom.
"On the first day of my Presidential year, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the death of our famous Rotarian Sir Nicholas Winton, in Oaken Grove, maintaining social-distancing. We were hopeful we would soon be free of restrictions," said Mary.
Picnic in Oaken Grove
"But apart from that event, the wonderful picnic at Pat and June Moore's, and the planting of crocuses, we have had a bad year for socialising."
With club meetings held remotely every two weeks, all social events such as the presidential lunch, weekend away and the Quadrilateral in St Cloud were cancelled.
"But the business of our club continued," said Mary. "Despite meeting by Zoom, attendance has been about the same as our usual meetings, though some of those in business have not attended as they were 'zooming' all day."
In August Mary and club secretary Frank Knowles signed a new constitution and by-laws documents following consultation with all members. The year also saw Howard McBrien made an honorary member of the club.
Mary made every effort to foster fun and fellowship at meetings. At one evening meeting a hat competition was held, when everyone wore amusing headgear. It was judged by our speaker and the winners were Eddie and Eileen Clarke.
And despite the lockdown restrictions Mary left no stone unturned in looking for ways Rotary could help the community during the pandemic.
She oversaw a donation of £1,000 to the Norden Farm Ark Appeal, as the arts centre was in danger of closing due to lack of funds because of the effects of lockdown. The club supported Rotarian Harry Patel's efforts to provide meals to underprivileged school children, and also contributed £4,500 to the Maidenhead Bridge Club's volunteer project.
And the committees continued to be as busy as ever, making grants to numerous beneficiaries such as Thames Valley Adventure Playground in Taplow, and the Aarti project in India, while the Boundary Walk was able to go ahead in a safe 'bubble' format.
Boundary Walk participants - even in the rain
Mary said one of the most worthwhile initiatives of her year was the club's own Covid-19 Heroes Awards. Inspired by her nursing background, Mary came up with the idea of honouring those in our community and health services who had gone beyond the call of duty during the pandemic. Helped by Martin Trepte and Malcolm Falconer, and joined by Teresa May for the final judging, Mary's scheme saw a total of £1,000 awarded to worthy winners.
Covid Heroes presentation
Mary has also been liaising with Boyne Hill Cricket Club to set up a 'youth cricketer of the year award' and help pay for a new scoreboard with a legacy left to the club from the estate of Rotarian Ramesh Kapur.
Rotary Day in February was marked by Mary planting a rowan tree near Nicky Winton's memorial garden in Oaken Grove with the help of Cllr Donna Stimson, who helped make the arrangements.
Planting a rowan tree with Cllr Donna Stimson
Sadly the last year saw three deaths in the club - Ted Roffey, Sheila Fontaine who died from Covid, and the untimely loss of Harry Patel, also from Covid. "They will all be missed," said Mary.
There was positive news about Rotaract, which saw its ranks swell despite Covid-19. Mary said: "Thanks to the sterling efforts of Matthew Burdett and Lisa Hunter from Maidenhead Bridge, there are now eight members and they have their own president."
And while two Quadrilaterals in a row have been cancelled, links with our twin clubs in St Cloud, Tivoli and Bonn were maintained by videoconferences and a light-hearted quiz.
One of Mary's biggest regrets is that she could not complete her Rotary Connect project to tackle loneliness by linking schoolchildren with elderly people in care homes. "Because of the restrictions due to lockdown and the vulnerability of both groups, this never really got off the ground. Safety had to come first," she said.
Mary continued: "My thanks go to all who have supported me during this challenging year. The chairman and the members of each of our committees have worked hard to keep our club active, despite the restrictions.
"As we enter a new Rotary year, let us hope that it will see a return to normal with our new president, Martin, leading the way."
Mary Spinks, Rotary Club of Maidenhead President 2020-2021


Our earliest season hike. When the high country is snowed in, yet the trails are calling, this hike takes you through mixed oak-conifer forest with several small creek crossings. Big mountains surround you. Mostly on good trail, but there is a mile on dirt road near the end.


Bringing together local and international tech entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and private corporations, TECHtonic 2017: Manila Tech Convention is set to take place on July 29-30, 2017 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia, Pasay City from 10:00am – 6:00pm.
With the theme, "Culture for the Future", the event aims to mirror large tech and innovation startup conferences in neighboring countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, where several young entrepreneurs are becoming more and more active in putting up startup ventures in the many different fields of technology. Tech subfields like "fintech" (finance technology), "health tech" (health technology), "adtech" (advertising technology), and "edutech" (education technology) have been floating buzz words over the recent years in this space. A good number of entrepreneurs are solving many of the world's current problems through these breakthrough technologies.
Access to capital and resources needed to accelerate business growth have always been abundant, but there are not enough avenues through which founders, investors, and related groups can connect and network. Positioned to be the Philippines' largest event targeting the country's emerging startup scene, TECHtonic provides just that – an event that not only highlights new technologies and innovative products, but also allows for interactions that facilitate the flow of business deals.
Startup entrepreneurs shall be given a chance to battle it out with other startups in a pitching competition called "Startup Arena" where they get to pitch their pioneering business ideas to a prudently nominated panel of investors. Startups who will emerge victorious shall be given equity-free prize money and the opportunity to be mentored by seasoned tech entrepreneurs as they work to grow their business.
In real Pinoy fashion, guests shall have after-event city tours and pub crawls, organized by Philippine startups TripKada and SunnyTrip.ph. Confirmed sponsors and exhibitors as of writing comprise of the following companies: Promate, Eastern Communications, House of Manila, Belmont & Winford Hotels, Telnovo, DMAIPH, Aquabest, Fly Ace Corporation, Allocacoc, Mediacast, Citi, Argon Animation Inc, Mega Cellular Network, Vuewin, Transportify, eGrub.net, Evapolar, Loudbasstard, Centrex, YouthHack, Conference.PH, Dotweblabs, U2TV Medic, HERTZ , Snippet Media and powered by PLDT Home with Hotel Partners Belmont, Winford, Hotel 101, Microtel, Privato and Heroes Hotel.
Investors joining are 1000 Angels, 1337 Ventures, ANGIN, Artesian Invest, ASEAN Angels Alliance, Bangkok Venture Club, Brixton Xchange Inc., Captii Ventures, Cocoon Capital Partners, Endeavor, Exparra Pte. Ltd. , Future Now Ventures, Global Chamber Manila, Gr8 Real Estate Ventures Inc, Hmground, ICCP Venture Partners, Inc. Ideaspace Foundation, Innoven Capital, Kairos Society, Kaizen Private Equity, Kickstart Ventures, KK Fund, Malaysian Business Angel Network, Mercatus Capital, Mountain Partners, Original Pitch VC, Quest Ventures, Sead Phase Ventures, TagCash, TEMASEK, Tri5 Ventures, VC Café, Vertex Ventures.
#TECHtonicPh2017 is organized by PMCM Events Management. For more information, visit the website at www.techtonic.ph or download the Mobile Event APP – Techtonic Ph.


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The Staple Shorts are sewn using our signature hand-woven, premium European linen. All Bask Capsule pieces are made in Australia.


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Country Music is a dramatic play about love, crime and possibly redemption, with a purity of structure that gives it great emotional force.
The play dips in and out of the life of Jamie Carris over twenty years, showing him meeting with his girlfriend, his half-brother and his daughter. It is also the story of his crime – his flight, his time in prison and his attempt to find his way in the world once he is released. Jamie commits a crime, an act of vengeance which is the terrible pivot of the play's action, but Stephens focuses not on his violence but on his relationships and his humanity.
Stephens was inspired to write the play after leading theatre workshops in prisons, and his delicacy and empathy are visible in this simple and immensely powerful play.
Country Music premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004.


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Agendia Announces Publication of Study Validating Use of...
Agendia Announces Publication of Study Validating Use of MammaPrint and BluePrint Molecular Diagnostics using Targeted RNA Next-Generation Sequencing Technology
IRVINE, CALIF., U.S. and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 20, 2019 / B3C newswire / -- Agendia, Inc. a world leader in precision oncology, announced today the open access publication of MammaPrint and BluePrint Molecular Diagnostics using targeted RNA Next-Generation Sequencing technology in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. The publication summarized the analytical and clinical validation studies of MammaPrint and Blueprint using RNA Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) –based technology to perform diagnostic testing.
The original microarray technology-based MammaPrint, which has extensive clinical validation, uses the proprietary, 70-gene expression profile to classify patients with breast cancer as having a "low" or "high" risk of recurrence over a period of 10 years. Similarly, the original BluePrint assay was microarray technology based, and provides critical subtyping information to further enhance treatment approaches. Oncologists and breast surgeons use the information provided by MammaPrint and BluePrint to help guide overall treatment strategy for patients diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
The authors of this study evaluated the use of RNA-seq as a de-centralized methodology to perform MammaPrint and BluePrint. Validation experiments were performed to assess the technical and clinical performance equivalence of the MammaPrint and Blueprint NGS test compared to the diagnostic microarray test; its reproducibility between different samplings of the same tumor, over-time and between different laboratories. Concordance of over 97% was observed between results obtained using NGS and microarray technologies.
The clinical performance of the MammaPrint and BluePrint 150-gene NGS test was independently assessed in a set of samples with known clinical outcome, previously used to validate the clinical utility of the MammaPrint microarray-based diagnostic test. The data demonstrated that RNA-seq can be used as a de-centralized platform for MammaPrint and BluePrint. This validation will allow Agendia to expand on the company's existing NGS strategy and to focus on growing the base of customers in Europe and Asia who employ the decentralized proprietary testing.
Franklin Libenson, MD, Agendia Executive Vice President of NGS Strategy and Market Development, said: "We are very pleased to have published this important study, which will make MammaPrint and BluePrint available to thousands more women around the globe, and will continue to help physicians to clarify the complexity of overall early-stage breast cancer treatment strategy."
About Agendia
Agendia is a privately held, leading precision oncology company that develops and markets genomic diagnostic products, which help support physicians with their complex treatment decisions. Agendia's breast cancer tests were developed using an unbiased gene selection by analyzing the complete human genome. The company's offerings include the MammaPrint Breast Cancer Risk-of-Recurrence Test, and the BluePrint Molecular Subtyping Test, both on microarray technology, whereas the new MammaPrint BluePrint Breast Cancer Recurrence and Molecular Subtyping Kit, is on NGS technology.
The MammaPrint BluePrint next-generation sequencing-based kit is a CE-marked device currently available for use in cancer centers in select regions of the world.
In addition, Agendia has a pipeline of other genomic products in development. The company collaborates with pharmaceutical companies, leading cancer centers and academic groups to develop companion diagnostic tests in the area of oncology. For more information on Agendia or the MammaPrint and BluePrint tests, visit www.agendia.com. Follow Agendia, Inc. on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to keep up-to-date with the latest news.
About MammaPrint
MammaPrint is an in vitro diagnostic medical device, performed as a testing service in a central laboratory, using the 70-gene expression profile of breast cancer tissue samples to assess a patient's risk for distant metastasis. The device is FDA-cleared and CE-marked, enabling use in the European Union. MammaPrint is indicated for use by physicians as a prognostic marker only, along with other clinical-pathological factors. It is not intended to determine the outcome of disease, nor to suggest or infer an individual patient's response to therapy. MammaPrint is the only test recommended for lymph node-negative and lymph node-positive patients by both the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). The test is also recommended by many other national and international clinical practice guidelines.
About BluePrint
BluePrint is an 80-gene complementary test to MammaPrint which allows functional molecular subtyping of a breast cancer sample into three distinct subtypes: Luminal-type, HER2-type and Basal-type, each with marked differences in long-term outcome and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Diana.bodden@agendia.com
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Ahead of this week's trilogue meeting on the proposed Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Röthig impressed on decision makers to adopt the proposed Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market without any further delay.
In an open letter to the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission, Röthig expressed UNI Europa's support for the call for action of its affiliated media, entertainment unions, who are campaigning for a real change in EU legislation to strengthen the position of authors and performers.
Discussions on the directive have often focused on the "value gap" and article 13. However, the real value gap for media and entertainment workers is the one between them and their employers.
Chapter III of the Directive on fair remuneration in contracts for authors and performers, Articles -14, 14, 15 and 16 are the provisions that matter most for the rights and livelihoods of authors, co-authors and performers.
UNI Europa urges the negotiators to adopt a compromise text on article -14, introducing the pivotal elements of proportionate remuneration and collective bargaining.
UNI Europa further calls on the EU institutions to adopt the compromise text on Articles 14-16, as already agreed during the trilogue of 13 December 2018. This compromise will provide the right to authors and performers to transparency of comprehensive and accurate information regarding the exploitation of their works and performances. It recognises the right to collective representation of authors and performers in contractual adjustment and dispute resolution, which is a prerequisite for these rights to materialise.
The letter concludes with rejecting the call from some industry players to abandon the directive. Röthig stressed, "Their demand to abandon the Directive is not a constructive solution".
The text negotiated compromise, which the unions support, accommodates many demands of employers for flexibility in the implementation, respect of freedom of contract, the protection of commercial sensitive information and limitation of administrative burden.
The compromise reached on art.14-16 is balanced and reasonable. It promotes social dialogue on fair remuneration. A fair compromise on art -14 is possible. The unions stand ready to engage with employers in a constructive dialogue on the implementation of the directive.
Unions are ready to embrace the modernisation of EU copyright rules to make them fit for the digital economy. The question is now: will the EU deliver on its promise to strengthen the position of authors and performers in a meaningful way?